if ' JOHN f;B AMY Brown Aliunni Monthly September 1975 The World Views 1776 Help Shape Brown's Future Help select the men and women Brown wants and needs Help identify, cultivate, and evaluate outstanding high school students* Write, wire, or phone Dave Zucconi 401 863-3306 today, tomorrow or next week, but do it *This includes musicians, athletes, even Renaissance persons, if you know any CHECK ONE (OR MORE) I would be willing to make contact with 2 or 3 prospective students in my area. I would be willing to visit one or more high schools in my area. I would be willing to attend a Freshman Send-Off, Holiday Party, or College Night in my area. SLASS STATE BUSINESS PHONE J Brown Alumni Monthly, September 1975, Vol. 76, No. 1 Editor Robert M. Rhodes Managing Editor Sandra Reeves Associate Editor John F. Barry, Jr. '50 Assistant Editor Kathleen C. Smith '74 A.M. Editorial Assistant Janet M. Phillips '70 Board ot Editors Chairman Garrett D. 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Postmaster: Send Form 3579 to Box 1908, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912 page 2 page 10 In this issue 2 Staying in Style The Brown campus offers a wealth of examples of architectural styles spanning the last two centuries. David Macaulay, who holds a de- gree in architecture from RISD, has taken pen in hand to sketch eight representative buildings and to provide a commentary on Brown's continuing efforts to reflect contemporary architectural trends. 10 Ted Turner: "I didn't fail college; college failed me" Expelled from Brown his senior year for burning down his fraternity's homecoming display, Ted Turner '60 went on to become (among other things) one of the world's foremost racing yachtsmen. Roger Vaughan '59 has written a book about the flamboyant former dinghy sailor, titled Tlje Grand Gesture: Ted Turner, Mariner, and the America's Cup, of which this article is an excerpt. 18 Four Presidents — and Their Roles in Educational Renewal in Brown's History Theodore R. Crane '50, professor of history at the University of Den- ver, explores the key roles played by four Brown presidents in shap- ing the University to meet the educational needs of their times. 25 The Colonies Before 1776: The View From Continental Europe "European attitudes toward the New World, from Columbus's dis- covery down to the present, have always been ambivalent." In the first of a new series of Bicentennial articles, Professor of French Durand Echeverria discusses how the American colonies and their revolt against the British Crown came to serve as a mirror for the Old World, reflecting European "aspirations and fears, dreams and doubts." Departments 33 Under the Elms 38 Sports 42 The Classes 53 Carrying the Mail page 18 The cover reproduces the symbol for a new series (beginning on page 25) on the impact of the American Revolution on the world. The illustration is from an eighteenth-century English map now in the collection of the John Carter Brown Library. Staying in style Illustrations and text by David Macaulay Last summer the editors asked Artist David Macaulay, a frequent contributor to the BAM, to select eight Brotvn buildings to illustrate what he calls "the rich collection of architectural models" at the University. Macaulay, an architectural graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design who has won critical acclaim for his first two books, Cathedral flnrf The City, passes along his gratitude to a sertior seminar group at Broxvn under the direction of Assistant Professor of Art Catherine Wilkinson, whose unpub- lished Survey of Buildings at Brown served as the source of much of the material in the accompajtying text. University Hall (below) is an excellent example of colonial brick architecture. It is fairly plain, functional, and honest. Two hundred years and architectural integrity stand be- tween it and the colonial homes, liquor stores, and olde gift shoppes of today. Built in 1770 by Joseph Brown, it was modeled on Nassau Hall at Princeton. At that time it was known as the College Edifice and housed all of what was then Rhode Island College. The use of a classical triangular pediment over both sides of the projecting central block serves to strengthen the orientation of the main entrance to the hill and city below. Other than the pediment, its orna- mentation is limited to a central lantern, balustrade, and bands of projecting bricks, which define divisions between floors. In conjunction with the First Baptist Meeting House, University Hall set the style for much of the East Side. Manning Hall (right) was built by James Bucklin in 1833 at the height of the Greek revival. It is a stone and stucco structure designed to house a library and chapel. The Doric front is based on surviving sixth-century-B.C. temples built by the Greeks in Sicily and Paestum. Unlike the originals, however, the experience of Manning is two-dimensional, being limited for all practical purposes to an appreciation of the facade from the vicinity of Prospect Street. ' mmi\ I'/ ///'tvAr.t //'/ /',i//ni Figure 3. Ubi panis el lihertas, ibi Patria. Frontispiece to volume 1 of St. John de Creveeoeur's Lettres d'un cultivateur americain (Paris, 1787). cultivate we see no cities, no crimes, no sickness. . . . You are as Nature would have us all to be." And he incor- porated into his novel two corroborative letters by the Physiocrat Du Pont de Nemours, who had written of Virginia, "In no country in the world are women more beautiful, even at an advanced age, or men handsomer or more robust, or minds more lofty, or characters more gentle, or hearts more intrepid." IT was the Stamp Act crisis of 1765 that made the Americans appear as the champions of political and civil liberty. Franklin's defiance of Parliament seemed to the continental European mind not a challenge of ari.stocratic corporatism but an attack upon the principle of monarchical absolutism, which was being given new life by the aging Louis XV in France, by Gu.stavus III in Sweden, by Catherine of Russia, and by Frederick the Great of Prussia. John Dickinson's Letters moved Diderot to write, "I know no work more capable of instructins: the people in their inalienable rights and of inspiring in them the love of liberty. Because Dickinson was writing for Americans the government did not see that his Letters were addressed to all men. . . . They allow us to read things like this, and they will be amazed to find us ten years later different men. Do they not realize how eagerlv noble souls will drink of these principles and become intoxicated by them?" A leading Parisian newspaper reported under a London dateline, "Those of our mariners who know well North America claim that a certain inborn spirit of liberty is inseparable from the .soil, the skv, the forests, and the lakes of that vast virgin land, and that this spirit of liberty sets it apart from all the other regions of the globe." As usual the Physiocrats were in the forefront. Du Pont de Nemours, whose son was to found the Du Pont indu.strial empire in the United States, urged Charles Frederick of Baden to imitate Pennsylvania by establishing complete religious freedom, and he e\'en published, five years before the Declaration of Independence, a proposed constitution for a representative republican government for the inde- pendent colonies. One of his colleagues, the Abbe Rou- baud, predicted that the colonies would be "independent whenever they wish to be," warning England, "You will not subdue with a few men-of-war and a few thousand .soldiers millions of brave men. . . . And once they are independent, soon all the rest of the Americas will be free." As the da\ of Lexington and Concord drew near, translations of American political documents circulated more and more widely in Europe. Thus by the fall of 1775 the British colonics had become in the European mind the symbol of civil and political liberty. Two of the great monuments of Continental liberal thought, Beccaria's Essay on Crimes and Punishments and Rous- seau's Social Contract, suppressed in Europe, were pub- lished clandestinely under the false imprint "Philadel- phia" to signal their libertarian messages. To European intellectuals and to the middle classes, more numerous and wealthier than ever before yet in- creasingly frustrated bv a reinvigorated aristocracy and bv reassertions of monarchical absolutism, the British colonies exerted a powerful appeal. The Italian philo.so- pherGaliani wrote to a French friend in May 1 776, "The time has come for the complete collapse of Europe and for migration to America. Everything here is sinking into decav: religion, law, the arts, the sciences. EN'ervthing will be built anew in America. This is no joke. ... .So don't buv your new house on the Chaussee dWntin [in Paris]; buy it in Philadelphia." Thus during a period of a hundred years, from the 1670s to the 1770s, a general libertarian concept of the colonies was built up by accumulation. It gave expres- sion to diverse European aspirations and was a complex of many ideas: economic opportunity, economic expan- sion, economic liberty, anticolonialism, nationalism, both Anglomania and Anglophobia, religious freedom, deism, enlightenment, ruralistic virtue, humanitarian reform, representative republican go\ernment, political and civil liberty, and escape from an oppressive and seemingly decadent society. Yet it would have been surprising if this concept had stood unchallenged, for one of the lessons of history is that actions produce reactions, and theses frequently generate antitheses. As we have already seen, this is what happened. The positive mirage had a negative opposite which served to express European fears in the face of an expanding and potentially competitive and inimical non- European world. This image too was a mirage. It took man\ shapes, but the most .striking and pervasive was the so-called theory of American degeneration. THIS theory gave rise to a debate which occupies a large place in the annals of science and of the phi- lo.sophies of history and geography. The basic assumption was environmental determinism, the idea that all forms of life are necessarily shaped by their physical environment. The special form of this hypothesis stated that the climate of the Americas was more humid and cooler than that of Europe and therefore created an unfavorable habitat for animal and human life. The explanation usually gi\'en was that the Americas had been created by God later than the Old World or had emerged later from the waters of the Flood and were still, as it were, cold and dripping from their recent diluvial past. By semantic transformation, the meaning of the phra.se New World shifted from "newly discovered" to "newly created." This theory of climatic influence on human behavior went back to Plato and had recently been extensively ap- plied by Montesquieu in his Spirit of Laws ( 1 748 ) , but it was BufTon who ga\e it the new application. In a volume of his Natural History published in 1761 he claimed that from all available evidence animal species in .\merica were less varied, smaller, and less vigorous than those of the Old World, and that this same degeneration from "something contrary to the development of living nature in the New World" was equally evident in the nati\e Indian, "a mere animal of the first rank." BufTon did not extend his theory to include the degeneration of Euro- peans in .America, but a Dutch disciple of his, the Abbe de Pauw, did make this crucial step. In his Recherches Philosophiques sur les Americains (Philosophic Inquiries on the Americans) (1768-69) he claimed he had evi- dence of marked physical, moral, and especially intel- lectual degeneration in colonials. White children born in America, he said, like the young Indians, lost ail interest and teachability after an early precocious stage, .so that the\ were "already blind when other men are just beginning to see." None of the American uni\ersities had produced a graduate of even mediocre talents. "It has not been observed," he noted, "that the professors of the University of Cambridge in New England had edu- cated any young Americans fit to be displayed in the literary world." De Pauw's ideas were broadly diffused in some four- teen editions of his Recherches. in twelve editions of a Defense he wrote of his thesis, and in a long article on America in the Supplement to the French Encyclopedia. Moreover the Abbe Raynal, in his phenomenally suc- cessful Philosophical and Political History of the Indies (forty-four French editions) not only repeated de Pauw's charges but directed them specifically at the English settlers in North America. They had, he said, "visibh degenerated" and were physically weaker than Euro- peans. Under hostile skies, "their minds have been ener- vated like their bodies. Quick and penetrating at first, they grasp ideas easily, but they cannot concentrate or accu.stom them.sehes to prolonged reflection. It is amaz- ing that America has not yet produced a good poet, a capable mathematician, or a man of genius in a single art or science." There was specious plausibility to this theory, for it did account for the differences between Indian and European cultures, and New York is in fact much damper and colder than Rome, which is on about the same latitude. The reason for its wide acceptance, however, was that it seemed to support positions taken b\- many European thinkers. First, it seemed to refute Rousseau's primiti\ism and therefore to prove the \alue of civiliza- tion. If the American Indians were not Noble Savages but really degenerate human beings, then they could not be used to demonstrate what natural man had been be- fore ci\ilization had enslaved and corrupted him. Virtue, freedom, and happiness were not "natural" but the cre- ations of enlightened civilization. Second, it di.scouraged emigration to the Americas and provided a good argu- ment against colonialism in general, which many politi- cians and political philosophers were coming to regard as a disastrous policy. Third, and perhaps most important, the theory was an implicit expression of what has been called "Europocentricity," the faith in the inherent providential superiority of Europe over the rest of the globe and the fear that in an enlarged and continuou.slv expanding world this .sacred hegemony would become more and more precarious. Obviously the theory of American degeneration con- flicted with the American dream; a physically, morally, and intellectually degenerate nation could scarcely be constructing a transatlantic Utopia. Americani.sts, both European and American — notably Franklin and Jeffer- son — worked to refute Buffon and de Pauw, and Raynal was in fact persuaded to recant. (At a Franco- American dinner party in Paris attended by Raynal, Franklin sug- gested that the argument be settled by having first the Americans and then the French stand up. As it happened. all the Americans were unusualh' tall and vigorous, while the French were unusually diminutive, and Raynal him- self was, as Franklin said, " a mere shrimp." ) By such means the wave of politically inspired Americanism tem- porarily submerged the invidious theory. But it was soon to reemerge, to be manifested in the French anti- Americanism of the 1790s, reaching its apex in the thought of Hegel in the early nineteenth century and living on into the twentieth, though usually disguised in terms of modern ideologies. There has been, therefore, since e\en before 1776 a curious ambivalence in European attitudes to Americans and to their revolution. They were seen as Europe's second chance to make a better world, "the hope of the human race," as Turgot, the great French philosopher- statesman, said. Yet they were feared and abhorred as the corrupters of the finer values of European civilization and the most dangerous of threats to these \alues. Thus Americans have often been for Europeans (except of course the happy few like Alexis de Tocqueville, whose eyes could pierce the mirages) not living, fallible men of flesh and bone but symbols of European aspirations and fears, dreams and doubts. And Americans have likewise watched these reflections of themseh'cs in European eves, have seen themselves as Europeans saw them, and have therefore alternated between the hubris of belief in their manifest destiny and the anguish of masochistic self- reproach. Suggested Readings Echeverria, Durand. Mirage in the West: A History of the French Image of American Society to 1815. Princeton: Princeton University Press, paperback. 1968. Gerbi, Antonello. The Dispute of the Neiv World: The History of a Polemic, 1750-1900, tr. Jeremy Moyle. Pittsburgh: Uni- versity of Pittsburgh Pre.ss, 1973. A full and masterly history of the long dispute over the theory of American degeneration. Jones, Howard Mumford. O Strange New World: American Culture — The Formative Years. New York: Viking, paper- back, 1964. Examines for the years 1492 to 1830 the relation- ships of various European intellectual and artistic movements to both the Americas. Revolution and Romanticism. Cambridge: Harvard Uni- versity Press, 1974. Encompasses the period 1763-1861. The first part examines the relations between the intellectual and literary mo\ements of the eighteenth century and the Ameri- can and French revolutions. Both of these works, by a leading scholar, are written for the nonspecialist. Kraus, Michael. The .Atlantic Civilization: Eighteenth-Century Origins. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, paperback. 1966. An important study of the impact of the New World on the Old. Palmer, R. R. The Age of Democratic Revolution: .4 Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800. \o\. 1, The Challenge. Vol. 2, The Struggle. Princeton: Princeton Uni- versity Press, paperback, 1969, 1970. A classic study by an outstanding historian. Vol. 1 deals with the period 1760-1789. lUimdl@ir ^h Cutting the faculty: How does Brown do more with less? What distinguishes Brown from other private universities? In the eyes of growing numbers of prospective students over the last six years, it has been the whole aura of educational newness symbolized in the phrase New Curriculum. To members of the Corporation's Committee on Plans and Resources, who said in their blueprint for the future (the Watson Report, BAM, March 1974) that Brown could be- come tlie small university, it was modest size, an intimate atmosphere, and the close interaction between students and faculty. Both notions have to do with Brown's role as a place of superior learn- ing, but the foundations of such educa- tional pride may soon be in serious jeopardy. Economic necessity will force, in the next three to five years, the restruc- turing of the academic heart of the Uni- versity — its faculty. Specifically, the instructional budget of the University will shrink by 15 percent in five years, which could translate to a reduction of the faculty from 461 to 386. About seventy-five professors may vanish, while the enrollment remains the same. What this will do to the "close inter- action" enjoyed by student and in- structor, or to the bold departures for learning fostered under the New Cur- riculum, is not certain; but those who resume debate this fall on how the re- structuring is to take place agree that the results cannot, by any stretch of the imagination, be positive. Jacquelyn A. Mattfeld, dean of the faculty and academic affairs, outlined some of the dangers implicit in a con- traction of the faculty seven months ago at the February meeting of the Corpora- tion. She titled her presentation, "New Challenges to Academic Vitality and Educational Quality," but that heading seemed almost euphemistic as one read the following possible implications of a faculty cutback: n With the proposed 15 percent reduction, the student/faculty ratio will climb by almost 20 percent (from 11.2 to one to 13.3 to one). D Because of tenure distribution Dean Mattfeld: Facing a dilemma among departments, the percentage of total faculty in the humanities will de- cline while the percentages in the phys- ical, life, and social sciences increase. D If student demand remains con- stant, the departments carrying the heaviest teaching loads will suffer the greatest faculty reduction. Thus, class sizes, which will rise in all areas, will do so disproportionately. n The number of enrollments per faculty member will rise in all areas, limiting the opportunities for counsel- ing and close interaction with instruc- tors. Again, the greatest rise in enroll- ments per faculty member will be in areas where teaching loads are already heaviest. D Departments that have been the biggest supporters in the past of Modes of Thought courses. Group Inde- pendent Study Projects, Independent Studies, and Independent Concentra- tions (the core of the New Curriculum) will suffer the greatest increases in teaching loads. D Since most of the faculty losses will be in non-tenured ranks, those who often shoulder the bulk of a depart- ment's actual teaching duties and who are, in many cases, on the threshold of professional eminence and/or im- portant new research will disappear. Losing the vitality of the junior faculty may weaken the curriculum in many areas. D The social implications of a cut- back in junior faculty will include the loss of racial and sexual diversity within the instructional ranks. Of the total Brown faculty, including the medical program (495), there are only nineteen blacks (3.8 percent) and forty-sLx women (9.3 percent). Of these, fourteen blacks (76 percent) and thirty-six women (78 percent) are untenured. Dean Mattfeld summarized her pre- liminary review of the staffing dilemma with these words: "Brown faces an identity crisis as severe as that it weath- ered in the 1840s, if not worse." She had laid the groundwork for that as- sessment earlier, by alluding to the re- port of the Plans and Resources Com- mittee, which urged that "since Brown cannot be outstanding in every depart- ment," there be balanced planning to ensure: (1) the existence of some out- standing departments — "towers of ex- cellence" — in each of the major areas, (2) the expansion and improvement of departments for which student demand is continually high, and (3) the scale- down or elimination of departments that are underutilized and overstaffed. While the committee's guidelines seemed simple and fair enough when they were written, they are, when jug- gled with the elimination of seventy- five faculty positions and the problems created by a high tenure level (70 per- cent), almost impossible to fulfill. In fact, as Dean Mattfeld indicated to the Corporation, "the proposed contraction of the faculty is likely to exacerbate the very difficulties that the Plans and Re- sources Committee identified as need- ing attention." Attempts at resolving Brown's "identity crisis" in as acceptable a way as possible under the financial circum- stances began last September, shortly after an administrative restructuring had resulted in Dean Mattfeld's shift from dean of academic affairs and as- sociate provost to the new position of dean of the faculty and academic affairs (BAM, September 1974). Aware that the faculty would have to be reduced. 33 President Homig gave the new dean of the faculty the job of devising a faculty staffing plan that would specify where the cuts were to be made and would achieve the 15 percent reduction over several years. Dean Mattfeld, a music historian by training, chose as her partner on the project Dean of the Graduate School Maurice Glicksman, a professor of engineering. Together, they began last fall to evaluate depart- mental self-studies and discuss staffing with the chairman of each department. A timetable was set to allow the chairmen additional opportunities to discuss the fate of their departments, as various drafts of the plan were de- veloped. However, the task of data collection and decision-making became slow and arduous, and the proposed schedule of private meetings was con- tinually revised. By the time of the student disruptions in the spring, in which both Dean Mattfeld and Dean Glicksman played major roles as administrative negotiators, no concrete staffing plan had been presented for the faculty to react to. Then, in the third week of May, a plan specifying the elimination of about fifty faculty members in three years and about twenty more by 1980 was distrib- uted to the chairmen and a group of senior faculty. Immediate response to the plan was negative; it was labeled as "tentative" bv the administration, and further rounds of negotiations were initiated. On June 4, department chairmen met in an all-day session with President Homig and Deans Mattfeld and Glicks- man. After that meeting, plans were begun to strengthen the Council of Chairmen along the lines of a formal parliamentary body. Heretofore, thev had been a rather loosely structured group, which served mainly as a sound- ing board for the administration and as its primary line of communication to the faculty. But the strengthened council, the chairmen felt, would be a more ef- fechve advisory unit for the president. Although one department chairman stressed to the BAM that this move was not a direct consequence of the staffing plan, the climate of concern that had been fostered by the cutbacks was at least the final impetus for this departure from tradition. As the chairman indi- cated, the situation will soon be such that any expansion of one department comes at the expense of another. For constructive input, he said, it is vital Departmmt chiiinnm in meeting: Fcnmilizing their structure. that the departments function as a group, rather than battle among themselves. Criticism of the staffing plan pro- posed in May had a familiar ring, with the catch-words, "priorities," "com- munication," and "participation" resur- rected from previous budget battles. Like the students before them, faculty were concerned both by the specifics of the plan and the way in which it was devised. Included in the various specific charges were the following: D That the distribution of cuts fa- vored the sciences. In rough percent- ages, the divisions were to be reduced as follows: humanities, 19. 7 percent; so- cial sciences, 21.8 percent; physical sci- ences, 9 percent; and life sciences, 14 percent. However, Dean Mattfeld and several department chairmen in the sci- ences have noted that the percentages found in the current faculty contraction do not reflect a prior reduction in the science departments; and thev are therefore not indicative of a tilt of the University's resources toward the sci- ences. D That the cuts were not consist- ent with teaching needs. Areas such as the social sciences, which can point to a trend of rising student enrollment, were slated in the original plan for heavy per- centage reductions. They claimed that the severity of their losses shows that "there is not much concern for teaching in the staffing plan." D That the plan threatens the capacity of smaller departments to offer quality instruction. Twenty-two of Brown's thirty-six disciplines have fewer than twelve faculty members each. Cuts of even one or two faculty, slated for several such departments, could severely damage their cur- riculum, academicians warned. In addi- tion, even departments brought down to twelve faculty members, such as economics, political science, and French, which each suffered a 25 per- cent reduction, have registered strong reactions. As political science Professor Edward Beiser said following an- nouncement of the plan in May, "A political science department of twelve in a university this size is educationally untenable, and I personally can't ■ imagine how I could remain in such a ' department." 34 n That consideration was not given to departments that had shown efficient use of resources in the past. Chemistry Department Chairman Wil- liam Risen was one of several to raise this (Xjint, saying, "There are some de- partments which have taken a respon- sible attitude toward staffing that is consistent with not overexpanding the University. When a crunch such as this comes, 1 would hop>e . . . that they would get off a little better." But a case in which this rationale evidently did not dominate decision-making was the {Xjlitical science department, which voted in February, before the austerity budget was detailed, to voluntarily suspend its doctoral program because of current limited resources. More damning criticism of the staffing plan, however, centered on the philosophy behind the cuts, or the lack of it. Many faculty members com- plained that they were given no expla- nation of the criteria used in determin- ing where the cuts would fall, and that there was no clearly drawn picture of what the impact of such cuts would be. French Department Chairman Reinhard Kuhn sfjoke for those members of the faculty in a Brown Daily Herald interview in May, when he said that no cuts "make sense until basic educational questions are answered. Two steps should have been taken before the plan was promulgated. The faculty should have been thoroughly convinced that all fxjssible cuts had been made elsewhere, and an 'educational blueprint' for the University should have been pre- sented." Professor Bruce Donovan of the classics department echoed the comment: "The University and the fac- ulty are waiting for a statement. People are frightened, and the sense of what the University is has to be made very dear. No one has provided a sense of where we're going — there is no sense of the larger picture." Dean Mattfeld defended her ap- proach to the long-term planning in cm August interview with the BAM. "Everyone wants a formula," she said. "How did you do it? Well, you do it by simply soaking yourself in data — look- ing at every aspect of every academic department over the last five years, analyzing the teaching loads, tenure levels, expected retirements, pattern — if any — of leaves without pay and sabbaticals, excellence of the faculty, and many other factors." The faculty insists that this alone is not enough, however. A staffing plan that is not steeped in a solid sense of priorities and long-range academic goals, they say, is merely a schedule of cuts. The final report of the Advisory Committee on University Planning (ACUP), while praising Deans Mattfeld and GUcksman for their "painstaking efforts to identify all relevant asf)ects of faculty staffing within each depart- ment," urged that their plan "be re- garded as provisional until all viable al- ternatives have been carefully examined in light of the goals and priorities of Brown." The refxjrt also dted the "cal- culated risk" to the present quality of instruction that was inherent in the three-year staffing plan and said that implementation of the five-year staffing plan would produce "major changes in the character of the University." "ACUP is concerned that the targets that have been prof)osed to date have been developed without explidt reference to the academic mission at Brown," the report concluded, in its most dired passage. Dean Mattfeld admitted in August that her main dilemma in the coming months wiU be to "devise a system that makes (the faculty) feel as if people have partidpated in dedsions that affed them." However, she implied that fac- ulty charges of a lack of consultation are perhaps too harsh. Critidsm of her plan has been "uncomfortable but inevita- ble," she said, agreeing that consensus on a number of "basic educational ded- sions" must be reached next year before any staffing plan can work. "1 believe in open administration," the dean said. "The faculty must partidpate." But an "acceptable" mechanism must cilso get the job done, she added. As things stand now, that mech- anism is less than solidified. Dedsions on the first rounds of cuts — to be refleded in the budget that will be pre- pared this fall for the 1976-77 academic year — remain uncertain. The faculty has urged a careful re-evaluation of al- ternatives to the faculty cutbacks, in- cluding such strategies as a dired in- crease in the number of students en- rolled, further reduction of the non- academic budget, and adoption of year-round operations. Further cloud- ing the prospeds of a speedy solution to the staffing controversy is the uncer- tainty over the effed of President Homig's resignation. Many fearthat de- liberations may slow down, as depart- ments seek delays that may stretch the task of determining their fate into another administration. Clearly, the drcumstances demand a brand of political wizardry that does not come easUy. "There is no way to look good in this," Dean Mattfeld told the BAM. "The sdences say, "We have already been cut using a different base year; why are we suffering double jeopardy?' The humanities and sodal sdences say, "We have the high enroll- ments; why are we being made to suffer the brunt of the cuts?' And what are the alternatives?" Among the alternatives may be some of the most ticklish questions Brown has faced in its modem history — the removal of tenured faculty posi- tions and the exdsion of whole depart- ments or areas within departments. These are issues that the University as a whole must probe, and they may be doser at hand than most people realize. On the question of tenure. Dean Matt- feld would say only, "It is on our backs now, whether we do it or not." In her repwrt to the Corporation, she was more spedfic: "If only as a matter of pru- dence, we must continue to investigate ways of meeting the worst pjossible finandal contingendes. This would in- dude exploring — preferably with other comparable institutions — humanly ac- ceptable and legal ways to remove the single or several tenured individuals in almost every department who are no longer productive as scholars, or whose early promise has not been realized, or whose teaching has ceased to engage students." With or without tenured professors induded in the pool, however, the de- parture of almost a fifth of Brown's liv- ing endowment will force the Univer- sity into a period of academic soul- searching. As President Homig posed the question in his February "white paper" (BAM, March): How do we do more with less? S.R. The search begins for a new president The first step toward finding a suc- cessor to President Donald F. Homig was taken on August 1, when the Brown Corporation, meeting in spedal session, established a twelve-member presidential search committee com- prised of faculty, students, alumni, and members of the Corporation. Under the terms of the University's 35 Charter, the Corporation makes the final decision on presidential appoint- ments, but the search committee will be responsible for preliminary screening of candidates and for the solicitation of applicants. Members of the search committee, three of whom remained to be chosen as the BAM went to press, are charged with delivering to the Corpora- tion by November 15 the names of "approximately" five candidates. Chancellor Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr., named five trustees and fellows on August 1 to fill the Corporation slots on the search committee. They are Vernon R. Alden '45 (chairman), former president of Ohio University and now chairman of the board of The Boston Company, Inc., and chairman of the executive committee of the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company; Richard B. Salomon '32, managing partner of Riverbank Associates, Inc., and retired chairman of the board of Lanvin- Charles of the Ritz, Inc., of New York; Foster B. Davis '39, managing partner in the Providence stockbrokerage firm of Tucker, Anthony, and R. L. Day; Ruth Burt Ekstrom '53, research psychologist for the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, N.J.; and Dr. Augustus A. White '57, associate professor of or- thopedic surgery at Yale University School of Medicine. Bernard V. Buonanno, Jr. '60, pres- ident of Old Fox Chemical, Inc., of Providence, will also serve on the search committee as the newly elected president of Brown's Associated Alum- ni. Three faculty members have been selected by the Faculty Policy Group: Barbara K. Lewalski, professor of En- glish; George M. Seidel, professor of physics; and John L. Thomas, professor of history. Yet to be named to the com- mittee are two students selected by the Student Caucus, and one student jointly selected by the Graduate Stu- dent Council and the Medical Student Council. In related action at the special August meeting, the Corporation also formally received the resignation of President Homig, who will leave office June 30, 1976. (The word "received" is the Corporation's and signifies that, there being no contractual obligations, the resignation was not put to an acceptance vote.) A resolution was passed expressing "deep appreciation to the President for the boundless energy, dUigence, and selfless devotion with which he has served the University during his tenure," and recommending that, until the termination of his duties, Mr. Homig "continue to exercise fully all the authority of the office and to enjoy its perquisites." After the presidential search com- mittee is completely assembled, proba- bly in early September, its members will begin seeking names and advice from a wide variety of sources: faculty, staff, students and alumni of the University, presidents, senior officers, and trustees of other universities, officers of educa- tional associations, federal and state governmental officials involved in edu- cational activities and related agencies, officers of foundations and other private agencies, and officers and participants in educational consortia, caucuses, and referral services. Steps will be taken to assure Brown's status as an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer, ac- cording to spokesmen in the president's office; and selected advertising will be placed, even though, as one presiden- tial assistant put it, "a vacancy such as this is pretty well common knowledge through press coverage of the resigna- Hon." Two technical documents that guide a search of this sort are currently being written. They are the job descrip- tion, which is based on the legal re- quirements contained in the University Charter, the Statutes of the Corpora- tion, and the faculty rules and regula- tions; and the statement of criteria on which the new president will be chosen. The latter is a very specific document to be drawn up by the Corporation's Committee on the Presidency and ap- proved by the Corporation's Advisory and the Executive Committee at their September 12 meeting. Suggestions and advice from alumni and friends of the University are encouraged and should be sent to Ver- non Alden, chairman of the Presidential Search Committee, Box 1887, Brown University, Providence 02912. S.R. The president on TV: "I've done what needed to be done" "I'd like to speak to Dr. Paul Hom- ung," the voice on the telephone in- toned, in one of those embarrassing slips of the tongue that populate bad dreams. "There's no one here by that name. There's a LiUi Homig, a Donald Homig, a . . ." "The president of Brown Univer- sity?" "Yes. Speaking." It was an inauspicious beginning for an enterprising reporter, but Provi- dence television newscaster Sara Wye was determined to get an interview with Brown's president, even though he had refused, ten days earlier, to comment further on his resignation. She located his summer-home tele- phone number in Little Compton, R.I., and gave it a try. The results were not only a surprising about-face by Mr. Homig on the question of public com- ment, but also a reflecHve live interview on a July noonday newscast. Following Ms. Wye's lead, a rival television station requested and got a similar interview, this time filming Mr. Homig's remarks as he walked casually across campus on a sunny afternoon. The gist of both interviews was already familiar: criticism following the strike and building takeover in the spring was not responsible for the res- ignation; problems of bringing fiscal stability to the University required lead- ership with "fresh energy and a new outlook"; and the accomplishments in which the president takes most pride are the building of the medical program, the merger of Pembroke and Brown, and the reduction of deficit spending. Still, the televised conversations did offer the public a few personal glimpses into Mr. Homig's mood following his decision, as these excerpts from the Wye interview illustrate: Wye: Is it possible for a university president to survive when he is forced to make the kinds of budgetary deci- sions you've had to make? Homig: Well, 1 don't know if it's possible for him to survive; it's not pos- sible for him to emerge having many friends. Wye: If you had it to do over again . . . can you see anything you would have done differently? Homig: Not fundamentally . . . Wye: How do you feel when the students claim that you were insensi- tive, were not open, not candid, didn't allow students into the budgetary proc- ess? Would you have done that differ- ently? Homig: I think, in retrospect, we might have spent more time discussing the problems with students. 1 don't think the budgetary process is primarily a job to be turned over to students . . . i 36 (But) I think I would have made a greater effort to be sure they under- stood what was going on. Wye: What is your gut reaction to the circumstances of your resignation? Do you feel that you are leaving a job well done, (or) that you are leaving with your head bowed? Homig: Oh, it's neither of those things, quite. I guess it's a feeling that I've done what needed to be done. One always can see ways in which one might have done it a little better, but funda- mentally, I think I did what I had to do. I'm satisfied ... I have some disap- pointment. I suppose I have a little bit of unhappiness, possibly even a trace of bitterness, at the failure of some people who ought to have been able to under- stand a little better what the problems were. In his second television interview, the president was asked his thoughts on the future of higher education in gen- eral. He replied that higher education was caught now in the clash of its two most pressing mandates — to provide the opportunity of a college education to everyone who is able to benefit from it, and to educate those who do enroll up to the limit of their capabilities. "Frankly, I'm concerned about the sec- ond responsibility," Mr. Hornig said. "We seem to have lost a little of our zeal for quality. And in education, as in many things, we need a meritocracy." S.R. Brown Alumni Monthly named "the best" At the annual conference of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), held in Chicago last July, the BAM received the Robert A. Sibley Award as the best alumni magazine in the U.S. and Canada. This is the third time in six years the BAM has been so honored (it also won in 1969 and in 1973), and it represents the seventh year in a row that the magazine has finished among the Top Ten. In an unprecedented move this year, CASE (created by the merger of the American Alumni Council and the American College Public Relations As- sociation) bestowed a separate Sibley Award on Harvard Magazine, which recently became the first university publication to move into the paid- subscription, general-audience market. In presenting the award to the BAM, Winston Forrest, former president of The July 1974 BAM cover was named one of the best of the year. the American Alumni Council, noted that the two Sibleys were given to honor two very different magazines. Of the BAM, he said: "In design, photog- raphy, and writing, the Brown Alumni Monthly is crisp, clear, and always re- freshing. In the overall balance and con- tent of its coverage of Brown University, it is clearly the most outstanding alumni publication in the country." The BAM also received an "Excep- tional Achievement" award from Newsweek magazine for its coverage of public affairs, and photographer Hugh Smyser (who is now with the American Red Cross) received two awards of merit from CASE for his photographs of the Cary Building in New York (BAM, November) and of Assistant Professor James Head (BAM, December). J. P. Qiorus is going to India — contributions are welcome Next January, the Taj Mahal in India will echo with the voices of forty-five Brown University Chorus and Chamber Choir members singing a program of American music, in- cluding "The Star Spangled Banner," "Dixie," and "Walk Him Up." The Taj Mahal is one of the scheduled stops the Chorus will make on a month-long In- dian visit. Centering their travels around four major cifies — Bombay, Calcutta, Delhi, and Madras — the stu- dents will perform at parks, orphan- ages, embassies, university student cen- ters, and concert halls throughout the subcontinent. Sponsored by Friendship Ambas- sadors, Inc., a New York-based founda- tion dedicated to promoting interna- tional friendships, the Brown Chorus will be the first collegiate performing group from the United States ever to tour India. The Friendship Ambas- sadors president, Harry Morgan, says he chose the Brown students from a host of other competitors because they were not only of "outstanding artistic caliber" but because they were also "representative of America's finest young people." All of the music performed on the tour will be American, in keeping with the Bicentennial theme chosen by choral director William Ermey. "Considering that we'll be there in January 1976 dur- ing the first four weeks of our Bicenten- nial, the theme seems only neat and right," he says. The primary purpose of the tour, Ermey explains, is to initiate a program of student exchanges between India and the United States and to promote mutual good will. Unlike professional touring groups, which often hole up in their hotel rooms between concert per- formances, the Brown students will be interacting with the Indian people as much as possible. They will travel by bus to remote areas outside of the four cities, stay with Indian families in their homes, and perform in concert with an Indian choral group. Although Friendship Ambassadors is paying for most of the tour expenses, the Brown students must raise the money for their round-trip fare to India plus the cost of air tiansportation be- tween the cities. They will need $45,000 ($1,000 per person). Tour managers Nora Claire McKinney '77 and Jon Mills '76 hope to raise approximately one- third of the total from foundations and corporations, one-third from alumni and private contributions, and the re- mainder from their own fund-raising activities. These will include area con- certs, a raffle, their annual Casino Night, and the sale of a new LP by the Brown University Chorus and Quad Orchestra called "Quodlibet and Bicen- tennial Selections," available from the music department in October. If the students fall short of their $45,000 goal, the difference vwU be charged evenly among the tour members. Contribu- tions may be made out to Brown Uni- versity, earmarked for the Chorus Tour Fund #38511. K.S. 37 y/ Listen, we can take it all" Spend an hour with John Anderson and you walk away whistling the Brown fight song. You can bet that Brown's third-year coach will never be caught with a crying towel hanging from his belt. Anderson is refreshingly candid in a profession not overly populated by men with this trait. This is why people pay attention when he is speaking. And right now John Anderson's sf>eaking in terms of an Ivy League title, which, if achieved, would be Brown's first since the league was formed in 1956. Oh, Anderson does wave a finger of caution and mention something about "guarded optimism." He points out that for Brown to finish first, every- thing will have to fall into place and that the football, which has a habit of taking funny bounces, especially in the Ivy League, will have to bounce Brown's way. Having put these qualifications on the table, Anderson leans back in his chair, the smile recaptures his face, and he admits that the ingredients are there for the Bears to meike a serious run at the Ivy title. "Listen, we can take it all," says the man who has given Brown back-to-back winning seasons (4-3-1, 5-4). "But to make this happen we are going to have to win at least two of the three games that figure to go either way" — he lists Yale, Harvard, and Dartmouth — "and then get through the rest of the sched- ule without being upset. It can be done. I'm confident." And why shouldn't he be? Eight- een of the starting twenty-four who won their last four games are returning. Only two starters will be missing from one of the finest defensive teams in the country, one that finished third to Notre Dame and Michigan in stopping the rush and ended twelfth in total defense. The two defenders missing are a pair of AU-East selections, Co-Capt. Bill Taylor at defensive left end and middle guard Bill Kcdrit, who is now working out with the Green Bay Packers. Despite the quality of these performers, the re- placements are so plentiful that Ander- X '■§■ son predicts a defense in 1975 that wiU be "much stronger." Anderson is equally pleased with his offense. "In my first two seasons at Brown we had one quarterback who was a good passer and another who, at times, could be an exciting runner. The quarterbacks we have this fall can run and they can throw and we will have our first opportunity in three years to utilize my complete offense." Anderson's complete offense should be something to watch. In 1971 his Middlebury team led the country (NCAA Division II) in passing yards p)er game (277), average gain per pass (20.2), and was second in touchdown passes with twenty-five. The following fall his team ranked in the top ten in nearly every offensive category. When he's able to balance his of- fense, Anderson says that he likes to run about 60 percent of the time and pass 40 percent. And though he agrees that fundamentals are what win footbadl games, he admits to a love for the razzle-dazzle approach. "The two men I coached under. Bob Blackman at Dartmouth and Joe Yukica at Boston College, play the wide-open game," says Anderson. "Putting in the flourishes during the week can make the game a bit more fun for the kids. On Saturday afternoon an offense that includes the razzle-dazzle puts pressure on your opjxjnent and puts fans in the stands." Anderson feels that the key to a wide-open offense is a quarterback who is completely at home with the system. There are four fine signal callers on the roster, senior Bob Bateman, juniors Paul Michaiko and Kevin Dare, and sopho- more Mark Smith, a 6'1", 180-fX)und high school All- American from Allen- town, Pa., who passed for twenty-four touchdowns and 1,532 yards as a high school senior. The battle for the starting berth will probably narrow down to Bateman and Michaiko. The latter was heir-apparent on the basis of several outstanding per- formances with the Jayvees early last year (he passed for more than 200 yards against Yale) and because of the poise he showed as a starter against Princeton before being sidelined for the season with a shoulder injury. 38 Then in January the University of Vermont decided to drop football for financial reasons, and the school's 6'5", 190-pound quarterback. Bob Bateman, passed up offers from all around the country and decided to transfer to Brown. A factor in his decision was his father. Bill Bateman '45, a former Bruin tackle in the Skip Stahley era. Young Bateman was briUiant last fall. He completed 141 of 286 pass attempts, including sixteen for touch- downs. Bateman, who will have only one year of eligibility at Brown, was second in the nation (Division II) in passing with 1,869 yards and he was seventh in the country in total offense with 2,011 yards, an average of 201.1 yards per game. He was All-New Eng- land, honorable mention Ail-American, and in May, when the Bruins held their one day of spring practice, Bateman drew scouts from eight professional teams. "Both Bateman and Michalko have exceUent ability, leadership qualities, and a complete feel for our offense," Anderson says. "This, combined with the fact that we've added some badly needed speed to our backfield and have added size, speed, and strength to the line, gives me confidence that we won't have any of the offensive problems that we had early last fall. There may be some days — not out of necessity, either — when we'll have four quarterbacks running the attack." Brown will have offensive weapons other than Michalko, Bateman, and company. All-East and All-Ivy kicking specialist Jose Violante will be back for his senior season. His two-year stats show him to be twenty of twenty-two on extra points and seventeen of twenty-five on field-goal attempts. Twice he's driven the ball through the uprights from 49 yards out. All-Ivy punter Mike Dodson will be back for his third year, as will Co-Capt. Kevin Slattery and junior split end Bob Famham. Halfback Slattery was third in the Ivy League in rushing with 495 yards and had the best rushing average with a 5.4 mark in seven games. Fam- ham is an exciting split end and punt- return specialist, who figures prom- inently in Anderson's offensive plans. The extra backfield speed Ander- son mentions will be provided by such sophomores as Joe Mixie, a Rhode Island All-Stater who does a 9.9 for the 100; Jack Koelbl, an All-Western New York halfback; WaUy Schields, a 5'11", i0^-wt^^^' \ .-«■■ M 451 .^j^^^ ii ■■a. 190-pound game-breaker who led the Cubs in rushing; and senior Doug Baran, a speedster who will start at flanker after being sidelined with injuries for two years. The offensive line has lettermen at every position, but Anderson predicts that by mid-season these veterans will be battling to hold off the challenge of such men as junior tight end Fred Polacek (6'4", 220), junior tackle John Gaddis (6'4", 225), and sophomore guard Len Waldman (6'2", 220). A year ago, Anderson pulled a sur- prise when he moved tight end Bill Kairit to the important middle guard position on defense. Kairit went on to earn All-East honors. This summer, the Bruin coach announced another major shift, with senior defensive tackle Phil Bartlett being shifted to middle guard as Kairit' s replacement. "Bartlett could be just as effective as Kairit," Anderson says. "He has quickness for the initial charge, good lateral speed, and will come back this year at 238 pounds, fifteen pounds heavier than he played at a year ago. He'll be real tough for the other centers to handle." One of the reasons Anderson was able to shift Bartlett is the presence of two highly promising sophomore tack- les, 6'4", 235-pound Kevin Rooney and 6'3", 235-pound Kevin Webb. A pair of sophomores with All-Ivy potential, Lou Cole (6'0", 220) and Ken Phelps (6'1", 200), will have to fight for playing time with veterans Paul Serrano (co-captain), Tom Ford, and Scott Nelson at inside linebacker. And although the defensive secondary of Tom Clark, Mark Heren- deen, and Tom Posniak returns intact, at least two of these men may be moved out by such sophomore hopefuls as Alan Kemp, Clark Mason, Bill Hill (he led the Cubs with five interceptions), and Roger Key. It's obvious that last fall's 4-2 freshman team will do the job that Anderson predicted — fill the varsity needs. Only one man dropped off the squad through the season, a fact that may be explained by Anderson's policy of using every man in every game. Anderson sees Yale, Harvard, and Dartmouth as the teams to beat. "Yale was tough defensively and they have almost everyone back," he says. "Play- c ing them early in the year is to our ad- ^ vantage. Harvard is always loaded with j45>2rL - -■w:" ! 39 material and this year will be no excep- tion. Dartmouth? Well, they're always tough, especially up there. They only lost two people defensively, but one of them was Reggie Williams, one of the best linebackers in the country. "We've reached the point where we don't have to take a back seat to anyone as far as material is concerned," Anderson adds. "Now our job is to pre- pare our players physically and men- tally so that we can move through the season, taking one game at a time, but with a single objective — the Ivy League title." Brown will play only four home games in this fiftieth anniversary of Brown Stadium, starting with the home opener against URI on September 27. The rest of the schedule: October 4, at Penn. October 11, Yale. October 18, at Dartmouth. October 25, at Holy Cross. November 1, at Princeton. November 8, at Cornell. November 15, Harvard (Homecoming). November 22, Colum- bia. The entire schedule will be broad- cast this fall by Providence radio station WJAR with Chris Clark handling the play-by-play. J.B. 40 Athletic Hall of Fame to induct first woman Prof. Emeritus Bessie H. Rudd, director of physical education at Pem- broke for thirty-one years and one of the leading women in her field in the United States, will become the Brown Athletic Hall of Fame's first female in- ductee at the annual Induction Dinner in November. Miss Rudd, an innovator in physical education, was vice-presi- dent and a member of the executive committee of the U.S. Field Hockey As- sociation and appeared in the pages of its yearbook from 1930 to 1960 either as an official, as editor, or as a writer. Upon Miss Rudd's retirement in 1962, the Bessie H. Rudd Award was established to perpetuate her high standards and honor her contributions to women's sports at Brown. Bessie Rudd is one of three specials being inducted this fall among the eight- een new members of the Hall of Fame. Joining Miss Rudd in this category are Zenas R. Bliss '18 and Clarence C. Chaffee '24. Bliss was called "the best navigator in the world" by Harold S. Vanderbilt after the latter's boat, the Ranger, had successfully defended the America's Cup in 1937 by defeating England's challenger. Endeavor II, in four straight races. Bliss also served as navigator for the Rainbow in the America's Cup races of 1934. Bliss was professor of engineering at Brown, served as dean of the College in 1957-58, and as provost from 1958 to his retirement in 1965. Clarence Chaffee last year was rated number one in the United States in Senior (70 and over) Men's Tennis Singles. The year prior, Chaffee tied for the number-one spot. To earn his nahonal title in 1974, Chaffee won the indoor hardcourt championship and then took the U.S. outdoor grass court title. For three decades, Chaffee coached soccer, squash, and tennis at Williams College. He's now resident director of the Van der Meer- Williams Tennis Camp at Williams College. Curt Bennett '70 is being inducted into the Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibibty, it being necessary for an ath- lete to be out of college five years before he can be considered. This past winter, Bennett was the second leading scorer with the Atlanta Flames of the National Hockey League with 66 points, and he became the first American in NHL his- tory to score more than 27 goals in one season. As an undergraduate, Bennett earned All-America honors in his senior season and was a three-time All-Ivy selection. He is fourth on Brown's all- time scoring list with 50 goals and 85 assists for 135 points. Others to be inducted: Football — Paul Hodge '28, a tackle on the undefeated Brown Iron Men of 1926; Bill Karaban '35, fullback and cap- tain of the 1934 team; John Parry '65, a split end who set seven Ivy League pass receiving records and was a two-time All-Ivy choice. Basketball — Ed Tooley '55, a forward who set Brown rebounding records for game, season, and career. Baseball — Tom Skenderian '68, the only Brown player ever to win the Charles H. Blair Bat, symbolic of batting supremacy, in the forty-five-year his- tory of the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League. His .514 average was also the third highest in the loop's history. Go//— Roland R. MacKenzie '29, runner-up for the intercollegiate title in 1928 and who competed in the U.S. Nationals and had a 5-1 record on the Walker Cup teams of 1926, 1928, and 1930. Creiv — Harlan A. Bartlett '51, a member of the first Brown crew when the sport was re-established on a club basis in 1949 and current president of the Brown Rowing Association. Soccer — Henry "Hank" Tolman '35, an All-America choice as a goalie. Track — Dave Farley '64, one of Brown's outstanding distance runners who took the IC4A indoor champion- ship in 1963 and the IC4A outdoor crown in 1964. Lacrosse — John D. "Chris" Eustis '65, an All-America midfielder who had a career total of 41 goals and 18 assists. Old Timers — Charles D. Millard '97 and William Burr Hopkins '97, a pair of halfbacks who were among Brown's first stars as football gained respectabil- ity in the early 1890s; Furher Marshall '19, an end on the 1916 team, which won eight of nine games; and Arthur E. Bartlett '14, captain of the 1914 track team and the man who held all of the University's weight records until the 1930s. The Hall of Fame's Induction Dinner will be held at Andrews Hall Dining Room on Friday, November 14. Tickets are $10 each and may be pur- chased by contacting dinner chairman John McLaughry at Box 1849, Brown University, Providence 02912 or by caUing (401) 863-2898. J.B. 41 Thm CM nEmnn C. Tompkms and his wife, Agnes, hosted a cocktail-dinner party at the Belle Meade Country Club in Nashville on May 28 to celebrate their six- tieth anniversary. Their daughter, Cynthia, and her husband were present, as well as five of their seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild. "t Q Seven members of the class J. ^ of 1919 of the Women's College of Brown University gathered for luncheon Saturday noon of Commencement Weekend (May 31) in Vemey-Woolley Dining Room. Arrangements were made by class president Edith Goff Miner, who presided afterwards at a class meeting in Emery Hall . Others attend- ing were Esther Brintzenhoff, vice-president; Edna R. Macdonald, treasurer; Man/ £. Carroll, secretary ; Scphic M. Robimcn: Ruth P. Watjen, former president of the Alumnae Associa- tion; and Florence T. Cohnetz, class agent. ^ f\ George H. Rhodes is with the ^m\J medical administration service of the Veterans Administration Hospital in Philadelphia. He was previously with the Internal Revenue Service. ^ [J? Chief Marshal for Brown's ^^ 207th Commencement was our classmate, Benjamin D. Roman, teacher, administrator, and dean of students at Brown from 1963 to 1969. Ben has been a director of the Warren Pond School in East Alstead, N.H., since 1955. ^/T Dr. Leonard B. Tlwmpson was ^m\J honored last spring at a reception for 2,000 guests, many of them recovered al- coholics, sponsored by the staff of Naukeag Hospital, a private Massachusetts hospital for the treatment of alcoholism and related illnesses. Dr. Thompson, who has a private practice in Gardner, Mass., has been head of the medical program at the Naukeag Hospi- tal since 1960. ^ n^ Harold E. Conrad retired in May ^ / after twenty years as dean and professor of history at High Point College in North Carolina. He and his wife continue to live in High Point. lohn Hall is still working full-time as president and treasurer of the Wm. H. Low Estate Co. in Providence. He also serves as president and director of Farview, Inc., as a trustee of the Howard Foundation, and as a member of the board of the Dunes Club. Herbert Hoive retired in 1969 after twenty-nine years with the Bendix Corp., most recently with the executive offices in Detroit and Southfield, Mich. He has since moved to Pasadena, Calif. Charlie Kenney , Cranston, R.I., retired in April 1973. He is active as an elder in the church and as a Mason and a Shriner, and he continues to pursue his hobbies of photog- raphy and rose growing. Isador Korri, Cranston, R.I., continues to practice law at his office in the Hospital Trust Building in Providence. He was recently made an honorary trustee of Temple Emanuel. Edgar Loud retired in 1969 from his position as a patent engineer with BIF. He lives in Cranston, R.I. Tom Magee is semi-retired in Sedona, Ariz., where he is involved in local civic activittes. He continues as chairman of the board of the Gray Envelope Manufacturing Co. Neioell O. Mason, Summit, N.]., retired in 1969 as professor emeritus of history at Stevens Institute. He teaches history part- time at the Kent Place School, an independ- ent girls' school in Summit. ^ Q Eleanor Sarle Briggs has been ^K^7 appointed by Rhode Island Governor P/ii7i;i Noel '54 to the Governor's Council on Mental Health. Louisa Partington Fanale has been appointed professor of microbiology at Upsala College in East Orange, N.J. William 5. Litterick received his master of divinity degree from Andover-Newton Theological School in May and plans to pursue further graduate study. He lives in Plaistow, N.H. O f\ Otto Kemer, who was paroled J \J from federal pnson in March because of ill health, has accepted a position as consultant to Lewis University's special ser\'ices center in Chicago, where he will di- rect a program aimed at improving mental attitudes of prison inmates. Dorothy Bowler Laverty has been elected to the Maine legislature as the Republican representative from Millinocket. She is the author of the first complete history of her town, Millinocket - Magic City of Maine's Wil- derness, published in 1973. ^ 'I Allen Arnold retired in April J J. after twenty-nine years with the Commercial Credit Corp., most recently as director of national accounts. He lives in Lutherville, Md. '5 ^ Arthur A. Leiuis ('37 A.M.) retired J iK in June after sixteen years as a so- cial studies teacher at Tantasqua High School in Sturbridge, Mass. Lorraine Loiacono, New London, Conn., retired recently as chief of medical social services for Connecticut's welfare depart- ment to become the director of Aid and As- sistance, a private regional agency in New London. '5 ^ Violet Bander Callahan writes, J J "Although I have retired from paid social work, I am volunteering in ad- missions at Hilo Hospital through the Hilo Hospital Auxiliary, am on the board of direc- tors of the Hawaii County Mental Health As- sociation, and belong to the National Associ- ation of Social Workers, Hawaii chapter. If any of my college friends should be in Hilo, remember to call me because I'd enjoy seeing you and showing the Big Island to you." Vivienne Cote, Pawtucket, R.I., is a French teacher and head of the foreign language department at Pawtucket West Senior High School. She is also a member of the board of the Alliance Francaise de Providence. In a major organizational change, Tliomas F. Gilhane has become chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer of Gilbane Building Co., Providence. At the same time, William ]. Gilhane has been elected president of the construction firm, one of the country's largest. Eleanor Gilbert Hargrove retired in April after fifteen years of working with the elderly in Grand Rapids, Mich., first as an urban renewal relocation expert and then as director of Senior Neighbors, Inc. She lives in Grand Rapids. O^ Maurice Clemence, WeWesley J^t Hills, Mass., has retired as vice- president for finance and director of the Kendall Co. A trustee emeritus of Brown, he is chairman of the board of trustees of Wheaton College and a director of several companies. ^ [J" Dr. Alec R. Shapiro has been J^ named head of the pre-clinical curriculum at the University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine, where he will also serve as director of the dental multi- discipline laboratories. He lives in Farming- ton, Conn. '2 /2 Ambrose Murray has retired v50 to Hobe Sound, Fla., after seven- teen years as a swimming-pool builder in North Attleboro, Mass. O^ Charlotte Woiler Rothschild, Chica- J / go, is a part-time social worker at Michael Reese Hospital. Her daughter, Ila, received her M.S.W. degree from the Uni- versity of Chicago in 1974 and is a psychiatric social worker at the same hospital. Her daughter, Maria, received her B.A. degree from the National College of Education and is a U.S. Customs inspector at O'Hare Inter- national Airport. Burt Shei^eloiv served as the director of Rodgers and Hart, a Broadway musical cele- brating the great days of Richard Rodgers and his collaborating lyricist, Lorenz Hart. In reviewing the play, the Neiv York Times described Shevelove's work as "imaginative and inventive." '2Q Dr. Howard A. Blazar, Brookline, v30 Mass., has been appointed to the board of directors of the Brown Medical As- sociation. Dr. Samuel B. Burgess, Needham, Mass., has also been appointed to the board of directors of the Brown Medical Association. 42 O fj Dr. John T. Barrett, Providence, »5 ^/ has been named secretary of the Brown Medical Association. Dr. Sophie Trent, Meriden, Conn., has been elected vice-president of the Brown Medical Association. /% f\ Shirley Roberts Barbour is the TI \J art editor in charge of layout and publications design for the American Mathematical Society in Providence. Shirley is active in the American Friends Service Committee and the United Farmworkers Supfxjrt Committee. Her daughter, Connie, is a freshman at Boston University. Olga Korrmr Boluch is vice-president of the Smithfield (R.l.) Education Association and an officer in the Education Theatre Association of Rhode Island. Helen Waterman Boyd's husband, Jim, is president of Boydco, Inc., manufacturers of prefabricated pumping stations. Their son, Michael, who graduated from Worcester Polytechiuc Institute, works for the firm as an engineer. Their son, Chris, is a sopho- more at Worcester Polytech. The Boyds live in Barrington, R.I. Dr. Bertram H. Buxton, Providence, has been named treasurer of the Brown Medical Association. Frances Babcock Chase, Orange, Conn., is working in real estate. Her husband, Ben '38, is semi-retired. Their son, Tyler '74, is a teacher and coach at Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven. Janet Welch Clem's son, Stephen ('73 A.M.), teaches at the Mary C. Wheeler School in Providence, where she lives. Jean Bruce Cummings, Greenfield, Mass., teaches biology fwtrt-time at Greenfield Community College. Last December she was appointed director of the First Pioneer Bank of Franklin County. She is also chairman of the Greenfield Recycling Committee, first vice-president of the board of Franklin County Public Hospital, and a member of the School Conrunittee. Polly Tirrell English works as a nurse and researcher at the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology in Shrewsbury, Mass. She and her husband, Ted, participated last July in a three-week study program at Cambridge University in England. Leone Broumell Pagan's oldest son, Pete, is a Navy career officer stationed in Hawaii. Her daughter, Jean, is married and has two children; her son Bob is in the computer business; and her son Kenneth is a high school student. Leone lives in Melrose, Mass., where she continues to work for the Melrose Public Library. Louise Hecknum Fitch's husband, Parme- lee, retired in June 1974 after thirty-three ye£irs with AMICA. They have moved to the family's sununer home in West Dennis, Mass. , which will be their permanent retire- ment home. Penelope Hartland-Thunberg left the federal goverrunent in 1974 to return to academia. She is a resident economist at Georgetowm University's Center for Strategic and International Studies and teaches a graduate seminar in economics. Rosalind Cooney Larkowich teaches elementary school in Warwick, R.I. She and her husband, George '39, live in Cranston. Miriam O'Brien Meehan is working as a resource teacher for the Providence public schools. Dr. ]ohn G. Murray, Greenwich, Conn., has been appointed to the board of directors of the Brown Medical Association. Phyllis Riley Murray teaches exceptioneil children at St. Vincent's Home and School in Fall River, Mass. Her son, James Jr., has begun work toward his doctorate in clinical psychology at the University of Rhode Island. Helen Starrett Peterson works part-time as a library technical assistant in the Mid- dletown (R.I.) Free Library. Her husband, John, retired from the U.S. Army Reserves this year. Their daughter, Christine, grad- uated from URI in June, and their son, William, is a sophomore at URI. Louise Parker Romanoff is a senior scientist at the Worcester Foundation for Experimen- tal Biology in Shrewsbury, Mass. Elizabeth Hunt Schumann is a reference librarian at Brown's Rockefeller Library. Her husband, Detlev, is professor emeritus of German at Browm. Their son, Walter, is with the National Labor Relations Board in Washington, D.C. Priscilla Phillips Smith is a librarian at the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. She is currently building a house on Mount Desert Island, Maine. Clara Schwab Wisbach is an audio-visual media spjedalist at Broad Meadows Junior High in Quincy, Mass. She and her hus- band. Gale '39, live in Duxbury, Mass. /I '% William R. T. Crolius, director Tt J. of government relations for the Crane Co., has been elected a vice-president of the firm. He Lives in Alexandria, Va. Dr. Robert T. Steinsieck, Meriden, N.H., has been apfxjinted to the board of directors of the Brown Medical Association. Dr. Sanford W. Udis, Fall River, Mass., is president of the Brown Medical Association. /t ^ Dr. Edward M. Daniels, Chestnut jL.^m Hill, Mass., has been apjX)inted to the executive committee of the Brown Medical Association. /% O The second annual off-year rt eep signals from Sputnik II in 1957, they were using an ingenious subminiature microphone similar to one that John D. Wallace '42 helped develop while serving as a civilian research scientist at Johnsville (Pa.) Naval Air Development Center. Working with three other men, Wallace developed a phonocatheter, a tiny micro- phone smaller than a grain of rice, which can be fed into the heart through a vein in the arm. The group tested the device on dogs in 1955, and when Wallace recorded the signals from Sputnik 11, he recognized what the Russians had done. His "scoop" on the methods employed by the Russians was featured in Newsweek magazine in December of 1957. The invention of the phonocatheter was only one accomplishment in the life of John Doyle Wallace, a man who earned an inter- national reputation in two distinct fields of research. Mr. Wallace died June 22 in Philadelphia, where he was a member of the faculty at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University. Mr. Wallace did postgraduate work in a variety of fields at Brown, Boston University, Ohio University, and Penn State. He taught physics at Amherst before leaving to serve in the Pacific Theater during World War 11 as an officer in charge of special weapons on Proj- ect CUTE. After the war he joined the U.S. Navy Underwater Sound Laboratory in New London, Conn., before moving to the U.S. Naval Air Development Center in Johnsville, John Wallace: Vie Soviets borrowed his invention. Pa., where he was assistant superintendent for research and development. While there as head of the special methods and analysis branch of the Under- sea Warfare Division, Professor Wallace earned an international reputation as an expert in the application of ferroelectric ceramics to underwater sound transmitting and receiving devices. He and his team of physicists and engineers provided the origi- nal concepts and validating research upon which a significant portion of the airborne undersea warfare program of the U.S. Navy was based. Partly as a result of these achievements. Professor Wallace was honored in 1957 with the Arthur S. Flemming Award as one of the ten most outstanding men in the field of government. In 1966, Professor Wallace became assist- ant professor of radiology at Jefferson Medi- cal College in Philadelphia. His appointment as research professor of radiology and direc- tor of the breast diagnostic center came sev- eral years later. During this period, he be- came known as a pioneer authority in ther- mography, a diagnostic technique of particu- lar significance in the detection of breast cancer. Two years ago one of the largest breast-cancer screening programs in the world, geared to serve 20,000 Philadelphia- area women, was initiated at Jefferson Medi- cal College under the direction of Mr. Wal- lace. Professor Wallace held a variety of staff positions at Jefferson Medical College and Hospital. He was also co-author of "Clinical Thermography," which was selected for reading at a professional meeting at Johns Hopkins University the week Mr. Wallace died. At a German International Film Festival, Professor Wallace won a medal for overall excellence and a special award for the script of his film, X-Ray, Ultrasound, and Viermog- raphy in Diagnosis. He also received a silver medal for the film at the Atlanta Interna- tional Film Festival. At Brown, Mr. Wallace was president of the Newman Club and Beta Theta Pi. Survivors include his wife, Jeanne Heathcote Wallace, 116 Shippen Road, Philadelphia; three daughters, Michelle, Margaret, and Elizabeth; and a son, Robert. J.B. 51 of America. Survivors include his wife, Letitia Wood Worden, 1200 Narragansett Blvd., Cranston; and a son, Douglas. Paul Boriynge, Jr. '28, Wilton, N.H., retired vice-president of Bankers Trust Co. of New York Cit)'; May 15. After attending Columbia Law School, Mr. Bonynge joined Bankers Trust in 1930, became a vice- president in 1951, and was later in charge of the bank's Madison Avenue office. Alpha Delta Phi. Survivors include his wife, )ane Wallace, Temple Road, Wilton; and daugh- ters Anne ancl Jane. Alexander SAathnr Buchinaiiu '28, Los Angeles, Calif., an investor who had been working with the Security National Bank of Los Angeles; in 1974. Sigma Nu. Survivors are not known. Alfred William Pett, Jr. '28, Warwick, R.I., chief engineer for New England Union Co., Inc., and an inventor who held several pat- ents in his field; June 8. His first engineering job was with Bell Labs in New York. He later joined Sterling Tool Products in Chicago, where, during World War 11, he helped de- velop the special sanding tools necessary for constructing the unique wooden aircraft known as the Mosquito fighter. He was sent to Canada by Sterling to familiarize Royal Air Force pilots and crewmen with the plane, which played a vital role in the Battle of Britain. Returning to Rhode Island after the war, Mr. Pett joined Lamb Electric Co. as eastern sales manager. He had been with New England Union since 1967. Mr. Pett was state amateur middleweight boxing cham- pion in 1928. He is survived by his wife, Mary Irene Brydges Pett, 260 Algonquin Dr., Warwick; a son, William '68; and two daugh- ters, Mary '56 and Ruth. Roger Oliver Van Duzer '34, Reno, Nev., sta- tion manager of KCRL-TV, Reno; Feb. 12, 1973. Mr. Van Duzer also managed television stations in Albany, N.Y., and Yuma, Ariz., during a long career in the radio and tele- vision industry. Survivors include his wife, Charlotte Elliott Van Duzer, Box 4100, Jasper Lane, Reno; and two children. Charles Francis Moss, jr. '35, Warwick, R.I., a teacher in Warwick for twenty-five years, head of the math-science department at Lockwood Junior High when he retired a year ago, and one of the five founders of Brownbrokers; July 5. Tau Delta Upsilon, Sigma Phi Sigma. Survivors include his wife, Mary Ryan Moss, 31 Mashuena Dr., War- wick; and two daughters, Mary and Carol. John Othur Shepard '36, Warwick, R.I., a loan and credit officer with Industrial Na- tional Bank, Providence; July 9. Mr. Shepard was a graduate of Bryant College. During World War II, he served as a lieutenant on a Navy submarine chaser. In 1961, Mr. Shepard received the Silver Beaver award of the Boy Scouts of America, the highest honor a local chapter can bestow. Delta Upsilon. Survivors include his wife, Margaret Walton Shepard, 21 Cornell Ave., Warwick; a son, John; and daughters Judith and Leta. Dr. Nathan Millman '38 Sc.M., Somerville, N.J., director of regulatory affairs at the Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp., with which he had been associated since 1941; May 17. Dr. Millman received a bachelor's degree from Clark University and his Ph.D. in physiology and biochemistry from Rut- gers. Survivors include his widow, Elizabeth Lipman, 463 Bavberry Rd., Somerville; and a daughter, Judith. Everett Francis Greenleaf 'H, Holden, Mass., assistant vice-president of the group claims division of State Mutual Life Insur- ance Co. of America, Worcester; June 30. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate, Mr. Creenleaf was graduated from the Harvard Business School in 1942 and the Harvard Law School in 1948. While serving with the Navy during World War II, he commanded a ship in the Pacific and was decorated for heroism for his actions while fighting off kamikaze planes at Okinawa. Survivors include his wife, Gladys Winlock Greenleaf, 13 Lowell Ave., Holden. Dr. Lafayette Boyd Hedge '42 Ph.D., Washington, D.C., research engineer and consultant and one-time chief of ordnance at the War Department; date unknown. Dr. Hedge earned his A.B. and M.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1933 and 1936, respectively. During World War 11 he served as a lieutenant-colonel with the Army. At one time. Dr. Hedge taught math at the UniversiU' of Virginia's extension division. Survivors include his wife, Blythe Ringquest Hedge, 6219 Massachusetts Ave. N.W., Washington. Elmer William Liebsch, jr. '46, Georgetown, Mass., partner in the Salem law firm of Liebsch & Liebsch and former president of the Salem Bar Association; Dec. 16. Mr. Liebsch earned his master's from the Univer- sity of Montreal in 1950 and his LL.B. from Boston University Law School two years later. He served with the Navy during World War II, seeing extensive action in both the European and Pacific Theaters of Operation. Mr. Liebsch was a past president of the North Shore Sports Car Club. Delta Phi. Survivors include his wife at 58 West Main St., Georgetown; and two sons. Howard David Craft '47, Madison, Va., former academic dean at Green Valley School, Orange, Fla.; date unknown. He earned his A.M. at the University of Michigan in 1948 and taught Latin and Ger- man at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N.H. He served in the Coast Guard during World War II. Survivors include his wife, Alice Ward Craft, Box 345, Star Route, Twymans Mills, Madison. Stephen Alton Torrey '47, Westbrook, Maine, plant engineer with the S.D. Warren division of Scott Paper Co.; in April. Mr. Tor- rey served as an ensign in the Navy for three years during World War 11, later joining New Jersey Bell Telephone as a plant engineer. Sigma Nu. Survivors include his wife, Margaret Marion Torrey, 161 Forest St., Westbrook; daughters Martha and Susan; and a son, Stephan. ]ohn Howard Stedman '48, East Long- I meadow, Mass., president and treasurer of Dentists and Surgeons' Supply Co. of Springfield; June 30 after suffering a heart attack at Logan Airport. Mr. Stedman was a veteran of World War 11. His son, Richard S. Stedman, was graduated from Brown in June. Sigma Nu. In addition to his son, Mr. Sted- man is survived by his wife, Virginia Classie Stedman, 98Mapie St., East Longmeadow. Dr. h'an Trei'or Vasey '48, New Haven, Conn., psychiatrist; June 9 after being stricken while attending his 25th reunion at Harvard. Dr. Vasey served as a medic in the Army during World War II. He completed his medical studies at Tufts and worked at Rochester University Hospital and in Syra- cuse before setting up a private practice in New Haven. Sur\'ivors include his wife, Sally Farr Vasey of New Haven; two daugh- ters and two sons. Dorothy Kovachi Sementilli '50, Trumbull, Conn., former school teacher and recent partner in the Olde Yankee Card & Gift Shoppe, Oxford, Conn.; in February. For six years, Mrs. Semmentilli taught ninth grade math at Milford (Conn.) High School. Her husband died four years ago. She is survived by two sons, Craig and Scott, and a daugh- ter, Stacev Ann, all at 7 Rutlee Drive, Trumbull. Frederick William Somers, jr. '50, Angola, Ind., an advertising official until two years ago when he had brain tumor surgery; May 31. At one time he was media director for Marstekker, Rickard, Gebhardt & Reed, Inc., of New York City. Sigma Chi. Survivors in- clude his mother, Mrs. Frederick W. Somers, Sr., 601 N. Wayne St., Angola. John Grant Keck '52, Port Washington, N.Y., president of C. Grant Keck of Long Island; June 6. Mr. Keck was a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Business Administration. Delta Tau Delta. Sur\'ivors include his wife at 70 Mackev Ave., Port Washington. William Henn/ O'Donnell, ]r. '55, Nauga- tuck. Conn., educator and former regional secretary for his class; date unknown. After serving as an ensign in the Nav'V, Mr. O'Donnell taught English at the Peddie School, Hightstown, N.J., The Hill School in Pottstown, Pa., and at several public schools. He was one of nine regional class secretaries selected in 1955 to keep in touch with class- mates and provide information for this magazine. Survivors are not known. Robert Kreider Eckert '57, Lancaster, Pa., senior account executive at Reynolds Se- curities, Inc., Lancaster; May 15 in an auto accident. Mr. Eckert had been with Reynolds Securities since 1961. His Brown career was interrupted by a two-year Army stint that in- cluded service in Germany. Delta Phi. Sur- vivors include his wife, Virginia Ferore Eckert '55, 634 Hedgerow Lane, Lancaster; a son, Robert; and daughters Virginia and Nancy. Mohammad Hos Daneshpajooh '73 GS, Yazd, Iran, a graduate student in engineering; last spring in an automobile accident. 52 The search for a president Editor: The resignation of President Homig points up a numt>er of things that should be carefully taken into consideration incident to seeking a successor. The execu- tive head of a first-class university must con- stantly deal with large groups of people with diverse interests, hence lots of conflicting de- sires that each faction considers paramount. This kaleidoscopic scene is healthy in the extreme as it assures a maximum of stimulation both for the widest possible spec- trum of study areas and for the broadest range of perspectives thereon. However, it inevitably imposes an incredible burden on the individual that must preside over all this sound and fury, make judgments that would have taxed Solomon, then make them stick without being divisive. Superb communications is obviously essential to achieve any reasonable degree of success. This must start with a broad, sym- pathetic intake so that there is an adequate base for evaluation leading to a sensible compromise since everyone can't be fully catered to. There then has to be a lucid feed- back of the pros and cons, both to clarify the considerations that will govern the final decision and to invite further input. The compromise arrived at from all of this input must not be subject to reexamina- tion unless, and until, the circumstances on which it was predicated have changed enough to warrant a new look. The full and open process of input and evaluation {good communications) eliminates the possibility of open challenge by any reasonable party and unreasonableness is not credible. There is no need to discuss all of the complex aspects of good communications to perceive some of the things that must be done to inspire an academic Houdini to con- sent to preside over the ferment that can lead to a better institution of higher learning. Since the ultimate responsibility rests upon the Brown Corporation, they should encour- age prospective candidates by: A) Formally subscribing to the verity that it is impossible to successfully separate authority and responsibility. B) Directing the administration to seek input, on all aspects, from the faculty, the student body, the alumni, and the general public but to make clear that the request for facts and opinions does not mean a surren- der of authority and responsibility in even the slightest degree. C) Directing the administration to unceasingly strive to build bridges between the various disciplines to replace the fences erected by empire builders. D) Directing the administration to gov- ern (without exception) admissions, scholar- ships, grants in aid, et cetera, solely on the basis of: 1) academic promise, 2) academic performance, 3) financial need. Race, creed, and color must be completely ignored. E) Flatly endorsing the operating budget, including all of the fees and charges it is predicated on, before it is made public. This will have to be done by committee, with eventual ratification by the full Corporation, since they must provide the funds even if it means invading the endowment principal. These clear-cut directives from the Cor- poration will not eliminate all the problems that the president has to wrestle with but they will certainly both minimize the prob- lems and make the residue more susceptible to satisfactory solution. If they are actually in being there will certainly be a wider selec- tion of high-grade candidates for the presi- dency than if they are only intimated. STEPHEN A. McCLELLAN '23 Early sville, Va. The strike and occupation of University Hall (cont.) Editor: I was appalled by the recent strike and join my outraged brethren in protest against this continuing debasement of a fine University. First, we let them come to Brown — and that wasn't enough. Then we gave them some scholarships — and that wasn't enough. And now they have the cheek to raise their voices against our ivied halls when we want to cut a few comers here and there. If this silliness continues 1 will bad- mouth Brown at every Little League game and Cub Scout meeting possible and will encourage my future offspring to become plumbers and tree surgeons. Until further notice my contributions to Brown will be tunneled to the Audubon Society as a protest against this malevolent undercurrent of insurgency prevalent within our undergraduates. With a Rah Rah Rah and a Ki Yay Yay. A. MARK POPE '71 La Mesa, Calif. Editor: Your accounts of the strike and sit-in are admirable. The author, S.R. (Sandra Reeves), is to be congratulated for a truly remarkable piece of highest-quality journalism. There is at least one advantage to sharp controversy within the University — when it is coupled with the kind of superb reporting that you have given it — namely, it stimulates alumni concern with University affairs. That doesn't necessarily mean better fund-raising, but it does expand participa- tion in the growing debate as to just what purposes a university is supposed to serve in our hard-nosed society. (Should it strive to harden noses or to soften them? Whose noses should have this ambiguous privilege?) Your "Carrying the Mail" column (May/June issue) was fascinating, but it was disturbing to me that so many of the older alumni are intellectually detached from the educational concerns of current under- graduates. Perhaps they will be less hasty to make judgments after reading the current issue of BAM. The University is subject to many pressures. It could at least hope that alumni pressures are well informed. BAM is working on that. But it seems the administration itself had been imperfectly informed and perhaps intellectually detached. As you suggest, this may be the case on many another campus. Brown's experience, reported by BAM, may help awaken other institutions. CARL BARUS '41 Swarthmore, Pa. Editor: I am one of the very few alumni (perhaps the only one) who has presided over an institution of higher learning and had the administration building occupied by black students. Because of this perhaps I have a responsibility to comment on the recent student difficulties at Brown. After receiving President Homig's letter of May 1, 1 wrote commending him and the University for the way the matter was han- dled and also for his "fair warning" with re- spect to future building occupahons. There are some matters which may be permitted once but cannot be tolerated over the long haul, and building occupations as a means of gaining the demands of a group is one of them. On reading Mr. Homig's letter again 1 was impressed anew by its fair-mindedness, its candor, and its willingness to admit that mistakes were made by the administration. The mistake or failure which stands out above all others, in my judgment, is inade- quate communication, especially with mem- bers of the student body. How was it possi- ble that a budget eight months in the making and which contained reductions or absence of increases in items so close to student con- cerns as financial aid, student services, and numbers of faculty could have been com- pleted without bringing students into the process somehow? That the reductions had to come in substantial part from these areas seems obvious to me for two reasons: (1) the president had no doubt cut buildings and grounds and general administrative ex- penses in his efforts to balance the past sev- eral deficit budgets; and (2) from one half to 53 three quarters of university expenses consist of instructional costs, financial aid, and student services. If Brown must reduce its spending $6,000,000 over three years, it simply has to reduce expenditures in these areas. But all of this is by no means obvious to students or to faculty. The lesson for the future is clear. There must be a much greater effort by the administration to communicate, particularly with students, regarding the financial options of the University. I was pleased to note that the University is taking steps to move in these directions. With respect to the actions of the minor- ity students the first thing which must be said is that those of us (many alumni and Brown administrators) who have lived reasonably comfortable, relatively secure middle or upper middleclass lives cannot understand with any degree of completeness what blacks and other minority students who come from the Harlems of America are up against. Most of them have neither the educational nor the home advantages many of us and/or our children have taken for granted. Many of them are painfully aware of the "last-hired, first-fired" policy their parents have suffered under in the job world and were no doubt fearful that as relative newcomers to the Brown student body they, too, would be casualties of Brown's financial troubles. Then there is the bald fact that Brown had made substantial commitments to the blacks in 1968 (perhaps not entirely wisely) and had not completely kept them. No doubt the administration would like to have scaled these down in view of how expensive minority students are to the University and because of Brown's financial problems. But from the point of view of the minority students, a promise had been made, and they intended to press hard to see that it was kept. Was building occupation the answer? It won them a short-term victory of sorts. And some will argue that only actions of this kind jolt institutions sufficiently to bring about significant change. But the long-run bad re- sults are almost sure to outweigh whatever short-term gains there may be. Strong-arm tactics such as building takeovers alienate many people including those who have been sympathetic to the blacks and who have helped them gain what they have gained. There is much less sympathy for the blacks today among liberal whites than there was only a few years ago. Another long-run effect is that an unknown but probably sub- stantial number of alumni have become dis- affected. Why should they give their money to support an institution which gives in to students who take over buildings, some of them are asking? Neither the alienation of their white sympathizers nor the alienation of the alumni is likely to help black students over the long run. Finally, where does the president come out in all this? He explained in his May 1 letter what his limited options were and why he chose the one he did. His choice has not pleased everyone (to understate a bit), and some appear to be crying for his head. Must this man now be sacrificed for making a difficult decision as he thought, everything considered, it should be made? 1 hope not. Men of his caliber who are willing to expose themselves and their families to the hazards of a university presidency in times such as these are rare. If President Homig goes down and out on this issue, excellent candidates will be exceedingly loath to offer themselves as his successor. And Brown will be the loser. FREDERICK H. JACKSON '41 Wilmette, III. This letter (and others m this issue) was written pnor to the announcement of Mr. Homig's deci- sion to resign, effective June 30, 1976 (BAM, ]ul\flAugust). Mr. Jackson is a former president of Clark University, Worcester, Mass. — Editor Editor: For over two hundred years Brown University has built a reputation as a small, quality liberal arts institution, where the emphasis has been on undergraduate education rather than on graduate educa- tion. In recent years, however, it would seem that Brown has attempted to be all things to all people, which in an expanding economy might have been possible, but which under present conditions is not possible. Perhaps Brown now needs to return to what it has always done best, providing a quality, tradi- tional liberal arts curriculum, and needs to advise its present and prospective clientele that this is the course being taken, so that current and prospective students may decide for themselves whether or not they wish to participate in such a program. Undue student manipulation of admin- istrative policies in an institution of higher learning seems somewhat out of place. Such an institution, particularly a private institution, should do what it does best within the limits of its capabilities. And surely the Brown Corporation is in a better position to determine what course the institution should take than are students who are only presently forming their ideals and aspirations. If students, after sampling what Brown has to offer, are dissatisfied, they are free to go elsewhere. But Brown University should follow a course which by years, yes, of tradition, has been shown to be the right one for Brown and should not be turned first this way and then another by every changing political or social movement. May Brown be ever true to its traditional liberal arts commitment. MINER PATTON '32 Portland, Oreg. Editor: President Homig has never been either qualified or capable of leading Brown. Coincidentally, the years Brown has most acutely needed a sympathetic and sensitive president have been exactly those years of '. strife and challenge which have been met by ' rigid and discouragingly unintelligent crisis response. Throughout this most recent strike I was tempted to write many times, but now that the surface (and only the surface) is calmer, my personal outrage at the ineptness of the administration has been festering more deeply. I agree with Jeremiah Davis '74 when he implies that President Homig should follow the route of Richard Nixon. Resignation would only begin to heal the injuries done to Brown, but it would be immediately promising as a sign of greater openness. While this really is not the thrust of my letter it has allowed me to vent my feelings in a manner long overdue. What struck me as the most interesting aspect of the editorial flurry that surrounded the issue of the strike was the emerging polarity between writers who graduated before and after the New Curriculum was introduced. It seems that the old guard will forever regard an education at Brown as a "privilege, not a right." And so it is in a cer- tain sense, though not the way they would like it to be. It is a privilege only in the sense that anything unequally distributed is granted as a peculiar benefit or advantage to some. But it is a right in the sense that every student who earns it should have an equal shot at obtaining it, and this particularly refers to groups who have been slighted or ignored. To deem someone already less privileged more responsible for the financial burden of this education is so unfair as to be ridiculous. Students who were striking at Brown were demanding only the ability to remain there on an equal basis with those who could more easily afford it. Those who think an education at Brown is such a privilege should take a long look at the unemployment lines filled with the college educated. Times have changed and a college education is no longer a reward for the privileged few. It is part of a new and broader enfranchisement of the American people, an attitude many older graduates may find hard to accept (ironic, considering the fact that those who most resist the change attended Brown when it was less well regarded than it is today). But now there are other schools with facilities equal to Brown's which are cheaper and far better managed. As much as I loved Brown as a student and continue to support my concept of her as an alumnus, I certainly hope the administra- tion wakes up in time to realize that Brown has stiff competition that will not hesitate to attract prospective applicants away from Providence. At this point I am no longer sure that I would come again as a freshman. And I say this with deep dismay. But it is the truth and I daresay I am not alone in my disillusionment. STEPHEN A. CLASSMAN '72 Neiv Haven, Conn. =;4 Tills letter xras xoritten to President Hortug, icith a copy to the BAM. Sir: In reply to your letter on black activities at Brown I would like to point out the time has come to give running of the University back to the faculty- The students should be considered just as they always were but not run the University. Back in my college days the Cammarian Club would be called on in case of disputes. You still have it. The big mistake was a few years back when those eight blacks refused to stand for the National Anthem. Regardless of the fact they did not like the ideas expressed they should still have honored the National Anthem as such. They should have been fired with no questions asked. They were seen by hun- dreds and admitted their guilt. S WATSON REMINGTON '22 Glen Ridge, N.J. The Cammarian CM ceased to exist in 1971. — Editor The Jane Thompson case Editor: I was pleased to see such a com- plete and accurate report of the case of Jane Thompson vs. Brown University carried in your April BAM. The article dealt accurately with the facts and conclusions of the com- mission, and it is frequently difficult for re- porters to sense the importance of court opinions or administrative findings. My only regret would be that credit was not given to Angela Hawkins Fichter, who was a graduate student in religion at Brown for several years before coming to the [Rhode Island Commission for Human Rights] in January 1972. She has investigated the Thompson case from the beginning and was responsible for the extensive preparatory work done before trial. ARTHUR R. BOONE 62 A.M. Providence Editor: The issue in the case of Mrs. Jane Thompson is not simply sex discrimination hu\. prof essional depreciation. The sexual component arises from the fact that women have been more numerous than men in so- cial work, and that social workers have too often permitted themselves to be locked into the medical model, which is dominated by men. As more men enter social work, and as the licensing of social workers spreads, these archaic and regressive features should di- minish. It is discouragingly evident that the pre- sumably informed people in the University Health Services have little knowledge of the comparative training of social workers, psychiatrists, and psychologists, and more particularly of the limitations of psychiatric training. The trained social worker has two years of post-graduate training, which in- cludes two types of clinical, supervised field work (internship or practicum, if you prefer). To achieve professional certification, the so- cial worker must work two additional years under certified supervision, as well as meet other requirements. Also, doctoral degrees are becoming more common. The psychiatrist has a minimum of three years of training after medical school, but most of this occurs in a mental hospital, and much of it is unrelated to any level of coun- seling. Many have no training beyond this point. Furthermore, medical training itself is largely irrelevant and often antithetic to the treatment of personal, social, and/or intra- psychic problems. The psychiatrist has in fact a great deal to i«i -learn from his or her medical training, and some will say so. Based on the identification and treatment of pathology, and operating through the philo- sophically autocratic and hierarchal medical model, medical practice does not promote the development of personal strengths, iden- tity, or self-direction. It is not intended to do so. Psychiatry, however, continues largely to operate through this model, and few psychiatrists seem to escape its bounds. Regarding psychology, its entry into the field of counseling, though welcome and ex- panding, is relatively recent. Psychology has historically been concerned with a very dif- ferent subject matter from that germane to counseling. Needless to say, any training is only the beginning of knowledge. I suspect Mrs. Thompson knows what the real issue is. It is not money. PHYLLIS CRAWSHAW PASKAUSKAS '44 Arlington, Mass. The author graduated from Smith College School for Social Work in 1949. — Editor Kirkpatrick and the CIA Editor: "Kirkpatrick on the CIA (II)" (BAM, February) was interesting but proba- bly misleading. Knowing where the profes- sor spent the past quarter-century, I'd hardly consider him an impartial authority on his subject. In fact, reading his words carefully, I find it impossible to take him seriously. I'd say the score is: Hersh, 1; Kirkpatrick, 0. TOMAS FEININGER '64 Ph.D., '60 Sc.M. Quito, Ecuador The Fourth Dimension Editor: Some added remarks are in order about Dr. Banchoff's article on the "Fourth Dimension" (BAM, February). Our Brown graduates, especially scien- tists, should become aware that science dis- cussion does not have the democratic form we are used to in politics. Science discussion simply favors the views that are regarded as the "truth" at a given time. There are seldom any debates of issues in transition. Therefore, points about the "fourth di- mension" that are controversial are generally not in print, except [in] some rare or old books — the stacks in the Brown science li- brary are very valuable in this regard. One such point concerns the physics formula by which any velocity sum never ex- ceeds the velocity of light, "c." That formula can add or subtract "v" to "c" and still get "c." But the formula does not check the third way, by subtracting "c" from "c" to get "v." What actually happens in the latter case is a barred division by zero. There are a number of issues of this type which should still be debated, rather than feel that the final word has come down to us from a referee. 1 would be glad to go further, in urging proper introduction of democratic forms in science discussion, or debate m par- ticular the "fourth dimension" issue. MORTON SCHWARTZ '47 Neu' York City Misleading headline? Editor: May 1 offer two observahons about the May/June BAM7 The bold-faced title on page 7, "Jackson: 'No student wanted a strike or occupation,' " is totally misleading. If a negative of a nega- tive is a positive, then Jackson's words, which you give below, "I couldn't convince anyone today that no Brown student . . . ever wanted a strike or a building occupa- tion," mean that at least one student did want a strike. Logically, this is just the reverse of your much more prominent title. Having pointed out this slip, let me make my second comment, which is that Tim Smith's "Paper Bruin" story of lacrosse at Brown ought to earn him and the BAM some sort of prize. CALEB R. WOODHOUSE '54 Little Compton, R.I. Tlie editor's interpretation of Jackson's words is that no student imnted a strike, but after the fact, it would he impossible to convince anyone of that. The Carberry commercials Editor: What a cheap act — to use Professor Carberry for one's own profit — with so little benefit ($500.00) to Brown! I was about to respond to the plea on the last page of the May/June BAM, but the radio commercial launched by Miss Maas killed the impulse instantaneously. JOSEPHINE McINTIRE DAY '31 Tucson, Ariz. The University did not sell the right to use Professor Carberry in the commercials, since Broivn does not "awn" the Carberry name or the Carberry character. — Editor. 55 Mr. B. and Sherlock Holmes Editor: Some observations on the obser- vations of Mr. B. [Elmer Blistein] and the boys on Sherlock Holmes {BAM, May/June): 1) On the motivation of H. and student Bouda's contention that he was on "one big ego trip." Bouda quotes H. to effect that "I'm the only consulting detective in the world." {A Study m Scarlet). His quote is wrong. It actually reads "I suppose 1 am the only one in the world. I'm a consulting detective. " If one reads the statement in context, he wiU quickly see that, far from being the ego- satisfying boast of one "on a trip," it is part of a straightforward explanation to a very in- quisitive Dr. Watson about the nature of his business. As H. explains to Dr. W., no mys- tical powers or innate gifts are involved, just an unrivaled knowledge of the history of crime. A knowledge acquired by hard work and study. To hang trite generalizations on one statement wrongly quoted and out of context is poor method. 2) "Could Sherlock Holmes have been successful in any other line of work?" Mr. B. counts him out as a doctor ("Can you imagine him making house calls?") and as a chemist ("Not sufficiently systematic, except in the pursuit of certain areas of investiga- tion"). Consider: Did any victim of the "disease" of crime ever find themselves the worse off for having called in "Dr." Holmes? Indeed, the character trait most evident throughout the whole of the Holmes stories is the detective's ability to adapt his bearing in order to win his client's confidence, with everything from tender persuasion to intimi- dation. As Mr. B. himself no doubt knows (but fails to point out), the real-life model for the detective was a doctor who greatly influenced Doyle during his university days in Edinburgh with his seemingly magical de- ductive abilities. As for H. being a chemist. Dr. W. calls his knowledge of the subject "profound" (A Study in Scarlet). The range of articles and publications referred to through- out the stories as having been authored by the detective cover everything from bio- chemistry to geo-chemistry. Not only could H. have been a chemist, it would seem that for his day he would have been considered one. Or has Mr. B. forgotten that Dr. W. was introduced to H. while the latter was hard at work in a chem lab? Mr. B. should concen- trate less on his annotations and more on the text. 3) As regards H.'s athletic ability and Mr. B.'s contention that his pipe smoking hardly consHtutes a "model life" for an athlete: the number of proverbial nickels that could be accumulated for every athlete who smokes, drinks, or in some other manner fails to attain the "model life" would be enough for both of us to retire. The libertine boundaries of the New Curriculum allows one, no longer, to ques- tion the educational value of pursuing such endearing but frivolous inquiries about a fictional character (Would Achilles have made a good husband?). But one can at least ask for a basic understanding of the literature before embarking on such fantasies. Please, Mr. B., the educational value derives from the ability to read extremely closely. M. S. TOHER'74 Oxford, England Percy Marks Editor: Commenting on the letter of Joseph Jaffe, Jr. '35, I would guess that Percy Marks left Brown's hallowed halls in 1923. That year we had an off-campus ban- quet of Vie Brown ]ug board, at which he was the honored guest and speaker. We didn't last through the dessert course, but I re- member his telling us: "You seniors are leav- ing Brown in a cloud of glory! I'm leaving Brown in a cloud of dust — but fortunately it's gold dust!" Answering the request of Roberta Morris '71 for information as to when College Hill was a railroad, the Providence Cable Tramway opened its operations on New Year's Day, 1890. It was a cable system from Market Square up College Hill, left on Prospect to Angell, down Angell to the Red Bridge, where the power house was located. It returned on Waterman to Prospect and down College Hill to Market Square. At that time. Providence's street railway system was operated with horse cars. The Union Railroad became electrified between 1892 and 1894 and bought control of the cable car system, which was also electrified in 1894. However, cable "grips" were retained to push the trolleys, usually two at a time, up College Hill, and to guide them down. At the top of the Hill, the trolleys would go to the left on Prospect, the grips to the right. I remember this operation when I was a kid and was fascinated by it. The present tunnel was opened in 1914 and used by the trolleys until they were replaced by busses. W. A. DYER, JR. '24 Indianapolis, Ind. Editor: Further in defense of Percy Marks. It just so happens that I have an auto- graphed copy of Tlie Plastic Age. I must admit to my prejudice in favor of Percy, since for a time we roomed together at the Brown Club in New York and he got me my first job. Percy Marks was not "fired" in 1921. Dr. Faunce asked Percy for his resignation in 1923. We were having dinner together one evening in that year when Percy told me that Dr. Faunce had asked for his resignaHon not because of the book but because he was a Jew. The gist and purpose of my letter? To set the record straight. Percy Marks was asked for his resignation in the summer of 1923, not in 1921. I have this directly from the horse's mouth, so to say. And if there is another ( thing I know about Percy Marks, it is that ^ he never dodged. He always said it like he saw it. I regret that I failed to read Ivan Half's letter to Professor Spilka. However, Tlie Plas- tic Age was rated much more than a "token success," else it never would have been recognized by Hollywood. ROGER V. BELLMORE '23 Arlington, Va. Best souvenir Editor: 1 very much enjoyed the April BAM. I shall keep it as the best souvenir possible of a recent visit to Brown. I was very glad, too, to see March BAM's special mention oiNovel. With its originality, testing variety, and professionahsm. Novel seems to me easily one of the best of our literary journals: 1 say this as a veteran sub- scriber as well as an often ruefully envious editor (of Sc'wf/ieni Reineiv, Australia). Novel can only do much for Brown's reputation both at home and overseas. MANFRED MACKENZIE '64 A.M. 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