T:m: '. . .V,> J Enriching the Undergraduate Experience Brown University is dedicated to providing an academic environment of exceptional intellectual rigor and challenge. Committed to the view that the educational process is most successful when students are active participants in that process, Brown encourages undergraduates to become in- volved in every aspect of academic life. Students at Brown enjoy unique opportunities to participate in educational experiences that chal- lenge them intellectually and personally and that provide real benefits to fellow students. They col- laborate with faculty as research assistants or as teaching assistants. They assist in the curricular advising of their peers. They serve as writing fellows and residence hall counselors. Through the Undergradu- ate Research and Teaching Assistantships Program, the Writing Fellows Program, the Cur- ricular Advising Program, the Resident Counselors Program, Library Support and the Great Books project. Brown offers undergraduates a variety of educational experiences designed to help them fulfill their academic and personal potential. The Brown Parents Council Fund Committee invites parents to consider gifts in support of this select group of programs which directly enhance the academic experience at Brown. Such gifts will have an immediate, positive impact on undergraduate life and learning. BROWN PARENTS COUNCIL For more information on giving opportunities, please contact: Rosette Garabedian, Director Parents Program Brown University Box 18<3? Providence, RI 02 '^U 401 863-2374 Volume 90, Number 1 September 1989 Brown Alumni Monthly Walden in the Whirlwind 22 Turbulence has long been one of physics' most elusive mysteries, but a group of Brown scientists believe the key to chaos may be simplicity itself. Weighty Matters In a world devoted to slenderness, psychologist Tom Wadden '75 studies obesity. His findings could help break the cycle of dieting and binging that plagues so many. "C^ 30 Out of the Rat Race 36 At fifty-one, Don Marschner '29 decided to go back to school. He found that thirty years in business had not necessarily prepared him for "B" school. Departments Carrying the Mail 2 Under the Elms 12 Sports 20 The Classes 40 Obituaries 52 Books 55 Finally 56 Cover: Photograph of Professor of Political Science Newell M. Stultz by John Foraste. BroiAyn Alumni Monthly September 1989 Volume 90, No. 1 Editor Robert M. Rhodes Managing Editor Anne Hinman Diffily '73 Assistant Editor Charlotte Bruce Harvey '78 Editorial Associate James Reinbold '74 A.M. Administrative Assistant Pamela M. Parker Design Kathryn de Boer Sandra Delany Susan Pearce Typesetting Gita Brown '86 A.M. Board of Editors Chairman James Geehan '45 Vice Chairman John J. Monaghan '55 M. Charles Bakst '66 Barry Beckham '66 Peter W. Bernstein '73 PhilipJ. Bray '48 Doug Cumming '80 A.M. Robert P Fisler '43 Lisa W. Foderaro '85 Annette Grant '63 Deborah Pines Livingstone '80 Anne Jones Mills '60 Stacy E. Palmer '82 Gary A. Puckrein '78 Ph.D. Matthew L. Wald '76 Elizabeth B. West '73 National Advertising Representative Robert F. Sennott, Jr Ivy League Magazine Network 254 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10001 (212) 684-5603 © 198« by Brou'ii Alumni Monlhhi- Published monthly, except January, July, and August, by Brown University, Providence, R.I. Printed by The Lane Press. P.O. Box 130, Burlington. VI. 05403. Send editorial correspondence and changes-of-address to P.O. Box 18.S4., Provi- dence, R.I. 02912. Member, Council for the Ad- vancement and Support of Education. Address Correction Requested Carryim the Mail The glass is half full' Editor: The April edition of the BAM contained a letter of rather harsh com- mentary on the matter of Brown football games. Several good points were made regarding the ills of intercollegiate ath- letics. Their spill-over into the public perception suggests that such endeavors are anti-educational and generally de- structive to the mission of the Univer- sity. As a football student/athlete at Brown during the 1964-65 seasons, I must say the sport as we know it. Ivy League style, has markedly changed in the last twenty-five years. Those of us that were football players then never felt any strong affinity for the antics of the band so strongly criticized here. Let the band play on! The letter goes on to identify a num- ber of social ills well known by those students of sport and contemporary so- ciety. As a former career coach and ad- ministrator at several institutions who worked in intercollegiate athletics, and one who currently teaches such courses at the university level, I must offer that the letter sees the glass as half empty and not half full. To the author's credit, commentary such as this should be used by sports administrators to recog- nize the dark side of athletics aiul move their programs away from such prob- lems. Hopefully, the administration at Brown is wise enough to respond in such a manner. One clearly visible event that has re- cently indicated such an awareness is the hiring of Coach Les Steckel to the Brown football staff. Coach Steckel has a distinguished background in both inter- collegiate and professional football, hav- ing served as the head football coach of the Minnesota Vikings. Beyond all of this, he is an outstanding influence and mentor to young people! John Rosen- berg shows great insight in bringing a man of Les Steckel's stature to the Brown football family. Having known Coach Steckel since 1 971, 1 can assure any critical Brown alumni that this is the kind of individu- al who represents the true up-side and the real positives that intercollegiate athletics brings to the student-athlete experience. If all coaches in the intercollegiate game recognized the importance of the college athletic experience and the value- shaping process that it can be, as Les Steckel has done throughout his career, letters like Mr. di Curcio's would be less frequent for sure. Many kudos to the Brown University Athletic Department in its progressive and positive thinking. Indeed, the glass is half full, at least! Thomas R. Park '68 Tallahassee "A Little Romance" Editor. David Temkin's well-written arti- cle, "A Little Romance" (BAM, March), put into focus for me a feeling 1 have been developing over the years as the source of my discomfort with Brown's education today. What 1 read about in this article is an uncritical acceptance of the coin'cntional zvisdom on the part of both the University and the students. The scientific method calls for three steps: (1) theorize; (2) test; (3) recycle; i.e., develop a new theory which takes the test results into account, and then test the new theory. The uncritical ac- ceptance I object to is the obvious stop- ping after step I . Lest the arts majors disclaim being bound by the scientific method, let me assure them that it is the basis for any logical, disciplined thought process. Temkin's main discussion is on "re- lationships." "Dating, in the old sense, is nearly dead. The old rules are gone, discarded in the interest of social progress." But what is the result of that "social progress"? Has it produced 2 / SEPTEMBER 1989 greater happiness or greater personal stability? I'm sure that marriages of my outmoded generation are far happier and far more permanent, on the aver- age, than those of today. In fact, Temkin continues, "Brown's evolution into a progressive university . . . has wrought confusion, dissatisfaction, and drama." Peace of mind? Usefulness to its own and subsecjuent generations? Temkin describes the campus politi- cally as well. "Brown's emphasis on pluralism nurtures an atmosphere of political correctness, the latest form of political radical chic. A student who is politically correct must oppose capital- ism, racism, homophobia, and clas- sism." Have these foes of capitalism compared North with South Korea, East with West Germany? Have they been reading about events in China and the USSR? Henry Merritt Wriston was presi- dent of Brown during my years on cam- pus. Brown prided itself then on being a liberal university, but the word liberal was spelled with a small /. It meant "open to new ideas." Today Brown is a Liberal university, with a capital L, refer- ring to a particular political philosophy - a particular conventional wisdom, hence closed to contrary ideas. It's the existence and uncritical acceptance of that conventional wisdom I object to, not its stripe. I'd be just as unhappy with a Conservative bias. I hope President Gregorian can bring back the small-/ liberal college at- titude we old fogeys loved. Everett j. Daniels '41 Los Angeles "The Death of Charity" Editor: I read with interest your cover ar- ticle, "The Death of Charity," in the April BAM. I was puzzled, however, by the repeated claim that "English physi- cian Edward Jenner invented the small- pox vaccine in 1796." The same article reported that in 1721 an African slave named Anesimus taught his owner an inoculation technique against smallpox familiar in Africa and Asia. I am no scholar of medical history. I have no idea who invented which vac- cine. 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New York, N.Y. 10001 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 9 gard to such a definitive word as "abso- lutism," which, according to the Ran- dom House Dictkvmn/, has two distinct and very different meanings. The first meaning, which indeed sounds very dangerous, is "the principle or the exer- cise of complete and unrestricted power in government." I would certainly like to hear Mr. Schlesinger on this kind of absolutism, since as a historian 1 am sure he could comment quite skillfully on its perils. The second definition of absolutism is taken from philosophy: "the doctrine of an absolute or nonrelative being." I am not so sure, then, about Mr. Schlesinger's philosophy. Is the doctrine of an absolute being an enemy of the book, the word, and the life of the mind? This is indeed a "rash suggestion"! But is it not rash because Mr. Schlesinger recognizes the fashion of the day (fash- ion being ever a hop away from foolish- ness) - if, indeed, thinking people ever did consider "relativism" as "the root of all evil." A time may come when absolutism and relativism are ec^ually meaningless words, and rhetoric fails; when as St. Paul, who in a blinding moment of per- sonal and of world history was thrown from his horse and shed the religion of his youth forever, writes that "prophe- cies will disappear, and tongues will cease, and knowledge will be de- stroyed," and all that will be left is "charity." Such a grand note is exemplified, of course, in the passage Schlesinger quotes from Huck Finn who, for the sake of his friend Jim, Miss Watson's slave, says, "all right then, I'll go to hell - " although one senses that Huck's words are comically insufficient to ac- companv the generosity of his heart, to warrant damnation. It is a great thing to consider a love that would risk damna- tion for a friend - as St. Paul again writes, "I could wish to be anathema myself from Christ for the sake of my brethren." I hope Mr. Schlesinger likewise finds a happy fault moving from blasphemy to charity, and that he is never tried by a judge who believes in the sacred right to kill, and that he finds something more enduring to believe in than Western civ- ilization! Grcgojy Schmclzer '76 Newton, Iowa Editor. Professor Schlesinger's attack on religion in the name of his faith in secu- lar humanism and political liberalism - an odd text for the occasion of a Univer- sity president's inauguration, I thought - forms a powerful argument in favor of the academic study of religion. For if the academy cannot address what is clearly the single most powerful force in the shaping of human affairs in our times, then what good is knowledge as we pursue and purvey it? But if it can, we will make sense of the human condi- tion. Merely deploring what one does not like, as Professor Schlesinger has done in his rambling remarks, is not the aca- demic way. In the academy we engage in knowledge in quest of understand- ing; as a religious person, in the lecture in inauguration of the new president I did not see, let alone understand, my- self and my affirmation of God as ruler and redeemer of the world. But perhaps that is his very point: the new adminis- tration is called upon by Professor Schlesinger to turn Brown into an im- portant international center for the aca- demic study of religion. What a won- derfully subtle way to deliver a truly necessary and worldly academic voca- tion to the new administration! Jacob Neusuer Campus The loritcr is University Professor and Ungerleider Distinguislied Scliolar of juda- ic Studies. - Editor The consent decree Editor. May I have a little space to reply to Dr. Dowling's curious criticism of my letter in your March issue? Dn Dowling implies that the "male faculty" alone bears the blame for the "flagrant discrimination" against wom- en in Brown's hiring practices for over 200 years. He seems to hold the male administration and male Corporation blameless. Yet all new faculty appoint- ments must be approved by the admin- istration and Corporation. The court held the institution responsible. Dr Dowling wants to abandon a mechanism which has worked well to help remedy the discrimination mutual- ly engaged in by faculty, administration, and Corporation. He assumes we have learned our lesson. The faculty (male and female) doubt that. Hence we voted together to maintain the watchdog which prevents our slipping back. The faculty, administration, and Corporation are still overwhelmingly male. William G. McLoughlin Campus The writer is Willard Prescott and Ainiic McClelland Smith Professor of History and Religion. - Editor 'Free ride' Editor: I recently read your article {BAM, April) on the difficulties Food Services is having recruiting students. The an- swer seems rather obvious to me. If a student doesn't need to work at least ten hours a week to earn part of his (her) tuition then the student needs nei- ther a loan nor a grant. Why not tie the grant/loan and work programs togeth- er. Does Brown need students on schol- arship who are not willing to work their way through school? It is one thing if parents are willing to give their children a "free ride" through the University, but why should the University be willing to do so? A school that brags about its appli- cation to admittance ratios and the fact that financial hardship will not stand in the way of attendance at Brown should not have any trouble selecting students who do not want to take and not give to their school. Ault M. Nathauielsz '56 Bethesda, Md. MacArthur's musical contribution Editor. I was saddened to note the ab- sence of any mention of midnight organ concerts in your recent article {BAM, April) about Brown's new University organist. One of my fondest memories of my freshman orientation week dur- ing the fall of 1982 was my first pilgrim- age to leaky old Sayles Hall to hear Fred MacArthur play the great Hutchings- Votey. Although he had been doing so for just a year then, I received from my upperclass counselors the distinct im- pression that such performances had been an avidly enjoyed staple of the University community's cultural life for many years. During the ensuing five years, at least, Fred continued to share his talent with us, admirably serving at all hours and for all causes, a total of well over 10 / SEPTEMBER 1989 100 times. He not only lifted our spirits at exam time through his music, but also introduced to us the aspiring solo musicians in our midst, and even united - for the first time under one roof - all of Brown's a cappella groups to sing Handel's "Hallelujah Chonis" at the holiday season. So what has become of all that sound and furv? Does Fred's past posi- tion now signify nothing? Has the pres- sure for professors to publish for profit so prevalent in scientific fields finally permeated the fine arts as well? Do or- ganists now generally spend more time editing at a computer console than reaching out to their campus communi- ties from behind the organ console? I sincerely hope that Wayne Schneider's respect for the American music he is currently anthologizing will ivri/ soon carry over to the musical heritage and beloved traditions of the institution which is enabling him to continue his work. Edmund A. LeFcvre, Jr. '86 Pittsburgh According to Wayne Schneider, the condi- tion of tlie Snyles Hull orgnn has deteriorate ed to the point that it is unplayable. At such time as it is repaired, he looks fonvard to resuming regular organ concerts. - Editor Early music revival Editor: I appreciated James Reinbold's notice of my book The Early Music Re- vival: A History (BAM, May), but I would like to point out that the early music movement did not begin, as he suggests, with the baroque revival of the 1950s. Many people (including some performers and scholars who should know better) seem to think it began then, or even later, but in fact the revival of pre-Classical music goes back at least to the eighteenth century, and "original instrument" performances were being given as early as the 1830s. I find it interesting and somewhat ironic that the historical performance movement should be so reluctant to examine its own history. Wanda Lan- dowska, after all, was hardly a voice crying in the wilderness; many, many others were tilling the field in the nine- teenth and early twentieth centuries. A few were geniuses and a few charlatans (the subject of forgeries of music and in- struments is one of the early music movement's more entertaining byways). But most were simply doing their best in light of the knowledge, instruments, and musical editions available to them - just like the Hogwoods and Harnon- courts of today. Thames and Hudson, by the way, publishes the American edition of the book as well. Harri/ Haskell '76 New Haven, Conn. A Brown Olympian Editor: Perhaps I missed your coverage - I've been moving around a fair amount recently - but did you ever say anything about Brown's representative on the 1988 U.S. Olympic women's crew team, my niece Jennifer Corbet '87? Her boat made it into the finals and finished a highly respectable fifth. PS. The title of T.S. Eliot's great poem is "The Waste Land" - three words - not "The Wasteland" (BAM, May, photo caption). Robert W. French '64 Ph.D. Santa Fe, N.M. 'Equality of opportunity' Editor. I am afraid that 1 am going to be the target of the anger of c]uite a few people who misunderstand my motives, but I must responc"! to David Warner's letter (BAM, May). In his third paragraph, Mr. Warner contends that: "A black student . . . (knows) that at the core of his rejection is a . . . belief in his racial inferiority. A white student ... is being asked to make a sacrifice in order to help bring about a fairer, more decent . . ." As much as I may be on the same side as Mr. Warner, these arguments are balderdash. Mr. Warner's first statement assumes that blacks are rejected on the basis of their being black. Actually, black students, like white students, are denied admission because there are large numbers of more qualified appli- cants, be they black, white, yellow, or purple. Even when the black applicant in question is well qualified. Mr. Warner's second statement is sil- lier. White applicants who would have been admitted if it were not for affirma- tive action are not "asked to make a sac- rifice." No one sends them a note saying "You can enroll if you wish, but please don't so that we can give your spot to a deserving minority student." These ap- plicants are rejected. Period. Before the flood of hate mail begins, let me state my view on affirmative ac- tion to abate the anger of some who may misunderstand my motives. I think that affirmative action is patently and grossly unfair, but that it is necessary. It is clearly unfair for a per- son to be denied admission or a job be- cause of the color of his or her skin. However, there are minority groups in this country who, due to mostly histori- cal prejudice and repression, do not have the opportunity or financial means to gain the first-step qualifications need- ed to build a top-notch education and career, and to pass these advantages on to the next generation. Affirmative action should give these people the entry into the mainstream that they were denied, so that subse- quent generations of all Americans can have true equality of opportunity. Not equality of results; there will always be more- and less-capable individuals. But there should be equality of opportunity, and when and if this is achieved, affir- mative action will no longer be needed. Peter A. Lynn '84 New York City i handwoven rugs K orientals • kilims • dhurries 6 custom designs • tapestries I decor international | 1 171 newbury st • boston • 262- 1529 Bar^e Cruise r°"^^Z'^'.^Tf'^- O CanalduMidi. 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M^^M^^^-^m^ ^^ And the prop that 1/ ^i0 * . ^^ Brown, too, profited definitively set this apart from the experience. The from Wriston scenes in oth- W 11^ ^ ' . -M W^ o University's contract with er summers: a royal-blue m0^' \ I Digital forbade disclosing sign, anchored in cement at I ■ \ ■n the amount of the fee paid the top of the quadrangle 1 :-, \. > to Brown for facilities and where it provided a 1989 answer to the totem-like \. m services. But Director of Conference Services Patricia When this banner on Sayles Hall bronze figure of Caesar Au- vms stolen several weeks into the program, R. Henry would go so far as gustus near the Refectory, good-natured Digital officials chalked the tbeft to say, "What we're earning its white letters proclaiming that this was, not Brown, but "Digital University." up to a college prank. from Digital alone this sum- mer is approximately five times Brown's normal sum- walkways alongside teen- eas, and staff quarters. Im- Was this a new wrinkle agers from Brown's Summer provements paid for by mer conference income." in the game of corporate Academy and undergradu- Digital included the com- Only a few days before takeovers? ates attending the Universi- plete air-conditioning of freshmen were to arrive for Not at all. Rather, key ty's summer session were cavernous Sayles Hall, orientation late in August, areas around the campus clumps of shirtsleeved Digi- rechristened "The Proving the schedule called for the were transformed for seven tal "students" of thirty- and Ground" and used as a complete dismantling of weeks (June 28-August 26) fortysomething vintage, their closely-guarded display Digital University - until. into a training ground for plastic-clad badges glinting area for millions of dollars perhaps, next year. "Digital 6,000 sales representatives in the sun. worth of new and experi- hasn't told us whether of the Maynard, Massa- The sales reps came to mental Digital computers. they'll be back or not," chusetts-based Digital Equip- Brown 500 at a time for The logistics of air-condi- Henry said as the session ment Corp. Inside and out- three-day training sessions. tioning enough dormitory wound to a close. "But they side Sayles Hall, banners utilizing some forty rooms space for the visitors proved did ask if they amid come and signs echoed the "Digi- transformed by physical impractical, however, and back, and we said, 'Proba- tal University" appellation. plant workers into special- most spent their nights in bly' " Negotiating the Green's ized classrooms, display ar- three local hotels, from In all, the University 12 / SEPTEMBER 19? hosted some 10,000 guests during the summer of 1989 for programs ranging from a wrestling camp to the Coalition of Essential Schools' summer institutes for teachers; from an Ameri- can Lung Association fund- raiser to a meeting of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. There may be fewer parking spaces for year- round employees and longer lines in the Ivy Room when the campus hums all summer, but the financial practicality of increased fa- cilities use may have ren- dered obsolete the quiet, deserted campus of Julys and Augusts past. - A.D. DiGITAT IIXTVERSITY The Sayles Hall interior was a cool (thanks to aii-conditioaing) cathedral of high-tech machinery, dubbed "The Proving Ground. " The class of '93: diverse, talented, . . . and expensive TT I he class of 1993 is by JL all accounts the most racially and socio-economi- cally diverse and one of the most talented Brown has ever admitted. More minor- ity and financial-aid stu- dents accepted Brown's offer of admission than ever before, and, says Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Eric Widmer, the Uni- versity was able to matricu- late an unusually large number of "students at the very top of our applicant pool," including more out- standing science students than in recent years. As of late July, 1,381 students had sent in deposits, and Wid- mer was expecting the actu- al class to total 1,365 after the usual summer "melt." Minority students com- prise 26 percent of the enter- ing class, up from 21 percent last year. And within each group of minorities, num- bers are also up: the number of Hispanic freshmen has risen from 4.2 percent to 6.1, Asian Americans from 9.7 to 12.4 percent, and black Americans from 6.6 to 8.7 percent. All this gain, however, is not without cost. Thirty- eight percent of the entering class is eligible for financial aid (University policy calls for about 30 percent), and filling that need will stretch the University's resources for years to come. For 1989- 90, the increase represents a $1.2 million overrun in the financial-aid budget. "We were over-aggres- sive in our acceptances, and we undercalculated our yield," Widmer says. "No one should expect 38 per- cent Ion financial aid] next year, as well." The vast majority of the financial-aid students who accepted Brown this spring come from very needy fami- lies, as opposed to those with moderate or low needs, says Widmer. "Brown and other institutions have had a lot of difficulty persuad- ing students whose finances allow us to give them small - not large - scholarships that it is worth the money to attend an excellent private university rather than a state school," he says. "We - all of us - are trying to think of ways to lessen the financial impact." The typical family that is suffering, he says, is "one with two parents working, making $60,000 a year. This is their first child to go to college; the others are in public schools. They've managed to pay off their mortgage, and the family has lived fairly parsimo- niously to free itself from debt. They've done all the things a good American family is supposed to do. Only we're obliged by the government to count all that [against themj. By and large, you're better off if you've got a big mortgage and lots of debt." It is, Widmer says, "be- coming increasingly diffi- cult to persuade these people that it's worth $20,000 a year to send their child to a private college." And yet, he says, "These are wonderful students. They are not spoiled; they know how to work hard, and they're willing to do it. Anyone would like to have these students in the class- room." - C.B.H. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 13 Online at the library When the library announced sever- al years ago its intention to computerize the card cata- logue, technophiles on cam- pus were all abuzz about "workstations" and "net- works," gleefully envision- ing a web of scholars, each hunched over a Macintosh or a PC, all linked by phone and computer cables. Infor- mation would fly over those lines, the techies said; you needn't leave your office even to get a book: you could identify it in the cata- logue, see whether it was free, and even read it on your screen. those miles of file cards. Well, the day of reckon- ing has come. The new sys- tem - named Josiah after Brown's apocryphal Profes- sor of Psychoceramics Josi- ah S. Carberry - has been up and running since spring. May 31 saw the last file cards added to the old catalogue, and there are plans to abandon the cards forever. As of July 1, more than 60 percent of the Uni- versity's holdings - includ- ing all books and periodi- cals acquired since 1974 - were listed on Josiah. Each month about 15,000 more entries are being added, and The day of the card catalogue has passed. As of last spring, library users have been using a new computerized catalogue named Josiah after Josiah S. Carberry, patron saint of Brown 's libraries. The traditionalists, how- ever, were less enthusiastic, if resigned to the future. "We like card files, " they said. No computer pro- gram, they fretted, could approximate the serendipity of flipping through a draw- er of index cards, fingers catching an entry here, let- ting two fall there, suddenly happening on a title that only luck could unearth in library staff estimate that by 1991-92, all of the entries in the old card system will be on Josiah. This summer, I decided to give Josiah a try. Since it was late July and a muggy 90 degrees outside, I decid- ed to see if I could wing it from my desk, sans docu- mentation, rather than trek over to the terminals in the library. So 1 logged my little Macintosh on to the Univer- sity's mainframe computer, where Josiah is installed. Then I was stumped: what to do next? I typed "Josiah." It worked. Instead of aisles of wooden drawers filled with index cards, a list of options faced me on the screen: did I want informa- tion about how to use Josi- ah? Information about the catalogue's contents? Did I want to search by author? By subject? By title? By au- thor and title? Author, I de- cided, and typed in "faulk- nerwilliam" (no punctuation necessary, the instructions said). Up popped a list of seventy-seven titles. If 1 had wanted to, I could have printed that list and headed off to the stacks. To give the machine something harder, I typed in the name of a woman who'd recently written a book on religious fimda- mentalism. The book was there, in the Rockefeller But when 1 searched for "funda- mentalism" in the subject files, the book did not ap- pear. It was catalogued, I eventually discovered, un- der "fundamentalist church- es." There is, as the nay-say- ers predicted, no easy elec- tronic equivalent to the file- card flipping that quickly would have led me from "fundamentalism" to "fun- damentalist churches" - mere inches away in a card drawer, but a trickier men- tal leap when faced with the blankness of a computer screen. When I later asked Howard Pasternack, who oversaw Josiah's planning for the library, about this, he quickly showed me several other ways of searching for subject categories that were much more fruitful and less arbitrary. The Library of Congress, he explained, de- termines the subject cate- gories and call numbers for their collection, setting the rules that other U.S. libraries follow. Hitherto, those sub- ject headings have been available in volumes in the library; now they are online, although tapping into that listing requires more train- ing than needed to use Josi- ah's basic menus. Another worry faculty expressed when Josiah was in its planning stages, and which nags at many still, is that a catastrophic failure - "a paramount disaster, like a fire in the card catalogue," says historian Gordon Wood - might occur in the main- frame. Wood's colleague Joan Richards, whose field is the history of science, says she enjoys being able to use Josiah from her office but worries about the decision to phase out the old card catalogue. "It's one thing to use [Josiah]," she says, "an- other to rely on it." Asked about the possi- bility of such a breakdown, Pasternack got up to light a cigarette and puffed on it anxiously. Brown belongs to a group of research libraries, he said, which maintains a central database at Stanford. When Brown acquires a new book, cataloguers first dial into the network, and if the book is already cata- logued they use the infor- mation already there to cre- ate an entry for Josiah; if not, they enter the informa- tion on the network as well as on Josiah. If there were a disaster at Brown, Paster- nack said, it would take time, but the information could be retrieved from the computer at Stanford. A more realistic, if mun- dane, concern is the sheer inconvenience of having the computer "down" when users are up and ready to use it. "The reality of mod- ern life is that computers do go down," he said. "Since Josiah has been in use there 14 / SEPTEMBER 1989 have been two instances of three hours each when Josi- ah was down for more than an hour." On other occa- sions, Josiah has been inac- cessible because of prob- lems with the mainframe. A measure of students' com- fort with the system may be the fact that on those occa- sions, rather than flocking to the old card catalogues, they have simply waited for the machine to recover or gone off to do other work, Pasternack said. "Research is a time-consuming pro- cess, and there are few times when information is time-dependent." Since the beginning of the summer, Josiah has re- ceived 1,300 calls from users, who have conducted 400,000 searches, and re- ceived one million biblio- graphic records. Use is heaviest in the sciences, but humanities faculty, as well as students, appear to be warming to the idea. Within the next three years, the library plans to have not only the catalogue but also circulation informa- tion on line, so that users can indeed determine from their desks whether a book is on the shelf or checked out. And there are plans to purchase periodicals indices for the system that would enable users to locate jour- nal and magazine articles more quickly. But those who fear the demise of the book may put their worries to rest. Read- ing books off the screen, Pasternack says, is not the way of the future. Until the marketplace produces a light, portable, easy-to-look- at screen, books are here to stay. "Our estimate is that less than 10-20 percent of our books will be online by the year 2000. You can ma- nipulate a manuscript on the computer, you can count it, you can tag it, you can edit it, you can reformat it - but you don't want to read it!" - C.B.H. Brown adds $190 million per year to Rhode Island economy, says latest study A report released by Brown last spring concludes that the Universi- ty and its employees, stu- dents, and visitors contri- buted some $190 million to the Rhode Island economy in 1987-88. The total figure has increased by about $100 million since the last such report was compiled in 1977. The sixty-six-page re- port, "Brown University Economic Impact Study," is the work of Associate Pro- fessor of Economics Allan M. Feldman, computer sci- ence graduate student Jak Kirman, and Debbie Fein- stein '89. Included in the total fig- ure are all monies Brown brought into the state. Tu- ition and fees accounted for $59.5 million, and govern- ment grants, $40.9 milion. In addition to bringing money into the local econo- my. Brown spends money close to home. Employees, students, visitors, and the University itself spent about $133 million buying goods and services within Rhode Island. The report also sug- JOHN FORASTE BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 15 gests that, by virtue of its expenditures for goods and services. Brown - the state's fifth-largest employer with 2,800 on the payroll - is in- directly responsible for sus- taining about 3,900 non- Brown jobs in the state. The report includes some interesting nuggets: At Commencement, for in- stance, approximately 4,000 campus visitors stay in area hotels, another 2,900 stay in Brown dormitories, and yet another 3,000 come just for the day. Some 1,300 graduates "are taken out to dinner at good restaurants," the report observes. Students and staff may be gratified to know that they are estimated - "con- servatively" - to contribute $250,000 to the city of Provi- dence via parking fines. Two "Meter Mollys" who spend their working hours issuing parking tickets around Brown and on Thay- er Street were interviewed to provide data for the esti- mate, the report notes. Brown, like other pri- vate non-profit institutions, is scrutinized from time to time by local government officials who speculate about lost income due to the tax-exempt status of Uni- versity property. Brown oc- cupies some 150 acres of the most highly-valued real es- tate in the state, on Provi- dence's East Side, and some of its most lavish and his- toric buildings. Based on rough estimates of the mar- ket value of University property, if Brown's tax ex- emption were lifted, the city of Providence's annual rev- enues would increase by an estimated $10- to $20 mil- lion. While no one inside or outside the University can imagine such a circum- stance coming to pass, clear- ly one motivation behind any institutional impact study is a desire to amelio- rate concerns about "lost" taxes versus the cost of city services. The report points out that Brown paid the city of Providence $22,463 for fire protection, toward a total of $320,000 worth of service provided. Brown's Police and Security Services not only provides on-campus coverage that frees city po- lice for duty elsewhere, it also spends some 10- to 15 percent of its time respond- ing to off-campus incidents. in the process providing about $160,000 worth of po- lice services per year to the city. All told, the city real- izes nearly $2.8 million in property and excise taxes, pohce services, and parking fines from Brown, its em- ployees, and its students. "It's an often overlooked fact that colleges and uni- versities do add to the eco- nomic as well as the cultural and intellectual base in the area where the institution is located," says Robert A. Reichley, vice president for University relations. "This study, which is conservative in its estimates, illustrates the varied and sometimes unexpected ways in which Brown benefits the city and state communities economi- cally." - A.D. Moving on: John Quinn, Charlie Baldwin, and Ted Hail This year has been marked by the depar- ture of three University ad- ministrators who have spent most of the past quar- ter-century at Brown. The Rev. Charles Baldwin, Uni- versity chaplain, and Asso- ciate Dean of the College Edward "Ted" Hail '49 re- tired after thirty and twen- ty-seven years, respectively, of counseling, praying with, and marrying generations University Chaplain Charlie Baldwin on the steps of Manning Chapel, where he has presided over innumerable services and married a generation of alumni. of Brown students. Physicist John Quinn, who has taught at Brown for twenty-four years and served as dean of the faculty since 1986, was named chancellor of the University of Tennessee's Knoxville campus. Quinn had stepped down from his administra- tive post last April, saying that he wanted to return to research and teaching. At the last faculty meeting of the year. President Vartan Gregorian announced Quinn's departure, joking that he wished the new chancellor bad luck at Ten- nessee, so that he might be tempted to return to Brown. Baldwin came to Brown in 1958 as a United Church of Christ chaplain and for 16 / SEPTEMBER 1989 y ^f ^ ^^K r Former Dean of the Faculty John Quinn, right, left Brown this summer to become chcuicellor of the University of Tennessee's Knoxville campus. Associate Dean of the College Ted Hail '49, above, retired after tw/enty-seven years at Brown, twenty of them counseling undergraduates. most of the intervening years has been the senior Univer- sity chaplain. He also, for the past twenty years, has coordinated an exchange with Tougaloo College, a small, historically black school in Mississippi, where he spent the summer and fall of 1987 as acting presi- dent (BAM, May 1988). He plans to spend at least a part of his retirement at Tougaloo. Hail, who joined the ad- mission office in 1962 and then the office of the dean of the College in 1971, has counseled nearly twenty classes of undergraduates. In the early seventies, he advised freshmen, and in recent years, he has been re- sponsible for the junior class. He plans, in his retire- ment, to return to reading folders for the admission of- fice. - C.B.H. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 17 Among those whose research and accomplishments have been featured in the national press during recent months are the following faculty. Children as young as two often develop odd mannerisms, such as squint- ing and blinking. Rather than signaling a neural dis- order, such behaviors may be mild transient tics that usually disappear within a year, according to Rowland Barrett, a Bradley Hospital- based psychologist who is associate professor of psy- chiatry. Such tics are best left alone, he said in the June issue of Parents maga- zine. "If you draw attention to something like eye blink- ing," Barrett explained, "the child may feel ashamed, and that feeling puts him under more stress, which, in turn, exacerbates the tic." The time to consult a FACULTY IN THE NEWS physician, he said, is when the unusual behavior per- sists longer than a year, or when it affects the child so- cially. An Associated Press article on shoplifting in May quoted Associate Pro- fessor of Sociology Phil Brown. Many shoplifters, he said, don't view what they have done as a theft. "They neutralize their criminal behavior by using explanations," Brown told the wire service. "They may say. The store has so much more than 1 do. They don't see how taking something hurts anyone." Shoplifters may be meeting deep-seated emo- tional needs, and their be- havior often is impulsive. Brown said. "People don't necessarily go in believing that they are shoplifting." He cited the case of Margo Adams, former mistress of baseball star Wade Boggs, who was arrested last spring for taking a $258 coat from a California depart- ment store. "There is some psychological need being met, rather than a criminal motivation," Brown sur- mised. To succeed in science, a field in which they are underrepresented and often face gender bias, women need to start serious study earlier than they now do. Professor of Biology Anne Fausto-Sterling told an au- dience at the University of Maryland last winter. "Junior high school is a major time when girls get off the path that could lead them to science," she was quoted in the university's newspaper, the Diamond- back. When they get to high school, girls commonly have fewer math and sci- At the Independent Award dinner in May, celebrants included bonoree President Vartan Gregorian, past award-winner Richard Salomon '32, bonoree Paul Volcker, and Chancellor A.O. Way '51. Gregorian, Volcker receive Independent Awards President Vartan Gre- gorian and former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul A. Volcker are this year's recipients of the Independent Award, presented by the Associated Alumni and the Brown Club in New York at a din- ner in May at the Waldorf- Astoria. An annual presentation, the Independent Award was established in 1985 to "recognize personal accom- plishments and traits charac- teristic of the independence and self-reliance demon- strated by graduates of Brown since its founding in 1764." The sponsors also note "that the history of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations is steeped in the same tradition of independence, as exem- plified by its founder, Roger Williams, and memorialized by the statue of the Indepen- dent Man atop the State Capitol." Previous recipients are Richard Salomon '32 , pub- lisher Malcolm Forbes, Thomas J. Watson, Jr. '37, astronaut Kathryn Sullivan, Vernon Alden '45, Joe Pater- no '50, Artemis A.W. Jou- kowsky '55, businessman H. Ross Perot, and former Brown President Howard R. Swearer. 18 / SEPTEMBER 1989 ence courses than boys of the same age, hindering their ability to compete in college courses. Often, she said, women are steered away from science and math early on. Particularly in the fields of physics and mathematics, Fausto-Sterhng said, wom- en are discouraged from continuing by pervasive ha- rassment. "Physics is the last bastion of rational rea- son," she commented. "That notion of rationality is deeply rooted in our culture as a masculine trait." Why did the dinosaurs die off? Theories abound, and one of the lat- est and most talked-about comes from Associate Pro- fessor of Geology Peter Schultz, who proposes that a huge object - such as an asteroid - hit the Earth at a 15-degree angle, skipped off the surface, and fragmented into thousands of pieces. The resulting dust cloud and meteorite shower last- ing hundreds of thousands of years would have blocked sunlight and wiped out the dinosaurs' food sup- plies. Schultz's theory fits a timetable outlined by fossil experts, who say that the dinosaurs became extinct gradually, not all at once. He presented his theory at the annual international Lunar Planetary Science Conference in Houston, and it was reported in a May ar- ticle by the Associated Press. The inconsolable crying of colicky babies is an ordeal for new parents. Rather than just label all in- fants' suffering as colic, however. Dr. Barry Lester, associate professor of psy- chiatry based at Bradley Hospital, is trying to pin- point the problem. One of his studies, cited Merton Stoltz dies On August 7, as this issue of the BAM went to press, Merton Philip Stoltz '36 A.M., who led Brown through the upheavals of the 1960s and early seventies as provost and three-time acting president, died in Rhode Island Hospital of cancer at the age of seventy-six. A member of the economics faculty since 1941 and an administrator from 1960 until his retirement in 1978, Mr Stoltz may have known the University better than anyone on or off campus. A Wisconsin native and a gradu- ate of the University of Minnesota, where he earned his bachelor's de- gree and doctorate, he came to Brown to teach econometrics, and he headed the economics depart- ment from 1956 until 1964. In 1960, he became associate dean of the graduate school, and in 1964, dean of the University, a position he relin- quished in 1966 when the new pres- ident, Ray Heffner, named him the University's third provost. Mr. Stoltz was acting president in 1969- 70 after Heffner resigned, and again during the summer of 1972 when President Donald Hornig was re- covering from a heart attack. Mr. Stoltz served a third time in the in- terim between Hornig's resignation and President Howard Swearer's arrival in 1977. For his contributions to higher education, Mr. Stoltz re- ceived honorary doctorates from both Brown (1978) and Tougaloo College (1977). A memorial service was held August 15 at the Central Congrega- tional Church in Providence. Mr. Stoltz is survived by his wife, Mar- garet, of Providence, and two daughters, one of whom is Frances A. Walker '65, of Georgetown, On- tario. A more complete account of Mr. Stoltz's contributions to the University will follow in the Octo- ber issue of the BAM. in a May Washington Post ar- ticle, suggests that colic may be due to problems with the vagus nerve that governs the gastrointestinal tract, the esophagus, and the move- ment of the tongue, phar- ynx, and larynx. Colicky babies in his study had in- creased gastric stimulation and stomach tension, possi- bly due to overstimulation of the vagus nerve. Lester's research will try to find ways to help colicky babies better regulate their vagus nerve function. The benefits of exercise to the health- and weight-conscious, and its ef- fects on fetuses in utero whose mothers exercise, were addressed in two arti- cles last winter that cited re- search by Dr. Stanley P. Sady, assistant professor of physiology, who is based at The Miriam Hospital in Providence. Exercise appears to ac- celerate the elimination of fat from the bloodstream. Sady's research showed that endurance athletes cleared injections of fat emulsion from their blood faster than did sedentary men, noted the Plantation Monthly of Florida. A study by Sady and Women & Infants Hospital's Dr. Marshall Carpenter, as- sistant professor of obstet- rics, was the subject of a Neu' York Times "Fitness" column in March. Their ex- periment found that while a moderate exercise program did no harm to a pregnant woman's fetus, after heavy exertion some fetuses' heartbeats slowed. "When you see this decrease, there is concern that there is a de- crease in fetal blood flow and the amount of oxygen in the blood reaching the fe- tus," Sady told the Times. The recommendation for pregnant women who want to exercise: Don't let your heart rate exceed 150. And include a cooling-down pe- riod in your workout; don't stop exercising abruptly. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 19 Sports By James Reinbold The voice of Brown football I ood afternoon, ladies ^i_J and gentlemen, and welcome to Brown Stadium. Here are the starting lineups for today's game." It is a voice heard 'round the East Side, and it belongs to Tom Shola, the public ad- dress announcer for Brown football since 1978. "1 hear it on Saturdays when I'm out raking leaves or cleaning my gutters," a stadium neighbor said re- cently. "I'm not a fan of Brown football, but hearing that voice and the occasion- al cheers of the crowd gives me the feeling that, hey, it's autumn on the East Side of Providence." In tmth, Shola's robust baritone fills the stadium and escapes into the sur- rounding neighborhoods. And although he modestly denies it, his mellifluous voice plays a major role in the total experience of a Brown football game - to fans in the stadium and to those raking leaves nearby. Imagine not being able to enjoy Shola enunciating, "Nick BA DA LA TO on the carry." Or, with well-tem- pered objectivity and crisp- ness, "FIRST down - BROWN." Who is the man behind the voice? Listeners unac- quainted with the unampli- fed version may be pleased to know that Shola and his voice are a perfect match. He is tanned, with a little gray flecking his dark hair. warm and friendly. A few moments after meeting him, you've known him all your life. If your name is James, for example, you're Jimmy in an instant. A retired foot- ball coach, teacher, and later administrator in the Cran- ston, Rhode Island, public school system, he keeps trim in retirement by playing golf. During Shola's under- graduate days at Provi- dence College, from which he graduated in 1952, he worked for WICE-AM, which then broadcast from the recently-razed Rhode Is- land Auditorium. Shola did the news and a sports show. "Back then," he recalls, "you had to say, 'nuews.' You couldn't just say, 'news.'" Around that time, a now- veteran television announcer by the name of Chris Schen- kel came East in search of radio opportimities after gra- duating from Purdue. Schen- kel landed a job at WFCI in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and at Narragansett Race Track. He heard Shola on WICE, and the two teamed to do Brown football broad- casts for a season in the ear- ly 1950s. Their paths soon di- verged. Schenkel went on to New York and "the big time," and Shola abandoned his dream of sportscasting. "When 1 was young, I imag- ined myself out in South Bend doing the Notre Dame- USC game," he says wistful- Tom Shola in the stadmm press box: His dream was to broadcast the Notre Dame-USC game. ly. Instead, he became a high-school English teacher and a football coach. But his radio career didn't fade en- tirely. In the 1960s, he re- placed "the legendary" Jack Cleary as the announcer for the Rhode Island Reds hock- ey team, and also broadcast high-school baseball for Channel 36, Rhode Island's public television station. Shola has never missed announcing a Brown home game in twelve years. He drives from his home in Cranston every Saturday to take his seat in the Jay Barry Memorial Press Box. He an- nounces all games with the same high degree of profes- sionalism, regardless of whether Brown wins or los- es, or plays under skies of deep autumn blue or down- pours of snow, sleet, and rain. Through it all, the voice has prevailed. And so it will in 1989. Shola will practice his lines, speaking into the "cold" mi- crophone while the Brown band is scurrying off the field. He will look at his watch. Then, responding to his own cue, he will switch on the mike and intone: "Good af- ternoon, ladies and gentle- men, and welcome to Brown Stadium. Here are the starting lineups for to- day's game." Football: Never look back Revisionists are already call- ing the 1988 football season a "rebuilding year," as graceful a euphemism for a failed season as has ever been coined. After a 24-24 tie with Yale on opening day at Brown Stadium, the Bears dropped nine straight, including an ignominious defeat at the hands of Columbia, which at least had the decency to break its losing streak earlier in the season against Princeton be- fore thrashing Brown. No one wants to bury the immediate past more quickly than Head Coach John Rosenberg, now in his sixth season. Nineteen- eighty-eight marked the end of four years of steadily-im- proving records, highlight- ed by the 1987 season, when the team went 7-3 and fin- ished second in the Ivy League with a 5-2 record. Rosenberg says this fall fans can expect a deter- mined effort to return to the success of 1987. Last year, he started a number of play- ers who had no prior varsi- ty experience. This year, the Bears have more experience at skill positions on offense and a renewed emphasis on the passing game, directed 20 / SEPTEMBER 1989 by new offensive coordina- tor Les Steckel, head coach of the NFL Minnesota Vikings in 1984-85. On de- fense, there are many re- turning players. "The playing time that the sopho- mores and juniors received last fall should pay divi- dends," Rosenberg says. The Bears will abandon the option offense of last year in favor of a more con- ventional attack. Danny Clark '90, who compiled 1,032 yards in total offense last year, will start at quar- terback. Rich Willis '91, a transfer from the University of Texas-El Paso, has im- pressed the coaching staff with his speed and passing arm and will likely see play- ing time at quarterback as well. Rosenberg says that his wide receivers, led by second-team All-Ivy selec- tion Mike Geroux '91, are "the strongest group I've had at Brown." Geroux made 24 catches for a team- high 448 yards last season. Despite the loss of full- back Lane Wood '89, a strong running backfield comprising a trio of juniors - Nick Badalato, Rodney Vincent, and Wayman Cald- well - returns. The major question on offense is the line, where a group of tal- ented but inexperienced players must develop. Stephen Lins '90, who booted a pair of 47-yard field goals last year, will be back as field-goal kicker. Also on hand will be Pat Graham '92, who was im- pressive with the freshman team last year. Paul Sacco '92 will punt. Rosenberg is looking to several sophomores for con- tributions to the front defen- sive line, as well as Reid Smith (4 sacks) and tackles Chris Raines and Ron Dal- gliesh, all juniors. Brown's top tackier (127), co-captain Jim Burke '90, returns at in- side linebacker along with classmate Steve Kapfer, who had 72 total tackles last year. According to Rosen- berg, the secondary looks especially strong with the return of John Francis '90 at cornerback, George Dzuro '91 at free safety, and Greg Patrick '91 at strong safety. Women's soccer after Hirschauer The task before Coach Phil Pincince is to keep a firm grip on women's soccer's dominance of the Ivy League without his star of the last four years, Theresa Hirschauer '89. The intrigu- ing question is not will he do it, but how will he do it. Pincince faced a similar sit- uation when the 1984 cham- pionship team, 13-1-1 in the regular season and one of the final four in the NCAA championship, graduated its two stars, Gretchen Orr '85 and Teresa Abraham- sohn '85. But Pincince turned around and, with the help of freshman recruit Hirschauer, ran off four more Ivy championships. "This year will set the tone for the women's soccer program in the 1990s," says Pincince. If we falter, he adds. Brown won't enter the next decade as an Ivy pow- er in the eyes of high school recruits. "The fact that we won championships in the '80s," he says, "will mean nothing to the young wom- en we try to recruit in the '90s." Pincince will begin the season with thirteen return- ing players and some eight freshmen. "Strong defense is my philosophy. That will not change," he says. But, quite naturally, "there will be offensive changes." Since her sophomore year, Hirsch- auer was Pincince's main offensive weapon. "Would you tell Wayne Gretsky not to shoot?" he asks rhetori- cally. Among those returning to the lineup are senior co- captains Karin Alderton and Beth Morgan, and Kit Schwartzman; juniors Suzanne Bailey (rookie-of- the-year and two-time All- Ivy), goalie Kathy Tarnoff, Jane Corcoran, and Amy Cubbage; and sophomores Tori Cook, Julie Fuchs, and Annalisa DiChiara. Fall schedules )6 ""■Pf. 23 ^^Pf. 30 Oc(. 7 Oc( ,4 Oct. 2, Oc(. 28 Nov 4 Nov. ij Nov ,8 1989 -» Vale ■"Co ""ceton Men's Soccer 1989 Sept. 12 Sept. 16 Sept. 20 Sept. 23 Sept. 2b Oct. 3 Oct. 6 Oct. 10 Oct. 13 Oct. 17 Oct. 20 Oct. 25 Oct. 27 Oct. 31 Nov. 3 Maine at Yale Providence College Rhode Island at Boston University at Massachusetts Princeton at Boston College at Penn at Fairfield Cornell Connecticut Columbia at Darmouth Harvard V\(oinen' Sept. U Sept. \b Sept- 20 Sept. 23 Sept 24 Sept- 2"^ Oct.'! Oct. 7 Oct. 11 Oct. 14 Oct. 17 Oct. 21 Oct. 25 Oct. 28 Oct. 29 •s soccer 1989 .iHolyCro--* at Vale at Rhode island ,, Darttn""'" WUUam&^A«V Harvard at Connecticut ^:i:-coiie.e at Vermont Bryant Cornell Boston College Columbia at Massachusetts Thirty years at the helm Nineteen-eighty-nine could be a momentous year for Coach Cliff Stevenson. After a lifetime of coaching, he is only eight wins short of 300 career victories, and six vic- tories shy of 250 at Brown. But recent years have not been kind to Stevenson. Losing seasons in the last five, with the exception of 1987 when the team went 8- 7, have left his winning tra- dition staggering. Stevenson may have the talent to turn things around in 1989; but then, that has been the un- fulfilled hope in each of the last five years. Sophomore Steven Lacy, a second-team All-Ivy selec- tion, leads the front line. Last year he led the team with seven goals and three assists. Robert Atkins '90 and Josh Schiller '91 also are veteran front-liners. At midfield, nine players are vying for starting positions. Among them is Brett Buggein, se- nior tri-captain, who split time between forward and midfield last year. Jason Smith '91, who can also play sweeper, is an effective ball controller and could excel at the center midfield position. The back line returns virtually intact. Jeff Fein- gold '92, who started every game at right back as a freshman, is expected to move to left back this fall. Stephen Janetos '91 will start at right back, and se- nior tri-captain John Clough begins his third season as sweeperback. Classmate Aaron Velli, another tri-cap- tain, returns at stopper, where he earned second- team All-Ivy recognition last fall. Sophomore Dan O'Connell, backup goalie last year, stands ready to as- sume the starting role this fall. He showed consider- able promise as a freshman, posting a 2.77 goals-against average and a .550 save per- centage in four games. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 21 By Bruce Fellman s ometime soon, when the first chill of au- tumn has the wood stoves pressed into service, take a minute to watch the smoke rise from a chimney on a calm morning. Or, in warmer climes, you might just as profitably observe the ascent of stack gases from a local factory or power plant, the smoke from a barbecue, even the hellfire-and- brimstone emissions of a volcano. On a windless day, the events are identical. The smoke starts out in orderly ranks, but not far from its source, it begins to move to the beat of a differ- ent drummer. Lockstep snares give way to synco- pation. Cacophony carries the smoke every which way, and in that roiling, turbulent cloud, all order disappears. Or does it? Scientists have tried to understand turbulence ever since the noted English mechanical engineer Osborne Reynolds published his famous paper, "An Experimental Investigation of the Circum- stances Which Determine Whether the Motion of Water Shall Be Direct or Sinuous, and of the Law of Resistance in Parallel Channels," in 1883. Reynolds was the first to describe scientifically what Leonardo da Vinci had sketched in his private notebooks - he put tiny seeds in water cur- rents to help him visualize the flow; Reynolds used dye. Nor was the great painter the first to portray turbulence: the river that Assyrian King Ashur-nasirpal II is depicted as crossing around 850 B.C. was anything but calm. Description, however, is one thing. Getting to the heart of a whirlwind is quite another. "1 have a feeling that just about every great physicist turned to the turbulence problem and was turned back by it," says Professor of Applied Mathematics Law- rence Sirovich. "It has been the hardest problem in science to crack." Brown's Center for Fluid Mechanics, Turbu- lence and Computation (CFMTC), which Sirovich directs, is making strides toward accomplishing what eluded such scientific giants as Kolmogorov, Landau, Taylor, and Heisenberg. "We've had a number of success stories," notes Sirovich. "We're on the leading edge of innovative ideas." Perhaps the most innovative of the CFMTC's ideas is the controversial, and at first glance para- doxical, notion that there is indeed order, even a kind of simplicity, in the apparent chaos of turbu- lent motion. In fact, to the physicist and mathe- n in we th fc 22 / SEPTEMBER 1989 Photographs by John Foraste whirlwind "Simplify, simplify. . . - Henry David Thoreau, Walden // BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 23 A "deceptively simple set of equations" developed by nineteenth-century mathema- ticians Navier and Stokes helps postdoctoral reseeurchers Kenny Brever, Richard Everson, and Ken Ball to achieve computerized turbulence simulations. matician, chaos, which most of us think of as utter randomness, isn't chaotic anymore. It has a struc- ture, along with universal features that can be cap- tured and mimicked on the computer. From chaos theory has come the key to unlocking the secrets of turbulence. And, as Sirovich points out, the key arrives not a moment too soon. Turbulence is all around us: in the weather, in the oceans, in the combustion reac- tions that power engines, in the air that causes knuckleballs to dance and dimpled golf balls to sail. So understanding and controlling what ap- pears to be unfathomable and uncontrollable is of more than academic interest. "There are many tangible payoffs of turbulence research," says Sirovich. "Let's take airplane flight, for example. A good deal of the flow over the wings is turbulent, and this isn't good: it increases drag, which in turn increases fuel consumption. There are estimates that for each one-percent re- duction achieved in drag, we will save ourselves one billion dollars per year in fuel costs - and that's just for commercial airliners. There's no the- oretical reason why we can't reduce drag." On the other hand, he continues, increasing tur- bulence is sometimes beneficial. It greatly increas- es heat transport - the driving force behind the weather and ocean currents - and the increase has widespread applications throughout industry and everyday life. "If you want to mix up a can of paint," Sirovich adds, "you've got to make sure that the pigment is distributed throughout the can, and then the pro- cess of diffusion takes over. But by itself, diffusion is not very effective. Turbulence can increase the diffusion rate by creating more surface area, which gives the process more opportunity to take place." Up to a point, the increase can improve all sorts of chemical reactions, particularly those relat- ed to combustion. In your car's engine, for in- stance, controlled turbulence means more efficient fuel use and fewer pollutants, both of which trans- late into substantial savings. Then too, "maybe it's just good for us to under- stand it better," suggests Professor of Applied Mathematics Frederic Bisshopp, one of the CFMTC's nearly four dozen members. Turbulence, after all, is among the last intellectual frontiers. The center was officially opened in the summer of 1988 to explore that frontier. Before then, turbu- lence research at the University had been compar- atively modest and scattered, Sirovich explains. That changed in October 1986, when Brown won a highly coveted $10-million University Research Initiative (URI) grant from the U.S. Department of Defense. One hundred and eighteen institutions entered the competition, which was sponsored by the DOD's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agen- cy. DARPA's mission is to facilitate fundamental science, the kind of research that leads to an un- derstanding of how to build a better mousetrap. 24 / SEPTEMBER 198 It's a risky business in terms of immediate payoffs. But as far as the Defense Department is concerned, basic science is critical to meeting this country's grander research goals, one of which is to compre- hend and control turbulence. The center was among eighteen organizations receiving the URI awards, and its share of the pie - $2 million a year for five years - was one of the largest grants. "It allowed us to gain an eminent position almost overnight," says Sirovich. them vortices - that form during combustion. His research may lead to cleaner, leaner car engines - and maybe a workable propulsion system for the "Orient Express," the space plane currently being developed to whisk travelers from New York to Tokyo in two hours. "If we can create vortices where and when we want them," he says, "we might be able to achieve the supersonic mixing we need." In the CFMTC, there are researchers simulating A collaborative effort of the Divisions of Applied Mathematics and Engineering, the CFMTC headquarters is in a splendidly restored and sur- prisingly traditional (for an ultra-high-tech en- deavor) brick building at 37 Manning Street. It is a busy place, humming with computers of every stripe, and linked by direct lines to the fastest su- percomputers in existence. It is also humming with ideas. "I'm working on intelligent arithmetic," says Bisshopp. He is trying to figure out what happens when two flows meet, a phenomenon he describes by saying, "Imagine blowing two fans at one an- other in an airplane hangar." His applied mathematics colleague. Associate Professor Martin Maxey, is attempting to piece to- gether a blow-by-blow account of the mixing pro- cess on scales as small as the wrinkled interface of a salt concentration and as large as the heat trans- port of the atmosphere. "If you're making a cake," Maxey explains, "there's the easy, initial mixing, but then you have to work at getting an even con- sistency. I'm interested in fine-scale mixing, which is what's actually homogenizing things." Another applied mathematician. Assistant Pro- fessor Eckart Meiburg, specializes in fluid mechan- ics. He models the maelstroms - scientists call The dots in this computer simulation produced at Brown's Center for Fluid Mechanics represent hydrogen bubbles which are used to track flows in water channels. Here, fluid is being pushed from left to right through a box. Friction between the fluid and the top and bottom walls retards the flow, while the flow accelerates in the center of the channel, resulting in a roughly parabolic profile. (Computer simulation by Ken Ball, Carl Quillen, Eric Voth. Audrey Rogerson, Sam Fulcomer, Lawrence Sirovich, and Laurence Keefe.) flow patterns on computers. There are engineers across Manning Street at the Prince Laboratory and also at Yale running experiments that provide numbers to feed into the simulations and that serve as reality checks on the computer work. Sci- entists try to envision flow fields that live in 10 million dimensions, as well as those that reside in 2.06 dimensions. These are heady times for the center. To under- stand what put a relatively unknown research pro- gram in the DARPA funding winner's circle, it is helpful to look first at a very special kind of por- trait, which turns out to be a new way to look at turbulence. It's also helpful to squint. Hard. "One night before my head hit the pillow, I had this idea," recalls Sirovich about the method he and then-graduate student Michael Kirby '89 Ph.D. began developing five years ago to deter- mine how little information was necessary to rec- ognize a face. The researchers knew that they could recreate a reasonably good photograph on a computer by dividing the screen into a grid 100 squares high by 100 squares wide, and then as- signing one of sixty-four gray shades to each of the 10,000 squares. "The picture would be grainy, but you could recognize yourself, your friends, or your rela- BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 25 tives," Sirovich explains. "However, in reality we recognize each other in milliseconds, and it's pret- ty hard to imagine that our brains process 10,000 pieces of information every time we do it." Most likely, our brains make do with far less - the equivalent of the information conveyed by the briefest glance in bad lighting conditions, as if we were looking with our eyes nearly closed. So, Sirovich wondered, could he and Kirby come up with a set of mathematical functions that, like the human recognition process, performed reductive wizardry? To find out, the scientists set up a video camera in the lobby of the Barus and Holley Building and began assembling a "Rogue's Gallery" of faces. For the initial analysis, they chose a population of 150 beardless, eyeglass-less, white males. Then they set about discovering what the cameos had in common, and what made them distinct. "People look alike, in the sense that they have two eyes, a nose, a mouth, and so forth," Kirby ex- plains. "So we had to somehow capture the infor- mation of their being the same, while highlighting their differences. You see a lot of the same thing in turbulence - there are recurring patterns in a tur- bulent flow that have the same general features, but the flows are also highly dissimilar." In mathematical terms, what they needed was a "face-specific coordinate system," says Kirby. "It would throw away all the unnecessary complexity, the excess baggage, and reproduce the face as a fixed set of functions." Sirovich had devoted much of his career to in- vestigating what are called "eigenfunctions" - eigen is the German word for "characteristic" - and he suspected that they and a procedure known as "Karhunen-Loeve decomposition" would do the trick. He was right. The researchers found that a mere forty pieces of information were needed to generate a recog- nizable "eigenface." Forty - not 10,000. The modus operandi that reduced a human por- trait to its essential details has become the corner- stone of the center's effort to find Waldenesque simplicity in the whirlwind of turbulence. As an example of how it works, consider the Benard con- vection problem. At the turn of the century, the French physician H. Benard made detailed obser- vations of what happens to a fluid when it is heat- ed in a pan. In this watershed study, he discovered that "cells" of fluid move in definite patterns. One of the center's major triumphs has been an exceedingly economical computer simulation of Benard convection. Sirovich explains that more than 100 years ago, two mathematicians by the names of Navier and Stokes created a deceptively simple set of equations that could be used to map the positions of every parcel of fluid in a particular flow. For the Benard problem, the traditional "no brain, brute force" approach involves working with 100,000 equations at once. Although this is a large number, it can be handled easily by super- computers, the fastest of which can process 10 mil- lion equations per second. But by using the eigenpicture technique, Siro- vich was able to reduce these 100,000 equations to a mere 400. And now, CFMTC Research Associate Kenneth Ball is attempting to reduce the one mil- lion equations it typically takes to simulate fluid flowing through a channel to 1,000 equations. s implify, simplify. Einstein's far-seeing eyes may gaze out from the director's office over the CFMTC's efforts, but everywhere you seem to hear Thoreau's voice chanting its reductionist mantra. The reductionist approach allows scientists to concentrate on the dynamics of turbulence. "We can go in and deal with causes," says Sirovich. "But if the system is too large, we have to give up the physics." Simpler, but nonetheless real, systems are es- sential to a complete understanding of real turbu- lence. "The biggest computers we have today can't even touch the problem," notes Ken Ball. "Imagine you're an ecologist and you want to study the for- est in the same way we study turbulence. You not only have to look at the trees, you also have to in- vestigate the bacteria, the algae, the mites, and the insects. And you have to look at everything at once." That would seem to be an impossible task, but recent theoretical advances at Brown and else- where suggest that the problem is more accurately described as extremely difficult. Turbulence is not infinite; it's just big. And in theory, it is manage- able, particularly if Karhunen-Loeve decomposi- tion can shrink it down to size. "Even a flow that doesn't seem to have much structure actually has one," Ball explains. "We're looking for ways to pull out that underlying struc- ture, and if we can approximate the important things that are going on in a flow, then maybe what's left isn't important." Scientists call these important things "coherent structures." In Research Associate Tony Howes's spectacular computer simulations of fluid sloshing back and forth in a tube, it is beautifully clear that there are repeated eddy currents in the flow. The feeling among many researchers is that most of the action in turbulence can be found in such recur- ring eddies, whirlpools, hairpin vortices, smoke rings, and thermal plumes. Professor of Engineering Sture K.F. Karlsson monitors the birth, life, and death of vortical dervishes in a twenty-yard-long wind tunnel in- side the cavernous Prince Laboratory. Built more than twenty-five years ago, the weighty steel and plastic structure can generate hurricane-force winds. In 1986, it was modified for an ongoing ex- 26 / SEPTEMBER 1989 Professor Sture Karlsson's twenty-yard-long tunnel in the Prince Laboratory can generate hurricane- force winds. periment that examines the behavior of a fluid - in this case, air - in the transition zone between smooth, or laminar, flow and truly turbulent mo- tion. "We're on the verge of being able to predict turbulent flows, and that ability will have a tremendous impact on all sorts of design prob- lems, such as wings, airplanes, automobiles, and turbines," says the soft-spoken Karlsson. "But tur- bulence is very elusive, and even in the transition area, strange things can happen." The wind tunnel is the CFMTC's anchor to re- ahty, a way to test whether the elegant computer simulations are generating sense or nonsense. Karlsson's experiments are building a detailed pic- ture of what happens when flows of different ve- locities meet, a situation that might take place when a rock parts the waters of a stream, or when air encounters an airplane wing. To create this "shear layer," Karlsson divided the wind tunnel's flow chamber into two halves with a splitter plate. The wind speed on top is about fifteen miles per hour; on the bottom it is roughly half that. A series of specially-designed screens calms the inherent disturbances of both air streams. "The turbulence level is as low as any wind tunnel in the world," he notes proudly. An exceedingly sensitive device called a "hot wire anemometer" monitors the area where the two flows come together. The business end of this measuring instrument consists of an X of two plat- inum-rhodium wires, each much thinner than a human hair. The probe is heated electronically to a standard temperature, and as the air blows over the wires, a sensor monitors how much electrical current it takes to prevent any cooling. This energy difference is then translated into wind speed. A computer gathers information and directs the movements of the probe as it takes measure- ments in flve-millimeter increments, beginning at the splitter plate and ending at a point flfty cen- timeters (about half a yard) away. This traverse is repeated above and below the plate in two mil- limeter increments until an eighty-millimeter space is sampled. The entire procedure takes twenty-four hours, and because the flow is so consistent, the end re- sult is the equivalent of an instantaneous, two-di- mensional snapshot. It shows spiral structures that look like galaxies being spun out of the merging airstream. The sampling runs have been repeated many times over the last three years, and the same vortices emerge time and again. While these vor- tices look like the genuine article, Karlsson notes that the portrait he's created is still only the equiv- alent of a caricature. "To study real turbulence," he says, "a three-dimensional view is essential." Achieving such a view is the ultimate goal of his current research. The research being conducted by Sirovich and the numerical simulators is headed in the same di- rection as Karlsson's; it's just taking a different route. "As computers get bigger and bigger," Sirovich notes, "our goal becomes more realizable. We have problems we're just sitting on, waiting for the right computer to come along." The weather, ocean currents, stellar atmo- spheres, heat transfer processes in industry - at their core is turbulence. "The techniques and methods we've developed can be carried over to help understand such problems," says Sirovich. Despite his enthusiasm, however, he refuses to predict when the whirlwind might be tamed. "1 have no crystal ball," he laughs. "But 1 think we'll be in business a long time." Q Bruce Fellman '72 writes about science from North Stonington, Connecticut. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 27 fe , Introducing the worlds first fulty automatic Quattro^ drive. :>:-i.j&«is' ^Ju^iUUHliillil 'aji.„ Starts InThe Streets. ^ The new Audi V8. For a closer look, call 1-800-FOR-AUDI. (^^ The Alternate Route. The rumors have hit the tabloids. TV talk- show hostess Oprah Winfrey, the celebri- ty press informs us, is putting back on some of the sixty-seven pounds she lost on a supervised liquid diet last year While the BAM's investigative reporters are unable to verify the resurgence of Winfrey's weight woes, a reliable source confirms that the odds are in favor of Oprah's much-ballyhooed size-10 Calvins getting a bit snug these days. Maybe even impossible to zip. "The life cycle of a diet is approximately five years," says Thomas A. Wadden '75, a psycholo- gist who is a member of the University of Pennsyl- vania's Obesity Research Group, and one of the WEIGHTY MATTERS today's ultra-slim body ideal has given rise to a thriving consumer market for fitness centers, weight-loss clinics, and books promising weight loss without (or with minimal) suffering. Those who can pinch an inch, or more, and who want to join the ranks of the fashionably svelte without necessarily spending thousands of dollars on commercial programs and products can learn a thing or two from Tom Wadden's research. Some of it, like the prognosis for weight regain af- ter completing a low-calorie diet, seems disheart- ening. But Wadden, a genial (and congenitally slender) man who sympathizes with his over- weight patients, doesn't stop at conveying the bad news; he proffers information that, if employed. Fat is out, thin is in, and psychol- ogist Tom Wadden '75 is a busy man. His research on obesity offers new insights into losing weight and keeping it off country's foremost experts on obesity and weight loss. For Winfrey and others who lose fifty or more pounds through dieting, statistics compiled recent- ly by Wadden and his colleagues are rather dis- couraging. The majority of such dieters regain one- third of their lost weight within a year, two-thirds By Anne Diffily of it in three years, and all of it after five years, he says. Illustrations by Wadden doesn't mind pointing this out even Fred Lynch though Sandoz Nutrition, the company that mar- kets Oprah's diet, Optifast, funds some of his own research. His motivation for becoming a psycholo- gist was to help people, and to that end he freely shares his insights on how - or perhaps the ques- tion is (/ - the chronically overweight can pare their extra poundage, permanently. One of the ironies of American life in the late twentieth century is that we are a people devoted to the ideal of slenderness as no previous generation was, yet as a population we are twice as obese as were our ancestors in 1900. (Some 27 percent of all American women, and 23 percent of men, are 20 percent or more over their ideal weight - double the statistics for 1900.) For all our calorie-obsession, our aerobic workouts and fast-walking fads, our newfound preference for white meat and fish over beef, we keep getting fatter The dissonance between chubby reality and can set the perennial dieter on a more constructive path. First of all, he delivers a bracing antidote to the stereotypical image of all overweight people as gluttons who have binged themselves into the plus-size department. This, he says, is one of the "myths of the obese person" - a set of derogatory misconceptions that are hurtful and, in many cas- es, incorrect. "Most people think that the obese eat too much, and that if they would just change their eat- ing habits they wouldn't have a weight problem," Wadden says. Diet does affect weight, he explains, but some people simply are programmed to be heavier than others. "Nineteen out of twenty stud- ies show no difference in caloric intake between overweight and lean people," he says. "That sounds absurd, and people wonder, 'How can they not he eating too much if they're getting fat?' The answer is that they are eating too much - but for their metabolisms." If you think you eat moderately and wonder why you're still chunky, take a look at your par- ents and grandparents. Chances are, you'll recog- nize an all-too-familiar body type. "Obesity is highly heritable. My colleague, Donald Stunkard [founder of the Obesity Research Group at Penn], has studied this," Wadden says. "Usually you talk about heritability on a scale of zero to one, with one being the highest. The heri- tability estimates for obesity are coming out be- BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 31 A new look at Height weight goals by height Weight for men and women by age (in lbs and age ft -111 25 35 45 55 65 4-10 84-111 92-119 99-127 107-135 115-142 4-11 87-115 95-123 103-131 111-139 119-147 5-0 90-119 98-127 106-135 114-143 123-152 5-1 93-123 101-131 110-140 118-148 127-157 5-2 96-127 105-136 113-144 122-153 131-163 5-3 99-131 108-140 117-149 126-158 135-168 5-4 102-135 112-145 121-154 130-163 140-173 5-5 106-140 115-149 125-159 134-168 144-179 5-6 109-144 119-154 129-164 138-174 148-184 5-7 112-148 122-159 133-169 143-179 153-190 5-8 116-153 126-163 137-174 147-184 158-196 5-9 119-157 130-168 141-179 151-190 162-201 5-10 122-162 134-173 145-184 156-195 167-207 5-11 126-167 137-178 149-190 160-201 172-213 6-0 129-171 141-183 153-195 165-207 177-219 6-1 133-176 145-188 157-200 169-213 182-225 6-2 137-181 149-194 162-206 174-219 187-232 6-3 141-186 153-199 166-212 179-225 192-238 6-4 144-191 157-205 171-218 184-231 197-244 ■ ■-■««. A research team led by Dr. Reubin Andres at the National Listi- tute on Aging devel- oped this chart of recommended adult weights. Tom Wad- den prefers this over the widely-used Metropolitan Life Insurance Company table because it allows for normal weight increases due to aging. The table appUes to both men and women. tween .7 and .85. For comparison, the heritability of height is .9." One objection to such findings, Wadden adds, has come from researchers who emphasize envi- ronmental causes of obesity, such as family dietary customs. They point out that heavy parents could merely be passing along their "fat" eating patterns to children. To counter such arguments, "Stunkard got Danish adoption records," says Wadden. "He selected 140 children who had been adopted at birth and located them as adults. He found no re- semblance in their weight to the adoptive parents, but a far greater resemblance to the weight of the biological parents." A different study, focusing on identical twins who were raised separately, is yielding similar heritability statistics. "So if you are somebody who tends to have this heritability for obesity," Wadden says, "it probably will be harder to control your weight. We're a good five to ten years from knowing where the gene is that determines weight, but we can say that what probably is inherited is a low metabolic rate. Some people just constitutionally need to eat less than other people do." The Penn obesity researchers found this illus- trated dramatically during a recent study. The team observed five women, all of whom weighed more than 240 pounds, and predicted that their metabolic rates based on their age, height, weight, and sex would cause them to burn about 1,700 calories per day. But when the researchers mea- sured the women's actual metabolic rates, using a breathing tube that registers oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide output, they found that the subjects' daily calorie expenditures ranged widely - between 1,200 and 2,200 calories per day. "If you took the two women with the lowest and highest metabolic rates," Wadden points out, "and put them on the same diet, one would lose two pounds a week more than the other. "What many people don't know about basal metabolic rate - the number of calories that your body burns at rest - is that it accounts for the greatest part of your daily calorie expenditure," Wadden adds. "If you just stayed in bed all day and didn't move, you would still burn about 70 percent of your normal daily calories. Exercise ac- counts for only 20 percent of the expenditure, and the thermic effect of food - the calories you burn while digesting and absorbing it - accounts for 10 percent." What's a plump person with familial overweight tendencies to do? The answer, suggests Wadden, is to work on those fac- tors that you can control. Exercise, for one. "If you're born with overweight genes, exercise does seem to protect you from becoming obese," Wadden says encouragingly. "There have been studies in which rats that are genetically pro- grammed to be obese are given access to running cages. These animals turn out to be only about half as obese as their sedentary brethren." Even though twice as many Americans are obese today as their predecessors were in 1900, Wadden says, "supposedly the average American is eating 3 to 10 percent fewer calories per day than people did in 1900. Something is wrong with this picture. "What's wrong is that people are far less physi- cally active. We've gone from an agrarian society to an industrial society, and now to more of a ser- vice economy. The phone company has statistics showing that with an extension phone in your house, you'll save seventy miles of walking in one year. But that's equivalent to a two-pound annual weight gain." The ubiquity of automobiles and the high sta- tus of desk jobs requiring little physical effort also conspire to make us prone to piling on extra pounds. Not only are we not walking as much, we aren't even using our fingers as strenuously: "If you switch from a manual typewriter to an electric one," Wadden says, "you'll gain four pounds a year. But if you use a computer, where you have all your files stored in one place and you don't have to get up and retrieve them physically, I'm sure you'll gain six to seven pounds a year." In early August, the Centers for Disease Con- trol released new figures showing that while about one-half of all overweight American adults are consciously limiting their calorie intake to control their weight, only about one-third are increasing their physical activity. "Physical activity appears to be the limiting factor" in weight loss, the CDC 32 / SEPTEMBER 1989 Tom Wadden: 'Grandma didn't grow up with Hostess Ho-Ho's' concluded. The weight-loss strategies employed by most people, it said, emphasize diet "without adequately addressing the benefits of physical ac- tivity." "The biggest implication of this for the treat- ment of obesity is that we do everything we can to get people to increase their lifestyle activity," Wad- den says. This doesn't necessarily mean grueling workouts at the local fitness center, but rather an across-the-board increase in activity: using stairs instead of escalators or elevators, parking farther from the office or getting off the bus several stops early, removing extension phones, even easing up on the kids. Instead of shouting upstairs, "Billy, would you bring me my sweater?" the vigilant lifestyle-modifier should leave the easy chair and get it him- or herself. r ^^^^ onsistent, moderate exercise will help ^^^ control weight. But what about intake? Everyone knows about counting calories, and whatever one's metabolic rate, the basic equation remains: more calories = more pounds. Lately, however, Wadden and other researchers have found that there are calories and there are calories. Simply stated, eating fat makes us fat. "The biggest problem with what Americans eat is the fat content," Wadden explains. "For exam- ple, in most fast foods, about 55 percent of the calories come from fat. It now appears that calories from fat are very different from the calories of car- bohydrates or protein. Dietary fat is stored on your body with far greater efficiency than are calories from the other two. Thus, if you're eating fat calo- ries, more of those calories are going to end up be- ing converted to body fat. A pint of Haagen-Daazs is 1,200 calories, and most of that is fat." At the turn of the century, he reiterated, Ameri- cans ate more calories than they do now. "But those diets averaged only between 30- and 32-per- cent fat; they were high in complex carbohydrates - starches, vegetables, legumes," Wadden says. To- day's American diet derives about 40 percent of its calories from fat, rather than the 30 percent recom- mended by nutritionists. "Obviously our grandparents ate a lot of things that were horrendous for them - sausages; eggs every day. And there's no question that we've de- creased the incidence of heart disease by cutting down on some of these. But our grandparents were still eating these foods in the context of a lot of carbohydrates. Your grandmother didn't grow up with Hostess Ho-Ho's; she didn't grow up with McDonald's. You have a whole new generation, the McDonald's generation, and these new eating patterns have affected their weight." Rats given diets that simulate modern, high-fat American diets - including chocolate bars, Chee- tos, sweetened condensed milk, and peanut butter - increase their body fat by one-third, says Wad- den. "These studies demonstrate that even though the rats have a 'set-point' that tends to keep their weight constant, if you give them the kind of junk we eat, they too will become obese. "There really is no such thing as an animal, or a human, that has a true 'set weight' that can't be af- fected to some extent by diet and exercise. It clear- ly is the case that if you exercise more and eat a diet high in carbohydrates and protein, and low in fat, you will regain some control over your weight." Tom Wadden didn't start out to be a fat specialist. "1 had no idea 1 would end up working in this area," he says with a smile. He de- scribes himself as "a typical undergraduate of the early '70s, interested in the helping professions, trying to serve fellow man." He majored in psychology at Brown, chafing to get away from the department's highly-regarded experimental orientation and into more clinical work. At the University of North Carolina /Chapel Hill, he worked toward his Ph.D. with the idea of setting up shop eventually as a clinical psycho- therapist. To his surprise, his studies of clinical ap- proaches ultimately steered him back to a research career. "As I read the literature on psychotherapy, I found there were at that time about 420 psycho- therapies all vying for the title of the best," he laughs. "It was a bit hke religion, with all the ma- jor religions saying, 'This is the truth.' So 1 decided that because 1 wanted to help people, 1 would have to do some research to determine what treatments were effective." BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 33 One approach to modifying human behavior that Wadden, like many psychologists-in-training, studied was hypnosis. Because weight gain or loss provided easily-measurable therapeutic results, he tested the effect of hypnosis on weight control. What he found was that patient motivation to lose weight - not the use of hypnosis - was the key fac- tor in predicting success. "As a consequence of that study," Wadden says, "I went on to look at weight in a serious fashion," first with diabetic pa- tients at North Carolina Memorial Hospital who needed to lower their blood sugar by losing weight, then at the Veterans Administration Medi- cal Center in Boston (during which time he got reacquainted with a college friend, Jan Linowitz '75, who is now his wife), and beginning in 1981, with Penn's Obesity Research Group. His f'st project at Penn involved trying to im- prove the treatment of significantly overweight people, those who are forty to fifty pounds over- weight. At that level of obesity, medical risks come into play: hypertension, diabetes, gall bladder dis- ease, and others. "We put them on low-calorie diets of between 400 and 800 calories per day," Wadden says. "This included large amounts of protein. That's not a gimmick, by the way - when the body is fasting, it starts breaking down its own protein to provide glucose for the brain; it gets this from muscle tis- sue. So if you include a lot of dietary protein dur- ing a low-calorie diet, you preserve that lean mus- cle tissue." The weight-loss strategy proved successful; people lost large amounts of weight in a relatively short time. "Unfortunately," Wadden says, "they paid far more attention to losing weight, which of course is far more exciting, than they did to main- taining the loss. Getting pounds off is the easiest part of a weight-loss program, but maintaining the new weight is a lot harder. People tend to think the diet is over when the thin lady sings." Alas, the glorious day when the bathroom scale registers a dieter's goal weight is not the end, but merely the beginning of a lifelong fight against fat. To assist the patients they were studying, the Penn team added four months of behavioral thera- py to the low-calorie diet, with encouraging re- sults. "With the therapy, those who lost forty-five pounds had kept forty of those pounds off one year later." Today, Wadden recommends that for every month a dieter spends losing weight, he or she spend at least one additional month in a main- tenance program. "I see the minimum period of treatment for significantly overweight people as being six months to take off the weight, and six months learning how to maintain the loss. If you spend any less time than that, you're just inviting disaster." In a more recent study, Wadden and his col- leagues found that overweight subjects on 1,200- calorie diets with no behavioral modification or other training lost thirty pounds in four months. but regained two-thirds of that loss within a year. With behavior therapy to modify their lifestyles, the patients regained some weight, but not as much - "between one-quarter and one-third of it within a year. Clearly the therapy has some effect." Still, that five-year limit on diet efficacy seems to apply, even when a dieter receives lifestyle training and support. In response to that discour- aging prognosis, Wadden says, a new consumer market is being developed. "You're going to see more and more hospital programs and commercial weight-loss programs offering lifetime weight management," he predicts. "It's like taking out a mortgage on your house. You put down this enor- mous payment to lose the weight; then on a monthly basis you'll go back and pay for upkeep on your body." What about the publicized dangers of dieting, regaining weight, and dieting again - so-called yo- yo dieting? Some researchers at Penn and else- where feel the dangers to one's health from this pattern suggest that overweight people might be healthier just staying as they are. Wadden believes such alleged dangers have not been proven, but he hopes that further large-scale studies will determine whether significant weight fluctuations increase the risk of heart disease. He is less concerned about a current theory advanced by his Penn colleague, Kelly Brownell, that dieting permanently lowers one's metabolic rate, thus making subsequent diets even more difficult. "I disagree with Kelly. There is very little data to sup- port this," Wadden says, "and many metabolic studies say that this is not the case." The metabo- lism does drop during a diet, he says, but this is due to food deprivation and is temporary. He continues to study very-low-calorie diets, such as Sandoz's Optifast program so dramatically employed by Oprah Winfrey, because he feels they may be useful. "If these people had not been treat- ed," he says of low-calorie "graduates" who may eventually regain some or all of their weight, "how heavy would they be five years later? Most studies suggest they would probably be ten pounds heav- ier than when they started. So maybe they arrested some of this obesity. And, did the people treated with the diet have health benefits from it? Were they freer from medical complications? How about improved psychological consequences? These are things we're going to look at in further studies." The psychological boost obese people get when they begin to lose weight is one reason the new low-calorie, supervised diets are so popular, despite their relatively high cost (an aver- age of $2,800, usually not covered by health insur- ance). Dieters see results quickly, within about twenty-six weeks, and lose an average of fifty-sev- en pounds. While Wadden, as a psychologist, is always 34 / SEPTEMBER 1989 Save those clothes: The average dieter regains his lost weight within five years gratified when people are happier with them- selves, he also is concerned about the severe soci- etal pressure to be thin that afflicts women, partic- ularly in upper-income groups. "You see the great- est liability [for being overweight] among the up- per and middle classes, where only 5 percent and 15 percent, respectively, are overweight. Weight dissatisfaction and figure dissatisfaction become neurotic traits for many teenage girls and young adults," often leading to the devastating disorders of anorexia nervosa and bulimia. In fact, Wadden points out, it is actually men who are at greater risk of weight-related health complications than women. Men tend to carry ex- tra weight on their upper body and chest, a profile that has proven to be at high risk for heart prob- lems and other disorders. Women, on the other hand, tend to carry their weight where nature in- tended them to; on their hips and thighs. "The femoral fat pad on the thigh," Wadden explains, "provides women with energy for lactation. Child- bearing is why women have greater energy stores [of fat]. This is why it's harder for women to lose weight; they are programmed to be fatter than are men." From a bookshelf in his small office, he hauls down a reproduction of an ancient stone carving of an idealized woman: she is all enor- mous thighs, belly, and breast. "Does that carving make any of your patients feel better?" Wadden is asked. "1 think it does," he replies with a laugh. The male/female weight dichotomy is partially explained by the types of fat cells each sex tends to accumulate. "There are two types of fat cells," Wadden says. "You can have too many fat cells, but they are of normal size; and you can have nor- mal numbers of cells, but the cells are larger. The harm seems to come from the latter, and this is what we find in obese males. Women usually have normal-sized cells, just more of them. Many wom- en can have 'excess' weight and never have any health complications; their bodies are exactly where they were programmed to be." In this vein, Wadden applauds the refreshing attitude of First Lady Barbara Bush, who projects a positive image of a woman comfortable with her weight. On the other hand, he says, "Nancy Rea- gan's message [that emaciation is desirable] was horrifying." While Oprah Winfrey undeniably looked terrif- ic after her diet, he adds, she was a disappoint- ment to him because "she had done so much to say, 'You can be a big woman and still be confident and appealing.' And then she sells out!" Obesity, Wadden says, has been proven to be a greater social liability than almost any physical handicap. Even young children, when shown pic- tures of children with missing limbs, others in wheelchairs, and an obese child, will select the obese child as the least desirable to know; they de- scribe him as being lazy, sloppy, and unlikely to do his homework. "That stuff tears your heart out," says Wadden. "It proves that obesity is still viewed as a moral problem, not as a disorder and a dis- ease. We don't blame people for having cancer or gall bladder problems, but obese people run into incredible animosity." Whether an overweight person decides to beat his or her obesity - by modest diet and activity changes for the slightly overweight, by low-calorie diets and behavior modification for the moderate- ly obese, and by more drastic measures such as surgery and stomach-stapling for those weighing 100 pounds or more over their ideal weight - or to get comfortable with it, as the publisher of Big, Beautiful Woman magazine urges, Tom Wadden and his colleagues are finding ways to smooth the path. Someday there may be gene therapy to help those whose genetic destinies seem to condemn them to a lifetime of battling blubber But, Wadden points out, "despite the fact that obesity has been around for the 6,000 years of recorded history, there still is not a universally successful treat- ment." As a clinical-turned-biological psychologist who remains true to his original motivation, help- ing people, Wadden feels both an urgency and a fascination with his field. "Obesity is such a bizarre disorder," he says. "You can study it from the standpoint of psychology, genetics, metabo- lism, physiology, physical anthropology, sociology - and still not cover all aspects of it. My reward is in studying it, and in helping people by providing some guidance as to what seems to work, and what doesn't. It's really very gratifying." EI BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 35 '^^. ml /'/, /J: By Don Marschner '29 Illustrations by Ted Dewan '83 Out ofthe Rat Race, Into the Paper Chase here I was, a fifty-one-year-old ex-advertising man in the midst of a drastic career change, careening down the railroad tracks toward the Mamaroneck commuter station as fast as my poor old middle-aged legs could carry me - when suddenly I hit an icy spot on one of the ties, skidded wildly, tripped over my own feet, and went flying through the air - briefcase, books, and bifocals all sail- ing in different directions. I remember the thought that flashed through my mind as I became airborne: "Why, oh why, was 1 ever dumb enough to get my- self into this ridiculous situation?" But let's backtrack a bit. 36 / SEPTEMBER 1989 I was past fifty when I decided to quit mv job in New York City and go back to college. I had left the academic world some thirty years earlier, clutch- ing my Brown cliploma in my hand, and had spent the intervening years in busi- ness, most recently as advertising man- ager for an oil company. The glamour of advertising and the excitement of oil had worn off, however, and now my ambition was to reenter academia, preferably on a quiet campus as far away from New York City as pos- sible. This meant getting a Ph.D. After some hesitation on the part of the admissions staff, 1 was admitted to the doctoral program in business man- agement at Columbia University. I opti- mistically looked forward to spending the rest of my useful life scattering pearls of wisdom before eager college students. Meanwhile, my wife, Alice, went to work as a real estate agent in Darien, Connecticut, where we lived, in order to help put her husband through college. The four kids good-naturedlv tightened their belts to keep the family budget in line. With great anticipation I attended my first class in September. By mid-Oc- tober I had the panic-stricken feeling that somebody had pushed me off a cliff. Everything was wrong. Professors spoke a strange language that was com- pletely over my head. Textbooks were either dull and irrelevant or they bela- bored the obvious. My fellow students, most of whom were fresh from college campuses and twenty-to-thirty years younger than 1, grappled easily with problems it took me untold hours to solve - if indeed I was able to solve them at all. I was lost - totally and hopelessly lost. Time had passed me by. I remember particularly the lad who sat next to me in a class in manage- ment theory. He was a close friend of my eldest daughter. They had played togeth- er in the sandbox in kindergarten, had gone through grade school together, and had both graduated from Brown the pre- vious spring. Now he was working for his M.B.A. at Columbia. As a business man, I had always con- sidered myself something of an expert in management. During my career 1 had been in charge of several different de- partments. I had always done well (so I thought) getting along with people and persuading them to "work harmonious- ly toward the goals of the organization" - just the way the textbooks described it. Came the mid-term exam. 1 thought it was a breeze. So did my next-seat neighbor, although he told me as we walked out of the examination room that he probably would have done better if he hadn't stayed up all night in a bridge game. I grinned at him sympa- thetically and headed off for my commu- ter train to Connecticut. The grades came out the following week. I - the knowledgeable, experi- enced, hot-shot ex-manager - received a miserable 61, barely passing. The bridge- playing neophyte, 1 noticed, scored a neat 97. "This management stuff sure is a pipe, isn't it?" he chortled. "Any dummy who can't ace this course ought to go back to clerking shoes!" For the first time 1 was really down in the dumps. As we sat around the dinner table at home that evening, I roundly cursed the fates that had tricked a rusty over-the-hill has-been into think- ing that he could even begin to compete with the smart, sophisticated youngsters of today on their terms and on their bat- tlefield. It was Mary, our eldest, who came to my rescue. "Let's see your textbook, daddy," she said. "Maybe 1 can figure out what's wrong." Then: "What are all these things you have underlined?" I told her they were the important thoughts, the main ideas, the key points that I wanted to remember. "That doesn't make sense," she com- mented. "The things you're supposed to underline are the things the prof's going to ask you on the exam. Don't you know how to study?" And then she explained how to study. Begin at the back of the book, she said, at the index, and then look up and make sure you know the precise meaning of every word, term, and phrase in the in- dex. "That's the way professors write exams," she pointed out, "so that's the way you study for them. Forget all the rest of that stuff," she advised. That was the first big lesson that I learned: if you want to join the team, you'd better get to know the rules. And this brings up the caper on the railroad track. Perhaps the longest and most har- rowing day of my life was that bitter cold day in January, at the end of my first semester, when I was scheduled to take two three-hour exams in my two toughest subjects. The first one was scheduled for nine o'clock. Expecting the worst from my old nemesis, the New Haven Railroad, whose winter track record had been at times less than perfect, and wishing on this day of all days to be on time, I left the house well before six. I caught an early commuter train that would get me to Columbia at least an hour-and-a-half ahead of time. This would give me a last-minute opportunity to compose my- self, go through my notes, and get my- self organized. The good old New Haven ran true to form. Half a mile east of Mamaroneck she wheezed to a grinding stop and sat there. And sat there. And sat there. This had happened to me before. Usually it happened on days when I was scheduled to present my next year's advertising budget at a Monday morn- ing meeting of the executive committee or preview a new television show with the board of directors. This time, rather than let panic take control of my emotions and turn them into pure terror, 1 decided to do some- thing about it - anything, rather than just sit there. I vaulted off the train. Lo and be- hold, there, a half-mile ahead, was the Port Chester local, just pulling into the Mamaroneck station, apparently with a clear track ahead. I started running BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 37 down the track at full middle-aged speed, hoping against hope that the lo- cal commuters would take their time getting on. I was only fifty yards from the rear end of the rear car when I hit that icy spot. And took off. Vaguely I remember the second thought that flashed through my mind just before I crash-landed: "Boy- oh-boy! What would my gray-flanneled ex-bosses think, if they could see me now!" Fortimately for me, the conductor saw me coming and held up the train. I made the 125th Street station with no further delays, took a taxi to Columbia, ran up four flights of stairs, and burst breathless into the examination room at precisely 9:01. 1 collapsed into an empty seat, heaved a sigh, and looked around me. The room was full of students - but no professor. We sat there. And sat there. And sat there. He finally showed up at twenty min- utes to ten. "Sorry I'm late," he apolo- gized, "but I don't live on campus like you lucky people. I had to drive three miles over slippery roads to get here." One of Columbia's neighbors is a wonderful bar and grille, across Broadway and a couple of blocks south. This is where I ate lunch for most of my three years. I got to know the sand- wich counterman fairly well, and he used to slap an extra slice or two on my regu- lar noonday ham-and-cheese-on-rye. My custom was to coat the concoction with a heavy layer of mustard and take it over to the mahogany bar, where I would sit on a tall stool and wash every- thing down with two schooners of deli- cious draft beer. This was truly the hap- piest hour of my day. One semester I had a class in econo- mics that met twice a week at 1 o'clock. Two schooners of beer tend to induce a delightful state of euphoria in the middle of the day, even when the imbiber is a hardened ex-advertising man. Conse- quently there may have been times when I failed to pay as much attention to the 1 o'clock lectures as I should have. One day the lecturer, perhaps in the belief that my attention was wandering, asked me to give an example of "the ap- plication of indifference curve theory to the real world." "A third glass of beer?" I suggested. It turned out that that was as good an answer as any. One of my required courses was titled "Human Behavior in Or- ganizations." The instructor was and is a brilliant behavioral scientist and a rec- ognized leader in the field of organiza- tional behavior. Unfortunately, he was some ten years my junior and (in my view) not nearly as familiar with goings- on in the real world as I. Therefore I delighted in pointing out for his edifica- tion and that of the other students pre- cisely where he and his theories were at variance with what I in my wisdom knew to be the truth. A particular sword's point was the modern behavioral-scientific attitude that the way to manage an organization successfully is to be buddy-buddy with all the help. Having spent many years trying to get quality work out of people of varying degrees of competence, I held the contrary point of view - that fre- quently the best way to get people to produce is to put the fear of God in their hearts. Behavioral scientists rely a lot upon role-playing to make their points. Our philosophical differences were brought to a head one morning when the in- structor decided to put the two theories to the test and let the class decide. He '^ decreed a one-act playlet in which I was to be the shop foreman and one of the other students was to be asked to work late on Christmas Eve to get out a last- minute rush order. I was sent out of the room while the stage was set. As the plot unfolded, it developed that my "employee" had a pregnant wife at home with pneumonia, plus three sad little tykes waiting there pa- tiently for dinner and a visit from Santa Claus. To make it worse, there were oth- er employees with no family problems, available and anxious to do the job; and not only that, the company still owed my subordinate the overtime pay he had earned for working on Thanksgiving Day. Too, he knew that the rush order really didn't have to go out until the fol- lowing Tuesday . . . and so on. The deck was thoroughly stacked. Both of us played our roles to the hilt. Neither gave in. Finally, just before the bell rang, the instructor stepped in and called the whole show off - to avoid, he said, spilling any blood on the office carpet. As the class broke up, one of my classmates stopped by my desk on the way out. "You so-and so," he snarled under his breath (1 paraphrase him slightly). "I hope you slip on the blan- kety-blank ice and break your blankety- blank neck!" Obviously he meant it, too. I blamed it on the generation gap. Avery good advertising man knows that communications should be brief, pungent, and to the point. Other- wise people just won't pay attention. They'll turn the page or flip the dial. In the beginning I attempted to ap- ply this principle to the term papers I was called upon to write. I figured that the easier I made it on the professors who had to read the stuff, the better grades I would get. I soon learned better. There was one paper that I was par- ticularly proud of. It was for a course in economic history. I had done a lot of in- tensive research into a dozen different sources before writing it, and then I had taken great care to tell my story in sim- ple, short sentences, using plenty of one- syllable words and keeping the thought flowing freely all the way. Instead of the A I expected, I got a disappointing B. Appended to the re- turned paper were the professor's com- ments: "Your language is much too col- loquial. You have told your story as a popular writer would. . . ." That, of course, was what I had in mind. But I learned my lesson. From that time on, I never let one word do where two could do it just as well. Occasional- ly obfuscation is to be espoused in pref- erence to elucidation. Most of the professors at Colum- bia put a lot of emphasis on graduate students working together and helping each other along. This is good because of the wide variety of cultural 38 / SEPTEMBER 1989 backgrounds and experience that exist among students. I found that the group-bootstrap sys- tem didn't work out very well for me, however. Because of my age, I was usu- ally appointed chairman, or chief spokes- man, or direction-finder, or whatever, of groups I joined. Typically it turned out that the head man did most of the work. After a while, I decided that my best pol- icy was to give my group a spoonful of lip-service and then discover that I had to catch the next train to Connecticut. This worked out well most of the time. Nobody's feelings were badly hurt, and It was well into the second semester before I felt as though I really be- longed. The person who contributed more than any other to my acquiring a confi- dent self-image as a college student was not one of the administrators, nor a pro- fessor, nor even one of the other students. She was a secretary. There was an elderly professor there who taught several popular courses in advertising. I had not yet met him, but I Haven is a thing of the past; my office is a ten-minute walk from my home. I am only a half-hour from the ocean, an hour from Boston, and two hours from the mountains. Living is easy, and teaching is fun. The rosy dreams of years ago have all come true. But there is one niggling problem that still bothers me. I was only nineteen when I got out of college and started looking for my I had time to think things out for myself, which I preferred. It cost me heavily once, though. We had organized a group to study for a tough three-hour exam, but I broke away around 5 o'clock to catch a commuter train and have dinner at home. The exam the next day was constructed around a forty-page case history, which took me the better part of the first two hours to read, leaving me insufficient time to think about the case and write down accept- able answers. So, although I went into the exam with a solid A, 1 came out with a barely passing mark. Later I learned that one of the mem- bers of my group had acquired a better- than-nodding acquaintance with one of the secretaries, and that the case history had become common property the night before the exam. The rest of my group all passed with flying colors. He travels fastest who travels alone, but sometimes he can get there even faster if he hitchhikes. wanted to talk with him about the possi- bility of his being on my dissertation committee when the time came. When I went to see him in his office, his secretary told me that he wouldn't be in that day, but that she would be will- ing to call him at home to set up an ap- pointment. She picked up the phone, dialed, waited, and then spoke the words I can still hear in my mind's ear to this day: "Professor Nixon . . . there's a young man here to see you. . . ." A i/oung man'. Oh frabjous joy! Oh rapture uncon- fined! Time had turned backward after all! Four years after I first enrolled at Columbia, 1 had my Ph.D. Today I am happily teaching the subjects I know best at an idyllic spot in northern New England. Everything has worked out beautifully. Commuting on the New first job. Companies weren't hiring nine- teen-year-olds in those days. So I grew a mustache, lied a little about my age, and found myself a job. Years later, when I started classes at Columbia, I shaved off the mustache that I had nurtured so carefully in order to make myself look younger, like the rest of the students. Even that wasn't enough, however. The gray hairs on my temples gave me away, so I got what they called a "Mohawk" - lots on top, where there was still some pigment left, but nothing on the sides, so that the pink skin would show through. This drew snickers from some of my classmates and an unkind comment from the behavioral science professor, who wondered in class if I was planning to go out for the Columbia crew. After we moved to New Hampshire and I started teaching here, 1 again de- cided I wanted to try to look as much as possible like my younger colleagues on the faculty. I grew back the mustache, fuller than ever, and let my hair flow - on the sides as well as the top. But just last week my barber told me that crewcuts and clean-shaven faces are coming back into style among the young- er people. What do I do now? ED Don Marschner is professor emeritus at the University of New Hampshire's Whittemore School of Business, where he has taught since 1964. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 39 The Classes By James Reinbold I 21 Although our number has been reduced to three, on Commencement Sundfl\' Bill Brightman, Jack Stevens, and Dr. Maurice Pike met at the Faculty Club and enjoyed a delicious lunch and good conversation. - Maurice Pike 23 ife The class of '23, which claims to have held more reunions (including homecom- ings) than any other Brown class, continued the tradition at its 66th reunion. Much of the credit goes to Nan Bouchard Tracy '46 of the alumni relations staff, the housing office, and our secretary, Ann Thorndike '58, daughter of the late and former secretary, Don Thorn- dike. Ann organized it all for us. The weekend began in Gardner House for a sentimental group that included Georgiana Braitsch; George Decker and Elsie, and their son, Anthony '80; Ruth Bugbee Lubrano and Jack '24, and their son, David '52; Albert Sherberg and Eleanor; John Wilson and Aileen; Betty Jeffers Winsor '24 and Ed; host Chet Worthington and his daughter, Connie '68; Ann Thorndike '58; and Virginia Callas '48. Although we were sorry to miss shaking hands with President Gregorian, who came by after we had left the Brown Bear Buffet, we enjoyed delicious food, the companion- ship of other Brown friends, and the serenad- ing undergraduates. On Saturday, we shared a table at the Pops Concert and on Sunday vve were wel- comed for brunch with Pembroke '24 at the VVinsors' home. Our bonnets were remarked upon again as we assembled near the front of the Commencement procession on Monday. The Fifty-Plus Luncheon rounded out what proved to be our '35th official reunion. A week later, George Decker telephoned Ann at her office at Brown from his home in Florida to express his delight with the week- end. The conversation ended with his request to be transferred to the office of residential life in order to make his campus-room reser- vation for Commencement 19^0. This typifies the spirit that has kept this class together at annual reunions since 1933. - Aiiu Tlionuiikc and Clu't Worlhiiigton 24 burgh, Dr Anthony Migliaccio, Nelia Goff, Ruth Bugbee Lubrano '23, Joan Fitzgerald Golrick '47 (Al Fitzgerald's daughter), and Jack Lubrano. We enjoyed the Brown Bear Buffet on Fri- day evening and a class luncheon on Satur- day at Sharpe Refectory, where we were entertaineci with a splendid talk by William Slack, director of special events at Brown, on some important but perhaps little-known programs being conducted at the University. Class President Lubrano, in his remarks, said that this would probably be the last reunion occasion of the class. On Monday we marched down the Hill with our banner held by Dr. Migliaccio, chief marshal, followed by Eddie Hosp, Walter Bernard, Jack Lubrano, and Mrs Migliaccio and Mrs. Lubrano. It was the graduation of Eddie Hosp's grandson, Edward. We had an interesting tour of the new CIT building and some of us attended the hour with the president on Sunday morning. We recei\'ed letters from Herbert Somers, Earle Johnson, Philip Lukin, and William Dyer. Our 65th reunion gift to the University will be over $15,500. To all of you: Thank you. - jnck Lubrano and Randolph FInther 26 The women of 1926 held a mini-reunion at Betty Fuller Reid's summer home in Swansea, Mass., on June 4. Ten classmates at- tended and the conversation was stimulat- ing. - Hope Gilhfi't Borden Ruth Woolf Adelson, Providence, re- ceived the sixth annual Recognition Award from the women's association of The Miriam Hospital for her more than fifty years of ser- vice. She is chairman of the finance commit- tee. Lloyd Keigwin (see Lance Keigwin '73). 28 The 65th reunion of the class of 1924 was attended bv Walter Bernard, Randolph Flather, Ivan Half, who came from Pitts- Eleven women of the class of 1928 met for lunch at the Faculty Club on Saturday, May 27. Present were Arlene Dyer Beehr, Eleanor Sarle Briggs, Ruth Paine Carlson, Alice O'Connor Chmielewski, Ruth Hill Hartenau, Ida Noble Marschner, Josephine Nass Mullen, Sarah Mazick Saklad, Doris Hop- kins Stapelton, Priscilla Horr Stevens, and Olive Richards Tompkins Helen O'Connor, treasurer, was not well enough to attend. We were all saddened by the death of Kay Lichty Shaal, our vice president, two weeks before the reunion. Ida received a letter from Grace Martin, who is living in the Catholic Memorial Home in Fall River, Mass. She recently attended her 65th high school reunion. We heard a detailed report from Fay An- shen Zetlin, who is an active artist in Nor- folk, Va. She has had a number of one-person exhibitions and her work has been purchased by many art museums, including the Metro- politan in New York City. The following were nominated and elect- ed class officers: Eleanor Sarle Briggs, presi- dent; Ruth Hill Hartenau, vice president; Sarah Mazick Saklad, secretary; and Helen O'Connor, treasurer. - Sarali Mazick Saklad 29 The 60th reunion brought fifteen women back to the campus. The weekend began on Friday with a cocktail party at North Wayland to which we had been invited by the men of 1929. We then enjoyed the sociability of the Brown Bear Buffet, which included a visit from President Gregorian. Other weekend events included the Campus Dance, forums. Pops Concert, and theater performances. Our class lun- cheon took place at the Faculty Club on Sat- urday and was followed by a picture-taking session and a business meeting. In the absence of Class President Kather- ine E. Nolan, who was ill, Elise Joslin Moul- ton, vice president and chairman of the reunion committee, presided. A card for Kay was signed by all of those present and flow- ers were sent. Reports were read by the sec- retary, treasurer, and class agent, and all were accepted. The secretary's report included the necrology from 1984 to 1989, and we ob- served a moment of silence in memory of our seventeen departed classmates. Notes were read from some who were un- able to return to the reunion, and verbal mes- sages were given from others with whom classmates had spoken. From now on, we will not be assessed class dues, the treasur- er's report indicated. It was agreed that the class officers contin- ue in their present capacities: Katherine E. Nolan, president; Elise Joslin Moulton, vice president; Elizabeth Rose, secretary; and Ethel Humphrey Anderson, treasurer. Commencement on Monday completed the weekend. Averill Houghton Cooper and Elizabeth Rose were class marshals for the procession down College Hill. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 41 Members who attended the class lun- cheon and enjoyed other weekend activities were: Ethel Clear Gilder, Mary Fessenden Wieland, Louise Gladding Rich, Averill Houghton Cooper, Ethel Humphrey Ander- son, Elise Joslin Moulton, Estelle Lingham- Pritchard, Beatrice Noakley Andrews, Angela O'Neil Farrell, Frances Perry, Alice Plunkett Kenney, Elizabeth Rose, Melissa Seaman Vaughn, Doris Seagrave Warren, and Frances Tirrell Eckberg. - Elizabeth A. Rose As class agent of the class of 1929, 1 wish to thank all those who contributed to our class gift this year. We have much to be proud of as our class gift this year was five times more than last year's. 1 received lovely letters from Mae Sydney Alimena and Prudence Wayland Smith, which did not get to me in time to read at our class meeting. It was good hearing from them but sad not to have seen them at the reunion. - Averill Houghton Coopwr The men opened their 65th reunion on Friday at a cocktail party with the 1929 wom- en in our headquarters at North Wayland. Forty attended, and most then made their way to the Brown Bear Buffet. After the class meeting on Saturday came the high spot of the reunion - the luncheon at the Agawam Club, with forty-eight present. A most enjoy- able dinner was held at Sharpe Refectory that evening. Nate Pass chaired the committee that planned the reunion. On Monday, fourteen members marched down the Hill. New officers proposed by the nominating committee headed by Don Marschner were elected as follows: Lester Shaal, president and assistant treasurer; Ted Giddings, vice president; Homer Smith, secretary; Walt En- sign, assistant secretary; Dave Aldrich, trea- surer; and Paul StannMd, honorary president. Paul Stannard is recovering from a seri- ous operation. Classmates are urged to send him cards at 3610 Naranja Way, Sarasota, Fla. 33582. - Homer Smith Myron L. Taylor moved to a retirement home in East Lansing, Mich., in July. Dr. Everet H. Wood's new address is 16 Wagon Trail, Highland Farms, Black Moun- tain, N.C. 28711-2539. 31 6' The men and women of 1931 held their 58th mini-reunion on Friday, May 26. Special thanks are due to Joe Galkin and Eleanor McAndrews Retallick, reunion co-chairper- sons, for arranging, with the help of Gretchen Willis, Pam Boylan '85, and Nan Bouchard Tracy '46, the use of the Chancel- lor's Dining Room Annex for our social get- together before the Brown Bear Buffet. The social hour proved to be a great opportunity to get reacquainted and to catch up with old friends. After the buffet, we were the guests of the University at the Campus Dance. On Mon- day, eight classmates took part in the Com- mencement procession to the cheers of the 1989 graduates. In attendance were: President Bob Cro- nan, Joe Mahood, Eugene Gerry, Clinton Williams, Rosamond Danielson Bellin and her husband, Hester Hastings, Bill Hindley and his wife, Howard Angell, Mary Banigan, Paul Brugge and his wife, Joseph Galkin and his guest, Fredda Heyman, Ben Green- field and his wife. Bob Gurnham, William MacKenzie and his wife, Arthur Novogroski, Eleanor McAndrews Retallick, Rose Miller Roitman and her husband, James Sanek and his wife, Justus Stevens and his wife, Paul Thayer, and Vahe Johnson and his guest, Grace Walls. - Bill Himiley Dr. Theodore G. Anderson writes: "Maybe 1 can make the 60th." Richard H. Howland, Washington, DC, was elected president of the Washington, D.C., branch of The English Speaking Union last January. He was recently elected a fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (London). Shakespeare to gifted fifth and sixth graders. He lives in Winter Park, Fla. James C. White is enjoying retirement on the beaches of Sarasota, Fla. 32 ? : The 57th reunion of the Pembroke Class of 1932 was a great success. Thirteen enjoyed the Brown Bear Buffet, after cocktails in the Heritage Room of Maddock Alumni Center, our lovely headquarters. Twenty-two, includ- ing five husbands, attended our class lun- cheon, beautifully served in a private room in the Refectory. Fourteen came to the class dinner, stimulated by a day of interesting fo- rums and special exhibits. Many of us listened with eager attention to the words of our distinguished new presi- dent, Vartan Gregorian, on Sunday morning; then several out-of-towners toured new cam- pus buildings and glimpsed changes in Prov- idence. Five stalwarts walked down the Hill in the Commencement procession, cheered on by the 1989 graduates who no doubt were impressed by the state of preservation of such aged alumnae. After Commencement ceremonies, the weekend concluded with the Fifty-Plus Luncheon, graciously hosted by the Associated Alumni. Those attending were Dot Budlong, Helen Moffitt DeJong, Mary Lou Hall Gleason and Ken, Kitty Burt Jackson and Fred, Helen Baldwin Lang, Agnes Cosgrove Lauga, Evadne Maynard Lovett, Helen Bostater Maclntyre, Elinor Martin, Kay Crawford Millspaugh, Mary Lally Murphy and Bren, Kay Perkins, Ida Hiley, Millie Schmidt Shel- don and Foster, Sylvia Hotchkiss Strong and Fred, Hope Williams, and Fran Young. Class- mates came from California, Florida, and South Carolina, as well as the New England states. Our only regret was that all of our classmates were not with us. The sincere sympathy of the class is ex- tended to the family of Emily Hussey Haskell, who died in December 1988; to Doris Aldrich Colborn, Sally Ward Hills, and Kay Crawford Millspaugh, whose husbands died during the past year; and to Florence Urquhart Rae and Mary Rae Jackson, whose husband and brother, respectively, John Rae, died this year. - Katherine Burt ]acksoii For the past twelve years, John E. Bald- win has served as a volunteer teacher of 33 Frances Brown Light's second grand- child, Evan Goddard, celebrated his first birthday on May 23. Emily is 4. Frances lives in Rye Brook, N.Y George C. Oliver is doing volunteer work at a Daytona Beach, Fla., high school, helping problem kids build park benches, picnic ta- bles, and trash-can holders for the beach. The idea is to keep them interested in school so that they will graduate. 34 m The Brown and Pembroke classes of 1934 joined in celebrating the 55th anniversary of their graduation by participating in the events of President Gregorian's first Com- mencement. It was a busy weekend with all the traditional events, as well as a cruise to Newport, R.I., on Sunday. Class marshals John Sayward and John England led an en- thusiastic delegation down College Hill on Monday morning. Many then attended the "Over 50" luncheon at the Refectory, which featured a surprise visit by President Grego- rian. Present were: John Akin and Rhea, Mar- shall Allen and Norma, Isabel Andrews, Mary Carr Boylan, William Brines, Maury Caito and Lucia, Raymond Chace and Alice, Francois Courtois, Charles Dixon and Agnes, Ashton and Cecelia Baker Dixon, Daniel Earle and Marian, John Englund and Jessie, William Flack, Meix Flaxman and Es- ther, Isador Gershman and Helen, Geoffrey Graham and Gretchen, Rosalind Wallace Green and Albert, Norman Halpin and Doris, Barbara Hughes Hanson and John, Edith Jansen Hatch, Jerome Herman and Rosilmd, Mary Quirk Hoffman, Betty Ingra- ham Horton and Charles, Harry Jackson and guest Priscilla Smith Dribble, Lillian Salmln Janas and guest Paul L. Thayer '31, Zenas and Martha Ahlijian Kevorkian '39, Malcolm Lang and Marion, Robert Lowenthal and Marjorie, Anna Ray Mann, Henry Malkow- ski and Stella, Elizabeth Brennan McCaffrey and Charles, Dorothea Carr McGovern, George Merriam and Martha, Donald Mid- wood and Margaret, Edward Noorigian and Roxie, James Pattan, Winslow Robbins and Elizabeth, John Sayward and Lorraine, Mil- ton Scribner, W. Selden Steiger and Clara Louise, Paul Tamburello and Elena, Ethel Nichols Thomas, Ruth Wilkinson Waddicor, Janet Fain Waldman, and Arthur Zaia and Santa. There was considerable sentiment that we should proceed with the necessary vote to bring about a formal merger of the Brown and Pembroke classes, and a single slate of officers. In view of this, the business meet- ings were brief and only the president and treasurer were chosen as is required every five years. Max Flaxman was elected presi- 42 / SEPTEMBER 1989 dent and Dan Earle treasurer. All other of- fices were left vacant pending the outcome of the merger voting. The Pembroke officers re- main the same: Betty Brennan McCaffrey, president; and Lillian Salmin Janas, reunion chair. Although the consensus was that the formal merger should take place, the deci- sion will be made by mail ballot. You will be hearing about the outcome soon. Arthur F. Merewether '22 I 35 The class of 1935 met on May 27 for its 54th annual spring luncheon, arranged by Dorothy Blanchard Vamvaketis, reunion chairman. President Dorothy Markoff Nelson presided over the busmess meetmg. It was voted to continue contributing to the Eva A. Mooar Scholarship as our class gift for the 55th reunion. The scholarship is given to "a senior girl who has shown improvement in her studies and who has given of herself to the University and to the community." The class contributed to the fund at the 50th re- union as a means of keeping alive the memo- ry of Ms. Mooar, beloved by all. Betty Blanchard Nolan and Ruth Sampson Ash- man were appointed members of the nomi- nating committee to report at the 55th re- union. Plans are already underway for next year's reunion, according to Dorothy Vam- vaketis. Present at the luncheon were Ruth Samp- son Ashman, Virginia Kempton Conner, Kay O'Meara Moriarty, Dorothy Markoff Nelson, Betty Blanchard Nolan, Mary Fullerton Oleksiw, Claire Shea, Alma Stone Sich, Dorothy Blanchard Vamvaketis, Beatrice Wattman Miller, and Lillian Hicock Went- worth. - Lillinii Hicock Wentworth The sympathy of the class is extended to John S. Cuthbert on the death of his wife, Elizabeth, on Jan. 28. Jack lives at the Soldiers Home, Cherry St., Holyoke, Mass. 01040. 36 ' '; The women of the class of 1936 held a mini-reunion luncheon at Woolley Hall on Saturday, May 27. Present were Esther Kuldin Adler, Lillian McCabe Anderson, An- nette Aaronian Baronian, Martha Wicks Bellisle, Charlotte Morse Benson, Naomi Richman Brodsky, Marion Hall Goff, Edith Hall Meier, Dorris Marcus Mendelsohn, Beatrice Minkins, Louise O'Brien Owens, Rosalie Musen Reizen, Alice Roe, Ruth Tenenbaum Silverman, and Julia Watson Tourgee. A letter from Courtney-Paige Morrison '90, recipient of the Pembroke 1936 Sydney Jane Course Memorial Scholarship, was read. There were messages from classmates He- len Johns Carroll, Jane Herr Towle, Alberta Holdsworth Reynolds, and Beatrice Emery Westcott. Catherine Bennett is a resident of the Kent Nursing Home, 660 Commonwealth Ave., Warwick, R.l. 02886. She would appre- ciate greetings from classmates. We all appreciate Annette Aaronian Baro- nian's efforts as reunion chairperson in get- ting us together. We look forward to another The discovery of Merewether Lake In 1943, then-Col. Arthur F. Merevwether, U.S. Army Air Corps, was in charge of weather services in the North Atlantic during World War II. On a routine flight over Greenland one day in August he no- ticed a round lake. Realizing that the shape of the lake indicated it had been formed by a meteor, a rare and important geological find, he photographed it. But Merewether was more concerned about the war and whether his plane had enough fuel to return to base after a mis- sion than pursuing his discovery, and he forgot about the lake. Forty-six years lat- er, Merewether, retired and living in Bay- side, New York, was notified by the Ener- gy, Mines and Resources of Canada, Geo- graphical Names Department, that the lake now bears his name. Merewether told the Bayside Times in May that he "got a kick out of" the recognition. There are orUy about 110 craters on Earth known to meeting next year. - Marion Hall Coff Clarence H. Gifford, Jr., Providence, chairman of the executive committee of Rhode Island Hospital Trust National Bank, received an honorary doctor of oenology at Johnson & Wales University's commence- ment exercises in May. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Albert W. Low is living at the home for retired priests, Regina Cleri, 60 William Cardinal O'Connell Way, Boston, Mass. 02114. He was the superintendent of schools. Archdiocese of Boston, from 1949 to 1972, and pastor of St. Francis Church in Medford, Mass. Dr. Stedman W. Smith practices obstetrics and gynecology in Salisbury, Md. have been created by meteors. The discovery of Merewether Lake is only one story Merewether tells his grandchildren. A member of the Brown Athletic Hall of Fame, he played baseball briefly with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1922 - "That was in the days when the players wore short pants" - and in the 1930s he toured Europe by car with a friend. They visited many capitals and took the Orient Express to Istanbul. In Berlin for the 1936 Olympics, Merewether recalls, "We prac- tically had to go to the Baltic Sea to find a hotel room." Merewether has lived in Bayside since 1945. He was a pilot for American Air- lines and served as president of the American Meteorological Society before retiring. I 37 Twenty "girls" enjoyed our 52nd mini-re- union lunch at The Cafe at Brooke's on May 27. We also gathered in April to keep in touch with local residents. I would like to re- ceive news, especially from our far-flung class members. We should begin thinking about our 55th reunion. It will be here before we know it. - Eleanor R. McElroy Dr. S. James Beale, Jacksonville, Fla., cel- ebrated his 50th wedding anniversary and "married off #2 granddaughter last year. #1 is doing some serious looking, and the other eight aren't talking." BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 43 38 Robert H. Blewitt, Sr., Waterbury, Conn., visited his daughter Claire and her family in Falls Church, Va., in May- Hyman S. Feldman, Newton, Mass., is still active with Sierra Pine Tanning Corpora- tion of California and DER-TEX Corporation. 39 Fired up with Brown spirit and the spe- cial magic of the big 50th, the women of the class of 1939 had a super reunion. There was lots of excitement returning to the campus and wonderful camaraderie renewing and continuing friendships from student days. All reunion activities were very well attend- ed and thoroughly enjoyed. A record sixty-two classmates (eighty-sev- en including spouses and guests) made it the greatest turnout ever. And the women of '39 contributed the largest dollar amount to the Brown Annual Fund of any 50th reunion class of women to date. Including challenge dollars, gifts to the Brown Annual Fund were sixteen-and-a-half times greater than last year's total. Even better than the giant-step dollar amount was the increase in percentage of participation, from 61 percent last year to this year's crowning glory, 92 percent. Bouquets and a million thanks again to all the members of the hard-working, team- playing 50th reunion activities and gift com- mittees for a job well done. Many thanks, also, to all classmates who contributed and attended, whether in person or in spirit, for making the magic happen and for making the 50th reunion such a great success. At the class meeting, the following offi- cers were elected: Teresa Gagnon Mellone, president; Louise Whitney Harrington, vice president; Elizabeth B. Hussey, secretary; Elizabeth Goodale Kenyon, treasurer; and Marie Coogan Laurence, 55th reunion chair. Our annual mini-reunion luncheon will con- tinue to be held on Saturday of Commence- ment weekend. We women of the class of '39 are very pleased with what we have done in our 50th reunion year for our love of Brown. We are proud of the way we were fifty years ago and we are proud of the way we are today. There is no denying that Brown is a vital part of us, and we are a vital part of Brown. Aren't we fortunate! Those who attended the 50th reunion were: Elizabeth Crowley Allen, Miriam Prucker Bartlow, Anita Percelay Blank, Pearl Finklestein Braude, Eleanor Hall Byer- ley, Barbara Gilbert Campbell, Dorothy Frost Cleasby, Mary Cosgrove, Margaret Rickett Cranmer, Frances Miller Dawley, Margaret Porter Dolan, Rita Donnelly Flynn, Carlotta Jencks Grazulis, Louise Whitney Harrington, Sylvia Corr Kenner, Elizabeth Goodale Kenyon, Marie Coogan Laurence, Teresa Gagnon Mellone, Margaret Donilon Reed, Louise Middleton Rhodes, Christine Whitney Roberts, Rae Mulready Sammis, Marie lannucci Sciotti, Doris Daly Snell, Audrey Raiche Souza, Dr. Sophie Trent Stevens, Eunice Estes Strobel, Constance Farrell Taft, Phyllis Sampson Wallis, Frances Singer Wattman, Louise Lyon Weiss, Margaret Gainer Wright, Mary Veach Wurzel, Constance Hathaway Young, Eu- nice Berry Deckelman, Phyllis Silverman Kapstein, Claire Harrington Mullen, Alice Fox Silbert, Alice Fitzgerald Boardman, Dorothy Tucker Browning, Helen Gill En- gles, Betty Louison Greenberg, Elizabeth B. Hussey, Elaine Frank Lieberman, Ruth Manter Lind, Tina Sammartino Penza, Lois Bauer Remmer, Nancy Mark Steward, Mar- guerite Robertson Turner, Olga Louis Za- graniski, Dorothy Hills Downes, Martha Ahlijian Kevorkian, Virginia Kelley Sher- bino, Katherine P. Tucker, Marjorie Kelly Ryan, Betty Hussey Randall, Thelma Simis- ter Thomas, and Dorothy Magid Selib. - Teresa Gagnon Mellone 40 It's not too early to start inaki}tg plans for our 50th. We are! A reunion planning group, John Mc- Laughry, Harold Pfautz, Vic Schwartz, Russ Field, along with Stan and Jean Bruce Cum- mings, lunched at the Faculty Club in April. The group was then joined by Gus Jones, Ken Clapp, Bob Engles, and Lane Fuller in August. Jean will keep us in touch with her colleagues, Marie Purcell Beddoe and Phyl- lis Riley Murray, regarding the Pembroke re- union plans. In the meantime, Harry Henshel and Fred Bloom have agreed to serve as co- chairmen of the 50th reunion gift drive. We'll be in touch. - Harold Pfautz Jane Stahl Bergman, Southbridge, Mass., has been re-elected to her tenth year as town councillor. She works for The American Can- cer Society and is treasurer of the hospital gift shop. "My main recreation is playing bridge with three octogenarians who are fierce competitors." 41 Everett J. Daniels, Los Angeles, has re- tired. He and his wife, also retired, enjoy in- ternational travel. Barbara Cranston Rice, Peace Dale, R.I., writes that her daughter, Susan, was award- '.•d two Emmys for documentary work for PBS. Susan is a law student at the University of San Francisco, where her husband is a pro- fessor of communications. Davis C. Howes (see Betts Howes '77). 45 The class reunion activities chairpersons, Evan West and Joyce Chadbourne Eschen- felder, recently met with the alumni relations staff to make tentative plans for the 45th re- union. Save the dates. May 25-28, 1990, and plan to come to our best reunion ever. Catherine Towne Anderson, Amherst, Mass., retired last October from the Massa- chusetts Department of Public Welfare after twenty-one years, nineteen of which were spent with the quahty control division, pro- gram assessment. Bernard H. Herman, West Falmouth, Mass., is semi-retired and entertains as Har- po the Clown at children's parties and at malls. Irene Pretzer Pigman, Edgewater, Md., writes that "as a student, college newspaper reporter, and instructor, I see many sides of the Anne Arundel Community College cam- pus." 47 Dr. Joseph E. Cooper, Bangor, Mich., had a severe stroke in August 1978. "1 went back full time as medical director at South Haven Community Hospital, South Haven, Mich., in January 1988. Whoopee!" George D. Tracy (see Natalie Standiford '83). I 48 Nancy Cantor Eddy's egg tempera paint- ings were chosen for a juried group exhibit at the Chinese Culture Institute Gallery in Boston last June. Her paintings are on dis- play at the Cape Gallery in Osterville, Mass., through October. Nancy lives in Framing- ham, Mass. William J. Finn and Jean Robertson Finn have retired and moved to 773 Troon Cir., Carolina Trace, Sanford, N.C. 27330. Their son, Tom '78, was married to Kathleen Bruen on Sept. 14, 1988, at Fort Myers, Arlington, Va. Barbara Baher Johnson has moved to 31 Windsor Road, Summit, N.J. 07901. She com- pleted her master's of liberal studies at Kean College last January and is planning to write a book about her uncle's experiences in France during World War 1. Bernard Nemtzow retired as vice chair- man of Borden, Inc., several years ago and divides his time between Kev Biscayne, Fla., and Newport, R.I. Alan L. Sack (see Martha J. Sack '79). 49 ■ On May 26, the Pembroke class of 1949 met for its 40th reunion. Seventy classmates from fifteen states and Brazil returned to the campus. All of our activities, except the Saturday luncheon, were merged with the men. It was a most enjoyable weekend from the Friday reception to the Faculty Club luncheon on Monday. President Gregorian stopped by briefly at our reception and reminded us that we will always belong to the Brown family. Our big project - a handmade quilt - was a huge success and enabled us to contribute $5,000 to the Pembroke Center. Stationery with our quilt design is available at the Brown Bookstore. Nancy L. Buc '65 won the quilt and graciously donated it to the Pem- broke Center As reunion chairpersons, we would like to thank all of you for the overwhelming re- sponse to the reunion and for your wonder- ful support for the quilt project. - Barbara 44 / SEPTEMBER 1989 Hanop Hmriugtou and Thercfc Arcanii Hughes Joseph W. Muimis, Glen Mills, Pa., retired in 1988 from Wcstinghouse Electric after thir- ty-nine years. He is working with Henkels and McCoy, Inc., as marketing manager in Blue Bell, Pa. 50 Robert H. Breslin, Jr., moved his law tirni, Breslin, Sweeney & Earle, to Warwick, R.l. His first grandchild, Quentin Graem Chafee, was born last November to his daughter, Melissa Ann. Daughter Pamela '80 married Byrne Murphy in June 1488, and Robert III is a junior at St. Lawrence Univer- sity. Bruce and Caroline Decatur Chick (see Deborah Chick Burke '77). Phyllis Towne Cook and James S. Cook (see Susan Cook '88). Rita Caslowitz Michaelson, Providence, has been appointed to a panel of arbitrators by the American Arbitration Association in cases involving the NAACP and the Boston Housing Authority. Joseph Tauro '53 is hear- ing the case in federal court. Charles Richards, Wallingford, Pa., is re- tired and chairman of A.M.T.D.A. in the Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C., area. Mel Shapiro, retired from Filene's in Boston, summers in Marblehead, Mass., and spends the rest of the year in Longboat Key, Ha. William P. Walsh, Rye Brook, N.Y., contin- ues as a senior attorney at Texaco Inc., in White Plains, N.Y. i 51 Last October, there was a mini-reunion in North Truro, Mass. Ginny Marlatt Hershey and Glenn, Peg Morley LaSala and Bruce, and Cleo Dalelis Hazard and Bob met at Anne Hunt Brock's home for a long week- end. Among other things, a committee was formed for a reunion directory. More on that later. - Joanne S. Thompson Kathie Baccaro's overseas teaching career has taken her to England, Italy, Korea, and now to Adana, Turkey. Her address is PSC Box 1724, Incirlik Elementary School, A. P.O., N.Y. 09289. Parker D. Handy is semi-retired and do- ing marketing consulting from his home in Lyme, Conn. He is executive director of the Ivoryton Playhouse Foundation in Ivoryton, Conn., raising funds to renovate and restore the oldest summer playhouse in the country. David L. Holmgren, Tenafly, N.)., writes that his first grandchild, Erik David, was born on Jan. 31 . His daughter, Dana '83, was married to Jim Tull '76 in Roger Williams Park, Providence, on April 24. Elizabeth Zwick '82 was woman of honor. Peg Morley LaSala's daughter, Ann, mar- ried Australian Bob Gumming. They were geography and environmental studies majors at Dartmouth and live and work in the San Francisco area. Steve '84, who worked at IRIS at Brown for three years, received his master's degree in computer science from Cornell in May. Peg lives in Tenafly, N.J. Robert E. Lenker, Millersburg, Pa., is still in banking, "bouncing between Pennsylvania and a Marco Island, Fla., condo. Fishing of- ten, catching little." Pat Randall Welch is "still basking in the glow of not having to go to the office any- more," having retired from her job with the Air Force. Pat's daughter, Molly, lives and works in London, and son Tim is in Panama, working for the Foreign Broadcast Informa- tion Service. Pat's address is Farafield, Hogg Lane, Charlton, Nr. Banbury, Oxon. 0X17 3DJ, England. 52 Fredric S. Freund, president of Hanford- Freund & Company, a San Francisco com- mercial real estate brokerage firm, has been appointed a member of the Senate Advisory Commission on Cost Control in State Gov- ernment and vice chair of the commission's sub-committee on transportation. 54 Clarence C. Barksdale has been elected vice chairman and a member of the board of trustees of Washington University in St. Louis. E. Aubrey Doyle, Hopkinton, Mass., writes that his daughter, Lisa Doyle Carloni '81, had a son, Anthony, last January. Aubrey now has ten grandchildren. George S. Morfogen, New York City, was elected executive director of the Williams- town Theatre Festival in Massachusetts for 1989, the 35th anniversary season. He ap- peared as Gabriele d'Annunzio in Tamara in New York from November 1988 to May 1989 at the Park Avenue Armory. 55 Helen Johnson Loschky writes that Title III has funded her honors program at Lincoln University, a historically black college in Jef- ferson City, Mo. Dr. Raymond M. Russo, Pleasantville, N.Y, was appointed chief of staff at the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J., in July. His son, Ray- mond, Jr. '83, is a Ph.D. candidate in geology at Northwestern. 56 Nancy C. Dodson, Cambridge, Mass., en- joys her work as a librarian at Pioneer Mutu- al Fund Group. Phyllis Rannacher Dodson is managing editor at Travcldata Company, Santa Barbara, Calif., a publisher of travel guides for, among others, American Airlines. Beth Finkelstein Fisch's volunteer job at Surrey Services for Seniors in Wayne, Pa., turned into a part-time job as van transporta- tion coordinator. Marion Mixon Houk directs a child care program in Falls Church, Va., and has been active in child advocacy. After years of teaching first grade, Joanne Dean Keane is a recreational therapist at a home for the elderly in Stratford, Conn. Irma Silva Mello has her own interior de- sign business, Amri Designs, in Somerset, Mass. Bob Popp is a group leader at Mitre Cor- poration in Bedford, Mass. Leslie Hubbell Popp teaches art at St. Michael's Country Day School in Lowell. They live in Chelms- ford. Dr. Gary O. Prescott practices orthodon- tics in Providence. Son Jon will graduate from the Brown Program in Medicine next year. Michael is headed to law school, and Diane graduated from the University of Ver- mont in May. 57 Thomas B. Kennedy, Jr., runs Kennedy Law Offices in Peoria, 111. 58 C. D'Arcy Fox, Chesterfield, Mo., is a se- nior vice president of AG. Edwards & Sons, Inc. Carol Batchelder Jones and her husband, Duane, became grandparents for the first time on Feb. 8 when Matthew Aaron Jones was born in Richmond, Va. They live in Con- cord, Mass. Adrienne Aretbian Simidian, a technical writer, is working on a marketing manual for NYNEX Corporation. Her youngest daugh- ter, Rachael (Drew '88), is serving with the Peace Corps in Guatemala. Adrienne lives in Carmel, N.Y. 59 Gordon Cohen (see Lisa Cohen '87). Robert P. Kasper, Mercerville, N.J., is a re- search chemical engineer at FMC in Prince- ton. Daughter Susan Beth graduated from Rider College in June, and daughter Sandra is a sophomore at Georgetown. 61 Nina His Dodd, Philadelphia, received her master's degree in creative writing from Temple in May. Her daughter, Aubrey Atvtfa- ter '86, married Elwood Donnelly on June 24 in Providence. 63 Finn M.W. Caspersen, chairman of the board and CEO of Beneficial Corporation, was elected 1989-90 chairman of the Ameri- can Financial Services Association (AFSA) during the group's 73rd annual convention in San Francisco in May. He lives in Andover, N.J. Nedda Miller Pollack is a vice president at First American National Bank in Nash- ville, Tenn., where she is relationship manag- er for manufacturing businesses. She re- ceived her M.B.A. from Vanderbilt in 1984. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 45 She and her husband, Larry, an attorney, live in Nashville. Meredith is a senior at the Uni- versity of Michigan, and Kenneth is a junior at Tufts. Mary Carlisle Schultheis does not live in St. George Island, Alaska, as was reported in the April issue. "Would it were true, but, in fact, 1 have lived comfortably in Anchorage for the past fifteen years." The error was made in the newspaper article from which the note was taken. nity relations at Stony Brook, and is now readying her dissertation for publication. 64 Susan Sinykin Benjamin, Highland Park, 111., is the editor of An Architectural Album: Chicngo's North Shore. "Happily, it received nice reviews." Charlotte Cook Morse spent 1488 and the past summer in Britain on faculty research leave from Virginia Commonwealth Univer- sity, living in Highgate and working in the British Library on the Varibrum edition of Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale." Loretta Greene Stokes, Carlisle, Mass., is director of human resources at Pegasystems, a software development firm in Cambridge. Her son, Derek, attends the University of Colorado at Boulder. 65 Rabbi Lawrence M. Silverman is rabbi of Congregation Beth Jacob in Plymouth, Mass. His address is 6 Massasoit St., Plymouth 02360. 66 Richard J. Casabonne, Newton, Mass., has been named president, Franklin Watts, Inc., a subsidiarv of Grolier Incorporated. Dr. Robert H. Wharton is director of pedi- atrics at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston. His wife, Ann Moody Wharton '68, is studying for her master's degree in early in- tervention. 67 Martha Ames Burgess, Tucson, is educa- tion director of the seed conservation organi- zation. Native Seeds/SEARCH. She is coor- dinating several events to increase public awareness of the many endangered varieties of native American crops and their potential for agriculture. Phyllis Mudrick Cohen and her husband. Bob, have three children: Jessica, 15; Josh, 13; and Ross, 10. They recently sold their soft- ware company of fourteen years and moved from Maryland to Dallas with a new firm. Dr Harris J. Finberg has a private prac- tice in Phoenix, specializing in obstetrical ul- trasound. His wife, Marcia, is finishing her M.B.A. Benjamin is 11 and Josh is 8, "grow- ing quite well in the Arizona sunshine." They live in Paradise Valley. Ann-Marie Scheidt, Port Jefferson, N.Y., received her Ph.D. in American history from SUNY-Stony Brook in May. She was most re- cently director of public affairs and commu- 68 John C. Hale is the State House bureau chief for the Bangor Daily Neu's in Augusta, Maine. He lives in North Monmouth with his wife, Karlene Kelley Washburn, and her daughter, Elizabeth, 15. 69 Herbert W. Foote HI, Germantown, Tenn., a Northwest Airlines captain and a U.S. Naval Reserve Commander, is the command- ing officer of Patrol Squadron 67, a reserve force squadron of 400 officers and enlisted personnel that operates nine P-3 Orion air- craft in the Pacific. Joseph L. Higgins, Plainfield, N.J., has re- turned from a two-month vacation in Aus- tralia. This was his second trip to the island continent - the first was a business trip in 1980 - and he is already planning a third. Lloyd Keigwin (see Lance Keigwin '73). John R. Thelin received a grant from the Spencer Foundation for a historical study of college sports scandals and reforms from 1930 to 1980. He was elected vice president and president-elect of the facultv assembly at The College of William & Mary, and recently completed his term as president of the Williamsburg, Va., Community United Way. 70 Neil L. Brockwehl and his wife, Connie, have a son, Alexander William, born on Aug. 19, 1988. Their daughter, Kate, is 3. They live in Guilford, Conn. Stephen D. Burgard won the Allan B. Rogers award from New England UPl for ed- itorial writing in 1988 on pollution in Long Island Sound, He is editorial page editor of The Adi'ocate in Stamford, Conn. Judith Covey Carson ('85 Ph.D.) and Thomas L. Carson '75 A.M., '77 Ph.D. an- nounce the birth of Daniel James Carson, their second child, on July 5, 1988. Judy is a microcomputer analyst with the COMDISCO Corporation, and Tom is associate professor of philosophy at Loyola University in Chica- go- Richard H. Hornik is national economics correspondent for Time after two years as Beijing bureau chief for the magazine. He lives in Washington, D.C. Steven M. Zucker is professor of mathe- matics at Johns Hopkins, where he has taught since 1983. He lives in Baltimore. 71 ; Dr Bruce W. Brewer is a plastic surgeon in Garden City, N.Y. He was recently ap- pointed director of microsurgery and replan- tation at Nassau County Medical Center. Renee Friedman Galkin is a management training consultant specializing in communi- cation and auditing techniques, workflow analysis, and documentation management. She would like to hear from old friends at 155 West 68th St., New York, N.Y 10023. Donald F. Greene, Greenwich, Conn., is vice president of Safe Flight Instrument Cor- poration in White Plains, N.Y, a manufactur- er of stall and wind-shear warning systems for aircraft. Charles O. Monk n left the Maryland at- torney general's office last September to be- come a partner at Weinberg & Green, a large Baltimore law firm. Christine Riley is district manager of hu- man/computer technology at Bell Communi- cations Research in Piscataway, N.J. She and her husband, Alan McConkie, have three children: Andrew, 1, Beth, 4, and David, 9. They live in Westfield, N.J. Henry H. Thomas, Jr., and his wife, Denise Svatos, announce the birth of their second child, John Bringier Thomas, on Sept. 1, 1988. Their business, Bernadette's, Inc., makes and markets Caribbean black cake. Thev live in Rumson, N.J. Timothy A. Weaver, a partner in the firm of Pretzel & Stouffer, Chtd, Chicago, is co-au- thor of the "Informed Consent" chapter for the 1989 edition of Medical Malpractice Hand- book, published by Illinois Institute for Con- tinuing Legal Education. 72 Jean Braucher and her husband, David Wohl, announce the birth of Robert Braucher Wohl on Nov. 21 . They live in Cincinnati. David E. Breuer is manager of interna- tional environmental compliance for IFF, Inc., a multinational manufacturer of flavor ingre- dients, aroma chemicals, and perfumes. He lives with his wife, Lynn, and two daughters, Jennifer, 16, and Megan, 13, in Paramus, N.J. James T. Colby ni has been named vice president, investments, American Express Company. He lives with his wife, Kathleen, in White Plains, N.Y. John L. Delany, Des Moines, Iowa, is se- nior vice president, director of marketing, for Norwest Land Services. Lynne Derus and Andy Harrington '71 and their two sons returned to Atlanta after five years in Chicago. Lynne is teaching third and fourth grades and Spanish at Horizons School, and Andy is on leave of absence from Loyola University, where he is associate pro- fessor of computer science and math. He is employed by Iterated Systems, working on practical applications of fractals. Dana R. MacNamee and his wife, Mary, "bought a big old house in Wakefield, Mass. Veterinary medicine and neuropsychology remain fun and interesting." Dr John M. Paris III and his wife, Judy, have three children: Rebecca, 8, Meredith, 5, and John IV, 3. John is a senior partner in a group of cardiovascular surgeons and is the director of cardiac transplantation at St. Vin- cent Hospital in Indianapolis. They live in Carmel, Ind. Carl Plochman has been named chief ex- ecutive officer of Plochman Inc., a privately owned mustard manufacturing company in Chicago. He and his family live in Winnetka. 46 / SEPTEMBER 1989 Steven N. Robinson is an associate with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in Wash- ington, D.C. He and his wife, Shellev, also a lawyer, have three sons: Gregory, 6, Benja- min, 3, and Lucas, 1. Thev live in Bethesda, Md. Matt S. Walton HI is president of Big Fish Development Company, which produces movies and plavs in New York City. Thomas A. Witt has been elected secre- tary of Chemical Waste Management, Inc. He lives in Evanston, 111. Brown Annual Fund I 73 Ned Hazen and Liz Berman Hazen '76 an- nounce the birth of Adam Davis Hazen on Feb. 13. Thev live in Belmont, Mass. Donald R. Hunt has joined Gilbert Tweed Associates hic, a New York-based interna- tional executive search consultancy, as vice president in the Vermont office. Lance Keigwin and his wife, Peggy, have been living in Mountain View, Calif., since 1984. They have three girls: Lissa, 7, Bess, 5, and Anne, 2. Lance is a director in software engineering at Ungermann-Bass, a manufac- turer of computer networks. His brother, Lloyd '69, is an oceanographer at Woods Hole, Mass., and his father, Lloyd, Sr., '26, re- tired from the practice of law, lives on Amelia Island, Fla. Robert D. Lane, Jr., a partner in the real estate department at Fox, Rothschild, O'Brien & Frankel and chairman of the firm's condo- minium law group, has been elected to the Pennsylvania Bar Association house of dele- gates, the association's 255-member ruling body. He lives in Philadelphia. Peter A. Marion, Hubbardston, Mass., is second \ice president and associate actuary in the tax department of the Paul Revere Life Insurance Company in Worcester, Mass. Kenneth R. Mindingall is a behavior spe- cialist for the state of Georgia. His wife is di- rector of student development at Mercer Universitv. Thev live in Macon, Ga. Dr. Martha Arthur Nathan completed her medical residency in family medicine at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in June. After receiving her M.D. from Duke, she was engaged in litigation for five years on behalf of five victims of Ku KIux Klan murders in Greensboro, N.C., in 1979, includ- ing her late husband, Dr Michael Nathan. After winning the civil rights suit, she re- sumed her medical career. In 1983, she mar- ried anthropologist Elliot Fratkin. Marty practices medicine at the Mountaintop Area Medical Center in Snow Shoe, Pa. Her daughter, Leah Nathan, is 10. Nina Tiglio Ruckes, Hamden, Conn., was one of four faculty recognized for excellence at South Central Community College. A reg- istered dietitian, she is coordinator of the di- etetic technician program. Russell J. Pistone is a regional sales man- ager in the industrial products division of Argo International in Clark, N.J. He lives in Florhani Park, N.J., with his wife, Alice, and their daughter, Allison. Robert J. Soboda, Rumford, R.l , joined Brown Pnnrt ;^^^^^^^^^^^B Tony Ittleson agrees to fourth 'term' Under the leadership of H. Anthony Ittleson '60, the Brown Annual Fund has had three record-breaking years, reaching an all-time high of $9.1 mil- lion this past year. Not surprisingly, Tony Ittleson has been asked to serve another year as chairman of the Brown Annual Fund executive com- mittee, the volunteer group oversee- ing Brown's annual giving. "We asked Tony to give us an ad- ditional year," President Gregorian said, "because 1 felt that we needed continuity at that level during a change of administration. 1 am deeply grateful for what Tony has already ac- complished." To help him reach another record- setting goal - $10.5 million - Ittleson has appointed three vice chairmen: ■ Alan Fishman '67, an invest- ment manager with Neuberger and Berman in New York City, who has been an active volunteer; ■ Matthew J. Mallow '64, an at- torney with Skadden, Arms, Slate in New York City, who was part of the leadership for the class of '64's record- setting 25th reunion gift; and ■ Chelsey Carrier Remington '61, Still River, Massachusetts, also active in the Brown Fund and a Brown par- ent (Chelsey '89 and James '92). The three vice-chairmen will be particularly involved in reunion-class annual giving, an area the Brown Fund began to emphasize three years ago. the Providence law firm of Tillinghast, Collins & Graham as a partner last spring. He specializes in municipal finance and gen- eral corporate and securities law. Jim Ulrich completed his Ph.D. in adult and continuing education at Michigan State Universitv in June 1988. He is a senior con- sultant for The Carlson/Nathanson Group, a management consulting firm in Evanston, 111. He and his wife, Darlene, live in Northbrook, 111., with their children, Jonathan, 6, and Bethany, 3. Dr. Kirk C. Young and his wife, Sandy Ghana, announce the birth of Rex Taylor on Dec. 26. Kirk is in private ob/gyn practice in New York City and is a clinical assistant pro- fessor at the NYU School of Medicine. Sandy is a registered nurse at Beth Israel Hospital and is studying for a master's degree at Columbia. They live in Manhattan. 74 Linda Ivey Bigler has been elected mod- erator of the Presbyterian Women of Trinity Church in Cherry Hill, N.J. Her husband, Dr Robert D. Bigler, recently lectured at the In- ternational Conference on Monoclonal Anti- bodies, held in Vienna. They live in Cherry Hill. Reuben Cohen and Jean Lahage '75 have moved to Manhasset, N.Y. Reuben is with BT Securities, and Jean is part owner of a chil- dren's handpainted clothing business. The Painted Dinosaur. Pamela G. Constable has been awarded an Alicia Patterson Fellowship and a Ful- bright Research Grant to study military rule in Chile. She is on leave from her position as diplomatic correspondent for the Boston Globe in Washington, D.C, and will be spending most of 1989 in Santiago, Chile. She and her husband, political scientist Arturo Valenzuela, are writing a book about the Pinochet era in Chile. Peter D. Crist, Chicago, writes that "Joshua, Seth, Zachary, and Jordan are grow- ing up like weeds." Elizabeth Ann Goldstein, Smyrna, Ga., is direct mail marketing manager in advertis- ing/sales promotion with Macy's South/Bul- lock's in Atlanta. Dr. David A. Sorber, Madison, Wis., writes: "Arlo, a seal-point Siamese born in 1971, died of kidney failure in May. During her Brown years, Arlo made many friends in the class of 1974, some of whom may wish to note her passing." Charles W. Wade and his wife, Linda K. Lemos '75, announce the birth of Carole Elis- sa Lemos-Wade on March 18, 1988. Charles works at Wang Laboratories in Lowell, Mass., and Linda is at Digital Equipment. They live in Hopkinton, Mass. Robert G. Yizar, Mamaroneck, N.Y., is vice president in the equity syndication /spe- cialized leasing division of Citicorp North America, Inc. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 47 I 75 Leslie Miller Altman and Frank Altman announce the birth of Lauren on Oct. 2. Miri- am is 2. They Uve in Minnetonka, Minn. Richard F. Callahan, Norwalk, Conn., is a senior vice president at Gateway Bank in Norwalk and president of the United Way of Norwalk. Aaron S. Cohen and his wife, Laura, an- nounce the birth of Jonathan Jacob Cohen on March 15. He joins Sarah, 8, and Aviva, 5. They live in Cranford, N.J. bevra Lifshitz Golbe and Dr Lawrence I. Golbe 74 announce the birth of Susan Hope on Jan. 17. Jonathan is 5. Devra teaches at Hunter College, and Larry at the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey. They live in Metuchen, N.J. Alex Szctbo is executive vice president and chief operating officer of Screenvision Cinema Network in New York City. He and his wife, Madeleine, have four children. Andrea R. Waintroob and Wesley Wild- man were married on Jan. 12. Andrea is a partner at the Chicago law firm of Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz and teaches part-time at the University of Chicago Grad- uate School of Business. Wes is a senior lec- turer there and is of counsel to Vedder, Price. They live in Chicago. Rhonda Port Walker, Murray Hill, N.J., is assistant vice president and actuary with Crum and Forster Personal Insurance in War- ren, N.J. Barry H. Whittaker is president of the Holbrook Cooperative Bank in Holbrook, Mass. He lives in East Bridgewater with his wife, Lois, and three children: Laura, 9, Di- ane, 7, and John, 4. Michael D. Young has opened the New York City office of Endispute, a Washington, D.C. -based consulting firm. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Debra Raskin, an at- torney, and their children, Isaac, 7, and Dora, 3. I 76 William P. Barbeosch graduated from Yale School of Management in May and is working at the New York City office of the Swiss Bank Corporation. He and his wife, Marta Varela, Hve at 545 West 11 1th St., Apt. 7E, New York 10025. Dr Barbara J. Basuk is practicing internal medicine for Group Health Association, an HMO in the Washington, D.C. area. Her ad- dress is 11947 Bargate Ct., Rockville, Md. 20852. Dr Carol Beer Benson and her husband, Tom, announce the birth of Benjamin Thomas on Nov. 11. Nicole is 2. They live in Newton, Mass. James E. Berliner, Los Angeles, is execu- tive vice president of Newbridge Capital Corporation, a Los Angeles-based merchant banking firm that specializes in middle-mar- ket leveraged buyouts. Bradley W. Brockmann practices real es- tate law with Paul, Weiss, RitT503 or write lerry "J/R" Rivkin - Realtor, Moore, Warfield & Click, 12003 Coastal Highway, Ocean City, Mary- land 21842. Travel SPAIN: THE LAND, THE LEGEND, THE HIDDEN TREASURES. Professor J.T Medi- na, Princeton 'b4, announces the most ex- clusive "insiders" excursion ever estab- lished in the Land of Don Quijote, June 11 to July 2, 1990. Enjoy a unique comhination of educational emphasis, comfortable pace, and careful, personal attention. Sites visited include many off the beaten tourist track. Contact AICE, Box 48, Clinton, NY 13323, 315-853-8377. Vacation Rentals FRENCH RIVIERA - ANTIBES Modern equipped condo. 2 bedrooms. 2 bathrooms. Beach close bv Weekly 617-527-9055. JAMESTOWN, R.I. - Week/weekend rental house. 40 minutes Providence, sleeps 6/7, views of Newport and ocean, quiet country lane. 212-724-2827, early A.M,/e\'enings. PORTUGAL-ALGARVE. Villa overlooking sea. Sleeps 6. Maid. Awiilable April through November Harrison, P.O. Box 6865, Provi- dence, R.I. 02940. ST. JOHN. 2 bedrooms. Kitchen, pool, spec- tacular view. Off-season rates. 508-668-2078. 88 Susan Cook is teaching high school Eng- lish in the Mowana Community Junior LYNN JACHNEY CHARTERS Private crewed yacht charters in the CARIBBEAN, NEW ENGLAND and MEDITERRANEAN. Fine per sonalized service since 1968. Virgin Island bareboat listing also available. Tei: Lynnjachney 617-639-0787 Box 302AM, Marblehead, Mass. 01945 TOLL FREE: 800-223-2050 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 51 Secondary School, Mahalapye, Botswana. Her parents are Phyllis Towne Cook and James S. Cook, both class of 1950. Spencer J. Green completed his first year at the University of Miami Law School. He writes a monthly entertainment column for Miami Beach magazine and spent the summer working in Los Angeles. Matthew I. Shapiro, Los Angeles, is working at Triad Artists, a talent agency, as an assistant to a literary agent. "The job en- tails eighty-hour weeks, but I'm learning a lot." Katrina Shoen and Ken Carlson '86 cele- brated their June engagement with a two- week safari in Botswana. They plan to marry in May 1990. They can be reached at 5601 Seminary Rd., Apt. 1405N, Falls Church, Va. (703) 998-0647. Sean E. Spillane, Foxborough, Mass., writes that Will Fogg is enjoying Columbia University Law School and the recent success of the New York Knicks. 89 i>: John D. Kelly was awarded a French Gov- ernment Teaching Assistantship-Fulbright Hays for graduate study in France during the 1989-90 academic year Christopher A. Masto was selected sec- ond runner-up Outstanding Solon E. Sum- merfield Scholar by The Endowment Fund of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. He lives in Orange, Conn. GS Charles N. Cofer '40 Ph.D. has moved from Chapel Hill, N.C., to Albuquerque, N.M. David Gavenda '59 Ph.D., Austin, Texas, received the Robert N. Little Award as "out- standing contributor to physics higher edu- cation in Texas" at last fall's meeting of the Texas section of the American Association of Physics Teachers. Donald D. Hook '61 Ph.D., professor of modern languages at Trinity College in Hart- ford, Conn., is co-author of Deatli in the Bal- ance: The Debate Oi>er Capital Punishment, published in July by Lexington Books. Henry C. Kelly '62 Ph.D., a member of the Texas Christian University faculty since 1964, is chairman of the university's chemistry de- partment. He is known for his study of mod- el enzyme systems. Sumner F. Richards '62 MAT, Bedford, Mass., has returned from an Earthwatch ex- pedition to the Avenal volcano in Costa Rica, part of his sabbatical leave from teaching sixth-grade science at Clarke Middle School in Lexington, Mass. Richard Drake '65 A.M. is the author of Revolutionary Mystique and Terrorism in Con- temporary Italy (Indiana University Press). He teaches modern European history at the Uni- versity of Montana, Missoula. Richard S. Slotkin '67 Ph.D. published his second novel. The Return of Henry Starr, in April 1988. He lives in Middletown, Conn. Duane L. Cady '70 A.M., '71 Ph.D. is the author of From Wansm to Pacifism: A Moral Continuum (Temple University Press, 1989). He lives in Roseville, Minn. Charles F. O'Brien '68 Ph.D., a professor at Clarkson University in Potsdam, N.Y., re- ceived a Fulbright Lectureship to teach American civilization at Mohhammend V University in Rabat, Morocco. The ten-month appointment began in August. Paul M. Laurenza '70 A.M. is a member of the Washington, D.C., law office of Pettit & Martin, practicing in the areas of trade and federal regulatory matters. He is the author of two articles on product safety and liability in Legal Tiines and The fournal of Products Lia- bility. Timothy A. Neale '71 MAT. is vice presi- dent for clinical services at Mount Auburn Hospital in Massachusetts. Kathleen C. Smith '74 A.M., Poughkeep- sie, N.Y., will receive an M.S.VV. from Adelphi Universitv School of Social Work in December Her son, Chris, is 8. Thomas L. Carson '75 Ph.D. and Judith Corey Carson '85 Ph.D. (see '70). E. Douglas Lewis '75 A.M. is a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Mel- bourne, Australia. His first book on his an- thropological research in eastern Indonesia, People of the Source: The Social and Ceremonial Order of Tana Wai Brama on Flares, was pub- lished in 1988. "When not teaching or work- ing in Indonesia, 1 spend my time in a new house in the bush among the koalas, wom- bats, wallabies, and lyre birds on Mount Toole-Be-Wong in the Great Dividing Range of Victoria." Erich W. Sippel '75 Ph.D. has been ap- pointed senior manager with KPMG Peat Marwick's insurance consulting services practice. He is based in New York and Philadelphia. Joanne Schneider '77 Ph.D., Lincoln, R.I., has been promoted to associate professor of history at Wheaton College in Norton, Mass. Two of her book reviews appeared recently in German Studies Revieiu. Doug Cumming '80 A.M. has been named senior editor/features of Sotitlipoint, a region- al general-interest magazine to be published in Atlanta. He had been editor of the Sunday Journal Magazine, the Sunday supplement of the Providence Journal-Bulletin. Philip Parisi '81 A.M. was awarded the 1989 Renato Poggioli Translation Prize from PEN American Center in New York for his translations of the twentieth-century Italian poet, Alfonso Gatto. He lives with his wife in Austin, Texas, where he is assistant director of publications with the Texas Historical Commission. George E. Briden '82 Ph.D. is director of interstate gas supply for Equitrans, Inc., of Pittsburgh. He and his wife. Donna, have a daughter and a son. Jay Bonner '84 A.M. and his wife, Jessica Bayer '85 A.M., have started a literary press, the French Broad Press, in Asheville, N.C. MD m Melissa Jacobs Gridley '81 MD. (see '77). Paolo DePetrillo '81 MD. (see '77). Dexter L. Campinha-Bacote '82 MD. is an assistant professor of family medicine at the University of Cincinnati. He has a private family practice and lives in Cincinnati with his wife and their two boys, ages 5 and 4. He would like to hear from Robert Perez '81 M.D. Mary Frates '85 M.D. (see '79). Hon Lee '86 M.D. and Emmie Fa '89 M.D. (see '86). Obituaries Jeannette Gaboon Tingwall '17, Tampa, Fla.; Feb. 15. She retired as a secretary from the University of South Florida, Tampa, in 1965. After studying part-time for six years, she re- ceived her B.S. degree from the University of Tampa in 1957 at the age of 62. She is sur- vived by a daughter, Sr. Althea Jackson, M.S., 711 Cross Park Dr, St. Augustine, Fla. 32084. Floyd Warren Buswell '21, Venice, Fla.; May 21 . He moved to Florida from Bermuda in 1966 when he retired as comptroller of Amer- ican International Group. He was the 1926 Rhode Island tennis champion. Sigma Chi. Survivors include three children and his wife, Virginia, 626 Madrid Ave., Venice 34285. Elizabeth L. Kiley '21, '22 A.M., Pawtucket, R.I.; May 24. A teacher in the Pawtucket school system since 1922, she retired as head of the history department at Tolman Senior High School in 1968. There is no information regarding survivors. John Joseph Muccio '21, Washington, DC, U.S. diplomat in several countries; May 19. He was America's first ambassador to the Republic of Korea, serving as President Tru- man's special representative to the newly es- tablished Korean government for one year before he was named ambassador in 1949. He was in charge of evacuations and other critical matters at the time of the North Kore- an invasion on June 25, 1950, and received the State Department's Distinguished Service Award in 1951 for his "courageous perfor- mance of duty" in Korea. After serving as ambassador to Guatemala, he retired in 1961 with the highest diplomatic rank, that of ca- reer minister. He was assigned, before Korea, to posts in Germany, Hong Kong, Yunnan in China, Shanghai, Bolivia, Panama, Nicaragua, and Havana. Among his survivors are his wife. Sheila, 2880 Arizona Terr. NW, Wash- ington, D.C. 20016; and four children, includ- ing Moira '87. Max Levin '23, Del Ray Beach, Fla., a lawyer 52 / SEPTEMBER 1989 in Rhode Island for fifty years; May 18. A graduate of Harvard Law School in 1926, he practiced with the Providence firm of Kirschenbaiim & Kirschenbauni for ten years before opening his office. He was elected to the Rhode Island House of Representatives for one term in 1452 from Newport. He is survived by four children, including Nor- man, P.O. Box 11897, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. 33339. Horace Henry Barker '26, Woodland Hills, Calif.; May 4. He retired from New York Tele- phone as district manager after thirty-eight years. He served in the Navy during World War II and remained active in the Navy Re- serve, attaining the rank of captain prior to his discharge. He organized Brown's first soccer team in 1926. Sigma Xi. Tau Beta Pi. Survivors include a son, Horace, Jr. (Lex) '53, 20338 Ruston Rd., Woodland Hills 91364. Elizabeth M. Smith '26, Holyoke, Mass.; Feb. 6. A member of the Daughters of the Heart of Mary in Worcester, Mass., since 1952, she was a social worker in Boston and, from 1955 to 1970, in the Bronx, N.Y., where she taught at St. Joseph's School for the Deaf. In 1971, she served as a supervisor and administrator at St. Elizabeth's Center in New York, then moved to Holyoke in 1984. She is survived by a brother, William, 191 Morin St., Woon- socket, R.I. 02895. Robert Thomas Daubigny Wickenden '26, Victoria, British Columbia; March 14. He was a micropaleontology geologist with the Geo- logical Survey of Canada from 1930 until 1966. He was a member of numerous profes- sional societies in the U.S. and Canada and was a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Sigma Xi. Survivors include a son and his wife, Lyla Rogers Wickenden '25, 1450 Beach Dr, Apt. 303, Victoria V8S 2N8. Harold Albert Broda '27, Canton, Ohio, a self-employed insurance consultant; Feb. 13. President of his senior class, he was captain of the legendary 1926 football team. The Ironmen, and was elected to the Brown Ath- letic Hall of Fame in 1971. An AU-American in football, he was also a track star Delta Up- silon. Survivors include his wife, Margaret, 236 Third St., SW, Carnegie Bldg., Canton 44702; a son, Frederick '59; and a grandson, Frederick, Jr. '82. Russell Charles Wonderlic '27, Baltimore, Md.; Jan. 3. He was president of his own firm, PPC, Inc., which specialized in pen- sions, profit sharing, and deferred compensa- tion plans, and was the former executive pro- ducer and board chairman of the Baltimore Civic Opera. There is no information regard- ing immediate survivors. Helene Chase Miller '28, Scottsdale, Ariz.; April 19. She was president of Amoskeag Re- alty Company, a family real estate manage- ment firm in Manchester, N.H,, for forty years. She lived in Scottsdale for five years. She is survived by her hu,sband, Louis '29, 7910 East Camelback Rd., #501, Scottsdale 85251; and two daughters, including Devra Miller Breslow '54. Kathryn Lichty Shaal '28, Warwick, R.I.; May 13. She was class president from 1948 to 1953. Survivors include her husband, Lester '29, and a daughter, Alice Shaal Casserlie '58. Franklin Gamwell '29, Winter Park, Fla.; April 29. He began his career with Sears in 1930 and retired in 1962 as operating super- intendent in New York. He was active in many civic and charitable organizations. Sur- vivors include his wife, Marjorie, 333 Briar- wood Dr., Winter Park 32789; and two sons, including John '58. Myron Livingston Taylor '29, Brielle, N.J.; May 14. He was vice president and general manager of the Air Cruisers Company from 1962 until retiring in 1975 and helped devel- op wing de-icers for commercial aircraft. He served on the Monmouth County, N.J., Plan- ning Board, was a former director of indus- trial development for the county, and was past president and a member of the board of education for fourteen years. Among his sur- vivors are two daughters and his wife, Eliza- beth, 806 School House Rd., Brielle 08730. Henry Cutler '30, Weymouth, Mass.; May 25. He earned his law degree from Boston Col- lege and operated Cutler Buick in Cohasset, Mass., for many years. He was president of the Massachusetts Buick Dealers Association, president of the South Shore Automobile Dealers Association, and founder of the Pi Lambda Phi chapter at Brown. Among his survivors are his wife, Lillian, 79 Donald St., Apt. #412, Weymouth 02188; and two sons, including Stephen '57. Irene Dugas Lalonde '30, East Greenwich, R.I.; June 6. She was a teacher in the Provi- dence school system for five years after grad- uating from Brown. Survivors include two sisters and her husband, Rainer, 59 Overhill Rd., East Greenwich 02818. Donald Edgar MacLean '30, Providence, a re- porter and editor at the Providence lournal- BuUetin for forty-six years before retiring as a makeup editor in 1973; May 21. He was a founder and a former vice president of the Providence Newspaper Guild and a former president of the New England District Coun- cil of the Newspaper Guild. Survivors in- clude three sons and his wife, Agnes, 80 Car- penter St., Providence 02903. S. Nathaniel Morris '30 A.M., San Antonio, Texas; Jan. 13, 1988. There is no information regarding survivors. Clifford Francis Counihan '31, Wakefield, R.I.; May 9. He was a copy editor, makeup editor, and telegraph editor for the Provi- dence lournnl-Bulletin for thirty-three years before retiring in 1976. He began his newspa- per career after graduation as a sports writer for the Providence Neivs-Tribune and then edit- ed the Hudson (Mass.) Daily Sun from 1934 to 1937. Survivors include his wife, Lucia, Green Hill Ave., Wakefield 02879; a daughter; and a son, Michael '63. Emily Hussey Haskell '32, Hilton Head Is- land, S.C.; Dec. 4. She was a former book edi- tor for Tlie Ifland Pacl