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Not avoiding 
the real problems 

Editor: I iia\e written liie following 
letter to C. Paul Miiiilic '68 in response 
to his letter in the September BAM: 

"In vour letter you expressed con- 
cern that we in the anti-nuclear move- 
ment are worrying about symptoms 
rather than problems, dud are not 
dealing with the moic tiuulamental is- 
sues. 

"Up here in the ('.real White North 
(yeah, it has snowed already.-) there 
are many peace and anti-nuclear 
groups. The one I am most invoKed 
with and am most familiar with is Proj- 
ect Ploughshares, a national organiza- 
tion wilii branches in many Canadian 
cities and towns. Project Ploughshares 
is anti-nuclear, true; iaut in all ol our 
publications and public stateiuents we 
try to go hryonil the lear, hcyoiid the 
horror, and address the basic issues 
that, on the one hand, have led us into 
this mess and which, on the other hand, 
may yet get us out of it. 

"Sensitizing people to tiic horrors 
is basically a mobilization techni(|uc, 
and not an end to itself. Olten when we 
give public lectures we will stait with a 
iilm such as // )'i)u l.tn<f This Plaiiel. 
which will indeed upset and disturb a 
lot of people but will also goad a few 
into wanting to act. We then proceed 
from that point to let people know what 
they can do both to educate themselves 
and others and to inlluence govern- 
mental policies. 

"In all of tills Ploughshares makes 
the kinds ol connections wliicii you 
appear to think that the movement 
does not make. We make connections 
between the develcjpmeiu of nuclear 
weapons and the development of 
'convetuionaf weapons which aic daily 
inci easing in strength and destructive 
power; connections between militarism 
(in all forms) and underdevelopment; 
connections Ijetween militarism and our 
dismal economic scene; connections 
between military expenditures and our 
world-wide lack of adequate food, 



housing, medical care and education; 
connections between militarism and 
repressixe go\einnients; connections 
between militarism and the ver\ lack of 
trust and cooperation between major 
powers which you mention in your let- 
ter. Our 'excessive concentration on the 
nuclear issue' is far from being an 
avoidance of the real problems of the 
wcjrld scene. Ilie nuclear issue is, rath- 
er, a focal point from wliicli most ol the 
other problems radiate. An improxe- 
menl in the nuclear situation could, 
thcoielically, firing iniprovemenl in 
many ol these related areas. For many 
of us, this is our main concern and 
hope, which gcjes far beyond merely 
trying to avoid nuclear war." 

PFX'.tiV CAMPBKLL '65 

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Suicide pills 



Editor: In the almost thirty )ears 
since I giaduated from Brown, I have 
never belore written to your magazine 
... even though, during those years. 
Brown has never ceased to sur|jiise. 
often bewilder, and occasionallx inluri 
ate me. 

I have followed with some interest 
the arguments regarding tlie NROIC: 
program, and Inid mysefl in total 
agreement with the remarks of Robert 
A. Johnson, |r. '43 in the October issue 
Even then, I didn't feel strongly 
enough to put pen to paper. 

Eoday, the L'liiversitv whose ad 
minislralion permitted the last record- 
ed student sit-in of the '6()s has seen lit 
to be in the vanguard of tlie sickest 
moxement of the 'cSOs: allowing a rclcr 
endum on the stocking of cyanide pill 

I cannot believe that the Brown I 
attended — the Brown of Henry Wris- 
ton and Barnaby Keeney — would have 
tolerated this nonsense. One can but 
wonder if this affair will have the clii 
ing effect on f uncf-raising among the 
alumni that it li.is had on my percep- 
tion of Broun and wliat it stands for 
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Editor: Anent the suicide pill con- 
tretemps, you keep letting them in and 
they keep doing it to you. Slip the kid a 
pill, ring the alarm, and see if he takes 
it. 

WILLIAM H. WEICKER '50 

Monrue, C^onn. 



Editor: 1 read with interest Presi- 
dent Swearer's letter to parents of 
Brown students concerning the student 
lefeiendum on stocking cyanide pills to 
facilitate individual suicides in case the 
world chooses luiiversal suicide 
thioiigh nuclear holocaust. It seems to 
me that the teal challenge of the stu- 
dent vote is to those in our society who 
are making and stocking the teal suicide 
pills on a scale so much greater than 
cyanide that it is beyond all huinan 
experience: that is, the devices we call 
H-bomhs, each of which is not really a 
"bomb" but an instant portable Ausch- 
witz. (.'\nd worse, since even a thousand 
Auschwitzes would not have ended all 
life on earth, which the scientists now 
tell us a thousand "H-bombs" could well 
do.) 

I welcome Dr. Swearer's respond- 
ing to the student initiative by saying 
that the real issue is how to prevent a 
nuclear holocaust. I think the questions 
must go two steps fui ther: First, is 
Brown L'niversitv itself helping to make 
the mass suicide pills for all of Earth? 
When it assists job recruiters for nucle- 
ar weapons manufacturers, is it not 
helping make and stock mass suicide 
pills? Would it welcome onto the cam- 
pus recruiters for the Mafia, looking for 
good marksmen to be good "hit men?" 
If it will not assist recruiters foi murder 
on the retail level, why on the super- 
wholesale level? When Brown Univer- 
sity invests in nuclear weapons manu- 
facturers — the Auschwitz-builders of 
our day— is it not helping to make and 
stock "suicide pills?" 

Secondly, what is Brown University 
doing in its contimiing intellectual 
wot k — its highest function as a univer- 
sity — to prevent its own suicide? Literal 
and physical, not only moral and intel- 
lectual suicide. If a great fire were con 
sumiiig all of Providence and were 
about to burn down the University, 
with no hope of escape for any of its 
students, staff, faculty, administrators, 



libraries, or research data, would classes 
be held as usual? Or would the energies 
of all be turned to stopping the fire? 

In our everyday liycs we now liye 
nu mure than jort^-ju'e minutes from hciii!^ 
engulfed in such <i fire. 

1 am not saving that Brown Uni- 
versity should concern itseh only with 
this danger. But this danger affects 
every aspect of our lives: how we rear 
children, the shape of our political and 
economic institutions, the meaning of 
religion, our understanding of the his- 
tory of industrialism, the ethical obliga- 
tions of a physicist, an engineer, a law- 
yer, a physician, the nature of good 
knowledge .... So in crcn' C(}urse and 
every facult\ meeting, the imjilications 
of the impending death of planet Earth 
are relevant — and should be conscious- 
ly examined. 

It was no minor intellectual who 
put to us the challenge that the luiexa- 
mined life is not worth li\ ing. We often 
ignore the challenge, except to quote it 
in commencement addresses. Brown's 
students should be honored for having 
taken that challenge seriously — bv say- 
ing that an unexamined death is not 
worth dying. I hope that Brown's fac- 
ulty and administration will live up to 
the intellectual seriousness of the stu- 
dents' challenge. 

ARTHUR VVASKOVV 

Wyncote, Pa. 



Editor: I have written the following 
letter to Piesident .Swearer: 

"Mrs. Honig and I aie in receipt of 
your letter dated October 15, 1984, in 
which you deal with the referendum of 
the students requesting the University 
Health Services to stock 'suicide pills' 
that could be made available to students 
in the event of a nuclear war. 

"Your response is 'The University 
is here to affirm life, not negate it: no 
pills.' 

"While your righteous indignation 
at the apparent suicide desire of the 
students would be justifiable if it were 
real, we feel that the students' referen- 
dum is a symbol of their desire to make 
a statement concerning nuclear war 
and their desire that you as president of 
the University make a statement con- 
cerning nuclear war. 

"It would seem to us that it is in- 
cumbent upon you, in light of the stu- 
dents' referendum, to take the lead in 
requesting presidents of other univer- 
sities to make a statement requesting 
the President, the Presidential candi- 
dates and all Congresspecjple to vow 
that the United States will not make the 



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hul a reduction in the defense budget. 

"I know that vou above all are 
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Editor; 1 have written the following 
letter to President Swearer: 

"Since reading about the 'Brown 
Cyanide Vote' in the October 13, 1984 
edition of the Baltimore Sun. I have 
written sevei al drafts of a letter lo you 
expressing various degrees of anger 
ancf dismay over the entire situation. 
Having calmed clown somewhat over 
the report, suffice it to say that I am 
extremely distressed by the situation 
involving young men and women who I 
ha\e apparenllv helped send to Brown 
as a NASI' represeiilati\e. 

"While your admission oiiice and I 
often disagree on who should be ac- 
ce|)led at Brown, nevertheless, I have 
inlerviewed between twelve and twenty 
very bright high school students every 
year for the past seven years from this 
home town of mine. It's going to be 
very difficult this year because the can- 
didates and their ])arents are asking me 
about ibis ridiculous referendum. 

"Incidentally, I was reading ihe 
Haltimore Sun because my wife .iiid 1 
were visiting my son, who is a lirsi 
classman at the United States Naval 
Academy. Later that day, we were 
thrilled to watch 4,000 young men and 
women march onto the field at the 
Navv-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, 
knowing fufl well that none of ihem 



would ha\c' participated much less vot- 
ed in favor of such a proposal. 

"1 nuisl hasten to add thai 1 seri- 
ousK doubt ihal anv of die f,()44 
Brown LIni\ersil\ slucienls who votecf 
in favor of the proposal would ha\e ihe 
inlestinal forlilude lo swallow such a 
pill." 

H. WILLIAM H()1)C;F.S III '59 

Baldwin, N.Y. 



F.ditor: Regarding the recent stu- 
dent referendum urging Brown to 
stock suicide piils in the event of a nu- 
clear war, I was dismayed al the ad- 
ministration's reaction. 

As cjuoted in The New York Times, 
Robert Reichley, vice president for 
universitv reialions, was slated as being 
afraid il "might be misinterpreted as a 
vote in favor of suicide" ancl that 
Brown "condenms the whole area of 
suicide as an alternative." President 
Swearer was reported as saying that 
whatever the results of the referendum, 
the Universitv would not slock suicide 
pills. 

If ihey had listened to the suidenls, 
they would have realized that what they 
were saying was thai nuclear war is sui- 
cide. 

1 1 is gratifying lo see students in- 
terested in issues larger than them- 
selves and using the political process as 
it was intended to be used. Iheir goal 
was lo make the public face what is 
probably the most important issue of 
our lime. They cerlainh succeeded. 

YVETTK CREIFER KAHN '59 

(ireenu'icli. Conn. 

ROTC (continued) 

F.diloi : When I learned, some time 
ago. of the facullv vole against RO'FC 
on campus, 1 suppose one mighl char- 
acterize mv reaction as unbelieving. By 
refusing RO f'C a voice on campus, the 
faculty is literally muffling the other 
opinion. Obviously the lac ully, which I 
consider, in their respective fields, to be 
the finest in the country, cannot believe 
that they are really preventing war or 
"gelling even" with the Department of 
Defense. What then, gentlemen, arc 
vour reasons lor this rather luisc holas- 
lic act? 

Whv not consider ihe manv voung 
men and women who might become 
officers and who will ha\e had Brown 
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trained. I'd hope that the facnlt\ would 
pieter this too. 

I don't tnink ain ol iis wish lor war 
and all ol its .itlenciant atiocities, how- 
ever theie should be some realism. It is 
rather doubttul that we can eliminate 
wars or even impact others to do so by 
votini^ against accepting ROTC on 
campus. So why not allow the students 
who need aid and who wish to become 
oHicers the opportunity of studying 
under you at Brown? 

I certainh hope voii will reconsider 
and bring this matter up tor discussion 
once ag.iin. 

|()HN O. APP 'til 

Lafriuia Hills, Calif. 



Editor; Since recent letters from 
members ol the class ot 194S might 
suggest lliat that class has terminated 
support lor the University, I write as 
one ol its members to assure anyone 
who cares that it isn't so. My classmates 
are concerned about the faculty's posi- 
tion on ROTC, and while I am not sure 
that I share in that concern, I certainly 
imderstand it and accept their right to 
express it. What tioubles me about the 
letters, apait from their venom, is the 
apparenl notion that onlv a Blown 
enib.ilinetl in the writers' view ol the 
world is worthy ol support. Brown 
educated nie in the best possible 
way — by exposing me to a variety of 
points of view. My sense is that Brown 
is still doing just that, for il the faculty's 
position on R() TCI suggests a "leltish" 
tendencv, surely the Brown Economics 
Department is sulliciently "rightish" to 
satisfy the most ardent conservative. 
While my sympathies tend to lie with 
the former, my reason — which Brown 
did so much to develop — tells me that 
my support should continue precisely 
beciuse the University does not cater 
exclusively to my sympathies. Were she 
to do so. she would lio longer be a Uni- 
versity. 

bwiGH T R. LADD '43 

D HI ham, N.H. 



Editor: Enclosed is a copy of my 
[1984] amuial pledge. 

I would like to add my voice to that 
ol Robert A. |ohnson, jr. '43, as voiced 
it) the October issue. 1 will again con- 
tribute to Brown when the Corporation ' 
decides to get its patriotic act in order. 

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Editor: Amic Diflih (BAM, Octo- 
ber) might be interested to know that 
the Enierv-VVoollev elevator has not 
retained its original paint. As a fresh- 
man on the fomth floor of VVoollev in 
1978-79, I watched (and sometimes 
helped) the elevator get at least foiu- 
coats of paint. 

First we painted it black and called 
it the Darth 'Vator. Then stars and a 
crescent moon appeared, and the Uni- 
vcrsitv repainted it the diab beige .Anne 
prohablv knew. For Easter, it got green 
grass, big tulips and a huge Easter 
Biinnv, which e\entiiallv was peeled off 
in its personal areas. Again Brown 
painted it beige. 

The hrst Lhiiversitv repainting had 
covered the grafhti, inclnding "Daxe 
Brubeck says, 'Take Five!' " Within a 
week of each repainting, someone had 
put. "Dave Brubeck still says, 'Take 
Fi\'e!' " 

Though our contempoiaries in 
West Quad ridiculed us in their short- 
lived newsletter, and a few vears earlier 
our eneigy might have been diiected 
towards social change, I think it was a 
pretty harmless way to have fun. Too 
bad the walls are now covered with 
orange plastic panels. But, you know, 
students, paint will stick to plastic if vou 
mix it with licjuid dishwashing deter- 
gent. 

BETSY LAWLOR '82 

San Diego 

Construction on 
Lincoln Field 

Editor: Many of the faculty, staff, 
and student body at Brown were 
shocked to learn this fall that Brown is 
planning to erect a new building on 
Lincoln Field, behind Savles Hall, 
which will require the remo\al of the 
magnificent ecjuestrian statue of Mar- 
cus Aurelius. A large building here 
would significantly reduce the beautv 
and landscaping of this important spot 
in the very heart of the Brown campus. 

Anyone who has ever looked 
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Lincoln Field toward Savles Hall will 
know that this is one of the most beau- 
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designed to attract students to come to 
Brown. Lincoln Field is the scene of 
many social gatherings as well as out- 
door drama and dailv informal games. 
Facult) frequentlv hold outdoor classes 
on the lawn near the statue on warm 



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Ill protest against this plan, and in 
liiL- iiopc tiiat the Ciorpoiation will altei 
its decision, a committee of students, 
stafT, and faculty called Save the Tiees/ 
Keep Brown Green has inaugurated a 
petition campaign to save this green. 
We believe there are other places to 
locale the Olin Iniilding. and we believe 
ihe Olin Foimdalion would not want its 
name associated with the sadness we 
will all feel if Lincoln Field is desecrat- 
ed. We hope that alumnae/alumni who 
share our concern for the beamy of the 
Brown campus will join us in this effort 
to save Lincoln Field. 

W I LLL\ M McLOUC.H LI N 
Processor of Hi.sloiy. C.ampm 

Fditor: We, the undersigned 
alumni of Brown L'niversity, are writ- 
ing to protest the constrtiction of a 
classroom building in Lincoln Field. As 
preservationists we feel obligated lo 
point out the inappi opriateness of a 
building of any sort in this important 
pat t ol Brown's main campus, one of 
the city's most important urban ensem- 
bles. 

Lincoln Field as a planned open 
space dates to the early years of I he 
twentieth centuiy. when the University 
under the leadership of Piesident 
Faunce gave special attention to the 
development of the camptis as we know 
it lodav. I'he nationally important 
landscape hrm Olmstcxl & Olmsled of 
Brookline was consulted about I ',102 in 
planning Lincoln Field, and the build- 
ings that went u]) aiouiid it in llie fol- 
lowing years were designed to fi.mie 
this green, the innermost and most in- 
timate of the three large, open spaces 
on the main campus. President Faunce 
,md the Corporation obviously realized 
the importance of smaller-scale, private 
spaces in addition to the lormal front 
lawn and the (Dimminiu-oriented 
(iieen at the heart of the campus. 

lo eliminate Lincoln Field is to 
deprive both the Univeisity commimily 
and the lesidents of Providence of a 
significant and well-loved open space. 
Brown has traditionally been sensitive 
to such ( OIK erns: as long ago as the late 
I87()s. when the University moved the 
location of Slater Hall Irom (leorge 
Street to between the College Fdilice 
and Rhode Isl.md flail, in answer to 
neighbors who complained aboul the 
closing in of the (Ireen — anif tfiis allei 
ihe foundations had been dug! 

Ill recent years. Brown has shown 
remarkable concern for the built envi- 
ronment. A number of Older buildings 



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— including the iniportanl (loclclarcl- 
Iselin House, now Madcloci< Alumni 
Center, and (laitlnei House — have 
been thouglnlulK relialjiiitated or re- 
stored, while others have been moved 
to clear a site (or futuie conslrudion. 
New buildings iia\e been well designed 
and integraled into the rich and varied 
fabric of the East Side: the Geo-Chem 
building on George Street, the Pem- 
broke dormitories on Thaver Street, 
and the List Art Building on College 
Street. A building in place ot Lincoln 
Field would be a serious lapse in the 
enviroimiental stewardship that Brown 
has shown toward this conummitv. 

AN lOINE I LE E. DOWNINC; 74 
D.F.A. (Hon.) 

EDWARD F. SANDERSON 74 
A.M. 

WILLIAM McKENZIE WOOD- 
WARD 75 A.M. 

VIRGINIA A. FITCH 77 
The wrilers are, respectiveh, chaiimaii. cx- 
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tioii planner, and senior historic preserva- 
tion planner of the Rhode Island Historical 
Preserx'ation Commission. — Editor 



Editor: We wish to register our 
protest against the Universilv's plan to 
construct a classroom building on Lin- 
coln Field. Potential building sites ha\e 
surely not become so scarce that the 
beauty and inlegrilv of the main cam- 
pus must be sacrificed. .Although we 
would not argue the need for addition- 
al classtoom space, we believe Blown 
can build and grow in a way that pre- 
serves the esthetic ciualities that have 
helped to make it a s|)ecial place to 
generations of Brown men and women. 

We therefore inge vou <md the 
Corpoialion to reconsidei what to us 
seems an ill-conceived and ultim.iteh 
outrageous plan that cannot have the 
support of alimmi. students, or facultv. 

THOMAS R. McMillan to 
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STANLEY' ,SC:H0FIELI), |R. 73 
RHONDA POR I 75 
CVN FHIA COLFORD 79 
|OHN LOMBARDO 7l") 
THOMAS C. KOS I KA 7.S 
Waneick. R.I. 
The liuilding in question would provide 
Bioivn with much-needed classroom space, 
providing seven additional rooms. A propo- 
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for funding for the building, and a Corpo- 
ration committee had tentatively approved 
Lincoln Field as the best of several alternate 
sites. The statue of Marcus Aurelius, which 
lias .stood on the .^ite most of this century, 
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LiiiidIii Field site developed niimediiitely 
iimaiig faeully, students, and alumni. Ajter 
a public meeting un Nm'embei 6. at which 
members of the class uf 1926 {who several 
years ago provided the money for a small, 
landscaped area just west of the statue as a 
memorial for the class), faculty, and students 
expressed vociferuiis opposition. University 
Senior Vice President Fred Bohen an- 
nounced that "zee have put a hold on the 
location of a new building in the Lincoln 
Field area until that decision can be re- 
vieu'ed. " — Editor 

A different perception 

Editor: A copy ol the Brown Alumni 
A;»)(//(/v of Sepiemijer 1984, tealuiing 
"Brown on Broadway." recently came 
to my attention. Your intei view with 
Robert Rogers 59. former musical di- 
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lar interest: I am his replacement. 

1 write not to object to Bob's state- 
ments, but rather to illustrate how two 
people could experience the identical 
situation and have totally different 
perceptions. 1 loo. have conducted over 
I.IIOO perfoiiiiaiKes of the show while 
on lout as well as having had ihe honor 
of substituting on Broadway during 
Bob's vacation last year. I am thrilled to 
say that the score continues to challenge 
mv musicianship. Each performance of 
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as being the longest run Broadwav has 
ever seen. Those opening chords speak 
of a triumph of genius by its creators 
and have grown to be recognized as the 
anthem of American musical ihealie. 

Bob speaks of "acting" enthused in 
order to motivate musicians. Each 
night. I am humbled by the long collec- 
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Editor: I enjoyed your September 
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that 'BRU was one of Brown's under- 
acknowledged educational experiences. 
Ms. Salama's efforts to foster ciedibility 
for the station in the Piovidence jour- 
nalistic community are laudable. 
WBRU, in fact, has a long history of 
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station "eons ago" were offered jobs at 
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While Brown has no journalism 
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74 (CBS News), Steven Rattncr '74 
{New York Times), Ben Weiser '76 
(Washingldii Post). C. Eugene Emery '75 
(Providence Journal), Steve Cagle '75 
(Frank Magid Associates). It certainly 
would seem that the combination of 
'BRU or The Herald and a solid Brown 
liberal arts education are a good foim- 
dation to prepare one for the join nal- 
ism profession. 

MIKE LAWRENCE KORNBLUM 
'74 
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Divestiture (continued) 

Editor: Arthur Kaplan's letter 
{BAM. September) addressed issues 
with which I have some familiarity. 
Having spent two years as a Peace 
Corps volunteer in Swaziland, worked 
the next thiee years in South Africa 
and Swaziland, and married a Swazi- 
land national (who according to the 
Republic of South Africa's attempt at 
precise racial classihcation is a "col- 
oied"), I've spent some time on each 
side of the racial and political fences. 

Kaplan's historical and political 
summary is basically correct, but dis- 
torted by oversimplification and exag- 
geration. The Boers' "Gieat Trek " was 
not a move into totally unoccupied ter- 
ritory. There were in fact two migra- 
tions. A large gradual movement of 
blacks to the south and west was begun 
before, and continued after, the smaller 
but more dvnamic eastern push of the 
Boers. The black population was com- 
paratively substantial, particularly in 
Natal, before whites arrived, not "about 
a century and a half after the original 
Dutch settlers." 

But t|uibbling over events that oc- 
curred moie than a century ago is ir- 
relevant when faced with the ideal that 
all South Africans deserve equal op- 
portunity, and the reality that most arc 
denied it. The "independence" which 
the RSA claims to grant is 1984 doub- 
lespeak for the complete economic 
dependence of a crazy-quilt of scattered 
tribal "homelands" whose main attrac- 
tion for white South Africans is casino 
gambling and sex across the color line. 
Even the Iranskei, which is the most 
viable of the "homelands, "' is little more 
than a South African wilderness pre- 
serve. The principal motivation behind 
cieation of these "independent states " 
remains the exclusi(jn of blacks li\ ing in 
economicallv viable areas of South Af- 
rica from the political process on the 
grounds that they are "foreigners" 
working there teniporarih. 

Apartheid, censorship, and abro- 
gation of rule of law are the policies of 
the RSA. They have led to aberrations 
ranging from "banning" to internment 
for miscegenation (don't get caught 
with your genes down) to separate and 
unequal educational and employment 
opportunities. The.se are documented 
inequities which cannot be justified bv 
historical precedence, preservation of 
tribal or ethnic cultiue, or comparison 
with violations of civil rights in other 
countries. 

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centl\ introduced is little more ihaii a 
"colored" and "Asian" soapbox. All 
non-whites remain polilicalh powerless. 
This total exclusion of blacks and token 
representation of othei non-whites 
sp.n ked boycotts and violent protests 
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tunnel he will e\entuallv despair, 
causing the collapse of the entire gold 
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best alternative. We at least voice our 
disappioval with the status i|uo. At the 
same lime we hurt most ihc people on 
the lowest iiing of the economic hidder. 
1 he white South .'Mrican is also a very 
competent, tough individual who will 
not be bullied. I believe the best use of 
our economic lobby would be active 
investment in only those businesses 
with avowed and verifial)le policies of 
non-discrimiiKition legarding work 
conditions, piomotions, and salaries. 
We can then exert a positive influence 
for peaceful change. 

ROBKRl ELFERING 72 

I.tikr ViUa. III. 

The Ivy-Financial elite 

Editor: Ste\en .Salenn's letter in the 
October issue entitled "Too Many 
Commericials" makes me feel less like a 
unit|ue old fogey ... especially as he is 
twentv-three classes after me and can- 
not reasonably be called an old fogey. 

However, I cannot agree that the 
advertisements should be eliminated. 
While I personally find them quite of- 
fensive, ihev do serve a valuable educa- 
tional I unction in informing a mere 
middle-class, middle-income, old-timer 
like me about the transmogrified new 
values and tastes of the new Ivy-Pinan- 
cial elite. I wonder what Presidents 
Barber and Faunce would have 
thought? 

It is becoming ob\ious lh;il a 
Brown degree is widely considered to 
be essentially a ticket to a very high 
paying position in the (;o\'ermiient-Fi- 
nance-lndusli iai establishment and a 
blue chip in the lmanci;il status game. I 
believe earlier generations of Blown 
men, while expecting to obtain good 
jobs, valued the college experience es- 
sentially for other reasons of education, 
cultural, and spiritual nature — the true 
essence of a liberal education. 

With limited funds iivailable lor 
charitable purposes, I now feel less 
guiltv about giving m\ gifts to other 
charities as appaiently Brown has 
enough wealthy alumni to make it 
worthwhile for advertisers to offer 
$42.') sports jackets, "rare and expen- 
sive" Bourbon, and "prohibilively ex- 
pensive" island \acalion homes through 
the medium of lout-color lull-()age 
advertisements. While Brown luis such 
a wealthv support giou]}, 1 can feel jus- 
tified in saving my few mites lor the 
foreign missions and starving children. 

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Trauma cases 

Editor: Tlie article in tiic October 
Brown Alumni Monlhh regarding blood 
and blood products was excellent and 
demonstrated the c(jrnplexities inxolved 
in cm rent blood usage. However, it did 
cont.iiii one set ious error. Trauma cas- 
es are iiat intrei|iient at the Rhode Is- 
land Hospital; in lad, in the twelve 
months ending [une 30, 1984, over 
1,7()() iiaiima patients were admitted, 
rhis constitutes approximately 7 per- 
cent of all admissions to the hospital. 
I believe the author (jt the article 
really meant that only f'orty-to-filty 
tiaiima patients per year require mas- 
sive transfirsions of blood (in the range 
of forty-to-seventv units) dining the 
hrst f'ortv-eight houis alter injury. 
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seriously injured patients who require 
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Taubman Center for Public Policy: 
New ways to look at old world 

"I'm trying a new blend of coffee 
this morning," says Tom Anton as fie 
crumples up an empty, brown bag that 
hacf field custom-groimd coffee. "It's a 
combination of Copenhagen and Vien- 
nese, and if it isn't good, it's my fault." 

Anton is the director of the A. 
Alfred Taubman Center for Public 
Policy and American Institutions, and 
examining the results of a particular 
behavioi — making coffee or the way a 
government chooses to spend the taxes 
it raises — is his business. 

The field of public policy is a rela- 
tively young academic area that studies 
the way governments work, the "inter- 
face" of public policy and the private 
sector, and new ways of looking at old 
ways of doing things. Antoti was re- 
cruited last year to create Brown's pro- 
gram in public policy and establish the 
A. Alfrecf Taubman Center. "The con- 
centration is cfesigned to see how insti- 
tutions work and to participate in policy 
pioblems. A great virtue of this pro- 
gram is that this is a tough world and 
there are no real answers to pioblems. 
It's hard for faculty [in this field] to act 
as if they have the answers in the class- 
room. We look for good answers, not 
necessarily the only answer." 

Public policy began on the gradu- 
ate level and has slowly spiead to the 
luidergraduate curriculum. "In the old 
days, public policy was legalistic in 
training and formalistic in the way it 
looked at the world. You looked at 
documents and constitutions " to see 
how government policy was shaped. 
"Then about fifteen years ago, it be- 
came behavioristic. Instead of looking 
at documents, you looked at the way 
people behaved. We had to develop 
new languages to capture the new way 
of looking at the world. We want to 
understand what products come out of 
governments, and explore wfiat gov- 
ernment behavit)r results in. The sub- 
ject matter is old, but public policy as an 
intellectual discipline is new." 

Anton, who received his doctorate 
in politics from Princeton, "got into 
public policy by worrying about fi- 
nance. How do governments raise 




Tom Anion [Hiusts in front of his Benevolent Strctl afjuc 



Mioiicyr' How do tliey spend die taxes 
lliev raise? How do cities control their 
Iniances? Why do some cities grow and 
otliers don't? Do American financial 
programs work?" Anton's studies took 
him to Sweden, first on a Ciiiggenhcim 
Keiiowsliip "to find out wh\ tlieir cities 
are so hill t)t life, and some ol ours are 
collapsing, " and then as a visiting pro- 
fess(jr at the univeisitv in Stockholm. 
He did a behavioral study of Stock- 
holm's government, and a develop- 
mental study of how the suburbs 
aiound the city grew up. He taught at 
the University of Pennsylvania for a 
couple of years, worked in Illinois 
where he "got involved in reforming 
the state legislature, " and then spent 
fifteen yeais at the Uiii\ersitv of Michi- 
gan, during which he studied how the 
state finances itself. He came to Brown 
last year from Michigan. 

This year, for the first time, stu- 
dents can concentrate in public policy- 
Concentrators will be required to take a 
set of five core courses, including mi- 
croeconomics, introdudioii to public 
policv, statistics, ethics, and .Xiiieiican 
institutions, as well as three additional 
courses on institutional beha\ior and 
three on public policv issues. One of 
Anton's hopes is to build up the intern- 
ship prograin. 

"Last year we sent interns to 
Washington, D.C. One student, who is 
now in medical school, did an intern- 
ship in .Senator IJonald Riegle's ID- 
Michigan] ollice. Riegle is on the 
health-tare policv committee. This stu- 
dent, who had just graduated with a 
biomedical engineering degree, spent 
the summer before medical school 
working on health-care policv. Another 
student worked as an intern at the Na- 
tional Association of State Budget 
Offices, doing an analysis of how 
financial reforms will affect slate budg- 
ets. He did so well, he was iiniied to 
talk at a national coinention in San 
Diego last siunniei . And a third student 
worked for the National (;overnnient 
Association, writing a study of federal 
policy on higher education. People like 
this are golden. They have the experi- 
ence for working with institutions. 

"If we tan build the program up 
carefully, we will be iraining people 
quickU who lia\e thouglii about some- 
thing iinporlant in the world. C:om- 
paied to some other concentrations, 
this has the interesting potential to 
prepare students for significant life 
work. It's also good for preparing tor 
law school or graduate school." 

One aspect ol the program that 
particularly delights Anton is the multi- 



disciplinai V nature of the field. A re- 
search project sponsored by the center 
analyzed the results of last spring's 
Greenhouse Compact referendum. 
"We organized a survey after the vote, 
to find out who voted for it, against it, 
and why. We had someone fiom eco- 
nomics, sociology, political science, and 
anthropology to analyze the results. 
This is a good repiesentation of one 
main idea of the public policv con- 
cept — it cuts across several disciplinary 
fields. Something like this is a prob- 
lem — not a political science problem, 
not an anthropological pi<jblem, but a 
multi-disciplinarv problem." 

As he sets up the piogiam, .Anton 
is inviting faculty from "across the 
board" to suggest ideas for courses. 
"We'd like to organize a course study- 
ing the political economy of the Reagan 
Administration, a course in energy 
policy, a new public (jpinion course, a 
course that would aiiahze the budget 
deficit problem. We can see a science 
policy course, for instance, that would 
bring in physics and chemistrs. 

"This program can assist in hnding 
better ways to solve probleins in medi 
cal, sociological, chemistry, and envi- 
lonmental studies. We can lethink in- 
tellectual paradigms. There is a sense 
around here that we can break down 
some of the old barriers — between fac- 
ulty and between faculty and students, 
riiat's exciting." 

A. .Alfred I aubman is a Brown 
parent from I lov, Michigan, whose 
$2-million gift established the center. 
" Taubman's main base is urban devel- 
opment. He's developed shopping cen- 
tei s and is involved in the I imes 
Squaie redevelopment plan. He's in- 
\()l\ed in the way the private sector 
alfects the wav cities develop, and has 
made a major contribution to the public 
sector as well as making a profit. How 
the public and pi ivate sectors work 
together is what public policy is all 
about. I think laubman has sensed 
that, given what he does. The way the 
system has developed hasn't captured 
an effective way of interlacing yet. His 
inteiests and the University's are a 
happy coincidence." K.H. 



Sex-bias suits: One 
ruling is reversed, 
a second forthcoming 

In October, the L!.S. Circuit Court 
of Appeals in Boston reversed a 1983 
district court ruling against Brown in 
the sex-discrimination suit of Associate 



Professor of Art Historv Rudolf 
Winkes. Winkes had sued Brown m 
1980, claiming that in awarding a high- 
er salary to a comparablv-ranked col- 
league, Catherine Wilkensen-Zerner, it 
had violated the FLqual Pay Act. The 
suit came to trial in February 1983, and 
District Judge Francis Boyle agreed 
with the plaintiff that Brown, in an ef- 
fort to retain women faculty in accor- 
dance with the Lamphere consent de- 
ciee, had offered Wilkensen-Zerner 
more money on the basis of her gender. 
1 he raise in question was granted in 
the same year (1978) that the consent 
decree was signed. 

The appeals court found that 
Brown had not discriminated against 
Winkes when it gave Wilkensen-Zerner 
a 17. 000 salary increase to counter a job 
offer by Northwestern University. Both 
teachers had been at Brown since the 
eailv 1970s, with Winkes's salary 
sliglilK higher than Wilkensen-Zerner's 
until her raise. Winkes subsequently 
sought and received a raise, but it did 
not bring his salar\ to the same level as 
his colleague's. 

The appeals court decision pointed 
out that Blown was stuck ""between the 
devil and the deep blue sea" in this 
situation — a reference to the conflicting 
demands of the FLqual Pay Act and the 
consent decree. When a univeisitv "is 
confronted with possibly opposing 
pressures or obligations, some of which 
involve the difficult subject of gender, " 
wrote judge Bailey Aldrich for the 
majority, "it must be allowed substantial 
room to maneuver ... Othei wise, in- 
stead of some measure of academic 
freedom, it will face the constant pros- 
pect of judicial reproof. 

"Viewing the record here as a 
whole ... we must hold that defendant 
was within a permissible area of choice, 
and made a reasonable decision ... De- 
fendant [Brown] met the equal-pay 
matter head-on; it did not even claim a 
justification of affirmative action. " 

University General Counsel Sev- 
erely E. Ledbetter, who argued the 
Winkes case, said the University felt the 
court's decision "supports our conten- 
tion that the decision (to raise Wilken- 
sen-Zerner's salary] was made in good 
faith, in careful consideration of all cir- 
cumstances." Furthermore, Ledbetter 
told The Clironiiie uf Higher Eduealion 
(November 21) that the appeals-court 
reversal ""confirms that an institution 
has some freedom to determine what 
attributes, including faculty quality, are 
important to it. " She also said the de- 



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cisioii uiulerliiies that "market value 
can be a factor" in making taciill\ salar\ 
judgments. Biown iiaci argued that its 
salai\ -increase policy toi faculty "was 
based on merit, on market foices, and a 
policy of responding to outside offers." 

"Friends of the court" briefs were 
filed on Brown's behalf by Princeton, 
Johns Hopkins, Vale, Slanfoid. and 
Harvard L'ni\ersities. Professor 
VVinkes, who was on sabbatical dining 
lust semester, had until November 26 
to appeal the appellate court decision. 

The University currently is await- 
ing a decision on another sex-discrimi- 
nation case. Ann W. Seidman, formerly 
a visiting professor of sociology and 
now emploved by Oxfam-America in 
Boston, alleges that Brown discrimi- 
nated against her in 1979 when the 
sociology department declined to ap- 
point her to the Henry R. l.uce Chair. 
Seidman had been ranked third among 
three hnalists for the professorship. 
The position was offered to the first 
two choices, who did not accept the 
appointment. The department, with 
the concm lence of Provost Maurice 
Cilicksman. chose to re-open the search 
process. 

Seidman first brcnight her griev- 
ance to the University's .-Mfirmative 
Action Monitoring Committee, which 
was formed as a result of the Lamphere 
consent decree. That committee decid- 
ed that Brown had violated its agree- 
nieiu in the l„imphcre case because the 
L niversitv had not proved that it had 
not discriminated against Seidman b\ 
refusing to offer her the chair. Brown 
disagieed with the committees ruling, 
maintaining that Seidman's credentials 
did not measure up to the standards for 
the Luce Clhair. The University filed for 
a de novo hearing in federal district 
court. Seidman, too, appealed the 
Monitoring (lonnniltee's decision, even 
though it was in her favor, because the 
commiltee did not initi.illv rei(jiimiend 
her appomtment to the chair, and ulti- 
mately she did not get the professor- 
ship. 

The Seidman matter came to trial 
late in October. During testimony, four 
members of the sociology faculty tes- 
tified for the University, and two for 
Seidman. Some of the witnesses disa- 
greect in their accounts of various 
aspects ol the search process. The trial 
concluded after six days of testimony, 
but a decision, Ledbetter says, is not 
expected for several months. A.D. 



18 



Sixty-five students 
face charges of 
disrupting 
CIA recruiters 

Although many college campuses 
report the death of activism, student 
dissent is alive and thriving at Brown. 
This fall saw the creative "suicide pill" 
poll {BAM, November) that brought 
hordes (jf media to C:ollcge Hill and 
focused attention on the proliferation 
of nuclear arms. Every Thursday at 
noon, a group of students joins hands 
on the Green in a "Circle of Solidarity ' 
to protest United States intervention in 
Central America. And now sixty-five 
students are facing charges of disrup- 
tion for halting an information session 
held by CIA recruiters. 

Students have been escalating their 
protests against the recruitment of 
Brown students for defense-related 
industries and government depart- 
ments all fall. At an information meet- 
ing for General Dynamics in October, 
three students demanded that Blown 
security officers ariest the recruiters for 
"crimes against hinnanity. " F.arly in 
November, 110 students protested re- 
cruitment by Raytheon by passing out 
flowers, and asking the recruiters about 
the purposes of the weapons they build 
and the morality of their jobs. Then, in 
late November, sixty-hve students in- 
terrupted a recruiting seminar being 
held by the Clentral Intelligence Agency 
and attempted to make a citizens' arrest 
of the representatives. These students 
will be brought before the University 
Council on Student Affairs (UCSA) for 
violation of Brown's rules governing 
student conduct. 

The CIA recruiters were at Brown 
as part of the University's series of in- 
formational sessions and interviews 
conducted by Career Plaiming Services. 
The information sessions arc open to 
all students and precede actual inter- 
views with interested students the fol- 
lowing day. 

Approximately 100 people filled 
the room for the CIA informational 
meeting. Before the CIA recruiters 
spoke. Director of Career Plamiing 
Victoria Ball explained that if theie 
were any kind of "problem" the pres- 
entation would be ended and for "those 
of you who would like to be charged 
with disruption and go in front of the 
UCSA, we'll be happy to collect your 
names." 

The two representatives of the 
agency, Steve Conn and Roger Samp- 



son '44, were introduced by Ball. C^onn 
launched into his remarks about the 
CIA, aftei saying, "I hope you are kind 
enough to listen to me as part of a bar- 
gain in which I then will listen to you." 
After approximately fifteen minutes, 
one of the listeners blew a police whistle 
and more than sixty students rose to 
announce in unison that the recruiters 
were "under arrest for solicitation to 
aid in the violation of national and in- 
ternational law." Ball, C;oim, and 
Sampson left the room, along with sev- 
eral students who had planned to be 
interviewed by the CIA the next day. 
The piotestors continued to read 
off a list of crimes for which they were 
arresting the recruiters. Some of the 
accusations included violation of the 
Boland Amendment, which "prohibits 
the CIA and the Department of De- 
fense from using funds for military 
activity aimed at overthrowing the gov- 
ernment of Nicaragua." After the three 
pages of charges were read, John Rob- 
inson '67, dean of students, announced 
that "if there are any among you who 
wish to record yourselves as official 
protestors for this action in terms of a 
disciplinary follow-up, I will take sign- 
ups." Robinson also thanked the stu- 
dents for their orderly protest. Stu- 
dents had piepared a list of names that 
was passed through the crowd for ad- 
ditional sign-ups, then handed to Rob- 
inson. There were sixty-eight names on 
the list; three were later determined to 
be recent graduates. 

The UCSA will be asked to hear 
charges against the sixty-five students 
whose names were voluntarily given to 
Robinson for violation of rules outlined 
in the student handbook. Ihe applica- 
ble section of the student handbook 
states, "All members of the Brown 
University conniumity are entitled to 
the following basic rights: The rights of 
peaceful assembly, free exchange of 
ideas and orderly piotest, and the 
rights to attend, make use of or enjoy 
the facilities and functions of the Uni- 
versity." According to University 
spokesman and Vice Piesident for 
University Relations Robert A. Reich- 
ley, "the rules also state that 'behavior 
which materially interferes with the 
exercise by others of the basic rights to 
which they are entitled on University 
property or at a University function ..." 
is an offense which could warrant sus- 
pension or dismissal. " 

The disruption sparked heated 
di.scussions on campus. The protestors 
held a press conference the day after 
the incident to announce that they were 
filing charges against Brown .security 




The protesting students hold a press conference in front of Pembroke Hall 
Speaking (right) is Neil Donahue '85. On his right is Juliet Brodie '85. 



officers for refusing to cai ry out the 
citizens' arrest. "We were serious in 
conducting a citizens' arrest," said Flis 
Schauffler '85 in a statement for the 
press. "It was not intended as collegiate 
play-acting or a 'symbolic' action. VVe ... 
may be suspended or dismissed. We 
were fully awaie of this punishment 
when we made the arrest, and feel that 
our resijonsibiliiies to national and in- 
ternational laws supercede inccjn- 
sistent University guidelines." 

Juliet Brodie '85 asserted that the 
CIA's recruiting amounted to "solicit- 
ing people to aid and participate in 
criminal acli\ ities \iolating national and 
international law, including murder. " 
Sandor Katz '85 said he would turn in 
the recruiters just as he would a shop- 
lifter on Thayer Stieet. "It was just as if 
the CIA was actually committing mur- 
der in the room," said Neil Donahue 
'85. 

Citizen's arrest is generalK consid- 
ered a device for an indixidual who is 
witnessing a crime actualh taking ])l.ice. 
In an editorial following the disruption, 
the Providciuc J(iuni(d-Bidlctiu said, 
"The notion that a pair of recruiters 
can be arrested because others at their 
agency broke the law in the past, might 
now be breaking the law, or because 
recruits might someday break the law, 
is a serious misreading of the concept 
of citizen's arrest. In a societ\ based on 
indi\idual rights, onl\ individu.ils can 
be apprehended for ami fomid guilty 
of breaking the law. Ihus the students 
had no right to arrest CIA employees 
on general principles. " 

Many people on campus felt that 
the protestois had weakened their po- 
sition on citizen's arrest by ha\ing to 
answer allegations that they had \iolal- 



ed others' rights to free speech. Neil 
Donahue responded to this sentiment 
at the protestors' press conference, 
saying that thev decided to perform the 
citizens' arrest midway through Coiui's 
speech because the University had 
failed to meet the protestors' request 
for an open forum on the issues. 

"The issue of an open forum," says 
Reichley, "is, in part, up to the people 
coming to the University," in this case, 
the CIA. "Vickie Ball asked the recruit- 
ers to extend the period of lime they 
would talk, and she did get them to cut 
their talk short, so there would be more 
time for students' questions." Normally, 
information sessions are an hour long; 
Conn, one of the CIA recruiters, had 
agreed to talk for forty-five minutes 
and take questions for thirty minutes. 
Conn also told the students, "I wouldn't 
want you to feel misled it \ou ask me 
some questions about, let's say, Nicara- 
gua, or mining harbors, or publishing 
booklets, that I have to sit back and say 
I can't deal with that.' Because I work 
out of [our personnel office in Boston] 
and I do not have the knowledge or 
certainly the authority to get into sub- 
stantive discussions of the Agency." 
Reichley says, "People who are 
recruiters are not generally liained to 
do a session in Sayles Hall foi 500 peo- 
ple. The students have issued state- 
ments suggesting that if we had had an 
open forum, perhaps the disruption 
wouldn't ha\e occurred. Well, we had 
an open forum with William Casey, and 
that was disrupted." (Casey, the direc- 
tor of the CIA, came to Brown in Oc- 
tober 1981, and his speech was inter- 
rupted bv several students who lose to 
lecite Lewis Clarroll's nonsense poem, 
■Jabberwockv." The thirteen students 



who turned themselves in were brought 
before the UCSA and found guilty of 
disruption. Thev received no penalty. 
[HAM. November 1981]) 

Administration officials had at- 
tempted to come to some understand- 
ings with the protestors before the CIA 
meeting. For the Raytheon meeting, 
three weeks before the CL\ meeting. 
Dean of Students Eric Widmer had 
"attempted to work out an opportunity 
for students to ask questions after the 
recruiter had finished," says Reichley. 
"In that case the students weren't sat- 
isfied with the amount of lime they 
were allowed. Clentral to all of these 
meetings is that people are forgetting 
that the purpose is to provide a career 
opportunities session. These sessions 
are not public, open forums but rather 
an important service to those under- 
graduates seeking employ nicnt in 
specific professional fields. The oppor- 
tunity to attend and learn from these 
sessions is afforded Brown undeigrad- 
uates, but learning cannot be carried 
out in an einironment of disruption." 
The administiation was also criti- 
cized by the students for not moving 
the CIA session to a larger room, so 
more people could attend. "An infoi- 
mation session is intended as an infor- 
mation session for those indixiduals 
interested in the company," Reichley 
explains. "In this case, twenty students 
were intei\iewed without incident in 
the days following the information ses- 
sion. That number didn't justify mov- 
ing the meeting to a larger arena. And 
again, the recruiters from the CIA were 
not piepared to have an open forimi on 
the issues. Most recruiters aie not in the 
position to do that." 

The protestors argue that the CIA 
should not be allowed to recruit at 
Brown because it is engaged in illegal 
activities. According to University 
guidelines on recruiting, "legally con- 
stituted private organizations and cor- 
poiations which have bona fide posi- 
tions to offer aie authorized to use the 
facilities of the placement offices. Gov- 
ernment agencies and the various 
branches of the armed foices aie also 
authorized to utilize the facilities of the 
placement office for the purpose of 
displaying information regarding their 
activities, and establishing initial con- 
tacts with interested students." Ball 
adds that an organization is allowed to 
recruit unless it is found in a court of 
law to be discriminating against groups 
that currently include women, minori- 
ties, Vietnam veterans, or handicapped 
people. Professor of Physics George 
Seidel, chairman of the Faculty Execu- 



19 



live tloniniittce, was oiu- ol llu- l.ii ull\ 
nieinhcrs ulio iiic-l with the proiestois 
prior to the tilA session. He sa)s thai it 
is anticipated that the faculty will vote 
in February to set up a subcomtiiittee to 
review the policy statement of the C:or- 
poration on placement inter\ icws. The 
policy statement was recommended to 
the Corporation bv the tacuits in I'.KiS. 

Three days alter the C!IA ilisrup- 
tion, a group oi students callinu; them- 
selves the Radical Middle circulated a 
petition signed bv more than 700 stu- 
dents. It stated. "We, the midersigned, 
feel that anyone coming to Brown Uni- 
versity should be allowed to speak, be 
thev recruiters or nol. Ahhough cUi 
organization may be (()ntro\eisi,il. we 
should have the right to listen to them 
anil form oin own opinions." 

"Brown has a cherished histor\ lor 
openness and a free exchange of ideas, 
both popular and unpopular," sa\s 
Reichley. "We intend to proleii ihcU 
tradition." 

Sliorlh lirjinr the B.4M went to pri'ss. the 
VCSA. (htiiifil h\ I'liijcwor oj Lniiriii.\li(\ 
Shcilii Blumslein, held a hearing an the 
charges that sixty-pve students violated 
Unii'ersity regulations. The sixty-jour un- 
dergraduates had the option to request that 
the student members of the VCSA not par- 
ticipate in the case, and they chose that route. 
The medical student, however, opted to keep 
the medical students on the UCSA, so there 
were tieo separate hodws tiying the case — one 
for the undergraduates and one for the 
medical student. The trial and it.', results: 

The University's case was present- 
ed by F.ric Widmer. The students 
brought to testify: live Brown |)ro- 
fes.sors; two lawyers; and an ex-(!IA 
agent, |ohti Stockwell, author ol In 
.Search of Enemies, an ex|30sc ol the CIA. 
The defense cjuotcd a se( tion from the 
Faculty Handbook regarding plaie- 
ment inteiviews: "Our tradition is one 
of freedom, and the University cher- 
ishes the rights to iJcaceful assembly, 
free exchange of ideas and orderly 
protest, whidi indudes the students' 
freedom both to consult with such rep- 
resentati\es and also lo express iheii 
views about the institutions lepresent- 
ed. " Because the leiriiiter Irom the 
CIA had inlormed the students that he 
could not, or would not, answer .some 
of their questions regarding (ilA ac- 
tions, the defense maintained that the 
information session was nol a "fiei- 
exchange ol ideas." 

The defense brought in a law\ei to 
testify that a citizen's arrest was legal, 
because the students had re.ison.ible 
20 cause to think that a felony was in the 



process ol being Kinnmlted. "We felt 
we wei e pi e\enting a crime from being 
committed in out presence," the de- 
fense simimed up. 

The UC:SA found lifty-six under- 
graduates guilty of disruption. They 
were assessed the penalty of LIni\eisitv 
sanction, whic h means those indi\ iduals 
have been warned that an\ fuither yio- 
lation of Offense I (lelating to disru]3- 
lion) may result in immediate separa- 
tion from the University. The sanction 
is permanently enteied on the students' 
transcripts. A hie entry, which will be 
removed upon graduation, of the ol- 
lense is entered in the students' files. 
Kight iindei graduates, who were not in 
the r(jom al the time of the disruption, 
but who had signed the list of students 
I, iking part in the actitjn, weie found 
iruiocent. In a separate action, the 
UC:SA found the medical student guill\ 
and issued a reprimand, which is not 
i.uried as a transcript enti\. 

The UCSA statement said that "the 
basic foimdations of a luiiveisily rest on 
the pi inciples of freedom of speech and 
the Iree and open exchange of ideas. In 
the view of the Council, the intei i u])- 
tion of a Career Services information 
meeting with CIA officers violated the 
rights of students who attended the 
meeting to listen and to ask questions 
of an invited guest of the University to 
speak." The statement added that the 
students raised legitimate concerns 
about the recruiting process at the 
University and the CIA's activities. 

I he U(;SA, with expanded mem- 
bership Irom the Program in Medicine 
to consider the case of the medical stu- 
dent, issued a majority and a minority 
opinion. The majority opinion allirnied 
that protest should not infringe upon 
the basil rights of other Llniversits 
members, but added that the "student 
did nol maliciously attack the principles 
of Iree speech, and ... that a more .se- 
vere penalty coultl seriously jeopardize 
[the medical student's] future post- 
graduate education, particulaily given 
the unique nature of the resideni\ se- 
lection process in medicine. " 

The minoiily opinion, signed b\ 
three mediciil student members of the 
UCS.A. stated thai the mediiai student 
could nol be found guili) of disruption 
because the University tainted its own 
case by not ensuring that the informa- 
tion meeting was "a forum for free and 
o|)cn exchange of ideas," as specified in 
the (Corporation regulations. "The stu- 
dents cannoi be held responsible for 
tlisruption of a function which in its 
design and execution was a violation of 
the Uni\eisily's own regulations." 



As for the students' contention that 
they were performing a legitimate civil 
action by perlorming a 'citizen's ar- 
rest," the Council, according to Blum- 
stein, "would make no statement about 
the citizen's arrest, because there are 
questions of the legality of a citizen's 
arrest, anil [the UCCSA] is not a legal 
body." K.H. 



Two enormous record 
collections donated to 
Neiman Archive 

They are two oi' the greatest private 
collections of opera and classical music 
on sound recordings, according to 
I)a\id [osephson, chairman of the 
music deparlmenl. And now, thanks to 
the beneficence of [ohn Mastroianni 
'7 1 , assistant director of the Houston 
C.ianil ()|)era, and opera critic Ceorge 
Jellinek, the collections have been be- 
queathed to Brown's nuisic library, 
where they will become part of the 
Walter Neiman Archive of Sound Re- 
cordings (HAM, May 1984). Walter 
Neiman '46, who died in March 1983, 
was president and general manager of 
WQXR, the New York Times classical 
radio station. 

The Mastroianni Collection is 
comprised of 6- to 7,000 stereophonic, 
long-playing albums, according to 
Mastroianni. |osephs<)ii explains that 
"the great majoiit\ of these are opera. 
And I think Jack's being conservative 
when he gives us that estimate. He told 
us the collection takes up 125 feet of 
linear shelf space, and that works out to 
about 7,000 albums. Some of these al- 
bums are extremely rare. Jack's gift is 
intended as a 'living' collection to 
Ix'iielil those sludents interested in 
voice." 

Mastroianni plans to retain certain 
recordings, Josephson says, which will 
be transferred to the archive upon his 
death. "Jack will also be attempting to 
help us raise gifts in kind from other 
recording companies." 

Ihe |ellinek collection contains 
approximately 4.000 lecoiilings, most 
of them rare and out of print. "It's a 
virtual archive of the history of per- 
formance piactice from 1906 on, " |o- 
sephson told the (ieorge .St. Journal. 
"Can you imagine hearing a tape of 
Beethoven conducting his works, and j 
then being al)le to listen to later inter- 
pretations of that music? That's what 
this will be, for Stia\inski, for Cershwin 
... It will open up a whole held ol re- 
search lor Brown. " 



In addition to llit- rtcoi (lings, )cl- 
linek plans to leave the aichive his 
books on music — about 1, ()()() antholo- 
gies, biographies, essay collections, and 
theoretical and technical texts. 

The Walter Neinian Archive was 
the inspirali(jn of Vice President for 
Uni\eisitv Relations Robert A. Reiih- 
ley, a close friend of the Neinian fainih , 
in cooperation with Neinians wile, 
Muriel, and the Brown inirsii depart- 
nieiit. NciTUcUi and jellinek woi ked 
together and were close friends, a fact 
that explains Jellinek's wish to link their 
legacies in a library of music record- 
ings. Reichley was instrumental in 
working out the details of the Jellinek 
donation to the aichive. 

"We aie intending to create a 
music librarv in Orwig Hall." sa\s |o- 
sephson, "which will be budgeted b\ the 
Universitv librar\ . It will be instruc- 
tional for all students, and will house 
the Neinian Aichive." 

Although the archive doesn't have 
a pinsical home yet, of bricks and mor- 
tar, it's growing regardless. Reiclile\ 
reports that in addition to the lellinek 
and Mastroi.mni gifts, Michael Bion- 
son, media director for the Metropoli- 
tan Opeia C^ompanv and a Brown par- 
ent, recently gave the archi\e nine of 
the Met's historic radio broadcast al- 
bums. Most of the recordings are from 
the forties, and Reichley says the gift is 
the latest addition to a superb collection 
of recordings in opera and voice. 

K.H. 

'I think Reagan is 
better on the issues' 

The phone rings at \)AV1 |).ni. in 
the Reagan/Bush Hospilalitv Suite, 
minutes after the polls have closed in 
Rhode Island. Biadlev W. Hertz '85 is 
still beaming .ibout the apparent Rea- 
gan landslide when he takes this mes- 
sage: Channel 12 in Pro\idence pro- 
jects a Republican victory in the 
traditionally Democratic Ocean State. 

Hertz, press secretary of Rhode 
Islands Reagan/Bush campaign, 
doesn't announce the news to the GOP 
volunteers who crowd the Marriott's 
Suite 219. Instead, he pours another 
beer, slips into a tweed sportio.it. and 
walks cjuicklv to the grand lialhoom lor 
an interview with a local television sta- 
tion. 

"I wanted to build the suspense," 
explains Hertz, a political science con- 
centrator, about his secrecy on election 
night. "When Reagan won in Michigan, 
he had enough electoral college votes 




Bradley Hertz and some of his campaign memorabilia. 



for re-election, but e\ei\bod\ here was 
still concerned iibout Rhode Island. It's 
the Inst time in tweKe veai s that a 
Republican presidential candidate took 
this state. Reagan beat Mondale b\ 
three percentage points. " 

For Hertz, Reagan's Rhode Island 
victory represents more than just local 
approval of the incumbent's programs, 
riie student campaigner worked more 
than twentv-fne hours per week, from 
Septembei until Election Day, to tuiii 
out the CiOP \()te. He drafted press 
I eleases for newspapers, sent letters to 
interest groups, distributed "V'ictorv 
"84" blitz bags containing Republican 
literature, and conducted telephone 
sur\e\s. It meant late nights with the 
books and fewer hours with fi iends, but 
for a futuie politici.in/campaign strate- 
gist, the staff position ga\e him vet 
another view (jf the political piocess. 

Hertz has grown up in politics. M 
age six, he became a class rejjresenta- 
tive in his Los Angeles elementarv 
schfiol; by his senior vear at Universitv 
High School, he was the student bodv 
president who opposed students' pro- 
tests against California's Proposition 13, 
legislation that eliminated some extra- 
curricular jjrogiams. As a legislative 
correspondent for Republican Senator 
Pete Wilson of California. Hertz wrote 
liljrai V letters and a floor statement on 
"National Retired Teachers Day " that 
appeared in the Congressional Record. 

After analyzing data in his courses 
at Brown, Hertz decided to mix aca- 
demics with real-world applications. "I 
wanted to gain an insider's appreciation 



for state politics — learn how a party 
raises money and handles public rela- 
tions. Students have a tendency to get 
caught up in theories and forget that, 
somewhere, what we studv in political 
science is happening. " 

Last spring, he served an intern- 
ship with the Republican P.ntv of 
Rhofle Island, wliicli enabled him to 
oigaiiize a direct mail fund-raising 
campaign, coordinate an open house 
for COP members thioughout the 
state, and visit Providence high schools 
to brief students on the local political 
scene. Hertz became an alternate dele- 
gate to the Republican National Con- 
vention, where he enjoved his "most 
memorable experience in politics — until 
I attend Reagan's second inauguration. 

"There was such an aura at the 
convention, and I was caught up in all 
the excitement of being around sena- 
tois, governors, and cabinet members," 
reflects Hertz, who was one of the 
youngest delegates in Dallas. "Some 
people called the convention a 'coro- 
nation.' In a sense, it was. I stood 100 
feet away from Reagan when he deliv- 
ered his acceptance speech; it was truly 
electrifying to l)e part of all the cheer- 
ing and to actually see the President in 
person. As a moderate Republican, I'm 
pro-choice on abortion and against 
school prayer, so there are some trees in 
Reagan's forest that I don't like. But I 
sure do like his forest — his vision of 
America as a nation without limits and 
a nation with tremendous capabilities 
for giowth. " 

According to a pre-election survey 



21 



by the Mruwn Daih Herald. 42 percent of 
Brown's students polled favored the 
Mondale/Ferraro ticket and 38 percent 
supported Reagan. Although this sta- 
tistic indicates Reagan's popularit\ 
among Brunonians rose 300 percent 
since 1980, when onh 11 percent 
backed his candidacy, campus Repub- 
licans maintained a low profile 
throughout the campaign. Most stu- 
dents seemed to be wearing Mondale/ 
Ferraro buttons. And Hertz, who is 
president of College Republicans in 
Rhode Island, seemed to be constantly 
defending the Reagan Administration 
to doubtful Deiuocrats. 

"Oh, I'm accustomed to it by now, " 
savs Hertz. "Most ol my triends are 
Democrats, my parents aie Democrats, 
and our area of Los Angeles is pre- 
dominantly Democratic. Actually, my 
background is not so much partisan as 
'be involved and make yourself heard.' 
My parents icalK instilled in me the 
importance ol leadership and the abili- 
ty to effect change. I have an iiuiate 
admiration for John F. Kenneds, and 1 
liked the Democrats of old, but I be- 
came a Republican when I saw the con- 
trast between Reagan and Carter. I 
thought Reagan was overwhelmingly 
belter on the main issues — his concept 
of government, his confidence and 
spirit, his economic and foreign poli- 
cies. 

"Much ol the Democratic iden- 
tification among Brown students is a 
combination of their youth, idealism, 
and living at college. It's in vogue to be 
a Democrat at Brown. People here 
really focused on the nuclear issue — 
everybody wants to save the world. I 
think the Democrats forgot that we also 
are cfjncerned about nuclear war, 
which is whv Brown's Republican < liib 
participated in a demonslralion against 
nu( lear war. We just advocate different 
preventive methods." 

What's next for this part-time 
presidential campaigner, football 
cheerleader, and member of Sigma C^hi 
fiateniity"'' "Law school applications 
first," Hertz says. "Being press coordi- 
nator was a wondeilul opportunity, but 
it put a strain on mv academics and 
activities. I enjoyed the working envi- 
ronment so much that sometimes I had 
to force myself to leave the office to 
drive back for a class. Rhode Island is 
such a small state that if you show the 
parly leaders vour willingness to work 
hard and your capabilities, they'll give 
you a lot of responsibility. 

"Working on the Reagan/Bush 
campaign heightened my interest in 
22 politics. .So far, I haven't encountered 



anything that's dissuaded me from 
wanting to pursue this field. People tell 
me I'll 'sell my soul,' but I think it's 
possible to be in politics and to be hon- 
est. I hope this isn't just youthful ideal- 
ism. 1 don't think the realities I'll face 
will be as harsh as people expect." 

C. H. 



PEOPLE 



Two professors have retired and 
been appointed professors emeriti by 
the Brown C'orporation: 

Whitney T. Perkins, pi ofcssor of 
political science emeritus, a scholar of 
international policy and politics, came 
to Brown in 1953. 

A graduate of lufls College, Per- 
kins received his M.A. and Ph.D. from 
the Fletcher School of Law and Diplo- 
macy, where he has served as a lectin ei 
on international organization. He is the 
author of Dciiitil of Eiiij>irc: The Lhiiled 
Slates and ds Defyeiideiicies and Coii\lraiul 
(if Empire: the Vniled Stales and (larihbean 
Intervenlu>>i\. 

Robert P. Davis, M.D., who has 
been appointed professor of medical 
science emeritus, served as director of 
renal and metabolic diseases at Miriam 
Hospital in addition to his teaching 
duties at Biown. 

A specialist in kidne\ diseases and 
finiction. Dr. Davis received his bache- 
lor's and medical degree at Harvard 
University. He joined the facult\ in 
1967, .serving a joint appointment as 
professor of medical science and direc- 
tor of the department of medicine at 
the Miriam Hospital. 

Robert E. Hill, associate vice pres- 
ideiil loi adminisiralion, has retired 
after moie than thirty years of service 
to Brown. 

Hill, who came to Brown after 
earning a degree at Vale and serving in 
the Navy, started his career here as as- 
sistant to the controller. He worked his 
way from assistant manager of men's 
residences to manager and assistant 
dean of students. Later he served as 
assistant dean of the College, a post he 
held until lOlil. From l9(i'4-73, he 
served as assistant director and director 
of University housing, before being 



appointed business manager of resident 
services. His appointment as associate 
vice president for administration came 
in 1977. 

Brown's Institute for Research in 
Information and Scholarship (IRIS) is 

sharing a $3-milli()n giant from the 
Annenberg/Corporation tor Public 
Broadcasting Project with Mil's Proj- 
ect Athena. IRIS will use its portion of 
the grant to develop systems for elec- 
tronic information exchange. "By the 
end of the year," said William S. Shipp, 
director of IRIS, "we will have 2,000 
computer workstations in place across 
campus to bioaden the network capa- 
bility." The Annenberg/CPB Project 
was created in 1981 to explore new 
educational uses for telecommunica- 
tions. 

The University library system has 
received ,|l..'j million from The Pew 
Memorial Trust to create an on-line 
cal.ilogue system. Flie new system, says 
Uni\eisit\ Librarian Merrily Taylor, 
"will make it possible for the fust lime 
to find out what is in the library without 
leaving your desk." The transition will 
take at least three years, and Taylor 
stresses that the traditional card cata- 
logue will not be discaided when the 
conversion is complete. 

Professor of Engineering Joseph 
Kestin was in Moscow in September for 
the Tenth International Conference on 
the Properties of Steam. Kestin, the 
ranking foreign delegate, was inter- 
viewed for Moscow Television; the 
|)rogram aired on September b. A 
member of the conference's Program 
Committee, Kestin heads the L'.S. del- 
egation to the International Association 
for the Properties of Steam. 



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SPORTS 



By Peter Mandel 



Women's soccer's first loss comes in 
NCAA playoffs; football finishes at 4-5 



Brown's women's soccer team 
went into the NCAA Division I Cham- 
pionships in November ranl;ed first in 
the countr\ . The Bruins had racked up 
an incredible 13-0-1 record, and e\en 
more incredibly, had allowed onlv two 
goals during the season. 

'Ihis was the first time a Brown 
women's team had ever been ranked 
No. 1 nationally, and in fact, was the 
first No. 1 NCAA ranking for Brown 
men or women since the formation of 
the Ivy League. 

"The team's performance was, to 
some extent, a surprise," says Coach 
Phil Pincince, "but I knew we had kids 
who are very dedicated. Every year, I 
write down predictions and seal them in 
an envelope to be opened after the sea- 
son. This year, I had written: 'If there 
are no injuries and the key freshmen 
prove out, we'll be in the final four.' " 

The Bruins, along with second- 
seeded North Carolina, were awarded 
first-iound bves in the championships 
and did not pla\ until the quarterfinals 
on No\embcr 10. Sixth-ranked Con- 
necticut, the only team to tie Brown 
during the regular season, turned out 
to be the Bruins' opponent, and sur- 
prised nearly everyone b\ upsetting 
Brown, 1-0. 

The Brown women played well, 
outshooting the Huskies b\ a typically 
wide margin, but the Connecticut goal- 
ie made 1 1 saves and effectively shut 
off the Bruin attack. "We dominated 
the second half," says Pincince, "deny- 
ing UConn a shot on goal. We had 12 
corner kicks, they had three. We plaved 
our best game of the season, but Lady 
Luck was not with us for the fust time." 
The loss knocked the Bruins out of 
the tournament, but did little to damp- 
en the enthusiasm of those who haye 
watched the team since September. 
"This has been the most exciting place 
to be all fall," commented a Brown 
undergraduate at a lecent night game. 
"Forget about the men's teams, unless, 
of course, you like watching water 
polo." 

More than 1,300 fans attended the 
playoff game at Stevenson Field. After 



the Blown yvomen shook hands yvith 
their opponents at the end of the game, 
they yvere giy en a standing ovation bv 
the home crowd. 

One of the big reasons for women's 
soccer's unexpected success has been 
goalie Kathy Kostic '87, who never 
started a game in 1983-84. Kostic has 
an alinost unbelieyable save peicentage 
of .977. She chalked up tyselve shutouts 
this fall, while playing more than 1,200 
minutes and making 84 saves. "Her 
ability to concentrate is her strongest 
asset," says Pincince. "Along with our 
defensive backs, she has had a fantastic 
year." 

Kostic, who comes from Katherine 
Branson High School in Mill Valley, 
California, is only fiye feet tall, so she 
has to be c|iiicker and smarter than 
larger goalies and better at anticipating 
shot placement. Accoiding to her 
coach, she has overcome all the h.mdi- 
caps that come with small si/e and 
inexperience. 

Another key to Brown's success 
this year has been the scoring of co- 
captain Gretchen Orr "8.5, who led the 
team with six goals and 1 I assists. Lvnn 
Marinello '87, who missed the last feyv 
gaiTies because of a knee injury, had 
eight goals; f:ilen Bopp '87 and Rae 
Stiger '88 had six apiece. "All consid- 
ered, it was definitely a team effort," 
says Pincince, who must wonder what 
the team can do for an encore in 198,5. 

The high hopes tor the football 
team after the C:ornell game, when the 
Bruins yvere very much in the Ivy race 
yvith a 3-1 recoid (3-2 overall), disap- 
peared quickly when the Bears then lost 
three in a row, including hy games to 
Harvard and Dartinouth, and finished 
the season 4-3 in the league, 4-5 overall. 

Holy Cross started the Bruins on 
their three-game slide by defeating 
Brown, 38-17, at Blown Stadium on 
October 27. "Holy Cross plaved a near- 
ly errorless game," Bruin C:oach John 
Rosenberg said, "yvhich is the sign of a 
good team." 

Unfortunately, Brown was not as 
good — committing four important 



turnovers and allowing several success- 
ful long-pass plays. Quarterback Steve 
Kettelberger '86 had a good outing, 
completing 19 of 3ti passes for a total of 
224 yards and running for 41 yards. 
Local Bruin fans who turned on 
their TV sets and adjusted the dial to 
Channel 2 on November 3 were con- 
fronted with an ice ballet instead of the 
beginning of the Brown-Harvard foot- 
ball game. A poyver blackout in Cam- 
bridge delayed the broadcast of the 
game and took away the electric score- 
board foi a time, as well as the coaches' 
field phones. 

None of this daunted a stadium 
full of Crimson fans, as Harvard beat 
Brown for the fifth straight time, 24-10. 
Harvard built up a 17-0 half time lead, 
as Brown's offense remained in a 
blackout even after the lights yvere back 
on. Chris Ingerslev '8fi kicked a field 
goal in the third quarter for Brown, 
and Steve Heffernan "85 caught a Ket- 
telberger louchdoyvn pass halfway 
through the final period. 

On November 10, Dartmouth, 
yvinners only over Columbia, shocked 
the Bruins with a balanced air and 
giound attack and yvon decisi\ely , 
27-1 1, in a subdued Broyvn Stadium. 
1 his yvas one of Broyvn's worst games in 
an erratic campaign. The team's game 
plan, described by one sports writer as 
"tailback left, tailback right, tailback 
over the center, punt," produced only 
73 yards in total offense in the first 
half. Brown"s only touchdoyvn came in 
the fourth quarter. Wide receiver Brad 
McCauley '85 had eight catches for 1 12 
yards. 

The Bruins defeated Columbia, 
28-14, in their last game of the season 
in Neyv "V'ork City on November 1 7. 
Baker Field has been rebuilt, although 
the Lions have not been renovated to 
match. Many exasperated fans were 
surprised to learn that this yvas Colum- 
bia's first season without a victory since 
1943. 

Tailback Jamie Potkul '8(S had 174 
yaids rushing for Brown. He scored on 
a five-yard run, ran back a kickoff 94 
yards for a touchdown, and caught a 
23-yard pass for another touchdown. 
Eric Rosso "85 started at quarterback 
for Broyvn, and along with the other 
Bruin seniors, defeated the Lions lor 
the twelfth straight time. 

Sheila 1 erranova '85 scored the 
only goal of the game as women's field 
hockey won a share of its first Ivy 
League title ever by defeating Harvard, 
1-0, on November 3. The game was 
played in Cambridge, so there was little a^ 



cheering, hut the Broun women siip- 
phed their own enthusiasm. 1 lie Bruins 
share the tiown with the Bii;; (irecn 
women ol Dartmoutli. 

Coacli VVendv Andeison remarked 
that the team "seemed to improve every 
week as the season progressed." The 
Bruins finished the season with a 9-5 
record and a 3-1 Ivv mark. Ihev set 
Brown records for the most wins in a 
season (nine) and most shutouts in a 
season (seven). 

In late November, men's water 
polo was busy preparing for the NCAA 
Championships to be held in Long 
Beach, California. Cioach Ed Reed's 
Bruins were ranked sixth in the nation 
and were floating on a five-game win- 
ning streak. C^ommenting on the much 
heralded superiority of California 
teams. Reed remarked: "We've been 
slowly closing the gap (between western 
and eastern teams). We would defi- 
nitely like to be in the top four this 
year. " 

The Bruins, with a record of 
31-5-1, had already won just about 
everything thev could. While the varsity 
squad was Iniishing a strong fourth at 
the U.S. Indoor National (Champion- 
ships at Indianapolis (and beating the 
defending national champions, the 
Olympic Club of San Francisco), the 
"B" team was winning the Ivy League 
crown at Yale. The defeat of the Olym- 
pic Club was one of Brown's biggest 
wins in the history of the sport, and was 
its first ever against a California team. 

Then the team captured the New 
England Championship at Smith 
Swimming Center with victories over 
Yale (19-2) and Harvard in the final 
(15-8). In the Eastern Championships 
at West Point, the Bruins won their 
second consecutive title. They opened 
the tournament with a victory over 
eighth-seeded Washington 8c Lee and 
defeated the L'niversity of Ric hmond as 
well. In the deciding match. Brown beat 
Navy in overtime. 15-12, thanks to 
goals by Steve Eruiis '85 and Ian 
McDonald '85, two of the team's top 
.scorers all year. 

The Bruins opened their quest for 
the NC:AA title by losing to UCLA, 
1 l-IO, despite a late rally and ultimately 
fniished in sixth place. The Bruins had 
once again seen their hopes for a na- 
tional title shattered by California 
teams, but there were few regrets, con- 
sidering that Brown finished with an 
overall record of 32-7-1. 

Four starting players return from 
last year's men's basketball team. Cen- 



ter Stark Langs '85. the l\y League's 
top rebounder in 1983-84, will have to 
command the boards once again if 
Brown is going to be compctiti\e. Two 
forwards with similar names, I Odd 
Mulder '85 (co-captain with Langs) and 
Todd Murray '87, will also play a key 
role, according to Coach Mike Cingiser, 
as will guard Michael Waitkus '86. Sev- 
eral players will vie for the other guard 
position. 

"1 think voii can put a blanket over 
five teams," says Cingiser in discussing 
the Ivy race, "Penn, Harvard, Prince- 
ton, Cornell, and Brown." Last season, 
Princeton carried on a school tradition 
by winning the Ivy crown. Coming off a 
10-4 league record, the Tigers promise 
to be difficult to unseal. Penn. another 
perennial favorite, has an older and 
wiser team and five returning starters. 

In the first game of the season, the 
Bruins beat the University of New 
Hampshire, 65-60, as Darren Brady '86 
scored 16 points, including the winning 
basket with three minutes left. Brown 
pulled ahead in the fust half, but UNH 
rallied to lead by nine later in the game. 
Brady .scored on three consecutive 
jump shots to tie the score and wake the 
sleeping Bruins. 

Defense was the key word for last 
year's men's hockey team, which had a 
lackluster season and finished with a 
record of 6-19-1. Returning sopho- 
mores Mike Crirouard and (iieg Mui- 
phy and .senior captain Scott Whitte- 
more ensure that it will again be a 
strong suit for Brown. 

Coach Herb Hammond hopes to 
improve on the team's offensive output 
this season. Ivy League Rookie of the 
Year Dan Allen '87 and junior Bobby 
Jones are strong candidates at center. 
Senior Lim O'Connor leads in the race 
for a spot at right wing and |im White 
'85 should see action at left wing. John 
Franzosa '85 will probably have the 
most playing time in goal. "We have 
strengthened our right side and feel 
confident with our returning letter- 
men," summarizes Hammond. 

In the Ivy League opener for both 
teams, Brcjwn routed Dartmouth, 8-1. 
Al Randaccio '86 led the attack with 
three goals and one assist. 



SCOREBOARD 

(Through Ndvcndier 27) 

Football (4-5) 

Holy Cross 38, Brown 17 

Harvard 24, Brown 10 



Dartmouth 27, Brown 1 1 
Brown 28, Columbia 14 

Men's Soccer (7-7-1) 
Brown 5, New Hampshire 2 
Connecticut 1, Brown 
Harvard 4, Brown 1 
Brown 3, Providence 3 
Dartmouth 2, Biown 1 
Columbia 2, Bicjwn 1 

Women's Soccer (13-0-1) 

Brown 3, Dartmouth 1 
Connecticut 1, Brown (NCiAAs) 

Water Polo (32-7-1) 
4th at U.S. Indcjor National Champi- 
onships 
1st in Ivy Championships 
1st in New England Clunnpionships 
1st in Eastern Ch<uiipi()nshi]xs 
6th in NCAA Ch.unpionships 

Field Hockey (9-5) 
Brown 1, Dartmouth 
Connecticut 5, Blown 
Brown 1 , Harvard 

Men's Cross Country (8-6) 

7th of 10 in Heptagoiials 
8th of 35 in New England (Champion- 
ships 

Women's Cross Country (12-6) 

(ith of 10 in Hcptagonals 

9th of 13 in New P'.ngland Regionals 

Volleyball (21-11) 

Brown 2, Bridgeport 
Brown 2, Massacnusctts 
Brown 3, C.W. Post 
Brown 3. Army I 
New Haven 3, Brown 2 
3rd at Ivy Championships 

Women's Tennis (2-2) 
4th of 14 in New England (Champion- 
ships 

Men's Hockey (1-3) 
Brown 8, Dartmouth 1 
Harvard 7, Blown 2 
Holy Cross 4, Brown 2 
Yale 4, Brown 3 

Men's Basketball (1-1) 
Blown 65, New Hampshire 60 
Fairfield 66, Biown (i3 (OF) 

Women's Hockey (1-1) 

Brown 6, Dartmouth 5 
Harvard 6, Brown 4 

Women's Swimming (3-0) 

Brown 89, William and Mary 50 
Brown 80, Virginia (iO 
Brown 82, Dartmouth 56 



Women's Basketball (0-1) 

Boston (College 7(i, Brown 56 



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Dyslexia 



There are students at Brown who have learned to cope 
with this strange learning disability — so successfully that 
many of them didn't know they had it until they got here 

By Katherine Hinds Photographs bv John Forasie 



One night last spring, while 
hundreds of Brown stu- 
dents were studying for 
finals, John Kape"s life took 
on new meaning. He was with a group 
of friends studying in the Sciences Li- 
brary, trying to cram as much knowl- 
edge as he could into his head. Kape 
was a junior, a neural science/engi- 
neering major. He wasn't aware of the 
fact, but he was being watched by a fel- 
low junior, Rafael Gasti. 

"I took a break, and Rafael came 
up to me, " Rape recalls today. "He said 
he had noticed how I was studying 
— how short my concentration span 
was, how hard I was writing, how I was 
distracting myself a lot. And he asked 
me if 1 was dyslexic. I said / wasn't, but 
my father was. Then Rafael told me 
about the problems he had been hav- 
ing, and that he had been recently di- 
agnosed as dyslexic. He provoked me to 
think I had it, too. He gave me a book- 
let on dyslexia, and I ran down the 
checklist of symptoms. 1 had everything 
on that list." 

Kape eventually was diagnosed as 
being mildlv dyslexic, something that 
amazes him today. "My mom didn't 
believe me at first. I was so successful in 
high school. And it just blows me away 
that Rafael spotted it in me like that. 
Especially considering that we were 
both juniors" — so close to fmishing 



almost two decades of formal schooling. 

Diagnosing dyslexia is not normally 
so serendipitous. The learning disabili- 
ty, which is characterized b\ the inabili- 
ty to read, write, and spell adequately, 
is usualh spotted in the classroom. But 
the le\el of awareness at Brown about 
dyslexia has been raised in the past few 
years, due in part to students such as 
Rafael Gasti, who has become some- 
thing of a crusader for dyslexics. 

Dyslexia is a learning disorder that 
affects as many as 15 percent of all 
children in the United States, according 
to studies cited by the U.S. Department 
of Health, Education, and Welfare, as 
well as imcounted milli<jns of teenagers 
and adults. The roots of the word 
"dyslexia" are "dys" — poor or inade- 
quate — and "lexia" — verbal language. 
Although there is no universally ac- 
cepted definition of the disorder, the 
one suggested by the World Federation 
of Neurology is widely acknowledged: 
"A disorder manifested by difficiilts in 
learning to read despite conventional 
instruction, adequate intelligence, and 
socio-cultural opportunity." (See side- 
bar.) 

Dyslexia affects all races, rich and 
poor, boys and girls — although three to 
four times more boys than girls appear 
to be affected. According to the Orton 
Dyslexia Society, studies indicate that 
many juvenile offenders and adult in- 



corrigibles may be dyslexics whose early 
learning problems led them to rebel 
against society. On the other hand, 
those who have suffered and found 
ways to compensate for their dyslexia 
include Leonardo da Vinci, Auguste 
Rodin, WilliatTi Butler Yeats, Hans 
Christian Andersen, Agatha Christie, 
Thomas Edison, George Patton, 
Woodrow Wilson, and Nelson Rocke- 
feller. And Albert Einstein. 

Learning disabilities, and dys- 
lexia in particular, have become 
a hot topic recently, on and (^f f 
campus. "The recent attention 
comes for a couple of reasons," explains 
Robert Shaw, the assistant dean of the 
College who is responsible for support 
services for dyslexics. "One is that there 
is a sincere desire to help these stu- 
dents. And another is the perception 
that the federal government requires us 
to help them in the same way as the law 
requiring that Brown have handicap 
access for students in wheelchairs. 
Brown is considered at the forefront in 
providing support services for these 
students. There are a few schools that 
have special programs and procedures 
for dyslexic students — Curry College is 
one. They actively recruit the learning 
disabled." 

At Brown, Shaw says, dyslexic stu- 
dents undergo the same admission 



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procedure as everyone else. "We are 
considered ahead of the game because, 
first ol all, someone has been appointed 
to be in charge of support services." 
Brown is also viewed as having an edge 
because Dean of the College Harriet 
Sheridan is on the board of the Orton 
Dyslexia Society. The assistant dean's 
position was created shortly after Sher- 
idan arrived at Brown. 

"We've alwavs had support services 
for these students," Sheridan savs. "but 
when 1 got to Brown, we initialed them 
in a focused way. We're making some 
adaptations for dvslexics that don't add 
costs to the L'ni\crsitv or the students. 
All of the students are enterprising, 
talented, and bright; otherwise, they 
would not have been admitted to 
Brown." 

"What most colleges wrestle with." 
says Shaw, "is what are the most appro- 
priate ways to help dyslexic students. 
We have to strike a balance between 
unfair advantages and disacKantages. 
At Brown we have a simple, sensible 
plan. We try to accommodate special 
needs. Most of these students haven't 
been identified before they get to 
Brown. We don't get severely disabled 
students here. If they've gotten into 
Brown, they've proved they can c<3pe 
with school. I he problem is that it's just 
thai much tougher here. 1 he problems 
they've had all along start bothering 
them more." 

The dyslexic students are handled 
on an "ad hoc basis. They can petition 
to take a reduced course load, and 
graduate in five years, and their tuition 
will be pro-rated. Two students have 

John Kape: "/ always thought 
I was just an under-achiever." 



'These students are 
enterprising, bright, 
and talented; or they 
would not have been 
admitted here' 



petitioned, but the\ ended up taking a 
full load an\wa\ " 

Dean Sheridan sends ,i note to all 
faculty members and academic advisers 
at the beginning of each year, asking 
them to be aware of possible dyslexic 
students, and to refer them to Shaw if 
problems arise. "I get one or two calls 
from faculty every week," he says. Once 
students fiave been referred to Shaw, 
he will send them to Helaine Schu|)ack, 
a consultant who works in the language 
disorders unit at Massachusetts Clencral 
Hospital. "The disorder," Shaw says, 
"shows up among Brown students 
mostly in their writing — frequent spell- 
ing errors, confused sentence strutlui e. 
lack of organization. Or the student will 
have real trouble studying." 

After the student has been di.ig- 
no.sed, the dean's office offers to write 
the student's professors, expfaiiiing the 
problem. "We'll write the instructors at 
the students' request, but they usually 
prefer to make their own arrange- 
ments," Shaw says. "They might need 
more time on exams, or they have the 
option of taking an oral exam, but 1 
don't think anyone has done that yet. 





We've had people requesting housing 
changes — asking for singles or to be 
moved to a (juieter part of the campus. 
One characteristic of dyslexia is what's 
known as attention deficit syndrome, 
where the slightest noise can distract 
the student. One of the most heated 
discussions the dyslexic support group 
has had occurred when a freshman 
asked where he should stud\ . Everyone 
had his or her favorite place, and some 
of tfiem were quite unusual. I won't 
reveal any of them, " he adds. "They're 
to|3 secret." 

Problems with communication 
— that's what being dyslexic 
boils down to. Dyslexics may 
scramble what they hear, 
wli.it they see, what they read and 
write. F.ven talking can be a problem. 
"Dyslexics tend to ramble, " says Rafael 
(lasti. "Our conversations are very sin- 
uous. Everything is flowing; we have 
problems directly saying anything. Pay 
allention to the speech patterns of the 
dyslexics you talk to. I can pick up on 
dyslexics very fast. We're spatial think- 
ers. We tend to have almost telegraphic 




Rafael Gasti tutoring students. He's 
become a crusader for dyslexics at Brown. 

con\eisati()iis. We're saying things, but 
it's also what we're not saying." 

John Kape puts it a different way: 
"Speaking English for me is like speak- 
ing a second language without having a 
first language. It's like I'm always 
translating in my mind what I'm trying 
to say." Kape sa\s that when he went to 
his fiist meeting of the dvslexit support 
group at Brown, "I was silting iheie 
looking at a room full of dvslexics, and 
I wondered if we were going to ha\c 
problems commiuiicating." 

Clomminiicating with each other 
hasn't been much of a problem. The 
students are extremely supportive of 
each other, and are always on the look- 
out for other students who may not be 
aware that thev are dyslexic. Oasti, who 
spotted Kape in the library, also became 
aware of his dyslexia bv talking to an- 
other student. 

"1 was talking to Klizabeth Zaldas- 
taiii ('86], and she told me she is dys- 
lexic. I knew I didn't have spelling 
problems, so 1 didn't make the connec- 
tion right then. Then I was talking to 
my aunt, and she told me I used to re- 
verse letters frequently when I was a 



kid. So I went back and looked at my 
school records, and a lot of things came 
clear." 

Gasti was diagnosed as being dys- 
lexic last year. "When I was in the fiist 
grade, I was diagnosed as having a 
perceptual handicap, and mv parents 
thought it had disappeared over I he 
years. I know f had trouble with motor 
cooidination, and I used to thiow a lot 
of temper tantrums through the third 
grade. No one understood me. I felt 
very isolated and couldn't do the scho- 
lastics well. I don't remember those 
years very well; thev were verv luihap- 
py. I used to get on the wrong school 
bus, I was always breaking things and 
losing things." 

By the time he was in the ninth 
grade, (lasti kneyv he could succeed 
scholastically. "1 had gotten so frustrat- 
ed yvith school that I started doing 
things outside of school like studying 
historv and doing mv familv genealogy. 
Then I carried mv success over to 
school. " 

(iasti yvent to a jimior college in 
North C:ar(>lina before applying to 
Brown. "I had thought I'd transfer to 



Duke; then I found out aboiu Broyvn 
and realized it was for me. I couldn't 
fail a coinse; and it was academically 
rigorous yet it wasn't like Harvard, 
yvhere there yvould be all kinds of pres- 
sure." 

Brown seems to be a good place for 
dyslexics because it is so flexible. Maria 
Lewis '87 says, "If I had to take a for- 
eign language I would die. English 
alone kills me. Another good thing 
about this place is that I can take classes 
pass/fail. " And Joceyin Hale '85 adds, 
"Brown's been ven good for me. You 
can drop courses or take them pass/fail 
if you start getting in trouble. Every 
semester I start out thinking I can take 
a full four-course load, and usually I 
have to drop one. I've taken seven 
courses each year, which has made the 
second semester tough, fhe deans have 
been incredibly su|)portive, lending a 
sympathetic ear and helping me think 
of options. For instance, I may do an 
internship at Trinity Repertory next 
semester, and I yvould get credit for the 
internship. It sort of scares me to think 
what yvould have happened to me if I'd 
gone someplace else." 

What causes dyslexia? Ac- 
(ording to an article about 
this "puzzling ailment " in 
('..S'. \ni:s & World Report, 
"studies have found that cells located 
on the left side of the brains of dyslexic 
children are not in their proper place 
— a scrambling that occurs when the 
brain is formed in the sixteenth-to- 
twentieth weeks of piegnancv. Scien- 
tists are also examining Ikhv the male 
hormone testosterone may be linked to 
dyslexia, since the trait affects six times 
as many males as females." 

""There's lots of uncharted territo- 
ry" when it comes to dyslexia, says 
Shaw. "Part of the pioblem lies in 
figuring out yvhat it is. In some yvays it's 
a really doctrinaire field. Some firmly 
believe dyslexia is physiological, some 
neurological. The Orton Society has 
established a "brain bank,' and done 
CAT scans to determine the differences 
in dyslexic biains, and they have found 
physiological differences. There's less 
asymmetry in a dyslexic biain between 
the left and right hemispheies. One 
side doesn't dominate, " as it does in a 
non-dyslexic brain. 

"Depending on how you define 
dyslexia can determine hoyv you'd want 
to treat it. If it's defined as a neurologi- 
cal problem, you might teach people to 
live and behave yvithout certain skills. If 
you think it's a cognitive problem, that 
there's something yvrong with the ver- 27 



bal processing mechanisms, von could 
teach them the missing skills and essen- 
tially cine them. On the other hand, if 
you think it's a physiological problem 
— for instance, something in the inner 
ear — perhaps surgery might treat 
them." 

Maria Lewis, who has known she 
had a learning disorder since Hrst 
grade, was told last sunnner that she 
had never developed certain visual 
skills that would allow her to see things 
in three dimensions. "I went to see Dr. 
Harry Wach last summer — he wrote 
Thinking Goes to School, about learning 
disorders. He worked to try to get me 
to lorm images in my brain. 1 learned 
how to cross mv eves and focus them 
properly. We did little things like play- 
ing with blocks — and we were really 
plaving on the pre-school level. He 
would make me Hip in my mind a cer- 
tain way the blocks had been built. And 
I would have to do things like looking 
at a picture of a bottle of water, and 
seeing it tipped on its side in different 
ways. I would have to pick out what the 
water level should look like when it was 
tipped. This kind of thing taught me 
reasoning ability. 

"I saw such a difference over the 
course of the summer. The hrst lime I 
saw something in 3-D, I almost fainted. 
I focused on an object, then saw an 
object behind it, and then I could see 
the space in between. Amazing. We also 
worked on vocabulary. At the begin- 
ning of the sunmier I was able to rec- 
ognize and pionounce words at the 
sixth-grade level. By the end of the 
summer I was up to tenth-giade 
words." 

Lewis, whose problem caused her 
to "skip over words and whole lines, 
which can really change the meaning of 
things," says she has a better under- 
standing now of why she dfjes what she 
does. " rhe doctor gave me so inuch 
confidence in myself. Now I don't have 
to be so mechanical about things as I 
used to. I can visualize things better. 
When I study, I memorize everything. I 
give myself hundreds of tests while I'm 
studying, and when I read test ques- 
tions, I just go over everything in my 
head to pick out the answer. I need 
more time on tests, and it's up to me to 
tell the professor that I have this prob- 
lem. It's not an eas) thing to do. 'V'ou 
feel a little bad, and sometimes there's 
the attitude that you'ie getting away 
with something." 

Perhaps as a result of her experi- 
ences with dyslexia, Lewis plans to ma- 
jor in psychology. "I had done well in 
,0 biology, so I had thought about being 



'I have trouble 
with speUing, and 
using a dictionary 
is horrendous!' 



pre-med. But I took chemistry, and did 
badly. I reverse the number orders in 
the formulae. I have incredible drive, 
and I accepted my dyslexia early on. I 
study at least six hours a day, mini- 
mum. I have to study to iniderstand. 
Cramming does me no good at all. I 
have to put stuff in my long-term 
inemory in order to remember it." 

Lewis's "incredible drive " is char- 
acteristic of dyslexics at Brown. She was 
an Army brat who moved approxi- 
mately every eighteen months while she 
was in elementary school. "I also have 
developmental lags, according to Pia- 
get's theory of learning. My mom 
would tutor me wherever we would go, 
which helped." And her drive helped 
with her athletic skills — Lewis played 
basketball at Brown last year in spite of 
the fact that she had not yet developed 
3-D vision. How? "Tricks. I'm good at 
tricks." Lewis uses tricks when she is 
concentrating in class, too. "I could tape 
lectures to be replayed later, but it's not 
very helpful. The voice tone of the 
teacher tells me what's impoi tant. And 
I watch the teacher's body movements 

Associate Dean Robert Shaw: Wrestling 
with appropriate ways to help dyslexics. 



and notice what's being emphasized. 
That would be lost on tape." No longer 
on the basketball team, Maria is "now 
doing kaiate, which is really hard. 
When the instructor does a certain 
move, I have to stop and say to myself, 
'Which arm is she using?' It's sometimes 
a trip trying to figure all of this stuff 
out." 

Dyslexics can have problems 
socially as well as scholasti- 
cally. Gasti says that "social 
adjustment can be difficult. 
Some dyslexics tend to be gauche, and 
either interrupt conversations or mon- 
opolize them. We might not be well 
coordinated, or not pick up on conver- 
sational cues and body language. If no 
one teaches us these social skills, we can 
be pariahs. Our minds can't focus on 
one thing always, and we'ie divergent 
thinkers. We don't think in a linear 
way. We can make totally inappropriate 
remarks, which are totally appropriate 
to what ive are thinking. Soinetimes, 
though, I come up with insights no one 
else thinks of. I'm all the time getting 
comments on the papers 1 write like 
'weak organization, but very perceptive 
thought. Never thought of it this way.' " 

John Kape admits that he's had 
some problems socially that he can now 
attribute to his dyslexia. "I've been an 
enigma to some people. Now some of 
my own riddles have been explained to 
me, just by knowing my brain works a 
certain way." 

Since his diagnosis last spring, 
Kape has spent a lot of time reflecting 





Jocelyn Hale studies in her kitchen. The 
smallest noise can distract a dyslexic. 

on the effect dyslexia has had on his 
life. His words come fast as his thoughts 
tumble over each other. The word he 
uses to describe himself is "ballistic," 
and his conversation is rapid-fire. 

"I didn't talk until I was four years 
old, which is common with dyslexics. In 
my case, it was probably a blessing. Mv 
parents were survivors of the Holo- 
caust, and in the earlv fifties, thev fled 
to Israel, where I was born. If I had 
started out talking Hebrew, I never 
would have learned English when we 
moved here. The fact that Brown has 
no [foreign] language lequirement is 
one reason I chose to come here. 

"I've alwavs had problems com- 
municating. I grew up in a Polish- 
speaking household, and I was virtuallv 
deaf at home. My parents and grand- 
parents spoke Polish all the time. I 
watched a lot of television as a child, 
and I get teased a lot that I don't have a 
Brooklyn accent, I have a television 
accent." 

Rape's teachers used to sav that he 
daydreamed a lot, and was lazy, al- 
though the\ would "attach a disclaimer 
that 1 was intelligent. I always thought I 
was an under-achiever. In high school 1 
had writing problems, so I joined the 
school newspaper. And I plaved base- 
ball. I had two problems with baseball. I 
chose pitching because it was somewhat 
ballistic, like I am. I'm impulsive and 
the pitching suited me. But my eyesight 
was getting bad, so I was hitting the 
batters all the time. And I had prob- 
lems with signalling the catchers — even 
with a simple one- or two-linger signal. 



I would forget what mv instructions 
were. And I was a good athlete, but I 
would ahi'ays get mixed up on what side 
to slide into base on." 

John had planned to go to medical 
school — his mother is an anesthesiolo- 
gist — but "I've undermined mv goals, 
even though I completed all the pre- 
med requirements. So I switched to 
engineering. Viituallv all the papers 
I've done here. I've handed in late. I 
wrote a paper for an Engine 9 class the 
night before it was due, and when 1 got 
it back the T.A. had written on it, 'This 
sounds like it was written bv a foreign 
student with a dictionary in hand!' I 
have never finished an essav question 
on a timed exam, and that's whv I'm 
not a humanities major. 1 used to work 
for [Assistant Professor of Engineering] 
Jerry Daniels in the neural engineering 
lab. It's ironic that I've been studying 
the brain during my years at Brown, 
then I find out I have a neurological 
disorder." 

After he finishes the incompletes 
he has on his record and graduates, 
Kape plans to continue working at 
Blown towards a master's in engineer- 
ing. Then on to business school, or 
maybe medical school. "I've been read- 
ing a lot of Chekhov," he says. "His 
characters seem sort of dyslexic to me. 
They have aspirations, but it seems that 
they are always frustrated in getting 
there. Some succeed, but usuallv the 
heroes shoot themselves, or feel sub- 
dued upon recognition. 

"I see mvself as a classic Chekhovi- 
an hero — I've undermined some of my 



own goals. But I won't let my disabilities 
get in my way. I'll let my abiUties get me 
out of this tragi-comedv. " 

One hallmark of dyslexic 
students at Brown is that 
they are as diverse as the 
rest of the student body. 
Shaw says that they concentrate in a 
host of different fields. While John 
Kape says he could never concentrate 
in a humanities field because of the 
problem he has writing papers, Jocelvn 
Hale says, "I ha\e an impossible time 
remembering scientific words. They're 
very confusing for me — almost like a 
foreign language. And I took Spanish 
and loved it, but didn't do well, al- 
though I worked very hard. I've gone 
with the history and English because 
there are no tests. 

"I've always had dyslexia. I wasn't 
diagnosed as being dyslexic until I was 
a senior in high school, although I 
knew I had a learning disability in the 
third grade. I had done very well in 
high school, but when 1 took my SAT 
tests, I did very poorly — like in the low 
4()0's. So I took a battery of tests and 
thev discovered I was dvslexic. 

"I had known that I had problems 
studying, but vou just think, 'Well, 
everyone has troubles.' Taking notes in 
class is hard for me. It's hard for me to 
hear something, then be able to write it 
down. It gets confused between the 
hearing and the writing. I misspell 
words a lot and have trouble with 
grammar and spelling. I don't know 
what's misspelled — I used to get friends 
to look over my papers, but that's ask- 
ing a lot. And using a dictionar\ is a 
horrendous experience! " 

Although she was involved in 
"everything in high school — that's what 
got me into Brown " — Hale has not been 
as involved here as she would like to be, 
"because I have to put mv energies into 
iny studies." After several yeais work- 
ing in a regional theater, she hopes to 
go to business school and e\entuallv get 
into arts administration. As for the 
dyslexia, "Most people don't know I'm 
dyslexic, but people are very under- 
standing if they know. I don't make 
that big a deal of it." 

Bruce Clark '70 can bear wit- 
ness to how nnich the aware- 
ness of learning disabilities 
has increased in the past 
decade. He had two courses left to 
complete when he left Brown fourteen 
years ago, but he had no major, either. 
"I had skipped around from depart- 
ment to department so much that I 29 



liadii'l managed to finish a concentra- 
tion. I had no heart left, so 1 turned my 
back and walked away." 

Cllark spent the seventies loading 
trucks, working as a computer pro- 
grammer, for an oil refinerv, and for 
an auto club, and fmishing a semester 
of law school. He went to Mexico and 
learned Spanish. And all the time "it's 
been growing on me to come back and 
put the loose ends together." 

He had suspected it for years, but 
he was onl\ diagnosed as a dyslexic this 
tall. "When I was at Brown before, it 
took me three-and-a-half years to get 
an accinmilated a\eiage above 2.0. 1 
did okav in high school, but it's tougher 
liere. I didn't really want to t)e in col- 
lege, but in 19(36 you either went to 
college or you went to Vietnam. 

"I read an article about dyslexia, 
and it got me thinking. I've always had 
problems with words, reading prob- 
lems, problems with writing. I'm ambi- 
dextrous, which is a sign of dvslexia, 
and 1 can mirror write. Theie are a lot 
of other things I'm just now discover- 
ing. 1 just think, Kvervone's not like 
that?" " 

After he had dropped out of col- 
lege, Clark wrote letters. Reams of 
them. "I bought a typewriter and typed 
and re-typed letters to friends. I 
worked in a lexas oil rehnery and 
started a newsletter, and found I could 
du it. I learned to speak in front of 
crowds. I forced myself to do it. Now I 
can write. Of course, that's different 
from doing it in school. Here someone 
chooses the topic. 

Although she couldn't see in 3-D, 
Maria Lewis played basketball last year. 



The dyslexic spends 
a lot more time 
doing things than 
the average student 



"I have two years of studies left. 
I'm majoring in Russian studies. I've 
been cm ious about Russia since I was a 
kid. 1 memorized the Russian alphabet 
when I was eleven. I have to woi k at it, 
though. 1 have problems hearing and 
remembering, but 1 have a good mem- 
ory for sound. And because of persis- 
tence, my Russian handwriting is better 
than my English. I do all my P.nglish 
writing on a word processor — which is 
easier than writing by hand. Your 
fingers know how to type the words 
that you may have problems getting 
out." 

If Brown had had some of the 
support networks in place in 1970 that 
it has now, "1 would've done better. " 
Clark says. "Then it was sink or swim. 
Although people cared," he adds 
C|uickly. "I don't mean to imply they 
didn't. But the vehicles were not there 
for hooking up to. Dean [Barrett] Ha- 
zeltine especially cared. He extended 
offers of lielp. but by then I was burned 
out. Knowing someone like that was still 
here was a big help when I was thinking 
about coming back. It's a shame [my 




dyslexia] wasn't discovered and diag- 
nosed earlier. And who knows how 
many others like me have llimked out." 

Is there a subtle form of discrimi- 
nation against students who have 
a mild learning disability like 
dvslexia? 'We get mixed respon- 
ses from faculty," Rafael Casti .says. "I 
think this is one of the real tests for tol- 
erance, to see how open-minded the 
professors are. I can tell when we talk 
about this, if they respond dubiously or 
openly. " 

"One student had a professor who 
was reallv gi\ i'l.g her a hard time for all 
her spelling ertors," Dean Shaw recalls. 
"Most of the signs of the dyslexic are 
signs of someone not working well, and 
there's lots of prejudice against that. It 
affects people's judgments, as well as 
the student's .self-judgment. Actually, 
the portrait of the dyslexic is of some- 
one who spends a lot inori' time doing 
things than the average student. What's 
fjeen really helpful is to make pro- 
fessors aware of dyslexia. And it's im- 
portant for students to know that they 



A dyslexic's 
characteristics 

Characteristics of dyslexia, according 
to the Orton Dyslexia Society: 

D Delayed spoken language 

n Errors in letter-naming 

D Difficulty in learning and 
remembering printed words 

D Reversal of orientation of let- 
ters, or sequences of letters in words, 
when read or written: e.g. b-d; was- 
saw, quite-quiet 

n Repeated spelling errors 

D Cramped or illegible hand- 
writing 

D Difficulty in finding the 
"right" word when speaking 

n Slow rate of writing 

D Reduced reading and writing 
comprehension of fanguage 

D Similar problems among rela- 
tives 

Some characteristics that may ac- 
company dyslexia: 

n Uncertainty as to right- or 
kft-handedness 

n Confusion about directions in 
space or time (right and left, up and 
down, yesterday and tomorrow) 

n Difficulties in mathematics 



lici\e to meet the same standards as 
other students." 

Bruce Clark agrees. "The problem 
is that you don't want to help dvslexic 
students too much. We don't want to be 
carried. We need the tools, like know- 
ing how to write, how to learn lan- 
guages. We need to learn the proper 
way of learning. All we're asking is 
that people be a little more coopera- 
tive. Which isn't to say, give us the 
world with a fence around it. Give us 
equal opportunity. Like you would 
give someone in a wheelchair a ramp. 

There mav be some subtle preju- 
dice against dyslexics on campus. "We 
hope to encourage dsslexic professors 
to come forward," says Gasti. "We need 
them as role models, and I think thev 
could be reallv helpful. It troubles me 
that there could be some piofessors 
who are trying to hide it because they 
think it might lower their professional 
standaicls. " 

\et one dyslexic piofessor, who 
prefers to remain aiionvmous, main- 
tains that dyslexia is a professional 
handicap. "There are dvslexic people 
on campus that Tm willing to talk U>. 
But I don't want to go on record as be- 
ing dyslexic. I don't want the first 
thought people have when they hear 
nie talk to be, 'He does well for a dys- 
lexic' " 

1 his laciiltN member does offer 
advice, though, to dyslexic students at 
Brown. "They should realize that one 
of the greatest gifts Brown has to offer 
is the word-processing equipment here. 
A dvslexic can learn to tie words to his 
fingers. You think the word and think a 
finger combination. And the Script 
program has an extremely good spell- 
ing program, " a piogram that auto- 
matically checks each word against a 
"dictionary" and offers corrected spell- 
ing. "The most effective wav I've loiuid 
to write papers is to think of them as 
one long speech. I never write some- 
thing that's not good grammar. Many 
dyslexics find that they have aural 
gifts — it's the same way of compensat- 
ing as blind people with good hearing. 
You get a feeling of how good Knglish 
sounds. When I wrote my dissertation, 
I wrote a 120-page speech. I didn't 
write a dissertation. It came to me in 
my mind in complete literarv sentences. 

"I learned Trench, Swedish, and 
Gerinan — all in intensive courses, 
where you're taught aurally. It's the 
standaid hedge that dyslexics can't 
learn languages, and that's wrong. Be- 
ing dvslexic doesn't mean that vou have 
decieased intelligence. These students 
should be willing to ask for more time, 




Bruce Clark '70: 'Who knows how 
many others like me have flunked out?' 

or be able to type their exams if they 
need to. Professors should be willing to 
recognize that people have inultiple 
gifts. Certainly I'd grade a dyslexic as 
stiffly as anyone else. It's just an issue of 
time. The analogy I make is that if a 
student were parajslegic, and had to 
type an exam with a pencil in his teeth, 
any professor would give him extra 
time." 

The dyslexic support group at 
Brown has done an amazing 
job of getting the problem 
out in the open. Last year, in 
what Dean Sheridan termed a "tvpicallv 
enterprising Brinionian wav, " the stu- 
dents wrote, edited, and published a 
handbook aboiu what it's like to be 
dvslexic at Blown. The booklet is dis- 
tributed to academic advisers and fac- 
ulty members at the beginning of each 
year. "We get five to ten requests for 
the booklet every couple of weeks," 
Sheridan says. Reprinting rights have 
been turned over to the Orton Society 
because the booklet has generated na- 
tional attention. 

The students' outreach goes be- 
yond the Van VVickle Gates, Ciasti ex- 
plains: ""V\'efe disseminating informa- 
tion and encoinaging support groups 
at other colleges through the Under- 
graduate Council of Students. We've 
talked to Career Planning Services 
about the kind (jf help thev can lend us. 
And we've talked to tlie Writing Tellows 
Program and to Studenl-to-Student [a 
counseling option, where students talk 
to students]. We're encouraging people 



to admit it, t(j let them know that they 
can be tested, and to identify the areas 
they're having problems with. Other- 
wise, they'll avoid things. Some people 
will never take an English class, and 
that's too bad." 

Theie is something special about 
the chslexic students who weie inter- 
viewed for this story. They are coura- 
geous in discussing their clisabilitv 
openly. Most of them have undergone 
extensive self-examination. They push 
themselves: Gasti tutors students with 
reading problems at the Fox Point Boys 
and Girls Club; Lewis played basketball 
although she couldn't see three-dimen- 
sionallv: Clark came back to Brown, 
after fourteen years, to finish what 
hadn't been completed; John Rape may 
vet get to medical school. N(jthing 
comes easily to these students, even 
though, as Brown students, they are 
considered to be among the most elite. 
"You hear it all the time: 'You got into 
Brown, what can be wrong with you?' " 
They got into Brown because they 
worked harder than anyone else, in- 
cluding their fellow students at Broun. 



Guess which one will grow up 
to be the engineer. 




As things stand now, it doesn't take much of a guess. 

Because by and large, he is encouraged to excel in math and 
science. She isn't. 

Whatever the reason for this discrepancy, the cost to society is 
enormous because it affects women's cai eer choices and limits the 
contributions they might make. 

Only 4% of all engineers are women. 

Only 13.6% of all math and science Ph.D.'s are women. 

And an encouraging, but still low, 31.3% of all professional 
computer programmers are women. 



%k^ 




In the past ten years, IBM has supported more than 90 
programs designed to strengthen women's skills in these and 
other areas. This support includes small grants for pre-college 
programs in engineering, major grants for science programs 
at leading women's colleges, and grants for doctoral fellowships in 
physics, computer science, mathematics, chemistry, engineering, 
and materials science. 

We intend to continue supporting programs like these. 

Because we all have a lot to gain with men and women on 
equal footing. =^= =* 



'Music 2 is open to all students, without regard to musical experience, 
mode of dress, or type of audio system ... The only requirements 
are long hours of listening to the greatest music ever invented 
and appropriate responses to the professor's attempts at humor ' 

Rock 'n' Roll Is Here to Stay 



34 



The- service door in Grant 
Recital Hall opens, and a foot 
swathed in still baiulai;ing 
lioveis gingerly over the 
threshhold at the edge of the stage. It is 
followed (ka-lhump) by a second foot, 
this one shoe-clad, as Assistant Pro- 
fessor of Music Janice Kleenian, '76 
A.M., hops through the door. She set- 
tles back into her wheelchair and begins 
to toll across the stage, helped bv a 
graduate student and escorted bv a 
swirl of brown leaves from the parking 
lot. It is 9 a.m., and many of the sixty or 
so students seated in tiers overlooking 
the stage seem barely awake. 

"This is Dora," Kleeman announc- 
es, gesturing towards her helper when 
she is settlecl near a portable blackboaid 
and a shelf of stereo equipment. "She's 
my I. A. and mv left leg. Now. How was 
the midterm?" 

"Funl" some of the students yell. 
There is laughter, and Kleeman smiles. 
She talks for a minute about some lis- 
tening-tape assignments. Then Dora 
puts a record on the turntable. "1 want 
you to tell me what genre this is," Klee- 
man instructs. Silence ... the soimds of 
scratches (jn the record, amplified 
through the two huge speakers on ei- 
ther side of the stage ... and suddenly 
music — a gritty voice, a melancholy 
series of guitar chords that slip and 
slide: the hlues. On the blackboard Klee- 
man writes, "1929. Rev. Robert Wilkins. 
'That's No Way to (iet Along.' " 

It is Friday, November 2, and Jan 
Kleeman is beginning anrjiher lectme 
in Music 2, a coiuse with the exuberant 
title of "Rock 'n' Roll Is Here to Stay!" 
Today is Kleeman's first a|)pearance in 
this classroom since her husband of five 
months. Associate Professor of Music 
James Koetting, died unexpectedly al- 
ter suffering a heart attack in a Cali- 
fornia hotel exactly two weeks earlier. 
He had delivered a paper at a confer- 
ence that evening. Kleeman was sleep- 
ing at his side when he died in the mid- 
dle of the night, and in her scramble to 
summon help she broke her foot. Now 
she is back to teach the course she de- 
scribes as "my lifelong ambition." It is 



this course, says the thirty-five-vear-old 
Kleeman, that is keeping her going, 
getting her through "the worst period 
of my life. " 

Dora cues another record, and 
again bluesy chords emanate from the 
big speakers. This time the singer's 
voice is unmistakable. "Mick Jagger is 
doing his version of a black blues sing- 
er," explains Kleeman to the class. "He 
has smoothed out the phrasing, and 
there is more sophisticated guitar pla\- 
ing. And, where the blues tends to be 
unromantic, dealing with sex and 
heartbreak, Mick has tinned it around 
to tell a biblical story." The song is "The 
Prodigal Son," from "Beggar's Ban- 
quet," a 1968 Rolling Stones albmn. 

"tLverything in the Stones' earlv 
period is groiuided in blues and in 
rhythm and blues," Kleeman continues. 
"They didn't cross into pop the way the 
Beatles did. Mick has a phenomenal 
voice — it's liquid, nasal, whining, sexy; 
but it's not a very good voice, and that's 
one of his great frustrations. He wanted 
to imitate black singers. The man whose 
singing he admired most was Wilson 
Pickett." Another song bursts from the 
speaker; chunky instrumental chords 
punctuate Pickett's vibrato vocals on 
'Midnight Hour," a 1964 recording. 

The Rolling Stones' breakthrough, 
Kleeman tells the class, came in 1965 
with their number-one hit, "(I Can't Get 
No) Satisfaction." The familiar guitar 
line fills Giant Recital Hall; Mick Jagger 
pitches his voice low at fust, then cies- 
cendos to a shout of frustralion: "So I 
try, and I try, and I TRY, AND I IRY; 
I CAN'T GET NO ... satisfaction." 

Kleeman ends the lecture with an 
account of the Rolling Stones' concert 
at Altamont Speedway in (^alifornia in 
19()9. "The concert was the end of an 
era," she tells the students, most ot 
whom were between the ages of three 
and seven that year. "1 hree hundred 
thousand peojile came to watch five 
middle-class f^nglishmen doing .^fro- 
American music." Instead of hiring 
police, the concert organizers brought 
in platoons of the Hells Angels motor- 
cycle gang to maintain order. And 




By Anne Diffily 
Photographs by John Foraste 




Rock 'n' roll oldies: They've got a good beat, you can dance to them, and you'd better have them memorized for the midterm, 



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when the Stones began to play the song 
that iiian\ feel epitomizes Mick Jagger's 
image, hell broke loose. 

The song was "Svmpathv for The 
Devil." From the speakers in Grant, 
Jagger's voice croons, "Please allow me 
to introduce myself ... " Kleeman points 
out the song's musical characteristics: 
"This has a doo-wop background, with 
jungle soimds and African percussion. 
There is a four-bar ostinato, over and 
over, that gives the piece a hallucinato- 
ry effect. Vou get drugged by this kind 
of music. " 

.A fight broke out while the Stones 
played this song at Altamoni, and by 
the time it was over, four people had 
died. "A voung woman was actually 
killed right in front of the stage — she 
was kicked and stabbed to death," 
Kleeman tells the class. "The Stones 
continued to play: Jagger was terrified 
and helpless. The whole scene was out 
of control. The Stones were finished in 
America for a long time after this. And 
it marked the death of the Woodstock 
myth, of that dream of love." 

It is 9:50, and students with 10 
o'clock classes shuffle up the risers and 
out the back door. A few gather around 
Klcemaii's wheelchair to welcome her 
back. ' rhank you," she tells them with 
a smile. "This class is the reason I'm up 
again this week." 

Not too many introductory 
course lectures have titles 
like this one in Music 2: 
What \ou Can Tell Your 
Parents at Christmas When They Ask 
You Whv ^'ou Studied Rock 'n' Roll 
Music. " |an Kleeman faces, head-on, 
the obvious question: Is this music 
worthy of scholarly treatment at a ma- 
jor university? 

"First of all," Kleeman says, "if a 
course is offered at Brown, it's a serious 
cour.se." She shifts slightlv in the desk 
chair in her Orwig .Music Building 
office; a new foot cast now allows her to 
hobble up the stairs to the second floor. 
"Seiond, 1 think the music I play is val- 
uable. There's some prejudice, per- 
haps, because people's reactions to this 
music are often on a physical level. 
Because of that, it hasn't been consid- 
ered valid in nnisical circles. I don't 
think people here really understand 
this course — not even students in the 
niusit department. One of my students 
said his roommate didn't take the 
course because of the title — he thought 
it would look bad on his transcript. But 
I refuse to change the title. What I'm 
trving to say is, This is important music 
in the evolution of our culture." 




"Analyze this performance," Kleeman says, "for stanzaic repetition 
and motific pattern." The song? James Brown''s "I Feel Good." 



In addition to reading in four re- 
quired textbooks, primary among them 
The Rolling Slone Illustrated Hisloij oj 
Rock and Roll, students in Music 2 must 
listen to ten tapes of one to one-and-a- 
half hours each to prepare for the 
midterm and final exams. "You will be 
expected to be able to identify by genre 
(e.g.. Rhythm and Blues, acid rock, 
doo-wop, etc.) any selection from the 
tapes," Kleeman's syllabus advises. "In 
addition, you will be tested on a few 
basic aspects of nuisic theory: meter, 
simple phrasing, basic chord progres- 
sions." The listening tapes have proven 
so popular that Kleeman has had prob- 
lems with students stealing them from 
time to time. 

An elhnomusicologist who also 
teaches courses on Asian classical mu- 
sic, European and American folk mu- 
sic, and the theory and method of eth- 
nonuisicologv, Kleeman first offered 
her rock-and-roll course last year as 
Music 142, "The History of American 
Popular Music." Fifty students enrolled. 
"The course failed to attract anything 
like the number of students we thought 
it would," says Professor of Music David 
Josephscjii, department chairman. "We 
gave it a high numbei with the idea that 
it would be an intermediate lecture 
course." At the end of the semester, he 
and Kleeman agreed on a new strategy. 
"We decided we'll make it a begimiing- 
level ( ourse, " Josephson says, "and fo- 
cus it on the music Jan seemed to be 
most interested in, nmsic from the 
1940s, '50s, and 'tiOs. And that meatit 
rock and roll. " 



Kleeman admits that her intensive 
knowledge of rock and toll extends 
only up to 1970 or so, but adds that she 
now includes moie recent lockers such 
as Bruce Springsteen and Fleetwood 
Mac in the course. "My .seven-year-old 
daughter was biought u|) on the Bea- 
tles," Kleeman says. "Now she's into 
Michael Jack.son the way I was into Elvis 
as a child." 

This year 140 students are enrolled 
in Music 2, making it the largest single- 
section coinse in the department. Klee- 
man expects even more will sign up 
next year when the course is offered at 
a later hour. Those who take Music 2 
for an easy "B" or ".satisfactory," how- 
ever, may be surprised. "1 lost about 
half of my pre-enrollment this year," 
Kleeman says. "I gained back twice as 
many. But many kids drop the course 
when they find out it isn't easy. What 
we're doing is teaching the fimdamen- 
tals of listening to music, using popular 
instead of classical music. You learn 
chord progressions, you learn rhythmic 
notation, you learn a musical vocabu- 
lary. We cover musicological approach- 
es by talking about acculturation and 
synchrotism." 

"I think a lot of people take it for 
an easy coui se," says Evelyn McDonnell 
'86, who took Kleeman's course last 
year and is now doing an independent 
study project on rock and roll in the 
195()s. "Those people are leally sur- 
prised. The exams are tough. I'm not 
sure everyone realized at first what they 
got out of the course. But eventually 
they lealized, 'Hey, I've changed my 



'Kids who take Music 2 for an 
easy course are surprised' 



way of thinking about this music' A 
good course will do that." 

"Jan has taken kids who were in 
this course for a 'gut,' " adds Josephson, 
"and gotten them interested. I feel this 
music should he treated legitimately, or 
it shouldn't be treated at all. There is no 
reason to give course ciedit just for lis- 
tening to rock and roll. Music 2 is a real 
course. Jan doesn't have it in her to 
consider it any other way. And she has 
that marvelous combination of being 
verv serious about it and also loving the 
music." 

I was the youngest of three chil- 
dren," Kleeman savs, lecalling 
her childhood in Philadelphia. 
"My two older brothers were lis- 
tening to Elvis when I was five or six 
years old, so I grew up hearing that 
stuff." Although her father plaved and 
performed classical music, and Klee- 
man herself took eight years of classical 
piano lessons, popular music always was 
her first lo\e. 

"I associate rock and roll with 
wanting to be an adolescent. It was a 
most impressionable time of life for me: 
the late 1950s. The idea of becoming a 
teenager was so compelling; it repre- 
sented my future, joining the real 
world." Her personal favorites of the 
era ranged from early Elvis Preslev 
("nittv-gritt\ rockabillv") to doo-wop 
ballads (the Elamingos) to "The Kill- 
er" — ^^[erry Lee Lewis, a man who fused 
country/western with boogie-woogie 
and set thousands of yoimg feet tap- 
ping and dancing. 

"I was sort of a black sheep at 
Wellesley," says Kleeman, who earned 
her bachelor's degree in music there in 
1971. "If vou were a music major, \()ii 
joined the Madrigals; but I joined the 
Tupelos — sort of like the Chattertocks 
here. I introduced a lot of contempo- 
rary music such as 'At The Hop.' Later, 
when I was applying to Brown's gradu- 
ate program, I couldn't get any recom- 
mendations from the VVelleslev faculty 
because I hadn't been in the main- 
stream of the department." She smiles 
slyly. "When I went back to Wellesley as 
a member of the music faculty at 
Brown, the\ couldn't believe it! I was 
the only music major in my class who 
stayed in the field." 

In 1971, however, being a music 



professor was far from Kleeman's 
mind. "I went into retail management 
at Eilene's, because I knew my heart 
wasn't into going to a traditional grad- 
uate program. I was always singing in 
Eilene's stockroom, and they even let 
me sing Christmas carols over the in- 
tercom." Her fiist marriage took her to 
Virginia, where she became a minister 
of music at a Baptist church. "I started 
thinking about going to graduate 
school in music," Kleeman says. "When 
my husband got a job in Hartford, I 
asked about programs in the area. A 
former professor recommended 
Brown. I talked to Bonnie Wade, the 
graduate representative on Brown's 
music faculty. She taught Asian music, 
and I came to Brown on the strength of 
meeting her. I lealized the music grad- 
uate program here wasn't all art 
[classical] music; there was an interest 
in ethnomusicology." Wade went to 
teach at Berkeley in 1975 and super- 
vised Kleeman's Ph.D. work there. 
"Now I have Bonnie's former job here," 
laughs Kleeman, who is the depart- 
ment's graduate representative. 

In Music 2, Kleeman traces rock 
and roll to its roots in blues and coun- 
try/western music; there is a heav\ 
emphasis on the important contribu- 
tions of black musicians, from blues to 
gospel to soul. "I never tht)ught of that 
music as black," Kleeman recalls. "It 
was just the music I liked; it was my 
music, too. When the '60s came along, I 
found I identified with the black social 
movement much more than with the 
white protest moveinents." 

Perhaps that attention and sensi- 
ti\ it\ to black popular music is one rea- 
son the students in Music 2 are more 
diverse than in some other courses. 
"This class is more racially mixed than 
any of my other humanities classes, " 
says Elise Eeder '86, a classically-trained 
percussionist who has played with the 
Brown Wind Ensemble. 



s 



Kleem 



omeone has written on the cen- 
tral panel <jf the big blackboard 
that forms the back wall of the 
Grant Recital Hall stage: 
Professor 
Kleeman 

is 
GREAT! 
in is still wheelchair-boimd, but 



today she reaches to switch on the ster- 
eo equipment by herself, and wheels 
around to write names and dates on the 
portable blackboard. She plays a le- 
cord: The Reverend Overstreet and his 
four sons, "Soldier in The Army of The 
Lord" (1935). Theie is a guitar accom- 
paniment, tambourine percussion, and 
a classic gospel vocal arrangement: solo 
and response. 

"What's the chord progression in 
this song? " she asks the class. Everyone 
looks baffled. They also look sleepy. 
("Once," says Elise Feder, "she was ask- 
ing questions at the beginning of class 
and no one was answering, and she just 
flopped on the podium and said, 'Are 
you there}' ") 

This time, Kleeman helps the class 
out. 'There is none. There's just one 
chord. You can see the diffeience from 
the blues, where you have definite pro- 
gressions. This music is simple, both 
melodically and harmonically, but the 
emotion comes out in crescendos. This 
is Southern black gospel music; this is 
where soul music comes from." She 
plays Elder Otis Jones and his congre- 
gation ("I'd A Mind"). There is preach- 
ing, singing, congregational response, 
clapping. "The point of this music is to 
evoke a feeling, a mood, a kind of re- 
ligious ecstasy." 

Soul music, says Kleeman, is the 
combination of blues and gospel music. 
Whereas ttie blues conveyed sadness 
and frustration, gospel represented the 
hope inherent in the ci\ il rights move- 
ment. "Soul is like electi icit) , " she 
quotes Ray Charles. "It's a force that 
can light up a room." Through the 
music of King Curtis, Ray Charles, Sam 
Cooke, Jackie Wilson, and finalh — "my 
favorite soul singer! " — James Brown, 
Kleeman illustrates the musical ele- 
ments and performance qualities that 
helped push soul music to the forefront 
of American musical c<5nsciousness in 
the I96()s. 

James Brown is belting out his 
1963 hit, "Papa's Got A Brand New 
Bag," when the class ends. The students 
have been curiously still through a re- 
cital of some of the most inesistibly 
danceable music to ha\c come down the 
pike in the last thirty \ears. A few have 
tapped their pens ihoughtfully. or 
nodded their heads in time with the 
pounding beat. 

1 his odd woodenness on the part 
of the class continues during Kleeman's 
next lecture, a continuation of the 
history of soul music. With her new 
foot cast, she is able to stand behind the 
lectern again, and she sways through 
James Brown's "I Got You (I Peel 



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'Rock and roll has held my 
interest for thirty years' 



38 



Good)" before getting down to busi- 
ness: "I want you to analyze this per- 
formance for stanzaic repetition, for 
motific pattern. Tell me what the tex- 
ture is. How would vou describe the 
structiue? I'll give you a hint: It starts 
with a 'b.' Now: the only two structures 
I want \<)u to remember are blues and 
ballad. So vou have a fifty-hfty chance!" 
She writes on the board: 

AABA/I/BA/BA. 
"This is a perfect example of a combi- 
nation of blues and ballad." she con- 
cludes. 

When Aretha Fianklin sings the 
peppv, gospel-inspired " Ihink, " when 
Eddie Floyd does his classic I9ti(i dance 
tune, "Knock on Wood," and hnalK 
when Sam and Dave crank out "Hold 
On, I'm Comin,' " Kleeman continues 
to sway unselfconsciously at the lectern. 
"She ff els the music," Evelyn McDonnell 
savs of Kleeman. "She dances, and it 
never looks silh or weird." Elise Feder 
describes the Kleemanest|uc lectmc 
stvie: "She stands at the podium, 
brushes her hair out of her face, rims 
back and forth to the tape machine, 
and dances. She's such fun: she has so 
much energy." 

Later Kleeman is asked. Why don't 
the students jump out of their seats and 
dance? How can they help it? She 
laughs. "I can't explain it. I put [|erry 
Lee Lewis's] 'Breathless' on one morn- 
ing, and I was living around dancing, 
and one woman in the class was actually 
asleep\ I do try to get them to use their 
feet and hands when we talk about 
rhythm, and we had one big dance les- 
son earlier this fall. Everyone came 
down on the floor and I taught them 
evervlhing from the Lindy to disco. We 
did 'I he Stroll' to the Diamonds, and 
evervone was responding and ap- 
plauding." 

"It's partly because the class is held 
early," suggests Feder when asked 
about her classmates' immobility in the 
face of such danceable music. "And it's 
partly because this is a class, and people 
aren't as loose. She has us listening for 
tilings, so we're concentrating. Ihe 
seats are close together and it's really 
annoying when people start boogey- 
ing." 

Students like Feder, McDonnell, 
and Ken Greenblatt '87 combine praise 
for Kleeman's effervescent personality 



with respect for the course's content. 
"This is without a doubt my favorite 
course here," says Greenblatt. "It's so 
different from all the others. It's a 9 
a.m. class, and I've only missed one lec- 
ture! It's always fun." Yes, but is it seri- 
ous? he is asked. "Yeah. Just look at that 
blackboard," pointing to the green slate 
covered with rhythmic notations and 
the names of artists and their music. 

"The course was just what I want- 
ed," says McDonnell, who aspires to be 
a music joiuiialist. "I wanted to ap- 
proach rock and roll from a theoretical, 
musical standpoint. I used to be really 
imhappy here. I didn't know what I 
wanted to do or major in. But after 
taking Professor Kleeman's com se, I 
thought, 'This is what 1 like, what I 
read about, what I listen to. So, why 
don't I do it!' " Her current indepen- 
dent study with Kleeman, McDonnell 
says, has made this "my best semester 
since coming to Brown." 

Coinses in rock and roll are 
still uncommon, savs Jan 
Kleeman, particularly in 
university music depart- 
ments. "Mostly they are offered in 
American studies programs. People 
teach it on the side. And most books on 
the subject are written from a sociolo- 
gical rather than a musicological angle. 
There's a dearth of publications." She 
hopes to write her own textbook as well 
as to publish articles on rock and roll in 
scholarly journals. 

"My personal project is getting an 
article on the aesthetics of popular 
music published in a journal," she says. 
"I think theie has to be an aesthetic 
operating; it's just a different aesthetic 
from that in classical nnisic. Rock and 
roll has held my intetcst for thirty 
years. If a musical form appeals for that 
long to a Ph.D. in music with an art- 
music backgiound, there must be an 
aesthetic to it. People complain that 
rock is simplistic and repetitive, but that 
repetiliveness, that ostinato, serves a 
pur|)ose as long as you don't carry it too 
far. We do need to stress the diffcience 
between good and bad rock and roll. 
But we also must get away from the 
idea that something has to be intellec- 
tually complicated to be aesthetic. If 
music touches you and engages you, 
that's important." 



Kleeman looks affectionately at the 
posters on her office wall: The Beatles 
in their heyday; Buddy Holley; others 
from i-ock and roll's pantheon of heioes 
and heroines. "But, sometimes I just 
put on my records: the Flamingos, Jer- 
ry Lee ... I cannot listen to that music 
without moving! It's physical; it's sex. 
And there's nothing wrong with that. I 
just glory in my response to the nuisic. 

"Last year," she says, "I'd wake Jitn 
up to the strains of 'Why Do Fools Fall 
in Love?' He'd be screaming at me to 
quiet it down — but I love that stufL " 
Kleeman looks pensively at her desk, 
then gazes firmly ahead. "After Jim 
died, I didn't think I'd sing for a long 
time. But I'm singing again." 

What Jan Kleeman is singing is not 
Just a personal statement about her love 
of a musical form, but also a statement 
of conviction about the future of Music 
2. She borrows from the I9.'j()s group, 
Damiy and the Juniors: "I don't care 
what people say; Rock and roll is here 
to stay! " She is backed by a chorus of 
several hundred Brown students who 
have taken her course. Hundreds more 
may be joining in next year, and in 
many years to come. 



Good-bye, Paper Chase, 
Hello, Mr. Chips 



By Anne Diffily 
Photographs by John Foraste 




Ingredients for Engin. 163: A "Bag-0-Chips" (top), a plastic breadboard (center), lots of wire — and time. 



Wendy Chin '86 perches on 
a stool in Barns and Hol- 
lev Room 309, watching 
the LED display unit 
wired onto her small electronic circuit- 
board Hash nmnerals in sequence: 1 ... 
2 ... 3 ... and so on. "Looks like you've 
got it, " congratulates Assistant Pro- 
fessor of Engineering Jerry Daniels, 
poking the board with an electronic 
probe. " rhat's Lab 9 — a pretty tough 
one." 

Lab 9 is one of sixteen self-paced 
laboratory assignments that are the 
only requirements for students taking 
Engineering 163, "Digil.il Circuit De- 



sign." There are no tests, no written 
assignments. Daniels puts it this way in 
the manual he wrote for the course: 
" Ihe weekly paper chase is gone ... The 
timed exams are gone ... Beat-the-clock 
cookbook labs are gone. No more lab 
partners with the IQ of a tree on one 
hand or the experience of Thomas 
Edison on the other. No more lab re- 
ports graded fioni 1 to 10 on neatness 
and precognition." 

"Other engineering courses are 
very regimented," says Chin, an elec- 
trical engineering major. "There's a 
homework paper due evei y week, ex- 
ams ... So many times everything is 



theoretical. This course is practical; it 
teaches you how to do what you've been 
looking at for three years." 

Daniels designed the unusual 
learning approach to circuit design 
when he came to Brown in |anuary 
1977 and began teaching Engin. 163, 
which is a required course for electrical 
engineering majors and students work- 
ing toward an Sc.B. in computer sci- 
ence. Looking for a change from the 
usual lecture-texibook-homc work-test 
routine (interspei sed with labs held at a 
set time for entire groups ol students), 
he devised the "Bag-O-Chips" that has 
become Engin. 163's trademark. Lhe 



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40 



Bag-0-C;hips is not really a bag, but a 
kit of small electronic parts and perfo- 
rated plastic "breadboards" that is is- 
sued to each student for a cost (this 
year) of $56.49. 

"In a typical engineering course," 
says Daniels, a casual-looking man in 
his late thirties who is wearing corduroy 
Leyis, blue Nike shoes, and a purple 
RISD T-shirt, "students attempt solu- 
tions of problems from a textbook, with 
guidance from lectures. This "paper 
chase' prepares them for midterm and 
Imal exams, where their grades are 
determined. Sometimes a piofessor will 
demonstrate equipment or eyen re- 
cjuire weekly laboratories, but the em- 
phasis is on a theoretical grasp of prin- 
ciples. Critics of this arrangement have 
argued that students don't design; they 
simplv analyze standard forinulas. 
"Perhaps because my research 
specialty is in biomedical engineering," 
says Daniels, "I have been able to im- 
plement some unconyentional ideas. A 
favorite question in pharmacology 
courses for medical students is: 'What 
drugs would you take to a desert island 
to create a self-sufficient hospital?" 
Asking myself the same question about 
integrated circuit chips and effective 
engineering education led me to the 
'Bag-0-C;hips' concept. 

"I took advantage of marketitig 
trends in the semiconductor industry. 
The cost of their products defies infla- 
tion. Integrated logic circuits — 'ICs' in 
the trade — become more complex and 
powerful every year, but their prices 
have continued to drop. When I was an 
undergraduate, there was no such 
thing as a coinse in which logical com- 
puting was built on a single chip. It 
would have cost $5,000 for equipment 
comparable to that in one Bag-O-Chips, 
instead of about $50." 

At first Daniels wanted the course 
to be purely a laboratory experience. 
But he retains the formalit\ of lectures 
twice a week and re<]uires a textbook. 
Sinte he began teaching the course, he 
has tightened it slightly: The labs origi- 
nally were entirely self-paced; i.e., stu- 
dents had until the end of the seinester 
to complete any and all of them. Assis- 
tant Professor of Kngineering Dick 
Bullerman took over Kngin. \^Y^ for a 
few years antl added a sciies of four 
deadlines, whi( li Daniels has retained. 
" Ihey remind stuflents that they 
should be getting the stuff done 
throughout the semester," Daniels says. 
"We used to have lots of hurly-burly at 
the very end, with everyone up here 
trying to get their labs checked off." 
.About 140 students are enrolled in 




Jerry Daniels "trouble-shoots" a circuit 
with a graduate student in his office. 

Engin. 163, so a last-minute crush 
might turn the third floor of Barus and 
Holley into a facsimile of Penn Station 
on Christmas Eve. 

Daniels shares responsibility 
for Engin. 163 with Senior 
Research Engineer William 
Patterson, and with fourteen 
undergraduate and graduate teaching 
assistants who ptovide advice in the 
laboratory and who check off students' 
assignments when they have been com- 
pleted con ectly. All the TA's are veter- 
ans of the course, and they bear most of 
the burden for ensuring that students 
not only assemble a workable answer to 
each lab's challenge, but can explain to 
the lA how and why it works. 

Wendy Chin, for exainple, after 
testing and tiouble-shooting her circuit- 
board for the Eab 9 assignment, takes 
the board to one of the TA's on duty. 
The TA spends a few minutes verifying 
that the ciicuit woi ks and meets all 
requii ements of the lab. Then the TA 
asks the "F TQ" — Fault Tolerance 
Question, a test of the student's famil- 
iarity with the circuit. The TA might 
choose one of the wires in Chin's circuit 
and ask her what, if anything, will go 
wrong if that wire is removed. If Chin 
answers the question correctly, the TA 
signs her scorecard and she is home 
free. 

In another kind of F TQ, the TA 
would privately change Chin's wiring so 
the circuit didn't work, then hand it 
back to her and require her to debug 
I he circuit in twenty minutes or less. If 



Chin were unable to answer a standard 
FTQ or debug a scrambled circuit 
properly, the TA would ask her two 
more FTQs. 

"If several FTQs are answered 
incorrectly,"' Daniels writes in the lab 
manual, ""we will begin to wonder how 
you can know so little about a circuit 
that you designed, built, and tested 
yourself ... If you are guilty of demon- 
strating a circuit that someone else de- 
signed, you will automatically lose 
credit for that lab. If a second offense 
occurs, standard academic discipline 
procedures will be initiated." 

If a student can't reassemble his or 
her own circuit board, Daniels says, the 
TA turns the board over and checks a 
number on the back — a number that 
indicates which board was issued to 
which student. If the board belongs to a 
student other than the one presenting 
the work, the offender is immediately 
referrecf for disciplinary action. But, 
Daniels says, ""Noliody takes the risk of 
having that happen." 

"I haven't foimd anyone cheating 
so far," says FA Jeff Spokes '85. "I 
don't think it happens much. Most stu- 
dents figure the circuits out on their 
own." Angela Harris '85, another TA, 
agrees. "Even if a student borrowed 
someone else's design," she says, "Just 
doing the wiring takes a lot of time and 
they learti something. Fo answer the 
F'FQ. yot' liave to understand what 
you're doing." 



D.inicls compares Engiii. 16;? 
with some of the computer- 
science progiammiiitr coius- 
es — up to a point. " 1 lieie aie 
similai ities, " he savs. "In the program- 
ming coinses students spend all iheii 
lime willing, nmiiing, (lebugging. and 
(locumenlmg computer programs. " 
I his. he sa\s, is analagous to his Engiii. 
I(i.'? siudenls working out solutions with 
llieii Bags-(V('.hi|)s. testing them, trou- 
ble-shooting and debugging them — but 
only in one lab do his students have to 
provide written documentation. 
"I here's \irtually nothing to hand in, " 
he adds. 

A student's grade in the couise is 
based entirely on how main lab chal- 
lenges he or she has completed dining 
the semester, fo qualif\' for the mini- 
mum giade of C, or a satisfactory, the 
student must complete seven specified 
labs. Doing twelve labs means an auto- 
matic B, and completing all the labs 
gives you an A. It is possible to get an 
A-plus: "It's based on speed, " savs 
Daniels. "Vou ha\e to complete all the 
lal)s beloie I hanksgiving " One grade 
option is not extended — or onlv in the 
rarest cases: "No grade of incomplete 
will be gi\en unless you present evi- 
dence fiom a physician of a serious ancf 
piotracted medical pioblem," the lab 
manual warns. "We have no svmpathv 
for a student who shows up at the end 
of the semester with a nearlv-blank 
scorecard in hand, and claims that he 
or she needs this course to graduate. " 
Given the Ireedoni to choose their 
own pace and style in Engin. 163, stu- 
dents respond in a variety of ways. 
"Some of them probably have some 
anxiety, without a lot of short-term 
deadlines," sa\s Daniels. "Others get 
very involved with it. and zij) through 
the labs. And others just give up. " In 
his manual he lists a tv]5ical grade dis- 
tribution from a recent \ear: six A- 
pluses, twenty-one A's, fortv-cjne B's, 
thirty-one C's, eighteen S's, twenty- 
thiee NC's, and sixteen "diops." 

"A lot of people start out reallv 
psyched." says Jeff Spokes, "but thev 
get discouraged as the labs get harder. 
Mcjst people try to get B's or just to pass 
the course." Spokes, who got a B last 
year, says. "The last three labs are just 
iiK ledihK lough. I tried to do more, 
but I couldn't do it all in the time I had 
left." He remains a fan of the grading 
system. "I've never seen anything like it 
before. It's fantastic; kids can learn to 
pace themselves and think on their 
own. It frees you fiom worrying about 
how zvell you do each lab and lets you 
focus on getting it dcjiie. In each as- 



signmeiil, theie are constrainis on how 
many chips you can use. so \ou jusi ir\ 
t(j do your best. " 

Angela Harris, uho Imislied all the 
labs last year and got an .A, likes the fact 
that 163 is graded on an absolute scale; 
one's final grade is not based on a mean 
class score, or curve. "It's better when 
the student can see a direct correlation 
between the amount of work and the 
grade," she says. "You know that if \ou 
do this much, you'll get this giade. " 
rhe kind of student who performs best 
in Engin. 163, she adds, is "somecjiie 
who doesn't have another very de- 
manding lab course: someone who likes 
tinkering and the reward of seeing 
something work; and someone who's 
moti\atecl to put in the time. Things 
can go wrong with the parts and that 
causes frustration; it can take <in hour 
or two to lepair the damage when one 
of the vcjltages pulses. But a person 
who isn't put off by thai will do fine. " 

"You can know tlie theory \ev\ 
well, " savs Wendy Chin, "but still have 
tiouble with the labs. \'ou have to be 
xerv methodical and be .ible to think 
about three or four things at once. Eor 
instance, vou don't want to use six chips 
when you can onh use thiee in ,i prob- 
lem. " 

Chin piaises the atmosphere in the 
lal). "It's nice. You can ask anyone if 
vcju are having a pioblem, and ex- 
change ideas. Sometimes collaboration 
is discouraged in other courses. I was in 
a computer science course where thev 
didn't want vou tiilkiiif; to one another." 
"There's a lot of talking in the lab, " 
agrees Spokes. "People will go up to 
other students and say, 'Oh, I had that 
problem; try this.' " Such sharing is 
encouraged by Daniels, who feels it 
parallels the kind of real-life situations 
his students inav eventualK face in re- 
seaicti facilities, where the\ will work 
with other engineers to de\elop solu- 
tions to problems. Eurthei more, "en- 
gineets don't go to lectures to find out 
h(jw to design components," he adds. 

"If you go to work in R & D 
[research and development]," says 
Chin, "you'ie put on a team and given a 
large project. Each jjerson takes a part, 
a l)lock of that larger project, and de- 
velops something that is compatible 
with the others. That's what this couise 
is about — you're given the ccsinponents 
cjf a design, and vcju ha\e to make them 
work together. " 



111 l'.).S2, |err\ Daniels won an 
award from the American Society 
of Efectrical Engineers for his 
paper, "'Teaching Digital (iinuil 
Design PioductiveK. " The paper de- 
scribed the organization ol Engineering 
163. 'I think this course would woi k 
anywhere, " he says. "Tin interested in 
making it self-contained, so that a pro- 
fessor at another university could teach 
the same couise. You could put all the 
chi|5s on stviofoam and package the 
whole thing." 

MTT. he notes, has had a course 
similarly based on the idea oi issuing 
ec|uipment to students tor self-paced 
work, but theirs is somewhat fancier. 
"They have something c;illed the nerd 
kit," " he says with a smile. "I hear it's a 
briefcase that includes a power supply 
that you can take home. " 

Daniels is continuing to Ime-iune 
the course. Because his is a rapidh 
changing field, with chi]js being re- 
placed by more powerful chips, he of- 
ten revises the laboratory assignments. 

He has fjeen working during the 
summer as a consultant to liell Ckim- 
municatioiis Research in New Jersey. 
"1 hevre helping me devise a more 
computer-oriented version of the 
course," he says. In the second half of 
the course, he'd like lo use ccjm|)uters 
to simulate circuits on a screen. "You 
wouldn't have to buy chips; they'd be in 
a library on the computer," Daniels 
expkiins. Students, he feels, should be 
exposed to computer-aided design. In 
addition, he envisions the basics of 
trouble-shooting being taken over by 
computers some day. "You could just 
plug your circuit into the computer and 
it would tell you if it works, or what's 
going wrong. " 

In the meantime, Engin. 163 stu- 
dents thread colorful, plastic-coated 
wires through plastic breadboards and 
insert small metal-pronged chips. Thev 
test their circuits on power supplies in 
Barus and Holies, and hold in their 
own hands the results of hours of 
thought and labor. Their reward may 
be an A or A-plus on a transcript, or 
the knowledge that they're better pre- 
pared for the hands-cjn work the\'ll 
face after gracfualion. Or it may be less 
tangible but no less pleasing: The 
modest smile on Wendy Cabin's face 
when )err\ Daniels says, "That's really 
something, getting Lab 9 to work." 



Witness 
To An 
Epidemic 

Alvin Friedman-Kien '56 saw some of the first AIDS 
cases in 1981. He's still searching for a cure 




42 



Di. AMti Frieclniaii-Kicii '56 
had never seen anything like 
it. Karly in the winter of 
1981, Dr. Friedman-Kien, a 
dermatologist and microhioiogist at 
New York University Medical Center in 
Manhattan, was confounded by the 
appearance of an obscure type of skin 
tumor in three young patients. The 
tumor. Kaposi's sarcoma, usuallv afflicts 
elderly men of Jewish or Italian extrac- 
tion. But here were three men between 
the ages of twenty-two and thirty-seven 
who appeared to have the cancer, 
which occurs anywhere on the body 
and can be as innocuous-looking as a 



pinkish mosquito bite or as disfiguring 
as a large, purplish tiunor. "To see this 
disease in a unique, disseminated 
form," says Dr. Friedman-Kien, "was 
extremely peculiar." 

.So the dermatologist became a 
detective. He began making phone calls 
to fellow physicians aroiuid New York 
C>ity and across the country in (Califor- 
nia. In the space of several months he 
realized he was witnessing the birth of 
an epidemic, which has since baffled 
scientists, ravaged victims, aiui terrified 
an entire segment of our popuiation. 
This ruthless and now-notorious villain 
is AIDS — Acquired Immune Deficiency 



By Anne Diffily 

Syndrome. Seventy-two percent of its 
victims are gay men. 

Physicians such as Dr. FYiedman- 
Kien who have devoted most of their 
research to the epidemic are almost 
certain that AIDS is a viral disease. 
'The recent evidence is that a virus 
discovered in France, known as the 
LAV virus, and the HTI.V-III virus, 
discovered by American scientists, are 
closely related or perhaps even the 
same virus," says Dr. Friedman-Kien. 
" I hese are retroviruses, RNA viruses, 
which formerly were associated with 
only one other known human tumor, 
cutaneous T-cell Ivmphoma, a very rare 



disease." 

In AIDS victims' blood, the ratio of 
"helpei " r-ccils thai activate an indi- 
vidual's immune system to "suppressor" 
T-cells that keep the immune system 
fiom overreacting goes awry. The sup- 
pressors take over and ci ippic the 
bodv's defense meciianism. NoiinalK. 
helpers outnumhei suppressors two-to- 
one. .AIDS patients ma\ have reversals 
of this ratio as high as one-to-two. 

"In tests, these people's bodies 
don't lespoiid to common antigens that 
they should have immunity to. Their 
immune surveillance system is defec- 
tive. I suspect," says Dr. Friedman- 
Kien, "that throughout oui lifetimes 
each of us develops cancer twenty or 
thirty or even foity times. But we have 
a mechanism of host defense that 
recognizes an abnormal cell and kills it. 
The traged\ ot AIDS is that patients 
have no such defense mechanism." 

Victims become afflicted with 
everything from mild bacterial infec- 
tions that cause swollen glands and 
lethargy, to Kaposi's sarcoma, to the 
virulent Inwiundcxstis Kirniii pnemuonia 
(PCP), among numerous other diseases. 
Getting AIDS is close to being .set ved a 
death sentence: 'The aveiage AIDS 
patient," says Dr. Friedman-Kien, 
"faces about an 80-percent inortality 
rate within two or three years of diag- 
nosis. By the time someone with AIDS 
develops Kaposi's sarcoma and/oi an 
opijortunistic infection such as PCP, 
their immune s\stem is irreversibly 
damaged. " 

Alter luaking incjuii ies aiound 
New \'ork Catv, in the late 
winter of 1981 Dr. Fried- 
man-Kien called the derma- 
tology departinent at the Univeisity of 
California in San Francisco, a city with a 
large gay population. 'I asked them, 
'By the way, have you had an\ cases of 
Kaposi's saicoma in young men who 
are of homosexual or bisexual orienta- 
tion?' Fhey said no. But the next 
morning they had a staff meeting, and 
about an hour after it began, I got a 
phone call saying, 'We can't believe this. 
We don't know how you knew it, but we 
have two cases — one in Palo Alto and 
one in San Francisco.' " 

The physicians contacted the Cen- 
ters for Disease Control (CDC^) in At- 
lanta, which sent a team from its infec- 
tious disease bianch to New '^'ork to 
investigate. 'By that time — in April 
— we had accumulated twenty-six cases 
of AIDS between the New York and 
San Francisco areas. The C;DC people 
told us that they had just gotten a call 



Irom UCLA saying that they had five 
gay men with PCP. " The first news of 
the epidemic was reported by Dr. 
Friedman-Kien and Dr. Michael Gott- 
lieb of UCLA on July 3, 1981. through 
the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality 
Weekly Re|)oit. Since then, AIDS has 
spread alarmingly. 

"As of October 22, 1984," Dr. " 
Friedman-Kien says, "there were 6,552 
cases reported in the U.S., and that is 
probably far below the actual incidence 
of AIDS. Newly-reported cases are 
doubling every six months. Initially, the 
disease was primarily centered in lai gc 
cities — New \ork. San Francisco, Los 
Angeles; then Miami, Houston, and so 
on. Now, almost every state in the un- 
ion has reported at least one case." 
Homosexuals aic not the only 
giDup with a high risk of contracting 
AIDS, although they are the predomi- 
nant one so far. In the LInited States. 
says Dr. Friedman-Kien, 17 percent of 
AIDS sufferers are intravenous drug 
users, both men and women; 4 percent 
are Haitian immigrants, also both men 
and women; about I percent are he- 
mophiliacs who, because of their need 
for nuiueious blood transfusions, are 
vulnerable to contamination of blood- 
bank donations: and another I percent 
are men and women who have associ- 
ated .sexually with AIDS victims. 
"Fhere is a small cohort of individuals, " 
Dr. Friedman-Kien adds, 'that doesn't 
lit into any of the other high-risk 
groups. Fhey may be the most interest- 
ing to study because they may give us 
clues as to what causes the disea,se. 
There are very, very few of them, how- 
ever." 

AIDS has been cruelh dubbed "the 
gay plague," and Di . Friedman-Kien 
and his colleagues ai e all too aware that 
some individuals regaicl the disease as 
punishment for an "immoial" lifestyle. 
"We hear this sort of thing all the time, " 
he says, shaking his head, '"and I find it 
despicable. Jerry Falwell and other such 
people have been foolish enough to 
make such comments. I find it just so 
imcharitable that people can think in 
such tei ins. It's gotten so bad, some of 
the patients begin to believe the piopa- 
ganda. Fhere are a lot of bad feelings 
towards homosexuals, and I've had 
patients internalize this so they believe 
they're being punished. It's a dreadful 
thing." Gay organizations in several cit- 
ies, Dr. Friedman-Kien notes, have 
organized gioup therapy sessions for 
AIDS victims to counteract depression 
and fear. "And most of the physicians 
and other health-care providers who 
work with AIDS patients have a great 



sensitivity to their anxiety." 

He and other physicians have spo- 
ken to support groups such as the Gay 
Men's Health Crisis in New York and 
other gioups aiound the country. 
" Fhesc men want to know everything 
they can find out: How serious is the 
disease? What are you doing about 
finding a cure? What is the government 
doing; where is the energy being 
placed? How long have I got to live?" 

A Km Fiiedman-Kieii didn't 
stai t out to be an epidemiol- 
ogist and immimologist; he 
has grown into those roles in 
the last lour years. Before his involve- 
ment with AIDS tieatment and le- 
search, the Yale-educated dermatolo- 
gist focused his research on wart viruses 
and genital herpes. "Most of my work 
has been involved with a variety of vi- 
ruses that have skin manifestations," he 
says. "My first experience with virology 
was at the National Institutes of Health, 
after I finished my training in derma- 
tology at Mass General. At the NIH in 
1963, by chance I isolated the first new 
pox virus discovered in a nuinber of 
years. It was called "milker's nodule,' 
and it made the cover of Science. I was 
piobably one of the first dermatologists 
who went into virology in a basic-sci- 
ence way. 

"Herpes simplex is still one of my 
majoi interests. I've published piobably 
thirty-five papers on it over the past 
four or five years. Herpes is still an 
epidemic; it's not going away. My most 
recent work, just published, is on the 
successful treatment of genital warts 
with interferon. It's exciting, and it's a 
relief from dealing with AIDS, because 
at least you can do something about the 
disorder." 

The frustration of having no vac- 
cine against AIDS and no cure for pa- 
tients is a burden for Dr. Friedman- 
Kien and other physicians. '"It's fright- 
ening for everyone; it's very depressing 
and disturbing. Each time you see a 
new AIDS patient, it's like you're start- 
ing all over again. I've personally taken 
care of about 400 patients with the dis- 
ea.se. 

"M;uiy of my close associates who 
work with AIDS victiins through the 
course of their disease have developed 
what we call 'AIDS burnout.' There is a 
severe depression the doctor feels 
about dealing with people we know are 
going to die. and for whom we have no 
cute. " The most a physician can do in 
many cases. Dr. Friedman-Kien says, is 
to offer comfort. ""These patients are 
frightened; they're desperate; often 



'In fairness to the 
patient, you have to 
prepare him for the 
possibility that he 
may die in a very 
short time' 



tliev have a sense of (leiiial. 1 lieii.' is an 
additional dillKulls in dealint< willi llic 
families of palicnls. who otlen don't 
know ihal tlieii sons are i^av. Suddenly 
the\ have lo learn that not OTily is their 
son dying, but he's dying of a disease 
llial's associated with iioniosexiiality. 
Families have abandoned their sons. At 
times the patients, because ot their fear 
of spreading the disease, alienate thcii 
friends to ])rotect them. It's vcrv loiieh . 

"Most men in the gav coniiminitv 
locfay are aware of AIDS and its mani- 
festations, so they're prett) sure about 
what they have before I see them. 1 luv 
want to know, and yet tliey don't want 
to know. I think in fairness to the pa- 
tient one has to prepare him for the 
possibility that he may die in a very 
sliort time. 1 his is tlie luiman side of 
medicine that has nothing to do with 
treatment: it has to do with being sup- 
portive. As a ph)sician, yon cannot 
always cine disease, but you always 
must provide comfort and give sup- 
port. Nobody should have to die in 
great suffering. We try to make people 
as comfortable as possible, and make 
tlie transition from this life to the next 
world a little bit e.isiei ." 

Despite the depiessing aspects of 
trying to help AIDS patients and solve 
the riddle of the disease. Dr. Friedman- 
Kien, like other researchers in the field, 
sees glimmers of hope and excitement 
with each new development. "I was well 
established in my career as a microbiol- 
ogist and dermatologist, " he reflects. 
"Suddenlv to ha\e a new disease 
dropped in mv laj) — it's exciting. At a 
time when many people aie looking 
ahead to retirement, f have a whole 
new research career in an entirely new 
area. As tiring as it is sometimes, t'm 
never twred." 

Seeing the Inst .MDS victims, he 
recalls, was "f lightening, exiiting, 
puzzling. AIDS is lull of all the enigmas 
that make medicine so fasiinating. Who 
would e\er have dreamed of toxic 
shock syndrome or Legionnaire's Dis- 
ease before they came along? Now, 
suddenly we have AIDS. This is per- 
h.ips the most devei.slriliiif; epidemic 
afflicting mankind in the past 2, ()()() 
years that I can think of. I*erha])s the 
Bubonic I'lague and some of the other 
epidemics that swept through F.inope 
in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries 
were as bad. But at this time in our civi- 
lization, it's c|uite remai kable that we've 
come across a disease that for three 
years has totally defied understanding. 

"The spectrum of the disease, as 
we see more and more cases, is as- 
tounding. The variety of disease to 



which .AIDS patients are susceptiljlc is 
now so enoi inous that they mimic al- 
most e\er\ disease known to man. Wil- 
liam Osier, the great plnsician, was 
cjuoted as saying in the nineteenth cen- 
tury, 'Fo know syphilis is to know all of 
medicine." If Osier were alive today, he 
could substitute 'AIDS' for 'syphilis.' 

"AIDS has cieated a tremendous 
amount of research interest on the part 
of geneticists, inmiunologists, derma- 
tologists, inlectious diseases specialists, 
internists, epidemiologists, oncologists 
... It has brought together scientists 
from every walk of life who, by working 
together, potentially can give greater 
insight into how the host and the infec- 
tious organism deal with each other, 
and how the body protects itself against 
disease and tumors. Fioin this terrible 
e))idemic will come a great deal of in- 
formation ih.il will benefit work on 
othei diseases. " But as Dr. Fiedeiick 
Siegal of New York's Mount Sinai 
Medical C^enter told Nnusuieek last year, 
right now the possibility of a valuable 
outcoiue froin AIDS research "is a very 
smail silver lining to a very big, very 
dark cloud." 

In his off-duty hours. Dr. Fried- 
man- Kien — whose hyplienated 
surname reflects his Scandinax i- 
an ancestry — is an avid collector 
and connoisseur of antiques and art. 
After putting in a normal work week of 
sixty-five hours as physician, professor, 
and researcher at NYLI, and as diiector 
of dermatology at (Joldwatei Memorial 
Hospital, he enjoys being sui loimded 
by (;/;/(7\ il'inls in his city apartment or 
biowsing in galleries and nuiseums. But 
his office in the faculty building at tlic 
NYU Medical C^enter on First Avenue is 
small and spartan. A few steps down 
the hall is the laboratory where he su- 
per\i.ses a large slaffOf physicians and 
technical assistants. 

.'\s a reseaichei stucbing AIDS, 
"I'm involved with a number of things," 
Dr. Friedman-Kien .says. "One of them 
is the epidemiology of the disease 
— looking at factors and co-factors that 
predispose certain individuals to devel- 
oping .'MDS. We've found, for exam- 
|)le, a corielation between the individ- 
ual's exposure to seiucn and lo 
infectious organisms. Most of the pa- 
tients in the homosexual cohoit were 
exposed to a variety of parasitic diseas- 
es, venereal disease, and perhaps other! 
di.seases, which overloaded their im- 
nume systems. Haitians, on the other 
hand, may be immune-suppressed to 
begin with because of poor null ition 
and exposure to parasitic organisms. 




''At a time when mati\ people are contemplating retirement," 
says Friedman-Kien, "I have a whole new research career." 



"Wc know iliat in parts ol Africa, 
where the disease is now rampant 
— especially in Zaire, where 40 percent 
of the cases are women — that ])arasitic 
and infections diseases are a part of lile, 
as is ni.iinutrition." Many scientists 
stuching AIDS ha\e foiiiul similarities 
between \ii<ii diseases in lemole areas 
ol the African continent and lire retro- 
\rnis that appears to be associated with 
AIDS. 

"I have a theory. In the 1970s, 
when Zaire became a republic, it im- 
ported thousands of Haitians to be 
school teachers and run factories be- 
cause they were black and spoke 
French," says Priedman-Kien. "As Zai- 
rians became more capable of doing 
these jobs, the Haitians returned home. 
We haven't been able to track them 
specifically, but many of those Haitians 
may have been exposed to the retrovi- 
rus in Africa. Haiti has long been 
known as a resort lor American gay 
men. fhere is a lot ol pcnerty there, so 
that even Haitian men who are not 
themselves homosexual are available 
for sexual contact as prostitutes. Per- 
haps they transmitted the disease to one 
or two Americans, who then brought il 
back to New York and by multiple sex- 
ual contacts transmitted the disease. So, 
in fact, AIDS ma\ have existed in Afri- 
ca for many years, going uniecognized 
in the bush." 

In the laboiatory. Dr. I-'riedm.m- 
Kien and his team are attempting lo 
grow the Kaposi's sarcoma tumor in a 
tissue culture in order to understand 
the mechanism of the disease, which 
doesn't spread luetastacallv like other 
cancers but instead appears as individ- 
ual timiois that evoKe independently 
of each other. Di . Friedman-Kien eini- 



merates other research he is doing, 
much of it c(jllaborative: work with Di . 
Bernard Poiesz at the Syracuse Univer- 
sity on the retrovirus; work with Di . 
Robert (;allo at the NIH; collaboration 
with Dr. Pablo Rubenstein at the New 
York Blood (lenter on the immuno- 
genetics ol AIDS. "We're also stud)ing 
people in isolation facilities to demon- 
stiate the presence of the virus in the 
lymphocytes of patients with AIDS and 
AIDS-related complex. There is a pos- 
sibility of a test being developed to de- 
termine if someone is carrying the dis- 
ease. Right now, just having antibodies 
to the virus doesn't necessarily me.m 
\()u have AIDS: it may mean you'\e just 
been exposed." 

Some gay community leaders have 
accused the medical and reseat ch lom- 
miinities of dragging their feet on 
AIDS studies. ' '^'ou can be sure that il 
the victims were heteiosexual bankers 
the money would be gushing oia ol 
Washington," com|)lained San Francis- 
co journalist Randx Sliilts in Newsweek. 

"Il took a long time for the gov- 
ernment to react," concedes Dr. Fried- 
man-Kien, 'but once they became ac- 
tive, they really ran with the ball. 1 he 
governmental research institutions, in 
fact, are now investing more monev 
and energy in this leseaich than other 
inslitulions. Pel ha]5s the system of get- 
ting funding lor private research needs 
to be modified lor emergency situa- 
tions. But I would not be critical. I just 
think it took a little more time for peo- 
ple to realize there was an epidemic 
going on. My first support, I must add, 
was from the American Cancer Society. 
They gave me, without any c]uestions, 
an emergency giant lor the early re- 
search. I'm forever indebted to them 



for their support and their vote of 
confidence." 

Lest anyone outside the high- 
risk groups for .'MDS feel 
smug. Dr. Friedman-Kien .nid 
others agree that the disease 
eventualls will spread into the hetero- 
sexual population. 'AIDS may be 
transmitted in a manner similar to 
hepatitis," he says. "'Fhat's a very rare 
disease among women, too." 

As someone who works closely w ith 
AID.S patients. Dr. Friedman-Kien says 
he sometimes thinks about his own 
exposure ttj the disease. "That hasn't 
changed mv management of patients," 
he says c|uickly. "As a medical student I 
learned to take care of mysell and pro- 
tect myself against contagious diseases. 
There's always that risk when you're a 
doctor. And if you don't want to take 
the risk, voii should just gel into an- 
other field. 

"I'm ashamed to say that there are 
some physicians and health-care work- 
ers who have refused to take care ol 
AIDS patients. I reall) feel they should 
choose another profession " I he risk ol 
the unknown, rather than homophobia, 
is what deters them, he feels. "It's a 
disease with a fatal outcome; it's not just 
an ordinary infection. " And while to 
date no health-care worker has con- 
tracted AIDS, despite repeated expo- 
sure to patients. Dr. Friedman-Kien 
feels that unwilling health-c.ire provid- 
ers should not be forced to care for 
patients. "I he patient won't benefit, 
and the person giving the care won't 
give good service. I feel sorry lor these 
[medical] people; I can only apologize 
for them. 

"Fortunately," he continues, "there 
are enough jx'ople who want to lullill 
their oblig.itions as physicians, and who 
are willing to go ahead and do what has 
to be done. I must say, this experience 
has been a great tribute to the physi- 
cians I work with. They are some of the 
most heroic and marvelous individuals 
I've known." 

Do you think, Dr. Fi iednian-Kien 
is asked, that AIDS is going to be con- 
quered? He replies softly but emphati- 
cally: "1 hope so. I sure hope so." 



45 



THE CLASSES 



bv Peier Mandel 



17 



Wdllacf Wade, a guard on 
Brown's 1916 Rose Bowl 
team, turned 92 last June 15, 
and some of his friends staged a sur- 
prise party at his Bahama, N.C., home. 
Fifty-two U.S. Senators signed a letter 
with birthday greetings. President 
Ronald Reagan sent a special letter, and 
among the gifts was a flag that had 
flown over the U.S. Clapilol. At the 
University of Alabama and Duke, Wally 
made his mark as one of the nation's 
greatest football coaches, finishing with 
a career record of 202-52-12. The 
Football Hall of fame coach took three 
Alabama teams and two Duke teams to 
the Rose Bowl. He served in both 
World War I and II, commanding an 
artillery battalion in the 9th Army in 
Emope in the latter. According to the 
Raleigh News and Observer, Wally is 
proud of his two tours of duty in the 
Army and of the fact that he is the only 
man to have plaved and coached in the 
Rose Bowl. 



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Waller Adiei. Providence, 
writes: ")ust retired after ten 
years as piesident of the 
Legal Aid Society of Rhode Island. 
Have been elected president emeritus 
of Big Brothers of Rhode Island. I have 
begun mv 68th vear as class secretary; I 
was elected in my jimior year (1917)." 



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Of the filtv women of the 
I class who marched down 

tlollege Hill to be awarded a 
Brown degree, only seventeen re- 
main — and they are scattered across the 
country. Six returned on Alunmae Dav, 
May 26, for their 65th reimion. Lunch 
was served in the Vcrney Dining Room 
on the Pembroke Campus. Attendees 
were: Belly Ross Nelson, Hartford, 
(jonn.; Florence Thoniae Colmetz, Norton, 
Mass.; Theresa O'Brien McMurray, for- 
merly of Virginia and now of Warwick, 
R.L; Sophie Mogelevkin Robimon, who 
winters in California with her daughter, 
Dorothy Golner '44, and lives in River- 
side, R.L; Rulh Pelerson Watjen, Rum- 
ford, R.L, the class marshal in the 
ConmieiuemenI parade; and Ediui R. 
Mardonald. Rumford, class president. 

/'^ /^ Lou I . Balatoio is now living in 
V/ I I San Angelo, Texas, at 302 
^^ V^ Allen St., Apt. 2, after serv- 
ing for thirty-five years as manager of 
the American office of H. Steele of 
Mexico City, internationally known as a 
manufacturer and distributor of 
watches, clocks, pressure cookers, and 
stainless steel tableware. He visited the 
campus of "new Brown" two years ago. 

r~^ ^~V Arthur E. Miller. Narragan- 
^ 9 sett, R.L, reports: "On Sept. 

^^ ^^ 8. the Narragansett Histori- 
cal Society awarded me a bron/e pla(]ue 
ill recognition of mv many con- 
tributioirs to service of Narragairsett. 
On that same day, I was informed that 
my grandson, James C. Miller '73, was 
elected to the Brown Hall of Fame for 
his wrestling exploits. It was qitite a 
day." 

/~V A C classmates will be saddened 
y /I to learn of the death of Ora 

mm^ J_ A. Hopkirrs, widow of our 
late classmate, Charles E. Hopkins. She 
died Oct. 8 at Rhode Island Hospital. 

Earle V. johnsun, Naples, Fla., 
writes: "Three of the thirteen men at 
'24's 60th reunion belonged to the Del- 
ta Upsilorr fraternity (out of a delega- 
tiorr of sixteeir back in 1920). I'alk 



about loitgevity!" 

Dr. Anthony V. Migliarrio. Provi- 
dence, received the Distiitctive Service 
Award of the Italian-American Heri- 
tage Society on Oct. 14. In 1979, 
UNI LAM (United Italians and Italian 
Americans) presented him with an 
award for his outstanding contributions 
to mankind and in honor of his Italian- 
American heritage. He is now retired. 

/""V te»' 1 he Women's College class 
^ \r\ of 1925 held a conrmittee 

^^ \_y meeting on Oct. 1 7 at Mad- 
dock Akrmni Center to organize for 
their 6()th reimion. There were eleven 
nrembers present, and subcommittees 
were appoirrled urrder the direction of 
C.elia Ernstof Adier. gift chairrrrarr aird 
reunion co-chairman, and Catherine 
Fitzgerald Hagau, class presideirt arrd 
chaiintan of reunion activities. Other 
nrembers present were Harriet Boyd, 
Beatrice Coleman, Marjorie Walker Greene, 
Hope Baker Lundgren, Barbara McCarthy, 
Madeleine Fish Neuhauer. Dorothy Arnold 
Parks. Elizabeth Simpson McCormick. aitd 
Ruth rhonison. 

r~^ /'"* William G. Chace. Pirrrta C.or- 
/ wr\ da, Fla., notes: "I am an ac- 
^^ \J live Ham (amateur radio 
operator), call KAIRO. Would like to 
corrtact other Brown alurrrni who are 
Hams. Cot my original license while at 
Brown. First station was in Hope 9." 

Elon J. Notley, Veio Beach, Fla., 
writes: "For the pasl five years or so, my 
wife and I have been visitirrg Pirerto 
Plata, Dominicarr Republic, three or 
lour times a year — for periods of lour 
to six weeks. Es may Iraiujuito." 

Rivhall Perry, Jamestown, R.L, suf- 
fered a stroke early in October 1982. 
He is recovering nicely — "a trip to Ari- 
zona in the cold months helps. " 



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Dr\ Merrill W. Chase writes 
ihal he is slill living in New 
\oi k City. 



/~v /^ Col. Joseph R. Hyiiian, USAF 
J Nt (Ret.), notes: "Peg and I have 
^^ \^ retired to our condo in Pom- 
paiio Be.icli, Fla., after a summer at our 
place in Narragansett, R.L We left Nov. 
I for t^)loiado S|)r ings lo visit two of 
our sons and their families." 

Florence Anshen Zellin, Norfolk, Va., 
reports: "In 1980 I retired as artist-in- 
resideirce at Old Dorrrinion University 
iir Virginia and am still there as adjrrnct 
artist in residence, seeing the work of 
selec ted sluderrts on an occasional basis. 
1 he university provides rrrc with a large 
studio for nry own work, which since 



1980 has been largely machine-gener- 
ated with a grant from Xerox and ac- 
cess to the university's high tech. In 

1982, the Metropolitan Museum pur- 
chased three microhche-generated 
prints for their permanent collection, 
and one is currently being shown in 
Albany and will be |)resented in New 
York City at Pratt Manhattan CJallery. 
This year, my husband has retired from 
his medical career and is currently in- 
volved in studying ceramics and mak- 
ing clay sculpture. Our son, Peter, lives 
in Brooklyn and our daughter, Eliza- 
beth, in loromo. We have two grand- 
sons, Ira and C^hiah." 

/'~V y^ Hildi'gard jncgf^' Safford, 
F \^Jk Iryon, N.C., reports: "In 

^1^ \J September, 1 visited the 
beautitul country ot Ireland tor ten 
days and also revisited some spots in 
Britain. At home, I'm verv busy with 
community activities. ' 

Robert G. Shanklin. Pensacola, Fla., 
mo\ed to Pensacola three years ago. 
"Doing some writing (militar\ history), 
and some editing. My wife, Phyllis 
Fletcher Shanklin. is enjoying our life, 
which is highlighted by as much travel 
as we can sandwich in." 

^^ /^ Wnithrop M. Soiilhworth. /;.. 
"l I I *- '^'^^^ C:hase, Md., served 

*_-/ V^ last summer on a special 
nine-member working group in evalu- 
ation of the United Nations Education. 
Scientific, and Cultural Organization. 
The group was set up by the director 
general to propose reforms demanded 
by the United States as a sine qua non of 
continued membership. 



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Dr. Eugene A. Field, Tamarac, 
la., is visiting associate pro- 

fes.sor at the University of 
Miami X-ray department at ]ackson 
Memorial Hospital. "Hope to attend 



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the 55th reunion in 1986." 

Lee McCluer Marshall, Rye, N.Y., 
recei\ed mention in the New York Times 
when Keiron Bigby '87 bioke Lee's 1929 
record of a 99-yard return of a pass 
interception by going 102 yards to score 
against Yale in September. 

Juel A. Rogers. Clarksville, Mo., is 
retired chairman of the board of C.V. 
Mosby Co., a subsidiary of The 
Times-Mirror Company, of Los Ange- 
les. He is living in Wickenbing, Ariz., 
and Clarksville, and "enjoying life and 
good health. " 



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Max I. Millman, East Provi- 
dence, R.I., sends "a pleasant 
hello to the 'survivors' of 
•32!" 

Mary Ferdon Pondre, Lothian, Md., 
has been elected president of the China 
Tiffin Club in Washington, D.C., for 
the year 1984-85. Mary and her hus- 
band, Louis, lived in China in 1946. 
Mary was a club director with the 
American Red C^ross. She decorated 
and operated a six-room penthouse 
club on the Bund in Shanghai for the 
GI's, who named it Longevity Lounge 
as they waited for their ship to take 
them home to America. Mary had for- 
ty-five on her staff and fed 2,000 a 
month. She is looking forward to the 
pleasure of working with the Taiwan 
Cihinese and with .\mericans who ha\e 
li\ed in China. Louis was on General 
Marshall's mission to (^hina as ordi- 
nance advisor to President Chiang Kai 
Shek in Nanking. Mary and Louis will 
spend the winter in Sarasota, Fla., and 
Christmas with their daughter, Mary 
Lou, her husband, O. Jeffrey Berven, 
and twin grandsons, Jetemv and 
C^hristopher, in Wichita, Kans. 

M Joseph E. Buonanno. Narra- 
gansett, R.I., writes: "Happ\ 
to report my granddaughter. 
Robin Boss, made All-American in ten- 
nis as a freshman at Harvard. Tried tcj 
enroll her at Brown but failed. " 

Alexander Resko, Jr.. MifHintown, 
Pa., reports that he "had right hip re- 
placed last spring aftei an eight-year 
bout with arthritis. Still limping a bit, 
but everything oka\. Swim a mile al- 
most every day all summer in my pool 
and during the winter at the YMC^A. " 

John Sayxeard and his wife, Lor- 
raine, Burlington, Vt., were guests at a 
surprise party arranged by their chil- 
dren. Bill, Linda, and Joan, at Joan's 
home in Bedford, N.H., for the Sav- 
ward's 40th anniversary. Several of the 
original wedding parts, other friends 




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and relatives liom oul ol town, and 
three small giaiukhildrcii participated. 

(^ ^ William S. Bluiuluird. Poit 
y^ r\ Orange. Fla.. is "looking fbr- 

%J \J ward to attending the 50tli 
reunion next Mav." 

Sla)ilr\ Hcnsliaw. /t.. l'ro\idenie. 
writes tiiat "I was cinirinan and ran the 
National Clrass Ciourt Super Seniors 
Tennis loiniiament at Agawani Hinit 
Cllub here. We had 104 entries — ages 
fioni 70 to 94." 

^^ /^~* Hrlfii /oliiis Carroll spent part 
^ ^~\ ol |une in Israel and part of 

\J \J .August in California. In Los 
Angeles, Helen attended a reunion for 
medal winners of the UKVi Olympic 
Games and als(j the closing ceremonies 
of the 1984 games. Helen won a gold 
medal at the 19;?'2 Olvmpics as a swim- 
mer on the 4 X 100-meter freestyle re- 
lay. 

^~\ ^^ Dr. /()//)( M. C.rau'jord. Jr.. 
^ / New Wnk (lity, leports: "My 

S^ § exhibition of Chinese callig- 
raphy and painting opened Oct. 1 I at 
the Metropolitan Muscinn of Art and 
runs through next |une. I ccjntiniie to 
serve as a trustee of the Museiun and as 
a member of the acquisitions commit- 
tee." 

(^ r~^ Hf'iiiy W. Anderson. Milford, 
•^ ^^ Conn., writes: "Sally and I 

%J \_J weren't able to make the mini 
reiunon in May. We left June 5 tor a 
three-week trip to the lantl of m\ fore- 
bears. We traveled through Sweden 
and Norway and visited the Island of 
Crust off the west coast of Sweden, 
where mv mother, father, and prior 
generations were from. All the best." 

James ;V. Byers, Providence, has 
been elected |)residenl ol [lospiie Care 
ol Rhode Islanfl. 

Frank C.ahalan sends word of the 
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winter: "The tii|) on the MV Mddiinl 
I.ermonldv began in London on |an. 5 
and ended there on .April 12 — a total of 
ninety-six days. Dining this time twen- 
ty-nine cities, in twenty-four countries 
Ol territories, were visited. I boarded 
the ship in Tenerife and disembarked 
in (iibraltar, so I was aboaid for eighty- 
six days. I enjoyed the trip thoroughly. 
I'he Lermonluv is Ilalian-buill, Russian- 
owned, but leased to a London-based 
tiavel company. She is 57.5 feet long 
and over 20,000 tons, with a top service 
speed of 20 knots. The passengers were 
from a broad range of origins — about 
50-percent British, 20-percent Ameri- 
can, 20-percent German, 10-percent 
Australian and New Zealandeis. Most 
of the officers (including the captain) 
and crew were Russian." 

Heniy Capasso and Martfiiri'l b'uii 
CaJMSso (see '40) spent two weeks in 
Italy and Sicily in April. Henry is presi- 
dent of the Greater Providence Retired 
Teachers Association. "Retirement is 
great and busy," they write. 

Leonard R. Clarpenler. Englewood, 
Fla.. repijrts: "tllad to hear Dave Pnrdie 
will be at the 50th. I hope to be theie to 
see him again for the first lime in 50 
years." 

Donald J. Eccleslun notes: "We went 
on a Caribbean cruise last February and 
met Don Capron in Fort Lauderdale. He 
gave us a fine tour of the city. We still 
love Lawrence, Kans.: It is much like a 
New England town, lots of trees ancf, 
believe it or not, hills. " 

Innn^N. Espti lepoits: "Janet and I 
are living by the ocean in Westport, 
Mass. (since 1976). We garden, light 
against nukes of all kinds, and loi the 
environment, particularly fur our 
beautiful Westport River. We are knee 
deep in local politics and town affairs. 
We have two children: Ann, 25, A.B., 
Smith College, now an undergraduate 
again at the University of Washington 
in graphic design; and Richard, 19, in 
computer programming and working 
toi ihe Bank of Boston." 

I he Rev. Wdhnr E. Uo^g. Albany, 
N.V., wrote: "Another retirement is 
h.ndly news for the class, but plans fcjr 
it arc a momentary pieoccupalion with 
me. f he dale is Sept. 1, and 1 approach 
il with mixed emotions. My cx|)ectation 
is to return to Portland, Maine, where I 
spent Iwenlv-oiie years of ministry, the 
longest period of residency of my life. 
I here aie enough chores there await- 
ing, boili in cliurch and community, to 
keep me cjuile as occupied as I wish to 
be and slill leave a little time for travel." 

Maniy KuMiiilz. Fall River, Mass., 
notes: "No changes l<n me — still as ac- 



tive as ever." 

Ed Rnli (Ihe Bean Hill Whittler), 
Lebanon, C^onn., reports: "I am sup- 
posed to be retired — but I am just tired! 
The little carving biz (started as a hob- 
by) is really booming this year: Seven- 
teen orders on hand including four for 
over $500, one for over $1 ,000 and two 
lor over $2,000. Now have two to four 
helpers and ciirieiuly scheduled solid." 

Dr. Samuel H. Rabin retired as dean 
and provost. New \'ork Medical Col- 
lege, in 1983. He is now director of the 
New York Medical College Institute on 
Human Values and Medical Ethics, in 
New York City. 

Eunice Cliappell Slecirn wrote the 
following last spring: "Who ever said 
retirement was not hectic? I am now 
chairing an outdoor art show — 150 art- 
ists — to be on the Rockville Centre, 
N.Y., streets in June. We have artists 
coming from Minnesota, all the New 
England states, Pennsylvania, New Jer- 
sey, even Cieorgia! So far I have been to 
1 10 countries and would like to add to 
the number, but I keep returning to 
favorite places. Ibis fall I will take an 
an lour to northern Italy. Fhis sum- 
mer, painting on Cape Cod. A credit 
union lonyeiuion in July in Washing- 
ton. .Anolhei yolunteer job as Credit 
(iominitlee chairman!" 



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(ieilrnde Levin Pullman. Dal- 
las, Texas, ie|jorls: "We have 
a new granddaughter, Elyssa 

h Benklifa. She was born on |uly 

husband's birthday. " 



A /^ Plans for the 45th reunion of 
/I I I the class are well under way. 
JL \J The class reunion committee, 
consisting of Piesident John J. Mc- 
Lauf^lm. (jus Jones, Bub Engles. Harold 
Pfaulz. Ken CJapp. and Vic Schwarz (a 
recent bridegroom, by the way), has 
been meeting this fall and a gala pro- 
gram is Hearing complelion. Following 
the successful "C^ampus Walk ' format 
of the 4()th, the reunion begins with 
cocktails and a class dinner at the Prov- 
idence Art Club on Friday evening. 
May 24, before the Cainpiis Dance. 
Saturday's program is made up of 
somelhing for everyone — forums, buf- 
fet liiiich, golf, tennis. Alumni Field 
Day, ihe reunion dinner, the Po|)s, and 
all the lixings. I he fact that Memorial 
Day falls on reunion and Commence- 
ment weekend may enlarge the Sunday 
program since more people may want 
to stay over. Details to follow! Make 
your plans early. A big turnout is ex- 
pected and we'll keep you posted. 

Margaret Fico Capasso and Henry 



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Capasso (see '38) spent two weeks in 
Italy and Sicily last April. Margaret is 
legislative co-chairman of the Gieater 
Providence Retired Teachers Associa- 
tion. The Capassos write: "Retirement 
is great and busy!" 

Forbes Mann. North Palm Beach, 
Fla.. writes: "Retired — love it." 

William M. Sibhee. Killen, Ala., 
notes: "Retired in March 1984. Now 
have time for grandchildren (7). tennis, 
and travel." 

Bob Sweeney and his wife, Roma, of 
Palm Coast, FJa., are fleeing the U.S. 
for the remainder of the vear to her 
birthplace in Calcutta, India, for a fatn- 
ily/friends visit. They're also going for 
some one-week stays with friends at 
American embassies in New Delhi and 
Ku.ila l.imipur. 



4-| Ruber! F. Grnbb. Edina 
I writes that he "re- 
-L last June, this time a; 



Ruber! F. Grahb, Edina, Minn., 
-retiied " 
as associ- 
ate dean of the Uni\ ei sity of Minnesota 
Law School. 

Dorothy Nelson McClelland. Alexan- 
dria, Va., reports the marriage of her 
daughter, Ka!herine McClelland (see '77), 
to David Karen last June. 

A ^JA Leo Dunn, senior partner in 
/ I y the 15oslon law firm of Bar- 

-i- ^^ ron &: Stadfeld, was recently 
named a vice president of the Boston 
Univeisity General Alumni Association. 
A 1949 graduate of the universitv's 
School of Law, he has served on a 
number of university alumni boards 
and committees. He is the recipient of 
the law school's Silver Shingle Award 
for distinguished public ser\ice. A 
member of the Boston and Massachu- 
setts bar associations, he has also been 
active in the communitv. 

Edith M.L. Herrmann. Elizabeth, 
N.J., reports: "In addition to mv pro- 
fessional responsibilities at the Hillside 
(N.J.) Public Library, I am now in 
charge of arianging art exhibits in the 
library's meeting room. During .-August 
and September, I attended a seminar 
series on automation given for libraries 
of Union Count\. Mv aged father and I 
live in Elizabeth near my work, and we 
belong to Second Presbyterian Chinch 
in the town." 

A O Cl'ass officers are continuing 
/ I ^ the legional open board 

-i- *->' meetings, which have been 
successful in getting to see classmates 
who have not made the trek to the 
campus in recent years. In September, 
the officers met at the home of Carol 
Taylor Carlisle in Simsbury, Conn. Laurel 



Raymond Hoffmann. Dorolh^ MacLennan. 
and Harriet Sturdevant Haumann joined 
them for a buffet lunch. Harriet was 
elected to fill the unexpired term of 
treasurer, created bv a resignation. 
Dorothy was appointed senior class 
officer. The next regional meeting was 
to be on Dec. 1 , at the home of Clam- 
Cohen Cath in Arlington, Mass. Then 
comes a get-together on a Saturday in 
.\pril at the home oijune Moss Handler. 
280 Prospect Ave., Hackensack, N.J. 
On reunion-weekend Saturday (Mav 
25), our class will hold a luncheon in 
Providence. 

Jay H. Rossbach. Jr.. reports: "I'm 
retired. Life is beautiful in Palm Beach, 
Fla. Am enjoying golf, tennis, croquet. 
Wife designs and works, I plav. Great 
arrangement." 



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Stanley G. Goldsmith writes: "I 
am the mayor of our town, 
Bav Harbor Islands, Fla. In a 
recenth published book. Safe Places for 
the 80's. the town of Bay Harbor Islands 
was one of ten listed in its categorv 
across the entire U.S. — the onlv one in 
Florida. " 

Lois Dwight McDaniel reports that 
she now has four grandsons with the 
birth of twins last April 9. Timothy 
Dwight McDaniel and Andrew Hall 
McDaniel join their biothers, Scott 
Winslow and Alexander Donald 
McDaniel, in Oberlin, Ohio, where 
their father is the director of security 
for Oberlin College. Lois reports her 
other four children have all graduated 
from college and in pursuit of careers 
in teaching, personal services, and TV 
producing, and Steven is in the final 
year of his M.B.A. at William and Marv. 
Lois and Bill (Harvard '47) live in \'ir- 
ginia Beach, Va., where she teaches 
special education for the city of Nor- 
folk. 

yd ^ Irene Pretzer Pigman. Edge- 
/ I r~\ water, Md., sencls the follow- 

J- *~^ ing news: "Semi-retirement is 
great. 1 am sailing, gaidening, and 
teaching college physics and chemistrv 
to prisoners. Natalie, 16, is still at home. 
Have one granddaughter." 

A /'^ Stella Hughes Julian's son, 
/I 1^ Michael '86, is spending his 

-*- V^ junior year studving in Ger- 
many under a Biown-sponsored pro- 
gram. She lives in Rumford, R.I. 

Barbara Martin Leonard, Piovi- 
dence, a trustee of Brown, is, along 
with two other members of the Brown 
Corporation, a member of the Com- 
mittee of 200, a group of women en- 




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uepieiKurs and senior iiKiiiageis. 

liiniti\ Cohan A/cvc; recfntl\ passed 
tlif stale examination loi" licensure as a 
real estate saleswoman and has joined 
Merrill l.vnch Realty in Miami. She will 
continue to serve as chairman of NASP 
for Dade and Bioward Comities in 
addition to serving on the hoard ol the 
X'isiling Ninse Association of Dade 
Counlv (a L'nited Way Agency) and the 
arts council of the Florida International 
Universit\ l-'oundation. 

A ^ J.W. Rikn. Ji., Bristol. R.I.. 
/I / accoiupanied his wife. Mary 
J. / Lou Rikcr. lecipient of the 
English Speaking L'nion's (Newport 
Branch) annual fellowship, to London 
last simimer. She was awarded .S'J.OOO 
and spent six-and-a-half weeks studying 
twentieth-century British lileialure at 
the University of Loudon. rhe\ were 
accompanied hy their 9-vear-old son, 
J.W. Riker IIL Joseph Riker is presi- 
dent of J.W. Riker Real Estate in Provi- 
dence. Mary Lou teaches English at 
Middletown High School. She is co-fa- 
cililator of Project Prism, the program 
for gifted and taleulcd students. 

A r^ Ann C.larke Palmi-r. Madison. 

/I Nt Wis., reports the birth ol her 

_!. ij grandson, Abraham Clarke 

Sorber. His parents are Riisalind I'ldiiicr 

Surber '74 and David Sorhn '7 L 

Moses S/iarks. Jr., Lancaster, Pa., 
writes: "After twenty-seven years at the 
Technical Clenter o( .Armsti-ong World 
Induslries, I retired as a senior lesearch 
.scientist on Feb. 1. I received the com- 
pati) president's lechnical Center 
Innovation Award during 1983 and 
hold six patents. Since retirement, my 
interests are centered on shortwave 
radio listening and some travel." 

PaliKia C.liitkc Wcslbivok, Middle- 
town, Cioiui., has been a])|)ointed health 
sciences librarian at Millord (Conn.) 
Hospital. She is a membei of the Con- 
necticiM Association of Health Science 
Libraries and had |]ieyiously served in 
library management positions with the 
Meriden-Walliugford Hospital since 
197(). Her career alscj includes service 
with the Soiuh Windsoi Public Library. 

J y^ lOdiaiil (',. /loiliiii h.is retired 
/I jJ from |. P. Stevens, the textile 
J_ %^ niarmlac tincr, and moved 
from New ^'oik to Sun City West, Ari- 
zona. 

Henny Wenkinl was listed as 
"project philosopher" for "On Lelesi- 
sion: The Violence EacU)r," a recent 
dociunentarv on public lelevision. 



*^ /^ l(i\ liany. Warren, R.L, h.is 

r~\ I I been elected president of the 

\^ V/ Brown Athletic Hall of Fame. 

He had served as secretary of the group 

since its creation in 1970. 

/aye Jernigan Fallar has been elect- 
ed a vice president of the Bank of New 
York. She is group head in the Ckistom 
Banking Department at the Fifth Av- 
enue office in Manhattan, having 
joined the bank in 197."). |aye lives in 
Mamaioneck, N.Y., with her husband. 
George, and three children. 

R. Bruce MacLeod. Bristol, R.L, 
writes: "I recently accepted the position 
of vice president for engineering with 
the Taft-Peirce/Supfina Machine C!o., 
Inc., of CAimberland, R.L. and Rem- 
scheid, Germany." 

Howard K. Page and Nancy Reynolds 
/•'(« (see '55) were married on [uly 7 at 
the "Bell Lower" in Dassel, Minn. Fhey 
are living in Wayzata, Minn. 

Roger F. Voting, Cle\eland, has 
been promoted to vice presideiu-ad- 
niinistration al the Lincoln Electric 
C;om|)an\ in Cle\ eland. His new re- 
sponsibilities place him in direct charge 
of all general office fimclions. including 
accounting. pmchasing. ordering, 
traffic, credit, data processing, and se- 
curity. He joined Lincoln in the credit 
deijaitnient in 1950. 



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/olin Carpender has been 
named president of Warren 
Pfaff, Inc., a New York City 
advertising agency. John was an ac- 
count supervisor at Grey and a group 
mauagemeul supervisor at both Carl 
Ally and Ogilvy and Mather. Immedi- 
ateiy before joining Pfaff, he was senior 
vice president and advertising director 
at Carravatt Communications in New 
York. 

Margaret C.onanl Michael. Louisville. 
Ky., is a trustee of Brown and a mem- 
ber of the Committee of 200, a group 
of women enliepreueuis and senior 
managers. 

1^ ^-^ Robert D. Harrington. Wyo- 
r~V / missing. Pa., has been pro- 
\_y ^^ moted to superintendent of 
maiiilciiance at Carpenter Lechnology 
C:orporation in Reading, Pa. He was 
pie\iously assistant to the superinten- 
dent of maintenance. Robert joined 
Carpenter last January, after more than 
thirty years in the steel manufacturing 
industry. Cvarpenter is a leading pro- 
ducer, fabricator, and distribiiloi of 
s|)ecialty metals. 

Margaret M, Jacoby. Pawl ticket. R.L. 
Holes: "I was successful in photogra|3h- 
ing last May's 91 -percent eclipse of the 



sun from the Conimiinitv tlollege of 
Rhode Island's observatory. I visited 
Alaska and successfully photographed 
the midnight sun from above tfie Arctic 
Circle." She is |)rofessor of astronomy/ 
physics at CCRI and acting director of 
the observatory. 

^ CI ^'- Edumd Lukens, Wynd- 
H\ ^^ moor, Pa., has joined Mid- 
%J \J lantic National Bank/South as 
assistant \ice president and commercial 
loan officer. He was previousfy as.soci- 
ated with United Jersev Bank and the 
Philadelphia National Bank. 

v. Lee Nuru'ood. Mercer Island, 
Wash., was recently elected chairman of 
the Salvation Army's Seattle HarlDor 
Light Alcoholic Treatment Center's 
Advisory Council. 

Mill the October issue, we 
reported that George Morfo- 
gen is associate producer of 
Peter Bogdanovich's new fifm. Mask, 
due for relea.se in December. George 
writes to report that the film is now set 
for March distribution. 

f^ f^ May, I9H5 — our :50th rcun- 
1^ H\ ion! \nu\ reunion committee 
%^ \J has been meeting since early 
spring, and we have worked out a super 
weekend, Wednesday, May 22 through 
Monday, May 27 (come for all or any 
part). 

W'vdnesday. May 22 — dinner at Ted 
and Paula Barrow'a house co-chaired 
with Stu Enurn: Thursday. May 23 
— dinner al Clark Cooke House in 
Newport; Friday. May 24 — afternoon 
golf Or tennis with registration in Bige- 
low Lounge; cocktails and dinner at List 
Art Building, foflowed by Campus 
Dance and a post-Campus Dance party; 
Saturday. May 25 — continental break- 
fast, Pembroke alumnae breakfast, 
cham|jagiie brunch, and class meeting 
and picture at Olney-Margolies Athletic 
Center, morning and afternoon fo- 
rums, cocktails and class dinner at the 
Faculty Club, Pops Concert and post- 
Pops Concert parly; Sunday. May 26 
— clambake at noon; and Monday. May 
27 — Commencement. | 

A class letter will be mailed in Jan- ' 
uary with finalized |)lans and full de- 
tails. Since 1980 we have had mini-re- 
uiiions at every Commencemenl. We 
are sure there will be a su]x-i turnout j 
for our Ofhcial 'MUUl 

Nancy Reynolds Fox and Howard K.t 
Page '50 were married on July 7 at thej 
"Bell Lower" in Dassel, Minn. Nancy isl 
employed as a psychologist for ihej 



Minneapolis Board of P'dncation, and 
tliev are living in Wayzata. Minn. 

1*^ /~^ Ritsalie Greenberg Goldman. 
r\ r^ Newport, R.I., writes: "I have 
*->' \J a new job — gifted-resource 
teacher at the elementarv le\'el for the 
Portsmouth (R.I.) School Department." 
She had taught English in the Ports- 
mouth system for eighteen vears. 

Dr. Harold J. Sidphni, Norfolk. Va., 
reports: "Spent most of last simimer in 
charge of the sail training yacht as- 
signed to my NROTC unit. We traveled 
over 5,000 iniles from Norfolk to Lake 
Ontario and back via the St. Lawrence 
River. We participated in tall ships ren- 
dezvous and races in Halifax and Que- 
bec and raced with a tall ships fleet on 
Lake Ontario. Our Rochester visit per- 
mitted a few hours uith Tern Newell 
before he left for a vacation on Nan- 
tucket." 

^ /^ B.J. Becker Adaim and a 
r\ N^ friend have established a 
kJ V^ statewide bed and breakfast 
registry in .•\nnapolis, Md. With an in- 
vestment of 150 apiece lor the incor- 
poration fee. they weie in business, 
according to an article in the Ainuilioli- 
lan. "We have never gone out looking 
for host homes," they remarked. 
"People come to us and ask to be con- 
sidered for the registry." In two years, 
the number of host homes and vachts 
on their registry has grt)wn to nearly 
200 in fortv-seven communities cover- 
ing the entire state. Accommodations 
include evervthing from yachts to inns, 
from country estates to watermen's 
cottages, from farmhouses to city 
townhouses, from contemporary wa- 
terfront homes to eighteenth-centtnv 
residences in Annapolis' historic dis- 
trict. 

Robert J. Laivton. Karmington, 
Conn., reports: "After completing 
twentv-five vears with the Singer Com- 
pany's Consiuner Products Division, all 
of the period spent oxerseas in eight 
widely di\erse geographical locations, I 
made a change to the Otis Elevator 
Company and was assigned to the Phil- 
ippines last January. I am piesident of 
the Otis operations, which include an 
escalator manufacturing plant. We 
export escalators to other Asian coun- 
tries." 

Dr. Alan S. Rosenberg. (Jreat Neck, 
N.Y., is continuing his caidiology prac- 
tice in Roslyn, N.Y. He has been ap- 
pointed clinical associate professor of 
medicine at Cornell Medical School. 
His daughter, Jill, is to giaduate in 
June from Tufts, and his son, David, is 



a sophomore at the University of Midi- 
igan. 

^ /^ Daniel B. Bere.sford. Indian- 
r\ vJ ajjolis, writes: "Lydia Louise, 
\_y \_/ born on July 5, tickled her 
three brothers pink." 

David L. Brodsky. Providence, 
writes: "My wife, C^arolvn, atui I are 
chairing the Parents Piogram lor the 
Brown Eund. After a great 25th reun- 
ion experience, we continue to enjoy 
meeting and working with many old 
friends in helping the University. Our 
daughters, Anne '85 and Jane '88, are 
both having a positive Brown experi- 
ence. We are excited about the re- 
sponse from so many parents around 
the country in their fhnancial support 
for Brown." 

Frances Gibson Ducketl is in the 
Peace Corps in Kingston, Jamaica. 

Dr. Clark A. Sammartino. North 
Kingstown, R.I., has been leappointed 
by Covernor Garrahv to the Rhode Is- 
land Health. Educational, .uid Building 
Corporation. He has served as its 
chairman for ten years. 

/'^ /^ Robert A. Broivn. Matta[)oisett, 
r^ I I Mass., received a promotion 
V-' \^ to the position of engineer- 
ing manager, technical research dc- 
paitment, of the Titleist Golf Division 
of the Acushnct C^ompain' in New 
Bedford, Mass. He is continuing to 
develop new golf balls and industrial 
robfjts. 

Brnce A. Homeyer leports: "Have 
moved back to Charlotte. N.C:., with 
DuPont and looking forward to again 
living in North Caiolina. Saw Bill Hayes 
'59 on the people mo\er in the Atlanta 
airport recently." 

Dr. Robert E. Nadcau and Betsy Til- 
linghasl Nadeau '61, Rochester, N.^'., 
write: "The six Nadeaus are alive, well, 
and thri\ing in Rochester. Lisa (see '83) 
works in New \'oi k City, and Dana '85 
is captain of the women's ski team. Rob 
and Jen, "classes of 1996 and 1998,' are 
coming along well." 

Greta Schipper Reed. Tulsa, Okla., is 
now director of United Ministr\ at the 
University of Tulsa. Her son. Jonathan, 
is a jimior in high school. 

Ronald H. T.scliudy, East Jordan, 
Mich., leports: "My wife, CAiuhia, and 
I have been making and selling slab- 
built pottery for about five years, mostly 
at lairs near our home (a work-in- 
progiess) in northwest lower Michigan. 
Our first addition, Jake, is 4." 

Fred A. Windover has been elected 
vice president-general counsel of the 
Sprague Electric Company in Lexing- 




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worrying about the fluctuations 
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An annuity trust provides for 
lifetime income and a charitable 
deduction. Unlike our other life 
income plans, however, the 
annuity trust pays a fixed dollar 
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than an amount that varies with 
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ton, Mass. He will be located at the 
company's new world headquarters 
there. In his new position, he will be- 
coine the worldwide chief legal officer 
of the company. Fred joined the com- 
pany in 1967 as an attorney in the legal 
department. He and his wife, Joan, 
have four children, Fred, Caleb, Tuck- 
er, and Hannah. They live in Concord, 
Mass. 



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Rets\ Tillnigliasl Nadeau and 
Dr. Robert Nadeau '60, are 
"alive, well, and thriving" in 
Rochester, N.Y. Lisa (see '83) is working 
in New York City, and Dana '85 is cap- 
tain of the women's ski team at Brown. 
Rob and Jen, "classes of 1996 and 
1998, " are coming along well. 

And\ Penz has been advanced to the 
rank of fellow in the Society for Infor- 
mation Display for "his experimental, 
theoretical, and tutorial contributions 
to liquid crystal display technology." 
Andy is manager of the Storage Tech- 
nology Branch of Texas Instruments' 
Central Research Laboratories in Dal- 
las. He will be a guest lecturer at the 
Hebrew LIniversity of Jerusalem's Liq- 
uid Crystal Workshop and contiinie to 
teach part of a LiCLA short course on 
Hal panel displays. Recently he "re- 
tired" after a decade of service to the 
Brown Club of North Texas as schools 
chairman, secretary, and president. 

y'~\ /^ Dr. Susan Katz, Poitland, 
1^ ^ Oreg., writes: "1 finished my 

V-' ^^ residency in pediatrics in July 
and am now employed as a pediatrician 
in Oregon and a child psychiatry fellow 
at Oregon Health Sciences University. 
My son, Dan, is 16, and daughter, 
Maya, is 13." 

Lillian S. Robinson is the first distin- 
guished professor to occupy Albright 
College's newly endowed chair in the 
humanities. A former Rockefeller 
Foundation Humanities Fellow, she 
comes to Albright (in Reading, Pa.) 
from the Center for Research on 
Women at Stanford LIniversity. She was 
a Mellon Visiting Scholar at Wellesley 
College and held a similar disliiidion at 
the University of Tulsa. 

r~\ /~\ VV. Thomas Cenerons. Jr.. 
w'^ •^ Wallingford, Coim., notes: "1 

V-/ *->' was named to the Indepen- 
dence Foundations (;hair at the C;hoate 
School in June 1983, which 'seeks to 
recognize teaching at its fiest.' That's 
some citation, and. of course, I'm quite 
pioud of it. California HisUn-y. the quar- 
terly of the C^alifornia Historical Asso- 
ciation, is publishing my arlide on the 



California volunteers in Utah during 
the Civil War." 

David Richler, Columbus, Ohio, and 
Kaien Resnik Richter '64 have a new 
daughter, Teresa. She is 3 1/2 years old 
and was adopted from an orphanage in 
El Salvador. The Richlers flew to El 
Salvador to pick up Teresa in Septem- 
ber and spent a week in that country. 

Dr. Lloyd M. Wilcox, Concord. 
N.H., has been appointed to the associ- 
ate staff of (loncord Hospital with priv- 
ileges in ophthalmology. He completed 
his residency at New York University- 
Bellevue Medical Center in New York 
City and also completed a fellowship at 
New York Hospital-Cornell Medical 
Center and Moorfields Eye Hospital in 
London. 

Jon W. Zeder. Miami, reports: "My 
wife and I are proud to announce the 
birth of our third child, Kara Wood- 
bridge, on Oct. 3." 

/"s A Bruce W. Bean and his wife, 
y~V /I Barbara, of Pasadena, Calif., 
V^ JL ainioinice the birth of Ashley 
Elizabeth on July 21. She "hopes to join 
the class of 2006. Her brother, Austin, 
will be in the class of 2004." Bruce is 
counsel, fuiance and plainiing, at At- 
lantic Richfield in Los Angeles. 

Lee Eliol Berk is president of Berk- 
lee College of Music in Boston. This 
fall, he greeted the first students from 
the People's Republic of C:hina to at- 
tend the college. Moie than 600 foreign 
students from seventy-five countries are 
currentl) enrolled at Berklee, a school 
known for its excellent Jazz faculty. Lee 
is author of the ASCAP award-wimiing 
book. Legal Protection for the C.reatiiie 
Musician. 

Allan M. Giltleman, East Ciieenwich, 
R.I., was recently elected a director of 
North American Investment Corpora- 
tion in F.ast Hartford, Ck)nn., and of 
Atlantol Industries in West Warwick, 
R.I. 

Micluiel L. Gradison, Indianapolis, is 
the executive director of the Indiana 
Civil Liberties Union. He is vice chair- 
man of Indiana Repertory Theatre. 

Howard B. Nile has been promoted 
to director of marketing at Sonat Ma- 
rine, Inc., a Philadelphia subsidiary of 
Sonat, Inc. He joined the company in 
1980 as the manager of market |)lan- 
ning for the (iulf Coast gioup. In 1982, 
he was made manager of market plan- 
ning for all Sonat Marine operations. In 
his new capacity, he will be responsible 
lot marketing petroleum transporta- 
tion and will assume an imjiortant lole 
in customer relations. 

Karen Resnik Richler and David 



Richter '63, Columbus, Ohio, have a new 
daughter, I eresa. She is 3 1/2 years old 
and was adopted from an orphanage in 
El Salvador. The Richters flew to El 
Salvador to pick up Teresa in Septem- 
ber. They spent a week in the country. 

/"% tt^ Nancy L. Buc, Washington, 
1^ \r~\ D.C., a Fellow of the Brown 
\_J \J Corporation, is a member of 
the Committee of 200, a group of 
women entiepreneurs and senior man- 
agers. She is a resident partner in the 
Washington office of the New York 
City law firm of Weil, Gotshal & 
Manges. 

Roger M. Deitz, New York City, is a 
member of the executive connnittee of 
the board ol governors t)f the Ethical 
Culture Schools (which include the 
Fieldston School) in New York City. 

Janice Horn Harttnan. New Provi- 
dence, N.J., is assisting on a part-time 
basis with computer instruction at Far 
Biook School. She is working with the 
sixth-grade students and the junior 
high. She has an extensive background 
in computers and mathematics, having 
worked with the Mitre Corporation in 
Massachusetts and with Bell Labs in 
Murray Hill, N.J., as a senior technical 
aide. 

Mircea Manicatide, former associate 
director of research at Buck Consult- 
ants, Inc., in New York City, has been 
a|3pointcd assistant to the president. 
The company is one of the nation's 
oldest and largest employee benefit and 
pension consulting firms. 

/"% /'^ Dr. Ann Arvin was promoted 
p~V r~\ in September to associate 
\J \J professor of pediatrics, with 
tenure, at Stanford University Medical 
School, wheie she specializes in pedia- 
tric infectious disease. She lives with her 
husband, Bryan Shechmeister, a crimi- 
nal defense attorney, and their two 
children, Matthew, 3 1/2, and limothy, 
16 months, in Menlo Park, Calif. 

Mark McGarrity, Andover, N.J. 
recently worked as a writer-in-residence 
at the Dover (N.J.) public schools. The 
author of a series of detective novels 
published under the pseudonym of 
Bartholomew Cill. he has also written 
several novels about modern American 
life. 

David Miles has been elected vice 
president in the commercial lending 
area at Boston's Provident Institution 
foi Savings. He joined the Provident in 
1983 as assistant vice president. 

Dr. Robert Wesselhocft. Boston, has 
been named medical directoi of Whit- 
tier Rehabilitation Hospital in Haver- 



hill. Mass. He is an instructor in laniih 
medicine at Tiifts-Nevv England Medi- 
cal Center and a primary-care physician 
at the Boston Evening Medical School. 

/~^ ^^ Ktirni Bit'(hc) Alschiilf) and 
W^ I Kcnii' Ogata. Boston; Irene 
\J § Buchman. New York City; Pal 
De Cou La Mountain. Greenfield, Mass.; 
and Sotina Miller Liiewenthal. Chapel 
Hill, N.C.. all met in Philadeljjhia at 
Marcia Paullin's home over Labor Day 
weekend — not to rehash Death in Venice 
but to celebrate the twentieth anniver- 
sary of their ongoing friendship. 

Alan S. Johnson. Dorchester. Mass.. 
writes: "I was recently appointed un- 
dersecretary of the Executive Office of 
Environmental Affairs for the Com- 
monwealth of Massachusetts, and I was 
man ied a year ago last May." 

Fraser A. Lang is president of his 
own newsletter publishing firm in Res- 
ton. V'a., Manisses Communications 
Group. "I live in Reston with my wife. 
Belt), and two sons, Ian Ashby, 7, and 
Brent Alexander, 3." 

Frederick E. Rugg. Easthampton. 
Mass., has coinpleted the third edition 
of his college guide. Rugg's Recommen- 
dations on the Colleges. The book is a list- 
ing of c]uality departments at equality 
colleges. Intended for high school jun- 
iors, seniors, and their parents, it is 
published by VVhitcbook Books in 
Easiham])lon. 

/'^ r^ Joel P. Bennett, Washington, 
\\ ^\ D.C.. is the author of a re- 
V^ V_y cently published book. Win- 
ning Attorney's Fees from the U.S. Govern- 
ment. Published by Law Journal 
Seminars-Press, it is described as "a 
must for law\ers in\olved in litigation 
against the federal bineaucrac\." 

drove Burnett. Bill Hart, and Tony 
Lnice recently "regrouped over Coors 
and Cuervo in Vallecitos, N.M. Be- 
tween them, they now have three kids 
and one on the way. The first reader to 
guess which guvs have how man\ kids 
wins a l-shirt. We're soft as grapes, 
swear to God. sure"s you're born." 
agreed the three, "in an atmosphere of 
frank and open exchange." 

William D. Gibson, Taunton, Mass., 
has been promoted to assistant vice 
president of C;itizens Bank in Provi- 
dence. He joined the bank in 1977 as a 
credit review officer befoie becoming 
manager of the commercial credit de- 
partment. 

William AL Kolli has enrolled in ihe 
cooperatixe legal education program at 
the Northeastern Uni\ersitv School of 
Law in Boston. He will undertake four 



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quarters of full-time apprenticeship at 
law as well as seven quarters of tradi- 
tional studies. 

Dr. Jerome H. Meyer. New Haven, 
Conn., reports: "I am practicing psy- 
choanabsis in New Haven and am a 
clinical faculty member at \ale Univer- 
sity School of Medicine. My third child, 
Jaines Nathaniel, was born in June. He 
joins Rcbeccah Lynn, 6, and .Michael 
Jacob, 4. My wife. Roz, is a clinical psy- 
chologist." 

Bill Reynolds, a sportswriter for the 
Providence Journal, was awarded a top 
prize in the annual awards competition 
sponsored by the New England .Associ- 
ated Press News Executives Association. 
He won first place among entries from 
larger newspapers for his profile of Red 
Auerbach. former general manager of 
the Boston Celtics. 

/~^ /^ Coiy Dean has joined the na- 
ir\ vJ tional desk of the Neu< York 
\J %J Times. 

Andrew S. Fisher ('69 A.M.) has been 
named vice president and general 
manager of WSB-TV in Atlanta. For- 
merly, he was news director of 
KCBS-TV, a CBS-owned and -operated 
station in Los Angeles, and served three 
years as news diiector for W.4G.A-TV 
in Atlanta. He has been associated with 
the broadcasting industry for fifteen 
years. 

Kenneth A. Golding. Washington, 
D.C:.. was married this past summer. 
His wife's name is Patricia. "Started my 
own real estate development company 
and continue to work on ihe \\ illard 
Hotel in Washington." 

Dr. John M. Leventhal and Beverly 
Hodgson (see '70). New Haven, Conn., 
report the birth of their second son, 
Daniel Hodgson Leventhal, on Aug. 30. 
John is an associate professor of pedia- 
trics at Yale. 

William A. Longcore has been 
named group financial director for 
Soabar. an ,'\\erv International compa- 



nv based in Philadelphia. Lhe firm is a 
leading international manufacturer of 
imprinting systems, tags, and labels. In 
his new position, he will be responsible 
for the full financial operations of the 
Soabar Group. 

^J /~\ Vhe class of 1970 has had a 
/ I I number of active and well- 
/ V^ attended meetings and is 
making plans for a spectacular 15th 
reimion. Start thinking about ways for 
you to be with us on that special week- 
end. We'd like to get out a newsletter, 
so please send any interesting bits to 
Georgie Johmon, 312 Morris Ave.. Prov- 
idence 02906. See you on campus! 

Dr. Patricia Rothstein Dashefsky. Po- 
tomac, Md., writes: "Having gone 
through e\erv permutation and combi- 
nation of fuM-time, part time, and no- 
time work as clinical psychologist, and 
having knocked myself out trying to 
balance it with wife-and-motherhood 
(always first on my list), I finally have 
found the long-sought solution to this 
verv common conHict for many women 
in the '8()s: RELAX! Time does indeed 
pass! Our youngest child just started 
kindergarten, and there's suddeiiK all 
this time for work without guilt, which 
feels nothuig short of delicious! M) 
beautiful husband, Richard, is a part- 
ner with the law firm of Gibson, Dunn, 
and Crutcher (and he's never let Yale 
or Harvard Law School go to his head). 
Were looking forward to the 15th re- 
union this spring, and so are David. 9, 
and Keith. 5." 

Beverly J. Hodgson and Dr. John .\L 
Leventhal (see '69), New Haven, report 
the birth of their second son, Daniel 
Hodgson Leventhal. on Aug. 30. Be\ 
continues to practice law, specializing in 
employment discrimination law. 

Glenn F. Morse has been named 
assistant director of the Air Transport 
Association's regional office in New 
York City. He joined ATA after a 
twelve-year stint at Trans World Air- 



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lines. He is an iiisti unient-raled loin- 
meicial pilot. 

Craig Van Noslraiul and Laura 
Taylor, of Rochester. N.Y., announce 
the birth of their first child. Kii/abeth. 



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Bnaii /•'. Brown. Diikith. 
Minn., writes: "I iiave be- 
come single aiifl moved to 
129 East Arrowhead Rd. I slill do liti- 
gation but have moved into labor law 
practice. I've become a division manag- 
er and risk manager in addition to my 
law practice. I've also been named a 
director ol an investment conipanv 
which owns securities and mineral 
lands. ' 

Dr. Edward S. Kalz, Providence, 
notes: "After a ten-year hiatus, I am 
living and practicing dentistr\ in Provi- 
dence. I am also teaching periodontics 
and restorative dentistry in the gradu- 
ate program at Harvard Dental Sciiool. 
It's nice to be back in New England." 

Charles O. Monk II, Baltimore, 
writes: "I was appointed deputy attor- 
ney general of Marvland on Jime I 
— assuming all responsibility lor law 
enforcement by the office. In addition. 
Linda and I had our second child, a 
boy — Charles C). Monk III — on April 
24." 

Micliarl C. Plan\lty has been elected 
a partner in the acioimting hrm of Peat 
Maiwick. He will serve as an audit 
partner in the hrm's New York City 
office. He serves as adjiuicl associate 
professor at the NYLI Craduate School 
of Business Administrati(}n, where he 
received his M.B.A. 

Shazu T. Tao, Hong Kong, writes: 
"Maria Sze Tao and 1 are pleased to 
announce the birth of Ian T. Tao on 
Aug. 29 in Hong Kong. 1 am now run- 
ning the advisorv and deal-making 
operations of First Chicago China Ser- 
vices Company, as its president. Ihe 
firm is based in Hong Kong, Chicago, 
and Beijim." 

Rithini A. Thorin writes: "1 am plant 
controller at Corning Medical's Med- 
held, Mass., plant. Mv wife. Pam, and 1 
live in Sotilh Walpole with oin- three 
daughters, Beth, 6, Kate, 4, and .Satah, 
2." 

^w y^ l)nii\r M. Duiiising moved lo 

/ 9 Atlanta on March I, because 

/ ^^ of a promotion with A T&T 

Conmiunications. She is an accoimt 

execiilixc. 

Kayc lihilman l-'nrilcr. C.P.A., has 
been elected pariner al Coopers & 
Lybrand in Boston, ihe consulling, tax, 
and accounting lum. Em|)loved at 
Coopers since 197.5, she practices law in 



the funis tax deparlmeul. She .ind her 
husband, Riduird. Ii\e in Belmonl. 
Mass. 

Noel P. Creis was invited to address 
the International Symposium on Fore- 
casting held last summer at the London 
School of Economics. She reported on 
her original work at Bell Laboratories 
ill New Jersey dealing with "forecasting 
of cliiun in special telecomnumica- 
tions." 

Danette Jones was receiulv appoint- 
ed special assistant for minority busi- 
ness development to Massachusetts 
Secretary of Administration and Fi- 
nance Frank Keefe. She will be respon- 
sible for monitoring the state's commit- 
ment that at least 5 percent of contracts 
for supplies and services and U) per- 
cent in construction tonlracts be allot- 
ted lo minority funis. Before joining 
the governor's staff, she served as di- 
rector of public affairs for the Greater 
Boston Chamber of Commerce. She 
lives in Boston with her husband and 
two children. 

Lawrence A. Jones. Mercersburg, 
Pa., reports: "I am school minister at 
Mercersbiug Acadenn and also chair- 
man of the religion department. On the 
faculty with me are Dan Kiinkle '73, 
chairman of the math department, and 
Robert and Elizabeth Ruedisiieli George 
(both '73). On Sept. 23, I baptized 
Dan's two daughlers, Isabel, 2, and 
Emily, 6 months, in the academy 
chapel. " 

Dr. Jeroyne B. Zeldis ('72 Sc.M.), 
Levittown, N.Y., has been named one 
of the winners of the first Pfizer Post- 
doctoral Fellowship Awards, a nation- 
wide competition among physician sci- 
entists seeking entry-level research 
fimding. He will conduct his research at 
the Massachusetts (leneral Hospital in 
Boston. The hospital will receive 
$3(),()()() for each of the next three years 
to support jerry's study dealing with 
the molecular biology of hepatitis and 
liver cancer. 

^j ^^ Bob Almon and Mariana Ho- 
j ^ gan Almon (see '7ti) annoiuKC 
/ \J the birth of Jessica Kathryn 
Almon on May 2. "We've also moved 
liom Manhattan to Micliigan. Bob has 
taken a posilion as \ice piesidenl of 
borrowings for General Motors Accep- 
tance (corporation. We'd love to hear 
from fellow Brunonians in the Detroit/ 
Ann Arbor area (and elsewhere). Our 
new address: 7.53 Grand Marais, Crosse 
Pointe Paik. Mich. 48230." 

Dr. Barbara /.. Brown. Atlanta, re- 
]>orts: "I am married to Dr. Arthur W. 
English. We both leach in the anatomy 



deparlmeul al llu' Emory University 
School of Medicine. We have a lovely 
daughter, .Vlison Louise English, born 
Sept. 14, 1983." 

Brian B. Burns has been elected 
corporate vice president and group 
executive in charge of W.R. Grace & 
Co.'s Business Fxonomics Group. He 
joined Grace in 1975 as a financial ana- 
lyst in ihe Administrative C^oiitrols Di- 
vision. Most recently, he served as as- 
sistant to the president of Grace. He 
lives in New York City. 

Peter J. Durfee writes: "My wife, 
Sheila, and I became the proud parents 
of our first child, Thomas Patrick, on 
St. Patrick's Dav, 1984. We are now liv- 
ing on Wesuoll Ro.id in North Sciluate, 
R.I. Our teleiilione numlx-r is (491) 
(i47-5225, and we'd love to hear from 
old classmates!" 

James H. Hahn reports: "I am a 
partner in the law firm of Tillinghast, 
Collins & Graham in Providence, where 
1 live with mv wife, Dana, and our two 
ihildren, James, 2, and Abigail, 4 
months. " 

Robert A. Pollard was married to 
Diane Rivers in Washington, D.C;., on 
Aug. 4. After working seven years al 
the Woodrow Wilson Center in Wash- 
ington, Bob entered the foreign .service 
in June. His first post will be London, 
where the newlyweds traveled in Octo- 
ber. Bob's revised dissertation manu- 
script will be pul)lislied next year by 
Columbia Llnivcrsilv Press. 

Karen .Stone and her husband, Paul 
Zipkin, announce the birlh of llieir son, 
Joseph Robert Zipkin, on Sept. 11. 
Karen is on maternity leave from her 
position as manager of executive de- 
velopment fiir Macy's New York. Paul is 
a tenured professor of operations re- 
search at ihe Columbia University 
Graduate School of Business. 



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Snsiiii Mazonson has been 
appointed director of na- 
tional marketing at Page 
America Group, Inc., in Palm City, Fla. 
Her responsibilities will include devel- 
oping and implemenling national mar- 
keliiig plans and piiigraiiis marking the 
developmeiil of Page America as a net- 
work company. She was previously 
manager of mai ket/business planning 
for G'l'E Communications Svslems. 

Rosalind Palmer and Davul Sorber 
are the parents of Abraham tllarke 
•Sorber. Abraham's grandmother is Ann 
Clarke Palmer '48. 

John Ryan. Buffalo, N.Y., writes: 
"Srolt Sammis. James Malgieri. Chri.\t<il>brr 
Logan, and I would like lo know llie 
whereabouts ol Brian I). Clark." 



Judith L. Sanford has been named 
assistant dean of academic affairs at 
Bunker Hill Community College in 
Boston. Piior to accepting this position, 
she was assistant dean of academic af- 
fairs at Pine Manor College, wheie her 
responsibilities included coordinating 
the academic advising piogram. She 
was ]3i-eviously employed at several 
other area colleges. 

Jamie Steelier reports: "In April. I 
formed a new law firm called .Stecher, 
Jagloni & Prutzman. We are located at 
875 Third A\enue in New \'ork City 
and we specialize in corporate litigation 
counseling." 

Robert (Tyj White and Annette M. 
Breingan. Fremont, Calif., write: "Ty is 
now a staff scientist at California Bio- 
technology, Inc., in Mountain View, 
Calif. Annette is the software group 
leader at RESONEX, Inc., a start-up 
company in Sinm\vale, Calif., which is 
developing a new magnetic resonance 
iin.tging svstem." 

Miireia )'iidkin has retmned from a 
year spent working at Foreign Lan- 
guages Press in Beijing. China, and is 
now speaking and writing about China. 
She can be contacted at Box 312, 
Northampton, Mass. 01061 or (41;^) 
268-7772. 

^ ^ Paul Baity. New York City, 
y r~\ has been promoted to assis- 
f %^ tant operations manager, 
computer services, of the New ^■ork 
City Office of Management and Budg- 
et, and is also enrolled in the econonnts 
Ph.D. program at New York Universitv. 

Dr. Michael Berman and Dr. Wendy 
Davis report from Cleveland that they 
are nearing completion of their resi- 
dencies in dermatologv and pediatrics, 
lespectivelv. "Although life on the 
North (;oast has been enjovable, we are 
looking forward to moving back PLast." 

Rii hard Bookman received his Ph.D. 
from the University of Pennsylvania 
Medical School in May. He will be a 
NATO Fellow in Basel, Switzerland, for 
two years. His wife is Milica Zarkovic 
Bookman, an assistant professor of eco- 
nomics at St. Joseph's Universitv in 
Philadelphia. They have a daughter, 
Karla. 

Edward A. Frongdlo, Jr., Brf)okton- 
dale, N.Y., writes that he is a data ana- 
lyst for the Division of Nutritional Sci- 
ences at Cornell and that his "home has 
been taken over by an infant son 
named Dominic Edward." F.d remains 
acli\e managing and plaving for a sen- 
ior men's amatem- soccer team, coach- 
ing a voiilh team, and now coaching a 
women's club team. 



Thomas W. Gexer. Roanoke, V'a., has 
been promoted to manager of fiber 
measurements development at IIT- 
EOPD, located in Roanoke. 

Dr. Bruce M. Goldstein and Amy 
Maurer Goldstein '76, Clardner, Mass., 
note: "We aie delighted to announce 
the birth of our son, Evan Daniel, on 
June 25." 

James L. Kainen, New ^'ork Cjty, 
tells us: "I'm an assistant United States 
attorney for the Southern District of 
New York in the criminal division. Be- 
fore that, I spent a year in pri\ate 
practice in New York and three vears 
teaching at Brown as an assistant pio- 
fessor in the Center for Law and Lib- 
eral Education. My research at Brown 
was published as "Nineteenth Century 
Interpretations of the Federal Contract 
C;lause: Fhe Transformatioti from 
Vested to Substantive Rights .'Kgaiiist 
the State.' Buffalo Law Review 381 
(1982). Friends and former students 
can reach me at my home in Manhattan 
or at the U.S. Attorney's Office. " 

Dr. Frederick Littleton and Tern 
Ipacs Littleton report: "We ha\e a new 
daughter! Kristin was born June 13, 
joining Matthew (born in June 1981), 
who alternates between proud big 
brother and jealous sibling. Fred is still 
in private practice in Kilmarnock, Va., 
but we have moved. Our new address 
is: Route I, Box 717-B. White Stone, 
Va. 22578." 

Gctil E. McCaiin. Cranston, R.L, 
became a partner in the Providence law 
firm of Eciwards and Angell in July. 

Rhonda Port. Providence, "having 
foimd some time to study and pass 
exams between Brown Fund phona- 
thons," was inducted as an associate of 
the Casualty Actuarial Society in May. 
She is em])loved as an actuarial associ- 
ate at Metropolitan Property &: Liability 
Insurance C:ompany in Warwick, R.L 

Dr. Cheryl Soled Reid. Baltimore, 
writes: "This is my last year as a fellow 
at Johns Hopkins. Next year (if I find a 
job!) 1 hope to practice genetics in the 
New York area. My patient spouse and 
1 are tired of living 175 miles apart! " 

Philip R. Thrift is a member of the 
technical staff of the Computer ,Science 
Laboratory at Fexas Instrinnenis, Inc., 
in Dallas. 

Ambrose A. Verdibello.Jr., Millbrook, 
N.Y., received an M.S. in computer sci- 
ence from Union College last spring. 

^^ y"* Mariana Hogan AliiKin and 

/ r~\ Boh Almon (see '73) tell us: 

# V_/ 'We would like to annoimce 

the birth of Jessica Kathryn Almon on 

May 2. We've also moved from Man- 



hattan to Michigan. I'm on a sabbatical 
of sorts. After five vears as a criminal 
trial lawyer in New \'ork City, I needed 
a break. Jessica is pioviding me with 
tons of enjoyment and lots of challeng- 
es. We'd love to hear from fellow Bru- 
nonians in the Detroit/Ann Arbor area 
(and elsewhere). Our new^ address: 753 
(irand Marais, (irosse Pointe Park, 
Mich. 48230." 

Catherine A. Brady married Da\ id 
M. Fernandez on Aug. 18 in West 
Hartford, C^onn. A number of Brown 
graduates were in atteiuUmce, Da\id is 
president of Classic Funded Risk Ser\ i- 
ces, Inc. in New York City, and Cathe- 
rine is an account executive at Parnel 
Agency, Inc. They live in Port Wash- 
ington, N.Y. 

Richard H. Burrows notes: "I am 
now working at Denison University as 
men's swimming coach and director of 
intramurals and recreation. Fiiends can 
reach me c/o the .Athletic Department, 
Denison University, (iranville. Ohio 
43023." 

Lisa C. Fancher. Austin, Fexas, is 
jjracticing law with Graves, Dougherty, 
Hearon, and Moody in Austin. 

,4)«v Maurer Goldstein and Dr. Bruce 
M. Goldstein '75, Gardner, Mass., an- 
nounce the birth of their son, F.van 
Daniel, on June 25. 

Richard W. Halpern. Woonsocket, 
R.L, reports: "I am a marketing com- 
munications specialist at Data General 
C^orporation within a new unit, DG 
DIRECn", a direct-response marketing 
channel marketing computer supplies, 
portable and personal computers, 
hardware and furniture — through the 
mail. I love it. I write and |jroduce cat- 
alogues and promotional material. M\ 
wife, Tobi, has successfully switched 
fields from school teaching to becoming 
the office automation specialist at 
Monet, Inc., a jewelry subsidiar^ of 
(ieneial Mills, Inc. Unfortunately she 
works in an IBM-M.I.S. department. 
I'm trying to get her to switch, and 
work with a better price/performance 
computer firm. " 

Elizabeth liiglis was married in Sep- 
tember 1982 to musician Don Salmon. 
She is a modern dancer and has a mas- 
sage therapy practice in New York City. 
She is now living at 145 2nd Ave. #25, 
New Wnk 10003. Phone: (212) 254- 
0590. "Hello to old friends! Please get 
in touch." 

Dr. Wendy Shaw Jacoby. Waban, 
Mass., notes: "In .August 1983. we had 
our first child. Melissa Amy. 1 am now 
completing my training as chief resi- 
dent in dermatology at Tufts and Bos- 
ton University. My husband, Steven, is 



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finishing a cardiolog\ fellowship at 
Massachusetts General Hospital. " 

Wilfrid R. Koponen reports: "I have 
left my marketing research career in 
New York Q'.xw. after eight years, and 
am now a full-time hrst-vear student at 
Yale University Divinity School in their 
three-vear M.Div. program." 

Joceline Lemaire. Nashville, Tenn., 
has begun graduate study at .Starritt 
College in Nashville as a Presidential 
Scholar of the institution. She is pursu- 
ing the master of arts degree in Chris- 
tian education. A former co-director of 
Clergy and Laity Concerned in Nash- 
ville and now a part-time consultant to 
that group, she and her husband, |ohn 
Lozier, a famih advocate with Pamily 
and Children's Services, are the parents 
of a 21 -month-old daughter, Catherine. 

Ellen B. Pohuh writes that "I was 
married to Martin Arrick on April 1 in 
Amherst, Mass. Several classmates at- 
tended the wedding. Martin and I live 
at 585 West End Ave., New York, N.Y. 
10024." 

Gm-y Valeria. Mount Sunapee, 
N.H., is district sales manager, north- 
ern New England, for CRS Food Mar- 
keting, Inc.. an Avon, Mass., food ser- 
vice brokerage firm. Gary, his wife, 
Karen, and 6-year-old son, Matthew, 
also own a restaurant in Moiuit .Suna- 
pee and welcome all who cotne up 
north to look them up when traveling 
through. P.O. Box 161, Moiuit Suna- 
pee 03772. 

James Wholry is an attorney with the 
Washington office of Paul, Hastings, 
Janofsky & Walker and lives at 950 
'25th St.NW, #203N, Washington, D.C. 
20037. 

Rnsemarie Sullivan Zins, Lincoln, 
R.I., has been appointed director of 
development at the C>)mnutnitv (iollege 
of Rhode Island. Since 19H1, she had 
served as director of the Rhode Island 
Center for Community Education, lo- 
cated at CCRI's Flanagan campus. As 
director of the facility, she was respon- 
sible for networking projects. She is a 
candidate for an M.B.A. at the L'niver- 
sity of Rhode Island. 

^^ ^^ Dr. Suzanne Galling writes: "I 
/ / am practicing general inler- 
/ f nal medicine at the Riverside 
C;linic, |acksonville, Fla. I would love to 
hear from my classmates at 2740 Riv- 
erside, Apt. 7, Jacksonville 32205." 

Jo Hannafin reports: "I'ln in my 
final year of a six-year M.D.-Ph.D. pro- 
gram at the Albert FLinstein College of 
Medicine and am looking forward lo 
graduating this year. Lm still rowing 
competitively and recently fmished sec- 



ond in the double sculls event at the 
Lightweight World Championships 
which were held in Montreal in August. 
My husband, John P. Brisson (also a 
rower!), and I are living at 100 Pelham 
Rd., 6-E, New Rochelle, N.Y. 10805." 

Barbara "Bells" Howes, Boston, 
Mass., tells us: "Graduated from Boston 
College Law School after tfirec quick 
years. Spent last spring coaching novice 
girls at Noble & (ireenough School in 
Dedham after law classes in the morn- 
ing. Moved to Boston and started work 
at Hutchins & Wheeler. Love walking 
to work, exciting new job — happy, 
happy, etc., etc." 

Roherl Kaplan writes: "Jean and 1 
have recently welcomed Leah Ellen into 
the world. She is healthy and beautiful. 
Her older sister, Anna, is taking it well, 
all 18 months of her. We are all alive 
and thriving in Buffalo, N.Y." 

Diane Krejsa sends "a news update 
from Manhattan: Peter B. Levy and 1 
were married on Aug. 19 at St. Paul's 
Chapel at Columbia L'niversity. Peter is 
an adjiuict history professor at Rutgers 
University-Newark and is working on 
his Ph.D. from Columbia. Ileen Gilbert 
and Lauren Ressler Rublin were in the 
wedding party. A number of Brown 
alumni attended the wedding. After a 
wonderful two weeks in France, I'm 
back to prosecuting heroin dealers at 
the Manhattan D.A.'s office, while Peter 
puslies forward with chapter three of 
his dissertation. " 

Kalherine McClelland recently mar- 
ried David Karen. She is teaching at 
Franklin aiid Marshall College in Lan- 
caster, Pa. Her mother is Dorolhy Nelson 
MfCleltand'4\. 

Alan B. Osofsky and his wife, Dier- 
dre Stall (Pennsylvania '79), are the 
parents of their second child. Dean 
.Simon, born on Oct. 10. 

Christopher P. Raubcr, San Francis- 
co, notes: "I recently joined Potlatch 
Corporation, a forest products compa- 
ny based in San Francisco, as corporate 
publications writer and assistant editor 
of The Potlaleh Story magazine. My wife, 
Kim Perry Williairis, is a senior financial 
analyst for the Pacific .Stock Exchange. " 

Allen Schauffler writes: "I have just 
(omplelcd a move liom mv native and 
beloved Portland, Oreg., to San Fran- 
cisco, where 1 am enrolled in a master's 
program in broadcast communication 
arts. After seven years as a full-time 
bartender I decided maybe it was time 
to get back in step. The program and 
the piofessors arc exciting and talent- 
ed, and 1 find it exhilarating to be hack 
in the academic mainstream. The tu- 
ture? Well, Vin Scully and Jim McKay 



are getting old and if Chris Beniian can 
do it, so can I. Cheers to everyone in 
Biowntown." 

^^ f~\ Tom Boyle, who received an 
/ Nt M.B.A. from the University 
f v^ of Chicago last spring, is liv- 
ing in New 'V'ork City, where he is 
working foi the Chemical Bank. 

Sieve d'Alessandro, New Haven, 
("onn., writes: "1 am a first-year student 
at Yale Law School. I am also taking 
courses at Yale Divinity School (and 
serving as assistant chaplain to the 
Episcopal church at Yale) in prepara- 
tion for ordination as a deacon. Al- 
though my schedule is even more in- 
sane than diM ing my LK^S days, 1 would 
welcome visits by classmates and near 
classmates alike." 

David C. Hahn has recently been 
appointed to the faculty of the New 
England Conservatory of Music in 
Boston, where he will teach private 
studio lessons in lute as well as direct 
lecture-demonstrations devoted to early 
songs with plucked string accompani- 
ment. He is a member of Consortium 
Reginae, a gioup based in Providence 
("It's refieshing to return to the old 
stomping ground for our weekly re- 
hearsals") that performs English and 
Italian music of the Renaissance. David 
is also a meinber of the recently- 
formed Boston Renaissance Ensemble, 
which is plaiming a European lour next 
siunmer. 

Doutr Heller served as an official 
interpreter, in Mandarin C^hinese and 
F'rench, for the Los Angeles Olympic 
Organizing Committee at the Summer 
(iaiTies in L.A. He worked at the water 
polo events, interpreting primarily for 
the People's Republic of (;hitia Team at 
press conferences and international 
meetings. Doug is now at the Graduate 
School of Management at UCLA, 
where there are about eight others 
from Brown in his class. New address: 
11679 Montana Ave. #11, Brentwood, 
Calif. 90049, (213) 471-7588. 

Dr. Hany Mina.ssinn earned his 
M.D. from Albany Medical College in 
1981 and served his internship and 
residency at Albany Medical Center 
Hospital. He is associated with four 
other internists in a practice in Cam- 
bridge, N.\'., and in Hoosick Falls, N.Y. 
He and his wife, Doima, will live in 
Cambridge. 

Nicholas W. Minot, Lansing, Mich.,) 
notes: "In September, I returned froirr 
a six-month assignment in Bolivia,! 
where I was working as an agridiltiuall 
economist for an AID-financed seedj, 
project. I am now back at Michigan 



Slate University, writing a thesis based 
on mv work in Bolivia." 

Phil Sliiun ("85 Ph.D.) sends greet- 
ings to old friends and new. "I am 
working for a speech-retognition-by- 
computer company in Los Angeles 
now, having just completed a doctorate 
in linguistics. In my spare time, I'm 
trying to compile a handbook of Valley 
phonetics — although this is trying. 
Please drop me a note c/o Speech Sys- 
tems, Inc., 18356 Oxnard St., Tarzana, 
Calif. 91356 (tel: 818-881-0885). and if 
vou're in the aiea, stop in. Also, I get 
up to San Francisco from time to time 
and would love to see friends from back 
East. Aloha. To the max." 

John F. Silva. Plvmoulh. Mass., is an 
attorney associated with the New Bed- 
ford law firm of Hamel, Waxier, Allen, 
and Collins. He served as law clerk for 
seveial Boston law firms and was a 
teaching assistant at Northeastern. 

James E. Warne III has been elected 
to the board of directors of Western 
Technologies, Inc., in Phoenix. He is 
manager of Warne Associates, an in- 
vestment firm in Phoenix, and holds an 
M.B.A. from Harvard. 

hj f\ Dr. Jay P. Colella, Starke, Fla., 

/ vJ writes: "I married Dr. Au- 

• *->' drey L. Richards in June and 

now we are both working as resident 

ph\sicians in northern Florida." 

Alan Fcibelman and Mara Falk were 
married in New York last Nov. 18. 
They are living in Cambridge, Mass., 
where he is a consultant with Temple, 
Barker and Sloane, Inc. 

Daniel Forman sends his current 
address: 2919 Ordwav St. NW, Wash- 
ington, D.C. 20008. 

Dr. Alon A. Garay reports: "I am in 
my second year of training in the New 
York Medical College orthopedic sur- 
gerv residencv program and thorough- 
ly enjoying living in Manhattan. Ad- 
dress: 1409 2nd Ave., New York, N Y 
10021." 

Dr. Elin Spring Kaufman and her 
husband, Nathan Kaufman (MIT 78), 
had a baby daughter, .Alexandra Leigh, 
on May 15. Elin and Nathan finish their 
postdoctoral fellowship and residencv, 
respectively, at the Medical College of 
Virginia, in Richmond, next July. 

Dr. Lauren A. McDonald was giad- 
uated fiom Temple University School 
of Medicine on May 24. She will com- 
plete her residency training in internal 
medicine in Dallas. 

Donald K. Peny, Cranston, R.I., 
ireports: "On Aug. 27, my wife, Kim- 
berlie, gave birth to a beautiful 7-lb. 
bouncmg baby boy named Nicholas 



Ale.xander. Both mother and child are 
doing fine, though Kim claims that la- 
bor pains are nothing compared to 
nursing at 3 a.m. .^Vs for myself, being a 
father is the best thing that has ever 
happened to me. I heartilv recommend 
it." 

Charlie Sliaw writes: "Following 
three years of concrete, crowding, and 
grimy subways while attending law 
school at Columbia (along with as nuich 
travel as possible away from Morning- 
side and the Big Apple), I have sougiit 
a radical change of scene. I am now 
beginning a vear as law clerk to Senior 
U.S. District Judge Martin Pence in 
Hawaii. Other meilibers of the legal 
fraternity here are my old suitemate, 
Gle7in Grayson, and Brian Takahashi '80, 
an associate at the firm where I worked 
last summer. A law school classmate 
who also worked here summers is Phil 
Yun '81. And on the way west I stopped 
in Denver and caught up with Lmo Li- 
l/insky (also a legal eagle) and his 
fiancee. Just after graduation this 
spring, besides attending our reunion. I 
also assisted at the wedding in Florida 
of fellow Columbia lawyer Bob Linn. 
Doug Pratt '80 was best nian. Would be 
pleased to hear frbm (or see!) old 
friends at 1630 Makiki St., Apt. A304, 
Honolulu, Hawaii 9(i822. 1 hink of me 
as the chill of the bitter November wind 
sets in. " 

Margaret Thomas, former marketing 
manager for the Balfour Company in 
Attleboro, Mass., was named assistant 
to the president there in Julv. Prior to 
her position in the sports/special events 
division at Balfour, she served as assis- 
tant to the administrator of the Major 
League Baseball Commissioner's Office. 
She notes: "My husband, Gil Pemberton 
'56, and I are buying a home in Rum- 
ford, R.I. Our new address is 21 Der- 
man St., Rumford 02916. (401) 
438-5522." 

r\ /~\ Man L. Akchuler, New York 
^S I I ^''ty. writes: "I was recently 
>^ v/ named editorial services co- 
ordinator at Hay .Associates, a manage- 
ment consulting firm. I live in Green- 
wich Village. M\ poetry can be read in 
the American Poetry Review and Shen- 
andoah." 

Robert H. Blake is a candidate for an 
M.B.A. at Wharton Graduate School of 
Business of the Uni\crsitv of Pennsvl- 
vania next May. 

Bernard F. Godley, Ciambridge, 
Mass., is "grinding through the fifth 
year of seven in a joint M.D.-Ph.D. 
program at Harvard and MIT." 

Gaye Lustgarten Grossman and Steven 



S. Grossman. New York Citv, write: 
"We'd like to announce the birth of our 
son, Andrew Robert, on June 30. We 
own a wholesale jewelry company in the 
diamond district in Manhattan. The 
baby and the business are growing 
steadily." 

Jay Hickey was married to Kathy 
King last Aug. 18 in Middletown, Conn. 
■\ number of Brown alumni were in 
attendance. "Kathy is a surgical nurse, 
and I am a staff representative for the 
Connecticut Employers Union Inde- 
pendent. We will continue to live in 
Middletown." 

Eva M. Lagergren and /()/;/( R. 
Woodring (see '81) were married on May 
7, 1983, in Greenwich, Conn. The 
wedding partv included Martha Buckley. 
Elizabeth Johnson, Kimberly Colella '81, 
Lawrence Carbone 'HI , Jonathan McCabe 
81, and Sman Woodring '84. Eva is 
working as an account executive with 
Saatchi & Saatchi Compton, Inc. in 
New York City. They are living in Port 
Washington, N.Y. 

Kimberly Lewu, Philadelphia, grad- 
uated from the University of Pennsyl- 
vania Law School in May 1983 and is 
clerking for Robert Nix, Jr., chief jus- 
tice of the Supreme Court of Pennsyl- 
vania. She notes: "I am looking forward 
to seeing old friends from Brown dur- 
ing our 5th reunion. I can be reached 
at P.O. Box 58681, Philadelphia, Pa., 
and at (215) 496-4652 (dav). I am will- 
ing to help with planning reunion ac- 
tivities for our class, so if you need me, 
let me know." 

Evan M. Mark'., New York City, has 
been appointed vice president at La- 
zaid Realty, the real estate investment 
banking subsidiary of the international 
investment house of Lazard Freres & 
Co." 

Emily R. Muslin has enrolled in the 
cooperative legal education program at 
Northeastern University Schoolof Law 
in Boston. During her three years in 
law school, she will undertake four 
quarters of full-time apprenticeship at 
law as well as academic studies. 

Wally Niquette is "alive and well and 
living in Little Rhody. Working with a 
chronic population of adult schizo- 
phrenics in the East Bay area. I have 
interests in antique autos, restaurants, 
music/drama. Friends S.P., J.K., and 
anyone else write: 89 Wilson Ave., 
Rumford, R.I. 02916. Hope you are all 
well." 

Patricia McCartney O'Connor, Hart- 
ford, Conn., comments: "I thought of 
writing when I married Michael J. 
O'Connor (a romance picked up from 
high school when we happened to both 



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cikI up in Kliodc Iskiiul i<ir a tmif 
about a year alter I giadualecl). but did 
not. I thought of writing when 1 grad- 
uated tioni UConn law in May 1984 
(now piacticing in a Hartlord hi ni), but 
did not. Now. the leal news and reason 
lor writing: 1 am not onl\ a lawyer, but 
a mother! Caroline Anne OC;omior 
\yas born on Sept. 10. Her dad and 1 
would be most happy to get news fioni 
any of the folks 1 hayent heard from or 
run into since Brown days." 

Multael R. Hicks, Berkeley, writes; 
■■I've left the high-pressure world of 
process serving and am currently in the 
low-pressure position of piojecl engi- 
neer at Thermionics [laboratories, a 
manufacturer of ultra-high vacmnn 
systems in Hayward, C;alif. Mv home 
address has also changed: 1129 Ban- 
croft Way, Berkeley 94702. Phone: 
(415) 644-1105." 

(^raig Walen is in his second )ear of 
law school at the University of Florida. 
He is working as a research assistant 
developing legislation to deal with 
domestic \iolence and "spouse abuse." 
Friends can write to 1923 N.W. 23rd 
Blvd. #224. (.ainesville, Fla. 



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Xaiicy lii'imd. Ckimberland, 
R.I., has been promoted to 
account executive at New- 
some ^ Company, the Boston public 
relations lirm. She joined the company 
in February, as an account specialist. 
Her accounts have included C.eneral 
Electric Aircraft Engine Group, CE 
Calma, Faytex Corporation, and Bird 
Incorporated. 

Vasiliki M. Ccniolas has emolled in 
the cooperative legal education pio- 
gram at Northcaslcrn LIniversitv School 
of Law in Boston. 

Am^ Colicn niairied Edwaicl Row- 
land on June 24 in a garden ceremony 
at the home of her parents in Fairlield, 
C^onn. Amy received an M.B.A. in 
marketing and (uiance from the Uni- 
versity of C;hi<ago Graduate School ol 
Business in lime 1983. Formerly the 
fmancial plamiing manager-foreign 
news gathering al CBS News in New 
\'ork City, she is now the business 
manager of the t;BS News Midwest 
Buieau in Chicago. Ed, an almnnus of 
Dartmouth College (SO), holds an M.A. 
in Russian language and literature 
from Middlebury College and the 
Pushkin Institute in Moscow as well as 
an M.B.A. from the University of (Hii- 
cago. He is the manager of world trade 
at MtDonalfrs Inlernalional in Chica- 
go. 

Btirhaiti Culdhni; and Pehr Bull. 
New York City, were married on Aug. 



12 in Beverly. Mass. Seveial friends 
irom Brown attended, and Rachel Shtih 
and il.fSclsdii) Kclldii^ii were members of 
the wedding party. Peter is now in his 
third year at Columbia Law School, and 
Barbara is attending the Colinnbia 
School of Social Work. 

Rtchurd Hainmaii and .\nne Met- 
calf Curtis were married on Sejn. 22 in 
Fletcher's Landing, Maine. On Sept. 29, 
in New Bedford, Mass., Richard 
adopted |ereniy Moses Curtis and Eliza 
Naomi Curtis, ages 1 1 and 5. Many 
Blown alumni attended the wedding 
ceremony. "The newly consolidated 
Curtis-Harrinian family then moved to 
Manchester, Vt., where Richard started 
teaching al Bun and Burton Semi- 
nar)." 

Marshall W. jajje. New Haven, 
Conn., writes: "I am a Hrst-year student 
at the Yale School of Organization and 
Management. This past July, ficshman- 
year roommate Richard Feder and I 
again shared close quarters on a fifteen- 
day camping trip around Alaska. Ku- 
dos for the whiz who wrote Brown's 
roommate-matching computer pro- 
gram!" 

Nancy Levin and Huh Kipnis were 
mariied on Aug. 19 in Charlotte, N.C;. 
The weekend of festivities was attended 
by many Brown alimini, including 
Nancy's grandfather, Maurice Bazar '19. 
Lhe newly weds are living in Durham, 
N.C, until next Mav when Bob grad- 
uates fiom Duke L'niversity School ol 
Medicine, and Nancy receives her 
M.B.A. fiom UNC:/C:hapel Hill. Their 
address is 3228) Mvra St.. Durham 
27707. 

Gwendolyn Lichtor reports: "I was 
married to John Offerdahl on May 22, 
1983, and am manager of an indepen- 
dent computer store in Richmond, Va. 
I'm enjoying domestic lite with John 
and two big, lovable dogs, as well as the 
lini and challenge of keeping a small 
business alive and well." 

Kathleen B. McKusick. Nashville. 
Tenn., notes: "I am still living in Nash- 
ville and Hnd it lively and friendly. I am 
working as a research assistant in bio- 
chemistry while attending graduate 
school part-time at Vanderbill. Would 
love to hear from friends at 2813 Blair 
Blvd., Nashville 37212." 

fonalhan B. Schuler has emolled in 
the cooperative legal education pro- 
gram at Northeastern University .School 
of Law in Boston. 

Susan Louise Sard and Peter An- 
drew White were married on Aug. 25 
in While's Grove, N.H. Susan is a 
third-year student at Northeastern 
University School of Law. Peter is co- 



chairman ol the Massachusetts tatizens 
Party and is now a teacher in the Bos- 
ton Public Schools. Several Brown 
alunnii attended the wedding. 

Brian Tai;;ne and Bels\ Laivlor '82, 
aie POSSLQ's in San Diego. Ihev have 
"great tans and a cat named Bebop, 
The weather is great; wish we had some 
lurnitme. " 

John R. Woodring and Eva M. Lag- 
ergren (see '80) were married on May 7, 
1983, in Greenwich, Conn. John is a 
linebacker with lhe New \oi k Jets and 
works at Paine Webber in the ofl-sea- 
.son. Fhey are living in Port Washing- 
Ion, NY. 

r~^ r~^ Colin J. Aaron. New York 
Sc V/ City, reports: "In May, I ob- 
K_J ^^ lained my M.A. in interna- 
tional atlairs Irom Columbia Llni\ersity 
School of Inlernalional Affairs. 1 have 
jusl started work for LI.l.C., a inni spe- 
cializing in political risk insmance. " 

Dr. Dexter L. Bacote. C:harlottesville, 
Va., has been selected for inclusion in 
the 1984 edition of Outstanding Young 
Men of America. He was selected from 
nominations received from all over the 
coimlry. 

Alison Berard writes: "I am living, 
cooking, and painting in San Francisco; 
it's a different world out here, plea- 
santly so." 

Robert G. Bing-You. Arlington, Va., 
notes: "I am well into my third year al 
George Washington University Medical 
.School and enjoying ward life im- 
mensely, although on-call nights do 
ciamp voin social life sometimes! " 

Ann Campbell and Todd Hampson "83 
were married on Sept. I in Oxlord, 
England. Several Blown Iriends were 
present. The couple is now living in 
Providence. 

Janet M. Friedman. Providence, 
writes; "Cinrently 1 am applying to 
graduate school in developmental psy- 
chology. 1 plan to traxel in the spring of 
1985." 

Chris Golde tells us: "After receiving 
an M.A. in higher education/student 
personnel administration fiom I'each- 
ers College-Columbia University, 1 have 
started a terrific Job as director of stu- 
dent activities-campus center at Beloit 
College in Beloit, Wis. 1 would love lo 
see friends passing through O'Hare 
(only two hours away). I can be reached 
al ((i08) 305-3391, extension 301 or 
747." 

Mark LaConte and Limrie Purcell 
(daughter of Marguerite Lundgren Pur- 
cell '49) were married on Sept. 15 in 
Concord. Mass. Peter Alpert and Helen 
DiBona were members of the wedding I 



party. Main Brown Iriencis ainiuled. 
The miiple is li\ini; in Bo.sion while 
Maik hnislies his last \ear at Har\aid 
Law School and Lainie works for a 
medical piactice in Cloncord. 

B ft \y Liiwlor a.nd Brian Tdgiic '81 are 
I'OSSLQ's in San Diego, They have 
great tans and a cat named Bebop. 
"The weather is great; wish we had 
some furniture." 

Alan T. Levenson. C:oliuiibiis, Ohio, 
has begun a teaching fellowship for a 
doctoiate at Ohio State L'niversitv. 

Jim Ln/z is now li\ ing in Dallas with 
Jcfl Ho/man and Hilda Hsieii Holman 
(l)oth .SI). Friends passing through the 
Dallas aiea should contact them at 2031 
Timbergrove Cir., Dallas 75208. 

Kathmnc B. Miller has enrolled in 
the coopeiative legal education pro- 
gram at Northeastern University School 
<il Law in Boston. 

Lisa Posey recei\ed her master's 
degree in health administration from 
the University of North Carolina last 
Mav. 

Laura Sadovnikufj is still working 
lor the Citizen Exchange Coiuicil in 
New York City. "Now orgamzing pro- 
grams in the tra\el department and 
running the computer. Led a group in 
the Soviet Union in tiie spring and will 
l)e leading another in March 1985." 

Pegtry H<tmmond. Warwick, R.L. was 
married on Aug. 18 to Geoffrey T. 
Stocker. ",4m still in Rhode Island area 
working at a center for autistic and 
emotionalU -disturbed youngsters. Ain 
(limcal-administiative supervisor and 
en|o\ing m\ work." 

O Cy ■■*'"■>' Criiber married Lt. Jo- 
^C ^ seph Creegan in New V'ork 
V^ \^ Cily on Sept. 15. A number 
ol Brown alumni were in attendance, 
and Kim Howard and Madge Sclnvartz 
were bridesmaids. Amy is a medical 
student at Rutgers University in New 
Bnuiswick, N.J. 

Todd Hampson and Ann Campbell '82 
were married on Sept. 1 in Oxford, 
England. Several Brown friends were 
present. The couple is living in Provi- 
dence. 

Susan Kati is a researcher-reporter 
for the health and science sections of 
Newsweek magazine. She is living in 
Manhattan. 

Mildred McLaney, Clhicago, wiites 
that she is in law school. 

Matthew A. Merzlme/ier, Los Ange- 
les, notes: "I'm now woi king towards 
my Ph.D. in computer science at 
U(:L.4. Visitors are welcome — espe- 
cially old roommates." 

Lisa Nadeau is with Clhase Manhat- 



tan Bank in New '^ork C:ity. 

Eliziibetli Harris Sagaser was recentU 
appointed coordinator of alumni edu- 
cation at Northeastern Univeisity, a 
combination writing-design-puhlic re- 
lations position. yo/i)( IV. Sagaser recent- 
ly was named to the Boston College Law 
Rei'iexiK Both are leaching swing dance 
in the Ckntis Balhoom at the Boston 
Center for Adult Education. 

Jacqueline R. Samols manages the 
photography studio of Sotheby's in 
New 'i'ork City. 

Elizabeth (Buffy) Stoloff and Charles 
T. (Ted) Ve/ise were married on [uly 29 
in Chattanooga, Tenn. Participating in 
the wedding were Jewel Bradstreel. John 
Crockett. Daniel Horn, Timothy A'«v, and 
Elizabeth Agneu: The couple is living in 
Chicago. 

Pam Wiseman, East Greenwich, R.L, 
is "enrolled in a master's degree pro- 
gram in electrical engineering after 
spending a year at Texas A & M Uni- 
versity attempting to be an .\ggie!" 

^ J Philip E. Baruth is at the Uni- 

N^ / I \eTsity of Virginia in Char- 

v_y JL lottesville, studying for a 

master's degree in English and .■\meri- 

can literatme. 

Jill A. Christians writes: "To '84 
alums who come back to visit Brown: 
please give me a call— I've moyed back 
to the East Side! Phone: 521-4476 " 

Allison Cushee has been awarded a 
Eulbright grant from the United States 
Information Agency. A financial ana- 
lyst for Bankers Trust Company in 
New \'ork, she will use the one-year 
grant to study the economic, social, and 
political implications of solar eneigy in 
Moiocco. "Renewable energy will play 
an increasingly pivotal lole for devel- 
oping nations like Morocco," she says. 

Mike Su'eeney. a standout thiid 
baseman for Brown, was signed by the 
New ■^'ork \'ankees in June and as- 
signed to the Yankees' Class A tai ni 
team in Oneonta, N.Y. 

Kristyn Turaj yvrites: "I am living in 
Washington, D.C., and working as pro- 
duction manager for the Washington 
Weekly, a new Washington newspaper." 

y^^ Q>\ Frank E. Toonder, '30 Sc.M., 
I -w- ^\ '^-^ Ph.D., is enjoying re- 
V^--* ^^tirement at 2941 Vine Ln. 
in Sebi ing, Ehi. He would enjoy hearing 
from any of his chemistry grad school 
contempoiaries yvho aie still around. 

Robert A. Stowe '53 Ph.D., is an as- 
sociate scientist, Dow Chemical USA, 
Michigan Division, Midland, Mich, His 
duties include research and develop- 
ment, hydrocarbon processes, hydro- 



gen/carbon monoxide synthesis, and 
catalyst nuinufacture. 

Dellann Gellis Boland '64 M..\.r., 
Santa Monica, CaliL, and her husband, 
Dotiald, report the birth of their 
daughtei, Alice, on May 10 in Pithi- 
y iers, France. "She yvas delivered by Dr. 
Michel Odent, the internationally- 
lamous surgeon and diiector of obstet- 
rics at the Central Hospital of Pithi- 
viers. She was in footling or complete 
breech position but was deliyered with- 
out any medication or technological 
intervention. Many other women have 
their childien in Pithivieis under Dr. 
Odent because the maternity unit there 
allows women to assume any physical 
position which is comfortable during 
the vaiious stages of labor. Fatheis can 
stay in private rooms together with 
them. Babies never stay in a separate 
nursery. Those interested in learning 
more about Dr. Odent's philosophy 
should read his latest books ayailahle m 
English. One is Birth Reborn (1984, 
Pantheon)." 

Kenneth M. Pruitt '(i5 Ph.D. notes: 
"I yvas recently promoted to associate 
vice president, reseaich at the Univer- 
sity of .Alabama at Birmingham. I con- 
tinue to hold my academic appoint- 
ments as professor of biochemistry .ind 
professor of biomathematics. " 

John J. Macisco '66 Ph.D., Scarsdale, 
N.^■., is a piofessor of scjciology and 
seryes as chairman of the research 
council of Fordham University. He is 
co-diiector of the population and social 
change seminais of Columbia Univei- 
sity. 

Andrew S. Fisher '69 A.M. (see '69). 
Linda Daignault Frankel '69 M.A.T. 
is now Mrs. James Howell and liyes at 
73 Beacon St. in Boston, .Mass. 

Christopher Hewitt '65 A.M., '71 
Ph.D., teaches in the department of 
sociology at the University of Maryland 
in Baltimore C:ounty. His Ixjok assess- 
ing the effectiveness of various counter- 
terrorism policies will be published this 
winter by University Press of America. 
Patricia O'Mara '71 M.A. 1". is a real 
estate broker lor Merrill Lynch Realty/ 
Bacon and Co. (North Hills Office) in 
Raleigh, N.C. 

Dr. Jerome B. Zetdis '72 Sc M (see 
'72). 

Louise Schleiner '73 Ph.D., visiting 
lecturer at the University of California- 
Davis for the past four years, has been 
appointed an assistant professor of 
English at Washington State University 
in Pullman. A specialist in Renaissance 
and seventeenth-century continental 
and English literature, slie also taught 
at St. Mary's College and at Sacramento 



City College, both in California. She has 
done extensive research with early 
works at the British and Bodleian li- 
braries in London and Oxford, Eng- 
land. 

Dr. Harvard I. Amuls 74 Ph.D., 
Cranston, R.I., was recently promoted 
to associate professor of radiation 
medicine at Brown and was appointed 
chief physicist in the Depaitnient of 
Radiation Therapy, Rhode Island Hos- 
pital. 

Robert J. Galiette 76 A.M., Avon, 
Conn., has joined the law department 
of Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance 
Company as assistant counsel. Prior to 
joining the fuin, he was assistant direc- 
tor of the contract and legislative de- 
partment of CIGNA Corporation. He 
received a law degree from the Univer- 
sity of Connecticut. 

Nann L. Roberts 77 A.M. writes: 
"My book, Dorothy Day and the Catholic 
Worker, was publishecl in mid-October 
by State University of New York Press. 
It was in some of my graduate classes at 
Brown that I first thought of doing a 
major study of Dorothy Day. I've gone 
on to earn another master's and a doc- 
torate in mass communication at the 
University of Minnesota. I teach maga- 
zine writing, literary aspects of journal- 
ism, and history of mass communica- 
tion here at the University (in 
Minneapolis)." 

Frederick Lamster '80 Ph.D. an- 
nounces his marriage to Francine Ber- 
kov. He is manager/executive develop- 
ment for assistant buyers at Bullock's 
Wilshire and Bullock's in Los Angeles. 

Paul W. Munro '79 Ph.D., La Jolla, 
C;alif., reports: "We are the ecstatic 
parents of a son, Joseph James, born 
June 5 at 7 lbs., 5 ozs., and 21 1/2 inch- 
es, with a headful of dark hair which 
has since turned blonde. Since arriving 
in La Jolla last January, we've found it 
beautiful and exciting. Avi is in a Ph.D. 
program in the sociology department 
of UC/San Diego, and I have a post- 
doctoral fellowship in tiie Institute for 
Cognitive Science, also at UCSD." 

Martin McKeon '80 M.A.T., San- 
ford, Maine, has been appointed a so- 
cial studies/English teacher in the San- 
ford high school. 

Michael R. Mailer 11 Sc.M., '80 
Ph.D., is associate professor, depart- 
ment of mechanical and aerospace 
engineering, at Rutgers University in 
New Brunswick, N.J. He will receive 
the Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal at the 
winter annual meeting of the American 
Society of Mechanical Engineers in 
December. The medal is awarded to the 
young engineering graduate who has 



demonstrated outstanding achievement 
in mechanical engineering within ten 
years after graduation. He joined Rut- 
gers in 1979. 

Robert Risko '80 A.M. (see '78). 

Alice Goldberg '81 Ph.D., Brooklyn, 
N.Y., has been unemployed since May 
1983 and wonders "why I bothered to 
go to graduate school." 

Ann Marie Lopes '84 A.M. has been 
named account services intern at In- 
dustrial Marketing Associates of Matta- 
poisett (Mass.), a full-service advertising 
agencv. 

Phil Shinn '84 Ph.D. (see '78). 

-m jr ~m — ^ Ihoiiias R. Walek '79 
\\/\ I I MD-. Scarsdale, N.Y., 
X V A \^^ writes: "I'm looking 
forward to the general practice of plas- 
tic surgery in a non-metropolitan area 
after resiclencv at Lenox Hill." 

Julim Gall '79 M.D. and Man L. 
Wisnieivski '79 M.D., Somers Point, N.J., 
write: "We are expecting our Inst child 
on February 14, 1985. Julius has a new 
partnership with another family practi- 
tioner, Angelo Sporagna, M.D. We are 
Shore Family Medicine." 



OBITUARIES 



Bertha Malhieu Goodwin '07, Phila- 
delphia; Sept. 9, at the age of 99. She 
was active in organizations such as the 
New Century and Philomusian clubs. 
During World War II, she lectured on 
French and British novels. There are 
no survivors. 

Dr. Herbert Elisha Harris '07, St. 
Simons Island, Ga., an orthopedic sur- 
geon practicing in Providence for fifty 
years before retiring; Sept. 21, at the 
age of 99. Dr. Harris was a graduate of 
Harvard Medical School in 1911 and 
received an honorary doctorate from 
Brown in 19(32. He was chief of or- 
thopedics at Memorial Hospital in 
Pawtucket and at Rhode Island Hospi- 
tal. He was a member of numerous 
medical societies. Delta Tau Delta. He 
was the husband of the late Lilian Win- 
sor Harris '07. He leaves a daughter, 
Ruth W. Harris '4 1 ; and two sons, Walter 
D. Harris '35 and Herbert E. Harris, Jr., 
282 Way land Ave., Providence 02906. 



Maud Tucker MacLeod '14, Provi- 
dence, the widow of Norman D. Mac- 
leod. Republican gubernatorial candi- 
date in 1944; Sept. 27. Mrs. MacLeod 
assisted her husband in managing a 
large poultry farm in Kenyon, R.I. She 
was elected Tree Farmer of the Year in 
1976 for her forestry work. She was an 
organizer of the Soldiers and Sailors 
Club in Providence in World War I and 
was a board member of the South 
C^ounty Visiting Nurses Association and 
the 4H Club. She leaves three sons, 
including R. Bruce MacLeod '50 and N. 
Douglas MacLeod, Poppasquash Road, 
Bristol, R.I. 02809. 

Byron Lillibridge West "15, '16 Sc.M., 
'18 Ph.D., a retired chemical consult- 
ant; Aug. 28. He was associated for 
many years with the Caico Chemical 
Division of American Cyanamid Com- 
pany and was listed in American Men of 
Science. He had been both head class 
agent and reunion gift agent for his 
class. Lambda Chi Alpha. Survivors 
include his son, Byron F. West '50, Box 
117, Forest Grove Rd., Wycombe, Pa. 
18980. He was the brother of the late 
Dr. Edward West '24. 

Raymond Joseph Walsh '17, James- 
town, R.I.; Aug. 31. Survivors include 
his wife, Helen, Blueberry Lane, 
Jamestown 02835, and two daughters. 

Dorothy Beals Brown '18, Barring- 
ton, R.I., active in Pembroke alumnae 
affairs for more than fifty years; Oct. 8. 
The recipient in 1970 of the Pembroke 
Aliminae Award, she was president of 
the Pembroke clubs in Cleveland and, 
later, in Pittsburgh. She was president 
of her class for more than forty years 
and was alumnae Commencement 
marshal in 1937-38. A former vice 
president of the Pembroke Alumnae 
.Association, she was chairman of the 
Pembroke Aluirmae Fund (1949-32) 
and was on the Pembroke Cloilege 
Advisory Committee from 1951-54. She 
was reunion chairman many times and 
was a member of the Pembroke Club of 
Providence. She leaves a daughter, Ju- 
dith Beals Brown '52, 40 Thomas Olneyl 
Common, Providence 02904; and a| 
son, Theodore B. Broiim '50. 

Hugh Robertson '19, '23 A.M., Can- 
ton, Mass., an insurance broker for the 
New England Mutual Life Insurance 
Company; Sept. 8. He served in the 
Army during World War I. Theta Delta 
Chi. He leaves his wife, Margaret, 447 
Chapman St., Canton, Mass. 02021; 
and a son. Dale Robertson '52. 



Paul Rupert Cast '20, Stow, Mass., a 
retired hiophysitist; Aug. 26. In 1922, 
he received a master's from New Yori< 
State College of Forestry at Syracuse 
and in 1927 he was awarded a doctor- 
ate by Harvard University. For the next 
twenty years, Mr. Cast held teaching 
and research posts at Harvard in the 
fields of biophysics and forestry. He 
spent a year in Sweden as a Rockefeller 
Fellow and a year in France as a Ful- 
bright research scholar. His wife was 
the late Clunlotle Mikalson GasI '20. Sur- 
vivors include his sister, Margaret J. 
Gast, 10 Hill St., Jefferson Shores, 
Buzzards Bay, Mass. 02532. 

Russell Hough Emiiwtt '22, Naples, 
Fla., an executive at the former Rath- 
bun Knitting Companv in Rliode Is- 
land; Oct. I. Mr. Kmmott was a former 
trustee of the Woonsocket Hospital and 
former corporator of the Woonsocket 
Institution for Savings. Zeta Psi. He 
leaves two daughters, including |ean 
Davis, 211 Rumstick Road, Banington 
R.I. 0280fi. 

Esther Spear Neville '22, South 
Hadley, Mass.; Aug. Hi. Immediate 
survivors are unknown. 

Rosemary Can Polleys '22, Cranston, 
R.I., a retired bacteriologist at Rhode 
Island Hospital; Sept. 9. She was a past 
board member of the American Asso- 
ciation of University Women. An a\id 
skier, she was a board member and 
former officer of the Rhode Island Ski 
Club and received its annual achieve- 
ment award in 1959. Among her wide- 
ranging interests were history, geneal- 
ogy, and yachting. Her survivors in- 
clude her husband, William V. Polleys. 
Jr. '24, 55 Ferncrest Ave., Cranston 
02905; and a son, William V. Polleys III 
'54. 

Arthur Remsen Nelson '23, Keyport, 
N.J., a self-employed certified public 
accountant in New York City, formerly 
associated with the firm of Hopkins & 
Co.; Sept. 22. A resident of Warwick. 
N.Y., for twenty-five years before mov- 
ing to Keyport, he was a member of the 
New York State Society of Certified 
Public Accountants and the American 
Institute of Accoimting. Sigma Nu. 
Siuvivors include his wife, Joan, 500 
Broad St., Keyport 07735, and a 
daughter. He was the brother oi Godfrey 
N. Nelson. Jr. '22. 

Dr. Agostino Sarnmartino '23, Provi- 
dence, a general practitioner with a 
part-time specialty in obstetrics for 



fifty-five years; Aprii 26. A graduate of 
Columbia's College of Physicians and 
Surgeons in 1927. he was the former 
chief of obstetrics at St. Joseph's Hos- 
pital in Providence. Survivors include 
his wife, Frances, 55 Hawkins Blvd.. 
North Piovidence, R.I. 02911; a 
daughter. Frames 'bl\ and a son. Dr. 
Clark Sammarlnio '59. 

Raymond Lowe Miller '24. Warwick, 
R.I., a letired clerk of the court at the 
Kent County Superior Court and a tax 
assessor for the city of Warwick fiom 
1937 to 1959; Sept. 12. Also a graduate 
of the University of Pennsvlvania, he 
was a wing cadet with the t:anadian 
Roval Fhing C:or|3s dining World War 
I. Lambda Chi Aipiia. Survivors in- 
clude his wife, Dora, 68 Spring Garden 
St., Warwick 02888. 

Robert Beach Hazard '25, Lynnfield, 
Mass., former superintendent at Turn- 
er Construction Company in Boston; 
Nov. 28, 1981. Alpha tau Omega. 
Survivors include his wife, Edith, rIfD 
#1, Box 816, East Kingston, N.H. 
03827. 

Frederick Morton Palvier. Jr. '25, 
Uxbridge, Mass., owner of Crestview 
Associates in Uxbridge; .April 25. Sur- 
\ivors include his wife. Elmerta, 147 
South Main St., Uxbridge 01569. 

Kent Winsted Harringford Godfrey 
'2(), Miami Beach, Fla., a retiied realtor 
from Falls Church, Va.; July 11, 1983. 
Sigma Nu. Survivors include his wife, 
Julia, 4035 Meridian Ave., Miami 
Beach 33140, and a daughter. 

Dr. William Frederick .Storms '26, 
Wethersfield, Conn., a retired physi- 
cian; Oct. 9. He graduated from Har- 
vard Medical School in 1930. Survivors 
include his wife, Marion, 25 Old Smithy 
I.n.. Wethersfield 06109. 

Frank Oscar Tourtellotte '26, Morris, 
N.Y.; Oct. 9. Siuvivors include his wife, 
Mrs. Frank Tourtellotte, R.R. 1, Box 
14, Morris 13808. 

Virgil Frank Nerad '28, Pompano 
Beach, Fla.; April 1984. Delta Tau Del- 
ta. Survivors include his daughter, Ms. 
Gina Joyce Net ad, 160 Cypress Club 
Di ., #635, Pompano Beach 33060. 

Dr. Francis Xavier Fagan '29, Weth- 
ersfield, Conn., a consultant with the 
Connecticut State Department of 
Health; Aug. 9. Fhere are no immedi- 
ate survivors. 



Florence Oldham Speakman '30, '32 
A.M., Rumford, R.I., a former librarian 
at the Providence Public Librarv and a 
substitute school teacher; Aug. 4. Sur- 
viving is her husband, Harry Speakman 
'35, 2 Vista Dr., Rumford 02916, and a 
sister. Her father was James R.D. Oldham 
'97, and her mother was Nellie Munroe 
Oldham '00. Her brother was William 
D.G. Oldham '25, and her sister was 
Elizabeth Oldham Holmes '28. 

Kenneth Sikes Fisher "M, Rutland, 
V't., retired branch manager with Gen- 
eral Motors Acceptance C:orporation; 
April 28. Phi Sigma Kappa. Survivors 
inilude his wife, Nancy, 4 Park Ct., 
Rutland 05701. He was the brother of 
Walter C. Fisher '29. 

Robert Stanley Jones '31, Lakewood, 
Ohio; June 23, 1983. He was a gradu- 
ate of the University of Pennsylvania's 
Wharton School. Survivors include his 
wife. Mrs. R. Stanley Jones, 2743 
Horseshoe Rd., Lakewood 44107. 

Robert Laivrence Kinsey '32, Men- 
tone, Ind.; Sept. 5. He served in the 
Army in World War II and graduated 
from Harvard Law School. Delta Upsi- 
lon. Survivors include his wife, Louise, 
108 North Fianklin St., Mentone. 

George Clarkson Whitney '33, 
Worcester, Mass., a retired trust officer 
at Worcester County National Bank; 
Sept. 16. In 1952, he received a degree 
at the Graduate School of Banking at 
Rutgers University. He served in the 
Naval Reserve during World War II, 
and later was a trustee of Worcester 
Academy and the Worcester Five Cents 
Savings Bank. Delta Upsilon. Survivois 
include his wife, Emily Grainger Whitney 
'28, 46 Elm St., Worcester 01609; and 
his daughter, Anne Whitney Norsworthy 
'59. His father was Warren A. Whitney 
'05. 

William Sanger Mombert '34, Lake- 
wood, N.Y., a retired traffic manager 
for Weber-Knapp Company; Sept. 26. 
Kappa Sigma. He had been with Web- 
er-Knapp for thirty-three years. Survi- 
vors include his wife, Muriel, 32 Lake- 
view Dr., Lakewood, N.Y. 14750, and 
two sons. 

Lt. Col. Alfred Noble Kay '39, Holi- 
day, Fla., retired assistant regional 
commissioner for the Internal Revenue 
Service in Dallas and a retired Army 
officer; Sept. 9. He was a former mem- 
ber of the Board of Directors of the 
Associated Alumni of Brown. Survivors 



61 



iiuludc his wife, Kilct-n, "'204 Lake- 
shore Dr.. Holiday 33590. one daiigli- 
ter. and one son. 

Leon Soluway '43, Jamaica, N.V., an 
indoor tennis ckil) proprietor and 
snmnier camp dircctoi ; Sept. 19. He 
was the proprietor of Tennis Indoors 
of New York, in Woodside, and direc- 
tor of Camp Wall VVliilnian, in Pike, 
N.H. Smvivors include his wife, Ann 
Ruth, 80-83 Kent St., Jamaica 11432; 
and a brother. Di . Arnold Sulowiiy '42. 

Dr. Gninino Peter Michael Suvastanu 
'45, Johnston. R.I., a dentist practicing 
in Providence for thirty years; Oct. 6. A 
giadiiale of the LoNola University Col- 
lege of Dental Smgery in Chicago, he 
was at one time acting director of the 
Samuels Dental Center foi Children at 
Rhode Island Hospital, and director of 
the dental care program for mentally 
retarded children. He was also a clinical 
instructor at Tults University Dental 
School. A World War II Navy veteran, 
he was presented the "Man of the Year" 
award b\ the Italian-American War 
Veterans ol Rlujde Island. He was dean 
of judges for the Miss Rhode Island, 
Miss Massachusetts, and Miss Connect- 
icut National Teenager Pageants, serv- 
ing in that capacity almost ten years. He 
leaves three sisters, including Mrs. Lena 
Cerho. 17(iO At wood Ave., Providence. 

Gerald Ku.ss Pascal '48 Ph.D., Jack- 
son, Miss., a former faculty member at 
the University of Tennessee and a clin- 
ical psychologist; April 5. He received 
his A.B. from the University of Cali- 
fornia at Berkeley in 1940 and his A.M. 
from Harvaid in 1942. He was a fellow 
of the American Psychological Associa- 
tion. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. 
C.erald R. Pascal, 3718 Kings Highway, 
Jackson 39216. 

Jnhri Ma/m Humtoii '49, Schenecta- 
dy, N.Y., a retired physicist and man- 
ager of the Engineering Physics Branch 
at the (leneral Klectric Research and 
Development Center; Aug. 31. He 
served three years in the Air Force 
during World War II. After receiving 
his doctorate al the Massachusetts In- 
stitute of Technology, he joined the 
technical stall of the CV. Research Lab- 
oratory in 1955 and spent his career 
there. Under his direction, GE scientists 
made a number of innovations in phys- 
ics and plasma diagnosiics. He was 
elected a fellow in ihe liiMilule of Elec- 
trical and Electronics Engineers. He 
was the aulhor of many technical pa- 
pers and held ihirty-lwo patents. Zeta 



Psi. He is survived b\ his wile. ,\nue. 
1302 Rowc Rd.. Schenectady, N.Y. 
12309, a daughter, and a son. 

Ciiiviii Jacob Troiie. Jr. '50, Scotts- 
dale, Ariz., president of Trone and 
Companv, financial consultants in 
Scoltsdale; Oct. 13. He received an 
M.A. from Harvard and also attended 
the LIniversity of Michigan Law School. 
After serving in vai ious executive posi- 
tions with the Whii Ipool Oirporalion in 
Brazil, Fiance, Beinuida, and Switzer- 
land, he was chief Iniancial officer and 
group vice president of Allis-Chalniers 
in Milwaukee from 1967 to 1971. Later 
he was an executive vice president of 
Penn-Pacihc and a trustee of the West- 
gate-California Corporation, in San 
Diego. Mr. Trone was a strong financial 
supporter of the University. Survivors 
include his wife, Alice, 7343 East Via 
Verde, Scottsdale 85258. 

Ellen Taubeneck Curtis '51, Fal- 
mouth, Maine; Sept. 10. Her sister was 
the late Barbara Taubeneck Gray '53. She 
is sin vived by three daughters and her 
brother-in-law. Duncan C. Gray '51, 
9681 Fringetree Rd., Great Falls, Va. 
22066. 

Dr. Steven Wayin' Ijun '76, Prospect 
Harbor, Maine, a dentist recently 
graduated from the L'niversity of 
Pemisvlvania; Aug. Ki. Alter Blown, 
he spent four years at Cioliuubia Uni- 
veisit) and MIT engaged in biomedical 
research and scientific ec|uipnieiit de- 
velopment. He served in Maine as a 
National Sludeiil Health Corps dentist 
after completing his dental training. He 
was vice president of his Brown class. 
Survivors include his wife, Whitney, 
Box 1 16, Prospect Harbor 04(i()9, and a 
son. He was the brother of Rnhard M. 
Linn 'SO. 

Plnniias Gerald Gertken '80, St. 
Louis, Mo., a June graduate of St. Louis 
University Law School; July 25, when 
his car went off the road. Mr. Gertken 
played varsity soccer al Brown for four 
yeais. Survivors include his mother, 
Jeanne Ycager (Jertken, 1239 Astoria 
Di.. St. Louis 63137, a sister, and live 
brothers. 



UPDIKE 

continued from page 64 

ished in the jiast thirty years. My own 
experience as a reader is that the conti- 
nuity you have in a book of short stories 
is that you are with the same author. 



There's a certain feeling, like meeting a 
man on a number of nights. It's always 
the same man, so we say, 'Let's see what 
he's like tonight.' There's that appeal. 1 
must confess t would rather read a 
novel than a good book of short stories. 

BAM: (>an you compare the 
difTK ulties of approaching the writing 
of a story, and preparing to write a 
novel? 

Updike: It's harder for me to begin 
a novel tluin a short story. It's harder 
for me to do everything in connection 
with a novel because you know you're 
going to be with it. You're going to cre- 
ate a very large artifact in terms of 
pages and words and the first pages 
determine how the whole thing is going 
to lilt, in a way. If the first page is read 
aflei the reader has finished the book, 
it should make a lot of sense; so it's 
nervous-making to begin, although you 
can always change it. A short story 
lends to come to you almost in one 
piece, if it comes, since basically only 
one action is being described. A novel 
can be picked up after some lapse in 
time, I've found, but if you let too 
much lime go by, you do lose touch 
with It. 

There have been some novels 
written over great stretches of time. 
Mark Twain was this sort of a guy, who 
could write 400 pages, then drop the 
book. Huckleheriy Finn was written over 
a great gap, seveial great gaps, so there 
are many ways to skin a cat. But for me. 
I have to keep rolling or I really forget 
what it's all about. There is a kind of a 
music that a novel makes. You read it, 
and certain chords that the writer has 
struck ring for you. The more the writ- 
er delays, the more he forgets whal he 
said, and the harder it is to strike those 
chords. 

BAM: A fairly new phenomenon, 
the graduate j)i()gram in creative writ- 
ing, is appearing in many forms at uni- 
versities around the country. The one 
at Brown is responsible for bringing 
you to campus. Are you familiar with 
these programs and do you think that 
they can be helpful to someone who 
wauls to be a writer? 

Updike: Tin not very familiar with 
them. As I've said, I'm not really uni- 
versity-connected. I have been out to 
Iowa [the University of Iowa, home of 
the lirsl program], but there are levels 
and levels now of creative-writing edu- 
cation which didn't exist when I was 
taking courses. I don't wish to put them 
down out of hand because it is very easy 
to be glib when you don't know much. 
Undoubtedly, the people in them learn 
more and become better writers to a 



degree, Ijlu it does not soke llie laasic 
problem of am writer: t(j find \<)ur 
audience, wliat is crassly called your 
market . Perhaps tlie\ are sliglitlv cruel 
in that tliev prolong the safet\ which 
the university imparts to all its subjects 
,ind postpone the existential question of 
'Who am 1 doing this for?' and 'How do 
1 make a living out of it?" I'hese are 
(|uestions that writers should in some 
way soke. One wa\ of soi\ ing it is to 
decide that you are not going to make a 
living out of it, ycju'ie going to Idc a 
lawyer or mailman or garbage man and 
write the way you want for your pleas- 
ure and get published if you can. 

BAM: fart of any writing program 
is getting steady feedback from other 
stucfent-writers. many of whom have 
similar abilities and as|5irations. For 
you. is it a positive thing to meet regu- 
larly with other writers and talk about 
your work-in-progress, or can this be 
hai nifiil? 

Updike: It depends on what the 
alternatives are. I think a writing group 
where people exchange works and 
opinions is not a bad thing if you can't 
strike up this kind of a relationship with 
an editor who would put it into print. 1 
think that the relationship thai all writ- 
ers should he stri\ing for is to gel into 
print. Until a thing is into print, it 
doesn't quite exist. So, I think there's a 
bind now. There are many people who 
want to be writers, and there seem to be 
more writers and fewer readers than 
there used to be. To some degiee. cul- 
tural energy has left the printed media 
and gt)ne to films and tele\ision. 
Against all these negati\e things, there 
remains the fact that language is a 
flexible tool and all of us have some 
reading habits still. Sure, jfjin a group 
and discuss your writing, iiut don't let it 
become a substitute for your real objec- 
tive, which is to get into print and get 
into contact with people who just want 
to read what you write. 

BAM: Especialh in the case of 
poetry, it seems that more and more 
people are w riting and fewer and fewer 
people are reading. 1 wonder if you 
have any idea why this is taking place? 

Updike: 1 don't quite know the 
answer to either of the sides of that 
foi k. I guess more people write it be- 
cause it can be done quickly and is 
more exciting. It's less laboi ious. there 
ate fewer nuts and bolts to writing 
poetry than writing even short fiction, 
and in some funny way it's glamorous 
to be a poet. Poetry benefited from the 
great uplift in prestige and attention 
that folk music caught in the movement 
of the late '60s when it became fashion- 



able, radical. Maybe one of the leasons 
people read it less is because the kind of 
delight the iormal feats of rhyming and 
metrics used to give people just isn't 
theie. A lot of the pleasure poetry used 
to give can now be obtained either from 
prose or from canned music. Nowa- 
days, music is an inescapable part of 
om- cultmc, antl ma\be that's oiu- poet- 
ry. 

BAM: fs it still fun to be a famous 
writer? 

Updike: It is, but illegitimate fini. 
The real fun must come, not frc^m be- 
ing a swell guy or getting applauded at 
Brown University, but coping with the 
antique pioblems of language and con- 
jiuing realit\ out of illusions. It is easier 
to go around being <i writer than it is to 
write. \'ou ha\e the opticju that voinig 
writers don't ha\e. '^'oii have to keep 
reminding \i)urself of w hat you're 
here, after all, to do. Even so, writers 
are not as famous as they used to be. 
Bellow, I guess, is our most famous 
writer and he is not as famous as Hem- 
ingway was in his day. Even those of us 
who have names that are known arc 
spared most of the leal discomforts of 
celebi it\. Fortunately, we ha\e an op- 
portunity to continue to be |3ri\ate 
people and continue to write about (he 
pri\ate life. 

BAM: I o what extent would \ou 
be happy to be known as someone who 
writes humorous stories and poetry? 

Updike: Well. I wouldn't mind 
that. I began as that. I wanted to be a 
kind of humorist and f thought if I 
could be like James ihurbei that would 
be a wonderful achie\ement. But the 
whole profession of himior just kind of 
went away when I was growing up; we 
weren't humorists in the way they had 
been in the thirties and in the da)s of 
Benchley and so on, people whom I 
really enjoyed. 

Although I would be happy to be 
remembered for writing humor, f don't 
think f will be because I leally have 
been compelled b\ cultural tides to be 
as serious as I could. I here's a lot of 
humor in the stuff and it all has a kind 
of slant, a certain latent humor. But it's 
as much about life as I can make it. I'm 
fond of those books of mine which do 
have a stronger element of himior in 
them. Rahhit Is Rich is. in a way, a com- 
edy in the old sense of "happy events." 
I mean things turn oiu more or less 
well. .4 MtDilli of Sundays is somewhat 
funny — it's kind of a stand-up comedy 
routine of a frantic sort. The Centaur has 
the joke of mythology and people being 
gods. I tend to remember those books 
especially fondly because they do have 



this lumioious undertone. 

BAM: Do you get attacked for al- 
low ing \our characters to enjoy them- 
selves and enjoy American life — things 
that are realK not fashionable in liter- 
ary circles? 

Updike: Less now than formei i\. I 
was considered quite irrelevant during 
the height of the Vietnam \ears. I haci 
nothing to do. though, but write about 
m\ own life as I saw it. .-Mthough the 
various social pnjtests and re\ isions of 
popular assumptions that were going 
on then are reflected in my works. I 
find it hard to pretend really that, all m 
all. those of us born in late twentieth- 
century America are not immensely 
lucky. Wh(j do vou want to swap places 
with after all? Not the cave men. I 
think, because there were a lot of 
toothaches and sudden dying. It is \erv 
easy to romanticize the past, but in fact 
I think we have it about as well off as 
people ever have. If we are not happy, 
it's our own fault. If we don't take ad- 
vantage of what history and technology 
have handed us. then we ha\e only 
ourselves to blame. 

BAM: Do you ever feel pangs of 
guilt for being able to do so maiiN of the 
things you set out to accomplish? Do 
\ou sometimes feel there are others 
who more deserved to be successful 
writers but never got the right oppor- 
tunities? 

Updike: I'm very aware of a lot of 
coiitenipoi aries of mine who seemed 
smarter and more learned than I. I 
think the one thing I had was that I was 
fairh singleminded in m\ ambition, 
perhaps through a lack of imagination 
or opportunity. I did not have a family 
business that I might possibly inherit. I 
was free of the burden of being of the 
upper-middle class. I was out of the 
"shabb\ genteel. " which is the social 
class which tends to produce writers, by 
and large because you have no pro- 
found stake in the status (|uo and \et 
you ha\e some means to education and 
some sense of art and culture. I've been 
lucky. I won't deny it. I think I've been 
lucky in making the connections I 
.sought out. I early spotted The New 
Yorker as the best possible magazine and 
the best possible place to get into print 
if I could. In that I was able to get in 
there fairly early, I've enjo\ed. and still 
enjoy, my associati(jn with that maga- 
zine. I wanted to write my own kind of 
books, and I found a publisher who 
would print them with the least fuss 
and in a handsome form. So I feel 
somewhat guilty, yes, but not as much 
as you might think. 



63 



BOOKS 



By Peier Mandel 



John Updike: It's easier to go around 
being a writer than it is to write' 



As a literal V celebrity, author 
John Updike is gracious 
about giving his time to 
readings, lectures, and dis- 
cussions of his work. "I always get kind 
of excited in a funny way by inter- 
views," he lemarks. "V'ou don't exactly 
know what vou think until vou start to 
say it. In funny ways, talking aloud 
makes you think. Thought is in some 
ways a verbal creation." 

He is familiar with the tactics of 
reporters and the tape recorders they 
use to preserve major statements along 
with off-the-cuff comments; "I know 
tliese machines are increasingly subtle. 
\ou find that it's slightlv distress- 
ing — tliis feeling that your comments 
are there forever. It's frustrating for a 
writer, because you labor over the texts 
you issue forth and you want them to 
be just right, and then you find the 
words you babble in kind of a sleepy 
condition on a Thursday morning arc 
leallv what people care about." 

Updike visited Brown in early 
November to read from his work and 
participate in an informal coffee hour. 
The visit was sponsoted by the Giadu- 
ate Writing Program, the dean of the 
College, the Department of English, 
and the Mollie B. Mandcville Fund. He 
also agreed to a brief interview with the 
Brown Alumni Mi>nllih. 

Updike has entered his fifties as a 
successful and, somewlial to his sur- 
prise, famous novelist and shcjrt-story 
writer. Once considered an "irrelevant" 
author by major critics, he rarely toyed 
with the conventions of fiction when it 
was fashionable to do so and, instead, 
continued to write realistically and de- 
scriptively about life in middle-class 
America. 

"I feel some sort of relief when tny 
characters become well-off, " he told 
Time magazine in a cover story in 
1982 — one of the rare few devoted to 
fiction writers. Like Harry Angstrom in 
the Pulitzer Prize-winning Riihhil Is Rich 
and Henry Bech in Befli Is Back. Updike 
himself has become well-off, and he 
wears his tweed jackets well. With his 
wife, Martha, he lives in a mansion on 




John Updike^ as seen by 
Spencer Green '88. 

Boston's North Shore. 

Born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, 
Updike attended Harvard ancf studied 
drawing and fine arts in England. After 
college, he worked at The New Yorker for 
two years. He has maintained an excel- 
lent working relationshi|) with the 
magazine, which frecjueiitlv publishes 
his stories, poems, and book re\ lews. 

Updike is a prolific writer. His 
other books include short story collec- 
tions. Problems, The Music School. Muse- 
ums and Women, and Pigeon Feathers; 
novels. The Coup, The Centaur. Couples, 
Of the Farm, Rabbit, Run. Rabbit Redux. 
and A Month of Sundays: a play, Buchan- 
an Dying: and poetrv collections such as 
Tossing and Turning and The Carpentered 
Hen. his first book. His most recent 
work, The Witches of Easlwich. a novel, 
was published last May and is set in 
Rhocfc Island. 

BAM: Have you begun a new novel 
to follow The Witches of Eastwick? 

Updike: Yes, I am trying to begin a 
novel. It's at a veiy delicate beginning 
stage and I really should not talk about 
it much. In a sense, you give away the 
instinct to tell, which is what keeps you 
going in the novel. But it's an attempt 
to write about a city. I've located most 
of iriy novels in small towns. Not all, but 
most. I felt I should, as a fiction writer, 
try to cope with the fact that most of us 



live in urban enviromnents. So it'll take 
place in a city and, I hope, have some of 
the inter-connectedness that cities have. 

BAM: Why is it that short-story 
collections generally do not sell as well 
as novels? 

Updike: It doesn't give us the nice 
long ride. I think what people want out 
of a book is to sink into it. A lot of peo- 
ple who read are, after all, people try- 
ing to fill some time. They're trying to 
combat loneliness; there's no disgrace 
to this. Most of the entertainment 
media exist to keep us from feeling 
lonelv. So why shouldn't a book? 
Something intrinsic to the fiction form, 
one of its delights, is the creation of 
another world — and it takes time to 
generate another world. It's true that 
short stories sit very well in magazines 
and can be read on the commuter train. 
It's a form in which Americans have 
happened to excel from Hawthorne on. 
It's still not ever going to have the ap- 
peal of a good thick novel that can keep 
you engaged for horns and hours and 
vou can keep returning to it like a 
friend. 

BAM: It's funny that people can 
enjoy the sensation of going from one 
half-hour TV show to the next and at 
the same time find it a jolt to switch 
from one short story to another — even 
if fK)th are in a book by one author. 

Updike: It's curious how TV 
works, isn't it? Not only do you have the 
discontinuitv of the half-hoiu" shows, | 
but you have the further discontinuity 
of the commercials. I have read a theo- 
ry that the first generation raised on 
TV, which would be the one just 
younger than mine, can tolerate dis- 
contiiniitv and ex|)ects less connection 
in things than previous generations. If 
this is true, then they should be a won- 
derful audience for short stories, and it 
is true that a great many fine short sto- 
ry writers have come out of ttiis sensi- 
bility. More young people write com- 
petent short stories than ever did, and 
they then have the problem of what to 
do with them, since the number of 
magazines that print them has dimin- 
continued on page 62 



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Six nights in Vienna, Austria; 
continental breakfast each day; 
a cocktail party, city sight-seeing 
tour Cost: $1,199 per person 
double occupancy; single supple- 
ment: $165. Optional extras will 
include concerts, the Vienna Boys 
Choir, visits to the Riding School 
and Salzburg for approximately 
$100 additional. Registration 
deposit: $300. 



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