JOHN R BARRY. JR. 




rsof infl:ru_<5Uon5 ana ac icaii caret 

I firft year inali oe liuJicd, in Latir 
leid, Cicero's Orations, and Hora< 
)C New Teftament, and Xenophon*s 
in Englifli, Sheridan's Ledures o 
md Webiler-'s Grannnnaticai Inftic 
i(h language. 

» fecond year, in Latin, Cicero d 
Greek, Lonsinus dc Sublimitate. 
Morfe's Geography, Decimal Arj, 
xtra(^ion of the Square and Cube 
ogic, and Hainmond's Algebra. J| 
third year, Euclid's Elements, Tri 
ication. The Brown Curriculum 
'erguton*s A(lronomY> Nicholfon 
lofophy, Payley's Moral Philofoph 

Elements of Criticil 
ourth year, Locke on the human i 

and fuch narts nf r*-'^ nufKrtr^ a>.- 



Batter up! 




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Note here the fluid follow- 
through of the presidential 
swing and its modest af- 
termath (Howard Swearer went one 
for three at the plate). Note the ab- 
solute absorption of shortstop Dick 
Ramsden (above), otherwise known 
as vice president for finance at 
Brown. Note the anxious anticipa- 
tion of admission director Jim 
Rogers, waiting for the pitch as if 
another batch of applications were 
to drop through the mail slot tomor- 
row. Too late — you're out. 

University Hall had challenged 
the Brmon Daily Herald to a softball 
game without, to their subsequent 
dismay, arranging to approve the 
final draft. Hence, the headline: 
"Herald Drubs UH Squad in Soft- 
ball Contest, 10-6." 





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Brown Alumni Monthly, May/June 1978, Vol. 78, No. 8 



Editor 

Robert M. Rhodes 

Associate Editors 

Debra Shore 

John F. Barry, Jr. '50 

Editorial Assistant 

Janet M. Phillips 70 

Design Consultant 

KathrvTi de Boer 

Board of Editors 

Chairman 

Pons Steam Donovan '59 

Vice Chairman 
lames E. DuBois '50 

Barry Beckham '66 

Peter G. Fradley '50 

Karen Leggett '72 

Patricia Simon Schwadron '72 

Stuart C. Sherman '39 

Or Sanford W. Udis '41 

Roger E. Vaughan '59 

Elizabeth Weed '73 Ph.D. 




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In this issue 



9 On Becoming an Educated Man 

A brief description of the course of study at Rhode Island College 
in 1793 — each student had to "construe and parse Cicero's Ora- 
tions" — and a discussion of the Brown Curriculum today. 

14 Let Others Return to Tradition 

An account by Steven Raftner '74of hisown experience as a member 
of the second class whose entire Brown education was based on the 
new curriculum. 



17 American Universities and the South African Question 

Should American universities divest themselves of holdings in 
American companies conducting business in South Africa, and, if 
they did, what might result from their acts? Newell Stultz, professor 
of political science, addresses this question. 

23 Why It is Right to Write 

In which Assistant Professor of English Barry Beckham '66 does bat- 
tle with his demons, vacillates, slumps, and finally dears his per- 
sonal mist to claim his place as a writer. 

Departments 

2 Under the Elms 

6 Sports 

26 College Hill Journal 

29 The Classes 

30 Profile: Edith Coolidge Hart '13 
36 Profile: Kirk O'Donnell '68 

40 Deaths 

42 Carrying the Mail 

48 On Stage 



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Cover: From the Laws of Rhoiie Island College, 1793, a description of the 
course of study. Design by Kathryn de Boer. 



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A seven-point plan for the future 
development of the University's physi- 
cal plant has been submitted by an 
architectural firm to trustees and admin- 
istrators for use in campus discussions 
related to the scope of the capital fund 
drive Brown will launch early in 1979. 

Drawn up by a team of planners 
and designers from Dober and Asso- 
ciates, Inc., of Belmont, Massachusetts, 
at the request of President Swearer, the 
physical development plan is the result 
of the effort launched last spring by Mr. 
Swearer to put the bricks-and-mortar 
aspect of future University expenditures 
into some kind of working perspective 
as plans for the forthcoming fund cam- 
paign are made. The consultants made 
the recommendations after months of 
research, which included talks with 
faculty, students, alumni, adminis- 
trators, trustees, and others at Brown. 

The planning report, which was 
initiallv presented at the winter meeting 
of the Corporation, outlines a possible 
ten-year program of construction and 
renovation to address what the consul- 
tants call "academic space requirements 
so clearly self-evident that they un- 
questionably belong on any list of 
capital-drive items." 

Initially estimated by the consul- 
tants to bear a price tag of $25 million in 
1977 dollars, the plan — depending 
upon such variables as rising materials 
and site-preparation costs, other archi- 
tectural decisions, and the overall scope 
of the capital campaign — could cost up 
to $40 miUion to implement. (The plan 
also includes an additional $2 miUion in 
proposals for facility maintenance and 
improvements to insure access to the 
handicapped, general safety, and 
greater energy efficiency.) 

The plan's major recommendations 
are as follows; 

n Renovations and repairs to the 
John Hay Library. 

D Development of a 700-seat 
multi-media hall on the present site of 



A plan for bricks and mortar 



Rogers Hall, bv renovating portions of 
that building and constructing addi- 
tional space to support multi-media 
teaching. 

D Renovations and repairs to the 
frame buildings now housing depart- 
mental and faculty offices. 

D Construction of new facilities for 
the Departments of Geological Sciences 
and Chemistry near the Sciences Li- 
brary. 

D Renovation of Metcalf Lab- 
oratories to house the modern language 
departments. 

D Construction of an "indoor 
physical activits' building" in the 
Aldrich-Dexter Field area. 

n Removal of four "substandard" 
buildings (Lincoln Field Lab, 15 Man- 
ning Street, Richardson Hall, and 
Howell House) from the University 
buUding inventory to make room for 
new construction and to "enhance the 
University's open-space pattern." 

According to the consultants' re- 
port, while Brown has had "genuine 
success" in developing its physical 

Vie John Hay: Brown should "inoi'e with 
dispatch" to rqiair and renovate it. 



facilities over the past three decades — 
particularly during the 1960s when capi- 
tal projects expenditures exceeded $35 
million and included such notable items 
as the List Art Building, the Sciences 
Library, the Bio-Medical Center, and 
the Pembroke dorinitory complex — the 
University is now "operating beyond 
optimal efficiency." 

Heavy stresses are being placed on 
existing classroom facilities, say the 
consultants, who cite studies which 
show that during some peak teaching 
hours at Brown every square foot of 
academic space is in use. This pattern of 
intensive use contrasts with a generaDy 
accepted norm of 65-percent utilization, 
they note. 

The proposed development plan at- 
tempts not only to remedy the worst of 
the campus's physical problems but also 
to maximize the efficiency of all availa- 
ble teaching space by "reorganizing the 
classroom inventory' to match Brown's 
current and emerging instructional 
processes." The plan's developers rec- 
ognize that "priorities in any [capital] 




campaign would be given to supporting 
people and programs, as opposed to 
physical places," and so opt tor the 
more economical "recycling" of existing 
buildings, wherever possible, in lieu of 
new construction. 

In a letter to President Swearer pre- 
facing the planning report, Richard P. 
Dober says his firm shares with mem- 
bers of the University community the 
view that no one item in the plan should 
have higher priority than any other. 
However, strong arguments are ad- 
vanced to support both the urgent need 
for the John Hay renovations and the 
efficacN' of what the report calls the 
"economic package" involving geology, 
chemistry, and modern languages. 

New space for the geological sci- 
ences department is a "high priority," 
the report says, because geology faculty 
are currently conducting research of in- 
ternational importance and teaching 
' growing class loads in buildings that are 
"unsafe and unsuitable." Similarly, the 
chemistry department, which has expe- 
rienced dramatic enrollment increases 
in recent years, is hampered by facilities 
that are rapidly becoming obsolete and 
unsafe, the report says. It adds that in- 
struction in the modern languages at 
Brown, conducted in no less than two 
dozen separate buildings, is countering 
national trends with large enrollments 
and therefore demands greater campus 
centralization and acoustically suitable 
: facilities for future growth. 

The proposal to build new space for 
geology and chemistry and to recycle 
space for modern languages will also 
■provide needed space, the consultants 
note, for other departments deserving 
better accommodations, including 
imathematics, computer sciences, his- 
itory, and English. 

Physically, the proposals in this 
'"package" would provide the campus 
with a new science center on the block 
I'bounded by Brook, Thayer, George, 
' and Manning Streets. Demolition of 
HoweU House, Richardson Hall (both 
j on Thayer), and 15 Manning Street 
'would make way for three new struc- 
j tures — geology and chemistry build- 
' ings (with classrooms and lecture halls 
available also for use by other depart- 
', ments) and a shared support facility. 
Also, the report notes that the possibil- 
. ity of closing off Manning Street would 
, provide even greater coordination be- 
tween these new buildings and related 
facilities nearby, such as the Sciences 
Librar\-, and the engineering, mathe- 



matics, and computer sciences build- 
ings. 

The Metcalf Laboratories, which 
now serve as home base for chemistry, 
would then be available for recycling 
into what the consulting report foresees 
as "functional, productive, and delight- 
ful quarters" for the modern languages. 
The building is described in the report 
as "a solid structure, centrally located, 
intrinsically suitable for recycling as an 
academic building." 

The consultants advise Brown to 
"move with dispatch" to repair and 
renovate the John Hay because of the 
deterioration of valuable archival mate- 
rials, rare books and manuscripts, and 
artifacts of international scholarly im- 
portance — a result of unsuitable or in- 
adequate environmental controls and 
storage space. 

In addition, the multi-media hall is 
recommended to promote the effective 
use of film and other media as teaching 
aids (no existing campus facility ac- 
commodates more than 250 people for 
this purpose), and its design, including 
a closed courtyard connecting it to 
Faunce House, is cited as an enhance- 
ment to campus life. The indoor physi- 
cal activity center is also recommended 
for its contribution to campus life and its 
provision of physical recreation and 
health maintenance programs for cam- 
pus constituencies. 

Their decision to rely heavily on 
renovation, the consultants say, recog- 
nizes not only the multiple purposes 
future capital investments will be ex- 
pected to serve, but also the new state of 
the art in building recycling. Interna- 
Honally, they note, the reuse of older 
academic buildings for new academic 
purposes is becoming a method of 
choice for successfully — and less ex- 
pensively — solving space problems. 
Oxford, Harvard, Zurich Technological 
Institute, and Emory University are 
several of the institutions they dte as re- 
lying on this technique for improving 
the physical environment. 

Sandra Reeves 

Former BAM managing editor Sandy Reei^es, 
now a graduate student at Broion, writes fre- 
quently for the Brouni Weekly Bulletin, where 
this article first appeared. 




Signs for the deinoiishation. 

Debate over 
South Africa 

As students at colleges and univer- 
sity campuses across the nation have 
demonstrated and petitioned against 
university funds invested in American 
corporations with business in South 
Africa, so have students at Brown. And, 
as trustees at colleges and universities 
across the country have debated divesti- 
ture of university-owned stocks in those 
companies or the exercise of votes as 
shareholders for or against certain reso- 
lutions concerning South Africa, so has 
the Corporation at Brown. 

At Brown, student protest has fo- 
cused on the $23 million of the Univer- 
sity's endowment — approximately 
one-quarter of the total endowment — 
presently invested in companies such as 
IBM, Ford Motor Company, Cater- 
pillar Tractor, General Motors, and 
Smithkline that conduct business in 
South Africa. At a rally sponsored by 
the newly formed South African Sol- 
idarity Committee on April 17, some 350 
Brown students gathered outside Uni- 
versity Hall to demonstrate their sup- 
port for the divestiture of Brown's hold- 
ings in those companies. Chanting 
"What's best? Divest" and "Corpora- 
tion, vote 'No' — Brown investments 
gotta go," students circled University 
Hall and listened to speakers from sev- 
eral student groups — among them the 
Undergraduate Council of Students — 
denounce apartheid in South Africa. 

Though President Howard Swearer 
had prepared to address the rally, the 
SASC denied him an opportunity to 
speak, maintaining that Mr. Swearer 
had not previously recognized the 
group or personally attempted to speak 
with its members. In his prepared re- 
marks, later released to the press, the 
president deplored apartheid and the 
racist policies and practices of the South 
African government, calling them "fun- 
damentally wrong and morally repug- 



nant. It would be nice if I could an- 
nounce ... a simple straightforward 
action which would not only be intrinsi- 
cally right and morally pure, but also 
have some measurable impact on South 
Africa. There is something very appeal- 
ing and simple in washing one's hands 
of complex moral and practical prob- 
lems. But," Mr. Swearer added, "there 
are too many unanswered questions." 
He noted that a protracted and violent 
civil war may be South Africa's fate, 
"but do we wish to draw that conclu- 
sion now and, bv our actions, perhaps 
help to catalyze it? 1, for one, would 
wish to consider at length any action 
which might precipitate a bloody 
conflict." 

Several colleges and universities — 
among them the Universities of Wis- 
consin, Massachusetts, Oregon, and 
Maryland, Smith, Hampshire, and 
Brandeis — have voted to divest them- 
selves of some or all of their holdings in 
companies doing business in South Af- 
rica, in part as a response to student 
pressures. 

At Brown, administrators have es- 
timated that divestiture of the stocks in 
question would cost S100,000 in broker's 
fees, with additional fees incurred in 
order to reinvest these funds. Wliat im- 
pact would divestiture of these Univer- 
sity holdings have upon companies that 
do "onlv a tiny fraction of their business 
in South Africa?" Mr. Swearer asked. 
Opponents of divestiture point out that 
if Brown sold its stocks, they would be 
bought up almost immediately. Thus, 
the University's "symbolic" gesture 
might in fact be a hollow one. Yet the 
impact on the University might be con- 
siderable, the president said. "What 
precedent might be set that could well 
draw the University deeper into the 
political arena in the future and thereby 
lessen its autonomy and freedom to ex- 
amine freely all sides of an issue or 
idea?" 

Shortly after the rally a new group 
calling itself Students for Rational Ac- 
tion formed. This group urged the Uni- 
versity to bring pressure on those cor- 
porations doing business in South Af- 
rica to improve conditions for black 
workers and bring about constructive 
change in South Africa. The Graduate 
Student Council passed a resolution 
calling for the Brown Corporation to 
apply pressure, through its holdings, on 
American firms operating in South Af- 
rica to withdraw from that country. 

The Corporation, meanwhile, at its 



regularly scheduled April meeting, de- 
cided to vote in favor of two shareholder 
resolutions and abstain on another issue 
before three American companies with 
business in South Africa. Acting on the 
reconimendations of its advisory com- 
mittee on proxy issues chaired by trus- 
tee emeritus Elliot Maxwell '68, the 
Corporation decided to vote in favor of 
the shareholder resolution at East- 
man-Kodak that would prohibit the sale 
of Kodak photographic equipment and 
materials to the government of South 
Africa or any of its agencies and in- 
strumentalities. Brown will also vote in 
favor of the shareholder resolution 
providing that Manufacturers Hanover 
Corporation make no further loans to 
the South African government or anv of 
its agencies until steps have been taken 
in the direction of majority rule. 

The Corporation voted to abstain 
on a shareholder resolution at Conti- 
nental Illinois asking the company to 
prepare a report providing details on its 
loans to and in South Africa. (The reso- 
lution might have required disclosure of 
information compromising the con- 
fidentiality of bank-customer relations, 
the trustees explained.) In addition, the 
Corporation plans to send a letter to 
both Manufacturers Hanover and Con- 
tinental Illinois indicating that it would 
have preferred resolutions banning 
further loans in South Africa that could 
advance the system of apartheid. 

The Corporation also decided to re- 
quest specific information regarding 
company policies and operations in 
South Africa from each company that 
does business there and in which Brown 
has investments. "We should make 
clear that the Brown Corporation de- 
plores the existence in South Africa of 
apartheid," the Corporation's letter 
stated. 

In late April and early May the Uni- 
versity sponsored a series of forums 
designed to examine Brown's policy 
toward South Africa and the situation 
there. A poll conducted by the Brown 
Daily Herald showed that 56.6 percent of 
the 2,574 students surveyed opposed 
divestiture of University investments in 
American corporations operating in 
South Africa as a means of ending 
South Africa's apartheid policies; 19.9 
percent supported divestiture; 16.8 per- 
cent had no opinion; and 6.7 percent 
gave other responses. 

On May 12, students gathered 
again on the Green to call for divesti- 
ture. After listening to several speeches. 



about 250 students filed quietly into 
University Hall and sat down in the 
hallways, careful to leave a clear pas- 
sageway. At the same time, twelve stu-' 
dents representing both pro- and and- 
divestiture factions met with members 
of the Corporation's A&E Committee tcj 
discuss the University's investment poI| 
icy. At the conclusion of the eighty- 
minute meeting, all demonstrators 
quietly left the building. 

In a statement issued after the 
meeting, the Corporation said that it 
"does not think a poUcv of divestiture 
... is the proper course" of action. D.S 
(For a more comprehensive discussion of the is 
sues involved, seepage 17.) 



The pool got crowded 

The New Year brought no relief anc 
little revelry to Brown's Admission 
Office last January: 10,700 applications 
for the class of 1982 had piled in, a 17- 
percent increase over last year's pool 
and, according to admission director 
James Rogers '56, the largest percentage 
jump in applications this year of any 
university in the nation. 



Saying thanks 
with his fiddle 

World-renowned violinist Isaac 
Stern (right) rehearses with the 
Brown Orchestra for a benefit per- 
formance in the Veterans Audi- 
torium on April 30. Following the 
SRO concert. Stern, whose daughter 
Shira graduates from Brown this 
June, was awarded an honorary doc- 
tor of music degree for his artistic 
genius and his devotion to "cultural 
preser\'ation and international un- 
derstanding." Stern had prepared no 
speech; instead, he expressed his 
thanks eloquently with his "fiddle" 
(as he calls it) by playing a Haydn 
adagio. Proceeds from the concert 
will help establish a guest-artists 
fund to bring other performers of in- 
ternational caliber to play with the 
Brown Orchestra. 



Bv April 15 the admission staff had 
sifted through them all and had sent let- 
ters of acceptance to 2,680 applicants; 
1,354 men and 1,326 women represent- 
ing fortv-seven states, including 159 
students from Rhode Island. Last vear, 
the University accepted 2,989 — or 32 
percent — of its 9,197 applicants; this 
year, due to the rise in applications, 
onl\' one in four candidates was ac- 
cepted. The University anticipates a 
freshman class, come September, of 
1,350 students. D.S. 

People and Programs 

Zj Two Brown facults' members 
■were recently elected to the prestigious 
■National Academy of Sciences at its 
115th annual meeting; Dohert)- Profes- 
sor of Oceanography John Imbrie 
■(BAM December 1977 and October 
1974), and University Professor and Pro- 
iessor of Ph\sics Leo P. Kadanoff. 

Imbrie, an internationally known 
iglohal climate expert and a director of 
Project CLIMAP (Climate Long-range 
Investigation, Mapping, and Predic- 
itions), came to Brown from the chair- 



manship of Columbia's geology de- 
partment in 1967. His current work in- 
volves determining the earth's climatic 
patterns through the study of fossilized 
ocean plankton, a technique he de- 
veloped in 1970. A graduate of Prince- 
ton, Imbrie received his W.A. and Ph.D. 
from Yale. 

Kadanoff's research encompasses 
solid-state physics, many-particle 
theor\-, and phenomena near phase 
transitions, as well as the development 
of urban growth models. He is a former 
Alfred P. -Sloan Foundation Fellow and 
a recipient of the American Physical 
Sodets's Oliver E. Buckley Solid State 
Physics Prize. After earning his A.B., 
M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard, 
Kadanoff taught for seven years at the 
University of Illinois at Urbana before 
coming to Brown in 1969. 

Imbrie and Kadanoff join five other 
Brown facult\' who are members of the 
Academy: Professor of Physics Leon 
Cooper, Professor of Mathematics Her- 
bert Federer, Professor Emeritus of Psy- 
chology Lorrin A. Riggs, Professor 
Emeritus of the History of Mathematics 
Otto E. Neugebauer, and Professor 



Emeritus of Engineering William F. 
Prager. 

D Two members of the English 
department faculty, a visiting professor 
of English, and a professor of applied 
mathematics are among 292 recipients 
of Guggenheim fellowships, chosen 
from over 3,000 applicants this year. 

Professor of English David Krause, 
a specialist in Irish literature and biog- 
rapher of playwTight Sean O'Casey 
(Sean O'Casey: The Man ami His Work), 
will use his fellowship to complete an 
edition of O'Casey's letters. He has 
been a member of the Brown faculty 
since 1953. 

Associate Professor of English 
George P. Landow, author of Tlje 
Aesthetic and Critical Tlieories of John 
Riiskin and a f'aculb,' member since 
1971, will study "Typological Symbol- 
ism in Victorian Art, Literature, and 
Thought." 

Professor of Applied Mathematics 
Lawrence Sirovich, a former Fulbright 
scholar, will apply his fellowship to 
"Mathematical Methods and Modeling 
in Biophysics." He joined the Brown 
faculty in 1963. 




Visiting Professor of English Joseph 
A. Wittreich, Jr., a member of the Um- 
versity of Maryland faculty, will study 
"The Prophetic Tradition in English 
Poetry from the Renaissance through 
the Romantics." 

D Tenured posts have been 
awarded to three faculty members, ef- 
fective July 1; John Mallet-Paret, pro- 
moted from assistant to associate pro- 
fessor of applied mathematics; Alan 
Needleman, promoted from assistant to 
associate professor of engineering; and 
Naomi Schor, a faculty member at Co- 
lumbia, awarded an associate professor- 
ship with tenure in the Department of 
French Studies. 

n Editorial Associate Anne Hin- 
man Diffily '73 has left the Bnnoit 
Alumni Monthly to become assistant di- 
rector of public relations at Southeast- 
ern Massachusetts University in North 
Dartmouth. Anne came to the BAM in 
September 1976 from the Brown News 
Bureau and has contributed many 
memorable articles to the magazine — 
most recently the feature on alcoholism 
in the March issue. She also covered 
women's sports and wrote most of the 
alumni profiles that grace the class notes 
section. In her new job, Anne's primary 
responsibilities are publicity and public 
relations, and she will assist in design- 
ing and writing various college publica- 
tions. She'll also be involved in creating 
a new alumni magazine for SMU. 

Art alumni, read on. . . 

The Art Department is anxious to 
learn about the activities of its past 
graduates and their present where- 
abouts. If you are an alumnus or alumna 
of the department, please take a mo- 
ment to list your name, address, class, 
and your professional involvement, 
such as painter, sculptor, attorney, 
museum director, curator, educator, ar- 
chitect, designer, or other, and send this 
information to Prof. Walter Feldman, 
List Art Building, Brown University, 
Providence, Rhode Island 02912. 




Track: The team 'got better' 

Last spring when the track team 
posted a 6-1 record, the best outdoor 
mark in Brown's history. Coach Doug 
Terrv still wasn't satisfied; "We're going 
to get better. We still have mountains to 
climb." This year, Terry's men reached 
the peak — a perfect 7-0 record. 

There was evidence right from the 
start that Terry and liis assistant. Bob 
Narcessian, had an exceptional group of 
athletes. The Bruins won fifteen of nine- 
teen events, including three sweeps, 
and crushed Yale in the opener, 113-49, 
at Brown Stadium. This was followed 
by victories over Holv Cross, Columbia, 
St. John's, and URI — setting the stage 
for the season-ending triangular meet 
with Harvard and Dartmouth at the 
stadium. 

Many times in the past, in both in- 
door and outdoor track. Harvard has 
spoiled Brown's bid for an undefeated 
season. For a while on April 22 it looked 
like more of the same, as the Crimson 
built up a 45-20 lead. But then the Bears 
made a thrilling comeback, outscoring 
Harvard in ten of the next twelve events 
and finally pulling ahead with a one- 
two finish in the 200-meter dash by 
senior Peyton Howard and freshman 
Harold Solomon. That made it Brown 
78, Harvard 76, Dartmouth 19. 

Later, when seniors Sean Mc- 
Cracken and Harvey Barlow took a first 
and a third in the 5,000-meter run it was 
85-80, Brown. But Harvard tied it with a 
first in the discus and everything hinged 
on the outcome of the final event, the 
mile relay. Brown's quartet of senior 
Mel Blackett, junior Tom Turnbull, and 
freshmen Osman Lake and Maurice 
Chapman blazed to victory in 3:16.1, 
with a 25-yard margin over the Cantabs. 
The final was Brown 90, Harvard 88, 
Dartmouth 25. 

It had been a big day for Turnbull, 
who came out for track last winter after 
helping the soccer team make the final 
four in NCAA play. He scored what 
may have been the decisive points by 
catching Harvard's John Chafee (the son 
of U.S. Senator John Chafee of Rhode 
Island) at the wire and taking third place 
in the 800-meter run. Colm Cronin, who 
earned All-American honors during the 
winter track season, was a double win- 




Cdm Croiiiii en route to his 
triple-jump victory ai'er Yale. 

ner against Harvard in the long jump 
and triple jump; Peyton took the 100- 
and 200-meter races, and John Sinnott 
took tlie shot put. 

Terry's team also made a respecta- 
ble showing in the 84th Penn Relays. 
The 1,600-meter team of Blackett, 



Pevton, Chapman, and Lake finished 
fourth in the IC-IA heat with a 3:14.7 
docking and fourth in the sprint med- 
ley. Sinnott, a 260-pound offensive 
tackle in football, took a second in the 
shot with a toss of 54' 5". Freshman Ed 
Brosa set Brown freshman and varsity 
records with a toss of 215' 2" in the jave- 
lin but had to settle for sixth place in the 
finals. The old Brown record was 214' 
3", set bv Sanford Stoddard '69. Colm 
Cronin did not compete in the Penn 
Relays, having pulled a muscle in the 
Harvard meet. 

n Baseball was another sport that 
did well in 1976 (19-12) and was ex- 
pected to improve this spring. Only it 
didn't. Through the first twenty-five 
games the Bruins were 7-18, although 
several individuals were having good 
years. One of them was junior third 
baseman John King, who continued to 
hit the ball with authority and draw- 
major league scouts to Aldrich- Dexter 
Field. King hit .348 with four homers 
and twenty-five runs batted in as a 
freshman and followed that with a .383 
mark last spring with nine home runs 
and 29 RBIs. Through most of this sea- 
son he was the only Bruin batting over 
.300 and he had added five homers to 
his BrowTi totals. 

"No question about it. King is major 
league material," says Coach Woody 
Woodworth. "Hehitsfor average, hecan 
produce the long ball, and he has a good 
baseball head. Before he's through at 
Brown he' 11 proba bly break the home-run 
records set a few years ago by Billy 
Almon, who's now starting with San 
Diego in the National League." 

Another exciting Bruin is center 
fielder Barry Blum. Last spring he was a 
perfect twent\'-three for twenty-three in 
stolen-base attempts. This spring he ran 
his string to thirty-five thefts in a row 
(he was four for four as a freshman) be- 
fore being cut down against Princeton 
on a soggy, slow infield. His thirt\'- 
five steals broke the old mark of thirt)^- 
four set by Almon. 

n The sailing team, after finishing 
second in the Boston Dinghy Cham- 
pionships and in competition for the 
Owen Trophy, made the spring season 
a roaring success by winning the Ivy 
League title. This was Brown's third Ivy 
title in the sixteen-vear history of the 
competition and its first Ivy crown since 
1973. Nat Philbrick and Martha Stark- 
weather came home first in the A Divi- 
sion, as did Reed Baer and Helen 
Cariello in the B Division. 



D Although Brown had a slow 
start in lacrosse, the team did pin a 9-7 
upset on Princeton and then upended 
Penn, 14-11. Sophomore Tad Barrows 
was the star of the Princeton upset with 
three goals. 

D Coach Vic Michalson's crew had 
a strong sixth- place finish in the fourth 
annual San Diego Classic earlv this 
spring, defeated Boston University in 
the regular-season opener, and then 
suffered a pair of frustrating defeats. 
First, the Bruin oarsmen rowed their 
best race ever against Harvard only to 
lose by a boat-length (5:44 to 5:47.7). 
Then, against a powerful Northeastern 
crew. Brown led by a length after the 
first 1,600 meters only to lose the race by 
less than three seconds. 

D The wrestling team, with 
freshmen filling eleven of the twelve 
positions, made a good showdng in the 
New Englands, finishing sixth. Brian 
Leach earned a silver medal at 134 and 
Bruce Hay and Bob Heller were bronze 
medal winners at 158 and 177, respec- 
tively. Leach, with a 6-6 record during 
the dual meet season, won two matches 
impressively before losing to Scott Ar- 
nell of URI in the finals. Heller had a 
10-0 record for the season. 

D Coach Ed Reed's swimming 
team had its best finish ever in the 
Easterns, coming in ninth out of 
twent\'-one schools and breaking thir- 
teen of Brown's sixteen varsity records. 
The star of the meet was freshman Chris 
Hug, who qualified for the NCAA's in 
the 500 freestyle with a time of 4:30.51. 
He took a second in the 1650, a third in 
the individual medley, and ended as the 
second highest point scorer in the East- 
erns. 

Sophomore Glenn Levin set indi- 
vidual varsity records in the 100 and 
200-yard backstrokes, the 200 individual 
medley, and the 200 freestyle and was a 
member of three relay teams that broke 
old Brown marks: the 800 freest\'le, 400 
medley relay, and 400 freestyle relay. 
Junior Matt Kanzler placed eleventh in 
the 100-yard breaststroke and seventh 
in the 200 breaststroke in the new 
Brown varsity time of 2:22.36. 

n Three of Coadi Dick Toomey's 
hockey players earned post-season 
honors. Junior goal tender Mike 
Laycock was selected to tlie Coaches 
Ail-American first team, as well as to 
first team All-ECAC and All-Ivy. 
Laycock ended with a 3.56goals-against 
average and set a Brown record with 
sixty- two saves against CorneU in Feb- 



ruary. Capt. Tim Bothwell, who led the 
team in scoring (9-26-35), was named to 
the AU-Ivy first team at defense for the 
third consecutive year and was signed 
to a two-year contract by the New York 
Rangers of the NHL. Jim Bennett, junior 
forward, also was a first-team AU-Ivy 
choice. Co-captains for 1978-79 are 
defenseman Mike Mastrullo and for- 
ward Dave Roberts. 

D Two of Coach John Anderson's 
varsity assistants have left to assume 
head football coaching positions. Bill 
Russo '69 at Wagner College on Staten 
Island and Dave Ritchie at Fairmont 
State College in West Virginia. Russo 
joined the staff as freshman coach the 
year he graduated and moved up to the 
varsity in 1972 as offensive line coach. 
He was the only coach from Len Jar- 
dine's staff held over by Anderson. 
Ritchie, who came to Brown with An- 
derson in 1973, has had responsibility 
for the linebackers. 'Tt is always difficult 
to lose men who have helped to make 
your program go," Anderson says. 
"However, it's also a plus factor for a 
staff when other colleges start dipping 
into it for head coaches." 

D The fendng team (7-4) com- 
pleted its sixth season of intercollegiate 
competition with a fourth-place finish in 
the New Englands. Captained by senior 
Randy Strominger, who also worked as 
coach during Coach Duncan Smith's 
first-semester sabbatical. Brown con- 
tinued its strong position within the 
league (33-16 in six years) and is finally 
beginning to attract the attention of 
outstanding high-sdiool fencers from 
the Northeast. Next year's co-captains 
are Peter Nager '78 and Richard Jerome 
'80, with Barbara Woodall '81 leading 
the women's team. 

Two fomier fencers, Jim Aldrich '76 
and his wife. Peri Johnson Aldrich '77 
M.D., have established an MVP plaque. 
The first award, given this spring, went 
to Randy Strominger. /.B. 

Women's sports roundup 

By the end of April there was only 
one word for the women's spring sea- 
son: disappointing. Three out of the five 
women's teams had losing records, the 
excepfions being lacrosse, which never- 
theless was unable to match last year's 
perfect winning season, and track. An 
infusion of talented freshmen and the 
development of veterans gave the track 
and field team depth, something it 



lacked in previous years. This year 
Brown has emerged as a track power 
in the Ivy League, and the women 
cemented their claim to supremacy by 
winning the Ivy League championship 
on April 22. 

Earlier in the season, women's 
track coach Jon Hird had predicted that 
Brown could win the Ivy championship 
if it could beat Princeton. As it turned 
out, Princeton was less of a threat than 
Cornell, but neither came close to the 
Bruins' performance. The final tallies 
were Brown 79, Cornell 53, Princeton 
47, Dartmouth 45, Yale 4L and Barnard 
4, with Brown winning seven events, 
four of them individual events and three 
of them relays. The mile-relay team of 
Kristi Ruud '81, Cheryl Irons '80, Laurie 
Parker '81, and Terry Hecht '81 set a 
meet record of 4:13.2. Brown teams also 
captured the two-mile and 440 relays. 
Individual winners were Susie Adams 
'80 in the three-mile run (17:50.1), Judi 
Gracey '81 in the 100-yard dash (11.7), 
Missy Himelein '81 in the mile (5:25), 
and Terry Hecht in the 440 (60.6). By 
winning this year's meet. Brown earned 
the honor of hosting next year's Ivy 
championship. 

The swimmers finished tenth in 
New England and twenty-fourth in the 
nation this winter, led by some talented 
freshmen and senior diver Noel Keefer 
{BAM, January-February). At the AIAW 
Small College National Championships, 
held at Brenau College in Gainesville, 
Georgia, in March, Keefer placed third 
in the three- meter diving (374.34 points) 
and eighth in the one- meter competi- 
tion (327.48 points). Freshman Carol 
Derby broke two Brown records while 
swimming in the 50- and 200-yard 
backstroke events, in which she placed 
seventh and eleventh; and freshman 
Gretchen Fricke placed twelfth in the 
individual medley with a time of 
2:20.78. 

D The sight of members of the 
women's ice hockey team hawking 
McDonald's gift certificates and choco- 
late chip cookies at men's athletic con- 
tests this winter gave Panda alumni a 
feeling of deja vu. The fund-raising ef- 
fort, reminiscent of the late unlamented 
years before the women's athletic 
budget provided any travel funds, was 
mounted to defray the costs of flying the 
Pandas to a tournament at the Univer- 
sity of Minnesota in early March. 
Boosted by donations from alumni and 
parents, the Pandas made it to the 
Midwest and returned with two wins 



and one loss. Even better, Associate Di- 
rector of Athletics Arlene Gorton '52 is 
hopeful that next year's budget will in- 
clude adequate funding for all trips to 
tournaments, thus ending once and for 
all the necessity for women athletes to 
peddle cookies. 

D A junior who first played the 
sport only three years ago led four 
members of Brown's women's squash 
team to respectable showings against 
some of the best college players in the 
country at the national collegiate 
championships held at Williams College 
in March. Adrienne Morphy '79, team 
captain and number-one player, was 
eliminated from the tournament just be- 
fore the quarter-finals by an opponent 
who is fifth-ranked nationally in the 
women's senior division. Pam Lord '80, 
Brown's number-two player, lost in the 
final round of the consolation bracket in 
a hard-fought match which went five 
games plus overtime. Other Brown 
women competing in the Nationals in- 
cluded Kate Smith and Elizabeth Todd, 
both freshmen. 

D The gymnastics team's losing 
season (3-5) was softened somewhat by 
the promising performances of fresh- 
man Susan Brooks. In a victory over 
Rhode Island College at the end of the 
season. Brooks placed first in both the 
floor exercise and balance beam, and 
finished second to freshman teammate 
Sue Springsteen on the uneven parallel 
bars. A.D. 



S€(Q)ff®lb(n)ai?dl 

(April 14— April 28) 

Men's Baseball (7-18) 

Princeton 3, Brown 2 
Navy 2, Brown 
Navy 14, Brown 1 
Army 5, Brown 3 
Brown 5, Cornell 4 
Brown 5, Cornell 4 
Providence 12, Brown 5 
Rhode Island 6, Brown 5 
Brown 3, Rhode Island 1 
Connecticut 3, Brown 2 
Connecticut 8, Brown 3 
Providence 11, Brown 4 
Providence 2, Brown 

Men's Track (7-0) 

Brown IOOV2, St. John's 51, Columbia SOVz 
Brown 121, Rhode Island 51 '/i, Holy Cross 29 
Brown 90, Harvard 88, Dartmouth 25 

Men's Lacrosse (4-4) 
Harvard 19, Brown 9 
Massachusetts 13, Brown 8 
Brown 12, New Hampshire 11 



Brown 11, Princeton 7 
Brown 14, Penn 11 

Men's Tennis (3-7) 
Penn 6, Brown 3 
Columbia 8, Brown 1 
Brown 7, Tufts 2 
Princeton 7Vi, Brown V/i 
Navy 8, Brown 1 
Brown 71/2, MIT 1 1/2 
Army 5'/2, Brown 3V2 
Cornell 6, Brown 3 
Brown 9, Rhode Island 

Men's Crew (1-2) 

Brown 6:52.2, Boston University 6:59.3 
Harvard 5:44, Brown 5:47 
Northeastern 6:47.5, Brown 6:50.4 

Men's Golf (1-4) 

Salem State 378, Harvard 384, Brown 386 
Bryant 378, Brown 380 
Columbia 407, Brown 438, Yale 439 
Ivy Tourney — 8th 

Women's Crew (1-3) 

MIT over Brown, Brown over Mount 

Hoi yoke 
Boston University over Brown 

Women's Lacrosse (3-2) 

Brown 4, Dartmouth 3 
Yale 13, Brown 2 
Brown 9, Bridgewater 
Brown 8, Harvard 7 

Softball (2-9) 

Rhode Island 19, Brown 4 
Bridgewater 22, Brown 4 
Bridgewater 17, Brown 1 
Rhode Island College 4, Brown 2 
Brown 9, Rhode Island College 8 
Barrington 6, Brown 5 
American International 8, Brown 5 

Women's Tennis (1-5) 

Boston College 5, Brown 4 
Penn 6, Brown 3 
Yale 7, Brown 2 
Harvard 8, Brown 1 
Dartmouth 9, Brown 

Women's Track (3-1) 

Brown 74, Bridgewater 46 
1st in Ivy Championships 



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No pcrfon iliall be admitted into this C( 
lege, unlefs upon examination by t 
Prefidcnt, or in his abfence one ProfcfTor a 
two at lead of the Tutors, he fliall be found at 
to read accurately, conftrue and parl'c Cicer 
Orations, Virgil's iEneid, and the Greek Tef 
mcntj and to write Latin grammatically. He fli 
have learned the rules of Vulgar Arithmetic, a 
be able to produce fatisfailory credentials of 
good moral charafler. 




In the firft year (hall be ftudicd, in Latin, 
gil's JEncid, Cicero's Orations, and Horace; 
Greek, tl-,e New Tcftament, and Xenophon'sCyr 
pjedia ; in Englilh, Sheridan's Ledures on El 
cution, and Webfter's Grammatical Inftitute of 
theEnglifh language. 

In the fecond year, in Latin, Cicero de Ora- 
tore ; in Greek, Longinus dc Sublimitate. Gu- 
thrie's and Morfe's Geography, Decimal Arithme- 
tic, the Extraftion of the Square and Cube Roots, 
Witts' Logic, and Hammond's Algebra. 

In the third year, Euclid's Elements, Trigono- 
metry, with its application to furveying and navi- 
gation, Fergufon's Aftronomy, Nicholfon's Na- 
tural Philofophy, Payley's Moral Philofophy, and 
Kaim's Elements of Criticifm. 

In the fourth year, Locke on the human under- 
ftanding, and fuch parts of the authors ftudied in 
the preceding years as the officers of College 
fhall dire(5l, together with fomc fclcd parts of 
hillory. 



ENACTID BY THE 



Fellows and Truftees. 




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Providence: Printed by J. Carter. 
M,Dcc,xcin. 




Decimal 
Arithmetic 
and Sheridan 
on Elocution: 

the course 
of study 
in 1793. . . 



please tiini the page 



The 
great 

curriculum 
debate 



By Debra Shore 



An old debate is stirring anew in the land — 
/% if, indeed, it ever lay dormant — and 
^ JL that debate concerns college curricula. 
The issue, stated in the simplest possible form, is 
"What is an educated man?" 

In June of each year Harvard College proudly 
welcomes its graduating seniors to "the company 
of educated men and women." That confident 
statement aside. Harvard's faculty, at the prod- 
ding of Dean Henry Rosovsky, is presently en- 
gaged in a collective fit of conscience, for Harvard 
seems not at all certain that its graduates are 
indeed educated men and women. Following a 
three- year review of the undergraduate curri- 
culum there. Dean Rosovsky and a faculty com- 
mittee proposed sweeping changes which were 
adopted on May 2. The General Education pro- 
gram, the "staple" of undergraduate studies there 
since 1945, went under the rug and a new core 
curriculum requiring a student to select from 
seven to ten courses in five designated "core" 
areas takes its place. The goal of Harvard's new 
core curriculum — as it was presumably of the 
General Education program — is "to have stu- 
dents acquire basic literacy in major forms of intel- 
lectual discourse." 

Proposals for curricular reform and the mo\'e 
"back to basics" in undergraduate studies were 
not bom at Harvard, though as the "High 
Church" in Cambridge, revisions there receive 
most notice. Among other colleges and universi- 
ties reviewing undergraduate curricula in the last 
two years are Brandeis University, Goddard Col- 
lege, Bennington College, Oberlin College, the 
University of Pennsylvania, California State Uni- 
versity at Long Beach, and the University of Mas- 
sachusetts at Boston. 

Brown, however, is not considering a reform 
of its undergraduate curriculum. In the light of the 
"great curriculum debate" now garnering national 
attention. Brown's curriculum may soon stand 
alone as a reasonably successful alternative to 
those traditional structures — distribution re- 
quirements, core curricula, and so on — now gain- 



ing ascendance. This is not to sav that Brown is not 
concerned with graduating educated men and 
women; it is. But Brown has not entered the de- 
bate in terms of its own undergraduate curriculum 
because it does, bv and large, seem to be working. 
(How one can assess whether a curriculum 
"works" or not will be dealt with shortly.) There 
are some important reasons why this is so. 

y^ccording to the standard definition, a 
L^^ airriculum is the courses of studv and 
A JL programs offered to a student. "The 
curriculum," vvTOte the authors of a recent Car- 
negie Foundation report, "is the major statement 
any institution makes about itself, about what it 
can contribute to the intellectual development of 
students, about what it thinks is important in its 
teaching service to societv." Brown's present un- 
dergraduate curriculum — still known as the "new 
curriculum" nine vears after its adoption — was 
the result of an intensive studv conducted bv a 
group of highlv motivated students in the late 
1960s. The reforms enacted bv the faculty in May 
1969 included the abolition of distribution re- 
quirements; the establishment of Modes of 
Thought courses — designed as small classes to 
introduce freshmen to the new demands of self- 
disdpline and intellectual freedom made by col- 
lege and emphasizing the underlying concepts 
that relate one area of inquiry to another; the in- 
troduction of greater tlexibilitv in concentrations 
(the Brown term for "major") and opportunities 
for independent work; and a revamped grading 
system offering an A-B-C/No Credit or a Satis- 
factor\'/No Credit option. 

What remained when the dust settled was an 
extraordinarily flexible curriculum that placed a 
great deal of responsibility — and few demands - 
on each student. In order to receive a bacca- 
laureate degree from Brown a student had only to 
complete sahsfactorOy twenty-eight courses, to 
declare a concentration, and to fulfill the require- 
ments for that concentration (a standard concen- 




10 



tration usualh' requires from eight to ten courses). 

Introducing these curricular reforms to the 
readers of the Brown Alumni Monthh/ in July 1969, 
Prof. Jerome Grieder '54 wrote: "Perhaps the most 
striking aspect of the new curriculum is the candid 
acknowledgement of what has long been true in 
fact: that it is the student who must finally make 
something of the educational experience that the 
University offers. From this fact the students [who 
proposed the reforms that became the new cur- 
riculum] draw the conclusion that what the indi- 
vidual student chooses to make of the oppor- 
tunities he has at Brown should properly be re- 
garded as a matter which lies within the range of 
his own responsibility, a responsibility that ideally 
will be discharged in intimate and mutually re- 
warding collaboration with certain members of the 
faculty, but with a minimum of impersonal and 
abstract regulation by the University." This prin- 
ciple — that each student must assume responsi- 
bility, at least in major part, for the direction of his 
own education — undergirds the new curriculum, 
and it has proved a strong foundation. In this re- 
spect, by all accounts, the new curriculum has suc- 
ceeded, has "worked." 

"I think the most interesting feature of the 
curriculum at Brovvn," William M. Risen, Jr., pro- 
fessor and chairman of the chemistry department 
comments, "especially in the light of the back-to- 
basics and back-to-requirements movement, is 
that Brown students do actually accomplish every- 
thing that is required under such curricula, with 
one significant added advantage: they've had to 
confront and have seriously dealt with significant 
issues requiring decisions early on. . . . decisions 
that were not preordained or controlled . . . When 
the going gets rough in a course," he elaborates, 
"you have to dedde to stick it out because you're 
convinced it's important and because you want it, 
and not because it's required of you. So you grad- 
uate people who've identified what's important to 
them and done it. The real deficiency is that it's 
not easily exportable. Not every student can do 
this. Something like the Great Books curriculum, 
in which students are passive receptacles, is easy 
to export." 

Brown students are anything but that. Tlie re- 
sponsibility placed on them for directing their own 
course of study virtually forces them to go after 
what they want — and most do so with no prob- 
lem. 

Diane Barzman is a sophomore who has 
elected to concentrate in American Civilization. 
For Diane, Brown's curriculum was a prime selling 
point. (A survey of freshmen entering Brown last 
fall showed that close to half of those responding 
chose to apply to Brown because of the "new cur- 
riculum" learning options, and one third chose to 
attend Brown due to its reputation for emphasiz- 
ing undergraduate education.) "The University 
wasn't consciously imposing some ideology that 
they thought was 'the liberal arts educarion,' " 
Diane says. "If the school had enough faith in the 



students to allow them to explore their own in- 
terests, then that said to me I niight be treated 
more as an adult than elsewhere." Diane speaks 
enthusiastically about the curriculum and says she 
would "just die" if Brown reinstituted distribution 
requirements. Echoing sentiments held by many, 
she says, "You can't shove knowledge down 
someone's throat if they don't want it. So maybe I 
didn't like German," she shrugs, "but it was a 
choice I made. Because it was im/ mistake, it was a 
learning experience. Wouldn't you think students 
would be more eager to put time and energy into 
something fhci/ chose instead of something they 
felt they were forced to take?" 

Diane diose an American Civilization con- 
centration because she likes to "relate things in a 
sodal context" and because in this way she could 
effectively mix her interests in literature and his- 
tory. Selecting a concentration, as all students 
must by the end of their sophomore year, can be a 
partiailarly trying task and Diane herself spent 
several "frantic nights" before settling on Ameri- 
can Civilization. "I do think some people floun- 
der," she admits, "but I don't think they'd feel any 
better if they knew they'd have to take certain 
courses. It's knowing where you're going that's 
important, and required courses aren't going to 
help you get there." 

The shift from adolescent to adult is not an 
easy one and Brown, while pladng the cowl 
of academic responsibility on each stu- 
dent's shoulders, also recognizes that, as one 
sophomore put it, "Just because we have the re- 
sponsibility doesn't mean we have the knowl- 
edge." Precisely because students are responsible 
for their decisions, the University assumes a much 
greater role in offering advice and guidance. Stu- 
dents' choices should he informed ones. Con- 
sequenth', what ma\' to the outsider seem like an 
abundance of deans is, in fact, a carefully con- 
structed advising network. In addition to deans. 
Brown has faculty advisors in each department 
and facults' "fellows" living in dorms, students 
ser\'ing as resident counselors, and the Health 
Services to deal with psychological as well as med- 
ical problems. Nevertheless, students and faculty 
alike concede that advising at Brown is a weak 
spot. "Counseling is like food in the Refectory," 
says Registrar Milton Noble '44, "a constant source 
of complaint." 

Each freshman is assigned a faculty advisor, 
for example, generally on the basis of an indicated 
interest. This advisor is, ostensibly, to guide the 
student's course selection so that a freshman 
doesn't enroll in four laboratory courses or too 
many upper-level offerings, and so on. But the 
system, according to Diane Barzman, is "bogus 
and ineffective." Diane, for instance, had ex- 
pressed an interest in art history, but was assigned 
an advisor in the philosophy department. Diane's 
advisor, while well-meaning and willing to help, 
knew little about other departments' offerings. At 





'You can't 
shove knowledge 
down someone's 
throat if 
they don't 
want it' 



11 



one point, when Diane had forgotten to bring her 
course registration along with her to be signed, her 
advisor said, "Oh well, just go ahead and sign it 
for me." 

Conceivably, because each freshman must 
have his registration form signed by his faculty 
advisor, that might be an appropriate time for a 
discussion of the student's program and goals, but 
this rarely happens. Thomas Bechtel, senior as- 
sociate dean for student affairs, is well aware of 
this problem. "Real advising," he says, "should be 
someone taking time to sit back and talk with the 
students, to ask them, 'What do these choices 
mean? Let's review what shape your program 
seems to be taking. Is there a reason why you're 
taking courses only in history and classics?' " 
Bechtel suggests that each student be required to 
submit a learning contract "to really describe why 
they're choosing what they are." Such a device 
has been proposed by faculty and students as well. 
Students should not be required to make particu- 
lar choices, they have said, but thev should be re- 
quired to defend their choices. 

Despite the acknowledged problem of inef- 
fective or inadequate academic counseling — and 
efforts rtre being made to upgrade advising, most 
notably Associate Dean of the College Karen 
Romer's application for funds to reward faculty 
who do distinguished advising with release time 
— most students seem to thrive at Brown. Bechtel 
believes that a significant element of "pre-selec- 
tion" takes place — highly motivated, self-directed 
students gravitate toward the freedom and flexi- 
bility Brown offers. In 1975-76, the last year for 
whicli figures are available, 425 students partici- 
pated in group independent study projects, 199 
conducted independent study projects, 491 en- 
rolled in extra-departmental courses, seventy-five 
graduated with independent concentrations (those 
of their own devising), and 185 with interdepart- 
mental concentrations such as Human Biology, 
International Relations, or American Civilization. 
The "new curriculum" has produced no wide- 
spread dissatisfaction but, rather, has become 
an increasingly attractive feature to students and is 
undoubtedly responsible, in part, for the 17- 
percent increase in applications to Brown this 
year. 

An eight-member accreditation team from the 
New England Association of Schools and Colleges 
visited Brown last fall to evaluate the University's 
programs. In its report the team strongly recom- 
mended that Brown retain its present curriculum, 
calling it Brown's most striking characteristic. 
Such support, in the face of moves by other col- 
leges and universities to a more structured cur- 
riculum, cannot help but be encouraging. 

Brown's curriculum can be said to "work" 
only in terms of what it attempts to do. 
"Because we are a university," comments 
Dean of the College Walter Massey, "the cur- 
riculum has to be reflective of faculty research and 





'Sooner or 
later, the 
process has to 
be as important 
as the content.' 
— Walter Massey, 
dean of the 
College (left) 



scholarly interests. Here the facult)' teaches 
primarily what it does . For those students in- 
terested in pursuing further scholarly work, their 
preparation here should enable them to do so, and 
I don't think there's any dispute that we do this 
well." 

One index frequently used to demonstrate the 
success of Brown's airriailum is the number of 
Brown students admitted to professional schools. 
Is Brown competitive? students and parents want 
to know. Last year 82 percent of those Brown stu- 
dents who applied to medical schools were ac- 
cepted; 90 percent of those who applied to law 
school were accepted; and close to 100 percent of 
those applying to business schools were accepted. 
A resounding Yes. 

Brown graduates also do well entering the 
labor force, usually obtaining jobs with well above 
the median salary for college graduates. 

But Brown's mission is not only, nor even 
primarily, to prepare students for professional 
schools or to get jobs. It is to prepare students for 
life, to "educate" them. How this is best done is 



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Photographs by 
John Foraste 



perhaps the greatest issue in the great curriculum 
debate. "If we are to prepare the individual for life 
in general," Walter Massev savs, "we have to ask 
first, 'What should he be prepared for?' and then, 
'How do you go about it?' Should the curriculum 
be designed to expose people to broad areas of 
cognitive disciplines? That would be nice," Mas- 
sev concedes, "but on the other hand I don't think 
you expose people to everything some people 
think they should be exposed to in this world." 

The criticism sometimes leveled at Brown 
from within and without is that, given the unfet- 
tered freedom to select whichever courses they 
wish, Brown's students may choose a regrettably 
narrow or specialized academic program. A 
liberal-arts education traditionally implies both 
breadth and depth. Brown's concentration re- 
quirement provides for a certain depth of study, 
an intensive examination of at least one discipline; 
but what ensures that students will acquire 
breadth as well? What is to prevent someone from 
taking twent\'-eight English courses, or art 
courses, or music, or psychology? Counseling, 
while admittedly weak, can do this to some extent. 
But that may not serve well enough, and some 
members of the faculty and administration at 
Brown feel that Brown students rtre pursuing nar- 
row courses of study. No one is ready to advocate 
a return to rigid distribution requirements, but 
some — such as Professor of Slavic Languages and 
Linguistics Henry Kucera — are sympathetic to the 
idea of a core curriculum. 

"The question should be asked," Kucera says, 
"What should a student who graduates with a 
B. A. know, or be exposed to?" Kucera holds that 
students should have some demonstrable facility 
with mathematics and writing, for example, that 
they should be familiar with the fundamental 
questions of philosophy and the basic periods of 
history, and that they should have some ininimum 
knowledge of a foreign language. "A monolingual 
person is sort of like a one-eyed person," Kucera 
explains, "the ^'(TS/'Cffirt' is missing . . .It seems to 
me there are certain basic ideas in all fields, which 
I think students should have some contact with." 
Kucera readily admits that his position is assailable 
— "Who's to decide which ideas are more impor- 
tant than others?" — yet he feels that there is a 
central core of knowledge students should be ac- 
quainted with. Among his students, at least, 
Kucera has noticed a "narrowing in a pre-pro- 
fessional sense and a narrowing toward peripheral 
subjects and away from central core ones." He has 
witnessed, too, a decline in the quality of his stu- 
dents' written work. "When it comes to reason- 
ing," he says, "there's a kind of great ease to dis- 
miss ideas or approaches that students consider ir- 
relevant, a great casualness. This curriculum has 
its historical underpinnings in the 1960s and that 
was the time of relevance," he adds, "and that as- 
pect is still in there." 

Milton Noble, Brown's registrar for the last 
thirty years, also feels that Brown students are not 



"distributing themselves" as much as they had 
under the old requirements. All requirements for a 
baccalaureate degree are minimum requirements. 
Noble points out. Twenty-eight courses are the 
minimum number required in order to graduate. 
"We also ought to have something that we would 
define as a minimum breadth requirement," Noble 
suggests. "Somewhere the University ought to 
say, 'No, we will not give you a degree with 
twenty-six art courses.' Even if there are only ten 
students that you prevent from receiving a degree 
with such a requirement, it's important." 

Walter Massey bristles slightly at such a 
suggestion, and then smiles. He is more than will- 
ing to accept the risks of graduating a few purpor- 
tedly "narrow" students, in exchange for the ben- 
efits of Brown's curriculum. "In talking about 
what it takes to produce an educated man, no one 
puts forth a model," he says, referring not-so- 
obliquely to his counterpart in Cambridge. "Do 
they consider themselves well-educated people? 
Do they speak two or three languages? Do they 
know what a Hamiltonian is? Have they studied 
physics? Are they familiar with classical plays? 
What kind of education did they have?" Walter 
Massey leans back in his chair; he is at his best 
making the case for Brown. "Sooner or later you 
have to reduce things to a personal level," he says, 
"to talk about people and not theories of education. 
Thev always sound beautiful. Do the people who 
talk about such qualities indeed come out with 
those? Sooner or later," Massey adds, "the pro- 
cess has to be as important as the content." 

The Brown curriculum works, then, because 
It permits students to be all that they can 
and want to be. It is not prescriptive, and it 
certainly is not perfect, but it does afford students 
and faculty alike the precious opportimity of free- 
dom. As Professor of Education Herman Eschen- 
bacher wrote recently, "It is not immediately evi- 
dent that intellectual independence can be taught, 
although it can be learned. People learn to be free 
by being free, by making choices and mistakes, 
and by taking responsibility for them. An imposed 
curriculum may promote intellectual self-suf- 
ficiency, but with some difficulty. The problem 
wdth such a curriculum is that it prolongs a state of 
dependence at a time when young adults should 
be experiencing independence. Children are de- 
pendent: they rely on others to tell them what to 
do, what to study, what to believe. Educated 
adults are independent: they determine these 
things for themselves. . . . Education," Eschen- 
bacher concluded, "is an intensely individual mat- 
ter that acquires meaning in a personal context 
(one size does not fit all); . . . the nation requires 
independent thinkers at least as much as it needs 
structure and compliance; and the most signifi- 
cant, although difficult, service an institution 
can perform is to nourish those qualities of mind 
that will enable its graduates to order and direct 
change rather than be engulfed by it." 



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THE BROWN CURRICULUM: 

Let others 

return 

to tradition 

By Steven Rattner 74 



I arrived at Brown a political science major, 
passed rapidly through history and American 
Civilization, toyed briefly with applied math, 
and settled comfortably into economics. 

When I was in high school, eagerlv anticipat- 
ing the liberation of college, I thought I might 
major in political science. If I had been honest, I 
would have admitted that I had just a vague idea 
of what political science on a college level entailed, 
but as a fervent non-scientist with little talent for 
the arts and few literary passions, it seemed a logi- 
cal choice. 

Then, in mv first semester at Brown, I con- 
cluded that the most interesting part of politics 
was that which had passed, and 1 detoured into 
American history, heavily inclined toward social 
and political thought. A few more courses and I 
became convinced that history was unnecessarily 
narrow and I matie a mid-course correction into 
American Civilization. 

Just when life seemed finally to have acquired 
a purpose, I wandered quite accidentally at the 
end of sophomore year into Economics 111 — the 
microeconomics theory course — and watched as a 
wonderful new world unfolded. I became an in- 
stant economics major and, by senior year, my 
honors thesis had plunged me deeply into the 
Panic of 1873. 

All this having been said by way of example, it 
becomes a bit unnerving for those of us weaned on 
the flexibility of Brown to read of the debate at 
Harvard over whether to return to a more tra- 
ditional "core curriculum," replete with require- 
ments abandoned nearly a decade ago at Brown. It 
goes against the grain not only of those educated 
at Brown but of everything that has happened in 
higher education over the last 100 years. Could my 
intellectual digressions and those of my classmates 
have been pursued in a more traditional setting, 
where three-quarters of the courses were re- 
quired? Perhaps, although most likely without the 
ease and approbation that Brown offered. 

Indeed, for most of us, a more traditional cur- 
riculum based on distribution requirements, 
grades, and the like might have had little effect in 
the end. But along the way, the freedom we had 



was comforting and maturing. Watching myself 
and my classmates, 1 am convinced that those who 
experienced a place like Brown emerged more 
ready to assume responsibility for themselves. 

At one point, I nearly settled on an independ- 
ent major, a collecHon of eight to ten courses from 
various departments related by a coherent theme. 
While I ultimately settled on a standard concen- 
tration, many of mv contemporaries designed 
their own programs, among them Ancient Art and 
Culture, Italian Literature and Civilization, and 
Children and the Arts. 

As the second class whose entire Brown 
career was based on the New Curriculum, we pur- 
sued it voraciously. We dabbled beyond our reach, 
comforted by our ability to opt for pass-fail grad- 
ing. We ranged broadly as our whims took us, 
sampling diversitv without fear of violating some 
arcane dictum as to what our ultimate portfolio 
would have to consist of. We sought out experi- 
mental courses, ultimately realizing their frequent 
lack of intellectual rigor, but learning from them 
nonetheless. 

Few of us regretted the absence of those re- 
quired survey courses that friends at other institu- 
tions endured, those courses where a hundred 
years of history could be lost by a glance out the 
window. Nor did distribution requirements seem 
to fill any useful purpose; our friends elsewhere 
always seemed to find courses at needed intervals 
that required a minimum of effort. 

On the most pragmatic level, it is hardly clear 
that a return to tradition would work in an age 
where regimentation is clearly on the wane. 



'I hope Mr. 

Rosofsky's 
plan will not 
become ours' 




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Would today's college students accept distribution 
requirements anv more readily than they would 
accept a return to morning chapel? 

Over the vears, the continuing high quality of 
Brown's applicant pool has become conditioned 
on the New Curriculum and there is no doubt that 
it is one of Brown's principal drawing points. 

The praise notwithstanding, let it be empha- 
sized most strongly that the Brown cur- 
riculum is far from perfect. For every stu- 
dent designing a computer as part of an independ- 
ent major, there is one winning honors bv critiqu- 
ing comic books. For every student venturing 
into graduate courses, there is one seeking the 
twentv'-eight easiest courses. I don't remember if 
there is a group study project on basket weaving, 
but there were certainly a number that made bas- 
ket weaving look like a rigorous academic disci- 
pline. 

One aspect of the curriculum offering some of 
the greatest potential while allowing for some of 
the greatest abuse was the grading system. For 
some — including myself at times — it was a way 
to try a physics course or a graduate economics 
seminar that we never would have tried when 
threatened by a letter grade. For others — includ- 
ing myself at times — it was a way to manipulate 
one's grade-point average by selecting the letter- 
grade option when we thought we could get an 
"A". 

Meanwhile, Brown has encountered a more 
serious conflict, and has yet to resolve it satisfac- 
torily. On the one hand, a curriculum has been 



designed that depends on the ability of the student 
to mold his education to suit his own needs, a pro- 
cess that demands from an eighteen-year-old in- 
ordinate self-discipline and sense of purpose. On 
the other hand. Brown — to its credit — has simul- 
taneously made great efforts to broaden its student 
body by attracting the disadvantaged, students 
who frequently are in need of the very structure 
and external discipline that Brown is unable to 
provide. 

Much of this might be mitigated with top- 
quality academic counseling, which would also 
help all undergraduates, but which would be 
especially designed to keep the less independent 
student from getting lost. 1 remember, for exam- 
ple, when I was a freshman counselor, that stu- 
dents would come to me at the end of their first 
year and announce that they were tired of fooling 
around and had decided to take eight courses in 
their intended major field during sophomore year. 

I listened to endless freshmen tell me that 
there was no reason to bother with religious 
studies; that when it came time to apply to law 
firms what little that could be recalled of the sub- 
ject would doubtless be of no utility. Four years 
out of Brown, my regret is not that I should have 
taken more economics, but that 1 should have cho- 
sen more liberally, pursuing more things I will 
never now learn. 

I don't remember more than the basics of 
classics but that doesn't mean I shouldn't have 
taken it, just as the fact that I remember mostly 
economics doesn't suggest that I should have 
taken more economics courses. I'm glad 1 took art. 




Stei'e Rattner, u'lio 
has been writing about 
energy for the 
New York Times 
recently, is now 
a columnist 
for the Times' 
new business section. 



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applied math, Russian, and history of education. 
I'm sorrv I didn't take more literature to read more 
Dickens, Chaucer, and Tolstoy, tor these authors 
and so many more will now get read only by virtue 
of great effort. 

Let's not deny that some of the criticisms 
raised by Dean Rosovskv at Harvard make some 
sense. The decline in test scores has never been 
explained satisfactorily, but on a more subjective 
level some of the trends are worrisome. 

I never fancied myself a particularly proficient 
writer, particularly in mv early college days, but 
some of my colleagues' efforts were truly appall- 
ing, just as my ventures into some other fields in 
retrospect seem inadequate. Nor can I imagine a 
student passing through Brown in this automated 
age without ever taking a computer science 
course. 

I'm sad about the decline of interest in foreign 
language. Learning a language and understanding 
another culture are, it seems to me, an important 
part of college and useful in later life. Just the other 
day, my employer asked for information about our 
language abilities. 

But here, as elsewhere, approaching these 
problems through course requirements is certain 
to fail, and the responsibility of Brown to prepare 
people for the world will have to be done insofar 
as is possible through voluntarism. 

These criteria make quality education harder 
to achieve. When I was at Brown, the counseling, 
for example, lacked enthusiasm. Brown tends to 
be a bit schizoid about the New Curriculum, ask- 



'Those who 

experience 

a place like 

Brown emerge 

more ready 

to assume 

responsibility 

for themselves' 




ing faculty members on the one hand to participate 
in it heavily, to teach Modes of Thought courses, 
to expend the additional effort needed to evaluate 
a student without the benefit of letter grades, and 
to make the time commitment needed to have 
quality faculty counseling for both freshmen and 
upperclassmen. 

But the tradidonal criteria for faculty ad- 
vancement — publications and research — were in 
vigorous health when 1 attended Brown. For the 
younger faculty in particular, it becomes difficult 
to make the commitment the New Curriculum 
needs to flourish. Since mv departure, improve- 
ment seems to have taken place, particularly 
through the establishment of new faculty fellow- 
ships to reward younger professors who are out- 
standing teachers. 

In a similar vein, the appearance of the New 
Curriculum was not accompanied by a 
weakening of academic departmental power, 
which frequently appeared insurmountable. The 
result was a lack of commitment by some depart- 
ments to the curriculum, particularly with regard 
to the needs of underclass non-majors. In some 
science departments, for example, courses stres- 
sing a layman's approach were not to be found. 

In my day, when the curriculum was gen- 
uinely new, it seemed to suffer from a modest case 
of overexuberance. Often, both students and 
teachers confused modern education with lack of 
structure, a condition under which neither party 
quite knew how to proceed. I watched some 
otherwise terrific teachers sail into Modes of 
Tlnought classes and announce that in the spirit of 
the New Curriculum they would let the class take 
itself where it wanted. 

As my four years wore on, both students and 
teadiers realized that the least successful MOT's 
were those which attempted to resolve the human 
condition, while one of the most successful fo- 
cused on design of yachts. 

Lastly, let me offer a gratuitous remark that is 
equally applicable to universities and newspapers: 
There is no substitute for excellence. I have no 
doubt that even if Harvard's decision turns out to 
be the educational disaster of the twentieth cen- 
tury (which is unlikeU'), Harvard will go on and 
perhaps even flourish, because when the trap- 
pings of the curriculum are stripped away. Har- 
vard's fundamentals are still formidable. Simi- 
larly, an inadequate institution with the most en- 
lightened curriculum will still fall short edu- 
cationally. Too often, colleges think a Center for 
the Study of Institutions, or the like, can be 
created merely by inventing a good title. 

We've all agreed to rename the Brown cur- 
riculum the "not-so-new curriculum," as it pre- 
pares to enter its second decade. This suggests 
that a rethinking at such an interval could certainly 
not be quarreled with, but 1 hope Mr. Rosovsky's 
plan will not become ours. 



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To divest or 
not to divest? 

That is the South African question 



By Newell M. Stultz 



In recent months the attention of the campus 
community has been directed at the issue of Uni- 
versity investments in American corporations that 
do business in the Republic of South Africa. There are 
about 350 American firms operating there now, not 
including 6,000 others which only buy and sell in 
South Africa, and President Swearer has recently indi- 
cated that Brown's investments in these firms is about 
$23 million, or roughh' one-quarter of the total Uni- 
versit\' endowment. The difficult question under con- 
sideration here, as it is at a growing number of colleges 
and universities, is whether the existence of such in- 
vestments on the part of an American educational in- 
stitution constitutes tadt support of official racism in 
South Africa, and thus in some sense moral responsi- 
bility. And if this is so, what should be done about it? 
These are complex questions indeed, but they are 
not unexplored. In fact, eleven vears ago a similar 
issue was raised here when the Brown Daily Herald 
claimed that the University supported apartheid by 
keeping some of its monies in the Chase Manhattan 
Bank, which was then loaning funds to the South Afri- 
can government. (That bank apparently no longer does 
this.) Thinking about these questions is now well ad- 
vanced nationally, and adversary positions taken by 
authoritative disputants are well established. It seems 



likely, therefore, that few good new ideas will emerge 
that have not already been articulated. 

And yet the articulation of ideas has not brought 
resolution. The problem, of course, is the difficulty of 
deciding — when so many cogent arguments can be 
found on all sides of the question and when we must 
admit there is a good deal of uncertainty, even among 
presumed experts — what the consequences would be 
in South Africa of certain recommended courses of ac- 
tion being taken on this side of the ocean. While my 
faculty colleagues and students will probably recog- 
nize that I personally favor the less severe of the two 
positions described below, my purpose here is not to 
promote a specific point of view but rather to outline 
some of the arguments on different sides of the ques- 
tion that the reader may have to reconcile in deciding 
upon a position in this matter. 

Let me say at the outset that the investments issue 
involves a number of questions that have noth- 
J ing to do with South Africa itself. Should uni- 
versities and private agencies allow themselves to be 
drawn into the making of American foreign policy, or 
is this not rightlv the responsibility of the U.S. De- 
partment of State and of the Congress? Should uni- 
versities and colleges permit themselves to be made 



Professor of political fciencc Newell Stultz (at a mmpus dd>ate on divestiture). 




17 



weapons in campaigns of political action? Or alternate- 
ly, can universities that control billions of dollars in 
endowment be neutral in topic areas where those bil- 
lions are a factor? And could Brown have any sort of 
effective investment program while deliberately avoid- 
ing hundreds of the most successful companies in 
America? I have no special competency to talk about 
these and other similar matters, but dearly these 
questions are part of the overall dilemma. 

The university investments question is in fact part 
of a larger debate about U.S. policy towards South Af- 
rica that has simmered in Washington since at least the 
middle of the last decade. It broke into full boil in 1977 
due to the confluence of several factors: the riots in the 
African township of Soweto outside Johannesburg; the 
change of U.S. administrations; the rise to interna- 
tional prominence of Ambassador Andrew Young; and 
the death while in South African police custody of the 
black leader, Steve Biko, among other matters. 

Late in the year one side to the dispute "went 
public" when former Under Secretary of State George 
Ball published an article in the prestigious Atlantic 
Monthly, entitled "Asking for Trouble in South Africa" 
(October, 1977). Three months later an opposing view 
appeared in print in the equally important journal. 
Foreign Affairs, under the title, "South Africa: What is 
to be Done?" (January, 1978). The authors of the latter 
piece are Professor Clyde Ferguson of the Harvard 
Law School and William R. Cotter, president of the 
African-American Institute. (The interested reader 
may wish to look in addition at two letters to the editor 
oi Foreign Affairs appearing in the April 1978 issue that 
are reactions to this article, and Ferguson's and Cot- 
ter's rebuttal in the same number.) 

It is perhaps no great simplification to say that in 
this larger debate two conflicting positions have 
been staked out. These might be identified as the 
"radical" view and the "conservative" view. Each, I 
think, can be summarized by five linked propositions. 

In the radical perspective: (1) The South African 
situation is rushing to some sort of violent political 
climax. (2) Those in power in Pretoria have shown no 
capacity for resolving the tensions of their society. (3) 
Increased pressures from the United States, acting in 
concert with our European allies, would help force Pre- 
toria to do sooner what it will have to do eventually 
anyway, namely, open the door to broad political par- 
ticipation by currenfly excluded groups. (4) Domestic 
political realities in the United States, morality, and the 
charter of the United Nations impel us to apply such 
increased pressures. (5) If we were to do so, there is a 
good chance there would be a peaceful change of re- 
gime in South Africa producing a result which would 
be fully consistent with American national interest. 

Not surprisingly, the conservative view disputes 
all these points: (1) The present situation in South Af- 



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'We should not 

underestimate the 

resources and dedication 

of the whites 

in South Africa' 



rica is unsettled, but it is by no means revolutionary. 
(2) Important changes for the better are in fact occur- 
ring in South Africa, and more are to be expected if the 
whites do not panic. (3) Markedly increased pressures 
from the outside could well impede further changes for 
the better, increasing the resistance of the whites. 
Moreover, the major burdens of these pressures would 
fall in many cases on the Africans and the other op- 
pressed groups. (4) Our claim to intervene in the 
domestic affairs of another state, ostensibly friendly to 
us, is highly questionable, and also unwise. (5) And an 
escalation of economic pressures against South Africa 
would probably prompt either greater oppression in 
the country or a violent revolution, either of which 
would probably be counter-producrive to American 
national interests in the region. 

It should be noted that both positions profess to 
find official South African race discrimination (apar- 
theid) abhorrent and wish to see it ended. However, it 
seems that those holding the Ferguson/Cotter position 
suspect that the proponents of the Ball standpoint are 
not really very committed to ending racial injustice in 
South Africa. And both groups have announced their 
interest in peaceful rather than violent change, but 
here the conservatives sense the radicals would not 
worry very much if revolutionary change followed 
from their actions. 

The chief difference, however, is with respect to 
perceptions of American "leverage" on the South Afri- 
can domestic scene and what would probably follow if 
we were deliberately to "turn the screw" by adopting 
some of the forty-one specific measures for increasing 
pressure on South Africa that Ferguson and Cotter set 
forth in their recent article. Ball feels American lever- 
age is fairly limited and that the likely result of doing 
the things that Ferguson and Cotter recommend 
would be to make South African society more rigid 
without really changing it. The radical position is that 
our leverage is really very considerable if only we have 
the will to use it and that under pressure it is very 
probable that the whites of South Africa would change 
their ways, although perhaps not immediately. 



The Ferguson'Cotter position insists that the idea 
of American neutrality in South Africa is an illusion. 
; Either we deliberately increase the costs to the whites 
of their enforcing apartheid, or we end up helping 
them to enforce it. The Ball belief is that we have 
enough to do putting our own house in order in the 
U.S. without arrogantly trying to export our newly 
found wisdom in matters of race to another quite dif- 
ferent society 7,000 miles away. 

Before turning to the matter of investments, sev- 
eral preliminary observations perhaps should 
be made. 

1) Ball's belief that significant change is in fact oc- 
. curring in South Africa, albeit at a slow rate, is de- 
cidedly optimistic. To be sure, the material conditions 

, of Africans relative to the whites seem to be improving 
somewhat, and off in the African reserve areas of the 
country (13 percent of the total area of the republic) in 
I the so-called "home-lands," or "Bantustans," small 
. classes of African bureaucrats and entrepreneurs are 
. coming into being. And in the cities a few facilities, 
such as international hotels and restaurants and 
benches in public parks, have been integrated. More- 
over, for the first time there appears to be official rec- 
ognition of the need to bring the country's two million 
Coloreds (persons of mixed blood) and 800,000 Indians 
into political decision-making at the national level, 
although the specific ideas on how to do this are still 
very cautious and have been rejected thus far by the 
I two subordinate population groups themselves. 

But there has been no erosion in the fundamental 
I proposition of the white regime that the eight million 
. Africans residing in so-called "white" South Africa are 
aliens away from their permanent homes, which are 
; elsewhere, and as aliens are properly without any say 
in the government of "white" South Africa. So long as 
this proposition forms the bedrock of official policy, no 
fundamental change in South African apartheid is 
possible, although removal of some of the grosser in- 
dignities of apartheid, or their modification in certain 
respects, will continue. 

Ferguson and Cotter argue that the West has been 
"cozy" with South Africa for vears, allowing the 
whites of that country to maintain the status quo. 1 be- 
lieve they ignore the great deal of criticism that has 
been directed at South Africa for many years, and ig- 
nore as well some tangible steps, e.g., the refusal of 
the United States since 1963 to sell arms to South Af- 
rica, and the expulsion of the country from the Olym- 
pic Games and several UN agencies. But their point 
that fundamental change has not occurred in the rela- 
tionship between whites and Africans, bv which they 
mean change away from the idea of "separate de- 
velopment," is well taken. 

2) For their part, however, 1 sense that Ferguson 
and Cotter underestimate the resources and dedication 
of the whites, and particularly of the Afrikaners, that 



is, the Afrikaans- speaking majority of the white popu- 
lation that is in effective political control. There is a 
dangerous temptation to reason from the experiences 
of the ending of white minority rule in both Rhodesia 
and Namibia on South Africa's borders. But Rhode- 
sia's whites number just 250,000 persons, and there are 
only 70,000 whites in all of the vast territory of South 
West Africa/Namibia. The whites of South Africa 
number about 4.4 million, a figure significantly higher, 
for example, than the population of Israel. And while 
Ferguson and Cotter are quite right in giving emphasis 
to the gross material disparities between whites and 
Africans in South Africa, the idea that this is primarily, 
or only, a class conflict superimposed over a race 
conflict is too facile. 

Certainly from the standpoint of the whites — but 
also to some extent from the standpoint of the op- 
pressed groups as well — history, culture, language, 
religion, and those manifold sociological variables we 
refer to as ethnicity are involved, too. To see the South 
African conflict, as I think Ferguson and Cotter do, as 
just a conflict between groups for power and material 
privilege is to make the same mistake one would en- 
gage in by trying to understand the motivations of the 
Israeli government solely in terms of these same vari- 
ables. Some readers will doubtless object to my equat- 
ing, as the United Nations General Assembly did some 
years ago, Jewish Zionism and the aspirations of many 
within the white community in South Africa. But from 
the latter's viewpoint there is some validity in this 
analogy, and if what we in the United States are con- 
sidering is how to change the behavior of this group, it 
would seem futile to ignore the intellectual mind-set of 
the individuals themselves. 

Turning now to the issues facing American col- 
leges and universities, some of the pertinent 
facts of the situation are the following: 
□ At the end of 1972, total foreign investment in 
South Africa stood at $9.95 billion. Since then there 
may have been a small net outflow of foreign capital, 
due to worsening economic conditions in the country 
and perceived political instability. In 1976 the book 
value of total American investment in the country was 
$1.66 billion, or 18.5 percent of the earlier figure. 

D America was South Africa's third most impor- 
tant trading partner in 1973, behind Britain and West 
Germany and just ahead of Japan. In that year 12.1 
percent of South African foreign trade was with the 
United States, whereas just under 25 percent was with 
Great Britain. The waging of economic warfare against 
South Africa, then, would without question adversely 
affect the British economy, as well as the economies of 
South Africa's black neighbors — Lesotho, Swaziland, 
Botswana — which are well integrated with the repub- 
lic's. 

n The 350 American firms that have plants in 
South Africa are estimated to employ about 100,000 



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persons, 70 percent of whom are thought to be Afri- 
cans. Although details are not readily available, it is 
widely believed that American firms in South Africa 
have generally followed locally prevailing business 
practices regarding their use of African labor. In most 
matters, certainly, it would not be illegal under South 
African law for these American firms to follow Ameri- 
can labor practices. 

n Official South African currency control regu- 
lations effectively prevent large-scale repatriation of 
foreign capital. The only way an American company 
could liquidate completely its assets in South Africa 
over a short period would be to sell them to another 
foreign investor. In this connection, the much pub- 
licized decision of the Polaroid Corporation to with- 
draw from South Africa has been vddely misun- 
derstood. Polaroid had no manufacturing plants in 
South Africa. It merely sold its products through a 
distributor in the country. This has now ceased, but 
the decision did not involve the repatriation of apprec- 
iable capital. 

Following from the two points of view previ- 
ously sketched, two different and alternative 
courses of action are now being urged upon 
trustees of American colleges and universities. The 
option of doing nothing at all is seldom encountered, 
for it seems widely agreed, in the words of a recent 
Neiv York Times editorial, "that Americans should not 
profit from a political system and economy that are 
rooted in racist doctrine and envision the permanent 
exploitation of South Africa's black majority." 

One we may call a "strategy of disengagement." 
Its object is to scale down or eliminate entirely Ameri- 
can commercial involvement in South Africa. To this 
end numerous American institutions, churches and 
universities primarily, have already decided to sell any 
stock they may have in firms doing business in the re- 
public. Last September, for example, the trustees of 
the University of Massachusetts voted to dispose of, 
wdthin ninety days, all South African-related securities 
held by the university. This, of course, eliminated once 
and for all any UMass complicity in the South African 
scene, but it left the companies in question no oppor- 
tunity to accommodate the wishes of the university for 
withdrawal. A somewhat different tack was taken in 
February by Duke. Henceforth, Duke will support, in 
firms where it holds stock, shareholder resolutions 
that seek to curtail further investment in South Africa 
or terminate operations there altogether as expedi- 
tiously as possible. From the standpoint of conscience, 
the Duke decision is probably less satisfying than the 
UMass one, although in terms of effective pressure 
towards disinvestment, I would think Duke has the 
better case. 

Apart from those who just want to be separated 
from activities they regard as immoral, the reasoning 
behind the disengagement strategy seems to be essen- 



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'The refusal of 

American firms to invest 

further in South Africa 

would not have a decisive 

political effect there' 



tiallv the following: American investments in South 
Africa bolster the current regime and give us a material 
interest in preserving the status quo. Were American 
investments to be repatriated, or at least made no big- 
ger, the South African economy would shortly run 
down. Others in the world would be inspired to do 
what they could to isolate the republic, and in time the 
pressures that this would place on the country would 
be such as to compel the capitulation of the govern- 
ment to black demands or to ignite a revolution the au- 
thorities would be unable to put down. 

Some suffering and loss of life on the part of the 
oppressed groups must be expected as this process un- 
folds, but this is justified by the overall liberation of the 
subject peoples that would be forthcoming. In connec- 
tion with this latter point, it can be observed that some 
whites and many black South African leaders already 
advocate a world economic embargo of the country. It 
is also true that there are other leaders, and particu- 
larly leaders within the republic, who fear that eco- 
nomic isolation would be counter-productive and 
create even worse conditions for the oppressed than 
presently exist. 

Commenting on this scenario, it can be ob- 
served that it involves a number of important 
"it's." Critics suggest universities ought to sell 
their stock in firms that refuse to cease their operations 
in South Africa. But, since it has been estimated that in 
Brown's case, the selling of its South Africa -connected 
stock would cost between $60,000 and $100,000 in 
brokerage fees alone, it seems oiily prudent to ask how 
certain it is that this action on Brown's part would have 
the intended results. If Brown votes its shares for dis- 
engagement, loses, and then sells off its stock, does 
this not just decrease the likelihood of disengagement 
in the years ahead? If, on the other hand. Brown votes 
for disengagement and the resolution carries, how cer- 
tain is it that anything "good" will come of this in 
South Africa? \ 

The Ball position is that proponents of disen- 
gagement greatly exaggerate the international unity for 



disengagement that will be forthcoming, as well as the 
consequences of disengagement for South Africa were 

I it actually to occur. Ferguson and Cotter, of course, are 

. more optimistic. 

My own sense is that, as total American invest- 
ment in South Africa is only about one- fifth of all in- 
vestment and that, practicallv speaking, repatriation of 
capital is not a real option, the refusal of American 
firms to invest further in South Africa cannot be re- 
garded as a decisive consideration for the future of 
political events in that country. Moreover, the idea of a 
total economic boycott of South Africa seems far- 
fetched when it is realized that the country presently 
produces 59 percent of the world's supply of gold, 55 
percent of all platinum group metals, 46 percent of the 
world's supplv of vanadium, and 30 percent of all 
chrome ore. 

The second strategy might be called one of "con- 
structive engagement," taking this wording 
from a recent article by a British economist. 
Here the idea is that American firms in South Africa 
should be urged, or perhaps required, to follow stan- 
dard American, rather than standard South African, 
labor practices. The expectation of proponents of this 
view is that doing so would represent a compelling 
example to all employers in South Africa, in part by 
drawing off their most productive workers, and that 
the lives of the 70,000 African workers in these firms 
(perhaps 3-5 percent of the total urban African labor 
force) would be measurably improved. The contention 
is that if American firms are not themselves exploiting 
their workers, the objection to their being in South Af- 
rica should fall away. 

This approach now focuses on the so-called "Sul- 
livan Principles," named after The Rev. Leon Sullivan, 
a black director of the General Motors Corporation 
who formulated them, after a visit to South Africa, as 
standards to govern labor practices in that country by 
American firms. A similar set of standards has already 
been adopted by the European Economic Community 
(EEC) to apply to European firms in South Africa. Here 
b are the Sullivan Principles: 

□ No racial segregation in eating, comfort, or 
work facilities. 

D Equal employment practices for all. 

U Equal pay for equal work irrespective of the 
race of the worker. 

n Initiation of training programs that will prepare 
non-whites in substantial numbers for supervisory, 
administrative, clerical, and technical jobs. 

n Increase of the number of Africans and other 
non-whites in management and supervisory positions. 

3 Improvement of the quality of workers' lives in 
the areas of housing, transportation, schooling, recre- 
ahon, and health facilities. 

One issue upon which the Sullivan Principles are 
silent, but which does appear among the guidelines 



accepted by the EEC, is that firms undertake to recog- 
nize and negotiate with African trade unions. African 
trade unions do not have the rights of white trade 
unions under South African law, but their existence is 
not illegal. In a context in which there are, at least in 
the cities, virtually no structures of African power, 
some observers believe encouragement of the de- 
velopment of African trade unions might be an impor- 
tant breakthrough. 

Objections to the Sullivan Principles focus on their 
limited applicability. How significant would it be, it is 
asked, if 5 percent of African industrial workers were 
treated fairly when the remaining 95 percent continue 
to be exploited as before? Moreover, even the 5 percent 
who would be advantaged must cope with the overall 
pattern of discrimination that would continue to apply 
outside the work-place. And would not the South Af- 
rican government merely outlaw any of these steps if it 
concluded that white supremacy was truly being un- 
dermined? 

The answer to the last question, I believe, should 
be "no." Indeed, one cabinet minister has already said 
the government has no quarrel with the Sullivan Prin- 
ciples, a point which has been already seized upon 
(unfairly, I think) by opponents of "constructive en- 
gagement" to demonstrate the "meaninglessness" of 
this approach. In general it is charged, in the graphic 
words of one South African editor, that the Sullivan 
Principles are but an effort to "rearrange the deck 
chairs on the Titanic": they miss the fundamental 
change in race relations in South Africa which some 
believe is in the offing. 

In conclusion, the path of "constructive engage- 
ment," compared with that of "disengagement," 
has a number of attractions, and some disadvan- 
tages. "Constructive engagement" smacks of com- 
promise and is little satisfying to the troubled con- 
science. It leaves hundreds of American firms operat- 
ing in South Africa where their mere presence strikes 
some, both within that country and here, as an implicit 
endorsement of the regime. And the gains it offers for 
change in the South Africa context seem scanty, with 
little prospect of their being generalized throughout 
the sodety. The advantages, however, are these: 

n It forecloses no later choices. Should the SuUi- 
van proposals be tried and found wanting, the option 
of outright disinvestment is still open. However, if one 
divests immediately the door to reconsideration is 
closed. 

n The approach would seem to guarantee that 
the individual lives of many thousands of African and 
other non-white workers would be measurably im- 
proved. The path of "disengagement" aspires to much 
more fundamental change for all, but it can guarantee 
nothing. 

□ It is a positive step, seemingly more in keeping 
with the nature of institutions of higher education. 



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Many recoil from the idea of deliberately "destabiliz- 
ing" another society, whatever its sins. 

D It is a strategy more likely to be successful with 
American corporate management. The strategy of dis- 
engagement has thus far failed to develop the broad- 
based support that would seem critical for its success. 

D Finally, it is of relatively low cost, although in a 
discussion of moral principle many find it abhorrent to 
consider this an issue at all. 

Like other public issues that ha\'e been addressed 
on university campuses during the last decade, the 
question of South African investments challenges an 
institution such as Brown to be true to several different 



aspects of its corporate personalitv at once. We wish to 
uphold higher education's profoundly moral commit- 
ment to individual freedom, social advancement, and 
universal standards. Concurrently, we wish to be ana- 
Ivtically sound — to know what we don't know, to ac- 
knowledge the possibility' of error, and to concede that 
reality is usually complex. And finally, we wish to see 
the institution's limited material resources managed in 
a way that does not jeopardize the core mission, as 
well as our capacity to pursue other worthwhile ends. 
It is a tall order, and it is scarcely surprising that wise 
men and women honestly differ concerning what the 
result should be, in this as in other areas. 



Supporters of divestihire listen to a speaker at a rally lvi the Green. 




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i This talk at n Dean's Coiivocatioii of- 

I fered me the chance top>rcroe that I am capa- 
I hie of practicmg what I preach to so many 
I students from my lorifing zmrkshops: that 1 
•: am capable of taking the knife and, starting 
at the tip of tlie forehead, aitting myself 
open doivn the middle until I have opened 
myself up fully and exposed the values, 
fears, dreams and hopes that lie therein - 
just as capable as I expect them to he and 
plead for them to be in our -workshops at 
Brown. 



There is a devil in us all, and we 
don't have to read Freud to rec- 
ogiiize this possibility or the im- 
portance of dreams, or of sex and child- 
hood in our psvchological make-up. But 
our dreams, our views of sexuality, our 
memories of childhood must form the 
basis of fictional writing even in those 
rare instances where these influences 
are so below the subconscious that the 
writer insists he is not writing from his 
own experiences — as if adniitting he 
does is at the same time erecting a bar- 
rier between the imagination and expe- 
rience — but purely from some phvsio- 
logicaUy unsound premise termed the 
imaginative facultv. Matter cannot be 
created — and especiaUv not from noth- 
ing. From where could imaginative 
leaps spring but the genesis of experi- 
ence? The experience is what we build 
upon, and tliere can be no fanciful in- 
vention vxTthout this basic building 
block. 

We must begin with experience. If 
you are a homosexual and refuse to 
confront that fact in vour fiction, vou 
cheat tine world out of an important 
perspective. If you are an alcoholic, or 
like Eugene O'Neill, know about it, 
write about it. Tlie v\Titer owes it to the 
world is what I pound into the heads of 
my workshop authors. The reader 
wants sustenance. He or she wants to 
be assured that other human beings act 
as she or he; have the same headadies, 
fears, desires, idiosyncracies, attitudes, 
expectations. And if the reader encoun- 
ters characters who act in a manner that 
the reader couldn't have contemplated, 
that is therapeuticallv all the better. 

Let me try to support my point: I 
think I want to say simply that I am un- 
alterablv associated with a view of writ- 
ing that places primacy of experience 
and the imaginative refashioning of that 
experience as cornerstones of fictional 
craftsmanship. The writer must purge 
himself and forget about the reader who 



Why it is 

right 
to write 



By Barry Beckham '66 

might confuse the invisible narrator 
with Ralph Ellison, Moses Herzog with 
Saul Bellow, Portnov with Philip Roth, 
and Huckleberry with Mark Twain. 
What, finally, does it mean anyway if 
the reader thinks vou are a homosexual, 
alcoholic, wife-beater, masochist. Mid- 
westerner, or Republican? 

So here I am with the knife, starting 
at the top, at the forehead. I feel fine, 
now, positive that it's right to write, that 
it is proper and necessary — to extend 
the meaning — for me to apply myself 
as seriouslv as 1 can to the craft of writ- 
ing. This indsion is an affirmation of 
faith in myself, a symbolic rise from the 
ashes, a confident espousal of a life's di- 
rection. I say it's right to write because 
the term represents the personal com- 
mitment 1 have made. 

Odd as it may sound, I have never 
been as sure of the meaning of that 
commitment on any other birthdav as I 
was on mv thirtv-fourth recently. And 
the commitment didn't come easily. 

J made the commitment very re- 
cently after a tumultuous three 
years of shaken confidence, years 
which were to witness me wondering 
where I was going, what I was doing, 
and who I was. I had actually reached 
that precipice in human affairs where 
one ruminates seriously on the value of 
his chosen direction. Mv feet were so 
close to the crumbling granules falling 
away from the cliff. 1 was so close to dis- 
carding an artistic predilection which 
had been nurtured from within and en- 
couraged from without that now I am 
able to look amazedly back at those 
years and feel grateful for surviving. 

Best stated, I can describe the years' 
bitter chronology beginning with the 
torment of a marital separation that was 
to lead to divorce. We had been married 
for seven years, had two children, had 
just returned from a Florida vacation, 
had discussed our differences and 
difficulties, and suddenly — suddenly 



we were the characters on one of those 
day-time television shows. We were 
sitting in the living room and facing our 
son and our daughter and telling them 
as best we could that Daddy and 
Mommy needed some breathing room 
from each other, that Daddy was mov- 
ing out. No one had seen the script and 
therefore each of us waited for the other 
to remember a line. We were resident 
fellows in the West Quad but the entire 
West Quad had never been so quiet as it 
was that night while the four of us 
glanced at bookcases or bare walls or 
out windows as each tried to reconstruct 
the sudden, battered shards of the sta- 
ble world he or she had been accus- 
tomed to. 

There was no hockey playing, no 
imitations of girls' screams, no Frisbee 
throwing in the hallway; just the four of 
us in the comfortable, silent living room 
and feeling uncomfortable with our si- 
lence. 

The separation was to inspire for 
both an intensity and a level of self- 
examination that neither of us could 
have antidpated. Dark, devious natures 
surfaced. Violence was threatened. 
Lies, tricks, warnings were exchanged. 
Daily tears, frustrations, fears became 
normal expectations. A deus ex machina 
had appeared to lift us out of one famil- 
iar reality into another of rapidly shift- 
ing scenes that had no precedent for us 
experientially and therefore dragged us 
unequipped over a foreign landscape. 
Like puppets we grabbed for and at, 
sensed and sought for, a meaning that 
would stabilize our unpracticed stances 
on a wobbly new earth. 

My head was definitely too fuzzy to 
decode the process; it was fog over 
smog. I could find no joy, no smiles. I 
was in slow motion, not wanting to an- 
swer the phone, not wanting to see the 
children, not wanting to sit in front of a 
classroom, not wanting to talk and yet 
knowing in an almost masochistic way 
that these were the very things I needed 
to do. 

And most importantly, I couldn't 
write. My stomach was all drawn up 
and my muscles were too tight. My 
head pounded, my mind skipped, I 
couldn't concentrate. I didn't want to 
write, either. I didn't want to do any- 
thing but close my eyes until someone 
shook my shoulders and informed me 
that it was all over. 

It seemed as if I confused not being 
able to maintain the mental stamina to 



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write with not having enough time to 
write. Rather than admit the truth, that 1 
was depressed, I argue that I didn't 
have the time to create after the hours 
spent preparing for class. 

Yes, the initial separation was the 
authentic cause for my writing produc- 
tion's dropping to zero. The separation 
was responsible for the numbness of 
creative spirit. But I directed my anten- 
nae toward another signal, one en- 
couraging me to see my inabilitv to 
write to be liiiked to overwhelming 
teaching duties; moreover, I determined 
I should leave teaching altogether and 
go back to private industry. 

I seized upon the idea. Here now is 
what I needed to do. Give up writing 
altogether — well, if not that drastic, at 
least for a while. Argue that so little time 
is left after teaching duties are com- 
pleted. Argue that you are tired of 
teaching anyway, that vou need a 
break, that you want to do something, 
that you can do something different, 
that. . . 

In a series of swift movements so 
sudden that they hardlv stick in the 
mind, I made a dramatic announcement 
that I was planning to resign from the 
faculty. Hours, it seems, after that an- 
nouncement, I had submitted a letter of 
resignation. I resigned from the faculty 
of Brown University. 

To summarize the ensuing events, I 
can say that good friends and good 
sense won out and that I was able to re- 
scind my resignation and was given a 
special arrangement, a sabbatic leave for 
non-tenured faculty, for the academic 
year. I would be able to write at least for 
a year without the interruption of class- 
es, independent studies, or meetings. 
Okay. 

Then something happened during 
the year, something that shook 
my confidence with such vio- 
lence that the event would be responsi- 
ble for a seriously protective stance 
toward the publishing industry as a 
whole, and would prompt me to review 
the series of bad breaks from publishers 
and cumulatively to link these misfor- 
tunes under one category. 

Not only did I not find publishers to 
be solid citizens, but also I found the 
need to declare that I would have noth- 
ing to do with them any more. 

Look what they had done. The pa- 
perback version of my second novel 
has, without my agreement, a card- 
board insert advertising Kent cigarettes. 



7 turned sour. 

I hated publishers. 

I hated editors. 

I hated writing' 



The English paperback publisher of mv 
first novel had produced a new edition 
with an entirely new title and a lascivi- 
ous scene on the cover of a half-naked 
black woman's buttocks being fondled 
by a white male hand. Tlie Neic York 
Times Book Review assigned ten baseball 
books for me to comment on in a 
roundup review, urged me by tele- 
phone to complete it by a certain date, 
and then decided not to publish it, but 
never notified me formally that the re- 
view would never see print. Even their 
check came without a note. I add to this 
catalogue of sequences of disrespect the 
usual form letters from the Guggenheim 
Foundation and NEH regretfully in- 
forming me that they shall be unable to 
grant . . . and so forth and so on. . . . 

But the real blow came by tele- 
phone one month after I had submitted 
the completed manuscript of my third 
book to a publisher who had drawn me 
away from another project to write a 
biography of a Harlem basketball player 
they thought had an attractively tragic 
enough life to make a salable book. 
After hearing the news from my attor- 
ney (who had warned me as soon as I 
picked up the phone that I should sit 
down), I stared at my desk with my left 
eye jumping nervously. The floor began 
to move up, then the ceiling began to 
move down, and the walls of my study 
began to push inward and the ceiling 
lights began to flash on and off. I ran 
down the steps, grabbed my sweater, 
and went out the front door before the 
house could collapse on me. 

I felt nothing. 1 started the car and 
backed out of the driveway and soon I 
was on a back road in the northern 
stretches of the Rhode Island woods. It 
was a pleasantly sunny day in April and 
1 hated it for not being the usual Provi- 
dence overcast gray. 1 rode through the 
narrow, two-lane streets in the country 
and tried to put the conversation I had 
just had with my New York attorney in 



perspective. I pulled over to the side 
and got out and put my foot on the fen- 
der of the Volkswagen and started cry- 
ing. 

They had rejected the manuscript I 
had spent two years on. Two years of 
tape-recorded interviews, travel to 
Manhattan, library research, typed 
drafts, editorial conferences. For what? 

"How can they do this?" I had 
asked my attorney. "Can they just say 
that it's unacceptable without giving me 
an explanation? Don't they have to say 
that it's badly written or badly or- 
ganized or too long or too short or too 
late or too early or too something?" 

No. They don't. 

I turned sour. I hated publishers, I 
hated basketball players, 1 hated 
editors, I hated books, I hated writing, I 
hated sports. I was tired of these fools 
trying to drive me crazy. This publisher 
had actually produced a book by a 
famous New York Knick player via 
Princeton, a book that was as heady and 
insightful as a watermelon, and they 
were rejecting my work as unaccept- 
able. My work. Didn't they know who I 
am? I scrambled around for laudatory 
reviews and read them over and over: 
ne New York Times Book Rei'iew, Wash- 
ington Post, Mademoiselle, Publisher's 
Weekly, Hartford Courant, Denver Post, 
Library journal, San Francisco Bee. 
Couldn't I write? Haven't I written? 
Won't I write? You mean to tell me my 
book won't be on sale because some 
crazy white editor has decided it won't? 

Well, look, shove the whole thing. 
I'll go into isolation. I'll stop writing. I'll 
start my own publishing firm. I'll sue. 
I'U bomb that damn building on 53rd 
Sh-eet. 

First, though, 1 needed to sit and 
plan, ruminate and digest. 

People do not realize how well 
off they are. One evening, many 
months after that ride to the 
country, midway between thirty-three 
and thirty-four years old, 1 was struck 
almost mediumistically with that 
thought. I reviewed my list of com- 
plaints, looked again at the hell 1 
thought I had gone through with my 
change in marital status, considered my 
quarrel with the Guggenheim people 
and NEH, too — looked at these so- 
called misfortunes and was without 
warning overcome with an intense 
sense of relief, confidence, and clarity of 
vision. In a brilliant, illuminating mo- 
ment in which the past, put into the 



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perspective of the future, slipped bv mv 
consciousness, I realized that I had little 
to complain about. And if I did, the 
complaint could hardly be raised to a 
level of significance demanding my se- 
rious contemplation of ending a fastidi- 
ous approach to the writing of fiction. 

They'd like me to give up, I kept 
telling mvself . If I get that frustrated, 
they will have beaten me. If I do any- 
thing but signal my intention to con- 
tinue, they will uTite me off. I can't play 
into their hands like that. This isn't 
simply an issue about writer-editor dis- 
putes; it goes even further when the full 
impact is considered. The issues are 
really those of cultural-social dynamics 
and involve matters like the control of 
culture in this countrv, and the need for 
a black intellectual renaissance. 

I must remain strong and realize 
the importance of saving it is right to 
write. When we are doing our jobs, 
writers, although isolated in our knowl- 
edge of truth and art, should announce 
that which no man foreshadows. We 
must understand the higher value sod- 
et}' places on the act of creation as op- 
posed to our more practically oriented 
I vocational contributions, which are re- 
lated invariably to the manipulation of 
people through institutions. 

The world expects the writer to 
give sustenance and guidance, 
rules to live bv, a value system. 
The world waits for him to tell us what 
to do. The world needs him to tell us 
who we are and what we are. The world 
expects him to sustain the conscious- 
I ness of the past and to transmit that 
consciousness throughout the future 
and the present. There is a tremendous, 
weighty onus on the literary artist, and 
perhaps that explains why we don't 
seem to be living up to our charges in 
N this country. But this onus is a further 
incentive to me. The responsibility' is too 
great to ignore. No artist can ever allow 
himself the luxury of withholding his 
gift from the public. They need these 
works. And so once the writer recog- 
nizes how right it is to write, how abso- 
lutely necessary it is once he knows in 
his heart that this is the gift he or she 
has been awarded and that it must be 
treasured and nourished and by no 
stretch of the imagination — no stretch 
— be laid dormant, he can never se- 
riously contemplate being so over- 
whelmed by unnatural, counterproduc- 
tive forces that the gift may be called 
into question. 



The black writer 

must realize that 

his contribution 

is needed valuably' 



Related to this necessity of sustain- 
ing the gift is the very special nature of 
the black wTiter in this society. How 
simple, as an aside, these matters seem 
to me at thirty-four but were so hazy at 
thirty-three. We blacks stand in terrible 
limbo in 1978. We have no leaders, we 
have no unity, we have no national or- 
ganization, we have no communicative 
vehicle. We have, it seems, a substantial 
middle-and upper-class body who, 
although enjoying the fruits of af- 
fluence, see no avenue yet for harness- 
ing the burgeoning body of black pro- 
fessionals and intellectuals in our coun- 
try. I believe that so many young and 
middle-aged blacks are about their own 
thing — operating and performing as 
they should as attorne\'S, doctors, ac- 
countants, business executives, admin- 
istrators, faculty members and the like 
— that we may expect within the next 
five years a group of leaders who will be 
more sophisticated and more capable 
than any we have had in the history of 
this country. The groundwork is being 
laid now. 

The black writer must realize that 
his contribuhon is needed valuably. 
While the undercurrent of black profes- 
sionals develops its experhse, cotermi- 
nously the writer must offer his gift. 
Again, it is right to write. It is necessary. 
There is no time for the luxury of roU- 
over-dead-capitulation-frustration- 
perplexed-disgruntlement with a pub- 
lishing system which is about mone\' 
first and quality second. Our own grow- 
ing cadre of black business professionals 
will handle these heartless capitalists. It 
is right to write, and it is necessary to 
give to black people works that they are 
not accustomed to, for we as black 
WTiters have not examined our culture 
thoroughly enough to know vet what 
we are not used to. 

I'd like to mention two or three 
areas I think any black writer who be- 
lieves it is right to write, that it is neces- 



sary to write, needs to investigate as one 
approach to sustaining our roots. 

First we need, believe it or not, a 
black fiction of love between a black 
man and a black woman who represent 
positively the possibilities of heterosex- 
ual passion, warmth, tenderness, and 
understanding. As black writers we 
have unfortunately been so duplicitous 
in our examination of white American 
WTiters that we have failed to pinpoint 
their disinterest in portraying a healthy, 
passionate relationship between man 
and woman. It is so right to write this 
story; it is so necessary, needful as air, 
to use Robert Hayden's words. We need 
this fiction so badly. 

Secondly, we need, and it is right to 
write, a sodocultural stud\' of what 
black people are about in this last 
quarter-century. Who are our intellec- 
tuals and what contributions are they 
making? What are the elements of black 
culture that have been preserved over 
the years through the offsetting dr- 
cumstances of integration? What do 
black people think? Where are we go- 
ing? Wliere do we want to go? No mat- 
ter that a publisher hasn't asked a black 
writer, but chose Stephen Birmingham 
instead to write an analysis of the black 
middle class. Somewhere, there is a 
publisher who will realize that it is right 
to write this book. 

Finally, in looking over the bulk of 
our literature, I see another paradoxical 
omission. Despite our supposed preoc- 
cupation with fun and laughter and 
dance, there exists no major black 
American comic novel, a work whose 
basic success is described bv its ability to 
keq.1 the reader laughing. I speak of a 
large, outrageous, successful, sportive 
novel. 

/t is right to write, then, because 1 
discovered by the age of thirty- 
four that by the time you reach 
that age, you have positioned yourself 
in either of two philosophical camps. 
Either your will is indomitable and noth- 
ing will subdue you ever; that you do 
not recognize the word failure , that you 
think progress constantly and success 
always, that you believe the human 
spirit v\nll win out over evil — or you 
don't. 

I do. I believe it is right to write and 
I hope you who have reached this con- 
clusion years ago will accept me into 
your ranks. 



I 



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^> 



Bix lives— just ask Bix-1 



Ml/ candle bums at hotli aids; 

It U'ill not last the night; 

But ah, mi/ foes, and oh, my friends — 

It gives a lovely light. 

The lines of Edna St. Vincent Mil- 
lav, written in the Roaring '20s, 
are a near-perfect description of 
the fast-living, hard-drinking Bix 
Beiderbecke, one of the leading musical 
figures of that period. Most jazz buffs 
acknowledge that Beiderbecke died in 
1931 at age twenty-eight, a victim of 
pneumonia, brought on bv booze and 
malnutrition. But on the Brown campus 
the master of the cornet still lives, at 
least in the heart of Reg Archambault 
'52, chairman of the education depart- 
ment. 

The license plate on Reginald 
Archambault's car reads, "Bix-1." A 
bumper sticker proclaims, "Bix Lives." 
And when you walk into Archambault's 
office in the old Buffum house at 151 
George Street the first thing that catches 
your eye is a large framed woodcut of 
Beiderbecke, the sunken eves and Poe- 
like haunted expression dominating the 
spacious room just as the brilliant 
musician dominated his field for a brief 
ten or twelve years until his candle 
burned out. 

Although the jauntv Professor Ar- 
chambault wears the appellation "cam- 
pus jazz buff" with the same pride he 
displays for the blue beret that has be- 
come his trademark, his first musical 
love affair was with the swing bands of 
the early 1940s. "To help pay my way 
through high school and then college," 
he says, "I worked as a ticket-taker at 
the old Metropolitan Theater in Provi- 
dence from 1942 to 1952. Every week- 
end one of the big bands would come to 
the Met for a three-day stay — Tommy 
Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Harry James, 
Glenn Miller, Will Bradley, or Ina Ray 
Hutton and her All-Girl Orchestra. 

"The theater would be packed for 
ever\' performance, with lines of people 
stretching around the entire block wait- 
ing for the next show and the manage- 



ment sending out a 'barker' with a 
megaphone to keep ever\'one in line. 
These people had to really love the big 
bands because to see them they had to 
sit through some of the worst movies 
ever produced. We used to call them 'B' 
movies. A 'D' would be a better grade. 
Occasionally I had an opportunity to 
talk with some of the band leaders — 
men such as Tony Pastor, Louis Prima, 
Bobby Sherwood — and their musi- 
cians. Many of them were very lonely 
people; not surprising, really, for a 
group that was on the road all the time, 
living on buses and in second-rate 
hotels. " 

One of Archambault's fellow 
ticket-takers at the Met was Len Ranalli 
'48, a young man deeply devoted to 
jazz. The two would listen to records by 
the hour, and even though the record- 
ing techniques of the 1920s were poor 
and many of the records were scratchy, 
Reg Archambault gradually, and some- 
what reluctantly at first, found himself 
developing an interest in jazz. 

"My first memon' of Bix goes back 
to one of the records of the Carnegie 
Hall Jazz Concert of 1938 with Bobby 
Hackett playing a Beiderbecke tune, 
'I'm Coming, Virginia.' It really caught 
me and so I asked myself the musical 
question: 'If tlie copy sounds this good, 
what can the original be like?' So 1 lis- 
tened to the records of all the other 
great jazz trumpeters. Then I went back 
and listened to Bix and suddenly I could 
hear in his horn what all the others 
were striving to achieve." 

^V generation later, Reg Archam- 
^^^ bault remains convinced that 
.^ m. jazz is the greatest music in 
the world, and Bix Beiderbecke is the 
personification of jazz. "Once you un- 
derstand jazz, there is a breathtaking 
excitement to it," he says. "It only hap- 
pens once. The themes may be repeti- 
tive, but each performance is different. 
To me, one of the attractions of jazz is 
that it is a mixture of discipline and 
freedom. Yet, it is a simple form of 



music which, at its best, is an extension 
of the human voice. In his tragically 
short career, Bix Beiderbecke exhibited a 
great drive for perfection. His playing 
was a mixture of fire and ice. He played 
with great insight and execution while 
still having the element of surprise in 
his horn." 

Some people have fun comparing 
athletic greats of the past. Reg Archam- 
bault's eyes light up when the discus- 
sion gets around to the leading jazz per- 
formers of all time. His list, in order of 
preference, is as follows: vocalists — 
Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Jack 
Teagarden, and Bessie Smith. Trom- 
bone — Teagarden and George Brunis. 
Piano — Earl Hines, Teddy Wilson, and 
Joe Sullivan. Clarinet — Pee Wee Rus- 
sell and Benny Goodman. Trumpet 
(cornet) — Bix and Louis Armstrong 
tied for first, followed by Muggsy 
Spanier, Wild Bill Davison, Bobby 
Hackett, and Red Allen. 

"Bix and Louis have to head the 
trumpet list," Archambault says, "Bix 
for his lyricism and Louis for the fire 
and drive in his music and for his basic 
ingenuity. Louis started it all in the early 
1920s playing in the King Oliver Creole 
Jazz Band in New Orleans and then 
Chicago. Bix was an individualist, but 
he was definitely influenced by Louis. 
They were all influenced by Louis." 

Archambault leaves Bunny Berigan 
and Red Nichols out of his top six trum- 
pet men, clainung that Berigan was 
mainly a product of the swing era and 
that Nichols lacked authenticity and 
creative style. He defends placing Pee 
Wee Russell ahead of Goodman on 
clarinet on the basis that Russell was 
closer to the true jazz concept. 

"Goodman when young had a 
great jazz style and a deep understand- 
ing of jazz," Archambault says. "And 
B.G. has always had a superb technical 

The uvoiicKt of Beiderbecke is by 

Clinstppher Hortoii, a graduate student 

of Professor Archambault's when 

Archambault was at Wesleyan. 



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control over the instrument, sometimes 
excessively technical. Artie Shaw was 
really a swing musician, although he 
produced some wonderful jazz behind 
BiUie Holiday on some of her early 1930s 
vocals." 

Professor Archambault has on LP 
all forty-seven Bix Beiderbecke solos. 
He also has a copy of every book about 
the ill-fated musician. So, when he 
bought his Honda a couple of years ago, 
his wife, Claire, suggested that he try to 
get a vanity license plate honoring Bix. 
"Imagine my surprise," Archambault 
says, "when I found that the Bl\ Ship- 
ping Company of Rhode Island already 
had a 'Bix' license plate. So I settled for 
'Bix-1.' " 

Perhaps it should come as no 
surprise that this professor of 
education should draw an anal- 
ogy between jazz and teaching. "Teach- 
ing at its best involves the same spon- 
taneity and improvisation as does jazz," 
he says. "Yet, in each there should be a 
discipline, a clear idea of where you are 
going and where you will end." 

Reginald D. Archambault was born 
in West Warwick, Rhode Island, at- 
tended private schools, and was grad- 
uated from La Salle Academy in 1946. 
He served in the Army of Occupation in 
Korea from 1946 to 1948 ("where it was 
clear to all that when the Americans left, 
there would be a clash"), and then en- 
tered Brown as a philosophy major, 
with a minor in English. When Ar- 
chambault showed interest in pursuing 
a master of arts in teaching degree, de- 
partment chairman Gil Case mentioned 
Wesleyan as a possibility and suggested 
he see President Henry M. Wriston, 
who was a member of the board of trus- 
tees at that school. 

"This was my first private meeting 
with Henry Wriston," Archambault re- 
calls. "The entire interview was con- 
ducted with him stretched out on his 
couch in his University Hall office and 
me sitting up, rather stiffly as I recall, in 
a chair. When he had finished probing 



Teaching at its best 
involves the same 
spontaneity and 
improvisation as jazz' 

me verbally, he looked up under his 
bushy eyebrows and said, 'You know 
my recommendation is tantamount to 
your getting in.' Then he paused for ef- 
fect while I held my breath. 'Well, I'm 
going to recommend you,' he con- 
tinued, 'and you'd better do a good 
job.' " 

While at Wesleyan, Archambault 
became interested in the philosophical 
problems of education. So he passed up 
a teaching job in Middletown, Connect- 
icut, to pursue his doctorate at Harvard 



program. We also did a reorganization 
of the public schools of Providence, an 
exercise in good will for the University. 
At one time we had twenty-four interns 
in the Providence system alone. Both 
Elmer and I attempted to bring theory 
and practice closer together and to make 
sure that the education department at 
Brown was on a par with other Univer- 
sity departments in quality and intellec- 
tual standards." 

Reg Archambault has made a 
number of personal contributions to 




in the philosophy of education, taking 
time out to serve as an instructor at Wes- 
leyan. After getting his Ed.D. in 1959 he 
went back to Wesleyan as an assistant 
professor until 1962, when he was 
named chairman of the education de- 
partment and director of teacher educa- 
tion at Grinnell College in Iowa. In 1965 
he returned to Brown as associate direc- 
tor of its M.A.T. program and professor 
of the philosophy of education. He be- 
came chairman of the department in 
1969 upon the retirement of Elmer 
Smith '26. 

"That was a period of broad ex- 
pansion," Archambault says. "Elmer 
Smith was an excellent chairman who 
used the new money that was available 
to establish a summer school, build up 
our program in undergraduate teacher 
education, and expand our M.A.T. 



Brown, serving as chairman of the Fac- 
ulty Forum for five years and this past 
year heading up the Faculty Club dur- 
ing a period of growth and expansion of 
its services. 

The Archambaults have four chil- 
dren: Katharine, a junior at Brown; 
Carmel, a student at Curry College in 
Massachusetts; Reg, Jr., a sophomore at 
Classical High; and Sarah, a seventh- 
grader at Nathan Bishop. 

This spring the family has been 
making plans for Reg Archambault's 
first-semester sabbatical next year, 
which will be spent in England. "The 
purpose of the trip is for Reg to write 
another book," Claire says. "I expect he 
will also find time to rummage around 
London looking for some rare jazz re- 
cords. That's usuaUy part of our itiner- 
ary." ].B. : 



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written by jay Barry 



"1 ^ Bill Sprackling writes that he was 
A.^ "under the weather" last winter 
following an operation, but is on the road to 
recovers'. "\ have to take a trial drive with the 
authorities before I can legallv drive again, 
and I'm itching to get to it because I feel 
great." Sprack lives in Beverly Hills, Calif. 

"% Q E. Malcolm Phillips, Riverside, 
JLO R.I., served for fiftv vears on the 
technical staff of Grinnell Corp., now ITT 
Grinnell, before retiring as chief metallurgist 
of the firm's research division. "Over those 
fiftv vears," he savs, "1 was a member of five 
different technical societies: American Soci- 
ety for Metals, Pro\idence Engineering So- 
detv, American Chemical Society, American 
Corrosion Societx', and American Society for 
Testing and Materials." 

Rayinoiui L. Wihier, Santa Barbara, Calif., 
writes that the Universitv of California at 
Santa Barbara last summer sponsored (with 
National Science Foundation support) a 
symposium honoring his 80th birthday. "The 
papers presented will be published in a sepa- 
rate volume," he notes. 



Clif Lca'eiiher'^ has a new home 
at 3275 S.E. 8th Ave., Cape Coral, 



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Fla. 33901. 

^ /T Alice Huiiiplirexi Custer and her 
^O husband are enjoying retirement in 
their two homes: one in Cape Coral, Fla. , and 
a summer home in West Yarmouth, Mass. 
She v\Tites that her son is in the sb;th chair of 
the cello section of the Los Angeles Philhar- 
monic. Another son, Nathan, is the penin- 
sula reporter for WTAR-TV, Norfolk, Va. 

William A. Knipe reports from 613 Cliff 
Rd., Montgomery, Ala., that he is still play- 
ing golf regularlv at Bonnie Crest Country 
Club in Montgomery and occasionally goes 
I on fishing trips in the Gulf of Mexico, near 
Clearwater, Fla. "An added acti\it\'," he 
says, "has been serving as president of the 
First Retired Chapter, State of Alabama Em- 
plovees, and also lobbying for increased re- 
tirement pav for these people. Am also active 
in the American Association of Retired Per- 
sons, helping with legislative matters." 

^Q Lra< Lauria operates Lauria's Tele- 
isO phone Answering Sersice in Hol- 
Ivwood, Calif., and two other cities. He 
writes that he still has fond memories of 
Brown, especially of his davs on the fresh- 
man football team. 

Roderick Robmsoii, a retired Shell Oil dis- 
tributor, is living in Crescent City, Calif. 

John Shotton, now retired, is living in 
Denton, Texas. He regrets that he won't 
make the 50th reunion, but his daughter is 
receiving a master's degree in soda! work 



from the Universih' of Texas this June and 
John wants to be there. 

Ken Tyson, retired from his New York 
Citv law practice, has moved to Westlake Vil- 
lage, Calif. 

^Q Dr. F. Cliarles Hanson reports a 
JmmJ new address: 545 Wolcott Ave., 
Middletown, R.I. 

'W Mien J. Arnold, Lutherville, Md., 
J A. writes that he has retired from 
Commercial Credit Corp. "Have started a 
new part-time career of sorts," he adds, "as a 
health-care research worker at the Johns 
Hopkins Universitv School of Hygiene and 
Public Health. Reallv something new and dif- 
ferent from the finandal business." 

Dr. Morris Malakoff, Laredo, Texas, is 
one of Brown's most active workers in the 
National Alumni Schools Program. An 
obstetrician who has brought, by his count, 
more than 13,000 babies into the world, Dr. 
Malakoff heads the Laredo Child Welfare 
unit and has been president of Planned Par- 
enthood and the Webb County Medical So- 
ciety. 

'3 ^ /i)/m Rut', professor emeritus at 
■J Am Harvev Mudd College, is quoted 
throughout the new American Heritage 
book, Tlic Automobile in America. John is the 
author of The Road ami the Car in American 
Life. He lives in Qaremont, Calif. 

^^ The Rev. Willmm E. Arnold re- 
<J\J centlv marked his 25th anniversary 
as pastor of All Saints Church, Briardiff, 
N.Y. 

Ruth Wade Cerjanec, Central Falls, R.I., is 
listed in the sbcteenth edition of Who's Who In 
The East. 

Betty Noble Davis, Abilene, Texas, has a 
six- vear-old granddaughter bv her daughter, 
Pam. 

Frances Brown Light's son, William, has 
received his Ph.D. in environmental health 
sciences from the University of California at 
Berkeley. Her son, John, is a student at the 
Universitv of Vermont. Frances lives at 10 
Wilton Rd., Port Chester, N.Y. 

Barbara Antlwny Manmott has retired as 
technical librarian at United Technologies 
Corp., East Hartford, Conn. Barbara and Jes- 
sie Barker made a cruise to the Green Islands 
this spring. Barbara is li\ing in Glastonbury, 
Conn., and Jessie in North Providence, R.I. 

Helen Mulvey, professor at Connecticut 
College, lectured at Brown in March on 
"Irish NaHonalism in the Age of Daniel 
O'Connell." Helen lives in New London, 
Conn. 

Dorothy Cray O'Reilly, Tiverton, R.I., has 



retired as executive director of the Navy Re- 
lief Society of Newport. 

'2 C ^- Mec R. Shapiro WTites that on 
ij J his 65th birthday, last Oct. 21, he 
was appointed associate dean and director of 
clinics and laboratories at the University of 
Connecticut School of Dental Medicine, 
Farmington, Conn. Dr. Shapiro has two 
Brown sons, Michael '62 and Peter '66. 

George Tliurston Spicer has retired from 
the film division of Olin Corp, Pisgah Forest, 
N.C., after twentv-five vears with the firm. 
He and his wife. Alma, are enjoying retire- 
ment in Brevard, N.C. Their daughter, 
Elaine, and her husband recenth' presented 
the Spicers with a grandson, Biliv. Shortly 
before their retirement, the Spicers visited 
their son, Steve, in Kenya, where as a Peace 
Corps x'olunteer he has been teaching high- 
school phvsics. 

O /T In March, three members of the 
J\J dass competed in a golf tourna- 
ment at the Card Sound Golf Club in Key 
Largo, Ra.: Bob Chapman, Morm Appleyard, 
and Bud Cifford. "Modesty prevents me from 
saying who won," Gifford writes. 

'5 ^ John W. Mayne is retired at 1195 
\J / Richmond Rd., Apt. 701, Ottawa, 
Ontario. "Mv last full-time position was as 
chief of the operations research division, 
SHAPE Technical Center, The Hague, 
Netherlands." 

^Q Phyllis Littman Corioin thinks she 
J O ma\' be setting a dass record for the 
longest period between earned degrees. On 
May 26 she will receive her M.A. in counsel- 
ing from Rhode Island College, exactly forty 
vears after her B.A. from Brown. "This is 
probably fitting," she writes, "since I'm the 
youngest and the shortest member of my 
Brown dass. My proud and prodding family 
consists of my husband, Jerry ('34 RISD), 
who is executive vice president of Paramount 
Line; son Stuart, a 1968 graduate of the Uni- 
versity of Michigan; and Robert, a URI grad- 
uate." 

Philip H. Glatfelter III, chairman and 
president of P.H. Glatfelter Co., Spring 
Grove, Pa., received an honorary doctor of 
humane letters degree from York College at 
commencement exercises in December. He 
represents tlie fourth generation of Glatfel- 
ters to head the paper manufacturing firm. 

Shelton C. \'oyes, Farmington, Maine, is a 
former state senator from Franklin County 
who now is judge of the Franklin County 
Probate Court. He is a partner in the law firm 
of Noves and Beal in Rangeley, Maine, and is 
president of S. C. Noyes & Co. 



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'5 Q Dr. Joseph Lambiase reports a new 

J Z/ address: 425 Meshanticut Valley 
Pkwy., Cranston, R.I. 

^/^ The Rev. Ronald A. Norton is 
jt\J rector of St. Mary's Episcopal 
Church, Stone Harbor, N.J., where he re- 
cently celebrated his 20th anniversary. "This 
would be an ideal place for a reunion; 
perhaps some time in 1978." 

Robert 1. Smith, chairman of the board 
and chief executive officer of Public Service 
Electric cSc Gas Co., Newark, N.J., has been 
elected to the board of Supermarkets General 
Corp. 

^'I John H. Clayton, now retired from 
^t A. Sears Roebuck & Co., has settled in 
Sun City, Ariz., with his wife, Nancy, not 
"Alice" as reported in this column several 
months back. 

Cordon Milne ('48 A.M.), chairman of the 
English department at Lake Forest College, 
Lake Forest, 111., is author of The Sense of So- 
ciety: A History of the American Nca^el of Man- 
ners (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 
Box 421, Cranbury, N.J., $15). A New Eng- 
ender by birth, Gordon still makes an an- 
nual trip to his summer home on the New 
Hampshire coast. 

/\^ /ti//// R. Coakle\i has been elected 
^t^ manager of the Hartford branch 
office of Lawyers Title Insurance Corp. He is 
past president of the Connecticut chapter of 
the Society of Chartered Property Casualty 
Underwriters and is now serving on the 
board of directors of both the Hartford and 
Connecticut divisions of the American 
Cancer Society. 

Herbert M. Iselin, Larchmont, N.Y., 
writes that he now has two daughters at 
Brown: Diane is a freshman, and Julie is a 
junior. 

Dr. Cliarles A. Leach, Royal Oak, Mich., 
sawBill O'Coinior in Florida recently and had 
a visit from 6/7/ Jones '43. "Anticipate getting 
together this summer with Doug Leach and 
Bill Jones at the Shakespeare Festival in Strat- 
ford, Ont." 

^^O Janina Barloieski D'Abate received 
Jtk-^ her master of library science degree 
from the University of Rhode Island last June 
and is librarv director of the North Scituate 
(R.I.) Public Library. The class extends its 
sympathy to Janina on the death of her hus- 
band, John, on Jan. 27. 

Hope Morley Cray and Lt. Col. Allen T. 
Miller, USAF (Ret.), were married recentlv 
and are living at 10 Namala PL, Kailua, 
Hawaii. 

/\/\ Phil Osberg has lived on Okinawa 
jtM since December 1975. He is asso- 
ciated with American Express. 

/t C Vlt»o/i R. Alden has been named 
j^yJ chairman of the new Foreign Busi- 
ness Council in Massachusetts. He resigned 
as chairman of the executive committee and 
director of the Boston Company, a financial 
holding company, to head up the state's ef- 
forts to attract foreign business. 

Richard S. Boynton is a field representa- 

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Loneliness just 
doesn't fit into 
Edith Coolidge 
Hart's schedule 

The key to a happy retirement, say doc- 
tors and psychologists, is keeping active, 
mentally and physically. Edith Coolidge Hart 
'13 doesn't need an expert to tell her that. 
Her active retirement is simply the logical 
extension of a lifelong involvement with 
numerous hobbies and careers. To her credit 
are a number of women's "firsts," accom- 
plishments that were recognized in 1975 
when she was named a Rhode Island 
Woman of the Year for her pioneering work 
in journalism. 

At age twenty-two, Edith Coolidge was 
the first woman reporter on the old Fall River 
(Massachusetts) Globe. In succeeding years 
she held that distinction on both the Neiv Bed- 
ford (Massachusetts) Standard and the Fa// 
River Herald-News. In her thirties Mrs. Hart 
became the first woman in New England — if 
not the country — to broadcast for and man- 
age a commercial radio station. (She wryly 
terms this "ancient history.") Today, at age 
eighty-seven, Mrs. Hart continues to work 
and learn with a zest many younger folks 
would do well to emulate. 

The tiny, white-haired widow, who is a 
distant cousin of President Calvin Coolidge, 
now lives alone in a neat, cheery apartment 
on Angell Street in Providence. Chatting 
with a visitor, Mrs. Hart points out the Cen- 
tral Congregational Church across the street, 
where she is in charge of a highly acclaimed 
program for senior citizens called Life Time 
Leisure Learning. More than 400 participants 
of all faiths and backgrounds gather at the 
church each Wednesday morning for a pot- 
pourri of lectures, entertainment, and class- 
es. 

On a single Wednesday, the life-time 
learning participant might attend a lecture by 
a Rhode Island College professor on "The 
Decision to Build the Panama Canal," a talk 
by Brown Professor Emeritus George Church 
on "Plant Life in the Canary Islands, " a slide 
show about Afghanistan, a harp recital, a talk 
by Roger Clapp '19 entitled "A Lawyer Looks 
at the Death of Christ, " or a lecture on "food 
faddisms" by a home economist. Setting up 
such weekly programs months in advance 
keeps Edith Hart happUy busy. 



Mrs. Hart's number-one hobby is the 
theater, and she manages to see just about 
every production in Providence, Including 
those at Brown and the Trinity Square Reper- 
tory Company. She was a long-time member 
of the Boston Theatre Guild and now sub- 
scribes to the Shubert Theater's series in Bos- 
ton. Although devoted to her favorite enter- 
tainment fomi, Mrs. Hart has some strong 
feelings about the current state of the art. 

"I liked the theater we had before the 
1960's," she says. "Plays then had a real 
story with a beginning, middle, and end. 
Today there is too much sex, and I think it's 
unnecessary. Sex is added just to please the 
public." She voices similar opinions about 
television. 'TV had a chance to really lift our 
spirits and morals, but instead we get poor 
grammar and real trash," Mrs. Hart says 
angrily. 'If I hear 'between you and I' once 
more, I'll break a window!" 

Yet her love for the theater endures. 
"Entertainment is my second nature," Mrs. 
Hart says. "I grew up watching the silent 
movies in Fall River. My father loved the 
theater and often rented a big hall for drama- 
tic productions. He took me to the nickelo- 
deon starting at age four — women weren't 
allowed in then, but I was so young it didn't 
matter." She has done some acting and di- 
recting, and muses that if her father had 
lived longer, she might have gone into pro- 
fessional theater. 

Instead, Mrs. Hart blazed a different sort 
of trail in what was then an uncommon field 
for women. "It's funny what little things 
change your whole life," she says. "When I 
was a senior at Brown, a woman came to the 
Pembroke campus and talked about careers. 
There wasn't much available in stenography 
or teaching, for those were still considered 
men's professions. The woman mentioned 
journalism, and right awav 1 knew that's 
what I wanted to do." 

After graduating from Brown, Edith 
Coolidge went after her first job with typical 
determination. During an interview at the 
Fall River Globe, she was asked, "Can you 
type?" "Of course I answered yes," Mrs. 
Hart says, her eyes twinkling with mischief. 
"But I had probably looked at a typewriter 
once or twice in mv life! That night I spent 
hours practicing on my parents' machine, 
and the next morning 1 went in and typed my 
first story for the Gldie. " 

In 1928, while she was still in newspaper 
work, Mrs. Hart was asked to run a brand- 
new radio station in Fall River. "I did the 
programming, interviews, everything, " she 
recalls. "My voice training with Tom Crosby 
at Brown gave me a wonderful advantage." 
One of her radio highlights was an interview 
with Buffalo Bill on his seventieth birthday. 
Mrs. Hart found the legendary cowbov to be 
"a very quiet fellow, and much smaller than I 
had imagined." When the three-ring Ring- 
ling Brothers show came to town, Mrs. Hart 
became the first person to do a live broadcast 
of a circus. "We set up our equipment in the 



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back of a truck," she recalls. "I talked to 
circus people in the cook's tent, in their 
dressing rooms, and then I stood right in 
front of the audience and described the acts 
on the air." 

Mrs. Hart's broadcasting career ended 
when the hotel in which her radio station 
was located burned down. Then her news- 
paper work, which she had been pursuing 
simultaneously, was interrupted by a move 
to Waterbury, Connecticut, with her hus- 
band, editor Gardiner T. Hart, and their 
children. The family later returned to Fall 
River, and once again Edith Hart embarked 
on a new career. 

"When I was fifty-two I started teaching 
school," she says. "It was something I had 
considered doing before I hit on journalism. 
But 1 had no training for it, and no experi- 
ence. " She taught first-year high-school stu- 
dents in a Fall River school heavilv populated 
by Portuguese-speaking immigrants, and 
she loved it. "After I started teaching, I 
thought, 'Why didn't I ever do this before?' " 

Mrs. Hart's Crosby- trained voice im- 
pressed many a wayward scholar ("My 
youngsters at school used to say, "Mrs. Hart, 
we could hear you all the way down to City 
Hall!' "). Her memory holds a thick file of 
success stories. "I remember one boy who 
was very shy and unattractive," she says. 
"Every week I'd have my students rewrite a 
newspaper dipping and give a speech, but 
he couldn't do this, so I just let him read. He 
gained confidence, and after a while he was 
writing sketches for assemblies and directing 
the church Christmas program. Four or five 
years after he was to have graduated from 
college, I was sitting in a theater, and a very 
handsome young man in uniform sat next to 
me and said 'Hello, Mrs. Hart.' It was the 
same fellow, and he had gone on to teach 
speech after college. 

"There was a girl who was considered 



retarded," she continues. "The students had 
to write daily themes, and she wrote a de- 
scription of a bouquet of clover in which you 
could practically .'ift' the wilted leaves. 1 used 
it as an example of good writing for other 
students. And there was a fellow who at age 
seventeen couldn't write, but could he draw! 
So I talked his father — a big, rough truck 
driver — into sending him to art school." It is 
easy to see why a former student of Mrs. 
Hart remarked in an essav: "She put some- 
thing into that class. She put love into it." 

Edith Hart continued teaching until she 
was seventy-five, and might have stayed on 
were it not for a burst appendix. Rather than 
retiring then, however, she found a job as a 
house director at the Masters School in 
Dobbs Ferry, New York. A year later, she 
came to Providence and began three years as 
a housemother at Bryant College, which at 
that time was still located on the East Side. 
When Bryant moved to a new campus in 
northern Rhode Island, Edith Hart officially 
retired. In a manner of speaking. 

A Light sleeper who has thrived on four 
hours a night all her life ("I always thought 
sleeping was a waste of time"), Mrs. Hart 
rises with the sun and spends six hours a dav 
"typing and working. " She lines up speakers 
for Life Time Leisure Learning, composes 
lectures and scripts on her old black type- 
writer, and reads. "I read constantly," she 
says, gesturing toward a wall of book-filled 
shelves. 'There's not a novel among them; 
they're all history, poetry, and drama. " She 
has a file cabinet full of her typed lectures, 
among them nine recent talks she delivered 
about the theater and a series about jazz. In 
her typewriter is a lecture in progress about 
words and their meanings. She has also spo- 
ken recently on the Lizzie Borden murder, an 
interest from her Fall River days. 

A few concessions have been made to 
age. Mrs. Hart has a mild cataract condition 



and thus can no longer drive, and she misses 
barreling down to New York or up to Boston 
to see plays. (She once admitted to being 
something of a "hot rod" and having a "wav- 
ing acquaintance" with the Connechcut state 
police.) But what she terms her "stable of 
men" has been a lifesaver, says the sprightly 
woman. As befits a lady of her charm and 
talents, Mrs. Hart has several regular escorts 
who squire her to the theater and other social 
events. "Here I am with my friend from New 
York," she says proudly, holding out a 
photograph taken at last year's Campus 
Dance in which she and a handsome silver- 
haired gentleman beam, arm in arm, both of 
them dressed to the teeth. The picture 
evokes fond memories. "I insisted that night 
upon going into Sayles Hall [where a rock 
band plays during the Campus Dance]," says 
Mrs. Hart, "and 1 danced all the fancy steps. 
As we left, a young man ran out and said, 
'Do you mind my telling you that you're a 
wonderful dancer?' Naturally, I didn't mind 
at all!" 

It is clear that that common bane of the 
elderly — loneliness — just wouldn't fit into 
Edith Hart's busy schedule. 'Tm certainly 
not lost for people to take care of me," she 
says. "I have ten grandchildren and six 
'greats.' My son visits from time to time. My 
daughter keeps urging me to live with her in 
New Jersey, but I wouldn't be happy without 
my friends here, especially the ones from 
church. They are an extraordinary group of 
people; they keep me going. I have so many 
meetings to attend, and someone is always 
calling up with something to do. No," and 
Edith Coolidge Hart tilts back in her chair 
and smiles brightly, "I'm not lonely, not a 
bit." ' ' A.D. 




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tive with the Carr Division of TRW, Inc., 
Southfield, Mich. 

Cliarles W. Briggs, jr., and his wife, 
Diane, report the birth of their first grand- 
child, Charles W. Briggs IV (nicknamed 
Chad), on March 19 m Richmond, Va. 

Hau'lq/ O. Judd, CPCU, has been ap- 
pointed second vice president in the casualty 
property commercial lines department at The 
Travelers Insurance Companies, Hartford. 
He is a past president of the Hartford Brown 
Club and is treasurer of the Bristol Hospital 
Auxiliary. He and his wife and two children 
live in Bristol, Conn. 

/\£L Capt. Herbert Bolles continues as 
Ttv/ chaplain at the Naval Education 
and Training Center, Newport, R.I., where 
he expects to remain until retirement next 
year. 

Boh afford and his wife, jaiw Luerfseii Gif- 
ford '48, live in Reading, Pa. Bob works for 
Gilbert Associates, engineers and consul- 
tants. 

Dr. Myrou Gordon is professor of obstet- 
rics and gynecology at New York Medical 
College. 

Clifford V. Harding, Jr. , is director of re- 
search at Kresge Eve Institute, Wayne State 
University School of Medicine, Detroit. 

jol\ti F. Heinz is special assistant to the 
vice president of the public affairs depart- 
ment at Bethlehem Steel Corp., where his 
principal duties are preparation of speeches, 
articles, and public statements. 

Ann Gant Helbig and her husband are in 
Western Samoa on their first Peace Corps 
assignment. 

William King has been appointed profes- 
sor and chairman of the Division of Health 
Education at the Universitv of Arizona in 
Tucson. 

Charles R. Makepeace, Jr., has been 
named vice president of Rhode Island Hospi- 
tal Trust National Bank. 

Elaiie Staff Miller is an engineering secre- 
tary at Taco, Inc., Cranston, R.I. 

Dr. Donald J. Nenno, Lake View, N.Y., 
has received the "Distinguished Physician's 
Award" from the medical-dental staff of 
Mercy Hospital, Buffalo, "in grateful appre- 
ciation for vour untiring endeavors to pro- 
mote and improve the quality of medical care 
and educational standards at Mercv Hospital 
and in the community at large." He is one of 
three doctors to receive this award in the his- 
tory of the hospital. 

Joe Penner has been named chairman of 
the board of the First Independent Bank, 
N.A., Sarasota, Fla. He has also been named 
interim president of the New College Foun- 
dation in Sarasota. 

Al Rust is enjoying retirement on the St. 
John's River, Orange, Fla., where he is pres- 
ident of the Orange Park Community Thea- 
ter and also of the area chapter of the Asso- 
ciation of Former Special Agents of the FBI. 

Beverly S. Smith, a social worker in West 
Hartford, Conn., also teaches classes in 
drawing and oil painting for the adult educa- 
tion program in Newington, Conn. 

Woodhur}/ C. Titcomb, Auburn, Maine, 
has been elected president and chief admin- 
istrative officer of Peoples Savings Bank, 
Worcester, Mass. He had been working as a 
private consultant to banks in Maine. 



Dr. Vincent Treat has left the private 
practice of internal medicine in Lexington, 
Mass., and is associate medical director of 
Prudential Insurance in Boston. 

Mai Williams is serving as commodore of 
the Barrington (R.l.) Yacht Club. 

^^ Robert Abel, assistant vice pres- 
jt / ident of marine programs at Texas 
A&M and former director of the National Sea 
Grant Program, received the Distinguished 
Service Award of the Sea Grant Association 
at the group's recent meeting in New Or- 
leans. 

Rena Benson Bursteiii has been employed 
since 1969 as a counseling psychologist at 
B'nai B'rith Career & Counseling Service in 
Philadelphia. She's now serving as recording 
secretary of the Personnel and Guidance 
Association of Greater Philadelphia and 
chairman of the Committee on Women for 
the Philadelphia branch of the American As- 
sociation of University Women. Rena's hus- 
band is a professor of physics at the Univer- 
sity of Pennsylvania. 

£. Patricia Synon Lucei/ resigned in March 
1976 as district attorney of Contra Costa 
(Calif.) County to become assistant superior 
court commissioner of San Francisco. "My 
sonPaut is a sophomore at Brown," she 
writes, "and my daughter, Glwin Liicey '73, 
has completed a year as violinist with the San 
Juan Symphony. She's now a candidate for a 
master's degree in music at North Texas 
State." 

^Q William S. Johnston is president 
JtO of the Johnston Advertising 
Group, Tarrytown, N.Y. 

Ellen Potter Spilbi has returned to Rhode 
Island and resumed her former position as 
coordinator of the Northern Interrelated Li- 
brary System, based at the Pawtucket Public 
Library. 

^Q Philip J. Hodge, Jr. (Ph.D.), 
JL ^ professor of mechanics. University 
of Minnesota, has been awarded honorary 
membership in the American Society of 
Mechanical Engineers. He has been asso- 
ciated with the University of Minnesota since 
1971. He and his wife, Thea, live in Minne- 
apolis. 

Harry I. Odell has returned to the States 
after three years in Bern, Switzerland, where 
he had been deputy chief of mission at the 
American Embassy. He's now living in Glen 
Echo, Md. "Am looking forward to seeing 
Brown match the back-to-back football sea- 
sons of 1948-49 when we were 7-2 and then 
8-1." 

Loren Wood, Friendswood, Texas, was 
elected to tlie city council Nov. 8 by a vote of 
910-202. He is manager for advanced systems 
studies of TRW Systems. Loren has served 
on Friendswood's Charter Review Commit- 
tee, on the school board citizens' planning 
committees, and helped organize the town's 
first Little League baseball and football pro- 
grams. 

C A Gerald W. Brady, West Hartford, 
\j\J Conn., has been elected chairman 
of the Town Plan and Zoning Commission. 
He is a partner in the East Hartford law firm 
of Brady & Willard. 



Robert H. Breslin, a partner in the War- 
wick (R.I.) law firm, Breslin, Sweeney & 
Gordon, has been elected a trustee of the 
Rocky Hill School, Warwick. 

Charles W. Dougherty, CPCU, has been 
appointed secretary in the casualty property 
commercial lines department at The Travel- 
ers Insurance Companies in Hartford. 

John T. Sivanton, a vice president of 
Foote, Cone & Belding, Chicago, has been 
made a management supervisor of the 
agency. 

George F. "Pete" Tyrrell has been named 
vice president-advertising on the corporate 
staff of Johnson & Johnson. He and his wife 
and three children live in Rumson, N.J. 

Kung-Lee Wang (A.M.) received the 1976 
Engineer-of-the-Year Award from the Wash- 
ington, D.C., section of the American Insti- 
tute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum 
Engineers. He is chief of the Quantitative 
Economics Group, U.S. Bureau of Mines. 
The award was conferred "for your outstand- 
ing contributions to the development and 
application of economic principles to the 
problems of mineral supply/demand 
analysis, and especially for the key role you 
have played in organizing and chairing the 
Mineral Economics Subsection." 

Herbert N. Welch has been appointed vice 
president for labor relations at Mack Trucks, 
Inc. He lives in Allentown, Pa. 

C"! George G. Brooks, Mattituck, N.Y., 
\J -I- has been named senior vice presi- 
dent of Long Island Trust Co. George is a 
member of the credit committee of the New 
York Business Development Corporation 
and president of the Goodfellows Club of 
Suffolk County. 

Josqih Raiidazza has been elected presi- 
dent of the Greater Lowell Chamber of 
Commerce, Lowell, Mass. He is a trustee of 
Lowell City Library and St. Joseph's Hospi- 
tal. 

C^ Edwin F. Boynton has been elected 
\^^ president of the American Acad- 
emy of Actuaries, Washington, D.C. The 
Academy was founded in 1965, with Ed as a 
charter member. For many years prior to the 
creation of the Washington office he served 
as primary liaison with the government and 
national media. He and his family live in 
Rockville, Md. 

Miles E. Cunat has been re-elected trea- 
surer of the board of trustees of The Presby- 
tery of Chicago. He has served on the board 
for five years. 

/. James Gordon has been appointed pres- 
ident of Bernson Mills, Inc., New York City. 
He is a director and a vice president of the 
Textile Distributors Assn. 

Conrad Kronholm and Theresa E. Brown 
of Philadelphia were married Dec. 28 in West 
Hartford, Conn. Theresa is co-host of "Eve- 
ning Magazine" on Channel 3 in Philadel- 
phia. 

Alan J. Levy, author and foreign corre- 
spondent, has been named Dramaturt (script 
and program consultant) of Vienna's English 
Theater, which was founded in 1963. Alan is 
author of eleven books and numerous arti- 
cles mReadei's Digest, ARTneivs, and theNeiv 
York Times Magazine. 

James F. McGinn, Lexington, Mass., has 
been promoted to head of the newly formed 



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Combat Theater Communications Depart- 
ment at The MITRE Corp., Bedford, Mass. 
He and Angela have four children. 

Paul .V. Sclmtz (Ph.D.), professor of 
chemistry at the University of Virginia, has 
been awarded 575,000 from the X'ational 
Science Foundation to study the electronic 
structure of atoms and molecules in strong 
magnetic fields. 

C ^ ^ois Black, who is now using her 
wxk-7 maiden name, lives at 311 Berkeley 
Dr., Syracuse, N.Y. 

Ann Harrington Gifford is a sales associate 
with Rorence Kates, realtor. Canton, Mass. 
She has ser\'ed as chairman of the Canton 
Growth Policy Committee. 

Dcrothii Panhley Hahn, Falmouth, Mass., 
is past president of the Falmouth League of 
Women Voters, a former CIA analyst, and a 
China expert. She is a widow and has hvo 
daughters, Ericka, 12, and Heidi, 10. 

John F. Valinote, Boston district sales 
manager of Getty Refining and Marketing 
Co., has been elected chairman of the Mas- 
sachusetts Petroleum Council. 

C^ Clarence C. Barksdale has been 
ikJ^E elected chairman and chief execu- 
tive officer of First Union Bancorporation, St. 
Louis, Mo., where he had ser\ed as presi- 
dent and chief operating officer. He will re- 
main chairman and chief executive officer of 
First National Bank in St. Louis, the lead 
bank of First Union Bancorporation. 

E. Aiibreii Doyle, Hopkinton, Mass., has 
three children at BrouTi: Colleen '79, Lisa '80, 
and Aubreii '81. 

C C Herbert Xeimuiu, AIA, principal 
w/c^ of Herbert S. XevMnan Associates, 
\'ew Haven, has been named the Connect- 
icut SocietN' of .Architects commissioner of 
design. A graduate of the Yale School of Ar- 
chitecture, Herb is consultant to Edward L. 
Barnes, campus planner at Yale. His firm has 
won numerous design awards, including a 
HUD-\'ew Haven Redevelopment Agency 
design and building competition for the 
William T. Rowe Tower. 

Thomas A. Westbrook, president of East 
Hartford's Qamp Co., has been elected pres- 
ident of the East Hartford Chamber of Com- 
merce. Tom is secretary and a director of 
Madison Enterprises, Inc., and owner and 
operator of the Madison Motor Inn, East 
Hartford. 

CZ^ George Chapman is co-publisher 
>JvJ and editor of The Silverton Staiuiani 
and The Miner, Silverton, Colo. "One of our 
Texas subscribers wTOte and said that his 
daughter was going to Brown and couldn't 
be without our publication," George writes. 
"Seeing a chance for a little fun, we ad- 
dressed the subscription to Josiah Carberrs-, 
care of the student, Mary Pat Martin '81. 
Imagine our disappointment when the paper 
was returned 'unknown.' Happily, that hap- 
pened only once and now presumably both 
Josiah and Mary Pat are receiving the paper 
weekly." 

jack Delhagen has been named senior reg- 
istered options principal at Warren W. York 
& Co., investment brokers, Allentown, Pa. 
He is also serving as president of the Carbon 
County Tourist Promotion Agency, presi- 



dent of the Brown Club of Allentown, and 
president of the Pennsylvania Campground 
Owners Assn. 

Edioard M. Holmes (Ph.D.), professor 
emeritus of English at the University' of 
Maine at Orono, has written Mostly Maine, a 
collection of short stories and other arhdes 
based on his experiences as a seaman, news- 
paper reporter, teacher, and organizer of 
cooperatives and credit unions. 

C'T ^Vi;;w»; S. C. Clmng (Ph.D.), 
\J / professor of electrical engineering 
at Washington University, was one of three 
St. Louis section members of the Institute of 
Electrical and Electronics Engineers elected 
Fellows of the Institute. He was dted for 
"contributions in optoelectronics and inte- 
grated optics." 

Lloyd C. Lanphere and Jacqueline Irene 
Gustafson were married Sept. 24 in James- 
town, N.Y., and are living in Arlington, Va., 
where Lloyd is merchandising manager of 
the Crucible Specialty Metals Division, Colt 
Industries. 

Donald /. Riiine has been promoted bv 
Family Dollar Stores, Inc., Waynesboro, Ga., 
to senior vice president of merchandising, 
advertising, and sales promotion. 

Dr. Alan R. Shalita has been appointed 
dean of stT.idents at SU.VY Downtown Medi- 
cal Center, New York Cit\', where he had 
been chairman of the division of dermatol- 
ogy. 

CQ Stan Dobson, Arlington, Va., has 
^^J become a real soccer buff. He flew 
to Providence last November to see Brown 
win the New England soccer tide, watched 
the Bruins defeat Clemson, the nation's 
number-one team, at Clemson, and then 
spent two days in the San Francisco area for 
the NCAA championships. Stan is president 
of Soccer International, Inc., an Arlington 
firm specializing in quality' soccer equipment. 

William B. Ezell has been named head of 
the National Weather Service operation at 
Toledo (Ohio) Express Airport. Most recently 
a staff meteorologist in Burlington, Vt., Bill 
began his meteorology career in 1942 while 
serving in the Navy. 

Robert Finnegaii, Madison, Conn., earned 
a spot in the S2-million circle of Beazley 
Company Realtors for selUng more than $2 
million in property during 1977. 

Ann O'Halloran Heath will receive a B.A. 
degree from Manhattanville College, Pur- 
chase, N.Y., in June, where she majored in 
human development. A resident of New Ca- 
naan, Conn., Ann writes that Steven, 19, is a 
sophomore at Colgate and that Tim, 17, and 
Susan, 15, are at New Canaan High. "I hope 
to do graduate work at Columbia in the fall," 
Ann writes. 

Judith A. Peterson is a third-year student 
at the Free University of Amsterdam, where 
she hopes to complete the candidate pro- 
gram this year and start on her doctoral. 
"The stumbling block is translation into 
Dutch, an exam which I've taken five times 
and failed five times," she writes. "Thev ex- 
pect dose to absolute perfection. The pro- 
gram includes both language and literature, 
both modern and older stages of the lan- 
guage, and is very fascinating. As I have 
been teaching English to Dutch and, before 



that, to Swiss children, I want some sort of 
official diploma to do it." 

Robert P. Sanchez has been elected vice 
president of Jack Morton Productions, New 
York City, where he specializes in setting up 
sales meetings for leading corporations. Bob 
is head dass agent for 1958 and is a vice 
chairman of the Brown Fund. 

C Q lohn C. Christie is a partner in the 
\J ^ Washington, D.C., law firm of Bell, 
Bond, Lloyd, Haddad & Burns. 

Lawrence S. Groff and his wife, Joanne, 
report the birth of a son, Jonathan Patrick, on 
Sept 24. The family lives in Lincoln, R.I. 

Paul A. Hollos has been eleded assistant 
treasurer of INA Corp., Philadelphia, where 
he is responsible for capital planning and 
corporate financial analysis. Paul is a co- 
founder of the Philadelphia Treasurers Club. 

Victoria Saiitopietro Lederberg ('61 A.M., 
'66 Ph.D.) received a J.D. degree from Suf- 
folk Law School tn 1976. She is teaching psy- 
chology at Rhode Island College and is ser\'- 
ing her second term as a member of the 
House of Representatives in the Rhode Is- 
land Legislature. Her husband is Seymour 
Lederberg of the Brown biology departntent. 
The couple has two children; Tobias, 13, and 
Sarah, 11. 

Valmore Lotselle, Jr., has been appointed 
product manager in the sales department of 
The Power Systems Group of Combustion 
Engineering, Inc., Windsor, Conn. He and 
his family live in South Windsor. 

William C. Nadeau is assistant superin- 
tendent of educational ser\ices of the 
Calexico Unified School District, Calexico, 
Calif. 

John Quinn has joined Potter Hazlehurst, 
a Providence ad\'ertising firm, as \ice presi- 
dent of creative services. He lives in Lincoln, 
R.I. 

/2r\ Dr. Robert L. Boltuch has joined 
UV/ the medical staff in the department 
of radiology at Curtis Clinic, Chagrin Falls, 
Ohio. 

Dr. Robert E. Madeau and his wife, 
Elizabeth Tillinghast Nadeau, are "happily and 
productively" settled in Rochester, N.Y. Bob 
completed psychiatric residency training at 
the University of Rochester's Strong Memo- 
rial Hospital, after residency training in in- 
ternal medicine and a three-year stint with 
the U.S. Air Force in Europe. "Am presenfly 
in a private group practice of general psy- 
chiatry and am clinical assistant professor of 
psvchiatn" at the University of Rochester 
School of Medicine. Elizabeth and I are rais- 
ing some fine prospects for Brown: Lisa, 17, 
Dana, 15, Rob, 4, and Jennifer, 2." 

\'ail Senozan is a professor of chemistry at 
California State University, Long Beach. 

/T'l James H. Davidson, Tequesta, Fla., 
O J. is an engineer with Pratt & Whit- 
ney Aircraft. 

Damis S. O'Malley and his wife, Claire, 
report the birth of twin boys, Edward Joseph 
and Daniel Harris, on March 13. "Edward 
Joseph is named after his grandfather, Ed- 
ward O'Mallei/ '31," Dennis writes. "I have 
been elected president of Dascit, White & 
Winston, New York City, one of the largest 
general agencies in the country and a sub- 



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sidiary of Integrated Resources, an American 
Exchange company." 

William H. Schwab, CLU, is vice presi- 
dent and general manager of Mount Vernon 
Associates, Winchester, Mass., a firm 
specializing in the administration of self- 
insured employee benefit plans. Bill and his 
wife, Lola, and their daughter, Leah, live in 
Ashland, Mass. 

/T ^ John Garrison has been appointed 
O^ a business consultant in Xerox 
Corporation's decentralized business area. 
He and his wife and three children live in the 
Rochester, N.Y., suburb of Pittsford. 

Paul and Susan Miller Maguire are living 
in Mobile, Ala. Paul is with the Scott Paper 
Co., and Sue is president of the local garden 
club and the Tennis Association. Pam is 13 
and Cindy is 11. 

Paul L. McCorniick has become a princi- 
pal in the Hartford law firm of Updike, Kelly 
& Spellacy. 

Maj. Thomas W. Noy is an air intelligence 
and targeting officer with the United Na- 
tions Command in Seoul, Korea. In his Air 
Force career he has traveled to over forty 
countries and flown more than 1,300 combat 
hours in Vietnam. 

John and Elizabeth Hinkley Percesepe live in 
New City, N.Y., where John is counsel to the 
Maxwell House Division of General Foods 
Corp. and athletic representative for Brown 
recruitment in the Rockland area. Meg is 16 
and Beth is 7. 

Philip M. Reed and his vdfe, Shirley- 
Ann, are avid cross-countrv skiers, as are 
their children, Richard, 13, and David, 9. 
Philip is manager of the Manchester (N.H.) 
office of Kendall Insurance and chairman of 
the Litchfield (N.H.) board of education. 

Anne Jacobson Scluitte's book. Pier Paolo 
Vergerio: The Making of An Italian Reformer, 
published in January, won the Brewer Prize 
of the American Society of Church History. 
She's associate professor of history and de- 
partment chairwoman at Lawrence Univer- 
sity, where her husband, VVUliam, is a pro- 
fessor of English. Anne is in touch with Helen 
Nathan '61 and would like to hear from other 
members of 1961, the class she started with at 
Brown. 

/I ^ Ricliani M. Bernstein is with the 
0\3 litigation department at Pepper, 
Hamilton & Scheetz of Philadelphia, work- 
ing mainly in the antitrust area. "My wife, 
Chris, is in the information services office of 
the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philly." 

Robert B. Colhuru has been appointed 
president of Olin Ski Co. , Middletown, 
Conn. He is a member of the marketing and 
advisory committees for Ski Industries 
America, the national trade organization for 
the business. He and his wife and son live in 
East Haddam, Conn. 

English Austin Friedberg reports the birth 
of a son, James, on Feb. 28, 1977. Another 



son, Benjamin, is six. "Opened my own pot- 
tery studio after sharing space for a few 
years," she says. "It's on W. 11th Street in 
the Village, where 1 live, work, and teach." 

]un Greene, Annandale, Va., has been 
promoted to commander in the Navy and 
has been approved for command of a guided 
missUe destroyer. He and his wife, Diane 
Montgomery Greene (see '64), have had their 
fourth child. 

Larrine Sullwa)i Holbrooke has been 
named an attorney advisor to Federal Trade 
Commissioner David A. Clanton, Washing- 
ton, D.C. A graduate of the Georgetown Law 
Center, where she was editor of the George- 
toum Lau' Journal, Larrine has been a lecturer 
at the Civil Service Commission's Legal Edu- 
cation Institute and a guest lecturer in the 
University of Maryland's paralegal program. 
Jim Markel, Winter Park, Ha., is an attor- 
ney specializing in trial and appellate practice 
and governmental administrative law. He is 
a Michigan Law School graduate. 

Merrill Ruck has been promoted to com- 
mander in the U.S. Navy. Last November he 
was named commanding officer, USS Bagley, 
FF 1069, based in San Diego, Calif. 

Barry L. Shemin has been elected second 
vice president for group pension actuarial 
services by the board of directors of John 
Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co., Boston. 

Laivrence M. Small has been named an 
executive vice president of Citibank, N.A., 
New York City. He heads the national bank- 
ing group and is a member of the policy 
committee. 

Al Yodakis, Colt's Neck, N.J., is president 
of Boro Plumbing & Heating Co., South 
River, N.J., installers of industrial heating 
units. 

Charlie Wright, Orlando, Fla., is national 
director of Red Lobster Inns of America, 
which, as Brown Fund agent Marty Lawyer 
says, "is like putting the fox in charge of the 
chicken coop." Charlie is interested in form- 
ing an alumni dub in the Orlando area and 
would like to hear from local alumni. 

/T /I Michael C. Ccrullo has been named 
OTI director of marketing at CPL Corp. , 
East Providence, a diversified manufacturer 
of specialty chemical products and electrical 
grounding equipment. 

Diane Montgomery Greene and her hus- 
band, Jim (see '63), report the birth of their 
fourth child. The family lives in Annandale, 
Va. 

C. William Suver was named dean of the 
School of Business at Gonzaga University 
last August. 

/T C Anita Reese Cederholm was one of 
Ow^ three residents of Marlboro, Mass., 
selected by the local Jaycees to receive the 
Distinguished Service Award. She is on the 
Human Services Council, the Special Needs 
Advisory Council to the Marlboro Public 
Schools, and was a founding member of 
Women's Health Service for three years. 
Since 1976 Anita has been a VISTA volun- 
teer. She has two children. 

/. Michael Crian has been named 
manager of the Brazilian office of Cresap, 
McCormick & Paget, New York City, an in- 



ternational management consulting firm. A 
principal of the firm, he has been with CMP 
since 1970. He and his wife and two children 
have moved to Sao Paulo. 

Henry R. Richardson (Ph.D.) has been 
appointed technical director of Daniel H. 
Wagner Associates, Paoli, Pa., an operations 
research consulting firm. He and Judith and 
their two children live in Malvern, Pa. 

Micliael O. Sanderson of the Boston High 
Street office of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner 
& Smith has been named an assistant vice 
president of the firm. 

£L(L Charles W. Atimod has joined 
C/vJ Alexander & Baldwin Agribusiness 
Corp., Honolulu, as a vice president. 

Frederick Bopp III, after completing a 
nine-month contract as visiting assistant pro- 
fessor of geochemistry at the University of 
South Horida, Tampa, has accepted a posi- 
tion as a hydrogeologist with the U.S. Army 
Corps of Engineers, Waterways Experiment 
Station, Vicksburg, Miss. 

Richard /. Casahonne and his wife, Carol 
Boswell, report the birth of their first child, 
Margaret, on Sept. 17. The family lives at 141 
Dickerman Rd., Newton Highlands, Mass., 
and Dick is the new marketing manager for 
Cinema, Inc., Boston. 

Audrey Goldis Chernov, Phoenix, Ariz., 
received her master of international man- 
agement degree in May 1977 from the Ameri- 
can Graduate School of International Man- 
agement, Glendale, Ariz. She is director of 
international marketing for Naturally 
Vitamin Supplements, Inc., Scottsdale, Ariz. 

Sally Van Doren Dohm and her husband, 
Stan, have purchased Darien Hardware, 
Inc., from Sally's parents. "The business has 
done so well that last June we also opened 
the Fairfield Hardware in a new shopping 
center in Fairfield, Conn.," Sally writes. "We 
set up the entire store ourselves, from the in- 
sulation to the last bolt. Now we are fighting 
the battle of getting the business established. 
It has been quite a big undertaking, physi- 
cally and emotionally." 

William G. Droms, an assistant professor 
of finance at Georgetown University, has 
been appointed assistant dean of the School 
of Business Administration. In addition to 
sharing in the general administration of the 
college, he will have specific responsibility 
for administering the baccalaureate program 
with emphasis on developing and maintain- 
ing undergraduate services and records. 

Charles D. Gardinier has been promoted 
to vice president-finance and treasurer of 
Carls DiTjg Co., Rome, N. Y. Married and the 
father of three, Charlie is serving as presi- 
dent of the Rome Kiwanis Club. 

Frederick R. Griffiths (A.M.) has been ap- 
pointed to the board of directors of Blue 
Cross of Rhode Island. Associated with the 
broadcast division of the Outlet Company for 
twenty-five years, Fred is currently vice pres- 
ident of the division headquarters. He serves 
as secretary of the board of trustees of the 
Providence Public Library and is a past pres- 
ident of the Providence Rotary Club and the 
University Club. 

John P. Krupski and his wife, Susan, re- 
port the birth of their first child, Suzanne 
Marlena, on Sept. 15. John is an advisory 
marketing representative with IBM in New 
York. 



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Christopher Stackpcle and his wife report 
the birth of a daughter, Alison Orell, on June 
6, 1976. They live in Rye, N.Y. 

/T ^ Capt. Gary E. Carpenter was 
O / awarded the U.S. Air Force Com- 
mendation Medal in recent ceremonies at 
Hickam AFB, Hawaii, where he is serving 
with a unit of the Pacific Air Forces. A logis- 
tics staff officer, Gary was decorated for 
meritorious service at Los Angeles Air Force 
Station, Calif. 

Dr. EdiMni B. Clianiei/ is a full-time staff 
member of the department of pediatrics. 
School of Medicine, University of Pennsyl- 
vania, and of the department of medicine at 
Children's Hospital, Philadelphia. 

Mary Ann Ferreira received her Ph.D. in 
the philosophy of religion from Princeton last 
October and is in her second year of teaching 
in the department of religious studies at Yale. 

Daviii Cerlwn has been promoted to as- 
sociate professor at Union College, Schenec- 
tady, N.Y., where he is a librarian. 

Stq^heu B. Hazard has become a partner 
in the Hartford, Conn., law firm of Alcorn, 
Bakewell & Smith. 

lohn Montgomery HI is an attorney with 
the Veterans Administration in Togus, 
Maine. 

Brian C. Mnrphy and his wife, Ann Terrell 
Simon Murpliy (see '69), report the birth of 
their second daughter, Anna Welles, on July 
12. The Murphys live in New Britain, Conn. 

/TO John Adamiak, an account execu- 
V/O tive in the Philadelphia office of 
Smith Barnev, Harris Upham &: Co., has 
been appointed vice president-sales of the in- 
ternational investment banking and broker- 
age firm. He and his family live in Marl ton, 
N.J. 

Rachelle Shelly Sender Bmiichnmp com- 
pleted work on her Ph.D. in biology at the 
University of Waterloo, Ontario, last sum- 
mer. She holds a Medical Research Council 
fellowship to do research in genetics in Edin- 
burgh, Scotland. She and her husband, Ross 
('70 Ph.D.), have a son, Michael, 7. 

William A. Catterall has been appointed 
associate professor of pharmacology in the 
School of Medicine at the University of 
Washington, Seattle. 

]anis Terry Dyslel has been named senior 
trust officer in the legal department of 
Rainier National Bank's trust division, 
Seattle, Wash. 

Hmry E. Fradkin has been promoted to 
technical planning associate in the external 
evaluation office of the corporate strategy 
and analysis staff. Ford Motor Co., Dear- 
born, Mich. 

Joseph C. Haletky is music director of 
Theaterworks, a Palo Alto (Calif.)-based 
theater group. He recently conducted his 
third musical with them, Oliver, having ear- 
lier conducted Godspell and The Robber Bride- 
groom. "Am also working part-time in the 
Lane Medical Library at Stanford. My wife 
and 1 are on the board of Stanford's parent 
co-op dav care center, along with Frank Cady 
'65. I'm also serving as treasurer of two 
church-related emergency food organiza- 
tions. We have two children, Charlie, 5, and 
LeUa, 2." 

]ayHedlund is director of Common Cause 
in Boston. He was a coordinator in the Birch 



Bayh 1976 presidential campaign and has 
been active in politics at the precinct level. 

The Rev. David G. Mathieson served four 
years as associate minister at the Acton 
(Mass.) Congregational Church before leav- 
ing for Oakland, Calif., last fall for a year of 
graduate study at the School of Applied 
Theology, a part of the Graduate Theology 
Union at Berkeley. "In November," he 
wTites, "1 was elected chairman of the 
Committee on Religion of Northern Califor- 
nia Human Rights Advocates, a group which 
lobbies at the state level for gay rights legis- 
lation. " 

Betsey Reniage-Healey and her husband, 
Todd, are living in Albuquerque, N.M., 
where Betsey is director of the New Mexico 
Public Interest Research Group and Todd is 
manager of the New Mexico Health Care 
Corp. 

.\frtrf;;i F. Stamp, jr.. and his wife, Julie, 
have returned to Houston after a year's as- 
signment in Coral Gables, Ha. Marty is 
senior tax counsel for Esso Eastern, Inc., Ex- 
xon's management company for its interests 
in the Far East and Australia. 

Henry F. Strozeski is associate director for 
business affairs of the American Board of In- 
ternal Medicine, Philadelphia. 

James R. Treglio received his Ph.D. in 
physics last fall from Stevens Institute of 
Technology, Hoboken, N.J. "About the same 
time the company 1 was working for ran 
aground, and 1 was sent job hunting," he 
writes. "I applied to the General Dynamics 
Convair division in San Diego at a time when 
they had started work in mv field — nuclear 
fusion research — and 1 was hired in De- 
cember. Shortly after joining General 
Dynamics'Convair, 1 was selected to repre- 
sent the firm in a program at Lawrence 
Berkeley Laboratory, aiding in the industri- 
alizahon of neutral beam injection systems 
for fusion reactors." He and his wife, Carol, 
and their two-year-old son, James, are living 
in San Diego. 

Ro('£T(VflCflrro is a director of PA.R.E.N.T. 
(Parents of the Attleboro Region Enjoying 
Nurturing Together), a non-profit organiza- 
tion trying to foster a more positive parent- 
ing experience for parents of infants, tod- 
dlers, and pre-schoolers. 

/TO Peter F. Allgeier, an international 
\J 7 economist, is with the Agency for 
Internahonal Development, State Depart- 
ment, Washington, D.C. 

C. Douglas Ballon has received his master 
of architecture degree from the School of Ar- 
chitecture, Yale University. He now works 
for a Bay Area architect and lives in Menlo 
Park, Calif. 

David A. Bubier has been elected a senior 
vice president of Southern National Bank, 
Houston. 

Ross W. Fenton is working for Western 
Crude Oil in the Wyanot Pipeline Division, 
Mt. Pleasant, Mich. "Katherine and I and our 
daughter. Amy, are living at 909 Canal, Mt. 
Pleasant," he says. 

Stuart M. Flnslunan is assistant professor 
of genetics in the School of Agriculture and 
Life Sciences, North Carolina State Univer- 
sity, Raleigh, N.C. 

Ashok S. Kalelkar (Ph.D.) has been ap- 
pointed manager of the Risk Analysis Group 
at Arthur D. Little, Cambridge, Mass. 



David L Kertzer has been promoted to 
associate professor of sociology at Bowdoin 
College. 

A. Lawrence Liquori has been promoted to 
vice president of Brady-Jacka Agency, Kings 
Park, N.Y. "Have a free-lance photography 
business, Blue Key Images, as a side business 
and recently was elected secretary of the 
King Park Chamber of Commerce. " 

RauerL. Meyn and Judith D. Stone were 
married July 15 in Berkeley, Calif., and are 
living in Malibu. Rauer is an associate with 
the Los Angeles law firm of W\'man, 
Bautzer, Rothman & Kuchel. 

.4)!)! Terrell Simon Murphy and her hus- 
band, Brian (see '67), report the birth of their 
second daughter, Anna Welles, on July 12. 
The Murphys live in New Britain, Conn. 

Edmund "Ted" Sullivan (Sc.M.) has been 
promoted to technical assistant to the assist- 
ant director of engineering in the di\ision of 
systems safety, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Bethesda, Md. He and his 
wife, Rosemari, live in Bethesda with their 
son, Ned, 2. 

John R. Theli)i has been appointed to a 
dual position as a member of the admissions 
staff and as college relations assistant at 
Pomona College. His M.A. and Ph.D. de- 
grees, both in history, were earned at the 
University of California, Berkeley. 

F. A. Tucker and his wife, Gayle, have 
moved back to the States after tv^'o years in 
London. He's still with General Electric, now 
serving as sales manager of industrial and in- 
ternational sales for mechanical drive steam 
turbines. Gayle is director of figure skating 
for the Wallace Civic Center in Fitchburg, 
Mass. The couple lives in Leominster. 

Stei'e Wormith received his Ph.D. in psy- 
chology' from the Universit\' of Ottawa and 
has been working in the Canadian Peniten- 
tiary System for two years. He started as a 
psychologist at Stony Mountain Institution, 
Winnipeg, Manitoba, and now is chief of re- 
search at the Regional Psychiatric Center, 
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. 

70 Malcolm Carmkhael and his wife, 
/ \J Jeannine, report the birth of a 
daughter, Mary Jacqueline, on Sept. 22. The 
family lives in Decatur, Ga. 

Dr. ]ames Larson is doing a family prac- 
tice residency at University Hospital, San 
Diego. 

Kathryn Bauin Meyer is associate general 
counsel at The Mount Sinai Medical Center, 
New York City. Her husband. Bob, was 
graduated from the New York Medical 
School last June and is interning at North 
Shore University Hospital. Kathy and Bob 
report the birth of a son, Daniel Alan, last 
August. 

Roberta J. Morris was graduated from 
Harvard Law School in 1975, was associated 
for two years with the New York law firm of 
White & Case, and last August joined the 
legal department of the Mount Sinai Medical 
Center in New York City. 

Glani S. Orton is a senior scientist at Cal- 
tech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he is 
doing research on the ahnospheres of the 
major planets while serving as an inves- 
tigator on NASA's C141 airborne observa- 
tory. Glenn recently was selected by NASA 
as one of thirteen interdisciplinary scientists 
to analyze data from the Galileo Project in 



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the mid-1980s. He's now living at 355 S. 
Madison Ave., Apt. 311, Pasadena, Calif. 
91101. 

John B. Rose is an information systems 
specialist with Polaroid Corp., Needham 
Heights, Mass. 

Geoffrey C. Thomas, Washington, D.C., is 
an estate tax attorney for the U.S. Internal 
Revenue Service. 

Bruce ]Nentworth is tending bar at Park 
Place Cafe, Hartford, Conn. 

Robert M. Zirin, a mechanical engineer, 
is vkdth General Electric, Schenectady, N.Y. 

^7"% Katheriiic Hay, a flautist, known 
/ A. professionally as Kitty Hay, made 
her formal New York recital debut at Car- 
negie Hall in January. Reviewing the concert 
in the Nnv York Times, critic John Rockwell 
said: "She handled Mario Davidovsky's 
'Synchronisms' for flute and electric sound 
neatly. She was at her best, however, in 
more conventionally fluent music, displaying 
a simple but appealing lyrical charm." Kitty 
has her master's from Juilliard and is work- 
ing on her doctorate in music at Columbia. 
She is a resident of West Brewster, Mass. 

Paul D. Feltou has been appointed 
coordinator of computer aides design at 
Raytheon's Submarine Signal Division, 
Portsmouth, R.l. 

Mannn Homoiioff and his wife, Linda, re- 
port the birth of a son, Matthew Stephen, in 
December. An attorney in Providence, Mar- 
vin and his family live at 7 Old Chimney Rd . , 
Harrington, R.l. 02806. 

Stephen Lehrer and Freda Stone were 
married June 26 in Providence and are living 
in Cranston. Steve is in his fifth year of teach- 
ing mathematics at Bristol High School. 

Ross McElwee has received a $3,500 Art- 
ists Fellowship in filmmaking from the Mas- 
sachusetts Arts and Humanities Foundation. 
He holds an M.S. degree from MIT, where 
he is currently working as a postgraduate fel- 
low. 

David T. Morgan and his wife report the 
birth of a daughter, Kathy, on May 22. They 
live in Wright City. Okla. 

Patricia Nugent is featured in a new rec- 
ord album, Foxglcii'e Woman, an album con- 
taining eleven of her original songs with 
vocals by Trish and accompaniments and 
arrangements by women musicians. The 
album is distributed by Olivia Records, a na- 
Honal women's record company. The ad- 
dress for Trish: 1519 Virginia, Berkeley, Calif. 
94703. 

The Rev. Thomas R. Petty has been or- 
dained an elder within the Northern Illinois 
Conference of the United Methodist Church. 
He had been an ordained deacon since 1972. 
He lives with his wife, Linda, an elementary 
school teacher, in Roselle, 111., where he 
serves as associate pastor of a large suburban 
United Methodist church. 

David G. Pires is an engineer with Rogers 
Corp., Lithonia, Ga. 

Samuel Pitluck, a computer scientist, is 
with LavvTence Berkeley Laboratory, Berke- 
ley, Calif. 

Robert E. Rothemich is a bookkeeper and 
produce man with Living Foods, Inc., Mill 
Valley, Calif. 

Carolyn Smith writes that for the past two 
years she has been working as an interpreter 
for the State Department at two of the 



Geneva-based U.S. -Soviet disarmament 
talks — the SALT Standing Consultative 
Commission and the Comprehensive Test 
Ban talks. "Each side has its own interpret- 
ers, so I usually go into Russian, never Eng- 
lish," she says. "Usually I 'commute' be- 
tween Washington and Geneva, staying a 
few months at a time. But as SALT-2 nears 
agreement I will no doubt be spending most 
of the year in Geneva." 

H. Scott Thomson is working for his 
M.B.A. at the University of Rhode Island. He 
also maintains his keen interest in basketball; 
last winter he was one of the last players cut 
from the Providence Shooting Stars, an 
Eastern Basketball League team affiliated 
with the Los Angeles Lakers of the NBA. 

^7^ S. Kent Brown (Ph.D.) went abroad 
/ ^ for sixteen months in January. 
After five months in Jerusalem, he will 
shortly be heading for the American Re- 
search Center in Cairo, Egypt, where he will 
remain through April 1979. Kent is a member 
of the Ancient Studies Institute at Brigham 
Young University. 

Dr. Robert M. Castellan ('75 M.M.S., 
M.D.) is completing his residency in internal 
medicine at Rochester General Hospital. He 
plans to join the Epidemic Intelligence Serv- 
ice of the Federal Center for Disease Control 
in July. He and his wife. Sue, also report the 
birth of a daughter, Allison, May 25. 

James M, Donnelly (A.M.) has been 
named an assistant vice president of Indus- 
trial National Bank, Providence, where he is 
responsible for purchases and sales of all 
government bonds and agency securities. 

Glenn T. Evans is assistant professor of 
chemistry at Oregon State University. 

Robert j. Freedman and his wife, Debra, 
have moved to 101 Central Park West, New 
York City. 

George M. Groome, jr. (Ph.D.), Vestal, 
N.Y., has been named a senior engineer in 
systems analysis engineering of IBM's Fed- 
eral Systems Division, Owego, N.Y. 

Joanne K. Hilferty is program coordinator 
for the New York State Medical Care 
Facilities Finance Agency/Housing Finance 
Agency, New York City. 

Doris B. Hitchen (A.M.) is an administra- 
tive assistant for Donald J. Prout & Asso- 
ciates, a Cranston (R.l.) architectural firm. 

Harry L. Knight (Ph.D.), Redwood City, 
Calif., has been named dean of the newly 
created department of academic administra- 
tion at Golden Gate University. He continues 
as administrative director of doctoral pro- 
grams at the college. 

R. Burke Kinnaird, a Cook County assist- 
ant state's attorney in Illinois, has been ap- 
pointed Franklin Park attorney by Mayor 
JackB. WUliams. 

M. Kami McEvoy and Maria Black were 
married in Manning Chapel last June and are 
living in College Station, Texas. Kevin is pur- 
suing a master's degree in marine resources 
management at Texas A&M University. 

Andreiv N. Price has been named director 
of domestic passenger pricing for Trans 
World Airlines, with which he has been as- 
sociated since January 1975. He and his wife, 
Michelle, live in Bronxville, N.Y. 

Nancy Sleator Robinson has been doing 

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Kirk O'Donnell: 
A first-round 
pick in the 
political draft 

When h-iends of Kirk O'Donnell '68 
heard in February that he had just landed a 
$52,000-a-year job as counsel to House 
Speaker Thomas P. 'Tip" O'Neill, Jr., in 
Washington, it is doubtful many of them 
were surprised. After all, the thirty-one- 
year-old O'Donnell has been over-achieving 
for quite some time. 

In 1972, for instance, at the age of 
twenty-five, O'Donnell was director of Bos- 
ton Mayor Kevin White's "Little City Halls" 
program, overseeing twenty-five employees 
and an annual budget of about $1.5 million. 
At the age of twenty-nine, he ran White's 
successful re-election campaign. He also at- 
tended Suffolk University Law School at 
night, passed the bar exam, and last summer 
opened his own labor law firm in Boston. 

O'Donnell's appointment to Tip 
O'Neill's staff confirmed what Boston 
politicos and journalists have been saying for 
years: he is a hot property. Boston Globe 
political writer Ken Hartnett put it this way: 
"If political proteges were southpaws eligible 
for a free-agent draft, O'Donnell would be a 
first-round pick. He's that good " 

Observers are already speculating that 
the Washington appointment may portend 
O'Donnell's eventual involvement in another 
Boston mayoral campaign. The Speaker's 
son, Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor 
Thomas P. O'Neill III, has been mentioned as 
a potential candidate for mayor if White de- 
cides to step down next year. O'Donnell con- 
cedes that even if he is based in Washington, 
he would be a reservoir of political advice for 
any such campaign. 

In a phone interview recently (sand- 
wiched between meetings and other phone 
calls — he is a very busy man), O'Donnell 
said he wouldn't know exactly what his job 
as counsel would involve until he got to 
Washington the following week. He did 
know he would bring expertise in numer- 
ous areas to the job. 'Tve worked in city 
government and run a campaign," he said, 
"and have had to deal with a variety of dif- 
ferent people. I've also worked closely on 
problems such as school desegregation in 
Boston. That's a perfect example of a national 
goal coming in conflict with the local sys- 
tem." 

His youth and his initial lack of experi- 
ence have never been barriers to success, be- 
cause O'Donnell has not allowed them to be. 
"1 had a strong sense that it's what you do, 
not what you've done, that's most impor- 
tant," the bovish-looking lawyer stressed. 



36 



'The office does not make the man. When 
voure given a lot of responsihilitv at a voung 
age, vou make yourself rise to the chal- 
lenge." 

During White's 1975 re-election cam- 
paign, O'Donnell was alternately labeled 
"ruthless and arrogant" and "hardworking 
and incrediblv bright" by colleagues. "He 
works se\ent\' hours a week himself and ex- 
pects everyone else to do the same, " said one 
co-worker, who declined to be named. "He's 
kind of like a bowling ball. You just wouldn't 
want to get in the way. " 

Mayor White, however, praised O'Don- 
nell as "a strong administrator, a motivator, a 
very hard worker. He is sensitive to other 
people's needs, even when thev conflict with 
his own." Peter Meade, who succeeded 
O'Donnell as director of Little City Halls, 
described him as "very human. He under- 
stands the things that really matter to 
people." 

O'Donnell, a home-grown success from 
Roslindale who played football for Boston 
Latin High School, said his parents weren't 
politically active. "But you can't grow up in 
the Boston area — especially in an Irish fam- 



ily — and not be interested in politics." 

His early success in the Boston political 
arena was due not so much to personal con- 
tacts, O'Donnell claimed, as to the deep un- 
derstanding — "the sense" he called it — he 
had gained of the city during his high school 
years. 'Tou can grow up in a city and know 
nothing but vour own neighborhood," he 
pointed out. 'The advantage I had was in 
going to Boston Latin, an integrated urban 
melting pot. I had to leave my home envi- 
ronment — get up in the morning, take a bus 
and then a trolley to East Boston. As a sev- 
enth grader I had already experienced a to- 
tally different world from Roslindale." 

O'Donnell majored in history at Brown 
— "It was a terrific major" — played football, 
and served as president of the Interfraternity 
Council. After graduation he taught high 
school history and economics for two years 
in Somerset, Massachusetts. There he first 
caught Kevin White's eve during the mayor's 
unsuccessful gubernatorial race in 1970. "I 
campaigned in the Fall River area, also down 
on Cape Cod, and was involved in the con- 
vention in Fall River," he said. "White did 
very well in that area, and he noticed me." 




In 1971, White tapped O'Donnell to 
manage the Little City Hall in Dorchester, 
which O'Donnell described as "a microcosm 
of the city." (He and his wife and three- 
year-old daughter still live there, and plan to 
rent out their house during their stay in 
Washington.) That job led to his appoint- 
ment as deputy director, then director of the 
entire Boston Little Cit\' Halls program, and 
later the management of WTiite's 1975 cam- 
paign. 

O'Donnell passed the bar exam in the 
spring of 1976. That summer he worked as an 
advisor to Mayor White, but he left the 
mayor's staff last year amid rumors of a rift 
between them and formed a labor law firm 
with Robert Holland, who had been Boston's 
director of labor relations. "We were really 
getting ready to build our fimi," O'Donnell 
said, "but then the offer from Tip O'Neill 
came, and 1 couldn't afford to pass up the 
opportunity." 

He will commute to Washington until 
June, by which time he hopes to have picked 
out a house for his family to move into. 

Like any good politician, O'Donnell is 
ever wary of predicting the future. When 
asked if he envisions a political career of his 
own, he replied, "It has become fashionable 
to focus on the men around political leaders. 
I think the focus should be on the man in 
office himself." Then he conceded, "I have 
no plans for the future to seek elective office. 
But I might already have done so, if I hadn't 
been given so much responsibility at a young 
age. I got into the administrative and sup- 
portive side of government, working with 
policy and community matters. The system 
was open for me. " 

Even without politics, his many interests 
would no doubt sustain O'Donnell nicely. 
He relaxes by jogging from Dorchester to 
Milton and back four times a week, works 
with his wife on the restoration and furnish- 
ing of their eighty-year-old house, and reads 
voraciously. "I tend to non-fiction," he said, 
"but I can always enjoy sitting down with a 
Graham Greene novel." He makes time for 
his family, and revels in the close relation- 
ship he has with his daughter Holly. "I spent 
four months at home while I was studying 
for the bar exam," he recalled, "and took care 
of Holly while m\' wife was teaching. The 
two of us had a ball." 

If politics pales, O'Donnell has many 
career options. "1 would always be willing to 
go back to teaching. I enjoyed it and feel very 
comfortable in a classroom." He might also 
return to the practice of law. He joked 
good-naturedly about his chosen field. "Say- 
ing vou want to be a lawyer/politician puts 
vou on a popularity scale just above a child 
molester," he laughed. 

Turning serious, O'Donnell summed up 
his realistic perspective on the political life: 
"You can't start thinking in this business that 
it will be forever, or you're in for a big fall 
someday." A.D. 



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remedial tutoring with learning-disabled 
children in her position as remediation 
specialist at the Philadelphia Child Guidance 
Clinic. 

David Scott graduated from the Univer- 
sity of Colorado School of Law in May 1977 
and was elected to the Order of the Coif, the 
honorary law society. He is an associate with 
Davis, Graham & Stubbs, Denver. 

Alfred C. Snider is assistant instructor and 
debate coach in the department of speech 
communication and human relations at the 
University of Kansas. 

Scott Tripp and Maryann Evans are mar- 
ried and living in Arlington, Va. Scott is a 
special agent for the Office of Security, U.S. 
Department of State. 

Ronald D. Vandoi Dorpel (A.M.) has been 
appointed assistant to the president of 
Brvant College, Smithfield, R.I. 

^7^t Peter Bernstein and Amy Brooks 
/ J Daunis, a doctoral candidate at Ox- 
ford University, England, were married Dec. 
26 in Brown's Manning Chapel. Peter is an 
associate editor ot Fortune magazine. 

Joel Goldstein has accepted a position as 
organizational consultant to the department 
of emergency medicine and instructor in the 
department of psychiatry at the University of 
Cincinnati Medical Center. He is completing 
his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the Uni- 
versity of Cincinnati. 

Helen Kidis Hanvood was hired last fall bv 
the Buffalo School Department to teach Eng- 
lish and Latin at Bennett High. "It is hoped 
that eventually 1 can increase the waning 
Latin enrollment," she writes. Helen is a 
part-time student at the University of New 
York at Buffalo, working for her Ph.D. in 
classics. 

Lidell Jackson has been appearing in the 
national touring company o( A Chorus Line, 
recently performed at the Shubert Tlieater, 
Los Angeles. Lidell's address; 1944 Glencoe 
Way, HolH'wood. 

Constance Kutik is a management analyst 
for USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service, 
Washington, D.C., a graduate student work- 
ing for an M.S. in administrarion at George 
Washington University, and technical direc- 
tor for Trinity Theater in Georgetown. 

Gloria Lucey completed a year as violinist 
with the San Juan (P.R.) Symphony and then 
last fall entered North Texas State University 
as a candidate for a master's degree in music. 

Tlionms V. Mallon is completing his doc- 
torate in English at Harvard, where he has 
been a teaching fellow in the departments of 
English and expository writing. 

Michael B. Mellion, a 1977 graduate of 
Suffolk Law School, is practicing in Provi- 
dence. "Am also involved in attempts to re- 
vamp the state's marijuana laws as R.I. state 
coordinator of the National Organization for 
the Reform of Marijuana Laws." 

Warren G. Poison, jr., has transferred 
from the University of Pennsylvania Law 
School to the University of Virginia Law 
School and is working with Michie Com- 
pany's Law Publishers in Charlottesville, Va. 
'Traveled cross-country in the summer of 
1977," he writes. 

Dr. Santina Siena, a graduate of Cornell 
Medical College, is a medical intern at 
Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Cen- 
ter, Chicago. 



Charles Slcmon and Gail K. Sasaki were 
married last August in Honolulu, with Robert 
Opaluch '74 an usher. Charles is a researcher 
and director of the Fiber Optica Lab for Tetra 
Tech, Inc. He and Gail are living in San 
Diego. 

Vimen Rolhnmn Tartter ('75 A.M., 17 
Ph.D.) is a postdoctoral research associate in 
the communications department at Bell Labs. 
Her husband. Dr. Paul Tartter (77 M.D.) is a 
first-year resident in surgery at Mt. Sinai 
Hospital in New York City, where they now 
live. 

Margaret K. Thayer and Alfred F. Newton 
were married May 14, 1977, and are living in 
Cambridge, Mass. "We both hold the posi- 
tion of curatorial associate in the entomology 
department of Harvard's Museum of Com- 
parative Zoology," Margaret writes. "We do 
research in beetle systematics on our own 
time. The agenda calls for a beetle-collecting 
trip to Australia next winter." 

Plnlip /. White, a physical chemist, is 
with General Electric Co., Twinsburg, Ohio. 

^ /\ F. Gregory Ahern has been named 
/ ^t a trust officer with Rhode Island 
Hospital Trust National Bank, Providence. 

Hoioard /. Fine is an associate actuary 
with William M. Mercer, Inc., Seattle, Wash. 

loan Cagiion is teaching a second-grade 
class of mainstreamed learning-disabled 
children at the Frank Jones School, Pease Air 
Force Base, Portsmouth, N.H. "Would like to 
hear from alumni in the area and would like 
all classmates to plan to be back at Brown for 
the 5th reunion next year." 

Scott R. Jensen, who spent the summer of 
1977 playing golf in Scotland, has joined the 
investment firm of Piper, Jaffray & Hopwood 
in Minneapolis. 

Gene Karpinski, a graduate of George- 
town Law School, is working for Ralph 
Nader's Congress Watch in Washington, 
DC. 

Melanie Kosich is program and hospital 
development specialist at the Faulkner Hos- 
pital, Jamaica Plain, Mass. "This job is 
otherwise known as a marketing specialist," 
she writes. 'The Faulkner serves a large el- 
derly population and so my experience as a 
nursing home administrator should come in 
handy." 

Perry W. PreinDas has been appointed 
senior financial analyst in the treasurer's de- 
partment of Celanese Corp., New York City. 
He has served as a consultant for the Volun- 
teer Urban Consulting Group. 

Clifford T. Stei'enson is a seismic data ana- 
lyst with Seismograph Service Corp., Okla- 
homa City, Okla. 

Curt Zingaro and Marian Kelly were 
married Oct. 9 in Drexel Hill, Pa., where the 
couple now lives. Curt is a markehng repre- 
sentative for General Binding Corp. 

Linda Ann Zonfnllo and John E. Jzyk were 
married June 25 at St. Pius Church, Provi- 
dence, by Rev. Donal R. Kehew, former 
Brown chaplain. Members of the wedding 
party included R/c/wn/ W. Ziolkowski and John 
P. Pelegano. Linda is a life science teacher at 
Woonsocket (R.I.) Junior High, and John is a 
store manager and salesman for Justice Bed- 
ding Co. 



^jr Albert K. Blackwelder and Cynthia 
/ ^ Berten were married Oct. 1 in 
Durham, Conn., and are living in Atlanta, j 
Ga. 

Richard F. Callahan has been promoted to 
branch manager of the Main Street office of 
South NorwaLk Savings Bank, Norwalk, 
Conn. 

George Rice Parish has been promoted to 
business development officer of Cullen Cen- 
ter Bank & Trust Co., Houston. George is 
married to Dorothy Yturria of Brownsville, 
Texas. 

John H. Ferring and Alison F. Nichols (see 
'76) are married and living in Boston. John is 
a corporate analyst with the First National 
Bank of Boston. 

Michael Calvin and Debbie Thompson 
were married Nov. 26 in Orange, Calif., and 
are living in Huntington Beach, Calif. In at- 
tendance at the wedding were Geoff Garth , 
JeffHackler, Tom Childs, RickHeimbacli, Russ 
Johnson, Fred Johnson '76, Bob Condon '74, 
Charlie Kimbal, Kathy Perry '76, and Adam 
Carmel. 

Michael Golrich was married in Sep- 
tember in Pella, Iowa, and is living in Tuc- 
son. Stei'e Krasner '76 was best man, with 
Joseph Meis and Lee Fielder '75 serving as 
ushers. The Rev. Howard O'Shea, Brown 
chaplain, officiated. 

Sharon Hass and Charles M. Chernick 
were married Jan. 16. She is in her final year 
at the Hofstra University School of Law. 

Pamela W. Hughes writes that she is living 
in Los Angeles, teaching and coaching fenc- 
ing at a small private school. "Plan to move 
to Virginia next year to be closer to my fami- 
ly, friends, and my graduate work. I am 
working on my master's during the summers 
with the University of Virginia master's 
program in Salamanca, Spain." 

John Kresslein and Vivian A. Comer (see 
'77) were married in February in Wayne, Pa., 
and are living in CatonsvUle, Md. John is 
an electronics engineer at Hydrospace- 
Challenger, Rockville, Md. 

Ross Krummet writes that he has been a 
field geologist-seismologist in the desert of 
Saudi Arabia since June 1976. "Will finish up 
this hitch this June, " he adds. 

Bob Mclntire is a graduate student in 
architecture at Washington University, St. 
Louis. 

Douglas C. Moore is a branch manager 
with Sinclair & Valentine, a graphic arts and 
ink manufacturing firm in Salt Lake City. 

Francis J. Mycroft received a master's in 
pharmacology from Stanford in June and is a 
research assistant at NASA's Ames Research 
Center, Mountain View, Calif. 

Dr. R. H. Pointer (Ph.D.) is an instructor 
at Harvard University Medical School, fol- 
lowing a postdoctoral fellowship in physiol- 
ogy at the Vanderbilt University School of 
Medicine. 

Timothy C. Ramsey is a sales representa- 
tive with Union Carbide Corp., Carbon 
Products Division, Chicago. 

Stephen G. Scholz is a graduate assistant 
at the University of Connecticut, working 
towards a master's degree in environmental 
engineering. 

Jim Wholey returned to Philadelphia last i 
June after two years as a Brown admission ! 
officer and is a first-year student at the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania Law School. 



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James C. Woodruff reports that last May 
he received an M.A. in education of the hear- 
ing impaired from Gallaudet College. "Am 
working with hearing-impaired students at 
West High School in Davenport, Iowa, and 
am spending summers as a cook, most re- 
centlv in Brookline, iV.H., for a change of 
pace." 

^ C\ /""'«■ ^- Aidala, Jr., is a graduate 
/ \J student in sociology.' at Harvard. 

Alan Axelrocl is still a sailor on a large 
motor yacht, but the boat's name has 
changed. He's now with the 120' Big Eagle, 
based at the Jockey Club in Miami, Fla. 

David S. Bernstein and /;// Warren (see 
'77) were married Dec. 31 in Stamford, 
Conn., with judge Antoinette Loiacono Dupont 
'50 performing the ceremony. Da\id is an ac- 
countant with General Electric Co., Erie, Pa. 

Robert H. Cohen and Ga;7 V. Hutchings 
(see '77) were married Julv 2 in Warwick, 
R.I., and are living in Greenburgh, N.Y. Bob 
is a second-year student at New York Medi- 
cal College. 

Sft-t'c Coppage and Nina Hinchee were 
married Dec. 17 in Fairfield, Conn., and are 
li\ing in New Haven. Steve has entered Yale 
Law School. 

Xlarcie Ciimmings spent a year in 
Ketchum, Idaho, and is now ivorking at the 
Federal Election Commission, Washington, 
DC. 

Monica Friar is a researcher with the 
Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C. 

Alan Geolot is in his second vear at the 
Universitv of Virginia Law School. 

Tracii Cetz is living in Virginia and work- 
ing at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Wash- 
ington, D.C. 

Anthony P. Green is in a doctoral pro- 
gram in immunology at the University of 
Pennsvlvania. 

Ellen Crober is finishing her second year 
at the WTiarton School of Finance, University 
of Pennsvlvania. 

lVi7/it' Cronenian is doing an internship in 
hospital management in Kentwood, Mich. 

Brum Heltsleu is studving for his Ph.D. in 
phvsics at the Universih' of Wisconsin. This 
summer he plans to move to California to 
begin work on a project associated w ith Stan- 
ford Universitv. 

Cordon H. Hiitt and Linda Hammer (see 
'77) were married Aug. 14, with Wison G. 
. Botu'inick and Alan Taub as ushers and Anita 
Abraham '77 and Kristin Siegcfinund '77 as 
bridesmaids. Gordon is a second-year stu- 
dent at New York Medical College. The 
couple is living in White Plains, N.Y. 

Kathryn Kavanagh is a political researcher 
for Common Cause in Washington, D.C, 
working in the issue development office. 

Wilfrul R. Koponen received his M.B.A. 
degree from Columbia Business School in 
January and is li\ing in New York City. 

Thomas 6. Martin is a negotiations. 
applications engineer in the numa-logic de- 
partment of Westinghouse Control Products, 
Detroit. 

Douglas R. MacAyeal is an instructor in 



quaternary studies at the University of 
Maine. 

Mimi McKenm is a junior associate with 
Kidder Peabody in New York City and plans 
to enter the M.B.A. program at Harvard in 
the fall. 

Melmda R . Molin is a second-vear medi- 
cal student at the Universitv of Pennsvlvania. 

/;// Sclnister Men'e$ is a research assistant 
in psychology at Swarthmore College. 

Alison f . Nichols and John H. Ferring (see 
'75) are married and living in Boston. Alison 
is publicitv manager of Artech House, a small 
publishing companv in Dedham, Mass. 

Robeit .v. Parka' and Elizabeth Mutran 
were married March 19, 1977, and are living 
in Durham, N.C. The wedding party in- 
cluded the groom's father, William E. Parker 
'50, and brother, William E. Parker 11 '70. Bob 
is a research assistant in sociology at Duke. 

Jessica Pepitone is completing her first 
year at The Medical College of PennsvKania, 
Philadelphia. 

Mike Sandroni has received his master's 
in teaching from Northwestern. He has been 
teaching history at Lake Forest High School, 
where he also coached basketball and girls' 
Softball. 

Kim Sa'ip'p's and Ronald A. Borrell, a 
graduate student in electrical engineering at 
Stanford, were married Dec. 31. 

Dap'lme Sie~o has joined theCwinnett 
Daily News, LawTencevUle, Ga., as a staff 
writer. A finalist in the American Cancer So- 
ciety journalism competition, she had been 
serving as a volunteer probation officer in 
Cobb County, Ga. 

Douglas M. Thompson and Jean A. Follett 
(see '77) were married in Oak Park, 111., Aug. 
27, with Jon Mills and Joanne Ahola '77 in at- 
tendance. Music was provided by Mark Cet- 
lein and Ceorge Barrett '77. Also present was 
the bride's father, Robert Follett '50, and her 
aunt and uncle, Ariel Follett O'Hara '59 and /. 
Pliilip O'Hara '55. Doug is a graduate student 
at MIT, and the couple is living in Belmont, 
Mass. 

Evelyn Williams is an engineer vsith the E. 
I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. pigments de- 
partment, Wilmington, Del. 

John Willig is with Prindle, Weber & 
Schmidt, a publishing companv in Dallas. He 
shares his Dallas apartment with Michael 
Bernert, who is an inventorv control super- 
visor for RCA. 

^7^7 Anita Abraham is attending 
/ / Teachers College, Columbia Uni- 
versity, working for an M.S. in public health 
nutrihon. 

Beth Ellen Arbiter and Richard Breakstone 
were married Aug. 21 in Jacksonville, Fla., 
with Pamela Bower and Barbara Hall as 
bridesmaids. The couple lives in New York 
City, where Beth is studving for her master's 
degree in speech pathology at Columbia. 

Stei'e Buchwald is a graduate student in 
chemistry at Harvard and is living in Cam- 
bridge. 

Richard Carson is living in Cambridge, 
Mass., and working as an analyst at Draper 
Laboratorv. 

Vivian A. Comer and John Kresslein (see 
'75) were married in Februarv in Wayne, Pa., 
and are living in Catonsville, Md. Julia An- 
dreiv '78 was a bridesmaid, and Gary Rosm 



'75, '76 Sc.M. was an usher. "Spent some 
time last winter job hunting and applying to 
law schools in Baltimore and Washington, 
D.C," Vivian writes. 

Patricia D. Elliott is attending the Uni- 
versity of Cincinnah School of Medicine. 

Stei'e Emerson (B.A.-A.M.) writes that 
after an internship with Foreign Policy maga- 
zine, followed bv two months of "grueling 
unemplovTiient," he is now a professional 
staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations 
Committee. 

Jean A. Follett and Douglas M. Thompson 
(see '76) were married in Oak Park, Dl., Aug. 
27, and are living in Belmont, Mass. Jean is 
with the Architectural Heritage Foundation 
in Boston. 

James L. Glass is an English language 
teaching assistant in a German comprehen- 
sive school in Berlin, Germanv. 

Linda Hainma' and Gordon H. Hutt (see 
'76) were married Aug. 14 and are living in 
White Plains, N.Y. She is an actuarv for 
MONY. 

Gail V. Hutchings and Robert H. Cohen 
(see '76) were married July 2 in Warwick, 
R.I., and are living in Greenburgh, N.Y. Gail 
is a graduate student in school psychology at 
New York University. 

Andrea Levere is the student co-director 
of the Center for Health Services, Nashville, 
Tenn. She describes the center as an "um- 
brella organization for several different proj- 
ects that do community organizing around 
the issues of health care, agriculture, legisla- 
tion, and land ownership." 

Paula Maguire is living in Sandwich, 
Mass. 

Stei'e McCormick is living in Columbus, 
Ohio, while attending Ohio State Medical 
School. 

Charles M. O'Neil, a Marshall Scholar 
while at Brown, is attending Oxford Univer- 
sity on a full two-vear scholarship. 

Diane J. Paskowski wTites that since last 
October she has been with Betz Laboratories 
of Trevose, Pa., as an assistant scientist in the 
deposit control group. 

Robert Patterson is advertising manager 
for the Vail Village, a weekly tabloid in Vail, 
Colo. "Am devising some schemes for a 
magazine of my own out here," he WTites. 
"Will have to wait and see." 

Stei'e Pomeranz is attending the Univer- 
sity of Cincinnati Medical School. 

Barbara S. Pook is a student at the Yale 
School of Drama. 

Lauren Ressler is an editorial assistant in 
the book publishing firm of E. P. Dutton, 
New York Citv'. 

Lorraine S. Ricard is with GTE Svlvania's 
Eastern Division electronic svstems group as 
an engineer specializing in computer pro- 
gram design and development. "Enrolled 
last Januarv in the part-time graduate pro- 
gram at Worcester Polvtechnic Institute to 
begin study toward a master of science de- 
gree in computer science. " She's a resident 
of Framingham, Mass. 

Greg Rorke has completed the training 
program at Chase Manhattan Bank, New 
York Citv, and is a credit analyst there. 

Kristhi Siegesmund, Orchard Lake, Mich., 
writes that she has "survived" her first year 
of law school at the University of Michigan. 

/;// Wallen and David N. Bernstein (see '76) 
were married Dec. 31 in Stamford, Conn., in 



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a ceremony performed by Judge Antoinette 
Loiacoiio Dupont '50. The couple is living in 
Erie, Pa., where Jill is a secretary at Mercy- 
hurst College. 

7ft ^'''■'^'' '■ Gottlidi is working for 
/ O WZOK-FM, Rockford, III., where 
she does the morning show and is the sta- 
tion's music director. 



B®sAi 



Helen Wliihnnrsh Dreio '03, Tr\'on, N.C., a 
professional photographer who specialized 
in portraits of children; Jan. 16 at age 97. Her 
husband was the late/erri/ DreiL^ '03 and a son 
was the late/cro/m' B. Drcic '29. Survivors in- 
clude a son, Dr. Robert W. Drew, 63 Bay Rd., 
Barrington, R. I. 07806. 

George Roberts Walworth '03, Buffalo, N.Y., 
retired fanner; Nov. 11, 1976. Mr. Walworth 
was active in the National Alumni Schools 
Program and was a member of the Brown 
Football Association. Alpha Delta Phi. Sur- 
vivors include his wife. Hazel, 900 Delaware 
Ave., Buffalo 14209; two daughters, Dorothy 
and Mary; and a son, Briggs. 

Dr. Harold DeWolf '04, Bristol, R. I., a 
physician there for thirty years prior to his 
retirement in 1942; March 4. Dr. DeWolf was 
a 1908 graduate of Cornell Medical School. 
He served as an officer in the Army Medical 
Corps during World War I. Alpha Delta Phi. 
Survivors include a son, Harold DeWolf, Jr., 
154 Main Entrance Dr., Pittsburgh 15228. 

Lulu Winifred Simpion '05, Turtlepoint, Pa., 
a librarian in Providence and several Western 
states; July 25 at age 98. She was a member of 
the Bradford (Pa.) Association of University 
Women. There are no immediate survivors. 

Laurence Rich Grose '07, Amherst, Mass., 
professor of forestry at Massachusetts Ag- 
ricultural College (now the University of 
Massachusetts) from 1920 to 1930; Feb. 3. 
Professor Grose received his A.M. from Co- 
lumbia in 1909 and his M.S. in forestry from 
Harvard in 1916. He was an English instruc- 
tor at Brown (1909-13), at the Harvard Fores- 
try School, and at Bates. Following his re- 
tirement from UMass in 1930, Mr. Grose 
taught English at The Fenn School in Con- 
cord, Mass. Delta Phi. Survivors include two 
sons, Laurence, of Hatfield, Mass., and 
Dennis; and a daughter, Eleanor. 

Benjamin Graves Sinclair '07, Providence, 
retired professor of history at Rhode Island 
College of Education; Feb. 26. Delta Upsilon. 
Survivors include his son. Dr. Edmond 
Sinclair, 176 Evergreen St., Providence 
02906. 

Leta W'arnock Carlson '14, '20Sc.M., Con- 
cord, Mass., formerly a mathematics and 
science teacher at Machias (Maine) High 
School, Hebron Academy, and the Laurel 
Hill School in Cleveland, Ohio; Feb. 13. In 
recent years, Mrs. Carlson taught piano and 
studied interior decorating. Survivors in- 



clude her brother, BurrUl Wamock, of 
Minotola, N.J. 

Mabel Osborne Spencer '14, Bradford, N.H., 
mathematics teacher at Technical High and 
Classical High in Providence for thirty years 
prior to her retirement in 1952 and long-time 
class treasurer; Jan. 25. Mrs. Spencer re- 
ceived her master's degree in 1923 from Co- 
lumbia University. Survivors include her 
nephew, Stanley Cheney, Route 114N, Brad- 
ford 03221. 

Marion Horton Brett '15, Northport, N.Y., 
editor emeritus of The Northport Journal, a 
country weekly and one of New York's old- 
est newspapers; Jan. 31. Mrs. Brett had pub- 
lished from her printing plant for fifty years 
before her retirement in 1973. She won 
awards from the New York State Press As- 
sociation for her editorial column called 
"Dear Folks" and a special citation from Pres- 
ident Truman, whose election she predicted 
in 1948. She was a founding member of the 
local Civic Association. In an editorial on her 
death, another Long Island newspaper said: 
"While newspapers all around were turning 
into sprawling affairs, Marion H. Brett kept 
her pages trained upon the community. She 
helped educate numbers of young writers 
and numbers of older readers. She helped 
the community talk to itself and to know and 
esteem itself." Survivors include two 
daughters, Katherine Springer, of Salem, 
N.J., and Fanny deBary, of Tappan, N.Y. 

Blanche Schiller Hook '15, Encino, Calif., 
editor of the California Parent-Teacher Maga- 
zine from 1944 to 1968; Feb. 9. Mrs. Hook 
taught at Central High in Providence and at 
Pawtucket High before moving to California. 
She served as president of the 250,000- 
member Los Angeles PTA in the 1930s, dur- 
ing which time funds were raised for a 
half-million-dollar children's health clinic. 
Mrs. Hook was a member of the Pembroke 
Club of Southern California. Survivors in- 
clude her husband, Joseph Hook, 3706 Ter- 
race View Dr., Encino 91316; and sons Fred 
and Albert. 

H. Ralph Gordmi '18, Port Charlotte, Fla., 
resident manager of Century East Apart- 
ments, Fort Lauderdale; April 27, 1977. Mr. 
Gordon was an outstanding punter and field 
goal kicker at Brown, setting a record with a 
43-yard drop kick against Wesleyan in 1917. 
He later played professional football for the 
Providence Steam Rollers and the Cleveland 
Tigers. He was a class agent and a member of 
the National Alumni Schools Program. Psi 
Upsilon. Survivors include a son, Ralph, 148 
N.E. Gladis Ave., Port Charlotte 33950. 

Morris Henry Broton '19, Barrington, R.I., a 
mechanical engineer with the George A. Ful- 
ler Company of New York City for twenty- 
five years prior to his retirement in 1965; Feb. 
17. During his years with the Fuller Com- 
pany, Mr. Brown worked on construction 
sites in the Yukon, Newfoundland, Ven- 
ezuela, and in the U.S. He left Brown for a 
year to ser\'e with the Army in France during 
World War 1. Survivors include his wife, 
Dorothy Beats Brouni '19, 18 Lantern Ln., Bar- 
rington 02806; a son, Tlieodore '50, Glaston- 



bury, Conn.; and a daughter, ludith B. Broicii 
'52, Providence. 

Wilfrui Warner Brouillette '19, Wenham, 
Mass., retired president and chief executive 
officer of Heritage Co-operative Bank, 
Salem, Mass.; Jan. 29. He was organist at the 
Congregational Church in Salem for thirty- 
six years and was treasurer of the Baptist 
Church of Salem. Mr. Brouillette served in 
the Navy during World War I. He is survived 
by his wife, Margaret, 57 Main St., Wenham 
01984. 

Caesar Thomas Cambio '19, Cranston, R.I., 
executive vice president and a director of 
Columbus National Bank, Providence; Feb. 
26. Mr. Cambio fought in the Argonne and at 
Verdun during World War 1. He had served 
as president of the Providence Clearing 
House. Survivors include his daughter, 
Janice DiPrete, 340 Oaklawn Ave., Cranston 
02810. 

Wallace Broga Kclham Dove '20, Providence, 
a biochemist and branch manager for Met- 
ropolitan Food Co., North Attleboro, Mass.; 
Feb. 11. Mr. Dove received his Sc.B. and 
Sc.M. degrees from MIT in 1922 and 1923, re- 
spectively. He served in the Navy during 
World War I and was production engineer at 
Walsh-Kaiser Shipyard during World War II. 
Mr. Dove was active in the Brown Housing 
Fund. Sigma Chi. His father was the late 
W. Washington Doiv '09. There are no imme- 
diate survivors. 

Ruth Reid Berridge '25 A.M., South Egre- 
mont. Great Barrington, Mass., former 
teacher at a reform school in Sauk Centre, 
Minn., and at high schools in Wellesley and 
Cambridge, Mass; early in January. Mrs. 
Berridge was a 1916 graduate of Carleton Col- 
lege. Survivors include two daughters, 
Katherine Solher, of Oklahoma City, and 
Ruth Berridge, of South Egremont. 

Harold Sinunons Qirr '25, Buffalo, N.Y., re- 
tired vice president of Davis-Ulmer Sprinkler 
Co., Buffalo, and a high official in the 
Masonic organizations throughout the state; 
Jan. 3. Alpha Tau Omega. Survivors include 
his wife, Gladys, 196 Kelvin Dr., Buffalo 
14223; and a daughter, Carol. 

Charles Willard Hayes '25, Chevy Chase, 
Md., Washington patent lawyer for nearly 
fifty years and a past president of the Ameri- 
can Patent Law Association; Feb. 21. Mr. 
Haves earned his LL.B. degree at George- 
town University in 1929 and joined the law 
firm of Cushman, Darby & Cushman, be- 
coming senior partner and counsel of the 
firm. Psi Upsilon. Survivors include his wife, 
Annie, 3519 Chevy Chase Lake Dr., Chevy 
Chase 20015; and two children, Charles and 
Sally. 

Joseph Santosuosso, Jr. '25, Brighton, Mass., 
former deputy sheriff of Suffolk Superior 
Court, Boston; Sept. 25, 1977. Mr. Santo- 
suosso was a 1926 graduate of Boston Uni- 
versity Law School. Phi Kappa. Survivors 
include his wife, Margaret, 19Cresthill Rd., 
Brighton 02135. 



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Henry Mcltedo Santosucsfo '26, Brighton, 
Mass., a Boston attorney; March 31, 1975. 
Mr. Santosuosso was a graduate of Boston 
University Law School. Phi Kappa. Sur- 
vivors include his wife, Thelma, 19 Cresthill 
Rd., Brighton 02135. 

Dr. Hcrwani Bishop Witter '26, Baton Rouge, 
La., local physician and chairman of the 
board of directors of the Baton Rouge Water 
Works Co.; Feb. 1. Dr. Witter was a graduate 
of McGill University Medical School. He had 
served as president of the Baton Rouge 
Lumber Company for ten years and as a di- 
rector of the Louisiana National Bank and the 
Louisiana Fire Insurance Co. He was a com- 
mander with the 1st Marine Division during 
World War 11. Lambda Chi Alpha. Survivors 
include his widow, Eleanor, 2335 Myrtle 
Ave., Baton Rouge 70806. 

The Rev. Duncan Fraser '28, Johnstown, 
N.Y., canon of St. John's Cathedral, Provi- 
dence, from 1941 to 1947 and dean of the 
cathedral from 1945 to 1947; Feb. 13. Mr. 
Fraser studied at the General Theological 
Seminary for three years and at Oxford for 
one year and was ordained in 1931. Kappa 
Sigma. Survivors include his wife, Dorothy, 
113 South William St., Johnstown 12095. 

Holdfuxnth Garden Minnigerode '28, Tal- 
ladega, Ala., retired Foreign Service officer; 
Feb. 28. Between 1930 and 1958, Mr. Min- 
nigerode served at seventeen posts in four- 
teen countries, in both diplomatic and consu- 
lar capacities. After retiring he taught history 
at Brandon Hall, Atlanta, Ga. Survivors in- 
clude his wife, Anna, P.O. Box 721, Tal- 
ladega 35160. 

Dudley Heath Seltzer '28, Shelby, Ohio, 
former owner of Seltzer Electric Co., Shelby; 
Nov. 17. He had served on the board of di- 
rectors of the local Boy Scouts and the 
YMCA. Phi Gamma Delta. Survivors include 
his wafe, Grace, 24 Madison Ave., Shelby 
44875; and two children, Patricia and John. 

Russell Vennard Jones '29, North Canton, 
Ohio, operator of the Russell V. Jones & As- 
sociates insurance firm for the past forty 
years; Jan. 27. Mr. Jones received his LL.B. 
from the Western Reserve Law School in 
1932. An Army officer during World War II, 
he was assistant staff judge advocate at an 
Air Force command depot in England. Alpha 
Delta Phi. Survivors include his wife, Mary 
Alice, 169 Apple Grove N.E., North Canton 
44720; and a daughter, Christine. 

Bertha Daily Mournighan '30, '36 A.M., 
Belleair Bluffs, Fla., teacher at Aldrich High 
School, Warwick, R.I., prior to her retire- 
ment in 1968; Feb. 14. Mrs. Mournighan was 
a former vice president of the Pembroke Club 
of Kent County. Survivors include her hus- 
band, J. Irving, 100 Bluff View Dr., Belleair 
Bluffs 33540; and two sisters, Mae Daily 
Aldnch '26 and Hazel Daily '32. 

Martha Burdick Ames '31, Preble, N.Y., a 
poet and former school teacher; March 2. 
Mrs. Ames had numerous poems published 
in theSi/racu.^if Post-Statuiard and served in 
her community as president of the Home Bu- 
reau and the Ladies' Aid Society. Survivors 



include her husband, Arnold, Windemere 
Farm, Preble 13141. 

Mildred Beimvre Carpenter Whaley '31, Lud- 
low, Mass., a psychometrist at the University 
of Rhode Island and for the Rhode Island 
Department of Si.vial Welfare; Feb. 15. The 
late £. Kamcth Carpvuter '29 was her first 
husband. She had also served as instructor in 
psychology at St. Lawrence University. Sur- 
vivors include her husband, Arthur Whaley, 
47 Winsor St., Ludlow 01056; and two 
daughters by her first marriage, Judith and 
Sharon. 

George Edward Fagan '32, Pascoag, R. I., re- 
tired president of Lake Realty Co., Pascoag; 
Feb. 19. Survivors include his sister, Corrine 
Elkins, 119 Sayles Ave., Pascoag 02859. 

Robert McAllister Hutton '32, Braintree, 
Mass., for many years a construction 
superintendent with Bethlehem Steel Co., 
Quincv, Mass.; Jan. 13. Mr. Hutton was a 
Uvo-time honorable mention All- American 
goalie in hockey. Theta Delta Chi. Survivors 
include his son, Deane, 14 Kent St., Quincv 
02169. 

Joseph Chase III '33, Falmouth, Mass., staff 
scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic In- 
stitution, Woods Hole, Mass. , and a success- 
ful smallboat sailor; Jan. 28. Mr. Chase was a 
meteorologist whose scientific interests were 
air-sea interrelationships, general physical 
oceanography, and aviation meteorology. 
Entering the Army in 1942, he studied me- 
teorology at the University of Chicago, be- 
came a weather officer, and was assigned to 
the Eighth Air Force in England. During the 
last twelve years of his twenty-sLx-year stay 
at Woods Hole, Mr. Chase has been a visiting 
lecturer in meteorology and oceanography at 
Bridgewater State College. A small-boat en- 
thusiast since his boyhood on Martha's 
Vineyard, he provided weather forecasts for 
ocean yacht racing, and he combined the two 
interests when he sailed aboard Ted Hood's 
Robin when it was overall winner in the 1968 
Newport-to-Bermuda Race. Survivors in- 
clude his uife, Elizabeth, 235 Sippewissett 
Rd. , Falmouth 02540; and two sons, Tom and 
John. 

Albert Maurice Hiorns '33, South Attleboro, 
Mass., announcer, program director, and 
writer for the Yankee Network and the 
Mutual Broadcasting System in Boston and 
at WPRO, Providence, before his retirement 
in 1972; Dec. 14. Mr. Hiorns served in the 
Navy during World War II. Survivors include 
his wife, Katharine, 27 Park PL, South 
Attleboro 02703. 

Edward William Wittp'enn '33, Austerlitz, 
N.Y., director of the Columbia County (N.Y.) 
Office of CivU Defense, a former supervisor 
in Austerlitz, and an ardent sportsman; Dec. 
20. Phi Gamma Delta. Survivors include his 
wife, Maud, Ghent, N.Y.; and two brothers, 
George and William H. '35. 

Mary Byrne Fenton '34, ■40 A.M., Rumford, 
R. I., former chairman of the commercial de- 
partment of Mount Pleasant High School, 
Providence; Oct. 3, 1972. Miss Fenton also 
taught at Central High (1925-38) and was 



president of the Women High School 
Teachers Association from 1943 to 1945. She 
had been active in the Faculty- Players, Provi- 
dence. There are no immediate survivors. 

Howard Richmond '35, Riverside, Conn., 
former president of Crompton-Richmond 
Company of New York and current chairman 
of Crompton Company of New York and 
Providence; March 4. Mr. Richmond was a 
Naval officer during World War 11. He was a 
director of the American Textile Manufac- 
turers Institute for nine years and was a con- 
sultant on textiles to the U.S. Assistant Sec- 
retary of Commerce. Psi UpsUon. Survivors 
include his wife, Elizabeth, Pinecrest Rd., 
Riverside 06878; a son, Howard; and two 
daughters, Carolyn and Rosemary. 

Horace Richard Booth '36, '39 A.M., High- 
land, Md., retired Army colonel and French 
teacher at Brown; Feb. 25. Mr. Booth taught 
English at the Lycee du Pare in France before 
he joined the Army. After World War 11, Mr. 
Booth joined the National Security Agency, 
from which he retired in 1975. He was secre- 
tary of the stateuide Program Action Com- 
mittee for Common Cause. Survivors include 
his wife, Alice, 12875 Highland Rd., High- 
land 20777; and a daughter, Sarah. 

John Haicard Young '36, Baltimore, Md., 
Vickers Professor of Archaeology and profes- 
sor of classics at Johns Hopkins University; 
Jan. 17. Mr. Young received his master's de- 
gree at Harvard and his doctorate at Johns 
Hopkins. A member of the Hopkins faculty 
since 1948, he had participated in archaeolog- 
ical expeditions to Cyprus, Turkey, and 
Greece. During World War II he sen'ed as di- 
rector of the Greek War Relief Association. 
He had been a secretary of the Archaeologi- 
cal Institute of America and a correspondent 
for the German Archaeological Institute. 
Survivors include his daughter, Grace 
Young, Urbana, 111. 

Dr. Marc Samuel Handler "i7, Northridge, 
Calif., medical director for the Los Angeles 
Department of Water and Power; Jan. 6. Dr. 
Handler received his M.S. and M.D. degrees 
from the University of Chicago in 1940 and 
1950, respectively. His twenty-seven-year 
medical career included fifteen years of pri- 
vate practice in Van Nuvs, Calif. He served 
as a captain in the Army Medical Corps dur- 
ing World War II. Sur\ivors include his v\ife, 
Helen, 17447 Parthenia, Northridge 91324; 
sons Mark and Richard; and a daughter, 
Ellen. 

Norman Davis Newcomb '41, Trappe, Md., 
owner of Cods Point Farm, Trappe; Feb. 23. 
Mr. Newcomb was an Army veteran of 
World War II. Theta Delta Chi. Survivors in- 
clude his widow, Jovce, Cods Point Farm, 
RD #1, Box 79, Trappe 21673. 

Shirley Messinger Round '44, Warwick, R.I., 
former president of her class and program 
chairman of the Pembroke Club of Kent 
County; March 18. Mrs. Round was presi- 
dent of the Kent County Memorial Hospital 
Women's Auxiliary and the Rhode Island 
Medical Society Women's Auxiliary. During 
World War II she served as administrative 
assistant in the personnel office of the Ci\il 



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Aeronautics Administration, Washington, 
D.C. Survivors include her husband, Dr. 
Charles B. Round '38, 2171 Warwick Ave., 
Warwick 02889; five sons, Charles, Philip, 
Stephen, Michael, and Donald; a daughter, 
Nancy; sisters Lucille and Natalie Messinger 
lenkins '48; and a brother, Robert '46. 

Ralph Andreu'S Whitney '45, Charlotte, Vt., 
vice president of the Green Mountain Power 
Corp., Burlington, Vt.; Nov. 5. Mr. Whitney 
served on the advisory board of the Electric 
Council of New England and was a past pres- 
ident of the Vermont Electric Association. He 
was a veteran of World War II and the Ko- 
rean War and was a rehred commander in 
the U.S. Naval Reserve. Delta UpsUon. Sur- 
vivors include his wife, Shirley, Hill's Point 
Rd., Charlotte 05445; three brothers, Riclmni 
'45, Philip '47, and Earl '52; and four 
daughters, Susan, Janice, Jill, and Jennifer. 

George Adam Groves '47, Youngstown, 
Ohio, district representative for Campbell 
Soup Company for thirty years; Jan. 16. Mr. 
Groves served a term as president of the 
Grocery Manufacturers Representatives of 
Youngstown. He was a Navy fighter pilot 
during World War II. Delta Kappa Epsilon. 
Survivors include his wife, Thella, 3941 
Loma Vista Dr., Youngstown 44511; 
daughters Susan and Anne Louise; and a 
brother, Robert '45. 

Ross Edwin Van Dyke '47 Ph.D., Orinda, 
Calif., owner and operator of the Little River 
Market, Little River, Calif.; Jan. 25 in an auto 
accident. A 1941 graduate of Gettysburg Col- 
lege, Mr. Van Dyke worked on the Manhat- 
tan Project during the war years, taught 
chemistry for four years at Johns Hopkins 
after receiving his doctorate, and then was a 
research chemist with Shell Oil for twenty- 
one years until retiring in 1972 to start a new 
career. His store had become a focal point of 
activity in the small community in the San 
Francisco Bay area. Mr. Van Dyke was active 
in communitv anci school activities. Sur- 
vivors include his wife. Rose Boyajian Van 
Dyke '45, 10 Lind Ct., Orinda 94563. 

Clare Marette Gallaglier '75, Yonkers, N.Y., 
a Ph.D. graduate student in zoology at Duke 
University; Jan. 13 of asphyxiation by carbon 
monoxide poisoning when fumes from a de- 
fective furnace seeped through cracks of the 
walls in her apartment building. Miss Gal- 
lagher spent two years studying in the medi- 
cal research laboratory at Harvard Medical 
School before being awarded a graduate as- 
sistantship toward her doctorate at Duke. A 
memorial scholarship has been established in 
her name by classmates, and checks should 
be made payable to Brown University, atten- 
tion Gallagher Memorial Fund. She is sur- 
vived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter 
Gallagher, 85 Rockland Ave., Yonkers 10705. 




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Henry Wriston 

Editor: Obituaries of Dr. Wriston 
stressed that under his leadership Brown 
was transformed from a regional to a national 
institution. I was interested to check back 
through the 1923 Liber Briinensis to see where 
the members of our graduating class came 
from. 

I found that of the 219 men, 35 per cent 
came from Rhode Island, 72 per cent came 
from New England, and 89 per cent came 
from New England, New York, and New Jer- 
sey. Disregarding state lines, just over one- 
half of the class had their homes within a 
fifty-mile radius of Providence. More than 1 
had realized. Brown certainly was provincial 
in my day. 

HAROLD H, YOUNG '23 
Summit, N.j. 



Editor: I imagine that in the many as- 
sessments of Henry Wriston it will be noted 
that when he became president of Brown it 
was a respectable New England college 
complete with ivy and provincialism and that 
when he left in 1955, Brown was well on its 
way to becoming an outstanding national 
university. Thus, 1 will not dwell on that. 

Coincidences of necrology are intrigu- 
ing, e.g., two of the world's most noted ar- 
chitects (Gropius and Mies van der Rohe) 
died in 1%9. Now in 1978 we have — within 
the space of a month — in higher education 
the deaths of Harvard's James B. Conant and 
Brown's Henry M. Wriston. 

It strikes me that there are numerous 
parallels between Wriston and Winston 
Churchill. They were dominating per- 
sonalities. Both possessed fertile, creative 
minds and were constantly giving off lively 
ideas. They were men whose quick minds 
and impatience with methodical plodding 
produced envy and bitterness in quite a few. 
Criticism of both often came down to one 
word, viz., judgment. Catholicity of interests 
marked both men — Churchill pursued 



Letters to the editor are welcome. They 
should be on subjects of interest to readers of this 
magazine tvitli emphasis on an exchange of z'iews 
and discussion of ideas. All pioints of viezv are zoel- 
come, but for reasons of space, variety, and timeli- 
ness, the staff may not publish all letters it re- 
ceives and may use excerpts from others. 



bricklaying, Wriston carpentry — not to 
mention other less heterodox interests. Both 
men received over-blown admiration which 
really did no great service since it tended to 
obscure the genuine fallible human. Oratori- 
cal style and sense of humor were rather 
similar. 

I arrived at Brown in the fall of 1954, un- 
sophisticated and impressionable. Brown 
had Wriston! He was bigger than life; a 
legend. They don't come like that any more. I 
think of Richard Lyman of Stanford and 
Derek Bok of Harvard — both competent col- 
lege presidents but so much like you and me. 

Henry Wriston had a greater impact on 
me than any one else at Brown. Somewhat 
odd considering we had no personal contact. 
I loved his Chapel talks; I went to Sayles 
whenever he spoke. I left his talks propelled 
by awe and enthusiasm. 1 once, while under 
the spell of a Wriston speech and heading for 
the Refectory, excitedly said to a friend (now 
a highly successful music critic), "God, 
wasn't that a great speech?" My friend, car- 
rying his superior sophistication so easily, 
barely looked up from his BDH and disdain- 
fully said, "Oh Larry! It's nothing new. It 
was hackneyed." I was crushed. 

Henry Wriston defined for me the issues 
of the day. In 1955 he delivered a perceptive 
analysis of the Bandung Conference that I 
have often returned to mentally. Henry Wris- 
ton sharpened my awareness of a univer- 
sity's mission and what the life of the mind 
was supposed to be. He enjoyed those talks 
and when he threw back his robes and 
flaunted his full bulk in front of us he etched 
himself deeply into the minds of many. I re- 
call once he commented that with all the 
changes of government in France it was im- 
possible to remember who was the current 
premier (Edgar Faure) except he found think- 
ing of golf a helpful mnemonic device. This 
was greeted by silence and then he shouted 
"Fore!" 

It has always been something of a hobby 
of mine to collect, figuratively speaking, 
charismatic speakers. Henry Wriston will 
always have a high ranking in my speakers' 
pantheon (an odd assortment — Churchill, 
Wriston, James Pike, Douglas MacArthur, 
Senator "Cotton Ed" Smith, Martin Luther 
King, Jr., and Mario Savio). 

The entrance to the Wriston Quadrangle 
borrows from the famous tribute to Chris- 
topher Wren and tells us that if we are seek- 
ing his monument to simply look about. 



Brown fodav is very different from the 
Brown of 1955 but the basic guidelines were 
laid down by Wriston and thus his monu- 
ment is truly all about those who are asso- 
ciated with Brown, and I do not mean just 
buildings. I mean the spirit of what a univer- 
sity should be. Henry Wriston eloquently 
defined that spirit and skillfully acted to 
move Brown towards the ideal. 

LAWRENCE T. KOCHER '58 
Los Altos, Calif. 



Discrimination 

Editor: 1 just received mv copy of the 
calendar of events for the coming Com- 
mencement, and 1 noted the item for the 
"Afro-American Reunion Committee" re- 
ception: "Black alumni, candidates for de- 
grees and guests are welcome." 

Would the University accept a similar 
function sponsored bv the "Anglo-American 
Reunion Committee, White alumni, etc. 
etc."^ 

The dvil rights act outlaws all discrimi- 
nation on the basis of race. It does not permit 
any group to discriminate agamst any other 
group, even if it is a minority discriminating 
against a majority'. 

Please register mv protest. 

J. R. EDGERTON 60 
Washington, D.C. 



The Lamphere settlement: 

The plaintiffs reply to Professor Leis 



Appreciation 



Editor: 1 have truly appreciated recei\Tng 
the Alunmi S4onthly all these years. It has 
brought Brovsn-Pembroke back into my life 
with each issue and enabled me to observe 
the ups and downs Brown has had as well as 
keep tabs on some of the wonderful people 1 

■ knew during undergraduate days. It pleases 
me to subscribe now and, in a very small 

. way, help ease the financial burden of an ex- 
cellent magazine. 

JUDY DECH FOCHT '50 
r Northbrook, III. 

Memories 

Editor: As an old (seventy-eight) retired 
newspaper editor, I greatly enjoy reading the 
BAM. 

Mrs. Ehffily's splendid piece on the 
$43,000 refurbishment of the Airport Lounge 
[BAM, January February] brought back 
memories of my job on the newsstand in the 
old Brown Union (circa 1919-20). My boss 
was George Held, head of the BCA, and Dr. 
Faunce was prexy. Your Lounge pix, how- 
ever, was marred for me somewhat by the 
un-Emilv Post longhair uith his crude bro- 
gans planted on one of the costly new tables 
. . a bit too casual for tliis inkstained old timer! 

WILLIAM W. WILCOX, JR '21 
Liverpool. N.Y. 



Editor: We wholeheartedly agree with 
anthropology professor Philip E. Leis {BAM. 
March) that Brown did indeed lose the Lam- 
phere class-action suit, and we applaud his 
attempt to sweep away the euphemisms and 
contorted arguments which have too often 
characterized the University discussion of 
this complex case. However, we are per- 
plexed why in his article Professor Leis needs 
to speculate about whether this loss is a 
" 'sell-out' a failure of nerve, or a reasoned 
option in the face of an adverse decision in 
Federal District Court." As one of the origi- 
nal named defendants in the suit, surely Pro- 
fessor Leis knows better than most Brown 
faculh' and administrators the devastatingly 
incriminating evidence of sexual harassment 
and discrimination against women faculty, 
students, and employees we found in the 
University files. In fact, during a contempt 
hearing in January 1977, Federal District 
Court ordered Professor Leis and Bro%vn 
University to pay an $8, (XX) penalty to plain- 
tiffs' attorneys for withholding subpoenaed 
documents the University lawyers them- 
selves termed "highly sensitive" and "po- 
tentially libelous," but which the court 
judged nevertheless "relevant" to this sex- 
discrimination suit. Surely Professor Leis 
must understand that if the material in the 
anthropology department files was at all rep- 
resentative of that in other files the plaintiffs 
examined throughout the University, the 
most distinguished legal defense team would 
have found it difficult to refute the accumu- 
lated evidence to "win" the Lamphere case 
in court. Most facults' and administrators 
who had access to part of this evidence con- 
cluded it was in the interest of individual 
faculty defendants and the entire institution 
to try to reach an out-of-court settlement. We 
are frankly dismayed that Professor Leis 
himself should call into question the wisdom 
of this decision, when his own persona] 
reputation and career would have likely been 
damaged by public disclosure of subpoenaed 
evidence in a prolonged trial. It should not be 
forgotten by the readers of this article that 
Professor Leis was chairperson of the an- 
thropology department at the time Louise 
Lamphere was considered for promotion to 
tenure, and the department's handling of 
that decision under his direction became the 
basis for the class action complaint of Lam- 
phereetal. vs. Broum University. .\s one of the 
original named defendants. Professor Leis 
had the legal right to object to any settlement 
and to insist that the case be taken to trial. If 
Professor Leis believes so strongly that 
"Brown suffered a loss of its autonomy and 
academic freedom, condoned sexual chau- 
vinism, and was intimidated by the court's 
unrestrained use of judicial power" in this 
settlement, why. Professor Leis, did you not 



exercise this right? 

Although we agree with Professor Leis 
that Brown lost the Lamphere suit, that is un- 
fortunately the only major statement in his 
article with which we can agree. His explica- 
tion of the consent decree is replete with dis- 
tortions, simplistic and misleading interpre- 
tations, and careless rhetoric. His comments 
reflect a fundamental misunderstanding of 
the concept of affirmative action, the func- 
tion of the Affirmative Action Monitoring 
Committee, the meaning of affirmative ac- 
tion goals and timetables, and the nature of 
BrowTi's ongoing relationship to the court. 
We feel obligated to repK- to Professor Leis 
only because his unique access to unpub- 
lished documents and his dose relationship 
to the Lamphere case might lead others er- 
roneously to accord his comments greater 
credibility than those of Professors Arlene 
Gorton and Albert Wessen {BAM. November 
1977), who along with Professors John Quinn 
and Barbara Weissberger were directly in- 
volved as faculty representatives in the draft- 
ing and negotiating of the consent decree. 
The plaintiffs consider Professor Leis's dis- 
cussion of the Lamphere settlement in the 
March BAM to be highly distorted and lack- 
ing the critical objectivity we assume he 
strives to achieve in his academic scholar- 
ship. In our opinion, both the tone and sub- 
stance of his article have overtones of self- 
delusion and self-vindication. Furthermore, 
while respecting Professor Leis's right to 
argue his individual interpretation of the 
Lamphere case and its implications, the 
plaintiffs would like to go on record as object- 
ing to his misleading treatment of the ideas 
expressed by Professors Gorton and Wessen 
in their November article. We essentially 
support their historical review of the case 
and negotiations, as well as their interpreta- 
tion of key sections of the consent decree. 
Although during the five months of settle- 
ment negotiations we vigorously disagreed 
with Professors Gorton, Quinn, Weiss- 
berger, and Wessen in their capacity as fac- 
ulty' representatives, we continue to respect 
their honest and deliberate efforts to grapple 
uith the complex legal and moral issues 
posed bv the Lamphere suit and to represent 
the interests of all Brown faculU', whether 
they be male or female, tenured or unten- 
ured. 

Yes, Brown University lost the Lam- 
phere suit, but we are convinced with Pro- 
fessors Gorton and Wessen that the man- 
dated reforms "will benefit the University, its 
women faculty — and, indeed, the entire 
community," and we know that other Brown 
faculty committed to excellence «H(i justice 
also concur. Those who still believe — con- 
sciously or unconsciously — that most men 
are more qualified than most women will in- 



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sist on viewing the affirmative-action goals 
and timetables as an Armageddon loss for 
academic excellence at Brown. Those who 
believe that their personal prerogatives as 
tenured faculty are "sacred" and take prece- 
dence over the institution's legal obligation 
to guarantee all its employees that decisions 
affecting their future will be in accordance 
with dear and objective criteria and written 
procedures would undoubtedly have been 
hostile to«»i/ settlement which limited their 
presumed rights. However, we would like to 
stress that our conversaHons with untenured 
male faculty reflect a more positive response 
to the Lamphere settlement and a growing 
recognition that they will also enjoy in- 
creased protections as a result of the court- 
mandated reforms. We are confident that in 
the next few years more and more faculty 
and administrators will see these com- 
prehensive institutional reforms as a wel- 
come guide to decision-making, rather than 
as an "unrestrained use of judicial power." 

Because the ideological assumptions 
expressed by Professor Leis could impede 
this process if they remained unchallenged, 
we feel compelled to respond in detail to 
some of the statements in his article. For 
example, Professor Leis seems to imply that 
universities have an inherent right to a self- 
defined autonomy, which distinguishes 
them from IBM, TWA, the ACI (Rhode Is- 
land Adult Correctional Institution), and 
other social and political institutions. 
Although universities have historically 
claimed that they deserve special privileges, 
immunities, and rights, the federal govern- 
ment, the courts, and their own students and 
employees have increasingly insisted that 
they also must be accountable to the law and 
other institutions. In a democracy no mdi- 
vidual or institution has an absolute right to 
autonomy and freedom from accountability. 
If the Supreme Court has in recent years 
applied this concept to the President of the 
United States, certainly Brown faculty and 
Brown University cannot claim a unique 
exemption. If the autonomy of Brown and its 
faculty is being abridged in the future by 
Federal District Court, it is simply because 
they have flagrantly disregarded in the past 
their legal obligations to implement the civil 
rights laws. Those of us, plaintiffs and de- 
fendants alike, who had access to University 
files and the correspondence between Brown 
and HEW since 1972, can vouch that it was 
just a matter of time until HEW, the Labor 
Department, or an individual Brown em- 
ployee initiated a comprehensive discrimi- 
nation complaint against the University. 
Brown has not had its autonomy usurped by 
Federal District Court, as Professor Leis 
would have us beheve; rather the faculty and 
administration of Brown surrendered it 
through their own inaction over the last five 
years. Unsupervised autonomy will now 
only be restored when Brown has conclu- 
sively demonstrated its commitment to equal 
rights by fulfilling the requirements man- 



dated in the consent decree. 

Professor Leis is also inaccurate when he 
asserts that the University "agreed to place 
itself under the direct supervision of a 
court." Although the Monitoring Committee 
is an agent of the court, not a regular faculty 
committee, it is composed of Professor Leis's 
own tenured faculty colleagues, who un- 
doubtedly share his own concern for de- 
partmental autonomy, academic excellence, 
and faculty peer review. However, they have 
a special responsibility of insuring that 
throughout the University these prerogatives 
are balanced by standards, criteria, and pro- 
cedures which foster due process and rem- 
edy the underrepresentation of women facul- 
ty. It is only when individual faculty in indi- 
vidual departments fail to meet these re- 
sponsibilities to the court and to their 
untenured colleagues that either the 
Monitoring Committee or the court will di- 
rectly intervene. Consequently, it is only 
faculty such as Professor Leis, who mistak- 
enly equate departmental autonomy with 
laissez faire, due process with needless bu- 
reaucracy, and institutional accountability 
with unrestrained judicial power, who 
should be personally and professionally 
threatened by these changes. 

We take strong exception, in particular, 
to Professor Leis's entire discussion of how 
the affirmative-action procedures outlined in 
the consent decree will affect academic qual- 
ifications at Brown. First, we resent his im- 
plication that because we filed a sex-dis- 
crimination complaint against Brown, we are 
more tolerant of mediocrity and less commit- 
ted to academic excellence than he. Sec- 
ondly, his arguments implicitly assume that 
female candidates are generally less qualified 
than male candidates and that lesser qual- 
ified women and minorities will be virtually 
guaranteed employment by the provisions of 
this decree. An impartial reading of those 
provisions refutes such an assumption. The 
decree states that when "two candidates are 
ot equal qualification" preference shall be 
given to the woman or minority candidate. 
We do not follow Professor Leis's logic, 
when he then asserts that "an affirmative- 
action commitment calls for the appointment 
of women who are qualified, not best qual- 
ified." Presumably if a male and female can- 




didate are judged equally qualified, both are 
'1:iest qualified"; if a female is judged better 
qualified than the male candidates, she is 
"best qualified"; if a male is judged better 
qualified than the female candidates, he is 
"best qualified." In any case, the "better 
qualified" candidate should be offered a 
Brown appointment, unless Brown faculty 
allow racist and sexist prejudices to influence 
their decision. We have faith that profes- 
sional scholars who can critically analyze a 
poem, reconstruct the social organization of 
ancient Rome, and delineate the structure of 
a human cell have the capacity to present 
"dear and convincing evidence" that the 
employment decisions they have reached are 
fair and "nondiscriminatory as to sex." 

In addition. Professor Leis's exegesis of 
the consent decree betrays a marked un- 
awareness of American social and political 
history, and his misunderstanding of the 
principle of affirmative action is clearlv 
rooted in this deficiency. He would have us 
believe that sex, race, religion, and other so- 
cial disadvantages were previously irrelevant 
when universities made employment and 
other academic decisions. Certainly Profes- 
sor Leis is not so uninformed and naive that 
he would assert university professors in 
general and Brown faculty in particular are 
uniquely free of racist and sexist prejudices, 
when scholars have documented the ram- 
pant race and sex discrimination pervading 
our entire society. Because he denies the 
continued existence of such bias, he must 
necessarily conclude that aui/ awareness of 
sex or race is sexist/racist, chauvinist, or dis- 
criminatory. He does not comprehend that 
the process of affirmative action dictates that 
until American society has purged itself of its 
negative preoccupation with a person's race 
or sex, we must over the short term develop 
procedures which make us positiveh/ aware of 
race and sex. At this historical moment we 
cannot realistically obliterate the social dis- 
advantages of sex and race, until procedures 
are instituted which compel us to reeducate 
ourselves to new perceptions and values. 
The provisions of the consent decree which 
Professor Leis characterizes as "sexist" and 
"discriminatory" are designed not only to 
protect the immediate rights of women facul- 
ty, but also to foster such a learning process. 

Finally, Professor Leis implies in his ar- 
ticle that the women plaintiffs won conces- 
sions for themselves in the consent decree at 
the expense of minority faculty. In his dis- 
cussion of the goals and timetables he point- 
edly notes that "nothing is said here about 
opportunities for other minorities." Because 
the class certified by the court in July 1976 
was restricted solely to female faculty who 
taught or applied to teach at Brown since 
1972, the plaintiffs had no legal right to rep- 
resent the interests of minorities, unless of 
course they were minority women. Indeed, 
there were numerous occasions during the 
out-of-court negotiations when we at- 
tempted to have minorities explicitly in- 



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eluded in various provisions of the consent 
, decree, but the University steadfastly refused 
I to negotiate issues not directly related to 
, class members. We would like to emphasize 
that the isolated references to minorities cur- 
rently in the decree were initiated by the fe- 
male plaintiffs themselves. Furthermore, if 
Brown does not file with HEW comparable 
goals and timetables for the hiring and tenur- 
ing of minority faculty, we promise our 
minority colleagues our full support in any 
effort they undertake to secure their legal 
rights. 

The Lamphere settlement is not the 
revolutionary document its critics claim. 
Rather, it simplv dictates the minimum steps 
Brown must undertake to be in compliance 
' with federal law. Howe\er, if Brown facult\- 
: and administrators are genuinely committed 
I to the ideal of liberal education, tlney must 
; ulhmately recognize that the eradication of 
; entrenched bias against women and 
minorities in our society is an educational 
I priority and a moral obligation. Tlie Univer- 

■ sit)' cannot simply tolerate the presence of 
' women, blacks, and Latinos; it must ac- 

1 knowledge in all its programs, policies, and 
. decisions the integrity of their unique experi- 
ence. Brown has a special opportunity to 
: transform itself into a model American uni- 
' versity — a university which demonstrates 
: that commitment to equal rights and justice 
: promotes, rather than erodes. Ivy League ex- 
cellence. If Brown University as an institu- 
: hon is to realize this goal, we must all be will- 
ing to acknowledge, personally as well as 
: professionally, the interplay between what is 
' taught and learned and lived. 

1 CLAUDE CAREY 
f HELEN CSERR 
I PAT RUSSIAN 
: Campus 

Editor: As a former classmate of Louise 
1 Lamphere (East High School, Denver, Col- 
orado, 1958), as a Pembroker (remember that 
vanished breed?), and as an academic, I have 
followed the Lamphere case and its after- 
math with perhaps even greater interest than 
Mnost alumni. 

As many have observed, the case and its 
humiliating settlement have an importance 
beyond the specific question of whether Pro- 

■ fessor Lamphere was wrongfully denied 
tenure. We would probably not all agree, 
however, on what that importance is. Leav- 
ing aside the cries of "Victory for Sexual 
Chauvinism!" on the one hand and "Equality 
Triumphs!" on the other, I would suggest 
that the real significance of the Lamphere 
case lies in what it says about the relation of 
women (faculty, students, alumnae) to the 
University. No one seems to doubt that Pro- 
fessor Lamphere 's charges are at least ;)/rt«SJ- 
ble, and the University's capitulation surely 
acknowledges as much. This, it seems to me, 
is the worst indictment of the University and 
the harshest reality that it must face in the af- 



termath of the Lamphere case. Charges of 
discrimination simply are not credible and 
plausible in an institution with a tradition of 
equal treatment of all its members; such 
charges thri\e when there is an adversarial 
relationship and a climate of mistrust. 

It must be obvious to all that such a cli- 
mate is tine result of many separate acts and 
attitudes (implicit or explicit) built up over 
the years. Discrimination at Brown has a long 
pedigree, not only in hiring practices but in 
the treatment of women students, and 
neither the attitudes underUang dis- 
criminatory acts nor the hostility resulHng 
from them will soon disappear, even in these 
(we hope) more enlightened Hmes. There are 
various ways to respond to this, many of 
them destructive. 1 would like to suggest, 
however, that the most appropriate and 
timely response to the Lamphere case and 
the issues it has raised is to make a serious 
evaluation of the relations of the University 
with its women members, past and present. 
We could all learn much from such a stud\', 
and its beneficiaries would be not only future 
women students and facult\' but also the 
University itself. 

Such a study would be a large scale proj- 
ect and is the appropriate province of the 
administration, but the BAM might well 
make contributions on a smaller scale that 
would be of general interest, especially to 
alumni. I would like to suggest, for example, 
that theB.4A'I might undertake a study focus- 
ing on the fortunes of a single class of 
alumnae of the '50s or '60s. Where are they 
now? What are they doing? How much loy- 
alty have they to their class or to the Univer- 
sity? How would they evaluate their Brown 
(i.e. Pembroke) career after an interval of fif- 
teen or twenty years? Do thev contribute 
financially to the University? Such a study 
would be fascinating and it would have a cer- 
tain historical and sociological interest, but it 
would also be an important contribution to a 
broader evaluation of women within the con- 
text of the University as a whole. 

JULL\ HAIG GAISSER '62 
Bri/)i Mawr, Pa. 

Editor: I have read with interest for the 
past several issues the continuing contro- 



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versy concerning the settlement of the Lam- 
phere case. Professor Leis's latest epistle has 
raised my level of interest from one of mild 
curiosity to one of outrage. 

Stripped of their embellishments. Pro- 
fessor Leis's arguments state simply that the 
University is autonomous, above the law, 
and the sole judge of academic freedom 
within its confines. This initial affront to the 
Constitution is closely followed by the view 
that when the federal judiciary is required to 
judge such matters under Title IX it intimi- 
dates the University through "unrestrained 
use of judicial power. " 

So much for Professor Leis's views. Now 
let's consider the law. A close reading of both 
the Constitution as well as Title IX fails to re- 
veal any exemption granted universities, de- 
partment chairmen, or other faculty mem- 
bers in determining who is qualified, best or 
otherwise, to fill available faculty positions. 
As to the "unrestrained use of judicial 
power," it would appear that Judge Pettine 
acted as only he could in applying the law to 
the issues of fact in this case. How can such a 
judgment be considered unrestrained use of 
judicial power unless one assumes that by 
some perverse logic the University is above, 
or at least outside, the purview of the federal 
judiciary? Finally, even the most naive 
layman knows that a consent decree, while 
not an admission of guilt, is a compromise 
generally reached when the defendant be- 
lieves that further use of the available judicial 
process will lead to a more onerous finding 
than could be achieved by seeking an out- 
of-court settlement. 

Clearly, any university has the right to 
exercise academic freedom provided such 
exercise is not in violation of the laws of the 
land. It is clear, at least to me, that Brown did 
not honor such responsibilities by its em- 
ployment practices and accordingly must 
now have the federal judiciary as a partner 
overseeing such future practices. The 
tragedy of the Lamphere decision, if such is 
the case, is that the University, for whatever 
reasons, failed to abide by the spirit and in- 
tent of Title IX. No amount of self-righteous 
indignation can obscure this fact. More im- 
portantly, how else can one explain the 
willingness of the University and its counsel 
to accept the constraints imposed upon it by 
the consent decree which Professor Leis 
finds so offensive? 

Now that the situation has been rec- 
tified, I cannot believe the University wUI not 
prosper, grow, and flourish as a result of the 
settlement. Far too little has been said of the 
failure of the University in its responsibility 
to its employees and to society, and far too 
much time has been spent decrying the an- 
ticipated dire consequences which Professor 
Leis believes will follow from the implemen- 
tation of the decree. 1 suggest the interests of 
the University and the society of which it is a 
part would be far better served if we stopped 
this orgy of self-flagellation and get on with 
the task of insuring both academic freedom 



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and fair employment practices for all under 
applicable statutes. 

GLENN HANNA '56 
Santa Rosa, Calif. 



Alcoholism at Brown 

Editor: Being an alcoholic as well as a 
Brown graduate (1932) 1 read with great in- 
terest the article regarding alcoholism at 
Brown [BAM, March). Three statements in 
that article, however, need elaboration at the 
highest level, not merely printed in "Letters 
to the Editor" although I do wish this printed. 

1) There is no such thing as a "recov- 
ered" alcoholic — only a "controlled" one, in 
the same sense as diabetes may be con- 
trolled, but not "cured". If one cannot toler- 
ate alcohol, he is but one drink away from a 
sad, sad death. 

2) The percentage of alcoholics when 
stated as one to ten is far too low, as it is ar- 
rived at by comparing the state population to 
those registered in AA. One must realize that 
approximately one- half of alcoholics are not 
registered — and then one must add those 
who either do not admit or do not know they 
are alcoholics. Consequently, the actual per- 
centage may well be one out of six. 

3) No mention was made of the fact that 
approximately 75 percent of alcoholics never 
drank anything stronger than beer. 

Having worked with in-patients at But- 
ler Hospital every Wednesday in a one- 
and-a-half-hour discussion group since my 
release in May, 1976 — my last drink having 
been on the 17th — I have been able to glean 
many facts not always mentioned. Inciden- 
tally I was surprised not to see mention of 
Butler's fine work with problem drinkers, 
particularly as Brown's medical school is so 
involved in the Butler program. 

1 commend your article and the dedica- 
tion shown by your concerned faculty mem- 
bers. 

A. RICHMOND PEIRCE, JR. '32 
Pravidetice, R.I. 



Editor: I am always glad to get my 
Alumm Monthly and I think that you and 
your staff do a super job in the old Chet 
Worthington tradition. 

Today I must take the time to write and 
to commend you for the two articles on 
alcoholism. They were botli superb. 1 am as- 
suming that Anne Diffily did the one on 
'Tortrait of An Alcoholic." \Yes. — Editor] 

The main article, "Party/Beer/Happy 
Hour/Drinks/," by Anne was just super and 
correct in every detail. Alcoholism is a tough 
subject to write about and the miracle of 
Alcoholics Anonymous even tougher. 

The whole program at Brown and the 
attitude of our new president, Howard 
Swearer, regarding alcoholism is so right and 
so refreshing. 



You are probably wondering why 1 am 
writing to you about this. It is simplv that 
everything I have in the world today 1 owe 
to Brown University and to Alcoholics 
Anonymous. I came to AA off of skid row in 
Philadelphia on September 20, 1954. 1 am in 
my twenty-fourth year of sobriety and spend 
many hours each and every day with the 
"still suffering alcoholic." 

My class at Brown was 1938 and I was 
privileged to be president of the Cammarian 
Club, president of my fraternity. Delta Upsi- 
lon, and also captain of the swimming team. 
It was the memories of these accomplish- 
ments at Brown that helped me in the dark 
and horrible days in the fall of 1954 to admit 
that 1 was an alcoholic, that my life had be- 
come unmanageable, and that 1 must seek 
help and go to AA. Thank God for that fel- 
lowship, for it indeed saved my life. 

I am a newspaper man and public rela- 
tions counsel and federal official and have 
had manv of the good things in life, the most 
important of which was the regaining of my 
family and the education of my three chil- 
dren and the return to a successful profes- 
sional career. One highlight was being a 
member of the personal staff of the late Pres- 
ident John F. Kennedy and service also 
under President Lyndon B. Johnson. 

FREDA. FORBES '38 
Bethesda, Md. 



Editor: 1 have just read with great in- 
terest your article "Party! Beer! Happy Hour! 
Drinks!" in the March Alumni Monthly. 
Congratulations to Brown for establishing an 
active alcoholism program and for under- 
standing the importance of publicizing your 
services to all alumni and students without 
fear of the stigma which society continues to 
place on the word "alcoholic." 

SUE VAN VOORHEES 
Middletoivn, Conn. 

The writer is nn education specialist unth the 
Tri-County Alcohol Council of Middletoion. 



'Outstanding individual' 

Editor: Gerry Alaimo resigned recently. 

When the predictable news reached me, 
1 was overcome by several divergent waves 
of emotion. To say that I was totally sad- 
dened by Gerry's ouster would be hypocriti- 
cal. I have never really been a big fan of his 
coaching or recruiting style and firmly be- 
lieve that his departure is a strong, positive 
step towards success for the Brown basket- 
ball program. 

At least part of me was moved towards 
dejection, however, because in my four years 
of peripheral involvement with the Brown 
basketball program 1 was fortunate enough 
to get to know Gerry Alaimo beyond his 
capacity as a basketball coach. Wliile Brown 
may not be losing a superior basketball 



coach, we are losing an outstanding indi- 
vidual. 

What many not connected with Broum 
athletics may never know is that Gerry 
Alaimo brought to his job a dedication to the 
betterment of Brown basketball which may 
never be surpassed. In fact, it is a reasonably 
safe assumption that the University will 
never hire another basketball coach so in- 
tensely devoted to the success of Brown bas- 
ketball. He constantly drove himself past the 
point of sanity, working long hours during 
and after the season making every attempt to 
improve a program with tenuous founda- 
tions at best. 

Alaimo was so blindly loyal to the pro- 
gram which collapsed around htm [that he] 
continued to recruit for next year's team after 
he resigned. He simply didn't understand 
the meaning of the word quit. 

Many times during the off seasons 
Alaimo became so obsessed with building 
Brown basketball that he seemed to forget 
the presence of other athletic teams at the 
University. He would stride briskly into the 
sports information office with surprising re- 
quests for immediate production of Brown 
basketball publicitv. 

Equally surprising but more indicative of 
the man's dedication was the subsequent 
stomping out of the office by Alaimo when 
he was politely told that his requests would 
have to wait. He never seemed to appreciate 
the fact that not everyone worked for Brown 
basketball hventy-four hours a day. 

More than Alaimo's "burning desire" to 
make Brown basketball a winner will be 
missed when he leaves, though. Just ask his 
players. Never have 1 seen a man so totally 
committed, almost patemalistically, to the 
betterment of his players, before and after 
their playing days and as players and men. 
On many, many occasions I saw Gerry utilize 
every resource at his disposal to help a player 
through a low point in his college career or 
help find an ex-player work after graduation. 
That sincere desire to help others is rare in 
most human beings, let alone basketball 
coaches, today. 

The intent of this letter is not to deify 
Gerry Alaimo. Certainly the ex-coach is not 
next in line for sainthood. As for his basket- 
ball performance, enough has been said and 
written about that already. The record, as the 
saying goes, can speak for itself. 

The real intent of this letter is to let 
people know that the University is losing a 
caring, dedicated individual. Underneath 
that rough, gravel-voiced exterior lies a de- 
voted basketball coach, a man who gave his 
very best to Brown basketball. 

Unfortunately, perhaps for all of us, 
Gerry Alaimo's best was not enough. 

TOM HENNICK '76 
Middletown, Conn. 

Vie loritcr was sports editor of the Brown Daily 
Herald in 1973-74 and a student assistant in the 



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sports iiifcrnmtkvi office uvrkiiig on basketball 
during the winter montltf in 1974-75 and 1975- 
76. He IS airrenttya nrwspaper reporter with the 
Middletovvn Press. 

Qualified for nothing 

Editor: To reply to Dr. Lehrer's opening 
question {BAM , March) a doctorate in En- 
glish qualifies her for nothing. Did no one 
teach her the proper arrangement for her 
title, "For Wliat Does a Doctorate in EngUsh 
Qualify Me?" 

NICHOLAS E. PINGITORE, JR. 73 Ph.D. 
El Paso, Texas 

The writer is assistant professor of geological sci- 
ences at the University of Texas at El Paso. The 
headline in question was written by the editor, 
based on a sentence in the article. — Editor 



Helping the handicapped 

I Editor: I was much interested by the two 
harticles on how you hope to help the handi- 
capped in the Januarv/Februarv issue. The 
ideal assist would begin with the person in 
the wheelchair and work forward, I think, for 
the knack of responding in terms of physical 
, barriers is to focus exactly on the degree of 
handicap, not to build a couple of ramps and 
i forget it. There are many yarieties of physical 
1 handicap. Eyen wheelchair occupants have 
quite different levels of strength and mobil- 
, ity. 

As a handicapped student myself over 
thirty-fiye years ago at Brown, and later at 
Harvard, 1 found it very difficult to get about. 
Never was enough sand put down in winter 
(it was Depression time and everyone was 
worrying about the next war), and nowhere 
were there railings when you needed them. 
There were no elevators either, and to classes 



at the top of Sayles and University Hall, it 
was a matter of climbing the Matterhorn 
three times a week including Saturdays. All I 
could presume was that if Franklin Delano 
Roosevelt (so badly handicapped, and yet a 
fairly dynamic citizen, although rather dis- 
liked by my manufacturer father) could run 
the whole country, the least I could do was 
earn a degree. I do remember that life was 
middling hard, and the University was im- 
mensely exciting for its intellectual, not so- 
cial, ferment. I didn't even thinkof busting a 
window in protest over my plight, although 
my roommate did by tossing an apple core 
through the engineering lab one evening be- 
cause the dusk caused him to miscalculate 
the distance, a misadventure I'm sure he re- 
grets to this day. He was a potential en- 
gineer. 

But the most important aspect, perhaps 
now as then, was that the Christian heritage 
of compassion and the humanistic tradition 
did seem to mean something, after all. There 
were real people about. We were put on a 
special list orchestrated amazingly well by 
Dean of Admissions Bruce Bigelow, and 
guided to some extent by Dr. Charles A. 
McDonald of the Health Service, with his in- 
sistence on a hearty laugh before any other 
business. They took us through the four 
years with genuine concern. 1 recall as well 
the extra kindness of such professors and 
gentlemen as George Downing, Joachim 
Wach, Ben Brown, Curt Ducasse, Dr. Kidder 
in biology who had only one hand, and 
Edwin Kretzmann in German, plus many 
others. They were all vastly underpaid in 
those days of the Depression, as is likely to 
happen again so that men and women of tal- 
ent can stop wrestling for the jobs. But what 
an ornament they were to the institution! 

WALTER LITTLEFIELD CREESE '41 
Champaign, III. 




A mystery solved 

Editor: I'd like to respond to David Mil- 
ler's letter to the editor in the January/ Feb- 
ruary issue of the BAM . 

I want to reassure David that the evil 
and vicious electrical cord is now being used 
for good purposes. It was donated to the 
electrical safety specialist in the Boston office 
of the Occupational Safety and Health Ad- 
ministration, where it will be used as a prop 
in electrical safety meetings and lectures. 

Furthermore, I'm very happy to learn 
that only the lights, and not David, went out 
when the cord was used. 

Thanks for solving the mystery of the 
source of the cord. 

ERIC W. SPENCER 
Boston, Mass. 

The writer, formerly Brmvn's safety director 
<BAM, November), is now safety consultant loitli 
M&M Protection Consultants, Boston. 



Spiritual life at Brown 

Editor: We are gratified to note a re- 
newed concern over spiritual life at Brown as 
evidenced by letters which have recently ap- 
peared in BAM. As members of several 
Christian fellowships, we are pleased to re- 
port that in our experience, a Brown educa- 
tion and a spiritually attuned lifestyle are not 
mutually exclusive. 

On the contrary, there are varied and 
complementary opportunities for spiritual 
life at Brown. In addition to activities ini- 
tiated by the Chaplaincy, the Brown Chris- 
tian Fellowship (affiliated with Inter- 
Varsity), the Brown Charismatic Prayer 
Community, Campus Crusade for Christ, 
and the Romans Eight Fellowship all meet 
regularly. Although each group has a unique 
style and emphasis, we are united in our 
common commitment to Jesus Christ. We 
seek to integrate our beliefs with all facets of 
our lives as students and to share our Chris- 
tian experience with others. 

We therefore affirm that there is indeed 
spiritual life at Brown! Further, we feel that 
our Christian faith is central not only to our 
undergraduate experience, but will continue 
to be the source of motivation and direction 
for our lives. 

ELIZABETH TANZI '79 
JAY MURDOCK '78 
KATHY JOHNSON '78 
TOM RICHMOND 79 
Campms 



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Two for 
dinner 



Think back. What did you used to do when you could 
no longer stomach Ratty (or Pembroke) food? Blow 
vour meager monthly allowance on Beef 'n Bun 
greaseburgers? Try to befriend your "townie" classmates and 
wangle invitations to dinner at their homes in Cranston or 
Middletown? Buy an illegal hotplate and a couple of cheap 
aluminum pans and start toting home cans of baked beans 
from Thayer Market or the Boar's Head? Nowadays they 
have soft ice cream and frozen yogurt machines in the Ratty, 
and compulsory fuU-meal contracts have gone the way of 
compulsory phys ed. But the gastronomic dissatisfaction of 
students dies hard. Two Brown sophomores, with an ingen- 
ious blend of wit and chutzpah, have made all the usual 
dodges look amateurish — and reaped an unexpected 
windfall in the bargain. 

Last December Harold Siden '80 and Michael Zuckert '80 
were strolling around the East Side admiring some of Provi- 
dence's more elegant homes, and fantasizing aloud about 
inviting themselves to dinner at one of those homes. Four 
months later their idle fantasy had blossomed into a classy 
leaflet, designed for Harold and Mike by Brown's Graphic 
Ser\'ices, proclaiming "A Rare Opportunity'" in boldface 
type. (They won't divulge exactly how much the leaflet cost 
— less than three figures, but "more than I'd be willing to 
lose in a night of poker," Harold says.) It goes on to say, 
"Brown University has something to offer you: two extraor- 
dinary sophomores would like to invite you to join us for 
dinner at your home. 

"We propose to offer you good company for good food. 



Michael Zuckert '80: 

Iowa 

History, Political Science, 

Economics. 

Undergraduate Council of 

Students, Scuba Diving. 



Harold Siden '80: 

Michigan 
Geology, Biology, 
Creative Writing. 
University Grant 
Committee, Boxing. 



Both: Investigative Reporters, Tennis Champions, and 
Leaders of Tomorrow. 

Remember when \'ou were at college? Now, do you 
remember the food? 

RSVP at 1/01/ r earliest coiivenicuce 
863-4370 

(tax deductible) 

Be the First on Your Block." 

After preselecting half a dozen target homes (Providence 
Mayor Buddy Ciand, Federal Reserve Board Chairman G. 
William Miller, several Brown professors), they distributed 



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"Are you sure tliis is the right house?' 



leaflets to about twenty Blackstone Boulevard residences that 
"looked interesting" — and waited. No bites. Several days 
later they passed out two dozen more leaflets in the high- 
rent district around the Brown campus. 

What they hoped for — and didn't get — were invita- 
tions from a few unstuffy types who appreciated the humor 
of their undertaking. What they didn't expect, and were 
bombarded with, were calls from the news media. On their 
second round, they had unknowingly stuffed the Prospect 
Street mailbox of John C. A. Watkins, publisher of the Prcw/- 
deiice Journal-Bulletin, who called reporter Robert Chiappinell 
and told him to interview these two kids. "When Chiap- 
pinelli called us, 1 wanted to know why Watkins hadn't in- 
vited us to dinner," Harold grinned. "He sidestepped that.' 

Chiappinelli's story appeared in the April 19 Ei'ening 
Bulletin, and the deluge began. Dinner invitations from all 
over the state began to pour in — "My phone was ringing off 
the hook that night," Harold said — and the story went out 
on the AP and UPI vwres. Harold and Mike's innocent stunt 
had become a media event. Mike ticked off some of the major 
papers that picked it up: the S(7(i Francisco Examiner, Montreal 
Star, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune ("I think"), St. Petersburg 
Times, and the college papers: Harvard Crimson, Michigan 
Daily, Daily loivan. (Not, however, the Broiun Daily Herald'.) 
"The farther away from Providence the story got, the more it 
got distorted," Harold said, looking disillusioned. "A lot of 
the stories made out like we were starving." They were in- 
terviewed by three area radio stations and a TV station. Let- 
ters from strangers began to appear in their mailboxes, and 
one woman sent five dollars ("Did you send that back yet?" 
Mike asked. "Of course I did," Harold said. "We're not that 
bad off"). 

Now they had more dinner invitations — about thirty — 
and more notoriety than they knew what to do with, "We 
sort of lost control of what's going on," Mike said, rather 
sheepishly. Exams were bearing down on them, so they de- 
cided to accept only a couple of invitations for the first week 
in May and postpone the rest until they come back in the fall. 

Of the two invitations they did accept right off, one came 
from Blackstone Boulevard (not, however, from an initial re- 
cipient of the leaflet), and the other from a farm in North 
Kingstown. The North Kingstown family even drove to Prov- 
idence to pick Harold and Mike up, and gave them a ride 
back. 

"We weren't just looking for good meals and good com- 
pany," Harold said. "We were seeking contact with the out- 
side world. " The outside world, however, will have to queue 
up and wait its turn. Who said beggars can't be choosers? 

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