f^^^ BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY SEPTEMBER 1984 Brown was good to you . . . Your Brown Annual Fund gift supports . . . Undergraduate Education Graduate Education Medical Education and now, this year, you can designate all, or part of, your Brown Annual Fund gift for financial aid. The Brown Annual Fund BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY SEPTEMBER 1984 Volume 85, No. 1 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 ). 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. John V. Reistrup '58 Donald B. Smith '42 Wendy J. Strothnian '72 Wallace H. Terry '59 Billy R. Wooten '70 Ph.D. John A. Worsley '56 © 1984 by Brown Alumm Mfmthty Published monthly, with combined issues in Decem- ber/January, June/Julv. and August/Sep- tember, by Brown University. Providence, R.l. Prmted by The Lane Press, PC Box 130. Burlington. Vt. 0.1402, Editorial offices are in Nicholson House. 71 George St.. Providence. R.I- 02906. Member. Council for the Advancement and Support of Edu- cation. The Mnnthly is sent to all Brown alumni. Please allow eight weeks for changes-of-address, which should be sent to Box 1854, Providence, R.l. 02912 Page 40 Cover design by Kathryn deBoer There Are No People Like (Brown) Show People Theater is one ot the most ditlicult professions in which to succeed, and yet the number of Brown alumni who are at the top of their fields in this business is impressive. And they have been suc- ceeding at it for decades in spite of the fact the theatre arts department at Brown has been official only since 1978. Abraham Lincoln: No Ordinary Man The sixteenth president of the United States eiTibodied all the qualities — hon- esty, courage, humor, grace — that we like to think are representative of the American people. A group of Lincoln scholars met at Brown in June to cele- brate the man, the myth, and the Presi- dent, Winners at Henley A month before the Olympics began, a Brown crew celebrated a victory of Olympian proportions — for the first time they won at the Henley regatta, the oldest and most prestigious rowing re- gatta in the world, Eric Almeida '84 gives us a stroke-by-stroke account of what a thrill it was. The Rosenberg Era Begins A conversation with John Rosenberg, the soft-spoken alumnus of Harvard and the coaching staff of the Philadel- phia Stars, who has replaced John An- derson as head football coach at Brown. Goodbye, Mnemosyne English professor Elmer Blistein on memory — some helpful hints on re- membering things that are too easy to forget. Departments Carrying the Mail Under the Elms Sports The Classes Obituaries Reunion Reports Bearing the News Books Preserve Your Assets The harvest has been bountiful, but now you're faced with the prospect of having the fruits of your labor gobbled up by estate tax. Don't be left in such a pickle! You can preserve your assets for your children or grand- children, and, at the same Hme, make a gift to Brown through a charitable lead trust. Brown will reap the benefits of the interest income during the term of the trust. Then, at the expiration of the trust, the prin- cipal will be passed on to the designated recipient. Those assets will have been removed from your estate and will not be subject to an estate tax at a later time. For further information on charitable lead trusts, contact: The Office of Planned Giving Brown University / Box 1893 Providence, RI 02912 401 863-2374 Planned Giving CARRYING THE MAIL ROTC Editor: Is ROTC an appropriate subject to teach at Brown? Citizen armies and citizen juries are fundamental to our republic, as they have been to other successful soci- etal ventures. It is probably as relevant to train leaders of the military on cam- pus as it is to train lawyers. It has also been, at least in my case, useful educa- tion. GEORGE SEAVER '59 Calaumet, Mass. Editor: This is in response to the letter (BAM, May) from my old friend Hank Loeb '43 regarding the RCTEC. 1 heartily endorse Hank's letter, particu- larly his sentiments regarding national defense. It seems to me that whether or not Brown should reinstate ROTC is a matter for the administration to deter- mine — not the faculty. Our faculty members are highly qualified in their respective disciplines, but most of them cannot see beyond the end of their nose when it comes to matters outside their field — particularly national defense. I am sure that the administration realizes the importance of ROTC and believes it should be represented at our best uni- versities, such as Brown. •S lEPHEN GRANT STONE, JR. '41 Cuiipeville. W'asli. 'Who we really are' P.ditor: I have just returned from having lunch with my Pembroke class- mates of twenty-five years ago. It came as no surprise to ob.serve, once again, what a spirited and intelligent group of people we all are. Each in her own way has remained intensely and creatively involved with her own life and the world surrounding it. Each has sus- tained the stresses of success and fail- ure, some of which are career-centered, most of which are personal. But we are strong and we look great! As 1 scanned this "put together" group, however, something began to bother me. What was it? I suddenly focused on the name tags. Because the Reunion Committee had used married names, both in the Reunion Yearbook and on the name tags, nearly everyone had found it necessary to ink in her "maiden " name in order to be iden- tified as she was in Pembroke days. Some of us, because of divorce and remarriage, were carrying three "last" names. It occurred to me that our counterparts on the other side of the Faunce House arch had been exempted from this exercise. I have a good friend, an oceanog- lapher of international reputation, who is divorced. She wishes to resume the use fjf her family name but is reluctant to do so since her previous contribu- tions to the scientific literature would probably be unrecognized as the work of the same person. This is a real di- lemma for her. Why, I wonder, is it that women are required to relinquish that emblem of identity which their parents so lovingly and carefully selected in the first days of their lives and which they carry for twenty years or more? Why is it that we, even in today's generation, so readily assume the public identity of another through the taking of his name? Classmates of '.59, '69, '79, and '89, unite! At our next leunions, let us clean up those name tags and celebrate who we really are. JEAN SHERIDAN '59 Wickfonl. R.I. The new design Editor: I like the new magazine. Don't change a line of it. Especially do I like the democratic tone of the new make-up and policy. It is so refreshing not to plow through thai mannered lawn cultivated by the former editors who seemed to guide the implement with the Brown Daily Herald style book in one hand and the reins of Old Snob clenched between their teeth. HILARY IVIASTERS '52 I'l/lshursrh THE GREGORIAN ORIENTAL RUG EXCHANGE POLICY SIMPLY UNIQUE IN 1978 — this 9x12 ARDEBIL was purchased for IN 1984 — after six years of dinner parties, a dropped $4000 at the Newton Lower Falls showrooms of Arthur Thanksgiving turkey (with all the trimmings), three T. Gregorian, Inc. 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JOSEPH DAVIS '82 New York City The Venture program Editor: 1 have just finished reading "Time Out," by Katherine Hinds (HAM, May), the article concerning the Ven- ture program. The Associated Alumni of Brown University and the Alumni Relations Office cordially invite you to the 1984 Alumni Recognition Ceremony on Homecoming Weekend Saturday, October 13th, 1984 in Sayles Hall at 8:30 p.m. Dessert will be served. Reservations Requested by October 5, 1984 (401) 863-3307 Congratulations! In my opinion, this should be a very important aspect to an academic program at the college level. While I was at the University of New Mexico (1965-1967) getung a master's in education, a friend and I did a research study, "The Disappear- ing Student, Personnel and Guidance Journal," May, 1967, and discovered that at that time, nationwide, 66 per cent of the students entering college did not complete a degree program in four years. It was not that they completely dropped out, for another 60 per cent of those did obtain a degree, eventually, in five or more years, and often students did not return to class work until an interim of five or more years had passed. What was needed then, as [Ven- tme is] proving, is still needed now. Unfortunately, we didn't conceive of such a program. [Venture is] doing an important job, and I am sure, winning the grati- tude of many students. Bravo! WALTER GOE rZ '36 Santa Fe, N.M. Misplaced worries Editor: Paul Good's article on "The Day After" (BAM, May) and how we need to increase our sensitivity to the horrors of nuclear war was disturbing to me — though not in the way Good intended. What I fmd disturbing is that so many intelligent and concerned people spend their time worrying about a symptom rather than the pioblem. The threat of nuclear war will not be reduced by sensitizing the U.S. public to its horrors anymore than sensitizing us to the horrors of cancer will mag- ically eradicate thai scourge. And if public opinion could be swayed to such an extent that our leaders renoimced the use of nuclear weapons under any circimistances, I truly believe that would mark the end of oiu" political, economic, and intellectual freedoms. The problem is one of how to build trust and cooperation between major powers which distrust each other and frequently have legitimately conflicting interests. (Closely associated with this is the problem of the closed Soviet polity and the remoteness of its leadership from the public opinion and influence our leaders need to respond to con- stantly.) I would really like lo see some of the vast energy being poured into the You knoiv, there's not just one way to buy a Brown football poster. niei:^i3fGr Floral Pa^anf BROWN J^^ SWE COLLEGE PasaclGna - You can buy the poster announc- ing the first annual Rose Bowl game as a Brown football booster, for instance. (Brown played in that first Pasadena game.) or, You can buy the poster because you would like to help out the Brown Alumni Monthly, a maga- zine that in its own league has been among the Top Ten for twelve straight years. (The money earned from the poster sales goes directly to the BAM.) or, You can buy the poster because you have a discerning eye and appreciate classy things. (The poster is a 20" x 26" four-color reproduction of the original issued in 1916.) or, You can buy the poster because it would be a fine gift for someone you know — a student at Brown, an alumna, a friend. or, You can buy the poster because you like it. In all these ways — go on, count them — you can buy this Brown football poster. Please do. Order form Brown Alumni Monthly Brown University Box 1854 Providence, Rhode Island 02912 Name. Address. City ..State. ^ip^ Please send me . poster(s) celebrating Brown football at $7 each (includes postage and handling). Make checks payable to Brown University. Allow three to four weeks for delivery. various anti-nuclear movements devot- ed instead to the moie fundamental problems of international relations in a lawless and amoral world. Certainly nuclear weapons are terrible. So are chemical and biological weapons (just ask the Hmong or Afglianistanis). So are massive use of conventii)nal weap- ons. We need some thought and re- search and practical ideas on ways to settle international disputes amicably, with particular emphasis on how to get renegade governments to act responsi- biy. Frankly, the excessive concentra- tion on the nuclear issue on the part of many people strikes me as a far more dangerous avoidance of the real prob- lems of the world scene than is the fail- ure of our leaders or the majority of the public to hair-shirt themselves daily over how horrible tiuclear war would be. C. PAUL MINIFIE '68 West Simsbury, Conn. Remembering Dr. Virks Editor: The letter of Dr. Veroni- que Susset {BAM, May) describes well the goals of a rehabilitative program for the severely disabled which she and her associates are ciurentlv implementing at the Virks Rehabilitation Center. The Center is a unit of the General Hospital of the Rhode Island Department of Mental Health, Retardation, and Hos- pitals in Cranston. It was named in honor of Dr. Johannes Virks. clinical assistant professor in the Blown De- partment of Communitv Health, who conceived the project. The same issue reports the prom- ising basic neuropsychiatric investiga- tions of Dr. Richard Wagner. Dr. Virks was largely responsible for arranging the physical facilities for the laboratory researches, and for having projected beds within the (ieneral Hospital for the clinical phase. Dr. Virks's imtimely death occur- red on March 15, 1984. IRVING A. BECK '32, M.D. Lecturer in Medical Science Campiii Divestiture 'folly' Editor: Your article, "University announces divestiture policy," shocked LOOKING FOR EXCITEMENT? The Continuing College has it! Plan this Fall for academic adventures that provide excitement to keep you thinking for the rest of the year. New York/Westchester/ Fairfield PepsiCo in Purchase, N.Y. October 21 Sculpture: Dimensions and Beyond Hirshhorn Deputy Director Steve Weil '49 joins Pro- fessor Tom Banchoff in a provocative discussion/tour of sculpture at PepsiCo's magnificent sculpture gardens in Purchase, New York. Seattle The Seattle Art Museum November 1 1 Old Masters Professor of History Philip Benedict sets the historical stage and professor of Art Catherine Zerner discusses individual artists and works from the Wallerstein collec- tion of great masters. Want to know more? Write or call Wm. J. Slack, Brown's Continuing Col- lege, University Relations Box 1920, Providence, Rl 02912.401 863-2474. Brochures are mailed in U.S. cities to arrive approx- imately 3 weeks before programs. Belize, Central America January 14-21 Marine Biology Mayan Ruins Professor of Marine Biology Mark Bertness guides this week-long snorkling adventure in a coral reef setting on the edge of the Mayan jungle. Limited enrollment/$1095 inclusive from Houston. Deposit required. Baja California March 22-25 Stress Psychiatrist and Brown Pro- fessor Andrew E. Slaby MD, and Margo Inglese RN, MPH lead a weekend-long seminar investigating causes of and strategies for dealing with stress and burnout at the beautiful Twin Dolphins resort in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Limited enrollment/$550 inclusive from LAX, Los Angeles. Deposit required. J^-'*^^ ^-J-^ And watch for our announcement of Spring seminars in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Minneapolis/St. Paul, St. Louis, San Francisco and Washington DC. me because of the folly of the present Brown administration. I hope you will publish my letter in the name of fair play and historical accuracy, even though it is a little long- er than the average letter: In a television commercial now being aired by the U.S. Senate cam- paign of the Democratic candidate [North Carolina] Governor James B. Hunt, Jr., his Republican opponent, Senator Jesse A. Helms of North Caro- lina, is accused of being cozy with right-wing political leaders abroad, in- cluding Prime Minister Pieter W. Botha of South Africa. Some hypocritical legislation has also been introduced in Congress di- rected against the Republic of South Africa, a trustworthy friend of the U.S.A., because of its policy of apart- heid (a policy followed officially and unofficially in America for a long time until 1954 and often unofficially since then). This law would bar the importa- tion of the popular South African gold coins, as well as end American invest- ments in that country — a measure, in- cidentally, opposed by many of the leaders ol the non-whites there whom it is supposed to benefit, as are also such measures as the divestiture polity an- nounced by Brown University, my alma mater. Since a great deal of dysinforma- tion about South Africa has been delib- erately disseininated here, please per- mit me to rectify some of the more blatant misconceptions, for the sake of historical accuiacy and fair play. When the pioneering Dutch settled the Cape Province, beginning with Cape Town in 1652, they found no "nalix'e" blacks, but small bands of two yellowish-brown peoples — the "Bush- men," now largely confined to the Ka- lahari Desert, and the "Hottentots," who, as a result oi miscegenation with some whites and also slaves brought from the Dutch East Indies and Mada- gascar, now constitute a separate ethnic group of some 2, 000, 000 brown "coloreds." Furthermore, when some 12,000 "Boers" or "Afrikaners," an amalgam of the original Dutch settlers plus subse(|uent immigrant French Huguenots and (ierman Protestants (who now form 60 per cent of the white population and control the govern- ment), set out on the "Gieat Trek" in 1836 to escape the rule of the British, who had taken over the Cape Province in 1806, they moved into an hitherto unoc- cupied interior, and foinided the Tran- svaal and the Orange Free State repub- lics. Meanwhile, some black Bantu tribes had been migrating very slowly with their large herds of cattle, in a southeastern direction from Central Africa, and did not arrive in anv large numbers into what is now the eastern part of South Africa on the Indian Ocean — mainlv Natal which Britain annexed in 1843 — until about a century and a half after the original Dutch set- tlers. (Some of these immigrants were later permitted to seek work in other parts of South Africa, in mines, etc.). As a result of the "Boer War" of 1899-1902, the defeated Tiansvaal and Orange Free State were joined by the victorious British to Natal and the Cape Proyince to form the Union of South Africa in 1910. This declared its inde- pendence from Britain in 1961. It has been the avowed policy of this Republic of South Africa to grant independence to the various black na- tions, each with its own language, cus- toms, and culliue. that it inherited from the British colonialism of the nineteenth centmy. It, therefore, in 1976, granted independence to the Transkei, a fertile area larger than Denmark (and far from an alleged des- ert) as a homeland for five million peo- ple of the Xhosa nation, and since then to Boputhatswana, Venda, and Ciskei. It is also planning independence for others, such as Kwazulu as a homeland of some 12,000 sc]uarc miles for some five million Zulus, who had founded an independent kingdom in 1828, but which had been annexed to Natal by Britain in 1879. This policy has been maligned by the enemies of South .Africa, but it is not generally known that it has been praised by black leaders in these home- lands. Also, it is not generally publi- cized that the South African constitu- tion has been just recently amended to bring the "coloreds" and those who trace their origins to the Indian sub- continent (whose ancestors were brought in by the British in 1860 to work the sugar plantations in Natal) into a tricameral parliament with the whites. Are we doing the same for the Seminoles of Florida and our other "Indian" nations? ARTHUR KAPLAN '29, '40 A.M. Raletirh. N.C. 'Sexist' posters Editor: I recei\ed mv May BAM today and looking through it found an article on the Blind Dates. 1 was curious to read how they're doing, having spent my years at Brown feeling constantly WE MAKE MONEY FOR PEOPLE WHO MAKE MONEY. We're Bankers Trust s Private Clients Group. All the resources tor customized money management as- sembled in one place. Professionals in portfolio management, sophisticated lending, foru-ard planning and forty other financial services, at your command to go to work to get your money to work. Let us show you how we put it all together and how you can benefit from our unique capabilities. For information and our "Guide to Services," write or phone: Mr. Andrew L. Simon, Vice President, Private Clients Group, 280 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10015; Tel. 212/850-4994. 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Reading the article, I finally found yoin- mention of their sexist posters and subsequent dealing with offended women and the student life deans. V'our reporting of the incident reads like a "boys-will-be-boys" anecdote. Worse still, vou reprint on hall a page (page 29). without any caption men- tioning the controversy, one ot their most offensive posters. As a woman student at Brown, I felt I had to be constantly on the watch for new Blind Dates posters; they were repeatedly sexist in their portrayal of women in submissive, mindless, and explicitly sexual poses. As in the one reprinted on page 29, they fiequently made women into targets — for what? The pitchfork held next to her? When the women on campus fol- lowed the grievance procedures pro- vided by the University, it won us a mediated discussion between a few women, some band members, and a few deans. For a while, the posters were toned down; they did not instantly af- front though they certainly didn't por- tray any particularly positive images of women and they did continue to focus on women. I'm sitting with the magazine open in front of me and feel such fmy. We as women worked .so hard at Brown to prevent the spreading of this image, to explain to many why we found it sexist and offensive. And now you reproduce it for everyone without connecting this poster with the controversy, with short anecdotal retelling of the controversy which belittles the women's concerns. In a six-page spread, with lots of white space, certainly more could have been said. Obviously the band members didn't really get the message from the women they met with that sexist adver- tising is not okay; it seems that the BAM LYNN JACHNEY CHARTERS Private crewed yacht charters in the CARIBBEAN. NEW ENGLAND and MEDITERRANEAN. Fine per- sonalized service since 1968. Vir- gin Island bareboat listing also available. Tel: Lynn Jachney 617-639-0787 Box 302AM, Marblehead, Mass. 01945 TOLL FREE: 800-223-2050 missed the message in their anecdote as well. For the BAM to condone this part of the band's history by relating it as a feather in the band's cap, as a cute an- ecdote, is disturbing. I'd expect better. How about an article on the women on campus who are working against por- nography and sexism to balance per- spective a bit? (A gi^oiip of women last year working against rape was a nnich bigger sensation on campus and re- ceived only a few paragraphs of men- tion.) SANDY MARTIN '82 PAULA SCHNITZER '82 Allston, Mass. Theta Delta Chi Editor: The comments about The- ta Delta Chi at Brown, in the cover ar- ticle on fraternities in your April issue, were disturbing. As executive director of the National Fraternity of Theta Delta Chi, I attempt to assure that our chapters maintain the standards we believe our fraternity should exemplify. I have contacted Dean Robinson, oin' alumni directors, and our undergradu- ate members of the Brown Chapter to discuss appropriate action. Theta Delta C;hi boasts of alumni of the calibre of John Hay, Brown 1858 (McKinley and fheodore Roosevelt's Secretary of State); poet Robert Frost; Pulitzer-winning journalist Harrison Salisbury and economist Lester T'hiirow among many other notable Americans. Each spent his formative years as un- dergraduate members of Theta Delta Chi. In fact, soine three million men and women have joined fraternities in the last 200 years in the USA at more than 650 institutions of higher learn- ing. While the stellar membei s I have mentioned may not be typical, neither is the beer-guzzling, insensitive Blutar- sky character so many people seem to believe is. For better or worse, fraterni- ty men are a random sampling of un- dergiaduates. Individual attitudes and behavior are magnified because they congiegate and socialize. If there are racists, vandals, or sexists in our house creating havoc on campus, we feel it is al.so om- duty to help educate them, while keeping iri mind that the mem- bers of fraternities at Brown are, first of all. Brown undergraduates and part of the University community. Lhe American fraternity system has survived 200 years because it can be a marvelous forum for a young person to weigh his intellectual baggage against th.ii ot his peers. It can be an excellent laboratory for turning an adolescent into a thinking adult. Closing the fra- ternity is not a solution. Educating the offending members is, and we accept our share of the responsibility to do that. If a man is beyond redemption, immune to reason, we have a provision for expulsion. We feel it is imperative that our members be good fellows who exem- plify the enlightened attitudes of our fraternity and the colleges and univer- sities they attend. We hope to cooperate with Brown to insure that Theta Delta Chi is a credit to the community, which I should say is the goal of our members living on Wriston Quadrangle. The friendships begun, the bonds made, and the inlormal learning that can take place in a fraternity can have a lasting effect on an undergraduate. We are proud to be at Brown and we would like your community to see us as a po- sitive, not a disreputive force on cam- pus. Brown alunuii much like John Hay and more recently Joe Olney are the kind of members we would like you to think of when you hear Theta Delta (;hi. These men so valued their experi- ence at Brown that they materially con- tributed to the University's well being. We think their involvement in Theta Delta Chi played a positive part in that experience. The exuberant young members of Theta Delta Chi have the potential to become fine men. The fra- ternity experience is one of many at Brown that will shape their futures. We will strive for improvement. GEOFFREY FIT ZGERALD Theta Delta Chi Fraternity Boston Sean Kelly's humor Editor: I enjoy cartoons but rarely laugh loudly when looking at them. Not so with Sean Kelly's work [BAM, April] — others too who I've shown them to — though viewers seem to progress in stages. Curiosity, puzzlement, mild chuckling while taking in the graphics, a quiet break for further reading of the caption, a glance back to the graphics, and then loud laughter seems to be the standard progression. Kelly seems to be able to "build" his humor much as a talented stand-up comedian does. A rare talent in the graphic arts. I certainly hope Kelly continues to produce cartoons after graduation. He should have a bright future in the field. In any case, it appears that Brown has an answer to Yale and Garry Trudeau. JOHN MARTINSON '51 Reno, Nev. Welcome back Editor: I have just received my lirst issue (the May '84 issue) of the Brown Alumni Monthly (for some reason I have not been on the list for the past twenty or so years), and was very impressed witli tiie magazine. Just about every article was of personal interest to me. My husband is a psychiatrist, so the "schizophrenia" article was pertinent; I performed while at Brown and later spent many years in the music industry, so 1 enjoyed and empathized with the article on Blind Dates; before there was a "College Venture Program," I ven- tured off on my own after the hrst semester of my senior year (never to return, it turns out, although it wasn't planned that way!), so I was glad to read about this new program; and I'm something of a computer buff, so the article on LEMS was fun to read, too. I read every word of the issue, and am already looking forwaid to the next one. PATRICIA STREET LEONARD '62 Leesburg, Fla. Sizer's appointment Editor: I was delighted to learn of Ted Sizer's appointment as chairman of Brown's education department (March BAM). As a secondary-school educator, I am aware daily of the need for dramatic reshaping of secondary education. I hope that Brown's Sizer- led department will develop the blue- prints for such change. I recommend Horace's Compromise to all — educators and noneducators, as an honest state- ment on adolescents and schools. The change of leadership in the education department should be ac- companied by another change, this one long overdue. For years, the de- partment has been located in nameless poinTDKGe on Lake Wentworth A Totally New Concept In Lakefront Year-Round Living Luxurious. Quietly Understated Write/Call; Dept. 14, Box 420 Wolfeboro, NH 03894 (603) 569-5398 Another line Acorn Struaures Community buildings, while the name of one of Brown's most noted educators has been used on a building housing the English department. The name of Horace Mann, father of the public school movement in America, is most properly associated with education. I urge that the building now housing the education department be named Horace Mann House, so that Brown's Horace be compromised no longer. What better way to welcome Ted Sizer and correct a historical oversight! PETER A MACKIE '59 Lexington, Mass. Nine years ago, the building housing the Department oj Education was named Meik- lejohn House in honor oj the late former Brown dean and Amherst College president, Alexander Meiklejohn. — Editor An alcoholics privacy Editor: The article on the exhibit of "art" created by alct)holics' children (April) is an excellent example of how the current conception of alcoholism as an illness is apt to be used as a ra- tionale for inyading the pri\ acy of people who drink to (what others con- sider) excess, and of such people's families. Would you like to have your chil- dren encouraged to make drawings for public display of your personal habits? How many people's private lives could withstand such scrutiny? Why should anyone's be expected to? Alcoholism therapist Liepman even thinks families should be re- quired to participate in alcoholism therapy. Doesn't he realize that not everyone — not eyen everyone who drinks to excess or lives with someone who does — wants to bear his innermost soul to a hired stranger? Your writer cites such criminal acts as incest and child abuse as conse- quences of alcoholism. What percent- age of alcoholics have been proven to be incestuous or child abusers? Smear- ing alcoholics as a group with such la- bels is the kind of slander whose unacceptability would be obvious if it were directed at a racial or religious minority instead of at a 'safe " target like alcoholics. 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This was sixteen years ago when William Meiklejohn, known to all simply as "Billy," began working in the Blue Room. 1 oday the prices are somewhat steeper, and the sandwiches are pre- made and wrapped in plastic. But the snack bar in Faunce House continues to be a haven for Brown students, faculty, and administrators, where long-time employees such as Meiklejohn and Howard Hughes remember faces year after year. "1 know a lot of the names," Meik- lejohn says, and he also knows what many of them usually order. "Professor [Jacob] Ncusner has a mediimi Tab with a lemon and three ice cubes. [Theatre Arts Technical Director] John Lucas always has a large coffee. When he has a meeting to go to. Professor [John] Shroeder orders two large cof- fees." A feeling of continuity, of belong- ing to a community, of being known as an individual face among the crowds ... these are the intangibles Faunce House has provided since it was built eighty years ago to serve as a center for stu- dent activities. "This is the best building of its kind possessed by any college in the country," claimed President W. H. P. Faunce at the dedication of the stu- dent union, then named Rockefeller Hall after the famous aliminus who funded its construction. Bin while the building retains its congeniality, it has suffered steady physical deterioration over the years despite periodic cosmetic improvements. Moreover, sheer num- bers — almost every student at Brown passes through Faunce House once a day to check his or her mailbox, at the very least — have made the venerable center a crowded place indeed. "We serve up to 1,300 people a day in the Blue Room," says Supervisor Norman Turner, "although it was built to accommodate 800 a day." And How- ard Hughes (known to many as "Howie"), who has worked in the Blue Room for twenty-four years, notes, "We used to open at 8 a.m. But people are getting up earlier, and now we open at 7." Other components of Faunce House also are no longer adequate to accommodate their original purposes. Sixty student organizations share meeting-rooms and offices, but many other requests for such space must be turned down each year. A 1978 reno- vation of the "Airport Lounge," which spans the center of Faunce House from the Green to Waterman Street, and last year's opening of the elegant Leung Gallery on the second floor have opened more space for "hanging out" and for formal student gatherings. Director of Student Activities Da- vid Inman says his first reaction to Faunce House when he came to Brown eight years ago was "disbelief. This was supposed to be where students congre- gated ... but the corridors were dirty, the paint was peeling, the lighting was poor. It has been improving, slowly, but our real aim is to have a true student union or center, with adequate areas for recreation, storage, shops, eating, meeting, and just 'mellow space.' " For years nearly everyone at Brown has recognized that piecemeal improvements are not nearly enough to make Faunce House once again a true student center. Those sentiments were articulated on paper by the report of the Student Genter Gommittee several years ago, and the Leung (iallery was the first major project to follow. This year Brown will launch a At left in the architect's drawing of the Faunce House renovations are the restored West Lounge on the first level and a recreation area in the basement. The central space now occupied by Airport Lounge on the main level will become a snack bar, with a central staircase leading to a basement cafe. (The second and third floors of that section are occupied by the already-completed Leung Gallery.) Where the Blue Room currently serves cabinets and sandwiches, a large student office space will be created. A refurbished Post Office Lobby will remain in its current location, as will the theater lobby above it. At the lower right, below the theater (also slated for major improvements), the terrace outside the Post Office Lobby and the Underground Pub (far right) may eventually become a canopied, open-air dining area. Not shown in the drawing are external alterations that will add a wide staircase from the terrace outside what is now Airport Lounge down to the Green (Architect: Goody, Clancy and Associates). campaign to raise $3.4 million for a comprehensive overhaul of Faunce House, including a new look for the porch facing the green, an arcade of shops on the basement level, improve- ments to the theater, and the restora- tion of West Lounge (currently used as office space) to its original purpose as a place where students could read, talk, play cards, and just pass the time. "Faunce House — renovated, re- furbished, its space reallocated — will be the Student Center many have long urged Brown to consider," says Benja- min V. Lambert '60, chairman of the Committee on Faunce House, which will lead the fund-raising drive. The architect's plans under con- sideration call for the opening of Faunce House Terrace — that narrow patio outside Airport Lounge where students get head starts on their simi- mer tans — onto a broad sweep of stairs leading down to the Green. As the fund-raising brochure for the Faunce House project explains, "Access to the Terrace will be open and the entire facade of the building will have a more welcoming look." David Inman feels the space will be more useful, too. "When they enlarge the porch and bring the steps down, I can foresee having concerts there for people on the Green. You could even show films at night." Another dramatic change will be the relocation of the Blue Room into the space now occupied by the Airport Lounge, with an open staircase leading downstairs to a cafe featuring "leather banquettes, and a darker, cozier space for meals and entertainment." accord- ing to the brochure. As the architect's rendering indi- cates, much of Faunce House will be completely "new," albeit encased in an old and beloved shell. But the traditions will endure. Students will still be able to watch Bill Meiklejohn or Howard Hughes make a thick coffee cabinet (and explain to bewildered freshmen from everywhere outside Rhode Island that a cabinet has ice cream, a milk shake does not). They'll be able to pick up their mail from one of the 5,981 student mailboxes that mailroom su- pervisor Fred C. Yattaw and his staff stuff every day, and grab a quick hair- cut from barber Larry Picerno, a fifty-year Faunce House veteran. Soon, thanks to the renovations, students will be able to play pool and other games again, as well as shop at a student-rim convenience store in the basement Arcade, and play backgammon in the West Lounge. "Everyone who comes to Brown quickly understands the importance of Faunce House as the center of campus II life," says Dean of Student Life Eric Widmer. "With imaginative redeploy- ment of its spaces, Faunce House will again satisfy student needs and add immeasurably to the quality of life at Brown." A.D. Brown seeking $50 million in two years Last year, when Samuel Babbitt came to Brown as the new vice presi- dent for development, the University had just completed a phenomenally successful five-year capital campaign. That effort, the Campaign for Brown, raised $182 million in gifts and pledges, $24 million over the goal set in 1978. But Babbitt and his staff have tak- en only the briefest of breathers before moving ahead with a new fund-raising program. LInder the rubric "The New Priorities," the development office hopes to raise $50 million within two years for both endowment and current funds, to be divided among eight areas of need and a ninth category, the Brown Amiual Fund (formerly known as the Brown Fund). "This is not a campaign," explains Babbitt. "For one thing, it's very difficult to sustain that level of volun- teer work beyond the five years just completed. Also, we have a number of pledges outstanding from the Cam- paign, and we want to give people time to pay those. But we also know there are lots of people out there whom we haven't approached yet. This is an ef- fort to educate our constituency, to say, 'Among all the things Brown needs, here are the most important right now.' " The newly renamed Brown Annu- al Fund has been expanded to include gifts for both current unrestricted funds (as in the past) and current funds for financial aid. "The University uses a tremendous amount of its unrestricted curient funds for financial aid anyway," Babbitt says. "We hope to dramatize the need for those funds. For example, Princeton covers most of its financial- aid budget simply from endowment income. Brown's endowment income covers only some 20 percent of the financial-aid budget; the rest comes from unrestricted funds." The Brown Annual Fund's two-year goal is $1 1.5 million. In addition to the annual fund, target areas of the new fund-raising program, and the goals in millions, are: Academic and other educational 12 -fm.*- ^H^^^^^^^^H 111 TVil ■ 1 " ^^^ .^^H my ^jfl m ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^1 t£^ -y* t'cdf' iwhSfctlA '^ J^K^ i^'- '--Y^fl Brown's fund-raising leadership: Corporation Committee on Development chairman Melvin Swig '39 (left) and Vice President Samuel Babbitt. programs ($9.25). This category in- cludes endowed faculty chairs, curricu- lar enhancement, academic advising, and existing challenge grants from foundations. Biology and medicine ($3.5). The major needs are endowment for scien- tific programs (as a hedge against ero- sion of federal funding) and for schol- arship aid. Computers in higher education ($3.5). Funds will enable Brown to con- tinue integrating computers into the academic environment. Priorities in- clude developing fully and testing the concept of the "Scholar's Workstation." Facilities ($6.5). Renovations are planned for P'aimce House, Rogers Hall, and other classroom areas. There also will be initial planning for a new facility for computing activities. International Studies ($3.0). The University hopes to add faculty, espe- cially in the areas of LI. S. -Soviet rela- tions and cross-cultural studies. En- dowment in this area also will support library acquisitions and academic pro- grams. Library ($4.0). Endowment is needed for acquisitions and the care of special collections. The library also seeks to develop an integrated music library and to continue the computeri- zation of many .services. Scholarship endowment ($5.0). Under the direction of the Chancellor, funds will be raised for named, en- dowed scholarships, to be known as "National Scholarships," open to all Brown students at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The Sports Foundation ($3.5). This year-old foundation is a means of raising endowment for all sports activi- ties, with a long-range objective of freeing unrestricted funds currently allocated to sports. The development staff has divided the U.S. into nine geographic regions, Babbitt says, with a staff member as- signed to each. "We've also reorganized our volunteers," he adds. "We have a new chairman, a chairman for each project in the two-year program, and a chairman for each region." The new chairinan of the Corporation's Com- mittee on Development, succeeding Henry D. Sharpe, Jr. '45, is Melvin M. Swig '39, of San Francisco. The ap- pointment of a chairman from the West Coast is a first for Brown, and Babbitt thinks it is significant: "Brown is reach- ing across the country now. We have a lot of activity on the West Coast." The University maintains a development office in San Francisco. The two-year giving program will get under way this fall with several kick-off events to be announced. Bab- bitt and his staff, he says, will above all be emphasizing the University's need for endowment. "It's more fun, of course, to give money for current needs," he remarks, "and to see the results immediately. But from an insti- tutional point of view, endowment is what we need." Babbitt admits he is looking into the future, past the two-year, $50-mil- lion program, to bigger things. "Another major campaign," he says, "is very probable after we've finished these projects." A.D. WBRU: A living and earning broadcasting workshop Sasha Salama "85, the news direc- tor of WBRU-FM, is not afraid to bring out her big guns when she's in- terviewing big names. "Mr. Lehrer," she poHtely asks James Lehrer, co-an- chor of the MacNeil/Lehrer Report, "why do you think Americans hate the news media?" Or, while grilhng Jody Powell, President Jimmy Carter's press secretary, she inquires gently, "Mr. Powell, did you lie to reporters [during the Iranian hostage crisis]? " Salama's direct approach is also responsible for new directions for BRU's news programming. She is re- vamping their Sunday Viewpoint show, and has mapped out ways for BRU to be accepted as a legitimate Journalistic concern in Rhode Island. "In the Providence 'journalistic world,' we are looked at as the Kids on the Hill," Salama admits. "But I think we can change that. We're gaining credibility with visibility. We get pecjple out to press conferences, we were at Greenhouse Compact headquarters the night it was voted on, we sent people to both political conventions this summer. Sasha Salama at the WBRU microphone. I've been meeting with community leaders to see how I can draw people in to the station to be interviewed." WBRU is the country's oldest stu- dent-run, student-operated radio sta- tion. "We're financially independent from Brown," explains Salama. "We sink or swim based on our sales. We're unique — a commercial enterprise run by college students. We draw a line between being a commercial and an educational workshop." For students like Salama, who choose to work at the station, there are trade-offs. "It's difficult to balance courses, the station, and friends," she says. "Sometimes 1 have so many dif- ferent faces I feel like Sybil. I put in twenty-five to thirty hours a week at BRU, and the weeks I am producing a segment for the Sunday Viewpoint show, it's more. Finals is the worst time for a radio station like this. It's when people realize they are students first." But as Salama points out, the work she is doing is like taking courses in broadcast Journalism. "We are dealing with people, producing pieces, doing shows on the air." And there are times when her work at the station dovetails with her coursework. For instance, her interview with Jody Powell was in part the result of the fact that she is a history concentrator. "I became fascinated with his book. The Other Side of the Story. I knew that new authors are willing to grant inter- views, so I got to him through his exe- cutive assistant at ABC [where Powell is a consultant]. I had read a lot of reviews of the book, and gathered in- formation on him. The first question I asked him was about the press's treat- ment of Franklin Roosevelt — how he was rarely pictured in his wheelchair, and handled with kid gloves. And how this treatment differed so radically from the press treatment of Carter." When she asked Powell what was the Carter administration's biggest problem, Powell responded: "The bias in Washington journalism toward mak- ing the news interesting, exciting, sometimes sensational, coupled with the principal shortcoming in Washington journalism. That is, the fear of punish- ment, of retribution, of what will happen to you if you yield to that temptation to make it interesting and exciting and in the process depart from the standards of accuracy and balance and fairness. What you have is an imbalance, and there is very little counterpressure to cause Washington journalists to worry about what will happen to them if they go off half-cocked or shoot from the 13 14 hip or jazz the tiling up beyond what the facts will support." And when she asked him if he had lied to reporters during the Iranian hostage crisis, he replied that he thinks there are rare occasions when a gov- ernment spokesman has "not only a right but an obligation to lie. The situ- ation was a direct question from a re- porter shortly before the launching of the Iranian rescue mission in which he asked, very directly, whether we were considering such a possibility." "Did you lie to the reporter?" Salama quer- ied. "It was my judgment at the time that to have attempted to evade that question or to have given a 'No com- ment." would have simply put up a red flag. That reporter and his whole Washington bureau would have been madly pursuing that story as soon as he could get to a telephone. [There was] a good chance that they would have stumbled upon information that would have jeopardized the security of the mission. So I lied, and I lied as effec- tively as I possibly could and it worked. I regret that the situation arose, but in a situation like that in which lives are potentially at stake, faced with the same or similar situation, I would do the same thing again." The Jody Powell interview was a featured piece on the Sunday Viewpoint show, a show undergoing a shift in emphasis. "It used to be a Sunday morning show, but now it's on at 10 p.m. By Sunday evening, people have read as much of the Sunday paper as they're going to read, and they are looking for a new viewpoint." The new viewpoint Salama and the rest of the BRU staff will be giving people is an emphasis on local issues, as well as Sa- lama's provocative interviews with the likes of Senator Claiborne Pell, Zbig- niew Brzezinski, and Walter Moving. She also plans to redesign the show to be more like a print magazine, with separate sections: sports, entertain- ment, and news, along with a featured interview, "This is a great year for working here," says Salama. "With the primaries and elections, and the Olympics, there's really a lot happening. We sent some- one to cover both conventions and are able to use CBS's satellite to send re- ports back to Providence. We're affiliated with both NBC and CBS, and I'm in touch with both their news di- rectors. We use both networks as an- other educational tool — they give us advice on format changes, we have ac- cess to their are hives, and they'll send us stuff over the phone. And it works the other way, too — for instance when [former mayor of Providence Vincent] Cianci was on trial, we would send them reports. If they get used, we get paid." In answer to Salama's question as to why the American public hates the media, James Lehrer responded, "People don't understand what the fimction [of the press] is. They do not understand why a newspaper reporter goes to Congress every day or goes to the White House every day and writes these stories ... To me this is the fault of the press itself. We've gotten arrogant through the years." A broadcast joiunalism laboratory like WBRU is an effective way for fu- ture journalists like Salama to learn their trade, and perhaps see their func- tion a bit more clearly. K.H. PEOPLE The Council of the American As- sociation for the Advancement of Sci- ence (AAAS) has elected three Brown professors as "fellows" of the Associa- tion. Fellows of the AAAS, the leading general scientific organization in the United States, are described as mem- bers "whose efforts on the behalf of the advancement of science or its applica- tions are scientifically or socially distin- guished." The new fellows are: Robert T. Beyer, professor of physics, an authority on acoustics, par- ticularly on the behavior of soimd un- der water and wave propagation in fluids. He has been an editor, transla- tor, and translation consultant for works in Russian and other languages and is currently chairman of the board of editors of the American Institute of Physics. Donald C. Jackson, professor of medical science, who came to Brown in 1973 from the University of Pennsyl- vania. Jackson is doing research on re- spiratory control, acid-base balance, and the regulation of ions by studying how fresh-water turtles and amphibians cope with the long-term oxygen depri- vation and changes in blood chemistry that accompany hibernation. Rosemary Pierrel Sorrentino '53 I'h.I)., professor of psychology, who served as dean of Pembroke College from I9fil until the merger of Brown and Pembroke in 1971. Sorrentino conducts auditory research with chin- chillas, which are able to hear almost the same range of sounds as himians. In collaboration with Peter Heywood, Sorrentino is ciurently working on the behavioral and physiological conse- quences of exposure to loud noise. Robert A. Reichley, vice president for University relations, was honored by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) with a special award during CASE's annual assembly. Reichley, who was also named chairman-elect designate, was cited for his outstanding leadership. "Brown Universitv has had an immatched re- cord of achievement over the past ten years, winning more than 150 national awards from CASE," said CASE Presi- dent James L. Fisher when he an- nounced the surprise award. He also cited Reichley 's contributions to Amer- ican education as chairman of National Higher Education Week and as a CASE trustee. CASE Vice President Charles M. Helmken said the award is an ex- ceptional one, created especially to rec- ognize Reichley 's achievements. "No other person in our institution has such a remarkable record," he said. Richard D. Taylor is the new exe- cutive director of the Brown University Sports Foundation, succeeding Scott Thomson '71. Ihe Sports Foundation was estab- lished last year to serve as the central fund-raising organization for athletics at the University. Its goal is to create an endowment to finance Brown's athletic programs, thus enabling funds usually spent on athletics to be freed to address other areas of great need, such as financial aid, faculty salaries, and pro- gram development. In announcing Taylor's appoint- ment, Samuel Babbitt, vice president for development, said, "Brown is for- tinialc to have a man of Dick's experi- ence and quality joining its develop- ment staff" Prior to his appointment at Brown, Taylor was a consultant lor development, marketing, and promo- tions with Ketchum, Inc., a Pittsburgh- based consulting firm. He has taught and coached at several .secondary schools and colleges and was an assis- tant football coach at Duke University from 1978-79. SPORTS B\ Peter Mandel A 'patchwork' crew wins big at Henley A Brown crew drawn troni se\eral varsity boats (with a ireshman cox- swain) defeated Temple Universilv in the finals of the Henlcv Regatta in England on |ul\ 1 to taplure the La- dies' C^halienge Plate (see page 37). Il became the sixth Amerit an crew in nine years to win the Plate, although the British Olsnipic crew sa\ed lace h)i the host country by defeating the Univeisi- t\ of Washington in the main e\ent — the Grand Challenge Caip. Last spring, the Bruin varsitv finished with a perfect .")-() record dur- ing the regular season and upset Na\y at the Eastern Sprints. After the crew placed a disappoinling sixth at the IRA Regatta, most of the oarsmen went home for the summer. Not Gar^ Ma\- nard '85, Scott Armstrong '86, or V'al- erio Eerme '84, however. Thev joined Ted Shields '84, Sean Duffy '84, Steve Kemper '86, and Torrey Eoster '84 ol the Bruin second varsitv (Eastern Sprints and IRA champions); Eru Almeida '84 of the third varsitv; and Jon Scherl, freshmen crew coxswain, to train for the Henlev Roy.il Regatta. Since Varsity Coaih Steve C.ladslone uas busy at the U.S. Olvnipic I rials in Ithaca, N.N'., Ereshnian Coach Will Scoggins worked with the patclusoik crew on the Seekonk. Lhrseeded Temple lame from behind to defeat London Lniversilv in the semilnials, while the Bruins were defeating Princeton In a length. In the hard-iought hnal, lemple tried to come from behind once again, h.iltw.iv ihrough the race. Ehe Philadelplii.ms rowed lo vsithin a half-length of Brown, but lliev (ouldn't get any closer and endefl up a length back of the steady Bruin bo.it. .After the race, Scoggins remarked; "We would like to thank Princeton's coach, (antis |ordan, lor warning us (about Temple). He told us thev le.illv cranked it up in the middle of the race." Eor his efforts. Scoggins was tossed inio the 1 lumus along with cox- j swain Scheil — an honor that perhaps onlv a victorious crew coach can lullv appreci.it e. 'Out of 1,000 names, which do we recruit?' Alumm have long assisted varsity coaches in the recruiting of student- athletes. Their interest in the process, in fact, h.is kept telephones ringing in the footlxill office since Coach |ohii Rosenberg arrived last winter. 1 he most commonlv-asked c|uestion is a simple one: "How can I help? " There are some new answers to that cjld cjuestion, Rosenberg says, stemming both from changes in NC.fXA rules pertaining to recruiting and from his own go.ils for Brown's foottaall pro- gram. " Ti.iditionallv . .ilumm .iltention has been focused on persuading talent- ed student-athletes to attend Brown, " Rosenberg explains. "After that, iden- tification of prospects and summer-job placement have been the most common areas of assistance. Rarely have alumni, as laymen, become involved in the eval- uutmn of high school athletes' aliililies." Rosenfjerg hopes to "reverse all that." The new NC.'\.'\ rules, he notes, prohibit face-to-face contact between alunnii and prospective applicants and thus severely limit the traditional role of alumni in recruiting. While tfie leg- islation was aimed at abuses in big-time football prcjgrams, it also restricts alumni of all NC^.A.A-affiliated colleges and universities to contacting students over the telephcjne .ind. in Brown's case, via tlic Nation.il .■\lumiii Schools Program (NASP). "This puts the burden of pel sua- sion on the coaches, " Rosenberg says, "and cjuite frankly, I would rather have it that way, because lli.it is .i strength of our staff. We can do a better job, 1 feel, of convincing a prospect than can coaches at other schools." Identification of prospects and ol summer jobs fcjr athletes will remain .i high priority for alumni volunteers, Rosenberg savs. 'We have already gathered more than I, ()()() names of lop student-athletes who will be high-school seniors this fall. Alumni should under- st.ind that we need names of such stu- dents in the spring of a boy's junior year. We're inteieslecf in hearing liom alumni who wcjuld participate in an org.mi/ed system ol identification through telephone cont.ict vMlh high school co.iches m their area, according to procedures we will provide. ".Also, like It or not, providing a matriciil.iling student-athlete with a good summer job has become part of recruiting Between the v.irsitv and inccjiiiing treshmeii, we have well over 100 summei-job situations to deal with each year, all over the country. " The most vital role Rosenberg foresees for alumni volunteers, how- ever, is that of evalu.itois. "We w.ml alumni to do something new, " he s.ivs. "We want them to become football scouts. We have plenty of leads; we have a fine product and coaches skilled in recruiting. The big cjuesiion is, out of those 1. 000 names, which do we go af- ter?' To guide alumni in the evaluation process. Rosenberg and his staff have compiled a manual and a simplified scouting form. "\'ou don't have to have a football background to do this," the coach insists. "I can go to .i high school play, or listen to a band or a choral group, and distinguish the v.iriances in talent. .\nd believe me, I have no real ability or background in any of those areas. We feel an alumnus can watch a football game or practice and — know- ing what to look for — evaluate talent levels in .i high school plaver. "We won't necessarilv make a deci- sion based on an alumiius's scouting report alone,"' Rosenberg adds. "But the moie data we have on a prospect, the better. And such input can help us determine whom to investigate fur- ther."" |ohn Townsend. defensive line coach and coordinator of recruiting lor the fi)otb.ill program, will be iiiobili/ing and oigani/.ing alumni volunteers. Rosenberg suggests that .ilumni wriU' to Townsend at Box 1933, Brown I'ni- versity 02912, if thev want to help, in- dicating in their letter what area or areas (identification, evaluation, per- suasion, and/or summer jobs) thev pre- fei to participate in. '"M.ivlje someciav," Rosenberg savs, addressing alumni volunteers. "Brown will win a football game because of a kev pl.ivei \i)u helped to recruit. " AD. 15 Homecoming away from home! '^'^Z^^SZos' Homecoming away from home! Brown on the Road Whether you make it back to Brown for Homecoming or not, be sure to keep your calendar open for the popular Brown on the Road Program, Brown on the Road offers alumni, students and friends of Brown an entire day's worth of educational and social activities at Brown away football games, A typical Saturday begins on an educational note with a morning lecture by a Brown professor. The social side of the day includes a tailgate party before the game and a post-game reception where alumni have a chance to discuss the highlights of the day with new acquaintances and old friends. This fall, programs will be held at Princeton on Oct, 6, Cornell on Oct, 20, Harvard on Nov, 3 and Columbia on Nov, 17, 16 Homecoming '84 ... Fourth Dimension Symposium Plan now to meet your classmates at an off-year reunion the weekend of October 12 when Brown takes on Penn for Homecoming The weekend begins Friday with the opening of a symposium on "Flatland" and the Fourth Dimension led by Professor Thomas F. Banchoff, The symposium will include experts in science fiction, science and art with a special focus on the early science fiction novel "Flatland" by Edwin Abbott Abbott The fourth dimension will be explored in displays, films and lectures. Planned for Homecoming are the traditional buffet, pre-game lunch and post-game reception. Besides The Game, athletic activities over the weekend range from women's tennis to varsity water polo. Also planned for the weekend is an Alumni Recognition Event to honor those alumni who have helped make Brown what it is today with a special presentation to an alumnus recognizing the recipient's contributions to society in general- Just return the form and we'll place you on our summer mailing list for a reservation form and a brochure describing the activities at each site when they become available Brown on the Road Homecoming '84 Please send me information on: Brown on the Road Homecoming '84 Fourth Dimension Symposium Name Class Address Phone Return this form to Alumni Relations, Box 1859, Brown University, Providence, Rl 02912 For information call: 401 863-3307, God, I hope I fTcl it, I liojic 1 jret il. I really need this job. Please, God, I need this job. r\e got to get this job." The lights are coming up on a stage filled with dancers. Some are practicing a (ombination, to a shouted "Step, kick, step, turn," and others are standing on the side waiting llieir turn to take cen- ter stage. This is an audition. The dancers' faces appeal calm and self- possessed as they put themselves thiough their paces, but the song they are singing lets us peek behind the cool veneer. "God, I hope I get it. fve got to get this job." The dancers leap, bend, stretch, and reach — reaching for some- There Are No People Like (Brotim) Show People By Katherine Hinds Photographs by John Foraste thing almost within their grasp. A job. Anyone familiar with the longest- running musical on Broadway, A CJiorm Line, will recognize these lyrics and these dancers from the opening num- ber in the show. And anyone who is employed in "the business," the busi- ness of show business, w ill recognize these emotions as those that dog them throughout their careers. Working in show business is fundamentally differ- ent from working in a bank, an insur- ance company, a law office, a university, or a hospital. It requires talent, persis- tence, passion, energy, and ego. The rewards don't usually come easily, and thev are never guaranteed. Yet there are manv Brown aliunni who are hap- pily plugging away at careers in the theater thai keep them busy the year around — and several of them are at the top of their field. There is a long, rich history of theater at Brown, but for most of this century theater has been merely an extra-curricular activity on campus — an extra-curricular activity that many stu- dents spent more time with than their curricular activities. "We reallv have an exceptionally strong track record," says Don Wil- meth, chairman of the theatre arts department. "A lot of these top people went through here long before there was an established program. I'm amazed these people came out of here. The poor students weren't getting any guidance — I won't use the word 'tiain- ing,' because I don't like the word. We're not training, we're educating." When Wilmeth arrived at Brown in 1967, there were three courses offered in theater, under the auspices of a "very supportive" English department. "I came with the imderstanding that more courses would be added, " and soon "we started sneaking the jjrogram through the back door. We would get coinses approved bv the appropriate curricu- lum review committee, and before any- one knew it. Brown had let us develop into a decent academic program. [The program became a department in 1978.] Now we're pioneers. With the exception of Dartmouth, we've come farther than any of the other Ivy League schools in terms of developing an intense jirogram." Although Wilmeth believes that "theater is a terrific educational experi- ence for anyone going into any field, " he admits that there are few theater concentrators every year — "fifteen to twentv-five students [which is more than several other concentrations.] But there are more than 800 students en- rolled in our courses every year, and we could ha\e three to four limes that many if we had the staff. Frankly, we don't encourage people to concentrate in theatre arts. It's a tough career, a tough business, .^t one point we were actively discomaging people from do- ing il. One shouldn't do it unless one is totally sold on it. And I don't think the University should be encouraging it. Becoming an actor is not like becoming a doctor." James Barnhill has been teaching theatre arts at Brown since 1953, through many lean years. "What's kept me here? The students. And the fiee- dom to do whatever I wanted. There is an ambiance here that's continuously fostered — that it's okay to fail. By the simple act of creating, you don't fail, vou learn. As long as we can say that failing is okay, then we stimulate self- confidence and the desire to do more. Fhe students are here at a volatile time in their lives. The maturation process is erupting, and knowing when to get at the volcano is a dangerous business. But it's most exciting to find a creative person and show them how to thrash and claw and scratch — and then show them how to ap[)lv this to other areas. Theater is a good way of knowing one's stiengths and weaknesses." There are many Brown alumni who are "doing it," to use Barnhill's expression. There are the highly visible actors — Bess Armstrong '75, JoBeth 18 Williams 70. Kate Burton 79 {Alice in Wonderland. Dounesbun: The Musical); David Ciroh "61 ("General Hospital," "Rhoda"); Joe Bologna '56 {Blame It on Rio): and John Pleshette '64 ("Knots Landing '). And there are the actors doing well in regional theater: Amy van Nostrand '75 and Meianie Jones '74 at Trinity Repertory in Providence, Kate Young '71 in Pittsburgh, Kathy Morath "77 at the Guthrie and at the Good- speed in Kast Haddani, Connecticut. And there are the pecjple Barnhill and Wilmeth funily believe we will be hearing from: James Naughton '67 (Barnhill: "Everything is there, and one day someone will notice. What a beau- tiful voice he has. He did / Love My Wife on Broadway for a year, and when you do that, the voice is there. I remember after he did that musical, he played Marc Antony in Hartford one year. And mv god, his voice just kicked out over the audience"); George Morfogen '53, a character actor who is Just begin- ning to sinface after thirty years in the business; and "you'll be hearing from Woody Howard ['74] one of these days," says Barnhill. "He's made tre- mendous sacrifices; he's charming and got a gorgeous voice." And there are the people who Barnhill and Wilmeth think "could have done it," if they had pursued it with determination. "Bruce Margolius [ '70) is a Park Avenue lawyer who wanted to be a playwright. Page Burkholder ['74] is an emergency room doctor, working as a doctor to support her love of directing theater. Pennv Bienenfeld Rossiter ['72] is prominent with IBM — and she was a good actress. These people" says Wil- meth, "all gained something by working in theater at Brown: reasoning ability, discipline, a way of looking at things." Barnhill adds to the list of those who "could have done it. Patsy Pepper Posner ['65] — I always thought she would do it. but I've never heard from her. Peter Schoeffer ['70]. who played in Beckett's Endt^ame. is a Wall .Street banker. He was absolutely stunning. And I always thought John Kennedy ['83] could have done it. He was very charismatic on stage." The number of people who are making successful careers behind the scenes are as impressive as those mak- ing it on the marquee. Bob Borod '60 is one of Broadway's most successful stage managers. Elizabeth Diggs '61. a play- wright whrj has had several plays pro- duced in prominent regional theaters, is a "real talent," according to Barnhill. Will Mackenzie '60 is one of television's most prolific directors — look for his name on the credits for "Family Ties," "Newhart." "AfterMash," "Domestic Life." Richaid Foieman '59 is a seminal figure in contemporary theater, known internationallv for his writing and di- recting. The years of fighting to establish theater arts as a legitimate discipline have paid off for students wishing to studv theater as undergraduates. But it is clear, from the names mentioned above, and those profiled below, that Brown has had an astonishing lecord. "When I came to Brown," says Wil- meth. "I promised myself I would stay as long as the program seemed to be moving ahead. And the bottom line is that the facilities may not have been the best, nor the budget the biggest, but the students were great." And Barnhill adds, "I've hacl a very good trip at Brown because of all these people." Musical Director Robert Rogers '39: 1,800 Performances of A Chorus Line Ten minutes before showtime. and Bob Rogers is standing casually sipping from a papei cup of Dr. Pepper. He's about to go out and conduct the or- chestra for one of the most popular musicals in Broadway's history, yet he looks like he's dressed for an afternoon in the park with his kids — short-sleeved blue-checked shirt, chinos, running shoes. No tuxedo and tails? What about his post-performance bow? "I figme I must have conducted ChoriLs Line about 1,800 times over the past five years." he says as he leads a visitor into the orchestra pit. One glance at the pit explains Rogers's cas- ual dress. The pit is long, narrow, and totally covered over with a long piece of black velour. The audience can't see the orchestra, the orchestra can't see the dancers, and no one can see Bob Rog- ers, except the musicians he is about to conduct. Rogers calls out to his musicians, telling them that the understudv for Diana is on tonight and letting them know in which key they should ])lav "What I Did For Love." He settles in at his two keyboards (harpsichord and organ — "makes it more fun for itie if I can play, too"), and opens up the nine-year-old score for the musical. The lower right-hand corner of the foot-thick score is completelv worn away from the fingers that have turned its pages since 1975. "Fhis is Don Pip- pin's original score," explains Rogers. "He left it here when he quit in '79. But I'm taking it with me when I go." A green light gleams behind Rogers, there is some shuffling and settling in, and the show begins. The miisii for A Chorus Line never reallv stops — it's always theie behind dialogue, highlighting monologues, and lifting the dancers u[). And Rogers is there leading the musicians the whole time — jumping, cajoling, dancing, smiling encouragemeiu. Ihe only con- tact with the performeis up on stage is CHORUS LINE Bob Rogers in the orchestra pit of the Shubert Theater, where A Chorus Line is stitl running. via a twelve-iiicli, flickering black-.iiui- white television perched on a wall in front of Rogers. Five performances later, Rogers takes his score and leaves Chorus Line for the last time. It's a happy leave-tak- ing because it was Rogers's decision to move on. "The Broadway scene is very exciting." he admits, "but to me the realitv of it is verv different. It's a job. And it's a job for these musicians. .Some of them have been playing this score since the premiere of the show in 1975, and they ha\e yet to see the show. They couldn't really care." Rogers shakes his head in bafflement. "There are people in this orchestra who have been silting next to each other for nine years, and thev hate each other at times. Ihe flute player has accused the harpist of using her instriunent as a weapon! I trv to cool it down as much as possible — I have to be the go-between and it's more managerial than what I'm interested in. "Basically, if you're the musical conductor, nothing happens unless you make it happen — even the light cues depend on the pacing of the music. I've had run-ins with a musician who want- ed to pace himself. I was accused of nitpicking. Ihe producer listened to this guy's gripes, and then said, 'You know, in this show we have mirrors on the back of the stage for some of the numbers. If a smudge gets on the mir- ror and the stage manager wipes it off. that's not nitpicking, that's protecting ttie integritv of tlie show.' " And that's been Rogers's responsi- bility for the past six years. "If the show gets sloppy, if we start goohng around, the show loses that integrity. We have to keep it close to what it was the night it opened, and yet at the same time in- fuse it with energy. Basically it's an act- ing job. I have to jimip around and smile while I'm conducting. 1 try my best to pretend I'm enjoying what I'm doing." One of the difficulties Rogers has had with the show is the fact that the orchestra is playing to no one. "Maybe it would be different if I could see the audience. I miss being out in front, and 19 every member of this orchestra misses it in some subtle way." The music is miiced out to the audience for several reasons. The theater the show pre- miered in didn't lia\e enough room for the pit, so tlie decision was made to mike the music out. Rogers explains that the decision is also "tied in with the recoiding industrv. There is a philo.so- phv that the sound should be what the audience is used to. We could be miked in from New Jersey and it wouldn't make any difference. I really would ha\e appreciated ha\ing the cover tak- en off. "There are highs and lows of a long-running show," he continues. "The feelings of being trapped and stuck aren't great, but the show did al- low me to pav mv bills. One's sense of freedom is squashed. You can't take ofl and do other projects. Then you go back to thinking how lucky you are to be doing a long-ruiuiing show. The difference between this profession and others is that the main tiling with this is to keep it the same. And that's whs it's so tough. How can you keep something fresh while keeping it tiie same? Some- times I can daydream while I'm con- ducting. The most fmi is when there's a visitor to the pit. We all appreciate it — it gives us someone to play to." Rogers says his "creatixe needs are winning out. 1 need to move on. The closer 1 get to leaving, the more open my mind gets and I realize how closed it has been. It's going to be good to be free of Chorus Line. I'm not going to rush out and find another show." Rogers is looking forward to the opportimitx to do more ballet and to travel. He spent the better part of ten years conducting the ballet, mainh the Harkness, but the Joffrcy and Alvin Alley as well. His previous Broadway experience was as an associate director for a short-lived musical, 1600 Pennsyl- vania Avenue, "a real class operation by Leonard Bernstein and Alan Jay Ler- ner. It essentially tjpened and closed, but it gave me four months of work." Although his plans for his post- Chorus Line future aie not fully shaped, Rogers says, "I've alwavs worked, so I have no fear or trepidation about the future. This isn't an easy profession to survive in, though. You have to have a tremendous idenlifiiation with the the- ater, and as I get older I find I'm losing the desire to be invoked. Kspetially with Chorus Line becoming such a jiili. I'm really just a skilled laborer. I'm nol being rewarded for my creativity, bin I still feel the urge to create." Costume Designer David Toser '59: From dramas to Las Vegas extravaganzas David Toser's work space is sinrounded by rack after rack of plastic-bagged cos- tumes, hanging on rods like regiments of toy soldiers prepared for the next battle. Toser runs his hand along a row and says, "These are almost like children to me. You get to know them so well. We're all the time asking each other things like, 'Do you have a parlormaid outfit for someone 5'7"?' And of course we know right where to go to find that particular 'kid.' " Toser has been designing costumes for theater since his junior year at Brown. He spent a summer in summer stock, where he had been hired to do props. He ended up doing costumes when the costumer left. "I had never sewn in my life, but 1 was smart enough to recognize which end of the needle had an eye in it. I was terrifed, but more of not having a summer job at all. My parents are very business-oriented and when I announced I was going to do summer theater, they said 'Fine, as long as you can get paid for it.' So I was drafted to do a show design and I had a week to pull it off. At that point the old cliche that ignorance is bliss really paid off. I would just say to people, 'Oh, what does it matter, you're wearing this,' and hand them something. It was the only way the show was going to happen." loser designed shows his senior year at Brown ("I majored in art histo- r\ , but I took most of my courses at RISD," he admits sheepishly). He went to Parsons for a degree in fashion de- sign, but quit and went to Yale where he received his M.F.A. in costume de- "Costume design is the most diffi- cult of the three design areas, I think. Each can have their own problems, and sometimes they're almost insurmount- able. The costume designer has to be a juggler, cauglit between the director, actor, and his own point of view. I've witnessed some pretty juvenile scenes [when actors don't like their costumes]. lew people will kick the scenery if they don't like it, but tliev will think nothing of stomping on their (ostumes." Toser has worked on ten Broad- way shows, including the all-star pro- duction of Our Town, Does A Tiger Need a Neeklie? (which brought Al Pacino to prominence). Very Good Eddie, Going Up, Whoopee! (with John Lee Beatty '70 doing the set designs), and Little Johnny (ones. He debuted on Broadway in a big wav. "I designed the costumes for The Great White Hope, which had sixty-two performers in 315 outfits. Three days before Great White Hope opened, my first Broadway show, a Noel Coward review called Sweet Potato, opened ... sixty-two performers in 106 outfits." Toser's done a lot of regional the- ater as well as his Broadway shows. "I designed for the founding year of the American Conservatory Theater in Pittsburgh. We did fourteen plays in three-and-a-half months. I never slept, but it was enormously exciting. And I spent sixteen years with the Goodspeed Opera in Connecticut." According to )im Barnhill, Toser's costumes have made Goodspeed what it is today. "There are a lot of hidden things in costume design," according to Toser. "Shoes are the nightmare of all time. If someone doesn't like the shoes you have designed, they can immediately say 'They don't fit!' No two feet are alike. You can spend a week just trying to find shoes. Foundation garments and jewelry are part of what we do — both are parts of the design that are not immediately apparent. If it works the audience shouldn't notice it. No one should be thinking, 'Oh, what a won- derful bracelet she's wearing!' Or, 'Great cufflinks. Nice suspenders.' And there are always last-minute adjust- ments for shows, too. Someone will have gone on a crash diet, or someone else will have eaten 5,000 ice cream cones. Or the outfit doesn't work for the character, or suddenly they're do- ing something new. Or with hair and makeup on, the actor suddenly looks older tlian the costume, ^ears of expe- rience in the business will reduce the chances of something like this happen- ing. But part of the craft is to deal with the changes and not go berserk." The Ijusiness is not getting easier, something Toser attributes to the rising cost factor. "The supplies one truly needs and wants are nol being made anvmorc. And some of the costs are enormous. That dress you're wearing, f(jr instance [which cost f 15 at a dis- count house], would cost $800 to have made in one of the better houses. A man's suit could occasionally be bought for |'.)50, hul more likely $1,200. It leally puts a crimp in llie style of a low-budget production. We're forced to go lo the rack and comb through ami- ■:<.%7. ■ X iinii ^n' i L/.^ '•^^ David Toser in his Costume Depot at 1 9th are from an electronic space ballet created que sidles. 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Bolll I.K Is s.l\ ,1 lot .ibolll |olin 1(11 (I No( 111. III- "I iii.i)( 11 ed 111 philosoplu .11 Brown. r\e li.id kind ol .1 str.ing(.- hie. I 111. 11 1 led .1 IVmbiokei when I w.is imie- teeii." V\'li\' did \oii do lb. it- 1 don't know. I w.is \er\ (i.i/\. I pl.ned spoils lor lu(i \c.ns, then I lelt lot .1 si-niesu-i .111(1 ( ,mu b.K k Willi ,1 l.iiiiiK \('i\ lii- /.ii le " |ohn Kord Nooium is .1 \en Luge man, with .1 still lentei. riicie is a gon- tleness about him. soiiieliiing eomniou with l.uge men. It's there in tlie soil way lie talks and the almost childlike way he jumps liom subject t(j subject. "I grew up ill (ireenwuh, (ioii- Iie( IK lit \I\ d.id W.IS .1 deiil isi , ,111(1 we didn't li.ne mucli nione\ . I used to (til l.iwnsloi iii\ li ieiuls' d.ids. I w.is sol I ol so(i.ill\ dilleienl. I w.is sep. 11 .lie. But I .ilw.ns h.id iliis .iliilii\ lo eii|ii\ wluie I W.IS. I W.IS \ei\ o\(igr(iwii. I slopped growing when I w.is lliiit(,'eii — I w.is tins big. .\nd espeti.ilK with girls, this iii.ide me se|wr,ite. It hurt me in .1 (lie.i|i w.i\. iiol .1 deep w.i\. I |ust thoiighl, ' I liese ( Iik ks don'i know .' " Noon. Ill \i .lilted to pl.i\ b.isketb.ill. .111(1 he w,iiile(l to go to ,1 good si book Willi.ims W.IS Ills III si ( lioRe. "1 w.is .1 le.il |ei k when I went up loi iii\ In- tel \ lew . 1 woi ked oiil Willi the ( .ipl.iin ol then b.isketb.ill te.im, .md he sl,iil((l doing b.id things lo me." -So Noon. 111 puiK bed the gu\ out. which idiisidei .1- l)K t.irnished bis th.uKes ol being .id- mitled to Willi.ims. He ended up .11 Brown, where he pl.ned b.isk(.tli.ill. .\ltei .iK|imiug .1 l.imiK .iiid .1 degree, be W.IS loosed upon .111 iiiisuspe(img world "I tried to get .1 sti. tight |(ib, like in .i(l\eitismg or b.inking, but iii\ lie.iil w, isn't 111 It." Noon. in w.uited to nsiiU'. "I used lo lie lo in\ .icidelliK .id\isei .it Blown- I used lo gel eii.itu gi.ides. like two .\ s, .1 I), ,111(1 .111 nuomplete I would tell iii\ .kKisci iIi,iI I w.is up .ill night willing. It used to be .1 l.iiit.is\ ol mine, uiilmg. " .Some 111 ,\o(iii.in s li lends wile going lo ( ;.ii iiegii' I (■( h, so he dei i(l( d lb. It iniglil be the lliiiig lo do lor .1 21 John Ford Noonan (in his apartment on 43rd Street looking south in Manhattan) points to a picture of him with his Brown basketball teammates. couple of years. He got his M.A. in dramatic literature, and did some act- ing. The acting led to his intrigue with plavs. "I was always fascinated with how people got on and off the stage. Ilie whole geometry of a play got me." After (Carnegie 1 ech, he went to New York and acted for four months. Then he gave up acting and fiecame a Latin teacher on Long Island. It was while he was teaching Latin that he finally wrote his first play, The Year Bos- ton WoJi the Pennant. "It was stimningly good. I don't remember the experience of writing all my plavs, biu I remember this plav real vividly. It was like I knew something no one else knew, you know? What was amazing about it was that the sense of form was so evolved. If you read that play, it will be hard to believe that I'd never written a play before. It's clearly plotted, clearly worked out." Ihe play had taken Noonan nine months to write. He explains that he had always sensed that he had a gilt for something, but had never before known what it was. "I was kind of a goof about things. Some things, like basketball, came easily. But I found this thing, playwriting, and it was like 'wow.' I knew I had this gift, but I wasn't im- patient about finding out what it was. And I would have waited longer. Most people are impatient and laii't wait, so they end up doing what they don't love. " Noonan found an agent, who told him he didn't understand the play. "The play's about a famous pitcher who gets kidnapped. Ihe kidnappers chop off his glove arm, and the play is about his comeback. I told my agent that it wasn't his job to imdcrstand it, it was his job to send it out. He said no one was going to want to do the play, and I said that I bet everyone who reads it will want to do it. 1 was right. " Noonan's first play was produced at Lincoln Center, starring Roy Scheid- er. A big debut for the big man. Then he settled into the regular routine of a new playwright — writing plays and watching them be performed in store- front theaters. Once he liad discovered what his "gift " was, Noonan cranked out many award-wiiming plays, including his best-known play, A Coupla While Chicks Silting Around Talking, a long-running off-Broadway play starring Susan Sar- andon and Eileen Brennan. In the early seventies, Joseph Papp produced the following at his Public I heatre: Older People (1972), a Drama Desk Award winner. Rainbows Are For Sale (1973), Where Do We Go From Here? (1974). and Gelling Through the Nighl (1976). His plays, particularly White Chicks, for which he sold the movie rights, made a lot of money for Noonan. And the money got him into a lot of trouble with drugs atid alcohol. "I'm chemically very manic any- way, " Noonan says. "Lverything goes fast for me. When I spend the morning writing, it's like I've had two martinis." Three years ago he checked himself into a rehabilitation hospital, drying out and straightening up his life. The doc- tors told him his chances of keeping straight were 150:1. Noonan's freelance lifestyle is working against him. His experiences in the hospital were the basis of a play called Some Men i\'eed Help, which starred Treat Williams and Phil Bosco. He is curiently working on a play. All She Cares About Are the Yankees, about an agoraphobic. He's also writing for television — several epi- sodes of "St. Elsewhere," and a new comedy show for CBS, "Comedy Zone." "Broadway today is what it's always been. You can go five years and there won't be a play about American life. If you're a real writer, the truth is that there is no demand for plays. People say they want good plays, but that is bull. If there's not some commercial angle — something exotic, a star, some- thing prurient — there's no one willing to produce. I'm not deluded into thinking people want good plays. If I were, it would be harcl. But I'm accept- ing." Lighting Designer Pat Collins '54: 'Lighting has emotional value' Pat C^ollins has been having a love affair with light since she fust got involved with Sock and Buskin at Brown. "I just knew lighting was it for me. It's so emotional and pietly and ultimately satisfying. With lighting you are con- trolling yoiu' own experience, shaping it somehow. It was clear to me that lighting was what I wanted to do. And when you hit it, you hit it. It never oc- curs to anyone who falls in love with an idea and piusues it wholeheartedly that they could do anything else." There are so many other things demanding an audience's attention diu ing a play that the impact of the light may not elicit a conscious re- spon.se. Light plays on the subconscious like backgroimd music — the light is there, dancing on the stage, describing, highlighting, nniting emotion. "Light- ing has emotional value, but I can't re- ally tell you what it is. " admits Collins. "It's ineffable. Bui |X'oplc do react to light." Collins describes her job as a "descriptive art. I examine a .script and react to it emotionally, then decide what the emotional atmosphere is. I look at the set designs, and if the set designer is Pat Collins aims and focuses lights in Central Park's Delacorte Theater for a production of The Golem. good, the sets will tell me where the director is going with a piece. The sets should give me the director's architec- ture, his physical space. And the archi- tecture of what the director and set designer do is revealed by the light. 1 lay my work over the set designer's ground plan, and describe things I need to describe." Curiously, most of the best lighting designers are women. Pat Collins is considered one of the best, and she learned from jean Rosenthal, of whom Collins says simply, "She literally made the craft what it is today. What is it that makes a great lighting designer? I sup- pose the capacity to perceive on all lev- els. The ability to synthesize informa- tion. It's why some people write poetry; they're overwhelmed by their percep- tions. If you are truly observant, vou have to look hard at something to try to discover what it i.\. If a painter doesn't look hard at the rose he is painting, that lose will look dead on the canvas. He has to capture its essence. It's sort of like Zen — you have to make yourself one with whatever it is you're trying to describe. You have to have great re- spect for the object; I have to respect what the plawvright has done. I have to get into a script to imderstand it. The greater any artist is, the greater the detail, and the more important the de- tail. "Ultimatelv this is a very satisfying business. It's like reading ... it's a way of forming your perceptions. And the more vou know, the more vou can help describe what it is the playwright and actors are doing." Although Collins "had an instant attraction to light" in theater at Brown, she came to college thinking she would end up in medical school. "Fortunately I had the sense to know that I should study the liberal arts. I ended up study- ing Spanish with a truly great teacher, Juan Lopez-Morillas. He enlightened minds. Brown gave me the perfect broad-based classical education, which is good for what I do, because visual images explode out of literary images." After she graduated from Brown, Collins went to Yale for a year, then began working with Jean Rosenthal. Collins has been in the business for thirty years, and says, "At this point in my career I know too much. It's like marriage. The love is still there, but some of the excitement is gone." Some of the thrill of what she does may be gone, but Collins's voice still warms when she discusses the creative excitement that comes from collabora- tion. "Theater is a montage art form. and there is an extraordinary interplay of personalities. When it works, when it's at its best, I can suggest something to the director about his directing, and he can say something to me about a lighting problem. In the best of the collaborative piocess, each of us can discover something out of our realm and add it to the production." Collins is blissfully oblivious to the critics' response to her work. "I don't really care about it. I know what I think of everything I've done, and I don't bloody well care what someone else thinks. This is really not an affectation on my part. I don't even read criticism. Your life is about pursuing the ques- tions you are asking, not the questions that others are. It's not important what they think. And my work is so ephem- eral. It's gone when the lights go out." 23 Set Designer John Lee Beatty '70: You re only as good as the script'' When John Lee Beatty was sitting in the audience at the Tony Awards show of 1980, he had an intuition that the Tony for set design had his name on it. Then he got scared and thought maybe his intuition was wrong. "But when I saw that Eve Arden was presenting the award, I thought, "Oh, this is easy. Miss Brooks wouldn't lei me down. I grew up with her!" " Growing up is a concept Beatty laces throughout a conversation about his work. Perhaps not surprisingly, it was the ultimate musical about growing up, Peter Pan, that got him hooked on theater. He and his sister would put on their own productions of Peter Pan for years after seeing it, and Beatty says today that "it was very potent material. Although I worry sometimes that it encouraged me not to grow up. And In July, John Lee Beatty and his assistants erect a set for a production of the Berkshire Theater Festival in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. 24 this is llie perfect profession for not growing up and accepting icsponsibili- ties." A shy redhead witli an easy laugh, Beatty grew up as a "faculty brat" — the son of a dean at Pomona College. "Oddly enough, being a faculty brat has affected my designing. I don't think of designing as an especially intellectual acti\il\. but certainly it's not non-intel- lectual. Vou haye to understand litera- tine and plavs and civilization. I find I'm attracted more to intellectual thea- ter than anything else. Although I come across as something ot an airhead most of the time, I still go for the content moie than the Hash. Eyen with non- sense I feel 1 have to have a conceptual understanding of what's going on or I feel lost. So sometimes 1 don't do so well in the trash department, and sometimes it's oka\. " When he got to Brown (which he chose because "it's small as Ivy League colleges go, it was coed, and not over- whelmed by frats. I was so horrified by the stories my dad told us about frats"), Beatty began acting his freshman year. "I thought design was so wonderful that they wouldn't let an underclassman do it. I was so shy I would never speak up." \'e{ this shy ficshman had nerve enough to write a Browiibiokers play that same year. "I was totally in Cloud Cuckooland. I didn't know enough to be scared. " Beatty's designs on design weren't kept secret long. Soon he was designing costumes, sets, posters, everything. When he went to Yale after Brown, he designed costumes as well as scenery, hut left the costumes when he moved to New \'ork. "1 enjoN working with the cai penters and the scenei y. With cos- tumes you always have to buy under- wear or shoes, or deal with some actress who feels overweight, or is overweight. It's crazy. What I do is crazy, but it's inanimate. 1 can hammer sets into sub- mission, and 1 don't enjo\ doing that with people. " Beatty hit the New N'ork pavement, and he was off and running. There may be no such animal as the overnight success, but Beatt) comes as close to defining the term as anyone. The list of plays he has designed in the last ten years is extensive and it includes: Tal- Icy's Folh (his Tony award-winner). Knock, Knock, The 5th of Jiih, Whoopee!, Ain'l Mishelicivin. Crimes, of the Heart, Monday After the Miracle, and, most re- cently, Bah\, and Ihe Miss Firecracker (juilest. "One thing I've learned from do- ing so much is just don't be too light about it," he explains. "Some directors come to you with the play and the specific approach they want for it to function. Some directors just call you up and you fmd out no one has made any decision at .ill, so you just giope around blindfolded. I read the script a couple of times. If it's anything speci- fically difficult, I'll research the topic. II it takes place on the front porch of a Midwestern farmhouse, I don't really have to go home and do much re- search. It's more important to find out the natuie of the play, the director's point of view, the author's point of view. And then you have to consider the practical aspects — how big a space the play is going to be in, how much money you have to spend, what kind of ciew you have to build it. "In the best ciicumstances, you cant tell the play from the scenery: It all melds together. One of my most successful pla\ s was Talley's Folly, where the scenery and the play were so inter- twined that they are the same thing. To me that's the most rewarding kind of experience, where it's all of a piece and hopefully wonderful. Of course, some- times it's all of a piece and it's terrible. You're only as good as the script. I'm especially sensitive to literary nuance, and I'm totally capable of following a play right down the drain." Being a popular and prolific set designer has its achantages and draw- fsacks. "The problem is that when I'm in a good mood, I accept jobs, and if I'm in a bad mood I resist them. Right now I'm doing five shows at once be- cause I was in a good mood one day. If I only live through these five shows I will never design again! On the other hand, if you do one show at a time you invest so much into it. Every nail and every doorknob become so important that you can't see straight. And if the show is a flop you're depressed for months after. "I'm at a point in my career where I'm no longer the new boy in town who can do no wrong. Often the critics ate not kind," he says with a smile. And having been in the business doesn't seem to have lessened the sting of a bad review: "I want to die a thousand deaths. One of the worst things about this profession that I didn't anticipate was being reviewed in the newspapers. I'm not terribly keen on being criti- cized. I have a good sense of my own failings, but having them publicized so widely! And in the !\'eie York Times of all places. Often the critic has no idea what you had to put up with. I started not reading the reviews, yet still you know if they've been bad. The morning after if the phone rings, you know it was a hit or you got goocl reviews. If the phone doesn't ring ... you sit there alone. I've found leaving the country helps." He laughs. "No, really. After Baby opened, I went to Europe. Takes you out of the framework. A good cry helps. Drink- ing. Wasting money's a good one. " Working in the business for ten years has had its effects on Beatty. "I 25 Ellen Mareneck (right) pauses for a moment in the New York City theater district. 26 was hoping that we were going to be ladies and gentlemen of the theater — hke the Lunts. And it's not so. There's a lot ol rudcni'ss out there. 1 was shocked. 1 know unhappv things tan happen, but 1 was hoping we could all behave ourselves. All things considered there is a trass and whorish side to the theater that tan be alternately enjoyable and despitable. It's idealistic, but not terribly altruistic. It isn't the Peace Corps, vou know what I mean? I leel that a lot of intelligent people are spending a lot ol time on a lot ol silly things. On the other hand 1 think thea- ter is a periectly valid activity. I'm just not sure it contributes to society on the whole. "1 think I was too young for the suctess. It happened very fast and I was too innotent. 1 found the adjustment to it a lull-lime job. Maybe I'm too sensi- tive. One minute I was going lor some- one's coffee and the next minute some- one was going for mine. "But I'm not sorry, because 1 leel I can do what I want to do with mv lile now. I don't have to say, 'I could have been.' I have been, and it's a question ol what do I do now." Actress Ellen Mareneck '79: Coping with the in-between times Ellen Mareneck has a voice like honey: rich, thick, and sweetly duskv. When someone com- ments that it's a great voice for her business, she responds, "Oh, it just sounds like this because I spent the last week yelling at my dog," Mareneck frequently has time on her hands. .She's an actress-in-waiting, and the long, low periods of waiting are tompensated by the incredible highs of the successes she's had. .She looks younger than she is, but she has already made the decision not to reveal her age when she is up for a part. "Several times I've been asked my age in an audition, only to have some- one immediately sav, without letting me read, without even looking at me, 'Sorrv, vou're too old.' Certainlv I have no qualms about how old I am, but in this business, it's all your age, who you are, what you look like. I'm a different enough type, and what I have to oiler is different, and that will be my bless- ing. It's something that sets me apart. but it's also going to be harder for me to get jobs until I reath a tertain point where I'm known." She has a wide, marvelously elastic face that frequently scrunches up to emphasize points she's making. "I'm a young character actress. 1 tan do anv- thing from someone's little sister to the kook's best friend. I'm a little oil-beat. C^omedy is my thing." Comedy may be her thing, l)ul she got elassical training at Brown. She played Helena in Mtdsummcr Night's Dream, and Medea for a Production Workshop play. "I never tell anyone I played Medea, because it's such a joke. I was twenty at the time, and we made a videotape. We look like we were doing Romeo and Juliet. I was this yoinig girl screaming about my kids and stull. But it was really an incredible experiente. I love that play, that story, that Medea is a woman at odds with man's sotiety. I sort of relate to woman's plight of being in a man's world. I think r\e alwavs lelt that in my life. I'm not a gorgeous female or a sex svmbol, and women in theater tan be suth puppets. I've really been thinking a lot about this retently. Brought up in Lake Forest, Illinois, Marenetk is the youngest of five. Al- ways the littlest, she developed a grilty determination early on not to be out- done bv her siblings. "My father [Robert Marenetk "46] used to make a tape retording each New Year's Kve, asking each of us what were the best things about the past year. When I was five, I had spent the year learning how to read so that 1 could do it befoie my brothers had. And you can listen to that tape now, and it's coming up to mv tin n and you can hear these low jjants and earnest grunts as I try to choke out 'I ... love ... the ... horses!' I was just trying .v» hard. It just kills me." That kind of determination has biought Marenetk back to New York twite as she has tried to "make it" as an attress. She tame first right out of Brown, and "stood in line with hun- dreds of other people for auditions, and evei ylhing tame tumbling down." She worked at a tasting agentv lor a touple of years before returning to Brandeis for her M.A. Brandeis is in a league of drama schools, intluding Yale and Juilliard, that piodutes try-outs at the end of every academic year. These try-outs, the "leagues," "paid oil in spades" for her. "I did very well at the le.igues. It was like the start of somelhing that said, 'C;ive her a break.' " As a result ol the leagues, Marenetk got a good agent and a lot of phone tails from people who remembered her. Alter the exhilaration ol the leagues, Mareneck was back to reality. "There was nothing going on. I had no money and debts up die vvazoo. All last fall I would go to auditions, and got no callbacks. But I was still getting feed- back, so 1 hung in there. Then 1 got a reading for this plav. " "This play " was one of the entries in the N'oung Playwrights Testival, a series of plays written by adolescents, produced bv Joseph Papp al the Public Theater. "1 remember walking into the reading," savs Maienetk. "and 1 no- ticed that 1 would be reading with a guy named Tisher Stevens, who I had heard of. Now, vou tan see what was on my rois||;i|j' fWOlSEJ -^& w'^SISa'^A .HOISESOFX "-^S?K^^lF,^^^ ^^,^^^j >DfottTy Loudon [ion Poxton jray Whitehead Victor Linda SortDer Thorson NOSES OFF MchoelFrayn ,1 'SS&S-"*^ BROOKS ATKINSON THEATRE 256 WEST 47ln STREET I '^ ^, GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS .wMCHAELMSmrT f - iwMAWOeum iiy^^HKEVWnoOON >«.>6REG0irr MOSHEK s) GOLDEN THEATRE 4501 St Wast olBroadmy mind, because 1 was thinking 'Cireat, maybe this guy will be leally cute and 1 can date him!' If they only knew." Tlie play. Fixed Up. is about two teenagers who have been paired for prom night. According to Mareneck, several of the lines were right out of her life. As she did the reading with Fisher Stevens, something magic hap- pened. "Sometimes you can realh re- late to the person you're acting with. There are nights it's like jumping into a pool and swimming all these laps, and other nights it's like jumping in and sinking. While 1 was doing this reading, it felt like I was in a speeding car on a winding road, and I had no idea if I was going to make the next turn, but every time I did. It was almost as if part of me was sitting back and watching it happen. It was like all of my instincts were right there, " she snaps her hngers. "It gives me the chills just to talk about it. The energy was there, and Fisher was right with me. We were both just ..." she gropes for words. "Anyway, I remember walking off the stage in a daze. 1 had no idea what a big deal the Young Playwrights Festival is. People were walking up to me, and I was hearing, 'Wonderful work! Hi. I'm Jules Feiffer.' And, 'Good stuff. I'm Stephen Sondheim.' I almost passed out." Needless to say, Mareneck got the part. She also received special notice in the Neu' Yuik Times ("They ran my pic- ture! Twice!"); the Neiv Yorker ( — "the actors are Ellen Mareneck and Maic Epstein, and they are absolutely right"); and the Brown Alumni Monthly. "It was so odd to be told by Feiffer and Sondheim that you were wonder- ful, and to know that you were going to go home and that you didn't have enough money to do your laundry once you got there." Those are the highs and lows of Ellen Mareneck's life right now. She is waiting on table, and going to audi- tions, and scraping up enough money to do her laundry. "My dad used to say, and I never thought I would say it, that we're all here for a purpose. I certainly don't know if theater is my purpose, but it's the right thing for me now. " 27 No Ordinary Man By Anne Diffily Isi- 'U. ^^ 300,000 % ■. tWv tttrti^ TWkm< X MtrSSC ARRANGED J. A. CETZE, 1.KKII. T9J I'llKHT-.! - T^^ *^r ^.'f-h George R. Poulton, WE ARE COMING, FATHER ABRAHAM, 300,000 MORE. (Sheet Music, 1862) On July 1, 1862, Lincoln issued a call to the governors of the loyal states for 300,000 volunteers ... Response to Lincoln's call was disap- pointing. On August 4, he allowed Secre- tary of War Edwin M. Stanton to order the country's first draft. This meant that a stigma was attached to being drafted, for it implied that a man was not patri- otic enough to volunteer. ... The song We Are Coining, Father Abraham, became one of the most popular Union marching songs. 28 Eight score and fifteen years ago a boy was born in Ken- tucky. He was no oidinary boy, but one destined to be- come a legend among American presi- dents: Abraham Lincohi. Elected with only 39 percent of the vote, and sur- roimded by controversy during his tenure, Lincoln nevertheless was made into a popular icon — first by his sup- porters while he was president, and after his assassination in 1865, by a nation ever hinigry for heroes. The icon has proved to be a durable one: Along with George Washington, Lin- coln continues to lead popularity polls of past presidents. In his classic 1939 movie, Mr. Smith Goes To Washiyiglnn. director Frank Capra used Lincoln as a symbol of in- tegrity in the midst of corruption. It is difficult to forget the image of the new young senator, played by James Stew- art, gazing awestruck at the statue in the IJncoln Memorial upon his arrival in the capital. Later in the same film Stewart returns to Lincoln's effigy, this time wracked by despair, to search the calm visage of "Honest Abe" for some assurance that all is not rotten in the highest chambers of the nation's gov- ernment. The sixteenth president's appeal was evident at Brown in early June, when nearly 200 people — scholars, members of organizations devoted to studying Lincoln, and interested indi- viduals — came to the University for a conference and an exhibition celebrat- ing the 1 75th anniversary of Lincoln's birth. The exhibition, "Lincoln and the American Political Tradition," was drawn from holdings of the John Hay Library, mostly from the McLellan Lincoln Collection, one of five major Lincoln resources in the country. It was funded in part by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, which also underwrote the printing of a catalogue and a handsome color poster featuring an oil portrait from the Collection. Mounted in the lobbies of the John Hay and Rockefeller Libraries, the exhibition was the work of Reader Ser- vices/Special Collections Librarian Jen- nifer Lee, who spent a year-and-a-half culling appropriate materials and re- searching their background. While guiding a visitor through the exhibi- tion, Lee confides that when she came to Brown nearly three years ago, "I knew almost nothing about Abraham Lincoln." Serving as curator of the col- lection has remedied that, and Lee can now discourse at length on Lincoln and the fascination his liie holds for so many of us. "Lincoln appeals to a variety of people," Lee notes. "His appeal has to do with the myth that grew up around him while he was alive and even more after his assassination. He was close to the people; he was the first president to hole! office hours." Adds Samuel A. Streit, assistant University librarian for special collections, "There is that 'Rags to White House' story, with Lincoln overcoming adversity. He had humility and a number of other warm, human qualities. Also, there is the tragedy fac- tor: the hardships of his youth, the death of his children, and finally his assassination." In the exhibition catalog, Mark E. Neely, Jr., director of the Warren Lincoln Library and Museum in Indiana, writes that Abraham Lincoln's high visibility during his life- time was due in part to being in the right place at the right time. "Life [in the mid-nineteenth century) was hard, and politics alone offered spectacle, ritual, and time-filling amusement. Lincoln was present at the creation of a political system so capable of generat- ing mass enthusiasm that it genuinely energized and democratized the American political system for the first time. "Politicians attained a popularity," Neely continues, "that only football players and rock-and-roll singers can aspire to today ... To read the newspa- pers of Lincoln's era is to believe that American history was one long political campaign, as incleed it nearly was." The conference, featuring noted scholars from aiound the country, was the first in a series of events that will span much of the coming academic year. Funded by the National Endow- ment for the Humanities, the birthday celebration will continue through Feb- ruary with three one-night programs. They are: October 13: In conjimction with a traveling exhibition, "The Lincoln Image: Abraham Lincoln and the Pop- ular Print," which will be on display in the John Hay Library, the thiee men who organized the exhibition and wrote the accompanying monolith will pres- ent a panel discussion on the evolution of the Lincoln image. "In 1860," Streit explains, "nobody knew what Abe Lin- coln looked like. By the time of his sec- ond iTiauguration, he was one of the best-known faces in America." November 17: John Hope Frank- lin, Jatnes B. Duke Professor of History at Duke University, will speak on the topic, "Lincoln's Evolving View of Freedom." One of the nation's preemi- nent h\Ack scholars, Franklin has stud- ied extensively the history of blacks during the Civil War period. February 9: Columnist and former presidential speechvvriter (under Rich- ard Nixon) William Safire, who is writ- ing a novel about Lincoln, will speak. Om- approach in this series is scholarly and academic, " says Streit, "but the topic is more universal, and we in- tend it to appeal to a broad audience." He notes that (iore Vidal's fictionalized life of Lincoln is contributing to a re- newal of nationwide interest in the man and his politics. "It's good to have Ab- raham Lincoln on the bestseller list," Streit quips, adding that Lincoln's per- sonal secretary, John Hay (Brown 1858), figures prominently in Vidal's novel. The McLellan Collection itself continues to grow. "Lm duty-bound to buy anything that comes out on Lin- coln," Lee says. "That means I'll have to buy the deluxe edition of the Vidal book, even if it costs f 75! There is a lot of rivalry among major collectors for unique items on Lincoln when they become available. One reason for doing this exhibition and symposium was to refocus attention on the Collection na- tionally. During the conference, it was amazing how many people from Illinois came to us and said, 'We had no idea there was a collection like this out here.' It's the best Lincoln resource in an aca- demic institution, and aside from the Library of Congress, the best on the East Coast." The Collection was begun by Charles Woodberrv McLellan in the 1880s; after his death in 1921, the col- lection was purchased from Charles's son, Hugh, by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (Brown 1897) and given to the Univer- sity in 1923. The Brown exhibition also draws from the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection and the John Hay Collection, both housed in the John Hay Library. It includes such diverse material as an early school assignment, sketches by the famous cartoonist Thomas Nast, vitri- olic pamphlets and caricatures warning whites of the horrors of "miscegena- tion" that Lincoln's anti-slavery policies would inflict upon the nation, and a newly-acquired copy of Walt Whitman's poem on Lincoln's death, "O Captain! My Captain!" written in the author's handwriting at the request of John Hay. There also are a number of letters in Lincoln's own handwriting, including one dated April 6, 1859, and addressed to "Messrs. Henry L. Pierce, & others, " of Boston, who had invited Lincoln to attend a lestival in honor of Thomas Jefferson's birthday. In sending his regrets, Lincoln wrote five pages on the importance of Jefferson's principles of E. Whitefield, LINCOLN AS A FLATBOATMAN ON THE MISSISSIP- PI RIVER. (Print, drawn and engraved on wood, 1860} When Lincoln was nine- teen years old and still living in Indiana, he made his first trip on a flat boat down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, hauling produce to New Orleans ... During the presidential campaign of 1860 much was made of Lincoln's humble beginnings ... This campaign broadside used the meta- phor of the Ship of State, depicting Lin- coln's second flatboat trip. personal rights. He also addressed the issue that was to split the nation dining his presidency: slavery. "...He who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave." Lincoln wrote. "Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God. can not long retain it." In its simple eloquence and conviction, the passage characterizes Abraham Lincoln, the man and the politician. On these pages the BAM repro- duces a few items from the exhibition, "Lincoln and the American Political Tradition." Captions are taken from the catalogue text written by Jennifer Lee. 29 \VI1\T \I1S('K(tEA'ATI0i\ IS! WHAT WK \\{K TO EXI'ECT Now tliat Mr. Lincoln is Re-olected. By L. SEAMAN. LL. D. -y. cZe^ ^D J L. Seaman, WHAT MISCEGENATION IS! AND WHAT WE ARE TO EXPECT NOW THAT MR. LINCOLN IS REELECTED. (Book, 1864) After Lin- coln's re-election L. Seaman published the anti-Republican party pamphlet shown here ... Both wrapper and title- page contain a cut of a black man and a white woman kissing. The mock-dedica- tion is to "Henry Ward Beecher ...for whom, as a Man, a Christian and an Abolitionist, we have a sincere, a pro- found and everlasting regard." Walt Whitman, O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! (Manuscript, 1887} The John Hay Library recently acquired this copy in Whitman's hand of his lament on the death of Abraham Lincoln. John Hay had requested a copy of the poem from Whitman, and on March 10, 1887, Whitman complied, charging Hay $2 for the service. Hay wrote back to Whitman, sending $30 in payment and saying, " You will pardon the liberty; I am not giving you anything like what the writing is worth to me, but trying to give a just compensation for the trouble of copying." The poem, the accompanying letter from Whitman to Hay, and an 1887 photo- graph of Whitman were donated to Brown last spring by Mrs. John Hay Whitney and her family, in honor of the late John Hay Whitney, grandson of John Hay. The John Hay Collection. 30 mrr »-. A/ « *»/«"-- Jhtf^fr HONEST ABE TAKING THEM ON THE HALF SHtLL.. Currier ^ Ives, HONEST ABE TAKING THEM ON THE HALF SHELL. (Print, 1860} In this "Political Oyster House," Lincoln tries to decide which of his op- ponents to swallow first, Douglas the "soft shell," or moderately pro-slavery candidate; or Breckinridge the "hard shell," or strongly pro-slavery candidate. The cartoon presents the opinion that as soon as the Democratic party split into a Northern Douglas camp and Southern Breckinridge camp, Lincoln's election was assured. DIED, NEAR THE SOUTH-SIDE RAIL ROAD, ON SUNDAY, APRIL 9, 1865, THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY, AGED FOUR YEARS. (Broadside, 1865) The end of the war was celebrated in this mourning card that pronounced a fitting epitaph on the Confederate States of America. In similar good humor, Lincoln responded to a Serenade on April 10, saying: "/ have always thought 'Dixie' one of the best tunes I have ever heard ... I insisted yesterday that we fairly cap- tured it. I presented the question to the Attorney General, and he gave it as his legal opinion that it is our lawful prize." Died. 3SI"EA.H, THE SOXJTIi-SIIDE K,AIL H,OAI3, ON SUNDAY, APRIL 9th, 1865, ''' The Soiitliern ('onfVderacv. AGED FOUR YEARS. CONCEIVED IN SIN. BORN IN INIQUITY, NURTURED BY TYRANNY DIED OF A CHRONIC ATTACK OF PUNCH ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Attending Physician. U. S. GRANT, Undertaker. JEFF DAVIS, Chief Mourner. EPITAPH. liu( lik<* l-uoir.-i- it "7",', „„..,. .,.,.„ „^,?>„jr 31 Thomas Nasi, CHEERING THE TRAIN IN WHICH MR. LINCOLN IS IN. (Pen- cil sketch, 1861) One of the pieces in his Lincoln collection that Charles Wood- berry McLellan most prized was the Civil War Scrapbook of Thomas Nast ... This sketch of people cheering Lincoln along the way during his inaugural journey from Springfield to Washington was made at an unknown location between New York and Philadelphia. It was printed in the New York Illustrated News on March 9, 1 861, with the fol- lowing caption: "Mr. Lincoln's reception at the various railway stations on the route ... was as enthusiastic as that which greeted him in the State of Illinois and New York. The people at every available point and stopping place, turned out to welcome him..." Ifirtuluit Jtlnnsil'n. -.1.....^,.. i,.^ ^1 ,^, •' ^j^J yi-vo ^o^^^ **. cm.^,**'..^'^-'^^^ '?''a*~' •f^J^ A. Lincoln, LETTER TO SALMON P. CHASE. (Manuscript, 1864) Relations between Lincoln and his Treasury Secre- tary, Salmon P. Chase, were never close. Following the Cabinet crises of December 1862, Chase tendered his resignation to Lincoln on a number of occasions. On June 29, 1864, Chase resigned for the last time; in this letter, Lincoln surprised Chase by accepting his resignation. 32 Senior Class gives $100,000 As its parting gift to the University, the Class of 1984 established a $100,000 endowed scholarship fund to help "pre- serve the quality and diversity of the student body at Brown." The seniors originally set a goal of $40,000, to be paid within one year of their graduation. Led by Pamela M. Boylan and Michael B. Silberberg, they far exceeded this goal, helped by a $25,000 challenge gift from Chancellor Richard Salomon '32. A total of 61 percent of the class pledged support to the Class of 1984 Scholarship Fund. Sports Foundation gifts exceed $1 million in first year Gifts to the Brown University Sports Foundation totalled $1,071,576 for 1983- 84. Of this, $614,641 was for capital use Annual Report 1983-84 nd $456,935 for current use. The Sports Foundation drive to raise $20 million formally kicked-off in Septem- •er, 1983. Other highlights of the Founda- tion's first year were the fall TV satellite broadcast of the Brown-Harvard football game and a mid-winter recruiter's week- end on campus. Class of '59 funds scholarship The 25th Reunion class of 1959, led by class Presidents Richard Ramsden and Diane Scola, raised more than $525,000 — with 55 percent participation. Part of that gift was used to create the endowed Class of 1959 Scholarship Fund, making 1959 the first Reunion class to fund a scholarship in Brown's new drive to increase resources for financial aid. The remainder of the class gift was designated for the renovation of Faunce House and the Brown Annual Fund. Brown University raised a total of $26,244,743 from private sources in the fiscal year from July 1, 1983 to June 30, 1984. Most of the money $16,658,978 came from individuals: alumni, parents and friends of the University. $26.2 million raised in 1983-84 Corporations gave a total of $5,112,413. 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T T -t c -c -r t . 00 m 00 ■D c 3 OQ *- r TO 3 E < c 01 (U a. HI ^ c F 3 a Z ■0 s \J C c ^^>5 > m • ^i« c ^ fU E E HI 3 3 i/i X r-: !f;5 x: 3- r. — ir. ir, x: ri -D rj X Ir X ■3-. S2 X ■3- ^ ^ ~ ir, ■3- r^ n — X r ~ E c < < H 0) l.iK lipMiii ruMi tiK' liiusli line ( i>sl nl .l(llllisMo summers. Almeida's father is Donald B. Almeida '60. and his grandmother is Catherine Davidson Almeida '27. This article prst appeared in the Provi- dence Sunday Journal. 39 The Rosenberg 40 John Rosenberg in the varsity football locker room Era Begins Bv Peter Mandel Head football coach John Rosenberg, appointed last December, likes to use the present tense and does so at the exclusion of regrets about the past or worries about the future. When he is asked about Coach |ohn Anderson's regime, he twitches his moustache and remarks briefly that he is impressed with the films he studies of last year's team. When he is asked about the long-term prospects of Brown football, he directs the conversation to what is happening now: tfj summer condition- ing, to recruiting, to careful prepara- tion for the season ahead. "I'm a big believer in pla\ing every down as if it is the only one, " he com- ments, leaning back and gazing out a window that overlooks Brown's athletic fields. "There is no point in dwelling on what happened three downs ago or worrying about what will happen in the f(juitli quarter. On the field, you can't do an\ tiling about that fight vou had with your girl friend, or the fact that your dad has not sent any money lately. "\'ou must break down \c>ur uni- verse to one moment, like molecules to atoms, and get into the correct position to tackle the fullback, let's say, or take out a lineman." This is a philosophy that the thirty-eight-vear-oid Rosenberg developed, at least in part, as defensive backfield coach for the Philadelphia Stars of the United States Football League. (Prior to that, he was recruiting coordinator and assistant coach at Penn State for nine seasons.) He believes that there are a num- ber of things a former pro coach can teach a college team like Brown's: "For exam|)le. tfiorough pre-season condi- tioning is as impoi taut in college ball as it is in the pros. F.ach plaver must be expected to have done simimer training on his own and must be able to pass conditioning tests in pre-season prac- tice — otherwise it's not fair to others wfio have done the work. Also, a lot of fundamental technit]ues should be taught the same way in the pios and in college — for instance, things like taking the right kind of step to execute a cer- Brown's new football coach believes in playing every down as if it is the only one 41 The hallmark of an outstanding team, says Rosenberg, is to keep its organization intact in a dark hour 42 tain block. "We will take passing concepts used b\ the Stars, although not so much from the running game, rhere, we'll use a lot of the strategy that Tom Groom (offensive coordinator) learned at the University of Maryland, whii h always seems to have a good ruiming game." Rosenberg has hired two USFL players as coaching interns: Will Lewis (cornerback for the Houston (Jam- blers), and Mike Weston (lineman for the Ghicago Blitz). .Since the fall is their off-season, they will work part-time for Brown and receive tfie coaching expe- rience they both seek. Of course, there are significant differences between teaching a team of 280-pound, highly-specialized profes- sionals, and a squad of student-athletes. "In the pros, ' says Rosenberg, "every- one is a top athlete and there are a few smart guys. At Brown or Harvard [where Rosenberg played linebacker and received his B.A.], everyone is smart, and there are a few top athletes." He points out that there are so many "bright kids" on an Ivy League team that leadership can be either unnecessary or absolutely crucial, de- penfling on the ability of the players to work together, to listen to each other, and lo lake criticism without growing stubborn or angry. The Ivy football player is nothing if not opinionated, says Rosenberg, while on a team like the Stars, perhaps only the quarterfjack and a few others will be consistently questioning decisions and thinking in terms ol the team as a whole. "Quarterbacks in the pros may not have been good stiidenls when in col- lege," he remarks, "but they really stand out from the rest of a profession- al team when it comes to intelligence, or even just craftiness. Case in point: Joe Namath barely graduated from high school and didn't ever get his degrie from the University of Alabama, where he played football. However, I hatl occasion to be around him for eight sununers while rinniing his sununei fool ball camp ff)r young kids, and he is one of the more intelligent people I've worked with. He's a smart guy " Rosenberg is often asked how he will differ from his pre- decessor, John Anderson, head coach at Brown for eleven years and, some say, the m(3st successful Brown coach ever (he led the Bruins to a share of the Ivy title in 1976, and to four second-place finishes). "We will be quite different in terms of strategy," he maintains, "but the same in that we both stress funda- mentals. We can, and probably will, develop a very different passing game than the one that existed with Ander- son's 1983 Bruins — but our linemen must still block in the same fundamen- tal manner as his. " Rosenberg is quick to point out that the head loach shares responsibili- ty with the rest of his staff. "The role of the head coach is overrated," he says, "and the role of his staff is miderrated. Sometimes I will be watching a foolbafl game on TV, and Howard Cosell will say something like, 'Let's see what Don Shula comes up with on this third-down play.' Well, in fact, Shula usually will not make thai call. It will be done by his assistants who are working wilh the offense. " Rosenberg's own assistants include John lOwnsend (defensive line coach, recruiting coordinator), Tom Groom (offensive coordinator), Ron Brown '79 (defensive ba( kfield coa< h), Peter (H- unla (coach of tigtil ends, receivers), Oilie Phillips (coach of linebackers), )ack Gharney (offensive line coach), and Mi( hael (Church (defensive coordi- nator). Mike (ioldberger, head fresh- man coach, also manages the athletic center and works with the admission office. Rosenberg appointed most of the staff last winter. Despite its ies|)on- siljility for strategic decisions dui ing the game and in practiie, the slail will i ar- ry out Rosenberg's loolbali philosophy. \s with any newly-elecled piesideni and his cabinet, certain things will be done diflercnily under the new coaili- ing staff. The most noticable differences will be on olfen,se. Brown wiil move away from an oplion game, which suited scrami)ling (|uarterback Joe Poller '84 and provided a steady diet of sprint- ouls and (juarlerback keepers. With adjustments lor whomever ends up at quarterback for the Bruins, the new coaching staff wiil promote more drop-back passing. "One reason I like passing," says Rosenberg, "is that I spent so much time as a defensive backlield coach. When you woik day after day trying to stojj the forward pass, you learn what makes lor a successful passing game. Eventually, you will see Brown throw- ing the football a great deal." The loss of Potter through gradu- ation will hurt. Rosenberg praises the record-setting (|iiarterback as "a win- ner, a dominating jjlayer who was an effective runner and a good enough passer to compliment the rush. The more film I look at," he comments, "the moie appreciation I have for Potter and for the offensive line work. I'm impressed with the offensive coaching, too." During last spring's single day of practice (the maximum allowed by Ivy rules), Rosen- berg looked over his candi- dates loi quarterback. He declines to make a prediction, however, wishing to give everyone (including Steve Kettel- berger '86, who saw action in six games in 1983) a fair chance. He will say ihal he is especially ex( iled aboul several of Brown's re- turning starters. He feels Ted Moskala '86 (thirty-eight tackles, four quarter- back sacks in '83) can become a domi- nating iineman, and likes what he sees of running backs Steve Hef fernan '85 ((i76 yards, eighl louchdowns) and Bri- an HelleriKiu '8(i, as well as Jamie Pol- kul HI) ((')I9 yards rushing). He charac- terizes senior receiver 15rad McC^aiilley (thirly-lhree receptions for 439 yards and ihiee ID's) as a "hands receiver" who doesn't have great speed, but is quick and can catch the football. Rosenberg also particularly likes All-Ivy senior Matt Pakiiis on the offensive fine and Rich Chapman "85 (ten receptions, 126 yards) at tight end. In general, he feels the Bruin de- fensive line will be strong despite the loss of All-Ivy senior John Daniel. (Tom Love '85 may plug this gap at middle guard.) He believes the Brown defen- sive secondary has the ability to be ef- fective in pass defense (Peter (luiufer- man '85 had three interceptions last year), and says the linebackers (includ- ing Bill Kramer '85 and Pat McClor- mack '86) will be solid, though lacking in depth. The offensive backfield is clearly a strong suit (with Jell Doherty '85, the two Heffernans, and Potkul). Receivers are hard to e\aluate. savs Rosenberg, because of Potter's extensive rushing and last year's offensive strategy. The offensive line will be effective if injin ies don't become a prot)lem, and the kick- ing game should be strong with the return of Chris Ingerslev '86 (five field goals of thirty yards or over) and Paul Bogdanovich '86 (35.4 pimtiiig aver- age). Team captains .Ste\e Heffernan and Tom Love, both seniors, are praised bv Rosenberg who, b\ his own description, values intelligence and character as well as athletic abilit\ . "Tom is a solid, committed leader, " he comments, "one who leads by example. When I first came to Brown, Tom was elected to a player committee on which there were two representati\es per class. In that capacity, he related intel- ligentlv and creati\ely. Ste\e [Heffer- nan] has demonstrated that he is a su- perior player in the league, and last year he was alieady one of the people who was looked up to by newer inem- bers of the team." Jean Klliott, director of sports in- formation, points out that all three team leaders come from Massachusetts: Rosenberg is originally from Newton, Heffernan is from Needham, and Love is from Revere. This \ear's squad boasts thirty-three lettermen, including all but one of the leading rushers and all of the top receivers. Eleven starters return from a team that led the Ivy League in rushing offense, total offense, and rushing defense. The 1984 schedule, which leads off with a home game against \ale on Sep- tember 212, looks a lot like last year's — minus a trip to Penn State. There are home games against URI, Penn, Holy Cross, and Dartmouth, and away games with Princeton, Cornell, Harvard, and Columbia. According to Rosenberg, the Iv) League is more e\enl\ in.itched than most. "Perhaps the most important variable for team success," he remarks, "is inju- ries. Among the three or four leading teams, the team that stays healthiest will be in a very good position." As an ex- ample, Rosenberg mentions Dart- mouth, which he says is something of a mystery because of a rash of injin ies to starters last year. "How good will tliev be?" he asks. "Probably a title contend- er. They have a number of fine players returning on defense, and the offense (including C|uarterback Mike Caraviello and talented tailback Rich VVeissman) is strong at the skill positions." Harvard and Pemi, c(j-champions in 1983, will be stiong again, sa\s Ro- senberg, as their success last year was no fiuke. "Harvard always has good personnel (including tailback Mark Vignali and pro prospect Roger Caron at offensive tackle), while Penn is riding a crest and will rely on a stingy defense (headed by All-Ivy linebacker Kevin Bradley)."' Rosenberg is impressed with what he's seen of Cornell's size and tough- ness (personified by tackle )ohn "Slam- mer" Passalacqua) and .sees Princeton as dependent on star quarterback Doug Butler and favorite target Derek Gra- ham. Columbia, which will be playing in a new Baker Field, will miss its out- standing Cjuarterback, [ohn Witkowski; however. Vale, which fell to last place in 1983, will no doubt retinii to form, led by such veterans as recei\er Kevin Moriarty and quarterback Mike Curtin. The quality of head coaches in the league is very high, says Rosenberg, though in some cases there has been little a coach can do to improve a long- standing negati\e situation. His exam- ple, not surprisingh , is Cokmibia, which seems to be the perpetual door- mat of the Ivy League (despite the fact that the Lions managed to (niish ahead of the hapless Bulldogs in 1983). "Columbia has a recruiting problem because of New York City's image, in part, and perhaps because they have been a losing team for so long. They're going to come in second to several oth- er Ivy schools moie often than not. "I got to know Billy Campbell, for- mer head loach at Columbia, when I was at Peim State. 1 think he had the ability to bring them out of it. but his regime at Columbia was like John Clenn in the primaries: On paper there was the right stuff, but it didn't hap- pen." All of these teams lie ahead lor the new Brown coach, as do the inevitable pioblems of the football season: a fum- ble that costs an important game, a missed field goal, an injury to a key player or two. "Once a year," says Ros- enberg, "you will win or lose on what happens in one play in the last two min- utes. Once a year, you'll win or lose based on everything that ha])pens within the last two minutes. And once or twice a year, the game will be decid- ed on a kicking phi) (such as a field goal or an extra point)." Brown had some difficulties in the fourth quarter fast year, having been oulscored 100 to 46 over the season as a whole. Rosenberg diagnoses this as ei- ther "big play failure" — a form of "choking " — or simple fatigue. "If we do the things that we set out to do, " he says, "we will not fall prey to fourth- quarter failure. Our conditioning will be good, our attitude will be good, and hopefully we'll avoid mental errors. "The most important part of this," he adds, "is that we will not be worrying about the fact that this is the fourth quarter, that such-and-such is the score, that so-and-so fumbled in this situation last year. Instead we'll be concerned, even obsessed, with each current down." According to John Rosenberg's football philosophy, all teams make mistakes and all teams lose games they should have won. It is the hallmark of an outstanding team, he feels, to keep its organization intact even in a dark hour — when a football is thrown into the hands of the opposition and hun- dreds of armchair quarterbacks shake theii heads at the coach's decision to pass rather than run. With his emph.isis on the present, with his responsible and careful staff, John Rosenberg will be out to win over the headshakers and worriers as well as to win against the rest of the Ivy League. Good-bye, Mnemosyne Or, 'But well it was swell while it lasted' Bv Elmer Blistein '42 44 Tlie old vaudevillian said il best: "I have a sure-fire way lo improve memory — but I forget what it is." Memory, always au imperfect limction, becomes even more imperfect as age withers and custom stales our qualities, functions, attributes, and less-than-infinite variety. Short-term memory seems to go first. You have complete recall of the lyrics of a popular song you heard fifty years ago, but you can't remember what you had for breakfast this morning. You begin to forget names, addresses, tele- phone numbers, even books that you have read. Even books that you have read — that's when memory lapse strikes home. Oh, you don't forget the big books, the important books, but you tend to forget the mysteries, the spy thrillers, the science fiction. Of course it does you no harm to read them again. Rereading has always been as enjoyable to me as reading, but it is annoying to get half way through a book and then to remember not only that you've read it, but that you didn't like it very much in the first place. Some members of a proprietary library to which I belong have found a way to beat the system. They mark unobtrusively (they are book lovers; they never mar books) certain pages to indicate that they have read the detective story, the spy thriller, the ephemeral novel. One member fills in the top of the 9 on page 49; another places a small degree sign next to the numerals on page 51; still others put small check marks next to the numerals on pages 99, 112, 129. Oh, all right. I'm the one who uses the degree sign next to the nimierals 51. I was fifty-one, you see, when I felt I needed that memory aid, that mne- monic device, so that's how I happened to choose that page. Imagine my horror when a young friend whose memo- ry — yet — needs no aid discovered my secret and threatened to piu the degree sign next to the nimierals on page 51 of all the books that she thought I might want to read. I cajoled her, I begged her, I implored her not to commit so heinous, so dastardly, so vicious a crime. She was diabolically adamant until I told her that if she did I would take her stethoscope away from her. Perhaps as a result she hasn't as yet carried out her threat, so I live in im- easiness and trepidation, if not in ter- ror, but I am firmly resolved to carry out my threat if she approaches page 5 1 with pencil in hand. I may, then, have persuaded you of the problems involved in memory laps- es and memory losses. But certainly, you may think, there might be some method of deferring the ravages of time on memory even if there is no method of avoiding them completely. There just happens to be such a meth- od, the method of mnemonic devices, and I present a few modest examples that have enabled me to remember certain things that I would be just as well off if 1 didn't. We are all introduced early to mnemonic devices. Perhaps in the first grade — if not sooner — we are taught, at least in New England: Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; AU the rest have thirty-one. Excepting February alone Which hath but twenty-eight, in fine. Till leap year gives it twenty-nine. 1 suppo.se the rhyme is helpful, but with a calendar on every desk and in every person's wallet, one well may ask, "Who needs it?" Then in the third grade we were introduced to this little gem of a mne- monic device that is so complicated and incomplete that I seldom rely on it: / before E except after C Whenever the sound is like E in me. Or sounded like A As in neighbor or weigh. That was pretty good as far as it went, but what provision was made for the sound of "i" as in height and sleight? In the ninth grade when I began Latin, I learned another little gem that I have used perhaps three times in my life: hi March, July, October, May, The Ides are on the fifteenth day. The Nones the seventh: all other monllis besides Have two days less for Nones and Ides. Since the Gregorian Calendar super- seded the Julian, no eager seekers after knowledge except school teachers and school children seem to care, and then only when they are dealing whh Julius Caesar, but I offer the rhyme to you for edification if not for delight. Oh, there are others. I remember (a peculiar word to use in this connec- tion) having difficulty remembering the seven deadly sins. 1 mentioned this difficulty by chance to an old friend, a Yale man. He said that he had no difficulty remembering the seven deadly sins. The fact that he was a Yale man may have been one reason, but the other reason was a mnemonic device he used tlial I lia\i- used fMi siiuc \ic you icadv lor ihisr All i ii;lu. \\ ASP- LEC: Wrath. Avarice. .Sloth. I'nde. Envv, and Gluttony, lint's oiih six? Oh. ves. 1 left out IxcIkin. ,ii iii\ .ii;e ,111 understandable omission. Then there are the se\en nior.il virtues. rheolot;ians niav .irgue what they are or even liou nian\ theie ,iie. but the ones 1 need to nineiuliir ,u e those in the niedie\.ii 11101. ilit\ ])la\ . ihf CiLslle of Penevi'idiKi-. I iie\ei eould figure out a nmeiiujiiiL de\ice for the virtues (some mav hnd it signiliniil ih.il sins are easy, and virtues are not) iniiil I first saw a personal com|juter. Il seemed like magic to mc, and that ga\e me the nniemonic device I was seeking. Personal C^omputer: P.G. pkis .Magic gave me the solution. PC: M.\C.R;: Pa- tience. Charity, Meekness. .Abstinence. Generosity. Industry, and Chastity. It took more than five centuries to bridge that gap in m\ ignorance. I know a few more whiili will probably be of no use to you but which are guaranteed to make \ou un[)opul.ir if you show them off at your nexl voik- tail party, .Stalactite contains a C: tor ceiling, and stalagmite contains a tl for ground. The distinction between prophecy and prophesy confuses some people, and I am one of them. Now I remembei that C for the noun precedes S for the verb in the alphabet. ^ du see. N lor noun comes before \' lor verb 111 the alphabet and C: comes before S. Is that clear? No? Oh never mind. Because I h.ne mentioned mne- monic devices that I learned in the first, thiid, and ninth grades, perhaps I should mention one thai I learned in the twelfth grade. I w.is Liking themis- liy in the twelfth grade and. bec.iuse I was a teen-aged detitei.inope and also red-green color l)lind. 1 had a little difficulty in the Lilxiratorv. I had a Lib partner who could, tortunateh. tell colors, even though he w.is a willing 111 every other respect, so we comple- mented each other vers well. He lold me ihe colors that he saw. and I wrote them down. We had a little trouble with litmus pajjer, until I looked up the words in the dictionaiy. I found that if led turned to blue, we had an excess of alkali; if blue turned to red. we had an excess of acid. It took me no time at all lo teach the witling a mnemonic device: "blue to red. aced; red to blue, alkalue." We be:>th passed chemistry with re- spectable grades, and the fad that we passed may tell you what is wrong with the educational system in the Liiiited States of .America. Or mavbe il won't. My younger sister has a mnemonic ilumc ill. 11 cii.iblcs lui lo ic( He .ill llic moil. lu lis ol iMigl.md since Willi. 1111 ilic' Noi 111,111. Iiiil 11 sc-cins lo mc ill. 11 11 IS e.isiei lo 1 eniciiihii llie mon.iic lis iluiii to icinembci ilu- ili\iiie. .iiid besides, her de\ice does not allow lor the .An- glo-Saxon kings who preceded Willi. 1111. I have a liic-iid who has .i mnemonic device so ih.ii he cm recile .ill ihe pies- idenls of ihe L'niled Si.iies n|) lo Wil- liam Mckinley He slops willi McKiiiley since iin liicnd is. politic ,ill\ . slighih to llic- 1 i>;lil ol Ami. I the I lull, 1 ilidnl boilici Ic. lining Ins ilc\uc' since- 11 dis- regards iiiosi / \^ one vears as a social worker for the Rhode Island Department for Children and their Families, in Provi- dence. Frances Miller Dawley has retired after forty years in nursing, most re- cently as nursing instructor-supervisor for the state of Rhode Island at the Medical Center General Hospital in Cranston. "1 am busier than ever," she writes, "don't know how 1 ever had time to work." Robert L. Scowcroft writes: "I have sold our business in Los Angeles and retired with my wife, Marjorie, to 3430-B Stonehaven Ct. E., Palm Har- bor, Fla. 33563. We are enjoving a more leisurely life style now and would look forward to hearing from other classmates located near or visiting the west coast of Florida. While we could not get to this year's class reunion, we do look forward to getting up to Rhode Island for our 50th. if not sooner." W. Allen Traver, Banner Elk, N.C., is president of Property Management, Inc., and is handling the affairs of eleven condominiiun associations com- prising several hundred units at Sugar Mountain ski resort in North Carolina. "Folks north of the Mason-Dixon Line may be surprised that ski season down here starts in early November and usu- ally goes through March (helped along by the elevation of 4,000 to 5,400 feet, sixty to eighty inches of natural snow, and a very large snowmaking system). Last year, almost 200,000 skiers passed through the lift ticket booths. Come down and try it. " J /^ (ieurge Abraham. Washington, /I I I D.C., was a recipient of the -t Vy 1984 Centennial Medal given by the Institute of Electrical and Elec- tronics Engineers "for extraordinary achievement." Dr. Joh7i G. Muiray has retired as director of medical education at Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich, Conn., and he and his wife moved to 1825 Ironwood Ct., Venice, Fla. 33595. Donald L. Ranard, Vienna, Va., writes: "Since 1976, I have been direc- tor at the Center for International Pol- icy in Washington, D.C. — following thirty years in the State Department and the U.S. Foreign Service, mainly in Asia. Last February, I led a group of retired colleagues on a study mission to Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia." A /^ Ed Armstrong, Cranston, R.L, /I ^ reports: "After thirty-nine J- ^^ years of coaching, teaching, and doing psychological testing (the last seventeen of which have been at the Wheeler School in Providence), I'm cutting back to a part-time schedule of three classes in mathematics." George B. Bullock spends winters in Jupiter, Fla., and summers in Little Compton, R.L W. B. Chirkson, Evanston, III., writes: "Oldest son, Paul (34), was mar- ried in January and moved to Albu- querque, N.M. Two daughters and a son are still in the area. We celebrated our 38th wedding anniversary last Feb. 23. Not near retirement — still running Clarkson Company, manufacturers' representatives." Cal Fisher, Farmington, Conn., writes that "I am retiring at the end of the year after thirty-seven years as Northeastern regional sales manager for Industry Week magazine. My wife and I hope to live six months on Cape Cod and six months in Florida." "Bud" Gilbane sold his petroleum business and has launched a new career in real estate in Rhode Island and Mas- sachusetts with Gardiner & Whiteley, Inc., One Main Street, Pawtucket, R.L Bill Giles, Longmeadow, Mass., writes: "I retired from Monarch Capital 47 Corporation Feb. 1 and will now slop and smell the roses — for a while." Edith Herrmann wrote the following several months ago: "1 am very grateful to still have my father. Alfred Herrmann (Hon.), with me. He is professor emer- itus, German language and literature, at Brown and is 97 years old. I continue with my work as head of technical ser- vices (and with reference duties also) at the Hillside (N.J.) Public Libiary." Edilh Buuth Kinney. Bridgewater, Conn., has been retiied as postmaster for two years. "Now enjoying traveling, relaxing, and my three granddaugh- ters. The oldest is attending Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania." Pal Patterson retired in 1982, as chairman of Damon G. Douglas Com- pany, a New Jersey building contractor, and relocateci to Jamestown, R.I. — to a house he built in 1971. "Enjoying every day of retirement," he writes. A Ci Marjorie Jackson Adkins, /I ^ Greenville, R.I., writes: "My I %J daughter, Melanie Adkins, was married on Feb. 19 to Ronald Ja- nelle." 44 John F. Ahearn. ]r.. Mountain Brook, Ala., writes that he was sorry to miss the reun- ion. He was on vacation in China. Leonard S. Rogers reports: "I am actively engaged in developing trade fairs for my company. National Fairs, Inc., in San Francisco. My wife, Barbara Orkin Rogers, has recently joined the firm." Richard F. Seaver. Westboro, Mass., retired from New England Telephone on Dec. 1, 1982. A /~% Barbara Martin Leonard is /I 1^ chairman of the H & H J. \J Screw Products Manufactur- ing Company in Ashton, R.I. She is a trustee of Brown and of Bryant (Col- lege, president of the Rhocle Island Philharmonic Orchestra, secietary of the United Way, and is on the board of directors of the Woonsocket Institution for Savings and of the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation. She is the Republican candidate this fall for the Rhode Island U.S. Senate seat now held by Claiborne Pell. William H. Stone. San Antonio, Texas, writes: "I'm trying to be distin- guished now that I'm a distinguished professor. That helps uphold Brown's tradition of distinction!" He is a pro- fessor of genetics at Trinity University. 48 A ^^ .\n informal reunion was /I / held at the Parker House in J_ / Boston on April 14 by Irene Margolis Backalenick. Westport, Conn.; Mareon Fulle Dunlap. South Harpswell, Maine; Dorothy Hiller, Pawtucket, R.I.; Pat Synan Lucey. San Francisco; and Barbara Whipple, Boston. The group hopes to meet for dinner, possibly at the Faculty Club, following the Home- coming game with Penn on Oct. 13. Any other class members wishing to join in are welcome. Irene Margolis Backalenick has com- pleted all course work for a Ph.D. in theatre history at the City University of New York Graduate Center and is working on her dissertation, a ten-year history of the New York-based Jewish Repertory Theatre. She is also a theatre critic for the Stamford Advocate and sev- eral other papers. This summer, she delivered a paper on a New York Times theatre critic at the American Theatre Association annual conference in San Francisco. George Deckey. Pawtucket, R.I., is delighted to report a "perfect score," four out of four at Brown. "Our oldest son, George '84, graduated in June and will enter Tufts University Medical School in September. Robert '85 is ina- joring in engineering-economics, and Chantal '86 is majoring in economics- applied mathematics. The youngest, Jeffrey '88, will enter Brown in Septein- ber. Visitations to Brown are often and our affection for and loyalty to the University grows more intense (as do our bills). " Mareon Fulle Dunlap has retired after twenty-five years of teaching Eng- lish and serving as librarian at Bruns- wick (Maine) High School. She and her husband visited Alaska for two months this summer and stopped to visit her daughter, Polly, who is a hat designer in Seattle. Mareon's current address: Menikoe Haven, South Harpswell, Maine 04079. Barbara Whipple is still working as public relations diiector for the Puppet Showplace Theatre in Brookline Vil- lage, Mass., and is also doing freelance publicity and promotion from her home at 12 Gloucester St., Boston 02115. A /^ Elmer M. Fiery has been pro- /l Vt motcd to president of Ber- 1 \J gen Brunswig Corporation's wholesale drug distribution coinpany. He has served as vice president, drug distribution east, since 1972. He and his wife have been residents of Wyckoff, N.J. for twenty-three years. Robert G. Smith, Lantana, Fla., sold his family business in Lake Worth in 1982 and is now partially letired, al- though he does some part-time re- search for a friend's law firm. "My son, John, is with me but Jim is assistant basketball coach at the University of South Alabama," he writes. Bob's ad- dress: 1605 Shirley Ct., Lantana ;53462. A y^ Shirley Prager Branner, New /I \\ 'i'ork City, was the donor of a JL %J gift in her husband's memory to Columbia University for the Robert Branner Foruin for Medieval Art. Pro- fessor Branner taught at Columbia from 1957 until his death in 1973. He was the author of numerous works on thirteenth-century French architecture, sculptine, and painting. The art histo- rian, Jean Bony, wrote: "For historians of medieval art there is a pre-Branner and a post-Branner age." Vivian Bergquist Clarke writes: "Working part-time as library assistant at Richards Memorial Library in Pax- ton, Mass. I also work part-time as li- brary clerk at Paxton Center School. We have five grandchildren." Mary Frances Hagan Grant. County Cork, 1 1 eland, is occupied with goat herding. Formerly she was a United Nations correspondent for McGraw- Hill World News. Her husband, Don- ald, correspondent for the St. Louis Post Dispatch, died recently. Her classmates offer their deepest sympathy. Betty Usher Grover. Ledyard, Conn., is on the executive committee of the Coast Guard Officers Wives Club and is active in the Homeowners Association. Her husband. Royal, who retired four years ago from the U.S. Coast Guard, is now purchasing and materials manager for the Fracor, Inc., branch in New London. Her daughter, Barbara, is a computer software specialist with the U.S. Naval Supply Agency in Washing- ton, D.C., and another daughter, Eliza- beth, is an assistant dean at Wesley an University. Adeline ("Dell") Petke La Borde, Macon, Ga., is an assistant manager of the Central Bank of Georgia. Her son, Thomas, is a contractor in Macon; her daughter, Caroline, teaches special education. Both hold master's degrees. Her husband, Hasell, is with TRW. Edmands P. Lingham. Jr.. Framing- ham Center, Mass., has returned to Dennison Manufacturing Company in Framingham after fourteen years away and is now market manager for a new decorating product. His wife is Priscilla Wright Lingham (see '51). Man Kinney O'Connell, Buffalo, N.Y., is a volunteer at Slieeliati Emer- gency Hospital. She has one daughter, three sons, and a new granddaughter. Clotilde Sofinino Treves. Princeton, N.J., is a real estate salesperson with Stockton Real Estate in Princeton. Her husband, Gino, letired in 1983 after twenty-eight years with EMC Coi pora- lion. Her son, George (Cornell '76), works for the Daily Priiicftoniaii; Eran- ces (Carnegie-Mellon '79, Columbia '82 A.M.) works for Collins, Uhl Architects in Princeton; and Claire "81 works for Capitol Marketing Council in Wash- ington, D.C. Donald M. Van Heest, Berkeley Heights, N.J., retired in 1982 but is still director of alumni athletic recruiting for Brown in New |ersev. "There were nine Jersey boys on the \ arsity football team this year, plus a freshman group. My son, Scoll. graduated from Biown in June 1983." f^ /^ We're anticipating Reunion hv I I 1985! ... The Commence- \^ \y ment weekend cocktail party at the Eacultv Club Terrace attracted more than seventy classmates, spouses, and friends in a non-reunion year. It was the first in a series of bring-us-to- gethers, which continues with a tailgate picnic for the class of '50 before the Brown/Harvard game at Harvard on Nov. 3. Look for the signs — we'll pro- vide the beer. Let's get started on our 35th! (ay Bam, Warren, R.I., was re- elected secretary of the Brown Club of Rhode Island at its annual dinner- meeting last May. John J. Dunlin, North Kingstown, R.I., was recently promoted to vice president of Aniica Mutual Insurance Company of Providence. Dr. Donald D. Lathrop is living in Boise, Idaho, and is co-director with his wife, Karen Gibson, of the Relationship Center. Don is also chief, in-patient psychiatry, at the Boise VA Hospital. Bruce M. Senior has been named sales manager for the Western Hemi- sphere and marketing manager for floors in the international operations of Armstrong World Industries, Inc., in Lancaster, Pa. Bruce was previously managing director of Armstrong-Nylex Pt\. Ltd. in Melbourne, Australia. 51 Lawrence A. Harney, Clearwa- ter, Fla., writes: "Donna and I have opened a beautiful brass gift shop here in Clearwater. We are enjoying every minute of it." David Holmgren, Tenafly. N.J., has joined the Lofberg Companies as senior vice president. He served sixteen years with a New Jersey insurance agency, and before that, worked with several large New York City firms in the insur- ance brokerage inarket. He is a past president of the Independent Insur- ance Agents Association of Bergen County. Piiscilla Wrigltl Lingham, Eraming- hani Center, Mass., is invcjlved in sev- eral volunteer projects with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Her husband is Ed Lingham (see '49). Paul S. Nadler is professor of finance at the Graduate School of Management at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., and is also a fac- ulty member of The Stonier Graduate School of Banking at Rutgers. Roderick L Sweet retired last year as a senior executive from the Central Intelligence Agency after more than thirty-two years of federal service. Ten of those years were spent in the Far East; other assignments took him to Europe on several occasions. He and his wife, Sheilah, now manage and live on a 190-acre tree farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Bears, deer, snakes, and wild turkeys are their closest neighbors. Their address: P.O. Box 264, Washington, Va. 22747. MBdh di Ciircio, Nantucket, Mass., is working on the development of the musical comedy work-in-progress. Summer Peo- ple, for which he has written most of the music, lyrics, and the storv. He is col- laborating with a group of theatre pro- fessionals who are responsible for last year's Harvard Hasty Pudding produc- tion, yw/ig^/c Belles. The University Press of New England, Hanover, N.H., has decided to add his latest book. Art on Nantucket, to its catalogue of scholarly publications. Carol Kilhourne Sauers and Richard Wagner were married in August 1982. Their address is 17 Huntington St., New Brunswick, N.J. 08901. David F. West has been elected president and chief executive officer of Circle Consulting Group, Inc. Circle Consulting is a diversified financial planning company that operates through four subsidiary companies. Its headquarters is in the Chrysler Build- ing in New York City. tt^ tt^ Joseph R. Blumberg has been r^ r^ elected to the board of trus- s^ sj tees of the Hospital of St. Raphael in New Haven, Conn. He is president of the New Haven-based in- surance firm of Blumberg, Whitten, and Sherry, Inc., and lives in Wood- bridge, Conn. Thomas N. Casselman, Goleta, Calif., reports: "I married Elaine L. Cohen on Aug. 6, 1983." Douglas R. Lowe writes: "I have moved to the Dallas, Texas, area. My association with General Electric Com- pany continues — I am a sales represen- tative. New address: 2430 Beaver Run, Garland, Texas 75042. You all come! " Anne Murphy O'Brien. Andover, Mass., has been appointed the new di- rector of the Pollard Memorial Library in Lowell, Mass. She was previously the assistant director of the Memorial Hall Library in Andover. Ifc/ /'^ Ted La Tulippe, Johnstown, r^ f\ P"*' writes: "My wife, Helen, %_>/ \J and I enjoyed our visit to campus ni August 1983. We made the trip to accompany om' son, Steve, who was starting his freshman year at Brown — as a member of the class of '87. The campus has changed a good bit since my years there, and I am won- dering what happened to Middle Hope and the billiard room. Our daughter, Kathleen, graduated in May from Wil- son College in Pennsylvania and is in the job market. I am in my twenty- eighth year with Bethlehem Steel Cor- poration and am supervisor of power systems for the Johnstown plant. We are trying desperately to leverse the hard times that have fallen upon the steel industry. Hopefully we will suc- ceed." John S. Robinson, Newton High- lands, Mass., reports: "Our son. Chase '85, studied at Hebrew University in the summer of 1983 under a Dorot Foun- dation scholarship and was a student of Arabic at the American L'niversity in Cairo in 1983-84. He'll return to Brown this fall." f^ ^^ Ralph Leonard, Jr.. is marking r~\ I his thirtieth year in the real \J / estate business. When his father retired in 1981, Ralph estab- lished Ralph Leonard Associates, Inc., in Beverly, Mass. He has served as vice president and as a member of the board of directors of the Greater Salem Board of Realtors. Ralph, his wife, Pat, and their seven children live in Box- ford, Mass. h^ /^ William F. Carroll, a former r^ \C advisor to Rhode Island V-/ v_>' Ciovernor J. Joseph Garrahy, has been chosen as Rhode Island's di- rector of business regulation and in- surance commissioner. An attorney, he 49 50 lives in Harrington, R.I. Gerald Levine, VVoodmere, N.Y., was assistant to the chief marshal at Commencement this year. His daugh- ter, Jodi, graduated, and Gerald marched down the Hill with her. Francis D. Newell, Naples, Fla.. writes: "During the summer of '83 my wife and I were bow hunting in Zim- babwe, Africa, and sightseeing in Egypt and Kenya. The hunting was great and we would like to return if possible." Beverly Munler Spence, Simsbury, Conn., is the vice president for the Hartford Women's Network. She has been appointed assistant director for the employment training program at the Connecticut Department of Higher Education. Previously, she was the di- rector for the Women's Re-entry Pro- gram at Hartford Community College. ^ /^ Frances Gibson Duckell is serv- r~\ V_J ing in the Peace Corps in «_>/ \^ Kingston. Jamaica, doing skill training in ceramics. Dax'id M. Merchant. Barrington, R.I., was elected treasurer of the Brown Club of Rhode Island at its annual din- ner-meeting in May. Michael M. Peters, Stamford, Conn., has been selected to present a paper to the Textile Institute of Great Britain on behalf of his company, Milliken & Co. He will present it in Hong Kong this October. John A. Ward, West Dennis, Mass., reports; "I have been living on Cape Cod for the past three years, fulfilling a dream of mine to reside here. I am working in horticulture, music, and art — studying and teaching. Playing the piano and arranging musical scores from 'old standards' is my forte. The sound of the surf and the smell of the salt air are a source of inspiration and stimulation." /"* /^ Robert A. Brown, Mattapoisett, wr\ I I Mass., writes: "I presented a V-^ \J paper, 'Designing Custom Robots for In-house Use,' at the Robot 7 Conference in Chicago and the Fu- ture Factory Symposium at (Colorado Slate University last year. During the past six years, I designed and built six new special-purpose industrial lobots. I still enjoy sailing my 55-year-old Alden- designed gaff rigged sloop, 'Delta,' on Buzzards Bay — the same boat I sailed when I was a student at Brown twen- ty-five years ago." John U. Miller. Roslindale, Mass., is pursuing graduate studies in church history at Harvard Divinity School and Weston School of Theology (Jesuit) during his sabbatical year before re- suming a parish ministry in the United Chuich of Christ. John A. Reisert. Shrewsbury, Mass., has been named vice president of sales at Grant Gear, Inc., of Norwood, Mass. He joined the company in 1977 as field sales manager. Before that, he was sales manager of Lowell Corporation in Worcester and manager of interna- tional sales at the BIF Division of Gen- eral Signal Corporation in East Green- wich, R.I. 6-| Elkan At I in the 1 X firm of Elkan Abramowilz is a partner New York City law Obermaier, Morvillo &• Abramowitz. His wife, Susan Isaacs Abramowitz, is the author of Almost Paradise, a novel set, in part, at Brown. They live with their two children in Manhasset, N.Y. Robert J. Lyons has joined Maine Fidelity Life Insurance Company in Keene, N.H., as director of data pro- cessing/systems. He will be responsible for the management of all data pro- cessing and systems staff, and will help develop the systems plan being de- signed to support the company's long- range business requirements. /"^ C^ Mflr^^j^i Goddard Whiteman, W^ y Alixmy, N.Y., has been ap- V>/ ^^ pointed director of develop- ment at Emma Willard School. As such, she will direct a program of alumnae, parent, community and public rela- tions, communications, and fund rais- ing. She has worked at the school since 1979. /'^ ^^ E. Colby Cameron, Warwick, f\ •^ RL, a partner in the Provi- \J sj dence law firm, Edwards and Angell, was elected president of the Brown Club of Rhode Island at the club's annual dinner-meeting last May. Sandra Camp Turgay, Moiuit Royal, Canada, writes: "I am now the manager of material systems at Canadian Na- tional Railways and am Montreal-area chairman of NASP. My husband re- cently obtained tenure at the Institute of Islamic Studies of McGill LIniversity. Our 15-year-old son is in high school and is participating in karate." /"^ A Davis Burbank and his wife, 1'^ /I Jane, of Chicago, report the \J _1. birth of their second son, Scott Robert, on Sept. 15, 1981. David C. Chisholm has been named director of marketing for SofTech, Inc., in Waltham, Mass. He brings twenty years of experience in the com- puter industry to the company. Previ- ously, he was director of eastern opera- tions for Sperry Technical Services Division in Washington, D.C. Keith M. Endo. Lawrenceville, N.J., has been appointed deputy clerk of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. He had been a deputy attorney general in the appellate section of the New Jersey Division of Oiminal Justice since 1979. Edward K. Kaplan. West Newton, Mass., is associate professor of French at Brandeis University. He is translator and editor of Mother Death: The Journal of Jules Michelet, 1815-1850 and author of Michelet's Poetic Vision: A Romantic Philosophy of Nature, Man, and Woman. Both were published by the University of Massachusetts Press. Daniel T. Rodgers, associate pro- fessor of history at Princeton, received a Fulbright award for the 1983-84 aca- demic year. He spent the year in Frankfurt, Germany, while writing a book, The American Science of Politics. He joined the Princeton faculty in 1980 after serving on the University of Wis- consin faculty for seven years. Associated Alumni seeking candidates File Nominating Ciommittee of the Associated Alumni will meet in early November to select candidates for the spring 1985 Associated Alumni elections. The committee will review suggestions for nomina- tion from several sources, including any made by alumni. This year the committee will be selecting candidates to run for two alumni trustees (six year terms), one alumna trustee (six year term), and one president-elect of the Associated Alumni (who automatically becomes president after two years). "The Nominating Committee, this year chaired by Scott Blake Harris '73 of Washington D.C, wel- comes your suggestions for candi- dates," says Sallie Riggs '62, associate vice president, university relations, and director of the alumni relations program. Suggestions, including a supporting statement and biograph- ical information, should be sent to the Nominating Connnittee, Associ- ated Alinnni, Box 1859, Brown University, Providence 02912 and should reach the office by October 20. /'^ /~\ Carlos H. Camitios writes: 1^ w'~\ "After three-and-a-half years V-^ V-' 111 London, I received a Ph.D. ill urban design and develop- ment from the University of London. Our new addiess is Apartado 398, Merida, Venezuela." William G. Dionu. Burke, Va., re- ports: "M\ fourth financial book was published in April 1984: The Dow Joiics-h-u'in Mutual Fund Yearhonk (Dow Jones-Irwin). 1 am still at Georgetown University as associate professor of finance in the business school. I think I've found a home here! My first Dow Jones-Irwin book. The Dow Jones-b-win Guide to Personal Financial Planning (which I co-authored with F^red Ain- ling), is still available in major book- stores. It makes a nice gift book for anyone with college-age children who would like to contribute to solving the Droms family's personal financial plan- ning problems." Anne Goslee-Jovovic continues with her job teaching junior high English and art at the International School of Belgrade in Yugoslavia. Her husband, Dragos, is a lawver. AIek is 10 and Tami is 6. The family spends most sunimeis in Wilton, Conn. Lawrence A. "Chip" Quinn has joined Bolle France/America as vice president of marketing and sales for the Interna- tional and U.S. Department Store Divi- sions. In his new capacity. Chip will be responsible for marketing and sales of Bolle consumer products to Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Hawaii as well as sales to department stores in the continental United States. He continues to li\e in Denver (interniittentiv). Lawrence J. Rhoades, Pittsburgh, has a new son, John Pryce Rhoades, who is 1. Lawrence A/. Taylor, Jr., his wife, Rhea, and daughter, Rebecca, have moved from Chicago to the New York area and have a new (temporarv) ad- dress: 197 Park St., Apt. lA, New Ca- naan, Conn. 06840. He has joined the International Marketing and Develop- ment Group of Manufacturers Han- over Leasing Corporation in New York City as a vice president. Carol C. Ward. Mission Viejo, Calif., tells us; "My daughter, Stacy Pigott, will be a freshman at the L'niversity of Cal- ifornia at Santa Barbara this fall. I am working at the local YMCA (Saddleback Valley) in El Toro, Calif." Re\. John H. Warlon. Jr., has been named senior pastor of the Village Church of Barrington, III. Most re- cently, he was associate pastor at Win- netka Bible Church. He has been active in leading Christian businessmen's dis- cipleship groups and has served as a deacon at Moody Church in Chicago. /"% ^^ Denise Huttmann Gorham, K^ / Washington, D.C., and her V^ # husband, Robert, report the birth of their second son, Christopher Blair, last Jan. 13. Their first, Jonathan, was born on June 10, 1982. Robert is a partner in the law firm of Wilkes, Artis, Hedrick & Lane. Marilyn Friedman Hoffman has a new position as curator of the Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, N.H., after ten years as director of the Brockton (Mass.) Art Museum. She and her hus- band, Alan, also announce the birth of a son, Adam Kassell Hoffman, on Feb. 6. Their address is 45 Hardy Rd., Lon- donderry, N.H. 03053. Frank C. Langwurth reports that he and his wife, Kimberlee, and their son, Nicholas, I 1/2, have moved to 8 By ram Meadows Rd., Chappaqua, N.Y. 10514. Frank is a marketing manager with Pepsi-Cola in Purchase, N.Y. Barbara Smith, Iowa City, Iowa, writes: "I have published my second nonfiction book, Beginning Shepherd's Manual, with Iowa State University Press. It is a guide for beginning sheep raisers, very practical, and beautifully illustrated. I have another book out that 1 wrote with my brother: Careers in Health, which was published by Beacon Piess, I think in 1978. I am currently supervising publications at the Division of Developmental Disabilities in the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clin- ics." y"* /^ .Mark W. DeTora has been i^ \C named vice president for \J \J brokerage sales at Monarch Life Insurance Company in Spring- field, Mass. Richard /. Gouse is president of the New England Institute of Technology in Providence, Seth Kurn is executive vice president, and Steven Meltzer is trustee — to complete the '68 contin- gent. Founded in 1940, the Institute now grants the B.S. degree and is at- tended by more Rhode Islanders than any other private or technical college. In 1982, it opened a branch in Palm Beach, Fla. Leo Plante has left Goldman, Sachs & Company to become the chairman and chief executive officer of The Co- operative Merchant Bankers, Ltd., in Providence. Leo's firm will provide financial advisory and other investment banking services to cooperatives and health maintenance organizations. Nanc\ Carlson Schrock is self-em- ployed as a bookbinder and consultant on library conservation, based in Win- chester, Mass. Her second son, Eric Noah, was born on March 16, 1981. Nancy is also president of the Massa- chusetts Commission for the Preserva- tion of Architectural Records and is author of the book. Architectural Records in Boston. Peter S. Voss is now senior vice president and administrator of the personal trust and financial services department of the Security Pacific Na- tional Bank in Los Angeles. He was formerly a senior vice president in the trust administration department of Rhode Island Hospital Trust National Bank and lived in Barrington, R.I. ^ ^^ Paul S. Gottlieb. Rve Brook, 1^ \J N ^ ■■ writes: "I lecently \J \_/ joined E.F. Hutton & Co., Inc., as vice president and assistant general counsel with responsibility for new product development. I live in Westchester with my wife, Carol, direc- tor of the Youth Book (iuild, my daughter, Laura, and niv twin sons, David and Joshua." Willard E. Marsden, Jr., Arlington, Va., tells us: "I've been reassigned to the State Department in Washington, D.C., after finishing a three-year as- signment in Guatemala. Since return- ing in May 1983, I've spent two months in Damascus and one month in Grena- da on a group tour with the 82nd Air- borne. " Gene Maltison, wife Matilde, and two daughters, Cristina and Elisabeth, continue to live in Madrid, Spain. Gene has recently joined the Madrid branch of First Interstate Bank of California as vice president for multinational and financial institution lelationships. Clifford B. McDonnell writes: "I am president of Corporate Investment Services, Inc., a group of fifteen pro- fessionals engaged in investment bank- ing and business brokerage in the Ro- chester, N.Y., area. I am on the board of governors of the Canandaigua Yacht Club, and placed second in 1983 in the Catalina 22 National Sailing Regatta. I am living in Fairport, N.Y., with my wife, Ann, and three children — Kristina, 10, Kathrvn, 8, and Todd, 5." Ken Stittz reports: "I inarried my wife, Mary, in 1982 and bought a home in Berkeley, Calif., in 1983. I am cur- rently a vice president in charge of development and distribution at San Francisco's leading television produc- 51 tion complex. One Pass, Inc." John F. Wilkinson was promoted to executive personnel manager with the National Science Foundation in Wash- ington, D.C., in March 1983. ^^ y^ /ofin Love and Christine Sweck / I I ^"''*' report the birth of their # Vy second son, Stefan Edward, on April 23. Michael is 2. John was appointed chairman of the English department at the Wheeler School in Providence last September, and Chris continues as director of the Middletown Public Library. The Loves live in Bris- tol, R.I. James VV. Lukens has been appoint- ed associate director for corporate development at Yale. The recipient of several awards for teaching effective- ness, he has taught at Indiana L'niver- sity. University of the Pacific, and the University of Wisconsin. Robert W. Shippee, Tokyo, was as- signed to Chase Manhattan Bank's Tokyo branch in June 1982. His second child, Hillary Starr, was born there on Nov. 10. 1983. Robert W. Singleton married Bonnie Lee Bailey (B.A., Gordon College 74, M.A., Bridgewater State College '80) on July 23, 1983, in Manchester, Mass., the bride's home town. Bonnie is a resource teacher at the Warwick (R.I.) Vocation- al-Technical Center. Bob is a vice pres- ident with Radiant Heat, Inc., in Co- ventry, R.I. They live in Hope, R.I. 71 Keith C. Barksdale, Greenville, S.C., writes: "I recently changed jobs. I am now manager of resource development for Daniel Construction Company in Greenville. Formerly, I was executive director of the Greenville Urban League. " Jamie Evrard reports: "I'm living at 909 West 22nd Ave. in Vancouver, British Columbia. I spent the summer of 1983 in Indonesia collecting textiles, drawing, and visiting an orangutan research center. In Vancouver, I run an art studio/gallery called Six of One and am currently busy on a large commis- sion of monotype prints for the new Vancouver Mandarin Hotel. Last spring I taught a course in primitive art at Simon Eraser University." Robert G. Flanders, Jr., Barrington, R.I.. was elected second vice president of the Brown Club of Rhode Island at the club's annual dinner-meeting last May. Richard J. Ktioivles, Melrose, Mass., tells us: "As of December 1983, I have become senior systems programmer for TRW's Assemblv and Fasteners Group, with responsibility for operating sys- tems and telecommunications." William R. Leigh, Holliston, Mass., writes: "I am now employed by Applix, Inc., of Southboro, Mass., a start-up software firm specializing in office au- tomation. On Nov. 14, 1983, my wife. Iris, gave birth to Nathan Currin Leigh." S. J. Merrell reports: "I moved into New York City last January. It only took me eighty days to find space in a loft overlooking Madison Square Gar- den (which is really round) in the Fur District (tucked in between Flowers and Garments). I have started a freelance photography business specializing in industrial and corporate design pho- tography, and am in the process of starting a second enterprise in the area of computer processing of images." Doug Thompson writes: "I'm now in Cambridge, Mass., after several months of biking through Europe last fall. Work includes training educators to reduce sexism and racism in schools and writing grants to reduce aggression and homophobia among adolescent males. Play includes learning to play the fiddle and dulcimer, dancing, and cooking. Life is sweet these days. I'd particularly love to hear from class- mates who are doing the unusual, who are living committed, passionate lives. Address: 9 Forest St., Cambridge 02140." ^^ /~V Donna Bird, Averill Park, J ^ N.Y., writes that she works # ^^ "as a senior health planner for the Health Systems Agency of Northeastern New York, in Albany. I staff groups of volunteers from five counties and coordinate the agency's primary care and health promotion activities. In my spare time, I'm work- ing on my second master's de- gree — which I call 'visionary plan- ning' — through Goddard College. I am president of Capitol District Commu- nity Gardens, and am in the process of co-founding an improvisational dance troupe." Vincent S. Chao, Walnut Creek, Calif, writes: "After studying and liv- ing in Paris for several years, I am cur- rently involved in public education in San Francisco, as well as in various local political and commutiity activities." Joseph K. Doherly, Jr., reports: "My brother, Chris, and I are co-owners of J. B. Doherty Realtors in Andover, Mass. My wife, Debbie, and I are par- ents of our first child, Katie, born March 30." Barry Goldwasser is a member of Kibbutz Ruhama in Israel. He has two sons, Lanny (born July 18, 1982) and Tom (born Feb. 6). "My wife, Unea, and I invite anyone visiting in the area to come for a meal or a stay." Olefin R. Normile. Providence, has been appointed director of campus security at Wheaton College in Norton, Mass. He will supervise, plan, and en- force college security measures; hire, train, and supervise security officers and a student patrol force: establish and maintain effective communication; and help refine Wheaton's fire and safety programs. Previously, Glenn was the manager of Brown's police and se- curity department. Jeffrey T. Paine has left Los Angeles to accept a position with Intel Corpora- tion's Product Public Relations Group in Phoenix, Ariz. He writes: "I'll trade year-round smog and celebrity friends for foiu" months of eye-popping heat and the opportunity to live life the way it should be lived any day. Let's face it, John De Lorean was only trying to meet his November mortgage payment in L.A. I also hope to maintain my well- established freelancing business as a technical editor/writer." Nancy Patricia Pope, St. Louis, reports: "My son, Michael Alan Thom- as (called Alan), was 2 years old on May 14. I am a part-time faculty member at Washington University and at Webster University, both in St. Louis." ^^ ^^ Jonathan E. Barnes, Chelsea, y /^ Mass., is the assistant director # %J of labor relations for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts De- partment of Public Welfare. Nancy S. Clarke, Cliffside Park, N.J., reports: "I received my M.B.A. (with honors) from Boston University in January 1983. Since August 1983, I have been executive director of the American Music Center, a national ser- vice organization for contemporary American music, based in New York City." Melissa Bradford J acobson. La Cana- da, Calif., has returned to work full- time as office manager for a five-doctor pediatric practice. She is serving her second term as president of the Pasa- dena branch of the American Associa- tion of University Women. Belte L. Schultz, Summit, N.J., writes: "I'm now a group product di- rector with Schering-Plough Corpora- tion. I enjoy being back East after many years in the Midwest." Dr. Richard L. Smith, Warwick, R.I., reports the birth of a son, Richard Keith, on July 7, 1983. ^m A Kenneth D. Field. Allston, / /I Mass., tells us: "I'm a scientist / A. with Bolt Beranek and New- man (C'anibridge, Mass.) doing research in various aspects of digital speech pro- cessing. Tm also studying jazz improvi- sation privately with Charlie Banacos, and playing saxophone and flute with the band, Rigamaroll (appearing Fri- days at the Winery on the Boston wa- terfront)." Patience Armstrong Fiiclis. Short Hills, N.J., writes: "I was married on Jan. 7, 1984, to Philip M. Fuchs. I am a district manager-treasury at AT&T Comnnmications." Jane Heitman-Green has become an associate in the law firm of Gifford, Woody, Palmer & Series in New York City. Robert A. Koch writes: "After two- and-a-half years in operations manage- ment at Reeves Communications' Tele- vision Facilities Group in New York City. I have inoved into sales and ac- count work. I still compete in grand prix ocean racing and will be involved in campaigning a new, state-of-the-art, 81 -foot, maxi ocean racer in Florida, Bermuda, Hawaii, and San Francisco over the next eight months." Kenneth W. Ritt, Rowayton, Conn., reports: "I recently became a partner in the New England law firm of Day, Ber- ry Sc Howard. 1 am based in the Stam- ford, Conn., office and specialize in commercial and antitrust litigation." Martin J. Rosenthal, tells us: "I'm still in Berkeley, Calif., where I've been since graduation. I'm a consultant with Deloitte Haskins & Sells, specializing in computer systems for small businesses. The rest of the time, I renovate houses truly in need of help. I'm engaged to be married this September." Len Savoie. New York, N.Y., has been promoted to account supervisor at Compton Advertising (New York) on Procter and Gamble business. Also, he wrote the University of Michigan chap- ter in The Insider's Guide to the Top Ten Business Schools, which was published by Little, Brown & Co. in October 1983. Daniel R, Wahts, a private (first class) in the Army, has completed basic training at Fort Dix, N.|. He received instruction in drill and ceremonies, weapons, map reading, tactics, military courtesy, militarv justice, first aid, and Army history and traditions. Marcia E. Whitehead, Barrington, R.I., writes: "I am making another ca- reer change and am currently a student at the Graduate Library School at the University of Rhode Island." Dr. Mark G. Wood, Thomasville, Ga., reports: "I completed my fellow- ship at Emory University in June 1983 and am practicing nephrology and hypertension in Thomasville." Cynthia Young has recently begim a private practice of clinical psychology in the Washington, D.C., area after two years in the public sector. ^^ tt^ Dr. Carrie Bagatell reports: "I y r^ received my M.D. degree # \^ from Emory University in Atlanta in May and began a residency in internal medicine at Emory in June. An article 1 co-authored based on two simimers of research was recently pub- lished in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition." John Bishop, Nashua, N.H., tells us: "I was elected to the New Hampshire Constitutional Convention as a dele- gate. The Convention will propose amendments to the state constitution tcj be presented to the voters. I'm suggest- ing that the state be denied the use of eminent domain and be prevented from exacting compulsory service." Dr. Ronald P. Grelsamer, New York, N.Y., writes: "As of July, I am a fellow in hip and knee replacement surgery in the orthopedic department of the Co- lumbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. I report the birth of no children (first, I must get married)." Dick Kettler graduated from Georgetown Law Center in 1978. With his cousin, he has started the home building firm of Kettler Forlines, Inc., in Gaithersburg, Md. This year Dick's company will build more than 200 homes in Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Dick lives in Washington, D.C. Louis J, Larkin and Sara Digan Larkin '76 report the birth of a girl, Katherine Chelsea, on Oct. 1, 1983. They live in West Palm Beach, Fla. Catherine Perman writes: "Having survived the Oxxy/Southland takeover of Cities Service, I am curiently em- ployed in the management science department of Catgo Petroleum Cor- poration of Southland. Operations re- search and programming are my main responsibilities. Computer program- ming at Brown and operations research I did while pursuing my M.S. in civil and environmental engineering at Utah State have paid off. Would love to hear from fellow Brown grads. My address: 2218 East 66 PI. #1103, Tulsa, Okla. 74136." Howard J. Shire and Sharon Eisenstat '81 were married on Jan. 1 in Mount Vernon, N.Y. They are living at 16 West 1 6th, New York City 0201 1. Dr. Linda Stamm has opened her practice of clinical psychology at 51 Brattle St. in Cambridge, Mass. Guy H. Tuttle, Atlanta, reports: "I am still designing for television and film, and have started doing music \id- ios. They are a lot of fun. Moved to a new headquarters for my business in May." Richard A. Zins and his wife, Beth, are expecting their first child in Octo- ber of this year. Rick is a bank officer with South Shore Bank in Quincy, Mass., and he also teaches at the Amer- ican Institute of Banking. In 1982-83, Rick was a seminary student and he is now ministering in a Christian fellow- ship in Pawtucket, R.I. ^^ /"^ Sharon L. Coe writes: "After / W~\ five-and-a-half years in the f V^ same apartment, I moved in April 1983. In fact I managed to move the same week the Brown Alumni Monthly printed my old address en- couraging people to write to me, which might explain why I never got that is- sue. I still would love to hear from old friends and my current address is 4349 Stone Canyon Dr., San Jose, Calif. 95136." Michael I. Ford and Hope Ford are pleased to announce the birth of their second daughter. Eve Frances Ford, on Oct. 6, 1983. Michael is practicing law in Hollywood, Fla., and is developing real estate in Florida's panhandle. Peter Hetz is working as educational director of the African Wildlife Lead- ership Foundation in Nairobi, Kenya. Dr. James T. Hopkins and his wife, Kathy, of Ardmore, Pa., announce the birth of their first child, Elizabeth Grace, on Feb. 19. )im started a cardi- ology fellowship at Ihomas Jefferson LIniversity Hospital in Philadelphia in July- Ellen Mudge and Rodney Johnson were married last year in Athens, Greece. After serving separate tours in Bulgaria and .'Vfghanistan, they are living in Washington, D.C., at 2301 Cathedral Ave. Sara Digan Larkin and Louis J. Lar- kin '75, West Palm Beach, Fla., report the birth of Katherine Chelsea Larkin on Oct. 1, 1983. Elaine M. Lustig, Los Angeles, graduated from the Univeisity of Pennsylvania School of Law in 1983 and has begun work with the Los An- geles firm of O'Melveny & Myers. Gregory Rorke and Aileen McKenna 53 54 report the birlh of their first child, Michelle McKenna Rorke, on March 31. Siisie and Barr^ Schub are "delighted to announce" the birth of their first child, Robert jay, on April 8. The .Schiib family now lives in Morris CountN, N.|. ^^ ^^ Lois Bniiiil. New \'ork Clity, y / and another artist have re- / / cently installed a major tex- tile hanging in the lobby of 1818 Mar- ket Street in Philadelphia. This weaving, entitled "Floats," was commis- sioned by the Daon Corporation, it consists of two translucent linen panels, each 120 feet long and four feet wide, draped over a series of clear rods and suspended above a bank of escalators. A former faculty member at the Phila- delphia College of Textiles and Science, Lois is on the faculty of the Parsons School of Design in New York. Bruce Damiani and his wife, Jeanne, are living in Seaford, N.Y., with 1- year-old son, Michael Brian. Bruce is a buyer with the J.C. Penney Company in New York City. Valerie Mehlig Darites. Brooklyn, N.Y., writes: "Selling computers for Philips, N.V. (as well as word proces- sors, personal computers, and other office automation equipment), is a highly competitive, challenging, and (potentially) very rewarding pursuit. Since moving to New York City (from Providence) almost four years ago, I've also managed to put much time in writing (for myself), standing on my head, and swimming (i.e., in circles)!" David DePinlu, Redondo Beach, Calif., received his M.B.A. degree this year from the University of Southern California Graduate School of Business Administration. He now works as man- ager of public affairs for Coca-Cola in Los Angeles. He asks of Steve Levine, "How Ah Ya?," and wishes Kevin Dela- ney the best of luck with his first child. Amy Nathan reports: "On April 21, I married Howard Fineman, chief po- litical correspondent of Neu'sxiieek mag- azine. Like me, Howard is a lawyer- journalist. Several Brown alums attended the wedding in Washington, D.C. 1 graduated from Georgetown University Law Center and have joined the Washington office of the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Homer & Feld." Roliert A. Rich, New Brunswick, N.J., tells us: "I received an M.P.A. from Columbia University School of Public and International Affairs in 1981 and am working at Moody's In- vestors Service in New York City as a municipal bond analyst. I am in my third year of the evening program at Rutgers Law School." Elizabeth E. Sasloiv, New York City, writes: "After getting an M.B.A. at Harvard Business School and doing a postgiaduate stint at Piocter and Ciam- ble, I am now back in New York as an account executive at Ted Bates." ^7 O ^^''-"'"'''' ^- ^"vi^- Norwalk, / ^C Conn., reports: "After work- # V^ ing for General Electric in New York City for several years, I ac- cepted a job as a financial analyst at corporate headquarters in Fairfield, Conn. C^onsequently, I have become a suburbanite, and am enjoying it. I would love to hear from other class- mates in the area." Catherine J. Lanctot, Washington, D.C, has recently started a new job as an attorney with the Federal Programs Branch of the Civil Division of the Jus- tice Department in Wasfiington. Rusty Magce is the musical director of the West Bank Cafe Downstairs, a theatre bar in New York City. He was to marry Alison Fraser, an actress, in August. His new address is 288 Smith St. #2, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11231. Dr. Stephen J. Margulis ('81 M.D.), New York, N.Y., will complete his resi- dency in internal medicine at the New York Hospital-CAjrnell Medical Center in New York City. He will be continu- ing there as a fellow in the Division of Gastroenterology. Roosevelt Robinson writes: "I'm still alive and well in Columbus, Ind. I mys- teriously tore a tendon in my hand during the alumni rugby game (June '83) and had surgery that sum- mer — must be age or something!" ^^ ^~\ David S. Brickman, Albany, / vJ N.Y., reports: "I have # *_/ opened a gallery of fine art in Albany, and after just over three months in business, it's threatening to show a small profit. Also, I continue to pursue my own career as an artist/pho- tographer with recent solo shows in Plattsburgh and Albany and a grant in 1982 from the C:atskill Center for Pho- tograptiy in Woodstock. F'inally, I got engaged last summer to Wendy May, of New York City. The wedding date hasn't been set." Alexander Chako is in his final year of medical school at SUNY-Stony Brook. Dr. Lars Erickson graduated from Duke Medical Schhol in May and is now a resident in pediatrics at the Moffitt and Long Hospitals in San Francisco. I can be reached at UC-San Francisco, Department of Pediatrics, San Francis- co, Calif. 94143." Dr. Alon A. Garay reports: "I grad- uated from Georgetown University School of Medicine in May 1983. I have completed my first year of training in New York Medical College's Ortho- paedic Surgery Residency Program and am living in New York City." Susan Jau'orou'ski and Richard Eki- moto were married on April I at the Hotel del Coronado in California ("no joke!"). Susan has been teaching legal research and writing at the LIniversity of San Diego School of Law, and this summer moved to Hawaii. She is clerk- ing for the Intermediate Court of Appeals, and Richard is clerking for the Supreme Court. Her address: c/o Eki- moto, 1450 Akuleana PI., Kailua, Ha- waii 96734. Kenneth D. Karpay was inarried to Jeannette Maddox on Aug. 27, 1983, in Lakeland, Fla. A number of Brown graduates attended the wedding. The couple lives in Baltimore. David T. McKinley notes: "I am currently teaching F^nglish and history at the Lycee International outside of Paris." Dr. Jore7i C. Madsen, Boston, sends the following facts about himself: "1. In 2nd year of general surgery residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. 2. Have married Lisa Danzig '80." Dr. Steven M. Ostrow reports: "I graduted from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons last May, and have now finished my intern- ship. This July I entered the residency program in diagnostic radiology at Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn. My new adchess: 760 Union St., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11215." Karen Olcolt Senft writes: "1 am as- sociate producer for ABC Sports, working on sports promos. I spend a lot of time designing computer graphics and seeing that they make air. Am cen- trally located in flashy New York, and would love to hear from old friends from Brown. Please call (212) 397-0959 today!" Sonya E. Smith has been "transferred from Mellon Bank in Pittsburgh to the new 'Mellon Bank- East' (Girard Bank) in Philadelphia. There I'll be an account officer in the trade .services section of the Interna- tional Department." Timothy J. Vara and wife, Karen, ainioinice the birth of their daughter, Allison Lindsey. Tim works with the law firm of Kadish & Krantz in Cleve- land. Fiilii(k T. \\'ii'. CiiiKiik. ('.aiiies\ille, Fla.. will i)c gLidiKiting licini the Universit\ ol Florida College ol Lau in Decenibei-. He plans to piactice law in Florida. He writes: "Tom Hunt is also in law school .It the Universitv oi Florida (we were trateinitv brothers in Deh.i Phi Ome- ga)-" Mriiiiit R. Ciniwinnn. Henijjstead, N.\'., writes: "I ha\e completed m\ Ph.D. in clinical/s( boo! ps\cholog\ at Adelphi Universits and tmished tin internsliip in the psychiatry department ot North Shore L'niversit\ Hospital on Long Island. .\s ol |ul\ 1. 1 am a post- doctoral tellow in child and adolescent psychology at the same place." Diiiiiiii S. Li'i'in reports: "Having endured (and survived) three excruci- atingly dull years at Harvard Law- School, I escaped for some well-de- served post-l).ir i-\ain amusement: tromjjing through Belgium, ,\mstei- dam, tiermaiu. Austria, France. Itah, Spain. Iiel.iiid, .md Scotland — ex- hausting but l.ml.isiK ' I'm now working at the Fedei.il Defenders of San Diego. liiialK putting niv tr. lining to some so- cialK and politic. illv positive use. I\e been .iiguing i.ises in lourt since m\ secoiul week .is .i defender: nerve- latking but t-xliil.n .itmg! I'd love to see Ol heai hoiii old 1 1 lends at 3029 1/2 Monroe A\e., S.m Diego 921 l(i. ((il9) 563-9792." Iiiaii B. Miitivi:\. New- \'ork. has been elected treasmer of the National Antique and .\rt De.ilers Association of Amerii.i, Iiu. Lciin I Siiti'nmni writes: "I h.i\e .m M I', \, lioiii llu- I lu k S( hool ,11 D.iil- iiioiiili. 1 .1111 (iiiieiitK eiiiplo\i-d ,is ,1 m.iii.igi-iiunt ( (insiill.iiil with I oik lie- Ross iV do. m Boston, .iiid .mi living m ( ^oiu Old, .M.iss " /','(/ /) ,S(;;(// IS "in Boston woi king .IS .1 ( liemisi .It Sp.iuldmg Reh.ibilit.ition Hospit.il .iiid going to Noi ihe.istei 11 I'niveisitv p.iil-time loi mv m.isier's degree in (linu.il themistrv. I'm work- ing li.ii d .iiid .ill IS well " Hiihiil j. Wilih. j) . h.is joined ihe l.ix\ 111 111 (il M.istiiana and Christiansen 111 loit L.uuleidale, Fl.i. He received his ).D. degree in May 1983 from V.indei - bill L'niversitv School of Law. Iiiihiii I- . /mil writes: ".Mlei two \e.iis .11 (Uiod Moi ning .Amern.i.' 1 h.ivi- lelt the eiilei t.imment world .iiid .1111 now working .it .\B('. Ne\vs, on Woild News 1 his Morning.' I his job Im New ^(llk C itv) h.is uirned me into ,1 le.il iiiglil owl: mv new hours .iie iiii(liiiglii to 9 .i.m." 8-| ( iiiiilyii Ailli'i is practicing law I 111 Beverly Hills, Calif.', en- J. |oving the sun and the Ih.u h .ind Mexii.iii lood. ■Would love to see friends who (hop bv L..\." l)i'iii\i' liriikrl. S.m Francisco, is an .111 (|ii.ilitv inspector with the Bav ,-\rea ,\ii (ju.ihlv M.iii.igement District in S.m Fr.mt isdi. Sini(\ Sytjuisl Bi'iaid has joined Newsome & Company. Inc. a Boston ]5ublit lel.ilions lirm, as account spe- cialist. Most recenth, she worked for SBN Public Relations, a division of Spencer, Bennett, Nowak, Inc. in Seekonk, Mass., as associate account executive. SIkikin Kisni\l(il and Hnifdid /. Shiif 'lb were married on Jan. I in Mount Vernon, N.\'. They are living at 16 West 16th St., New York Citv 1001 1. Eliziihilh G. Fainhdd has been pro- moted from .mount coordinator to assistant .mount executive at Chaffee- Bedard. Iiu . in Providence. She joined the (omp.inv List December when it Inst opened. Diiui^lii^ jiisin Call. Noiw.ilk, Coiui., was elected to .1 two-veai" term on the Noivvalk talv C^ouncil last No- vember. He is serving on the hnance. personnel, .ind planning comnuttees. l^Min in reports: ",-\tter celebrating R.iihel's first birthdav last lanu.irv, I lelurned to mv 'pre-med' stiidiis .It the L'niveisitv of Pennsvlv.i- ma. Being .i full-time student, a |)arent, and the spouse of a medical student presents ,iii iiiieresting array ot cli.il- leiiges, .111(1 |o\s! .-Xny friends who would like lo gel in touch can leach me .11 2II0I Pine Si,. I'liil.idelphia 19103." //////' lliiiiis .111(1 Kill Sihi'i'i^tnii. New \(iik (atv, were m.ii ried on .\ug. 7, 19iS3. "We .ire both in our third ve.ii at the N^'L' School of Medicine, things aie going i|iiite well .md. .il the least, we're h.i()pv " Clio Kiilit notes: ".After a ve.ir of bK\(lc I. King .md le.iding trips tor Oiilw.iid Bound, I li.ive completed my gi.idu.ile degiee .it the \a\c School of M.in.igeiuenl. 1 .iin working on high tei h sir.itegv issues lor Boo/ .-Mien H.iiiiilioii 111 S.m Fi.iikIsco and New Noik." ISoh Kiiilli .111(1 1.1/ .md .Andrew Kuith ,iie living for a time in Mill- brook, N'S , "We've had sever.il guests .111(1 wdiild love to host more aluiuni .111(1 Iriends, (New Englanders — visit soon, we must return to X'irginia.)" Mini A. Miiliiiiiil has completed .Air FoKc b.isii ti. lining .it Lackland .Air Foiie B.ise in I ex.is. .An airman, he studied the .\n Force mission, org.ini- /.ilion, .111(1 customs, and received (I edits tow. 11(1 an associate degree in .ipplied science through the Conununi- IV College of the .Air Force. He will now receive sjiec i.ili/ed instruction iii ihe repidgi .ipbics held at Fort Belvdu, \'a. Inn Shniiliiii has been coiumis- sioned .i second lieutenant in the L!.S. ■Air Fone u|)(in graduation from officer training school at Lackland .Air Force Base in Fexas. He will be assigned to Sunnvv.ile -Air Foiie Station in C:alifor- ni.i. Chinlrs /.. Sliiirs tells us: "I'm en- joving .111 extended post-Brown vaca- tion 111 the real world. Please get in toiRh; lin .It (i3liS Mvstic St., Oakland, Calif. 9-lhlS." \'iii^iiiiii /,. Tiirlolani writes: "I'm working in New \'ork Citv for Securitv P.icihc Bank as a corporate cash man- agement consultant, I really love my job and I'm having such tun in the citv! I'd love to hear froiu am felk^vv Bi unoni- ans.ii (212) .S,S3-87.S4!" /^ /^ I'liiil M. Dilzii). Falls Chuich, Nt J \ .1., leports: '.Am presently \_) ^^ w( II king as a quality engineer for IBM in the political labyrinth ot Washington. D.C:., and going part-time at night for an MB. .A. at Cieorge Washington L'niversitv. .Am living with Bill Mfiiili' .111(1 curving on the usual high st.md.iids of file we acquired at Brown. Phone: (703) .')6()-7."i74." Iiilii I.. Ciilih/iini. Clevel.ind Heights. ()liio. writes: "I .im now in mv Inst ve.ir .it Smith College School lor Social Woik. working towards mv in.is- tei's. I h.ive leiently become a new ci- .5,5 chairman of the Brown University As- sociation of Northeastern Ohio. I would nice to welcome my sister, Biih. to Brown; she will be starting this tail as a member of the class of '88. (The Gold- man dynasty continues...)" Hyiaig Mi Kim reports: "I am a second-year law student at Northwest- ern Law School in the 'windy city' of Chicago with fellow classmate, Hairy Rosenberg. There are also a few Brown- ies in the NU Medical School and in the corporate banking world in Chicago. I can never seem to leave Brown — the other day, while shopping in Chicago, 1 ran into a woman who looked very familiar. After exchanging glances, we found out that we had both attended Brown during the same time and had taken a course together. It's a small world!" Adam Loory is an editor at the WaJungton Post. "More accurately," he writes, "I'm a copy boy with a desk and a title. I am the editor of the Weekly Calendar. My housemates are still Kathy Shulman and Stacy Palmer. We are all listed in the Washington, D.C., phone book." 56 Alumni recognition ceremony planned for Homecoming weekend Alumni and members of the Uni- versity community will gather together on campus Saturday, October 13, to recognize and honor alumni who have demonstrated significant accomplish- ments in both their service to the Uni- versity and their service to society. At the recognition event, service awards will be presented to select alumni who have offered active and continuing support in any field of aliunni programming. In addition, the first William Rogers Award, established by the Associated Alumni and named for the first student and graduate of Brown, will be presented. It honors annually an alumnus or alumna for outstanding professional achievement and extraordinary service to humanity. I he service awards and the William Rogers Award are in addition lo the Brown Bear Awards, which are given for long-time volunteer service. The ceremony will begin at 8:30 p.m. in Sayles Hall. Dessert will be served. Ail are invited. For more infor- mation, please call the Alumni Rela- tions Office, (401) 863-3307. r~\ ^^ Leslie G. Beaiicharnp and Peter ^^ ^^ Wang are both attending U \J graduate school at UCLA, she in biology and he in geophysics. "We hope that our friends will write to us at the following address: 5307 Se- pulveda #322, Van Nuys, Calif 91411." Tony Blain writes: "I worked in real estate sales this summer. I will enter my second year at Pepperdine Law School in Malibu, Calif, this fall." Jewel Bradstreet has joined the staff of the Tri-County Advertiser in Milford, Mass., as feature writer. Prior to joining the paper, she worked as a sportswriter for the Newbiiryport (Mass.) Daily Nexus, covering high school girls' basketball in that area. Emmitt Carlton reports: "I am at the University of Virginia Law School along with Cindy Telle, vice president of the class." Christopher R. Conte notes: "At present, I'm working and living in D.C. I work for the Hecht Company as an assistant buyer. Washington is a great city and I'm just loving it here." Letitia Gewirth is a graduate student in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, and is "having a ball teaching three-year-olds how to talk." Letty is engaged to Mark Natgles (see '82): "Y'all knew this was coming, folks!" They were planning a siunmer wedding. Tymish Hulmvinsky writes: "I am working as a litigation paralegal in the law firm of Levy, Goodman, Semonoff & Gorin in Providence. It's a great experience working in this firm; I've really gained insight as to how things work in the legal world." Joanne Jufjui writes: "I am working in New York City as a financial planner for E.F. Hutton. In addition to plan- ning, my job responsibilities include some product research and marketing efforts. I also travel occasionally to train account executives aroimd the country to sell our 'service.' " Caroline Johnson and Brian Bellis, Raleigh, N.C., are engaged to be mar- ried in the spring of 1985 — after com- pletion of their master of science pro- grams in geology at North Carolina State University. Roderick R. Jones writes: "I am now a student at the Emory Lhiiversity Law School in Atlanta and completed the first year in May." Emily R. Lance is working at Brown in the bio-med center. Sara B. Low missed the 1984 Com- mencement festivities as she spent the spring in France studying the theatre. Judith Mulone is a teaching fellow at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. Wanda H. Moore reports: "I have completed my fiist year at Northeast- ern University School of Law in Bos- ton." Richard Mueller tells us: "I am living in San Francisco and keeping busier than I'd like with medical school at the University of California at San Francis- co School of Medicine, and running in local road races. I ran my first mara- thon in F'ebruary, the Oakland Mara- thon, in 3 hours, 24 minutes." Polly Myer and Tom Jirele planned to be married last spring. Polly works as an actuary for the Insurance Company of North America in Philadelphia, and Tom is a research data analyst for Eductional Testing Service in Prince- ton, N.J. They planned to live in Newtown, Pa. Margaret N. Percesepe completed her program in international relations at Cambridge University in England. She returned to the States at the end of Jime and plans to start law school in Washington, D.C, in the fall. ("School as yet undecided.") Martin B. Plait has been doing re- .search in Borneo. He has been accepted at Yale for graduate work in the fall. Robert J. Stevens is a law student at NYU and is "hating every minute of it." ^^-^ ^ Wilma Robb Ebbitt '43 Ph.D., ■ ^^'' former professor of Eng- V^^ k^Jlisli at the University of Chicago and now professor of English at Penn State, is a winner of the 1984 AMOCO Foundation Outstanding Teaching Award. Milton Paisner '61 A.M., North Andover, Mass., is the author of the book. One Word Leads lo Another, pub- lished by Dembner Books in 1982. He has long been interested in words and their origins; when he retired as gener- al manager of Electronic Products of Newburyport (Mass.), he delved into this hobby. He is fluent in Japanese, Spanish, Italian, and F'rench and teaches a course at Northern Essex Community College called "|oy of F-ng- lish." Frances Caimross McRae '67 A.M., London, writes: "I joined The Economist magazine in May to take up the editor- ship of its Britain section in Septem- ber." Anna Jean Carroll Scott '67 M.A.T., F^den Mills, Vt., reports: "Retired from The Study (an independent girls' school in iVlontreal) in June. I'm living part-time in northern Vermont and getting involved in interesting activities in both Vermont and Montreal." Charles F. Corlese '72 Ph.D., Denver, i.s now director of the Center for Com- nuinity C:haiige Studies and chairman of the Department of Sociology at the University of Denver. Paul A. Fuerst 72 Ph.D., Cohimbus, Ohio, took an around-the-worid tour that inckided a stay for two months as visiting scientist at the National Insti- tute of Genetics in Mishima, Japan, and the presentation of research papers at two meetings in India. Janel Sharistaman '72 Ph.D. writes: "I ant returning to my position as asso- ciate professor of English and director. Research Institute on Women, at the University of Kansas. During the 198:5-84 academic year, I was on a vis- iting professorship at the University of Southern California, where I directed a iHiiversity-wide 'Theme Year in Gender and Scholarship.' " Beriiice Forrest Guillaume '74 A.M. received a doctorate in United States history from Tulane University in August 1983. She is now an assistant professor of history at Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orle- ans. Alan J. Sinner '77 A.M., Washing- ton, D.C., is the business manager of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters and the founder of Punchdrunk Records, a recording and artist managemant company. The first release is a folk music albimi by the Wanamaker Lewis Trio. Paul Barbara '78 Ph.D. is assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Minnesota. He was one of six Insti- tute of Technology faculty members at the luiiversity to receive a Presidential Young Investigator Award. The awards, administered through the Na- tional Science Foundation, carry an annual grant of $25,000, which may be renewed annually for up to five years. They are intended to help universities attract and retain outstanding young scientists. Rirhard Edward Schuberth '78 Ph.D. and wife, Nancy, report the birth of their first child, Daniel James, on March 31. The Schuberths are living in East Brunswick, N.J. David Halpern '80 A.M., Seattle, noted last spring that he qualified for the 1984 U.S. Olympic Team in canoe/ kayak. He was slated to race the two- man kayak in the 500-meter event in Los Angeles, and possibly race in other events as well. Eugene Polkay '81 Ph.D., Hamilton Township, N.J., is the senior member of the research staff at ATC Engineer- ing Research Center in Princeton, N.J. He was granted a point U.S. patent that relates to a torch used to fabricate "lightguide preforms by the vapor- phase axial deposition (VAD) tech- nique." John Rizzo '81 A.M. was appointed a visiting lecturer at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass., for the 1984 spring semester. He taught in the eco- nomics department. -m jf -w-^ Ann E. Van Dyke '79 V/l I I ^^^ ' ^°"''^ Glaston- J.tA \^J bury, Conn., has an- nounced the opening of her office for the practice of adult psychiatry at 660 Prospect Ave., Hartford, Conn. 06105. Stephen J. Margulis '81 M.D. (see '78). OBITUARIES Myra Melissa Sampson '09, North- ampton, Mass., professor emeritus of zoology at Smith College and an au- thority on vitamins; Feb. 29, at the age of 97. Miss Sampson received her A.M. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and did additional graduate work at a number of institutions. The author of many scientific papers, she discovered that an overdose of vitamins can cause illness. A fellow of the Amer- ican Association for the Advancement of Science, Miss Sampson was given a citation from Brown in 1959. Survivors include lier niece, Mrs. Isabell Cannon, 8002 Western Circle Dr., Brooksville, Fla. 33512. Margaret Bingham Stillwell '09, '42 Ph.D., East Greenwich, R.I., interna- tionally-known bibliographer, writer, and the fust woman to be named a full professor at Brown; April 22, at the age of 97. For thirty-six years, she served as research librarian of the Anmnary Brown Memorial in Providence, a li- brary of books printed before 1501. When the library was deeded to Brown, she was appointed to a full professor- ship by President Henry Wriston in 1947. Miss Stillwell published many scholarly works on the history of print- ing and early printed books. She also wrote works on historic Providence Margaret Slilhuell. photographed in 1970. (While Benefit Street Was Young), and several books in a lighter vein (includ- ing Noah's Ark in Early Woodcuts ami Modern Verse and Librarians Are Human, her autobiography). Listed in Who's Who in the World, she was a former vice president of the Bibliogiaphical Society of America and of the Providence Ath- enaeum. She and Dorothy Carter Allan '18 established the Stillwell-Allan Fund at Brown to benefit the Annmary Brown Memorial. In 1977. the then-managing editor of the BAM, Sandra Reeves, inter- viewed Miss Stillwell. Portions of that article follow: "Margaret Stillwell quite fittingly calls her ninetieth birthday, celebrated last January, a red-letter day. But for those who have followed any portion of her long and energetic career, the day was Just a cut above business as usual. After being notified of her election to honorary member- ship in New York's exclusive bookmen's association. The Grolier Club, Miss Stillwell autographed a few special edi- tions of her latest book (the fourth she has written since turning eighty), and then accepted the best wishes and con- gratulations of friends. Later in the clay, she moved into a residential home in East Greenwich, so that she could donate her home and its collection of Chinese antiques to a special fimd-rais- ing campaign [the Stillwell-Allan Fimd] she has unclertaken personally.... "Sixty years ago, she found her professional 'home' at the quiet little gray stone building on Brown Street known as the Annmary Brown Memo- rial. And it is that place, with its price- less collection of mankind's earliest piintiiig, that has fired her passions 57 ever since. "Not that her thirty-six years as the Memorial's research hbrarian were all pleasant idvlls of scholarship, although the\ did earn Miss Stillueli licr reputa- tion as one of the world's foremost au- thorities on incunabula — the printed word from Gutenberg through the Renaissance. There were some frustra- tions. In the early days, for example, the library's courtly trustees were for- ever expressing bemusement over the anomaly of a woman interested in books. And later, when the Memorial was deeded to the University, bemuse- ment turned to resentment, and Miss Stillwell had to weather a decade and a half of what she calls the "pointed dis- pleasure' of faculty and Corporation members after President Wriston de- cided to make her a full professor — the onh woman near that rank at that time. .Mthough she endmed low salaries luitil her retirement in 1953 (Mr. Wriston noted in a recent telephone conversa- tion with the BAM that Miss Stiilwell's work was, imfortunately, better appre- ciated internationally than at Brown), she continued to build a name for the Annmary Brown Memorial in the world of rare books...." There are no known survivors. Delia Edith Wood '14. Chesterfield, Mass., a teacher and school administra- tor in Radnor, Pa., unlii her retirement in 1952; Feb. 1 1. She studied with pio- neers in the field of psychology at Co- lumbia University and received her M.A. from the University of Pennsyl- vania in 1926. She was a member of the National Education Association and affiliated with other professional and historical organizations in the Philadel- phia area. In retirement she was active in the cultural and civic affairs of Chesterfield. Survivors include her niece, Barbara Kent Elliott '48, 16 Oak Rd., Concord, Mass. 01742. (xjmmodore George Thomas Paine '15 USN (Ret.). Kensington, Calif., a Naval expert in shipbuilding and vice president of engineering and director of American President Lines; Feb. 2. Mr. Paine received M.S. degrees from Harvard and MIT, and during both World War I and II, served in the Navy. His last assignment was as com- mandant of the Ferminal Island Naval Sliip\ard in C^alifornia. He was award- ed the Legion ol Merit and the Order of the British Empire. Zeta Psi. Sin\i- vors include a son. Dr. Thomas O. Paine '42, 765 Bonhill Rd., Los Angeles 90049, and a daughter. Frank Valentine W'illard '17, East Greenwich, R.I.; April 24. He served in the U.S. Army during World War I. Delta Kappa Epsilon. I'here are no known survivors. Clark Beldeti '1,S, Washington, D.C:., retired managing director of The New England Gas Association; April 30. He was appointed executive secretary of the association in 1932 and retired as its managing director in 1965. Mr. Belden was a past president of the New Eng- land Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America and of the Boston Chapter of the American Society of Association Executives. He served as a corporation member of the New Eng- land Baptist Hospital in Boston, and was the author of several books and magazine articles. He is survived by his wife, Alice, The Watergate Hotel, 2650 Virginia Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. 20()'37. John Sharpe Chafee '18, Providence, R.I., former vice president and director of the Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Clompany, a trustee of Brown, and for- mer president of Butler Hospital in Providence; June 19. Mr. Chafee served as an ambulance driver for the French Army in World War I; when the U.S. declared war, he was commis- sioned in the Army. He was associated with Brown & Sharpe from 1919 to 1942. After serving as head of the tools division of the War Production Board during World War II, he became exe- cutive vice president of the Saco-Lowell Shops, textile equipment manufactiu- ers in Maine. As well, he held executive positions with B-I-F Industries in Rhode Island. Ansonia Wire and Caijle Corporation (R.L), and Metals & Con- trols Corporation (Massachusetts). He was a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and was pres- ident of the National Machine Tool Builders Association in 1942. In 1968, Brown awarded Mr. C;haffee an honorary doctor of laws degree. The citation read: "Through you, we honor a great family, which has given distinguished leadership to Brown and to this community for more than a century. Through you, we also honor the great class of 1918, on the occasion of its 50ih reunion. But, most of all, we declare our respect and oiu' affection for you, as a fine man. \'oiu- undergraduate career was interrupted 1)) the turbulence of war, and you left Brown in 1917 to serve in the French American Ambulance Field Service. Your leadership in the business and industrial life of Providence is well known. You have served your class and your University in many ways, includ- ing membership on the Corporation. You have served yoiu' community in such public capacities as trustee and piesident of Butler Hospital, and in such quiet but significant ways as teaching in the tutorial program at the Martin Luther King School. For all this, we are deeply grateful." Mr. Chafee was a member of Al- pha Delta Phi. He is survived by four children: Janet H. Cushman, Alexan- dra Reynolds, Susan F. Welch, and Senator John H. Chafee, 301 Pastore Post Office Building, Providence; a bi other. Dr. Francis H. Chajee '27; and a sister, Maiy Chafee Andreios '24. Mr. Chafee had many other relatives who attended Brown, including his father, the late Zechariah Chajee 1880. Edward William Banigan '20, Provi- dence; Jan. 1. There are no known survivors. Miriam Weaver Bullock '20, Penny Farms, Fla., an active worker in the Baptist church and a former public school teacher in Rhode Island and Connecticut; Feb. 19. Mrs. Bullock did graduate work at Andover-Newton Theological Seminary. She was the wife of the late Rev. E.A.' Bullock "22. Suivi- vors include a son. Richard, 25 Race Ln., RED #2, Lakefield Farms, South Sandwich, Mass. 02536, and a daugh- ter. William Henn Crawford '21, Fairfield, Conn., retired secretary- treasurer of the former Crawford Laundry Company; March 20. Mr. Crawford was an Army veteran of World War I. He was an honorary member of the board of directors of Citytrust Bancorp and former alder- man for the city of Bridgeport, Conn. Delta Phi. Survivors include his wife, Elizabeth, 3375 Park A\c., Fairfield 06432; and two sons, including Phillip '51. George Fearing Allen '22, Cranston, R.L, a sewage plant opeiator for the city of Cranston; April 25. Delta Phil. There are no immediate survivors. Ralph Saivyer Brown '22, Chapel Hill. N.C., a social worker with the FaiK|uier County (Va.) Welfare De- pailment and a farmer for many years; April 14. He was a social worker with the Boys Parole Division of the Com- monwealth of Massachusetts, and later was lounder and director oF the Coni- munitv Action Center in Warrenton, Va. Aiplia Delta Phi. Survivors include his wile, Dorotiiy, 145 Carol Woods. Chapel Hill 27f)14, a son, and a daugh- ter. Dr. F.dward Anthony Cooney '22. Boston, instructor of surgery at Har- vard Medical School and a professor of surger\ at Boston University School of Medicine while practicing in Boston; May 12. Dr. Cooney graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1926. .A resident of Florida since 1972. he was a fellow of llie ,\nierican College of Siugeons. and a diplomat of the .\mer- ican Board of Surgery. Phi Kappa. Survivors include his wife, Lillian. 2800 North Flagler Dr.. West Palm Beach, Fla. 33407, a son, and a daughter. Waylund McColley Burgess '25 Pli.D.. Cinciimati, Ohio, professor of chemis- try at the Universitv of Cincinnati luitil his retirement in 1959; April 10. A World War 1 .Army veteran. Professor Bingess was a 1919 graduate of the former Rhode Island State College. He is survived by two sons, including Way- land M. Burgess, RR #2, Box 883, North Scituate, R.I., and two daugh- ters. Tiask Handforth Wilkimon '25. North Maishlield. Mass.. retired direc- tor of F.nglish tor the town of Brook- line. Mass.. and a former English teacher; March 11. Mr. Wilkinson re- ceived his Ed.M. from Boston Univer- sity in 1942. Kappa Sigma. Survivors include his wife. Barbara. P.O. Box 172. North Marshfield 02059. Leslie Thomas Fagaii '2(3, '28 .A.M.. Lawrcnceville, N.J., retired business manager and a former mathematics teacher at The Lawrenceville School: April 8. In 1953, Mr. Fagan was presi- dent of the Association of Business Ofiicers of Preparatory Schools. Sur- viving is his wife, Mildred, P.O. Box 6085, Lawrenceville 08648; a son and a daughter; and his biother. Dr. Frank Fa gait '29. Frank Oliver Brown '27, Tampa, Fla., retired owner of an insurance agency in North Kingston. R.I.; April 30. Mr. Brown lived in Rhode Island for most of his life, working in banking and insurance. Siuvixors include his wife, Florence. 1034(i Ciarrollwood Ln.. Tampa 33()18. and two daughters. Ini'/ii Barker C.rosniaii '27, Scarsdale, N.\'., a lawyer practicing in Scarsdale; March 18. Mr. Crosman received his LL.B. from Columbia in 1930. Phi Kappa Psi. Survivors include his wife, Ruth, 37 Walworth Ave., Scarsdale 10583. Marihelle Cormack '28 A.M., War- ren, R.I., retired director of the science museimi and planetarium at Roger Williams Park in Piovidence, and an author; June II. Miss Cormack gradu- ated from Cornell University and did graduate work in botany at the Univer- sity of Vienna and at the University of Geneva's Alpine station. When she took over as science museum director, her first task was renovation, but she went on to update and enlarge the exhibits. She was the leader of the drive to es- tablish a planetarium in Roger Williams Park, and the building is now known as the Maribelle C^ormack Planetarium. She leaves two brothers, including James A. Cormack, Box 281, Snyder, N.V. 14226. Dr. Dean Davidge Smilli '28. Naples. Fla., a retired physician; .April 8. Dr. Smith received his M.D. degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1934. He was a former president of the Binghamton (N.Y.) Academy of Medicine and practiced in Binghamton for a number of vears. Alpha Delta Phi. Survivors include his wife, Elva. 1900 Gulf Shore Blvd. N.. Apt. #402, Naples 33940. Paul Cyrus Jillson '29, Bristol, R.I., a retired development engineer with the Kaiser .Aluminum and Chemical Cor- poration in Bristol; March 14. Mr. Jill- son was a member of the American Chemical Society. Survivors include his sister, Helen F. Brown. 1200 South Ocean Blvd., Apt. 6B, Boca Raton, Fla. 33432; and two brothers, including Waller H. Jillson '22. M. Veronica Holland Hurley '30, '34 A.M., Providence, a social worker for the Rhode Island Department of Social Welfaie for sixteen \ears before her retirement in 1960; Mav 14. She was named librarian emeritus of the North Providence Union Free Library when she retired in 1965 after thirtv-two years of service. Surviving are three sons, including Paul F. Hurley, 185 Capuano Ave., Cranston, R.I. 02920. Charles Edward Payne '31, Lake San Marcos, Calif., retired manager of in- dustrial relations with the Pabst Brew- ing C:ompan\ in Los Angeles; Sept. 2, 1983. Mr. Payne was a member of the American Arbitration Association. Kappa Sigma. Survivors include his wife, Catharine, 1273 San Pablo Dr., Lake San Marcos 92069; and a son, John E. Payne '62. Stephen Waller Shanosky '31. Boyn- ton Beach, Fla., letired district sales manager for Schraftt's Candy Compa- n\ ; March 5. He was a volunteer work- er at the Lynn (Mass.) Council on .Ag- ing and lived in Swampscott for many vears. Survivors include his wife, Hel- en, 2834 SW 5th St.. Boynton Beach 33435, a son, and a daughter. Mhert Arnold Burden. Jr. '32, Still- water, Maine, professor of zoology at the L'niversity of Maine at Oiono; April 17. Mr. Barden received his Sc.M. from Brown in 1934 and his Ph.D. fiom Northwestern in 1 94 1. He served in the .Army during World War II and joined the Universitv of Maine teaching staff in 1946. ,A bird enthusiast, he was a member of the Ecological Society of .America. Survivors include his wile, Elizabeth, Box 5, Stillwater 04489; a daughter; and two sons, Albert A. Barden '67 and Hineard S. Barden '67. Edmund Wallace Bateman '32, Phoe- nix, Ariz., retired technical advisor and assistant vice president with the Rock Hill Printing and Finishing Company, a division of M. Lowenstein & Coinpany in New York City; Jan. 19. Mr. Bate- man was a star pitcher on the Brown baseball team. He served as tieasurer of the Machine Printers Association for twenty years. Survivors include his wife, Jean, 1 662 1 North 34th St., Phoenix 85023, a son, and two daughters. Cerald In'ing Glunis '32, Brookline. Mass.. partner in charge of the Boston ofhce of Elmer Fox, Westheimer & Co. (accountants); Feb. 19. Mr. Glunts re- ceived an LL.B. from Boston University Law School in 1935. He was a trustee of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston. Survivors include his wife. Bernice, 101 Monmouth St., Biookline 02146. Elizabeth L. Goodwin '32. Somerville, Mass., a caseworker with the Faniilv Service .Association of Greater Boston; Match 2. Miss Goodwin received a B.S. from the Simmons College School of Social Work in 1937 and an M.S. from Boston University in 1944. There are no known survivors. Melvin Peter Aselton '33, Leicester, 60 Mass., general manager of Trailways Bus Company, former president of the Yellow Cab Company, and president of the former Aselton Motor Company in Worcester, Mass.; May 31. Mr. Aselton graduated from Boston College Law School in 1936. Sigma Chi. He is sur- vived by his wife, Dorothy, 82 Pleasant St., Leicester, a son, and four daugh- ters. Robert Wilmarlh Colwell '33, Rum- ford, R.I., a member of the sales de- partment at Durant Tool Supply Com- pany in Providence; May 23. Delta Phi. Survivors include his wife, Evelyn, 6 Gertrude Ave., Rumford. His father was Wilmarlh H. Colwell 1899, and his grandfather was John W. Colwell 1872. Louis James Hand '34, Plymouth, Mass., retired senior development en- gineer with Revere Copper & Brass in Rome, N.V.; .^pril 6. Mr. Hand was a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Survivors in- clude his wife, Genevieve, 1 1 Seven Hills Rd., Plymouth 02360, a son, and a daughter. Eunice Flink Riner Broiun '38, Palm Beach, Fla., a freelance designer and compo.ser of, among other works, "The Bicentennial Waltz," which was record- ed by the National Symphony String Quartet and placed in a time capsule at the Kennedy Center; May 9. Mrs. Brown developed design ideas for such companies as Milton Bradley and A.G. Spaulding while she lived in Springfield, Mass. After moving to Alexandria, Va., she became active in the performing arts and was a patron of the National Symphony Orchestra. She published many musical scores, wrote a song for the class of 1938's 45th reunion last year, and wrote a piece for the state of Maryland's 350th anniver- sary. Survivors include her daughter, Marilyn Klarman, 276 Forest Lake, Lawrenceville, Ga. 30246, and a son. William Ward Browne, Jr. '38, Jen- sen Beach, Fla., retired advertising executive with Playbill, Inc., in New York City; March 4. Mr. Browne re- ceived his M.B.A. from Harvard in 1940. He lived in Connecticut for many years. .Survivors include his wife, Doris, 4027 NW Cinnamon Cir., Jensen Beach 33457, and two sons. His father was the late William W. Browne '08. John Salvalore Fiore '38, East Provi- dence, R.I., a sales manager with Paine Webber Jackson & Curtis in Provi- dence; Nov. 1, 1982. Mr. Fiore received his B.A. from the University of Okla- homa. Survivors include his wife, Agnes, 1580 Wanipanoag Trail #482, East Providence 02915. Jane Flannery Jackson '38 A.M., Niantic, Conn., editor in medicine and psychiatry for Little, Brown and Com- pany in Boston before her retirement; May 25. Mrs. Jackson graduated from Connecticut College in 1937. She was an editor for the American Heart As- sociation and then editor of the Neiv York State Journal of Medicine. Slie was the author of a chapter on child devel- opment in an introductory psychology text to be published by Random House. Survivors include her husband, Joseph H.Jackson '37 A.M., '40 Ph.D., 57 Atta- wa Ave., Niantic 06357, and a son. Herbert Charles Beasley, Jr. '39, Woodcliff Lake, N.J., comptroller with the Warner Woven Label Company in Paterson, NJ.; Feb. 14, 1983. Mr. Beasley served in the Navy during World War IL and received his Sc.M. from NYU in 1948. Delta Upsilon. There are no immediate survivors. Lee Holmes Danforth '39, Brockton. Mass.; Jan. 1, 1977. Mr. Danforth lived for a time in Miami, Fla. Theta Delta Chi. There are no immediate survivors. Dr. Herbert Bartholomew Gianfran- ce.sco '39, Roslyn, N.Y., a thoracic and cardiac surgeon at St. Francis Hospital, Long Island, N.Y.; May 19. Dr. Gian- francesco served as a captain in the Army Medical Corps during World War II, receiving his medical degree at Boston University in 1943. Survivors include his mother, Mrs. Alice Gian- francesco, 665 Academy Ave., Provi- dence, R.I. 02908. Harry Sharkey '40, Brockton, Mass., a mathematics teacher at Brockton High School for many years; May 18. During World War II, Mr. Sharkey served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. He is survived by his wile, Sophie, 26 Payton Ct., Brockton 02401, and a daughter. Herbert Ingersoll Bnttrick, Jr. '41, Oxford. N.C., headmaster at Cabarrus Academy in Concord, N.C.; March 20. Mr. Buttrick taught at a number of private schools and had been assistant headmaster at the Catlin Gabel School in Portland, Oreg. Phi Gamma Delta. .Survivors include his wife, Elizabeth, Rt. 1, Box 165, Oxfoid 27565, two sons, and a daughter. Janice Baruiick Bensimon '43, War- wick, R.I., former associate professor at the C.W. Post Center of Long Island University and former adjunct assistant professor in counselor education at Hofstra University; May 20. Mrs. Ben- simon earned her M.Ed, and Ed.D. at Boston University in the 1950s. For several years, she was head counselor at the Paris American High School in France. Survivors include her husband, Nahoum, P.O. Box 44, East Greenwich, R.I. 02818. Marion L. Kesselring '43 A.M., Providence, a Brown librarian for forty years until retiring in 1975 as chief cat- alogue librarian; May 27. Miss Kessel- ring was a 1931 graduate of Wheaton College and studied library science at Columbia University. She was a mem- ber of the Bibliographical Society of America and the Rhode Island Histori- cal Society. Survivors include two sisters and a brother, John Kesselring, 820 Jamaica Blvd., Tom's River, N.J. 08757. John Joseph Morley '44, Barrington, R.I., president of the National Lami- nating Company, Inc., of Warwick, R.I.; May 23. Survivors include his wife, Harriett, 146 Rumstick Rd., Barrington 02806; and a son, Peter J. Morley '75. Albert B. Witig '44, Annandale, Va., president of Wing Enterprises, techni- cal consultants in electro-optics; April 13. Mr. Wing received his graduate degree from the Institute of Optics and Physics at the University of Rochester. He was a scientific consultant to several government agencies and private firms in the fields of biomedical engineering, optics, and physics. He designed the camera lens used on the first moon landing and recently designed a reha- bilitation hospital for spinal cord injury victims in Galveston, Texas. He is sur- vived by his wife, Dorothy, 8204 Briar Creek Dr., Annandale 22003, his mother, his daughter, and his son, Bradford J. Wing lb. Jean Woolley Knapp '45, Narragan- sett, R.I., a former employee of New York City publishing houses and, later, of the University of Rhode Island (Narragansett Bay Campus); May 30. Mrs. Knapp attended the Coliunbia Graduate School of Journalism. She was a past local president of the Na- tional Education Association. Survivors include four daughters and a son, Pat- rick, 41 l.akeview Dr., Narragansett 02882. Her father was the late Charles L. Woolley '14. William Ft'djik Nemecek '47, Middle- town, Conn., an employee of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft in Middletown; May 15. A veteran of World War II, he served with the U.S. Navy in the Pacific theater and was a 1949 graduate of Pierce Technical School in New York. Survivors include his wife, Shirley, 66 Newton St., Middletown 06457, two sons, and a daughter. Alfred Everett Couto '48, Greenbrae, Calif., an engineer on the Bay Area Rapid Transit project and similar pro- jects in Atlanta and Caracas, Venezuela, and later, an engineer with Bechtel Corporation in San Francisco; April 10. Mr. Couto worked for a time in Brazil and in Portugal, where he was decorat- ed by the president for his work on the Salazar suspension bridge. He was a member cjf the American Society of Civil Engineers. Smvivors include his wife, liene. 840 South Eliseo Dr., Greenbrae 94904, a daughter, and two sons. George Albert Hahib '49, Peabody, Mass., an electronics engineer with the Raytheon Company, and before that, an employee of the Puerto Rico Tele- phone Company; March 14. Mr. Habib was a World War II Navy veteran. Sur- vivors include his wife, Hortensia, 9 Keys Dr., Peabody 01960; and three daughters, including Sandra Habih Gal- lette '74. Jean Abbott '50, Gloucester, Mass., director of residence and student counselor of Pembroke College in the 1960s and, later, an associate in the guidance department of the C>loucester public schools; April 28. During World War II, she was in the WAVES and was assigned to a Naval air base at Pensaco- la, Fla. Miss Abbott had a career in educational publishing at D.C>. Heath and Houghton Mifflin in Boston. She was a past president of The Bookbuild- ers of Boston, and received the William A. Dwiggiiis Award in 1966 for her graphic art. In 1972, she received a master's in education from Salem State College. She was the author of Classroom Strategies for the Disabled Learn- er, and was a former chairman of the editorial board of the Pembroke Alumna. She is survived by a sister-in-law, Cecile Abbott, P.O. Box 1990, Kailua-Kuna, Hawaii 96747. William Elmer Parineiiter. Jr. '50, Providence, a lawyer for the past thirty years; March 21. Mr. Parmenter re- ceived his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1954. Surviv- ing are four sons, including Brian Par- menter. 5 Tanglewood Cl., Warwick, R.I. 02886. His father was the late Wil- liam E. Parmenter '19. Richard Warren McGregor '51, Dal- las, Texas, an investor and portfolio manager with First International In- vestment Management Company in Dallas; April 19. Mr. McGregor was a member of the New York Stock Ex- change and, at t)ne time, worked for Merrill Lynch in Dallas. Lambda Chi Alpha. Survivors include his wife, Son- ja, 6053 Meadow Rd., Dallas 75230. Dennis William Tierney '51, Raleigh, N.C., an engineer in advanced me- chanical development at IBM in Owe- go, N.Y.; April 5. Mr. Tierney received his master's from Syracuse University in 19(i2. Survivors include his sister, Irene Healev, 40 C>)vington Dr., War- wick, R.I. 02886. William Roland Collins. Jr. '52, Ja- maica Plain, Mass., a chemist with the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and the U.S. Department of Defense; Feb. 27. Mr. Collins served in the Army during the Korean War, and attended graduate school at New York L'niversi- ty. Survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William R. (x)llins, 304 For- mosa Ave., Durham, N.C. 27707. Robert Kovalchick '56, Crete, 111., midwest district sales manager for a subsidiary of the Corning Glass Works; April 25. Phi Delta Theta. Survivors include his wife, Eva, 3515 Innsbruck Ln., Crete, a daughter, and a son. He was the brother of Joseph Kovalchick '63. James Arthur O'Lean, Jr. '57, Northboro, Mass., an adjuster with the Travelers Insurance Company in Worcester, Mass.; April 7. Mr. O'Leary was awarded his B.A. from Boston College and his ].D. from Suffolk Uni- versity. Delta Kapjja Epsilon. Survivors include his wife, Lee, 355 Lincoln St., Worcester 01605, and two daughters. Alvin Charles Haas '59, Albany, N.Y., an architect and city planner in New York City for a nmnber of years; April 13. Mr. Haas received a B. Arch, from Harvard in 1963. There are no inmiediate survivors. Sharon O'Donnell Bosack '63, Wakefield, R.I., a teacher at Ocean Tides School in Narragansett, R.I., and earlier, in the Pawtucket and Seekonk (Mass.) school systems; Feb. 1 1. Mrs. Bosack received her master's from Providetice College in 1973. Survivors include her husband, Theodore N. Bosack '62, '67 Ph.D., 2 Wendy Ln., Wakefield 02879, and two sons. Nicholas Anthony Yanni,Jr. '64, New York City, a movie critic for the Ncxu York Post and host of t^^e cable television show, "Tomorrow's Television To- night"; Feb. 15. Mr. Yanni served in the Navy before receiving a ruaster's from NYU and a Ph.D. from Columbia Uni- versity. The author of articles and books on television and film, he inter- viewed show business personalities for his program on Cable Television of Manhattan. Smvivors include his par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Yanni, 225 East Park Ave., Ambler, Pa. 19002. James Andrew Emanuel. Jr. '74, New Rochelle, N.Y.; Jan. 16, 1983. Suivivois include his mother, Mattie Etha Smith, 409 Warwick Ave., Mount Vernon, N.Y. 10553. Cortland Wexford Waifer '81, Silver Spring, Md., a lance corporal in the Marine Corps; April 13, in a training accident in Okinawa. Mr. Waifer had been a teaching assistant at Brown and had served on the Advisory Conmiittee on Universitv Planning. He was partic- ipating in an open-water conditioning exercise in Opa Wan Bay in Okinawa when he died, an apparent drowning victim. At the time of his death he was serving in the 3rd Reconnaissance Bat- talion of the 3rd Marine Division. Sur- vivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Waifer, 8510 16 St., Apt. #722, Silver Spring 20910. 61 REUNION REPORTS How many classes can you find represented in this Commencement morning photograph? 62 /^ J Leaning on canes, crutches, ^ /I and walkers, members of M^ A^ 1924 and their guests first met for their 60th reunion on Friday, May 25, at class headquarters in North Wayland House to register and gel class hats. Next day, a luncheon and class meeting in Sharpe Refectory was held. Avian Coolidge read several letters from classmates expressing regret at not be- ing able to be present. Among the let- ters was one from Philip Litkin saying he would be "luxuriating" in his apartment in London, England. A resolution was passed unanimously expressing the hope that Philip gets lumps in his mashed potatoes. Election of officers was held next. The following were elected: Jdck A. Luhrano, "permanent" president and head class agent; Clarence (',. Chaffee, vice president; Arlan R. Coolidge, re- union chairman; Randolph Flalher. sec- retary (who asks thai classmates send items of interest to him for insertion in the Brown Alumni Monthly classnotes. His address is 200 Wampanoag Trail, East Providence. R.I. 02915). A discussion ensued as to whether there should be another reunion in five years. At this point a stage whisper was heard, "Will there be anyone left to reune with then?" On this touch of pessimism the matter was laid on the table for possible revival in five years. Thanks to Nan Tracy '46, reunion coordinator, her assistant, Susan Daly, and Development Officer Susan Geary '67 were expressed for their outstand- ing help in planning the reiuiion. Brown Vice President Robert A. Reichley then gave an overview of the University as it is today and assured all present that Brown is a dynamic and thriving institution headed for contin- ued development in the years ahead. The class dinner was held Saturday evening at the University Club. Dr. Milton W. Hamolsky, wiio was instru- mental in organizing tlie medical pro- gram, gave a splendid talk on the his- tory of the Brown Program in Medi- cine, as well as a report on the pro- gram's present status and its hopes for the future. The following from 1924 were in attendance at one or more of the Com- mencement events: Waller Bernard (and Mrs.), Rev. Gordon E. Bigelow (and Mrs.), Arlan R. Coolidge (and Mrs.), Wil- liam Allan Dyer, Jr., (and Mrs.), Alfred L. Fitzgerald, Randolph Flalher, Mrs. Robert H. (Nelia) Goff, Denison W. Greene (and Mrs.), Ivan Half, Richard W. Honefeld, Earle Vincent Johnson, Jack A. Lubrano (and Mrs.), Dr. Anthony V. Migliaccio (and Mi-s.), Mrs. Irving '{Betty) Reid "26, Nathan B. Silberman (and Mrs.), James H. Sims, and Carleton L. Staples. Classmates will be glad to learn that William Allan Dyer, Jr., was awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree at Commencement. Following this curious headline, "Octogenarian Newspaper President," the Brrnvn Daily Herald re- ported as follows: "Mr. Dyer was a trustee from 1952 to 1959, he was former secretary and president of the Brown C^lub of Indi- ana, and has been active in fund-raising and admission recruiting for inany years. "Mr. Dyer is currently president of Indianapolis Newspapers, Inc., Muncie Newspapers, Inc., Central Newspapers Foundation, and director of Central Newspapers, Inc. His publications in- clude the Indianapolis Star and the Indi- anapolis News. "In a recent letter to the Brown Daily Herald, Mr. Dyer noted that he has been a subscriber for many years: 'I haven't agreed with everything it's had to say, but, along with Voltaire, I'll de- fend to the death its right to say it.' " The sympathy of classmates goes to Edward R. Coop on the death of his wife, Pauline, May 8. Ed's addiess is 46 Hope St., Rumford, R.I. 02916. Randolph Flalher ^~V /"^ On Saturday, May 26, sixteen ^ \C membcis of the class of 1928 ^^ V_v had luncheon at the Faculty Club. Letters were read from absent members. The member from farthest away was Eleanor Leonard Ladd Wiren from West Lafayette, Ind. Her husband was celebrating his fiftieth at Brown. Sylvia Berkman of Cambridge is organizer this year of the panel of speakers for the Katherine Mansfield progiam at the Modern Language As- sociation convention in Washington in Deceinber. Sylvia received her Ph.D. in a study of Katherine Mansfield's writ- ings. Olive Richards Tompkins attended the festivities celebrating the 200th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Paris. She met the mayor, the Amer- ican Ambassador, and others and at- tended the banquet in the "Salon of Battles" in the palace of Versailles, which ended at 3:45 a.m. Grace McAustan /~v ^~x The women of the class of J VJ 1929 held their 55th reunion ^^ *_/ on Commencement weekend with a total of twenty-three members attending one or more of the planned activities. We enjoyed the Brown Bear Buffet and the Cainpus Dance on Fri- day evening, a class luncheon at the Faculty Club, the supper at Maddock Alumni Center and the Pops Concert on Saturday, and the Fifty-plus lunch- eon following the Commenceinent exercises on Monday. Five marched down the Hill in the Commencement procession. At the business meeting following the luncheon on Saturday it was voted to make a gift to the LIniversity for the use of the Pembroke Library in memo- ry of Alice V. McGralh, our president who had died in December 1983. Those present carried on our policy of paying dues to the treasurer for the five-year period until our next reunion. The following officers were elected to serve until 1989: president, Katherine E. Nolan; vice president, Elise Joslin Moulton; secretary, Elizabeth A. Rose; and treasurer, Elizabeth M. Qiiinham. These members of the class at- tended one or more of the events of the weekend: Marjorie Atkinson Sammis, Louise Burt Howard, Elinor Chace Larson, Ethel Clear Gildea, Ella Faiilds Casey. Mary Fessenden Wieland, Phyllis Fletcher Shcinklin, Louise Gladding Rich, Pauline Greene Adams, Dorris Home Stewart, Ethel Humphrey Anderson, Ina Hunter Gilmore, Elise Joslin Moulton, Margery Leonard, Beatrice Noakley Andrews, Katherine E. Nolan, Angela O'Neil Farrell, Elizabeth M. Qiiinham, Elizabeth A. Rose, Doris Sea- grave Warren, Melissa Seaman Vaughn, Mae Sydney Alimena, and Ruth Johnston Gemeinhardt. Notes were read from others who had not been able to return to campus. Elizabeth A. Rose A small group of 1929ers, some with wives, gathered at the Zeta Psi house Friday afternoon to commence reunion activities organized by Nate Pass and his committee. That evening we had cocktails, then the Brown Bear Buffet and ended by participating in, or watching, the beautiful Campus Dance, seemingly more beautiful every year. Saturday the class meeting at noon was followed by limcheon in the Chancellor's Dining Room, and at night, dinner at the Hope Club and the traditional Pops Concert. Sunday we rested or browsed. Monday bright and early we marched down College Hill, nearer and nearer to the head of the parade, and were greeted by tumultuous applause from the soon-to-graduate seniors. Then it all ended with lunch as guests of the LIniversity. 1984 Reunion attendees: Stephen O. Carleton, Bradford Anthony Clark. Howard A. Crins, Douglas D. Davisson, Alex Di- Martino, John H. Dreasen, Walter G. En- sign, Roland Formidoni, William C. Foster, Innng H. Friar, Theodore Giddings, George Labush, William H. Lyon, Jr., Don Marsch- ner. Nathan E. Pass, Robert B. Perkins, H. Roland Rich, Lester F. Shall. Robert G. Shanklin, Roger W. Shattuck. Harold S. Sizer, Horner^ P. Smith. Philip N. Smith, Grandon E. Todd, and Joseph Zaparanick. See you all in 1989. Roger W. Shattuck 3\l The class of Pembroke 1931 had a delightful off-year reunion limcheon at the Ramada Inn on May 23. We were all glad to see each other and talk over old times. The consensus seemed to be that all wanted to merge with the men's class of 1931. We also talked about having a cruise on Narragansett Bay at our next reunion in 1986. Those present were: Florence Mo- ran, Kay Scott Sweet, Eleanor McAndreios Retallick, Maiy Banigan, Esther Dick Snell, Eleanor Smith. Hope Petley, Mahelle Cul- len, Rosamund Danielson Bellin, Leah Estherbrooks, Ann Garr Booth, Anna Bucci Conti, and Connie Considtne Dowd. Mabelle L. Cullen ^^ ^^ The '33 women met for a ^^ •^ mini-reimion at noon on V>' %^ Saturday, May 26, and voted that we should continue meeting annu- ally. Those attending were Elizabeth Til- linghast Angell, Jessie Barker, Edith Smith Cameron, Ruth Wade Cerjanec, Katherine Hazard, Billie Shea McClurg, and Rae Baldivin Scattergood. Vivienne Cote has been elected treasurer of Gamma chapter of Alpha Delta Kappa, a group composed of 63 64 teachers. Rachel Baldwin Scattergood's granddaughiei, Wendy, a graduate of Penn Stale with a major in biochemistry and microbiology, is now a lab techni- cian in genetic research at Wistar Insti- tute. Rulh Wade Cerjanec MOne hundred seventy-six was the magic number as the Pembroke and Brown classes of 1934 celebrated their 50th over the Memorial Day weekend. Granted, this count included husbands, wives, and guests of the sixty-nine men and forty women making up the delegation. Considering that forty-one men at- tended the 45th (which was not a "merged" celebration) we seem to be getting better as we get older. For the record, those who attended all or some of the reunion events included: Ray- mond Affinilo, John and Rhea Akin. Mar- shall and Norma Allen, Isabel Andrews, Bill and Peggy Aular, Frank Barber, Donald and Clare Bogert. Maiy Carr Boy- Ian, Ruth Cary Boynton and Harold, yo^ Buonanno. Ed and Marjorie Buttner, Maury and Lucia Caito, E. Davis Cald- well, Ray and Alice Chace, Henry and Dorothy Colony, Herbert Coone, Henry and Dorothy Couden, Francois Cmirtois, Rowland Crowell (whose trip from Por- tugal won "came the longest distance" honors), Bertram and Miriam Dane, Al- lan and Barbara DeWitt, Carmela Santoro DiPippo, Ashton and Cecelia Baker Dixon, Charles and Agnes Dixon, Dan and Ma- rian Earle. John and Jessie Englund, Wil- liam and Mary Flack, Max and Esther Flaxman, Nina Loparto Fortin, Rcdph and Roslyn Foster, Anthony and Joan Giovino, Rockwell and Alice Gray, Rosalind Wal- lace Greene and Albert, yo/i?? Gross, Alfred H. Halberstadt, Elimbeth Whittaker Hcdl and (jilberl, Norman and Doris Halpin, Barbara Hughes Hanson and John, John and Betty Harriman, Edith Janson Hatch, Jerinne and Rosalind Herman, Gertrude Daly Heyck, Mary Quirk Hoffman, Betty Ingram Horton and Charles, Harry Jack- son, Lillian Salmin Janas, Raymond Ka- maras, Zenas and Martha Ahlijian ('39) Keiuirkian, York and Margaret King, Malcolm and Marion Lang, Walter and Patricia Leiy, Bancroft and Nancy Lit- tlepeld, Robert and Marjorie Lowenthal, John and Helen Lynch, Henry and Stella Malkowski, Anna Ray Mann, Elizabeth Brerman McCaffrey and Charles, Doro- thea Carr McGovern and James, Kathleen McKay, Maiy McKay, Marguerite Melville, George and Martha Meniam, jr., Donald and Margaret Midwood, Harry and Stella Moat, Frank and Helen Moler, Marjorie Daw Morrusey, Harriett Legg Murray, Roland and Elizabeth Newcombe, Edward and Roxie Nnorigian, Helen Howard Nowlis and Vincent, Louise Munel Hemy Nurdin, Mildred E. O'Neal, Lee and Ger- trude Carlson Pease. Herb and Hope Phil- lips, Lillian Atchison Piotraschke and Charles, Win and Elizabeth Robbtns, Frances Lenkowski Rosenberg, Mamin Rothlein, Forrest and Ruth Rowell, Jose- phine Tomasi Russo and Anthony '31, Carl Sawyer, John and Lorraine Sayward, Edwin and Phoebe Schermerhorn, Milton and Dorothy Scribner, Lorna Kendall Snoui, Elizabeth Palmer Spelt, Selden and Clara Louise Steiger, Paul and Elena Tamburello, Ethel Nichols Thomas, Weslene Dolloff Troy, Leroy and Jean Vandam, Dorothy Greene Nernet and Russell, David and Mary Louise Viger, Ruth Wilkinson Waddicor, Harriet Randall Whitaker and Charles, Carl and Helen Whitman, Frank and Gladys Walerhouse ('37) Wilier, John and Eleanor Leonard ('28) Wiren, Ruth Hobby Young and son Malcolm, Arthur and Santa Zaia, William Brines, Chick Gershman, Boh Purrington, and guests June Carpenter (Mrs. Henry G., Jr.), Mrs. Norman D. Baker, and Mrs. Priscilla Dibble. The weekend began with a recep- tion followed by the Brown Bear Buffet and Campus Dance. Saturday featured attendance at one or more of the sym- posia offered by the University, the class luncheon at the Faculty Club, a clambake at Squantum, and the eve- ning at the Pops Concert. On Sunday the class enjoyed a cruise on Narragan- sett Bay and a cookout at the Haffen- reffer Grant (which included, as a bo- nus, a chance to visit the Museum of the American Indian located on the grounds). On Monday the class literally "stole the show" as we marched down the Hill, led by classmates Helen How- ard Nowlis, chief marshal; Elizabeth Palmer Spelt, Ethel Nichols Thomas, Herb Phillips and Ed Schermerhorn, aides; and Win Robbins, Lillian Salmin Janis, Nina Loparto Fortin, and Dan Earle, class marshals. At the class luncheon officers for the next five years were elected. For Brown: president, Maury M.J. Caito; vice president and class agent, Ray- mond H. Chace; secretary, Leander F. Pease II; treasurer, Norman T. Halpin; reunion chairman, Daniel W. Earle. For Pembroke; president, Eliza- beth Brennan McCaffrey; vice presi- dent, Edith Janson Hatch; secretary, Kathleen McKay; treasurer, Francois Courtois; class agent, Elizabeth Palmer Spelt; reunion chairman, Lillian Salmin Janas. Daniel W. Earle d^ ^y The 1937 class (women) held ^ / its annual Commencement- o / time reunion luncheon at the Rusty Scupper in Providence on Ma) 26. There were twenty "young girls' present, lots of conversation, and best wishes for a happy sununer to all. This was our third social meeting of the 1983-84 year, having had our usual fall and spring dinners in November and April. Notes were sent to all members of the class asking for new information about themselves and their families. Let's hear from you. Do you have any ideas for our 50th? Eleanor R. McElroy r~\ y^ I he women of '39 had a yA^ \_J uondeiiiil 45th reunion witli \_^ sJ toity-six (lass members and luentv-one spouses returning to cam- pus. The spirit was great, the camara- derie was fantastic, and the extensi\e round of activities planned iiy the large reiMiion committee was thoroughly enjoyecl by all. In addition, the men ol '39 cordially entertained the class at a cocktail partv in Buxton and also at the Campus Dance. It was certainlv a full, festive weekend with a good number remaining to match with excitement down the Hill in the colorful Com- mencement procession. The sentiment was unanimous that it was heartwarming and delightful to be back on campus visiting with so many classmates and friends, alinnni/ ae, and others. Attending the Com- mencement forinns, toin ing the cam- pus, seeing the new buildings, and learning of some of the extensive re- search and program developments first-hand was fascinating and leassur- ing that our alma mater i.s certainly a great University, testimony that our support is used for good purpose and well-deserved, too. CHass members came Irom as tar away as New Mexico. Alabama, Florida, Virginia, northern Vermont, Maine, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. Of course, Rhode Island, Comiecticut, and Massachusetts were well represented. Those attending were: Mime Cuo- g(i)i Laurence. Alice Fitzgerald Boardnuui and Arthm . Helen ('.ill Engle\ and Bob, Kila Donnelly Fhnn. Dmolhy Tucker Brinvning and Lester, Claire Hnrriiigtmi Mellen, Lmiise Whitney Harrington and Earl, C.hmtiiie Whitney Roherty and Tom, Thelina Simister Thomas. Dorothy Magiil Setih and Herb, Teresa Gagnon Mellone and Sal, Eunice Estes Strohel, Dorothy Frost ClecLsby and Re\. Clarence, Sylvia Corr Kenner. Dorothy Hills Doienes. Eliiahelh Goodale Kenyan and Boh, Marjorie Kelly Ryan and John, Maty Veach Wurzel. Katherine P. Tucker. Phyllis .Samjison Wal- lis. Margaret Rickett C.rainner and |ohn, Constance Hathaieiiy )'(ning and Francis, Dorothy L. Rice. Anita Percelay Blank. Helen Rae Mulready .Sammis and Dr. Arnold, Frances Miller Dawley and Howard, Dons McCutchemi Owens. Mar- garet Porter Dolan. Nainy Mark Stewart. Phyllis Silverman Kajistein. Ruth Manter Lmd and Adoljih, Miriam I'rucker Barl- luu< and F.mmett. Betty Liniismi (ireenberg. Louise Lyon Weiss and VN'oldemar, Fran- ces Singer Watlmaii. Constance Farrell Tajt and Dr. Cicorge. Elizaheth B Hnssey. Alice Fox Silbert. Elramn Hull Byerley. Mane lannucci Sriotti .inrl \'in, Phyllis llaydock Michael. Dr. Sophie Trent-Ste- vens. Elaine Frank Lieherman. Martha Ahlijian Kevorkuin .md Zenas, /l(((/;v'v Raiche Souzii. and Barbara Cohlburgh Moses. .-\t the class huu lieori meeting the following class officers were reeleded: Kav linker, piesideru; Connie I aft, vue president; Peg Dolan, secretary; I.ibln Kemoii, treasuier. Teresa t-ag- non Mellone was named .'lOth reunion (haiiMian. Teresa Cagnioi Mellone 4:4: 1 hirty-seven class members enjoyed a wonderful fortieth reunion. F.vents planned by Reunion Chairman Dons Fain Hirsch and her conunittee included a candle- light dinner at the (iradtiate Center Piano Lounge, a gourmet [)icnic liiiuli, and a buffet at the Crystal Room. New class officers elected ate: president, Gloria Carbone l.oPresti: vice president, Constance Lucas Chase: secre- tary. Gene Gannon Gallagher: treasurer, finite Ballmger Brown: class agent, Jane O'Brien Cottam: reunion chairman, Lil- lian Carneglia .Affleck: co-historians, Ju- dith Weiss Cohen .iiul Xiitalic Ginirse Prokesch. Th(5se attending leunion were Lil- lian Carneglia Affleck. Shirley Buckingham Allen. Elizabeth Van Stratum ,\rnolil. Ar- line Kotite Baleiiinn. Dorothy Bornstein Berstein. Marjorie Dine Bertram. Janet Sanborn Bowers. Virginia Richardson Briggs. Hope Ballmgn Blown. Claiie Fontaine Gayer. Constance Lucas Chase. Judith Weiss Cohen. Jane O'Brien Cottam. Mar/one Greene Craig. Shirley Burr Dul- ling. Elizabeth Heideii Froelich. Gene Gan- non Gallaghet. Dorothy Segool Golblatt. Dorothy Robinson Gainer. Marcella Fagaii Haiice. Janet Lindsay Hindmarsh. Dons Fain Hirsch. Caioline Woodbuiy Hookway. Eloise Kates Julius. .\nne Thomas Lane. Flora Hall Lovell. Phyllis Bidwell Oliver. Dorothy Seidman Orent. Phyllis Crawsbaw Pa.skauskas. Jane Hadjield Poole. Xatnlie Course Prokesch. Shirley Reeves. Barbnni Orkin Rogers. Miriam Norbeny Schofield. Miriam jolley Spencer. \'irginia Sirai'o Stanley, and Margaret Wilson Weed. Gene Gallagher Ihe 40th reunion for the men of 1944 started with meetings of the com- mittee last summer. Work began in earnest in the fall and became hectic during the winter and early spring. Frida\, Ma\ 2,"), saw registration at Ch.ipin House, our headcjuarteis, fol- lowed b\ a welcoming cocktail partv with the ladies of 1944 at the (iraduate Center. A class picture on the Retector\ steps preceded the biiffel at the Refec- tory, wliich was iiidee...u,n,„r. what is the FrienJs of the Lihrary? Since Its founding in l''3K, tlic Friends ot the Library ot Bnnvn L'nivcrsitv h.is brought together tacultv, students, alumni and public-spintcd citizens dedi- cated to the support and development ot Brown's library system. What does the Friends oj the Library do? For many years, the acquisition ot books and other rese.irch m.itcrials has been advanced by the generosity ot the Friends, as has the sponsorship ot many exhibitions, lectures, receptions, and publications, the most notable ot these being HooL-s at liroini In the past nine months the Friends has tunded several publications including the Collection Development Policy Manu.il, the I i- brirv Policy Manual, and two newslet- ters — thhhoFile ,ind .-loioin; FriciiJ^ It h.is .irrangcd tor c\'ents ranging from ,i in.igic show to scliol.irK let tures, from poetr\' re.idings to a three-d.i\' confer- ence commemorating Lincoln's birth- d.iy. In the sunnnerof '84 the Friends was responsible tor the functional re- design .iiid redeeiiration ot the lobb\' in the Sciences Library. With increased support from the Friends, the Library will be able to continue to expand its vit.il role III supporting the L'niversity 's curriculum and providing the services and new materials necessary tor schol- arly research, ll'hy should you he a member? I he most import.mt re.ison to ]om is to help strengthen the Library in its effort to provide materials and services needed by the students, t.iculty and the schol- arly conimunity .it large. Adv.iiitages ot membership .ire numer- ous. Members receive Boohi at Biotrti antl the newsletter Aiiiom; Friends, con- tribute to the Libr.irv's planning for future growth by serving on the Friends' standing committees, .iiid en]ov the opportunity to meet luher book lov- ers and collectors by attending Friends- sponsored special events, several of which are being planned in key cities in addition to Providence. Won't you join the Friends of the Library now, thereby insuring that Brown's Li- brary meets today's needs and tomorroir's challenge? Mciiihcr Intorniation Category Annual Dues Benefits and Privilej^e / uMu/i/ lihc r,i foiii the I'lh-iuh ,'/ llif liroici} Vritvfrsity Lihniry, in tin- inanhci'.lup i\iics;: