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NY 10021 (212) 753-9740 2.4[ The Mystery of Memory It may not be as fast as a computer, but the flexibility and sheer virtuosity of human memory is astonishing. Re- searchers at Brown are trying to explain the physiology and psychology of this most magic of human attributes. 32 Ever (9-5) True to Brown Brown doesn't close down when there are no students and faculty clogging its arteries. There is a large complement of staff providing support services the year 'round. 3o Louis Redding's Fight For Dignity and Decency Louis Redding '23 was the first black lawyer in Delaware. Then he became one of a handful of black lawyers around the country who helped break the barriers to open the way for a future generation. Departments 4 Carrying the Mail 17 Under the Elms 22 Sports 44 The Classes 52 Profile: Daniel Corley '75. Bob Hahn 58 Obituaries 61 Alumni Calendar page 38 © 1986 by Broum Alumni Monthly Published monlhly. with combined issues in Decem- ber/Januan, |une/Julv, and August/Sep- tember, bv Brown l'ni\ersii\. Providence, R I Printed b\ The Une Press. PO Box 130, Burhngton. Vt. 05402. Editorial offices are in Nicholson House. 71 George St., Providence. R.I. 02906. Meml)er. Council for the Advancement and Support of Edu- cation The Monthly is sent to all Brown alumni. Please allow eight weeks for thanges-of-address. which should be sent to Box 1854. Providence. R.I. 02912. Cover illustration by Anthony Russo Stuck with stock that's going nowhere? E\en in a good market year, many securities rise in value, but continue to pay a low dividend. You may ha\'e wisely invested in some of these stocks and now find yourself holding some highly-appreciated securities. But, what if you now need more income? If vou were to sell those stocks in order to reinvest for great- er income, your capital gains tax would almost negate your effort. The Brown Income Fund is the solution! By contributing vour appreciated securities to our pool- ed fund, you will recei\'e lifetime income for yourself, or another beneficiary, at an attractive interest rate (currently around 10%). And in addition to escaping any capital gains tax obligation, you will be entitled to an income tax deduction for a portion of your gift! To leam more about the income and tax advantages of a gift to the Brown Income Fund, call or write: The Office of Planned Giving Brown University Box 1893 Providence, RI 02912 (401)863-2374 Planned Giving CARRYING THE MAIL A hero remembered Editor: A portion of "Where Have the Heroes Gone?" in vour October is- sue was of particular interest to me. On May 2, 1952, three U.S. Marine fighter pilots were recalled to active duty b\ the Corps. Ted Williams, Ray Sisk, and myself joined together in Ted's Ford car at 1 1 a.m. to drive from Boston to Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, for a thir- ty-day refresher course to polish our rusty flying skills to prepare us for duty in the Korean conflict. He had just been presented with a new Cadillac at Fen- way but opted to drive his Ford to avoid the appearance of being a "showboat," as he called it. We arrived at the entrance gate of the Willow Grove Air Station at about 5 p.m. Some eight to ten reporters greet- ed him with verbal abuse it is hard to imagine. Our military orders called for us to report prior to midnight on that date and we were about seven hours early. It seems that they had been as- signed by their editors to be waiting at the gate for him at 8 a.m. and had con- sequently built up a full day of animos- ity toward him. Their interviewing consisted primarily of the question, "What has been your greatest thrill in baseball?" He replied patiently that his two home runs in the .411-Star game in Detroit had been his greatest thrill up to that point in time. Then three or four reporters bombarded him with questions such as, 'How about the time you did 'such and such"? W'asn't that a greater thrill for you? ' Finally, his pa- tience exhausted, he exclaimed, "Fve told you three times now. Can't you guys understand English?" They gave him a very uncomplimentary writeup in the Philadelphia papers the next morning. Isn't it understandable that all three of us were not too happy at being recalled at the age of thirty-three with family left behind and careers in- terrupted? After "checking in, " Ted invited Ray and me to leave the base and join him for dinner at a nice steak house near Doylestown. He insisted on [lick- ing up the check. After dinner we took a stroll around Doylestciwn. He stopped to talk with every cop we passed. He downed two large vanilla milk shakes and kidded with the clerk. And that after a big steak dinner! We visited a hardware store where he looked over all their fishing gear and photography equipment. Then a surprise. He spot- ted a key-making machine and ordered duplicates of his car keys. Tossing them to us he said, "Anytime vou guvs see my car in the parking lot and not being used, just go ahead and use it like it was your own." Over the next thirty days he kept inviting Ray and me to join him for dinner off the base. Probably nine or ten times. He always picked up the check. He wasn't too fond of the bill of fare offered on the base. One evening he left the table during dinner to phone his wife in Florida to come up to Willow Grove for a week or two. While he was away from the table, Ray and I paid the check for that meal. 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His pride in hiinsell was nioniunental as shown wiuii he insisted on playing a doiibleluader on the last day of the season suie of the .400 mark if he sat out, but going six for eight and winding up with .406! that's character — and what makes heroes. And what records he would have achieved had he not had to miss playing almost five full seasons due to military service during the prime years ol his athletic career. I heie is no argument that he was a controversial person. If he initiated a conversation with you, he was great, but if you pushed too aggressively to start one with him, he could be mighty chilly. He loved his wife at that time and adored his d.uighlei , liobbie |o. He was a stiong, well-toordinated, and skilled |)ilot. He had a lew faults, I'm sine, like most ol us luunans. )ust don't tell me anything detrimental about I ed's friendliness or generosity. I'hat would upset me. ROBKRI" L. SCOWCROFT "A9 I'uhn llarhii). Fhi. Plenty to be mad about Kdiloi : I am so very glad to read that Pk.I. Philip Biay is mad (BAM, Ottobci). I was confused lor a moment when I failed to read that Phil Bray was also mad at the Soviet Union for its brutal suppression of the Afghan peo- ple; lb. II Phil Hrav vvas also mad at the re|Jiession of |ews in Russia; that Phil Bray was also mad al the .So\iet-sup- poTted North Vietnamese lot their bulclieious occupation ol t'.ambodia; thai Phil Bray was also mad at the Not ill Vietnamese for their use of chemical agents on the hill Iribespeople {)f l.aos; that Phil Bray was also mad at the North Vietnamese for their contin- ued use of reeduiatioii camps to break or eliminate former .South Vietname.se offueis; or ihat Phil Biav was also mad at the tragic loss ol lili' ol thousands of South X'ietnamese who were fleeing the "liberators" that Phil Bray and associ- ates so fervently siip|)orted. If Phil Bray's miiul was changed by Ripple wine and sleeping on the side- WA\k in sleeping bags in .San Francisco, then ((jiLil lime with (l-ialions in the mountains north of Khe Sahn should have been considered. II Phil Biav's abhorrence of injuslice was engaged when protestors were beaten by drunken soldiers, then his ablioi lence would have been highly engaged when he saw how the buddies of those same A sampler of the College in Providence, now Brown University, by Abigail Adams Halavart, c. 1802 The Summer Academy An introduction to college study at the University June 23 -August 5, 1986 <,IO^ and 2( 1, 1M,S() tlie Ixst < if die \\ est and E;u>t Coast Crews will meet at the first annual Redwood Shores Stanford Rowing Classic. Championship rowers will battle head-to head for 2()()() gruelinji meters through the beautiful Redwood Shores L:ij>oon in Redwood Cit>'. California. 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James Conary: Horticulturist The quiet in the greenhouse is deafening. Occasionally a soggv "plunk" will resound throughout as condensation drips off the glass panes of the ceiling and forms puddles on the floor. It fne were green, this place would be one riotous blaze of green flames, licking and lapping at each other, streaked here and there with tongues of yellow sunshine. The humid aroma that seems thick enough to bite is reminiscent of the best kind of spring day — of fresh- cut green grass and wet, black, spongy soil; a trace of pungent fertilizer, the promise of new growth yet to come. Jim Conary is walking between the rows of plants and trees and shrubs, describing his job. He is the horticultu- rist in the greenhouse at Brown, the nursemaid to this particular nursery. "Basically, I maintain specimens for botany classes, " he savs. "I provide hands-on specimens for students to look at and observe. I also provide a certain environment for students to come in and enjoy. Many students come here between classes, just to relax and take it all in. 1 help students get their botanv experiments started, either by growing their plants or helping them grow them. I also serve as a liaison with the comnnmity. I get calls from people asking me what's wiong with their house and garden plants, and I advise them." Conary arrives at the greenhouse at 7 every morning — a time, in the cold winter months, that is inost crucial for the plants. "Throughout the night, the warmth built up in the greenhouse seeps away," Conary explains. "The hours right before dawn are the cold- est, of course, and it's important for me to be here as soon as possible after that to monitor the temperature." Conarv is responsible for watering and fertilizing the plants and acquiring specimens for the collection in the greenhouse. He is drawing up the plans for an aquatic pool, complete with fish, for the greenhouse, so aquatic plants can also be available for study. Conary began working in a green- house in Pawtucket when he was thir- teen. His interest in nature and biolog- ical sciences led him to the University of Rhode Island, and although he set out 33 34 to study entomology — bugs — he wound up in plants. Before coming to Brown, he grew plants commercially, and he says he's content working in an aca- demic environment now. "In the commercial world, you're under a lot of stress. Here the stress is a bit different — you're under stress to make sure you have all the kinds of specimens. Right now, between semes- ters, is planning time. I will be buying seeds to sow as soon as the purchasing department approves the money. There's always something to do around a greenhouse. It's really a farm under glass. "I feel at ease in the presence of plants. This job can be lonely, but there is a real presence of life here. Profes- sional plant growers are used to some solitude; we're loners. And although I don't talk to the plants, I communicate with them. Sometimes an 'alarm' sounds, and I will go over to a group of plants and ascertain what's wrong with them." His advice to someone who com- plains of a lifelong "black thumb" is that if a plant receives proper basic care — light, moisture, and minerals — the plant will thrive. "I tell people if they think they have a black thumb, that maybe there's something in their home that isn't good for the plant — maybe traces of gas, or other chemi- cals. Or maybe they are watering their plants too much or not enough." Surrounded by his vegetable king- dom at Brown, Conary admits he only has two house plants in his home. "I get enough of plants here." Steve Zimmerman: Manager, Computer Operations One office at Brown is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, with only four days off for holi- days every year. The computer center, which houses and maintains the Uni- versity's central, mainframe computer, is open and staffed nearly every minute of the year. "Most universities leave their ma- chinery unattended at night," says Steve Zimmerman, the manager of computer operations at the center. "But I don't believe in that philosophy. We have nearly $7 million worth of equip- ment in this building, and to risk dam- aging that equipment [by leaving it Steve Zimmerman: "/ have to run this place as a business.' unattended] isn't worth it." The computer center, with Zim- merman's fifteen-member staff, is pro- viding computing services for the entire University, as well as the seven affiliated hospitals, and a small number of pri- vate companies and organizations around Providence. The sheer volume of work produced by the center is stag- gering. According to Zimmerman, they run thousands of jobs every week. The laser printer attached to the computer prints 16 million sheets a year — "divide 16 million by the number of minutes in a year, and you'll see what our produc- tivity is like," he says. The center is responsible for pro- cessing five unique payrolls at Brown — every employee's paycheck is pro- cessed by the computer. Many cours- es — and more all the time — are reliant on the mainframe computer for course work; faculty members record their grades and tests on the computer; graduate students use it for writing their theses and dissertations; the BAM is written and typeset on it. "We have a lot of information stored here," Zimmerman says simply. "Basically, we're a service organization for our users. And like any kind of ser- vice organization, we're measured by the level of our service. In a service, you're measured not by what you do, but by what you don't do. There is an expectation in our users' minds that the product will be delivered." Most of the time the product — computer services — is delivered. Zimmerman says that the computer is up and running 99 percent of the time. And, when it's down, it's his responsi- bility to get it functioning again, quick- ly, and figure out the priority of the jobs that were left hanging when the computer crashed. "It would be easy for me to fall into the 'go somewhere else if you don't like what we're doing' category," he says, "but I have to run this place as a busi- ness. The quality of my service has to be consistent. I look at other, compara- ble services and make sure that my ser- vice is the same or better. My sense of professionalism makes me feel this way." Zimmerman is on his feet most of the day, troubleshooting, smoothing out potential problem areas, wheeling and dealing. "I try to make sure that this department stays vibrant, and one way to do that is to get and maintain more equipment. The library recently purchased its own IBM mainframe computer, and it's upstairs. We main- tain it for them, instead of their staffing a computer room at the library. Then we send them an itemized bill. We also have recently taken on an array pro- cessor for the applied math depart- ment. Zimmerman, who recently got his M.B.A., says that working at Brown "is my Ph.D. Hardly a day goes by that I do what I think I'm going to be doitig. We have state of the art technology and staff. There have been quantum leaps in the changes in these machines in the last fifteen years, and the thought of what the next ten years is going to bring really excites me." Ruth Oppenheim: "The procedures don't take precedence over the people." Ruth Oppenheim: Academic Department Manager Tlie list of people and pro- grams under Ruth Oppen- heini's aegis reads like an academic grab bag. As aca- demic department manager for the English department, she handles all activities pertaining to: forty regular faculty members, two adjunct and two visiting professors, ten adjunct lectur- ers, teaching assistants (about fiftv a year), 100 student concentrators, five clerical employees in four different buildings; as well as various pro- grams — the graduate writing program, the Program in Literature and Society, semiotics; two literary publications. Novel and Modern Language Studies ("I only handle part of their budget," Oppenheim demurs); and the Copper Beach Press {BAM. April 1983), which made her a managing editor recently. "I feel very strongly about nurtin- ing them all along," says Oppenheim. From the strategic location of her office, first door on the right directly beyond the front door of Horace Mann, Oppenheim is able to observe closely the comings and goings of one of the largest academic departments on campus. Annual enrollment in English courses tops 4,000, many of whom will pass Oppenheim's door coming to and from classes. Oppenheim adinits she's not one for "shutting inyself off. I like getting involved with problems. The people exposure is a big component of this job, and I'm proud of my rapport with faculty and grad students." She will also champion the individual stu- dent or faculty member who gets caught up in bureaucratic rigamarole. "I'm a great believer that the proce- dures don't take precedence over the people," she says briskly. "You can't forget about the individual case." Before she came to work at Brown, Oppenheim worked in the German department at Harvard. Although her family left Germany in 1940, Oppen- heim retains her German accent. She savs former department chairman and professor emeritus A.D. Van Nostrand hired her, "although I didn't fit into any 'box' — there 1 was with a German accent, applying for a job in the English department." In the twelve years she has been at Brown, Oppenheim has worked for four department chairmen, and she says she hopes she has given the de- partment a sense of continuity. Work- ing for four chairmen with different styles has required flexibility as well. Oppenheim has a calming presence and a philosophical approach to life, both prerequisites for her job. "Working in this department has been a learning experiment for me," she says. "Being surrounded by all these writers got me to thinking of writing myself." This thought became reality last spring when Oppenheim's autobiographical story about her Jewish family's experiences on Kmtallnacht and their subsequent immigration to America was published in Moment iTiagazine. The story, which she says took her a year to write, was cathartic, and something she felt she had to do for her children. "And I probably wouldn't have written it, if I hadn't been in this kind of environment." Catherine Denning: Curator, Annmary Brown Memorial Few people spend their entire workday ensconced in a tomb. But Catherine Denning '79 A.M. does. She is the curator at the memorial that Rush Hawkins built for his wife, Annmary Brown: a memorial that houses his collection of incunabula (books printed before 1501), mementos of their relationship, and their tombs. "They're buried here," Denning says, pushing open the heavy, leaded door at the back of the memorial. A blast of cold air pours out of the dark room. "This part of the memorial is built of three kinds of marble and holds the cold in. I store crates of champagne in here when we have receptions, and the tomb chills it quite nicely." Denning works alone at the me- morial, which is a square, marble building on Brown Street. The building has no windows: "Hawkins wanted it to look like a tomb," Denning explains, and it does. She is responsible for Catherine Denning: "The responsibility is a little scary." 35 physically running the memorial, as well as helping people with research and sponsoring the concerts and lec- tures held there. And, the memorial is headquarteis for three academic disci- plines: Renaissance studies, ancient studies, and medieval studies. Denning supplies administrative support services for all these programs. "I'm not strictly a librarian or a curator or a tour guide for the tourists who come in here. I'm all of them. The variety is great." The collection of incunabula Den- ning oversees is one of the five best held by a university in the United States. "Hawkins collected by imprint," says Denning, "not by subject or author. The collection ranges over a broad cross-section of interests; there's a good deal of theology and early scientific books. Now that the history of science is becoming important, we will get more people coming here to study these books." When Denning first became cura- tor of the memorial, in 1979, she read all of Hawkins's books and Annmary's scrapbooks, and she can talk about their relationship as if they were her good friends. And perhaps they are. She even resembles one of the portraits of Annmary — something she is told fre- quently. "Annmary and Hawkins fell in love at first sight, from all accounts. One of my favorite things in here is the locked box of love letters Annmary wrote Hawkins. We're not allowed to open them. Ever. And we are legally re- quired [per Hawkins's request] to put a wreath of spring flowers on Annmary's grave on her birthday, and leave it there until it shrivels and dies. Very romantic." The sense of romance and the sense of history the memorial impart are important to Denning, but, a Renaissance scholar herself, she says one of her favorite things about work- ing in the library is when she is going through one of the pieces of incunabula and comes across a small notation made in the margin. "I'm seeing across the centuries into someone's mind," she says with a small shiver. "That fasci- nates me. And sometimes the thought of the responsibility I have here, look- ing out for these things, is a little scary." Fred Yattaw: Supervisor, Faculty Mailroom Some of the most recognized faces on campus belong to the people who work in the student and faculty mailrooms. Fred Yattaw, who is responsible for both mailrooms, has been at Brown for al- inost eighteen years. He looks as if he has just graduated from college him- self — perhaps it's the blue jeans and flannel shirt. "That's what I like about working here," he says. "The informality." According to Yattaw, the people in the mailroom do everything the United States Postal Service does. When mail is delivered at Brown, the USPS separates Fred Yattaw: "We estimate we handle 2 million pieces of mail a year." _ , ^ rLT m^ I Jim '* "— ' 36 , _ all mail addressed to faculty and ad- ministrators and gives it to the faculty mailroom. "The USPS handles all stu- dent mail that is addressed properly," Yattaw says. "If it's not addressed properly, they give it to us. They operate a service window [selling stamps and other USPS services], and we do all the rest." "All the rest" includes processing close to 2 million pieces of mail a year. "We had 140,000 pieces of outgoing mail in December," says Yattaw. "And we estimate that each piece of mail is a response to an ingoing piece, or will bring one back in, so we estimate that we must handle nearly 2 million pieces a year. And that doesn't include cam- pus mail, of course." People often ask him how he and his staff can do what they do all day. Yattaw agrees that it's not the most stimulating job in the University, but there is a certain atmosphere to the place that they all like. The post office area is an ongoing fair — with booths selling wares, ideas, and events. "Work- ing in Faunce House is sort of exciting," says Yattaw, "although it does have its drawbacks. Students were advertising a James Brown concert a couple of years ago and playing a tape of his music. I would hear that tape five or six times a day, which was more than enough. "As for supervising this mailroom, I don't inind what goes on, as long as the job gets done. We play classical music here in the morning, and rock and jazz in the afternoon. And we are constantly discussing the issues — pol- itics, sports, religion. Sometimes the discussions get quite heated." Suzanne Bertrand: Editorial Assistant Although it might be expected that someone with the title of "editorial assistant, Brown University Press," would be speaking about her job above the roar of a printing press, Suzanne Bertrand doesn't have to raise her voice to be heard. There is no actual press at the Brown University Press; and since 1 98 1, the Brown University Press has existed as part of a consortium, the University Press of New England. "A lot of my time is spent on the phone," says Bertrand, "redirecting people to the right outfit. People call thinking we publish the Brown Daily Herald, the George Street Journal, the Suzanne Bertrand: "When I came here, I thought I was just passing through. BAM, and the yearbook." The press, as part of the consorti- um, publishes scholarly books. The editor of the press is philosophy pro- fessor Ernest Sosa, who is also co-edi- tor, with philosophy professor Rod Chisholm, of the Philosophy and Pheno- menological Research Journal. Bertrand serves as a liaison with the University Press of New England, and as an editorial assistant for the philosophy journal. Her career began with the press twenty years ago, when she was hired as a secretary. Gradually she worked her way into performing editorial tasks. "When I first started working here, the press was independent and differ- ent. We were publishing ten to twelve books a year. As the staff would get cut, my duties would change. Then in 1979, the director's position was phased out, and all the staff that remained was me and a copy editor, finishing the last book. We were in limbo until we joined the consortiimi." Her work on the Philosophy and Phenomenological Journal includes type- setting, paste-up, and layout of the quarterlv journal. She proofreads the galleys, and is responsible for keeping track of all manuscripts submitted. As the sole full-time employee of the Brown University Press, Bertrand says, "I have a lot of freedom." Because of her independence, and the way her job has evoked, she has made a career at Brown. "When 1 came heie, 1 thought I was just passing through. 1 didn't even join the pension plan for ten years." John Foraste: University relations photographer Who is this unmasked man? Some hints: For lunch he prefers veal cutlet grin- ders from Eoui's. He es- chews shoes for sneakers, and legend has it that he owns a dressv pair of running shoes for the times he has to John Foraste: The man and his mission. wear a suit. One of his family's cars sports the license plate "SNEAK.R." He is a passionate Softball player and a perfectionist nonpareil. His name ap- pears more often in each issue of the Brown Alumni Monthly than any writer's, and it is through his exacting eye that readers of the magazine view Brown. He is John Foraste, photographer for University relations, in front of the camera for a change, instead of behind it. Foraste recently passed two mile- stones: a ten-year anniversary at Brown and his fortieth birthday. For ten years Foraste's photographs have lit up the pages of the BAM with his inimitable style that eticompasses beauty, grace, and wit. We have all — writers and readers alike — benehted from his ex- traordinary talent. 10 37 Louis Redding's Fight for 'We were not trying to change our lives. We were trying to change our opportunities as American citizens' By Laurie Hays 38 The first time Louis L. Red- ding '23 walked into a Wil- mington courtroom he got thrown out. It was during his Christmas holiday in 1926. He was a second-year student at Harvard Law School, well-dressed and peacock proud. He entered a courtroom in the Public Building in downtown Wilming- ton and sat down in the first available seat. As he did so, a bailiff approached from behind, tapped him on the shoul- der, and beckoned to him. Redding remained seated. The bailiff, determined to com- plete his task, yanked Redding up, took him outside the room and informed him he was sitting on the wrong side of the spectator section, the side that was reserved for whites. Redding left. He resolved he would not return until he was a lawyer and could personally do something about a legal system that seated blacks in one place and whites in another. In 1929, at age twenty-eight, Red- ding became Delaware's first black law- yer. Though others had tried, none had succeeded before him in breaking the color barrier of the Delaware bar. It would be twenty-six years before an- other would follow. He began his fight for equal justice with the courthouse itself. Before his career ended, he would win several landmark court de- cisions in the civil rights movement, including the Delaware public school case that became part of the historic 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision of Brown vs. the Board of Education, which desegregated schools all over the country. The victories did not come easily. Redding made personal sacrifices com- ing back to Delaware. He lived outside Wilmington, in Pennsylvania, so his three daughters would not have to at- tend segregated schools or grow up in a segregated society. He was excluded for the first twenty years of his practice from the Bar Association, the state's legal fraternity. He was a loner whom some white lawyers in town regarded as hostile and arrogant. Last fall, with little notice. Red- ding, eighty-four now, closed his office in the Mellon Bank Building. He did not send out cards aniiouniiiig his re- tirement from the practice of law. He was not feted at dinners nor was he wined and dined by his colleagues. He, his wife, Gwendolyn K. Redding, and some colleagues packed thousands of record.?, briefs, and speeches into card- board boxes and took them home, where he continues to work over them. Dignity and Decency The reiirement of the always ele- gantly dressed and dignified attorney marks the passing of an era. It was an era when equal justice for blacks meant gaining equal access to opportunities thev had been denied. It was an era when a handful of black lawyers aroiuid the country. Redding among them, broke the barriers and opened the way for a future generation. Redding's name and his work have taken their place in the history books beside those of other early heroes of the civil rights movement: U.S. Su- preme Coint |ustice Thurgood Mar- shall, who headed the Legal Defense Fund in those days; Jack Greenberg, who succeeded Marshall; Jairies M. Nabrit, Jr., who became president of Howard University; and Third Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Collins J. Seitz, the Delaware vice chancellor who de- cided the cases that were Redding's first triumphs. Greenberg, now a professor of law at Columbia Law School who worked with Redding on the school cases, said of him recently, "Lou's contribution was his steadiness and perseverance and being there — all that in the face of adversity. He was the one man in a whole state actually standing up and doing something with decency." To Redding, his accomplishments do not seem heroic. "I don't know that I'm a hero at all," Redding reflected in a recent in- terview at his country home. "I grew up with a generation of lawyers who were interested in changing some things. That is, 1 grew up with a generation of lawyers that exerted itself to abolish distinctions ... wherever those distinc- tions were based solely on color. Of course, they should have been abo- lished long before. All we did was our dulv, not onlv to the people who were discrinnnated against, but to this so- called democratic country." When Redding graduated from Harvard, he had aspirations of practic- ing law in a big Northern city fiee of the limitations of his color. Delaware, his home slate, was as segregated as much of the Deep South. Blacks could not eat in white restaurants, see movies in white theaters, or sit in sections of the courtroom reserved for whites. The legal community was not only all white, but also snobbish and tight-knit. It was Redding's father, a Wil- mington letter carrier active in the National Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People, who wanted his son to come back home and become the state's first black lawyer. It was also Redding's father who inspired his son to fight back. "I can't say I had any urge to prac- tice law in Wilmington, but of course, that is where my parents lived," Red- ding says. "My father was familiar with the fact that no Negro had ever been admitted." 39 Louis Lorenzo Redding was born on October 25, 1901, the (list of five children of Lewis Alfred and Lillian Holines Redding. The elder Redding and his new bride came to live in Wilmington in 1900 from Washington, D.C. He had earned his degree at Howard Llniversi- ty and was teaching English at the imi- versity, but could not earn enough to support a family. His older brother lived in Wilmington at the time and persuaded them to join him. The Reddings' first home was on East 12th Street, deep in Wilmington's East Side. It was a place that Louis Redding's brother. Jay Saunders Red- ding '28, a Cornell University professor who became a well-known author of black history, would describe in his book. No Day uf Triumph, as "unpleas- ant," adding, "It seemed that every- thing anti-social happened there." Saunders Redcling said his parents, though they did not belong to the soci- ety of whites, also did not belong to the dark society of the East Side, where there were wh(jres, pimps, and vio- lence. Eventually, the family moved to 203 East 10th Street, then a white neighborhood. Their furniture was moved in the daytime, "for furniture has no race, " Saunders Redding said. But the family moved into the new house at night, traveling in a rubber- tiied, horse-drawn carriage their father hired. Saunders remembers his mother "in a rage and tears" the day another black family moved into their neigh- borhood. It later became a black neigh- borhood. The elder Redding first ran a gro- cery store on the East Side, but gave it up after he went into debt because his customers never paid their bills. He then joined the postal service and be- came one of about four black letter carriers in the city. A well-respected leader in the black community, the elder Redding founded the first YMCA for Negroes in Wilmington, served as secretary of the Wilmington Branch of the NAACP. a trustee of Bethel AME Church, and a member of the board of the Layton Home for Aged Colored Persons. Saunders Redding wrote that his father was "driven by more than the necessity to provide a living for his family. Surrounded by whites both at home and at work, he was driven by an intangible something, a merciless, ar- 4Q gus-eyed spiritual enemy that stalked his every movement ..." Redding and his siblings attended Howard High School. LIntil 1951, it was the only high school in Delaware that blacks could attend. The textbooks were discards from all-white Wilming- ton High. Asked whether he ever felt humiliated by segregation, the hand- me-down textbooks aie the only exam- ple Redding cites from his life. He says, "I can think of no instance in which I suffered or my clients suf- fered because of animus based entirely on race or color ... I don't know what you mean by humiliated. I was acutely aware ... of distinctions made in certain areas between blacks and whites. I went to segregated public schools in Wil- mington ... I don't know how any kid could have had the experience of using a textbook discarded from a high school for whites without feeling he was playing second fiddle to the whites. Almost anybody could have that kind of feeling." The teachers at Howard were first rate, even if the textbooks were not. Many had degrees from New England colleges and they were enthusiastic supporters of the students. When Louis and his sister C. Gwendolyn Redding left Wilmington together in the fall of 1919 for Brown and Pembroke, the teachers and students of Howard came to the railroad station to cheer them. Gwendolyn Redding, who became one of Howard High School's best- known teachers later in life, left Brown after her first year to attend Howard University. Her brother stayed and excelled. One of five or so black men in his class, who liked to call themselves "the Browns of Brown," Redding won numerous oratory contests and was se- lected to speak at his June 1923 Com- mencement. The title of his speech was "The Significance of Booker T. Wash- ington." For several years after Brown, Redding taught English in the South. His father wanted him to be a doctor because that was a profession he could pursue without being restricted by his color. But Louis Redding decided to be- come a lawyer. He had been impressed by several black lawyers he had met while at Brown and liked their offices in tall buildings in downtown Boston. He believed that, like them, he could have an office in a large building and perhaps also have a practice that would include white clients. He cho.se Harvard simply because it had the rep- utation of being the best law school in the country. He was about the four- teenth or so black student ever to grad- uate from the law school and the only black student in his class of about 200 students. The exposure Redding received at Harvard to some of the country's great thinkers and the liberation he f^elt in a big Northeastern city would remain with hiin for the rest of his life. After his return to Delaware, he linked him- self to that world with frequent trips to New York, where he shopped for his clothes at exclusive men's stores like Brooks Brothers and J. Press. He re- searched and prepared briefs for all his big cases at New York law libraries, which were more extensive than those in Wilmington. He took frequent trips to attend the theater and concerts in New York or tennis matches at Forest Hills, N.Y. Says Redding, "I went to college and law school in New England, which meant for seven years I lived in a com- munity where that kind of proscription [of Wilmington] was not enforced. It was highly distasteful to me coming back to Delaware after having had the unchallenged right to go to places of public accommodation without being insulted or discriminated against. " In fact, Redding says, Wilmington for blacks was a "hellhole, in many re- gards." After deciding he would re- turn to Delaware, Redding's first problein was how to get himself admitted to the Del- aware Bar. At that time, and still today, young lawyers must find themselves a preceptor who agrees to sponsor their admission. Redding believes this system was originally intended to keep out blacks and other "undesirables." From law school. Redding wrote letters to numerous Wilmington law- yers. Most declined to help him. Two, however, said they would help. The first was the late Robert H. Richards, Sr., the founder of the Wilmington law firm Richards, Layton and Finger, chairman of the Republican Party, and one of the state's most powerful law- yers. Richards told Redding he would help if nobody else offered. The second was Judge Daniel O. Hastings, who did sponsor Redding. A Republican who soon afterward became a U.S. senator, Hastings agreed at the behest of Redding's father. The senior Redding was iiiHuential in the black community and could help Hastings with black votes when he ran for office. Most black voters were affiliated at the time with the Republican Party, the In 1929, at age 28 Redding became Delaware's first black lawyer party of Abraham Lincoln. Redding, however, did not actually work in Hastings's office, as other young attorneys did during their ap- prenticeships. Blacks were not wel- comed in Hastings's office, so Redding spent all his time in the law library studying on his own, determined not to fail the bar exam. When he passed, and it became known that Hastings would move his admission to the bar, Redding's success was noted in The Wilmington Sunday Star: "The ice has been broken in Dela- ware. Within the next year, barring unforeseen developments, this State and particularly this city, will have a full-fledged Negro lawyer ... Though the present age is supposed to be living down racial prejudices, it has remained for young Mr. Redding to break through the barriers of years and years standing." Now a full-fledged lawver. Red- ding set out to right the wrongs he had experienced. In an office at 1002 French Street, aroimd the corner from his parents' home, where he was living, he sat down and wrote to a Municipal Court judge. Redding does not re- member who the judge was, but he told him he objected to the segregation of spectators in Wilmington courts. The judge responded that it was the bailiffs who segregated the specta- tors. Redding inferred from the answer that the judge, who had the Inial word on such matters, would not object if the section were integrated. So from then on, Redding carefully instructed all his black clients, their friends, and relatives who came to the municipal courtroom, "where not to sit. I didn't want them to accept the segregation that was being fostered in a courtroom where they were supposed to get equal justice." He later desegregated the specta- tor section of the federal courthou.se by instructing his first wife, Ruth Cook Redding, who had come to see him try a case there, to make sure she sat on the side where the whites were sitting. He promised to be there to smooth the way but, as often was the case, he arrived late. The bailiff told Ruth several times to move and when she refused, he left her alone. Segregation, of course, did not disappear all at once, and it was every- where. As the only black lawyer in Dela- ware, Redding traveled up and down the state, trying cases in Dover and Georgetown, as well as Wilmington. He had a general practice, as most lawyers did in those days, that consisted of di- vorce work, defending criminals, title searches, and business incorporations. On his first trip to the courthouse in Dover, a bailiff told him to move because the seat he was occupying was reserved for lawvers. Redding re- sponded, "Look, I'm a lawyer," and the bailiff went away. On his excursions downstate, there was no place Redding could stop on the road for a cup of coffee, except one drugstore that he discovered in Sussex County that served blacks. These rejec- tions, however, onlv served to inspire him further. He did not fit into the es- tablishment. Anybodv who did belong was not willing to rock the boat, thus he had to attack it from the outside. He recalls, "I suppose there was an inherent anger, but I think more than anger, one realized that he was being limited and that kind of limitation based entirely on color or race should not be. So, I suppose it simply became necessary to eliminate distinction found solely on color and race. I'm pretty sure that kind of inspiration is part of my background." It should not be surprising that it took someone like Redding, with a particularly proud personality, as well as determination and in- tellectual ability, to change the way blacks and whites lived in Delaware. But it is one of the paradoxes of Louis Redding that he was someone who was often regarded as arrogant and hostile and a bit of a snob. Like most lawyers in those days, Redding's practice dealt with all man- ner of cases. Most of his clients were blacks, many of whom were poor. In the early days, he also represented ac- cused sympathizers of the Communist Party who were pulled into court for violating meeting ordinances of the city of Wilmington. Yet Redding was himself among the elite. He always wore expensive, well-tailored suits, wrote with Cross pens, and spoke impeccable English in his noted Harvard accent. He socialized with other black pro- fessionals, doctors, and teachers from New York as well as Wilmington. He lived in an eighteenth-century house on a nine-acre farm with beautiful trees and a small lake in Glen Mills, Pennsyl- vania. His only pastimes outside of work were his family and occasional late-night poker games. Though he was always eager to take up a case for the underdog. Red- ding was quick to criticize those with less education in their background than he had. On one occasion, Ruth Redding recalls, they attended a country church service where Louis was the guest speaker. At the start of the service, a man from the congregation offered a long prayer, laying out before God the hopes and promi.se of the civil rights struggle. Ruth Redding told her husband on the drive home that she had been very moved by the prayer. He responded, "The grammar was terrible." Ruth Redding says this ambiva- lence may have stemmed from Louis's belief that "if you were the first, you had to be great. Because if you didn't turn out to be great, it would be hard for the next generation. We accepted this as a way of life." Ruth and Louis Redding's life was not always easy. They were married in 1944, at a time when Redding's work demanded long hours. She was many years his junior and was finishing her degree at Hunter College when they were married. She now teaches mathe- matics at Henderson High School in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Wilmington's strict segregation made daily living more difficult for the Reddings. When she made an excur- sion into Wilmington with her three daughters — Ann '72, Rupa, and Ju- dith — Ruth had to make sure they stopped for Cokes or ice cream cones before they crossed the state line be- cause they would not be served in Del- aware. In 1951, on the day when Redding 41 42 began the public school desegregation cases that became part of the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case of Brown vs. the Board of Education before Vice Chan- cellor Seitz, Ruth went into labor with their first child, Ann. A life-threatening complication developed, and Ruth's mother scolded Redding on the tele- phone for not being at his wife's side. Ruth told her to leave him alone. He must stay or face the possibility of getting a judge who would not decide the case the way they thought it should be decided. Though ever-present in the court- room or in the Recorder of Deeds office, where he researched land titles, Redding remained most of his life a stranger to most of the white legal es- tablishment of Wilmington. The Bar Association had not invited hiin to join until sometime during World War II, and of course that made it difficult to socialize with his colleagues. Reckling's life was further compli- cated in the late 1950s when, in the midst of the Brown case, the House Committee on Un-American Activities identified Redding as a member of a Communist-supported committee that was trying to discredit Congress and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. He also was prosecuted and acquitted in 195(5 on charges of failure to file his federal income taxes in 1953 and 1954. Edmund N. Carpenter II, a young attornev at the time for Richards, Lav- ton and Pinger, defended Redding and became one of the few white lawyers to befriend him. It was difficult for people to com- municate with Redding partlv because of a hearing problem. He could not hear people and consequently often did not return greetings. He still refuses to wear his hearing aid. It was also difficult for people who did not know Redding to understand him or see his lighter side and his sense of humor. "He was a loner and was indeed considered hostile, even to the white lawyers who would have been friendly," says one attorney who knew Redding. "He was largely ostracized because he was black and because of his attitude ... I admired him because I knew what he had been through." Reddings law career was briefly interrupted by World War II. The federal govern- ment recruited him to work in the New York City Office of Price Administration, which supervised the price control program during the war. When he returned to Wilmington at the end of the war, a new conscious- ness was in the air. It had become evident to many during the war that it was not fair for blacks to die for their countr\ but li\e under segregated, sec- ond-rate conditions. Protests developed and Thurgood Marshall, a young black attorney for the NAACP, began travel- ing around the country fighting cases of racial injustice. Marshall was also forming a legal network that would become known as the Legal Defense Fund, an organiza- tion dedicated to deciding strategies for eradicating segregation and creating equal access for blacks. It was with the aid of the Legal Defense Fund and Greenberg, a white attorney from Long Island, that Redding fought his big cases. The first of those began in 1949. when nine black students from Dela- ware State College came to see Red- ding. They were not satisfied with the scope and depth of courses at the col- lege in Dover, a place Redding charac- terizes as "a college in name only. It did not properly prepare its students for life." The students had applied to the University of Delaware and been de- nied admission. The president of the Board of Trustees wrote back to each of them telling them that because thev were colored, thev had to go to the col- lege. So thev came to see Redding. It was just the kind of case he had been waiting for. Breaking down segregation not only required a lawyer willing to fight it, but also required clients who were willing to go forward in the battle. When the students came to Red- ding, he called Thurgood Marshall and told him he had a good case. Mar- shall dispatched Greenberg, who had just finished law school at Columbia and come to work for the fund. Redding and Greenberg worked tirelessly. They prepared their briefs and arguments, and interviewed wit- nesses at night so as not to expose them. Redding had the connections in the black community and also found, to his surprise, that the president of the university was sympathetic to the blacks' side. Greenberg brought to the case his legal expertise in constitutional law. When the case came to trial in 1950, Redding and Greenberg found themselves before then-Vice Chancellor Collins J. Seitz, who had been ap- pointed to the bench in 1946 at age thirty-one. Seitz, one of Delaware's first Cath- olic judges, was sympathetic to Red- ding. He hated segregation and was disturbed by the treatment of blacks he had witnessed as a law student at the University of Virginia. Seitz found the University of Dela- ware case easy to decide. After hearing the arguments, he hopped in a car, toured both campuses and found the Dover school completely inferior in quality to the university in Newark. He could not disregard the U.S. Supieme Court's decision of Plessy vs. Ferguson, the doctrine of separate but equal. But he decided that since the two institutions were not equal, the univer- sity was discriminating against blacks. He ordered the black students imme- diately admitted. The trustees did not appeal his decision, and the University of Delaware became the first state-sup- ported undergraduate school in the country desegregated by court order. The next school case that came along would take Redding and Greenberg all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and become part of the Brown decision with three similar cases from Kansas, South Carolina, and Virginia. The court heard all of the cases together and de- cided "in the field of public education, the -doctrine of separate but equal has no place." The Delaware chapter began with a visit from a woman named Sarah Bulah, from Hockessin. She came to his office in 1950 complaining that the school bus picking up white children came right by her house and went right by the black school, yet would not pick up her daughter and di op her off at the black school. She wanted Redding to file a lawsuit that would make the bus transport her daughter, too. "I told her I would not get involved in such a limited matter," Redding says. "But if she wanted her daughter to go to the white school, that I would do. She readily agreed." Greenberg returned to Delaware. The witnesses were rounded up and psychiatric experts from New ^'ork evaluated what effect segregation was having on black and white children. Later, the experts would testify during the trial as to the detrimental effects that segregation was having on black children. Around the country Marshall and other black lawyers were working on the other school cases. In Delaware, Seitz listened to all the arguments piesented by both sides and then again, as he had done in Par- Redding tried three cases of national significance in the battle to end segregation ker vs. The University of Delaware, got in his car to tour the schools personally. He found the black schools inferior and ordered Bulah's daughter and a num- ber of other students who had joined in her case immediately admitted to the all-white schools in Hockessin and Claymont. It was 1952 and he was the first judge in the country to order blacks to be admitted to white schools. Thurgood Marshall was quoted in the press at the time calling it the "first real victory in our campaign to destroy segregation of American pupils in elementary and high schools." The third case of national sig- nificance Redding tried, in 1958, in- volved a black Wilmington city council- man, William H. "Dutch" Burton. Burton, a fancy dresser, and a man about town, had been refused a cup of coffee at the Eagle Coffee Shoppe. Burton told Redding that he had been served in the restaurant, located on property owned by the Wilimington Parking Authority, when he had gone there with other members of the City Council, and he thought he should be served when he went alone. Redding first tried to have the city prosecute the case. But the city solicitor declined. So Redding brought suit, again in Delaware's Chancery Coint. Then Vice Chancellor William Marvel ruled in Burton's favor, agreeing with Redding that Burton's constitutional rights had been violated. He said the parking authority, as a tax-exempt agency of the state, had the legal obli- gation to require tenants, including the Eagle, to respect its customers' consti- tutional rights. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed with Marvel's decision in 1961, ruling that the restaurant's close relationship with the parking authority brought it under the U.S. Constitution's ban on racial discrimination by a state agency. The case became a landmark for state action, whereby a state cannot deny access to its property by private citizens, even if it is leased to a private business. It is studied by law students all over the country today and still used in accommodation cases. I n June 1959, in the middle of the Burton case, a young black law student from Georgetown Law School asked Redding if he would act as his preceptor. One of the first black graduates of the University of Delaware, thanks to Redding, the youngster was well-known to most of the state as Lenny Williams, a starter at center for Delaware's Blue Hens. Williams idolized Redding because of the opportunities he had created for Williams and other black students at the university. Redding did not follow football- — the only sport he had ever pursued was tennis — and thus was not acquainted with this well-known star. Hoping to impress Redding, how- ever, Williams introduced himself at their first meeting as "Lennv Williams." Redding asked him, "Your first name isn't Lenny, is it?" Williams replied, "No, sir. It's Leo- nard." Said Redding, "Thank God." He never called Williams Lennv, but always Leonard. Redding was almost sixty years old when W'illiams went to work for him. The 1950s had been a fruitful decade for his work and the work of other black lawyers in the country. As a re- sult, opportunities for blacks had slowly begini to improve. President Harry S. Truman appointed the first black judges to the federal bench beginning in the late 1940s. Legal access had been created for blacks to enter schools, res- taurants, and movie theaters. But there was resistance to inte- gration. There were near riots in Mil- ford, Delaware, and throughout the rest of the country, particularly over school desegregation. As the resistance grew stronger, the civil rights move- ment became a different fight alto- gether. Equal justice was no longer a matter of equal access, but a bitter power struggle to overcome hatred and the wrongs of the past. In 1963, Redding gave a speech at a regional conference of the NAACP, telling the audience that the greatest barrier to complete integration of the Delaware schools was the "lethargy, the apathy, the indifference ... of the Ne- groes who would be benefited in taking advantage of the opportunity that is legally theirs." He asked the black communitv for support for the integration fight. Redding continued to practice pri- vately in the 1960s, with a heavy daily load of routine legal work. He also pursued several local civil rights cases. He represented the Ravfield family, the first black family to move into Collins Park, a section of Wilmington, when their house was bombed in late 1959. He fought for fair housing and contin- ued the battle of school desegregation in downstate Delaware and in the state legislature. In 1971, black parents in Delaware reopened their lawsuit against public schools of northern New Castle County to finish the work that Redding had begun. This time, Wilmington attorney Irving Morris was the lead Wilmington attorney for the parents. Redding, then seventy, worked behind the scenes, advising Morris and the lawyers who came from outside the state to help. Their victory was a federal court order from LI.S. District Judge Murray M. Schwartz in 1978 that black students from the citv of Wilmington be bused to white suburban schools, where de- segregation had been avoided. White suburban students were also ordered bused into city schools. Morris made sure Redding re- ceived a portion of the $1 million Schwartz awarded in 1980 to the attor- neys who had won the busing case. It was the first time Redding had been paid for his civil rights work, save a small contribution that the NAACP took up for him sometime in the 1960s. It was difficult, in the context of Redding's early vears, to realize what he had accomplished and what the results of his work would be. "I don't think the public fully ap- preciated the consequences of it, at least not right away," says Seitz. "I don't think the public appreciated what it was going to lead to. It was hard to get ex- cited about putting a few black children into a school in Hockessin. "Whether Lou Redding thought beyond the task at the time, I don't know. Everyone realized that with seg- regation entrenched in the Constitu- tion, those [laws] were the first matters continued on page 60 43 THE ClASSES First Lady's choice Nancy Reagan has a new chief of staff, who is well known to thousands of Brown ahmiiii ot the i960s and '70s: Lee L. Verstandig 70 Ph.D., former associate dean for acadetnic affairs at Brown. Verstandig left Brown for Washington in 1977 to become the administrative assistant to newly-elected Rhode Island Sen. John H. Chafee. He joined the Reagan Administration in 1981 as Assistant Secretary of Trans- portation for Governmental Affairs and then moved to the White House as assistant to the President for intergov- ernmental affairs. When the Environmental Protec- tion Agency and its director, Anne Gorsuch, came under heavy fire, Ver- standig was called on. He told the Washington Post, "The President asked me to go over and help Anne Gorsuch and, after she resigned, they made me the acting administrator. So 1 was the poor person who had to reorganize that place, fire some people, and help get Bill Ruckelshaus confirmed." After that happened, he moved again, this time to the Department of Housing and Urban Development as undersecretary. In October, Lee Verstandig spoke on campus about federal housing policy. He was at HUD when the call came about working with the First Lady. "I was very surprised when I was asked to do this," he told the Providence Journal. "I am very excited. 1 am very much interested in trying to demonstrate the role that this President has played. As a sort of political historian, I think he will go down, certainly, as one of the great- est Presidents of this century." Nancy Reagan, he continued, "is unique as a first lady. She has devel- oped her own style and her own issues. She is dedicated to the President and what he stands for ... She has always been at his side." In his new position, Verstandig also carries the title of assistant to the President. That means added clout and access to the White House, where he will sit in on briefings on policy matters of interest to Mrs. Reagan. Shoring up The Nation The Nation is one of the nation's oldest and most respected magazines of opin- ion. During much of its 120-year histo- ry, it has had financial problems. Now Arthur L. Carter '54 has stepped in to help. Carter, a Connecticut publisher who twenty-five years ago founded the precursor company of Shearson Leh- man Brothers, has joined with two pre- vious owners to purchase the magazine. "The Nation is a treasure that I think should be protected, sustained, and expanded," Carter told the New York Times in December. So he, the edi- tor, Victor Navasky, and the publisher, Hamilton Fish III, formed a new cor- poration, and Carter became the mag- azine's chief financial backer. He said he would assume about $2 million in liabilities and invest between $3 million and $4 million in the magazine in the next few years. In the past eight years, circulation has risen to 65,000, and losses have been cut every year. In 1960, Charter founded Carter, Berlind & Weill, which forged a string of brokerage houses into what is today Shearson Lehman Brothers, the bank- ing arm of American Express. He left in 1970 to become chief executive of the New York Water Service Corpora- tion, in Merritt, Long Island, a holding company for state water companies, a position he still holds. R.M.R. NOTES By Katherine Hinds "I Cy Gladys Paine Johnson, Worcester, I .^ Mass., wonders it there are any -1- \-^ 1)1 her graduates of the Women's C>)llege in Brown University still living. -| ^^ Helen Hirshland's ninetieth I / birthday celebration was held in J_ / Tempe. Ariz, bv her son, Lee, and daughter, Julianne Hirshland Hill '43. Helen's giandson, David Hill '75, gave a tribute to her, supported by his brothers Keith and Mark. Cr% /i ^" overseas trip last year for Lois x/l Munroe Chamberlain. .She writes: ^^ J. "Attended my granddaughter's graduation from MIT in June and took a theatre trip to the Harrisburg, Pa., area last August. Visited two '24 classmates in R.I. while I was in New England last June " Al Fitzgerald. Scarsdale, N.Y., was nominated lor the 1985 Presidential Com- munity Award, which is awarded by the Department of Housing and Lrban Devel- opment to identify and recognize individuals who provide outstanding examples of com- munity service and contribute to the solution of comnuinity problems. Al has been the director of the Eastchester Ofhce for the Aging since 1976. I he office serves the sen- ior citizens of Eastchester so that they can remain in their own home environments as long as possible. "You have to give seniors an option," Al says. "It doesn't matter what the option is. It could be a choice of clothing, what to eat, where to go. The worst thing you can do is take away someone's freedom of choice. That's what happens when you put a senior in a home. They lose something. Their vitality just sort of drains out of them." Al, who retired as director of policy payment for MONY in 19()6, began his ca- teer in public service during World War II, when he worked as assistant director tor the Eastchester Civilian Defense Corps. He served on nunieious boards for local and national associations and immersed himself in volunteer work with Lawrence Hospital in Bionxville and with local tenants' groups. "I took every non-paving job in Kastchester," he savs. Anna M. lannaccio. (luUport, Fla.. urges visitors to come enjov her "magnifi- cent view. 1 would warmly welcome anv Brunonian to diop in tor a chat when visit- ing any part of our stale. Mv illness has re- duced me to a shut-in. but the welcome mat is way out — my morale and courage would soar. I am an octogenarian, but I do think voung and try to smile a lot." r~^ ^ Class Secretary Walter Whitney ^ r\ reports: "The annual fall meeting ^^ \^ of the class of 1923 began with a talk on .\braham lancoln by Brown histoi v piolessor |ohn Thomas. We had IiukIi at the Agawam. attended by Ben Roman. Richmond Sweet, and Walter Whime\. Dick Ballon liti took care of the arrangements. Our guests included Sandy Roman and Maxine Whitney. After the Brown-Cornell game, we gathered at Dick's for refresh- ments and a short business meeting. We decided ihal our next meeting would be in the faff ol I'.Wii." Beulah L. Roensch advises us that alter the first of February she will be living at Palm Terrace #C2()4. LM'J(i7 C:alle Aiagon, Laguna ffills. Calif. 92653. Joseph D. Fisler has inoved back to Stalen Island, after eighteen years in Fort Myers. Fla. His new address; f>5 Keating St.. Staten Island, N.Y. 10309. ^~A /^~* Louise Harris. Providence, has ^ f\ been selei ted for inclusion in Tira ^^ V^ Thousand Notablt' Amnicans, Prr- .wmililics of Ami'rua. Dimlon iij Dislinpiislii-d Ammtdm. and hilrnialioiial Hinik a/ Hiinui. according to the American Biographical Institute. She has also been name/ Paige, liorn on Oct. 22 to their daughter. Heather Claflin Clayton '77. Thomas M. Walker. San Clemente, Calif., has had a hectic six months since re- tiring from Sentry Insurance after thirty- eight years, "Have traveled to San FrancLsco, Catalina Island, Italy, Sicily, FJba, Monaco, and France. Now back in San Clemente, working on Chamber of Commerce proie)mplete details will be provided after the reunion program is completed. jd ^^ Thomas A. Brady, Houston, has /I J formed a partnership with Bar- -1- / bara Sunderland '78 to do interna- tional advertising, marketing, and public relations. Richard H. Bube, Stanford, Calif., has leturned to full-time research and teaching at .Stanford University after eleven years as chairman of the department of materials science and engineering. Gordon Stuart. C^orrales, N.M., took his wife and his motoicyde to Europe last year for a tour of the Alps. "Mrs. Stuart toured in a van — I toured on my motorcycle! " yd ^^ Dr. Joseph Kovarik, Denver, was /I ^k lecently elected piesident-elect of JL V^ the Southwestern Suigical Con- gress, an organization of appioximately 1,500 surgeons in fourteen southwestern states. He is also serving his sixth year as a member of the board of governors of the American College of Surgeons, is a delegate from the Colorado Division of the Cancer Society to the American Cancer Society, and a delegate from the Colorado Medical Soci- ety to the AM A House of Delegates. yd /^ Ilie Rev. George F. French, Coo- / I V^ perstown, N.Y., celebrated in -1. %^ November the 1 75th anniversary of the consecration of Christ Church, where he serves as rector, as well as his thirty years of service and the dedication of the church's new $175,000 oigan. John Hannan, Seal Beach, Calif., ran in a I OK race last spring and told a local news- paper that he finished in the "faster two- thirds, or maybe three-quarters, of the run- ners. " He completed the six-mile course in fifty-four minutes, and when his friends asked what he did after the race, he an- sweicd, "I wcnl liome and took a nap." Ed Lingham, Jr., Framinghani Center. Mass.. rcrired from Dennison Mantihutui- ini^ (^()mp.in\ l.tsi June. Howard J. Miller, Jr., has retired as a colonel in tlie L.S. Ariiiv Reserve. He is still employed as western New York-district sales manager lor the Puritan Cihcmital Compa- n\. He is \illage and town justice in his home town 1)1 Wais.iw. N.\'. 1^ /^ Robert H. Cowgill Is all over r\ I ISdulhcrn (ialilornia. He has ic- \^ \y ceiitlv relocated his home tcj Ran- cho I'alos Verdes and his office to long Beach after thirtv-hvc years in Pasadena. "Still in shopping center and industrial real-estate devclopnienl and management. lOo challenging to retire." Carl L. Foehr. Oak Ridgc. N.|., is re- gional vice president of Arnica Mutual In- surance Company and branch manager of its Glen Rock, N.).. hranch office. He and his wife. Phvllis, ha\e lour c hildren and live grandcliildien. Lacy B. Herrmann. D.nien. Ojnii.. loiiner pieMclenl ol Brown's Associated Alumni, has been elected chairman ol the board of trustees and piesideni of Hawaiian Tax-Free Irust. The trust is the only open-end, tax-free bond hind in Hawaii. Lacy has been ihe organizer ol eight diller- ent mutual kinds with .iggregale assets ol iTiore than .$1 billion. He is listed in \Vlti)\ Wlw in Fniiince and IndiLslry. \\'lu)\ W'lin in Ihr East, and Wlin\ Wlm in ihr World. Donald D. Lathrop. Ph.D., is in private practice wiili his uile, Karen, in Boise, Ida- ho, where thev specialize in psycholherapv for women (Karen), men (Don), and couples .iitd l.iiiiihes. Robert J. Lewis. Freeport. Maine, is 'eii|o\ing mv retirement from Exxon, living in the great stale ol Maine. Jessie and I are looking forward to our fortieth wedding anniversarv in |une." Alexander Marshall, St. l.ouis, and his wile, Fli/al)eth, leceiuK xisiied their son, David 'S.5, who Is a Mombusho Kiiglish Fel- low at the Hyogo Prelectural Institute, near Kobe, Japan. 51 Polly Welts Kaufman, l.cxmglon, Mass., IS the aullior ol Womrn Tendwrs on the Fronlii'i (\'ale L'ni- versity Press, 1984). According to the /iiiirnal of American Hnlory, the bocjk "uses the letters, a diary, and the leminiscences of nine- teenth-century teacheis to reshape stereo- typical notions of the frontier schoolmarm.' The result is a compelling new interpreta- tion ol a seldom-appreciated group ol pio- neers — single working women. Kaulman shows that pioneer teachers were trulv pro- fessional women who enhanced the frontier schools with a strong dedication to their stu- dents and communities. Kaufman's argu- ment that these women, driven bv economic need, familv dilemmas, religious conviction, or a thirst lor adventure, ullimatelv enlarged their own female sense of self-conhdence is convincing." Priscilla Wright Lingham and her husband, Ed '19. are "eiijo)ing our relaxed life, made up of grandchildren, travel, Bos- ton Symphony, theater, and polling about our old farmhouse" in Framingham Center. Mass. N^ f~\ Ralph Crosby, Jr., Richmond, Va., r\ ^ h.is been elec led president of ihe »_>/ ^^ Richmond Svmphonv and a trus- tee nl Randolpli-.Macon College. William D. Rogers. New \'ork Citv. has been elected chairman and president ol In- ternational Human .'\ssislance Programs. Inc. He had formerly been piesideni, and, for the last three years, vice chairman. I he organi/.ation, originally knc:)wn as the Amer- ican-Korean Foundation, runs developmenl programs in Asia. Africa, and the South Pacihc, and is currently running a food re- lief program in C^had. Bill, an attorney, is a Iruslee emeritus ol Brown. t^ ^ Stuart P. Erwin. Fliniridge, Cialil., r\ r\ executive vice prcsideni of M I M \^ kJ Kiilerprises, is developing two new TV projects lor M'FM with international Itxales: "OSS, " which he describes as " Hill Street Blues' in London in 1943," for NBC; ancf "Riviera. " ftjr AB(^ "' I hev are two ol six pilots MTM is producing lor potential new .series " Stu was at Brown for Parents' Weekend, visiting Tom 'X7. 1*^ ^~^ Phyllis Rannacher Dodson. Santa r~\ 1^ B.iibaia. Calil.. has leienllv re- V^ V_/uniied from the Fcuadorian ,\iii.i/oii. uhere she "researched the area loi I rans-Pacihc .Spec iai Interest Fours ol Santa Barbara. Last August. I led ,i hlleen-dav natural history tcuii iil .Al.iska, and speiil live days ninety miles inside Mounl .McKinl.iv National Park, surrounded by wildlife. Lots of bears! 1 hree of mv children are in col- lege, one still in high school. Holly. 19, is in the University of Cafifornia's seven-year M.D. program. The boys are laid-back southern (ialilornians. content to surl a lot and study a liltle " Shcriie Finnegan. daughler ol the lale James Finnegan. was married ,Sepl. 7 to Larry .\lc( ,ii lln. ,in attorney with Higgins. Cavan.igh X; (ioonev of Providence. Her uncle, Joe Granger ','),5, "gave the bride away, " according to her mother. Patsy. "Son David Finnegan was married in 1984 and is studying lor his master's in computer sci- ence. He and his wife are mechanic. il engi- neers. Son |av Finnegan gradu Robert J. DeLuca is a partner in a l'~\i'~\ real estate dexelopment company, V^V^ Oceanic Development Ciorpora- tion. in Houston. He and his wife, |oyce, and their loiu sons live in Friendswood, I exas. J. Gibson Henderson, Jr.. antl his wife, Peggy Blanke Henderson '67. are now living in St. I.ouis, wheie Ciib is a clinical psychol- ogist and director ol clinical support services for the division of behavioral medicine at St. Louis LIniversity Medical Center. The Hen- dersons have two children: Lucas, 12, and Anna, H. Lawrence A. "Chip" Quinn has lelt Bolle France to lorm his own lirm, import- ing ski wear, sportswear, and active wear from F.uropc and the Orient. He will remain a consultant to Bolle .America Chip contin- ues to live in Denver with his daughters, Bienna Driscoll and Alanna Snlli\an Quinn. Lance Seberhagen. Ph.D.. is a consult- ing industrial/oiganizational psychologist in the Washington, DC, area. Last October, he testilied bclore the House Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities regaicling pro- posed revision of federal guidelines on employee selection piocedures. Phyllis Kollmer Santry was last year made vice president ol Aiiibac Indemnity, where she is primarily responsible for in- suring municipal bonds that hnance hous- ing. FOr the next two years, she will be serv- ing as piesident of the N\'U GPA Alunnii Association. Robert R. Skinner and his wife, Pame- la, ol Indianapolis, leport the birth of Ora- mel H. Skinner 111 on Nov. 2, 1984. Bob heads an investment irianagement and hnancial consulting hrni with cjfhces in In- dianapolis, specializing in advising profes- sional athletes and small businesses. He owns and operates three manulacturing business- es in Indianapolis and also operates a major private investment company. He is manag- ing general partner ol six investment part- nerships, president of The Faiaday National Lile Insurance Ccjiiipanv, and \ice president and chairman ol the investment committee of 1 he Frafalgar National Life Insurance C;ompany. Betsy Cooper Smith nia\ ha\e proved a vat iation ol Murphy's Law. She moved to C:laiemont. Calit., in 1981 and couldn't lind a job teaching French. So she went back to school to get a degree in ESL. "1 immedi- ately louncl French jobs and have taught at Cal Polv Pomona and at three of the live Claremont colleges. 1 got my ESL degree in June 1985. I'm currently teaching Fiench. Josh is 14, Joanna is 1 I. Both are taller than 1. Looking forward to seeing classmates at the 20lh retniion " Loyes Woods Spayd. Springfield, \ a., is director ol leligious education for Holy Family Parish in Dale Citv. \ a. She has had two articles on the Creed published: one in Living Light and one in the I'.liuiigo C.iilciliu- iiiniali'. She has afso written a commissioning rite for catechists published by the U.S. Catholic (lonfeience of Bishops. She is serv- ing as secietary for the Diocese of .'\rling- ton's Association of Ministers and Coordi- nators of Religious FLclucation. and on the Diocesan .Vdult Fxlucation .AcKisorv Com- mittee. Her husband is Steven Spayd (see 'fi7). Carol C. Ward, Mission V'ie]o. (iaiif.. has a new job as a documentation specialist. She writes computer softwaie manuals at Automated Processing and Development Corporation in Santa Ana. Cialil. Fler daughter. Stacy Pigolt, 19. is a sophomore al UC Santa Barbara and is on the crew team. Her son, David Pigott. 17. is considering Blown. /~* ^^ P^ggy Blanke Henderson (see ^~\ / Item about liei husband, J. Gibson \J I Henderson (36). Susan Haas Parsky received her mas- ter's degree in architecture in May and is working for Bowie Gridley Architects in Washington, D.C.. where she lives with her daughter, Laura, 16, and son, David, 14. Laurence R. Pizer, who is the director of the Pilgrim Society in Plymouth, Mass., cooidinatcd the puichase of a seventeenth- century silver wine cup that had belonged to Gov. William Bradford of Plymouth C:(>lony. The cup was bought jointly bv the Pilgrim Society and the Smithsonian Institution. He also is the co-author of an article on Pilgrim Hall Museum in the May 1985 issue of .4h- tiques. Comdr. Steven H. Spayd. USN, re- ceived his master's degree in government, with a certihcate in national security studies, from Cieorgetown University last May. His wile. Loyes (see (56), is director of religious education for Holy Family Parish in Dalv City, V'a. Fhev live in Springfield, V'a. David J. Thompson, Ph.D., Falls Church, V'a., began working in September as an educational piogram specialist lor the Hariri Foundation in Washington, D.C. He is completing degiee rec]uirenients for a master's in intercultuial management fiom the School foi International Fraining, in Brattleboro. V't. Contemporary Fringe Theatre in England 12 Day Tour to Explore the Off-Broadway of Britain t\/leetings witfi Actors, Writers and Directors London and Stratford-on-Avon March 23 - April 2 Tiberti Travel, Ltd. (212)427-5913 (800)227-6772 Wanted to Buy The country's largest gallery specializing in American and European art will pay highest prices for tine paintings, watercolors. draw- ings and sculpture from the 18th century to the present All inquiries receive expert attention and reply Please contact Stuart P Feld ^irschl l^dler jyALLERIES I^C 21 East 70lh Sireel, New York 10021-(212) 535-8810 Tuesday-Friday 9 30 lo 5 30. Saturday 9 30 to 5 49 68^' Ellen Anderson and her husband, :hristopher Irantner. of Aspen, ;:olo., announce the biith of their Inst child, Christopher Anderson Trautner, born last June 3. Ellen is still employed part-time as a deputy sheriff in Aspen. Paul Hans and his wife. Cindy, of C;hesterfield, Mo,, announce the arrival of their third child and first son, Jesse Paul, born Sept. 18. Jeff Jones was looking forward to visit- ing the Brown campus over Thanksgiving, "especially to see a hockey game. I've never seen mv nephews, the Krnst brothers, [Gordon 'H9 and Robert 'm\ play. Their grandfather, Rolland Jones '49, tells me they're pretty good." jell says he made sure his sister's wedding did not contlict with the one home game that weekend. He also con- tinues his seaich as a NASP'er of the streets of Laredo (Texas) for qualified Brown ap- plicants. "Not many Laredoans are interest- ed in going that far, but there are a few looking for challenge. Biown's iinage is dehnitely giowuig down here." David Kalinsky is co-founder ol Medi- com Computers, Ltd., an Israeli software house specializing in software engineering technologies and the development ol real- time software lor embedded systems. He is director of the software engineei ing division of Medicom and is inxolved in softwaie engineering tiaining and consulting to many of Israel's high-tech industries. Marjorie Bedrick Tarkow has joined the hrm ol Lolle and Oxenhandler, in Co- lumbia, Mo. "Geneial-practice law in a town of 65,000 is a far cry from mv undergradu- ate and graduate training in Latin and Greek literature. Still, 1 would never change a single course I took at Brown, now nearly twenty years ago! Three cheers lor a liberal arts background! " /^ /^ William J. Balderston has been r~\vJlivnig m Oakland, Calil., and V_-/ %^ working as a teacher lor the last year and a half. His wife, Suzie Mcl.ean- Balderston. gave birth to a bov, Benjamin, last Aug. 2\. Although moving lurmtme has oltcu been the mainstay of his caiecr, Jude Cic- colella has been slowly increasing the num- ber ol acting job listings on his resume. In an interview with the Albany Times Union, he said. "I'm shy and I'm no charmer, and there are thousands more gilted people in this city. What happens sometimes is that they pick you if you look like the guy thev have in mind, the construction worker, the thug, the cop " Jude has had some luck this year, "looking hke the guy ihey have in mind " He appeared in the olf-Broadwav prodiK lion of Sam Shephard's (.'lasc o/ Ihe Slan'ing C'/«sv, and h.is had small parts in several films, including Oul uj llir Darkness, a niade-lor- r\' movie about the captuie ol .Son ol Sam. Frank R. Kegan recently married Gay l.\nne Krrnell game. As a result of the horiencfous weather, perhaps, the emphasis was more on the "mini" than on "reiniion " Jeff Bergart. Wade Wilks, and Bob Rosenberg, among other .itlendees, helped to take the chill oil the damp after- noon by regaling each other with tales of their exploits while .it Brown. Ernie and Prudv Dorazio had a son, Ernest Thomas Dorazio III, on June 6, 1984, and were expecting anothei child in December. Ernie is supervisor ol design at the Singer-I.abrascope C:ompany in Middle- town, R.L, .uid i1k\ li\e in I'ortsmoiuh. Cynthia White Hesel, I.archmont, N.Y., reports that her son Todd started sec- ond grade, and her son Scott is now in nuisery school three days a week. "We spent a happy two weeks in Maine in August. Lots ol hiking, lanocing, swinuning and lobster!" Marianne Hirsch, East I hetlord, Vt.. has been teaching Ereiuh and comparative literature at Dartmouth lor eleven years and has recently added women's studies to her couise schedule. She has three sons. Oliver, tiabriel, and Alex, and is married to a histo- rian. Leo Spitzer. Richard J. Shapiro. Port Cihester. N.V.. has been made ilie n.itional tax partner for the inlernalion.il accounting hrm of Op- penheim. Appel. Dixon K: Company. On a busman's holiday. John A. Stan- kovic. Ph.D.. has been spending his s.ibb.iti- cal year from the L'myersity ol Massachu- setts at Aniheist in ihe computer science department at C,n riegie-Mellon I'uiveisity in Pillsbingh. Frank Tompa. Ontario, Canada, is an a.s.sociate prolessoi ol computer science at the University of Waterloo. He is one of the three co-diiectcjrs of the UW Centre for the New OED. which was established by the university to meet its obligations with Ox- ford Univeisity Press to computerize the Oxford English Dictionary. Frank's specific responsibilities include database design (together with other members of Waterloo's Data Structming Group) and end-user sup- port. ^^ "I Our 15th reumon is approaching J I i.ipidlv. ^'ou will be receiving reg- I J- istration packages within the next month. The package will describe all the events, locations, and costs for what is sure to be the largest gathering of '71 since graduation day. We set an attendance record for a lOth reunion — let's see if we can do it again for our 15th! We hope you will make every effort to attend the entire weekend: May 23-2(i. We promise to offer you a show that will rival the Spring Weekends of our freshman ancf sophomore years! And you'd better take advantage of it, because next time our thirties will just be a memory! — Scott Thomson, reunion chairman. Rebecca Barnes, Seattle, writes that she received lui liiense as an architect last June. "I saw Larry Barnett in Rome in .'\ugust. He's a New York City lawyer doing mal- practice law. Ten years ago he drove a cab and wrote poetry. Where do we go from here? " Blaine S. Corey. Medfield. Mass.. has been ap])oinied ,iii adjuiut Hute instructor at Dean )iuuoi College m Fr.mklin, Ma.ss. Di . Walter H. Kuhnen and his wile, Betteamie, and daughter, Marissa, "are alive and well in Warren, Pa." He is a inemtjer of Warren R.idiiilog\ .Associates. Richard A. Martin, New York C:itv. tells us. 'My wife. Jill, and I are the happy parents of Christina .'\urelia Martin, born |ulv 8, 1985. Jill has just returned to work. I am still at the U.S. Attorney's office in Man- hattan, where I am piosecuting the 'pizza comiection' case, a twenlv-two-defendant, (jigani/ed crime and narcotics case," ^7 (~V Warren E. Avis, Jr.. was married J / to Deboiah Kah in No\ember at / ^^ the Green Turtle C!ay Club in the B.ih.im.is. Clifford M. Brown .uid his wile. Wen dy |aiK'. ol La Mes.i. C.ilil.. report the birth of their sou, 1 viei U'avne, last May 27. H. Carleton Clinch. Hackensack. N.J., has been selected lor inclusion in the 1986 edition ol Who's WIto in Anuriian Law. He is a partner in the Hackensack law firm ol Koh- iei and C^linch. Robert H. Cole lecently bought an old l.irmliouse in L.idue. Mo. Shaun B. Curran. Melrose Mass., is employed bv D.iniel E. Tully .Associates, anhitects and engineers. Morris D. Edwards ('73 MAI.) le- ceived a grant to study the effects of relaxa- tion training on the innnune system ol breast cancel p.inents. He lives in Kalama- zoo. Mich. " Ihe Lemon (irove Incident. " a PBS docudiama that will air this year, was written and produced bv Paul Espinosa. Sail Uiego. Calif. The one-hour tihii deals wilh one of the nation's earhest desegregation cases. Larry K. Graves. Ph.D.. is a senior sys- tems analvst with Cieneral Electric's Space Systems Division in Valley Forge, Pa. He lives in Strafford, Pa. Karen Kirby (72 Sc.M.), Ph.D., achieved her fellowship in the Society of Actuaries and is an assistant actuary with JC: Penney Life Insurance Company. Piano, Texas. She lives in Richardson, lexas, with her husband. Dr. Robert F. Leroy. Marshall R. Ransom and his wife, Debbie, ol Orniond Beach. Kla., produced an addition to the Ransom lamily last April, when Marshall Richard was born, joining his sister, [eannette, who was 2 in .August. "Debbie and I live a good thVee-minute walk from the beach." John Rouse, who is on the theatre fac- ulty at Lulane University, won the American Theatre Association dissertation award last August for his work on Bertolt Brechl, undertaken at Stanford University. Last November he received the voung scholar award fiom the American Societv for Thea- tre Research for an article published in Tlir Theatre Juurnal. Wendy Strothman and her husband, Mark Metzger 73. announce the birth of their second child. Margaret Ann, on New dear's Day. 198.T. They live in Newton, Mass. ^m ^~fc Sarah Cecil was married last May J ^^ to .■\riliui Simnis. a pilot for Delta / \J .iKirlines. She is a corporate attor- ney for Biogen, Inc., a biotechnologv com- pany in Cambridge, Mass. Thev live in Swampscott, Mass. "After a decade of silence, Steve Elliott reports from Pearl River. N.^ . I am .i cost analyst at the Cieneral Motors facilitv in Tarrytown. N.\ . Mv home time is filled with my wife, Andree, and her horseback riding, our three children, the conversion of mv attic, and audiophile car stereo installations. Our son, Nicholas, started first grade this year, while our daughters, )acc|ueliiie, 4, and Madeline. 2. are busy working lor their McC:lav." Charles "Chip" Frost and his wife, Jeanne, still reside in Morris Plains. N.).. with their children, Betsy, 9, Slieri, 6, and Scott, 2. Chip is a vice president of commer- cial lending with First Fidelity Bank, work- ing out of Morristown, N.|. Bruce K. Gouldey, Ph.D., now manag- es the deliverv systems planning division, in charge ol all retail banking delivery systems, at Mellon Bank in Pittsburgh. Michael R. Gross. West Hartford, Conn., has been promoted to actuary in the asset management and pension services department ol the Irayeleis Insurance Company. Nancy Schampan Hughes is li\iiig in Minneapolis with her husband, |oliii, and two .sons, Brian, 9, and Ste\eii, 5. She is both admissions director and Hnance diiector of the Woods Academy, a private college-pre- paratory school. Mark Metzger and his wife. Wendy Strothman 72, announce the t)irth of a sec- ond child, Margaret Ann, born on New Year's Dav, 1985. Thev live in Newton, Mass. Dr. Margaret Maier Parker ('77 M.D.) and her husband. Dr. Robert I. Parker ('76 M.D.). live in Rockville. Md. Ihey recently had their third son, Fimothy Sumner, born on Aug. 8. He joins brothers Rob, 4, and Christopher, 2. Bob is a hematologist at the National Institutes of Health, and Margaret is a critical care physician, also at the NIH. Nina Peksoe Peyser, an assistant di- rector for operations at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, 'would love to hear from classmates and old friends." Jonathan D. Rodman and his wife, Dorothy, "would like to report the birth of our son, Daniel, on April 2, 1985. Would enjov hearing from old friends at 42 1 rout Way, Medford Lakes. N.J. 08055. ■ Donald Mclver Stanford, Jr.. has been appointed visiting assistant professor of legal studies in the School of Business .Adminis- tration at the University of North C^arolina at Chapel Hill. He continues to maintain a private practice of law. In his spate time, he reviews the local music scene for the Chapel Hill newspaper. Occasionally our editorial ofhces mis- place class notes people send us; sometimes the notes are swallowed up bv alumni re- cords; and now and then class notes go the way of socks in dryers — they just disappear. In the case of Marie Stoeckel. both socks got eaten. I wice she submitted a classnote, and twice she lived to see it not printed. We apologize. And announce herewith Marie's marriage to Fiank Morra. Jr. (University of Massachusetts '76) on Sept. 24. 1983, at Manning Chapel. She was attended by Nan- cy Cassidy, Karen Edwards, and Santina Siena (more on Sand\ later). Marie and Frank settled in Providence, where he works as a hvdrogeologist with tirounclwater I ethnology, and she is an industrial h\- gienist with the Rhode Island Department ol Health. Almost two years after tliev got married, Frank and Marie gave birth on July 17 to Christine Marie Morra, who was deliv- ered by Dr. Sandy Siena. ^^ A Brian W. Ball and his wife, Judy, / /I of Washington, DC, have two / -1. sons, Brian, 2, and Warien, 9 months. "Everycjne is well. I have just founded, with three other partners, a new commercial real estate brokerage company in Washington. We do commercial real es- tate sales, leasing, and consulting. " Dr. Nancy L. Campbell has moved to Pittsheld, Mass., where she is continuing emergency medicine, "but in a teaching mode to residents and LIniversity of Massa- chuetts medical students." Fhe new hospital she is teaching at is the Berkshire Medical Center, where she was a resident. Casey Corbaley, Oakland. Calif., re- ports that she and her husband, Adrian S. Wilk (Princeton '68), had a son, Michael C:orbaley Wilk, on Oct. 17, 1984. "Our hist year with him has been incredible! Adrian is a chemical engineer with Bechtel in San Francisco; I have recently left law firm life and am now manager of labor relations/F^EO at Anifac. Inc.'s corporate headquarters in San Francisco. Naomi Segal Deitz married Johnath E. Deitz (^johns Hopkins '67) last June. He came "complete with 14-year-old son, .An- drew. (It's a quantum leap from singlehood to becoming stepmother to a teenager.) I'm continuing my New York publishing caieer as promotions manager for a technical soci- ety which puljlishes books and journals for engineers. As to the old question. 'Fo hy- phenate, or not to hypenate?', 1 opted for my husband's last name — a choice which, it appears, has caused unending outcry from old friends. Oh, well " They live in Brook- lyn. "On the assumption that some old classmates might care what has become of me." A. Waller Hastings "would like to re- port that I was married to the former Su- zanne C.illings on Jan. 12. 1985. Fhe wed- ding was conducted here in Madison |Wis.) and was attended bv several Brown alumni. I thought it was about time I reported this event, as we will soon have another to an- nounce: We are expecting a baby in early February. On the professional fiont, I am in iny third year ol a Ph.D. program in English at the University of Wisconsin, where I am a teaching assistant for freshman composition and freshman literature courses." Deborah Helitzer and Hubert A. Allen, Jr. '80, were married on Sept. 30 m Balti- more. Hubert's grandfather. Joseph L. Strauss '28. was there in spirit, as were many other invited no-show alumni. Hubert and Deborah met as graduate students at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, where Deborah is a doctoral candidate in interna- tional health, and Hubert lias completed his mastei's degree in biostatistics. I hey plan to go overseas in 1986 to Malawi, Africa, where Deborah will be field director ol a health coiiiniunications pro|ect. and Hubert will be "the man to see in .Africa " for statistics. Fhey ( an be reached stateside at 700 Park Ave. 8F. Baltimore. Md 21201. Elizabeth Hewitt married Harte Peary Staflord last .April in Washington, D.C. F'lizabeth. who formerly served as assistant attorney general representing the Alaska Public Utilities Commission, is now associat- ed with the Washington law firm of Birch, Horton, Bittner, Pestinger and Anderson in Washington. Harte, the great-grandson of Adm. Robert F Peary, who discovered the North Pole, is in private law practice, with an emphasis on immigration matters. They live in Che\y Chase. Md. Dr. Charles S. Horn, Auiora. Colo., is doing a two-year fellowship in adolescent medicine at Fitzsimmons Army Medical (Center in Aurora. He is a board-certified pediatrician and was recently elected a Fel- low of the American Academy of Pediatrics. .Any classmates heading to Denver and the Rockies to ski are welcome to give him a call at (303) 369-9486. Pamela Lockwood continues to work at the F.ggers Croup. .Architects and Planners, as a planner. She is learning to use "an In- tergraph C^omputer-Aidecl Design comput- er. Arthur and 1 are making slow progress 51 on our house renovation in Larchmont [N.Y.]. Too many squash games and parties interfere with construction." Robert W. Hopson and his wife, Ber- nadette. report the birth of a son. William Wilson, in Poughkeepsie, NY. Bob and Bernadette work for IBM. Dr. Steven H. Richter. Morris Town- ship, N.J., says that his "derual practice is doing very well here in niv hometown, but the real love of my life is our 20-month-old daughter, Jenna. Everything is better than I ever expected it to be." Charles A. Willand, Stoneham, Mass., has taken a leave ot absence from teaching and has assumed marketing and operations responsibilities for Hemagen, a diagnostics firm in Wallham. Mass. Robert G. Yizar and his wife, Andrea, ol Mamaroneck, N.Y., report the birth of a second daughter. Tiffany Monique, on Aug. 29. Her sister. Ebony Nicole, is 3. Bob works for Citicorp Industrial Credit, Inc., in Har- rison, N.Y. ^^ t^ Jay Barker is "newly graduated / r^ from law school. (University ot / s^ Virginia) and clerking for a fed- eral judge in Alexandria, Va. New address: 906 Prince St., Apt. 405, Alexandria, Va. 22314. Would love to hear from any old friends." Dr. Russ Campbell married Carolyn Hahn on Sept. 22. Russ is completing his residency in surgery at Brown. He and Car- olyn live in Providence and would welcome visitors. John H. Ferring IV and Alison Ni- chols Ferring '76 were expecting twins in January. "Send help." Bob Hahn was recently promoted to associate prolessor of economics and public policy at Carnegie-Mellon Urnversitv. In addition, he and Dan Corley have started the Community Preparatory School in Providence. (See profile.) Bob urges anyone passing through America's #1 city of Pitts- burgh to give him a call or drop by. Deborah Lippman Himmelfarb. New York City, is promotion manager at People magazine. Dr. Daniel J. Kane has been named director of dental services for the C.reater Baltimore Medical Center, Community and Family Health Center. Henry L. Lust, Warwick, R.I., is mar- keting manager with IBM. He and his wife, Gail, have two daughters, Erin, 9, and Tami, 7. Dr. Richard J. Miller and his wife, Dr. Barbara J. Kaiser, announce the birth of Nicholas Kaiser, on Oct. 12. Barbara and Richard practice podiatric medicine and surgery and live in Charlotte. N.C. Dr. Larry Solin (78 M.D.), Philadel- phia, is on the stafl at the Hospital ol the University of Pennsylvania as a radiation oncologist. He and his wife, Carrie Fox So- lin (see '78), are "enjoying Philadelphia city life!" Ross and Sharon Lack Stein '76 gave birth to Monica Sarah on t)ct. 2. " Ihe 7 lb. 2 oz. red-headed beauty was delivered by Dr. 52 continued on page 54 Profile: DANIEL CORLEY '75, BOB HAHN '75 A 'melting-pof school At 10 a.m., the students of C^oiiiinti- iiity Preparatory School are chang- ing classes, skittering dcjvvii the hall in a blur of tiendy clothing (heavy on the day-glo pink) and a buzz of adolescent chatter. Nine of them settle into a classroom where Daniel Corley '75 is teaching an accelerated math class. He gels them started on work sheets, and they bend over the pages, whispering softly. "What you do to the denomina- tor, you do to the numeratcjr, " Cor- ley advises a young girl. After a tnoment: "Okay, what did you get?" he asks. She gives an answer. "Per- fect!" Corley exclaims. There is a stnall chorus of echoes as several of the students repeat his reply: "Per- fect!" For inner-city parents who want their children to get a better educa- tion than the crowded Providence public schools can provide. (;om- munity Prep is as near "perfect " a solution as any available today, founded in 1983 by (kjrlcy and his friend Bob Hahn '75, it now enrolls thirty children in grades four through eight. The two founders hope to raise emollment eventually to 100. "We're the only totally inde- pendent middle school in the state," Corley says. The school aims to combat a tendency for children to begin falling short of their potetuial in the middle-school years. "We've got a ton of good kids who are well-behaved and academically mo- tivated," Corley says, "but they didn't learn academic skills. Ihey were just passed along [in the public- school system], while the squeaky wheels got all the attention." The school's educational mis- sion is not simply a lemedial one, however. One goal is to help stu- dents from low-income families to prepare for the entratice exam for Proxidence's Classical High School, a sciiool that serves primarily college- bound studetits. Community Prep's tuition is $2,800. Even with scholarships of up to $1,500, and the school's willing- ness to work out creative payment plans, it's a sacrifice for families that are struggling to pay the rent and keep foocl on the table. But as Cor- ley points out, these are parents who consider a good education a necessi- ty, not a luxury. "We get kids from caring families." he says. "They are willing to believe in their children's futures." So are Corley and Hahn, who serve respectively as executive di- rector and treasurer of the school. For Corley it's a fulltime job; he's on the renteci premises at the John Hope Settlement House every day, and is one of four full-time teachers. Hahn helps with administrative and fund-raising duties, making fre- quent visits from Pittsburgh, where he is an associate professor in Car- negie-Mellon's School of Urban and Public Affairs. Comtminity Prep represents a long-time dream for Corley, an education major with a commitment to improving life in less affluent sec- tions of his native city. Born in Ptovidence's West End, he now lives there with his wife, Betsy Beach '77, and their two children, in the house his late grandparents used to own on Puritan Stieet. "Cities are places where varied groups can learn to live together, " he says, explaining the location of his school and his family's residence. "Even if we were making a bundle of money, we would still choose to live in this neighborhood. We believe in the melting pot." Far from making a bundle, Corley is pulling in less than half of what he could make as a public- school educator. Teachers at Com- munity Prep work there because they believe in the place, not becau,se they're in it for the money. "If I were teaching in a public school today, with ten years experience," Corley says, "I could be inaking Bob Hahn (above), Dan Corley (left) with students at Community Prep. $30,000 plus benefits. Here, I make $14,000 with only a little help to- wards beneiits." Before starting Clommimitv Prep, Dan (Corley student-taught at Hope High School, taught at a Providence Catholic school, and served a year-long stint in VIS! A trying to improve communications between f^iovitlence teachers and students. He took graduate courses at Dartmouth, Rhode Island Col- lege, and Piovidence College. When he finally felt ready to put his dream of a private imier-city academy into action, he was finishing five years of working at Ocean lides, a therapy- based school for delinquent boys in Narragansett, Rhode Island. Community I'rcp's cinriculum empiiasi/es the academic basics but allows students to work at their own pace — often an accelerated one — and challenges them to develop leadership skills and personal re- sponsibility through "dynamic disci- pline," as Corley calls it. ("It's dy- namic because the goals change each week: it's discipline because once a student sets goals, he has to stick to them.") "The parent, student, and teaclier sit down every eight weeks," Corley says, "and set goals for the student. Parental involvement in the child's education is vital. When the home and the school work together, the student beneiits." "(xmmuniilv Prep parents, " says Bob Hahn, "lake on res|5onsibilities that aren't expected in the public schools. If a child is doing poorly, tlie parent is told i ight away and the teachers will want to discuss why. Parents also are inyolved in lem- eching the problem." Students leceive instruction each morning in reading, writing, and mathematics. To move on to a new skill level in these subjects, they must pass measurement tests with a minimum score of 80. In the after- noon, students work on special pro- jects that span other curricular are- as. One project involved presenting plays and skits at a neighborhood library during Black History Month. Corley and Hahn both make it clear that Communitv Piep is neither an open-classroom "alternative school" nor a completely traditional acad- emy; it combines, they feel, the best features and philosophies oi both. The emphasis is on personal atten- tion, so no class has more than ten students at a time. More than half of Community Prep's shoestring funding was per- sonally solicited from individuals by Hahn. "In 1983, our first fiind-rais- ing drive brought in $13,000 for start-up expenses, " he says. "In 1984 we received $28,000 from individu- als and $25,000 in grants and pledges from organizations and foundations." This year Hahn and Coilev have raised their fund-raising sights, setting a $75,000 total goal. "Our operating costs were $60,000 last year," Hahn says. "That's low, be- cause we have an excellent facility at a very low rent, and our teachers subsidized the school bv t.iking k)wei salaries. We need more e(|uipnient, such as computers; somedav we'll need a new building. What we le.iUv need is an endowment." Dan C^orlev is wi apping up the accelerated math class for the day, but some students remain seated and absorbed, their pencils making soft sciabbling sounds as they finish a problem. "We're getting excellent results, " Corley says proudly. "In our first year, the average student's growth in three months on a basic vocabulary test was equal to a full year's learning." The eighth graders last year showed an average im- provement of more than one grade level in vocabulary and malbematical skills. Bin Corley is even pKjudei of a less tangible proof of Community's success. "We have virtually no unex- cused absenteeism, " he says. "About one-third of the student body in the public-school system is absent on a given day, but here, if we have two students out, that's unusual. Parents tell tis thev'ie hap])y with the en- thusiastic wav their children ap- proach school and homework." When Community outgrows its rented classioom and office spaces, Corley and Hahn hope they'll be able to build their own facility. "I expect to be out of here no later than year four, " Hahn estimates. But, Corley adds quicklv. "We're not going to move to the East Side. It's important for us to be readily acces- sible to the poor, to people from many different neighborhoods." His dream doesn't stop there. "Wo plan to continue to work on our reputation for offering a high-qual- ily education," Corley says. "We have real ethnic and economic di- versity, but we also hope to be com- petitive. I'd like us to be one of the state's five or six first-rate private schools." A.D. 53 Morey Filler '61 and was joined by David Shapiro tor lier naming ceremony." Leighton A. Wildrick, Philadelphia, is president and CtO ot Private Services Cor- poration, an international consulting com- pany providing a wide range ot services to foieign investors. His wife, Eve, was expect- ing their second child to arrive around Christmas. Debra Willen, Washington, D.C., has returned to work on a part-time basis with the Office of the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board. The other part of her time is spent with her new daughter, Stacv Fullerton, who was born April 1, 1985. Husband Larry is in practice with the law firm of Powell, Goldstein, Fraz- er & Murphv, in Washington. Thomas H. Wood is a member of the technical staff m the photonics circuits re- search department of A r& f Bell Labora- tories. He has a house in Highlands, N.J., and he encouiages Brown friends to get in touch. ^ r^ Dr Albert D. Baffoni, Jr. (79 I ('"VNTD.) reports that his wife, Tina, / V^gave birth to their first child, Da- vid Hugo, on May 4, 1985. At is completing a fellowship in critical care medicine at Let- terman Arnn Medical Center in San Fran- cisco. Dr. Thomas E. Chappell. Roninev, W.Va., is an internist in a small hospital in rural West Virginia. Alison Nichols Ferring and John H. Ferring IV 75 were expecting twins in Jan- uary in St. Louis. "Send help." Gail Forsyth-Vail, Haverhill, Mass., is on leave of absence from her teaching job, after giving birth to Heather Louise on Sept. 24. Heathers older sister, Stephanie, is 4. Dr. Mark L. Greenberg (79 M.D.) joined the cardiologv section at Dartmouth- Hitchcock Medical Center last August. He has established a new clinical electrophysiol- ogy laboratorv ancf is an assistant professor of medicine at Dartmouth Medical School. Mark and his wife, Laurie, a nurse, live in Hanover. N.H. Frank J. Moncrief, Palo Alto, Calif., says that he returned ■from Japan to attend Bob Condon's ['74| 84th birthdav. He keeps getting older while 1 keep getting younger!" Dr. Janet A. Schaffel ('79 M.D.) and her husband, Robert Fraga, aie the patents of David Aaron, born last July 24. Sharon Lack Stein and her husband, Ross '75, gave birth to Monica Sarah on Oct. 2. Monica is a "7 lb. 2 oz. red-headed beaii- ly-" Dan Wasser. New York City, has re- cently joined the law firm of Dreyer and Tiaub, where he specializes in corporate securities law. He is married to Marcia Zaiac Wasser '78, and they live in a Manhattan loft they designed themselves. Amy J. Weiner. Berkeley. C^alif., re- ceived a Ph.D. in molecular developmental biology from Indiana University in I98!i. She is working in the field ot nioleculai vi- rology at Cihiron Corporation in Emeryville, Calif. 54 ^^ ^^ Edward S. Annunziato and Dr. / I Elissa Goodman Annunziato. / / Chatham. N.J., are the parents of a 1-yeai-old, Alexandra Lauren, born Dec. 26. 1984. After two years of teaching at SUNY Stony Brook, Archie W. Brown and his wife, Donna, moved to Amherst, N.H., where they both work for Digital as software engi- neers. Mark H. Charles. New York City, is engaged to Cincfy Waldman. a New York City attorney, and they are planning an August wedding. Mark recently joined the legal department of RKO General, Inc., where he is primarily involved with the company's television and motion picture divisions. Heather Claflin Clayton, who married John Clayton (lieorgia lech '78) in 1981, is the mother of Robin Paige, born on Oct. 22. They live in Northboiough. Mass. Thomas F. Conboy III amd his wife, Karen, of Plymouth, Mass., announce the arrival of their first child. Thomas IV. in June 1985. The Conboys are relocating to Cleveland, where Fom will be the marketing director for Concorde Castings, Inc. Drs. Raymond and Karen Kenney Dickson, Brookline, Mass., announce the birth of their first child, Elizabeth Russet, last Aug. 20. Raymond has finished his in- ternal medicine residency at Mass General Hopsital, and Karen is in the final year of her psychiatry residency at McLean Hospi- tal. "We are enjoying the new experiences of parenthood, a tremencfous blessing." Fredric O. Esper is living in Fairfield, Conn., and still working for Tetley, Inc., where he is now product manager for retail coffees. He would love to hear from others in the Fairfield area. Harry J. Finke IV, Cincinnati, is practicing law with the firm of Graydon, Head & Ritchey. "While attending a seminar in New \o\\ recently, 1 had the pleasuie of speaking with Michael E. Klehm's answering machine." Alan B. Fischer and his wife, Betsy (Iroban, of Cambritige, Mass., "are blessed with a wonderful daughter, Phoebe Fischer- Gioban, who turned 1 on Sept. 27. 1 am now employed as a principal scientist researching medical diagnostics for the Allied Corpora- tion. " Debra Ehrman Kaye. San Francisco. was married to 1 ed Kave in 1983. Their first child. Mason Ehrman, was born last Aug. 15. Eugene and Jody Levine Mahr and their 1-year-old, Christopher, ate living in New Haven, where Eugene is enrolled in bale's School of Organization and Manage- ment, working toward a master's of public and private management. Jann Matlock and Tony Daley are back from lAirope after two years ot dissertation research. Tony was a DAAD and 1 ocque- ville Fellow; Jann was a DADD Dissertation Fellow in Germany and France. Fhey are now living in Berkeley, C^atif. Dr. Judith Owens-Stively (80 M.D.) has moved back to Rhode Island after com- pleting a fellowship in beliaxioral pediatrics and earning a master's in public health at the University of Minnesota. She is a fellow in child psychiatry at Brown, and her husband, John, is a family practitioner with the Rhode Island Group Health Association. Lorraine S. Ricard, Hudson, N.H., is working tor Digital F^quipment Corporation in Nashua as a principal software engineer with supervisory responsibility for a group of software engineers. 'Last year 1 bought my first house — gone are the carefree days of apartment life! " Ron Sarachan, Glenside, Pa., is work- ing as an assistant U.S. attorney in Philadel- phia. He and his wife, Lisa Miller (see '78), have a son, Tom, 4, and a daughter. Marga- ret Elinor, born April 27, 1985. Barbara Sunderland, Houston, has formed a partnership witli Thomas A. Bra- dy '47. Sunderland & Bradv is an interna- tional advertising, marketing, and public relations firm. In the first nine months, they have represented clients on four continents, Barbara savs. David Wiegand. Dalton, Georgia, was seriously injured in an automobile accident in May 1984. He has had several operations and has been recovering very well. ^^ /~\ Dr. Jacob Asher and his wife, / ^k Nancy Hosay, "have discovered / U the joys of homeowning in San Francisco." Jacob continues his residency in head and neck surgery at the University of California-San Fiancisco, and Nancy is an assistant account executive for Allen &• Dor- ward. Jonathan Bell owns Stereo Discount Clenter on .\ngell Street in Providence. For- merly the Student Discount Center, the store was moved to its current location (where Ashley Hi-Fi used to be) after extensive remodeling of the building. Jonathan lives in Providence. Elisabeth Culver, .^cton, Mass., is still in "temporary retirement playing mom and working |)art-time on an M.B.A. " Her hus- band. Bob. is director of engineering at Itek Melora Furman, Ciliicago, is an associ- ate planner for the C^hicago Housing Au- thority. Elizabeth J. Doyne, Ph.D., is living with her liusband, Kent Osborn, and daughter, Alison, in Rochester, N.\'., where she has a private practice doing individual and couple psvchotlierapv. She also has a part-time po- sition at the llniversily of Rochester Medical Center. Alan Harper is living in Berkeley while he is finishing his doctorate in zoology from the University of Washington. "Moving to earthquake country gives one added incen- tive to finisli one's dissertation quickly." Kevin Harrington, BrookKn. savs that "alter spending tour ve.ns in tlie M.mliattan D.A.'s office, 1 am leaving to Ix-come an as- sociate in the firm of Lord, Day & Lord in New York," Martin E. Hsia, Honolulu, married June Cfiun in 1983, and their fiist child, Robert Edward lien Ming, was Ijorn April 1. Since 1981, Martin has worked fin the Honolulu law firm of Cades, Schutte. Flem- ing &■ Wright. "I've been playing clarinet and saxophone in stage orchestras, and ice hockev (ves. ice hockey), but have had to cut back since the b.ibv was born." Arthur Kentros, Tucson, married Mary Kokiiios on Sept. 1. Dana Levenson 79 and Peter Panton 'T'.l ser\ed .is ushers. .Arthur works as an allornev lor IBM at the compa- ny's Tucson (acihtv. Marv is enrolled at the I'liiversitv ot Arizona Medical School. Burt Lee is working in Jamaica and can be reached via Liguanea Club, Cross Roads, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. He expects to be theie until summer, when he plans to go to graduate school in engineering and/or business. Nancy Lemann. New \ork C:itv, author ol Lives of llif Saints, published last year by Alfred A. Knopf, is at work on her second novel. This tall she covered the Louisiana governor's trial in her home town ol New Orleans lor \'iiiiil\ Fun. Or Calvin A. Michael ,md Dr. Wanda N. McCoy were married m June 1'.)^*."). l^al- \m is a resident in psvchialrv at Albert Ein- stein Medical Center in the Bronx, and Wanda is an attending phvsician in pedia- trics at Woodhull Hospital in Brooklvn. They live in Mount \'ernon. N.^'. Lisa Miller is in the Ph.D. progr.im in iiuisi( lhecii\ .It the (atv L'niversilv ol New York, working on a iiiusiial itonogiaphv project at the Philadel]jhi,i Museum ol .\rl. She and her husband, Ron Sarachan (see "77), are the parents ol lorn. 1. .iiul Marga- ret, born .Xpiil 27. 1 '.»»'). I Ik\ li\c iii <;len- side. Pa. Jonathan Morris is living m Bull.ilo with his wile, WeiuK. .iiid his son. Philip. 2. lie's "entrenched in mv second year ol a ihiee-and-a-hall-vear master's of architec- ture ])rogi.im .It SLIN^' Buffalo." Roger Ranz. Kenner. La., married Sall\ Slahlmau m Kaulnuin, lexas, l.isi M.iv They were attended bv Dr. Robert Golomb and Jacques Lord '79, brothers Ironi Phi Delta Bel.i. In |ul\, Roger moved into a business pl.iiiniiig i)osiiioii with Kxxon in New Orleans. Mark Reynolds w.is married lo Susan Boehni on No\. 2 in Biooklvn Heights. N.^". the Rev. Craig Townsend perlormed the ceremonv. M.irk works loi Ir.ade Credit L nderwriteis in New \(irk. "1 am enioxing life here on the Kastern Shore of M.irvland," writes Lawrence P. Sanford. "I'm working at the Liiiiversity of Maryland tlenter for Knviromneiital and Estuarine Studies, hope to stav .iwhile. and would welcome visits troni Brown liiends. " 1 Ic lives 111 Kasloii, Md. Mark Schachner li\es on a sm.ill l.ike in the ,\cliioiid.Rks, where he spends ,i loi nl lime wiiidsurlmg. lanoeing. skiing, .ind pl.iving tennis and basketball, when he's not working as ,i partner in the Cilens Falls. N.^■.. l.iw hrm of Miller M.innix Lemerv & Kalin. P.C.. when- his time is devoted pi ini.u ilv to eiiMiomiHiu.il l.iu. Jill Berkelhammer Zorn. Haitloid. man K'd jon.ilh.in /.oni m |uiie I9.H4. She is working .IS assislaiu diiectoi lor planning at Mount Siii.ii Hospital, and Jon is .ilteiKlmg L Ciomi law school. Jill (omplcied her M.B.A. in health management .it Boston L'niversilx , Carrie Fox Solin and her husband. Larry (see '15). are living in Philadelphia. Carrie is marketing manager for plastics additives at Rohm &: Haas. Marcia Zaiac Wasser, New York City, is an account supervisor/vice president al ^'oung & Rubicam, working on Cleneral Foods Iiilern.itional Cloffees. She and her husband. Dan Wasser '76. live in Manhattan in a loll lhe\ designed themselves. ^j /^ Diane M. Forte. Washington. / \Jt DC. received a master's in city / K^y and regional planning from Har- vard's Kennedy School of Clovernment be- fore mo\ ing to the D.C. area to work as an economic analvst for a real estate market research hrm lor two years. "1 aiu currently an assistant vice president with SL'M,\WEEL Corporation, the real estate joint ventute subsidiarv ol Perpetual .American B.iiik " Dr. Alon A. Garay. New \'ork Citv. is in his third year ol residency in orthopaedic surgerv at New N'ork Medical College. Steven Goldberg. Fresh Meadows, N.\'., an assislaiu .ictuarv with Frank B. Hall & Coinpany, Inc.. has ai hieved the distinc- tion of associate of the tlasualty .Actuarial Society. The society is dedicated to the de- velopment of professional actuaries and to the advancement of actuarial science. I he assoi iateship designation is .ichieved through successtui completion ol se\en (oniprehensive inalhematical. st.itistical. and msuianie ex.iimuations. Paul Jester reports that he li.is been in San Diego, working lor Hewlett-P.ickard Clompanv as an OFIM account manager, lor a vear now and hnally have my tennis ,ind goll games in prettv good shape. The weatlier here is great, but give me Septem- ber and October in the Northeast. I've got my Seaworld and San Diego Zoo passes, so. as alwavs. guests are welcome." John Mesberg and his wife. Beverly 'Yashar Mesberg. had a babv. Zach.uv. on Sept. 18. Beverlv recently received her doc- torate in molecular genetics at the L'niversitv of North Carolina and will begin poslgi.id- uate work al Duke in March. John is "cnjoving our lamilv furniture business, but am especially enjoying the new addition to the family. Would love to hear lioiu class- mates!" Paul and Avi Baran Munro write horn La |olla. Calif., that llie\ .ire ■ecslatitalh watching little |oseph grow into a beautitul. curb-haired, blonde. blue-e\ed angel." Susan Engle Odessa .tnd her husband. Ld. ol PioMileiue. report the birth ol their daughter. Biooke llvse, on Nov. '29. 1984. Dr. David Gordon Reis and his wife, Linda, ol the Bronx, are the parents ol Eleanor tilara, born Oct. 10. Ele.iiior was born at the Child Bearing Cienler ol the Maternit\ (ieiUer .Association in Manhattan. Da\id is completing lesidencx in internal medicine .it the Einstein Ciollege ol Medi- ciiie/)acobi Hospital and will be a lellow in cardiologN this vear at N\LI. Linda is leach- ing nursing al Lehman College ol CUNY. Aaron J. Schuman. San Jose. C^alif.. is developing computer network sotlware lor Hewletl-Packarcl in taipertino. Calif. Bob Shorb. Bethesda, Md., received an MB. .A. from Wharton in 1984 and returned to Washington, D.C, to work for the Oliver r. Carr Company, a local real-estate devel- oper. Most of his time is spent on working as the project manager of the renovation of the Willard Hotel on Pennsylvania .Avenue. "Old Iriends can reach me at 4713 South Chelsea Ln.. Bethesda. Md. 20814." Margaret E. Thomas has joined the Leicht I rainor Norwalk agencv in Provi- dence as assistant account executive. She had been assistant to the president at the Com- munity College of Rhode Island, marketing man.iger for sports/special events at the Ballour Company in .Attleboro. Mass.. and assistant to the administrator at ihe major league baseball lomniissioner's office in New ^'o'rk. r~^ /^ Hubert A. Allen, Jr.. married St I I Deborah L. Helitzer on Sept. 28 Sybilla K. Beckmann. Philadelplu.i. will be gradualing this spring Irom the Ciiiver- silv'ol PeniisvK. una with .i Ph.D. in math. Aliki Barnstone married Dan J.imes in an outdoor wedding in the Mountain I he.i- ler at Mount 1 amalpais. in Marin C^ountv. Calif., on Sept. 29. "l here weie many poems — the 'Song of Songs.' pieces by .Sap- pho. Cleoige Herbert. Emily Dickinson. Elizabeth Barren Browning. Willis Barn- stone, and Pedro Salinas — and many people from Brown F\ei\one was happy!" Debra Bradley moved to lampa from Massachusetts last July lo be a reporter at the /'«)«/;« I'lihiiiic. Tni now in a bureau covering education, medicine, fire, and po- lice. Florida is utterly difleieni from New- England, but I'm adjusling " ".Alter one vear in public accounting. " Jacqueline Brown savs. "1 hud myscU con- tiiiuouslv .iskiiig the question. 'Why am 1 doing this?' Despite the answer. I find myself hot on the audit trail for another year, so if anyone is in the area and wants to drop by or give nie a call, don't bolher because 1 pioljablv won't be Iree mini sonietmie next M.iv'" William Butler. W.ii wick. R.L. is still the DP m.m.igei lor i:)rvvil Systems. Inc.. where computer operations have expanded to a five-company coast-to-coast network. "For other fun and games. I've been white- water raiting as well as skiing in St. .Anton and \al 1 lioniis " Philip J. Kaplan. New \ork Cilv. was married to Nancy J. Holfstein on June 2;i. 198.5. in Haverlord. Pa. Ihev arc living at 228 East (llli St. #4. New ^'ork. N.Y. 11)003. Dr. Deborah Kasman. .Seattle, has "traveled about since Brown, graduating from medical school al the L'nivcrsity of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in May 1985. 1 am now a first-year resident in lamilv medicine at the University ol Washington. Mv address is 308 24th .Ave. East. Se.ittle 98112." Theresa J. Miller. 1 .ill.ih.issce. was married to Roliert F. Smith in Mi.imi List Aug. 3. Diana Puglisi. Bethpage. N.\ .. writes: ".After saving goodbve to commuting on the 55 Long Island Railroad, I joined the Whole Wheat Bagel Brigade. As an editor (and occasional indexer, paste-up artist, and typesetter) at Avery Publishing Group in Garden City Park, I've worked on books about holistic health, pregnancv and child- birth, breastfeeding. Avery also specializes in military history; I've worked on those books, too. In my spare time I struggle with chronic editorial disease, reading all the copyright pages I can find, scanning restaurant menus for typos, and continually revising every- thing. This letter, for example, has taken two-and-a-half years to write." Anne Riley and Daniel Lam were married on June 23, 1985. They are living in Dearborn, Mich., where Anne works for Ford Motor Company in truck operations. Daniel is working for IBM in Southfield, Mich. Paul Schur and his wife. Dee Dee, are the parents of David Benjamin, born July 31, 1985. They live in Burke, Va. Andrew R. Wiener and Beatrice Y. Motamedi were married June 22, 1985, in Berkeley, Calif., and are working in the Bay Area. Andrew is a lawyer specializing in liti- gation, and Beatrice is a reporter and editor. Attendants at the wedding from Brown were Andy's father. Dr. Stephen N. Wiener '48; his uncle, California Appeals Court Associ- ate Justice Howard B. Wiener '52; Andy's brother, Clifford Wiener '76; and Dr. Har- old S. Goldman '50. Andy's and Beatrice's address is 38 Belvedere #6, San Francisco 94117. ^~\ "I Robert Berlunan has completed ^k I the two-year training program V^ JL that qualifies him for work in the diplomatic corps. "However, 1 won't be get- ting the 'diplomatic treatment,' sad to say. As assistant adjunct attache, I am relegated to visa processing and replacing lost passports. Friends should drop by for a day of fun in the East German 'Haupstadt.' Write to me at Posttache 381, U.S. Embassay, Unter Den Lindens 18, 2157 Berlin DDR, East Germa- ny." Dr. Nancy Carney writes, 'After all the hoopla of our wedding, Mark (Russell) and I are settling into a routine. He's a corporate lending officer with Toronto-Dominion Bank, and I've joined a seasoned family practitioner in private practice in Denver. We look forward to the ski season and wel- come any friends from Brown." They live in Arvada, Colo. Paul Delson is about to enter the "real world" after graduating last May from UCLA with his J.D. and M.B.A. degrees. He is working for the Hammond Company, a mortgage banking firm in Newport Beach, Calif His home address: 2842 Terry Rd., Laguna Beach, Calif. 92651. Marine 1st Lt. Derek J. Donovan has returned to Marine Corps Air Station New River, in Jacksonville, N.C., after participat- ing in Combined Area Exercise, a month- long exercise conducted in Twentynine Palms, Calif Derek joined the Marine Corps after graduating from Brown. Quentin C.Jay graduated in architec- 56 ture from the Harvard Graduate School last March and has been living in Cambridge while working for the Boston firm ot Notter Finegold & Alexander. J. Stephen Lee, Mandeville, La., works for a small, independent oil company in Covington, La. Steve Lincoln is a third-year student at the Boston University School of Law and a member of the law review there. "Old friends, please stay in touch. My new ad- dress: 50 Beals St., Brookline, Mass. 02146. (617) 734-0049." Amy Lowrie married Paul N. Taival- koski on Aug. 24. Jacki Cullen was her maid of honor, and Beth Burlingame was a bridesmaid. The wedding took place in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, but the couple is living in Stowe, Mass. Dr. Mark S. Munroe graduated from medical school in June 1985 and has started a residency training program in internal medicine at the University of Washington, Seattle. Melanie Northrop is a second-year Ph.D. candidate and teaching fellow in the English department at Harvard University. After receiving her M.A. from the Universi- ty of Pennsylvania, she decided to head back to New England, and now resides at 43- A Roberts Rd. in Cambridge. Maxanne Resnick is working as a fund-raising consultant "(mostly Democratic political) in New York City. Having lived with Kerri Ratcliffe Henderson, and Kath- erine Hazard, I'm moving on to vet another Brunonian roommate, Mindy Bender. Some old habits never die. See you at our 5th re- union!" Di . Ted Richman graduated from Tufts Medical School in June. He is a first-year resident in family practice at the University of Maryland in Baltimore. He is working hard and looking for a windsurfing or sailing partner for his occasional day off. Jan Waldman reports: "I am living in New York and producing a community af- fairs program, 'The Open Mind,' that airs on public television around the country. I just returned from San Francisco, where we taped some shows, and am hoping to get back there, permanently, soon. " QOd^ \~)^^ Univ Matthew D. Aaron is at the Dar- School of Business at the liversity of Virginia, working on his MBA. Linda Alpert and Stephen Gillis were married on [une 2, 1985, in Boston. The wedding party included Debra Alpert '81 M.A.T., Julie Eleuteri, Donna Shapiro Robiner, and Robin Soffer. After an island honeymoon in St. John, St. Thomas, and Bermuda, the couple returned to Rochester, N.Y. Linda is a Ph.D. candidate in clinical psychology at the University of Rochester, and Steve is director of production at Con- tinuing Developmental Services. Steven Baer and Donna Conaton were married in 1983 and are living in Chicago. Donna sells municipal bonds with Clayton Brown and Associates, and is chairman of the Loop Crisis Pregnancy Center, a non- profit agency that helps provide alternatives to abortion. Until late 1984, Steve worked for a public-interest law firm involved in many legal and legislative efforts against abortion. He is executive director of the United Republican Fund of Illinois, a con- servative political fundraising and advocacy organization, and has entered the University of Chicago's M.B.A. program. Recent arti- cles he has written on various public policy issues have appeared in National Review, Culumbm Journalism Review, the Chicago Trib- une, and Chnsliamly Today. Leonard T. Dicostanzo is working as a data communications analyst with AT&T. He has also started a business called Turn- key Computer Systems, specializing in com- puterizing small businesses interested in personal computers. "Roommates Keith Simpson, Christopher DeWitt, Joseph Gal- lo, and I have been keeping in touch by meeting in various states on the East Coast. The memories live on. Anyone in New York City, or interested in p.c.'s, drop a line. (718) 273-0857." Gwenn Sewell Gebhard married Paul R. Gebhard (see '84) on Dec. 29, 1984. They are attending Columbia University as grad- uate students in the School of International and Public Affairs. Gwenn is getting a joint master's degree from the public affairs pro- gram and from the School of Public Health. It's a three-year course of study, and she will finish in 1987. She is specifically interested in environmental health policy and science and technology policy in America. Linda Gray and Greg Soloway were married on Aug. 25 in New York City. They are both fourth-year medical students at Cornell University Medical College. Among Brown alunmi attending were Liz Soloway '84, maid ol honor; Andrew Soloway '86, best man; and Joe Soloway '56, father of the groom. Beth Klafter is in the middle of a five-year program at the Hebrew Union College in New York City, studying to be- come a reform rabbi. Last fall she got mar- ried to fellow rabbinical student Jonathan Hecht. They're living in Greenwich Village. Lisa Liu, St. Louis, is a first-year stu- dent at St. Louis University School of Medi- cine. Susan Meckauer and Gregory Corbett were married in New York last August. Su- san is completing her M.B.A. at Harvard, and Gregory is working for Merrill Lynch in New York. They live in Port Washington, N.Y. Brad Voigt, Westport, Mass., has been appointed director of major gifts and capital programs at Rhode Island School of Design. He will be responsible for managing the Landmarks Campaign, the $17.4-million drive to raise funds to finance RISD's reno- vation and construction projects. David C. Walker reports that " 1 985 was a tremendous year. I joined General Motors Acceptance Corporation as a senior analyst in the borrowing department in June. Three months later I married Beth Williams, a classmate of mine at the University of Mich- igan Business School, and we moved to Ann Arbor. 1 have gotten heavily involved in alumni and recruiting activities, and get back to Providence twice a year. All visitors to the Ann Arbor area are welcome to call me at (313) 662-9069. ■■ /~\ ^^ Dana D'Alessandro Haseot( \C '^ CiimlxilaiKl, R.I.. finished y_)%J M.P.H. in Januaiy 1985 am Dana D'Alessandro Haseotes. her and mar- ried George P. Haseotes on May 26, 1985. Their reception was at Rosecliff, and the wedding party included Alexandra Garbers Pruner, Susan Woodring '84, Tracey Mad- den '84. and Cammie Tuttle '84. Dana is working for Rhode Island Governor Edward DiPrete as his policy analyst for health and human service issues. "The job is both chal- lenging and fun, and it gives me a chance to visit Brown occasionally." Rod Jones will be taking the Georgia bar exam this month, and he expects to graduate in May from Emory University School of Law. He has received offers of employment from several law firms in At- lanta. He is interning eight hours a week with the L'.,S. Attorney General's office. Cindy Paradies is 'indulging in the political world of Washington, D.C.. " work- ing as a legislative assistant for a congress- man. "Love my work and the city, and I'd love to hear from friends at 2308 19th St. NW, Washington, D.G. 20009, or (202) 483-5914." Charles Rosenberg is in his second year of graduate school in Princeton University's department of psychology, "where 1 am try- ing to figure out how people think. When I am finished with this, I would like to travel." Nina Stillman-Mandel and her hus- band, David '82, live in Chicago. She is "enjoying/struggling" with her first year at the University of Chicago Law School. David has accepted an offer from Colheld, Un- garetti, Harris ^- Slavin. Kent Swig, San Francisco, is attending Hastings Law School. He is working tor Cushman and Wakefield in the financial services group, selling hotels and office buildings in San Francisco and Los Angeles Annette Thomas. Sparkill. N.Y., has joined General Foods Corporation in the marketing research department in White Plains. Peter Waldman just returned from Japan, where he lived for a year as a free- lance journalist, having initially gone there on a f^ellowship from the Japanese govern- ment that brought him there for ten days. Gerald Weil is still working at Bell Labs. "I'd love to hear from people (espe- cially old roommates), who can write to my new address; 1097 Charlotte PI., Rahway, N.J. 07065." /"^ J Pamela R. Bleisch, \enice, CaliL, V^/l is working on a Ph.D. in classics at V_^ J. L'CL.A. after receiving her mas- ter's in classics from the L'niversity of Chi- cago. "Although I miss the brisk autumn air and flaming leaves of New England, 1 do have the sound of the surf and the balmy breezes in the palm trees — I'm only a stone's throw from the beach. Thalassa, thalassa ..." Mark Bohm has returned to Provi- dence after receiving his M.S. in civil engi- neering from UC Berkeley. He is working for Hibbitt, Karlsson, and Sorenson, Inc.. an engineering firm near Wavland Square that is "a hotbed of high technology and other neat stuff " Felicia DeDominicis, Farmington, Conn., has "enjoyed the field of public rela- tions since graduation. Never thought I'd last this long in one profession! Anyone passing through Hartford, Conn., is wel- come at One Lakeview Drive in Farming- ton " Paul R. Gebhard married Gwenn Se- well (sec '83) on Dec. 29, 1984. Thev are attending Columbia University as graduate students in the School of International and Public Affairs. Paul is in the international affairs program. His area specialty is Eastern Europe, and his functional specialty is se- curity studies. He will receive his master's in international affairs in June. Beverly Lewis is a second-year gradu- ate business student at the University of North Ciarolina at Chapel Hill. She got mar- ried over the summer, and Donna DeWitt was maid of honor. Beth Mezoff, Los Angeles, is in her second year at UCLA law school. "There certainly is a lot more sun heie than I ever saw during mv four years on College Hill! I'd love to hear from anyone travelling through L.A. (213) 208-1636." "Thomas G. Plante has finished his final dissertation defense and graduate school at the LIniveisity of Kansas in the Ph.D. pro- gram in clinical psychology. He's applying to clinical internships in the Boston-Providence area. "Other Brownies here in Lawrence iiulude Al Sherman 83, Nancy Dee '82. Bob Fever 82. Jill Robins 83. and Heidi Stein etz '84." "I never thought I would send a blurb to the HAM." writes Vernon A. Rosario IL "It seemed like advertising in the \'illiii;r VoKf personals — but it is so exciting to find old friends resurfacing. Assuming I have old friends ... I actually did graduate after a scintillating season in Paris, and now am in a frenetic race shuttling daily between a little medical school in Boston and a techy sort of place in Cambridge. Address: Box 415. 107 Ave. Louis Pasteur, Boston, Mass. 02115." Michael Silberberg, New York City, is interested ui lompilmg a directory of any- one in the class of '84 who lives in the met- ropolitan New York area. "If you are inter- ested in being included, send a letter with your name, address, home and work phone number to: Michael Silberberg, 420 East 70th St.. Apt. lOJ. New York'l002l." Delia Spring. New \ork City, is ""continuing to love my job as assistant buyer of belter and designer sportswear at Saks Fifth .Avenue. Am currently designing sep- arates and blouses for their private label program." r^ Y^ Frank Bozzo and Ted Johnson S^ r~\ would like to report that thev ""are \J \J enjoying a cosmopolitan existence, sharing an apartment above a hardware store, across the street from the 'L' tracks in the windy city of Chicago. Frank is a systems ei.gineer with IBM, and Ted is doing re- search at C:hildren's Memorial Hospital. All are encouraged to write us at 921 West Armitage Ave., .Apt 2W, Chicago 60614." Kenneth Lin, Ithaca, is a graduate stu- dent and research assistant in applied phys- ics. "Pressure is a way of life. Someday this will mean something. " David Marshall is a Mombusho English Fellow at the Hyogo Prefectural Institute, near Kobe, Japan. Adam E. Namm is living and working in Newport, R.I. His job at Kessler Market- ing Intelligence, a fiberoptic consulting firm, is "stimulating and exciting." Janine A. Roeth, Palo Alto, Calif., is working for Stanford University at IRIS. "Everything is wonderful out here, and I welcome a note or visit from any friend — 1152 Greenwood Ave., Palo Alto 94301." John P.A. Taupin and Mike Bidun are living in Palo Alto, Calif., in an apartment formerly occupied by Dan Benua '79. "I must admit I was pleasantly surprised," John writes, "when, having just graduated, I moved 3,100 miles to a new state and a new home, only to find a copy of the BAA/ deliv- ered to my doorstep the second day I was here!" John and Mike would welcome Dan for a visit any time. /^~^ r^ R.ibhi Morton Goldberg '35 I ^^ .A.M.. loledo, Ohio, retired V^-' ^<^ from the active Rabbinate in 1972 to teach Judaica at Lourdes College (loledo) and at Siena Heights College (Adrian, Mich). He was elected to Theta Alpha Kappa honorary, for contributions to religious teachings and studies. Theresa E. Trifari '37 .A.M.. Cranston, R.I., ran fiir delegate to the Rhode Island Constitutional (onvciuion, Jane Spencer Schwantes '44 .A.M.. Woodstown. N.j.. reports that she and her husband are "delighted with the arrival of our third grandchild. Emily, in Columbia. S.C." Juanita Wagner '49 Ph.D., Cainano Island. Wash., is working for the regional office of the Environmental Protection ■Agency in Seattle. She reports that most recently she worked on a pesticide usage study. Donald H. Fortnum '58 Ph.D., Gettys- burg, Pa., is a professor of chemistry at Get- tysburg College. Earl A. Pope '62 Ph.D., Easton, Pa., spent his sabbatical leave from Lafayette College last vear doing research and writing on the different aspects of the religious situation in Eastern Europe. Charles J. Wrong, '68 Ph.D., Tampa, Fla., is retiring from the history department of the University of South Florida in June. He hopes to return permanently to Canada. Morris D. Edwards '73 MAT. (see •72). In a class note published in November, we neglected to mention that Diana Davids Olicn is the co-author, with her husband, Roger M. Olien '73 Ph.D., of Oil Booms and of Wildcallcn. Their most recent work. Life in the Oilfields, is scheduled for release in March bv Texas Monthly Press. Hildburg Herbst '75 A.M. ('79 PhD, Princeton) is the mother of two grown daughters. She was granted tenure last 57 spring and is an associate professor in the Germanic languages and literature depart- ment at Rutgers University in New Bruns- wick, N.J. Erminia "Erma" Pascucci '77 A.M. ('75, '84 J. D. University of Connecticut) has joined the law hrm of Yamin and Minnella in Waterbury, Conn., as an associate in the general practice ol law. Capt. Kurt A. Fichtner '83 Ph.D. has completed the U.S. Air Force military in- doctrination for medical service cjfficers at Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas. He is serving at Loring Air Force Base in Maine. -» *- -|-^ Robert I. Parker '76 M.D VI I I *'"" '■■" ±J A. A^ Margaret M. Parker 77 M.D. (see '73). Larry Solin '78 M.D. (see '75). Albert D. Baffoni, Jr. '79 M.D. (see •76). •77). Mark L. Greenberg ^79 M.D. (see '76). Janet A. Schaffel '79 M.D. (see '76). Judith Owens-Stively '80 M.D. (see OBITUARIES By James Reinbold Caroline Blodgett Clark '12, Jackson- ville, Fla.; Sept. 7. Survivors include her daughter, Caroline Smith, 7340 Ventura Ave., Jacksonville 32217. Nelson Barlow '17, Cranston, R.I.; Nov. 5. He was a retired textile executive and a pioneer in the roller printing of tubu- lar knit goods and the processing of syn- thetics. After his retirement, in 1959, Mr. Barlow engaged in consulting work for the textile industry. He worked for a number of companies during his career, including S. Slater & Sons, Webster, Mass.; and Verney Dyeing & Finishing Company, Peterbor- ough, N.H. He served ten years as assistant manager of the Apponaug Company, in Warwick, R.I., then later returned to Appo- naug as vice president and general manager. He was a lieutenant and served overseas during World War 1. Phi Beta Kappa. He is survived by three daughters, including Edith Barlow, 55 Dellwood Rd., Cranston 02920, and four grandchildren. The Rev. Harry Ellsworth Rahming '18, Denver; Aug. 28. He served as rector of the Church of the Holy Redeemer in Denver from 1920 until his retirement in 1966. A major figure in the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado and in the Denver black commu- nity, he was appointed by Coloiado Gov. John Love in 1967 to the Judicial Nominat- ing Committee for the Second District of Colorado. Mr. Rahming was a graduate of the Episcopal Church's General Seminary in New 'York City and was ordained in 1918. gg He later received a master's degree in theol- ogy and a doctorate in theology from the Iliff School of Theology in Denver. Survi- vors include his wife, Minnie, 367 South Kearney St., Denver 80222, and a daughter. Dr. Eske Windsberg '21, Providence; Nov. 7. Formerly surgeon-in-chief at Miriam Hospital for fourteen years and senior sur- geon at the Veterans Administration Hospi- tal in Providence, he was well known for his contributions to medicine, particularly in the area of colonic surgery. Born in Lithuania, he came to the United States at the age of 5, and lived in New Bedford, Mass., before settling in Providence. He had a private practice from 1932 to 1963, the year he joined the staff of the VA hospital. He re- tired in 1978. He graduated from the Cor- nell University Medical School in 1925 and in 1931 received a M.Sc. (Medicine) from the University of Pennsylvania. Survivors include a son, Sigmund, 768 Elmgrove Ave., Providence 02906. Agnes Cole Morgan '23, Three Rivers, Mass., a retired pharmacy owner; Sept. 22. She had also taught French and Latin at Palmer High School in Three Rivers. Survi- vors include her daughter, Patricia H. Lam- bert, P.O. Box 5, 126 Main St., Three Rivers 01800. Edward Wayne Harlow '24, Rockland, Mass., retired president of the Rockland Savings Bank; Oct. 1 1. A former president of the Rockland Chamber of Commerce, he was also a president of the Rockland Kiwanis Club. Sigma Nu. He is survived by his wife, Wenonah, 370 Webster St., Rockland 02370. The Rev. Esther Alice Haskard '24, Biddeford, Maine, a pastor in Methodist churches in Maine until her retirement in 1964; Nov. 6. She is survived by her sister, Ruth Gelatt, Pinewood, Apt. #211, Ocean Park, Maine 04063. Frances Bennett Starrett '25, Belfast, Maine; Oct. 17. She had been involved in radio broadcasting and journalism and was a foriner book store manager. She served as a trustee of the Belfast Free Library for many years. Survivors include her son, Stephen R. Burtt '51, of Wilmington, N.C. Garrett Davis Byrnes '26, Providence, retired editor, writer, and arts critic of the Providence journal and Evening Bulletin and former chairman of the Board of Editors of the Brown Alumni Monthly; Dec. 9, after a long illness. Mr. Byrnes joined the newspa- pers after his graduation from Brown and for many years was the theatre and movie critic. During the 1930s, he wrote several series for the newspapers, including "I Ran Rum," "Looking at Hollywood," "The His- tory of the Providence Opera House, " "Bars and Bartenders of Providence, " and "Nar- ragansett Bay Steamboats and Boatmen." He is perhaps best known for his part in creat- ing the Rhode Islander, the Sunday inagazine of the Journal, in 1946. He served as the magazine's editor for many years and then became a columnist for it. After his retire- Garry Byrnes with his ever-present pipe. ment in 1974, he and Charles H. Spilman, a retired managing editor of ihe Journal, col- laborated on a history of the two newspa- pers, which was published in 1981. A former member of Mr. Byrnes's staff once wrote that "Garry Byrnes can smoke timely, sprightly stories out of the woodwork any- where in these plantations, and when re- quired to can turn on the charm to beguile professors, museum curators, college presi- dents, farmers, widows, thugs, or clergymen to write stories for him." Mr. Byrnes became a member of the Board of Editors of this magazine in 1947 and its chairman in 1967. He retired from the board in 1977. During that time, the BAM four times won the Robert Sibley Award, presented each year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education to the alumni magazine judged to be the best in the nation. In 1976, on the occasion of Mr. Byrnes's 50th reunion, he was presented a Brown Bear Award, being cited for his role in "nurturing and maintaining the sturdy independence of the BAM over the last quarter century. " That year he also served as the chief marshal of the Commencement procession, leading more than 2,000 alumni and seniors down College Hill. He was one of twenty-two alumni to receive Bicentennial Medallions in 1964 in recognition of service to the University. He served as a member of the board of directors of the Associated Alumni. Mr. Byrnes was co-author of Scoop, a newspaper novel published in 1929. He wrote two handbooks for editors, one on food in newspapers and one on fashions in newspapers. He was president of the Amer- ican Association of Sunday and Feature Editors in 1947-48. He was a former presi- dent of the Providence Art Club and a trus- tee of the Providence Preservation Society. In 1961, he received the Silver Beaver Award from the Narragansett Council, Boy Scouts of America. Kappa Sigma. His survi- vors include a daughter, Davis Byrnes Bliss. 53 Elton St., Providence 02906. Bruce Erwin Tietjens '26, Bellefon- taine, Ohio; July 15. He was owner and operator of the Heller-Aller Co., a supplier of water svstcms and farm equipment in Napoleon. Ohio, until his relirement in 1969. Sigma Nu. He is survived by his son. Hank. 5703 TWP Rd. 55, Bcllefontaine 43311. Dr. Harry John Degenhardt '27, Stony Brook, N.Y.. a relircd physician; Oct. 29. He had a surgery practice in the Astoria section of Queens from 1932 until 1960, when he moved to Stony Brook. He was alfiliated wilh Kings County Hospital and Flower Fifth Avenue Hospital. He graduated from Cornell University Medical School in 1932. During World War II he served as a lieu- tenant commander in the Navy and was sta- tioned in the Mediterranean. Survivors in- clude his wife, Eleanore, 9 Hilltop Rd., Stony Brook 1 1790, and four daughters. Henrietta Johnson Field '27, Colum- bus, Ohio, a social worker; Oct. 1 1, 1983. She graduated from the Baptist Missionary Training School in 1928 and served as a missionary with the American Baptist Home Missions Board and numerous other social service agencies. She is survived by her son, David, Suite 730, 21 East State St., Colum- bus 43209. Aileen Terry Flemming '27, Lake Placid, Fla., a real estate and insurance bro- ker before letiring in 1967; June 8. Survi- vors include her son, William. 902 Redman Ave., Haddonfield, N.J. 08033. Robert Alexander Stoehr, Jr. '27, Cin- cinnati, a retired Mooring executive; Sept. 30. Following giaduation from Brown, he entered the lamilv business, Cincinnati Floor Company, where he served, successively, as warehouse manager, sales manager, secre- tary and treasurer, president, and chairman of the board. He retired in 1975 after fifty years with the company. In 1933, he was elected the first president of the National Wood Flooring Contractors Association. Later, he was president of the Wood and Synthetic Flooring Institute of America. He was a former otficer of the Brown Club of Cincinnati. Survivors include his wife, Chas- tine, 20 Weebctook I.n . C;incinnati 45208, and a son, Robert A. Stoehr HI '55. Wilbur John Rook '28, Santa Cruz, Calif.; Oct. 10. Alter beginning work in the insurance field, he became a teacher, hrst at Middleboro (Mass.) Junior High School and then at the Center School in Matlapoisett, Mass., where he became principal. He served in the Wellesley (Mass.) Public School System for twenty-five years as principal of the Warren School, supervisor of elementary education, and assistant superintendent of schools. He retired in 1968. He is survived by his wife. Katherine, 2553 Brinceforte Dr., Santa Cruz 95062, and a son. Ray Bucklin Owen '30, Warren, R.I., retired chairman of the board of Old Colony Co-operative Bank; Nov. 7. He joined Old Colony in 1935 after serving an apprentice- ship in the foreign department of the First National City Bank of New '\'ork. Mr. Owen was president of Old Colony until 1973. He was a director of several companies and was involved in a variety of Rhode Island and New England civic affairs. Survivors include his wife, Mary, 8 Hanley Farm, Warren 02885, a son, and a daughter. Dr. Harold Ribner '30. Fairfield, Conn., a letired neuiopsychiatrist; June 1. He received his M.D. from Tults Medical College in 1934. During World War II he served as a major in the Medical Corps and was assigned as chief of the department of neuropsychiatry at three Army Air Corps installations. He is survived by his wife. Phyllis, 365 Toilsome Hill Rd., Fairfield 06432, and three children. Joseph George Schreiber '30. Spring- field. Mass.; Julv 9. He is survived by his brother, Milton, 50 Riverview Terr., Springfield 01108. Gordon John Peterson '31, Fort Myers Beach, Fla.; Aug. 31. .After twenty years in management with the W. T. Grant Compa- ny, he became principal probation officer for Ocean County. N.J., a position he held until his retirement in 1980. Surviving are his wife, Lois, 121 Mid Island Dr., Fort Myers Beach 33931, and a sister. Dr. Russell Higson Carpenter '32. Barringlon, R.I., a dentist in Providence for fifty-one years; Oct. 30. After graduating from Harvard University Dental School in 1934. he interned at Massachusetts General Hospital and then returned to teach at the Dental School for five years. During World War II, he was an officer in the Navy Dental Corps. A fellow of the American College of Dentists and of the Rhode Island and Provi- dence Dental Societies, he was a past presi- dent of the Rhode Island Children's Dental Society. Phi Gamma Delta. He is survived by his wife, Dagmar, 345 South Main St., Prov- idence 02903, two sons, and a daughter. Gordon Fenn Pyper '32, Northfield, Mass.; Nov. 30. He taught at Mount Her- mon School from 1926 to 1928 and then from 1932 until 1963, and also served as director of admissions. He graduated from Brown magna nun laude at the age of thirty- nine and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Sigma Xi. Survivors include his wife, Ida, 15 North Ln.. Northfield 01360; two sons, in- cluding Gordon R. Pyper '48; and three daughters, including Carolyn Jane Pyper Buker 47 Wendell Bruce Lund '36, Saco, Maine, retired president and general manager of Lund Manufacturing Company; Nov. 28. After working at Brown and Sharpe Manu- facturing Company. Providence, as an assis- tant works superintendent, he founded Lincoln Engineers, Inc., and Amity, Inc., in 1946 and served as officer and director until 1972. He moved to Maine from Lincoln, R.I., and worked at the Saco Lowell Shops in the production department as superinten- dent. In 1953 he founded Lund Manufac- turing, which became a part of Litton In- dustries in 1969. He remained president and general manager until his retirement in 1978. Phi Beta Kappa. Surviving are his wife, Eleanor, PO Box 128, Seaside .\\e.. Saco 04072, and two sons. Jesse Norton Atlass '37, White Plains, N.V.. a stockbroker with the New York City firm of Muller and Co.; Aug. 26. Survivors include his wife. Nancy, 25 Sherman Ave., White Plains 10605, a son, a daughter, and a brother, Hadley Atlass '40. John Duke Powell '37. Grapeview, Wash.; .Aug. 24. In 1956 he formed the in- surance brokerage firm of Raleigh, Mann and Powell, Inc.. in Tacoma, Wash., and served as president and chief executive officer until his retirement in 1982. He was an active participant in community affairs and served on many committees and associ- ations. The John Duke Powell Environmen- tal Education Center at Camp Seymour in Tacoma was dedicated to him to honor his years of support and service to the Tacoma YMCA. Survivors include his wife, Kris, P.O. Box 97, Grapeview 98546, and seven chil- dren. Allan Lincoln Rawcliffe '37, Acushnet, Mass., retired town clerk, treasurer, and tax collector; Aug. 25. He served the town of Acushnet for forty years and was cited on three occasions for the outstanding per- formance of his duties. He is survived by his wife, Edna, 46 Wing Rd., Acushnet 02743. Victor Bernstein '39. Providence; an advertising consultant; Sept. 29. For more than twenty years he was production direc- tor of Bo Bernstein and C^o., Providence, a former advertising and public relations firm. From 1977 to 1982, he acted as a consultant in advertising production. He was semi-re- tired for the last three years and was a con- sultant to LeBeau and Santangini & Co. He was a member of the Brown varsity football team for three years and was elected to the University of Pennsylvania Franklin Field Hall of Fame in recognition of his 88-yard touchdown run in the 1936 Brown/Penn game. He was the first Rhode Island-born athlete to run the 100-yard dash in under ten seconds. Survivors include his wife, Eth- el, 353 Morris Ave., Providence 02908, a daughter, a son. and a brother. James Cresson Given, Jr. '39. Newport. R.I., retired president of Hamilton Employ- ment Service, Inc., of New York; Nov. 1. He was a lieutenant in a unit of the Third Army in Europe during World War II and was decorated with five battle stars. Sigma Chi. He is survived bv his wife, Dorsey, 360 Gibbs Ave., Newport ()2840. Theodore George Leonard '42. Men- tor, Ohio, an investment advisor for several 59 New York brokerage firms; |uly 19. He served with the U.S. Army Air Clorps during World War II. Survivors include a brother. Francis, 82:)7 Kitchlieid Dr.. Mentor 44060. Clement McCarthy '44. Chelmsloid. Mass., an attorney; May 4. He received his law degree from Harvard in 19,50. He served as an associate justice of the Pelham (N.H.) municipal court. A veleian of World War II. he served in France. Delta Kappa Epsilon. He is survived bv his wife, Elizabeth Baxter McCarthy '47 A.M., 48 Hartlell St., Chelmsford 01824; and a son, C. Andrew McCarthy '81. Kenneth Pond Blake, Jr. '48, Weld, Maine, retired hbrarian and associate pro- fessor at Colby College; Sept. 10. He re- ceived an A.M. from Boston University in 1949 and a Sc.M. in 1956 from Simmons College. He was a librarian at Yale before going to Colby in 1959. He retired as head librarian in 1973. For twelve years Mr. Blake served as a selectman of Weld and was also a code enforcement officer. He was director of the Weld Public Library, founder and presi- dent of the Weld Historical Society, and a member of the Weld Planning and Zoning Boaitl. Lambda Chi .Alpha. He was the son of Kenneth Pond Blake '23 and is survived by his sister, Mrs. C^arroll Nevland, of Web- ster, N.Y. Vincent Lawrence Carangelo '48, Orange, Conn., retired picsident of Stanley Rockwell Companv, Hartford; Mav 16. Be- fore assuming the presidency of Stanley Rockwell, he was an executive with the G &: O Manufacturing Companv of New Haven. He served in tut ope during World War II. Survivors include four children and a brother, Robert W. Carangelo '50, P.O. Box 2073, 209 Orange St., New Haven, Conn. 06521. John F. "Jay" Barry, Jr. '50, Warren, R.I., former associate editor of the Briiwii Alumm Monlhh and author of the just-pub- lished pictorial history of the Universitv, A Tale of Two Cenluney. Dec. 13, after a long illness with cancer. After graduation from Brown, he worked for Airiica Insurance Company for four years before joining this magazine as assistant editor. That liegan a twenty-eight-year association duiing which he wrote thousands of class notes and obitu- aries and hundreds of stories about Brown athletics. He also wrote dozens of feature articles and aluiimi profiles. He was pro- inoted to associate editor in 1968. In De- cember 1980, he look a leave of absence from the magazine to write the first of his books about Brown, Cenllemen Under ihe Elms. The "gentlemen" were eleven of Brown's best-known faculty members. In January 1983. he retired from the magazine to become director of special editorial pio- jects at Brown. He had already begun work on A Tale of Tim Centuries, a monumental undertaking lequiring hundreds of hoins of research by him and his co-author. Llniver- siiv .Aichivist Martha Mitchell. The hook was 60 published in November and is Mt. Barry's ]ay Barry at his typewriter in 1976. finest editorial achievement. Jay Barry was. at the time of his death, at work on a third book, a history of Brown athletics. For it was as a devotee of athletics, particularly Brown athletics, that he was best known. He began attending Bruin football games in the 1930s and. until this past fall, had not missed a Brown hoitie game in years. He was Brown's unofficial sports his- torian and the man sports writers all over the nation called if they needed answeis aliout Brown sports. He was a founder of Brown's Athletic Hall of Fame and was in- ducted into it in 1976. He was the diiector and author of the film. The Last White Line, a film history of Brown football. He was editor of the Blown Football Association newsletter in the 196()s and 1970s. In 1954. Mr. Barry edited "Wriston and Brown," an LP album produced bv RCA that contained highlights of Henry Wriston's speeches while president of Brown. In 1965. he initiale