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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY
MARCH 1984
Volume 84, No.6
BROWN
IN THIS ISSUE
Editor
Robert M. Rhodes
Managing Editor
Anne Hinnian Diffily '73
Assistant Editor
Katherine Hinds
Editorial Associate
Peter Mandel '81 A.M.
Staff Assistant
Judith 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, Jr. '55
Lacy Herrmann '50
Dante G. lonata '59
Linda Mason '64
Cathleen McGuigan '71
Toni H. Oliviero '65, '73 Ph.D.
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Wendy J. Strothman '72
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Billy R. Wooten '70 Ph.D.
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CARRYING THE MAIL
Computers at Brown
Editor: As an honors student in
1962, I couldn't find a Brown pro-
fessor who would sponsor my inde-
pendent studies project in Eastern phi-
losophy. Today, as a specialist in
computer communications applications
for organizations, 1 read about
Brown's commitment to the future
with a courageous, leading-edge per-
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[BAM. September]. Now I know why
my Brown degree raises eyebrows to-
day when it was no cause for comment
twenty years ago! We've come a long
way.
SUSANNA OPPER '62
New York City
Loves the Band
Editor; Regarding the Lubkin letter
in the December/January BAM asking
if anyone likes the Band, my answer is,
"I don't just like the band, 1 love it." I
have to admit I can no longer travel to
see the Band, must rely on reports
from others, and I am biased because
I played in the Band for four years,
and received their own Harris award.
But, that does not mean I in any
way waive my rigiit to make a com-
plaint, except with the mandatory re-
quirement 1 give compliments or ideas
with that complaint. It would be nice if
things were always like that, but life
just is not like that — a good lesson for
students to accept before they leave
the aegis of academia. Show me some-
one who says he or she has always re-
ceived a compensating compliment or
idea for a complaint, and I'll show vou
a moronic liar.
I was one of those complainers. I
look at the Band as a representative of
Brown, and I was angry and mad as
hell when I read in a magazine with as
much circulation as Sports Illustrated
that the Brown Band announcer at
Army said something like, "Last year
West Point graduated its first wonian.
When is it going to graduate a man?" I
fired off a complaint. Brown embraces
the concept of "noble," it applies to the
Band, [and] I see no place for slurs
even in jest. A letter from the Band
president eased some of that anger,
explaining the remark was taken out
of context and previously approved by
their officials.
And the rest of that anger turned
to agape when a friend, often cynical,
who had been at the Penn State game
said the Band's uniforms were so
snappy and their act so good the huge
crowd would hardly let them leave the
field. That showed me they are a win-
ner as much as that fine [football]
team despite such mundane things as
final points on a scoreboard. What a
thrill for them! I hope they will always
remember it.
IVIy preference is that a college
band rely on college and standard band
music rather than clever skits on ger-
mane topics. After all, it is a college
band, not a messianic society to reform
the world. But that is one idea among
many. I expect the Band, not I, to cull
all the variables and make their own
decision. That's another fact of life.
And do it with their own convic-
tion; victory without conviction is
empty, loss without conviction is trag-
edy. Conviction applies to planning
band programs and executing them,
too.
In summary, plan your work with
your own convictions, using the best
information possible. Use the brickbats
as guideposts. These are the facts; you
are a good band, you know it. Brown
knows it. It would not tolerate a poor
band. Quit crying and keep trying.
ElVIILE A. LeGROS '41
Stamford, Conn.
P.S. Now, this done, I will go to my
stereo to play the old 78s made in
1948 at WOR by the Band with the
Glee Club and Brown-Pembroke Cho-
rus and the 1974 LP that ends with
the Ivy League medley, one so good
my Yale-grad brother said the Bruin
rendition of "Bulldog" was one of the
best ever. Also, Jay Barry's "Wriston
and Brown," supreme symphony;
though the buildup and crescendo in
Brown's giving
me a check?
Wouldn't it be nice to receive a
check from Brown each year for
the rest of vour life?
An annuity tn.ist has always
been an ideal planned gift to
Brown, because it gives you a
guaranteed lifetime income. But
now a recent IRS change has
made annuity trusts more attrac-
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You are now entitled to a signifi-
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tion. For example, if you are 50
years old and make a $25,000
annuity trust gift, with a s%
guaranteed annuity return, you
will receive $1,250 each year for
your lifetime ami gain an imme-
diate tax deduction of over
$14,000!
Annuity trusts were wonderful
gifts before, but now they're
even better.
For more information contact:
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ROY O. STRATTON '52
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Vote of confidence
Editor: I suspect that you were as
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Dealing with
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Editor: The logic of Mark Garri-
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plications. As 1 understand him, Mr.
Garrison is saying that Soviet concern
with national security and international
prestige accounts for Russia's military
build-up and politically competitive
foreign policy. Identifsing peaceful
coexistence as the paramoum issue of
Soviet-American relations, Mr. Garri-
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tivity to criticism on the one hand and
Soviet military might on the other
make detente and quiet diplomacy the
only rational way of preserving the
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record on human rights is not a good
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only come about if we lay a foundation
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three recent allegations of Soviet
wrongdoing; Several years ago a State
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on the Pope. If any of these allegations
are true even a moral relativist could
find no excuses for the Soviets, since
such actions would violate professed
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Yet, according to the standard Mr.
Garrison proposes, even if all these
allegations were true we ought still to
treat the Soviets with dignity and re-
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ful and proud if they were also deceit-
ful and evil.
It, for oin- own safety, we really
must deal with the Russians through
quiet diplomacy rather than open con-
frontation, if we really must accord
them respect and dignity in the face of
evidence that they deserve neither;
then the Soviets, through military
might, have won a major victory; They
have made it too dangerous for us to
speak the truth.
DAVID B. MARK 77
Brookline, Mass.
'Disturbed and
frightened'
Editor; The article on the Urban
Environmental Laboratory [BAM, De-
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disturbed and frightened. A great deal
of harm is often done by innocent,
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with the UEL.
Any dynamic system gives off waste.
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deal of the waste is trapped. Our
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L'siiig clean.sers without heavy odors in
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( als given off, which also linger, are
less dangerous than those with odors.
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be presented by radon, an invisible,
odorless, radioactive gas that is a decay
product of radiimi. Radiimi is in soil
everywhere, including under the UEL
and it is drawn into the house in the
winter by the difference in indoor
temperatures.
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Agency has estimated that 10,000 lung
cancer deaths each year are caused by
indoor radon — even with ordinary
leaky houses. The danger in sealed-up
houses is very much greater. Briefly,
the danger is lung cancer caused by
internal alpha particle omissions in the
lung — the same that would be pre-
sented by breathing plutoniuni dust.
I strongly urge that Haroki Waid,
the director of Brown's Center for
Environmental Studies, and other
University perscjnnel Icjok into this
danger before allowing these five stu-
dents to live in such dangerous cir-
cumstances any longer. The easiest
solution is to ventilate the house thor-
oughly and continually.
I would be glad to speak to Mr.
Ward or anyone else from the Univer-
sity about this in more detail.
DAVID ROSENBAUM '56
Arlington, Va.
The writer, a former director, radiation
programs, for the EPA, has lectured at
Brown on radiation dangers.
Deserving recognition
Editor: I read, with great satisfac-
tion, the article about the completed
Lhban Environmental Laboratory. The
alumni and the University should be
proud of the work and support that
the staff and students of the Center
for Environmental Studies, its director,
Harold Ward, and the various profes-
sional firms involved, put into the pro-
ject.
With the assistance of Douglas
Halperin, a Brown alumnus, Beckman,
Blydenburgh & Associates, Architects,
of Picjxidcnce, were biought into the
project in its initial stages. In addition
to serving the traditional role of archi-
tect, we assisted in development of the
Lucian Sharpe Carriage House as site:
writing the program for the facility;
soliciting luiids loi ihc- pioject; and
bringing publicity lo the i)roject.
I hrougli maiuifaclurers' donations
and mateiials, we saved the pioject
over |50,0()().
Other individuals who deserve rec-
ognition for their assistance in making
the UEL a reality include: Ed Luppi
and Carol Wooten oi the University's
[physical plainiing] department; Ccjii-
struction Coordinator Richard Bates;
Andy Shapiro, solar consultant; and
Rfjbert Ornstein, aichitect for supervi-
sicjn cjf project.
Projects like the UEL come from a
strong coiTimitment of a variety of in-
dividuals. Tliank you for this oppor-
timity to bring their participation to
vour attention.
JEFFREY BLYDENBURGH
Providence
Ambassadors to
the community
Editor: I read with great apprecia-
tion the article in the [December/ Jan-
uary] issue on Brown Connnunity
Outreach. Of particular note were the
students invcilved in this project who
are expanding their educational hori-
zons wliile assisting mentally disalsled
persons requiring hospitalization at the
Rhode Island Institute of Mental
Health. Ms. Castagna, Class of '86, and
her group are appreciated by the pa-
tients and staff of tlie state's single
publicly operated psycliiatric hospital,
I he Brown Community Outreach
Program, in our view, provides ambas-
sadcjrs to the community of which
Brown LIniversity is an integral part.
Programs such as this not only allow
for practical educational experiences
for students but also allow psychiat-
rically disabled persons to benefit.
Keep up the good work.
THOMAS D. ROMEO
Cranston, R.I.
The ivriter is director of the Department of
Mental Health, Retardation, and Hospitals
for the state of Rhode Island.
UNDEKTHE ELMS
Reform advocate Ted
Sizer named to head
education department
Theodore R. Sizer is an educator
and historian who wishes today's high
school students were more dissatisfied
and argumentative, and less obedient
and docile. "This country was built by
abrasive, interesting people who didn't
accept the status quo," Sizer said in an
interview with the Providence Journal
last spring. "Orderlv folks do not en-
rich a culture. It's the constructive,
disorderly ones who do." .And .Ameri-
ca's high school students, he has found
in a major nationwide studv, are more
interested in proms and football games
than in challenging either their minds
or authorities. Learning should be
"inessy," he told another reporter.
"Good schools are mess\ schools. "
Sizer will bring such seemingly
unorthodox views, along with his cie-
dentials as former dean of the Har-
vard Graduate School of Education
and former headmaster of Phillips
Academy in Andover, Massachusetts,
to the chairmanship of Brown's educa-
tion department this July. Sizer, who
was a visiting professor at the Univer-
sity last spring, will succeed current
chairman Reginald .Archambault '52.
A leading spokesman for educa-
tional reform at the secondary-school
level, Sizer recently capped a five-year
study of eighty American high schools
with the publication of a book, Horace's
Compromise: The Dilemma of the American
Hiirh School. It is the first report of
three that are being developed b) "A
Study of High Schools," a research
project headed by Sizer and sponsored
by the National Association of Secon-
dary School Principals and the Nation-
al .Association of Independent Schools.
Six foundations have provided support
for the project.
"Radical," "controversial," and
"most idealistic" are adjectives that
have been applied by writers for Time
and various wire services to describe
Sizer's new book. In it, the Yale- and
PHILLIPS ACADEMY
Ted Sizer at Andover.
Harvard-educated Sizer recommends
doing away with grade le\els based on
students' ages, with minimum ages for
graduating, and with putting students
in "tracks" based on ability or per-
formance. The structure of today's
secondary schools, Sizer believes, "is
getting in the way of children's learn-
ing." He feels students should be al-
lowed to earn their high school diplo-
mas at their own pace, however many
years that takes. "There is no incentive
to learn," he explains, "if kids can get
a diploma by serving time, like prison-
ers in a classroom." He suggests a So-
cratic system of questioning and coach-
ing, elimination of narrowly-defined
subject areas, and a reduction of stu-
dent/teacher ratios as other ways to
alleviate what many educators agree is
a nationwide crisis in the quality of
.secondary schooling.
As a full professor, Sizer will teach
several education comses at Brown,
but he also will remain active in na-
tional efforts to reshape secondary
education. "One of the things that has
grown out of the study," he says, "is a
coalition of schools — public and pri-
vate — that will agree to test some of
the basic principles [in Horace's Com-
promise.] The secretariat for that con-
sortium, which will be called 'The Coa-
lition of Essential Schools,' will be
based in Brown's education depart-
ment." Sizer announced the formation
of the consortium in mid-February,
and he expects from five to twelve
schools will sign on. "It would be nice,"
he adds, "if one of thein were in the
Providence area."
The coalition, coupled with Sizer's
continuing interest in secondary edu-
cation, heralds a new emphasis in the
department. "The way I see it," Sizer
says, "we will focus on adolescent edu-
cation. When you make that kind of
decision, vou make a small department
such as ours [there are fi\e faculty]
plausible. " He hopes to engage his
Brown colleagues in working with tlie
schools that join the new coalition. "I
hope that kind of experimental effort
will filter through to the work our
undergraduates and our M.A.T. can-
didates do," Sizer adds. "When good
work is going on, it tends to infect
evervbody. "
Sizer expresses admiration for
Brown's M.A.T. program, praising the
University for continuing to support it
when other imiversities have phased
(Hit similar graduate programs. "Our
schools desperately need very good
teachers," he says. "I hope we can en-
courage more of our imdergraduates
to become teachers, too. "
Current department chairman Reg-
inald Archambault praises Sizer's ap-
pointment, which was approved bv the
Corporation at its February meeting.
"Ted Sizer is on the cutting edge of
educational reform," says Archam-
bault, who will continue to teach at
Brown. "His coming here is a marvel-
ous opportunity for us. I think a
change after this long time will bring
some fresh ideas. " Archambault has
been chairman of the department for
sixteen years, and coordinates the
University's highly-regarded Sinnmer
.Academy for high school students
{BAM, September).
Says President Howard R. Swearer,
"Ted will do much to expand Brown's
efforts to assist in the strengthening of
secondary education. We are very ex-
cited about this appointment."
Sizer and his wife, Nancy, a teacher,
plan to move from Harvard, Massa-
chusetts, to the East Side of Provi-
dence — "close enough to campus,"
Sizer says, "so I can walk to my class-
es." The voungest of the couple's four
children will graduate from college
this spring, and the)' look forward to
getting acqiKiinlcd \miIi Hiowii stu-
dents.
Si/.cr iTiei\ctl liis A. 15. hnin \a\c in
English liteiatinc (I'Jf);?), .nitl his
M.A.T. in social studies and I'h.l). in
ediiialion and Anicriian liislorv Itoth
Haivaid (1957 and I'.Kil). Boloic he-
ginning his work on "A Study of High
Schools," he was headmaster at Phillips
Academy from 1972-81, dean ol the
Graduate School of Education at Har-
vard from 1964-72, director of Har-
vard's M.A.T. program froiii 1961-64,
and a teacher of English, mathematics,
and social studies at RoxhuiN Latin
School in Boston and Meihournc (Aus-
tralia) Grammar School. He has writ-
ten or edited six books on education.
A.D.
The right stuff
returns to Brown
Byron Lichtenberg '69 took the
high road back to Brown. His travels
took him up into orbit last November
for a four-and-a-half-million-mile voy-
age around the world, as one of the
first non-astronauts to be sent into
space. He returned from that trip and
came back to Brown in mid-February
to explain, in his words, "How I Spent
My Thanksgiving Vacation."
Lichtenberg's talk was part of a
weekend program dedicated to the
spirit and reality of scientific explora-
tion. In addition to Lichtenberg's pres-
entation, events included a discussion
of future solar system exploration and
the place of science in space. And the
newlv-renovated Lincoln Field Build-
ing, now housing the Northeast Re-
gional Planetary Data Center, was re-
dedicated. (The Planetary Data Center
is a public facility operated coopera-
tively by NASA and Brown, containing
an extensive collection of data ob-
tained by the LI.S. space program. It
had been located in the Sciences Li-
brary.)
In the brochure announcing the
program, a quote from the late geolo-
gy professor Thomas A. "Tim" Mutch
read, "Exploration is a singular kind of
human experience. You have to un-
derstand this to understand civiliza-
tion." Lichtenberg narrated a movie
that expressed his feelings about his
singular human experience. "Getting
into that space shuttle was like no oth-
er experience in my life," he said with
a trace of boyish excitement. "Sixteen
seconds after take-off we were at su-
personic speed heading straight up.
12 For the first couple of minutes, we
In Sayli's Hall. Byron Lichtenberg
narrates a film about his trip in
space aboard the shuttle Spacelab 1.
were all just along loi the ii
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»s
mouth conveying a blend of serenity,
gentle humor, and mild surprise. The
thoughts he expresses are carefully
shaped and his questions flinty and
direct; that they flow from behind
such a benign coimtenance is only
briefly disconcerting.
Giles Milhaven's happiness with
his life, post-priesthood, stems from
his love of teaching, lo\e of family,
and love of wrestling methodically with
a host of theological and ethical angels.
He is an active Catholic lay theologian
who speaks, writes, and is quoted on
some controversial topics: abortion
("There's nothing in the Bible against
abortion ... Where you draw the line
on abortion is [the] real problem"), cel-
ibacy (the mandate makes some priests
"less than human," he has said; the
Church eventually will sanction mar-
ried priests because "they're losing too
many of their good men"), and the
rights and dignity of gays (he is on the
National Advisory Board of The Con-
sultation on Homosexuality, Social Jus-
tice and Roman Catholic Theology; "I
see mv gay friends suffering," he says,
"and its horriblv isolating for them").
Milhaven also applies his educa-
tion and intellect to problematic
aspects of human psychology and rela-
tionships. "I've been in group therapy
for four years," he says, "and other
people's minds fascinate me. I have a
lot of friends who are therapists." But
he would emphatically not like to be a
therapist himself; "I don't want to be
in control like that. I just want to be
fully with people, enjoying them." In
his courses at Brown, Milhaven ex-
plores Freudian psychology. Christian
values, and such emotions as love,
anger, and hatred — all topics that fas-
cinate him personally. He is as much a
learner in his classes, he claims, as are
his students.
Students who take his courses on
such topics as religious thought and
psychology, contemporary Christian
ethics, or anger, are assigned a pro-
vocative melange of readings: Freud,
Updike, Luther, Richard Wright,
Flannery O'Connor, Sam Keen — to
name a few. One former student par-
ticularly remeinbers reading Updike's
novel Couples in a course on passion
and mysticism, and viewing Ingmar
Bergman's film Cries and Whispers as
part of "Religious Thought in Modern
Literature and Art" (RS 25).
While some students have prob-
lems with Milha\en's strict adherence
to schedules and insistence on disci-
plined writing, many more find them-
selves remembering their courses with
23
liini — and tlie man himself — long after
the\ lia\e graduated.
"There's a concept that vou have
to come to Brown and have "the Mil-
haven Experience,' " savs Matthew
Munisteri '8ti, who took RS 132
("Anger") last semester. "His classes
are very personal. He teaches things
he cares about. This course plays with
my head more than any other. It's the
onlv one of my courses that I talk
about with my friends."
T
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he "Milhaven Experience" is,
for students, at once highly structured
and almost dizzyingly open-ended. In
his introductory-level courses, which
are organized in a traditional lecture-
and-section format, Milhaven empha-
sizes writing on a tight deadline.
"After my lecture each week, the stu-
dents have three hours to write a
two-page paper on our subject. The
papers must be typed, and I accept no
late papers," the professor explains. In
more advanced seminar courses, Mil-
haven assigns a maximum of 100 pag-
es of reading per week, plus a weekly
paper in which the student comments
on the class's most recent discussion
and his or her personal reactions to it.
The papers are due the morning be-
fore class; Milhaven reads all of them
and returns them in class with written
comments.
Dean of the College Harriet Sher-
idan, who has long touted the impor-
tance of teaching writing skills across
the liberal-arts spectrum, is just one of
many fans of Milhaven's teaching
method. "I loved the discipline of hav-
ing a paper due every week," says
Charlotte Harvey '78, now editorial
associate in Brown's News Bureau.
"There was no huge paper at the end
of the semester; rather, we were con-
stantly honing our ideas. We weren't
judged on the basis of two big efforts
each semester."
"Giles's classes were difficult for
me," says Rose Engelland '79, who
works at the Smithsonian and at the
Chronicle of Higher Education in Wash-
ington. "But in retrospect, they were
incredibly helpful. With only three
hours to write a paper, I had to bring
my ideas together and produce some-
thing. That skill has become really
important in the kind of writing I do
in my work."
Milhaven warns students about
what is in store for them right at the
24 start. "Kenneth Day ['76], who now
'A student is like a shark. My
job is to bloody the waters'
lives in Dallas, took six of my courses,"
he recalls. "Ken came back to see me
six years later, and he remembered
how I tried to discourage people from
taking the course on the first day. I'd
tell them, 'If you don't like to write
every week, don't take this course. If
you're looking for a course that will
give you a survey of a particular topic,
don't take it. I deliberately make my
lectures disorganized; I leave things
out.' " If this sounds somewhat off-
putting, Milhaven says his strategy is
effective: The students who stick with
his courses are the ones who really
have a commitment to his brand of
learning.
"It's basically the Socratic meth-
od," Milhaven says of his classroom
technique. "It may also have some-
thing to do with my Jesuit training.
The essence of a Jesuit education is
that students are active. The teacher
doesn't try to give information; he
teaches the students how to read,
write, and reason.
"I try to expose my students to
things they have never thought of be-
fore. And it's a point of pride with me
that nobody knows what / think at the
end of a course. A student is a shark,
not a sponge. Mv role is to bloody the
"Show me that in the text," says
Milhaven in his class on anger.
waters.
He holds reading assignments to
100 pages per week or less because,
Milhaven says, if he assigned more
than that, "they wouldn't do it. I stud-
ied with Jesuits and I know all the
ways of bluffing through 200 or 300
pages of reading and passing an exam
on it." The readings, however, must be
done intensively or a student will stick
out in class, a mute among peers bub-
bling with reactions and ideas. "Some
assignments may only have been forty
pages," recalls Stephanie Sanders "80,
"but you couldn't forget about them."
"He teaches you to read," agrees Char-
lotte Harvey. "You learn to look be-
yond your interpretation and to see
what the author's intention was."
His intense scrutiny of text and
student papers takes many hours of
Milhaven's own time. "It is a lot of
work," he agrees. "Tomorrow, for in-
stance, I'll have thirty-three papers to
read from two sections of RS 25. That
will take me at least five hours. Then
I'll have to prepare questions on the
text for the class that afternoon."
P
^ art
art of the Milhaven Experience
is attending at least one class at the
Milhavens' home. The house is on
Penrose Avenue, a cul-de-sac behind
Blackstone Boulevard in the eastern-
most part of the East Side. In October,
ten students made their way there for
a meeting of RS 132, the course on
anger. They were greeted by the pro-
fessor and his daughter. Shelly, a pret-
ty teenager with straight blonde hair
and an affinity for cats and faded
jeans.
In the living room, the students
crowded onto a sofa and chairs, or
flopped on the floor. With its textured
white wallpaper, off-white rug, bur-
gund\' and blue upholsterv, and a min-
imum of knickknacks or books, the
room offered few clues to the person-
alities of the house's inhabitants. ("You
should see Giles's study," says a former
student. "That's where he really lives,
in the basement. It's filled with books,
photographs — especially of the beach.
He loves the beach.")
Richard Wright's novel Xative Son
In the Milhavens' living room, the professor (foreground} and students discuss revenge.
was the discussion topic on this day.
but Milhaven began by mentioning the
Irish poet Seamus Heaney. Freshman
Kevin Patrick nodded in recognition.
"Heaney wrote several poems about
the bog-women," Milhaven continued.
"Their bodies were discovered in the
bogs of Ireland; they were thousands
of years old. But the bog had pre-
served the bodies — you could even see
the color of their hair. Some apparent-
ly had been punished, caught in adul-
tery, perhaps, and thrown in the bog.
This haunted Seamus Heaney — the
treatment of women through the cen-
turies. He wrote about anger as a de-
sire for revenge." Milhaven read the
poem; one phrase spoke of "the exact
and tribal intimate revenge."
The ensuing discussion of Native
Son ranged over questions of murder,
death, anger, hatred, revenge, racial
tension, and self-discovery. "What pos-
itive thing does Bigger [the protago-
nist] kill for?" Milhaven wondered.
"He killed to find meaning and inten-
sity in his life," said Donna Nesselbush
'84. "He died for a conviction. He felt
he stood for something," added Mat-
thew Munisteri. "Show me that," de-
manded Milhaven. "You look it up,
and we'll come back to it."
Later the class explored the dif-
ference between hatred and anger in
the novel. "Anger, not hate, is his
main motive," Milhaven said. "Anger
can be a kind of love — a desire to
equalize things, to keep some kind of
union with a person. You want to see
suffering, to know^ you're not isolated.
With hatred, you just want to get rid
of the other person."
"Bigger was expressing haired to-
ward Mary," said Wes Siegal '86. "But
by removing [killing] her, he expressed
his anger toward white people. The
imbalance was equalized. "
Milhaven nodded, approving. "It's
possible that Wright is spelling out
what Aquinas and Aristotle only im-
plied," he said.
After an hour, the professor and
his daughter brought out cheese and
crackers. Some students made tea in
the kitchen; others remained seated in
the living room, continuing their dis-
cussion of the book. Everyone in the
class had spoken without being called
upon. When the discussion resumed,
Milhaven was still sipping his tea from
an off-white mug covered with diago-
nal brown lettering that spelled "ME
ME ME ME ME," over and over.
T
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he reading list for one of
Milhaven's courses includes The Diaij
of A Country Priest, by French author
Georges Bernanos (1888-1948). The
fictional young priest includes in his
diary portions of a letter he has re-
ceived from a fellow seminarian who
has left the priesthood. "You have re-
alized for some time that I have now
'unfrocked' myself, as they call it," the
friend writes. "But I am the same at
heart; it is merely that niv view of life
is more humane and comequently more
generous." The same friend writes in
another letter about their days in the
seminary; " ...we were always playing
at make-believe; we invented our trou-
bles and jovs. we invented life, instead
of living it. So before daring to take
one step out of our little world, you 05
lia\f to bfgin .ill over again from thf
bfgimiiiig. It is vct\ haid woik and
entails much satrihce ol piide: but
then to be alone is haidci still...
Ciiles Milhaven lived lomforlabl)
and happily in the world oi priests for
twentv-five years. He dared finally to
step out, and into the more demand-
ing world of human passions and in-
timacv, onl\ alier attempting several
times to break o(f his lelationship with
Anne Lallv, a former nun who taught
at Cornelfs Medical (Center in New
York City. Mis. Milhaven, who is
known as "Annie," recounted the blos-
soming of their relationship in an in-
terview with the Providence Journal in
1973.
They met in 1967, she recalled,
four vears after she had left the relig-
ious life because she felt stiHed by the
male-dominated hierarchv of the
Church. "I went out with [Giles] many
times. Then we broke up because he
couldn't reconcile the ministry with
marriage. That didn't last very long, so
we began to see each other again. "
The couple "finally and irrevocably'
stopped seeing each other, said Annie
Milhaven, in February of 1969 — and
they married a vear later.
"From the very start I wanted to
be a priest," Milhaven recalls. "I was
the oldest of three children who grew
up in New York City. \\\ three of us
went into religious life; my brother has
also since left the priesthood, and my
sister is a nun who teaches at Medgar
Evers College. My mother was from a
blue-collar background; my father was
white-collar. Priests were their biggest
heroes.
"I enjoyed religious life, and I still
miss it a lot. I dream about it — about
leaving, or coming back. The dreams
very often involve the other priests'
accepting my leaving. There was a ven
strong bond among us; it was a power-
ful support.
"But I think what happened was
that I grew in the religious life until I
was ready to leave it. I found that I
needed the intimacy of marriage." He
proposed to Annie and she accepted,
but they waited nine months before
telling anyone. "I wanted to finish out
my year teaching at Woodstock Col-
lege," he says. When it became known
that he would be available for teaching
elsewhere, Ernest Frerichs '48, of
Brown's religious studies department,
invited Milhaven to be a visiting pro-
fessor. Three months after he began
teaching here, while he was still com-
muting from New York, Milhaven was
offered a permanent position with
'I grew in the religious life
until I was ready to leave'
tenure. He and Annie moved to Prov-
idence; she became executive director
of the Rhode Island State Nurses As-
sociation and a member of the nursing
facultv at Rhode Island College. (She
has since left those posts to write a
book.)
The most difficult part of his tran-
sition froin celibacy to marriage, says
Milhaven, was becoming "bound with
someone all the tiine. In a religious
community, you're not bound to any-
one. You are completely independent,
but you have friends when you need
them." Committing himself to an inti-
mate relationship was "very difficult,
very frightening," Milhaven recalls. "I
got defensive. I think probably that
was all linked with my drinking prob-
lem, too."
Milhaven has been sober for near-
ly eight years. Asked if he would have
clone anything differently in his life,
he pauses, then says, "I would have
stopped drinking sooner, about ten
years sooner." But he insists he doesn't
regret his earlier experiences with
drinking. "A lot of my drinking was
great; it spurred my personal growth.
With four glasses of whiskev in you,
you can really get to know someone. "
After he had been teaching at
Shelly, Annie, and Giles pose
outside their East Side home.
Brown several years, Milhaven was
having increasingly severe problems
with alcohol. "It just built up," he says.
"Around 1974, I think, I showed up
twice at evening discussion sessions
drunk. It scared ine so much; it was a
major effort just to get a sentence out.
The class took over and ran the dis-
cussion for me. The next day, two stu-
dents came to see me in my office and
expressed concern — 'We're worried
about you,' they told me. They said
the class had been terrified."
In 1976, "I stopped," Milhaven
says simply. He was helped by Alcohol-
ics Anonymous, and now he continues
to help people on campus who are
fighting their own battles with alcoho-
lism. "I believe alcoholism is an illness
with a physical basis," he says. 'Tor
me, drinking was a way of getting in
that lovely stale, of enjoying myself
with other people. That served me
well for a while. Now I struggle to
achieve the same thing without the
alcohol."
F
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atherhood was not something
Giles Milhaven envisioned, even after
his marriage. Because of their ages,
the couple accepted that they would
have no children of their own. Annie
occasionally mentioned adopting a
child, but "I was strongly against it,"
Milhaven says. A friend who was a so-
cial worker made a remark one day
that stuck with him. "She said she
could just see me as the foster father
for an eleven-vear-old child. " The pos-
sibility seemed more and more attrac-
tive, and in the summer of 1978 the
Milhavens were introduced to twelve-
year-old Shellv, who had been raised
for niiie years by her grandmother
and then had lived in three different
foster homes.
There were difficult adjustments
on all sides, but Shellv is now a per-
manent member of the Milhaven fami-
Iv. "It will be six years this summer,"
Milhaven says. "We're past the worst
part. I can only remeinber one day
that I said to mvself, 'We never should
have taken that kid in!' .Actuallv it has
turned out that I'm a very natural fa-
ther."
Milhaven has written extensively
on love and a related topic, the human
need for pleasure. (He prefers to call
this, provocatively, by its philosophical
name, "hedonism.") Love, according to
Milhaven the moral theologian, is
two-pronged; always it is both selfish
and selfless. Steeped during his school-
ing and religious training in the dog-
ma that only "pure" love, or agape, is a
worthy Christian emotion, Milhaven
has struggled to leconcile the "selfish "
feelings that propelled him out of the
priesthood and into intimate human
lelationships, with his Catholicism and
Christianity.
In an abstract published in The
Journal of Religious Elhics in 1980, Mil-
haven the new father used his love for
Shelly to illuminate this dileinnia. "I
desire that my daughter be, simply
because she is she, simply for her own
sake. ...At the same time, in another
strand or corner or dimension of this
same conscious love of mine, there is
only me as loving father. I want that,
too...
"And so 1 love my daughter
selflessly, purely, disinterestedly, but
never only in that way. I have never
known anyone who came anywhere
close to loving in a purely selfless way.
[Fenelon's] ideal excludes my other
desire, the second strand of my love. It
is the self-concern I see always there in
good human love...
"... I choose ... to believe in the
miracle that self-contradictory, con-
flicted love can be good and Christian,
though it will always remain self-con-
tradictory and conflicted."
Love involves risk, too, as Milha-
ven is acutely aware. In an article in
America magazine (June 1977), he
reflects on the Jesuits' freedom from
ordinary human compulsions: for
property, for sexual love, and for
power. "Is it really better to be free
and live that way? I admit I am biased
... I was once trying to live freely that
way and believed I did. Now I love the
other way, content to be driven by
these same three compulsions, among
others. Take my Christian love for my
students. There is no question in my
mind that I love thein out of a deep
compulsion. I teach because I have a
deep need to do so. My love for my
wife and my friends is no different.
My ... life of love nowadays is one that
moves toward meeting my needs
— consciously, deliberately and to the
best of my ability ... It seems to me
that you can only love vulnerably if
you are exposing your needs, trying to
meet them in your loving."
M
ilhaven's attention has
now turned from love to anger. In his
office on the second floor of the relig-
ious studies building, where the spire
of the Unitarian Church is visible be-
hind him through a window, he ex-
plains his interest in an emotion often
viewed as ugly or bestial.
"The biggest fight I have today
with the Church and Christianity bears
on anger," he says. "The Church treats
anger as something bad. shameful. But
continued on page 38
Students on Milhaven: 'Best course I've taken at Brown'
Reactions to Milhaven were
mixed. Some foimd him amiable, some
found him well-prepared, others con-
sidered him very ill-prepared. Class
members found "the strength of this
course comes directly from Milhaven,
his time and intellect — but also from
the minds and drives of the students
to attain understanding ... of powerful
issues."
—From The Critical Review 1983-84
(Student review of RS 24, "Religious
Thought and the Human Sciences").
RS 24 was, without qualification,
the best course I have taken at Brown.
Not for the timid thinker, nor for stu-
dents unwilling or unable to be recep-
tive to earth-shaking ideas. ... Milhaven
demonstrated that he cared about each
student's mind.
— A sophomore's assessment.
In (other) classes here people can
be very passive. Giles's questions pro-
voke a searching of yourself — not just
intellectually, but emotionally, too. Vou
can't sit at a distance.
— Stephanie Sanders '80.
He came down hard on me about
my first paper; I remember being dev-
astated at his harsh commentary; "I
don't think you've gotten the point
here at all." I wasn't used to that kind
of criticism.
— Rose Engelland '79.
He has a gentle face and he seems
to naturally look heavenward. Some-
times when he speaks, a slightly
naughty smile will cross his face. I sus-
pect he is really an angel on probation
and that beneath his shirt he hides
tucked-in wings.
— A participant in Brown's 1978 Summer
College.
I thought of you yesterday during
my post-exam walk through the snow
with a friend. I wanted to share with
you my happiness at having finished
my first semester — especially because
our talk this summer got me so excited
about starting medical school. Your
excitement about the adventure I was
starting meant a lot to me...
— From an alumna's letter to Milhaven.
It was exactly twenty years ago
that I first encountered John G. Mil-
haven, who taught me epistemology,
Plato, and the history of modern phi-
losophy. ... I once wrote a paper for
him on the very subject of this confer-
ence, truth. In a written critique, he
began with a few remarks on the gen-
erally good quality of my work, only to
move on to seven pages of very de-
tailed criticisms ... such as the follow-
ing: "This passage strikes me as mis-
leading and superficial," "You seem to
be wandering incoherently," ... and
"This is a radically cheapening misuse
of Heidegger's point. " He left me with
these words of encomagement: "You
have real ability and I would recom-
mend more studies such as these. But
I would urge a more careful and faith-
ful reading of the text, plus more
genuine, personal thinking of your
own." Well, here I am, twenty years
later, still trying to heed his injunc-
tions.
— Remarks by Carl Rubino, Milhaven's
student at Loyola Seminary in New York
State, now a classics professor at the Uni-
versity of Texas; introducing a paper at a
conference held in November at Brown.
Milhaven ... has a keen mind and
does a good job of integrating ideas
from students' papers into the discus-
sion. And if you have a gripe, you can
confront him one-on-one about any-
thing without having him lapse into
pseudo-intellectual defensive ness.
Thus, a fine professor and a man of
integrity!
— A sophomore's assessment of RS 24.
27
E
i 1 1 h Avenue and 57 th
Sueet — one ot the most famous street
corners in the world. TitTany's regalK
dominates the intersection, and people
pause to peer into its windows and
fantasize.
A few doors west of fiffaTiy's on
37lh sits the {'.alerie St. Ktienne, wlicre
Jane Kallir '76 is living out some fanta-
sies of her own. Kallir is the galier\'s
director — buying and selling art for
this small enterprise that has already
gained a good measure of critical
praise and popularity. The gallery spe-
cializes in early twentieth-century Aus-
trian art, but it is perhaps best known
as the place where the world first
viewed the art of .^nna Marv Robert-
son "Grandma " Moses.
Kallir has been working at the St.
Etienne since 1977. She spent the first
year after graduation working as an
intern at the Ciuggenheim Museimi in
New York. Ihen her grandfather.
Otto Kallir. who foinided the gallers
in this country in the forties, recruited
her talents for the family business.
"Few people want to be art dealers
when they grow up. It's not something
kids go around telling their mommies
and grade-school teachers that they
want to be," says Kallir wrvlv. "I
thought 1 was going to be an artist,
and f remember my grandfather tell-
ing me, "No, you're not, you're not
good enough to be an artist. You're
going to come work in the galler\ .' Of
course that infuriated me because nat-
urally I thought otherwise. I found out
at Brown that he was right.
"Perhaps because of the academic
environment — the fact that Brown is a
liberal-arts school — f became very con-
scious of the context into which art is
placed after it's created, rather than
thinking about art as an end in itself. I
took some studio art courses, and
courses at the Rhocfe Island School of
Design, but 1 took a good helping of
art history as well. Without realizing it,
I was heading in this direction."
Kallir says that more people be-
come involved in the business end of
art than in the creative side. "I'he idea
of selling very high-priced objects has
a certain glamour, which I don't neces-
sarily appreciate. I get a great deal of
pleasure simply from presenting art.
Anything from mounting an exhibi-
tion, researching an artist's working
methods and development, or writing
books ahoiil .nl. .Ml ol this tonics lo-
gelher in what I do here."
I'he {"-alerie St. Etienne "has a his-
torv," as Kallir puts it. "My grandla-
thei opened a gallery in Vienna in
192;V the Neue Gallerv. He dealt with
contemporary Austrian artists of the
period such as Egon Schiele and Gus-
tav Klimt, both of whom died in 1918.
The Neue Gallery was considered one
of the leading cultural institutions in
Vienna, but it didn't last long. My
grandfather and his familv had to ffee
Austria in 1938 when the Nazis took
over. So he went to Paris and re-
opened the gallery, renaming it in
honor of one of Vienna's most cher-
ished landmarks, the church of St.
Stephen's [St. Etienne], which you
could see from the Neue Gallery."
Otto Kallir didn't last long in Par-
is, because the Nazis invaded two years
later. The Nazi regime considered
Klimt and Schiele degenerate and for-
bade public exhibition of their art, so
once again Kallir packed up his family
and his gallery and moved to New
York.
"In New York my grandfather
found that these painters, who were
considered national treasures in his
country, were totally unknown. So he
had to start from scratch in introduc-
ing them. For a time, he just gave the
paintings away in order to get them
established. But finally, in the last dec-
ade of his life, he saw a turnaroimd
for the fin de Steele period, and it be-
came almost a fad. Now, there have
been many bestsellers from this peri-
od."
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tto Kallir died in Novem-
ber 1978, and Jane Kallir took over as
co-director of the gallery with Hilde-
gard Bachert, who had been Otto's as-
sistant for decades. Although the gal-
lery hadn't mounted an exhibition in
many years (Kallir spent the last dec-
ade of his life writing books and serv-
ing as guest curator for other galler-
ies), Jane Kallir and Bachert began to
plan a series of exhibitions that would
commemorate the achievements of
Otto Kallir. They took a revolutionary
approach to exhibiting, which brought
the gallery the attention of the art
world, and some notoriety among their
competitors.
"V\e'\e done a number ol shows
that arc reallv more like museum
shows than gallerv shows," Kallir ex-
plains. 'We borrow from nuiseums all
At
Home
in the
World
of Art
Jane Kallir '76 is
co-director at the
Galerie St. Etienne
in New York City,
founded by her
grandfather in
Vienna in 1923
By Katheiine Hinds
Photographs h\ John Foraste
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over the country, as well as major pri-
vate collections. It's not imiisiial for lis
to do a show in which none (or \ery
few) oi the pieces are actuallv for sale.
When we first started doing that, our
competitors thought we were crazv.
Now I've noticed some of them are
doing things along similar lines. '
How can a gallery survive
financially if it never sells any art? Kal-
lir's answer describes the unusual pW\-
losophy of the Galerie St. Etienne. "I
think at heart that if vou are present-
ing art, the idea is to make i)eople
aware of it. to help them understand
the an historical importance. In the
long run, the fact that Schiele is a fad
today, that auction prices in the mil-
lions have been realized for his
work — this is less important ihan estab-
lishing such artists as equals ot some ol
the French masters who are household
words. If a gallery does a good job by
contributing to the literature, by pro-
viding research, and mounting top-
grade exhibitions, ultimately more is
done to secure the artist's reputation
and therefore the eventual market
value of his work than bv simply con-
centrating on the sellings. C'ertaink
"The Battle of Life (The Golden
Knight)," by Gustav Klimt, 1903. Oil,
tempera, and gold on canvas.
our shows draw enormous crowds
rhere is no question that the b\-prod-
uct of that is sales. It's simply a mailer
of emphasis."
Kallii sa\s her fust show — a relro-
speilive of her giandfather's favoriles,
Klimt and Schiele — didn't make her
iieiNoiis, .illliough she h.id oiiK been
'^Moving Day on the Farm," by Grand-
ma Moses. Copyright ' 1982. Grandma
Moses Properties Co., New York.
cHil ci( ci)llcg"f three vears. "Mv grantl-
hitlier liaclii'l had an exhibition tor
mam \eai,s, so I didn't fee! a lot ot
piessiire to do soinetiiing in a hiirrv.
ll (ooi< ns ahn(jst two years to pnl it
toirether." Kaliir did something else a
little ditieient — slie found a commer-
lial (o-publisher for the exhibit cata-
logue in order to help defrav the costs.
She has since mounted several other
exhibitions, on Austria's Expressionis-
tic artists, and on Naive Painting in
Fauope and the United States.
" The artists who were contempo-
rarv when mv grandtather began have
heiome historical." Kaliir savs. "but we
11 V to contiiuie in the same philosophi-
lal \ein — not necessarily sticking to
those artists, but maintaining a certain
sensibility. We might take an artist
from Austria or Germanv from the /ni
fie sii'cle era whose work fits the galler\ .
We stay away from contemporarv art
for a number of reasons. Our contact
with collectors, critics, and with the
museum world tends to be in the area
of earlv tweiuieth-centiLrv artists, and
galleries that specialize in contempo-
rarv work have an entirelv diffeieiu
sphere of operations, difficult for ns to
duplicate.
"Promoting contemporarv work
means establishing a market wliere
none exists, " she savs. " Iliere are skills
ie(|uired in doing that that are differ-
ent from the curatorial skills I have
developed heie. "
A
ustnan expressionism
and the folk art of a Grandma Moses
or a |ohn Kane would seem to have
\erv little in common. "People were
baffled bv my grandfather's interest in
(Francfma Moses," Kaliir admits. In-
terest in folk art was initiated at the
turn of the cenlurv bv modernists who
were .seeking an escape from the
stifling influence of the academies,
according to Kallii . Heigtitened appre-
ciation of nonacademic art was
sparked in Kiirope, and crossed the
ocean. Between the World Wars, sev-
eral amateur artists caught the public
faiu\ and were honored with presti-
gious museum exhibitions. Otto Kaliir
was among the first to recognize some-
thing special in an obscine elderly
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^^ ^^ Rosabelle Winer Edelstein.
^ ^ Longboat Key, Fla., reports:
*_/ ^^ "Mortimer and I are enjoy-
ing every moment of our retirement.
Mortimer has been doing radio broad-
casting, lecturing, and writing, while I
spend a great deal of time on the ten-
nis court (something which I was rare-
ly able to do while working as an in-
terior designer). Longboat Key is our
permanent home. Our daughter, Jane,
her husband, and two children live in
Wilton, Ck)nn., and New York City "
Slexvart R. Essex, Narragansett,
R.I., was recently elected president of
the Reynolds Familv Association of
America at the annual meeting on Oct.
2 at the Biltmore Plaza in Providence.
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/n a/(?ui weeks, the class of 1929 (above, at its 50th reunion) and all
five-year classes from 1919 to 1979 will be on campus for the '84 reunions.
(^ (^ Gladys Burt Jordan reports
1^ y\ that a two-week China ex-
%J sj plorers' trip on the "Pearl of
Scandinavia" immediately after Com-
mencement prevented her from con-
tributing her thoughts on the march
down the Hill. She writes: "The impact
of walking down the Hill was inde-
scribable — pine, unadulterated joy and
pride and humility. I've never felt an
emotion like it and probably nothing
in the future will ever approximate
this experience." Gladys and Arthur
live at 10300 West Bay Harbor Dr.,
Bay Harbor Islands, Fla. 33154.
George C. Oliver, Daytona Beach,
Fla., sends word that he and his wife
visited Egypt, Greece, and the Greek
Islands last May and "had a wonderful
trip."
Anna Peck works for Fugazy Trav-
el Agency and is a group director. She
earned her M.A. at NYU and has
worked continuously in YWCA pro-
grams — especially as an adult program
director. Anna lives at 2297 Whitney
Ave., Hamden, Conn. 06518.
Marian Warren Westberg teaches
electrology in Providence. Formerly,
she taught social studies in secondary
schools. Her address: St. Margaret's
Residence, 173 Dean St., Providence
02903.
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Gordon C. Allen retired from
teaching and administrative
duties at the Rhode Island
School of Design on June 30, 1980. He
is now an agent for Barad Associates,
Realtors, at 1341 Greenwich Ave. in
Warwick, R.I. He and his wife, Helen,
live at 3354 North Country Club Dr.,
Warwick 02885.
H. Brainard Fancher, Fayetteville,
N.Y., reports: "After forty-seven and a
half years with General Electric, I re-
tired on Feb. 1. My last position was
manager. Business Development Op-
eration, Aircraft Equipment Division,
De Witt, N.Y."
Gerard W. Rupprecht, San Mateo,
Calif., is enjoying retirement with visits
to daughters in Reno, Nev., and
Berkeley, Calif. He also visits relatives
in Mesa, Ariz., and Tucson.
41
^^ r^ Helen Johns Carroll. Siiinlcr,
/A^ W^ S.C., spent two weeks last
\J \j September in Trier, West
Gernuiny, as a member of an Interhos-
lel group. The L'niversity of New
Hampshire sponsored the trip; lu-
sponsor was the University of Trier.
^ /-^ Di. Charles B. Round. War-
^ Vt uitk, R.I., writes: "Sorry to
%J \J miss tlie 45th reunion last
June. Hail a chance to see Chinese
medicine first hand for two weeks, and
spent a week in Japan and a week in
Alaska to visit one of my sons and a
granddaughter. See you at our next."
^ /^ Our 45th reunion is ap-
/^ vJ proaching all too quickly.
%^ %J Plans are already being
made to make this the biggest and the
best yet. The next mailing will include
a more detailed outline as to events
and costs. Watch for it and remember
to reserve the dates — May 25 through
28. Our attendance and participation
has always been good, but let's make
this turnout even better. Pete Davis and
Stan Mathes are handling the class gift.
If you haven't responded yet, please
do it now. Committee members: Ed
Deignan, chairman; John Barrett. Hoxuie
Brown, Ralph Fletcher. Charlie Gross. Tom
Roberts, and George Truman.
Bill Hogan. Falls Church, Va., is a
retired captain in the U.S. Navy. He
continues as general counsel for the
House Armed Services Committee
— entering the second session of the
98th Congress. "Looking forward to
our 45th — and 34th of Boston College
Law School."
James AI. McNamara sends us the
following news: "My wife and I are
enjoying retirement deep in the heart
of Dixie. Weather in Dothan, Ala., is
super and so are the people. Just
learned about Brown Club of Atlanta
and plan to take in next function. Also
hope to show my wife College Hill and
Campus Dance in '84."
Sydney H. Shapiro, Chicago, has
been retired for nearly two years, but
has been working almost full-time as a
chemical consultant.
Bob Whitehead is president of Cun-
dall Whitehead Advertising, Inc., lo-
cated in Sausalito, Calif.
yi /^ Albert H. Curtis writes that
/I I I he's been enjoying retire-
JL yj ment since Jan. 1, 1983. He
is dividing his time between Weston,
Mass.. and Harrington, Maine.
John B. DeLuca, Framingham,
42 Mass., recendy retired after thirty-five
vears of federal service. "The span of
my federal career as a civilian oificial
and military officer encompassed lour
agencies: the U.S. Coast Cuiard. the
Department of the Navy, the Depart-
ment of the Air Force, and the De-
partment of the Army."
Waller C. Gummere, Archer, Fla.,
reports: "I am at Centre College
[Kentucky] as executive-in-residence
for winter term, 1984. Yes, Centre
beat Harvard, 6-0, in 1921!"
4U
Charles H. Bechlold. Saun-
derstown, R.I., is now re-
tired but keeping active as
piesident of the Little Rhody Chapter
of the Reserve Officers Association. He
is also executive director of the Rhode
Island Association of Career and
Technical Schools. "Plus many other
activities."
yd /^ George D. Senter sends the
/I y following news: "After thir-
st im^ ty-six years of teaching
mathematics, the last thirty-one of
which were at The Hill School in
Pottstown, Pa., I have retired and am
living at 16 Brookmeie Ln., Bruns-
wick, Maine 0401 1."
Harris L. Whynaught retired last
March and relocated in Austin, Texas,
in April.
Barbara Gamer Ziesing, Floral City,
Fla., is busy helping to organize
Friends of the Library of Floral City
and is treasurer of the Citrus County
Branch of the American Association of
University Women.
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Loeb.
Thomas D. Burns, a Boston
attorney, has recently mar-
ried, according to Henry
Carol Taylor Carlisle is first vice
president of the Bloomfield (Conn.)
Education Association. She received an
award recently as the media specialist
who has contributed most to the pro-
fession. Her article about computer
software selection will be appearing in
the winter edition of the professional
publication, Learning Resources. Carol
visited Berb Cooney Garrett in Maryland
last simimer and chaired the Brown
Fund phonothon in Hartford in Octo-
ber.
Marguerite Connelly Carroll has
moved from Windsor, Ccmn., to
Wakefield, R.I.
Nettie Sherrill Foster has moved
from East Hampton, N.Y., to Hart-
ford, Conn. In her new job she is sur-
veying architecture in West Hartford.
Julianna Hirshland Hill has moved
from Nevada to Arizona. Her mother,
Helen Hirshland '17, lives in southern
California and is still active. She re-
cently attended a meeting at the home
of Helen Tasman Tourigney '41. Julian-
na's nephew, David Hirshland '75, is
producing movies and is a talent agent
for musicians living in San Franci.sco.
Marjorie Brown Klausner has retired
from teaching elementary school in
Chappaqua, N.Y. Her husband, Burt,
closed his business, and they retiied to
Litchfield Park, Ariz. "We drove across
the country and spent a week in Sani-
bel, Fla., with Dot Vernon Seabrooke and
John. "
Arline Major Rininger writes: "I re-
tired from General Motors in October
1980, after thirty-seven very good
years as a mathematician at the CM
show piece, the Proving Ground. My
husband owned and operated a Hall-
mark card/gift shop for sixteen years
and retired in June 1981. We moved
from Michigan to Albuquerque, N.M.,
in October 1982."
44
George M. Hindmarsh and
Janet Lindsay Hindmarsh,
Pittsburgh, write that they
are planning to attend the 40th reun-
ion.
Bill Lawton, Hanover, Mass., is re-
tiring as president of South Weymouth
(Mass.) Savings Bank in April. Upon
completing his thirty-three-year career
with this bank, he and his wife, Ed-
wina, will continue to live in Hanover.
Betty Wagner McMahon, Chicago,
writes: "After eleven years, I'm an
ardent Chicagoan. My son, Alexander
(Sandy) '72, and daughter, Ann '81,
also live and work in the city. Daugh-
ter Sarah is professor of history at
Bowdoin College, and daughter Eliza-
beth is professor of mathematics at
Williams — so the New England ties
remain."
Sylvia Beny Rose. Tampa, Fla., tells
us that her youngest daughter, Traci,
was married on Oct. 9, and now all
five daughters are married. The
grandchildren number seven. Her
husband hjern Rose (see '45).
A ta^ Pembroke class secretary
/I H\ Florence Asadorian Dulgarian
J_ %J urges classmates to send in
news and notes of their activities. Flor-
ence lives at 58 Summit Dr., Cranston,
R.I. 02920.
Don Campbell, Asheville, N.C.,
sends word of the marriage of his
daughter, Elizabeth, to Dan O'Brien,
of Thornwood, N.Y., last June 18. Liz
and Dan are both 1980 graduates of
Muhlenberg College, and they are liv-
ing in Golden, Colo. Don reports that
the event was the occasion for a small
Brown reunion, for among the atten-
dees were Lois Lindblom Buxton '43 and
Bert Buxton '40, from Memphis; Ted
Low '49, wife Kay, and daughter Emily
'85, from Providence; and Bill Campbell
'76, from Colorado Springs. Don
writes that, as far as he can tell, "this is
the first time this region of western
North Carolina and the Great Smoky
Mountains has assembled this many
Brown people." Don and his wife,
Binky, moved to Asheville in 1970. He
is in the man-made yarns and fibers
business and sells these products to the
textile mills in North and South Caro-
lina. Don is a former president of both
the Associated Alumni and the Brown
Club of Rhode Island and served on
this magazine's Board of Editors for
several years. He is a recipient of the
Brown Bear Award.
Frances Weeden Gibson, Farmington
Hills, Mich., writes that she and her
husband, Harold, spend much of their
time traveling. Last year they made a
third trip to China, which included a
week in Tibet as well as five cities in
eastern and central China. Frances
continues freelance writing and edit-
ing. She is also chairman of the publi-
cations committee of the Engineering
Society of Detroit.
Margaret Ajootian Layshock, Moraga,
Calif., reports; "Since my husband
works for a company that is involved
internationally, my life is basically one
of traveling." Since the last reunion,
Margaret has traveled extensively
through Europe and has visited many
other places, including Australia, Tas-
mania, New Zealand, and Tahiti.
Lewis W. Lees, Jr., Peoria, 111., be-
came a first-time grandparent on Nov.
28 with the birth of Andrew Charles to
Lewis's son. Nelson, and Ann Marie in
Philadelphia. Nelson is with W.R.
Grace in its New York headquarters.
Jerry Rose, Tampa, Fla., has sold
his consultant organization and is now
enjoying full retirement. His wife is
Sylvia Bern Rose (see '44).
Marian Davis Woodrujf, Manches-
ter, N.H., is director of education at
the Currier Gallery of Art in Manches-
ter. She is listed in Who's Who Among
Women- 5th Edition.
Phyllis Baldwin Young, Larchmont,
N.Y., has long been active in volunteer
work. She has been president of the
Women's Club of Larchmont, was on
the committee for a Brown concert in
New York City, and is active in the
Ivy League
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Bnnvii Cliil) of WcMclicstcr. New
York.
A /~* ludtlh Kurt-y Charles, New
/I 1-^ York City, sends the follow-
er \J ing news: "As an acljuiu l
professor at New York Universiu, 1
will be teaching a eouise in retail ad-
vertising eo|)y in the spring semester. I
continue as president of Judith K.
Charles Creative C'omiminicatioii, an
advertising and public relations agen-
cy. My son, Frederic Korey Charles, is
now enrolled as a freshman at the
University of Texas, where he has
joined the Air Force ROTC program.
He was recentU named Cadet of the
Month."
Sybil Blackmail Lessclhaum. Warren,
R.I., writes: "I have started my own
business, which is called Creative Con-
tainers. I create distinctive floral de-
signs out of silk and other fabrics, and
carry unusual containers for fresh and
silk plants and flowers. I still teach and
lecture on the art of flower arranging."
Eleanor Robbins Taylor, Branford,
Conn., reports the birth of her first
grandchild, Taylor Elena Comaites,
born on Aug. 6.
A ^y Robert C. Hayes, Atlanta, is
/I / president and chairman of
JL / the board of directors of
HN Power Services, Inc.. with offices
in Atlanta.
Lloyd 0. Heizer retired from Dallas
Power & Light Company last August
after thirty-seven years of service and
moved to Holly Lake Ranch near Big
Sandy, Texas.
A /^ Pembroke's thirty-fifth rcun-
/ I ^^ ion co-chairman, Nancy Can-
_1. vj tor Eddy, and Brown's James
P. Elder have just been informed by
Nan Tracy, the University's reunion
coordinator, that the class of '48 is this
year's winner of the Fiske Cup. This
cup has been awarded since 1976 to a
non-merged class holding a merged
reunion with the highest percentage of
class members in attendance. It is an
elegant 1890 silver-plated pitcher,
which is proudly displayed in the tro-
phy case on the second floor of the
Maddock Alumni Center. A list of the
winning classes is displayed next to it.
Nancy Cantor Eddy is affiliated with
Depot Square Artists, 1837 Massachu-
setts Ave., Lexington, Mass. (lower lev-
el), a sixteen-member artists coopera-
tive. Phone: (617) 863-1597. Her
paintings in watercolor and egg tem-
pera will be featured there in a two-
person show, March 2 through Match
28. The gallcrv wing includes work of
lomteen other artist members. Open
Tuesday through Saturday, 10-.').
Robert R. Eisner, Jr., Milwaukee,
has been elected president of Water
Tower Landmark Trust, Inc., a Mil-
waukee historic preservation organiza-
tion. His daughter, Margaret, is a
member of the class of '8ti.
Bdl Maxieell. SiTupsonville, Md., is
still with the Washingto)! Post, and Riilti
Besse Maxwell is still into needle-
crafts — she works at Kneedles &
Knots, OIney, Md. "Have sixteen Al-
pine Dairy Goats for sale: (301)
531-6665. Box 196, Simpsonville
21150. They are bred to kid in
March-April."
A r^ Joanne Hartwell Ball, Am-
/ 1 vJ herst, Mass., does part-time
J. %J layout work for a printing
establishment; her remaining time is
spent "joyfully painting, exhibiting and
selling New England landscapes."
Joanne has "two beautiful grandchil-
dren who are, alas, in Texas!"
Samuel P. Beachen, Barrington,
R.I., writes: "My wife, Patricia Bea-
chen, died on Oct. 17. She had worked
as Dean Moar's secretary in the Pem-
broke admissions office while I attend-
ed Brown."
Anna C. Brophy, Pawtucket, R.I., is
director of guidance and psychological
services in the Pawtucket school sys-
tem. She is tieasurer of the St. Paul's
Altar Guild and is a member of its ves-
try. She's also a member of the Dioce-
san Committee on Missions, a board
member and secretary of the Pawtuck-
et Corps of the Salvation Army, and a
board member of the Pawtucket Boy's
Club Gioup Home.
Dorothy Ziebell Denney, Piscataway,
N.J., is a chemist and research associ-
ate at Rutgers University, where she
obtained her doctorate. From 1957 to
the present, she has had at least sixty-
two major articles published in leading
national chemistry publicadons — in-
cluding The Journal of the American
Chemistry Society and Phosphorus and Sal-
fur.
Stephen A. Greene, Jr., East Green-
wich, R.I., is serving as alumiuis advi-
sor to Beta Alpha Chapter of Kappa
Sigma Fraternity at Brown this year.
Kappa Sigma reactivated at Brown a
year ago. Stephen is president of the
Roger Williams Family Association for
1983-84.
Joan Dixon Keller, Atlanta, writes:
"We moved in 1967 from Illinois to
Florida, where we lived foi twelve
years in Tallahassee and Gainesville.
We've been in Atlanta lour years and
love liiis beautiful and big southern
city. I'm involved with volunteer jobs
through Junior League. 1 spend lots of
time on the tennis courts (out of doors
year 'round) and keep in touch with
our spread-out little family. Our two
d.tughters live far afield. Alison lives
with her husband in Denver. Louisa is
in Providence and is an account
executive for WPRI-TV. My great
concern is world peace — I'm very
much in favor of a nuclear freeze."
Phyllis Burt Morton, Perrysburg,
Ohio, is manager of Abundant Life of
Perrysburg, a senior housing complex
of 108 units for independent living.
She is active in the Northwest Ohio
Gerontological Association. The moth-
er of six children (three of whom are
married), Phyllis also has three grand-
children. Her husband, George, died
in 1969.
Marie Caporale Oddi, Hamden,
Conn., is principal at Ridge Hill School
in Hamden. She has served as editor
of NewslForum, the publication of the
Elemenlaiy and Middle School Princi-
pals Association of Connecticut. That
organization honored her with the
Joseph Formica Award for Outstand-
ing Service to Education. She is also a
fellow of I/D/E/A, the Institute for the
Development of Education Activi-
ties — a division of the Charles Ketter-
ing Foundation. Marie has three chil-
dren and two grandchildren, C;hris-
topher and Kimberly.
Raymond T. Owen, Jr., Alexandria,
Va., reports: "After having retired, I'm
again semi-active selling real estate for
Town and Country Properties here in
northern Virginia."
Marguerite Lundgren Purcell, Con-
cord, Mass., is a designer and part
owner of a craft business. She is a
board member of the Concord Anti-
quarian Museum and a trustee of the
Concord Library Corporation. She
served for three years as a member of
the Concord Board of Selectmen. Peg-
gy was honored in April 1983 by being
named parade marshal.
Phyllis Berkii'itts Sullix'an,
Springfield, Mass.. is \()lunteer coordi-
nator of the Springfield School De-
partment.
Arthur W. Tower, East Clieenwich,
R.I., retired last June after thirty-foin
years with the Container Corporation
of America — a unit of Mobil Corpora-
tion. He was national marketing man-
ager. Container Divisioti.
Betty Leuchs Tucker. Westfield,
Mass., is an organist and pianist (and
teacher of organ and piano) as well as
an entertainer. She also tunes and
repairs pianos. Her husband is a re-
tired teacher. She has a married son, a
fireman who has lived in Alaska since
1969; a married daughter working at
the local post office; and another mar-
ried daughter who has a 230-acre farm
with 160 cows (60 milking) between
Ithaca and Watkins Glen, N.Y.
Ita^ y^ Bill Cooney is new product
r~\ I I development manager of the
%^ V>/ Chemical Division of J. P.
Stevens, Inc., in Greenville, S.C. His
brother h John Cooney. who is associat-
ed with Flex-Fab, Inc., of Hastings,
Mich., as chief chemist. John's oldest
daughter, Patricia, was married last
June 1 1 to Timothy Cremin, a chemi-
cal engineering honors graduate of the
University of Lowell. Patricia is an RN
and a member of the cardio-vascular
care unit of the Veterans Hospital in
Boston.
Maitlaiut McLarin. Mountain
Lakes, N.J., writes that his retirement
is ended. "I now work for a consulting
firm — Orbiting Astronomical Observa-
tories Corporation."
Dr. Bernard M. Schuman reports;
"I have joined the faculty of The Med-
ical College of Georgia in Augusta as
professor of medicine and director of
gastrointestinal endoscopy. I continue
to edit the journal. Gastrointestinal En-
doscopy. "
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Kip I. Chace, Jr.. Mashpee,
Mass., is an insurance broker
for Rogers & Gray Insur-
ance Agency, Inc., in Hyannis, Mass.
His daughter, Deborah, is taking busi-
ness administration at Bryant College.
Roger Creeiilees just completed his
twelfth year as a manufacturer's repre-
sentative selling to the electronics in-
dustry in New England. He is still liv-
ing in Swansea, Mass.
Peg Morley LaSala, Tenafly, N.J.,
sends the following report: "Our son,
Steve, is a senior at Brown majoring in
computer sciences, but the White
Mountains have lured our daughter,
Ann, to Dartmouth, where she is a
freshman."
Daniel J. MacDunald. East Green-
wich, R.I., was elected 1983 president
of Material Handling Equipment Dis-
tributors Association, which is a na-
tional trade association. He is presi-
dent and owner of M & G Materials
Handling Company in East Provi-
dence, R.I.
t^ ^~^ Richard A. dough has moved
hv ~/ to 204 Perrin PI. in Chai-
*_-/ ^^ lotte, N.C. He sold his intei-
esl in a business in Richmond, Va.,
and is now vice president of Caiolina
Tractor & Equipment. His wife is De-
borah Belknap C.longh '54.
N"' ^~\ Win.wr L. Chase, Cumber-
r^ ^ land, R.I., writes: "Having
%J \J almost worked off my inden-
tures following sale of long-time stake
in valve manufacturing, I am now do-
ing some financial consulting, looking
around, and enjoying sundry family
interests. "
Edward A. Johnson. New London,
N.H., sends word that twins Anne
Stickney Johnson and .Sarah Taylor John-
son are in the class of 1986 at Brown.
ME. Aubrey Doyle, Hopkinton,
Mass., tells us that his son,
Tim, is playing football at
the University of Maine at Orono.
Ru.ssell Shaffer has been promoted
to executive vice president, account
management at Laurence, Charles &
Free, Inc., a New York City advertis-
ing agency. Russ has been senior vice
president at the agency since the
merger two years ago of Daniel &
Charles with F. William Free & Com-
pany. He and his wife and four chil-
dren live in South Norwalk, Conn.
Thomas P. Sjioiu, Madison, N.J.,
recently joined the London Merchant
Banking Firm of David Allsopp, Ltd.,
as senior vice president. He will be
located in New York City. His daugh-
ter, Carol, is a freshman at Brown.
Other children of Tom and wife, Peg-
gy, are Thomas, Jr. (Tufts '78); Kim-
berly (Rutgers '80); and Susan (Gettys-
burg '84).
The Re\-. Charles S. Tyler has left
St. John's Episcopal Church, North-
ampton, Mass., after seventeen years
as rector, to join the Pease Funeral
Service of Northampton and Westfield,
Mass. As president of the Standing
Committee of the Diocese of Western
Massachusetts, he was recently in
charge of the election of a new bishop
for the Diocese of Western Massachu-
setts.
f^ ft^ John T. Strung, Jr.. Setauket,
rA r^ N.Y., writes; "My daughter,
%^ \J Jacqueline, graduated from
Dowling College with a degree in his-
tory and is now job hunting. My job at
Grumman remains very busy, and I
am now acting manager of flight test
performance and propulsion while my
boss is on special assignment. "
Julie Chrystie Webster is teaching a
needlework workship at the Cooper-
Hew'itt Museum in New York City.
Her adaptation of an Adam and Eve
motil from a 1 755 German sampler
was chosen for the poster design for
the Museum's special sampler exhibit
this spring.
*mi> r^ Dick Hughes, Lakeville,
r~\ K^ Conn., is director of The
s^ V-/ Hotchkiss School Summer
Program, an academic enrichment
program for secondary school stu-
dents.
Donald G. Spiller reports: "Spend-
ing a year on educational sabbatical
leave at my home in Bradenton, Fla.
Will return to my teaching position in
Philadelphia in September 1984."
tt^ ^^ John H. Choate, San Francis-
r^ / CO, writes; "I have recently
%^ / purchased Kinney Market-
ing, a company which has been provid-
ing market services to the financial
comnnmity in California for over elev-
en years. We are expanding services
and geographical coverage."
Judge Robert H. Gorman, Cincin-
nati, has been appointed to the Board
of Commissioners on Grievances and
Discipline of the Judiciary by the Su-
preme Court of Ohio. He previously
served as a member of the committee
on revision of the Ohio Code of Judi-
cial Conduct.
1^ r-\ Judith Riley Doherty. Holyoke,
r~\ V^ Mass., sends word that she is
\_^ V-' very busy running the fami-
ly's Riley Sausage Company, started in
1890 by her grandfather. Her oldest
daughter, Robin, is a senior at Sim-
mons College, and her youngest
daughter, Alison, is Brown '87.
Leslie Feifer Peltier, North Kings-
town, R.I., reports: "Son, Jon, received
B.S. and M.S. from MIT in June 1983.
Daughter Leigh received her B.A.
from Bales. Bruce is a junior at Boston
College, and Lynn is a sophomore at
Bates. We're halfway through paying
tuitions! I'm still a part-time reference
librarian at the Communitv College of
Rhode Island — Warwick. Husband,
Ray, and I are loving our new solar
contemporary home in the woods of
North Kingstown. "
Anne Giierry Pierce, Brunswick,
Maine, is teaching her favorite age
group (grade 6) in the Wiscasset,
Maine, public schools.
Elizabeth Belknap Stirling, Saugus,
Mass., was promoted last June to the
staff at the Charles Stark Draper Lab- 45
46
oratory as a technical writer/editor.
Robert \V. Watson. Wavland, Mass.,
has been named president of the Mas-
sachusetts Mortgage Bankers Associa-
tion foi the next vear. Robert is a vice
president of tlie First National Bank of
Boston, Real Estate Division. He is in
charge of the unit, which provides in-
terim financing to the mortgage bank-
ing industry throughout the country.
He's married and the father of three
children.
^ >^ linal plans for the First Ul-
^-v \i liniaie Reunion have been
%J %J reached via a series of com-
mittee meetings in recent weeks. The
merged Brown/Pembroke function
expects more than 400 returnees at
this point. We are more than halfway
towards our gift goal of SI million.
Dudley B. Morrison, Northfield, 111.,
has been promoted to vice president of
the .American Mutual Reinsurance
Company in Chicago, and has been
appointed secretary-manager of the
Pollution Liability Insurance Associa-
tion, also of Chicago.
y'-* y^ fanet McWain Colby, Barring-
1^ I I ton, R.I., reports: "I'm still
\J Vy teaching at the Moses Brown
School in Providence. Mv husband,
Dick, is president of Magnetic Seal
Corporation here in Barrington. Our
son, Tom, is a sophomore at Bates
College; Jeff will graduate from Moses
Brown next June and is in the process
of applying to colleges."
William R. Feeney writes that he is
a professor in the department of gov-
ernment at Southern Illinois Universi-
ty in Edwardsville. "I was recently in-
vited to join the St. Louis Committee
on Foreign Relations (Council on For-
eign Relations). During the past year
and a half, I have presented several
guest lectures at the U.S. Air War Col-
lege and the Defense Institute of Se-
curity Assistance Management, and
have read- scholarly papers at confer-
ences at the U.S. Army War College
and the Naval Postgraduate School."
Dr. A. Paul Kelly, Los Angeles, has
been promoted to the rank of pro-
fessor, department of internal medi-
cine/division of dermatology at The
Charles R. Drew Medical School. He is
the chairman of the division of derma-
tology.
Dr. Andre E. St. Germain, Medfield,
Mass., writes: "I work part-time in
Needham as a children's dentist and
spend the rest of my time working for
Tufts Dental School at the Wrentham
State School for the Handicapped. I
am active in the U.S. Army Re-
serves — I'm a colonel in conmiand of
three dental teams. My daughter is a
freshman at Welleslev"
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David W. Lee, Jr., Phoenix,
.Ariz., is now executive vice
president of the Nortii
American Bank in Phoenix.
/'^ /^ David B. KauJJman. Villano-
1'^ ^ va. Pa., reports: "Brown has
V^ ^t^ been busy in the Philadel-
phia area this fall. .As president of the
Brown Club of Philadelphia, I have
enjoyed three major events: Penn vs.
Brown weekend, Penn State vs. Brown
(a most memorable weekend), and our
recent 30th annual scholarship-fund-
raiser cocktail party/auction, which net-
ted $3,850."
William J. Ryan sends the following
items of information: "1. Living in
New York City. 2. Working at Am-
dahl Corporation. 3. Oldest son in
second year at Boston University. 4.
Life wonderful."
/~\ ^^ James L. Abernathy, vice pres-
1'^ /^ ident, corporate affairs, for
\J xj the American Broadcasting
Companies, and his wife, Kevin
Kearns Abernathy, report the birth of
their first child, Nell Logan, on Mav 8,
1982. They live at 130 East End Ave.,
New York City 10028.
Joseph A. Licari, Jr., North Haven,
Conn., was appointed to the Connecti-
cut Superior Court by Governor Wil-
liam A. O'Neill on Dec. 2. Prior to this
appointment, he was a member of the
firm of Greenberg. Hurwitz & Licari,
where he specialized in litigation. He
was also special coimsel to the city of
New Haven.
Mary Mathewson Murphy writes: "I
have moved to New York and taken
the job of assistant vice president for
student services at Columbia Universi-
tv."
Joanna E. Rapf ('73 Ph.D.), Nor-
man, Okla., reports: "I continue as
associate professor of English and film
at the University of Oklahoma. My
son, Alexander, is 7, and again worked
with the Dartmouth College Summer
Repertory Theatre last summer in an
original play. Last fall he was featured
as a Munchkin in the University of
Oklahoma's production of The Wizard
ofOz."
Jon W. Zeder, Miami, sends the fol-
lowing news: "The law firm of Paul &
Thomson, of which I had been a
member, divided effective Oct. 1. All
but three of the firm's lawyers, includ-
ing me, are now associated with
Fhomson Zeder Bohrer Werth Ador-
no & Razook, with offices in Miami."
/"% ft^ Samuel Baumgarten, Bridge-
1^ r^ water, Mass., is still teaching
V^ \^ physical education at the
Burnell C^ampus School, Bridgewater
State College. He received the Distin-
guished Service Award from the col-
lege last year, and will have an article
published in 1986 (dealing with youth
sports) in the Journal of Physical Educa-
tion and Recreation. He is the current
president of the Bridgewater Rimning
Club.
Dr. Joseph Tarantolo, Washington,
D.C., writes: "My wife, Elissa Feldman,
and I are enjoying our ninth year liv-
ing on Capitol Hill with our daughters,
Danielle Feldman and Sonia Smythe.
We've just bought a Victorian house,
vintage 1877, which we plan to reno-
vate. My private practice of general
psvchiatrv goes well. "
y'"* y"* Lt. Col. Samuel Lane, Jr.,
1^ 1^ USAF, writes that he will be
\J \J leaving for Stuttgart, Ger-
many, this spring. "I'm being transfer-
red to the U.S. European Command
headquarters, where I'll be in the
business of planning U.S. and NATO
military exercises. "
Frank Rycyk, Jr., Jefferson City,
Mo., has been appointed chairman of
the Fine Arts Museum Committee by
the Capital City Council on the Arts.
The committee's purpose is to display
artwork in the new Harry S. Truman
State Office Building and other loca-
tions, as well as to build an art collec-
tion and establish a fine-arts museum
in Missouri's capital city. Frank is em-
ploved as a plant pathologist with the
Missouri Department of Agriculture
and runs Star Route Studio with his
wife, artist Patty Owens Rycyk.
Knute Bliss Westerliind is the new
vice president and officer in charge of
the First Vermont Bank branch in
Bennington. He had been commercial
loan officer for First Vermont Bank in
Rutland.
/'^ ^^ Thomas F. Gaffney reports: 'I
f\ 1 was recently elected to the
\J i board of directors of Central
Life Assurance Company, Des Moines,
Iowa. I continue to serve as executive
vice president and director of Guardi-
an Industries Corporation, and on the
advisorv board of the Allendale Mutu-
al Insurance Conipanv.
John R. Hall, Jr., Rockville, Md.,
was elected to a three-vear term as vice
president for member activities of The
Institute of Management Sciences
(TIMS), an international professional
society of people who apply scientific
methods to management. This election
follows two two-year terms as secretary
and one two-year term as council
member at large. John is also a con-
tributing editor to Interfaces, one of the
journals of TIMS, and recently pub-
lished in Interfaces an article on the
thirty-year history of TIMS. Profes-
sionally, John is developing risk analy-
sis tools for fire protection at the Na-
tional Bureau of Standards. On the
lighter side, John was quoted in a
Newsday feature article (soon to be re-
run in the Chicago Tribune) on wife
Jean's water pistol collection. The Hall
Toy Museum ("cleverly disguised as
our home") appeared a couple of years
ago on "PM Magazine." "It's not all
nose-to-the-grindstone in Washington,
folks."
Jane RuseiUhal Isgur writes; "I am
working as business manager for the
School ot Engineering at the Universi-
tv of Massachusetts, and live with iin
daughter, Karen, K?, in Northani|3-
ton, Mass."
Edith Leverenz Stunkel, Manhattan,
Kans., reports: "We spent the summer
in California re-roofing and painting
our rentals. I am acting director of the
Kansas State University Center for
Aging, and am coordinating a three-
year project funded by FIPSE. Julie is
10 and Carl is almost 3. I am still ac-
tive in The Hunger Project and am
president of the board of our local
food bank — The Flinthills Breadbask-
et — here in 'The Little Apple.' "
Dr. Stephen Sullivan ('69 M.M.S.)
and his wife, Marcia, of Dartmouth,
Mass., report the arrival of two addi-
tional sons: Sean Patrick (5/7/82) and
Michael Christopher (6/23/83). Steve is
president of the New Bedford Medical
Society and a member of the executive
committee of the Massachusetts Sjciety
of Eye Physicians and Surgeons. Their
older sons, David and Mark, attend
Friends Academy in North Dartmouth,
Mass.
/'^ ^~\ Terry Robertson Migliore, after
l"^ ^^ a postdoctoral year at the
V-/ V^ University of Texas at Aus-
tin, is now a psychology resident at the
Audie Murphy VA Hospital in San
Antonio. Husband Pat Migliore is an
orthodontist in private practice, also in
San Antonio.
Sanford Jablon and his wife, Lu-
cille, of Philadelphia, report the birth
of their second child, Samantha, on
Sept. 27. Their first, Philip, was born
on Oct. 15, 1979. Sanford is a partner
in the law firm of Jablon, Epstein Sc
Wolf in Philadelphia.
/^^ /^ Richard S. Blackman. War-
i^ \_J wick, R.I., reports: "I have
\J \J joined the Nathan Butwin
Company of Great Neck, N.Y., for
casualty-property insurance. I am asso-
ciated with the Richard L. Abedon
Company of Providence for life and
health insurance as well as financial
services. I will be working out of the
Abedon office at 100 India St., Provi-
dence 02903."
George A. Gerdts and his wife, Eva
Szelenyi Gerdts '71, moved to Bain-
bridge Island, Wash., last October.
Cieorge writes: "I'm the athletic direc-
tor at The Bush School in Seattle. Ac-
tively involved with Seattle Audubon
and mountaineering — climbed Moimt
Rainier! The Northwest is great!"
Thomas F. GUbane, Jr., reports:
"My family (including wife, Mary, and
four children: Tom III, Dan, Martha,
and Mike) relocated to Providence af-
ter seven years in Cleveland. In Janu-
ary I attended the thirteen-week AMP
program at Harvard Business School."
Willis J. Goldsmith, Chevy Chase,
Md., writes: "In June 1983, I left Sey-
farth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson
and am now a partner in Jones, Day,
Reavis & Pogue and am in the law
firm's Washington, D.C., office."
W infield W. Major, Jr., Providence,
has been promoted to senior vice pres-
ident of Old Stone Corporation in
charge of the Corporate Services
Group. He remains general counsel.
He also reports that Alex Merritt Ma-
jor was born on Nov. 10.
Brian P. Watson, Canton, N.Y.,
reports: "I am now assistant professor
of physics at St. Lawrence University.
My wife, our dog, and I live in an old
farmhouse on the Grasse River and
are enjoying the 'North Country.' "
^^ /^ Allen G. Castner was married
/ I I on Sept. 10 to Erin Lynne
/ \J Magee at the home of the
bride's parents in Ellwood City, Pa.
Glenn F. Morse was an usher in the
wedding, and a number of other
Brown graduates participated in the
festivities. The couple lives in New
York City, where Allen is a vice presi-
dent for the investment firm, Wer-
theim & Company. Erin, a graduate of
Miami University in Ohio, is the pro-
ject coordinator of an interior design
firm.
BUI Hoikala, West Haven, Conn., is
a social worker working with retarded
and/or handicapped clients and their
families.
Mark Trueblood, Potomac, Md.,
writes: "In May 1983, I received an
M.S. degree in astronomy from the
University of Maryland. In July, I re-
ceived a promotion to program man-
ager at Ford Aerospace and Commu-
nications Corporation, working on the
Space Telescope ground control sys-
tem for NASA."
Roger Wakefield and his wife, Betsy,
of Derry, N.H., report the birth of
their first child, Carolyn Dunbar, born
last April 13. Roger is employed at
Sanders Associates in Nashua, N.H., as
a software project manager, and Betsy
is an elementary school teacher in
Merrimack, N.H.
Alan I. West, Concord, Mass., is
director of research and development
for Microvasive, Inc., in Milford, Mass.
He married Katherine Shick (Barnard
'75) in September 1981, and reports
the birth of their son, Zachary, last
July 16.
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B. Christopher Bene has estab-
lished a private practice in
architecture and interior
design. His office is at 350 East 62nd
St., New York City 10021.
Eva Szelenyi Gerdts writes that she
moved to Bainbridge Island, Wash.,
last October. Her husband is George A.
Gerdts (see '69).
Eiie Hirsclifeld, New York City,
reports the birth of David Riklis
Hirschfeld on Aug. 22. He weighed in
at 7 pounds, 8 ounces. "Mom (Marcia
Hirschfeld) and baby are fine."
John F. Lydic, Ebensburg, Pa.,
writes: "My wife, Susan, and I are par-
ents for the third time. Our son. Jack,
was born on Nov. 28, 1982. Our other
children are Amanda, 10, and Emily,
8. I am employed by United States
National Bank and am in charge of
installment lending."
Dick Ramsay and his wife, Kathy,
have their first child — a girl, Whitney
Drewer Ramsay — born on Nov. 30.
They live in Indianapolis, where Dick
is vice president and manufacturer's
representative with B.T. Ramsay &
Company, Inc.
Our apologies to Dr. Paul -I'on Ocy-
en ('75 M.D.) for misspelling his name
several times in the October issue.
^^ ^~V Beverly James Mosley, Pitts-
/ ^ burgh, writes that she was
/ ^q married on April 9, 1983, to
Mark R. Mosley, M.D. (internal medi-
cine). 47
Hobeil J. Levmi' is .1 iiuiiiIhi oI tlic
New York law firm ol Davis, Polk &
Ward well.
WUimm B. Steele HI, Dallas, writes:
"Margaret aiitl I are proud to an-
iioimce the birth of Our first child, Wil-
h.un Ba\lor Steele IW on liilv 25."
^ ^ Diu'id II. CmlHi. Chapel Hill.
/ A N.i:., Hiiles: "A.B.D.:-
/ \J uhitii we assume means that
he has tompleted iiis requiiemeiils for
a Ph.D. — except toi his dissertation.
Steven Dallemura reports: "Since
1980, my wife, Barbara, and I have
been living in Charlottesville, Va. I am
a Ph.D. student in ethics in the de-
partment of religious studies at the
Universit\ of Virginia. Currently, I am
working on my dissertation on 'Good
Samaritan" legislation and the relation
between law and morality."
Dana Cook Grossman was recently
named associate editor of the Dart-
mouth Alumni Magazine. "I continue on
the school board in Thetford, Ver-
mont, where we've lived for almost
twelve years." Her husband is Daniel
Grossman '71 .
Therese Sullivan Kelly has moved to
Chicago, where she is administrator of
a preservation fund at the Landmarks
Preservation Council of Illinois.
Linda Presler Kennedy and Michael
Kennedy '74, Lauiel, Md., report the
birth of their second child, Jennifer
Lynn.
Dr. Robert I. Parker and Dr. Mar-
garet Maier Parker, Rockville, Md.,
write: "Our second son, Christopher,
was born on Oct. 30. His older broth-
er, Rob, is 2 now and likes being a big
brother."
Nina Peskoe Peyser, South Orange,
N.J., is the administrator of radiology
and radiation theiapy at Beth Israel
Medical Center in New York City, and
would like to hear from classmates and
other alumni "who have becoine pro-
fessionals in health-care administra-
tion."
Edgar B. Thomsen, Jr., Ruinford,
R.I., writes: "Sally and I would like to
announce the birth of our daughter,
Stacy Wisner, on March I, 1983. To
date, she has been an absolute joy. 1
also wish to airnounce the opening of
my second restaurant supply company,
called C & K Restaurant Supply and
located in Kensington, Conn. This
complements my original distribution
company, E.B. Thomsen, Inc., located
in Rhode Island."
Robert Thunell, Columbia, S.C.,
reports: "Last spring I was promoted
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to tenured associate proles.sor of geol-
ogy at the Univeisity of South Caioli-
na. Because of my interest in the ma-
rine geology of the Mediterranean
region, I have established a coopera-
tive research program with the Uni-
versity of Paiina (Italy), and plan to
spend a month there in 1984 as a visit-
ing piofessor."
^^ A It's our lOth reunion this
/ /I year, and our reunion com-
/ JL mittee has been busy plan-
ning numerous special events to mark
the occasion. Current plans include a
gala welcoming cocktail party Friday
evening, a swinging Western barbecjue
on Saturday, and a brunch cruise to
Newport on Sunday. This is in addi-
tion to the University events such as
the Campus Dance and Pops Concert.
More details to follow in the mail. Re-
serve the dates: May 25-28. Please note
that this is Memorial Day Weekend.
Joseph T. Grause, Jr., Needham,
Mass., was recently named vice presi-
dent of Fidelity Trust Portfolios, Fidel-
ity's newest institutional product. His
son, Joseph III, was 2 on Dec. 16.
Faye V. Harrison, who has a Ph.D.
from Stanford, lives in Louisville, Ky.,
where she is an assistant professor of
anthropology and sociology at the
University of Louisville.
Michael F. Kennedy and Linda Pres-
ler Kennedy '73, Laurel, Md., announce
the birth of their second child, Jemii-
fer Lynn.
Karen Marcuvitz Levy, Scarsdale,
N.Y., writes: "Our second daughter,
Charlotte Anne, was born on Jan. 21,
1983."
Daniel A. Neff and Nancy Fuld Nefj
(see '76) report the birth of their first
child, Jennifer Suzanne, on Nov. 19.
Dan has become a partner in the law
firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen, &
Katz in New York City, where they
live.
Dr. Beth Boivman Smith and Douglas
C. Smith, Plainville, Mass., announce
the birth of their second child. Nathan
Stewart, on Nov. 3. Their first was
Laura Cameron, born on May 23,
1982. Doug is an underwriter with
Amica Insurance in Providence, and
Beth is a pediatrician with the Rhode
Island Group Health Association in its
Plainville, Mass., office.
George G. Woody III sends the fol-
lowing news: "Our first child, Jason
Jeionie, was born on Nov. 19. For the
past three years, I have been with
American Home Products in New
York. I am currently a group product
manager. My wife, Michelle, is an as-
sistant vice president with the Moigan
Guaianty Trust (Company of New
York. We moved into our home in
Scotch Plains, N.J., last year. Our ad-
dress: 1181 Raritan Rd., Scotch Plains
07076."
^^ )*• Bill Alinon writes: "Now play-
/ f\ '»g 'o'" f'i<^ Oakland A's. My
/ %^ family and 1 live in East
Greenwich, R.I., in the off season and
in Oakland during the season. We now
have three children: Billy, 4, Meaghan,
2, and Daniel, who was born on Oct.
26. Have enjoyed hearing from alumni
during my travels in baseball."
Dr. Eileen C. Fitzgerald ("78 M.D.),
Boston, reports: "Returned from two
years in Arkansas working with the
Public Health Service as a general phy-
sician. Now working in the Pediatric
Health Center in Methuen, Mass."
David Hirshland is producing inov-
ies and is a talent agent for musicians
living in San Francisco.
Thor S. Johnson, Cambridge, Mass.,
writes: "I have returned from five
years overseas. Paris is lovely. So are
Boston and Cambridge. I'm at the
Harvard Business School — class of
'85."
Christine W. Kennedy, Raleigh,
N.C., has graduated from law school at
Boston University and finished her
master's in city and regional planning
from Harvarcl's Kennedy School of
Government. She has opened up the
Gymcarolina Gymnastics Academy,
and her daughter, Natasha, is its
youngest student at 15 months.
Dr. Cheiyl Soled Reid, Baltimore,
leports: "I am still working on my fel-
lowship in genetics at Johns Hopkins
vyhile my husband. Randy, commutes
on weekends from New Jersey. Am
looking for an opportunity to work as
a clinical pediatric geneticist in New
York so we can finally live together for
the first time!"
Stuart H. Sobel sends us this news:
"On Nov. I, my brother. Jack (Yale
'72), and I opened law offices known
as Sobel & Sobel, P.A. at Penthouse,
155 South Miami Ave., Miami, Fla.
33130, (305) 358-1602. My brother
continues to specialize in a personal
injury and wrongful death trial prac-
tice, while I have broadened my con-
struction defect and lien litigation
practice to include general commercial
and real estate litigation."
Dr. Paul Spears and Dr. Laura
Smith Spears. Hershey, Pa., announce
the birth of their daughter, Hilary
Lynn, on Aug. 24. She was 7 pounds,
12 ounces. Paul is a fellow in gastioen-
lerology at the Milton Hershey Medi-
cal Center. Laura is a dermatologist at
the Lebanon (Pa.) Veterans Hospital.
Denise Stefan, Cincinnati, has left
Proctor & Gamble after three years in
brand management to start her own
business in the retail stationery indus-
Gerson Zweifach is an attorney with
the Washington, D.C., firm of Williams
& Connolh'. His wife, Jacqueline Zins
(Princeton 75), is also an attorney.
^^ /'^ James C. Baird, Roslyn, Pa.,
/ 1'^ reports: "In October, I re-
/ \J ceived a promotion to asso-
ciate vice president of investments with
the international investment banking
firm of Drexel Burnham Lambert in
its Jenkintown, Pa., office. On Veh. 10.
1983, my wife, Pam, gave birth to our
first child, James C. Baird, Jr. Jimmy is
currently off the height and weight
charts and we're hoping that he's a
first-round NBA draft choice 20 years
from now so dad can retire early to
the tennis courts."
Dr. Nicholas P. Bruno is a second-
year dermatology resident at the Uni-
versity of Maryland Hospital in Balti-
more.
Pamela L. Gray and Barry Ahearn
(Ph.D., Johns Hopkins '78) were mar-
ried on Dec. 17. He is a professor at
Tulane L'niversity, and they are living
in New Orleans.
Juoii y. Kim, Birmingham, Ala.,
writes; "I am in my last year of oph-
thalmology training, and am looking
for a place to settle down permanently.
My wife and I have two adorable
daughteis — )eiH)ifer, 2, and Elaine, 4
months."
Robert S. Mars, Eden Prairie,
Minn., writes: "My wife, Jan, and 1
had a healthy baby girl (Anna) in Feb-
ruary 1983. Luckily, she has my wife's
looks, not mine. Being parents is a real
treat!"
Stephen ]. Meistcr and his wife,
Dervilla McCann, are in their fourth
year at Tufts Medical School. Stephen
is interviewing for a position in pedia-
trics. Current address: 26 Holworthy
PI. #2, Cambridge, Mass. 02138.
Nancy Fuld Neff and Daniel A. Neff
(see '74), New York Citv, report the
birth of their first child, Jennifer Su-
zanne, on Nov. 19. Nancy is a vice
president in the Corporate Finance
Department at Morgan Stanley & Co.,
Inc.
John H. Pitts, Jr., Cypress, Texas,
writes: "We are pleased to announce
the birth of our first child, John Henry
III. Want to say hello to Kathy, Sharon,
Cere, and Dehra in the class of '76."
^^ ^J Stephen P. Krafft reports: "I
/ / work in the consumer news
/ / unit of WMAQ-TV (NBC)
in (Chicago, and also do a talk show for
WFYR Radio (RKO) in Chicago. When
in Providence, I listen to WBRU-FM,
95.5, progressive rock. Doesn't every-
body?"
Andrea S. Levere, Washington,
D.C., graduated from the Yale School
of Organization and Management in
May 1983. She is now working at the
National Development Council in
Washington, a private, non-profit or-
ganization promoting economic devel-
opment through the financing of small
businesses.
Eugene Mahr is once again associ-
ate director of admission at Brown.
His wife, Jody Levine. is an assistant
vice president at Fleet National Bank.
The Mahrs continue to live with their
dog in Providence.
Deborah Mayer O'Brien writes: "I
was married last September to Dennis
O'Brien, who is a designer/illustrator
working freelance at the American
Museum of Natural History; he works
in the anthropology department,
where I work. We are living in New-
York City, but only for about half the
year. The other part, we are off on
archaeological digs, both on St. Cathe-
rine's Island in Georgia and in Ne-
vada. Last summer, we excavated a site
at 1 1,000 feet on top of Mount Jeffer-
son, Nev. The Georgia archaeology
spans back about 4,000 years. It's a
good life — digging, analyzing, and
driving."
^■^ /^ Dr. Bruce M. Becker. Brook-
/ V^ line, Mass., is finishing a res-
/ v.-^ idency in internal medicine
this year and plans to continue his
training in oncology after taking a year
off. "The Allston Squash Club seems
to have become the Aldrich/Dexter
Field House of Boston — welcome
sight/site of Brunonian visages."
Rich Geidel is a staff person at the
Dorrwar Bookstore in Providence.
Rich writes that he is "happy to be
working in a collective and making lit-
eratme available regarding the oppres-
sion of people under capitalism." The
father of two children, Molly, 3 1/2,
and Jane, 1 1/2, he still finds some
time to be politically active.
Dr. Jeffrey Greenberg and Lisa Weber
(see '80), Boston, were married in Day-
ton, Ohio, on Oct. 30. A number of
Brown alumni attended the ceremony.
Jeff is working as a resident at Beth
Israel Hospital.
Christopher Carr Parks has recei\'ed
a Ph.D. in physical chemistry at the
University of California at Berkeley,
and has accepted a position as senior
associate engineer with the IBM Cor-
poration in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Dai'id Shields. New York City,
writes that his first novel was accepted
by Simon & Schuster and is scheduled
for publication in January 1985.
Susan B. Squires became a legal
counsel for the Rhode Island Depart-
ment of Environmental Management
last June. Mail can be addressed c/o 83
Park St., Providence, R.I. 02903.
Paul R. Stoddard writes: "Having
survived an oil-patch office closing, I
find myself in Lafayette, La., still work-
ing for Conoco, Inc."
79
R. Reed Baer, Boston, is an
associate at the law firm of
Nutter, McClennen and
Fish.
Johanna A. Bergmans, Hanover,
N.H., reports: "I am finishing my
M.B.A. degree at the Amos Tuck
School at Dartmouth. I will graduate
in June. Looking forward to our fifth
reunion this May in Providence! I
bumped into Judy and Gary Seigal and
Mike Stefani at the football game where
Brown trounced Dartmouth in No-
vember."
Cathy L. Budman, Buffalo, N.Y.,
will graduate from medical school in
May and begin residency training in
psychiatry at the University of Califor-
nia-San Francisco. "I am in touch in
San Francisco with Esther Sanchez and
several other alumni. Look forward to
hearing from more Brown folks!"
Eric Chilton, New York City, was a
finisher in the "Ironman" triathalon
held on the Kona Coast of Hawaii last
Oct. 22. He was sponsored by his em-
ployer. Marine Midland Bank.
Susan Engle married Edward
Odessa (Hobart College '76) in Octo-
ber. "We are living in Providence. I
am assistant director of the Head Start
Program in Fall River, Mass. Ed is
president of General Fabrics Company
and Highland Textile Printers Com-
pany."
Mike Laycock sends us the follow-
ing note: "I now have a wife, Susie
(married in August 1980), and two
sons, Colin, 2, and Aaron, 1. I'm em-
ployed by an international accoimting
firm in my home town and working
toward a professional accounting de-
gree. Please drop me a line at 57 Leti-
tia St., Barrie, Ontario, Canada L4N 49
50
IPli. See you all in May. P.S.: I'm still
pliiving hockey."
^ /-x /()/(/( ;\/. Dt'itlrick. New Wnk
V^ I I (lil\, writes: ".M'ter two years
CJ Vy ill llie Pcate Corps in LIppei
\olta. I am getting a master's at the
Columbia School of International and
Public Affairs."
Kalliryti Fleischer is a coiisukant to
the World Bank in Washington, D.C.
Wendy Schoniistein Good spent last
summer clerking for the New York
Cit> law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell.
.■\fter graduating from law school in
Mav, she will spend a year clerking for
Judge .Albert late on the U.S. 5th Cir-
cuit Court of Appeals.
Sue Braunstein Horwitz, Wood-
bridge, N.J., reports: "I received my
master's in social work from Rutgers
University last May. At present, I am
employed as a clinical social worker.
My goal is to maintain senior citizens
within their cimTmunity setting."
Randall R. Kaplan. Chevy Chase,
Md., tells us: "After finishing a clerk-
ship on the Eleventh Circuit for Judge
Phyllis Kravitch, I began working as an
attorney for Caplen & Drysdale in
Washington, D.C. In September 1982,
I married Kathy Manning, a law
school classmate who is working as an
attorney at Kirkland and Ellis."
Jud\- Levine, New York City, is
enrolled in the M.B.A. program at
Columbia University. She had been
working in Brown's News Bureau as
the editorial associate.
Edward A. Nolfi, Warren, Ohio, has
graduated from the University of Ak-
ron School of Law, passed the Ohio
Bar examination, and has been coin-
missioned as a notary public.
Lisa Weber was married to Dr. Jeff-
rey Greenberg (see '78) in Dayton, Ohio,
on Oct. 30. Several Brown alumni at-
tended the wedding. "We are now liv-
ing in Boston, where Lisa is working as
assistant curator and registrar of the
DeCordova & Dana Museum."
Hilary R. Weinert, Philadelphia,
writes: "After two years working as a
paralegal in Boston, I have started law
school at the University of Pennsylva-
nia."
Alan H. Wells went on an ITT In-
ternational Fellowship to Karolinska
Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, in 1979.
He returned to the Brown medical
program in 1981. After two years in
the medical program, he was invited
for a research position at Okayama
University Medical School in Japan for
one year. His title was associate pro-
fessor. Alan received his doctorate in
medical .sciences at Kaiolinska Institute
in 1982. In 1984, he plans to do post-
doctoral work in the field of cell mem-
branes at the University of California
at San Francisco inider Dr. J. Michael
Bishop. He has also published more
than ten articles in different interna-
tional scientific magazines. He hopes to
return to Brown to finish medical
school.
81
Marie L. Achlemeier, C^har-
lottesville, Va., is a third-
year law student at the Uni-
versity of Virginia this year and is
looking forward to graduation in May.
"Beginning in September, I'll be prac-
ticing law in Norfolk, Va., with the
firm of Willcox, Savage, Dickson, Hol-
lis & Eley, P.C. I'll be doing primarily
litigation."
Sally Boldl is a geiger-counter op-
erator in San Francisco. She welcomes
any traveling alumni.
Paul Dyck has become an actuarial
assistant with CIGNA Corporation in
Philadelphia. His new address: 7234
Bradfoid Rd., Upper Darby, Pa.
19082.
John W. Evans sends us the follow-
ing facts about himself. "Living in New
Haven, Conn., at 848 Orange St.
Working for IBM as a systems engi-
neer. Writing poetry. Playing music. "
Wendy M. Stein, South Easton,
Mass., received her M.A. degree in
medical sociology from Brown last
June and is now the administi ator of a
long-term care facility in North
Easton, Mass.
/^ r~^ The class is holding a reun-
^^ ^ ion at this year's graduation.
V_y ^i^ The festivities begin with a
table stocked with your favorite re-
freshments (free) at the Campus
Dance on Friday, May 25. Over the
weekend, the class will have a brunch.
You must RSVP. For information, tall
David Marcus at (305) 833-5281 or Bar-
bara Ballin at (212) 661-7290.
Asad Azar was recently married at
the home of his parents in Kaiachi,
Pakistan, to Mehrine Ahmed. Asad is
working for the Pakistani Liquor Con-
trol Board. He expects to begin work
on his M.B.A. at the University of Bud
Gandu next year. Any of his friends
from Brown who are visiting the
Sub-Continent are welcome to visit.
Melina S. Hill is a volunteer with
the Peace Corps in Zaire, Ontral Afri-
ca. Her address: B.P. 236, Gisenyi,
Rwanda, Central Africa.
Catherine Karnow is a freelance
photographer in Washington, D.C.
Beth Klajter writes: "I'm in the
middle of my first year of rabbinical
school at the Hebrew Union College in
Jerusalem. Loving school and living in
Israel. In the fall of '84, I'll continue
my studies at the New York Caty cam-
pus of Hebrew Lhiion College. "
Adnoine Knoll is the managing edi-
tor of Courier-Life newspapers in
Brooklyn, N.Y., a chain of five week-
lies with a total paid circulation of
100,000. She writes: "The job is akin
to putting out fifty Brown Daily Heralds
each week — I do the editing, assigning,
rewriting, layout, headlines, the works.
Aside from some newly acquired exe-
cutive maladies like insomnia and a
nagging backache, the job is great. I
have my own office, 1,000 business
cards with my name on them, and the
opportunity to boss around roughly a
dozen reporters, all of whom are older
than I. Who could ask for anything
more? Address: 1254 East 70 St.,
Brooklyn, N.Y. 1 1234."
Linda S. Kulla reports: "After
spending my holidays traveling around
Italy, I moved into my own apartment
in Manhattan. I am enjoying city life,
but will be leaving again soon for an
extended business trip to Madeira,
Portugal."
Les Wu is "alive, well, and living in
London as a second-year Ph.D. stu-
dent." His mailing address: Box 39,
ONR-London, FPO New York, N.Y.
09510.
/^ ^~J Jonathan Mandell is a fresh-
et ^ man at the Duke University
V^ %^ School of Medicine in Dur-
ham, N.C.
Maiy L. Metayer writes; "I am
working as an analyst with the invest-
ment blank, Morgan Granfell, Inc., a
subsidiary of a British merchant bank.
Living in Darien, Conn., but hoping to
find an apartment in the city soon."
James B. Swenson is a graduate stu-
dent in comparative literature at Yale.
•-^ r->{ Dr. Heniy H. Dunham '39
■ ^^^Ph.D., who received his
V^^Kv^M.D. from the University
of Kansas in 1944, practiced radiology
in Wabash, Ind., from 1962 to 1977.
Before attending medical school, he
was a research biologist for the Carne-
gie Institution of Washington. His bi-
ographv has appeared in every edition
of Who's Who in the Midwest since 1958.
He now lives in Neosho, Mo.
Carroll E. Reed '41 Ph.D., Amheist,
Mass., has retired from teaching at the
University of Massachusetts in Am-
herst.
Otto Forchheimer '51 Ph.D., York,
Pa., was given the ASTM Award of
Merit last year. He is vice president
(marketing & technical) of the J.E.
Baker Company in V'ork.
Robert W. Come>y '57 Ph.D., New-
port, R.I., reports: "Though retired, I
continue teaching part-time. Last fall I
taught Shakespeare at Rhode Island
College and at the Naval Base in New-
port."
James M. Anderson '59 A.M., Silver
Spring, Md., sends the following news:
"I was recently appointed a (part-time)
associate professor at George Washing-
ton University, teaching a course in
management information technology
to graduate students at the Pentagon.
My regular work consists of computer
consulting assignments undertaken
through the Jim Anderson Company."
Dorothy Fazackerley Troendle '60
Ph.D., Rumford, R.I., is serving on the
Voice Identification and Acoustic
Analysis Certification Board. The post
is associated with the International
Identification Association.
E. Bruce Goldstein '68 Ph.D., Pitts-
burgh, Pa., writes: "The second edition
of my book. Sensation and Perception,
was published in February."
Anne Robb Taylor '68 Ph.D., Su-
perior, Wise, reports: 'Just retired in
November as associate professor of
English at the University of Wisconsin-
Superior. Glorious freedom!"
Alice Reid Hauck '69 A.M., Provi-
dence, sends us the following news: "I
just received niv Ph.D. last June from
Johns Hopkins University. Field: archi-
tectural history. Dissertation: John
Ruskin. I also wrote two essays for the
Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architecture.
and gave a paper at the Western Con-
ference on British Studies at the Uni-
versity of Colorado in October. I con-
tinue to combine art history and rock
climbing."
Francis Blessington '72 Ph.D. is an
associate professor of English at
Northeastern University in Boston,
and the author of Paradise Lost and the
Classical Epic (Routledge & Kegan
Paul, 1979). With Guy Rotella, she is
co-editor of The Motive for Metaphor:
Essays on Modern Poetry in Honor of
Samuel French Morse (Northeastern
University Press, 1983).
William D. Gaulin '73 M.A.T.
writes: "I am an associate with Synec-
tics, Inc., of Cambridge, Mass. We're
consultants specializing in strategies
for creative problem solving and inno-
vation. I live in Newton Center and
get down to Providence often."
Joanna Rapf I'i Ph.D. (see '63).
Richard S. Sarason '77 Ph.D., Cin-
cinnati, reports that he was married on
Feb. 12, 1983, to Anne Arenstein, of
Cincinnati.
"W if "■ ^ Dr. Stephen F. Sullivan
V/l I I '69 M.M.S. (see '67).
IjJLA^ Dr. Eileen C. Fitzgerald
'78 M.D. (see "75).
Dr. Thomas R. Walek '79 M.D.,
Hauppauge, N.Y., writes: "I am chief
resident in general surgery at SUNY-
Stony Brook, and will be taking a posi-
tion in plastic surgery at Lenox Hill
Hospital in New York City beginning
July 1."
OBITUARIES
Edith Carlborg '11, Providence, a
librarian at Brown for forty years be-
fore retiring in 1953; Dec. 10. Miss
Carlborg received her master's from
Brown in 1916 and was class secretary
for many years. A member of the
Rhode Island Library Association, she
was special cataloger in history at
Brown from 1913 to 1923, keeper of
departmental libraries from 1923 to
1938, and from 1938 until her retire-
ment, she was cataloger of science.
There are no immediate survivors.
William Manning Cleare '17, Fall
River, Mass., a mathematics and sci-
ence teacher at Dmfee High School in
Fall River from 1923 until his retire-
ment in 1960: Nov. 1. A member of
several teachers associations, Mr.
Cleare was the curator of the observa-
tor\ at Durfee High and coached bas-
ketball there from 1925 to 1929. His
wife was the late Maiy Lomax Cleare
'25. Lambda Chi Alpha. Surviving are
four daughters, including Maureen F.
Kiley, 142 Montgomery, Fall River
02720.
Clarence DeWolf Herreshoff '17,
Bristol, R.I., an engineer who was
head of the heating and ventilating
section of the Navy's Bureau of Ships
for thirty years before retiring in
1965; Dec. 17. Mr. Herreshoff previ-
ously worked for Herreshoff Manufac-
turing, Yacht Builders, as a draftsman.
He was a trustee of the Herreshoff
Marine Museum, the Bristol Historical
and Preservation Society, and the
Rhode Island Historical Society. Survi-
vors include his brother, A. Griswold,
50 East Rd., Del Ray Beach, Fla.
33480.
Ruth Reynolds Bridge '22 A.M.,
McLean, Va.; Aug. 21. Mrs. Bridge
received her B.A. from Mount Ho-
hoke College in 1921. Survivors in-
clude her husband, Edward, 6603 Jer-
ry PI., McLean 22101.
Samuel Albert Place '24, Greenville,
R.I., retired owner of the Rose Be\er-
age Company in Providence; Dec. 18.
Alpha Tau Omega. Survivors include
his wife, Muriel, 36 Coolidge Ave.,
Greenville 02828, a daughter, and a
son, Graham B. Place '55.
Grace Wamsley Van Note '24, Exe-
ter, N.H., an elementary and second-
ary school teacher in Exeter, Danville,
and Brentwood, N.H.; Oct. 5, 1981.
She was the wife of the late Bartlett
Van Note '24. Survivors include her
son, William, P.O. Box 520515, Miami,
Fla. 33152. Her father was the late
F.W. Wamsley 1895.
Rene Francis Dunne '25, Farming-
ton, Conn., a retired account executive
in insurance management with Buhler
Service Corporation in New York City;
July 1, 1983. Survivors include his son,
Barry, 576 Dedham, Wrentham. Mass.
02093.
Lloyd Hahn '25, Brighton, Colo.;
Jan. 10, 1983. Survivors include his
wife, Mrs. Lloyd Hahn, 65 East Jessup,
Brighton 80601.
Agnes Julia Flaherty '26, Rumford,
R.I., chairman of the physical educa-
tion department at Hope High School
in Providence for manv years; Dec. 18.
Miss Flaherty received her A.M. from
Brown in 1928 and earned a certificate
of physical education from Harvard.
Survivors include her niece, Joan
McCool, 227 Whipple Rd., Duxbury,
Mass. 01876. Her sister was the late
Anna M. Flaherty '14.
li'/7/;a»( Beck Widnall '26, Saddle
River, N.J., a Republican member of
the House of Representati\ es for twen-
ty-five years, representing northern
Bergen County, N.J.; Dec. 28. Mr.
Widnall graduated from Rutgers Uni-
versity Law School in 1931. He was
elected four times to the New Jersey
State Assembly, and in 1950, won a 5j
52
special election to Congress alter Rep.
). Parncll Thomas was convicted of
coiiiiptiun. He was re-elected twelve
limes, usually by a wide maigin. Con-
sidered a moderate Rei)ublican, he
Ix-came critical of President Nixon's
conduct of the Vietnam War in the
early 1970s. In 1974, the year he lost
his seat to a Democrat, Mr. VVidn.ill
was the ranking Republican on the
House Banking and Currency Coni-
mitlee. According to the AVic York
Times, he had "a reputation for achiev-
ing iniportanl legislative compromises
in housing and community develop-
ment." He was co-sponsor of a bill lim-
iting contributions to Presidential
campaigns and strictly limited contri-
butions to his own campaign in 1974.
Phi Delta Theta. Sur\i\ors include his
wife. Marjorie. 214 West Saddle River
Rd.. Saddle River 07458. a son. and a
daughter. He was the brother of Doug-
las S. Widnall '37.
Herbert Charles Howe '21 . Pasadena.
Calif., an executive with the Bendix
Corporation in Southfield, Mich., and
South Bend. Ind., for many years be-
fore his retiiement; Oct. 25. Sigma
Nu. Survivors include his wife,
Blanche. 530 South Los Robles Ave.,
Pasadena 91101, and a son. He was
the brother of William Howe '30 and of
the late George W. Howe '26.
Henl^ Linus Travers '27, Wellesley,
Mass., a pioneer in broadcasting and
one of the founders of the Yankee
Network News Service; Dec. 10. Mr.
Travers began his career at WT.AN in
Providence while he was still at Brown.
In 1929, he was assigned to another
Yankee Network station, WNAC Radio
in Boston; there, he established the
Yankee Network News Service. In
1948, he was named executive vice
president and general manager of
VVNAC and the Yankee Network and
supervised the start of the station's tel-
evision outlet. Before retiring, he di-
rected broadcasting accounts for an
advertising agency in Boston. He was
the husband of the late Blanche H.
Travers. Phi Kappa. Suivivors include
a daughter and a son, Linus, 94 War-
ren St.. Needham, Mass. 02192.
Dr. Edward Francis Ruhmunn '28,
Cranston, R.I., a general practitioner
prior to his retirement; Dec. 28. Dur-
ing World War II, Dr. Ruhmann was
an officer in the Navy Medical Corps,
having graduated from the Boston
University School of Medicine in 1933.
He served on the staff of Rhode Is-
land Hospital. Roger Williams Hospi-
tal, and St. Joseph Hospital. .At differ-
ent times, lie was house physician at
St. Kli/abeth Home. Providence, exam-
ining physician foi the Dax'ol Rubber
C^ompany. and medical examine! for
Penn Mutual and Connecticut Mutual
Insurance Companies. Phi Camma
Delta. Survivors include his wife.
Irene, 1 Betsv Williams Dr.. Provi-
dence 02905.
James Smith Beach '29, New Britain,
Conn., letired director of guidance at
New Britain High School, and a sci-
ence teacher there for a number of
years; Nov. 29. Mr. Beach received his
Sc.M. from Brown in 1932. He was in
the U.S. Navy during World War II
and from 1950 to 1952. In 1953. he
was elected piesident of Local 871,
.'\merican Federation of Teachers. He
was long noted for his work with
youth groups. Survivors include his
nephew. John A. Bryan, 31 Cianci Rd.,
Southington, Conn. 06489.
Alice Veronica McGrath '29. C:ran-
ston, R.I., librarian at the Rhode Is-
land School of Design from 1955 until
her retirement in 1970; Dec. 6. Miss
McGrath attended Boston University
and the Columbia University School of
Library Science. She was head of the
reference department of the Provi-
dence Public Library from 1936 to
1946 and worked in the reference
department of the Pasadena (Calil.)
Public Library ftom 1946 to 1949. She
rejoined the Providence Library in
1950 as assistant in charge of public
relations. Survivors include her sister.
Mary McGrath, 28 Bissell St., Provi-
dence 02907.
George Winlhrop Cross '30, .-Xbei-
deen. Wash., an accountant and tax
consultant in Aberdeen for many
years; May 29, 1983. Mr. Cross was, at
one time, owner of G.W. Cross Mobil
Service and was a partner in the Cross
Brothers Service Stations. Phi Gamma
Delta. Survivors include his wife.
Norma, 504 West Second St., Aber-
deen 98520.
Carl Martin Caspar '31, Exeter.
N.H.. an English teacher at Phillips
Exeter .\cademy from 1948 until his
retirement in 1974; Nov. 11. Mr. Cas-
par received his M.A. from Montclair
State College in New Jersey in 1942,
and during World War II, served as a
field director with the Red Cross in
Newport, R.I. At Exeter, he coached
football and lacrosse and directed the
drama ptogram. Beta Thela Pi. Survi-
vois include his wife. Elizabeth, 9(')
Court St., Exeter 03883, a daughter,
and a son, Cc/W A'/. Caspar, Jr. '67.
Harry Fitziiuiurae Duukerlon '32,
Kentfield, Calif., retired secretary of
the Fireman's Fund American Insur-
ance Companies in San Francisco; Dec.
9. Mr. Dunkerton graduated from
Fordham L'niversity Law School and
worked on Wall Street for twelve years
belore entering the insurance business.
Zeta Psi. Survivors include his wife.
Mary. 249 Hillside Ave.. Kentfield
94904, and four daughters.
Henry Flanagan Newkirk '33, Dallas,
a manufacturer's representative in
industrial supplies and former presi-
dent of the Do .\\\ Dallas Company in
Dallas; Nov. 18. Mr. Newkirk received
his B.A. from the L'niversity of Arizo-
na in 1935 and his C.P.H. from the
University of Michigan School of Pub-
lic Health a year later. Zeta Psi. Survi-
vors include his wife. Celeste, 4255
Shorecrest Dr., Dallas 75209.
John Thurston Balmer "34, West
Simsburv, C^onn., professor and for-
mer chairman of the department of
speech and drama at the University of
Hartford; Dec. 26. Professor Balmer
served as a major in the U.S. Army
during World War II and received his
M.,A. from Wesleyan University in
1948. An actor, drama critic, and di-
rector, he produced a weekly television
series for the Uni\ersity of Hartford
during the 1960s. Zeta Psi. Survivors
inclucle his wife, Genevieve, 19 Home-
stead Rd., West Simsbury 06092.
Frederick Dauch\ Covert '34, Sarato-
ga Springs, N.Y., a real estate agent
with (iinacchi Realty in Saratoga
Springs; July 17, 1983. Mr. C;overt
served in the .\rmy during World War
II. For a time, he worked in sales for
the Coven Manufacturing Clompany in
Troy. N.\'. Delta Phi. Sur\ivors in-
clude his wife. Mrs. Frederick Covert,
140 Lincoln Ave., Saratoga Springs
12866.
Henry Terhune Van Dyke '37,
f reasuie Island, Fla.. president of the
\'an D\ke Insurance Agency in Semi-
nole, Fla.; Sept. 20. Mr. Van Dyke
ser\ed in the .\rmy Air Corps during
World War II. .'\t one time, he was
president of the Florida West Coast
.Alumni Association. Survivors include
his wife, Mary Elizabeth, P.O. Box
9459, Treasure Island 33740. He was
the brother olRiilli Van Dyke Vega '41.
Gordon Edward Pnule '40, Pontiac,
Mich., a former plant manager with
Jet-Craft Precision Parts in Warren,
Mich.; Jan. 2, 1983. Mr. Poole was, at
one time, district sales manager with
the Sugar Beet Prcxlucts Company in
Saginaw, Mich. Phi Delta Theta. Survi-
vors include his wife, Helen, 3525
Karen Pkwy, Apt. 203, Pontiac 48054.
Mmam N. Swa/peld '40 Sc.M.,
Princeton, Mass., a biochemist who
worked in cancer research at Massa-
chusetts General Hospital for sixteen
years before her retirement; Nov. 6.
Miss Swaffield graduated from Welles-
ley College in 1938. Sinviving is her
sister and two brothers: F. Hartwell
Swaffield '37, 1681 Central Ave.,
Neeclham, Mass. 02192; and Gordon D.
Swaffield '43. She was the daughter of
the late VV. Dvuirlas Swaffield '06 ('46
Hon.) and the greai-granddaughter of
Joseph Hartshorn 1841.
John Kent Ellenbogen '41, New
York, N.V., advertising director of
Gutmann Company, Inc., in Mount
Vernon, N.Y.; Dec. 22. Mr. Ellenbo-
gen attended Harvard Business School
and served in the Navv dining World
War n. He was an account executive
for Grey Advertising, and vice presi-
dent of the advertising agency of Mer-
ling, Marx & Seidman, Inc., before
joining Gutmann. Survivors include his
wife, Lucille, 400 East 54th St., New
York 10022, a daughter, and a son.
Dr. Gary Ellenbogen '74.
Charles Stevens Cameron '42, Dela-
van, Wis., owner and operator of the
Geneva Lake Boat Company, Inc., in
Fontana, Wis.; Nov. 13. Mr. Cameron
was formerh a pilot for American Air-
lines, and for a number of years, was
vice president and sales manager for
The House For Men, Inc., in Chicago.
Delta Phi. Survivors include his wife,
Betle, 3020 North Shore Dr., Delavan
531 15, two sons, and a daughter.
Charles Barker Sroi'il. Jr. '44, Prcni-
dence, a radio announcer and actor;
Dec. 25. Mr. Scovil was a member of
the Army Signal Corps during World
War II. Prior to joining WE.AN in
1980, he was a broadcaster at WICP^
and WHIM in Providence and at sta-
tions in Philadelphia and Manchester,
N.H. For a time, he worked in the
accounting department at Rhode Is-
land Hospital. He made his first pro-
fessional stage appearance with the
Trinity Square Repertory Company
last year, playing roles in Translations
and The Wild Duck. Survivors include
his cousin. The Rev. Beverlv Karsten,
30 Marshall Rd., Yonkers, N.Y. 10705.
Kent Jay Woodco.x '45, Clearwater,
Fla., a retired colonel in the U.S. Army
and former curator of the U.S. Army
Museum in Monterey, CaliL; June 18,
1983. After retiring from the military,
Mr. Woodcox worked for the Califoi-
nia State Parks and Recreation De-
partment in Monterey. Zeta Psi. Survi-
vors include his wife, Geraldine, 2250
Druid Rd. #201, Clearwater 33575.
John Warner Eiien '46, Steubenville,
Ohio, a staff engineer with the Weir-
ton Steel Company in West Virginia;
April 7, 1979. Mr. FLuen was a member
of the U.S. Na\al Reserve for three
years. For a time, he was supervisor of
design engineering for the U.S. Steel
Corporation in Duiiuesne, Pa. Survi-
vors include his wife, Cleo, 125 Marion
PI., Steubenville 43952.
James Terrence Lodge '46, Provi-
dence, a partner in the law firm of
Armstrong, Gibbons & Lodge; Dec.
18. Mr. Lodge served in the Navv dur-
ing World War II and graduated from
the Boston College School of Law in
1950. He was a director of the Thur-
ston Manufactiuing Company, Giselle,
Inc., of Rhode Island, the Rhode Is-
land Sitpply Company, and the Mee-
han Finid. He was a director and sec-
retary of Amalgamated Program
I'echniques, Inc., and secretary of
Creative Enterprises, Inc. Phi Kappa
Psi. Survivors include his wife. Norma,
5 Wingate Rd., Providence 02906,
three daughters, and two sons. He was
the brother of Marilyn Lodge Reeve '49.
Joseph Thomas Beardwood III '48,
Philadelphia, Pa., president of Elec-
tronic Signal Processing in Ambler,
Pa.; Oct. 12. Mr. Beardwood received
a B.S. degree from Ursinus College in
1951. For a time, he was manager of
the Naval Warfare Department at
General Atronics Corporation in Con-
shohocken. Pa. Delta Tau. Survivors
include his wife, Louise, 623 Spruce
St., Philadelphia 19106.
George Harper Culinan, Jr.. "49,
North Scituate, R.I., an international
management consultant and founder
and president of Bishop Stone Re-
search Institute of North Scituate; Dec.
2. Mr. Colinan was engaged for a
number of years in training executives
for corporations in the U.S. and over-
seas. He was the author of manage-
ment tools designed to aid executives
in the decision-making process, and
was a former emplo\ee of Walter V.
Clarke Associates, Inc., in Providence.
Survivors include his wife, Beverly, 75
Central Pike, North Scituate 02857.
He was the brother of Lois Colinan
Counihan '44.
Bruce Cameron Collins '50, Bridg-
ton, Maine, owner and manager of Sil-
ver Sands C^ottages in South Yar-
mouth, Mass., and retired director of
sales at the Hotel Somerset in Boston;
Nov. 26. A graduate of Bryant Col-
lege, he served in the Navy during
World War II. Survivors include his
wife, Doris, Box 290, Bridgton 04009.
Susan Ross Steinfield '61, Needham,
Mass., a practicing psychotherapist
with Comprehensive Mental Health
Services in Framingham, Mass.; Nov.
18, of cancer. Mrs. Steinfield received
a master's in social work from Boston
College in 1978. Survivors include her
husband, Joseph D. Steinfield '61, 686
Webster St., Needham 02192, two
sons, and a daughter.
Susan Brown Chartres '65 M.A.T.,
Charlottesville, Va., a professor of
French and English at Piedmont Vir-
ginia Community College; Oct. 27,
from injuries in a traffic accident. She
received her B.A. from McGill Univer-
sity in Canada and her Ph.D. from the
University of Virginia. Survivors in-
clude her husband, Bruce, 1614 In-
glewood Dr., Charlottesville 22901,
and two daughters.
Gabriel David Ra'anan '75, Arling-
ton, Va., a Sovietologist and author of
several works on the Soviet Bloc and
Communist affairs; Sept. 28. Mr. Ra'-
anan earned his Ph.D. at the Fletcher
School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts
LIni\ersity. He was a senior research
analyst at the Advanced International
Study Institute in Bethesda, Md., and
before he became ill with cancer, a
legislative assistant to Sen. Rudy
Boschwitz (R-Minn.). His latest work.
International Policy Injormation in the
USSR, was published last fall. Survi-
vors include his wife. Holly; his broth-
er, Michael '80; and his parents. Prof,
and Mrs. Uri Ra'anan, 7 Rolfe Rd.,
Lexington, Mass. 02173,
53
REFLECTIONS
Life in the breakdown lane
.^^. knew immediatelv that my leg
was bri)ken — not because I heard that
tell-tale, trisp snap as so many people
do — but because my loot looked as
though it belonged to someone who
was lying a couple of teet away. I pro-
ceeded to do the only reasonable thing
that a person lying in my predicament
(facing three to six months of
fiberglass incarceration) could do — I
laughed. Little did I know how much a
broken leg was going to change my
By Katherine Hinds
life — not only physically, but socially
and psychologically as well.
How 1 broke my leg is a story in
itself, but the one thing 1 learned
immediately is that everyone wants to
hear that story. A person on crutches
with one leg in a cast becomes public
property in the same way that a preg-
nant woman belongs to the world at
large. When asked, 1 gave the expiu-
gated, and easiest, explanation of mv
disability — "I fell." (Okay, so it was
from 3,000 feet.) Or, "It was a sports
accident." (All right, so I was skydiv-
ing.) The reactions to the real explana-
tion ranged from admiring envy (ado-
lescent males) to horror, mostly from
my mother and people who are afraid
of heights. I'm not afraid of heights
— I'm a little afraid of flying, and bail-
ing out of an airplane seemed to me
an honest expression of my feelings.
For the first twenty-foiu- hours
after the accident, I floated somewhere
in the twilight zone of Percodan and
m\ psychological defenses. It took me
a while to realize fullv the implications
54
of what had happened to me. Getting
up to answer the door was a major
highlight of the day, leaving me wind-
ed and sweating like a horse with a
broi^en leg. Gradually it dawned on
me that I couldn't get into the bathtub
to shower, I couldn't stand long
enough to cook a meal, I couldn't do
my laundry, I couldn't drive, I
couldn't walk more than a few steps at
a time. I couldn't beat my cats (and
boy, did they take advantage of it).
The list seemed endless. I had to face
it: I was handicapped. After thirty
years of becoming increasingly inde-
pendent and self-reliant, I was sudden-
ly thrust into the role of lia\ing to
depend on people for the most mun-
dane tasks.
Fortunately, I work with a number
of thoughtful, caring individuals who
made the first weeks of my disability as
close to joyful as the circumstances
would allow. I was inundated with la-
sagna, homemade vegetable soup, chi-
li, enough pizza to feed Pisa, fragrant
The daily monotony
of being on crutches
coffeecakes, loads of warm laundry,
trashy inagazines and novels, a loaned
stereo receiver, a phone hook-up in
my bedroom, a ridiculous red knit hat
to cover my loes for the fast approach-
ing winter, offers of rides to work to
last through 1990, and, most appreci-
ated of all, simple companionship.
There comes a time, though, in
any disability when the bloom is off
the invalid role. Once the excitement
had waned and I was confronted with
the daily monotony of being on
crutches, my friends — unbeknownst to
them — were faced with a dilemma.
They could either offend me by offer-
ing to do something that I was perfect-
ly well able to do myself (the "I can du
it, Moin" syndrome exhibited by most
self-respecting toddlers); or thev could
offend me by not offering to do some-
thing that I really needed to have
done but didn't want to ask anyone to
help me with. Nobody likes to ask for
help repeatedly. Lesson one: You
learn how to ask for help. You also
learn who your friends are.
My friend Molly spent her entire
adolescence on crutches as a result of a
hip displacement when she was ten. I
can't remember her needing help with
things — carrying her books from class
to class, or her dinner tray to the table
in the dining hall. But when I ask her
if it was difficult to cope, she groans,
"It iinier got to be any easier." Molly is
one of the most outgoing people I
have ever known, and she attributes
this to her handicap. "1 was a quiet,
contemplative child. But once I was in
a wheelchair or using my crutch, I dis-
covered that I had to be the one who
made the first move towards other
people. I had to be the one to bring
up the fact that there was something
wrong with me. Otherwise people
would be shy and not approach me."
Lesson two: Being disabled chang-
es the way a peison relates to stiangers
as well as friends. I couldn't walk
across the Green without every single
person I passed — and that's not an
exaggeiation — acknowledging the fact
that I was picking my way through the
icy patches with the help of two sticks
of wood. "Bad time of year for that."
"Teach you to spend your vacation ski-
ing!" "Boy, you're brave to come out
in this weather." And the ever unnec-
essary advice, "Be careful!"
I don't know how people who aie
permanently disabled ever adjust to it.
After ten weeks of depending on oth-
ers, I started looking for ways to re-
gain my autonomy. Gan I do my own
laundry? Sure. Even if it means that I
have to throw a garbage bag full of
clothes down foiu flights of stairs and
hobble down after it, sit on the wash-
ing machine for a couple of hours,
and then drag the bag up four flights
of stairs one ... at ... a ... time, I'll do it.
I'll walk, if you can call it that, the half
mile to work so 1 don't have to depend
on someone to drive me. The smallest
victories take on the most enormous
importance. I can walk to the post
office to buy stamps. I can haul my
garbage out to the curb. I can change
the light bulb in the kitchen ceiling. In
a sense this winter of physical discon-
tent has enriched my life. At the risk
of sounding like Pollyanna, I can say
that I have experienced inany mo-
ments of pure fulfillment that I would
never have known otherwise.
The third lesson is one that I will
never learn: how to cope with a per-
manent disability. I can cope with wv
disability for the simple reason that it's
temporary. I have the utmost respect
and admiration for anyone who is fac-
ing a life wheie every step is difficult
and fiaught with risk, or worse, where
steps themselves are impossible.
The last lesson is easy. The next
time I will look before I leap.
Katherine Hinds is assistant editor of the
BAM.
JANE KALLIR
continued
need for something to reaffirm basic
American values, which Grandma
Moses expresses in her landscapes.
The American public became alienated
froin 'high' art, but as Moses became a
popular artist she became disowned by
the mainstream" — scorned, Kallir
wrote, by that segment of the cultural
elite that equated popularity with in-
feriority.
Kallir and Bachert mounted a
Grandina Moses exhibition at the gal-
lery last year, the last of the series in
honor of Otto Kallir. Kallir had access
to a great deal of previously unpub-
lished material: letters by Grandma
Moses, letters written to her, and a
twelve-volume scrapbook documenting
her critical reception by the press. Kal-
lir then published her research in
Grandma Moses: The Artist Behind the
Myth (Clarkson N. Potter, 1982). And
Kallir again did something unusual
with this gallery show: She sent it out
on ttie road, much like a museum
show.
"We aim for museum caliber with
our gallery shows," she explains, "and
so many museums are suffering fund-
ing problems today that they can use a
helping hand in mounting exhibi-
tions." Kallir plans to continue this
practice, because she feels strongly that
there is a need for sending shows to
small museuins aroimd the coimtry.
Jane Kallir is young for someone
who has accomplished so much. Not
yet thirty, she has published several
successful monographs and has
mounted several popular — publicly
and critically — shows at the Galerie St.
Etienne. She says her youth has helped
rather than hindered her growth.
"When I was getting my bearings, I
could feel my way and ask naive ques-
tions without anyone realizing who I
was. And now, I have such close rela-
tionships with anyone we deal
with — publishers, museum curators,
customers. There are few things as in-
timate as a reaction to a work of an. It
doesn't really matter how old you are."
55
BOOKS
Bv IVifi M.milfl
FORMAL APPLICATION by Donald
VV. Bakn '44. '49 A.M., '55 Ph.D. Barn-
wood Press. 1982. $5.95 paper. 60 pages.
"The poets apparently want to re-
join the human race." This quotation
from Time magazine is the epigraph
that crowns the title poem of Donald
Baker's collection, Formal Application.
As a poet, the speaker of the poem
asks himself: What will I have to do,
how shall I apply myself if, in fact, I do
wish to "rejoin the human race" — at
least as it lives in the popular (but not
wholly inaccurate) pages of Time} The
poet realizes that he must, in a slightly
different sense of the title, make a
formal application to become human.
"I shall begin by learning to throw /
the knife," he writes, "first at trees,
until it sticks / in the trunk and quivers
every time . . . Meanwhile, I shall be
teaching the birds / that the skinny fel-
low in sneakers / is a source of suet
and bread crumbs, / first putting them
on a shingle nailed / to a pine tree,
next scattering them / on the needles,
closer and closer . . ."
The poet/speaker will manage to
win the trust of a particular bird ("a
towhee, I think, in black and rust and
gray") and qualify as a modern human
being by suddenly and violently shat-
tering that trust: "You see the splash
of blood and feathers / and the blade
pinning it to the tree? / It's called an
'Audubon Crucifix.' " The speaker's
sarcasm is about as sharp as his knile.
He has rejoined the human race not
only through his act of cruelty, but in
the best journalistic tradition, by giving
cruelty a "pleasing (even pious)" name.
Laurence Perrine, editor of the
widely used poetry textbook, Sound and
Sense, has called "Formal Application,"
"one of the remarkable poems of the
past two decades." But there are many
other good reasons to order the book
of the same name from Baker's pub-
lisher (The Barnwood Press, RR#2
Box lie, Riverhouse, Daleville, Ind.
47334). "Recent American Fables" is a
series of prose poems included in the
56 collection. In the first of these, "The
Campaign of a Billion Flowers," an
unidentified president "proclaim(s)
compulsory joy" as if he were the king
in Camelot:
". . . the computers must have ap-
proved: camellias burst from the tubes,
all the tapes grew heavy with scent,
and there caine to pass orchids as light
bulbs, ivy as telephone lines. Madison
Avenue switched to the cultivation of
poppies. Howard Johnson's invented
the rose-flavored clam. The pages of
Time turned green."
The Cainpaign is a sweeping suc-
cess. Everyone is persuaded except for
the reader, who smells the rotting core
of all these flowers. At the end, the
president wonders — at dawn in the
White House — "why his right hand
shriveled to thorns like a ratspaw, why
violets blackened wherever he walked."
Baker writes about his life and fam-
ily in Formal Application. .\s poet in res-
idence and Milligan Professor of Eng-
lish Literature at Wabash College in
Indiana, he also subjects his profession
to scrutiny — the book's final five poems
are titled "Teaching," "Advising,"
"Reading Examinations," "Professor,"
and "Senioritv. "
If anything will save poetry from
the ash heap of academic reading it is
Robert Farnsumih
lightly-handled Innnor; and here, iti
the most overtly autobiographical sec-
tion of the collection. Baker is able to
poke a little fun at his work. OI his
advisees, he writes: "One after another
they come / into the office, muscles, /
pimples, wanting conclusions." He is
even at his most musical in this vein,
using the letter k like castanets; "Then,
by God, my / typewriter knocks, wom-
en walk in, / kick off their shoes, Ann,
/ Becky, my whole unlucky / alphabet."
This is effective poetry — nice sounding
and surprising, too.
The poem "Reading Examinations"
sums up the professor's fantasies of
escape: "They ruin the weekend, these
blue / confessions. I should get drunk,
call / Rena, drop out of this town, this
tomb, / drive, south. Interstate 65,
Mobile, / New Orleans, pull off my
shirt / in the sun, sleep until Monday. /
Years ago I should have dumped
them, / got out from under."
Perhaps Professor Baker, poet
Baker, needn't make a formal applica-
tion to "rejoin the human race" after
all.
THREE OR FOUR HILLS AND A
CLOUD by Robert Farnsworth '76. Wes-
leyan, 1982. $6.95 paper. 64 pages. d
This unpretentious first book of
poetry "originates in the seaside land-
scape where Farnsworth grew up."
The poems are descriptive, but gently
so; rather than saturating his work
with images, Farnsworth uses them
where he needs them, often with a
brilliant touch.
In the poem, "Coloring Book," he
begins, "The strawberries lie in a dish
of cream. / The man has chosen them,
pulled / their green crowns off and
halved / their whole red hearts with a
knife."
Farnsworth has worked most re-
cently as a teacher of writing and liter-
ature at the State University of New
York and at Ithaca College.
Some things remain with you forever.
A Brown education is one of them.
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I am here to greet the New Brown of this era,
to hail the dawning of a new dan full of the brightest promise.
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Class of 1881
at Commencement, 1937
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