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American Country Club Itineraries to New England and Maine CUPPER CRUISE LINE Volume 89, Number 6 March 1989 BroiAyn Alumni Monthly A Little Romance 20 Gone are the days of corsages and proms. Today's un- dergraduates hve in coed dorms and sociahze in packs; while friendships abound, romance is more ehisive. Those Who Can, Teach Photographer John Foraste prowled the campus's classrooms, watching faculty in their element. Here- with, his impressions, with reflections bv his subjects. The Man Who Saved the Library 32 Calvin Trillin sings the praises of Brown's new presi- dent - in verse that Ogden Nash would envy. Women of the Alleys Journalist Kathleen Hirsch '79 A.M. spent two years among Boston's homeless women. Her book. Songs from the Alley, tells their tales. Riding to Barcelona 41 Molly Bliss '91 spent much of her childhood on crutch- es, and her adolescence and early adulthood on horse- back. If all goes well, she'll be in Spain for the 1992 Olympics - on the U.S. Equestrian Team. Departments Carrying the Mail 2 Under the Elms 6 Sports 16 The Classes 46 Profile: Eric Schrier '73 52 Obituaries 60 Finally 64 The cover: Photograph by John Foraste Brov\yn Aliiinni Moiithl\j March 1989 Volume 89, No. 6 Carrying the Mail Editor Robert ,VL Rhodes Managing Editor Anne Hinnian Diftily '73 Assistant Editor Charlotte Bruce Harvey '78 Editorial Associate James Rembold 74 A.M. Contributing Writer David T. Temkni 'S9 Administrative Assistant Pamela Parker Design Kathryn de Boer Sandra Delany Susan Pearce Board of Editors Chairman VVendv J- Strothman '72 Vice Chairman John J. Monaghan '55 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 '8 Linda Mason '64 Cathleen McGuigan '71 Stacy E. Palmer '82 Gary A. Puckrein '78 Ph.D. Matthew L. VVald '76 Elizabeth B. West '73 Billy R. Wooten '70 Ph.D. National Advertising Representative Berkowitz, Denny & Sanford 145 East 63rd Street New York, NY 10021 212 753-9740 e 1989 by Bw-.vn Mwiwi Mmthfy. Published monthly, except Januciry, July. iiYvL!"J!l K.I, At the A A AS meeting: Quarks, Venus, biological clocks, Soviet relations, and IQ When the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) convened in San Francisco in January, several Brown faculty presented pa- pers - on subjects as minute as quarks and as distant as Venus. -♦- Psvchology professor Russell Church provided new insights into a timeless query: Why time flies when vou're having fun - and conversely why it creeps when you're bored. With Brown graduate student Hi- larv Broadbent, Church has been studying biological clocks and the ways they get out of sync with reality. If their research is right, it may be our internal clocks, not external time, that are flying. Church theorizes that rats have about thirty bio- logical clocks - each, like a tuning fork, oscillating at a different rate, enabling the animals to measure incre- ments of time from one twentieth of a second to a lifetime. Animals, he report- ed, probably read the rela- tionships between these dif- ferent oscillators, rather than counting the accumu- lated "ticks" of a clock. But drugs, and presumablv life experiences such as jo\' or boredom that trigger the natural release of such chemicals in our bodies, can throw ott those clocks. Giv- en stimulants, rats get im- patient. Trained to wait twenty seconds after a tone for their food but to turn and walk away if the food is late, rats walk away early when thev are given stimu- lants. ■^^ What makes kids smart? A study by Professor of Psychiatry Arnold Sam- eroff and Assistant Profes- sor Ronald Seifer (both on the Emma P. Bradley Hospi- tal staff) indicates that fami- ly environment has a direct impact on children's IQ. They ha\-e tested 1 58 chil- dren in Rochester, New York, and identified a list of risk factors, each of which appears to lower a child's IQ bv about four points. Among the risks, as report- ed by the Providence lournal: an absent father or unedu- cated mother, a mother's mental illness, large familv size, and stressful life events. In the study, chil- dren whose families had no risk factors were found to score an average of thirtv points higher on the IQ test than those with eight or nine risk factors. Seifer told the ]ouiiml that intervention programs such as Head Start must be long-term in order to have an impact on children: "If you take a child in a risky context, intervene for a time, then put the child back in that risky context, there's no reason to expect tliat those gains will be maintained. The interven- tions must be ongoing." He and Sameroff are currently studying the effect on a child's intelligence when the risk factors are remo\ed. "Unfortunately," Seifer said, "there aren't many cases when they really change." ^^ Geologists have long wondered whether Venus was once, like her neighbor Earth, covered by a vast ocean. With an 850-degree surface temperature, Venus would have boiled off that water long ago; the hydro- gen would have escaped into space, but the oxygen, which is heavier, would ha\'e been left on the planet. Where? In the rocks, says Asso- ciate Professor of Geology Carle Pieters. Part of a joint Brown /Soviet exploration of Venus, Pieters announced that their efforts to find the planet's true color led to the unexpected discovery of oxvgen-rich rocks. Using photographs of the planet's surface taken by two 1982 So\'iet spacecraft, the scien- tists corrected the images for atmospheric distortions of color. They found that even when they "remo\'ed" the orange hue imparted b\- light passing through Venus's sulfuric acid clouds, and then corrected again for the extreme heat of the planet's surface, the rocks proved to be a rusty red, which to a geologist indi- cates the presence of oxy- gen. S / MARCH I' J At the twelfth annual Medical Recognition Dinner in December, Drs. Stanley M. Aronson and Sanfoid W. Udis '41 were lion- ored bv the medical school for "distinguished service to medical education in Rhode Island." The founding dean of Brown's medical school, Aronson established many programs such as the medical ethics undergraduate concentration, efforts to ad- dress the underrepresentation nationally of minorities in medicine, and a multi-hospital residency in his specialty, pathology. Udis, a life-long resident of Fall River, Massa- chusetts, was founding president of the Brown Medical Alumni Association and serves on the Corporation Committee on Medi- cal Education. He is a clinical associate professor at Brown and specializes in diagnostic imaging. Graduate student Linda Parker has been named the first Stu- dent of the ^'ear by the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology. A doctoral candidate in the anthropology de- partment and a research fellow at Brown's Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, she won the national competition on the basis of her research applying anthropological principles to the solution of practical problems. Parker used knowledge from the fields of cultural anthropology and archaeology in establishing and operating a substance-abuse prevention program for Na- tive American youth in Providence. The University has awarded Henry Merritt VVriston Fellowships to two assistant professors: Georgia Nugent of classics and Neil Lazarus of English and of the Center for Modern Culture and Media. The awards recognize faculty members who have made outstanding contributions to undergraduate education via inno- vative teaching and curriculum development. Nugent will use her award to study the portrayal of female characters in the ma- jor martial epics of Greece and Rome, particularly the Iliad and the Aeneid. Lazarus will write a book on commodity aesthetics and theories of mass cultures. Two assistant professors have received grants from the AT&T Foundation. Thomas Dean of computer science was awarded $25,000 to purchase a mobile robot and associated equipment for research in artificial intelligence and robotics. Farid Shou- cair of engineering received $20,000 to help equip a VLSI (Very Large Scale Integrated circuits) laboratory. A Ph.D. candidate in the classics department has been awarded a Fulbright grant to conduct research in the Republic of Cyprus. Susan Heuck Allen will study Late Bronze Age trade in the eastern Mediterranean area. ^^ Alan Sherr, associate director of the Center for Foreign Policy Develop- ment, spoke at the AAAS meeting about U.S. /Soviet \entures. He recommended limited support in trade and other efforts that benefit both countries, in the hope that if Mikhail Gorbachev's policies bolster the Soviet economy over the next few \'ears, the Soviet leader will be allowed to continue; if not, Sherr warned, we may see the return of a more re- pressive Soviet rule. m^- It was quarks - those mvsterious particles that scientists are always telling us are the "building blocks of all matter" - that physics professor Gerald Guralnik reported on to the AAAS. No one has ever seen a c]uark (they're smaller than Two physicians have been named co-directors of Brown's Health Services. Dr Marlene Eckerle joined Health Services in 1982 as a staff physician and was named associate medical di- rector in 1984. She also is a clinical assistant professor of pedi- atrics in the medical school. Dr Edward Wheeler became a staff physician at Health Services in 1983 and was named coor- dinator of inpatient services in 1986. He is a clinical assistant professor in the medical school. The two doctors succeed Dr. Sumner Hoffman, who retired in December. He will continue to practice in Health Services part-time, and will serve as a medi- cal consultant to the University's Office of Risk Management. Carol Simkins is the new associate director of health services. Vice President for Biology and Medicine Pierre M. Galletti and Dean of Medicine David S. Greer were honored by the Hospital Association of Rhode Island with its Distinguished Service Award in October, in recognition of their "considerable impact" on Rhode Island medicine. Dr. Galletti was instrumental in es- tablishing Brown's Program in Medicine, and pursues a distin- guished research career in the development of artificial organs and other "spare parts." Dr. Greer is a long-time advocate of the terminally ill, disabled and elderly, and is a leader in the hos- pice movement. He was a founding member of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985. Ron Weissman, most recently director of academic computing at the University of Maryland, is Brown's new assistant vice- president for academic computing. A scholar of Italian Renais- sance history, he also will hold an appointment in the history department. With the publication last fall of I Drenm n World, Columbia Uni- versity professor Arnold Rampersad's two-volume biography of black poet Langston Hughes was completed - to widespread acclaim in academic and literary circles. A key player in the bi- ographical process was George Houston Bass, professor of the- atre arts and Afro-American studies and director of the Rites and Reason research-to-performance company. Bass, who had served as Hughes's assistant from 1959 to 1964, is executor- trustee of the Hughes estate. In 1979, he asked Rampersad to undertake the poet's biography. The Chronicle of Higher Educa- tion reported in November that Rampersad wrote this of Bass in / Dream a World: "Above all, I thank him for allowing me to ex- press, without hindrance, my own version and vision of Hughes's life." Bass himself has been working on a volume comprising all of Hughes's known poems. atoms - than protons, even), or watched one in action, but physicists have been speculating about their characteristics (using such odd words as "charm" and "flavor"), and they beheve a dozen or so types of the lit- tle particles exist. Guralnik and his colleagues have been using supercomputers to create a mathematical model for quarks' behavior. and the results sounded positive. Nevertheless, Gu- ralnik told the Pnroidencc journal'^ science reporter Eugene Emery '74 the proof that quarks actually exist is still distant: "To make No- bel Prize-caliber progress we need machines that are easily a million times more powerful than the currrent computers." - C.B.H. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 9 Securities and Exchange Commissioner helps Brown inaugurate a center for financial study i H _&C-4-l 4JL-1 I I ' I I xiir: Robinson Hall, home of the economics de- partment, was the setting for the dedica- tion of Brown's Center for the Study of Financial Markets and Institutions on February 10. President Vartan Gregorian (at left in photo) introduced spe- cial guest Joseph A. Grundfest (right), a commis- sioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Com- mission. Later that evening, Gnmdfest delivered the Center's inaugural address in Sayles Hall. His talk, "Innovation, Regulation, and the Technology of Finance," examined the implications of the tech- nology revolution for financial markets and regu- lation. In his opening remarks, Grundfest joked that Brown's new center is well-positioned, because there is no doubt about at least one growth area: the market for studying markets. ... It seems per- fectly clear that we can make a lot of money study- ing whether and why today's prices are too high or too low," he suggested wryly. "This observation is known in Washington as Grundfest's first X'aria- tion of the Heisenberg financial uncertainty princi- ple: No one within 100 miles of the Potomac is at all certain about what's going on in financial mar- kets, but everyone is certainly willing to study the situation." The center was established in 1987 with the aim of encouraging economic scholarship, using modern research techniques and technology, to study finance and to facilitate ties with the local and national financial community. Directed by Professor William Poole, a former member of Pres- ident Reagan's Council of Economic Advisors, the center's activities are connected to economics in- struction at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Major portions of the center's projected $15- million endowment were donated by Susan Rider Kamins '82 and her husband, Michael, and Paul R. Dupee, Jr. '67. In addition, an endowed chair has been established with a $1 -million bequest from the estate of the late Herbert Goldberger '39. - A.D. 10 / MARCl! Rally for ethnic studies coincides with visit by "20/20" Ethnic studies, now!" the crowd of about 100 students chanted, as a crew from the ABC tele\'i- sion news program "20/20" filmed the protest January 31. Wearing blue armbands symbolizing the "blue-rib- bon" visiting committee that evaluated the state of minority life at Brown in 1985, the students crossed the Green to the sidewalk in front of University Hall, where they regrouped around a rug-sized placard bearing a "letter" to Brown's new leader. "To President V'artan Gregorian," it read, "We, the students of Brown University, call for an im- mediate and meaningful commitment to the institu- tion of programs in Latino and Asian-American Stud- ies." Many of the students got down on hands and knees, picked up a colored marker, and signed the doc- ument. They then presented their petition to Dean of the College Sheila Blumstein, Dean of Student Life John Robinson '67, and Dean of Students David Inman. Al- though on campus for meet- ings that day, Gregorian did not receive the petition in person; rather he responded in a letter to the BnrwiiDnih/ Herald, stating that the mat- ter would be addressee"! through the faculty. In 1985 the visiting com- mittee on minority educa- tion recommended that the faculty "give formal consid- eration to establishing an Ethnic Studies concentra- tion and an Ethnic Studies Research Institute" at Brown. Last May, the Cor- poration approved the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity; while it will not offer a concentration in ethnic studies per se, it will conduct related research and will help faculty devel- op new courses and add broader ethnic and racial perspectives to existing courses. The 1987-89 Uni- versity catalogue lists sever- al courses directly related to the protestors' demancis, three in American Civiliza- tion ("Asians in America: Breaking Silence," "The Im- migrant Experience," and "East Asia Relations") as well as several courses in Spanish-American and Latin-American literature. The protest was timed to coincide with the campus presence of an ABC news team for "20/20," who were scheduled to interview Dean of Admission and Fi- nancial Aid Eric Widmer that afternoon on a related subject: discrimination against Asian-American students in college admis- sions. It has become a hot is- sue nationally of late, espe- cially at West Coast schools, where enrollment of Asians is disproportionately low, given their prominence and competitiveness in the ap- plicant pool. But East Coast schools are being scruti- nized, too; the U.S. Depart- ment of Education is inves- tigating accusations of dis- crimination in admission at Harvard and UCLA. The "20/20" segment is expect- ed to air sometime in late March. "Brown's experience is fairly typical," says Widmer, who teaches Chinese histo- ry and spoke recently at a Justice Department sympo- sium on Asian-American university admissions. "Ten years ago, we were trying desperately to get Asian- Americans to apply to Brown. For instance, in 1982, we ad- mitted almost 50 percent of Asian-American applicants. Since then, that percentage has dropped drastically." The rate fell as low as 10 per- cent wdth the class of 1986, of which Asian-Americans com- prised only 5.3 percent. and that as many of the kids we admit decide to accept Brown's acceptance, we should have an even higher percentage of Asian-Ameri- cans in next year's freshman class," Widmer says. One aspect of his role in boosting Asian-American enrollment at Brown will be to ensure that what he calls "inappropriate judgments - cultural bias, a lack of abili- ty to appreciate the back- grounds of Asian- American students, the too easy as- Since then, the numbers have risen; 9 percent of Brown's student body is Asian-American, and al- most 10 percent of the fresh- man class. The percentage should be even higher in the class entering in 1989, Wid- mer says. Preliminary counts of applications show 1,854 from Asian- Ameri- cans, 100 more than last year, and this increase de- spite what is predicted to be an overall slump in applica- tions. "Assuming that the quality of this year's appli- cants is as high as last year. Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Eric Widmer spoke to "20/20" about Asian-American college admissions. sumption that all Asian- American applicants are in the sciences" - don't influ- ence admission decisions. But another task will be to convince Asian- Americans to come to Brown. "The kids we accept are so bright that they can go where they want," Widmer says. "This means calling them up, sending letters, inviting them to campus." - C.B.H. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 11 1989-90 tuition to rise 7.5 percent; total costs set at $19,380 A t its February 13 meeting, the Cor- poration approved a 7.5- percent increase in next year's tuition, raising it to $14,375 and bringing the av- erage total cost of a year at Brown to $19,380. The in- crease is the largest the Uni- versity has implemented in the past three years and represents a more aggres- sive attempt to combat some ongoing problems. In addition to raising fees, the Corporation voted to spend a higher-than-usual per- centage of the endowment, which, as of December 31, 1988, was valued at $373 million. The members also raised the goal for the Brown Annual Fund from tliis year's total of $7.6 mil- lion to $9 million. Two factors above all have necessitated the in- crease in tuition, said Fred- erick Bohen, Brown's senior vice president for finance and administration. "Last year, tuition rose 6.9 per- cent," he said, "and this year it will go up 7.5 per- cent; this year inflation rose from 4 percent to 5 percent nationally. In addition we're trying to cio a little better with salaries for both facul- ty and non-faculty staff." The Advisory Commit- tee on University Planning (ACUP), which annually recommends a budget to the Corporation, this year advocated setting aside a 7.5-percent pool for salary increases for faculty and non-union staff. ACUl' re- ported that despite the high priority placed on faculty salaries during the past two years. Brown has continued to slip behind its competi- tion. The average salary of a full professor at Brown is 8 percent, or $5,000, less than at comparable institutions the committee surveyed. Given the large number of faculty nationwide who will be retiring in the next sever- al years and the dearth of candidates to fill those jobs, competition for c^ualified faculty is likely to become increasingly stiff among the nation's universities. The situation with non- faculty salaries is no rosier, ACUP concluded: "At a time when national unem- ployment is down to a four- teen-year low of 5.3 percent, and regional unemploy- ment is just over 3 percent," staff turnover has risen al- most 50 percent in the past two years. And, the com- mittee stated, "In addition to losing growing numbers of proven, skilled staff in key middle-management, technical, and skilled secre- tarial positions to career al- ternatives that pay better. Brown is finding it harder and harder to attract candi- dates with the requisite for- mal eclucation, training, and relevant employment expe- rience." Currently, said Bo- hen, "Brown has 100 vacan- cies. This is very high for this time of year; usually jobs open up in the fall but fill cjuickly." The committee concluded that the Univer- sity is having trouble at- tracting and keeping quali- 12 / MARCH 19S9 tied candidates because, de- spite a competitive benefits piui^-age, salaries are just too low. Other fiscal priorities that ACUP listed in its re- port were the need to re- place the outdated and all- tcHvoften patched together software Brown uses for paxroll and other informa- tion systems; the rapidly ris- mt; cost of disposing of haz- ardous waste from laborato- ries, particularly radioactive material; the escalating cost of legal services; and the ris- ing cost of books and peri- odicals for the libraries. The decision to increase tuition so much was not an easy one for the Corpora- tion, Bohen said of what was reportedly an unusual- ly lengthy discussion. "The Corporation talked about the fact that this brings total costs to $19,380, and that next year's increase would bring us well over $20,000," he said. Nevertheless, "if you want to raise salaries 7.5 percent, you can't do it by raising tuition 3 per- cent." - C.B.H. Jumme^- rnnpcrpat^ uly 17-22 Continuing Education report proposes expansion of alumni learning programs C ^^^ ixteen years after the L, J Ad Hoc Committee on Continuing Eclucation endorsed an ambitious blueprint for alumni con- tinuing education, a second committee has extended that vision into the coming century. Issued last fall, the doc- ument. Continuing College: A Report of the Ad Hoe Coui- mittee on Alumni Continu- ing Educntion, considers how Brown might improx'e upon its much-lauded off- campus programs, on-cam- pus seminars. Commence- ment forums, and week- long "Summer College." "The educational rela- tionship with alumni is the heart of our alumni pro- gram," says Robert A. Reichley, vice president for University relations. "We were the first in the country to offer innovative educa- tional programs at off-cam- pus sites such as the Wood- row Wilson Center, the British Art Museum at Yale, and Colonial Williamsburg. We were also among the first to decide that we would offer no travel pro- grams that weren't accom- panied by Brown faculty." Indeed, faculty have long been at the heart of Brown's continuing educa- tion efforts. "From the first pioneering summer college in 1960," Reichley points out, "we've always had su- perb cooperation from our faculty. Shortly after the is- suing of the 1972 report, we had involved half of the Brown faculty in these pro- grams." Both faculty and alumni participants have taken the programs serious- ly, Reichley adds. The eleven-member committee, headed by New Mexico attorney and Brown Taistee Michael R Gross '64, made a number of rec- ommendations with a view toward strengthening con- tinuing education program- BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 13 ming. Among them: • More educational of- ferings on Commencement calendars, and abstracts of departmental newsletters and public lectures. Too much in plain sight: weekend, tailored specifi- "Our goal is to continue the case of the ! cally for individual reunion to intensify the Continuing classes. • Special on-campus College, drawing on the strengths of both the spe- missing chandelier i programs, possibly in con- cial events and alumni rela- i; junction with the Brown tions offices," Reichlev ■-H dgar Allen Poe knew in boxes in the electrical Club of Rhode Island, that says. The implementation ' ^ it: The best way to shop, where for the next feature expert commentary of the report will begin hide something is to keep it decade, the half-repaired on local, national, and in- with the revision of one in plain sight. chandelier awaited rehang- ternational events and issues. staff position in the alumni For the past two years. ing. • "Weekend Colleges" office, and an increase in the chandelier that once Enter Director of Special for alumni and parents, and the number of off-campus graced the domed ceiling of Events William Slack, "Family Colleges" with seminars next year. Alumnae Hall has been on whose office frequentlv uses provisions for all ages. In addition to Michael the run. It's been seen all Alumnae Hall and who is • Intensive market re- Gross, members of the ad over Rhode Island: in an known to be somewhat fa- search to determine hoc committee were East Side lighting shop, in a natical about things old. He whether, and in what form, William J. Brisk '60, presi- Newport antiques store, on was asked to oversee the the recently-flagging Sum- dent of the Associated stage at Trinitv Repertory. restoration of Alumnae Hall mer College should continue. Alumni; J. Carter Brown, But, like Poe's purloined during the summer of 1987. • Expansion of the suc- director of the National letter, it must have been too Slack says, "I came in and cessful off-campus semi- Gallery; Patsey Chappell, much in plain sight. Until it said, 'OK, let's take down nars featuring two or more director of special events at was unveiled as a show- those curtains. . . . Take faculty in locations around Boston's Museum of Fine piece of the newly restored down the brass and get it the country. Arts; David K. Crimmin Providence Public Library cleaned. Where's the chan- • A week-long Summer '72, manager of executive this fall, no one even knew delier?'" College outside of Rhode programs for Digital Equip- that the chandelier they "In storage," he was Island, similar to the 1982 ment; Robert Fisler '43, for- were admiring was missing. told. "Three Cultures of Santa mer corporate vice presi- They just kne^v it was big. "Let's get it out," Slack Fe" held in New Mexico. dent of Time, Inc.; Professor Verv big. Seven feet tall. replied. • Development of an of History Abbott "Tom" with arms that reached sev- Time passed. The chan- off-campus retreat facility Gleason; Anne Jones Mills en feet in diameter. One delier was not in the electri- that would afford a "sum- '60, president-elect of the hundred and seventy-five cal shop, he was told; it mer-camp atmosphere," Associated Alumni; Zach- pounds of cast brass. might be in a storage facili- possibly to be located at ary Morfogen '50, consult- In 1927, when Alumnae ty. "Look there," he said. No Brown's waterfront Haffen- ant with Morfogen Associ- Hall was built, the main au- chandelier reffer Grant in Bristol. ates; Professor and Chair- ditorium was illuminated "Now in February of • Establishing a new man of the Education De- bv matching light fixtures - 1988," Slack says, "I had model of educational alum- partment Theodore R. Siz- a huge chandelier, which taken a big, old, carved ni travel that will concen- er; and Stephen E. Weil '49, hung in the center dome. wood floor lamp of mine to trate on specific locations deputy director and secre- and two smaller ones. be rewired at [a local light- for one or more weeks, tary of the Hirshhorn Mu- which tlanked it. All three ing shop], and around the with courses taught on lo- seum and Sculpture Gar- hung without incident for first of March, I came to cation by Brown faculty den. nearly fifty years, until pick it up. I got talking to and local experts. "Our university," wrote 1976, when the supports in the guy who ran the place. • Development of elec- chairman Gross in his intro- the main dome let loose and and when he learned that I tronic media, and expan- duction to the report, "can sent the big chandelier worked at Brown, the guy sion of print media, to as- serve as a source of enrich- crashing to the floor, nar- said, 'I have some dealings sist alumni in self-directed ment throughout our adult rowly missing a physical with Brown. As a matter of learning. These might in- years. . . . (W)e have fo- plant worker. In pieces, the fact, I bought the biggest clude videotapes of major cused on . . . creating a . . . chandelier was sent around damn chandelier you ever campus cultural and pub- network of Brown people campus in search of some- sau' from Brown.' lic-affairs events; satellite devoted to the life of the one capable of mending its "Well, mv ears pricked broadcasts of special mind and finding continu- mangled central brass globe up," savs Slack. "I said, 'I'm events; computer databases ing sustenance from the in- and wrenched arms. It went an antique freak m\'self. I'd accessible to .ilumni with stitution that for most of us to engineering. It went to a love to see the chandelier.' modems; and a newsletter. gave us our first taste of the local brass worker (who re- But the guy said he'd just Continuing CoUcgc. featur- joys of higher learning." cast the globe), and it is sold it to a store in New- ing book review?, e\-ents -A.D. thought to have ended up port. He said he got stuff 14 / MARCH 1- from Brown all the time, though, from one of the electricians who comes by on his way to the junkyard. "Then 1 made mv mis- take," Slack savs. "I said, 'Look, I have to be candid with vou. We're missing a chandelier, and it sounds a lot like the one you de- scribed. You may be dealing with stolen merchandise.' Suddenly the guy couldn't remember anything." Slack reported his dis- covery to Vice President for University Relations Robert Reichlev, who then in- formed Brown's Police anci Security. But that spring one Look again: Didn't that chandelier hang in Alumnae Hall? The miss- ing fixture turned up in the Providence Public Library's restored periodicals reading room. It will be returned to Brown when a replacement is found for the library. of the Brown police officers was killed while appre- hending someone who'd entered a classroom build- ing. A missing chandelier was not a high priority at the time; nothing happened. About nine months later. Trinity's props manager came into Aardvark An- tiques in Newport looking for a chandelier. Trinity was staging All the King's Men and wanted the biggest chandelier around. There it was. And on stage it went, lit up for hundreds of Rhode Islanders, night after night. That's where Provi- dence Public Library staffer Susan Waddington saw it. The library, which was in the final stretch of a $10- million, three-year renova- tion project, paid Aardvark Antiques S4,500 for the chandelier and gave a $1,500 contribution to Trini- ty; they also paid $600 to have the light repaired. And last November, when the li- brary celebrated its new- found glory, the Alumnae Hall chandelier was a star. The following morning, when Bill Slack flipped through his Sunday journal, he nearly choked when he realized that the chandelier now hanging in the li- brary's reading room was the same chandelier that had hung in Brown's Alum- nae Hall. So back he went to Reichley, who called in the Providence Police and in- formed the library that the chandelier's removal from Brown was not entirely le- gitimate. "I made it clear from the start that we want- ed it back," Reichley says, "both for sentimental rea- sons - the women of Brown had raised the money for those light fixtures original- ly - and because it is valu- able. At their most recent board meeting the library trustees decided to give it back." Brown, in turn, of- fered to help the library lo- cate and purchase a replace- ment. Reichley says he would like to see the chan- delier back in Alumnae Hall in time for inaugural festivi- ties this April, but he's not holding his breath. The li- brary will return it when a replacement is found. Meanwhile, back on the crime trail, the Providence Police couldn't identify pos- iti\ely the Brown workman who had sold the chandelier out of storage; they chalked the case up to negligence and declared it closed. Reichley is more dogged. "The police did not handle this case well," he says, "and, as I told the Provi- denee joiirnnl, the case is not closed here." - C.B.H. BROWN ALLMNl MONTHLY / 15 Sports By James Reinbold It takes a big man to stop a small puck 1 hris Harvey is big. V—-' The 3 9SS-S9Mt'n's Hockey Media Guide lists him at 6 feet 2 inches tall and 192 pounds. Encase him in goalie's helmet and pads and oversized gloves, ele- vate him a bit more on skates, and give him a stick to wield, and you have more than a big man play- ing ice hockey; you have a powerful defensive weap- on. Walking off the ice one afternoon after practice late in the season, the junior from Hamilton, Ontario, looked as if he should be mounting a horse for a me- dieval jousting tournament, not battling hockey pucks. With his size, his quickness, and his intelligent play, Harvey catches, deflects, or blocks with his body most of the shots that come his way. The object of his displea- sure - the black disk he must repel - is a mere three inches in diameter and about half an inch thick. The enemy sends it skimming across the ice or whizzing through the air at speeds up to and over 100 miles an hour. The net he defends is four feet by six feet. Over the past three years, Harvey has been successful in his mission about 88 percent of the time. In a season in which there has been precious lit- tle for Brown hockey fans to cheer about (twenty-three straight losses after winning the season opener at Dart- mouth), Harvey has had his share of ups and downs: sore knees and ankles; hos- pitalization with a severe case of influenza, and in- consistent play and unchar- acteristic mental lapses while trying to get back into peak health. He manages a smile when questioned about the frustrating season. "You play one game at a time and try not to think about the past losses," he says. "It's tough to lose. But everybody is pretty loose now." If Harvey didn't truly relish defending the goal and stopping the puck, he might have hung up his skates and mask long ago. For in his sophomore and junior years at Brown, he has seen very little of win- ning. Unlike his coach. Bob Gaudet, who as Dart- mouth's goalie in the late 1970s went to the NCAAs twice, Harvey has tasted victory four times in fifty games: three times last year and once this season. Although he was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where his father was a pro- fessor at MIT, Harvey moved to Canada when he was very young. He put on skates and positioned him- self in front of the net for the first time when he was five: "When I was growing up in Canada, hockey was everything. We played all the time, except in the sum- mer when I played base- ball." He was a two-time MVP on his high school team and played in the Canadian Junior B League. After high school he decid- ed to plav college hockey in the United States rather than accept an offer to stay in Canada and play in the Junior A League. Surprisingly enough, the only other school to re- cruit Harvey was Clarkson, which already had a goalie. Brown offered him the chance to step into the start- ing lineup as a freshman. "I didn't really care who I played for as long as I was playing," Harvey recalls. "I want to play Division I col- lege hockey." In his freshman year, the Bears made the ECAC play- offs. In the last game of the season, against Princeton, Harvey stopped forty of forty-one shots. The 3-1 win helped Brown earn the final tournament berth, and it il- lustrates very well Gaudet's observation that "Chris can ifin games for us when he's on." The prize for gaining the last playoff spot was fac- ing top-seeded Har\'ard, but even though Brown lost both games, Harvey re- members the playoffs fond- ly. They remain the high point of his career at Brown. For his stellar freshman- year performance, he was named to the ECAC All- Rookie team. Last year, Harvey was named Brown's MVP, the first time a sophomore ever received the honor, and al- though his goals-against av- erage rose from 4.26 to 5.05, he had another fine year, recording an .887 save per- centage in twenty-one games. In seven games he stopped more than forty shots and in two games he had more than fitty saves. This year, Harvey surpassed the all-time save record of 1,965 held by Paul Mc- Carthy '84. Prior to week- end action against Colgate and Cornell, he had 2,098 career saves. Hockey is a team sport, but the goalie plavs his own game within the game - or as Gaudet puts it, "The goalie essentially plays a one-on-one sort of game." And while the other players can afford to make a mis- take now and then, the goalie cannot. "Any mistake the goalie makes is going to end up on the scoreboard," the coach says. "Other play- ers can make mistakes with- out the puck necessarily go- ing into the net. The goalie is the last line of defense. He has to win his battles. That's a big burden." And Gaudet adds quickly, "It's an especially big burden if you're having the kind of year we're having." Harvey's save record is a notable achievement. And while it argues well for his talent, another set of num- bers indicates that, general- ly speaking, more saves of- ten mean more goals scored. If twenty to thirty shots are fired in a game, Gaudet says, a good goalie has a good chance of blocking all of them. Above thirty-five, things get more difficult. And when you have the op- ponent peppering the goal with forty and fifty shots, it's time to call in the re- serves. Against Harvard, for example, Harvey stopped forty-nine shots; but the powerful, nationally-ranked Crimson scored ten times. This year has been no Goalie Chris Harvey, at rest and in the net. different from the past two; Harvey has been very, very busy fending off that nasty rubber disk. "Chris has seen his share of rubber," Gaudet says with an ironic smile. "Chris has seen more than his share of rubber." Indeed, in his career Harvey has stopped fortv or more shots fifteen times and in five games he has made more than fifty saves. Against St. Lawrence early in the sea- son he recorded a career high sixty-three saves. He may not reach the 814 saves this year he had in twentv-one games as a freshman, but he has sur- passed the 679 he had last year. And while his save percentage has remained around 88 percent, he has given up nearly six goals a game this year, as compared to just over four in his fresh- man year and five last year. It's the law of averages. What's it like having a ex-goalie as a coach? "It helps," Harvey says, "but basically I know what 1 have to do." "I really don't coach him," Gaudet adds. "At this point, 1 can see when he's on, when he's playing his game, or little things he's doing wrong. But I don't coach him on technique. Chris is big and he is quick. He's also good at the mental part of the game. He positions himself well at the net and plays the angles well. That way, he re- duces a lot of the area he has to cover." At the end of the season, Harvev will travel to Sofia, Bulgaria, with teammate Brad Kreick '91 to partici- pate in the 1989 World Uni- versity Games. For someone who has been playing ice hockey in the fall, winter, and spring of each year since he was five, this does not seem strange. Nor does it seem surprising that the Boston Bruins of the Na- tional Hockey League have drafted him. This summer Harvey will play baseball and get ready for his final year in the net for Brown. After that, he'll give the NHL his best shot. "After playing for sixteen years, I guess a lot of what I do comes naturally," he says modestly. "But I want to be healthy for my senior year." Hockey is second nature to Harvey. When you watch him in action, you wonder how anv shots get bv him; his ability to anticipate and stop the puck is uncanny, al- most reflexive. And when he's not on the ice, you get the feeling that three sea- sons of ice hockey is one season short. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY , i; Bob Gaudet: "Better days are coming" A question that could rightly be asked of Bob Gaudet is, "Why is this man smiling ?" Indeed, the head coach of Brown's men's hockey team has people who visit Meehan Auditori- um baffled. "Everyone wants to know why I'm so upbeat," he says to a writer who was wondering that very thing. "It's not an act. I really believe that if we work hard good things will happen. People think I'm crazy when I talk this way. Men's Basketball (7-17) Princeton 61, Brown 55 Penn 85, Brown 62 Columbia 71, Brown 70 Brown 91, Cornell 75 Dartmouth 80, Brown 64 Brown 80, Har\'ard 70 Penn 84, Brown 72 Princeton 57, Brown 33 Har\-ard 100, Brown 91 Dartmouth 71, Brown 67 Women's Basketball (14-10) Brown 77, Princeton 63 Penn 83, Brown 64 Brown 66, Columbia 60 Brown 78, Cornell 69 Dartmouth 74, Brown 61 Brown 82, Harvard 74 Brown 67, Penn 64 Princeton 53, Brown 52 Brown 17, Harvard 70 Dartmouth 72, Brown 60 Men's Indoor Track (4-0) Brown 58, Harvard 49 Brown 58, Dartmouth 41 -' ;xi ai Heps, at Syracuse Wojoen's Jjidoor Track (4-1) Dari'Tinuth 83, Brown h?. BiO".n .1?., l-icir\aicl 2:- 5th oi I iep^, at ^vracu-e given the kind of year we've had, but I am convinced that we have the potential here for a solid program." For men's hockey, this is one of those years no one can quite talk about in the present tense. The Bears have lost twenty-three con- secutive games. They have not won since the first game of the season when they up- ended Gaudet's alma mater, Dartmouth, 5-4, in Hanover. "After that win," Gaudet says, "we thought we were SCOREBOARD (January 27-February 25) Men's Hockey (1-25) Yale 4, Brown 2 RPl 2, Brown Vermont 8, Brown 4 Clarkson 11, Brown 3 St. Lawrence 9, Brown 4 Colgate 5, Brown 2 Cornell 10, Brown 3 Princeton 4, Brown 3 Army 7, Brown 2 Women's Hockey (10-9-1) Northeastern 5, Brown Dartmouth 3, Brown 1 Brown 2, Harvard 2 (tie) Brown 5, Bowdoin 2 Brown 4, Colby 2 Brown 5, Yale 2 Princeton 5, Brown 1 Cornell 3, Brown 1 Brown 5, St. Lawrence 3 Men's Swimming (4-6) Brown 59, Cornell 54 Columbia 76, Brown 37 Brown 62.5, Army 50.5 Dartmouth 64, Brown 49 Women's Swimming (8-2) Penn State 153, Brown 147 Brown 75, Cornell 65 Brown 75, Columbia 65 4th at Easterns, at Penn State going to be able to put to- gether a pretty good year. We even thought we might have a shot at an [EC AC] playoff spot." Alas, the opportunity for postseason play became academic when the season was still very young. "Our losses were due to a com- bination of things," the coach points out from his cramped, wood-paneled of- fice in the cinderblock igloo that is Meehan Auditorium. "But I'm certainly not dis- appointed at the way the kids have played and at how hard they worked. It's unfortunate to have a sea- son like this." Herb Hammond, who I Wrestling (14-3) Brown 22, F & M 17 Brown 27, Rutgers 14 Brown 29, Drexel 6 Lehigh 20, Brown 18 Brown 21, Princeton 15 Central Conn. 28, Brown 11 Brown 23, Penn 18 Cornell 23, Brown 10 Brown 27, Yale 7 Brown 28, Harvard 8 Brown 21, Columbia 18 Squash (7-3) Brown 8, Penn 1 Princeton 9, Brown Brown 7, Dartmouth 2 Howe Cup at Yale (2-4) Harvard 8, Brown 1 Brown 5, Trinity 4 Gymnastics (4-6) Vermont 172.15, Brown 167.60 Brown 171.45, Salem State 150.45 Brown 171.45, Bridgewater 144.50 Springfield 168.25, Brown 166.50 Brown 164.95, Rhode Island College 127.90 Northeastern 180.05, Brown 171.90 Bridgeport 177.85, Brown 163.70 Rutgers 169.70, Brown 163.70 coached for six years, took his 1986-1987 team to the ECAC playoffs, and it looked as if the hockey pro- gram was coming back. But 1987-1988 was a disaster and Hammond was gone. Enter Bob Gaudet, a 1981 graduate of Dartmouth, Brown's thirteenth hockey coach. No one expected the twfenty-nine-year-old for- mer All-Ivy goalie to turn the program around in a single season, but all the same, no one expected a season with only one win either. "It's easy to love a team with only one loss," Gaudet reflects. "But re- verse that. We have only one win." To be sure, it's hard to come back to the office with losses piled up like the mounds of ice scrapings outside the rink. And Gautiet's smile and enthusi- asm may be stretched a bit thin, too, if he thinks too long about the season. But he has two young assistant coaches, and they share his optimism. Their positive at- titude is infectious, he says. The assistant coaches, Scott Borek (Dartmouth '85) and Mark Taylor (Elmira College '85), have been out recruiting for months, and their road work paid two dividends in February when Mark Taylor, a forward from International Falls, Minnesota, who is consid- ered one of the three best in the state, and Jim Bickerton, a defenseman from Mas- sachusetts who led his school to the state title the last two years, decided to come to Brown. They had applied under the early-de- cision plan in November and had been accepted for admission in December. And why shouldn't Gaudet be optimistic? This year's freshmen and sopho- mores will have endured the crucible of 1988-1989. Ihev will be the core group hardened by disappoint- ment and defeat with a year of experience. Add the freshman recruits and Chris Harvey '90 in the net, and Gaudet's words just might prove prophetic: "We're go- ing to get this thing going." Fall sports All- Ivy selections Six members of the wom- en's soccer team, the Ivv League champion for the se\'enth consecutive year, were named to All-Ivy teams. Theresa Hirschauer '8Q, who was 1988 Player of the Year, Beth Morgan '90, and Suzanne Bailey '91 were accorded first-team honors. Voted to the second team were Janet Repke '89, Karin Alderton '90, and Kathv Tarnoff '91. Men's soccer's Joe Maloney '89, Aaron Velli '90, Steven Lacy '92, and Doug Tudor '89 were named to the second team. Greg Kylish '89 and Joe .Madden '89 were first-team All-Ivy selections in foot- ball Kylish, a strong safety, was also named to the ECAC second team. Mike Geroux '91 was named to the All-lvy second team, and George Pyne '89, Dave Rody '89, and Darryl Heg- gans '89 were honorable mention. Greg Whitelev '89 and Eric Grossman '90 of men's cross country were elected to the first team. Volleyball, l\y cham- pion in 1988, placed Jessie Kowal '89 and Aimee Bow- er '92 on the first team. Bower was also named Rookie of the Year. Five field hockey players were honorable mention: Su- zanne Donovan '90, Natalie Monteiro '90, Wendy Hugh- es '90, Laura Sullivan '90, and Sarah Lament '91. Football '89 co- captains Inside linebacker Jim Burke '90 and quarterback Danny Clark '90 have been voted by the team to be captains of the 1989 Brown football team. Burke was Brown's top tackier in 1988 with 96 solo tackles. He amassed 127 to- tal tackles for the season and forced one fumble while recovering another He had outstanding games against Cornell, making 13 tackles, and against Prince- ton, Penn, and Maine, where he had 12 tackles in each game. Quarterback Clark di- rected Brown's option of- fense in 1988. He completed 47 percent of his passes for 726 yards and four touch- downs, and ran the ball 86 times for 306 yards, includ- ing one touchdown. Against Princeton, he ac- counted for 330 yards in to- tal offense, the third highest total in Brown history, by throwing for 218 yards (15 of 24) and running for 1 1 2 more on 19 carries. Cookman Award Kristin Rendell ''^0, goalie on the women's ice hockey team, was awarded the Thomas M. Cookman Schol- arship for 1988-89. She is the first woman to receive the scholarship, which is given annually to one or more varsity hockey players on fi- nancial aid. The scholarship was es- tablished in memory of Thomas Cookman '72, who was killed in an automobile accident in 1973. Cookman was a defenseman on the hockey team for three years and was All-Ivy honorable mention in his senior year. Marvel Gym has seen its last Brown basketball game. Marvel: The gym that won't go away In February, two years after submitting his initial proposal, Rhode Is- land property developer Lyle Fain '67 succumbed to neighborhood pressure and a soft real estate market and abandoned his plan to buy Mar\-el Gym and transform the sixty-one-year-old building and the 3.6-acre site on which it stands into condominiums. Given Brown's asking price of $2.8 million. Fain said that he would have had to build at least eighty units on the property, a number the well-organized neighbor- hood group, the East Side Preservation Society, had opposed. It is not possible, he told The ProridL'uce jour- nal in February, to build "anything the neighbor- hood wants or likes there." Lyman Williams, spokesman for the group, said in the same article that he felt "no glee" about Fain's withdrawal from the project. He said the group had hoped that they and Fain could have put togeth- er a plan acceptable to both. Fain is the second developer to halt Marvel conversion plans. Harry L. Devoe, Jr. '55, a Philadelphia real es- tate developer who had first dibs on the gvm, bowed to neighborhood opposition in 1986. Brown's plan, put to- gether when Marvel first went on the block, was for proceeds of the sale to go toward underwriting a por- tion of the $8.7-million price tag for the Pizzitola Sports Center. So far, S6.5 million has been raised. With Fain out of the picture, the Uni- versity has decided to re- assess the situation. And an option, which seems never to have been seriously con- sidered before, is being con- sidered now: whether it might be prudent to hold on to the gymnasium and find a use for it. That will take some vision and creativity, but it certainly is pleasing to those who felt that Marvel's sale and subdivision into condominiums was an un- acceptable denouement. Meanwhile, work at the Pizzitola is nearing an end. The formal dedication cere- mony is scheduled for April 22. Offices were to relocate in mid-March from Mar\el, where on February 25 the last men's basketball game was played. When the women play Columbia on March 4, Marvel will have hosted its last basketball game. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 19 f=\^ A Little By David Temkin ■ They don't date. Few of them meet the man or woman of their dreams at Brown. Adrift in today's fluid social scene, many students worry that they're missing the boat Illustrations by Emilv Lisker It used to be simple. Before coed bathrooms, be- fore Pembroke got swallowed, before the sexu- al revolution, and before the Vietnam War, Brown students followed straightfor\vard rules of courtship. A man and a woman would meet in class. Or in the Blue Room. Or on the Green. The man would then ask the woman out on a date. If she ac- cepted, they'd go out for an evening - to a movie, to dinner, or to a fraternity formal. The date would be over before too long because of University-im- posed curfews. If things didn't go badly, they'd go out again. Many students met their future spouse at Brown. To today's students, "dating" seems painfully naive, sexist, heterosexist, and contrived. But at the time it was simply the thing to do. Take it from Sandy Mason Barnett '61 . She met her husband, Roger '61, in 1958, when they were both freshmen. Sure, she says, people complained about curfews all the time, but this was a minor complication. "It was comfortable and secure," she recalls. "Everybody had rules to follow that every- body knew. The guy asked the girl out. They went 20 / MARCH 1989 out at a set time to a set place, and thev got hack at a set time." Back then, sex waiteci until much later, and most students thought long and hard before ha\-- ing it. In any case, the waiting game was over soon enough. "Within six months after graduation, at least half of the men and women I knew were mar- ried," says Barnett. But Barnett knows from her daughter, Julie '88, that this isn't the wav things work on College Hill. "My impression is that it's not dating the way I think of dating. Somehow people still develop se- rious relationships . . . but it sounds a lot more confusing," says Barnett. This mav be the understatement of the decade. Dating, in the old sense, is nearly dead. The old rules are gone, discarded in the interest of social progress. A looser code of behavior has evolved, and relations between the sexes have grown in- creasingly complicated and varied since the end of ;;; loco parentis. Brown's evolution into a progres- sive university, populated by an approximately ecqual number of men and women from a \-ariety of backgrounds, has wrought confusion, dissatis- faction, and drama. Romance It can be a bit much for an incoming student who's expecting anything more traditional at Brown. "I reallv thought I'd find my one and only," savs Julie Barnett, lamenting four years spent without a serious romantic relationship. "But I was suddenly in an atmosphere where love and sex were the same thing, where women were expected to know the role of the modern feminist woman." Relationships are now more likely to de\'elop out of a friendship or a sexual encounter than out of the old "boy-meets-girl-and-asks-her-out" sce- nario. Translated into the 1980s Brown version, a "courtship" might proceed as follows: Person meets person. Persons determine other's sexual orientation. After a series of encounters - they could be of any sort - the chemistry changes, and the persons find themselves in a niatiouship. The constant chatter about relationships is per- meated with uncertainty Qualifiers such as "like" and "sort of" seep into each sentence, as if a deep anxiety had been tapped. Improved communica- tion about sexual orientation, sexual desire, and contraception has been accompanied by increased difficulties in sorting out one's options and achiev- ing intimacy. Relationships are open-ended, with- out formal rules or even generally desirable goals. Normative role models, now believed to encour- age one or another form of oppression or domina- tion, ha\'e fallen by the wayside. Still, there is romance and there (s sex - they are by no means the same thing - even if there isn't much dating. The date has been roughly re- placed by three distinct arrangements: the friend- ship, the one- (or two-) night stand, and the Seri- ous Relationship. While some students are pleased with their current romantic status, few have anything posi- tive to say about romance at Brown in general. In a survey conducted by the Brown Daily Herald and the Undergraduate Council of Students last semester, students expressed o\'erwhelming satis- faction with nearly every aspect of Brown, giving the institution as a whole a rating of 4.38 out of a possible 3.0. But relationships were a sore point: A plurality said romance and dating at Brown hadn't lived up to their expectations. Despite all the dissatisfaction. Director of Health Education Toby Simon says she senses among students a growing interest in intimacy and relationships. When she first came to Brown in 1981, she was most frec]uently asked to give talks on sex and sexuality. But within the last two years, people have asked her to talk about relationships. Last semester alone, she gave seven seminars on the topic. Indeed, students consider intimacy a high priority: In a survey on sexuality, conducted by the Office of Health Education in the spring of 1987, approximately one-third of the respondents said intimate relationships are more important to them than academics. When Simon gives a seminar on relationships, she begins with a joke that contains more than a grain of truth: "This is going to be a short talk," she says, "because there are no relationships at Brown." The campus reality is less bleak and more complicated, but negati\-e myths, each containing some truth, abound. Simon lists a few: that rela- tionships are like taking a fifth course, that they ruin your academic work, and that people don't date. Or if they do date, they are afraid to admit it publicly. "You just don't see couples holding hands or kissing," says Simon. For many students, dating symbolizes the up- tight, un-mellow past. "Brown's a strange place," savs Haves Jackson '89. "It's an Ivy school without any Ivy romance or tradition. The price we pay for a progressive educational philosophy is that there's no room for older traditions or an older \\orld \-ie\v." Simon says the date declined when people be- came more comfortable with their sexuality and less comfortable with formal sex roles. "The insti- tution of the date eased up a lot in the Northeast," she says. "Kids loosened up in high school. Sud- denly you could have a friend of the opposite sex. Fi\e kids could go to the movies together - this BROWN ALLMM MONTHLY / 21 first started happening in the '70s. Tension be- tween males and females eased. Women were able to say, 'Hey, let me pay.' Now kids probably think it's always been that way." A standard night out for students of the late 1980s will include more than two people, usually of both sexes. This has become so commonplace that breaking the norm can lead to unwarranted assumptions. "I noticed it sophomore year when I went home and asked out a girl I'd gone to high school with," says Hayes. He had no romantic intentions, but the very fact that the two of them went out alone caused some gossip. "All of a sudden it was a big deal to our mutual friends. "These days," says Hayes, "I get all confused as to what a date is. Is it a date if you ask a good friend of yours who is a girl out to dinner?" More often than not, the answer is no, because most stu- dents are eager to avoid the tension associated with a formal date. The emphasis is on being casu- al, relaxed, and low-key. Hayes believes the lack of dating is simply due to a shortage of courage. "It's much safer to say there's no dating at Brown, and not ask anyone out on dates," he says. "If people had more guts, there'd be more dating. A friend of mine drives the shuttle, and a couple of times everv semester a woman gives him her phone number" But he nev- er calls. Peer pressure used to force even gutless men to ask women out, but today the social pressure acts against going on formal dates. "There is something of a stigma attached to asking people out," says "Ken," a 1988 graduate. "I did it that way, and people thought I was somewhat foolish. They thought I was overly formal." Savs Isobel White '90, "1 can think of one instance of someone 1 know who asked a woman out on a date. We all kind of laughed at it - 'Dave has a date tonight!' It's con- sidered old-fashioned." But dating still has its defenders. "That's how I get to knciw a person," says Ken. "If I think she's cute, that's the best way to look at her. If I think she's smart, that's the best way to hear her." Friendship also can impede romance. Brown is, in effect, a small town where everyone is in some way connected to many others. Many students have friends of the opposite sex; chances are, an upperclassman will have a secondary connection to someone he or she is interested in. The roots of this situation may lie in the institu- tion of the freshman living/social unit. "It's almost incestuous to be dating someone from your unit," Isobel says. "You see them as brothers and sisters." Part of the complexity - and the fun - of relation- ships today is that men and women frequently be- come friends on a non-sexual basis. But establish- ing a "relationship" with a friend is a complicated and serious business. On the other hand, students say it can be difficult to meet someone on a basis other than friendship. Some women blame the dearth of romantic re- lations on men - and some men blame it on wom- en. "More guys at Brown tend to have been less socially involved in high school," says "Jennifer" '89. "When they came to school they were really terrified of making advances. They just don't know how. They don't want to make a fool of themselves. Thev tell people they don't have the time, but that's just an excuse," she says. In short, she adds, many Brown men are geeks - people whose academic prowess is more than offset bv their social ineptitude. The men see things differently. "At Brown, it's the cold shoulder from the beginning," says Kendal Tyre '89. "If you ask a girl how she's doing or how the class is going, you instantly get the feeling that she thinks you're after something more." Brown students have many different ways of getting into serious relationships that meet their high standards and expectations, but rarelv do these mini-marriages have a "courting" phase or an introductory dating period in the tra- ditional sense. Take the case of "Brian" '90, who \vas not im- pressed by his current partner when they first met during Third World Transition Program, a pre-ori- entation session for incoming non-white students. "She thought I seemed arrogant and pompous. I didn't like her too much either - 1 thought she was clueless and spoiled." They became romantic, it seems, by accident. "There was a movie showing at the Avon [Cine- ma] that I had to see for my Poli Sci class," Brian recalls. "She said she was interested in seeing it." They went together, and the rest is historv. Sometimes the transition from friendship to se- rious involvement can be even more sudden. "Ed" '89 says he had no romance or sex life at Brown at all before he got in\'olved with "Ellen" '89 around the middle of their sophomore year. "She happened to be in the adjacent suite," he says. They didn't start dating; according to Ed, "It just happened." Without warning, Ed and Ellen found them- selves in a Serious Relationship - spending every night in each other's room, dealing with another person who wanted to know where you were all the time, meeting a new set of friends. "It was a source of problems earlv in the relationship," he says. "We didn't know each other that well. We went from nothing to everything - 1 was with her all the time, immediatelv. I didn't feel comfortable with it. 1 had always imagined that a relationship like ours comes from knowing the other person for a substantial period of time and having dated them for some time." "When it happens, it happens quickly," says Matthew Rothman '89. "Drawn-out courting doesn't happen at Brown." 22 / MARCH iy89 In a tight, dependent relationship, manv of the visible signs of romance fade far into the back- ground. "It's just the person they do their dailv things with," says Isobel. "Once I was writing a paper in a friend's room," says Amanda Biers '89. "I came back to find that my boyfriend had completely cleaned and orga- nized my room, down to alphabetizing ni\' tapes." "Both of our relationships with our friends suf- fered - people felt excluded," says Ed. "There were some things [my suitematesl didn't like about her - how she used the phone, how she was always there." Final exams are also a source of tension for stu- dents who are seriously inyolyed. "There's an up side and a down side," says Ed. "You go through two sets of finals. You study together. You can't take a study break if the other person has an exam the next day." But all is not lost: "You don't ha\e to go through it all alone. She may go out to Thayer Street and buy dinner It's nice to know that some- one cares besides \'ourself." Ed and Ellen are serious about their relation- ship. "We're going to be together next year," he says. "Any career decisions - what she's doing, where she's going to be - are a major concern. Marriage is a serious possibility." Ed's admission is a rare one. Most students are loath to commit themselves in any significant way, whether it be in choice of profession or in ro- mance. "Most Brown students won't change their 'It's almost incestuous to be dating somrone from your unit. Yoi;Kee them as brothers and sisters' career or go to a different city for the sake of a rela- tionship," says Jennifer. "Getting married is a scary concept. 1 just don't know when I'll feel ready," says "Ste\-e" '88, who has been invoked with the same woman for more than two years. "This is the first serious relation- ship for both of us, and I don't have anything to compare it to." The idea of coming to college to get married, once standard, is now derided. "Women who are looking for the 'Mrs.' degree are ridiculed," says Julie. "They're not respected as individuals. Men who are fixing to be married upon graduation are also unusual, considered to be social misfits." Today, Brown students assume thev will have a half-dozen serious relationships before they settle down. Some students just want to have sex, which doesn't require falling in love or mak- ing a commitment. Talk of casual sex abounds, al- though few admit to it openly. In the sex survey, 76 percent of the respondents agreed that casual sex was OK, while only 6 percent felt strongly that it wasn't. "People don't need a relationship to have sex," says "Mark" '90. Sex, for most students, is not complicated by the possibility of pregnancy. The Health Services' Simon reports that, each year, between forty and fifty women get pregnant. But in the course of her eight years at Brown, all but one pregnancy was terminated, she says. "Picking up" occurs mostly in non-academic contexts. Conventional wisdom holds that people do not often meet boyfriends or girlfriends in class. "You meet people through your friends," says Jennifer. "Some classes are almost all women. There have been semesters that I've had only five men in all m\' classes combined." Beyond classes lies the realm of social life - parties and dances - in which students can realistically hope to "hook up." "Why do you go to parties? To meet a wom- an," savs Brian. Brown offers fraternity parties, off- campus parties, and a variety of smaller dances, regularly and specially scheduled. There are very few campus-wide social events, and with the ex- ceptions of Spring Weekend and the annual Cam- pus Dance held on Commencement weekend, it is nearly impossible to get all of Brown interested in anything social. Brown's students live in a socially fragmented world, where a variety of social scenes BROWN' ALUMNI MO.NTHLY / 23 'There is a preponderance of people who look good. I stayed in my room freshman year because I thought 1 was hideous' serve students with elifferent social styles. Most freshmen discover these truths gradually, but some dive right in, such as "Sheldon," now a sophomore. "1 got here, and the first night I was making out with somebody in the lounge," he says. "Everybody gets here with a whole lot of anxieties, and a lot of sexual expectations based on the movies and what everyone tells you. A lot of parents would get upset about sex in high school, but no one ever has anything to say about sex in college." Thus, he says, the game of sex as power poli- tics begins the first day of orientation week. "It's a mix of the need to be loved after leaving home, and asserting your social and sexual acceptability." While students generally don't discuss their one- night stands, "you can alwavs use drunkenness as an excuse," he says. Students refer to beer goggles when justifying poor judgment while drunk, meaning that their standards are clouded by alco- hol. "People otherwise would be afraid of what friends might say." "You can kiss anyone you want to at one partv and claim not to remember the next day," agrees Amanda. Sheldon and his friends introduced themselves to fellow freshmen in Keeney (formerly West) Quad, known as a "big partv place," and eventual- ly moved on to Wriston Quad, home of the frater- nities and their beer-drenched parties. "It took us a little while to discover frats - 1 felt reallv strange going there," he says. After a week or so, he no- ticed that some stvidents were receiving invitations to fraternity parties, taped to their mailboxes in Faunce House. "We discovered that all the cute freshmen girls were bragging about how they'd been invited to frat parties," he says. Further in- vestigation revealed a strong correlation between first-year women who were being invited and those with "cute pigbook photos." ("Pigbook" is local jargon for the freshman class directory.) But not only fraternities make use of the pho- tos. "The pigbook is great, especially with the first- name index at the end," says Sheldon. The first- name index, in its second year, has been a big hit: "Just think of it. You look up all the Stephanies, and you find out which one you were talking to af- ter class on Wednesday." Once Sheldon had surveyed the fraternity scene, he progressed to off-campus parties, nor- mally the domain of upperclassmen. "A few weeks later we just followed all the cute girls again," he says. "There's a little bit of dancing. There's some alcohol in the kitchen. In the bed- rooms, people are sitting down and smoking. More talking, more hanging out, more talking. You might meet somebody, and you might actually talk to them again if you see them sitting in the Ratty." On-campus parties not held at fraternities are "not cool," according to Sheldon, which is one rea- son socially ambitious students choose to live off- campus as soon as possible, beginning in their junior year for the truly upwardly mobile. Underlying Brown's social scene is a psy- chological terrain marked by fear, intimi- dation, and self-consciousness. The school attracts high-achieving, independent students, and their standards and acute social awareness carry over into the area of relationships, often with neg- ative effects. "People tend to be competitive," says Mark. "They intimidate one another. This is a very criti- cal student body. Everyone is basically high cal- iber; some people think everybody is better than themselves, some people think everybody is \vorse." The litany is heard everywhere. "Everybody is so overconfident," says Isobel. "Most people at Brown seem very self-sufficient," says Hayes. "Ev- eryone here has this superiority complex. This place really undermines your confidence," says Jennifer. "People take themseh'es far too serious- ly," says Julie. Arriving at Brown can be a humbling experi- ence, socially, academically, and even in extracur- ricular activities. "I had zero self-confidence as a freshman," said Ed. "High school was a good ego trip, especially the last half of senior year. Here ev- erything was so challenging and so completely over my head. Everyone had just come back from building something in Nicaragua ... It was intimi- dating. I fell into a pattern of just doing things with people in my unit." Such feelings of inadequacy carry over to ap- pearance. Even though 70 percent of the respon- dents in the sex survey felt that physical attractive- ness was not the most important aspect of an inti- mate relationship, talk of the "BPs" - beautiful people - is common, as are weight anxiety and eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia. "No one at Brown is really obese," says Jennifer. "There is a preponderence of people who look good. 1 stayed in mv room freshman \^ear. 1 thought 1 was hideous." Other kinds of psychological torment ha\e re- sulted from the ambiguity of today's sex roles. Without rules or even a widespread code of sexual communication, students often find themselves playing bizarre games. "People mess with each other," says Jennifer. "They act as if they want something, then they go back on it. One moment 24 / MARCH 1989 you have a strong friendship, the next moment you're not talking to each other." "A lot of it is unwritten and unsaid," says Matthew. "I was interested in a woman sopho- more year. She invited me to a party at a friend's place. I didn't know anyone there and nothing ever happened. We never talked again. It left me confused. You're always scratching your head, never really sure of what happened." Jennifer recalls a relationship that looked as if it were about to take off: "I thought of him as a verv close friend. I started hugging him a lot. One night it turned physical, and then he said he didn't want a relationship." Perhaps the most extreme, and most disturb- ing, result of a lack of conventions, poor com- munications, and divergent sexual expecta- tions is date rape, in which a man forces a woman to have sex, refusing to take no for an answer. Nearly 95 percent of those surveyed felt that acquaintance rape was a problem at Brown. "We were partying together," explains a senior, recall- ing a night during her freshman year. "He was one of the nicer ones. He was cute. We were coming back from a frat party, and we went to my room, where my roommate and her boyfriend had locked the door." So the two of them headed for the lounge. In the lounge, she says, he kissed her good- night. Then the problems began. "He got a little rough, persistent," she says. He soon ripped her clothes off, in spite of her protests. He threw her on the floor and pinned her down. "I tried to rea- son with him, but he wouldn't stop." Soon she shut her eyes and waited for it to end. She spent the rest of the night alone, in the bathroom. "1 took a shower. 1 went back to my room in the morning. 1 decided that 1 was going to change my life," she says. "I didn't tell anyone. My roommate asked how the evening had gone, and 1 tried to end the conversation, to block it out." But she didn't realize just what had happened until two months later, when she read an article in Ms. magazine that described a rape very similar to hers. She soon joined a counseling group. For women, the experience can be harrowing. Even if it is not the same as being attacked by a stranger, it is impossible to forget. From the male side, events can appear differ- ently. A sophomore accused of raping someone last year recalls, "I'd never seen her before. We were really drunk; she said some really suggestive things to me. We started kissing, and then we went to her room and had sex." The next morning, he had only a vague memo- ry of what had occurred. A few days later he visit- ed the woman. "I wanted to go out with her again. I'd only had sex with one other person. She said, 'You really don't remember what happened, do you? You raped me.' " The words have been burned in his mind ever since. But to this day, he is convinced that she is the one who doesn't remember correctly. "For a sec- ond 1 thought maybe I'd done it," he says. "1 felt sorry for her, but I wasn't so drunk that I wouldn't have remembered whether I'd raped her." Director of Psychological Services Ferdinand Jones says differing approaches to sexuality are at the root of the problem. "Men and women have a very different perception of what sexuality is and what you do about it," he says. "Men are social- ized to be aggressive. It's not so surprising that there are misperceptions, miscommunications, and downright tragedies." Date rape became a big issue last semester fol- lowing the publicized stranger rapes near Brown's campus. Students took the opportunity to educate the community about date rape. Awareness was heightened, but so was the tension between men and women. "During that period, I never asked anyone out," says Kendal. "It wasn't exactly con- ducive to new relationships." Many say increased tension is a small price to pay for increased sensitivity and awareness. Barely a day goes by when the letters page of the Brown Daily Herald, a sort of campus-wide political bul- letin board, does not have at least one letter accus- ing a student, professor, or administrator of insen- sitivity, demonstrating the classic conflict between freedom and equality at an institution where both ideals are strenuously promoted. In the quest for pluralism - equality and digni- ty for all - students are asked to be sensitive to others, particularly those of a different sex, race, or religion, or those whose lifestyle is different from their own. The institutional prodding begins the first night of orientation, when the freshman class is split into two large discussion groups and shown relevant films, followed by a group discus- sion on difference and pluralism. Students' per- sonal lives are shaped by the ideas set forth that first night. "We hit students the first night they're here," says Simon. "Brown prides itself on its diversity, and it's to its credit that it does this. We don't know what effect this experience has in later years." Brown's emphasis on pluralism nurtures an at- mosphere of political correctness, the latest form of student radical chic. A student who is politically correct must oppose capitalism, sexism, racism, homophobia, and classism (stereotyping based on one's social class). Sometimes political correctness is a matter of vocabulary; The word "girl" is not acceptable as a reference for a female student, and the word "freshmen" is only sometimes acceptable when describing first-year students. To what extent do these ideas affect rela- tionships? "Some men might have a fear of mak- ing the wrong move somehow," says Isobel. But for the most part, she says, the sensitivity training helps relationships. "I ha\-c a pretty certain view of 5ROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 25 what I would like in a relationship, and sensitivity is definitely part of it." "I could never date someone who is really con- servative," says Amanda. "But I find oversensitive men tiresome," she says. She recalls a militant veg- etarian who yelled at her for putting the meat spoon in the beans. Sheldon says Brown's politically correct atmo- sphere hasn't changed his behavior or thinking. "It's changed my vocabulary a little bit, but only on campus. It only sticks with me when I'm at school. There's a lot of hype. I just don't get myself into it." "I think the more ardent feminists make rela- tionships a lot harder at Brown," says Matthew. "When you see signs that say, 'Every man is a po- tential rapist,' it makes dating so much harder. There's a heightened level of distrust." Not all relationships suffer from male-female tension. While taking a class during the second semester of his freshman year, Mark got involved with another male student at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he was taking an apparel class. Although homosexuality is tolerated more now than it was thirty years ago, students sav homo- sexual relationships are more complicated to main- tain because of outside pressures. "It's biologicallv supposedly wrong, religiously supposedly wrong," Mark says. "There's a place for going out with a woman in society. You can publicly display affec- tion." Sexual experimentation with members of the same sex appears to be fairly common at Brown. "I see a lot of experimenting going on. Everybody has the potential to do it," Mark says. Steve recalls that during an orientation-week tour of campus, the student guide told the freshmen that bisexuali- tv was in vogue. In Toby Simon's survey, approximately 30 per- cent of the respondents reported having fantasies involving the same sex. Two-thirds said they had an exclusively heterosexual orientation, and anoth- er 22 percent said they were heterosexual with a "slight homosexual orientation." A total of 4.5 per- cent said they were more homosexual than hetero- sexual. Sensitivity to homosexuality is increasing, even if the pink wooden triangle displayed on the Green annually during Gay Awareness Week is sometimes vandalized. The University recently adopted a sexual orientation non-discrimination clause that applies to hiring, promotion, and ad- mission, and a new student publication devoted to homosexual and bisexual topics appeared for the first time last year. An article on love at Brown printed in Good Clean Fun, a weekly student tabloid, included no reference to gender whatsoev- er in order to avoid heterosexual bias. With all the anger, confusion, and anxiety inherent in Brown's social climate, would today's students return to the old ways if they could? In general, no. "Dates are awkward and stupid, actually," says Jennifer. "And the new way isn't so bad - there are a lot fewer superficial relationships, and that's good." In the long run, an environment that asks students to think carefully about person- al options may be a good thing. "I ha\'e a lot of gripes about the dating scene, but I'd prefer it this way," she says. At a university whose curriculum is character- ized by choice, perhaps it's no surprise that students learn to live with - if not prefer - a social environ- ment where the old signposts have crumbled, leav- ing each to find his or her own path to romance. O Despite their gripes about the social scerie, most students wouldn't have it ai other way *^ 26 / M.^RCH 1989 Those Who Can, Teach 7 . here is a Japanese proverb that advises, "To teach is to learn." A few years ago, histo- ry professor Gordon Wood told the BAM that he could not imagine doing scholarly re- search without teaching: "My students are an audience - albeit a captive one - on whom I can try out ideas." Brown prides itself on being a university where near- ly all faculty scholars are re- quired to teach undergraduates as well as graduate students, and beyond that, where good teaching is cherished. Recently photographer John Foraste visited classrooms around the campus where the business of teaching and the two-way pro- cess of learning were taking place. We asked his subjects to share their thoughts on this as- pect of their vocation here. Phihp J. Bray '48 Hazard Professor of Physics Department of Physics Each year for about four years now, I have had a new class of 180 or so pre- medical students who are taking a year of introductory physics (Physics 3, 4). My heart goes out to thein because most of them are tearful and feel poorly pre- pared or find physics to be truly diffi- cult. It is a challenge to teach those who don't want to be in a course, but what a joy it is to get them really interested and excited with something in the lecture! It is immensely rewarding to see heads nod up and down, smiles appear, and good feeling permeate the class as a point is made really clear, a concept tamed and made palatable with exam- ples or analogies, or a dragon of an equation reduced to a huggable teddy bear Demonstrations let me be a ham ac- tor making loud and messy and some- times hilarious things happen that will, hopefully, register an idea and a phe- nomenon of physics permanently in the students' minds. It is not given that one can succeed with all students, but it is worth ever}' effort to break through the disinterest and dislike and make the ma- terial palatable and, for some students, even interesting and exciting. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 11 Michael Rosen Professor Department of Mathematics The desire to be a teacher arises from a simple human need: to share some- thing one finds enjoyable with others. Some people, when thev learn some- thing new, something that gives them pleasure, are content to simply absorb the experience. A teacher is not truly happy until he or she shares that experi- ence with others. I enjoy mathematics. I enjoy learning about it, and I enjoy doing it. Over the years, I have done a lot of both. When I teach I try to convey some of the interest and enthusiasm I feel for my subject to my students. Of course, that is not enough. I only feel successful as a teach- er if some of my interest and enthusiasm inspires similar feelings in my students. If they leave a course having mastered the content and techniques of the sub- ject, a certain important amount has been accomplished. If they have done both of those things, and in additon have found the material interesting and exciting, if they want to learn more and to use what they've learned, then the course has been truly successful. The classes I enjoy most are those in which the students are most livelv, ask- ing lots of questions, pointing out er- rors, suggesting different ways of doing things. When this happens, teaching be- comes a great pleasure. When the stu- dents sit quietly, dutifully taking notes and not saying a word, my enthusiasm wanes considerably, and the whole pro- cess suffers. When I was a college student, there were a few teachers who made a very big impression on me. They knew and lovod their subject; they taught me what tiiey kn^'w and inspired me to learn more. Part of thp reason I decided on a uni\ersity career was because I wanted to be like them, i don't kn;'vv if I have been successful in this ambition, but I have never regretted my choice. 28 / MAKCM 'obert Mathiesen rofessor epartment of Slavic Languages I don't think of myself as a profes- onal teacher. By profession, I'm a rholar, engrossed in pushing back the mits of our knowledge of mankind's ast and enthralled bv the need sympa- leticallv to understand even its most lien characteristics, to wrestle with its lost recalcitrant facts on their own ?rms. But teaching is my principal di- ersion and fondest recreation, and I ike honest pride in doing it well. I am jntent to be thought an amateur teach- r, if the word has its older meaning, for smateur" originally meant "lover" and nplied no lack of competence. As a teacher, even an amateur, I bear le heaviest of double responsibilities, he students whom I teach, however oung they may be, are still my fellow len and women, and thus their autono- W and responsibility deserve my re- sect. As a scholar 1 remain a student also, howe\'er old 1 mav become, and can earn the respect of my students as their fellow seeker after truth. These are precisely the points which distinguish the true teacher from the classroom charlatan or the academic demogogue or tvrant. The true teacher does not seek real power over his students, or their in- creasing dependency on him; rather, he fosters each student's capacity to be a responsible, autonomous person. This is a lesson best taught bv example. The true teacher brings each student to the point where he no longer needs a teacher, and then lets go; or if a relationship between them lasts, it is of a different kind, that be- tween one colleague and another, or one friend and another. This is also why the best teaching, when it oc- curs at all, occurs onlv when the teacher is also at least an amateur scholar and thus also a student; no true teacher can ever af- ford to stop being a student at any point in his career. No matter how much he knows, he will never know it all; and the seeking is just as important as the finding. 1 have taught in a variety of academ- ic disciplines at Brown, and expect to keep on doing so. Yet whatever the field, 1 really teach one subject only, and teach it to all students, undergraduates and graduates: how to develop the skills needed to find out the truth of a matter - that is, how to be a scholar, whether professional or amateur. Wendy V. Edwards Associate Professor Program in the Visual Arts People often ask me, hov^' do you teach someone to paint? There seems to be an implication in the t^uestion either that something very mysterious in the act of painting cannot be explained or that the obvious technical skills needed to create a specific image cannot be con- quered bv all human beings. When 1 am painting and carry out problem-solving in my studio, there is a given understanding from which teach- ing becomes a natural extension of my own beliefs. There are some students who are absolutely driven from the be- ginning to enjoy the tactile quality of paint and are capable of feeling comfort- able enough to handle the medium with great ease. If one is able to balance the intellect, the spiritual, and the physical substance, then one can paint. There are paintings that require many hours of painful reworking of additive and sub- tractive processes, and there are paint- ings that come together quite magically. If my students can experience these two realms of painting, they are reflecting life in a form that can bring wonderful personal rewards. It is often through an acknowledgment of many cultural influ- ences that a student is able to sustain creative energy in the studio. The Art "Marketeria" of today is complex, heavily influenced, and domi- nated by corporate support systems. The romantic notion of an individual artist's voice is not always heard. If my students address contemporary as well as historical issues, their paintings are conceptually rich and visually stimulat- ing. 1 am a passionate painter and it's O.K. with me if my students pick up on that. BROWN .ALUMNI MONTHLY / 29 John Wermer Professor Department of Mathematics Most normal human beings seem to have disUked math in school. Mathe- maticians are chosen from the rest of the population. Educated people usually belie\e that all serious mathematical problems were solved long ago (probably by the an- cient Greeks). This is not true. Mathe- matics is continuously changing and growing, and many deep-lying un- solved problems are here today. At the same time, mathematics is essentially connected with many other sciences, and new connections are constantly be- ing discovered. 1 think it is important for students to ha\'e in front of them in class a person who believes that mathematics is com- prehensible and interesting, and at times beautiful. I was lucky to have had such a teacher at George Washington High School in New York Cit\', Mr Bernard Parelhoff. He also spent time with me outside of class telling me about prob- lems and questions. I had a succession of excellent teachers at Harvard in the 1940s. These teachers did not seem to feel a conflict between teaching and re- search. Their deep interest in the subject illuminated it and made me see it as fas- cinating and important. If one likes mathematics, teaching it has a number of advantages: You have the pleasure of talking to a captive audi- ence about things that you find \^ery in- teresting; some of the students enjoy the material; their questions and ideas force you to think about it in a new way. The most gifted of the students are extreme- ly good and are really your colleagues, in a sense, in a common enterprise of understanding. If, as we do at Brown, you get to teach all kinds of different courses, you keep learning new things throughout your life. If you are a ham (as 1 am), you have unparalleled oppor- tunities. Finally, vou can make a living while engaging in something most peo- ple would find quite peculiar: trying to "do mathematics." ^icheline Rice-Maximin Lssociate Professor )epartment of French Studies Vhat makes a good teacher? Dedication and enjoying what one teaches. WiUingness to expend much time and energy. Being creative and imaginative in de- signing course materials and teaching strategies. Being well organized. An eagerness always to learn more about the subject and about the stu- dents themselves. Why do I teach? • I love teaching different subjects: French and Creole languages, history, music or literature in French from the Caribbean, Africa, Canada. • These topics are of utmost importance particularly if one is concerned with diversity and with really knowing other peoples and understanding their culture and civilization. • I think it is very important to let stu- dents use their creativity and their imagination. Very often it has been sti- fled, but when they are allowed to make use of their creative powers, the teacher often gets extraordinary re- sults, whether it is in a literature, a language, or a conversation class. What do I enjoy about teaching? • Teaching what I know very well as well as being able to research and learn about other topics that I don't know as well. • Contacts with people with sometimes different cultures from whom I can learn, too. • Being able actually to see the results of my teaching, such as in French 1-2, when after just a few hours of French, students can talk to each other or when at the end of one semester they can ha\'e a real and meaningful con- versation. • Following the learning process and observing students react whether they are teenagers or adults. [D BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 31 1 he Man Who Saved the Library AN ODE TO VARTAN GREGORI^ In 1981, Vartan Gregorian, the brand-new president of tlie New York Public Library, faced a physical plant in decay, a demor- alized staff, and a grave shortage of money. The great library - the "people's university" of New York - had fallen on evil days since it was created, eighty-six years earlier, by merging the private libraries of John Jacob Astor and James Lenox with funds from the Tilden trust. The library's trustees - led by its new chairman, Andrew Heiskell; the former chairman, Richard Salomon ['32]; and the li- brary's leading benefactor, Mrs. Vincent Astor - fixed on Gregorian, a historian, after his resignation as provost of the University of Penn- sylvania. At the New York Public Library, he pressed the library's case fourteen hours a day and made great strides toward amending its physical and financial problems and restoring it to the center of New York's cultural life. Last fall, after serving seven years, Gregori- an announced his resignation to become president of Brown. Last month, at a trustees' dinner to say farewell to Gregorian and his wife, Clare, John Sargent, a trustee, read the following poem, written for the occasion by Calvin Trillin, a member of the library's Council of Conservators. . ,g jfie New yorkPub"'^ At Penn, in a prestigious chair. They had a man considered rare. He had the requisite degrees But would, at times of stress or crise, Ignore the folks with Ph.D.'s And quote his granny from Tabriz. And she knew everything. He spoke six tongues (or was it eight?). In all of them he could orate On Plato or on quantum particles. In none of them did he use articles. But Clare, his wife, would patiently Remind him of an "a" or "the." And she knew almost everything. At Penn, he soon became a dean - The fastest-talking dean they'd seen. As provost he could feel his oats. His drive, his warmth, his granny's quotes Seemed sure to make him president. If not, he'd surely fold his tent And leave, just after saying, "Bah! They really should have made me Shah." Your nine o'clock appointment's here. You have six calls, and then you're clear. And, Greg, if 1 may be so bold, 1 hope you know the Mayor's on hold. 11 In Gotham, at the great repository Of knowledge that's the center of this story. Truth seekers went to find what they were seeking They found instead the roof above them leaking. They found collections crumbled, tables pitted. They found on Thursday they were not admitted. In reading rooms they found such sad decay At one point even flashers stayed away. This marvel was about to crash. It needed someone with panache. And most of all it needed cash. When Heiskell came, he found malaise was chron He called on high for wisdom Salomonic. With Tilden gone and Lenox just a hill, It fell upon the Astors to fulfill The role of founders - keepers of the flame. And luckily, the one who bore the name Turned out to be the once and perfect dame. The place they loved was at the point At which they quickly must anoint A sa\-ior who could sa\-e the joint. 32 / MARCH 1489 CALVIN TRILLIN They listed all the attributes they sought In this, the second savior God had wrought. It should be one whose high-toned speech was free Of simple words - such words as "a" and "the." And one who had no tiresome aversion To speaking Greek, or maybe even Persian. And, not to judge one on appearance solely, It might be nice if he were roly-poly. And most of all, they prayed, down on their knees. For someone with a granny from Tabriz. Such qualities are hard to find. But then They heard there was this perfect guy at Penn. At one vou meet a \vealthy bunch Of bankers at the bank for lunch. Till then, vour day is full I'm told. And, Greg, the Mayor is still on hold. Ill He came, he saw, he ate and drank With wealthy bankers at the bank. And wealthy yachtsmen on their yachts. And wealthy moms with wealthy tots. And once, just once, a wealthy poodle Who had been left a lot of boodle. And newly wealthy arbitragers Whose flags of choice were Jolly Rogers, And wealthy folks with cash so old That some of it was growing mold. It's said, by someone indiscreet. He'd grab the wealthy off the street. And thev enjoved it. Although it wasn't always pretty. He noodged the state, he noodged the city. Foundations felt their assets fall The moment that thev took his call. Evangelistic, bold and brash. He generated more than cash. He got New Yorkers thinking hard About what those two lions guard - The books, the prints, the monographs. The songs, the facts, the tears, the laughs. The thoughts of saints, the thoughts of sinners. The wealthy eating fancy dinners. The roof was fixed, new rugs unrolled. The temperature of books controlled. Old rooms restored, new rooms unveiled. And writers of distinction hailed. Exhibits came, endowments grew. The place stayed open Thursdays, too. And, finishing a fourteen-hour day, Gregorian was often heard to say, "Hey look - I'm having fun, I'm having blast." He was - presiding over this vast cast With bear hugs here, and fourteen speeches there. And somehow looking none the worse for wear. Despite his well-coiffed Brillo pad for hair. He made the place the center of the town. And then he said that he would leave for Brown. The Senator will be here soon You have two luncheons, both at noon. The reading room is freezing cold. The Mayor's getting old on hold. IV And now he is Rhode Island bound. In Providence he thinks he's found A tranquil place - a place where he Can write about philosophy. As he presides as chief Bro\vn bear. And brings a little culture there. And talks of Plato, such as that. And eats the food of Ararat. It sounds so good. But what he'll find in several weeks Is Brown has roofs, and roofs have leaks. And Brown has books, and books get old. Their temperature must be controlled. He may find walls decaying or Curriculum in need of core. He'll have the usual on his plate. So Socrates will have to wait. 'Cause back he'll go into the fray - Another fourteen-hour day. To find Brown grads he'll shake the trees. And sav, "You'll pay for those degrees." He'll patch the holes that paint disguised And make the place all Vartanized. He'll speak in every nook and cranny. He'll quote from Locke, he'll quote from Granny. And Clare will do her best to see That he says "a" and even "the." We hope it's fun. We hope it's blast. We hope he's happy - Shah at last. The poem appeared in the February 5 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Copyright 1989 by the Nezc Yorl< Times Company. Reprinted by permission. Yeomen of the Alleys For two years Kathleen Hirsch '79 A.M. virtually lived among homeless women in Boston. Now she has written their stories Bv Anne Diffilv A , s children of the North American sub- urbs, Kathleen Hirsch 79 A.M. and her friends, Wendy and Amanda, can speak of their origins in the familiar, shared vernacular of middle-class family life. Each can recall playing with doll hous- es, joining Girl Scouts or Campfire Girls, going to church, getting braces, earning A's in school. At thirty-five, Hirsch personifies the hoped-for result of such a childhood. The oldest of six chil- dren (one of her three brothers is Matthew '84), she grew up in a Buffalo suburb and attended a Catholic high school run by the Sisters of the Sa- cred Heart, nuns who were "well-educated," re- calls Hirsch, "and very liberal theologically and politically. They were wonderful female role mod- els." Todav, clear-eved and poised, Hirsch is firmly in control of her life. Since graduating from high school, she has accrued bachelor's and master's degrees (from Mount Holyoke in political docu- mentary filmmaking and from Brown in creative writing), built a satisfving career in journalism (as a reporter for the Boston Phoenix and as a national- ly-published freelancer), and become the author of a book. Songs from the Alley, to be published this spring by Ticknor and Fields. Her personal life, too, satisfies; she and her husband, journalist Mark Morrow, and their frisky spaniel, Dickens, live in a charming, high-ceilinged apartment across from Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. Life hasn't worked out so well for Wendy and Amanda. Almost the same age as Hirsch, they are grav-haired and battle-scarred, their minds often clouded with pair, and confusion. The harrowing Like many of her homeless friends, on a bitter-cold winter day Kathleen Hirsch soaks up a bit of warmth in a Boston subway entrance. Dressed to blend in with the street people, she spent long days roaming the city while researching her book. 34 / MARCH 1989 Photographs by John Foraste 5ROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 35 'We can't stand and wait for people in crisis to ask us for help' life of the chronically homeless has made them old before their time. Hirsch got to know Wendy and Amanda two years ago after she decided to write a book about homeless women. She had done an article for the Phoenix in 1983 on a group of men who lived in an alley right around the corner from the alternative newspaper's offices. It was a new kind of research for Hirsch, who was experienced in writing about social and political issues but had never spent time with street-dwellers. "I wasn't approaching people who had articulated their lives to a reporter be- fore," Hirsch recalls. "1 didn't know what the terms would be. At first, they thought 1 was some- one from 'detox' who was trying to get them into a hospital." Very quickly, though, the men opened up to Hirsch, who dropped by every few days for three months while working on the story. When it was done, she knew she wanted to write a book. "I couldn't help but intuit that whatever was happening with homeless women probably would have enormous relevance for all of our society," Hirsch says one day in late December. She sits, small-boned and slender, at the dining table in her apartment, thoughtfully stirring the homemade lentil soup in her earthenware bowl. A shaft of winter sunlight glances off her big-framed glasses and long brunette hair. In a warm alto voice, Hirsch recalls the months of research that preceded her work with the home- less, the long days she spent wandering the streets in order to absorb some notion of what life was like for her subjects, and her nights as a volunteer staff member at a shelter for women at St. Paul's Church in North Dorchester, operated bv the Pine Street Inn, Boston's oldest and largest shelter There she got to know hundreds of women, among them the two whose life stories serve as a springboard for Hirsch's examination of homeless issues in her new book, Soigs from the Alley. Fierce- ly protective of their privacy, Hirsch has renamed them Wendy and Amanda. "We found each other," Hirsch says. "1 didn't consciously pick them out [to be featured in the book]." While the three women shared certain sim- ilarities in background, Hirsch found that her new friends may have been doomed early on to lives of pain and loneliness. Their outwardly-benign home situations were, in fact, characterized by cruelty and strife. Amanda, whose alcoholic father beat her and whose mother suffered nervous break- downs, barely made it through high school; her low self-esteem led her to develop suicidal tenden- cies. Wendy says she was sexually abused by her stepfather; she ran away and began drinking, and dropped from a straight-A student in her junior year to a chronic absentee who barely completed a high school secretarial course. Both wom^en have "cycled in and out of abu- sive, self-destructive relationships with men," Hirsch says. While Amanda seems to have a chance at maintair.ing her newfound stability - she has a job in a Boston department store and has been living in an apartment for nearly two years - Wendy is still on the streets and actively alcoholic. For Amanda, Hirsch points out, the existing sys- tem of shelters and counseling has finally made a difference. "Wendy," Hirsch says, "is the real ques- tion mark now." The life stories of Wendy and Amanda, com- bined with her field research in Boston and visits to shelters around the country, convinced Hirsch that most of today's homeless women are victims of childhood abuse and neglect. Over and over, she has seen the same pattern in the women she has interviewed: childhood physical, sexual, and psychological abuse; and an absence of interven- tion by anyone within or outside the immediate family. As a society and as individuals, Hirsch be- lieves, we need to reach out more actively to young people at risk - and to adults who already are damaged and alone. "We can't sit and wait for people in crisis to come to us for help," Hirsch savs. Before returning to the task of proofreading the pub- lisher's galleys of her book, Hirsch spoke with the BAM for several hours about her research on the homeless, her hopes for a broad-based solution to this national tragedy, and her emotional and intellectual reactions to what she has learned: Q uring the summer of 1986, while 1 was waiting to hear from the Pine Street Inn [as to whether she would be allowed to research her book on the premises], 1 wrote a piece for the Washington Post Magazine on the homeless. 1 trav- eled around the country to research it, and the background I gained was invaluable. In the North- east, we automatically assume that when we have a social problem the solution has to come from the federal government. But down South, people as- sume that the churches should solve the problem. In the Midwest, you find a nice marriage between the business community and the non-profit agen- cies addressing the homeless problem. When I finished that article, I had read so many reports and studies on the subject, 1 felt that in or- der to write this book 1 needed to put all of that in a deep file in my brain, and just watch - to ap- proach the story from a state of innocence, as far as possible. Working in the shelter, and hanging out on the streets, was an incredible experience. 1 found a huge disjunction between all the theory 1 had ab- sorbed and the reality in front of me. 1 would watch women check into the shelter in the even- ing, take a shower, and as soon as they were dressed again they'd go to a pay phone to call their children and catch up on what had happened dur- ing the day. It was really heartbreaking. Over time, 36 / MARCH 1989 The lives of Amanda ami Wendy, two lioniclcss zmmen ill tlieir thirties with ichom Kathleen Hirsch estab- lished friendships, dramatize many of the personal and sociological Wendy then, Wendy now issues Hnsch discusses in her hook. Here, in an excerpt from Songs from the Al- ley (1989, Ticknor ami Fields). Hirsch describes Wendy as a bright, bookish pre-teenager, ami several decades later as the author came to know her on the streets of Boston. Ireedom was Emily Bronte, the life of Marie Curie, and fantasies of Paris. It was the morning. Once Wendv reached the end of the short gravel driveway and passed the grav mailbox and the last few houses along her country road, all she had to do was wait for the school bus, \vhich ferried her to the school library and from there to the trimmed walks of the Luxembourg Gardens, with Colette or Proust as her guide. The sanctuar\' that Papa and a plush bunny rabbit had once created, her own curiosity and imagination now enlarged. Wendv ^vould read for hours, both in school and behind her closed bed- room door after she finished her homework at night, escaping into other lives in search of the shape to eventuallv give her own. Though Papa would remain her closest ally on earth, she was be- ginning to establish independent patterns of flight. Early in her school vears, she distinguished herself as the class "brain." A studious and shy girl who wore glasses and braids and seemed nev- er to be without a book in her hand, she consis- tently earned straight A's. She needed no one to tell her that if anything was going to win for her a life commensurate with her dreams, it was her in- tellect. I t's been a bad winter, brutally cold. Directly across the street from the [parking] lot, on the [Public Library's] heating grates, all that remains of those who usually huddle here is a pile of aban- doned blankets and a litter of empty bottles. Most everyone fled shortly after midnight, driven out by the bone-numbing cold. Only one bundled mass of rough gray army blanket remains slightly fuller than the rest. The sole of a sneaker suggests itself inside the woolen womb. At the other end, matted white hair grows in against peroxide. And only those who know Wendy's habits would think to check on such a bitter night, to see whether she is crazy enough to have stayed outside. Roused, she talks quietly for a while, glad for the compan\'. From time to time she glances down the street, but the face she wants to see doesn't ap- pear there. She pulls blackened hands out of the sleeves of her plaid wool jacket and warms them o\'er the current of hot air, her face a study in the claims of the streets, knife wounds and razor scars. When she grins, it is without benefit of front teeth. She is thirty-two years old. She's out here, she explains, because she want- ed to be with Kurt. But he got so cold that he final- Iv headed for the all-night men's shelter, leaving her alone on the grates. He took the rest of the vodka, too. Her vodka. .And the black knit cap some nice woman had taken off her own head and gi\ en to Wendy the day before. He'd ripped her off. "And he tells me that he loves me." She laughs disdainfully. Her voice lifts into a mocking falsetto. " 'Let's go in. It's a wee bit cold. I don't feel com- fortable.' 1 hate whiners. . . ." She fumbles among the orphaned bottles. Now that she's awake, her hands have begun to trem- ble. If she doesn't find a few drops, she'll be in trouble long before 8 a.m., post time at Danny's Liquors. "You get the inners," she explains about the shakes, "before \'0u get the outers. And then you get the heebie-jeebies." She pauses, as if intending to say more. But suddenly she is crying, silent tears that run down her cheeks and into her open palms. "I'm so afraid," she whispers. . . . Then she starts to sob without restraint. Her broken cries make a weird circuit down around the cavern and back. The sound stops her. She drops her hands back into her lap and searches them. "I'm losing my soul," she says softly. 5ROW\ .AlLUMNI monthly / 37 The inertia and boredom of homelessness is unbelievably stifling' I found that this human picture of homelessness became so rich and complex, 1 realized that any sin- gle-issue analysis of the problem - economic, psy- chological, sociological - didn't make sense. The major difference I have with many of the analysts who have preceded me is that they focus too much on very streamlined, single-issue solu- tions to the homeless problem. As a woman in our society, I'm aware of how interconnected the problems that confront us are. Woman's reality is complex, especially if you have a husband, chil- dren, you're trying to work. . . . Many commenta- tors have brought a male perspective to bear on the homeless problem, so I'm trying to bring a dif- ferent consciousness. Yes, it's messier and proba- bly more difficult. But I think it's more real. In the shelter, 1 was constantly exposed to situ- ations in which I, as an observer, and the staff had to decide whether to comment on a guest's choices or not. Some women would get a job, make some money, and then spend it on something that was of vital importance to them, but would strike a so- cial engineer as being crazy. The social worker would come in and say to a woman, "Now that you have some money you can find a private room to rent somewhere, and then after a couple of months you can save more money and get a per- manent apartment, and everything will be great." But for the individual woman, that scenario might not seem great. 1 knew one young woman who saved S600. She came into the shelter just be- fore Christmas, and she was so happy because she had just spent the $600 on presents for her boy- friend. That's what was important to her. When you're in crisis, the last thing in the world you're doing is thinking about the future. These people may be mourning an immediate loss, such as the loss of a spouse or children or a long-time home. They're not interested in being rational about the future; they're working on the problem at hand. We need to ask. How do we help them to get past that? One of the things I came to realize is that we need to respect each homeless person's individual- ity as much as we possibly can. Everyone needs to find stability in her own way. What I saw in the shelters was that a consistent, one-on-one relation- ship with a counselor can make it possible for a guest to contemplate taking the next steps, what- ever those are in her case. But getting people stabi- lized doesn't happen overnight. Even in a good shelter like St. Paul's, there were fifty guests and only four staff on a shift, so not everyone could de- velop this kind of close relationship. T Vhs hat surprised me most about homeless women was how much we had in common and how comfortable I felt with them. The first night in the shelter, I was afraid. It's not a fear that some- thing bad might happen; it's an irrational fear of the unknown. Sudcienly you are seeing terrible destitution, and 1 don't mean just material pover- ty: You are confronted with a concentration of need, loneliness, and alienation. The first night 1 was thinking to myself, "How am 1 going to break down the barriers between myself and these women?" But 1 found quickly that 1 would be included in group conversations, or I could introduce myself to someone at dinner. I learned very quickly who wanted to be left by themselves, and who was open to a relationship. I respected that; I was not looking for a voyeuristic experience. So I just talked with women who wanted to talk. And that's where 1 got my second surprise, the one that stays with me even now. I realized that homeless people were just like me in so many, many respects. They shared the same feelings about their families, their children. . . . Most of them went out of the shelter in the morning look- ing more put-together than I do when I leave my house! They might only own the clothes on their backs, but they take time with their appearance; they try very hard not to look homeless. I was moved by their dignity and their strength. The number of white and gray heads in the shelters is scandalous. Many of the women were easily over age sixty-five. Sometimes you walk in and feel as if you're in a nursing home. What usually has happened with these older women is that they've lost their apartments because they're on a fixed income and the rents go up, or the buildings go condo; or they are living in a mar- ginal neighborhood and the building burns down; or they are hospitalized and their savings are eaten up; and they don't know what resources are avail- able to help them. Many of these women have worked every day of their adult lives, but their pension isn't enough or they have no Social Securi- ty. It is very, very sad. There is a real economic ar- gument to be made about these women's situa- tions, but there's more to it than just money. 1 keep returning to the idea of community outreach pro- grams operating within neighborhoods. I never felt guilty that I could come home at the end of a night, when they had no home; but it ums very hard for me to realize, night after night, that some of these women had been in and out of shel- ters for years. I knew I was going to finish this pro- ject and move on, but I realized that for many of them, not much would change in their lives. The inertia and boredom of homelessness is unbeliev- able; it is so stifling. I can't imagine where people who have been homeless for any length of time get the motivation to dc) anything. So often those of us working in the shelters would want so badly to just do something to help these women: to pick up the phone and call a job agency or an apartment landlord, anything to 38 / MARCH 1989 Two homeless men work something out for one of the women. Most rest on the sidewalk of us are accustomed to thinking, "Let's do it uou\" outside a department What you learn in the shelter is that you need to store in Boston's work ivitli, not do for. That is a lesson for our soci- Downtown Crossing ety as we address this problem: The solution has district. got to be a partnership. What might seem right to us might not be right for an individual. Many of the women are depressed - under- standably. I think I would be crazy if I were living in a shelter for any length of time without any out- side resources. Some of the women would go through very bad spells. I was astonished at the skill of the staff in dealing with these episodes. In many shelters I've observed, there is an unspoken conviction that traditional psychotherapeutic tech- nit]ues don't work with many shelter guests. The best of the shelters have evolved alternative ap- proaches. 1 saw staff members trying to give these women as much space as possible to work through the episodes, to analyze them, to make sense of them in their own terms, instead of immediately responding by giving them medication or trying to get them hospitalized. There's a much wider berth given to behavior that we wouldn't view as nor- mal, but that the women are comfortable with. I remember one woman who maintained a pretty high le\'el of functioning, but occasionally she would launch into tirades at the other women for messing up something she had just cleaned. This was a woman who one day walked up to the piano in the corner, opened the lid, sat down, and started playing "Clair de Lune" flawlessly. It was uubelievablc. She went on to play something by Tschaikovsky, and then another piece. The room was absolutely silent. None of us had seen her do this before. Then she finished, closed the lid, and went back to what she had been doing. In a case like that, you ask yourself. Could any- thing ha\-e been done for this woman before she reached a breaking point - something that would have sustained her? In many cases, I suspect the answer is yes. If there had been help outside the family, if she could have afforded being hospital- ized longer ... In almost every case, there is an "if." These are stories, as I began to see it, of our own lives. Except that we were all fortunate enough to have someone to help us, or more im- portant, to have resources: money, or skills, or an education. For whatever reason, these people didn't have those things to help them. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 39 don't want to see a lot more money going into shelters for the homeless. We've got to get going on permanent housing. In the book, I attempt to trace the evolution in America of the definition of poverty, and the parallel evolution of institutions we have created to deal with poverty. And I'm concerned that we're institutionalizing this prob- lem. I've seen it happen with every single shelter I visited. They begin with a charismatic, visionary person who believes something has to be done, and who carries the institution along on the strength of his or her personality and passion and love. In the next generation, things get more for- malized. Then, by the third generation, twenty years down the line, you find a lot of regulations and a much thicker layer of management and bu- reaucracy. This has already happened. The shelters that I've seen that have most suc- cessfully moved women back to mainstream soci- ety - and this can take years - are the ones that of- fer a variety of activities and options for the wom- en during the days. They're not so rigidly pro- grammed that women who just need some space can't get it. But they offer a vision for getting out. Many shelters have to kick people out the first thing in the morning, because they can't afford to keep them inside during the day But I think that would be a worthwhile use of money, to bring in things like self-esteem-building workshops; that is a number-one priority for these women. For people who have a history of wandering out the front door and not coming back until much later, I think an appropriate level of housing might be a supported lodging-house, where a trained staff person is in residence. We have to be realistic in our expectations; not every homeless person is a candidate for totally independent living. We need to offer an array of housing options. Hirsch worked with homeless women at St. Paul's Shelter, located in a church basement in Dorchester, Massa- chusetts. I o s< 1 solve the problem of homelessness, I believe we must approach it on two fronts: one, preven- tive; and two, restorative. Almost every person I saw in shelters is the result of some failure. Kids who are abused, women who are abused, old peo- ple who are about to lose their apartment, and they have no one in the world who is interested in whether they are alive or dead . . . these people are at risk of becoming homeless, unless we do some- thing. We need to alleviate the isolation that has be- come a way of life for this society. Already, we're doing a better job with [identifying and helping] kids who are being abused. Even so, I think people are reluctant to get involved as neighbors. If we can begin to be more caring and courageous about saying something, or reaching out to offer help to someone in trouble, we'll have made a start. We need to talk about how extra-family structures, community structures, can begin to take a more ac- tivist role in outreach. The agencies that are now so centralized and abstract need to become more integrated into neighborhoods. After World War II, there was an erosion of our inner-city network of informal support svstems. This wonderful infrastructure of mutual aid un- raveled when the yournger generation began to move to the suburbs. At that point in our history, the individualist became dominant, and the idea of community that always has existed in tension with the individualist strain in America atrophied. I would love to see a revitalization of grass- roots organizations, whether they be church groups or community-action organizations. What we need is a mix of private and public agencies that help support each other, and in turn are sup- ported by federal and state dollars. Historically, in this country we've either had the small, grass- roots organizations that have been unclerfunded, or a mega-effort from the federal level, character- ized by enormous bureaucracies. Either alone will fail. If we can merge the two approaches, we can begin to make progress. Q 40 / MARCH 1989 Bv Anne Diffily Photographs by John Foraste Riding to Barcelona Sophomore Molly Bliss's love for Jiorses and competition helped her overcome a crippling chUdhood accident. Nozo one of the country's top equestrians, she has set her sights on the 1992 Olympics BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY' / 41 Most athletes training for the Olympic Games inhabit a solitary world, a world that is necessarily selfish. The Olympic athlete focuses on one goal, one body, one charge: to be the best in a sport. Molly Bliss '91 of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, is pursuing her Olympic dream in time-honored, sin- gle-minded fashion. But her world is more spa- Preceding page: Af- cious than that of a sprinter or a figure-skater, ac- ter a workout, Bliss commodating as it does not only her studies at walks her "best Brown but also her partner in competition, for friend" to a paddock whose athletic conditioning and mental attitude at his winter home, a Bliss is wholly responsible. Most recently, that Rehoboth, Mas- partner has been a thoroughbred horse named sachusetts, horse Hey Charlie. The big (16.1 hands), English-bred farm with an indoor chestnut gelding, in addition to being her indis- riding arena. In pensable partner, is "my best friend," says Bliss. warmer months, Riding Hey Charlie, Bliss became the youngest Charlie joins a rider ever to win the U.S. Equestrian Team's fall menagerie of family championship at the Chesterland International pets at the Bliss Three-Day Event in Pennsylvania last October. Her homestead. Below, competition for the championship included the en- time for a snack of tire 1988 U.S. Olympic Equestrian Team and two grain. members of the 1984 gold-medal Olympic team. The win cemented Bliss's place among this coun- try's equestrian elite and made her a clear con- tender for a slot on the team that will represent the U.S. in the 1992 Games in Barcelona, Spain. Her achievements, which include a flock of blue ribbons and trophies amassed in national competition over the past four years, and being the top-ranking U.S. rider in her age group since 1985, are all the more remarkable in light of the near-fa- tal accident she suffered at age five. Playing in a family visiting area at Rhode Island Hospital (where her father, orthopedic surgeon Dr. Thomas Bliss '65, was doing his residency), the little girl pushed open the unsecured door of a laundry chute and fell seven stories. Her spine and legs were shattered. Bliss spent most of her childhood in casts and braces, with pain her constant com- panion. She returned annually to the hospital for surgery through her tenth year. Even today, she can't jog or run; "my ankle would fall apart," she says. It became clear to Molly and her parents that her dream of being a gymnast was impossible. In- stead, at age nine, she got her first pony. "I was still in a cast and on crutches," she recalls, "so I couldn't even test-ride him." Instead, she went for good looks and ended up with Popcorn, a dark palomino with flaxen mane and tail and an obnox- ious personality. In between Popcorn tossing her off his back. Bliss learned to ride from a local in- structor and graduated to a nicer pony. Magic, when she turned eleven. Since then. Bliss's life has been marked by a se- ries of equestrian graduations: from novice rider to competitor, from pony to horse, from local instruc- tors to Dover, Massachusetts-based Olympic champion Michael Plumb, from competitor to win- ner, from horse to better horse, from winner to champion. Now she is ready for the next gradua- tion: from her beloved mount Charlie, who at age twelve will soon be too old for the rigors of top- level competition, to a younger horse with the na- tu'e talent and temperament to carry her to the Olympics in 1992. With some urgency. Bliss ex- plains that she needs to begin training such a horse now if it's to be ready for Barcelona. But a horse of the requisite caliber. Bliss says, could cost as much as $75,000. And while many other countries with strong traditions of equestri- an competition provide not only mounts but also facilities and equipment for their top riders, in the U.S. each rider is on her own. So the tightly-knit Bliss family, which includes two grandmothers liv- ing in Rhode Island, father Tom, mother Josselvn 75 M.A.T., and Molly's four siblings, has em- barked on a search for the financial support they will need to make Molly's Olympic dream a reali- ty. Such support may take many forms: corporate sponsorship (something Bliss enjoyed several years ago through Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company), private donations ("I'm tax-deductible now," she laughs), and local fund-raising events. Bliss is cheerful and gung-ho when she dis- cusses her sport's financial realities and the fund- raising challenges ahead of her. But clearly these are secondary interests - distractions, even - com- pared to her love of horses, riding, and competing. 42 / MARCH 1989 y "He's very English, very aristocratic," Bliss says of Charlie (during a workout). "He's also ex- tremely competitive. ,. When Charlie knows he's done well, he swishes fiis tail" »»» Bliss and Charlie negotiate a tricky cross-country water complex (above) at the 1987 North American Young Riders' Champion- ships. "Eventing is so beautiful, danger- ous, and exciting," she says, "I don't know why it's not more popular than football." When Bliss talks about winning, she talks about her horses. It's as if a light has been switched on: her face glows to match her wavy, strawberry-blonde hair. "They're so kind," she says of horses. "They're such generous animals; they want to please you." Right now she owns two, Charlie and a younger English-bred horse, the Roan Ranger. The latter, while talented, has not yet de- veloped the reliable tractability that is so crucial to Bliss's sport, three-day eventing. Unless he im- proves dramatically. Ranger most likely will be Bliss's back-up horse. Three-day eventing is the decathlon of equestrian competition. Derived from the gruel- ing, exacting training exercises of the old Euro- pean and English cavalries, eventing comprises three distinct phases: dressage, speed and en- durance (made up of four separate challenges, the most difficult being cross-country, a course of heartstopping "natural" obstacles to be negotiated at high speed), and show jumping. The horse that can meet these challenges is fast, athletic, and en- thusiastic. "They have to love it," Bliss says. "The fences are big and demanding; there's no wav you can intimidate a reluctant horse into doing this. "It's an unusual horse that becomes a top eventing horse," Bliss continues. "For dressage, which is equivalent to compulsory figures in skat- ing competition, you want a horse that's quiet, ele- gant, and submissive. In cross-countrv, your horse has to be a bearcat, running its heart out, practical- ly breathing fire. And in show jumping you need extra control. It's very important to have an intelli- gent horse. I look for good, kind, big eyes." The rider, says Bliss, has to be one step ahead of the smart animal she sits astride. "When you're galloping cross-country, you come upon funny combinations of jumps, drops, and other obstacles. The horse is seeing these for the first time, and he has to figure out how to stay out of trouble. And the rider has to be one step ahead of the horse, to anticipate when he might shy, to distract him or correct his direction." Mistakes are costly and terrifying. Bliss has learned the hard way to curb her own tendency to ride hard and fast, to resist the urge to let the horse go all out in competition. Three years ago, riding Charlie at the North American Young Riders Championship in Illinois, Bliss realized too late during her cross-country ride that she was going too fast. "We came at a jump around a turn, and I put Charlie in a position that no horse should have jumped from," she says. "But he jumped anyway, from his heart, and we fell. It was awful. We got up and finished the course anyway." But Bliss had blown her chances of winning, and worse, Charlie sat out the rest of the season with an injured ten- don. Bliss's remorse was huge; "I would die if any- thing happened to Charlie," she says now. The in- cident is constantly on her mind when she trains and competes. Training her horses is a seven-day, "twenty- four-hour" job. Bliss says, only half-joking. She arises at the family farm before six e\'ery morning, feeds her horses and cleans their stalls, and tends scrupulously to their grooming and exercise. Re- cently a young Englishwoman, Andrea Park, has come to live with the Blisses and serve as groom, or "nanny" as she likes to be called, for Charlie and Ranger. If Bliss has to spend extra time at Brown, or needs to be out of town for a few days. Park takes over. "There's no room for mistakes with these horses," Bliss emphasizes. "When you're compet- ing at this level, the horses are very sensitive. Any change in routine can affect them. If there's a slight drop in temperature, Charlie can get colic. If he takes a funny step in the paddock, he can twist an ankle. You have to be aware of everything, every day. You check their bodies while you're grooming them; check your tack to make sure nothing is starting to break. When you're asking the horses to do all these difficult things in competition, you owe it to them to make sure they're in the best possible shape." More than teammates. Bliss's horses are her pets, part of a family menagerie that includes ponies, five dogs, "a hunch of cats," some minia- ture donkeys, peacocks, guinea hens, and pheas- ants. Rising rapidly through the ranks of equestri- an competition. Bliss has owned and sold quite a few horses of ever-increasing quality. It's a reality of her sport, but one that has never gotten easier. "I should be hardened, but each time it's sad," Bliss says. "I sold a horse in January that I really liked, and it was awful. But I know it was the right thing to do. You just try to find a better situation for the horse." Hey Charlie, however, will be an exception to the sell-and-trade-up mandate. "Charlie will never be for sale," Bliss says firmly. 44 / MARCH 1989 i0 Tools of the trade; Horse and rider wear different tack and clothing for each portion of a three- day event. Bliss's stable colors are navy and kelly. To the wistful outsider with both feet firmly planted on the ground, riding seems a beautiful, even poetic pastime, but perhaps one beyond the reach of or- dinary mortals. The animals themselves are mesmerizing, like myths come to life; they are living totems of grace and power. Competitive rid- ers, with their tailored coats, immaculate breeches, and burnished boots, appear to have trotted straight out of a nineteenth-century hunting print. Even the smells of the show ring - the warm odor of horseflesh, the seasoned essence of oiled leather tack - suggest elegance, monev, the good life. This, undeniably, is not a sport for the poor, or even the budget-conscious. Molly Bliss knows and acknowledges her debt to her parents, who have supported her unstintingly in her climb up the equestrian ladder. But perhaps more to the point, it also is not a sport for the faint-hearted. As big and often unpre- dictable as thev are, horses are dangerous; even very good riders are badlv injured and killed in riding accidents. Three-day eventing asks both rid- er and horse to tap reserves of spirit and courage that not every hobbyist has at her ciisposal. And, just as young figure-skaters and gymnasts and cy- clists arrange their waking hours around practice and more practice, the competitive horsewoman struggles with a full academic courseload, com- mutes to college, forgoes a normal social life, and rises each day before dawn in a regimen aimed at honing the reflexes and strength of both horse and rider. This has been Molly Bliss's life for the last ten years. So far her reward has been twofold: success, and the pleasure of working with horses. With continued hard work, luck, and a little help from sponsors, she will leap the last hurdle and become an Olympian. Fifteen years after her body was shattered in a seven-story fall. Bliss sits tall in the saddle, deflect- ing tributes to her courage and perseverance and saluting, as always, her friend and partner, the horse. E3 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 45 Waiting foi the curtain to rise on this late-1930s Sock and Buskin production of The Frogs are Richard Cox '38 (above at the switchboard) and, standing from left, Walter H. Covell '38, Ronald Bennett '39, Margaret Gainer '39, and Edward Denmead '39. The Classes Bv James Reinbold 24 Charles G. Doll, professor emeritus of ge- oU\i;\ at the University of Vermont, continues Ills geological research. He retired from the university in 1964 and as Vermont state geol- ogist in 1976. He lives in Essex Junction, Vt. For the past ten years, Philip Lukin has been a prominent figure in Palm Beach, Fla., journalism. He is currently editor and co- publisher of the Pnlm Beach Social Observer. 29 Frances Leonard Bradley writes that she isn't making any "ne%vs," but is enjoying life in Cokesbury Village, a retirement communi- ty of 100 cottages and an eighty-bed health- care facility in Hockessin, Del. "We number about 400 in all," she says. "There are many activities and L'litertainments, and the resi- dents are dehi;]ittul" Ethel Martus Lawther is excited about the reunion and u-ill surelv try to make it. "We had such a good time at the 50th," she notes. "My husband and I keep busy. We live part of the time in Chapel Hill, X.C, and the rest of the time at our home in the Pinehurst area. I am looking forward to seeing class- mates again." Phyllis Fletcher Shanklin has her own copy of the 1929 Brun Mael again. In the May 1988 issue of the BAM, she made her want known in the classnotes section, and Dorothy E. Miller '30 responded. "She remembered m\ husband, Robert, and me, and that made it a truly happy acquisition. And to top it off, I feel I have a new friend in Dorothy. We had several animated conversations when I visit- ed her recently at her home in Boston," Phyl- lis writes. "I am also a happy great-grand- mother" The Shanklins li\e in Pensacola, Fla. 30 Dorothy E. Miller Shanklin '24). see Phyllis Fletcher 32 The Pembroke '32 reunion committee met last .\'ovember to plan the off-year reunion for 1989 that was suggested by several out- of-town classmates at the 55th reunion. Set aside May 26 through 29 and join us at our class headquarters in Maddock Alumni Cen- ter. Rooms will be available in Wriston Quad- rangle, but make your reservations early. Plan to meet our new president, see the new buildings, attend the stimulating forums, and reminisce with classmates. You will receive a letter in March outlining the program and in- cluding a registration form. - Kitty Burt jack- 33 Women of '33, mark your calendars for the annual mini-reunion at noon on Satur- day, May 27, at the Prcividence .Marriot. President Mabelle Chappell has an- nounced the appointment of Edith Smith Cameron as reunion chair for the 60th re- union in 1993. The class sends its best wishes to Ken and Mary Manley Eaton for Ken's quick reco\'- ery. Their address is 87 Cheney Ave., Peter- borough, N.H. 03458. 34 • . The men and women of the reunion com- mittee have been meeting regularly to plan for our 55th reunion on .May 26-29. Along with the usual favorite activities, there will be new locations for some of the class events. The four-day schedule is included in the March mailing. We are anticipating a good turnout. W. Selden Steiger, who endowed Steiger House, the center for the religious studies de- partment, has been named Man of the Year by the Mercedes Benz Club of America for an unprecedented third consecutive year Now 77, "Wild Will," senior legendary collector of the Marque, writes that his first Mercedes was a road-racing supercharged Phaeton of late 1920s vintage. He lives in Coconut Grove, Fla. 35 Warren F. Groce, Selinsgrove, Pa., is chairman of the Guyer Foundation, president of the Susquehanna Valley AA, and chairman and secretar\' of Warren F. Groce, Inc. Alma Stone Sich notes the death of her husband, John, on Jan. 2. Survivors include three children, including Paula Sich Mar- tinez '71. Alma lives at 2970 Mendon Rd., Cumberland, R.I. 02864. 36 Clinton S. Johnson, Cumberland, R.I., is vice chairman of the Cumberland Conserva- tion Commission and also a part-time "step- on" tour guide. 138 ■ Allan I Allan R. Brent, Baton Rouge, La., re- turned last .\ovember from two months of "duty" in Barbados, where he served as a volunteer for the International Executive Ser- vice Corps (lESC). "The assignment was as consultant to an advertising agency, and it was a great experience for both Adalie and me. We recommend lESC for all of you who would like to help in a less developed coun- try. Although Barbados is minimally 'less de- veloped.'" 39 Your reunion committee has been keep- ing you well informed as plans progress for our big 50th celebration. Do you hke what's in the works? We hope so. Please, contact classmates and friends and make definite plans to come to the reunion. Remember, only your presence and participation can make the magic happen. You can count on your committee. Can we count on you? Fifty years ago all of us '39ers counted on Brown. Now Brown is counting on all of us. Let's rally on May 26-29 for happy moments at our once-in-a-Iifetime 50th reunion cele- bration. Join the fun, - Teresa Gagnon Melhne 40 Jonathan Goodwin married Carol Ann Ferrandino on Dec. 31 at The Inn at Mystic, in Mystic, Conn. Donald L. Ranard wrote an op-ed article on Burma that appeared in The Neic York Tmwf last Sept. 24. From 1965 to 1970, Don served as deputy chief of mission and con- sul-general at the American Embassy in Bur- ma. He lives in Vienna, Va. 142 - Dr. Robert E. Parks has been named Es- ther Elizabeth Brintzenhoff Professor of Med- ical Science at Brown. Since 1963, he has been a member of the faculty of the section of bio- chemical pharmacology in the Division of Bi- ology and Medicine. 44 ^i' The women of '44 reunion committee has planned enjoyable activities for the 45th re- union, including many ideas received from classmates. The Friday cocktail party will be held at Buxton Hall, headquarters and dor- mitory for the women and men. The Brown Bear Buffet and the Campus Dance follow. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 47 Matty L. Beattie '09 Happy birthday Matty L. Beattie celebrated her 103rd birthday on November 26. A social work- er and former executive secretary of the Rhode Island Children's Friends Society, she was a delegate to the White House Conference on Children, Washington, D.C., in 1930 and again in 1940. Beattie is a life member of the American Associa- tion of University Women and the Appa- lachian Mountain Club, and a member of The Preservation Society of Newport County. After graduating from Brown, she studied at Simmons College School of Social Work and the Portia Law School in Boston. She resides in Middletown, R.I., at the John Clarke Health Care Center. Beattie's birthday announcement was re- ported in the Newport (R.I.) Mercury & Weekly Neivs. Other events include a barbeque luncheon in the Crystal Room on Saturday, an elegant dinner at the Faculty Club that will please lobster and steak lovers, the Pops Concert, a Sunday Dixieland Jazz Brunch, and much more. No excuses, classmates. It's time to make plans to attend our big 45th reunion on May 26-29. The men of '44 will join the women of '44 for as many reunion activities as possible. As quickly as prices and other data are resolved, we shall be forwarding such information along to you. Plan to be with us during this last reunion before our 50th. Eliot Bliss, who retired in 1986, was with CBS-TV for thirty-eight years in various ca- pacities, the last five years in the movie divi- sion in charge of post-production, where he was responsible for dubbing, scoring, sound effects, photography, and the proper delivery of films and tapes. He supervised the post- production of various movies and mini-se- ries in Paris, Rome, London, Sydney, New York, and Vancouver. After retiring, he was immediately rehired as a consultant, in the same job and office, where he continues to- day. Eliot lues 111 Reseda, Calif. Stan Goldsmith won the men's division of the annual Bay Harbor Islands, Fla., Mixed Doubles Tennis Tournament. "No," he adds, "it was not confined to senior citizens!" Stan li\'es in Bav Harbor Island. Walt Kelly (see Betty Hornstein Pickett ■47Sc.M.). Henry R. Margarita retired in 1986 from Stoneham, Mass., High School, where he was a social studies teacher for twenty-two years. He now spends his time painting still lifes and landscapes in watercolor and will have his second one-man exhibit his spring. He is also working part-time at Stoneham High as athletic equipment manager and enjoying it very much. Philip C. Osberg, Bedford, N.H., is retired and bored, despite "all sorts of volunteer- ing" David E. Oppenheimer, Boca Raton, Fla., writes that he is "happily retired and keeping busy by playing tennis, working on bird mo- biles, painting, playing the cello, traveling to China, and enjoying my children and grand- children." Stanley E. Snyder, Erie, Pa., has been re- elected vice president for social services of the Jewish Community Council (Jewish Fed- eration) of Erie. He has also been elected to the Legion of Honor of the Chapel of the Four Chaplains in Philadelphia. 48 45 Jean Whitehead Kelly (? stein Pickett '47 ScM,). ■ Betty Horn- 46 Robert H. Brook is retired and living in Sanibel, Fla. George Heltman, Upper Saddle River, N.]., spent 1,000 hours building a room in his church. He made equipment and manufac- tured thousands of feet of mouldings. "It was a challenge, but fun," he writes. "I am now working on a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house in Illinois owned by my son. It's beau- tiful, old (1914), and cost only $108,000. That seems unbelievable to us living here in northern New Jersey, where you could get 750K for such a house." After eight years, Thelma Rouslin Isen- berg is still president of Meditec, Inc., in En- glewood, Colo., a manufacturer and distribu- tor of medical devices designed by her late husband, Joel S. Isenberg '52 Ph.D. The de- vices allow visually impaired diabetics to in- dependently measure their own insulin. Dr. C. Vincent Treat and his wife, Jean Brannigan Treat, will be in Wayne, Pa., for one more year, when Vin will retire as vice president, medical services, for The Paiden- tial Insurance Company. They plan to return to Yarmouth Port, Mass., on Cape Cod. "Our five children and two grandchildren are all thriving." Edward W. Hamblin, Peterborough, N.H., writes: "After leaving the monied fields of industry some eighteen years ago, I've worked in vocational education and home health. I'm now retired and doing con- siderable volunteer and church work, plus some minor dabbling in politics. As a Demo- crat in very conservative New Hampshire, I've had many challenging and frustrating experiences. I would hope that some of my classmates now in their retirement years would turn some of their activities to helping those in need and others that haven't had the advantage of a good education such as Brown provides. My two-and-a-half-vear postwar experience at Brown left me with very hazy memories of the names in the classes of '48 and '49 as, indeed, must my name be to most of those who read this." Ann Clarke Palmer (see Rosalind Palmer Sorber 74) 49 Shirley Prager Branner, New York City, has been on a leave of absence from her real- estate career for the past fevy years while she prepares her husband's book on the Cathe- dral of Bourges for publication in English. It was orginally published in French in the 1960s and won the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award of the Society of Architectural Histori- ans, but has been out of print for years. The English translation will be available in 1989. After its publication, Shirley plans to resume working in real estate. "My son, David, is now a graduate student in Chinese linguis- tics at the University of Washington in Seat- tle, where he was granted the Henry Jackson Fellowship," Shirley writes. "In 1987, he mar- ried Shujen Yeo, whom he met in Taiwan two years before. She is a wonderful daughter-in- law, and they both give me great joy." On January 1, Anthony Davids became professor emeritus at Brown. He joined the Brown psychology department in 1955, fol- loiving two years at Harvard, where he re- ceived his Ph.D. in 1954. He lives in East Providence, R.I. Martin Mahdesyan, Pawtucket, R.I., re- tired m February \'->Sb after working many years for Allied Aftermarket Division (for- merly Fram Corporation) of Allied-Signal Corporation. He writes that he spends con- siderable time doing volunteer work for community, church, and other organizational groups. "1 am enjoying retirement very much and recommend it to all my classmates," he adds. Helvi Olen Meyer (see Robert A. Moyer '50). James L. Palmer (see Rosalind Palmer Sorber '74) 50 George E. Chapin, Jr , retired from the Army as a colonel after more than thirty-five years of service. He moved to Columbia, S.C, last July 0. James Colville, Jr., writes that 1987 was a sad year - he lost his wife, Jean, as well as his stepmother and stepfather. "1988 was a happy year," he continues. "1 married Jean 48 / MARCH 198 MacDonald in Sanford, Maine, and m\- mother, 88, danced with a priest. I'm still working because 1 enjov it." He lives in San- ford. Graham ^ind Janice Peterson Michael (see Susan Michael Rogers '7^h_ Robert A. Moyer retired from The Tra\ el- ers Insurance Company in January 1988 and is en|o\ ing retirement. He and his wife, Helvi Olen Meyer '4'), live in Vernon, Conn. John E. Selby's most recent book is The Rci'ohitKVi in Virginia. 1775-17S3 (The Univer- sity Press of Virginia). The William E. Pullen Professor of History and chairman of the de- partment of history at the College of William and Vlarv, John is the book review editor of the WilUivn and Marx/ Quarlcrly; author of .4 Chronology of Virginia and the War of Indepen- dence. 1763-1783^973) and Dunmore (1977); and co-author of Colonial Vir^^inia: A Hifton (1986). George Ludlow '55 53 . - Thomas H. Patten, Jr., professor of man- agement and human resources and director of research m the College of Business Admin- istration at the California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, is the author of a re- cently published book. Fair Pay: The Manage- rial Challenge of Comparable lob Worth and lob Evaluation. He lives in Claremont with his wife, Jule, an artist, and their daughter, Jenny. 154 I Alvin I I. Gerstein, Narberth, Pa., writes that "after fwent\-two years of training psy- chologists, I finally got one who was an un- dergraduate at Brown - Leslie Kamen Siegel '83." (This is a correction of a note that ap- peared in the February issue). 55 _ Benita Saievetz Herman completed the New York Marathon on Nov. 6. "I have been long-distance running for many years, but never completed that distance before. I'm very proud of my accomplishment and in- tend to better my time next \ear. I ran more successfully on .\ov. 6 than my young date at the Brookline (Mass.) high school junior prom in 1950, Mike Dukakis. He ran on Nov. 8 and finished second. In May 1987, 1 enjoyed attending the Chattertocks reunion, along with Dolly Senerchia, Lynn Johnson Loschky, and Diane Aspinall Rogers We were the four original Chattertocks who at- tended. My advice to classmates: ^ou can do whate\er vou want to do, as long as you want to do it badly enough. It was great to live my dream." Benita lives in VVyckoff, \.J., with her husband. Ken, and their four children. 56 Eveline Portnoy Hunt, New York City, ha^. been elected \ ice president at Lebenthal & Company, Inc. Henri Leblond, Pavytucket, R.I., a French teacher at Ruerside Junior High School in East Providence, R.I., was one of a dozen in- dividuals chosen by the Paietucket Evening Timcf to write its weekly opinion column for a year Henri and his wife have two sons: Ed- National figure-skating judge At the Kent School in Connecticut, George Ludlow is chairman of the mod- ern language department and teaches ad- \anced French. But when he's not drilling students on le passe anterieiir, Ludlow ser\'es as a judge of figure-skating and free-skating competition. It is an avoca- tion he shares with his wife, Carol, the school's archivist. Bcith Ludlows are former competitive skaters, according to a November article in the Litchfield (Conn.) County Times, and they are among only three couples in the country who qualify as national figure- and dance-skating judges. Their duties at the Kent School are flexible enough to al- low them to travel to skating competi- tions around the world. Carol recently served as team leader for the internation- al championships in France. George, a director of the United States Figure Skating Association, is chairing committees on program development and grants and allocations. One of his primary ward, a freshman at Rhode Island College; and .Alain, a junior high school student. 57 Frank P. Main (-ee Robert Main 88). Richard D. Stephenson has been named director of the major gifts program at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. He was most re- cently director of special support programs, senior development officer, and acting \ice president for university relations at St. Lawrence Uni\ersity in Canton, N."^'. Earlier, he was director of admissions at Vassar and at Case Western Reser\e Uni\ersity. 59 . - Steve Diamond has joined Jacobs Engi- neering as director of environmental engi- neering in the firm's Mountainside, N.J., of- fice. Jacobs is an international engineering and construction organization with annual revenues of S750 million. The New Jersey of- fice specializes in engineering support ser- vices, including complete environmental ser- vices to the chemical and pharmaceutical in- dustries. Steve li\es in Livingston, X.J. J. William Flynn, Boston, recently pur- chased a packaging materials firm, Tech Pak, in Peabodx, .Mass. The company specializes in packaging for perishable products such as live lobsters, fresh seafood, and other special- ty products that are now shipped via air. H. William Hodges m, Baldwin, N.Y., writes: "I am still the proud father of five: Jim is a law student at the University of Vir- responsibilities is to award scholarships to promising young skaters through a memorial fund that honors the 1961 U.S. Olympic figure-skating team, which was killed in a plane crash. With seventeen years of judging experience, he also has been active in training future judges. Although he once qualified in national competition to go on to the international championships, Ludlow has fond recol- lections of a less pressured era of compet- itive skating. "In those days, you did it because you enjoyed it," he recalls. "I skated because it was a sport. When I qualified in the Nationals to go to Paris, 1 just didn't have the money or the time off from school to [compete overseas]." The article noted that the Kent School, vyhere Ludlow has taught for twenty-sev- en years, recently appointed him to the Independence Foundation Chair, an hon- or given on a three-\'ear, rotating basis to a distinguished faculty member. ginia; Chris is a Navy lieutenant assigned to the new guided missile cruiser, ilSS Nor- mandy; Rob is a medical student at St. George's; Suzi is a high school freshman; and Jonathan is a beau-vivanl eighth grader. I also ha\ e three granddaughters." Katherine Hempstead Humm is director of relocation for J.W.C. Morgan, Inc. Real Es- tate in Y'ork, Pa. She is a "board member of the York Symphony Auxiliary, branch trea- surer of the York Hospital Auxiliary, and sec- retary for the York Suburban Chemical peo- ple." Her husband. Bill, is vice president of sales for FES, Inc. Thev have two daughters, Marjorie, 17, and Veronica, 15. Leonard B. Santos was recently named vice president of Cortana Corporation, a ma- rine engineering firm \\'ith corporate head- quarters in Falls Church, Va. "I am enjoying civilian life after twenty-four years in the Navy as a submarine officer. My wife, Ardis, is a .'^^avv relief visiting nurse. Jody graduat- ed from Mount Holyoke College in 1987, Scott is a senior at the University of Con- necticut, and Janelle is busy applying for ad- mission to several colleges in the Northeast." Leonard and .-Xrdis live in Waterford, Conn. Alvin Louis Stem, Ardsle\-, N.Y., notes that his daughter, Keelan,will graduate in May. Dr Reuben L Weiner writes that Karen, a member of the band and .Alpha Delta Phi, will graduate with honors in May. Walter is a freshman at the University of Rochester, and David is a senior at Ithaca High School. Reuben and his wife, Marta, are looking for- ward to the reunion in Ma\'. Thev live in Itha- ca, N.^. BROWN ALLMM MONTHLY / 49 William Riley "59 Iron man The editor and publisher of Triuthlete To- day calls William Riley of Marstons Mills, Massachusetts, one of the five best over- fifty triathletes in the world. In his first Iron Man triathlon last September, Riley placed first in his age group and set a new record of 10 hours, 14 minutes, 11 seconds in the Bud Light Endurance Triathlon on Cape Cod. To win, he swam 2.4 miles in the ocean, bicycled 112 miles (from one end of the Cape to the other and back), and ran 26.2 miles in succes- sion. Soon afterwards, Riley took first place in his age group in another triathlon in Hawaii. Next year he will move into the next age category - fifty-five to fifty-nine. "Triathletes and runners," he told the Cnpe Cod Neius, "are the only people 1 know eager to get into a new age group." 60 Jonathan Dolger, New York Citv, married Beth Sara Farb, a graphic designer, in New York Citv on Aug. 28. 61 Class Secretary Ellen S. Meyer sent these notes. Four more class members whose three children are members of the Brown class of ■'-'2 are Yvette Cuca, daughter of Janet Melei Cuca; Caitlin Riley, daughter of Jeanne Bourgault Riley; and James Rem- ington, son ot Chelsea Carrier Remington and David Remington. In addition, Andrew Feld, son of Isole Priebe Feld, is a freshman at Hofstra. Janet Cuca, Bethesda, Md., writes that she and Jeanne Riley, Coventry, R.I., "had a mini-reunion ... at the Legacy Breakfast . . . it was great to see her again and to meet her daughter" Both moms are students, too. Jeanne is in the master's program in French at the University of Rhode Island, on leave from her teaching position, and Janet is fin- ishing her doctoral dissertation in sociology at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., while continuing to work full-time as a health science administrator at the National Institutes of Health. Janet also writes that her son graduated from Princeton last June and is in China for the year. He is teaching Eng- lish at Dalian University through the Prince- ton-in-Asia Program. Claire Henderson, Avon, Conn., was on safari in Kenya recently. The trip, sponsored by Brown, was "wonderful. What a beautiful, varied country; The scenery, sky, animals. A mortgage originator for the Center Cape branch of Boston Federal Mortgage, Riley begin running twelve years ago. He had competed in fifteen marathons before attempting the triathlon. A swimmer at Brown, Riley otherwise had not been no- tably sports-minded before he took up distance running. Now, he says, training is "a satisfying habit" that gives him time for introspection. people are all magnificent. I'd do the whole thing over again in a minute." Claire has been reappointed to the Brown Annual Fund Executive Committee. Bruce Bates and his wife, Ellen, report that their son, Bruce, Jr., has been accepted (early decision) at Brown and will be a fresh- man in September 63 Bruce P. Saypol, Rockville, Md., has re- tired on disability and is practicing law part- time from his home. His oldest son is a fresh- man at Brown. 64 Charles G. Billo recently moved with his family to Vienna, where he is on assignment with the U.S. Embassy. They expect to return to Washington, D.C., in 1990. Chase Pugliese, his wife, Paula, and their son, Kent, 10, are living in East Greenbush, N.Y 65 Nancy L. Buc, Washington, D.C., has been appointed to the American Bar Association Antitrust Section's special committee to study the Federal Trade Commission. 66 John Campbell is the first mate, "as a matter of fact, the onlv mate, on F/V Tcu- hurii'n, a scalloper out of Pelourus Sound, New Zealand. My civic duties as wine taster for the Havelock Foundling Rugby Football Club keep me very busy between dredging trips. For a free life-sized portrait send a SASE." David A. Rosenfeld graduated from Boalt Hall School of Law (University of California) in 1973 and has been practicing law since with Van Bourg, Weinberg, Roger and Rosen- feld in San Francisco. The firm, with nineteen lawyers, is one of the largest in the country representing trade unions. David lives in Piedmont, Calif., with his wife and two daughters. 67 Susan Goldberger Jacoby writes that her husband, James, died of lung cancer on Dec. 29. She would love to hear from old friends at 912 Fifth A\e., New York, N.Y. 10021. Dave Wilbur (see Steve Thomas '70). 68 Judith Ginsberg and Susan Lukesh ('7b Ph.D.) report that last year they found them- selves living in the same city. New York, and working in the same field, higher education. Since then, there have been three job changes. In July, Judith became director of the foreign language program and director of the association of departments of foreign lan- guages at the Modern Language Association, and in September, her husband, Paul Le- Clerc, became president of Hunter College. In November, Susan became associate pro\- ost for planning and budget ,it \ lutstra hi- dith also reports that Billy Siegenfeld 71) is associate professor of dance and director of the Hunter College dance company. Louis Lantner (see Karen Williams Lant- ner 'h^). Wing Tek Lum, Honolulu, published his first book of poetry, Expouudiug t}ic Doubtfid Points (Bamboo Ridge Press, Honolulu), in 1987. The poems deal with Wing's Chinese ancestors, his family in Hawaii, and with forging a Chinese-American identity. Bill Matteson, president of ClarkeGow- ardFitts Advertising, Boston, has been named a partner in the agency, which is no\v called ClarkeGowardFittsVlatteson, Inc. (CGFVI), Bill joined the agency in 1987 and, during the first year of his presidency, the agency added seven accounts. Prior to join- ing CGFM, he was senior vice president/ management super\'isor at HilL Holiday, Conners, Cosmopulos in Boston. Charles Modliszewski (see Rachele Mod- liszewski 'h3 M.A.T). 69 The 20th reunion committee continues to meet. Arrangements ha\'e been finalized for the cocktail party and dinner on Friday evening, the Spring Weekend Revival at Pembroke Field House on Saturday (which will include a 1960s band), a tour of the ar- chitectural gems of Providence on Sunday, and a farewell cocktail party on Sunday af- ternoon. All members of the class should have re- ceived a packet in the mail in January, pro- viding detailed information about the re- union and containing a questionnaire about the class booklet. Those who have not re- 50 / MARCH 1989 ceived this information should contact re- union headquarters at the Maddock Akinini Center. Carol Ferst Baer, Narberth, Pa., writes that her son, Andrew, is a freshman. Alison is a sophomore in high school. Carol's hus- band, Jay eih, died two years ago. Carol is working in communications for a large archi- tectural/engineering firm, and is also pro- ducing televised political debates for the League of Women Voters. Richard S. Blackman, Warwick, R.I., bought out his partner last summer and es- tablished his own agency, Blackman Insur- ance Agenc\. I'O. Box 658, East Greenwich, R.I. 02SIS, I401)S.S>7110. Mark M. Davis and Marilynn Mair '70, performing as the Mair-Davis Duo, have re- leased their fourth recording of music for guitar and mandolin, "The Sounding Jov: Music for the Winter Holidays," on North Star Records. Thev live in Providence. Andrew S. Fisher, \ ice president and gen- eral manager of WSB Television in Atlanta, has been appointed vice chairman of govern- ment relations on the executive committee of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. Rita Chao Hadden writes: "I have en- joyed immensely my twenty years as an in- formation systems designer and consultant and would like to encourage new Brown graduates to contact me if I may be of help to them. For the past t%vel\'e years, 1 ha\e been with American Management Systems, Inc., in Arlington, Va., where I am a principal. AMS is ranked by Forba magazine as America's tenth-largest consulting firm, and by Data Nation as one of the top 100 ADP firms." Rita lives in Washington, D.C. Frank R. Kegan and his wife. Gay Lvnne Kegan (b'C Berkeley '81), announce the birth of Melissa Ann Kegan on Dec. 22. "The three of us ha\e a new three-bedroom home here in the desert: 40-111 Portulaca Ct., Palm Desert, Calif. ^22e)0," Frank adds. Karen Williams Lantner and her hus- band, Louis '68, live in Rockville, Md., with their sons, Danny, 14, and David, 12. After six years of managing several major govern- ment contracts for EDS, Karen is on a one- year assignment as a corporate technical con- sultant. Louis is responsible for resources management for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Karen adds that "Danny is into bicycling, and David is a whiz at video games." John F. Lucey, Fall River, Mass., has formed a new law partnership, Clarkin & Lucey, with offices in Fall River. Willard E. Marsden, Jr., was transferred from the L.S. Embassy in Athens to Washmg- ton, D.C, m 1987. He is senior special assis- tant to the assistant secretary of state for diplomatic security and lives in Arlington, Va. James A. Northrop has been named presi- dent of the Crystal Brands Jewelry Group, which consists of the Monet, Trifari, and Marvella divisions. Margaret Dworkin Northrop has been appointed a magistrate in the Connecticut Superior Court. They live in Stamford. Paul H.D. Payton's telephone number in the December cLissnote was incorrect. It is (203) 721-104^1. 1 le lives in Cromwell, Conn. Donna Regis, who graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music in 1979, co-wrote, with Eric Verrill (Yale '52, Harvard Law School '57), a Christmas carol, "Echo What the Angels Sang," which received its first public performance on Dec. 9 at The Fes- senden School in Newton, Mass. Donna lives in Wakefield, Mass. Bill Russo, Easton, Pa., was named Eddie Robinson 1-A.A National Coach of the Year for 1988, In his eighth year as head football coach at Lafayette College, Bill led the team to an 8-2-1 record and the Colonial League Championship, Barbara Gershon Ryder was granted tenure last April at Rutgers University, where she is an associate professor of computer sci- ence. She lives in Metuchen, .\'.J., with her husband, Jon, and their children, Beth, 15, and Andrew, 13. Barbara Davies Santa Barbara and An- thony Santa Barbara ha\e been living m London tor three years after several years in Brussels and Paris. Anthony is the general tax counsel for Citicorp Investment Bank in Europe and the Middle East. Thev have three children, Justin, 10, Eustace, 8, and Charlotte, 6. Stephen P. Temi, Jr., writes that he still enjoys living in the West. He has been presi- dent of the Carter Mining Company in Gillette, Wyo., since September. "I am look- ing forward to seeing old friends at our 20th reunion," he adds. Peter Ujlaki and his wife have begun their tenth year in Japan, where he teaches at a university, deals in art and antiques, and con- tinues freelance writing. Recently, he and his wife began working for a cross-cultural cor- porate retreat center to be developed in northern California. They live in Ashiya, Japan. 70 Curt Bennett started his own commercial real estate company in January and "might not be able to afford to come to the reunion. Susan Cameron Bennett '71 has been star- ring in 'The Susan Bennett Show,' which pre- miered in January." They live in Atlanta. Allen Kastner and his wife, Erin, an- nounce the birth of Chelsea on Aug. 13. She joins Allen, 4, and Morgan, 2. Allen is associ- ate managing director of Wertheim Schroder in New York and lives with his family in Short Hills, N.J. Christopher B. Kende, New York City, is a partner in a New ^ork law firm, where he is a litigator m international and environmental law. Dr James Larson, San Diego, enjoys mountain biking and running, but is "fight- ing emergency-medicine burnout." Marilynn Mair (see Mark M. Davis '69). Ann Mannheimer and her husband, Ran- dall Bart Matthews, are li\'ing in Piedmont, Calif., with their two girls, Mallory, 3, and Shana, 4 months. Glenn Orton and Linda Brown announce the adoption of their second child, Sarah Suyun Brown Orton, born in Anyang City, South Korea, on Feb. 5, 1988. She arrived in Arcadia, Calif., on May 31. Jack Rose, Water Mill, N,Y., writes that he attended a Dukakis fund-raiser last fall at Ronnie Dane's house in New York City, "I didn't wear my hard hat," he says, "My right-wing friends told me that if 1 voted for Dukakis my taxes would go up. So I voted for Dukakis and guess what?" Since 198(1, Don Sayre, Cleveland, has been executi\e director of Shoes for Kids, a charitable organization that gives low-in- come and disadvantaged children through- out the greater Cleveland area new shoes, socks, knit hats, mittens, gloves, and under- wear, "This enables them to attend school in greater comfort and safety and with in- creased self-esteem and dignity," Don writes. "The program, begun by my father in 1969, now serves nearly 100,000 children," Richard Shapiro, Rye Brook, N,Y., is the national director of taxes for Spicer & Oppen- heim, an international accounting and con- sulting firm, Billy Siegenfeld (see Judith Ginsberg ■68). Steve Thomas, Los Angeles, sailed a fifty- fi\e-foot sloop from Los Angeles to Hawaii in July 1987 with Matt Myers and Dave Wilbur '67, The \oyage took fourteen days and was, Steve adds, "a once-in-a-lifetime adventure," Michael L. Toothman writes that he and his family moved to Clayton, Mo., closer to his office. "Now we can have family dinners at a more reasonable hour" Michael is serv- ing his third year as vice president of the Ca- sualty Actuarial Society as well as managing the casualty actuarial and risk management practices of Tillinghast in the Midwest and Canada. Mark Trueblood has worked for Ford Aerospace for seven-and-a-half years, "a long time in the aerospace industry." He is the program manager for the contract to build the control center for the next genera- tion of GOES weather satellites. Mark lives in Potomac, Md. Dr Bruce G. Weniger, Atlanta, transferred in 1988 to the AIDS program at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta to do interna- tional epidemiological research. He writes: "My major project has been to collaborate with the Ministry of Health and reference hospitals in Rio de Janeiro on empirical stud- ies to revise the case definition of AIDS used for national surveillance in Brazil, which has the third highest number of cases reported worldwide, after the U.S. and Uganda." 71 S.' Susan Cameron Bennett (see Curt Ben- nett 7l)i Jane Trowbridge Bertrand is completing her third \ ear of residence in Kinshasa, Zaire, with her husband. Bill, and two children, Katie, 5, and Jay, 2. Jane is directing family planning operations research for Tulane Uni- versity. The project is funded by the Agency for International De\elopment. Martha Clark Briley has been named president and chief executive officer of Pru- dential Power Funding Associates, a new in- vestment unit of The Prudential Insurance Company that provides private debt and eq- uity financing for electric and gas utilities and alternative energy projects. Since 1983, she had been vice president and treasurer of The Prudential. Prior to that, she was a vice president in the diversified industries divi- BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / sion of Chase Manhattan Bank. Martha lives in Newtown, Pa. Robert P. Clancy has "completed the ca- reer e\olution from actuarial to investment professions. I'm enjoying a new position and recent promotion with Standish, Aver & Wood, a Boston investment firm." Robert, his wife, Cindy, and their two children live in Wayland, Mass. Fred C. David and his wife, Susan, an- nounce the birth of their second child, Bryan Gilcrest David, on Jan. 4, Fred's 40th birth- day. Thev live in Santa Rosa, Calif. Frank Giso HI left the Boston law firm of Peabodv & Brown in February 1988 to be- come a partner at another Boston firm, Choate, Hall & Stewart. Frank and his wife, Debbi, who li\'e in Melrose, Mass., have two children, Christopher, 4, and Benjamin, 1. Bruce A. Henderson, Shaker Heights, Ohio, announces the birth of Anna Ford Hen- derson on Dec. 29. Emily is 10. Jeff Hall teaches biologv at The Penning- ton School in Pennington, N.J. Richard A. Martin, his wife, Jill, and their two daughters, Christina, 3, and Alessandra, 1, have been in Rome for nearly two years. Jill teaches law at the American University, and Richard "tries to coordinate U.S./Euro- pean law enforcement effo-'ts. Our children are happv in pre-school." Paula Sich Martinez (see Alma Stone Sich'??i Dr Jerold Mikszewski has been appoint- ed chief of the neurology section of the de- partment of medicine at Northern Virginia Doctors' Hospital. He is also a clinical assis- tant professor of neurology at Georgetown University School of Medicine. He and his wife, Katherine (RISD '71), and their two children, Jessica, 13, and Alexander, 6, live in Vienna, Va. Dr. Mary Jane Minkin and her husband, Steve Pincus, announce the birth of Allegra Morgan on May 27. "Pregnancy, labor and delivery, and motherhood are great experi- ences for any obstetrician," she writes. "All of the abox'e seem to be working \erv well together." They live in Guilford, Conn. Stephen W. Nevins, North Syracuse, N ^., completed his Ph.D. at Syracuse University in 1987. He is director of exceptional student education with the North Syracuse public schools. Joshua C. Posner (see Eileen M. Rudden '72). Alfred K. Potter II moved from Maryland to Rhode Island, where he assumed a new position, vice president of marketing, with Gilbane Building Company in Providence. He had been with Gilbane in Maryland for seven years. Alfred lives in East Greenwich, R.I., with his wife, Linda, and their daughter, Beth, 8. Anne Adams Rabblno has become a part- ner at the New York law firm of Webster & Sheffield. Her husband, Robert '72, continues as counsel of the New York branch of The Sumitomo Bank Limited, where he has been promoted to joint general manager. Thev live in New York City. Dr. L. Richard Roedersheimer, his wife, Marianne, and their four children live in Cincinnati, where he is doing general and vascular surgery "A great thrill for 1988 was Eric Schner 73 His magazine, Hippocrates, is the latest triumph for this former swimming champion Bv Anne Diffily TT I he magazine business is risky JL business. Only two of ten new magazines survive beyond tlieir fourth year. Eric Schrier '73 has beaten those odds once, and he is well on his way to doing it twice. In 1979 lie was the founding managing editor of Scieucc '80, a glossy, trend-setting magazine published under the auspices of the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science (AAAS). It thrived for six years, was sold to Time, Inc. in 1986, and folded only because Time was alreadv publishing a com- petitor. Discover. Schrier already had left the magazine in 1985, in response, he says, to "a little voice in the back of my head that was saying, 'What now?' " The "what" turned out to be a sec- ond successful magazine, Hippocrates, billed as "the magazine of health and medicine for people who exercise their brains as well as their bodies." Beauti- ful to look at, consistently well-writ- ten, Schrier's newest enterprise debut- ed in May 1987 and never looked back. Less than two years later, its circulation has topped 400,000 and is headed for 300,000. In its first year, it won the prestigious National Maga- zine Award for general excellence in its circulation category. Last fall, Schrier concluded a deal in which Time, Inc. purchased a 50- percent interest in Hippocrates for a re- ported $9 million. Schrier, as president and editor, and his board will continue to supervise the magazine's opera- tions, while Time will help with pro- motions and newsstand sales. (Sub- scriptions comprise 90 percent of Hip- pocrates' circulation.) A high-school Ail-American swim- mer who starred in both swimming and water polo at Brown, Schrier to- day is a picture of the relaxed, success- ful Californian in casual slacks and shirt as he shows a visitor around his office near the Sausalito waterfront. But Schrier's amiable manner belies the fierce ambition and perfectionism that have earned him the nickname in publishing circles of "Mr. Magazine," a tribute to his two successful start- ups in less than a decade. He is proud of Hippocrates, but already he and his staff have launched a monthly health- digest newsletter and are planning other auxiliary ventures: consumer-in- formation pamphlets, books, perhaps videos. "I want Hippocrates, Inc. to be- come the source of consumer health in- formation for people who want the last word," Schrier explains. He notes that Hippocrates has established strong links with the medical world; its edito- rial board boasts several dozen doctors and nurses, and one-quarter of its readership works in health-care pro- fessions. "We have three fact checkers who go over every word in the maga- zine," he adds. "Credibility is essen- tial." A career as magazine guru is not at all what Schrier envisioned when he graduated from Brown with an Sc.B. in human biology. He discovered marine biology in his senior year during a vis- it to the Woods Hole Oceanographic 52 / MARCH lysy 'Mr. Magazine" and his creation: A little voice said, "What now?" Institute on Cape Cod. "I got along great with hip boots," he recalls with a smile. "1 loved walking around marsh- es." After Brown, Schrier returned home to the Bay Area to work for a San Francisco consulting firm that studied the effects of oil spills on ma- rine life. Deciding that he was serious about the field, he enrolleci in a marine biology Ph.D. program at the Universi- ty of Oregon. Within three months he realized he was getting deeper into biochemistry and farther away from his beloved hip boots, and his interest flagged. Shortly thereafter, he changed careers abruptly in midstream - re- turning not to the hip boots, but to an earlier interest, writing. "Over Thanksgi\'ing break, 1 met with David Perlman, the science writer for the San Francisco Chronicle," says Schrier. "He advised me to consider journalism school." Schrier landed a California Regents' Fellowship to study journalism at Berkeley. "Once I started reporting," he says, "1 knew it was what I wanted to do." By his second vear of J-school, Schrier knew his field would be sci- ence and medical journalism. But at that time, there was no magazine cov- ering those topics for a general audi- ence. This realization led Schrier to produce what was surely one of the world's most auspicious master's-de- gree theses: a prototype of a science magazine. He went all out. "I sold my old MG to pay the color separation bills," he remembers. "My friends helped me with production." The re- sult, in 1977, was the one and only is- sue of Noi'us. McGraw-Hill expressed interest in test-marketing it, but went no further "Meanwhile," Schrier says, "I was still working as a marine biologist to pay my bills." Once again, his Chroni- cle friend Perlman proved to be a valu- o able link. He sent Schrier's Noviis pro- J totype to Allen Hammond, another 5 journalist who was negotiating with 15 the AAAS to produce a new science magazine. In 1978, Schrier and Ham- mond met in Washington, D.C. "For the first time, each of us found some- one who shared our vision," says Schrier. They teamed to launch Sci- ence '80 in tlie fall of 1979, and for sev- en years Schrier lived and worked in Washington. During that time, Schrier noticed that of all the articles in the magazine, those concerning medicine and health attracted the most reader response. Thus was born the kernel of the Hip- pocnite^ concept. Interestingly, one of Hippocrates' main competitors, Ameri- can Health magazine, had been started by another Science 'SO alumnus. That didn't deter Schrier from creating his own health magazine. "They took a more mass appeal," he explains. "The educated market was open." First, however, he needed money. Schrier had budgeted S5 million in start-up costs, and he spent eighteen months drumming it up. "It was the roughest year-and-a-half in my life," he recalls. By that time he was married with a baby son; his commitment to Hippocrates was "an all-or-none propo- sition." He estimates he had some 100 meetings with potential investors and publishers, and by the fall of 1986 he had "glued together" the $5 million. Five months later the first issue of the bimonthly magazine rolled off the presses. Schrier attributes the magazine's success to the talent he has hired; "we have a terrific art director," he says, "and I knew a lot of good writers from Science '80." Readership surveys tell him that the typical Hippwcrafes reader is female, forty-four, works in a profes- sional or managerial job, and has a household income of more than $40,000. Such demographics keep ad- vertisers coming back for more. While he wears "two hats" at Hip- pocrates, splitting his job evenly be- tween business and editorial responsi- bilities, Schrier favors the hands-on journalistic side of his job. As editor, he is choosy about what the magazine covers, and how. "Our view is that a good health story is a good story that happens to be about health," he says. "We have two missions: to provide in- teresting articles, and to make sure they are useful. It's fun," he adds with a sunny smile. "We're really writing a magazine for ourselves." He predicts the magazine will be- come profitable by early next year. "That's pretty good," Schrier adds modestly He pauses. "Well, that's sen- sational, really." With Time's involve- ment, he hopes pressures from the magazine's business side will ease somewhat. "I want to see my kids grow," Schrier says. His son is now four, and he has a daughter, one; the family lives in nearby San Rafael. Launching Hippocrates, he savs, has de- manded sixteen hours a day, seven days a week; he has had no spare time for family or recreation. "Before the magazine," he says wistfully, "1 used to swim three or four times a week. Since then, I've exercised less and eat- en more junk food!" Schrier plans to stay with Hip- pocrates for the next five years, or "un- til I ha\'e my next crazy idea." What might that be? Deftly, Shrier dodges the question and responds ambiguous- ly: "There's nothing like creating something out of nothing. It's like the old mo\'ies where someone says, 'Let's put on a show!' " Irresistible, that urge to start over, to find the concept, the vehicle, the style. Particularly when your shows all end with standing ovations. "Tak- ing risks gets the adrenaline going," Schrier concludes. As a competitor - and a champion - from way back, clearly he thrives on both the risks and the laurels. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 53 ^•\ ALUMNI ^Wlights ABROAD Exceptional Experiences for Selective TY-avelers. Egypt Greece Asia Minor the Aegean Carthage Central Asia the Kyber Pass India Nepal the Himalayas Japan Southeast Asia Java Borneo Ceylon Sumatra South America the Galapagos the Amazon Ancient Civilizations the Andes Australia New Zealand New Guinea Kenya Tanzania the Seychelles Northern Italy Burgundy Southwest France Alsace-Lorraine the Rhine the Moselle Flanders Scotland Wales Ancient. Classical. Mysterious. Oriental. Enigmatic. Primitive. Vibrant. Compelling. Exciting. Artistic. Cultural. Historic. Highly acclaimed itineraries, especially designed for alumni of M.I.T., Harvard, Yale and other distinguished univer- sities. For further information, please contact: -y^ =Alumni Flights Abroad "Ij Department BR-34 A.FA. Plaza 425 Cherry Street Bedford Hills, New York 10507 TOLL FREE 1-800- AFA-8700 N.Y. State 1-(914) 241-01 1 1 cotiching mv daughter's basketball team to a 23-0 record." H. Wolcott Toll m, Santa Fe, N.M., re- ceived his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Colorado in 1985. He works for the Museum of New Mexico and is co-direct- ing a major highway archaeology project in northwestern New Mexico. Ned Wilson, New York City, is managing director, financial planning and analysis, with the New York Stock Exchange. He re- cently became a board member of the Village Light Opera Group and still lives in Green- wich Village. 72 Dr Jonathan Gell and his wife, Sharon, announce the birth of their son, Aaron, in Oc- tober Thev live m Medford, Oreg. Robert Rabbino (see Anne Adams Rabbi- no 71). Eileen M. Rudden and Joshua C. Posner '71 announce the birth of their third son, Charles David Posner, on Nov. 8. "Sam, 7, and Joe, 4, were happv to greet the new ar- rival." Eileen is a general manager at Lotus Development, and Josh's affordable housing development work has expanded beyond Boston to include six projects in Rhode Is- land. Thev li\e in Cambridge, Mass. Christine W. Schomaker, "after much soul searching, has retired from NOAA." She and her husband and their three children live in Seattle. The youngest. Amy Elizabeth Schomaker, was born on Oct. 24. 73 Patrick J. Cafferty, Jr , has left Landels, Riplev &L Diamond in San Francisco to be- come a partner in Tuttle & Taylor, a Los An- geles-based law firm. He will continue to specialize in environmental law. Pat and his wife, Eileen, live in Walnut Creek, Calif. Dr Ed Friedlander recently presented a paper, "Lsiiig tlie 1 lorror Story in Pathology Education," at a conference in Charleston, S.C. He runs the autopsy service and coordi- nates pathology education at the "medical school in Kansas Citv, Mo." Last semester, he received his seventh teaching award from his students. Thomas B. Jacob has relocated to the San Francisco area, where he is \'ice president and general counsel for Hare, Brewer & Kel- lev. Inc., a real estate development, property management, and brokerage company in Palo Alto. J. Miles Snyder, Denver, and several asso- ciates founded a company called Technistar Corporation, which provides factory automa- tion and robotic solutions for manufacturers. The company has installations in Germany, Singapore, and the U.S. Robert W. Pangia is co-director of the cor- porate finance department at Paine Webber "With the arrival of Thomas two months ago, our brood has grown to four; Robby, b, Sarah, 4, and Matthew, 2." They live in Watchung, N.J. 74 Dr Luule Burgo Black completed her res- idency training in internal medicine at St. Raphael's Hospital in New Haven, Conn., in 1985 and is an attending physician in prima- ry-care medicine at the VA Hospital in West Haven. Her husband, Dr Robert Black (Williams '74), is an internist doing emergen- cy room medicine at St. Raphael's. "We've also been busy on other fronts. We've had four children in five years: Marissa, 5, Katri- na, 3, and Zoe and Jason, 9 months." They live in New Ha\en. Dr Marc C. Blum and his wife, Kathleen, announce the birth of Chelsea Meredith Bersch Blum on June 20. She joins Ashley Madeleine, 5, and Berkeley Robert, 2. They live in Oshkosh, Wis. Debi Coleman, Los Altos, Calif., has takei a five- to six-month leave of absence from he CEO job at Apple Computer to "get on a health and fitness track." She plans to return to work in the summer as vice president for tax, treasury, corporate finance, and investor relations. She is "looking forward to the 15tli reunion." Naomi Segal Deitz announces the birth o Lauren Marcelle Deitz on April 21, 1988. "She is so adorable she's even winning over her reluctant half-brother, Andrew. Luckily, i was unemployed at the time of her birth anc could really take the time to enjoy mother- hood. Ethan works as a DP manager for J. Crew in New York." They live in Trumbull, Conn. Vanessa Donnelly Del Giudice and her husband, Dante, announce the birth of twin; Leah Grace and Aaron Michael, on Dec. 23. "Ian, 3, is quite excited about his new brothe and sister" They live in Providence. Kenneth D. Field, Cambridge, Mass., is recording and performing with Ibrahima's World Beat, a West African music and dance ensemble, and Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, ai electric new- music group. He recently com- posed and recorded multi-tracked saxophon music for the soundtrack of a forthcoming feature film by British director John Adams. Lee Fisher, Newton, Mass., recently be- gan a new job as product manager at Mer- cury Computer Systems in Lowell. A seconc son, Bill, was adopted in Mav 1987. Lee add; "a big hello to my Carberrv House friends." Patience Armstrong Fuchs, Short Hills, N.J., is vice president, information resource management, at Triborough Bridge and Tun nel Authority in New York City. David E. Oilman, Warwick, R.I., runs a non-profit agenc)' that sent fifteen doctors and nurses to Nicaragua last year to help with medical education. He is also working on projects in Mexico dealing with occupa- tional health and the health impact of emi- grant labor "Anyone interested in low pay (no pay) aiici good times, get in touch," he writes. "I'm also expecting a child in March. Jane H. Heitman Green and her husbanc announce the birth of Andrew Herbert on April 26. "He is an absolute joy!" They live i Stamford, Conn. Joseph M. Halloran III is president of the Triad Orienteering Club in Winston-Salem, N.C., where he lives. "Orienteering has be- come my main pastime," he writes. "1 want to wish Brown University Orienteering Clul members well at the Troll Cup, to be held in Rhode Island in March. 1 also invite all Brown orienteers to participate in North Cai olina's first 'A' meet to be held in May at 54 / MARCH 19S Umstead State Park in Raleigh." Joseph and his wife, Lisa (Penn State '76), also announce the birth of Kyle James Halloran on March 8, 1988. Rob Halpern writes: "An update, for those who wonder: What becomes of human studies concentrators? After getting an A.S. in horticulture and landscape design from Temple University, 1 received a fellowship from Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Pa., to the Uni\ersitv of Deleware for the Longwood Graduate Program in Public Hor- ticulture Administration. After completing the program in June 1986, 1 was a consultant to the Philadelphia Zoo on the renovation of the Bird House. In September 1987, 1 came to the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden as horticulturist. Mv first responsibilitv was to oversee the planting of 85,000 spring bulbs. In addition to the normal duties of a horticul- turist, 1 do a lot of public speaking, teaching, and writing. 1 trust that this will calm your burning curiosity." Gregory R. Hill is a vice president with In- land Real Estate Investment Corporation, the eighth-largest owner/operator of apartments in the U.S. He and his wife, Katherine Vance Hill (Bowling Green '76), and their son, El- liott, "make our home in suburban Pitts- burgh and invite friends and classmates to give a call when \ isiting or passing through the most li\ able cit\- m the U.S." Mike Laurence Kornblum has been a re- porter for WNEV-TV in Boston for seven years. He and his wife, Susan (URl '69), have two children, Mark, 7, and Sarah, 2, "who manage to keep our lives hopping. We're all looking forward to the reunion." They live in Natick, Mass. Eor the last two years, Everett Leiter has been working in private practice as a speech and language pathologist in New York City. In his leisure time, he plays the piano, an in- terest, he adds, that he cultivated at Brown. Clytia B. MontUor and Joseph M. Curlev announce the birth of their first child, Nora Mane Curley, on Sept. 7. They live in Berke- ley Calif. Michael Moynihan is a principal scientist with Enichem Americas Inc., biotechnology division, in Monmouth Junction, N.J. "My wife, Robin Whittemore, and daughters Maureen and Colleen seem to be taking re- settlement in the Garden State in stride." Thev li\e in .Vlercerville, N.J. Tim Richards, South Miami, Fla., recently published a book entitled The Guide to For- eign hwestmeiit in United States Rent Estate (Van Nostrand Reinhold). He and his wife, Vicki, completed a concert tour of India, which was sponsored bv the Smithsonian In- stitution and the American Institute of Indian Studies. Tim and Vicki are a violin and tabla duo who play North Indian classical music. Tim is practicing law with the firm of Thom- son, Behrer, Werth & Razook in Miami and is a member of the University of Miami percus- sion department. He also reports the birth of GwendoKn, a redhead, on Aug. 12, 1986. Richard Smetanka, Mount Clemens, Mich., IS vice president of Northwest Food Company, a seafood distributor with offices in Detroit, Dayton, and Indianapolis. He is also the proud father of Beth, 9, Michael, 7, and Brian, 3. Rosalind Palmer Sorber and Dr David A. Sorber announce the birth of Lillian Grace on Oct. 4, 1987. She joins her brother, Abraham Clarke. Rosalind and David, who live in Madison, Wis., add that the proud grandpar- ents are Ann Clarke Palmer '48 and James L. Palmer '4^ Kathy Spiegelman and her husband, Robert Zx'erina, announce the birth of Jacob Anton Z\erina on Jan. 19, 1988. They live in Cambridge, Mass. Dr. Stanley M. Spinola and his wife, Mar- ianne, live in Buffalo, N.Y., with their two children, Stanley John, 3, and Suzanne, 1 . Stan is an assistant professor of medicine and microbiology at SUNY-Buffalo. Lee Thomas and Anne Sondergaard were married on Oct. 29. Lee will finish his general surgery residency in June, at which time they will move from Birmingham to Tuscaloosa, Ala., where Lee will set up a private practice. Mary Aguiar Vascellaro and her hus- band, Jerome, are enjoying London im- mensely. "It's hard to believe that we have been here for three years," Mary writes. "When we listen to Jessica's (5) and Mat- thew's (3) English accents, it's difficult to re- member that we are U.S. citizens. London is a very livable city and a great place to raise children." Julia W. Vrooman and her husband, Thomas E. Vienneau, announce the birth of their first child, Elizabeth, on July 25. Tom is a market manager for telecommunications for Gravbar Electric Company, and Julia is planning to return part-time to her pcisition as product manager at Philadelphia National Bank. They li\'e in Swarthmore, Pa. George Woody and his wife, Michelle, an- nounce the birth of their second child, Lind- sey Nicole, on July 10. George is vice presi- dent of marketing for Coca Cola's food divi- sion. Thev live in Scotch Plains, N.J. 75 Bill Almon has retired from major league baseball after twelve seasons. He writes that he is looking forward to a second career and living with his family in East Greenwich, R.l. After practicing dentistry for seven years in the Army, Dr. Jerry P. Broman left active duty to open his own office in Chatham, Mass. He has been in private practice since July 1987 and enjovs living on Cape Cod with his wife and their 2-vear-old daughter. Dr. Scott Calig is a pediatrician in West Hills, Calif., a suburb of Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife. Holly, and their three children, Sylvia, 7, Zachary, 4, and Adam, 1, "all well- versed in 'Ever True to Brown.'" Scott is also a clinical assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Southern Cali- fornia School of Medicine. Richard F. Callahan, Norwalk, Conn., is president of the United Way of Norwalk. Lincoln Chaffee, Warwick, R.L, was re- elected to the Warwick City Council on Nov. 8. As the onlv Republican on the nine-mem- ber council, he is minority leader Terri Riser Cristy ('75 A.M.) and Jona- than Cristy '76 A.M. announce the birth of their second daughter, Rachel Elizabeth Cristy, on Sept. 30. Sarah Elaine is 3. 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Y-69 516 W. 34 St., New York, N.Y. 10001 Be more than a tourist! We can open the doors to French homes for you Personally selectetJ families wel- come you as a paying houseguest Choose from farmhouses, manors, chateaux, from Brittany to the Riviera Experience the France tourists never see! Free brochure. FRIENDS IN FRANCE PO Box 1044 A, Rocky Hill, CT 06067 ■V 203 ■ 5630195 > BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 55 rick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, a San Francisco- based law firm," Terri writes. "I have tem- porarily retired from my previous career as a technical editor to become a full-time moth- er/homemaker." John F. Del Campo, Schaumberg, 111, was married on Oct. 22 to Teresa S. Whiting at the Schram Memorial Chapel, NAS, Glenview, 111. "My mother thought I'd never make it, but I did." John is in-house counsel for Trans- america and hopes to move back East in the spring. Lloyd Frick, Chapel Hill, N.C., received his Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Hawaii in 1981. He and his wife were expect- ing a child in February. Dr. James Guanci, Reading, Mass., writes that he now has three children, jim, Tim, and Kim. James works m prnate practice as a staff radiologist at Winchester (Mass.) Hospi- tal. Anthony E. Higgins, Philadelphia, travels to South America, Greece, the Middle East, and Africa for Cigna Worldwide inc. He writes that he spends the rest of his time watching his daughters grow. Saul J. Kaplan is living at 3615 Camelot Dr., Annandale, Va. 22003, with his wife, Su- san, and their daughter, Rachel, and son, Benjamin. Diane Jass Ketelhut received her M.Ed, in curriculum/science education from the University of Virginia in January 1988. Her husband. Bill, was recently promoted to manager, programmable controller business, for GE in Charlottesville, Va. "Our whole family spent three months living in Japan on Mount Fuji this past summer," Diane writes. "I went sightseeing with Kristin and Billy, xvhile Bill worked." Brian Lacey, Karen Pierce McDonald, and Al McDonald able Bntish crew. Weekly charters April-tV-tober Color bRKhure Write "LaTortue" Dept. B, Box 1466, Manchester, MA 01944. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 59 Jo Mullen Digan '44 A.M. (see Sara Digan Larkin '7h) Burnett Meyer '45 Sc.M., professor of mathematics at tlie University of Colorado, is on sabbatical leave for the spring semester He is spending most of the time at Stanford, where he received his doctorate forty years ago. Both Betty Hornstein Pickett '47 Sc.M., '49 Ph.D. and James M. Pickett '31 Ph.D. have retired from their long-term positions: Betty at the National institutes of Health, and James at Gallaudet University. They are di- viding their time between their residence in Surry, Maine, and their apartment in Wash- ington, D.C. In Maine tliis past summer, thev had a reunion with Jean Whitehead Kelly '45 and Walt Kelly '44. Robert A. Lamb '65 Sc.M. was recently honored as "Sooner State Wildcatter of 1988" by independent oil and natural gas produc- ers of the Southwest. Lamb, who is explo- ration manager for Tenneco Oil in Houston, was cited for leading his team to the discov- ery of the Cottonwood Creek Field well that produced 3,500 barrels of oil a day and rekin- dled national interest in exploring for oil and gas in Oklahoma. The new field is the largest found in Clklahoma in twenty years. Rachele Modliszewski '65 M.A.T., art di- rector in tlie Cranston, f^.l., public schools, writes that her son, Charles Modliszewski '68, is a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force. He is stationed in San Antonio, Texas, and has two daughters. Morris D. Edwards '73 M.A.T. recently celebrated ten years of service as co-ordina- tor of the behavioral health program and cancer counseling program at Borgess Medi- cal Center in Kalamazoo, Mich. He is presi- dent of the Western Michigan Psychological Association and organized a conference last fall entitled "Psychology and Peace." Ed- wards expects to receive his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Western Michigan Univer- sity in April. He lives in Kalamazoo. Jonathan Christy '76 A.M. (see Terri Riser Christy '7=i) Susan Lukesh '76 Ph.D. (see Judith Gins- berg '68). After seven years in the Brown admission office, Nancy L.Harley '77 A.M. left Rhode Island to become director of admissions at Fountain Valley School in Colorado Springs, Colo., an "Eastern boarding school on 11,000 acres in the shadow of Pikes Peak." Joshua B. Stein '77 A.M., program coordi- nator for history at Roger Williams College in Bristol, R.I., is the author of the recently pub- lished Lkber Freuud: The Letters of Claude Golcismid Monteficire to Solomon Seheehter, 1SS5-1902. The book is part of the Studies in Judaism series of the University Press of America. The correspondence between Seheehter, who established liberal Judaism in England, and Montefiore, founder of conser- vative Judaism in America, offers "revealing insight into the influences and developing thought of these two important leaders, who met in 1882 as students in Berlin," according to a press release. Kai-Bor Yu '79 Sc.M., '82 Ph.D. has joined the GE Research and Development Center, Schenectady, N.Y., as an electrical engineer Before joining GE, he spent six years as an as- sistant professor at Virginia Tech in Blacks- burg, Va. He lives in Schenectady with his wife, Wenli, and their two daughters. Kirk Reistroffer '82 Sc.M. has been named the sixth Interleat Fellow at Interleaf, Inc., a developer and marketer of electronic pub- lishing software and systems. Interleaf insti- tuted the Fellows program as a means of rec- ognizing extraordinary technical contribu- tions to the company. Reistroffer originated Interleaf's RIPrint software and developed the PCViewstation product. He lives with his wife in Walnut Creek, Calif., but has returned to Cambridge, Mass., to work at Interleaf headc^uarters. Aliki Barnstone '83 A.M. (see '80). Kristine Doll '84 Ph.D. was recently awarded a U.S. Department of Education grant (the secretary's discretionary fund) to implement an innovative peer tutoring pro- gram in foreign languages at SUNY/College at Old Westhury, Long Island, N.Y., where she is an assistant professor of modern lan- guages. Doll was also awarded a New York State Title 11 grant in critical foreign lan- guages to further expand her program. She lives in Northport, N.Y. After four-and-a-half years with the re- ceptor mechanisms group at L ni\ ersit\' Col- lege, London, Cameron Marshall '84 Ph.D. "has forsaken academia for a while and is en- rolled in the M.B.A. program at the European Institute for Business Administration (IN- SEAD) in Fontainebleau, France. It's a fast- paced and exhilarating place to be, with a very strong international flavor I hope to find a position where I can usefully combine my neuroscience and management skills and, with luck, get home to Scotland a bit more often." Jessan Dunn DeCredico '85 A.M., adjunct lecturer at Bryant College in Smithfield, R.I., and at the Urban Educational Center of the Community College of Rhode Island, read her poetry at the RISD Museum of Art in Jan- uary. Published in a number of magazines, DeCredico was a finalist in the Gwendolyn Brooks Prize for Poetry and has been a visit- ing artist at The Cambridge School. She and her husband, Alfred, live in Providence with their two sons, Alessandro, 8, and Cesare, 5. MD Dr Robert N. Levin '80 M.D. has been elected to fellowship in the American College of Cardiology. He is director, cardiac care unit, William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich. He li\-es in Bloomfield Hills. Dr Michael Margulis '81 M.D. (see '78). Dr Margaret Liao 88 M.D. (see '82). Obituaries Manuel George Robinson 19, Boston, a re- tired engineer; July 1987. He earned his mas- ter's degree in mechanical engineering from MIT in 1927 and worked for the General Elec- tric Company for many years. He is survived by a son, Allan, PO. Box 351, Boston 02117. Ambrose Trowbridge Smith '22, Cranston, R.I., retired mill owner; Dec. 4. He was vice president and general manager of the former Queen Dyemg Company for thirteen years and then president and owner of the former East Greenwich (R.I.) Printing and Dyeing Company for three years until 1953. He was a former director of the Narragansett Racing Association and the first president of the Ex- eter, R.I., fire district, hie leaves no immediate survivors. Clifford HoUis Mosher '24, Newburyport, Mass., retired supervising marine engineer at the Portsmouth, N.H., Naval Shipyard; July 21 . There is no information regarding sur- vivors. Norman Pearl Vickery '24, Dennis Port, Mass.; Dec. 12. He was a member of the Pro- fessional Golf Association during the 1930s, and, as a maker of golf clubs, held nine patents for golf shaft design. He was golf pro at Dublin Lake Country Club in New Hamp- shire from 1950 to 1962 and, prior to that, was golf pro at Keene Country Club, also in New Hampshire. He was a former officer of the Cape Cod Pro-Am Golf League and was cap- tain of the golf team at Brown in 1924. Phi Delta Theta. He is survived by a sister, Julia E. Holmes, of Chatham, Mass. Joseph Sidney Friedlander '25, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Jan. 6. He was a management consul- tant and co-author of The Mivmi.;eiueiit of Re- tail Buying and was an adjunct professor of retailing at Baruch College in New York City until 1975, when he retired. He is survived by his wife, Clara, 3215 A\enue H, 10-M, Brook- lyn 11210, and a son, Cabot Devon Kendall '2b, '30 A.M., Coleta. Calif , a retired educator; Jan. 6. In 1'->I7, he went to France as an ambulance driver for the American Field Service and then trans- ferred to the American Expeditionary Force when the U.S. entered World War I. After re- ceiving his degrees from Brown and attend- ing Columbia, he taught American history in private schools in New England and New Jersey before retiring in 1962. He is survived by two daughters and his wife, Deborah, 349 Moreton Bay lane #2, Goleta 93117. Rex Watt Kennedy '26 Sc.M., San Mateo, Calif.; Dec. 8. He was head of the operations branch of the U.S. Naval Radiological De- fense Laboratory in San Francisco. He is sur- \iyed by his wife, Mary Ellen, 410 Poinsettia Ave., San Mateo 94403. John Cannon McOsker '26, Cape Coral, Fla., a law \ er m Pro\ idence for forty years before retiring m I '^'(■•9; Dec. 25. Among his suryi\'ors are his wife, Ruth, 5313 Cocoa St., Cape Coral 33904: a daughter; three sons, including David '66; and a brother Thomas '39. 60 / MARCH 1989 Frank William O'Neill '2b, Alpine, Calif.; julv 17. A resident of .Alpine for thirt\"-one vears, he was the area's first developer and man- aged the water district for thirty vears until it merged with the Padre Dam Municipal Water District. He is surxived by his daughter, Sharon Ha\en, of Stamford, Conn. Madelyn Craig Fahr '27, Clearwater, Fla., a retired special education teacher in the Ran- dolph, N.]., school svstem; Nov. 10. She is survived bv her husband, George, 2586 Black\vood Cir. E., Clearwater 34623. Dr Albert Eugene Geremia '27, Johnston, R.I., a cardioloi;ist tor tort\ \ears before retir- ing in 1^7?; Jan. 31. .A graduate of Tufts Medi- cal School in 1^)32, he was a Xavv \eteran of World War 11 and was cited during the war for secret na\al intelligence work. After the war, he studied electrocardiologv at the Uni- versitv of Michigan. He was medical officer of the rheumatic heart clinic, St. Joseph's Hospital, Providence, from 1948 to 1%5 and medical adjudicator for the Social Securitx' Administration from 1939 to 1980. He was a staff consultant at Rhode Island Hospital since 1973 and was a past president of the Malpighi Medical Societv. Sur\-ivors include three sisters, a daughter, and his wife, Marv, 72 Burnett St., Johnston 02919. Leo Munro Goldberg '28, Pro\idence, a laxvver for fiftv-seven vears; Jan. 30. A 1931 graduate of Yale University Law School, he formed the law firm of Goldberg and Gold- berg in 1934 and was active until his death. He was a public defender before the Rhode Island Supreme Court and in 1956 tried the largest eminent domain case in Rhode Island. A member of the American, Rhode Island, and .Massachusetts Bar Associations, the American Judicature Societv, and the Associ- ation of Trial Lawvers of America, he was was honored in 1981 bv the Rhode Island Senate on the occasion of his fiftieth vear of law practice. Mr. Goldberg w'as listed in the first edition of Wlio's Wlio iu America}! Lnc (1977) and in the 1980 edition of Men of Acliin'cniL'nt, a national periodical. He was an Armv \eteran of World War 11 and served in Europe. Phi Beta Kappa. He is survived by hvo sisters and his wife, Ruth, 52 Lorraine Ave,, Pro\idence 02906. Paul Warren Slade 28, Harrington, R.I., an engmeer tor the Narragansett Electric Com- pany for fort\-one vears before retiring in 1969; Dec. 22. He was a member of Provi- dence Troop 3 Bov Scouts of America for twentv-nine vears and was a district commis- sioner for the Narragansett Council Boy Scouts for fi\-e vears. Mr. Slade was the se\'- enth eagle scout in the state and was the old- est eagle scout in the council. He was the ar- chitect and the builder of Slade's Bridge at Camp Yawgoog, the Boy Scout camp in Ex- eter, R.l. Survivors include a stepson, Charles Carson, Jr., 17 Mathewson Ln., Harrington 02806. Roland Redus MacKenzie 29, Owings Mills, .Vld., businessman, farmer, and golfer; Nov 19. He was named to the 1926, 1928, and 1930 Walker Cup teams that pla\ed against Britain. Onlv nineteen when named to the 1926 amateur team, he remained for fiftv years the youngest plaver to ha\e been se- lected. Winner of many regional tourna- ments, including two Middle Atlantic Golf Championships, he played with Bobbv Jones, Francis Quiniet, and other well-known golfers of the period. More recentU-, he won four Maryland State Golf Association father- and-son tournaments. In 1965, Mr. MacKen- zie won the association's seniors tournament. In the mid-1930s he turned professional and worked as golf pro at the Congressional Country Club near Washington, D.C. Later he de\eloped the Foxfire Golf and Country Club in Pinehurst, N.C. He was a member of the Middle .Atlantic Golf Association Hall of Fame and the Brown University Athletic Hall of Fame. Until his retirement in the late 1960s, he operated farms in the Cockevsville (Md.) area that raised dairy cattle, sheep, and goats, and included vineyards and orchards. He was also a partner in his son's real estate firm, MacKenzie and .Associates, and president of Shamrock Realty Company, Inc., Cock- evsville. At one time, he owned an airplane dealership in Charlotte, N.C. Survivors in- clude a son, a daughter, and his wife, Louise, Garrison Forest RcL, 0\vings Mills 21117. Roger Wliipple Shattuck 29, Providence, re- tired \ ice proident of .AMIC.A Mutual Insur- ance Compan\, Pro\idence; Nov. 26. He was first employed b\- AMICA in 1948 and for many vears headed the claims department. In addition to holding the office of vice presi- dent, he was also director of Amica Mutual Insurance Company, .Amica Mutual Life In- surance Company, and Amica Credit Corpo- ration. Mr. Shattuck was a regional director of the Associated Alumni at Brown, head class agent for manv years, and president of his class from 1959 until his death. Two weeks before his death, the .Associated .Alum- ni awarded him an Alumni Service Award at the annual Alumni Recognition Ceremony. He is survived bv his son, Peter, 4627 Ashton Dr, Sacramento,"Calif. 95864. Audrey Watson Coffin '30, King City, On- tario, a former assistant editor at McGraw- Hill Rverson Ltd., Toronto; Sept. 15. There is no information available regarding immedi- ate sur\i\ors. Ruth Mitkowsky Fogelman '31 , Margate, Fla,. a former super\ isor for the Connecticut State Employment Ser\ice; May 25. She is survived bv her husband, Sam, 1040 Country Club Rd,, Bldg, S #203, Margate 33060. Dr. Joseph Edward Cannon '32, Pro\idence, director of the Rhode Island Department of Health from 1961 to 1984; Jan. 20. He re- ceived his medical degree from Tufts Medical School in 1936 and then joined the Army Medical Corps. During World War II, he spent three vears on mainland Alaska and in the Aleutian Islands setting up and com- manding Army hospitals. He was seriously injured in a plane crash and during his recu- peration retired as a colonel. From 1948 to 1950, he was a physician at the Exeter School in Rhode Island. He then joined the Colorado Department of Public Health, where he even- tualK' became deputy director, but eight years later returned to Rhode Island to be- come assistant director for curative services. Then-Governor John \otte appointed him di- rector of the department three vears later. Over the next two decades, he improved im- munization programs and health record- keeping and was a strong proponent of pre- venti\e medicine long before it became a catchword. He is recognized as a major force in the establishment of the Brown Progam in Medicine, which recently established a Joseph E. Cannon Fellowship in Public Health, Sur\ nors include two sons and his wife, Mary McCabe Cannon '63, 538 Elm- grove .A\ e.. Providence 02906. Ralph Hewitt Estes '32, Fort Pierce, Fla., a re- tired title examiner for T & T Title, Inc., of Fort Pierce; Dec. 1. A graduate of Boston Uni- versity Law School in 1936, he also had been a self-emploved lawyer and insurance agent. Alpha Tau Omega. He is survived bv his wife, Marion, 2027 Esplanade West, Fort Pierce 33482. Raymond McVitty Hamilton '32, Bedford, Mass; Jan, l6. He was a retired office supervi- sor for Wagner Electric Corporation in Waltham, Mass., and is sur\ived bv his wife, Georgina, 15 Elmbrook Rd., Bedford 01730. John Ellsworth Manchester '32, Catonsville, Md., a retired clerk in the U.S. Post Office De- partment in Washington, DC; Nov. 15. Dur- ing World War II, he worked in the office of the Armv adjutant general in Washington, D.C. Survivors include a son, a daughter, and a sister, Mrs. Eudelle L. Curtis, of South Bend, Ind. John Bell Rae '32, '34 A.M., '3b Ph.D., Claremont, Calif., professor of history emeri- tus at Harvey Vludd College; Oct. 24, follow- ing a heart attack and complications after surgerN". In 1936, he worked for a vear at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C, and then returned to Brown, where he \vas an assistant to President Henry Wriston. In 1939, he joined the faculty of MIT, where he taught and conducted research in the history of technology for t^^•enty years. As professor of history at Har\'ev Mudd, he served as chairman of the department of humanities and social sciences from 1968 to 1973 and re- tired from full-time teaching in 1976. Profes- sor Rae held visiting appointments at Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland, the Uni- versity of Manchester, Queen's University in Belfast, and the Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation. He also taught part-time, mostly in the executive management program, at Claremont Graduate School. Highly respect- ed in the field of historical technology, he was the author of ten books on the automobile and aircraft industries, numerous journal ar- ticles, and several encyclopedia entries. He held memberships in a number of historical and economic associations and was a found- ing member and past president of the Society for the History of Technology, which honored him in 1980 with its prestigious Leonardo da Vinci Medal. He is survived bv a daughter and a son; a sister, Mary Rae Jackson '32; and his wife, Florence Urquhart Rae 32, 437 West 1 1 th St., Claremont 9 1 7 1 1 . BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / ftl Kenneth L. Godfrey 34, '36 Sc.M., Dillon, Colo., .1 research chemist with Monsanto Chemical Company in St. Louis for many years vmtil retiring in 1973; June 22, 1982. He was a member of the American Chemical So- ciety. Sigma Xi. He is survived by four chil- dren and his wife, Dorothy, P.O. Box 930, Dil- lon 80435. Elizabeth Whitaker Hall '34, '36 A.M., Wake- field, R.I.; Jan. 10. She was an instructor in bi- ology at Simmons College in Boston from 1938 to 1942. She was a member of the na- tional, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts Audubon Societies. Phi Beta Kappa. Sigma Xi. Among her survivors are two daughters; her husband, Gilbert, 3113 Tower Hill Rd., Wakefield 02879; and a brother, Charles '33. John Reighard Lynch '34, Sanibel Island, Fla.; Dec. 17. During World War II, he invent- ed and developed luminous tape for the Navy that was also used by the merchant ma- rine. When lights aboard a ship were out dur- ing an attack, the tape indicated shipboard directions to the seamen. Before the war and until 1962, he was associated with his father in the E.P. Lynch Paint Company in Provi- dence. He was then a manufacturing repre- sentative and recently worked with many in- ventors to bring new products to market. He founded the Propeller Club of the Port of Narragansett Bav and sailed and raced Star Boats in competition around the country. Sur- vivors include two sons, a daughter, and his wife, Helen, 321 Palm Lake Dr., Sanibel Is- land 33957. Gertrude Carlson Pease '34, Johnston, R.I.; Jan. 14. She is survived by four children, in- cluding Leslie Pease Franklin, 80 Hopkins Ave., Johnston 02919. Herbert Samuel Phillips '34, Norton, Mass., owner and president of the Horton Angell Company for ten years before retiring in 1975; Dec. 4. For twenty-five years, before taking over Horton Angell, he worked as marketing manager in the gold-filled division of the former Metals and Controls, now Texas Instruments, in Attleboro, Mass. A member of the Manufacturing Jewelers and Silver- smiths of America for twenty-one years, he had served as director and as the organiza- tion's first vice president. He was a twenty- one-year member of the Optical Manufactur- ers Association and had also belonged to the Gold Filled Manufacturers Association. He was active in civic affairs in Norton. At Brown, he played on the basketball team and was a former class secretary. Tau Beta Pi. Among his survi\ ors are four daughters, in- cluding Marilyn Phillips Baldwin '66; and his wife, I lope, 42 Mansfield Ave,, Norton 02766. Edward North Robinson, Jr. '34, Charlotte, Vt., a former creative director, executive vice president, and member of the board of direc- tors of the J. Walter Thompson Advertising Agency, New York City; Aug. 18, after suffer- ing a stroke. He was the co-author, with his first wife, Carolyn, of the Have-More Plan, a how-to guide to self-sufficient living on a small plot of land, which inspired thousands of home gardeners to "have more with less" during the years following World War 11. First published in 1946, the book has served as the model for two current gardening pub- lications, Motlier Eartli News and Organic Gardening. It had its eighteenth printing in 1986 and continues to be an important home gardening reference book. After graduation he went to work for J. Walter Thompson as a messenger. After publishing a story in Tlie Satuniai/ Evening Post, he was promoted to copy boy. He left the agency in 1965 to pur- sue interests in international advertising and lived in Denmark and Ireland before return- ing to Vermont in 1981. At the time of his death, he was a director of the National Gar- dening Association, Burlington, Vt., and held a patent on a bracket device for constructing raised gardening beds. Among his survivors are his wife, Jonna, Mt. Philo Rd., Charlotte 05482; three sons, including Jackson '64; a daughter-in-law, Ruth Laudati Robinson '66; two daughters; and si,\ grandchildren, in- cluding Heather '90. His father was Edward North Robinson, Sr. 1896, who coached the Brown football team from 1896 to 1925. Hayward Burbeck Brown '35, Ormond Beach, Fla., insurance agency owner; Nov. 12. Long active in the civic affairs of Daytona Beach, Fla., where he lived for many years, Mr. Brown, as chairman of the realty board, is credited with planning the city's industrial expansion in the 1960s. In 1987, he received the Distinguished Community Service Award for his fifty-year leadership of the Daytona Beach Area Chamber of Commerce and his chairmanship of the Daytona Beach Zoning Board of Appeals and the Chamber of Com- merce Advertising Tax Committee. He was a member of the board of counselors at Bethune-Cookman College. He is survived bv his wife, Isabel, 38 Ocean Terr., Ormond Beach 32074. Margaret M. Walker '36, Pawtucket, R.I.; Nov. 22. Before her retirement in 1985, she was director of social services at Butler Hos- pital in Providence, where she had worked for more than thirty-five years. She was a member of the National Association of Social Workers, the Pawtucket Community Players, and Friends of the Pawtucket Library, among other organizations. She is survived by a fos- ter son, Louis A. Carney, 510 West Ave., Paw- tucket 02860. John M. Crawford, Jr. '37, New York City, a prominent collector of Oriental art and a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Dec. 21, of cardiac arrest. His art collection has been described by scholars and art critics as the largest and finest private assemblage of Chinese painting and calligraphy in the West, and has been compared with the collec- tion formed bv Charles Freer, which consti- tutes the Freer Gallery in Washington, D.C. Works from Mr Crawford's collection have been exhibited in many museums, including the J. Pierpont Morgan Library in New York and the Fogg Museum in Cambridge, Mass. He went into publishing in Manhattan fol- lowing his graduation and began collecting books and then art in 1946. In 1962, when the Morgan exhibited his collection, Mr. Craw- ford noted that he was then the only such col- lector of calligraphy. He also collected me- dieval manuscripts, and bindings done by William Morris, the leader of the English crafts movement of the nineteenth century. In 1975, he gave his Morris collection to the Morgan Library. In 1981, he gave sixty works, then estimated to be worth $18 million, to the Metropolitan Museum, which considerably enhanced the quality of the museum's collec- tion. Significant among the works were paintings from the Sung Dynasty, one of the highest periods of Chinese landscapes and flower paintings. He was a former trustee of Brown and received an honorary degree in 1964. He is survived by his sister, Elizabeth Ver Bryck, Incline Village, Nev. 89450. Charles John Myers '37, Brielle, N.J.; Sept. 23, 1987. He had been employed for twenty years as an insurance consultant in Bergen County, N.J., before retiring in 1967. After that, he was a clerk in the marine department of Johnson's Point Pleasant Hardware, Point Pleasant Beach, N.J. Among his survivors are a son, a daughter, and his wife, Henrietta, of Brielle. Charles Lynde Babcock in '38, Brooklyn, N.Y., a freelance writer; Jan. 2. Survivors in- clude a son, Charles TV '71; a daughter-in- law, Janet Judd Laughlin Babcock '74; and his wife, Mrs. Charles Babcock, 15 Clark St., Brooklyn 11201. Leo Loeb, Jr. '38, Wappingers Falls, N.Y.; Dec. 4. He was credit manager and assistant to the general manager of Benjamin & Johnes, Inc., of Newark, N.J. Survivors include a son, Bernard, 24 Foxhill Rd., Wappingers Falls 12590. Arnold Smiley Ohlrogge '38, Convent Sta- tion, N.J., a retired part-time real estate agent with Century 21 -Adams in Madison, N.J.; in November. He was a lieutenant in the Navy during World War II and served in the At- lantic and the Pacific. He is survived by his wife, Kathy, Featherleigh Rd., Convent Sta- tion 07961 . Clinton Wallace Briggs, Jr. '39, Cincinnati, Ohio; Nov. 16, of a heart attack. He retired from AMIGA Insurance Company in 1983 as a branch manager. He was an officer of Trout Unlimited. Zeta Psi. Among his survivors are a brother, Courtland '39; three sons, includ- ing Gary '84; and his wife, Barbara, 10175 Lochcrest Dn, Cincinnati 45231. Charles Edward Mercer '39, Edison, N.J., a novelist and former editor at G.P. Putnam's Sons; Dee. 28. He was the author of seventeen novels, including Rachel Cade, a 1956 book about an American missionary in Africa, which sold more than three million copies, was translated into fourteen languages, and was made into a movie called The Sins of Rachel Cade. His other popular novels includ- ed Enough Good Men, The Reckoning, and T)ie Dritnvnond Tradition. He also wrote twelve nonfiction books, including several for chil- dren and young adults. He began his career as a reporter for The Waslnngton Post and was a feature writer and television columnist for the Associated Press for many years. He spent thirteen years with Putnam's, retiring in 1979 as a vice president and senior editor 62 / MARCI! 1989 in charge ot young adult books. During World War II, he was an Army intelligence officer, and he also served in the Korean War. Phi Beta Kappa. He is survived by his wife. Alma, 16 Peru St., Edison 08820. John Harmon Vocke '39, Toledo, Ohio; Dec. M, in a boating accident while vacationing in the V'lrgm Islands. He was a broker with Kid- der Peabody in Toledo. Mr. Vocke was one of three men riding in a small boat that capsized in rough seas. He was unconscious in the wa- ter and his companions, who later swam to shore, were unable to rescue him. He is sur- vived by his son, John, 3351 West Bancroft, Toledo 43606. Wilbur William West '39, Montross, Va.; in September. I le was a retired senior applica- tion engineer with Aerospace Construction and Electrical Systems in Binghamton, N.Y. Survivors include his wife, Sally, 405 Lancast- er Dr., Irvington, Va. 22480. Joshua Aaron Rothstein '41, Scarsdale, N.Y., retired chairman of Central Leather Goods, New York City; Dec. 21 . Survivors include two sons, Steven '72 and Kenneth '76, and his wife, Adrienne, 66 Sheldrake Rd., Scars- dale 10583. Joseph Edward Riley, Jr '44, Norwood, Mass; date of death unknown. He was a cor- poral in the Army Air Corps during World War 11 and later worked for the S.S. Kresge Company. There is no information available regarding survivors. Donald Leavitt '46, Brockton, Mass., an engi- neer for manv years with Eederal Products Corporation in Providence; Oct. 9. He served with the Navv in the Pacific during World War II. Among his survivors are two daugh- ters and his wife. Bertha, 162 Moraine St., Brockton 02401 , Or Randall Stedman Naden, Jr. '49, Med- ford, N.J.; Oct, M. He was a 1953 graduate of Jefferson Medical College and practiced in- ternal medicine privately in Cherry Hill, N.J. He is survived by his wife, Audrey, 12 White Birch Trail, Medford 08055. Phyllis Berkwitts Sullivan '49, Springfield, Mass.; Dec. 12. A lifelong resident of Spring- field, she was a volunteer coordinator for the Springfield School Volunteers. She received her master's degree from American Interna- tional College in 1953. Among her survivors are her husband, John, 27 Gillette Ave,, Springfield 01118; and nine children, includ- ing Deirdre '91 Robert J. Lewis, Sr. '50, Freeport, Maine; Nov. 24. He retired from Exxon Corporation in 1983 as an industrial salesman. He was a Navy veteran of World War II. Survivors in- clude five sons and his wife, Jessie, 39 Bow St., Freeport 04032. Arthur Richard Krueger '52, Frankfort, N.Y., a retired physicist at General Electric in Sche- nectady, N.Y; Nov. 17. He raised llamas, exot- ic flowers and trees, and fruits and \egetables at his "Kings Ranch" in Frankfort after his re- tirement. He was pianist and organist at his church and a music arranger. He served in the Air Force during World War II. Among his survivors are two sisters, including Mrs. John Holms, 48 Leroy, Warwick, R.l. 02882. Ann Hague Alley '53, Middlebury Vt.; Oct. 17. She was executive secretary and adminis- trative assistant at Polymer's Inc. in Middle- bury for a number of years. Survivors include two children and her husband, William, P.O. Box 676, Middlebury 05753. Frederick Gerrish Towle '54, Brunswick, Maine; No\'. 28. He was commissioned in the U.S. Marine Corps following graduation and served in the Far East. He entered the in- vestment business in Boston and in 1964 moved to Portland, Maine, where from 1967 to 1970, he was office manager of the invest- ment firm of Dominick and Dominick. In 1971, he was a founder of Maine Salmon Farms, an aquaculture firm, where he served as treasurer until 1978. He then worked on the family farm in Freedom, N.H. He is sur- vived by his mother; two sons, including Thurston '87; and his wife, Elisabeth, 62^ Fed- eral St., Brunswick 04011. Jerome Benedict Lynch '55, North Kings- town, R.l.; Dec. 12. Bookstore director at the University of Rhode Island for twenty years, he had previousK' worked in the bookstore at Clarkson College, Potsdam, N.Y, and the Brown Book Store. He was a scoutmaster for six years and assistant district commissioner for five years. He was a member of the Na- tional Association of College Stores and a past president of the Edgewood Hockey As- sociation. Survnors include three sons and a sister, Patricia Lynch Lillis '62, 81 Bates Rd., Arlington, Mass. 02174. Robert Francis Lynch '55, Brookville, NY; July 2, 1986. He was a senior legislative ana- lyst for the New York City Council. Among his survivors are two brothers, John '49 and Gerard '66; three children, Susan '82, Jen- nifer '87, and Robert '40; and his wife, Phyl- lis Gushae Lynch '55, 3 Dogwood Hill, Brookville 11545, Richard Frederick Torrey '58, Rockland, Maine, a senior customer engineer for IBM for twenty-eight years and the former owner of Torrey Enterprises in Rockland; Oct. 14, 1987. He was the author of PcKtcaids of Rock- hviil and a member of the Bay State Postcard Collectors Club. A nationally registered emergency medical technician and an in- structor in first aid and cardiopulmonary re- suscitation, he was active in Cub and Boy Scouts and served as neighborhood commis- sioner, committee chairman. Cub master, and merit badge counselor. An amateur radio op- erator since 1976, he earned many awards, including the radio-extra class award. He served four years in the Coast Guard and fourteen years in the Coast Guard Reserve, where he was a chief warrant officer. Sur- vivors include two sons and his wife, Patri- cia, 542 Summer St., Rockland 02370. Dr. Edward Irwin Sweet '60, Longmeadow, Mass.; Dec. 22. A graduate of Tufts Universi- ty School of Medicine in 1964, he was a radi- ologist with Radiology and Imaging Inc. of Springfield, Mass. He was