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Just as we always have. Our century - old spirit of service is our competitive edge. Tomorrow has come suddenly but it hasn't taken us by surprise. We've been preparing for it for 107 years. ATsT announcing Brown's 14th annual Summer Alumni College Now is the time to plan your summer vacation. Alumni and parents who have attended Summer Alumni College over the years have discovered this week to be a true break from their routines — a true "edu vacation." Why not join them this year? The form below is an easy way to hold spaces for you, your family and your friends. Or to request more detailed information. 1984 Summer Alumni College Request Form class year or parent street address city, state, zip n yes, 1 am interested. Please hold _ spaces for me. I'll send in a $75 deposit for each person after receiving more complete information. D yes, please send me more complete information. Mail to: Summer Alumni College Box 1920 Brown University Providence, RI 02912 June 24-30, on the campus MORNINGS: "RUSSIAN PAST/SOVIET PRESENT" We look at the Russians, see their missiles, their cars, their TV's, and their world power ambitions, and assume they are like us, except they are Com- munists. But . . . their roots are different. Their history is different. The ideas they had, long before the Bolshevik Revolu- tion, are different." Hedric Smith, New York Times cor- respondent, July 1983. In the morning you will examine the history, the roots, the values, and the ideas of the Russian people and question if those differences really exist. Members of the Brown faculty and distinguished guests who have spent their lives immersed in the Russian/Soviet experience will lead lectures and discussions on the history, culture, value systems, and cur- rent affairs of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republic and its people. FACULTY: Howard Swearer, president of Brown and Russian scholar Mark Garrison, director of Brown's new Center for Foreign Policy Development and formerly director of the State Department's Office of Soviet Union Affairs Tom Gleason, associate professor of history and formerly head of the Kennan Institute in Washington Victor Terras, professor of Slavic languages, and a native of Estonia AFTERNOONS: YOUR CHOICE OF WORKSHOPS We'll offer five or six workshops. You'll choose one and spend five afternoons immersed in music, the basics of com- puters, creative writing, geology, or one of several other topics. EVENINGS: YOUR CHOICE OF OPTIONAL ACTIVITIES You can partake of optional programs (films, summer theatre) sponsored by Summer College, tour historic Newport, or visit with friends in the area. On the final night we'll go to the shores of Nar- ragansett Bay for a New England Clambake. A program in Brown University's Con- tinuing College. 401 863-2785. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY FEBRUARY 1984 Volume 84, No. 5 BRO^N IN THIS ISSUE Editor Robert M. Rhodes Managing Editor Anne Hinman Diffily '73 Assistant Editor Katherine Hinds Editorial Associate Peter Mandel '81 A.M. Staff Assistant [udith Reed Board of Editors Chairman John J. Monaghan '55 Vice Chairman Cornelia D. Dean '69 Harold Bailey, Jr. '70 Daniel Chu '55 Stuart P. Erwin '55 Lacy Herrmann '50 Dante G. lonata '59 Linda Mason '64 Cathleen McGuigan '71 Toni H. Oliviero '65, '73 Ph.D. John V. Rei.strup '58 Donald B. Smith '42 Wendy J. Strothman '72 Wallace H. Terry '59 Billv R. Woolen '70 Ph.D. John A. Worsley '56 ' 1984 bv Broum Alumni Munlhly. Pub- lished munthly, with combined issues in December/January, June/July, and AuguslV September, bv Brown University. Provi- dence. R.I. Printed bv The I-ane Press, P.O. Box 130. Burlington. Vt. 054112. Edi- torial offices are in Nicholson House. 71 George St., Providence. R.I. 02906. Mem- ber. Council for the Advancement and Support of Education- The Monthly is sent to all Broun alumni. Please allow eight weeks for changes-of-address. page 46 A Special Report on Medical Education at Brown In 1963, Brown began offering an M.M.S. degree, and, in 1975, an M.D. Last Oc- tober the medical school celebrated twenty years of twentieth century medi- cine at Brown. The BAM is devoting this issue to all aspects of medical education at the University: the curriculum, the fac- ulty, the students. Is the Best Good Enough? Despite the fact that American medical education is considered perhaps the best in the world, there is still concern about the quality of our present educational programs. Dr. Pierre M. Galletti, vice president (medicine and biology) at Brown, examines the state of medical ed- ucation on the national level. A Conversation with Brown's Dean of Medicine Dr. David Greer discusses the proposal for a unique Program for Liberal Medical Education, as well as the state of Brown's Program in Medicine. The Journey Toward the M.D. Hippocrates said, "Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there also is the love of humanity." Some of the students who have chosen this art at Brown discuss their reasons for devoting their lives to the pro- motion of health. The Constant Search The heart. The brain. Tumor cells. Old age. These are some areas of medical re- search ongoing at Brown. Five members of the medical faculty discuss their cur- rent projects. Cover photograph by John Foraste Departments 5 Carrying the Mail 16 Under the Elms 20 Sports 54 The Classes 67 Obituaries 69 Books 70 Alumni Calendar ALASKA The ideal combination for a summer travel experience! Alaska, the largest state in area and the smallest in population. 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A program in Brown University's Continuing College. 401 863-1946 Reservation form: . class year_ street address city, state, zip Please, register me/us for the Alaska trip. Here is my deposit of $300 per person, payable to Quester's. Please send me the itinerary. Mail to: Brown Travelers, Box 1859 Brown University, Providence, RI 02912 CARRYING THE MAIL ROTC Editor: The faculty meeting's anti- ROTC vote [BAM, December/January] reminds me of the notorious Oxford University Union Society vote of the 1930s — "That this house will not fight for King or Country" — which was as unrepresentative of Oxford under- graduates, many of whom died shortly afterwards in the Battle of Britain and on the battlefields of Europe, as that meeting's vote was of our faculty. It is to be hoped that, in its decision on negotiations, the Corporation will take its clue from the ROTC questionnaire and not from an unrepresentative vote. It is ironic that at the same faculty meeting the obituary notice for Pat Kenny was read — a man who com- bined the role of a distinguished major general with that of an esteemed pro- fessor and dean without apparent conflict and contradiction. WALTER FREIBEROER Campus The writer, a graduate oj the Universities of Melbourne and Cambridge, served as chairman of the Division of Applied Math- ematics from 1976 to 19S2.— Editor Editor; The news of the pusillani- mous actions of the ninety-one faculty members reached Mandeville, Louisi- ana, in the form of news clippings from the Providence Journal dated, of all things, December 7. I thought the date was very appropriate. We now have a Brown University faculty "day of infamy" as well as a "day of infamy" at the national level. It is an absolute tragedy that the simple-minded actions of ninety-one faculty inembers will, in the final anal- ysis, cause a significant number of fine young Americans to search for an ex- cellent education at a university other than Brown. Not only will their pomp- ous and selfish actions send a strong signal to the nation and the commu- nity that Brown is anti-national de- fense, but, moreover, their actions will erode, even to a greater degree. alumni support. In the days ot $12,000-a-year education, every uni- versity needs all the alumni support it can muster. Oh heck — maybe it's just as well that the proposal didn't pass. I would hate to have the ROTC go to the trouble and expense to re-establish it- self on campus only to be thiown off campus again because some obscure assistant professor felt that it was a military act to send old C-rations and unused tentage to Lower Slobbovia. The entire fiasco of the faculty's ac- tion on ROTC at Brown can be sum- med up in a quote from John Stuart Mill, who said: "War is an ugly thmg, but not the ugliest of thitigs. The decayed and degraded state of moial and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse ... a man who has noth- ing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety is a mis- erable creature who has no chance of being free, imless made and kept so by the existing of better men than him- self." Thank God that in the history of this great nation that there are today, have been in the past, and will be in the future "better men" than the Brown ninety-one! One can only hope that the mem- bers of the Corporation will find the personal courage and the farsighted- ness to restore ROTC at Brown. For those employees who can't accept this, they are welcome to take their creden- tials elsewhere. ANDREW E. ANDERSEN '53, Lt. Col. USMC (Ret.) Mandeville, La. Computers at Brown Editor: Your articles [BAM, May and September] on wiring Brown with computers imply troubles. Part of my job is to coordinate use of coinputers by all researchers at the Departinent of Housing and Urban Development. The two main problems I see are (a) non-computer-users who think we can 5^ Stuck with stock that's going nowhere? Even in a good market year, many securities rise in value, but continue to pay a low dividend. You may have wisely invested in some of these stocks and now find yourself holding some highly-appreciated securities. But, what if you now need more income? If you were to sell those stocks in order to reinvest for great- er income, your capital gains tax would almost negate your effort. The Brown Income Fund is the solution! By contributing your appreciated securities to our pool- ed fund, you will receive lifetime income for yourself, or another beneficiary, at an attractive interest rate (currently around id%). 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NCORPORATED Fm^diJ 1865 - over 60 offices worldwide / Member SIPC d" d got anylliiiig Irom ,i toinpulcr easily, and (I)) (ompiitcr users who only know one bland of computer or software. Front what the BAM reports, Brown is walking into both these traps. Distributing computers because they can be obtained free is like distributing (omplete sets of Aristotle because they are liee on a campus where few peo- ple speak Greek. As Professor Parmen- tier is t|uoted as saying, developing programs to make these computers work is a long job, and is not helped by hype about how easy to use they will some day be. A more solid ap- proach would be extra sabbaticals for people to develop computer programs. These would indeed bring Brown to the cutting edge of computers. There is no short cut. The other trap is limiting most users to the small number of computer makers who will donate their equip- ment. This is like limiting the library to publishers who donate their books. Computers are idiosyncratic; they are not yet standardized and interchange- able like library chairs. They are more like history books, which cover the same subject but take different ap- proaches, and an educated person should know the difference. I see highly-paid people constantly wasting lime, because they learned one or two computers or software packages and shrink from others. It is in the interest of IBM and Apple to hook students and faculty on their own machines. Then the students and other universi- ties will some day buy many more IBMs and Apples, but Brown should see this as a bribe. The solution is to buy equal numbers from many compa- nies, and also offer full teaching sup- port and advice on students' and pro- fessors' own computers of all kinds. History professors gladly help students understand their outside reading. A computer science professor's role is the same. PAUL BURKE '70, '72 A.M. Washington, D.C. Editor; Re the plan to install a net- work of computer workstations: Per- haps each screen should be subscripted with a small sign reading, "Who's in charge here?" to remind users and programmers alike that the machine is a tool with no more intelligence than a pen. Programmers would do well to hone their minds on structures of thought and language. Users should aggressively insist that the beast be harnessed to their purposes, and not allow themselves to be made to feel .0 says you can't take it with you? Now available for purchase: the award-winning film Voices, Faces, Brown. Bring scenes from the class- room and the locker room, the dorm room and the reading room into your own living room. Over 38,000 images - 27 minutes of the sights and sounds, the people and places that are Brown. Recapture for yourself, your family and friends some of the best of Brown. Stroll down Benefit Street, through the Van Wickle Gates, around the campus. 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Having spent my own junior year at Brown abroad — and been forever after afflicted with that incessant impulse to travel, as Professor Smith's mother forewarned — I am also one of those who firmly believe in the value of ex- tended, and involved, overseas experi- ence. Not only does it "broaden" the individual's perspectives and under- standing, it also inevitably contributes to the "de-mythicization" of cultures. Movie-set Americans are no more rep- resentative of U.S. nationals than mov- ie-set Japanese are of their country- men. It does us all good to see the reality! As you mention in the article, Cor- nell is also studying various alterna- tives to expand its foreign studies programs. CFIS' Foreign Studies Li- brary staffed with returnees who share their experiences is an excellent means of encouraging wider interest and par- ticipation. I look forward to hearing more about what exciting programs and activities are sponsored. LINDA SAGASER KAO '72 Ithaca. N.Y. The writer is assistant to the dean of The Graduate School at Cornell. — Editor Editor: I find it amusing that so many readers are stirred by the maga- zine's new type and design. What in- terests me is not the typeface or the design, but the content. I tried gamely to sift through Anne Diffily's overlong, overwrought cover story on international studies. Not only were several diffeient stories awk- wardly combined into one tome, the lead was buried in the sixth para- graph. And how new are the offices at 2 Stimson, anyway? Following closely behind the late- breaking lead paragraph is an aston- ishing series of editorial remarks whii h are both insulting and untrue. How dare this writer berate her readers lor not knowing what the Autobahn is (which many of us do) and in the same breath criticize those who consider New York a hub of commerce and cul- tiue while simultaneously acknowledg- ing this as fact. If daunting, rambling journalism (il it can be called that) is what we have to look forward to in the BAM's new- format, then 1 urge a return to the old one. And send Miss [sic] Diffily off to a small-town newspaper whose circtila- tion is 10,000 or less where she may practice her trade on less discriminat- ing readers. ^LAWRENCE JOSEPHS '80 Miami Editor: I consider the article, "Opening Doors to Other Worlds and Other Ways," to be the most important statement ever to appear in your wor- thy publication. H.W. MARSCHNER '34 Lakeu'uud, N.J. Editor: It was particularly nice that the article emphasized the importance of foreign language instruction. For just this reason it was disap- pointing to see coliminist Diffily say that Amy Young '84 was translating "loosely" when rendering the German word Gastfreundlichkeit as "guest- friendliness." Quite the contrary. Such a translation is extremely literal. 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Contact Stuart P Feld, <«irschlg'Adler ^ALLERIES INC 21 East 70lh Sireel New Vork 100?1(212I 535-8810 Tuesday Friday 9 30 lo 5 30 Salurday 9 30 lo 5 his offensive system and make certain changes in his coaching staff. 3) Deniancis by Parry to concentrate recruiting on New England and adja- cent states. All of the above, and perhaps other reasons we aren't aware ot, apparently caused Anderson to feel he couldn't tolerate the situation any longer. Of course, some alumni were critical of Anderson without knowing the reasons we've mentioned, and they're entitled to their opinions. These conclusions may be drawn: 1) Since the new coach wasn't scheduled to be appointed until De- cember 15, recruiting of freshmen will be hurt this coming year. 2) Interested alumni will be split into two factions, those who feel An- derson had intolerable handicaps and those who felt he was no longer capa- ble of piodiK ing winners, regardless. The undersigned are among those who feel Anderson's handicaps were insurmountable and that he has done a great job for Brown through uU these years. In our opinion, it's Brown's loss, not Anderson's, that he resigned, leaving behind a great nu- cleus for a good team to his successor. However, beyond that, the future for Brown football does not look bright to us, unless the handicaps out- lined above are eliminated, and we don't see that happening unless there is new direction from the president of the University and/or others higher up in or out of the administration. Unless the direction is changed, a fallout ef- fect is likely to be a tailing off of financial support of the University, and that would be most unfortunate, to say the least. JOHN CHILD '29 Del Mar. Calif. LOU FARBER '29 Tucson, Ariz. TED GIDDINGS "29 Pittsfield, Mass. 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Your room wiU be spruced up while you're at lunch or dinner And your bill will be ready for review as soon as you're ready to leave. What's more, if something isn't perfect, you won't have to pay for it. For instance, if a coffee break is two minutes late, the coffee's on us. Or if a meeting room isn't ready on time, it's free. And so on. If this sounds good to you, call us next time you're planning a meeting. (401) 421-0700. With a guarantee like ours, you can't lose. ^ DUNfEV HOTEL Kennedy Plaza, Pro\ io.'nce. RI 02903 14 ( oiiple ol lieelaiKC writers. I had tlie good fortune to take three courses with Kappy, incliidiiig the shoit story and iiovel-wiiting pro- jeds. Like too many others I leaned on liiiii as mentor and source of help and encomagemein. I continued to do this after graduating. One day he gave me a sealed letter, and said, "Go see Bo Bernstein." Bo hired me on the spot, without telling me what was in the letter. It was an interesting apprenticeship. We had people like Jeff Donnell and Ruth Hussey's sister to read my too-clever commercials. My favorite announcer was a large, brash young man named P>ed Friendly. Right, the same one who became a network [news] presi- dent. The war came and I left to become a navigator and eventually a prisoner. Before I left 1 asked Bo what was in the letter from Kappy. He produced it. It was short and to the point, as he taught us to write. "Dear Bernstein," it said. "Please hire this pleasant young goy as a writer, if you can. He has some talent." It was signed, "I.J. Kapstein." Bo Bernstein became one of the legends in advertising. As for me, I have never in my life treasured any- thing more than that short note from Kappy. NORMAN MORRISON '41 Maiden, Mass. The u'liler is advertising and promotion director of the Medford Daily Mercury, Maiden Evening News, and Melrose Evening News. — Editor Production Workship Editor; The article concernmg Faunce House, in the October issue, made me think about the creation of institutions. In I960, a group of stu- dents staged a collection of one-act plays in the courtyard beside Faunce House Theatre. The intent of the stu- dents was to provide an alternative to the then-existing drama program at Brown. The next P.W. production was staged in [what is now] the Leung Gallery because of weather. It was a one-time event, we thought. Twenty- three years later. Production Work- shop has moved to new facilities. GENEJALESKI '63 Stateltne, Nev. Head-of-state Editor: Sandro Pertini's nose may be out of joint if he has read the No- vember BAM. He always thought he was the Italian head-of-state. Beltino Clraxi is head-ol-government, which he would probably prefer to remain. Don't despair, someday a head-of- slate will show up at Brown. ROBERl E. KIEFER '46 Evanslon, III. The new design Editor: I am very unhappy about the Monthly presently. From a design standpoint the look of the overall pages with the black and white or color placements is good. But from a reader standpoint, with the very light face type and large masses of it with- out breakup with sub-paragraphs or otherwise, there is a discouragement to readership. As far as I am concerned, the old typographical treatment of the BAM was much more satisfactory to me. I render this opinion not only as a reader, but from the standpoint of a lifetime of dealing with graphic mat- ters in both my advertising agency experience and in publishing. PHILIP LUKIN '24 Palm Beach, Fla. The writer is chairman and editorial direc- tor of the Palm Beach Pictorial. — Editor The editor replies: The large volume of mail we have received about the new design of the magazine has been of the "good news and bad news" variety. The good news is that so many alumni and alumnae liked the old design. The bad news is that .so many of our readers do not like the neui design. Let me tij to provide some answers to the many questions raised about the new design. Why did we change the design'? As I explained in my editor's note in the Septem- ber issue, we — the Board of Editors and the staff— felt that, after fourteen years, it was time for a change. At least to us, the old format had become a little stale, in need of something new. We were encouraged by the Board to make a change now, rather than waiting until we had to make a change. The design firm we selected agreed with us that we did not need a radical redesign, just a freshening. To us, the changes are not radical. Apparently, to many of our readers they are. The principal changes are a nezv type- face (Baskerville); justified columns, rather than ragged right; and rules between each column of type. Type size was increased from 8 point to 9 point in the class notes, and from 9 point to 10 point in the fea- tures. We thought the larger size face in the class notes would make them easier to read. Many of our readers do not think so. Let me mention some of the complaints. One is the "large masses of type." Actually, there are not any more large masses of type than before. Apparently, the justified col- umns of type, slightly less space between lines, and slightly less space between col- umns have combined to make it seem other- wise. Another complaint is the lightness of the type. That is indeed correct, much to our surprise. We thought of Basken'ille as a heavier typeface than Palatino (the old face), but it is not. A third complaint is that the design is behind the times. With that one, we disa- gree. A look at most good commercial publi- cations shows just how "in" rules are. And justified lines have never been "out." One writer claimed there are too many typefaces in use now. Actually, there is only one in the text, as there ivas before. We are using Baskemille, Baskerville bold, and Basker- ville italic. Before, we were using Palatino. Palatino italic, and Palatino semi-bold. There is a second typeface now — Bauer heads and initials — but that is used only in the cover logo and the heads indicating regular departments. The large volume of mail has caused us to take a second look, hoxoever, and we will make some changes. In this issue, we are increasing the space between columns to what it was previously. And there will be other changes in issues to come. So bear with us. Our goal is what it always has been: to provide you, the reader, with an informative, well-written, credible, and vis- ually-attractive magazine. And we continue to welcome your comments. — R.M.R. 'Underemployed' Editor: Thank you for the pubhca- tion of my letter to the editor in the November 1983 Brown Alumni Monthly. There is, however, an embarrassing printing error which I must call to your attention. In my letter, I com- mented that I have been chronically "underemployed," meaning that the jobs which 1 have had have required less training than I have acquired and, as a result, paid me less than 1 am capable of earning. In the printing of my letter, the word "underemplo\ed" was changed lo "unemployed," which constitutes a misrepresentation of my situation. I ain employed. Please rectify this error at your ear- liest opportimity. MARTHA E. BANKS 73 Brecksville, Ohio Our apologies for this typing error. — Editor (Cruise thelUrkish coastline with Swan Hellenic and you'l discover ancient Greece. Swan Hellenic caiise is more than just a auise, it's a delightful educational experience. 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Log home companies have started sprouting up all over the country. Problem is, it's not the kind of business you can learn overnight. Since 1 970, we've been perfecting our log homes — the way they re designed, manufactured and constructed. For example, the TotalSeal" System. Drawing on our experience, we developed asimplebut highly efficient log locking method. It not only complements the natural insulating qualities of our logs; it greatly simplifies construction. Hundreds of smaller improvements in every area add up to energy efficient log homes that are equally at home in snowy Colorado venters, , searing Arizona summers and boneurlanillliW>mW«,aMfDml<|in4L eCavyHght 1Sl. An iiulliorilx on iDtnmnnily licallfi al Imlh re- gional and national leveL, he had been associate dean since 1974. Under his leiid- ershij) Brown's Propani in Medicine has dnrlofml a proposal for a uniquely inte- grated medical continuum, the Program for Liberal Medical Education. As of Januan I. the medical school gained departmental status for its ten division.\. Dean Creer spoke with Managing Editor Anne Di/ph about the implications of these and other issues that leill continue to shape medical I'duKilion at Brown in the ctnning years. Medical education at Brown will take on a different character if the proposed Program in Liberal Medical Education, in which all Brown medical students will enter a seven- or eight-year continuum as freshmen, is adopted. What are the main features of the new medical program and ymir reasons for proposing them ? The Program in Liberal Medical P.dii- cation is, so far as we can delennine, llie first attempt by an American inii- versity to totally integrate the liberal educational part of a medical educa- tion, which in the United States is known as "pre-med," and the medical education per se, which in the United States is the responsibility of medical schools rather than universities. Our ohjecli\e is to develop a single curricu- lum, spanning the seven- to eight-vear period which leads to the M.D., that will assure that our medical students receive both a liberal education and the necessary professional education. We have been looking at the eight-year curriculum ancl seeing where it might make sense to change the sequence of courses. For example, social sciences and the himianities don't seem to have much relevance to [medical] students before they have been exposed to clinical experiences. Ihen they find that the social sciences, 30 the behavioral sciences, and the hu- m.milies mav be areas I hey wished lhe\ knew more about. Bui since med- ical education in the Lliiited Slates tra- dilionalK is split into imdergraduate and giaduale studies, the social sci- ences get their turn only in the Inst lour vears. Medical students then ha\e to look foi lime somehow in the last lour \ears to inject — tisually inade- quately — social and behavioral sciences and humanities into their studies. With the new program, we could move some of the medical science coinses to the first few years ot col- lege, and some of the social sciences, philosophy, ethics, and so on, to the last years, when they would be clearh relevant to the professional role. 147)1'// are sunie iilber elements of the con- tinuum'^ We also are taking a Lard look al what courses we iec|uiie for the M.D. .\s things stand nou , pre-med students at Brown essentiallv must prepare to meet the admission iec|uiremenls ot Any one of 127 medical schools. Iheii tendency is to maximize the required courses, which generally means the sciences. But if we become responsible for the entire [medical] education pro- cess, there will be no need to salisl\ the requirements of 127 faculties. Oiu facult\ will be in the unique position of deciding what knowledge we believe is approjii iatc and advisable for an M.I), degree. Then we can eliminate the things other schools require that we feel aren't necessary. The Program in Liberal Medical Education should reduce the number of core lequiremenls, particularly in the sciences and mathematics, by three or foiu- courses. Also, it might make al- ternative courses available. For in- stance, most medical schools requite two semesters of calculus for admis- sion. Neither oiu" curriculum commit- tee nor the department of mathematics believes that the second semester of calculus has am iele\ance to a medical education. On the oilier hand, almost no medical schools require any education in statistics. Statistics is something that doctors live with for the rest of their lives. People are always giving you numbers that are said to prove some- thing; yon read professional papers with statistics all the time. But most medical students in the United States graduate without ever having had a course in statistics. So we're alread\ woiking on this. We've got Professor [Thomas] Banchoff and Professor [Fr.nik] Stewart of mathematics, and Professor [Alan] Morrison, who's an epidemiologist and biostatistician, working out a rational sequence of what they're calling "ijuantitative stud- ies" foi fiUure plnsicians. David Greer: Our first priority in fund-raising is financial aid. Wli(il'\ the difference between the Medieal Education Progmm, to wlueli freshmen have been admitted for several yean, awl the new program? Students in the MEP must still go through an admission process to enter Brown's medical school; they have to have completed their pre-med re- quirements. it isn't a true contiiunim as it stands. But we already have some stu- dents who have come here to partici- pate in the new program. At the very least we can start moving some of their courses around so they have time to do the things they're interested in. We have a multilingual student fiom San Antonio; he speaks English, Spanish, and Portuguese. He's been in Cential America, and he's interested in Latin American and international health. We have three medical schools that we deal with in Latin America; we can send him there for a semester. We can also begin to give him experience in local clinical situations. He can go out to Central Falls where there's a big Colombian and Spanish-speaking pop- ulation, and see some applied sociol- ogy in the medical health center there. So we've been saying, we'll do this with you now to the extent that we can. When do you expect the new program to go into effect? With the class entering in the fall of 1985. After a set of core requirements for the M.D. degree is established, xoill it be up to each student to decide ii'heii to take each course? Right. The student will decide what the sequence is. And that relates to the third thing that this program can give us: We can allow students to concen- trate in one area over an extended period of time. And that concentration might be related to their medical ca- reer aspirations; it might be in some- thing traditional, such as biochemistry. Or it might be in something that many medical students aren't able to attempt because of the lack of time in tradi- tional pre-med programs. They might concentrate in computer science, and then have computer science integrated with their medical education. That would create one of the most attractive professionals ever io graduate from a medical school! Ethics, philosophy, so- ciology (demography and population studies), biomedical engineering — these are all very important areas. We hope to allow our students enough time to devote themselves to a discipline simultaneously with their medical studies. Right now, you can't do that in a traditional setting. We think that by spending more time on their own personal development and on something relevant to medicine, they will come out with a very unusual medical education. At the end of the first four years, leill the students receive a bachelor's degree? ■fhey'll receive a bachelor's degree, but maybe not after four years. It depends on how they set up the sequence. A student conceivably could receive a bachelor's and an M.D. degree at the same Commencement. Most people will probably get their bachelor's in foin- years. We expect some students will also get master's degrees. You've mentioned some of the advantages of the new conlmuum. In admitting all Brown medical students as freshmen, however, won't we risk losing some of the diversity provided by the Iraditiotuil admission proce- dure, in which students who have attended dijjerent undergraduate institutions add soiiu'thing unique to each incoming class? That's the so-called hetereogeneity is- sue. And hetereogeneity is in the eye of the beholder. There are paradoxical criticisms, too. One of the criticisms of medical education is that all medical students 31 .m- llu- saiiii- — ilu'v'ii' jJH-nR'tlii .il lUMcls; llie\'ii' sclriHC-oi ii-nu'd, mk.i- tioiiallv-oiii'iiU'd |H<>pli' wlio «.ml lo go out ,iiul make hig Inn ks. But ulun vvc lr\ to mil a (litlciciit kind ol pro- giaiii. Kf re told that well dfstro\ llu- lic'tfrogfiK'ilN uliidi uc'ii' Ixcn iiili- ci/t'd toi 111)1 Iki\ inn First ol all. it isn't luitssaiy that medical students spend all their time here at Brown. We have an agreement with Oailiiioiith that provides that students can (<>iii])lete their first two years of meiiical ediit.ition at Dart- month, then linish their medical de- gree here. Second, our medical stu- dents niav take elective courses at any of the dozens of medical schools in the country that we have agreements with. There are dozen of students here from other medical schools, and doz- ens of our students at other schools. So there's plenty of opportuiiitv to meet students from other schools. Third, the closest contacts our students have in their last vears are with members of the [hospital] house staffs. These faculty come from medi- cal colleges and undergraduate col- leges all over. Finalh . part of the plan is to develop cooperative educational opportunities. We'll actually encourage students to take .sabbaticals, to take a .semester off anv time during their education. We'll have op|)ortuiiities for Will the continuum change the character of Brown medical students? tliem to work in health-care situations, pharmaceutical houses, neighborhood clinics, other schools, and so on, so they can get outside Brown. We have a growing international program, too. Might the medical program suffer from in- creased attrition because people xvill be en- tering It while they're \lill teenagers? We have ten years of experience with that. We know that 90 percent of the people who are admitted to Brown's MEP program get their M.D. Eighty- five percent get it at Brown, and 5 percent elsewhere. / understand that pfteeii students, or 25 percent of the medical class of 1985. failed to pass the national boards [National Board of Medical Examiners test] on their first attempt, ayid that only seven of those fifteen passed on their second attempt. This is a „2 rate oj failure somewhat higher than the nalioiial average oj 10 In II jieiiint tni the pr\t alteinpl. We were very coiuciiied about that. It was a great disappoiiitnuni, but I don't think it will ever ha|)peii again. We've made some changes in the iiii- liiuliiin bet.iuse there were some areas tested on the national boards that we didn't teach. We still don't teach them all, but we're very close to correcting the major deficiencies. Pathology and public health are two examples. Sonic of our best faculty are in pathologv. but we didn't give [the students] enough lime; we didn't give them a real course in it. We now teach a course in the second year. Pharmacology was another weak area; we now have a course in that in the second year. In public health, we've redirected our social and behavioral sciences course. We've also developed a voluntary course to prepare students for the na- tional boards. That's something we've never done before, but if we're going to require students to take an exam, they should be able to prepare ade- quately for it. There are pros and cons to requiring the board exams. Ihe bottom line is, if we're going to play in that game, we're going to win. So, we're disappointed, but I think we've learned something. Also, in the past year-and-a-half we've had to fail three students [drop them from the program]. All three of them were minoritv students, and that's a major tragedy. When that happens, it's our failure as well as the students'. Have these develupmenis caused \ini to reevaluate the kind of students Broiun ad- mits to its medical program"? We've tightened up, I think. We may have been reaching too hard for diver- sity in the past. Ihere's no question, we could admit a class of kids and just leave them alone for four years, and they'd come out great. We know those kids — they're suburban kids, from a high socioeconomic group. Anything beyond that is a compromise. The question becomes, where are we reach- ing too far? And that's a matter of judgment. On the other hand, I feel that good schools such as ours should have a sense of self-assurance and be able to reach. It's not the weaker schools that should be taking the risks. But you're going to fall flat on your face once in a while. We ought to be meeting our so( iai as well ;is our aiil\ ahoiil eight coiitiiuiiini programs in iht- whole I'niletl States. All the rest ol them were established as pragmatic, shortened wa\s lo an M.O. Iliey were not designed lo leitili/e the ciniicn- liim and expand llie opportunities ioi students. The comhiiiation of the integrated facultv, tiie cc)iitiiuinm program, and finalh . the eomiiuinilv base we ha\c- in our affiliated hospitals and programs is what sets Brown's medical program Coping with the cost of a medical education at Brown apart. We're not an ixoiy-tcjwer medi- cal school with no connections with the real world. No other medical .school, for instance, uses 52 percent of all the hospital beds in the state as teaching beds. More than 35 percent of all phy- sicians who practice medicine in the state are on our faculty. What suil of incii'ascd opportiinilies for clinical experiences might the continuum's integrated curriculum provide for under- graduate medical students? We see several ways to do that. On the one hand, you can expose them to clinical experiences as a separate en- terprise. For instance, they could gcj to hospitals and be assigned to various tasks separate from any course work. We could plan activities for them to see what medicine is like. There is a large clinical faculty out there, most of whcjm complain that they don't see enough students. They have always been very pleased to have students in their offices. Beyond that, we could do things like assigning students to families who are in a long-term relaticjnship with a health-care system. During the fresh- man and sophomore years, students could be very helpful io elderly peo- ple, to relatively uneducated people, to young iiKjthers, to a whole mass of people who don't know how lo use the health-care system. The students could serve as ombudsmen, visiting families regularly and also getting a view of the health-care system from the patient's point of view. There also are certain technical things we can leach students in the 34 first few years. There is a campus (".PR group tlie\ could gel iiuoKcd Willi, and other leclinical aspeds ol niedi- (iiie we could leach iheiii that could even pioMcle oppoi lunilies lor sum- mer eini)lo\inent — they could be in- travenous leclinicians in hospitals, do sim|)le blood tests, and so on. Aiiolliei idea we've had is to pro- vide laboratories for social science courses. If you're gciing to study, for instance, anthropology, medical or otherwise, our affiliated hospitals offer some of the best anthropological labo- ratories you can find. Students could observe different cultures, people's response to stress and illness, fainib interrelationships, religious beliefs, and many other variables. /';'(' heard that financial aid has become a huge problem for medical students — they're struggling with the timing of loan payments and hmt' that impinges on their ahilit\ to study and work at then residencies. Wliat can Broxvn do to help them? Our first priority with fund-raising must be financial aid. Were approach- ing the point where it's impossible for peopfe not only to afforcf Brown, but all private medical education. Ibis year at Brown, tuition alone is $12,275. We've been trying to get the maximum leverage out of what monev is available. Graduate student loans are still available to medical students, although the Reagan Administration has tried twice to do away with them. II you qualify, you can get a loan for $5,000 at reduced interest, 9 percent, ^'ou don't have to pay anything on that loan until you're through with school. Then, we have our own funds, close to half a million dollars this year, which are divided prettv evenly between low- interest loans and scholarships. Be- yond that, students have lo go out and borrow mcjney. And they're not good bank risks, so the only thing thev can get is a Health Education Assistance Loan (HEAL). For thai, ihey pay 3 percent above prime, and they have to pay the interest innnediately. In recent years we have been subsidizing the HF^AL loan interest so students can postpone paying it until they're finished with their training. The fact is, it's startling. If a stu- dent borrows $10,000 a year, which is not unusual, and leaves medical school with a debt of $40,000, and then goes into a residency that pays about $l(i- to $17,000 a vear, it's verv difficult. Payments would be running aboul $350 to $400 a month, and that's jiisl paying llie iiileiesl. I lien you star! a |)ractice, and you don't start making ijig bucks right away, but you start to amortize the loan. I've seen cases where it takes fifteen to twenty years to pav tiac k these foans, and for your 140,000, you end up paying $125- to $130,000. It's a leaf problem. I'he so- lution is finding more subsidized loans, and, we hope, more scholarship money. ,4a detin of medicine, how do you feel aboul the kind of doctor Brown M producing now? Are you pleased with the physicians who are graduating from this medical school? I think we're producing very compe- tent people and they're getting good residencies. I would have hoped we would have produced some unusual careers. They've been |)retty standard. I'd like to see us produce mcsre aca- demic people in unconventional career modes — medical historians, medical journalists, medical artists, biomedical engineers, statisticians. Nobody can say that there is a surplus of those kinds of people. We also need more generalists, whether they are family practitioners or internists. We need more physicians who are interested in some of the unpopular areas of medicine, such as physicians who do mental health work or work with the chronicallv ill in state faciiities. We need child psychiatrists and community psychiatrists. FinalK , we are committed to a lib- eral education for our medical stu- dents. The practice of medicine is not a science. It is increasingly able to ap- ply objective scientific methods to what it does, and that pleases us. But physi- cians ought to know a lot more than how to do science. They should have some historical information, they should kncjw about different cuftures, refigious vafues, sociaf systems — afl tfiese things turn up in the practice of medicine. This is not to claim that we can educate people to be humanitarians or humanists. If they don't arrive here wilh that spark in them, we're not go- ing to teach it. But that's no reason to ignore the liberal arts. They may not make phvsicians more humanitarian, but they will make phvsicians sensitive to what's going on in their offices and in the hospitals. Another fourth-year student, Peter Thompson, interviews a patient in the Family Health facility. THE 1984 CHRYSLER NEW YORKER Chrysler's most technologically advanced luxury car. You have never been so well informed^ There has never been a luxury car like it. 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Tho.se letters stand for the person in our society we imbue with om hopes for good health and long life. Societies have always attached great signihcance to the healer, and as a result, the healer has taken on an aura of power. We sometimes expect su- perhuman results from someone as human as we are. How do doctors become doctors? What is it like to evolve from a green, untried college graduate to that person we are all a lit- tle awed by: the doctor. Particiilarlv. what is the process like at Brown? Getting in: A long and frustrating process The frustrations of a medical stu- dent begin long before the first day of class — they begin on the day the deci- sion is made to apply to medical school, (ietting into medical school is a task not too short of Sisyphean. And getting into Brown's Program in Mecii- cine seems harder because of its size: approximately sixty students in each class. "There are several routes of ad- mission to the medical school," ex- plains Dr. Stephen Smith, associate dean of medicine for student affairs B\ Kathciinc Hiiul.s t'hotographs by John I'oraste (which includes admission, luiauii.il aid, and the curriculum). "Half of the class is heie from the continuum pro- gr.im [ttie seven-year Medical Educa- tion Program], and approximately iwenty-five to thirty students .ne ad- mitted through legulai admissions. .A. number of those students come here through the early identification pro- gram [t'.IP] we have with Providence College, Tougaloo College, and the University of Rhode Island. We also are involved in the Brown/Dartmouth progiam, where students have applied to Dartmouth and transfer here. The advanced transfer students, admitted their third year, are mostly from Dartmouth, but we admit students from other schools, particularly Rhode Island students who have gone to for- eign medical schools. " "I he Brown medical school has "an enviable record" in terms of a diverse student body, "especialh for such a young medical school. If you exclude the predominantlv black medical schools, we're in the top ten as far as accepting minorities is concerned. The first year class is 20-percent minority, and that figure doesn't include Asian students [who aren't considered a minority in national surveys for medi- cal schools]. Portugese-Americans are not considered ofliciaily a minority, although we consider them as such because of the area we're in; but if we included them our percentage of mi- nority students would be about 23 per- cent. The national average is 9.4 per- cent, so you can see that we more than double that. "As for geographical diversity, were obviously inteiested in a lot of Rhode Island students, and about 25 percent are from the state. But we have a fairly wide geographic range. We have heterogeneity in terms of age, too. Students from the MKP are usuall) quite young, and we have oth- ers a few years older. We look for people with demonstrated academic track records, but we're willing to take risks if we are offered something luiicjue. For instance, people tiom 1 underprivileged backgrounds who seem tcj be real survivors, who have great depth of character and spirit ... that would be the predominant reason why we would take someone with lower academic standards than nor- mal." Last year the admission committee <>u will make — which isn't to say that being a doctor isn't a secure profession." Fred Burgess is on an Army scholarship, which means that for each year the Army helps pay for his educa- tion, he will be serving as a doctor in the Army. "I didn't go into medicine with the idea of going into private practice. I'm interested in research at a big institution, and the Army is one big institution, so maybe I'll be able to do research while I'm serving. If I had paid my own way through Brown, I would probably owe so much that I wouldn't be able to do research. As it is, I'll be thirty-eight years old before I will be free of obligations." It's Steve Smith's job to find new ways of helping students finance their medical education, and he admits the picture is not reassuring. "Every year is worse than the year before, but we're trying more innovative uses of financial aid." Smith is in favor of a loan program based on an income-con- tingent repayment plan. "Rather than allowing ten years for students to re- pay $10,000, for instance, the repay- ment would be a fixed percentage of their gross income. For young physi- cians, a straight repayment schedule is exactly what they can't do. A plan that isn't geared to a finite period of time, but linked to a lifetime, wouldn't pe- nalize someone for an academic or research career — a doctor would al- ways know that 2 percent of his gross income would go to repay his loan." (Smith says that the president of Bos- ton University, John Silber, has sug- gested this repayment plan for all types of education loans.) "If we don't [find new sources of support]," Smith continues, "then the doctors we train will all be from upper-class families. Or their careers will be so limited by the loans they have to repay that they won't be able to set up a family prac- tice in the South Bronx or Buffalo Breath, Montana." There are few times in modern life when individuals are called upon to swear an oath. The day that medical students graduate into the "calling of the physician" is one of them. They "solemnly pledge to consecrate my life to the care of the sick, the promotion of health and the service of humanitv. ' The words are imbued with grace, digiiitv, and an awesome responsibility. And they add a sense of grandeur and drama as the students leave Brown to "promote all that is worthy in the an- cient and honorable profession of medicine." Fred Burgess stands at the door of the hio-med laboratory where he worked while studying for his Ph.D. in biology. Second-year student Fred Burgess: 'I'll be 38 before I will be free of obligations' 45 The Constant Search The quest for knowledge about the human body is never ending. Here, five Brown medical faculty members talk about their current research 46 Photographs by John Foraste Dr. Paul Thompson and Stanley Sady, Ph.D., an exercise physiologist (rear), in their laboratory at Pawtucket Memorial Hospital Paul Thompson: Studying the Effects of Repeated Strenuous Exercise A s a Tufts undergradu- ate. Paul D. Thompson was captain of the cross-country team. He was a good enough marathoner to be invited to the 1972 Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon, where he placed thirty-sixth out of eighty runners. His best finish in the Boston Marathon was a laudable sixteenth, in 1976. It seems perfectly natuial, then, that the voung cardiologist has re- ceived national publicity for his re- search on exercise physiology and heart attacks. "I wouldn't be doing this lesearch if I weren't interested in ex- ercise," he says. "Running is a great way to gain an understanding of hu- man physiology." Dr. Thompson returned to New England from Stanford University, where he had been a postdoctoral fel- low, to take a staff position at The Memorial Hospital in Pawtucket in 1978. Since then he has moved to the Miriam Hospital in Providence, where he works with a team of cardiologists, exercise scientists, and nutritionists to study the effects of repeated, strenu- ous exercise on men who are thirty to sixty-four years old. One current research project exainines a relationship between diet and exercise. "We're interested in the action of exercise and diet on blood lipids, or fats," he explains. The re- searchers measure levels of high den- sity lipoproteins (HDL) — "We affec- tionately call this 'good cholester- ol' " — and low density lipoproteins (LDL) in the blood of men who run regularly. High levels of LDL ("bad" cholesterol) substantially raise the risk of heart attacks, while high levels of HDL lower the risk. "Runners have fantastic levels of HDL," Dr. Thompson says. "The av- erage level for a runner is 30 to 50 percent higher than for a more seden- tary person. That's a lot, because even a very sinall increment [in one study, only 10 percent] can make the differ- ence between having a heart attack or not having one." The Miriam research team, which is headed by Dr. Peter Herbert, direc- tor of nutritional metabolism at the hospital, found that changes in choles- terol levels clearly are the results of repeated exercise rather than of acute, one-time exposure. And the runners' HDL levels stayed relatively high in spite of radical changes in diet. "We worked with Ruth Eshleman at URI," Dr. Thompson says, "and fed fifty-six runners daily diets varying in composition for twenty-one days at a time." One group cut down on calories but continued to run ten miles a day, a second decreased its calorie intake and stopped running. A third group in- creased the fat content of its diet to 70 percent and continued running; a fourth contingent ate a diet that was 70 percent carbohydrates while con- tinuing to run; and a fifth group ate a standaid diet, and ran. "We found we could change the [cholesterol] levels somewhat by changing the diet," Dr. Thompson says, "but we couldn't lower them to very low levels over the twenty-one-day period. Our conclusion is that a high HDL level seems to be a chronic adaptation in runners. It can be affected by diet, but even with di- etary changes, the HDL level will re- main relatively high. " The team is investigating reasons why this is so. Dr. Thompson believes a likely explanation is that HDL lives longer in runners. "We think it may be a series of enzymes that provide a good environment for the HDL," he says. "Now we're looking for people with low HDL levels, hoping to induce them to run regularly to see if we can raise their HDL." (Prospective male volunteers may call Dr. Thompson at Miriam Hospital. Women, he says, unfortunately are excluded from cur- rent studies because their menstrual 47 cvilfs aft'eil l)l()ucl I liolosuiol Icvils.) "The niiiiiers in this sukIv were a ijreal irroup," Di . 1 lionipNoii savs. d\s- pla\iiig a bulleliii hoani lull ol snap- shots. "We got leally close." In addi- tion to serving as head of the exeri isc section tor the project. Dr. Thompson was a stiid\ |)articipant — he ran daily and drove to Kingston for meals twice a day. 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They are doing the work themselves and getting very good with cement and lumber. She has recently become an ardent windsurfer. David E. Oppenheimer, Scarsdale, N.Y., retired in 1977, and for the last three years has been creating bird mobiles. A newspaper wrote: "Sus- pended outdoors on nearly invisible nylon threads, they have amazing real- ism, an uncanny illusion of flight." David says his creations were inspired by the sea gull in flight. By popular demand, he now takes orders for them — and several have been seen in Hammacher Schlemmer's Christmas windows in New York City. Phyllis Crawshaw Paskauskas, Ar- lington, Mass., went to Scotland last July for the wedding of her son, Mi- chael, to a Scottish woman. Jane Hadfield Poole is director of Day Hospital Adult Day Care Center, a component of Community Mental Health, in New Casde, Del. Carolyn Collins Roberts, Plantation, Fla., writes that her daughter, Diane, graduated from the University of Virginia and was married last June 18 — her parents' anniversary. Caro- lyn's son, Richard, has a baby girl, Sabrina, born last February. Miriam Jolley Spencer, Harrisville, R.I., sends word that her daughter recently spent a "semester-at-sea." Virginia Sirax'o Stanley, Vincennes, Ind., was recently voted Knox County Realtor of the Year. She has a real es- tate business and income tax service. Elizabeth Clay Taylor, Beallsville, Md., writes that her son, Enc Brown '81, is now in medical school. A ^ Mat-y-Lucille LaFond Bonte, /I rA Stuart, Fla., writes: "Now liv- J_ %^ ing in Florida year 'round. Our youngest son and daughter are not too far from us. Our two oldest children live in Illinois and Michigan (Traverse City). The latter is married and her three girls (ages 2, 4, and 7) are a constant source of fun and en- ergy!!" A /'"* John B. Henderson, Provi- / I w~\ dence, has been elected pres- J. V^ ident and chief executive ofhcer of Scott Laboratories, Inc., and chairman of Oncology Laboratories, Inc., both subsidiaries of Microbiologi- cal Sciences, Inc. in West Warwick, R.I. The operations of Scott and On- cology were to be joined by the end of the year, at which time John will be- come president and chief executive officer of the combined company, Scott-Oncology Laboratories, Inc., which will have more than 500 em- ployees. John had been with Textron, Inc., for the past twenty-one years and last June completed a two-year term as president of the Associated Alumni of Brown (BAM, June/July). A ^^ Jane Walsh Folcarelli, Scitu- / I / ate, R.I., is president of the JL / board of trustees of the North Scituate Library. Ground has been broken for a new wing, and work should be finished on it by next June. Contributions may be sent to the li- brary, Route 116, North Scituate 02857, in memory of her late husband, Giovanni Folcarelli, former lieutenant governor of Rhode Island. Jane has also just completed four years as pres- ident of the Scituate Crafts Fair. Dorothy Hiller is teaching a class in freshman composition at Community College of Rhode Island, Warwick, in the mornings, and a course in ESL at Project Persona, Providence, in the evenings. This past summer was her twelfth as a tour guide for the Nan- tucket (Mass.) Historical Association. Robert J. Janes, Barrington, R.I., former vice president of Insurance Underwriters, Inc., has joined Morton Smith, Inc., of Providence, one of the largest general insurance agencies in Rhode Island. Bob has thirty-seven years of experience in the insurance industry. He has served twenty-one years in elective office, first as chair- man of the Barrington School Com- mittee and then as deputy minority leader of the Rhode Island State Sen- ate. Pat Synan Lucey, San Francisco, and Irene Margolis Backalemck, West- port, Conn., had an informal reunion with Barbara Whipple in Boston last June. Irene is completing work on a Ph.D. in theatre at New York L'niver- sity. Elizabeth Reilly Socha, East Provi- dence, R.I., retired last August from her position as chief chnical psycholo- gist at the Institute of Mental Health in Cranston. Then, on Sept. 5, she began work part-time in the same ca- pacity at the Northern Rhode Island Health Center, in Woonsocket. June Miller Wilbur, Memphis, Tenn., writes; "Recently I visited my American Field Service foreign ex- change 'son' in Santiago, Chile. I had no contacts with other Americans while there, and so experienced what it is like to live under military rule. It is difficult for an American to imag- A r~\ Dr. Paul J. Rosch was re- / I V^ cently reelected president of J. V^ the American Institute of Stress. Paul is a former president of the New York State Society of Internal Medicine and is clinical professor of medicine, division of behavioral medi- cine, at New York Medical College in Valhalla, N.Y. He has served as sole president and chairman of the board of trustees of the AIS since its incep- tion in 1978, and is editor-in-chief of its forthcoming newsletter. Irene Goldstein Schultz, Lake Bluff. 111., writes: "After teaching twenty-five of my thirty-three adult years after 1949, I retired. I have a new career as a writer. I've just finished the Dagon series for Rowke Publishing Group, one of the large publishers for public and school libraries. They asked me to do sixteen books, in verse, for children in grades one through four. These are now on the market. I'm working on books in another series they suggested; however, my great ambition is to pub- lish high adventure books for very dis- abled readers in fourth through eighth grades. I've been working on this se- ries on my own — teaching disadvan- taged children for seventeen years started me on this route. Retirement life is so busy and interesting. My hus- band and I travel, and I can see grown-ups whenever I want. What a change from sixth grade!" A ^^ Virginia Filzpatrick Bainton, /\ V J Warwick, R.I., is director of Jl *_y home care at Kent County Memorial Hospital in Warwick. Dorothy Kaplan Berstem, Provi- dence, is librarian for two elementary school libraries in the Providence School Department. Her husband, Bernard '50, is an obstetrician-gynecol- ogist. Her son, Jason '80, is a member of the class of '85 in the Brown medi- cal program; son Larry is an ophthal- mologist on Long Island; and son Richard is a lawyer with Metropolitan Casualty Company in Warwick, R.I. Dorothy's grandson is 5 years old and her granddaughter, 2. Shirley Prager Branner, New York City, is a real estate broker with Brown. Harris, Stevens, Inc., in New York and is actively engaged in all phases of the cooperative and condo- minium market. Shirley, who received an A.B. in music history at Brown, obtained an M.A. in musicology at Yale and an M.S. in library science at Columbia University. She has done extensive cataloging at several universi- ties in the fields of art, architecture, city planning, and music. She serves on an ad hoc advisory committee for Friends of the Library at Brown. Shir- ley's son, David, is a college student. Her husband, Robert, who was a pro- fessor in the Department of Art His- tory and Archeology at Columbia Uni- versity, died in 1973. Lots Jagolinzer Fain, Providence, writes: "My husband, Burt '47, and I traveled throughout Israel recently, stopping to visit with Steven Shore (son of Rosalie Adelman Beloff), who lives in Haifa with his wife and four children." Lois is currently on a half- year leave of absence from the Rhode Island School for the Deaf, where she has been on the teaching faculty for fourteen years. Florence Seid Harff, Mission Viejo, Calif., is president and manager of Dr. Personnel Agency of Orange County, Inc., an employment agency in the health field. Describing herself as "a tennis nut," Florence is actively in- volved in club and inter-club competi- tion. Her daughter, Susan Groll Lan- gevin (see '77), and Susan's husband, Theodore Langevin '11, have an infant son, Daniel Saul. Her daughter, Debo- rah Groll, is personnel coordinator with a California firm. Florence plans to attend the 35th reunion. "Just look- ing forward to being there — and let's make it the best!" Nancy Batchelder Hanvy. Camarillo, Calif., has worked as an occupational therapist at Camarillo State Flospital. She has two children, Glenn and Ei- leen, and one granddaughter, Andrea. Janice S. 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CT 06490 (203)259-6030 . In NY (212) 221-6788 . In LA (213) 617-9292 . 58 ESCAPE. ... to this remote private beach villa — 4 BR, 4 BA, barbecue pit, wet bar, breathtaking ocean views from your poolside terrace — water teeming with lobster, gamefish ... on Carillo Bay in sunny, peaceful Costa Rica. for rental contact owner Don Burlingame '52 R.D.I, Box 352, Basking Ridge, N.J. 07920 Ph(201) 647-3885 lollgalc lligli School. Dorothy Taylor Johnson, Hampton, Conn., is a laboratory technician. She has three childien and two grandchil- dren. Pat Genish Lafferty, Rumson, N.J., an artist and teacher, is secretary of the New Jersey Watercolor Society and vice president of the Guild of Creative Art. She has exhibited in many juried shows. The mother of three sons and a daughter, she now has two grandchil- dren. Jean E. Miller. Hastings, N.Y., is regional director of interorganizational affairs at AFS International Intercul- tural Programs in New York City. Dr. Patricia Deignan Montalbano. Coronado, Calif., is a pediatrician with a twenty-four-year private practice. She is chief of pediatrics at Sharp Hospital in San Diego, wheie she is a member of the Medical Executive Board. She is president of the medical staff at Children's Hospital in San Di- ego and a member of its board of trus- tees. Her husband. Dr. Francis P. Montalbano, is chief of staff at Sharp Hospital. She has three children — Nadine, James, and David — who, lespectively, hold degrees in public relations, geology, and business. Mildred Holbrook O'Day, Stoughton, Mass., has been active at the Brockton (Mass.) Art Museum for the past twelve years. She is a trustee of West- brook College and a second-term member-at-large of its executive com- mittee. Her son, Mark, graduated from Brown in 1977; daughter Nancy grad- uated from Colby-Sawyer (N.H.) Col- lege in 1981; and son Scott graduated from Marietta (Ohio) College in 1982. Ann E. Parker, Evanston, III., is a writer whose book. Astrology and Alcoho- lism, was published by Samuel Weiser, Inc., in 1982. From 1954 to 1978, she was editor of "Little Trib" for the Chi- cago Tribune. Joyce Handy Reynolds, East Green- wich, R.I., was president of The Yarn- ery. Inc., from 1972 until it was sold in 1978. Joyce's husband died in 1979. She has three daughters, Ann, Martha, and Mary Beth. Marian Raab Rooney, Greensboro, N.C., is on the board of directors of Hamilton Village in Greensboro. Her daughter, Jane, is a C.P.A. with an accounting firm, and her son, Allen III, is with Bell Laboratories. Louise Jessell Smith, Woodbury, Conn., is a council trainer for Connect- icut Trails Council of Girl Scouts and is area education services chairman. She is the wife of Robert S. Smith '46 and is the niothei of three sons, two of whom are married. Rulh Anderson Turney, Bethel, Conn., is a music cataloguer for the Ferguson Library in Stamford, Conn. In addition, she serves as a vestry member and volunteer librarian at Trinity Episcopal Church, Newtown, Conn., and is the author of several ar- ticles that have appeared in library publications. Her son is a sophomore at Harvard. Kathryn Holland VanBuskirk, North Mankato, Minn., is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Fielding Institute. She is associate professor and social work program director at Mankato State University and is a psychotherapist in private practice. She is also on many community boards and professional committees. Kathryn is the wife of Charles VanBuskirk, who has a B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chi- cago, and is the mother of two sons: James B. Moore, a graduate of Bard College; and Erik Moore '84. Shirley Ableman Zier, Cranston, R.I., has been an elementary school guidance counselor in the Cranston public school system since 1971. f^ y^ Robert C. Gibbs has been H\ I I named vice president in \^ Vy charge of trust investments at Durfee Attleboro Bank in Attleboro, Mass. He has twenty-five years of ex- perience as vice president in charge of personal investments in the trust de- partment of Rhode Island Hospital Trust National Bank. He lives in Touisset, Mass., with his wife, June, and son, Kendall. Lacy B. Herrmann has been elected president of Trinity Liquid Assets Trust, Oxford Cash Management Fund, and Prime Cash Fund. Each of these three organizations is a money- market fund serving primarily institu- tional clients. Lacy was an organizer in 1982 of each fund and has been chairman of the board of trustees of each — a position he will retain. Last June, he became president of the As- sociated Alumni of Brown. Listed in Who's Who in Finance and Industij, he lives with his wife, Elizabeth, in Dar- ien. Conn. tmi' r-^ John Danforth. Montclair, f-^ f N.J., is leaving the presi- sj ^^ dency of the University Glee Club of New York City. However, the post remains in Brown hands as John Dorer (see '55) has been elected to it. The University Glee Club performs semi-annually at Lincoln Center and gives charity concerts in New Jersey, New Yorii, and Connecticut. It was founded in 1894 and is considered one of the finest graduate male choruses in the nation. Robert D. Harrington, Bethlehem, Pa., has retired from his position as senior program coordinator, technol- ogy, in Bethlehem Steel Corporation's steel group. He has worked for Beth- lehem for thirty-one years and has held a number of positions at the company's Burns Harbor, Ind., plant. He is married and the father of four children, and plans to remain in the Bethlehem area during his retirement. David G. Lubrano. chief financial officer of Apollo Computer, Inc., has been promoted to the position of sen- ior vice president of finance and ad- ministration. He will report directly to the president. David joined Apollo in 1980, after serving twelve years with National Medical Care as senior vice president, treasurer, and director. A certified public accountant, he lives in Hingham, Mass., with his wife, Jean, and five children: Jennifer, Stacy, Ste- ven, Kathryn, and Beth Ann. Louise O'Donnell McGraw and her husband, Fred, have moved to Devon, Pa. She writes: "Fred was one of a group moving here to work at the corporate headquarters for CIGNA (the merger of Connecticut General and INA). Fred's current assignment is in corporate strategy with respon- sibility for strategic planning and ac- quisitions." ^ ^\ Joseph C. Dorgan. Plainsboro, ^"V /^ N.J., has been named corpo- \J *_>/ rate director of purchasing with the Alcan Aluminum Corporation of Cleveland, Ohio. Previously, he was district manager. New York area, for the Metal Goods Division of Alcan. He holds a doctorate in management from Pace University. M Plans for Pembroke's 30th reunion are in full swing. Besides the class luncheon at the Faculty Club, we're offering you a wonderful opportunity to meet with several of Brown's outstanding women professors. Please save the dates: May 25-28, 1984. *^ y^ John Dorer, Summit. N.J., has r^ r^ been elected president of the kJ kJ University Glee Club of New York City. He takes over from John Danforth '52. Founded in 1894, the University Glee Club is considered to be one of the finest graduate male choruses in America. Marjorie J. Lightfoot writes: "1 have been chosen to teach in the Arizona Abroad Program at the University of London for the 1983-84 academic year and will remain in England imtil Au- gust 1984 to do research." Dr. Peter Mayerson reports: "My wife, Lois, and I continue to thrive in Denver, where we have lived with our children, Michele, 20, and Keith, 17, for the last seventeen years. I am in the private practice of psychiatry and psychoanalysis. I am on the faculty of the University of Colorado Medical School and the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis and am the president- elect of the Colorado Psychiatric Soci- ety." Harris Stone teaches architecture at the University of Kansas. He has had two books published by Monthly Re- view Press: Workbook of an Unsuccessful Architect and Monuments and Main Streets: Messages From Architecture. tt^ /~s There are two permanent ^~\ \\ endowments (scholarship \J \J and library funds) in mem- ory of Virginia Findlay Thompson. The library fund and the scholarship fund were set up by Ginie's parents. The first recipient of the Virginia Findlay Thompson scholarship, Frances Fur- long, graduated in 1982. Tanya K. Her- nandez '86, from New York City, is the present recipient. In addition to these two funds, there is also the Peter Kirby Lecture Fund. Classmates are encour- aged to contribute to all of these. Pembrokers: Please let Margaret Devoe "Dazzle" Gidley know what you would like our Pembroke class funds to go toward. Shall we endow a room in Maddock Alumni Center where we can hang Ginie's portrait, and art works given by her parents and class- mates? Your class officers would like your ideas. Dr. Robert M. Balas entered the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medi- cine after service in the Marines and work as a salesman. He was an anes- thesiologist at the College of Osteo- pathic Medicine and was in general practice in Chicago for four years. He is now the emergency room physician at Valley View Hospital in Thornton, Colo., a suburb of Denver. John G. Blair writes: "Five years as chairman of the department of English at the University of Geneva have yielded a sabbatical leave centered at the Diploma Program in American Studies at Smith College in Massachu- setts. Classmates and friends who have For over 26 years: the best values, the largest selection in tours to Greece. 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Fncdmaii-Kicti was mentioned in the July 4, 1983, issue of Time as having contributed to the identification and study of AIDS. Al has been professor of dermatology and miciobiologv at New York University Medical Center, where he spends most of his time doing reseaich and teach- ing. He has a private practice at the university two afternoons a week. Shortly after seeing the first few AIDS patients, Al realized that this wasn't just an unusual occurrence but the beginning of an epidemic. By alerting his colleagues at the University of Cali- fornia in San Francisco and Los Ange- les as well as at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, Al helped identify the first twenty-six cases of the disease. 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This strange experimentive na- ture which has occurred will perhaps provide a better imderstanding of how the infectious organism and the host interact, not only in infectious di.seases, but possibly in the various forms of (ancer. Ihe inter-relationshi}) of the innniine system and the development of certain diseases may be better un- derstood after we find out how this disease occurs and what are the possi- ble factors which contribute to the onset of AIDS." Nancy Zarker Jones, Belle Mead, N.J., reports that both her children are playing in the Brown band. /<')(/(«' is in the class of '86, and Wesley is in the class of '87. Nancy's husband, Bill, is vice president-support services at Hun- terdon Medical Center in Flemington, N.J. Mitchell A. Leaska. a professor at New York University, has edited Vir- ginia WoolFs last novel, Pointz Hall — The Earlier and Later Typescripts of 'Between the Acts'. On completion of the third draft in 1941, Woolf changed the title to Between the Acts, and it was pub- lished with this heading. Working from more than 990 pages of original handwritten notes, revision drafts, and typescripts, Mitchell has edited the novel's progressive drafts from 1938- 1940 and has provided an introduc- tion, notes, and an afterward. The book has received rave reviews. Carol Jodat Montross is doing utili- zation review for a health maintenance organization in San Diego. Because of a severe back injury, she has had to give up clinical nursing. Miriam Maccoby Netler sends us the following news: "I spend a lot of time on college campuses as counsel to Rus- sell Sage College and RPI in Troy, N.Y., negotiating 'state-of-the-art' con- tracts ranging from soccer champion- ships at the field house to E-beams. Our daughter, Beth, is a senior at the University of Rochester, and Mark '82 is with Score Productions in New York City. Each September comes around faster than the last — wish it would all slow down a bit." Richard Thompson, Westfield, Mass., reports that his daughter, Laura, is a freshman at Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla. fa^ ^^ Frances Gibson Dncketl, r^ \^ Ridgefield, Conn., is joining %^ sJ the Peace Corps. Her daughter, Catherine N. Duckett, gradu- ated with the class of '83. Neil B. Hirschfeld writes: "It might he of interest that my daughter, An- drea, will be graduating this May. I look forward to walking with her in the Commencement procession. The following May, my daughter, Sundra, will be graduating and the three of us will be in the procession. My son, James, is a freshman in high .school and is starting to think about Brown. On the more mundane, I am a partner in the law firm of Pedes & Albert in New York City and my wife, Madeline, recently received her doctorate in psy- chology and is in private practice on Long Island." /~\ /^ Robert W. Alberts, former sen- l\ I I '*J' partner of the law firm \J \J of Alberts & Minier, has joined the firm of Rutan & Tucker in Costa Mesa, Calif., as a partner. He'll be specializing in bankruptcy, reorgan- ization, debt adjustment, and commer- cial law. Andrew H. Davis, Jr.. Barrington, R.I., a member of the Providence law firm of Davis, Jenckes, Kilmarx & Swan, has been elected to membership as a Fellow of The American College of Probate Counsel, an international association of lawyers. Membership, which is a post of honor and recogni- tion of outstanding qualification, is by invitation of the board of regents. Linda V. Hewitt. Quincy, Mass., has been elected chairman of the board of directors of the Plymouth County Wildlands Trust. The organization is a county-wide, non-profit land trust ded- icated to the preservation of local nat- ural areas. Linda is assistant director of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Mu- seum in Boston. Carol G. MacLennan, Summit, N.J., is an associate member of the technical staff at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J. She planned to go to the Antarctic for the month of January. Ed Sheridan, Eugene, Oreg., sends word that his daughter. Elissa, trans- ferred to Brown this fall as a junior. I 61 William J. Packer, Exeter, R.I., has joined Wessels Coinpany of Detroit, Mich., as executive vice president. y'-* /^ Andrew Gnfjiths, Lexington, W^ / Mass., is chief financial \J ^^ officer and administrative manager of WGBH Educational Foundation and has been elected treasurer of Boston's public broadcast- ing center. As chief financial officer and administrative manager, he is re- sponsible for the work of the account- ing, budget, data processing, legal, and personnel departments. R.E. (Gene) Kopf has been nained president and chairman of the board of Conalco Contract Carrier, a Jack- son, Tenn. -based subsidiary of Consol- idated Aluminum Corporation, which has its headquarters in St. Louis. He will continue as vice president of Con- solidated's sales and marketing group. Gene joined Consolidated in 1977. He, his wife, Linda, and their two children. Curt, 18, and Laurie, 16, live in a sub- urb of St. Louis. Dr. Jeffrey A. Stritar. Princeton, N.J., has been appointed director-clini- cal research, anti-infectives, of Scher- ing-Plough Corporation's Pharmaceu- tical Research Division. Previously, he was associate clinical research director responsible for clinical antibiotic de- velopment at E.R. Squibb & Sons, Inc. He is a member of the American Soci- ety for Microbiology. /'^ (^ Finn M.W. Caspersen is w^ '^ chairman of the board of V-' \-^ Beneficial Corporation in Wilmington, Del. Benehcial is a multi- billion-dollar. New York Stock Ex- change-listed, diversified financial ser- vices holding company. He is an emeritus trustee of Brown. /'^ yd Barbara Froling Immroth, Aus- W~\ /\ tin. Texas, writes: "My son, \J J. Chris, is a freshman at Rice University. 1 was elected to be a coun- cilor-at-large of the American Library Association and to the board of the Association for Library Service to Children. Karen Almy Van Westering and I visited in Los Angeles last sum- mer." y'^ fa^ David Buskin is writing and tf^ r\ singing advertising jingles in V^ kJ New York City. He won the Clio Award for best television song of 1982-83 for his NBC theme, "Just Watch Us Now." He performs when time permits and was featured recently on WNET's televised special concert, "Tom Rush Live at Symphony Hall." David also reports that Jon Charnas, New York City, is selling children's clothes. He has also appeared in sev- eral television commercials for Old Stone Bank, Miller Lite Beer (with Billy Martin), and others. Sally Milter Johnston ('68 A.M.) and Alan G. Johnston (see '68) are now in Nairobi, Kenya. Sally is project moni- tor for the Urban Commiuiity Im- provement Project of the National Christian Council of Kenya. 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Box 2869 Clinton, lA 52735 Please send the vacation/travel information corresponding to the num- bers I have circled: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Name (please print) Address City State Note: Offer expires May 31, 1984 61 Planning. P.O. Box 30005, Naiiobi, Kenya. Robert B. Rosen is a partner in the Chicago real estate fiini of Krain Ga- mins &• Swartcliilcl. He and his wife recently had their third diild and first boy, Zachary David Rosen. j^-\ /-^ Sally Van Doren Dohm is di- 1^ 1^ vorced and living in Darien, V^ V^ C:()ini., with her daughters, Wendy, 15. and Sandy. 12. She is pres- ident of The Rainbow Shoppe, Inc. She was president of The Darien Hardware, Inc., initil she sold it last month. Joseph E. Griesedieck, Jr., has been promoted to senior vice president at Russell Reynolds Associates, Inc., in San Francisco. Previously, he was group vice president-foods for Alex- ander and Baldwin, Inc. Rois Jones. Pound Ridge, N.Y., has been promoted to treasurer of the Reader's Digest Association, Inc., based in Pleasantville, N.Y. Ross joined Reader's Digest in 1977. In 1979, he was tapped by the White House to participate in the President's Executive Exchange Program, in which business officials volunteer for specified periods to work in the federal government. He served for several months as assistant to the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. He is married, with a son and a daughter. Virginia Tice Slillman, Croton-on- Hudson, N.Y., is changing careers. Ginny is a graduate student in com- puter science and is the mother of two boys, Andrew, 7, and Loren, 3. The Stillmans returned this past year from four years abroad in England and Bel- gium. /~\ ^^ Su.sa7i Moroz Menichetti. Gla- |'~\ / stonbury, Gonn., reports: \J § "Our two children, David and Steven, are 8 and 6, respectively. I have gone back to work as vice presi- dent of Middlesex Memorial Hospital in Middletown, Gonn. My husband, John, is president of Children's Hospi- tal in Newington, Gonn." Todd F. Moger and his family are now in Hong Kong with Celanese In- ternational. Alan V. Vaskas has become a mem- ber of the law firm, Lawrence B. Kur- land Associates, in West Chester, Pa. A member of the American Bar Associa- tion Committee on Real Estate Special- ization, he will concentrate his practice in the area of real estate. 62 /■~\ /^ James Dickson. Washington, 1^ \L D.C, writes: "For the past \J ij year, I have been director of field operations for Project Vote, a non-partisan voter education and reg- istration organization." Maggie L. Hairer is directing tele- vision (NBC's "Another World"), op- era, and new theatre. She recently premiered Margaret Garwood's Rap- paccinni's Daughter at the Pennsylvania Opera Theatre in Philadelphia, and she is currently in San Francisco di- recting a new drama. Private Scenes, at The Magic Theatre. Alan G. Johnston and Sally Miller Johnston (see "65) are now in Nairobi, Kenya. Alan is a project associate with the Harvard Institute for International Development. He works as an advisor on rural development planning in the Ministry of Finance and Planning. Current address: Ministry of Finance and Planning, P.O. Box 30005, Nai- robi, Kenya. y'^ y^ By now you should have l'^ \^ returned your completed \J %J questionnaires to the Brown Alumni Office, Box 1859, Providence, R.I. 02912. If you have not mailed them yet, please do so immediately! The reunion committee continues to meet regularly. Watch your mail for the final schedule of our 15th reunion events and your reservation form. We look forward to hearing from you and seeing you on Memorial Day Week- end. Stewart A. Baker sends us the fol- lowing report: "Last September saw the birth of our third child (and first son), Gordon Andrew Baker, and in October, I accepted an invitation to become a member of Steptoe & John- son Chartered, a large law firm in Washington, D.C." Mark Davis and Marilynn Mair '70, Providence, have begun their seventh season of chamber music recitals for guitar and mandolin. The pair pursues an active concert schedule at home and abroad, including frequent New England performances and recent tours to Europe and California. Their first record album, "Music for Guitar and Mandolin," has won them "international praise from critics and musicians for their skillful and sensi- tive performance." A second record, "Picaflor," is just out on the Titanic label. Howard W. Johnson reports: "We've moved from New Hampshire to New- ton, Mass., and I've left Digital Equipment Corporation. I have ac- cepted the position of vice president of tnarkeling at Geographic Systems, Inc., a new software fnm in Reading, Mass." ^7 /^ W;7/mw p. Braden, Mesa, / I I "^riz., has been named cor- # V^ porate counsel for ITT Courier Ferminal Systeins, Inc. Wil- liam received his law degree from the University of Texas School of Law. Prior to joining ITT Courier, he was in-house counsel to the Continuum Company, Inc., located in Austin, Texas. Paul Burke, Washington, D.C, is working at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. He is help- ing design national surveys of housing quality, studying how best to set up shelters for the homeless, and manag- ing some large computer data bases. Richard J. Harrington, Washington, D.C., is "doing well" in software archi- tecture and engineering. He'll be opening an office in London in March. Marilynn Mair and Mark Davis '69, Providence, have begun their seventh season of chamber music recitals for guitar and mandolin. The pair pursues an active concert schedule at home and abroad, including frequent New England performances and recent tours to Europe and California. Their first record album, "Music for Guitar and Mandolin," has won them "international praise from critics and musicians for their skillful and sensi- tive performance." A second record, "Picaflor," is just out on the Titanic label. William C. Price, Washington, D.C., reports: "I received an LL.M. in taxa- tion from the Georgetown University Law Center in May 1983. I am cur- rently working as an attorney in the office of the chief counsel at the In- ternal Revenue Service in Washing- ton." Bill Schauffler and his wife, Vicki, announce the birth of their first child, Alexandra Abbott, on Oct. 12. Bill is a systems analyst with the Agency for International Development in Wash- ington. Their address: 63 Franklin St., Annapolis, Md. 21401. 71 Dr. Alan M. Birnbaum, Fresno, Calif., writes: "I am in the private practice of neurology, in partnership with Dr. Harvey L. Edmonds. I utilize Saint Agnes Medical Center for most of my in-patient work, and am a partner with Dr. Edmonds and Dr. Robert L. Galnies in the Vascular Laboratory of Fresno, our neurosonology facility. My wife, Julie, gave birth to our first child, Nathan Adam Birnbaum, on Sept. 17." Mark E. Danner has been pro- moted to region sales manager for the ten-state Midwestern sales region of Anheuser-Busch, Inc. Mark, who is based in Chicago, has been with An- heuser-Busch since 1977. His career with the company began in the corpo- rate planning department. Linda L. Fartin, Attleboro Falls, Mass., is an educational quality analyst at Digital Equipment Corporation Educational Services in Bedford, Mass. Andrew Marctivitz, Lincoln, Mass., has been promoted to vice president of advanced products at Apollo Com- puter, Inc., in Chelmsford, Mass. Formerly Apollo's director of engi- neering, Andrew joined the company in 1980. Before that, he worked for three years at Prime Computer. ^m /^ Peter S. Reichertz, Washing- / f ton, D.C., reports: "I left / ^^ Hamel, Park, McCabe and Saunders in February 1983, after mak- ing partner in September, 1982. Started new law firm under the name of McMurray and Pendergast which merged with Aront, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin and Kahn in November." Lisa Sarasohn is "alive and very well" at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, Mass. She writes: "We recently moved from our Pennsylvania location to the Shadow- brook estate in Lenox. Our new Berk- shire property, formerly the site of the Andrew Carnegie mansion, is next door to Tanglewood and comes com- plete with exquisite mountain views and a private lake front. I can't imag- ine my life being any richer than it is right now. Kripalu Center offers pro- grams in holistic health, yoga, and per- sonal growth to the thousands of guests who visit throughout the year. I'm surrounded by wonderful friends and co-workers, and I love the work I'm doing. I edit and write for our free magazine, Kripalu Quest, as well as for the books and brochures we print; I also teach yoga and offer private ses- sions in holistic health. Come visit or write me at Kripalu Center, Box 793, Lenox 01240." ^y ^^ Joel Goldstein has been pro- / /^ moted to group manager of / \^ organization development at Digital Equipment Corporation in Westford, Mass. Michael R. Gross, West Hartford, Conn., reports: "My wife, Janet, and I now have two children: Matthew, 3, and Sarah, I. I am an associate actuary in group pensions at the Travelers Insurance Company. My wife is a full- time mother (probably the most difficult and most underrated profes- sion in the world)." Bob Jennett, Park Ridge, 111., has a new job in real estate finance at Re- public Realty Mortgage in Chicago, a subsidiary of Continental Bank. Bob and Maria's second child, John, was born in December 1982. Their first child, Anna, is 4. Dr. John A. (Kalaskowski) Kane lives in New York City, not in Hartford, as was incorrectly reported in the Octo- ber issue. The construction of his new dental office at 400 Madison Ave. in New York has just been completed. Richard Korb, Providence, was married on Oct. 23 to Leanne Haskell, of Washington, D.C. "We will continue to live in Rhode Island," he writes. His wife is a jewelry designer. Robert D. Lane, Jr., who practices real estate law with the firm of Fox, Rothschild, O'Brien & Frankel in Phil- adelphia, has recently been appointed chairman of the Committee on Zoning and Land Use of the Philadelphia Bar Association. Bob and his wife, Patricia Hastie-Lane, have a 16-month-old daughter, Rebecca. Bob also reports that his former roominates. Randy Le- vine and Richard Korb, have each been married recently after "holding out as long as they could." Randy was inar- ried on Oct. 9, and Richard on Oct. 23 (see preceding note). While Bob was unable to get to Florida for Randy's wedding, he was an usher at Richard's, "which was a lovely affair. " Carol McPhdlips Pawlak and David A. Pawlak send us the following news: "It has been a hectic 2 1/2 years since we last wrote. We have moved from Somerset, Mass., to Cranston, R.I., and had our second child, Stephen Joseph, in April 1983. He has joined with our 3-year-old daughter, Christine, to pro- vide a formidable double-team against two often-weaiy parents. Carol has found the time to begin some part- time teaching and tutoring. I recently left my position as senior staff auditor with Arthur Young & Company, and have joined Denney Manufacturing Company, of Warwick, as controller." ^^ A ^"'^ Costa, Brookline, Mass., / /I was married last summer to / A^ David Goodness, of Narra- gansett, R.I. The ceremony took place in Wakefield, R.I. James Hutchinson has been named manager in the audit department of Touche Ross & Co. in Chicago. He joined Touche Ross, the international accounting and consulting firm, in 1976. That was also the year he re- ceived his M.B.A. in accounting from Indiana University. He lives in Oak Park, 111. Gayle A. Kaplan, Lisle, III., writes that she has received her M.B.A. from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. She has taken a position with Deltak, Inc., as a mar- ket analyst. Michael R. Moynihan, Lowell, Ohio, reports: "Robin Whittemore [see '76] and I left Japan last fall and headed home via China and Europe. We look forward to seeing old Brown friends as well as my brother, Patrick '87, at Commencement '84." Robert W. Stewart, who has been with the Los Angeles Times since Janu- ary 1982, reports that he has been transferred to the metropolitan staff and is working out of the Times Build- ing in downtown Los Angeles, doing general assignment work. ^^ t^ Dante Balestracci and his wife, / 1^ Judith, would like to / \J "belatedly" announce the birth of their two sons: Dante G., on June 6, 1981, and Mark L., on May 4, 1983. "We are still living in South Dartmouth, Mass., and I am working at U.S. Ring Binder Corporation of New Bedford, Mass., in sales as well as materials management." Dr. Faiza F. Estrup, Providence, has been elected to Fellowship in The American College of Physicians, a 57,000-member national medical spe- cialty society. She will be honored dur- ing the convocation ceremony at the college's annual session in Atlanta on April 26-29. Faiza is one of 16,000 physicians honored with Fellowship in the college. She is on the active medi- cal staff of the Brown affiliated hospi- tals and is also chief of the Depart- ment of Rheumatology at Memorial Hospital in Pawtucket, R.I. Dr. Elaine R. Ferguson writes: "I completed my residency in pediatrics at the University of Chicago's Wyler Children's Hospital. Currently, I am the medical director of the Phoenix (111.) Family Health Center, located in south suburban Cook County." Marc E. Ginsberg, Old Lyme, Conn., has become a partner in the New London law firiri of Waller, Smith & Palmer. After law school at the Uni- versity of Miami, Marc joined the firin as an associate. He is a member of the New London County and Connecticut gS Bar Associations and is aiiihoii/cci to practice in Fttleial District Court. Emih Hoiiii!;. Easton, Pa., has been appointed to the facultv of Lafayette Coliege as an assistant prolessor of his- tory. Eniiiv is a specialist in .\sian stud- ies and lias written sever.il papers on the Slianghai woi king i lass and the life of women in C.hina. She received her inaster's and Ph.D. at Stanford Univer- sity. ^ r^ Di. Dennis A. Chuck ('79 / \\ M.D.). an eye physician and / \J surgeon, has joined Dr. Jerry K. Donin in the practice of ophthalmology in Pomona, Calif. Fol- lowing an internship at the County- USC Medical Center, he undertook three years of additional study at the University of Southern California and the Estelle Doheny Eye Foundation. Dr. ]oan Fine (79 M.D.), Balti- more, was married to Douglas Apirian in Baltimore on May 22. Dr. CAn.s Var- ney Indech was the matron of honor. Alison Heaney writes that she was married to Hugh M. Freeland in July. She has a new address: 888 8th Ave. (3A), New York City 10019. Nina R. Hinchee, Cromwell, Conn., has been promoted to assistant vice president and planning director at First Bank's New Haven office. Nina joined First Bank in 1978 as an ac- counting department trainee and most recently served as planning director. She received the YMCA Women in Leadership Award in 1982. She lives with her husband, Steve. Dr. Gordon H. Hull, Philadelphia, completed his residency in internal medicine at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City last June and has be- gun a cardiology fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Phila- delphia. Gordon and his wife, Linda (see '77), are "immensely enjoying" their first child, Allison Michelle, born April 22. David B. Kay reports: "After grad- uating from Brown, 1 went to the Uni- versity of California at Berkeley's Graduate School to study in the Chi- nese department. I spent two years in Taiwan at the Stanford Center, and then moved on to the American Grad- uate School of International Manage- ment in Arizona. I was sent by AGSIM to the People's Republic of China to conduct negotiations for an exchange program with the Beijing Institute of Foreign Trade. Now, after two years in San Francisco at various jobs, I've decided to once again return to school. 64 I have begun at UCLA Law School and am anxious to work with a pro- fessor there who specialized in the Chinese legal systcin." Rohin W'hittcmore, Lowell, Ohio, dosed her show of oil paintings in Osaka, Japan, and traveled to China and "points west " on her way back to the U.S. Her husband is Michael R. Moynihan (see '74). ^^ ^^ Paul Braithwaile, assistant J J actuary and assistant inan- f f ager with Insurance Services Office of New York, has achieved the distinction of Fellowship in the Casu- alty Actuarial Society. The Fellow des- ignation, the highest award granted by the society, can only be achieved through successful completion of ten comprehensive insurance examina- tions. Paul, his wife, Elaine, and their son, Mark, live in New York City. Barbara L. Hough and William A. Flint III were married on Aug. 13 in Darien, Conn. Attendants included Judith Pollard Danforth and Margaret S. Young '76. After having worked for Chemical Bank in New York City for five years, Bonnie has moved to Flo- rida, where she is a vice president with NCNB National Bank of West Palm Beach. Her husband works for a de- veloper in Stuart, Fla., and also free- lances as a landscape architect. Their new address: 1153 NW 12th Terr., Stuart 33494. Linda Hammer Hutt is "enjoying being a full-time mother" to her daughter, Allison Michelle, born last April 22. After completing her actuar- ial exams and becoming a fellow in the Society of Actuaries in 1981, she took over as director of the Actuarial De- velopment Group at Mutual of New York while continuing in their corpo- rate financial area. Now in semi-re- tirement, she and her husband, Gordon (see '76), have made a new home in Philadelphia, where they would wel- come hearing from fellow alimini. Address: 950 Walnut St., Philadelphia 19107. Susan Groll Langevin and her hus- band, Theodore Langevin, have an in- fant son, Daniel Saul. Susan, who holds a doctorate in psychology, is doing research at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Her mother is Florence Seid Harffi^ee '49). Diane Krejsa writes: "I'm alive and well and starving in New York. No more of that Wall Street glitter for me. It's time to say goodbye to those ben- nies and boondoggles. On to serious business: law and order and quality of life. I just left Davis Polk & Wardwell, wheie 1 had been working as an attor- ney in the litigation department for three years after graduating from New York University Law School. My new beat: the district attorney's office of New York County, where I am as- signed to prosecute narcotics felonies in Manhattan." David W. Nelson, who was a gradu- ate student in comparative literature at Princeton, now attends Emory Univer- sity Medical School on a Robert Wood- ruff Fellowship. His wife, Leslie Goldwa- ter, joined McKinsey & Company, management consultants, as an editor in their Atlanta office. David and Les- lie live in Decatur, Ga. David N. Neusner has joined the Groton, Conn., law firm of O'Brien, Shafner, Bartinik, Stuart & Kelly. He will specialize in workers compensation and Social Security disability cases. Allen Schauffler, Portland, Oreg., sends the following news: "Life in the Pacific Northwest is, as ever, relaxing and stunningly beautiful. You easto- philes just don't know what you're inissing. I'ln proud to report my re- cent marriage to Cynthia Louise Betts. A number of Brown grads were in at- tendance. Hello and love to the entire University." ^j /^ Laura S. Grillo is a computer / N^ science teacher at the Inter- / U national School of Kenya in Nairobi, Kenya. "On leave of absence from Union Theological Seminary in New York City, where I was doing an M.Div. I did a one-year student intern- ship at the All Africa Conference of Churches in Nairobi; now, for a change, am learning and teaching computer science at the ISK. I married Samuel C. Ketekou, who is now serv- ing as Africa regional secretary of the World Student Christian Federation." Michael J. Hay. Houston, reports: "I recently resigned my position as an assistant vice president with Bank of America's Energy Group in Houston. My new position is manager of financial planning for United Energy Resources, Inc., also in Houston." Kathenne Austin Leonard, Gaines- ville, Fla., graduated from the Univer- sity of Florida Medical School in May and deferred internship for one year. "We hope to be back up North next year," she writes. Her husband is Gany M. Leonard (see '79). Dr. Essie J. Rolnick Nash ('81 M.D.) reports: "I am currently completing my residency in internal medicine at The Graduate Hospital in Philadel- phia. 1 was honored to be named a chief of the editorial board of Medica, Women Practicing Medicine, a new na- tional magazine. In addition, our or- ganization. Dual Doctor Families, con- tinues to grow. We are also busy fixing up our first house. I am sorry to have missed reunion, but I was attending my husband's Vassar reunion instead!" ^m y~Y The countdown has begun / vJ for our fifth reunion. Con- / %J tact your friends and plan to come to Brown May 25-28 for a great weekend! If you have not received class mailings, please contact the Alumni Relations Office at (401) 863-3307. Martha Starkweather Altreuter, Mar- blehead, Mass., and a crew that in- cluded Sara Deadrick fought all the way to the finish line of the last race to win the United States Yacht Racing Un- ion's Adams Cup for the U.S. Wo- men's Sailing Championship. The races were hosted by Larchmont Yacht Club, N.Y., in last August. Close com- petition marked the series, sailed in light to medium air on Long Island Sound. "It was an exciting series," says Martha, a two-time U.S. Women's Doublehanded champion (with Sara as crew). "There was a lot of good rac- ing." Laurel A. Butler reports: "I think I wrote earlier that Chris Daniels and I were married in May 1981, and that we're living in New London, Conn. Now I'm pleased to announce that I've Joined E.F. Hutton & Company in their New London and Hartford offices as an account executive. The training program was challenging — long and thorough — but I'm enjoy- ing being an account executive. My specialty is long-range financial plan- ning and tax planning. I do a lot of IRAs, retirement planning, and educa- tion planning as well as stocks and bonds." Arthur D. Frank, Jr.. Pall River, Mass., has been admitted to the Massa- chusetts Bar. A graduate of New Eng- land Law School, he is associated with the law offices of Joseph I. Macy. David Gross is living in Los Ange- les, where he works for MGM/L'nited Artists as a film marketing analyst. Prior to this, he spent three years working in New York City. Neil J. Jacob was married on June 18 to Laurie Wynn Adam. The couple is living in Atlanta. John Henry Lee was married to Maureen Janet Sullivan (see '80) on Aug. 4 at Saint Patrick's Cathedral in Fort Worth, Texas. John is a second- year medical student at the Texas Col- lege of Osteopathic Medicine. Garry M. Leonard, Gainesville, Fla., is finishing a Ph.D. in English litera- ture at the University of Florida. He's writing his dissertation on James Joyce. His wife is Katherine Austin Leonard (see '78). Peter B. Loening. Farmington, Conn., has been named associate direc- tor in the real estate investment divi- sion of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company in Springfield, Mass. Cynthia Sheldon, West Warwick, R.I., was married on Aug. 13 to Trent Colford in Manchester, Conn. Cynthia is a senior actuarial analyst with Met- ropolitan Property and Liability Insur- ance Company. ^~\ /^ Peter M. Benjamin, Hayward, #S I I Calif., has been promoted to V-/ V^ region manager with Ameri- can Dietary Products, a division of the American Hospital Supply Corpora- tion. He recently moved to the San Francisco area. Carolyn A. Coletti was married to Thomas P. Wetmore on Aug. 13 in Norwich, Conn. The bride's father. Dr. Lariy Coletti '51, gave her away. Rachel Balaban, Jenny Evans, Jean Leahy, and Dariel Young were bridesmaids. A number of Brown graduates attended the ceremony. Both Carolyn and Thomas work for Burroughs Corpora- tion in Woburn, Mass. They are living in Stowe, Mass. Cathy Ciirletl has moved to Denver, where she accepted a position with General Foods. David Eiseman is a third-year law student at Hastings College of Law in San Francisco, where he is senior arti- cles editor of the Constitutional Law Quarterly. This past summer, he worked for the law firm of Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon in San Fran- cisco. Terence B. Hook writes: "I was married on Oct. 22 to Andrea Traf- ford Salvatore in Bedford, N.Y. There were a number of Brown people there including my father. Dr. Donald D. Hook '61 Ph.D. Andrea and I are now living in New Haven, Conn. I am studying at Yale for a doctorate in electrical engineering under an IBM fellowship program. I am still officially employed by IBM in Essex Junction, Vt., but I expect to be at Yale at least another three years." Steve James, Indianapolis, Ind., reports: "After receiving my M.B.A. last June from Northwestern Univer- sity and spending the summer in Eu- rope, I began work in Indianapolis for Eli Lilly and Company as a marketer in New Product Planning-Cardiovascu- lar Drugs." John Knight, New York City, is "franchising" a nationwide French Poodle Boutique "wherein these pre- cious animals may come for a shain- poo, cut, and special toenail clipping. Music, beverages, and career counsel- ing provided." Amy Goldman sends word that she was married to Joel London on Aug. 28 in Lawrence, N.Y. They are living in Greenwich Village. "I graduated last May from the University of Pennsyl- vania Law School and am working as an assistant corporation counsel with the law department of the city of New York. My husband (Penn '79 and NYU Law School '82) is an associate with the New York law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson." Karen D. Maynarcl has been named director of admissions at Marlboro College in West Dover, Vt. Karen worked for two years in the Brown admissions office before coming to Marlboro as assistant director of ad- missions in 1982. Lee Psinakis, Columbia, Md., is working for AT&T in Silver Spring, Md. Peter W. Simonse reports: "After working for three-and-a-half years in the oil fields of South Texas, I have elected to return to an academic envi- ronment. I began attending the Whar- ton School at the University of Penn- sylvania in January, where friends are encouraged to contact me." Maureen Janet Sullivan was married to John Henry Lee (see '79) on Aug. 4 at Saint Patrick's Cathedral in Fort Worth, Texas. Maureen was a member of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity at Brown, and John was a member of Delta Tau. Maureen is completing her final year at Southern Methodist Uni- versity School of Law and is a law clerk for the Fort Worth firm of Ray & Roe. "Special thanks for our wedding to oiu' Brown alumni friends. Our address is 3813 West 4th St., Fort Worth 76107. Telephone: (817) 737- 8133." Nancy M. Weissman sends word that she's moved to Manchester, N.H. She is clerking for the New Hampshire Superior Court. 81 Susan C. Cockfield was awarded a Root-Tilden Scholarship to attend the New York University School of Law, 65 wliiih she began in tin- fall. The onc- vcai scholarship is picscmecl to ton students across the conntrv who show promise of becoming outsianchng law- yers in public and conuiiunity service. From 19S1 lo 198:5, Susan was assis- tant director ol the C'.olden Door Pro- ject, a social service agency in Miami that helped relocate Cuban and Hai- tian letugees. Howard Beiijamiti Fife was married on Oct. 1.5 to Jill Meredith Winer in Manhattan. Howard is director of sales at Fife .Associates, a manufacturer of leather and synthetic materials in New York City. Daniel Golick and Andrea Goldman '82 were married on Aug. 14, 1982, in New Jersey and are living in Montreal. Several Brown graduates were in at- tendance. Craig Jones writes: "I am planning to graduate from Wake Forest Law School in December 1985, after which I will be moving to the coast of South Carolina to study for the South Caro- lina Bar. In the meantime, our mailing address is 5120-B Dartmoor St., Win- ston-Salem, N.C." Bnan R. Leach, Boston, is now at- tending Harvard Business School. Philip A. Moen reports: "Mary Hill- man (see '82) and I were married Sept. 17 in Stowe, Vt. We've been living to- gether for about a year now in D.C. and love it so much that we decided to settle down and buy a home in Old Town, Alexandria. Our favorites in- clude: Capitol Hill Squash Club, Ethi- opian cuisine, and the Torpedo Art Factory in Old Town. We also fre- quent the Blue Ridge Mountains when we can and the galleries, though the Mall can get obnoxiously crowded. Currently, I am a program director." Stephen L. Sepiniick, Watertown, Mass., writes: "I will be graduated from Boston University Law School in May, and have accepted an offer of employment with the law firm of Carl- ton, Fields, Ward, Emmanuel, Smith & Cutler in its main office in Tampa, Fla." ^~\ /^ Alison Berard has spent the ^^ ^ past year as a professional vj /bm^ cook in Boston. As of Janu- ary 1983, she's "seeking new adventure in San Francisco. Please write: 2226 Divisadero St., San Francisco 941 15." Andrea Goldman and Daniel Golick '81 were married on Aug. 14, 1982, in New Jersey. They're living in Mon- treal. James Green, Brighton, Mass., 55 sends word that he is one of several Brown graduates in the second year ol Boston College Law School. Mary HiUman was married on Sept. 17 to Philip Moen (.see '81) in Stowe, Vt. Mary is a treasurer at In- ternational Technology Corporation in McLean, Va, and the couple lives in Old Town, Alexandria, Va. Kimberh B. Kee, Brookline, Mass., is working in Boston as a sales assistant for Merrill Lynch. Dax'id Laufer is co-founder, pub- lisher, and editor of PRISM Magazine: A Journal of Ideas. Submissions of fiction and non-fiction, poetry, art work, and photography are encour- aged. For more information write to PRISM Magazine, P.O. Box 2868, Rockefeller Center Station, New York, N.Y. 10185. Margaret K. Liao, New Haven, Conn., writes: 'Tm delighted to say Eve been accepted into Brown's Pro- gram in Medicine, class of 1988." Laura Sadovnikoff New York City, writes that she graduated from Brown in June 1980. "I spent four months studying Russian in Moscow in 1981. Em now working in New York City for Citizen Exchange Council — which runs cultural exchange programs with the Soviet Union." Linda R. Saxl is studying for a graduate degree at Yale University. However, from last June until January, her work took her to New York City. (It was incorrectly reported in this col- umn that she was living in New Haven during those months.) As of January, she has moved back to New Haven. Marie A. Skomoroch, Brookline, Mass., is a second-year student at Bos- ton University Law School. Shawn Wright is with the Peace Corps in Africa. He's a health coordi- nator in Bumba, a "village" of 80,000 on the Zaire (Congo) River in Central Zaire. Address: Corps de la Paix, A/S Mission Catolique, B.P. 11, Bumba, Eq., Zaire, Central Africa. This infor- mation comes from his father, Jack Wright '58. /-^ ^^ Renee C. Haskell, daughter of Vt y^ Claire and Richard Haskell K_} sj '60, was married on Oct. 22 to Eric N. Anderson. The wedding took place in Gales Ferry, Conn. Stacy Pierce served as a bridesmaid, and a number of Brown grads were present at the ceremony. Alex Kass, New Haven, Conn., is a first-year doctoral candidate at the Yale Artificial Intelligence Project. He is living at 222 Edwards St. in New Haven, 0651 1, and welcomes corre- s|)ondence as well as visitors. /()/)/) F. Kennedy, jr., is a graduate sludcnl at the University of New Delhi iii India. James N. Leonard and Therese Pi- cado, San Francisco, were married June 25 in San Diego. James is a Ph.D. can- didate in genetic research at the Uni- versity of California at San Francisco. Until recently, Therese was employed at the Pine Ridge School in Williston, Vt. She will use the name Picado-Leo- nard. ^'-~>\ ^ David Kline '64 Ph.D., Buf- I ^^^falo, N.Y., writes: "We V--' k_^have one son, Eric, who is now a freshman at Cornell studying mechanical engineering, and a second son, Sean, who is a senior in high school and is interested in medicine. He is hoping to be accepted by Brown's Program in Medicine next year as a freshman." Corinne Gottfried Weber '67 A.M. and David W. Weber '73 Ph.D., East Lyme, Conn., send the following news. "We have just returned from six months in Dublin, Ireland, where Da- vid spent his teaching sabbatical. He's an associate professor of economics at the United States Coast Guard Acad- emy in New London, Conn. While there, David was a visiting lecturer at University College, Dublin. The chil- dren — Rachel, 15, Ben, 13, and Lau- ren, 1 1 — attended local schools, and Corinne did volunteer work at the Home for Aged and Infirm Jews in Dublin." Maurine Weiner Greenwald '72 Ph.D., associate professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh and a member of the Women's Studies Pro- gram faculty there, has been ap- pointed to the Organization of Ameri- can Historians Committee on the Status of Women in the Historical Pro- fession. She'll serve on the committee through 1985. Grace Farrell Lee '73 Ph.D. is asso- ciate professor of English at Sacred Heart University in Hartford, Conn. She has been awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities to research and complete her book. The Fiction of Isaac Bashevis Singer: From Exile to Redemption. She has been interested in the Nobel lau- reate's works for a decade and will examine how Singer's writings "tran- scend the boundaries of cultural and religious ethnicity to touch the center of all that is human." Richard F. Foley '75 Ph.D., associate professor of philosophy at the Univer- sity of Notre Dame, has been named chairman of that department for a two-year term. A speciahst in episte- mology, he has been co-director of the undergraduate program in philosophy and coordinator of the department's honors thesis program since 1979. He has had several papers published in scholarly journals, and his research has been supported by the National En- dowment for the Humanities. He joined the Notre Dame faculty in 1976. Robert Stockman '75 Sc.M., Somer- ville, Mass., is doing graduate study in religion at Harvard Divinity School, having completed an M.T.S. there in world religions. He has been active in Baha'i activities in the Providence and Boston areas. Having finished a book on the history of the Baha'i faith in Rhode Island, he is presently working on a biography of Thornton Chase, the first American Baha'i. Mai-y Ann Cisar '78 Ph.D., North- field, Minn., was visiting assistant pro- fessor of French in the department of modern languages and literatures at Carleton College last fall. She has been an assistant professor of romance lan- guages at St. Olaf College since 1978. John Lauritz Larson '76 A.M., '81 Ph.D. writes: "I have just joined the Purdue University faculty as an assis- tant professor of history, after four years as director of research at Conner Prairie Pioneer Settleinent. I am also about to publish my first book, which is titled Bonds of Enterprise and will be coining out from Harvard University Press this winter. My wife, Suzanne, daughter Anna, son Olaf, and I live at 3000 Covington St., West Lafayette, Ind. 47906." MD '76). '78). Dennis A. Chuck '79 M.D. (see '76). Joan Fine '79 M.D. (see Essie J. Rolnick Nash '81 M.D. (see OBITUARIES Marjorie Stone Stroiit '10, Provi- dence, a teacher at the Gilbert Stuart Junior High School in Providence be- fore her retirement in 1960; Oct. 28. She received her M.A. from the Uni- versity of Southern California in 1936. She was a member of the Rhode Is- land Library Association and the Na- tional Education Association. Survivors include her niece, Barbara Stone, P.O. Box 31, Foster, R.I. 02825. Her brother was the late Leslie E. Stone '17. Albert Pray Martin '13, Hamilton, Ontario, professor of German and head of the German department at McMaster University in Hamilton, prior to his retirement in 1 96 1; Dec. 31, 1982. Prof. Martin received an M.A. from the University of Wisconsin in 1914 and a Ph.D. there in 1917. He was visiting professor of German at the University of Buffalo (N.Y.) from I96I to 1963. Surviving are three sons, including Hugh A. Martin, 49 Ruther- ford Way, Kanata, Ontario K2K 1N3, and a daughter. Henry Schischker Newcombe '15, North Kingstown, R.I., vice president and director of Berkshire-Hathaway, Inc., a textile manufacturer in New Bedford, Mass.; Dec. 1. Earlier, Mr. Newcombe had been a partner with E.S. Macomber & Company. He was a former director of the Northern Tex- tile Association and was a past presi- dent of the Turks Head Club in Prov- idence. He was also a member of the American Textile Manufacturing Insti- tute and was a former president of his class. Theta Delta Chi. Survivors in- clude his son, John, 599 North Quid- nessett Rd., North Kingstown 02852. Ernest Edor Nelson '19, East Fal- mouth, Mass., senior credit loan officer at Brown Brothers Harriman and Company of Boston for many years; Oct. 21. Mr. Nelson did graduate work at Harvard Business School. He was past president of Robert Morris Asso- ciates and a member of the American Bankers Association. He was associated with Brown Brothers Harriman from 1923 to 1962 and was a pioneer in the financing of leather and wool throughout the world. He was listed in Who's Who in America and was a past president of the Brown Club of Bos- ton. Lambda Chi Alpha. Surviving are three sons, including Robert E. Nelson '44, Gingerbread Ln., Ashburnham, Mass. 01430; and Frederick Nelson '50. Helen Gallivan Hoban '22, Little Compton, R.I.; Nov. 28. Survivors in- clude her brother-in-law, Albert J. Hoban, 7 Little Rest Rd., Kingston, R.I. 02881. Amelia Harris Kimball '24, Gilderland, N.Y.; Sept. 8. Mrs. Kimball received her A.M. from Brown in 1926. After graduation, she was a teacher at the Emma Willard School in Troy, N.Y. Survivors include a daugh- ter and a son, Bradford, 57-A Knights Bridge, Gilderland 12084. She was the sister of Louise Harris '26. Norman Orwig Tietjens '25, Wash- ington, D.C., a senior judge of the U.S. Tax Court, to which he was named in 1950; Sept. 2. Judge Tiet- jens earned an A.M. from Brown in 1927 and received his J.D. degree from the University of Michigan in 1930. In 1933, he became a special counsel to the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works. From 1938 to 1950, he was an attorney with the U.S. Treasury Department and was named its associate general coun- sel. Listed in Who's Who, he was chief judge of the U.S. Tax Court from 1961 to 1967. Sigma Nu. Surviving art two daughters, including Corinne Sommer, 1020 Oak Hill Ave., Hagers- town, Md. 21740; and his brother, Bruce E. Tietjens '26. Grasse Gulian '26, Falmouth, Maine, owner of Gulian, Inc., Hard- ware, in Portland, Maine; Nov. 15. Survivors include his wife, Dorothy, 59 Applegate Ln., Falmouth 04105. John Edward Corcoran '28 A.M., Brookline, Mass., principal of the Pierce Elementary School in Brookline for thirty-two years prior to his re- tirement in 1969; Nov. 14. Mr. Cor- coran graduated from Boston College and received his Ed.D. from Boston University in 1958. Survivors include his wife, Frances, 35 Cypress St., Brookline 02146, two sons, and a daughter. 67 Willard Batchelot Craifhx "28, Haindeii. C:omi., an clt-itrical t-iigineer with the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad in New Haven, Conn., prior to his retirement; Nov. 26. Survivors inckide liis wife, Esther, 37 Spring Clarden St.. Hanidcn 06.517. He was tlie lailier ol the late Pcler Al- bert Crawley '71 A.M.. who died on Aug. 19. Willard Caawlev's father was the late Ernest W. Crawley '0 1 . Anna Hon'ilz Baksl '31. Fall River, Mass.; Nov. 20. Mrs. Bakst was a member of numerous organizations, including the Hebrew Ladies Helping Hand Society, Hadassah, the Brandeis University Women's Organization, and the Women's Board of Charlton Mem- orial Hospital. Surviving are two sons, including M. Charles Bakst '66, 7 Lin- coln Ave., Harrington, R.I. 02806. Kathryn Taylor Cleaves '3 1 , St. Louis, Mo.; Feb. 17. 1982. Mrs. Cleaves is survived by her husband. Arthur B. Cleaves '27, 6350 Pershing Ave., St. Louis 63130; and two sons, including Arthur W. Cleaves '67. Janet Johnston Harmon '31 Ph.D., Lawrenceville, N.J., a professor of bi- ology at Limestone College in New Jersey prior to her retirement; Oct. 9. Mrs. Harmon received her B.A. from Wellesley College in 1926. Surviving are two sons, including John J. Har- mon, 189 Spring Beauty Dr., Law- renceville 08648. Thomas Patrick Reidy '32, Baton Rouge, La., a drapery hardware sales representative for Stanley-Judd, a divi- sion of The Stanley Works, prior to his retirement; Nov. 7. Mr. Reidy was, at one time, the owner of a retail drapery shop in Tampa. Fla. Survivors include his wife, Nina, 9335 Kingcrest Pkwy., Baton Rouge 70810. John Joseph Walsh '32, Palm Desert, Calif., retired vice president of the Walsh Construction Company, one of the nation's largest construction firms; Nov. 11. Mr. Walsh attended North- western University Law School in 1932, and later was associated with several branches of the family busi- ness. He was involved in the construc- tion of the Grand Coulee Dam and during World War II worked at the Walsh-Kaiser Shipyard in Providence. In 1964, he was elected president of The Moles, a national association of construction contractors. P.si Upsilon. gg Survivors include his wife, Eleanor, 1.511 Sandpiper. Palm Desert 922(')0. He was the brothei of Waller Walsh '33. The Rev. Ira Jay Martin '33, Black Mountain, N.C., a Baptist minister and professor of philosophy and religion at Berea College in Berea, Ky., prior to his retirement; Nov. 25. Dr. Martin received his B.D. from Andover-New- ton Theological School in 1936, and his Th.D. from Boston Lhiiversity School of Theology in 1942. He served as minister of various New England churches before joining the faculty of Berea. He was the author of several books, including Glossolalia, The Gift of Tongues and Through the Epistles to Paul. A member of the American Society of Biblical Literature, he was listed in the Directory of American Scholars and Who's Who in American Education. Survivors include his wife, Ethel, Highland Farms Lodge, Rt. 1, Black Mountain 28711, and a daughter. Ruth Edna Clem '34, Crosse Pointe Woods, Mich., a statistician with the Rhode Island Department of Health in Providence before her retirement; March 8, 1981. Miss Clem received a master's degree from Columbia University in 1936. After World War II, she worked for the United Nations in Lake Success, N.Y., as an economist planning reconstruction of devastated countries. She lived in Providence for many years. Survivors include a nephew, Stephen C. Clem, 800 Briar- cliff Dr., Crosse Pointe Woods 48236. Will tarn Emil Kappa uj '35 A.M., Champaign, 111., professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Illinois; Oct. 2. Prof. Kappauf received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1934 and his Ph.D. from the Univer- sity of Rochester in 1937. He worked on anti-submarine defense systems for the government dining World War II. and afterward, joined the faculty of Princeton University for five years. He went to the University of Illinois in 1951 and served as associate depart- ment head for psychology there from 1976 to 1978. An editor of the Ameri- can Jourmil of Psychology, he designed the present psychology building at the University of Illinois. Survivors include his wife, Catharine, 1401 Waverley Dr., Champaign 61821, two sons, and two daughters. Dr. Clinton Read De Conii '37, Cranston, R.I., a dentist in Cranston for many years prior to his retirement last March; Dec. 2. Dr. De C^onti was a former light heavyweight boxing champion. He received his doctorate in dentistry from Harvard in 1940 and was a captain in the Army Medical Corps during World War II. In 1980, he was awarded membership in the Senior Society of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. Delta Kappa Epsi- lon. Survivors include his wife, Caro- line, 30 Poppy Dr., Cranston, a daugh- ter, and a son. Frank Charles Prince '56, New York City, president and director of the Lion Match Corporation of America in New York City; Oct. 11. Mr. Prince also studied at the Sorbonne in France and at Penn's Wharton School. He had a strong interest in the theatre, and backed a number of plays produced in New York. From 1973 to 1975, Mr. Prince was president of the Brown Club of New York and a director of the Associated Alumni. He was presi- dent of his class from 1971 to 1976. There are no immediate survivors. Memorial contributions may be made to The Frank C. Prince Book Fund (do Box 1893, at Brown) for books in theatre arts and drama. Correction In the October issue, we errone- ously reported the death of Dr. How- ard B. Marble. Jr. '45. We are happy to report that Dr. Marble is alive and well in Augusta, Ga., where he is chief. Dental Service, at the VA Medical Center and professor of oral surgery at the Medical College of Georgia School of Dentistry. He reports he would be happy to "see any of my friends from Brown, but I'm afraid I can't get thein any tickets to the Mas- ters Golf Tournament." The error was the result of mis- taken identity. Dr. Marble's father, Howard B. Marble, M.D. '17. died Feb. 9. 1983, in Frederick, Md., and his file was confused with his son's in the re- cords office at Brown. Our apologies to Dr. Marble and our thanks to him for calling this to oiu' attention. — Editor BOOKS Bv Peter Mandel FLIGHTS by Jim Shepard '80 AM. Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. 253 pages. Biddy Siebert, the thirteen-year-old main character of Flights, is often lec- tured bv the sisters at Our Lady of Peace School. "You're a very fortunate boy. Sister had told him once. Jesus loves you, your parents love you, you're healthy and bright, you live in the best country in the world . . . What do you have to be so unhappy about?" This is a question that is asked not only by the nuns, but by Biddy's par- ents and by Biddy himself. One of the reasons why Flights is so successful is that Shepard never gives his charac- ters, or the reader, a simple answer. He chooses not to explicate Biddy's sense that "things are not the way they should be," though he describes many of the situations that disturb him and suggests several causes for his final flight. Shepard resists what would seem to be one of the temptations of a young novelist — to whack us over the head in order to make sure we see stars. Be- cause of his restraint, we are able to read Flights as if we were reading the new Maiamud or Bellow, trusting the author to avoid "announcing" the book's big moments, and allowing oin- selves to make the connections and draw the conclusions. Biddy is a boy growing up in a working class family that spends a large portion of its time playing, watching, and arguing about sports. Not surprisingly, one of his major torments is his lack of athletic skill. Even in his daydreams he fails to make tackles, or to get the timely hit: "He was hapless, an unspoken embarrass- ment. He was batting .000. He had not reached base. And yet he was still there, still digging in, still unwilling to give up. Goose Gossage reared, grow- ing larger as he uncoiled toward Biddy, and the ball was on him and he lashed at it way too late and struck out. . ." At the same time, sports are not always a source of pain for Biddy. Fol- lowing the Orioles and Vikings on tel- evision and playing a solitary dice baseball game he has invented give him a great deal of solace. So, rather than turning out to be a simple cause of Biddy's unhappiness, as they easily might have been, sports provide him with occasional comforts and play a part in increasing his sense of self-reli- ance. We could trv to understand Biddy by viewing him as an angry adoles- cent — (jne who is rebelling against au- thority figures such as the sisters, his mother and father, and the ever-pres- ent family friends, Dom and Ginnie. If this is the case, then he is an awfully quiet rebel. He takes a sailboat out in a storm and uses his BB gun to snipe at neighbors, but we have tire impression that he is acting out of a desire for escape rather than out of defiance. There are no explosive arguments between Biddy and his parents. In fact, the parents are portrayed sympa- thetically. Biddy's mother is quite close to him, and his father, while a bit of a buffoon, is well-meaning, not harsh. "I really don't know what to do witli you," says his dad. "What am I going to do? Ground you? You never go anywhere anyway." Biddy is contrasted with his sister. Kristi, who shoves the nuns at Our Lady of Peace and suffocates her pet turtle ("Fooler") in a desk drawer. Thev are perhaps equally unhappy, but where Kristi is fiery, Biddy is sensi- tive and quiet. He mourns injured animals, sings in the school choir, and mohTS ..>• ^ A Novel bv IIM SHEPARD worries about his slightly retarded friend, Louis. Like any child, he is acutelv aware of arguments between his parents. He is just as troubled when he di.scovers that Dom and Gin- nie's daughter, Cindy, is being unfaith- ful to her fiance: "Biddy collapsed to a sitting position and refused to get up, mired, it seemed, in the ice and snow, not responding, tears filling his eyes and the cold and wet coming through his pants. . ." As Biddy is picked up by his "frightened and despairing" father and put iiUo bed, his sister "stay(s) in the living room, shooting at ornaments with a rubber band." Toward the end of the novel Biddy brings home his report card. He has underestimated his family's reaction: "His mother shrieked at the math grade . . . An F! she exclaimed. Oh, mv God, he got an F! There was scuffling in the kitchen, Kristi appar- ently wanting to see and trying to grab the card from her mother." This is enough for our already troubled hero. He begins to put his intricate plan of escape into effect, and the rest of the book is concerned not with Biddy as disaffected thirteen- year-old, but with Biddy as self-taught pilot. We are left with a sense of satis- faction: Biddy has done something well, grown up a little — and we have discovered an unpretentious but very confident first novel. THE AMERICAN PROMISE edited by Arthur I. Blaustein '54. Transaction Books, 1982. 127 pages. A forcefully argued report by the National Advisory Council on Eco- nomic Opportunity, this book is in- tended to be read by ordinary Ameri- cans and "discussed over coffee and doughnuts." The report criticizes the Reagan economic recovery program on the grounds that it pursues eco- nomic theory at the expense of social policy, "which hurts the poor and could lead to social chaos." The Council recommends a new commitment to jobs, housing, and health care for the poor and unem- ployed. Blaustein, who is chairman of the Council, lives in Berkeley, Calif. He is director of the National Eco- nomic Development and Law Center and has been actively involved in anti-poverty efforts since the original Economic Opportunity Act. 69 Alumni Gatherings from Coast to Coast FRC^rrVif'At'UMNj Staff and associated alumni of brown Below is a sampling of coming events for alumni and friends of Brown - on campus, across the country and around the world. For information on these listings, and to make inquiries about other programs, phone the alumni and staff mentioned in the listings or contact the Alumni Relations Office (401-863-3307), Brown University, Box 1859, Providence, R.I. 02912. Coast to Coast March 26-31 26-31 Midwest Tour with Politi- cal Science Professor Newell M. Stultz. Possible cities include Minneapolis, Milwaukee. Chi- cago, Cleveland. Pittsburgh. Con- tact Alumni Relations Oftice, 401-863-3309. 27-31 New York State Tour by Sallie K. Riggs '62, Associate Vice President, University Rela- tions. Cities targeted aie Albany, Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo. Contact Alumni Relations Office, 401-863-3309. April 26-29 President Howard R. Swearer Tour Contact area club presidents. 26-Los Angeles, evening event for alumni. 27-Denver, evening event for alumni. 28-St. Louis, evening event for alumni. 29-San Antonio/Austin, biunch, general invitation alumni event. 29-Dallas, evening event for alumni. details. The lollowjng cities will be visited: February 26-29 26-.Seattle,Wash. 27-Portlaiid.Ore. 28-San Francisco, Cal. 29-Los Angeles, Cal. March l-San Diego, Cal. May 4-On campus for Club Leaders Workshop STUDENT PROGRAMS March 24-April 1- Spring Break Tours The High Jinks, Biown's all- male a cappcHa octet, will be per- forming a selection of blues, jazz, folk and popular arrangements. Tentatively scheduled for Miami , Southwest Florida (Naples), Sarasota/Bradenton. REGIONAL CONFERENCES In each city there will be general invitation events for all alumni with faculty speaker Political Science Professor Edward N. Beiserand Lacy Herrmann '50, President of the Associated Alumni and a workshop for all volunteer leaders in NASP, Development and Field Activi- ties. Contact club presidents for Company '84, a Brown student cabaret group, will tour several cities in the spring with a pro- duction called "Sable Sentiments." March 16-31 16-Fairfield County (Conn.) Club. 25-30-Spring Break Tour. Tenta tive plans include stops in Cin- cinnati, Indianapolis, Louisville, Memphis, Nashville. 3 1 -Westchester County (N. Y .) Club Student-AlumnI Events Student-Alumni Relations programs offer Brown alumni a chance to share their experiences with undergraduates and get an inside view of what Biown is like today. For information on how to become involved, contact Maria Rothman '82 at 401-863-3380. February 14 Seminar on Survival. Brown aliiinni will speak on "Balancing Career and Family " at 7:30 p.m. in the Maddock Alumni Center. March Career Forum. Alumni profes- sionals will discuss careers involving such skills as reading, writing, thinking and public speaking at 3:30 p.m. in the Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall. 13 Seminar on Survival. Brown alumni will discuss career and lifestyle issues at 7:30 p.m. in the Maddock Alumni Center. 16 Career Forum. Careers in small businesses will be discussed by alumni at 3:30 p.m. in the Mad- dock Alumni Center. 24-31 Extemships. Brown students test their career interests by spending a week on the job with alumni sponsors. April 10 Seminar on Survival. See March 13 listing. Summer Internships. Undergraduates gain valuable experience by working in desired career fields under the direction of alumni sponsors. National Alumni Schools Program April 15-May 1 NASP Acceptance Parties. Congratulatory gatherings for accepted students and National Alumni School Program volun- teers. Information available from local NASP Area Chairpcople. April 25 A Taste of Brown: A Day on the Hill. For prospective members of Biown's Class of '88. Sponsored bv NASP and the undergraduate Bruin Club, this fact-filled day gives all accepted candidates a chance to see what life on the hill is all about. For fui thei inlorma- lion on this event and other NASP activities, contact Heidi Janes '78, Director of NASP, at 401-863-3306. Continuing College Continuing College seminars transport the intellectual energy and excellence of Biown today to cities around the country. Watch your mail for announcements of spring programs in these cities or call 401-863-2474 for more information. March 3 Atlanta Architecture: Saving Yesterday and Building Tomorrow. Art Professor Bill Jordy and Brown Graduate Dennis O'Toole, vice president for Historic Area Pro- grams and Operations at Colo- nial Williamsburg, team an inquiry into the architectural merits of yesterday's and today's buildings. Contact Elaine (Nancy Gillespie) Luxemberger '59, 404-874-0634. March 17 Baltimore/Washington, D.C. Theatre and the Business of Show Business. Thtee theatre experts collaborate to bring you a unique perspective on the busi- ness of producing theatre. Brown Managing Theatre Director John Lucas, Stan Miller '54, president of Roscoe, Inc. the world's largest manufacturer of theatre equip- ment, and Tony Award winning set designer John Lee Beatty '70, will present at the Arena Stage, the capital's leading repertory theatre companv. Contact Col- man Levin '55,202-223-0716. April 7 Boston Computers: Everybody's Busi- ness Brown Professor of Com- puter Sciences Andries Van Dam and Associate Provost Bill Shipp spearhead a day-long investiga- tion into computers — their gen- esis and continuing importance in our lives. Our site is the Wang Laboratories in Lowell, close to Boston. Contact Richard Mertens '57.617-523-1238. June 24-30 Summer Alumni College - Return to the classroom for an "eduvacation." Russia will be the subject of morning lectures and discussions for the 1984 Summer Alumni College on the campus. Faculty include Howard Swearer, Mark Garrison, Tom Gleason, Victor Terras. After- noon workshops will feature writing, music, art, geology and others. Watch your mail and the BAM for complete details or call 401-863-2785. Brown Travelers March 17-25 Caribbean: Aboard the SEA CLOUD The tall ship SEA CLOUD, formerly a lu.xurious private vacht, will sail in some of the Caribbean's most renowned yachting waters with Professor Gordon S. Wood, Brown histo- rian, who will relate Old and New World cultures at the time of discovery. Cost: appro.xi- mately $3,250-5,550 per person double occupancy based on cabin choice. April 27-May 9 Athens and Greece. Sold out. June16-July2 Alaska Anthropology Professor Douglas Anderson, who has con- ducted research among the Eskimo, will lead discussions and tours in Alaska. A Questers' naturalist will accompany the group. Cost; $3,571 per person double occupancy from Seattle; single supplement, $360. Includes; two-day Glacier Bay cruise, visits to Sitka, Juneau, Fairbanks, Mount McKinley National Park, Anchorage, and Kotzebue. June27-July9 Interlaken, Amsterdam and a cruise on the Rhine/Moselle Rivers Professor of German Albert R. Schmitt will lead this 12-dav tour to his homeland. Cost: appro.ximately $1 ,895 per person double occupancy; $550 single supplement. Includes; five-night cruise on the Rhine and Moselle Rivers, three nights each in Interlaken and Amsterdam. August 5-23 Russia History Professor Tom Gleason, formerly head of the Kennan Institute, will lead this 16-dav trip which includes three nights in Moscow, an eleven-day cruise on the Dnieper River, the Black Sea and the Danube, and two nights in Bucharest. Cost approximately $2,595-2,995 per person double occupancy; $3,295 for single occupancy. September 11-28 China A repeat of the successful 1983 offering, this time with Pro- fessor Lea Williams, director of Brown's East Asia Area and Lan- guage Center. Trip includes three nights in Hong Kong and two in Tokvo; and twelve days in China with a Grand Canal cruise. Cost; approximately $3,995 per person double occupancy. October 26-November 12 Egypt This visit to Egypt includes a five-night Nile River cruise and two days in London at the end of the trip with a visit to the British Museum. Lectures and tours will be lead by Leonard and Barbara Lesko from Brown's Department of Egyptology. Cost; Approximately $2,955 per person double occupancy. On Campus Events April Association of Class Officers Spring Workshop. For informa- tion, contact Alavne Todd at 401-863-3307. Reunion Workshop. For Activi- ties and Gift Reunion Chairmen for Reunion '85. Place to be announced. May 25 Reunion '84. Classes ending in a "4" or "9" know they are cele- brating appropriate 5-year reunions. All alumni are wel- come. Check the festive events, only part of the total show, then make your travel plans. M.D. Class of '79 will hold their first five-vear reunion. Watch for additional information. All-College Reception. Meet your friends under the tent in Wriston Quadrangle. Start the weekend in grand style from 5-7 p.m. Brown Bear Buffet. Strolling musicians, a sumptuous buffet and overflowing carafes, coupled with the Brown Bear and blos- soming balloons, spell a gala affair from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at Sharpe Refectory. Campus Dance. Japanese lan- terns transform the College Green with Ralph Stuart's band and Lincoln Field with its rock band into a dancer's delight, an extraordinary extravaganza from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. 26 Reunion '84 Continues Commencement Forums. A pot- pourri of lectures, panel presen- tations and discussions involving faculty, distinguished guests, alumni , and students — a chance to be part of the intellectual excitement of Brown again. Full details in the March George Street Journal mailing. Alumni Field Day. Fun and games for all ages. Bring your children and grandchildren for the sporting action from noon to 5 p.m. at Aldrich-Dexter Field. Brown Medical Association Wine and Cheese Reception. For friends and alumni of the medi- cal program at the Science Library at 4:30 p.m. Pops Concert. Co-sponsored by The Brown Club of Rhode Island and the Pembroke Club of Provi- dence, this traditional event pre- sents the Rhode Island Philhar- monic Orchestra and guest artist from 9 to 1 1 p.m. on the College Green. 27 Reunion '84 Continues Associated Alumni of Brown University. Annual Meeting and Board of Directors meeting. For information, contact Sallie K. Riggs, Associate Vice President, University Relations, 401-863-2785. Hour with the President. A State of the University talk by Howard R. Swearer at 10 a.m. at Hughes Court, Wriston Quadrangle. Bio Med Association Board of Directors Meeting. Arnold Lab at 3 p.m. Sixth Annual Commencement Cup Regatta. Co-sponsored by the Brown Club of Rhode Island and the Brown Sailing Associ- ation. Alumni race against undergrads as spectators cheer their team from a nearby boat. 12:30 to4 p.m. in Newport, Rhode Island. Brown Medical Association Tenth Annual Banquet. To honor the graduating M.D. Class of '84, and the reunion M.D. Class of '79. Cocktails on the Andrews Terrace at 6:30, dinner at 7:30 p.m. in the Andrews Dining Hall, Pembroke Campus. 28 Commencement. Join the alumni procession in honoring the graduating Class of '84. For infor- mation on commencement and reunions, contact the Alumni Relations Office, 401-863-3307. Thunderbird adds a! First you join them. On 17 May 1983, the editors of Car and Driver magazine found out just how good the Thunderbird Turbo Coupe is. Because that's the day they tested it against the BMW they called their "favorite in the handling category, ' the 633 CSi. The test. The procedure was sim- ple. On a 1.067 mile closed-handling course both the Turbo Coupe and the BMW were driven as fast as possible. The test consisted of 18 laps and the car with the fastest average lap time at the end was declared the winner And, the winner is... The Thunderbird Turbo Coupe responded by clinging firmly to the road. The Turbo Coupes cornering attitude remained remark- ably level, even through the long sweeping corners thanks to its anti-sway bars, gas-filled front struts and four rear shocks. And, the quick ratio power rack and pinion steering's nim- ble response was clearly evident in the esses and hairpins. 5-speed manual transmis- sion works harmoniously with this engine to deliver quick acceleration at any speed. So, whether it's coming out of a tight left hander or a right hand sweeper, there's always enough power to rocket the Turbo Coupe toward the next bend. The deeper meaning. The Thunderbird Turbo Coupe is a sophisticated world-class touring car One that can hold its own against the best the _ world has to from Ford. That's right. The Turbo Coupe beat the BMW 633 CSi by an aver- age of 1.0 second per lap. Fast through the comers. From the tires to the suspension to the steering, the Thunderbird Turbo Coupe was designed to perform through the twists and turns. The test drivers flung the Turbo Coupe through the corners of the course, and the Goodyear Eagle HR performance radials Quick out of them. One of the wonderful things about the Turbo Coupe, as our testers dis- covered, is that when you put your foot to the floor, something happens. That's because the 2.3 liter turbo- charged four was spe- cially designed for quick throttle response, even at low revs. The Borg-Warner offer, except in one area: price. Because the Turbo Coupe is less than half the price of the BMW But, that was one race we weren't interested in winning. *l^soti on a compariMin of manufacturer," sugj»csicd retail prices for comparabk equipjxxl \ehicles. Title, ta,\es and (Jest i nai ion clurges excluded Have you driven a Ford, lately? 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