KNOWUTON \ LGtNt. THE SENSE REM Y BROWN ALUMNI MONTH L Y I r tli 6 6e )>oucsm9fr in poat drocf (gar 0f!Jfll)JKT«T] ii!Uv? piilcrmi lce.rcerta« jci'.iijc &ii figijmuitb? Ull ^ q nSq^ ccco «mo:c nbtntjicc folo vi page 32 A A A University In Tune With the Times A survey of alumni who were educated under the "New Curriculum" has paint- ed a success story that even veteran poll- ster Daniel Yankelovich finds nearly unprecedented in higher education. How did their Brown educations prepare these young alumni for their present work and lives? What would they change about Brown and about the way they approached college? O 2, 'Love Can Have No Place Between Husband and Wife' First comes love, then comes marriage... It's a sweet idea — and a very modern one. Two Brown historians have re- searched the reality of marriage (usually arranged) and love (generally adulter- ous) in Europe during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. 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Editor: A Icttci puhlislied in the HAM in November exhorts "those of us with a conscience" to condition our giv- ing to Brown on the University's in- \estment policy vis-a-vis corporations doing business in South Africa. My response has nothing whatso- ever to do with the substance of the yoinig gentleman's advice. 1 do, however, object bitterly to the effrontery in purporting to define "conscience" for the benefit of the rest of us. Apparently I could sacrifice my life for the benefit of my black brethren without satisfying Paul Ian Tartter's litmus test for "con.science." John F. Heinz '47 Howard Swearer Editor: Among the legacies of Howard Swearer is that it is hard to imagine Brown without him, and difficult to believe that the next presi- dent will be someone of his stature. Emm ITT Carlton '83 Alexandrni, Yd. The Admiral's Inn Editor: In the mail department of the October issue, William A. McKeen '29 writes to the editor, "Whatever happened to the Admiral Inn, the only off-campus dormitory opposite the Carrie Tower?" 1 can add to the answer supplied by Martha Mitchell. In September 1924, 1 moved into this building — #36 Prospect Street — to start the first semester of my freshman year. The custodian of this building was a tnan named A.E. Sims, and it was not long before, by mutual consent, all of us called him Admiral after a real admiral of the United Slates Navy named Sims. And we called the dormi- tory "Admiral's Inn." He was very pop- ular with all the dorm's occupants. We had no need for alarm clocks — we V The only way to sell a $55 million company Selling the companv is easv. But questions crowd in. Clan I trust my advisors to tell me if not selling is the right decision? If I do sell, how do I invest the proceeds.'' Slionid I set up an education fund for the kids? What will /do next/ The point is clear: transac- tions should never stand alone. 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State 1-(914) 241-01 1 1 would simply thumb tack a message to the outside of our room doors — i.e., ADMIRAL 7:00 a.m.— and you could depend that Admiral would surely see that you were awake at the time re- quested, even if it meant that he would come in and shake you awake, but usu- ally just banging on the door did the trick. I am enclosing uiu' ol llic s.im|)k' notes. The Charlie mentioned became the center on the later-famous Brown Iron Men football team, namely, Charles R. Consodine, my roommate. Being custodian of 36 Prospect Street gave Mr. A.E. Sims enough ad- ditional money to let him indulge in his hobby, which was oil painting. I still have three of his oils, which 1 pur- chased at a sale held at an exhibit by the Providence Art Club. Each work had a label on the back giving the title of the painting, the artist's name, price, and artist's address. At that time the Admi- ral lived at 502 Public Street. Ritchie L. Stevens '28 Needham Heights, Mass. 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L'niversity Organist Fred MacAr- ihur is the organ's most loyal champion ■ lUi* A ^_M B S ^W*M ^^m-ij ^ Fred MacArlhin demon.slralcs the organ lu Summer College attende and defender. Famous among students for his popular midnight concerts, he came to Brown in 1981. At that time, he says, the organ was "virtually unusa- ble." From January through March of 1982, repair work was done, but it was only of a minimum nature — enough work, in a sense, to make the organ playable. Today, one thousand of the organ's 3,300 pipes are inoperable. The Windermere Island Club Is Hard To Find, Deliberately, (jQ^ But to those who always seem to know the best places to be, its a favorite island retreat. Miles of unspoiled beaches to explore, superb tennis, water sports, a guest list that reads like an International Who's Who. Done in the tradition of excellence by the owners of the Venice Simplon- Orient-Express. the Windermere Island Club is a slice of paradise. Not exclusive, really, . Bui not for everyone. For details, speak with your travel agent or call our office at (800) 257- 1 236. In New York State call (2 1 2) 859-0222. In Canada, (800) 45 1 -2255. Windermere Island Club Elcuthera • The Bi\hiuiutf A Venice Simplon-Orienl-Express Hotel ' ■ UW" Vcmec Simplon-Oneni fjq)rfs.>i irony of the situation is that despite that fact, the organ "still sounds wonderful," and still has the power to awe, humble, and charm listeners. Fhat creates a false sense that the problem is not as desperate as MacArthur and others who have examined the organ contend. And while the instrument could always be repaired — "there is no point of no return," according to MacArthur — it is living on "borrowed time. And it will be very sad if we get to the point where it doesn't play at all." Climbing narrow wooden ladders, navigating catwalk passages, squeezing through tiny doors, sightseeing in a forest of metal and wooden pipes — being in the belly of this wonderful beast — is an experience that would have made Jonah feel right at home. And after the tour, like the prophet, the tourist feels compelled to spread the word. MacArthur enjoys referring to this behemoth as a "baby." In terms of size, the instrument is as much a baby as King Kong or Moby Dick. Prior to 1903, Sayles featured a small pimip organ. To give the music a fuller sound, the organist often per- formed at vespers and other services with a trumpet player. But pressure from the student body to endow the hall with a more majestic instrument was finally matched by the beneficence of the Sharpe family. The contract was signed with the Hutchings Company of Boston in January and by Jime — in time for Commencement — the woi k had been completed. When the organ was in its prime. 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The work that was done in 1982, for example, was undone by four days of heavy rain in June of that year. Insurance claims pay for more repair, but again the rains come, and, as it did in October 1986, more damage occurs. MacArthur adds, with a sad smile, "The organ dries out and it still works." The cost of lestoring the Hutch- ings, estimated at $180,000 in 1981, has risen to nearly half a million dollars today. The work, if undertaken, would take approximately two to three years to complete, with some of the work taking place on site. The organ has four sections, and work would progress one section at a time. Each of the 3,300 pipes, which range in height from thir- ty-two feet to less than an inch, would be done over, down to polishing what remains of the gold leaf. The reser- voirs, chambers for the huge bellows, would be taken apart and, where nec- essary, rebuilt. Parts that had to be replaced would be retooled. In short, MacArthur says, "They will take what is here and make it better." MacArthur is interim organist, choirmaster, and director of music of Old South Church in Boston. Despite his many obligations, he performs about twelve times a year on the organ. Last December 12, he gave his 1 18th concert. Hundreds of students are rou- tinely turned away from his midnight concerts. But when MacArthur throws the switch to turn on the electro-pneu- matic system, and while the great bel- lows hll with air, there will also be a rushing, hissing noise, the sound of air escaping from all the cracked, broken, and leaking pipes. He will have to re- meinber which stops are operable, and when his fingers touch the keyboards, they will have to jump and skip over all the mute keys. For those who have never heard the organ before, or only remember it from recent years, the music will blos- som like a large and beautiful flower. 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While most students were away on winter break, photographer John F or aste found signs of life among the chilly scenes of a Providence winter. The remnant on campus included graduate students, such as Hang Zhu of applied mathematics, shown at left in the Sciences Library. Eric Widmer, who has been dean of student life at Brown for the past nine years, has been named the University's first dean of admission and financial aid. His appointment will take effect July 1, when James Rogers '56, the current director of admission and financial aid, retires; until then, Wid- mer will have the title "dean designate," and he will continue to serve as dean of student life. The new position was created last year following Rogers's announcement of his intention to leave Brown, and the retirement of Director of Financial Aid Alan Maynard '47. "This is an academic position of great importance to Brown," says Provost Maurice Glicks- man, "in terms of the quality of the students we recruit and their commit- ment to academic pursuits." Glicksman chaired the committee that selected Widmer after an internal search. The decision was approved by President Howard Swearer and, in December, by the Corporation's Advisory and Execu- tive Committee at its monthly meeting. Widmer, a China scholar who is a member of Brown's history faculty, "has a keen appreciation of Brown's special character as a university/college, and an intense commitment to aca- demic quality," commented Swearer in announcing the appointment. "His reputation for fairness and integrity is outstanding, and he has an abiding concern that the University fulfill its responsibility to educate future leaders from all sectors of society." A 1961 graduate of Williams Col- lege, Widmer received a Ph.D. in histo- ry and Far Eastern languages from Harvard in 1969. At Brown, he has taught Chinese and Central Asian his- tory since 1969, and from 1975 to 1979 he was executive officer for faculty and academic affairs. As dean of student life, he has been responsible for all non-academic student services, as well as police and security services. Widmer has overseen the expansion of dormi- tory-based peer-counseling programs and other residential activities, orches- trated delicate matters of student rights and University discipline, instituted tighter self-policing by fraternities, and dealt with student protests. Glicksman explains that his com- mittee limited its search to the campus community because it wanted a candi- date with a wide-ranging knowledge of Brown who "could start quickly in a very critical position. We are fortu- nate," Glicksman adds, "that we had such a candidate and that Brown could make an appointment that should give strength and leadership in the critical years ahead." Widmer was the only applicant for the new position, Glicks- man says. Asserting that he will be in close contact with Brown's faculty regarding admission matters, Widmer notes that his appointment will send a message about the University's mission. "The significance of [a faculty member] in this Job won't be lost on the other Ivy schools or on high-school counselors," he says. "Em a card-carrying academic. Brown wants to signal that, as much as we're interested in students' indepen- dence, we mean to be infused with a sense that intellectual life takes primacy over everything else." This coming summer, the financial aid offices will move from the Brown Office Building on Thayer Street to a carriage house behind the Admission Office, on Fones Alley. That proximity, and the still-embryonic union of the formerly separate operations, will help personnel negotiate the tricky questions and timing that characterize the hectic winter months, when admission deci- sions and aid awards must be coordi- nated between the two offices. "The signals between admission and financial aid are going to get clearer," Widmer says, and he thinks this will especially help Brown to attract a highly qualified 13 UNDERTHE ELMS Eric Widmer: A combined effort by admission and financial aid. and diverse student population. "Brown badly wants people here who need financial aid, " he explains; "they mean everything to us, vis-a-vis diversi- ty. With a combined effort by admission and financial aid, our chances for get- ting the best of that need group are improved." Widmer hopes to follow through on a plan voiced last year by outgoing Director Rogers, in which the job de- scriptions of staff in both offices would be broadened to include some overlap- ping duties. "People will be comfortable working in both offices," Widmer .says, "and that will be good for them and for the I'niversitv." In the future he would like to see the financial-aid office expand its func- tion to include serving as a financial counseling and referral center for all students. "Most students and their par- ents need advice on how to pay for col- lege," Widmer explains. "I'd like to see the financial-aid office rendering fi- nancial planning assistance to families during the college years. All Brown students would feel comfortable going there for help, whether they were on aid or not." Some of this has been done informally, Widmer adds, but at pres- ent there isn't adequate staffing lo for- malize such a service. Widmcr's first task, however, will be to hire new directors of admission and financial aid. He will undertake national searches for those positions this winter, with the hope that directors will be in place by this summer. He will be looking for experienced profes- sionals: "I'm not an expert in either admission or financial aid," Widmer says frankly, "so I'll want to hire people who know those two worlds very well." What he brings to the job, in addi- tion to his experience as a Brown fac- ulty member and dean, Widmer feels, is an intangible sense of what makes a Brown student. "I don't think there's a prototypical Brown student with a sin- gle set of qualities," he explains. "But after a number of years, you develop a certain eye for who would make a con- tribution to the University and at the same time profit from it. By dealing with the products of admission deci- sions for the past nine years, I have something solid to go on." A.D. Not-guilty verdict brings a sensational trial to a close A Providence insurance executive was acquitted by a Providence Superior Court jury on December 10 of seven charges relating to an alleged sex-for- hire operation that involved two then- Brown students. Stanley Henshaw III, age forty-five, had been accused of maintaining a nuisance at his East Side condominium and of various sex of- fenses. While the jury concluded that the state had not presented conclusive evi- dence of a prostitution ring, it convict- ed Henshaw of two counts of drug possession (marijuana and cocaine). He received a three-month jail sentence, to begin February 13, and was fined $1,500. In an unusual move, Henshaw's lawyer, John F. Sheehan '53, had asked the jury during his final argument to convict Henshaw of the drug charges, because, he explained, "the evidence is overwhelming" against his client. After the verdict, jurors explained that testimony by Rebecca Kidd '86, Dana E. Smith '86, and two other young women, including a former stu- dent at Johnson & Wales College in Providence, convinced them that the women had not been coerced by Hen- shaw to pose for nude photographs and to have sex for money. Judge Joseph Rodgers had instructed the jury that they could not convict Henshaw of pandering if they found that "the young ladies intended to engage in prostitution before entering Mr. Hen- shavv's house." Both of the former Brown stu- dents, who have since graduated, were granted immunity from prosecution in exchange for their testimony. The conclusion of the Henshaw trial also brought an end, welcomed by many at Brown, to a second round of media coverage focusing on the often- sordid particulars of the case. Most of the trial coverage, however, was local, in contrast to the international media barrage that followed the arrests of Henshaw, Kidd, and Smith in March 1986. At that time, sensationalized re- ports and headlines focusing on the case's Brown connection prompted an angry lecture by Vice President for University Relations Robert A. Reichley to reporters at a press conference, and a reassuring letter from President Howard R. Swearer to parents and alumni leaders. "After the first stories came out," Reichley reflects now, "we did get across that this was not a Brown Uni- versity story. When the case actually went to trial, we made additional efforts to make sure it was not [portrayed as] a Brown story. Many of the articles were reasonably accurate, but we were frus- trated again by the headline-writers. That five-letter word, 'Brown,' fits too conveniently in a headline." Most people, Reichley feels, will not implicate an entire university in the controversy surrounding a few stu- dents. "Brown is a community of 10,000 people," he says. "In modern times something Hke this [Kidd's and Smith's involvement with Henshaw] can happen. It is not seen as a reflection on our student body, except perhaps by a few reckless and irresponsible media outlets." For Brown, Reichley believes, the long-term repercussions of the case will be minimal. He notes that last year's applications for admission remained at nearly the same level as the previous year's, and that the University's fund- raising efforts achieved an increase of 71 percent, which may have been the best in the country. "Thoughtful peo- A trench for new heating pipes— part of the renovation of Rogers Hall— is all that disturbs the deserted Green on a cold January day. pie," maintains Reichley, will not be swayed from attending and supporting a university of Brown's caliber by media coverage of the Henshaw case. A.D. Associated Alumni election slate is announced This month, alumni will receive ballots in the mail for the election of an alum- na and an alumnus to serve as Brown trustees, and for a secretary and a treasurer of the Associated Alumni. Completed ballots must be returned to the Alumni Relations Office by April 1. This year's slate includes the fol- lowing candidates: For alumnus trustee: J. Richard Chambers '69, Nash- ville. He is president of Dominion Bank and of the American Sunbelt Credit Union, both in Nashville; serves as treasurer of the Nashville Area Cham- ber of Commerce and as a commission- er on the Metro Nashville Housing Authority; and is a director of Saint Thomas Hospital. He served three years on the Brown Fund Executive Committee and was chairman in 1984. A National Alumni Schools Program (NASP) volunteer, he is a former NASP regional director. Chambers also is a former member of the Associated Alumni board. David A. Yen '80, Cleveland. He is an officer and director of International Equipment Sales and Consulting, a firm that specializes in the licensing of tech- nology, the establishment of joint ven- ture manufacturing operations, and the export and import of industrial prod- ucts with countries in Asia and Europe. Since 1985 he has been president of the Brown University Association of Northeast Ohio; he also has worked for NASP. He is chairman of the promo- tion committee for the 43rd Annual Cleveland World Trade Conference, and a member of the Cooperative Edu- cation Advisory Board, Notre Dame College (of Ohio). Bruce D. Yeutter '57, Upper Montclair, New Jersey. He is vice presi- dent and manager — corporate bond sales and trading, for Alex. Brown & Sons, New York City. He is head class agent for the class of 1957, president of the Brown Men's Soccer Association, and former president of the Essex County Brown Club. Yeutter is chair- man of the Montclair YMCA Marlin national championship swimming team, a United Way volunteer, and an age- group youth soccer coach. For alumna trustee: Shirley Burr Darling '44, Denver. She is an educational consultant in pri- vate practice, and previously worked as an admissions officer at colleges in Mis- souri and Ohio. She serves on the board of directors of the Independent Educational Consultants Association and two of its committees. Darling re- UNDERTHE ELMS ceived the Brown Bear Award in 1984, when she also was a Commencement marshal. She has been active with NASP, serving as an interviewer and as chairman for Colorado and for the Rocky Mountain Region. Susan Wheaton Huffard 62, New \'()ik City. She is an interior designer with her own business, Su.san Huffard Interiors, and currently is working on a book. Huffard was assistant to the chief of protocol of the U.S. for Blair House in 1984, and that year was also creative liaison for the Presidential Inaugural Committee. She was chairman of the Fairfield County (Connecticut) NASP committee for five years; a member of the Advisory Committee of Friends of l.ist Art Building for six years; and a class reunion agent last year. Gail Caslowitz Levine '63, Chest- nut Hill, Massachusetts. An active vol- unteer, she is director of the Children's Hospital League, Boston, and of the women's auxiliary of the Hebrew Re- habilitation Center for the Aged; a member of the executive committee of the Boston Aid to the Blind governing board, and a representative to the Brookline High School Curriculum Review Committee. Levine serves on Brown's Corporation Committee on Development, the Brown Annual Fund Executive Committee, and as chair of the women of 1963's twenty-fifth reun- ion gift committee. She was NASP co- chairman for Central Boston for six years. For secretary of the Associated Alumni: Robert G. Flanders, Jr. 71, East Greenwich, Rhode Island. He is a founding partner of Flanders and Medeiros, Inc., a corporate litigation law firm in Providence. From 1971-74 he was a minor-league baseball player for the Detroit Tigers organization. Flanders is president of the Brown Club of Rhode Island, and serves as alumni representative and secretary for the Corporation Committee on Athlet- ics. He has been legal counsel and a board member of the Rhode Island Cloalition for the Homeless; served as town solicitor for Glocester, Rhode Is- land; and was assistant executive legal counsel to (iovernor Edward DiPiete. Javette Pinkney Laremont '80, Flint, Michigan. She is a marketing manager for IBM Corporation, re- sponsible for sales and services in Brown Daily Herald Editor John Youngwood '89 spends a winter day in the offic fifteen Michigan counties. Laremont currently serves as chair of Brown's Third World Alumni Affairs Commit- tee, as class treasurer, on the Associated Alumni Board of Governors, and on the Corporation Committee on Minor- ity Affairs. She also participates in Brown's "Investment in Diversity" scholarship fund-raising effort. She is active in Michigan business affairs, and serves as a Junior Achievement Execu- tive Advisor. Steven J. Miller '78, Cleveland. He is an attorney with Goodman Weiss Coplan & Aronoff in Cleveland, and serves as associate editor of the Ameri- can Bar Association's Litigation maga- zine. Miller is the founding president of Cleveland Opera Associates, and a member of the Cleveland Opera Gov- erning Committee and its board of trustees. He has served as a member of the Associated Alumni's executive committee, its board of directors, and as chair of its Field Activities Commit- tee. A member of the Brown University Association of Northeastern Ohio, he has served as NASP area co-chairman. For treasurer of the Associated Alumni: Robert Cole '72, Ladue, Missouri. He is vice president — investment bank- ing of A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc., in St. Louis, involved with corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions trans- actions, (^ole is a NASP regional chair- man and a past president of the Brown University Club of St. Louis. A member of the Associated Alumni's board of directors, he received Brown's Alumni Service Award in 1984. Fraser A. Lang '67, Barrington, Rhode Island. He is president of Man- isses Communications Group, Inc., a publisher of newsletters and periodicals for professionals in health-related fields. A former Peace Corps volunteer in Iran, he worked for a time as a Brown development officer, and as director of alumni relations and devel- opment at Bryant College. He is a member of the Associated Alumni board of governors, and chair of its marketing and communications com- mittee. Lang is a former president of the Brown Club of Washington, D.C. Robert F. Yizar '74, Mamaroneck, New York. He is a credit officer with Citicorp North America, Inc., special- izing in equipment leasing and equity investments. He is on the board of di- rectors of the Washingtonville Housing Alliance, is co-founder and first presi- dent of College Careers of Westchester, Inc., and is a mentor for Citicorp and for the University of Chicago, where he received his M.B.A. Yizar is active in Westchester County Brown Club and NASP activities, is a former NASP minority coordinator, and is on the board of directors of the Brown Rugby Club. Faculty in the news: Martian tornadoes and reckless teenagers At regular intervals, clippings about Brown faculty from newspapers and magazines far and wide cross our desk. Herewith a sampler of items received recently: Post-menopausal women who take es- trogen reduce their risk of hip fractures by one-third, reported Dr. Douglas P. Kiel, assistant professor of medicine, in the New England Journal of Medicine last November. After menopause, ex- plained an article citing Kiel's research in the Boston Globe, women's bodies produce much less of the female hor- mone estrogen, and their bones become brittle and susceptible to breaking. With researchers at the Boston University School of Medicine and the Framingham (Mass.) Heart Study, Kiel studied long-term records for 163 women who had suffered hip fractures. Most of them had not taken estrogen after menopause, the team found. The team concluded that taking the hor- mone within four years of menopause conferred extra protection against hip fracture. The use of estrogen therapy as a preventative is controversial because some studies have indicated it increases the likelihood of certain cancers and of heart attacks. Kiel emphasizes that the decision to take estrogen is a complex one best made on a case-by-case basis by each woman and her doctor. However, he leans toward recommending the therapy, noting that about half of all women who suffer hip fractures never walk again without assistance. In addi- tion, about half of the women in his study who had been living indepen- dently before their hip fractures were unable to do so afterwards. Kiel is on the staff of Rhode Island Hospital in Providence. Evidence found in photographs taken by two orbiting U.S. space probes in the 1970s seems to indicate that Mars is zapped by thousands of tornadoes each year. That is the finding of Associate Professor of Geology Peter Schultz and graduate student John Grant, as re- ported in the journal Science and subse- quently in daily newspapers from Los Angeles to Ottawa to Providence. The two geologists reached their conclusion after studying thousands of scratch-like markings that appear on the Martian surface at the end of each summer. The lines seem to resemble those made by tornadoes on earth, as seen in satellite photographs. In addi- tion, the Mars photos indicate that the lines disappear each fall and are cov- ered by what is apparently blowing dust. In the Science article, Schultz chal- lenged earlier interpretations of the dark streaks that extend as much as fifty miles across the Martian surface. Scientists previously had assumed these markings were caused by linear sand dunes or joint patterns. Schultz argued that the streaks, which are half a mile wide, are straight or slightly curved and have gaps that do not relate to topog- raphy. Also, they seem to be a seasonal phenomenon. Schultz added that a new Mars sat- ellite, the Mars Obsemer, which NASA plans to launch in 1992, will have the ability to produce photographs with enough detail that scientists can verify whether the streaks are tornado tracks. An astronaut standing near a Mar- tian tornado. Grant speculated in an No break for grad students: Jae Johng (above right) and post-doc Walter Ott discuss chemistry, and engineering grad student Lynn Ewart studies in the SciLi. ^-"5 Vv interview, "would see a vortex full of sand and dust whipping along" at speeds of 112 to 225 miles per hour. This is somewhat milder than an Earth twister, in which top wind speeds are thought to be over 300 mph. The Mars version, rather than being spawned by thunderstorms as is the case on Earth, would be caused by warm air rising from the parched surface and interact- ing with the winds of an approaching cold front, sending the air spinning into the higher atmosphere where it devel- ops into a vortex. What should parents of the '80s tell their children about sex, now that AIDS is part of the picture? That was the subject of a feature in the November 16 issue of U.S. News i^ World Report, which included the findings of two child psychiatrists on Brown's medical teaching staff. Drs. Larry Brown and Gregory Fritz sur- veyed 908 Rhode Island junior and senior high school students about their knowledge of AIDS. While the teenag- ers were well informed in some re- spects — 90 percent of them knew that touching an AIDS victim doesn't put you at risk of contracting the disease, and 98 percent knew the disease is transmitted via sexual intercourse — they displayed fear and ignorance in other areas. For example, only 34 percent of the students knew that donating blood is safe; 45 percent believed that homo- sexuals are to blame for the existence of AIDS; and more than 25 percent said that AIDS victims "got what they de- served." Fritz recently had an opportu- nity to simultaneously allay a child's anxiety and educate him about AIDS when his own son, Peter, age nine, brought up the subject at the dinner table. "Am I going to get AIDS?" Peter asked. Fritz began to explain about AIDS to Peter and his two sisters: "I didn't tell them 'watch out' or 'be care- ful.' We encouraged them to ask ques- tions." Midway through the discussion, it became apparent that Peter didn't know what homosexuality was, al- though he knew the playground slang referring to it. Fritz expanded the dis- cussion to include homosexuality, and continued with more general talk about sexuality, prejudice, and fear. Lipsitt and a future risk-taker at the Child Study Center. Lewis Lipsitt, professor of psychology and director of Brown's Child Study Center, made the news twice in recent months — once for an aspect of his re- search, and once for his hobby. The research was featured as part of a New York Times Science section ar- ticle on adolescent risk-taking. The sto- ry noted that adolescents are the only age group for which mortality has risen since 1960, and that three-quarters of teenage deaths are due to accidents, homicide, and suicide. "The three biggest killers of young people are essentially psychological," Lipsitt told the Times. "They are dying of their own reckless behavior." Last year Lipsitt organized a meeting at the National Institute of Mental Health to draw up an agenda for researchers from around the country on teenage risk-taking, and what can be done about it. A follow-up meeting will be held this spring. The article went on to cite several pertinent research projects conducted at other universities, and made at least one observation that is no news to any- one who has lived with adolescents: "The ability to evaluate risk," the Times said in muted understatement, "seems to be skewed in many teenagers." In a lighter vein, the North Jersey Herald isf News, published in Passaic, New Jersey, interviewed Lipsitt about one of his several collections: that of people's names related to their occupa- tions. He maintains a computer file of the names he has come across (and that have been sent to him by others who know of his interest) over the past twenty years. "One of my luckiest finds," Lipsitt told the newspaper, "was a Dr. Fish. Former head of the Rhode Island Oce- anographic Institute, Fish once worked with a man named Saila." Others on his list include a horti- culturist named Greenhouse, an ortho- dontist named Smiley, a music teacher named Fiddler, and the former head of the Rhode Island Audubon Society, whose last name was Hawkes. Lipsitt theorizes that such fortuitous pairings may not be total coincidences, but that, in fact, one's name may subtly influence one's choice of vocation. His theory is corroborated in the article by Daniel Sugarman, professor of psychology at William Paterson College in New Jer- sey, who says, "Many studies have been done on the question and most confirm Lipsitt's findings ... A name can influence, it can conjure up certain kinds of images. If you give a child an unusual name, you are casting an ex- pectation." Older physicians do not provide as many services to their elderly patients as do their younger counterparts. That is a conclusion of a national survey of 1,800 doctors conducted by Dr. David B. Reuben, assistant professor of com- munity health and a member of the Rhode Island Hospital staff. Reuben's study was summarized in Newsday. Conventional wisdom has held that older doctors understand their con- temporaries better and give such pa- tients more attention, and indeed, Reuben found that they spent more time per visit with older patients than did younger doctors. But the study also discovered that the older doctors were less likely to order mental-status tests and eye exams, to prescribe physio- therapy, to provide telephone follow- ups, and to outline specific follow-up treatment plans. Reuben's report points out that the difference might be attributable to a more informal pattern of practice by older doctors, or their more intimate knowledge of their patients. On the other hand, it might represent "a fail- ure by older physicians to keep up to date with current concepts in medical practice." His study, which compared doctors aged sixty-five years and older with doctors between thirty-five and fifty-four years of age, appeared origi- nally in the July 1987 issue oi the Jour- nal of the American Geriatrics Society. A.D. SPORTS By James Reinbold Scoreboard (December 2-january 16) Men's Basketball (4-9) Brown 80, Texas 77 Stanford 90, Brown 78 Providence 104, Brown 90 Brown 97, Bryant 78 San Diego 74, Brown 54 Cal State-Fullerton 106, Brown 60 Westmont 71, Brown 64 Brown 99, St. Joseph's (L.I.) 75 Lehigh 102, Brown 92 Lafayette 75, Brown 74 Rhode Island 104, Brown 91 Yale 82, Brown 75 Women's Basketball (1-11) Lehigh 68, Brown 63 Lafayette 64, Brown 39 Rhode Island 65, Brown 49 Siena 75, Brown 54 Siena 82, Brown 65 New Hampshire 80, Brown 45 North Caroiina-Asheville 72, Brown 57 Western Carolina 67, Brown 60 Furman 72, Brown 69 lona 89, Brown 63 Central Connecticut 58, Brown 57 Brown 67, Yale 64 Men's Ice Hockey (1-12-1) Clarkson 8, Brown 1 St. Lawrence 6, Brown 3 Providence 9, Brown 6 Princeton 3, Brown 2 Brown 2, Army 2 Yale 4, Brown Harvard 5, Brown 2 Women's Ice Hockey (1-3) Brown 3, Yale Harvard 2, Brown 1 Princeton 4, Brown 3 Cornell 2, Brown I Men's Swimming (2-3) Princeton 132.5, Brown 75 Navy 140, Brown 77 Women's Swimming (3-1) Brown 154, Princeton 114 Harvard 175, Brown 93 Wrestling (2-0) 1st, Coast Guard Invitational Brown 32, Springfield 6 Gymnastics (0-1) URI 171.15, Brown 169.60 Hockey Coach Hammond (right) looks for some recruiting help. The admission variance: A controversial boost to losing teams At the conclusion of the 1975-76 men's ice hockey season. Brown found itself among the final four at the NCAA Championships. The Bruins had com- pleted the season with a 23-7 record and finished first in the Ivy League at 11-1. They lost to Michigan Tech in double overtime, 7-6, then defeated Boston University, 8-7, for a third-place finish in the tournament. Twelve years later, the team is trapped in what seems an endless series of losing seasons. The team has not played above .500 since 1977-1978, when they finished 14-14-1. They won only one game after returning from their much-heralded China trip in 1985-86, finishing the season at 4-19. Last year, the Bruins managed to secure an ECAC playoff berth despite an overall season record of 8-19. The team is 1-12-1 so far this season. For those involved with Ivy League athletics who can respond to such mis- fortune with more than sighs, tears, and outrage, the ultimate question is: How bad do things have to get before something is done to alleviate the situ- ation? In the case of men's ice hockey at Brown — at least in the eyes of the Ivy League presidents — things have to gel decidedly worse. In December, the presidents chose not to follow the Ivy League Policy Committee's recommen- dation to grant an admission variance to men's hockey at Brown. The vari- ance would have allowed the University to relax admission standards, thereby allowing a better opportunity to recruit players. As Coach Herb Hammond told the Brown Daily Herald, "The league is very competitive, but not as balanced as it should be." News of Brown's request, coming close on the heels of the revelation that the league had granted a variance to Columbia's football program in 1985 (the team is still winless, its losing streak now at forty-one games), stirred up controversy within and outside the Ivy League. In a league where athletics are part of the total university environ- ment, and where the classroom is more important than the playing field, a re- quest for a variance seems, superfi- cially, an attempt to give athletics un- due emphasis, a distortion of the Ivy League credo. The crux of the matter is the Aca- demic Index (AI), an equation that fac- tors in SAT scores, achievement scores, and class ranking to come up with a numerical quotient. The minimum AI acceptable for admission to Brown is 161. The average is 200, based on a possible 240, according to the admis- sion office. For example: a student who scori'd 1,000 in his SATs, an average of .500 in his three achievement tests, and was ranked in the middle of his class would have an A I of 150. Traditionally, a student can be admitted if his AI is lower than 161 only if other considera- tions can Ije demonstrated that make the case unique. Specifically, then, an athlete cannot be admitted if his AI is lower than 161 solely because he is an athlete. In his case, according to admis- sion office language, "compelling, non- athletic" reasons must argue favorably for the case. When Columbia's 1985 variance for football was reported in The New York Times last November 19, the re- sulting avalanche of publicity was just the sort of thing Brown Director of Admission and Financial Aid James Rogers '56 prefers to keep his distance from, and he declined to comment for publication about Brown's request. Eric VVidmer, clean of student life and dean-designate of admission and financial aid, agrees that the issue is a sensitive one, but feels that discussion is the best way to avoid false conclu- sions. Widmer might agree with Roger Lehecka, dean of students at Columbia, who, reacting to the disclosure, said in The New York Times, "You essentially took a pimple and portrayed it as a cancer." He said Columbia administra- tors were not trying to hide anything, nor were they embarrassed. The waiv- er, he said, was merely an attempt to held a competitive team out of fairness to the players. "The university couldn't do that on its own," Lehecka said. "The league, too, saw it (as) undesirable to have one school lagging so far behind. The fact is that an uncompetitive pro- gram is not a fair thing to do to stu- dents. They're the ones hurt the most by the disparity between our football team and the others in the league. And for their sake we felt we should do something about it." Some have argued that the thing to do is not grant a waiv- er, or variance, but simply for Colum- bia lo (ease playing other Ivy League St 111 nils and, if it chooses to maintain a football program, to schedule oppo- nents with whom they can be more competitive. Widmer is Brown's representative on the Ivy League Policy Committee. It was he who recommended in late No- vember that Blown hockey be granted the variance. The committee approved the request. According to Widmer, the intent of the request was to get a vari- ance before the Brown hockey program found itself in (Columbia's position. "We didn't want the program to decline any finther," he said. When asked if he thought the variance procedure was an attempt to bring parity to the league, Widmer replied, "No, I don't think so. We just think a team should be able to win their fair share of games. " What has admission officers, athletic directors, and coaches upset are misunderstandings about what a vari- ance really means. It is commonly agreed that 161 is an arbitrary figure. Many variables influence a student's performance in standardized tests and class ranking. To dismiss a student's application solely based on a sub-161 AI, many feel, is unfair. Lest anyone imagine that the bottom of the bucket would have fallen out had Brown been gianted the variance, Widmer points out, "We're only talking about a couple of points below the 161 ininimum." Also, he emphasizes, the University must maintain a "standard deviation" when admitting students with lower AIs. In other words, the collective AI must remain within a pre-set figure. Thus, admission cannot dip too low in admitting athletes. Winter roundup Marcus Thompson's '90 27 points led the men's basketball team to a 99-75 victory over St. Joseph's of Long Island and a third-place finish in the Hofstra Classic in Hempstead, N.Y., early in January. The sophomore's two three- point baskets put Brown ahead midway through the first half (30-27) and sped them to a 50-39 halftime lead. Anthony Katsaros '88, named to the all-tour- nament team, had 22 points and twelve rebounds, and Marc Rudolph '90 added fifteen. The win avenged an opening-game loss to Westmont, loser to Hofstra in the final. In a West Coast tournament in December, the Apple Invitational at Stan- ford, at least one sportswriter was shocked by Brown's opening-night win over the University of Texas Longhorns. "The Texas Longhorns," he wrote in the Austin, Texas, American-Statesman, "lost Friday night to a school from a con- ference that does not even allow athletic scholarships." Shame on you, Texas. It was Thompson's two free throws with twenty seconds left that gave Brown an 80-77 lead — and what was to be the final score — as Texas failed to tie the game on two last-second three-point goal attempts. Brown then lost to Stanford, 90-78, which had defeated William & Mary in the other first-round game. In regular-season play, the team dropped to 4-8 following losses to Le- high, Lafayette, and URL Thompson scored 27 points against Lehigh. Chris Burge '89 and Rudolph had career highs of 19 and 17 points respectively. A Bruin rally fell short and Yale won the Ivy League opener, 82-75, at New Haven. With just over a minute remaining, Brown trailed by three, 76-73, having come back in the second half, but Yale converted four from the free-throw line in the closing seconds to pull away again. Thompson, Ru- dolph, and Katsaros scored all but two of Brown's field goals. Thompson led all scorers with 36 points, eighteen in each half. Women's basketball lost to Central Connecticut, 58-57, for their eleventh loss in as many games. Margaret Fuchs '91 scored with eleven seconds left to bring the Bruins within one, but a field-goal attempt with three seconds left failed. Fuchs had 24 points and Krista Butterfield '89, 10. The Bruins registered their first win of the season in the Ivy opener against Yale, 67-64. Fuchs led the team with 14 points. Butterfield added 1 1 and Janet Firlings '91 contributed 10. Men's ice hockey returned to action on January 5 against Providence College, but a third-period meltdown — a condition that led to their defeat in six of their first eight losses — doomed the Bruins again as Providence scored five Administrators also must take into account the effect of a variance on the student-athlete. Director of Athletics John Parry '65 worries about an athlete being "stigmatized" by the assumption that his admission to college was based solely on his athletic ability. That may be acceptable in other leagues and con- ferences, but not in the Ivy League. For Coach Hammond, there is lit- de reason to be philosophical about the variance denial. His livelihood depends on the hockey program. He says blunt- ly, "To be competitive, we need help. The future of the program is at stake." According to Hammond, there are re- ally a very small number of Division I high school players who can get into an Ivy League school. He estimates the number to be ten or twelve annually. "Of that number," he says, "five go to Harvard, Yale gets two or three of the others, and Dartmouth, Princeton, Cornell, and Brown fight for the rest." One way to dramatize that information: Brown, in six years under Hammond, is 0-10-2 against Harvard, and 0-11 against Yale. This past recruiting sea- son, he lost two players to the Universi- ty of Vermont because their AIs were in the high 150s, just below the mini- mum 161. Hammond says tersely, "We cannot get enough quality players to come to Brown. We need help." times for a 9-6 win. Sophomore goalie Chris Harvey performed valiandy in the net, making forty saves, but he was ultimately victimized by a porous Brown defense late in the game. The loss was the ninth for Brown this season. The only win has come against the University of New Hampshire, when, ironically, the Bruins scored the winning goals in the third period. The old phrase, "A tie is as good as a win," certainly held true for the I- 10 Bruins when they battled Army to a 2-2 deadlock in an ECAC game. Brad Kreick '91 sent the game into overtime with a goal at 18:30 of the third peri- od. Yale scored three times in the third period for a 4-0 victory at New Haven. Goalie Harvey, under constant pressure, stopped 32 of 33 shots in the first two periods. Brown outshot Yale in the final period, but the Elis took advantage of the attack and scored two goals late in the period on breakaways. Harvard scored four times in the third period for a 5-2 win at Bright Arena. Whitney Robbins '90 scored twice for the Pandas in a losing 4-3 effort against Princeton at Meehan. The loss dropped women's ice hockey to 1-2 in the Ivy League. Cornell scored twice in the third period for a 2-1 victory. Robbins's sec- ond-period goal had given Brown the lead. Wrestling is off to another impressive start, victorious in their first three meets and winning the Coast Guard Invitational for the second consecutive year. Pete Monize '88 and Bob Hill '88 were named co-recipients of the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestler of the Month Award in December. Monize, wresding at 126 pounds, finished first in his weight class at the Coast Guard Invitational and finished second in the Sunshine Open in Florida, the highest placing of any EIWA wrestler. Hill, at 150 pounds, also won his division at the CGI and finished fourth at the Sunshine. He is a defending Eastern champion. Men's swimming is now 2-3, following a loss to Navy. Women's swimming is 3- 1 , winning their first three meets before dropping a decision to Harvard. Gymnastics opened the season with a tough loss to URL Less than two points separated the teams when the final score was tallied. Sue Craven '90 tied for first in the bar competition, and Kathy Coskren '90 scored a 9.0 on the floor exercises. But Hammond is realistic about how much those two players would have helped the team, and, by exten- sion, how helpful a variance would be. Two freshmen players probably wouldn't turn a season around. "I don't know if we would have won more games with them," he says. "Maybe we would have won one more game." On the other hand, Hammond continues, "You add two (top players) one year, two the next, and in four years you have eight players." For now, Hammond and men's hockey will continue their struggle. "Last year, based on the efforts of six seniors, we earned a playoff berth in the ECAC tournament," he says. "People don't realize how hard those kids worked to win that spot. All people look at is that we were 8-19." This year the team has one win and one tie in fourteen games. "You know what kind of self-image those kids have on campus?" he asks. There is no need to reply. An underdog in three-quar- ters of their games, the team "works hard and gives it their all." But the re- sults are painfully consistent. No one had that in mind when the league was put together, Hammond says. An award for true grit Cornerback George Reilly '88 received the Jerry Nason Award, given to a sen- ior who has "persevered against odds to succeed in football." The award was presented to Reilly at the New England Football Writers dinner in Cambridge, Mass., on December 2. Reilly suffered serious injuries in a thirty-five-foot fall at a construction job site in June, 1985. He spent months in traction, learned to walk again after six months, and returned to Brown. Six games into the 1986 football season, Reilly regained his starting position at cornerback. This season, he had 73 tackles and a fumble recovery. He is the second Brown player to receive the award. Nick Spazio '62 was the first to be honored. :^v:'i mmmmmm mm i .-*; ■^ mfmmmmmmr *«^** ^i :^ 'S£^^«fi'^j«^i<^. ti1af¥iirit' "i ^ A University in Tune with the Times A survey of the 'New Curriculum' alumni finds that Brown lives up to its mission By Daniel Yankelovich Between May and September in 1987, more than 12,000 alumni and alumnae from the classes of 1973 through 1985 were sent questionnaires by the Daniel Yankelovich Group, Inc., a leading survey research firm. The study was commissioned as part of Brown's self-evaluation in preparation for its ten-year reaccreditation this spring by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. Its main purpose: to study former students' assessments of curriculum changes at Brown instituted in 1969. The findings are based OJI 4,445 com- pleted interviews. This represents a return rate of 37 percent of the 12,144 question- naires mailed, hi addition, follow-up tele- phone interviews were conducted with 150 of the Brown alumni who responded to the mail sun>ey. A total of 2,332 respondents volun- teered to participate in the follow-up tele- phone survey. In this article, Daniel Yankelovich re- ports on the survey's findings. As a Brown parent and trustee (emeritus), I take a special interest in the alumni survey conducted by my firm for the University. In examining the results I did expect Brown to compare favorably with other institutions my firm has studied, but I was hardly prepared for them to be so strikingly positive. No institution I have studied over these past thirty years reveals a more favora- ble pattern of success. All of us associ- ated with Brown in recent years have sensed its vitality and glow of well-be- ing. But perhaps because I am not an alumnus myself (Harvard '46, '49), I failed to grasp the intensity of the love affair between Brown and its alumni and alumnae. To me the most impressive finding of the study is the fact that so many Brown alumni are living happy, pro- ductive, successful lives and that they correlate their personal happiness with their experience at Brown. The mean- ing of this finding is not easy to deci- pher. Does it mean that Brown has found the secret of creating happy lives? This would be too much to expect of any institution. Does it mean that Brown, in its selection process, has been exceptionally shrewd in knowing how to pick winners? This conclusion, too, is simplistic. No survey can fix cause and effect unqualifiedly. But the positive relationship between Brown and its alumni is so extraordinary (see docu- mentation below) that it is worth re- flecting on the reasons for such a for- tunate result. My belief is that Brown is excep- tionally well attuned to recent cultural Photographs by John Forast^ changes in ihe nation and thai the peo- ple who attend Brown are ideally posi- tioned to take advantage of those changes. This hypothesis derives from my firm's studies of America's changing values. So, before focusing on the Brown curriculum and other features of the University, let me mention just three of these cultural changes. The first is the exceptional impor- tance that Americans attach to autono- my and personal choice as social values. Over the past twenty years or so we have observed a mounting focus on the importance of personal choice, ranging The College To what degree should college provide the following Experience experience, and to what degree did Broum provide it? Equipped to engage in 1 1 intellectual pursuits 1 '" r^^ ' ^ 1 Developed appreciation 1 for fine arts and culture ^ Knowing a particular held in depth "^^ "^" Having participated in 1 community service activities ^ considered important experiences how well Brown provided Charts by Kathryn de Boer 70 80 90 100 from a much wider range of acceptable lifestyles to the proliferation of prod- ucts and services designed to address "individual" needs. On the political front, in the case of Robert Bork's Su- preme Court nomination, we recently witnessed a swift and powerful national response to an event widely perceived as a threat to autonomy and personal choice. As the economic climate grows more harsh and un.settled, with people becoming ever more apprehensive about their future well-being, there is a strong need to hold onto the values of autonomy and choice as a means of maintaining some degree of personal control over one's life. The second shift in the social envi- ronment, related to the first, involves changes in the definition of success. These can be characterized as moving from success definitions that were al- most wholly external — money, high- status jobs, prestigious cars and homes — to a blend between external and subjective criteria that is so idio- syncratic and individualized that it can be termed 'personal success. " In this blend, traditional notions of success are modified to fit personal values whereby one becomes "one's own person." In- creasingly, young well-educated Americans have come to invent their own definitions of personal success rather than accept them ready-made from the larger society. This concep- tion of "personal success" is the hall- mark of today's form of individuality. A third change in the social envi- ronment centers on what I have called (in Next' Rules, Random House, 1981) an "ethic of commitment." As young peo- ple exercise their autonomy and shape their conception of personal success, they come to realize that if they are to avoid an empty narcissistic existence they must root their lives in commit- ments outside of the self. Gradually, they come to discover that commit- ments to others — individuals, institu- tions, ideas, faiths — will give their lives the meaning they seek. Commitments formed in this fashion — by choice and reflection — have a special strength not always found in those automatically adopted from the heritage of the past. The years of studying social trends have also served to confirm the impact of an undergraduate education on the development of life-long values and attitudes. Any values-based comparison between college and non-college grad- uates demonstrates this with striking clarity. The impact of the undergradu- ate experience is heightened when the core values that the university embodies resonate beyond its walls to the .social climate at large. Viewed in the context of social change, the undergraduate experience offered at Brown appears to be very much in tune with the times. The cur- riculum allows^really requires — stu- dents to exercise a great deal of auton- Some Strengths of Brown The University community 66% The curriculum 54% Independence 33% Atmosphe Quality of education 18% Nonacademic experience 11% Intellectual climate 8% ll Some Weaknesses of Brown Counseling 31% Monetary concerns 8% (tuition too high, financial aid too low) omy and personal choice in iheir aca- demic lives. In addition, by providing a rich cultural and social experience. Brown creates an atmosphere in which students can begin to create their own success criteria and avenues for com- mitment. In short, the process is one in which values grasped only vaguely by incoming students become more real and concrete as a result of their four years at Brown. This sense of appropriateness or fit has led to what can only be described as an extraordinary relationship between Brown alumn: and their school. For example: n Eight in ten alumni rate their Brown experience as outstanding. n Nine in ten would attend Brown again if they had the opportunity to redo their undergraduate experience. n A similarly high level would en- courage their children to apply to Brown. This affirmation is even more impressive when we recognize that these positive feelings are expressed equally by men and women who are alumni from the classes of 1973-1985. Beyond percentages, we were able to learn more about the depth of emo- tional attachment to Brown by alumni — as well as other issues — in follow-up telephone interviews with survey par- ticipants. (In fact, the surprising num- ber of alumni who volunteered to be interviewed further was itself a sign of involvement.) Throughout these inter- views, alumni spoke of their continued commitment to Brown — through visits to the campus, through financial con- tributions to the University, through relationships with other Brown alumni and membership in local alumni clubs. (Avid readership of the Brown Alumni Monthly is universal.) Elizabeth McLar- ney, one of our research associates and a Brown alumna (class of 1985), ex- pressed delight that her personal feel- ings were being confirmed on such a large scale. "I'm not surprised at all," she said. "That's exactly the way I feel about Brown." More striking still is the extremely positive outlook on life shared by the vast majority of Brown alumni. About 90 percent report that they are leading "No other institution I have studied over thirty years reveals a more favorable pattern of the kind of life they want to lead, and even higher proportions express hap- piness with their present lives. Sig- nificantly, Brown alumni state that their undergraduate experience played a major role in preparing them to achieve the goals they have set for themselves. In part, this linkage is related to per- sonal growth and development — many alumni say that they "grew up" during their years at Brown. This in itself is not surprising given what we know about the critical impor- tance of the undergraduate years in general. What impresses me in this study is the degree to which alumni attribute personal growth to Brown, strengths of the New Curriculum ".X^'y Flexible structure 44% ^H^< Independence 35% Intellectual U challenge 18% . 1 Atmosphere 11% II Weaknesses of the New Curriculum Lack of structure 37% Lack of counseling 20% \, High level of 16% independence "Only good for a special population" 15% II rather than assuming that "growing lip" occurred apart from, or even in spite of, the University. Strikingly, more than half of the alumni indicate that they are now in careers that their undergraduate lives led them to seek. This is in sharp contrast to the conven- tional wisdom that an undergraduate liberal arts degree very rarely prepares one for a career after school. This sense of Brown's role in career preparation is :26 expressed almost as strongly by earlier graduates (52 percent of those from 1973-1976) as more recent ones — a most remarkable phenomenon, consid- ering that era's disdain of pre-profes- sionalism. Looking at personal growth more broadly, alumni attribute a strong sense of intellectual independence to their Brown education. More than nine in ten report feeling equipped to engage in independent intellectual pursuits as a result of Brown, and more than half (56 percent) praise the University for developing their abilities to think and question for themselves. Thus, Brown emerges as a place where personal explorations of identity and values mesh with career planning in an at- 'A 'good' counseling system is simply not good enough if Brown stays with its current curriculum." mosphere that alumni describe as sup- portive, stimulating, challenging, and open-minded. The Brown curriculum is seen as the eiTibodiment of the University's overall educational philosophy: that which, above all, distinguishes Brown from its peer institutions in and out of the Ivy League. As such, the Brown curriculum is strongly supported by the alumni, as seen in the following data: D Three in four view the Brown curriculum as "excellent." D A similar proportion agree that the Brown curriculum fosters academic independence not found at other uni- versities. As a result, despite some sugges- tions for fine tuning, there is strong resistance to any proposal that would replace the Brown curriculum with a "core" curriculum. Why such strong support? ^'or many, abolishing the Brown curriculum would destroy the essence of that which makes the college special. Alumni ex- piessed pride that Brown offers an al- ternative to more traditional, rigid approaches. As one member of the class of 1985 put it: "People should have a choice. They can go to other schools with a core cur- riculum if they want. I chose Brown because I wanted the freedom of choice. It would be a shame if they deviated from this. It's unique." On a deeper level, many alumni have come to believe that the individual responsibility demanded of students under the Brown curriculum provides an invaluable experience. They recog- nize the good fit between their aca- detiiic experience and the "real world," as seen in a comment from a 1981 alumnus: "To excel in the working world. indergraduaie lii( one needs to be able to bring order out of chaos, many times. That requires a lot of creativity and the ability to cope with freedom. The New Curriculum teaches students to be creative with the freedom of designing their own curri- culum ... Doing so helps prepare one for the business world." Suggestions for modification of the Brown curriculum center on two areas. The first is a perception that the Brown curriculum may be too flexible and unstructured, presupposing a level of self-directedness that many students lack — even some who are accepted at Brown. Such students may be tempted to ignore courses that do not fall within a narrow sphere of interest, or, con- versely, have trouble focusing on an area of concentration. The second sug- gestion concerns the number of courses required for graduation. Although the lav IcadiuL, majority of alunuii feel that the current course requirement is about right, a large minority (40 percent) believe that the number of credits is too low and recommend requiring additional courses outside of the field of concen- tration. Amid all of the warm feelings and high ratings, one set of alumni concerns stands out. These involve the adequacy of academic counseling. In volunteered Acquiring Skills How important is it that college prepare you to do the following, and to what extent did Brown give you these ahilitii's? Think logically 1 1 1 ^"^ 1 1 r Ml \\ ^^^ ^^ ^^ Write clearly and mm w^m MH concisely r ? Tolerate a wide range of ^m cultural and life-style practices ^^ ^""l Tolerate differing 1 political points of view ^^^^^ 1 1 Develop a philosphy of 1 1 life 1 I ^" "^ 0% 10 20 30 40 considered important abilities how well Brown prepared text continues on page 30 On Balance, Brown's Curriculum Gets An 'A' Iv Ann Dunnington T-^lic New C'mridiliini lias been a distinguishing feature of the Brown undergraduate experience for nearly twenty years, and a subject of debate for just as long. But while any system has flaws, results of the Yankelovich survey reveal that an extremely high percentage of Brown alumni from the New Curricu- lum era feel that their unique educa- tional experience served them well, not only at Brown, but in their subsequent personal and professional lives as well. In follow-up interviews, they cited values such as responsibility and per- sonal choice as distinct advantages af- forded by the New Curriculum. In a traditional curriculum, they said, choices are made for you. At Brown, students made their own choices — often putting more into their academic work as a result, and discovering that the very act of learning how to make choic- es about their academic program helped them make personal and career choices later on. The system has not been without pitfalls. The most common alumni complaint was that they had not diver- sified, and regretted the narrowness of their education. However, most saw this as an advising issue, and not a problem with the curriculum. The assessment of ten alumni, looking back on their experience with the New Curriculum, follows: For Mark Fichman 73, associate professor of industrial administration at Carnegie-Mellon University's Busi- ness School, the New Curriculum's main attractions were flexibility and the opportunity to stretch intellectually early on. "In the first year, I remember the MO r (Modes of Thought) classes, where you were able to take essentially advanced seminars, which gave you a sense of what operating at an advanced level academically would be like." Fichman, a psychology major at Brown, says that because he was able to take the courses he wanted, he came close to completing a second major in English. As a result, he felt more intel- lectually engaged, challenged, and di- rected from the start. "When you think about people making choices, they often make them without sufficient information. I teach in a university now, and I can see how students with a standard curriculum flounder and don't quite know what it is they're getting themselves into until they're juniors. They keep taking re- quired courses, preparing for some- thing, and they don't quite know what it is. To the extent that they can get a better sense as early as possible about whether they are really interested in a particular profession, that's to their advantage." Fichman's only regret is not having taken more science and math, which he uses in his current profession. Other- wise, he has few complaints. "I'm glad I got to make my deci- sions. I can look back now and say there were some shortfalls about how I made decisions, but you can learn something from that. You don't learn how to make decisions if you don't make them." Dr. Joanna Zawadski '75, physician and endocrinologist at Georgetown University Medical Center and the National Institutes of Health, majored in art history and studied languages and pre-med at Brown before going on to Harvard Medical School. She says the New Curriculum enabled her to establish her own interests and priori- ties, rather than just fulfill require- ments. "There's a lot of value to having to make broad decisions on your own, and I think that was probably one of the major attractions Brown held for me." Ironically, she says, given the range of courses she took, she probably would have fulfilled the requirements of most traditional college curricula anyway. "But I think having the flexibility created a certain environment of ex- ploration and greater creativity, and that in itself was a growing experience. The greatest values were probably those of having choices and developing ways of making choices, and exploring things more on one's own than one does at other schools. " While Evelyn Williams '76. a site services manager for DuPont in Mem- phis, Tennessee, feels that as an engi- neering major at Brown, her course of study was fairly prescribed, she says the New Curriculum served to broaden her undergraduate experience. "I used the New Curriculum from the standpoint that 1 had the opportu- nity early on to take classes like MOTs — small classes with good professors — and got to do some things that were fairly far afield from engineering. I took all kinds of things, like ethno- musicology, English, and psychology classes — enough to qualify for a double major in psychology." She remains a strong supporter of the New Curriculum: "I feel terrific about it. It gives you the ability to have a personal choice and once you exercise that, it makes for a broader life experi- ence." Jonathon Roberts '77, a psychology major at Brown and now an investment advisor with Wertheim Schroeder 8c Co., in New York, appreciated the cur- riculum's flexbility, calling it the ulti- mate liberal arts education. "It gave me the flexibility to dabble in different disciplines, the freedom to try courses I wouldn't have otherwise." Courses such as 'Anthropology & Sci- ence Fiction — Realities Old & New,' for example. "It was a really fun, interest- ing course that I wouldn't call academi- cally on the track. But it was informa- tive about life, and I learned more about anthropology and sociology from that than from the intro sociology sur- vey course I took." His final assessment? "Looking back, I would have preferred more focus. Better advising might have helped." For Susan Michael Rogers '79, a semiotics major at Brown, and current- ly a homemaker in Pennsylvania, "the value is the freedom you have to ex- plore. The advice from my parents when I went to Brown was to take any- thing that interested me, and after that narrow to a concentration. And then I almost had my semiotics concentration filled by taking the courses that inter- ested me." With a few years behind her, she also concludes that she should have taken some of the courses she con- sciously avoided, such as music and sci- ences. "With the freedom," she says, "there has to be a corresponding de- gree of guidance." However, she considers her overall academic experience first-rate. "Because Brown decided to have an open curriculum, they've worked at making that excellent — offering things Hke courses at RISD, MOTs, GISPs (Group Independent Study Projects). All that takes extra effort on some- body's part." Barbara Strominger Woodall '80, a financial analyst in St. Louis, says the New Curriculum fit her personality. "I like to have more control over my own life, and with the New Curri- culum, you could take just about what you wanted to. I also liked the grading system (pass/fail option) because it en- couraged me to take courses I other- wise wouldn't have touched, like lin- guistics, and human physiology." An economics major, Strominger says she strayed into such areas as Spanish, political science, English, math, and science simply out of per- sonal interest. "Brown demonstrated an attitude through its personnel and its curricu- lum of 'Let the students be the design- ers of their education.' It gave you more control over your own destiny, and I felt good about what I was doing. I wasn't resentful about having things imposed on me." Looking back, Strominger says she supports the New Curriculum as strongly now, if not more so, than she did while at Brown. "It's not good for everybody, but I think it should be available. It works best for students who are responsible. I support it more strongly now because from the reading on education I've come across, it seems a lot of schools are going back to the basics, which makes the New Curricu- lum even more of a rarity. I think that kind of freedom of choice should be available." George Toth '81, an engineering specialist with the Northrup Defense Systems Division in Chicago, cites him- self as one who may not have diver- sified broadly enough. In addition to focusing on the rigorous requirements of his engineering major, he concen- trated many of his electives in career- related courses as well. "At the time, I didn't feel a large need for history, philosophy, liberal arts. I was mainly interested in science, so I was able to concentrate on that area and things I thought would benefit me more once I got out into the real world." Looking back, he believes he would have benefited from greater exposure to the liberal arts. "Engineering gives you a good background for making logical decisions. But I think humani- ties teach you a little more about how to deal day to day. I thought I'd punch out equations for the rest of my life. It doesn't happen that way. I enjoyed the liberal arts courses I took, like [the late Professor John Rowe] Workman's clas- sics course. It showed you how people are in general, and I can relate a lot of that to the workplace." David Pontes '83, a tax attorney with Grace & Pontes in Plorida, values the New Curriculum because it enabled him to major in both the sociology of management and economics, a move which benefited his career. "Pretty early on I realized I wanted to be an attorney," Pontes says. "And with the New Curriculum, I could have the two concentrations. The most valu- able thing was that I developed both analytical and communicative skills," which, he says, gave him an edge in law school, particularly in writing-intensive classes. The curriculum also made him more reflective. "Just having come to realize that the responsibility was on me for my education was really good. Prior to Brown, I'd had a parochial educa- tion. They took you by the hand and told you what to learn. Having that much responsibility [at Brown] forced me to face reality a lot faster." Alan Lewis '83 "is a partner in Double Exposure, a Denver, Colorado, company that designs and markets plastic ties — soon to be carried by Thayer Street boutiques. A double major in Portuguese and Brazilian studies and in international relations at Brown, Lewis is enthusiastic about his academic experience. "I had a great time, just a fantastic time. I took a wonderful selection of courses. I also took things I didn't want to take, like calculus and economics, which really helped me. I took what I wanted to take in order to know what I wanted to know, which is a wonderful relationship to have with your courses and professors. And I got a wonderful long range, in-depth view of things." For Holly Sklar '85, currently vice president of production at Dove Inc., a Los Angeles company that produces books on tape, the New Curriculum was a major reason for coming to Brown. "I liked the idea of being responsi- ble for my own education. As a result, I think I made some of my own mistakes, but that was good. If you got stuck in a course that wasn't suited for you that well, you had to live with it because you'd made that decision. But you didn't resent the University for doing it to you." Sklar also appreciated the pass/fail option. "I took a graduate seminar on Michelangelo. I hadn't yet taken art, but I'd been to Europe and Italy, and had been very interested in what I'd seen there. I knew going into [the course] that if I didn't do as well, it wasn't going to be terrible, because I was taking it pass/fail. But I ended up working harder in that course because I was so interested in the material. Sklar agrees that the New Curri- culum works best for someone who is actively interested in "the whole range of things, in getting an education. There are some people who are going to abuse the system, but that's not a reason for dropping it. If you've got enough motivation coming in, there's not going to be a problem. And chances are a lot of people who may not be best suited to it will go to a school with a lot of requirements anyway because they need the discipline. Most people I knew at Brown were pretty happy with the New Curriculum." Ann Dunnington '78, '81 A.M. is a Providence-based freelance writer. University Life How important are the folloxving aspects of the under- graduate experience, and how well did Brown do in providing them? 1 1 1 1 academic exploration 1 1 1 1 ^ ! ' ^ Intellectual environment 1 1 1 1 ! ^"^ r Stimulating classes Atmosphere of political and social awareness and activity Wide range of extracurricular activities "^^ Well-rounded education ' good teachers An attractive social life Prominent professors "r ..^ Good sports program Strong counseling and support systems 1 0% 10 20 30 40 50 ll considered important aspects how well Brown provided comments, counseling was often de- scribed as "a formality" and "haphaz- ard." Some made the point that, like many facets of Brown, the quality of counseling is often left to student initi- ative, so that those who need counseling the most are least likely to seek it out. These criticisms need to be inter- preted in the context of the Brown curriculum. 1 suspect that academic counseling at Brown is probably as good as, or even better than, counseling at other schools. But, the special nature of the Brown curriculum places an unusual burden on the counseling sys- tem, which is charged with helping stu- dents manage a high degree of free- dom before reaching full maturity. This difficulty is avoided in other uni- versities by core curriculum require- ments, which do not presuppose much freedom of choice. .■Xt Brown, however, inherent weaknesses in the counseling system, such as faculty advisors unin- formed about course offerings in other departments, are magnified. In addi- tion, perceived deficiencies in counsel- ing are heightened because everything else is so good. What is needed. I believe, is recog- nition by all involved that a "good" counseling system is simply not good enough if Brown wishes to stay with its current curriculum strategy. Counsel- ing is the Achilles heel of the Brown curriculum. Greater ingenuitv is need- ed for the counseling issue. One sug- gestion might be a more systematic use of newlv graduated seniors, hired and trained to fulfill this function. Such a cadre of alumni would know the ropes from personal experience and might prove invaluable in helping freshmen and sophomores navigate what must 'More than half are now in careers that their undergraduate experience led them to seek. " seem like uncharted waters of academic independence (and, in doing so, relieve a sometimes reluctant faculty of part of the counseling burden). In fact, inno- vative approaches to counseling might develop into another area — such as the curriculum — where Brown can estab- lish a unique competitive asset. An interesting facet of the alumni study is an overall sense that recent graduates appear to be more satisfied with the qualify of their Brown experi- ence than graduates from the first three years of the Brown curriculum (1973- 1976). While not dramatic, these dif- ferences show up in attitudes about the Brown curriculum itself, the counseling system, and the degree to which Brown prepared them for later life. There are several explanations for these differ- ences. One is that younger graduates are more emotionally attached simply due to their more recent sojourn at Brown. This explanation seems implausible to me. Rather, it is more likely that the graduates from the turbulent years of the early 1970s were more critical of Brown — indeed, institutions in general — than students in more recent years, and these attitudes persist to some ex- tent. (In all likelihood, alumni from 1973 to 1976 are feeling more positive about Brown in retrospect.) A second explanation I find per- suasive is that, in the course of fifteen years, the Brown curriculum and counseling systems have been moni- tored, tweaked, and improved so that recent graduates are enjoying the benefits of the administration's experi- >lv In Hvnwn ence. Ideally, alumni from the classes of the 1990s will exhibit the same af- firmation of Brown seen in our survey. Perhaps the greatest proof of the excellent fit between Brown and the social climate is seen less in attitudes toward the school than in the way alumni are choosing to live their lives. One manifestation is the overall orien- tation of alumni to community affairs — a sign of commitment — rather than a descent into self-centeredness and apa- thy. Another is the overwhelming num- ber of graduates who have continued their education in graduate school or other formal classes. These are indica- tions that Brown is indeed living up to its mission to give its graduates the conceptual skills and values they need to continue to educate themselves and be a source of pride to themselves, to Brown, and to the larger community. 'Love Can Have No Place Between Husband and Wife' Romance was as popular in medieval and Renaissance times as it is now, but marriage had nothing to do with it By Anne Diffily "Listen, you!" he said fiercely. "If you love me, as I love you, then we're going to do something about it..." "Do what?" she said meekly. "Get married," he told her, planting a finger across her lips as she drew back, eyes widened. "I want you by my side, Alicia." Wild and Wonderful (a paperback romance) 1986 [The noblewoman being wooed protests,] "(T)here is another fact ... which keeps me from loving you. I have a husband ... and it would be wicked for me to ... submit to the embraces of any other man, since I know that he loves me with his whole heart and I am bound to him with all the devotion of mine. " [Her suitor, a nobleman, replies,] "...I am greatly surprised that you wish to misap- ply the term 'love' to that marital affection which husband and wife are expected to feel for each other after marriage, since every- body knows that love can have no place be- tween husband and wife. " Andreas Capellanus, The Art of Courtly Love (twelfth century) This is the month when greet- ing-card racks blush with Valentines of all shapes and sizes, some lush with lace and sentiment, others laced with mischie- vous wit. The gray February air is warmed, for a day at least, by the age- old human fascination with romantic love, and its expression. "Be mine," implore the cards we send on Valentine's Day. Be my what? My sweetheart, yes; someday, per- chance, my husband, my wife. Popular songs have reinforced this idea: We're "goin' to the chapel and we're gonna get married, Goin' to the chapel of love," trilled our radios in the '60s. Among young people in today's West- ern societies, it is generally assumed that for a man and woman who are in love, "being mine" ultimately will entail being married to one another. Such an assumption, two Brown historians remind us, is strictly a twen- tieth-century phenomenon. David Her- lihy, a renowned scholar of the family and society in the Middle Ages, who came to Brown from Harvard two years ago as Keeney Professor of Medieval History, shakes his head matter-of- factly. "Affection and marriage were not linked" in the Europe of older times, he says. "Love was not a prereq- uisite for marriage, which was a pact between two households involving important transfers of property. Be- cause the economic welfare of others besides the marriage partners was in- volved, they couldn't allow freedom of choice." The idea of a romantic mar- riage, he adds, did not gain currency until this century. "Allowing young people to determine their own mar- riages was a major break in family or- ganization." Take that, Cupid. Herlihy's col- league. Professor of History and Chairman of the Program in Renais- sance Studies Anthony Molho, is simi- larly pragmatic about marriage, old- European-style — although his current line of inquiry proposes that many marriages eventually engendered strong bonds of sentiment between husbands and wives. With University of Chicago historian Julius Kirshner, Molho is writing a book about marriag- es, dowries, and wealth in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Florence. The forthcoming book, and nu- merous articles already published, are the outcome of Molho's research of the last decade. He has pored over hand- written civil records of a Florentine dowry fund, and has concluded, "Mar- riage in the 1400s and 1500s was This bride and groom look happy enough; perhaps their parents arranged a mutually pleasing match. The print is from the Chronik by Thomas Lirer (Ulm: Conrad Dinckmut, c. 1485). shaped by calculation, rather than sen- timent." Marriage, always arranged by one's parents, sometimes with the help of an intermediary, was a means to sol- idify a family's strength, increase its wealth, and on a larger scale, to insure demographic stability or growth. "Always," Molho says, "the em- phasis in Renaissance society was placed on the collective well-being — that of the family, the guild, the city, the Church. Only after the French Revolution and the Enlightenment did we begin to prize individual sentiment and ideas. The people I study would think that today we are too individualistic; they felt that passions were to be controlled and disciplined." Which is not to say, however, that there was no romance in medieval and Renaissance days. The hearts and flowers of today's Valentine messages have ancient and highly-developed antecedents. Indeed, David Herlihy points out, it is often claimed that the Middle Ages discovered romance; at any rate, the literature of the times is rife with it. The troubadour poets of twelfth-century France defined ideals of chivalry and courtly love that pro- foundly influenced the literature of all Europe and England. Their songs were bittersweet, urgent, and very beautiful; but, says Herlihy, "they never really embodied marriage as a goal of love." Those twelfth- and thirteenth-cen- tury troubadours, says Professor of English Walter Davis, were singing about adultery. Extramarital love was idealized and codified by the poets. In his Via Nuova (1295), an extended commentary on thirty-one love poems written in honor of his beloved Lady Beatrice, and later in his Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri "idealizes his love for Beatrice," Davis notes, "by making love outside marriage an image of man's love for God." In his introduction to a section of the Divine Comedy included in his book. Medieval Culture and Society, Herlihy observes that Dante met the real Beatrice at age nine and fell in love, and that Beatrice later married Simone de' Bardi. "While (Dante) could A dowry fund became the finaru > backbune of Renaissance Florence, sho\: here in an engraving from the Libti Chronicarum by Harlmann Sched.-I (Augsburg: Johann Schoenspergei . 1 February 1497 1 have seen her no more than a few times," Herlihy writes, "his love for hn illumin.-ited his young years and gave him that sense of harmony and joy which, as the troubadours had taught him, were the expected rewards of love." Troubadour lyric poetry, Herlihy notes in the same book, "established the great cliches of the Western love tradi- tion." To the troubadours, love re- deemed the lover, gave him hope, and if he were received favorably by his lady, it brought joy nigh unto a kind of religious ecstasy. "Not only the lover but nature around him was trans- formed by this power," Herlihy writes; "the world became decked in unending spring, the earthly equivalent of the Christian heaven." So filled with happiness am I, Earth wears another fate; Rich flowers of many a brilliant dye. For me the frost displace... sang the troubadour Bernart of Venta- dorn, of being in love. Notes Davis drily, "None of this has anything to do with marriage." The study of marriage cus- toms, particularly among the better-documented upper classes, in medieval and Renaissance times is a unifying charac- teristic of Herlihy's and Molho's schol- arly research. "We are friends from way back," Molho says, and his articles from the '70s and early '80s on Florentine dowries include many references to Herlihy's work. Herlihy refers to his studies as "statistics plus poetry." The statistics are the censuses and other records he con- sults to "try to reconstruct the reality of marriage." Once the data are assembled and organized, Herlihy says, the histo- rian can look at cultural evidence, such as the literature of the time, and inter- pret it with a more accurate perspec- tive. "And thus we see that famous lov- ers like Dante and Beatrice represented a kind of union that could not have occurred in marriage," he concludes. What kind of unions were medieval marriages? Ihe) were the cement that held families and societies together, and they almost always involved a transfer of money or property — the dowry — which was open to negotiation. "Within the limits set by religion, cus- tom, and the law," Herlihy writes in his article, "The Medieval Marriage Mar- ket," reprinted in his 1978 book. The Social History of Italy and Western Europe, 700-1500, "these families wished to see their sons and daughters married un- der the most advantageous terms they could obtain ... The beauty, the health, the social connections of the young man or woman are the most obvious consid- erations." Demographic imbalances between the sexes could, and did, change the character of the marriage market at a given time, Herlihy believes. In early medieval times, he says, women were fewer than men, and a reverse dowry system evolved in which men were, in effect, bidding for "these numerically fewer and appreciated women." They were appreciated, he notes, because "to live comfortably in the early Middle Ages apparently required that women be present in the household in sig- nificant numbers." In such a favorable market, women could afford to be choosy — not a characteristic of later marriage markets. "Brides were not especially young," Herlihy suggests, "and were at times even older than their grooms ... (I)n 731 the Lombard King Liutprand complained that 'adult and already mature women' were mar- rying boys who had not yet reached legitimate age." In response, he issued an edict: Women could not marry boys who had not reached the age of thir- teen. Around the twelfth century, the marriage market changed drastically, Herlihy says. Women became more numerous and began to marry young- er — perhaps to maximize their chances; "in both the Flemish and the Italian towns the age of first marriage for girls at about the year 1200 seems ... to have been between thirteen and sixteen years." Men, however, married later, in their late twenties and early thirties, perhaps because families had become more concerned with conserving their patrimony. So the situation became reversed; fathers of marriageable girls in the late Middle Ages had to compete for desirable husbands by means of dowries. The pressure became alarm- ing: "In the early fourteenth century," Herlihy writes, "Dante remarked ... that the size of dowries was exceeding all reasonable measure, and he hearkened back to those better times, in the elev- enth and twelfth centuries, when the birth of a daughter did not strike terror into her father's heart." The expense of marrying off daughters led in fifteenth-century Florence to the creation of the Monte delle doti, or roughly translated, the Dowry Fund. Created in 1425, it exist- ed until the mid- 1540s, when it was abolished during grand-ducal fiscal reforms. The surviving records are a treasure-trove for historians such as Molho, who are able to comb the nearly 25,000 existing records (out of some 32,000 entries) to shed new light on that era. The Monte enabled a father (usually) or other family member to deposit a sum of money, and collect at the end of a specified interval of years a much larger sum to be paid to the new son-in-law. The fund, Molho says, be- came the "central organ of Florentine public finance." "The payment by a bride's family to the husband or his family of a cash sum was a sizeable portion of the entire dowry," Molho notes in an article, "The Dowry Fund and the Marriage Market in Early Quattrocento Florence," co- written with Kirshner. "Almost always," he adds, "part of the marriage negotia- tions involved the size of the bride's trousseau, her clothes, jewels, linens, and personal items." The information in the dowry registers, Molho and Kirshner believe, confirms Herlihy's view that most families strove to max- imize their daughters' chances of mar- riage by establishing the largest dowries they could afford." The age disparity noted by Herlihy in medieval marriages continued in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Flor- ence. Molho's study of the Monte be- tween 1425 and 1450 indicated that the average age when a man first married was nearly thirty-three years. Women, however, were more commonly in their teens at marriage. "At the age of thir- teen, it was thought that girls were ready to marry," Molho notes in an- other paper, "Deception and Marriage Strategy in Renaissance Florence." "(B)y seventeen they were more than ready for husbands; at the age of nine- teen time was running out for them. At twenty-one, they had surpassed the proper age of first marriage." The universality of this thinking is borne out by letters, diaries, and civil records of the time. In a letter cited by Molho, a mother, Allessandra Macinghi negli Strozzi, lamented the unsuitability of her daughter's prospective husband, but noted that the young lady was six- teen years old "and it was not advisable to wait any longer to marry her." An- other record shows that Castora, daughter of Stefano di Filippo da Modigliana, was twenty-one years old and therefore had "passed the mar- riageable age." Lionardo Alberti, in Book II of his Delia Famiglia, advised his young male relatives that at the time of marriage, their wives should still be children. Not only are young girls pure, Alberti pointed out, they are pliable and will learn to conform to the wishes of their husbands. Even without such colorful sup- plementary evidence, the stark records kept by the Monte tell many stories: whether a girl married or became a nun, whether she died before reaching puberty, who her ancestors were, what her father's wealth was (based on his deposit into the fund). Molho has col- laborated with Professor of Community Health Alan Morrison, then teaching at Harvard and now of the Brown faculty, on studies of mortality based on the dowry records; he has also written about the main alternative to married life for Florentine women — becoming a nun. While it was relatively common for well-born girls to enter nunneries — par- ticularly if they were judged by their families to be excessively plain, or de- formed; or if their fathers already had established dowries for numerous sis- ters — Molho believes the records sug- gest that families made every effort to marry them off first. One father in- formed the government that his daughter spurned his efforts to marry her; she "does not seem capable of catching a man for herself," he wrote; "on the contrary, she is inclined and totally disposed to enter any good and honorable convent." Honor was an important aspect of the Florentine marriage market, and the Monte is seen by scholars such as Molho as having contributed to maintaining the rigorous morality that was applied to young women. Adequate dowries enabled girls to marry while young and pure. The Florentines of the Renaissance, Molho notes, seem to have been fairly obsessed with the purity of their women. The prevailing intellec- tual tradition argued that women were more easily corruptible than men; and since no gentleman aspired to marry any bride but a virgin, it was necessary to curtail girls' opportunities to fall into dishonor. An "intense sense of shame," Mol- continued on page 38 Onlookers seem to approve these lovers' embrace. Print from a facsimile edition of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili,/iri/ published in 1467 (London: Eugrammia Press, 1963). Two with everything. One serves contemporary tastes. Wagoneer Limited comes with more than enough interior room to comfortably surround five adults and their cargo in complete luxury and goes with more power to carry them than any vehicle in its class, a 177 horsepower 4.0 litre engine standard. Another caters to even larger appetites for luxury. Grand Wagoneer satisfies the first-class traveling comfort of six adults and will tow up to 2V2 tons with its massive 5.9 litre V8 power. 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"In the morning of the 13th of March my (daughter) will be sixteen years old," a Florentine father wrote in his diary. "She can wait another two [years], and I shall say that then she is fifteen and a half." Stringent standards of purity seem not to have been applied equally to prospective husbands. "The lateness of male marriage meant there was a lot of extramarital sex," says Herlihy. "Society forced a protracted celibacy lasting a decade or more after male puberty, and this created an erotic tension in medi- eval society." Their sexual outlets were older married women, peasants, serv- ing girls, prostitutes, and other men, Herlihy says. Even clergymen recorded in writing the assumption that a man would not be a virgin at marriage. When combined with another as- sumption — that people other than no- bility were, like animals, incapable of real love — the double standard for men led to practices that seem abhorrent to us today. In his twelfth-century treatise on love, Andreas Capellanus (Andreas the Chaplain) devoted a brief section to "The Love of Peasants." He advised noblemen, "...And if you should, by some chance, fall in love with some of [the peasants'] women, be careful to puff them up with lots of praise and then, when you find a convenient place, do not hesitate to take what you seek and to embrace them by force." And that was the end of it; for no nobleman would think of actually marrying a peasant, although many had illegiti- mate children by them. "A knight wouldn't court a peasant girl," Herlihy says. "He might seduce Two by two, dancers frolic in a woodcut (top) from Liber Chronicarum (Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1493). Above, a lady (suitably barricaded) is serenaded by a nobleman an his musical entourage, in a print from Horace's Poete livici opera (Strassburg: Johann annd Reinhard Griininger, 12 March 1498). Two lovers ("duo arrmntes") find happiness i each other's arms (opposite page, right) in another woodcut from the Liber Chronicarum. her, but that wasn't the same as court- ing a noblewoman. Peasants weren't deemed to be sensitive or refined enough for love. They were thought to be brutes." Today we might question just who the brutes were, given An- dreas's approval of the seduction and even rape of peasant women by noble- men. But, Herlihy points out, just as love and marriage were viewed as sep- arate phenomena, love and sex often did not coexist. "Courtly love — its fulfillment — was emotional," Herlihy says. "It was rarely described as sexual. The idea of love developed as an ana- log to mystical ascent: the lover went from despondency, through love, to a state of joy. Ideal love was depicted as a woman in a castle, looking out of a window while a knight approaches." "A young man might fall in love with an older married woman," agrees Molho. "He would celebrate her, court her, and engage in chivalry^ousting in a tournament, for example." While affection and love tended to develop outside marriage, Herlihy believes that the great love affairs of the Middle Ages occurred most often between people of the same age, who were more compatible with each other than with their much older or younger spouses. Given an average of thirteen years be- tween the ages of husbands and wives, Herlihy points out that "there wasn't likely to be love between them" at the outset. In love affairs, people of similar ages found emotional fulfillment as well as sexual gratification. Dante and Bea- trice, he notes, were but two years apart in age; Petrarch carried on with a mar- ried woman who was his same age. "These people," Herlihy says, "fell in love for the same reasons that consti- tute a love relationship as we know it today." That love was valued highly was apparent in medieval poetry and fiction, which dwelled on both the suf- fering and the exaltation of lovers. "Love is a gentle illness," wrote Guil- laume de Lorris in the Romance of the Rose, one of the best-known medieval stories. Before they could reach the secular nirvana of fulfilled love, lovers often had to pine, to beseech, to en- dure, to carry a torch. None, perhaps, suffered as much as the legendary Tristan and Iseult, protagonists of a romance attributed to several twelfth- century French authors and handed down in numerous versions and trans- lations to the present time. In the tale as translated by Hillaire Belloc, Iseult, an Irish beauty affianced to King Mark of Cornwall, and Tristan, Mark's nephew, fall irreversibly and alarmingly in love when he escorts her across the sea for her wedding. Iseult's maidservant comes upon them, "gazing at each other in silence as though rav- ished and apart" after mistakenly drinking a love potion. "Two days she watched them, seeing them refuse all food or comfort and seeking each other as blind men seek, wretched apart and together more wretched still, for then they trembled each for the first avow- al." The tale glorifies the pair's ulti- mately adulterous love, but also con- cludes with their tragic deaths — sym- bolic, Herlihy suggests, of the prevail- ing incompatibility of true love with a rigid system of arranged marriages and familial honor. It wasn't until Edmund Spenser wrote The Faerie Queen in 1 590, says Walter Davis, that a piece of popular English literature cele- brated love and marriage. The rise of Puritanism provided another antidote to extramarital passion; married couples partook of a divine love and duty. The ideal of courtly love was on the wane, never to be restored to its medieval glory. Neither Molho nor Herlihy views the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in Europe as a time when marriages were necessarily devoid of sentiment. "Even though marriages were arranged," Molho says, "that fact did not preclude the growth of affection. We see this in letters and diaries. For example, in one diary you can find a man's moving expressions on the occasion of his wife's death." Tombstones, too, often carried tender tributes to a spouse. Letters between husbands and wives, Herlihy says, tended to be for- mal; wives addressed their husbands as "Mr." and the language was restrained. But "yes, there was affection between spouses," he says. "We have the letters of a fifteenth-century English family in which the husband was away on busi- ness. The wife writes to say that she misses him." While neither scholar will go so far as to describe such sentiments as ro- mantic love, Molho says, "I'm intrigued that a marriage strategy based on cal- culus can coexist with the world of sen- timent." In many cases, he says, the emotional bonds that formed within a marriage were very strong. "Questions about love and mar- riage," Herlihy says of his research in- terest, "can be related to what young people go through today. The topic is immediately approachable, because it concerns one of the basic experiences of life." And the historian's advantage, Molho adds, is that one comes to appreciate other cultures and their mores. "We have a tendency to judge oth- er societies by our standards and find them lacking," Molho says. "It's impor- tant to remember that the Renaissance was a different sort of world than ours is today. A nexus of cultural forces led to the institution of arranged mar- riage." The outcome, he can't resist adding, may not have been so much worse than what we have: "There were unhappy people and unhappy mar- riages then, and there are now." Cupid, it seems, was alive and well in the Middle Ages and the Renais- sance. And when February's ice threat- ened to chill the very soul of a manor- bound nobleman or -woman, he or she had only to contemplate true love and be transported to a loftier plane, as sang the troubadour: My garments I could all unlace And winter's harshness dare. For burning love my strength would brace Against the bitter air... IB tcmpota per rcgioncelraitcie. fllwpcipu^.^ll .fettSftet^urteii ^>mtr«p»lcrittii> Icfttree acw |oit6 1 &ii ftgifmuitb? VXu i ■se i^k^ 'Jk^'..i» Photographs by John Forast6 Professor Van Whiting and his student collaborator. Frank Medina '89. 'Collaborative Culture' A new program at Brown seeks to revitalize scholarly research and course offerings by tapping the ideas and experience of students By Talbot Brewer 'Browns emphasis on individual responsibility and collaborative learning of many types will receive growing recognition From the offices of Secretary of Education William Bennett to college lecture halls across the land, the prevailing tide of pedagogic reform is running back to the so-called "basics." The past year has seen a veritable torrent of appeals for a return to traditional subjects and texts. William Buckley and other conservative columnists have inade sport of updat- ing the reading public on how little today's high school and college students know. One of last summer's best-sellers features a list of words, events, and personages that every "culturally liter- ate" American should be familiar with, and scolds educators for failing to teach them. Another recent number-one best-seller urges universities to eschew "the emergent, the changing and the ephemeral" in favor of the canonical classics, or stand implicated in the demise of Western civilization. At Brown, a number of adminis- trators have a different vision for the future of higher education, and it goes by the name, "collaborative culture." In his resignation statement, President Howard Swearer predicted that the "great books" crusade will soon wane, while "Brown's emphasis on individual responsibility and initiative and collab- orative learning of many types will re- ceive growing recognition." In a rare moment of immodesty. Associate Dean of the College Karen Romer called Brown's collaborative research pro- grams "a model for the future of edu- cation in the world." What does all this talk about col- laborative culture mean? In theory, Romer explains, it means breaking down the "compartmentalized struc- tures" that separate students from fac- ulty members; it means revitalizing scholarly research and course offerings by tapping into the ideas and experi- ences of students as well as of faculty. In more tangible terms, collaborative culture means a three-year, $2.25-mil- lion program, sponsored jointly by Brown and the Ford Foundation, in which teams of students and faculty work together to supplement course lectures and reading lists, and even to create entirely new courses. In its first year, the program has funded eighty- eight research collaborations, many selected because they could inject new ethnic or minority perspectives into the curriculum. The Ford program was con- ceived in the winter and spring of 1986, after the Ford Foundation asked for grant proposals that would help miti- gate the pending national shortage of new college teachers and in particular would help attract qualified minority students to academia. The collaborative research model of Brown's proposal was borrowed from an older program known as Odyssey, which also had been under Karen Romer's purview. Ac- cording to Romer, Ford was impressed by Brown's long experience with col- laborative research, and particularly taken with one striking statistic: Of four minority students who had teamed with professors in Odyssey research projects, three had opted for careers in acade- mia. At the time she was writing the proposal, Romer recalls, student-initi- ated demands for pluralistic curricular changes had gained the support of many faculty meinbers and administra- tors, and were about to receive the endorsement of the Visiting Committee on Minority Life and Education (BAM, December 1986). There was one prob- lem: "No one knew quite how you go about doing it," Roiner recalls. The difficulties were coinpounded by the decentralized structure of Brown's cur- riculum, which precluded any centrally mandated reform. Romer and Harriet Sheridan, who was then dean of the College, designed a series of phased research opportuni- ties aimed at curricular change, which could be pursued singly or in sequence. According to Romer, the grant cannot be linked directly to the 1985 protests, but it was born of some of the same tensions and concerns. One apparent link is a group named Spectrum, which arose as a sort of activist laboratory from sociology professor Martin U. Martel's class on racial-ethnic relations. Martel recalls that the group, which included several faculty members and administrators as well as two of the four minority students who later led the spring protests, first assembled in No- vember 1984. Through the year. Spec- trum met with the administration in what Martel characterizes as an attempt to negotiate solutions to the issues that blossomed into protests in the spring. The group also spawned an interdisci- plinary course entitled, "The American Heritage: Racism and Democracy." That course, Martel says, became "Exhibit A" in the Ford grant propo- sal — a testimony to Brown's dedication to curricular innovation and academic enfranchisement of minority view- points. A former civil rights activist who has taught race relations at Brown for fifteen years, Martel finds today's un- dergraduates "vaguely cognizant" of their country's history of racial oppres- sion, but "nearly ignorant" of contin- ued discrimination. He supports the Ford program because it provides fac- ulty members with the time and re- sources to "tackle the traditionally low- priority problem of giving more sym- pathetic attention to the treatment, experience, and contributions of people whose groups have been subordinated and limited in their opportunities." But Martel cautions that research under the Ford grants is only a fraction of what is necessary to fulfill his agenda of elimi- nating curricular Eurocentrism, "all the way, as soon as possible." Associate Professor Mari Jo Buhle, a women's history specialist and chair- man of the American Civilization pro- gram, has seen the continuing renewal of scholarship — the creed behind the Ford grant — come full circle in her own career. Just a generation ago, she and many of her colleagues found text- books and scholarly publications to be skewed by millennia of male domina- tion. Her own historical chronicles, which framed women back into U.S. history, were hardly encouraged by her professors at the University of Wiscon- sin, where she did her graduate work. The history department offered no courses in women's history, and her thesis was advised by a mismatched diplomacy expert — probably, she jokes, because he drew the short straw. Today, Buhle observes, many stu- dents have seized the pluralistic legacy of the civil rights movement and the modern ideal of ethnic diversity as standards by which to measure aca- demic biases. And the students claim to have found evidence of "Eurocen- trism." Just exactly what Eurocentrism means is a matter of contention, even among those who agree that it poses a problem. Some describe it as an under- standable but regrettable partiality for Western viewpoints and doctrines. Others call it a set of sophistries based on a long history of white male Anglo- Saxon dominance and oppression of minority groups. Eurocentrism was one of the signs of "institutional racism" that students denounced during a month-long series of protests in the spring of 1985. Two-and-a-half years after those protests, students are finding material support for a pluralis- tic agenda through the Ford program. If Buhle's research helped put women back into American his- tory, her students are helping her to learn and teach about groups that traditional historians have neglect- ed even more completely. Last year, one of Buhle's students, Milyoung Cho '87, was awarded a Ford grant to as- semble a list of sources on turn-of-the- century Asian-American women. Buhle plans to use the bibliography to HIGH PRAISE: Associate Dean Karen Romer calls the program "a model for the future of education." supplement the opening portion of her year-long U.S. women's history course. Among other things, the course exam- ines the much-heralded arrival of the "New Woman," as announced in the pages of the early twentieth-century press. Cho's material will augment lec- tures intended to show that while these popular proclamations may have re- flected changes in middle-class white women's lifestyles, they said next to nothing about the experiences of mi- nority women. Buhle is enthusiastic about the Ford program and hopes to recruit another student researcher this year. Collaborative research and curricular renewal dovetail nicely with her rela- tivistic view of scholarship. "Some stu- dents ask why we haven't finished with the eighteenth century and gone on to the nineteenth century," Buhle says with a wry smile. "Well, we have differ- ent questions we want to ask of the eighteenth century now. If there were not these changes in the questions and issues of history, then it would be a dead body of material." Cho's contribution is but one of many changes that have been made to course lectures and syllabi across nearly every academic department. The Ford grant has underwritten twenty-five bib- liographic assistantships in eighteen academic departments, as well as sixty- three summer student/faculty research projects. Ford researchers have plumbed scholarly journals and other publications to uncover material on topics such as minority physicists, changing attitudes toward interracial marriage, and gender roles in the shamanistic theater of Southeast Asia. Another round of research grants is due to be awarded late this fall. The Ford program also pays for release time for some faculty members to collaborate with undergraduates in mapping out entirely new courses. This fall. Professor of Economics George Borts is working with a group of stu- dents on an introductory course focus- ing on the economic sources of social conflict. Borts sees the new class as a way to promote intellectual curiosity by showing students what economics can do before handing them the analytical tools of the trade. Meanwhile, English instructor Ellen Rooney, a specialist in British and American women authors, has teamed with undergraduates to plot a course on the literature of minority women. One or two students in each of the seminars may assist these professors next summer in refining the material and then serve as undergraduate teaching assistants for the courses. The Ford Foundation's $750,000 commitment, matched by 1 1.5 million from Brown, is intended to serve two purposes: to interest more students in academic careers at a time when short- ages of college teachers are thought to be pending, and to create a mechanism that constantly feeds new ideas into Brown's course offerings. Romer be- lieves it is serving both purposes. Not only has the collaborative research helped to "keep alive the importance of the questions that the next generation is asking," but in many cases, she says, "the student is helping the faculty member learn, and that changes the whole relationship between faculty and student. It's an experience which can really open the student to the possibility of being an independent researcher sometime in the future." Professor of Sociology Frances Goldscheider, who participated in the program last summer, seconds Romer's appraisal. She praises the Ford pro- gram for "breaking the formal roles of teacher/lecturer and student/notetaker to develop close working relationships. outside ihe context of evaluation." Geneva Phifer '89, who completed a research assistantship last summer, said the assistantship helped her to "realize that I could give my professors new information, just as they've been giving me new information." Some Brown professors take ex- ception to the idea that an undergrad- uate, in the course of a relatively short bibliographic search, can dig up infor- mation that is both unknown to faculty scholars and relevant to their courses. "I just find it unlikely that a student is going to go into the library and come up with any great surprises," says his- tory professor James Patterson, who has taught black and civil-rights history, and has taken on undergraduate re- search assistants for the past four sum- mers. Mari Jo Buhle, however, believes that, because much of the new infor- mation on minority studies has sprung from other disciplines and is printed in highly specialized journals, "historians have often missed the boat. " Historians may not be the only academics who have missed the pluralist boat. Last year, during the por- tion of his international political econ- omy course that dealt with economic relations between the U.S. and Latin America, Frank Medina '89 ap- proached political science professor Van Whiting with a quibble. Medina objected that while Whiting had spent weeks analyzing the effects of the southward movement of capital, he had devoted only half a lecture to the northward migration of labor. Whiting not only agreed that Medina had iden- tified a shortcoming, he asked him to spend his summer helping to remedy it with a Ford collaborative research grant. The problem Medina put his finger on, Whiting explains, stems from the rift between dependency and de- velopment theorists that has dominated academic debate in his field for much of the past two decades. Development theorists assert that enlightened Third World leaders can steer their countries toward prosperity by retracing the steps of the United States and other indus- trial success stories. Their academic adversaries, dependency theorists, ar- gue that underdevelopment in the Third World is a necessary condition for prosperity in developed Western countries, and thus cannot be overcome without major reform of international investment and trade patterns. While they seem irreconcilable, the two theo- ries have something in common — they both focus on elite actors, such as state decision-makers and executives of mul- tinational corporations. Medina, whose father is a blue-col- lar worker and whose mother is Mexi- can-American, said his research was motivated largely by a rejection of this elitist focus. As one of sixty-three stu- dents awarded a Ford summer research assistantship, he spent 400 hours of his "vacation" combing through dozens of library books on his dormitory floor, searching for answers to a few basic questions: What possesses some Latin Americans to wrench themselves from a slum in San Salvador or a Yucatan village to risk a clandestine future in "El Norte"? What are the dangers, the po- tential rewards, and the legal impedi- ments posed by this northward trek to uncertain fortune? What binds people to their homes? "Just when I thought I had it all figured out," Medina recalls with a smile, "Professor Whiting would ask another question which would send me scurrying back to the books." By sum- mer's end, Medina handed in an ex- tensively annotated bibliography on Latin American immigration, with sec- tions on migration theory, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Cuba, and Central America. Already, Medina's research has left its mark on Whiting's course. Several of the texts he found are required reading this year, while others will inform Whiting's lectures or guide student research projects. Medina will help dis- seminate the material in his new role as the course's undergraduate teaching assistant. The work also piqued Medi- na's interest in academics as a possible career, although he found research "tremendously lonely" and impotent. "What really depresses me," he says, "is how little can be done about [the prob- lems of migrants] without labor organ- ization on an international scale, which is very Utopian. This is the point where academia hits the real world with a dull thud." Whiting, for his part, hopes to develop a "business-school-type case" for the course in international political economy. He has already worked with a student on a case involving IBM's in- vestment in Mexico. Like Whiting and Medina, history professor Howard Chudacoff favors academic reform "to correct a bias of past historians by focusing more on people and everyday life than just on the movers and shakers and leaders." The first thing visitors to his office see is a sign on the door that reads, "His- tory woven from the stories of all the people." Yvette Pena '87 and Corey Fake '88 decided to take Chudacoff up on that slogan last spring. Pena's project was to assemble a bibliography of material on the urban experience of nineteenth-century Hispanic-Ameri- cans with which to supplement Chuda- cofPs U.S. urban history course; Fake took a similar look at Asian immigrants to American cities. Chudacoff has made required reading of a text unearthed by Pena, which discusses the interaction between Anglos and Mexicans in Santa Barbara, California, shortly after the city had been annexed by the U.S., when white Americans were the immigrants to what had been a Mexican town. This pro- vides "a new perspective in American urban history, because in most cases the immigrants were non-English-speaking people," Chudacoff says. He credits the Ford grant with helping him to expand the perspective of his class "so that it more fully encompasses the urban experiences of more Americans." Chudacoffs own career has been marked by academic renewal. He was among the graduate students of the 1960s who responded to growing evi- dence of inner-city strife by helping to pioneer the field of urban history. Chudacoff is anxious to keep up with the new research on ethnic American enclaves that has burgeoned in the past few years. While he frowns on the sort of "presentism" that has turned many Brown students away from the serious study of history, he acknowledges that "historians live in the present, and the issues that are raised in the national news affect us." Many Ford projects germinate when a student asks a question a pro- fessor can't answer. Such was the case last spring when Maria St. John '88 wanted more information about the History professor Howard Chudacoff meets with Corey Fake '88, his student research collaborator. role of women in the shamanistic thea- ter traditions of Southeast Asia than Professor John Emigh could supply. Emigh, chairman of the theater, speech, and drama department and an expert on Oriental theater, agreed to work with St. John on a search for an- swers. "Many kinds of performance get slighted, and particularly slighted by male researchers like myself," he ex- plains. A long list of Asian shamanistic theater traditions are believed to have been created by women and later coopted by men. Japanese Kabuki theater is widely attributed to a woman performer named Okuni, and it was originally performed by prostitutes who would flirt with gender lines in eroti- cally stimulating performances. "Now," Emigh explains, "it is a classic form, with men playing women's roles with great virtuosity." Noh drama was drawn from shaman priestesses, but is performed exclusively by men. St. John wanted to know more about how Asian society had eroticized or objectified women, or simply displaced them as shamans — particularly powerful posi- tions in cultures in which performers are believed to embody divine spirits capable of healing the sick. Why, one might ask, is it worth- while to reassess the role of women in the genesis of ancient Asian theater traditions? "For one thing, fairness," Emigh explains. "A scholar is looking for truth, looking for ways in which history has been patterned by skewed vision. Another thing that feminists are interested in is the dynamics of power — how male-dominated societies have disenfranchised women." Uncovering such information also could explain how the writer's gender influences dra- matic plot and structure. Emigh has already begun to circu- late St. John's list of sources to Asian theater scholars around the country, with a request that they fill in any per- ceived blanks. He hopes to have the bibliography published in the newslet- ter of the Association for Asian Per- formance, in an effort to inspire schol- arly interest in the subject. Some professors have objected that the Ford program constitutes a finan- cial temptation to politicize their cours- es. Professor Whiting recognizes the danger, and believes that the faculty committee that proffers the grants must guard against it. The matter poses a personal quandary for him: While he values the academic freedom to choose course material, he thinks that "schol- arly goals are served when we look crit- ically at our own research and our teaching," a process that students can accelerate. The problem is less troublesome for faculty members who reject the whole notion of academic objectivity. Buhle, for instance, believes that every text is inescapably subjective and calls it "pretense" for scholars to assume oth- erwise. "You can't discover the past," she explains. "You create a framework for it. That framework shows how you see yourself." The important thing, she adds, is to make personal motivations explicit, rather than hiding them be- hind a veneer of objectivity. The principal motivation for some other participating faculty members is to recruit more women and minorities into the professorial ranks. Such was physics professor Philip Bray's hope when he enlisted Karen Schiff '89 to help him research nineteenth-century blacks, Hispanics, and women who had made significant contributions to phys- ics. Schiffs bibliography will augment course readings and lectures through- out the physics department, where only about 10 percent of the undergraduate concentrators are women, and few are minorities. "If they are given a textbook which does nothing but mention white males from cover to cover," says Bray, "then I think they are getting a clear message: It's all right for you to study this stuff, but obviously you have no future in academics." At its best, a Ford grant can induce students to believe that the academic life holds a future for them. Geneva Phifer, who worked with Martin Martel last summer to gather information on changing attitudes toward interracial marriages, began the project believing that she "could not add anything new to any academic field." By the end of the summer, she had discarded her long- standing ambition to become an ac- countant in order to explore the possi- bility of being a scholar. It was not so much the content of her investigation that changed Phifer's plans, she says; it was the realization that she could contribute to scholarly research. That realization, Karen Romer points out, is what collaborative culture is all about. H Brown doesn't close at five o'clock. Or ten o'clock. The heat, the lights, the electricity for computers, typewriters and stereos work all day and often through the night. In addition to all the other current needs your Brown Annual Fund dollars meet, your gift literally keeps the University running. It's not impossible to learn without heat and lights and computers. But with your help, it isn't necessary. „-;^, The Brown Annual Fund J^W^ Brown University / Box 1976 ''' ;4r^v Providence, RI 029 1 2 ...We can't do it without you. Crisis Manager Citibank senior officer William Rhodes '57 is a key player in the crucial effort to stabilize Latin America's foreign-debt crises Bringing relative stability to Latin America's cataclysmic foreign-debt crisis has been the pot of gold at the end of the economic rainbow throughout this decade. No single leader has per- formed that feat, but the accomplish- ments of one man stand far above the rest. His name: William Reginald Rhodes '57. For the international banking By Peter G. Fiadley '50 community, the 1980s add up to one of the darkest periods in the twentieth century, second only to the Great De- pression. Billions of dollars in out- standing loans to Third World coun- tries have been on the line as the specter of default cast long shadows from Latin America across the Group of Seven (the U.S., Great Britain, France, West Germany, Italy, Japan, and Canada) industrialized nations. Failure of one or more of the major debtors to meet their obligations could have produced a domino effect leading to one of the worst economic calamities in the history of the modern world. It didn't happen. And if the ex- perts are right, it is not likely to hap- pen, in large part because the major components of the vast financial net- work pulled together, despite diverse interests, to save the system. The shaky economies of Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina raised the great- ist fears. In these countries the banks had tlie most to lose. Venezuela and the Philippines were next. But there were others as well. Latin America's current debts total about $400 billion. U.S. commercial banks are in for about SlOO billion of that. Other sources, including the mul- tilateral development banks — Inter- national Monetary Fund, World Bank, and Interamerican Development Bank — hold paper for the rest. On this bleak financial landscape in the late 1970s appeared the figure of a dark-haired, soft-spoken banker with Citicorp, the New York City holding company for Citibank, the world's largest bank and the largest in Latin America. In his early forties at the time, his star was rising at an institution then headed by Walter Wriston, son of for- mer Brown President Henry M. Wris- ton. As a junior lending officer at Citi- bank in Maracaibo, Venezuela, in the late 1950s, Rhodes was friendly and outgoing. In time he built a network of contacts that quickly recognized his leadership ability. He was to become president of the Venezuelan-American Chamber of Commerce and steward of Citibank's flourishing Venezuelan op- erations. He became fluent in Spanish and able to get along in Portuguese. After a stint in Jamaica where he was named Citibank's senior country officer in 1966, he acquired the same title for Venezuela and the Andes region in 1972. Three years later he was ap- pointed senior vice president and area corporate officer for the Andean and Caribbean regions. In 1977 he re- turned to New York as one of three executives charged with managing the bank's Latin American and Caribbean interests. In 1980, with a seat on the Citibank Policy Committee as a senior corporate officer, he was poised to accept weighty responsibilities in the crisis that was fast approaching. By June 1983, Rhodes was telling Wriston that 'Mexico is on target. [It was on the brink of collapse in 1982.] We're close to wrapping up that $1.5-billion .Argentine loan. We've just about finished Peru's lurmg. We've almost got a handshake on the package for Uruguay." This account appears in Hope Lampert's 1986 book, Behind Closed Doors: Wheeling and Deal- i7ig in the Banking World. It was then that Wriston tapped him to pull Brazil back from the brink. "Paul Volcker [then chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank] is worried about Brazil, " Wriston said. "He's heard the Rhodes is completely straight. No one can ever say they don't know where they stand with him. I'd want him at my side if I were being shot at by the enemy. Some people say he's arro- gant, or he railroads people. But you can't be a real leader with- out some critics. In fact, if you don't have critics, then you're bloody well not worth knowing. — Guy Hunt- rods, director of Lloyd's Bank International rumors that Brazil is going to freeze its interbank lines ... I know you need Brazil like I need a hole in the head, but I'd like you to chair that commit- tee." He paused. "Brazil needs you." Brazil was then and still is Citi- bank's biggest customer — loans totaling |4.4 billion, or 80 percent of Citibank's equity. If Brazil's economy collapsed. Citibank and the U.S. econotny — not to mention the rest of the world — would receive a telling shock. Rhodes took the job. From that day to this, his reputa- tion as an expert in restructuring the Third World debt has grown in tandem with his brutal globe-trotting schedule. In U.S. and Latin American banking circles, his skill in coalescing diverse interests and philosophits is all but leg- endary. The cover story in the February 1986 Inslilutional Investor magazine not- ed matter-of-factly that "by the end of 1985 he had overseen and 'closed' an even dozen huge loan reschedulings, worth 1134 billion, and was being lauded as the virtual savior of the world's financial system." If that assessment .seems extreme, others are only slightly more re- strained — "Citibank's superman," "field marshal of the debt crisis," "fire chief (for extinguishing economic blazes), and the latest, "lone ranger" (because he always wins). Rhodes gets a kick out of translating the masked rider of the plains into Spanish: El Llanero Solitario. In an interview late last year, dur- ing Brazilian negotiations, Rhodes de- scribed the procedure. In a typical negotiation, he said, "you have differ- ent levels because usually the debtor governments involved had borrowed from the private commercial banks, from the international financial institu- tions — the World Bank, Interamerican Development Bank, and IMF (Interna- tional Monetary Fund) — and also from the industrialized governments, the creditor governments that are referred to as G7, or the Group of Seven major industrialized countries. So they owe money to all of these. When it gets down to a debt restructining, they have to coordinate. "It's somewhat like being an or- chestra leader," he continued, "because you have the various sections ... and you must be able to deal with all of them simultaneously to put an agree- ment together. So it can be quite com- plicated, and everyone with his own interest." He likens it somewhat to run- ning a mini-United Nations "because they have different ways of looking at things and different ideas. You've got to forge that together and get one opinion and negotiate with that opinion with the debtor government you're dealing with." He also has to keep in close touch with the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank in New York and Washington, with the Treasury and State Departments, and with organizations such as the Export- Import Bank. Upon his retirement last summer as Fed chairman, Paul Volcker wrote a NEGOTIATOR: In this 1984 plwto^aph, Rhodes (standing) and Alfonso Celso Pastore (third from left), president of the Central Bank of Brazil, and their colleagues work on a multi- billion-dollar loan to Brazil. "Dear Bill" letter to Rhodes, who has it framed on his office wall. It reads in part, "Maybe you will soon be the last of that hardy band of warriors assembled in 1982 dedicated to fighting the debt crisis to victory. And I don't know of anyone else in the commercial banking commimity who could have played your crucial role so effectively. I and others know that, and appreciate that." Another of Rhodes's mementos is a letter from President Jimmy Carter for serving as his private sector represen- tative at the First Anniversary celebra- tion of the Nicaraguan revolution. He's been invited to dinner by President Raul Ricardo Alfonsin Foulkes of Argentina. He's met with President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado of Mexico, President Julio Maria San- guinetti of Uruguay, President Fidel Castro Ruz of Cuba, and President Daniel Ortega Saavedra of Nicaragua. Castro promised him a box of Havana cigars, which in time arrived from the Cuban Embassy in New York. If Rhodes enjoys the excitetnent and prestige of knowing the presidents of Latin American countries on a first-name basis, of snatching victory from defeat at the negotiating table, that seems small reward for the service he has rendered the Western world. Last year alone he raised |13 billion in loans for Brazil, Mexico, and Argenti- na, according to a Citibank spokesman. He is known among his banking col- leagues for his total commitment. He must be ready to fly to Washington or London or one of the South American capitals on a few hours' notice, regard- less of his personal life. During last fall's Brazilian negotiations, he and his committee worked six days a week for a month, until midnight every night, and resumed early each morning. Rhodes speaks with animation of his Nicaraguan experience. "We were the first there [in Managua] the week after the revolution, and as far as I know we were the lirst private plane to go in, and the airport didn't know what to do with us. The airport was full of the Sandinistas — men and women armed to the teeth." He named the leaders with whom he negotiated — "all of whom have left," he said, "and head the contra movement. But they all were then leading figures — members of the junta." It sounds almost as though he misses those days. "Well," Rhodes says with a smile, "it was an interesting peri- od." He is noticeably cautious through- out an interview, frequently asking that the taping be interrupted. His is essen- tially a diplomatic mission, dedicated to achieving understanding and agree- ments among an enormously diverse collection of international bankers and politicians. A slip of the lip could have global consequences. His reputation as an optimist has been widely reported in the press. In- deed, to stave off default one must be- lieve deeply in the chances of success. Certain developments during 1987, however, seemed to belie a rosy futute. On May 19, Citicorp stunned the financial world with its decision to add $3 billion of its assets to loan-loss re- serves. Brazil's earlier suspension of interest payments on its debt undoubt- edly acted as a spur. Still, the decision was not an easy one. It would result in a Citicorp loss of $2.5 billion for the quarter, the bank's first loss since the Great Depression. Then on October 19, "Black Monday," the U.S. stock market plunged, stirring ugly memories of 1929 and sending shock waves around the globe. There were more dramatic head- lines looming on the horizon. The value of the U.S. dollar entered a sharp de- cline, and the Mexican peso plummeted 59 percent in mid-November. Congress labored over the nation's staggering deficit, producing something less than the solution that investors were de- It doesn't surprise me that he would end up a champion of Third World countries. He was always concerned about the welfare of others and did not confine himself to his own selfish interests. — Augustus A. White III, M.D., '57, Boston orthopedic surgeon and a classmate of Rhodes at Northfield Mount Her- mon and Brown manding. While Rhodes conceded the global uncertainties generated by these devel- opments, he seemed relatively unfazed. "Any significant drop in the value (of the peso) vis a vis the U.S. dollar and other currencies," he said, "helps the export sector of Mexico, which has been growing very rapidly over the last two or three years. As a matter of fact, non-oil exports now exceed oil exports lor the fiist time in recent history. And this will further accelerate thai process. .Also, it helps tourism. With the value of the peso to the dollar declining, it's going to be much much cheaper for He is not at all Ma- chiavellian. He doesn't hold back tid- bits of information. He likes to get every- thing on the table. — Douglas Smee, chief economist for the Bank of Montreal Americans, Canadians, and others to go to Mexico than it is to go to Europe, so this will help the tourist segment ot the economy, which is very important as an exchange earner and employer in Mexico." Accentuating the positive comes easily to Rhodes, but he describes him- self as a realist. "I think it's very impor- tant that a major debtor like Mexico has made so much progress in the last eighteen months or so. They're now a member of (iATT [General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, under which the U.S. grants most-favored-nation status]. They're opening their economy up, and they're maintaining realistic ex- change rates." He noted that at the October-No- vember negotiations Brazil had agreed to resume interest payments. "Colom- bia has never had to restructure its debt," he said with obvious gratifica- tion. "Uruguay is doing very well today, and the economy is performing well in Chile also." The Venezuelan situation, he said, is also improving. "They re- cendy finali/cd an arrangement — a multi-year restructuring — and they actually are starting to pay back some principal, rhey never ceased paying interest." Still, he is quick to warn thai the Latin American debt crisis is by no means over. For example, he .said the situation is very sensitive and difliculi in Argentina. Indeed, in December, officials weie saying that in a few months the country was likely to de- clare a moratorium on most of its $3.5-billion foreign bank debt. "There aie going to be a lot of problems [in the region], " Rhodes said, "but there aie a lot of economic problems in this coun- try, loo." With something so (omplex as the international debt crisis there is no such thing as a solution. Progress is evolu- tionary. Bui Rhodes offers some in- sights when the name Pedro-Pablo Kuczynski coines up for discussion. He is co-chairman of First Boston Interna- tional and Peru's former Minister of Energy and Mines. In the fall 1987 issue of Foreign Affairs magazine, Kuczynski wrote, "My estimate is thai the Latin American countries would need approximately 120 billion a year in the next few years in net capital inflows in order to permit moderate growth." "I think he's primarily looking at the World Bank and the regional de- velopment banks," Rhodes comments. "Now whether that figure is too high or not, there's no doubt that we need more participation by the iiueriiational financial institutions." In a similar vein, he is less than sanguine about past efforts to help Latin America overcome its difficulties. "I think we've been overly preoccupied with Central America — Nicaragua — for the past four or five years," he says, "and I think there's a tendency to un- derestimate the rest of Latin America, which is also very important for us strategically, politically, and economi- cally. I think that we need to give addi- tional attention to these other areas." It would be fitting to attribute Rhodes's success at what he does to in- telligence, poise, self-confidence, and hard work. All of these are at his com- mand. But years of living south of the border and dealing with other cultures and customs have given him .something more. He has developed a specfiil rap- port with the Latin world. He identifies with the people and their problems even as he presses a hard baigain on behalf of Citicorp, the United States, and the Western economic system. Rhodes summed up the Third World debt crisis in a speech at Brown last March. "The usual imponderables lemain," he said, "any of which could have serious consequences for the dif- ferent economies. The threat of pro- tectionism in the developed world is the most important, since the developing countries need continued access to world markets in order to grow. On the He's wasted on bank- ing. He should be a politician. — Angel Gurria, Mexico's direc- tor of public credit other side of the coin, the structural adjustment of Latin American econo- mies will allow them to import more of the goods they need from the United States and other industrialized coun- tries.... "A final question mark is whether the Latin American governments have the political will to continue taking the steps necessary to rebuild their econo- mies. I believe the signs, over all, indi- cate that they do." Nearly a year after that speech, the signs are still there, and Bill Rhodes is still clearly upbeat about the future. The debt crisis is not over but for the time being, at least, it seems under control. ■ Peter Fradley, a freelance writer in West- port Point, Mass., retired last year after twenty-three years with the Providence Journal. THE CLASSES By James Reinbold Newsmakers Poxhuiuing evokes images of eight- eenth-century England, country man- ors, and indolent squires on their mounts, as impatient as the yapping hounds for the hunt to begin. But in rural South Carolina, in Tryon, to be exact, Bob Ashcom '62, '69 M.A.T. is keeping that archaic, and slightly misimderstood, sport alive. According to the Landrum, S.C, News Leader, Ashcom and his wife, Susie, moved to Tryon from Charlottesville, Va., after Ashcom had been named Huntsman to the Tryon Hounds, a top- notch fox hunting club. Susie contin- ued in her real estate career, and Bob began building the pack of American Foxhounds with Piedmont Rhoda, whom he brought from Virginia, as well as nine young puppies and an out- standing bitch, Tryon Onward, who was already there. American Foxhounds have been bred for about 100 years, Ashcom says, but unlike the English variety, which is forgiving, the American hound is more sensitive: Either the master does right by him, or he will quit hunting or even run away. Tryon Hounds, Inc., begun in 1926, sits on thirty-eight acres of land with kennels and a clubhouse. The hounds hunt twice a week from Sep- tember through March. But what about the fox? "To take forty hounds and pit them against one fox doesn't seem fair," Ashcom rightly says, "but in five years, I've never killed a fox and I have no desire to." Ashcom says that the fox escapes by finding a hole or losing the hounds and riders with fancy maneu- vering. Ashcom is friend to the neighbor- ing landowners and is involved in the management of the rural landscape. He is also a poet. "I've always tried to see the world through the eyes of animals," he says. A recently published poem about finding a lost hound concludes: "And when I crouched and called his name again,/ He came to catch my hand's unchanging scent;/ And in the moment's hush his eyes came clear,/ As if to make a mirror for my face." The Scorpio Club of Providence meets once a year, at the Brown Faculty Club. The six members meet to keep their friendships alive — even though they see one another often throughout the year — to add to their memories, and to se- lect a charity to which they will make their generous annual donation. If you haven't already guessed, there is something unique about the Scorpios: At seventy-five, William Bo- jar '33 is the youngest member. Founded by Herman Feinstein '16, the other members of the club are Walter Adler 18, Leo Rosen '22, Spencer Koch (Boston University Law '22), and Sidney Rabinowitz (Penn '28, Harvard Law '31). All are residents of Provi- dence. "I found all of a sudden these guys were Scorpios and said, 'Let's have a Scorpio Club,' " Feinstein said in an article that appeared in November in The Providence Sunday Journal. "We have a luncheon every year, then decide what to do. We get together to continue knowing each other." "At this point in my life, it's impos- sible to create new friendships," said Rosen, who will become president next year, an honor conferred in descending order of age. "But this is one way to retain the friendship of five other peo- ple." Bojor added, "I think the enjoya- ble thing is the connadeship, that you can have a lot of fun at an advanced age. Life does not stop at fifty." Or six- ty, seventy, eighty, or ninety, if you hang around with the Scorpios. Bojar, according to The Journal, is the "unofficial keeper of the Scorpio code." It is not written down, and it still draws groans from fellow members when Bojar, half seriously, answers the question, "What makes Scorpios spe- cial?" "We are trying to create an image of, shall we say, high intellect toward a noble purpose." At a future meeting, the Scorpios will have to decide whether new mem- bers should be considered and whether an age limit should apply. Founder F'einstein is adamant on one point: "No women allowed. We discriminate." NOTES r~^ /^ Alice Tattrie Fletcher writes: "My J i I news is sad. My husband, Leslie, ^^ V^ died on June 1 of a massive heart attack and was buried at Fort Myer-Arling- ton Cemetery with military honors. He is survived by four children and eight grand- children. I will remain here at Vinson Hall, where they accept retired Army folk. I have a beautiful apartment facing the Virginia hills. I'd welcome any visitors. Washington has a very active alumni group, but old age keeps me from getting to meetings, I'm sor- ry to say." Alice's address is 6251 Old Do- minion Dr., #301, McLean, Va. 22101. Dutee Hall, New Paltz, N.Y., was mar- ried on June 20 to Jeanne Corff Rosenficld, also of New Paltz, in a Quaker ceremony at Poughkeepsie. About 150 guests attended, Dutee says. /^ ^ "Information or news concerning y ^ the cla.ss of '23 is as scarce as hen's i^ %J teeth," writes class President Ray Henshaw, of Cos Cob, Cionn. "It isn't exactly modest, but perhaps of interest, that I have been elected vice president. New England district, of the National Society of Sons of the American Revolution, headquartered in Louisville, Ky.' r~^ ^^ The following is a portion of a J I letter received by Irving G. Lox- ^^ / ley, class secretary, from W. Wyeth Willard. Forestdale, Mass.: "I have so nuR h unlinished business. Three weeks ago I (lew to Savannah, CJa., then traveled to the Marine Corps Barracks in Beaufort, S.C., where I was one of lour persons to dedicate the Second Marine Division Memorial Win- dow in the new chapel. From Savannah, I flew to Minneapolis, Minn., to give the memorial address at the reunion of the Sec- ond Marine Division Association. A week later, I flew to Birmingham, Ala., where 1 officiated in the wedding of my grandson, Stephen Brooks, M.D., a young surgeon. The first part of October, my daughter. Faith, and 1 entertained Speaker of the Par- liament and Vice President of Bangladesh 51 Ah,to be in England Where the bookstores are! 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He has chargi- III iill-MMi i( uiiiiim II voii arc iii- tereslcil, .lio|) liiiii .. iiou- at 'JL'I North 35lh Ave., Hollywood, Kla. :i;i02l. li you are in Florida for the winter holidays, call him al (305) 989-6550. He wants to hear from you. ^\ f^ If vou have not sent in your bio- y^ ^^ graphical sketch to be included in ^^ vjour 50lh reunion booklet, please do so nglu aua\. Siiul ii lo Ruth Coppen Lindquist and Luke Mayer. ( l.iss sc< i ci.ii ies. 681 C'.ouiuy Si., .Seekonk, .Mass. ()'_'771. Remember the dates of our 50th are May 27-30. In order to have time to prepare the booklet we must have your input now. Vince Benton and his wife, Isobel, are avid golfers and li.iw pl.ivid courses from coast to coast and m lUriiiuda. \'ince's re- cent claim to fame is a hole-in-one (his sec- ond) on Sept. 8 at Dodger Pines Country Club in Vero Beach, Fla. Isobel actively pursues her interest in painting and has exhibited her work at the Vero Beach Cen- ter for the Arts. Although he has done more for Brown "than the average bear," Marvyn Carton is very modest and had to be asked more than once to send us some news. His daughter, Dana '67. is married to Anthony Caprio (Wesleyan '67). Both are at American Uni- versity, where Tony heads the language department. They have a son, Mark. 1 1. Son John David '76 is married to Wendy Row- den '76. They have a daughter. Pamela, 3, and a son, Jercm\. 8. Marvvn, who donated the endowmeiii Im ilu Im.kI |. Kapstein Chair in English .ii iIk- iiiik hI our 45th reunion, is now wmking li.iid as chairman of our 50th reunivMi gill loiiiinittee. He lives in New York City. Though retired. Dr. William H. Dean and his wife. Betty, still live in the old house in Geneva, N.Y., and are in robust good health. They winter in Key Largo, Fla., and try to take one exciting trip a year. This past fall, they went to Spain and last year spent three months touring the U.S. Northwest. Their son, William Dean '69, and his wife presented them with William Hope Dean III in September. Betty Waterman Derry and her hus- band, Paul, spent the entire month of May driving across country and back — 9,600 miles in all. The highlight of their trip was the wedding of their daughter in Pasadena, where she is a doctoral candidate in applied physics at Cal Tech. Betty and Paul live in Canton, Mass. Dorothy Hand Neves wrote she was happy to join the Brown Club ol (Greater Tampa. She and her sisu r. Rose Hand Horn '30, went to a 'Bui kii Day" at the Coalouet Yacht Club on Clearwater Beach. Activities included "the beach, tennis, vol- leyball, hot dogs, soft drinks, barbeque, and witty, intelligent, diversified conversation. " Dot is bringing her tennis racquet to the reunion and hopes others will join her for doubles. A r^ Walter C. Gummere, Salem, S.C. /I I I went lo London in December to _1- \J loiiduct a seminar at The Ameri- taii C:<)llcgc. Edward H.Jones writes that he anil his wife still have their house in Wickford, R.I., but spend most of the year at their hou,se on CUiappaquiddick, when not traveling. "Last winter, we bought a small condominium in Rotonda West, Fla.," F.d writes. "It is near old college roommates Tom McCabe (Don Pedro Island) and Norm Cheever (Naples), and their lovely wives, Marion and Dot " A -| The 1941 reunion committee /I I (men and women) has accepted JL JL Clifford Gustafson's kind offer to host an "off-year" gathering on Sunday, May 29 at his home on Poppasquash Point, Bris- tol, R.I. All classmates planning to be in the vicinity for the 1988 Commencement week- end are invited to participate in the gather- ing, which will include a genuine clambake and conviviality. Details about time, cost, and directions lo Clifford's home will be forth- coming. Charles H, Bechtold, a former state lepresentative and former South Kingstown. R.I., councilman, has been named to the Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education by Governor Edward DiPrete. Charles has held the posts of senior program officer for student financial assis- tance for the New England states and pro- gram officer of student guaranteed loans for higher education in New England. He sat on the South Kingstown Town Council as a Republican from 1947 to 1951 and was president of the council the last two years. A resident of Carolina, R.I., Charles has also served in both the Rhode Island House and Senate. A r^ Howard B. Lyman, professor /I ^ emeritus of psychology at the \^ ^^ University of Cincinnati, is in England doing research in connection with his books on psychological testing. He is also working on a biography of Sir Francis Gal- William E. O'Connor's college text- book. An Introducliou lo Airline Economics, has appeared in a Japanese translation and is being used as a textbook at Nihon University in Japan. "'I am told it was translated by a committee of five," he writes. "I stare at my copy in astonishment. My thoughts are now expressed in the ideograms of the mysteri- ous East! " Bill lives in Daytona Beach, Fla. Des Simmons, Kinnelon, N.J., formerly vice president, construction, for Prudential Insurance Company, came out of retirement to accept the post of executive project man- ager for construction of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, a $35-million project at Rutgers University. A (^ Plans have been made for most of /I '^ the class reunion activities to be _1. V-/ held near the campus so we may participate in the events and forums and also be able to see the new buildings and the renovations to those buildings so familiar to us. A dormitory lounge will be our head- FREE PORTRAIT OF AN ISLAND. A 36-pag9 color portrait of life on Nortti Carolina's premier offshore island. 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Wanted to Buy The country's largest gallery specializing m American and European art will pay highest prices for fine paintings, watercolors, drawings and sculpture from the 18th century to the present- All inquiries receive expert attention and reply Please contact Stuart P Feld ^irschll^Adler lyALLERIES INC THE CLASSES qii.uurs. and iin Friday night the entire class will (line tof>(ilnT in our own area at the Rtl(it(ii\ |)ii(ii to a choice ot "your-own" or "tm-cainpus " activities, such as the theater or tlie Campus Dance. Saturday will offer the faculty-led forums in the morning and af- ternoon and the traditionally separate luncheons for the men and women at noon. The women's luncheon will be at the Faculty Club. The wives of the men of '43 and the women of '1'_' .iiul 11 have been cordially invited. On S.ininl.is iiit;lii, iht-if will he a change <>l |mm Im all KVisand llieii gucsis with an elct^aiu (liniici lollowcd by the Pops Concert. (We'll be seated at leserved tables with our classmates.) Other activities are available for Saturday evening if you so choose. Sunday plans provide many op- tions — it's a weekend to enjoy, make new friends, and rekindle friendships made in college. Look for a mailing of complete de- tails in March, and in the meantime use the I94:i (lass Directory (mailed in January) to contact friends to join you at the reunion on Friday through Monday. May 27-30. On the 30th — for those of you who graduated with a foot of snow on the ground in February 1943 — it may be the first opportunity you have had to march down the Hill. Return to Reunion! — Carol Taylor Carlisle Padraic P. Frucht. Santa Fe, N.M., writes tli.il in the past vcar he and his wife "have m.nU- sul)stanii al \ isils to C^hina, Rus- sia, and the Krilish Isles. All were very illu- minating. The Russian people are in love with Gorbachov and glasnost, the Chinese love the free market, and the Irish are drowning in the welfare state. I see a hard pull for all of them." A A The class extends its sympathy to /I / I Constance Lucas Chase, Wayland, -1_ JL Mass., on the death of her daugh- ter, Nancy, in August 1987, and to the fam- ily of classmate Eleanor Daly Magerowski, of Potomac, Md., who died on Sept. 21, 1987. James Flanagan, Wayland, Mass., has been granted tenure by the University of Lowell, where he is a professor of mechani- cal engineering in the C^oUege of Engi- neering. Lois Dwight McDaniel has taught Naw Cninni.iiicl.i bill M. Daniel, have hve thildien and lour grandchildren. Last sum- mer, they vacationed in Marshfield, Mass., and look a motor trip to Canada and Ohio to visit with their son, his wife, and their four thildien. Lois and Bill live in Virginia licacli. \a., nol Wilmington, Del., as was enoiuduslv leporlcd in the October issue. Philip A. Simpson. Winthrop, Maine, went 1.1 Hanover. Nil., for the Brown- D.iilinoiilh lootb.tll game and "a big get-to- gether of Old-time Brunonians " 46 Dt Thomas F. Boyd, .\i :>l Ihoi; ispital i operating room, cominiilec umk .ii llic hos- pital, and review woik loi ilic M.iss.i. Inisiiis Professional Review Oigaiii/.iin.n His uile. Dr. Martha B. Boyd, coiiliiuies as cliici ol anesthesiology at Emerson Hospital. Jean Campbell has retired after nine- teen years as executive director of the New Bedford (Mass.) YWCA. She recently re- ceived awards from the American Associa- tion of University Women and International Women's Dav. Hei (onliiiiiiiii; ( oniinunity lesponsihiliiits iii(lii(lc mimic .is .in honor- ary iruslec ol Si, liikis lli|iiii.iiiiiii ..Hiiniittee (which deals with] South African investments." William H. King, Tucson, Ariz., writes that 1987 has been an eventful year. His daughter, Sharon, was married in May; Bill retired in August after thirty-one years at the University of Arizona; his first grand- child, Michelle, arrived in October to his second daughter, Mrs. Janice Deardorff; and his son, Jeffrey, was ordained a priest at St. Pius Catholic Church, in Tucson, on Nov. 7. Dr. Edwin M. Knights says that he has given up working as a ringside physician because of potential medical liability expo- sure. "I managed to work five world title fights, though, including the Holmes-Spinks bout and several of Tommy Hearns's title fights. I am still director of SmithKline Bio- Science Detroit Branch and a staff patholo- gist at three area hospitals." Ed lives in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Barbara Martin Leonard, Providence, administrator of the United States General Services Administration's (GSA) six-state New England region since January 1986, has been named special assistant to administra- tor Terence C. Golden. As senior advisor, she will help develop policies and proce- dures for child-care facilities throughout the federal government. Prior to joining GSA, Barbara was chairman and chief executive officer of H&H Screw Products Manufac- turing Company in Lincoln, R.I. She headed the customized metal component parts firm from 1977 until 1986, when she sold the business. Henry V. (Gene) Leonard is the new president of the Brown Club of Japan. Pre- vious president Ken Munekata '81 is attend- ing Harvard Business School. Gene, who lives in Toyko and works for General Motors Overseas Corporation, writes that the club has about 150 members, thirty of whom at- tend the five or six yearly meetings. He en- courages all Brown visitors to Japan to con- tact him in Tovko by telephone: (03) 4701491; telex: JAPAUCO J22776; or FAX: GMOC JAPAN 4793297. "We will be happy to try and be of some help, or put you in touch with other Brown men and women here " Sybil Blackman Lesselbaum, Warren, R.I., has returned from an 'interesting trip to Italy, where we toured the picturesque region of Tuscany and enjoyed seeing the medieval towns of Sienna and San Gimigna- no, the hilly chianti area where the grapes were being harvested for the 1987 vintage wines. Florence, Assisi, Perugia, and Rome were also included on our itinerary. Art, wine, and the culture of the region provided a pleasant autumn holiday. I'm busy plan- ning with my co-chairman and committee a state-wide flower show, which will be held at Blithewold in Bristol, R.I., in June." Bob Mareneck and his wife. Ruby, have been active in International Executive Ser- vices Corps (lESC), a private-sector-to-pri- vate-sector service organization founded twenty years ago by Nelson Rockefeller, with headquarters in Stainford, Conn. They did volunteer work in Kingston, Jamaica, in January and February of 1986, and in San Salvador, El Salvador, in January and Feb- ruary of 1987. Bob writes from Lake Forest, III., that they are eager to serve again. Bunny Cohan Meyer and her husband, Joel, are looking forward to having all their children east of the Mississippi again. Their son, Jim '76, and his wife are moving from Fresno, Calif., to Boston, where Jim has accepted a fellowship in pediatric radiology at Boston Children's Hospital. Their daughter, Jill, and her family live in Atlanta, and Ellen lives in Old Greenwich, Conn., with her family. Bunny is a realtor-associate in Merrill Lynch Realty's Coral Gables (Fla.) office. She and Joel live in Miami. Mary Hamlen Otis is "just as busy as ever enjoying retirement. I took a train ride from Hyannis, Mass., along the Cape Cod Canal to Buzzard's Bay and back with the Brown Club of Cape Cod. I sat with Adele Kellenberg Seaver '49 and our respective spouses." Mary lives in Waquoit, Mass. Carl G. Paulson, Jr., attended the Brown-Cornell football game with Pat O'- Brien and Tom Karazanjian and enjoyed the hospitality of Kay and Ted Low '49. He was also in town for the 45th reunion of Cranston High School class of '42. "I shot some wonderful color slides of foliage which I really appreciate now that I live in (Re- dondo Beach) California," Carl adds. Mildred Factoroff Pivnick has retired from the VVaiuic k, R I., school system, where she was jii iiu ipal of Holliman School. "My husband and 1 are enjoying our retire- ment. We have been doing a lot of traveling. We took a leisurely trip across the country and spent some time in California, Arizona, and Texas. We just returned from St. Maarten, and will be South in December, before our trip to Israel in March." Mildred and her husb.iiul li\e in West Warwick. John D. Roberts, Yarmouth, Mass., has entered his si(()n(i \ear as president of the Brown Club ol C^ape Cod. "This past year has been a rewarding one for me," he writes. "My condolences to the Chemick family for their loss. It was a loss to our class. Mel served many years as our president. I also wish to congratulate Dick Tracy. A finer person could not have been chosen to fill the position." Allan J. Rosenberg submits a report on growth. "The Rosenberg clan continues to grow. Barbara (Maskell) '49 and I now have six grandchildren: Lawrence '72 and Leslie Rosenberg have two children, Sara, 8, and Mark, 6; John '74 and Shari Rosenberg have a daughter, Sasha, 2; Nancy Rosenberg '76 and Gerald Shapiro, chairman of the music department at Brown, have two children, Benjamin, 3, and Emily, I; while Arthur '80 and Hope Rosenberg had their first child, Daniel, in May." Allan has been with Gener- al Electric for thirty-nine years. He is vice president and general manager of the fed- eral and electronics systems division, with headquarters in Valley Forge, Pa. Allan and Barbara live in Radnor, Pa. Allen F. Rust, Orange Park, Fla., writes that he has built a home near Bondinant in western Wyoming and "expects to be spending more and more time out there among the deer, moose, elk; and also the beavers, badgers, porcupines, and coyotes." TOUR AN ENCHANTING PROVINCE OF FRANCE Designed meliculuusly for the experienced traveler, this l^vo-week slay in the Dordugne includes lodging at the Hotel de la Madeleine in Sarlai. daily excursions to breathtaking sites — above as well as below ground — and an opportunity to informally speak French, taste regional wines and enjoy Perigordian cuisine. Tours from April to October 1988 Call or write: LASGVACE LEARSISG ESTERPRISES World Center Building, Suit 918 16th Street. N W.. Washington. DC 20006 (202) 775-0444 NANTUCKET RESERVATIONS Accommodations at some of Nan tucket's finest Inn Guest Houses. Cottages. and Rental Properties. QUESTERS Describes 37 1988/89 soioums. Natural DIRECTORY history; culture, NOW antiquities. AVAILABLE m\e or call. QUESTERS WORLDWIDE NATURE TOURS Dool IVY 257 Par1( Ave S NY NY 10010 • (21 2t 673-31; THE CLASSES 1UCKET VACATION RENTALS Box 426, Nantucket, MA 02554 Call 617-228-3131 Off season is a great reason to visit Nantucket Island Barge Southern ^^^p^"°"^*^^^ x is), comfon- able, with large sundeck, lounge, rTCltlCe three twin staterooms. Notablecuisine, bicycles, minibus. Seasoned, agreeable British crew. Wtekly charters April-October Color brochure Write "La Tortue" Dept B , Box 1466, Manchester, MA 01944. CLASSIFIED For sale HISTORIC PROVIDENCE: East Side condo- minium, ideal for incoming freshman and/or investment property. Close to campus. Beauti- fully-renovated, cozy one-bedroom features two fireplaces, all appliances, porch, garage. Low taxes and condo fee. Tenant occupied to Ann. ;il. $1 1.^,(I0U. 617-492-3687. SNOWBIRD, UTAH: Time-sharing condo- niiiiiiiMi CliMMMi.is week for sale at this 5-star ski icsori Sleeps 12 with full kitchen, 3 bath- rooms, and fireplace. Exchange privileges at Alta and with Interval International Vacation Exchange. Call (617) 862-1886 evenings. College Counseling APPLYING TO COLLEGES' Lei a lonsultani help your son or daughter choose wisely, do the job right. Former teacher, professor, dean, provost, Princeton grad. Dodge Johnson 215-647-6755. Vacation Rentals CONDO NETWORK - (.li,,,,s,- I i ilu- throughout the cohimk ni.il I inn d Siaics, Hawaii, Australia, M. \i..., .mil iln ( :,iril)bean. All major ski areav \i>\ us,i\, isiall 1-800-237-0192. NANTUCKET. VACATION leiital 3-4 bed- room .house. Proximity to iK-inhrs. lennis courts. 914-631-5392, PORTUGAL-ALGARVE, Villa overlooking sea. Sleeps 6, Maid. Available April through November. Harrison. 15 C^onstitution Hill, Providence, R.I. 02904, SKI UTAH - SI.C. New 3 BR, 2 Bath Condo, Fireplace. Sleeps 9. Minutes from 10 resorts iiu hiding Park City, Deer Valley, Snowbird, and .\ll,i KiMi Kclel 801.277-4801. Robert S. Smith reports that he and his wile, Louise (Jessell), have retired lo Maine, ihotigh Kob is still working part-time as a toii.sultaiU for the family-owned business he sold two years ago. They are enjoyitig their new liome on Orr's Lsland. William H. Stone is on a six-month sabbatical leave in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, sttjdying genetic traits of an indigenous tnarsupial, "Rio is an exciting city if you can avoid the paranoia that totnes with the crime, pollution, and crazy drivers. It will be a let-down returning to the peace and quiet of Texas next December, Best regards to gone but not forgotten classmates." Bill is a distinguished professor at Trinity University in San Antonio, Eleanor Robbins Taylor continues to enjoy her work in real estate. Her husband, Bob, moved his law practice from New Haven to Branford, Conn,, where they live, "We travel as far and as often as we can," Eleanor adds, "and love visits from our four grandchildren." Lois Thornton Tegarden, Princeton. N,J., a real estate agent for John T. Hen- derson, Inc.. received that firm's award for listing and selling tnore than |5 million in real estate during 1987. She reached the figure in only eight months. Joseph J. Vasta. North Wales, Pa., says he is still working but looking forward to Carolyn Adams Waller was married on Aug. 30 to Earl H. Bradley "28. The couple is living at 17 Biadlev St.. Seekonk. Mass. 02771. A ^y Robert B. Abel, president of the /I / New Jersey Marine Sciences Coit- al / sortium, has received the Compass Distinguished Achievetnent Award for his "significant and outstanding contributions in the areas of oceanography and marine tech- nology," Compass Publications Inc., which established the award, publishes the maga- zine Sea Technvlogy. Robert was featured in a special profile in the December issue. June Miller Wilbur has moved back to New England and hopes to hear frotn class- mates. Her address is 105 Martin's Ln,, Hingham, Mass, 02043, A O <^onic'r. Stanley W. Birch, Jr., ZLNi USN (Ret.) writes that he has re- JL U tiled again, this time from teach- ing mathematics in Hampton, Va, "1 am getting ready to travel the U,S. in a motor home, operating out of my condo heie in Norfolk, Va," John T. Fallon, Jr., Scotia, N,Y,, sends word that his daughter, Katharine Fallon Rausch '83, "blessed us with our sixteenth gr.iM(Uliili is spending six months of the year A. %J in Florida, after spending two- and-a-half vears with Alexander & Alexan- der, Ini ., with whom he merged his insur- ance agency. Ted Low (see Carl G. Paulson, Jr. '46). Barbara Maskell Rosenberg (see Allan J. Rosenberg ' Ki) Jeannetle Silberman Roth is working part-time .is .i iiialli tutor for the Dennis, Mass,, school department. Her husband, Walter, an industrial engineer, retired from Teknor Apex Company, Pawtucket, R.I., this past summer. Their daughter, Joan, graduated summa cum laude from Bryant College, Smithfield, R.I., and has opened her own business, a fitness center. Body Architects, Inc, in East Providence, Jean- nette and Walter are living in South Dennis, Mass., and etijoying Cape Cod. ^ /^ Richard W. Arnold, Jr., Stamfotd, r^ I I Conn., has retired from AT&T, %^ \J where he was senior vice president of its foundation. He is vice president and resident manager for the National Executive Service Corps's operations in Connecticut and Westchester. Retirees who are interested in volunteering as consultants to non-profit organizations are urged to give him a call at (203) 322-2223, Roy S. Fidler, San Francisco, was active on the committee — along with Jeff Walker '64, Elliot Maxwell '68, Deborah Coleman '74, and Peter Lycurgus '78 — that organized the very successful Sati Francisco event on Sept, 26 supporting Brown's new Center for Information Technology, More than 300 alumni and guests heard talks by Apple CEO John Sculley '61, other alumni in the computer field, as well as Brown faculty and administration. June Brenner Judson, Boston, pio- duced and directed The Oilier Boston Tea Party, by Rhode Island playwright John C;arroll, with grants from the National En- dowment for the Humanities. The produc- tion toured more than seventy cities and towns in New England in celebration of the Cotistitution Bicentennial, Kenneth E. King, Novi, Mich,, has re- tired from the public library professioti to form Kenneth King Associates, library and publishing cotisultaius. 51 Ihe Ahnnni Relations Office has I been sent ,i cl.iss ol UJ.'il ring, J. .ip|),iuiiilv Icisi .Attempts to reach the owiiii l>v m.iuliiiii; initials with the class lostei have proven futile If you have lost your class ring, please contact Charlotte Ferris of the Alumni Relations Office at (401)863-1946, Gordon D. Dewart, New York City, moved from Newsweek to U.S. News in May 1986, "1 visited with Stephen Fenn shortly luloie his tragic passing. We have seen his Ivy League Vacation Planning Guide We think we can be of assistance to you in planning your next vaca- tion. Listed at right are advertis- ers offering free booklets or bro- chures. All you need do to re- ceive this material is circle the corre- sponding numbers on the coupon and return it to us. We'll do the rest! 1. Afloat in France— there is nothing quite like floating through the canals of France aboard your private luxury barge Wonderful vacation for family or friends Three charming staterooms ac- commodate SIX Weekly charters May-Oct. Su- perb regional food and wine, English-speaking crevi( of four. Spacious salon, sundeck, six bicy- cles, tennis equipment, mini-van. Circle No. 1 . 2. Alumni Flights Abroad— luxury travel pro- gram exclusively for alumni of Ivy League and certain other distinguished universities. Includes India, Nepal. Ceylon, Borneo, Sumatra, South- east Asia and Japan, East Africa, Egypt, Asia IVIi- nor, Greece, the Galapagos, Australia/New Zea- land, and New Guinea, plus a distinctive series to Europe Circle No 2 3. Bermuda — three very special accommoda- tions — Waterloo House, where friendly hospitali- ty awaits you in a peaceful 19th Century manor on Pitts Bay Road in Hamilton, Newstead. a dis- tinguished mansion with multi-terraced accom- modations right on Hamilton Harbour in Paget; and Horizons, a 25-acre hilltop estate with cot- tages overlooking Coral Beach on South Shore Road in Paget Circle No. 3. 4. Cambridge Beaches— Bermuda's original cottage colony. A delightful palm-fringed resort comprising 32 finely appointed cottages scat- tered over 25 breeze-swept acres of the loveliest part of the Island Choice of several private beaches; all water sports, golf and tennis nearby. Wonderful meals are served on the terrace above (Mangrove Bay Circle No 4. 5. The Dolan Group — questions about vacation- ing on Nantuckef Call The Dolan Group 61 7- 228-6612 Nantucket Reservations, a division of The Dolan Group, can answer all your queries, arrange for room or house rentals, boat charters, auto rentals, restaurant reservations— anything you desire to make your visit just the way you want it to be. When you're thinking Nantucket, call Nantucket— 617-228-6612 Circle No. 5. 6. Eurocharters— drift back in time, and enjoy the sights, sounds and flavors of the real France. Our new half-board cruises include breakfast, lunch with wine, and excursions. Coming May '89, barge cruises in Portugal. Circle. No. 6 7. Floating Through Europe — wend your way on romantic waterways through a countryside steeped in history, past centuries-old towns and timeless villages. Enjoy bicycling, walking, private visits to chateaux and castles Savor fine wines and gourmet cuisine. You're never one of a crowd. We take only eight to twenty-two guests — perfect for a few friends or making new ones. Circle No 7 8. Hartford Holidays Travel— this fall, winter, and spring, alumni enjoy a discount of 10 per- cent on Cunard's deluxe Caribbean or Panama Canal cruises of a week or two aboard the one- and-only QE2 or the classic cruise ships. Saga- fjord and Vistafjord, Sailings to or from New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore or Los Angeles, with money-saving air/sea packages. For bro- chures on these and other Cunard vacations with space specially reserved for you, call Ken Mur- ray at (516) 466-0335 or write him at Hartford Holidays, Box 462. Great Neck, NY 11022, Circle No, 8- 9. High Hampton Inn & Country Club, Cash- iers, NC — a country inn and complete resort on 1200 acres at 3600 ft in the Southern Blue Ridge Mtns, 18-hole, par 71 golf course. Tennis, Lake Fishing Sailing Trails Spectacular scen- ery Children's program. American Plan, Modest rates April 1 to Nov 1, Circle No, 9, 10. InnerAsia Expeditions— restores dignity, ro- mance, and adventure to the world of travel; Bor- der crossing from Pakistan into China; Wildlife expeditions into India and Nepal; Aboriginal study trip to Melville Island. Australia, Intimate cruises off Turkey's spectacular Mediterranean coast or Alaska's unspoiled fjords, 2627C Lombard Street, San Francisco. CA 94123. (800) 551-1769. (415) 922-0448 Circle No 10, 11. Jacqueline IVIoss Museum Tours— special- ists in unforgettable tours of major and off-the- beaten track art museums, architectural and ar- chaeological sites world wide Expert guiding, limited size groups, fully escorted, excellent ac- commodations, delicious regional cuisine. See our ad and request brochure for this trip and in- formation about our 1988 art tours abroad pro- gram which includes SPAIN. TUSCANY-ITALY, SCANDINAVIA-LENINGRAD and SOUTHEAST ASIA; or call (203) 322-8709 Circle No, 1 1 , 12. Language Learning Enterprises— tour an enchanting province of France Designed meti- culously for the experienced traveler, this two- week stay in the Dordogne includes lodging at the Hotel de la Madeleine in Sarlat, daily excur- sions to breathtaking sites — above as well as be- low ground — and an opportunity to informally speak French, taste regional wines and enjoy Perigordian cuisine Tours from April to October 1988 Call or write us at the World Center Build- ing, Suite 803, 918 16th Street, N,W,, Washing- ton, DC 20006, (202) 775-0444 Circle No 12, 13. Nantucket Vacation Rentals— the people to call for guest house and hotel advance reser- vations, cottage, apartment, house rentals; resi- dential and investment properties. Call (617) 228-9559 (reservations), (617) 228-3131 (rentals), or Circle No 13, 14. Questers Worldwide Nature Tours— learn and discover with America's pioneering nature tour company Fully escorted, small tour parties; natural history, culture, antiquities. Complimen- tary information on 37 explorations. Circle No, 14 15. Thomson & Thomson Travel Company— specializes in the creation of small special in- terest tours for groups; naturalists, scientists and educators, as well as corporate incentive travel programs Principals experienced with National Audubon Society, alumni organizations, fraternal and social groups Corporate incentive programs to all corners of the world including cruises. Cir- cle No 15 16. Windermere Island Club— is a very special hideaway on a private island, only a bridge away from Eleuthera, It is surrounded by five miles of unspoiled sandy beaches and offers a holiday that is in complete contrast to the rush of every- day life. The unhurried tempo, genuine friendli- ness of the people and high standard of service give the Club a unique atmosphere. Circle No, 16, ! Alumni Maga P.O. Box 541 : Boulder, CO 80329-5413 123456789 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 |city_ _Zip_ THE CLASSES widow, Dotlic, since then and she and the family arc doing as well as possible with iheir sad loss." James L. McLay has moved twenty miles north ol Fort Wayne, Ind., to a 150-vear-old (armhouse on thirty acres of land. "|iist call me squire; no, that's not s,Hlk-.i. s-inirrellv.' " te^ f^ G«ne Scanlon h.is retired Irom r^ J Worcester (Mass.) State Oollcge %^ ^^ alter thirty-four years. He plans to dnide his lime between his homes at 2 Wadswoiili Si . lliMinasion, Maine 04861 and 24 W liiic It i.n s Rd . Hastings. East Sus- sex, Eni;l.inil I \:i lip. Last (). imIki, iIk' Shepherd tai.iilv marked ino \,•.ll^ nl iiiiuiiii;4 ,i vcm ni\ -.n le dairy laiiii in W .h.,II,i i,|o,., ( ,,iin A iu..-,l,iv August and featured a reunion of about 200 former workers one day and a family cele- bration the next, when nearly 100 relatives from as far away as California, Texas, and Florida converged on the farm to reacquaint themselves. Fred Shepherd, Jr., took over operation of the farm after he graduated from Brown. His father had been in charge of the farm and milk routes since 1918. When he died, in 1950, the milk routes were sold. His wife, Edythe, 83, ran the farm and the business, with help, for two years, until Fred took over, according to an article in the Ntnii Haven Regiiler. Leo Vine, a partner in the Shelton, Conn., law firm of Winnick, Vine 8c Welch, was presented a Gold Seal Aw.ik! h\ tin Lower Naugatuck Vallev (ii.niiln i ..I (nm- merce for "outstanding t iniiiin vc i \ u v thiough dedicated and uiiscllish cllcuis it- suiting in lasting contribution." A past pres- ident of the Lower Naugatuck Valley Bar Association, he has led the professional divi- sion of the United W'.n din 11114 ihi- l'.)M() and 1987 campaigns. 11 is iciin d ol c cm 11 111 11 11 v service dates back in ilu- c.ii l\ I'.iiids ulicii he was named ^■o^lng Man ol the 'rear In the SlitlKiii |iniiiir (.chamber of Commerce. Leo and Ills will-, Doris, have four children and live ill Woudbiidge, Conn. ft^ ^ The class of "53 is celebrating its \r\ ^ 35th reunion on May 27-30. The kJ %J plannint; uiiniiiiiue lias mil twice at Maddock Aluiiim ( .niici ,iiid .1 ii; ilie events scheduled ,iic- .1 wrli iimuiL; i m kl.iil party at Alpha Cilii ( )iii(t;.i, ilii- ( .,im|iiis Dance, a repeat ol the exlieiiKlx simcssliil Pembroke LunclRon ol l'.l.s:i (iliis liiiu- in the Chancellor's Uiiimg Room), the I'ops Concert, and the famous clambake at the field hou.se. Because Commencement falls on the Memorial Day holiday, we have the oppor- tunity to participate in the march down Col- lege Hill to the Baptist Church. So many of us have warm mciiKnies .ittac lied to this occasion: the lu< U .ni 1 li.iis; ilu- maces; the traditional musli .md di< mi^Iii ol all the alumni making tliiu «a\ .iKmgside the newest graduates. We hope >oii will consider being with us for the procession. We are glad to entertain all suggestions friends and classmates and remind them of the significance of this reunion. S'our committee is also putting together a questionnaire that we hope will be both entertaining and stimulating. We will be asking you who you are an(l what impact Brown has h.id on vour life. /friv'»/v Srlnmrlz liosni M Meredith (Mimi) Hutchings Chester, London, is working as a psychotherapist in private piactice and also as a group iheiapist in a hospital. M.i ling 1 al Osl.Md. .iiid lici son. M.iik \ .111 \'(Kir- lu(s, --'(i. issiiidMii:.; Ih.iikuIiuk- 111 Loiulon. Nancy Kirkwood Donndelinger is still te.Kliiiit; I-kikIi ,iiid S|).iiiisli .11 L.i l.ilKite luiiioi lligli ,S,li.K,l 111 K.iviiliam. M.iss. "We the way. Our youngest, Marianne, is a soph- omore at UMass. ' Nancy lives in West Bridgewater, Mass. Rebecca Anderson Huntington. Donci, Mass., is associate diieiloi ol the Har\aitl C>)llege Fund. " Ihev called me — pretiv nice, luuK wond.ilul llmr uirk Inp lo New /iMl.lIld llus sumiiKi A MIV iH.iiililul Philadelphia— 3.3 million— but 70 million sheep." Susan Wing Klumpp writes: "We're near the end of a two-year pi oject to build a new home in the Linda Vista area ol Pasa- dena. Calif. Allan is still in space work and I'm still a srliool psvchologist. Son Tom is an i>iiii>loo\ .md lu'iiLUologv fellow at Massa- < Imsciis (.iiK r.il 1 liispilal; son Jim is a com- pulei iiigiiieei at Digital Equipment Cor- poration; and son Andy is an electronics engineer at Garrett Corporation in Tucson. Daughter Margaret (Wesleyan '87) works at Weslcvan Universil\ Press. We are expecting our second grandihild in Filiru.irv." Barbara Reuben Levin c (inliiines with ^.^ .sh, Who uj .\„ii'n,,ni W,. Ill, II /'A\7 /".V,V. -lia and 1 are spendiiin |i.n I ol iIk winiii at our va- cation hoiiii III I'.ilni Dcsiii. C.ilil. Our granddaiighui . .S.n.ih. is IS moiuhs old. Susan is man ied and lives in West Hartford. She is expecting her second child in Febru- ary. N;iiu v got her M.B.'V. from Vale in liiiH- ,ind IS vvoikint; .11 B.mkris Trust in Nru ^oll^ l.iiu IS iiiiollid ,11 ^.lk• in the M.P, \ piooKiin. |,M.|n,l„» issiiulvingarl al S\i.unsc.' K.11I..11.1 ,uid lia live in West Hartlord, C cum., when not in Palm Desert. Virginia Fellows Maloney, Fairfax, Va., writes that her daughter, Lisa (Duke '86), was married to Jonatli.m t roiu (Duke '85) on Aug. I. They are boili .iinndmi; Duke Law .School. Virgini.i s Imsli.md is It. (;en. William R. Maloney ,". I . I S.MC (Ret). Anne Barr Wenzel. who lives In I'.iii.i- m;i, "eniovecl sremn Cappy Williams ,11 die summer continuing education week. It was right up my alley. Central and South Amer- ica, past and present. I gave a mola demon- stration and slide show and donated some 1(10 iiinis 10 ilic lliill.incllei Museum. The new curator, Margol .Schevill, is excellent. We are in the midst ol a revolution here. The results are unclear at this point." On Nov. 13, the musicians at leniple Beth-El in Providence , Roz Wadsworth, music director, presciiicd ilie world pre- miere of a selling ol I's.ilm 84 by intcrna- lionallv .ic< I.hiih il osci Ben Steinberg, with the coiii|ji>si I ( Iiuting. The work was commissioned li\ die I emple and is iheslra. 56 Joseph S. Bobrow opened the \Vc lale. Pa., m October. He is a lellow ol the American College of Obstet- ricians and Ciynecologists and a diplomate of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gy- necology. S. Russell Kingman, Jr., Bridgewater, Mass., is president of the Bridgewater Sav- ings Bank, "which continues to do well —much better than Wall Street! A 750-mile Maine cruise last summer highlighted the year. Best to all." Peter A. Rona, a trustee of the Miami Museum of Science and an adjunct pro- lessor al the University of Miami, and a .sci- entist who discovered hot springs and asso- ciated mineral deposits and exotic animals on the Atlantic Ocean floor, has been awarded the U.S. Department of Commerce (iold Medal. Rona discovered the hot springs in the early 1970s and has continued to organize and lead oceanographic expe- ditions exploring the effects of the hot spilngs on llie gloh.il ocean environment. .\n.i( lied 10 the N'.uional Oceanic and At- mospheric .Xdmiiiistration's Atlantic Oce- anographic and Meteorological Laboratory in Miami, Peter is a fellow of The Explorers C:lub and the Geological Society of America, and a member of numerous prolessional organi/ations. 57 Britten Dean i in CI ilia for the acadeniK Near IS llie exchange proUssoi 10 n ing/lii 11 University ipus I'liiM isii\. .Si.imslaiis. "This is my second exlindcd s(.|oiiiii here, the first being in 198 1 I 'IS."), .ilso .is exchange professor. Al- though my academic speciality is Chinese history, I teach advanced English here, using the textbook I compiled last time around. Besides m\ leai hing duties, I am working on a hook ol n.iiisl.iiions of Nancy Naishan Clic 111;, .1 ui ll-known contemporary Shang- hai shoit-stoi V writer. That book is to come out in late 1988. Shanghai is close enough to Hangzhou to allow me to consult personally with the author on a regular basis. Hang- zhou itself continues to develop as one of China's major tourist centers, where temples and teahouses dot the periphery of charm- ing West Lake." Richard P. Nathan is co-author of Riiiifdii and Ihe Stales, published in November by Princeton University Press. The book is a study of the impact of President Reagan's policies on the states, especially as a result of his well-known budget cuts, according to professor of public and international affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton LIniversity. (*• r~^ David W. Clough has retired as H\ N^ marketing director for the Prince \^ V_-/ of Fundy Cruises Ltd. He is living in Falmouth Foreside, Maine, where he is a watercolorist and teacher. His watercolors of Maine scenes can be seen in galleries in Kennebunkport, Camden, and Portland, Maine. He has also exhibited in Canada and lias received numerous awards. William E. Corrigan, Jr., senior vice president, personnel division, of Attleboio Pawtucket Savings Bank, was the 1987 re- cipient of the Paul L. Maddock '33 Award, given annually by the Brown Athletic Hall of Fame to an individual "who has gone to the extreme in the support of Brown athletics but not as an athlete." Bill lives in Rumford, R.l. Martha Lundin Fordiani, Meriden. Oinn., is associate administrator of Memo- rial Hospital in Meriden. She is also treasur- er of Connecticut Health Lawyers Associa- tion and on the board of directors of the Meriden Symphony. "Al and I attended the wedding of Libby Coe Long to David Strizzi on Aug. 1. Also in attendance were Jane (Bertram) and Joe Miluski. Judy (Wallace) and Rick Nelson "I'l, .iiid Jill Hirst Scobie. " Gilbert H. Mortensen, I'ciiiiington, N.|.. notes that his son. Peter, is a member ol the class of 1991. t^ /^ W. Bowdoin Davis, Jr., art histo- ry y^ rian at the Maryland Institute \^ %J College of Art, was honored at that school's May commencement. Stephen A. Diamond has Joined ERT, Inc., an environmental consulting and engi- neering firm. He inanages the operations of ERT's new office in Somerset, N.J., as well as directing waste management programs for ERT's industrial clients in New Jersey, New York, and the Philadelphia area. David Goshien, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, is spending the academic year abroad as visiting professor of law at the Polytechnic of Central London, Red Lion Square. His address is 61 Gibson Sq., Islington Nl. Telephone: 01-704-9391. Anne Whitney Norsworthy writes that she and her husband, John, expect to be grandparents for the first time in February. Their youngest daughter, Kim, is a fresh- man at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania. 'In April, John had major hip reconstruc- tion from which he has made a miraculous recovery. He is a dialysis patient and he and 1 perform his treatments at home. He works full-time for Raytheon in Lexington, Mass., and I work part-tiine in the medical field. We lead busy lives, but enjoy our family and try to live each day to the fullest." Anne and John live in Concord, Mass. Ellen Crowley Overlan, Boston, has a private practice in child, adult, and family ihciapv in Lexington, Mass., and is a con- sultant to the .South BoMon Coin I Clinit. Richard J. Ramsden h.is been ckilcd chairman of the IxMid ol (liuuors ot the College ConstruelKiii Loan Insurance Asso- ciation ("Connie Lee"). He is president of the Earl Kinship Capital Corporation, an investment company with offices in Chicago and Providence. Connie Lee is the first in- surance entitv in the country spetificallv dedicated to providing credit enhancement — insurance and leinsuiance — for college facilities financings. Dick is a former senior vice president of administration and finance at Brown. He lives in Barrington, R.L, with his wife, Sallie. Peter J. Skowronek, Jr.. Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., writes that a granddaughter, Rebecca York Sutphin, joined the clan on Nov. 1 1, 1986, the daughter of Mary Ellen, who resides in Roanoke, Va. Daughter Anne received her master's in deaf education from Gallaudet College and lives and works in Connecticut with her husband, Dave Nutt, a divinity student at '\'ale. Son Peter is a music teacher in West Palm Beach and plays in several orchestras. Son John is a senior in college majoring in geologv and works part- time with a civil ensineering firm and has several trombone siudenis M\ wife. Anne, is U.R. manager .11 Si \l,ii\\ I lospital and has entered grandiiioihei hc»)d with beauty and joy. I'm still at Pratt & Whitney, having the most fun I've ever had in mv career antl am totally alive. God bless you. " r^ r^ David P. White, Concord, Mass., 1^1 I has been named associate technical \J \y director of the strategic commu- nications di\ision in the CM gioup for Air F'orce Systems at the MlfRF, (Corporation, Bedford, Mass. In this capacity, he will oversee MILRE's work on MILSTAR, the tri-service communications satellite system. Previously, he was manager of a number of voice and data (ornniiniic .iiicms research and development (le|j.ii inu nl^ .n Wang Labora- tories in Lowell, D.nul i^ .iKn .i lecturer at the Northeastern (.i.i.lu.iii Si hool of Engi- neering for cmii sc-- III ,iil\ ,1111 ed digital communications iliion. .is well as a lecturer for the Arined limes ( niiiiiiunications and Electronics Association course in militarv satellite communications. /"* -| James Burke. dire( tor of the St. I'~\ I Louis .\ri Museum. Is overseeing a V-/ -1- se\en-\e.ir. $:U-iiiillion restoration project of the museums Beaux Arts build- ing. The project's focus is to make more room for the museum's permanent collec- tion. The ten-acre Maine farm made famous by Andrew Wyeth in his painting, "Chris- tina's World, " is for sale again, according to the Boslun Globe, and this time interest has shifted to who is selling rather than who is buying. The seller is John Sculley, chairman of Apple Omipiiters, Inc., of Cupertino, Calif Sc iillc \ s.iiil III .III mill \ lew with the Gldi,' seMi.il IN. mills ,i-.i ih.ii he and his wife, Lee/\. Imiiglil the (Uisliing, Maine, farm from the late Hollywood producer and art collector Joseph E. Lcvine. 62 Nancy Otto Low is president of Nancy Low & Associates, Inc. (NL&A), a Chevy Chase, Md., keting and communications firm. She recently addressed a group of food and beverage executives from across the country in Chicago as part of an ongoing national AIDS-in-the-workplace education program. Nancy served on a panel of experts in epi- demiology, law, and communciations and spoke on "How to Manage the AIDS Crisis Through AIDS Information and Behavior Change Programs in the Workplace. " NL&A is organizing the first national public educa- tion campaign on clinical depression for the National Institute of Mental Health. Nancy lives in Bethesda, Md. f^ Cy In June 1987, Sandra Camp Tur- %\ 'l S^y graduated with the first exec- V^\^ utive M.B.A. class from Concoidia University in Montreal. She is system man- ager, plans and controls, for Canadian Na- tional Railways and lives in Pierrefonds, Quebec. /'^ A Bruce W. Bean was elected senior r^ZL vice pi esident of The Home V-/ -1- Group, Inc., New York City, par- ent of The Home Insurance Company. He is also general counsel. Previously, he served as counsel, finance and planning, with Atlantic Richfield Company in Los Angeles. Bruce lives in Bronxville, N.Y., with his wife. Bar- bara, and their two children, Austin, 5, and Ashley, 3. Marc P. Chaikin, New York City, has formed BDC Capital, an institutional bro- kerage firm marketing computer-based charting and screening programs for port- folio managers and block traders. A. Thomas Levin, Rockville Centre, N.Y., has been elected to the board of di- rectors of the Nassau Symphony Orchestra. He is treasurer of the 5,000-member Nassau County Bar Association. His daughter. Amy, is a sophomore. Barbara Zwick Lewin, St Louis, met wllli Margaret Cox Moser, Susan Sinykin Benjamin, and Judy Hersh Zern m Chicago over the weekend ol Nov. 14 lor a mini-re- union. "We hadn't all been together since we graduated, " Barbara writes. 'We had a su- per time touring Chicago and spending hours talking and (atehing up on one an- other's news." /~* tt^ Suzanne Taylor Besser is exeeii- 1^ r^ tive director of the Farmington \J*^ Valley/West Hartford Visitors Bureau, a regional tourism agency in Con- necticut. Prior to that, she was a freelance writer and a correspondent for the Harlford Couranl. Her husband, John Besser, is vice president and general counsel of the Barnes Group. Their daughter, Sharon, is a fresh- man. They have three other children: Bryan, 16. Lorraine. 14, and Warren, 13. John H. Chapman has formed his own law firm, Chapinan &: Moian, in Stamfoid, C:onn., after serving as a senior trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice. He lives in Stamford. Kay Berthold Frishman (see Dorothy Bibber Hammond ' Ki). David F. Nutting. Memphis, Tenn., w.is married on |inie24 to Elizabeth A. lollev, a genetii e|)idemiologist and biosta- 59 THE CUSSES otuc. 'Kliziibetli is ,i Iclldu la. iillv huiiiIh-i at llic I'liivcrsiu I'l renin smi- \U(ti(,il Ccinci in Memphis. 1 lit- il.i\ .•.he was .i>sii;iie(l lo lielp me aiialy/e .sdiiic oI my data was a woiulei liil milling point in our lives. We look (orward lo many years of collabo- ration hoth at work and at home." 66 Wilber H. Boies. \\i il Mdlei lh..rol lh< l.i.il ..I l>,le..il ( .iMs'.h.ipter lor the I'.is: r.lKion wl I ,,ln,il Civil I'imlia: piihlisliecl In (he Illinois Institute lor Con- tiniimn I.eijal Kthuatioii. An author and lecturer lor IICl.E. Wilber is a member ot the committee on class actions and derivative suits of the American Bar As.sociation Liti- gation Section and the Class Action Com- 'niiiu-e ..r ilic Cliic.iKo B.ii Ass.niation. IK 1 [■ 1 1, IS 1)1 (Ti III In I ni; .i w iili' range of Ix.oks .111(1 ((Miisis l(M l.ivwns leu the past lweiu\-live \cais. U libel lues in Oak Park, 111. Carol E. Crockett, Mission Viejo, Calif., is a technical instructor for Fujitsu Business Communications in Anaheim. She travels around the country teaching two-week classes to technicians on how to install and maintain llie tompanv's PHX systems. Sally Van Doren Dohm s il.iiightcr, Wendy, is ,i sripliiiiiKin-. .SalU is the presi- ic, and is ,u ,Sli. (oiiulr David G. Houghton (see Linda Erikson Houghton (iV). Daniel H. Lamoureux, Plympton, Mass., has cotnpleted the examination for Certificate of Associate of the American Guild of Organists. /^ ^ Alfred S. Forsyth, Jr., is involved |-| / 11, e,lii,,,tion,,l software design, V_/ I pi UK i|), lib li.i the National Geo- graphic SncK i\, iikI is .1 professor of teacher education ,ii Wchi i Mate Ciollege in Ogden, Utah. He has a strong interest in "global education. 1 am enjoying the wide open spaces of northern Utah with my wife, Kay, and our children, Cory, 6, and Jenna, 2." They live in Logan. Linda Erikson Houghton has changed the name of her business to Houghton Group to lelle.t the (oiitiiuied diver- commercial, and goll course clubhouse de- sign field. Her husband, Comdr. David G. Houghton '66, is director of plans at the Navy and Marine Corps Intelligence I i.iiii- ing Center, Daiii Nc-ck. \'.i . .iiicl is d.^clcp- iiigaNavaliMtelligenceiiiul..,..,, m,„,s,-, Susan Haas Parsky and Sie\en liialove were married on Oct. 1 1. Ihey live in Washington, D.C., where Susan practices architecture, and Steve is a senior vice pres- ident lor E.F. Hutton. Su.san's daughter, Laura, is a freshman at Yale, and her son, David, is a junior at Sidwell Friends School. Carlyie Thayer is cm s.ibl),iti(.il leave lioiMlbe.Ausii.ili,,,, Dclcn.c I ( a, e Academy .isdeleiice lellow al ibe Sii.nci;!. and l)e- 60 leiue .Studies C.eiitie .11 I lie .\iisiralian Na- tional Universilv. From October lo this month, be iiiicleitook held work in .South- east Asia (iiu liicliiig liidoc biii.i .iiid Hong Kong), the U.S., tngland. and India. His main focus is on Soviet-Vietnamese rela- tions. He recently edited a book. The Soviet Union as an Asian Pacific Power, published and distributed bv Westview Press. Boulder. Colo. Mitchell H. Vigeveno has joined Rob- ert Thomas Securities, Inc., as a vice presi- dent in the lirm's corporate liead(|uarters in St. Petersburg, Fla. He will be responsible lor the expansicjn ol ihe lirm, through both the addition of .selective new offices and new account executives in existing offices. Mitchell had been the southeast regional manager for F'irst Financial Planner Servi- ces, a subsidiary of The Travelers Corpora- tion, in Tampa. Chandler Visher, San Francisco, has written a computer program for lawyers called "Evidence Master," which is distribut- ed by the California Continuing Education of the Bar. r^ ^ Joel P. Bennett, Washington, 1^ N^ D.C., writes that his son, Matthew \J \J David, was born on Oct. 3 1 . Joel practices employment law in Washington and is the executive director of the Public Administration Forum. Caryl Carpenter (see Kristin Gunder- son Ritts 70). Kathryn Fuller has been named execu- tive vice president of the World Wildlife Fund, VV.ishingion, D.C., the world's largest piiv.iic- ( Diisc i\.iiic)n organization. Before jomiiii; WW I 111 l'.l.H5 as vice president, she wcukccl Ini ilu I'S. Department of Justice's Wilcllih- .111.1 M.iiiiu- RescHiices Section, tioiis and i<\\ als.Mi.lKllUl icu.il icci ,1 ci Ullcll ■,l llclcl s \v liim.iiinii. She has ui.lieslocusingonthe 111 ilie U.S. Virgin Is- lands .111,1 ui (IcIkcsI sui\evs in Ngorongoro Cl.ltcl , 1 .111/ .1111.1. Sli ■ luis a master's degree in marine, e tuarine, and environmental science from the University of Maryland. Thomas Park and his wife, Susan, re- port that "s(\cn \cais iirii\iiii; in Tallahas- see, Fla., has . I, ,11 K soiiih, i m/.-.l us." Tbom has been pidiiioic d lo .iss.k i.ne Mce presi- dent of Dean, VVuici. KcMiolils, Inc. He completed a Ph.D. .n I l.uicl.i Si.uc Universi- ty, where he serves .is ,iii .iil|iiiii i bicully member. Thom luis .ilsci ilcme uiuk as a sports agent for the past five years and re- cently formed his own sports management firm, Thom Park ic Associates, Inc. Thom and Susan have three children, Bethany, 14, Clint, 12. and Rachel, :$. "We remind our Yankee friends that the inystic]ue of south- ern hospitality is alive and well in Panhaiullc Florida." The artist. Victoria + Dodd, hall of whom is Dodd Valdes-Dapena-Hiltebeitel, has a one-artist show at the Wave Gallery in New Haven, Conn., from Jan. 17 through l'"eb. 13. of their "metaphantastical paint- ings." Dodd lives in Collegeville, Pa. /"* y^ Leslie (Michael) ,incl Bruce Hen- l'~V\^derson .iie luuii; in I'eiu. where \J %J Hiii.cisuiihtatih.ink.ind Leslie is a coinputei consultant. Wuli the increasing economic and political unrest," Leslie writes, "bodyguards and chase cars have become a way ol life. Despite the restrictions to our family's perscjnal life, Lukas, 1 1 , and Meg- han, 9, continue to be active in Little League. Meg is also a member of the school's acro- batic gvinnastics tc-am." Joseph L. Higgins, Plainfield. N.J.. is still udikiiig lorbo. Inc., a C:hicago-based office automation firm. His wife, Marianne Michael Culich, is audit manager at Coopers & Lybrand in Rockloid. Ill,, uhcic- iIkv live. "Our daugh- ter. Ciiolme (( las.s ol L'lMKi:'), 2'/^, is walking, talking, and lenoii/ing us," Don Feeney and Diane Charter an- nounce the birili ol ilieir first child, Brian 62 Carter Feeney, on June 28. Don is trend assessment director for the Minnesota State Planning Agency, where he works with Frank Altman. Don and Diane live in St. Paul. Alex Hutchinson, Hamden, Conn., is regional vice president for Corporate Health Strategies, a health-care management con- sulting firm will) luacl(|uaruis in W'estport, Conn, Alex, Ins uilc (Pam Stratton), Rebec- ca, 6, and Ci.ug, 2. iiinxed lo .'.(i t;reen Hill Rd., Bethaiiv, tionii. (•li.")25 in February, Sylvia Winsberg .uul her "partner, Michael Jameson, .iie ucll rooted on the family farm — growing native South Florida tiees for countiy and city landscaping. Who'd have thought Spanish and French would ever come in so handy, Haitians un- derstand my rusty French at least — who knows Creole? Computer Basic is even a small part of life. We're looking to build a house on stilts and welcome any word from friends at Rt. #1, Box 331-B, Boynton Beach, Fla. 33437. (305) 499-70(55." Bonnie Zeigler and her husband, Ste- ven, announce the birth of Darren Zeigler McRoy on Sept. 24. They live in Beverly, Mass. ^^ /~* Donna Gold Alexander and Peggy J tr\ Hannigan have formed Marketing / \J Rx, a Houston-based company that specializes in designing marketing pro- grams for physicians, group practices, out- patient diagnostic and surgical centers, and hospitals. William P. Barbeosch is a first-year business school student at the Yale School of Organization and Management. His address at Yale is 492 Whitney Ave., Apt. 2A, New Haven 0651 1. His adclress in New York City is 1941 Third Ave., Apt. 5F. Michael J. Bernert is a sales manager with Abbott Laboratories in Dallas. Mike and Joan have a 2-year-old son. Friends can reach them at 520 Briarglen Dr., Coppell, Texas 75019. James P. Brochin graduated from the evening division of the University of Con- necticut School of Law last May and has joined the law firm of Wiggin & Dana in New Haven as a first-year associate. He is married to Nancy Moore Brochin (Trinity College '75). They have two daughters: Emily, 6, and Sarah, 3, and can be reached at 82 Oliver Rd., New Haven 06515. (203) 387-4560. Sue M. Hagerman completed a two- year internship in clinical psychology at Dartmouth and is working as a staff psy- chologist in a Dartmouth-afHiated inental health f enter. She married Niel A. Weathers 111 {\Av '7(i) in August I9H5, Sue and Niel live in Fiilii-I(l CciUer, N.H. Richard J. Hershner II, Boston, "indulged my passion for history during a two-week course at Oxford studying the preservation of English countiy houses and gardens. " Gordon Hyde (see Susan Ketelhut Hyde '77). Russell Kirkland ('76 A.M.) is assistant professor of rcligic^n and East Asian studies at Oberlin College in Ohio. Dr. Walter Lada, Jr., and his wife, Mary, announce the birth of C^helsea Eliza- beth on Sept. 13. "All are doing well," in Cranston, R.I. John S. McClees III and Carol Ann Hudson were married on Aug. 30. A num- ber of Brown alumni attended the ceremo- ny. John and Carol live in Arlington, Mass. Peter E. Nelson and his wife, Joyce, report the birth of Ian Paul Roger Nelson on June 28. "He's beautiful, " Peter says. "Come visit and take a look for yourself" Peter and Joyce live in Pittsfield, Mass. Nancy Rosenberg (see Allan J. Rosen- berg '46). ^y ^^ Richard B. Brown, Jr., and Chris- J J tine Balevic were married at Sara- / / toga Springs, N.Y., on Labor Day weekend, "No doubt, the Brown contingent was the largest and most lively," Richard says. "Our tenth reunion in May was so much fun we decided to round up the gang again in September. Christine anci I, having survived the weekend festivities and a glori- ous honeymoon, have returned to New York City to live, work, and play." Lois Bryant, New York City, is doing corporate and residental weaving commis- sions. Recent clients include The Sumitomo Trust & Banking, Holtzman & Urquart, and several residences. She has also done com- missions for United Airlines, The New York Times, and the Greater Detroit Chamber of Commerce. Lois's studio is located at 722 Broadway, #2, New York 10003. (212) 777-5932, Barbara Hough Flint and her husband, William, report the birth of their second daughter, Julia Penland, on Aug. 6. They live in Stuart, Fla. Dolores Mirando Gould writes: "It was great seeing friends at the reunion. 1 men- tioned then that we might be moving. Well, it has happened. Rowan has been appointed assistant regional director for fish and wild- life enhancement/Alaska for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. We drove to Anchor- age in October. If anyone wants to see Alas- ka, now is the time. We'd love visitors. Our address is 1011 East Tudor Rd., Anchorage 99503." Susan Ketelhut Hyde and her hus- band, Gordon '76, have three children: Kimberly, 6'/..; Michael, 3'/j; and Timothy, 9 months. They live in Downers Grove, 111. Dr. Cliff G. Johnson and Dr. Cynthia R. Hans have moved lo Canton. Ohio, where Cliff has joined a twenty-one-member multispecialty group practice. Cindy is home full-time with their son, Jacob. They wel- come friends to w rite or visit them at 3335 Cornwall Dr.. Camon 14708. Betsy A. Lehman .uul her luishand. Robert J, Distel. aniiouiKc the birth of their fust child, Emily Claire Lehman Distel, on July 24. They live in Newton, Mass. In Jan- uary, at the conclusion of her maternity leave. Betsv resumed writing her column. "Health Sense," for The Boston Globe. Rodney L. Lofton, Friendswood, Tex- as, has been competitively .selected to be the project integration manager for the .solid rocket booster element of the National Transportation System's Engineering Inte- gration Office at NASA/Johnson Space Center. In that capacity, he will be coordi- nating solutions to booster design issues and following integration issues between the orbiter and the external tank. "I expect to be very busy this year, traveling between JSC, the Marshall Space Flight Center, and Mor- ton Thiokal, Utah, as the space shuttle is being prepared for return-to-flight in June 1988," Rodney writes. Linda C. Miale and John Richard Her- ring were married on Oct. i in West Palm Beach, Fla. John is the owner of A-1 Roof Trusses of West Palm Beach and Port St. Lucie, a manufacturer of roof trusses for residential and commercial construction. Linda is still with American Express as a territory manager for Palm Beach County. They live in Wellington, Fla., and welcome calls from anyone coming down to Palm Beach County. Peggy Nelson and John Papendorp 79 were married in Solon Springs, Wis., on Oct. 10. Among the Brown alunuii in attendance was best man Robert Chow 79. Peggy and John are living in CaiiilirKim-. Mass. Dr. Don Siegel and Leslie Kamen '83 were married at the Copacabana in New York City on Nov. 7, with a large number of Brown alumni attending. Leslie is complet- ing her Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Penn and is an intern at the Philadelphia Psychi- atric Center. Don received a Ph.D. in bio- physics from Harvard in 1983 and an M.D. from Penn in 1987 and is a resident in clini- cal pathology at the Hospital of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania. They are living in Phil- adelphia. In June. Houston Brown Club Presi- dent Barbara Sunderland received her master's degree in public health from the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston. She was recently recognized in Wlw\ Who n, Ike World 1987 -HS. ^y r'\ Anne Ryan has agreed to chair the J ^^ nominating committee for class § kJ officers. If you are interested in ruiniing for office or would like to nominate a classmate, please contact her at 205 Jersey Ave. W., Treehouse Apts. #504, College Station, Texas 77840. Elections will be held at our class meeting on Saturday, May 28, 1988. Robert and Paula Condaxis Angell moved to the Washington, D.C., area from Paris last July. Elizabeth J. Doyne and her husband, Kent Osborn, are still living in Rochester, N.Y., awaiting the birth of their second child. Elizabeth works part-time as a psy- chologist in private practice and part-time at home with her family. "It's a good balance Christopher Freiberger has been ap- pointed data processing manager at Logo- Paris, 35 Leveroni Ct., Novato, Calif. 94947. Amy E. Genkins and Richard J. Hor- witz were married on Nov. 16, 1986. Amy is an attorney at Warner Communications, and Richard is a management (oiisuliant with Booz, Allen & Hamilton I Ir\ arc li\ing in Pelham Manor, N.V.. lu-.ii Jeanne Murphy and Bill Oris '76, and welcome visitors. Richard L. Gordon and Lisa Miller (RISD '82) were married on Sept. 13 in Tarrytown, N.Y., "bought a house in Pitts- town, N.J., and moved out of New York City, all in a period of two weeks." A number of Brown alumni were present at the wed- ding. Dr. Gary S. Maltz lives in Mountain View, Calif., about thirty miles south of San Francisco, with his wife, Suzanne Dee. "We dig the weather and enjoy bike riding, bar- bequeing. and watching 'Pee Wee's Play- house' with our close friend and neighbor. Roger Strawn." Dr. Esther Rolnick Nash and her hus- band. Dr. David B. Nash (Vassar '77, Uni- versity of Rochester '81 M.D., University of Pennsylvania '86 M.B.A.), announce the birth of twin daughters. Rachel Susan and Leah Brooke, on July 15. Essie practices in- ternal medicine in Philadelphia, and David is deputy editor of Antinh of Internal Mediane. They live in Philadelphia. Roosevelt (Robby) Robinson III and Mickie Keele Zink were married on May 16 in Los Angeles with a number of Brown alumni in attendance. "Mickie is making the adjustment from Columbus, Ind., to the 'big city,' " Robby says. Ellen Rosen Rogoff and Marty Rogoff announce the birth of their daughter, An- drea Diane, on Aug. 28. They live in Phila- delphia, where Ellen is a litigation attornev with Bolger, Picker &: Weiner, and Marty is chief operating officer of Mothers Work, Inc., a maternity apparel company. Herbert S. Schultz is a vice president of marketing in the special transactions group of American Express Bank Ltd. in New- York. He lives in Massapequa, N.Y., with his wife, Denise, and their two children: Mat- thew, 4, and Michelle. 2. ^^ /^ Alan Buff and his wife, Pat, an- J ^_J nounce the birth of Joel Michael. I %J "He was born on Nov. 8 at an ungodly hour of the morning. Everybody is healthy. I am director of merchandising for Reed & Barton Silversmiths, and Pat is an independent marketing representative for Stubbs and Associates, an advertising spe- cialties firm. We live in Barrington, R.L, and seem to enjoy suburbia." Dr. Jeffrey E. Bellin and his wife, Lisa, announce the birth of their first child, Dan- iel Louis, on Aug. 18. They live in Brook- line, Mass. Patrick T. Clark and his wife, Arlene Sena Clark, report the birth of Thomas Pat- rick Clark on Oct. 13. Thev live in Harris- ville, R.I. Dr. Cathleen Sloan Hood has ino\ed from Jamestown. R.I.. lo Providence. She is still working at Rhode Island Croup Health and is ex|)e(tiiiir a h.iln in March. Pamela Stress Kenney, Denver, writes that Clavton Kendall Kenney was born on March 19. "He looks exactly like his father, save for my green eyes. He's a jov." Dr. Mitchell R. Lester says that his pediatric practice, which opened in Wakefield, R.L. a year and a half ago, is growing rapidly. Fie and his partner have plans to add a third pediatrician next sum- mer. Peter N. Lycurgus, Saratoga, Calif., is working for Apple Computer in Cupertino. He is on Brown's West Coast committee to raise funds for the new CIT building. Lisa Moore is still with Millipore C:or- poration and is an .ipplu .iiioiis specialist in Connecticut and Ni iv \i>ik I In new ad- dress is 10 Wood i)u. k In, l.inllville. Conn. 06081. (203) b5i-4«92. She would love to hear from old friends in the area. John Papendorp (see Peggy Nelson '77). Neil W. Scott, Coral Gables, Fla., is practicing law with Kelley Drye & Warren in Miami and "continues to take advantage of Miami's climate and proximity to the ocean by sailing, waterskiing, and scuba diving year-round. Classmates visiting South Flori- da always are welcome to call or stop by. " Jeffrey H.K. Sia is a partner in the Honolulu law firm of Libkuman, Ventura, Ayabe &: Hughes. He is involved primarily in insurance defen.se work and as a trial at- 2nd Lt. Edward C. Thompson has been assigned to the 418 lnfantr\. 8th ID. in Mannheim, West Germanv. 80 Dr. Christine Albert, Lebanon [unction. Kv., has "settled into the treating everythiniJ .iiul slowlv arcumiilaling a petting zoo. I i,\;mi((I |.iinrs C.n mis last year and am vcr\ l),i|i|i\ \\\\\\ hiiii ,uiil his two sons, Jimnn. 9. .iiui (hns, 7. Nancy A. Brownstein is an attorney in New York City with the firm of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett. She lives in Brooklyn and would love "to hear from some of the Brown gang." Her address is 106 Second PI., Brooklyn 11231. (718) 625-5074. Sandra Bromberg Eskin is living in Washington. D.C;. She finds ih.ii lui "recent reading selections range (kilii ihc l-nlinil Reporter to The Little Enicnir Ihal Conlil. Ihe former is read while on the job in the gen- eral counsel's office of the Federal Commu- nications Commission; the latter is the cur- rent favorite of Naomi, 2. and her little sister, Rebecca, born Aug. 8. Anyone who would like to discuss literature, the arts, or whether Pampers or Luvs are more absor- bent (they never taught us that at Brown) can reach me at 5425 30th PI. NW, Wash- ington, D.C. 20015." Ginger Gelb has left GA/Partners, real estate consultants, to join The Centennial Companies. Vienna. Va., as executive assis- tant to the president The company develops commercial ical cslaii' in the Washington, D.C;., metropolilan .oca. Michael S. Gla.ser. loriaiue. Calif, is working in the Ins Aumlrs .nci scllin;; las- ers and scientific pioduiis I Ir IS ii> 111,11 rv Anne Lowich (\\.ishiii>_;i<)ii I iii\crsii\ 78) this month. Long-lost classmates are en- couraged to write him at 2914 West 166 St., Torrance 90504. Julia L. Hechtman, Bronklinc. Mass . is still working at Lotus IVvclcipiiu-ni iii ( ..iin- bridge, M.iss,. .is .i pidduci iii.n kciiin; iii.in- ager, "I love the woik but not being al.ile lo 63 THE CLASSES (liscu-i-, mv piojc-il isii t imuli lun. .aiimmh know where K. read. Chris Browne '^i:-" Bruce R.Jones. ll.uilDrd. Conn., s.n^ ■ihe log is cle.ninK a.ul l.n < ' I'l' ^ ■ an- nonneelhc bnih ol !>,..,,/ I'„,..ni Munto on Julv ;«). His brother. Joseph, M. -h.is begun bis acadcmit career in nursery school here in Pittsburgh." Ruth Anne Pinkham has joined the law iMniolWilll-ie Ian ^. ( „Lll.i..;lui in New VotkCiU ,,s,.,,.,ss,„,.„. .,u..ln■^. Ihehrm employs mou- , ban -Id l,lU^c,s,^o^Kes in Nov York Citv. Washington, D.C:.. and Pal- is Ruth lives in New York City. Arthur Rosenberg (see Allan J. Ro- senberg '46). Louise D. Schlesinger and her hiis- b.ind Ralph F. Gaebler ■«!, have moved iiom liloommgton, Ind.. to Ki:; Rnnnvmede Ave., lenkmtown, Pa. 19046. Jonathan F. Stone .md I racy "ended our summer with MMuething of an adven- tlKnouhl.Keol M. Will Eckhardt 7H ai l/igo nd Eva Lagergren Woodring .md John »• Woodring l.n.l Won k W 1 1986. working a, lUai S,c,,M,s,,M,l >,,nv..n\Vall Slieet •tHL[ l.va is .ui .m-iiiml executive at Saatchi and Saatchi Clompton. Inc., also in New York City. 81 Marybeth Paolino Andrews and And he birth (Amherst SOi. am of Samuel Matlui , li.. on \u^ IM, Marv- belh is head of ibe in.nh. in.nu s (Irp.ulnient at Moses Brown Si In". I in I'h.miUik c .ind Sam is with Peat. Maiuu k. Mam .^- Compa- ny, also in Providence, fhey live m Bar- rington. R.l. Ralph F. Gaebler (see Louise D. Schlesinger '«(t). Laura Kroll is living in F.ngland, where she is the IK., Hade representative bir ihe state ol M.iivl.Hul. She also uiiUs\l',»,W„« WllJinit^lnn. ., 111..111I1K liruslclUI io\, 1111.4 Ameriiaii p..lii„s Ainnm iiiuirsud 111 receiving ilie luuskmi. 01 liiciids p.issmg through l.on reports that she is engaged to vj*^ Frederic Joseph (Harvard '84). "We met the very first day of medical school and our first date was that night. We've been together ever since. The wedding is planned for June 12 in my home town of Hollywood, Fla." Lisa Foderaro is a full staff reporter for The New York Times, "after twenty-seven months of slowly ascending through the ranks. This past year was spent covering New York real estate, a beat that taught me a lew things about finance, zoning, housing, architecture, and, of course, the profit mo- tive, sometimes known as greed. My love- hate relationship with Manhattan continues, as does my seaich for Peking ravioli to rival that of Little (Chopsticks. Any tips out there? " Doug Frankel, Muncie, Ind., directed a part of a sixty-minute Garfield the Cat spe- cial called "Garfield's Nine Lives. " He is liv- ing at 3615 Chadam Ln., #2A, Muncie 47034. and "knows no one in ihc Midwest." Kenneth Goldman .md Sally Caldwes- ser Goldman .inmunuc llic bnlli ol llicii .s(m, Mark Daniel, on Oct. 1(). Ken and Sally are both doing graduate work in computer science at MIT and would enjoy hearing from classmates. Their address is 9 Broad- way, #305, Saugus, Mass. 01906. 1st Lt. Peter A. Gudmundsson, USMC. was married in New York City on Sept. 26 to Kathleen Voute (Tufts '86). Peter is serving as an intelligence officer with the 1st Battal- ion. 1 llh Marines at Camp Pendleton. Calif. Kathleen is taking a leave of absence from St. John's University Law School. The couple will live in Carlsbad, Calif, until August. Larry A. Herbst writes: "There"s a good Brown contingent here in Los Angeles and since a lot of us are working for pro- duction companies or writing scripts, it's like being part of a network of future studio executives. As my friend. Bob Lewis '58. used to tell me, the best part of growing up is watching your friends take over the world." Larry's address is 2262.5 Cove Ave., Los Angeles 90039. (213) 667-2568. Feisal Hussein (sec Lori Winter '84). Eduina Martins (sec Michael Roy '84). Jeanne Murphy (sec John Rosicky '86). Peggy Rosen "quit my copywriting job in New York City, broke my lease, and am picking strawberries in Mantueka, New Zealand. And as far as people down here know. Brown is just the color fruit turns when it gets old." Linda Segal and Daniel Blinn were married on March 15 in Providence. Juliette Piccini was maid of honor, and Rebecca Plasker and Liam G.B. Murphy were honor attendants. The couple lives at 1206 C-2, West Middle Tpke., Manchester, Conn. 06040. John P. Toupin, Palo Alto, Calif., sends word about a Brown Alumni Ultimate Fris- Ikt i;.imc ,it;.inisi ihc Ick.iI I'.ilo Allo-Sl.in- Und ic.nn. ■lM,i\( r-^ Theophile S. Krawiec 37 I ^ .Si.M. Bethlehem. Pa., writes V^^ ilnn.„l„. lo l,„l,..,. /„„„„,„,.( 1985) and !■ 111,111. iiii: lli-J,., l-,lu,,il„„i Shalegies Afh, l„x l;.l..n„ I IM,S(||. .iiid edits Coolers & LnIikiihIs ///;_'//,/ I ,li„,iii„i, Miinagement \'iu-^l,ii,i \lc\( isiHi Ints III Newton, Mass,, with Ins uilc, M.iii.i C W.ilsli, commissioner of the Massachusetts Labor Relations Com- mission. Doug Davidson '82 .A.M. "became a hoimnunci Ini ilie lirsi lime in November anil li,n( siK , I ssliilK uc.it liercd my first ni(iiii;.iL;( |i.i\iii, iii I'm been in Dallas for six \eais and am uoi king as the publications editor for Voluntary Hospitals of America, Inc., a nationwide network of 660 leading not-for-profit hospitals. I'm also doing a lot of singing with the Dallas Bach Society, sev- eral church choirs, and the Schola Cantorum al St. Mark's School." David Hintenlang 'S3 Ph.D. has ac- irolessor of he.illh plnsics in ilu- tltji.n iiiient of nuclear engineeniig .il the I imeisity of Florida in C;.imesville'. lie- lives in Archer, Fla. Anne Busalh Castleton '86 A.M., Salt Lake City, Utah, is in the second year of a Ph.D. program in communication at the University of Utah. She also teaches writing at the university. Nicholas G. Cartas '87 .Sc.M. has been commissioned ;is :iti cnsiL;,! tollowing com- pletion \ ,lii.iK hlHlllIU ,K 1, 1 \llle \in ii-l ■II. .11, 1 -., h.H.l- ,, ill, I ,\ 1, 11, 1 Sc HI ,1 , 111!, se\ Ci. 1 e. mil llllIV III e gr,K ps lor 111.11 \e Du iiig the- lor Os he i)e formed at the B )C)tl b.iv Playhouse in Maine, and the n eat er-e n-tl e-Gieei il Welle sley, Mass. He w loll idlll,.; 11 en hei an 1 legal ecu, sel to the l)e c hex 1 he llcl 111 11.11 rison. M< inc •1 1, d .1 s 1 , l'i,.\i Ol lldel .1 1,1 legal avhenrse lo le was ', 1 IVC 1 ,ll h. I'ols, 1 e Clubof \i 1,1 ,.1 ]\r CIS .1 W ,„ ,1 W.ll 1 1 veteran .1 d.inglilei. .iiid Ills uile. Kli/abelli. 33 I", Ave,. B-1021. Brooklme 02146. Gabrielle M. Roy '31 AM., North Sniithlield. R I ; Oct 20 She was the ]m p.il.il die ( iinili, il,iii,l IK I,) Mini, ,S, h,. Iroiii I9:!| h. I'|-,|,. ,1 !,,„ lui .mil .i.Ims,, the Anieiie.iii S, 1 1 I S\RI IR. I'oiiic France, from 1957 lo 191)1; ,iii,l .m iiisii lor of French at I'.iiii, k lleiin College. University of Viinini.i, lioiii 1961 io'l9l In 19li,S. she l)e..iiii.' luMdniisii c-ss ol the (.iilisle Sclio.il HI \l,iilinsMlle, \a,, rein ill 1971, She IS siiiMNcd \n hei l.u.thei. .Samuel. 272 Kniglil Si,. Wooiisoeket. R. Paul Robinson Wicks "31, Methuen. Mass.. a prodnclion siipei intendenl in the prodnel conli,il dep.niinent of A&P Tea Company; Nov. 6. I98(i. He is survived by Ins son. Donald. 7 Westwood .St., Methuen 01844. Carl Edward Mau '34, Media, Pa., a publisher and radio commentator; Sept. 7. 1985. He was president of Mau Publishing THEO^SSES Company in Media. Infbrnialioii u-^Mi