\OHH F. BARRY, JR. Alumni Travel Program 1979-1980 This travel program is a special one for alumni of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia. M.I.T., Brown, Dartmouth, Univ. of Penn- sylvania and certain other distinguished univer- sities and for members of their families. Designed for educated and intelligent travelers, it is planned for persons who might normally prefer to travel independently, visiting distant lands and regions where it is advantageous to travel as a group. The programs avoid the excessive regimentation normally associated with group travel, and are planned to include generous amounts of leisure time in the course of travel to allow for individual interests. 1979 represents the 15th year for the program. Additional new itineraries are in the planning stage as well, including the Galapagos, southern India, the People's Republic of China and other REALMS OF ANTIQUITY. Journeys into the past to explore the history and civilization of the ancient world. One itinerary of 17 days — yALLEY OF THE NILE— often a comprehensive and authoritative survey of ancient Egypt. Start- ing with the British Museum and the Rosetta Stone, it visits the great monuments of ancient Egypt stretching along the Nile Valley from Memphis and Cairo to Abu Simbel near the border of the Sudan, including a cruise on the Nile from Luxor to Aswan. A second itinerary— /IfGf/lN ADVENTURE— covets the archeological treasures of classical antiquity in the lands of the Aegean in a journey of 23 days. It in- cludes not only the historic sites of ancient Greece but also a rare view of ancient cities in Asia Minor, including the ruins of Troy, and in addi- tion includes a cruise through the Aegean to Crete and other Aegean isles. A third itinerary — the MEDITERRANEAN ODYSSEY— is a 22-day journey which follows the spread of classical antiquity into the western Mediterranean: the splendid ruins of the classical Greek cities of Sicily, the historic ruins of Carthage, ancient Roman cities in North Africa, and the fortress cities of •,;..; medieval Crusaders on the rocky isle of Malta. EAST AFRICA: A distinctive program of safaris, ranging in length f.'om 16 to 32 days, to the great game-viewing areas of Kenya and Tan- zania and to the beautiful islands of the Seychelles. Led by experts on East African wildlife, the itineraries are carefully planned and comprehensive, offering an unusually complete opportunity to see and photograph the wildlife of Africa. THE SOUTH PACIFIC and EXPEDI TION TO NEW GUINEA: The island conti- nent of Australia and the islands of New Zealand are covered by the SOUTH PACIFIC, 28 days, unfolding a world of Maori villages, boiling geysers, fiords and snow-capped mountains, ski plane flights over glacier snows, jet boat rides, sheep ranches, penguins, the Australian "Out- back," historic convict settlements and the Great Barrier Reef. The primitive and beautiful world lying slightly to the north is seen in the 24-day EXPEDITION TO NEtf GUINEA, a rare glimpse into a vanishing world of Stone Age tribes and customs. Includes the famous Highlands of New Guinea, with Sing Sings and tribal cultural per- formances, and the remote villages of the Sepik River and the vast Sepik Plain, as well as the North Coast at Madang and Wewak and the beautiful volcanic island of New Britain. For both tours, optional post-tour visits can be made to other islands of the southern Pacific, such as Fiji and Tahiti. CENTRAL ASIA AND THE HIMA- LAYAS: A choice of 23 or 29-day itineraries ex- ploring the vast historic and cultural heritage of India, the untamed Northwest Frontier region of Pakistan and the remote mountain kingdom of Nepal. Includes the famed Khyber Pass, impos- ing Moghul forts, sculptured temples, lavish palaces, formal gardens, the teeming banks of the Ganges, snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas along the roof of the world, picturesque cities and villages, the splendor of the Taj Mahal, and hotels which once were palaces of maharajas. THE FAR EAST: Two itineraries which of- fer a fascinating insight into the lands and islands of the East. THE ORIENT, 29 days, is a classic tour of ancient and modern Japan, with special emphasis on the cultural treasures of Kyoto, and includes as well the important cities of Southeast Asia, from Singapore and Hong Kong to the temples and palaces of Bangkok and the island of Bah. A different and unusual perspective is of- fered in BEYOND THE JAVA SEA. 34 days, a journey through the tropics of the Far East from Manila and the island fortress of Corregidor to headhunter villages in the jungle of Borneo, the ancient civilizations of Ceylon, Batak tribal villages in Sumatra, the tropical island of Penang, and ancient temples in Java and Bali. SOUTH AMERICA: An unusually com- prehensive 28-day journey through the vast con- tinent of South America, with dazzling pre- Columbian gold, ornate colonial churches and palaces, the ruins of the ancient Inca civilization, snow-capped peaks of the Andes, famed Iguassu Falls, the futuristic city of Brasilia, and other sights. Optional post-tour extensions are available to Manaus, in the heart of the jungle of the Amazon, and to Panama. Prices range from $2,215 to $4,175 from U.S. points of departure. Air travel is on regularly scheduled flights of major airlines, utilizing reduced fares which save as much as $600.00 and more over normal fares. Fully descriptive brochures are available, setting forth the itineraries in detail and listing departure dates, hotels, tour rates, and other information. For full details contact: ALUMNI FLIGHTS ABROAD Dept. BAMl White Plains Plaza One North Broadway White Plains, New York 10601 ^n,^WV\/ Ik Li Alumni Monthly May 1979, Vol. 79, No. 8 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. ® 1979 by Bwwn Alumm Monthly Published monthly, except January, )uly, and August, by Brown University, Providence, R.I Planted by The Lane Press, Burlington, Vt Editonal offices are in Nicholson House, 71 GeorgeSt.. Providence, R.I- 02906. Member, Council for Advancement and Support of Educahon The Mcrtthlv is sent to all Brown alumni. Please allow eight weeks for changeS'Of-address. page 18 In this issue 18 Chariie Watts's Brown: 'It Feels Like a Whole Place' You remember Chariie Watts? Former dean of the College at Brown and professor of English from 1953 to 1962, president of Bucknell for twelve years, and sometime farmer in Freedom, N.H.? Well, Charlie is back on the Hill. He'll be leading Brown's capital campaign drive. 24 Ford Ebner's Turtles: Help for Stroke Victims How researchers in biology and theoretical physicists (and engineers and psychologists and linguists, etc.) join forces at Brown's Center for Neural Sciences to explore the inner regions of man. 28 The Murky World of Surveillance An unexpurgated — by us — look into the FBI files on Brown Uni- versity. 36 'This Was a Play I'd Wanted to See for a Long Time' — Behind the Scenes at Production Workshop After spending some time in London last summer, sophomore Cor- don Bean was moved to weave Paul McCartney's songs with medita- tions on modern London. The result? His own musical called London Tcmm. Departments 2 Carrying the Mail 6 Point of View 8 Under the Elms 12 Sports 40 College Hill Journal 42 The Classes 48 Profile: Richard Verney '68 52 Deaths 56 On Stage page 36 Cover illustration by Barbara Glazer 79. Back cover: This pen and ink drawing, made by postdoctoral felloio Terry Walsh, shoivs the distribution of pyramidal (those stretching from the base to the top) and stellate neurons in the cerebral cortex of an opossum. It was made dy dipping a section of tissue into a solution of silver nitrate (see article on page 24). V^iiiA. incomparabte ALL 3 are YOUNG RESORTS. ■^ J_. WARREN^y VERMONT A resort (or all seasons John Gardiner Tennis Clinics. 16 tennis courts. Robert Trent Jones IShole championship course. Sauna, heated outdoor pool, riding, skiing cross country skiing. Inclusive Plans (or all sports and family. Tel. 802-583-230 1. if«V^' '■i^ -rg^ ^^ CX;H0 RIOS T^^T JAMAICA. Wl A luxurious way to escape True colonial at- mosphere. Impeccable Jamaican service: 120 dedicated staff for 130 guests Cuisine to exacting standards Two beaches, tennis, golf and all water sports. CDLDNVS'CLUB AT SOMERSET BRIDGE: • BERrvlUDA The charm and elegance of an unique Ber- mudian cottage colony. Golf and tennis at their very best. Exquisite cuisine and memorable service to round out the fmest Bermuda has to offer. See your travel agent or . David B. Mitchell. 777 Third Ave., N.Y. 10017 (212)371-1323 MginU RASP Editor: As one who has been a long suf- fering minority for many years, I was particu- larly pleased to note that our younger gen- eration of Brown people has done something about it! Most of us in older classes did not have the courage to venture forth and band together. We had to wait until 1976 for a few courageous individuals to form RASP. It is, however, disappointing to learn that since its inception RASP has failed to recognize a minority within a minority. I strongly urge that a chapter of RASP be es- tablished and known as RASPELHO (Red- heads Are Special People, Especially Left- Handed Ones). Can you imagine how it feels to receive a college education from a Univer- sity as prestigious as Brown, with all its tra- dition, and be told through ever)' lab course, "Hey, Red, you can't do it that way! Use your right hand, stupid."? Scientific equip- ment, among other things, is not made for us. So, three hurrahs for RASP and its rec- ognition of a long-neglected minority. May they soon recognize another. DONALD G. MANLY '52 Mahimh. N.]. Editor: In response to your March BAM article featured in "On Stage," I am writing to clarify the truth about the origin of RASP. As a redheaded sophomore, in the fall of 1970, I was involved in a "bull session" con- cerning the relation between race and I.Q. An argument was presented that a promi- nent California psychologist had, through a gamut of I.Q. tests, revealed that blacks dis- played the lowest scores overall. Some of the students present chose to form the easy gross generalization that these results supported the premise that blacks were indeed of an in- ferior race. (At this point, let me assure outraged humanists that the atmosphere of this dis- cussion was light and playfully reactionary to the overwhelmingly liberal attitudes preva- lent throughout the Brown community of the early 1970s.) I extrapolated the argument ad flbsKrdHm in stating that if intelligence may be mea- sured and based upon one's skin color, then redheads, being of the fairest complexion on earth (excluding albinos), are truly the most superior. I continued to expound that genet- icists have found no logical explanation for the presence of red hair. Anthropologists can easily explain the basic Darwinian reasons for the development of skin and hair grada- tions but they have no answer for the color red. Divinely inspired, I joined with my fel- low oarsman-redhead Mark Haffenreffer (also '73) in forming RASP (Redheads Are Superior People). With special RASP cam- paign T-shirts we spread the word to Brown redheads for three more years. Upon gradu- ation in '73, a voung redhead on the Brown women's rowing team vowed to keep the RASP movement alive on campus. I suppose that's where Cathy Golden '77 later came in and toned the name down to a more palata- ble "Redheads Are Special People." PETER H. FALK '73 New York City P.S. Founding Co-Chairmen Falkand Haffenreffer supplied some RASP positive thinking to help power the Bruins' eight-man |freshman| crew to its first national cham- pionship . . . Brown's first national cham- pionship since the ancient days of football's "Ironmen." Haffenreffer is now a surgeon relocating to Boston and Falk is an art gallery owner in New York City. Keeney and the CIA Editor: [Andrew E.| Anderson '53 is ab- solutely correct |Carr\'ing the Mail, BAM, March). I dread thinking of the embarrass- ment the U.S. would have suffered had our CIA failed to alert us to the Iranian situation before the collapse of the Shah. JO LEVINSON (parent) Greenwich, Conn. 'Neurotic agitators' Editor: Regarding divestiture (BAM, February) and subjects like black studies programs, nothing turns me off faster. In my opinion you are being jerked around by a bunch of militant know- nothings and their accomplices in the De- partment of Health, Ignorance and Welfare. When individuals are attending Brown, on grants or loans in many cases, and they attempt to dictate University policy, these ef- forts are blatant, political subversion. If these neurotic agitators lack the guts and intelligence to recognize that the United States and private universities such as Brown -vy to be awine expert Y-^. The language of Italian wines may be confusing. An expert must know all the words and designations that denote fine wines, now estabUshed by Italian law . . . the toughest wine laws in the world. For example : Only the best Soave is permitted to be labelled "Classico Superiore." The highest denomination Verdicchio is from the "Castelli di Jesi." The finest Chianti is called fv '-'Classico Riserva." The best Frascati '^ is "Superiore." These are a lot of words to remember. But there's an easier way. Just remember ;^, two words: Villa Banfi. M For sixty years, Villa Banfi has pioneered ^ and perfected Italian wines. Today, as vineyard owners and fine wine producers. Villa Banfi, U.S.A., imports the most popular I wines of Italy . . "Pure and Natural" wines . . . awarded only the highest classification by Italian law. As a resuh, we're the largest wine importer in the U.S.A. It's easy to become an expert and enjoy the finest wines at reasonable prices. Just remember to say - f "ViUa Banfi!' Villa Banfi, U.S.A. Farmingdale, NY. provide more opportunities and freedom than any place else in the world, they don't belong here. By both ignorance and design, federal bureaucrats are in the process of de- stroying private education. The continued freedom of South Africa and Rhodesia are necessary to the security of the United States. My student days at Brown were a re- warding, magnificent adventure. I hope that experience will be available to others who will respect it. FRANK HEFFERNAN '47 Aniin, Calif. Grammar lesson (continued) Editor: With regard to Mr. Chapman's objection [Carrying the Mail, BAM, March | to your use of "very unique": not so! "Very unique" is the standard short way of saying ^ Congenial Gathering Places for vacationing, wining and dining in Ivy League Country Getaway to Yesterday Visit the Inn in the Berkshircs with two centuries of tradition, and all the modem arnenities Live amidst antiques Savor lobster, homemade apple pie, potables from our tavern. Nomian Rockwell Museum close by. ^ The Red Lion Inn Since 177.1. Box IL-3. Siockbridge. Mas,s. 01262. (413) 298-5545 S^^/^//^ ^Jm^f. Z/(//^/^ <^/m/ffi/. Windermere is a relatively small resort located on a sparsely inhabited island with 5 miles of unsurpassed white sand beach. It has a wide variety of accommodations, all with ocean view. American Plan, Rooms at the club, 1 -Bedroom suites. European Plan, 2-Bedroom apartments, 2 to 5-Bedroom villas. For a folder or other information call or write to Miss )ane Baker WINDERMERE ISLAND CLUB 711 Third Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017 212-682-0646 "unique in several major respects," as op- posed to just "unique," which means "unique in at least one small way." Likewise, when we say one thing is "more unique" than another, we mean "unique in more (or more important) ways." This should be ob- vious to anyone on a moment's thought, but purists have always been sadly lacking in imaginahon. RALPH SIZER '64 Providence Playboy Editor: In your February issue, J. P. found the controversy about Plai/hoy's re- cruitment at Brown amusing. That lays the critics of that piece open to the charge of lack- ing a sense of humor. But at a hme when several rapes of Brown students have been reported and the University finds itself forced to provide its own shuttle sen'ice on the East Side to in- sure, to some extent, the safety of women students. Playboy and the view of women and sex that it, and the entire soft porn in- dustry, peddles is not terribly amusing. The piece in BAM is poor journalism; it makes no effort to understand the confro- versy. It just plays it for cheap laughs. If the BAM has research data, unavailable to the rest of us, that show that Pla\/hoy. and the in- dustry of which it is a part, have no effect on the continuing high incidence of violence on women, they should publish it. But I very' much doubt that you have such evidence. Without it, the callous treatment of the con- cern over violence to women is irresponsible. Maybe the next issue of BAM can print an amusing piece about lynchings or exter- mination camps. Keep 'em laughing, J. P. RICHARD SCHMITT Professor of Philosophy, Campus Well try. — Editor 'Jacob in the Lion's Den' Editor: In a vvell-mtentioned effort to capture the many facets of a complex charac- ter, your article on Jacob Neusner raised an important question about his pedagogy that inexplicably was glossed over. The arhcle described well the superb classroom experience that most often results from Professor Neusner's "duelling" with his students. Ms. Shore, however, then explored less desirable results of his parhcu- lar style of teaching. She first asked a gradu- ate student whether her concern that Neusner's method might be "somewhat devastating" was in any way valid. The graduate student made no effort to deny this charge, and even sought to defend such a situaHon as part of Neusner's approach. Course evaluations were quoted next by Ms. Shore which described Professor Neusner's pedagogy as "humiliating." Ms. Shore cites no reason to doubt the veracity of these de- scriptions. As a former student in two semi- nars taught by Professor Neusner, I can confirm that these less desirable situations did in fact occur. Construcfive criticism often crossed the fine line separafing it from humiliafion and, in effect, ended the "duel" between teacher and student. The under- graduate student in question occasionally lef the class in tears. In what ways are we to evaluate this in- congruous classroom situafion where an ed- ucator of exceptional skill can at times act in a destrucfive and insensifive manner? How dc we evaluate a pedagogy such as this? This is the issue that your article raised and then ig- nored. Until this question is answered, un- dergraduate students at Brown unfortu- nately will have to confinue to weigh the po- tentially painful costs of a course offered by Professor Neusner against its substantial and lasfing benefits. JACOB ASHER '78 Brookline, Mass. The admission process Editor: Regarding your great article on the Admission Office, I would like to have one matter corrected. On page 32, it states, "At that fime Mary Dunn and the Processing staff check every single letter," but only the accepted and wait list letters. We here in the Mail/File room check all the rejected and count out letters — and I am sure you are Vermont charm. Inn-side &out. Our warm, welcoming 10-ft. fireplace. Authentic Vermont patchwork quilts in your guest room. That, plus superb cuisine and every modern comfort, is what you'll find in our Inn. And outside, there's the covered bridge and picture postcard setting of our beautiful New England village, with golf, ten- nis, paddle tennis and skiing among the seasonal attractions. See your travel agent or call New York (212) 586-4459; Boston (617) 542-0202. V^^od^ock I nn WOODSTOCK, VERI^ONT A ROCKRESORT. (802) 457-1100. iware of the numbers involved. I would appreciate a correction in your lext issue due to the fact that my staff (Bev- erly Bibby, Theresa Point, Carol Pavao, Joan Vlurphy, Marie Armington, and Phyllis sJoyes) are all experts in the art of detail. ^Iso, all their work over the year is "fantas- tic." GERT SOITO Zampiis 77it' writer is supervisor of the mail and file iepartments of the Admission Office. — Editor 'Enthralled' Editor: Any Brown person who was within commuting distance of Miami and failed to matriculate for the February 24th Continuing College Seminar: "The Last Frontiers — Exploration of Space and Oceans" missed what surely would have been a red-letter day for any Brown gradu- ate. It was obvious that there had been much intelligent planning, beginning on the Brown campus with Brown University's Continuing College conception and implementation. The work of Assistant Vice President Sallie Riggs was outstanding and Brown was indeed for- tunate in having an on-site worker in the person of Bunny Meyer. Pembroke '46 can well be proud of such a member. Her work in organizing the program, getting a perfect balance between presentation and discus- sion, answering tons of questions as to how to get to the Miami Museum of Science, where the Seminar was held, and where to stay in Miami close to the Museum, and last if not least offering one of the most tasty and satisfying buffet luncheons |was all] one could wish. I sat (enthralled is not too strong a word) through the entire day and wrote for advice on books for one who foolishly took no courses in geology while at Brown. I left the Museum proud that Brown could graduate such men as Dr. Peter Rona — one member of the faculty [seminar) — and had such men as Thomas Mutch on its faculty to do the job. Mr. Mutch, professor of geology, was the second member of the fac- ulty. CLIFTON N. LOVENBERG '20 Cape Coral, Fla. Brown Fund phonothons Editor: A public comment on Brown Fund phonothons. Dr. Swearer and his predecessors have affirmed again and again that the Brown Fund is the University's top fund-raising priority. Phonothons have played an increas- ingly important part in helping the Brown Fund achieve its ever-higher goals. As we all know, Brown Fund dollars go a long way toward helping pay faculty and staff salaries and supporting those academic and other programs that make Brown the great institution it is. Yet in the last twenty phonothons 1 have attended in a twenty-four-month period, I do not recall the participation — or even mere presence — of a single member of Brown's administration, faculty, or athletic or support services staff. (Development Office personnel and those faculty members who are class of '67 and recruited by me ex- cepted.) Since we have been told that the Brown Fund is critical, I find it hard to believe ex- planations that these people "are making important contributions in other ways." So I pose a question: If YOU won't, why should we? PETER C. BEDARD '67 Proi'idencc The Chattertocks Editor: What possible reason did you have for omitting a picture of the original Chattertocks? Those Sharpe House girls founded a fine institution with values that have stood the test of time. Their costumes from the original gray flannels borrowed from the boys through a host of attractive and appropriate get-ups would all be fun to see. Please correct this omission. NANCY HARROLD THOMAS '55 Richmond, Va. No usable picture of the original Chattertocks wasavailable. We have asked Mrs. Viomas's help in providing one. — Editor Will you help? 01^ '^v;\<'\>^ >p^ ^• ?^^ V\s^!e^'^^ X)' \^ ^.^ t<^cSC^-^ what the article failed to point out was the necessity of raising $150,000 in less than 7 weeks in order to make this dream become a reality. We need your help. Chorus members are ac- tively involved in fundraising on campus. But without the support and generosity of alumni and fnends this incredible oppor- tunity may be lost. JOHN ROWE WORKMAN says "All alumni should be required to contnbute $5.00 to this tour." Yes, $5.00 will help. But it costs over $3000 for each student who participates. Won't you consider a larger donation? All contributions are tax deductible. ^^■^' '^^^ .i>y '# \^' Yes, I want to support the chorus tour to China Enclosed is my contribution. □ Donor ($1000 or more) □ Contributor ($500-1000) n Supporter (100-500) n Fnend ($50-100) n Booster ($25-50) □ Special John Rowe Workman Fundi ($5-25) □ Please include my name in your pre-tour concert program Mail to Brown University Chorus Music Department — Box 1924 Brown University Providence, Rl. 02912 City, State. Zip Please make checks out to Brown University Chorus Tour Fund ^ Brown University Chorus © F(Q)nimft By Jonathan D. Rogers '74 When the Broum Alumni Monthly arrives (not quite monthly), I, like most peo- ple, search first for news of classmates. Who married? What medical schools? Which law schools (or firms)? Travels where? And slowly, June by June, the 1974 section recedes further and further towards the beginning of "The Classes." I am getting older. I am sure none of this is unique. 1 am sure that the curiosity and the gossip in all of us are piqued by a new issue, new news about the people we once lived with or knew or saw. But now, for me, it all feels different somehow. As of today, I am unemployed. Honestly, I'm sure that isn't unique either. But it is certainly unsettling. 1 never really thought this would hap- pen. I wasn't brought up for it. And it certainly wasn't what Brown was bank- ing on when I got a diploma and became a promising statistic. Now comes the hard part: How did it happen? Well, the answer to that is rather complicated, somewhat sordid, and in all likelihood terriblv boring (un- less you happened to be in the middle of it all, in which case "boring" couldn't be further from the truth). Suffice it to say that, after working in the corporate offices of a broadcasting company, I de- cided I wanted to learn what broadcast- ing was really all about. I entered a management training program at a television station in Boston. But I did not learn what 1 had hoped to (and been led to expect I would) and the nine months of the program ended. (Or terminated, as I'm sure I will write on unemployment forms. Sounds like a disease.) Now, sitting here at home in Bos- ton, thoughts are running through my mind like crazy. One, of course, is how I'm going to live. But, mavbe surpris- inglv, that is not the biggie. 1 figure I can last for a while while I search, and if the Alive, but not quite well search outlasts whatever is in the bank, there is family to borrow from. (Regret- table, that, but an option nonetheless.) So I'll be idle and not rich. You can't have everything. Then there is the question of how to spend the days. My sister called about two weeks ago and asked me to meet her for a couple of days in New York. I told her of my schedule — that I had to be in Boston that Sunday — but could take Monday off, catch an early flight Tuesday, and be back in Boston in time for work. And then I realized that I wouldn't have to take Mondav off, or catch an early flight. I would be free to take as many days in New York as I wanted. "Free." Free from an imcomfortable situa- tion at work that had gotten pro- gressively worse as the "termination date" neared. But also "free" from good friends there and "free" from the ex- citement of helping to put together a dail\' news program so that no one watching at home would have any ink- ling of the chaos going on at the station. The transition from that to sitting around and doing nothing will be hard. I know that. But (I keep telling myselO I recentU' discov- ered a wonderful small museum in Bos- ton, there is a hell of a lot of reading that I've been putting off, and there will be job interviews and travel for them. I have visions of self-cliscipline dancing in mv head. Fine. I will be able to eat and pay the rent. I will be able to occupy myself productively enough that I won't go crazy after two and a half hours. And I will focus my attention on the goal of getting a job. So what is the something that continues to stick in my throat? Part of it is pride. I keep thinking of my friends — employed, all — who are into their careers and whose careers are into them. New offers and raises and assignments all the time. And then people ask me what I'm doing and I say "looking" and try to look reasonably happy. And then I say I'll be doing some freelance writing — but most people know that freelance means un- employed. As much as I try to shake it, as often as I tell myself that those feel- ings are sillv, I find myself afflicted by f self-imposed stigma. A friend, sensing some of this, sent me an essay by Joan Didion. It is called "On Self-Respect" and I dutifully read ii and thought about how kind my friend had been to care. Then I read the rest of the book, and came across something in another essay that meant even more. "That was the year," Didion wrote, "my twentv-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact ir- revocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and every procrastina- tion, every mistake, every word, all of it." 1 am in my twenty-eighth year also, and as 1 get older, it dawns on me: this is all for real. This is when I thought I would be well on my way to wherever it was I decided I wanted to go. And in- stead I find myself just approaching a new starting line, having just decided which race it is I want to enter. 1 wanted, at the very least, to be able to write a class note saying that "Jonathan Rogers is happily unem- ployed and living in Boston." But that's not quite the truth. How to Commemorate the of Brown Football: nkiwtnfor Ylcml Pa^oanf BROWN J>N SWE colliIgi Pas-a^ona ma wKipst— ';i 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 ofifice 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 Brown Alumni Monthly Brown University Box 1854 Providence, Rhode Island 02912 Please send me poster(s) commemorating the lUOth anniversary of Brown football at $7 each (includes postage and handling). Name_ Address. Citv _ State. .Zip. Make checks payable to Brown University. Allow three to four weeks for delivery. HJsadlciir Eta STUDENT LIFE: rStop studying and j start implementing' The quality of student life and stu- dent services at Brown has been re- viewed periodically over the last five years by various committees and or- ganizations — among them the Campus Planning Committee's quality of life subcommittee (1975), the Advisory Committee on University Planning's subcommittee on student services, ath- letics, and physical education (1976), and the consulting firm of Dober and Associates (1977). Numerous problems were identified and recommendations made, but for the most part, the reports languished or were forgotten. Then a Campus Student Life Committee, chaired by Dean of the Col- lege Walter Massey, was established last year to formulate a long-term plan for the residence halls, as recommended in 1974 by the Corporation's Committee on Plans and Resources. The Massey Committee quickly discovered that it was impossible to isolate dormitory life from the larger context of student serv- ices and programs, and it decided that outside consultation could provide the sort of objective perspective that Brown needed on its residential life. A visiting committee on residential services and student life was formed; chaired by William Gurowitz, vice president for campus affairs at Cornell, it also in- cluded Thomas Clark, associate director of the Institute for Academic Improve- ment at Memphis State University's Center for the Study of Higher Educa- tion; Janet Smith Dickerson, associate dean of the college at Swarthmore; Louise Kennedy, a student at Yale; and John Skewes, business manager at Dartmouth. Chairnw.n Gurowitz spent two days on campus in October iden- tifying target areas, and then the full committee met with involved students and administrators in a marathon three-day session in December. Their report, which was submitted in April and was scheduled to be made public early in May, is probably the most comprehensive document yet produced on the quality of student life at Brown, covering everything from housing to counseling services to ath- letics to food services in its thirty- nine pages. The committee identified numerous problem areas and came up with a list of forty specific recom- mendations, but the same theme is sounded repeatedly throughout the re- port: that student services at Brown have no coherent organizational struc- ture, and that as a result they suffer from "lack of coordination, poor com- munication, and duplication.'' In an- swering the central question that Dean Massey posed in his charge to the committee — "Does the quality of the environment and of student activities at Brown effectively complement and supplement the academic life of our students?" — the committee was forced to conclude, "Not very well." Among the committee's findings and recommendations, which will be presented in detail (along with reactions to the report) in the next BAM, are the following highlights: D The loyalty, dedication, and hard work of the staff at Brown is "out- standing," and the committee's recep- tion was uniformly "friendly and cooperative." But "a more rational stu- dent services organization structure and better coordination" of services are badly needed. D Student service offices should be responsible for formulating explicit mission statements, goals and objec- tives, and program budgets, and for conducting periodic self-evaluations. n A major administrative post. Associate Dean for Campus Life, should be created that would be under the dean of the College and would be responsible for the following areas: student activi- ties, residence life, food services, health services, chaplains, and securit\' serv- ices. D The Office of the Dean for Stu- dent Affairs/Student Activities should be disbanded. The positions of Dean for Undergraduate Counseling and Direc- tor of Student Activities should con- tinue, with the former being responsible for all non-academic counseling activi- ties, and the latter's role expanded to include non-residential programs as well as working with the recommended Program Council. The Program Council would be composed of representatives from all groups involved in dormitory program activities. D The housing program's opera- tional and programmatic functions (cur- rently divided between the Housing Office and Student Affairs/Student Ac- tivihes) should be integrated into a De- partment of Residential Life. D The University should assume more responsibility for "leadership and management" of the fraternities, to cut down on disciplinary problems. D A judicial system administrator should be appointed, and the judicial system should be revised to provide for a "broader range of penalties and rem- edies" and "better and more timely dis- ciplinary practices." n Brown's commitment to minor- ity education, already clearly stated, should be reviewed annually with a public report on progress — as a "regu- larly scheduled event, not one done in a crisis atmosphere." D An administrator should be ap- pointed by the dean of the College each year to serve as an ex-officio non-voting member of the Undergraduate Council of Students, to improve "communica- tion and information flow" between the UCS and the administration. □ Recreational and leisure space for students is severely limited and should be upgraded and expanded. Dean Massey concedes that many of the report's findings are quite critical of the quality of student life and services at Brown, but he considers the criticisms justified and such a report long over- due. And he predicted that "most of the recommendations will be implemented, if not in every detail." As the report it- self said, "Brown should stop studying and reporting and start implementing." /.P. ADMINISTRATION: 'A genuine and significant loss' After four years in University Hall and nine years on the faculty. Dean of the College Waiter Massey will be leav- ing Brown in July to direct the Argonne National Research Laboratory at the University of Chicago. The news came as no real surprise; Dean Massey's repu- tation as a distinguished scientist and educator and a dynamic administrator extend far beyond the Brown campus, as attested by his recent appointment to the National Science Board and his cita- tion (along with President Swearer) in Change magazine as one of the 100 "most respected emerging leaders in higher education." Opinion was unan- imous that the University was losing one of the most effective deans it's had in recent years — one who has had a real and lasting impact on the quality of life at Brown. In a letter to the Brown community. President Swearer wrote, "It is my un- happy responsibility to announce that Walter Massey, dean of the College and professor of physics, is leaving Brown University. In the fall. Dr. Massey will be assuming the directorship of the Ar- gonne National Laboratory in Illinois and will also be professor of physics at the University of Chicago. The Argonne Laboratory is one of the four major multi-purpose research facilities in America funded by the Department of Energy, and its work is crucial to the fu- ture of our country and the world. Wal- ter will face important challenges in his new position, and I am confident that he will master them with the same dedi- cation and brilliance he has demon- strated as a teacher, scholar, and admin- istrator at Brown. "During his four years as dean of the College, Walter Massey has accom- plished a great deal and has helped to make Brown a better place for all of us. He has given Brown a renewed sense of direction and commitment in such areas as curriculum development and un- dergraduate student services; and his personal example of fairness, concern for others, and warmth have made him a valued colleague." Walter Massey: "He has given Broivn a i:ca' scmsi' of direclwn m curriculum dei'elopmeni and undergraduate student services. Dean of Undergraduate Counseling Thomas Bechtel, who served as acting dean of the college in 1974-75 until Mas- sey was appointed, called his col- league's departure "a genuine and sig- nificant loss to Brown." He praised Massey's "solid administrative sense — an immediate perception of crittcal is- sues and of the dynamics of dealing with issues, and the personal strength to go ahead and get things done. He has clear convictions on educational mat- ters, and phenomenal personal energy and commitment. He's a real pleasure to work with." Among Massey's major ac- complishments as dean, Bechtel cites "building the strength of the office, in- cluding assuming responsibility for admissions, financial aid, and career development; effective work with the faculty on a creative approach to the curriculum; and taking a hard look at the organization and structure of the University, especially in student serv- ices." That Massey's departure would create a real gap, if not a crisis, was tacitly acknowledged in President Swearer's letter to the community; "I want to use this opportunity to assure you that The College will continue mov- ing in the direction in which Dean Mas- sey has guided it. ... I want to avoid the danger of losing momentum and, therefore, even though it is late in the academic year, I have decided to pro- ceed immediately with a national search for a new dean." ].P. STUDENTS: An invitation to China for the Brown Chorus The Brown Chorus, which in 1975 became the first American choral group to tour India, has accepted an invitation to become the first American college performing group to tour the People's Republic of China. The invitation came from the Chinese government, in con- junction with Friendship Ambassadors, a non-profit organization based in New York City that sponsors cultural and educational exchanges and which spon- sored the Chorus's tour of India. Forty-six members of the seventy- voice Chorus will fly to Romania on June 11 and then fly from Bucharest to Peking six days later for a concert there. After more than two weeks of touring and singing in such Chinese cities as Shenyang, Shanghai, and Kwanchow (Canton), the Brown party will return to Bucharest for several additional appear- ances before leaving for home on July 8. 10 Assistant Professor of Music William Ermey, director of the Chorus, called the invitation "a remarkable op- portunity for our students. It also af- fords them the opportunity to see an- other culture first-hand. Our experience in India was that the most incredible kind of personal growth occurs when one is exposed to the similarities and differences between peoples. We expect to have that experience once again." Ermey disclosed that Brown has been working on its own for more than a year to secure the Chinese invitation. He said that Senator Claiborne Pell had helped with letters to Chinese officials and other officials in Washington. The cost of the trip is estimated at $150,000, with the students and their parents covering about half of this amount. Efforts are now underway to secure donations from foundations, corporations. Brown Clubs, and indi- viduals. "We will attempt to learn some Reminder of an earlier tour: Tlie Chorus poses at the Taj Mahal during its 1975 Indian tour. music with Chinese texts before depart- ing," Ermey said. "We will be learning a completely new program, and we are looking forward to a marvelous edu- cational adventure." j.B. ALUMNI RELATIONS: 'Brown is worth working for' On his way back to Minneapolis after being interviewed for the position of director of alumni relations at Brown, Vincent ]. Bilotta kept thinking about something that Vice President for Uni- versity Relations Robert A. Reichley had told him; "Brown is worth working for." The more Bilotta thought about it the more he agreed, and in April Reichley announced that Bilotta, who has been executive director of the Uni- versity of Minnesota Alumni Associa- tion for the past three years, is ^he new director of Brown's award-winning alumni program. "Vince BUotta," Reichley said, "brings to Brown sixteen years' experience at the universities of Kansas and Minnesota. We believe his experience with successful programs in two larger universities wUl spur an even greater growth of alumni activities in fu- ture years as the Brown alumni organi- zation gets larger, more diversified, and is spread over a wider geographical part of the nation." BUotta, who assumed his new duhes in early April, will be supervising all of the activities of Brown's alumni program, which won the Council for Advancement and Support of Edu- cation's (CASE) grand award as the na- Hon's best alumni program in 1977. He assumes the leadership of a staff that includes Associate Directors Constance F. Evrard, who has the responsibility for sixty Brown Clubs and regional organi- zations throughout the country; Chris- tine S. Love '70, who works with alumni 11 class organizations and reunions; and David J. Zucconi '55, who directs the 2,900 volunteers involved in the Na- tional Alumni Schools Program. Alumni Relations Officer Ann Redding '72 is in charge of the student-alumni program. The advisory committee that con- ducted the six-month national search for a new director was headed by Dr. Sanford Udis '41, a University trustee and president of the Associated Alum- ni. Said Dr. Udis: "We reviewed and talked to many people during those six months, but I know my committee was most impressed from the start with Vince Bilotta's candidacy, his knowl- edge of the Brown program, and the ex- perience he has had in university envi- ronments somewhat different from Brown's." Vince Bilotta is a native of New Jer- sey and a 1957 graduate of the Univer- sity of Kansas. After teaching for several years, including a term at KU's William Allen White School of Journalism, Bilotta joined the University's Alumni Association in 1963 as field secretary. He was named associate director in 1971, a year before Kansas won the Alumni Achievement Award, the high- est award given by the American Alumni Council, a predecessor organi- zation of CASE. He left KU in 1976 to become executive director of the Alumni Association of the University of Min- nesota, which has about 300,000 alum- ni. He reorganized much of the Min- nesota program and staff during his three years there. Brown's "tradition and its reputa- tion for academic excellence" were fac- tors in his decision, Bilotta says, but "the greatest impact came from people — the administrators and faculty 1 met during the interviews, the dedication 1 observed in the volunteer alumni lead- ership, and very importantly, the stu- dents I met who were not bashful about expressing enthusiasm for the quality of their undergraduate experiences." Bilotta, who has served as a faculty member for a number of CASE pro- grams for alumni administrators, is married and the father of four children. He is a lay reader in the Episcopal church and has been active in the alumni work of his fraternity, Sigma Chi. R.M.R. Vince Bilotta: Brown's people made the greatest impact. TUITION: Another increase In action that could not be called a surprise, the Corporation has voted to increase the cost of a year's education at Brown to $7,825, effective with the 1979-80 academic year. This figure in- cludes tuition (which will increase by $400 to a total of $5,450), room and board charges, and fees. The overall in- crease is $585, which is 8.1 percent higher than the current year's total. In a letter to students and parents. President Howard Swearer noted that the increase was designed to "comply with the federal government's price guidelines [and is] necessary if the Uni- versity is to maintain a balanced budget in 1979-80 in the face of high rates of intlation." Tuition for each of the four years in the Program in Medicine will be $7,100 next year. R.M.R. People and Programs D Professor Harold R. Nace has been elected to membership in The Explorers Club, a New York City-based society dedicated to the continuing search for knowledge. One of only fif- teen chemists worldwide elected to the society, Jerry Nace was honored for his "distinguished scientific career, particu- larly your interest in and contributions to the field of chemistry." The society honors "men of impressive attainment in diverse fields." n Five members of the Brown fac- ulty and a 27-year-old mathematician from MIT have been awarded tenure as of July 1. Promoted to the rank of asso- ciate professor are: 12 Assistant Professor of Physics David Cutts, a specialist in experimen- tal high energy particle physics; Assistant Professor of Economics John V. Henderson, an expert in public economics and urban growth; Assistant Professor of Art Roger Mayer, a painter and sculptor whose work has been exhibited nationwide. Others who received tenure are: Associate Professor of Community Health (Research) Lois Monteiro, a specialist in the sociological aspects of health care, named associate professor of medical science; Associate Professor of Geology (Re- search) Julia A. TulHs, a researcher in rock deformation and crust activities, named associate professor of geology; Joseph Harris, a mathematics in- structor and researcher at MIT (cur- rently a visiting professor at the Uni- versity of Turin in Italy) who recently of- fered a solution to a century-old alge- braic puzzle, the Brill-Noether Conjec- ture, named associate professor of mathematics. D The Brown Fund announced two new appointments this spring: Hugh B. Allison '46, dean of public af- fairs at Dean Junior College in Franklin, Mass., has been named associate direc- tor of the Brown Fund with responsibil- ity for major gifts. And Elke S. Freccia, formerly a research assistant in Brown's Office of Institutional Research, has been named program administrator for the Brown Fund. □ A unique Institute for Rehabili- tation and Restorative Care, organized to meet the needs of the chronically iU and disabled, has been established by Brown in cooperation with Pawtucket Memorial Hospital and other Univer- sity-affiliated hospitals. Dr. Carl V. Granger, Frederick Henry Prince Dis- tinguished Scholar in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, who will serve as the new institute's first director, ex- plains that "chronic illness and long- term physical impairment, often the re- sult of diseases or accidents which might have been fatal ten years ago, are major health care problems today. Yet the health care establishment which serves the people with these problems is the most fragmented and poorly inte- grated of all health care systems in the United States." The institute will promote scholarly activihes in research and medical edu- cation as well as oversee the collabora- tive efforts of over two dozen commu- nity service agencies to provide patient services for chronically ill and disabled Rhode Island residents. Additional treatment and services will be provided by the Rhode Island Rehabilitation Network, a voluntary confederation of hospitals and service agencies now being formed, in cooperation with the institute. n New chairmen were named this year for three academic departments and a program. They are: Professor Charles P. Segal, a ten-year veteran of the Brown faculty who holds A.B. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard, chairman of the Department of Classics; Professor Walter Feldman's art (BAM, February) is on vieiv in many places, but the most unexpected may be this U'all of the Union Paper Company, which is visible from Route 146 in Providence. The mural coi'ers 45,000 square feet; its bright colors and free-flowing forms depict the work done in the plant. Q 1,0^ fJ^^*^^^ 13 David H. Hirsch, a specialist in Ameri- can literature, chairman of the Depart- ment of English; Associate Professor Sheila E. Blumstein, who specializes in neurolinguistics and speech perception, chairman of the Department of Linguis- tics; and Professor of English and American Civilization Bruce A. Rosen- berg, an American folklorist, chairman of the American Civilization Program. SOME FINAL NOTES: 'Going to live' n One of our acquaintances in the senior class sat down to a late lunch several days ago, wishing to reflect on his just-completed session with his the- sis advisor. He wanted to sift out what his professor had said. A young woman sat down at the same table. She smiled at him. Several times. Widely. "Hi," she said to him, smiling. "Do you meditate?" Our friend looked up. "No," he said, then added, "But I'm going to California next year." "Oh, wow!" she replied. "Do you get anything out of it?" he asked circumspectly. "I do it in a group," she said. "Oh, really." "I'm taking next year off," she told him. "Well, what are you doing?" "Oh, I'm going to live. . . ." D You may have thought Boy- Meets-Girl was an anachronishc genre. No way. We overheard the following ex- change one night at a soccer game, dur- ing halftime. Bo\': He\', Janice, where are \ou going after the game? Girl (turning her blonde head around to look at the speaker, se\eral rows back): Home. Bo\': It's too earl\- to do that. Girl: Where do you want to take me? Boy: Want to go to New York? Girl: I want to go to France. Boy: We can't do that tonight. Girl: If you loved me, we could. . . . D.S. LACROSSE: 'A sure bet for All-American' When members of the athletic de- partment talked about going out to see the bunny run this spring, they weren't heading for the dog track. The object of their attention was Mark "Bunny" Farnham '80, a defenseman on the la- crosse team who was the talk of the East through the first half of the season as he made a serious run at All-American honors. If the name Farnham has a familiar ring, there's ample reason. Mark's older brother. Bob (BAM. November 1976), was a two-time All-lvv and All-East split end on the football team and led the nation in pass receiving in 1976. When Bob (he was known as "Rabbit") was graduated in 1977 he took with him a hat full of Brown and Ivy League pass receiving records and the eternal grahtude of Coach John Anderson. The Rabbit did leave one thing be- hind — his brother Mark. While Bob was leading Brown to the Ivv League championship during that 1976 season, young Mark was dazzling the onlookers as a wide receiver on the Brown fresh- man team. "He's a carbon copy of his brother," Anderson told everyone that fall. "Same size, same looks, same moves out there on the field. People are going to think they are watching Bob for three more years." A carbon cop\', mavbe, but could he produce under fire the way Bob Farn- ham did? The answer wasn't long in coming. At Yale Bowl in the opening game of the 1977 season, Mark Farnham put a quick fake on his defender, took a pass from Mark Whipple, and turned it into a 52-yard touchdown. The young Farnham led the Ivy League in pass re- ceiving that year and was named ECAC Rookie of the Week after his late-game heroics had helped pull out a victory over Princeton. Last fall was more of the same as Farnham had thirt\'-five recep- tions for 550 yards and was named to the AU-East (ECAC) first team. His sixty-one catches for 934 yards in two seasons puts him well within reach of Brown's career leader in both categories — Bob Farnham. Bunny Farnham has been leading his athletic peers a merrv chase since his days at Andover (Mass.) High School, where, for three consecutive years, he hopped from football to hockev and then to track and baseball. He played on a pair of Division 11 championship foot- ball teams, was captain, MVP, and career scoring leader in hockey, and earned the tag of a good-hit, good-field outfielder on the baseball club. One sport Mark Farnham (/i(f«'f play in high school was lacrosse. That didn't come until his freshman year at Brown, when he joined some other foot- ball players in what seemed like a good "conditioning" sport for the spring. That first year wasn't much fun as he toiled on the "B" team learning his new sport. TTie dividends came last spring when Farnham became recognized as one of the most effective defensemen in the Ivy League. His reputation didn't suffer any this season. He was named ECAC Player of the Week after Brown had crushed Yale, 14-7, but his biggest raves came after the Bears had been edged by Harvard, 13-12. Crimson Coach Bob Scalise '71 didn't talk much about his team's victory, but he did rave on and on to the press and anyone else who would listen about Mark Farn- ham, tabbing him "a sure bet for All- America n." "At 5' 10" and 175 pounds, Mark doesn't knock many people down," Coach Cliff Stevenson says. "But he does bash them around a bit. His forte, though, is his excellent coordination, acceleration, and maneuverability. He's also very aggressive, and he has a spe- cial knack for stealing the ball and get- ting it down field in a hurr)'." Next fall, Mark Farnham will play his last year of football for Brown. But that won't be the end of the Farnham line. Entering this fall will be another wide receiver — named Paul Farnham. To hear John Anderson tell it, Paul is a carbon copy of Bob and Mark. Maybe he'll be known as the hare. /.B. 14 M(//A I'liiiilunn (III Ihf pnit (ur ju'Ui Spring roundup Thoughts of an Ivy League title in la- crosse received a setback when the Bears were upset by Harvard, 13-12, in sudden death. Brown trailed through most of this game, but junior Tad Bar- rows sent things into overhme with a goal two seconds before the end of regu- lation play. Brown's only other defeat through the first half of the season was also in sudden death, 12-11 to Washing- ton & Lee. Pitching did not dominate early in the baseball season — at least not Brown's pitching. With an assortment of hurlers allowing an average of more than ten runs a game (shoddy fielding also hurt in several outings), the Bears won only one of their first eight con- tests. The one bright light was the hit- ting of senior third baseman John King, Brown's career leader in five batting cat- egories coming into the campaign. For eight games. King had five home runs and a .522 batting average. Coach Doug Terry's track team had a quick start toward another undefeated outdoor season (the Bruins were 7-0 last spring) with solid victories over Yale and Columbia. Brown was particularly impressive in downing the Lions, 94-58, scoring in every event except the relays. Co-Capt. John DeSantis '79 was a dou- ble winner, leading a sweep in both the high hurdles and intermediate hurdles. Maurice Chapman turned in a fine 49.4 in taking the 400-meter run, and Tim Bruno (BAM, April) led the hammer field with a toss of 193'6". When Brown's men's crew won the championship-eight event in the Head of the Charles Regatta at Cambridge before 100,000 persons last fall. Coach Vic Michalson predicted that this spring's crew had the potential to be one of Brown's best. The crew that finished second in the IRAs last June did well in the San Diego Classic on April 7, coming in second in its heat and then finishing fifth behind Harvard, Califor- nia, Wisconsin, and Penn in the finals. Navy trailed the Bruins in the six-team field. The home opener, however, was a disaster. A lightly regarded Boston University crew edged the Bruins by three feet on the Seekonk, with Coast Guard a length back. This was a race in which Michalson had a great deal to crab about. Brown led by a length before catching a crab on the starboard side and losing the lead. Then, after pulling even with BU, someone else on the 15 starboard side caught a crab, enabling the Terriers to hang on for the victory. In addition to the two crabs, there were other problems in the Brown boat, such as instructions not carried out. The following Monday there were some changes in the boat and a reminder from the coach that the crew had the potmtial to be the best but would have to stick to basics if it wanted to reach that potential by June. On the same day, the women's crew dedicated a new shell to Marjorie T. Smith and her husband, Stan Smith '21. Mrs. Smith poured champagne on the bow of the boat, but when the race was over the MIT crew was drinking the champagne in celebration of its victory. A year ago Coach Dale Philippi and her women's lacrosse team had red faces (not to mention red hands and feet) when they hosted a lacrosse team from Sheffield, England, at the end of the worst New England winter in sev- eral decades. Ice had to be chipped off the fields so that the teams could com- pete. This spring England returned the favor, with Philippi and her group flying across the ocean and into ten days of rain, snow, sleet, and wind. "We managed to make the most of the situation," Philippi says. "There was the London theater, historic sites in other parts of England, and 7 a.m. prac- tices in the local parks, which drew the attention of several onlookers, not to mention one bobby." The trip closed with the women posting a 2-3-2 record in a round-robin tournament. Sixteen players and assistant coach Debbie Kirk made the trip, with the bulk of the cost covered by a February raffle. Earlier this spring, the women's swimming team (9-1) finished tenth na- tionally in the AIAW small college com- petition at Nevada-Reno. Brown was the only New England team in the top twenty. Pam Heggie '82 was named AU-American in four individual events and on three relay units. Lori Pride '82 was named AU-American in three indi- vidual and three relay events. The rugby club got to the finals of the annual Ivy Rugby Championship at Aldrich-Dexter Field in mid-April with victories over Cornell (12-9) and Co- lumbia (7-4), before bowing to Princeton (7-0) in the title game. Ned Corcoran 79 had a field goal against Cornell and ac- counted for all Brown's points against Columbia. • • ening Associate Alumni Director Brown University D Are you a people person? D Enjoy motivating volunteers? D Organize and communicate creatively? n Like to be bacl<. on the Brown campus? Investigate this vacancy on a team of alumni professionals dedicated to building a better Brown. Primary activity areas include strengttiening an extensive class reunion program and serving as staff support to the popular alumni travel program. Range, $15,000 to $17,000, depending upon experience. Find out ttie whole story by writing : Vince Bilotta, Director Alumni Relations Brown University Box 1859 Providence, Rhode Island 02912 Application deadline; June 22, 1979 /^^ (March 26- April 22) Baseball (3-10) Missouri 14, Brown 3 Murray State 8, Brown 3 Columbia 11, Brown 9 Penn 15, Brown 9 Penn 11, Brown 7 Brown 15, Holy Cross 9 Navy 9, Brown 6 Providence 7, Brown 6 Brown 12, Yale 4 Brown 4, Yale 3 Cornell 14, Brown 4 Army 4, Brown 2 Army 8, Brown 5 Men's Lacrosse (5-2) Brown 23, Boston College 3 Brown 15, Hofstra 10 Washington & Lee 12, Brown 1 1 Brown 14, Yale 7 Harvard 13, Brown 12 Brown 15, Massachusetts 13 Brown 14, New Hampshire 13 Men's Tennis (2-6) Columbia 7, Brown 2 Penn 6, Brown 3 Navy 9, Brown Princeton 6, Brown Brown 6, MIT 3 Yale7'/2, Brown IV2 Cornell 6, Brown 3 Brown 5, Army 4 Men's Track (2-2) Brown 97, Yale 66 Brown 94, Columbia 58 Dartmouth 69, Harvard 65, Brown 58 Men's Crew (1-2) Boston University 5:47.2, Brown 5:47.4, Coast Guard 5:50.6 Harvard 5:52.5, Brown 5:59 Women's Lacrosse (1-3-1) Brown 5, Rhode Island 4 Penn 5, Brown 1 Brown 6, Trinity 6 Yale 11, Brown 2 Harvard 9, Brown Women's Track (1-2) Rhode Island 61, Brown 53 Yale 65, Brown 60 Brown 85, Providence 40 2nd in Ivies Women's Tennis (2-2) Brown 6, Connecticut 3 Penn 9, Brown Yale 8, Brown 1 Brown 8, Rhode Island 1 Women's Crew (0-2) MIT 5:20, Brown 5:41.7 Boston University 6:38.2, Brown 7:13.8 Softball (2-3) Boston Universitv 5, Brown 4 Connecticut 14, Brown Fitchburg State 7, Brown 2 Brown 10, Army 2 Brown 3, Harvard 2 16 Announcement of special interest to you who are in advertising or marketing: Brown Alumni Monthly Columbia, and Harvard Business School Bulletin have just joined the Ivy League Group of Alumni Magazines. \-»irCUlatiOn of this prestigious group now totals 420,000, making It a most competitive entry in the magazine advertising field — based on its top-flight demographics and remarkable cost-per-thousand efficiency. tditOnally , the ivy Group has always been outstand- ing, offering articles and features by leading authorities (usually alumni) in science, the arts, education, current affairs, literature, sports, often unavailable to other magazines. 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"Well," he said, "I guess you could say I do fund-raising." "Have I got an idea for you!" said Mr. Kendall. "You know, I was doing some fund-raising for my church and we threw a block party and raised $123." Mr. Watts thanked Mr. Kendall — perhaps he smiled a little to himself — and went out. Charles Watts, a former Brown English pro- Photography: John Foraste fessor and dean of the College, president of Buck- nell University for twelve years and then, more briefly, of the Wolf Trap Farm Foundahon, some- time farmer and authority on pre-Civil War American poet Thomas Holley Chivers, is indeed a fund-raiser. Watts returned to Brown last August to assume responsibility for planning and im- plementation of the upcoming capital campaign and for operation of Brown's development office. He had, he says, no intention of returning to Brown — but, then, Charles Watts's life has been a series of collisions: undeniable talent and felicitous circumstance keep bumping into each other. Charles Watts arrived at Brown in 1945 — at night. He had joined the Navy and was promptly sent to college. "I was sort of commissioned and discharged all at the same moment," he says. 19 'Brown is at a crucial time in its history — what we need is money' Shipped from Middlebury to Brown, he did not know where he was. "Suddenly I saw someone approaching and I said, 'Hey, Mac, where's this Lyman Gym?' Just then the light shone on his shoulderboards," Watts tells, "and I found I was addressing Commander McCorkJe, head of the Navy unit. I was a pea-green sailor and I was told in no uncertain terms where Lyman Gym was and how I could address him in the future." During the next seventeen years, Charles Watts — known inihally and on the soc- cer field as "Chuck" — learned his way around pretty well. Following his graduation he spent a year at Columbia — "I really hadn't been very much interested in what went on between the covers of a book until my senior year; 1 spent the year in the library and if was a revelation" — and returned to Brown to pay his respects to several senior professors in the English department. "Be- fore I had gone very far, I was a Ph.D. candidate with a promise of an assistantship," he says. Watts read, taught, wrote, married. In 1955 he became an assistant professcir of English. In 1956 he pub- lished Thomas Holky Chwers: His Literary Career and His Poetry. He began to counsel students as a part-time assistant to the dean of the College. This was a new position and Watts found that he liked it. Then, in 1958, Barnaby Keeney appointed him dean of the College at Brown. "1 enjoyed that as much as any period of mv life," Watts says. "It was a wonderful spreadeagled position with cur- ricular concerns, social concerns, and faculty con- cerns. Brown then was a place where I think very, very good teaching occurred. It was probably more ft)rmally structured than it is now; the whole ap- paratus was more formal. But there was a pretty healthy contact between teachers and students, an honest kind of acquaintanceship. The students were very, very energetic. They came from a vari- ety of academic backgrounds. In no sense were we the passive recipient of New England's prep schools. "It was also a verv friendly place. There was a decency of human contact that made it a pleasure to work in. Through the administraHons of [Hen- ry] Wriston and IBarnaby] Keeney the whole proposition that we were a University/College was beginning to take on more and more reality. The trick wherein teaching is made vivid by reason of the teacher's real excitement about his own disci- pline was being pulled off." The campus and the community. Watts felt, had a sense of "rootedness" about them. He re- called marching in the Commencement procession past the Nicholson house on George Street. "Mary Nicholson, a lady of great and wonderful Victorian demeanor, would sit in a room on the second floor just far enough back from the large bay window so that you could not see her," he recalled. "You would tip your hat as you passed and just then you'd glimpse a little white lace handkerchief that she would dip. One felt a great sense of belonging and pleasure when that happened . . . What I felt was a sense of continuity and coherence of pur- pose and I think that having those things in place, so long as they don't become stultifying, really is very important to an institution." Toward the end of what were to be his four years as dean. Watts received a travel grant from the Carnegie Corporation, which permitted him six months to travel throughout the country visit- ing colleges and universities. Then, in 1962, he left Brown to become an executive associate of the American Council on Education. He wanted to learn something about higher education from a national perspective. "We knew that instituhonal autonomy was an incipient problem," Watts says. "I guess I saw, as I hadn't before, the extraordi- nary number of constituencies to which higher education speaks. That was in the Kennedy years, and Washington seemed a seat of possibilities as much as anyplace else." One day several months later, the door opened. It was the president of Buck- nell, looking for his successor, whom he had just — in a manner of speaking — found. Charles Watts took his wife and three children to the verdant Susquehanna valley of Pennsylvania to become, on August 1, 1964, the eleventh presi- dent of Bucknell and second Brown man to hold that post. (The first was Dr. Justin Loomis 1835, who served from 1858 to 1879.) In so doing. Watts followed a distinguished line of deans of the Col- lege who proceeded to become college presidents: James Coles became president of Bowdoin, K. Roald Bergethon went to Lafayette, Robert Morse took over Case Western Reserve, and Barnaby Keeney stayed at Brown. Watts was at Bucknell for twelve years — twelve turbulent and tumultuous years. He loved it. "I would dispute my colleagues who say it's an awful job," he says of being a college president. "It's an absolutely fascinating job. You worry about the intellectual health of an institution on the one hand and the water mains on the other. I really can't think of another job that has as much variety of demand to it. "I was lucky enough to be there when I had a chance to say some things about how the faculty might be strengthened," he says. "I liked that. The traditions of the place caused everybody to treat the president as a human being . . . People were in and out of my office with an awful regularity, and that was special." The seismic social forces rocking other cam- puses in the late 1960s and early 1970s shook Bucknell, too, but its foundation did not crack. "We never had any real distress," Watts recalls, "I think because the community had or developed a willingness to talk. In retrospect it seems to me we never stopped talking. Whether the meetings were mass meetings or rump sessions, we pretty much were able to get everything out on the table and debate it." Does Watts, dean at one college and president at another, see similarities between the two? "Both 20 There is no dramatic step we need to take to bring ourselves to functional excellence — we're there' i. , \ Watts (above) listens — and reacts ■ to a staff member. Brown and Bucknell do place their main emphasis upon as good teaching as they can possibly get. Both do try to create the opportunity for honesty of acquaintance between teacher and student. Both have been financially poor in terms of their competition and both have had to make do. They're not arrogant, far from self-satisfied, and that makes for a kind of liveliness." After twelve years, however. Watts "met himself coming around the barn." He had strength- ened the faculty, overseen the construcrton of a new University Center, raised about $15 million (without telling his barber), and shepherded his institution through dark and stormy times. But his imaginahon, he says, was beginning to run down. He had plans, he says, to take a sabbatic leave, something he had never had. Suffice it to say that Charles Watts still has not had a sabbatical. Upon leaving Bucknell in 1976, he became the first president and chief executive officer of the Wolf Trap Farm Foundation, the private agency that arranges en- tertainment at the only national park dedicated to the performing arts, which is located in northern Virginia outside of Washington, D.C. But Watts's stay at Wolf Trap was somewhat short-lived. He had, to put it gently, to contend with a benefac- tress of singular mind. Visions of a sabbatical again danced sweetly before his eyes. "I thought I would put together a nice combination of consult- antships and directorships and enjoy myself," he says. It was not to be. About that time. Brown Professors Henry Kucera and Leon Cooper invited Watts out to lunch. They asked his help in soliciting funds for Brown's program in neural studies. "I said fine, but maybe we ought to check out any independent fund-raising with the president," Watts recalls. Howard Swearer promptly invited Watts to work part-time as a consultant to hiw. They got on well — "famously," says Watts — and Charles Watts is back at Brown. In fact. Watts is only at Brown part of the time. His wife, Patricia, and fifteen-year-old son, Charles 111, have remained at the family home in McLean, Virginia, and Watts credits Allegheny Airlines with keeping his marriage together. Watts's second child, Caroline, is a junior at Bucknell and his first born, Katie, who attended Brown for a semester pursuing a Ph.D. in philoso- phy, is now producing records in New York City 21 with her husband. Shuttle diplomacy aside, when Watts is at Brown, he is here to raise money. "I believe very, very strongly in this institu- tion," he says. "Brown does its job as well as and probably better than any university of its kind that I know. But Brown is at a crudal time in its history — what we need is money. We don't need to revo- lutionize the curriculum; we don't need to revo- lutionize the facilities. We are not fragmented; we do not have a set of separate schools; we do not have a faculty that teaches graduates and not un- dergraduates. There is no dramahc step we need to take to bring ourselves to functional excellence — we're there. What we need is money to stay there." So, since his return to Brown, Watts and the development staff have been gearing up for a major capital-fund drive. He estimates that close to $150 million is needed for Brown's "immediate good health" and he anticipates that the campaign will start in earnest next fall. "I think Brown is at a time of really quite formidable opportunity," he says. "I don't know that it is the opportunity of a moment, but in many ways while we've been through some pretty rigorous times, what seems to have emerged is an absolutely first-rate student body. It's not enough to say that we're popular. There's a certain amount of honest information flowing back; some reasonably true view of what happens here gets back to the high schools. It seems to me," he adds, "that we have a first-rate faculty as well. One thing that impresses me most The liberal arts: 'Learning to think seriously, long, and well' Each year du ring his twelve years as president of Bticknell, Charles Watts issued a President's Report, -which was sent to alumni and parents of students. He also delivered numer- ous convocations and addresses. Fol- loicing are a fen' excerpts from these: The chances of renaissance: The question is, what are the proper ways for a college or a university, as an institution, to exert moral leadership within our society? [The question] begins in the assumption that in a complex, technologically oriented society dependent upon better informa- tion and finer human skills for its growth, the institutions which produce such ingredients must perforce be agents of social change. They no longer exist at a remove from the action. ... If our colleges and universities are indeed agents of social change, then they are very powerful en- tities indeed, perhaps in some ways the most powerful institu- tions in our society. If we have power, great power, then clearly it is irresponsible not to use it. If you leave it lying around, some- one will pick it up and run with it, and one might argue that it is exactlv this that student activists (not anarchists) have done. It seems to me that few of us have indeed understood the extent of our strength, and if we have un- derstood it, we have employed only rhetoric to direct it. Moral exhortation, perhaps personal example, have been our only means — and I'm not sure that this will suffice today. If you have power in our society, then in general vou must find what may best be called political means of utilizing it, and it is here that we en- counter the greatest danger. As a corporate entity, the American university has traditionally sought to maintain a corporate neutrality about most social and political issues. It has done so so that the free play of disagree- ment and debate might prosper within its halls. . . . But it has stood as an advo- cate for certain vital moral ab- stractions. It has defended free- dom of speech and of thought. It has, in very general terms, sup- ported the democratic process as opposed to forms of fascism. It has advanced the cause of human equality, worked for human dignity, and respected individual rights. It has done these things almost always when it has stood at a remove from society. . . . Now, the situation has changed. The university cannot, it is said, stand at such a remove. What it does is too vital to the nation's progress ... So the problem presents itself: you are involved, you have power which you must exercise, you have in- deed taken certain corporate moral positions in the past, and yet you wish to preserve that ob- jectivity which permits indi- vidual members of the commu- nity to criticize and to vary in their views, you wish to keep at some corporate remove from society so that scholarship may be free, and students not taught simply some party line. ... I do not know how to resolve the two issues, the necessity on the one hand of maintaining objectivity and free teaching and scholarship, and the necessity on the other hand of exerting, as a powerful in- stitution in our society, proper moral leadership. This may seem a long way from the alarums and excursions which greet us each day in the newspaper, but it really is not. What our colleges and universi- ties are struggling to do is to find ways of controlling and effec- tively utilizing both the power and the utility which their cen- tralist position in our society has brought to them. The society is turbulent, and so are our in- shtutions. I have thought carefully about this, and it is with a neces- sary optimism and a certain 22 is that the faculty members do interact with one another. You find a great deal of interdisciplinary work going on, both formally and informally. "All these good people meet in a place that has, I think, a proper kind of self-awareness. It's not so big that you get lost; it's not so small that you get suffocated. It feels like a whole place. What we need is money. The campaign is really to pro- vide capitalization for what is a first-rate enterprise . . . We do more with less than practically any place around," Watts says, making the case for Brown with vigorous feeling. "But an institution can afford for just so long to take that kind of excel- lence out of its hide. In a sense we've been sub- stituting the energies of the faculty and the clever- ness of the administrahon for the capital that we just have to have ... I think the institution that will prosper in the future is the same one that has prospered in the past, and that is the institution that has a sense of its own coherence, that has some fair notion of where it's going." Charles Watts feels, and he feels strongly, that Brown is that kind of place. "After all," he says, "what other university can you think of that would invent Mr. Carberry and treat him with just the right mix of respect and laughter? And where else does a university president, decked out in his robes, walk down the aisle to deliver a chapel lec- ture to the thinly disguised strains of 'Who's Af- raid of the Big Bad Wolf?' played on the organ? We all cracked up. I'm sure the same kind of thing goes on now, and that speaks well for Brown." amount of faith that 1 have con- cluded that our institutions are not in fundamentally had health, that they will find ways of solv- ing this central problem, and that if they do they will enjoy a period of strength and useful- ness which will in due course be seen as a hme of renaissance. (1969) The creative act that is teaching: The most singular thing about the academic man is his pre- sumption that there is always more to know, and that probably it is worth knowing. He works — whatever his discipline — in an open-ended system, and thus he always works amid uncer- tainty. Whether he is dealing with quantum mechanics or with Icelandic sagas, he knows that at any time someone, per- haps he himself, may see or dis- cover new meaning in what had seemed already clear and known. He is essentially a creator, bring- ing together his own insights and those of his colleagues to focus upon the seemingly inert material of his discipline. Thus as he teaches he is not, or at least should not be, simply a conveyor of what is known. The hopeful student who sits be- fore him and says, in effect, tell me the truth about this, that I may be as knowledgeable as you are, has missed the point. The only thing the scholar can tell him is that this and that seem to be true about this subject, that these are the methods which have been used to determine what seems to be true, and these are some of the open possibil- ities for the discovery of further truth about the subject. You should realize, too, that most of the finest scholars are in- tensely ^'nuflfc men and women who have learned how to think in public, a very difficult trick in- deed. At root, what mostly stimulates the scholar is a very personal absorption in his dis- cipline. He is quite selfishly ex- cited by it. It is his excitement before the processes and mate- rials of his discipline which moves him to share what he knows with others, with his col- leagues and his students. And almost all good teachers know thankfully that the act of teach- ing itself is an act of discovery. Something new can happen, some new insight can be de- veloped, when the requirements of teaching force him to put in presentable order what he has thought. An innocent or pre- sumptuous question by a curi- ous freshman may very well send him back to rethink the whole matter, and thus he and his students together are partici- pants in what can be a very creative act. (1973) The functionality of the liberal arts: I've decided that I finally un- derstand why colleges of liberal study . . . grow and thrive de- spite their various ineptitudes. It is because what a scholar does, the way he must think, the fash- ion in which he weighs data and evidence, his demand for intel- lectual and emotional honesty, his caution in the face of un- proven assumption — these are absolutely the most useful habits of mind that exist, and I don't really care what walk of life we talk about. Do you value — in your oc- cupation — clarity and precision of expression? Saying what you mean? No scholar would last an hour without it. Do you value clarity and precision of thought, the capac- ity to sift through facts and reach sound judgment? So does the scholar. Do you value, in your life and in your occupation, the ability to see things in perspec- tive, not getting lost in the con- fusions of the present moment? Without a sense of the past, no scholar is worth his salt. Do you value self-under- standing, self-knowledge? Few people are more conscious of their own strengths and weak- nesses than professional schol- ars, for they put into print what they have concluded. Surely I exaggerate, but 1 exaggerate for a reason. Amid the clutter of a student's life, amid his busy rushing from new idea to new friend, amid the striving for man- or woman- hood, what he is really doing is trying to learn how to think se- riously, long, and well. (1973) 23 Ford Ebner's research with turtles may provide help for stroke victims Brown's Center for Neural Science is a place where plausible speculation meets intuitive guesses By William F. Allman 78 ^^t 2:30 p.m. John Richards suddenly feels Z^k weak. His arm goes numb as he lies on ^ ^L the sofa to rest. At 2:35 his wife finds him semi-conscious, unable to move or speak. She calls an ambulance. For the greater part of his life John's carotid ar- teries, the vessels that deliver large quantities of blood to his brain, have been slowly accumulating cholesterol deposits. The left one, almost totally occluded, has developed a small thrombus, or clot, which has completely stopped blood flow. The tis- sue in the left side of his brain begins to die. John Richards has suffered a stroke. When he is revived at the hospital, parts of the right side of his body will be paralyzed. He will have trouble speaking. But, like many stroke victims, he will eventually, with therapy, regain control of his entire body. His speech will improve dramatically. In less than five years he will resume normal activities. The mechanisms for his recovery are as yet unknown. In a brightly lit recess deep within Arnold Laboratory, a man is hunched over a light table. Spread before him arc several en- larged photographs. The photographs were made with an electron microscope, a device which uses a beam of electrons that enables the resolution of de- tail smaller than the wavelength of visible light. The man. Ford Ebner, professor and chairman of the Neuroscience Section in the Division of Biolo- gy and Medicine, is looking for the growth of new nerve tissue in the cerebral cortex of a turtle. The thin, fibrous strands outlined on the photograph may provide insights into the enigma of stroke rehabilitation in humans. Ebner and his co-workers have found that following the destruc- tion of brain tissue, healthy nerve cells will gener- ate new tissue, called F-S axons (flat, symmetrical, as opposed to the round, asymmetrical axons that comprise some 90 percent of the cerebral cortex). These new axons may serve to take over those activities lost through the nerve destruction. Damaged nerve cells do not regenerate. The work shows promise, yet is still in its in- fancy. Before it comes to fruition it will encompass the efforts of many scientists in a variety of disci- plines. The connecting link between the stroke victim and Ebner's turtles is the vast, varied, bur- geoning field of neural science. Though trained in veterinary medicine at Washington State University before taking his Ph.D. in neuroanatomy. Ford Ebner was drawn towards neural science while serving in the Army at Walter Reed Hospital, where he was responsi- ble for the research animal colony. In a move sired by what he describes as "pure serendipity," he began working nights and weekends with a group of scientists who were investigating the "split brain" theories of Rodger Sperry. They were attempting to discover the function of the a)rfn/.>; aillosiim, a coaxial cable of nerve libers that connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain. They would teach a monkey to make tactile discriminations of two different objects with its left hand, a process taking a thousand trials to learn. They would then have the monkey make the same discrimination with its right hand. It would do it immediately. If the corpus cnllosurn were cut before the test, however, the right hand would require a thousand trials to learn what the left hand knew. Clearly the fiber cable was responsible at least in part for the dissemination of information between the two halves of the brain, but it was less clear how this was accomplished. In going from the be- havioral to the cellular level, Ebner explains, "ev- erything turns to mud." In 1901, Ramon y Cajal, a pioneer in neural science, predicted it would be several generations before man untangled the complexities of the brain. Two generations later Ford Ebner is cautious but optimistic: "Neuroscience is approaching the same level as that of DNA research twenty years ago. We have a dramatically increasing amount of empirical data, but very few theoretical con- structs." Ebner believes the gap between observa- tion and theory' is being closed, but the process is a complex one, involving resources and person- alities from many fields. One such personality is Leon Cooper, profes- sor of physics at Brown. Co-directors Ebner and Cooper, with the help of Brown professors from the Departments of Psychology, Linguistics, En- gineering, and Applied Mathematics, have formed Ford Ebner (right) in his laboratory: "In neuroscience, there are no superstara." 24 ^^\>\; Sffe .''«ISt< ^.^,^.^ -« ^> In the Center for Neural Science, the theorists and the researchers are working together. a group that is concerned with developing neuro- science at Brown. Last October a proposal to establish a Center for Neural Science (abbreviated CNS, which also stands for central nervous system; "I have a fondness for puns," says Cooper) was approved by the University. A research center acts as a tem- porary, official umbrella for many interdisciplinary groups. It allows for the hiring of faculty, devel- opment of courses and concentrarions, and if the interest warrants it, eventual establishment of a department. It serves to focus different areas of re- search and catalyze new types of communication between these areas. The Center for Neural Science is also a para- digm of the mechanics of scientific thought. The Center has yoked two traditionally dis- parate (and often antagonistic) approaches to sci- enhfic research: the theorehcal model builders and the researchers of empirical data. The two approaches are the foundation of sci- entific inquiry. The model builder will form a hypothesis to describe a phenomenon. The hy- pothesis will be based on certain assumptions. The researcher will test those assumptions, and a new hypothesis will be formulated from the result- ing data. New tests are designed for the new as- sumptions. It is rare, however, to find the two approaches working together towards a common goal. Prob- lems result when the theoreticians begin to make assumptions based on prior assumptions. Empiri- cists complain of a disregard for established fact. Theoreticians complain of a stubborn resistance to the constructing of theories from the data. These problems are avoided, Ebner explains, because the atmosphere of Brown and the per- sonalities of the members involved allow a great degree of intercommunication and personal free- dom. Each scientist is exploring areas and ideas of his own choosing. What is significant, Ebner adds, is that all the activity is taking place within the structure of a research center. The members meet frequently in informal seminars. There they discuss plausible specula- tions and intuitive guesses. This union of the sci- entists has proven useful. Ebner cites an example of the group discussing the vision system of a cat. "The theorists bring in a totally different set of questions to a meeting than do the research biolo- gists. We [the biologists] would ask first: do the receptors connect to the brain? We'd then try to trace the optic nerve to the cerebral cortex. Does it enter at one area? Does it split? If it splits, which component is responsible for what? But the theo- rist is not concerned with this. He will ask. Given the phenomenon of visual perception, how could networks of nerve cells achieve this?" The theorists have come up with some star- tling ideas. Cooper and others have postulated that some brain functions are not fully developed at birth, but rather are molded during a specific critical period by the external environment. Their work provides a conceptual framework for the ex- perimental results of Collin Blakemore in England, and Helmut Hirsch and Nico Spinelli in California, who have raised newborn cats in containers de- void of vertical lines. When the cats are taken out of this environment, they are incapable of re- sponding to verticals such as table legs. Cooper's theory suggests that those cells that serve as receptors for vertical lines in the cerebral cortex have a certain amount of plasticity after birth, and thus, in a cage without verticals, these cells are converted to other line orientations or even shut off. The theory is not yet in a form that is testable, but the work of Hirsch and Spinelli, which gave rise to the theory, has held up well in repeated tests. For Ebner the advantages of having theoreti- cians at the Center are many. As well as supplying fresh ideas, they have a perspective that is perhaps lost after twenty years in a particular field, and that perspective can be useful when a researcher can't see the forest for the trees. The theoreticians also ask questions that, though at first they may seem simplistic, perturb the intellectual bedrock of the researchers. "They conlinuallv challenge our fundamental knowledge, ideas we've perhaps come to take for granted." He shakes his head. "You know, we still don't have any idea how memory works. Nothing is conclusive, but several of the models proposed mav require us to rearrange our thinking." One such model is the work of James Anderson, assistant professor of neural science and psychology at Brown. In Anderson's model, memory is not stored sepa- ratel\' in specific areas, but rather is distributed throughout the entire brain. The classic analogy is that of a hologram, a three-dimensional photo- graph made with lasers. If a hologram is cut into pieces, each piece still represents the whole pht)tograph, and by moving the piece around in laser light, the entire object can be viewed. Mem- ory, Anderson explains, might be constructed similarly. "Carl Lashley at the University of Chicago attempted to destroy specific memories by destroying specific areas of the brain, yet the memories, though they became somewhat fuzzy, didn't disappear. Thus it would appear that the brain does not store information like a filing cabinet." In what Anderson terms the "distribution model," memories are entered in a "parallel" manner. He uses in explanation an analogy from Aristotle, who wrote that memory "marks in a sort of imprint, as it were, of the sense image, as people who seal things with signet rings." In a filing cabinet — or linear — memory, the signet ring impressions would be lined up one after the other. To recognize the letter "b", there- fore, one would compare the "b" with all the alphabet impressions until one was found that 26 matched. In parallel storage, these impressions are stored not one after the other but one on top of the other, and thus to locate the letter "b" is a one- step operation. This multiple imaging may cause some errors, but it is precisely these errors, says Anderson, which give rise to man's ability to abstract ideas from concrete phenomena. "Thus it is not necessary to have seen every 'b' to be able to recognize it; the 'b' will fit the template enough to achieve recognition." The color "blue" will be abstracted from the overlap of blue sky, blue table, and blue car, so one is able to see blue without having to associate it with an object. Anderson's theories have dramatic impli- cations for Ebner and other researchers. Their studies have been primarily on a cellular level, at- tempting to understand the link between nerve and nerve. The parallel storage model for memory indicates that such a microscopic study is perhaps too small a scale to learn more of brain function. "When the theorists talk, 1 can't afford not to lis- ten," says Ebner. Ebner is optimistic about the future. "Every- one is really doing his homework," he says, citing the massive amount of self-teaching undertaken by the members of the group in an attempt to be- come familiar with the others' fields. "We are com- ing closer together. I think the payoff will come within the next five years." His work with turtles is, by his own estima- tion, "about step two," while the time when it will be directly applicable to stroke victims is "about step fourteen." He is getting help, though, from the theorists, who are trying to provide the empir- ical data with a strong theoretical base. "Unlike a science like physics," says Anderson, "there are no superstars like Einstein or Newton. In neuro- science, if and when an important synthesis is achieved — and 1 believe it will be — it will be the work of many people." All are firmly convinced that intercommuni- cation is the key to progress. Outside Ebner's office there is a poster that says, "After all is said and done, there's a lot more said than done." In the Center for Neural Science, that's not such a bad thing. 1/ SC3?s- '-J^:< *^^C ".'>, >^ .^32 i» Leslie Smith, a graduate student working with Ford Ebner, made this photograpth of a cross section of the cerebral cortex of a turtle witli an electron microscope. She is looking for evidence of the growth of F-S axons. The large dark spot near the center is a degenerated neroe fiber. 27 iium* Murky world of surveillance Thanks to an enterprising Brown student, we can now read what the FBI was putting in its files about Brown By Janet Phillips Now, at last, the story can be told. Or some of it, anyway. For almost the last half cen- tury, the agencies of the federal gov- ernment that are responsible for internal and external security — most notably the FBI and the CIA — have been monitoring political activity on the na- tion's college campuses and ^ak.ing notes. We've always known we were being watched, particularly during the McCarthy era and the Vietnam era, but the records were locked away in the agencies' "classified" files and there was no way of knowing who or what made its way into those files. Now, however, under the 1974 amendments to the Freedom of Information Act (which was passed in 1967), much of that previously classified material is available to the public. Excephons were made to cover classified national de- fense and foreign policy records and any records whose disclosure would constitute an "unwarranted invasion of personal privacy" or would reveal the identity of confidential sources. In March 1978, a Brown sophomore named Andrea Gaines, acting on behalf of the Brown chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, petitioned the FBI and the CIA for release of all material in their files that related to Brown Univer- sity. "We needed a project to keep us in gear," Andrea says. "Our purpose was to obtain the material so we could re- lease it to the community. It was also something of a test case, to see if we could do it." The FBI proved to be cooperative — more so than the CIA, which so far has acknowledged An- drea's requests but hasn't released any material, despite the fact that it is in violation of the law. The ACLU is cur- rently deciding whether to take the CIA to court. In March, Andrea received a box containing 337 pages of FBI documents relating to Brown dating all the way back to 1936. (The Brown News Bureau subsequently requested and obtained a duplicate set of the documents.) Much of what the documents cover seems, from the vantage point of ten or twenty years' distance, relahvely innocuous — Brown was never much of a breeding ground for subversive activity, either during McCarthy's heyday or the Vietnam war — but the papers offer a fascinating, unsettling, and sometimes hilarious glimpse of the bureaucratic mind at work (law enforcement divi- sion). Here are some highlights of the FBI Chronicles: 1940: U.S. District Judge Eugene Rice, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, in- formed a local FBI agent that he planned to send his sixteen-year-old son to either Brown or Dartmouth the next year. A fellow agent wrote to Director ]. Edgar Hoover and explained, "The Judge, who is very patriotic, would like to be confidentially advised whether there is any indication that Brown Uni- versity or Dartmouth has on the staff members known to be in sympathy with Communistic or Subversive Activities in the United States." Hoover wrote back, "It is desired that you tactfully explain to Judge Rice that the Bureau is not in a position to furnish the information de- sired." 1941-44: In an article entitled "France on Berlin Time" in the Saturday Evening Post of May 3, 1941, author Thomas Kernan described two German Army officers in Paris who were Ameri- can citizens: "One of them, a graduate of Brown University and a native of Providence, Rhode Island, was an ar- dent Nazi, and loudly voiced his con- victions that the United States must be Nazified. . . . Both of these officers dressed in field-gray uniforms in the 29 With Hoover's approval, the FBI was looking for a way to squelch Barnaby Keeney daytime, but in the evening wore suits tailored at Creed's, and circulated among American residents in Paris as mobile listening posts. The American embassy quietly spread a word of warn- ing about them. Perhaps by now they're back here on good American passports, for Americans enter and leave from Mexico and Cuba without formalities." Kernan was interned in 1942 in France as a special representative of the American Red Cross (during a diplomat- ic crisis between the U.S. and the Vichy Government). When he returned to the States in 1944, he was "vigorously quesHoned" about the identity of the two officers by the FBI, which had been unable to turn up any productive leads. Kernan expressed "the greatest desire to be of assistance to Bureau Agents in this regard," but he knew very little about these two men and remembered even less. Apparently the investigation reached a dead end there. 1954: A four-page memo headed "Communist Infiltration of Brown Uni- versity, Providence, Rhode Island," briefly describes Brown's history, its current president (Henry Wristcin), and lists its more prominent alumni and Corporation members. "Administrative officials and faculty members at Brown University have been cooperative with the Boston Office of the Bureau," it notes. Under the heading "Communist Activities," the following paragraph — partially blacked out but still legible — appears: "A Weekly Intelligence Summary for the period October 17-23, 1943, furnished by the Army Service Forces . . . reflects that Henry M. Wriston of Brown University had been quoted as criticizing the Government's policy toward China. Wriston allegedly pointed out that relatively little lend- lease aid had been given to the Chinese and had asserted that this country and took advantage of their strength to dictate to the Chinese. As a result Wriston predicted that this 'Nazi-like' policy would lead to a war between the white and yellow peoples. A letter dated October 23, 1944, from one , Providence, Rhode Island, to the Attorney General of the United States was forwarded to the Bu- reau. This letter complained about 'Prof, or Doctor Henry Wriston of Brown Uni- versity.' The letter writer indicated that he did not like the tone of utterances given 'now and then' against our Gov- ernment by Doctor Henry Wriston. He added that Dr. Wriston had 'advocated a soft peace for Germany and even goes further in praising Germany after that country has tried to destrt)y the Chris- tian religion and civilization.' " The memo continues; "The Feb- ruary 11, 1953, issue of the DfliVy VJorker, east coast Communist newspaper, car- ried an article captioned 'College Presi- dent Says Congress Violates Rights.' This article attributes to Dr. Henry M. Wriston of Brown University an attack upon Congress for violating the Con- stitution by keeping on the books laws abridging human rights. "77i(.' Washington Post dated Sep- tember 22, 1953, carried an article in which Dr. Henry M. Wriston, President of Brown University, was stated to have called the United States Senate 'one of the most ill-disciplined legislative as- semblies in the world' and to have said 'there is plent)' for Congress to do be- sides looking under beds to find lurking Communists.' " Despite Mr. Wriston's penchant for speaking his mind, the memorandum gives Brown a clean bill of health: "No subversive or- ganizations or publications are known to exist currently on the Brown Univer- sit)' campus and no additional evidence was located in Boston Office or Bureau files reflecting Communist infiltration of Brown University." 1955: Brown's clean bill of health was seriously besmirched when Bar- naby Keeney, then dean of the College, crihcized j. Edgar Hoover in a speech before the AAUP for what he called Hoover's "vicious attitude toward intel- lectuals." He was referring to a speech Hoover had made at Catholic University in which he said, "All too often, aca- demic license has contributed to the spread of Communism and in case after case has won converts to the Com- munist cause." Keeney 's remarks were picked up by the Providence ]ournal, the Boston Herald, the New York Tunes, and the New York Post, among others, and the FBI — from Hoover on down to its field agents — reacted with defensive outrage. One field agent, a Brown alumnus, called the home office to say that (ac- cording to a memorandum of the call) "he personally was incensed at the re- cent crack made by the Dean of Brown University regarding Mr. Hoover's statements. . . . |The agent) stated he did not know the Dean as he was not at the University when |the agent] at- tended, but from reading the Brown University publication, he had gathered the impression that the Dean was a clown, judging from various photo- graphs of him which have appeared in the University paper. |The agent] stated that he was writing a letter today to the President of Brown University protest- ing the Dean's remarks and inquiring of the President whether the Dean's statements reflect the attitude of the University. jHe] further stated he was protesting not only as a graduate but also as a member of the FBI, observing that if Brown University was adopting officially such an attitude . . . then it was high time for Brown University to fold up. [The agent] stated he would send a copy of his letter in to the Bureau for information purposes. He was told that this was fine and we were sure the Director would be most appreciative." President Wriston's reply to that letter set off its own firestorm. Unfortu- nately, Mr. Wriston's reply is not in- cluded in the files, but its impact is made clear in a letter from L. B. Nichols, Assistant Director of the FBI, to Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover, Jr. Nichols wrote, "A situation recently de- veloped which I thought would be of in- terest to you in view of the famed 'Wris- ton Report' on State Department per- sonnel." (Mr. Wriston had taken a leave of absence from Brown in the early '50s to help reorganize the Foreign Service.) After outlining the Keeney controversy, Nichols went on: "One of our old-time Agents happens to be a graduate of 30 Brown University and took it upon him- self to write a letter to President Wriston protesting Keeney's remarks, which are certainly not supported by the text of Mr. Hoover's speech. The enclosed copy of President Wriston's reply to our Agent is one of the most amazing documents 1 have ever seen. This, of course, is strictly for your personal in- formation and is not intended in any way to become a part of State Depart- ment files. "I personally felt that if President Wriston's letter was actually prepared by him and represents his analysis of Mr. Hoover's speech, then this is a fac- tor you might very well want to take into consideration in the event you have any dealings with Wriston personally. You will note Wriston has presumed to read into Mr. Hoover's speech the infer- ence that Mr. Hoover was trying to make the point that Catholic institutions had the proper sense of acaclemic free- dom while others do not. Mr. Hoover, as you know, is a long-time member of the National Presbyterian Church where he has served on its Board of El- ders, is both a 32° and a Royal Arch Mason and any semblance of intoler- ance is not a part of his make up. Cer- tainly, to me, the Wriston letter and po- sition is a sad commentary upon educa- tion. I am certainly glad the FBI does not have any such thing as a 'Wriston Re- port' to influence its policy." Meanwhile, the FBI was looking for ways to squelch — or discredit — Barnaby Keeney. An official named A. Rosen contacted Edward J. (Rip) Higgins, administrative assistant to Rhode Island Senator Theodore Francis Green '87 (a Brown trustee), and "told him that I was great- ly concerned over the attitude that had been expressed by [Keeney]. . . . Higgins said that Keeney was a public- ity hound, that he would see the Senator this week in New York and would handle the matter personally, not only with the Senator . . . but would also take it up with [Provost] Sam Ar- nold. . . . Higgins said that they are going to have Arnold named as Presi- dent just as soon as Wriston retires next year. . . . Higgins said that he is going to talk this matter over with Arnold and that he has no doubt that Arnold will be able to take things under control; that they are not too well satisfied with Keeney's attitude toward publicity." In a follow-up memorandum, Rosen reported on Higgins's meeting with Sam Arnold: "It appears that the University is well aware of the com- ments of Keeney and although they might not approve of his remarks, they seem reluctant to admit their mistake and the fact that they have not been on sound ground. , . . ]Higgins] told me that as far as the University is con- cerned, they would like to see the whole matter dropped; that they might not admit it but their faces are red." Arnold, however, did try to defend Mr. Keeney by pointing out that he had "a wonder- ful war record" (Purple Heart, Bronze Star, and Silver Star). And a memo from the Boston office said, "Check of Boston indices fails to reveal any identifiable in- formation with Keeney." Some weren't willing to let it go at that. A Boston field agent filed a report of a speech he gave before an American Legion post in Providence: "After the speech I talked with and and during the discussion they mentioned the unfair charges that were made by BARNABY C. KEENEY, Dean of Brown University, against the Director. . . . They indicated they are well aware that the Director and the Bu- reau have been targets of the subversive elements in this country and that obvi- ously Dean KEENEY was aiding and abetting the Communist cause by mak- ing such statements. I pointed out to them that KEENEY had removed re- marks contained in the Director's speech . . . from context and had twisted them in a most vicious and un- fair manner. . . . Further, that in this case the only logical conclusion to be drawn is either that KEENEY had some axe to grind or that he was being used by unscrupulous elements." The two Legionnaires told the agent they in- tended to write to the Providence Joiinml "objecting to the remarks of KEENEY and indicating their complete support and admiration for the Director" and to the American Legion Americanism Commission to "suggest that the na- tional office denounce KEENEY for the distortions contained in his speech." Across the bottom of the report (which was addressed to "Director, FBI") Hoover had scrawled, "Well handled." 1959: An English instructor at Brown named Wade C. Thompson came to the FBI's attention when he was quoted in Time magazine as having "re- portedly called for the abolition of inter- collegiate football and also the abolition of the Navy and the FBI" (according to an internal memo). "The Director in- quired as to what we know of Thomp- son. A review of Bufiles jbureau files] reflects no identifiable information con- cerning Thompson." Seven months later, Thompson called the FBI to re- quest a brief interview with Hoover for an article he was writing for Harper's. The request was denied, and Hoover wrote on the memo: "The fact it is for Harpers & by a professor of Brown Univ. is enough to arouse suspicion." 1965: The scene shifts to the Vietnam era. Two hundred Providence College students organized a demon- stration at the State House in support of President Johnson's Vietnam policy, and the Brown chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) staged a counter-demonstration. An FBI agent filed the following report: "On October 22, 1965, Agents of the FBI observed a large group of Providence College stu- dents marching in a large circle in front of the Rhode Island State Capitol . . . carrying placards supporting the U.S. Government's policy in Vietnam. They were joined by students coming from Rhode Island Junior College. . . . The placards carried hand printed state- ments such as: " 'Stay in Vietnam.' " 'Draft the Draft Card Burners.' " 'Back U.S. Foreign Policy' " 'Appeasement Means Surren- der.' "The demonstrators were observed to march from 2:00 p.m. to 3:50 p.m. and ended by singing the National An- them. Lt. Governor Giovanni Folcarelli . . . was observed marching with the pro administration demonstrators for a short period of time. A demonstrator 31 A young woman's McCarthy button led to a search for a Brown professor and a graduate student who was identified as Christopher Dodd carried an American Flag on oc- casion as he led the marchers. "FBI Agents also observed a counter demonstration of approxi- mately fifteen male and female indi- viduals in an area directory Isicj in front of the demonstrators described above. These demonstrators were led by , President of the Brown University chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). They were joined by similar members identified as coming from the Rhode Island School of Design. . . . These demonstrators car- ried placards with the following hand printed statements: " 'End the War in Vietnam.' " 'Free Elections in Vietnam.' " 'Vietnam is a Tragedy of Ameri- can Democracy.' " 'Recognize Red China.' " 'Stop the Napalming.' "Also observed was a third group of nine individuals, not identified v\ ith any group, who carried hand printed placards with the following statements: " 'Down with Pickets.' " 'Virtue is its Own Reward.' " 'New York City or Bust.' "FBI Agents observed no incidents but heard the pro administration dem- onstrators remarking to the anti admin- istration marchers as they met such statements as, 'Fags don't fight,' 'Homosexuals aren't taken in the Armv so why fear getting drafted.' Also, in- dividuals in the crowd outside the marchers tore placards from the hands of anti administration marchers, but no situations of violence developed." (Ironically, Christopher Dodd, the PC student who carried the American flag, is now Andrea Gaines's Con- gressman; he's the Democratic repre- sentative for Connecticut's 2nd District, which includes Andrea's home town.) 1966: General Earle Wheeler, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, gave a speech on the Pembroke campus outlining U.S. policy in Vietnam. "The auditorium where General Wheeler spoke was filled to capacity. During the speech about 50 students and professors silently walked out of the auditorium and conducted a picket line outside the auditorium. A question and answer period followed General Wheeler's speech during which questions asked by the students were the type to embar- rass General Wheeler and the position of the United States in Vietnam. Upon conclusion of the question and answer period, approximately 30 male and fe- male students jumped on the stage and a fight ensued between the students and the Providence Police Department. Epithets were heard, such as 'kill the murderer' and 'the blood of innocent people is on your hands.' General Wheeler was escorted unharmed from the auditorium by members of the Prov- idence Police Department. One Brown University student was arrested for dis- turbing a public assembly and five or six Providence policemen were hurt during the fracas. Many Brown University stu- dents attempted to stop the 'assault' on General Wheeler and the audience, as a whole, has been described as definitely pro-Wheeler.' " 1%7: A telegram from the Boston office dated June 5 alerted the Director's office that an anti-ROTC demonstrafion was planned at Commencement that day in which "eighteen-twenty Brown University students, identity and affiliations unknown, plan to distribut Isicl jdisrupt] proceedings and prevent the handing out of commission cer- fificates." A follow-up memo noted that "all phases of the Brown University commencement went off without dis- ruption on the college green from any student group or individual. When the less than 24 members of the Navy and Air Force ROTC groups stepped for- ward to receive their commissions, two paper banners with the inscripfion 'End ROTC, were displayed from Faunce House, and the third floor balcony of Sayles Hall. One of the banners was torn up by a student. "The source stated that many less then [sic] the 18-20 who were believed to have been going to participate did not show up. "He advised that the student group apparently running this action was the Brown Committee to Abolish ROTC, a unit from the Campus Acfion Council. No arrests were made." 1967: The Campus Action Council sponsored a "Speak Out" against the war on September 20. Four professors — Richard Taub of sociology, Newell Stultz of political science, Carlos Angulo of engineering, and William McLough- lin of history — and Assistant Chaplain Dick Dannenfelser called for an end to the war. They vvere joined by David Kertzer ('69) and Robert Cohen ('68) of the CAC. "Approximately two hundred students listened to the speakers, each of whom spoke about five minutes, and at the same tmie leaflets were dis- tributed to the freshmen calling for the abolition of the ROTC units at |Brown|." 1967: A fledgling student political group calling themselves the Sons of Liberty wrote a coy letter to the CIA, a copy of which was passed along to the FBI: "Politically, we are in definite op- position to anti-government organiza- fions of the sort that have in recent years sprouted both on and off campuses in this country (for example, on this cam- pus there is the Campus Action Coun- cil, a leffist group). ". . .At the present, our member- ship is approximately 10 (we being a new organization). Our program at the moment is to stir up controversy on the campus, by invifing radical speakers in order to have them make fools of them- selves, although we will not overtly point this out to the public, of course. "Our main difficulty is, of course, financial. It has been proven time and again that a political movement never does quite as well without funds as with. "Because of our somewhat unset- fled position, we are also open to suggestions regarding our future course as an organization. Is it in any way pos- sible to reach an agreement or arrange- ment? Our cardinal rule is being dis- creet, and perhaps we can be useful, too. "Hoping to hear from you soon (preferably before the anti-War week and associated demonstrations coming up the first two weeks of October) I re- 32 main ..." (name obliterated). There is no record of a reply from either the FBI or CIA. 1967: On October 31, representa- tives from Dow Chemical and the CIA came to Brown to recruit and were met with a protest organized by the Campus Action Council. A memo from the Bos- ton office reported that "Brown Uni- versity students made no attempt to dis- rupt interviews being conducted by the representative of the Dow Chemical Company at Metcalf Hall. . . . How- ever, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) representative, , was prevented from conducting interviews at the Undergraduate Placement Office ... by a sit-in in the building staged by approximately eighteen Brown Univer- sity students. "The demonstrators were led by David W. Schwartzman |'66], 24 . . . and Arnold Strasser, 24. . . . Both are graduate students in History. They were assisted by Assistant Professor Donald S. Blough, of the Psychology Department at Brown. Twenty-five other students carried placards in front of the building protesting the CIA in- terviews and the war in Vietnam. "An Assistant Dean, Michael J. Brennan, of the Graduate School, con- fronted the demonstrators in the build- ing and threatened disciplinary action against them. The incident lasted ap- proximately twenty minutes and termi- nated when and the As- sistant Dean left the building. "The CIA interviews were to be conducted of graduate students and Schwartzman was able to get his name on the top of the list of the interviewees. He attempted to have his interview conducted within earshot of the other demonstrators, but this was not done. "The confidential source advised that Schwartzman was one of the indi- viduals who rushed to the stage at Pembroke College on the night of Nov. 15, 1966, while General Earle S. Wheel- er was speaking. . . . Schwartzman was arrested for his part in the melee that followed, but he was not jailed. He has also been active in the protest movement on campus." The Dow Chemical Company didn't get off so easily on its next visit, in December. "The recruiter arrived shortly after 9:00 a.m. and . . . approximately 35 students of the Campus Action Council, an ap- proved student society, began carrying placards in front of the building, the placards protesting the war in Vietnam. This continued until approximately 11:30 a.m., when a formation gathered near the arch of the Faunce House, where two effigies of supposed Viet- namese peasants were burned by 'napalm.' The ashes of the effigies were placed in two caskets, placed on the shoulders of some of the demonstrators, and carried to the [Undergraduate Placement Office). The two caskets were placed on the porch of the building, a eulogy was spoken, and then the cas- kets were brought back to the main campus and placed in front of Univer- sity Hall. . . . "The source stated that it appeared to him that , a Brown Uni- versity graduate student, was the main organizer of the demonstration. The source described as being very active in the protest movement on the campus." (Here, as elsewhere throughout the FBI papers, it's not clear why names are obliterated on one document and not another.) 1968: The first in a series of sUent peace vigils, held every Wednesday at noon in front of the flagpole on the Green, was duly noted in a report dated Feb. 27. The report was routinely circulated to the Air Force Office of Special Investigations at Davisville, the Naval Investigative Service Office in Newport, the U.S. Secret Service, the Army's 108th Military Intelligence Group, the Providence Police, and the U.S. Attorney's office in Providence. 1968: A memo from the FBI to the White House, the Secret Service, and the State Department alerted them to a proposed demonstration against Vice President Hubert Humphrey, who was scheduled to speak in Providence March 15: "Previous information had been re- ceived that efforts were being made by a representative of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a civil rights group, to recruit support for a demon- stration against Vice President Hum- phrey. . . . Student leaders at Brown University hope to mobilize one thou- sand five hundred demonstrators to participate in this demonstration. Mem- bers of various antiwar and antidraft groups, including the Campus Action Council of Brown University; Rhode Is- land Committee for. Peace in Vietnam; Students for Democratic Action at the University of Rhode Island; New Eng- land Resistance Group of Boston; Rhode Island Resistance Group; and students from Hope High School, Providence, Rhode Island; will participate in the demonstration. The program is being planned to be nonviolent and nondis- ruptive." No follow-up report is included. 1968: One of the most extensive cases in the files involved an Army deserter who was apparently aided by a Brown professor and graduate student. The story begins in April at Kennedy Airport, where an FBI informant was boarding a TWA flight to Albuquerque. " noticed two girls who were together and who also were awaiting the flight. noted one of the girls was wearing a large MC CARTHY campaign button. . . . said he struck up a con- versation with the girls by asking the girl with the MC CARTHY button if she thought her man would win. He said they then had a conversation about politics. The second girl had very little to say and did not enter into the conver- sation to any great extent. " said he could not re- call the sequence of the conversation but he talked to the girl on the flight from New York to Albuquerque. The girl asked him what he did and when he told her he was a physicist, she appar- ently felt he must be associated with some college and that she could confide in him. The girl with the MC CARTHY button told him she had just come from helping her brother who was in the Army and who was 'deserhng.' She told that she had just put her 33 The files provide a fascinating, unsettling, and sometimes hilarious glimpse of the bureaucratic mind at work brother on a plane for Europe and was of the opinion she meant she had done this just a brief time before boarding her own flight. She told they had copies made of orders shipping him to Germany; that he was traveling in uniform and that his uniform would constitute his passport. She said he was due to go to Vietnam and that he had just recently returned from Germany. She said he would go to Paris, France, where he had a girlfriend attending a university in Paris. He would then go to Germany and from there he would seek asylum in Sweden. "The girl said that a Professor and a graduate student at Brown University had been of 'real help' in assisting her brother. . . . She said her brother had gone to Denver, Colorado, where he apparently had access to some Air Force forms which he could determine the proper form from to be used in counter- feiting the travel orders to Germany. ". . said that he did not know for sure whether or not the girl had taken an active part in the preparation of the counterfeiting papers for her brother, or whether she just had knowledge of what had taken place. He does recall that the girl said she was going to Phoenix, Arizona . . . that her mother would learn or had learned of what had happened; that her mother would be terribly upset over the actions of her daughter and son. said he asked her if she had tried to talk him out of his desertion and the girl re- plied she had not done so due to the fact he was her brother. " said that when the plane landed in Chicago they had an hour wait. The second girl left them at Chicago. He offered to buy the first girl a drink and they went to an airport bar. While in the bar the girl went to the rest- room. She left her things at the table and noted that her ticket was made out to a believes that her travel originated in New York since she men- tioned being in Greenwich Village for a day or so prior to leaving New York." On the second leg of the flight, from Chicago to Albuquerque, the in- formant (who apparently wrts a physicist connected with the Los Alamos facility) approached some military personnel (identified only as "assigned to Joint Task Force 8") on the plane and told them of his conversation with the girl. ". . . Upon the arrival of the airplane in Albuquerque, approached I the girl I in order to obtain more information. , at this point, denied having a brother and de- clined to discuss the matter further. was described as a white female, 18-19 years, 5'-2", 110- 120 lbs. with auburn pixie cut hair. stated that the above in- formation would be disseminated to appropriate military authorities." Most of the material on this case is heavilv censored, making it difficult to piece together the whole story, but the FBI and the military undertook a wide-ranging in- vestigation — from New Hampshire to Arizona — to ferret out the identities and whereabouts of the girl, her brother, and the Brown professor and grad- uate student. The graduate student, as it turned out, was the girl's boy- friend, and the FBI was able to track down his father in Phoenix. The father told them that his son was connected with a psychology laboratory at Brown and was apparentlv still in Providence. A check with the registrar's office at Brown in September showed that he was no longer registered as a graduate student, and the psychology lab gave his current address as New York City. (There is no record in the files that the FBI was able to ascertain the professor's identit}'.) The FBI had also tracked down the girl's parents in New Hampshire and had a lengthy conversation with her mother, who told them that while her son was home on leave from the Army in March she heard her son and daugh- ter "vehementiv oppose the United States involvement in the war in Vietnam. Her son was back and forth from Nashua to Providence, and she understood that sent her son to a chaplain at Brown University regarding a possible way out of going to Vietnam, and also had him confer with a psychologist in Boston. ... In the lat- ter part of March, 1968 received a letter from her son from Paris, France, stating he had gone to France in order to avoid going to Vietnam. . . . She said that, at the pres- ent time, her daughter is with in the State of Arizona. . . . She does not know his address, but this information undoubt- edly would be available at Brown Uni- versity." The FBI's efforts to find the girl and her boyfriend in Arizona were ap- parently unsuccessful, but at one ad- dress where they made inquiries "it was noted that the apartment . . . was painted in various psychedelic colors." Two months later, the FBI obtained the graduate student's current address in New York City from the psychology lab at Brown, and a memorandum notes: "AT NEW YORK, NEW YORK: Will attempt to locate and his girl friend re any in- volvement on their part in assisting in getting out of the United States in order to avoid military service in Viet Nam." There is no record to show that the FBI did find them, but in the meantime, the girl's brother had turned himself in. "On July 11, 1968, telephonically contacted the Boston Division of the FBI and ad- vised that she had received a telephone call from her son in London, England, and that he indicated that he was going to give himself up to military authori- ties." 1968: The walkout by black stu- dents on December 5 was covered in one terse teletyped report: "At noon to- day, thirty-five Negro female students at Pembroke College, the girls section of Brown, and fift}'-two Negro male stu- dents at Brown will 'disassociate them- selves' from the University in protest against the University's admission pol- icy relative to black students. The pro- gram is being directed by the Afro- American Society of Brown University. The source stated that he expects the students to leave and boycott their classes. He expects no violence. Ap- propriate agencies alerted." 34 1969: A sit-in at University Hall during a meeting of the Advisory and Executive Committee on April 14 to dis- cuss the presence of ROTC on campus was reported on as follows: "At 2:53 p.m., approximately 100 students, both male and female, walked in on the meet- ing and were asked to leave by Presi- dent Ray Heffner. The students refused to leave. The Advisory and Executive Committee, including President Heffner walked out of the building. The stu- dents inside remained. Approximately 200 to 400 students are standing outside the building at the present time." A follow-up report noted that "the stu- dents had left University Hall ... at 4:50 p.m. this date. No incidents oc- curred and the students inside and out- side the building dispersed. The con- fidential source further advised that there is no actual leaders (sic) amongst students, and that there appears to be three or four factions. Also there ap- peared to be a number of students who believe that ROTC should be part of the curriculum." 1970: Russ Bailey 73 and Robert King '73 paid a visit to FBI headquarters in October, asking permission to inter- view an FBI official or agent for an arti- cle for the Brown Daily Herald. Their re- quest was turned down by Hoover, who pointed out in a letter to Bailey that "the FBI's success has been based on the joint efforts of all its employees and, as a matter of policy, we have avoided spot- lighting the individual." An infernal note at the bottom of the letter gave an account of Bailey's and King's visit and observed that the BDH "last year was run by radical students and was defi- nitely anti-law enforcement. This year paper has been more moderate but Bos- ton Office recommends against cooper- ation of the type requested since there would be no way to control the nature of the article." 1975: The takeover of University Hall by black students marks the end of the current FBI files on Brown. A series of teletyped reports (headed "Potential for violence") advised that "approxi- mately thirty-five black students stating Ht'dwn .nul thi- IH.nl World . . Put tint; a price on promises The opming spread of the May 1975 BAM's coverage of the University Hall occupatum: More in the BAM than in the FBI files. that they represent the Organization of United African Peoples entered Uni- versity Hall ... at approximately eight a.m., April 24, 1975, and announced they were taking control of the building. Everyone was allowed to leave, how- ever, two deans stayed in the hall to act as negotiators between the University and the student group. stated there are approximately one hundred pickets outside the hall show- ing their support for the student group. "The American Civil Liberties Union, lawyers for the OUAP, are on campus as observers. . . . The group consists of students and some alumni but no outside agitators." A second report dated April 25 noted that "the black students have been very peaceful while in University Hall. There has been no violence or damage to any property." It goes on to list the students' demands for amnesty, increased recruitment and representa- tion of blacks and Latin Americans, no cutbacks in supportive services for blacks or in the size of the faculty, and expansion of the Afro-American Studies program. The following day, the source reported that "the takeover at Univer- sitv Hall ended at approximately ten- thirty p.m., April 25, 1975. The black students evacuated peacefully as Brown University officials have agreed to in- crease the number of black applicants by twenty-five percent over the next three years. "On inspection of University Hall there was no damage done." These are simply the highlights of 337 pages' worth of docu- ments; there is much more, which is available to anyone who can af- ford to pay the FBI $33.70 for copying costs. But the FBI files hardly constitute a complete record of Brown-related political activities. Indeed, the gaps are often more interesting than the infor- mation the files do contain. With one exception — the denial of Russ Bailey's request to interview an FBI employee in 1970 — there is nothing at all in the files from April 1969 to April 1975, a period that included the May 1970 campus strike after the invasion of Cambodia and the killings at Kent State. As Robert A. Reichley, vice president for Univer- sity relations who was editor of the BAM from 1968 to 1971, puts it, "There was a lot more in the Brcnuii Aliiwui Monthly than there is in the FBI papers." The same holds true for the BDH and the Providence journal. 35 By Gordon T. Bean '81 Behind the scenes at the Production Workshop 'This was a play I wanted to see' c 'ondon, July: I stopped running when I heard the bell toll for the twelfth time. The Ganyfere Youth Hostel bolts its doors at midnight, and the proprietor makes no excep- tions. My sleeping bag, my backpack, my three- pound deposit — all were locked in for the night. I was on my own. As I wandered off in search of a park bench, words from a Paul McCartney song began to repeat themselves in mv head: "Silver rain was falling down upon the dirty ground of London Town." I smiled, feeling like a character in a play. Then 1 found an empty bench and went to sleep. Providence, February: The stage lights keep pulsating i)n and off, making the ordinarily serene London park setting look like a ship deck suffering through a thunderstorm. From my front-row seat 1 look over at Dina, the show's flutist; together, we peer up at Omit, the dimmerboard operator, as he frantically adjusts various knobs and levers. The audience, however, seems oblivious to the prob- lem, rewarding each of Brian's and Terri's songs with enthusiastic applause. No one even giggles when Brian sings, "Images of broken light, which dance before me like a million eyes. ..." Maybe they think the "broken-lighting" is part of the show. Finally, Ken finishes his last monologue, biciding the audience good-by. Saturday night's performance of Lomio)i Town has ended. Thus was London Town brought under spot- lights. The image that had struck me in July — songs about London sung in a lonely park — found life in February on the stage of Brown's Production Workshop. The resulhng journey threw me into the unfamiliar role of casting and di- recting a show. My usual occupation is writing, a process that allows the calm observation of life. Di- recting a show, on the other hand, forces you to deal with people and problems that cannot be erased or typed over. The experience actually kept me from writing, as I didn't even have the time to keep a journal. I can only hope that now, recalling these events gone by, my prose will project some of the excitement 1 felt as a participant. "Words are flowing out like endless rain, the Universe") ' ("Across ^^fter returning from London and sleeping Z^L through an uneventful summer, I re- X JL turned to Brown, ready to resume my studies as a semioHcs major. The initial two-week blitz of new books and new faces passed, and 1 started taking long late-night walks through the streets of Providence's East Side. The area's melancholy mood conjured up images of my Lon- don summer; once again, words to various Paul McCartney songs passed through my head, and having a compulsion to structure things, I began to think of how these inherently theatrical songs could be put together to form some sort of musical. 36 77it' pwducL'r and his cast (above): Brian Miincy '79, Terri Bensinger '80, Gordon Bean, and Ken Shepherd '79. Soon I was sitting in classes, my pen writing down possible song sequences instead of lecture notes. My efforts resulted in a list of six McCartney songs that all, at least in mood, dealt with life in London: "Another Day," the everyday life of an office worker; "Lonely Old People," scenes from a home for the aged (later changed to the Lennon-Mc- Cartney classic, "Across the Universe"); "Junk," a wistful description of a junkyard; "Eleanor Rigby," images of two lonely church-dwellers; "Single Pigeon," an evocation of Regent's Park on a Sunday morning; and "London Town," McCartney's impressions of his home. I envi- sioned a man and a woman, strangers to each other, singing these songs as they wandered through a London park setting. The man would accompany himself on guitar, while the woman would be backed by a flute and a piano. To tie the six songs together, and to give the show more substance, I decided to employ a nar- rator who would speak to the audience directly about London life. The search for suitable source material took me to level B of the John D. Rockefel- ler Library, where I discovered Gerard Fay's Passenger to London, a series of meditaHons upon modern London. A working journalist. Fay writes 37 'None of my three cast members had ever been in a Brown production. That made us even. I had never directed.' in an honest, colloquial style that completely won me over, particularly since I had just finished plowing through countless travelogues written by rich Americans who coo over "wonderful, quaint little London." Taking one of the floor's few unoc- cupied carrels, I began to cut and rewrite Fay's ma- terial into four short monologues, a task that took me through the week. Finally I had completed a fifteen-page script (including song lyrics) that I would submit to Brown's student-run theater or- ganizahon. Production Workshop. Production Workshop, or "PW," meets every Sunday in the Faunce House student lounge. Composed entirely of students, the board reviews current shows, discusses finances, and, every few meetings, entertains directors proposing to pro- duce both original and professionally written plays. The Sunday 1 was to propose found me tired and unshaven, having stayed up typing the night before. 1 crouched tensely on the periphery of the meeting, until somebody looked at me and said my name. A space cleared, and 1 made my way to the center of the group, handing out copies of my script. I stood for half a minute before I realized that they expected me to start talking. "London Town is, uh, kind of a musical," I began, weakly. "It's made up of Paul McCartney songs with a narration that ties the whole thing to- gether." Realizing how hopelessly vague this sounded, I went on to explain the show more fully, encouraged by the interested faces of the PW board. I answered a few questions, then said good-by and walked back to my room. Two hours later, I picked up my ringing phone and was told that the board had chosen London Town as one of the two one-act shows they would present on Feb- ruary 16, 17, and 18. A grin filled my face as I put down the phone and went to put on some Paul McCartney albums. "Out of zoork again, the actor entertains . . . ivith the same old stories of his ordinary life. " ("London Toion") Finding the actors and singers to perform London Town became my next task. I had already enlisted my set designer, Larry Maslon '81, and my musical director. Ken Freund- lich '81; now I had to find a narrator, a female singer, and a male singer who could also play the guitar. The first step in this search had me trotting over the entire Brown community, posting audition announcements in every conceivable lo- cation, from the music building's bulletin board to the mirror in a dozen men's rooms. Then I ob- tained a list of male singer-guitarists from Brown's Big Mother Coffeehouse and a list of female singers hom the Chattertocks (BAM, March). Call- ing each name on both these lists took much longer than I had expected, with many people seemingly spending all their time in the library. Most of those that I did contact, however, sounded enthusiastic and agreed to audition. The first night of auditions arrived, and 1 slipped into the PW theater at 9 o'clock. Before me sat only about ten possible cast members, a fact that disappointed me. Somehow I had imagined that the intimate theater would have been filled to the walls with eager young performers. "I'll be taking the actors first," I began, "but before you begin reading I want to remind you that the narrator, Peter McNichol, is a journalist, not an actor. He's going to be talking to the audi- ence, not shouhng at them. So try to make it natural, OK? Now who wants to go first?" Silence. I got a few nervous smiles, but no volunteers. Glancing around, 1 finally met the eyes of someone I had met before. "Mark, how about you?" Mark, who possessed the advantage of look- ing Z'cn/ British, paused a second, then walked onto the flat acting area. In this, as well as in the following night's audihons, I sat in the front row, holding my clipboard and feeling very uncomfort- able. Though I never looked around to find out, the feeling always nagged me that prospective cast members were sneaking looks at me to gauge my likes and dislikes. On each of the two nights, in any case, the disappoinhngly few number of ac- tors finished quickly, leaving the floor to the sing- ers and guitarists. This portion of the proceedings proved much more enjoyable, as each performer was singing a song he had chosen, rather than try- ing to read an unfamiliar monologue. And there is really something magical about musical talent, something that cuts right thrt)ugh the dry tension of tryouts. A heshman I had known only as a voice over the phone would get up and sing "Yester- day" almost as well as McCartney himself — it was just thrilling. Finally, after the last candidate had packed up his guitar and left, I sat down with Ken, my musi- cal director, to decide on a cast. The choice for nar- rator had never been clear — up until the final hour of audihons. At that time, a Nordic-looking fellow ambled in, seemingly by accident, carrying a styrofoam cup filled with some mysterious liquor. By this time desperate (or any actors, I asked him if he wanted to try out. He said he did, and, stepping out front, gave the first reading of the script that sounded unforced and untheatrical. He sounded like he meant what he was saying. Maybe it was due only to his dramahc last-minute appearance, but I decided right then to cast Ken Shepherd '79 as London Town's narrator. The choices for the two musical roles proved much more difficult, with at least three perfect | candidates for both the male and female roles. Ken Freundlich and I kept creating and rejecting vari- ous combinations, unrtl we were left with just two 38 names — Terri Bensinger '80 and Brian Muney 79. Strikingly beautiful, Terri had performed versions of "Eleanor Rigby" and "Good Morning, Heart- ache" that had exhibited the sensitivity and vocal skills that her part demanded. Brian, her partner, fitted his role of street singer perfectly, looking and sounding a bit like a young Bob Dylan, but with his own parhcular style. Later that night, as I typed the cast list, I realized happily that none of my three cast members had ever been in a Brown production. That made us even. I had never di- rected here, either. ". . . she takes a break, drinks another coffee atici finds it hard to stay awake." ("Another Day") The PW board had allotted London Town only ten days' rehearsal. Ten days for Ken S. to learn his monologues; ten days for Brian, Terri, Ken F., and Dina Charnin '79, our flutist, to learn the songs. To combat the close deadline, I decided to hold two rehearsals a day — one for the narrator, another for the musicians. This meant that I did very little schoolwork, and ate and slept only sporadically. It also meant that I had a lot of fun. Barring a natural disaster, London Town had to appear before the opening night audi- ence on February 16. No extensions. No excuses. They either clapped or yawned, and the responsi- bility was ours. We worked intensively as a team; no one had veto power, not even me. Ken F. worked out most of the arrangements, but Brian came up with some exc^uisite touches, particularly on "Eleanor Rigby" and "Across the Universe" (whose inclusion was his doing, anyway). Like- wise, Ken S. wrote many of his own best lines, in- cluding a section on punk rock that proved to be one of the show's more memorable features. Exciting as the work was, for me the best moments of rehearsals were the quieter ones. An especially clear memory is the break that Brian, Terri, and I took one night in the Big Mother Cof- feehouse. When we arrived, the door wouldn't open, but Terri, thirsty and determined, banged undl it did. A gnomish young man appeared and led us inside the dim cafe, which was empty ex- cept for us. After getting some tea, bread, and cheese, we sat on the low stage that occupies one end of the room, talking for once about our lives outside the show. Brian spoke of his plan of going out on the road as a folksinger, while I told of my experiences doing street magic in Norway. Terri, in turn, recalled the time that, singing with the Chattertocks, she had begun a song at the wrong time and in the wrong key — the nightmare of any singer. Her story ended happily, though, as she had simply stopped, apologized, and started again, finishing to warm applause. The three of us sipped on our tea and continued talking until I spied a shadowy clock that showed we were already ten minutes late for our next session with Ken and Dina. Languidly, we got to our feet and started for the door. I can remember thinking that doing the show was worthwhile if only for meet- ing such nice people. As opening night approached, the obligatory last-minute emergencies appeared to give the pro- duction a sense of dramatic urgency. Brian and Terri decided that the key for "London Town" wasn't exactly right, making Ken transpose his piano and flute arrangements, which had already taken him long to work out. A far more serious problem presented itself when Brian walked in one night, unable to talk, much less sing. Develop- ing for a week, a cold had blossomed into a severe sore throat. And since London Tozvn had no un- derstudies, this meant that if Brian didn't get well, our audiences would see only Tlie Typists, the one- act play with which we shared the bill. A further crisis concerned Ken's monologues, which, put into context with the songs, became agonizingly boring. Ken refused to cut them, and nothing I could say would change his mind. We eventually worked out a compromise, however: Ken would accede to half of my cuts on opening night, but could do as he pleased the rest of the three-day run. The night before the premiere, we met in a deserted Sayles Hall classroom, where he per- formed the revised speeches for me. As always, his delivery fascinated me in its eccentricity, and we parted amicably. My meeting with Ken over, 1 jogged through the thin night air to the PW theater, where Larry, my set designer, was working hard. Earlier in the day, he and I had walked up and down Thayer Street in search of any posters or memorabilia connected with Britian. Our findings — from a punk rock poster to an Oxford Press banner — were to adorn the pasteboard skyline and side- flats that, together with a park bench and a street- light, would create a stylized London park. As I arrived at 2 a.m. that night, Larry was in the pro- cess of affixing an old Beatles at the Palladium poster to one of the flats. I joined in, and two hours later we had completed the last of the cluttered col- lages. Then we flicked the light switches and stumbled off to bed. The hours before opening night curtain fell away with surprising ease. Ken S. wandered in just as he had done during auditions, sipping wine from his omnipresent styrofoam cup. Terri ap- peared in the sleek trenchcoat she had chosen for her costume, while Brian returned, showing off his miraculously restored singing voice. Joined by Ken F. and Dina, our theatrical veterans, we talked and joked until word came that The Typists had let out. This was it. I took my front-row seat just as the audience was filing back after intermission. Faces that had passecl me on the Green or in the library now looked down at yellow programs, reading the cast and credits of this strange new show. After a short speech by a PW board member soliciting contribu- tions, the house lights dimmed and Ken S. walked out from the wings. "Good evening, and welcome to London Town." Smiling, I leaned forward in my chair. This was a plav I'd wanted to see for a long time. "Another Day" ciipyright Maclen Music, IiK.iMPL Cimimuniaiticins, Inc. "Acroifif the Universe" cintl "Eh'nuor Righy" copyright Maclen Music, Inc. "London Toum" copyrigh I MPL Communications, Inc. I ATV Music Corp . 39 IHIffl Czeching Account: The Slavic Arts Festival at Brown By Kathleen A. Hirsch One day in 1894 a recently im- poverished Czech artist bent over illustration proofs in the dusty backrooms of Lemercier's Paris print shop. Having been cut off by his patron, the student of Academic Julian had turned from painHng to freelance graphics as a means of staying solvent, and though from time to time he and his studio-mate Gauguin enjoyed the circle of luminaries that frequented a Left Bank creamery, his career remained un- eventful. When the phone rang at the printer's that afternoon, Alphonse Mucha was interrupted from his work. Miss Bernhardt needed a poster vite- ment; was he interested? He was, and with the birth of "Gismonda," the first in a generation of art nouveau posters, Mucha became a household word in his time. Mucha's posters challenge anyone who thinks champagne or cigarette ads have to be dull; witness his "Job" (right) and "Moet and Chandon" series. Twenty of these original posters and a slide show of the masterpieces Mucha considered his "serious" effort formed the centerpiece of a week-long Slavic Arts Festival at Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design in April. But for those who attended festival events, it was clear that the Slavic heri- tage, unlike that of many European na- tions, does not rest solely in its brilliant exemplars. The Slavic tradition is a unique amalgam of European and orien- tal elements transformed by its own folk heritage. Too often this identity has been obscured beneath the designation "Eastern Bloc" and festival speakers ar- gued — convincingly — that to make this error was to limit ourselves to the most superficial understanding of an immensely fertile cultural seedbed. Mucha, who is known to students through the posters that can be seen along any dormitory corridor, is an example of Czech eclecticism. Univer- sity of Rhode Island Professor Roberta Reeder, co-chairman of the festival, portrayed Mucha as a highly synthetic arhst. His posters not only reveal a strong Byzantine influence in his use of mosaic and border motifs, but also bear the trace of Japanese figure drawing. Like his contemporary, Aubrey Beards- ley, Mucha was fascinated by large figures against spare backgrounds, masses of pattern juxtaposed to wide areas of line and stylized contour. Color, flowers, and mythical symbols became a part of his work as they did his life, and Mucha became so popular that he published a style book for would-be Mucha s to copy. While in Paris, along with Gau- guin, Mucha befriended August Strind- berg, and together they explored the oc- cult, conducting seances and parlor ex- periments including alchemv and au- tomatic writing. Mucha once claimed that the German wrriter Goethe was present with him on such occasions. At the height of his Parisian acclaim, Mucha inhabited effulgent surround- ings, and among the delightful details of his routine, enjoyed fresh flowers shipped daily from Nice. But apparent- ly such cultic forays and affluence did not blunt his love for his homeland, for, returning there in 1902 with another friend, Auguste Rodin, he entered his village to tears of welcome, which so moved Rodin that the sculptor vowed he would spend the rest of his life there among the rural Slavs. Nor did Paris sate Mucha's quest for artishc excellence, for in 1904 he sailed to the United States and lived here as a portrait painter for nearly six years, periodically visiting his home- land, but returning again to make the money required for his visionary "Slavic Epic." It was on one of his last trips that he met Charles Crane, the man who promised to fund his dream, and in 1910 the epic was begun. The collection of massive canvases that span the ages of Slavic history are seldom seen outside Eastern Europe. Mucha spent several years photographing in his homeland and Russia before undertaking the ef- fort. In the slides presented by Professor Reeder it was possible to make out such diverse stylistic parallels as Titian, Jerico, and Gustav Moreau. Mucha spent the rest of his life in Czechoslovakia, returning only once to Paris during the tense years 1936-38 for an exhibit of his work at the Musee du Jeu de Paume. In 1939 when the Nazis invaded his country, he was held for six months and died shortly after his re- lease. Political turmoil has always earmarked the Czech people, and two festival lectures outlined the impact such conttnental shifts have had on the cultural development and con- tributions of the Czechs. At the time when superior film- making was almost synonymous with Czech cinematography, Frantishek Daniel led New Wave film-makers, both as a producer and as dean of the Prague Film Institute. Currently chairman of the film studies department at Columbia University and former dean of the American Film Institute, Daniel's Czechoslovakian career was interrupted 40 by the 1968 Soviet invasion. Speaking at Brown, he traced his own experience in film in relation to the country's political shock waves from 1950 to 1970. Coming of age as a film academy graduate in 1950, Daniel faced "the worst time for film-makers. Stalinism was at its peak and many of my col- leagues were either black-listed or committed suicide." Even as late as 1960, Daniel's first film was liquidated by the government and he was prohib- ited from producing or writing for a year. Daniel's description of Czech film-making provided a valuable coun- terpoint to the American film system. The film industry was the first in Czechoslovakia to be nationalized after the war and — what might seem re- markable to Americans — was orches- trated by the directors and film-makers themselves. Their attitude, according to Daniel, was "that film should belong to the people and that money should go back into support of the art, without government intervention." Between 1945-48 in the small country of Czecho- slovakia, film-makers produced about forty feature films a year. With the sud- den Communist takeover in 1948, pro- duction shrank drastically and it was not until 1955 that the structure en- visioned by film-makers a decade before took final shape. All members of the nationalized cinema were salaried, and production "units" functioned as independent parts of the whole. Production was state-financed and proceeds reverted to the various units: the production units (including script writer and direc- tor/manager) down through film pro- duction, distribution, technical equip- ment, and theatre maintenance groups. Hence, a producer like Daniel was working on forty or more scripts at a time, hiring actors and overseeing the daily workings of films in progress. When a film was successful, the director didn't walk away with the bank. Pro- ceeds were directed back into the in- dustry, thus creating a spirit of profes- sionalism and cooperation, according to Daniel. It was in this environment that the second generation of film academy graduates created the New Wave in Czech cinema, which during the 1960s claimed more than its share of interna- tional awards and propelled Czech in- novative film-making into the public eye. But the idyll again collapsed in 1968, and Daniel, Milos Forman, and other members of the Czech vanguard became political exiles, primarily dis- persing to the United States and Ger- many. It would seem from Daniel's ac- count that Czech cultural his- tory is cyclical. What he described of cultural upheaval during the last twenty-five years is strikingly reminis- cent of events in the first half of this cen- tury; and Josef Rostinsky, a Brown graduate student in the Department of Slavic Languages, addressed this period — the avant-garde, at its peak in the 1920s — and its ultimate demise in the face of radical social change. Czech avant-garde owes much to the French influence, and arose, accord- ing to Rostinsky, in response to transla- tions from Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Ver- laine, and Apollinaire. The apolitical movement, with strong ties to French dadaism and surrealism, took on the name of "Poetism" in keeping with the Czech impulse to assert its unique cul- tural perspective. Rostinsky believes this perspective to be more rational and naturalistic than that of the French. Nevertheless, in the optimism of post- war Europe, Poetism asserted the pri- macy of man as an existential being with individual passions and emotions rather than as a functional social unit. Lyricism characterized the movement on all levels and the Czech people responded. During that time Prague boasted an as- tonishing ninety theatres, and avant- garde journals abounded. Charlie Chaplin was almost a national hero. eXHISl'TION BROOKLYN MUTGUM jAn.f€S.ig2i Like the French movement, however, Poetism became political when its theoreticians ran headlong into the so- cialist realism that had been imported from Russia. The Poetists believed that social change could only come about through a change in consciousness, while the socialist realists believed that change in consciousness would only come about through revolution. At the peak of the Czech avant- garde, the movement was synthesizing such widely varied influences as Italian futurism, French surrealism, Russian constructivism, residual traces of ex- pressionism, and religious cultism. Simultaneously, the country was un- dergoing a strong Catholic and ruralist movement. The war brought such activities to a standstill, but it was Stalinism that ultimately and violently ended it. Many avant-garde leaders killed themselves rather than stand the charge of "counter-revolutionary activ- ity" and subsequent retribution. But the awesome spirit of Czech cultural integ- rity raised its head again during the 1960s when young artists recognized the wealth of their forebears and, like New Wave film-makers, sought to reinvigorate the Slavic heritage. Folksongs and national music are a strain of culture that seem al- most immune to political influ- ence, and a Brown audience heard the ageless songs of the Slavic countries performed by the all-female Yale Slavic Chorus. As with all folk tradition, the songs revolved around romance and the inevitable parental concerns of the suitor's ability to support his loved one. In opening remarks at the festival, Professor of Slavic Languages Thomas Winner said that the festival's greatest achievement would be in delineating the Slavic affinity and contributions to Western culture. Noting that Prague is further west than Vienna, he com- mented that in order to fully appreciate Slavic heritage it is necessary to observe its intense interaction with the move- ments of the West. Festival participants demonstrated this interaction and cross-fertilization beyond any doubt, and came away with a deeper apprecia- tion of this frequently misinterpreted bastion of cultural ferment and bold individuality. Knthlccii Hirsch is a master's degree cniidi- dnte ill the English departmeut's creative writing program. 41 written bii jay Barry '1 ^ Hugh W. MacNair and Louise have J. / moved to Kennett Square "in his- toric Chester County, Pa., where the gentle Brandywine River flows." "f O Rosicell S. Bosworth, former editor JLO and publisher of Tlw Brift^^I Phoenix, Bristol, R.I., has been named hon- orary chairman of Bristol's Tricentennial celebration planned for 1980. He began his association with the Phoenix in 1928, after spending several years as a teacher, a high school principal in Little Compton, R.I., and a banker in Chile. He was editor and pub- lisher of the Phoenix for fort)--two years and is now chairman of its board of directors. ^ f\ George H. R/ioite urites that he ^m\f spent some time in the hospital for corrective surgery in late December, was re- leased Jan. 10, and did his convalescence during some inclement winter weather. His address: Mattison House Apt. C-4, 174 South Bethlehem Pike, Ambler, Pa. 19002. ^ ^ Arthur K. Litehfiehi is chairman of ^■^H the board of trustees of the Tri Par Estates, Park, and Recreation District, created as a political sub-division of the state of Florida. He lives in Sarasota, Fla. josep'h W. Scharf writes: "Contrarv to ap- pearances, I am not retired. I have a winter home in Anza-Borrego Desert, Box 958, Roadrunner Club, Borrego Springs, Calif. 92004. I also retain my apartment at Tuxedo Park in New York City. Visitors are welcome at beautiful Tuxedo Park or at Roadrunner Club-Borrego Springs." He reports that he has recovered from a serious illness, but has acquired arthritis. "Otherwise healthy and blessed with a most able, cheerful, and realistic wife, Dolly. I look forward to seeing some of you at our mini-58th reunion in June." ^ ^ Merrill W. Chase, New York City, »m / reports that since he became pro- fessor emeritus at The Rockefeller University in New York City in 1976 he has continued to run his research laboratory, studying both nahve mycobacterial antigens and tuberculin preparations currently employed for diag- nosis. His laboratory is currently funded through 1979 (the twenty-third year of his grant) by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Franklin D Elmer, Jr., recently took a three-week junket into the Antarctic, "a fabulous experience getting acquainted with penguins, icebergs, and glaciers." He also has spent some time in China, getting ac- quainted with "the hovercraft ferry from Hong Kong to Whampoa, the fine art of acupuncture, the glories of Kwei Lin, and life in general." The sympathy of the class is extended to jaeob Marinsky, whose wife. Rose, died July 14. He lives at 12012 Washington PI. #6, Los Angeles, Calif. 90066. John V. Muiiroe, Dover, Mass., reports that his grandson, Mark Munroe '81, of An- chorage, Alaska, is on the Brown swimming team. ^ Q •^'■' Clark reports that he is still ^7 "very active," serving as president of Art Clark Realtors, the Sarasota Board of Realtors, and the Florida West Coast Mental Health Board. William C. Foster, director of the chemical laboratory in the pathology department at Jeannes Hospital in Philadelphia, was chair- man of the session on nutrition at the twenty-seventh International Congress of Physiological Sciences held in Paris last July. At that Hme he presented a paper on "The Effect of Estrogens on Serum Vitamin B-12." Don Marschner, Durham, N.H., retired a few years ago but still finds himself teachmg courses every now and then in marketing and adverhsing, both at the Whittemore School of Business and Economics and at the Center for Institutional and Industrial De- velopment, two units of the University of New Hampshire. "My golf handicap fluc- tuates between 17 when school is out and its present 22," he writes. 30 Dorothy A. Hill is doing volunteer work at the Providence Athe- naeum. Lucy Fogarty Quirk has the sympathy of her classmates on the death of her husband, Arthur. Her address: Whispering Pines Rd., Wyoming, R.I. 02898. WhenPiJf Hogan Shea and Dot Hill visited Verna Follett Spaeth in November, they or- ganized all the Josiah Carberry papers that had arrived since John's death in 1973 and sent them to the archives at Brown. '5 "I Allen /. Arnold, Lutherville, Md., J JL is retired from Commercial Credit and IS a part-time employee at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Abraham M. Goldstone, Brooklyn, N.Y., has rehred as assistant to the city personnel director in New York City. '2 O Dr. David E. Bass writes that since yj ^m his early retirement from govern- ment service in 1973 he has found "a new and exciting career" as a visiting professor of physiology at three different universities — Simon Eraser University in Vancouver, Canada; University of Nevada; and now the medical school of the University of Hawaii. "Was in swimming on Christmas Day and New Year's Day," he adds. Helen Baldwin Lang reports the death of her husband, Charles, last August. In an up- date on her children, Helen notes that Fraser graduated from Brown in 1967, Neil received his degree from RPI in 1961, Keith graduated from American University in 1976, and daughter Leslie received her degree from George Washington University in 1970. The youngest child, Duncan, is completing his junior year at William and Mary. Helen lives at 9633 Whiteacre Rd. (A-2), Columbia, Md. 21045. Max I. Millman writes that he is enjoying retirement in his new apartment at 25 Arthur Ave., East Providence, "having sold my home." O ^ James Doran reports that he sailed >D>D from Wickford, R.I., to Palm Beach, Fla., aboard the Sen Crest, the fifty- six-foot sport fishing boat owned by Tom and Bill Gilbane. "A really great trip!" William G. Fienemann sends word that he is retired and living at 310 Patton Dr., Cheshire, Conn. 06410. Edward P. Jones is rehred and living at 7100 Sunset Way, St. Petersburg Beach, Fla. 33706. William G. McLean (Sc.M.), professor emeritus of engineering science and a former director of engineering at Lafayette College, has received an honorary degree from that college. ^^ Charles R. Dixon has retired from >J^t Reynolds Metals Co. and is now a consultant in engineering — both electrical and aluminum welding. He lives at 8410 Freestone Ave., Richmond, Va. 23229. L. Richard Fried, Los Angeles, writes that he came East last fall and motored through the six New England states to see the turning leaves. "Stopped at Brown for the first time since graduation and was delighted to see that the campus still looks familiar." Rosalind Wallace Green, a member of the Vamum Continental Ladies, and her hus- band, Albert Green, continue to operate the R. E. Wallace Real Estate agency in Warwick, R. I. This corrects a note in the February is- sue. O C LeRoy H. Cletn recently retired as vJw/ principal environmental scientist and head of systems analysis of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Data Buoy Office at the National Space Technology Laboratories in Bay St. Louis, Miss. He was there during a ten-year pro- gram to put automatic weather stahons in the 42 oceans and the Great Lakes. "My wife. Hazel, and I are living at 3 Pecan Cir., Long Beach, Miss. |39560J," he writes. "Enjoying traveling, water sports, golf, and am doing some consulting periodically." '^^ Heleti Johns Carroll is teaching the yj\j educable mentally handicapped in the public schools of Sumter, S.C. "The teaching experience during integration has been quite fascinating and frustrating," she writes. "Now have six grandchildren, four boys and two girls." Last November jerry Everall, Prescott, Ariz., was elected to the 34th legislature of the Arizona House of Representatives. "I will be representing District I," he writes, "an area as large as Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Jersey." John D. Glover, one of Brown's first John Hay Scholars, has retired after thirty-eight years of teaching in the economics depart- ment at the Harvard Business School and Law School. He was Lovett Learned Profes- sor of Business Administration. John is at work on a couple of books and spends most of his time as chairman of the Cambridge Re- search Institute, a consulting firm. He is also a member of the board of Allied Chemical Corp. He lives at 1010 Memorial Dr., Cam- bridge, Mass. 02130. June Kutz Kotula, a retired elementary school teacher, is living at 3037 Merritt Pky., Sinking Springs, Pa. 19608. C. Louise O'Brien Owens is a resident of Holderness, N.H. She and her husband, Henry, have been traveling in Europe and Africa, with their most recent trips being to East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Hun- Barbara Johnson Ware and her husband have moved from Rye, N.Y., to their new home at 5 Southwind Cir., St. Augustine, Fla. 32084. ^O Fred T. Allen, Greenwich, Conn., W^O chairman of the board and presi- dent of Pitney Bowes of Stamford, has been elected to the University of Bridgeport's board of trustees. Burton H. Colvin ('39 A.M.) has received the U.S. Department of Commerce Silver Medal Award, the second highest honor con- ferred upon an employee "for contributions of unusual value to the Department." He is director of the Center for Applied Mathemat- ics of the National Bureau of Standards in Gaithersburg, Md., and received his award for "distinguished contributions to the solu- tion of national problems through the appli- cation of the mathematical sciences." Alice Harrington, Fall River, Mass., has received an award from the Chamber of Conrvmerce for her outstanding community service. Director of curriculum for the Fall River public schools, she is president of the board of managers of the District Nursing Association and first vice president of the Fall River branch. She is a past president of the local Pembroke Club and the American As- sociation of University Women. 'J Q After many years in the advertising J ^ world, T. Alexander Benn is now president of his own agency, Benn & Mac- Donough, New York City. His book, TratJS- forniing the Broken Pencil into the Magic Pen, was an alternate selection of the McGraw- Hill Executive Book Club last winter. The SS Victoria will be the setting for the 40th reunion luncheon of the Pembroke women of 1939 on SaKirday, June 2, at 515 South Water St., near the campus. (The ves- sel was at one time a New York harbor ferry. ) Lunch will be served at 12:30. A "Return to the Hill" reception will be held at 3;30 on June 1 at the List Art Building and will be the curtain-raiser for the weekend. It will feature music, wine, and cheese. The shipboard luncheon, Providence Preservation Society tours of the historic East Side, forums, and the Alumni Field Day offer variety on June 2. A festive dinner at Carr's, the Commence- ment Pops Concert, and the After-Glo party on the Pembroke campus conclude the day. A Memorial Service is planned for Manning Chapel on June 3. The champagne brunch in the Crystal Room will be followed by a trib- ute to the late Bessie Rudd. The day will also feature Baccalaureate, the President's Recep- tion, and Sock & Buskin's alumni produc- tion. As a special feature, music of our col- lege years will be played at List, aboard the Victoria, at Carr's, and in the Crystal Room. And be sure to make plans to march in the procession Monday morning. Af\ David W. Borst, Palos Verdes Es- jUVJ tates, Calif., was given a special award for "Outstanding Achievement Through Standards" at the annual meeting of the Industrial Applicahons Society of the Institute of Electronics Engineers. Walter C. Cumniere retired last October as chairman of The Vendo Co. and is now a rancher and horse breeder at Rebel Run Farm in DeFuniak Springs, Fla. 32433. Josef'h A. Weisntan is president of Plain- ville Stock Co., jewelers in Plainville, Mass. A't William j. Britt, Jr., reports him- JL JL self "semi-retired." He lives in Waltham, Mass. John H. Clayton is associated with Red Carpet O'Keefe Real Estate in Youngtown, Ariz. "This second career is fun and exhil- arating," he wTites. William Paterson writes that he is in his twelfth season with the San Francisco resi- dent company, the American Conservatory Theater. "Came here in 1967 after twenty years with the grand-daddy of American res- ident theaters, the Cleveland Playhouse. With ATC these past twelve years I have also toured to Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Moscow, Leningrad, Tokyo, and five times to Honolulu." Donald A. Smith is president of the Northeast Pennsylvania Advertising Club for 1978-79. He is advertising manager of the Metropolitan Wire Corp. in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. /\^ Bradley T. Perry, Granby, Conn., is Tk^ an advanced-placement English consultant for the College Board. He is an English instructor at Conard High School, West Hartford, Conn. /t^ Stuart F. Crump, Rockville, Md., rtkJ has retired from the David W. Taylor Naval Ship R&D Center after having completed thirty-six years of service. James M. Keck is senior vice president- corporate affairs of Bozell & Jacobs Interna- tional in Omaha, Nebr. The sympathy of the class is extended to Russell W. Sloan, whose wife, Margaret, died last June 11. Russell lives at 543 Moreno Rd., Wynnewood, Pa. 19096. cJECor inTErnaTional 171 riEUuDury St Bosyon 262-1529 Handvjuouen rugs orienTAls ^ reL'^TED foLK art REAL ESTATE Greenwich, Conn.: If you are interested in buying or selling residential property in Greenwich or lower Fairfield County contact James Foote '62 at Raynor Real Estate, Inc., 15 West Putnam Avenue, Greenwich, Conn. 06830, (203) 637-3228. Free homes brochure on request. 43 /t/l Anne Thomas Lane, Walnut Creek, M\I Calif., is planning a visit to her rel- atives in Brisbane, Australia, with stops along the way in Japan, the Philippines, and New Zealand. John F. Ulen has been director of publi- cations for the National Association of Home Builders in Washington, D.C., for the past decade. For several years before that he was publications officer for the University of California at Berkeley. ^ C h'"" Balcom Holbrook has winterized ^tvJ her summer home and is a year- round resident of Wolfeboro, N.H. "I work in the laboratory of Wolfeboro's eighty-two- bed hospital," she writes. "My son, George, is working for his M.A. at the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham in England, and my daughter, Carolyn, is at- tending classes at the University of New Hampshire." Robert Lindsay , Wethersfield, Conn., pro- fessor of physics at Trinity College since 1965, has been named Brownell-Jarvis Pro- fessor of Natural Philosophy and Physics there. Professor Lindsay received his Ph.D. from Rice University, served as a weather forecaster in the Air Force during World War II, and was a member of the Thermo- dynamics Section of the National Bureau of Standards prior to coming to Trinity College. /t£L Dr. Myron Gordon is acting chair- TI vl man of the department of obstetrics and gynecology of the New York Medical College in New York City. Elizabeth Moore Green and her family live in Albany, Texas, a town hard hit by floods following a thirty-two-inch rain last winter. "The flood was horrible," she writes. "Sev- eral of our neighbors still have not been found. A picture of our son, Bill, appeared in many papers throughout the country show- ing him looking at the site where his neighbors and friends should have been. Very sad." \^ After fifteen years in the Chicago M / area, Charles W. D. Gayley has taken a new position as manager of the In- diana area for Western Electric Co. His ad- dress: 1323 Sumac Ct., Carmel, Ind. 46032. jane Reynolds WesteotI is an assistant pro- fessor of educahon and teaches reading at Keene State College. She and her husband, Harry S. Westcott (see '50), received their doc- torates in education at the University of South Dakota in 1974. They live in Charles- town, N.H., and report that they enjoy ski country. Their children are living in New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Virginia, and South Dakota. The Westcotts have two grandchildren. ^Q Barbara Oberhard Epstein is the first THJ woman president of the Newport County (R.I.) Brown Club. She and her hus- band, Herbert, live in Newport. Emmett S. Esary, Belleville, 111., writes that he has retired from the general steel in- dustry and is now a manufacturing represen- tahve. William F. Hughes and Tlierese Arcand Hughes '49, Warwick, R.I., report that their daughter, Kathy, has been accepted in the class of 1983 at Brown. Dr. Robert G. Petersdorf, chairman of the department of medicine at the University of Washington, is chairman of the Association of American Medical Colleges and a master and former president of the American Col- lege of Physicians. Albert W. Rogers, Jr., is quality assurance manager with Corner & Lada Co., in Cranston, R.I. John M. Vander Voort is executive director of San Antonio (Texas) Community Hospital. ^O TIterese Arcand Hughes and her hus- Tt !7 band, William F. Hughes '48, report that their daughter, Kathy, has been ac- cepted in the class of 1983 at Brown. The family lives in Warwick, R.I. Dr . Harold Ludman , Westbury, N.Y., writes that this will be a very special 30th reunion for him and his wife, Joan. "Walking down the Hill in the Commencement pro- cession will be both my sons, Mark, who is receiving his M.D., and Neil, who is receiv- ing his A.B. Watching the proceedings will be our daughter, Evette, who will be enroll- ing at Brown in September." C f\ Thomas /. Brmcn has been elected to \J \J the board of directors of the Citi/.cns Scholarship Foundation of America. Tom is assistant to the chairman of the board of Polaroid Corp. in Cambridge, Mass. He is a trustee of Bryant College and a Brown trustee emeritus. Benjamin Integlia has been named presi- dent and chief operating officer of Niantic Rubber Co. in Cranston, R.I., where he has been employed for the past seventeen years. As part of his role as library director at the Mount Clemens (Mich.) Public Library, Kenneth King chairs a thirty-five-member committee dedicated to improving the qual- ity of life in the community. He would like to hear from alumni who are engaged in similar projects. Dr. William Kessen (Sc.M.), Eugene Hig- gins Professor of Psychology at Yale and pro- fessor of pediatrics at the Yale School of Medicine, has been elected to the board of trustees of The Country School of Madison, Conn. Harry S. Westcott is superintendent of schools of Fall Mountain Regional and Super\'isory Union #60, Charlestown, N.H., which he took over in 1977. He and his wife, lane Reynolds Westcott (see '47), received their doctorates in education at the University of South Dakota in 1974. C"! jim Hutchinson, Indianapolis, Ind., ^ J. writes that he is still manager of the Alcoa sales office and is playing hockey in a senior league at age 52. C O Warren A. Barker is an advisory \J ^* engineer at the IBM copier plant in Boulder, Colo. Dora Bucco Lingen, Cincinnati, Ohio, an instructional aide in mathematics at Wyo- ming High School, also runs the school's math lab and does tutoring. Eunice Bugbee Manchester is president of the Brown Alumnae Club of Kent County, R.I. C ^ Dr. Albert M. Jonas, professor of >JJ comparahve medicine and pathol- ogy and chairman of the comparative medi- cine section at the Yale University School of Medicine, has been named dean of the re- cently established Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine. [^/I Leslie B. Disharoon has been elected \J^t president and a member of the board of directors of Monumental Corp., a Baltimore-based life insurance holding com- pany. Last year he was elected to the boards of the Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. and the First Maryland Bancorporation, both in Bal- timore. £. Aubrey Doyle, Hopkinton, Mass., has three children enrolled at Brown: Colleen '79, Lisa '80, and Aubrey '81. George S. Morfogen was as.sociate pro- ducer of the film. Saint jack, based on the novel by Paul Theroux, directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Ben Gazzara, and filmed on location in Singapore from April to July of 1978. After assisting the director with the editing of the film, George appeared in the role of Dr. Rank in Ibsen's y4 Doll's House at the Manitoba Theater Center in Winnipeg, Canada, during November-December 1978. C uT Arnold C. Abramowitz is a partner \J>J in the firm of Blumberg, Singer, Ross, Gohesman, Paradise & Gordon in New York City. He lives in Port Washington, L.I., with his wife, Arlene, and two children. Ar- nold is a director of the Brown Club of Long Island and is active in NASP. George E. Hotton left Kraft, Inc., where he had been director of compensation and employee benefits, to open his own man- agement consulting firm. He is now doing business in Oak Brook, 111., as president of Hotton & Associates, Inc., consultants to management and specializing in executive and management compensation, incentive programs, and estate liquidity programs. C/2 George P. Clayson III has been ^^\J named an executive vice president of Industrial National Bank in Providence. Judy Kweskin Greenfield is the children's librarian at the Rye (NY.) Free Reading Room. "Have been a member of the advisory board for children's services of the Westches- ter Library System," she writes. "This year 1 became the regional director for New York state for Brown's Nahonal Alumni Schools Program." Roger L. Hale is president and chief executive officer of the Tennant Co. in Min- neapolis, one of the world's leaders in the specialized area of industrial floor mainte- nance. Roger served as president of the Har- vard Business School Club of Minnesota in 1965 and is currently chairman of the board of Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Irwin N. Hassenfeld's son, Jeffrey, entered Brown in January as a member of the class of 1982. C^ Robert E. Connell is head librarian i-7 / at Washington and Jefferson Col- lege and is teaching the college's only course in Lahn — elementary and intermediate. He is on the board of trustees of Citizens Library of Washington, Pa., and on the board of di- rectors of the Pittsburgh Regional Library 44 Center. Harry Smith, Brooklyn, N.Y., reports that Summer Woman, a collection of his love poems, has been published by AUegra Press. A selection of his poetry from 1962 to 1977 is scheduled for publication in June by State of the Culture Press. Franane Flynn Tiller is a member of the faculty of Central Michigan University, serv- ing as assistant professor and head of refer- ence in the university library and as business librarian. She earned an M.L.S. in library sci- ence from Louisiana State University in 1967 and an M.A. in English literature from Cen- tral Michigan in 1978. CO Charles R. Connelt, Mount Vernon, JO Iowa, reports the birth of his third child and first son, Alexander James Philip, on March 16, 1978. C Q Lt- Col. Angela Anzivitw is in Korea C7 37 for a year's tour of duty after a year as operations officer for the 23rd TASS at Bergstrom Air Force Base, Texas. His family has remained at Bergstrom, where he will be stationed on his return in May 1980. If some of you are still on the fence about your 20th reunion, take a read through a re- cent letter jack Rosenblum sent to Al Stuart: "I've been sitting here thinking how disap- pointing it would be if I showed up at our upcoming 20th reunion and found none or very few of my fraternity brother-classmates there. Then it occurred to me that I didn't have to be so passive about it and trust to chance. I can be an advocate. "This will be the first Brown reunion I've attended. So, I haven't exactly been your reunion freak. But for a variety of reasons I'm excited and definitely on board for our 20th. As the date approaches, 1 have become very curious about what has become of you all: about what you're doing, who you married (or divorced), what your kids are like, and especially what you've learned in twenty years — about yourself and about the world. "I have had a marvelous journey thus far and am excited about sharing it with you and, equally, of hearing about your adven- tures and your journey. And I'm excited about becoming reacquainted with old friends, most of whom I've lost touch with over the years. "So if you are at all tempted or waver- ing, I would like to encourage you to set aside June 1-4 and, amidst all the other competing claims, make showing up at your 20th reunion your top priority. Your being there will make it a special occasion for me, and all of us being there will make it a special occasion for all of us." Elizabeth D. Taft is director of discharge planning at the Stanford University Medical Center. She reports that she has been busy with various activities to assist senior citizens in the Palo Alto, Calif., area, including the Senior Day Care Center. She is singing with the St. Bides Choral Societv of Menio Park. Dr. A. Alan Weber is practicing ophthal- mology in Greenbrae, Calif., "about ten minutes" from his home in Mill Valley. Nonnan White is now living in West Sumner, Maine. /Z/^ Dr. Barbara A. Najjar was elected V/Vr chief of pediatrics at Bonsecours Hospital, Methuen, Mass., where she has finished a two-year term as secretary- treasurer of the medical staff. Edmund R. Leather is a social studies teacher at Woonsocket (R.I.) High School. He is married and has two children. Anita Resnick Cunitz and her husband. Bob, report the birth of a daughter, Sara, on April 11, 1978. Their son, Matthew, is eight years old. Anita is active in her local school PTA and is vice president of Consumer Usage Laboratories in Rockville, Md. Tricia Thomas Semmelhack, an attorney with the firm of Moot, Sprague, Marcy, Landy, Fernbach & Smythe of Buffalo, has been elected chairman of the Keuka College board of trustees. Tricia has an M.A. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a J.D. from SUNY/Buffalo School of Law. £L'\ ]ohn O. App has formed a firm \J JL called Pension Funding Co. at 180 Newport Center Dr., Newport Beach, Calif. The firm assists corporations in selecting and evaluating "their pension funding medium in stocks, bonds, real estate, and insured guarantees." Dr. Robert /. Tinkel is practicing rheuma- tology at the Toledo (Ohio) Clinic and is chief of the rheumatology section at the Toledo Hospital. He reports that he has taken up cross-country skiing. Robert E. Gorman is a regional manager for Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Co. in Hartford, Conn. Don E. Hamilton and his son, Scotty, 9, are living in a new home in Laguna Beach, Calif. Don has spent twelve years as a pilot for United Air Lines. Margaret Goddard Leeson, Providence, re- ports that her oldest daughter, Ho;it' Drury Leeson, is a member of the freshman class at Brown. Paul R. Maguire, Mobile, Ala., has been promoted to manager of engineering, southern operations, for Scott Paper Co. Walter R. McCarthy, Wayzata, Minn., re- ports the publication of his second book, a photographic essay on the Wapiti Valley in Wyoming, where his ranch is located. "The entire family spends as much time as possi- ble there each summer," he writes. "My wife, Lucy, has received her M.S. W. and is a practicing psychiatric social worker in Min- neapolis. Ethel, 16, is al a private school in Simsbury, Conn., and Richard is a seventh grader." Dr. Arthur F. Tiich, Wallingford, Pa., is a gastroenterologist at Crozer-Chester Medical Center, Chester, Pa., a ma|or teaching unit of Hahnemann Medical College in Philadel- phia, where he is an assistant professor of medicine. He and Kay have two daughters, Linda, 7, and Debbie, 4. Patricia Piiinei/ Walker and her husband. Bob, have moved to Falls Church, Va., where Bob is executive vice president of Calspan Corp. £L^ Richard A. Boardman is fine arts \J^m advisor to the International Com- munications Agency, formerly the U.S. In- formation Agency, in Washington, D.C. Robert F. Ebin has become a member of the New York City law firm of Demov, Morris, Levin & Shein. Dr. Gerald Pouliot has a private practice in obstetrics and gynecology in Hanover, Mass. He and Nancy have three daughters, 12, 10, and 8. Randolph P. Steinen writes that his life "lacks sufficient corruption." Asa member of the department of geology and geophysics at the University of Connecticut, he does teach- ing and research. He's on the planning and zoning commission and the inland wetlands committee in the town of Mansfield. He and Joan are the parents of Karen, 12, Tonya, 9, and Jonathon, 5. The family lives in Mans- field Center, Conn. /T '5 Dr. Richard S. Bakulski and his V/vJ wife, Thea, report the birth of their third child and second daughter, Catherine Laura, on Dec. 6. The family lives in An- dover, Mass. Richard M. Bernstein is a third-year asso- ciate with the law firm of Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz in Philadelphia. "Recently had the pleasure of working with classmate Stei'e Maync in the sugar antitrust litigation," he writes. Richard's wife, Chris, is an informa- tion program director at the Fox Chase Cancer Institute in Philadelphia. Lee A. Korhumel and Penny Johnson Korhumel are living in Lake Forest, 111., and have two children: Cynthia, 14, and John, 11. Lee and Penny are active in the Chicago Zoological Society, with Lee serving as vice chairman and Penny being elected the first woman officer in the Society's history. Penny also serves as a trustee of the Chicago Academy of Sciences. Lee is president of Korhumel Industries, Inc., Chicago. PEKING • SHANGHAI CHENGCHOW • SINCHIANG SIAN • NANKING • NANNING SHENYANG • KWEILIN "People to people [xirticipation developing friendship through cultural appreciation, historical understanding. and educational exjieriences. An in-depth view of m ^*jBaLi_ 54 \/ith the arrival in 1874 of Prof. John Whipple Potter Jenks, escribed as "a well-informed practical naturalist and ixidermist," a museum of natural history was established in le basement of Rhode Island Hall, then only thirty-four ears old. It quickly became a popular custom for the class in ixidermy to pose each spring with the good professor (back Dw center with the long beard) on the steps of Rhode Island Hall. Among the museum specimens not dragged out for this 1875 sitting was a large sea turtle captured, reportedly with some difficulty, just a few days earlier and not yet stuffed. Perhaps Professor Jenks felt he might be in the soup with his colleagues if he exposed the freshly caught turtle to the noonday sun. J.B. e 2. < a > sr 55 Pity the poor late sleeper I ate sleepers, arise — or rather, rise and shine. Next semester. Brown is going back to 8 a.m. classes, after ^ five years of allowing students to stay in bed till 8:45 and scramble to class at 9. (Before that, the earliest classes met at 8:30 — but until 1970 they met at 8, Monday through Saturday.) The latest change is really a rather modest compromise: the addition of an 8 o'clock ("A") recitation hour on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, as well as noon classes on those days, plus additional blocks of time on Thursday and Friday afternoons. When the schedule was published. Registrar Mil- ton Noble '44 hastened to point out that only a few classes would be scheduled for the "A" hour, which was reinsti- tuted to cut down on the overutilization of classroom space. Students, however, were not about to take this lying down. The Brozcn Daily Herald ran a perfectly straight-faced editorial under the headline "Uncivilized," which began: "Barbarous and uncivilized? Having to attend classes at 8 a.m. does not quite compare in extremity with the hardships found in the American prison system, but it is, nonetheless, downright unpleasant." The Herald accused the adminish-a- tion of a "persistent failure to see students here as more than numbers in a statistical table" and an "all-too-apparent ne- glect of student concerns," and blamed the overcrowding of classrooms on overenrollment. Continuing in the same aggrieved vein, the BDH com- plained: "Classes at 8 a.m. mean that learning will be not a pleasure but a chore, that the academic performance of stu- dents with early-morning classes will probably suffer, and that late-night socializing, one of the most valuable features of a Brown education, will have to be curtailed. These things are intangible but by no means trivial sacrifices that the reg- istrar is forcing students to make." As a frizzy-haired wag on late-night television is fond of saying, "It just goes to show you — it's always something." When this writer came here as a freshman in 1966, there was no shortage of injustices to bitch about, and bitch we did: about curfews (which all women students had and no men did), Sunday-afternoon parietals (the hours when we were allowed to entertain people of the opposite sex in our dorm rooms), compulsory convocations, compulsory phys ed, the refusal of the Pembroke deanery to allow more than a preselected handful of senior women to live off campus, and so forth. We resented, in short, being treated like children by a University that insisted on acting in loco parentis. But nobody bitched about 8 o'clock classes six days a week. We wanted to have the freedom to stay out partying till 3 a.m. the night be- fore an 8 a.m. class, if we so chose, and to take the conse- quences. Now it appears that students resent being treated like adults; they don't want to be forced to make those kinds of choices or to take the consequences. One senior wrote to the BDH this spring to say that students would be unlikely to change their late-night habits and warned that "poor attend- ance at these early classes and more cases of mononucleosis will be observed." Maybe we should go back to curfews rather than risk a mono epidemic. On the other hand, students who do decide to set their biorhythm clocks back an hour may discover some unexpected bonuses: that at 8 a.m. the air smells fresher, the Blue Room is less crowded, and there are more parking spaces to be had. jP- An early morning; jcggcr (a faculhi member) 56 i