mmw^mc{, M, October 1977 Alumni Monthly Personal voices: Seven alumni on liberal education at Brown Won't you join us for the drive? It's October . . .and fall drives are in sea- son! We're talking about the one that gives you mileage you never dreamed of . . . the Brown Fund Drive, where your money goes a long way towards keeping a great University on the move. Those who fully recognize Brown's needs have been you, the giver, and patient and pushing volunteers who have taken the high road with us. You've helped with ads like this, through direct mail, through phone calls, even house calls. And together, 75% of you have given to the Brown Fund in the last 5 years, a remark- able achievement. And equally remarkable, you have helped set three successive Brown Fund records. Last year's drive went over the top . . . $1,793,000; the annual earnings BROWN equivalent from some $35,000,000 of endowment! Those are high-octane dollars that fuel a pack of programs. Right now, even more volunteers are mapping out our upcoming 1977-78 Brown Fund Drive. Join us as we acceler- ate to a new and needed $2,000,000. It might be that your tax situation encour- ages giving before year's end. If so, please write, phone, or signal us, for your deduc- tions add up to Brown's well-being. Or, if you plan to wait till spring tune-up time, pledge early to help us plan ahead, too. And thanks again for those past record performances. Now, with increased help from more of you, we'll get to the $2,000,000, and on time. Join us today for the Brown Fund Drive. It's a great trip! The Brown Fund- if we don't, who will? Brown Alumni Monthly, October 1977, Vol. 78, No. 2 Editor Robert M. Rhodes Associate Editors Debra Shore lohn F. Barr>', Jr. '50 Editorial Associate Anne Hinman Diffily '73 Editorial Assistant Janet M. Phillips 70 Board of Editors Chairman Garrett D, B\mes '26 Vice-chairman Doris Steam Donovan '59 dam' Beckham '66 Peter G. Fradley '50 Karen Leggett '72 Douglas R. Riggs '61 Laura Hersh Salganik '70 Dr. Sanford W. Udis '41 Roger E. Vaughan '59 Arthur O. WiUiams, Jr. '37 Ph.D. ® 1977 by Brmii Alumni Monthly Published nine bmes dunng each year — January Februarv-. March, April. Mayjune. July August. September, October. November, and December — by Brown University, Providence, R-l Printed by The Lane Press, Burlington. Vt Editorial offices are in Nicholson House. 71 George St., Providence, R.l- 02906. Second class postage paid at Pro\ndence, R.l , and at additional mailing offices Member, CouncJ for the Advancement and Support of Education Tht- Mcnthlif is sent to aD Brown alumni. Please allow eight weeks for changes-of-address Postmaster Send Fonm 3579 to Box 1908, Broun University, Providence, R.I. 02912 page 12 In this issue 3 The Lamphere Case: A Settlement Out of Court Two years after Louise Lamphere, former assistant professor of anthropology at Brown, sued the University, charging it with deny- ing her tenure because of her sex, lawyers for both sides have reached an out-of-court settlement. 12 Personal Voices: Brown Alumni on Liberal Education Who should know better than Brown alumni about the benefits of a liberal education at Brown? With that in mind, the dean of the Col- lege asked a group of alumni of diverse backgrounds and ages to write essavs about the purposes and content of a Brown education. Seven of the essavs appear in this issue. 27 The Bacons' Flourishing Vineyard BiU '39 and Natalie Chase Bacon '40 and their son Nathanael '62 moved to a brush- and tree-filled, 200-year-old farm on Prudence Island four vears ago and have turned it into Rhode Island's first commercial winery. Departments 2 Under the Elms 10 Sports 34 The Classes 36 Profile: Phyllis Whitman Beck '49 38 Profile: Dwight Ambach '52 42 Profile: Sally Hill Cooper '52 4t Deaths 47 Alumni Calendar 52 Books 54 Carrving the Mail page 27 The cover photograph is by John Foraste. fe.^. ^_ Vjc opening of the academic year brings the opening of the football season, and linebacker coach Dave Ritchie once again shouts instructions to the defense. Uffiidl®!? ftlh® EIliM' The Lamphere case: A settlenient out of court An ordeal for Baiun is now over. An ordeal for Brown — of a somewhat different nature — has just begun. What has become known at the University as "the Lamphere case" (BAM, April), a class-action suit brought by former as- sistant professor of anthropology Louise Lamphere charging Brown University u'ith sex discrimination in recruitment, hiring, promotion, renewal of contracts, and granting of tenure, has been settled out of court. A Consent Decree, the negotiated agreement stating the terms of the settlement, was approved by U.S. District Court Judge Raymond J. Pettine and the lawvers for both sides on Sep- tember 15. The decree is not an admission or proof of any violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act under which the suit was filed, nor does it stand as a judicial decision on the issues in the case. It serves, rather, as an agreement between Louise Lamphere and Brown University "to resolve this action . . . without the t time and expense of contested litigation, . . . to correct previous injustices, if any, and to achieve on behalf of women full representativeness with respect to fac- ulty emplovment at Brown University." Commenting on the resolution of this dispute, after more than two years of preliminary Litigation, President Howard Swearer said: "Since we do not differ with the plaintiffs on the goal of full representation for women on the Brown faculty, there was little to be gained — and a great deal to be lost — by further protracting a costlv, divisive, and exhausting process of litigation. "Brown has just emerged in fundamentally sound condition from a : very' difficult period of financial re- trenchment," he continued. "The energies of the campus community I should now be focused on our primary goals of maintaining Brown's academic excellence and enhancing its financial stabilitv. An amicable settlement of this case was, in my estimation, a clear pre- requisite to our getting on with the work of the Universits'. "The goals and timetables for the employment of women are the same as those provided in the University's affirmative-action plan which has been submitted for approval to the U.S. De- partment of Health, Education and Wel- fare," Mr. Swearer said. Thus the de- cree, in addition to providing a settle- ment for the claims of the individual plaintiffs, presents, in broad strokes and detailed sketches, a plan for bringing more women onto the faculty at Brown. Here, in brief, are the major terms of the settlement: □ Louise Lamphere, who claimed she was denied tenure in the anthropol- ogy department at Brown on the basis of her sex, will receive tenure, effective Julyl, 1974. n Claude Carev, an assistant pro- fessor in Brown's Department of Slavic Languages who joined the Lamphere suit when she was demoted to lecturer (while a similarly situated male in that department received tenure), wiU be granted tenure, effective July 1, 1974, and S12,000 in back pay. n Helen Cserr, an assistant pro- fessor of biomedical sciences who joined the suit as a co-plaintiff claiming denial of tenure on the basis of sex discrimina- tion, \yill receive tenure, effective July 1 , 1976, and $2,000 in back pav. Niirlv tcmtrcii professor Louise Lamphcrc- D Patricia Russian, a former in- structor in Brown's German department whose position was eliminatecl as a re- sult of Universit\' budget cuts and who claimed that Brown's administration had discriminated against her as a woman (that by eliminating the two un- tenured positions in the department the Universit}' was ensuring the depart- ment would remain male and tenured until at least 1981), will receive a cash settlement of $34,500. Each has agreed to withdraw all claims against the University filed with the Ec]ual Emplovment Opportunity Commission and the Rhode Island Commission for Human Rights. □ Because the Lamphere suit had been certified as a class action on July 21, 1976 — meaning that Louise Lam- phere and her co-plaintiffs also repre- sent past (since 1974), present, and fu- ture wcimen facultv and women candi- dates for faculty positions at Brown — the University has agreed to a plan for redress of class members. According to the decree, the Uni- versity must send notice of the pro- posed settlement to all class members. Any woman "who, since February 2, 1974, (was) denied tenure, contract re- newal, promotion, or employment in dep£irtments where males were hired instead of women" and who feels that this was done in a discriminatory man- ner on the basis of sex, may file a claim w ith the University. The University' will establish a fund (a "class-action pool") of $400,000 for payment of damages to any class member whose claim of dis- crimination on the basis of sex is found valid by a hearing panel of three ten- ured faculty members. (The $400,000 class-action pool represents the Uni- versity's maximum liability.) D The University has agreed to pay the "reasonable" attorney's fees in- curred by Louise Lamphere and the class members in the suit. (These fees had not been set as this issue of the BAM went to press. Both sides reserved the right to go to court in the event that a mutually satisfactory agreement could not be reachecl.) D In addition to the provisions for Louise Lamphere, her co-plaintiffs, and those women included in the class ac- tion, the University has agreed to "de- velop and maintain goals and time- tables" such that the proportion of women on the faculty at Brown — in both tenured and untenured positions — corresponds to "the proportion of women in the appropriate pool of avail- able Ph.D.'s." Using figures on the number of women Ph.D. recipients nationwide in various academic discip- lines (provided by the National Center for Educational Statistics and the Na- tional Research Council), and by a complex formula involving normal at- trition among male tenured faculty, de- partmental staffing plans, and a provi- sional timetable for filling a certain pro- portion of faculty positions with female candidates. Brown is to attain "a facultv composition bv sex which is based on fuU utilization of qualified women, as measured by availability." The timetables establish a goal of some fifty-seven tenured women on the faculty at Brown by 1987 (there are cur- rently eighteen) — an eventual jump of over 300 percent. Until Brown achieves those goals set forth in the decree, it agrees to "apply affirmative action on behalf of women facultv in hiring, con- tract renewal, promotion, and tenure by giving preference to a female candidate of equal qualifications over non- minority males. ..." D What may stand as the largest legacy of the Lamphere case is a provi- sion of the decree requiring each faculty department and division "to adopt and publish specific criteria, standards, and procedures for hiring, contract renewal, promotion to tenure, and other promo- tions. . . ." In short, each department must develop and maintain written guidelines for all phases of faculty em- ployment at Brown. These "criteria and standards," to be drawn up by the de- partments within the next three months and submitted to the dean of the faculty and academic affairs, must be "detailed, clear, objective, and fair." □ The decree provides for an an- nual review of each full-time untenured faculty member — to be directed by the department chairman — and spells out the procedure for such reviews. The decree spells out, too, the duties and composition of the Committee on Fac- ulty Reappointment and Tenure and, finally, states that each department must file a written hiring plan to fill a faculty vacancv. D Each department must also make available, upon request, to each candidate for a faculty position, and to each faculty member up for contract re- newal, promotion, or tenure, the de- partment's files on that facultv member (wnth the exception of confidential let- ters of recommendation) or applicant, and a report stating the grounds for the department's choice or decision. n V\Tiat gives "sharp teeth," as one faculty member put it, to the de- cree, what will serve as an in-house en- forcement agency, review body, and deputy of the court, as it were, is a new faculty group — the Affirmative Action Monitoring Committee. This Monitoring Committee, charged with implementing the Con- sent Decree, will be composed of five members of the tenured faculty at Brown — two members to be chosen by Louise Lamphere, two elected by the voting faculty of the University, and the fifth to be selected by the other four — to serve for a term of three years. The Monitoring Committee will supervise Universitv activities carried out under the terms of the decree and can make decisions on complaints brought to it with regard to alleged employment discrimination on the basis of sex. The decree states, in part, "(The Committee] may conciliate, conduct hearings, obtain such documents as it may deem neces- sary, and hear complaints." It has fuU authority to review the newly mandated departmental standards, to review de- partmental hiring procedures, and so forth. If either the University or any woman affected by a decision of the committee is dissatisfied with that deci- sion, they may turn to the court for a new review. □ Finally, though the decree does contain some timetables, no terminal date has been set by which time all pro- visions must be met — or by which time the decree ceases to be in effect. Since the Consent Decree, a docu- ment of some sixtv pages, received final approval as this issue of the BAM went to press, we have presented here only a brief summary of its provisions. What it all will mean — the settlement with Louise Lamphere and the co-plaintiffs; the establishment of goals and timeta- bles for adding women to the Brown faculty'; the development of written standards for all phases of facultv em- ployment; and the creation of a power- ful new Affirmative Action Monitoring Committee to enforce the terms of the decree — is bound to be a matter of speculation at Brown for some time to come. It seems clear, however, that this decree could mean a fairly drastic reduction in the tradihonal auton- omy of academic departments. It will mean a new openness, freshness and, above all, fairness in all areas of facultv employment at Brown. It will mean — finally and most visibly — more women on the faculty at the University. D S In the next issue of the BAM, tim memben of a faculty committee involved in the set- tlement of the case will present their vieu'S on its mipact and implications for Broum. Major changes in the administration The opening of the school year brought the announcement of the first major changes in the University admin istration since Howard Swearer becamt president last January. In a memoran- dum to the Brown community on Sep- tember 2, the president announced that D Richard ]. Ramsden '59, execu- tive director of the Consortium for the Financing of Higher Educahon and a member of the Brown Corporation since 1973, will become vice president for administration and finance on October 15. □ Ronald A. Wolk, who has been vice president for development and university relations, wiU devote his full time to development activities and to the direction of a major capital cam- paign expected to begin next year. He will have the title of vice president and director of the capital campaign. n Robert A. Reichley, who has been associate vice president and direc- or of university relations, will become ,ace president for university relations 'ind "assumes overall responsibility for •.iniversity relations." 1 D Provost Merton P. Stoltz, who vill retire next June, will be relieved of several administrative responsibilities in ijrder to "concentrate his attention on ;;everal important longer-range projects ;hat he is particularly quabfied to landle, such as the accreditation review n late autumn, a study of the long-term ■uture of libraries and collections, and :he completion of several other special arojects in which he has been engaged for some time. " Ramsden will succeed Professor of Engineering Paul F. Maeder, who re- signed last summer, as the University's chief financial officer. "Dick Ramsden," the president wrote, "is highly qualified to assume this important position at Brown and 1 am pleased that he has agreed to return to his alma mater. Not only has he had broad experience in higher education, business, and gov- ernment, he is unusually knowledge- able about private higher education in general and Brown University in par- ticular. As executive director of the Consortium . . . and as a Brown trustee, he has had unique opportunities to analyze the processes and problems of institutions of higher learning. We are fortunate to have a full claim on his skills, energy, and abundant talents." Ramsden, a former White House Fellow (in 1969) and former partner in the investment management firm of Brokaw, Schaenen, Clancv' & Co. in New York City, was named consultant in 1973 to a major study of the financing of higher education conducted by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Using findings from a consortium of nine northeastern private colleges and uni- versities including Brown, the study pointed to the increasingly difficult financial situation faced by parents of college-age students and urged major expansion of loan programs on both the federal and institutional levels. After the release of the Sloan Foun- dation study, "Paying for College," the foundation announced the continuation of the consortium and the appointment of Ramsden as its executive director. Expanded to include a total of thirtv pri- vate higher-education institutions across the country, the consortium has sponsored a number of comparative cost studies and analyses in the areas of student aid, institutional operations, and the "market" for higher education. Ron Wolk's new responsibilities stem from what the president termed "the pressing need of the University to quicken and extend its development ac- tivities and to commence next year a major capital fund drive." Wolk, who was named vice president of Brown in 1969, had been special assistant to Mil- ton S. Eisenhower, when Eisenhower was chairman of the National Commis- sion on the Causes and Prevention of Violence. He had also been a special assistant to Eisenhower earlier in the 1960s, when the latter was president of Johns Hopkins University. Wolk is also Vice presidmts Dick Ramsden (left), Ron Wolk (above), ami Bob Reichhy. a former editor of The Johns Hopkins Mns;nziiic, which under his editorship received the Sibley Award as the na- tion's best alumni magazine in 1960. Wolk is chairman of the board of Edi- torial Projects for Education, a non- profit organization that publishes The Chronicle of Higher Education and various reports about higher education. Brown's development program, which has been under Wolk's overall supervision since 1969, was in 1975 judged among the most successful in the country in the annual competition sponsored by the Council for Advance- ment and Support of Education (CASE) and the U.S. Steel Foundation. Bob Reichley came to Brown in 1968 to be editor of this magazine. Under his editorship, the BAM won the Sibley Award in 1969 and was named among the ten best in 1970 and 1971. In the lat- ter year, he was appointed associate vice president and director of university relations, assuming responsibility for alumni, media, and community rela- tions, publications, special events, and the National Alumni Schools Program. In each of the last two years, these pro- grams have been judged the most out- standing group of such programs in the nation in the competition sponsored by CASE. Prior to coming to Brown, Reichley was director of public relations for the Culver Educational Foundation (Culver Military Academy) and editor of its award-winning Cw/z'tT Alumnus. R.M.R. More peaceful times on the labor front Last year's three-month strike bv Brown library workers {BAM, September-November 1976), which overlapped with a strike of maintenance workers in the same union, was ex- hausting and demoralizing for both sides. Nobody wanted to undergo the same ordeal this year when the library union's contract came up for renewal, and the negotiations on a new two-year contract proceeded almost without a hitch to a successful conclusion August 14, when it was ratified by the union membership. The issue last year, in bargaining over the wage-reopener clause, was money — specifically, whether library workers should settle for the same five percent wage increase that the Univer- sity's non-union employees received. (A compromise was eventually reached at six percent.) This year, with the entire contract under discussion, there were many more issues to be considered. Karen McAninch, a union steward and negotiator, observed that "they {the University) made other concessions this year in addition to money which made the terms of the contract more palata- ble." The new contract provides for a general increase of five percent this year (the same as was granted to non-union employees) and six percent next year, and it brings the salary scale for library clerical and technical assistants into line with the Universit\''s overall wage scales. It also reduces the period of emplo\Tnent necessan,' to qualify for maximum vacation benefits from six years to two years, and provides for seniority' raises beginning after eight years of employment instead of ten. The most important issue in this year's negotiations was a two-year-old dispute over job classifications, which had been in arbitration since the last contract was signed in 1975. That year, between twent}- and tv^entv-five jobs were reclassified downward under a librar\' reorganization plan, and the union had been fighting to have those jobs upgraded to the original levels and to win retroactive pay for the employees involved. Since the union expected to win the arbitration case, they were con- tent to wait until the next arbitration session was scheduled in October, rather than include the issue in contract negotiations. But the administration chose to take the latter course; as University Librarian Charles Church- well put it, "We decided we couldn't negotiate a new contract without con- sidering a two-year-old problem." Karen McAninch said, "They basically forced our hand — we couldn't refuse to bargain over this issue, since our origi- nal complaint was that they had reclass- ified the jobs arbitrarily without going through the collective-bargaining pro- cess." But the settlement, she felt, was a "favorable compromise": fifteen of the jobs in dispute were upgraded, and Brown also agreed to award $10,610 in back pay (which the union voted to di- vide equitably among all those whose jobs had originally been in dispute). The administration's refusal to reclassify one particular job did cause sharp disagree- ments during the negotiations, and was partly responsible for the narrow mar- gin (one vote) by which the membership ratified the contract; but, McAninch said, "we really weren't prepared to go on strike over one job." In all, both sides professed to be satisfied with the outcome of the negotiations. Churchwell remarked that there was "a much higher level of trust and of give-and-take this year," and, Hith the specter of another labor dis- pute ha\Tng been put to rest, a general sense of relief seemed to prevail. /.P. The Brown Fund sets a third consecutive record Last year at this time, as the co- chairmen of the BrovxTi Fund planned the strategy for achieNnng a third straight record-breaking goal (SI. 75 million), one of them, Dorothy Williams Wells '52, summed up the importance of the volunteer workers: "Without them, the job simply will be impossible." The 3,200 volunteers came through once again in 1976-77, and the Brown Fund received $1,793,000, an increase of 24 percent over the 1975-76 figure of $1,444,000, and an increase of 146 per- cent over the 1974-75 figure of $727,000. (It was in the spring of 1974 that the Corporation approved an intensive campaign to build up Brown Fund re- ceipts to provide desperately needed operating funds for the University. It was also in 1974 that Richard Salomon '32 established his 5500,000 challenge grant to spur the response to the 1974- 75 Brown Fund campaign.) Approxi- mately 45 percent of the alumni body contributed to the 1976-77 campaign. The ke\' volunteers in the 1976-77 campaign were Dott\' Wells and her co- chairman, Bernard I. Fain '52. Another important volunteer was Elwood E. Leonard '51, who died July 4. Woody Leonard was chairman of the major gifts campaign, and he was one of those who oversaw the establishment of the Nicholas Brown Socieh' (BAM, March 1977), \vhose members contributed gifts of $5,000 or more to the Brown Fund. (A complete report on the 1976-77 year will be inserted in the November BAM. ) Dotty Wells's two-year term as co- chairman expired last summer, and she was succeeded by Christine Dunlap Farnham '48, who will join Bif Fain in meeting this year's challenge: a Brown Fund goal of $2 million. R.M.R. Charles Smiley: A lifetime of following the sun When Prof. Charles H. Smiley weni on an expedition to the Andes some years ago to view a total eclipse, he for- got one minor detail. He neglected to explain to the Indians carrying the equipment what was about to happen. When the eclipse occurred, the Indians concluded that Professor Smiley and his associates had turned off the sun. Some tense moments followed. This was one of the few mistakes made by Brown's professor of astron- omy in a lifetime of following the sun, "particularly in its darkest moments." Bet\veen 1930 and 1972, Professor Smiley led fourteen solar eclipse expe- ditions, more than any other scientist in the world. His travels took him some 300,000 miles to such countries as Brazil, Canada, Thailand, Pakistan, and Peru. There was nowhere Charles Smiley wouldn't go to film an eclipse. In 1963 he flew in a U.S. Air Force F-104-B Star- fighter jet at 48,000 feet and at hvice the speed of sound. His objective was to race the moon's shadow while viewing a lunar eclipse longer than any other ob- server. In order to make this flight, the sixty-year-old Smiley had to pass a rigid Air Force physical. Professor Smiley was also some- thing of a hero in his own back yard. For more than four decades he was the man to whom the citizens of Rhode Island turned when they had questions about solar eclipses, flying objects, sun spots, or the possibiliU' of little visitors from some other planet. A man who brought great enthusiasm to his profession, he would always reply with good humor, explaining things so that the la\'man would understand exactly what was going on. There was always a personal hallmark to Professor Smiley's expedi- tions — a some\vhat battered blue beret worn by the tall astronomer. Frequently he was accompanied by his wife of forts-nine years, the former Margaret Kendall Holbrook. He called her his "vice-director," a title she didn't accept lightly. "I was an astronomer before he was," she'd say with a twinkle in her eye. And she was. Margaret Smiley had taught astronomy at VVellesle\' before they were married. Even after his retirement in 1969, Professor Smiley remained active in his field. When he viewed a partial solar Professor Smiley in a 2973 photograph. eclipse in 1974 by walking a few blocks to the Moses Brown School athletic fields, he joked: "My average distance traveled per solar eclipse has now dropped to 9,761 miles." He wryly ob- served that he could rationalize calling that walk an "expedition" because he had crossed a political ward line. That was to be Charles Smiley's last expedition. He died this summer on the afternoon of July 26 after being stricken while mowing his lawn. Internationally respected for his work, Professor Smilev made an inten- sive study of Mayan astronomy, fasci- nated that the culture could in the year 400 A.D. have a highly accurate system for predicting solar eclipses. In 1960 he offered a new correlation of the Mayan and Christian calendars based on as- tronomical evidence alone. The astronomer was also an inno- vator in his field. On June 8, 1937, he made the first photograph of the zodiacal light near the sun from Punta CaUan at 15,000 feet in the Peruvian Andes. On this occasion he used a f/1.0 Schmidt camera which he had person- ally designed. Both the camera and the film were the fastest ever used at a total solar eclipse up to that time. Bom in Camden, Missouri, in 1903, Charles Hugh Smiley attended Missouri public schools, went to UCLA for two years, and then transferred to the Uni- versity of California at Berkeley, where he received his bachelor of arts degree with highest honors in mathematics. He also started for the varsity basketball team. "I like to think 1 started because of ability alone," he told this writer a few years ago. "But that was the age of the center jump after every basket, and at 6-4, 1 was probably the tallest student in college who knew a basketball from a football." Professor Smiley received his mas- ter's and Ph.D. degrees in 1924 and 1927, respectively, both from Berkeley, and then taught mathematics at the University of Illinois for two years prior to his appointment in 1930 as assistant professor of mathematics at Brown. He was associate professor of astronomy at Brown from 1938 to 1945 and was then made director of Ladd Observatory and professor and chairman of the depart- ment, posts he held until his retirement. He was a Guggenheim Fellow at the Royal Astronomical Society of Lon- don in the late 1920s. While in Europe he visited the University of Kracow in Poland, where he and another professor calculated one of the orbits of the newly discovered planet, Pluto. After World War II, he became secretar\' of the Na- tional Books for Poland Committee, which sent 50,000 books to replace those lost in the bombing. Professor Smiley received the Franklin L. Burr Prize of the National Geographic Society in 1949, was a past president of the American Association of Variable Star Observers, and served on the editorial board of Sky and Tele- scope magazine. He is survived by his wife, Margaret, at 28 Montague Street, Providence. J.B. Richard Goss is the new dean of biological sciences Brown's new dean of biological sci- ences is Richard J. Goss, a twenty-five- year veteran of the BrouTi faculty and, since 1972, chairman of the section of developmental bioIog\' within the Divi- sion of Biology and Medicine. As dean. Dr. Goss will supervise the under- graduate and graduate programs in biolog\' and coordinate the campus- based facult}' in the Division of Biolog\' and Medicine. He replaces Elizabeth H. Leduc, who has left the post after four years in order to resume full-time re- search and teaching at Brown. An authority on the physiology of growth whose research subjects have included a variety of mammals and in- vertebrates. Dr. Goss characterizes him- self as "a real animal lover." He has, in fact, been deeply involved in efforts to upgrade Providence's Roger Williams Park Zoo, particularly during his tenure as president of the Rhode Island Zoolog- ical Society from 1971 through 1974. Dr. Goss's new duties at Brown, however, call for an increased involvement with Homo sapiens — specifically, with some 238 undergraduate biology concen- trators (including 145 students in the Medical Education Program), and fifty graduate students in biology. Only a few months into his new- job, the genial Dr. Goss talked recently about some of his ideas on the biological sciences curriculum and its future growth. Noting that he hopes to "adopt an approach to my job that is not just custodial, but innovative and progress- ive," he proposes to bring more diver- sity to the study of biolog\' at Brown, while maintaining the quality of the di- vision's staff, teaching, and research. "In the past few decades," Dr. Goss explains, "the division has been developing considerable strength in studying Ufe processes at the chemical and molecular levels. And that is as it should be, given the situation up until now. But there are other approaches which are becoming just as important, such as the organismic approach — studying the whole organism as op- posed to its separate parts — and the environmental approach. It will be im- possible for us to ignore these develop- ments and others in planning our direc- tion for the future." Conceding, with a good-humored laugh, that "it remains to be seen" Dick Goss has bcai at Brozcii since 1952. whether the division will be able to add to its present faculty, Dr. Goss main- tains that "the time has come for us to look at new possibilities for the study of biolog\'. I personally feel we have a strong commitment to students at Brown to provide a balanced offering of courses and approaches. We'd like to acquire more breadth, without sacrific- ing any of the depth we have at this time." Widely knov\Ti in scientific circles for his research on tissue regeneration. Dr. Goss is the author of four books on his specialties, with another — The Physiologi) of Growth — on the wa\'. In recent years, his research has focused on the inability of mammals to grow back missing parts of their bodies, as some lower forms of life do. He has also shown that deer have a built-in yearly clock that triggers their physical cycles. By using artificial indoor light to shorten their days. Dr. Goss tricked deer at Roger WiUiams Park into growing and shedding their antlers more than the usual once a year. But a two-month- long "year" proved to be their breaking point: the bucks then reverted to their annual cycle and refused to grow new- antlers until spring came around. Harvard-educated, Dr. Goss has been a full professor at Brown since 1%4. He belongs to numerous scientific professional groups and has served as chairman of the division of develop- mental biology- of the American Assod- ahon for the Advancement of Science. Since 1974 he has been associate editor of Vie lounial ofExperimmtal Zoology. He is kept busy by frequent requests for speaking appearances: he recently deli- vered the opening address at an inter- national meeting on pediatric growth al London's Institute of Child Health, and he has organized a symposium on re- generation for the next joint meeting of the Canadian and American Societies of Zoolog\-. A.D.' Debra Shore named BAM associate editor Under "skills" on her resume, Debra Shore lists: "Typing. Speak, read, and write Italian proficiently. y Teach guitar." However, it is another j| skill of hers — magazine writing — thati win be of interest to the BAVI's readers.: Debbie Shore, former associate editor of the Johns Hopkins Magazine and author of the BAM cover story (January February 1977) about three young alumni in Bal- timore, joined the staff as associate editor last month. Debbie spent eighteen "sun- j burned" years in Dallas, Texas, before | enrolling at Goucher College, where she: was tapped by Phi Beta Kappa and was, graduated in 1974 with a degree in phi- losophy and the visual arts. She had been a student intern for the Hopkins magazine during her senior year, and she joined the staff at Hopkins as assist- ant editor after her graduation. She was promoted to associate editor eighteen months ago and remained on the staff until the end of last year. Her writing helfJed bring The Johns Hopkins Magazine recognition in 1975 and 1976 as one of the ten best in the nation. She also found time to earn a master's degree in liberal arts from Hopkins. In January, she returned to Dallas where she has been free-lancing for the past eight months. In preparation for the BAM are profiles on several alumni in the Southwest. She also wrote the profiles on Wallace Holbrook (BAM, September) and Dwight Ambach (page 38), whom she interviewed while on a European trip last spring. In bidding a "sad farewell" to Debbie in the March 1977 issue of the Hopkins magazine, its editor, Elise Hancock, wrote that Debbie "brought a 8 [Associate editor Debra Shore. (freshness and enthusiasm to our magazine which we have valued." She iwill now be bringing those two valuable (ingredients to the BAM. R.M.R. 'People and Programs □ The Universit)''s Program in Medicine has entered into an associa- I tion agreement with the Union-Trues- I dale Hospital in Fall River, Massa- ! chusetts. In addition to providing clini- cal experience for third- and fourth-vear medical students, the agreement will . give them access to the hospital's highly regarded rehabilitation medicine pro- . gram, an area not available elsewhere in ; the Brown svstem. Union- Truesdale is ; the first Massachusetts community 1 hospital to become associated with the I Program in Met^icine, which has signed similar agreements with thirteen other health-care institutions in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. D At a recent meeting in Mexico Citv, Professor of Sociology Sidney Goldstein was elected to the governing council of the Committee for Interna- tional Coordination of National Re- search in Demography. Professor Goldstein is director of Brown's Popu- lation Studies and Training Center, a facility which has achieved an interna- tional reputation in the field of demo- graphic studies. n Among the 107 scholars from eighty-seven colleges and universities to be awarded grants-in-aid from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) this year are Professor of His- panic Studies Jose Amor y Vasquez and Associate Professor of Histor\- and Afro- American Studies Rhett Jones. They will use the awards to study, re- spectively, the writings of Spanish poet and novelist Roman del Valle-Indan at the turn of this centurs', and "Black Societies in the Colonial Americas." Funding for the grants comes from the Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. □ Two members of the Brown faculty are among the six recipients of 1977-78 fellowships from the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation. George H. Bass, associate professor of English, will use his fellowship to wTite a new historical play baseci on the life of Cudjoe, war leader of the Jamaican Ma- roons, and to revise a mvthic cycle of three plays interpreting black people's experiences in the New World. David S. Josephson, assistant professor of music, will study the life and music of composer Percy Grainger (1882-1961). D The new coordinator of the Sarah Doyle Women's Center at Brown is Elizabeth Weed '66 A.M., '73 Ph.D., formerly an assistant professor of French at Wheaton College. She is the first full-time coordinator of the center, succeeding Assistant Chaplain Beverley Edwards, who had served as part-time coordinator since the center's estab- lishment in 1975 in the former Pem- broke College alumnae office. Ms. Weed has been active in women's affairs at Wheaton, and in 1973 served briefly as acting associate dean of the college. She was a Brown graduate teaching assist- ant from 1964 to 1965 and from 1968 through 1970. n Sloan Fellowships for Basic Re- search, which provide two years of financial support to researchers of ex- ceptional potential "in the early stages of their careers," have been awarded to Assistant Professor of Chemistry Kathlyn A. Parker and Assistant Pro- fessor of Geological Sciences Donald W. Forsyth. They were among the ninety- five candidates chosen by the founda- tion from several hundred nominees. □ Professors of Applied Mathe- matics Ulf Grenander and Walter P. Freiberger will continue their research on patterns in all regular phenomena, both natural and man-made, under a three-year, $250,000 grant from the Na- tional Science Foundation. If regular patterns can be reduced to a fundamen- tal form and stated mathematically, they suggest, the formulations that result can be applied to a broad range of fields from EngUsh literature to geology. n Recent grants to the University of $25,000 or more from foundations in- clude; From the American Cancer Soci- ety, $25,946 for cancer research; the Mabel Ballou Trust, $25,000 for a loan fund; the Booth Ferris Foundation, $100,000 for performing arts facilities; the CBS Foundation, $25,000 for the English department writing program; the Carthage Foundation, $50,000 for strategic studies in political science; the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, $61,378 for schistosomiasis research; the Commonwealth Fund, $150,000 for medical education; The Ford Founda- tion, $76,809 for demographic training program; Henry L. and Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation, $250,000 toward a chair in oceanography. From the D. S. and R. H. Gottes- man Foundation, $100,000 for Unger- leider Fund for Judaic studies; William T. Grant Foundation, $25,000 for the Child Study Center; George A. and Eliza G. Howard Foundation, $36,737 for fellowship support; Ittleson Family Foundation, $40,000 for the Center for Neural Studies; Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, $37,638 for diabetes re- search; Henry J. Kaiser Foundation, $46,000 for medical education; W. K. Kellogg Foundation, $56,000 for medical education; Albert A. List Foundation, $25,000 for art purchase fund; Frederick H. Prince Testamentary Trust, $80,000 for life sciences research and $40,000 for library support; Rhode Island Founda- tion, $25,000 for medical education; the Rockefeller Foundation, $180,000 for schistosomiasis research; and the Tisch Foundation, $25,000 for Judaic Studies. A.D. NASP's award In the listing of prizes won by the University Relations offices {BAM, Sep- tember), we inadvertently omitted an exceptional achievement award pre- sented to the National Alumni Schools Program, which is directed by David J. Zucconi '55. Cliff Stevenson: 'How can you get complacent?' If the faro dealers of the world de- {jended on men like Cliff Stevenson to make a living, most of them would go broke. The veteran Brown soccer coach is a man who leaves very little to chance. A case in point was the NCAA playoff game last November between Brown and UConn. The Huskies were slight favorites based on a powerful club, a home-field advantage (10,000 roaring fans), and the fact that Brown was hurt offensively by the loss by in- jury of three-time All-American Fred Perreira 77, the school's all-time lead- ing scorer. To try to offset these Connecticut advantages, Stevenson came up with a game plan. If Brown won the toss he'd let the Huskies have the wind in the first half, play a defensive game against them, and then take the wind and go on the attack in the final forty-five minutes. Being a cautious man, Stevenson decided to check the weather bureau, which reported strong southerly winds all afternoon. The game plan went into effect and worked to perfection in a scoreless first half. Then a funny thing happened at Storrs, Connecticut. As if on cue, the wind shifted from the south to the north just as the second half started. Forty-five minutes later. Brown's season was over after a 1-0 loss. "I called the weather bureau not once but three times, just to make sure," Stevenson says, ruefully rubbing his chin. "Each time the man gave me the same report — strong southerly winds all afternoon. The weather man must have been a former UConn soccer player. It was a very long afternoon." There haven't been too many long afternoons in Cliff Stevenson's coaching career. Including his days at Oberlin, the Springfield College graduate has 263 victories, which places him among the top five college soccer coaches in the country. Since arriving at Brown in 1960, Stevenson's record is 163-60-15 and against Ivy competition it's a highly respectable 84-26-8. Stevenson has built a dynasty within the league. Starting in 1963 he won six consecutive Ivy titles, finished Cliff Stevenson on the sideline. out of first four years running, and has come back to take the crown the last four seasons. This gives him ten Ivy championships in the past fourteen years, by far the best record any Brown team can show in competition with the Ancient Eight. Add to this record eight New England titles, three Eastern championships, and twelve appear- ances in the NCAAs and you have a career that's been one long June night. There have been other improve- ments along the way, since the days when Brown soccer was a ho-hum affair and when footbaD players blithely walked across the soccer field on their way to practice. Brown now has a fenced-in field, a superb playing sur- face, lights to make night games possi- ble, a new scoreboard, and this year a modern public-address system. Some men starting their seven- teenth year on the job, and saturated with success, might tend to ease up a bit. Not the hard-driving Stevenson. "I went into this 1977 season just as psyched-up as I was starting my first year at Brown. How can you get com- placent when you have a great group of kids to work with, the toughest schedule in your history, and when you love your work?" Stevenson has had his work cut out for him this fall facing, in addition to the Ivies, national champion San Francisco, former national champion St. Louis, ani improved Connecticut team, and the j likes of Springfield, a physical Army i team, and reportedly the best soccer team in URI history. The games with San Francisco, St. Louis, and UConn were all scheduled under the lights at ! Aid rich- Dexter in a home schedule thaf was almost all nocturnal. t "That Connecticut game on Octo- j ber 18 will draw 10,000 fans," Steven- j son says. "Coach Joe Morrone will bringi at least 5,000 fans with him from Storrs, and they'll be howling all the way down| Route 44. Our next step is to put in I stands to accommodate 7,000 people so! we can play this national schedule each year, sell season tickets, and make some money for Brown . " I Stevenson was forced to face the major soccer powers of the country this season vWthout Fred Perreira (30 goals and 47 assists for 77 pioints), who is now playing for Fort Lauderdale of the North American Soccer League. Stevenson will have his four deep backs returning, including Pat Weir, the sensational sophomore sweeper back from St. Louis; four strong halfcacks, one of whom is his son, Paul, an All-American prep-school selection while leading Kent School to two consecutive unde- feated seasons; and a host of fine front- liners, including junior Peter Van Beek, whose 42 points in two varsity seasons puts him fifth on the Brown scoring list. If Stevenson can find the right goalie to replace the brilliant Dave Flaschen (now playing for the Chicago Stings of the NASL), there will be no need to shed any tears for the Brown soccer team this fall. The picture was made even brighter by the arrival of what cautious Cliff Stevenson calls his "best freshman group in years." This group (Cubs are eligible for the varsity) has an interna- tional flavor, with Bernie Addo from Gambia, West Africa, winner there of the King Pele Award; Mickey Bradican, a Yugoslavian via Lakewood, Ohio; and i Yu Bong Ko from Seoul, Korea. I "At the first practice session 1 told 10 the kids that the Nationals this year are in Berkeley, California. I said that I was ■planning to go anyway and that it tliey uanted to join me they had to play .iccordingly. "If v\e do make the Nationals," Stevenson added, "I plan to bring one extra person on the trip — my own weather forecaster." /.B. Would you believe — Penn State? I Brown's football program took one 'giant step forward this fall when Ath- letic Director Bob Seiple announced that the Bruins will pla\- a tenth game in both . 1983 and 1985 with Penn State, a team that is consistently in the top twenty nationally. Both games will be played at State College, Pennsylvania, before sell- f out crowds (Penn State home games are usually sold out) of some 77,000. Penn State is coached by Joe Paterno '50, former Bruin quarterback and the winningest active college coach in the country. Coach John Anderson said that he was delighted with the scheduling. "This will be good not only for the foot- ball program and our recruiting but also for Brown University," he said. "Sure, I know we're going to be playing the best, but when you pla\' Penn State you , play the class of the best. Joe Paterno ■ runs his program more the way football ■ should be run than any of the other top ' twenty teams." /B- Rugby: 'There is real [ pride out there' A tough question for campus trivia buffs is, "Which Brown sports team I has the best winning percentage since 1959-60?" The answer of most people is either hockey or soccer. And they are wrong on both counts. The answer is rugby. Wait, you say, rugby is a club sport. ■ True. But trivia buffs, perhaps through some special dispensation, have never been required to differentiate between varsity and club sports v\hen they pose their questions. At any rate, in the last seventeen years. Brown rugby has won fourteen championships, produced four All-Americans, and made the "Faces in the Crowd" page oi Sports Illustrated three times. Not a bad record for any sport — varsity or club. Just last fall the rugby club came in third in a battle for the national college title at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, losing 22-12 to Louisiana State in what Rugby magazine called the most emotional and evenly matched game of the tourna- ment. Several hundred fans poured from the stands at game's end, formed a gauntlet, and applauded the hvo weary teams as they left the field. When a team can post a 243-93-9 record (.724) during a seventeen-year span, it must be doing something right. Pat Shattenkirk '78, a co-captain, has the answer: "I think the key to our suc- cess is that the organization of our club is superior. During the fall and spring seasons, we have a tough two-hour drill each day, first an hour for working on our skills and then a long scrimmage so that we can put it all together. After that, we usually throw in a three-mile run, just to keep the guys honest. "Ever\-one playing rugby for Brown has a sense of pride in the team," Shat- tenkirk continues. "WTien a new man comes out for the team, we teach him what he should be doing to fit into our style of play. And we show him our re- cord and make sure that he gets the point that we don't like losing around here. At Brown, rugby is more than fun and games." In any given year, the rugby team is made up of men with diverse back- grounds. There are ex-football players, athletes who came to Brow n hoping to play soccer or lacrosse before finding their way to the rugby field, and shi- dents who grew up with the game in England, Ireland, and Africa. Occasionally the rugby club attracts players who had no intention of com- ing to Brown. Chimere Okezie '79 is one such player. A native of Nigeria who was educated in England, Okezie was planning to attend Columbia. While visiting the New York campus in the spring of 1975, Okezie, a real rugby buff, saw the Brovyn ruggers wallop the Lions and then decided that Brown was where he really wanted to pursue his education — and his rugby. Through the years, the rugby club has developed a strong alumni backing. The most loyal follower is Steve McClel- lan '23 {BAM, September), who follows the team around the country in his private plane, known to one and all as "Steve's puddle jumper." McClellan has shown his support for Brown rug- by in other ways. In 1972 when the Ivy League Rugb\' Tournament was estab- lished, McClellan donated a hand- some trophy to be presented to the winning team each year and to be re- tired by the coUege winning the cham- pionship three times. Last fall. Brown retired the trophy, defeating Dart- mouth 22-12 in the title game. Earlier this year, Steve McClellan donated $20,000 for the general support of rugby at Brown. Raising money for the year-to-year operation of the sport has been a prob- lem for members of the rugby club. Some money comes from the Student Caucus. Other funds are raised by the players through running raffles, show- ing films, and collecting dues. For the most part, mone\' raised from dues goes into the club's "beer fund." "We have a party after every game," says Frank Moncrief '79. "In most sports, your opponent is a faceless enemy. In rugby, we like to sit around, break open some beer, and get to know our opponents. We think this makes more sense. "In rugby, we ha\'e no coaches, no training rules, no recruiting problems. Everyone works at his own pace. But don't let anyone tell you things aren't competitive. Before each road trip we have a scrimmage to select the traveling squad of twenU'-four men. Those scrinimages are brutal. People really knock heads. There is real pride out there. Real pride." According to Moncrief, rugby has one other advantage over most varsity sports. "Rugby is a continuing sport," he says, "one you can stay with as you grow older. Of course, you can't stay with the game quite as long as you can with golf or tennis, but I'd certainly give rugby an edge on parachute jumping." IB. 11 Personal voices: Brown alumni on liberal education i The time to reflect is, for many, n dismm/iugly rare commodity/ these days. Given that time, it is doubtful that many of us would choose to reflect upon and at- tempt to ei'aluate our undergraduate educations. Yet to- day's undergraduates, who may have the tune, do not have the requisite distance. Caught in the midst of press- ing ijuestions — WJiat courses shall I take? What good 'will they do me? What can I study that will help me get a job? — and faced with the large responsibilitxi for shap- ing their own education placed upon them by the Brown curriculum, they now need academic counseling more than ever. Thei/ need, in short, some idea of the benefits of a liberal education. With this in mind. Assistant to the Dean of the College Mark Curran asked faculty members at Brown to ivrite an essay on the purposes and content of a Brown liberal education. The Bethlehetn Steel Corporation sup- ported this project through a grant to improve academic counseUng at Brown. Curran decided, ho'wever, at the suggestion of a faculty member, that the vieivs of alumni — "those who have consumed the product in previous years" — might be more valuable, not to say reliable, than those of the faailty whose livelihoods depmd on attracting and keeping future consumers. Soliciting essays, then, from about a hundred alumni ivith diverse backgrounds, Curran asked them to ivrite in a personal voice about "the qualities of mind and the knowledge an educated persivi at least should strive to attain in the last quarter of tlie twentieth cen- tury." Twenty- five essays — thoughtful, reflective, bristling ivith personaUtif, from alumni ranging from the Class of 1918 to the Class of 1970 — came back through the mail last winttr. These essays, published in booklet fonn as Personal Voices: Brown University Alumni on Liberal Education, will be distributed to freshman counseling units (groups of thirty or so freshmen) and their faculh/ advisors. Tlie essays range from "Random Thoughts" to "Memories and Recom- mendations, " from "The Real Realihi of the Brown Ex- [ pcrience" to "English and Other Useless Majors." Walter Massey, dean of the College, wrote in the book's preface: "All the essays [will] not appeal to all readers, but perhaps because of this diversity more pciyple than otherwise might find a voice among these alumni that speaks particularly to them." Seven essays from that collection, sei'en personal voices speaking about Brown, follow. D.S. Not a liberal, but a humanist: A letter to my grandson By Duncan Norton-Taylor '26 Dear Grandson: You tell me you want to pursue a Liberal edu- cation at Brown, and having looked over the courses, you don't know where to start. (I don't wonder.) I'm astonished at the humility that brings you to me: fathers are not supposed to know much, but grandfathers even less. You may have to listen to an old man's prejudices. To begin with, the word "liberal" makes me uncomfortable. I know it is used to set certain cul- tural studies apart from technological and profes- sional ones, but that distinction has become blurred. "Liberal" is also many confused things to many confused people: the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century; a banner under which George Duncan Norton-Taylor is a lounialist, sometnne short-story icriter, a onetime senior editor of Time, a staff loriterfor For- tune, managmg editor for Fortune, and author of several Ijooks. He is naio free-lancing. McGovem mustered some support for a Presiden- tial campaign; a shibboleth of the student revolt of the '60s; another name for permissiveness; the rationale for numerous government programs re- lentlessly imposeci on taxpayers; and so on. As 1 understand it, after four or six years of study you hope to get a job in some business. But you are something of an idealist and material suc- cess is not your main concern. It is rather some- thing you vaguely but earnestly describe as suc- cess in living, in human relations and in finding deep personal satisfactions. I think what you want to be is not a liberal but a humanist. We have to he careful about that word too. There is juUan Huxley's brand of humanism. Some years ago, Huxley thought he discovered an "emergent religion," which, he proclaimed, be- lieves in knowledge: "Instead of worshipping supernatural rulers [by which he meant God| it will sanctif)' the higher manifestations of human nature, in art and love, in intellectual comprehen- 12 'sion and aspiring adoration, and will emphasize the fuller realization of life's possibilities as a sa- cred trust." (See T)ic Humanist Frame, edited by Huxlev and published by Harper & Bros.) This is atheistic-humanism in which God's place is taken by technological man, which captured and still holds many persons' imaginations despite the evi- dence of man's obvious failures over the greater part of our century. For the humanism 1 am talking about you must start with ancient Greece. You will find a further development of it in the Reformation in the sixteenth centur}', for example — this wiU surprise you because these writings are not on best seller lists — in Erasmus's 77u' Praise of Folly, in the writ- ing of Martin Luther and in John Calvin's The bisti- hites of the Christian Religion. You may detect here a certain set to this old man's views. Humanism begins with a study of the super- natural. So I address myself first to what 1 think should be the principal content of such study. It is essential to your education that vou have an ap- preciation of the Divine Revelation (see the Old Testament) and of the bodily presence of God in the world (see the New Testament). 1 am not put- ting forward any credal orthodoxy. I am simplv deposing that the question — who and where is God? — is the eternally haunting question of mankind — I suspect it privately harasses Huxley — and it is the Bible that uniquely illuminates the question. Mv bov, vou have to read what the Bible says, and discounting such metaphors as God creating heaven and earth in six days and some of the minor miracles, if you wiU, understand that the central miracle, that of God revealing himself to mankind, was the most critical thing that has happened in history. Brown has a department of religious studies; you wiU have to find out how good it is — 1 have no idea — but 1 would hope that any department as important as this one had the full support of the administration. So what else do I think humanist studies should include and what good will they do you? You can apparently knock around the depart- ments looking for what you think you want. I have examined Brovxn's Bulletin. It does say you wdll have to acquire competence in reading and uriting English. 1 hope this means what it says. From the writing that came over my desk in my years as an editor, I retain the impression that English has fal- len into disuse, replaced by banality and jargon. Public utterances, my unsolicited mail, and busi- ness letters have done little to correct the impres- sion. 1 think the notorious breakdown in com- munication we see on aU sides is largely due to the degradation of our language. So apply yourself to the drill of composition, and if they let you just skin by, they are failing in their basic duty. You will have to enter a "concentration pro- gram" in your junior year. (I presume this is what we used to call our major.) I am not reassured by the Bulletin's describing the concentration pro- gram in such worn and largely meaningless phrases as "in-depth study," "meaningful creative efforts"; and I wonder how you will "integrate the large amounts of material with your personal ex- perience" as you too are probably wondering. But 1 was struck by the Bulletin's promise that you will "inquire into an area which is significant to you." There, of course, is the rub, and what brings you to me asking in effect, "What is going to be sig- nificant to me?" 'Look for what excites your appetite for more' 1 can give you my own experience in college as it related, or failed to relate, to my career. You may find it was a random preparation for a haphazard life. Among other thmgs 1 spent a year at some- thing called Mathematics 61, 62 (the only figures I have remembered from this ineluctable course); and some inattentive months listening to droning lectures on European History (also required); I tried Geology (one could sleep through the lantern slides); I assiduously avoided Economics; and I devoted hours to English courses, reading and writing — those were the happiest times; and 1 also played the mandolin in the Mandolin and Glee Club, and drew pictures for the Brown }iig, which I edited in my senior year to the neglect of worthier things. My four years were not exem- plary. If 1 had to choose the book that influenced me most, 1 would name Tlte Oxford Book of English Verse. What did 1 have in mind for a career? To be the editor some day of a literary magazine — something like that. 1 wanted to avoid the business 13 'Literature, history, and Western man's faith' world at all costs. So what happened? 1 became successively a cartoonist and reporter for an eve- ning newspaper, an editor of a pulp detective magazine, an ill-paid free-lance fiction writer, a better-rewarded staff writer for Time magazine, and finally the managing editor oi Fortuiw. which as you know, is an outstanding chronicler of American business and the economic scene. Shunning economics in college may have put me in a position to understand contemporary eco- nomic theory since 1 was unencumbered by past fallacies; my mind was a tiibuin ras«. All that this proves is the well-known truth that where a young man thinks he is going is not always where he comes out. But it is also true, if 1 know you, that thrashing around Brown's cur- riculum, you will hear a note that "singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest," and will know that you have found something you have been searching for. The Bulletin, to be sure, frowns on too much thrashing about and 1 concede the administration's wisdom in this respect, which must be born of ex- perience beyond mine in this field. The Bulletin says, furthermore, that you must participate ac- tively in framing your education. I am told that someone trying to be helpful may ask you whether you think this or that course will be important to you in ten years. Your friends who are aiming at a medical career or some other well-plotted disci- pline will be supplied with fairly rigid answers. But you belong to the large number of students who simply believe (while fathers groan under the current costs of tuition) that a general education in a private college is a good thing, which it is, but have very little idea of what courses will be impor- tant to them ten years from now. 1 would guide you towards literature and his- tory, along with your exploration into Western man's faith. 1 wrote an article for Fortune (February 1966) wherein 1 argued that business must search out persons of curiosity and adventure and with human understanding, who have learned to live with ambiguities, uncertainties, and stubbornly held opinions, and can distinguish between what is important and what is not. 1 quoted Mr. James B. Oates, who was chairman of the board of Equi- table Life, who said he thought a study of the humanities leads a person "inexorably" to an an- swer to the question, "What gods do 1 choose to serve?" It is the implacable question that you can not duck. J 1 also invoked Mr. J. Douglas Brown, then Princeton's dean of the faculty. It was Mr. Brown's conviction that human understanding is de- veloped through the study of history, which lays out perspectives, and through literature, which reaches into people's minds and emotions. "No one should have power over others," he said, "who has not been exposed to Shakespeare's ex- ploration of human tragedy." It is the policy of Brown University to give its students wide options, perhaps too wide — 1 can- not say. You will be looking for something — you are not sure what. The words of Messrs. Oates anc Brown should provide some light and leading. You will have to find out for yourself what specific courses hold the greatest promise. Certainly 1 am in no position to sort out the gold from the fool's gold in Brown's curriculum. Upperclassmen may help you — the serious ones, that is — who have tried the content of certain courses and found themselves lifted by the inspiration of certain prO' fessors, or numbed by others. You will no doubt find yourself regretting some of the courses you choose and think you are wasting your time on ir relevancies. But don't even be too sure of that. Any knowledge acquired is grist to your mill, and years later can turn out in unexpected ways to be useful. Don't let anything get by you so that you end up kicking yourself as 1 do, for sleeping through the lantern slides. But in the main, what you should be looking for is what excites your appehte for more — what "grabs you" (in your own execrable vernacular). There will occur a magical opening of the mind, which is primarily what you are in college to expe- rience. Just how you are going to exploit this or that course in your business career is impossible to know beyond the framework of what Mr. Oates and Mr. Brown laid down. 1 have no illusions about this United States you are growing up in and the technology that ap- pears to be blindly altering all values and human behavior no less. But the humanist, Jew and Christian witnessing to God, can be a great coun- tervailing, intellectual force. A technological soci- ety with a conscience may be a realizable proposi- tion if your college-trained generation hangs onto its idealism. Affectionately, Grandfather 14 What to do after college: A letter to Steve 3v James L. Whitcomb '36 'Dear Steve: What am I going to do when I get out of col- lege? When we talked at Christmas holidays about you and where you were going, 1 was puzzled about how an Old Grad could advise an under- graduate about getting an education for a career. Since then it occurred to me that you were talking about one thing, 1 another. You were asking the question at the beginning of this letter. 1 was think- ing about the things written here, about how lucky Brown was to have your time for four years: time to help you explore, to taste, to roam, and to have a good time while doing it. Perhaps our kind of college has never been Idesigned to equip you with the tools specifically used for a business career, a career in government, or in education or for family life. Our university is supposed to teach you how to think, how to read, to write, to speak out, to be curious; this is differ- ent from the forced feeding that results in a di- ploma and "an education." Ever think to ask a hundred people if they do now what they thought they would be doing twenty-five years ago? Just a handful are. A four-year liberal arts education at Brown gives us . . . then and now . . . time to decide whether to specialize, whether to go on to gradu- ate work. For my part, 1 hope that Brown would be a largely liberal arts undergraduate college, and that hope explains my lack of enthusiasm for our medical program and for engineering. Course numbers and titles and teachers may change, but the stuff is there and is as valid for the last quarter of this century as it was for the first, and what constitutes the educated man remains the same. We hope that Brown teaches us how to read and how to write, for you are going to see more than you hear. Stayan Christoroe said something Like this about the English language in The Eagle ami the Stork. Then, too, a liberal arts education of- fers the opportunity to see what went before to help you decide whether it was good or bad, and how you can make a better world. Let's admit that our morals and our values need some looking at! If you roam over all the liberal arts — and our curriculum encourages it — a brush with the humanities, the physical sciences, and the social sciences should make the learner know more An economics majorat Broivn and a Signal Corp>s lieutenant colonel in World War II, James Whitconih is a sometime presi- dent of the Texas Manufacturers Association and a member of the Texas Philosophical Society. He iMS married to Mary Hill Broiun in Houston in 1943 and still happily resides there. about people than systems, more about values than dollars, more about quality than quantity, more about the guy who pushes the button than the button itself. In 1976 we have a right to lose faith in technology, and if we are to have a reward- ing life, people become more important than the machine and the educated generalist becomes more important than ever because he can com- municate ideas to other people. Today, some ask if we are sending too many to college, the implication being that college w/l doesn't prepare for a career. Could be, but hear what Harold Howe III, vice-president of the Ford Foundation says: "... young people go to college for many reasons, among them that of getting a perspecHve on themselves and the world, and doing it in company with other young people." It seems to me that the liberal arts provide the perspective he talks about. You and 1 feast from a full table of history and music and athletics and art and geography and yearn to learn more; today this is called "continu- ing education," and even if we don't take formal courses in the years after college, these things we learned make travel more interesting, reading more interesting, people of many kinds more in- teresting. Broad-gauge people still lead society, still do the planning, because they see whole fabrics made of many pieces. You who are in a college like Brown may well represent what Jefferson wanted in an "aristocracy of talent." Will what's been said here help you decide what you are going to do when you get out of col- lege, Steve? 15 Letter to my daughters: Not a 'what' but a 'who' 'Major in wholeness. Learn it all. Try it all.' By Fredi Kovitch Solod '50 This letter will be rather longer than the notes I used to tack to the refrigerator, but in its own way it may be even more important. You have just left after a weekend in which we discussed many things, but the subject which aroused the most controversy and drew the most response was the value of a liberal education. For those of you beginning freshman year, and for those of you already faced with choosing a major, the flood of articles questioning the value of a college education and the grim employment out- look are disheartening. "Job Needed. Six years col- lege," read the signboard carried by an ex-teacher who had taken to the streets in a desperate search for work. "If I could start all over again I would not go to college," he said. "They need waiters, tel- lers, travel agents." True. "They" do need waiters, tellers, travel agents, plumbers, meat cutters, salesmen. But what do i/oii need? The former teacher with the sandwich board has found that prospective em- ployers think him overqualified and too high- priced for clerking or checking rows of figures, and his master's and Ph.D., rather than giving him an advantage, are sending him to the back of the employment lines. Without his degrees he might well have found a job years ago and now, six years later, be secure in some niche in management. But I wonder what he would do when he got home from work, on weekends, if he grew discouraged in his job, when he retires. Whatever motivated him to consider college in the first place would probably have nagged him as he worked and pos- sibly sent him to night classes or correspondence courses or back to school part-time. The job outlook at present is indeed bleak, but no more so for the college graduates than for those without degrees. The media show long lines of unemployed factory workers, but zero in on the doctoral candidate on welfare. If finding a job — any job — is your prime mover at this time, you might be better off at a trade school. But even a specialized skill is no guarantee of full and perma- nent employment. Obviously that is not your only goal, or you would not be here and there would be no need for discussion. You have ciedded on a liberal educa- tion because something within you demands Fredi Solod, married to a Broivii alumnus, has three college-age daughters. She is a columnist for the Citizen Tribune, an ac- tress, and a free-lance writer. Her book on summer colleges (u'ith, she hopes, a prominent section on Broum) wilt soon be published by Barron's. wholeness, depth, and breadth of vision. That need will not go away because the world requires you find a job upon graduation — and, very Likely, a job which will use few, if any, of the things you learned at Brown. You may find your formal edu- cation totally irrelevant to the way you ultimately make a living, which may give you the happy op- portunity to live two lives in one. For nothing is wasted in a liberal education. Whatever courses you take, whatever major you choose, whether it earns your living or not, will be tucked away somewhere to be used again and again. Unless you consciously decide not to use it. That should satisfy the ecologist in you! You know that a liberal education was permitted only to freemen in Rome, as opposed to the strictly technical or professional pursuits followed by others. Since liberal means open to risk, it was thought that only free men could handle an edu- cation full of choices, abundant in subject matter, and not restricted to a single mode of thought. Having all these choices may be a new experi- ence for you. Here at school, with a rich abun- dance of alternatives, you may experiment, dab- ble, accept, refuse, change your mind. Here are sources, references, authorities to stimulate you, enlarge your perspective, answer questions. And | the price vou pay for sampling, for accepting or re- ! jecting, is a minor one. In the 'real' world choosing •■ one or another alternative may be crucial to the di- ' rechon of your Ufe; and, again, the choice may not , even be yours. An employer may transfer you, I move vou up or down, send you sideways. Here, • if you decide a direction is not for you, veering off is far less traumatic. Look at everything. Spend your first two years going where interest and curiosity lead. Stay loose. Something you least expect may turn into your life's dedication and it is possible that your present burning desire — if you have one — may go out. If you know what you want to major in, sampling may reinforce your decision. It may also show you a new approach to consider. Whatever you take will find its way into your head and come out again sometime as an idea, a philosophy, a point of view. In a world where future shock wakes us every morning, the man or woman who remains open and able to change, with vision large enough to consider alternatives, will be the most able to move with at least a modicum of ease and grace. The real world has no majors. Jobs so much in de- mand ten years ago are, many of them, obsolete today. In five years new fields demanding new 16 kills will open. That's been the pattern of the last hirty years and there's bttle reason to expect more stability in the future. Thus letting the eighteen- ■ear-old you decide what the forty-year-old you vill do the rest of your life is both dangerous and mrealistic. Learning to be flexible in college may ie vour most valuable curriculum. For myself, 1 value my Brown liberal educa- , ion precisely because it did not lead me in any one lirection. It showed me where 1 could go and how get there if I chose, but the map was loosely irawn and n-iinimally marked. My real education night have begun as an English and philosophy najor at Brown, but it certainly did not finish here. I remember verv little of exactly what my rourses taught, but a great deal of what they ex- :ited me to learn. I know very well the panic feeling of choosing 3 major, of feeling that life or deatlT depend on what goes on the diploma. 1 know the sense of re- sponsibility to parents who have to sacrifice to send you to school and then wait four, six, eight years to see the results, if any, of all that educa- tion. 1 remember what it's like to have friends and relatives ask, "What are you majoring in?" and "What do you plan to do with your life?", and thinking that if I gave the wrong answer they would cast me out. And 1 still don't know what 1 want to be when 1 grow up. 1 have tried many things, some of them satis- factory, others complete wipeouts. Typing was the most basically valuable skill I learned and I taught myself — but typing has never once come up as a topic of conversation in a group, never made my imagination soar, never kept me awake at night or excited me during the day. Making love and mak- ing bread and having children and planting a gar- den and walking along the ocean are life's great joys to me, and none of them requires an educa- tion. Yet all of them are enriched in some way be- cause of what 1 know. Ultimately, the purpose of any education is not to make you a "what" but to help you become a "who." Who you are stays with you long after what you do has changed. Who you are — the total of your experiences and background and choices and responses — will determine how you : move in a world where you may, indeed, find your life's work the day of graduation — or, you , may wind up wearing a sandwich-board, willing to take anything just to hold yourself together. Who you are will color how you respond to changes; how you approach your thirties and for- ties; how you face retirement. We all know English majors in business, teachers selling insurance, his- tory majors selling shoes, and understand that goals are not always achievable and that they may change, out of desire or necessity, as we grow. Your own parents or their contemporaries may have shifted gears in mid-life, taking up new lifestyles unthinkable twenty years ago. It simply reinforces the idea that what — the 'what' — we know we want today may not be tomorrow's choice or possibility. It may seem unrealistic for a parent to tell you there is no urgency to make a lifetime decision right now. It is undoubtedly a cliche to say that education is for a lifestyle and not simply for a career. It is redundant to tell you that a liberal edu- cation opens your mind — and God knows we could use more open minds — and gives you perspective and a long view. 1 could tell you that your education will be valuable for the discipline it instills in you in how to learn what your curiosity leads you to discover; that your French may never be used except to read a menu or translate a phrase in a novel; that your history may only help you calmly incorporate to- day's newspaper into your thinking; that Kant may never come up at a cocktail party (though Schopenhauer often will); that physics and geol- ogy may never enter the boardroom; or the seventeenth-century novel find its way to the nur- sery. You may, as I did, find yourself reciting Keats and Frost and Dickinson to keep reasonably sane working on an assembly line, but who's to say that sanity is not as good an end result of an education as anything else. Major in sanity. Major in wholeness. If this seems preachy, 1 preach because 1 love you. I do not want you to agonize. Learn it all. Try it all. Store what you can't use immediately for a cold winter, a cold year. But above all, enjoy your col- lege years. They are your last free lunch, so fill up. Whatever is out here waiting for you will de- mand strength, clear thinking, flexibility. The specific skills will come in on-the-job training, management programs, work-oriented classes. Your liberal education is helping you become the person who makes wise choices, and the more choices you make now the more experience you will gain in the fine art of decision-making. Choices you make now must not lock you in: they must open you up. It's a full, terrible, wonderful world out here. We await you eagerly and with much love. Mother 17 Through Van Wickle Gates: Give the traveler a map By Peter G. Fradley '50 The purpose is still to learn how to learn With things in the saddle riding us, there is a tendency to look upon a modern liberal education as a luxury — a kind of antique curiosity better suited to a more prosperous age. The present economy does little to dispel the contemporary student's economic worries. When Ph.D.'s are forced to work as custodians in order to survive, it is hard to argue that preparation for postgraduate life should not be planned with sal- able credentials at least partially in mind. What I would suggest is that total dedication to the development of earning power is both a de- lusion and an illusion. There are no guarantees, and in my philosophy the enjoyment of work and a lifelong intellectual curiosity are rewards that transcend the paycheck. I'm not entirely sure I understand the mean- ing of the term "liberal education," but 1 think it has links to the kind of study I pursued at Brown in the late 1940s. I wanted an education. Period. What I would do with it or where it would lead I had not the faintest notion. As a surgical technician in the Army, I presumed I had the qualifications for a medical career. The idea of devoting one's life to helping people while making a very comfortable living had considerable appeal. But in the bright light of self-analvsis, that ambition faded, and along with most of my contemporaries I entered Van Wickle Gates fairly certain that if I found out more about the world, if the academics exposed me to an intellectual smorgasbord, something would whet mv fancy and one day Mr. Wriston would hand me my diploma, symbolizing some sort of life goal for which I was at least as well pre- pared as mv average classmate. Looking back on it, I find mine a pretty casual approach to four of the most important vears in a person's life. But I bebeve I was the norm, not the exception, and I suspect there are a lot of us still around today. The student entering college should cock an ear to the liberal-arts debate now going on. U.S. Commissioner of Education Terrel H. Bell speaks: "The college that devotes itself totally and un- equivocally to the liberal arts today is just kidding itself. Today, we in education must recognize it is also our duty to provide students with salable Peter Fradley has worked as a youthful neivspaper, magazine, and fresh-egg salesman. Wall Street runner, dry cleaning de- livery driver, waiter, neivspaper reporter, mdustrial editor, and newspaper copy editor, in that order. He is noiv an editorial writer and letters editor for the Providence Journal-Bulletin. skills." Then vou have two educators writing in the Harcard Educational Rroieiv. W. Norton Grubb and Marvin Lazerson speak: "Career education is not directed at resolving sodal problems, develop- ing avenues of upward mobility, or making school and work more saHsfving experiences. It is aimed instead at reducing expectations, limiting aspira- tions, and increasing commitments to the existing sodal structure." There was no such contention in 1947, or at least none that reached my ears. The post-war period at Brown was static, coasting in the ruts of tradition. Student activism focused on fraternity' rushing, complaints about the University menu and food preparation, and which big band should be hired for the spring weekend. To be fair, a spark of student interest had been struck in the efficacy of teaching on campus. A group of more serious-minded rebels in 1949 worked up a questionnaire asking for a critique on faculty and curriculum to be used in a frontal assault on the D-1 course requirements. I dutifully filled one out and in June 1950 joined the ranks of the Brown alumni. That was the first hint of change that 1 was aware of. The war was over. The cynical veterans' corps had come and gone and its successors were experiendng the first surge of self-awareness des- tined to lead eventually to the academic revolution of the l%Os. Brown not only became a subject of the new student hegemony, but evolved into an advocate and leader of the crusade for student liberation. The D-1 courses which assured the student of my day at least a nodding acquaintance with the sweep of the curriculum — foreign languages, ■ music, art, mathematics, sdence, literature — fell before student demands for freedom to mold their own destiny. The rest is history. Brown of all the Ivy League colleges achieved pre-eminence in the art of accommodating schol- arly self-reliance. Free choice of program, pass-fail marking, and Modes-of-Thought experimental courses attracted the new breed of high school libertarian in overwhelming numbers. I don't mean to denigrate this response. Institutions should not be immune to change. Indeed, in this period I took considerable pride in mv alma ma- ter's progressive reaction to the tidal wave of self- determination. And I still think the response was right for the time and that a foolish dedication to the old ways would have been a bad mistake. But as theories and concepts alter in the ad- ministration of higher education, so too do student 18 r erceptions change focus over the years. If abso- jte freedom is a temptress, she often disappoints, temphathized with the students who regarded a ompulsory curriculum as another symbol of au- nontarianism — another creature of an Estab- shment that kept minorities "in their place," held ■ropert}' rights and profit to be conceptually uperior to humanism, and waged an unjust war -1 Southeast Asia. But that is what students' cademic demands came down to, it seems to me -a declaration of student independence. Educa- ion of the individual in the intellectual sense had ittle to do with the campus revolution and every- hing to do with moral assertiveness of the new generation. While ! admire the integrity represented by hat rebellion, 1 think the experiment in carte Blanche higher education for the most part failed. 1 im grateful that I missed that phase of Brown's development. In other words, I believe it is wrong :o sit a high school graduate down to an intellec- iial feast and not translate the foreign words and ohrases on the menu. To change the metaphor, it s simple kindness to give the traveler in unknown :erritor)' at least a rudimentary map. Today's students are asking for the menu in English. Thev are less self-conscious and uncertain about accepting advice. And Brown is responding jy providing some additional guidance in the new curriculum. 1 applaud this decision and 1 believe students will be the beneficiaries in the long run. But that still leaves the even larger question of whether to choose a liberal arts education or spend four college years following a well-designed plan to develop a salable commodity. For a quarter cen- tury I have been haunted by the familiar Thoreau aphorism that "most men lead lives of quiet des- peration." When the late Prof. Randall Stewart introduced me to the Golden Age of American lit- erature back before the Korean War, I vowed that somehow I would avoid becoming a victim of the system. If I were to survive, it would be on my own terms. 1 would not "trade my birthright for a mess of pottage." March I would "to the sound of a different drummer" — if need be. While my admiration for the sage of Walden Pond has never dimmed, 1 have relinquished some of the independence I never really had. Com- promise is a force so powerful not even Thoreau could completely cast it aside. But basically I have followed my own nose. And I have not yet had reason to regret it. The goal I set in 1950 was to make my living by the written word and 1 have always done that, notwithstand- ing several detours 1 would like to forget. Was 1 well prepared for a career in journalism? I think so, despite the lack of any formal training in the field, despite the fact that my tool box contained little more than the ability to read and write, a healthy curiosity about the world around me, a love of books and music and nature, a devotion to the endless learning process, and a desire to give whatever 1 might have to contribute in a way that I considered meaningful. Those are the things I received from Brown, allowing some credit or blame for the people and environment that succored me those first eighteen vears. The phrase is overused, perhaps, but I sub- scribe to the premise that the purpose of a college education is to learn how to learn. I am grateful to those professors whose lectures on Shakespeare and Milton, on the great philosophers and poets, on history and political science and the ancient worlds of Greece and Rome started the vital juices flowing. Left to my own devices with a bit of coun- seling on the side there is no telling how much I would have missed that has changed my life in later years. And if I had chosen a narrower schedule directed toward an occupational goal, 1 would have sacrificed a certain width and depth that opens the mind to the whole universe of ideas and human possibilities. In short, I tend to equate the purpose and value of a liberal arts education at Brown with what I gained from the experience. Don't read that askew-. I am not claiming to be the model of an ed- ucated man. Far, far from it. But I do believe Brown helped provide me with a perspective, a set of values, an intellectual framework, a philosophy, if you will, that equipped me to become through my own efforts as much of an educated individual as 1 wished to be. Some voung people today see no need for col- lege. Perhaps they are right if their brand of generalism surpasses mine, and their reading is limited to the works they heard about in high school and an occasional paperback that can be in- dulged on a vagabond's income. Perhaps so for one willing to be self-contained who needs no formal inspiration — the kind that only an inspired teacher can offer. 1 pity those who never studied under the late Sharon Brown. But for the average student like myself the need for a semi-structured introduction to the world was great. As one who observes and analyzes and writes for a living, I would defend against all challengers the importance of opening the mind to great heights and distances, to ugli- ness and beautv', to originalitv' and virtue so that narrowness need never be feared. If a liberal edu- cation takes the students one- tenth of the way through those opening gates, it has done well. The motives will be fixed for that individual to go the other 90 percent on his or her own. Perspective, a set of values, an intellectual framework 19 The puzzle: A 'random walk' Ask professors why they are teaching their courses By Steve Oberbeck '60 Writing briefly about the "purpose and con- tent of a liberal education" is like doing the Louvre on roller skates. Sdll, for what it's worth: a liberal education should ideally endow an individual with a sustaining zest for the task of taking apart modern society's maddening puzzle. That may sound a bit avuncular, but incurable curiosity — that unconquerable itch to get to the bottom of things — is the quality that transcends mere necessity in man's attempts to puzzle out his prob- lems. That itch can translate into money and power, or — for the less rapacious — career success and self-fulfillment. In the seventeen years since the man from Power Street handed me my "passport" to the "real" world beyond Brown's sheltering elms, I've become acutely aware that there is no real world. There's our perception of events. There are impinging worlds, colliding, glancing off each other, changing shape. There's a slow stampede of galloping relativities, oxymoronic news and politi- cal events and non-events, a media bath and battle of conflicting advocacy, a confounding parade of self-seekers scrabbling for ascendancy. And that's only at»n/ house! Imagine quan- tifying that to community, nation, globe! There's no passport, either. A diploma is just one receipt from one important toll booth on a long, long trip. And the road signs don't necessar- ily get clearer as one proceeds. For instance, here are some puzzlers that have been on my mind recently: Is the U.S.A. a first- rate or second-rate power? Is Henry Kissinger more credibly thought of as our man or tl}eir man? Is Jimmy Carter liberal or conservative? Or an aris- tocratic populist? Are Woodward and Bernstein authentic folk heroes? Or authentic media heroes? Or just current front-runners in a continuing struggle to transfer wealth and power? Why do Playboy and Penthouse sell so well? Should three TV networks exercise such control over America's col- lective self-image? What if Werner Heisenberg's theories were applied to the notion of Americans watching "themselves" on TV? Is Irving Kristol the nation's best journalist? These are not exactly multiple-choice ques- tions. But from my sphere, they relate to the con- cepts of wealth and power, career success and self-fulfilbnent. The fruits of a liberal education (plus financial and ego imperatives) keep such Stepiheti Oberbeck xvas a Newsweek cuiiurai critic for ten years and recently joined Mobil Oil as a corporate Staff Ad- visor. questions dancing in mv brain. Thev are part of my personal puzzle. To extend this adventure in futility to other areas: Economics, for instance. The cost of a col- lege education is getting to be incredible. Obvi- ously, Brown classics scholars will recall that around the latter half of 5 B.C., the Sophists (our educational forebears) found themselves pricing their instructional wares out of the market. During the next century, competing with price-cutting tutors and "blackleg" discount teachers. Sophists had to beat the bushes for business — to the point of holding tub-thumping mixers at which the best and the brightest were paraded to drum up drachmae for the costly Sophist curriculum. 1 won't conclucle that higher education is pric- ing itself out of the market. But let me trv another tack. My wife gets up and goes to a paid exercise class several mornings a week. She could do the same calisthenics at home, but at the class there's an instructor who supposedly knows what she's doing and other perfectionists whose groaning, stretching community of interest spurs her on. So with education, I think: mental, moral calisthenics — intellectual exercises — that lead hopefully to symmetry and strength of mind anc^ character, undertaken in a community of shared concerns. The trouble is, my wife pays around $30 a year to join her huffing cohorts. College costs a relative bundle more. Will the investment "cost out"? No one can tell undergraduates that it will or won't. But perhaps instead of asking the "purpose and con- tent" of liberal education, students starting out should ask themselves: "What'll I have to do when I get out of college?" For all but a few, the answer is: Support yourself and, if you choose, a family; find something you like doing that somebody will pay you to do; and attempt to enjoy (even con- tribute) doing what you get paid for. Instead of asking undergraduates, "Why are you taking these courses?" and "Will it be important to you in ten years?" why not ask professors why they are teaching these courses and why they will be im- portant to undergraduates in ten years? Another heresy: Perhaps, like Sophists, cer- tain departments should take a free-market tack and hawk their benefits to incoming students (Leam Dynamic Secrets of Lateral-Think in Pro- fessor X's Structural Analysis Course! Savor the Dioramic Delights of Ancient Dynasties in Profes- sor Y's Egyptology Lectures!). It may sound funny, but why do Playboy and Penthouse sell so well? Can Beowulf hope to outdraw Dylan? Can the 20 library stacks compete with All the President's Men? Tan the pop media kulturknmpf be countered by 'rhuc\'dides, von Mises, Randal] Jarrell? I wonder. Somebody scarcely mentioned in any history course I ever took at Brown said: "To live is to maneuver." Never truer. From my sphere — media, culture — I sometimes wonder if the liberal (education my contemporaries received isn't being leaten up in the politicized plethora of pop and not-so-pop media that is firehosed at the average American every dav. 1 marvel at businessmen who believe they believe in laissez-faire, Adam Smith, and the Austrian school of economics who warmly applaud or enjov films, plays, books, and TV pre- sentations projecting collectivist, statist values ab- solutely antithetical to their notions of entre- preneurial freedom. j If this "random walk" essay seems confusing, it's partly meant to be. For after a budding eco- nomics student, say, has swallowed his Samuel- son, Keynes, and mavbe nibbled at Friedman, he may break a tooth on a conundrum of manage- ment guru Peter F. Drucker I especially like: There are no profits, onlv costs (the cost of capital, the cost of risk, and the cost of wages and pensions). It's an intriguing concept, but an even more in- triguing way of perceiving things. It has a flavor that is the apotheosis of liberal education to my mind — because it asks a limber mind for under- standing, and asks for a modicum of intellectual discrimination. In the late '50s, my education at Brown was unstintingly liberal — and Liberal, ideologically. It took me roughly ten vears of poking around at the other end of the political spectrum to realize that the money-power game may be ideological. But the satisfaction game leads back, through, or beyond politics to basic human values. A liberal education should teach individuals that ideologies are expressions of basic human values, possi- bibties, dreams, nightmares. And teach them to discriminate which values are in their own — and thus perhaps society's — best interests. (Obvi- ously, 1 did not cheer the Second Coming of Ira Magaziner. But I did appreciate his popularity on campus and in the alumni magazine's goggle-eyed storv.) Discrimination grows out of experience and contention. It's a lifelong project. The man who said "To live is to maneuver" was reformed com- munist spy Whittaker Chambers, now much in the news as a result of renewed controversy over the Alger Hiss trial. Chambers was a master at dis- criminatory fine-points. In his book. Witness, he makes, albeit laterally, an excellent case for the necessity of education when describing the attrac- tions of communism: ". . . the Communist Party is quite justified in calling itself the most revolution- ary party in history," he wrote. "It has posed in practical form the most revo- lutionary' question in history: God or Man? It has taken the logical next step which three hundred years of rationalism hesitated to take, and said what millions of modern minds think, but do not dare or care to say: If man's mind is the decisive force in the world, what need is there for God? Henceforth man's mind is man's fate." Several pages later. Chambers takes his own logical next step. A perception comes to him as he watches his baby daughter eating in her high chair. "My eye came to rest on the delicate con- volutions of her ear — those intricate, perfect ears. The thought passed through my mind: 'No, those ears were not created by any chance coming to- gether of atoms in nature (the communist view). They could only have been created by immense design." That "immense design" may only be part of the puzzle. Or it could be the whole puzzle. Any- way, the conflict between the two views provided me with a passport to a lot of education, a lot of work, a lot of head-scratching. I'm obviously not finished yet. Education for liberation By Susan Dearing Clark '66 I have been asked to write an essay on the purpose and content of a liberal education, from the perspective of a ten-year veteran of the "real world." I am happy to do so, and I would like to begin by pointing out how healthy it is that these aspects of liberal education are once again under discussion. I must say, however, that I cannot help being somewhat amused by what I see as one of the reasons for renewed concern about its value, namely the fact that certain college graduates are having trouble finding jobs. Allow me to elaborate for a moment on the word "certain." Neu'siveek magazine recently made a contribu- tion to the discussion of higher education in the form of a cover story with the ever so clever title, "Who Needs College?" I find the photograph on the cover of this issue as enlightening as anything that appears in the article itself. It shows two young men dressed in cap and gown; one is wield- ing a shovel, the other a jackhammer. The impli- cation is, of course, that these poor fellows have been forced to take jobs for which they are, as the article puts it, "conspicuously overqualified." It Susan Dearing Clark has been an English major all her life — or at least since the age of three, when her father tired of The Three Bears and began telling her about the Trojan War in- stead. Since graduating from Brozen she ivas married, contrib- uted to the birth and care of tieo children, and worked at a numberof odd jobs. At the moment she is teaching English as a second language. Discrimination grows out of experience and contention 21 Education does not need to be useful to be valuable strikes me as rather ironic that I am apparently being invited to sympathize with white male col- lege graduates, like the two on the cover oiNeu'S- wcek, who are beginning to encounter a situation that many female college graduates have had to face for years; that is, the choice between un- employment and underemployment. The old argument against highest education for women was countered in part by the claim that even if a woman didn't "use" her education, it was still beneficial for her to have gotten it. Even if she never pursued a career, but served society instead as a successful wife and mother, she would be a happier and somehow "better" person for having received a liberal education. It pleases me that this argument, once reserved for women, is now being offered to men as well. To quote Nciosweek again, "Educators are fond of emphasizing their belief that a cabdriver with a doctorate in history may be happier, in the end, than his peers without such exalted credentials, or that a mechanic who has developed a love of nineteenth-century poetry will be richer for the experience." What 1 find rather encouraging about a statement such as this is the possibility that if men in fact begin to accept this argument, they may be forced to realize what many women have known for some time: that a liberal education need not be "useful" in order to be valuable. lililUilii^ '^F " im What makes a liberal education valuable is the question I would like to consider in this essay. But first I would like to make some distinctions be- tween education and other aspects of human exis- tence or endeavor, because I believe that the value of a liberal education can be assessed in terms of what it isn't as well as in terms of what it ;s. The distinction between education and expe- rience is certainly a familiar one. 1 will not belabor it but simply suggest that although all education involves experience of some kind, not all experi- ence contributes to education. This is because edu- cation involves change, and as Kurt Vonnegut has pointed out, "Experiences can be astonishing without changing you." 1 would like to define education as all experience which results in the change we call learning. Unfortunately 1 can't. There are too many different kinds of learning. Apparently, 1 must make another distinction, this time between education and training. j Human beings, like house pets and circus animals, can of course be trained. Medical schools, !' for example, "train" doctors, apparently in the be- ! lief that their students have already received, as j undergraduates, all the education they will ever ji need. But training, it seems to me, results in a very , limited kind of learning. It enables a person to "do the right thing" in certain more or less specific sit- uations. Education, on the other hand, should en- able a person to "do the right thing" in more or less loicertain and (//ispecified situations. What kind of experience, then, does liberal education provide, and what kind of learning re- sults from this experience? When 1 look back on my own experience at Brown the only thing I can say for sure is that 1 learned how to learn what 1 needed to know in order to survive there. I still know some of the facts I learned during my four i years at Brown, but most I would have to relearn if 1 found 1 needed to know them now. 1 am often saddened by the fact that 1 no longer remember so much of what I worked so hard to learn when 1 was an undergraduate. But I am sometimes able to console myself with the realization that the one thing 1 have not completely forgotten, that is, how to learn, is probably the most important result ot my experience at Brown. How does a liberal education enable a person to learn how to learn? Ideally, 1 suppose, by en- couraging or demanding certain achvihes that are essential to learning. The accumulation of facts is one of these activities. It is necessary for all the others, but it is important, 1 believe, only in this preliminary sense. The other, equally important activities required in the process of getting a liberal education include making distinctions and finding relationships between and among individual facts or groups of facts, investigating the implications of various facts or patterns of facts, and finally, eval- uating the significance of facts in terms of the dis- tinctions, relationships, and implications that have been discovered. Unfortunately, although these activities apply to almost any area of study, they are usually encouraged only within rather than be- tiveen disciplines. I wish, for example, that some- one had pointed out to me that it was important to relate what 1 learned in freshman biology to what I learned in freshman English. Perhaps someone did, and I simply wasn't alert enough to pick up the suggestion at the time. In any case, now that I have begun to appreciate the importance of such relationships, alas, 1 no longer remember very much of what 1 learned in freshman biology and freshman English. Because 1 no longer have at my disposal the facts 1 accumulated while taking those two courses, 1 am no longer in a position to make or evaluate any relationships. Perhaps that is why 1 am not entirely sahsfied with the education 1 received at Brown. The fault, of course, is chiefly my own: 1 didn't really know what 1 was doing, so there is little wonder that I didn't do it well. 1 tell myself that if 1 were a 22 Teshman again, I would do it all differently. But if were a freshman again (and 1 must admit I wisli I A ere almost as often as 1 thank heaven I'm not), I A'ould be eighteen again instead of thirty-one, and I would probably make most of the same mistakes did the first time around. Nevertheless, I am ■nore than willing to share the advice 1 would give jmyself if I were once again that enviable person, a Brown freshman. First of all, I would try to remember that it is possible to accumulate a lot of facts without ever considering their significance, but that facts have significance only in relation to other facts and pat- terns of facts. 1 would try to be more conscious of metlwd as I was attempting to master the content of the courses I took. I would try to spend more time (and solicit more help) investigating the relation- ships between, as well as within, the subjects I chose to study. I would try to remember that 1 had a responsibilih,' not only to get as much as possible out of my four years at Brown, but also to con- tribute as much as possible to the community in which I would spend those four years. I would ac- cept the fact that what I could contribute might be only the desire and developing ability to find and share relationships (both intellectual and personal) that others had ignored or merely failed to see. 1 would try to keep things in perspective by recall- ing that learning may have to be defined as a search for significance in the face of the possibility that there is none. Finally, I would try to learn how to learn what I would need to know in order to survive not only within, but also without, the academic community. 1 now think that the question we need to ask and answer is not "What should an educated per- son know today?" but "What should an educated person be able and willing to do?" Many thinkers and writers and just plain people have pointed out that life in this country has become increasingly fragmented. The ahiUty and willingness to estab- lish relationships may therefore have become the most important survival skill for this century and the next. If a liberal education can help people to develop this skill, it can certainly be said to have a value that exceeds mere "usefulness." I would like to conclude this essay by return- ing briefly to another aspect of the irony I de- scribed at the beginning. Because they have so often been un- or underemployed, educated women have had time on their hands, time in which to use the skills and habits of thought they developed in college. In many cases they spent some of this time thinking about themselves and their place in the world. One of the results was the birth, or rather rebirth, of the women's liberation mo\'ement. Educated men, on the other hand, have not had the luxury of free time in which to apply what they learned in college to anything other than "getting ahead" in their chosen professions. It is conceivable that as overeducated cabdrivers and mechanics they will be able to do what many over- educated wives and mothers have been doing for at least a decade. Perhaps they will have time to think about themselves and their world in a new and valuable way. And if they discover, as women have, that many things just don't make sense, perhaps they will be willing to join their wives, sis- ters, mothers, and/or daughters in finding ways to achieve human liberation. If liberal education must have a goal or a pur- pose, it might as well be human liberation (the words "liberal" and "liberation" are, after all, etymologically related). Now that the fiction that a liberal education prepares a person for a job has begun to fall apart, such a goal may yet become at- tainable. Perhaps the words "upward mobility" could even acquire spiritual as well as social and economic meaning. The real world: An elitist view By Ginger Heinbockel '68 What's it hke in the real world, earning a liv- ing by the sweat of my brow? Full-time work, not summer or part-time work with an implicit re- prieve in going back to class again. The worst thing in the real world is too little vacation. At first, I didn't have any money for one anyway. Later, the vacation pointed out all kinds of "adult" problems that had come up. How de- voted should 1 be to my job? Should I take the va- cation due me, or work through it because it is im- portant to be at my desk, at a meeting, to turn in an assignment? Why am I working, for a salary or for a career? How do I put up with colleagues who make the opposite decision? Or who just don't feel the same degree of compulsion? Okay, so here I am in the real world. What do I say to someone still on campus? I've survived Brown, earned my own way for eight years, and turned a mystical life corner to age thirty. Me, thirty years old. My generation didn't trust anyone over thirty. First, I say to you, don't trust anyone over thirty. We are all unreal. Money and power for many of us are clearly within reach, if we play the After graduating from Brmim in 1968, Ginger spent a year working m a publislnng firm, then began a career in theological paper sliuffling. Slie is employed by the United Presln/terian Church, where the papers she shuffles deal primarily with currmt or potential problems in society ranging from homosex- uality to benefits for Vietnam veterans to the assumptions un- derlying United States foreign policy. She lives in New York City. At age thirty, money and power are new erotic highs 23 The feeling at Brown of being something special game right. Without our noticing, we've become possessors as much as the parents we despised at twenty. (Beware — our possessive obsession started with books, mementos, stereos. Then we added art, beds, furniture, cars, clothes, right on into the acquisitive society.) We've tried possess- ing people but that didn't work. People are fickle, but money isn't. We're too old to get the same charge out of sex that we used to. For us, money and power are new erotic highs. Real life requires money not to be poor. Being poor is only glamorous and intriguing for about an hour and a half. After that it's a pain. With a naked A.B. degree (even one from Brown) it's easy to be low-paid. To keep up our standards of living, we've had to share Lives with people we scarcely knew in cities far from the shelter of home. Living with strangers sure helps you find out who you are. Strangers are weird. Afraid you'll steal their milk or something out of the refrig- erator. That you won't pay the phone bill on time, or clean your fair share of crud. No privacy — they can hear the quality of your sex life from the next room. No privacy to have no sex life, either. (Lord, I hope that happens to everybody like 1 think it does. Otherwise, I look like an ass.) When that happens, roommates who are friends pity you (a terrible experience); roommates who are strangers tell you it's because you are a creep. Speaking of privacy and roommates, would you believe that two of us would hide our purses when the third roommate's boyfriend came? And the three of us were all from Brown. It's not just strangers that can be weird. But how could we endure living at home, now that we're no longer children? People at home, though, were reasonably in- telligent. People out here in the real world are dumb, remember? Yes, but the real world is more complicated than that. People are not dumb as much as they are STUPID. I mean that: they are not dumb, they are STUPID. They can't see if A, then B, if B then C, so that if A, then C. They can't see that if A is not B, and if C is not B, that doesn't say anything about the relationship of A and C necessarily. They can't see that if A, then B does not mean if B, then A. They don't see that last week's fact solves this week's problem. Stupid — yes. Dumb — maybe, maybe not. Next, 1 need to tell you what is this dumb that some people are and some people aren't. Dumb people are the people often described by phrases ; like "out of the mouths of babes." Cliches have meaning for these people. They see things simply and clearly always. Cut right through to the heart of the problem. This is tedious in discussing a sit- uation loaded with conflicting potentialities and slippery probabilities. The problem is not to be discussed at such times, but alternative solutions. Decision-making requires assessment of all poten- tial and probable outcomes for each option. Iden- tifying the problem gets you nowhere. This is not to put these people down. Ameri- can tradition has always honored common sense, or horse sense, for its tenacity in seeing home truths in our complex situations. These people art dangerous for those of us with overbright imagi- nations. Why? They pick up on emotional atmos- phere and overtones with breath-taking speed and accuracy. (Being found out by a dumb person is very humiliating.) With all our intelligence we can't lord it over the dumb, because they'll knife us while we're watching them and we won't even see it. Still, few are bright and many are dumb. The bright can see the difference. People from Brown are bright. You know what? No one wiU be impressed when you say you went to Brown. Nothing against Brown, unless they went to Harvard or Yale. Somehow at Brown, I got the feeling we were special, and that magic doors would open for us. Not true in the real world. Lots of people who wanted to go Ivy League but couldn't won't give you any points for Brown. Even more people have never heard of the Ivy League, or don't know Brown is in it. Of course, there are certain circles in which one would only have gone Ivy, or been schooled in Europe. That's not where 1 live. Most of my office friends went to college fairly cheaply and graduated with humanities majors. Many are former school teachers. Know what we do for a living? Type, with variations on that theme. (I will refrain from long-winded indul- gence in my theory about women and fields that involve typing, tending, and teaching.) We Uve ini a real world where, without influence, you walk into a personnel office and the woman says sweet- ly, "How fast can you type? Do you take short- hand?" This is the real world, where a fancy-titled, entry-level job in a publishing house pulls the same salary as the demeaning "temporary clerk- typist." (I got a $20-a-week raise when 1 became permanent staff, as a secretary.) As an administra- tive assistant I earn double that, a livable wage. (Don't despair — one classmate went out to the real world of IBM, and has earned exactly double my salary all along. ) 24 Do I hear groans about clerical office work? True, and not true. It depends on who vou are, '.and why you work. ... (1 did warn you not to trust us folk over thirty; nothing is simple to us.) One friend, a secretary, is really into crafts and likes her job because it doesn't follow her home or take extra hours from her jewelry -ma king or weaving. Another friend doesn't want anything to worry about, and with no responsibility in her job, she hasn't any worries. Some people are ob- sessed with detail; may they all remain secretaries. Of course I have friends who really hated it as sec- retaries. Administrative assistants are sitting in a deli- cate spot between a little and a lot of responsibil- ity. It can be an interesting, fun tightrope to walk. Before 1 can explain why that is, I have to backfrack a little, into where I've been and who I am. What was it like for us on campus from 1%4 to 1968? Probably a lot like it is now, despite our reputation for causing frouble and yours for quietism. By 1968, first-semester Pembroke fresh- men (that is, women) had the same privileges as second-semester seniors had had in 1964. They had to come in at night. In 1964 I don't remember men ever being allowed upstairs in women's dorms, or if they were, there weren't many of them. (That must sound about as real as a gothic romance to your generation.) By 1968, men had to be out of the women's dorms at the hour that women had formerly been required to be in them. The food on campus was a mystery, and the rumbles were beginning that we shouldn't have to pay for what we weren't eating. Women had short hair and skirts (required on the Brown green, amazingly enough, as well as to dinner on Sun- days). Men were proud of the odd combinahons possible with jackets over jeans for compulsory convocation. Women had to go to even more con- vocations than the men did. Once a year we had a thrilling expose of the advantages of a liberal edu- cadon for a woman. (Not, please note, the role of women in liberal education.) What we heard of the real world outside the campus involved at first civil rights demon- sfrations, then increasing opposition to the Viet- nam War. Not many people at Brown were black; three-tjuarters were men eligible for the draft (ex- cept they were in college.) Most of the demon- strations I remember were against the war, and were in downtown Providence. Probably by the Hme I arrived at Brown, dvil rights demonstrations had lost their cachet. Black Power was the coming thing, and that was by definition closed off to whites. By then, blacks were Hred of being led by liberal whites who made strategic mistakes a five-year-old could foresee. Liberal whites, having lost their leadership role in civil rights and growing painfully aware just exactly how racist they really were, raced off to defend non-whites elsewhere in the world, particularly in Vietnam. Maybe there was a chang- ing perception of the motivations of the U.S. gov- ernment. (Great white fathers were beginning to lose their appeal.) 1 tend to lump what happened on campus from 1964 to 1968 into the generality of raging adulthood. The slogan might well have been "Goddammit, we're not children." If we could be drafted to fight, why couldn't we vote? Why did we have to fight in a war without a reason? What is there to choose among college, fighting, jail, and exile? And the questions moved closer to Brown. Why do we have to take this course? Why do the women have to be in when the men don't? Why do we have to go to meaningless convocations? Why do there have to be grades? Sounds exciting, doesn't it? Well, for most of us it wasn't. Our hves had the same placid pace that 1 suspect most students still live. Lots of work to be done, but twenty-four hours a day to do it. (I never could really hustle until the last minute. That's one reason I majored in the humanities, where I could cram more effectively.) All-nighters had (and have) a certain charm to them. It was easy to ignore the fuss outside for the real reason we were at Brown: to study. (That gets a certain cynical snicker from friends. Few people spent less time studying than I did; my grade point showed it.) What 1 did most at Brown, I think, was goof off. I hung around a lot. 1 stared at nothing. I planned work for tomorrow, or next week. Yet, somehow it was worth the dollars it cost then. I'm not so sure it would be worth them today. 1 liked the old curricular system of having to take certain things in certain categories of study. 1 majored in religious studies because my concep- tion of what that was was proved dead wrong. I learned that history is only dead in high school. I didn't like what I heard about psychology, biol- ogy, and sociology, so I didn't take them. 1 met the literature requirement in French because it killed two requirements at once. And, as is frue in most systems, if you didn't like it, you could get around it. One reason for my liking the old curricula is that I am a generalist, by nature, by fraining, and now by profession. And now we're back to being an adminisfra- tive assistant. My job benefits (and I like my job) because 1 am a generalist. My job needs one, when The happenings of the 1960s: Call them 'raging adulthood' 25 The real world highly values specialized education in one day I'm supposed to understand the issues involved in the fighting in Angola, the (lack of) progressivity in the federal tax structure, and the needs and rights of homosexuals in the society. As well as, of course, understanding group dynamics, interpersonal relationships in an office setting, and the ins and outs of a corporate structure. And then the typing and filing (minimal), editing, endless details to juggle all the issues at once. Sometimes I'm an idea person, someHmesa faceless recorder. Is this enough? Before I fumed thirty last month I thought so. Now I'm not so sure. It suits my generalist nature very well to have to call on all those different costumes and play all those different roles. There is a sense of comfort in knowing that I won't have to deal with any one issue forever. It's neat knowing that my day may go all haywire because of an article in the morning Times. And most of all, it is very nice to have a job paced the way 1 want, working under very little supervision, for enough pay, with many different ideas and using many different skills. It's challeng- ing in an easy-going sort of way. No two days are the same; few days go as they are supposed to. I work with a lot of very bright people. In short, it's a nice job at a nice income. The problem is, do I have any ambition? If yes, to do what? This indecision has led to theory 7 (or what- ever). Theory 7 (or whatever) says that with my generalist background I can do something else, in some other field, just as easily. The emphasis there is on the "I can." I've learned I can do many things well, and I think I learned that at Brown, in the years of our raging adulthood. We tackled a lot of establishments, and we won. 1 can have a second profession. And a third later if I want. The real world trips up flights of fancy like that, though. Or maybe it's just a personal bias. Whichever, a bachelor's degree means very little these days. I don't know if training beyond the bachelor's degree or specific experience, or both, are needed. (Lord knows 1 haven't got any of either.) A liberal arts education at Brown prepares you to be president of the company, not to get your foot in the personnel office to be in the run- ning for junior-junior executive. Influence can help, but I haven't got that either. A liberal arts education gives you scintillating i cocktail conversation, but no salary points. Am I advocadng specialized education, un- dergraduate courses with a career firmly in mind? , Urging you on to graduate school? That is all a large crock. Probably no one has told you that the real world is STUPID. It is. The real world values highly the specialized education. It does so for two (interrelated) reasons that I can see. The real world congratulates itself on its own complexity. (It is, after all, peopled by folks over thirty.) Such complexity requires specialized, detailed knowledge. Contrary to the assumptions of the real world, this specialized, de- tailed knowledge cannot be learned through the generalities of specialized education (math and ( some sciences excepted) any better, or quicker, | than the general theory can be learned through | training for the specific job. The second reason for' valuing specialized education is that the real world loves measurable achievements. A competent per-' son is not measurable. Passing a course in ac- counting is. That's the real world. It doesn't make any more (or any less) sense to me now than it did when 1 looked at it from the Ivy-towered Brown I University. , Your move. 26 When Bill and Natalie Bacon moved to Prudence Island in 1973, their 200-year-old farm was covered with brush and trees . . . Photographs In/ John Forasti' Now Bill Bacon stands h '**I^ ♦ ,4ltt*4/ / '■?*», >. 1*^ ,*t*'' .^ ^»c.. ^ f the trend, ever since President Carter decreed last winter that wine, and nothing stronger, may be served at official dinners there. All this is welcome news to the William Bacon family of Prudence Island, Rhode Island. Four vears ago, former business systems consultant Bill Bacon '39, his wife Natalie (Chase) '40, and their son Nathanael '62 abandoned a flourishing family bread industry in Connecticut and took up wine-making and full-time residence on Prudence Island. The Chase ancestral farm, on which Natalie grew up and which the Bacons inherited in I960, became Rhode Island's first commercial vineyard in re- cent memory. (Since then, several others have sprung up around the state.) No wines from the Bacons' Sunset Hill Farm have made it to market yet, although a small wine cellar is crammed with wooden casks of Pinot Chardon- nay and jugs of other varieties nearly ready for bottling. Getting the vine- yard on its feet has been a painstaking process demanding all of Bill's and Nathanael's considerable physical for- titude. Luckih', thev both thrive on hard work. The family invested 570,000 from savings and an inheritance in the busi- ness, after studying wine-making and talking to visiting experts to learn the intricacies of grape culture. The 200- year-old farm, spread around a rambling house built in 1783 that is still heated with wood stoves, was almost totally overgrown with brush and trees when 29 the Bacons moved in. Bill and Nate, using their own tractor and backhoe, have cleared over ten acres adjacent to the house. Now a vineyard flourishes on those hard-won fields, with genuine Euro- pean grapes ripening in hundreds of long rows. Wines frcmi Sunset Hill Farm will probably be marketed later this year, and the Providence Joumal- BuUetiii 's wine critic has already pro- nounced a Bacon-produced wine (made in 1975 from out-of-state grapes identi- cal to their own stock) as "excellent." But their impending debut in the retail wine market is only one reason for the family's present satisfaction. Bill and Natalie Bacon are, above all, at peace with their lifestyle, which is close to the land and deep-rooteci in the sandy soil of Prudence Island. The rewards of their plain, rigorous existence are many: the austere beauty of the island, food plucked from their own soil, the mellow pace of island living, and the challenge of wresting a livelihood from land farmed by five generations of Natalie's ancestors. Prudence Island lies in the middle of Narragansett Bay, measuring a paltry six miles from Hp to toe and just over a mile across at its widest spot. The town of Portsmouth, of which it is part, lies over the water to the east on Aquidneck Island (on which New- port is also located). On a map, Pru- dence's contours look for all the world like a bottom-heavy sea serpent swim- ming towards Providence. Unless you use a small plane (there's a Hny island airport — a runway in the fields), there is only one way to Prudence Island: by boat. Most people rely on the Prudence 11, a small ferry out of Bristol that accommodates one car and perhaps a few hundred people. On a typical day, there is plenty of elbow room — the madding crowd has little reason to visit Prudence. Between two and three thousand people live there in the summer months, but there are no tourist spots, no boutiques, no recrea- tion other than what Mother Nature has provided on her waters. The landscape is Cape Coddish: sweeps of rocky beach, scrubby vegetation, and tranquil salt marshes, traversed by unpaved country roads. The population dwindles to around forty-five people in the winter, most of them retirees. To visit Sunset Hill Farm, you dis- embark at Homestead Dock, a small Natalie Chase Bacon (above) and lier son, Natluiiuwt (below), arc the sixth and sei'enth generations of the Chase family to live on Sunset Hill farm. 30 jwooden platform leading to a shingled general store, the only shop on the is- land, and open only in summer at that. On a late August morning, sunburned kids in bathing suits lounge against ; wharf pilings and blink at the new ar- rivals. An elderh- woman explains to her guests, "Watching the ferr)- come in is the onh' thing to do around here." Bill Bacon drives the visitor the short distance from the wharf to his 'farm in an elderlv Honda sedan. He's a wir\', unpretentious feUov\', with thick white hair and a genial face ruddy- colored from outdoor work. His smile comes easily. "We don't go to the mainland any more than we can help it," he says cheerfully, driving past the sunbathed vineyard which occupies most of his waking hours. "I go every ten days or so for supplies. Nat" — as he calls his wife — "hasn't been since May. " The shingled Chase homestead in which the Bacons live is weath- ered and settled-down, so that it blends comfortably with the surround- ing grasses,- wind-buffeted trees, and rounded rocks. Natalie Bacon presides in the huge country kitchen, where a big fireplace along an inner wall was once used for cooking by her great- great- great-grandmother. A warm, motherly woman with grav-streaked hair pulled back into a braided bun, Natalie keeps a friendly conversation going while tend- ing to bubbling pots of peach preserves and fresh zucchini on the stove. A Pru- dence native, as a teenager she sold homegrown vegetables door-to-door from her bicycle. She met a Providence boy named Bill Bacon on the island ferry between semesters at Brown and Pem- broke, and was delighted when he came to love the island as much as she did. Two Bacon sons live here also, drawn by a deep affection for the island where they spent summers and week- ends while growing up. Nathanael, a full partner in the vineyard, is described by his father as "a bear for getting work done. Without Nate, I probably never would have attempted this business." Bill, Jr. '66 (he received his A.B. in 1971) returned to the island several years ago to teach a handful of students at the one-room schoolhouse — built by his great-uncle and attended by his mother — and to organize youth activities dur- ing the summer. Another Bacon son lives in California, and a daughter is in Providence. Natalie's family ties to Sunset Hill Farm stretch back over centuries. "Our kids, 1 guess, are the seventh generation of Chases to live here off and on through the years," Bill Bacon, Sr., says. The house was built by eight- eenth-century Rhode Island merchant John Brown, who bought up most of the island after British troops destroved all the homes there, and who split the land into three or four farms. Sunset Hill Farm belonged to the Herreshof f familv of Bristol for many years, but Chases worked and lived on it as tenants. Natalie's father, Eugene, bought the 400-acre farm in 1919. After his deatli the estate was divided, with large par- cels of land going to Natalie's two sis- ters, and the main house and central 100 acres to the Bacons. A reverence for family history pre- vails at Sunset Hill. Surrounded by centuries-old stone walls and an equally antique house, the Bacons treasure the priceless old furniture they have inher- ited over the years. "We haven't ever had to buy an antique," Bill says. When a back wing of the house threatened to collapse from rotted walls. Bill and Nate tenderly rebuilt it by hand, adding a second-story bedroom with spectacular views on three sides, "all the way to Providence on a clear day " They also installed all plumbing and wiring themselves and built a tricky curving staircase to the second floor. To the right of the house lie the vineyards. Stepping lightly over thorny bull briers and tumbled stone walls. Bill inspects the experimental growing area nearest the house. Horatio and Tilda, the family's German shorthaired pointers, gallop along the rows of vines while Bill points out deep red Cabernet Sauvignon grapes ("They're considered the finest of the reds, but the wine takes a long time to mature and we can't store much of it"); another red variety, Mer- lot, which can be blended with the Cabernet to soften its flavor; and Gewurztraminer, an Alsatian-Ger- man grape that produces a sweet golden wine. The Bacons will make small quantities of wine from these grapes, along with some Riesling and other varieties, but will concentrate on two classic French wines, Gamay Beaujolais, a red, and Pinot Chardon- nay, a white, which don't require long aging. The rest of the vineyard is given over to these two grapes. Bill Bacon loves conversation, and he especially Ukes to talk about his grapes. Deftly plucking a Japanese beetle from a leaf and popping it with his thumb, he explains that his vines have American root stocks from CaUfomia and grafted-on European vine stocks. Growing good European wine grapes in the U.S., outside of California, was unheard of not too long ago, he says. That was because an American pest called the root louse proved fatal to the soft roots of Euro- pean vines when settlers first tried to introduce them here. But native Ameri- can grapes, while blessed with hardier roots, didn't produce a good quality wine. The turning point for American grape cultivation came about 150 years ago, when an American vine was brought into France, carrying with it (unbeknownst to the importer) a few of the nasty, root-chomping insects. The bugs multiplied and got loose in the French vines'ards, where they feasted on delicate roots and nearly wiped out the French wine industry. The result of that debacle was the widespread adop- tion of hybridization — crossing Ameri- can and European stocks to combine their best qualities — and of grafting — attaching a European shoot to an American root. These methods pro- duced hardier plants that could thrive in southern France and can be grown suc- cessfully in certain parts of America. The Bacons graft their own vines, placing the new grafts in vermiculite, 500 to a box. After a winter in the warm farmhouse basement, the plants are usually ready to be set out in the vineyard. Extra grafts are sold to sup- plement the farm's income. Bill feels grafting produces a better quahty wine than hybridization, preserving as it does the original fine European grapes, rather than a diluted version. Another Rhode Island vineyard, over in Little Compton, uses French hybrids. "The hybrids grow faster and produce heav- ily," Bill says, "but they just aren't the same quality." He chooses his words carefully, reluctant to malign the grow- ers whom he views more as colleagues than as competitors. When they were just starting out in the business, the Bacons learned how to cultivate European grapes in the quirky Northeastern climate from Dr. Konstantin Frank, a widely known wine grape expert of Hammondtown, New York, which is in the heart of the Finger 31 Lakes wine region. The Prudence Island climate and soil have proven well suited for grape-growing. "Our climate," Bill says, "is very similar to that of the wine growing region in France. We're on the eastern slope of the island, so we're pro- tected from the north and northwest winds." The bay's humid air tempers winter chills, and Bill claims to get "180 growing days a year. That gives us an advantage over other areas of Rhode Island." His soil is a sandy loam, hos- pitable to grapevines. Clearing the land for the vineyard took several years, and it's a never- ending process. Bull brier, a prickly weed, and rambling bittersweet must be chopped out constantly or they will re- capture the area. But almost nothing goes to waste at Sunset HiU Farm. An immense stand of red cedars, cut down and de-branched bv Bill and Nate in clearing the vineyard, provided fence posts and trellis supports for the entire garden. An overabundant deer popula- tion that devastated S25,000 worth of vines the first year now provides extra income from hunting permits that Bill sells to bow-and-arrow enthusiasts, who watch for the deer from trees on his property. Even rocks and boulders clut- tering the field have vielded income. "We carted off most of them by our- selves," Bill relates, "but for the really big boulders we called in a dynamite expert, 'Boom-Boom' Peckham, from Portsmouth. He setoff more than sev- enty charges and broke them all up. Then I sold most of the rocks to Luther Blount |a Warren, Rhode Island, boat- builder and entrepreneur] for the oyster farm he's starting on the island — he uses them for breakwaters." Frugality is a Bacon hallmark. Natalie's groceries come from the fam- ily's garden and the island itself. She cooks up huge meals of homegrown vegetables, local venison and fish, and wild mushrooms and berries from the nearby marshes. Bill does verbal battle with the island's only cement contrac- tor, trving to lower an estimate for a new winery foundation he wants to have poured this winter. "He's being ver\' dosed-minded," Bill sighs. "I've told him if he doesn't come down, I'll buy my own big mixer and give him some competition out here. " It is not an idle threat. Occasional outside con- struction and odd jobs are another im- portant source of Bacon income. This day Nate is in a neighboring yard pre- paring cement in their small mixer for a new garage foundation. ■' i). Pinot Qiattdoiimy" MocJuad and Jdktilid. bu fWaems^lcmd^AneyaR^ JkadmceyJsLojid, l^odiJsland Akohoi WlohjYSluruL. 150 m. Z5.^ FLOZ. The Bacouf. have not made a fined decision about the label for their bottles, but are amsidering this design. Bill and Natalie won't even shop at the dockside general store with its inflated prices. Instead thev stock up on essentials during mainland visits. Gasoline is ferried over from the mainland, too — 400 gallons at a time, to be stored in an underground tank at the farm and used for the family cars, truck, tractor, and backhoe. Bill eschews the general store's two rusty, hump- backed gas pumps: "She charges eighty cents a gallon!" Early autumn brings a rush of ac- tivity, with harvesting beginning in mid-September and continuing through much of October. Nate and Bill abandon outside jobs and special projects, and is- land neighbors pitch in on the grape- picking ("Everyone helps each other out here"). The wooden v\ine press is taken from the tiny milk shed-tvirned-winery in back of the house and set out on the lawn. A crusher-stemmer apparatus separates grape pulp from skin and seeds by centrifugal force, the pulp is dumped in the press, and the resulting scjueezed-out liquid goes into casks and ' 32 . jugs for storage in the milk shed's whitewashed basement, previously a cool larder for earlier generations' milk and foodstuffs. Seasoning takes at least a year for most wines, more for varieties like Cabernet Sauvignon. Last year's batch of wine is nearing readiness, and a label is currently being designed for the first bottles of Sunset Hill Farm vvine. /It middav, activity ceases. Lunch /l on the farm is the day's center- -^ -L piece, a time set aside for a f, sustaining feast and some relaxing family togetherness. (Dinner, BiU savs, is more apt to be a bowl of cereal.) Nate and Bill come in from the fields, and Bill, Jr., drifts back from a morning at Sandy Beach, where he and a troop of local youngsters have been cleaning up litter. Gathered around a harvest-size wooden table on the big front porch, the Bacon familv digs into garden-fresh salad fixings and homemade com bread. A breeze stirs the heat ever so slightlv. Horatio and Tilda flop, pant- ing, under the table, and Bill pours chilled Pinot Chardonnay, a clear, pun- gent white wine from the Sunset Hill Farm wine cellar. Between bites, Natalie reminisces about her marriage to Bill — "I dropped out of Pembroke after the wedding — in those days, you just didn't stay in college when you mar- ried" — and then brings out steaming bowls of fresh broccoli, squash, and a hearty casserole laced with venison broth and homemade sausage. Dessert is ice cream and the moriitng's peach preserves. "I decided not to make a pie today," Natalie apologizes, her pleasant face crinkling in a smile. The farm is hushed except for forks clattering on plates and an occasional gull's distant cry. The gray-blue bay is a buffer, sealing off Prudence Islanders from a noisy world. To a mainlander, the silence is overwhelming, with no familiar background sounds of speeding cars or whining lawnmowers. The Ba- cons, however, are buoyed by it. "We love it," savs Bill of their isolation. "I A fcnncr milk shed (to the right of the fannhouse) has temporarily become the Bacons' winery. But a new winery is on the list of things to do this winter. think we always knew we'd come back here to live." They aim to preserve the special flavor of their island existence, and to that end Bill has but modest plans for their wine business. "We hope to pro- duce between 10- and 15,000 gallons a year, which is not a large quantit}'. We'll probably market it only in Rhode Island. What we want to avoid is letting the business get so big that Nate and I can't do all the work ourselves. We don't want to hire help. We want to run this business, not have it run us." He's philosophical, too, about the possibility of failure. "Despite our initial invest- ment, 1 don't think we've extended our- selves financially so that we would go into debt, should the winery fail." Asked what they'll do through the long, quiet winter. Bill laughs. "We'll work! There's the new winery to be built, and the front of the house needs to be reconstructed. There's always something." Hard work and simple pleasures are the keys to the Bacon lifestyle, the sustaining factors in a lonely, beauHful place. It's a precious way of life, to be savored like a fine old wine. 33 Stained gbss windows in the Maddock Alumni Center. 34 icrittci} by jay Barry Mabel Root Holmes, widow of the \aieClarcnccW. Holmes, reports that iner husband, who died March 27, was also iur\'ived bv his brother, Norris D. Holmes of 5t. Petersburg, Fla., eight grandchildren, twent}' great-grandchildren, and several great-great-grandchildren, in addition to a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Benjamin W. Holmes of Pro\'idence. "Clarence was 99 last Jan. 11," Mrs. Holmes says. "He served in the panish-American War before college and as twent\-seven when he graduated. His son, Claraicc W. Holmes '34, died four years ago" 6 Esther Cook was the reciprient of a Boston College Presidential Bicentennial Medallion for her assistance in U'.^bin the development of the School of So- ciM Work, particularly for her leadership in helping the school gain acceptance and rec- ognition, as well as accreditation. Esther now resides at 821 Victoria Park Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, Ha. "1 Q Chet Scott, near the time of his J. ^ 81st birthday last spring, was awarded a 50th Anniversary Medal from the Overseas Lodge of Masons #40 in Provi- dence. With pensions from two companies, he still works part-time for a travel agency in Westport, Mass., and a textile vam broker- age house in Philadelphia. He and his wife. Flora, spend winters in Florida although their permanent home is in Westport Point, Mass. They celebrated their 53rd wedding anniversar\' in August. ^ ^ Thomas F. Corcoran vvas a witness ^iH this spring at hearings conducted in Washington, D.C., bv the House Select Committee on Aging. The Washington "superlawTer" who wrote New Deal legisla- tion for Franklin D. Roosevelt stated his case clearly. "I'm not going to rot off like a pol- liwog's tail," he told the committee, slapping the table. "But, then, thank God no one can make me." The man known for years as "Tommy the Cork" told C. Fraser Smith, Washington bureau reporter for the Proiu- deitce Jouriial-BuUetin , that he sees a threat to the democratic system that fails to use the re- sources it has. "if Congress has the imagina- tion, there is almost nobody who can stand on his two feet who can't be put to work doing useful things," he said. ^ ^ Boh Litchfiehi visited the Cange ^\J Deckers at their summer home in Green Mountain, N.C., during July. On Aug. 4, the Deckers flew to Paris for a month. T C Charles P. Ives wrote recently, ^\J saying how last winter's cold weather anci deep snows reminded him of President Faunce's invariable reference to "this stimulating New England weath- awwvv" when greeting compulsory chapel- goers "whose teeth were chattering so loudly thev could barely hear him." 0/2 f. Abbott Broxon was honored last ^\J spring by the Chicagoland Ivy League alumni, receiving a trophy at the 22nd annual Chicagoland Ivy League Alumni Golf Tournament at Ridgemoor Countrv' Club, a tournament he originated in 1957. Abb)' received the Brown Bear Award from the Associated Alumni in 1971. Harohi "Deac" Soars and Grace have sold out his business in Muncy, Pa., and are splitting their addresses between Box 126, Eagles Mere, Pa. 17731 and Apt. 205, The Regency Towers, 3401 Gulf Shore Blvd. N, Naples, Fla . The couple attended the first In- ternational Gathering of the Clans in Scot- land recently. Grace is a Munro. Lcn nompson. Win Nagle, Walt Jones, and Giis Anthony spent a weekend together at Pansicco Lodge in South County, R.I., re- cently, joined by some twenty other mem- bers of Delta Upsilon fraternity. OO Gerahi L. Brown, Encino, Calif., J^m says that his public relations busi- ness is still operating in various areas of the U.S. and Canada. "The business is a blend of show business and sales," he says. "My wife, Pat, manages our legitimate theater agency — Casting and Booking." Gerald says that he enjoyed his 45th reunion in June and goes on to report a "mini reunion" two years ago while waiting fcir his plane in the Ambassador Club Lounge in Los Angeles. "I had complimented the TWA staff on their courtesy and remarked that it must be due to the efforts of their boss — my friend and col- lege classmate, Charles Tillinghast, whom I had not seen since our Commencement fortv-three years ago. With that, the lounge door opened and in walked Mr. Tillinghast, himself! With the TWA staff waiting for me to back up my words, I said, 'Hello, Charles.' Instantly he reached out his hand and said, 'Well, if it isn't the silver-tongued orator.' " Kenneth C. Costine reports that he has re- tired from the casualty insurance business after thirtv'-seven years, sold his home, and moved back to Raleigh, N.C., where he lives at 4701 Edwards MiU Rd., Apt. G. Norman T. Pratt and Barbara Fisher Pratt '36 have retired from Indiana University and have moved to 772 Marburv' Ln., Longboat Key, Sarasota, Fla. 33577. Their summer address remains the sanie — West Neck Rd., Nobleboro, Maine 04555. ^O Betty TUliiiglmst Atigell reports J^ that her tenth grandchild, Rebecca Ann, was born Jan. 31 to Betty's son, Richard. Betty and her husband, Everett, are retired and spend their time traveling from their home base at 77 Perennial Dr., Crans- ton, R.l. Ada Ahearn Full and her husband, Cliarles, are enjoving their retirement in Yarmouth, Maine. Their daughter Elizabeth and grandson Peter live with them. Their daughter Carc>l, her two children, and her husband, who is with the U.S. Army in Tur- key, visit them every summer. Dorothy O'Rally Nash is executive direc- tor of the Navy Relief Societv' in Newport, R.l. She has a three-year-old grandson, Jonathan, in San Francisco. Dorothy and her husband. Bill, live at 6 Miles Ave., Tiverton, R.l. O C Robert Jerrett, Jr., has been J^ elected to the board of investment of the Salem Five Cents Savings Bank, Salem, Mass. He has been a corporator of the bank since 1968 and a trustee since 1969. Norman Zalkinil of Fall River, Mass., is a partner in the investment banking house of Wolfson, Zalkind & Co. He is a trustee of Southeastern Massachusetts University and is president of the board of the Massa- chusetts Art and Humanities Foundation. O/T Fourteen classmates met recently \J\j for lunch at Emery-WooUey Hall to celebrate aji infomial 41st reunion. The chairman for the next gathering is Dorotliy Barou Wetler, 195 Grand Ave., Cranston, R.I. Barbara Fisher Pratt andNorman T. Pratt '32 have retired from Indiana University and have moved to 772 Marbury Ln., Lcingboat Key, Sarasota, Fla. 33577. Their summer address remains the same — West Neck Rd., Nobleboro, Maine 04555. Ruth F. Lei'y, Rumford, R.L, has been elected president of Big Brothers of Rhode Is- land, the first woman to hold this position. Man/ Evans Stowell and Willis Frederick Thompson were married Feb. 26 at the Church of the Redeemer, New Haven. Their address: 128 Litchfield Turnpike, Bethany, Conn. 06525. Of^ Margaret Creighton Green (Sc.M.) J/ retired in 1975 as senior staff scien- tist at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. She lives in Bar Harbor on Seely Rd. Frances Murfihy Hainblin (A.M., '40 Ph.D.) reports that she has retired from her teaching career and is living in Newbur)-, Vt. '20 ''^''"' ^' ^''Ikliardt, president k^r^ of the Best Foods Division of CPC International, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J., has been named to the CPC board of direc- tors. He and his wife, Doris, have three daughters and reside in Alpine, N.J. Ar\ Charles N. Cofer (Ph.D.), special- Mv/ ist in the study of human memory at Penn State, retired June 1 . Considered one of the nation's most distinguished research- ers in the field. Dr. Cofer is well known for his research on the roles of organization and language in human memory, his work in psvcholinguistics, and his study of motiva- tion. He has written two books. Robert I. Smith has been named chairman of the board and chief executive officer of New Jersey's Public Service Electric & Gas Co. He had served as president of PSE&G since 1972 and became chief executive officer in 1975. 35 ^^"l Noniian L. Hihberi, a civil engi- rt JL neer, is a project manager for deLeuwCather/Parsons of Washington, DC. George F. Mould retired in April after eight years as resident auditor at Woodlock Pines, Inc. He had previously retired from active duty with the U.S. Army in 1962 with the rank of major. He lives in Hawley, Pa. A^ Edward Booth (A.M.) of Lewiston, TZ^ Maine, retired this spring after sev- enteen vears with Maine's department of educational and cultural services. He and his unfe, Man,', are the parents of three daughters and reside at 54 Allen Ave., Leuaston. lofep'h R. Weisherger, presiding justice of the Rhode Island Superior Court, has been installed as chairman of the American Bar Association's National Conference of State Trial Judges. The conference, with a mem- bership of more than 1,500 judges, is one of six divisions of the ABA's Judicial Adminis- tration Division. ^O Joseph B. D'Adamo is an officer ^tj and director of Little Theater of Fall River, Mass. He has served as director of such shows as Carousel. The Music Man, and Anything Goes and last spring plaved the part of Jimmy Smith in the Little Theater's pro- duction of No, No. Nanette. Peter S. Freedman is assistant to the pres- ident of Winwood Sportswear, Inc., Man- chester, N.H. Frederick Irving, a career Foreign Service officer, has been named by President Carter to be ambassador to Jamaica. He had been serving as Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans, International Environment and Scientific Research. Lester Millman. associate professor of ar- chitecture at the Rhode Island School of De- sign, has received the 1976 Community Serv- ice Award from the Rhode Island Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. In mak- ing the award, a representative of the AIA dted Les for "his untiring, learned, and re- sourceful leadership in the cause of helping those who cannot ordinarily obtain profes- sional services and at the same time provid- ing invaluable experience to students through the Community' Design Center." He was instrumental in starting the Community Design Center at RISD and has been deeply involved in all the civic projects undertaken by the center. Justine Ti/rrell Priestley, Northfield, Vt. , a former columnist, feature writer, and re- porter for the Nrw York Amsterdam Neu'S, was awarded the degree of doctor of humane let- ters by Tougaloo College in Mississippi last May. She was honored not only for her achievements as a journalist and author but also for the service she has rendered over the years to Tougaloo, as well as to a number of charitable organizations. Justine is married to Boh Pncstley '42 and is an assistant director of development at Norwich University. Robert Rulon-Miller , a rare-book dealer in Bristol, R.I., is president of The Current Company, located at 12 Howe St., Bristol. William H. Sullivan, a career Foreign Service officer, has been confirmed by the Senate as ambassador to Iran. He had been ambassador to the Philippines since 1973. /% C Dr. Rosanary Weil Bersch is a TlCJ dentist in Bethesda, Md., where she lives at 4986 Senfinel Dr. /\£L Daniel J. Falvey is a manage- TTC/ ment consultant with United Re- search Co., South Orange, N.J. Joseph Penner is chairman and president of Penner Financial Corp., Sarasota, Fla., financial and investment firm. William R. Raiuson has been elected vice-president/ administrafion for McGraw- Edison Co., Elgin, III., where he is responsi- ble for labor relations, among other duties. The New York Law School graduate has been with McGraw-Edison for twenty-five years. /t^ Robert W . Brundage is an execu- jt / five engineer for Huid Controls in Mentor, Ohio. The Rev. James B. Parsons, pastor of the First Reformed Church of Nyack, N.Y., was awarded the doctor of ministry degree by Drew University, Madison, N.J., in May. He is vice-chairman of the Nyack Child Day Care Center, the Rockland County Board of the Salvafion Army, and the Community Ambulance Group. ^^Q Harmony Frey Brecden reports that TX^J she and her husband have been liv- ing in Oregon since 1951, except for two years in the Bay Area. "We have become confirmed Northwesterners," she says. "Two years ago we moved to a condomin- ium, and now we have plenty of Hme for our two happy addictions: golf and travel. Our son is a senior at the University of Oregon and our daughter was married in June." The Breedens recently spent an evening with Bill Pollard '50 and his wife, Jeannette Jones Pollard. Nancy Cantor Eddy's watercolors were shown at Decordova Museum, Lincoln, Mass., in a group show on Sept. 18, are being shown at the Attleboro Museum in Attleboro, Mass., from Sept. 26 through the month of October, and will be shown at the Copley Society, Boston, from Oct. 14 to Oct. 27. Donald G. Patrick is president of Heath- wood Communifies, Central Islip, NY. ^Q Edioin O. Classon is principal M^ engineer with Digital Equipment Corp., Maynard, Mass. CO C. James Colville, Jr.. is a regis- \J\J tered representative with Hornblower, Weeks, Noyes & Trask, Inc., Portland, Maine. Jim is living at 312 Main St. , Sanford, Maine 04073. Lawrence E. Conlon is a senior research specialist with Monsanto Co., Indian Or- chard, Mass. James B. Hardy is vice-president of sales for Tudor Pulp & Paper Corp., Mount Kisco, N.Y. /o/!(i S. Scoff is president and director of Richardson-Merrell, Inc., Wilton, Conn. William F. Smith has been elected presi- dent of the Providence Washington Insur- ance Co. and its subsidiary' insurance com- panies. Since 1976 he had served as executive vice-president and chief operating officer. Phyllis Beck: Her legal career began with a partygoer's question Phyllis Whitman Beck '49, who has been vice-dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School for one year now, is at a pleasant juncture in her professional career. Formerly a practicing lawyer, she has combined her legal experience with a penchant for academic administrafion and is thoroughly enjoying her current job. Looking ahead, she sees more of the same, envisioning "a future for myself in legal education." Looking back, Mrs. Beck says that 1962 was a pivotal year for her. It was the year a bit of party conversation got her thinking about a new direction for her life, which for the previous ten years had been spent pnmarily at home in Wynnewood, Pennsyl- vania, with her four children and her hus- band. Dr. Aaron T. Beck '42, a professor of psychiatry at the Penn medical school. Mrs. Beck had spiced her suburban life with some intense local political involvement via the League of Women Voters, and a brief, disap- pointing fling with graduate-level psychol- ogy studies at Bryn Mawr College. All of which had seemed quite satisfying until the evening a partygoer started her mental wheels turning with a provocative question: "What would you really do with your- self, given all the freedom in the world?" Mrs. Beck didn't know, offhand. Rather than respond with some cocktail -hour small talk, however, she went home and fished for an answer. "I considered that intriguing question for two days," she recalls. "I finally decided that what I would have done, if I had been a male graduating from Brown, would have been to attend law school." Her husband thought that was a "great idea," so Phyllis Beck, her youngest child but a toddler, took a deep breath and entered the Temple Univer- sity Law School's evening division. Mrs. Beck went thrc>ugh law school with what she calls "a traditional female attitude — I was grateful for every day I could get to school without the kids being sick or other crises." She received her law degree from 36 Temple in 1967, graduating first in her evening-school class, passed the bar exam, and spent eight years practicing unth a Philadelphia law firm. During her last two years of practice, she also taught domestic re- lations law as a visiting professor at Temple. "Back then," she says of her first few years as a lawyer, "there were few women in law. I knew every woman lawyer in Philadelphia." By contrast, Mrs. Beck notes that today forty percent of Penn's first-year law students are women Domestic relations — family problems, divorce, custody — is Mrs. Beck's specialty, and she continues to do research and to write in that field. Recently she published an arti- cle in Tlie loumal cf Legal Medicine (January, 1977) on child custody laws, calling for more "order and justice" in a legal area that is notoriously hizzy; and an article outlining the effects on court rulings of Pennsylvania's equal rights amendment, in the Dick!nf^^n Lair Riinrtv (spring, 1977). "One reason I'm interested in family law is that 1 think the family is the building-block of society," Mrs. Beck explains. From her own experience as a homemaker, she brings a special appreciation of marriage and motherhood to her study of divorce, ali- mony, and child custody cases. She takes is- sue, for example, with the 1974 Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision in Coniixiy v. Dana, which established that child support is the equal obligation of the mother and the father after divorce. "I have no objection to that decision," says Mrs. Beck, who considers herself a feminist. "But the court said noth- ing about the problems of a married woman who has spent her time at home, caring for the kids. "Courts will have to recognize that mar- riage is an equal partnership," she continues. "In a traditional marriage, the husband has been the outside partner, earning a living, while the wife has been the inside partner at home. What she does there should be trans- lated into monetary value, and considered as part of the custodial spouse's contribution to child support, in the event of a divorce." This presumes that the mother will get custody, which Mrs. Beck notes is not always the case nowadays. "The Pennsylvania courts are conservative, and have always assumed that children should stay with their mother," she says. 'Today, a problem arises when both parents are equally capable of rearing the children. You have to deal with the notion of the psychological parent." Mrs. Beck expresses interest in another new trend in divorce settlements designed to aid the divorced homemaker. If a woman has been out of the work force for a number of years, she explains, the court may award her "rehabilitative alimony" until she learns a skill and can re-enter the job market. She feels this is more equitable to the woman who has chosen to function as the inside partner in a marriage. Mrs. Beck's teaching experience at Temple and her people-oriented law in- terests serve her well as vice-dean of Penn's law school. She personally oversees many facets of the law school, including admis- sions, placement, buildings and grounds, alumni relations, and, most gratifying to her, student affairs. In her neat, modem office, one wall of which is a plate-glass window overlooking a quaint Philadelphia street, Mrs. Beck meets with hundreds of law stu- dents seeking advice, direction, or just a sympathetic ear. "I enjoy the personal and academic counseling," Mrs. Beck says. "It's helpful to know the students' concerns first-hand." First-year students, she has found, are likely to have personal problems "because they are not quite certain why they're in law school. They run a hard race, get in here, and then don't know what they're going to do with it." She has statistics to corroborate the no- tion that law school is a popular sfopping-off place for college graduates: "We had 3,050 applications for approximately 210 spaces for this year's class. Applications are up." The vice-dean feels the attractions of law school for young people are several. "We're still getting many idealistic people, who feel that law is the best instrument for social change. However, lots of people also view it as a good living. Others," she laughs, "don't know what kind of graduate school to at- tend, so they end up at law school." As one who shares the burden of read- ing those 3,000 admission files, Mrs. Beck finds the chore of deciding who gets in to be "very difficult. A certain number of students at the very top are accepted almost automati- cally," she says. "The rest are placed in a pool, and every bit of information on them is read by at least three faculty people." While conceding that "what may happen to law- yers is what happened to engineers — a sur- feit may develop," she believes society will always need lavyyers with expertise in specialized tields, Phyllis Beck demurs when praised for her own achievements. "My husband is the real innovator. He's a theorist, and has writ- ten the definitive book on depression — you shouki be doing a story on him, not me!" Yet it is plain she is pleased not only uith her mutually supportive marriage and her four grown children (who include Roy Whitman Beck '74, a 1977 graduate of Penn's medical school), but also with the consequences of that hypothetical question put to her back in 1962. ' "I miss practicing a little," Mrs. Beck confides. "But academic administration and teaching have many rewards. And my legal skills aren't rusty vet. While serving on a committee, 1 was very excited to find myself in an adversary position with the academic council, arguing against the Buckley amendment. 1 enjoyed that immensely," she says, her eyes brightening at the recollection. "It was like being a lawyer again." A.D. 37 Hams Ullian reports that after twenty- five years he has sold his retail business. "Have returned to my first love — afterScma Silverman '51 — music. 1 am devoting the rest of my years and present occupation to teach- ing piano, composition, writing (music), and jazz performance. 1 have recently been in contact with some old friends from the years 1 wrote music for all the Brownbroker shows while at Brown. 1 spent time with George Eckart '50 while touring with Julie Harris in Boston and New York and ivith Harriet Rot- man Wilson, still active in many phases of theater in the Boston area. I'd love to hear from many of mv friends from the theater groups at Brown who have stayed with what I've just returned to." His address; 159 Rne St., South Easton, Mass. C "1 Gerald I. Connis retired last C7 J. February and is living at 202 Tenth St., Providence 02906. Robert Warren was coming off the eighth green at the Pebble Beach golf course in Monterey, Calif. , when he saw Cliarles F. Lei'eroni on the fourteenth tee gazing off into the Pacific, The two classmates did the "whatever happened to vou" routine. Chuck is district manager for Business Week in Cleve- land, and Bob is director of corporate rela- tions for Transamerica in San Francisco. C ^ The Rev. William Dozoney, a min- J^m ister of the United Church of Christ USA, is pastor of Apostle Paul Church in West Berlin, Germany. C ^ /"'"' Dt' Tar is a captain and ^J pilot for Eastern Airlines, working out of Kennedy Airport in New York City. Miriam Gordon Feldmati and her hus- band, Richard, report that their son, Frank, was graduated from Brown in June, magna cum laude and with honors in music. 54 Inc. Mark Hopkins has been elected a vice-president of Creamer/FSR, Providence advertising firm. C C Richard F. Nourie has joined \J\J Alexander & Alexander, Inc., worldwide insurance brokers, agents, and consultants, as vice-president and manager of its Human Resource Management Group He's stationed in the Philadelphia office. Willis H. Riccio, assistant regional admin- istrator (Boston) of the Securities and Ex- change Commission, was the principal speaker last spring at Law Day ceremonies held in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. His remarks dealt with the rule of law in this countrs' and the necessity for active participation by all citizens in the legal process. Kurt L. Wray (Ph.D.) is vice-president and director of research at Physical Sciences, Inc., Wobum, Mass., a firm investigating alternate sources of energy. C /2 The Rev. George W. Easton is one \J\j of the ministers of the Reformed Church of Bronxville, N.Y. Roger K. Hazell has renewed his contract as legislative counsel to the Territorial Fono (legislature) in American Samoa. "This terri- Home for a Foreign Service officer, says Dzuight Ambach, is wherever you are If someone were to say "There's no place like home" to Dwight Ambach '52, he might respond with a quick but quizzical smile. Home has been, at var\ing points, Bonn, Dusseldorf, Washington, Boston (briefly), Santiago, and, since August 1976, Vienna. Dwight Ambach is a senior Foreign Service Officer and home, he says, "is wherever you are." Officially, Ambach is the Counselor for Economic and Commercial Affairs at the American Embassy in Vienna, a top post. He is what one might call a "blue-blazer sort of man" (in fact, he wore one the April day we met, with a blue shirt and blue tie). With his friendly manner and pleasant gray eyes, Ambach seemed the perfect diplomat. He was, above all, judicious, choosing his words as carefully as Mozart might have composed a minuet. Over lunch at the Embassy Snack Bar — tuna fish and iced tea, sauerkraut- burger and beer — Ambach spoke of his peregrinations. At Brown he was a music major, he said with a somewhat rueful smile. "This was in the heyday of Mr. Wriston, when you would try to be stretched. In effect we got a graduate-level course in music; there were as many faculty members as senior majors." But Ambach spent the summer before his senior year working in Germany, where he labored with other volunteers to build roads and walls. While there he became interested in international cultural relations (he later gave a commencement address on that topic) and he took the Foreign Service examination right after college. "I did very well on the music portion," he said, "and miserably on the rest. Somehow I managed to get through Brown without a history course, which I re- gret." Undaunted, Ambach began work toward a Ph.D. in international economics (he had minored in economics at Brown) at the Fletcher School of Diplomacy at Tufts and took the Foreign Service exam again a year later. This time he passed. He stayed on at Fletcher through his Ph.D. orals and then left to join the Foreign Service. "I've never written the dissertation," he admitted a bit sheepishly, "and I don't expect I will." Ambach arrived in Washington "eagerly expecting to be assigned overseas" and ended up as a diplomatic historian. He worked in a small office in the State Depart- ment that was responsible for writing the official record oi U.S. foreign policy. Am- bach, for example, worked on a pamphlet on the history of the Austrian State Treaty Negotiations, which were concluded in 1955. "Actually," he said, "the better part of my time was spent answering letters, including some from college students who wanted me to write their papers for them." After a year and a half Ambach was as- signed to Bonn, West Germany, as a General Services Officer. The U.S. government main- tains several massive centers from which supplies are sent to U.S. installations and facilities all over the world. One of these re- i gional procurement centers was in Bonn. "Really, what I did was write contracts for ^ procuring supplies and services — from \ office supplies to medium-sized turbines. It , wasNof," Ambach emphasized, "a typical \ Foreign Service job. " But one advantage was that as an extremely junior officer Ambach presided over a large German staff, "so it , was one of the few jobs at that level that hadi some management responsibilifies." Too, Ambach's wife, Betsy, gave birth to their first , child. Hunter, in Bonn, "and that, of course, adds something to any assignment," he said. Ambach was transferred from Bonn a year and a half later to the Consulate General in Dusseldorf — "all of sixty miles down the Rhine." There he did almost every job in the building — from issuing visas and passports to citizenship and general administration J work to commercial, economic, and labor j work. The economic and commercial work, j Ambach explained, involved the protection and promotion of American economic in- terests overseas. "I had to maintain appro- J priate contacts with officials in the public or j private sector and report on how develop- ments in that country might aftect, nega- tively or positively, U.S. interests. This was 1958" — the Treats' of Rome establishing the. Common Market had just been signed — j "and the area around Dusseldorf encom- passes the economic heartland of Germany. Suddenly many American companies wanted to come in and get established." Ambach's principal job was to help them do so. Occasionally, for example, Ambach would be called on to represent the U.S. government at the opening of an American company's new plant. "I can remember one such rime," Ambach grinned, "when they'd erected a stand in a nearby field and the dig- 38 .Dmght Ambach in his American Embassy office. nitaries had gathered — the mayor and busi- ness leaders — and just as the first shovel was about to be thrust into the ground, someone said, 'Oh, you know this field was .leavily mined during the war and we're not jure they got all the mines out.' Well, the mayor thrust in his shovel and, sure enough, we heard a clunk as the shovel hit some- thing. You've never seen such a rapid exit in your life." In addition to showing a ceremonial face, Ambach wrote reports for the State De- partment on the German iron and steel in- dustn,' and the Gemnan chemical industry, and he initiated a systerii of commercial in- formation booths at local trade fairs. "I'd per- suade the fair authorities to make a little space available, bring down a couple of books from the library and get some help from my USIS (U.S. Information Service) col- leagues. We had no budget for this, so it meant a lot of improvisation." After three and a half years in Dusseldorf, where their second child, Nancy, was bom, the Ambachs returned to Washington. There Ambach worked in the Office of International Trade, which was laving the 'groundwork for the Trade Expansion Act of 1964. "This gave the U.S. government au- thority to participate in the Kennedy round of General Agreement Tariffs and Trade (GATT) negotiations," he explained. "Backed by the Act, Kennedy could convince foreign nations that we were in a position to negotiate mutual reductions in tariffs." After two years in Washington, Ambach spent nine months studying economics as a graduate student at MIT — Foreign Service Officers often receive periodic stints of uni- versity training — and then, after a three- month crash course in Spanish, he and his family moved to Santiago, Chile. "Since all my experience up to that time had been in developed countries, particularly West Germany, 1 wanted to be in a dei'eloping country," Ambach said, "and so I requested Latin America." Chile had been selected as one of the eight or nine countries in the world to receive US AID (Agency for Inter- national Development) funds and, as a financial analyst there, much of Ambach's work involved the AID program. "We moni- tored payments and the budget to see that the purposes of various loans were being carried out." Ambach served in Chile from 1964 to 1968 and it was, he recalled, a period of tran- sition — "but of transition on both sides. Kennedy's own programs and views — the Alliance for Progress — were matched quite closelv by the Christian Democratic govern- ment of EduardoFrei. It was," Ambach said, "a very active time for the Embassy." Their third child, Jim, was bom in Chile prior to their return to Washington in 1969. "At every post we had had a child," Ambach said, laughing. "That's why we decided to stop transferring and stay in Washington for a while." Ambach served as Deputy Director of the Office of Regional Economic Policy for Latin America. That mouthful means that Ambach and his staff worked to improve economic relations and develop trade be- tween the U.S. and Latin American coun- tries, both bilaterally and through regional organizations such as the OAS. One general policv that grew out of this work was a sys- tem of tariff preferences that the U.S. now extends to developing countries worldwide. After almost five years in that post, dur- ing which time he received the Superior Honor Award from the State Department, Ambach returned to school — for senior training at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces for a year. He then took leave from the State Department to serve for over two years as special assistant to the chairman of the Export-Import Bank, the independent government agency that provides official support for U.S. exports in the fomi of credit and insurance. At the end of his stint there Ambach received a special commendation for outstanding professional contributions from the bank, the first such ever awarded by the board and senior staff. "1 guess they never had anyone from another agency before," he said modestly. In August 1976 the Ambachs moved to Vienna. As chief officer of the commercial and economic section, Ambach works hard but said he enjoys it. Vienna, he pointed out, is a third UN city. "The International Atomic Energy Agency and the UN International Development Organization are already here and others are coming. Vienna is very active in East-West trade and finance. OPEC is headquartered here. Lane Kjrkland of the AFL-CIO is here this week as a guest of the Austrian trade unions, and the vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis is here to talk with representatives of the Aus- trian National Bank. We get a lot of visitors," he said. "Even the U.S. hockey team is here to compete in the world championships." Yet the Foreign Service, Ambach said, is not as glamorous as often pictured in the media, "not any more than any other executive-type position. It's my experience that most diplomats look upon the diplo- matic social circuit as a necessary and gener- ally useful tooL because you see people vou need to see. But if anyone thinks that going to a cocktail party and standing there for a couple of hours is any fun, then they're wrong. It's an occupational hazard. You know how many nations there are now, and every nation has a national day; that means some sort of reception almost every other day of the year. " Ambach came dose to a sigh. "You work a demanding day and the hours are long." Yet for one-time music major Dwight Ambach, living in Vienna is, in a sense, like coming home. In fact, for Dwight Ambach, it is home. D.S. 39 tory, the only U.S. territorial possession south of the equator, is about to elect its own governor and lieutenant governor, so there is plentv to do," he writes. "Any Brown alumnus coming to the South Pacific via Pago Pago should let me know," he adds. Eiiward Hohmv (A.M., '62 Ph.D.) has retired from the University of Maine but is being retained this vear as lecturer in Freshman Honors. 'A new book, my fourth. Mostly Maine, Short SloriK ami Other Writings. will be published this fall." Daviii P. McKay (A.M.) has been pro- moted to full professor at Worcester Poly- technic Institute, Worcester, Mass. The Oberlin College graduate teaches English. Gerald G. Norigian is assistant city solic- itor in Providence. C7 Robert A. Bird is store manager C? / at K Mart in North Weymouth, Mass. Donald f . Goodunn, who has been trea- surer of Narragansett Electric Co. of Rhode Island, has become assistant to the treasurer of Narragansett's parent New England Elec- tric System anci of New England Power Serv- ice Co., Westboro, Mass. Jim Johnson is business manager of WBZ-TV in Boston. John Nickoll has been elected president and chief operating officer of Foothill Group, a Los Angeles-based commercial finance company. The Beverly Hills resident was a co-founder of Foothill in 1969. CQ Jolm Bowles, an investment banker, \JO is vice-president of Kidder Pea- body & Co., Inc., New York City. E%Q /"'"t's B. Cooke has been elected \J^ vice-president of T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., a Baltimore-based invest- ment research and counseling fimi. He also serves as assistant vice-president of the T. Rowe Price Growth Stock Fund and is a di- rector and past president of the Brown Club of Maryland. William E. Vogel is a partner in the William S. Vogel Agency, East Orange, N.J. /L /^ Martin J. Bogdanovich is living V/vl in Huntington Beach, CaUf., and is manager of vessel operations for Starkist Foods, Inc., Terminal Island. Robert L. Eckernmn reports a new posi- tion: chemistry teacher at Devon Academy, Devon, Pa. Frank Flanagan is living in Los Angeles, where he is marketing manager /informations systems with Atlantic Richfield Co. David C. Lamb is a general partner in the Buffalo, N.Y., law fimi of Gross, Shuman, Lamb & David. James E. Marsh, Jr., is president of Wash- ington Monitor, Inc., a publishing house lo- cated in Washington, D.C. /. Rodney Me\/er has moved to Brazil after teaching in the English department (Ameri- can literature, American Studies, and film) at Wake Forest for seven years. "I will spend a year teaching on a Fulbright lectureship at the University of Santa Catarina in Florianopolis. Richard W. Roberts is working in Fairfield, Conn., as a staff executive with General Electric Co. /T*! Anne Coughlin Collins reports v9 J. the birth of her daughter, Deirdre Preston, on Mav 12. The family lives at 60 East 96th St. 7-A, New York, N.Y. 10028. John R. Cnw/ci/ has joined Pandel- Bradford, Inc., Lowell, Mass., as sales man- ager of industrial products. Dr. Joyce D. Coodfneini is assistant pro- fessor of history at the University of Denver, Denver, Colo. Richard B. Grant reports that his packing firm, R.B. Grant & Associates of Kingstown, R.I., has been presented an American Insti- tute of Graphic Arts '77 packaging design merit award. The package was designed for Houghton Mifflin Co. and was procduced by Gregstrom Corp. of Woburn, Mass. Frederic Marston is working in Chicago as an account supervisor with D'Arcy Mac- Manus & Masius. Ste}ihen /. Sandberg has been promoted to traffic purchasing records and systems man- ager of IBM's East Fishkill site in Hopewell Junction, N.Y. He and his wife, Barbara, and their three children live in Salt Point, N.Y. DaindH. Van Horn, an attorney, is senior counsel with Diamond Shamrock Corp., Cleveland, Ohio. /I O Matlhru' P. Fink has been ap- \J^ pointed general counsel of the In- vestment Company Institute, Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and lives with his wife and daughter in Washington, D.C. Bruce D. Goettet of Wheaton, Dl., who re- ceived his M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1968, is general field manager of Lincoln-Mercury's Chicago district. Gaetano Lonibardo is vice-president of logistics at Morton Salt Co., Chicago. Douglas /. Mcintosh, president of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Rhode Island, has been elected to serve a two-year term on the national Blue Shield Association board of di- rectors. Dr. Stephen J. Richman has moved his practice in eye diseases and eye surgery to 444 Angell St., Providence. Anne jacobson Schutte has been promoted to associate professor at Lawrence Univer- sity, Appleton, Wis. Anne earned her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Stanford University and has been at Lawrence since 1966. Jane Sjomau received her M.B.A. from the University oi Pennsylvania's Wharton School in 1976 and is with the Hartford In- surance Group, Hartford, Conn. /I '5 Norman C. Alt is an attorney for \jj the Monsanto Company at its New York Citv offices. John S. Behlkc is a vice-president of Citibank N.A., 151 Macquaris St., Sydney, Australia. BniceR. Fitch, a chemist, is manufactur- ing manager of the Chemical Sealants Plant of Tremco, Inc., Barbour\'ille, Ky. Jeffrey S. Johnston is operations manager of Marriott In-Hite Services (airline catering), Houston, Texas. (L/\ Dorothy Shcnmn Berman. who had V/Tt been principal of George C. Ban- croft School in Boston's South End, has been named director of the Institute for Learning and Teaching at the University of Massa- chusetts at Boston. Charlotte Cook Morse is associate profes- sor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. "In the summer of 1976," she says, "1 bought a house in the Fan, one of Richmond's old and lovely city neighbor- hoods, walking distance to the academic campus where I teach." Stephen L. Smith has been elected vice- president of products research and develop- ' ment at the Union Mutual Life Insurance Co., Portland, Maine. | Frederick S. Sommer has been promoted | to plant manager at the Dearborn Stamping i Plant, Dearborn, Mich. William A. Wilde and his wife, Qurina, , report the birth of their second child, Michaelj Christopher, on April 25. Their daughter, i Erika, was 4 in August. Since February 1976,1 Bill has been with Merrill L\nch, Pierce, ] Fenner & Smith in the insurance marketing i department located in the firm's home office,! 165 Broadway, New York City. /T C Pamela Farro Crcnun has received Uw^ an M. Ed. in guidance and counsel-; ing from the University of North Carolina ini Charlotte and is working as a counselor at ' Planned Parenthood of Greater Chariotte. "All this," she says, "after taking six years off to raise a family. My children are Jared, 5, j and Marissa, 3. Rick, my husband, is a potteri who is assistant professor of art at Queens College in Charlotte." Their address: 1301 Townes Rd., Charlotte 28209. Dr. Peter H. S. Dillard received his M.D. . degree from Albany Medical College in Mayi and is a resident in pathology at the Univer- sity of Washington. C. Michael Searing has joined the downtown Manhattan office of Equitable Life: Assurance Co. at 233 Broadway, New York CitV'. He's also maintaining an office at his home: 13 Spruce Mountain Rd., Danbury, . Conn. ' Michael Zifcak reports that during July a ' group of 1965 alumni gathered for the first annual San Francisco Marathon Run in Golden Gate Park. "Top finishers among i classmates over the 26-mile, 386-yard course: were Mike Zifcak oi San Rafael and Barn/ Rodinsky of Cambridge, Mass.," he says. ' Donald Krom was also in attendance and say^ he hopes the race will become an annual 1 event for '65 graduates. j /T /T Anthony D. Baldino is branch man- OU ager of First National of Princeton, Princeton, N.J. Frank P. Barrows III is an art director at Young & Rubicam advertising agency in New York Citv. Douglas Ross Gortner reports that in May, 1976 he resigned his position as Midwest re- gional manager of the International Division of Chubb & Son. Follov\ing a year devoted mainly to ichthyological studies in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, Doug has 40 xepted a position in the trust department of 'le Inter-State Trust Co. of White River inction, Vt. /iffrn/ L. Hayes, a filmmaker, is head of 'ffrev Hayes Productions, Inc., New York ity. ' Robert L. KiiOivles has been named a nior officer of Massachusetts Mutual Life isuranceCo., Springfield. Gerard T. Lynch, Avon, Conn., has been .iected a secretary in the investment depart- lent of the Hartford Insurance Group. He lanages the pension assets of The Hartford nd those of selected clients. He is also ice-president and general manager of lartford Securities Co., Inc., and is a nember of both the Boston and Philadelphia •tock Exchanges. Miriam G. Sitventmn is working in Man- hester, N.H., as a director of the Manches- ler Jewish Community School. I Morton j. "Main/" Snuoii, jenkintown, 'a., is an attorney with the firm of Abrahams i Lowenstein, concentrating on general )usiness law, real estate law, and business itigation. He is secretary of the Election Pro- :edures Committee of the Philadelphia Bar \ssociation. Geralii I. White has formed the New York aw firm of Grace & White, Inc., investment rounsel at 39 Brciadway, and is serving as jresident. He and Victoria Beach were mar- .-ied on July 9, 1976. Michael T. Young has been placed in :harge of the London, England, branch office jpened recently by Industrial National Bank if Rhode Island. Holder of a master's degree n business administration from the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, Mike has been with the international department of Industrial since 1971. (L^ David j. Cra/)»)U'r assumed the \J / position of registrar and director of institutional research at Barrington College, Barrington, R.I., on Aug. 1. He returned in Februar\' from southern Africa, where he had most recently taught English as a second language at the Mount Arthur Girls' School, Lady Frere, Transkei. Elaine Decker Dohn is project manager of corporate systems with Colgate Palmolive Co., New York Citv. Edumd /. Gallagher (A.M., '72 Ph.D.) is assistant professor of French at Wheaton Col- lege, Norton, Mass. Richard F. Herbold is construction man- ager and senior civil engineer with the city of Boston, working out of City Hall Oiven R. Lynch, Jr., is assistant vice- president of Credit Lyonnais, 95 Wall St., New York City. Urs Rutishauser, an assistant professor at The Rockefeller University, has been named one of the first recipients of a McKnight Scholars Award in Neuroscience. The award is for a three-year period and at the annual rate of 525,000. He is a member of the uni- versity's laboratory of developmental and molecular biology. ^O Can/l Carpcfiter was graduated \J\J from the master of public health program at the University of Michigan in Apnl and is working as administrator of Mountain People's Health Councils, a coali- tion of three primary -care centers in east Tennessee. Her address: Route #1, Box 245, Lake Qty, Tenn. 37769. Katherinc j. Gergely is an actuarial asso- ciate with John Hancock in Boston. George C. Hyde, jr., director of sales de- velopment for the Susquehanna Broadcast- ing Co., York, Pa., has taken on additional duties as general manager of Susquehanna Productions. "I'm proud to report," he says, "that our Bicentennial project was selected 'Best Syndicated Daily Radio Program of 1976' in the annual International Program- ming Forum conducted by Billboard. The se- ries, 'An American Idea,' was carried on more than 500 stations across the country and on American Forces Radio around the world. A couple of other items: I've been serving as one of a dozen industry news and business executives on a National Broadcast Advisory Board established by United Press International as a liaison between broad- casters and the news service. Locally, I've been named to the board of directors of the new York County Anti-Poverty Agency, Community Progress Council, and the Voluntary Action Centers." Fredaick /. Marehant is an instructor in English at Suffolk University, Boston. DOiind A. Median, a systems and plan- ning manager, is assistant operations officer with New England Merchants Leasing, 1 Washington Mall, Boston. Patrick Migliore received his D.D.S. de- gree from the Baylor College of Dentistry in June and is a dental resident at Rhode Island Hospital, Providence. Eli:uibetli Reinage and Todd S. Healey (Harvard '72) were married April 30 in Alton, N.H., and are living at 623 Monroe St. , N.E., Albuquerque, N.M. "We both are hyphenat- ing our last names to make them read Remage-Healey," Betsy writes. Ed Rodriguez, a 1972 graduate of the Connecticut Law School, is dean of the Wethersfield SchocM of Law, Hartford. Susan E. Starkweather and Wmfield W. Mafor, jr. (see '69) were married May 29 at St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Portsmouth, R.l. They are living in Washington, DC, where Susan, an artist, is with Washington Portraits, Inc. nomas E. Tinker is headmaster of Broadmeadow School, Middletown, Del. /2f| Mark j. Bagdon is the principal \JZ^ energy policy analyst with the State Energy Office, Albany, N.Y. Steioart A. Baker and his wife, Anne, re- port the birth of their first child, Margaret, on May 24. In July, the family moved from Portland, Maine, to Washington, D.C., where Stewart is serving as law clerk to Supreme Court Associate Justice John Paul Stevens. Edwina Hartshorn is a psychologist at the West Seneca Developmental Center, West Seneca, N.Y. Dr. Kenneth J. hnbodcu, a general intern- ist, also has become director of the adult Walk-In Clinic Medical Center at SyracTJse, N.Y. His wife, Linda, is a pediatric oncologist at the center. The couple reports the birth of a son, Andrew Stephen, on Nov. 30, 1976. Walter A. Leidtke (A.M.) is professor of art history at Ohici State. Bnice M. Lloyd received his M.B.A. in May from the University of Pennsylvania and has taken a position with the Interna- ticmal Group of Wells Fargo Bank in San Francisco. Winfield Maior and Susan E. Stark- weather (see '68) were married May 29 at St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Portsmouth, R.I. Ushers included Theodore A. Oatis and John W. Spaicer. Win is a legislative aide to Senator Claiborne Pell. The couple is living in Washington, D.C. The Rev. Philip F. McKean (A.M.) has been named headmaster of Concord Academy. He came to the position from Hampshire College, where he had been assistant dean for academic advising and associate professor of anthropology. His bachelor of divinity degree is from Yale. John j. Seater and his wife, Susan Harris (see '71), report the birth of their first child, Elizabeth Rolando, on May 29. The family lives in Cynwyd, just outside Philadelphia. AndreivF. Tonks andM. Patricia Hart (see '75) were married May 28 at the First Unitar- ian Church of Providence. "Tricia and I moved to New Haven this fall, where I am enrolled in the Yale School of Organization and Management's master of public and pri- vate management program." Dr. San Wan is an assistant resident at Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven. Randall L. Ward is a planning adminis- trator with the IBM Data Processing Division in White Plains, N.Y. Stei'ni R. Warlick is a medical student at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Gal- veston. Brian P. Watson is assistant professor of physics at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. jini Williams received his J.D. degree in June from St. John's University Law School, Jamaica, N.Y. He's living at 488 Third St., IB, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11215. ^f\ Charles A. Aller is a self-em- / \J ployed photographer and audio- visual consultant, working out of his office at 29Quincy St., Somerville, Mass. Peter K. Allen is assistant professor at Bucks Countv Community College, New- town, Pa. Andre Aubuchon has been appointed archivist of the Peter Foulger Museum/ Nan- tucket Historical Association, Nantucket, Mass. Ronnie Dane received a state grant to at- tend a one-week teacher-training institute, the Juvenile Justice Institute, held last sum- mer at New Rochelle High School for sec- ondary school teachers in southern West- chester County. Her address: 299 Riverside Dr., #3B, New York City 10025. Sally Davenport, a social worker, is a member of the placement team at the Eastern Middlesex Guidance Center, Melrose, Mass. Virginia j. Dunmire (M.A.T.), Char- lottesville, Va., is a student at the University of Virginia Law School. Paul S. Cauthier is living in Pawtucket, R.I., while serving as a research associate at Northeastern University in Boston. Terrence N. La Manna (A.M.) is assistant professor of sociology at Longwood College, Farmville, Va. Wesleii A. Magat is an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Business Admin- istration at Duke University. 41 Richard R. McLaughlin is an underwriter and assistant supervisor with Arnica Mutual Insurance Co., Providence. Dr. Jonathan Morley, who received his M.D. degree from New York University in 1974, is a resident in psychiatry at Hahne- mann Medical Hospital, Philadelphia. Dr. Lloyd £. Reich received his M.D. de- gree from State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, in 1976 and is now a resident in pathology at St. Elizabeth's Hospital of Boston. Robert D. Schwartz has entered the Uni- versity of Virginia School of Law. His ad- dress: Rt. #1, Box 95A, Afton, Va. 22920. Robert W. Shippee and Starr Badger were married Oct. 2, 1976, with Mark Nuidist, Ken Miller, and Arthur Shippee '79 serving as ushers. Bob is second vice-president at Chase Manhattan Bank in Hong Kong. His address: 21 Plantation Rd., The Peak, Hong Kong. Dr. Paul S. Tlialer has a family practice in York, Pa., located at 429 W. Market St. William B. Thompson earned his Ph.D. in computer sciences from the University of Southern California in 1975 and is now an assistant professor at the University of Min- nesota. His address: 3500 Emerson Ave. S., Minneapolis, Minn. 55408. Cynthia K. White and Richard A. Hesel were married April 30 at the Princeton Uni- versity Chapel and are living at 340 Riverside Dr., #9D, New York Qty 10025. ^'1 Kenneth S. Cohen, Springfield, / J. Mass., has been named assistant counsel in the law division of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. He is a graduate of Vanderbilt Law School. Dr. Richard j. Forde received his M.D. degree from Yale in June and is a resident in psychiatry at McLean Hospital, Belmont, Mass. Barbara Haniaty and Davni /. Ladouceur ('77 Ph.D.) were married Aug. 15, 1976, and are living in South Bend, Ind. Barbara is teaching math at the Dickinson School in South Bend, and Dave is assistant professor of classics at the University of Notre Dame. Bruce A. Haiderson has received his M.B.A. degree from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and has ac- cepted a position with McKinsev & Co., an international management consulting firm. He and his wife, Mary, moved to the Qeve- land area after spending some time in Europe this summer. Andrea lllig is a staff attorney with Com- munity Legal Aid Society, Inc., Dover, Pa. John K. Mell is a financial analyst with Bristol-Myers Co., 345 Park Ave., New York City. He received his M.B.A. in finance from the University of Michigan Graduate School of Business Administration in June. Dr. lose E. Peraza and his wife, of West Lebanon, N.H., report the birth of their first child, Daniel Michael, on Aug. 17, 1976. A. Mark Pope was graduated from the University of San Diego Law School May 22 and took the California bar exams in July. He and his wife, Jane, are living in LaMesa, Calif. Dr. Stephen Preblud finished his junior residency at Boston's Children's Hospital June 30 and is now an epidemiology intelli- gence service officer in the vaccine evaluation branch of the Immunization Division at the Center for Disease Control, Atlanta, Ga. His home address for the next two-year period: 1117 Virgmia Ave. N.E., Atlanta 30306. Susan Hams Scaler and her husband, lohn {see '69), report the birth of their first child, Elizabeth Rolando, on May 29. The family lives in Cynwyd, just outside Philadelphia. Randy Street and Krisfin Schonfarber (a RISD student) were married May 8 in Man- ning Chapel, with Chaplain Dick Dannen- felser officiating. Krisfin's father is Gordon Schonfarber '51. The couple is living in Provi- dence, where Randy has started his own business. Street Products, a firm that man- ufactures boomerangs, among other things. ^^ Dr. Doimld I. Ahranis, a graduate / ^ of Stanford University Medical School, is serving his internship in internal medicine at Kaiser Foundation Hospital, San Frandsco. Gary G. Babcock is teaching physics and chemistry at Colegio San Antonio ABAD, Humacao, Puerto Rico. Peter G. Bcnnan received his law degree from Case Western Reserve and is with the Providence law firm of Abatuno & Fishbein. Donna Bird is working for the New York State Health Department's Bureau of Facility and Service Review in Albany. "Just received my master of science degree in industrial administrafion from the Institute of Admin- istration and Management at Union Col- lege," she says. "Now that I'm finally finished with school, I expect to start doing weekend radio shows at WQBK-FM again. I will also be working with Electronic Body Arts, Inc., Albany's resident dance company, and plan to learn and teach textile-related crafts at a local craft guild." Deborah j. Blackwell is living in New York City and serving as a finance associate with NBC, Inc. Francis A. Blu is working in Toronto, Canada, as a systems consultant with Numetrix, Ltd. Kent L. Boieers and Marilyn Talmage were married Dec. 22, 1976, and are living at 280 South Hudson St., Denver. Kent is an English teacher and co-chairman of the de- partment at Northglenn High School in Den- ver. Guy R. Buzzell has been promoted to as- sistant manager at the Providence office of People's Bank. He has been active in United Way of Southeastern New England and the Brown Fund. Andrezo Coburn is senior health planner/ consultant in the Department of Human Sci- ences, Bureau of Health Planning, at the State House in Augusta, Maine. Painy C. Dixon is a newswriter with ABC Radio News, 1926 Broadway, New York City. Dr. Grant S. Golden received his M.D. degree from SUNY Medical College in May 1976 and is a resident in radiology at the Cleveland Clinic, Qeveland, Ohio. Barry Goldivasser and Unea Arif were married a year ago and are living in Kibbutz Ruhama, Israel. Ellen Griffith is a staff attorney for the Legal Aid Bureau, Inc., Prince George's County Office, Mt. Rainier, Md. Sally Cooper does more than give lip service to public transit Overland transportafion in this countn has become a bit more complicated in the years since Grandma and Grandpa bciught their first cantankerous horseless carriage. Population growth, combined with a high standard of living, has clogged America's highways with cars and her air with exhaus fumes. The cost of energy has skyrocketed while fuel sources have dwindled. And an exodus of middle- and upper-class families to the suburbs has created urban population: with steadily growing proportions of elderly low-income, and otherwise disadvantaged residents. The result: an increased need for public transportation systems that are in tun with modern living patterns. Setting up an efficient public transit sys- tem, or updating an old one, calls for some special expertise. That's where people such as Sally Hill Cooper '52 come in. Mrs. Cooper, a former senior planner for the Philadelphia-area Southeastern Pennsyl- vania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), is c. transportation consultant. Her credentials include a master's degree in city planning from the University of Pennsylvania in 1970 (she focused on transportation), and a well- tempered enthusiasm for social reform and public interests. Mrs. Cooper's office is in the pleasant Philadelphia suburb of Bryn Mawr, where her family resides. She works just up the street, she informs prospective visitors in a subtle plug for public transportation, from the Bryn Mawr railroad station. "Transpor- tation," she tells a visitor, "has been pulled screaming out of the private sector into the public sector. Those of us involved in public ' transportation have had to help determine its role. Is it just an alternative to the auto- mobile?" Mrs. Cooper is firmly convinced it is more than that. "The role of public transit is to provide a service," she explains. "Its role j is not to make money or to break even, but to ' move people. We have to decide how much of a basic right that service is, and how much we're going to pay for it." The people Mrs. Cooper has been con- cerned with moving include those she de- scribes as "transportation dependent." As senior planner in charge of social and public policy (a section she herself established) for SEPTA, she determined ways to make a public-transportation system that serves about four million people in a five-county area, centering around Philadelphia, re- 42 (pensive to the needs of the elderh', the 90or, those under sixteen years of age, and he physically handicapped — in other vords, the earless. The duty of dties to an- swer those needs was made law by Congress nl970, in an Urban Mass Transportation Act which requires urban transit services for the landicapped and elderh'. Much of Mrs. looper's work at SEPTA involved scrutiniz- ng federal guidelines to insure compliance for continued federal funding. She also fre- quently testified before hearings when transportation legislation or new regulations were being enacted. While at SEPTA Mrs. Cooper helped de- velop several aids for hanciicapped persons yvho use the public transportation system, which in the Philadelphia area includes Duses, subways, and trains. She and her staff, for example, wrote one of the first exist- ing Braille guides to a transit system. It in- cluded maps of each line (route) and a list of potential hazards at various subway stations, among other information. Mrs. Cooper also worked with a rehabilitahve hospital in Philadelphia to produce a hvelve-minute iSlide show and sound track for training tran- sit vehicle operators. The presentation re- minds drivers of the problems of handi- licapped people and urges them to be patient 'and helpful in dealing with such riders. Another facet of Mrs. Cooper's SEPTA work was crime control. Dark subway sta- tions and lonely bus outposts often attract I thieves who prey on helpless people, espe- cialh' the elderly, who are awaiting transpor- tation. "We wanted to enable people who find the transit system enticing to use it without fear," Mrs. Cooper savs. "Our thrust was to get people to supervised sta- tions, since you can't always afford to have surveillance at every station." To cut down on lonely waits, Mrs. Cooper suggested de- plo\ing buses that could circulate through neighborhoods and take riders to a safe cen- tral station, where they could transfer to the appropriate line. Sally Cooper relished her work with SEPTA for nearly five years, but she resigned the post in the summer of 1976 because of a I sudden staff turnover ("Six people 1 thought were really great left to go elsewhere") and the "great frustrations" of battling for federal grants. She also felt it was time to take on more independent work. , In September 1976, Mrs. Cooper opened her own office ("S. H. Cooper, Transporta- tion Consulting") in Bn,'n Mawr. She novs' divides her hours between free-lance jobs and joint studies with the ]. W. Leas and As- sociates consulting agency, with which she is affiliated. There is plenty of free-lance work, she says, explaining that planning commis- sions, social service agencies, taxi com- panies, and the like are often required bv government regulations to do studies on transportation matters. When an agency has no full-time staff member to do the work, it calls on consultants such as Sally Cooper. One of her first jobs was a study for the U.S. Department of Transportation to de- termine the feasibility of coordinating trans- portation by social service organizations for people with medical problems or handicaps. Mrs. Cooper found that many agencies around Philadelphia owned specially equipped vans, with lifts or ramps that made them accessible to the disabled, but that often the vans did a lot of "sitting around in parking lots" behveen jobs. She envisioned a cooperative effort between the agencies that would provide maximum service for the handicapped and keep the vans constantly on the road. "Tons of people could ride in these vans," she stresses, "if they were used efficiently." Most handicapped people, she says, need rides for evervdav excursions such as getting to wcirk, going shopping, or seeing a doctor. In her model, a combined fleet of special vans could be dispatched bv a coordinating agency in response to tele- phoned requests. Sally Cooper does more than give lip service to public transportation. Her en- thusiasm for it stems from personal experi- ence as well as professional training. "I'd never dream of going any other way," she says firmly. "When commuting into Center City jPhiladelphial, I'd much prefer to sit and read than to sit in a traffic jam." She also uses the train for business trips to dties such as Harrisburg, Washington, and New York. She adds, smiling, that she "sure misses" her free public-transit pass from her SEPTA days. Mrs. Cooper first got her feet wet in so- dal and urban reform work through the League of Women Voters and the AAUW. She lobbied for government reform on the state level, and was a founding member in 1965 of the Fair Housing Association of Lower Merion (Pennsylvania) Township. She was also an "occasional employee and constant friend," as her resume puts it, of Suburban Fair Housing, Inc., a public- interest real-estate firm based in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, from 1966 on. As her five children grew up, Mrs. Cooper's sodal con- cerns led her to enroll in a graduate program in sodology atBryn Mawr College. Then she got hooked on transportation issues, and left for Penn's master-of-cit\-planning program. She took the SEPTA job when her youngest child, Kate, was six years old, and she hasn't stopped working since. Although Mrs. Cooper and her hus- band, Charles "Jack" Cooper '51, have long been active in Brown alumni activities, she actually received her bachelor's degree at Tufts University. Sally and Jack married while she was attending Pembroke, and she moved with him to the Boston area when he enrolled in Harvard Law School after his graduation from Brown. While he studied law, she gave birth to their first fwo children and finished her final year of college at Jackson. (Those same two children recently graduated from Brown — Carry in 1974 and Doug in 1975.) After college, Mrs. Cooper took the law boards, but years later when she was contemplating a full-time career, she decided against law. "I'm only interested in advocacy law," she says. "I'm a propagan- dist and a sodal activist." In retrospect, Mrs. Cooper observes that the '50s were a "strange period" for women graduating from coUege. "Today most of us would go right into careers, " rather than combining homemaking with volunteer ac- tivities, she feels. And she urges today's graduates to consider her field as a sound career choice. "Transportation is an area I wish more people would get into," she says, adding with nary a blush at the pun, "It's a moving field. With all the renewed interest in energy matters and urban conditions, the oppor- tunities are really opening up. And you can enter through a variety of doors — dvil en- gineering, M.B.A. programs, law, sodal work, and so on." Free-landng, Mrs. Cooper concludes, "has been a good experience for me." But she misses her work at SEPTA, where she was empowered to make dedsions based on proposals from consulting firms. Now she is providing the ciutside expertise, while agency personnel make the final dedsions. "I'll have to decide whether to continue on this basis — free-lancing and maintaining an affiliation with the Leas firm — or to look for agency work again. By the end of the year," she vows, "I'll have made up my mind." AD. 43 lane A. Hawes received herM.D. degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin, Mil- waukee, on Mav 29 and is serving a resi- dency in medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin affiliated hospitals in Milwaukee. Gary P. Kctiiicdy received his M.A. in mathematics from the University of New Mexico in 1975and is now a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University C. Terreitcf Molkn/ received his J.D. degree from the University of Southern California in 1975 and is with the law firm of Molloy & Molloy in Media, Pa. Dr. joliu W. Pearson received his M.D. degree from the University' of Missouri in 1976 and is now an internal medicine resi- dent at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, la. Richard Quinn has joined the convention coordination team at the Town and Countrv Hotel and Convention Center, the flagship propert\' of the San Diego-based Atlas Corp. N. Elaine Riismko, assistant professor of Russian at Grinnell College, has been ap- pointed a visiting assistant professor of Rus- sian at Bucknell University. Henry Sicirsky and Jessica Pincus were married March 27 and are living at 44-46 Grace Ave., Apt. 3C, Great Neck, N.Y. 11021. Best man at the wedding was Barry Su'irsky '78. Lucile Waii^zonek Tlwmpson, Bethlehem, Pa., has received her master of science de- gree from Rutgers and is doing graduate work at Lehigh. Robert B. Zink, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, is in the securities business with Salomon Broth- ers of Cleveland. ^'2 How do you want to celebrate / J our 5th reunion? The reunion committee needs your ideas in order to make this get-together one big, never-to-be- forgotten party. Send your thoughts to: 73 Reunion, Alumni Relations Office, Box 1859, Providence, R.I. 02912. Watch for the '73 in- formation letter in your mail soon. Elleii Cohen Anderson is a graduate stu- dent in cheniistrv at Weslevan University. "My husband, Michael, works for the state of Connecticut in the Department of Environ- mental Protection as an air pollution control engineer." Daniel F. Beagan received his M.S.C.E. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975 and is a transportation planner with Old Colony Planning Council, Brtx'kton, Mass. Stei'eti A. Brody ('74 Sc.M.) received his M.D. degree in May from the Washington University School of Medicine. He is doing his internship in medicine at the Yale-New Haven Medical Center, New Haven. ]anies Eugene Buck jr., actuarial associate with the Prudential Insurance Co. in New- ark, has achieved the distinction of associate in the Casualty Actuarial Society. Jim lives in Old Bridge, N.J. Eric Buermann received his MB. A. de- gree from the University of Miami in 1975 and is now a corporate planner with South- west Banking Corp., Miami. Dr. AdrienneL. Butler received her M.D. degree from the University of Massachusetts in May and is an intern at Newton- Wellesley Hospital, Newton Lower Falls, Mass. Ricliard F. Casher is located in New Ha- ven, where he is an attorney with Evans & Evans. John Darai was graduated from Boston University Law School and is working as a law clerk to Thonuis /. PaoUno '28, associate justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court. Dr. David P. Fletcher Is a resident at St. Louis Children's Hospital, St. Louis, Mo. Alan R. Gallotta is teaching math at Archbishop Williams High School in Brain- tree, Mass., where he is also assistant athletic director, assistant basketball coach, and assistant baseball coach. /ii//(j W. Graham earned his M.S. degree from Northwestern in 1975 and is now a lec- turer in the economics department at the Universitv of Illinois, where he is working for his doctorate. Alison K. Hoagland is living in Washing- ton, D.C., and is a graduate student at George Washington University. Richard S. Hyiuan is a coastal analyst with the Coastal Commission in Santa Cruz, Calif. Christopher P junzi received his law de- gree from Case Western Reserve in 1976 and is in the law offices of Donald B. Caffray in Long Beach, Calif. Robert Lane was graduated from the Uni- versitv of Pennsylvania Law School in May and is serving as law clerk for one year with Judge Takiff of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. "Have a wonderful little townhouse in Center Qty, Philadelphia, where I welcome visits from old friends," Bob says. Knnn P. McEnery received his J.D. de- gree from the University of Virginia Law School in 1976 and clerked for Judge George R. Gallagher of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals this past year. He will be joining the Washington law firm of Howrey and Simon. Kevin's address is 2908 Q St. N.W., Apt. 105, Washington, D.C. 20007. Janet E. Nusmoff and Dr. John A. Egelhofcr (see '74) are living in South Hadley, Mass., follow ing their May 14 wedding at Manning Chapel on the Brown campus. Jan had been employed in the Brown News Bureau. Peter B. 0'Bnt-)i is a sales representative with Phoenix Mutual at 551 Fifth Ave, New York Qty. Neal R. Pierman has recently started work in Mavnard, Mass., for Digital Equipment Corp. as a senior software engineer in the computer-aided design group. Anthony G. Roeber is an instructor in the history department at Princeton. ]im Spamer is assistant professor of Eng- lish at the University of California at Davis. Steven G. Thompson is a development engineer at Western Electric and is living at 1617 Chelsea Ave., Bethlehem, Pa. He re- cently received his master of science degree in electrical engineering from Penn State. Robert D. Warren and Sandm Wognn (see '75) were married July 4, 1976, in Grace Epis- copal Church, Amherst, Mass., and are liv- ing in Boston. Bob is attending the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. ^7 /\. Malvina Alk is a residential / TC hostess at Walt Disney World, La Buena Vista, Fla. Miclwel A. Cassidy received his law de- gree from the University of Pittsburgh in May and is an attorney with the Pittsburgh law fimi of Anderson, Moreland & Bush. Wilson P. Diiuird is an information analyst with Franklin Institute Research Labs, Rockville, Md. Davui Dore (M.A.T.) and his wife, Mari lyn, report the birth of a son, Andrew Robert, on Nov. 22, 1976. David is a histon teacher at Brockton (Mass.) High. Dr. John A. Egelhofer ('77 M. D.) and laue E. Nusinoff '73 were married May 14 in Man rung Chapel on the Brown campus, with th Rev. Richard Dannenfelser performing the ceremony. John is serving his residency at Bay State Medical Center, Springfield, Mass The couple is living in South Hadley. Slei'en Feinsilver is a medical resident at Universitv Hospital, department of medi- cine, Boston i Katheruie Flynn is a planning analyst with Medicon, Inc., Devon, Pa. Bill Frost is assistant manager of The Magic Pan Creperie, 47 Newbury St., Bos- ton. Dr. Thomas Gushurst received his M.D degree from Loyola Universit/s Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, 111., June 11, and is interning at Georgetown Universitv Hospital, Washington, DC. Scott R. Hams is with Pet, Inc., of St. Louis, Mo., as a marketing associate. Vivian F. McCoy is a computer pro- grammer with CNA Insurance in Chicago. Manny Mendelson received a bachelor ot music in piano perfomiance and compositioi from Manhattan School of Music in New- York City last May. He also received the Hayward Morris Award for composition ex- cellence, the first recipient of the memorial in recognition of the late member of the MSM faculty. This fall, Manny entered the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester to start work on a master's degree in jazz. MarcPerhnutter was graduated from Harvard Law School cum laude in June and is working with the New York City law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garri- son. He and his wife. Sue, are living at 100 East Hartsdale Ave., Apt. 5C East, Harts- dale, N.Y. 10530. Catherine M. Platen is a public relations/ marketing representative with Lion County Safari, Royal Palm Beach, Fla. Stei'cn L. Rattner is a reporter for theNea; York Times, working out of its Washington, D.C, bureau. Dr. Linda L. Stronach is a second-year res-, ident at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in, Chapel Hill. Robert Stutz has completed his first year at the Harvard Business School and spent the summer working for Cadillac Motor Car Di- vision of General Motors. His Boston address is 2 Soldiers Field Park#315, Boston, Mass. 02163. Gary E. Wilcox received his law degree in June from Dickinson School of Law, Carlisle, Pa., where he was vice-president of the Stu- dent Bar Association. Richard W. Ziotkowski is a research assist- ant in electrical engineering at the University of Illinois. 7 ^ ^''■^ Barth says he "dusted off" J \J an old ambition and has headed for Berkeley for a doctoral program in social work. William G. Frei/ is a student at Villanova Law School and has served as articles editor of the Villanova Laiv ReiHao. 44 Earl C. Cladue is a graduate student in lathematics at Rutgers University. Bruce Goldstein and Amy Mauren (see '76) ere married in June 1975 and are living in le Bronx at 2100 Eastchester Rd., Apt. 6C. ast June, Bruce finished his second year at le Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Rob Ciittmherg has held various counsel- ig jobs since graduation and is now a grad- ate student at the Adler-Dreikurs Institute t Bowie (Md.) State College, where he is .orking toward an M.Ed, in Adlerian psy- hology. His address is 1809 Briggs Rd., V'heaton, Md. 20906. M. Patncm Hart and Andreiv F. Tonks (see 39) were married May 28 at the First Unitar- jn Church of Providence. She and her hus- pand have moved to New Haven, where Uidv is doing graduate work at Yale. Patricia Hetiry Hill is an engineering rec- irds specialist with Data General Corp., iVestboro, Mass. Micliael Kessler is a first-year student at ■'ermont Law School and is living in South toyalton, Vt., where he can be reached do i jeneral Delivery (05462). I Dick Kettler, Dave Frolio, Chuck Connell, ind C/in's Graham (see 76) live together at 929 Calvert St. NW, Washington, D.C. Dick las started his third year at Georgetown Law 'enter and has been named an editor of the oumal of Law and Polia/ in International Busi- less. Dave has started his second year at jeorge Washington Law School and was a nember of the winning team in the first-year noot court competition. Both Dick and Dave Jerked for law firms in Washington, DC, ast summer. Chuck has completed his MA. n foreign affairs at the University of Virginia and has started the management training program at Chase Manhattan. Cliarles Kimber is doing computer elec- .Tonics design work for Turpin Systems Co. in Sepulveda, Calif. VV. Ann Merntt is a medical student at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Mass. joiuthan D. Naiman is an analyst in the management sciences department of the Co- lumbia House Division of CBS in New York aty. Charlotte Stigler and Richard C. Fikes were married Jan 1 in Armonk, NY., and are now living in Houston, Texas. Attend- ants included Virginia Sauer. James Stigler '7b, and Esmeria Torres, secretary in the bio-med division at Brown. Charlotte is an associate systems engineer with IBM \n Houston, and Dick, a 1972 Texas A&M graduate, is a sys- tems engineer with IBM. Nancy E. Tefft (M.A.T.) and Phillip Dean Potter were married May 25 at the First Uni- tarian Church, Providence, and are living in Des Moines, Iowa. Etiiily Tieti reports that she completed her M.S. degree in operations research at Stanford University in December 1976. A mcnth later, she joined the Defense and Space Systems Group of TRW in Sunnyvale, Calif. , where she is a member of the technical staff. Sandra Wogrin and Robert D. Warren (see '73) were married July 4, 1976, at Grace Epis- copal Church, Amherst, Mass., and are now living in Boston Sandra is distribution man- ager with Van Melle, Inc., Sudbury, Mass. /. Nicholas Ziegler received his A.B. in history from Princeton in 1976 and is now a research officer in the New York offices of Boston University. ^7/2 WiUiam P. Barheosch is a law / \J student at Columbia Law School and is living at 1 Spinning Wheel Ln., Dix Hills, N.Y. Tina Brubaker, a resident of Washington, D.C, is editor of 0»«inKi'Starrfi, a science re- search publication in Rockville, Md. Kenneth A. Finder is a student at Hofstra Law School and is living in Scarsdale, N.Y. Ken Fradley received a bachelor of music in trumpet performance from Manhattan School of Music last May. He has remained in New York City, where he is a member of "Saoco," a Latin band performing and re- cording in the New York area Chris Graham is working for the Librar)' of Congress in the Congressional Research Service. His address; 1929 Calvert St. N.W., Washington, D.C. Aime jacobson is editor of the monthly Labor Reineiv at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington, D.C. Steven W. Linn is a lab technician/lab as- sistant in the physiology department at the Cornell University Medical Center. Amy Mauren and Bruce Goldstein (see '75) were married in June 1975 and are living at 2100 Eastchester Rd., Apt. 6C, the Bronx, N.Y. Amy completed her first year of gradu- ate school at the Sarah Lawrence College Program in Human Genetics in June. Marilyn /. Plulipp is a graduate student in health care administration at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and is liv- ing at 44(D3 Walnut St., Apt. 3-C, Philadel- phia 19104. Brad Silverberg is a student in computer science at the University of Toronto. V. janeSuttell spent the 1976-77 academic year at the Yale School of Drama, where she studied set and costume design. She de- signed costumes for the production of Inspec- tor General at the school and assisted on three plays at the Yale Repertory. Jane has moved to New York Citv, where she is pursuing a career as a costume designer. Her address: 225 W. 22nd St., Apt. 5A. Matthew L. Wald reports that he is "living in New York and working in Times Square |at the Neic York Times]." ^^ Mark A. Druy is a graduate stu- / / dent at the University of Pennsyl- vania, working toward a doctorate in chemistry. Walter Enos Phillips '03, Qearwater, Fla., retired treasurer and general manager of American Steam and Valve Mfg. Co., Bos- ton; in June. Mr. Phillips was considered one of the most distinguished and respected judges of dogs in this country, especially the pointer. His 1969 book. The True Pointer and His Ancient Heritage, is considered the defini- tive work in the field. Mr. Phillips was a prominent yachtsman and an avid golfer who played most of the nation's top courses. The legendary Bobby Jones was a dose friend. Mr. Phillips was owner of the Wareham Country Club, Wareham, Mass. Alpha Delta Phi. Survivors include his wife, Martha, 300 Betty Lane Ave., Qearwater. Leroy Francis Whipple '07, St. Petersburg, Fla., former chemist with the Rhode Island Card Board Co.; Nov. 22, 1967. Mr. Whipple was a graduate of the University of Maine. Kappa Sigma. Survivors include his wife, Corla, 1501 V2-28 Ave. N., St. Petersburg. Irvin Jacobs '09, Glencoe, 01. , president of the Chicago investment firm, Irvin Jacobs and Co., prior to his retirement in 1959; date unknown. Survivors are not known. Marion Kenneth Forward '14, Lincoln, Nebr., associate professor of English at the University of Nebraska prior to his retire- ment in 1959; June 15. Mr. Forward was an assistant professor of English at Brown from 1914 to 1916, served in the U.S. Army during World War 1, and joined the Nebraska faculty in 1920. He earned an A.M. degree from Harvard in 1934. Sigma Nu. Survivors in- clude his wife, Dorothy, 2030 C St., Lincoln. Donald Dike '15, Boothbay Harbor, Maine, a member of the Athol (Mass.) School Sys- tem from 1919 to 1953 and high school prin- cipal there from 1938 until his retirement in 1953; June 27. After serving as an Army officer in World War 1, Mr. Dike became a science-math teacher at Athol High. During his thirty-four years in the system, he was chairman of the math department for sixteen years in addition to serving as athletic direc- tor and coach of baseball and basketball. Mr. Dike was a former president and a director for eleven years of the 20,000-member Mas- sachusetts Teachers Federation. For over a decade he was one of the most prominent baseball players in the old Cape Cod League. He was active in Brown's Housing and De- velopment Campaign. Alpha Delta Phi. Survivors include his wife, Hattie, 6 Campbell St., Boothbay Harbor; two daughters, Harriet and Dorcas; and three sons, Donald, David, and Douglas. Dana Rice '18, '19 A.M., Warren, R.I., former curator of the Children's Museum, Boston, and proprietor of the Dana Rice Gal- lery, Providence; June 28. Mr. Rice taught at Rhode Island School of Design and at Dartmouth and was a member of the Ar- chaeological Institute of America. Zeta Psi. There are no immediate survivors. 45 Robert Hathaicay Goff '24, Providence, prominent Providence insurance executive, financial analyst, and alumni trustee of the University from I9?8 to 1965; July 4 in Bel- gium while on a Brown Club tour. Mr. Goff received an M.B.A. degree in 1926 from the Harvard Business School, directed the Prov- idence office of the First Boston Corp., and joined Automobile Mutual Insurance Co. in 1933. He retired in 1972 as vice-president of Automobile Mutual and of Factory Mutual Liabilitv Insurance Co. of America, remain- ing a director of both companies. Mr. Goff gave a lifetime of service to the Rhode Island community and to his alma mater. He was a former chairman of the special gifts unit of the United Fund, treasurer and building committee member of St. Martin's Church and a leader in 1957 of Episcopal Charities, Inc., and chaimian of leadership gifts for the Boy Scouts Golden Jubilee Fund in 1959-60. Mr. Goff was a director of Old Colony Cooperative Bank, a trustee of Bradley Hos- pital and Moses Brown School, and a vice- president of the Financial Analysts Societies. Few alumni have been of greater service to Brown over an extended period of time. Bob Goff was president of the Associated Alumni, vice-chairman of the Program for the Seventies, a trustee of the Brciwn Uni- versity Fund, a member of the board of direc- tors of the Brown Club of Rhode Island, pres- ident of his class, and a close friend of ath- letics. Beyond this, Bob Goff was "always there" to any alumnus or alumni organiza- tion seeking help. He received the Brown Bear Award in 1974. Delta Phi. Mr. Goff is survived bv his wife, Nelia, 48 Benefit St., Providence; sons Robert, jr. '57 and Laurens; and daughters Nelia and Louisa. Nellie Thowpson Waggener '24, Northfield, Minn.; July 13, 1974. Survivors are not known. William McKinley Brotvne '25, Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., divisional merchandising manager of J. L. Hudson Co., Detroit; May 31. Mr. Browne received his M.B.A. from Harvard in 1927. Phi Delta Theta. Survivors include his wife, Catherine, 276 Lewiston Rd., Grosse Pointe Farms; and two children, William and Sally. Edioin Pollard Weller Readel '26, Plymouth, Mass., retired salesman for Bird &: Sons, East Walpole, Mass.; May 12. ZetaPsi. Mr. Readel is survived bv his wife, Muriel, 55 Clifford Rd., Plymouth; and a son, Peter. Dr. Bernard Myles Siegel '27, a Providence optometrist for more than forty years; June 26. Dr. Siegel was a graduate of the Mas- sachusetts School of Optometry and had served as secretary of The Rhode Island Soc- iety of Optometry. Survivors include his wife, Edythe, 200 Hoffman Ave., Provi- dence; a son, Stanley; and daughters Joyce and Elaine. Dr. WiUiam Thomas Knight. Jr. '28, Oradell, N.J., a practicing physician and surgeon since 1934; May 30. Dr. Knight received his M.D. degree in 1933 from New York University-Bellevue Hospital Medical Col- lege. He served as president of the Bergen County Medical Society in 1956-1957. During World War II, Dr. Knight was in the Euro- pean Theater for two years as chief of surgi- cal services of the 56th Station Hospital. Sigma Chi. Survivors include his wife, Virginia, 920 Woodland Ave., Oradell; and two children, Cynthia '56 and W. Viomas '59. Rose Smolensky Oginsky '29, Worcester, Mass., fomier assistant in the cancer research laboratory. Children's Hospital, Worcester; May 9. Mrs. Oginsky was a former president of the Worcester County Pembroke Club. Survivors include her daughter, Elizabeth Frem, 15 Rittenhouse Rd., Worcester. DaiHd lames MacMaster '31, Denver, Colo., president of R. W. Cameron and Co., Inc., of New York Citv prior to his retirement in 1975; April 7 after being hit by a car while crossing the street. Kappa Sigma. Survivors include his wife, Mario, 1243 Gaylord St., Apt. 506, Denver; sons Colin and Maxwell; and a daughter, Mary. Katheriue Smith Johnson '32, Boca Raton, Fla., former registrar of the C.F. Young School, Brooklyn; in May. Mrs. Johnson was a former presiiient of the Junior League of Kingston, N.Y. Survivors include her hus- band. Dr. Herberts. Johnsvn '32, 600 S.W, Holly Ln., Boca Raton. Eleanor Gilbert Hargroi'e '33, Grand Rapids, Mich., executive director of Senior Neigh- bors, Inc., Grand Rapids, prior to her retire- ment in 1975; May 21. For ten years starting in 1959, Mrs. Hargrove was a relocation ex- pert for the citv during the renovation of large areas during an urban renewal pro- gram. She was appointed to the Michigan Commission on Services to Aging by Gov- ernor William Milliken in 1975. Survivors in- clude a daughter, Evageiie Hargrove Bond '57, 328 8th St. S.E., Washington,"D.C.; and two sons. Jay Penn and Pinckney. Col. Frederick William van Dom Shipley '34, Alexandria, Va., retired colonel in the U.S. Air Force; May 8. Survivors include his wife, Marv, 8345 Orange Ct., Alexandria. Mary Spyragiie Watkins '35, Providence, former secretary-treasurer of D. M. Watkins Co., Providence; Jan. 14. Miss Watkins was chairman of Alumnae Day in 1950. Survivors are not known. Allen Justin Pdnrs '50, Thousand Oaks, Calif., general manager of Dial to Dine, Inc., Thousand Oaks; July 2. Mr. Pobirs also had served as a partner with his late father, Abraham E. Pobirs '25, in CoUegiate Deli- Restaurant, also in Thousiind Oaks. He sen'ed with the U.S. Armv during World War II. Survivors include his uife. Hernia, 117 West Gainsboro, Thousand Oaks; daughters Allison and Holly; and sons Le- land, Andrew, and Eric. Laiorence E. Morra, jr. '51, North Kings- town, R.I., a salesman for Sears, Roebuck & Co.; May 27. Mr. Morra was a graduate of Boston University Law School. He served in the Army Air Force during World War II. Survivors include his mother, Margaret, with whom he lived, 7233 Post Rd., North King town. Nanqi McLandress Staunton '52, Menlo I Park, Calif., receptionist at CastiUeja SchocI Palo Alto, and former president of the PenrI broke Club of Northern California; Feb. 21 Mrs. Staunton was class agent for the Brow Fund, chairman of the Regional Scholarsh Committee in her area, and a member of tf National Alumni Schools Program. She w also active in the Red Cross and in the Menl Park Presbyterian Church and its choir. Su vivors include her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Smith McLandress, 1117 East Eldorado St.'. Appleton, Wis.; two daughters, Susan am Julia; and a brother, Robert S. McLandress '5 Menlo Park. Raymond Ernest Myers '54, Trumbull, Conn., former employee of Sears, Roebuck j Co.; May 23. Mr. Myers was an Army vete- ran. Survivors include his wife, Patricia, 87 Kent Ln., Trumbull. Frank Holmer Shaffer in '56, Cincinnati, Ohio, president of OH. Roth Co., Cincin- j nati; May 6. Mr. Shaffer was an officer with' the U.S. Air Force. Phi Gamma Delta. Sur-^ vivors include his wife. Marguerite, 706 Lini dell Ln., Cincinnati. Adelle Alba Wliite '57, Warwick, R.I., a nurse at Rhode Island Hospital; May 1. In 1967 Mrs. White — then a 32-year-old mother of four — decided to fulfill a lifelonj ambition and return to school to earn a de- gree in nursing. Four years later, she re- ceived her degree from the University of Rhode Island School of Nursing. She was also a 1956 graduate of Katherine Gibbs School. Survivors include her husband, Thomas, 330 Red Chimney Dr., Warwick; three sons, Robert, Stephen, and Thomas; and a daughter, Kathryn. Henry Louis Paul '63 M.A.T., Canterbury, Conn., since May the executive director of the Northeastern Area Regional Educationa Service; July 14. Mr. Paul graduated from j Valparaiso University in 1949 and received ] his M.Ed, degree from Montana State Uni- versity in 1959. He had served as assistant superintendent of schools in West Hartford, Conn., and was a consultant in science edu- cation to the National Science Foundation. I Mr. Paul was an Air Force veteran of World War II. Survivors include his wife, Barbara, Wright Pond Rd., Canterbury; sons Timothj and Thomas; and a daughter, Jennifer. i George Burnham Morrill HI '67, Bethel, ' Maine, a self-employed dvil engineer and manager of the Sudbury Inn, Bethel; Feb. 14, 1976. Survivors include his father, George B.i Morrill, 45 Water St., Portland; and three sons, Stephen, Michael, and Jonathan. Nanc\/L. Collins '69M.A.T., Coventry, R.l. a teacher at Warwick Veterans Memorial High School; Nov. 2. Survivors are not known. 46 I mE A55QCIATEQ ALUMNI 3F BRQWN UNIVERSITY )resents a guide to all Alumni, Alumnae, Students, ^arents and friends of Brown. "alendar of selected events of particular interest icross the country, with dates from late October hrough January. ^ brief Alumni Leadership Directory listing Offi- ;ers of Associated Alumni, Regional Directors of Associated Alumni, and Brown Club Presidents. This panorama of programs represents a sampling of how local associations are enjoying the Brown life and drawing new alumni into their communities. Are you part of the picture? If not, you should know that every phase of alumni activity welcomes your sup- port. Contact your Club officers, your Regional Director, or the Alumni Relations Office for details on constructive involvement in the Brown life away from Brown. You may set new priorities on your win- ter calendar! The Staif of Alumni Relations Brown University, Box 1859 Providence, Rhode Island 02912 (401)863-3307 m EAMPUS EVENTS EIF UNUSUAL INTEREST OCTOBER 12 foung Alumni Luncheon Club 'Luncheon at the Biltmore." Box lunch with vhite wine and a discussion of renovations of his Providence landmark by Mr. Stephen J. irinn of Hotels of Distinction. Tour of areas jnder construction. Noon. Biltmore Hotel. $5. "or further information on all Young Alumni 'vents contact Alumni Relations Office, 401) 863-3307. 14-16 Freshman Parents Weekend Group meetings with admmistrators and fac- ulty, a talk by President Swearer, classes, a foot- ball game, tours of historic Providence, and more. For further information contact William P. Kennedy (401) 863-2474. 15 Brown Family Affairs "Who Runs Rhode Island?", first in a new series of programs for alumni parents and children. Tour the historic Rhode Island Capitol, meet some interesting alumni in state government, learn how our laws are made and why. Sug- gested for ages 9 and up. 10:00 am, Rhode Island State House. $1 per person. For information on all Family Affairs programs contact Christine Love (401) 863-3307. ''gjS^^t mm 23 The Brown Street Series Associated Alumni present "Through England on My Knees," a lecture demonstration on the fine art of rubbing monumental brasses. Betsey Lewis '46, author and expert, speaks and exhib- its rubbings from her personal collection. English Tea. 2:00 pm, Maddock Alumni Center. $4.50. For further information on all Brown Street Series programs, contact Connie Evrard (401) 863-3307. 28-30 and November 3-6 Sock and Buskin Flay "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, directed by Don B. Wilmeth. For further infor- mation contact P'aunce House Theatre Box Office (401) 863-2838. 28-30 Annual Council .Annual Council for Club Presidents and Direc- tors of Associated .'\lumni. Brown University Campus. For further information contact Jon Keates, Director of Alumni Relations (401) 863-3307. 28 Annual Hall of Fame Dinner Andrews Hall, campus, 6:00 pm. For further information contact Louis J. Regine '48 (401) 751-7890. 29 Association of Class Secretaries and Class Presi- dents Annual Meeting, 8:30 to 11:00 am, Pembroke Field House. For further information contact Christine Love (401) 863-3307. NOVEMBER 3 30's Theatre Party If you graduated between 1930 and 1939, meet and mingle with fellow alumni at a cocktail party and buffet at the Brown Faculty Club, then take a front and center seat for Sock and Buskin's interpretation of "Romeo and Juliet." Champagne Reception follows at the Maddock Alumni Center. $12 all-inclusive fee. For further mformation contact Christine Love at (401) 863-3307. Young Alumni Luncheon Club Box lunch at Trinity Square. A behind-the- scenes look at the New Season with staff and actors. Learn what makes repertory theatre in Providence a unique and vital phenomenon. Noon. Trinity Square Repertory Theatre. $4. 10-12 Under the Elms Biannual days devoted to classes, music, theatre, research, visits with students and fac- ulty. For alumni and friends of Brown. By invitation. 12 Brown Family Affairs "Skate with the Bears." Sit on the sidelines for a special open practice of the Brown University hockey team and see how they keep winning. Then join the players on the ice for some ele- mentary drills and lessons in technique, plus free skating. For ages 6 and up. 4:30 pm, Meehan Auditorium. $1 per person. 47 20 The Brown Street Series Associated Alumni present "Mystery Loves Company." Spend a Sinister Sunday with Dily^^ Winn '61. author of a new mystery anthology and former owner of Murder Ink Bookshop in New York City. 8:00 pm. Annmary Brown Memorial, with Reception following m the Maddock Alumni Center. $5 inclusive fee. DECEMBER 1 Annual Latin Carol Service 8:00 pm, Alumnae Hall. Brown Family Affairs Our own "Star Trek" takes over the Ladd Observatory, offering some star-gazing for youngsters with the help of Brown astronomers. A chance to use the 12" refractor telescope and hear a short, illustrated lecture on this out-of- sight science. For ages 8 and up. 7:30 pm, Ladd Observatory, $1. per person, 13-14 The Brown Street Series "Holly Nights" Those who have welcomed the Christmas season in the Maddock Alumni Cen- ter in the past know why we have set aside two evenings of celebration. Joyous distractions for intellectuals and others. Candles and carols, gin- gerbread and fruit, F"or children of all ages, 8:00 pm. Maddock Alumni Center, $3,50, STUDENT-ALUMNI flAPPENINGS The Student Alumni Relations Committee chaired by Leonard C. Ranalli '48, with staff direction by Ann Holmes Redding '72. plans an outstanding collection of events at Brown and in the field. Here are some sample programs. For additional information, contact Ms, Redding at Box 1859, Brown University or (401) 863-3307, OCTOBER 28 Sherry Hour Sherry Hour for freshmen sons and daughters of alumni, 6:(X) pm, Maddock Alumni Center, 30 Senior Brunch First of a series to continue throughout the year. Designed to bring together all members of the Class of '78 and those who will help them keep their ties to Brown after Commencement time. Maddock Alumni Center. 4 lM.aLLiliJJLlX JANUARY 11 'Voung Alumni Luncheon Club "Solar Energy — Rays of the Future," Professor Joseph Loferski of the Brown Engineering Department and internationally known author- ity in this field will tell us if the sun is the answer. Knowing could brighten yowr future. Noon. Faculty Club. $3. 48 ^^^^^ 31 Sophomore Hallowe'en Party An evening which promises to become an under- class tradition. NOVEMBER 8,9,14.15,16 Career Nights Alumni/ae and friends of Brown representing a variety of prof essions and vocations describe their fields to upperclassmen. Evenings. Maddock Alumni Center. 24 Thanksgiving Meals for International Students Homes of Rhode Island alumni/ae open to these students unable to travel over the holiday. DECEMBER 6,7 Career Nights QN T44E ELUB EIREUIT OCTOBER 19 Brown Club of New York City "An Evening with the Economists." Professor George H, Borts of Brown, Editor of the American Economic Review, and Edward L. Palmer '38. Chairman of the Executive Com- mittee of Citicorp and its principal subsidiary Citibank, talk about economics and the under-; graduate, as well as other issues of interest in I the field. For further information, contact Exe! utive Secretary Judith Levy (212) 581-2707, 8:0 pm. Brown Club in New York, 3 West 51st ! Street, i 23 Brown University Club of Westchester Fall Evening with the Faculty, featuring Professor James T. Patterson, historian and biographer, speaking on "Psychohistory," 4:3C 7:00 pm. Home of Mr. and Mrs, Philip L, Winter, Larchmont. Brown University Club of Pittsburgh An afternoon with Professor John Rowe Workman. For further information phone (412! 922-6983, 5:30 pm. 135 Coolidge Hall, Chathan" College, Pittsburgh, Brown Club of Northeastern New Jersey Fall Cocktail Party, For further information contact Club President Clayton Timbrell '42 at (201) 569-1419 or (212) 754-6196, 26 Brown University Club of Milwaukee Membership Evening with the Faculty, with Professor J. Giles Milhaven as honored guest. Cocktails and buffet at the home of Mr. and Mrs. David C. Scott, River Hills, Wisconsin, Fc further information contact Mr. Thomas E. Martin, Treasurer of the Club, 3334 N, Cambridge Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53211 or phone (414) 962-6821, NOVEMBER 1 Brown University Club of Philadelphia Luncheon for Women, At the country home of Mrs, Betty Bell in Nantmeal 'Village, For further information contact Mrs, Bell at (215) 469-6969, Downtown Brown Luncheon Club Sponsored by the Brown Club of Boston. Monthly meeting, 11:30 am. For speaker and site, or further information about this regular program on the first Tuesday of each month, consult John W, Arata (617) 482-8072 or Michai Allara (617) 726-0476, trown Club of Central New Jersey (in Evening with Professor William Poole, >;rown economist and special consultant to ' 'ederal Reserve Banks. "Federal Reserve Policy - Fighting Inflation or Causing it?" Informal • iscussion on employment, state of the econ- I my. 8:00 pm. Home of Mr. and Mrs. Gino Yeves. Princeton. For further information con- ■aet Mrs. William D. Jones (201) 359.5244. ^ackawanna-Essex Brown Club Vn afternoon with Professor William Poole, fome of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard A. Glaser. ipringfield. New Jersey. For further informa- ion. contact Mrs. John F. Eckstein 201) 376-2646. ^orth Shore Brown Club 'rofessor Bruce Donovan of Classics visits with ilumni and friends of Brown on the North 5hore of Boston in a late afternoon informal gathering. For further information on time and )lace watch your mail or contact William D. Crooks. Jr., P.O. Box ,556. Marblehead. Vlassachusetts 01945. 16 3rown Club of New York City Srown Night at Eddie Condons with Red Balaban ind his Cats. They will play just for Brunonians It 1 U West 54th Street. $20 for members, $25 for inn-members, 7:00 pm. open bar. For reserva- ions, call Judith Levy. Executive Secretary. 212)581-2707. 17 Brown University Club of Boston, Inc. "Murder Ink at the Aquanum." 6:00 pm — Cocktails. 7:30 pm - Dolphin and Porpoise Show, 8:00 pm - Dinner. After dinner featured 'speaker: Dilys Winn '61. author of the new book Murder Ink. For further information contact Rodger Smith (617) ,523-7483 days or Nancy Gowen (617) 731-9666 evenings. 19 Brown University Club of Washington, D.C. Charles Turgeon. well-known author, gourmet, and man-about-wine produces another wine- tasting for the Club. This repeat of last year's success comes on a Saturday evening to accom- modate more members. For further information contact Club President Kathe Anderson '72 (202) 691-1541 or Treasurer Margaret Smith Derby '60 (202) 534-6i63. DECEMBER 16 Brown Club of New York City Holiday Cocktails at the Club. A festive tradition for New Yorkers and those visiting the city. Cash bar and mystery celebrity. 5:30 pm. 27 Brown University Club of Miami Holiday Party. Applicants, undergraduates, par- ents, and Brunonians are invited. Call Bunny Meyer at (305) 854-3012 as date approaches for time and place. President and Mrs. Howard R. Sw'earer have embarked on an ambitious schedule of travel to alumni. They have met with Connecticut alumni in September. Washington. D.C. alumni on October 6, and graduates in the Philadelphia area on October 7. Because some dates are still tentative, watch your mail for an invitation, or phone the president of your local association. JANUARY 25 - Houston. 26-28 - Los Angeles, 29-30 - Northern California (San Francisco), 31 — San Jose. FEBRUARY 18 - Atlanta. 20 - Florida West Coast (Tampa - St. Petersburg). 21 - Palm Beach. 22 - Miami. APRIL 3 - Pittsburgh. 4 - St. Louis, 5 - Chi- cago. 7 — Milwaukee. ADMISSION TRAVELERS Si TQPIES The fall calendar at the Corliss- Brackett House, home of Browii Admission, and the one on the desk of David J. Zucconi, Director of the National Alumni Schools Program reveal a record number of travel days by staff. Much travel in the interest of Admission has taken place by the time this Brown Alumni Monthly reaches you. A few later fall engagements are listed below. If you are interested in attending an Introduction to Brown Night or in contacting prospective students for Brown, phone David Zucconi at (401) 863-3306 or contact the Brown .Admission Office. Introduction to Brown Nights are planned for the following cities on these dates: OCTOBER 19 Oklahoma City with David J. Zucconi. 20 - Tulsa with David J, Zucconi. 20 - Seattle with Kathryn Arnold and James Rogers. NOVEMBER 1-2 - Philadelphia with Eugene Mahr. 1-2 - St. Louis with Wendy Ketchum. 7 - Miami with Paulo deOliveira and David J. Zucconi (8 pm. Museum of Science Auditorium, phone Bunny Meyer (305) 854-.3012 or Jane Mallow (305) 251-1792). 8 - Fort Lauderdale with David J. Zucconi. 9 — Palm Beach with David J. Zucconi. 9 - Memphis with Steven Coon and John Robinson, 10 - Tampa-St. Petersburg with David J. Zucconi, 10 - Minneapolis-St. Paul with Wendy Ketchum. 14 - Atlanta with Steven Coon and John Robinson. Look for these important programs early in the new year if you are an active worker with pros- pective students: December — January National Alumni Schools Program Renewal Days for Committee members and Area Chairmen. February Bruin Club - National Alumni Schools Program Dav at Brown for Early Acceptees to the Class of 1982. EQNTINUING EBUEATIEIN TRAVELS TQYQU OCTOBER and NOVEMBER 17,24,31 7,14 Mayors and Managers: Caught in the Cross Fire On-campus evening seminar series on local gov- ernment. Brown faculty join with national and Rhode Island local government otTicials in an exciting series focusing on problems of cities and towns. Discuss with distinguished experts such questions as: • Are citizens less and less willing to pay high taxes? • Can a single executive run today's com- plex cities and towns? • How can you have an effect on your city or town government? List Art Building. Room 120. .$20 per person for the series. For further information call (401) 863-2785. Second semester Saturday Seminars are tenta- tively planned for Westchester. Princeton. Philadelphia, Pittsburgh. Boston, and other areas. Besides the full calendar of spring semi- nars. Commencement Forums, and the Summer College of '78 will round out Continuing College events. For more details, write Sallie K. Riggs, Associate Director of Universitv Relations, Box 1920 or call (401)863-2785. 49 Board of Directors 1977-1978 OFFICERS President SanfordW.Udis.M.D. '41 Fail River, MA President-Elect Mrs, David R, Tillinghast '51 (Phvllis Van Horn) New York. NY Secretary JohnH,Blish'59 Rumford.RI Treasurer William E, Corrigan. Jr. '58 Rumford. RI REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine JohnW, Arata.Jr. '63 Marblehead. MA Nancy Scull '63 Cambridge. MA Rhode Island Shirley Sugarman Wolpert '46 Providence. RI Leonard Ranalli '48 Providence. RI Connecticut Robert P. Sanchez '58 Greenwich. CT Mary Shimkiis Sanzone '67 West Hartford. CT New York and Puerto Rico William R, Griffith '70 New York, NY A. Thomas Levin Esq, '64 Rockville Centre. NY Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware Ann McGeeney Harty '54 Pittsburgh. P.>\ Clotilde Sonnino Treves '49 Princeton. NJ DC, Maryland. Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina Edward R, Levin '65 Washington, DC Leslie B, Disharoon '54 Owings Mills. MD Florida, Crforgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee Jack E, Giddings. MD, '57 Jacksonville. FL Stuart S, Golding '39 Clearwater. F'L 50 Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky David E, Schreiner '70 Shaker Heights. OH James S, Coukos '55 Indianapolis. IN 46208 Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota Robert R, Eisner. Jr, '48 Milwaukee, WI Robert A, Lundin '53 Wayzata. MN Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska Edwin L, Noel '68 St. Louis, MO Jeffrey G.Liss '65 Northbrook. IL Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas John N, McCamish. Jr, '63 San Antonio. TX David E- Taylor '66 Dallas. TX Colorado, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming, Montana G, Scott Briggs '66 Colorado Springs, CO Richmond A. Day '31 Tucson. AZ California, Washington, Oregon, Hawaii, Alaska Ruth Gadbois Matarazzo, M.D, '48 Portland. OR Philip Solomita '65 Torrance. CA Foreign R, Victoria Buchanan Ward '63 CANADA ALPHABETICAL LISTING JohnW. Arata.Jr. '63 1 Jefferson Street Marblehead. MA 01945 Stephen Belcher 298 Hope Street Providence. RI 02906 A, Robert Bellows, M,D. '59 30 Glen Road Winchester. MA 01890 John H, Blish '59 66 Catiin Avenue Rumford.RI 01915 Robert E, Borah '55 RE Borah & Assoc. Inc. 715 Hospital Trust BIdg. Providence. RI 02903 Ms. Linda M. Brandon '75 210 Rushmore Street Westbury. NY 11590 G. Scott Briggs "66 1415 N. Nevada Avenue Colorado Spnngs. CO 80907 Robert L. Brown '51 833 West 59 Terrace Kansas City. MO 64 1 13 Bernard V. Buonanno, Jr, '60 Old Fox Chemical. Inc. 66 Valley Street East Providence. RI 02914 William E. Corrigan. Jr. '58 Pawtucket Trust Company 286 Main Street Pawtucket. RI 02860 James S. Coukos '55 5799 Sunset Lane Indianapolis. IN 46208 Richmond A, Day '31 4757 Brisa Del Sur Tucson. AZ 85718 Leslie B, Disharoon '54 2 Chittenden Lane Owings Mills. MD 21 117 Mrs, Peter Downes '59 (Diane Scola) 20 Thomas Street Barrington. RI 02806 Robert R, Eisner. Jr. '48 5.301 No, Ironwood Road Milwaukee. WI 53217 Bernard I, Fain '52 129 Rumstick Road Barrington, RI 02806 Mrs, Daniel Fairchild '47 (Joyce Wetherald) 666 Angell Street Providence. RI 02906 Ms. Linda R, Fannin '78 1590 Van Cortlandt Terrace Teaneck.NJ 07666 Mrs. Joseph H, Famham, Jr '48 (Christine Dunlap) 955 Lexington Avenue New York, NY 10021 Robert A. Fearon '51 4 Juniper Road New Canaan. CT 06840 Robert P, Fisler '43 Deep Hollow Close Irvington. NY 10533 Linton A. Fluck III '65 401 Benefit Street Providence. RI 02903 Dean Ernest S, Frerichs '48 Graduate School Brown University Jack E. Giddings. M.D, '57 P,0, Box 23678 Jacksonville, FL 32217 Stuart S, Golding '39 Stuart S, Golding Company 842 Country Side Mall Clearwater. FL 33515 William R, Griffith '70 1675 York Avenue, 17-A New York. NY 10028 Henry C, Hart, Jr. '35 Scragg Rock Little Compton. RI 02837 Mrs, James Q, Harty '53 (Ann McGeeney) 1060 Stanford Road Pittsburgh. PA 15205 John B. Henderson '46 Textron Inc. 40 Westminster St.. 23rd Fl. Providence. RI 02903 Dennis A, Holt '65 45 Windsor Road Wellesley Hills, MA 02181 A, Thomas Levin Esq, '64 95 Bulson Road Rockville Centre. NY 1 1570 Edwin R. Levin '65 3171 Porter Street. NW Washington. DC 20008 Jeffrey G, Liss '65 Liss&Mangum 208 South La Salle Street Chicago. IL 60604 Robert A. Lundin '53 UlOUrbandaleLane Wayzata. MN 55391 Paul L. Maddock '33 545 N, Lake Trail Palm Beach. FL 33480 Mrs, Joseph D, Matarazzo '48 (Ruth Gadbois) 1934 S,W, Vista Avenue Portland. OR 97201 John N, McCamish. Jr, '63 119PaseoEncmaI San Antonio. TX 78212 Mrs, Julius Michaelson '.50 (RitaCaslowitz) 78 Lorraine Avenue Providence. RI 02906 Ms, Beatrice C, Minkins '.36 345 Glenwood Avenue Pawtucket. RI 02860 Ann S. Moms '79 Box 4268 Brown University Edwin L. Noel '68 8528 Colonial Lane St, Louis, MO 63124 Leonard Ranalli '48 11 Adelphi Avenue Providence, RI 02906 Mrs, William D. Riley '61 (Jeanne Bourgeault) Sharon Drive Coventry. RI 02816 William D, Rogers '52 11 12 Park Avenue New York. NY 10029 Robert P, Sanchez '58 Quaker Ridge Greenwich. CT 06830 Mrs, Stephania Sanzone '67 26 West Hill Dnve West Hartford. CT 06119 John M. Sapinsley '42 25 Cooke Street Providence. RI 02906 Ms, Kimberly Scala '76 300 Pine Rock Ave.. Apt, A 16 Hamden.CT 06514 David E, Schreiner '70 3335 Grenway Road Shaker Heights, OH 44122 Mrs, Michael Whiteman '62 (Margery Goddard) 68 Willett Street Albany. NY 12210 Mrs, Irving Wolpert '46 (Shirley Sugarman) 162 Laurel Avenue Providence. RI 02906 Mrs, William F, Young. Jr. '4! (Phyllis Baldwin) 24 Howell Avenue Larchmont. NY 10538 Moms R, Zucker '57 542 Hartford Court So, Orange. NI 07079 Nancy Scull '63 41 Bowdoin Street Cambridge. MA 02138 Philip Solomita '65 2857 Misty Morning Road Torrance. C A 90505 Mrs. Agu Suvari '66 (Elizabeth Charles) 106 Plum Beach Rd, Saunderstown. RI 02874 David E, Taylor '66 5442 Mercedes Dallas. TX 75206 Prof, Wallace H, Terry II '59 .3511 Macomb St„N.W. Washington. DC 20008 Mrs. David R, Tillinghast '51 (Phyllis Van Horn) 45 East 72nd Street. Apt , 1 1 A New York. NY 10021 Mrs. Gino R, Treves '49 (Clotilde Sonnino) 9 Adams Drive Princeton. NJ 08540 SanfordWUdis.M.D, '41 105 Albany Street Fall River. MA 02720 Ms. R, Victoria Buchanan Ward '63 212 Cote Saint Antoine Road Westmount PQ. H3Y. 2J3, CANADA Brown Club Presiden ARIZONA Phoenix A. Inman Marshall. Jr. '40 5404 East Palo Verde Drive Paradise Valley. AZ 85253 , Tucson j Richmond A. Day '31 ] 4757 Brisa Del Sur Tucson. 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Rogers Director of Admission Alan P, Maynard Director of Financial Aid Ronald A, Wolk Vice President and Director of the Capital Campaign Robert A, Reichley Vice-President for University Relations David J-Zucconi Director of National Alumni Schools Program 51 iB®ffl: Beyond the Road Portraits &Visior\s oflSeivfoimdlanders Steve Taylor is a Brown senior who has been photo- graphing professionally since he was in the eighth grade and who has studied with photographer Fred Picker. In 1972, the year he was admitted to Brown, he decided to defer matriculahon for a year and instead went to Nova Scotia. It was there that, as he puts it, "I saw Newfoundland on the map and saw this crazy dirt road two hundred miles long, and I decided to go check it out for myself." The "crazy dirt road" (com- pleted in the 1960s) traverses the entire length of New- foundland's Great Northern Peninsula, a massive, rocky headland that reaches almost to Labrador and separates the Atlantic Ocean from the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Steve made five trips up that road over the next two years, photographing the Peninsula's beauty, 52 harshness, and isolation, its people, its changing way of life. He met and talked with dozens of New- foundlanders whose stories and reflections he re- corded on tape, and out of those visits grew the core of a book, Bei/ond the Road: Portraits and Visions ofNezv- foundlanders (Van Nostrand Reinhold, Toronto). Steve's photographs and interviews are interwoven with a narrative text by Harold Horwood, a well- known author and tenth-generation Newfoundlander, who eloquently articulates the dilemma of a people "caught in the most painful stage of transition, a people whose roots have been destroyed so recently that they have been able to make no new sustaining growth." Steve is currently at work on a book about country auctions in Vermont. j p A mother and her son, photogmpheii in their home in Raleigh Evenfii'here you meet peoph' who are ehxpient as they •peak of the past, of the zwlenee of present hange, of the uneertainties ahead." rhese three photographs appear in tlie book. In the village of St. Paul's, fishing skiffs are covered by an early smiv. 53 Harold Brown's honorary degree Editor: It is distressing to read of the un- civil protest which accompanied the award- ing of an honorary degree to Defense Secre- tary Harold Brown during Brown's 209th Commencement. One need not have supported the American military involvement in Vietnam to recognize the benefits of a strong American military in a fallen world. Were no one will- ing to check the expansionisdc intentions of the Soviets, the relatively high levels of per- sonal, cultural, and religious freedoms which we enjoy in this country might be entirely obliterated. Surely the protest was myopic. WILFRID R. KOPONEN '76 NcicYork. N.Y. Editor: I read with a certain amount of nausea where 150 persons turned their backs on President Howard Swearer and Secretary of Defense Harold Brown as he was being awarded an honorary degree. It is obvious that we are still graduating juveniles who are not equipped to take their places in the world they are about to face. What they don't realize is the damage they are doing to the undergraduates and also to the incoming classes of future years. I have been associated with the Brown community ever since I graduated, with the exception of three and a half years ser\ed as a Naval officer in World War II, which service I am proud of. I am currentlv serving on the Secondars' School Committee in my aiea, and am the athletic representative of that committee, locallv. In years gone b\-, I have twice been pres- ident of the Monmouth County Brown Club, and have also served as a fund raiser for the Alumni Fund. What these children (that is all I can call them) are doing is turning off a large number of alumni who are now in a position to make substantial financial contnbutions to the University. When something like this hap- pens, since I have been so active in Brown University's activities in this area where we have a large number of Brown alumni, I get a repercussion from the alumni who make it a point to call me or see me. Their general at- titude is that "these jerks aren't going to be- have like this on my money" and, therefore, they don't contribute or make a token con- tribution in comparison to the amount they could have given to the University Fund. I know that the alumni contributions to the General Fund go to partially pay for grant in aids to the students. When the students on campus behave in this manner, they are de- priving themselves, and those that follow them, of a substantial source of income that the University could well use. 1 am not quoting from a parochial point of view, since I am in contact with many other alumni throughout the state as well as the metropolitan alumni, and this affects their attitudes just as it affects mine. All 1 can say, in conclusion, is that by turning their backs on the Secretary of De- fense, perhaps they showed fum the best as- pect of their physical attributes — or, to put it more graphically, it proves there are more horse's tails at Brown than there are horses! EDWARD W. WISE, JR. '35 Red Bank, N.J. Editor: Although I have tried to remove University politics from my list of summer concerns, I am afraid the July August BAM contained an error so grievous as to necessi- tate this epistle from the heat and humidity of these Tennessee woods. "S.R." 'saccount of Harold Brown's receipt of an honorary degree noted that the Secretary of Defense's name was presented without "dissent" to the A/zvs(in/ Committee on Honorary De- grees. While Ms. "R" claims to have done her homework |on| sex-discrimination suits, it is obvious that she did not do too thorough of a job on honorary degrees. Mr. (Dr.) Brown's nomination was a point of sharp de- bate between the Board of Fellows and the student-faculty representatives on the Committee. The four students' vigorous at- tempt to dissuade the Fellows from awarding Brown (Harold) recognition was accorded derision by Fellows who repeatedly re- minded us we were there to advise and not to decide. While our opposition to H. Broxvn elicited some tongue-in-cheek questioning of our loyalty to the militarv'-industrial empire, I believe the student representatives not only dissented but also (in as polite a manner as possible) warned the powers-that-be of the risk of expressed displeasure if they insisted upon making Harold Brown's favorite son. The matter of Harold Brown's honorary degree was simply an unfortunate symptom of bad attitudinal disease that afflicts the ad- visor)- committee system. It stunk of poor judgment, unkept secrets, and ignored ad- vice. The Board of Fellows' insistence on rely- ing upon their legal right as "owners of the University," especially when one person can exert his will over the expressed wnshes of an entire community, has once again put us into the straits of conflict. I can only hope next year's committee can learn from the "sins" of the past experi- ence. Hopefully, as a group of community representatives we can respect both the as sertions and the objections among ourselvi so as to avoid future unpleasantries. FaUin; back on dc jure role-playing will do nothing but further hasten recognition of the illegit— mate base upon which these roles are founded. Surely, if the system of "input" t the Fellows is to work, they must heed the advice, warnings, feelings, and sincerity of the involved faculty and shidents regardle of raw, legal status. Otherwise, partic-ipatic on advisory committees bv "non-power- holders" can be nothing but an exercise of feudal and futile co-optation. NATHAN BICKS '78 Memphis, Tenn. Natlwn Bicks was a manber of a studeiit-faculty committee that adinses the Board t^Fellou's on hoiwraty-degree recipients. A:tiial sehrtion of those irho xcill receive honoranj degrees is made I the Felloios. Tfwre ims indeed dissent on the pai of some tnetiihers of the advisory committee to th selection of Harold Broivn, but one person presen vigorously denies that there urn any derision of the shidaits by any of the Fellozvs. — Editor Barrett Hazeltine Editor: I enjoyed the article in the most recent BAM concerning the latest honors ac corded to Barry Hazeltine. I was a junior in engineering when he came to Brown and I was immediately impressed with the sincen interest that he took in all the members of hii classes. Barr\' treated us each as an indi- vidual; the warmth behind his concern was obvious, as was a certain shyness. I still re- member the ritual which preceded each class as he carefully removed his jacket, turned it inside out, folded it, and placed it on the toj of the table. It was a case of covetat first sight when) saw the Barrett Hazeltine T-shirt shown in the article. I would be interested in buying one if there are any still available. As a matte of fact, I su.spect that there are a number of Brown graduates whose lives have been touched by Barry Hazeltine who would be very pleased to buy one of these T-shirts. The appeals for funds usually come from Brown more often than I would like, but thii is one time when I would be happy to volun- teer a contribution. DAVIDS. CURRY '61 Iowa City, loiva Sci'eral phone calls have failed to proinde any in- formation on hoiv to order a Hazeltine T-shirt. One possihiht}/, however, is Bmuvi Student Agencies, Box 1146 at the University. — Editor \ 54 Zaring' for the patient Hditor: I was deeply pleased by your mnients concerning my address to the D graduates of 77 (BAM, July/August 7). To "set the record straight," however, ihaps to forestall the "older" Brown umni who know better, and since Truth is s own virtue, 1 would point out that, though 1 did use as a theme, "The secret of le care of the patient is caritig for the pa- nt," I gave full credit to the two giants of merican medicine — Drs. Richard Cabot id Herrman L. Blumgart — who articulated lat thesis in 1927 and 1963, respectively, ltd, more importantly, lived their profes- onal lives according to its tenets. ilLTON W. HAMOLSKY, M.D. hysidan-in-Chief epartmmt of Medidne, Rhode Island Hospital rofcssor of Medical Sdmce rmm Universih/ Tie Lamphere suit \ Editor: I concur enthusiastically in the lentiments expressed in favor of W\s. Lam- ,here by various alumni and alumnae, in- iuding the older brother of learned counsel 3r the plaintiff. Universities purport to be engines of umanistic learning and, therefore, for some ague and impenetrable reason, not subject J the Constitution, Title VII, the Federal ;ules of 0\il Procedure, and other miscel- ineous bodies of law. In reality, they are no ifferent from any other corporation and, side from substituting ego-gratification for he noble ideal of maximizing profit, they re, in every other respect, quite similar to he colossi on the New York Stock Exchange nd often just as arrogant, petty, arbitrary, jid reactionar\'. The Lamphere case is illustrative. Rrst, he University's current track record with re- ;ard to the employment and promotion of vomen, especially its failure to dissipate the "ffects of past discrimination, is appalling, iecond, its contemptuous behavior in re- sponse to plaintiff's efforts to take discovery s characteristic of an unwillingness, man- fested by many academic institutions, to jla\' bv the same rules which are imposed on •vervbody else in society. Third, it is in- romprehensible how the University can con- inue to press its graduates for contributions, oiouing only too well that a sizable chunk is expended in the interests of a patently reac- donary cause. In sum, the University should undertake J thorough re-examination of its conduct in his htigation and pursue the proper correc- ive action with all deliberate speed. iyCHARD M. BERNSTEIN '63 Philadelphia. Pa. Editor: I don't know whether Louise Lamphere has been badly dealt with or not. But I note from your article that Brown's regular law firm is Tillinghast, Collins and Graham. Isn't there a Charles Tillinghast well up in Brown circles, maybe chairman of the board of trustees? If so it suggests an at- mosphere of nepotism and palliness in which the hindmost is often fed to the Devil. Re- member that the BAM had to admit in its obituary of Nobel prize-winning chemist Lars Onsager that when the going got tough Brown fired him. In times of privation the weakest, politically, go to the wall. The mechanisms that are supposed to protect them are manipulated by and in favor of the politically strong. CHARLES W. McCUTCHEN '52 Sc.M. Bcthesda. Maryland Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr. '32 is chancellor of the University. Hoirmer, ndther he nor any of his family i.'i in any loay conned ed with Tillinghast, Collins and Graham, which has been the Univer- sity's legal counsel for many years. No member of that laiv firm is in any way connected unth the governance of the University. — Editor Editor: The letters about the Lamphere case in the July BAM no doubt have pro- voked a number of replies. My own com- ments concern the Department of Anthro- pology more than the issues raised bv the case. Specificallv, this is a reply to the letter of Douglas Jones. He presents himself as something of an insider; and as a 'peer' I am compelled to answer him. 1 too received my B.A. from Brown ('69) and have continued in anthropology (at Brown) as a doctoral candi- date. The reasoning in Mr. Jones's letter is implicit (and, so, safe from criticism) but his statements of "fact" require clarification lest thev mislead alumni less famibar with Brown's anthropology department. Evaluations of Professor Lamphere's teaching and scholarship may vary but the subject of litigation (the "real issue"), con- trary to Jones's assertion, is whether the de- nial of tenure was an act of sexual discrimi- nation (ultimately a question of the criteria and motives of the decision makers). Even were this not the case, the pages of BAM are not the place to debate Professor Lam- phere's, or any professor's, excellence. However, the reputation of a fine academic department should not be treated as casually as it is by Jones. Gting the loss of faculty on whom he relied, Jones implies that "the state of anthropology at Brown" is a sorry one. To better evaluate his description of anthropology at Brown, the readers of BAM should be aware of the following: 1) The department is voung and small: separated from sociology in 1970, it currently has twelve full-time faculty positions. 2) Of the anthropology faculty at Brown during Jones's time, six are no longer in the department. Jones says only that they left "for one reason or another" but in the con- text of the Lamphere case it is important to note that (including Lamphere) only two of the six are not at Brown because of denial of tenure; that these two decisions occurred after the University had formulated limits on number of tenure positions (a response to the economic crisis); and that only one of these losses was a woman (during this period three women joined the faculty, one of whom has been granted tenure). 3) Jones's comments about Professor Fitzgerald are curious and misleading. He does not say why "there is likely to be a scrap over his tenure" but since the issue here can- not be gender it must he, in Jones's view, academic qualification. He appears to suggest that "notable" professors have a difficult time gaining tenure. Whatever his reasoning, the case he cites is moot as far as tenure is concerned. Professor Fitzgerald, who indeed is a fine and notable addition to the department, has a non-tenure track, visit- ing professorship to replace Professor Beeman, who is on hvo-vear research leave. 4) There have been a number of excel- lent additions to the department in recent years and Jones's low opinion of the faculty remaining from his time is not generally shared by other students or by anthro- pologists familiar vsith their work. Rather than argue the quality and reputation of in- dividual faculty members 1 will dte some relatively 'hard' data to counter Jones's view. During a period of drastic cutbacks in federal and foundation support to education and research, the department has main- tained an impressive level of successful grant competition. By conservative estimate, based on publicized awards, since 1969 the de- partment has received over $5CK),000 from the U.S. Public Health Service for training grad- uate and postdoctoral students. Research grants to faculty amount to more than $500,000 and these funds have been pro- vided by such prestigious and varied sources as the National Academy of Science, Na- tional Science Foundation, National En- dowments for the Humanities and for the Arts, and Fulbright-Hays. The department's Public Archeology Laboratory, since its inception two years ago, has received re- search conh-acts totalling $300,000. As of last year, the department had awarded eight doctorates. Notably, in these times of unemployed Ph.D's. five of these degree recipients and three doctoral candi- dates are, or have been, engaged in univer- sity teaching (one having just left Hampshire College to become headmaster of Concord Academy). There is no very' good way to quantita- tively evaluate teaching; though, several years ago, the Brown Daily Herald did report that dividing department budgets by total class enrollments revealed that anthropology was one of the University's best buys. My own experience is that the anthropology faculty range from adequate to excellent in 55 teaching ability and all arc highly accessible to students, and serious and committed in fulfilling their academic responsibilities. These characterstics would normally not re- c]uire mention were it not tor Jones's letter and Professor Lamphere's rather silly yet malicious statement, quoted in the April BAM, "Basically, I like students. My col- leagues don't." Two final points: With those writing in July, 1 share a deep concern about the situation of women faculty at Brown. The statistics are appalling. Factors external to the University, which might ac- count for the male'female ratio in initial hir- ing, cannot explain the discrepancy in per- centages of men and women receiving ten- ure. However, that a pattern of discrimina- tion appears to exist (and that surely in many cases a sexist bias has operated in hiring and tenure decisions) does not mean that every' charge of discrimination has merit, nor that such issues as confidentiality of recom- mendations and personal correspondence or professional autonomy to set standards are not worth defending. Several letters accuse Ms. Reeves of bias in her reporting of the case. As a current member of the anthropology department, presumably more knowledgeable of the case than those criticizing the reporting, and as a partisan who found the article little help to my side, 1 can attest to the article's balance and fairness. MARK J. HANDLER 'b'), '73 A.M. Northridgc. Calif. An award to honor Phil Taft Editor: Friends and colleagues of the late Philip Taft wish to honor him by establishing the Philip Taft Labor Historv Award. The proposed monetary award will be made periodically for the best publication in the United States about American working class history. To finance this award, a fund will be set up at Cornell University through gifts made to the university. Professor Taft's dose as- sociation with Cornell's New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations and its faculty extended over many years. His papers will be deposited in the Labor- Management Documentation Center of the school's Martin P. Catherwood Library. The committee designated to make the award will consist initially of Professors James O. Morris, A. Gerd Korman, and Cletus E. Daniel of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University and Professors Irving Bernstein of the Uni- versity of California at Los Angeles and Sid- ney Fine of the University of Michigan. The national committee listed on this let- terhead is appealing to (Brown alumni] to honor Philip Taft, the distinguished labor historian, by contributing to the fund for the award which will honor labor historians in the years to come. If you wish to make a contriburion, which is tax deductible, please make your check payable to the Cornell University- Philip Taft Labor Historv Award and send it to the school, marked to my attention. MAURICE F. NEUFELD Itlmca, N.Y. Proffsscir Neiifchi is pmfesscir of iiuiustrial and labor relations at Cornell. Among the members of the award committee are AFL-CIO President George Mcam/, Brown economic professors George H. Borts and Jerome L. Stein, United Steelworkers exeaitive Lawrence N . Spntz '51. ami Neic York State Industrial Commissioner Philip Ross '63 Ph.D. — Editor 'Kind, patient, humorous' Editor: A very warm glow of pure plea- sure filled my heart when I read in the julv August issue of 6AA1 that Professor Philip Taft had been awarded a special citation at this year's Commencement, He was everything the citation said he was plus a goodly number of other fine things — kind, patient, humorous, I sfiU chuckle when 1 recall his wide grin as he stepped out of line and doffed his Beefeater in my direction on the day my class headed to its Baccalaureate exercises. Would that each undergraduate could know such a teacher! Many thanks to those responsible for honoring Professor Taft, MARY ANN HOLMES HULL '50 St. Catharines, Ontario 'Slips in copy' Editor: Despite BAM's coverage of both achievement and controversy at the Univer- sity, I get the feeling that its news articles aren't being more than cursorily read. Haven't you received howls about some of your recent slips in copy — not even from the ghost of Josiah Carberry? It was not long ago that your retiring managing editor came up v\ith someone getting a "kudo." The July-August issue of- fers two doozies: on page 5, in the Patsy Cole story, "there was packing to be done, good- byes to be said, choices to be made . . . and the growing realization"; and on page 13's note on Doris Reed, your associate editor wrote "honors Brown can bestow an alumni." Is it possible that some one will have to explain about singulars and plurals to vciur staff? FRANK MERCHANT '31 Barbounille. Ky. A kudo to Professin Merchant, lelio is confusing singulars and plurals unth some oi'erlookai typo- graphical errors. And another kudo to all of us, who did the cnvrlooking. — Editor Brown's 'impacf Editor: 1 have great respect for the Browr, Alumm Monthly; I was therefore surprised a the quality of the article enritled "Brown's Impact" (July August, 1977). To begin with, the study was not conceived by Robert Reichley; it was an idea several people in th University (among them Eric Brown [formei director of the Office of Institutional Re- search] and Kelsev Murdoch (assistant to the president]) had been kicking around for several years. During the fall of 1975, Carol Wooten and 1 (then working (as a statistical research assistant] in the Office of Institu- tional Research) approached Mr. Reichley tcj see if he would give us support and guidancd if we undertook the study. He was en- | thusiasdc about the project and, during the six months it took Ms. Wooten and I to col- j lect and compile the necessary data, proved to be a great help to us. Since 1 was co-author of the study, I arr disappointed that my name was omitted from your ardcle. MARCIA VV. BROMBERG CronnoeU. Conn. 'Shame' Editor: Shame on Ihe BAM for feeling it had to define the term "cartographers" in your article "A Brown map. . . ." (July/ August). Of course, if it truly is necessary, then you shouldn't use such big words in the firsi place! And what an indictment of Brown graduates that would be. DAPHNE P. ALLAN '53 A.M. Howey in the Hills. Fla. 56