December 1977 



Brown 



Alumni Monthly 



On the road with Howard Swearer 




Is your April 15th 

a little 
taxing? 



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If we seem to be asking you a 
bit early to think about your annual 
exchange with the IRS next Spring, it 
is only in the spirit of the season. We 
want to help you ... and Brown ! 

For 1977 is fast running off the 
calendar; and, as taxing as your situation 
may be, a gift to Brown before the year's 
end will be both highly deductible for you, 
and pleasantly productive up here on the hill. 

This unabashed, commercial message is 
sponsored by all of Brown's fundraising arms, 
or, "All our begs in one ask-it," as a well- 
known news magazine once described 
community giving programs. It's a gentle 
reminder that what you give today (or by 
December 31st) will be a welcome deduction in 
the Spring when "April," as Eliot put it, "is the 

crudest month." 

The Brown Fund's slogan puts it 

another way: "If we don't, who will?" It applies 

to everything Brown is trying to be and to do 

these days. It applies to each of us, and to our 

chances to be star players on the ongoing stage of 

Brown . . . with its progress, its performance, and 

its promise all receiving rave reviews. 

Brown has come a long way in 213 years, 

and especially in your decades. It has done so only 

because the continuing Brown constituency 




(you, in short) 
has willed it so, and made it so. 

For the future. Brown has "miles to go," 
with the journey obviously an exciting one. And 
if we always seem to be asking you to join the 
drive, please bear with us! What Brown has 
become, is thanks to you. Now, what Brown is to 
become, it looks to you. 

We hope, then, sometime between now 

and the singing of Auld Lang Syne, you will bid 

farewell to "77 with a remembrance of, and to 

Brown. 

You'll be glad you did. 

Especially in April . . . 




Brown Alumni Monthly, December 1977, Vol. 78, No. 4 



Editor 

Robert M . Rhodes 

Associate Editors 

Debra Shore 

John F. Barr\-, Jr. '50 

Editorial Associate 

Anne Hinman Diffily '73 

Editorial Assistant 

Janet M. PhiUips '70 



Board of Editors 

Chainnan 

Doris Steam Donovan '59 

Vice-chairman 

James E. DuBois '50 

Barn' Beckham '66 
Peter G.Fradley '50 
Karen Leggett '72 
Laura Hersh Salganik '70 
Dr. Sanford W. Udis '41 
Roger E. Vaughan '59 



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In this issue 



12 The Great Cooling Trend 

Geology Professor John Imbrie explains that the next Ice Age, in 
geological terms, is not far off. In charting the history of the earth's 
climate, Imbrie and his colleagues found that for most of the last 
half million years the weather has been — you guessed it — cold. 

16 On the Road with Howard Swearer 

In which the magazine's editor travels by plane, train, bus, and cab 
on an autumn road trip with the president. 

22 Down the Colorado 

Six undergraduates, two rafts, one small plastic boat, forts'-three 
days on a river — all made for one far-flung Group Independent 
Study Project last spring and summer. 

28 Opera 

David Gockley '65, Margaret Genovese '70 and Jack Mastroianni '71: 
This Brown trio has transformed the Houston Grand Opera from a 
small-town arts company to one winning national acclaim. 

Departments 

2 Under the Elms 

8 Sports 

35 The Classes 

36 Profile: Jack Newcombe '48 
38 Profile: Ruth Burt Ekstrom '53 

45 Profile: David Morgan '71 

46 Deaths 

47 Carrying the Mail 

48 On Stage 



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The cover: The president in Philadelphia. Photographs and design by 
John Foraste. 




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'Concern over unwarranted federal 
intrusion into medical admissions' 



At its October meeting, the Brown 
Corporation voted to express its "seri- 
ous concern over the unwarranted in- 
trusion of federal regulations into the 
process of student admission to United 
States medical schools." The Corpora- 
tion's action was prompted by a section 
of the Health Professions Educational 
Assistance Act of 1976 that requires 
those U.S. medical schools receiving 
certain federal funds — called "capita- 
tion grants" — to accept as transfers 
into the third year a certain number of 
American students studying in foreign 
medical schools. Those students must 
have completed two years of study and 
have passed the National Board of Med- 
ical Examiners test (Part 1). 

Record numbers of American stu- 
dents have been turning to foreign med- 
ical schools for their training when re- 
jected for admission by schools in the 
U.S. While American medical schools 
contend that they cannot absorb addi- 
tional students in the first two "basic 
science" years (when costly laboratory 
space and equipment are at a premi- 
um) and do not wish to lower their 
academic standards, the legislation 
presumes that U.S. medical schools can 
accept more students for the final years, 
when students spread out to a number 
of hospitals for their clinical training. 

Eighteen of the nation's medical 
schools, however, have decided to for- 
feit some federal assistance — an aver- 
age of about $500,000 each — rather 
than comply with this mandate. Johns 
Hopkins University President Steven 
MuUer said, in explaining why Johns 
Hopkins's medical school chose to reject 
these federal funds, "The university is 
not prepared to abdicate to the govern- 
ment the right to select its students, nor, 
for that matter, its faculty, courses of 
study, and degree requirements." 

The vision initially conjured up by 
this act — that of the Secretary of 
Health, Education and Welfare literally 
assigning American medical students at 
foreign schools to Yale, Alabama, etc. — 
is not quite accurate, however. Based on 
its capacity to absorb transfer students 
and the amount of federal funds it re- 



ceives, a U.S. medical school will be as- 
signed a number indicating how many 
transfer students it must admit. Each 
school is free to select those students it 
deems most qualified from among those 
who apply: Brown's share of transfer 
students is expected to be from four to 
six students. But, Brown must admit the 
allocated number or risk foregoing its 
capitation grants — approximately 
$329,000 a year — and jeopardizing its 
students' eligibility for federally insured 
loans. 

Brown has decided to comply with 
these new regulations, at least for the 
present, but the Corporation has re- 
served the right to withdraw the Uni- 
versity from this transfer program after 
a year. "We don't believe the federal 
government or anybody else ought to be 
accorded the privilege of establishing 
policy or telling us what we ought to 
do," said Levi Adams, associate vice 
president for external affairs of the med- 
ical program. "What this legislation 
does mean is that if you don't fill what 
the government has said is your share, 
tha: the secretary assigns someone." 

Brown, in fact, has several pro- 
grams — the Fifth Pathway and the 
Supervised Year of Clinical Education 
— designed to aid Americans studying 
at foreign medical schools. Neither 
program permits students actually to 
transfer into Brown's own medical 
program, but they do provide a chance 
for Americans to obtain valuable clinical 
experience, thus enabling them to com- 
pete for internships in this country. 
"We believe it's a national disgrace that 
students must study abroad," Adams 
said, "and we recognize that it's in the 
clinical preparation that these students 
are deficient." 

On November 4 the U.S. Senate 
voted to repeal the provision of the 
Health Professions Educational Assis- 
tance Act tying federal capitation grants 
to the acceptance of American transfer 



students from foreign medical schools. 
At the time of this writing, the House 
had under consideration several bills 
that would modify the terms of that 
provision. It is expected that one such 
bill will pass the House and that the 
House and Senate versions will be sent 
to a committee to resolve the differences 
between them. D.S. 

'We've made the campus 
our laboratory' 

When Paul Maeder tendered his 
resignation last summer as vice pres- 
ident of finance and operations to return 
to the engineering division (BAM, 
July/August), he announced that he 
would be devohng his time to energy 
research, a field he has been involved in 
for many years. Maeder's research has 
an immediate and practical application: 
he is collaborating on the redesign and 
overhaul of Brown's entire heating sys- 
tem {BAM, March), which he predicts 
will be completed in about ten years. 
And assisting him on that project are 
ten Brown undergraduates, eight of 
them engineering majors. (Many other 
students are also involved, but those ten 
are the hard-core committed.) 

Maeder's belief that students can 
make important contributions to the 
University traces back to his years as as- 
sociate provost and then vice president; 
he was the administration's liaison with 
student leaders during the 1968 walkout 
by black students, and during the re- 
vamping of the curriculum he worked 
with Ira Magaziner '69 and others as 
chairman of the Special Committee on 
Educational Principles. Speaking of the 
energy project, he says, "Students are a 
beautiful resource. They're better and 
brighter than the engineers in these 
fields, and it's also very interesting for 
them educationally." 

Many of the individual projects 
were conceived by the students them- 
selves, with Maeder pointing out the 
problem areas and the students devis- 
ing ways of attacking them. Some are 
receiving independent-study credit; 
others are working for Physical Plant 
and getting paid for it. For example, 
Newton Green '78 is studying the com- 
plaints received from students about 
dormitory heating systems and how 
those complaints are being handled. 
Charlie Giancarlo '79 has been in charge 
of the heating system renovation project 



for Appleby, the largest of the East 
Campus dorms; they were expected to 
have finished their study (which con- 
sidered alternate systems such as solar 
energy and heat pumps) and to have 
presented their findings and recom- 
mendations by mid-November of this 
year. David Dickinson '78 has been 
working on the problem of heat recov- 
ery in the animal-care facihty, where the 
air must be completely changed fifteen 
times an hour ("Like living in a wind 
tunnel," Maeder observes), causing an 
enormous heat loss. 

Although it is highly unlikely that 
any of the students now involved in the 
overall project will still be on campus 
when it is completed, their contribu- 
tions are tangible and far from open- 
ended. "Students must arrive at a logi- 
cal conclusion and present a final pa- 
per" summarizing their study, Maeder 
says. And in many cases, they can see 
immediate results. Right now. Brown is 
seeking an engineering firm to contract 
out the Appleby renovations, and 
Maeder says he expects the animal-care 
facility project to start paying off by next 
summer. As he puts it, "We've made 
the campus our laboratory." /.P. 

The president's policy 
on discriminatory clubs 

President Swearer has sent a letter 
to all Brown administrative officers, 
academic department heads, and pro- 
gram heads urging that all meetings 
relating to University affairs be held in 
facilities that do not discriminate against 
members of the University community 
on the basis of race, color, religion, or 
sex. The full text of his message follows: 

"Brown espouses policies of non- 
discrimination, diversity, and openness 
of communication. We should re- 
examine our practices regularly to 
assure that they are advancing these 
policies and we should see to the con- 
duct of our affairs in a manner which is 
fair to all members of the University 
community. 

"In this spirit, 1 urge that all meet- 
ings dealing with University-related 
business be held in facilities which do 
not discriminate against members of the 
Brown community on the basis of race, 
color, religion, or sex. It is not my in- 
tention to advise anyone about those 
organizations in which he or she should 
hold membership, for that is a matter of 
personal preference. However, with the 
increasing diversity of the Brown com- 



munity, it does not seem to me consoi 
ant with the policies indicated above h 
conduct University business in facilihes 
where restrictive policies may either 
exclude some of our colleagues or mak 
them feel unwelcome. This is especiall 
true for meetings whose costs are reim 
bursed by the University. 

"1 hope that you wiU understand 
and agree with this concern and will 
discuss it with others in your depart- 
ment or program." 

Stuart Sherman: Helping to 
save whale populations 

Stuart Sherman '39, University li- 
brary bibliographer and associate pro- 
fessor of bibliography, doesn't drive 
around in a car festooned with bumpei 
stickers saying "Save the Whales" and 
"Boycott Japanese Goods." But in his 
own quiet way, Sherman is making a 
lasting contribution to worldwide ef- 
forts to save endangered whale popula 
tions from the depredations of com- 
mercial overfishing. 

Sherman is a self-described whal- 
ing historian and author of The Voice of 
the Whaletnan (1965), an account of 
American whaling logbooks and jour- 
nals, written while he was librarian of 
the Providence Public Library and basec 
on that library's world-famous Nichol 
son Whaling Collection. Recently he ac 
cepted a commission to compile a com- 
puterized, indexed world inventory of 
existing whaling logbooks and journals 
which may ultimately aid the Interna- 
tional Whaling Commission in establish 
ing limits for annual kills of different 
species. 

The idea for the project grew out o; 
a United Nations scientific conference 
on marine mammals, held in Bergen, 
Norway, in the summer of 1976 and at- 
tended by cetologists, historians, and 
museum curators from all over the 
world. At the conference, the possibility! 
of using historical whaling records to i 
help determine the status of past and j 
present whale populations was ex- i 
plored; the upshot was that Stuart j 

Sherman received a long-distance caU j 
from Norway asking him if he would be | 
willing to lend his services as a whalingj 
historian and bibliographer to such an ! 
effort. i 

"It's ironic," Sherman says, "that 
the records of the old whaling industry 
may play an important part in prevent- 
ing the extermination of whales." A 
logbook is the official record (whereas a 




■■li,.itt ^hntihin ,ii^f|/.^u^ a ivlnili:'^ tooth, a harpoon, and the Pioneer log. 



•journal is a private record) of a whaling 
voyage; the daily entries usually make 
mote of the number and species of 
whales sighted, captured, or lost, the 
location of whaling grounds, the "take" 
of other vessels in the vicinity, and so 
forth. Such information is often sketchy 
or illegible, but it provides at least some 
clues to the state of whale populations 
and to the inroads made by the whaling 
industry (which peaked around the 
mid-nineteenth century). Of the almost 
14,000 whaling voyages knouTi to have 



been made by American vessels from 
the eighteenth century onward, about 
4,000 logbooks and journals survive 
in museums, libraries, and private 
collections. 

Ttie John Hay Librars' (where 
Sherman's office is located) has fourteen 
such logbooks in its Morse Whaling Col- 
lection. Sherman used one of these, 
from the New Bedford bark Pioneer, as 
the basis for a paper on "The Nature, 
Possibilities, and Limitations of Whaling 
Logbook Data," presented at the Inter- 



national Workshop on Historical Whal- 
ing Records held last September at the 
Kendall Whaling Museum in Sharon, 
Massachusetts. The paper, which 
evolved from a Group Independent 
Study Project that Sherman directed last 
year for two Brown seniors, presents a 
detailed analysis of the data on the 
Pioneer's 1852-53 voyage to the western 
Arctic Ocean to hunt bowhead whales 
(now an endangered species; the Su- 
preme Court recently enjoined Alaskan 
Eskimos from hunting bowheads). A 
typical logbook entry, written in spidery 
calligraphy, reads: 

Monday, July 5, 1852. Com- 
mences fine S. E. breeze and cloudy: 
boats off in chase. 4 P.M. came on 
board, got dinner and off again. Great 
man\' whales, but ver\' wild. Middle 
part foggy. 5 A.M. lowered; larboard 
boat struck, and the whale took her 
line: waist boat struck him a few hours 
after, and saved him: but owing to a 
strong current did not get him along- 
side till noon. Ends calm and clear. 
Ten or fifteen sail in sight, most of 
them cutting or boiling. Seen a great 
deal of heavy ice today. 

Lat. 62° 16' N. 

This entry is "tagged" unth a little draw- 
ing of a bowhead whale, denoting a 
successful day and the species of whale 
taken. 

Sherman notes in the paper that 
such records are "an untapped resource 
which offer a wide range of information 
useful to anthropologists, astronomers, 
cetologists, economists, geographers, 
historians, meteorologists, oceanog- 
raphers, and zoologists." He has 
already compiled a preliminary direc- 
tory listing some twenty U.S. institu- 
tions known to have whaling records, 
and he estimates that there are about 
forty more. But an exhaustive cross- 
referencing of all these materials "could 
be accomplished only as a major under- 
taking supported with massive grants," 
he observes. So the present project, for 
which Sherman is making use of 
Brown's computer facilities, is limited to 
cross-indexing for whaling masters 
(captains), ports, whale species, and 
whaling grounds. StiU, it's a sizeable 
undertaking in its own right: Sherman 
doesn't expect to have it completed un- 
til September 1978. j.P. 



Corporation elects Ruth 
Ekstrom, Henry Sharpe 

Ruth Burt Ekstrom's five-year term 
as a Brown trustee expired last June, but 
her continued ser\ice to the University 
was assured on October 15, when the 
Corporation elected her to its Board of 
Fellows. She is the second woman to be 
named to the twelve-member group of 
senior trustees, who are elected for Life 
terms. (The first woman was Doris B. 
Reed '27, who resigned from the board 
in 1975.) 

Ruth Ekstrom '53 has been active in 
alumni and trustee concerns for nearly 
twenty years. The holder of a doctorate 
in education from Rutgers, she is a re- 
search psychologist with the Educa- 
tional Testing Service in Princeton, New 
Jersey. 

Her Brown-related activities have 
included stints as a class agent, as pres- 
ident of the Pembroke College Club of 
New Jersey, and as first vice president 
and a member of the board of directors 
of the Pembroke Alumnae Associa- 
tion. (For more on Mrs. Ekstrom, see 
page 38.) 

Also at its October meeting, the 
Corporation re-elected Rhode Island 
businessman Henry D. Sharpe, Jr. '45 to 
the Board of Trustees. Sharpe, who is 
chairman and chief executive officer of 
the Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing 
Company, has been a Brown trustee 
almost continuously since 1954, and 
headed the Corporation's budget and 
finance committee when Brown began 
its financial retrenchment program in 
1974. A few weeks after his re-election 
as a trustee, he was named chairman 
of Brown's capital fund drive to be 
launched next fall. Long active in 
alumni and fund-raising programs, 
he was awarded an honorary doctor of 
laws degree by the University in 1970. 
As a trustee, Sharpe will serve out 
the unexpired term of Richard J. 
Ramsden '59, who is now vice president 
for administration and finance at 
Brown. A.D. 

Brown to study 'purposes 
and goals of coeducation' 

Brown has received $70,000 from 
the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller 
Family Fund "to assess the basic pur- 
poses and goals of coeducation in a soc- 
iety experiencing rapid social change." 
Coming six years after Brown's own 
merger with Pembroke, this study wiU 



seek to determine the impact of coedu- 
cation at Brown, especially on its wom- 
en students, and will explore as well 
whether coeducation continues to hold 
promise "as an educational model re- 
sponsive to the needs of all students 
and to the realities of social change." 
These grants. President Howard 
Swearer said, "will make it possible for 
Brown to take a leadership role in exam- 
ining the impact and the promise of one 
of American higher education's most 
significant transitions: the move away 
from single-sex learning and toward the 
full integration of men and women stu- 
dents in coeducation. Our long history 
of educational experimentation and 
self-study, together with our back- 
ground experience in both single-sex 
and coeducational structures, should 
make Brown an ideal catalyst in the 
search for better ways to fulfill the edu- 
cational expectations of both men and 
women." 

A project group directed by Carole Le- 
land, presently associated with the 
American Association of State Colleges 
and Universities, and Assistant Profes- 
sor of Community Health and Sociology 
Lois Monteiro will compile an in-depth 
profile of students' experiences at 
Brown (both before and after the 
merger); will analyze and compare simi- 
lar data on coeducation at several other 
private institutions (Yale, Princeton, 
and Wellesley may be among them); 
will collect and analyze all existing lit- 
erature on coeducation (as it has been or 
is being addressed by other institu- 
tions); and, finally, will formulate broad 
policy recommendations and plan and 
sponsor a two-day conference (to be 
held sometime next year) on the issues 
shaping coeducation in the 1980s. D.S. 

People and Programs 

D Provost Merton P. Stollz has 
been named to a task force which wall 
assist state officials in investigating 
alleged substandard conditions at the 
Ladd School, a state facility for the men- 
tally retarded in Exeter, Rhode Island. 
The school recently came under heated 
criticism from state legislators and social 
welfare organizations. The task force, 
which is headed by State Health Direc- 
tor Dr. Joseph E. Cannon '32, will "ex- 
amine, evaluate, and make recommen- 
dations concerning administration and 
organization" at the Ladd School. 

n Professor of Psychology Richard 
B. Millward will direct the University's 



new Center for Cognitive Science, in 
which highly advanced computer tech- 
niques will be used to study complex 
functions of the human mind. The cen- 
ter's findings may be helpful in develop 
ing new approaches to correcting read-' 
ing disabilities, teaching language to thei 
deaf, and designing better teaching 
machines for computer-assisted in- ' 
struction. The University has provided j 
$15,000 in initial support for the centerj 
and external grants are expected to f 
provide funding for future activities, ( 
including the establishment of an j 

undergraduate computer research labo-! 
ratory. ! 

D The John Carter Brown Library i 
has received a $232,000 grant from the j 
National Endowment for the Humani- 
ties to produce a chronological guide to 
writings on the Americas published in 
Europe before 1801. The award — the 
second largest grant received by Brown 
in recent years for a project in the 
humanities — will be supplemented by; 
a University contribution of $59,000 ancj 
an additional $66,000 provided by the i 
Readex Microprint Corporation of New 
York, which will publish and market the 
bibliography when it is completed. 
Scholars of New World history cur- i 
rently must rely on an unwieldy and | 
out-of-date bibliography called the Dic- 
tionary of Books Relating to America, which 
was completed in 1936. 

n Professor of History Donald G. ' 
Rohr has been named associate dean ofi 
the faculty, with responsibibties for 
program development. In this half-time 
post. Dean Rohr will work closely with 
the faculty to coordinate the develop- 1 
ment and funding of academic research: 
programs, particularly those of an in- 
terdisciplinary or interdepartmental 
nature. 

n Universitv Treasurer Joseph W. ■ 
Ress '26 has received the first Elwood 
E. Leonard, Jr., Distinguished Achieve- 
ment Award for outstanding alumni 
service to Brown. Announcement of '■ 
the award in memory of Elwood 
E. Leonard, Jr. '51, prominent Rhode Is- 
land civic leader and long-time Brown 
supporter and fund -raiser who died un-i 
expectedly last July (BAM, September),; 
was made by President Howard 
Swearer during an October meeting of 
alumni fund-raisers on campus. Joseph 
Ress has served as a trustee of Brown ! 
since 1959 and as its treasurer since I 
1970. The president of a Pawtucket 
jewelry firm, he has been active in a 
variety of philanthropic causes, the 



fiftieth reunion campaign of the class of 
1926, the medical annual fund, and 
Brown's major gifts efforts. 

n Andrew W. M. Beierle, an 
uwird-winning medical writer for the 
Orlando, Florida Sentinel Star, has 
joined the staff of the Brown News Bu- 
reau. He will have primary responsibil- 
itv' for coverage of science and medicine 
at the University. The twenty-six- 
\ i\ir-old Penn State graduate replaces 
Curtis Norris, who left the News Bu- 
nau last June to become director of 
public affairs at Stonehill College. 
Beierle's coverage of medical topics for 
the Orlando newspaper was cited by the 
National Society for Medical Research, 
the American Heart Association, and 
the Orange County Medical Society. 

n Ann Redding 76 has been 
named an assistant in the alumni rela- 
tions office, where she will oversee 
programs designed to bring under- 
graduates and alumni together for social 
occasions and career exploration experi- 
ences. The daughter of Louis L. Red- 
ding '23, she previously served as a 
consultant to the Metro Ethnic Heritage 
Resource Centers in Newton, Massa- 
chusetts, and the Women's Labor His- 
tor\ Film Project in Washington, D.C. 
She replaces Julie Liddicoet Meister 
'7i, who is now director of alumnae af- 
fairs at Beaver College near Philadel- 
phia. 

D Dr. Peter A. Stewart, professor 
of medical science in the Division of 
Biology and Medidne, has been ap- 
pointed by President Swearer to the 
post of academic program director for 
Brown's Interface Program. Financed by 
a grant from the Commonwealth Fund, 
the $1 .2-million program will seek "new 
ways to improve pre-medical education 
and to insure that it is formally em- 
bedded in Brown's liberal arts tradi- 
; tion," Mr. Swearer said in announcing 
I Professor Stewart's appointment. Dr. 
Stewart came to Brown in 1965 as pro- 
I fessor of medical science. He says that 
the first courses developed under the 
Interface Program may be offered to 
undergraduates next September. A.D. 




Women's soccer: 'We could 
be competitive with any 
team in the country' 

Before he arrived at Brown's 
Aldrich-Dexter Field this fall, women's 
soccer coach Phil Pincince, Jr. wasn't 
quite sure what to expect. He knew 
women's soccer was in its third season 
as a varsity sport, but he also knew that 
soccer had not — until recently — won 
any popularity contests with women 
athletes, whose autumnal tastes have 
tended more toward field hockey and 
tennis. So Pincince, a twenty-one- 
year-old Rhode Island College physical 
education major who has had extensive 
coaching experience, figured that at best 
he could count on some upperclassmen 
with a smattering of soccer skills, and at 
worst a wide-eyed batch of inexperi- 
enced newcomers and freshmen. He 
was in for a pleasant surprise. Women's 
soccer has gotten big at Brown, and his 
team turned out to be one of the finest 
in the East, if not in the country. 



Ending the season with a 13-1 re- 
cord — the best of any Brown fall sport 
this year — the women's soccer team 
outscored their opponents 50-14. They 
knocked off top-ranked New England 
power Vermont, a strong Yale team 
(which had been Brown's lone nemesis 
in last year's 7-1 season), and lost only 
to Lake Champlain College, 3-1, in the 
final round of the Castleton State (Ver- 
mont) Tournament. As Phil Pincince 
said happily, "I couldn't ask for more in 
my first season. 

"Our freshmen and seniors really 
made this team," the blond coach con- 
tinued, adding that even his younger 
players brought substantial experience 
to the team. "Out of thirty- three wom- 
en, only nine had never played soccer 
before this fall. Girls' leagues and in- 
tramural soccer are growing, and we're 
starting to get players with at least a 
year of playing behind them." 

A case in point was leggy Lisa Seg- 
barth, a freshman straight out of the 
community soccer leagues in Menlo 
Park, California. The team's leading 
scorer, Segbarth is a quiet, serious type 
off the field, but give her a soccer ball 
and she explodes like a guided missile. 



Lisa Se^arth '81 (dark jersey) in action in Brown's 6-0 loin aver Smith. 




'%..^^^^-r^:r:--';?! 



programmed for the goal. A center for- 
ward, Segbarth dazzled fans with great 
speed, instinctive moves, and a hard 
shot that found her opponents' goal 
twent\'-one times this past fall. She 
shell-shocked Curry College with five 
goals in a 6-0 shutout, and poured in all 
four in a 4-0 rout of Tufts. For her excel- 
lent play, she was named the outstand- 
ing offensive player at the Castleton 
State tourney- 
Ironically, Segbarth originally 
hadn't set her sights on playing college 
soccer, despite a brilliant career in 
Menlo Park. Attracted to Brown by its 
innovative curriculum, she felt strongly 
that she shouldn't devote her time to 
"doing sports" in college. "Playing a 
sport means a big time commitment," 
Segbarth recalls, "and I just wasn't sure 
I wanted to take that on in my first 
semester." All summer she debated 
whether or not to play soccer, but her 
final decision was purely last-minute. "I 
got off the plane my first day here, and 
saw a sign announcing women's soccer 
practice for that night. On the spur of 
the moment, I decided to give it a try." 

"I wondered about Lisa a little 
when she first arrived," Pincince says 
now. "She was so quiet. But her skills 
were outstanding, and then one day she 
started the practice of leading the team 
in a special California cheer before each 
game. That really broke the ice." Seg- 
barth has made some close friendships 
among her soccer teammates, and 
especially enjoys "getting passes off and 
setting up flashy plays." An unselfish 
playmaker, she is best known for her 
deft dribbling down the field at speeds 
that leave defensemen in the dust, and 
for her sharp, aggressive moves around 
the net. At the soccer team's end-of- 
season dinner, the freshman center was 
voted Brown's best offensive player. 
"There was no question about the 
award," Pincince stresses. "Lisa is just 
tremendous." 

It bodes well for next year's squad 
that this fall's best defensive player was 
another freshman, MoUy Heminway of 
Middlebury, Connecticut. "Molly 
played all game, every game," says her 
coach. "She probably saved the Ver- 
mont game — one of our most crucial — 
with her steadiness at sweeperback. 
She's very calm and never panics when 
the play gets right on top of her. And 
that's exactly what you need back 
there." 

But Pincince wiU be hard-pressed to 




Segbarth leads the team in a special "California cheer.' 

fill the midfield gap that will be left by 
graduating senior Laurie Raymond, 
who was co-captain and Most Valuable 
Player this fall. Raymond, who has been 
compared to the great Babe Didrikson, 
might well be one of the most versatile 
athletes ever to wear a Brown uniform 

— and she has worn many: soccer, bas- 
ketball, ice hockey, tennis, and lacrosse 

— in four unbroken years of varsity 
competition. She is an exceptionally 
strong and coordinated natural athlete. 
"Laurie held the team together at 
midfield," Pincince says. "She was our 
second-highest scorer, with ten goals, 
and could do just about everything on 
the field." 

Raymond was also voted the player 
with the most team spirit by her col- 
leagues. The fortuitous combination of 
her effervescence and co-captain Mandy 
Stearns's quiet determination prompted 
Pincince to brag, 'T've never had two 
co-captains as good as these in any 
sport I've ever coached. They had to- 
tally different personalities that worked 
perfectly together. Laurie knew how to 
psych up the rowdy kids, and Mandy 
psyched up the quiet ones." 

Pincince is quick to praise other 
team standouts, such as sophomore 
Kate Rockett, who came out for soccer at 
the urging of her friends this fall and 
ended up starting at fuUback and win- 
ning the Most Improved Player title. 
Of his two goalies, freshman Anne 
Schuette and sophomore Stephanie 
Sanders, Pincince claims, "Neither one 
is better than the other — they're both 
great. I always divided their duties 



evenly, either alternating games or split- 1 
ting a game between them." ! 

Crucial to the soccer team's success! 
were conditioning — three to four miles 
of sprints a day to get in shape — and 
constant drilling and scrimmaging to 
perfect the rudiments of soccer. "We 
didn't do fancy stuff," Pincince notes, 
"but we did all the basics properly. And 
we tended to dominate the second half 
of all our games, because we were in 
better shape than our opponents." 
Brown's team plays by men's soccer 
rules, which call for forty-five-minute 
halves. That gave Brown a distinct ad- 
vantage over teams such as Smith, 
which were accustomed to women's 
regulations, including four fifteen- 
minute game periods and a narrower 
field. 

While this was Phil Pindnce's first 
stint as a women's soccer coach, he has 
been coaching a women's softball team 
for the past three years in his home- 
town, Woonsocket, Rhode Island. (He 
boasts unabashedly of their 69-7 re- 
cord.) He has also coached boys' and 
men's soccer and, as a player, has been 
a mainstay of the Rhode Island College 
men's team. 

"Women," Pincince says, "some- 
times give a little more effort than men, 
at least in college sports. You take a guy 
who's played four years in high school 
and made all-state — he gets to coUege 
and figures he knows everything. The 
women are willing to learn and are very 
enthusiastic." The young coach told his 
charges in September, "I don't want 100 
percent from you; I want 125 percent." 



They gave it, and, he feels, went a long 
way toward reaching not only a team 
goal of excellence, but also their own 
personal goals for improvement. 
; Pindnce is already receiving letters 
jfrom high school soccer players who are 
interested in Brown, including a Mas- 
sachusetts girl who has been playing for 
Iseven years in community' leagues and 
for the Eastern U.S. touring team. "Her 
c.ireer record," he says, "is 74-1-1. She 
>ounds good." 

With the 1977 season over, Pindnce 
Ihas turned his energies to completing 
his practice-teaching requirements for 
his bachelor of sdence degree, manag- 
ing the family shoe business in VVoon- 
socket, and drumming up support for 
regional and national tournaments in 
women's college soccer. "It's a shame 
there's no post-season tournament 
structure yet," he laments, "because 
with the team we have this year, we'd 
be in the nationals. For now, we'U just 
have to be satisfied knowing we could 
probably be competitive with any team 
in the country." He plans to canvass 
other Region 1 coaches to get the twenty 
signatures the AIAVV requires for estab- 
lishing a regional tournament, and then 
to extend his letter-v\Titing nationwide 
with a national championship tourney 
in mind. 

"All the other sports, women's and 
men's, have a tournament or title to 
point toward," Pindnce says, and adds 
confidently, "This sport is growing so 
rapidly that I'm sure the AIAVV will be 
interested in establishing a champion- 
ship." When that happens, another 
Brown soccer team — women this time 
— may very likely be a top contender for 
a national title. 

D BrouTi's premier women's 
cross-country- runner, sophomore Susie 
Adams, placed fourteenth in the East- 
em ALAW championships at Rutgers 
and qualified for the AIAW nationals, 
which were held in Austin, Texas, on 
November 19. There she placed sixty- 
seventh out of 237 — "about what 1 ex- 
pected," she says. Ln the Easterns she 
was clocked at 18:33 for 5,000 meters, 
padng Brown to a tenth-place finish out 
of twenty-five teams. Other Broum 
finishers at Rutgers were Linda Bruce 
'80 (72), Kathy Austin '78 (73), Terri 
Hecht '81 (84), and Margaret Schench 
'81 (98). Earlier in the season, Adams 
had placed fifth in the New England 
and second in the Ivy League champ- 
ionships. A.D. 



Kevin Webb, Seth Morris: 
Two seniors who helped 
'put it all back together' 

On a particularly warm day in Sep- 
tember, about a week after football 
practice had started and when all the 
players were hurting in muscles they 
didn't know they had, senior tackle 
Kevin Webb slowly climbed to the sec- 
ond floor of the Aldrich-Dexter Field 
House and knocked on John Ander- 
son's door. "Coach," he said, "it's too 
hot to work out this afternoon. Why 
don't we all just go fishing?" 

Looking back on the incident 
shortly after the close of the season, 
Anderson chuckled. "1 think 1 surprised 
Kevin," he said. "When we met with 
the squad at 2 p.m. that day I told them 
that their player representative, Kevin 
Webb, felt it was too hot to practice. 
Then I said that I agreed v\ath him and 
that they could take the rest of the after- 
noon off and go for a swim in the pool. I 
think it was a morale booster at the 
time." 

For the past two years, Kevin Webb 
has been the self-appointed comedian 
on the team, a relaxed sort of person 
who has operated the release valve 
when the tensions built up. 

"Kevin knows that I'm a stickler for 
having everyone at practice on time," 
says Joe Wirth, defensive line coach. 
"We were ready to start an important 
practice the Thursday before the Prince- 
ton game when I discovered that there 
was no Kevin Webb. 1 was stomping 
around asking if anyone had seen Webb 
when out from behind a trailer, where 
he had been hiding, comes my big 
tackle, a grin across his face that was a 
mile wide. It broke me up. It broke the 
team up. And we went on to have one 
of our best drills of the week." 

If there's anything Kevin dislikes 
more than warm weather it's cold 
weather. One chilly evening Webb 
yelled to an assistant team manager to 
blow the horn that indicates practice is 
over. " I can't," the manager replied. 
"Coach Anderson said not until 5:15." 
With that the 6'2", 235-pound Webb 
started chasing the 5'4", 140-pound 
manager across the field yelling, "Blow 
that horn! I said. Blow that horn!" 

In his more serious moments, 
Webb became one of the best tackles in 
New England. He had a good pass rush, 
based more on quick feet and move- 
ment than on strength. He had the 



speed to be effective at pursuit, and he 
had the knack for making the big play. 

"When Yale tried a field goal this 
season," Wirth says, "Kevin quickly 
noticed the quarterback back there, 
sensed a fake field goal, and came bust- 
ing in to break up the play before it got 
off the ground. In our key victory over 
Harvard, the Crimson planned a trick 
play with the quarterback giving the ball 
to the halfback, who would run left a 
few yards and then stop and throw back 
to the quarterback. The spectators never 
got to see the play. Webb smelled it out 
and broke it up, nailing the halfback be- 
fore he had taken more than a few 
steps." 

A defensive end during his days at 
Chaminade High in Roosevelt, New 
York, Webb describes himself as an "Air 
Force brat." With his father being 
shifted from base to base, Webb Uved in 
France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and 
West Germany before coming to Brown. 
He's also spent time in forty-eight states 
and more than a few Ivy League 
backfields. 

Webb wasn't smiling about one 
thing this fall — the early season losses 
to Yale and Penn. The pre-season fore- 
cast indicated that Brown and Yale 
would be in the first division batthng it 
out for the title, with the other six clubs 
looking up. Things didn't work out that 
way and by mid-October the Bruins 
found themselves midway in the stand- 
ings looking up. 

"There were two ways the team 
could have reacted to this poor start," 
Anderson said. "The guys could have 
packed it in for the year or they could 
have bounded back. Our men did some 
regrouping on their own and decided to 
concentrate on winning the next five 
games and forget about what the rest of 
the league was doing. And Kevin Webb 

— with his ability to keep the guys loose 

— was one of the men who helped to 
put it all back together." 

Another senior who played a lead- 
ing role in Brown's successful season 
was Seth Morris, a 178-pound halfback 
from Harrison, New York. Although he 
rushed for more than 1,300 yards as a 
senior at Harrison High, Morris had a 
poor freshman season at Brown as a 
fullback and wasn't invited to fall prac- 
tice in 1975. 

"I remember getting a call from 
Morris one day," says Andy Talley, 
Brown's backfield coach. "He said he 
knew that he wasn't in our thinking for 




Moms e/udfs Conicll tacklers . . . 

the future but that he wanted to be a 
part of our program and could he come 
back. We gave him the green light, 
moved him to halfback, and let him play 
with the Jayvees that year. Frankly, I 
was dehghted to get a kid with this pos- 
itive attitude in our program." 

As a junior during the Ivy cham- 
pionship season of 1976, Morris was the 
team's second leading rusher with 516 
yards, had 106 yards against Columbia, 
but still wasn't playing as much as he 
would have liked. 

"In our evaluation, Seth had two 
problems a year ago," Talley says. "At 
190 pounds he was too heavy for a guy 
with a 5'9" frame. Also, he didn't have 
those soft hands you need to catch the 
football. The man playing ahead of him, 
Billy Hill, was an excellent pass receiver 
and played more because we felt the of- 
fense was more flexible with HiU on the 
field." 

Before Morris went home last 
spring he was told to report back at be- 
tween 175 and 180 pounds and, if pos- 
sible, to improve his pass-catching abil- 
ity. The weight wasn't a big problem. 
Catching the football was. So Morris 
worked out nearly every day on the 
beach all summer with a quarterback 
friend from high school, catching hun- 
dreds of passes. 

When he reported back this fall at 
178 pounds, Morris was lighter, quick- 
er, and felt a new confidence in his 
pass-catching ability. In the opener at 
Yale Bowl, Morris caught two key 
passes on the drive that finally fizzled at 
the Yale goal Une. The next week, 
against URI, it was a spectacular diving 



Webb waits on the bench. 

catch by Morris that set up the touch- 
down that broke the game wide open. 

"It's a funny thing," Talley adds. 
"Seth never looked good in practice and 
yet he was a tremendous game player. 
And he was a heady player who almost 
never made a mistake. He went the 
wrong way on a call in the Harvard 
game and I couldn't believe my eyes. It 
was his first mistake of the season. Seth 
Morris maximized everything he had 
and was a real catalyst for us all season 
as we tried to get back into the Ivy race. 
That phone call he made to the football 
office three years ago really paid off." 

D Co-Capt. Lou Cole '78, one of 
the East's premiere linebackers and a 
Pennsylvania product from Atlas, didn't 
take too kindly to the 14-7 loss to Penn 
in Philadelphia. Facing Rhode Island 
alumni the following Tuesday at the 
weekly luncheon/movie get-together. 
Cole put it this way: "This is a good 
football team. We don't intend to lose 
another game this season." 

Cole earned points as a prophet as 
the Bruins swept through their final five 
games without a defeat to finish 7-2 
overall and 5-2 among the Ivies. But the 
early-season losses to Yale and Penn 
were costly as the Bears had to settle for 
second place in the league behind Yale 
(6-1). 

During his freshman year, quarter- 
back Mark Whipple became known as 
the "Cardiac Kid" for his late-game 
heroics {BAM, November). He con- 
tinued his freshman-year antics in 
Brown's final three games, heart- 
stoppers against Harvard (20-15), 
Dartmouth (13-10), and Columbia 



(21-14). 

In Brown's Homecoming victory 
over Harvard, the Bruins gained 450 
yards in total offense and penetrated the 
Crimson 30-yard-line nine times but 
trailed 15-14 until Whipple ended a 50- 
yard drive by scoring from five yards i 
out with 3:40 left to play. The junior i| 
quarterback personally accounted for 35; 
yards on this march. ' 

The scoreboard clock showed only li 
six seconds left at Hanover the follow- H 
ing week when junior Ruben Chapa's '; 
36-yard field goal sailed through the 'i 
uprights to give Brown its first victory atji 
Hanover since 1928. Whipple's clutch ( 
fourth-and-four pass completion mid- ;j 
way through the final drive set up the ii 
three-pointer by Chapa. [! 

In the finale against Columbia, 
Brown scored two quick touchdowns, j 
relaxed, saw the Lions tie it, 14-14, and ,( 
then had to drive 60 yards for the win- J! 
ning score. Twice on the march Whipple;] 
was faced with fourth-and-four situa- 'i 
dons and twice he scrambled for the key|i] 
yardage. There was plentv of time left in|j 
this game — 2:05. Whipple had 1,343 j] 
yards in total offense for the season, i 
placing him third on the all-time ( 

single-season Ust behind Bob Hall '65 
and Bob Bateman '75. 

There were also accomplishments j| 
for John Anderson and his staff. After 'i 
five seasons they are 11-4 against Har- ii 
vard, Yale, and Princeton, the so-called 
Big 3. And Brown's overall record dur- I 
ing the Anderson years is 30-12-2, 
which gives Anderson the second best 
winning percentage among the active ]j 
Ivy coaches. j,i 

The week after the season closed, { 
Anderson was invited to an interview j 
by the University of Wisconsin, where i 
John Jardine had resigned as head coachfl 
a few weeks earlier. ij 

D The cross country team didn't ij 
have much of a season, but Sean | 

McCracken did. The senior from I 

Attleboro, Massachusetts, led the field | 
home against Yale and UMass and in I 
the triangular meet with Boston Collegel 
and Harvard. He also had a fifth against |^ 
Dartmouth and an eighth against PC/ 
URI. 1 

"Sean ran the entire season with an '* 
Achilles tendon problem," Coach Dougj/ 
Terry said. "But he ran tough. He's a j 
great competitor." McCracken was ' 

All-New England in the six-mile, has i 
been All-Ivy, and has broken Brown 
records in both the six-mile and 
three-mile. 

3 



10 



n In the NCAA soccer regionals. 
Brown defeated Dartmouth, 2-1, and 
UR], 3-1, both at Aldrich-Dexter Field, 
to capture the New England title and 
advance to the quarter-finals of NCAA 
play, meeting No. 1 -ranked Clemson 
■(16-0)atClemson, S.C. 

Looking ahead 
to winter . . . 

It is no secret that if Brown is to re- 
gain its position as an Ivy League and 
Eastern hockey power, the defense has 
to be improved substantially and some 
forwards ha\e to be attracted to the 
campus to replace two of the most pro- 

I lific scorers in Brown's history. Bill Gil- 

: ligan '77 (68-112-180) and Bob Mcintosh 

i '77 (81-79-160). Coach Dick Toomey is 
happy with his recruiting season and 
feels that the team's needs have been 
filled. 

At defense, veterans such as Tim 
Bothwell, Mike MastruUo, Ted Lucky, 
and Ken Shepard will have help from 
three highly regarded freshmen — 
Ke\in Lovitt, John Slonim, and Frank 
Deignan. 

Lovitt is from Pilgrim High, War- 
wick, Rhode Island, where he was cap- 
tain, All-State two years, and was one 
of seven New Englanders chosen from 
125 candidates for the Junior Olympics 
in Minnesota this month. Slonim, from 
Duluth, Minnesota, was All-City, All- 
Conference, and All-Regional in one of 

; the hotbeds of high school hockey. 
Deignan, from Watertown (Mass.) 
High, was one of the top three or four 

I defensemen in Massachusetts a year 
ago. 

Toomev hopes to skate three sets of 
difensemen at times this season, a lux- 
ur\ he hasn't had in the recent past. 
Six fine offensive players return 
from last winter's 16-11 team: Jim Ben- 
nett, Skip Stovern, Jim Lawson, Rick 
Scully, Dave Roberts, and Mark VVenda. 
They are joined by eight freshmen: 
Steve DeBIois (Cranston, R.I.), Steve 
DiCarlo (Revere, Mass.), Bob Free 
(Point Edward, Ont.), Mark Gherity 

I (Minneapolis), Rich Hall (Bramalee, 
Ont.), Dave Miller (Minnetonka, 

li Minn.), John Rukavina (White Bear 
Lake, Minn.), and Dab Santanello 

I (Swampscott, Mass.). 

"We think we have some fine 

! scorers in this group," Toomey says. 
"HaU is a natural scorer and was second 

1 MVP in the Metropolitan Toronto 
League, Gherity was AU-State Min- 
nesota, Free was the top scorer on the 



Sarnia Junior B team, and Santanello 
was captain and MVP at Taft School, 
where he came within four points of 
breaking Gilligan's prep school record 
there. 

"I think we'll be able to put the 
puck in the nets, I know the defense will 
be stronger, and in Mike Laycock and 
Mark Holden we have two good goalies. 
We're going to be depending on a 
hunch of voung players and sometimes 
you get burned when you do this, but I 
do think we'll be exciting to watch." 

A holiday tournament will be held 
at Meehan Auditorium December 19- 
20-21, with Northeastern, Colgate, and 
St. Louis joining the Bruins. 

D On the basketball front. Coach 
Gerry Alaimo is happy, which is some- 
thing he hasn't been for the past three 
years, since men such as Phil Brown, 
Eddie Morris, Jim Busam, Vaughan 
Clark, Lloyd Desvigne, and Jay Regan 
marched down the Hill in caps and 
gowns. 

For Alaimo happiness is having 
harmony and enthusiasm on the team 
where conflict existed a year ago. It's 
also welcoming to the varsity level some 
talented sophomores, three of whom 
were starting when the season got 
underway. 

'You can't have a winning program 
when your athletes aren't pulling to- 
gether," Alaimo says. "Last winter the 
freshmen had an esprit de corps that 
was beautiful and they have brought the 
same attitude to the varsity. I'm also 
pleased with the current Cub group, 
which is the best I've ever recruited." 

Two of the sophomores, Ray Lam- 
bert and Jim Sweetser, have joined 
Bruce Rhodes at the guard position. 
Lambert is the quarterback, the man 
Alaimo is looking to for movement in 
his offense. Sophomores seeing exten- 
sive playing time up front include Peter 
Moss and Dave King in the comers and 
Scott Doyle, a 6'8", 220-pounder, at 
center. 

"I know that we are going to have 
good perimeter shooting and good 
perimeter defense," Alaimo says. 
"We'll also be a more disciplined team. 
But since Phil Brown left we haven't had 
that gocxi defense inside. Doyle is the 
key man. I really don't care what he 
scores, but if he can give us that tough 
defense inside, and some rebounding 
help, we will be a good basketball team 
this winter." 

One man who will not be playing 
this year is junior Chuck Mack of 
Albany, who went through a series of 



leg operations after being struck by a 
hit-and-run driver last summer while 
jogging near his home. Mack was the 
most disciplined player on the team a 
year ago. He expects to return to school 
and to basketball next year. /.6. 



)(S(Q)ir(ilb(Q)aiirdl 



(October 24-Noi'emher 24) 

Varsity Football (7-2) 

Brown 20, Har\'ard 15 
Brown 13, Dartmouth 10 
Brown 21, Columbia 14 
2nd in Ivy League 

Varsity Soccer (10-4-2) 

Brown 3, Harvard 2 
Brown 1, Dartmouth 1 
Brown 6, Columbia 
Brown 2, Dartmouth I 
Brown 3, URI 1 

2nd in Ivy League 

Varsity Water Polo (20-4) 

Brown 14, Yale 9 

Brown 20, Harvard 9 

Brown 16, Southern Connecticut 9 

Brown 23, Massachusetts 4 

Brown 16, Harvard 6 

Brown 16, Yale 4 

Brown 16, Massachusetts 6 

Brown 13, MIT 3 

1st in New Englands 

Field Hockey (2-6-2) 

Trinity 1, Brown 
Brown 4, Barrington 
Brown 0, Harvard 
Rhode Island 2, Brown 
Yale 3, Brown 

Women's Cross Country (4-1) 

Brown 18, Fitchburg State 44 
lOfh in EAlAWs 

Women's Soccer (13-1) 
Brown 6, Smith 
Brown 2, Yale 
Brown 7, Connecticut 
Brown 4, Tufts 2 

Women's Tennis (3-3) 

Trinity 8, Brown 1 
Brown 6, Springfield 3 
Brown 8, Rhode Island 1 

Volleyball (5-5) 

Brown 2, Southeastern Massachusetts 

University 1 
Brown 2, Babson 
Bryant 2, Brown 1 
Brown 3, Barrington 1 
Connecticut College 3, Brown 
6th in Ivy League Tournament 



11 



by Debra Shore 



Brown's John Imbrie says the earth has been 
cooling for seventy million years. He calls it 

The Great Cooling Trend 







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John Imbrie pauses in front of a wall covered with 

thermal maps showing the Atlantic Ocean aver 

thousands of years. 




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If Doherty Professor of Oceanog- 
raphy John Imbrie were to an- 
nounce that a new Ice Age is on its 
way, most people, recalling last winter's 
bitter evidence, would say that Imbrie 
was merely stating the obvious. Some, 
remembering iceberg- size fuel bills and 
heaps of snow, would contend that it 
has already arrived. 

By charting the world's climatic 
record for the past half million years, 
however, Imbrie has gathered substan- 
tial evidence to show that we are now, 
in fact, in a rare "intergladal" period 
and that the next Ice Age may not be 
due for another two to three thousand 
years. Heartening news, if you take the 
long view. 

The Lincoln Field Building at 
Brown houses part of the geological sci- 
ences department and the third floor is 
known as the "soft rock" floor. John 
Imbrie's office and research laboratory 
are on the soft rock floor. For the past 
ten years or so, since Imbrie came to 
Brown from a post as chairman of the 
geology department at Columbia, he 
has been engaged in the field of micro- 
paleontology, studying fossil remains in 
ocean sediment to form a picture of the 
ocean's history. 

Geology seeks to color the white 
page of the world's past, to fill in the 
paint-by-number canvas of the earth's 
history in a time long before man when 
only the broadest outline had been set 
forth. The record resides in rocks, in 
frozen fossils, in kept crust. Imbrie's 
particular concern has been the earth's 
temperature, its climate. How can we 
know what the temperature was 18,000, 
or 100,000, or 1,000,000 years ago? What 
served then as an outdoor thermome- 
ter? Where was each millennium's high 
recorded? 

One premise underlying Imbrie's 
work is that if scientists can determine 
the earth's climatic patterns over the 
past few millennia or more, they may 
then be able to predict what changes 
man might reasonably expect in the fu- 
ture. They may have a better idea, too, 
of the influence man's own presence 
may have on the weather. In a future 
when maximum food production be- 
comes essential and diminishing fuel re- 
sources crihcal, global climate — the 
influence of weather on man — may be- 
come most important of all. 

In 1970, following more than three 
years of intensive laboratory work, Im- 
brie and research associate Nilva Kipp 
announced their discovery of a tech- 



nique enabling them to tell the tempera- 
ture of ancient oceans by examining 
microscopic marine fossils. The ocean 
floor is, in most places, a carefuUy 
preserved historical record; the numer- 
ous plankton that live at the surface of 
the sea die and sift slowly to the bottom 
(they are among the oldest known or- 
ganisms, though an individual lifespan 
is quite short). Their Hny mineral shells 
build up into layers and, in the eons of 
geologic time, a chunk of ocean sedi- 
ment twenty meters deep can take the 
discerning scientist back half a million 
years. 

Modem descendants of these fos- 
silized plankton live at the sea surface 
today, and by studying their habits and 
conditions at the sea surface (water 
temperature and salinity), Imbrie and 
Kipp could infer the conditions in which 
their ancestors lived half a million years 
ago. "Look, if you found a fossil polar 
bear, you'd say it was damn cold," Im- 
brie explains. "By studying the tem- 
perature preferences of modern or- 
ganisms we can interpret the past. If 
you found nothing but fossil palm trees 
you'd say there couldn't have been a 
frost." 

Imbrie and Kipp noted the plank- 
tonic equivalents of polar bears and 
palm trees and watched their migration 
in the sedimentary record as sea surface 
temperatures changed. As those species 
known to survive best in cold water, for 
example, showed up in the sediment of 
more temperate seas, Imbrie and Kipp 
saw forming the historical picture of an 
Ice Age. Their first contribution was to 
devise a complex formula in which in- 
formation about groups of plankton 
exhibiting similar behavior and found in 
similar locations could be fed into a 
computer to provide an accurate picture 
of sea surface temperatures 18,000 years 
ago. 

But Imbrie and Kipp had only em- 
ployed their technique to study one area 
of the Caribbean. At that same time, 
however, the National Science Founda- 
tion expanded its research funding for 
oceanographv and initiated the Interna- 
tional Decade of Ocean Exploration. 
With a grant from NSF, Imbrie and col- 
leagues at Brown (among them depart- 
ment chairman Robley Matthews, War- 
ren PreU, and Tom Webb), Columbia, 
the University of Maine, the University 
of Rhode Island, Oregon State Univer- 
sity, and Cambridge University in Eng- 
land formed a cooperative research 
group called CLIMAP — Climate Long- 



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range Mapping and Predictions {BAM, 
October 1974) — to apply the Imbrie- 
Kipp technique to all oceans of the 
world and to determine the history of 
climate for the last two million years. In 
addihon, CLIMAP scientists studied 
pollen samples on land and oxygen 
isotopes in ocean sediment to provide 
more information about the history of 
the earth's climate. 

In 1976 the CLIMAP group com- 
piled their extensive studies and pub- 
lished a map, the Surface of the Ice- Age 
Earth. "We made the first global compi- 
lation as a map of what the surface of 
the earth was like during the last Ice 
Age," Imbrie says. "Just to have done 
that was exciting. Nobody had looked at 
a global view before." This last Ice Age 
ocairred about 18,000 Y.B.P. (years be- 
fore present, geology time) and the 
CLIMAP map showed, among other 
things, that Rhode Island lay under a 
sheet of ice half a mile thick. "We 
showed that there were parts of the 
world which did not change and even 
became slightly warmer than they are 
now," Imbrie says, "the subtropical 
areas of the oceans such as the Sargasso 
Sea. It's like Sherlock Holmes saying, 
'Aha, Watson! The significant thing is 
that the dog did not bark.' We know the 
stable areas." The map revealed, too, 
that during an Ice Age substantial 
changes occur in the equatorial ocean. 
Imbrie elaborates: "That's a tremendous 
area compared to Greenland, say, and a 
1° temperature change there has a very 
large impact on the heat budget of the 
earth." The map showed as well that 
the course of the Gulf Stream shifted 
back and forth, bringing heat to and tak- 
ing it away from certain portions of the 
globe. 

John Imbrie speaks in a soft voice, 
jokes quietly, and is always, de- 
spite the time scheme of geology, 
in a hurry. He has served as CLIMAP 
director and he pulls out a 457-page re- 
port and request for three more years' 
funding from NSF — evidence of his 
most recent efforts. In 1976 he took 
thirty-three trips away from Providence 
— to lecture at Harvard (twice), Boston 
University, Woods Hole, the University 
of Maine, Princeton, an international 
conference in Edinburgh, in Moscow, at 
the University of New Hampshire, at 
URI. "Since you never get completely 
reimbursed," he says, "you just gradu- 
ally go broke." On his office wall, in that 
space not filled with such books as The 



Vertebrate Story, Jurassic Etwironments, 
Dipinmic Stratigraphy, and so on, hang 
color maps of the ocean floors. Imbrie 
teaches a course and a seminar each 
semester and supervises graduate stu- 
dents. He is one of four authors of a 
textbook on oceanography — "in the 
final ghastly throes of composition" — 
and he is collaborating with his daugh- 
ter on a popular history of the Ice Ages. 
"In the last million years," says Jim 
CuUen, a geology graduate student on 
the soft rock floor, "the climate we have 
now prevailed only 10 to 20 percent of 
the time. Most of the time the tempera- 
ture was much colder than it is now." 
Imbrie likes to remind his students that 
even during the American Revolution 
the country was much colder than it is 
today. During the winter at Valley Forge 
soldiers dragged cannons across a fro- 
zen New York harbor. "The Pilgrims 
picked a bad time to come over," he 
says. 

We are now in an interglacial 
period, according to Imbrie, a rather 
unusual time in the earth's history. 
"These periods last ten, twelve, maybe 
thirteen thousand years and then the ice 
starts to come back. And," Imbrie adds, 
"we have been in our present climate 
for about that length of time." One key 
factor in the future of weather, and an 
as-yet-unknown quantity, is man. "We 
don't know what man's influence on the 
climate will be," Cullen observes, 
"whether man's efforts through the 
burning of fossil fuels will change the 
atmospheric insulation (what has be- 
come known as the 'greenhouse effect']. 



We do know that we go from a glacial 
period to an interglacial one in a rela- 
tively short period of time, 10,000 years 
or so. It seems to take a long Hme for ice i 
to build up and less time for it to snap ! 
back." ! 

While Ice Ages have been advanc- 
ing and receding for millions of years — 
in the last million alone Rhode Island 
was completely covered by ice at least 
seven times — they have existed as a ! 
scientific puzzle for a mere 140 years. In I 
1837 Yale naturalist Louis Agassiz had i 
the idea that there had been an Ice Age i 
"and it took him twenty years to con- 1 
vince everyone else," Imbrie says. Once I 
their historic presence had been ac- ' 
cepted, though, scientists began specu- ' 
lating as to zvhy Ice Ages had occurred, j 
What could cause such dramatic 
changes in the earth's climate that gla- 
ciers formed among the mountains in 
Hawaii and a coat of ice submerged the 
North American continent? 



s 



' ome speculated that solar flicker- 
ing caused the Ice Ages; others 
suggested that there was noth- 
ing to explain. The latter theory holds 
that in such a large, complex, and ran- 
dom system anything is bound to hap- 
pen sooner or later. An Ice Age every 
100,000 years or so cannot thus be seen 
as unusual. Though the CLIMAP group 
has shown that Ice Ages have indeed 
occurred fairly regularly in the last i 

500,000 years — roughly (give or take 
10,000 years) every 100,000 years — in- 
terspersed with warm periods such as < 
the present interglacial one, Imbrie and 



A chunk of ocean sediment containing thousands of fossil plankton used in CLIMAP research. 




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his colleagues were still not able to 
figure out why these Ice Ages came and 
went. 

Long before the beginning of this 
Ice Age debate, however. Sir Isaac New- 
ton noted that the mutual gravitational 
pull of the planets disturbs their indi- 
vidual orbits. Jupiter's movement in 
consort with the other planets ever so 
slightly distorts that of the Earth and so 
on. Astronomers have since calculated 
these perturbations in planetary orbits, 
and in the early part of this century a 
German scientist suggested that changes 
in the earth's orbit might trigger the 
Ice Ages. "This theory is a good one," 
Imbrie explains, "because it can be 
tested. The key is how frequently Ice 
Ages might come." Sure enough, last 
December Imbrie, with J. D. Hays of Co- 
lumbia's Lamont-Doherty Geological 
Observatory and N. J. Shackleton of 
Cambridge University, published a 
paper in Science magazine showing that 
for the last 500,000 years, at least, the 
major Ice Ages have followed variations 
in the earth's orbit. Their findings con- 
stitute the strongest evidence to date 
that the orbital theory is correct. Even 
so, all the answers are not yet in. 

Assuming that changes in the 
earth's orbit — the axial tilt and pre- 
cession of the equinoxes — do trigger 
major climatic changes, how does that 
mechanism work? "We know the mur- 
derer," Imbrie says, displaying, per- 
haps, a predilection for Holmesian lan- 
guage in scientific inquirv, "but/uic did 
this crime of the Ice Age get committed? 
We want to discover where the climate 
cools first, where the cooling begins. 
Perhaps that will tell us that some re- 
gion of the earth is the pushbutton that 
starts the machine. In our 1976 paper we 
pointed out that the Antarctic Ocean 
cools before ice sheets grow in the 
northern hemisphere and this may be 
leading the system, but there may be 
other areas we haven't looked at. It's a 
big globe." 

Finallv, Imbrie says, he plans to ex- 
amine the longer record of the 
earth's climate, to look back over 
the last five million years. "As we look 
at older records of climate, the orbital 
theory doesn't seem to explain climate 
changes." As we go back in time, Imbrie 
explains, the Ice Ages do not seem to 
correspond as well to variations in the 
earth's orbit (which astronomers as- 
sume have been constant). 

Imbrie explains the relatively sud- 




den responsiveness of the earth in the 
last half million years to these orbital 
changes this way: "We think of the 
earth as a receiving instrument, as a 
radio, picking up a celestial signal, re- 
sponding to an impetus. The earth as a 
receiving device has become more sen- 
sitive to these signals, to the orbital im- 
petus — that's the general hypothesis 
that we're using. We're encouraged that 
for a very long period of time the earth 
has been cooling — for seventy million 
years. The Great Cooling Trend, we call 
it. That trend is associated with the drift- 
ing of the continents toward the poles 
and we believe that the cooling trend is 
caused by the drifting. Antarctica used 
to be joined to Africa. It broke away and 
moved to its present position at the 
South Pole. Now it cools the climate 
from there. Our theory is that the 
gradual accumulation of this ice makes 
the system somewhat more sensitive; it 
tunes the radio reception. That's the 
sort of thing we're following up." 



This illustraticin s/uncs North America 
during the last major gladation 18,000 
years ago. The figures in the top 
half of the illustration show the depth 
(in feet) of the ice. The figu res in the 
lozoer half are ocean tetnperatures . 
The illustration appeared in the March 
19, 1976, issue of Science magazine (Vol. 191) 
and IS used through the courtesi/ of the editors 
ami Andreic Mclntyre, CLIMAP. (Copyright 
1976 by the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science.) 



15 



On the road 
with the 
president 



By Robert M. Rhodes 

Howard Swearer seems to be 
absolutely without pretense 
— a man who can warmly 
greet total strangers, smile through 
what must seem to be endless cocktail- 
party chatter, and keep his cool when 
challenged in an open meeting about 
some aspect of University policy. 

These, of course, are marvelous 
traits for a University president — par- 
ticularly one who is new on the job and 
must therefore be on the road often, 
meeting alumni and other friends of 
Brown, and even more particularly, 
perhaps, one who is president of a uni- 
versity about to launch a major capital 
campaign. 

All the Swearer traits were in ample 
evidence in October on a trip to Wash- 
ington and Philadelphia, where he at- 
tended receptions given by the local 
alumni clubs, was the guest of honor at 
two dinners attended by local alumni 
leaders, and visited with several alumni 
whom Brown's Development Office re- 
gards both as major gift prospects and 
as possible workers in the upcoming 
campaign. Mr. Swearer had already 
been introduced to Providence, New 
York, and Boston-area alumni at 
similar events in those cities. The 
Washington-Philadelphia trip was the 
first of several this academic year that 
will take him to cities across the nation. 

Planning for a presidential trip — 
even only a forty-eight-hour one like 
this — begins weeks in advance, since it 
must involve not only Mr. Swearer's 
schedule, but those of the people in 
Washington and Philadelphia who will 
do the advance work there. By Monday, 
October 3, three days before departure. 
Director of Alumni Relations Jon C. 
Keates '66 looked harried as he and As- 



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Photographed by John Foraste 




Howard Swearer (left, foreground) spoke 
to Washington alumni in the flag-filled 
"great hall" of the Folger Shakespeare 
Library. Washington Brown Club President 
Kathe Anderson is in the right foreground. 



17 




Standing in the doonvay at the close of the Washington reception, 
the president talks unth former Bucknell President Charles Watts '45. 



The next monuiig Mr. Swearer had breakfast (aba) 
with judge Tlieodore Neivntan and Wallace Tern/ 



sodate Director of Development An- 
drew Parker, who was coordinating the 
Development aspects of the trip, walked 
over to University Hall for a final check 
with Mr. Swearer on all the details. The 
president, who likes to pull down his tie 
and unbutton his top shirt button when 
he is "off camera," looked very much 
like a man ready for some relaxation 
at home rather than another trip. 

But he was all smiles on Thursday 
morning when, he, Keates, Parker, and 
I climbed in a colleague's car for the trip 
to Green Airport. On the way, Mr. 
Swearer tried out a couple of jokes on 
us. He didn't use them that night. 

In Washington, the president took 
a cab directly to Washington's famous 
Sans Souci restaurant for a luncheon 
date with a member of the class of '52. 
Keates had an appointment at the 
Council for Advancement and Support 
of Education. Andy Parker and I walked 
to Duke Zeibart's restaurant for lunch 
with Ed Levin '65, a Washington attor- 
ney, who handled the arrangements for 
that evening's dinner, and Tony Gould 
'64, a Washington banker who is one of 
the most active National Alumni Schools 
Program workers in the Washington 
area. 

We didn't see the president again 
until evening. In mid-afternoon he had 
an appointment with a member of the 
class of 1922. 



o 



ver the doorway into the 
magnificent Exhibition Hall 
of the Folger Shakespeare 



Library on Washington's Capitol HiU is 
this inscription: "I shower a welcome on 
ye, welcome aU — Shakespeare." This 
was the location (picture, previous 
page) for the Washington reception for 
Howard Swearer and his wife, Jan, who 
had flown down from Providence that 
afternoon. About 200 alumni — includ- 
ing recent graduates far out of propor- 
tion to their numbers in the alumni 
body — dropped by for some wine and 
cheese and a chance to see and hear 
Brown's fifteenth president. Mr. 
Swearer circulates easUy on these oc- 
casions. Actually he doesn't have to 
circulate: every time I looked his way, 
he was in the same spot, but was talking 
with different people. 

After about an hour, Kathe M. An- 
derson '72, president of the Washington 
Brown Club, which was the host for the 
party, attempted — unsuccessfully — to 
get everyone's attention, and intro- 
duced the president. 

Howard Swearer's message on oc- 
casions such as this is pretty much what 
you might expect from a university pres- 
ident — it is not, after all, the setting for 
a memorable state paper. He talked 
about Brown's "quite remarkable stu- 
dents — sophisticated, poised, able to 
have a good time." He talked about the 
high quality of the faculty, a favorite 
theme of his, and of the absolute neces- 
sity of maintaining its quality; he talked 
about the increasing encroachment of 
government at all levels on the freedom 
of universities; and he talked about 
Brown's commitment to increase the 



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Amval in Philadelphia (below): Alutmu Relations '" Washington, the Su'earers paui a call on 
Director ]cn Keates and the Swearers. ^- Randolph Burgess at his Georgetown home. 




19 




In Philadelphia, a sign points the way. The president icas hardly in the door 
before he ims talking with alumni. 



opportunities it offers to minority stu- 
dents. When he had finished his brief 
remarks, he was warmly applauded, 
even by those at the far end of the long 
hall who could not hear him. Alumni af- 
fairs are like that. 

After his talk the president was 
once again surrounded by alumni, and 
the conversation continued as he moved 
slowly toward the doorway of the great 
hall. At the door, he paused briefly to 
talk with one person and suddenly 
found himself shaking hands with the 
departing guests — much like a minister 
on Sunday morning. I thought of his 
frequent references to his "Midwestern 
Bible Belt upbringing." 

After the reception we moved to 
the Hyatt Regency, where Ed Levin had 
arranged a small dinner party for the 
Swearers and some of the Washington 
alumni who are active in alumni, fund- 
raising, and NASP activities. Mr. 
Swearer spoke again briefly, particu- 
larly emphasizing Brown's intention to 
increase its minority enrollment. 

In the cab after the dinner, the 
president, visibly weary, pulled down 
his tie. He and his wife talked about 
how the day had gone, and then re- 
turned to a conversation begun in the 
cab on the way to the Folger Library; 
which social invitations to accept among 
the almost endless number they receive. 

On trips such as this, Howard 
Swearer may even have breakfast ap- 
pointments and he did this particular 
Friday morning in Washington. At 8 



a.m., he arrived at the DuPont Plaza 
Hotel to meet with Wallace Terry '59, 
Frederick Douglass Professor of Com- 
munications at Howard University and 
a new trustee of Brown; and Theodore 
R. Newman, Jr. '55, chief judge of the 
District of Columbia Court of Appeals, 
the first black judge to head the equiva- 
lent of a state supreme court and the 
highest ranking black judge in the na- 
tion outside the federal court system. 
Terry, recently named the chairman 
of the Corporation's Committee on 
Minority Affairs, and Newman had 
been present at a minority alumni meet- 
ing in New York last April, and they 
met with Mr. Swearer in Washington to 
continue discussions on how Brown can 
fulfill its pledge to minorities. 

After the breakfast meeting, the 
Swearers drove to Georgetown to the 
home of W. Randolph Burgess '12 and 
Mrs. Burgess. (Burgess was Undersec- 
retary of the Treasury under President 
Eisenhower and later was Ambassador 
to NATO.) That was followed by a caU 
on the MarshaD Foundation, where they 
also had lunch. 

^^ nvone who travels very much 
/ \ knows that planes don't 
^ \. always fly on time and trains 
don't always run on time. So it was no 
surprise when, shortly after our arrival 
at Washington's Union Station, a dron- 
ing voice announced that Amtrak train 
600, from Washington to New York, 
was delayed because of equipment 



Lest we forget: A Pembroke banner 
was also hanging in Philadelphia. 

problems. The train left at 2:30 p.m. in- 
stead of 2 and lost thirty more minutes 
en route, so we arrived in Philadelphia 
at 4:40 instead of 3:40. During the trip, 
the president puUed down his tie and 
slept briefly. He was awakened once by 
the click of John Foraste's camera re- 
cording the moment and muttered, 
"That's dirty pool." 

The Philadelphia reception was ar- 
ranged by the Philadelphia Brown Club 
under the direction of its president, Jane 
Almy Scott '57. It was held in the lounge 
of the Reliance Insurance Companies, 
where our host was William A. Pollard 
'50, its president and chief executive 
officer. About 100 alumni in the Phil- 
adelphia area were present. 

As he had in Washington, Mr. 
Swearer talked about the high quality of 
the Brown students, called Brown "a 
very special place," cited the Univer- 
sity's pledge to increase the numbers of 
minority students on the campus — 
something obviously very much on his 
mind — and talked about the high qual- 
ity of the Brown faculty and the absolute 
necessity for the University to find the 
funds to retain and nurture that faculty. 

Later, after a small dinner that Bill 
Pollard hosted for several alumni lead- 
ers and other University officers who 
were present for the reception, Mr. 
Swearer returned to his theme of ever- 
increasing government interference in 
higher education. He talked forcefully 
and eloquently on the subject. He was 
also forceful in his answers to some 



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Host BUI Pollard (to the left of the sign) introduced the Szrearers. 



tough quesrions about the University's 
policy on minority admissions. His lis- 
teners were obviously impressed. 

When we returned to the Philadel- 
phia Hilton on the Penn campus where 
we were staying, the Swearers joined 
the several University staff people on 
hand for a drink in the hotel's pent- 
house bar. Down came his tie and, for 
the first time on the trip. Brown's presi- 
dent seemed genuinely relaxed. From 
the bar's windows we looked down on 
Franklin Field where Brown and Penn 
were playing soccer. Shortly after the 
lights went out in the old horseshoe, we 
learned that the two teams had played 
to a 1-1 tie. What we didn't know then 
was that that would be the closest 
Brown would come to a victory in Phil- 
adelphia that weekend. 

As I sat there becoming a little mel- 
low and listening to Howard Swearer 
engage in easy, kidding banter with the 
other people at the table, I thought 
about what a tough, time-consuming, 
often thankless job it is being president 
of a major university now. I remem- 
bered a remark he had made to a Uni- 
versity officer last July: "I thought 
things eased up around here during the 
summer." 

The Swearers left us about mid- 
night and returned to Providence 
Saturday morning, deciding to forego 
the football game to get some much- 
needed time off. The rest of us stayed 
for the game. 

Howard and Jan must have known 
something. 



The president pauses, below, before answering a tough question in Philadelphia. 




I 



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DOWN THE COLORADO 

Six Brown students used a Group Independent 

Study Project to launch a 250-mile, 43-day river expedition 

By Jack Crawford '79 and Andy Sommer 78 



Claudia rowed the big boat through first with 
Tom kneeling in the bow. Following close be- 
hind was Jack in the small plastic boat. On a 
ledge overlooking the river, Andy, who would row the 
second raft through later. Bill, and Lisa were taking 
pictures. 

As the raft drifted around the bend, Claudia stood 
up in the rowing frame looking for the point where she 
would enter Wire Fence rapid. She could not see the 
rapid because it lay below a drop in the river; all that 
she could see was the boulder in the middle of the river 
and the plume of Whitewater thrown up by a spiraling 
wave caused by the drop. She wanted to be close 
enough to the rock to touch it with her left oar. 

The river's current diffused as it rounded the 
bend, criss-crossing back and forth between the can- 
yon walls. Claudia read the currents, waited, and then 
made her move, pulling left. She was just above the 
drop when the current sped up and pulled her away 
from the rock. The boat slid over the drop, Claudia 
pushed with both oars and powered through the left 
side of the wave. 

From forty feet behind Jack watched the boat 
climb up one side of the wave, buckle at the top, and 

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glissade down the other side. It happened fast. If he 
had been able to continue watching, he would have 
seen Tom's and Claudia's heads bobbing up and down 
as their boat rolled through small constriction waves in 
the middle of the rapid. He did not have the time. 

Jack neared the rock. He knew his entry would 
have to be perfect; his boat was too light to allow him 
to crash through the wave as Claudia had done. He ad- 
justed his life jacket. Twenty feet above the drop he 
realized he was too far right. He rowed left but over- 
compensated. The current carried the boat onto a pil- 
low of water that ran over an edge of the boulder. It 
bounced off and slid sideways down the drop. Jack 
tried to pull away, but the current threw him into the 
wave. It lifted the boat, suspending it vertically for a 
moment before flipping it over. Jack went under and 
reappeared seconds later on the other side of the wave. 
The three standing on the ledge above heard his laugh- 
ter as he was swept toward Claudia's boat at the end of 
the rapid. 







Tom rows through Big Drop Canyon. Audi/ is in front. Jack and Lisa in back. 



We are speaking now of a river and a desert; a 
red river surging through a wild canyon; a 
desolate land of muted grays and browns 
baking beneath the brilliance of an afternoon sun. The 
river's beginnings are in the mountains of Wyoming, 
Colorado, and Utah, where in May of each year a 
winter's snow passes into the river beds of the Col- 
orado's tributaries: the Dirty Devil, the White, the 
Green, the Yampa, the Gunnison, and the Dolores. 
These rivers, anemic in winter, wandering meekly 
through the debris of seasons past, become omnivor- 
ous once they have received the nourishment of 
spring's flood waters. Day by day, as the rivers ex- 
pand, they chew at the mud and vegetation along their 
banks, spitting them ahead toward a sea 1,500 miles 
distant and 12,000 feet below. Standing by the Col- 
orado's edge, you see the river in all its brutal majesty 
and sense its demiurgical powers. But if you struggle 
to the rim of the canyon and look back, you see the 
river's chocolate mudwater meandering through a 
labyrinth of rock sometimes as richly brown as the 
river itself, sometimes pink by comparison, sometimes 
as gray as a sunless afternoon. 

While the river is renewed each spring by the 



flood waters that seem to bestow upon it the gift of 
eternal youth, the surrounding walls of rock preside 
over the landscape with the dignified beauty of decay. 
The river sculpted these brooding monuments, be- 
ginning millions of years ago when it was flush with 
the plateau that now lies above. Tectonic movement 
pressed the land upward, and the river fell away from 
what was then an alluvial plain, cutting its bed deeper 
and deeper through the layers of limestone, sand- 
stone, and shale; thus the desert; thus the canyon 
walls. 

The six of us, Tom Beckett '79, Claudia Lewis '79, 
Lisa Van Dusen 77, Bill Bernstein '78, Jack 
Crawford, and Andy Sommer, participated in a 
Group Independent Study Project (GISP) last spring in 
which we explored the history of the Colorado River 
Basin as part of our preparation for a 250-mile, forty- 
three-day river expedition last summer. We famil- 
iarized ourselves with the history of the people who 
inhabited the region (Indians, explorers. Mormons, 
cowboys, prospectors, dam builders, and river run- 
ners), in particular, the ways in which they used the 
river, in the hope that this knowledge would provide 



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The Colorado Six at the point of departure at Sand Wash on the Green 
River in Utah: from left, Andy, Lisa, Jack, Tom, Claudia, and Bill. 

US with a backdrop for our own experience. A. Hunter 
Dupree, George Littlefield Professor of American His- 
tory, guided us with patience and skill through the 
vast literature dealing with the area. 

What evolved from our study was an understand- 
ing that much of the history of southeastern Utah, or 
indeed, the American West, was generated by tensions 
between the myths that drew men to the area and the 
realities of an often hostile environment that shaped 
their lives. Men went west in search of the elusive 
Garden, but what they found, in the Southwest at 
least, was a desert divided in half by a river too inac- 
cessible to provide an adequate supply of water, too 
wild to provide a means of transportation. Modern 
technology has enabled man to alter the flow of the 
river, yet he cannot control the cycles of nature. The 
Southwest is presently experiencing the worst drought 
it has seen in several decades; for lack of water, once- 
tilled lands now lie faDow; cattle ranchers are forced to 
kill off their herds; and throughout the West, rationing 
is the order of the day. Man has learned to extract 
power through hydroelectric dams, but he has not yet 
been able to control his need for energy. Today the 
myth of unlimited growth confronts the reality of lim- 
ited resources. 



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"Baths replaced yesterday's dirt with fresh dirt. ' 





In Cani/onL,':.:j : ..iiuiujl Park in southaistcni Utah, 

jack. Claudia. Lisa, and Tom hike toward the center of the Maze 



During the months that preceded the trip, 
our minds wandered off to a river and a des- 
ert that most of us had never seen. Tom, who 
masterminded the project and was to be our leader on 
the river, was the only one who knew the area well; he 
had been a boatman on commercial trips for the previ- 
ous six summers. For as long as he had been guiding 
people through the canyons, he had dreamed of mak- 
ing an extended trip with friends. His memories and 
the reading we did that semester shaped a group 
mythology through which we projected ourselves into 
the canyons we only knew by name: Desolation, Gray, 
Stillwater, Labyrinth, and Cataract. We envisioned life 
on the river as something like this: discussions over 
breakfast about what lay ahead; mornings negotiating 
boiling white water; lunches in the shade of a juniper 
tree; afternoons reading and writing in caves that 
would shelter us from the blistering sun; late dinners a 
few miles downstream with discussions linking our 
GISP studies with what we had experienced that day. 
Always there, too, was the fear that an accident would 
require someone to make a fifty-mile hike or float to 
summon a helicopter. And always there was the sus- 
picion that such a long trip would create tensions that 
no friendship could survive. 

In early July, when we loaded nearly a ton of food 
and gear onto the boats and headed downstream, we 



quickly discovered that our lives would be different 
from what we had anticipated. Each morning, as the 
sun rose over the rimrock, the heat blasted us out of 
our sleeping bags, driving us into the mudwater. Our 
baths were perhaps nothing more than an opportunity 
to replace yesterday's dirt with fresh dirt. Leisurely 
breakfast discussions proved impossible; after Grape 
Nuts and dried eggs came the daily responsibilities of 
washing dishes, packing and pumping the boats, and 
largely unsuccessful attempts at outsmarting catfish. 
Often, when traveling the river, we were forced to row 
against upcanyon winds, which pushed us back in the 
direction from which we had come, or to float for days 
on end through stretches of flatwater. There were days 
when we did not venture onto the river at all, but in- 
stead hiked up side canyons through heat that ex- 
ceeded 100 degrees in order to see the area's geological 
treasures. 

Each morning we resolved to set up our next camp 
before the sun set behind the canyon walls, but there 
was too much to see and do, and so we generally 
cooked and ate dinner in the dark. After the first week, 
these resolutions became a ritualized joke. By day's 
end we were usually too exhausted to sustain a dis- 
cussion about the history and geology of the part of the 
river through which we had just passed. And even if 
we had had the energy, we lacked the inclination; we 



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realized that the conceptions we developed each day 
would be shattered by the experiences of the next. 

The canyons had been our home for more than a 
month. And now we stood on the rim, a thou- 
sand feet above the river, looking back through 
the moonlight. Without speaking, we passed around a 
canteen, already aware that we could not entirely slake 
our thirst; the water we carried on our back might have 
to last us for three days. Tonight we would hike 
through the sandstone spires of the Doll House and 



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Canyon walls in the Maze — as seen from the 
students' camp atop a dry waterfall. 



camp at the desert's edge. 

The next morning, we woke with first light and 
over a dry breakfast we studied the contour maps. We 
had heard that of the 100 or so people a year who 
visited our destination, the Maze, only a handful en- 
tered on the side that we would. Reading the maps, we 
could understand why: six miles from the nearest 
guaranteed source of water, cut 600 feet into a shade- 
less wasteland, lay the Maze, fifty square miles of in- 
terlocking canyons. Its sheer cliffs offered no obvious 
point of entry. All we knew was that just north of 
Lizard's Rock, we could hope to find a cairn marking a 
negotiable descent. 

We shouldered our packs and struck out together 
across the desert. The land was burnt brown by the 
sun and freckled with cactus and junipers. Even in the 
early morning, the sun's glare cast all the landscape's 
colors into the same washed-out hue. Within an hour, 
the six of us were strung out along the trail. The person 
in the lead stopped and waited for the group to re- 
assemble. Bill puUed a water jug from his pack and 
passed it around. We watched each other drink. In a 
private way, each of us felt that the swallows of 
another deprived us, and that our own deprived the 
others. 

After a few moments, we pressed on. Throughout 
the day, the pattern continued: scattering along the 
trail, stopping, waiting, and drinking when we were 
together once again. All of us enjoyed hiking at our 
own pace, enjoyed the solitude when the person 
ahead passed out of sight around a bend; all of us felt, 
too, that perhaps we should be hiking closer together. 
And in those quiet moments when we were bound to- 
gether by nothing more than our common thirst and 
solitude, we thought about the slim prospect of dis- 
covering a spring in the Maze. 

By late afternoon, we reached Lizard's Rock. We 
could see for sixty miles in all directions; in the dis- 
tance were the La Sal mountains; closer, Ellaterite 
Butte, Cleopatra's Chair, the Chocolate Drops; and a 
few hundred yards away, the Maze. The landscape's 
colors, whitewashed by the sun only a few hours be- 
fore, began to bleed back to life. We started walking 
toward the canyons, spreading out along the rim in 
search of the cairn. After a few minutes we heard 
Claudia shouting. She had found it. 

Descending from one empty plunge pool to the 
next, we entered the Maze. As we skirted along nar- 
row sandstone ledges, our bodies pressed against the 
cliffs, Lisa noticed tiny green sprouts growing out of a 
dirt-filled crack. She pointed them out, and we all ac- 
knowledged them, but for the moment we failed to 
recognize their significance. We dropped off the ledge 
into a dry spillway. At the bottom, around the corner, 
there was a clump of bushes, and behind them, a pool 
of spring water. We threw off our packs, lay down, 
and dunked our heads in the water. We watched the 
tadpoles swimming along the bottom as we drank. 



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The explorers pause above the Maze before starting then descent. EUaterite Butte is in the background. 



Jack and Tom crash through 

a imll of water in Mile Long 

Rapid in the Colorado's 

Cataract Canyon. 




Photographs by Lisa Van Dusen 
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opera 



David Gockley '65 — with the help of two other 
Brown alumni — has transformed the Houston 
Grand Opera into a company of 
international renown 



David Gockley '65 is the kind of guy who can 
wink at you and flash a dazzling smile as he 
passes you on the street, leaving you flustered, 
and flattered, and wondering what just happened to 
you. (That was a wink, wasn't it?) Gockley has used 
this same smooth charm during his five years as gen- 
eral director of the Houston Grand Opera to woo, and 
win, the unsuspecting hearts of hundreds, first in 
Houston and now, increasingly, across the nation. 
With a healthy dollop of business acumen and a fine 
measure of artistic vision, Gockley has mixed his own 
particular operatic brew, such that his ever-growing 
audiences find themselves startled, and beguiled, and 
wondering what has happened to them. (That was an 
opera, wasn't it?) 

Since David Gockley became general director, he 
has transformed the Houston Grand Opera from a 
small-town operation with a $500,000 budget giving 
twenty-seven performances a year to an audience of 
60,000, to a company with a national reputation and a 
$4 million budget (no deficit) that last year gave over 
500 performances to an audience of 260,000. 

The Houston Grand Opera, under Gockley's di- 
rection, has produced the world premieres of several 
operas by American composers — Carlisle Floyd's Bil- 
h/'s Doll and Thomas Pasatieri's The Seagull — and 
several American premieres of European works, such 
as Handel's Rinaldo. A new scholarly edition of Ros- 
sini's Tancredi — an opera that had not been produced 
in America since 1852 — had its world premiere in 
Houston in October. Several HGO productions have 
traveled to the Kennedy Center in Washington — 
among them Scott Joplin's Treemonisha and Carlisle 
Floyd's Of Mice and Men — and to theaters elsewhere in 
the nation. In addition, Gockley engineered the pro- 
duction olPorgy and Bess — the first largely uncut ver- 
sion in forty years — that traveled from Houston to 
Broadway, where it won a 1977 Tony Award for the 
most innovative revival. 

Contributing to the HGO success story — two 
other members of the highly influential Brown claque 
there — are Director of Development Jack Mastroianni 
'71 and Marketing Director Margaret Genovese '70. 

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By Debra Shore 

Together with Gockley they represent a new species — 
the professional arts manager. 

David Gockley may be the only opera company 
director in the country with training in both 
music and business. He came to Brown from 
Philadelphia planning to major in engineering, but by 
his sophomore year he had switched to English. He 
sang with the Jabberwocks — an informal, highly 
selective twelve-member group — and moved gradu- 
ally into music department singing, "which was," he 
says, "really serious stuff." Eric Kunzel ('60 A.M.), 
now conducting the Dallas Symphony Orchestra's 
Pops Concerts Series and then a member of the music 
faculty at Brown, persuaded him to spend a summer at 
Tanglewood "with the New England Conservatory 
set," Gockley recalls. In his senior year he commuted 
between Brown and the conservatory to study voice. 

Upon graduation Gockley landed a job singing 
with the Santa Fe Opera Company, which, however, 
has a summer-only season. So he taught English at 
Newark Academy during the winter. In Santa Fe he 
won the Lillian Garabedian Award for his contribu- 
tions to the company's apprentice program and he also 
served as box office manager and house manager. But 
at some point, Gockley says, "I decided I wasn't get- 
ting anywhere really with the singing aspect. It was a 
field with tremendous competition and very few career 
opportunities, particularly in America." Gockley re- 
turned to school to get an MBA at Columbia "with the 
idea of getting back into the legitimate world." 

For an independent study project in his final 
semester, Gockley analyzed Lincoln Center, Inc., as an 
organization. While there he sat in on contract negoti- 
ations with striking musicians who had closed the 
opera house for six months in 1969. Gockley soon had 
a job as administrative assistant to the managing direc- 
tor of Lincoln Center and found himself busy, among 
other things, obtaining liquor licenses for Lincoln Cen- 
ter bars, lobbying for state support of the arts, and 
helping with a corporate fund-raising drive. A mutual 
friend introduced Gockley to the then-director of the 
Houston Grand Opera, Walter Herbert, and after only \ 



six months of work at Lincoln Center, Gockley re- 
ceived a job offer from Houston. He went. 

"Houston is very dynamic and very open, with an 
artistic inferiority complex," Gockley says. "There's a 
frontier feeling of 'the arts aren't integral. They are pe- 
ripheral, and for generally social reasons.' I came in at 
a very good time — not only to Houston but to the arts. 
The idea of a professional arts manager was just com- 
ing in at the time. We began to make developmental 
decisions that wouldn't have been made in the previ- 
ous decade — decisions about artistic marketing and 
sales. We started expanding our program, not only the 
quality but the quantity, and we began to diversify our 
market." 

If the arts in America today are becoming more of a 
business, then David Gockley is a sophisticated 
master salesman. Among his highly successful 
sales techniques — designed to get opera to more 
people and more people to opera — are an "American 
series" of operas in English (an English Tosca with 
young American stars running concurrently with an 
Italian Tosca performed by world-famous leads); a free 
Spring Opera Festival held outdoors at Miller Theater 
in Houston's Herman Park (where, for example, 
Treemonisha premiered); a touring group called the 
Texas Opera Theater — "It's a little opera company on 
wheels," Gockley says — which brings opera to 
schools and communities in thirty Texas dties and 
several nearby states, and provides steady employ- 
ment for young singers; and several productions that, 
in order to cut down on set construction and storage 
costs, Gockley has sent touring the country, among 
them Daughter of the Regiment (to San Frandsco, New 
York, Boston, San Diego, Seattle, and Fort Worth), 
Hello, Dolly, and the prize-winning Por^y and Bess 
(which traveled to Philadelphia, Wolf Trap Farm out- 
side of Washington, D.C., Toronto, and Ottawa before 
its triumphant arrival in New York). 

When Gockley negotiated with George Gersh- 
win's heirs to secure the rights to Porg\j and Bess, he 
conceived of a production that would treat the work as 
a genuine opera rather than as a Broadway musical. 




The Brown Conna tion at the Houston Grand Opera: 
David Gockley, Margaret Genovese, and Jade Mastroianni. 



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that would use the forty- three-piece orchestra for 
which Gershwin had written, and that would restore 
the full score. By the time Houston's Porgy reached 
New York, the production had been revised some- 
what, but it still contained a good deal of Gershwin 
music rarely included in other productions oiPorgy 
(such as Porgy's superstitious "Buzzard Song"). Of 
Porgii and Bess Gockley says: "It was American musical 
language and opera seen through the Broadway song 
convention that Gershwin developed into what may 
be the only real American opera." The production took 
Broadway by storm, getting unanimous rave reviews. 
In his review for The Neiv Yorker Brendan GiU wrote: "If 
I were permitted to see but a single show in town this 
faO, it would certainly be this one. Porgy and Bess was 
written in 1935, and has been given in shortened and 
mutilated versions ever since. There are few things in 
life that one has waited forty years for that prove to be 
worth waiting forty years for." 

With a Tony Award now in his back pocket, 
you might say that David Gockley is sitting 
in an enviably uncomfortable position. Hav- 
ing emerged triumphant from the lion's den (and one 
might justifiably consider raw, redneck, wildcat Hous- 
ton a lion's den with respect to opera) — not to men- 
tion sending a homegrown production to charge the 
barricades of the country's most venerable (or power- 
ful, at least) arts bastion and coming out conqueror 
where does one go from there? What does one do 
next? 

David Gockley has plans to nurture, if not to 
forge, a new form — he calls this "music-theater" — 
and to make Houston its "simmering ground." He has 
in mind "cementing the divergence," as he puts it, 
between opera and American musical comedy. "One 
of the great tragedies, I think, of our own music- 
theater culture is that there's only one Porgy and Bess," 
Gockley says. "Some of Carlisle Floyd's works have a 
great American character and musical language but 
again, where are the works? I think they may come 
from tracing that Porgy and Bess path — the Broadway 
tradition bent toward more of our American musical 
theater. 

"Whenever I say 'opera' I mean 'music-theater'," 
Gockley says. "I would like to de-emphasize 'opera' as 
a word that lingers just as I would like to de-emphasize 
the foreign aspects of music-theater and get to the 
roots of our music. Certainly the situation of US and 
THEM can no longer exist — US being the opera com- 
panies and THEM being Broadway musicals. Some- 
how there's tremendous benefit in closing that gap. 
You can go to Chicago or New York and see a good 
Rigoletto, " he says earnestly. "Where can you go to see 
a good Showboat? I think that's what we can do here as 
opposed to what the Met can do in New York. We can 
get on the track of more Porgy and Besses — that's the 
legacy I'd like to leave." 




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A reflective Daind Gockley listens to an intervieicer's ijuestion. 

To give shape and substance to his vision of a truly 
American music-theater, and to latch onto those works 
that may indeed constitute his legacy, David Gockley 
came up with the Houston Opera Studio, a coopera- 
tive venture begun this fall with the University of 
Houston and the Houston Grand Opera. Gockley's 
vision of music-theater requires singers sensitive to the 
drama of opera (it is music-theater, after all) and stage 
directors sensitive to the opera of the drama (it is 
music -theatev) and composers and conductors well 
versed in both. The Houston Opera Studio, then, is to 
be a training ground. Gockley explains: "The Houston 
Opera Studio is designed to give eight singers and 
three stage directors a tremendous educational experi- 
ence through performance and stage opportunities 
with the Houston Grand Opera. Also composers, de- 
signers, technicians — all with this hybrid arrange- 
ment. Frank Corsaro, principal stage director of the 
HGO, is a professor in the theater department at the 
university and teaches in the Opera Studio. Carlisle 
Floyd [composer oiBilby's Doll, a work itself commis- 
sioned by HGO, Of Mice and Men, and the nationally 
famous Susannah] is now on the faculty of the Univer- 
sity of Houston and he has been our strong ally there." 

At present many young American singers must go 
to Europe to find work — American opera companies 
cannot sustain them — and the Houston Opera Studio 
may stem this artistic drain in some small but sig- 
nificant way. David Gockley leans back in his chair, his 
feet slipping out of his shoes, and explains that a 



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singer might come from a conservatory or university 
"when they want to see the real world, but aren't quite 
ready to be a part of the professional world just yet. 
They'll be able to get experience here." Eight singers, 
selected in national auditions, enrolled at the Opera 
Studio this fall. Each singer receives a weekly sHpend 
and all insfruction free in exchange for some work with 
the opera company. "In so many cities," Gockley says, 
"the professionals and university people are scratching 
each other's eyes out. Again it's a situation of not hav- 
ing e7!crwstof institutions, so that issues become impor- 
tant, not institutions." (In recognition of his confribu- 
tions to opera, Gockley was named one of the ten out- 
standing young men in America by the Jaycees in 
1976.) 

Part of the mission of any arts organization (part of 
the gospel according to Gockley) is to educate the pub- 
lic, and the Houston Grand Opera is in the forefront 
here as well. "Someone called our arts education The 
Herod Syndrome," Gockley says, "a kind of slaughter- 
ing of the innocents, getting youngsters with very little 
preparation, with teachers not frained in the arts. The 
arts may be slaughtering their own future audience by 
not being involved in teacher fraining and curricular 
development. 1 think in the next ten years you'll see 
much more of this in the interest of arts survival. One 
performance in a school is not going to do it." 

Consequently, with the University of Houston 
and other arts organizations in the city, Gockley and 
HGO are frying to organize an Institute of Aesthetic 
Education for 100 Houston schoolteachers next sum- 
mer. "They'll learn and study the creative process, 
some of the great works, and with them we'll fry to 
develop a curriculum that we, the arts organizations, 
can continue and supplement throughout the year. 

"It's terrible to say that most often in Texas the 
music teacher is the band teacher," Gockley scowls. 
"Music is mostly for football halftimes. Music is to 
show off the school rather than for its own inherent 
enjoyment in later life. Our great enemies have been 
music teachers." 

The Houston Grand Opera, in addition, has plans 
to commission three operas by American composers in 
the next five years. (Pasaderi's Vie Seagull was a com- 
missioned work.) So it may well be that Gockley will 
get on the frack of a new Porgi/ and Bess. The portents, 
as it were, seem good. 

But David Gockley is certainly not alone in his 
vision of American music-theater or in his con- 
siderable talents as an arts salesman. As direc- 
tor of development since August 1975, Jack Mas- 
froianni '71 helped to land a $500,000 challenge grant 
from the National Endowment for the Arts, HGO 
being one of only two arts foundations in Texas and 
only five opera companies in the nation to receive such 
a grant. He got $100,000 from the Atlantic Richfield 
Company to support the world premiere production of 



the new Tancredi (and secured the world premiere 
rights for the opera itself from the Fondazione Rossini 
in Italy); he has, in two years, increased funds raised 
from private donors from $350,000 to almost $800,000. 

As marketing director, Margaret Genovese '70 has 
labored to build the Houston Opera image with such 
success that when the current season began in October 
she had atfracted some 11,200 season ticketholders — 
the highest number ever. (Jones HaU, the present 
home of HGO, seats 18,000 for six performances, the 
average run of an opera production.) 

"When I was at Pembroke 1 didn't know that I 
could grow up and become an arts adminisfrator," 
says Margaret (who was known in those days as 
Peggy). "All I knew was that I was stage-sfruck and 
couldn't dance or sing or anything." So she majored in 
anthropology and went to work the week after her 
graduation for Providence's Trinity Square Repertory 
Company as a general office assistant. "I carried scen- 
ery and stapled press releases," she says. After two 
years there Margaret moved on to the Theater Work- 
shop of Boston for a year, again doing adminisfraHve 
work, and then applied to graduate programs in arts 
adminisfraHon. Enrolling at Southern Methodist Uni- 
versity in Dallas — "they offered me a lot of money" — 
she earned two master's degrees in two years, one in 
business adminisfration, the other in arts manage- 
ment. "I decided I wanted to see more of Texas," Mar- 
garet says, so she found a job with the Alley Theater in 
Houston as director of special projects and assistant 
publicity director. She stayed there through one sea- 
son and then joined the Houston Grand Opera as 
marketing coordinator. 

"The big thing in the arts is trying to sell your sea- 
son tickets," Margaret explains. "You really get in- 
volved in classical marketing theory — it's not just a 
quesfron of selling tickets, it's promoting the idea of 
opera, of coming to Jones HaU, what your materials 
look like, what you do for your season-ticketholders. 
It's a year-round image-building process. A problem in 
American opera is that Americans' preconception of 
opera is so warped — of some enormous diva in an ab- 
surd get-up with horns and shields and thousands of 
extras rushing in. Americans will go as an experiment 
and then if they see something that fulfills their stereo- 
type they're turned ofr. Besides, it's in a language they 
can't understand. 

"Americans are used to musical comedy," Mar- 
garet continues. "It's an indigenous art form, Uke jazz, 
and because of that Americans demand performers 
who can sing and dance and act. They have high stan- 
dards for someone who's going to be on the stage and 
then they see some huge diva whose voice is like a bird 
but who can't move. . . . David feels you've got to have 
a total music package and many of our premieres have 
been works that have been dramatically interesting." 
(Gockley himself elaborated in a New York Times article 
by John Ardoin: "... We had to begin by breaking 



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down the barriers that kept people from accepting 
opera — the price of the tickets, the language of the 
performance, the theatricality or lack of it, the idea that 
opera was a kind of closed club for elite types.") 

A good deal of Margaret's job, then, is to entice 
"all these people who walk around thinking that opera 
is fat ladies" and convince them otherwise. "Arts mar- 
keting can get pretty sophisticated in analyzing data, 
such as who fits your marketing profile," Margaret 
adds. "It used to be a sort of shotgun thing, and old 
snake oil merchandising, but it's not Like selling Tide or 
Cheer. You might find the perfect person to fit your 
marketing profile and find out that he's tone deaf." 



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ff ^thought that La Traviata was the feminine for II 
Tnwatore — I was that far behind." With his 
dark, Roman features, resonant voice, and 
hearty, booming laugh. Jack Mastroianni looks and 
sounds like an opera singer — and he laughs heartily 
at the statement he's just made. "The first opera I went 
to was Samson and Delilah at the old Metropolitan 
Opera House in New York City and I hated every 
minute of it — I just wanted to see the building before 
they tore it down. Then, in my senior year of high 
school, I somehow saw the last act of Wagner's Lohen- 
grin with the 'Wedding March' and I was taken with it. 
I thought, 'I ought to look into this/ so I began to read 
and study and build up a basic opera library from 
records." 

Actually, Jack Mastroianni came to his intense in- 
terest in opera by way of the flute. A native of Scars- 
dale, New York, Jack had played the flute for eight 
years and had even studied with Julius Baker, first 
flautist of the New York Philharmonic. Upon his ar- 
rival at Brown, Jack encountered another avid flautist 
and, rather than slug it out for the first-chair position. 
Jack decided to devote the two hours a day he had 
formerly given to the flute to opera instead. "I decided 
Romance languages were most important to the study 
of opera, so I tried to cater my whole program at 
Brown to get into opera in one way or another." He 
chose a comparative literature major and upon the ad- 
vice of Professor Juan Lopez-Morillas pursued a mas- 
ter's degree. By the end of his junior year Jack had one 
remaining requirement: his master's thesis. 

Meanwhile his passion for opera escalated. Dur- 
ing his sophomore year, Beverly Sills was singing Lwdfl 
di Lammermoor in Boston with Sarah Caldwell conduct- 
ing, and Jack went to see her perform. "This was be- 
fore Beverly SiUs was Beverly Sills, you've got to re- 
member that," he says. "Ten people would come back 
to see her, not two hundred." Jack joined the ten, 
clambering around the fire escape to get into her dres- 
sing room. "She looked up and said, 'What are yourfo- 
ing? The opera's not over yet,' and I said something 
like, 'When you're not singing, the opera is over,' and 
so we talked." And, after further persistence on Jack's 
part (he showed up at Tanglewood the next summer 




Five Broum bears adorn Margaret Genovese's office wall. 

with an illegal tape of a Sills performance and ended 
up carrying her mail and laundry bill back to her in 
New York), they became friends. 

For one of his courses Jack translated La Cambiale di j 
Matrimonio by Rossini and the following semester, as 
an independent study project, he produced the work. 
The University gave him $300, and Jack raised addi- 
tional funds on his own. He used singers from the ' 
music department and anyone else interested. Jack 
Mastroianni's Opera Workshop was born. : 

"The reviews were quite good," Jack says, "and 
with them I went to Beverly SiUs and asked her to put 
me in touch with Tito Capobianco because I wanted to 
see if I had talent as a stage director, so he took me to 
the Spoleto summer festival as his assistant." 

Capobianco, a world-renowned stage director 
then establishing an opera workshop at the Philadel- 
phia Academy of Music, suggested that Jack work 
further with him there. So Jack lived in New York dur- 
ing his senior year, continued his informal apprentice- 
ship with Capobianco at the Philadelphia Academy, 
and commuted to Brown every two weeks. He had 
planned to produce another opera at Brown that year 
— Donizetti's The Elixir of Lai' e in English — and had , 
arranged for the Rhode Island Philharmonic to be the j 
orchestra; for several young singers from New York to ! 
perform the principal roles; and for the performance to | 
be held in Veterans Auditorium — "a big jump from 
Sayles," Jack says. He managed to obtain $6,000 (and 



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Posters of SLi'eral HGO firoductwns coi'er a mill in lack Mastrouinni's office. 



another $1,000 when orchestra costs rose) from the 
Corbett Foundation — but he could not, in the end, 
contain the project. "Prices escalated and we had to re- 
lease one baritone to make his debut in Spain, and 
suddenly I didn't know what would be the outcome of 
the package. I decided to scrap the project." While Jack 
had been trying to raise funds for the project, he had 
gone to the Brown Development Office. His plucky 
manner impressed the staff, and he was offered a job 
there following his graduation. "I decided this might 
be the foot in the door to a major opera company that I 
wanted." 

So Jack stayed on at Brown for fifteen months — 
I working to increase contributions from parents 
of students and graduate alumni — and pro- 
duced the Donizetti opera as well as sending off a salvo 
of letters to opera companies in the U.S. and abroad. 
He also applied to Oxford to pursue a Ph.D. ("I didn't 
want to be a glorified coffee boy") and when no attrac- 
tive offer arrived, he went off to England. "I did get 
one response to my letters," he says, "from David 
Gockley at the Houston Grand Opera. We met in New 
York to talk. He didn't have anything then, but he 
suggested that we keep in touch." 

At Oxford Jack was to write his dissertation on 
"The Origins of Spanish Opera in the Seventeenth 
Century as Influenced by Roman Opera of the Period." 
By the end of his third year he'd completed his re- 



search and came home with pleurisy. "I decided to try 
to find a summer job in the States," he recalls, "and if I 
couldn't, I'd go back to Oxford to finish my degree." 
By August, Jack Mastroianni was at the Houston 
Grand Opera. 

"I loved moving to Houston," Jack says happily. 
"I was just tired of the chaotic, dog-eat-dog life of New 
York. Houston's the fifth largest city in the U.S., but it 
has all the little things that make life better — like un- 
limited iced teas in a restaurant and dry cleaners who'll 
patch a hole in your pants without charging you. The 
people are very warm and want to share their wealth." 
(Jack sees to that.) "You can get right into circles that in 
New York it would take you years to get into. The oil 
people feel, too, that David is accessible. They caD him 
up to swim or go to lunch, whereas in New York they 
could never go out with the president of the Met." 

Jack Mastroianni is an expansive, genial guy. The 
day we met he was chain-drinking Sanka and diet- 
ing in earnest to reduce the effects of a recent six- 
week opera tour of Europe with David Gockley. "The 
idea was to see productions, to find out what the top 
directors are doing, the top singers, who we could sign 
to come to Houston. Now, everybody's heard of the 
Houston Opera and they said, 'Oh, isn't your Porgy 
coming to Europe?' 

Jack has started annual giving clubs at the Hous- 
ton Opera — "Last year we had forty-five people giv- 



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ing $1,000 or more apiece and this year we have over 
168 in that group" — and is venturing into radio 
broadcasts and recordings. The HGO production of 
Porg]/ and Bess recorded by RCA had been, at the time 
of this writing, the number-one selling classical record 
in the country for fifteen weeks. Jack persuaded Linda 
Parisi, a colleague from the development office at 
Brown, to come to Houston, and she organized the 
Opera's first phonathon. "I can't tell you how many 
people have turned on to opera thanks to Linda's 
smile," Jack says. Jack's total fund-raising effort — 
from government sources, private and corporate do- 
nations — stands at $1.6 million dollars, and he is be- 
ginning a bequest program for opera supporters. 

David Gockley, Jack Mastroianni, and Margaret 
Genovese aren't about to rest on their collec- 
tive laurels. The Opera has received from the 
city of Houston a plot of land along an undeveloped, 
rather scummy section of downtown riverfront for the 
future site of a new theater. Jones Hall, the Opera's 
present home, is a multi-purpose building that, ac- 
cording to Gockley, serves no one very well, being 
primarily a symphony and concert hall. "We're look- 
ing into building a smaller house — about 2,000 seats 
— that will allow us to do things more theatrically and 
give us more days to perform. With the new theater we 
may enter the area of broadcasting, with studios for re- 
cording and televising of our performances." A group 
of supporters has formed the Lyric Theater Foundation 
of Houston and several major donors have stepped 
forth wanting the theater to be named for them, 
Gockley reports. "The theater itself can have a tre- 
mendous sociological effect on downtown Houston," 
Gockley says. "This little area might someday be like 
San Antonio [where the River Walk is one of the city's 
loveliest selling points] . This could be the keystone for 
the beautification of the downtown area and it might 
help get people back downtown to live." 

Wouldn't it be just like David Gockley and Com- 
pany not only to leave a legacy of merging American 
musical comedy and opera, but also to foster the 
flowering of the nation's fifth largest city? David 
Gockley is perhaps the most normal-seeming vision- 
ary one might ever meet, but visionary he is. A 
smile ready, he tilts back in his chair, his stocking feet 
playing idly with his shoes, and winks. 




JLVies Hall - home of the Houston Grand Opera. 
"Houston," says Cocklei/, "is very dynamic, very open. 



As this issue zoas about to go to press, we learned that a 
fourth Brown graduate has become involved with the HGO: 
costume designer Jane Suttell '76 CBAM, April 1976) was 
hired to do the costumes for the Texas Opera Theater's 
American premiere production of Robinson Crusoe. 



Photographs by Philip Gould 



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Tks Oa^ 



written by jay Barn/ 



1773 



Dr. Solomon Droiciu-'s former 
estate. Mount Hygeia, in 
Foster, R.I., has been added to the National 
Register of Historic Places. Dr. Drounevvasa 
Brown professor, a fellow of the American 
Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a sur- 
geon in the Continental Army under George 
Washington. Among his many descendants 
is Connie Morrnvn \'ichols 33. 

"1 Q Elsie Mny Flint Ncuner entertained 
JLO several of her classmates at her 
summer home in Gloucester, Mass., at the 
end of the summer. On hand were the fol- 
lowing: Ml! £. Arnold. Dorothy Bails Broivn. 
Ruth Wells Bou'ker, Ruth Wakefiehi Burton, 
Imogaie Minkins Clark. Esther Greene. Gladys 
Cunimings Kenyon. Rose Preset, and Mildred 
Stanton. 

^ f\ Walter Moving and Jane Pickens 
^\J Langley, a Newport socialite and 
former actress and singer, were married 
Sept. 30 in New York City. Walter is chair- 
man of the board of Tiffany's. 

T Ly Godfrey Goff was chairman of the 
^ vl off-year reunion last June and re- 
ports that the 52nd reunion will be held on 
June 2. Watch this column for more details. 

Domaneo loiuita. the class secretary, wel- 
comes news about members of the class for 
use in this column. His address: 30 Freedom 
Rd., Proyidence, R.I. 02902. 

Horaee Mazet has an article on whale- 
sharks in the November issue oiOeeiins 
magazine. He also has an article scheduled to 
be published in Quest. Horace is living in 
Carmel, Calif 

Josefih W. Ress. treasurer of the Univer- 
sity, has been awarded the newly created 
alumni service award named in honor of the 
late E/uwii £. Leonard, ]r. '51. In making the 
award. President Swearer compared Joe Ress 
to Woodv Leonard in his fund-raising zeal, 
noting that he has provided "continuous 
strong leadership in the school's fund-raising 
efforts." Ress has been a trustee since 1959 
and treasurer since 1970. Woody Leonard, 
who was president of H. & H. Screw Prod- 
ucts Mfg. Co., Lincoln, R.I., died July 4. 

Harold Soars has moved from Muncy, 
Pa., to Regency Towers, 3401 Gulf Shore 
Blvd., Naples, Fla., where he welcomes visits 
from Florida classmates. 

OQ Burpee W. Shaze, Spnng(ie\d, 
^m\J Mass. . who retired nine years ago 
after forty-two years as an actuarv' in the 
home office of the Massachusetts Mutual Life 
Insurance Co., recently completed five years 
as assistant to the project director of Patterns 
of Mortality and Survival , subsequently pub- 
lished in a reference volume entitled Medieal 
Risks. The work was compiled by Richard B. 
Singer and Louis Levenson and sponsored 
by the AsscKiation of Life Insurance Medical 
Directors of America, jointly v\ith the Society 
of Actuaries. 

jack Heffernan and Rich Qirpcnter, as co- 
chaim:ien of the 50th reunion, already have 



the ball rolling, and some literature about the 
event has been mailed to all members of the 
class. Other classmates who have agreed to 
serve on the reunion committee are Dixicell 
Goff. Ralph Mills. Leo Goldberg. Joe Mercliant. 
Howard Preset. Woody Calder. George Rustigian. 
Albert Lisker, Thomas j. Paolino, and Stuart 
Woodruff. 

^Q Charles Youngstein, now retired, 
Sm^ is living at 2929 Mickle Ave., 
Bronx, N.Y. 

^11 Philip S. Knaiier. Jr.. who died 
\J\J earlier this year, is survived by a 
brother, Paul Knauer, 15 Elmgrove Ave., 
Providence; and two sisters, Barbara Allard 
and Virginia Helen Carpenter. 

Dr. John R. Laadt. Chicago, has retired 
from his medical practice and has moved to 
13300 Indian Rocks Rd., Largo, Fla. 33540. 
He had been a faculty member of North- 
western University Medical School, a staff 
member of Northwestern University Hospi- 
tal, and a medical director of A.B. Dick Co. 
"From now on 1 plan to spend my time paint- 
ing, swimming, and doing nothing." 

'2'! George S. Wflffraitorf retired be- 
w/ -L cause of ill health last February 
from his position as administrative director 
of public welfare for Newton, Wellesley, and 
Weston, Mass. He had held the position 
since 1968. Prior to that, George had been the 
director of the Department of Public Welfare 
in Newton. He lives in Newton Centre and 
paints in acrylics as a hobby. 

OO Pnn/ f. MflcteiT/ has been elected 
k^M to the Providence Gridiron Club 
Hall of Fame. Paul was an All-East and hon- 
orable mention All-American tackle at Brown 
in 1931, the year he captained the football 
team. He served as athletic director at Brown 
for twenty years and then served several 
years as alumni executive officer. Paul lives 
in retirement at an unlikely address for a man 
with his Brown background: 42 Dartmouth 
Ave., Riverside, R.I. 

O '3 The 45th alumnae reunion com- 
\J\J mittee met Oct. 15 and discussed 
plans for the June get-together. At this meet- 
ing Gladys Burt Jordan, our president, said 
that since she is now Uving in Florida she 
would Like to resign from office. The 
nominating committee has selected Ethel 
Lalonde Savoie as our candidate for president 
this June. The buffet on Saturday will be 
held, as usual, in Gardner House, and the 
Sunday brunch will be at Ethel's home. 
Members present at this meeting included 
Mabelle Chappell. Gladys Burt Jordan, Ruth 
Wade Cerjanec, Katherine Hazard, Rae Baldwin 
Scattergood, Jessie Barker, Billie Shea McClurg, 
and Ethel Lalonde Savoie. 

Dr. Henry M. Goldman, founder and re- 
tired dean of the Boston Universit\' School of 
Graduate Dentistrv', was honored Sept. 17 
by the Friends of the University of Connec- 
ticut School of Dental Medicine. Henry re- 



tired last May as dean of the dental school at 
UConn. 

Connie Morrison Nichols's ancestor. Dr. 
Solomon Drowne 1773, who was a professor at 
Brown, a Fellow of the American Academy of 
Arts and Sciences, and a surgeon in the 
Continental Army, owned Mount Hvgeia, an 
estate in Foster, R.I., which has recently been 
added to the National Register of Historic 
Places. 

£f/ie/ Lalonde Savoie reports that her 
seventh and eighth grandchildren were bom 
last summer — one to her son, Upton, Jr., 
and one to her daughter, Janet. 

1J C Robert B. Hawkins has retired 
\J\J as vice president of the Zollner 
Corp. after twenty years' service and is living 
at 7700 Covington Rd., Fort Wayne, Ind. 

Frank S. Read has retired as chief execu- 
tive officer of the First National Bank of Lake 
Forest, 111., while remaining as chairman of 
the board. "My duties will be confined to 
conducting board meetings," he says. "Re- 
tirement came after thirtv-nine years with 
the bank, all of which were most enjoyable. 
The most satisfying part of my retirement is 
that my successor is a fellow Brown man, 
Jolin A. Andersen '53, who has been with our 
organization for twenty years." Frank Read's 
son, Larry, is a member of the class of 1965. 

'5/2 Andreiv lack, Avon, Conn., offi- 
\J\J daily retired a while back but is 
now in the antique business. His address: 
P.O. Box 908, 37 West Main St., Avon. 

'2 '7 Gen. Richard C. Stilwell, USA 
\J I (ret.), is senior advisory consultant 
for the Strategic Studies Center, SRI- 
Intemational, Arlington, Va. 

'5 Q Muriel Macpherson Abbott is assist- 
JKJ ant director. Professional Exami- 
nations Division, The Psychological Corp., 
New York City. 

Fred T. Allen, chairman and president of 
Pitney Bowes of Stamford, Conn., was fea- 
tured in a recent issue oiNation's Business. 
The lead photograph of Fred used with the 
article was taken by a fellow alumnus, James 
Foote '62. 

It doesn't seem Uke forty years, but on 
June 3-6 we will be having a big reunion. It 
will only be ours if you let us know what you 
would like to do when vou come back. Ruth 
Coppen Lindquist. Jean Gordon Thomas. Virginia 
Macmillan Trescott. Frances Dunn. Eleanor 
Addison, and Edythe Cornell are a few of the 
on-the-spot planners. Do let one of us know 
what you are looking forward to doing next 
June. Check the class director)' you received 
this fall for addresses. 

^Q Thomas /. Keating, retired for 
yJ ^ some time with a 100 per cent dis- 
ability pension resulting from World War II, 
is living at 701 S. Riverside Dr., Pompano 
Beach, Fla. 33062. 



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Floyd M. Shumway, an author, lecturer, 
and educator, is adjunct associate professor 
at Columbia University. 

^O '^" option to purchase the film 
JCVf rights to E. Hou'flrd Hunfs auto- 
biography. Undercover: Memoirs of an Ameri- 
can Secret Agent, has been acquired by ECM 
Productions of Miami. Hunt recently ad- 
dressed the Harvard Law School Forum and 
the Yale Political Union. The second exhibi- 
tion of his acrybc paintings will open at the 
Rosenbaum Galleries in Palm Beach early 



next year. Meanwhile, he is at work on his 
fifty-fourth book. His daughter, Kevan, a 
1975 Smith graduate, is a student at Santa 
Clara Law School. 

/\ *% John D. McWilliams retired last 
Jt J. April as compliance officer with the 
U.S. Department of Labor after thirty years 
in the federal service. He's now involved in 
volunteer work in alcoholism rehabilitation 
as manager of Memorial West Alumni Foun- 
dation Club, Signal Hill, Calif. 

William P. Sheffield is vice president of 



operations of Van Dom Plastic Machinery 
Co., Strongsville, Ohio. 



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Norman B. Orent, Scarsdale, N.Y., 
has been named to the board of 
directors of Caldor, Inc. He is president of 
Jerdo Corp., which has interests in home 
health care, medical supplies, and medical 
transportation. 

William K. "Gus" Saunders has moved 
back to Rhode Island from Lebanon, N.H., 
and is handling disability, life, and pension 
sales for Monarch Life in Providence. 



Jack Newcombe: From chasing demonstrators to pursuing authors'^ 



For a quiet, unassuming chap who val- 
ues few things in life more than the peace 
and calm of a weekend gathering mussels on 
Martha's Vineyard or skiing in Vermont, 
Eugene "Jack" Newcombe '48 has led a "Run 
For Your Life" existence the past thirty years. 

To be honest about it. Jack Newcombe is 
doing less running now in his role as execu- 
tive editor of the Book-of-the-Month Club 
than at any time in his exciting and produc- 
tive journalistic career. Oh, he has flown to 
Louisiana to talk with author Walker Percy 
(Lancelot) and to the MacDowell Colony in 
New Hampshire to meet with George Feifer 
(Moscoiv Fareivell). But now the authors and 
other celebrities usually come to see New- 
combe in his New York office, a new experi- 
ence for a man who has spent a lifetime chas- 
ing the likes of Prince Charles, Joe DiMaggio, 
Richard Nixon, and Nigeria's General 
Go won. 

Writing in a recent issue of the Book-of- 
the-Month Club Nru'S, editorial director Al 
Silverman, an old friend and colleague, ad- 
mits that today the challenges are "not quite 
as flamboyant" for Newcombe, who he says 
is now asked to perform "only quiet mira- 
cles" for the Book-of-the-Month Club. 

"He does this," Silverman adds, "as a 
reader of discernment (his Literary tastes 
shaped by what Jack calls the 'cliches of the 
'30s and '40s — Wolfe, Hemingway, and 
Fitzgerald'), as an editor of understated skills 
for our publications, and as a low-key 
charmer when it comes to persuading the 
women and men of publishing to let us use 
their books." 

Speaking for himself, Newcombe says 
he is content with having New York City as 
his home base. "I find that the city provokes 
me," he says. "There's a lot of putting up 
with it, but if you're working with books — 
at a salary job — you have to be here. Some- 
where in the back of my mind, way back, I 
felt the book business would be the place to 
be when I finished chasing royalty, demon- 
strators, and mining disasters." 

For Jack Newcombe the journalistic 
chase began in Burlington, Vermont, where 
he was bom and raised and where he cov- 
ered high school sports for theBurlingion Free 
Press. He was paid seven cents an inch for 
copy and fifty cents an hour on assignment. 
Newcombe also played football and basket- 



ball in what he describes as "an athletic 
career that was something short of distin- 
guished." 

One day Newcombe covered a high 
school football game for the paper with his 
uniform on, standing on the players' bench 
while he took his notes. "The coach fre- 
quently mentioned how much he liked my 
articles but he seldom put me into the 
games," Newcombe says. "Gradually it 
dawned on me that I was probably better at 
covering sports than playing them." 

Jack Newcombe became a traveling man 
right after high school. It was an odyssey that 
took him to the University of Missouri (for its 
journalism school), the Army (with assigned 
time at Pomona College), and then, after the 
war, to the University of California at Berke- 
ley. 

"About this time I was getting home- 
sick, " Newcombe says . "I wanted to get back 
to New England, preferably at a small liberal 
arts college. So 1 applied to Brown and ap- 
parently the University was interested in a 
spotty college bum from Burlington, Ver- 
mont, via Berkeley." 

In his two years at Brown, Jack New- 
combe took every writing course that was 



m 




available and spent a year as co-sports editor 
of the Brown Daily Herald. He still has vivid 
memories of Prof. I. J. Kapstein '26. Kapstein 
was a nationally acclaimed novelist and a 
teacher of creative writing. "The first serious 
writing I ever did was for Kappy," New- 
combe says. "I told him I wanted to be a 
journalist and he said, "You can. Push 
ahead.' And I did." 

In the summer of 1948, while working at 
the Providence jou mal, Newcombe received a 
call from Ed Fitzgerald, then managing editor 
of Sport magazine and now president of the 
Book-of-the-Month Club. Fitzgerald had an 
offer: Come down to New York and learn the 
magazine business. "This was no seven- 
cents-an-inch job," Newcombe chuckles. 
"Sport was a national monthly, an exciting 
new magazine founded in 1946 and, at that 
time, the only general sports magazine in the 
country. I accepted." 

Newcombe remained with Sport through 
1955, when he joined Life as a sports writer, 
news writer, and editor of articles by such 
people as James Michener and Theodore 
White. "It was great training working for 
Life, " he says. "I learned to say a lot in a short 
space. Standards there were very high." 

Taking over as head oiLife's London bu- 
reau in 1968, Jack Newcombe learned how to 
live wath a packed suitcase. Wherever the ac- 
tion was, Newcombe was there: the Russian 
invasion of Czechoslovakia, a civil war in 
Nigeria, or a rock concert in Liverpool. 

Some assignments were a distinct plea- 
sure. In London he joined a group retracing 
the steps of Karl Marx, who was said to have 
patronized several dozen pubs in the city. 
The idea was for each person in the pilgrim- 
age to take at least one drink in each pub. 
Newcombe completed the one-day assign- 
ment in relatively good condition and earned 
his first overseas by-line in Life. "Drinking 
my way through Camden town," he says, 
"was one of the great challenges of my jour- 
nalistic career." 

The overseas story that made the 
greatest impact on Jack Newcombe was cov- 
ering the return from Mexico City of the 
fifteen-man Kenyan track and field team that 
had won eight Olympic medals in 1968. 
Newcombe accompanied four of these men 
as they returned to their villages. 

'They lived in an extremely rustic set- 



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/t/t Richard E. Flower has been named 
^t^t vice president of Donald A. Camp- 
bell & Co., Inc., Chicago. He is representing 
the firm in New York City and in Eastern 
states. 

G. Myron Leach, chairman of the board 
and president of Old Colony Co-operative 
Bank, Providence, has been elected second 
vice chairman of the board of directors and a 
member of the executive committee of the 
Federal Savings League of New England. 



ting," he says, "but the people were very 
much aware of what their local heroes had 
done in Mexico Qty. Amos Biwott, who had 
won the steeplechase, showed me his home 
proudly. It was a mud hut in the tiny village 
of Biribiriet in the Rift Valley of western 
Kenya, but his parents had created a separate 
spot within this hut so he could study. 

"Before he even got his Olympic blazer 
off, Amos had to lead about eighty small fry 
over an imaginary steeplechase course. Later 
the youngsters gathered around and Amos 
let each one wear for a moment one of his 
Olympic medals. Watching the great sharing 
among these people was a moving experi- 
ence. While Amos held court his headmaster 
fondled one of the medals. 'It is so hard to 
tell them they can go out into the world and 
achieve,' he said wistfully. Tvlow I can show 
them this.' " 

Jack Newcombe returned to the United 
States in 1970 as Life's bureau chief in Wash- 
ington and remained there until the maga- 
zine folded in late 1972. "Those were turbu- 
lent years," he says. "It seemed that every 
week 1 was out in the park with a gas mask. 
But last week's demonstration with 30,000 
people in the streets became very much like 
next week's demonstration with 20,000 in the 
streets. Washington was also a period of end- 
less negotiations with a group of very sus- 
picious men. All in all, much heartache and 
very little reward. " 

After his Life years there was a period of 
free-lancing during which he wrote two 
books, one on Penn State football coach Joe 
Patemo '50 and another, widely acclaimed, 
on Jim Thorpe, and then an offer to join the 
Book-of-the-Month Qub in the spring of 
1974, 

The father of four children. Jack New- 
combe was back on campus in June 1974 to 
see his son Scott graduate. Now, with his 
suitcase stored in the closet and his life set- 
tling into a more orderly pattern, Newcombe 
plans to do some more writing ( "I hope I 
have at least two books left in me") and to 
make time for some of the little pleasures in 
life, such as walks through the park or an oc- 
casional visit to his favorite pub, Tim Costel- 
lo's. Karl Marx never drank there. j.B. 



/\(L Nathaniel Davis, who is with 
TXU the U.S. Foreign Service, is cur- 
rently an advisor at the U.S. Naval War Col- 
lege, Newport, R.I. 

^O Earl M. Bucci, an attorney in 
JtO Schenectady, N.Y., has been ap- 
pointed to the estate and gift tax committee 
of the American Bar Association's section on 
taxation. The work of the committee includes 
making recommendations to Congress for 
tax changes in the area of estate and gift taxes 
and reviewing and reporting on proposed 
regulations to implement the new Tax Re- 
form Act. Earl is the author of numerous ar- 
ticles in legal publications concerned with 
trusts and estates. 

Donienic A. Vavala is coordinator of 
academic development and professor of nu- 
trition and dietetics at Johnson & Wales Col- 
lege, Providence. 

Charles W. Thomas, who has served on 
the board of trustees of the Baltimore County 
(Md.) Public Library System since 1974, was 
recently elected president of the board. 

CT/l Maximilian H. Bergendahl is 
\j\J hving in Littleton, Colo., and is a 
distnct geologist with Amax Exploration, 
Inc., Denver. 

Allan /. Dougherty, an investor, is living 
at 540 lolani Ave., Ajjt. #16, Honolulu, 
Hawaii 96813. 

Joseph A. Farrell HI has been elected vice 
president for government affairs of Pullman, 
Inc., Washington, D.C. He had been admin- 
istrative assistant to Illinois Senator Charles 
H. Percy since 1969. 

Rhode Island Superior Court Judge 
Ronald R. Lagueux ruled in September that 
the musical. Oh, Calcutta! is not obscene and 
ordered the Providence Bureau of Licenses to 
issue a license for staging the production at 
Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Provi- 
dence. "Although it is not the greatest thing 
ever put on the stage, and 1 wouldn't spend 
my money to go see it, it does have some 
literary value, some artistic value," Judge 
Lagueux concluded. 

William E. Parker is general manager of 
PFC, Inc., Great Neck, N.Y. 

William F. Smith has been elected presi- 
dent of the Providence Washington Insur- 
ance Co. With the firm since 1974, Bill was 
elected to the board of directors last June and 
made executive vice president and chief 
operating officer last December. 

C"! Dr. Frederick W. Ackroyd is chief 
w/ JL of surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital 
in Miami. "I like the city and hope that all 
alumni who are passing through will say 
hello." 

Henry R. Chace HI is president of Party 
Cupboard, Inc., Wilmington, N.C. 

Edward W. Cirard is manager of opera- 
tions analysis for the Missile Systems Divi- 
sion of Rockwell International, Columbus, 
Ohio. 

Socrates Lagios received an Ed.D. degree 
in administration and supervision from Bos- 
ton College in May. He is principal of John 
Weeks Junior High in Newton, Mass. 



CO William H. Floyd, Jr., is a man- 
\JJmm ager with the Britton Lumber Co., 
Ely, Vt. 

Peter M. Maler is chief executive officer of 
Ututed Chemi-con, Rosemont, HI. 

Don Sennott has been appointed a special 
assistant to U.S. Senator John Chafee of 
Rhode Island and will have his office in the 
Pastore Federal Office Bldg., Providence. 

C '3 The 25th Reunion is fast ap- 
\J\^ preaching and your committee is 
fast hatching some great plans. For openers, 
the University will provide free dormitory 
space for our group during the entire 
weekend. More specifics will reach you in fu- 
ture mailings. Please use the class directory, 
which you should have received this fall, to 
contact your '53 friends and make plans to 
meet in Providence the weekend of June 2-5. j 

]ohn A. Andersen, president of the First 
National Bank of Lake Forest, 111., has been 
named its chief executive officer. He is also 
president of the First National Bank of Lake 
Bluff and a board member of the Lake Forest 
National Bank. His son, John, is a member of 
the class of 1979 at Brown. 

Marilyn Rice McClanahan has received 
her master's in public health from California 
State University, Northridge, Calif. "Last 
August," she says, "I was promoted to as- 
sistant director of the High Blood Pressure 
Council of Los Angeles in Burbank. My old- 
est son, Timothy, is a sophomore at the Uni- 
versity of California, Santa Cruz, and my 
second son, Bradley, spent the past summer 
traveling around Europe with his cousin." 

Walter L. Molineux, Locust, N.J., has ] 

been named central area commercial man- 
ager for New Jersey Bell Telephone Co. He 
had been commercial manager in the com- 
pany's Raritan area. 

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Ruth Ekstrom: 
Helping people to 
identify and use 
their talents 

D A middle-aged woman wlw liad been ac- 
tive in the PTA and had served on her town's 
school board returned to college for an education 
degree after her children weregrown. Sheivas re- 
quired to take a course on "The Role of the Com- 
munity in Education" — a course which, with 
her experience, sIk probably could luive taught. 

D A homemaker with several school-age 
cltildren entered a bachelor's degree program in 
home economics at a nearby college. She ivas in- 
formed that she would have to live for one semes- 
ter in the Home Management Building — a 
household Moratory that simulated a family liv- 
ing situation — despite her ongoing, first-hand 
experience in the real thing: her home. 

In cases such as these, not allowing col- 
lege credit for women's real -life experiences 
is a waste of their time and money, says Ruth 
Burt Ekstrom '53, Brown's newest Fellow 
(page 6). Translating women's unpaid expe- 
rience into academic credit was the subject of 
a research project she recently headed at the 
Educational Testing Service (ETS) in Prince- 
ton, New Jersey, where she is a research psy- 
chologist. ETS is perhaps best known as the 
originator of numerous standard tests used 
for evaluating college and graduate school 
applicants, such as the SAT. But Ruth 
Ekstrom, who works solely with ETS's large 
research component, is quick to teU students, 
"I'm not one of the people who kept you 
from getting into the college of your choice!" 

Mrs. Ekstrom introduced herself v\ith 
this good-natured remark at a gathering last 
spring in Brown's Sarah Doyle Women's 
Center, where she spoke at a luncheon 
forum on women's life experiences and 
higher education. Several dozen women — 
students, employees, alumnae, and others — 
crowded into a small sitting room and 
munched sandwiches and cottage cheese 
while Mrs. Ekstrom, seated under an oil 
portrait of Sarah Doyle, talked about the 
research project. 



"Because colleges are often unwilling to 
recognize a woman's unpaid activities as 
valid learning experiences," Mrs. Ekstrom 
said, "they are creating unnecessary barriers 
for women who begin or resume their higher 
education after spending some time out of 
school and the work force." She pointed out 
that many colleges routinely have given 
credit for past paid employment that relates 
to a field of study — a practice that has fa- 
vored men, who traditionally have worked 
while their wives tended the home. "Women 
have been getting a poor deal," she asserted. 

Another pitfall that Mrs. Ekstrom and 
her colleagues pinpointed during the study, 
which was funded by a two-year grant from 
HEW's Fund for the Improvement of Post- 
secondary Education, was that women 
themselves tend to downplay the value of 
their volunteer and at-home work. "Because 
volunteer work often has been viewed as 
trivial," she told the Sarah Doyle Center 
gathering, "a woman may pooh-pooh her 
experience — 'Oh, 1 just did some work for 
the environmental protection group' — that 
sort of comment." To combat such a 
minimizing of experience, the ETS research- 
ers developed a competency assessment tool 
known as the "I Can" test. The test describes 
various types of volunteer activities, and 
enumerates skills and responsibilities that 
may have been required of a volunteer. For 
example, the "1 Can" checklist for a volun- 
teer "advocate/ change agent" — someone 
who works to improve conditions, programs, 
or services — includes these possibilities: 

"I can: 

" — Identify areas where change is 
needed. 

" — Describe the public policy issues rel- 
evant to a problem. 

" — Identify the relevant constituencies 
concerned with a problem (both pro and con) 
and describe their posihon. 




" — Identify significant individuals and 
groups (such as community leaders, gov- 
ernment officials and legislators) who can 
help to implement change. 

" — Build good working relationships 
with those who will be affected by proposed 
changes." 

Filling out an "I Can" checklist helps a 
person to perceive his or her experiences in a 
different light. The list identifies the genuine 
skills and duties that characterize volunteer 
work, so that prcxesses and decisions that 
were regarded as routine take on real value. 
With such concrete descriptions of their vol- 
unteer experience, people can argue for col- 
lege credit in a specific area, or even bolster 
their qualitications when entering the paid 
job market. 

While Mrs. Ekstrom reported that more 
than 300 colleges had expressed interest in 
using the materials developed by her ETS 
group (such as the "I Can" evaluations), she 
stressed that "I don't think it is something 
every college ought to do. Diversity in higher 
education is important. I also believe that the 
final decision on awarding credit must rest 
with each institution." Brown, she noted, 
does not give such credit. "I purposely 
haven't mentioned it to anyone at Brown," 
she said in response to a question from the 
audience, "because, as a member of the Cor- 
poration, I would be putting them in an 
awkward position." 

Ruth Ekstrom describes most of her 
work for ETS as "identifying people's talents 
and helping them to use them advantageous- 
ly." She and her colleagues employ statistical 
techniques to determine what combinations 
of attitudes and aptitudes spell success in a 
given field. For example, another recent ETS 
research project attempted to define what 
qualities and practices of elementary school 
teachers were most important in helping 
children learn. In the study, which was con- 
ducted for the state of California to help 
establish criteria for selecting teachers for 
teacher-training instruction, Mrs. Ekstrom 
and other researchers observed the class- 
room behavior of a number of teachers and 
found that "flexibility is very important. The 
most significant factor leading to better learn- 
ing was the teacher's ability to explain mate- 
rials in different ways to different kids, to ad- 
just the lesson where necessary." 

Mrs. Ekstrom says she "can't ever re- 
member not being interested in how to iden- 
tify talented human beings, and how to find 
the right person for a job." As far back as age 
eleven, the Bennington, Vermont, native re- 
calls thinking that "understanding that pro- 
cess might be the touchstone to solving the 
problems of the world." It has remained a 
"pervasive interest" in her life. Mrs. Ekstrom 
pursued the interest as a Brown undergrad- 
uate, taking courses in measurement and 
majoring in psychology. Of her professors, 
three stand out in her memory as being par- 
ticularly influential in her studies: her future 
father-in-law, C. Emanuel Ekstrom of the 



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education department; psychologist Carl 
Pfaffman, a "fantastically good teacher" who 
now serves on the Board of Fellows with his 
former student; and Harold Schlossberg, also 
of psychology. She met her husband, Lin- 
coln Ekstrom '53, in an astronomy class 
taught by the late Charles Smiley. 

While getting a master's degree in edu- 
cation from Boston University (1956), Mrs. 
Ekstrom taught elementary school in Bever- 
ly, Mass. She and Lincoln Ekstrom were 
married in 1957 and moved to Princeton, 
where he worked for RCA Laboratories, and 
she took a job with ETS. "While working for 
ETS," she recalls, "I discovered that a mas- 
ter's degree wasn't quite enough, and en- 
rolled in a doctoral program at Rutgers." She 
received her Ed.D. in 1957. 

Mrs. Ekstrom's special interest in eval- 
uating volunteer work stemmed partiallv 
from her own unpaid activities. She has been 
active in conservation groups, recently serv- 
ing as information chairman for the Southern 
New Jersey branch of the Sierra Club. Her 
list of involvements with Brown is lengthy. 
She had been on the Corporation as a trustee 
for five years prior to being elected a Fellow 
in October. A tangible measure of Ruth and 
Lincoln Ekstrom's combined affection for 
Brown is the stunning, two-story stained 
glass window in the stairwell of the Maddock 
Alumni Center. It was restored through their 
generosity. 

Mrs. Ekstrom says her efforts on behalf 
of Brown have been prompted by her 
gratitude for being able to attend the Uni- 
versity on scholarship. "Because 1 received 
financial aid from Brown," she explains, "I 
have always felt a special obligation to the 
University." She also confides that this 
makes certain of her duties as a Corporation 
member somewhat unpleasant. "It really 
gets me in the pit of the stomach when we 
have to squeeze the financial aid budget," 
she sighs. 

Mrs. Ekstrom was one of two alumni 
who served on Brown's presidential search 
committee in 1975 and 1976. The assignment 
was a stimulating one, she says, because "1 
was able to utilize my interest and experience 
in finding the right person for the job. It was 
basically an extension of my life's work. " 

A.D. 



The Classes continued 



54 

N.H. 



Leicis H. Busell is the owner 

of The BottleiKeg Store, Conway, 



Robert R. Jenks is with the Unemploy- 
ment Compensation Advisory Corp., Bos- 
ton. 

Ralph W. Morton has been appointed re- 
gional sales manager of the western division 
of The Milford Rivet c& Machine Co., Fuller- 
ton, Calif. 

EZ C William S. Penlwlloio is associate 
\J\J professor of physics at the Univer- 
sity of Rhode Island. 

C/I William T. Brightman III has 
^\J been promoted to executive vice 
president of the Newport (R.l.) National 
Bank. 

Jerome Cline is a salesman with the New 
Jersey Zinc Co., Southfield, Mich. 

Gretchen Gross Wheelwright received her 
Ph.D. degree in educational administration 
from the University of California, Santa Bar- 
bara, in June. She has been appointed assist- 
ant principal in charge of curriculum and 
student activities at Mount Carmel High 
School in San Eh ego. On weekends Gretchen 
commutes to her home in Santa Barbara, 
where her husband, Michael, is a landscape 
architect. Their daughter, Alice, is a member 
of the class of 1981 at Brown. 

C ^7 Alumnae class officers for the 
\J i next five years include: ]ane Gold- 
shine Kolber, president; Barbara Bythiner 
Kramer, vice president; Elinor Schofield Young, 
vice president; Jane Albertson Weingarten, sec- 
retary; Dons fin^cMnistfr, treasurer; and 
Ardell Kabalkin Borodach, head class agent. 

Nathanael Greene has been named vice 
president for academic affairs of Wesleyan 
University. 

jane Goldshine Kolber is assistant director 
of admissions at The Lenox School in New 
York City. She has two daughers, Elizabeth, 
15, and Jennifer, 12. 

Alesandra M. Schmidt, Natick, Mass., has 
been named academic dean at Pine Manor 
Junior College, Chestnut Hill, Mass. She has 
her master's in classics from the University of 
Pennsylvania and her doctorate in Greek and 
archaeology from Bryn Mawr College. 

Robert C. Sleigh, ]r. (A.M., '63 Ph.D.) has 
been named chairman of the philosophy de- 
partment at the University of Massachusetts, 
where he had been acting head the past two 
years. 

CO Kenneth A. Kurze has been ap- 
\JO pointed American Consul General 
in Strasbourg, France. A veteran of eighteen 
years with the Foreign Service, he uill be act- 
ing as informal U.S. observer of the activities 
of the Strasbourg-based Council of Europe. 
He and his wife have four children. 

E%Q ^ /"'"' ''^'''sn't"'"' has accepted a 
\J^ position as program manager for 
the Bevelac Radiobiology/Radiotherapy Pro- 
gram at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, 
University of California. He and his wife, 
Carolyn, and their three children are "happy 



to be back" in the San Francisco Bay area 
after living in Illinois for eight years, where 
John was group leader of the neutron and 
gamma ray toxicity program in the Division 
of Biology and Medicine at Argonne National 
Laboratory. Their new address: 15 Silvia Ct., 
Moraga, Calif. 94556. 

Marta Erochesky de Fernandez Longo has 
moved to the United States with her family 
and would like to get in touch "uith my old 
and good friends from Pembroke." Her ad- 
dress; 2304 Woods Rd., Wilmington, Del. 
19808. Her phone number: (302) 999-1032. 

Peter B. Salsbury has been promoted to 
senior vice president and treasurer at 
Citytrust Bank, Bridgeport, Conn. He is a 
graduate of the School of Banking at 
Williams College and now attends the 
Stonier School of Banking at Rutgers. Peter 
was director of the United Way of Bridgeport 
a year ago. He and Betsy reside in Easton, 
Conn., with their children. 

/20 Peter Briggs has joined Advest, 
vl\/ Inc., New London, Conn., as an 
account executive. 

Blair /. Myers is a sales manager with 
Computer Sciences, El Segundo, Calif. 

John A. Steioart, CPCU, has been named 
production manager for Swett & Crawford 
Group's Portiand, Oreg., branch office. An 
assistant vice president of the firm, John had 
spent the past two years with the group's 
London brokerage firm. Guest Spencer & 
Co. 

]ohn R. Wielandy is general administrator 
for the Chevrolet Motor Division, General 
Motors Corp., Detroit. 

/I 'I Eeiins L. Gould reports that the 
\J JL University of Texas Press has pub- 
lished a book he wrote in collaboration with 
Richard Greffe: Photoioumalist: The Career of 
jimmy Hare. A turn of the century photog- 



the winning . . . 




rapher for Colliers and Leslie's Weekly, Hare 
covered the Spanish-American War, the 
Russo-Japanese War, World War I, and the 
early history of aviation. Lew is now at work 
on a study of the presidency of William 
McKinley for the Kansas City Press series on 
'The American Presidency." 

Stephen M. Nassau has resigned as asso- 
ciate general counsel of the National Educa- 
tion Association to become a partner in the 
law firm of Nassau, Beer, Boltz & Bennia, 
with offices in Washington, D.C., and 
Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Prior to his associa- 
tion with the NEA, Steve was an attorney 
advisor to the chairman of the National Labor 
Relations Board and a law clerk to an appel- 
late judge in Washington. Steve, his wife, 
Adrienne, and their three children reside at 
7415 Nevis Rd., Bethesda, Md. 

(L^ 'Nomuin B. Barstmc is a third- 
\J^ grade teacher at the Latimer Lane 
School, Simsbury, Conn. 

Len Cliariie}/ and his wife, Marsha, report 
the birth of a second son, Robert Lawrence, 
on March 16. Their eldest son, Paul, is 4. Len 
is counsel with RCA Records in New York 
Qty. The family lives in Manhattan. 

Lillian S. Robinson (A.B. and A.M.) is 
visiting professor of American studies at the 
University of Paris this year while on leave 
from her position as associate professor of 
American studies and women's studies at 
SUNY/Buffalo. "Indiana University Press is 
publishing a book of my essays," she says. 
"It's called Sex, Class and Culture and will be 
out this spring. I've been awarded a Rocke- 
feller Foundation Humanities Fellowship to 
complete my textbook." Her address: 42 rue 
de la Tour-d'Auvergne, 75009, Paris, France. 

/2'5 John W. Arata, former counsel 
%JJ to the Massachusetts Port Author- 
ity for litigation, labor, and legislative mat- 
ters, has joined the Boston law firm, Brickley, 
Sears & Cole. 

Atkin Simonian is an account manager 
with International Nickel Co., Inc., Little 
Silver, N.J. 

CL^ David C. Deratany is a self-em- 
vlTt ployed attorney with offices at 17 
Main St., West Harwich, Mass. 

Vernon C. Rushing is pastor of Lewis 
United Congregational Methodist Church, 
Lewis, Iowa. 

Ingrid W. Scobie, a professor of history, is 
a part-time lecturer this year at the Univer- 
sity of California, San Diego. 

Allen M. Ward and Ellen Evans Whiting 
were married May 14 and are residing at 45 
Midland Rd., Covenh^, Conn. 06238. Ellen, 
who retains her maiden name, is a Mount 
Holyoke graduate who holds an M.A. in 
medieval studies from the University of 
Connecticut. Allen is a member of the history 
department at the University of Connecticut. 

Daznd Westfall and his wife, Shirley 
Spencer Westfall, have returned from six 
months in Basel, Switzerland. Dave was on 
sabbatical leave from West Virginia Univer- 
sity and was doing research on nerve growth 
factors at the university' in Basel. He has been 
promoted to professor of pharmacology at 
West Virginia University. He and Shirley 
have two children, Timothy, 7, and Alison, 
4. 



/Z C Frederick ]. Eriksen is assistant 
\J\J professor of physics at the Univer- 
sity of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, 
Miss. 

lohn Fiorillo (A.M.) has been appointed 
assistant vice president for health sciences 
administration at Columbia University. Dur- 
ing the mid-1960s, the New York University 
graduate served as regional planning director 
of the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity 
and, later, as executive assistant to the ad- 
ministrator of the New York City Health 
Services Administration. 

Lawrence P. Lataif has opened a law office 
in Arlington, Va., with Sam Bernsen, former 
general counsel for the U.S. Immigration and 
Naturalization Service. Lawrence had been a 
public defender in Washington for two years. 

Ronald E. Long is manager of the 
Pittsburgh office of Mutual of New York. 

Wayne E. Pomiansky is product manager 
of the poly fibron division of W. R. Grace & 
Co., Lexington, Mass. 

Ricliard A. Powell received his M.A.T. 
from American International College in 1972 
and is a language teacher at Stonington-Deer 
Isle High School, Stonington, Maine. 

Charles A. Rohrbach and his wife, Susan 
Hines Rohrbach (see '67), have moved to 48 
Pippin Dr. East, Glastonbury, Conn. 06033. 
"Chic has a new job," Susan writes. "He's 
controller of the Tuttle & Bailey Division of 
Allied Thermal Corp. of New Britain, Conn. 
We also have other good news — the arrival 
of a son, Charles Frederick, on Feb. 8. Our 
other son, John, is 6." 

Robert B. Rosm and his wife, EUen, re- 
port the birth of their second child and sec- 
ond daughter, Molly Alswang, last February. 
"We live in Chicago," Bob says, "and re- 
centlv moved into a lOO-year-old Victorian 
building on the North Side, which we con- 
verted into a modern home. " 

Donald F. Roth has resigned as adminis- 
trative assistant to Councilman John Trevino 
of Austin, Texas, to become general manager 
of the Austin S^Tnphony Orchestra. "I plan 
to continue as announcer on the Saturday 
morning program on KMFA (classical music) 
and to moderate a new public affairs inter- 
view show for that station." 

A. Welles Sumner is corporate operations 
counsel for Studebaker-Worthington, Inc., 
New York City. 

Wendy /. fuller is a consultant with Sib- 
son & Co., Inc., Research Park, Princeton, 
N.J. 

(L(L Dr. Elissa Beron Arons is a psy- 
X^ V chiatrist in Newton Centre, Mass. 

Stephen /. Brinn has been appointed di- 
rector of sales for the Biltmore Plaza Hotel in 
dowTitown Providence. The Biltmore, built in 
1925 and for many years a favorite spot for 
BroviTi undergraduates, is being converted 
into a luxury hotel and will re-open next fall. 

David D. Prior, Newton, Conn., has been 
promoted to major in the Army Reserve. He 
is an aide at Southbury Training School. Ear- 
lier this year Dave was graduated from the 
University of Connecticut Law School. 

Lawrence ]. RJjoades and Nancy F'ryce 
were married a year ago and are living at 118 
Linden Ave., Pittsburgh. Lawrence is presi- 
dent of Extrudethone Corp., which has sub- 
sidiaries and divisions in Ireland, England, 



and Japan, as well as Irwin, Pa. "Just got 
back from a trip around the world, including 
stops in Europe, Australia, Taiwan, and Ja- 
pan," he reports. 

Christopher F. Sandberg, an economist 
and finance officer, is assistant treasurer of j 
Chester, Blackburn & Roder, Miami, Fla. ' 

/T^ Gai7 Yfl»(j^7wrfl C/iU is assistant I 
\J / professor of international business ; 
at the University of San Francisco. | 

Stuart Crump, who had been a reporter/ I 
photographer for the Princeton Packet for the . 
past five years, has been named managing 
editor of Tlie Manville News, Manville, N.J. 
His column, "Crump's Comer," in the 
Princeton Packet, received a "best column" I 
award from the National Newspaper Asso- 
ciation last year. 

Floyd A. Gletm /// has received a Ph.D. in | 
psychology from the University of Pennsyl- i 
vania. He is a human factor analyst with 1 
Analytics, Inc., Willow Grove, Pa. i 

Dorothy Gross has received a Ph.D. in 
music theory from Indiana University and is 
assistant professor and chairwoman of music j 
theory at the University of Minnesota. j 

Linda K. Mansfield is working in Wash- 
ington, D.C., as a policy analyst for the U.SJ 
Department of Energy. 

Susan Hines Rohrbach and her husband, 
Charles (see '65), have moved to 48 Pippin 
Dr., East Glastonbury, Conn. 06033. The 
couple also reports the birth of a son, Charles 
Frederick, on Feb. 8. Their other son, John, is] 
6. I 

James M. Stuart is acting manager, I 

mechanical engineering, for Exxon Enter- I 
prises, Lionville, Pa. j 

Roger True has been appointed chairman| 
of the sciences department at Green Farms I 
Academy, Westport, Conn. 

Edward R. Van Vliet (A.M., '73 Ph.D.) is ; 
associate professor and chairman of the de- 
partment of modern languages at Elizabeth- 
town College, Elizabethtown, Pa. He recent- 
ly received a grant from the Camargo Foun- 1 
dation in France to study in that country. ' 

i 
/20 Jan Terry Dystel, a 1975 graduate ■: 
KJ^J of the University of Washington 
Law School, is an attorney for Rainier Na- » 
tional Bank in Seattle, Wash. ^ 

Darryl Fanelli has graduated from Bates ii 
College of Law, University of Houston, with; 
a J.D. and is an associate with the Houston ^ 
law firm of Fred A. Collins. ■; 

Sanford I. Jablon reports the formation of i 
a law firm, under the name of Jablon, Ep- \ 
stein, Weisbord & Wolf, in Philadelphia. ' 

Judith A. McGaw has been named assist-ij 
ant professor of history at the University of » 
Oklahoma. 

Robert L. Taylor and his wife, Kathie, 
report the birth of twin daughters, Jennifer 
Ann and Julie Kathleen, on May 19. The 
family lives at 12910 Cherrywood Ln., Bowie. 
Md. 

Roy W. Walker is an equal opportunity 
specialist with the Employment and Training 
Administration, Boston. 

/T Q /"'"' Ferguson is assistant pro- 
\JZ7 fessor of biology at Bard College, : 
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. 

Willis J. Goldsmith is an attorney with the 
Washington, DC, law finm of Seyfarth, 



40 



Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson. 

Dr. Mark S. Hixhherg is a surgical resi- 
dent at Massachusetts General Hospital, Bos- 
ton. 

George E. La'esque is an associate profes- 
sor at Indiana State University. 

Gilbert N. Leiius is assistant professor of 
mathematics at Michigan Tech University, 
Houghton, Mich. 

Peter A. Mathescii is an attorney with the 
firm of John F. Sullivan, Esq., South Natick, 
Mass. 

John D. Read is senior technical sales rep- 
resentative with Exxon Chemical Co., Des 
Plaines, 111. 

Sui'it Rungvisai is assistant professor of 
social sciences at Chiengmai University, 
Chiengmai, Thailand. 

The Practicing Law Institute has pub- 
lished Internal Revenue Service: Practice atid 
Pmcedure, a 561 -page book by Anthony Santa 
Barbara which deals with the procedural as- 
pects of U.S. tax law. Anthony and his wife, 
Barbara Davies Santa Barbara '69, reside in 
Brussels. 

Capt. Ted Sienicki, an F-111 aircraft 
commander, is serving at Lakenheath RAF 
Station in England. 

John R. Thelin has accepted a position 
with Pomona College, Claremont, Calif. 
'This is an administrative appointment 
which includes assignments in admission, 
college relations, and public information," 
John says. "Prior to accepting this appoint- 
ment 1 was on the faculty of the University of 
Kentucky." 

Eleanor H. Wamock is a linguistics stu- 
dent at the University of California, Berkeley. 

^f\ Judi Rappoport Blitzer has been 
/ KJ named vice president of the Chase 
Manhattan Bank, N.A., and has been head- 
ing the New Jersey Banking Team of the 
Commercial Banking Group. 

Robert A. Bloodgood completed his three 
years of postdoctoral study in the biology 
department at Yale and is assistant professor 
of anatomy at Albert Einstein College, Bronx, 
N.Y. His wife is Janet Williams Bloodgood '69 
M.A.T. 

Jonah R. Churgin (Ph.D.) has been 
awarded his doctorate in college and univer- 
sity administration from Cciumbia Univer- 
sity, where he specialized in the education of 
the professional woman. Jonah is currently 
director of the Division of Continuing Edu- 
cation at the Bay College of Maryland in Bal- 
timore. 

Stephen P. Greeiie has been named busi- 
ness manager of Valley Adult Counseling 
Services, Inc., Linwood, Mass. 

The Rev. Jamie Ross Gustafsoti was or- 
dained to the Christian ministr)' by the Cen- 
tral Association, Massachusetts Conference 
of the United Church of Christ, on June 19 at 
Bethany Congregational Church, Worcester, 
where her husband, Mark, is pastor. Jamie is 
serving as associate pastor at Sturbridge 
Federated Church and is living in Leicester, 
Mass. "Both of us discover much joy and 
challenge in pastoral ministry," she says, 
"and we continue to derive joy and growth 
in marriage. They are really two very special 
callings." 

DaiHd F. Haskell (Ph.D.) is dean of 
studies at Dean Junior College, Franklin, 
Mass. 



Elizabeth S. Judson worked last winter as 
an administrative assistant for a Peace Corps 
training project for Francophone in Africa, 
run by The Experiment in International Uv- 
ing, Brattleboro, Vt. "Now, I've moved into a 
job in the Outbound Programs department of 
The Experiment," Betsey says, "having led 
three such groups for them in the past — one 
to Switzerland and two academic trips to 
France. 1 am still a programmer for summer 
groups, especially those going to France." 

Peter J. Kahn is living in Menlo Park, 
Calif., and is associate editor of the Stanford 
University Press. 

William ]. Kane and Carolyn Quigley 
were married July 2 in Manning Chapel on 
the Brown campus. Bill's brother, Gerard F. 
Kane '73, was best man, and ushers included 
Theodore A. Oatis '69and/()/i» W. Spencer. Bill 
is an editor for McGraw-Hill Book Co., New 
York Qty. His viife is a graduate of Hartwick 
College. 

Martha Schroeder Lezois received a mas- 
ter's degree in library science last year from 
the University of North Carolina at Chapel 
Hill. She's employed at the Coleman Karesh 
Law Library at the University of South 
Carolina. 

Mary Ann Muirhead, Chicago, is assistant 
legal counsel with the U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency. 

Steven S. Robertson, a research psycholo- 
gist, is assistant professor of pediatrics at 
Case Western Reserve University School of 
Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio. 

Roger L. West is a senior physicist in The 
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics 
Laboratory, Laurel, Md. His home address: 
11216 Cherryhill Rd., Apt. 1(B, Beltsville, 
Md. 20705. 

Robert G. Zapffe is with the Oklahoma 
Department of Corrections as an employ- 
ment counselor in its community treatment 
program in Oklahoma City. "Have been with 
the program for more than two years," he 
says, "but only started employment counsel- 
ing the last eight months. " 

^"l Dreic A. Augenblick is with the 
/ J. Pidcock Insurance Agency, New 
Hope, Pa. 

Louis B. Briasco (A.M.) has resigned as 
alumni secretary at Bowdoin College and as 
Bowdoin Alumni Association secretary- 
treasurer. 

Lynn Courtney, a psychologist, is with 
the Mystic Valley Mental Health Center, 
Burlington, Mass. 

David G. Cox is a teacher at the Cran- 
brook School, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., where 
he also serves as a coach. 

Mady Gilson is working in Washington, 
DC, as a staff attorney with the Public De- 
fender Service. 

Helen Higley and Frederick G. Sayivard 
(see '73) were married May 21 at St. An- 
thony's Church, Newport. They are living in 
North Haven, Conn. 

Edward S. Katz is a student at the Emory 
University School of Dentistry in Atlanta. 

Rosalyn Laudati (Ph.D.) is a psychology 
intern with the San Bernardino County 
(Calif.) Department of Mental Health. 

Mark K. McDonald received his M.B.A. 
degree last June from Dartmouth College. He 
is a resident of Bellevue, Wash. 

Jeffrey L. Meikle is teaching at Colby- 



Sawyer College in New London, N.H. 

]ohn K. Mell received his M.B.A. in 
finance last April from the University of 
Michigan Graduate School of Business. He's 
now a financial analyst with Bristol-Myers in 
New York City. 

Paige R. Miller was graduated from Yale 
Law School in May and is working for Wolf, 
Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen in Philadelphia. 

Mark Moreau is a staff attorney with the 
New Orleans Legal Association. 

Dr. /osf E. Peraza is a dermatology resi- 
dent at the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospi- 
tal at Dartmouth College. His wife, Marda 
Allara Peraza, is an attorney in West Lebanon, 
N.H. 

Christine A. Riley, a psychologist, is 
a member of the technical staff at Bell 
Laboratories, Holmdel, N.J. 

Meredith Ann Roosa and Karl F. Inder- 
furth were married May 21 at Westmoreland 
Congregational Church, Washington, D.C. 
Meredith is a staff assistant for U.S. Rep. 
Lindy Boggs of Louisiana, and Karl, a Uni- 
versity of North Carolina graduate, is special 
assistant to the President's Assistant for Na- 
tional Security Affairs. 

Joseph W. Saitt has become assistant 
music librarian at the University of Connect- 
icut in Storrs, his home town. He had been 
music librarian at Connecticut College, New 
London, Conn. Joe recently published Direc- 
tory of Music Libraries and Collections in Neiv 
England for the New England chapter of the 
Music Library Association and was elected 
vice chairman of the chapter. 

H. Scott Thomson is a manager at Donley 
Manufacturing Co., Inc., a jewelry firm in 
North Attleboro, Mass. 

Dr. John W. Tlumtpson is a resident in 
radiology at the Presbyterian University 
Hospital at the University' of Pittsburgh. 

Douglas F. WUliams is teaching marine 



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41 



science at the University of South Carolina, 
where he is an assistant professor in the de- 
partment of geology. 

^O Dr. Mark Bahcock is engaged in 
/ ^ the private practice of orthodontics 
in association with three other dentists in 
Portsmouth, Va. He reports that he and his 
wife, Marian, were recently divorced. 

Richard L. Buckley, Jr., is transit opera- 
tions manager for Tidewater Regional Trans- 
it, Norfolk, Va. 

Shih-Cliia Chang is associate senior resi- 
dent physicist at the General Motors Re- 
search Laborator}', Warren, Mich. 

Robert L. Cohen, a musician, is circulation 
librarian at the New England Conservatory, 
Boston. 

Harriet Hamel Cole and her husband, 
Alan, report the birth of their first child, Lisa 
Karen, on Sept. 24. After a year in Cleveland, 
Ohio, where Alan (also 76 M.D.) completed 
his internship at Mount Sinai Hospital, the 
couple is now living at 20A Village Green 
North, East Providence. Alan is a medical 
resident at Roger Williams Hospital, Provi- 
dence. 

Rai/rnond /. Dever, Jr. , is serving as water 
resources engineer with Gannett, Fleming, 
Corddry & Carpenter, Inc., Harrisburg, Pa. 

Dr. Arthur Dresdale is a surgical intern at 
St. Luke's Hospital Center, New York Qty. 

Ernest Evans has been awarded his Ph.D. 
in political science from MIT. He is now a 
staJff member of the personnel subcommittee 
of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Commit- 
tee and continues to live in Chevy Chase, 
Md. 

Tom Finn is an instructor at the Suffolk 
University School of Law, Boston. 

Martha M. Greenwood is studying at the 
Harvard Medical School. 

Kent W. Johnson ('76 Ph.D.) is assistant 
professor of mathematics at Mount Holyoke 
College. 

Diana Van Lancker is a postdoctoral re- 
search fellow at Northwestern University. 

D. Alan Lankford, who is a student in the 
psychology program at the University of 
Georgia, is now serving an internship in clin- 
ical psychology at the V A Hospital in Miami, 
Fla. 

Jane Littell Meyer is a general group at- 
torney with Mutual of Omaha Insurance Co., 
Omaha, Neb. 

JoAnn Neusner has been a social worker 
in London since the fall of 1975. She received 
her master's in social work from Columbia 
that year. 

Ronald J. Onorato is assistant professor of 
art at the University of Rhode Island. 

Anne Peirce and Bruce Landis were mar- 
ried Sept. 27 and are living at 7 Nicholas 
Brown Yard, Providence. Anne is taking 
courses this year at Rhode Island College and 
RISD. 

Ned W. Polan is a senior research scientist 
in the Metals Research Laboratories of Olin 
Corp., New Haven, Conn. 

Nancy Patricia Pope and Michael Alan 
Thomas were married Aug. 13, w\thMargaret 
Anne Pmver as maid of honor and Patricia Huff 
Dorer '71 and Amy Noel Wynmn '73 serving as 
bridesmaids. Nancy, who will continue to 
use her maiden name, completed her M. A. 
in comparative literature at Washington Uni- 
versity' in 1976 and is now working on her 



Ph.D. Her husband is in the master's pro- 
gram in architecture at Washington Univer- 
sity. 

Morton Schoolman (Ph.D.), a member of 
the department of government and legal 
studies at Bowdoin College, has been 
granted a one-year leave of absence to accept 
a visiting professorship at the University of 
Massachusetts at Amherst. His title there this 
year is visiting professor of social theory, 
political economy, and political science. 

Gary H. Sockut has received an M.S. de- 
gree from MIT and a Ph.D. from Harvard, 
both in computer science. He's now manager 
of the Washington, D.C., branch office of 
BGS Systems, Inc., a computer research and 
consulting firm. "Two of the founders of the 
firm," Gary says, "aieHarold Schwenk '63 and 
jeffBiaen '65." 

Alan C. Sparrow has received his M.A. in 
American history from the University of 
Rochester and is now living at 255 Mulberry 
St., Rochester, N.Y. 14620. "I am still teach- 
ing and coaching soccer at the Harley School 
in Rochester," he savs. Alan is serving as a 
National Alumni Schools Program represen- 
tative. 

Rchert Wallace, Jr., is a commercial lend- 
ing trainee vdth First National Bank of Bos- 
ton. 

Lt. (jg.) Mary Christine Werwher and Lt. 
(jg.) Eric Schomaker (Stanford '71) were 
married Mav 14 in Seattle, Wash. "I am cur- 
rently doing field work with the National 
Geodetic Survey all over the United States," 
Christine says. Her mailing address: NOAA, 
National Geodetic Survey C171, Rockville, 
Md. 20852. 

Steven C. Weiner, an appUed mathemati- 
cian and mechanical engineer, is a technical 
consultant with Structural Dynamics Re- 
search Corp., Cincinnati. 

^^t Richard B. Allen is a research 

/ J chemist with Uniroyal Corporation 

Research, Middlebury, Conn. 

Paula J. Auerbach is a legal research secre- 
tary at CT Corporation System, Boston. 

Marc C. Bergschneider graduated from the 
University of Chicago in ]uly and is an asso- 
ciate in corporate finance at Kidder, Peabody 
& Co., Chicago. 

Peter T. Brown is working in Providence 
as a tool room technician with Kilmartin 
Tool. 

Maylun Buck-Leiv ('77 Ph.D.), a pro- 
grammer/analyst, is staff advisor for Pacific 
Telephone in San Francisco. 

James J. Burke, jr., and Jeanne Joyce were 
married Aug. 6 in Valley Stream, N.Y., with 
Lance Hackett and James Rothstein serving as 
attendants. The couple is residing in Boston 
while Jim attends Harvard Business School. 

Susan C. Cohvell, a second-year graduate 
student at the Boston University School of 
Social Work, has been selected as the 1977-78 
Margaret E. Adams Internship recipient. Her 
major concentration is community organiza- 
tion. 

Philip C. Curtis III is an air traffic control- 
ler with the Boston Air Route Traffic Control 
Center, Nashua, N.H. 

Eric L. Dai'is is a lecturer in political sci- 
ence at the University of California, Berkeley. 

Donald W. DeJson is a student at the Uni- 
versity of Virginia School of Law. 



Stephen Dull is a candidate for an M.B.A. i 
degree at Stanford University, Palo Alto, i 
Calif. 

Peter H. Falk and Margaret J. Lake were .J 
married May 28, with William "Buff" Brown , 
serving as best man. Ushers at the ceremony i 
included Stephen R. Didl and Marc Berg- ' 

Schneider. The Falks live at 5 East 94th St., j 
New York City. Peter is president of Hast- i 
ings Galleries, Ltd., of New York, a firm con- \ 
cerned with the acquisition of collections of .1 
19th-century American art. His wife, Peggy, 
a Wheaton College graduate, is an account 
saleswoman and a model for Jaeger Interna- i 
tional of New York. i 

William Prayer is an instructor in learning i 
resources at Central Maine Vocational j 

Technical Institute, Auburn, Maine. j 

John W. Gledhill was graduated in June \ 
from Harvard Business School. , 

Dr. Graydon G. Goss and Tt'rn/ Ann Teg- '. 
nazian (see '74) were married Dec. 19, 1976, in j 
Eatontown, N.J. The couple is now living at | 
1440 Veteran Ave., Apt. 251, Los Angeles, ' 
Calif. 90024. Graydon, a graduate of 1 

Dartmouth Medical School, is a first-year res- 1 
ident in psychiatry at the Los Angeles j 

County/USC Medical Center. 1 

Andrrw R. Guzman is working in New j 
York City as a management trainee with ! 

Qtibank, N.A. j 

Dr. Dt'fira Lynn Hall has completed her 
medical training at the School of Medicine, | 
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and is ■ 
now doing her residency training at the Med- j 
ical Center of the University of Alabama, I 
Birmingham. 

Scott Blake Hams has completed his 
clerkship with U.S. District Court Judge j 

Gerhard A. Gesell and is associated with thej 
Washington, DC, law firm of Williams & I 
Connolly. 

Dr. Horn/ B. Hearn TV, a 1977 graduate of 
the Medical University of South Carolina, i 
has started a four-year residency in obstetrics I 
and gynecology at the Medical Center of the 
University of Alabama in Birmingham. 

Joanne M. Joseph is a school library media 
specialist at Samuel Slater Junior High in 
Pawtucket, R.I. 

Dr. John A. Kalaskozeski was graduated | 
from Georgetown University School of Den- « 
tistr\' and is now doing a two-year residency!; 
at the University of Connecticut Health Cen-li 
ter, Farmington, Conn. i 

Gerard F. Kane is a sales representative ) 
for Lakeshore Equipment & Supply Co., of > 
Elyria, Ohio. He lives in Danbury, Conn. i 

Eileen Kupersmith is director of the New ! 
Gulph Child Care Center, Rosemont, Pa. ' 

Keith M. Lundin, a graduate of Vander- j] 
bilt Law School, is associated with the j 

Nashville law firm of Chambers & Wiseman. il 
His wife, Linda, graduated from Vanderbilt \ 
Medical School and is a resident there in i 
child psychiatry. 'f 

Joan C. Marim is living in Baltimore and ii 
is a medical student at Johns Hopkins Uni- i 
versity. -j 

Kei'in P. McEnen/ was graduated from i 
the University of Virginia Law School in 1976 1! 
and is now living in Washington, D.C., I 

where he is associated with the Washington i 
law firm of Howrey and Simon. jt 

Robert A. Pollard is a research asscxriate \\ 
and a Ph.D. candidate in American history ati*; 

(T 



42 



the University of North Carolina at Chapel 
Hill 

Lt. Gloria Procoyio has entered the Air 
Force officer program and is training at 
Medina Air Force Base near San Antonio, 
Texas. 

Siizautic C. Procter received an M.B.A. 
from Harvard last spring and is a marketing 
representative with IBM in New York Citv. 

Mark A Ri<f/is ('75 Sc.M.) is a geophysi- 
cist with Chevron Oil Co., Houston, Texas. 

Dr. Andrew L. Salner is a second-year res- 
ident in internal medicine at Hartford Hospi- 
tal. In lulv he uill start a residency in radia- 
tion therapy at the Joint Center for Radiation 
Therapy at Harvard. 

Frcdcrid C. Sayuxini ('76 Ph.D.) and 
Htiai Higltn/ (see '71) were married May 21 
and are Uying in North Haven, Conn. Fred is 
an assistant professor at Yale. 

Tod F. Schldcr is an associate in the 
Phoenix, Ariz., law firm of Sternberg, 
Sternberg & Rubin, Ltd. 

Donald D. Silverson is a graduate student 
in comniuniU' planning and area develop- 
ment and a research assistant in the Bureau 
of Government Research at the University of 
Rhode Island. 

Jeff Alan Wagner is vice president of the 
lacrosse division of W. H. Brine Co., 
Needham, Mass. 

Candy Dochlert Walker left the Brown 
admission office in July, moved to Boston, 
and is working as a mailing list manager for 
Warren, Gorham & Lamont, Inc., a publisher 
of legal and business books and pericxUcals. 

^^ Donald Bigelow Balfour graduated 
/ TI from Washington University Law 
School, passed the Missouri bar exams, and 
is associated with the firm of Lucas & Mur- 
phy in St. Louis. 

Elizabeth ]. Becklmrd is a librarian with 
Dewberr\', Nealon & Davis, Vienna, Va. 

Lawrence H. Bernstein is a graduate 
student/teaching assistant in economics at 
the University of Virginia. 

Sarah L. Bryant received her M.S. in li- 
brary science last summer from the Univer- 
sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is 
living in Riverside, R.I. 

John B. Cenvne is an attorney with the 
Dare Foster Care Agency in Beverly, Mass. 

Peter Champion and his wife, Susan Man- 
ley Champion, are running the kitchen at the 
Fl\ing-X Ranch, a 28,000-acre membership 
recreational ranch in Wheatland, Wyo. They 
accepted this position after taking a six- 
month trip through Europe. Their address: 
Flying-X Ranch, Bosler Rd., Wheatland 
82201. 

Cordelia HebUe Dels^m is a graduate stu- 
dent in the School of Engineering and 
Applied Sciences, University of Virginia. 

Larry Elder is an associate attorney with 
Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, Cleveland, 
Ohio. 

Robert E. Emery, Jr. , is a graduate student 
and graduate assistant in dinical psychology 
at SUNY, Stony Brook, N.Y. 

Laurauce]. Ginsberg is a staff accountant 
with Arthur Young & Co., New York Qty. 

Albert Gould andB^y Goldenlvrg (see 
'75) were married Aug. 7 at Brown's Hillel 
House, with Rabbi Richard Marker officiat- 
ing. A Boston University Law School gradu- 



ate, Albert has established a private practice 
in Carlisle, Mass. 

lere M. Hamilton is studying for his mas- 
ter's degree at the Sorbonne in Paris. He re- 
cently returned from an eight-week study of 
the Mandeans in Teheran, Iran. 

Scott R. Harris received an M.B.A. de- 
gree from the University of Virginia in May 
and is now in marketing with Pet, Inc., St. 
Louis, Mo. His new address; 1250 Lay Rd., 
St. Louis 63124. 

Bobbe Hirsh has resigned from the 
Chicago office of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & 
Co., where she had been a senior interna- 
tional tax consultant, to attend Harvard Law 
School. "While in Chicago," she writes, "I 
served on the board of directors of the 
Chicago Junior Association of Commerce and 
Industry and was a charter member of the 
Chicago Society of Women CPAs." 

Roscoe C. Howard, ]r., is clerking for the 
Territorial Court cif the Virgin Islands, Divi- 
sion of St. Croix. He vvas graduated from the 
University of Virginia Law School in May. 
His address; Box 770, Chrisfiansted, St. 
Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands 00820. 

Gayle A. Kaplan reports that she was 
abroad for hvo years, including five months 
in Paris and a year in Israel studying at the 
Parden Institute in Jerusalem. "On my way 
back 1 spent tu'o months traveling through 
Turkey and Greece and now I'm living in 
Newton, Mass., and am in the process of 
readjusting to the United States." Gayle is 
living at 211 Old Farm Rd., Newton 02159. 

Scott F. Lubeck has received his master's 
degree in Latin American studies and has en- 
rolled in the journalism school at Columbia. 

Peter H. D. McKee is a third-year law stu- 
dent at the University of California, Davis, 
and hopes to work in legal services. 

Ronald Medi'in (M.A.T.) is teaching 
English at Needham High School, Needham, 
Mass. "Am also advisor to the student coun- 
cil," he says, "and report with pleasure that I 
have received tenure." 

William j. Phillips was graduated from 
Columbia Law School in June and is with 
Debevoise, Plimpton, Lyons & Gates, New 
York City. 

Donald Ricliardson and Brenda Joyce Bur- 
rell were married May 25 in Annapolis, Md. 
The couple now lives in Lenox, Mass. Don is 
an engineer with General Electric Ordnance 
Systems, Pittsfield, Mass. 

Stei'e Rubin spent the last year working 
as coordinator for the Transcendental Medi- 
tation program for the New England states. 
"Through December I am doing research on 
mind-body coordination and consciousness 
as a field of all possibilities, working from 
Maharishi European Research University 
(MERU) in Weggis, Suitzerland." 

Craig R. Seymour and Susan J. Collins 
(Wheaton '74) were married July 3 at Phillips 
Andcwer Academy, Andover, Mass. Craig 
has entered the Whittemore School of Busi- 
ness & Economics at the University of New 
Hampshire. The new address for the 
Seymours; P.O. Box 448, Durham, N.H. 
03824. 

Douglas Smith is an underwriter with 
Arnica Mutual Insurance Co., Providence. 

Dr. Deborah F. Spitz is on the staff of 
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, 
Philadelphia. 



Michael E. Talbert is a workmen's com- 
pensation claims examiner vsith the U.S. De- 
partment of Labor, Washington, D.C. 

Terry Ann Tegnazian has passed the 
California bar exam and is an attorney in Los 
Angeles. Her husband. Dr. Craydon Gciss (see 
'73), is a first-year resident in psychiatry at 
the Los Angeles County/USC Medical Cen- 
ter. They were married last Dec. 19. 

Alan Wavsaniker is a law clerk for Judge 
Stanley S. Brotman, U.S. District Court, 
Camden, N.J. 

^C Monroe H. Benson (M.A.T.) is 

/ ij teaching social studies at the high 

school in Canton, Mass. 

Lisa Bisgyer and Mark R, Sorensen were 
married Aug. 7 on Little Cranberry Island, 
Maine. Lisa is a second-grade teacher at the 
Sacramento Country Day School, Sacra- 
mento, Calif., and Mark, a 1974 Bucknell 
graduate, is a third-year law student at 
McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento 

Leslie Conover is employed in Washing- 
ton, D.C, as an administrative assistant to 
the D.C. Students In Court Program. 

John H. Cra-wford is a software engineer 
with Intel Corp., Santa Clara, Calif. 

Karr W. Farrell, Jr., is a geologic consult- 
ant for the U.S. Department of Energy and a 
Ph.D. candidate at UCLA's Jet Propulsion 
Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 

Ens. John Edward Frascr, USN, was 
commissioned at Newport and has been 
assigned to the USS Ouellet (FF-1077), 
stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. 

Lainnia G. Gadsden is a senior assistant 
buyer with B. Altman &Co., New YorkGty. 

Ted Gardner and Mary F. Haynes were 
married Aug. 27 at the University Chapel, 
Charlottesville, Va. Among those at the 
wedding was David E. Cohen. Ted was grad- 
uated from the Colgate Darden School of 
Business Administration at the University of 



Nancy Rathbun '81 at the 
Y^ p»cl Brown-Princeton game, won 

b\i Brown in the final minute. 




43 



Virginia and is with General Mills in Min- 
neapolis as a marketing assistant. His wife 
received her master's degree in elementary 
education at the University of Virginia. 

Betsy Goldmberg and Albert Gould (see 
'74) were married Aug. 7 at Brown's Hillel 
House by Rabbi Richard Marker. Also attend- 
ing were Dr. Robin Goldmberg '70, Marshall 
Gould '70, lane Rautniherg, Elizabeth Ponte, 
and Cynthia Harry. Betsy is an editorial 
assistant to an attorney in Boston. 

William /. Ketelhut, a sales engineer, is 
with General Electric in Oak Brook, 111. 

lanet Lei'itt received her M.B.A. degree 
in accounting and finance in June from the 
University of Chicago and is currently em- 
ployed as a consultant for Professional Com- 
puter Resources in Oak Brook, III., a firm 
specializing in mini-computer business ap- 
plications. 

Oliver Mading is a marketing assistant 
with R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Winston- 
Salem, N.C. His wife, Constance Murphy Mad- 
ing, also works in Winston- Salem as a legal 
assistant with the law firm of Womble, Car- 
lyle, Sandridge & Rice. 

Craig /. Matbias is senior systems analyst 
with Systems Operations, Inc., Princeton, 
N.J. 

Joseph A. Meis is a third-year medical 
student at Northwestern University. 

Richard W. Meister is a graduate student 
at the Wharton School of Finance, University 
of Pennsylvania. His wife, Julie Liddicoet 
Meister, is director of alumnae relations at 
Beaver College, Glenside, Pa. 

Deborah L. Monahan is editorial assistant 
in the department of nutrition and food sci- 
ence at MIT. She reports that her husband. 
Gene, is acting this year with the Cambridge 
Ensemble, an experimental theater company 
in Harvard Square. 

Robert F. Neivby and Barbara Reinke, now 
married, are living at Stouffer Place 19-10, 
Lawrence, Kans. 66044. Both are first-year 
students in the clinical psychology Ph.D. 
program at the University of Kansas. 

Hope Pillshury is a student at the Yale 
School of Forestry and Environmental 
Studies. 

Donald M. Porada, a mechanical engi- 
neer, is a civilian logistics intern with the 
U.S. Navy's Naval Sea Systems Command, 
Washington, D.C. 

Kimberly Scala is assistant director of 
sports information at Yale University. 

Carol D. Strongiii (Ph.D.) is an assistant 
professor of English at Oberlin College. 

Hilan/ L. Walker and George J. Miller (see 
'79) were married Sept. 5 at the home oi Ellen 
Calkin Kenner in North Scituate, R.l. Dick 
Dannenfelser, associate chaplain of the Uni- 
versity, officiated. The couple is residing in 
Providence. 

/f^rtn/ N. Young, a union organizer, is liv- 
ing in Foster, R.l. 

Alexander Smbo, Ir., and Madeleine Slack 
were married Aug. 20 at Round HiU Com- 
munity Church, Greenwich, Conn. Frank 
Bellis was the best man at the ceremony, 
which was attended bv twelve other 
classmates. The couple is living in Iselin, N.J. 
Alex is an IBM marketing representative for 
office products in Piscataway, N.J., and his 
wife, a Wells College graduate, is with IBM 
in New York City. 



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^7 CL Richard Burrows is pursuing a 
/ \J master of science degree in physi- 
cal education at Indiana University . "I'm also 
working out under Olympic swimming 
coach James 'Doc' Counsilman at Indiana," 
writes Rich, a former Brown swimming star. 

lane E. Cosgriff is a second-year student 
at Harvard Law School. 

Kenneth L. Day received his M.B.A. from 
Southern Methodist University in August 
and IS now production manager at the Taylor 
Publishing Co., Dallas. 

Gordon Hutt and Linda C. Hammer (see 
'77) were married Aug. 14 and are living in 
White Plains, N.Y. Gordon is a second-year 
medical student at New York Medical Col- 
lege. 

Barbara E. Kittay has received her mas- 
ter's degree in television and film production 
from the S.l. Newhouse School of Public 
Communications at Syracuse University. 
She's now living at 121 Tara Dr., Roslvn, 
N.Y. 11576. 

Sharon Lack is a graduate student at the 
Wharton School of Finance, University of 
Pennsylvania. 

Annrnarie Leinns is a graduate student in 
political science at Princeton. 

Ronald /. Lichwala is a sales representa- 
tive (West Coast) for the carbon products di- 
vision of Union Carbide. He's living at 3014 
Los Prados Dr. #208, San Mateo, Calif. 
94403. 

Fred Lmstone is a student at the UCLA 
School of Medicine, Los Angeles. 

Frank /. Moncnef is an associate editor 
with E. W. Communications, Palo Alto, 
Calif. 

Marilyn /. Philipp is a graduate student in 
health care administration at the University 
of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. Her new 
address; 4403 Walnut St., Apt. 3-C, Phila- 
delphia 19104. 

Daitid M. Posner is a policy analyst with 
Solar Energy Research Institute, Golden, 
Colo. 

Richard /. Radice is a management pro- 
gram engineer with General Electric's Gas 
Turbine Division in Schenectady, N.Y. 

Harry Sparks is a data processing pro- 
grammer associate with McDonnell Douglas 
Automation Co., St. Louis, Mo. 

Fred Schwarzmann and Deborah Pino were 
married Sept. 4 at the First Baptist Meeting 
House, Providence. The couple is living in 
Chatham Township, N.J., where Fred is a 
management trainee with A. L. Wilson 
Chemical Co. (in Kearney), and Deborah is a 
teacher at Summit Junior High. 

Patrick Tndin completed his M.S. at the 
School of Librar\' Service, Columbia Univer- 
sity, in June, worked as a cataloging consul- 
tant for Kodak-Pathe in Paris during the 
summer, and is now working on his M.A. in 
French literature at Columbia. He plans to go 
into academic librarianship. 

Douglas King Tursman and Robin Chandlee 
(see '77) were married May 7 at University 
Baptist Church in Baltimore, where they now 
live. Doug plans a career in teaching. 

James W. Witte (A.M.) is a teaching as- 
sistant in the history department at the Uni- 
versity of California. 

continued on page 46 



David Morgan: 
No need to wear 
a tie on his job 



Welcome to Wright City. 

Weyerhaeuser Co. Okla. Region Headquar- 
ters. 

Oklahoma's Largest Saiomill. 

Oklahoma's Only Plyioood Mill. 

Oldest Continuous Rodeo In Southeast 
Oklahoma. 

Home of Joseph Oklahombi US World War I 
Hero. 

Excellent Churches and Schools. 

The Weyerhaeuser Company sawmill in 
Wright City, Oklahoma, sits in lovely coun- 
try — a thick carpet of pines covers the hills, 
dense and cool; yellow butterflies swarm 
about and a tang (of hot tarmac, of wood- 
smoke, of needles) suffuses the clear air; red 
dirt, thick and dry, stains all visitors. 

David Morgan '71 works at the Wright 
City Mill; he hasn't worn a tie to work in six 
years. Thick-soled work boots, deep green 
work pants, a small metal tape measure on 
his belt, a hard hat hiding his red hair — 
these are his uniform. As night lumber 
superintendent, David Morgan oversees a 
substantial portion of the largest producing 
sawmill east of the Rocky Mountains. (This 
year the Wright Qty mill will send out 
somewhere near 150 million board feet of 
pine lumber and 25 million board feet of 
hardwood. Morgan, with one other man, 
supervises some 300 employees.) 

David Morgan grew up in the Weyer- 
haeuser towns of the Pacific Northwest — 
Snoquabnie Falls, Longview, Tacoma — and 
his was a Weyerhaeuser family. (Between his 
father and grandfather, a Morgan has 
worked for Weyerhaeuser since 1928.) "The 
kids 1 played with, all their fathers worked in 
a sawmill," he says. 

Morgan's first mUl job came at seventeen 
in Philadelphia, Mississippi (he was too 
young to work for Weyerhaeuser), the sum- 
mer following his high school graduation. He 
pulled rough, dry lumber, stacked sticks, 
and piled lumber in the yard — "all for $1.40 




an hour. My first paycheck was for $55, and I 
thought thev were putting me on," Morgan 
remembers. "Thev gave me a little envelope 
of cash everv Fridav at the company store 
and the next guv in line was to settle your 
company store account. Fortunately I didn't 
have one." 

Morgan arrived in Mississippi in 1967, 
a mere three years after several civil rights 
workers had been murdered there. "I was 
the first 'foreigner' to live there since the 
murders, " he says, "and it was verv interest- 
ing. I remember in my first two weeks at 
BrovsTi I was struck bv two things. One white 
guy gave us a lecture telling us all about the 
evils of Mississippi and I asked him if he'd 
ever been there and he hadn't. Second, one 
girl, when she found out I was from Wash- 
ington, looked at me sweetly and innocently 
and said, "Well, what do you do out there for 
fun?' I told her on Friday nights we all put 
our covered wagons in a circle and the In- 
dians came and attacked us and that was a lot 
of fun. . . ." 

Dave soon signed on for summer jobs 
with Weyerhaeuser — in Longview, Wash- 
ington, and Coos Bay, Oregon. "By the time 
I was a junior I was prettv well set that I was 
going to Weverhaeuser," he says, "and 1 
knew I wanted to learn the wood products 
business. Unless you study something in 
school like forestn,' vou might as well take 
what vou're interested in." Dave majored in 
American history. 

Dave Morgan's first full-time job uith 
Weyerhaeuser was as personnel manager of 
a mill in Mountain Pine, Arkansas. He knew 
nothing about personnel management but 
neither, apparentlv, tfid anvone else at the 
mill — so Dave carved out a program on his 
own. After a vear and a half he requested a 
transfer to a line job; he wanted to be in 
production. "The action is in line function," 
he says, "not staff. Line people get to dedde 
what to do and then thev have to do it." 



Dave soon moved to Snoqualmie Falls, 
Washington — about thirtv miles east of 
Seattle — where he was a foreman and night 
shift supervisor at a plywood plant. After a 
year of working nights in Snoqualmie he 
moved to Lamar County, Alabama, to start a 
veneer mill and to help start a sawmill. Dave 
supervised two night shifts of about 
twenty-five people on the green end (where 
logs are peeled) and fifteen others on the dry- 
ing end (where green veneer is sent through 
driers to become dry veneer). 

"I had more fun there than any time 
since I've been working," he savs. "I had my 
own crew picked out." The mill, located at 
the low end of a marsh, was only a concrete 
slab when Dave arrived. "There's never any 
drainage. It's sort of a joke on engineers in 
our industry. Working the night shift and 
being down there in the middle of a swamp 
was rather interesting," Dave grins. "Unfor- 
tunatelv, insect coUecfing has never been a 
big passion with me." 

Aftera vear anda half there Dave moved 
with his wife to Idabel, Oklahoma — down 
the road a piece from the Wright City mill. 
(They now have a seven-month-old daugh- 
ter, Kathy. "I think she's pretty because she's 
got red hair," Dave savs.) As night lumber 
superintendent, his is a key management 
position. "Mv basic responsibility," he ex- 
plains, "is to run the mills from day to day, 
with an emphasis on the night shift and the 
hardwood sawmill." Most often he works a 
twelve-hour day. "When we changed from 
making so many 2xl2s we had to change our 
sawvering practice a little," he says, "and I 
had to make sure the foremen understood 
that. Are we having maintenance problems? 
Are the boards too wet or dr\'? Is the quality 
good? Are the people busy?" The bullefin 
board outside Dave's office sports such head- 
ings as LOG ALLOCATION and LUMBER 
STRATEGY. The language is of grades and 
rabbetted edges, of moisture levels, surfaces. 



thicknesses, widths. 

The Weverhaeuser Company, Dave is 
pleased to point out, produces more lumber 
than anv other single companv in the world. 
(It was listed seventy-fifth in Fortune's 1976 
ranking of U.S. companies.) "Weyerhaeuser 
revolutionized the concept that man can 
grow trees bigger, better, and faster than na- 
ture," Dave said. The company owns some 
900,000 acres of timberland in Oklahoma 
alone. Next door to Wright Citv, in Valliant, 
is the world's largest paper mill, a Weyer- 
haeuser mill. 

"Everv mill needs an operating philoso- 
phy, " Dave savs. He developed one, for 
example, for the hardwood sawmiU, which 
had been a monev-losing operation of three 
vears' standing when he arrived. Dave de- 
cided to produce only railroad ties in the 
hardwood mill. "The good news is that we 
began making money," he says. "The bad 
news is that we don't have any flexibility — 
and what Oklahoma has is a bunch of 
hardwood logs eight to nine inches in diame- 
ter, too small for railroad ties." Dave laughs 
and removes his hard hat, wiping his brow. 

"1 believe that most people want to do a 
good job," he says, "and it's a lot easier to 
help people when vou have some control. I 
can move a man from $4.07 an hour to $4.60 
an hour and for him that's a big jump. It 
means more responsibiUt}', but he feels bet- 
ter and more important. 

"I've always been much more interested 
in manufacturing a product than in being out 
in the woods," Dave Morgan says. "To me 
this is where the action is." D.S. 



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^^ Arthur Aiithom/ Bert is a first- 

/ / year student at Mount Sinai School 

of Medicine, New York City. 

Tom Cellupica is teaching junior high 
mathematics in the Merrimack Valley (N.H.) 
School District. 

Robin Chandlfc and Douglas King Tursman 
(see 76) were married May 7 at the Univer- 
sity Baptist Church, Baltimore, with the fol- 
lowing alumni in attendance: Philips Dt- 
Domenico '75, Stephen Scholz '75, Daind Gott- 
segen, andCharlottc Crystal. The couple is liv- 
ing in Baltimore, where Robin is with Secur- 
ity Savings & Loan. 

Nana/ Czenv (M.A.T.) is teaching English 
to grades 10-12 at New Milford (Conn.) High 
School. 

Kenneth I. Dili is a student at the Sloan 
School of Management at MIT. 

S/iijro» Dyckman is a first-year student at 
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York 
City. 

Henry S. Florsheim is a news producer 
with WJAR-TV, Providence. 

Larn/ K. Graves (Ph.D.) has joined the 
Paoli, Pa., firm of Daniel H. Wagner Asso- 
ciates, consultants in operations research and 
mathematics. The Trinity College graduate is 
residing in Exton, Pa. 

Linda C. Hammer and Gordon Hutt (see 
'76) were married Aug. 14 in Great Neck, 
N.Y. Linda is an actuarial trainee with 
Mutual of New York in New York City. At 
the wedding, Anita Ahralwm and Kristin 
Siegesinund were bridesmaids and the ushers 
included A/rtu Tauh '76 and Nelson Botioiniek 
'76. 

Tommy Hart has been elected national 
treasurer of the National Black Media Coali- 
tion, which has seventy-eight affiliates across 
the country. Tom is attending Georgetown 
University Law Center in Washington, D.C. 

Mark T. Hauser is a first-year student at 
the University of Cincinnati School of 
Medicine. 

Richard Hofmann and Susan Donachie 
were married Aug. 6 and are living in East 
Greenwich, R.I. 

David B. Johnson is an electrical engineer 
with Northrop Corp., Norwood, Mass. 

Louis M. jurist is a student at the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. 

Barry E. Kabalkin is a first-year student at 
Harvard Law School. 

Genine Hanne Macks and Josh E. Fidler 
were married Aug. 7 in Baltimore and are 
now living in New York Citv. Both are at- 
tending law school at New York University. 

William /. Mainelli reports that he is a 
graduate student in chemistry at the Univer- 
sity of California, Berkeley. 

Katherine E. McClelland is a graduate stu- 
dent in sociology at Harvard. 

Elizabeth Muiwes has moved to New York 
City, where she is employed in the stock re- 
search department at Salomon Brothers. 

John C. Narvcll is an actuarial trainee 
with Metropolitan Property and Liability In- 
surance Co., Warwick, R.I. 

Kenneth H. Richmond, a student at the 
Columbia University College of Physicians 
and Surgeons, is living in New York City. 

Noel Riibinton is a reporter for the/j?- 
dianapolis Star and is living at 6106 George- 
town Rd., Apt. E, Indianapolis 46254. 

Ronald Sarachan, a former Rhode Island 



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Public Utilities Commission staff intern, has 
been hired as a staff assistant to the Rhode Is- 
land State Department of Natural Resources. 

Elizabeth Dianne Schrero is living in Bos- 
ton while attending Boston University Law 
School. 

Bradleif Stein, New York City, is a law 
student at New York University Law School. 

John R. Woravka is an account executive 
trainee with E. F. Hutton & Co., Inc., Long 
Beach, Calif. 

7Q George J. Miller (GS) and Hilary 
/ ^ L. Walker (see '75) were married 
Sept. 5 in North Scituate, R.I., and are resid- 
ing in Providence. 



Bmtki 



Kenneth Stillman Rice '13, '15 Sc.M., '27 
Ph.D., Warsaw, N.Y., former chairman of 
the biology department at the University of 
Maine; Aug. 1. Mr. Rice taught at the Uni- 
versity of Georgia and Tufts Medical School 
before joining the staff at Warsaw Central 
School in 1946. He also served as a member 
of the board of education in Warsaw. Kappa 
Sigma. Survivors include his wife, Christine, 
250 W. Buffalo St., Warsaw; and a daughter, 
Ann. 

Ada Elizabeth Sweet '13 A.M., Chazy, N.Y.; 
Sept. 11. Miss Sweet was a 1911 graduate of 
Mount Holyoke. Survivors are not known. 

Pierre Paul Saunter '16, Richmond, Va., 
prominent organist and music supervisor for 
Henrico County (Va.) public schools; Aug. 
19. Mr. Saunier created a program of music 
education for all grade levels in Henrico 
County and composed operettas which were 
published in school textbooks. He also gave 
organ recitals at radio stations in the area. He 
served in a special service unit during World 
War I. Delta Kappa Epsilon. Survivors in- 
clude his wife, Margaret, 818 Arlington Cir., 
Richmond; a daughter, Lois; and a son, 
Pierre. 

Cliarles Henry Vehse '18, '26 Sc.M., '32 
Ph.D., Wakefield, R.I., professor of mathe- 
matics at West Virginia University from 1929 
until his retirement in 1965; Sept. 26. Profes- 
sor Vehse was an assistant in the mathemat- 
ics department at Brown, 1924-29, and also 
taught at MIT. During the 1945-46 academic 
year he was professor of mathematics at 
Biarritz American University, Biarritz, 
France. Survivors include his wife, Edith 
Remington Vehse 'lb, 6Tarleton Rd., Wake- 
field; and sons William and Robert. 

Daniel Wilcox Coggesliall '19, Bristol, R.I., 
former state senator, postmaster in Bristol, 
and major force in the Democratic Party in 
Rhode Island; June 11. Mr. Coggeshall at- 
tended the New England Conservatory of 
Music for two years and became an accom- 
plished pianist. At age 23, he became the 
youngest member of the state senate, where 
his colorful exploits and shrewd political 
sense quickly earned him a state- wide repu- 



tation. Mr. Coggeshall once said that he ' 

seemed desrined to be a politician. "1 smoke j 
big, fat cigars and enjoy an extremely dry 
martini." He served as president of the 
Rhode Island Association of Postmasters and '• 
as a member of that group's national execu- 
tive committee. He joined the Armv during 
World War I and served with the Expedi- 
tionary Force in France. Phi Gamma Delta. 
His only survivor is his sister, Anna Bailey, 
of Plato, m. 

Dr. William Herbert Sheldon, Jr. '19, Cam- 
bridge, Mass., clinical professor of medicine 
at the University of Oregon Medical School 
from 1951 to 1970; Sept. 16. Dr. Sheldon re- 
ceived an M.A. from the University of Col- 
orado in 1923 and a Ph.D. and M.D. from the 
University of Chicago in 1925 and 1933, re- 
spectively. He served as professor of psy- 
chology at the University of Chicago (1936- 
38), lecturer in anthropology at Harvard 
(1938-42), and assistant professor of medi- 
cine at Columbia (1946-51). Dr. Sheldon was 
a lieutenant in the Army in World War I and 
a lieutenant colonel in the Army in World 
War II. Lambda Chi Alpha. Survivors are not 
known. 

William Robert Buerliaus '21, Nokomis, Fla., 
former owner and operator of The Continen- 
tal Soap Co., Jamaica Plain, Mass.; Sept. 9. 
For many years Mr. Buerhaus played the 
organ for servicemen in Veterans Hospitals. 
He served in the Armv during World War 1. 
Phi Delta Theta. Survivors include his wife, 
Hope, 449 Bob Hope Dr., Nokomis; two 
sons, Robert and Richard; and a daughter, 
Beth. 

Morris Samuel Kantroidtz '22, Silver Spring, ^i 
Md., former technical director of the U.S. 
Government Printing Office, Washington, ,, 
D.C; June 3. A specialist in graphic arts, Mr. I 
Kantrowitz wrote numerous technical papers'^ 
on the subject. Survivors include his wife, 'j 
Dorothy, 2220 Westview Dr., Silver Spring; J 
and a son, Daniel. J 

Robert Collins HoUingioorth '28, Cranston, ,1 
R.I., tax officer at Industrial National Bank 
prior to his retirement in 1971; Sept. 27. Mr. ■ 
Hollingworth was active in the Providence 
Art Club, The Players, and the Boy Scouts. '. 
Lambda Chi Alpha. Survivors include his 
wife, Ruth, 63 Everbloom Dr., Cranston; and! 
sons Wavne and Keith. Mr. Hollingworth's 
father was the late Arthur Hollingivorth '97, 



Lois Gertrude Horst '31, Cranston, R.I., job 
counselor for the State Department of Em 
ployment Security, Providence, prior to her 
retirement in 1976; May 27. For many years 
Miss Horst had been personnel-employmeni 
supervisor for The Outlet Co., Providence. 
She is survived bv her sister, Margaret E. 
Horst, with whom she lived at 18 Richard 
St., Cranston. 

Maybellc Cassidy Northaitt '31, '33 A.M., 
Lynnfield, Mass., a retired chief supervisor 
of the Massachusetts Division of Employ- 
ment Security's Salem office; Sept. 12. Mrs. 
Northcott was a class agent for the Brown 
Fund. Survivors include her husband, John 
80 Canterbury Rd., Lynnfield. 



Duncan Blade MacDonald Emrich '32, Wash- 
ington, D.C., a professor of American 
folklore at American University and a former 
chief of the folklore section of the Library of 
Congress; Aug. 23. Mr. Emrich received a 
master's in English from Columbia in 1933, a 
doctor of literature degree from the Univer- 
sity of Madrid, Spain, and a Ph.D. from Har- 
vard. He was an instructor in English at Co- 
lumbia from 1937 until he became assistant 
professorattheUniversity of Denver in 1940. 
Professor Emrich joined the Army in 1943, 
achieved the rank of major, and served as the 
official American historian at General 
Eisenhower's headquarters. Following the 
war he was appointed chief of the archives of 
the American folk song section of the Library 
of Congress, becoming chief of the folklore 
section there in 1946 and holding that post 
until 1955. For the next decade he held vari- 
ous positions with the American embassies 
in Greece, India, and Togo, and from 1966 to 
1969 served as a desk officer in the U.S. In- 
formation Agency, Washington, D.C. He 
had been a professor of American folklore at 
American University since that time. Profes- 
sor Emrich v\as considered an expert on the 
folklore of the Old West and he \sTote several 
books on American folklore. Zeta Psi. Sur- 
vivors include his wife, Sarah, 2029 Connect- 
icut Ave., Washington; and his brother, 
Richard Stanley Merrill Emrich, jr. '32, Sun 
City, Ariz. 

Nathan Harold Ragin '35, Brighton, Mass., a 
salesman in the shoe industry and a former 
associate with the A & M Paper Products 
Co., Lynn; Sept. 22. Mr. Ragin was a 
member of the board of directors of the 
Brown Club of Boston and of 210 Associates. 
He was a charter member of the Qtizens 
Participaring in Political Action in Boston and 
of the Citizens Committee for the Public 
Schools. During World War 11 he served with 
the Merchant Marine. Survivors include his 
wife, Mildred, 36 Gerald Rd., Brighton; and 
sons Richard and Henr\'. 




Mml 



The Lamphere settlement 

Editor: The details of the Lamphere case 
settlement as outlined in the BAM of October 
can only hearten everyone concerned about 
the progress of equal opportunities for 
women at Brown. Congratulations are in 
order to all the participants in the settlement. 
The news that the Sarah Dovle Women's 
Center has a full-time director and that the 
Nancy Duke Lewis Chair is finally occupied 
is further affirmation that Brown has not for- 
gotten its historic commitment to women's 
education and opportunities. 

To help support the renewal of this 
commitment, I have increased my annual 
contribution to Brown. It would seem ap- 
propriate that other former Pembrokers do 
the same. 

POLLY WELTS KAUFMAN '51 
Lexington, Mass. 



1923's bonnet 

Editor: For their fiftieth reunion the class 
of 1923 had some knitted brown and white 
bonnets made up with a checkered headband 
and a white pompon on top. They carry a 
medallion seal of Brown University on a 
brown ribbon rosette. 

These are not one-shot reunion items, as 
they are not bizarre, are most comfortable, 
and can be readily stuffed in a coat pocket to 
eliminate checking. A smaller medallion pin 
Brown Seal was made up for wives to wear 
as a brooch . 



These items have elicited so much favor- 
able attention that the class of 1923 has de- 
cided to share them with all classes who have 
been out for fifty years or more. They will not 
be offered through any commercial outlet, as 
we feel it important to keep them uniquely to 
the members of the fifty-year-and-over 
classes of both men and women. 

Any interested class officers or indi- 
viduals can write me at Happy Valley Farm, 
Earlysville, Va. 22936 for details. 

STEPHEN A. McCELLAN '23 
Earlysville, Va. 



Hazeltine T-shirts 

Editor: While browsing through last 
month's issue of BAM I noticed a letter from 
a Mr. David Curry '61 inquiring as to where 
Barrett Hazeltine T-shirts could be pur- 
chased. I am happy to report that the Brown 
University Bookstore still has a healthy sup- 
ply of them, and they can be ordered by get- 
ting in touch with the bookstore [Box 1878]. 
In fact, 1 picked up quite a few to add to my 
wardrobe for my upcoming trip to the 
Psycho-Ceramics convention next month in 
Vaduz. 



JOSL\H S. CARBERRY 
Campus (now and then) 



leffrcy Paul Moeller '73 (A.B., A.M.), Cam- 
bridge, Mass., a third -year law student at 
Har\'ard; Aug. 1 after a 1,500-foot fall from a 
mountain ridge on Carpathian Peak, forty- 
five miles southeast of Anchorage, Alaska. 
Julian Mason, a partner in the Boston law 
firm of Dunn, Baily and Mason, where Mr. 
Moeller had been a law clerk, said that he 
was "a brilliant law student and an intense 
individualist. He always insisted on doing 
everything very carefully. Always first rate. 
And he was also very sensitive to others. It's 
a terrible tragedy." After graduating Phi Beta 
Kappa with highest honors in history, Mr. 
Moeller was awarded the Keesby Fellowship 
for hvo years of study at Cambridge Univer- 
sity. There he earned his second A.B. with 
honors in history in 1975. At Harvard, Mr. 
Moeller was a candidate for J.D. and Ed.D. 
degrees. He was on the editorial board of the 
Harvard Educational Rei'iciv and was head 
tutor in law at South House, Radcliffe. A 
memorial fund is being established and 
additional information will be forthcoming. 
Survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. 
W. Paul Moeller, who reside at 3 Rue Albert 
Gos, 1206 Geneva, Switzerland. 



Chet Worthington and Sta'e McClellan imre the 
'23 bonnet in the '77 Commencement procession. 




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The Rites of Autumn -Ivy League style 



Iet us call what follows a confession. What I mean to 
say is that until last Saturday I had never been to an 
J Ivy League football game. I had read about them, of 
course, in the nation's finest newspapers, had heard the 
names ring out like cymbals clashing in a distant country 
(Harvard! Princeton's Tigers! The Big Green! Elis! Elis?). I, on 
the other hand, come from a state where football is less a 
sport than an organized religion: a place where the person- 
ification of God is Darrell Royal or Tom Landry (depending 
on when you celebrate your Sabbath) and where football is 
the indisputable reason for life on this earth. I come from a 
place where, the week 1 sat uTiting this, the home team was 
listed as Number One in the nation, where little boys start 
playing football as soon as they can brush their teeth, where 
for a girl to make the drill team is to be assured that she shall 
lead a favored life forever and ever. (I made it and was, for 
one blessed, blissful year, in white boots and red satin skirt, a 
Franklin Falconette.) I come from a state where the band is 
able to march and play at the same time (this is a given) and 
where the select group at Southern Methodist University, for 
instance, has some eighty-odd different uniforms, all snappy 
and professional-looking. (The SMU Band usually changes 
uniforms two or three times a game; it's a form of paying 
homage, I guess.) My own home turf was the Cotton Bowl. I 
remember seeing Roger Staubach plav there while still on the 
Navy team and, of course, the annual Texas-OU consecra- 
tion. Football there was pageantry; it was primeval; it was 
marvelous. 

I give you this background because this is, as I said, a 
confessional piece. Last Saturday I went to the Brown- 
Harvard game (my first Ivy League game) and I'm afraid that 
I cannot give you a very reliable report. I had been invited, 
and I understand that this is traditional, to "tailgate" and so, 
hours before the contest, I joined a group of friends and 
alumni for a picnic spread. (They were Brown and Pembroke 
grads around ten years out. Two of them had not been to a 
Brown game since the 1968 Homecoming; they weren't even 
apologetic.) We had a gorgeous day — sunny, a bit crisp, a 
last yellow rose clinging to the bush with leaves swirling 
about. It was a football day. 

While we did not have the sort of smoked salmon and 
champagne-laden baskets I had been led to believe were also 
traditional (by those same national newspaper accounts), we 
did have a lovely repast which did, unfortunately, cause us 
to miss the start of the game. No great loss, however. 

As to the game, well, this is where the bourbon gets in 
the way of my account. I can tell you that the stands were full 
(we sat on the home-team side near the ten-yard line) and 
that soon after we arrived a senior named CharUe Watkins 
caught a pass and ambled down the field for Brown's first 
touchdown (conveniently right in front of us). Ida remember 
the fine sense in the air of fall, and a security man on the 
sidelines fumbling with his hat (it was windy), and the smell 
of what I think was an illegal weed wafting through the air. 



There were youngish alumni dressed as college kids and j 
college kids dressed as college kids and the women's soccer 
team got together for a run around the track. I remember a : 
medium-sized boy on a very tall unicycle spinning near the I 
goal posts and I remember jumping up to yell at the team on 
several occasions. (It had to be explained to me that "Brown; 
drops back for 10" was a reference to the Harvard quarter- | 
back, whose name is Larry Brown.) I remember a Harvard i 
receiver dropping the intended conversion pass in the end 
zone (right in front of us; I think he was over-excited) and I ' 
remember the Brown band (it had to be pointed out to me ', 
that this u'rts the Brown band) sauntering out with multi- | 
colored balloons. ' 

The announcer was rather funny, really. He said, "Many] 
of you younger alumni are already beginning to feel nostal- ' 
gic, when you come back and visit your freshman room. But 
you don't know what nostalgia is till you return to find your 
freshman dorm re-named after your freshman roommate. ; 
And nostalgia takes on a new meaning for alumni fathers, ' 
when they find their son living in the same Pembroke dorm i 
room that they spent so much time in. ..." j 

j 

Of the second half I remember even less (the bourbon, ■ 
I am afraid, went to my head). Someone standing i 
next to me dropped her plastic cup of Scotch and 
water in an exdted moment and someone behind me yelled 
"BEAT THE SPREAD" (referring to Brown's eight-point fa- 
vored status in the polls) and a young girl turned up her col- 
lar and shivered in the cold. Mark Whipple, who had scram- 
bled admirably all afternoon, scrambled downfield once 
more and then dove over for the winning touchdown (right 
in front of us). Brown's conversion attempt failed (we argued 
the wisdom of that move) but the team somehow managed to^ 
dam the (crimson) tide and we stood, bouncing on the feeble 
boards, to count down the last few seconds. 

I do remember that Brown won (the final score was 
20-15) and that my throat had somehow become hoarse in 
the course of the afternoon (I had thought I was nursing it all 
along). One of my companions was sick and several others 
seemed to have a precarious hold on their balance and we 
streamed out of the stadium happy and pleased. 

Perhaps these moments I wiU remember best: walking 
home behind the Brown band, slushing through the fallen 
leaves, taking in happy gulps of smoke-scented autumn air. 
Brown won! It was a lovely game. D.SJ 



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