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February 1989 



The Good Life 



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Human virtue is like a plant, says Brown philosopher 
Martha Nussbaum. It must be tended carefully if we 
are to lead moral lives. 



Searching for the Ghosts of Climates Past 



In ancient pond muck and samples of the ocean floor, 
Brown geologists find evidence of the climatic shifts 
that caused the ice ages. We are in a cooling phase, 
they say, but the greenhouse effect may counteract it. 



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Of Books and the New World 



34 



The John Carter Brown Library brings its holdings off 
the shelves with three new exhibition catalogues. One 
looks at the experience of Africans in the New World, 
another traces Portuguese exploration of the West, and 
the third celebrates the 450th anniversary of printing in 
the Americas. 



A Career of "Firsts" 

Irving R. Levine '44 was among the first to switch from 
radio to television news. In nearly forty years with 
NBC, he has made a habit of testing new waters. 



Departments 




The cover: Photo 


Carrying the Mail 


4 


by John Foraste 


Under the Elms 


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Sports 


17 




The Classes 


44 




Obituaries 


67 




Finally 


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BroiAyn 

Alumni Monthly 

February 1989 
Volume 89, No. 5 



Carrying the Mail 

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Editor 

Robert M. Rhodes 

Managing Editor 

Anni' iliniii.in Dittily '73 

Assistant Editor 

Charlotte Bruce Harvey '78 

Editorial Associate 

James Rcinbold '74 A.M. 

Contributing Writer 

David T, Temkin '89 

Administrative Assistant 

Pamela Parker 

Design 

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Sandra Delany 

Susan Pearce 



Vidal's honorary degree Equal treatment 



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Vice Chairman 

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M. Charles Bakst '66 

Barry Beckham '66 

Peter W. Bernstein '73 

William J. Brisk '60 

Robert P Fisler '43 

James Geehan '45 

Deborah Pines Livingstone '80 

Linda Mason '64 

Cathleen McGuigan '71 

Stacy E, Palmer '82 

Gary A. Puckrein '78 Ph.D. 

Matthew L. Wald '76 

Elizabeth B. West '73 

Billy R. Wooten '70 Ph.D. 



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Editor. Bitter lessons from the history of 
man's inhumanity to man should have 
taught us by now that in the ongoing 
struggle for human rights and dignity, 
there are no innocent bystanders. To 
keep silent when evil is done or when 
evil is emboldened is to collaborate in 
that evil. Having just learned that our 
alma mater recently paid special honor 
to Gore Vidal, we are constrained, there- 
fore, to express our shock and dismay. 

That Brown University saw fit to 
confer on Gore Vidal the honorary de- 
gree of "Doctor of Humane Letters" to 
us represents at once a moral travesty 
and an intellectual absurdity; Vidal's 
promotion of religious and ethnic big- 
otry, his vitriolic denigration of Ameri- 
can Jews, and his rancorous anti- 
Semitism are clear from the pub- 
lished recorti of his written and spoken 
words. 

By its patronage of Gore Vidal, 
Brown University, to its enduring 
shame, made itself in effect an accom- 
plice in the propagation of Vidal's 
malevolent polemics. By its deadly si- 
lence, the whole Brown community of 
scholars and teachers, almost without 
exception, has acquiesced in honoring 
evil. 

If this sad and hurtful event be- 
speaks the true moral stature of a great 
American university on the fiftieth an- 
niversary of Hitler's Kristallnacht, we 
can only fear for the future of our soci- 
ety. As for the future of Brown Universi- 
ty, it becomes at best lamentably 
irrelevant. 

Ihrlvrt L. Rosen '39 

Leo Dunn '42 

Joan Field Sokmmy '49 

Arnold M. Solowai/ '42 

Brookline, Mass. 



Editor: I have some encouraging news 
for Winifred Kernan '31, who wrote in 
the October issue that Brown women 
graduates from classes preceding 1972 
are subjected to "rude treatment" dur- 
ing Commencement activities. She 
writes that "any woman who attempts 
to get near ... a corner of the class ban- 
ner . . . would be quickly trampled un- 
derfoot." 

My recent march dow-n the Hill with 
the merged 50th reunion class of 1938 
was all joy. Our picture in the Broicn 
Alumni Monthly following reunion 
shows Hy Feldman '38 and this writer 
happily carrying the class banner be- 
tween us. We were enthusiastically 
cheered and applauded bv the by- 
standers and the graduates. 1 got equal 
treatment all the way. 

Phyllis Littnuin Coru'in '38 

Providence 

Editor: As a pre-1972 female graduate of 
Brown, a.k.a. Pembroker, my experience 
at my 25th Reunion in 1986 was so 
much at variance with Winifred Ker- 
nan's that I wanted to write. 

We, both men and women of the 
class of 1961, marched down the Hill to- 
gether. Robert Gorman and 1 were 
asked bv class t)tticials to carry the class 
banner together. With the usual demure, 
reticent, i'embrokian demeanor, 1 ac- 
cepted and boogied down the Hill with 
Bob. It was great! 

More importantly, during the ct)urse 
of a wonderfully stimulating, emotion- 
al, challenging and fun Commencement 
weekend, 1 forged now friendships with 
both men and women in my class 
whom 1 had not known as an under- 
graduate. 

As a Pembroker, 1 had been afraid of 
some of the boys at Brown, who pre- 
sumed to call themselves men. Now 
that they are men, as a woman, I find 



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them to be a very nice lot, whom 1 am 
glad to call my fellows. 

Gail McManus Steffcns '61 

South Burlington, Vt. 



The Band 

Thi< letter was zfritteii to President Swear- 
er, ziith a copy to tlie BAM: 

Editor. SHAME, SHAME, SHAME on 
Brown University for putting on such a 
disgraceful and ungentlemanly show 
last Saturday at Schoellkopf Field! 

#1; The crude, uncouth, obnoxious 
character behind the mike with the per- 
verted sense of humor should be elimi- 
nated from any game proceedings. 

#2: The "band": It was absolutely 
unnecessary and uncalled for to ridicule 
a host school. In mv opinion Brown 
University owes Cornell an apology. It 
is a strange, undisciplined, disheveled, 
motley crew that fails miserably in its 
attempt at ludicrousness. 

Public relations at Brown is at a low 
ebb! Whatever happened to "Brunonia's 
Big Brown Team," "Ki Yi Yi," and 
"Alma Mater We Hail Thee With Loval 
Devotion"? Are these relics of a trea- 
sured past? 

#3: The football team: Well, "y' can't 
win 'em all." 

York A. King. jr. '34 

Wayne, Pa. 

Editor. I'm disgusted - and so are manv 
of my classmates. We do not appreciate 
the "sick humor" at the pregame and 
half-time "entertainment" at the Brown 
football games. Franklv, the language, 
expressions, and innuendoes at these 
games is an insult to us, our spouses, 
and our guests. Saturday's game against 
Maine was particularly disgusting. 

The band, with its unorthodox dress 
and behavior and following in the foot- 
steps of the announcer, is not a credit to 
the University. Times have changed! Let 
the Liberals go to Berkeley. 

Other Ivies are seeing the fruits of 
order and discipline. Perhaps Vartan 
Gregorian can help the "children" grow 
up. 

Edimrd j. Saillant '49 

Avon, Ct. 

This letter icas ivritten to President Crego- 
rian, U'ith a copy to the BAM: 

Editor. I do not believe that 1 ha\e e\'er 



written to Brown to complain since I 
graduated over forty-seven years ago. 
Too often do 1 read letters in the Broim 
Alumni Monthly from older alumni and 
then read the rebuttals that implv that 
the alumnus is a stuffy old reactionary 
who just isn't "with it" anymore. My 
old-fashioned conscience will not per- 
mit me to be quiet this time! 

After reading the October issue of 
the alumni magazine, I was feeling very 
pleased about the University. It helped 
set a good mood for an annual fall visit 
to Brown. Each year, my wife and 1, 
with some of our children, grandchil- 
dren, friends, and their children meet at 
Brown to attend a football game. This 
year it was the Maine game on Novem- 
ber 5. This is always an occasion that is 
a reunion, social gathering, opportunity 
for the grandchildren to see a college, 
and the chance for a grandfather to 
share his enthusiasm for the type of 
football that is played by these New 
England teams. 

All would have been fine - until the 
Brown band appeared. We are well 
aware of the offbeat performances of 
some of the Ivy League bands, particu- 
larly Brown's. Although their music can 
be good, we have often found their at- 
tempts at humor to be rather sopho- 
moric. We all did agree emphatically 
that this year's half-time show was un- 
questionably the worst, most inappro- 
priate half-time show that any of us 
have witnessed. Our group consisted of 
two people in their sixties, eight in their 
thirties and forties, and eight children in 
a range of four to fifteen - not exactly a 
crowd of old "fogies." 

Now consider this. The Brown half- 
time show consisted of the usual strag- 
gling run onto the field, followed by the 
narrator's ridiculing another college 
band (this time. Holy Cross). So far, this 
was about normal for a Brown band 
half-time. Next, however, came a pre- 
sentation on AIDS. It sounded as if the 
narrator's script came from some stan- 
dard health information bulletin on 
AIDS and the use of contraceptives, 
with frequent reference to condoms and 
the proper way to use them. As this was 
being read, the band performed. We 
were astounded and astonished, to ex- 
press it very mildly, that this was con- 
sidered an appropriate presentation for 
half-time at a football game. It certainly 
was not entertainment! When a member 
of the Brown band, apparently the nar- 
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libLTiil and broad-niinded young man, 
and two other spectators expressed 
their disgust with the show. The band 
member said sometiiing to the effect 
that it was a "pubHc service." If you re- 
ally did believe that this was done as a 
public service, the manner of the an- 
nouncing and the associated histrionics 
by the band were hardly suitable. I'ur- 
thermore, do you think any of the peo- 
ple were learning anything they didn't 
know, if this really were the place to be 
taught? The ten educated, socially 
aware, and responsible adults in our 
group certainly did not need or want 
this. We have our own share of prob- 
lems and concerns. We came to see a 
football game, hopefully to enjoy a 
show at half-time, and, in general, have 
an afternoon of relaxation. We are par- 
ticularly well informed about the se\'eri- 
ty and details of the AIDS problem, for 
one son-in-law is a leading researcher 
on AIDS. 

I ha\e taught for many years and I 
feel that I have learned how many of the 
young people truly feel. There are usu- 
ally just a few students who make the 
most noise, create most of the problems, 
and, unfortunately, intimidate many of 
their peers. I question whether the ma- 
jority of the Brown students, including 
band members, tnilv liked or believed 
last Saturday's performance necessary 
for "public service." The opinions of the 
alumni and the parents seem quite obvi- 
ous. I do sincerely hope that, in the fu- 
ture, more consideration and thought 
will be given to half-time shows so that 
the Brown band will demonstrate more 
responsibility, more selfless concern and 
respect for the students, alumni, and 
parents and true utilization of its musi- 
cal talents for all of us. 

Robert W. Griffin '41 

Falmouth, Mass. 



Hugh Pearson's letter 

Editor: I read with interest the letter in 
your November issue from Hugh Pear- 
son '79, in which he vaunts his writing 
prowess, apparently in reaction to criti- 
cism by other correspondents. I don't 
know anything about the I'earson- 
Drake-Meyer debate, of which the letter 
is apparently a part, and I dan'i particu- 
larly care to. Ordinarily, 1 skip the letters 
to the editor, if thi> truth must be told, 
and head straight lor the obituaries. 
But surely in the sentence, "Every 



writer makes minor mistakes, as copies 
of the rough unedited drafts of works 
by such writers as William Faulkner re- 
veals," the word "reveals" should be 
"reveal." And surely in the sentence, 
"And yes, I have a beautiful natural 
brown complexion which people such 
as them kill to get each summer," the 
word "them" should be "they." (1 won't 
get into whether "which" should be 
"that.") And surely in the next sentence, 
in which .Mr. Pearson claims to be "well 
respected by editors" at certain New 
York newspapers, "all of which have 
published" his work, the word "which" 
should be "whom," since editors are 
usually people. (At a miniinum, the sen- 
tence should be reworked, since the an- 
tecedent is arguably unclear.) 

No letter should be as carefully writ- 
ten as the letter in which a person brags 
about how well he writes. 

A. Benjamin Goldgar '79 

Northbrook, 111. 

Editor: As a black alumnus, I'm some- 
what embarrassed by the letter from 
Hugh Pearson '79 in November's BAM 
- embarrassed by his inability to accept 
criticism (his skin may be, as he asserts, 
"a beautiful natural brown," but it's ap- 
parently a lot thinner than mine); by his 
painful insecurity, which leads him to 
make childish boasts about being "phy- 
sically well endowed," "respected" by . 
various newspaper editors, and "a force I 
to be reckoned with as a publisher"; by | 
his eagerness to blame the BAM for the . "I 
grammatical mistakes in his previous 
letter; and, most of all, by the similar er- j 
rors that exist in the more recent letter | 
("there have been a litany," "which peo- 
ple such as them kill to get each sum- 
mer," etc.). I don't think a Brown 
graduate, black or white, should de- 
pend on editors to clean up his gram- 
mar for him. 

Ronald Htitson '69 

New York, N.Y. 



Worst in years? 

Editor: The November issue was the 
worst in years and seems to represent a 
new editorial policy: longer articles, 
lengthy "Under the Elms" notes, and 
shorter "Class Notes." 

When each BAM arrives, I read the 
class notes and then, time permitting, 
scan the rest of the magazine for a quick 
update on campus happenings. 



8 / FEBRUARY 1989 



An informal poll of friends indicated 
consensus - we all read our alumni 
magazines for the class notes! 

Conduct your own market research; 
experiment by adding the names and 
addresses of class secretaries; ask for fi- 
nancial support after publishing an is- 
sue with extensive class notes . . . 

Please return to a policy of publish- 
ing a magazine designed to meet read- 
ers' needs, not those of the staff. 

Dr. Carolyn Caniall Newsom '62 

Yard ley. Pa. 
The length of feature articles ami "Under 
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the policy tozcard class notes. - Editor 



Query 

Editor. 1 am interested in finding out if 
any film was taken of basketball games 
from 1974-79. My son, Andrew G. 
Dolan, played for Brown at this time. 

1 would like to know if you could 
put a notice in your magazine. If anyone 
did have film, I would gladly pay for 
copies sent to me. Thank you. 

Andrew Dolan, Sr. 

910 5th Ave. 

North Troy, N.Y. 



Elitist snobs? 

Editor. It bothers me that advertisers in 
your magazine pitch their ads to gain 
from the very worst attributes of an Ivy 
league graduate; elitist snobbery, greed 
and conspicuous consumption, and al- 
cohol use. The preponderance of this 
type of ad unavoidably gives the im- 
pression to the casual reader that the 
typical Brown graduate is a greedy, 
power-hungry, alcoholic snob. 

David Erikso)! 

Ware, N.H. 



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Editor. How encouraging to read about 
Campus Compact in the September 
BAM. Although community service pro- 
grams are not new among American 
colleges and universities, such active en- 
couragement of volunteerism by univer- 
sity administrators is. 1 commend those 
responsible for the compact's creation; 
it's as timely as it is inspirational. Even 
so, I'd encourage Mr. [Frank] Newman 
and participating university presidents 



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Brown University Box 1893 
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John G. Lewis, Jr. '64 
Senior Planned Giving Counsel 

Hugh B. Allison '46 

Senior Planned Giving Officer 

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to extend the depth and definition of 
"service." I think we ought to begin by 
expecting more from elite universities; 
and our imivcrsities, in turn, ought to 
expect more from their students. My 
thoughts here are rooted in my com- 
bined experience teaching at a private 
school, instructing for Outward Bound, 
and directing a miinicipallv-funded ex- 
periential education program for under- 
privileged teens. 

Members of the compact ci>Lild, 1 
think, stand to learn a great deal from 
the example set by schools which have 
integrated service into their curricula. 
Since its inception over forty years ago, 
one of Outward Bound's missions has 
been to instill compassion in young peo- 
ple, and to empower them through ex- 
periences of hardship and service. The 
first Outward BoLind school even of- 
fereci many of the standard academic 
classes, but in its dedication to educat- 
ing for better citizenship, it used service 
as its primary medium. Similarly, 1 
would urge member institutions to 
make an even greater commitment to 
educating students through service by 
making it a requirement. 

Perhaps the formation of the Cam- 
pus Compact signifies a renewed effort 
on the part of university heads to exam- 
ine what, after all, they aim to "teach" 
students. Once that analysis has taken 
place, they can address how to go about 
it. The compact has the potential to ef- 
fectively enhance students' uiuierstand- 
ing of their role in the world community 
experientially. It could, bv strengthening 
the service ethic, go a long way toward 
enhancing students' "ethical brawn," 
but 1 would argue that it could onlv do 
so by teaching tiiwiigli the curriculum. 

1 would strongly urge members of 
the compact to work hard to try to actu- 
ally tie service directly into the curricu- 
lum, to financial aid - to anvthing that 
makes service an integral part of under- 
graduate education. Without a serious 
commitment by the university to the 
moral education of its students on this 
level, the American undergraduate edu- 
cation will, I think, become little more 
than a vehicle that, in fact, ensures 
deepening economic and social divi- 
sions between ourselves and the under- 
privileged populations the compact 
hopes to serve. As the world becomes 
increasingly complex and unstable, 1 
cringe at the potential ramifications. 

What the universities must do, 
therefore, is to engage in activating stu- 



dents to make an impact consistent with 
their own social, economic and political 
resources. Kurt Hahn coined the term 
"relative service." While hand-outs, for 
example, provide immediate gratifica- 
tion, one could argue that they also 
pacify us away from tackling the bigger 
issues by providing a "quick fix" for our 
consciences. It would be better to begin 
by lacing the inadequacy of the systems 
that are largely responsible for the prob- 
lems we try to alleviate in soup kitchens 
and homeless shelters. And elite univer- 
sities in particular ought to address this 
question of what it means to "serve" at 
the level of justice. Direct experience 
with the underprivileged can be a tre- 
mendouslv powerful and moving expe- 
rience and, with the proper processing 
and follow-up, could be an excellent 
place from which to educate about the 
larger issues. However, our integrity as 
elite members of the world community 
demands that we activate our resources, 
and that, if need he, that we act politi- 
callv. To promote hand-outs from such a 
population as though it were a panacea 
for injustice would be like applying 
bandaids to a se\ered arm. 

I think the compact institLitions 
OLight to be setting their sights not only 
on entrenching the service ethic into the 
curriculum, but on doing so at a level 
proportionate to the resources to which 
their particular students might have ac- 
cess. Any college curriculum that falls 
shy of drawing a distinction between 
"levels of service" and commitment 
thereto will fail in its responsibility to 
properly "prepare people for citizen- 
ship." Campus Compact is a good start 
- a darn good start. However, I'd like to 
see volunteerism become an even big- 
ger part of mainstream education, and 
justice, the preventative healer perhaps 
the focus of its energies. What if any- 
thing, is the compact doing toward 
these ends? 

Melissa Lukin '82 

Cambridge, Mass. 



In addition . . . 

Tlic B/\M often receives nuiil not intended 
Its letters-to-the editor, hut innietheless con- 
taining information, comments, criticism, 
and corrections that we think loould mter- 
est our readers. Here are some recent con- 
tributions: 

In the October issue, we published, 
at the beginning of the class notes, a 



10 / FEBRUARY 1989 



photograph of a Homecoming scene "of 
the late '30s or early '60s. Do you know 
the queen in the picture?" 

The first to reply was Dr. Stephen P. 
Dretler '60, a urologist at Harvard Medi- 
cal School and Massachusetts General 
Hospital. The scene is of the Homecom- 
ing in 1959, he wrote, and he is standing 
behind the queen, who is Carole Sogg, 
who was not a Pembroker. Carole Sogg, 
he continued, married Bob Markey '61. 

Two days later, we heard from Mark 
K. Joseph '60, who identified himself as 
"the guv standing to her right wishing I 
were doing the kissing." He also report- 
ed that Carole's son, Rob, graduated 
from Brown in 1987. Mark also enclosed 
pictures from last fall's Parents Week- 
end. The Josephs' daughter, Cara, is a 
member of the class of 1992. 

In those same October class notes, 
we carried a "newsmaker" item about 
Jane Crosen '76, a mapmaker who had 
been featured in the Castiiw (Maine) Pn- 
trtot. While expressing delight with the 
article, she pointed out that the map we 
reproduced was not hers. In items such 
as this, we often reproduce a portion of 
the printed storv, in this case a map. 
Jane wrote that the map reproduced by 
the Patriot (and thus in the BAM) was 
actuallv a small portion of a page from 
the Mniiic Atlns & Gazetteer. Our apolo- 
gies to the Maine Atlas & Gazetteer and 
to Jane for an error we should not have 
made. 

We have also received several com- 
ments from you about our new design. 
Bill Dyer '24 described the new format 
as "great" and also mentioned that he 
enjoyed the excerpt from Thomas Gray, 
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jarring 'Brown' replaces a flowing, very 
beautiful, lighter and, yes, elegant logo. 
Why are you constantly expending ef- 
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Gregorian is 

sworn in as 

Brown's sixteenth 

president 

T 

I he New Year brought a new 
JL president. Under the gaze of 
Brown's first president, James Man- 
ning, whose portrait hangs in the 
president's office in University Hall, 
Vartan Gregorian was sworn in as 
Brown's sixteenth president last 
month by Fellow Charles C. Tilling- 
hast, Jr. '32. 

According to an announcement 
by Chancellor A.O. Way '51, Grego- 
rian will be on campus as much as 
possible during a transition period 
of several months while he prepares 
to move to Providence. The new 
president has designated Provost 
Maurice Glicksman to serve as act- 
ing president in his absence. Grego- 
rian comes to Brown from the New 
York Public Library, where he has 
been president for the past eight 
vears. He was elected president of 
the University by the Brown Corpo- 
ration last August 31. 

The University has set Inaugural 
Weekend for April 7 through 9, with 
Gregorian's inaugural ceremony 
scheduled for Sunday, April 9, at 2 
p.m. in Meehan Auditorium. 



Inaugural Weekend 
will be April 7-9 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 13 



Four alumni die in explosion, crash of 
Pan Am Flight 103 in Scotland 



By itself, the tragedy 
was awful enough: 
Some 270 dead after Pan 
Am Flight 103 blew up over 
Lockerbie, Scotland, on De- 
cember 21, the victim of a 
terrorist bombing. Then, the 
unthinkable became worse 
for members of the Brown 
community: We had lost 
some of our own. The news 
filtered in as sparsely- 
staffed offices reopened af- 
ter Christmas. "I thought 
you should know," the 
callers began. Should know 
that a young Brown alum- 
nus or alumna had been on 
that plane and had died. 

There were four in all, 
four young people em- 
barked on great adventures 
but this time on their way 
home to reunite with family 
and friends over the holi- 
days. It is not known 
whether Stuart Barclay '82, 
David Dornstein '85, Mary 
Lincoln Johnson '85, and 
Andrea Rosenthal '88 knew 
each other, whether they 
recognized each other on 
the plane and waved, or 
met, too briefly, for the first 
time. We do know that they 
were explorers, citizens of 
the world; only one, Bar- 
clay, had settled into a per- 
manent address since 
graduating. 

A memorial service for 
the four victims will be held 
on February 3 at noon in 
Sayles Hall. Rabbi Alan 
Flam, associate chaplain, 
will conduct the service, as- 
sisted by other members of 
the chaplaincy. Other speak- 
ers include President Vartan 
Gregorian and four mem- 
bers of the faculty, each re- 
flecting on one of the alum- 
ni he or she had gotten to 
know especially well: Ed- 
ward Beiser, associate dean 



of medicine and professor 
of political science (Barclay); 
Robert Coover, novelist and 
adjunct professor of English 
(Dornstein); Barbara Tan- 
nenbaum, lecturer in 
theatre, speech, and dance 
(Johnson); and Kermit 
Champa, professor of the 
history of art and archaeolo- 
gy (Rosenthal). 




Stuart M. Barclay '82 

A New York City resident, 
Barclay grew up in New 
Hampshire. His concentra- 
tion at Brown was interna- 
tional relations. 

"He was a gentleman, in 
the finest sense of the 
word," says Edward Beiser 
of his former political sci- 
ence student and freshman 
advisee. "Stuart was mod- 
est, energetic, determined. 
He was an unusually im- 
pressive guy." 

Barclay and a partner re- 
cently had launched a real- 
estate business in New York 
City, and he had gone to 
London to work out a deal. 
Business was Barclay's pas- 
sion. He received his MB. A. 
from Dartmouth's Amos 
Tuck School in 1987, and 
had worked for some time 
in the finance division of 
Smith Barney in New York. 

An outdoorsman in his 
spare time, Barclay loved to 
hunt, fish, and ski. Beiser re- 
calls that Barclay suffered a 



serious skiing accident dur- 
ing his junior year and was 
hospitalized in New Hamp- 
shire. "When I called him to 
say hello, Stuart told me he 
wanted to transfer to Rhode 
Island Hospital - in trac- 
tion! - so that he could 
better keep up with his 
courses. I talked him out of 
that, but he convinced me to 
tutor him by phone while 
he remained bedridden. 
Later, Stuart came back to 
Brown on crutches and did 
just fine. I had tremendous 
respect for his sense of 
responsibility, for his ma- 
turity, for his personal 
strength." 

"Stuart thought the 
world of Professor Beiser," 
Peter Stern '82 recalls. 
"They were very different 
sorts of people, yet there 
was a remarkable rapport 
between them." 

Stuart Barclay is sur- 
vived by his parents, Ken- 
neth and Audrey, and a 
sister, Wendy. The family 
has established a memorial 
fund at Stuart's high school 
alma mater, Deerfield 
Academy. Donations may 
be sent care of Mr. and Mrs. 
Kenneth Barclay, PO. Box 
187, Barnard, Vt. 05031. 




David S. Dornstein '85 

Originally from Melrose 
Park, Pennsylvania, David 
Dornstein had lived most 
recently in New York City 
and Tel Aviv. F le had ma- 
jored in creative writing at 



Brown and written numer- 
ous Brouni Daily Herald 
columns, personal essays, 
and unpublished fiction. He 
also was a tireless thinker, 
talker, reader; an actor in 
theatrical productions; a 
founder of the Philtrum 
Press, a humor magazine; a 
campus celebrity who left 
no one feeling lukewarm. 

"He was the least boring 
person you'll ever meet," 
said Jacob Neusner, Univer- 
sity Professor and Ungerlei- 
der Distinguished Scholar 
of Judaism, recently. One of 
ten seniors profiled in the 
June/July 1985 BAM, Dorn- 
stein mused about his in- 
tense, but often unfocused, 
academic career. "I can hon- 
estly say that I haven't done 
one thing, taken one course 
that I didn't want to take. 
The flip side is that I never 
spent much time on any one 
thing. . . . There ought to be 
someone within the Univer- 
sity [for people like mel . . . 
a Maverick Advisor, or the 
Advisor for the Arrogant 
Ones." 

"In his sophomore 
year," recalls then-Hera/d 
editor Norman Atkins '84, 
"he came to me with a stack 
of incomprehensible, dis- 
cursive fiction, and suggest- 
ed that his work had the 
makings of a column." At- 
kins agreed, and Dornstein 
became "a fierce observer" 
of mores and behavior at 
Brown and beyond for the 
BDH. A friend, Clint 
O'Brien '85, remembers 
Dornstein's biting prose: 
"Everyone read it. Even 
people who disagreed with 
David read the column be- 
cause it was so well-writ- 
ten." 

Dornstein resisted tradi- 
tional career paths before 



14 / FEBRUARY 1989 



and after graduation. He 
never stopped writing fic- 
tion. He worked as a waiter, 
an actor, and most recently, 
for a New York-based orga- 
nization. Alternatives in 
Jewish Education, for which 
he helped to set up a confer- 
ence in Israel last fall. Pan 
Am Flight 103 was the last 
leg of his trip back from Tel 
Aviv to visit his family. 

David Dornstein is sur- 
\'ived by his parents. Dr. 
Perry Dornstein '56 and Ju- 
dith Dornstein, 7703 Semi- 
nole Ave., Melrose Park, Pa. 
10126; a sister; and a broth- 
er, Kenneth '91. 




Mary Lincoln Johnson '85 

Known to her family and 
high-school friends as 
"Mary," to Brown friends 
and teachers as "M.L.," 
Mary L. Johnson grew up in 
Wayland, Massachusetts. 
Her most recent addresses 
were in San Francisco and 
Taiwan, but for the last year 
she had been a traveler in 
the Far East. Her major was 
women's studies, and she 
was one term-paper shy of 
getting her degree. At 
Brown she was a dancer 
and a Writing Fellow. 

"Mary scrimped and 
saved to see the world," re- 
calls her father, Robert John- 
son. After working for 
National Action Against 
Rape, and later for an art 
gallery, both in San Francis- 
co, in October 1987 Johnson 
joined a hometown friend, 
Julie Craven (now a gradu- 
ate student in Brown's edu- 
cation department) in 
Taiwan, where she taught 
English at Tunghai Univer- 
sity for four months. Then 



she began nearly a year of 
travel, first with Craven, lat- 
er with friends she had met 
overseas: China, Tibet, 
Nepal, Malaysia, Burma, 
Thailand, Singapore, Bali, 
India, Moscow, and Lon- 
don. She was on her way 
home when she died. 

"She was absolutely in 
love with the people of the 
Earth," Robert Johnson says 
of his daughter. "She want- 
ed to save the world and to 
have a lot of fim doing it." 
Agrees friend Amy Gerstein 
'85: "Mary was a very fun- 
ny, warm person. It says a 
lot about her that she would 
take so much time out of 
her life to travel alone in 
tiny villages in Asia, help- 
ing others." One of her 
teachers at Brown, Professor 
of Religious Studies Giles 
Milhaven, remembers her as 
"independent, balanced, 
critical, (and) creative." 

Mary Johnson is sur- 
vived by her parents, Mr. 
and Mrs. Robert Johnson, 18 
Adams Lane, Wayland, 
Mass. 01778; five brothers; 
and one sister. The family 
requests that memorial gifts 
be made to the AIDS Action 
Committee, 131 Clarendon 
St., Boston, Mass. 02116. 
Mary, says her father, "was 
really angrv about what 
was happening to people 
because of AIDS." 




Andrea V. Rosenthal '88 

An art history major, An- 
drea Rosenthal had long 
dreamed of a trip to the Far 
East. "She took Japanese 
history courses," recalls her 
Brown roommate and 
friend. Amy Ward '88, "and 
she read books about the 



Himalayas." In late August, 
she left her family in New 
York City and traveled to 
Japan, China, Nepal, and 
Thailand. 

Before returning home, 
her backpack filled with 
Christmas presents, Rosen- 
thal stopped in Paris to visit 
two Brown graduate stu- 
dents. "She told us," re- 
membered Christopher 
Campbell recently, "how 
she was at the base camp of 
Mount Everest to see the 
sunrise, how the whole wall 
of the Himalayas had 
glowed orange-pink. It was 
the most beautiful sunrise 
of her life." 

Rosenthal graduated 
with honors, and was "one 
of the best students I've 
had," says her faculty advis- 
er, Kermit Champa. He be- 
lieved Rosenthal planned 
eventually to apply to grad- 
uate school in art history. 
She had worked in Brown's 



Bell Gallery and with the 
Sarah Doyle Women's Art 
Collective, and was well- 
known to many students for 
her effervescent manner, 
says Patricia Morrissey, ad- 
ministrative assistant in the 
art history department. 

"Andrea had thousands 
of friends," agrees Ward. 
"She'd go out of her way to 
help anyone. Last year, 
when she was in the midst 
of working on her honors 
thesis, if someone she knew 
was sad, she'd take them 
out for coffee and talk." 

Andrea Rosenthal is sur- 
vived by her parents, Mr. 
and Mrs. Charles M. Rosen- 
thal, 784 Park Avenue, New 
York, N.Y. 10021; and a sis- 
ter, Nicole '91 . The family 
has established an Andrea 
Rosenthal Memorial Fund 
at Brown; contributions 
may be sent to Box 1860, 
Providence, R.I. 02912. 
-A.D. 



Brown seniors win 

Rhodes and two Marshall 

scholarships 



nr 

I hree Brown seniors 
JL were among the recip- 
ients of this year's Rhodes 
and Marshall scholarships 
for graduate study in Eng- 
land - the most prestigious 
academic awards for which 
American students are eli- 
gible. Katherine Finkelstein, 
who graduated in Decem- 
ber, was named a Rhodes 
Scholar, and Matthew Yeo 
and Stephanie Schrag re- 
ceived Marshall scholar- 
ships. 

Finkelstein, who concen- 
trated in English and Amer- 
ican literature at Brown, 
plans to look at the poUtical 
implications of religious 
dissent in seventeenth-cen- 
tury epic writings, studying 
with Nigel Smith at Keble 



College at Oxford. A 
Brooklyn native, she is one 
of thirty-two American stu- 
dents who were in Decem- 
ber awarded the two-year 
Rhodes scholarships and 
living stipends to study at 
Oxford. The last Brown 
senior to receive a Rhodes 
Scholarship was Sarah 
Cleveland '87. 

At Brown, Finkelstein 
edited a campus literary 
journal called Clerestory 
and for three years was a 
head writing fellow, help- 
ing other undergraduates 
with their papers. Howev- 
er, in an interview with the 
Providence journal, she said 
that the work she most en- 
joyed was with Dorcas 
Place, a Providence agency 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 15 



that serves illiterate adults; 
there, Finkelstein taught an 
illiterate woman to read. 
Thev read John Steinbeck's 
Tlw Red Pom/ and T.S. 
Eliot's Oils, and the woman 
is now able to road to her 
children and is working to- 
ward her high school 
equivalency diploma. A 
long-time circus nfiiionntio, 
Finkelstein has trained for 
five years as a tightrope 
walker and trapeze artist. 
Last summer she taught cir- 
cus skills at Moses Brown 
School in Providence. 

Like the Rhodes, Mar- 
shall scholarships recognize 
intellectual and moral dis- 
tinction, but thev do not 
share the emphasis on ath- 
letic achievement. Matthew 
Yeo, who will graduate this 



spring with a concentration 
in Russian studies and po- 
litical science, plans to con- 
tinue at the London School 
of L'conomics, studying 
arms control and interna- 
tional security. Last sum- 
mer, he worked at the f fate 
Department, helping pre- 
pare for President Reagan's 
Moscow Summit. He has 
also worked at the Institute 
for Policy Studies in Wash- 
ington anci at the Stock- 
holm International Peace 
Research Institute in Swe- 
den, as well as at Brown's 
Center for Foreign Policy 
Development. As a sopho- 
more, Yeo, who is from 
Boston, was named a Harry 
S. Truman Scholar, under a 
program Congress en- 
dowed to encourage talent- 



ed students to pursue 
careers in government; that 
scholarship contributes to- 
ward the cost of tuition for 
two undergraduate years 
and two years of graduate 
work. 

The second Marshall 
Scholar, Stephanie Schrag, 
is a biology concentrator 
from Madison, Wisconsin, 
who plans to study psy- 
chology, philosophy, and 
physiology at Balliol Col- 
lege, Oxford. She is writing 
her honors thesis on the re- 
productive strategies of fe- 
male Qiloptcn/x Macnlata, 
an insect species closely re- 
lated to the dragonfly. 

While at Brown, Schrag 
has volunteered with the 
Big Sister Program, which 
matches undergraduates 



with local underprivileged 
children, providing the 
children with role models 
and friends. She also has 
tutored sixth-graders 
through the Lippitt Hill 
Tutorial Project and has 
volunteered at the Fox 
Point Day Care Center, 
both in Providence. -C.B.H. 



Correction 

The article, "(Don't) Stop 
the (Small) Presses," in the 
November 1988 issue re- 
ferred to Copper Beech 
Press's director, Mutlu 
Konuk Biasing '74 Ph.D., as 
associate professor of En- 
glish at Brown. She has 
been a professor of English 
sincejuly 1,1988. 



With alumni help, students work away 
their January break as apprentices 



IOH\ K1K\M1 



^^iM 



Johanna Striar '89 spent 
her January vacation 
"shaciowing" Dana New- 
brook '60. No, she wasn't 
playing at being a gum- 
shoe; she was on the 
premises of Newbrook's 
firm, ai Designs, Ltd. of 
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, 
strictly by invitation. For 
three weeks she followed 
Newbrook as he visited 
project sites, met with 
clients, and worked on new 
jobs. 

Striar is considering a 
career as an architect, and 
Newbrook, whose compa- 
ny specializes in architec- 
ture and interior design, 
was one of eighty-seven 
alimini who offered Brown 
students the chance to test 
the career waters this win- 
ter as part of the Alumni 
Relations Office's Appren- 
ticeship Program. The pro- 
gram, which offers both 
paid and volunteer alumni- 



supervised internships in a 
variety of fields, is part of 
the Student-Alumni Net- 
work, which involves 2,600 
alumni in assisting stu- 
dents in formulating their 
career plans and making 
the transition from Univer- 
sity student to graduate. 

Student participation in 
the January Apprenticeship 
Program was good, but it 
could be impro\ed, accord- 
ing to Assistant Director of 
Alumni Relations Melanie 
Weinberger Coon '78, who 
coordinates student-alumni 
programs. About twenty of 
the available apprentice- 
ships went begging this 
year, even though 453 stu- 
dents had indicated an in- 
terest in participating. 

"I see my mission," says 
Coon, who succeeded 
Maria Rothman '82 last fall, 
"as twofold: getting more 
alumni to join the Network 
and convincing more stu- 



dents to take advantage of 
these opportunites." She 
hopes that a series of focus- 
group surveys will pin- 
point more accurately what 
kinds of opportunities ap- 
peal to students the most. 
The most popular areas, 
she adds, have been law, 
business, banking, and fi- 
nance. 

This year's apprentice- 
ships ranged all over the 
map and covered a variety 
of careers. They included 
working for a law firm in 
Fairmont, Virginia; report- 
ing for a weekly newspaper 
in Silverton, Colorado; le- 
gal-aid work in Tampa; and 
a variety of jobs with edu- 
cational administrators in 
secondary schools and col- 
leges. 

Johanna Striar had tak- 
en a first-semester architec- 
ture course at RISD, but her 
stint at ai Designs gave her 
her first taste of computer- 




Apprentice and architect: 

Johanna Striar '89 and Dana 

Newbrook '60 in his 

Pawtucket office. 

aided design. She also did 
some drafting work that 
was used in actual jobs be- 
ing overseen by the firm. 
"It was helpful to see what 
I had learned in the studio 
being done in a real-life set- 
ting," she says. After work- 
ing for a year, she plans to 
apply to graduate pro- 
grams in architecture. 

Students who desire 
more in-depth exposure to 
a field can apply for sum- 
mer apprenticeships. Coon 
hopes to have more than 
100 of them a\ailable, and 



16 / FEBRUARY 1989 



to that end she encourages 
potential alumni sponsors 
to contact her at (401) 863- 
3380 before mid-March, 
when students will begin 
the application process. 
Dana N'ewbrook sec- 
onds that motion. He has 
offered apprenticeships for 
the past four years, and has 
seen three of his "alumni" 
go on to architecture 
school. One former appren- 
tice, Sharon Oleksiak '87, 
now studying interior ar- 
chitecture at the University 



of Massachusetts, worked 
for Newbrook after gradu- 
ating from Brown. 

"It's good for the field," 
Newbrook says. "And it's 
good for the firm. Johanna 
actually produced some 
jobs for us, so I considered 
my time with her to be well 
spent." In addition, "hav- 
ing had the opportunity to 
attend Brown and RISD on 
financial aid, I feel a certain 
responsibility to return 
something to the students 
of today." -A.D. 



Defaced portraits restored; 
to hang in Rockefeller Library 



TT 

I en portraits of Brown 
J^ alumni that were 
defaced the night of Feb- 
ruary 17, 1988, have been 
restored successfully, but 
they will no longer line the 
walls of the classroom 
beneath Manning Chapel. 
Instead, the oil paintings 
have been moved to more 
secure, if less public, homes; 
most will hang in the ad- 
ministrati\e offices of the 
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., 
Library. 

The portraits, which 
depict eighteenth- and 
nineteenth-century alumni 
who achieved regional or 
national prominence or who 
were benefactors of the 
L niversitv, had been spray- 
painted with the message: 
"ELITE? WHO US?" A 
group calling itself the 
Coalition for Creative 
Subversion claimed respon- 
sibility for the action in a 
subsequent letter to the 
Broivn Daily Herald {BAM, 
April 1988). Despite an 
ongoing investigation, the 
University has not been 
able to identify the culprits. 

However, restorers were 
able to remove the spray 
paint, a process that for- 



tuitously involved the 
simultaneous removal of 
years of varnish and dirt 
from the paintings' surfaces, 
says Jennifer Lee, a curator 
in the Special Collections 
Department of the Library. 
One of the portraits, which 
depicts Henry VVheaton, 
class of 1802, a lawyer and 
diplomat, is the work of 
Martin Johnson Heade, who 
is best known for his New 
England landscape paint- 
ings. Two paintings - those 
of John Brown Francis, a 
member of the class of 1808 
who went on to become the 
governor of Rhode Island 
and a U.S. senator, and John 
Pitman, class of 1799 - were 
by Providence portrait 
painter John Nelson Ar- 
nold. Members of the John 
Hav Library staff, who have 
been involved recently in 
the restoration of other 
paintings, supervised the 
project. 

The cost of the restora- 
tion, which was covered by 
the University's insurance 
policies, ranged from $300 
to S2,000 per painting. The 
total cost came to $6,750. 
-C.B.H. 



Sports 

By James Reinbold 



Charlie Chester: 
Mind Over Water 



Most kids who play 
sandlot sports 
dream of throwing the Su- 
per Bowl touchdown pass, 
hitting the ninth-inning 
home Rm in the se\enth 
game of the World Series, or 
scoring the game-winning 
basket in the NBA champi- 
onship. Then there are those 
who fence with hockey 
sticks on ice or city streets 
or kick soccer balls on 
patches of grass, each one of 
them, of course, netting the 
winning goal with time run- 
ning out. But far from that 
bewildering scene of loud 
and haughty expectation, 
imagine, if you will, the 
tranquil scene of a bov and 
his trampoline in a tree- 
lined backyard of a residen- 
tial neighborhood. That boy, 
bouncing up and down, is 
future Brown diver Charlie 
Chester. 

Chester, now a senior at 
Bro\vn after a year off, picks 
at an oatbran muffin early 
in the morning at Peaber- 
ry's, a popular breakfast 
restaurant on Thayer Street, 
and speaks of the beginning 
of his athletic career in 
Washington, D.C. "Actually, 
I grew up on that trampo- 
line," he recalls. "I jumped 
up and down on mv bed 
and then on my parents' 
bed because it was bigger. 
One day, when I was trying 
to touch the ceiling, 1 fell off 
the bed and sprained my 
ankle. That's when they de- 
cided 1 needed a trampo- 
line. For three years 1 was 



on it for two or three hours 
a day. I never did anything 
hard; I was always too 
chicken. But 1 got the basic 
knowledge of what my 
body was doing in the air. 
That was the 'basketball' 1 
picked up." 

The trampoline led to 
summer swimming club, 
though Chester hated it. "I 
detested the swimming and 
really was scared to do the 
diving," he recalls. But then, 
one day at Phillips Exeter 
Academy, he was doing 
tricks off the diving board. 
The coach saw him and 
nabbed him. And although 
Chester was glad he did, the 
young diver still had doubts 
about his new sport. 

The academic transition 
from Exeter to Brown was 
much more pleasant than 
the athletic one. As a fresh- 
man, Chester lived in fear of 
diving. "Freshman year I 
spent most of the time on 
the board shaking," he re- 
members. "1 was terrified. 1 
didn't want to dive. 1 was 
miserable." He dove, but 
poorly. Thinking back on 
those days, Chester recalls 
that he over-compensated 
for his fear. "I said to my- 
self, 'I'm not going to fret 
about this, I'm not going to 
get nervous. I'm not going 
to make a big deal of it.' 
And I didn't. And I got up 
on the board and blew ev- 
ery dive in eyer\' big meet 1 
was in. I did terribly be- 
cause I made it no big deal." 

Fear has many sources. 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / K 



not the least of which is 
looking over the end of a 
diving board three meters 
above water and knowing 
that getting from point A to 
point B is not to be accom- 
plished simply by jumping, 
but by a complicated series 
of twists and somersaults. 
"Fear is the one thing you 
alwavs talk about in div- 
ing," Chester says. "Even in 
gymnastics, you never hear 
them talk about fear. I think 
that is because in gymnas- 
tics you either do it or you 
can't. In diving, you go 
ahead and try something 
even if you're not sure you 
can do it, or really are able 
to do it." 

But after three years of 
competitive diving in the 
hv League, Chester has 
learned to live with fear and 
to channel it. It was the 
challenge of overcoming 
fear that kept him diving af- 
ter his freshman year. Now, 
fear works to his ad\'antage. 
"In the Navy |in January] 
meet I was dead," he says. 
"I was doing the dive that 
Greg Louganis was doing in 
the Olympics when he hit 
his head. I was way over the 
board and there was noth- 
ing I could do. I had walked 
a little too fast in my ap- 
proach and put my foot 
down for my hurdle maybe 
three inches too far ahead. I 
realized I was falling over. 
Somehow I was able to let 
my knees go a little, which 
means I got my weight 
back. That means I was go- 
ing back toward the board, 
but I got my arms through 
and hipped it. I kept my 
legs straight and got the 
dive in for a six. And that 
was all because I was able 
to correct. Because of fear 1 
would have never done that 
in my freshman or sopho- 
more years." 

Chester's new approach 
to diving has jelled into a 
philosophy. "It wasn't until 
recently that I realized I 



could dive consciously or 
instinctively," he says. "I'm 
trying to turn myself into a 
conscious diver." Chester 
takes the cerebral approach 
one step further. "I want to 
figure out the physics of 
diving. What does it mean if 
my arms, for example, are 
in one position rather than 
another? I try to consider 
the dive a puzzle rather 
than a challenge." 

Chester also benefited 
from a year off and a six- 
month training trip to the 
University of Texas. The 
swimming program there is 
one of the best in the nation 
and is headed by Mike 
Brown, who has coached an 
NCAA champion team. "1 
wanted to see what it would 
be like to dive with really 
good divers. 1 learned a lot 
from being with them. What 
is it that makes them Olym- 
pic divers? I'm doing the ex- 
act same dives they're do- 
ing. What is that extra ele- 
ment of form? What is that 
grace? One thing I learned, 
and I knew it before but 
didn't accept it, was that it 
is all in the mind. I work out 
much less than I dici in my 
freshman year, and I'm div- 
ing much better. That's par- 
tially because of experience 
and partially because I 
know that if I can't think the 
dive through and can't ac- 
cept the fact that 1 can do 
the dive, then I can't do the 
dive." 

Some contend that an 
athlete can over-think. Just 
go out on the field and do it, 
they say. But in the case of 
diving, which seems unique 
among sports for its rigor- 
ous mental demands, Ches- 
ter's approach doesn't seem 
over-analytic. His thoughts 
on achieving are provoca- 
tive. "I think you have to re- 
alize that you do have lim- 
its. A lot of winning athletic 
philosophy tells you to pre- 
tend you don't have limita- 
tions. But I feel that's lying 




to myself. I feel 1 could do 
the hardest dive ever done, 
but psychologically I 
wouldn't be able to do it. 
It's a big load." 

And if you accept the 
fact that you will never be- 
come as great as Olympic 
diver Louganis, for exam- 
ple, what keeps you going? 
"1 just want to have fun. I 
love di\'ing," Chester says. 
"The competition gives me 
something to look forward 
to, but I wouldn't come to 
the pool two hours a day if 
that was what 1 was looking 
for I'm not the greatest 
competitor; I'm not a clutch 
player. I come in to dive. 1 
love diving daily. It's a re- 
lease. I want to get up on 
the board and do my hard- 
est dive - a gainer two-and- 
a-half pike - and I want it to 
be me. But of course, I could 
have never done it without 
[Coach] Dave [Sias]." 

Confidence comes from 
a number of sources: hitting 
a dive well in practice, or 
scoring well in a meet. 
Chester, who had little suc- 
cess in meets as a freshman 
and sophomore, but who 
now wins dual-meet com- 
petition in the one- and 
three-meter events consis- 
tently, learned a valuable 
lesson in confidence from 
Dan Watson, a diver at Har- 
vard. Watson was a nation- 
ally-ranked tower diver (10 
meters) and was an alter- 
nate to the 1984 Olvmpic 
team, placing behind Greg 
Louganis and Bruce Kim- 
ball. "Dan Watson taught 



It's a bird. It's a plane. No, 

it's high-flying diver Charlie 

Chester '89. 

me confidence. He knew 
what he was going to do. 
And he did it. At the time, 1 
knew what 1 wanted to do, 
but I wouldn't let myself do 
it. I remember a meet where 
we were talking about med- 
ical school. Dan was an- 
nounced - front three-and- 
a-half somersault, tuck posi- 
tion, degree of difficulty 
two-point-eight - and Dan 
is still talking to me. He 
starts walking to the board, 
still talking to me. Then he 
says, 'Hold it.' He goes out 
on the board and drills the 
dive. He did it to intimidate 
me, I know, but he also 
taught me about confi- 
dence." 

Dave Sias has coached 
men's and women's diving 
since 1973. Both he and Ed 
Reed, who coaches men's 
swimming and water polo, 
attended Springfield Col- 
lege. After graduate school 
at New Mexico State Uni- 
versity, where he coached, 
and a stint in the service, 
Sias returned to Providence, 
lured to Brown bv his old 
teammate Reed and the new 
pool. 

Seated on a chair on the 
pool deck, Sias looks more 
like a spectator than a coach 
during a practice session be- 
fore the Penn meet on Jan- 
uary 21 (a meet, incidental- 
ly, in which Chester won (he 
three-meter event). There is 
action on the one- and 



18 ,' FEBRUARY 1989 



three-meter boards as his 
nine divers - five women 
and four men - practice. 
Each diver, after his or her 
dive, surfaces and pauses 
by the side of the pool. 
Sias's critique of each dive 
is a model of brevity, precise 
evaluation, instructive and 
positive. The diver nods, 
emerges from the water, 
towels off, and goes back to 
the board. 

"Diving is not a strength 
sport per se," he explains, 
"although you do need 
strength when you do cer- 
tain dives. Charlie has taken 
dance classes. His [high 
school] ice hockey experi- 
ence has added fluidity and 
he works pretty hard. He's 
become a smooth diver." 
Chester leaves only a tiny 
splash after a graceful dive 
from the three-meter board. 
"That was good, Charlie," 
Sias says. "Get your arms 
through a little quicker." 

Sias, who is a golfer, 
says he finds a lot of simi- 
larity between the golf 
swing and the dive. "The in- 
dividualized time, the preci- 
sion, the raw talent are 
about the same," he ob- 
serves. "And the sensations 
are similar." And while div- 
ing is a lot of mind over wa- 
ter, practice does create an 
"automatic body." Or, as 
Sias explains, "You get to a 
point where you no longer 
have to think about the me- 
chanics. 

"The skill level allows 
you to focus on the one 
thing that allows you to 
make the dive work. You're 
simply not concerned about 
not accomplishing it - land- 
ing on your face or flat on 
your back - or making an- 
other error someplace in the 
dive. You have reduced the 
antagonistic forces to a 
point where you really have 
to think of only one or two 
parts. The dive becomes a 
total image. You think of a 
front three-and-a-half and 



you step out of yourself and 
see yourself doing the dive. 
You see yourself creating an 
impression for the observ- 
er." 

Chester is a good exam- 
ple of perseverance, Sias 
says. In Chester's first two 
years, in championship 
meets where the top eight 
went into the final round, 
he finished tenth. "That cre- 
ates self-doubt. You ques- 
tion your potential," Sias 
says. "As a diver, you have 
to develop skills, but you 
also need success. For Char- 
lie, the struggle paid off." 
Two years ago, Chester won 
the three-meter event at the 
Easterns held at West Point. 

Sias attributes Chester's 
success to a number of 
things: a supportive family 
in which "no one ever says. 



Men's Basketball (5-9) 

Brown 83, New Hampshire 78 

Providence 93, Brown 65 

Rhode Island 88, Brown 82 

Iowa ]09, Brown 61 

Brown 62, Long Beach State 61 

Brown 86, Bryant 71 

Hofstra 80, Brown 68 

Brigham Young 90, Brown 65 

Brown 100, Hawaii 85 

Kansas 115, Brown 45 

Brown 71, Lehigh 70 

Lafayette 82, Brown 74 

Yale 83, Brown 78 

Yale 64, Brown 55 

Women's Basketball (8-6) 

Brown 65, Marist 48 

Brown 73, Lehigh 60 

Brown 64, Siena 60 

LaSalle 87, Brown 62 

Brown 76, Central Conn. 56 

Portland 79, Brown 56 

Brown 77, U. of Portland 65 

New Hampshire 73, Brown 72 

lona 81, Brown 66 

Brown 76, Ford ham 64 

Maine 64, Brown 51 

Yale 58, Brown 56 

Brown 73, Colgate 68 

Brown 88, Yale 79 



'I don't think you should do 
that,'" to his year off where 
he gained "maturity and a 
positive attitude about div- 
ing, and, lately, to his re- 
laxed attitude." He's be- 
come much more of a 
clown. That's good for him 
and the team." Without the 
year off, both Sias and 
Chester agree, the diver 
would have quit diving or 
been burned out. 

Chester seems to have 
achieved that delicate bal- 
ance between skill and 
mental toughness necessary 
for success. He practices 
hard, but is relaxed. He is 
dedicated, but doesn't take 
himself or his achievements 
too seriously. Some of that 
has to do with his coach 
and their easy relationship, 
and some of it has to do 



SCOREBOARD 



(November 26 - January 26) 

Men's Hockey (1-16) 

Harvard 10, Brown 1 

St. Lawrence 5, Brown 2 

Clarkson 7, Brown 2 

New Hampshire 3, Brown 1 

Princeton 4, Brown 2 

St. Cloud State 4, Brown 1 

St. Cloud State 11, Brown 3 

Providence 5, Brown 2 

Cornell 10, Brown 2 

Colgate 5, Brown 4 

Army 3, Brown 2 

Yale 7, Brown 2 

Dartmouth 5, Brown 1 

Women's Hockey (6-5) 

Brown 5, Yale 1 
Harvard 2, Brown 1 
Princeton 3, Brown 2 

Brown 7, MIT 1 
Brown 2, Dartmouth 

Cornell 4, Brown 1 

Providence 7, Brown 4 

New Hampshire 6, Brown 

Brown 2, RIT 1 

Wrestling (6-0) 

1st at Coast Guard Tournament 
Brown 32, New Hampshire 4 

Brown 46, Wagner 8 
Brown 32, Boston University 8 
Brown 37, W. New England 5 



with his upbringing. Ches- 
ter says of his father, who 
often attends meets, "With 
him, it's never how well I 
do but how hard I try. I 
could hit the board wrong, 
ricochet off the side of the 
pool, hit the deck, and slide 
into the water, and my fa- 
ther would say 1 did it 
gracefully. I'm very lucky. 
I'm very grateful. 1 see a lot 
of athletes who are pres- 
sured by their family, and 
that ruins the fun of it." 

At a recent meet, Sias re- 
calls, the Chester family 
contingent filed into Smith 
Swim Center moments be- 
fore a meet: father, brother 
and sister, aunt and uncle, 
cousins. And Charlie 
Chester returned the favor: 
He finished first. 



1 



Men's Indoor Track (2-0) 

Brown 72, Yale 52 
Brown 72, Penn 45 

Women's Indoor Track (3-0) 

Brown 55, Rhode Island 42 

Brown 55, Yale 32 
Brown 55, Springfield 16 

Men's Swimming (2-5) 

Harvard 57, Brown 56 

Princeton 62, Brown 51 

Navy 57, Brown 56 

Penn 71, Brown 42 

Brown 59, Yale 54 

Women's Swimming (5-1) 

Brown 71 , Princeton 69 

Harvard 94, Brown 46 

Brown 94.5, Penn 45.5 

Brown 80, Yale 59 

Squash (4-1) 

Brown 8, Wellesley 1 
Brown 9, Tufts 
Brown 7, Smith 2 

Brown 6, Williams 3 
Yale 6, Brown 3 

Gymnastics (1-1) 

Brown 168.95, S. Utah 163.55 
Yale 175.65, Brown 166.85 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 19 



Th 



Good 



Life 



By Charlotte Bruce Harxev 
■;^ J Photographs by John Foraste 



■ here is a storv Aristotle tells about 

I the philosopher Heraclitus. Legend 

JL has it that a band of foreigners tra\'- 
eled to visit Heraclitus and, when thev arrived, 
were perplexed to find him in the kitchen, warm- 
ing himself by the stove. They hesitated, having 
expected such a sage to be doing something loftier: 
stargazing, perhaps, or holding forth on one sub- 
ject or another. Sensing his visitors' discomfort, 
Heraclitus reassured them. "Come in," he said, 
"don't be afraid; there are gods here, too." 

Aristotle told this story to impress upon his 
pupils the value of studying such mundane sub- 
jects as shellfish - their "blood, flesh, bones, blood 
vessels and parts of this sort." Philosophy, to Aris- 
totle, was no high and unattainable endeavor, but 
rather the most basic; wisdom was to be found on 
earth as easily as in the heavens. "We must not en- 
ter upon the study of the lesser animals with child- 
ish disgust," he admonished his students. "For in 
every natural thing there is something wonderful." 

More than two thousand years later, a young 
philosopher, Martha Craven \ussbaum, recounts 
Aristotle's story about Heraclitus. Sitting in her of- 
fice, wearing tan cotton slacks, a soft sea-colored 
plaid shirt, and running shoos, she looks no more 
sagacious than Heraclitus must have seemed to his 
visitors. But her posture is strikingly erect, and her 
dark brown eyes gleam as she repeats with a burst 
of joyous laughter, "There are gads here, loo." 

"It was that story - not just the storv, but the 
whole attitude it expresses - that drew me very 
much to Aristotle." In his writings, she says, "I 




found a philosophical spirit I felt \er\- drawn to: a 
love of the world and a fascination - a tremendous 
interest - in everything in the world, and an inter- 
est in studying it from many points of view, an in- 
terest in all of the pnrticulnr things that make hu- 
man life the life it is." 

In the four-and-a-half years since Martha Nuss- 
baum, now the David Benedict Professor of Clas- 
sics and Philosophy, joined Brown's faculty, she 
has become one of the most celebrated, and con- 
troversial, scholars on campus. Her proponents 
call her revolutionary; they hold that she has re- 
suscitated moral philosophy, wresting from arcane 
academic nit-picking and expressing in intelligible, 
even graceful, language the \ital question: What 
does it mean to li\e a good human life? It was the 
abiding concern of the ancient Greeks, and it is 
certainly timeless. In her 1986 book. The Fmgiliti/ 
of Gooiinefs: Luck ami Ethics in Greek Tragedy and 
Philosophy, Nussbaum traces the ancient Greek de- 
bates, using as her texts not only the works of Pla- 
to and Aristotle, but also the great tragedies of the 
times. She argues that human goodness is not sim- 
ply a matter of the will, or intention, as most of us 
since the Enlightenment have tended to assume, 
but is vulnerable to the whims of fortune. Virtue, 
like a plant, must bo nurtured, she says. 

These questions are not just the stuff of philos- 
ophy to Nussbaum. In a chapter on luck and 
ethics, she writes: "That I am an agent, but also a 
plant; that much that I did not make gi>es towards 
making me whatewr 1 shall bo praised or blamed 
for being; that I must constantly choose among 



20 / FHIiRUARY 1989 



Martha Nussbaum's proponents claim 

that she has resuscitated moral philosophy, 

wresting from arcane nit-picking the vital 

question: What does it mean to live a 

good human life? 



competing and apparently incommensurable 
goods and that circumstances ma\' force me to a 
position in which I cannot help being false to 
something or doing some wrong; that an event 
that simplv happens to me may, without my con- 
sent, alter my life; that it is equally problematic to 
entrust one's good to friends, kners, or country 
and to try to have a good life without them - all 
these I take to be not just the material of tragedy, 
but everyday facts of li\'ed practical reason." 

Everyday facts of life. Her philosophy, like that 
of Aristotle, seems born of a love for the everyday. 
For Martha Nussbaum, the trials of the ancient 
Greeks, although a little more dramatic, are much 
the same as the moral quandaries we face every 
day, and their solutions can tell us much about 
how we should live our own lives in a period of 
history that, although two thousand years distant, 
she finds in many ways similar. 



T 

L^ '1 route to Tro\', obe\'ing the will of Zeus 
I m joining the Greek alliance to avenge 

.^^m^ Helen's abduction, the king Agamemnon 
finds himself and his men becalmed. Day after day 
they float, sails flapping, on the sea. Their larders 
grow empty and starvation appears to be immi- 
nent. The wind, they learn, has been stifled by the 
goddess Artemis, who demands that Agamemnon 
sacrifice his daughter, Iphigenia. Agamemnon is 
caught. He has the highest of moral and religious 
obligations to obey Zeus, and, yet, to do so will ex- 



act the highest of personal wrongs - the murder of 
his child. In Aeschylus's Agamemnon, the king ago- 
nizes, "A heavy doom is disobedience, but heavy 
too, if 1 shall rend my own child, the adornment of 
my house, polluting a father's hands with streams 
of slaughtered maiden's blood, close by the altar. 
Which of these is without evils? How should 1 be- 
come a deserter, failing in my duty to the alliance?" 

Agamemnon's plight embodies the type of 
moral conflict that so pained the Greeks. His many 
moral values - the religious dutv to obey Zeus, the 
civic commitment to join the Greeks at Troy, the re- 
ligious obligation to appease Artemis, and pater- 
nal love for his daughter - place him in a horrible 
position. Through no fault of his own, obeying the 
will of one god, he finds himself at odds with the 
demands of another. 

This possibility for tragic conflict was built into 
the Greek religion, with each god defending a facet 
of life that the Greeks felt important. But the gods 
are not always in accord with one another, and 
"thev create terrible strains for people who are try- 
ing to li\'e well," Nussbaum says. "The ethical idea 
which this religious conception expresses is, I 
think, the idea that there are certain things in hu- 
man life that are just not optional, things any good 
human ought to care abi)ut and must honor. You 
cannot just say, 1 won't have love in my life; I 
won't have political commitment in my life." For 
the Greeks, "ethics and religion are very closely 
linked, because the religion is a very fluid and 
flexible way of expressing what is felt to be ethical- 
ly powerful and appropriate." 

In the fifth and fourth centuries B.C., this ques- 
tion of moral conflict lay at the heart of a major de- 
bate, Nussbaum says. Some people found the situ- 
ation intolerable and devised ethical schemes to 
eliminate such conflicts. One way out was to rank 
moral obligations, so that conflicts could be re- 
solved without guilt. The chorus accuses Aga- 
memnon of this, for, after he finally reaches the 
conclusion that he must sacrifice his daughter, he 
seems relieved, expressing no remorse that, even if 
his act is the lesser of two evils, it is evil still. An- 
other strategy was to argue that the only things 
that count in life are those we can control. It was 
this approach that the Stoics, during the later, Hel- 
lenistic period, took to its extreme. Nussbaum says 
Western thought since the Enlightenment has sup- 
ported the Stoic view, arguing that intention, not 
fate, determines virtue. 

Aristotle, howe\'er, refused to limit the scope of 
human life in order to avoid moral contlicts. For 
him, Nussbaum says, "the good life [consisted] of 
a number of distinct virtues, each bringing some- 
thing of separate value to the good life: some sort 
of political activity, some sort of commitment to 
family or friends, some sort of practical reason- 
ing." Each of those spheres brought its own obliga- 
tions - sub-virtues, Nussbaum calls them: justice, 
moderation, courage, the grace with which you en- 
tertain friends, a sense of humor. 



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Aristotle's Politico, she savs, "makes the claim 
that the task tor political planning is to secure for 
everyone in the societ\ the necessary conditions 
for living a life in act\)rdance with all the virtues. 
And if the society has left out one oi them in the 
way it has arranged its institutions - well, that is a 
deep criticism of the society." For many centuries, 
she points out, society divied up the spheres of hu- 
man life, assigning some to men - "political activi- 
ty, the contemplative virtues" - and others, such as 
the virtues of the family, to women. "So you 
would have the appearance of not ha\'ing too 
much tragedy, because it looked like each could 
completely attend to what he or she needed to. 
Now what I actually think you had there was not 
an absence of tragedy, but just concealed and com- 
pressed tragedv. People had to denv parts of them- 
selves and then to deny things that were there to 
be cared about. . . . Now, you see people trying to 
put these things together and to make a picture of 
a good life that even Aristotle, inclusive though he 
is, could hardlv have recognized: it's so crowded. 
You have conflicts everv day between the claims of 
work and the claims of familv" 

c 

^^^ ophocles's Antigone is the story of a 

"^ young woman, embattled with her uncle, 
^^ Creon. The city has just survived a siege, 
and one of Antigone's brothers, a traitor, lies dead 
outside the city walls. Creon has ruled that no one 
shall burv the corpse, in deference to Greek law 
prohibiting the honor of traitors. But in rigidly 
obeying this one law, he violates another, more sa- 
cred obligation to ensure the proper burial of fami- 
ly. Wild with passion to bury her brother, Antigone 
defies her uncle, and the tragedy's denouement 
sees her exiled frt)m the city, and Creon only com- 
ing to remorse when his own son dies as a result. 

It is a story about moral tunnel-vision, about 
two people who have so limited their sights, Nuss- 
baum writes in The Fmgilit}/ ofGodi/jifss, that they 
cannot see the ethical dilemmas they face. 
Antigone's position is morally superior, to be 
sure, but she is no less blind. What finallv gets 
thrt)ugh to Creon is not reason, but emotion: Only 
when he feels grief at his son's death can Creon 
fathom the horror of his earlier decision. 

Nussbaum argues that emotions provide a way 
of knowing that is entirely different from intellec- 
tual knowledge. "Creon is a good example ot what 
I mean when 1 say that sometimes we do better in 
philosophizing to scrutinize our emotions," she 
says. "He is a very intelligent man who is capable 
of great feats of rationalization. I le has made him- 
self a picture of the world into which tragedy can't 
enter. How does he come to realize that the picture 
is defective? By noticing how he feels when his son 
dies. Because beneath the level of rationalizatiim, 
the emotional commitment remains undestroyed. 
So we see here something that is very important in 



moral philosophy, which is that often people who 
are clever, people who are capable of complex 
thought, go astray from their own deepest reflec- 
tions ... if they don't take into account their emo- 
tions. A philosophy that contains an appeal to the 
emotions can have a more reliable access to the 
truth of our reflections." 

John Locke once said that emotions are like the 
wiles of a seductive woman - all very well when 
you want diversion, but not when you are in 
search of the truth; he comes closer than Martha 
Nussbaum to twentieth-century attitudes towards 
the emotions. "The history of this is fascinating," 
she savs. "If vou look at not onlv the ancient 




world, but the major philosophical views of emo- 
tion down to the eighteenth century, everyone 
agrees that emc>tions are partly beliefs or judg- 
ments .... They are not mere pushes or pulls or 
gut feelings, but they have a complex, cognitive 
structure. This is something Plato and Aristotle be- 
lieved, land! the Stoics, the Epicureans, Spinoza, 
Descartes." 

Two trends conspired to slander the emotions, 
she says: "The influence of Hume and the other 
empiricists was to replace the cognitive \iew of 
emotions with a different view - the view that they 
arc Mii gcnerif feelings," with no relation to 



22 / FEBKUAKY 1989 



thought. The empiricist view was widely influen- 
tial, and only recently has it begun to loosen its 
grip on cognitive psychology and anthropology, 
she says. 

In philosophy, its grip has held, bolstered by 
another set of beliefs that originated with Plato 
and reached their culmination in the Stoics. "They 
noticed that the major emotions all rested on the 
belief that things outside your control had great 
value," Nussbaum says, "so that, for example, in 
order to have fear, you have to believe that there 
are important things that can happen to you be- 
yond your control. In order to have anger, you 
have to believe that there are things that are im- 



l!i!ii.'l'f 'IJ I'^mn 




"I don't think you can do philosophy if 
you want most of all to be acceptable." 



portant to you that could be damaged by someone 
else. In order to ha\'e grief, you have to believe 
that something that could go away is of value. 
Now Plato noticed very shrewdly that if you really 
believed the good person could not be harmed, 
you would not have any of these emotions in your 
life. If you really believed that the only really im- 
portant things in life were things that cannot be 
harmed, you would not have grief. And in the 
third book of the Republic, he says: Look, if we 
want our heroes to be self-sufficient, then we will 
not depict them grieving for the dead." 

The Stoics carried Plato's view still further, de- 
vising an elaborate scheme for the removal of all 
emotions from human life - not because they 
doubted that emotions had cognitive content, 
Nussbaum stresses, but because they disagreed 
with the conclusions to which the emotions in- 
evitably led. "Now 1 think that a lot of [subse- 
quent] philosophers who don't really believe the 
Stoics' arguments for getting rid of emotions have 
somehow absorbed this idea that there is some- 
thing bad about them," she says. One of her cur- 
rent projects is a book on Hellenistic ethics that 
picks up where The Fragility of Goodness leaves off. 
By separating the notion that emotions have cogni- 
tive value from the Stoic desire to eliminate them, 
she hopes to convince people that "if you believe 
the cognitive view of emotions, you don't neces- 
sarily have to get rid of them. And, in fact, if you 
also believe that it is important to value and care 
for things outside yourself, even though that 
makes you vulnerable in certain ways, well, then 
you will positively want to rely on them as sources 
of insight about what those commitments are." 

Nussbaum's emphasis on emotions has 
whipped up some heated responses 
on the part of philosophers who favor 
a cooler, more abstract approach. One of her 
"honorable critics," as she puts it (as opposed to 
the merely jealous or spiteful), is Jonathan 
Barnes, of Balliol College, Oxford, who refers to 
The Fragility of Goodness by the acronym FOG. "I 
was really quite pleased with myself when I hit 
on that," he said with a chuckle in a recent tele- 
phone conversation. "He has a different view of 
moral philosophy, that it should be more austere 
and formal," Nussbaum says. 

"Our styles nre different," Barnes admits, and 
he has described her prose as "turgid," but he says 
style is to some extent a matter of personal prefer- 
ence. More problematic, he says, is Nussbaum's 
use of tragedy to illuminate her argument. "It 
seems to me bizarre to go to literature rather than 
history to look for examples of moral problems," 
he says. "Agamemnon was never a real chap, he 
was never in that position, and, furthermore, it's 
an unreal position. I'd like it better if she'd take ev- 
eryday examples from history." 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 23 



'Certain things 
in human life 
are just not 
optional. You 
cannot say, I 
won't have 
love in my life; 
I won't have 
any political 
commitment." 



A criticism Nussbnum finds especially disturb- 
ing is that her view of ethics may be fundamental- 
ly anti-religious. The question was raised last sum- 
mer at a conference on The Fi(i;^illti/ of Gooti)n'fs, 
and the issue has begun to pop up in various re- 
views of the book. The book "raises a grave ques- 
tion about how coherent an ideal it is to trv to tran- 
scend vt)ur humanity," she acknowledges. "It real- 
ly does urge you to see that the scene of your life is 
this world - with all its limitations." 

"Do you believe in God? A god?" her visitor 
asks. 

Nussbaum sits very still, her back erect. Silent. 
"No," she says resolutely, making full eye contact 
as she speaks. "No." She sighs deeply. "I think at 
times in mv life I have, but not now." It is hard not 
to imagine something of sadness in her eyes. 
Something also of courage. 

For the ancient Greeks, the gods provided a 
means of imagining what life would be like with- 
out human limitations, Nussbaum says. While the 
life of Zeus and Aphrodite has its appeal - there is 
neither death nor taxes on Olympus - it has disad- 
vantages, as well. For gods, who experience no 
physical limitations, athletic excellence cannot ex- 
ist. With no concept of scarcity, there can be no jus- 
tice. Without anything to fear, there is no courage. 
Without the possibility of ever having to offer 
one's life for a friend, there can be no real loyalty. 
So the gods frolic and fight, much like bored chil- 
dren. 

Nussbaum believes we need to look closely at 
the desire to transcend our mortality, to examine 
the possibilities for human excellence that we 
would have to give up. "Yes, of course I do believe 
that one of the things that human life is engaged in 
is pushing against the limits of human life," she 
says; "if one didn't wish for one's loved ones to be 
immortal, well, that would be a pretty peculiar 
thing. But at the same time, at some deep level, it's 
not clear that we wish for a complete removal of 
limits, because the things we prize - human forms 
of love and friendship, human forms of enjoyment 
of nature, virtues such as courage and justice - all 
of these hardly could be imagined in a form of life 
that contains no limits." 

Christianity, in conceiving us as "pure, im- 
mortal souls, only temporarily and contingently 
housed in the circumstances of human life," she 
says, "may actually pre\ent one from doing justice 
to the world, and from paying sufficient attention 
to the conditions that are needed to suppt)rt good 
human life. If one sees poor, suffering persons to 
be only suffering in some superficial respect, then, 
1 think, one lacks a strong enough incentiv e to im- 
prove their conditions: to house the homeless, to 
really ask how people are doing, to ask how their 
ability to act morally is being affected by their cir- 
cumstances." 

"Since the time of Socrates, philosophy has in- 
volved taking your life into your hands in order to 
sav what you think is true," Nussbaum savs. She 



mentions Friedrich Nietzsche, who mocked "the 
famous wise men," the timid little German profes- 
sors, living lives of comfort, never rattling conven- 
tion's cage. "I don't think you can do philosophy," 
she says, "if you want nn)st of all to be acceptable. 
"I want to show [students] how difficult these 
problems are, how it feels to really reflect about 
the.se problems. I try to show that it is a matter of 
examining one's whole life, that these are not sim- 
ply intellectual issues, but that they are matters of 
the deepest seriousness, touching upon the con- 
duct of one's whole life." Nussbaum's philosophy 
seems very much a lived one, and her way of ap- 
proaching both her field and her life seems un- 
a\'oidable. 




Martha Craven grew up in Philadelphia, on 
the Main Line, to a family that was, on her 
mother's side, old, aristocratic, borne by the 
Mayflower. "I always absolutely hated that," she 
says. "I felt it was connected with class distinc- 
tions, with a complete lack of understanding of 
other people and other ways of life." 

"ILjike David Copperfield, I was a child whose 
best friends were, on the whole, novels; a serious 
and for a long time (as it seems) a solitary child," 
she has written in the introduction to Love's Know- 
ledge: Essai/s on Philosophx/ ami Literature, which is 
slated for publication by Oxford University Press 
this year "I can recall sitting for hours in the 
brown and silent attic, or by the side of whatever 
streams, or in the tall grass of whatever fields the 
relentlessness of opulent suburbia had spared, 
reading with line, and thinking about many ques- 
tions." 

Without calling those questions "philosophy," 
and without using the texts of "philosophers," her 
teachers encouraged the exploration of moral 
themes in literature, and Nussbaum now finds in 
her .school papers the germs of later preoccupa- 
tions: how we deal with conflicting loyalties, with 
human finitude. What strikes her in these girlhood 
writings is the "ob.sessive quality of my ft>cus, then 
as now, on certain questions and problems, which 
seemed simply to have arrived, and concerning 
which 1 seem hardh' e\er to have been able, from 



24 / FEBRUARY 1989 



then on, not to think. And, second, the tact that bv 
far the most natural and also fruitful way to pur- 
sue them seemed to me already then, as now, to be 
to turn to works of literature. I was pursuing ques- 
tions usually called philosophical; there is little 
doubt of that. . . . But it seemed to me best to dis- 
cuss the issues in connection with a text that dis- 
played concrete lives and told a story." The pursuit 
of truth was for her "a certain sort of reflection 
about literattire," and the writers through whom 
she glimpsed the world were Dickens, Aristo- 
phanes, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, Euripides, Dos- 
tovevskv. Raised in the Episcopal Church - "It was 
really a form of social snobbery," she says - she at- 
tended Sunday School classes, but learned in them 



heyday of the New Criticism, and for those in liter- 
ature, theory was all; the last thing one asked of a 
play or a poem or a novel was what it said about 
human life. Classics students, she recalls, focused 
on the artistic works of the period, seldom study- 
ing in depth the ethical thought of Plato or Aristo- 
tle; poetry and phiIosoph\- were seen to be differ- 
ent turf. And among the philosophers, both those 
involved in moral and ancient philosophy, she 
found no interest in using ancient Greek literature 
to study ethical themes. Literature was deemed 
popular, not intellectual, culture. 

Nonetheless, the more she read, the more she 
began to feel that these academic distinctions 
would be especially perplexing to the Greeks. Art 




more about existentialism and civil rights than 
something that felt like religion. 

She enrolled at Wellesley College in 1964 and 
during her sophomore year decided to quit school 
and become an actress. She was given a job at the 
Ypsilanti Greek Theater, a repertory company in 
Michigan near Ann Arbor. Ruby Dee was there, 
and Dame Judith Anderson. Martha Craven was 
in the chorus for Tlic Orestia, and she had a glam- 
orous walk-on at the end of Aristophanes's The 
Birds. She got to ride off in a chariot with Bert 
Lahr After six months with Ypsilanti, she decided 
she needed to go to acting school, so she moved to 
New York City and enrolled at New York Univer- 
sity's School for the Arts. A year later, "I decided 
that acting was not for me," she says. "I was not a 
very good actress, and I realized that I wanted to 
think about these works, but not to act in them. I 
also decided I didn't like the way of life. To me the 
life of an actor contains an intolerable amount of 
instability." 

So she returned to the liberal arts program at 
NYU, studying Greek and focusing on the trage- 
dies, continuing to ask: What does this mean for 
human life? There, as in high school, she found her 
quest supported. 

It was at Harvard, where she arrived as a grad- 
uate student in 1969, that she learned how resis- 
tant the three realms of literature, classics, and phi- 
losophy might be to her inquiries. This was in the 



for art's sake, she concluded, would be an anom- 
aly to the ancients. The tragedies were not enter- 
tainment but part of a ritual civic festival; they 
were to be felt, and pondered, and talked about. 
That process was seen as instrumental to the de- 
velopment of the soul. 

Likewise, the more Nussbaum studied Plato, 
the more certain she became that if she were to 
write seriously about his philosophy, her approach 
would have to consider his reasons for writing in 
the form of drama. Form, she felt, was inseparable 
from content. 

So, when it came time to choose a dissertation 
topic, Nussbaum put her concerns with literature 
and with Plato on the back burner and devoted 
herself to her beloved Aristotle, whose works 
called for a more traditional approach. She trans- 
lated from the Greek his De Motu Animalium {On 
the Motion of Animals) and wrote a series of inter- 
pretive essays and commentary on his theory of 
animal movement. The book would be published 
in 1978 by Princeton University Press and released 
in paperback in 1985, resoundingly hailed by 
philosophers and classicists alike. Myles Burnveat, 
who teaches at Robinson College at Cambridge 
University and is probably the most highly regard- 
ed living classicist, would call it "a model of philo- 
sophical and philological scholarship combined. . . 
It is seldom that Aristotle is written about with 
such flair," he would write in the Archiv Fiir 



BROWN' .ALUMNI MONTHLY / 25 



Geschichte der Philosophic. A decade after its publi- 
cation, Oxford's Jonathan Barnes would predict 
that Nussbaum's text will be the standard for fifty 
to 100 years to come. 

During her years at Harvard (she received her 
master's in 1971 and her doctorate in 1975, both in 
classical philology), she married Alan Nussbaum, 
from whom she is now di\'orced. Their daughter, 
Rachel, was born in 1972, a month after Martha 
Nussbaum's appointment as the first woman in 
Harvard's Society of Fellows. "They called Rachel 
an honorary junior fellow," Nussbaum jokes, "be- 
cause she had eaten the food of the Society." The 
three-year appointment as a junior fellow freed 
Nussbaum from the need to teach while working 




on her dissertation, and by the time she was teach- 
ing, Rachel was three and in nursery school. "So it 
turned out to be a very important thing at that 
time in my career," Nussbaum says. "I've had a lot 
of luck." She spent a year at Oxford, at St. Hugh's 
College, where she was named an honorary mem- 
ber of the Senior Common Room, and Harvard ap- 
pointed her assistant and then associate professor 
of philosophy and the classics - but withheld 
tenure. So in 1983, Nussbaum went back to her 
alma mater Wellesley as a visiting professor. The 
following year. Brown offered her an associate pro- 
fessorship. 

c 

^^^ ince 1984 Nussbaum has been promoted 

J twice, from associate to full professor, 
•^ and then to the endowed chair she now 
holds, as well as to an adjunct professorship in 
comparative literature. She serves on a full slate 
of academic committees and chaired the Campus 
Advisory Committee to the search that selected 
Vartan Gregorian as Brown's president. Her 
courses - ranging from seminars on Seneca, 



Plato, and Aristotle to "Philosophy in the 
Novel" (she teaches such modern novelists as 
Marcel Proust, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf) 
- are consistently over-enrolled. Last fall 140 stu- 
dents took her Nietzsche course, which was, 
needless to say, not known for its light reading 
list; she graded at least one of each student's 
papers. She is reputed to be one of Brown's best 
teachers: inspiring, demanding, generous. 

When the students in her graduate seminar on 
Seneca learned of her earlier acting career, they 
jumped at the chance to stage Seneca's Medea, cast- 
ing Nussbaum in the title role. The play was 
staged in the classics building's back yard, with 
Nussbaum climbing out a bathroom window 
dressed in a snakelike leotard to perform the cli- 
mactic murder scene on the fire escape. "1 don't 
know where she found the time to memorize her 
lines," says Christopher Bartlett '88, who is now a 
Keasby Fellow, studying classics at Oxford. "I 
wonder if she sleeps." 

A typical day of teaching for Nussbaum begins 
with the sixty-mile commute from Cambridge, 
where she lives. She strides into her Nietzsche 
class, tossing her coat and bag over a rail, and 
takes her place behind the podium. She rises to her 
full height, like a dancer, like a tree, the stage root- 
ing her height. "I want to try to counteract the im- 
personality of this room," she says in a sharp, clear 
voice as she surveys the banks of seats before her; 
it is the last week of classes for the semester, and 
the students before her look bedraggled and worn. 

"Very few critics look at Nietzsche's concept of 
virtue," she says, noting that Walter Kaufmann, 
whose translation of Thus Spake Zarathuslra the 
class is reading, is alone in emphasizing this facet 
of the existentialist's thought. She launches into a 
discussion of Nietzsche's notion of eternal return: 
What would our lives be like if we had to live over ' 
each of our actions again and again, ad infinitum. 
How would we handle the weight of that respon- 
sibility? "If it doesn't crush vou," she says, "it's go- 
ing to change you in a way that will give new 
weight, new emphasis to your life. Each time you 
act, you must ask: Is this what I would do over 
and over, eternally?" She says that in posing the 
question of eternal return, Nietzsche is trying to 
awaken the sleepy Christians who fancy them- 
selves romantics and risktakers, who take solace in 
the conviction that their s'irtuous acts will serve as 
passports to the Kingdom of 1 iea\'en. 1 le will not 
even say virtue is its own reward, for he believes 
the very concept of reward undermines virtue. 

As she talks, Nussbaum paces the stage, wring- 
ing her hands one minute, then hugging herself, 
then stopping to ask for criticisms: Is Christian 
virtue as false as Nietzsche paints it? Does his in- 
dictment apply to all Christians, or merely the 
bourgeoisie? Would he find a Mother Theresa so 
complacent in her virtue? After the lecture, Nuss- 
baum is barraged with students pursuing the 
questions she raised. 



26 / FEBRUARY 1989 



I 



: want to show 
students how 
lifficult these 
problems are. I 
;ry to show 
:hat these are 
lot simply 
intellectual 
issues, but 
matters of the 
deepest 
seriousness, 
touching upon 
the conduct of 
one's whole 
life." 



She has staved at Brown, despite offers from 
Columbia and Stanford. "1 want to be where both 
classics and philosophy are excellent, where they 
work well together and are strong in ancient phi- 
losophy. Here the classics department is interested 
in the study of the culture from many viewpoints, 
all working and studying cooperatively together. 
This is true only here; it is true of no other depart- 
ment 1 know." Nussbaum is one of a group of 
Brown classicists and philosophers, faculty and 
graduate students alike, who meet in the evening 
every two weeks to discuss ancient philosophy. 
She also values the philosophy department's time- 
honored commitment to rigorous argument and 
ordinary language. Longtime department chair- 
man Roderick M. Chisholm (now professor emeri- 
tus; BAM, November) "has, though his work, sent 
the message that it's not onlv not strange, but it's 
important that an analytic philosopher work on 
historical figures, and work on them well and in 
great depth," she says. "That combination of rigor 
and a respect for history makes me \'ery happy to 
stay here." And then there is comparative litera- 
ture, where, she says, the faculty "have a deep 
concern with the ethical and social issues in litera- 
ture and aren't interested in literature from a pure- 
ly formal point of view; they are interested in form 
and content together." 

Since the publication of her two books, Nuss- 
baum has become an academic jet-setter, flying 
from one campus to another, delivering lectures 
for Phi Beta Kappa, for the American Academy of 
Religion (despite the fact that she has no back- 
ground in religion, this fall she was invited to give 
the keynote speech at the academy's annual meet- 
ing), for lecture series and symposia. In November, 
she was featured on the PBS program "Bill Moy- 
ers's World of Ideas." When The New York Review 
of Books ran her review of Allan Bloom's academy- 
bashing best-seller. The Closing of tlie AmericcDt 
Mind, she gained a reputation as a sort of populist 
philosopher. Bloom, she held, in addition to doing 
sloppy philosophy, committed the more serious 
moral error of encouraging scholars to cloister 
themselves from the world, never bringing their 
talents and observations to bear on social ills. Like 
Aristotle before her, Nussbaum argued that 
philosophers must be actively involved in the 
world - especially the political world. 

She has embraced that virtue as well. Although 
not by nature suited to politics -" I'm not shrewd 
enough; I'm too thin-skinned," she says - she be- 
lieves philosophers have an miportant contribu- 
tion to make to the political world. "My book on 
Hellenistic ethics is on the connection between the- 
ory and practice, the way in which the philosophi- 
cal schools tried to improve life through philo- 
sophical arguments," she says. "I really think good 
reasoning and careful writing do have a role to 
play in political life, and I think philosophy has a 
job to do - although 1 don't think it's being done 
enough." And when it is being done - in moral 



philosophy and medical ethics, where she says 
germane and valuable work is being done - it is all 
too frequently written in an insiders' language, in- 
accessible "to a person of high intelligence but no 
specialized training." 

Last summer, she and Harvard developmental 
economist Amartya Sen, with whom she lives in 
Cambridge, organized a conference on the quality 
of life, which was held in Helsinki by the World 
Institute for Development Economics Research, an 
arm of the United Nations University. They 
brought together a group of scholars from several 
disciplines to look at the problems developing 
countries face: hunger, gender inequality, disease. 
"We were hoping that philosophers would come 
in and address themselves to those problems in a 
way that would have an impact on the policy de- 
bates. . . . What we learned was how important it 
is to think carefully of your audience, not to give 
the impression of a highly-trained in-group talking 
to each other." 

Her own writing, although dealing with com- 
plex ideas, and sometimes dense, is nonetheless 
accessible, and her use of literature renders it at 
times lyrical and moving. She clearly is waiting not 
just for philosophers, but for all people who think 
seriously about the moral quality of their lives. 

Nussbaum ends The Fragility of Good- 
ness with a discussion of Hecuba, Euripi- 
des's play about the fate of the Trojan 
queen who is enslaved after the war. Her husband 
and most of her children have been killed, and she 
has entrusted the care of her surviving son to her 
closest friend. Then she sees the son's body by the 
river bank and knows instantly that she has been 
betrayed. The loss of her city, her children, her 
freedom - these she can take, but this final betray- 
al destroys her. The chorus tells us she will become 
a beast, and she does, devoting herself to ven- 
geance. At the play's end she really does be- 
come a dog, and the promontory on which she is 
buried, "The Bitch's Gravestone," becomes a sign- 
post for future sailors on the sea of life. 

The lesson of Hecuba, says Nussbaum, is that 
trust, the capacity to love in the face of possible 
loss, is the root of human virtue. It was Hecuba's 
willingness to trust that made her such a good per- 
son, and when everything has gone wrong, it is 
trust that finally undoes her. But life without the 
possibility of betrayal - like life without the possi- 
bility of moral conflict - is an impoverished exis- 
tence. Ultimately, Nussbaum says, we must be 
willing to stake our trust on transient things, lov- 
ing our world and each other despite the fact that 
nothing is certain. 



Illustrations by Susan Pearce 



iROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 27 




For clues to the atmosphere's past - and its future - Brown 
geologists look to the seas. And ponds. And coral reefs 



28 / FKBRUARY 1^89 




earching for 
the Ghosts 
of Climates Past 





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By Bnice Fellman 
Photographs by John Foraste 



Down the hill from my 
home in Clarks Falls is 
the community swim- 
ming hole, a spring-fed 
scratch in the rocky, 
glacial hills of southeastern Connecticut. 
Where we jump in, the pond bottom is 
gravelly and firm. But in other places, 
rumor has it you'd sink into a muck 
made, in part, of oak and maple leaves 
dropped by the trees that frame this 
idyllic spot. As for the make-up of the 
rest of the cioze, well, mavbe ignorance 
is bliss. 

Then again, maybe not. For hidden 
in the murky beds of ponds and lakes 
are the ghosts of climates past, and it is 
in such unlikely spots throughout 
northern North America that Professor 
of Geological Sciences Thompson Webb 
III seeks clues that might explain the 
Earth's climatological history. 

Webb's research is an important part 
of the ambitious Cooperative Holocene 
(the geological name for the most recent 
period of Earth history) Mapping Pro- 
ject, funded at more than $5 million 
over the past ten years bv the National 
Science Foundation, the Department of 
Energy, and the Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission. Last August, COHMAP, a 
consortium of scientists at Brown, 
Columbia, and the Universities of Wis- 
consin, Minnesota, and Oregon pub- 
lished the most detailed account to date 
of the climatic conditions that shaped 
Hfe on the planet during the last 18,000 
years, a time that saw the "temporary" 
(a debatable point) end of the Ice Age. 
COHMAP researchers use what they've 



learned to develop and fine-tune com- 
puter simulations capable of "predict- 
ing" ancient climates - and perhaps 
those to come. 

Webb is not the University's only cli- 
matological sleuth. His colleagues in ge- 
ological sciences probe glaciers, coral 
reefs, and the sea floor for clues to the 
way it was. 

And they've taken the story much 
further back in time. Professor (and for- 
mer MacArthur Fellow) John Imbrie, a 
leader of the ambitious CLIMAP (Cli- 
mate/Long Range Investigation Map 
and Predictions) and SPECMAP (a pro- 
ject involving mapping spectra compo- 
nents of ice-age climate) projects, has 
documented how routine changes in the 
Earth's orbit precipitated the Ice Ages of 
the past 700,000 years. Associate Profes- 
sor Warren Prell, a COHMAP member, 
is looking at orbital variations as the 
force behind fluctuations in the mon- 
soons o\'er the last four million years. 
Professor Robley (Rob) Matthews is 
making scientific waves with his highly 
contro\ersial proposition that orbitally- 
induced ice has put in recurring appear- 
ances over the past sixty million years. 
Common wisdom, says Matthews, de- 
clares the Earth ice-free from several 
hundred million years ago until fifteen 
million years ago. "This is nonsense - 
there's no data." 

The Brown researchers' intense in- 
terest in bygone climates is particularly 
important in light of recent discussions 
about the "greenhouse effect." Ever 
since the Industrial Revolution, our 
burning of fossil fuels has resulted in a 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 29 



Wanen Prell, in 
cap in photo at 
right and right in 
photo below, has 
studied monsoons 
in the North Indian 
Ocean aboid the 
JOIDES Resolu- 
tion, research ves- 
sel for the Ocean 
Drilling Program. 
With him on this 
trip were research 
assistant David 
Murray and gradu- 
ate students David 
Anderson emd 
Steven Clemens. 





steady rise in the amount of carbon 
dioxide in the atmosphere. Like the 
glass of a greenhouse, this gas traps 
heat, and many scientists fear that con- 
ditions such as last summer's midwest- 
cm drought were merely a grim prelude 
to a hotter future. 

To test this theory and others, clima- 
tologists look backwards, for, as Imbrie 
points out, "the Earth herself has been 
changing the carbon dioxide concentra- 
tion in the air for all of history." 

How this happens, and how the 
planet responds, is a fascinating detec- 
tive story. And as a side benefit, under- 
standing the past gives researchers a 
kind of climatological crystal ball. Such 
knowledge can be critical, says Assis- 
tant Research Professor Robert S. Chen 
of Brown's Alan Shawn Feinstein World 
Hunger Program, because it may help 
people plan for the changes in the avail- 
ability of food and water that accompa- 
ny an alteration in the Earth's climate. 



What was it like during 
the 60-million-year 
time span when 
mammals, and ulti- 
mately humans, 
evolved? And how do we know? 

"I look to pollen to see truth," jokes 
Tom Webb as he hunches over a micro- 
scope and explains his modus operandi. 
The hybrid researcher - he's also well 
\ersed in botany and atmospheric 
physics - uses pollen, the male repro- 
ductive cells of plants, as a thermometer 
and a rain gauge. 

"We're reading the ancient, natural 
climate instruments that have only re- 
cently been replaced by these engi- 
neered proxies," Webb notes. "If you 
take a population of plants and look at 
their variation o\er time, that's a valid 
climate readout. If the first people try- 
ing to judge climate had used, sav, oaks 
as their instruments, then we would 
have all climate changes cast in those 
terms." 

To get at what has gone on over the 
last eighteen millennia, Webb examines 
what are called cores; thin cylinders, 
many meters long, of lake bottom de- 
bris. To obtain the cores, the researcher 
forces a pipe into the muck, about a me- 
ter of which accumulates every thou- 
sand years. The material is then brought 
back to the lab for detailed analysis. 

First, the precise date of each section 
of the core is established with a radio- 
carbon-dating technique. Next, about a 
thimbleful of material is taken from ev- 
ery area under scrutin\' and run 
through a series of chemical baths to 
eliminate everything but the pollen, 
which is, notes Webb, "pretty tough 
stuff." 

Four hundred million years ago, 
plants invented a defense system that 
protected their reproductive cells from 
drying out and from destruction by the 
sun's ultraviolet radiation. The living 
part of the cell is long gone, but the ar- 
mor is almost immortal. 

It is also distinctive. Webb points out 
some pine pollen under the microscope. 
It looks like two basketballs sitting un- 
der a lady's pillbox hat. Chicory pollen 
resembles Darth Vader's mask. Birch is 
as smooth as a lemon, while sunflower 
pollen looks like the spiked head of a 
gladiator's mace. "They're all so diverse 
in shape, and the mtire you look, the 
easier thev become to identify," says 
Webb. "It's like learning a language." 

To shape these pinprick-sized grains 



30 / FEBRUARY 1989 



into words, and then a story, the puri- 
fied pollen is spread on microscope 
slides and counted. And counted. And 
counted. "The counting drives some 
people nuts, but thev tend not to be in 
the business long," Webb quips. "I find 
that it can be a verv pleasant time." 

In the end, Webb obtains a record of 
which pollens - and hence, which plant 
species - were dominant in a particular 
area at a given time. Because plants 
don't change their temperature and 
moisture requirements very quickly, the 
prevalence of, say, spruce pollen in a 
12,000-year-old section of a southern 
New England core suggests that the 
landscape resembled the cold, dank 
spruce forests of northern Maine rather 
than today's more forgiving oak woods. 

As a result of examining thousands 
of cores, Webb has documented the dra- 
matic shifts in the plant landscape that 
accompanied the latest waxing and 
waning of the great glaciers. Eighteen 
thousand years ago, the hill from which 
Brown would rise groaned under 500 
meters of ice. Twelve thousand years 
ago, the Green was a spruce forest. 
Three thousand vears later. College Hill 
began to resemble the more familiar oak 
woods that still prevail in the "wilder" 
sections of the East Side. 



Rhode Island's plant com- 
munity changed in re- 
sponse to a progressivelv 
warmer climate, but whv 
did the warming occur? 
The answer, says John Imbrie, lies in the 
heavens. 

"Astronomers have long known that 
the changing positions of the planets 
cause a distortion of the shape of the 
Earth's orbit," Imbrie explains. Accord- 
k ing to a theor\' that has been around for 
nearly two centuries, these perturba- 
tions in our orbital geometry cause reg- 
ular and predictable fluctuations in the 
amount of sunlight reaching the Earth 
in various seasons. This redistribution, 
say the theorists, should be sufficient to 
cause the ice sheets to melt or grow. 

These days, the "orbital forcing" no- 
tion is almost synonymous with the 
name of Milutin Milankovitch, a Yu- 
goslav mathematician who did the cal- 
culations and arranged them into a 
testable hypothesis during the l'^20s 
and '30s. In 1958, "he died a happy man 
because his predictions were borne out 
by the research of European geologists," 




says Imbrie. But in short order, the Mi- 
lankovitch theory was relegated to the 
"scrapheap of foolish ideas." 

The geological dates that originally 
supported him proved wrong. Many 
scientists decided that the periodic 
changes in the Earth-sun distance dur- 
ing a particular season (the "precession 
of the equinoxes," a 22,000-year cycle), 
the Earth's tilt (the 41,000-year obhquity 
cycle), and the amount the orbit varies 
from round ( "eccentricity, " a 100,000- 
year cycle) were too small to influence 
climate. 

Imbrie helped restore the Yugosla- 
vian's scientific respectability, but he 
modestly downplays his role. "I just 
happened to be alive at the right time, 
when we could put events together with 
a decent time scale to show that, by gol- 
ly, Milankovitch was right," he notes. 

One of the key pieces in the puzzle 
was supplied by Rob Matthews. In the 
late '60s, the barrel-chested geologist - a 
marvelous paradox in pinstripes and 
cowboy boots - was in Barbados to 
study how nature makes limestone. 
Matthews explains that there were good 
scientific reasons to choose this particular 
island for a research site. 

"Barbados is rising out of the water 
very slowly," he says. "So it's basically a 



Rob Matthews's studies of 
ancient coral reefs may explain 
the cyclical nature of ice ages. 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 31 



Climate research, says Bob Chen of 
Brown's Feinstein World Hunger 
Program (below), may help people 
plan for future water and food short- 
ages. Geologist John Imbrie, right, 
compares data on global ice volume 
over the past 800,000 years (red line 
on graph) with oxygen-isotope varia- 
tions in a Pacific 
deep-sea core (black line). 





strip-chart recorder. When the sea level 
is at a certain point, it makes a mark 
that you can see as a coral reef." 

One curious feature of the island is a 
series of stairstep-like terraces, the re- 
mains of ancient coral reefs. Since corals 
need to be submerged to do their work, 
and since sea level has continually var- 
ied throughout time, Matthews rea- 
soned that each terrace, a kind of geo- 
logical bathtub ring, represented a for- 
mer "high stand" of the sea. 

The scientist examined three old 
reefs. One turned out to be 82,000 years 
old. The second was 105,000 years old. 
The third was 125,000 years old. The 
roughly 20,000-year difference is an im- 
portant number in the modern version 
of the Milankovitch scheme. For what 
Matthews found was a reasonably close 
match to the precession cycle, which 
supposedly was one of the key compo- 
nents in the growth and decay of ice 
sheets. 

In the geological short term, ice vol- 
ume contrt)ls sea level. When there's an 
abundance of ice, sea level drops; when 
the ice caps melt, sea level rises. 



Just as Tom Webb traced the move- 
ments of glaciers through changes in 
plant populations, Matthews linked 
reefs to glaciation. And as Imbrie and 
his colleagues in the CI.IMAP project of 
the 1970s were to demonstrate, there 
were other good proxies to use to map 
the extent of the ice sheets throughout 
the last 700,000 years. 

One was the abundance of certain 
indicator species of tiny, shelled marine 
animals called toraminifera. As thev die, 
"forams" b\ the billions are constantly 
raining on the ocean bottom. When ge- 
ologists examine the marine cores that 
are obtained by specialized drilling 
ships, they de\'elop informatiiMi about 
prevailmg temperatures by compiling a 
Who's Who of these microorganisms. 

Forams also record ice volume. In 
their shells is a combination of two oxy- 
gen isotopes. Imbrie explains that when 
ice sheets grow, they accumulate oxy- 
gen-16. This means that as glaciation 
reaches its maximum, both seawater 
and forams are rich in the other isotope, 
oxygen- 18. When warmth returns and 
the glaciers melt, all the oxygen-16 from 



the ice sheets floods into the ocean, and 
the isotope ratio changes. 

CLIMAP collected a plethora of such 
information, and when Imbrie exam- 
ined it for evidence of orbital forcing, 
there was the indelible signature of Mi- 
lutin Milankovitch in the data. Imbrie 
and his daughter Katherine, a Provi- 
dence louninl reporter, have recounted 
the entire orbital theory story in a fasci- 
nating book, /c(" Ages: Solving the Mi/s- 
tny (Hnslow Publishers, 1979). 

If Matthews is proven right, it will 
confirm that there have been periodic, 
orbitally-forced ice ages for many mil- 
lions of years. But it appears likely that 
the world has been marching to a 
Milankov itch drummer since the plan- 
et's beginning. Ice caps aren't a steady 
feature of the Earth, because the conti- 
nents themselves are in constant mo- 
tion. When the continents cluster 
aroimd the equator, as has happened 
from time to time, glaciers recede from 
memory. Only when at least some ot the 
land masses mo\'e towards the poles, 
and the planet's orbit is right, will ice 
prevail. 



32 / FEBRUARY 1989 





»i)fsi:j>M'/K!>s=^ 



By tracing the movements of glaciers 

through changes in plant popula- 
tions, Tom Webb has helped assem- 
ble the most detailed account yet of 
climate conditions that shaped life on 
Earth over the last 18,000 years. 




Even in the absence of the 
great glaciers, however, vou 
can hear an orbital drum- 
beat, if vou know where to 
listen. "The main effect of 
the Milankovitch perturbations is to 
' change the seasonal distribution of solar 
radiation, and that can change many as- 
pects of the world's climate," says War- 
ren Prell. He routinely travels off the 
i coast of Arabia to track long-term varia- 
f tions in the strength of the monsoon, the 
■ system of rainy, windy weather that 
I prevails in the tropics every summer. 
Prell explains that when the Earth's 
orbit puts it in a position to receive the 
maximum amount of sunlight in the 
summer, as happened 9,000 years ago, 
the glaciers retreat and the monsoon is 
at its peak. The reverse is true when 
summer sunlight is at a minimum, as 
was the case 18,000 years ago. 

Prell can distinguish these periodic 
solar intensity shifts by doing a foram 
census and a chemical analysis of the 
cores. What he's looking for is evidence 
of a phenomenon called "upwelling," in 
which strong winds set up a kind of 



ocean conveyor belt that continually 
brings to the surface nutrient-rich water 
from the ocean bottom. Upwelling areas 
are great places to Ii\'e, and the cores 
preserve records of cycles in both bio- 
logical richness and windiness. Both 
march to a Milankovitch rhythm. 

As does the carbon-dioxide content 
of the atmosphere. "In the early 1980s, 
some \ery cle\'er French and Swiss sci- 
entists measured the amount of carbon 
dioxide that was trapped in air bubbles 
found in cores taken from Antarctica," 
says Imbrie. The gas fluctuated right 
along with the ice sheets: when carbon 
dioxide was low, the glaciers grew; 
when gas content was high, they melt- 
ed. The key to the system is the ocean. 
At certain times in the Milankovitch cy- 
cle, the sea is a very efficient absorber of 
carbon dioxide; at other times, it allows 
the gas to accumulate. 

Imbrie points out that, at present, 
the Earth is actually in a climate down- 
turn. "We've been in a cooling phase for 
around 2,000 years, and if it weren't for 
the activities of the human race, I'd ex- 
pect a new ice age in about 20,000 



years," he says. "But the carbon-dioxide 
increase we're causing will easily over- 
whelm the Milankovitch effect." 

And then what? 

The Brown researchers emphasize 
that for all the gk)om and doom accom- 
panying pronouncements about the 
greenhouse effect, neither the climatolo- 
gists nor the computer models they gen- 
erate agree about what will happen if 
atmospheric carbem dioxide Ie\els dou- 
ble, as seems likely in the next century 
or so. "At this point, all you can say is 
that things will change, and my gut feel- 
ing is that it will be bad," says the 
hunger program's Bob Chen. "But 1 
don't know if it's because the change it- 
self is bad, or if the conditions at the end 
of the change will be bad. We've gotten 
used to the way the world is, and in 
general, we would have trouble adapt- 
ing to any substantial change, because 
of the way our institutions and nation- 
states operate. But remember, all im- 
pacts are relati\'e, and even in a disaster, 
someone invariably benefits." 

Last summer's drought didn't hit 
everybody, and those farmers who had 
corn, either because they'd held onto 
the previous year's surplus or because 
the rains were kind, made plenty of 
money. Besides, says Chen, the green- 
house effect will not eliminate farming; 
it will simply change what grows 
where. Worldwide famine does not ap- 
pear to be in the cards. "The food sys- 
tem has become more international, so 
production failures can be ameliorated 
by the marketplace and by international 
cooperation," he says. 

Somehow, people will adapt. But the 
citizens of the natural world will have a 
far tougher time of it. "It's perfectly 
clear that e\'olution can't keep up with 
climate change of the speed we're caus- 
ing," says Tom Webb. "In this time 
frame, plants and animals don't adapt; 
they move. Or they become extinct." 

That is the word from the murky 
pond and ocean bottom on nature's cli- 
matological experiments. Humanity is 
currently involved in its own vast ex- 
periment, but the results of our tinker- 
ing with a climate system that, after all, 
allowed our species to evolve and pros- 
per is anyone's guess. 

Bruce FcUmau 72 !S a freelance writer in 
Connecticut. 



iROVVN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 33 



Three exhibition catalogues from 

the John Carter Brown Library provide 

fresh perspectives on the New World 




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scientists were fascinated with the natural environ- 
ment of the New World. After collecting seeds in New 
Spain, Monadres, a botanist, planted them in his gar- 
den in Seville and later wrote this book on American 
herbs and drugs, which played a significant role in the 
history of medical science. 



OfBook 

-A- JIL. vear ago, the John Carter 
Brown Library e.vhibited rare prints, 
maps, and illustrated books from its 
permanent collection at the IBM Gallery 
of Science and Art in New York City. 
"Encountering the New World, 1493- 
1800" (BAM, March 1988) was a com- 
ing-out of sorts for the library, which, 
until the exhibition, had never dis- 
played such a large number of its hold- 
ings outside the Brown campus. Yet, for 
many much closer to home, the JCB re- 
mains term incognito. An elegantly de- 
signed, though somewhat austere and 
forbidding structure, the library seems 
to put off visitors, and the scholarship 
persued therein seems, to the passerby, 
mysterious and arcane. 

Those who never ventured inside 
the library during their undergraduate 
or graduate days at Brown may be com- 
forted by the fact that in the director's 
office a Macintosh computer screen 
emits a gray-light beacon into the fu- 
ture, even though the tapestrv-draped 
interior of the building suggests a muse- 
um and provokes thoughts about the 
sanctity and inviolability of the past. 
But the computer and the leather- 
bound, \ellum \olume, existing side 
by side, provide an appropriate meta- 
phor for the unbreakable link that fuses 
the past with the future. 

Norman Fiering, the director of the 
library, is a historian b\' training. In his 
oversight are priceless documents that 
bear testimony to the history oi the 
Americas from Columbus's landing in 
1492. That c]uincentennial, three \ears 
away, has many museums and libraries 
scurrying to prepare exhibitions and 
commemorati\'es to mark the anniver- 
sary. These days, Fiering is occupied 
with a variety of tasks, not the least of 
which is overseeing the $5-million ex- 
pansion of the library, which is to begin 
when ground is broken in April, and a 
new program in Early Maritime Studies, 
which focuses research on the library's 
unique holdings in that area. 

The JCB also published three exhibi- 
tion catalogues in 1988, an unusual run: 



34 / KEBRUARY 1989 



md the New World 



Bv James Reinbold 



Africans in the New World, 1493-1834; 
Portuguese Exploration to the West and 
the Formation of Brazil, 1450-1800; and 
The Book in the Americas: The Role of 
Books & Printing in the Dei'elopment of 
Culture & Societi/ in Colonial Latin Anwr- 
ica. 

In 1888, just one hundred years ago, 
slaves in Brazil became free citizens, the 
last to be emancipated in the Americas. 
It was a victory that began with the in- 
dependence of the slaves in Haiti in 
1804, and that continued from the 1820s 
to the 1850s in the independent nations 
of Spanish America. President Abraham 
Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proc- 
lamation for the United States in 1863. 

Scholars place the number of men, 
women, and children forcibly brought 
to the New World as slaves before 1870 
at ten to twelve million, Fiering writes 
in the forward to Africans in the Neir 
World. He continues: "The European 
discovery of America in 1492 set in mo- 
tion \irtual tidal waves of social change 
and migration, the African diaspora be- 
ing one of the most massive. It and the 
equally catastrophic decimation by dis- 
ease of American Indians in the six- 
teenth century are the great tragic di- 
mensions of the merging peoples of the 
world that began with Columbus." And 
although history "cannot justify such 
tragedies," the catalogue of eighty-one 
books, manuscripts, and prints in Por- 
tuguese, Spanish, French, and English 
from the Library's collection, while 
chronichng the slave trade, also intends 
to demonstrate that "there is much to be 
said about black culture and society in 
the Americas that is independent of the 
slavery story." The catalogue was pre- 
pared by Larissa V. Brown, who has a 
Ph.D. in Brazilian history from the Uni- 
versity of Virginia. 

Not only did Portuguese explorers 
round the Cape of Good Hope (Bar- 
tolomeo Dias in 1488) and reach India a 
few years later (Vasco da Gama in 1498- 
99), but in 1500 a fleet under the com- 
mand of Pedro Alvares Cabral left Lis- 
bon bound for India. Bad weather forced 




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Nueva Espema (above). One of the 
finest products of the press of Joseph 
Antonio de Hogal (1766-1787), this 
map of New Spain was engraved on 
copper by Jose Mariano Navarro, an 
engraver and binder of Mexico City. 



Antonio Garriga, Instruccion practica 
(Loreto, 1713) (at left). The first print- 
ing press in Paraguay was probably 
established in Loreto, where this 
guidebook for priests was printed. It 
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one copper plates depicting the tributes paid to 
Montezuma. This inventory of Indian tribute is from 
Hernan Cortes, Historia de Nueva Espana . 



Hill of the Grasshopper, from Juan de To- 
var, Historia de la benida de los yndios 
(ms) (Mexico, c. 1585) (opposite). Based 
on a history by the Dominican Diego 
Duran, Tovar's manuscript contains de- 
tailed information about the rites and 
ceremonies of the Aztecs. Fifty-one full- 
page watercolor paintings illustrate the 
holographic history. 

the fleet westward off their course and, 
on Easter day, unknown land was cited. 
1 he Portuguese had reached Brazil, the 
finale to the first phase of that country's 
Western expansion. 

A catalogue for the exhibition, Por- 
tuguese Exploration to the West and the 
Formation of Brazil, reveals a rich diversi- 
t\' of contributors: the books, engrav- 
ings, and maps coming from Spanish, 
French, English, and Dutch sources, as 
well as from Portuguese explorers, sci- 
entists, and scholars. Dagmar Schaffer, a 
graduate student in Portuguese and 
Brazilian studies at Brown, writes that 
in fifteenth-centurv Portugal, and most 
notablv during the reign of Prince Hen- ■ 
rv "the Navigator," the art of na\'igation 
became a most advanced science. The 
Portuguese developed the caravel, a 
ship "much better suited for off-shore 
and high-sea sailing," and Henrv in\'it- 
ed re\ered scientists from all oi Europe 
to come to Portugal and teach his 
sailors. "The art of navigation was a sci- 
ence to which man\' individuals from 
different nations contributed, and it was 
not least a shared Iberian enterprise." 

Tite Book in the Americas catalogue (in 
whicli the illustrations on these pages 
appear) was published to commemorate 
the 450th anniversary of the beginning 
of printing in the New World (Mexico, 
'\539) and as a companion to an exhibit 
at the Librarv in the summer of 1987. 
C.eneroush' illustrated in coktr and 
black and white, the book, written by 
L'niversitv of Georgia professor Julie 
Greer Johnson (a specialist in colonial 
Latin American literature), adds to our 
knowledge about the history of books. It 
contains the most comprehensive list of 
secondarv sources useful for the study 
of the historv of the book in colonial 
Latin America. Additionally, there is a 
bibliographical supplement compiled 
by Susan L. Newbury, chief of catalogu- 
ing at the library. 



All three catalogues are for sale through the 
lohn Carter Brown Library, Box 1894. 



36 / l-KBRUAKY 1989 




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ry. Influenced by the Enlight- 
enment, members of the orga- 
nization that published Mer- 
curio Peruana wrote on a wide 
range of topics and represent- 
ed the best of Peru's intellectu- 
al life. Government pressure 
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eries of original titles to property. By using na- 
tive paper, derived from fig tree bark, and by 
combining watercolor paintings with glosses, 
the forgers, residents of Mazatepe, an Indian vil- 
lage, sought to imitate a sixteenth-century land- 
holding documentation. 



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(left). A missionary and explorer of 
northwestern New Spain, Father Kino 
held the traditional view that the comet 
announced divine displeasure and fore- 
told punishment. 



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berg, Historia Naturae (Antwerp, 
1635) (above). In 1577, Francisco 
Hernandez, personal physician of 
Philip II, took a manuscript of his 
scientific study of New Spain back 
to Madrid. Never published, the 
text and original drawings were 
damaged in a monastery fire. This 
woodcut illustration is supposedly 
derived from Hernandez's original 
drawing. 



38 / FEBRUARY 1989 



A CAREER OF FIRSTS 




His professional colleagues 
repeatedly have honored 
him for his journalistic en- 
terprise, and his alma 
mater recently bestowed 
an award for distinguished lifetime 
achievement. And now, after more than 
three decades of almost nightly tele- 
vised visits to America's living rooms, 
Irving R. Levine '44 also has attained 
celebrity status. 

At least that's the opinion of the 
Bow Tie League of America, which not 
• long ago placed him in the company of 
the secretary of state, a former presiden- 
tial candidate, and a popular children's 
show host. 

"The other day 1 received a plaque 
saying that I had been voted one of 
America's ten-best bow tie wearers - 
along with Paul Simon and Pee Wee 
Herman," Levine chuckles during a chat 
in NBC News's Washington bureau. He 
pauses long enough to summon his dry 
wit. "Now that's a distinction that 
: matches and certainly surpasses the 
I William Rogers Award - wouldn't you 
i say?" he asks with a broad smile, refer- 
ring to his recent citation by the Associ- 
ated Alumni at the annual Alumni 



Irving R. Levine '44 

joined NBC when 

television news was 

in its infancy. He 

has made a 

career of going 

'where somebody 

hasn't been' 



By Louis M. Peck 
Photographs by Jean Gwaltney 



Recognition ceremonies on campus. 

While many of today's TV news re- 
porters regularly change their apparel 
in an effort to change their images, 
Levine's affinity for bow ties well pre- 
dates his service as an NBC correspon- 
dent. Growing up in Pawtucket, Rhode 
Island, he edited the high school news- 
paper - and set his mind on a journal- 
ism career. "At that time, a lot of news- 
people wore bow ties - and I just kept 
wearing them because I liked them," he 
says. "I must confess that I am not dis- 
appointed that it has developed into a 
trademark. But it wasn't deliberate on 
my part - or that farsighted." 

Nor does Levine exhibit many of the 
other affectations associated with the 
newer generation of news anchors and 
correspondents. He is a courtly, self-ef- 
facing man - one of the few remaining 
active correspondents who date back to 
the era when news-gathering abilities 
superseded the more cosmetic consider- 
ations in the hiring of on-air personnel. 
Recalling his switch from radio to tele- 
vision in the early 1950s, Levine says: 
"It wasn't much of an adjustment for 
the simple reason that - because every- 
thing was so elementary - there was no 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 3^ 



The hardest part of his job, says Levine, 

is conveying complicated economic 

issues in a ninety-second spot on the 

evening news. "It takes a great effort 

to make the story visual and 

interesting, " he notes. 



standard. Everyone was new. The peo- 
ple who were hired were hired because 
they were newspeople." Again, he 
pauses and smiles. "Beyond that, I'll 
leave it to you to put your words in." 

Not only was everyone new, but 
television news was nascent when 
Levine joined NBC in 1950. The result 
has been a career marked by a series of 
firsts. As a correspondent for the "To- 
day Show" in 1953-54, Levine was the 
reporter on some of the first news feeds 
to be shot in color. Several years later, he 
became the first network correspondent 
to obtain permission to be based in the 
Soviet Union, in the early 1970s, when 
Levine came home to join the Washing- 
ton bureau, it marked the first time a 
network reporter was assigned to cover 
economics full-time (today, Levine 
holds the title of chief economics corre- 
spondent for NBC News). 

"I lis greatest strength is that he goes 
where somebody hasn't been," remarks 
Reuven Frank, the former president of 
NBC News and a classmate of Levine's 
at Columbia's School of Journalism. "He 
has been a cutting-edge kind of fellow. 
There was always the chance that he 
would fall flat on his face, but he was 
willing to take that chance." 

Beyond his record of individual 
achievement, Levine's career also serves 
as a microcosm of the technological ad- 
vances that have transformed television 
news over the past two generations. To- 
day, he sits in an office in which a TV set 
in the corner routinely broadcasts live 
images of reporters stationed halfway 
around the world. It is hard to imagine 
the days when Le\ine had to coax for- 
eign travelers to become covert messen- 
gers and carry his film on flights out of 
Moscow - or when his broadcasts from 
Rome in the 1960s had to occur within a 
ten-minute window while the first gen- 
eration of communications satellites 
passed overhead. 

One day, Levine recalls, he was 
working against such a deadline in 
broadcasting a message from the late 




Pope Paul VI: "There was Pope Paul 
seated in the Vatican, and from the con- 
trol room, the director yelled out, 'Cue 
the Pope!' - which I thought was one of 
the great lines." 

Levine's tenure in Rome - which co- 
incided with the reign of two activist 
Popes and the convening of the Vatican 
Ecumenical Ct)uncil - was only one of 
several occasions that showed Le\'ine's 
propensity to be in the right place at the 
right time. His service in Moscow came 
during Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalin- 
ization campaign of the late 19,50s. And 
the timing of his return to the United 
States in 1971 was equally fortuitous. 

"I came back in January, and, until 
August, I spent most of my time making 
contacts in the varit)us departments," he 
says. "Then, on August 15, Nixon im- 
posed wage and price controls. Sudden- 
ly, the economy became a big story, and 
there I was, the only network corre- 
spondent covering it full-time." 

Levine's interest in economics dates 



Levine learned to 

take advantage of 
the Russian censors' 

lack of knowlecige 
of American history 

and the American 
vernacular 



40 / FEBRUARY 1989 




back to his years at Brown, when he 
commuted to the campus from nearby 
Pawtucket while spending weekends 
writing obituaries for the Providence 
Journal from information phoned in bv 
local funeral directors. "On mv first day 
on the job, 1 was informed by the city 
editor that a body is interred, not in- 
terned," he chuckles. 

He graduated from Brown with an 
unlikely major for an aspiring journal- 
ist: physics. World War 11 had broken 
out during his sophomore year, and 
Levine had joined an Armv unit that 
permitted him to finish his junior year 
prior to entering the Signal Corps. In re- 
turn, members of the unit were required 
to major in engineering or physics. Ulti- 
mately, thanks to a series of Army 
courses for which Brown gave credit, 
plus summer-school work, Levine ob- 
tained his degree. "So the first Brown 
Commencement 1 ever attended was in 
1969 - when I received an honorary de- 
gree," he notes. 



If Levine had harbored an interest in 
journalism since his youth, his time in 
the Signal Corps honed his interest in 
becoming a foreign correspondent - 
while also introducing him to photo- 
journalism. After attending Officer Can- 
didate School, Levine - at the urging of 
several classmates - applied to the 
Army's photo school. It was located in 
Astoria, New York, then the site of a 
major motion-picture studio; Levine re- 
members such Hollywood directors as 
Frank Capra and Anatole Litvak wear- 
ing custom-made fatigues and being 
dropped off at the barracks in limou- 
sines. After six months of intensive pho- 
to training, Levine was named a mem- 
ber of a four-man photo team sent to the 
Philippines. 

"That gave me a certain amount of 
experience and interest in the pictorial 
end of the business," he says. After 
leaving the Army and finishing Colum- 
bia Journalism School, he looked 
around for the quickest way to get back 
overseas - and found it in the old Inter- 
national News Service. As in his later 
professional life, his timing could not 
have been better. "I had been at INS 
nineteen months, and the Berlin airlift 
took off," he relates. Off went Levine to 
become the INS bureau chief in Vienna. 

Then the Korean War broke out. "As 
a young, ambitious, foolish journalist, I 
suggested I would be willing to go," 
Levine says. 

During his work in Europe, Levine 
had met the Paris bureau chief for NBC, 
who suggested that he do some stringer 
radio broadcasts while in Korea. But it 
was the Inchon invasion in 1950 that se- 
cured Levine a permanent job with the 
network. 

"All the star correspondents, includ- 
ing the NBC people, were loaded onto 
ships for the secret invasion, with radio 
silence on all the ships," he remembers. 
"Then bad weather hit, and the landing 
was delayed. The ships lay offshore for 
days with no radio contact, and there I 
was - the only NBC stringer on shore. 
So I was the only one broadcasting. 

"Since they were paying me the ex- 
orbitant sum of $50 per broadcast at the 
time, they asked me if I would like to 
become staff. 1 always felt it had become 
apparent to them that it would be 
cheaper to hire me than to pay me per 
broadcast." 

In contrast to Vietnam, the first war 
brought into American living rooms on 
a nightly basis, television was virtually 



non-existent as a factor in the Korean 
conflict of a generation earlier NBC had 
only one cam.eraman stationed there 
when Levine went to work for the net- 
work. "There was no television consid- 
eration at that time," he says of his 
switch from the print to the broadcast 
side of journalism. "But 1 found radio 
interesting, and the INS was paving me 
all of forty-five bucks a week. Based on 
some of the economics courses I had 
taken, I figured maybe it was wise to 
switch." 

Even broadcasting by radio present- 
ed some difficult challenges at the time. 
"The Army provided facilities, but we 
had to do a lot of improvising," Levine 
recounts. "When the peace talks began 
in Panmunjon, we were living in a rail- 
road train that was moved up to a sid- 
ing in a village near there. The reporters 
slept in Pullman cars, and the John was 
where we hung some blankets and 
broadcast from." 



Upon his return to the United 
States, Levine took a year's 
lea\'e from NBC to accept a 
fellowship offered each year 
by the Council on Foreign Re- 
lations to a foreign correspondent. It 
was the height of the Cold War, and 
Levine focused on the Soviet Union. 
"NBC was interested in having a corre- 
spondent in Moscow," he says. "So 
shortly after the fellowship at the Coun- 
cil on Foreign Relations, 1 put in a visa 
application. 1 got no response." 

Ultimately, the continuing game of 
one-upmanship between the Americans 
and the So\'iets worked to Le\'ine's ad- 
vantage. Nikita Khrushchev had given a 
speech to Soviet farmers in which he 
had praised the production practices of 
farmers in Iowa. That prompted an edi- 
torial writer for the Des Moines Register 
to make a written offer to teach 
Khrushchev the secrets of Iowa farming 
in the name of international amity. The 
Soviet leader accepted the offer, and a 
delegation of farm experts was formed. 
"The State Department, for reasons best 
known to it, tried to block the delega- 
tion from going," says Levine. 

He continues: "1 was authorized by 
NBC to send a telegram to Khrushchev, 
taking note of the delegation and saving 
that if the delegation came, we would 
appreciate the opportunity to be accred- 
ited to accompany them. Ten days later. 



5ROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / -11 



I got a call from the Soviet embassy say- 
ing, 'Your visa is ready.' Obviously, the 
Soviets saw this as a way of putting in- 
creased pressure on the (American) au- 
thorities to let the delegation go." 

The delegation finally was permitted 
to go, accompanied b\' Levine - who 
kept pressing the So\iets for a perma- 
nent visa. "On the day we were to leave, 
they said, 'Your accreditation is granted. 
You may stav.' So I waved good-bye to 
the delegation, and stayed on for four 
years." 

Of the scores of household names 
whom Levine has encountered during 
his forty years in journalism, few have 
impressed him more than Khrushchev. 
"Here is a man very much in the Gor- 
bachev mold, who really tried to shake 
things up," he observes. "He was ener- 
getic and absolutely irrepressible." 

But Gorbachev's era oi glasnoff bears 
little resemblance to the closed society 
of Khrushchev's time, thereby com- 
pounding the logistical problems faced 
by Levine and the CBS and ABC corre- 
spondents soon to join him in the Soviet 
Union. Besides the difficulty of trans- 
porting film at a time when there were 
no regular flights between Moscow and 
the United States, Levine and his coun- 
terparts generally had to serve as their 
own cameramen - setting up the camera 
and then jumping in front of it to do the 
"stand-up" that network correspon- 
dents often use to close a broadcast 
piece. 

One small blessing was that the So- 
viets made no attempt to censor the ma- 
terial Levine prepared for television. "I 
guess they were willing to let the cover- 
age go out because what you covered 
was pretty much controlled by them 
anyway," he says. 

Such was not the case with Levine's 
network radio broadcasts from Moscow. 
He and his colleagues were required to 
hand their scripts to a clerk at the cen- 
tral telegraph office, who took them tt) 
an unseen censor sitting behind a cur- 
tain. It could be anywhere from minutes 
to days before a script emerged. Some- 
times it had words crossed out, and 
sometimes it didn't appear at all. 

In the latter case, the Soviet censor 
frequently acted as an unwitting source. 
"If the script was completely killed, you 
knew that you were on to something," 
says Levine. "Occasionally, I would 
write a script simply for exploratory 
purposes, so to speak." 

Levine also learned to take advan- 



tage of the censors' less-than-facile 
knowledge of U.S. history and the 
American vernacular. After attending 
one Revolution Day celebration at the 
Kremlin, at which several high-ranking 
Soviet officials clearly were inebriated, 
Levine got a script by the censors that 
read: "Fireworks lit up the sky over the 
Kremlin, and the So\iet leaders were 
equally lit up." On another occasion, 
when the Soviets removed a high-rank- 
ing military official from Poland in the 
face of local hostility, Levine reported 
that the Soviet marshal in question "was 
obviously held in the same high esteem 
by the people of Poland as General 
Sherman was by the people of Atlanta." 
It passed the censors' scrutiny. 

His departure from the Soviet Union 
was prompted largely by the publica- 
tion of the first of his four books. Main 
Street. U.S.S.R., which spent about three 
months on U.S. bestseller lists. "The So- 
viets were clearly unhappy about the 
book, and a form of harassment began 
to take place," he says. "Radio circuits 
[for Levine's broadcasts] didn't come 
through, and permission to tra\el was 
delayed. But I was not expelled; it was 
NBC's and my decision to leave." 

His next assignment was Rome, 
where he stayed for more than a decade 
- an unusually long time for a foreign 
correspondent to remain in one location. 
In part, personal considerations kept 
him there; Levine had married in 1957 
and had become a father (his wife, Nan- 
cy, was an assistant to Dave Garrowav 
when the latter hosted the "Today 
Show"). "At the time, the dollar was 
very strong, and Rome was a safe, de- 
lightful place to live," says Levine. 
"There was no terrorism." 

Professionally, Rome served as the 
base from which he not only traveled 
with two Popes ("The only time I've 
ever felt safe in an airplane was when I 
was traveling with the Pope") but also 
was able to ct)ver events ranging from 
superpower summits to the first heart 
transplants in South Africa tt) the rebel- 
lions in Algeria and the Belgian Congo 
(now Zaire). The latter experience made 
his service in Korea seem like a veritable 
Cakewalk. "Total chaos broke out, and 
anybody who had a gun was an author- 
ity," Levine recalls. "There was total 
capriciousness in terms of where you 
could go, and you were constantly be- 
ing harassed. In Korea, at least there 
were war lines." 

Despite such difficulties, Levine 



clearly views the foreign correspondent 
phase of his career with the greatest 
fondness - while voicing a certain nos- 
talgia for the freewheeling nature of 
television journalism of a generation 
ago. 

"I enjoyed the overseas part more 
than anything," he says. "I think it was 
the \arietv and the glamor of being in 
Moscow, Paris, Berlin - all those fabu- 
lous places. Also, there was a tremen- 
dous degree of inciependence at the 
time. I talk about the restrictions of the 
satellite then, but all that meant you 
were really a foreign correspondent on 
your own. Now, the foreign bureaus are 
literally just as close as the domestic bu- 



On Le\'ine's desk in his office in 
the northwest quadrant of 
Washington, D.C., sits a com- 
puter, which beeps regularly 
to alert him to electronic mes- 
sages. "On this computer, 1 spoke with 
Tokyo just by pushing a button," he 
muses on a recent morning. "I sent them 
a message, and they immediately sent 
me a message back. The foreign bureaus 
are now organized with bureau chiefs, 
and the correspondent abroad has the 
same degree of independence as a corre- 
spondent in the Washington bureau. 
They're both subject to an editing desk. 

"While Washington has been an in- 
teresting assignment, I would have to 
say that - by far - the other (overseas re- 
porting) would ha\e been my prefer- 
ence." 

The move home in early 1971 "was 
basically an NBC decision," Levine 
says. "They indicated thev would like to 
have me in their Washington bureau; 
you never quite know what the thinking 
is behind it. The kids were getting a lit- 
tle older, so 1 guess I didn't drag mv 
heels too much." 

What followed was the newly-ar- 
rived correspondent's ritual lunch with 
the bureau chief, at which Le\'ine sug- 
gested that his o\erseas experience 
made him an appropriate choice for 
State Department correspondent. "Sor- 
ry, we've got someone at the State De- 
partment," replied the bureau chief. 

"What do you have?" asked Levine. 

"We don't have anyone on the sci- 
ence beat," replied the bureau chief. 

"I'm not too interested," Levine an- 
swered. 



42 / FEBRUARY I'JS? 



"Well," said the bureau chief, "we 
never have had anyone, nor have any of 
the other networks, covering business 
and economics on a regular basis." 

"Coverage overseas had, by its very 
nature, been economic," Levine now 
says. In addition, during his service in 
Moscow, he had served as a stringer for 
the Times of London - which was very 
interested in reporting on economic 
matters. "It often takes as much effort to 
cover a story that goes on the air for a 
minute and a half as it does for a sub- 
stantial news story - except that a lot of 
it remains in your notebook," Levine ex- 
plains. "So I jumped at the opportunitv 
to write for the Times; 1 would do the 
minute-and-a-half thing and then sit 
down and write whatever the story de- 
served." 

The feat of taking complicated sto- 
ries and boiling them down to ninety 
seconds for the evening news has pre- 
sented a particular challenge on the beat 
Levine has covered out of Washington 
for nearly two decades. "I don't think 
it's a self-interested answer to say that 
covering economics probably involves 
the toughest subject to convey on televi- 
sion," Levine says. "Why? Because tele- 
vision is a visual medium. 

"The first challenge is to make it un- 
derstandable, to avoid the jargon. But 
I've come to feel through the vears, in 
interviewing a number of people, that if 
a person can't explain a complicated 
subject in terms that a non-expert can 
understand, that person is not an expert 
in his field. The second challenge is to 
make the story visual and interesting . . . 
and that takes a great deal of effort, 
since you are translating a non-visual 
story into visual terms. Usually, you do 
that by finding the example which en- 
capsulates what you're trying to convey 
I - the shoe factory that went out of busi- 
ness in order to translate the trade storv, 
or the Federal Express worker who 
must know how to use a hand-held 
computer to indicate that entry-level 
jobs now require greater skills than 
many workers have." 

Ironically, just as Levine had to over- 
come the limitations of primitive tech- 
nology early in his career, the rapid ad- 
vances in telecommunications today 
pose a different set of challenges for 
Levine and his counterparts at NBC and 
the other networks. Newcomers such as 
the Cable News Network provide all- 
day news coverage, while the ready 
availability of satellite time has placed 



many local stations in direct competi- 
tion with network news. 

"There are tremendous changes tak- 
ing place, and clearlv the networks 
make no secret of the fact that they are 
experiencing them," says Levine. "The 
nature of the business is changing, but 1 
think the bright side is that - in order to 




Now in his sixties, 
Levine has no plans to retire. 



'It's the only career 

in which you can 

read a newspaper 

and look at a TV set 

during office hours 

without getting 

fired' 



meet the competition - the effort of the 
networks seems to be to raise their level 
of coverage rather than reducing them- 
selves to the lowest common denomina- 
tor" 

But this effort also comes at a time 
when all three networks increasingly 
view their news departments less as 
money-losing showcases and more and 
more as profit-and-loss centers. "I have 
found that any coverage I needed, I 
have been able to get," Levine responds. 
"Yes, there is tighter management, but 1 
have not found that - as vet - it has re- 



sulted in the compromising of cover- 
age." 

Again, the dry wit makes an appear- 
ance. "I am the chief economics corre- 
spondent, and - under the current man- 
agement - I also have to be an economi- 
cal correspondent," he smiles. "We are 
all economical correspondents now." 

Notwithstanding the budget cnmch- 
es of the present and the greater inde- 
pendence of the past, Levine argues that 
x'iewers today are receiving a greatly 
improved product. "1 think one has to 
distinguish very carefully between local 
television and network television; un- 
fortunately, the public and the critics of- 
ten don't distinguish between the two," 
he says. "There is a tremendous spread 
between some absolutely horrible, in- 
competent local television news to some 
that is very good. As far as the networks 
are concerned - and 1 guess I say this 
with a certain degree of self-interest - I 
think the coverage on all three networks 
is verv' good. I would have to say that, 
over the years, network news coverage 
has improved, not least of all because of 
the technology that now enables televi- 
sion to do remarkable things." 

There appear to be but two subjects 
that put Irving R. Levine on the defen- 
sive; the two are not altogether unrelat- 
ed. The first is his age, and the second is 
his thoughts on retirement. "1 never re- 
veal my age - you can probably find 
out, but I'm not going to tell you," he 
says with a defiant smile. "In certain 
things, one must have a degree of mys- 
tery." (Since 1970, Levine has not listed 
his birth date in his entry in Wlw's Wlio 
111 America. Before then, he listed it as 
August 22, 1922 - making him sixty-six 
at the present time). 

As for retirement, Levine brushes it 
aside by declaring, "I have no plans." 

In fact, one of his three children has 
joined him in journalism (working for 
the Reader's Digest) and a second (now 
news editor of her college newspaper) 
seems poised to follow. "I have had - 
and am having - a perfectly gratifying 
career, and I saw no reason to discour- 
age them," he says. "As I often told my 
children, it's the only career in which 
you can read a newspaper and look at a 
television set during office hours with- 
out getting fired. 

"Now, that's reason enough for en- 
dorsing this field, isn't it?" 

Lou Peck '73 is editor o/ Campaigns and 
Elections magazine in Washington, D.C. 



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Until 1898, it was a ball, not a puck, that U.S. colle- 
giate skaters batted about on the ice, in a sport 
they called ice polo. But in December 1894, a hand- 
ful of enthusiasts went to Canada to learn ice hock- 
ey. The new game caught on, and in January 1898, 
Brown beat Harvard 6-0 in the first intercollegiate 
ice hockey game to be held in the U.S. This photo- 
graph appears to be of the 1899 team. Brown's sec- 
ond. We were able to identify five of the seven 
players. Front row, left to right: Horace T. Day '01, 
Jesse Pevear 1899, Harold A. McKinney '03, and 
George Allen Taylor '01. Top row, far right: Irving 
Hunt 1899. Does anyone recognize a relative among 
the other two? 



44 / FtHKUAR^ 1989 



The Classes 



By James Reinbold 



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■ Walter Adier (see Celia Ernstof Adlei 

-25). 

Roswell S. Bosworth recently observed 
the 33rd anniversary of his weekly column, 
"This and That From Here and There by the 
Scribe," which he has written since October 
1935 for the Phoenix-Times newspapers. Ros 
lives in Bristol, R.I. 

22 

Edward C. Bratcher celebrated his 60th 
\sedding anni\ersar\' last July 29. A retired 
public accountant, he owned his own busi- 
ness in East Orange, N.J., from 1934 to 1986. 
While at Brown, he was a member of Kappa 
Sigma. He would enjoy hearing from class- 
mates and fraternity brothers. Ed's address is 
P.O. Box 578, Berea,' Kv. 40403. 






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. The 6Dth reunion activities for the class of 
1924 are being planned by Dr. Anthony 
Migliaccio, Arlan Coolidge, and Jack Lubra- 
no. Visits to the new and refurbished build- 
ings on campus - the CIT building, Faunce 
House, Salomon building, and Pizzitola gym 
- are planned. The class meeting and lunch- 
eon has been scheduled for the Sharpe Refec- 
tory. Please save the dates. May 26 to 29, and 
plan to be at Brown for the 65th. 



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IL A meeting of the officers of the class was 
held on Oct. 8 at the home of Dick Ballou 66. 
Attending were President Ben Roman, \'ice 
Presidents Jim Rodgers and Richmond 
Sweet, and Secretary-Treasurer Walt Whit- 
ney. Guests were Carol Fitch and Eli Olinick 
'89, recipient of the Class of 1925 Scholarship 
Fund. 

Walt reported a small balance in the treas- 
ury A discussion of this and the Class of 
1925 Scholarship Fund followed. It was vot- 
ed to give a certificate of appreciation to Di- 
anne Gallagher, who, as Dick's assistant, has 
rendered outstanding service to the class, 
and to make her an honorary member of the 
class. It was also voted to send a letter of ap- 
preciation to President Howard R. Swearer 
for his services to Brown and to send him a 
box of tennis balls as a parting gift. Eli Oli- 
nick then spoke about attending an English 



university for a term and compared it to his 
experiences at Brown. 

A compotation and lunch were enjoyed 
by the group. No one attended the Brown- 
Penn football game due to the inclement 
weather. We listened to the radio and had a 
cocktail or two to commiserate the loss. - 
Wiiltci F. Wlutmy 

Celia Ernstof Adler writes that three gen- 
erations of Adlers were present at the Com- 
mencement exercises last Mav: she and her 
husband, Walter '18; their daughter Susan 
Adler Kaplan '58, a Brown tn.istee; and John 
Gevertz '78, son of Allan Gevertz '50, whose 
wife is Joan Adler, Celia's other daughter. 
Celia and Walter live m Providence. 

Dorothy Martin Pearce recently flew 
from her home in Escondido, Calif., to West 
Yarmouth, Mass., on Cape Cod, to spend ten 
days with Alice Humphrey Custer '26 reliv- 
ing memories of happy days at Pembroke. 
The two also placed a call to Elinor V. Smith 
in Northampton, Mass., for more reminisc- 
ing. "It was a joyous reunion," Dorothy 
writes. 



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Alice Humphrey Custer (see Dorothy 
Martin Pearce 25) 



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According to I. Willard Crull, Hilton 
Head Island, S.C, Enos Throop has moved 
from Lawrence, N.'i., to St. Michaels, Md., 
where he is restoring an old Southern man- 
sion he recently bought. 

Dr Seebert J. Goldowsky, former practic- 
ing surgeon in Providence, lecturer in 
surgery emeritus at the Brown Program in 
Medicine, and editor of the Rhode hiand 
Mcdicnl loiinuil, is the author of the recently 
published Yniikee Surf;ecvi: The Life and Times 
of Usher Parsotis 1788-1S6S (Francis A. Count- 
way Library of Medicine, Boston, distributed 
by Science History' Publications/U.S.A.). Ac- 
cording to a press release. Parsons is best re- 
membered as the surgeon in Oliver Hazard 
Perry's fleet during the War of 1812 and as a 
participant in the Battle of Lake Erie. His 
logs, diaries, and letters comprise a rich store 
of information on early American naval lore, 
sea life, and naval medicine. At the end of his 
medical career. Parsons founded Rhode Is- 

continued on page 46 



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Each fall, the Alumni Recognition Ceremony 
honors several distinguished Brown alumni 
for their contributions to society and to the 
University. 

The William Rogers Award, the highest 
honor the Associated Alumni can bestow, 
recognizes an alumnus /alumna for out- 
standing professional achievement and ser- 
vice to society. This vear the honoree was 
Irving R. Levine '44 (see page 39). 

The Brown Bear Award has been given 
since 1946 to recognize "outstanding person- 
al service rendered to Brown over a period 
of years." The Alumni Service Awards honor 
distinguished volunteer service to Brown in 
any field of alumni activity. The recipients of 
these two awards are recognized on these 
pages. Illustrations are by Bob Guiliani, from 
photographs bv John Foraste. 



Alumni Service Award 



Joseph P. MartO 22, proprietor of 
J. P. Marto & Company, Brookline, 
Mass., is class president, a former 
member of the board of directors of 
the Brown Club of Boston, former 
chairman of the Reunion Gift Commit- 
tee, and a member of the Brown 
Sports Foundation. 



5ROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 45 



land Hospital in 1868. 

Robert A. Evans sends his regrets at 
missing the With reunion. He writes that both 
he and Eleanor "are up and around. 1 play 
golf and bridge once or twice a week. We 
would be more than happy to see old friends. 
We live in Advance, N.C., ten miles west of 
Winston-Salem on Interstate 40." 

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r CXir With reunion will be celebrated over 
the Memorial Dav weekend. May 26 to 29. 
VIemhers of the committee are Messrs. 
Aldrich, Clarke, Davisson, Ensign, Gid- 
dings, past president Perkins, Rich, Shaal, 
and Stannard. The class mourns the passing, 
in December, of committee member Roger 
Shattuck. All members of the class are urged 
to look up a close friend and urge him to at- 
tend the reunion activities. There will be a 
first m 1989: A combined reunion with the 
1929 Pembroke women. This is not our "Last 
Hurrah," but let us make the reunion a mem- 
orable one. - Robert Perkins 

James Cantor hopes to be back for the 
60lh reunion. "My grandson, Robert C. 
Blume, will graduate. It should be a great 
time." James lives in Lowell, Mass. 

Philip N. Smith, Spartanburg, S.C, is still 
enjoying retirement with vacations in the 
mountains and at the shore. He was in Con- 
necticut with one daughter while his wife 
and other daughter toured the British Isles 
last June. "Stop by on your way to Florida," 
he urges. 

Dr. Everet H. Wood is living in a retire- 
ment center in Black Mountain, N.C. He has 
retired from his practice and is active in the 
Black Mountain Kiwanis and in various ac- 
tivities, including serving as president of the 
AARP Chapter in Black Mountain. 



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Last August, Constance Candee Patton 

and her husband. Miner '32, enjoyed a cruise 
on the ViMafjord in the Baltic Sea. Fellow trav- 
elers included Charles Officer '48 and his 
wife, Beatrice, who live in Hanover, N.H. 
Miner played chess at the Tchigorin Chess 
Club in Leningrad, and he and Constance 



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three years in Helsinki. They visited six other 
ports during the two-week cruise, which 
started and ended in Hamburg, Germany. 
Constance and Miner live in Sun City, Ariz. 

Harold S. Prescott, Mount Vernon, Md., 
is writing his memoirs of his undergraduate 
days at Brown. "You must read it, although 
you won't believe it," he savs. "1 will be us- 
ing my own name as author" 

Karl Stein and his wife. Flora, left in De- 
cember for Taiwan to produce another travel- 
ogue, "Republic of China - Dynamic Tai- 
wan." This will be their sixth film on the Far 
East. "We are working with the government 
and keeping our fingers crossed for bright 
sunshine," Karl writes. He and Flora live in 
Chicago. 






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Muriel Savage Kennedy, Atlanta, says 
she doesn't ha\e anv news, but wants to say 
"Hello" to her contemporaries. 

Dr. Morris E. Malakoff, Laredo, Texas, 
writes: "Medicine is my avocation, and fish- 
ing my vocation. I see patients two days one 
week and four days the next week. We travel 
extensively I have four children, ten grand- 
children, and one great-grandchild." 

Joseph W. Martin, Eastham, Mass., has 
started the fourth year of therapy for his 
heart-bypass surgery with lots of walking on 
Cape Cod. 

Retired Navy Captain Bill Schofield was 
the keynote speaker for the Commonwealth 
of Massachusetts on Veterans Day at the tra- 
ditional military-memorial ceremonies in the 
Massachusetts State House Hall of Flags. It 
was noted in the program that Bill is "the 
originator of Boston's top tourist attraction: 
the Freedom Trail." His book about the trail, 
Freedom by the Bay (Rand McNally), has re- 
cently been reissued in paperback by Bran- 
den Publishing Company. Bill's latest book. 
Frogmen: First Battles, has been acquired for 
reissue in paperback by A\'on Publishers, 
which plans an initial printing of 250,000 
copies in the spring. 

Albert E. Sidwell, Jacksonville, Ark., 
notes: "Made it to 79, trying for 80." Al re- 
ceived his Ph.D. in chemistry from the Uni- 
versity of Chicago in 1933. 



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Miner Patton (see Constance Candee 
Patton '30). 



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' The women of '33 will meet for their an- 
nual mini-reunion at noon on Saturday, May 
27, at the Marriott Hotel in Providence. We 
hope to be able to show the video of the 1933 
Commencement procession Mabelle Chap- 
pell has had the film transferred to video 
tape. Anyone who wishes to purchase a copy 
may contact her at 256 President Ave., Provi- 
dence 02906. 

Lillian Kelman Potter Goldstein, Provi- 
dence, a board member of Planned Parent- 



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Roger W. Shattuck '29, retired 

vice president of Amica Mutual Insur- 
ance Company of Providence, is a for- 
mer alumni trustee, former class presi- 
dent and head class agent, past re- 
gional director of the Associated 
Alumni, and a member of the Sports 
Foundation. (Mr. Shattuck died No- 
vember 26, two weeks after the 
ceremony.) 



hood, says that $175,000 has been raised to- 
ward a goal of $250,000 to name their new 
building in honor of her husband who was 
killed in 1970. He was a former medical di- 
rector of Planned Parenthood. 

Albert Lewitt, Nashua, N.H., writes that 
1988 has been a pleasant year. "My son, 
Philip '63, and his wife, Fukiko, spent two 
weeks with us last winter in Florida. Phil is a 
professor of English at Fottori University in 
Japan. Our daughter Joan's two oldest girls 
are a senior and freshman at Har\'ard, so we 
get to have lunch with them quite often. Sor- 
ry we couldn't make it to the reunion." 

Frank B. Lutz is "still poking around the 
woods of northern Alabama, planning field 
trips for the local Audubon chapter and mak- 
ing nature exhibits for local school teachers 
to use in their classrooms." He lives in 
Athens, Ala. 

Amy MacKenzie Sweet reports that the 
name of her residence has been changed to 
Crestwood Nursing Home, P.O. Box 308, 
Warren. R,l, 02885. 



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Capt. William C. Wohlfarth, USN (Ret.), 
Silver Springs, Md., enjoyed swapping sea 
stories at the 45th reunion of his World War II 
ship, the USS htn^lcy, last October in Alexan- 
dria, Va. "Three Hundrecl attended with the 
same 'gung-ho' attitude that earned the ship 
nine battle stars in 557 days," he writes. "Our 
first fatality was a Brown man. " 



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A mini-reunion of the class of 1935 was 



46 / FEBRUARY 1989 



j held on Saturday, Nov. 12, at Marvel Gvni in 
j preparation for the 53th reunion. Classmates 
) enjoyed a wonderful luncheon and later at- 
I tended the football game against Dartmouth. 
! Those attending were: Stanley Henshaw, 
; Vincent DiMase, Norman Zalkind, Alfred 
Joslin, Mason Parker, Gage Hotaling, and 
Fred Cook. We hope to see more of our great 
classmates at our next mini-reunion before 
our 55th in IWO. - Vinccui D/Mrtsc 

H. Brainard Fancher, Skaneateles, N.Y., 
reports that ten of the class's fourteen living 
I engineering graduates and their wives held a 
mini-reunion last October in Brevard, N.C. 
This was the third gathering since the 50th m 
1985. "We were saddened because Thurston 
Spicer, who was to have been our host, died 
in JuK', but his wife. Alma, and his cousm, 
Richard Shaw, agreed to carry on. We're al- 
ready looking ahead to our 55th in 1990." 



36 



I- William G. Thompson, Hudson, Mich , 
says, "Although I'm less active than 1 used to 
be, 1 still serve as president of the Hudson 
Public Library board, the Hudson Museum 
board, and am a member of the local histori- 
cal societies. 1 am also chairman of the 
Thompson Savings Bank. 1 always enjoy the 
news of my Brown classmates in the maga- 
zine. Congratulations on your award as one 
of the ten best in the nation." 

Barbara Johnson Ware moved into a new 
house designed by her son, Glenn, last 
November. Her address is 9 Surfcrest Dr., St. 
Augustine Beach, Fla. 32084. 



37 



fei William R. Hulbert, Lincohnille, Maine, 
taught the intellectual-property law course at 
the University of Maine Law School during 
the fall semester 

F. Hartwell Swaffield has retired. He 
writes that he is traveling and dividing time 
and activities between his homes in Need- 
ham, Mass., and New Hampshire. 



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Leonard R. Carpenter, Gainesville, Fla., is 
sorry to have missed the 50th reunion. "But 1 
did hear from Al Pereira, who joined me in 
the Hurricane of '3S," he adds. 

Arnold McDermott is the senior associate 
representing Gavin Pitt Associates, Inc., 
search consultants, in Denver, Colo., "an out- 
growth of renewing friendships at the 50th 
reunion." Gavin Pitt, president of the firm, 
adds, "The Brown Almnni Mivitlih/ provides 
an invaluable link between Brown and the 
alumni." 

Wyman Pendleton, Jr., New York City, 
played the role of Rev. Chasuble in Oscar 
Wilde's The Importance of Being Enrnest at the 
Pennsylvania Stage Company in Allentown, 
from Sept. 20 to Nov. 7. 



139 



that he is looking forward to the 50th reunion 
in May. 

Philip J. Feiner and his wife are still play- 
ing tennis. Phil adds that he is pleased with 
retirement life and the luxury of traveling 
when he and his wife desire. They live in 
Daly City, Calif. 

Robert L. Scowcroft, Palm Harbor, Fla., is 
looking forward to attending the 50th re- 
union in May. 



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Reunion Chairman Roland Hopps has an- 
nounced that the 1941 men will not have any 
formal events during the 1989 Commence- 
ment weekend although anyone in Provi- 
dence is urged to participate in the proces- 
sion on Monday Grace Hunt Viall advises 
that the 1941 women will have a meeting of 
their Scholarship Committee during Com- 
mencement weekend. The combined reunion 
committees will be meeting in 1989 to plan 
events for Commencement 1990 as a warm- 
up for the 50th in 1991, 

Or Arthur A. Helgerson, Lexington Park, 
Md., has recovered from a heart attack and 
subsequent triple bypass. He reports he is 
feeling fine and walking a mile or more ev- 
ery day. 

Robert Rapelye, Providence, recently 
showed his photographs at the Providence 
Art Club. In the same show were paintings 
by his two daughters. 

Dr Arthur I. Holleb, former senior vice 
president for medical affairs for the Ameri- 
can Cancer Society, was presented with the 
Society's Distinguished Service Award dur- 
ing the annual meeting of the house of dele- 
gates last November at the Waldorf-Astoria 



Brown Bear Award 



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William J. Gilbane 33, Saund- 

erstown, R.I., chairman of the board of 
Gilbane Building Company, is alumni 
trustee emeritus, class president, 
member of the Corporation Commit- 
tee on Development, fcirmer chairman 
of the Athletic Committee, regional 
fund-raising chairman for the Sports 
Foundation. 



Hotel in New York City. He received the 
award for his record as the Society's chief 
medical officer from 1968 to mid-1988, and 
was honored for "mentoring, instructing, 
and supporting countless medical students, 
volunteers, and staff while living the integri- 
ty and leadership he espoused." A diplomate 
of the American Board of Surgery and a fel- 
low of the American College of Surgeons, he 
served as president of the James Ewing Soci- 
ety and the New York Cancer Society. He 
lives in Larchmont, \.^'. 

Donald A. Smith retired in 198h from In- 
terMetro Industries. In 1987, he and his wife, 
Liz, resettled on the "South Strand." Earlier 
this year, they enjoyed a visit from Sherwin 
Drury and his wife, Doris. Don's address is 
Box 310, Oceanside Village, Surfside Beach, 
S.C. 29575. 



42 



Helen Reilly Hoyt, Ridgefield, Conn., 
writes that the BAM follows her to Florida, 
where she and her husband spend winters 
"among the retirees. Good music, good art, 
great weather Our son, Luke, is a pilot, and 
Mark is a patent attorney." 

Lillian Dacier O'Brien writes that she is a 
resident of Eden Park .Nursing Home, 100 
Franklin St., Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 12601, and is 
president of the governing group. 

Betty Picard, West Warwick, R.L, and her 
friend, Pnscilla Hubbard of Welleslev Hills, 
Mass., toured England, Scotland, and Wales 
last September and October. A highlight of 
their trip was a week's stay at Lygon Arms in 
Broadway, Worcestershire - England's most 
celebrated country inn, located on the edge 
of the Cotswold village. 



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Dr Robert H. Joelson, Ridgewood, N J., 
has retired from the practice of medicine and 
"expects to be spending more time with 
Blanche, visiting our far-flung children and 
grandchildren, wintering in Palm Beach, Fla., 
having fun, and who knows what else. 'Tis 
not too late to seek a newer world.' " 

Henry J. Pilote, Jr., Tucson, Ariz., writes: 
"The Brown Alumni Monthly is a friend come 
to call each month. Thank you." 



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Janet Lindsay Hindmarsh and George 
M. Hindmarsh announce the birth ot their 
granddaughter, Meghan Wright, in Lilburn, 
Ga. Janet and George are enjoying retirement 
in Pittsburgh. 



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Ray Moore Green (see Hope Finley Boole 

Lewis Lees and his daughter, Kristin, are 
offering their services in commercial invest- 
ment and industrial real estate brokerage in 
Hendersonville, \ C Kathleen Anderson 
Lees '46 continues to be a full-time volunteer 
in church and civic organizations. 

Sam Torgan has retired to North Miami 
Beach, Ha., after forty years of teaching 
physical education and coaching at Ocean- 
side High School on Long Island, N.Y. 



46 



Ray Armstrong, Westport, Conn., writes 
that he started a small business four years 
ago and "it's still getting up on wobbly legs. 1 
spent some time last summer taking a 40-foot 
powerboat up the Shannon River, stopping 
each night at a different town with two new 
pubs to \isii." 

Edward N. Clarke says that, in lieu of re- 
tirement, he is now in his "third career," 
teaching full-time at Worcester Polytechnic 
Institute. "I have established the Center for 
Solar Electrification at Wl'l, " he writes. 
"Many student projects are concerned with 
the application of solar energy in developing 



countries and in remote areas of the north- 
eastern U.S., and with the use of solar energy 
in tuturistic solar-powered racing cars and 
commuter vehicles." Ed lives in Paxton, 
Mass 

Robert B. Cook, Lititz, Pa., notes: "Feeling 
quite well, thank you. I retired in 1987 and 
spend a lot of time anlii]ue hunting. I look 
forward to each issue of the BAM." 

Gloria E. Del Papa, Pawtucket, R.I., re- 
cently returned home after an Elderhostel 
trip to Perugia and Assissi, Italy. "1 highly 
recommend elderhosteling to my fellow 
'46ers," she notes. 

Dr. Paul Goldstein continues as chairman 
of the department of ambulatory services at 
the Hospital of St Raphael in New Haven, 
Conn., and as clinical professor of pediatrics 
at Yale's School of Medicine. He is finishing 
his second year as chairman of the National 
Commission for the Certification of Physi- 
cian Assistants. His daughter, Lynn (Stanford 
'73, Boston University School of Medicine 
'79), had her first child, Daniel J. Tauben, on 
Feb. 29, 1988. His son, Harry '79 (New York 
Medical College '84), married Diane Pappas 
on June 12, 1988. "I talked to classmate 
Robert Silverman, " he concludes. "He re- 
tired some years ago to the Horida Keys and 
San Diego, Calif. It sounds great, and he 
loves the fishing." 

George Hagemeister, Sparta, N.J., writes 
that he and his wife are grandparents for the 
first time. 

Ernest H. Hofer retired in December as 
professor of Lnghsh at the University of Mas- 
sachusetts-Amherst and as director of the 
Oxford Summer Seminar (for twentv-three 
years at Trinity College, Oxford, the oldest 
study program sponsored by an American 
university in Oxford). He is also the former 
associate dean of the faculty of humanities 
and fine arts at UMass-Amherst. "My post as 
head of the seminar at Oxford brought me in 
contact \\ith many Brov\n students who 
joined us for the six-week courses," he 
writes. "1 live in England about a third of the 
year, which allows me to keep up with the 
contemporary British novel scene, a particu- 
lar academic-social interest of mine in the 
past few years." His U.S. address is River- 
acri-., Sunderland, Mass. 

William H. King, Tucson, Ariz., savs that 
he has enjoyed the first year of his retire- 
ment, which included a cruise to Hawaii, 
trips in the Southwest and to New England, 
and his son's wedding in Cleveland. "My 
50th high school reunion (Manchester High 
School Central in New Hampshire) is close to 
the mini-reunion in May. I'll join you in 
1989." 

Kathleen Anderson Lees (see Lewis Lees 
'451 

Bob Mareneck is serving as country di- 
rector in Kingston, Jamaica, with the Interna- 
tional Executive Service Corps (lESC). Flis 
address is Pegasus Hotel, Kingston 10, Ja- 
maica, West Indies. 

John S. Moran, Jr, Cranston, R.I., has 
stepped down as president and chairman of 
the board of the Recreational Vehicle Associ- 
ation of America. "When you complete a vol- 



48 / FEBRUARY 1^89 



untoer job with a sense of self-satisfaction, it 
is all worthwhile," he writes. "My son, Steve 
'70, kept my business, Arlington Trailer 
Rentals, East Greenwich, R.I., in the black 
during all the time 1 spent away from home." 

Lynn M. Pease writes: "It is happening to 
evervbociv, l''ut the biggest news here is 
grandchildren numbers three and four born 
in the fall of 1987, and our visit to see them in 
Michigan and California last June. We also 
spent another great week at Elderhostel, this 
time in Bicldeford, Maine, and 1 can onlv rec- 
ommend it. At the Radio Free Europe station 
here in Gloria do Ribatejo, Portugal, the team 
is just completing the installation of eight 
new 250-kilowatt transmitters to give us a to- 
tal of nineteen. Retirement is coming up in 
two years and we are thinking about Rhode 
Island " 

Earl W. Roberts writes that he has moved 
into a condominium townhouse in Mystic, 
Conn., where he is very busy with his con- 
sulting business, representing U.S. manufac- 
turers on national and international electrical 
standards committees. He recently returned 
from trips to Paris, New Zealand, Australia, 
and Singapore. 

Allan J. Rosenberg and Barbara Maskell 
Rosenberg '44 have moved from Radnor, Pa., 
to Swanipscott, Mass. Allan retired as vice 
president and general manager of GE's Fed- 
eral & Electronics Systems Division in Vallev 
Forge, Pa., after forty years. 

Clarence F. Roth is now "fuUv" retired, 
having given up his consulting work at 
Cigna Corporation partly due to his health. 
He and his wife still live in Bloomfield, 
Conn. They enjov extensive trips in their 
twentv-one-foot trailer and time at their con- 
do in Florida. 



Alumni Service Award 



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W. Edgar JeSSUp 44, attorney in 
Er\in, Cohen & Jessup, Pacific Pal- 
isades, Calif., is president of the 
Brown Club of Los Angeles, chairman 
of the Field Activities Committee and 
member of the board of governors of 
the Associated Alumni, and co-chair- 
man, 45th Reunion Gift Committee. 



Allen Rust, Orange Park, Fla., is still ac- 
tue in community theater and in barbershop 
singing. "Our chorus came in second in re- 
cent district competition, the first time anoth- 
er chorus from Florida has beaten us in five 
years," he writes. "My wife and 1 enjov the 
summers {spring and fall, too) in our Wyo- 
ming home, just outside of Bondurant if you 
happen to be by that way. My wife has just 
published her first book, Punta Rnsf^n, the first 
in a series of seven historic novels entitled 
Tlic Ftondiim> " 

Dr Jerome K. Sherman, professor of 
anatomy at the Medical College, University 
of Arkansas for .Medical Sciences, has been 
reelected chairman of the reproductive coun- 
cil of the American Association of Tissue 
Banks (AATB). A charter member of AATB, 
Jerry organized and has been chairman of the 
council since its inception in 1976. He has 
also served on the AATB board of governors 
during this time. He lives in Little Rock. 

William H. Stone "struggles to remain 
distinguished" as he continues his teaching, 
research, and service as the Ruth C. and An- 
drew G. Cowles Distinguished Professor of 
Biology at Trinity College in San Antonio. 
Bill was a panelist at a recent discussion on 
"Ethics in America," held at Trinity and host- 
ed by Fred Friendly. 

Erwin E. Strasmich. Providence, is man- 
aging director of TilK' Realty Associates m 
Fall River, Mass. He is also engaged in real 
estate development and investment as well 
as in financial consulting. 

Last spring, former roommates Woodie 
Titcomb, Jack Randall, and Bill Roos met for 
their own mini-reumon, alter more than forty 
years. Woodie, who lives in Holden, Mass., 
writes: "Needless to say, we met for lunch at 
12:45 and the conversation lasted well past 
the evening dinner hour A great time was 
had by all!" 



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Hope Finley Boole is still working for the 
U.S. Postal Service. She moved a year ago to 
Raleigh, N.C., near her son, daughter-in-law, 
and two grandchildren. "1 love seeing the 
changes of seasons again but 1 miss my 
daughters in Venice, Calif., and my son and 
his family in Dallas," she writes. "1 went to 
the reunion in P-'Sb with Ray Moore Green 
'45 and in 19S7 with Fran Richardson 
Brautigam, We saw many u onderful old 
friends and places. Time was all too short." 

Richard Bube and his wife, Betty, cele- 
brated their 4lUh wedding anniversary last 
October Earlier in the year, the second edi- 
tion of Dick's book, Elcctwns in Soliiis, was 
published by Academic Press. Dick served as 
a Staley Distinguished Christian Scholar Lec- 
turer at Grove City College and Trinity Chris- 
tian College (Chicago) during March and 
April. In August, he gave the keynote ad- 
dress at the annual meeting of the American 
Scientific Affiliation at Pepperdine Universi- 
ty, "Crises of Conscience for Christians in Sci- 
ence." Dick and his wife live in Stanford, 
Cahf. 

"Greetings from West Virginia," writes 



Everett M. Jencks. "1 am still teaching 
agronomy at West Virginia University, and 
Fran is involved with a successful compre- 
hensive hemophilia clinic and doing exciting 
research in coagulation at the West Virginia 
University Medical School Sciences Center 
LeRoy and Jonathan are married and starting 
their careers." 

John R. Shunny, Albuquerque, N. M., up- 
dates his life: "Retired Navy; retired Sandia 
Labs; on SS. House paid for; living in the 
Southwest; a practicing hedonist." 

Marleah Hammond Strominger (see 
Mark Strominger '78). 



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Charles Officer (see Constance Candee 
Patton 30). 



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Our 4llth reunion plans are progressing 
well. Reunion co-chairs Terry Arcand 
Hughes and Barbara Harrop Harrington and 
the committee members ha\ e met with the 
Brown '49 reunion committee to plan and to 
coordinate activities. Chapin will be the re- 
union headquarters for Brown and Pembroke 
'49. The tentative plans include a cocktail re- 
ception and buffet at the Refectory followed 
by the Campus Dance on Friday. On Satur- 
day, plan to attend the forums. The Pem- 
broke class luncheon will be held at noon in 
the Chancellor's Dining Room, with cocktails 
and dinner at the Squantum Club. There will 
be an afterglciw after the Pcips Concert or the 
Brown theater performance. On Sunday, the 
women are invited to a clambake hosted by 
the men. Another option being considered 
tor the day is a trolley tour of Providence. On 
Monday, following Commencement, Pem- 
brokers are invited to lunch with the men at 
the Faculty Club. Save the dates, Mav 26 to 
29, and plan to attend. 

Sumner Alpert, Fall River, Mass., writes 
that Alperfs Storage Center celebrated its 
second anniversary last December. It is the 
largest indoor heated facility in the greater 
Fall River area and is the only Ryder Truck 
Rental dealer in the area, Sumner writes. He 
credits his wife, Arline Goodman Alpert '50, 
and their son, Bernard, for helping lo make it 
happen. 

David N. Barus is the senior counsel to 
the president of Ste\ens Institute of Technol- 
ogy. He continues to serve as vice president 
and secretary of the corporation. David lives 
in New York City. 

Richard K. Check, Covina, Calif., has 
been retired for five years and is playing a lot 
of golf. Last November, he and his wife, Di- 
ane, traveled to China with a group from 
Brown. They have five grandsons, one 
granddaughter, and one great-grandson. 

Harold W. Foss, Ann Arbor, Mich., writes: 
"In my work as chief engineer at Ford Motor 
Company, 1 travel extensively to Japan and 
China and would enjoy having a glass of 
sake with any classmates U\'ing in or near 
Tokyo. Contact me through the alumni office." 

Art Green reports that he has retired from 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 41 



ICl Anifricas but is busy t<iking courses at 
the Aciidemv of I.ile-Long Learning ot the 
University of Delaware while presiding over 
the Delaware Tennis Association and the 
Urown Club of Delaware. Art founded the 
Urown Club four years ago, and it has since 
attracted fiftv-five members His next effort 
will be to head the recently created Delaware 
chapter of the National Foundation of Ileitis 
& Colitis. Art continues to be a very active 
tennis and racquetball plaver. His address is 
2104 Dunhill Dr, Wilmington 19810. 

John M. Hannan completed the Seal 
Beach, Calif., lOK run last November in a 
time of one hour and 54 seconds. He lives in 
Seal Beach 

Robert L. Luce, I lempstead, N.Y., has 
been made executive \ice president of 
Fit/gerald Cardner Advertising Agency in 
New York City, where he's been "captive for 
thirtv-six years and still going strong." 

Donald M. Nolan reports that he sold 
Stick Screw Vlaiuitacturing Companv and re- 
tired as president. He lives in Mansfield Cen- 
ter, Conn, 

Barbara Maskell Rosenberg (see Allan J. 
Rosenberg 4(i) 

Loien E. Wood, Friendswood, Texas, re- 
tired from TRW in December 1987. The next 
day, he became the space shuttle program 
project engineer for instrumentation. And, he 
adds, "I'm very happy to help get the shuttle 
flying again." 



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Arline Goodman Alpert (see Sumner 
Alpert 44) 

Peter R. Cruise, Providence, writes that 
his architectural firm, Kent, Cruise & Part- 
ners, recently finished more than two years' 
work on the restoration of Luce Hall at the 
U.S. Naval War College in Newport, R.l. "We 
enjoyed working with the Navy and the 
Rhode Island Historical Preservation Com- 
mission on the project. Built in 1891, the 
building was named in honor of Rear Admi- 
ral Stephen B. Luce, founder and first presi- 
dent of the college. Luce Hall is on the na- 
tional register of historic places" 

Allan Gevertz(seeCelia Ernstof Adler'25). 

Fred Horlbeck (see James M. Hutchinson 
'51). 




CHARTER A LLXIJRIOUS BARGE 

lAplorc itk' ckkiIn i)f traiai' with \inir Inrnils or 
family A mx day trip on (his fxquisiu-l\ iippoinu-d 
bjrgf iiuludt'S supt-Tlaiivf cuisint- and wint, Mghi 
st't'ingexcurMitns jnournwii mini van «ith biiviks 
and lennjs ii|uipnifnt for ftin ashore Thi-rt- arc 
three slatcr(H^nl^ for six people whose even, need — 
on board and oU - is met by a professional Knglish 
speaking trew of four For further mfnrmatum 
write AFIOATIS FRANCE CO., Box ^(MIJ. Ardsley 
oti Hmtsati. S) lOSUl iinaUON) 59/59/9 



Howard K. Page anJ Robert H. Cowgill 

traveled ow Brown's China tour last Novem- 
ber. Both are Theta Delts. \ toward Hves in 
Wayzata, Minn., and Robert lives in Pasade- 
na, CaHf. 



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Kenneth W DeHertogh ,ind Elaine Barry 
DeHertogh (see H Wayne Carver 74) 

Mary Sullivan Hanley retired and is now 
ot counsel to the law lirm of Karr, Tuttle, 
Campbell in Seattle, where she lives. 

James M. Hutchinson went into business 
tor himself as a manufacturer's agent last 
January and likes being his own boss, "after 
thirty-six years of working for big and little 
companies. I sell aluminum and finishes for 
aluminum for five small privately-owned 
companies and one big public one. Thank 
goodness my wife. Iris, is a good realtor and 
got us through the tough start-up period. We 
had a brief, but great, visit with Fred Horl- 
beck '50 on his plantation outside Charles- 
ton, S.C., in late September. 



52 



Pat MacBride Hendrickson studied re- 
combinant DNA techniques at the Yale Medi- 
cal School department of genetics last year 
while on sabbatical leave from teaching in 
the science department at Staples High 
School in Westport, Conn. "Among other 
things, later in the vear, 1 spent a fabulous 
month studying ecology in Kenya and Tan- 
zania," she writes. "The last three reunions 
on campus have been great. 1 look forward to 
catching up on the news of classmates at the 
next one." 

Mary Miller Shenfield, her husband, Jim 
(Princeton '4b), and their five sons (ages 20 to 
31), have lived in Seattle, for fifteen years. 
"We are now free to enjoy many interests. We 
travel and study, particularly ancient civiliza- 
tions and French and Italian culture." 



53 



Reece Clemens (see Lisa Clemens 
Phillips 'SO) 

Carol Corey Dunham moved from Mid- 
lothian, Va., to Richmond, Va., last Novem- 
ber. 



54 



Sidney Baumgarten (sei- Deborah A. 
Baumgarten ■.S5) 

Marshall H. Cohen retired from the U.S. 
Department of Agriculture, "counting his 
last cow on Dec. IS, 1987." 1 le is now a full- 
time professional photojournalist based in 
Washington, D.C. 

Paul A. Frontiero (see Wendy E. Fron- 
tiero '77) 

Alvin I. Gerstein, Narberth, Pa., writes 
that "after twenty-two years of training psy- 
chologists, I finally got one who was an un- 
dergraduate at Brown - Leslie Kamen Hol- 
lander SI" 

Myles D. Striar, Boston, is a visiting assis- 



Alumni Service Award 






55 



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Gerald R. Levine '58, senior vice 

president ot Twenty-First Securities, 
Cedarhurst, NY., is a member of the 
Brown Annual Fund Executive Com- 
mittee, the Corporation Committee on 
Development, and the NASP Commit- 
tee, and was co-chairman of the 30th 
Reunion Major Gifts Committee. 



tant professor of English and English educa- 
tion at Boston University this year, following 
twenty years as a teacher in the Boston Pub- 
lic Schools. 



Sylvia Rosen Baumgarten (see Deborah 
A. Baumgarten 85). 

David S. Decker bought a house in 
Maplewood, .\.J., ten years ago and has en- 
joyed living there since. Last November, he 
celebrated his thirty-first year with Chubb & 
Son. 

Dolores LaPorte Nazareth (see Annette 
LaPorte Nazareth 78) 

Nancy Balatow Polunsky has been ap- 
pointed to a second term as a consumer rep- 
resentative on the Texas Emergency Medical 
Services Advisory Council. A resident of San 
Angelo, she serves as vice chairman of the 
council 

Alice Phillips Weiland writes that her 
son, Charles S7, is a teaching assistant in the 
Ph.D. program in marine geophysics at the 
University of California at Santa Barbara. Al- 
ice is "working hard" in her interior land- 
scaping business. She lues in Pliiladelpliia. 

Leonard Whistler n (see Kathryn Kissane 
Whistler '58). 



Joanna Roche Alden is in her third vear 
of a pilot program teaching foreign lan- 
guages to sixth-, seventh-, and eighth- 
graders at two middle schools in Taunton, 
Mass. Music director at Sacred Heart Church, 
she was honored bv the parish last Septem- 



50 / FEBRUARY 1989 



ber for thirtv-five years of service. She re- 
ceived citations from state senators John E 
Parker and Mav Richard Johnson. Her son, 
Christopher, received his degree in computer 
science in June; Kathryn, a former Southeast- 
ern Massachusetts University sociology ma- 
jor, graduated in March from Taunton Beauty 
Academy and is planning to go on as an in- 
structor in cosmetology; and Margaret is en- 
rolled in the exercise physiology master's de- 
gree program at the L'ni\'ersitv of Lowell. 

Barry Blank, president and chief execu- 
tive officer of Bank 2000, Washington, D.C., 
celebrated Thanksgiving with his daughter 
in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. While there, he 
played a few rounds of golf with his fraterni- 
ty brother, John J. Hines, whose practice is in 
Jacksonville, Fla. Barry, John, and a few other 
members of the fraternity attended the presi- 
dential inaugural celebrations in Washington 
in January 

Evans Diamond retired from the Navy 
Medical Corps last November after nearly 
twenty-nine years of active duty. He is now 
with the neurology department at CIGNA 
Medical Center in Los Angeles, a large HMO. 
Evans is living in Los Angeles and is hoping 
to hear from classmates at (213) 484-3519 or 
(213)627-8336. 

Dr. Kenneth C. Morley has been chief of 
surgerv at Valley Regional Hospital, Clare- 
mont, N.H., for the past several vears and 
was recently elected to membership in the 
New England Surgical Society. His son, Chris 
'85, earned his master's degree from Stanford 
this past June and is pursuing a doctorate in 
computer science at Dartmouth. Ken lives in 
Windsor, \'t. 

Sheldon P. Siegel, president of WLVT-TV 
in Allentown, Pa., writes that Marvin Wilen- 
zik has joined the station as a member of the 
broadcast team handling Lehigh University 
wrestling. Their coverage of the Pennsylva- 
nia State High School finals won an award 
from the Pennsylvania Association of Broad- 
casters as the best sports program of 1988 in 
the state. Shel and Marvin provided com- 
mentary for the Brown-Lehigh dual match 
shown on WSBE-TV, Channel 36, in Provi- 
dence in January. The program was partly 
underwritten by the Brown University Sports 
Foundation. 

Frederick F. Trost, Victor, N.Y., writes 
that he is "the proud grandfather of a future 
Brown man. Time sure does fly." Fred also 
says he enjoyed a visit from classmate Jerry 
Jerome last summer. 



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57 



Roberta Abedon Levin, Chevy Chase, 
Md., has a new address in Rhode Island: 101 
Ocean Rd., Narragansett, R.I. Her youngest 
will enter Boston University Law School in 
September. 

Brig. Gen. Robert A. Norman, USAF, re- 
tired on Jan. 1, 1988. He was an aerospace 
consultant for six months specializing in Eu- 
rope and NATO, then was appointed Senior 
E-Systems Representative for NATO opera- 
tions last October He is headquartered in 
Brussels, "the capital of Europe." 



Harold J. Sutphen, Norfolk, Va., writes 
that he retired from the Navy in 1987, not 
1988, as was previously reported in these 
pages. He is still doing charter sailing, free- 
lance writing, and teaching nautical subjects, 
and since last September has "gone back to 
sea, working as captain of the local harbor/- 
dinner cruise ship, Nezc Sptrit." 



58 



Donald C. Dowling, Bovnton Beach, Fla., 
toured the Nile in Egypt last summer, "show- 
ing my family the things I learned from Pro- 
fessor Robinson in Classics 101." Don contin- 
ues to practice law in Palm Beach County. 
His oldest son, Donald, Jr., a lawyer, was 
married last September in Cincinnati to Nan- 
cy Hill, also a lawyer 

Martha Lundin Fordiani was recently ap- 
pointed administrator of Memorial Hospital 
in Meriden, Conn. She also serves as vice 
president of Connecticut Health Lawyers As- 
sociation and is a member of the Meriden 
Symphony Orchestra board of directors. She 
lives in Meriden. 

Susan Adler Kaplan (see Celia Ernstof 
Adler 25) 

John P. Lorand writes "we're back in 
peaceful central Michigan after two enjoy- 
able vears in central New Jersey. Dave, 14, 
graduated from the American Boychoir 
School in Princeton, and 1 was on the faculty 
at Rutgers, in the chemistry department." 
John and his family live in Mount Pleasant, 
Mich. 

After receiving a chaired professorship 
from Virginia Tech in 1983, Harry Snyder 
served four years on the USAF Scientific Ad- 
visory Board. With that term recently ended, 
he is en|oying teaching and research in hu- 
man factors engineering, occasional consult- 
ing, and "a trip around the golf course about 
once a week." He Ii\es in Radford, \'a. 

Kathryn Kissane Whistler and Leonard 
Whistler II '55 write that their daughter, 
Anne, graduated from the Emory University 
School of Medicine last May and is interning 
at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in 
Washington, D.C. Kathryn and Leonard live 
in Potomac, Md. 



59 



Cynthia Wayne Acker, Hinsdale, 111., 
writes that her son, Richard, is a sophomore. 

Joel Baumgarten (see Deborah A. Baum- 
garten 85) 

Dr. Philip J. DiSaia has been named asso- 
ciate vice chancellor of health sciences, a new 
position at University of California-Irvine 
Medical Center. A gynecologist, he will con- 
tinue as professor and chairman of the de- 
partment of obstetrics and gynecology and 
remain active with clinical work and research 
in the field of gynecologic oncology. He will 
also remain professor of radiology and direc- 
tor of the UCI Cancer Center until a search 
for that position is completed. Philip was a 
keynote speaker for the World Congress of 
Gynecology and Obstetrics, has been a mem- 
ber of the Governor's Advisory Council on 



Cancer, a member of the board of directors of 
the American Cancer Society, and received 
UCl's Silver Apple teaching and Lauds and 
Laurels service awards. 

Penelope Reynolds Kyker is an infor- 
mation scientist for Pitman-Moore, Inc., Re- 
search Library in Terre Haute, Ind., where 
she lives. Pitman-Moore is an animal health 
products company. 



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60 



Thomas J. Dunleavy, North Salem, N.Y., 
writes that his daughter, Anne, was married 
last April, and his son, Tom, was married last 
July. His daughter, Margaret, graduated from 
Villanova in Mav. 

Dr Leonard S. Karpman and Dr. Denise 
Da\is were married in San Francisco on Sept. 
4. They live in San Francisco. 

John S. Moyle, Scarsdale, N.Y., writes that 
his youngest son, Robert, played on the 
freshman football team this past fall, and his 
oldest son, John '90, was a member of the 
rugby A team. John recently became chair- 
man of the science department at Bronxville 
High School in New York. He continues to 
write scripts for commercially produced 
earth science videiis. 

Barbara Jones Nicholson, Manchester, 
Conn., writes: "Seen at the top of Rockefeller 
Center on Oct. 29, 1988, ten members of the 
class of '60, celebrating 500 vears of life and 
friendship: Peggy Durham Brown, Hope 
Cranska, Suzanne Werber Dworsky, Barbara 
Little Jaffe, Martha White Keister, Barbara 
Jones Nicholson, Joanne Tenedine Rees, 
Minna Saxe, Elaine Tetreault Smith, and 
Marjorie Tingle 



Brown Bear Award 




Robert P. Sanchez '58, Green- 
wich, Conn., vice president of Aquila 
Management Corporation, is a former 
president of the Associated Alumni; 
former national co-chairman of the 
Brown Annual Fund; a member of the 
Corporation Committee on Develop- 
ment; past president, the Brown Club 
in New York; and a former head class 
agent. 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 51 



Dr David L. Schwartz, Koslvn, NV^'., is a 
nu'iiibiT (il tlu' progr.Hii ciinimittei.' ot the 
surgical section ot the American Academy ot 
I'odiatrics. He is a senior member of a five- 
memlxT pediatric surgical practice in New 
^(irk and chairman of the division of pedi- 
atric surgery at Fkishing 1 iospital-Alhert Ein- 
stein College of Medii nie Marisa was class 
of 'HX and Shann is ^O 

Margaret Smith Skovira, Alexandria, V'a., 
IS chairperson of the Association for Fecieral 
Information Resources Management (AF- 
FIRM) in Washington, O.C. 



61 



Raymond Childs (see Judy Wessells 'h2). 

Lewis L. Gould, Austin, Texas, spoke to 
the Fourth Gubernatorial Spouses Seminar 
on the historical role of state first ladies at 
their meeting at Brown last September. This 
past summer, he co-edited a book with Craig 
H. Roell entitled Wiltinni McKinley: A Bibliog- 
raphy. Lewis is working on a study of the 
presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. 

David Groh and Karla Pergande were 
married in South Salem, N.Y., in the presence 
of a number of friends from the class of 1961. 
David is appearing as Jack Kerouac in Ten 
until Mommy & luck at the Hudson Guild The- 
atre in New York City. He and Karla live in 
Bedford, N.Y 

Warren C. Miller, Jr., is living in Oakton, 
\a 1 lis lU'W son, Michael, is one-and-a-half. 



62 



Dale Burg, New York City, is writing 
"Mary Ellen's Column" for Women's Day 
magazine and working on books for Lvle 
Stuart, Crown Publishing, and Ballentine 
Books. 

Susan Kamer Davis, .Arlington, Va., left 
her position as creative director of Ogilvy & 
Mather Public Affairs in Washington, D.C., to 
start her own video production firm, Kamer 
Davis Communications, affiliated with 
O&M, 

Robert F. Ebin, New York City, merged 
his law firm late last year with Graham & 
James and is a senior partner in that firm's 
New York City office. Graham & James has 
approximately 300 attorneys in a dozen of- 
fices in the U.S., Europe (Milan), the Middle 
East (Kuwait), Japan (Tokyo), China (Beijing), 
and 1 long Kong. 

Emily Mott-Smith MacKenzie, Main hes- 
ter. Conn,, writes th.it last Ma\ Jennifer C. 
MacKenzie graduated from Brown 123 years 
alter two of her great-great grandfathers, 
Orsmus A. Taft ISd.l and George H Miner 

ISl^l 

Carolyn Cardell Newsom resigned from 
P.A Consulting Group, where she was vice 
president of the information strategy prac- 
tice, to found Newsom Consultants, which 
provides management consulting services to 
directors of information service departments 
of major U.S. corporations. She lives in Yard- 
ley, Pa. 

Major Thomas W. Noy, USAF, retired a 
year and a half ago and, he writes, "it has 



been wonderful. It has allowed me to watch 
my son, 4, and my daughter, 2 1 /2, grow and 
develop. My genealogical pursuits ha\e en- 
abled me to meet many family members all 
over the world. F'or people interested in fami- 
ly research. Salt Lake City is truly a Mecca- 
Anyone interested is welcome to write me at 
3310 Fleetwood Dr, Salt lake City, Utah 
8410')-' 

Howard L. Pedlikin, Lexington, Mass., is 
a management consultant with Arthur D. I.it- 
tle. Inc., Cambridge, Mass. He has two sons 
at Brow n: Phil '84 and Joel '42 

Elizabeth Hinkley Percesepe, Westport, 
Conn., and John Garrison. Dallas, enjoyed 
exchanging news at their M)th high school re- 
union last October l.ibbv also announces the 
birth of a grandson, lonathan, to her daugh- 
ter, Meg Percesepe '83. 



Alumni Service Award 




James J. Corbett, m.d. '62, pro- 
fessor of neurology/ophthalmology at 
the University of Iowa, is a former na- 
tional chairman of the National Alum- 
ni Schools Program, former regional 
director of NASP, and a former mem- 
ber of the Associated Alumni Board of 
Governors. 



Judith Hexter Riskind, 1 iighland Park, 
111., celebrated her 25th anniversary on Nov. 
30. She teaches aerobics and is the head 
coach of the Highland Park Fligh School 
chi'erK'aders 

Judy Wessells and Raymond Childs '61 
are livmg at 1 School St., Arlington, Mass. 
02174. Judy works at the Tufts Associated 
Flealth Plan, a major HMO in the Boston 
area, and Kay is the creative vice president of 
Witham, Childs and Siskind, a Boston ad\er- 
tising agency. 



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Di David A. Bailen, Newton Center, 
Mass., recently completed his term as presi- 
dent of the medical-dental staff at the Uni- 
versity Hospital in Boston. His sons, Lau- 
rence and Mark, are students at Cornell. 



Robert P. Freeman, Yachats, Oreg., and 
his wife, Joyce, have owned and operated the 
Oregim House Lodge on the central Oregon 
coast for a year Robert has semi-retired from 
data-processing consulting. 

George A. Garland is technical advisor on 
toxic chemicals for the World Flealth Organi- 
zation (WHO) projects in India, Incionesia, 
Thailand, Sri Lanka, and Burma. His address 
is World 1 leallh I louse. New Delhi, 110002, 
hldl.l 

Jennifer Williams Ketay, Potomac, Md., 
"after a great summer of hiking in Switzer- 
land, touring in France, and visiting in New 
^ork and Florida, settled down to real life 
with a part-time secretarial job with the Cor- 
nell-in-Washington program. .My kids are in 
lifth and tenth grades (gulp!) " 

Philip Lewitt (see Albert Lewitt '33). 

Janice C. Sheftel was recently made a 
partner in the law firm of Maynes, Bradford 
& Shipps in L")urango, Colo., where she lives. 

.After eighteen years with his old firm, 
Jon W. Zeder "joined a group of trial lawyers 
founded b\ a former partner of mine who 
split off from my old firm two years ago. 
From three lawyers initially, we are twenty- 
one now at Adorno Zeder Allen, et. al , in 
Miami." 



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Dr. Kenneth G. Noble, New York City, is 
associate professor of clinical ophthalmology 
and the director of the residency training 
program at the New York University Medical 
Center. 

Dr. David J. Shaw practices cardiology in 
San Diego and does hypertension research 
and teaches at UC-San Diego and Mercy 
Hospital. His wife of twenty-six years, 
Reesev, is a painter and sculptor. Michael is a 
senior at UCLA, and Russell is a sophomore 
at Yale, Da\'id and Reesev live in La lolla. 

Robert E. Sherman (see Donna Drew 
Sherman i-iii) 

Sherie Bergman Stein is the public ser- 
\ices assistant for .Northwestern University 
Library. Her daughter, Jennifer, is a sopho- 
more at the University of Wisconsin at Madi- 
son. David is in the seventh grade. Sherie's 
address is 843 Sheridan Rd., VNilmette, 111. 
60041. 

Jim Sutton and his wife, Nancy, an- 
nounce the birth of Thalia on June 7, 1988. 
She joins Athena, 3, Thcssaly, 13, Robert, 14, 
Raphael, 16, and Michael, 19. "Thalia is our 
last," Jim writes. "Her birth proves that to be 
young again, one need only repeat the errors 
of one's youth (Oscar Wilde), and also that 
the trouble with repeating such errors is that 
one must continue to repeat them (Monton 
Gurewich)," The Suttons li\e in Des Moines, 
Iowa. 

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Last November, W. Richard Ulmer was 
appointed president of Allergau Medical Op- 
tics, a marketer of intra-ocular lenses im- 
planted after cataract surgery. During his 

? three years as president of Allergan Pharma- 

' ceuticals, sales nearly doubled. 



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Sam Baumgarten (see Deborah A. Baum- 
garten S5) 

Gary R. Sheffield has been appointed 
president of Bespak Inc., of Cary, N.C., a de- 
yeloper and manufacturer of specialty valve 
mechanisms for the medical, pharmaceutical, 
cosmetic, and household products industries. 
Previously, he served as president of the V. 
Mueller Division of American Hospital Sup- 
ply Corporation (now Baxter), a manufactur- 
er of surgical instruments and medical de- 
vices. 

T. Patrick Williams, Rockville, Md., is 
working as a software engineer with TRW 
Federal Systems Group in Fairfax. Va. His 
wife. Donna Jo Williams, "is also in the soft- 
ware world." 



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Amy Bernstein Brem is a research analyst 
at Griggs-Anderson Research, a market re- 
search firm m Portland, Oreg. Her husband, 
Jerry, is a rheumatologist and internist at the 
Portland Clinic. Rachel is 15, and Laura is 11. 
They live in Portland. 

Virginia Chappell finished her Ph.D. in 
English at the L nisersity of Washington last 
June and is now an assistant professor at 
Marquette University, specializing in rhetoric 
and composition. She lives in Milwaukee. 

Gretchen Lindenmeyer Coffey and her 
husband, Jerry L. Coffey (University of \'ir- 
ginia 'ei4), announce the birth of Jay William 
Coffey on June 11. Jay's sister. Laurel, is 8. 
They live in Vienna, Va. 

Rufus K. Griscom (68 A.M.) lives in 
Washington, D.C., and is a partner in the firm 
of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue. He and his 
wife, Nancy, ha\e three children, including 
Rufus '40 and Bronson '32. 

Robert F. Hall left Fleet Financial twelve 
years ago, "much to the surprise of my par- 
It ents and friends, and started an investment 
counseling firm in Pro\idence. Today, our 
firm supervises personal and retirement 
funds assets of about S2(.10 million and has a 
staff of thirteen. That decision has been per- 
sonally satisfying to me and my family. Bet- 
sey is 13, going on 19. She is an excellent rid- 
er and active in sports at Lincoln School in 
Providence. My wife, Robin, besides being 
involved in community work, has enjoyed 
designing two additions to our home in Bar- 
rington, R.l. 1 find myself more involved 
with Brown these days, especially with 
sports programs. Golf, squash, and tennis 
keep me active." 

The Rev. Charles F. Homeyer completed 
ten years as rector of Hoh- Cross Episcopal 
Church in Kentwood, Mich. He is serving on 
the search committee for a new bishop of the 
diocese of Western Michigan. He lives in 



Grand Rapids, 

David D. Laufer and his wife, Ellen, an- 
nciunce the birth of a daughter, Sam, on Dec. 
31, 1987. Ben is 4. They live in Torrance, Calif. 

LTC Gilcin F. Meadors m, USA, is ser\ - 
ing at Fort Detrick in the Defense Against Bi- 
ological Warfare Program. A bio-mathemati- 
cian, he evaluates mesoscale weather models 
and uniformly most powerful tests of dis- 
crete statistics. 

After spending seven of the past eleven 
years in West Africa as a lawyer for the 
Agency for International Development 
(AID), Alexander D. Newton has published 
his first book, iVof Atnci^ - A Travel Surviiml 
Kit (Lonely Planet Publications). He will soon 
publish another travel guide, CcntrnI Africn - 
A Trirc'ti Siirvival Kit. Alexander is now with 
AID in Quito, Ecuador 

Donna Drew Sherman and her husband, 
Robert E. Sherman ti4, write that Kathryn 
has been accepted into the class of 1993. Deb- 
orah graduated from Bryant College, Smith- 
field, R.L, and is working for Herff Jones, Inc. 
Bob is director of acquisitions for BPS Guard 
Services in Parsippany, N.J., and Donna is ex- 
ecutive director of Literacy Volunteers of 
America-Rhode Island, Inc. They live in 
Co\entry, R.l. 

Donald P. Somers, Maplewood, N.J., is 
again president of the Maplewood Glee 
Club. He writes that the club is looking for 
male singers for two concerts a year and nu- 
merous other appearances at hospitals and 
for civic organizations. His telephone num- 
ber is (201 )V62-2048. 



Alumni Service Award 



67 



Bruce Crawford has been named presi- 
dent of Perrs Technologies, a Florida-based 
company that manufactures advanced un- 
dersea work systems for the international off- 
shore oil industry and the government, in- 
cluding manned submersibles and robotic 
vehicles. Bruce lives in North Palm Beach, 
Fla., with his wife, Lindsey, and daughters 
Hallie, 15, and Meg, 12. 

Seth Finn was granted tenure and pro- 
moted to associate professor in the depart- 
ment of radio, television, and motion pic- 
tures at the University of North Carolina at 
Chapel Hill last July ' 

Nancy L. Goodwin has been made a prin- 
cipal at the architectural firm of Notter, Fine- 
gold & Alexander Inc., in Boston. She lives in 
Cambridge with her husband, Tony Piatt, 
also an architect. 

Richard F. Herbold is a full-time graduate 
student at Har\ard University's Kennedy 
School of Government, where he is studying 
international finance and development, pro- 
ject appraisal, and economics. 

Michael B. Natelson and .Annie D. Woods 
were married last Valentine's Day in Long 
Beach, Calif. After teaching for twelve years 
in the Los Angeles City Schools and helping 
to nurture future Olympians Florence Grif- 
fith Joyner and Cynthia Cooper to four gold 
medals and one silver medal in Korea, Mike 
returned to school and received his M.B.A. 
from Jones Graduate School at Rice Universi- 



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Nancy C. Scull '63, marketing ex- 
ecutive with Digital Equipment Cor- 
poration, Cambridge, Mass., is class 
president; former treasurer, executive 
committee member, and field activi- 
ties chairman. Associated Alumni; for- 
mer head class agent; former presi- 
dent. Brown Club of Boston. 



ty in 1982. He has been living in lr\'ine, 
Calif., since his return from Texas and works 
in the finance area for real estate developers. 

James J. Naughton, Weston, Conn., ap- 
pears in the film Tlic Good Motlwr, with Diane 
Keaton. He also starred in the CBS series 
"Raising Miranda " 

Dr Wayne E. Pasanen, North Ando\er, 
Mass., writes that his son, Mark '8b, is in his 
first year at University of Vermont College of 
Medicine. Gretchen is a senior at American 
University. 

Barbara Allen Sanderson, Marion, Mass., 
helped to create and is president of the New 
England Sprout Growers' Association and 
continues as president of Jonathan's Sprouts 
in Marion. She sings in the choir and loves 
taking walks and hikes. 

Robert Waxier has been appointed asso- 
ciate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences 
at Southeastern Massachusetts University, 
North Dartmouth, Mass. He continues to 
serve as co-director of SMU's Center for Jew- 
ish Culture. 



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Brian Barbata, his wife, Wendy, and their 
three children live on the island of Oahu, 
where Brian owns Inter Island Petroleum, 
Inc., a fuel, lubricant, and solvent distributor 
in the Hawaiian Islands. He recently compet- 
ed in the "Kauai Loves You" triathlon, con- 
sisting of a 1 .2-mile ocean swim, 42 miles of 
bicycling, and a 7 2-mile run. 

Joel P. Bennett, Washington, DC, has 
been elected to the board of the Bar Associa- 
tion of the District of Columbia for 1988- 
1989. "My wife, son, and 1 enjoyed my 20th 



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Alumni Service Award 



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Kenneth R. Fitzsimmons '68, a 

partner in Robertson, Colnian, 
Stephens, of Piedmont, Calif., was co- 
chairman of his 20th Reunion Gift 
Committee, is a member of the Corpo- 
ration Committee on Development, 
past chairman of the Major Gifts Com- 
mittee, former head class agent, and a 
NASP representative. 



reunion, and we look forward to the 25fh." 

Terry Peake Vigil is in the higher educa- 
tion administration graduate program at 
UMass-Amherst. She is director of grants 
and sponsored research at Bridgewater State 
College. Terry lives in Chestnut Hill, Mass. 



69 



Leslie Michael Henderson and Bruce 
Henderson write. "After fifteen years, the 
itinerant I lenderson family has finally come 
home. Bruce is head of Citibank's Global 
Payment Products Division for Latin Ameri- 
ca, and Leslie is job hunting and settling us 
in. Everyone is going through a tough adap- 
tation process. We've discovered that the 
worst culture shock is re-entering one's own 
country. Our new address is 13608 Lytton 
Way, Tampa, Fla, 33624." 

Charles Lament (see Susan Collier La- 
ment '70) 

William Latham is chief of the personnel 
office at the National Institute for Occupa- 
tional Safety and I lealth (NIOSH) in Cincin- 
nati. He li\Ts in Crestview Hills, Ky. 

Rauer L. Meyer joined the Los Angeles 
office of Thelen, Marrin, Johnson & Bridges, 
a national San Francisco-based law firm, last 
June as a partner in the business department. 
He lives in Los Angeles. 

Pete Miller (see John B. Rose '70) 

T. Richard Nichols is an associate profes- 
sor of physiology at Emory University and is 
investigating spinal mechanisms of neuro- 
logical disorders. 

Dr. Sandra Nusinoff-Lehrman ('76 M.D.) 
has been promoted to department head in 
the anti-microbial therapy department at 



Burroughs Wellcome Company in Research 
Triangle Park, N.C. She joined the company 
in l^S"i and lues in Durham, N.C. 

Kiistie C. Randall received her MLS. 
from the University of Michigan School of Li- 
brary Science in 1986. She has been working 
for the U.S. Court of Appeals Library in 
Boston and was appointed deputy circuit 
librarian last May. Kristie lives in Milton, 
Mass., with her three children: Erica, 16, 
John, 11, and Paul, 7. She would enjoy hear- 
ing from classmates in the area. 

Bill Russo finished his eighth season as 
head football coach at Lafayette College in 
Easton, Pa. He won the Colonial League 
championship with an 8-2-1 record. He adds 
that he is looking forward to the 20th re- 
union. 

Janet Bronson Swift, Ridgefield, Conn., 
has been director of the University of Con- 
necticut at Waterbury Library since Decem- 
ber 1487. 

Walt Woerheide and his wife, Pat, cele- 
brated the first birthday of their son, An- 
drew, on Oct. 25, 1988. They live in Flint, 
Mich. 



70 



John Hammett (see James A. Hochman 

'71). 

Gail S. Koach, assistant to the executive 
director of marketing for Brown-Forman 
Beverage Company, Louisville, Ky, has re- 
ceived the company's Personal Development 
Award for 1988. The award recognizes career 
growth, business courage, creativity, and per- 
sonal maturity. Gail joined Brown-Forman in 
1979 and is now based in Louisville. The 
company markets Jack Daniel's, Southern 
Comfort, Canadian Mist, Korbel champagne, 
and other \sine and spirits brands. 

Susan Collier Lamont writes that Charles 
'69 is counsel for Delta Dental Plan of Cali- 
fornia in San Francisco, and she runs a cater- 
ing business. They spend weekends in the 
country with their children: Ellen, 9, and Ju- 
lia, 4. "We have become a two-horse family," 
Susan savs. They live in San Francisco. 

Christine Sweck Love and John Love 
live in Bristol, R.l. John is chairman of the 
English department at Wheeler School in 
Providence and has published two short sto- 
ries in Redhook. Chris is associate director of 
the Brown Annual Fund. She writes she is 
looking forward to working with classmates 
on the 20th Reunion Gift campaign. 

Steve Moran (see John S. Moran, Jr '46). 

Glenn Orton aiul Linda Brown are once 
again parents ol a Korean-born child. "Sarah 
Suyun Brown Orton was bt>rn on Feb. 5, 
1988, two years and one month after her 
brother, Gregg Segi. She arrived on May 31 
with two teeth and continues to keep up a 
rapid pace of development," Glenn writes. 
"Gregg manages to overcome his possessive 
feelings for all toys in the house long enough 
to enjoy her from time to time." Glenn con- 
tinues to work on exploration of planetary at- 
mospheres at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. 
While awaiting the launch of the Galileo mis- 
sion to Jupiter scheduled lor 1989, he moni- 



tors Jupiter's meteorology. 

John B. Rose writes that he and his four 
partners have moved their computer consult- 
ing firm, Infodex, into "sub-palatial, subter- 
ranean offices at The Mall At The Galaxy in 
Guttenberg, N.J. In between half a dozen air 
conditioner failures and a couple of floods, 
we provide systems and programming sup- 
port services to clients who have Data Gener- 
al and other minicomputers. In June, 1 at- 
tended a Polaroid farewell gathering for my 
classmate and former co-worker, Jim 
Schantz. He is now one of the principals in 
Chrysalis, an investment ad\isory firm in 
Cambridge, Mass. Pete Miller '69 reports 
from Stockholm that he has formed a compa- 
ny, Spraakverket, which provides technical 
and sociological help for Swedish firms that 
seek to do business in the U.S." John and his 
wife, Anne Kolbe, celebrated their 10th wed- 
ding anniversary in January. They live in Wa- 
ter Mill, N.V. 

Dr. Robert M. Sheets is a pediatrician 
with Loma Linda University Medical Center 
and teaches part-time. He and his wife, Judy, 
live in Riverside, Calif. 

Mark Trueblood spent six-and-a-half 
years (two-and-a-half as program manager) 
on the Ford Aerospace contract to build the 
Hubble Space Telescope satellite control cen- 
ter. He is now project manager of the contract 
to build the control center for the next gener- 
ation of NOAA GOES weather satellites. 
Mark lives in Potomac, Md. 



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Edward M. Alt and his wife, Katherine 
Burke, announce the birth of their first child, 
Anasta, on June 15, 1988. They live in New- 
York City. 

Christy Carpenter, New York City, is a 
vice president of Hill and Knowlton, a public 
relations firm in \ew ^'ork. 

Thomas R. Carter says there hasn't been 
a lot of snovy in the past few years, "but the 
skiing remains one of the great things about 
Salt Lake City." Tom published tvyo books in 
1988: Ufft/i's Htftonc Aniutcctim md The 
Grouse Creek Cultural Survey. A third book, 
which he co-edited. Perspectives m Vernacular 
Architecture, is due out in the spring. 

Dr. Jeffrey F. Cole and his wife, Linda, 
announce the birth of Steven Michael, broth- 
er of Debra and Lora, on Sept. 20. Jeffrey 
practices cardiology in Baltimore, and Linda 
is a health planner for the Maryland Health 
Resources Planning Commission. They live 
in Pikesville. Md. 

Margaret Norton Drivas was appointed 
assistant county administrator of Lane Coun- 
ty, Oregon, last October. About the size of 
Connecticut, Lane County, Margaret writes, 
has 1,500 road miles, 450 bridges, an annual 
operating budget of $160 million, and serves 
the Eugene, Oreg., metropolitan area, home 
of the University of Oregon. Rural Lane 
County stretches from the Cascades to the 
Pacific Ocean 

Marilyn Wallace Friedman li\es in Provi- 
dence with her husband, Larry, and children 
Michael, 12, Mark, 8, and Leslie, 7. Marilyn is 



54 / FF.BRUARY 1 y89 



executive director of Adolescent Pregnancy 
Child Watch, a community-based teen preg- 
nancy prevention program. 

Dr Irwin Goldstein recently hosted The 
International Societv for Impotence Research 
in Boston. The conference was the largest 
meeting ever devoted to erectile dysfunction. 
His wife, Sue Wotiz, is still busy with the 
University Hospital Auxiliary and her chil- 
dren's school. Bryan, 11, Lauren, 9, and An- 
drew, 5, "are all following in their dad's foot- 
steps," Sue adds. "They all play hockev." 

Dr Carol Graham, Cumberland Foreside, 
Maine, completed her residency in obstetrics 
and gynecology after "an eight-year materni- 
ty leave. My daughters Janet and Joan (10) 
and Katie (7) are happy to have me back in 
the relatively easy time schedule of a group 
private practice in ob/gyn." 

Elie Hirschfeld, New York City, is a 
trustee of St. Luke's/Roosevelt Hospital, the 
second largest hospital in New York City and 
the fifth largest in the nation. 

James A. Hochman, Evanston, 111., was 
promoted to vice president of Coldwell 
Banker Commercial Group, Inc., last March. 
In October, he received the Lawrence O'Con- 
nor Medal for distinguished legal writing. 
He visited recently with Lt. Comdr Dan 
Gabe and John Hammett '70, both of whom 
passed through Chicago. 

Dr James M. Lynch reports the birth of 
his third daughter Melissa Jeanne, on May 
24, 1988. In July, he moved from Chicago to 
Pittsburgh to be chief of pediatric surgery 
and pediatric trauma at Allegheny General 
Hospital. 

David T. Morgan, Bozeman, Mont., con- 
tinues to manage a sawmill for Plum Creek. 
"We have changed our marketing to 33 per- 
cent specialty products and exports to Japan 
and away from commodities," he writes. "It 
has rained three times in 1988, but it has been 
pretty. Of course, it also snows twice in 
September" 

Armen Shahinian, Ridgewood, N.J., is a 
member of the Roseland, N.J., law firm of 
Kimmelman, Wolff & Samson and has been 
specializing in commercial litigation for four- 
teen years. "Brown was more fun," he says. 

Robert D. Solomon is managing director 
of Sanwa-B.G.K. Securities Company, L.P., a 
♦ new firm formed after the acquisition of a 
majority interest m his firm, Bruphy, Gestal, 
Knight, bv Sanwa Bank, Osaka, Japan. Sanwa 
is the fifth largest bank in the world. Bob 
lives in .\'ew York City. 

Steve Stage and Shannon Butler were 
married on June 20, 1987, in the bride's home 
town of Liberty, N.C. Steve received a pro- 
motion to associate professor with tenure in 
the department of meteorology at Florida 
' State University in 1986. His research in- 
volves the study of the interaction between 
the atmosphere and the oceans. He and 
Shannon live in Tallahassee. 



72 



I Vincent T. Barbera is a partner in a con- 
struction company specializing in highway 
and heavy construction. He and his wife. 



Elaine, an executive underwriter, have one 
daughter, Kelly, 3. They live in Amherst, N.Y. 

Christy Bowman is thinking about enter- 
ing the antique quilt business. Cliff Saper is 
director of program development and quality 
assurance for AAP Mental Health Resources. 
They live in Evanston, 111. 

Dr George B. Brothers practices internal 
medicine/rheumatology in Durham, N.C. He 
was elected to the board of trustees of Dur- 
ham County Hospital Corporation and the 
board of directors of Carolina Permanente 
Medical Group and the Kaiser Foundation 
Health Plan. He is married to Dr Elaine Hart 
Brothers '73, who has a private practice in in- 
ternal medicine in Durham and who is a con- 
sultant physician to IBM. They have three 
children, Ross, 9, Matthew, 8, and Kara, 3, 
and live in Durham. 

Dr Christin Carter-Su and her husband, 
Dr Eugene Y. Su, announce the birth of their 
first child, Elizabeth Carter Su, on April 7, 
1988. Christy was promoted to associate pro- 
fessor of physiology at the University of 
Michigan Medical School in September 1987. 
Gene is a clinical assistant professor of 
medicine at the University of Michigan Med- 
ical School and assistant program director at 
St. Joseph Mercy Hospital. They live in Ann 
Arbor 

Melissa Bradford Jacobson is active in a 
new branch of AAUW as fellowships fund- 
raising vice president and "occasionally sees 
other distraught mothers at meetings of the 
local Mothers of Twins Club. John '73 is con- 
sidering buying a CPA practice now that he 
is back into public accounting. He is consult- 
ing for a division of the Irvine Company. 
Duncan, 6, has started kindergarten and 
Gavin, 2, attends a special education 
preschool three mornings a week. Hunter, 2, 
doesn't care where they are going but he re- 
ally wants to go on those school buses with 
them." They live in Laguna Miguel, Calif. 

Ruth C. Loew is living in Spokane, Wash., 
with her husband. Rabbi Robert Tabak, and 
their three sons: Gabriel, 4 1 11, and twins 
Aaron and Nathan, 2 1 II. Ruth is teaching 
American sign language part-time at Eastern 
Washington University and "watching a lot 
of 'Sesame Street.' Three children ago, I com- 
pleted my Ph.D. in linguistics at the Univer- 
sity of Minnesota and was an assistant pro- 
fessor at the National Technical Institute for 
the Deaf in Rochester N.Y." 

Gary D. Mooney, Phoenixville, Pa., has 
been promoted to director of systems and af- 
termarket sales for the Allen-Sherman-Hoff 
Company. He is in charge of North American 
ash-handling systems for coal-fired power 
plants and worldwide parts sales. Gary is 
vice chairman of the American Society of Me- 
chanical Engineers' Power Division Commit- 
tee of Steam Generators and Related Auxil- 
iaries. 

Linda Y. Papermaster, Manhattan Beach, 
Calif., announces the birth of Aviva Leora 
Gat on Sept. 30, 

Craig B. Phinney has been with Salomon 
North America for fourteen years, selling 
Alpine and Nordic ski equipment. Married 
for nine years, he and his wife, Jamie Lynn, 



have two children: Brandon, 6 1 II, and 
Trevor, 3. For the past ten years, Craig and 
his family have lived in Skaneateles, N.Y, 
"the gateway to the Finger Lakes." 

Nancy P. Pope writes that she continues 
to teach at Washington University in St. 
Louis. She has two sons: Alan, 6, in the first 
grade at a parochial school, and Joe, 3, in a 
Montessori preschool in the same building. 

Dr Mark J. and llene Rosen announce the 
birth of their second daughter, Elizabeth 
Jane. Mark is associate professor of medicine 
and director of critical care medicine at 
Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. He and 
his family live in Great Neck, NY 

Neal Sondergaard (see Sally Olver Son- 
dergaard '7(i) 

Mark G. Steinberg is living in the greater 
Fort Lauderdale, Fla., area, where he is the 
administrator of Human Services Network, 
Inc., the provider of one of the largest 
"Meals-On-Wheels" programs in the country. 



73 



Barbara Doerr Benson has been promot- 
ed to assistant vice president in the supervi- 
sion and regulation and loans department at 
the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Bar- 
bara, who served as examining officer in the 
department since 1987, will continue to have 
responsibility for the supervision of a select- 
ed group of Seventh District bank holding 
companies, and for the training of field staff 
in bank holding company inspections. She 
joined the bank in 1980 as an assistant exam- 
iner in the bank holding company unit, and 
following several promotions, was named 
administrative examiner in 1985, when she 
had responsibility for supervision and regu- 
lation department planning, training, and 
budgeting. 

Elaine Hart Brothers (see George B. 
Brothers '72) 

Rebecca Noll Busby and her husband, 
William, announce the birth of their first 
child, Kamaria Anne, on April 17, 1988. 
Becky also has a stepdaughter, Kimberley, 19, 
who is in college. Becky continues to work at 
the Veterans Administration Medical Center 
in Allen Park, Mich., as a clinical psycholo- 
gist. She and William live in Detroit. 

Lena Chen and her husband, Jess Speidel, 
announce the birth of their daughter Chia 
Chen-Speidel, on Aug 4. Jessica Murray 
was present at the birth. Lena is on maternity 
leave from VBN Corporation, Architects, 
where she has been a project architect spe- 
cializing in public schools for the past year 
and a half. They live in Oakland, Calif. 

Arthur Corvese, Jr, Franklin Square, 
N.Y, has been promoted to manager, nuclear 
power control, at ConEdison's Indian Point 
Unit 2 Nuclear Generating Station. 

Roxana Rogers DeSole reports the birth 
of her second daughter Melissa Danielle, on 
Sept. 30. She and her husband are still living 
in Burkina Faso, West Africa, where Roxana 
is manager of a USAlD-funded family plan- 
ning project. 

Susan Hazard Caret and her husband, 
Ron, announce the birth of their first child. 



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Winifred Ann Caret, on April 24, 1988. They 
would lo\e to show her off to an\' friends 
who visit thoni in the Los Ani;ele-. ,iie,i 

John Jacobson (see Melissa Bradford Ja- 
cobson 721 

Robert D. Lane, Jr., .i partner ni the real 
estate department of the Philadelphia and 
Princeton law firm of Fox, Rothschild, 
O'Brien & Frankel, and the program chair of 
the Philadelphia Bar Associations real prop- 
erty section, was the principal speaker at a 
full-da\ seminar on "Zoning Law and Prac- 
tice in Philadelphia" presented bv the 
Philadelphia Bar Institute last November 
Robert, his wife, and their two children live 
in Philadelphia 

Peter Noll has settled in the Cincinnati 
area (Cold Spring, Kv.), where he is branch 
manager of Goulds Pumps for Ohio, Ken- 
tucky, and Indiana. Pete recently returned 
from a four-\ear sta\' in the Far Fast. 

Nina Peskoe Peyser, South Orange, N.J., 
is active in public policy anci health planning 
issues relating to substance abuse, especially 
as it relates to AIDS, and is working on drug 
treatment research at Beth Israel Medical 
Center m New ^ork City. 

Miner Raymond IV has been working at 
Domino's Pi/za, Inc., as group marketing di- 
rector for the last eighteen months. He and 
his wife, Beth, are living in Ann Arbor, Mich., 
and are expecting their first child in April. 

Dr Santina L. Siena has been appointed 
chief of the obstetrics and g\'necologv de- 
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sociation in Providence. She is a clinical as- 
sistant professor of ob/gvn at Brown and 
In es 111 rro\ ideiKc 

Rogeriee Thompson, an associate judge 
in the Rhode Island state district court, has 
been named to the Bryant College board of 
trustees. Before being appointed to the 
bench, she was senior partner in the law firm 
of Thompson & Thompson in Providence. 
She also served as assistant city solicitor for 
Providence and as a senior attorney and 
managing attorney for Rhode Island Legal 
Services, Inc. 

Shelley Feldman Wallace, West 1 lartford. 
Conn . sa\s thai now that her twin sons are 
in second grade, she has opened her own 
business, a service that places attorneys in 
temporary and part-time positions. "1 
thought The Law Registry would attract 
mostly working mothers, like myself, but 75 
percent of my applicants are men," she 
writes. 

Dr. M. Denise Dudley Wiley is an assis- 
tant professor ot dermatology at the Univer- 
sity of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, 
where she is dex'eloping a program of der- 
matolgic laser surgery with an emphasis on 
vascular lesions. She lives at 607 N.E. 13th 
St., Oklahoma City 73104, with her two chil- 
dren, Christopher, 10, and .Amber, 8, 

Dr Walter W. Williams, Stone Mountain, 
Ga., writes: "This is tor those who knew me 
as 'Slim.' A major accomplishment for me 
during 1987 and 1988 was finally achieving 
my ideal body weight. There's something to 
be said for aggressive iron pumping, good 
nutrition, and getting older." 



74 



Robert B. Brown and his wife. Since 
Ernst, "have a new wonder in our lives - 
Rachel Hillary Brown, born April 21, 1988. 
She is full of spirit and joy and a great teach- 
er." They live in Baltinn)re, where Bob is an 
acupuncturist 

Dr H. Wayne Carver ('77 M.D.) and Dr. 
Deborah A. DeHertogh ('77 M.D.) announce 
the birth of their first child, James Francis 
Carver, on Aug. 1, 1988. ""Two of Jamie's 
grandparents are Kenneth W. DeHertogh "51 , 
'55 A.M. and Elaine Barry DeHertogh =^1 
Thomas Austin Barry '^)^ was his great- 
grandlather Please send an application for 
the class ot 2iH)m," 

C. Eugene Emery, Jr . has received the 
1988 Responsibility in Journalism Award for 
his investigative reporting on a wide range of 
stories in the occult and pseudoscientific 
field for the Pwi'iitcncc Jounml-Bitlh'tiu. The 
award was presented recently in Chicago at 
the annual meeting of the Committee for the 
Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Para- 
normal, a group of scientists and journalists 
who are interested in extrasensory percep- 
tion, UFO sightings, astrology, and uncon- 
ventional medical treatments. Gene joined 
the loiiniiil-Biillctiii in 1975 and became the 
paper's science and medical writer in 1980. 
I le li\ es in Cranston, R 1 

Laurance J. Ginsberg has been named 
partner in the Boston office of Coopers & Lv- 



brand, an international accounting and con- 
sulting firm. I le specializes in providing tax 
services to middle market and high technolo- 
gies companies and is a frequent speaker on 
taxation issues for clients and professional 
organizations. He joined the firm in 1982. 
Larry lives in Andover, Mass., with his wife, 
Rena, and three children, Alan, Robert, and 
Erica 

Andrew M. Gralla's presentation graph- 
ics company. Corporate Visions, has been in- 
cluded in the Inc. ,500 list of rapidly growing 
businesses. Andrew lives in Arlington, Va. 

Nancy Hough moved to Ponca City, 
Okla.. List lebruary She is still with DuPont, 
now an audit supervisor at the Conoco 
petroleum subsidiary. "Give me a call if 
you"re within a 200-mile radius," she writes. 
"Distances don't matter so much out here." 

Pam Mullen McEnroe and her husband, 
John, announce the birth of their first child, 
Elizabeth Hope, on May 22, 1988. They live 
in Fvanston, 111. 

Marc E. Perlmutter lives with his wife. 
Sue, and children, Dara, 7, and Eric, 4, in 
Tokyo, where, in September 1987, .Marc 
opened the Tokwi office of Paul, Weiss, 
Rit^ind, Wharton & Garrison, a law firm 
based in New "^ork City. Before moving to 
Tokyo, they lived for a year in Hong Kong, 
where Marc was the managing partner of the 
firm's Hong Kong office. 

Dr John Regan and Jeanne Scott were 
married recently. They live in Dallas, where 
John practices spinal orthopedic surgery at 
the Texas Back Institute. 

Lenny Savoie is a marketing executive 
with Plavtex and writes music on the side. 
He and his wife, Susan, a marketing execu- 
tive at Beiersdorf (N'ivea) have lived in Cos 
Cob, Conn,, since 1985, 

Joel Shalowitz (see Madeleine Ullman 
Shalowitz ~^t 

Barry C. Slagle supervises forty lawyers 
in the telonv dnision of the Milwaukee trial 
office of the public defender He lives in Mil- 
waukee 

Jeffrey C. Wayland is living in .Middle- 
bury, \t . and practicing with the law firm of 
Kelley, Meub. Powers & English. 

Richard W. Wingate and Karen Rae 
Heller were married on Oct. 2.'^. His brother. 
Randy '7ti, was best man. Richard is senior 
\ ice president, artists and repertoire, for 
PolvGram Records in New ^brk City, where ]i 
he and Karen live. ' 

Curt C. Zingaro writes: "Cincinnati is 
completing its bicentennial, and our family is 
starting our sixth year here. Our third child, 
Matthew, was born on the Reds' opening 
day, April b, 1987, and his brother, Vincent, 9, 
and sister, Nicole, 5, are making sure he prac- 
tices baseball every day. We would love to 
hear from any of the old gang if their travels 
take them through Cincinnati. You gotta try 
the chill,"" 



75 



Christine Begole continues to live in 
New "lork C it\ w ith her husband, Judson P. 
Saviskas. and two children. A freelance writ- 



56 / FFBI^l AR'i I i.sif 



er iind editor, she writes monthly newsletters 
for several firms. 

Frank A. Bellis and his wife, Marilyn, an- 
nounce the birth of triplet boys - Richard, 
Daniel, and Mark - on April 25, 1988. Frank 
is general counsel to Inductotherm Indus- 
tries, Rancocas, N.J. The family lives in North 
Hanover Township. 

Marty Epstein and his wife, Lin, an- 
nounce the birth in May of their son. Max. 
Marty manages the University of Alaska's 
170,000-acre investment real estate portfolio. 
Projects being planned or in progress include 
subdivisions, commercial and industrial de- 
velopment, gold mines, and timber sales. Lin 
is a teacher, now on leave to care for Ma,\. 
They live in Fairbanks. 

Dr Harold K. Gever, Langhorne, Pa., is 
physician-manager for Medi-Group Central 
in Mercer\'ille, N.J. "I am also becoming an 
expert on 'Sesame Street' affairs with Evan, 4, 
and Allison, 2." 

Dr. Christine Gleason is an assistant pro- 
fessor of pediatrics, neonatology division, at 
Johns Hopkins Hospital. She and her hus- 
band, Erik Larson (Penn 76), a writer, an- 
nounce the birth of their first child, Kristen 
Alexandra Larson, on Feb. 6, 1988. "Beautiful 
red hair," Christine notes. They live in Balti- 
more. 

Katharine Billings Hudson has been ap- 
pointed de\elopment writer at Bowdoin Col- 
lege in Brunswick, Maine. She had most re- 
cently been executive director of the Penob- 
scot Historical Society in Brunswick. Prior to 
that, she had been employed at the Maine 
Maritime Musuem, the Maine Audubon So- 
ciety, and the Museum of African Art at the 
Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. 

David J. Jarmul is director of the Nation- 
al Academies .News Service, which is affiliat- 
ed with the National Academy of Sciences 
and syndicated by The .New "iork Times Syn- 
dication Sales Corporation. He and his wife, 
Champa, have two sons and live in Takoma 
Park, Md, 

Michal Bauer Kuttler writes that her sec- 
ond daughter, Lori Allison, was born on 
April 26, 1988. Her sister, Dana, is 2 1 /2. Mic- 
ki works three days a week at Mony Finan- 
cial Services and four days a week at home 
with the girls. They live in Haworth, N.J. 
) Dr. Joseph A. Meis and his wife, Steph- 
anie, report the birth of their second child, 
David Callner Meis, on Sept. 12. Their 
daughter, Libby, is 3. Joe is an orthopedic sur- 
geon practicing in the south suburbs of 
Chicago. Stephanie is a concert violinist. 
They live in Flossmoor, 111. 

Constance Murphy married Joseph Perra 
in March 1987. Constance is director of hu- 
man resources, planning and development, 
for Pitney Bowes Inc. She would love to hear 
from "old" Brown friends at 24 Mohawk 
Trail, Redding, Conn. 06875. 

Meredith Miller Post is writing again for 
"As The World Turns," after taking some 
time off to raise Madeline, 2, and a stint writ- 
ing for "Santa Barbara." She has had her first 
sitcom, "Downwardly Mobile," optioned. 
Her husband, Frank, an artist, recently had a 
one-man show at Bloomingdale's in New 



York City. "So \\e'\ e been biis\', but never too 
busy to see Judy Course Hoffman '76 and 
her new husband, Andy Hoffman, or Audrey 
Wolfson '77." Meredith and Frank live in 
New York City. 

Dr. Cheryl Soled Reid, Vlarlton, N.J., was 
recently named associate director of the pedi- 
atric residency program at Cooper Hospi- 
tal/University .Medical Center in Camden, 
N.J. The twins, Rebecca and Benjamin, are 18 
months old. 

Dr. Linda Semlitz writes that she and her 
family (husband Ed and daughter Elizabeth) 
ha\e returned from Hong Kong and are liv- 
ing in Portland, Oreg., where she has a pri- 
vate child psychiatry practice. Her second 
child, Cameron lacob Gilbert, was born last 
August 

Dr. Madeleine UUman Shalowitz, after 
six years in private practice, is doing a fel- 
lowship in child behavior and development 
at Northwestern University. Her husband, 
Joel '74, '77 M.D., is associate professor of 
medicine and associate professor of business 
at Northwestern. He is in private practice 
and is the program director, health and hos- 
pital services management, at Northwestern. 
Thev ha\e three children, David, 7, Kira, 5, 
and liana, 5 months, and live in Glencoe, 111. 

Dr. Paul F. Spears, a gastroenterologist, 
and Dr Laura Smith Spears, a dermatologist, 
are practicing in ^ork, Pa. They have a 
daughter, Hilary, 5, and a son, David, 3. 

Class President Alex Szabo and Treasurer 
Bill Taylor encourage all classmates to start 
planning for the 15th reunion in May 1990. 
Any suggestions regarding activities or com- 
ments can be sent to: Alex Szabo, 12 Shady 
Ln., Greenwich, Conn. 06831; or Bill Taylor, 
23 Timberwick Dr, Fleniington, N.J. 08822. 

Dr Stephen M. Upham, Danielson, 
Conn., was elected president of the medical 
staff at Day Kimball Hospital last June. 

Michael J. Walach, Sudbury, Mass., is 
pursing his .\1 B.A. at .Northeastern Universi- 
ty's High Technolog\' MBA. program. 

Leighton A. Wildrick, his wife. Eve, and 
children, Remy and Whitney, are still living 
in the historic section of center city Philadel- 
phia. Leighton's international consulting 
business, which provides a range of services 
to foreign investors, "continues to grow and 
prosper." 



76 



Dr. Amy FT. Arnsten, her husband, 
Christopher \ an D\ck, and their son, James 
Raphael van Dvck, 1, live in New Haven, 
Conn. Amy is an assistant professor at Yale 
Medical School doing research on the neural 
basis of cognitive function and cognitive dis- 
orders such as Alzheimer's disease and 
schizophrenia. 

Dr. John N. Bergeron is medical director 
and staff internist at Wood River Health Ser- 
vices, a rural community health center in 
Hope Valley, R.l. He lives with his wife and 
two boys in nearby Westerly. 

M. Elaine Dolan Brown and Douglas 
Wheeler Brown SI announce the birth of 
Nathaniel Wheeler on Aug. 30. They live in 



Port Washingti>n, N.^'. 

Max Crittenden and Rebecca Alzofon 
were married in Tiburon, Calif., on July 30, 
1988. Max is still a design engineer at SRI In- 
ternational and still racing and developing 
the Formula Vee he designed. "It's now one 
of the fastest cars in the region, better than its 
driver." Max and Rebecca live in their home- 
town, Menlo Park. 

Rebecca DeLamotte is \ice president of 
marketing at Energy Investment, a Boston 
consulting firm. She lives at 10 Avon St., #6, 
Cambridge, Mass. 02138. 

Sheri Van Greenby Fanaroff is assistant 
general counsel for Fred S. James & Compa- 
ny, Inc., New York City. Her husband, Paul 
Fanaroff, is an account executive for Dean 
Witter They have a son, Seth David Fanaroff, 
2, and live in Woodbridge, N.J. 

Lisa C. Fancher is still litigating for 
Graves, Donpherlz, Hearon & Moody in 
Austin, Texas, and windsurfing and moun- 
tain bike riding whenever possible. 

Keith Glassman is a modern dance chore- 
ographer/performer living in New York City. 
Last June, he was awarded a choreography 
commission from PS, I, The Institute for Art 
and Urban Resources and is working on new 
material to be performed in the late spring. 
He lives with Sarah Tozer, his partner of 
nearly ten years, at 15 Leroy St., #11, New 
York City l'0014. (212) 255-7968. 

Eric S. Goldman and his wife, Susan, an- 
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on Feb. 10, 1988. They "are happily en- 
sconced" in Metuchen, N.J., and would wel- 
come he.iriiif; trom old friends. 

Bill Grebenc, l.adue, Mo , is an area man- 
ager for Continental Cirain in St Louis. This 
past summer and fall he competed in tri- 
athlons and biathlons throughout the Mid- 
west. 

Robert Gumer is a television agent in l.os 
Angeles with CM, "the largest talent and lit- 
erary agency in the world." His wife, Janet, is 
the associate dean of I'epperdine University 
Law School. Jennifer is now in pre-school. 
They live in Tarzana. 

Beer marketing continues to keep Tammi 
Hauck busy. As low-calorie category director, 
she has responsibility for Miller Brewing 
Company's largest-selling brand. Miller Lite, 
and new low-calorie products. Her address is 
5675 North Lake Rd., Oconomowoc, Wis. 
53066. 

Tom Hennick and his wife, Nancy, have 
two children, Meghan, 3, and Jamie, who 
was born on Jan. 12, 1988. They live in Nau- 
gatuck, Conn. 

Judy Course Hoffman (see Meredith 
Miller Post 75) 

Harriet Goldman Lang, Andover, Mass., 
is managing a department at Mitre Corpora- 
tion involved in computer security. "The 
work is quite exciting, especially in this day 
of computer viruses and crime. We recently 
celebrated Simona's first birthday." 

Kathryn Mannes, Bethesda, Md., writes 
that her second daughter, Jillian, was born 
last May. Kathryn is still teaching at Ameri- 
can University, where Alexandra is enrolled 
in nursery school. 

Bob Mars and his wife, Jan, are expecting 
their second child in February. They live in 
Eden Prairie, Minn., where Bob runs an in- 
dustrial supply wholesale company with lo- 
cations in Duluth and the Twin Cities. 

Susan Johnson McLean and Bob McLean 
report the birth of their fourth child, Audrey 
Hughes, on Sept. 7. She joins Clare, 7 1/2, 
Bobby, 6, and Andrew, 4. They live in Fort 
Washington, I'a 

John Henry Pitts and his wife, Karen 
Abernathy Pitts '78, have moved to 2702 Isa- 
bella, I louston, Texas 77004. Kendrick I'harr 
Pitts was born on July 7, 1987. Karen is still in 
private law practice, and John Henry is still 
working in energy financing at First City, 
Texas. 

The Rev. Terry A. Schmitt, Ticonderoga, 
N.Y., announces the birth of Alexis Nova on 
March 29, 1988. Terry continues to pursue his 
Ph.D. in sociology at Yale. At this point, he 
writes, he is looking at research on cross-cul- 
tural communication as a dissertation topic. 

Joseph H. Sommer "is finally employed 
after postgraduate education in chemistry 
(Columbia '80) and law (Yale '88). I work as 
an attorney at the Federal Reserve Bank of 
New York and spend my spare time appreci- 
ating food ingredient labels. 1 still have my 
hair" You mav drop him a note at 235 West 
75th St , Apt- 3T, New York, NY 10023. 

Dr Sally Olver Sondergaard is in private 
practice in ob-gyn in Baltimore. Neal '72 does 
research for the Navy in Annapolis. They live 



in Severna Park, Md., with their two chil- 
dren, Krista, 6, and Brian, 3. 

Linda Ruth Strominger, a United Metho- 
dist ministiT, IS directing a dav-care center in 
St l.duis I Irr mcillier, v\ hii sent the news, is 
Marleah Hammond Strominger '47, of St. 
Louis. 

Lisa C. Van Dusen and her husband, John 
Kelley, are the "proud and busy" parents of 
Benjamin, who was born on Sept. 14, 1987. 
Lisa is still director of marketing at Cable Co- 
op, a cable TV company in Palo Alto, Calif., 
where "our roots go deeper yearly." 

Dr. Ronald G. Washburn joined the facul- 
ty of Bowman Gray School of Medicine in 
Winston-Salem, N.C., in July 1987. He is an 
assistant professor of medicine, division of 
infectious diseases. His mycology research is 
supported by the National Institutes of 
Health and the American Lung Association. 
His wife, Deborah, is a student in the physi- 
cian assistant program. Thev live in Ad- 
vance, N.C. 

Dan Wasser and Marcia Zaiac Wasser '78 
announce the birth of Madeline on April 3, 
1988. Marcia is vice president of Citadel In- 
centive Marketing, and Dan is an attorney at 
Franklin, Weinrip, Rudell & Vassallo. They 
live in New York City. 

Randy Wingate (see Richard W. Wingate 
'74). 

Sylvia Schwarz Winik continues as assis- 
tant general counsel for the Corporation for 
Public Broadcasting in Washington, DC. "1 
am happy to report the birth of Allison Les- 
ley last March. She joins Daniel, 3 1 12. Life is 
a little too busy, but happily so." 



Alumni Service Award 



77 



Dr Arthur Bartolozzi, Philadelphia, was 
married to Terry Ann Hazard, an artist and 
teacher, on July 2, 1988, in Philadelphia. A 
number of Brown alumni were present. In 
the October issue, a classnote referred to him 
incorrectly as Dr, Anthony Bartolozzi. 

Stuart A. Billings is an architect practic- 
ing in Washington, D.C. "I'm anxiously 
awaiting commissions from my Brown class- 
mates to design their new homes, additions, 
office buildings, etc. My address is 2418 ,37th 
St. NW, Washington, d'.C. 20007." 

Richard Carell and Aileen celebrated 
their lOth anniversary in California. They 
welcome news from other "West (or East) 
Coast intransigents and look forward to 
Ellen Carucci's skating party. Totally radi- 
cal!" Richard and Aileen live in San Francis- 
co. 

Joanne Costello Franzel and her hus- 
band, Jeff, announce the birth of their son, 
David, t)n Nov. 16, 1987. Joanne is practicing 
law part-time at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in 
New York City. Jeff, a songwriter and com- 
poser, has his first pop song on the charts: 
Taylor Daync's "Don't Rush Me." 

Wendy E. Frontiero is an architect with a 
lirm 111 Salem, Mass., and living in Rockport, 
Mass,, where she and her husband, Dennis 
Carlberg, "enjoy swimming in the quarries in 
the summer and walking tourist-tree streets 
in the winter. My father, Paul A. Frontiero 




Jean A. Follett '77, an architec- 
tural historian in Pawtucket, R.I., is 
class president, past president of the 
Association of Class Officers, former 
member of the Associated Alumni 
Board of Governors, former head class 
agent, and a member of the board of 
governors. Brown Club of Rhode Is- 
land. 



'54, lives in Raleigh, N.C, and continues 
working for IBM, most recently with their 
European division. He and his wife, Dorothy, 
enjoy frequent domestic and international 
travel for business and pleasure now that 
their youngest child, Michael (NCSU '90) is 
off at college. An alumnus of the Brown 
Band, my dad still amazes his family with an 
occasional outburst of baton twirling," 

Susan L. Groll and Theodore J. Langevin 
announce that Daniel, 5, and Sharon, 2, have 
a new sister, Elizabeth Groll Langevin, born 
Aug. 25. Ted is manager of electronic devel- 
opment at New Hermes, Norwalk, Conn., 
and Sue is working part-time as a research 
associate in the ophthalmology department 
of the Yale Medical School. They live in 
Woodbridge, Conn. 

The Rev. Kathryn M. Gronostalski. rector 
of St. George's Episcopal Church in Newport, 
R.I., was married to David E. Gates on Aug. 
20. They are living at 195 Indian Ave., Mid- 
dletown, R.l. 02840. 

After finishing his fellowship in nuclear 
medicine at Harvard, Dr William D. Johns 
joined the staff at Danbury Hospital (Conn.) 
and is an assistant clinical professor at the 
University of Connecticut School of Medi- 
cine. He lives in Bethel, Conn., with his wife, 
Charlene, and daughter, Michelle. 

Dr. Jan G. Kaplowitz has a private prac- 
tice and is enrolled in a postgraduate fellow- 
ship in applied spinal biomechanical engi- 
neering. He writes that he enjoys life in Stam- 
ford, Conn., with his wife, Roni, and Jason, 
18 months, 

Joyce Kruskal and Neal Madras (McGill 
'79, Cornell '84 Ph.D.) were married on May 
29, 1988. Correspondence is welcome at 80 



58 / FEBKUAKY 1989 



Robert Hicks Dr., Willovvdale, Ontario 1VI2R 
3R4, Canada. Willow-dale is part of metro- 
politan Toronto. 

Mollie Miller directed "The Closed Set," 
which was aired Nov. 18 on PBS's Great Per- 
formances series, "Tales of the Hollywood 
Hills." She then directed Brecht's The leivish 
Wife at the Beverly Hills Playhouse. The play 
ran Sundays from mid-November through 
mid-December Mollie lives in Los Angeles. 
Dr Mark A. Musen and his wife, Elyse, 
announce the birth of their first child. Jay 
Derek Musen, on July 29, 1987. Mark finished 
his Ph.D. in medical information sciences at 
Stanford in December 1987 and then spent 
nine months doing postdoctoral work at 
Erasmus University in Rotterdam. He is now 
assistant professor of medicine in the section 
on medical informatics at Stanford Universi- 
ty School of Medicine. 

Stephen A. Owens and Karen Carter '78 
were married on Nov. 12 in Nashville, Tenn. 
Jill Berkelhammer Zorn '78 was matron of 
honor, and a number of Brown alumni were 
also present. Karen is an attorney with the 
law firm of Lewis & Roca in Phoenix. For the 
last two years, Steve had been the state direc- 
tor for Senator Albert Gore, Jr (D-Tenn.) and 
lived in Nashville. In December, he began 
working for the law firm of Brown &l Bain in 
Phoenix. Their address is 306 West Corona- 
do, Phoenix 85003. 

Dr David C. Radovsky, Sharon, Mass., is 
a member of Self-Realization Fellowship and 
would enjoy hearing from other Brown 
alumni who are so involved. 

.After a few years as transient academics, 
Alan D. Schrift and his wife, Jill, have settled 
in at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. Alan 
is teaching recent European philosophy and 
interdisciplinary courses "in what, for lack of 
, a better name, 1 call postmodern cultural crit- 
: icism. Jill teaches half-time in the art depart- 
1 ment. We just returned from attending a con- 
I ference in Amsterdam, and we're looking 
I forward to spending the summer working in 
1 Paris." 

Phil Wiscoff (see Barbara Goldweber 
Wiscoff 74) 

Audrey Wolf son (see Meredith Miller 
: Post '75). 



1 78 

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Susan Weil Adesman (81 M.D.) and 
1 Dr. Michael Bart Adesman '79, '82 M.D. an- 
1 nounce the birth of Jennifer Weil Adesman 
• on April 20, 1987. "At 18 months her vocabu- 
lary is extensive and her favorite animals are 
appropriately teddy bears." Michael recently 
joined a private practice in invasive cardiolo- 
gy at Crozer-Chester Medical Center outside 
of Philadelphia. Susan is still in a private 
practice of ob-gyn and an assistant professor 
on the faculty of Robert Wood Johnson Medi- 
cal School (University of Medicine and Den- 
tistry for New Jersey). They live in "the heart 
of colonial Philadelphia" and welcome visi- 
tors. 

Dr Jacob Asher and Nancy E. Hosay are 
still living in San Francisco, "trying to keep 
on living here if Jack can find a job in ENT/- 



facial plastic surgery to keep him busy. We're 
expecting our first child in April, which defi- 
nitely provides incentive to nail down details 
like a steady income. We urge \'isitors to 
come on, before the guest room disappears 
and becomes a nursery. Our address is 365 
Valley St., San Francisco 94131." 

Ann Belsky and Rick Moranis announce 
the birth of Mitchell Moranis on Sept. 21, 
1988. Rachel is 2. They live in New York City 

Jill Berkelhammer and Karen Carter (see 
Stephen A. Owens '77) 

Michael W. Blumstein and Dr Eve Cali- 
gor announce the birth of Jonah Andrew 
Blumstein on April 18, 1987. "His most fre- 
quently said word is 'uh-oh' and he has lots 
of energy" They live in New York City. 

Dr Thomas L. Chou and Kathryn Ko 
(Stanford '85) were married last August. 
Kathryn is a first-year student at Harvard 
Business School, and Thomas is a practicing 
orthodontist with offices in Reading and 
Chelmsford, Mass. They live in Boston. 

Gerard Coste and Diane Demirjian were 
married in Cambridge, Mass., on Oct. 8, with 
a number of Brown alumni in attendance. 
Gerard, Ted VonGerichten, and Tom Turn- 
bull are collaborating on a book based on 
their Brown soccer experience entitled Goals. 
Saves and Beiicliwantung. They live in Somer- 
ville , Mass. 

John Gevertz (see Celia Ernstof Adler 
'25). 

Dr John Paul Grandy, Southfield, Mich., 
is finishing his neonatal fellowship at the De- 
troit Medical Center His daughter, Saman- 
tha, 18 months, has already spent six months 
with her grandparents in India. 

In 1986, Andra Barmash Greene and her 
husband moved to Newport Beach, Calif., 
where she is a litigator for the Los Angeles 
firm of Irell & Manella. On Sept. 25, Alyssa 
Claire Greene was born. "That makes her a 
native Californian. After my maternity leave, 
1 will return to work full-time. The ultimate 
challenge - motherhood and a career" 

Jonathan Groisser, McLean, Va., reports 
that his son, Benjamin Newcomb Groisser, 18 
months, is following in his mother's (Hana 
Newcomb) footsteps on her family's veg- 
etable farm in Vienna, Va. Jon farms week- 
ends and evenings. 

Nancy J. Hament, New York City, a sen- 
ior vice president at Shearson Lehman Hut- 
ton, has joined the mortgage-backed securi- 
ties department and celebrated her 10th an- 
niversary with the firm in January. 

Joyce E. Hempstead, Dorchester, Mass., 
writes that "raising Bethany, 2 on July 2, 
1988, continues to transform what might oth- 
erwise be mundane in our lives. And 1 will 
challenge anyone who would warn me about 
the 'terrible two's.' My graphic design busi- 
ness at home is tremendously satisfying. Get- 
ting a Mac, after resisting for so many years 
on philosophical grounds (fear of technolo- 
gy), has brought in more business and made 
it all a lot more fun." 

Robert Herold and Linda Lawrence were 
married on Oct. 15 in Saratoga, N.J. They are 
living in Palo Alto, Calif. 

Karen Meisel Hoguet, Cincinnati, writes 



that her second daughter, Laura, was born in 
November 1987, and Jennifer was 3 last June. 
"Between Laura's birth and living through a 
corporate takeover, it has been a difficult and 
exciting year," Karen says. "I am still operat- 
ing vice president of planning at Federated 
Department Stores, now a part of Campeau 
Corporation." 

The notice about Catherine J. Lanctot's 
wedding in the September classnotes con- 
tained an error Catherine's brother. Marc '85, 
attended the ceremony. He was misidentified 
as a sister, Marie. 

Leora Rosenberg Levy and her husband, 
Steven Levy (Connecticut College '77), are 
living in Greenwich, Conn., with their 
Labrador retriever puppy, Holland's Hard-a- 
lee, a.k.a. Zeus. "We moved here last summer 
from Manhattan and are enjoying our new 
lifestyle and the community," Leora writes. 
"1 am busy decorating and furnishing our 
home. I'd love to hear from classmates in the 
area." 

Rusty Magee. New York City, attended 
last year's Tony Awards, where his wife, Ali- 
son Eraser, was nominated for "Best Actress 
in a Musical" for her performance in Ro- 
mance. Romance. 

Steven J. Miller has become a partner in 
the law firm of Goodman Weiss Freedman in 
Cleveland - 

Annette LaPorte Nazareth is a general 
partner and general counsel of Mabon, Nu- 
gent & Company, a New York-based securi- 
ties brokerage and investment banking firm. 
She lives in New Rochelle, N.Y., with her 
husband, Roger W. Ferguson (Harvard '73, 
'79 J.D., '81 Ph.D.), a management consultant 
at McKinsey & Company. Annette is the 
daughter of Dolores LaPorte Nazareth '55. 

Karen Abernathy Pitts (see John Henry 
Pitts '76), 

Roosevelt Robinson HI left consulting in 
January to begin a Ford Motor Company 
dealer training program at Avalon Lincoln- 
Mercury in Carson, Calif. A week after the 
job change, Allison Nicole Robinson was 
born on Jan. 23, 1988. "It was great to see ev- 
eryone at the 10th reunion," he writes. "It 
was also good to survive another alumni 
aigby game." Roosevelt and his wife, Mickie, 
live in Los Angeles. 

Dr Robert B. Shpiner, Los Angeles, is a 



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rellow in pulmonary/critical care. He adds, 
"Married. \o children. .\'o Volvo." 

Dr. Charles F. von Gunten completed his 
M.D. at the L nuersitv ot Colorado in Mav 
and his Ph.D. in hiochemistrv in September. 
He is now doing his internship and residency 
at \'orth\\estern University in Chicago. 

Mark Strominger and his wite, Barbara 
Woodall Strominger 'SO, have two daugh- 
ters: Jillian Lee, 2, and Kelly Ann, 10 months. 
They live in Morris Plains, N.J., where Mark 
is a marketing director for Banquet Foods 
Mark's mother is Marleah Hammond Strom- 
inger '47 of St. Louis, who sent this update, 

Marcia Zaiac Wasser < see Dan Wasser 

Dr. Jill C. Weiskopf completed her obli- 
gations to the National Health Service Corps 
last June, then took three months off to "re- 
coup and regroup - very therapeutic." In Oc- 
tober, she joined Rhode Island Group Health 
in pediatrics in the Warwick, R.L, office. "I'm 
turning into a real Rhode Islander." Jill lives 
in Providence. 



79 



Fred Baumgarten (see Deborah A. Baum- 
garten s^i 

W. Barry Blum is a partner in the Miami 
law tirm of Tew Jorden Schulte & Beasky. He 
and his wife, Lori Plotkin Blum (Johns Hop- 
kins '80), live on the campus of the Universi- 
ty of Miami, where they are associate masters 
of a residential college. Lori is a clinical psy- 
chologist and associate professor at the Uni- 
\ersify. "We have two dogs and 600 kids be- 
tween 18 and 22," Barry writes. "Anyone in 
the area is welcome to visit with our family. 
Call (305) 284-3639." 

Judith L. Bronstein, Tucson, Ariz., is an 
assistant professor of ecology and evolution- 
ary biology at the University of Arizona. 

Amy J. Davidoff and her husband, Steven 
Gore, announce the birth of .Alena Hadass on 
Aug. 20. They live in Baltimore, where Amy 
is a health planner at the University of Mary- 
land Hospital. Their address is 5816 Green- 
spring Ave., Baltimore 21209. 

Karen E. Erb and Richard J, l.ombardo 
were married on Oct. 14. They are legal edi- 
tors at West Publishing Company in West- 
bury, N.Y 

Robert J. Falb, Washington, D.C., has 
been promoted to legislative director for 
Congressman Peter J. Visdosky (D-lnd). 

Laurie E. Friedman, Huntington, N.Y., is 
the online ser\ ices administrator of the 
Physics Information .Network at the Ameri- 
can Institute of Physics. 

Sara Deadrick Frye, Be\erly Farms, 
Mass., 'is learning to be a mother with the 
birth of Anna Flisabeth Frye last April. Free 
time is spent contributing sweat equity to 
our home reno\ation." 

Judith A. Gintz and Martin D. Haske 
(MIT '65) were married in January 1987. Mar- 
tin is a consultant with The Analytic Sciences 
Corporation in Reading, Mass. Last year, Ju- 
dith became corporate manager of compen- 
sation, benefits, and ct)mputer information 
systems at Alpha Industries, Inc., a high- 



technology company in Woburn, Mass. Their 
address is 462 PlaceLn., Woburn 01801. 
Honey Lynn Goldberg, Chicago, was re- 

centK promoted to di\ i--ion counsel, interna- 
tional operations, in charge of Abbott Labo- 
ratories' Huropean and Latin American legal 
operation^- 

Marcia Weinstein Goldgar ,ind A. Ben- 
jamin Goldgar announce the birth of Sarah 
Rachel i.-'n Jan. 14, 1988. Ben is working at the 
law firm of Keck, Mahin & Cate in Chicago, 
and Marci has a part-time job in the strategic 
planning department of Household Interna- 
tional. Thev li\-e in \orthbrook. 111 

Harry Goldstein (see Paul Goldstein 46). 

Ann Morris Hart and David G. Hart re- 
port that their second >on, Michael Streeter 
Hart, was born "very quickly" on Oct. 13. 
His brother, John, 3, "is reserving judgment 
so far, but seems to like the new baby." Ann 
and Dave live in Temple Terrace, Fla., where 
Dave continues to work for GTE Data Ser- 
vices, and Ann stavs busy at home. 

Beth Dyer Haskel and Dr. Ethan J. 
Haskel are living m St. Louis with their son, 
Michael, T Ethan is a cardiology fellow at 
Washington Uni\'ersity, and Beth is a free- 
lance fundraiser 

Susan Ekimoto Jaworowski and her hus- 
band, Richard Ekimoti), announce the birth 
of their daughter, Katva Allegra, on July 18. 
Susan has returned to work part-time as a re- 
searcher/writer at the legislative reference 
bureau in Honolulu. Her publications at the 
bureau include "Ohaua Zoning: A Five- Year 
Review" and "Trash: A Commentarv on a 
Proposal." She'd love to hear from her AD- 
Phi brothers at 94-630 Kuaie St., Mililani, 
Hawaii 96789. 



Alumni Service Award 




Elbert L. Robertson '79, New 

York City, is head minority coordina- 
tor and member of the executive com- 
mittee of NASP; minority coordinator 
in Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington, 
D.C., and New York City; and a mem- 
ber of NASP's Third World Outreach 
ti> Schools program. 



Paul J. Jester says that "with four years 
under my belt in San Diego, it has become 
my longest stint outside of my hometown. 
Another four years is not out of the question. 
If friends are in the area, please check direc- 
tory assistance for my number because I 
moved again. I'm looking forward to the 
1 0th reunion." 

Pamela Stross Kenney and her husband. 
Jay (Harvard 78), announce the birth of 
Duncan Stross Kenney on July 12, less than 
16 months after Clayton. Pamela reports that 
her chicken cookbook will finally be out late 
in the spring. For copies, please contact her at 
930 Pearl St., Denver, Colo. 80203. (303) 830- 
6864. 

Dr. Jed A. Kwartler and his wife, Carol 
Barash, announce the birth on July 14 of 
Zachary, vvho, Jed reports, "has kept us iquite 
amused since then." Jed was the associate di- 
rector of residency education in the depart- 
ment of otolarvngologN' at .New Jersey Medi- 
cal School. In January, he began a fellowship 
in neuro-otology and skull-base surgery in 
Los Angeles. Carol has a fellowship at the 
Huntington Library. 

Dr John P. Lemglois and Maria Mainelli 
Langlois 76 AM. announce the birth of their 
daughter, Adrienne Nicole, on Aug. 6. They 
are living in Little River, S.C., where John 
practices family medicine. 

Adrierme Morphy married Jack Ladd in 
Oceanside, Calif., on July 16, 1988. A number 
of Brown alumni attended the ceremony. 

Dr. Peter J. Panton ('82 M.D.) is in pri- 
vate practice in Oak Park, 111., and serves on 
the clinical faculty of the University of Illi- 
nois at Chicago. He was recently certified by 
the American Board of Ophthalmology. He 
lives in River Forest, 111. 

Donald Richards is an associate with the 
Los Angeles office of Mudge Rose Guthrie 
.Alexander & Ferdon, a .New York law firm. 
Priends are invited to call him at work, (213) 
613-1112, oral home, (213) 294-4901. 

Todd I. Richmond, San Francisco, recent- 
ly attended a \'.-\SP conference on campus. 
"It was lots of fun, but little did 1 realize that 
a tie against Y'ale would be a highlight of the 
football season. I'm looking forward to re- 
turning to Brown again for the 10th reunion." 

Ellen Rosen and Michael Zuckert 80 
welcomed the arrival of Sara Elizabeth on 
Oct. 2. They are both attorneys in New York 
City 

Lizanne Landsman Rosenzweig and her 
husband, Jeff Rosenzweig (I lobart 77), an- 
nounce the birth of Steven's brother, Ken- 
neth, on liilv 9. Thev live in New York City. 

Louise Schein is a Fulbright scholar com- 
pleting a year of fieldwork in a Miao village 
in Guizhou, China, toward her Ph.D. in an- 
thropology at UC-Berkeley Her husband, 
Ernie Renda, took a leave from his work as 
an associate at Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin, 
Krim & Ballon in New York to join Louise in 
the lield trcim Mav to August of last year. 

Robert H. Tosh, Jr., Nashville, Tenn., 
writes: "It is highly gratifying to note that a 
number of my classmates are active as area 
chairs for NASP. We had several good con- 
versations during the leadership conference 



60 / FEBRUARY 1989 



held last September on campus. 1 continue to 
do my thing as regional director for the 
Southeast. We're gearing up for another good 
year" 

Richard D. Vespucci has opened a law of- 
fice with Marvin Littky, father of Julie Littky 
'89. They are sharing space in downtown 
West Palm Beach, Fla., and are both looking 
forward to being at Brown in Mav. 

Barbara Goldweber Wisoff and Phil 
Wisoff '77 recently moved to Summit, N.J., 
with their son, Robert. Phil is working for 
American International Group as the vice 
president of telecommunications, and Bar- 
bara is enjoying staving home as a full-time 
mother They would like to hear from class- 
mates in the area. 

Karen Zelden is a vice president at Lot- 
soff Capital Management, a money manage- 
ment firm in Chicago. On Oct. 29, she and 
David Gelford (Washington University '77) 
were married in New Orleans with several 
Brown alumni present. Karen and David are 
living in Chicago. 



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Alison Adderley is a Ph.D. candidate at 
Florida State Uniyersitv in Tallahassee in the 
college of business, 

Mari L. Alschuler, .\ew York City, is com- 
pleting an M.S.W. at Fordham University. 
She works with heroin addicts and AIDS pa- 
tients at Beth Israel Medical Center in the 
methadone maintenance program. 

Frederick S. Armstrong and Lisa W. 
Bevier, Barrington, R.I., were married on Oct. 
8. They spent their honeymoon on Young Is- 
land, St. Vincent, in the Caribbean and are 
now living in Randolph, Mass. 

Debra S. Block left teaching and has be- 
come even "more entrenched in the academic 
world. 1 am studying for my Ph.D. in history 
at Penn on a teaching fellowship. Remember 
how downtrodden our TA's seemed to be? 
There's good reason for it. I'm commuting 
from New York City and still living on East 
78th St." 

Michael Chase and Sarah Winsor Luff 
(Connecticut College '80) were married on 
July 23 at the Evangelical Church Congrega- 
tional in Westborough, Mass. Brad Richards 
was best man, and Bruce Jones and Bruce 
Clark were ushers. "Married life is wonder- 
ful!" Michael and Sarah live in Somerville, 
Mass. 

Richard E. Deutch, Jr., Delrav Beach, Fla , 
is practicing law in Boca Raton vsith his re- 
cently formed firm of Feamon, Harris, Fer- 
nandez c& Deutch, PA. "All snowbirds head- 
ing South for the winter should call at (407) 
994-2800 while \acationing." 

Julia Hechtman and Eric Sail were mar- 
ried on Aug. 28 at the Hotel Meridien in 
Boston. "Eric was my boss when 1 worked at 
Lotus, but 1 have since left there to work as a 
headhunter for Winter, Wyman in Waltham, 
Mass. 1 recruit for high tech sales and mar- 
keting and am having a ball. Eric and 1 are 
hving in Brookline, Mass." 

Sue Howitt (see Jacquelyn B. Cullen SI) 

Jonathan Steven Jaivin and Michael 



Monsarrat (see Melissa Halverstadt '81). 

Richard B. Jerome is living in Washing- 
ton, DC, and working as a legislative assis- 
tant for commerce and judiciary issues for 
Senator Brock Adams of Washington. On 
Nov. 19, Richard married Elizabeth Rose, 
who worked on the Dukakis campaign. 

Richard Kaner and Dr Sara Dayan '82 
were married on Sept. 4 in Stamforci, Conn. 
Bruce Bukiet was an usher, and a number of 
Brown alumni were in attendance. Ric is an 
assistant professor of chemistry at UCLA , 
and Sara is a third-year psychiatric resident 
at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute. 
They live at 180b Benedict Canyon Dr., Bev- 
erly Hills, Calif. 90210. 

Last September, Edward A. Nolfi was 
hired as the full-time law professor for the 
Academy of Court Reporting, paralegal pro- 
gram, Akron, Ohio. 

Lisa Clemens Phillips, San .Antonio, an- 
nounces the birth of her second daughter, 
Katherine Reese, on No\'. 28, 1987. She is the 
granddaughter of Reece Clemens '53. 

Dr. Lee Ann (Birdie) Schaffhausen and 
Dr. Andy Palomo were married on Feb. 27, 
1988, in Miami. Fla. "Although we are both 
doctors, we were glad Robin Zorn, a brides- 
maid who was eight months pregnant, didn't 
deliver during the ceremony." They are liv- 
ing in Miami. 

John A. Schwimmer's recent marriage to 
Rosemary ]acko\ic was witnessed by a num- 
ber of Brown alumni. John continues to work 
as an associate in the law firm of Alschuler, 
Grossman &c Pines in Century City. He and 
Rosemary li\-e in Los Angeles. 

Meridy Smith is the women's soccer 
coach at the University of Cincinnati. In sixth 
seasons, she has compiled a record of 57-24- 
7, has coached a few Ail-Americans, and has 
had two post-season tournament bids. She 
invites Cincinnatians to attend the home 
games. 

Mary J. Sopelak received her MBA. in 
information systems from .New York Univer- 
sity in October. She is coordinator of library 
relations at the H.W. Wilson Company, a 
publishing company in the Bronx, "next to 
Yankee Stadium." She lives in Harrison, N.Y. 

Barbara Woodall Strominger (see Mark 
Strominger '78) 

Patrick T. Weir, his wife, Pat, and two 
children, Erin, 5, and Tim, 2, Uve in St. Louis, 
where Patrick is an engineer for an electric 
utility. 

Michael Zuckert (see Ellen Rosen '79). 



81 



Douglas Wheeler Brown (see M. Elaine 
Dolan Brown '7b). 

Steve Burns (see Vicky Taylor-Burns 82). 

Ronna Clayton-Benjamin (see Aaron B. 
Clayton 85) 

Dr Jacquelyn B. Cullen and Rick Howitt 
celebrated their tirst anni\ersary on Nov. 21. 
They are living in Rochester, N.Y., where 
Jacquelyn is doing a fellowship in high-risk 
obstetrics. Rick is the brother of Sue Howitt 
'80. 

On April 30, 1988, Larry Carbone and 



Stacie Glasow were married in Appleton, 
Wis. A number of classmates attended, in- 
cluding Ed Shober and John Woodring, w ho 
were in the wedding party. Larry and Stacie 
are living in California, where Larry is em- 
ployed by Abbott Laboratories as a district 
sales manager in the greater Los Angeles 
area, and Stacie is a registered nurse at Loma 
Linda University in pulmonary medicine. 
Their address is 114b3 Bobolink Ln., Moreno 
Valley, Calif. 92387. (924-9497). They wel- 
come all fellow Brunonians. 

Jane de Winter writes that her son, An- 
dre Joseph Joutz, was born on Sept. 6. Jane's 
husband, Fred, is an assistant professor at 
George Washington University, and Jane is 
taking care of Andre, finishing her disserta- 
tion, and looking for a job. ".Andre's best girl- 
friend is Laney True Austin, born on .Aug. 3 
to Amy Bower '82 and Jon Austin. " Jane and 
her family live in Kensington, Md. 

James M. Dudek and his wife, Gry, are 
living in Roanoke, Va., where Jim is the resi- 
dent manager at Liberty Mutual Insurance 
Company. They are expecting their first child 
in April. 

Stacy Dyer and her husband, John Pee- 
bles, announce the birth of their first child, 
Olivia Riss Peebles. Stacy is on leave from 
DDB Needham Worldwide .Advertising, 
where she is manager of public relations. She 
and John liye in New York City. 

Douglas L. Edwards writes that he and 
his wife, Kristen Benson Edwards '84, "are 
watching a lot of home videos since the birth 
of our son, Adam James Edvyards, on Aug. 
15. We expect Kristen to receive her Ph.D. in 
Soviet history about the time of Adam's bar 
mitzvah. 1 now have the oxymoronic title of 
promotions director at non-commercial 
KQED-FM radio in San Francisco and would 
love to hear from classmates interested in be- 
coming members of this fine National Public 
Radio affiliate. Call (415) 553-2296 and ask 
for a pledge form. Do it now." Douglas and 
Kristen live in Stanford, Calif. 

Andrea B. Epstein has been promoted to 
vice president of marketing for .New England 
Critical Care, Inc. (.N'ECC), a dispenser of nu- 
trients, antibiotics, and other drugs and flu- 
ids intravenously or through feeding tubes to 
patients in their homes. Andrea joined NECC 
in 1986 as marketing manager and later that 
year was promoted to director of marketing. 
Before that, she spent three years with Ernst 
& Whinnev in Los Angeles and Boston as a 
senior health-care consultant. She lives in 
Wellesley, Mass. 

Marie Achtemeier Finch has returned to 
the private practice of law in Norfolk, Va., 
with HotTieimer, Nusbaum, McPhaul & 
Samuel. "I'm doing a bit of everything: cor- 
porate, litigation, domestic relations, you 
name it. My husband, Paul, started his own 
architectural firm last June with a partner. So 
far. Greaves, Finch & Associates, P.C, is do- 
ing well." Marie and Paul live in Virginia 
Beach, Va. 

Ann Melissa Halverstadt and Dr Jona- 
than Steven Jaivin '80 were married on Sept. 
4. Michael Monsarrat '80 served as best man, 
and a number ot Brown alumni attended. 



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Melissa and B.J. live in West Hartford, Conn., 
where she is a marketing manager for the So- 
ciety for Savings, and he is a senior resident 

in orthopaedic surgery. 

Glenn Kesslernnd Cynthia Rich (Wes- 
leyan '82) were married on Sept. 18 at the 
IXKTordova Museum in Lincoln, Mass. A 
number of Brown alumni attended the wed- 
ding, including Avelino Gonzalez, who was 
best man. Glenn is a business reporter for 
iVfi'csi/dv in New York City, and Cindy is an 
assistant director of international policy de- 
velopment at NYN1:X International Corpora- 
tion in White Plains, .N,\. Thev live in New 



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York City. ( ,lenn adds th.il Jenny Okun 
Harper and Stephen Harper 82 had their 
first child, a son, )eremy Price Harper, on 
Sept, 27, in Toronto. 

Mary K. Kondon and Dr. Thomas L. Toth 
were married on ,\ug, 28. The bridal party 
included Karen Emmett, Regis Shields, Liz 
Conklin, and Mary's brother, Nick '84. Many 
other Brown friends were also there to cele- 
brate, including the Barnes Street Bruins. 
Mary is an account executive tor Prime Com- 
puter, and Tom is a senior resident at Brig- 
ham and Woman's Hospital. They are living 
in Boston and can be reached at (617) 338- 
4008. 

Jonathan McCabe writes: "Many of my 
classmates and football teammates remember 
my grandfather, Robert G. Bleakney '23. He 
was an incredibly loyal Brown fan and alum- 
nus, and most importantly, he was very close 
to me and the rest of my family. Cramps died 
recently and asked to be remembered to his 
fellow Brown alumni. He willed all his 
Brown memorabilia to me, including his cap- 
tain's chair, varsity sweater, and class of '23 
beret. He was a great guy and will be dearly 
missed by his four children, twenty grand- 
children, and fifteen great-grandchildren." 
Jon and his wife, Tina, live in the Chicago 
area at 27^ Hillhurst Dr, Cary, 111. 60013. 

Martin Nemzow and Dr. Carol Weingrod 
announce the birth of their daughter, Sophie 
Esther, on Nov. 18. Marty is involved with 
publishing projects with McGraw-Hill, and 
Carol is chief resident at Boston City Hospi- 
tal and University Hospital. Thev live in 
Brookline, Mass. 

Virginia Goss Pollack and her husband, 
Steve, announce the birth of their third child, 
Mark Samuel, on June 9. Taryn is 4, and Jef- 
frey is 2, "so I'm kept pretty busy. Friends 
visiting the Los Angeles area can reach me at 
6578 Bayberry St., Agoura, Calif. 91301. (818) 
707-2333." 

Robbin Newman Reiff is a commercial 
real estate attorney in the Fort Lauderdale of- 
fice of 1 lolland & Knight. She is working 
with the local Brown Club to organize a 
Broward County alumni group, and she en- 
courages any interested alumni to contact her 
at work at (305) 525-1000. Robbin Ii\es in 
North Miami Beach, 

Elizabeth E.G. Schiff is teaching second 
grade at 1 he 1 thical (^ ulture School in Man- 
hattan. "I am very happily married to Andy 
Kaufman (not the dead comedian, though 
Andy is very funny), a partner in a .New York 
law firm." 

Art Shaw was married to Eve Hinlcin on 
Aug. 28 in San Francisco. A number of alum- 
ni attended the ceremony. The couple honey- 
mooned in East Africa. Art graduated from 
Stanford Business School in June 1987 and 
spent the ensuing summer traveling in 
Mediterranean Europe and the Middle East. 
He is working in the San Francisco office of 
McKinsey & Company, a management con- 
sulting firm. He adds, "I've run into a couple 
of my classmates here on the streets of San 
Francisco and would like to hear from others 
in the area." 1 lis phone number is (415) 923- 
0269. 



Charles E. Taylor has quit the practice of 
law and is "taking some time (as much as I 
can afford) to reevaluate my life and to re- 
trieve my long lost sense of humor I am pur- 
suing some projects on my own and am 
working with a friend, Michael Lomax, who 
is working to become the next mayor of At- 
lanta. 1 am also taking the time to smell the 
roses." Charles lives in Atlanta. 

Basil C. Williams resigned last spring 
from Merrill L\ nch after eight years and 
joined Barclay Investments, a small invest- 
ment firm in Providence. "We bought a 100- 
year-old Victorian on Hope Street, which we 
are renovating," he writes. "Christine is vol- 
unteering her time at the RISD .Museum of 
Art, and Alexander is attending nursery 
school." They live in Providence. 

Dr Annesley J. Williamson married Dr. 
Jonathan II. lalfin (Princeton '77) on Oct. 22. 
Among the man\ Brown alumni who attend- 
ed was Sheila Kenyon, maid of honor They 
are living in Potomac, Md. 



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Roger Baumgarten (see Deborah A. 
Baumgarten 85) 

Hanno T. Beck has left the magazine pub- 
lishing field and, after a six-month fact-find- 
ing tour of Europe, has joined the staff of a 
Washington, D.C.-area think tank. The Cen- 
ter for the Study of Economics contends that 
virtually all problems faced by society today, 
particularly unemployment, lack of afford- 
able housing, and unresponsive government, 
may be traced to bad taxation policy, he 
writes. The center proposes modern tax re- 
forms that will have a fundamental impact 
on society. More information is available 
from the Center for the Study of Economics, 
2000 Century Plaza, Suite 238, Columbia, 
Md. 21044. 

Edward Black and Sarah Lamb were 
married on Aug. 20 in Ornida, Calif. Several 
Brown alumni attended. Sarah is a Ph.D. can- 
didate in cultural anthropology at the Uni- 
versity of Chicago and traveled to India in 
December to do dissertation research funded 
by a Fulbright-Hays fellowship. Ed plans to 
join her in July, after graduating from Boalt 
Hall School oi Law and taking the California 
bar exam. 

Amy Bower (see Jane de Winter '81 ). 

David Cain has moved again. He is now 
working as a financial analyst with Kai.ser 
Permanente in the northern California re- 
gion. 1 lis address is 1360 Clay St., #8, San 
Francisco, Calif. 94109. (415) 776-.3057. 

Rodney Cone (see Anne Reynolds '83). 

Joseph Davis married Susan Grunes on 
June 5. Alter an extended honeymoon in Is- 
rael, they are living on the West Side of Man- 
hattan. 

Sara Dayan (see Richard Kaner '80). 

David Douglas (see Bruce M. Douglas 
'86). 

Dr Yul D. Ejnes and Anne Edwards 
Ejnes '83 announce the birth of Samuel Ed- 
ward Ejnes on Feb. 7, 1988. "Sam is great." 
Yul is chief medical resident at Rhode Island 
1 lospital, and Anne teaches fifth grade at the 



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Wheeler School in Providence. They live in 
North Providence. 

Stephen Harper (see Glenn Kessler '81 ). 

Jim Huddleston and Evan Oster (see De- 
bra Weiss '84) 

Diane Krivit (see David Katzman S6) 

Laurie Purcell LaConte and Mark LaCon- 
te announce the birth of a daughter, Kristin 
Marie LaConte, on March 11, 1988. They are 
living in Winchester, Mass., where they are 
fixing up their new old house. 

Dr. Dean C. Mitchell was married last 
June to Dr Ricki Steinberg, a pediatric resi- 
dent at Beth Israel in New York City. Dean is 
finishing his residency in internal medicine 
at St. Luke's/Roosevelt Hospital in New 
York City and will be specializing in allergy 
and immunology. 

Susan Murphy and David Litten were 
married on Sept. 4. "It was great to have mv 
sister, Joanne '84, and my brother, Richard 
'85, in the wedding party and wonderful to 
have Brown friends to celebrate with." Susan 
is an electrical engineer at IBM in Essex Junc- 
tion, Vt. She and David bought a house in 
Jericho, Vt., and would enjoy having friends 
visit for the skiing season. 

Thomas G. Plemte and Lori A. Goldfarb 
(Pitzer College '82, University of Kansas '87 
Ph.D.) were married on Nov. 6 in Los Altos, 
Calif. Al Sherman '83 was best man. Lori is a 
staff psychologist at Children's Health Coun- 
cil/Stanford University Medical Center, and 
Thomas is a staff psychologist at the Behav- 
ioral Medicine Clinic at Stanford Medical 
Center. When in the area. Brown friends are 
invited to drop in at 1801 Doris Dr., Menlo 
Park, Calif. 94025. (415) 327-8922. 

Beth L. Rubin and her husband, Mark J. 
Ehlers, celebrated their first wedding an- 
niversary on Sept. 6. They were married in 
New York with many Brown friends in atten- 
dance. Beth is practicing health law at Hogan 
& Hartson, and Mark is an assistant U.S. at- 
torney in Washington, DC. They are enjoy- 
ing fixing up their old house at 3814 Van 
Ness St., \W, Washington, D.C. 20016. 

Laura Sadovnikoff and Andrew Black- 
. adar (Bates '84) were married in Plymouth, 
Mass., on June 25. Laura is the dean of stu- 
1 dents at The Putnev School in Putney, Vt. She 
' I also teaches Russian and coaches the girls' 
P soccer team. Andy teaches English at Putney. 
' Elizabeth A. Seitz and Jorge C. Abellas- 
1 Martin ha\'e settled in Boston, after living in 
Spain and Puerto Rico. Elizabeth is finishing 
: her master's degree in musicology at Boston 
' University and will continue on for her Ph.D. 
Jorge is manager of data processing at Hill, 
Holiday, a Boston advertising agency. "It's 
: great to be back in New England. We really 
missed it." 

Dav/n Smith is living in Chicago, where 
she works at Jacobs Suchard, Inc., as brand 
manager on Andes Candy. She says she runs 
into a lot of Brown alumni in Chicago. Her 
office telephone number is (312) 854-7673. 

Thomas J. Spath continues to write 
screenpla\s and teleplays in Los Angeles. 

Kathleen Sullivan has taken a leave of 
absence from the law firm of Fried, Frank, 
Harris, Shriver & Jacobson in Washington, 



D.C. She has been awarded a Fulbright re- 
search grant to study the legal status of Cen- 
tral American refugees in Costa Rica. Her ad- 
dress is Apto. 2010-497 Zapote, San Jose, 
Costa Rica. 

Vicky Taylor-Burns and Steve Bums '81 
moved to Cleveland last summer. Steve is 
working as a research chemist for Ricerca, 
and Vicky continues to work for Prudential. 
They extend an open invitation to Brown 
friends to visit them. 

Lyime Jaeger Weinstein and Billy Straus 
were married on -Mav 21 and are living in 
New York City. 



83 



Lisa Chalifour and Ken Webber (Rutgers 
'83) were married in Lawrenceville, N.J., on 
Jan. 17, 1987. Lisa was given away by her fa- 
ther, Clark Chalifour '70 Ph.D., and her 
roommate, Kan Yee, was a bridesmaid. AUi- 
son Michelle was bom on July 22, 1988. Lisa 
is a senior actuarial analyst for the PMA 
Group in Philadelphia. Last July, she and 
Ken bought a townhouse in Bucks County 
and they would love to hear from Brown 
friends at 48 Plumly Wav, Holland, Pa. 18966. 
(215)860-0748. 

Aime Edwards Ejnes (see Yul D. Ejnes 
'82). 

William R. Fisher, Camp Lejuene, N.C., 
was promoted to the rank of Marine captain 
on Sept. 1. In November, he left his position 
as prosecutor and assumed the responsibili- 
ties of a criminal defense attornev. 

Paul Gebhard (see Debra Weiss '84). 

Leslie Kamen Hollander (see Alvin I. 
Gerstein 54) 

Jennifer A. Jacobsen and Fred Jordan 
were married on Aug. 13. Among the many 
Brown alumni who attended the ceremony 
were bridesmaids Diane Yeutter and Mimi 
Reichert. Both Jennifer and Fred are gradu- 
ates of the Amos Tuck School of Business at 
Dartmouth. Jennifer is a securities salesman 
for Goldman, Sachs & Company in Boston. 
They are hving in Needham, Mass. 

Irvin J. Lustig, Princeton, N.J., and Susan 
Barskv (Rutgers '83) were married on Oct. 30. 

Meg Percesepe (see Elizabeth Hinkley 
Percesepe h2i 

Chris Perna and Mary Griffin Perna are 
living in their new home in .\lethuen, Mass. 
Chris was recently promoted to assistant di- 
rector of marketing at Blue Cross/Blue 
Shield, and Mary is now administrator of 
revenue-sharing programs at GE. 

Atme Reynolds lived in Taipei after grad- 
uating from Brown. For the past four years 
she has worked at United Pacific, a public re- 
lations firm affiliated with Burson-Marsteller. 
In January, she began working for Burson- 
Marsteller in New York, after tra\eling exten- 
sively on her way home from Taipei, stop- 
ping in Hong Kong, Tokvo, Beijing, Moscow, 
and London. She reports a strong BrovkTi con- 
tingent in Taipei. She also reports that Rod- 
ney Cone '82 and his wife. Ivy, have a new 
baby girl, Courtney Anne. Anne is living in 
Woodbridge, Conn. 

Al Sherman (see Thomas G. Plante '82). 



Lucieime Thys and Dr. Dogan Senocak 
were married in Plainfield, X.H., on Sept. 4, 
with a number of Brown alumni in atten- 
dance. Lucieime is a doctoral candidate in art 
history at Perm, and Dogan is a research fel- 
low in otolaryngology at the Hospital of the 
University of Pennsvlvania. They will be re- 
turning to Turkey in early June and would 
love to see any Istanbul-bound friends from 
Brown. 



84 



Time flies. Don't forget to mark your 1989 
calendar for our 5th reunion on Memorial 
Dav weekend. Your reunion committee is al- 
ready planning events that include a cocktail 
party prior to the Campus Dance on Friday 
night, a class barbeque on Saturday and a 
party later that night, and brunch or a clam- 
bake on Sunday afternoon. 

In order to receive special reunion mail- 
ings, your address must be up to date with 
alumni records. If it is not, please forward 
current information to one of the two re- 
union co-chairmen; Cathy Tiedemaim, 201 
East 28th St., New ^ork, N.Y. 10016. (212) 
685-2773; or Jill Christians, 62 Stephen Hop- 
kins Ct., Providence, R.l. 02904. (401) 521- 
4476. 

We'd welcome any ideas or suggestion, 
and would appreciate additional volunteers 
for the committee. Call to offer your help so 
we can plan a terrific reunion for all. 

Dr. James A. Arrighi ('87 M.D.) is a resi- 
dent in internal medicine at Barnes Hospital, 
Washington University Medical Center, St. 
Louis. In June, he wUl begin a research fel- 
lowship at the National Institutes of Health 
in Washington, DC. 

Steven C. Barton is working at Ogilvy & 
Mather and living in Park Slope in Brooklyn. 

R. Shaun Doherty has been promoted to 
regional sales director/Western division of 
FlSI-Madison Financial, a whollv owned sub- 
sidiary of cue International, Inc. He lives in 
Nashville, Tenn. 

Jeanie Eastman and Peter W. Ryan (Uni- 
versity of South Florida '79) were married on 
Sept. 24 on Martha's Vinevard. Several 
Brown alumni were in attendance, including 
bridesmaids Renee DiPhilippo, Wendy 
Ward, and Koren Wolman '86. Jeanie is a 
public relations account executive at Rogers 
& Cowan, Inc., a firm that specializes in cor- 
porate cultural affairs. Peter is a systems ana- 
lyst for American Management Systems in 
Arlington, Va. They are living in Alexandria, 
Va., and welcome visitors. 

Kristen Benson Edwards (see Douglas L. 
Edwards SI i 

Amy Glamm is engaged to Michael Price, 
and thev plan to be married on May 6. Amy 
can be reached at 2338 North Taylor St., Ar- 
hngton, Va. 22207. 

Stephen G. Hill, Boston, writes: "In 1986, 
I was a teacher. In 1987, 1 became a banker. 
Now, in 1988, my part-time hobby and love 
since my WBRU days has become my occu- 
pation. I am program director of WILD (and 
morning DJ) and I love it. It's a tiring job, but 
I couldn't ask for more. I'd love to hear from 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 63 



other Boston Brunonians. My number is (617) 
424-8576. See vou in Mav at the 3th." 

Dr Elizabeth A. Horwitz graduated from 
New York University Medical School and is 
doing a residency in psychiatry at NYU Med- 
ical Center She is engaged to David Glorin, 
an attorney in the Brooklyn district attor- 
ney's office. 

Jack M. Kohn is a technical consultant, 
evaluating new computer hardware and soft- 
ware for Aon Corporation in Chicago. "1 
moved mto a house and have expanded my 
MIDI studio since disbanding my band, 
Breakfast, in October 1987. 1 have letters from 
everyone who has written to me, and to 
whom 1 have yet to reply, sitting on the table 
in front of me, and I promise I'll get to them. 
Everyone can call me at (312) 327-6817. And, 
yes, I'm still chanting, 'Nam-myoho-renge- 
kyo.' Having a great time; wish everyone 
was here." 

Nick Kondon (see Mary K. Kondon '81) 

Brigitte Lehner and Harold Neal Kings- 
bury were married on June 19, in a garden 
ceremony at the Lehners' home in Hingham, 
Mass. Attendants were Christine Lehner He- 
witt '76 A.M., maid of ht)nor; Betsy King- 
bury '86, bridesmaid; Peter Calabresi '88 
M.D., best man; and Cormac Morrisey, ush- 
er Brigitte will graduate m May with a mas- 
ter's degree from Columbia University's 
School of International and Public Affairs. 
Hal is working for Kurt Salmon Associates in 
Princeton, N.J., after graduating from the 
Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth 
last June. They live on New York's Upper 
West Side. 

Gary E. Mason graduated from Duke 
Law School in 1987 and spent the following 
year clerking for Federal District Judge An- 
drew J. Kleinfeld in Anchorage, Alaska. Gary 
is now living in Washington, DC, and work- 
ing as a litigation associate for Skadden, 
Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. 

After working for nearly four years at 
Data General in North Carolina, William G. 
Mowat accepted a ptisition at Microsoft in 
Redmond, Wash. Bill reports that there is a 
large cimtingent of Brown alumni at Mi- 
crosoft, and that he is enjoying the Pacific 
Northwest. 1 lis address is'l0540 N.E. 29th 
St., Bellevue, Wash. 98004. (206) 822-5844. 

Joanne Murphy (see Susan Murphy '82) 

Geoffrey M. Petersen has worked for the 
Turner Construction Company in Manhattan 
for the past four years. He is currently en- 
rolled at Oxford University, England, in a 
two-year master's degree program in man- 
agement studies. 

Brian F. Plunkett and Laura M. Weltner 
'86 were married on Aug. 6 in Marblehead, 
Mass. Among the many Brown guests were 
wedding party members William Blank, Jer- 
ry Potts, and Kerry Magasonik '86. Laura is 
attending Boston College School of Social 
Work, and Brian is working as a first-year as- 
sociate with the Boston law firm of Racke- 
man, Swayer & Brewster They live in West 
Newton, Mass. 

On Sept. 4, Anne Ronnel married Marc 
Mayerson, whom she met in law school. The 
wedding took place in VVilmelte, III. The cou- 



ple lives in Washington, D.C., where they 
"blend in nicely with the mass of other 
lawyers." 

A. Jonathan Speed left banking a year 
ago and took an extended vacation, skiing in 
Aspen in the winter and traveling through- 
out the country in the spring and summer 
"However, as the fat lady/man does occa- 
sionally sing," he writes, "I have reentered 
the working world. I am an associate at 
Cleveland Tomorrow, a non-profit organiza- 
tion." He lives in Shaker Heights, Ohio. 

After graduating in .May from Wharton 
and Columbia business schools respectively, 
Debra Weiss and Jim Huddleston '82 were 
married on June 4 in New York City. A num- 
ber of Brown alumni attended, with those in 
the wedding party including best man Evan 
Oster '82, usher Paul Gebhard '83, and 
bridesmaid Tracy Greer '85 After two 
months in the Far East on their honeymoon, 
they settled in New York, where Debra 
works in the real estate investment banking 
division at Chemical Bank with Dan Davis 
'86, and Jim is in the corporate real estate de- 
partment at Citibank. Friends can contact 
them at 303 East 83rd St., Apt llj. New York 
10028.(212)861-4120. 

Alexandra Woznick has been living in 
San Francisco for two years, in an apartment 
that Reid Norris and Maggie Dugan lived in 
before her After a couple of years at KRQR 
and assorted other projects, she is working 
full-time at a booking and management 
agency and writing a weekly AOR count- 
down radio program that airs in Japan. Old 
friends visiting San Francisco should call 
(415)885-4416. 

185 

■ ' Deborah A. Baumgarten and Frederic 
Joseph (Har\ard '84) were married on June 
12 in Deborah's home town of Hollywood, 
Fla. Many alumni attended the ceremony, in- 
cluding the father of the bride, Joel '59, un- 
cles Sidney '54 and Sam '65, aunt Sylvia 
Rosen Baumgarten '55, and cousins Fred '7'^ 
and Roger '82 Terri Cohen Alport was one 
of the bridesmaids Fred and Deborah are 
completing their fourth year at Emory Medi- 
cal School in Atlanta and are planning to 
pursue careers in radiology. 

Aaron B. Clayton and Wendy Schnipper 
were married on Aug. 27 at Temple Siiiai in 
Roslyn, N.Y. Many Brown alumni joined in 
the celebration, including Ronna Clayton- 
Benjamin '81, Elly Eisenberg, and Connie 
Chihlas, who were bridesmaids. The couple 
is living in Hanm-er, N.H. 

Jan D'Alessandro is a first-year associate 
at the law firm ot White & Case in New York 
City, along with John Willems Jan also 
writes that Anne Rosenblum "dictates fash- 
ion trends in New ^ork Citv as a writer for 
Women s Wear Daily." 

John Gagliano (see Jennifer Levine '86). 

Tracy Greer (see Debra Weiss 'S-l) 

Jennifer Holden (sii' Rebecca L. Kauf- 
mann .Shi 

Marc Lanctot (see Catherine Lanctot 
'78). 



Last August, Margie Mallin and Jon Mar- 

golies (Princeton 'H5) were married. Sue 
Roach Bailey and Rina Rich were in the 
wedding party Margie and Jon met in law 
school at the University of Michigan three 
years ago and graduated this past May. In 
Juls', both passed the Illinois bar exam. After 
their wedding, they spent three-and-a-half 
weeks in China. They live in Chicago, where 
Margie works at Mayer Brown & Piatt, and 
Jon is at Schiff, Hardin & Waite, 

Chris Morley (see Kenneth C Morley 
'56) 

Richard Murphy (set Susan Murphy '82). 

Rosemary L. Perera, Bellevue, Wash., re- 
cently received her private pilot's license. "If 
any friends are passing through Seattle, I'd 
love to take you up for a scenic ride over 
Puget Sound," she writes. "The Brown clan 
at Microsoft is ever growing. There are thir- 
teen that we know of." 

Michael G. Turner is living in Silver Bay, 
N.Y., on Lake George, designing mahagony 
motorboats for Hacker Craft Boat Company 
and traveling throughout New England as an 
independent sales representative in the out- 
door/watersports markets. His telephone 
number is (518) 543-6864. 

Calvin E. Walker is married and in his 
first year of medical school at the Medical 
College of Virginia in Richmond. He com- 
pleted his master's in biology at Virginia 
Commonwealth. He misses his friends and 
urges them to contact him at 6413 Binns Ave., 
Richmond 23225. (804) 276-4884. 

Sarah L. Watchman (see Kimberlee M. 
Keppler Sh) 



86 



Former roommates Bear Barnes anil 
Evan Siegel have left their jobs at College 
Pro Painters and Baine & Company, respec- 
tively, and gone into partnership in the stu- 
dent housepainting business. Their en- 
trepreneurial venture is Flying Colors Paint- 
ing Company, P.O. Box 538, New Canaan, 
Conn. 06840. (203) 855-9666. "Positive en- 
couragement would be much appreciated." 

"God bless .•\merica, for she sure has 
blessed us," writes Ken Carlson. "After bicy- 
cling 3,500 miles across the U.S., 1 find the 
structure of corporate life (starched shirts 
and snug ties) to be a formidable change of 
pace. During my fortv-seven-dav trek from 
Seattle to Atlantic City, 1 pedaled through the 
perilous ilrought on a sliver of a seal. No 
wonder I can't feel the newly-tailored, coarse 
seam of my pants, located at the junction of 
my lower appendages." Ken is working in 
Washington, D.C., and living in Falls Church, 
\'a. 

Alter fourteen months in Israel, Andrea 
R. Coustan returned to Chicago, where she is 
ivorking as a computer consultant. She plans 
to marry a Swarthmore graduate she met in 
Israel in April. 

Dan Davis (see Debra Weiss '84) 

Bruce M. Douglas and Sharon Salomy 
(Brandcis '87) were married in Pikesville, 
Md., on Sept. 4. Numerous Brown alumni at- 
tended the ceremony, including best man 



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David Douglas '82. After a two-week honcy- 
moDii in 1 lawtiii, Bruce returned to his job as 
an insurance broker, and Sharon resumed 
work as an accountant. Thev can be reached 
at 225 East 85th St., Apt. 2B,' New York 10028. 

David Katzman and Diane Krivit '82 
were married on luK .^i m \\asliinj;ton, D.C. 
Thev hve in St. Louis, where David is in his 
second vear of medical school, and Diane has 
opened a second office. 

Rebecca L. Kaufmann and Jennifer Hold- 
en '85 send greetings from San Francisco. 
"We are keeping up the Brown spirit at the 
Stanford Graduate School of Business." 

Kimberlee M. Keppler and Keith F. Over- 
lander (Amherst College '85) were married 
on June 18 at St. Mark's Church in West- 
hampton Beach, N.] Sarah L. Watchman '85 
read at the ceremonv. ■■^tter a honeymoon 
trip to Peter Island, British Virgin Islands, 
they returned to Manhattan, where Kim is an 
assistant manager at Citicorp Investment 
Bank, and Keith is an international fixed-in- 
come salesman at Salamon Brothers. 

Jane A. Kessler is working on her Ph.D. 
in clinical psychologv at the University of 
Michigan. "After living in Providence, Ann 
Arbor is some kind of Purgatory," she writes. 
"Keeping me company is a huge, wonderful 
dog, Nicholas, and an assertively affectionate 
cat, Madeline. Already I'm scheming to get 
back to Providence. Words of encouragement 
are alwavs welcome at 2491 Lancashire, Ann 
Arbor 48105." 

Betsy Kingsbury (see Brigitte Lehner 
'84), 

Charles E. Leeming climbed the C.rand 
Teton, among other mountains m Wyoming, 
last summer with David WoHsohn "I'm still 
Ining in I'nnidence, finding success." 

Jennifer Levine, Niki Felton, and John 
Gagliano '85 will be graduating from 
Georgetown University Law Center in the 
spring. 

Jessica Lieber is a second-year student at 
the New York University School of Law. This 
summer she will be a summer associate at 
the New York law firm of Cadwalader, Wick- 
ersham & Taft. Jessica is engaged to Kenneth 
Smolar, an attorney with the Legal Aid Soci- 
ety of New York. A Decemlier wedding is 
planned. 

Kerry Magasonik and Laura M. Weltner 
(see Brian F. Plunkett 84). 

Mark Pasanen (see Wayne E. Pasanen 
■h7). 

Eric A. Sidoti attended the U.S. Open in 
Brookline, .Mass., with David Morse and then 
moved, in June, to Illinois with his fiancee, 
Jill Burkel '88, who is now a publishing as- 
sistant for the American Library Association. 
They plan to wed in May. Beth Goldman '88 
and G.C. Shaprut '87 will be att^■n^'ants. 
Their address is .505 Dempster St., Apt. IN, 
Mount Prospect, 111. 60056. 

Catherine Spillman sends in a correction. 
She vs'ill be m Japan until August 1989 and 
would appreciate letters. Her address; copo 
nemoto I-IO."^, 2507-1 Senju-machi, Kanuma- 
shi. Tochigi-Ki'n, 322 lapan, 

Anne M. Taylor writes: " Ihe Mystery 
Class of '86. Where are vou? We all got to- 



gether: Anne Taylor. Bettina Slusar Robert 
Kovacik, Meredith Berkman, Will Braker, 
Joe Profaci, Marcy Sandler, and Rose Za- 

charia. We can be reached at 149 Hast 81st St., 
Apt. .31-;, New York, N.Y 10028. Drop us a 
line. Look for our report on who we've seen 
in the next issue." 

Michael Wein is dividing his time be- 
tween his senior year at Brown's medical 
school and service as associate editor for the 
student section of the louriml of the Amencnii 
Mfdhiit Aifsocintion. His marriage to Deborah 
Darnell, a RISD student when they met three 
years ago, is planned in June. Classmates can 
write Michael at Box G, Campus, 

Koren Wolman (~.ee Jeanie Eastman '84). 



rhe offices are located in Washington, D.C. 
.Mike lives in Rockville, Md. 



GS 



87 



Eric N. Dobson liegan a new job last 
November with the National Governors As- 
sociation in the policy research division, 
working in the area of economic develop- 
ment. The Brown Club of Arlington, Va., "is 
still in existence and can be reached at (703) 
241-8504." Eric lives in Arlington. 

David Estin and Mindy Wiser "are plod- 
ding through our second vear of medical 
school, but at least we have each other" They 
live in New York Citv. 

Gerald C. Shaprut recently finished an- 
other ten-week, nationwide tour with Touch 
of Brass, the U.S. Navy brass quintet. All 
went well, he reports, and plans are being 
made for a Canadian or European tour. "Let 
the music play." Gerald lives in Charleston, 
S.C. 

Lisa J. Sosa is a first-year student at 
Hunter College School of Social Work in 
Ne\s' York and is li\ ing in BrookKn, 

Charles Weiland (see Alice Phillips Wei- 
land '55). 



88 



Jill Burkel and Beth Goldman (see Eric 
Sidoti '86) 

Brian M. Delaney and Heather Gert '87 

.'\,M, are living in Oberlin, Ohio, where Brian 
is studying the cooperative movement under 
a grant from the Oberlin College Students' 
Cooperative Association. 

Karen Goodell, Marshfield, Mass., is in 
San Jose, Costa Kica, for training before em- 
barking on her two-year volunteer assign- 
ment with the Peace Corps. She will be in- 
volved in small-scale agricultural and envi- 
ronmental project^. 

Jennifer C. MacKenzie (see Emily Mott- 
Smith MacKenzie 62) 

Patricia L. Riskind is working for Dun & 
Bradstreet Plan Ser\ices Inc., in Tampa, Fla., 
in the management training program. "They 
are a third-party administrator of insurance 
tor small businesses," she writes. "So far it 
has been challenging and tun," 

Marisa Schwartz (see David L. Schwartz 
'60) 

Mike E. Wittenburg has been named as- 
sociate publisher ol the Nortliwcil Current, 
Bethe^dn/Clii'vi/ Cluife Curreul, Wheaton Ntiv>, 
and Kensington Neivs group of newspapers. 



Richard W. Tyler '46 Ph.D. retired from 
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in May 
1987. "We later followed our daughter, son- 
in-law, and granddaughter first to Phoenix 
and then, in April 1988, to southern Califor- 
nia." Richard lives in Hacienda Heights. 

Robert P. Eddy '48 Sc.M. and his wife, 
Consuelo Sanz Eddy, "both long since re- 
tired," have moved to Colorado Springs, 
Colo., to be near their children and grand- 
children. 

A. Bruce Clarke '49 Sc.M., '51 Ph.D., dean 
of Western Michigan University's College of 
Arts and Sciences, has been named associate 
vice president for academic affairs. He has 
headed the College of Arts and Sciences 
since 1978. He joined the WMU faculty in 
1967 as professor and chairperson of the de- 
partment of mathematics, the title he held 
until he became dean. Between 1951 atid 
1967, Clarke was a faculty member at the 
UniversitN' of Michigan. 

Robert M. Boynton '50 Sc.M., '52 Ph.D., 
Del Mar, Calif., is still working full-time at 
UC-San Diego as professor of psychology 
and associate dean of graduate studies and 
research. "I have three grandchildren so far, 
by three different offspring, two of whom 
were born in Providence to my wife, Allie, 
while I was a graduate student." 

Astrid Bottis Kromayer '51 A.M., Bethle- 
hem, Pa., writes: "^our October issue won 
my support. The article on Brown's new 
president was excellent." 

Marvin M. Crutchfield '60 Ph.D., Creve 
Coeur, Mo,, cautions: "Please try to hold the 
line on costs of the BAM. It keeps getting 
more expensive. I am more interested in the 
information than in the artistic value." 

James M. Smith '56 A.M., '60 Ph.D. and 
Laura Donaldson celebrated their third wed- 
ding anniversary on Oct. 4. On .Nov. 21, the 
second edition of Philosophy and the Human 
Condition, of which he is co-editor, was pub- 
lished. Smith teaches at California State Uni- 
versity in Fresno. 

Forrest McDonald '61 A.M., who taught 
at Brown from 1958 to 1967 and who now is a 
professor of history at the University of Al- 
abama, was recently elected to membership 
in the American Antiquarian Society, Worces- 
ter, Mass. McDonald is the author of a num- 
ber of books on the constitutional history of 
the U.S. 

Irving L. Williams '62 MAT., Roosevelt, 
N.Y., has been elected to a three-year term as 
a member of the Roosevelt School Board 

Vija S. Skudra '66 MAT., Rowley, Mass., 
a 1988-89 1 lorace Mann Scholar, is working 
on restnicturing the school year and curricu- 
lum "along the lines of Ted Sizer's ideology" 
at Masconomet Regional High School in 
Topsfield, .Mass 

Rufus K. Griscom 68 A.M. (see '66). 

Ashok S. Kalelkar '69 PhD , Lexington, 
Mass., IS senior vice president of Arthur D. 
Little, Inc., responsible tor their worldwide 



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practice in the areas of energy, artificial intel- 
ligence, and environmental consulting. 

Jay Moskowitz '69 Ph.D., an associate di- 
rector of the X'ational Institutes of Health 
and a one-time student of sign language, has 
been named acting director of the new Na- 
tional Institute on Deafness and Other Com- 
munication Disorders. In addition to his new 
assignment, he will continue as NIH associ- 
ate director for science policy and legislation. 
He has worked in various positions at NIH 
for nearly twenty years. He lives in Gaithers- 
burg, Md. 

Gary Hochberg '70 A.M., '71 Ph.D., asso- 
ciate dean for the undergraduate program in 
the John M. Olin School of Business at Wash- 
ington University in St. Louis, has been ap- 
pointed interim director of admissions. He 
came to VVU as assistant dean for the under- 
graduate program at the business school in 
1982 and has been associate dean since 1986. 
From 1971 to 1986, he taught philosophy at 
Bucknell and directed that school's freshman 
humanities semester for several years. Hoch- 
berg is the author of Kimt: Mom/ Lt'i;ii^l(itiou 
ami Tzco ScufCf of 'Will.' published in 1982. 

Nancy Goldsmith Leiphart '70 A.M. has 
been appointed assistant dean of the Division 
of General Studies, College, of the North Car- 
olina School of the Arts. NCSA trams young 
artists for professional careers in dance, de- 
sign and production, drama, and music and 
is located in Winston-Salem. 

Nicholas J. Fina '71 Sc.M. lives in .New- 
ark, Del., with his wife, Barbara, and daugh- 
ter, Eva, 6. He has been with Hevvlett-Pack- 
ard Company for ten years and is operations 
manager for the information systems depart- 
ment at the Avondale, Pa., division. 

Linda Middleton Thompson '71 M.A.T 
has been promoted to associate professor of 
mathematics at Carroll College in Waukesha, 
Wis. She joined Carroll m 1981 after teaching 
at Cardinal Stritch College in Milwaukee. 
Thompson received her Ph.D. from Oregon 
State University in Corvallis. 

George M. Stabler '75 Ph.D., Nashua, 
N.H., writes: "Help. Am caught in time. 
Need confirmation of class. Please rush next 
issue of BAM before it's too late." 

Christine Lehner Hewitt '76 A.M. (see 
Brigitte Lehner '84) 

Maria Mainelli Langlois '7b AM. (see 
John P. Langlois 79) 

Walter G. Montgomery '7h A.M., '79 
Ph.D. and Marian A. Gruber '76 A.M. an- 
nounce the birth of Samuel, who was preced- 
ed by Abigail. Walter's corporate communi- 
cations firm, Robinson, Lake, Lerer & Mont- 
gomery, "is thriving in New York and Wash- 
ington, D.C." Marian is vice president of hu- 
man resources at Integrated Resources in 
New York City. They live in Ir\-ington, N.Y. 

Tzvee Zahavy '76 Ph.D. has been promot- 
ed to full professor of Classical and Near 
Eastern studies at the University of Minneso- 
ta, Minneapolis. 

Betty J. Harris '78 A.M., '82 Ph.D. is a 
Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence in the depart- 
ment of sociology at the University of Swazi- 
land for the academic year 1988-89. She is 
conducting comparative gender research on 



women and textiles and men and mining in 
southern Africa. Harris will return to the 
University of Oklahoma, Norman, where she 
is an assistant professor of anthropology and 
women's studies, in the fall. 

George T. Marshall '78 AM. has been 
named director of media and public informa- 
tion at Southwest Boston Community Ser- 
\'ices. Inc., Roslindale, Mass. His duties in- 
clude the creation and dissemination of w-rit- 
ten and photographic publicity, tele-produc- 
tion, and the development of programming 
to use video as a training and therapeutic 
tool. He was formerly a professor of commu- 
nications at Rhode Island College and is the 
host and executive producer of the Rhode Is- 
land Cable Interconnect video magazine 
show, "Between Takes." Marshall lives in 
Newport. R.I, 

Frederick B. Lamster 'SO Ph.D. is director, 
training and development, for Robinson's, a 
division of May Department Stores Compa- 
ny. He is still living in Encino, Calif., with his 
wife, Fran, and two children, Joshua, 6, and 
Alexis, 3. He looks forward to hearing from 
any of his former graduate school classmates. 

Webster F. Smith '82 Sc.M. announces the 
birth of his son, Ryan Webster Smith, on Jan. 
6, 1988. Webster works at The Johns Hopkins 
University Applied Physics Laboratory. He 
lives in Silver Spring, Md. 

Mary Caponegro '83 A.M., a professor of 
English at RISD in Providence, was awarded 
a 1988 General Electric Foundation Award 
for Younger Writers. She was cited for fiction 
she published in the magazine Conjuiictioiis. 

Scott A. Smolka '84 Ph.D. is an associate 
professor with tenure in the department of 
computer science at SUNY-Stony Brook. He 
lives in Port Jefferson, NY, and would be 
happy to hear from friends he made during 
his Ph D. odvssey 

Max H. Iltzsch '85 Ph.D. is an assistant 
professor in the department of biological sci- 
ences at the University of Cincinnati. He is 
vvorking in the area of molecular and bio- 
chemical parasitology studying two parasitic 
diseases, toxoplasmosis and schistosomiasis. 

Paul J. Lauritzen 85 Ph.D., an assistant 
professor in the department of religious stud- 
ies at John Carroll University, University 
Heights, Ohio, received a Research Fellow- 
ship Award for 1988 last summer. He is in- 
vestigating the feminist ethic of care and 
compassion and ethical issues raised bv new 
reproduction technologies. 

Sally E. Flndley '86 Ph.D. has been ap- 
pointed assistant director for the health sci- 
ences division of The Rockefeller Foundation 
in New York City. Most recently, she was a 
Rockefeller Foundation fellow in population 
science at the unit for socio-economic and de- 
mographic research at the Sahel Institute in 
Mali, West Africa. Prior to that, she was a 
postdoctoral fellow in aging at Brown's Pop- 
ulation Studies and Training Center, a senior 
research analyst at the Minnesota State Plan- 
ning Agency, and a consultant at the Center 
for Advanced Studies in Washington, DC. 

Thomas Carl Semple '86 PhD was a 
postdoctoral telknv at "lale from November 
1986 to July 1988. In August, he began work- 



ing as an associate research chemist at Shell 
Development Company in Houston. 

Heather Gert '87 A.M. (see Brian M. De- 
laney '88). 



MD 



Sandra Nusinoff-Lehrman '76 MD. (see 
'69). 

Deborah A. DeHertogh '77 MD. (see H. 
Wayne Carver 74) 

Loren Rubin Jassy '80 MD. is an obstet- 
ric anesthesiologist at Mercy Hospital in San 
Diego. She has three boys: Daniel, 3, Alex, 6 
months, and stepson Jean-Paul, 14. "San 
Diego is a great town. Call if you're in the 
neighborhood." 

Neil S. Lieblich '80 M.D., Kingston, N.Y., 
has been elected to fellowship in the Ameri- 
can Academy of Pediatrics. 

Susan Weil Adesman 81 MD. and 
Michael Bart Adesman 82 M D. (see Susan 
Weil Adesman 78) 

Peter J. Panton '82 MD. (see '79). 

Kiyoko Asao '85 MD and Michael 
Ragosta '85 .\1.D. were married last April 
and are living in the Washington, D.C, area. 
They are moving to Charlottesville, Va., in 
June, when Mike will begin a cardiology fel- 
lowship at the University of Virginia. 

James A. Arrighi '87 M.D. (see '84). 

Peter Calabresi 88 MD. (see Brigitte 
Lehner S4) 



Obituaries 



Ethel Page Pratt 16, Bristol, R.I.; Oct. 30. She 
was a former chairman of the Pawtucket 
chapter of the Children's Friends Society of 
Rhode Island and a former representative to 
the Community Chest. She was a member of 
the Pawtucket District Nursing Association. 
An active member of her class, she served as 
chairwoman of the 25th reunion committee. 
There are no known survivors. 

Margaret E. Carr '17, Newport, R.I., an Eng- 
lish teacher at Rogers High School in New- 
port for forty-two years before retiring in 
1962; Nov. 19. She was a member of the 
Townsend Aid Society, the Redwood Library, 
and the Preserv'ation Society of .Newport. She 
is survived by a sister, Anne Carr Booth '31, 
16 Briarwood Cir., Worcester, Mass. 01606. 

Waldon Charles Nason 18, Bradenton, Fla.; 
April 12, 1987. A retired structural engineer 
with Stone & Webster Engineering Corpora- 
tion of Boston, he was a veteran of World 
War I. He is survived bv his wife, Phyllis, 
5104-6D St. East, Golf Lakes Mobile Estates, 
Bradenton 33507. 



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Jeannette Rinaldo Dailey '1') A.M., Summit, 
N.|,; M.ii\ li U»S7. Slu' IS survived by ii son, 
Richard R. Dailey, 153 East 53rd St.', New 
York, N.Y. 10022. 

William McLeod Fraser ' \^, \ larwuli, Mass.; 
Nov. 8. An executive for several textile ma- 
chinery manufacturers, including Atwood 
Machine Company in Stonington, Conn., 
where he was director, vice president, and 
general manager, he retired as vice president 
and general manager of American Machine 
Company, I'awtucket, R 1. lie was a consul- 
tant to Saco-l.ovvell Company in Saco, Maine. 
He lived in Pro\idence until 1%3, when he 
retired to Cape Cod. Delta Tau Delta. He is 
survived by his wife, Evlyth, M Beriah 
Brooks Rd., Harwich 02645. 

Sophie Mogilevkin Robinson 19, East Provi- 
dence, R.I., Oct. ly. A member of the Ameri- 
can Association of University Women, she 
was a founder and first president of the Paw- 
tucket, R.I., chapter of Hadassah. She was a 
former class agent. Survivors include a 
daughter, Dorothy Robinson Golner '44, and 
a son, Norman '48, 142 Eighth St., Providence 
02906. 

Mario Walter DeVatalis '20, Newfoundland, 
N.]., a retired partner in Ortalis Engineering 
Company, Fanwood, N.].; Nov. 21, 1981. He 
was a World War 1 veteran. Alpha Delta Phi 
He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth, 117 
Lake End Rd., Newfoundland 07435. 

Chester Sides Stackpole '22, Denver, a re- 
tired gas industry executive; Oct. 29. Early in 
his career, he was director of sales for the Bal- 
timore Gas and Electric Company and taught 
at Johns Hopkins University. In 1947, he be- 
came vice president of Chrysler Airtemp and 
then held executive positions at UNARCO 
and Eureka Williams. He became managing 
director of the American Gas Association in 
1956 and for the next twelve years, until his 
retirement in 1968, made significant contri- 
butions to the promotion of the natural gas 
industry. He was a member of the American 
Society of Gas Lighting and the Union 
League Club in New York City. Zeta Psi. 
Among his survivors are a daughter and his 
wife, Eleanor, 6325 West Mansfield, Apt. 
#235, Denver 80235. 

Herbert Shepard Hamilton '23, Lakewood, 
N.J.. He was a credit manager at Otis Eleva- 
tor Company in New York City for forty 
years before retiring in 1965; Sept. 27. Delta 
Upsilon. He is survived by his wife, Mildred, 
1167 B Clydebank Ct., Leisure Village East, 
Lakewood 08701. 

Carl Eaton Martin '23, Albany, NY; Oct. 17. 
He practiced law in Troy, NY, for more than 
fifty years. After receiving his law degree 
from Yale in 1925, he entered the firm of 
Murphy, Aldrich, Guy, Broderick & Simon. 
He remained there until forming his own law- 
firm, now known as Martin, Shudt, Wallace, 
Di Lorenzo & Copp. At the time of his death, 
he was of counsel. An avid runner and a di- 



rector and trustee of the Troy YMCA, he do- 
nated the indoor running track at the time of 
the purchase of the present building. Among 
his survivors are three daughters, including 
Virginia A. Martin '52, Box E 555, RD. #2, 
I oi kh.urn, I'a 17745. 

Mark Nevin '23, Honolulu; Nov. 4. An au- 
thor, composer, and arranger of forty books 
of plant) music and numerous piano solos in 
sheet music form, he retired in 1962 as a pi- 
ano instructor There is no information re- 
garding immediate survivors. 

Fern Falloon Nutter '24, Hadley Mass.; Oct. 
14. Survivors include a son, J. William, of Vi- 
enna, Va. 

Frederick Dean Shaw '24, Cape Elizabeth, 
Maine; Nov. 4. He joined Bettinger Corpora- 
tion, Waltham, Mass., in the 1940s and retired 
in 1962 as vice president and general manag- 
er. Before that, he was a vice president of 
Walker and Pratt Manufacturing Company 
in Watertown, Mass., and a former president 
of the New England Foundrymen's Associa- 
tion. He was a former trustee of the Water- 
town Savings Bank. Delta Kappa Epsilon. 
Among his survivors are two daughters, in- 
cluding Betsey Hewes, 15 Garden Ln., Cape 
Elizabeth 04107. 

M. Catherine Hinchey '25, '26 A.M., O'Fal- 
lon. Mo., a retired professor of zoology at the 
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; Nov. 
22. She is survived by a nephew, Charles Gal- 
lagher, 638 Woodchahka St., St. Louis, Mo. 
63367. 

Charles Roger Johnson '25, Fort Ann, NY, a 
retired teacher m the Marion, Mass., school 
system; July 22. There is no information re- 
garding survivors. 

Barbara P. McCarthy '25, East Providence, 
R.I., author, educator, and professor of Greek 
at Wellesley College fi>r forty years before re- 
tiring as head of the department in 1969; Oct. 
24. She studied archaeology at the American 
School in Greece on a Sterling Fellowship 
and then received her master's degree in 
Greek at the University of Missouri in 1927. 
A Ph.D. from Yale followed in 1929. The 
Ellen A. Kendall Professor of Greek at 
Wellesley from 1956 until her retirement, she 
was the author of numerous articles and was 
a past president of the Eastern Massachusetts 
Classical Association, the New England Clas- 
sical Association, a member of the managing 
committee of the Ami'rican School of Classi- 
cal Studies in Athens, and a member of the 
American Philological Association and the 
Archeological Institute of America. She pub- 
lished her first book, iliznlvlli lianctt lo Mr. 
Boytt, a collection of letters from Elizabeth 
Barrett Browning to her Greek tutor and 
friend, in 1955. She received an honorary de- 
gree from Brown in 1982. Survivors include 
two brothers and a sister, Noel E. McCarthy, 
67 Weeden Ave., Rumford, R.I. 02181. 



Agnes Anderson Millikan '2S AM., Ash- 
land, Kv , Oct 17 AtliT a brief teaching ca- 
reer in Massachusetts, she moved to New 
York to join Macy's and later to Chicago to 
work for Bambergers as department manager 
and buyer Among her survivors are a step- 
son, Allan, of Victor, N.Y. 

Edward Hart '26, Palm Harbor, Fla., a former 
newsman, radio commentator, and public re- 
lations cimsultant; Oct. 13. A foreign corre- 
spondent for United Features Syndicate, he 
was host of a nationally-syndicated radio 
program, "Is Congress Doing Its Job?", in the 
1940s and 1950s, Prior to the United States' 
entry into World War II, he aided the Roo- 
sevelt Administration in its effort to gain ac- 
ceptance for the lend-lease program in sup- 
port of the European Allies. He was a speech 
writer for the late Texas Congressman Wright 
Patman and earlier for the late Tennessee 
Senator Estes Kefauver. He is survived by 
three children and his wife, Virginia, 4805 Al- 
ternate Rte. 19, Palm Harbor 33563. 

Concetta Bellanca Stresino '27 A.M., Indi- 
anapolis, a retired teacher; Nov. 1. She is sur- 
vived by her son, Edgar, 6142 Hickorywood 
Dr, Indianapolis 46224. 

Roswell Beebe Burchard, Jr. '29, Bristol, R.I.; 
Sept, 7, 1 le was a Marine Corps bomber pilot 
during World War 11, A lieutenant colonel, he I 
was a member of the Retired Officers Associ- i 
ation. Besides his wife, Thelma, he leaves a 
son, the Rev. Russell Church Burchard, of 
Watertown, Conn. 

Frederick John Smythe '29, Louisville, Ky., a 
retired district manager with Procter & Gam- 
ble Company in Louisville; Aug. 20, 1987, in 
Alden, Mich. Survivors include his wife, 
Ruth, 53 Tepee Rd., Indian Hill, Louisville 
40207; and a son, Stewart '60. 

William Fredric Almy '30, Falls Church, Va.; 
Feb, 7, 1978. He is survived by his wife, 
Sarah, 2921 Meadow Ln., Falls Church 22042. 

Stafford Hathaway Hambly '30, Alta Loma, 
Calif., May 1 . The former manager of the Up- 
lander Motor Hotel in Upland, Calif., he is 
survived by his wife, June, 9601 Lomita Ct. 
#149, Alta Loma 91701. 

Dr. Luther Austen Heydon '30, Hackensack, 

N.J., a dentist and former college professor; 
Oct. 28. A 1934 graduate of the New ^'ork 
University College of Dentistry, he taught pe- 
dodontics and prosthodontics at NYU dental 
college in the 1930s and was an associate pro- 
fessor and professor emeritus at the Fairleigh 
Dickinson LJniversity School of Dentistry. He 
retired from private practice in Hackensack 
in 1969 after thirty-five years. He served as 
dentist for the Paramus, N.J., public school 
system from 1935 to 1939. He was a past 
president of the Bergen County Dental Soci- 
ety, a member of the New Jersey State Dental 
Society, and a delegate to the American Den- 
tal Association. In 1963, he was named a fel- 
low by the American College of Dentists. 1 le 



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[ is survived by a son, a daughter, and his 
i wife, Kathleen, 281 Clinton PI., Hackensack 
07601. 

Charles H.W. Sedgewick '30 A.M., '34 Ph.D., 
Dunedin, Fla., a retired mathematics profes- 
sor at the University of Connecticut; Nov. 5. 
A 1925 graduate of Dalhousie University in 
Halifax, Nova Scotia, he was a statistician for 
the U.S. Census Bureau from 1958 to 1971. 
Survivors number two sons, John '62 and 
Robert '68; two daughters; and his wife. 
Rose Whelan Sedgewick '25, 248 Lake 
Haven Park, Dunedin 33528. 

Albert Emerson Burgess, Jr. '31, Peterbor- 
ough, N.H., a retired district sales manager 
for National Steel Corporation, Chestnut 
Hill, Mass.; May 2. He is survived by his 
wife, Virginia, P.O. Box 67, Peterborough 
03458. 

Alice I. Donnelly '31, Brookfield, Conn., pro- 
fessor emeritus at Western Connecticut State 
University; Aug. 21. An advocate of youth 
and fitness, she was instrumental in estab- 
lishing the Governor's Committee on Physi- 
cal Fitness and served as chairman of the 
committee in 1960. She was a member of the 
state commission on youth services and 
headed the 1968 Governor's Conference on 
Children and Youth. She was chairman of the 
department of health and physical education 
at WCSU for twenty-seven years before retir- 
ing in 1974. She served as president of the 
Connecticut Association for Health, Physical 
Education, Recreation, and Dance, and also 
served on the board of directors of the Con- 
necticut Heart Association. In Brookfield, she 
served on the parks and recreation commis- 
sion. She is survived by two brothers, includ- 
ing James, of Pembroke, Mass. 

Robert Fraser Eddy '31, Seabrook Island, 
S.C.; Aug. 25. He was the retired treasurer 
and chairman of the board of The Tillinghast 
Stiles Company in East Providence, R.l. Sur- 
vivors include a brother, Dr Jesse P. Eddy 
'28, 70 Celestial Way Juno Beach, Fla. 33408. 

John Henry Ranges '31, Largo, Fla ; Sept. 13. 
In the 1940s and 1950s, he was a salesman for 
i AS. Beck Shoe Company in New Rochelle, 
N.Y. He then owned the Ranges Spa restau- 
rant for ten years before he returned to AS. 
Beck as manager, retiring in 1964. He moved 
to Florida in 1976. He is survived by his wife, 
Jeanelle, East Bay Oaks Park #85, 601 Starkey 
Rd., Largo 33541; a daughter; and two sons, 
including Richard '63. 

Richard Stevens Walter '31 , Naples, Fla.; 
Oct. 24. He was president of Walter Foods 
Inc., m Albany, N.Y. He was then director of 
personnel for the New York State Senate in 
j Albany, N.Y, a position from which he re- 
j tired in 1984. Survivors include his wife, 
Lois, 1341 Solana Rd., Bent Pme Villas, 
Naples 33940. 

G. Alan Rothschild '32, West Chester, Pa.; 
Nov. 11. In 1967, he became president of G. 



Levor Company, Gloversville, NY., a leather 
goods business established in 1876 by his 
maternal grandfather He served on the 
Nathan Littauer Hospital board of managers 
for more than forty years and was president 
from 1974 to 1979. He was a past president of 
the United Way of Gloversville and president 
of the Rothschild Family Foundation, which 
contributed to many area institutions and or- 
ganizations. Mr Rothschild also served on 
the hoard of directors of the Tanners Council 
of America in the 1950s and 1960s. Among 
his survivors are his wife, Florence, 522 
Franklin Way, West Chester 19380; and three 
daughters, including Linda Rothschild Sacks 
'61. 

Samuel Weissman '32, New Haven, Conn.; 
Aug. 14. He joined SetloWear, Inc., Orange, 
Conn., a manufacturer of work clothes, as as- 
sistant to the president in 1958. He retired in 
1978 as executive vice president. He is sur- 
vived by his wife, Lillian, 6 Long Hill Terr, 
New Haven 06515. 

Robert Pierpont Wilson '32, Cleveland; Nov. 
22, 1986. He is survived by his wife, Eleanor, 
62 North Point Dr, Avon Lake, Ohio 44012. 

Edward Wigglesworth Grew, Jr. '34, Dover, 
Mass.; Nov. 17. He was proprietor, vice presi- 
dent, and a director of Meredith & Grew Inc., 
a real estate firm founded by his father, from 
1934 to 1960. For the next twenty-three years, 
until his retirement, he was a partner in the 
Boston real estate firm of Townsend, Dabney 
and Tyson. Among his survivors are his wife, 
Molly Farm St., Dover 02030. 

Robert Clement Knowles '35, Cohasset, 
Mass., an electrical engineer with Stone & 
Webster Engineering Corporation, Boston; 
June 3. He is survived by a daughter, 
Gretchen R. Stone, 17 Gloucester St., Boston 
02115. 

Carl William Letsen '35, Alexandria, Va.; 
Sept. 1. He is sur\ived by seven children and 
his wife, Mrs. Carl Letsen, 8618 Bradgate Rd., 
Alexandria 22308. 

Stanley Wawzonek '35, Iowa City, Iowa, pro- 
fessor emeritus of chemistry at the Universi- 
ty of Iowa; Jan. 6, 1988. In I960, he received 
the Iowa Award of the American Chemical 
Society. Other honors he received include the 
Outstanding Achievement Award of the Uni- 
versity of Minnesota in 1975, and the Mid- 
west Award of the American Chemical Soci- 
ety in 1976. In 1979, he was named distin- 
guished fellow of the Iowa Academy of Sci- 
ence. He was a member of the American 
Chemical Society and the Electrochemical So- 
ciety. Sigma Xi. Phi Lambda Upsilon. He is 
survived by his wife, Marian, 2014 Ridgeway 
Dr, Iowa City 52240: and three daughters, in- 
cluding Lucile Kay Wawzonek Thompson 
'72. 

Judge J. Alden Dooley '36, Rumford, R.L; 
July 1, 1988. A graduate of Boston University 
School of Law in 1940, he served as a probate 



judge in East Providence, R.L, commencing 
in 1956. He also served as president and 
managing director of the Narragansett Rac- 
ing Association. He served in the Navy dur- 
ing World War II. Sigma Nu. Among his sur- 
vivors is his wife, Helen, 111 Don Ave., Rum- 
ford 02916. 

Myrtle Martin Fritz '36, Cranston, R.L, an el- 
ementary school librarian before retiring in 
1972; June 4. Survivors include a sister, Helen 
Martin Hardacre '25; two daughters; and a 
son, J. Peter Fritz, 16 Selkirk Rd., Cranston 
02905. 

George Hudson Simpson '37, Greenwich, 
Conn.; .Nov. 4. He retired from IBM in 1972 
after thirty-seven years. During World War 
II, he was a lieutenant commander in the U.S. 
Naval Reserve, serving in the Atlantic and 
Pacific theaters. Survivors include three sons 
and his wife, Helen, 33 Irvine Rd., Greenwich 
06870. 

Charles Cornelius Cain m '38, Detroit, 
Mich.; Sept. 27. He spent most of his thirty- 
eight-year newspaper career at the Detroit 
bureau of the Associated Press. As a reporter 
and editor, he handled nearly every major 
Michigan story from 1945 until his retirement 
in 1979, including the attempted assassina- 
tions of United Auto Workers leaders Walter 
and Victor Reuther, the 1967 Detroit riot, and 
the disappearance of former Teamsters presi- 
dent Jimmy Hoffa. He began his career as a 
reporter at the Newark Stni-Leiiger in New Jer- 
sey, joined the Boston AP bureau in 1941, and 
then enlisted in the Army in 1942. He was a 
founding member of the Detroit Press Club 
in 1957 and served on its board. He was also 
a member of the Detroit chapter of the Soci- 
ety of Professional Journalists. Survivors in- 
clude seven children and his wife, Ruth, 1066 
Woodbridge, St. Clair Shores, Mich. 48080. 

Marion Pettengill Covey '38, Binghamton, 
NY; Sept. 22. She attended the Rhode Island 
School of Design and was a designer for Carl 
Stohn, Inc., and for her late husband's firm, 
Laird Covey |'391 Industrial Design. She is 
survived by a son, Paul, 50 Kenilworth Rd., 
Binghamton 13903. 

Stanley Fred Mathes '39, Little Compton, 
R.L; Oct. 22. He was vice president of the in- 
dustrial piping division of ITT-Grinnell Cor- 
poration, and before that president of a sub- 
sidiary. The Hartwell Company, for forty 
years before retiring in 1979. He was a for- 
mer board member of the Providence Boys 
Club and the Providence Public Library, 
where he served on the building committee 
for the recent renovations. A trustee emeritus 
of Brown, he was a recipient of the Brown 
Bear Award. He was a twenty-five-year di- 
rector of People's Bank in Providence and 
served a six-year term as a Little Compton 
tax assessor in the 1980s. Among his sur- 
vivors are three daughters, including Carla 
Mathes Woodward '79; and his wife, Betty, 
224 West Main Rd., Little Compton 02837." 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 60 



George Frederick Affleck '41, Ag<iw,im, 
M<iss., ,1 iK'ld tr.iiiiing niariiigiT for Phoenix 
Mutual Lift' Insurance Company, Hartford, 
Conn.; Feb. 29, 1988. He served in the Navy 
Reserve during World War II. Zeta Psi. He is 
survived by his wife, Esther, 100 South Park 
Ter, AgawamOIOOl. 

Pr John F.W. Oilman '41, Providence, a 
phvsician in pri\ate practice for thirty-three 
years before retiring in 19H3; Oct, 31. He was 
on the staff of Khode Island Hospital and its 
diabetes clinic for thirty years and served as 
a staff phvsican for the Tockwotton Home, 
the Bannister Nursing Care Center, the St. 
HIizabeth Home, and the Rhode Island 
School of Design, all in Providence. He 
served in the Navy Medical Corps from 1946 
to 1948. Among his survivors are his wife, 
HIizabeth, 42 East Manning St., Providence 
02906; four children; a brother, Ray '50; and 
two sisters, including Martha Oilman Saun- 
ders '45 

Frederick Hill Morrison, Jr. '41, Venice, 
Calif.; Aug. 3. There is no informaticin re- 
garding survivors. 

John Donald McWilllams '41, Long Beach, 
Calit.; June IS, 1983. He retired in 1977 as a 
compliance officer, U.S. Department of Labor, 
after thirty years of service in the federal 
government. He served in the Army during 
World War II. Zeta Psi. He is survived by his 
wife, Elsa, 4373 Walnut Ave., Long Beach 
90807. 

James Edward Ball HI '43, Des Moines, 
Iowa; |une h. He was the owner of Continen- 
tal Securities Corporation, an insurance and 
securites firm in Des Moines. Survivors in- 
clude his wife, Mary, 3409 Mary Lvnn Dr., 
Des Moines 50322. 

Betsy Oorham Freitag '43, place and date of 
death unknown. During World War II, she 
was a research analytic specialist with the 
Army Security Agency in Washington, D.C. 
Beginning in 1948, she was assistant to the li- 
brarian at the Cornell University Library. 
There is no information regarding survivors. 

Bernard Lubar '43, Calpe, Spain, vice presi- 
dent and creative director of McCann-Erik- 
son Advertising Agency, and from 1967 to 
1976, CEO of his ovvn advertising agency; 
Nov. 7. He was the author of the plav, The 
Uf;ly American. During World War II, he was 
a lieutenant and navigator in the Air Force. 
He was active in Brownbrokors, Sock & 
Buskin, and was president of Pi Lambda Phi 
while at Brown. He had been living in Spain 
for the last ten years. Among his survivors 
are two daughters, including Judith Lubar 
Roth '67, 4505 SW Brace Pt. Dr., Seattle, 
Wash. 98136. 

Robert MacLaren Babcock '45, Elk Grove 

\illage. 111.; lune 311, I Jo was a retired sales 
manager for Bird Scaffolding Company, Inc., 
in Chicago. He served in the Navy during 
World War II and took part in the invasion of 



Borneo. Delta Tau Delta. He is survived by 
his wife, Helen, 946 Maple Ln., Elk Grove 
Village 60007. 

Henry Virginius Leonard, Jr. '46, Wilton, 
Conn.; Sept. 30. He was vice president of 
General Motors Overseas Corporation in 
Toyko and president of the Brown Club of 
Japan. He was a Navy veteran of World War 
II. He was a guard on the Brown football 
team. In 1987, he received an Alumni Service 
Award frcim the Associated Alumni in recog- 
nition of his service to Brown. Alpha Delta 
Phi. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Henry 
Leonard, 69 Liberty St., Wilton, Conn. 06897. 

H. Oregory Behan, Jr. '50, New Orleans; Oct. 
16. He owned restaurants in Springfield, 
Mass., and West Palm Beach, Fla., and had 
recently retired. He was a lieutenant in the 
Army during the Korean War. Kappa Sigma. 
Survivors include a daughter, a son, and a 
sister, Kentsy Behan Hargreaves '51, 8 Her- 
ring Gull Ln,, Hilton Head Plantation, Hilton 
Head, S.C. 29926. 

Henry Joseph Evans '51, Warwick, R.I., an 
engineer with United Engineers, Inc., Boston; 
Nov. 30. He is survived by his wife, Mary 
Ann, 87 Manolla Ave., Warwick 02888. 

John William O'Donnell, Jr. '51, Hamden, 
Conn.; Sept. 16. A 1952 graduate of Boston 
University Law School, he practiced law in 
Hamden. He was an Army veteran of World 
War II. Survivors include two sons and his 
wife, Artemis, 265 Church St., Hamden 
06514. 

Earl Oordon Wagner '51, Lyme, N.H., a certi- 
fied public accountant; Nov. 4. He worked in 
North Haven, Conn., for sixteen years before 
moving to Norwich in 1970, where he was a 
partner with the firm of Smith, Batchelder & 
Rugg of Hanover For the last eight years he 
was controller for Northeastern Log Homes 
of Groton, Vt., moving to Lyme in 1986. He 
was a high-speed radio operator in the Army 
during the Korean War. Delta Tau Delta. Sur- 
vivors include two children and his wife, Ju- 
dith, P.O. Box 326, Lyme 03768. 

Howard Allen Farrands 53, '55 A.M., 
Bloonitieid, N.J,, retired associate professor 
of history at Bloomfield College; Sept. 11. He 
is survived by his wife, lane, 170 Washington 
St., #2D, Bloomfield 07003. 

Leonora Daniels Klein '54, Boston; Sept. 7, in 
1 lanciK'k, N.H. She was a former develop- 
ment officer at the Advent School in Boston, 
a columnist for the I'licrhowii^h (N.H.) Trim- 
script, and an ardent supporter of wildlife 
conservation and animal welfare. Among her 
survivors are two daughters and her hus- 
band, Ernest '54, 7 Brimmer St., Boston 
02108. 

Barbara Silverman Shwartz '55, Akron, 
Ohio; Oct. 10. She is survived by her hus- 
band, Sol, 106 Avondale Dr., Akron 44313. 



Robert Alexander Stoehr in '55, Cincinnati, 

president ot the (incinnati Floor Company, 
founded in 1894 by his grandfather; Oct. 21. 
He was national director of the Ceiling Interi- 
or Contractors Association and served with 
the National Labor Relations Board in 
Cincinnati. He was a member of the board of 
the Seven Hills School. He served with the 
Marines in Korea. He is survived bv three 
daughters and his wife, Naomi, .3450 Obser- 
vatory PI,, Cincinnati 45208, 

Maureen Connolly Merritt '56, Auburndale, 
Mass.; Sept. 8. She worked for the past 
twelve years as a teacher and a teacher's aide 
in the Newtcin, Mass., school system. Most 
recently, she taught special education reading 
skills. She received a master's degree in edu- 
cation from Framingham State College in 
1970. Four daughters and her husband, 
Travis, 222 Grove St., Auburndale 02166, are 
among her survivors. 

David Jay Revis '56, Lexington, Mass., a 
marketing specialist; Aug. 29. He was gener- 
al manager for Ketchum Distributors in 
Columbus, Ohio. Among his survivors are 
three children and his wife, Elizabeth, 2 Mor- 
gan Rd., Lexington 02173. 

Daniel K. Ai '57 Sc.M., New Kensington, Pa.; 
Sept. 4. He tied to Hong Kong in 1949 during 
the Communist takeover in China. He later 
came to the U.S. and received a degree in me- 
chanical engineering from Swarthmore in 
1953. He received a master's degree in me- 
chanics from the University of Wisconsin in 
1954 and a Ph.D. in aeronautics from the Cal- 
ifornia Institute of Technology in 1961, where 
he was a research fellow until 1965. He was a 
member of the technical staff of TRW Sys- 
tems until 1967, when he was elected presi- 
dent of Geophysical Technology Corporation 
in Pasadena, a position he held until 1970. In 
1970, he became professor of aerospace engi- 
neering at Washington University in St. 
Louis, and in 1972 was named Alcoa Profes- 
sor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineer- 
ing at the University of Missouri at Rolla. 
Since 1974, he had been a technical consul- 
tant at Alcoa Laboratories in New Kensing- 
ton. He was a co-founder of the Organization 
of Chinese Americans. He is survived by his 
wife, Fiore Belle Wang Ai, Box 530 A, Sev- 
enth St., New Kensington 15068. 

Theodore Grinnell Clemence '59 AM,, 
Bowie. Md., senior ad\isor to the deputy di- 
rector of the U.S. Census Bureau; Oct. 9, of a 
heart attack. He joined the Census Bureau in 
1959 as a junior statistician in the population ^ 
division. He then became chief of the pro- ' 
gram policy and planning office and in the 
1970s was appointed senior adviser to the 
deputy director. He was an acknowledged 
expert on the history of the bureau and was 
writing a book at the time of his death that 
was to chronicle the history of the bureau 
from its inception in the late eighteenth cen- 
tury He is survived bv a brother, 0. Vail 
Clemence '53, three sons, and his wife, Be\ - 
erly, 2824 Belair Dr., Bowie 20715. 



70 / FEBRUARY 1989 



Lester Harvey Rifkin '39 Ph.D., New Bed- 
ford, Mass., a retired history professor at 
Southeastern Massachusetts University in 
.\'orth Dartmouth, Mass.; April 11. He is sur- 
\ ived by a brother, Harold, address un- 
known. 

Donald Carl Bankston '60, South Sandwich, 
Mass.; Oct. 25, ot a heart attack after jogging. 
After serving as an officer in the Navy in the 
Pacific from 1%0 to 1%2, he worked in the 
medical laboratorv of Cape Cod Hospital. 
For the past twentv-two years, he was an 
analytical chemist at the Woods Hole 
Oceanographic Institute, and for the past two 
years he managed his own analytical cost 
center at the institute. He gave many scientif- 
ic lectures throughout New England and was 
on Princeton's speakers bureau. Survivors in- 
clude three children and his wife, Anne, 18 
Race Ln., RFD #2, South Sandwich 02563. 

Mark Jonah Rosenberg '60, Philadelphia; 
May 4. A graduate of the University of Penn- 
sylvania School of Architecture, he special- 
ized in hospital design and planning for the 
last fifteen years. At the time of his death, he 
was associate director of facilities at Hahne- 
mann University and Hospital. Among his 
survivors are his wife, Barbara Lissy, 816 
Carpenter Ln., Philadelphia 14119; two 
daughters; and his mother, Frances Len- 
kowsky Rosenberg '34. 

Nancy H. Earle '62, Duxbury, Mass., an artist 
and founder of Boston Chapter of Women in 
Sales; Oct. 14. She received her master's de- 
gree in business administration from Boston 
University in 1983 and was a member of the 
Duxbury Art Association, North River Art 
Association, and the Appalachian Club. Sur- 
vivors include a brother, Edward Earle, of 
Orange Park, Fla 

Eugene Francis Mulcahy '63 MAT., Chica 
go; April 16. He was a special assistant to the 
superintendent for developing programs in 
the Hartford, Conn., public school system 
He published articles in such periodicals as 
Hi{miinities, Open Educatioti, and Clunigitig 
Schools. A book of which he was co-author, 
LIsiiig Peer Sufport Groups in Organizing 
Schools, was published in 1980. He was elect- 
ed to Goddard College's board of tn.istees in 
1981. He is survived by a sister, Maryclair 
Mulcahv, 47 Old Fields Rd., Sandwich, Mass. 
02563. 

Frederick William Arnold IV '68, Katonah, 
K'.Y.; Nov. 5, 1986. He was a senior trust offi- 
cer with The Private Banking Group, Tnists 
& Estates, in New York City. He received his 
law degree from Fordham University School 
of Law. Among his survivors are his father, 
Frederick HI '33; a brother, Christopher '64; 
three children; and his wife, Joan, 22 Hillside 
Ave., Katonah 10536. 

Marguerite Hartley Nolan '68, Hartford, 
Conn.; Aug. 20. She taught French in schools 
in Wellesley, Mass., and West Hartford, 
Conn. She was a member of the boards of the 



Connecticut Opera Guild and the Loomis- 
Chaffee Parents Association. She is survived 
by three daughters and her husband, John 
'65, 33 Belknap Rd., West Hartford 06117. 

Elizabeth Hormel Moses '72, Lutherville, 
Md.; .March 19, m a horseback riding acci- 
dent. She was treasurer for the Baltimore 
Colts of the National Football League from 
1981 to 1984. After the team moved to Indi- 
anapolis, she worked as a consultant tor nu- 
merous Maryland businesses. She had been 
training her horse for jumping competition 
when the accident occurred. Among her sur- 
vivors is her husband. Dr. Hamilton Moses 
III, 11041 Greenspring Ave., Lutherville 
21093. 

Barbara Goldman Garland '74, Espanola, 
N,M.; March 6. She was a psychiatric coun- 
selor at Jemez House in Espanola for several 
years beginning in 1976. She attended the 
California Culinary Academy in San Francis- 
co from 1983 to 1985 and was a chef in Cali- 
fornia and Michigan. She returned to New 
Mexico in 1987. Phi Beta Kappa. She is sur- 
vived by her parents; her husband, John, Rt. 
3, La Puebia Rd., Box 23, Espanola 87532; and 
a sister, Linda Goldman '78. The Barbara 
Goldman Garland Scholarship Fund has 
been established. Those who wish to make a 
gift may do so, payable to the University of 
New Mexico Foundation - Goldman Garland 
Fund, Hodgin Hall, Albuquerque, N. M. 
87131. 

Jonathan Francis Dunn '76, Wolf Creek, 
Mont.; Oct. 26, accidentally He was an outfit- 
ter and fishing guide in Montana, where he 
had made his home after working in the 
West as a geophysical surveyor. He was mis- 
taken for a burglar and shot at a sports shop 
owned by a friend. He is survived by two 
brothers and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Vin- 
cent Dunn, 77 Pleasant St., Concord, N.H. 
03301. 

Donald Edward Nodine '76, New York City; 
Oct. 20. He was an international attorney in 
the legal department of Revlon, Inc., in New 
\'ork City. Pre\-iously, he was a senior associ- 
ate attorney with the law firm of Holland & 
Knight of Miami, and spent two years as a 
foreign attorney in the law offices of Yuasa & 
Harra, Tokyo. He received his law degree 
from the University of Texas, Austin, where 
he was editor-in-chief of the Texas Interna- 
tional Laze lournal. Phi Beta Kappa. He is sur- 
vived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William 
Nodine, 1725 Long Bow Ln., Clearwater, Fla. 
33516. 

Richard Paul Manning '87 A.M., Flint, Mich.; 
April 27. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. 
Pauline Manning, 2225 Brownell Blvd., Flint 

48504. 

Hyatt Howe Waggoner, Rochester, Vt., pro- 
fessor emeritus of English at Brown and a na- 
tionally recognized authority on Nathaniel 
Hawthorne; Oct. 13, in Hanover, .N.H. Phi 
Beta Kappa at Middlebury College, where he 



graduated in 1935, he earned his master's de- 
gree at the University of Chicago in 1936 and 
his Ph.D. at Ohio State University in 1942. He 
taught at the University of Omaha from 1939 
to 1942 and was head of the English depart- 
ment at the University of Kansas City (now 
the University of Missouri at Kansas City) 
from 1942 to 1956, when he joined the Eng- 
lish faculty at Brown. He was director of the 
American Civilization Program from I960 to 
1970 and retired in 1979. Professor Waggoner 
was the author of many scholarly works and 
critical studies of American literary figures, 
including Ralph Waldo Emerson, William 
Faulkner, and several twentieth-century writ- 
ers, but he was best known for his writings 
on Nathaniel Hawthorne. His book, Haw- 
thorne: A Critical Study (1955), won the Expli- 
cator Prize and was acclaimed by critics for 
breaking fresh ground in Hawthorne scholar- 
ship. He was the editor of the standard 
Hawthorne's Selected Tales and Sketches (1950) 
and wrote the entry on Hawthorne in the 
current edition of the Encyclopedia Bntannica. 
In 1978, he established the authenticity of a 
"lost notebook" of Hawthorne's, long sought 
by scholars, and wrote the introduction to 
Hau'thonic's Lost Notebook, published by the 
Penn State University Press. His most com- 
prehensive work was American Poets: From 
the Puritans to the Present, published in 1968 
and revised and updated in 1984. Reviewing 
the book in the Nrw York Times in 1968, 
Thomas Lask called it "a princely view of our 
poetic experience and history." Among Pro- 
fessor Waggoner's other books are William 
Faulkner: From lefferson to the World (1959), 
Emerson as Poet (1974), The Presence of 
Hazvthorne (1979), and American Visionary Po- 
etry (1982). Last June, he was the recipient of 
the House of Seven Gables Hawthorne 
Award, given annually to a distinguished 
scholar or critic whose work has made a ma- 
jor contribution to Hawthorne scholarship. 
He is survived by two daughters and his 
wife, Louise, of Rochester, Vt. 

James F. Kidwell, Tucson, Ariz., a member 
of the biology faculty from 1963 to 1984; Oct. 
2. He taught population genetics and statis- 
tics, and carried out research using as a base 
the physiological and population genetics of 
the fruit fly Drosophila. In the 1970s, his work, 
in collaboration with his wife, led to impor- 
tant discoveries about how movable genetic 
elements lead to mating incompatibilities. 
These genetic elements are major tools in ge- 
netic engineering studies carried out today. 
He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1959 and 
president of the American Genetics Associa- 
tion in 1978-79. The James F. Kidwell Prize in 
Genetics or Population Biology was estab- 
lished at Brown upon his retirement. He is 
survived by his wife, Margaret Gale Kidwell 
'73 Ph.D., of Tucson, and four children, in- 
cluding Mary '84. 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 71 



Finally... 



Echos 



By Katherine G. Bergen '60 



My husband savs I am like a 
migratory bird: "Come the 
first of July," he says, "she automatically 
puts the kids, dog, and duffel bags into 
the car and heads north. There is no 
way," he claims, "she can be deterred or 
dissuaded from going." 

He's about right. For more than 
forty years I have been trekking annual- 
ly to the north woods of Canada, to a 
summer cottage on an island in a beau- 
tiful and peaceful place called the 
French Ri\-er. Like my Canada geese 
compatriots, I am singleminded and de- 
termined. Come summer, Canada is 
where I want to be. 

This summer my old river rowboat 
was all fixed up. On mv tenth birthday, 
it had been a snazzy little boat - a small, 
round-bottomed, double-ended wooden 
skiff, brightly varnished, with my name 
painted on the bow. Back then, after 
learning to work the oars, 1 took it ex- 
ploring in and around every island and 
inlet on our end of the river. 

In recent years, however, my row- 
boat's dilapidated condition had pre- 
cluded much use. When it still leaked 
badly after a dedicated refinishing job 
by me, I had to admit that the Kntic 
would either require professional help 
or have to be taken to the dump. 

Last winter it went to the Geisler 
boat builders down in Powassan. The 
workmen replaced boards, caulked, 
sanded, and applied a thin coat of fiber- 
glass. When we arrived back on the riv- 
er in July, my rowboat was floating high 
and dry at its inside corner of the dock. 
Happily, I found that I could still speed 
it on its way as well as ever. 

Now, rowing a boat, while fine cxcr- 




LALK.X AMJtK'5(.i\ 



cise, is not an intellectual occupation. 
Once vou've got the proper balance and 
rhythm to your stroke, you line up the 
stern with a distant landmark to keep a 
steady course, and then there's nothing 
to do but settle down to some serious 
scenery-watching. It's a good time for 
just plain thinking. 

One day last summer, pulling the 
rowboat into a channel where the rocks 
are steep on one side, and on a calm day 
the slightest noise creates a perfect echo, 
I was doing some thinking. I was won- 
dering about my attachment to the 
French River, how I loved it, how I had 
such an irresistible urge to come here 
every year ... I was wondering why. As 
I rowed into this particular channel and 
hollered the usual "Yoohoo," the echo 
came bouncing back. Suddenly it hit 
mc: echos. 

On the French River, 1 am surround- 
ed by echos, echos of m\' life. There 1 
was, sitting on a seat in a little boat that 
1 had sat on as a child. I was looking at a 
rock that has been there for thousands 
of years and was certainly the same 
rock I had looked at forty years ago. 1 
would row back soon to a cottage that 
had belonged to my grandfather when 
my mother was a girl. I would watch 
my husband bring home fish for dinner 
just as my father used to do. And I 
would see my child run with her friend 



down a sloping rock to plunge, gig- 
gling, into the icy water - yes, just as I 
used to do. Echos. 

When you are nearing fifty, \ou are 
bemused, if not bewildered, by the 
kaleidoscoping quickness of life. When 
my babies were little, time hardly 
moved. The cozy family picture on the 
Christmas card was the way things 
were, and the wav I expected them to 
stay. The first inkling 1 had of time rush- 
ing past was when I happened to notice 
that the "brand new" upholstery on the 
ku'eseat had suddenly become thor- 
oughly threadbare. Now the older girls 
are away at college and the loveseat's 
second renovation is on the decline. 

But at the cottage in Canada, the 
same staunch old wicker chair has been 
sitting beside the same ball-footed wick- 
er table for as long as I can remember. 
The back door has always slammed 
shut too loudly, the stairs to the second 
floor ha\'e always squeaked something 
awful, and when my mother gets up 
early on a cold morning, you can al- 
ways hear the creak of the iron door as 
she starts a fire in the potbelly stove. 

On the French River, time almost 
stands still. I am surrounded by pre- 
cious sameness. I hear echos. 

Kntc Bergen lives in Port Washington, 
Nczc York. 



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