December 1978 Brown Alumni Monthly Our Stocking Is Hung By The ChimnevWith Care Remember when you believed that Santa Claus really did slide down the chimney while Donner, Dasher and the others waited impatiently on the roof? Remember when the gifts you'd hinted at or written about were under the tree — and you saved those stocking ones tor last? For the orange, the pear, the sure surprise, the last hurrah — and, maybe a lump of coal? Well, we're hanging our stocking by your chimney with care — and with some confidence that Brown's behavior (in terms of performance) this past year (and, in a way, the past two centuries) has been noted with pride by the whole family. By the entire Brown community, by every member of Brown's growing alumni family. So we've put up Brown's stocking to remind you of the Brown Fund's 1978- 79 Campaign ... its goal of $2,225,000 (19% more than last year) ... its goal of 18,000 Brown backers. Remember that every million dollars you enable the Fund to raise is the equivalent of 20 million dollars in endowment (and while Brown is endowed by history and enriched by tradition, it is not one of the wealthier Ivies). So every dollar counts. And every vote of confidence is a contribution, too. Won't you review your own year-end giving right now? Perhaps your tax situation makes it especially easier to play a hearty Santa this year, instead of next Spring. Every kind of gift to Brown is deductible — and every gift to Brown enables your Univer- sity to be what its past promises and what its future invites. Send a stocking gift to Bruno — stock, bonds, check, pledge or even an orange grove or a pear tree. He'll get a kick out of it. The Brown Rind - if ^ve don't,\vho will? Brown Alumni Monthly, December 1978, Vol. 79, No. 4 Editor Robert M. Rhodes Associate Editors Debra Shore John F. Barry, Jr. '50 Editorial Associate Janet M. Phillips 70 Design Consultant Kathrvn de Boer Board of Editors Chairman James E. DuBois '50 Vice Chairman Patricia Simon Schwadron '72 Barry Beckham '66 Cornelia D. Dean '69 Peter G. Fradley '50 John J. Monaghan '55 Stuart C. Sherman '39 Dr. Sanford W. Udis '41 Roger Vaughan '59 Elizabeth Weed '73 Ph.D. ^ 1978 by Brmm Ahimm Monllil]/ Published nine times durinp each year — January/ February. March, April, May'June, luly/ August, September, October, November, and December — by Brown University, Providence, RI. Pnnted by The Lane Press, Burlington, Vt. Editorial offices are in Nicholson House, 71 George St , Providence, R.I 02906. Member, Council for Advancement and Support of Education The Monthht is sent to all Brown alumni Please allow eight weeks for changes-of-address. page 18 page 22 In this issue 18 A Tale of Two Scientists When anthropologist Peter Schmidt first went to Tanzania nine years ago to record the oral history of the Haya people, he did not intend to change traditional thinking about the development of steel-making in Africa. Yet, with the help of metallurgist Don Avery in combining archeological excavations, historical accounts, and a modern re-enactment, that is just what he's done. 22 The Dean on Capitol Hill Former Associate Dean of the College Lee Verstandig Ph.D. '70 has moved his desk from the academic arena to the political one. As administrative assistant to Rhode Island's Senator John Chafee, Verstanciig seems to be thriving. 28 Literary Archaeology In which Professor of English Ed Bloom, Lillian Bloom (professor of English at Rhode Island College), and Joan Klingel '73 A.M., '77 Ph.D. excavate and prepare to publish the letters of a remarkable woman who was a member of Dr. Johnson's famous Circle and a prolific correspondent — Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi. Departments 2 Carrying the Mail 6 Under the Elms 13 Sports 34 College Hill Journal: Robinson Hall's 100th Birthday 36 Point of View: To Stimulate the Spirited Element 39 The Classes 42 Profile: Clarence Chaffee '24 46 Profile: Lois Wolpert Graboys '59 51 Brown's Club in New York 53 Books 54 Deaths 56 On Stage page 28 The coi'er defigii k hy Kathryu de Boer, willi a photograph by John foraste. For more about joe Mullaim/, fee page 13. Letters to the editor are welcome. They should be on subjects of interest to readers of this magazine, with emphasis on an exchange of views and discussion of ideas. All points of view are wel- come, hut for reasons of space, variety, and time- liness, the staff may not publish all letters it re- ceives and may use excerpts from others. The curriculum debate Editor: It is sad that Jerry Mackarevich feels that Brown failed to educate him (Carry- ing the Mail, BAM, September). Brown's failure, however, was in admitting "a con- fused, poorlv motivated student" in the first place, and in lacking the counseling re- sources necessary to advise him that he'd be better off at, say, Cornell, where distribution requirements never were abolished. Admis- sions does an admirable job of screening over 10,000 applicants per year; it is inevitable that a few mistakes are made. Counseling and advising have probably been the weakest fea- tures of the New Curriculum, though their importance has always been recognized. Brown has chosen to be a specific kind of school for a specific type of intelligent, intel- lectually aggressive student. There arc plenty of students who can benefit from Brown's unique atmosphere. As an active NASP in- terviewer (not recruiter), I know that. If Brown followed Harvard and reinstated a PEKING • SHANGHAI CHEXGCHOW • SLNCHI.\.\G SI,\N • NANKING • NAXNING SHEN^'ANG • Kft'EILIX "People to people participation developing friendsnipi through eultiiral appreciation, historical understanding. and educational experiences. An in-depth view of modem 'China's' achievements since the revolution." a TR.VVFl HEADQl'AHTEKS SpecfaII-,1!. „i .\si»TiS*<*-?'"''^'^ 21 Lafuvcltt-.CIrctf l.a/avcttc. (A *M549 (415)883*404 ■-->- p appHurtloil&noff^irlntl acceptesl Tor 197^ "core curriculum," it would lose its unique focus on the "how" of education, would weaken its ability to educate men and women who see their bachelor's degree as a beginning to their education, not a conclu- sion. As for Mr. Mackarevich, the subject mat- ter of art, economics, phik^ophy, or what- ever else he didn't learn at Brown is still there for the learning. All it takes is intelligence and mohvarion. lOSEPH HALETKY '68 Palo Alto, Calif. Thayer Street Editor: The October issue of the Alumni MonthU/ came today and I was interested in the misuse of information I had given to Matthew Wald '76 for his story on "Thayer Street." I guess his education in biology and language was not as clear to him in '76 as was mine in '26. He asked me how I liked the tremen- dous growth on Thayer Street. I said that "We have the type of growth that I would define in a body with f/i^/iijnfiasis "and he used the word "cncei'hatitis." Thayer Street has a serious sickness in its grotesque growth and not in any way could it be described as a "sleepy growth." I only wish it was a "sleepy" neighborhood, that the sleepiness could be caught by those of us living just off Thayer Street. He also refers to Le Papillon as "a Belgian-style restaurant." To the best of my memory, "Le Papillon" is French for but- terfly, and they serve French food in this res- taurant, so where did "Belgian-style" get onto Angell Street? For you "oldsters," Thayer Street sure "ain't what it used to be," but I still love it. (Most of the time, that is.) H. CUSHMAN ANTHONY '26 Proi'idence 'Beautiful and touching' Editor: "Learning to Live with Death" by Janet Phillips {BAM, September) is a beauti- ful and touching article. I hope that it will be read by many, for one's sense of compassion cannot help but be enlivened by Ms. Phil- lips's account of Dr. Scala's course. Our world today needs caring and compassionate people. Else how do we answer Dr. Kiibler- Ross's question, in On Death and Dying: "Are we becoming less human or more human?" I thank BAM for carrying such an article, which gives us an insight in how to be more, not less, human. LAWRENCE J. CURTIN, Capt., USN (Ret.) Madison, Conn. Sex-blind fund-raising? Editor: Now that women have achieved parity in admissions at Brown, they have an equal responsibility to achieve parity in their contributions. J. WILLIAM FLYNN '59 Wetlestey Hills, Mass. The Japanese teachers Editor: As one of the families accepting four Japanese teachers of English for a home-stay visit, we would like to add a per- sonal note of enthusiasm to your brief article in the September issue, describing some of MECHA1\ICAL E]\GI]^EER Entrepreneurial manufacturing/R&D company seeks a "hands-on." practical but creative Mechanical Engineer to help manage thermal storage and other energy-related projects. Refrigeration or A/C background helpful, but we prefer ability to experience. Big responsibility/small company! ^ rite: John Armstrong Box 710 Englewood. NJ 07631 Two Offerings from the Associated Alumni of Brown University Term Life Insurance The Associated Alumni of Brown University announces that its term life insurance program will be oftered again this winter. Information and applications will be sent to alumni from classes 1935 through 1978 living in most states; other alumni underage 75 who do not receive materials can get them from the alumni office on request. Both alumni and their spouses are eligible to apply for $10,000, $25,000 or $50,000 up to age 65 (reduced amounts from ages 65 to 75). Coverage ot $2,500 is available for the eligible children of those who apply. The premiums for this coverage are quite economical, and the program offers good protection from cancellation by the insur- ance company. Coverage terminates at age 75, though it can be converted to an individual policy at that time. Term insurance offered at good rates provides alumni with an invaluable service, and in the past alumni have shown much Interest in this program. The Associated Alumni hopes that they will con- tinue to participate, and encourages everyone under age 75 to apply. 1979 Brown University Alumni Directory Many Brown Alumni ha\e already received tele- phone calls from the Bernard C. Harris Company, publishers of the official Brown University Alumni Directory. The Associated Alumni voted to sup- port this kind of reference book after receiving numerous requests for such a directory. The purpose of the telephone contact is to verify the information which the alumni provided on the directory questionnaires and the information currently held on alumni records. .At the same time, the telephone rejiresentatives of the pub- lishing company are inviting alumni to purchase personal copies of the directory. Since the cost ot the directory is self-liquidating through sales, these requests on the part of the Harris representatives are made with the approval of the Associated Alumni. In this way the directory can be made available to alumni at no cost or obligation to the Associated Alumni or Brown, and in return the Bernard C. Harris Company provides updated and complete alumni records for the University's use only. Thedirectory will be in print in spring, 1979. If you are interested in ordering a copy and have not heard from the publisher by February, you may contact the publisher at 170 Hamilton .Avenue, White Plains, New York, 10601, to place an order. their activities. The weekend these teachers spent with us was one of the high points of our summer, as well as theirs. In two days and nights, we attended a summer theater program produced by high school students, visited Old Slater Mill, spent a day on Prudence Island at our "villa," as one man charmingly termed it, lis- tened to some old 45-rpm records brought back from Japan twenty years ago (and found the songs have all become popular again), discussed American and Japanese educa- tional systems at long length, learned to play a finger-throwing game called "rock, scis- sors, paper," had a marvelous language les- son while preparing corn — "peeling, par- ing, husking, shucking, corn husks, corn silk, corn cobs, corn tassels," even corncob dolls and pipes, which they did not believe were real. In that short time, despite, or perhaps because of, the language barrier, a beginning of real friendship was developed that we hope will be continued by mail. Our children were afforded a unique international experi- ence without leaving home and it was im- pressed on each of us anew that the language we speak every day, but rarely listen to care- fully, is wonderfully fascinating, intricate, and expressive. We thank Brown and the The Browm Tours Program presents hCTPT March 13-21, 1979; New York departure; $669 per person double occupancy Come back 5000 years in time with us to the cra- dle of civilization, Egypt Climb deep inside the mysterious Pyramids; bargain for gold copper, and textiles in the wmding bazaars; view the hundreds of King Tut's treasures not exhibited in the United States (minus the long lines). Optional excursions to Luxor, Memphis, Sakkara, Alexandria, and more. Background lectures throughout the tour by Egyptologist Florence Fnedman. bCYPT-Isme[ March 13-28, 1979 New York or Boston depar- ture; $989 per person double occupancy Or choose a longer tour to Egypt and Israel. Spend one week exploring the wonders of the Nile, a second week in Jerusalem with optional trips to the Dead Sea, Bethlehem, Massada, and other sites. Academic enrichment by Ernest Frerichs, Professor of Religious Studies, and Egyptologist Florence Friedman. Space on both trips is limited, so sign up today! Or write us for further details. Reservation Form Mai! to: Brown Tours Program Alumni Relations Office Brown University Box 1859 Providence, RI 02912 Name D Enclosed please find deposit of $ ($100 per person) for person(s) for the trip to D Egypt D Egypt-Israel. Please make checks payable to Brown University Tours Program, n Please send me additional information on D Egypt D Egypt- Israel Class Addn City. . State- _2p_ Phone(Home)_ . (Business)— Name(s) of accompanying passengers). language department for the opportunity vve had to participate in this program and hope to be included another year. BETSY LEE JEFFERS BISHOP '54 Pnyindeiice 'Bone up on logic' Editor: If Barrv Hill-Tout [Carrying the Mail, BAM, October] wishes to state his case against the Lamphere consent decree on the idea that it is illogical and therefore false, he had better bone up on his logic. "Illogical" does not lead to false. Something can be il- logical and still true — it just doesn't follow the rules of logic. Mr. Hill-Tout's letter is il- logical. Whether it is true or false remains to be seen. SUSAN JAWOROWSKl '79 Campus What's left? Editor: I read [BAM, September] of the kudos bestowed on the BAM with pleasure but with no surprise. What I would like to know is, what is left for the September issue? It is surely the finest issue of my days as an alumnus. That takes in fifty-eight years. There is so much of excellence that it would be folly to try to list them all. 1 was surprised to open the book and find "Carrying the Mail" in the number-one spot. But the quality and import of the letters showed me why. As a member of the third generation of a show business family and as general man- ager of E. F. Albee's Rhode Island theatrical interests for a short time, the news on the new Department of Theatre Arts was wel- come and I was happ\ to see Prof. James Barnhill's active participation in it. . . . 1 realize that Saunders Redding's essay was not written for the BAM, but neverthe- less it must rank as the finest article that the Monthh/ has ever printed. It seemed to me as I read it that every word was exactly the cor- rect word to express Mr. Redding's thought. I would hate to have been an editor required to cut a hundred or two words. 1 don't think it could be done. 1 don't know who wrote "Ah So, the Ball Game" but it was delightful [Debra Shore —Editor I "Learning to Live with Death" was a remarkable contribution. Brown is lucky to have a Dr. Scala, and I feel Dr. Scala was lucky to have a group with real feelings be- come his partners in such an experimental learning venture. As a close personal friend of Lon Quinn's, I had heard a lot about Tim Mutch and was fascinated by the story' of Devistan. I was back on campus for the June Commencement days and roomed across the hall in South Wayland from Rev. Stovvell. We sort of looked out for each other and be- came friends. His picture added to the en- joyment of the issue Unfortunately the penulhmate page brought the news of the death of one of my best friends, Franklin O. Rose, and I closed the cover with a tear in my eye. As they say in show business, and 1 say it of the September issue, "How are you going to top that one?" CLIFTON N. LOVENBERG '20 Cape Coral, Fla. Sidney Goldstein Editor: Brown has a distinguished record in sociology, and particularly in the specialty of demography. So, as both a demographer and the parent of a Brown undergraduate, I was especially pleased to see Debra Shore's fine article on Prof. Sidney Goldstein {BAM, March), who has done so much to strengthen Brown's program in sociology and demogra- phy, and also to further understanding of demographic behavior throughout the world. Brown is fortunate to be able to number such people among its faculty. LINCOLN H. DAY Canberra, Australia Tlie writer is settlor fellow in the department of demography of the Australian National Uniz'er- siti/ in Canberra. — Editor Sex-blind admissions Editor: The article on Brown's "sex- blind" admissions policy in [the October] magazine does not face the problems that this policy will create over a period of years. Over the summer I compiled a short study re- lating to this subject and sent it to about fifty alumni and some members of the adminis- tration. In it I mcluded figures going back a few years of admissions of men and women in the Ivy League colleges. The contrast was startling. I also included the history of alumni giving for the men and women which, in dollars given per individuals, favors the men by a large percentage. There is no way 1 can reconcile the present "sex- blind" trend in relation to what is best for Brown University. Quoting from the article in the maga- zine, the department was "caught by sur- prise by the happenings of the year." On the other hand, I recently received the following statement from the admissions department: "This has not been a sudden and startling development." It was news to me and to many other alumni that when the merger with Pembroke took place the goal of one to one was established. How much considera- tion was then given to the money-raising possibilities at Brown? Should not the cur- rent trustees have the right of review and to consider necessary changes for the good of Brown? Surely we can agree we want a wide and balanced spectrum of students at Brown. We know there are many facets involved in the hard choices aimed toward a dynamic, di- verse student body encompassing many in- terests and talents. In light of this the "sex- blind" policy makes no sense. Why should not the men be accepted in numbers appro- priate to their total applications, with allowance for the greater attrition among the male candidates? During the past four years male applications have been running 62 per- cent versus 38 percent for females. Why then the discrepancy? Brown's policy seems to be to increase the women undergraduates at the expense of the male segment. [My] study indicates that Brown is out of step with the other Ivy League colleges. I have received fourteen letters and seven phone calls, of which five came from the East. I have not received a negative com- ment. Brown has the smallest endowment of the Ivy colleges and can ill afford such a dis- advantageous policy. I repeat my conviction that the admissions policy must be in step with the major requirements of Brown Uni- versity. Brown alumni should receive clar- ification of the hows and whys of the admis- sions procedures. KILGORE MACFARLANE '23 Scottsdale, Ariz. Concerns about computers Editor: 1 read Elise Hancock's article on computers (BAM, October) with a great deal of interest. I was pleased to note her concern over the direction computers and data pro- cessing can take in the future. I have been an active practitioner in the (sometimes) black art of data processing since shortly after graduation. My current re- sponsibilities are to manage the data process- ing activity for the second largest insurance broker in the world. I consider myself knowledgeable in many aspects of the field. I am concerned that a too precipitous rush to turning functions over to a computer can have disastrous effects on the people to whom those functions are addressed. There are many who have already experienced the frustration of getting a credit billing error cor- rected, having a payment incorrectly applied, adjusting a payroll check when a "computer" is involved. 1 agree with Dr. van Dam that this is not a "computer error," but, whatever kind it is, it is real and of concern to the person(s) affected. In mv opinion, the reasons these relatively simple transactions are difficult to correct or adjust is that, once the systems are released for end use, those responsible for using them are inadequately prepared for working with the system. Even when a thorough training was done for initial users, the benefits of training tend to be lost as staff turnover takes effect, or procedure changes are made, or the programmers move on to other tasks or other firms. The point 1 am trying to make is that if relativeK- straightforward systems, affecting a relaliveh' insensitive commodity (money), cannot be made reliable and sensitive to feedback, we should not rush to implement other systems whose effect is much more crucial to the individual. These other systems include computer-based medical diagnosis, computer-assisted education, or computers making any kind of value judgments. When the one-in-a-thousand or one-in-a-million person is mishandled by these systems, more than money is affected; a human life is af- fected. No amount of audit trails, backup systems, or traditional correction procedures v\ill undo the problem. Ms. Hancock's concerns are well founded. I hope they are shared by others, both in the data processing field and in soci- ety at large. I- T. HALLEY '58 Baltimore, Md. Vie writer is data processing manager for a Balti- more firm. — Editor THE FESSENDEN SCHOOL Located 10 miles from Boston, Fessenden is a boarding and day school for over 300 boys, grades 1-9. We offer a challengmg individual academic program and a full spectrum of athletics to prepare our students for secondary school. Our students come from many states and over a dozen countries. Mr- C Dary Dunham, Assistant Headmaster, THE FESSENDEN SCHOOL. West Newton. Massachusetts 02165. ■^'^m'v I WORCESTER ACADEMY In Its 145th year of preparing young people tor college and for life Coeducational Grades 7-12 and post graduate, Day and resident students Excellent college placement record Individual attention Advanced placement Full athletic and cultural programs John A Bloom, Head- master 82 Providence Street, Worcester, f^^ass 01604 (617) 754-5302 THE SCHOOL DIRECTORY » ♦ » ♦ For information contact: Joanna W. Howe Ivy School Directory Drawer "B" Locust Valley, IM.Y. 11560 (516) 427-5661 HJimdldir EhsM) LIFELONG LEARNING: A new report offers some guidelines No university truly committed to the ideals of a liberal arts education has ever felt its mission to be complete when its students graduate or leave, and Brown is no exception. The taste of ideas and subjects offered to each stu- dent at Brown merely serves to induce a lifelong hunger for learning. One way universities have traditionally at- tempted to sate this hunger and to fulfill their mission is through what has vari- ously been called extension, continuing education, or lifelong learning. Brown's efforts go back almost 200 years. In 1785 and 1786 Professor Benja- min Waterhouse gave courses of popu- lar lectures on natural history, and in 1790 Professor Peres Fobes gave a simi- lar course on natural philosophy. In the winter of 1890-91 an Extension Division was formed, with four courses offered. By 1892 there were thirty-five courses attended by 1,500 people. Over the years the number of courses and en- rollments fluctuated greatly. In 1974-75, 1,213 people enrolled in sixty-five courses, but the University, at that time engaged in financial retrenchment, de- cided to suspend the Extension Divi- sion. In September 1977, however. Pres- ident Howard Swearer appointed a Task Force on Lifelong Learning to con- sider the future of continuing education at Brown. What opportunities now exist for the so-called 'non- traditional' stu- dent at Brown? What should Brown's role in lifelong learning be with regard to the programs offered by other area colleges and universities? Should Brown offer additional degree programs — something like a master of arts in liberal studies — or become more in- volved in non-degree programs? George Monteiro, professor of English and director of the Center for Portu- guese and Brazilian Studies, served as chairman of the Task Force, and Virgin- ia Sides, former president of Roger Williams College, was staff assistant. The Task Force report, with several rec- ommendations, is now in. "We felt it was very important that the University make its major resources — its faculty, laboratories, and libraries — available to the community," says Task Force chairman Monteiro. "We recommended that the University utilize the existing class recitation schedule more fully by transferring perhaps 25 percent of the classes, on a rotating basis, to the afternoon and early evening hours." Essentially, the report suggested that non-degree candidates and "public auditors" be permitted to enroll in un- dergraduate courses at Brown at re- duced tuition rates, except in those courses in which enrollment is limited or in which auditing is inappropriate, such as language courses, honors semi- nars, and lab courses. "This is intended to attract the highly motivated person of any age who wishes to have the quality education that Brown offers," says Virginia Sides. The Task Force recommended that the Resumed Undergraduate Education program — in which a student who has interrupted his formal education for five or more years, or who is twenty-five or older, may matriculate at Brown for full or part-time study — be continued in- definitely. In Semester 1 of 1978-79, there were ninety-three RUE students enrolled at Brown. The Task Force recommended that the Graduate Council study the "feasi- bility and desirability" of institviting a master of arts in liberal studies degree program and that more graduate courses, especially in science and en- gineering, be scheduled in the late af- ternoon or evening on or off campus, "so that they will be available to non- traditional students who need to retool or upgrade their professional skills." In addihon, the Task Force recom- mended that the University continue to admit post-baccalaureate students to undergraduate and graduate courses as special students and that a limited number of courses for post-baccalau- reate students be offered on a trial basis in the summer, if enrollment so war- rants. While the Task Force did not present a specific plan for a summer school, it did suggest that a program of pre-medical courses for post-baccalau- reate students and a program for teachers might be developed. "If courses for post-baccalaureate special students, especially pre-medical courses, were offered during the sum- mer," Sides comments, "it might relieve the pressure on undergraduates and might allow more services for these special students — counseling and so on — which they presently don't have." Finally, the Task Force recom- mended that a top-level administrator be appointed to coordinate and expand lifelong learning programs at Brown, and that this officer be charged with de- veloping a plan for summer activities. "This ought to be an individual who would be acceptable as a member of the Brown faculty," Monteiro says. "For too long such programs have been regarded as a stepchild of the Universitv'," Sides adds, "and an administrator should be placed at a level signifying the pro- gram's true integrity and place within the institution." The recommendations in the Task Force's report, which has now been sent to all department chairmen and mem- bers of the Educational Polic\' Group and Faculty Policy Group for considera- tion, are modest. Many are merely ex- tensions of programs Brown already of- fers. "We did not want to come in with a lot of fanc\' ideas that would involve raising large sums of money that the University does not have," Monteiro says. "Our recommendations could bo started up almost immediateh' without much expense. Our basic principle was that we wanted to offer what we have to the community, and not create some- thing separate." In his letter to the faculty accom- panying the report, Howard Swearer wrote, "It is, I believe, essential for Brown to expand existing, and establish new, programs in lifelong learning in order to be well-positioned for the bal- ance of this centur\- during which for- mal study by older citizens will almost certainly become an increasingly impor- tant aspect of American higher educa- tion. Brown has much to offer the older student and, in return, there are tangi- ble benefits for the Universit)', including the traditional undergraduate." D.S. SOUTH AFRICAN DIVESTITURE: An editor raises a 'hue and cry' "I'm amazed that so many of you have come to hear about a country so far away," Donald Woods, exiled editor of the East London, South Africa, Daily Dispatch, told an overflow crowd in Alumnae Hall on October 3. His lecture, sponsored by the Undergraduate Council of Students and the Racial Awareness Communications Exchange, was entitled "Biko, Apartheid, and the Crisis in South Africa," and his avowed purpose in speaking was to "raise the hue and cry of the divestiture issue and bring it here to Brown." A long-time critic of apartheid. Woods was banned from all forms of public expression in South Africa and deprived of most of his other civil rights when he accused the Vorster regime of complicity in the death of his friend, black leader Stephen Biko, last fall. Since fleeing the country on New Year's Eve for political as\lum in England, Woods has published a book called Biko, become a visiting Neiman Fellow at Harvard, spoken before the U.N. Secu- rity Council and the House and Senate foreign relations committees, and met with President Carter. He recently un- dertook a speaking tour of U.S. colleges and universities because, he told the Brown audience, "campuses in the U.S. wUl give expression to this issue as they did with the Vietnam War." Woods, a soft-spoken man with prematurely white hair, took pains to impress on his listeners that South Afri- ca's racial tensions extend far beyond the boundaries of that country in their moral and pragmatic implications. "Apartheid is not just a dispute going on in South Africa," he said. "It's a world flash point more dangerous than the Mideast — where the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. maintain a balance of power. In South Africa, you have a vacuum on one side and the U.S.S.R. and China on the other." He warned, "Unless strong pressures are marshaled against the white regime, a racial civil war will break out in four or five vears that will have repercussions all over the world." In every country where race relations are an issue, such a war would cause in- ternal tensions and polarizations. Woods predicted. The U.S. was a good case in point: "I'm surprised by some of the things I've seen here," he said. "There are three forms of racism — statutory, economic, and psychological — and the latter two are still present here. That means the campaign is only one-third over." "The one faint chance left of a peaceful solution" in South Africa, Woods asserted, "is through economic pressure on the white regime to per- suade it to negotiate." The white re- gime, with its middle-class values, "de- pends on a sense of acceptability" to other "white" governments and na- tions, and is thus sensitive to their dis- approval, above and beyond any eco- nomic sanctions they might impose. "South African whites believe that Americans essenhally agree with them, and they must be disabused of this no- tion." The fundamental moral argument for divestiture, according to Woods, is that "the University should not be funded partially by the exploitation of others." To those who equate divesti- ture with "moral handwashing," Woods countered, "If \ou've got dirty hands, wash them. ... To say that if we sell our stock in companies doing busi- ness in South Africa, someone else will bu\' it, is rather like a chemicals firm in World War II saying, 'If we don't man- ufacture gas for Auschwitz, someone else will.' " He denounced the Sullivan Principles, a set of proposed guidelines for fair-labor practices for American firms operating in South Africa, as an excuse for exploitation and as the em- bodiment of "the forces of pussy- footism." Woods pointed out that the $76 million a year in wages paid to black workers by U.S. firms is far outweighed bv the S200 million a year those firms pay in taxes to the South African gov- ernment. The argument that "business is business and onU' profits matter" (which Woods termed the "Elks-Rotar- ian line") is "shortsighted," he said. "South Africa is a bad investment now, and it will get worse." He reminded his audience that "not everything can be reckoned in terms of dollars and cents" and appealed to them to "bring your influence to bear for divestiture. ... If Brown can't function without those dol- lars, it doesn't deserve to function," he said. "It's up to you to restore the soul of the institution." After a standing ovation. Woods fielded half a dozen quesHons from the audience, ranging from the reasons for his denunciation as an opportunist by the Black Writers' Association of South Africa ("The South African press claims that I'm making millions, and the writ- ers' association has swallowed that propaganda"), to the political future of Namibia ("The South African govern- ment has no intention of giving them true independence"), the role that sym- pathetic whites can play in the South African black-consciousness movement ("ver\' little"), and the justificahon for emerging African nations' switching their loyalties to the Eastern bloc ("Of course it's justified when you're in- volved in a life-or-death struggle. To the blacks of South Africa, that's exactly what this is"). Finally, someone asked him if he had any suggestions for further efforts to persuade the Brown Corporation to divest. "Keep at them," Woods answered. "Don't let them have a moment's peace." j.P. A brief boil, but mostly a simmer The South Africa question re- mained at a simmer through the month of October and into November, al- though it threatened briefly to come to a boil on October 13, when the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) and the Third World Coalition (TWC) held a jointly sponsored rally on the Green. The rally, which was timed to coincide with a meertng of the Corpora- tion, was actually two-pronged: to urge divestiture of University stocks in com- panies doing business in South Africa, and to charge the University with failing to live up to the commitments it made to the minority community after the takeover of University Hall in 1975. After marching around University Hall and then to the John Hay Library, where a meeting for new trustees and trustees emeriti was being held, the students reassembled on the Green to listen to various minority spokesmen air their grievances about Brown's policies. No specific proposals or threats were made, though. The rally appeared to alienate many students who felt that combining the issues of divestiture and minority grievances only weakened both; nevertheless, a Broim Daily Herald poll on October 26 showed that student support of divestiture had increased 11.5 percent since last spring. Of the 2,885 students polled, 40.2 percent op- posed divestiture, and 31.4 percent supported it. In a forum aired over WBRU-AM on October 24, Robert A. Reichley, vice president for University relations, pre- dicted that the University would not di- vest itself of its South Africa-related stocks and termed divestiture a "drastic action" unlikely to be taken by other major private universities. Meanwhile, theiJif hoc Student-Faculty Committee on Corporate Responsibilit\' in Invest- ment Policy, which had been meeting weekly since June, issued its recom- mendations for "a permanent mech- anism for regularly communicating to the Corporation the views and recom- mendations of the Brown community regarding corporate responsibility in in- vestment policies," in the words of the committee's charge. The committee's report stated that "Brown's Corporation has a legal and non-delegable responsibility to adminis- ter University funds in a prudent man- ner which assures that the University and its mission will endure. Brown also has a moral responsibility to see that the corporations of which it is a voting shareholder by virtue of its investments do not engage in socially harmful activi- ties." The committee recommended that a permanent Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investment be established, consisting of three facul- ty, three students (two undergraduate and one graduate), and three alumni, to work closely with the Corporation's Advisory Committee on Proxy Issues. Essentially, the permanent committee's charge would be "to consider issues of moral responsibility in the investment policies of Brown University and to make recommendations to the Proxy Committee of the Corporation which, in its considered judgment, would best serve the interests of the University." A faculty forum was held October 24 to discuss the report, which was scheduled to be voted on by the faculty at its November 7 meeting. The forum itself was sparsely attended, anci action on the report was delayed for another month when Professor of Economics George Borts and Professor of Engineer- ing John Savage introduced a lengthy series of proposed amendments to the report at the November faculty meeting. Several faculty members protested that it would be impossible to consider both the report and the amendments in the limited time left, and it was voted 34-22 to postpone consideration of the issue until the December meeting. Meanwhile, the Corporation had been preparing a new statement on its investment policies (see following story). /.P. The Corporation's statement on divestiture In a statement released November 16, the Advisory and ExecuHve Com- mittee of the Corpiiration rejected di- vestiture as an appropriate response to the South African problem, although it promised to give prompt consid- eration to whatever action the faculty might take at its December meeting on the proposal for an advisory committee on investment policy. The following is an excerpt from that statement: ". . . We recognize that the particu- lar issue of South Africa is of great con- cern to the campus. Recalling the prin- ciples which were enunciated and pub- lished on the campus last May, we feel it might be helpful to explain again in general terms the current position of the Corporation on this matter since there appears to be some confusion and mis- understanding on the campus despite the various actions and statements of last year. "For most of this decade, the Brown Corporation and two of its committees — namely the Advisory and Executive Committee and the Advisory Committee on Proxy Issues — have de- voted growing amounts of time to an analysis of the special issues surround- ing the Brown portfolio and the degree to which the University can and should use its role as investor and shareholder to influence constructive social change at home and in the world. ". . . Then, as now, the Republic of South Africa and its repressive policy of apartheid were very much on the minds of the Trustees and Fellows and figured prominently in our discussions. No re- sponsible American with sensitivity and an appreciahon of our own ideals and origins can feel anything but repug- nance for the institution of apartheid. We are trustees and fellows and, as such, members of a broad and diverse University community. Though South Africa is far away geographically, we do not regard its policies of racism as dis- tant and irrelevant to our role as the governing bodv of a prestigious and liberal institution whose foundation is based on diversity of ideas and people. "Today there is pressure upon many American colleges and universi- ties to use their portfolios as weapons against apartheid, and against repres- sion in other countries of the world as well. The most extreme suggestion calls upon universities to sell all of their se- curities in U.S. companies that do busi- ness in South Africa in the belief that such an act would hasten the departure of those companies, assist in the even- tual collapse of the South African gov- ernment, and help the rise to power of the black majority. ". . . By law under the Charter of Brown University, we are charged with safeguarding the endowment of this institution. It is a role we take seriously and one that is never easy, even in the best of times. Now, in an era of run- away inflation when the power of our endowment is diminished, the task is even more difficult. Yet one of the ways in which trustees fulfill their financial responsibility is through the creation, preservation, and growth of a strong endowment, the returns from which support the educational programs of Brown. "... The dilemma we face in the South African question is not a clear-cut issue of high morality I's. financial profit. Brown, as a non-profit institvition whose resources are devoted to teach- ing and research, is not in the same cat- egory as an individual or corporate in- vestor whose main motive in maintain- ing a large portfolio is the accumulation of wealth. It is ciifficult to think of a great private university in this vein, for the returns on Brown's investments are not a goal in themselves, isolated and apart from the support those funds provide for the educational objectives of our faculty and students, and the gen- eral welfare of both. If there is a conflict, it is between the moral principles we support for Brown, and the threat di- vestment would pose for the financial resources we are obligated to preserve and have pledged significantly to in- crease over the next few years to guarantee viable University programs. ". . . We remain unconvinced by the evidence at hand that across-the- board divestment on our part would necessarily have the desired effect of ending the entrenched system of racism in South Africa. . . . We continue to be- lieve there remain many ambiguities in the complex South Africa situation, and we disagree with those who have con- cluded that corporate withdrawal and divestment by us and other educational instituHons is the only way to bring about the desired changes. Moreover, we support actions by the United States government and private parties to bring about constructive change in that deeply troubled country. "And if there is disagreement on the effects of across-the-board divest- ment by Brown on the South African di- lemma, there is no disagreement among us on the negative effects divesHture \\ ould have on our financial stability and our efforts to build and protect the endowment that helps support this University. "Much has been said about the cost in financial terms were we to decide to divest across-the-board from those companies operating in South Africa. Brown is currently operating on its first break-even budget in a decade after a long battle to stabilize our expenditures and increase our revenue. The financial costs would not be an insignificant item, trying as we are to preserve and maxi- mize all of our resources. If the di- rect financial losses were the only cost of divestiture, and if we could be certain such an act would bring about con- structive change in South Africa, then the dilemma we face might be eased. Unfortunateiv, a precedent-setting ac- tion to divest would also have a major effect on our ability and flexibility to reinvest. That is a price we cannot pay at the verv time we are attempting to in- crease our endowment in the early stages of the largest capital campaign in Brown's history. "From a philosophical standpoint, not enough has been said about the need for Brown and other great U.S. private universities to encourage di- verse viewpoints within the academic community and to avoid in general tak- ing 'institutional' positions on issues which do not impact directly on the University. We agree apartheid is evil, but there is not agreement on the role Brown should plav in helping to end it. From a practical standpoint important to the University, we reject the notion that our portfolio — through the wholesale divestment of a large number of securi- ties — can or should be used as a means in support of social change. ". . . For these reasons, we must continue to reject across-the-board di- vestment as our answer to the difficult question of South Africa. We will con- tinue to monitor the events there care- fully and to analyze the information we are now receiving on the activities of companies in which we have invest- ments and which continue to operate in South Africa. "We believe our proper role is one of a responsible shareholder. We will continue efforts to encourage U.S. busi- nesses to take an active role in promot- ing constructive institutional change and improving the lives and conditions of their employees." (The statement goes on to endorse explicitly the Sulli- van Principles for fair-labor practices.] ". . . We are opposed in general to loans made to the South African gov- ernment and its affiliates and will ex- press that view as widely as we can. . . . "We realize our actions may fall short of what some within the Brown community would like us to do. But it is the course we believe is proper for Brown to follow at this time." IN THE NEWS: Keeney acknowledges ties with the CIA In an article recently published in Nra< Times magazine, Barnabv Keeney admits to having worked for the Central Intelligence Agency during part of his tenure as Brown University's twelfth president (1955-1966). The article was written bv two Brown alumni. Marc Cheshire '78 and Andrew Sommer '78. Keeney, thev wrote, "had secretly maintained a professional relationship with the Central Intelligence Agency." Barnaby Keeney was trained as a historian, specializing in the Renais- sance. Immediately following Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the Army, inter- rupting a teaching career at Harvard. He joined the 35th Infantry as an officer in charge of an intelligence interpreters team. While in the Arm\' he received a Guggenheim fellowship for further study in medieval history. Keeney came to Brown as an assistant professor of history in 1946. By 1951 he had been named professor of history and dean of the graduate school, and he then took a leave of absence to work for the CIA. At that time, Sommer and Cheshire wrote, he aided top Agenc\' officials in design- ing "a training program for new re- cruits, according to Lyman Kirkpa trick, a former CLA executive director and a Brown political science professor since 1%5." After a year, Keeney returned to Brown to become, in 1953, dean of the College and, in 1955, president of the University. In addition to his year's leave in 1951 to work with the CIA — an en- gagement Keeney never denied nor tried to hide — in 1962 he began serving as chairman of the board of directors and president of the Human Ecology Fund. In their jWu' Tunes article, Som- mer and Cheshire assert that this or- ganization was "a front for perhaps the most controversial domestic program in the CIA's history. The fund was one of several dummy foundations," they continue, "which, over a twenty-year period, the Agency secretly used to channel millions of dollars into mind- control research, including LSD testing on human subjects, as part of a project code- named MKULTRA. "Keeney said he was told by CIA officials that MKULTRA was designed to counter Soviet and Chinese brain- washing techniques, developed through the use of psycho-chemicals and hyp- nosis," Sommer and Cheshire wrote. But according to other CLA documents, the authors claim, the work had turned toward offensive uses of behavior con- trol. After the Neic Times article ap- peared, Keeney, who now spends most of his time at his home in Little Comp- ton, Rhode Island, told the Pnu'ideiice journal that he had retained his intelli- gence ties during his presidency and advised the agency in "setting up covert funding operations" and in other mat- ters. He added, "1 suppose nowadays it is improper to attempt to serve your country . . .but then I felt I was doing what I should. I am a citizen of this country." Keenes' left Brown in 1966 to accept an appointment as the first chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Sommer and Cheshire were unable to determine whether Keeney maintained a relationship with the CIA after his departure from Brown. In response to their question as to whether the NEH was ever used to cloak CIA operations, Keeney said, "Do you know what would happen to an agent who used the NEH as a cover? — He would be killed." In response to the disclosures of the Neic Times article, the Rhode Island affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter to President Howard Swearer demanding that Brown con- duct an intensive investigation of pos- sible CLA involvement at Brown in the past, present, and future — an in- volvement which the ACLU said could have a "chilling effect" on the exercise of free speech at Brown and on the as- sociation of students and faculty. In his reply, Mr. Swearer said he had been unaware of any CIA activity at Brown since his arrival in January 1977. "In August 1977 I asked the Faculty Pol- icy Group to examine current policies concerning the University's relations with external agencies and organiza- tions and to draw up desirable modi- fications and additions to these policies 10 for review by the faculty. This process is already well-advanced." In addition, he said. Brown has had a long-standing policy barring classified research under University auspices. And Brown has made public all research contracts. Acting on behalf of the ACLU, and under the provisions of the federal Freedom of Information Act, Brown junior Andrea Gaines has petitioned the CIA to release whatever documents it has pertaining to Keeney and to Brown. Meanwhile, Howard Swearer sent a letter to Admiral Stansfield Turner, di- rector of the CIA, requesting informa- tion about the possible nature and ex- tent of CIA activities at Brown — past and present. "Since there is consider- able concern," he wrote, ". . . there is a compelling need to clarify the situa- tion. . . ." D.S. THE FACULTY: Three named to endowed chairs Three members of the faculty have been named to endowed professorships at Brown. George Borts, professor of economics, managing editor of the American Economic Revieiv, and a mem- ber of the faculty since 1950, was named the first appointee to the newly es- tablished Merton P. Stoltz Professor- ship in Social Sciences. The chair comes from an anonymous gift honoring the recently retired provost. Borts is a widely published specialist in interna- tional economics, the economics of public utilities, and macro- and micro- economic theories. David Underdown, professor of history at Brown since 1968, was named to the Munro-Goodwin-Wilkinson Pro- fessorship in European History, vacant since the death last year of William Church. A native of England who holds degrees from Oxford and Yale, Under- down has published three books and numerous scholarly papers on aspects of seventeenth-century British history. He has been elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and, among other honors, he has received fellow- ships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies. Anne W. Seidman, an economist with degrees from Smith, Columbia, and the University of Wisconsin, has been named to a one-year appointment as Nancy Duke Lewis Professor and visiting professor of sociology. The pro- fessorship is an endowed post named for the former dean of Pembroke. Seid- man has done extensive research both on the economic development of African nations and the changing status of women in the American work force. She has taught at several universities in this country and in Africa at the Universities of Ghana, Dar es Salaam, and Zambia, where she headed the economic de- partment from 1972 to 1974. She is a consultant to the U.N. Transnational Corporate Centre and the U.N. Anti- Apartheid Committee. D.S. PUBLIC RELATIONS: Brown makes a new movie Brown has a new promotional movie, its first since the Bicentennial film of 1964. But for a while it looked as though the elements were very much against the University ever having an- other film. In November 1977, University rela- tions officials hired, strictly on specula- tion. Seven Seas Cinema, headed by Tim Smith 75 and his brother, Mike, to shoot some football footage — just in case a decision was made to produce a movie. It was the Cornell weekend — and it rained. Subsequently, a contract was signed with the Smith brothers. Lengthy discussions were held, tight schedules were drawn up, and the film crew was ready to start. The brothers Smith arrived on campus February 6, the day the Great Blizzard of 1978 be- gan. "At that point it seemed that the Smith brothers had the uncanny ability to attract bad weather," says Robert A. Reichley, vice president for university relations and a prime mover in the de- cision to make a new film. "The week they came we had so much snow that they couldn't even shoot snow scenes." The shooting on campus started in February (when the snow was cleared away) and finished Commencement weekend. The film compan\' shot 20,000 feet of film to end up with roughly 1,000 George Borts. Dnviii Underdown. Anne Seidiimn . % 11 TIte mai'icinakcrs in Prof. Ed Beiser's classroom. feet in the twenty-eight-minute, 16- mni. color film that includes eight- track sound. The first showings of the movie, called Voices, Faces, Broum, were held at Maddock Alumni Center in Oc- tober and the "reviews" from faculty, administrators, and alumni were good. "We set out to make a film that wouldn't be outdated, one that we can use for three or four years," says Bob Reichley. "Also, we wanted a film that was not highly structured. Our overall objective was to have a movie that shows a slice of the place. We're saying to the viewer, 'We can't show vou ev- erything about Brown, but here is a slice of what's happening there today.' " There is no narrator, the story being told through the voices of students, profes- sors, and administrators. A novel twist is that all of the music is Brown-oriented. Randy Walters '78, a music major, produced the electronic music for the sound track, while the "live" sounds came from \'iolinist Isaac Stern, recorded at his Brown concert last spring, and from Red Balaban's jazz group, recorded at Meehan in October 1977. Good films just don't happen. There has to be a coordinator behind the scenes, and for this film, it was Bill Kennedy '60, assistant director of uni- N'ersity relations fcir the past two years, who had previously taught filmmaking in New York City and has produced two films. "Bill Kennedy made the greatest single contribution from our staff to the successful completion of this project," says Reichle\-. "When there were jobs that couldn't /'(i,s.t I'ctrr Sihiiii,i! ^t.i!;,i behind a liaublc-dnwi base for the bellows used by the Haya in smelling iron. 19 At right, several Haya dig the furnace pit and line it with termite mud. In the center opposite, ceramic btmi'pipes — called tuyeres — are placed at the base of the furnace oi>er the pit, which has been filled with charred swamp reeds and sifted charcoal. Viese blowpipes will serve as a conduit for the air forced into the furnace and preheat the air as it passes through them. At far right opposite, the furnace is constructed of large chunks of refractory slag cemented by termite mud. Anthropologist Schmidt is solving a problem he had not even meant to undertake charcoal. The formation of carbon steel in the grass charcoal is a critical part of this process, Avery notes, as well as a feature that distinguishes this method from that used in Europe. Before the iron ore nodules mined bv the Haya were placed in the furnace, thev had been "roasted" in a pit with densely-packed wet wood. In the pit, due to lim- ited O.J access, a chemical reaction takes place in which carbon penetrates the iron ore — is essen- tialh' co-deposited internally much as chips are found throughout chocolate chip ice cream. When these pieces of "roasted" iron ore are added to the furnace, they melt in the high temperatures pro- duced just above the tuyeres. The molten iron sili- cate slag is drawn into the bed of grass charcoal. "The carbon infiltrates the slag, which then causes a chemical reaction, giving off carbon monoxide," he writes. "As this happens, large and very perfect crystals of iron grow in the slag to form a bloom. . . . Carbon steel results when carbon from the burned swamp grass is absorbed into the iron." Thus, two characteristics of the Haya smelting process are unique: the preheating of the air draft through blowpipes, and the formation of iron cr\'s- tals, rather than by "the sintering of fine, solid particles" as in European smelting. "It's a very unique and original process that uses a large number of sophisticated techniques," Avery comments. "This is really semi-conductor technology — the growing of crystals — not iron- smelting technology." In the course of their experiment, Avery said that four separate furnaces had collapsed — one right after the other. "In this case we went to a di- viner's hut. He told us that a man who had not been allowed to participate had hidden in the trees and had pointed his ass at the furnace, which would prevent it from smelting iron. It was de- termined that we had taken some shortcuts and had not built the furnaces in the traditional way." So, they abandoned the shortcuts — and had a successful smelt. One year after the reconstruction of a furnace by Haya elders and the re-enactment of a smelt, Schmidt excavated thirteen early Iron Age fur- naces at Kemondo Bay on the coast of Lake Victoria, one of the most complex early Iron Age industrial sites in Africa. The Kemondo Bay fur- nace pits had physical properties very similar to the reconstructed pit, including evidence that blowpipes had been inserted inside the furnace. So the archaeological evidence bore out the oral history of the Haya, and the oral history had been passed down without major alterations for 2,000 years. Schmidt suggests that similar furnaces were used by neighboring cultures — in Uganda, for instance — and that this level of technological complexity' was not limited to East Africa. "Further archaeological research is required to discover why such a complex technology grew up along the western shore of Lake Victoria," he writes. "One possible hypothesis is that the heavy exploitation of forests (for charcoal and for agricultural pur- poses) may have triggered the development of an efficient, fuel-economizing technology. The wide- spread distribution of Early Iron Age industrial sites in West Lake, the manner of charcoal pro- duction and its ten-to-one weight ratio of wood to charcoal, and the need for five hundred pounds of charcoal all suggest that, if smelting was widely practiced in prehistoric times, then the impact of the technological system must have been severe. The decline of productivity may be linked to an overexploited forest resource base; the evolution of the fuel-efficient preheated furnace may be an adaptation bv the local smelters to that depleted resource." This year Peter Schmidt is in Tanzania con- ducting further research funded by the National Science Foundation. Through his work, coupled with Don Avery's expertise in metallurgical analysis, Schmidt has gone a long way towards solving a problem he had not even meant to tackle: how iron metallurgy developed in sub-Saharan Africa. 20 Men of the Haya tribe (above) smelting iron in inucli the siinie way their aneestoi:- did 2,000 years ago. Placing the bellows sei'eral inches from the flared opetnng of the blowpipe forces air into the blowpipe and at the same time sucks air from the surrounding atmosphere into the pipe, thus doubling or tripling the amount of air forced into the furnace and making it an extremely efficietit process. Each smelt lasts from six to eight hours. Photographs by Peter Schmidt 21 For a decade Lee Verstandig was one of Brown's most popular administrators. His office is now in Washington, and he's loving every minute of it The Dean on Capitol Hill By Steven Rattner 74 Pat Moynihan, New York's Demo- cratic senator, calls him "Dean." The maitre d' in the Senate Dining Room remembers to give him mints for his son. And he has danced with Gerald Rafshoon's wife, the widow of race car driver Mark Donohue '59. Along the way, he has helped John Chafee, Rhode Island's junior senator, to pass legislation, man- age an office, maintain his political base, and in general, do the things a senator should. Lee Verstandig '70 Ph.D., former Brown dean and friend to a dec- ade of Brown alumni, is a member of the most exclusive club in the country and he is loving every minute of it. "I thought I would miss the intel- lectual environment of Brown, but 1 don't think 1 do," Verstandig reflected recently over lunch in that ornate Capitol dining room. "The extraordi- nary intellectual atmosphere of the Senate fills the void. I've been able to in- teract with people of great depth and energy. In one sense, it's much more broad than a college campus could be. I probably have the best of both possible worlds." Verstandig's vantage point is his post as Chafee's administrative assist- ant, a post with a seemingly modest title but known locally to be the top staff job in a senator's or representative's office. From that perch, the forty-one-year-old ex-academic runs Chafee's office of thirty — hiring, firing, supervising re- search, speechwriting, preparation of legislation, and whatever else the senator might need. The post requires a remarkable amount of versatility, for its occupant must be able to arrange a campaign ap- pearance in one instant and advise the senator on how to vote on a complex piece of energy legislation in the next. The working conditions are less than ideal: Verstandig's office is a cramped 22 Photographs by Ann Stevens space smaller than a single room in a dormitory and it is separated from the senator's reception area by only a half- height partition, a far cry from Ver- standig's palatial quarters in University Hall. And the working hours are frene- tic and unpredictable; during the last two weeks of this year's session, the Senate met six days a week, often for sixteen hours a day, and closed with a marathon, thirty-four-hour circus. Nor is an administrative assistant's salary of about $45,000 considered a particularly compelling incentive. What drew Verstandig to Capitol Hill is what draws hundreds of new- comers each year, among them invari- ably a number of young Brown gradu- ates. There is a sense of excitement and of power, and an unusual feeling in this CNTiical age that change can actually be accomplished. In many ways, the work of Congress is conducted by the staffs, which often initiate, design, and push through what ultimately becomes law. In the Senate particularly, a legislator may vote on the basis of a staff mem- ber's quickly whispered counsel or de- liver a speech he is reading for the first time. In both chambers, whenever progress is being achieved, staff mem- bers are invariably intimately involved or even responsible. Moreover, that lure is, if an\thing, on the rise, because as Congressional affairs become more de- manding, as the number of issues and the complexity of the questions rise in tandem, the importance of the staff member grows. Capitol Hill is, as well, a chance for recent arrivals from college campuses to see government and politics first hand. "Much of our work here is making sure that the federal bureaucracy responds to problems out there," said Edward W. Sheets '72, a legislative assistant to Democratic Senator Warren Magnuson of Washington. "Because of Magnu- son's position as cinairman of the Ap- propriations Committee, the staff is able to have quite an impact." Shelley Fidler '68, who works as a legislative assistant to Representative Philip R. Sharp, a highly regarded Democrat from Indiana, almost single- handedly designed the mandatory au- tomobile standards approved in 1975, which are still regarded as among the most important pieces of energy legisla- tion adopted to date. "The first bill I worked on here made me understand that the process can work and that you can get things done and, of course, we were on the side of the angels," Fidler said. "I adore it here. I spend a lot of my time turning down job offers." Among Capitol Hill's attractions also is the camaraderie, the feeling of being among interesting people doing interesting things. In some ways, it is like a gigantic fraternity house. "I always knew it was something I wanted to do," said Meredith Johnson '71 , who works for Rep. John Rhodes of Arizona, the minority leader. "I'm not a big-city person and going to an agency filled with thousands of people who all look alike baffled me." (Among the Brown contingent is but one legislator — Rep. John W. Wydler '46 of New York, a con- servative Republican.) Although he is now 400 miles from the College Green, Verstandig's Brown connections have continued and even flourished. For one thing, although scat- tered across the world, the thousands of alumni from his time at Brown keep in regular touch, some for career advice and help, others just as friends. Mean- while, alumni in town are regular I I I • ^ III I i » 23 luncheon companions, and some are even business associates. Kenneth Weiner 72, deputy executive director of the President's Council on Environmen- tal Quality, has lobbied him, and Elliott Maxwell '68 worked frequently with Verstandig when Maxwell worked for the Senate Intelligence Committee, on which Chafee serves. (For his part, Verstandig is still a member of campus radio station WBRU's board of directors, although he stepped down as presi- dent.) Perhaps most important, Chafee, like any conscientious senator, has worked hard for Rhode Island, and so has Verstandig. Sometimes that means Brown, and college administrators are in eager contact. Geology professor Tim Mutch is worried about House action to cut out money for the lunar module. Chafee's membership on the Health Subcommittee means frequent calls from Dean of Medicine Stanley Aron- son. One day recently, Verstandig even had a call from former Brown athletic di- rector Andy Geiger, now AD at the University of Pennsylvania, who in- quired about the fate of the Health Serv- ices Act. And, of course. President Swearer calls to "express his concerns." One vivid demonstrahon of the confluence of these relationships — and perhaps of Chafee's successes — came during the debate last year over manda- tory retirement. The proposed bill, which would remove mandatory re- tirement provisions, would have caused substantial problems for Brown and similar institutions that depend on re- tirement as the principal means for add- Lee Verstandig' s day: (clockimse from upper left) meeting with the staff in early morning: talking loith Bob Thompson of the While House legislative liaison office and Susan Alvarado, legislatiih' assistant to Alaska Senator Ted Stei'ens: briefing Senator Chafee at the end of the day: giving dictation: rehirning from the Senate with Chafee and Allen Moore, director of legislation for Missouri Senator John Danforth: discussing education legislation with Nana/ Barrow 77, Chafee's legislative assistant in labor and education, and Bill Maroni, Chafee's legislative research assistant: meeting zvith Nancy Barrow, Mark Gorman, Chafee's legislative assistant in taxes and small business, and Don Plant]/, legislative assistant in foreign affairs; and unpacking Senator Chafee's trustee cliair from Yale (which was broketj). 24 25 ing new faculty in this era of little growth. Because of his position on the Yale board of trustees, Chafee sym- pathized with the universities' plight and prepared an amendment exempting them from the act. To Verstandig fell the task of winning support, over the strong opposition of the American Association of University Professors and similar groups. "I kept in close touch with [former Brown presidential assistant] Kelsey Murdoch, gathering statistics on retire- ment percentages," Verstandig recalled. "The trick at that point was to see that other college administrations expressed their support to their senators, so I was spending a lot of time on the telephone. The day the amendment came up, the lobbyists on the other side told me it wouldn't pass. " It did. Sometimes, Chafee's Rhode Island responsibilities mean unusual tasks for Verstandig, such as the reception he or- ganized for the prime minister of the Cape Verdes Islands, a good number of whose citizens have emigrated to Rhode Island over the centuries. Other times, it is more substanrive, such as the fight in the last days of the 95th Congress to prevent the Internal Revenue Service from dosing twenty regional offices, including one in Providence. Although Chafee took the time to testify, the Fi- nance Committee was unresponsive to the problem and so Chafee took the issue to the Senate floor. On those oc- casions — a Chafee amendment or major statement — the senator brings Verstandig onto the floor to sit among the senators, at Chafee's elbow, and be ready with any facts that might be re- quired during the debate. This time, Chafee withdrew the amendment, under pressure from Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire, but at least the point was made. What has it all added up to? Chafee and Verstandig have found that change in the United States Senate occurs in small, sometimes immeasurable steps. Even for a veteran, laboring for several weeks to pass one seemingly minor amend- ment is not unusual. And being a freshman Republican senator makes the task still more difficult: as much as it has changed, the Senate is still very much a place that reveres seniority and the majority part)'. "It's unlikely that a freshman is going to accomplish very much," Verstandig acknowledged. "There's not any legislation that has John's name on it, but I think he's played an interesting role. For example, some regard John as second only to Muskie as the concerned environmen- talist." Having spent a decade on a heavily liberal. Democratically inclined college campus, Verstandig is somewhat sensi- tive about working for a Republican and he stresses, with some justification, that his senator's voting record has been surprisingly moderate for a man of such long-standing party loyalty. Particularly on foreign affairs, Chafee and a few other Republicans of his persuasion have on more than one occasion pro- vided the margin of victory for the White House. Perhaps the most exciting of these for Verstandig was the rat- ification of the Panama Canal Treaties, in which Chafee was intimately in- volved. The high point was a pre- ratification inspection trip to Panama, which included both Administration heavyweights such as chief lobbyist Frank Moore and other senators such as Republicans Howard Baker of Tennes- see, the minority leader, and Orrin Hatch of Utah. "1 got to know both guys on a first-name basis," says Verstandig, and an autographed picture of the pair now hangs on his office wall near his Senior Citation from Brown. About that time, Verstandig visited the White House for a Rhode Island event and, upon being introduced, the President told him, "1 appreciate your senator's support." When Verstandig arrived in Wash- ington in January 1977, neither he nor his new boss knew very much about how the Senate operates. "For the first couple of months, 1 walked around in the halls, particularly here in the Capitol, about two feet off the ground," Verstandig reminisced the other day. "As a political historian who had been through the Congressional Record as a scholar, being down here and really working in an environment where so much stuff happens was quite an exper- ience." One of Verstandig's most vivid memories was of an incident shortly after the Chafee/Verstandig ascension, when the team's first successful amend- ment — to expand the tax incentive for hiring new workers — was adopted. As Verstandig sat on the Senate floor, Massachusetts Democrat Edward M. Kennedy "walked across the aisle, put an arm around me and said, 'You and your boss did a hell of a job on that amendment.' When Kennedy walked away, I said to myself, 'My God, Ted Kennedy just offered kind remarks to the junior senator from Rhode Island and his mini-staff!' " For some new Capitol Hill arrivals, the seamier side of legislative life — the disorganizafion, confusion, and mbced competence — often contrasts sharply with the grand image one sees from afar. Not so for Verstandig. "I had thought that Senate staffs were largely assembled through patronage," he ex- plained. "But the Senate has among it the brightest people I've ever met or worked with. Very, very few people are here because of whom they know." From the start, assembling bright people was among Verstandig's tasks. He calculates that he reviewed nearly 4,000 resumes and interviewed 300 candidates to fill his staff. Among the number, of course, were many Brown alumni but, to avoid an office that was merely an extension of the campus, Verstandig held the Brown contingent to a maximum of six. He is still deluged by young Brown graduates in search of Capitol Hill employment — one recently followed him onto the Senate subway. "It's a catch-22," explained Verstandig. "It's hard to get hired without experi- ence and it's hard to get experience without getting hired." For his part, Verstandig's route to Washington began as long ago as the mid-1960s, when, as a professor at Roger Williams College, he dispatched his students as "quasi- interns" to local polidcians, including then-Governor John Chafee. As a polifi- cal historian, Verstandig became some- thing of a local sage, appearing in the Prai'ideiicc Jourual and on local radio shows. He was also the state's leading pollster during the 1964 and 1968 con- tests. In 1968, he served as political ad- viser to the state's delegation to the Re- publican convention — a delegafion headed by John Chafee. In 1970, when he became an assist- ant dean at Brown, he bowed out of poliHcs, partly for ethical reasons, and didn't re-enter until 1976 when "John called and asked if he could put me on his steering committee. He wanted someone he knew would say 'no' to him. Part of why I had gotten out of Rhode Island politics was that I had got- ten tired of being used. John was con- cerned about my private life." Verstan- 26 dig assumed responsibility for issues and assembled a "kiddy corps" of Nancy Barrow 17 and Kip Hawley 76. "We picked six issues wfiich we wanted Chafee to know in depth," said Ver- standig. When the campaign ended success- fully, Chafee asked Verstandig to join him in Washington, as chief legislative aide for a transition period, and then as administrative assistant. At the time, Verstandig was grappling with another career decision: whether to leave Brown for another deanship, one of which was available at Colgate University, in Hamilton, New York. "Then I found that Hamilton gets an average of 158 inches of snow a winter," Verstandig recalled. "It took twenty-two seconds to make a decision. After all, I'd never been to Washing- ton." At the outset, his arrangement with Brown was for an eighteen-month leave of absence, which was subse- quently extended for a year. When he asked for the extra year, Verstandig said, Howard Swearer told him "it was tremendously useful to have our man in Washington." Verstandig is particularly pleased about his present post because it "com- bines administering the office, serving as political adviser, and providing input into public policy." That means begin- ning the day with a twenty-to-thirty- minute session with the senator, dis- cussing what's upcoming on the floor and in committee and whom the day's visitors are scheduled to be. Although his five legislative assistants keep track of most issues, Verstandig keeps for himself intelligence issues because "from his Navy days, Chafee is very un- comfortable about having people repre- sent him there." The academic-turned-politicai aide must also read all the incoming mail and glance at the outgoing pile. Often, he must deal with the bureaucracy down- town on a matter of importance to Rhode Island. And he must work with other senators' offices, such as through a breakfast group of Republican admin- istrative assistants Verstandig helped to found. One week the subject might be trade; another week, labor law reform. He also attends meetings of "The Group," a small number of Republican "a.a.'s" — as the Verstandigs of the Senate are known — who began gather- ing on the eve of President Nixon's res- ignation. "We have to run from discus- sions on entitlements in the Environ- Pari of any day arc the inci'iUihle phone calls. ment Committee to health issues in the Human Resources Committee, to say nothing about keeping John up on votes on the floor," Verstandig said. "I spend a lot of my time running back and forth to see what's happening and what's not happening." Verstandig enjoys the politics, and on the wall of his cubicle is a state map of Rhode Island with small red pins representing places Chafee has spoken recently. The senator must return home every couple of weeks to build his polit- ical base and, every month or so, Verstandig visits the state, sometimes with Chafee, sometimes without. His future plans may be uncertain, but Verstandig has sold his East Side residence and bought a three-story townhouse in an exclusive in-town sec- tion of Washington. In the evening, the Verstandigs enjoy the Washington so- cial whirl. By day, his wife, Frances (Vincentelli '62), remains active in vari- ous good causes, and his son, Scott, 7, attends private school. "I'm coaching his soccer team," said Verstandig. "I'm learning to be humble; so far we have no wins, one loss, and two ties." A recent high point for Verstandig was revisiting Roger Williams College, his former place of employment, to de- liver an address on the occasion of the inauguration of its new president. "In my opinion, higher education in America must improve upon its record," Verstandig told the group. "Govern- ment officials need the best information and advice they can get. Thus, more ef- fective communication between higher education and public officials in the years ahead is essential." In some ways, that's exactly what Lee Verstandig is doing. Stci'c Rattner, a former editor of the Brown Daily Herald, is an economics icriter in Washington for the New York Times. 27 i d£^ Literary sleuth Erf Blconi. a liistiiiguished eighteenth-century scholar. 28 Literary archaeology A remarkable woman who was a member of Dr. Johnson's famous Circle is rediscovered at Brown By jay Barry During the past two summers, a small air-conditioned room on the fourteenth floor of the Sciences Library on Thayer Street (on a clear day you can see Fall River, if vou so desire) has been the scene of detec- tive work that would have pleased even the great Sherlock Holmes. The object of the sleuthing, though, is not Profes- sor Moriarty or the Speckled Band, but a woman named Hester Lynch Piozzi. If at this point the reader is inclined to ask, "Hester who?", the question is understandable. Hester Lynch Piozzi is hardly a household name. Why, then, have three professors spent a good por- tion of the past two years on the trail of Mrs. Piozzi? There are a number of reasons — scholarly, historical, cultural, even political — for their interest in this eighteenth-century woman. Certainly her letters are a fascinat- ing biographical record of one of the most interesting periods in English his- tory. But it also happens that Mrs. Piozzi was truly an amazing woman — a devoted wife, a mother of twelve, an outspoken member of Dr. Samuel Johnson's elite Circle, the compiler of an enemies list 200 years before Watergate, a highly respected member of the bluestocking set, and a person whose strength, intellect, and burning drive mark her as one who, perhaps more than any other woman of her generation, foreshadowed the feminism of the twentieth century. Despite these attributes, and de- spite her well-orchestrated campaign to be remembered by future generations, Hester Lynch Piozzi was largely a for- gotten woman for more than 100 years until James Clifford's ground-breaking biography and Katharine Balderston's edition of the diary Thraliana, both pub- lished by the Clarendon Press in 1941 and 1942, respectively, finally brought Hester Lynch Piozzi, from the engraving by T. Holhway, after the painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds. 29 her before the public again. Her letters to Dr. Johnson, written early in her life, were reprinted in 1952, and then Mary Hyde, of Four Oak Farm, Somerville, New Jersey, excited curiosity in the lady by concentrating upon her association with Boswell in The Impossible Friendship , a 1972 Harvard University Press publi- cation. But at no point in the 157 years since her death has anyone published the broad spectrum of the letters she wrote between 1784, the date of her sec- ond marriage, and 1821, when she died at Bath — the years when this vibrant spirit was most free to exercise her imag- ination, exert her influence and control on those around her, and throw herself fully into her writing career. Now, three professors with Brown connections plan to restore Hester to her proper place in history by editing these letters (1784-1821) for publication in three volumes by the University of Delaware Press. The editors include Edward A. Bloom, professor of English at Brown, a specialist in eighteenth- centurv literature and literary criticism, and a former chairman of the depart- ment; his wife, Lillian, also an eight- eenth-century specialist who holds a Ph.D. from Yale and is professor of English at Rhode Island College; and Joan E. Klingel 73 A.M., 77 Ph.D., a specialist in Samuel Johnson who this fall became assistant professor of Eng- lish at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. The Blooms spent the 1977-78 academic year on sabbatical at the Huntington Library working on this project, Ed as a National Endow- ment for the Humanities Fellow and Lillian as a Guggenheim Fellow. Ed Bloom is one of the senior mem- bers of the Brown faculty, having ar- rived in the fall of 1947. He holds his B.S., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois, where he taught briefly. He has written a number of books, one of which, Samuel Johnson in Grub Street, was the first comprehensive account of Johnson's journalistic career. Bloom and his wife wrote a critical study of VVilla Cather's novels, which was also well received. "Ed Bloom is an industrious, care- ful, and productive professor and cer- tainly ranks among the finest eighteenth century scholars in the world," says Robert W. Kenny '25, a former chairman of Brown's English department and its reigning expert in eighteenth century literature prior to his retirement in 1969. "He and Lillian are the most indefati- gable researchers I've ever known, on top of which they are very perceptive in their analysis of what they find. Some researchers could have read through the Piozzi material and not realized they had struck gold, but you know that when the Blooms came upon this treasure-trove of Piozzi letters it was not entirely an act of serendipity." "We at the University of Delaware Press are very enthusiastic about the publication of the Piozzi letters," says Elizabeth Reynolds, assistant to the di- rector. "There is no question concerning the importance, both histt)rical and literary, of the letters. They have always been recognized as one of the most val- uable sources of contemporary light on the Johnson Circle in particular, and the intellectual life of late eighteenth cen- tury England in general. The Bloom edition promises to reveal the lively per- sonality of Mrs. Piozzi as well as to be- come a rich resource for scholars of the period." The search for the letters of Mrs. Piozzi started in 1973 when the Blooms were editing a volume of letters of Fanny Burney, whom Mrs. Piozzi once loved and then hated. In order to explicate certain allusions to the Burney letters, the Blooms went to the John Rylands Library' of the University of Manchester, England, which has the largest holding of Piozzi material. "We began to read the Piozzi letters in a more concentrated fashion than we ever had before and we quickly agreed that they were infinitely more varied and exciting than the Burney letters," says Ed Bloom. "Yet, they had never been pub- lished, so we decided to look into the possibility." That's when the detective work be- gan. The Blooms knew that approxi- mately 2,000 Piozzi letters from the last thirt)'-seven years of her life are still ex- tant and that the bulk of the collection was in five major libraries: The Rylands Librar\', the Victoria and Albert Library in London, the Donald and Mary Hyde Library at Four Oaks Farm in Somer- ville, New Jersey, the Princeton Uni- versity Library, and in the Berg Collec- tion of the New York Public Library. But beyond this material there was the thrill of the hunt in the search for previously unknown letters, for new leads to the background of Hester Lynch Piozzi, and for personal contact with direct descendants. Once into the project, the Blooms carried on their detective work in the graveyards, public record offices, parish houses, and libraries of England. "Even in the libraries, research can be diffi- cult," Ed Bloom says. "But when you hit the parish or county archives, then you really have to scratch. What we are trying to do is recreate a picture, a portrait of a woman who lived a very long time ago. And when you do a ver- bal portrait you want to know every- thing about that person. You want to flush this individual out and you want to know who her friends were and what they were like. Very often, women whom Mrs. Piozzi corresponded with just vanish from the records. "Lillian and 1 learned very long ago that a useful starting point may be the Public Records Office in London. You begin by reading wills, where every- thing is laid out with legal clarity. But you have to work through twenty or thirtv' indexes to find out when some- one died. Then you may find twenty people with the same name. You elimi- nate one after the other until sooner or later — usually later — you get the one you want. This is all part of the editing process. What you are doing is bringing together a great many pieces. And you may not know at any one time what a single piece means. It is something like a jigsaw puzzle. Then, after a while, the pieces fit." The life of Hester Lynch Piozzi, with its pitfalls and ironies, could be the subject for a lively Hol- h'wood film, or at the very least an excit- ing Masterpiece Theater TV production. Born a member of the landed gentry on January 16, 1740, Hester Lynch Salus- bury grew into a highly intelligent young woman, possessed of a pleasing personality, a good sense of humor, and a lust for life. The world seemed to be at her feet. Then a series of ironic events, coming in rapid succession, changed her life. Scholars differ on Hester's movements during her growing-up years. According to the Dictionary of Na- tional Biography, the scenario went this way: First her father, John Salusbury, recklessly ran through his funds, jeopardizing the family estate at Bach- y-Graig in North Wales, and hastily left for Nova Scotia. Hester and her mother moved in with her uncle, Sir Robert Salusbury, and for a while the world looked rosy again. A widower and 30 The Piozzi letters are heiiig edited by kd Bloom aim his wife, Litliait (sealed), and loan Klingel. childless. Sir Robert took a fancy to the vivacious young Hester and promised to write her into his will. Then, before the will could be changed, the old man died. Hester, now twenty, packed her bags again, this time moving into the home of another uncle. Sir Thomas Salusbury. Sir Thomas felt that the time had come for his niece to marry, and he arranged a marriage of convenience to Henry Thrale, a man thirteen years her senior, who was a successful brewer and who, in 1766, was to become a member of Parliament. The strong-willed Hester, who up to this point hadn't spent more than a few minutes in the company of Thrale, balked at the marriage and appealed to her father for help. John Salusbury, then jiving hi Ireland, rushed home, de- termined perhaps for the first time in his life to do something for his daughter. He removed his wife and Hester from his brother's home, took them to Lon- don to start a new life together, and then suddenly died of a stroke. Nearly destitute by this time, Hes- ter finally went along with the wishes of her uncle and mother and married Henry Thrale on October 16, 1763. She bore him twelve children (of whom four survived) at their home in Streatham Park but was somewhat frustrated by her life with Thrale, who wanted a hos- tess more than a wife. She wasn't allowed to ride (she had become a dar- ing horsewoman when only fourteen) or to help manage the house. Henry Thrale's conception of a wife's place was the conventional one of the day — hearth and drawing room. There was only one bright spot in Hester Thrale's life at Streatham Park — her association with Samuel Johnson, one of the great literary figures of all time. Johnson had moved in with the Thrales in 1763, Henry Thrale having become his patron. Soon, Johnson's fa- mous Circle was meeting regularly at Streatham Park — Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmund Burke, Fannv Burney, Oliver Goldsmith, and others. Johnson was particularly fond of Hester, who was bright enough to con- verse with him on et^ual terms. She would often sit up with Johnson, an in- somniac, until three or four in the morn- ing drinking tea and chatting. She soon found herself the darling of the Streatham set, participating fully in the learned discussions of the Circle and more than holding her own. All of this was important to Hester because the Circle gave her — for the first time — some roots and an opportunity to ex- press herself. There was also one occasion when Hester was able to help her husband in his business affairs, something that he had always strongly discouraged. Some quack had convinced Thrale that he could save money at the family brewery by making beer without either malt or hops. Thrale, who was never regarded as the brigJTtest man in England, con- yerted all but one of his vats to the new system. But the plan fell flat — and so did the beer. Thrale went into debt to the tune of 130,000 pounds, not an in- significant amount by the standards of 1772. The loss shocked Thrale into inaction, but Hester stepped in and raised the money to pay off the debts. If the story of Hester Piozzi were of any interest to Hollywood or TV, some- one eventually would want to know if there was a sex angle. There was. For some time Hester had been vexed by her husband's liaisons with various women, but especially with Sophia Syteatfeild, a pretty widow who was reputed (or ill-reputed) to have had many other conquests in her career. While this relationship was in full flower, Hester enjoyed a purely platonic friendship with Gabriel Piozzi, a tal- ented Italian musician of great charm. When Thrale died of a stroke in 1781, Hester saw in the easy-going Piozzi the road to a life of greater freedom than she had ever known. And where she had been merely tolerant of Thrale, she soon fell deeply in love with Piozzi, a very kind, gentle, attentive man who was only six months her senior. But true happiness seldom comes that easily in a movie, or in life. Piozzi was a Catholic, an Italian, and a musician — which gave him three strikes in late eighteenth- century England when marriage was contemplated with a proper Anglican lady such as Mrs. Thrale. Dr. Johnson, who had been like a father to Hester, was furious at the thought of her marry- ing beneath her station. Her oldest daughter, Queeney, created a violent scene. Finally, Hester told Piozzi that they must part, and she retired to Bath to pull her emotions together. Then she . changed her mind again and in July 1784, she and Piozzi were married. "As the result of these trials and tribulations, by the time she married Piozzi, Hester had become a very cyni- cal woman," Ed Bloom says. "But she was never a detached woman. If any- thing, the restraint under which she had lived was greatly responsible for her bursting forth as an individual after her second marriage. "Significantly, only Mrs. Piozzi published, not Mrs. Thrale. It is as if her pent-up energies suddenly found re- lease now that she was freed from the constant demands of Thrale, of mater- nity and dying children, of overwhelm- ing personalities such as Jcihnson, Reynolds, Garrick, and the Burneys." During the period between 1784 and 1821 her publications included the 31 Flormce Miscellany (1785), the Johnsonian Anecdotes (1786), Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson (1788), and the en- cyclopedic Retrospection (1801). She was deeply committed to being a profes- sional writer, struggling with booksell- ers for the best contracts and working intensely to meet deadlines. Hester had some popular success with several of her works, including British Si/nonyriiy (1794), a potentially drab subject that she enlivened with a stylistic elan, both chatty and familiar. StUl, Hester Piozzi never was a hit pro- fessionally. She took some legitimate criticism from reviewers, but she was also unjustly attacked and even ridi- culed bv critics, some of whom were former members of Johnson's Circle and who were still smarting from the "hurt" she had caused Johnson by her marriage to Piozzi. These harsh reviews and car- toons cut deeply because they came from her peers, people she had once called friends. Members of the press were among the first to make Hester's enemies list. She discussed the subject in a letter to her dear friend, Let)nard Chappelow: "You are perfectly correct about the Malignity of Reviewers," she wrote. "They fall upon Friend and Foe: and Joanna Baillie being ill-lreated h\ her own Countrymen — The Edinburghers — may show how impossible it is for them to letrtJU/ Work take its fair chance with the Public which comes not forth from their own Junto. A Writer who faces the Reading World in these days, must be as callous as Sir Knight, who says; '1 have been beaten till 1 know 'What Wood the Cudgel's of, bv the Blow; 'And Kicked till 1 can tell \ou whether 'The Shoe was Spanish or Neat's Leather.' " The enemies list was a very real thing in Hester's life, even to the point where she listed her enemies in numeri- cal order. In addition to the critics, the list included Boswell, Fannv Burney, Napoleon, and even her own daughter, Queeney. As she grew older, Hester would discuss this list in her letters. The eighteenth century was an era of letter- writing, especially in England. Distances weren't great, but the roads were very bad and many people main- tained their ties bv using the post. For some, writing was considered an intel- lectual as well as a social outlet. Others considered it a form of relaxation or rec- reation. Also, more than a few people of that period felt they were writing for posterity, and their letters became a form of diary. This certainly was true of Fanny Burney, who wanted all her let- ters saved for her son, Alex. A few generations earlier, Alexander Pope often called his letters back so that he could correct and polish them for the benefit of future generations. In this age of letters, almost no one was more prolific or provocative than Hester Lynch Piozzi. But the Blooms plan to be highly selective in their choice of material. "To intersperse the incidental correspondence with the substantive in the name of complete- ness would simpl\' vitiate her eagerness to dramatize a life narrative that she deemed exciting and a good read," Ed Bloom says. "Those letters which she meant to be preserved in print place her squareh' in the splendid epistolary heri- tage of the eighteenth century, along with Lord Chesterfield, Lady Mary Wortlev Montagu, Edmund Burke, Horace Walpole, and Fann\' Burney. Not only do her letters have quality of and in themselves, but as Clifford points out in his biography, 'They pro- vide an enduring record of people and events, a kaleidoscopic picture of an age in which she lived. This is her chief claim to remembrance; this her value to the social historians of today.' " Hester, who never suffered from an excess of humility, would be quick to agree with Clifford's assessment. In a note to her adopted son and heir, John Piozzi Salusburv, she calls her letters "the abridgment of public notices and events" and points out that since he doesn't keep up with the newspapers, he may consider her letters as news- papers. Ed Bloom notes that Hester felt she was doing a service to mankind by writ- ing about the key issues of the day. "She actualh' visualized her corre- spondence as documents — colloquial, informative, and admittedly biased — that would capture anyone interested in the events of George Ill's reign and the Regency, the threat — as she saw it — of the French Revolution and Napoleon's adventures in conquest, the difficulties of maintaining a landed estate in North Wales during periods of depression and political unrest, the state of medicine in her time, and the excitement of travel on the Continent and in Great Britain. And she was right. The lady wrote reason- ably accurate and sHmulaHng history." Lillian Bloom sees more advantages than disadvantages in the fact that Mrs. Piozzi presents a biased view of history. "You can always dig up the /rtcfs of the Manchester Riots, for example, but in Hester's letters you are getting the point of view on this subject of a woman of a particular class and a particular intelli- gence. In many ways she was the con- summate Englishwoman. If you were to follow her life through this thirty- seven-year period, it's almost like read- ing an informal, chatty history of Eng- land. She touches all bases, and with a kind of John Bull attitude." Although Hester Lynch Piozzi was a member of the landed gentry, a pure bluestocking, she had a somewhat lib- eral attitude on social matters. She ac- cepted most people as equals, regard- less of their faith or the color of their skin. But she had mixed emotions about the poor, dividing them into two groups. The poor people involved in the Manchester Riots would have been treated very harshly by Hester because she felt that they threatened English stability. At the same time, her com- passion for the second group, the obe- dient poor, was without limit. She shares the frustration of this group when she notes that "a Labourer's Wages does not suffice to bring Bread for his family. Welsh folks might eat Oats and Barley, you'll say, and so they might: but there is neither Oats nor Bar- ley to be had. " Ed Bloom points out that her letters time and again detail the living condi- tions of the poor in the early nineteenth centur\' — in both the cities and the country: the food they ate, the houses in which they lived, the jobs they some- times had, and the diseases from which they died. Sometimes the horrors at- tendant on poverty are implied, as in the following excerpt from a letter she sent to Edward Mangin: Mv fellow Lodgers have been di- verted bv an April-Fool-Trick — out of Season — played me by Young Salus- bury. Six days ago here comes a poor Man — a Labourer in a Small Frock — enquir- ing for Mrs. Piozzi. — See he could not, for one Eye was quite out, and the other just extinct — hear what she would say to him — impossible: he was stone-deaf: but he could tell mv Bessy — in Welsh — how he had beg'd Sir John of Brvnbella, as he called him, to give him Two Pounds, be- cause his Honour's good Aunt used 32 always to give him Two Pounds on a Whitsunday morning. Bessy believes he plagued Salusbury so — he was at last provoked to say — "Well! go look for my good Aunt, you will find her at Bath." The wretched Man took him au Pied de Lettre, and walked all the way till hither he came for Two Pounds — sans Eyes, sans Ears, sans Language, or good health. When he had cooled his Fever, I dis- patched him across the Channel here into the Principality where he will do — at worst better than in England — having lain in the Streets of Bath the Night before we saw him. A good Supper was likely to comfort him, but this was a Hotel — a Cut-finger Club — and someone who had Eyes snatched his plate from before him — Who had none — and left him to the Lamentation and Derision of our Fellow Lodgers and Boarders. Such is the World! and such are its inhabitants. Joan Klingel, who is working with the Blooms on this project, points out that letter-writing for Mrs. Piozzi was always a form of conversation. In a let- ter to her adopted son, she says: "Let your pen run as your tongue would." She makes constant use of the dash to help achieve the conversational tone she is after and to provide her letters with a certain cadence. In reviewing the Piozzi letters, the editors found a constant frankness that was not common to writers of this period. For example, in a chatty letter full of gossip sent to Penelope Pen- nington in 1800, Hester speaks of the celebrated actress, whom she knew well: "Mrs. Siddons will have a cruel Loss if her husband dies, though he was no professed Wit, nor Beau — nor Da- mon: and tho I doubt me much if he was even the very prudent Man folks take him for." She was also not above resorting to a pun now and then. Writing to her daughter, Susanna Thrale, in 1820, she comments on the death of Mr. Chap- pelow and notes: "Poor Mr. Chap- pelow! How soon he followed his Mock Enemy — Streatham Davies! They were always laughing at each other, and vous autres merry Maidens laughing at them both: but the jokes are over, and as Mer- cutio would say — They are Grave men now." One thing clearly apparent in Hes- ter's letters of the 1784-1821 period is her strong feminist tendencies. In one letter she struck out at the male novel- ists "who never make Female characters respectable — No Man of the present day, I mean — they only make them lovely." Her leanings toward feminism were evident at an early age. She wrote a political satire for the St. James Chronicle before she was twenty-two, and a few years later wrote speeches for political candidates and canvassed the electors. She was usually buoyed up by an intellectual independence. With great strength of will and mind she tri- umphed over a gossipy society that frowned upon her second husband — so foreign, so Catholic, and so beneath her in station. Hester was a woman who had to fight her way through a male- dominated society and who apparently relished learning how to deliver the knockout punch. "Hester had an identity crisis," Ed Bloom says. "On the one hand she was driven by a great need to publish, perhaps because she knew she was an intelligent woman who had something to say and felt she could say it better than most. She wanted to write on a man's level, just as she had shown dur- ing her days as a member of Johnson's Circle that she could hold her own ver- bally with many of the men without turning them off. In short, Hester pub- lished because she wanted the same right as any man to express herself, her knowledge, her sensitivity. "We know that Hester was a very determined woman, ambitious for her- self, her husbands, and her daughters. But while she certainly had all the traits and instincts of feminism, she also had all the traits of the conventional eight- eenth-century woman. She wanted her own identity — which is what feminism is all about — but not at the expense of family and friends. She was faithful to Thrale, devoted passionatelv to Piozzi, and was a charming companion to her many friends." The correspondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi, in addition to serv- ing as a record of the period, re- veals another purpose. Her letters create a progressive — sometimes poignant — portrait of a lady trans- formed from a vivacious bride to a widow (Piozzi died of gout in 1809), and then to an old woman who accepted age but resented looking old. When a Mr. Lucas brought his son to Bath to see the "first Woman in England," Hester referred to herself as "one of the Curiosities of Bath — and one of the Antit^uities." During her last few years she often HTOte to friends in the mornings saying that her day was "Black! Blacker! Black- est!" — but by the afternoon she would be up and about, enjoying her game of whist for stakes. When nearly eighty, she was maliciously reported to have fallen in love with a handsome young actor, WUIiam Augustus Conway. On her eightieth birthday in 1820, she cel- ebrated at a ball in her honor at Bath at- tended by 600 persons, and she led off each dance with her adopted son. In 1811, when Hester was con- cerned about her letters being saved for posterity, she wTOte to her adopted son and said, in part: "When the black, deep, dividing Gulph is pass'd by your poor Aunt, you will consider these pages as her Shadow: and price them according — not for their Wit because the Head that has nothing better than Wit in it is scarce worth a stroke from a French Guillotine: but for the Heart which dictates every line." As Hester grew more conscious of her impending death, she made de- tailed plans for the publication of her letters, which she intended to serve as an autobiography, a prolonged chat during which she talked about herself, her familv, and friends. To assure that the letters would be published with good taste and reasonable speed, she appointed Sir James Fellowes as her executor and publisher. But after her death at Bath in 1821 — probably of cancer — came the su- preme irony of a life that had more than its share of twists and turns. Her adopted son, John Piozzi Salusbury, locked away his aunt's papers and threatened legal action to prevent post- humous publication of any letters owned bv others. His motive has never been clear. Perhaps he was offended by her description in several letters of his relentless greed and social ambitions. Whatever the reasons, one of Hester's greatest ambitions was foiled by a member of her own famih'. It wasn't until 1901 that many of the letters were finally sold to the public and became fair game for publication. "The attitude taken by John Piozzi Salusbury in 1821 is the main reason Hester Lynch Piozzi is not as well known today as Fanny Burney and others of that period," Ed Bloom says. "If our current work finalh' gives Hester the place she deserves in literary his- tory, Lillian, Joan, and I will be pleased. She was a lad\- of keen mind and style. We think the world should knc)\v her." 33 Colltegd mm There has been much hoopla and acclaim about Brown's 100th an- niversary of football this year, and deservedly so. It doesn't seem fair, however, to let the old year slip away without mention of the birthday of another Brown institution — Robinson Hall, which on February 16, 1878, be- came the first complete library at the University. In its early days. Brown's book col- lection was housed in one small room in University Hall. Later, it was moved to the ground floor of Manning Hall (the second floor was the chapel), where by 1870 the books were three deep on the shelves. In addition, the quarters were both dark and damp, hardly the proper spot for a rapidly growing collection at a major university. Even under these undesirable con- ditions, the students were reasonably happy with the library, thanks in large part to Librarian Reuben A. Guild's pol- icy of unrestricted access to books. The agitation for a new library came not from the students but from the presi- dent. By 1978 standards, this fact alone would make Robinson Hall unique. President Ezekiel G . Robinson was Robinson Hall's 100th aware that many of the other great uni- versities were constructing larger li- braries in the post-Civil War years. He was determined that Brown not fall be- hind its peers in this important phase of academic life. Planning for the library began in the early 1870s when John Carter Brown gave the University a piece of land on the northeast corner of Waterman and Prospect Streets facing the front cam- pus. After Brown's death in 1874, his widow gave additional funds for a Uni- versity library, the opening that Presi- dent Robinson needed. He appointed a building committee, which selected Providence architects William A. Walker and T. M. Gould. Ground-breaking took place on August 25, 1875. Architects Walker and Gould de- signed the building in the Italian or Venetian Gothic style. The three-story cruciform-shaped building included three floors that were completely open, except for the south transept, which contained the entrance, flanked by the librarian's room on the left and the committee room on the right. A central rotunda rose to the roof, topped by an octagonal cupola with windows. All Robinson lliiU totiav (below) ivul a? the archthr'^ cm^i^wiM'ti it 100 wnn n^o (ri^hl). ^'{^t^:^^-'^^'''^'^^- ^ l ij? .X?t^'^^y«i WM- P-W/M -KE^ 5iT. J.<\Oli L0 AF.Cl three floors contained balconies that circled the rotunda. Extensive book stacks were well lighted by large win- dows. Brown's 50,000 volumes were moved into this modern and exciting library by March 1878, and the building was in full use by April. The exterior of The New Library (as it was then called) presented a vivid pic- ture for passers-by with its red brick walls, windows partially of stained glass, granite trim, slate roof, and the central cupola capped with a bronze finial. Amid the general enthusiasm when 34 ♦ BKOUTJ UIJIUERSITY LIBRflKY * ^?i^^:&^y-:^m^^^^:^^:li'^^AiiE^::^ the library opened was one complaint that the hours — 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. — were too restrictive. President Robinson responded to the complaints by order- ing the library to remain open until 5 p.m. By 1882 evening hours had been instituted. Ironically, only twenty-two years after it opened, Robinson Hall, as it had become known, was too small for Brown's rapidly growing collection. Ex- pansion at the site was impossible, and by 191(1 the University's book collection had a new home in the John Hay Li- brary, designed to hold 300,000 books. The former library became a storage area for old books and was connected to the Ha\' by an underground tunnel. Subsequently, Robinson Hall be- came an economics building, udth the basic floor plan altered to provide for offices and classroom space. Writing in the March 1978 issue of the Providence Preservation Society newsletter, Sally Wilson comments on the revival of in- terest in the period of architecture rep- resented h\ Robinson Hall and writes, "There has come the realization of the exceptional charm of this building. In- terest in restoration exists, but the job of returning Robinson Hall to its former grandeur is complex. A use for the building which would permit a return to the open plan is difficult to find. "Other colleges have used their old libraries of this style as art galleries or student centers. Perhaps a more har- monious division into offices and better decorating of the interior would restore the building while permitting continued use. There now exists a great challenge to Brown and to all friends of Robinson Hall to de\'elop a way to restore this building and conhnue its useful life." I.B. 35 'Wi(BW By John Rowe Workman To stimulate the spirited element Thoughts on the occasion of the centennial of Brown football Nozv, the ordinary athlete undergoes the rigors of training for the sake of muscular strength, but ours will do so rather with a view to stimulating the spirited element in their nature. So perhaps the purpose of the two established branches of education, i.e., philosopthy and physical exercise, is not, as some suppose, the improvement of the mind in one case and of the body in the other. Both, it may be, aim chiefly at improving the soul. Plato: Tlie Republic In the century that Brown has partici- pated in intercollegiate football, statistics and manpower have been impressive — first annual Rose Bowl game, the Iron Men, elections to the National Football Hall of Fame, compe- tent coaching, and withal a pretty good academic record. Both before and since the formation of the Ivy League in 1956, to this observer, at least, football has oc- cupied a proper role in the educational program of the University. At a time when the spectre of professional foot- ball threatens to submerge the loyalties and perspective of the whole nation and when the excesses of the Big Ten and other football conferences like it seem, in the popular mind, to be the chief justification for some of those huge midwestern educational complexes, Brunonian football preserves many admirable aspects of the sport, includ- ing the academic. The justification for collegiate foot- ball, as for hockey, soccer, and all the others, ought to be simple: physical exercise and fun. Tactical ingenuity and competitiveness enhance both the exer- cise and the enjoyment. Regrettably, as in many other forms of American academic pracdce, much mythology and extraneous nonsense have grown up around the development of a mens saua in corpore sano. It is one thing to offer scholarship assistance to an able student to advance his education and to keep him in the academic grove, but gifts of high- powered sports cars, painted ladies, luxury apartments in Bermuda, free meals at the local steak house or lobstermania — all this to attract and to maintain athletes clearly is a perversion of academic order. Similarly, the use of football to entertain alumni and to preserve their loyalty to the institution seems to be a misplaced function of ath- letics, no matter how widely held the belief that the intellectual vigor of alumni peaked when they graduated from college. Again, in the uneasy peace that can exist between town and gown, local merchants like football Saturdays and big weekends staged around the great game — restauranteurs, haberdashers, motel managers, purveyors of spirits all get into the act as the local college makes its appeasing nod to them, a kind of recompense for the shoddy way undergraduates can handle such towns- folk. The man in the street generally does not understand academic matters or exercises in the realm of ideas or de- partmental strengths, but he does un- derstand a winning score, and so the compeHtive power of an institution has to be demonstrated symbolically by in- tercollegiate football; any scholar listen- ing to the recitation of football scores on TV Saturday evenings will find his mind wondering about the state of intellectual activity at the Auburns, the Clemsons, the Furmans, those faraway institutions that weekly roll up that huge tally of touchdowns. The late President VVriston used to muse about the nostalgic immaturity of alumni who return every Saturday to view the football trophies in the atrium of the field house, those token remin- ders of the "good old days" when "men were men" and when every play gen- erated a forty- or fifty-yard completed pass. Indeed, it would seem that exer- cise and fun are not the only factors in the seasonal pageant of football as in- stitutions of higher learning take over from the World Series and figuratively carry the entertainment ball until the Super Bowl. The question may well be asked whether there is something in the American character or in our own psyche that promotes this annual season of hoopla. Are we all uncon- sciously driven to participate in these autumnal rites inalienably associated with higher education? Recent ruminations by one Thomas Hornsby Ferril upon the Freudian im- plications of football and its season will probably never be thoroughly under- stood or fully researched, however fully 36 the scenario and the strategies of football reveal certain aspects of the Oedipus complex: the oval ball as the "egg of life" rescued and protected at harvest time by twenty-two young priests of perfect but vulnerable phy- sique (after huddling in prayerful medi- tation and whispering secret numbers), prodded on by six whistling monitors (pausing now and then to make curious gestures) through a time period divided into four quarters (symbolizing the four seasons?), while processions of noisy musicians and semi-nude maidens wave floral tributes and brandish shiny sceptres about their bodies in feverish gyrations and ritualistically — all this show dedicated, of course, to some Great Goddess known as Alma Mater (or Notre Dame, to intensify the image), attended by huge crowds of worship- pers, working off, in Bacchic fashion, their frustrations while anticipating vio- lence, raw meat and immolation, a rite unsurpassed in any other sport, drama, religion, or mystical experience. Periodicals and novels are filled with allusions to the presumed intellec- tual obtuseness of football players, their immaturity, their inability to compete in the classroom with other students (let alone find the classroom), their exces- sive absenteeism as they seek to sup- plement their athletic scholarships with commercials, lawn work on neighboring estates, modeling, and piano moving; now the institution of the centerfold promises a whole new area of exploita- tion. Analysis of the fields of concentra- tion these players pursue indicates a studied preference for physical educa- tion, agriculture, geography, and health problems, in that order. Courses provid- ing field work are preferred to subjects where a premium is put on thinking and writing. Even with elementary subjects and with excessive rote memorization, the football player is encouraged to de- velop friendships at court: the dean, the registrar, the professor, anyone who has been scouted and found to be pos- sessed of clemency that may be invoked at the final moment of academic deci- sion. Coaches, for the most part, consti- tute a coterie existing apart from the other orders in the collegiate scene. Their lively concern is with winning the game as they struggle to establish some preeminence among their own number in case a losing season or a shortage of recruiting funds or the winds of alumni disfavor begin to make things uncom- fortable. They are the stewards who convert exercise and fun into a life- and-death struggle for a winning scoreboard and the auspicious con- signment of their most competent charges into the professional fold at graduation. These situations and circum- stances were soundly reviewed in the early fifties when the eight institutions constituting the Ivy League assessed the role of athletics in higher education. Preliminary drafts of the agreement among these northeastern universities seem almost naive, as it were, in their passion for athletics as a form of physical education and recrea- tion, certainly Platonically idealistic about role and practice in comparison with accepted rituals in collegiate sports 37 'Joe Paterno has gone a long way in dramatizing great coaching and educating' then and now. In the Ivy League, athletics is con- ceived of as a complement to the educa- tion of the mind, a proper discipline as important to human development and education as logic and reckoning, the cultivation of appreciation and taste and the exercise of judgment and critical thinking. Nor is the spirit of competi- tiveness obscured; real competition is highly esteemed in the Ivy League Agreement, but it is very evident that football in the League is a much more educational business than elsewhere and that the excesses mentioned earlier are far less likely to occur. From time to time, as the season of defeat rolls around, alumni become un- settled, and this is a seasonal complaint that makes its rounds in the League as elsewhere. With all the resources that these Ivy League institutions command in the way of communication with alumni, administrations have an obliga- tion to illuminate the situation and to minister to the dark areas of alumni concern, not least that there can be a problem finding a spectacular quarter- back who can meet high intellectual standards. Locallv we have been well disciplined to believe that there is such a thing as time — and also talented edu- cating. Even before the formal creation of the Ivy League, Brown University was fortunate in its football program. Much of the credit goes to the coaches whose interest in the players has been excep- tional in the world of collegiate football; the Robinsons, the McLaughrys, the Engles, the Andersons have been more than coaches. In a true sense they have been educators. Nor is the faculty in- sensitive to football; the proper role of physical education and recreation is fre- quently considered in an educational program. The jokes and ridicule of foot- ball plavers expressed elsewhere are rare on this campus, even when our for- tunes keep us hovering around the top leadership of the Ivy League. Anyone who has the curiosity to pursue it will soon discover the quality of academic work our football players achieve. Their own modesty and anonymity promote this. Our players have their work to do and to perform well — premedical, predental, inde- pendent concentrations, preparation for the LSAT's and the Graduate Record Examination, and they have far less time to do it than other students in the first semester. Occasionally they meet up with opprobrium from a small number of students because they are football players and they have to fight the national image, a charge which never seems to surface against the bas- ketball players and the hockey squad whose study hours are also severely curtailed. Still, our football players are in competition with other students for medical and law schools and for gradu- ate school generally. There is a vindica- tion, however, when we examine the number of football players who are graduated with honors, as we meet lawyers and doctors and dentists and professors who formerly played football at Brown under competent coaches. II is perhaps invidious to single out any one graduate for character and performance, but this is the cente- nary, and the most successful collegiate coach in the country is one of our alumni. A long time ago I saw an hour test and a final examination which he had WTitten, and his name has been ap- pearing before me ever since. Joe Paterno '50 has gone a long way in dramatizing great coaching and great educating, consonant with the best Brunonian tradition in football. Now it is one thing to compile a record as the most winning coach in the nation. But this gifted coach again and again has shown himself the great edu- cator, as indeed his honorary doctorate from Brown in 1975 attested. He has re- peatedly sought to reverse superficial recruiting policies. He regards his players primarily as students, not as Saturday afternoon pawns on the grid. He encourages the free spirit of students to seek out intellectual interests, to posit courses and grades and mental devel- opment and fun before anything else in college, to realize their roles as enquir- ers and scholars. Paterno's own educational philoso- phy emerges most strikingly when he talks about turning down one profes- sional coaching job after another "to remain an educator," to develop the maturity and the minds and the judg- ment of his charges. There is something Socratic about turning down millions of ' dollars to work with collegiate under- graduates in University Park, Pennsyl- vania. In symbolizing Brunonian football, Paterno proclaims to the sport, that jungle of intercollegiate football, to the sedentary running backs and to the academic world what we have long proclaimed here and, notably, what a little investigation will reveal takes place in the League, particularly at Brown — that football can be a highly disciplined form of physical exercise but it can also be a rewarding form of organized fun and recreation. And so we can keep looking for some of the mythology and some of the extraneous nonsense that characterize the collegiate football scene in the United States. It will be hard to find on this campus. We have a chemistry of perceptive admissions, a rigorous facul- ty, an elegant curricular operation, re- sponsible coaching, and the atmosphere of this ancient University to keep us in an unusual position when it comes to football. There is no reason to believe that it will fail. Professor of Classics lohii Rowe Workman's essay first appeared in the Broion Weekly Bulletin, a biweekly nrwspaper for the campus community . 38 writtai h\/ jay Barry /^/T The BAM offers an apology to V/U Steve Wright for not mentioning his name when we ran the picture of Steve and Heiiry Carpenter in the Commencement pro- cession in our September issue. Steve is not new to these processions, having been a familiar face in the line of march for many years. He is president of his class and bequest chairman. In last June's Commence- ment march, Steve and Henry led the group down the Hill since they represented the oldest class in the line of march. "1 C Dr- George W. Waterman, Provi- J.C7 dence physician, received the William Williams Keen Award for Distin- guished Service by a Brown graduate at the Brown Medical Association's annual banquet June 4. 1 Q ^"^ Pollard, the first black coach A 3^ in the National Football League, re- ceived the Whitney M. Young Award Sept. 23 at Yankee Stadium during halftime of the game between Grambling and Morgan State. Pollard recalled on this occasion that he was asking, and getting, $1,500 a game in 1920 with the Akron Indians when Jim Thorpe was being paid only $1,000 per game with the Canton Bulldogs. Fritz and his wife, Mary Ella, live in New Rochelle, N.Y. nThe Rev. Eiiwin Leiois Tliornton was guest of honor Oct. 8 at a celebra- tion marking his retirement after fifty-eight years as a Baptist minister, most recently at the United Baptist Church, Providence. Dur- ing his career, he held six pastorates — two each in New York, Vermont, and Rhode Island. While in Vermont he was for eight years the president of the board of trustees of the Vermont Baptist State Convention and was for two years president of the Vermont Council of Churches. In 1950, Mr. Thornton received the Rosa O. Hall Award of the American Baptist Convention for distin- guished service in town and country churches. During his pastorate in Rhode Is- land he helped to found and has been an ac- tive member of the Capitol Hill Interaction Council and has been active with the Ameri- can Baptist Churches of Rhode Island. Ap- proximately 150 persons attended the retire- ment party. ^^ Robert G. Bleakney lists his current mm\J profession as "growing old grace- fully." The Needham, Mass., resident has twenty grandchildren, one of whom, ]on McCahe, is a starting tackle on the Brown varsity as a sophomore. "Another of my grandsons was captain of the Bowdoin foot- ball team last year," Bob says. "Then there is a grandson who is a basketball and baseball star at Worcester Poly and one who is a star halfback in high school. I'm working on him for Brown." The Rev. ]ames D. Bryden, Alexandria, Va., former associate minister of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church and a di- rector of the Westminster Foundation, both in Washington, D.C., has been retired since 1964. His hobbies include teaching at the New York Avenue Church, writing a sea- based mystery novel, and building some sound equipment. George Gates, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, is retired from his position as a research chemist with Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Akron. He and Phyllis celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on June 15, 1977. His spare time is taken up with golf and bowling. Dr. Kalei K. Gregory, retired physician, is living in Kalaoh, Hawaii. He writes that tak- ing care of the many tropical plants at his home, "which I know very little about," is both a hobby and a challenge. "At times I feel like a stranger in the land of my birth," he adds. "Have been away for seventy-two years, except for a few visits." The Rev. Willard F. ]ohnson, Spokane, Wash., celebrated his 85th birthday in June. He is a certified volunteer Braille transcriber. Albert O. Lundin. Wayzata, Minn., re- tired investment advisor, still "dabbles" at the market "for my own account." He writes that one of his greatest experiences since graduation was being offered the opportu- nity in 1951 to become assistant secretary of the Navy, an offer he declined for personal reasons. Stei'e McClellan writes that he is still em- ployed in real estate and other investment work. "Have been flying around the country to duck my creditors and visit my friends," he says. David A. Midgley spent forty-sLx years teaching at Albany (N.Y.) Academy, a boys' college-prep school. He also taught evening classes in American history and was a gov- ernment lecturer at Russell Sage College. The Midgleys live at 46 Norwood Ave., Albany 12208. " Charlie Scanlon, Palo Alto, Calif., is now- retired after a lifetime of teaching at a variety of colleges and serving as a writer/translator of twenty-one languages for Chrysler Corp. He served as instructor of French and Italian for the U.S. Army Ambulance Service at Camp Crane, Pa., during World War I, later providing the same service in Genoa, Italy. Charlie was an instructor in Romance lan- guages at Brown from 1920 to 1924, after which he was on the faculty at Simmons, Marquette, Mexico City College, and Stephen F. Austin College in Nacogdoches, Texas. He claims four nationalities — Ameri- can, Irish, Spanish, and Cuban. Kenneth P. Sheldon, Lee, Mass., who did economic and industrial work in Asia and Africa, writes that he is a member of the local SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives) organization. ^/I Wilbur Carlton Scott writes that he ^m^t is looking forward to his 55th reun- ion next June. "Since recovering from my two heart attacks twelve years ago, I joined the Above Nomads, a local flying club, and have traveled to sixty-three countries. I keep busy with my various clubs and Masonic work, not to mention my flower and vege- table gardens and my golf game." He lives at Box 179, 5420 Lane Lake Rd., Birmingham, Mich. 48012. ^ ^ The Rev. Franklin D. Elmer, D.D., ^ / was the guest minister at the Im- manuel Baptist Church, Portland, Maine, in July. Charles H. Williams, Pottstown, Pa., wel- comed the "old gang" to his home last sum- mer. The former football coach at Ben Franklin High School in Philadelphia had a surprise visit by sixteen of his former players, who presented him with a plaque reading: "Presented to Charles H. VVUIiams, Coach, Benjamin Franklin High School, 1941-42, with deep affection to a man who coached not only our football team, but who also coached a part of our lives." He taught and coached in the Philadelphia school system for many years, including a period as princi- pal at Abraham Lincoln High, before retiring in 1970. 28 Cir. Elizabeth Saunders Brodhead sends along an address; 3054 La Pietra Honolulu 96815. 'iO L'l'"" £■ Avila has resigned as J\J chairman of the department of modern languages at Rhode Island College, where her specialty was French language, literature, civilization, and culture, with em- phasis on the twentieth century. Prior to teaching at RIC, she was a member of the department of foreign languages and classics at the University of Maine at Orono, where she served as chapter president of the American Association of Teachers of French. She is the author of a book published in France and of a number of articles published in professional journals. '^ ^ Joseph C. Flynn recently retired >J^m from the operation of the Casino and Surf Theaters at Hampton Beach, N.H., where he had been the lessee for forty years. He's still active as president and treasurer of Jos. J. Flynn, an outdoor advertising firm 39 with offices in Lawrence, Mass. Joe was pres- ident of the Hampton Beach Chamber of Commerce for two years and a director for thirt)' years. He's now chairman of the Hampton Zoning Board of Adjustment. O O VivienncF. Cote, Pavvtucket, R.I., J J was honored recently by Alpha Delta Kappa, the women educators' sorority, in appreciation of her work as president for the past two years. M After taking his "second retire- ment " from the VVyatt Co., Dallas, Richard K. Hapgood has engaged in reinsur- ance consulting for the Texas State Bar Insur- ance Trust and in tax consulting for H. & R. Block of Marble Falls. Last January he and Sylvia took a vacation trip to Hawaii and be- came so enchanted with the ambiance of the Kona Coast on the "Big Island " that they in- tend to sell out in Texas shortly and move to Hawaii permanently. 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For a folder or other information call or write to Miss lane Baker WINDERMERE ISLAND CLUB 711 Third Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017 212-682-0646 ^i C Robert D. Abercrombie, Calais, J\y Maine, retired in June 1977 after thirty-nine years of teaching. During most of the final twenty-nine years he served as chairman of the history department at Shady Side Academy, Pittsburgh. "1 enjoyed very much coaching football for fourteen years and golf for twenty-four years," he writes. He and Barbara are living at 2 Winter St., Calais 04619. Fred Bauman has retired from Public Service Electric & Gas Co., Newark, N.J., after forty-two years with the firm. He had been an officer of the College Men's Club of Westfield, treasurer of the town's Republican Committee, and a past president of the Cen- tral Jersey Brown Club and the Plainfield Area Brown Club. He and Jane have moved to their new home at 1388 Tredegar Dr., Fort Myers, Fla. 33901. Alfred E. Kessler retired a little more than a year ago after thirty-five years of fighting the enemies of one of mankind's essential funcrions — breathing. Most of that career — 1948 to 1977 — was spent in Indianapolis, where he served as execurive director of the Marion County TB-RD Associafion, now the American Lung Association of Central In- diana. At the beginning of his career, tuber- culosis was still a widely prevalent and dreaded disease. When ways were found to control that disease, Alfred and his col- leagues turned to other targets, such as air pollution. He won statewide and nafional recognifion for his work and was recently honored bv the Brown Club of Indiana, which made him its first honorary member. He and his wife, Frances Hazard Kessler, live at 2429 Baur Dr., Indianapolis 46220. '^/T George E. Burke will resign as prin- J\j cipal of East Providence High School effecfive Dec. 29 to "spend more fime with my family and follow other pursuits." He has been with the high school since 1942 and has been its principal for fourteen years. O Q Rai/mond E. Lougee has been named JO general manager of Standard Felt Co., Alhambra, Calif. A long-time resident of Franklin, Mass., Ray was chairman of the board of Dean Cooperative Bank and served as chairman of the school committee from 1954 to 1957. O Q TInmms F. Minto, an attorney in J Z7 Waterbury, Conn., is owner of the American Title Co. He and Theresa have five children. This corrects a note in the Sep- tember issue. ^O ^Ib^' W. Curtis 11 has been re- M V elected president of The Medical Foundafion, a Boston-based non-profit agency supporrtng research and educafion in communit\' health problems. Al is a vice president of New England Mutual Life In- surance Co., Boston. Robert B. Logan has been elected senior vice president, executive trust officer, and legal counsel of Drovers Bank of Chicago. He conrtnues on the boards of several Chicago- based firms. A "t Dr. Walter Juscyzk, West Warwick, TX J. R.I., denfist, was on the committee to recommend a memento for the players honored at Brown's centennial football dinner in September. He recommended a set of plates — uppers and lowers. /\^ Johnson and Wales College, Provi- jt^m dence, has bestowed an honorary doctor C)f business administrarion degree on Rhode Island Supreme Court JusHce Joseph R. Weisberger of East Providence. ^O Wayne P. Curtis has been appointed ^tj New England regional sales manager of Baldwin Belring, New York Cit)', and will operate out of offices in Dan- vers, Mass. For more than twenty' years, Wayne had been sales representafive in the New England area for Ashworth Brothers of Winchester, Va. Francis "Mickey" Finn is executive vice president of the Nafional Association of Col- lege and University Business Officers, Wash- ington, DC. A^ David M. Tracy, Westfield, N.J., has ^t^t received an honorary degree from Stonehill College, Newton, Mass. 47 Tenn. Joseph Embury is a warehouse man- ager for Carrier Co., Hermitage, A. Holmes Stockly is president of Stockly and Leahy Associates, an architechiral firm in Portland, Maine. He has been an acfive worker for the Brown Fund. He and his wife, Doris, have two daughters, Elise and Mariana. Alhrt Wilansky (Ph.D.), professor of mathematics at Lehigh University, is author of a new book published in September. Enfi- tled Modern Methods in Topological Vector Spaces, the book is published by McGraw Hill. /I Q Lester Karstadt, an officer of the TlO Blitman Construcfion Corp.; New York City, has been named president of the New York chapter of the New York State Society of Professional Engineers. Les is chairman of the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupafional Safety and Health Committee. Lou Regine. Providence car dealer (Re- gine Motors), is wearing two hats this academic year. He is president of both the Brown Club of Rhode Island and the Brown Football Associafion. ^Q ^^^ ^^^- ^^^^^^ Charles E. Brown Tl3^ is chancellor of the Catholic Dio- cese of Fairbanks, Alaska. The Rev. Marjone L. Hites is serving the Vernon and Bolton United Methodist Churches in Connecficut, having taken over her new duhes July 1. She was in profes- sional Girl Scoufing for a number of years and came to her new post from the Hull United Methodist Church in Massachusetts. George T. LaBonne, jr., Manchester, Conn., is the grandfather of twins born in September to his daughter and her husband, Jose F. Henriquez, of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The babies have been named Rachele Laura and Nancy Alison. Ted Low, chairman of the 30th reunion, reports that the class has reserved fifty rooms at the soon-to-be-opened BUtmore Hotel for the big weekend. John Prendergast, ]oe Farn- hain, Dick Briggs, and Gerry Sanford are 40 among the committee workers. Elizabeth French Lmocnstein, Washington, D.C., has for the last two years been doing volunteer work for the Volunteer Clearing- house, District of Columbia. "Since Feb- ruary," she writes, "I have been associate di- rector for immunization, heading volunteer activities associated with the D.C. Childhood Immunization Program." Edward W. Mink, Jr., has retired as direc- tor of personnel administration for the Bristol Brass Corp., Bristol, Conn. Ed lives in Farm- ington. CO Judge Eugene G. Gallant, a justice w7vr of the Rhode Island Superior Court, has been named president of the Thomas Beckett Foundation at Brown. Robert W. Peabody, Jr., is a senior account executive with Aetna Life & Casualty, Bos- ton. C"! The Rev. Henry Bmven, Milford, \J JL Mass., officiated at the recent wedding of Susan Maureen Cciseii '77 and Dr. Matthew Lipsett. Susan is the daughter of Charlie Casey '51. The Rev. Sesttno Conthiclli and his wife, also an ordained minister, have been as- signed to the First United Methodist Church of Portsmouth, N. H. Lloyd H. Hill, assistant principal at North Quincy (Mass.) High School for the past four years, has been appointed principal at Quincy High. He has been with the Quincy schools in various capacities since 1962. CO Riclmrd A. Barnstead, Scarsdale, \J^ N.Y., has been appointed director of taxes for Peabody International and its subsidiaries. Louis Fischer has resigned as president of General Development Corp., Miami, Fla., after serving four years as head of the com- munity development firm. He is president of the Florida State Chamber of Commerce. Donald S. Manly, vice president of re- search and development of Abex Corp., Mahway, N.J., has been elected a director of Industrial Research Institute, founded in 1938 under the auspices of the National Re- search Council, and is chairman of the Insti- tute's patent working committee of twentv- five institute member corporations. Charles W. Maslin has been appointed corporate director of purchasing for Dia- mond International Corp., New York City. He and his wife and five children live in Westfield, N.J. William I. Smith writes: "I would venture to say that not many parents have the unique situation of having all of their five children attending college at the same time." His sons are studying law, business, and engineering, and both his daughters are studying health. Bill lives in Spring Mount, Pa. C*! Burton H. Priest is president of J J Priest, Kortick & Gesmondi, cer- tified public accounting firm in Pawtucket, R.I. He serves on (he board of directors of the city's Chamber of Commerce. Burton has a son, 16, and a daughter, 14. continued on page 44 Villa Banfi. 12 superb wines whose time has come. Labeled "Naturally Pure" because they are pure and natural. Don't take these words lightly. They are behind the excellent quaUtv- in every botde of Villa Banfi. C-hianti Classico Riserva • Frascati Superiore • Bardolino, V'alpolicella and Soave Classico Superiore • Inferno • Orvieto Classicos • Verdicchio di Jesi • Roman Red, White and Rose. Villa Banfi When it pours, it reigns. © 1977 The Houst of Banfi, Farmingdak-,N.Y.,Fin<; Wino Mcrthanl> Since WI9 Clarence Chaffee: He just gets better as the years go by Clarence Chaffee in action at liu i\iiiioii,h ;H(,iiw :^uf'ti Cun^ Cmirt Championships, held at Agawam Hunt in September. Clarence C. Chaffee '24, the rugged white-haired tennis player with the whirling backhand (above), has become the "El Tiante" of the net set. He just seems to get better as the years slip by. In 1975, at age seventy- three, he won the National Outdoor Singles and Doubles titles, only two of the twenty- one national championships he has captured since 1971 in the 70-and-over category. The Williamstown, Massachusetts, resident had a particularly good year in 1974, winning na- tional titles in indoor singles, grass court sin- gles, and hard court. In the New England rankings, "Chaf" has been number one in both men's singles and doubles since 1971. The faster the surface, the better is his 42 ^ Evai though he lost, Chaffee (above) loas all smiles after the match at Agaiiwn. Tlte tourney's founder, Stan Heushaw 35 (beloxv), served as net judge. game. Where most men in his age bracket settle for leisurely baseline play, Chaffee is not averse to charging the net. His posture is ramrod straight like an Etruscan warrior, he lifts weights daily to strengthen his wrists and forearms, and he thinks nothing of run- ning a mile or two on the track at Williams College, where as tennis coach from 1937 to 1970 he never had a losing season. One year Chaf had a national intercollegiate champion on his team — and beat him regularly. He was sixty-three at the time. His soccer teams claimed two New England titles, and his 1938 squash team won the nationals. In the National Senior Super Grass Court Championships held this September at Agawani Hunt in Rumford, Rhode Island (a tournament founded by Stan Henshaw '35 in 1969), Chaffee and Mai Clark of Harpswell, Maine, battled it out for the 75s title. The two friendh' rivals went at each other with a skill, energy, and agility that — for an hour or so — made the long years fade axvay. When it was over, Clark had the last word on the court, but not in the jockeying that followed. "You must be going to church regularly now," Chaffee jibed, referring to three cru- cial shots from Clark that had hit the net and dropped over. "I'll be seeing you in Albany in a few weeks, pal, and I'll beat your brains out," Clark deadpanned. "Oh, well, I'll show iipan\way!" Chaf said softh', with just a trace of a smile on his lips, "A gentleman's gentleman," someone said as Clarence Chaf- fee walked slowly to the clubhouse. J.B. Photographs by John Foraste 43 C^ ^"''^ Hopkins has joined Clarke ijrl Aronson Coward, Boston advertis- ing firm, as a vice president. Dr. Henry F. Izeman has been elected president of the Miriam Hospital Staff Asso- ciation in Providence. C C Dr. frank Yaliu, professor and ^^ chairman of the department of neurology at the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center School of Medicine, Portland, is principal investigator for one of the three Comprehensive Stroke Center grants awarded recently by the NaHonal In- stitutes of Health's National Institute of Neu- rological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke. C%/% Brtrry Goffehrer, executive direc- JU tor of the Life Insurance Associa- tion of Massachusetts since 1975 and one- time writer for and aide to Mayor John Lindsay of New York City, has joined Massa- chusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company as vice president of public affairs. Rnherl Halkyarci is with Information Sys- tems, Pawtucket, R.I. The resident of See- konk, Mass. , has been named to a three-year term on the board of directors of the Brown Club of Rhode Island. James W. lackson has been named vice president and director of industrial relations of Helix Technology Corp., VValtham, Mass., a leading multi-business operating company "dedicated to selected sectors of the energy, industrial, and defense markets." Jim holds a I D, degree from Harvard Law School. /lime's 6. L(i/ir has joined (he staff of Cor- porate Cleaning Systems as marketing direc- tor for the Eastern district James lives at 702 Sugarball Ln., Cincinnati, Ohio 45215. C7 !^anaf Jacobs Arkm, Freehold, \.J., kj / has been named marketing coor- dinator for the New Jersey division of Kauf- man & Broad Homes, Newark She is in- volved in numerous civic, social, and chari- table organizations. Nancy and her husband, Bruce, have two teenage daughters, Valerie Ann and Lori Jill. Nancy Druding Mikesell and Dr. Conrad M. Riley (Yale '34) were married recently and are living at 590 Circle Dr., Denver, Colo. 80206. For the past four vears, Nancy worked for the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies program on "Food. Climate and the Worlds Future," led by Dr. Walter Orr Roberts at Boulder. She plans to begin work on an advanced degree in the environmental sciences soon. "Tim is 18 and a freshman at Arizona State College, Jenny 14, and Ann 8," Nancy writes. "Mv husband is professor emeritus of pediatrics and preventive medicine at the Universitv of Colorado Medi- cal Center." Donald L. Saunders of Brookline has been named to the board of directors of the Na- tional Conference of Christians and Jews (Northeast region). Saunders is president of Saunders & Associates, Realtors of Boston and is involved in numerous other Boston real estate affairs. Orin Smith has been elected senior vice president of Engelhard Minerals & Chemi- cals Corp., New York City, as well as presi- dent of its Minerals & Chemicals Division. Hugh Smith had a showing of his large black and wrhite maritime photographs at the Easter Seal Rehabilitation Center Gallery in Bridgeport during July. Richard D. Stephenson has a new job as director of St. Lawrence University's capital giving campaign. C Q Hans W. Fricke has been elected vJO vice president/compensation and benefits of Western Corp., Los Angeles. He had been a principal in the management con- sulting firm of Streeter-Fricke c& Associates in L.A. Hans is a past president of the Brown Club of Los Angeles. The Rev. Stephen H. Gushee has been elected the seventh dean of Christ Church (Episcopal) Cathedral, Hartford, Conn. Dean Gushee and his wife have three children: Allison, 16, Andrea, 13, and Gregory, 9. Ann Bowman Kalin, Madison, Conn., is directing an extended program in her kin- dergarten class at The Country School. Three years ago she went to England to study the British integrated day system. CQ Neil D. Isaacs (Ph.D.), professor ^Z7 of Old and Middle English at the University of Maryland, has a new book on the market: /ocA CiWdirc, U.S.A. (W.W. Nor- ton & Co., Inc., New York City, $9.95). The book focuses on the "takeover of American life by the moralitv of overemphasized sports." To quote Isaacs: "The original goals of an organization like the Little League or a college team — individual satisfaction and team play — are often lost sight of and give way to a kind of jingoistic violence and ag- gressive drive (o win, no matter what. In- stead of dissipating destructive forces, sports often breeds them." Isaacs is the author of a book on basketball. All the Moi'es, and one on hockev, Checking Back. At the University of Maryland he teaches courses on film as litera- ture, fiction, and sports culture. £lf\ Guy E. Davis is an assistant pro- Ovl fessor of mathematics at Rhode Is- land Junior College's Lincoln campus, hav- ing joined the faculty in 1975 after four years at Bryant College. Dr. Allan M. Deulsch has been appointed radiologisl-in-chief at The Miriam Hospital, Providence, one of the major teaching hospi- tals of the Brown Medical Program. Dr. Deutsch is on the faculty of the Brown medi- cal program. Ellen C. Herrenkohl is assistant professor of psychology at Lehigh University, a consul- tant to the Lehigh County Division of Child and Youth Services, and in the private prac- tice of psvchotherapv She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from New York Universit\- in 1969, an MA. in psychology from Boston Universit)' in 1963, and an MA. in history from the University of California at Berkeley in 1961. Lt.'Col. Vincent I. MacDonald, USAF, has been promoted to full colonel. A recent graduate of the Air War College at Maxwell AFB, Alabama, Colonel MacDonald has been named deputy base commander of the 436th Military Airlift Wing, Military Airlift Com- mand, Dover AFB, Del. John Miguel was awarded a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Rhode Island. He is employed as a mechanical engineer in the weapons systems department of the Naval Underwater Sys- tems Center in Newport, where he directs research and development programs in ad- vanced experimental underwater systems. Staff Sgt. Robert A. Paquin was recently presented the Army Commendation Medal at Fort Huachuca, Ariz. He received the award while assigned as a student to the U.S. Army Intelligence Center and School at Fort Huachuca. /Z't Claire Henderson has been ap- " JL pointed director of financial plan- ning and control, individual insurance oper- ations, at Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. She lives in Avon, Conn. Thomas lones (M.A.T.) has been pro- moted from registrar and director of institu- tional research to dean of administration at North Adams State College. He and Elaine and their five children live in North Adams, Mass. Jonathan and Nancy Sherer Kapstein have moved to Johannesburg, South Africa, after two vears in Italy. He will cover the African continent for Business Week. Helen, born in Brazil, is 8, and Adrienne, a Canadian, is 4. Yeong Wook Kim is a professor of physics at Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich. Rifsalind Pace and Marcia Solomon Simon taught a course last summer at Castle Hill, Truro Center for the Arts on Cape Cod. The subject: "Image Making, Writing, and De- signing A Poetry Book." Carolyn Rusiackas has been appointed an associate with the real estate firm of Scott As- sociates, Darien, Conn. Marcia Solomon Simon writes that she has "given birth to my first book and third child " The book, A Special Gift, was pub- lished by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich this fall and is a novel for children about a boy who loves ballet as much as basketball, and his problems when he decides to dance in pub- lic. "Perhaps Bessie Rudd's compulsory physical education program wasn't such a bad idea after all," she adds. "One never knows when one will have a need for memories of playing basketball." Her family includes David, 12, Lauren, 9, and Sara, 1. "My husband, James, is a professor of law and the author of several books. We live in West Nyack, N.Y." Fred E. Tracy has been promoted to vice president, supply and distribution, of Vickers Petroleum Corp., Wichita, Kans With Vickers for the past three years, Fred had been manager of crude supply and transportation. Catherine Kidder Ware, Scarsdale, N.Y., has been elected chairman of the Council of Junior Leagues of Westchester for 1978-79. She is a past president of the Junior League of Scarsdale, is a director of the Center for Preventive Psychiatry, and has served on the board of the Citizen's Advisory Committee for Cable Television. She holds a doctorate from Yale. /T ^ lames T. Egan, Paoli, Pa., was \j^ elected to the board of directors of Paoli Memorial Hospital. He is general man- ager, folding carton division, of Container Corp. of America, in Oaks, Pa. Stephen A. Ernst ('68 Ph.D.) has become associate professor of anatomy at the Uni- versity of Michigan, following two years in 44 How to Commemorate the of Brown Football: i%"i^ HkiwHifor Floral Pa^^oanf r CX3) tMi. I BROWN UN [E colliIgi wroN Pas-aclona - Caliioriiia wk.^^^vi a Grab a six-pack or a jug of your favorite mountain dew, gather the gang, lower the tailgate and celebrate! bDrop the information casually at the office or your next dinner party that Brown played in the first annual Rose Bowl game. Note expressions of surprise and disbelief. CClip coupons — such as the one below — which, with a simple $7 check, will bring you a beautiful four-color poster advertising that 1916 Rose Bowl game. The poster is 20" x 26" and you may recall having seen it on the cover of the October Brown Alumni Monthly. Here's a chance to get one of your own — it'll add a touch of class to any room. Order form Name. Brown Alumni Monthly Brown University Box 1854 Provick'ncc. Rhode Island 02912 Please send me poster(s) commemorating the 100th anniversary of Brown football at $7 each (includes postage and handling). R.l. residents please add 6^? sales tax. Address_ City. .State. .Zip. Make checks payable to Brown University. .■Mlow three to four weeks for delivery. 45 the same position at the Temple University School of Medicine. He is the holder of an NIH Research Career Development Award, 1975-80. lolm A. "Jack" Mavis is director/systems development with Santa Fe Railway in To- peka, Kans. leromej. Rinktis (A.M., 71 Ph.D.), assist- ant professor and coordinator of the Russian program at Pomona College, was selected by the National Endowment for the Humanities to attend an eight-week summer institute on "Literature and Society- in Russia" at Champaign-Urbana. The Middlebury Col- lege graduate was one of sixteen participants selected from the entire country. Wiltkm Swarts, Greenwich, Conn., was one of two featured poets at the Wine and Apples Restaurant, Manhattan, in May. His first book. The Minii Refracting Memory, will be published this year. /TO Willmw R. Butty III has been given 0«3 the Herbert P Blacke Chair at the Northfield-Mount Hermon School, North- field, Mass., where he is an English instruc- tor. Michelle C. M. Beer has been appointed an assistant professor of philosophy at West Virginia University. She holds a master's from Yeshiva Universit) and a master's in phi!osoph\ from the University of Pitts- burgh, jatties S. Ferguson has been named vice president and manager of the credit and loan review departments at Central Trust Co., Rochester, N.Y. He lives at 17 Guilford Way, Pittsford, N.Y. Joseph N. Gnyles (Ph.D.), of Talladega (Ala.) College, has worked in various capacities with the John Hav Whitnev Foun- dation, the Martin Luther King Fellowship Committee, and the Woodrow Wilson Na- tional Fellowship. Mannn B. Klein and Susan Ann Kano- with were married Aug, 6 and are living in Malibu, Calif. Marvin has a PhD, in electri- cal engineering from Stanford and is em- ploved at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu. Tst'-foii Zicn (Sc.M.) has been honored bv the Washington Academv of Sciences with the 1977 Annual Award for Scientific Achievements in Engineering Sciences. Em- ploved at the Naval Surface Weapons Cen- ter, White Oak, Md., Zien won the award for his "significant contributions to the field of fluid mechanics and heat transfer through research and teaching that has gained him national recognition." His academic creden- tials include a B.S. degree in mechanical en- gineering from the National Taiwan Univer- sity and a Ph.D. in aeronautics from CalTech in 1967. (L/\ Stcphc\i C. Biklen has been named "Tl vice presidenti'finance and admin- istration at Citibank (New York State) N.A., Rochester, N.Y. Dave Eilgertt/, Providence, has been named to a three-vear term on the board of directors of the Brown Club of Rhode Island. Richard R. Pannone has been named as- sistant treasurer of Industrial National Corp., Providence. He joined the bank in 1964. /T C Anne Doswell Labouchere and her \J\J husband, Albert, report the birth of a son, Jacques Whitney, on July 4. The family lives on Undermountain Rd., Salisbury, Conn. 06068. Robert A. Latnb (Sc.M.) has been named division geologist of Tenneco Oil Company's Frontier Projects Division, Houston, Texas. Daniel R. McWcthy is president of Na- tional Car Rental, Brattleboro, Vt. £L£L Ackley E. Blocher is director of U V/ marketing for commercial roofing products, CertainTeed Corp., Winter Park, Fla. Douglas Ross Gorlner has been appointed assistant manager of the Norwich office of the First Inter-State Bank in White River Junction, Vt. Robert Kundless and Claire A. Meconi were married Aug. 25 and are living in Matawan, N.J. Bob leaches junior high school English on Staten Island, NY. lames S. Panos (A.M.), vice principal at Durfee High in Fall River, Mass., since 1971, has been named principal of the school. He is a 1955 Yale graduate. Wallace A. Wood (M.A.T ) has been ap- pointed dean of the undergraduate faculty at Bryant College, Smithfield, R.I. /2^7 / Laurence Allen, a certified \J / prosthetist, is manager of Fillauer Orthopedic and proprietor of the Alles Co., Johnson Citv, Tenn. Robert B. Arnold is a regional sales man- ager of Data Communications Sales, Atlanta, Ga. Elizahelb FeroeBakst, Barrington, R.I., is teaching at the town's Red Church Nursery School this year. David M. Friedman is the executive direc- tor of Migrant Health Service, Moorhead, Minn. His home address: 1103 South 6th St., Fargo, N.D. 58102. leremiah S. Hubeny has been appointed group product manager of instruments for the Optical Products Division of American Optical Corp., Southbridge, Mass. He and his family are residents of Wellesley Hills, Mass. Robert J. Hughes and Kathv M. Henry were married Aug. 5 in Wethersfield, Conn. Bob is assistant professor of English at St, Joseph College, North Windham, Maine. Comdr. John I. Kineke, USN (Ret.) (Sc.M), has been named assistant professor of applied mathematics and physics and di- rector of the computer center at Centre Col- lege, Danville, Ky. John had been associate chairman of the physics department at the U.S. Naval Academ\-. David Oakley (M.A.T.) was awarded a Fulbright-Havs grant for advanced research in modern European history. He and his family are living in France, where Dave is studying and researching the role of nineteenth-century French engineers. lohn IV. Putrc (M.A.T.) has been named principal at the Pownal Elementary School, Pownal, Vt. He has a doctorate in history from the State Universir\- of New York at Stony Brook. David E. Speltz has been appointed executive vice president of Copley Hospital, which serv'es the Stowe, Vt., area. continued on page 48 Lois Graboys: 'Art must find its way into public places' One normally thinks of arttsts' studios as secluded aeries, as far as possible from the noise and dirt and distractions of the center city. But Lois Wolpert Graboys' ('59) studio, which doubles as the office of New England Art Advisory Services, is right on Westmin- ster Mall in the heart of downtown Provi- dence. The day we visited her, the mall was being torn up along its whole length, and the only access to her building was via a gang- plank over an excavation. Four stories up, in an airy whitewashed space in which some of her recent works were hanging, Lois surveyed the chaos below and remarked, "I finally discovered the city " She spoke with obvious affection, pointing out the beautifully detailed ornamental facades (often obscured at street level) of many of the buildings, and the work being done to re- store some of them. Her studio had formerly been on a quiet street in Bristol near the water, and when the winter cold forced her out, it was with some trepidation that she rented the space on the mall Now, she said, "I wouldn't be anywhere but the mall. It's my link with reality." Lois's involvement with "reality" goes much deeper than that, though. She is a tire- less crusader on behalf of art and artists — specificalh Rhode Island and New England artists, who, she feels, have not been given the recognition they deserve, and who have tended to function in isolafion from one an- other. A former art critic for ihe Pr^rvidence jour- nal, Lois was one of the founders of Anyart, the Rhode Island arfists' cooperative in War- ren, which has done perhaps more than any organization in the state to foster a sense of community among local artists and to give them a needed boost. "We were rebelling against the notion of artists having to rent space to show their works," she said. "We asked ourselves, 'How can we help more ar- tists?' A handful can get grants, but we wanted to provide a neutral territory for ar- tists across the state to get together and ex- hibit their work." The Anyart journal is now a quarterly publication, and Anyart has several hundred members — not all artists, though; its open to anyone who wants to support contemporary art. "Local artists used to feel they had to go to New York to sell their work, and collectors felt they had to go there to buy," Lois ob- served. "But the work is right here, the qual- ity is here, and the prices are low. New Eng- land art is a good buy." She continued. 45 "There's a good climate here for artists — :hey'rc near the big cities, but they can main- ain their independence. I'm concerned that Ti places like New York, artists subordinate heir vision to the marketplace; I think you get a more honest vision in regional areas. Here, if you have fifty artists, they'll be pur- suing fifty different directions, which is very exciting." Out of that conviction grew New Eng- land Art Advisory Services, which Lois runs in partnership with Lee Gorman, a Provi- dence advertising executive who handles the business end of the operation. The purpose of NEAAS is to help individuals and firms assemble collections of regional art — not art as investment, or art as decoration, but art for its own sake. Lois believes passionately that "the purpose of art is to add something to our lives," to enrich our environment, and for that reason she feels it's essential that art find its way into public places. "We're com- peting mainly against stock prints by 'name' artists," she said. "About four or five years ago the Prm'icience ]ournnl asked me to review the collection that Bradford Swan [then the Journal's cultural critic] had put together for the new Hospital Trust Tower. It was primarily a collection of Rhode Island artists, and I was struck by the significance of the bank's willingness to do that." New England Art Advisory Services now has about 150 artists who have regis- tered works with them. They charge no commission to the artists themselves — only to the clients, which is unusual for such a service. Lois also helped assemble the Ed- mund Mauro Collection, "Twenty-Seven Rhode Island Artists" (including such nota- bles as Harry Callahan, Robert Rohm, RISD president Lee Hall, Brown art professor Hugh Townley, and RISD professor John Udvardy), the most important private collec- tion to date of local artists. Lois pointed out that RISD and Brown are the main sources for a large pool of artistic talent in the state, and the Mauro Collection is a sampling of that richness and variety. Lois herself has been an artist all her life: she began painting portraits at age thirteen, majored in art at Pembroke, and earned an M.A.T. in art education at Brown in 1973. Recently she's been working in egg tempera on wood, and has also begun doing land- scapes — "symbolic ones," she said. "1 haven't done landscapes in years." Her only concern about her public involvement (which includes an ongoing crusade to save the lost and abandoned dogs that end up in the Prov- idence Police dog pound) is that it interferes with her studio time and slows down her ar- tistic momentum. "But it's necessary to me," she said. "It's a touchstone that keeps me in contact with the universe and lets me paint." /.P. 47 Carlylc A . Vmyer has been appointed lec- turer in Southeast Asian politics in the de- partment of government al the Royal Military College-Duntroon, located in Canberra, Australia, and considered the "West Point" of that country. During the 1977-78 academic year Carl and his wife, Bibi AbduUa 75, main- tained one Brown tradition — soccer. Carl has been secretary of the Bendigo Soccer League, the largest in the country, while Bibi is president of the Bendigo Women's Soccer Association. They both continue to play for the local college team. Mitch Vigei'etio is an agency supervisor with Mutual Security Life in Fresno, Calif. He is a graduate of the Life Insurance Mar- keting Institute at Purdue. Dr. Lee Welky, a graduate of the Tufts Dental School, has set up his dental practice with the Mattapan Square Dental Associates, MOVING? To change your address tor the B,AM and all other Universit\' mailings, fill out this form and mail it to: ALUMNI RECORDS OFFICE Box 1908, Brown University Providence, R.I. 02912 Please attach old address label here: New Address: (Name and Class) (Street) (City, State, Zip Code) Mattapan, Mass. Lee is also certified in car- diopulmonary resuscitation by the American Heart Association and has received post- graduate training in acute systemic emer- gencies at the International Institute for Medical Emergencies. /^Q Jerry Batty is with the Providence OO law firm of Hinckley, Allen, Salis- bury & Parsons. He's been named to a three-year term on the board of directors of the Brown Club of Rhode Island. Charles M. Fiiiueaa is a theoretical com- puter scienhst with the General Electric Re- search and Development Center, Schenec- tady, N.Y. Bruce H. Deveiis and his wife, Monica Schaefer DmetJS (see '70), have moved to 2138 E. Bonita Ave., La Verne, Calif. 91750. He is assistant professor of biomedical sciences at the University of California, Riverside. Dr. John F. Gooilrich, a specialist in ado- lescent medicine, has been appointed to the medical staff of Augusta (Ga.) General Hos- pital. John F. Morse III has been appointed manager, northern broadcast sales, for RCA Broadcast Systems, Camden, N.J. Since join- ing the firm' in 1971, John had been a New England sales engineer based in Boston. He and Virginia have two children, Elizabeth, 9, and John, 6. Fretiene R. Pamp and Lucia Batchelder (Middlebury '68) were married June 17 in Omaha, Nebr., and are living in Rockport, Mass., where Fred is an attorney. /()St7'/i A. Petnuellt has been elected senior vice president of South Shore Bank, Quincv, Mass. Robert IV. Powers, a vice president at Hospital Trust National Bank, Providence, has been named treasurer of the Rhode Is- land Bankers Assn. lean £. TiirnquisI is acting chairman of the department of anatomy at the Pennsyl- vania College of Podiatric Medicine, Phila- delphia. ^O '^''^S Beckham, Providence, has O -7 been named to a three-year term on the Brown Club of Rhode Island's board of directors. Susan Robin Bookbinder and her husband, Steve, of Providence, announce the birth of their daughter, Sarah, on April Ifi. £z'i- hia Barak Bnles has been named re- search associate and USPHS postdoctoral fel- low at the University of Alabama in Birming- ham Medical Center. Her husband, David, is assistant professor of microbiology at the same institution. Dai'iil R. Homer and Karen Aileen Olson were married last summer in Rockville, Md., and are living in Wheaton, Md. A graduate of SvTacuse Universitv' College of Law, Dave is a trial attorney for the criminal division of the Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. Dr. Don Fletcher ('72 Sc.M.) and loan Mitchell Fletcher (see 70) report the birth of their first child, Nicholas David, on March 10. The couple returned to Rhode Island in Julv, permitting Don to practice radiology at the Newport Hospital and join the firm of Aquidneck Radiologists. Don completed his residenc\- in radiology at Rush Presbyteri- an-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago, where he was chief resident last year. The family resides in Portsmouth. W. Terry Maguire has returned to the National Newspaper Association after a three-year interval spent as a member of the legal staff of the Federal Communications Commission's Office of Network Study. He has been named general counsel of the NNA. Bruce Moger has been named a vice pres- ident of Old Stone Bank, Providence. He lives in Wickford, R.I. lay Shapiro has joined the American Multi Cinema home office staff in Kansas City, Mo., to work in real estate develop- ment. He had been with a Kansas City law firm. Jav served as assistant attorney general of Missouri from 1973 to 1975. 70 Marsha Uehara Allgewr is a plan- / \I ner with the Arlington County Planning Division, Arlington, Va. Dr. Freiterick R. Armcnti has graduated from New Jersey College of Medicine and is doing his surgical residency at the University of Pennsylvania. Monica Schaefer Dci'cns and her husband, Bruce (see '68), have moved to 2138 E. Bonita Ave., La Verne, Calif. 91750. She has re- ceived her Ph.D. from UCLA in Near Eastern languages and is teaching Hebrew at Pomona College, Claremont, Calif. Judy Nasche Dixon has become associated with the law firm of Febbrorielloand Herbst, Torrington, Conn. She is a January honors graduate of the University of Connecticut School of Law and was admitted to the Con- necticut bar in May. She and her husband, Michael, have been Winsted residents for si> years. John R. Hammett has been appointed manager of planning and budgets for Intel Corporation's microcomputer systems divi- sion in Santa Clara, Calif. "Have worked for Intel's semiconductor components division since receiving my M.B.A. from URI in 1976 Nanc>' and I are living in Burlingame on the San Francisco Peninsula." Wolfgang W. Millbrandt and his wife, Dorothy Noren Millbrandt (see '72), are living at RED #1, Box 298, Greenville, N.H. 03048. Col. William A. Orlh (Ph.D.) has been nominated by President Carter to be the new dean of faculty at the Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs. FT*! RobprM. /4)irfcrs(iii is a profes- / JL sional actor with the Trinity Square Repertory Co., Providence. Leon M. Cammcn received his Ph.D. in zoology from the University of North Carolina and is spending a year as a Visiting Fellow at the Marine Ecology Laboratory, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Dr. leffrey Cole and Linda Wciler Cole report the birth of their first child, Debra Rachel, on Aug. 30, 1977. Jeff, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, completed his residency in inter- nal medicine at Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, Philadelphia, and is complet- ing his cardiology fellowship at the Univer- sit>- of Maryland Hospitals. Linda is complet- ing her requirements for an M.B.A. in health-care administration al Wharton. Albert K. Fan (Sc.M., Ph.D.) has been named to the research and development de- partment of GTE Sylvania, Towanda, Md. 48 Robert Galkiauicz received his Ph.D. in 1976 and is now on a postdoctoral fellowship in the department of polymer science and engineering at the University of Massachu- setts. Edward Patrick Hunt and Roberta Sarah Asquith were married Sept. 2 and are living in Orangeburg, S.C., where Ed is employed by Applied Engineering. Dr. Richard Kadison, Weston, Mass., re- cently completed a two-year residency in adult psychiatry at University Hospital in Boston. He is continuing his training in child psychiatry at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass. Dr. Richard B. Locke has completed his residency in family practice at SUNY at Buf- falo and is working temporarily as an emergency room physician in Buffalo. loan E. Miillinax was graduated with honors from the University of Texas in De- cember 1977, receiving a bachelor's degree in computer science. She's now working for the terminals and peripherals division of Texas Instruments, Houston, as a software design programmer. Dr. Frank Sun has been named to the staff of both the Plainfield Pediatric Center and the Putnam Pediatric Center of Day Kimball Hospital, Putnam, Conn. Norman Erie Swanber^ earned a master's degree in electrical engineering from North- eastern University in 1977 and is an electrical engineer with Hughes Aircraft Co., Tor- rance, Calif. ^^ Ricliard L. Buckley is transit op- / ^m erations manager for Tidewater Regional Transit in Norfolk, Va. He holds a master's from the University of California at Berkeley. Robyn Ann Burns has received a master's degree from Montclair State College. She is an art teacher at Radcliffe School, Nutley, N.J. Stei'en A. Colwell has received his Ph.D. in anatomy at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, reports Steve's father, Ruiiard H. Colwell '42, of Nor- walk. Conn. Rhonda A. Cooperstem is an educational researcher with SRI International, Menlo Park, Calif. Rebecca P. Cornwall writes that she re- ceived her M.S. in public health from UMass in 1974 and then worked for two years with an air pollution consulting firm, GCA/ Technology, in Bedford, Mass. "For more than a year now, I have been working as a health and safety officer for UMass," she writes. "My responsibility is running a labo- ratory safety program. My husband, Robert Calkieioicz '71, and I have lived in Amherst, Mass., for better than seven years and find it a lovely and exciting place. It has all the beauty of the Connecticut Valley with the advantages of being in the Five College area." Daniel R. Fischel (A.M.), who clerked for Judge Thomas Fairchild of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, now works with Justice Potter Stewart of the U.S. Su- preme Court. The Cornell University gradu- ate received his law degree from the Univer- sity of Chicago. Bob Flanders, an attorney with Edwards & Angell, Providence, has been named to the board of directors of the Brown Club of Rhode Island for a three-year term. Raynumd L. Goldsteen ('74 A.M.) is an in- structor at the Capital Campus of Penn State in Middletown, Pa. Everett C. Goodiuin is now senior pastor of the First Baptist Church of Meriden, Conn. He and his wife, Jane, have two daughters, Libby and Leah Grace. Noel Peyton Greis and Henry Stewart were married Aug. 20 and are living in Princeton, N.J. Noel has master of arts and master of science in civil engineering degrees from Princeton, where she is a candidate for a doctorate in civil engineering. Dr. Edwin B. Knights has joined the Acton Medical Associates, Acton, Mass. He and his wife are active in amateur theatricals and barbershop music. They live on Balsam Drive, Acton. Dr. Robert F. Leroy and his wife, Kami Kirby (she maintains her maiden name), are living in Hamden, Conn. Rob is doing his res- idency in neurology at Yale-New Haven Hospital and at the West Haven Veterans Administration Hospital. Karen is assistant professor of theoretical mathematics at Cen- tral Connecticut State College in New Brit- ain, Conn. Dorothy Noren Millbrandt and her hus- band, Wolfgang W. Millbrandt (see '70), are now living at RFD #1, Box 298, Greenville, N.H. 03048. Starting in October, Dorothy be- came senior software engineer with Digital Brown University Note Cards ,&l*iAit^^tlaJ(; Original line drawings by David Macaulay Smartly boxed in eights, with package design by Nikolai Four cards respectively of stately Robinson Hall and of the classic John Carter Brown Library Appropriately blank inside for all occasions: thank-you's, birthdays, invitations and personal messages Five by seven inches, eggshell white, quality stock with com- plementing envelopes For Writers Who Take Their Writing Seriously nd me- _ hexes of M Beckham Cole Studio, Inc. 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Golf and tennis at their very best. Exquisite cuisine and memorable service to round out the finest Bermuda has to offer See your travel agent or D»idB Mitcnell. 777 Third Ave. NY 10017 (212) 371-1323 Equipment Corp., Nashua. Nicola E. Rubiiww (M.A.T.) has become associated with the Hartford law firm of Ris- Cassi and Davis. She was a 1977 honors graduate of the UniversiU' of Connecticut Law School. Khachig Tci/o/i/nn (Ph.D.), assistant pro- fessor of English at VVeslevan University, has won a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies in a national competi- tion among recent recipients of the Ph.D. ^'5 Robert Alexander ('76 M.D.) and / J Christine Ann Moll were married at the University of Rochester Interfaith Chapel Aug. 12'. Dr. Willmw Kaye 73, 76 M.D. was best man, Edward Zaieski was an usher, and the groom's sister, Elizahclh Ann Alexander '80, was a bridesmaid. After a hon- eymoon cruise to the Mediterranean, the couple moved to 201-D Conant Rd., Roches- ter, where Bob is in his last vear of residency in psychiatry at Strong Memorial Hospital, and his wife is a student at St. John Fisher's College. BraffordB. Bak is the co-author of a recent book on environmental hearing boards in Pennsylvania. He was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia in October. Dean Bross writes that he W(.)rks for the Health Ser\'ices Research and Development Center at Johns Hopkins University, where his area of research has changed recently from prostate cancer to perinatal regionaliza- tion and its effects on infant mortalit)' rates. Gillian "lilt" Brown received her M.A. in art education from the Rhode Island School of Design in June. She is presently on a teaching fellowship as she works for a master of fine arts degree at UCLA. Ellen W. M. Ctirlin. VVesttown, Pa., recently graduated from the Institute for Paralegal Training, Philadelphia. Tom/ Cardozo and Anne Hinman DiffHy were among five area residents mentioned in a recent New Bedford (Mass.) Standard Times article on "Merit Scholars: Where Are They Now?" Tonv is a math analyst for the Navy, working at the Underwater Systems Center in Newport. Anne, a former staff member of theBrcwii Alumni Monthly, is now assistant public relations director at Southeastern Massachusetts University in North Dart- mouth, Mass. Alfred Gladstone is a student at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. Peter A. Marion, Princeton, Mass., has been promoted to assistant actuary with the State Mutual Life Assurance Company of America. Dr. Franas R. Porter received his M.D. degree from the Boston University School of Medicine last summer and has started his residency in internal medicine at the Veter- ans Administration Hospital in Boston. Dr. Porter and his wife, Mary Ann, live in New- ton with their daughter, Jessica. ^/l Dr. G«n//lrc-;u'r ('78M.D.) isan / TI intern at the University of Min- nesota Hospital, Minneapolis. C/ir!s Buonanno was graduated in May from Valparaiso School of Law, where last year he received an American Jurisprudence Award for excellence in legal studies. For the past two summers, the Cranston, R.I., resi- dent has worked for the Rhode Island Attor- ney General's office. IretieS. Cannon-Geary (A.M., '78 Ph.D.) is assistant professor of modern languages at Colbv College, VVaterville, Maine. Plulip Charles Caron and Susan Marcella Benz were married in Juh' and are living in New York City. Dr. Fri7ii^ D. Caporiisso is a medical resi- dent at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. Boil Condon is in the M.B.A. program at the University of California, Berkeley. Mark A. DcRegl is an actuarial assistant at William Mercer, Inc., Boston. Slei^hen Dunn and Patricia Green (Colby '75) were married June 4 in Lexington, Mass. The ushers included Rick Dunn '81, Richard Ramsey '73, John Chobanian '73, janne Kiernan, and Bruce Celfand. The bridesmaid was Elizabeth Macdonald, and the groom's father is Leo Dunn '42. Kenneth D. Field is attending the Berklee College of Music in Boston, studying saxophone and flute and playing with vari- ous jazz and funk groups in the Boston area. "Am on a leave of absence from Raytheon Co.," he writes. Tama Greenberg writes: "After working in the textile industry in New York City for two years, 1 returned to school and just received an MBA. from Cornell. Presently, I am working for General Mills in Minneapolis, Minn." Leo R. Ladefian and Gay Teborek were married June 3 at Manning Chapel and are living in New York City. Leo is a staff ac- countant for Ernst & Ernst, and Gay is a li- brarian for John Jay College of Criminal Jus- tice. Best man at the wedding was Larry Ginsberg. Carol Vandergrift Middleberg received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Ohio State Universit)' in Columbus, Ohio. She is intern- ing at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago. Marjorie Neifeld is now clerking for New Jersey Superior Court Judge Irving Rubin in Paterson, N.J. She received her J.D. from Boston University School of Law in June. Lynn A. Rankin enrolled at Yale Law School this fall under a one-year fellowship program for journalists funded by the Ford Foundation. She had been a statehouse re- porter in Dover, Del., covering the gover- nor's office for the Wdmington Ncii>s-]ournal. Frances M. Went-worth has been commis- sioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force after graduating from Officer Training School at Lackland AFB, Texas. She's now at Hanscom AFB, Mass., for training as a com- puter systems analyst. 7n% Bibi /lWu//rt and her husband, / J C(iWi//t'/4. T?ifli/t'r (see '67), are living in Canberra, Australia. Bibi is president of the Bendigo Women's Soccer League. Katharine Walling BUlings and Thomas E. Hudson were married June 10 in New Ca- naan, Conn. She received a master's degree in museum studies in May from George Washington University and is with the Museum of African Art in Washington, DC. Robin Blacklo-w left Polaroid International (Amsterdam) last December after a year and a half as copywriter "to try the fluctuating — continued on page 52 50 The Brown Club: Brown's 'presence' in New York City Is a "Brown presence" in New York City — in the form of a Brown Club — still a worthwhile thing? Not surprisingly, the officers of the Brown Club in New York think so. They talked with the BAM about this and other aspects of the Club recently: Given the problems of maintaining private dubs in cities such as Neiv Yorl<, what role does the Brown Club play? "This is Brown in New York" sums up what we're all about. This is a club that pro- vides enjoyment for our own members from the New York area and for members who come from other parts of the country. This is a center for Brown happenings. We have to be here to be a voice for Brown in this city, which is still the cultural capital of the coun- try. What's neu> at the Club? Probably the most significant new thing is the changing of the dues structure. We've done away with the various classifications of membership and now charge a flat $50 an- nual membership fee. This entitles a member to all club services and activities and we think we are offering the Brown community — in New York City and elsewhere — the biggest bargain in the history of university clubs. Some of the other Ivy university clubs in New York City charge annual dues of $300 or more. Weren't you taking a risk? We knew the risk was enormous, but we also knew the key was membership. In the spring of 1977, before taking the proposal to change the dues to the membership, we con- ducted a poll of potential members. The poll indicated that, with dues of $50, one third of a potential 5,000 members would consider joining. And, indeed, membership this year should reach 1,000. Another boost to membership is our af- filiation with the Wheaton, Manhattanville, and Colby clubs. These affiliations not only provide some much-needed income, but give our members an expanded offering of pro- grams. /Xi you have any reciprocal arrangenwnts? Members of the Brown Club can charge al and use the facilities of the Williams Club on 39th Street, the Lawyers Club in the Wall Street area, the Excelsior Club for swimming, the Apple Paddle Tennis Club, and the three locations of the Town Squash facilities. Sepa- r.ile memberships at these clubs would cost over $1,000. What kind of activities do you offer? There is literally something for every- The Club is loaited in the headquarters of the National Women's Repniblican Club. one, ranging from analyses of the eco- nomic scene by noted Brown professors to lively showings of football films, including disco dancing, wine-tasting, and happy hours everv Thursday. We rent an entire floor at 3 West 51st Street, we employ an executive secretary (Dusty Bricker '76) and a bartender, and we publish a monthly newsletter. Our events run from September through June. For members who do not live in New York, but come here occasionally, the Club offers a comfortable place to stay at far less than most hotels in the area. In fact, the money saved on hotel bills should more than pay for the cost of membership. Any other activities? The Club is not all fun and games. We support the University in any way we can. We host NASP meetings and participate in the Student-Alumni Relations Committee activihes. And the Club contributes regularh to the Brown scholarship funds. Last year that amount xvas approximateh' $800. We also feel thai our physical presence in New York City is important in recruiting students. Officers this year are William D. Rogers '52, president; Judith Korey Charles '46, James D. Brown '54, and William Griffith '70, vice presidents; Eli Hirschfeld '71, secretary; and Phyllis Van Horn Tillinghast '51, trea- surer. 51 but challenging — world of freelance writing. Have written ads, articles, editorials, record sleeves, opera synopses, translations." Her address: P. C. Hooftstraat 140 III, Amster- dam, Netherlands (Tel. 020-725944). Joijuiii Ives Brani is a truck driver for the Richmond Meat Co. in Oakland, Calif. Dick BuUerman (A.M.) and Ann M. VwnuK (see '77) were married Sept. 23 in Manning Chapel and are living in Barring- ton, R.I. A graduate of Hope College in Michigan, Dick is currently working on his Ph.D. at Brown and is employed by Raythe- on Co. Dr. John R. Cangemi (78 M.D.) is a resi- dent physician at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. Cynthia Cote has left the San Francisco law firm of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Emerson, where she was a legal assistant and law librarian. She took graduate courses in art history at the University of California, Berkeley, and is now a graduate student at Indiana University, where she is working on her Ph.D. in Trecento Sienese art. Donnld Fccncy and Diane Carter were married July 1 in Minneapolis, where they now live. Donald is a statistical analyst in ^^r Congenial KTOEKK Gathering Places for vacationing, wining and dining in Ivy League Country BAHAMA OUT-ISLANDS On a small, tranquil. Bahamian island, nesiled among the coconut palms, along a ridge of sand dunes, is ABACO INN. Our ten very private cottage rooms overlook the At- lantic Ocean to the east and the Sea of Abaco to the west. From our informal clubhouse- lounge, where we serve elegant five-course dinners and a tropical buffet lunch, we have a beautiful view of pink, sandy beaches and the breaking surf. ABACO INN is a lifestyle — It's our home and we think it's very special. We offer a warm, leisurely, "away-from-it- all" atmosphere, as well as snorkeling; scuba diving (we're both divers); deep-sea, reef and bonefishing; sailing; boating; windsurfing and trips to fishing and boatbuilding settle- ments on nearby islands. The Inn is just a pleasant walk from the picturesque I8ih- ceniury fishing settlement of Hope Town and the historic Elbow Cay Lighthouse. It you're searching for a unique personal experience; if you're in touch with nature and if you w ish to escape the rigors of 20th-ceniury urban life and yet retain the comforts, then we would like you to be our guests. Please write, via air- mail, for our brochure, or telephone us for reservations and information. Ruth Maury — Jerry Whiteiealher ABACO INN Box J 12, Hope Town, Elbow Cay, Abaco, Bahamas Tel. 1-809-367-2666 environmental studies with the state of Min- nesota. William H. Fraser has joined the staff of Pine Tree Legal Assistance, Presque Isle, Maine. Richard W. Halpern writes that in June he accepted a position with a twent\'-five- year-old firm. The HoUiston Sand Co., Hol- liston, Mass., as marketing and sales man- ager. "Have complete responsibility for mar- ket research and development, sales and sales promotion strategy, for a new product line of bagged sand products," he writes. Cynthia Hjerpc is teaching French and Spanish at Franklin High School, Franklin, Mass. James L. Kainen is a law clerk to Federal District Judge Robert L. Carter in New York City. AndreicC. Matis and Leslie Anne Seaton were married July 30 in Boston and are living in Brookline, Mass. A computer scientist, Andy is working for his master's in applied math at Harvard. Allen Vandcr Mciiten (Ph.D.) has been appointed associate professor and chairman of the division of economics and business administration at North Central College, Naperville, III. Dr. nomas C. Piatt (Sc.M., 78 M.D.) is a resident in internal medicine at Miriam Hospital, Providence. Betsy L. Rotman has been promoted to departmental officer in the marketing group of Old Stone Bank, Providence. Susan C. Ryan and Michael "Chip" Chiarulli were married July 23, 1977, in Bask- ing Ridge, N.J. Susan is thedaughter of /Innf Crane Ryan '50 and James E. Ryan '49. Chip is the son ot Mary Santulli Chiarulli '43 and Peter Chmnilli '49 Ph.D. In the wedding party were Pamela Guise Merl, Harold Horwich , andRobert Palme. Chip is a graduate student at Prince- ton, and Susan is working for an actuarial consulting firm in Princeton. Marcia D. Spindell is an activities therapist at the General Hospital of the Rhode Island Medical Center in Cranston, working primarily on dance-movement ther- apy with geriatric and rehabilitation pa- tients. "My master's degree is in dance ther- apy," she says, "and anyone who is in- terested in the field may contact me." Her address: 303 Ives St., Providence 02906. Juan Tavares is on leave from the Univer- sity of California at San Diego, where he is a teaching assistant while working on his Ph.D. in comparative literature. He is using his leave time to work with Editora De Santo Domingo, S.A , and has just edited his sec- ond book for children. Rhode Island State Rep. Jeffrey /. Teitz, Newport, received his law degree from Har- vard Law School in June. He was credited with getting the "fun" tax passed in the Rhode Island House, a bill that was the ob- ject of strong criticism from persons in the tourist and entertainment businesses. Be- sides spearheading the fun tax bill, Jeff was the author of the Judicial Selection Reform Act of 1977, an act that guaranteed for the first time in the state's history public partici- pation in the selection of Supreme Court judges. James Woodruff writes: "After a year in Iowa, 1 have just become a repatriated New Englander. 1 am teaching English and math- ematics at the Austine School for the Deaf in Brattleboro, Vt. " ^7 £L '^I'W Axelrod is working in his / \J father's business, Axelrod Music, Providence. Debra Sue Belaga was awarded her doctor of jurisprudence at the Stanford University Law School, and will practice law in San Francisco. John G. Bcn/lson and Amy Smith (Har- vard '75) were married in August. Both will graduate from Harvard Business School in June. Robert M. Broicn is an analytical engineer with Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, East Hartford, Conn. Roger D. Clark (A.M.) has joined the staff at Nichols College, Dudley, Mass., as an in- structor in sociology. Michael IV. Cropp and Lois Meryl Roth were married Aug. 26 and are living in Prov- idence. Mike is a fourth-year student in the Brown medical program. Stei'hen M. Ehrlich and Andrea G. Berger were married July 30 and are living in West Lafayette, Ind. Steve is a leaching assistant at Purdue, where he is a candidate for a mas- ter's degree in applied statistics. David Haettensch wilier has received his MA. in international relations from Johns Hopkins University. He lives in Buffalo. Peter Korda and Nancy Osman (see '77) were married on August 27. The bridesmaids included Shelly Kessler and Susan Pelch '77, and the ushers included Robert Day. Peter is a third-year law student at New York Univer- sity. TTiey live at 402 Lawrence Apt., Prince- ton 08540. Richard Leff and Debra Kantorowitz (see '78) were married May 28 in Providence. Richard is a medical student at Brown. At- tendants were /o Ann Kantorowitz '79 GS, Beth Ann Herman, the daughter o( Bernard Herman '45, Richard Greenberg, and Anthony Green. Annmarie Lei'ins, who recently received her master's degree from Princeton, is en- rolled in Princeton's four-year program lead- ing to a doctorate in politics. Lee j. Lisecki is an independent filmmaker living at 3355 Vinton Ave., Apt. #1, Los Angeles 90034. He received his M.S. in en- gineering from Cornell in 1977. Edmond A. Neal 111 is in his third year at Boston University Law School, after which he will serve as an associate of Robert E. George in Sturbridge, Mass. On Sept. 9, Ed and Kathleen M. McKeon were married in Auburn, N.Y., with Curfis P. Robb serving as best man. Other alumni at the wedding were Daniel HarrofK Richard Burrows, Kenneth Lury '75, and Jeffrey Pieper '78. The couple is living at 19 Gerard St., Southbridge, Mass. 01550. James Arthur Patterson and Virginia Lee Campbell were married July 8 in Falmouth, Mass., and are living in Denver, Colo. Jim is attending the University of Colorado School of Medicine. John Paid has taken time off from his studies at Case Western Reserve University School of Law (after completing two years) to pursue "more spiritual yearnings." He's now living in Rome, Italy. Curtis P. Robb and Judith Anne Sullivan were married June 17 in New Fairfield, Conn., and are living in Philadelphia. Curtis continued on page 54 52 1®®^ compiled by Shyla Spear of the BAM staff Recent and readable books by Brown alumni John E. Rouse '13, The Criollo Spanish Cattle in the Americas, University of Okla- homa Press, $17.50. The protein-rich Ameri- can diet started with the Spanish cow. That animal changed the course of American civilization, altering the life, culture, and economy of individuals, empires, nahons, and conhnents. "The cattle dominions that flourished on virgin grasslands from Argen- tine to Canada were built on the Spanish cow." Harry W. Nelson '30, Wolf Stone, Wolf Stone, Blue Leaf, $2.95. If it is true that modern men value hme more highly than money, then Harry Nelson is their poet. Wolf Stone, Wolf Stone is a collection of poems which touch lightly on the meaning of time and together make a statement of the au- thor's perception. Nelson is widely pub- lished, and also has had a number of one- man art shows. Jane Flannery Jackson '38 A.M. and Joseph H. Jackson, Infant Culture, Crowell, $9.95. Scientists have shattered our ideas of the infant as a lump to be fashioned as we see fit. From birth, children have likes and dis- likes, can see, hear, taste, and feel in sophis- ticated manners. These kinds of findings lead to a better understanding of our inborn abilities and to a greater appreciation of the complexity of human beings, even at the out- set of life. Doris Roberts Entwisle '4b Sc.M. and Leslie Alec Hayduk, Too Great Expectations, Johns Hopkins University Press, $12.95. Dis- advantaged children fail in school because of low expectations of success: not so, say the authors, who studied and interviewed grade school children about their expectations of success. Just the reverse is true: disadvan- taged students fail because their expectations are too high and cannot be met by the sys- tem. There are some other startling finds about what young children of different backgrounds think of themselves and what the schools can do for them. Betsey Cummings Lewis '46, Through Englanii on Mi/ Knees, Barnes, $12. This well- illustrated book provides answers for begin- ners and enthusiasts alike on the art of or- namental brass rubbing. The history of brass- es and the tools of the brass rubber are all discussed along with maps and locations of the best brasses. The detailed exploration of England, town by town, provides a delight- ful narrative journey. Robert E. Rodes, Jr. '48, Tlte Legal En- terprise, Kennikat Press, $13.50. The author, a law professor at Notre Dame, argues that, as the law provides a response to the needs of individuals and society, it is not just an arbi- trary imposition of restraint. The book exam- ines the entire legal enterprise, including en- forcement, penology, and social justice pro- grams, giving a framework for understand- ing and standards by which the laws can be measured. Richard C. Sprinthall '52 and Norman A. Sprinthall '54, '59 A.M., Psychology, A Dei'elopnicntal Approach, 2nd ed. Addison- Wesley, $11.95. This textbook and accom- panying teacher's manual investigate the var- ied aspects of educational psychology within a framework of developmental psychology. The authors have made every effort to ex- pand the chapters where recent develop- ments have changed the field. Lee A. Jacobus '57, Suiitien Apfirehension: Aspects of Knowledge in Paradise Lost, Mouton, $26.60. This critical examination of the uses of knowledge, from the knowledge of self to the knowledge of God, in Paradise Lost, ar- gues that Milton's attitudes toward sensory perception and judgment and the ultimate knowledge which results from such percep- tions are surprisingly Aristotelian. Marcia Sewall '57, illustrator. Come Again in the Spring, by Richard Kennedy, Harper & Row, $4.95. A children's book for ages six and up that tells the quiet story of Old Hark and Death, and how the old man's concern for the birds he feeds saves his life. Death comes for him, but Old Hark is not ready to go, and asks for a reprieve with the words, "Come again in the spring." Marcia Sewall's illustrations in black and white complement the tone of the writing. Stuart Levine '58 Ph.D. and Susan Levine, eds.. The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe, Bobbs-Merrill, $9.95. This volume brings together all the information needed to un- derstand Poe's stories. It puts Poe into the full context of the reading public of his time, by providing the information on the appear- ance of each work; seen in the context in which they were first published, his works seem less exotic. Great care has been taken to clear up errors in the facts of Poe's life, and to select the texts that best represent Poe's own reworking of his stories. Classical allusions are explained for those whose backgrounds are more scientific than literar\'. Lois Hammersberg Lowry '58, A Summer to Die, Houghton Mifflin, $6.95. Lowry's first book for children. Thirteen-year-old Meg envies her older sister's beauty and popular- ity. Her feelings don't make it any easier for her to cope with Molly's strange illness and eventual death. Lew Cady '59, Beer Can Collecting, Gros- set & Dunlap. A book for the man more in- terested in the can than the contents. Every- thing you need to know to be a collector . . . even the trading values of over 200 cans. For the boys who can pack it in and pack it home. Victor Strandberg '59 A.M. '62 Ph.D., Tlie Poetic Vision of Robert Penn Warren, Uni- versity of Kentucky Press, $9.95. The bril- liant, profound, and earthy poems of Warren are now receiving deserved acclaim after a long period of neglect and misunderstand- ing. Strandberg elucidates the development of Warren's three basic themes: passage, the undiscovered self, and mysticism. His treat- ment of Warren's expressed critical precepts further explicates the poet's own arHshc in- tentions and his critics' mixed responses. Alfred Turco, Jr. '62, Shaw's Moral Vi- sion: TlwSclfand Sah'ation, Cornell University Press, $13.50. Shaw's literary and dramatic works are analyzed to show the intellectual coherence of Shaw's commitment to achiev- ing a vision of the self that would help indi- viduals and society to attain salvation in the modern world. The ways in which Shaw re- sponded to his own deepening awareness and to political pressures shows through and enlightens his literary art. Karen Helder DeVos 63 MAT., A Woman's Worth & Work: A Christian Perspec- ti-oe. Baker Books, $2.95. Intended to help clarify the goals of feminism, the book relates feminism and the teachings of the Bible to questions concerning men's and women's talents. 53 received his master's degree from Cambridge University', Cambridge, England, where he also served as captain of the college's water polo team. He's now attending the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Fi- nance in Philadelphia. Dr. Philip H. Russi'll, a graduate of the University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine, has established a practice in Man- chester, Vt. Dr. Russell recently received a citation from the American Academy of Periodontology. Gregory C. Schuvirtz is living in Durham, N.C., where he is an M.D. and Ph.D. candi- date at Duke University. Pamela Silverman and Mark Whittakeii VJhalen were married July 29 in Farmington, Conn., with lill Silverman '75ser\'ing as maid of honor for her sister. The father of the bride is Dr. Robert E. Silverman '46. Pam and Mark are living in Durham, N.C. Mark is enrolled in the M.B.A. program at Duke, where he has been awarded a fellowship, and Pam is attending the Duke Law School. Gary Valeria is manager of food services at Bryant College, Sniithfield, R.l. The former Brown football plaver was among those in charge of feeding the New England Patriots football players when that NFL club trained at Brvant last summer. ^^ Dirk Q. Allen has been named / / editor of the Fairfield Sun, an ll,0()0-circulation weekly in Fairfield, Ohio. He had served as chief reporter for the Sh" since its inception last April. Prior to that he had been citv reporter for the Fairfield Echo. "Writing has gotten into my blood," says the two-time BDH sports editor. lim Beckir writes that he has started a new business that is unconnected with his major in bio-engineering. He is now a vice president and a founding member of the In- tervale Publishing Co., Meredith, N.H. In- tervale has just published a book of cartoons entitled Mel-Praclice In New Hampshire, a car- toonist's view of Gov. Meklrim Thomson by D. B Johnson. Says Jim: "1 must sav that due to Brown's diverse curriculum that allows engineers the freedom to take humanities courses, I didn't feel quite as much out of my element (as a publisher) as I expected." Susan Maureen Casey was married re- cently to Dr. Matthew Lipsett. The ceremony was performed bv her father's classmate. The Kev. Henry Boiren '51. Bridesmaids included /(Kill Haffenreffer and Laurie Talanian. Doug Blow was the soloist. Guests included EU'ward Bracket! '14 and his wife, Vieckla Jones Brackett '13, Innng Magui '38, and Stei'en Butcher '50. The couple is living at 1022 Camelot Dr., College Park, Ga. 30349. Philip DeUin has earned his M.S. in en- gineering at Stanford University and is now working for Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, N.J. lonathon Gi/cn/ is a truck driver in Chicago for Rainbow Bakeries. Harry Hoberman has "moved west" to Eugene, Oreg., where he has started a Ph.D. program in clinical psychology at the Uni- versity of Oregon. His address: 835 E. 25th St., Eugene 97405. Timothy Carlson Morse and Karyn M. Zabel were married June 24. Timothy is a design engineer with Centronics, of Hudson, N.H. 34 David N. Neusner served as a summer law clerk with the Rhode Island Attorney General's office. Providence. He is a second-year law student at Boston Univer- sity School of Law. Nancy Osman and Peter Korda (see '76) were married on August 27. The bridesmaids included Shelly Kessler '76 and Susim Pelch, and the ushers included Robert Day '7b. Nancy is a second-year graduate student in psychology at Princeton. They live at 402 Lawrence Apt., Princeton 08540. Elaine Mary Perkins and James P. Bird were married last summer and are living in Scranton, Pa. Ann M. nomas and Dick Bulterman (see '75) were married Sept. 23 at Manning Chapel and are living in Barrington, R.I. Ann is a technical writer in Brown's Computer Center. ^O Mardges Bacon (Ph.D.) is assistant / O professor of fine arts and American studies at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. Dorcns Anne Baker is a financial assistant to the executive director of the \ WCA of Greater Rhode Island In Central Falls. William C. Barneri is a programmer' designer engineer at Instron Corp., Canton, Mass. Richard ]. Bauerfeld is a "youth staffer" of the Lutheran Church in America, New York City. Guy Viomas Bernstein is a student at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Amy S. Briskin is an assistant in the pub- licit)' department at The Dial Press, New York Cit>'. Al Caco22a is a research assistant in health policy at the Urban Institute, Wash- ington, D.C. Salvatore Cappelletti is an assistant profes- sor of Romance languages and literature at Boston College. Mark /. Degennaro is attending the Uni- versity' of Delaware Law School. Irene H. Facha is a law student at Case Western Reserve in Cleveland. She plans to do some interviewing of prospective Brown students this year. Edward P. Frazce, head class agent, de- serves our thanks for his efforts in seeing to it that the class participated in giving to Brown last year in greater numbers than the other classes in our peer group. Mary Friar is a research assistant at Miriam Hospital, Providence. Karen E. Grassmuck is a college represen- tative for McGraw-Hill Book Co., Manches- ter, Mo. Tom Hassan is working as a member of the Brown admissions staff. Debra Kantorowitz and Richard Leff (see '76) were married May 28 in Providence, where they now live. Debra is an adminis- trative assistant with Herbert L. Emers, Inc. Attendants were jo Ann Kantorowitz '79 GS; Beth Ann Herman, the daughter of Bernard Herman '45; Richard Greenberg '76; and An- tliony Green '76. Richard Katzman is vice president of Kaz, Inc., New York Citv. William Lichtenstein is a graduate student at Columbia School of Journalism. Charles B. MacFarlaud and Jane Howe were married in August and are making their home in Freeport, L.I. Sanniet M. Mencoff is a credit analyst with Industrial National Bank, Providence. D@aftk Ruth Batchelder SturgiU '00, Frankfort, Ky., former teacher in the West Warwick (R.l.) School System and later active in the Kentucky Federation of Women's Clubs; in February 1969. Delta Sigma. Survivors in- clude a daughter, Audrey Sturgill Martin, Louisville Rd., Frankfort. Sheldon Jenckes Howe '08, Deerfield, Mass., history teacher at Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, Mass. , for thirt\-five years prior to his retirement in 1965; Aug. 27. Mr. Howe earned a master's degree in history at Har- vard in 1910, served in France with the 301st Infantry during World War I, and after the armistice, was attached to the intelligence section and participated in the peace confer- ence. After serving as a member of the Princeton faculty for a decade, Mr. Howe moved to Deerfield, where his classroom lec- tures, highlighted by amusing anecdotes and personal experiences, were always alive with the spirit of American history. He and his wife were deeply involved with restorahon work in the town of Deerfield. Survivors in- clude his wife, Margery, Old Rd., Deerfield 01342; sons John and Nicholas; and a daugh- ter, Elizabeth Howe Verrill '53. Samuel Church Wardwell '08, Bristol, R. 1., former owner of Samuel C. Wardwell Boat Yard in Bristol; Sept. 12. Phi Gamma Delta. Survivors include his wife, Edith, 843 Hope St., Bristol 02809. Keiweth Lloyd Butler '09, Union City, Calif., former manager of Pan-American Wallpaper & Paint Co., Oakland; July 14. Phi Delta Theta. Survivors are not known. Warren Randolph Burgess '12 (A.B. and A.M.), Washington, D.C, a former Under- secretary of the Treasury and U.S. Ambas- sador to the North Atlanhc Treaty Organiza- tion and a trustee and Fellow of the Univer- sity; Sept. 16. Ambassador Burgess was a statistician by training and a banker and economist by profession. During World War I, he became chief of the statistics branch of the War Department, retiring from the Army with the rank of major. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1920, the same year in which he joined the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He joined the National City Bank of New York in 1938, becoming chairman of the bank's executive committee Mr. Burgess was president of the New York State Bankers Associarion in 1940-41 and president of the American Bankers Association in 1944-45. He went to Washington in 1953 and played a prominent part in formulating the nation's foreign and domestic economic and fiscal policies in the early years of the Eisenhower Administration. In 1957, having served four years at the Treasury, Mr. Burgess was named ambassador to NATO and U.S. rep- resentative to the Organization for European Economic Cooperation. Retiring to private life in 1961, Mr. Burgess was a founder and chairman of the Atlantic Council, a foreign- policy study group, and remained active in it until shortly before his death. He was a trus- tee at Brown from 1933 to 1937 and a member of the Board of Fellows from 1937 until his resignation in 1969. He was a member of the 1936 committee that selected Henry M. Wris- ton as Brown's president. Mr. Burgess served on the Housing Board in 1948-49 and was awarded an honorary LL.D. by the Uni- versity in 1937. Delta Upsilon. Survivors in- clude his wife, Helen, 1248 30th St. NW, Washington 20007; and two sons, Leonard '42 and Julian '43. Sister Mildred Mary McDmtt '18, Wor- cester, Mass., a Catholic nun who at one time taught at Emmanuel College, Boston; Aug. 30. Sister McDevitt left Brown after one year, received her degree from Trinity College, Washington, D.C., and took her A.M. in 1926 from Emmanuel College and her Ph.D. in 1934 at Boston College. There are no im- mediate survivors. Everett Alleji Wight '19, Wilmington, Del., an assistant in the film department of The DuPont Co., Wilmington, prior to his retirement in 1966; Aug. 22. Mr. Wight was a World War I Army veteran. Phi Sigma Kappa. Survivors include two sisters, Esther and Marion Wight, both of Worcester, Mass. Mary Wilbur Cushnmn '21, West Hart- ford, Conn., French teacher and dean of girls at Hall High School, West Hartford, from 1930 until her retirement in 1964; Sept. 21. Miss Cushman earned her master's at Teachers College, Columbia University, in 1932. At Hall High she established the first chapter of the American Field Service. In 1955, the West Hartford Exchange Club pre- sented her with a Golden Deeds Award for "going above and beyond her service to youth." There are no immediate survivors. Wernerl Jacques Schuler "11, Erie, Pa., re- tired vice president and sales manager of Lovell Mfg. Co., Erie; Aug. 8. Sigma Chi. Survivors include his wife, Virginia, 3916 Montrose Ave., Erie 16505; and two sons, Jacques and Henry. Robert Parker Adams '23, Marblehead, Mass., retired co-owner of the Metropolitan Optical Co., Boston; Aug. 30. His father was Charles Adams 1880. Alpha Delta Phi. Sur- vivors include his wife, Lydia, 17 Birch St., Marblehead 01945; a son, Robert; and two daughters, Elizabeth and Lydia. Alvcrda Sammis Beck '27, '31 A.M., Rum- ford, R.I., cataloguer at the John Hay Library from 1946 to 1953 and again from 1962 to 1971 and at Kenyon College from 1953 to 1962; Sept. 16. Mrs. Beck was a student assistant at the John Hay from 1924 to 1927. In 1932 she edited The Letter Book of Esek Hopkins, pub- lished by the Rhode Island Historical Society. Her mother was the late Grace' Page Sammis '99, her father was the late George Lewis Sanniiis '96, and her brother was the late C/;/- ford W. Sammis '33. Survivors include a son, Maj. Allen Beck, USAF, and a daughter, Bar- bara Beck Diaz, 6 Sutcliffe Ctr., Rumford 02916. Frederick Lloyd Young '28, Austin, Minn., retired owner of S.L. Young & Sons Transfer & Storage; July 24. Mr. Young is survived by his wife, Pruda Armington Moulton Young '27, Rt. #2, Box 185, Austin 55912; and four daughters and a son. James Angus Thurrott '31, Mount Kisco, N.Y., retired advertising manager for the McCall Corporation in Philadelphia and New York City and, in 1960, national chairman of the Brown University Fund; Aug. 7. Mr. Thurrott was also employed by Textron as assistant to the president. In recent years, he owned Baldwin & Co., a New Canaan, Conn., real estate firm. Mr. Thurrott was a former director-at-large of the Associated Alumni. During World War II, he served as an Army cavalry officer. Alpha Delta Phi. Survivors include three sons, Angus, of South St., Washington, Conn. 06793, James, and Bruce; and two daughters, Susan and Harriet. Edna Sunderland Bellin '33, Cranston, R.I., a former president of Komians, the alumnae drama society; Sept. 8. Mrs. Bellin was a member of The Players of Providence for more than forty years. Survivors include her husband. Col. Robinson O. Bellin '32, USA (Ret.), 26 Fairview Ave., Cranston 02905; and a daughter, Barbara. Harry Dresser Deutschhein '33, Naples, Fla., former president of Deutschbein & Co., New York City; July 7. Mr. Deutschbein served in the Navy during World War II and the Korean War, retiring with the rank of lieutenant commander. He then attended the Ruskin School of Art at Oxford University, did further study in Spain, and became a self-employed artist in Florida. Survivors in- clude his wife, Mary Evelyn, 586 Galleon Dr., Naples 33940; and one stepdaughter. Olivia Ruffner '33, Shillington, Pa., re- tired school psychologist in the Muhlenberg Township School District; Aug. 14. Miss Ruffner earned her M.S. in guidance from the University of Pennsylvania in 1950. There are no known survivors. Clifford Wilson Sammis '33, Stuart, Fla., vice president of the Frani Corp., East Provi- dence, for thirty-four years; Sept. 15. His mother was the late Grace Page Sammis '99, his father was the late George L. Sammis '96, and his sister was the late Alverda Sannnis Beck '27. Survivors include his wife, Gloria, 128 Everglades Blvd., Stuart 31405; and two daughters, Virginia and Carolyn. Sonia Brown Swanson '45, East Amherst, N.Y., a rehabilitation counselor for the New York State Office of Vocational Rehabilita- tion, Buffalo, and a former president of the Pembroke Club of Buffalo; Oct. 8. Mrs. Swanson was state secretary for the New York State National Organization for Wom- en, was a former president of the Buffalo Chapter and the Suburban Chapter of NOW, and was a member of its national nominating committee. At one time Mrs. Swanson was executive secretary of the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System. Her father was the late Fred G. Brown '21 and her uncles were the late Warren W. Brown '21 and the late Ben Clough, professor emeritus of classics. Sur- vivors include three daughters, Hedwig Swanson Neale, with whom she lived at 4 Robin Rd., East Amherst 14228; and Robin and Elizabeth. lohn Mulloney '49, Marblehead, Mass., vice president and general manager of Bicknell & Fuller in Peabody, Mass.; Sept. 9. Mr. Mulloney served as a staff sergeant in the Army during World War II. Survivors include his wife, Jeanne, 16 Knight Ave., Marblehead 01945; three sons, Brian, Wil- liam, and Matthew, and a daughter, Winifred. Raymoiul Wallace Roberts '49, Smithfield, R.I., owner of his own shop where he built and raced midget cars; Sept. 15, while watch- ing his son make a solo flight at Rhode Is- land's Green Airport. Survivors include his wife, on Farnum Pike, Smithfield 02917. Joan MerrdI Prince '50, Grand Rapids. Mich., executive medical secretary of the Grand Rapids Osteopathic Hospital; July 15. Mrs. Prince had been president of the Stu- dent Government Association while at Pembroke. Survivors include her mother, Margaret H. Merrill, 2161 Leonard NW, Grand Rapids 49504. Charles Samdperil '51, Cranston, R.I., a practicing attorney in Providence who for the past seven years had been president of Van- guard Metals, Inc., and Vanguard Innovative Metals, Ltd., both of North Attleboro; Oct. 7. Mr. Samdperil was a 1954 graduate of Boston University Law School and was an Armv veteran. Survivors include his wife, Ann, 238 Summit Dr., Cranston 02910. Robert loseph Macko '52, Worcester, Mass., English instructor at Worcester Academy for thirty- two years and a former chairman of the department; Aug. 27. Mr. Macko was head track coach at the Academy and served for many years as assistant foot- ball coach, part of that time under his classmate, John Pictro '52. At Brown, Mr. Macko received the 1910 football trophy, an award voted to the player with the highest cumulative academic average. He served in the Air Force from 1952 to 1956. Phi Delta Theta. Survivors include his wife, Janet, 81 Providence St., Worcester 01604; and two daughters, Christina and Katrina. Richard Harvey Faulkner '55, West Willington, Conn., president of Management Matters, Ashford, Conn.; Sept. 22. Mr. Faulkner joined Connecticut Mutual in 1958 and in 1964, at age 32, became the youngest person to serve as a corporate officer in the firm's history. He served in the Navy for three years. In Ashford Mr. Faulkner was chairman of the board of education. Sur- vivors include his wife, Paula, Box 172, West Wellington 06279; and four children, Judy, Nancy, Peter, and David. 55 Rebuilding the walls of Jericho Pembroke is long dead. The walls of Jericho that used to separate the sexes on campus ha\'e tumbled down so far that it's hard to remember the\ ever existed; you have to look long and hard now to find something as anachronistic as an all-female dorm at Brown. But out of the ashes of the cloistered feminine atmosphere that was Pem- broke has risen, phoenix-like. Brown's first resident sorority. Well, almost. It's not officially a sorority yet, it doesn't have residential status, and it's not really the first (there were a half-dozen on campus around the turn of the century). But by next year Brown ma\' be the fourth Ivy school with female Greeks on campus — Cornell, Pennsylvania, and Dart- mouth, that former bastion of hard-drinking backwoods masculinity, being the others. Ironically, the idea for a sororit\' at Brown came from a fraternity member. According to Dianne Lee '80, one of the fifteen women working to organize it, "A guy I know in Sigma Chi said to me, 'Let's see what kind of interest there is for a sorority at Brown,' and I said, 'Yeah, that sounds like something we should at least find out about.' So we started putting up posters and calling meetings. " Out of those meet- ings last spring grew a core group of women who were committed to the idea and who began exploring the possibil- ity of affiliating themselves with a national sorority. Nancy Goodick '80, another member of (he group, said, "We ini- tially made the decision that we wanted nationals just be- cause we thought nationals had a lot more to offer to help us get established." The next problem — the current problem — is deciding, out of the fifteen sororities that answered their inquiries, which they want to join. It's a little like a sorority rush on a grand scale. They eliminated eight in the first round on the basis of regional character or reputation: Joan Munvcs '80 said, "Some had started in the South and tried to keep up a tradition of Southern belles. Nothing against Southen belles, but we wanted something that was going to let us be a very varied group — large and diverse and not elite." The remain- ing seven were invitecl to come to campus this fall and give their presentations. Apparently, establishing a chapter at an Ivy school is considered quite a coup for a national sorority. Joan said, "Brown's a pretty important universit\' nowadays — it's getting more and more popular around the country." Nancy concurred: "They say the\'d have to approve of us, but I think they'd all love to get here. " By December, they expected to have met with all seven and to have voted on which one (if any) thev wanted to affiliate with. "I think it's going to be a really tough deci- sion," Joan said. "I think there's a lot of split opinion already on just the four that we've seen so far. Unless there's one that comes and just overwhelms us all, we're really going to have problems. It might be like the voting on the Pope — we'll be sitting in there, sending out white and black smoke all day." "We'll invite the one that we find right, that we think 56 will fit in at Brown with the help of fifteen girls, and then in- vite all the girls on campus to join," Nancy said. Assuming they get clearance from the dean of students and from the Corporation (which no one expected to be a problem), they hope to establish themselves in on-campus housing (which they did expect to be a problem — so far the housing office hasn't made any promises). "We'd like housing; we think the group would work much better if it were closer together, but we're not going to let that stop us if we don't get it," Nancy said. Joan pointed out that "in the meantime we could cluster in a dorm, or there are a lot of schools that don't have soror- ity houses — the girls have a central meeting hall. RealK', this year we've become fairly close, and we didn't know each other before this; it's already tied us together in a way." For the women involved, the sorority fills a void in campus life, although, as Joan observed, "Everybody has their own personal feelings about why they want to do it. For me, it'll be an opportunity to live with a group of females that I either don't know or I want to get along with, and to work for goals and different kinds of things together as a group. I don't have much time left at Brown, and this year has really gotten me-close with these girls now, and hopefully next year even closer. I think it's an opportunity for everyone to expand and grow in a group as well as within the University." "You don't see large groups of females coming into Brown and remaining close friends all the way through," Nancy said. "If there are forty girls in a sorority house, I know there's going to be someone there that I can go cry to if I just flunked an exam. In my dorm, I don't know that many well enough that I can feel comfortable doing something like that. I also think that socially the Universit)' is male- dominated; girls don't get tt)gether in groups to do things, except for athletics." Joan foresaw the sorority as a social cen- ter for the campus in the same way that fraternities are now — "open to the campus, even though not everybody wants to join. I see the sorority being that even more than the fraternihes." As you might expect at a University where sororities haven't existed for almost seventy years, and where the Greek presence on campus is no longer a powerful one, not everyone finds the idea congenial. "Some people just don't think it's something Brown needs," Nancy said. "They worry what type of group we want to become." "I think it's mostly from other women, more than anyone else," Dianne said. "TTiey're afraid that we're going to be elitist." But they're bending over backwards not to be; Joan asserted, "We really want to keep it open, we don't want to close it off. Also, they're afraid of a Greek society growing here, and I always try to tell people I don't think there's room for that at Brown. If another group of girls wants to start their own, we've already said we'd be more than willing to help them get started. But I don't think the way Brown is nowadays, and with the type of people that come here, thatit'd ever be a Greek society." Essentially, they see the sorority as one option among many at Brown. "I can't see any objection to a group wanting to form themselves on campus — any kind of group — be- cause this is one thing that Brown really offers and even pushes, that they want people to start their own groups and do what they want to do," Joan said. "It's very much Brown for a group of girls to want to start a sororit)." J.P. I r-