BroiAT September 19 ® ^ Come contineiit-Koppiii' Egypt AND the TilLE January 2-15 XVHEN ALEXANDER THE GREAT CONQUERED Egypt in 332 B.C., a highly sophisticated civiHza- tion had already flourished on the banks of the Nile for over 3000 years. This comprehensive itinerarycustom-designed for Brown, includes Cairo, the tombs of the Valley of the Kings, the temples of Luxor and Abu Simbel, plus a cruise on the Nile aboard the luxurious ship Oberoi. The trip home features a stop in Leiden, just outside Amsterdam, to tour the Rijksmuseum von Oudheden's Egyptian Antiquities Collection. FACULTY: Leonard H. Lesko, Wilbour Professor of Egyptology COST: $3,999 including airfare from New York T//£ Qalapagos Islands March 8-17 WALK IN THE FOOTSTEPS of nat- uralists such as Charles Darwin ^a.c I and Roger Tory Peterson on this trip to the islands which inspired one of the greatest bio- logical theories of all time. Travelers will come face to face with giant Galapagos tortoises, blue-footed boobies, and a vast array of colorful, unique and curious wildlife on these fasci- nating volcanic islands. Ports of call of the Galapagos Explorer include Bartolome, Fernandina, James, Isabela and Santa Cruz. faculty: Terry Tullis, Professor of Geology cost: $2,995 including airfare from Miami Eastern Europe May 4-15 BROWN TRAVELERS WILL EXPERI- ENCE history in the making on this timely journey to three east- ern bloc cities. The program begins in Warsaw, capital of Poland since the early 17th cen- tury and birthplace of Chopin. Continue on to Berlin, with all the sites of both East and West now accessible to visitors. Prague is the final destination, a stately old city filled with architectural masterpieces. The famous music ^m 9" ± he n he Brown Travelers program for the coming year is our most ambi- tious ever. We've planned trips to six continents and signed up some of Browns most talented faculty mem- bers to provide intellectual enrich- ment. All that's missing are alumni and fiends of Brown to enjoy the educational experience of a tour with the Brown Travelers. Use the attached card to request more information or make your reservations. Many of these trips will sell out quickly, so please respond soon! festival will be taking place dur- ing the Brown Travelers' visit. faculty: Henry Kucera, Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages cost: Approximately $3,500 including airfare from New York T)ANUBE TiP/ER Cruise June 24 - July 8 THIS unusual itinerary FOL- LOWS the Danube through seven countries on two cruises in one. The trip begins in Vienna, glit- tering capital of the Hapsburg " empire, then continues down the Danube on board the Ukraina with stops in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia; Budapest, Hungary; Belgrade, Yugoslavia; Nikopol, Bulgaria; and Giurgiu, Romania with an optional excursion to Bucharest. As an added bonus, there's a cruise on the Black Sea, sailing down the Bosporus into exotic Istanbul. FACULTY: Donald Rohr, Professor Emeritus of History COST: Approximately $3,500 including airfare from New York ® ^ih BroTi^n raculty, relloiv 1 Riumni an d rriena » fWlLDERNB&^A August 9-20 r/v. CROSS THE VAST WILDERNESS of America's last frontier in the comfort of a luxury cruise ship, doijie train, day ferry, narrow gauge railway and plane. From Vancouver, cruise to Juneau and Skagway, jumping ofF point tor the Klondike Gold Rush. Fly to Fairb^jks to experience the unspoiled scenery of Alaska's interior, then ride the Midnight Sim Express dome train to Denali National Park at the base of Mt. McKinley. A stay in Anchorage with a cruise along Prince William Sound com- pletes the journey. faculty: Thompson Webb, Professor of Geology COST: Approximately $3,300 from Vancouver 6^15 7" {African Safari October 3 - 18 THIS COMPREHENSIVE SAFARI EXPLORES spectacular Kenya and Tanzania. There are endless opportunities to see abundant animal life and visit the sprawl- ing plains, thick forests and bush lands indigenous to East Africa. Visits to the Ngorongoro Crater and Olduvai Gorge, site of sig- nificant archeological findings of early man, are also included. Travelers will stay at unique lodges in or near parks and game reserves, and view wildlife from a comfortable safari van with seating for just seven pas- sengers. faculty: Jonathan Waage, Associate Professor of Biology cost: Approximately $4,500 including airfare from New York Southeast <^sia November 22 - December 12 THE IMPERLAL HERITAGE OF Southeast Asia unfolds on this journey. The trip begins in the modern city-state of Singapore. Travelers then board the luxuri- ous all-suite Renaissance, sailing to Penang, Malaysia, the "Pearl of the Orient," and Phuket, Thailand, renowned for its scenic beauty. Burma is next. with visits to the ancient tem- ples of Rangoon and Pagan. The final passage is to India, to explore sites associated with the glories of three empires - Hindu, Moghul and British. FACULTY: Lea Williams, Professor Emeritus of History COST: From approximately $5,895 plus special airfare from East Coast of $1,200 (Antarctica January 5 - 19, 1992 THIS IS THE FIRST VISIT by the Brown Travelers to the untamed frozen wilderness of Antarctica. The program takes place during the austral summer, when the temperatures are moderate and the days are long. It is also the season when penguins are rais- ing their young and sightings of elephant seals and whales are common. The group sails aboard the cruise ship Illiria. Zodiac landing craft take travelers virtually anywhere along the Antarctic Peninsula and surrounding islands. FACULTY: To be announced COST: From approximately $5,395 plus special airfare from New York of $1,150 ^ Prices are per person, based on double occupancy. For details and complete itineraries, avail- able six months before depar- ture, return the attached card. If you have questions, call the Alumni Relations Office at 401-863-1946 or write Brown Travelers, Box 1859 Brown University, Providence, RI 02912. Br A program m tJrown University's Continuing College '^O^^^* r^ •v \\V 1 1 Pbiib Ralph Volume 91, Number 1 September 1990 Brown Alumni Monthly A New Generation Confronts Vietnam For today's undergraduates, the Vietnam War is history, not memory. But Charles Neu's course on the "living-room war" is one of the most popular on campus. 20 "The Mickey Kwiatkowski Experiment" Or, "Zen and the Art of Coaching Football." Brown's new coach expounds on his philosophy of life and sport. An Elegy for Alison In 1988, Lois Bryant '77 watched her newborn daughter slip into a coma and die. From that loss, she has woven a series of powerful and beautiful tapestries that are like prayers. On the Old Rose Rustler's Trail The lure of the rose seduced the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Chinese - and Tom Christopher '76. An amateur classicist, trained horticulturalist, and full-time journalist, Christopher has written a book about old roses and the people dedicated to pre- serving them. Departments Carrying the Mail 4 Books 11 Under the Elms 12 Sports 18 The Classes 48 Alumni Calendar 56 Obituaries 59 Finally 64 Freud, Feminism, and Shakespeare The Bard of Avon was ahead of his time in many ways. English Professor Coppelia Kahn says his works are full of ruminations about the nature of masculinity. Cover: Designed by Kathryn de Boer Aliinim M()/;////i/ Voluini' 'M, No. 1 Editor RobiTt M KhiKii's Managing Editor Antu' I Imm.in I 'i(Mly '73 Assistant Editor Charlotti- HriKv 1 l.irvoy 78 Editorial Associate lamos ReinboM 74 A.M. Contributing Writers Briicf Follni.m 72 VVciiiiv Ki'ssiT '^n Administrative Assistant Pamela M. Parker Art Director Kathrvn de Boer Design Sandra IX'lanv Sandra Kenney Susan Pearce Typesetting Gita Brown '86 A.M. Cani/ing the Mail Board of Editors Chairman James Geehan '45 Vice Chairman John J. Monaghan '53 Peter W. Bernstein 73 Philip J. Bray '48 Douglas O. Gumming '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 Rob Sunde '59 Matthew L. Wald '76 Elizabeth B. West '73 Jill Zuckman '87 National Advertising Representative Robert F. Sennott, Jr. Ivy League Magazine Network 254 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10001 (212) 684-5603 ® 1990 by Bmvil Ahimni Monlhli/ Published monthly, except January, July, and August, by Brown University, Providence, R.l. Printed by The Lane Press, PO Box 130, Burlington, Vt 05403. Send editorial correspondence and changes-of-address to PO. Box 18?4, Provi- dence, R.I. 02912. Member, Council for the Ad- vancement and Support of Education. Address Correction Requested Affirmative action Editor. There is a letter defending affir- mative action {BAM, April) in whicfi the writer - Damon Owens - misstates what affirmative action is. Owens defines as included in affir- mative action: home interest payment subsidies, farm subsidies, draft defer- rals, and other policies which are not af- firmative action and which have noth- ing to do with it. They are government subsidies to those who have the political power to buy the votes of Congress. Farm subsidies are an especially foul subsidy. I would like to see them junked. The stated purpose of affirmative ac- tion is equal access to the system, and its advocates measure this by comparing the percentage of minority people in various jobs with the percentage in the population. The two percentages should be close to show lack of bias. One way to achieve this is the "Mi- nority Set-aside Programs" in which a racial group is guaranteed that a specific percentage of contracts will be awarded its members because they are imderrep- resented by the government in award- ing contracts. Whites are underrepresented in bas- ketball and boxing. Is Owens willing to apply that same principle to those sports? I recall a case a few years ago in New Jersey. A man was denied a pro- motion because of his parents' place of birth. No one disputed the facts, but the poor devil was Italian and lost because he was not a member of a government- certified minority. Owens refers to himself as one of the oppressed. Welcome to the club. There is probably not one group on the planet that has not been oppressed. Catholics, Protestants, Japanese, Irish. In Boston, at the time John Kennedy was growing up, there were signs in shop windows: "Help Wanted. No Irish Need Apply." Wo seem to love iloing these things to one another. Affirmative action is our latest method. Affirmative action, the product of black votes and white guilt, should be .scrapped because, like segregation, it is racist. ]ack Schoenbcrg '50 East Palatka, Fla. Editor. Damon Owens {BAM, April) wants us to believe that affirmative ac- tion is analogous to corporate tax breaks, farm subsidies, bank bailouts, and draft deferments. He claims it is hypocritical to oppose one side of the analogy while accepting the other I think this analogy fails. Today's affirmative action seeks preference for what people are - by race or gender or perhaps by other condition. Subsidies for banks, farmers, corpora- tions, and even draft deferments are sought not for what people are, but for what they do. Banks do hold deposits, corporations do employ and produce, potential draftees do go to college, farmers do farm; what they do has consequences for us all. These activities may or may not yield the greatest happiness for the most people, and whether they should receive preference or penalty should be, and is, debated in each case. But the race, gender, or other condition of what a person is says nothing about what that person does to earn or be denied prefer- ential treatment. In public policy, what people are cannot be analogous to what they do. Owens's letter presents ethical con- fusion. He asks that we "question the yardstick used to measure if someone is qualified." However, his questionable analogy presents not one, but two ethi- cal yardsticks. One, Owens's, is based on an idealistic categorical imperative, and would have us believe that affirmative 4 / SEPTEMBER 1990 action is absolutely right for its own sake regardless of the consequences. Perhaps racial affirmative action can be so argued. The second yardstick is utili- tarian: do our bank, corporate, tax, farm, and even our draft deferment policies provide the greatest happiness for the greatest number? As a society we may decide that ideal positions like racial affirmative ac- tion should take precedence over utili- tarian benefits for the many. Or we may decide vice-versa. Owens believes that affirmative action is "accepted, even de- manded" by most Americans. Perhaps; but it is not demanded for the same rea- sons that tax breaks or farm subsidies are demanded. Furthermore, a good deal of American history tells us that when it comes to economic matters like banks and taxes, Americans have been more utilitarian than idealistic; we have cared more for the consequences of poli- cies than for absolute ideals. Whatever ethic we most admire, we should not mix the apples of utility with the pears of idealism in the ongoing ar- gument over affirmative action. If we wish to set one ethical position ahead of the other, we should do so with a clear and rational understanding of what we are doing. Ray W. Karros '68 Somerville, Mass. Editor: Damon Owens's letter on affir- mative action correctly points out the hypocrisy of many conservatives on the issue. He cites the writing of Paul Rock- well, who has noted that when it comes to social policy, many of us tend to favor special treatment for ourselves even as we deny it to others. The correct response to this argu- ment, however, is not an endorsement of affirmative action but an ideologically consistent rejection of it. The more exot- ic examples of affirmative action that Mr. Owens mentions, such as farm sub- sidies and bank bailouts, should be op- posed just as vigorously as those poli- cies suggested by the more common use of the term. The fact that a majority of Americans may approve of such poli- cies, particularly if they perceive them- selves as beneficiaries, is an unfortunate consequence of a widespread belief in the moral legitimacy of government as an instrument of social policy. In fair- ness to Mr. Owens, I note that many conservatives share this view. I hope that Mr. Owens's letter will cause both conservatives and liberals to examine their positions on affirmative action, as honest introspection might lead them to a more consistent, libertari- an perspective. Whatever the legitimate functions of government may be, bailing out banks, subsidizing farmers, and im- plementing affirmative-action policies are not among them. Barry Fagin '82 Hanover, N.H. Need-blind admission Editor: I read with great interest about the campus rally for "need-blind" ad- mission (BAM, April). From the re- sponse given by President Gregorian, I assume it is fair to state that Brown does not have a need-blind admission policy and that the reason is quite sim- ple: it can't afford to. The obvious consequence is that each year some otherwise qualified can- didates are passed over for equally- or even less-qualified students who can af- ford to pay their way. When these superior students who need financial aid receive their denial letters, they are devastated, of course. The letters attempt to soothe these emo- tions with references to how many well- qualified candidates applied and how difficult the choice was for the admis- sion office. The student always wonders just where he/she failed to measure up to the University's standards. May I make a suggestion? Let's be fair to these victims of the policy. In- clude in their letters the real reason they were not accepted. Simply state: "need- based" denial. If Brown is not 'need-blind,' then let's be up front about it, particularly with the candidates who are the victims. Claudia Nash Hurley '65 Westfield, Mass. Faunce House Theatre Editor: I'm writing in response to Kevin Pariseau's letter {BAM, April). I, too, am disturbed that the Faunce House The- atre sits dark and idle. Even more disturbing, though, is the fact that the University apparently has no immediate plans to begin the needed renovations until sufficient funds are pledged. Yet, the University's principal fund-raising efforts are devoted to the Annual Fund, which pays for ongoing operations, not capital improvements. The underlying strategy bears a scary resemblance to the "deferred maintenance" philosophy that left the New York City subways in a shambles by the end of the 1970s. I hope that Brown will do all it can to restore this important facility before its unavailabili- ty further adversely affects either aca- demic programs or cultural life on the campus. Bruce Margolius '70 Park City, Utah 'Graven Images' Editor: The splendid article by Charlotte Bruce Harvey, "Graven Images" (BAM, May), raises an important issue when it notes that federal subsidies to the arts cut two ways. As my colleagues, Mary Cluck, Jolin Thomas, and Kermit Cham- pa note, patrons of the arts can be pa- tronizing. They can also withdraw their subsidies if they do not like your art, or, as Jesse Helms and his friends are trying to do, they can tell you what they think you should photograph, paint, draw, etch, or exhibit. My colleagues consider this in some way "a contract" which may be binding on the artist. They rightly note that in a democracy the subsidization of art can lower taste to that of the lowest com- mon denominator. And Kermit feels so concerned about the limitations that demagogues, bureaucrats, and elected Philistines try to impose upon publicly- subsidized artists that he would like to demolish the whole process. I have two comments: Subsidies to the arts need not work as badly as they do in the United States. European na- tions have subsidized opera, theatre, and museums for a long time, but they have insulated the granting of subsidies from the bureaucrats and demagogues by placing the distribution of the funds in the hands of professionals. Why are we failing to educate the public that freedom of speech includes permitting what we do not always agree with? Second, killing the goose that lays the golden eggs has ramifications for the whole structure of higher education. What university is not subsidized today by federal grants of one kind or anoth- er? Brown could not sign petitions BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 5 against the war in Vietnam (though thev opposed the war) out of fear that they might lose government contracts. Fortu- nately, Brown does not accept all the strings Congress ties to its grants. The faculty rejected student scholarships which required loyalty oaths; it has a long-standing rule against secret re- search. Let's think twice before we oppose support of art and education. The prob- lem lies elsewhere. I think the public as a whole values freedom of expression and academic freedom. If it does not, it is our job to explain why these are im- portant, not to scorn public help which is beneficial to public enlightenment. Can art and education really go it alone? William McLaughlin Professor of History Campus Editor. In response to the article "Graven Images" (BAM, May), I would like to urge that all who advocate the abolition of the National Endowment for the Arts as an answer to the recent problems en- gendered by that agency's funding con- sider the full range of projects support- ed by it and bv other federal agencies for the arts. Having just returned from an exten- sive tour of college and university gal- leries and museums in this area, I find that I am absolutely appalled by the no- tion that this virtually non-political funding, which generates many times its value in matching grants, may be lost to American museums in the near fu- ture. This small (by all standards) agen- cy provides a major source of life-giving support not only to artists and exhibi- tion programs but to the acquisition and maintenance of collections, the planning and execution of conservation, the pro- vision of internships for future museum professionals, outreach and educational services, and numerous other programs indispensable to all gallery and museum operations. This includes, of course, those which are the basis of teaching programs in enlightened institutions in- cluding our own. That the Institute for Contemporary Art of the University of Pennsylvania, organizing institution for the Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition, has recently been threatened with the loss of two of three grants already approved by the appropriate peer panels of the NEA for the coming year in an arbitrary decision apparentlv motivated solely bv political goals only serves to clarify and intensify the issue. Although we niav not always agree with the end result of the peer-review process, especially when our own pro- jects and institutions are not selected for support, 1 feel that it is in the interest of all arts advocates to support full, unre- stricted funding for the NEA and its sister organizations, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum Services. These worthy agen- cies should be encouraged to continue to serve American cultural institutions and, in turn, American students and friends of the arts. Nancy R. Versaci '71 A.M. Founding Director David Winton Bell Gallery Campus Editor. I enjoyed Charlotte Bruce Har- vey's recent article "Graven Images," but I have to take exception to one state- ment. Ms. Harvey writes, "With Pearl Har- bor and America's entrance into World War II, the arts projects were dissolved." It may be that the WPA projects disap- peared as the forties came in, but gov- ernment subsidy and involvement with the arts did not go away. On the con- trary, it burgeoned - in the form of sub- tle and not-so-subtle propaganda. The popular arts, particularly, found ready subsidies. Perhaps the best docu- mented areas are those of motion pic- tures and illustration. I remember not only the ubiquitous posters ("Loose lips sink ships"), but Abbott and Costello and the Andrews Sisters in an earnest movie whose theme was clearly that the army - even in peacetime - would make a man out of you. That movie just hap- pened to come out when the govern- ment was eager to build a volunteer army before going to a draft. And then there was Joe Carioca, a pert and colorful parrot invented by the Disney studios to make North Ameri- cans feel all cuddly about our southern neighbors - an obvious ploy in the gov- ernment's eager courting of Latin Amer- ica into military and commercial alli- ances in the brief period of choosing up sides before December 1941. And the films from Mrs. Miniver to Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, oh, my! Professor Champa would do away with the endowment and rely on private support. I would remind him that "pri- vate" does not equal "disinterested" or even "liberal." It didn't in the days of the great Italian patrons, nor in the days when the Rockefellers had troubles with the murals in their new Center. No mat- ter the source, he who pays the piper has always felt some urge to call the tune. Samuel F. Babbitt Vice President for Development Campus 'A View From the Futon' Editor. Just as the Broum Daily Herald moves out of the student's life when she or he moves off campus and off meal plan in the junior or senior year (it is primarily a newspaper for underclass- men, failing to reach readers in large numbers outside of the dining halls and to hold the interests of upperclassmen), the Broivn Alumni Monthly moves into the Brown student's life his or her senior year, at which time the University primes the student for future donation requests. The recent March issue of this publication carried a cover story called "A View from the Futon," bearing the description on the contents page: "Curi- ous to see just what his '80,000 clams' were buying, one brave father came to campus midweek for a two-day visit with his daughter." Turning to the story, one finds this printed under its title: "A dad's yen for a 'subterranean view' of his daughter's education at Brown leads him on a merry chase - and to some happy conclusions." With a sigh of relief we can read on, right? I read about how this father attempt- ed to plug his daughter by telling the di- rector of Brown admissions that she had been "diligently reading Tess of the D'Urbervilles in the car" while waiting for her interview, and how the director of admissions replied "matter-of-factly" that "we'd" be more impressed if his daughter had written the Thomas Hardy novel. Both characters, father and director, are laughable in this charade. Who are they fooling? They are actors performing corny roles, each using the other to inflate Brown's image as an eli- tist institution to an extreme that dimin- ishes them both as homo sapiens, status quo. Much is made in this article of the fact that the writer's daughter sleeps on a futon. It's in the article's title for one 6 / SEPTEMBER 1990 thing - "A View from the Futon" - and I suppose for the writer a futon somehow stands as a symbol for the "mellow" Brown, rather than, say, the computer "two steps from the futon" which hints at affluence rather than a simulated as- cetic "subterranean" lifestyle that is, in any case, only affordable through afflu- ence. Reading on I am told that al- though the daughter's "own intellectual renaissance" had begun back in school, here at Brown the process was continu- ing at a higher register. Certainly this was "nothing earth-shattering" but it made the father envious that he had tak- en longer than his own daughter to place his faith in the institution of high- er education. Leaving Brown, he decides that the Brown environment could not be better constructed to deliver the liber- al arts education his daughter desires. "For a young woman with such sensi- tive and flexible antennae" as the writ- er's daughter, "things looked promis- ing." All of which makes me wonder how this article came to be written. Did the author know he would be writing this article for this magazine before he came to Brown for his two-day visit? Did he simply write it up and submit it to the Brown Alumni Monthly? Interest- ingly enough, the author is a professor in the writing program of another uni- versity, a fellow member of the higher education business. The writer tells us, "I wasn't the slightest bit upset about the 80,000 clams or whatever this gig will eventu- ally cost. Who could be ..." It is no sur- prise that this euphemism, clams, is bor- rowed from a New Yorker cartoon the writer mentioned early in the article. The New Yorker very often contains car- toons in which an upper-class person imitates lower-class mannerisms, or a lower-class person imitates upper-class mannerisms, or the latest upper-middle- class fad is acknowledged. In this article the use of the word clams for dollars dispels any notion that affording to pay for college tuition may be a political is- sue, or even an economic issue of some concern. After all, we're talking about clams for a "gig." Who could be upset at whatever the eventual cost of this gig might be? Brown has given the author's daughter "the kind of savvy you just can't put a dollar sign around." It's no surprise that one of the two quotes en- larged and illustrated in the article is this one: "I'm not the slightest bit upset about the 80,000 clams this gig will cost." Here the "or whatever" - "the 80,000 clams or whatever this gig will eventually cost"- is unexplainably left out. The accompanying illustration of hugging father and daughter in a pile of clams further distances this statement from political and social reality. Is it just coincidence that a Brown summer-school registration card is in- serted in this magazine so it lays be- tween the opening two pages of this ar- ticle? Clearly this father's two-day experience and resulting impressions cannot be considered an exemplification of the experience that other parents of Brown students might have visiting this University - if they could afford to take the two days off from work in the mid- dle of the week to drive down from their nearby New England home. How- ever, it does seem that in highlighting this particular father's visit to Brown, the Broum Alumni Monthli/ is represent- ing in its pages the parent of the Brown student that it is most interested in: af- fluent, well-educated, white, male. The kind of parent who is in a position to donate "clams" to Brown University. "A View From the Futon" is like an endless series of commercials, like those that try to sell you health insurance and camera film and credit cards and gift cards. And like an advertisement, it considers only those who are in a position to pay when performing for its audience. Gan/ Weissmnn '90 Fair Lawn, N.J. Editor: The education Merritt ("A View from the Futon") desperately needs can- not be bought. (Her dad came all that distance to visit, and she abandoned him for the night to satisfy her primal urges with her latest boyfriend.) For $80,000 she may indeed be learning "to think." My concern is that she hasn't learned to handle a commitment beyond that to herself. There's no "we" to it, it's all "me" - pure self-indulgence. Dad, you may be a good teacher on campus, but the job doesn't end at home! Mary "Robin" Veeder Dailey '64 Houston 'Beyond Self-Interest' Editor. Alfie Kohn surprises me when he says, "Books arguing for the universality of selfishness . . . are not written" ("Be- yond Self-interest," May 1990). Here's one. In A Conflict of Visions, Thomas Sowell argues that societies based on the more pessimistic (i.e., selfish) view of "human nature" have a better track record than their opponents, and that this suggested pessimistic view is the more accurate one. A more interesting challenge to Kohn is offered by Roberto Unger In Passion, he argued that any behavior can be called altruistic or selfish, depending on the point of view of the observer. For this false and unimportant dichotomy, Unger substitutes the conflicting pas- sions of mutual longing and fear, both of which are universal. In contrast to Sow- ell (and Kohn), Unger sees selfish- ness/altruism as the wrong subject to be debating altogether. The philosopher Edgar Singer, Jr., also saw this as the wrong debate. By equating altruism with love, and oppos- ing altruism with selfishness, we are forced by syllogistic necessity to define love as self-sacrifice. But the logic of love as self-sacrifice breaks down once we transcend the altruistic view of love as a transaction between a lover and a love-object: "For, the moment love be- gins to be a mutual affair, neither lover has the right to usurp the privilege of giving; else what is left for the other lover to do? Without logic our lovers are doomed to stand bowing to each other before the door of promise till time grows gray." (E.A. Singer, Jr., "Love and Loyalty," in a paper presented to the American Philosophical Society at its Philadelphia meeting in 1915.) But having illuminated the paradox, mutuality also shows us the way out. The concept of altruism is itself bound by the paradigm of individualism with- in which it stands as a kind of loyal op- position. If Kohn wishes to issue a rebel- lious challenge it is individualism itself that must be his opponent. Yet even here he will find he is not alone. A recent best-seller. Habits of the Heart, fired a sal- vo at individualism. Hannah Arendt's reflections on action and the loss of the public world, constant themes of her work, form a deeper critique. A continuing task of social thought is the reconceptualization of the appar- ent conflict between the individual and the group. I doubt whether the concepts of altruism and selfishness, mired as they are in the individualistic paradigm, will help us find our way. Kennard T. 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See for yourself why the excitement is building. Because space is limited, please R.S.V.P. HOMECROFT AT BLACKSTONE Rhode Island's Premier Lifecare Retirement Communitv 345 Blackstone Blvd., Providence, Rhode Lsland 02906 • (401 ) 273-9550 African drumming Editor: 1 couldn't believe my eyes when I rend in the April issue that Brown is giv- ing a "year-long course in African drumming." Maybe a day, or possibly a week, but a year! Come on, who's kid- ding who? Riclwrd Cohoell '43 Norwalk, Conn. Tuition increase Editor. I hope no one in the administra- tion is celebrating your headline "At 6.4 percent, next year's tuition increase is the lowest in twenty years" (BAM, March). Pats on the back are not in order. If we accepted price increases in excess of 6.4 percent each year for the past twenty years for the goods and services my company uses, we would be out of busi- ness. Don Harris '65 Berlin, Conn. Bruno's home Editor: As a graduate of both Brown University and UCLA, I have long con- sidered myself "Bruin to the core." The presence of several bear emblems in my home adds evidence to that fact. Thus, the debate about the Browm bear statue {BAM, May) raised mv interest. I was never involved in athletics at Brown or the University of California. I have never even set eyes on Marvel Gym. Nevertheless, I strongly identify with the bear as a symbol of Brown Uni- versity. During my years in California, I of- ten admired the bear statue on Bruin Walk, the heart of the UCLA campus. I frequently saw students and visitors of all shapes, sizes, and interests climbing the statue's pedestal for a photo. To re- spond to one of the comments made by those who view the bear as an athletic symbol only, tliis Phi Beta Kappa would be happy to have her picture taken with the Brown Bear - if she ever got near it. I strongly support moving the statue to a site on the main campus. While the site near Pizzitola Sports Center would be closer and more accessible than Mar- x-el Gym, the symbol of the University deserves to be displayed in a place where it can be enjoyed by all members / SEPTEMBER 1990 of the Brown community - even those who are not athletically inclined. Victoria S. Kaprielian, M.D., '81 Durham, N.C. Editor: A symbol or mascot must have relevancy. I do not perceive the statue of Bruno having such for the main campus. We sing of "The Bear" in our fight songs, and his figure rampant has graced the entrance of Marvel Gym and the center of our athletic complex from the begin- ning. His relevance lies in his inspira- tion to our various teams. A place for his statue should be found within the new athletic complex. A competent and imaginative architect should have little difficulty finding there a location both convenient and happy. 1 shall be pleased to contribute to any project aimed at locating Bruno at the new athletic complex, his only logi- cal home. The Rev. Robert A, Tourigneij '41 The Woodlands, Texas Editor. I very much enjoyed your clear and objective article on the Marvel Gym bear sculpture and its relocation. In this debate, it is also important to listen to the opinions of our current stu- dents. The Undergraduate Council of Students in its "1990 Election Results" reported that over 63 percent of the stu- dents voting favored moving the bear to the top of the Post Office steps. Artemis A. W. Joukou'sky '55 Vice Chancellor, Campus Economics of the system Editor. I feel touched, personally and oth- erwise, by the letter from Professor John J. Seater (BAM, May). In addition to teaching as a fellow at Brown, I have had the joy of teaching at the University of Pittsburgh, Yale, and Boston Univer- sity, where I did my undergraduate work in the late fifties. Although the lat- ter next academic year will be the third most expensive "college" in the country, its students - myself among them - "in the good old days" shared very similar origins to those at North Carolina State; that is, we were mostly first-generation college students and, besides, were very often second-generation Americans. Within the context of my experience, I see many reasons to hope that Professor Seater will stop pitying himself and start considering the economics of the system from other perspectives. More students than ever are in col- lege ... or recently have been. Ability to pay and parents' willingness to pay or to go into debt are by themselves deter- mined by numerous factors, many irra- tional. Among these one has to consider a fairly widespread acceptance as fact that price is an index of real value. At least one central Massachusetts institu- tion has raised tuition prices, in order to attract students and regain competitive edge! Overlooked by Professor Seater is the fact that most students - including those at all the institutions I have been associated with - consider college a means to an end. An English major, now as eighty years ago, is more likely to land one in business than behind the lectern. Spanish majors work for banks. My father hired a Harvard M.D. to chop wood. Furthermore, one has to look at the population as a whole and remem- ber that we are not all made of the same stuff. Right now many persons in col- lege would have never made it past the admissions office in 1905, when one was expected to have gotten through four years of Latin and two of Greek. Few colleges seem willing to build new pro- grams - and many have failed when try- ing - to educate these persons within the framework of their abilities and to make the required special efforts to compensate for what is wanting in back- ground, skill, or ability. Rather than seri- ous faculty discussions of these issues, one hears that "I did not get a Ph.D. to deal with these matters." A recognized research faculty may be the pride and joy of an institution; but it has no educa- tional mission until it connects the stu- dents admitted with the tacit under- standing that they will be able to func- tion within available programs. Bait and switch? Of course, sometimes one hears an equally distressing concern with raising graduation requirements, as if this will improve the performance of the existing or future students who can- not handle the present requirements as they are now administered. In short. Professor Seater is not alone in his un- happiness. But one does have to ask why he is so sure that the blame belongs only to others. It is easier for Brown faculty - and the faculty of similar colleges - to treat students with respect because Brown students are unlikely to be unprepared or seemingly unwilling to learn - and if you are, you are outnumbered and learn to toe the line or play along. School rep- utation combined with high admissions hurdles and costs are playing a role here; but the cost is greater than that cal- culated in dollars. Also, the prestige ac- quired by association is going to be ivorth something in one context or anoth- er throughout life. Brown respects stu- dents and students respect, nay, vener- ate. Brown and the faculty that incarnate Brown. However, this is not the case at Brown alone. Yet, in many institutions working out of the respect equation falls to departments or individuals. One can speculate on the level of math prepared- ness among Professor Seater 's students and the measure their fear and dread of mathematics affects their behavior and attitudes in any course where the appli- cation of mathematical skill is required. One may also wonder about their stu- dents' ability to deal with abstractions - their source and their applications. If Professor Seater can only respect those who arrive fully prepared to play with ease at economics, his future is dismal indeed. Not even the football coach has that luck, and in many places more is expended on football than on math and foreign languages. On the other hand, it is entirely possible that there are poten- tial Seaters (in terms of scholarly apti- tude [Spare us the other Seater!]) among the tuitioners for whom he professes - mostly contempt. Perhaps "salvation" is not an individual question. To save our- selves - free ourselves - we sometimes may have to try to save others. Leering contempt is not high on the scale of civi- lized values. ]ames H. Hoddie '65 Ph.D. Lexington, Mass. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 9 Tills will get you toTbkyo In about 14 hours. This will get you back to the US. In about 14 seconds. #i AT&T's USADirect® information card makes it easy to call home when you're overseas. Just dial the USADirect nccess number for the country you're calling from and you'll be connected to an AT&T Operator in the US. within seconds. Use your AT&T Card or call collect. It's fast. It's economical. And it's available in over 50 countries. For your information card, just call 1 800 874-4000, Ext. 301. omom 008 111, ^ATaT AT&T The right choice. ©1990 AT&T Books By James Reinbold (Not quite) in their own words Stolai Words: Forays into the Origins and Rmmges of Plnginrism, by Thomas Mallon '73 (f icknor & Fields, New York, 1989). $18.95. In Hamlet, Shakespeare advised, "Neither a borrower nor a lender be, /For loan oft loses both itself and friend, /And bor- rowing dulls the edge of husbandry." He was, most readers agree, talking about money. As a writer, Shakespeare bor- rowed heavily - most notably from Plutarch and Holinshed. In Shakespeare's case, most would excuse him and agree with Milton, who wrote, "For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrow- er, among good authors is accounted plagiary." Few would protest that Shake- speare did not better his sources, and fewer still would call him a plagiarist. There was a time when writers who borrowed did not suffer the opprobrium they risk today. As Thomas Mallon points out, "Plagiarism didn't become a truly sore point with writers until they thought of writing as their trade. Jokes about out-and-out literary theft go back all the way to Aristophanes and The Frogs, but what we call plagiarism was more a matter for laughter than litiga- tion." The literary crimes of Laurence Sterne, author of Tristram Shandy (1759), and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who with William Wordsworth published in 1798 the Lyrical Ballads, have not damaged their reputations (it may be a case of too late, not too little). Joseph Biden, humili- ated and embarrassed by the revelation that some of his oratory was taken from the speeches of British Labor leader Neal Kinnock, was forced to drop out of the last presidential primaries, but is still serving in the Senate, his reputation on the mend. Did his punishment fit his crime? But even more intriguing, why did he do it? Why does anyone - schol- ar, author, or politician - plagiarize? Mallon considers the case of the nineteenth-century English playwright and novelist Charles Reade. After spend- ing much of his life denouncing copy- right violators, Reade translated a French novel and passed it off as his own. Was Reade, as Mallon suggests, a policeman wrestling to suppress the thief within? Certainly, he did not need to plagiarize to further his reputation. His crime seems more compulsive, like that of a klepto- maniac, who often steals even though he has no need for the objects stolen. It is inevitable that plagiarists will get caught. Why then do they risk killing their careers? Do they have some sort of literary death wish? Mallon's probing into the psychology of the plagiarist is fascinating, but the purloiner's psyche remains a mystery. E.B. White wrote that there were three kinds of plagiarists: "the thief, the dope, and the total recall guy" In addition to looking at literary pla- giarism, Mallon takes a chapter to deal with academic plagiarists, in particular one scholar who was caught lifting mate- rial for a book from another scholar's doctoral dissertation. Citing the ambiva- lence with which plagiarism is often judged, Mallon writes that the guilty party was allowed to resign. He was lat- er hired by the National Endowment for the Humanities, where he "monitors the grants awarded to university professors for the pursuit of their research." Another chapter deals with the case of Anita Clav Kornfeld, who claimed that the television series, "Falcon Crest," was created from her novel. Vintage. After a lengthy trial, the judge ruled that she had no case. But such cases can be won. Art Buchwald, the humorist, recently proved in court that the movie Coming to America, starring Eddie Mur- phy, had been taken from his writings without credit. Although the furor that results from each incident fades over time, the theft of a writer's words remains a violation, a form of assault from which none of the parties involved escapes unharmed. "Anyone is relieved to come home and find that the burglar has taken the wallet and left the photo album," Mallon says. "When a plagiarist enters the writer's study it's the latter - the stuff of 'senti- mental value' - that he's after." Mallon previously has written a biography of the poet Edmund Blunden (1983) and a year later wrote ^4 Book of Otie's Ouni: People and Their Diaries. He published Arts and Sciences, a novel, in 1988 and is at work on another novel. He lives in New York City and teaches part-time at Vassar. El BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 11 Former National Security Advisor McCeorge Bundy said that the challenge now is to turn enemies into friends - for good. 12 / SEPTEMBER 1990 ^^^^ UNDERTHE ^^S FtmS -Li L/iVl L^ The end of the Cold War: Summer College looks behind the headlines ' 1 ' 1 here were no easy they continued overtime. said, the Cold War was wanted to place as much -IL answers; that much often right up to the first af- fueled by "the contrast be- land as possible between was clear. The record-setting ternoon lectures. "Those tween expectations and re- him and his enemies." Al- 143 who attended this June's sessions are the heart of the sults." There was in the though Stalin had no "grand Summer College, "The Eu- thing," said one participant. spring of 1945 a hope that design for Soviet expan- ropean Shuffle; From the "That's where people really we could be friends with sion," he "was tempted to Atlantic to the Urals," may get going." the Soviets, he said. "One probe American tenacity have come away with a The faculty were as di- of the reasons for our dis- and endurance," thinking clearer understanding of the verse as their students. appointment was that as a the U.S. would withdraw past, but the future seemed including Brown historians. people we had not been into isolationism, Neu said. murkier as the four-day ses- foreign policy analysts. aware that what happened How, he asked, was Stal- sion progressed. arms-control specialists, for- in Eastern Europe was in in to have anticipated the Hopes that the end of the mer President Howard the cards. Sometimes people U.S.'s gradual retreat from Cold War heralded a new Swearer, and a military blame Churchill or Truman isolationism: the Truman age of peace were tempered strategist from the Naval for giving away Eastern Eu- Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, by a growing understand- War College. McGeorge rope. The real choice . . . the U.S. response to the in- ing of the intricacies of cre- Bundy, National Security was Stalin's." vasion of South Korea? ating a unified European Advisor to U.S. Presidents In an earlier lecture that "Stalin felt misled and economy by 1992 and incor- Kennedy and Johnson, gave morning, historian Neu had tricked by the U.S.," Neu porating into it the newly the keynote lecture, sharing said that President Roo- said. independent nations of the his own reflections on U.S.- sevelt failed to understand Bundy emphasized that. Eastern bloc. Questions mul- Soviet relations. the depth of Stalin's para- despite Stalin's claim in the tiplied like guppies: Can Highlights of several noia and the ideological post-war years that the bomb Gorbachev maintain control sessions follow: gulf that separated the su- need only frighten "those of the Soviet Union? Will perpowers. Roosevelt be- with weak nerves," the So- the Communist Party split? Will a war in the Third McGeorge Bundy: lieved that making Stalin a full partner in the recon- viet dictator was alarmed by the discovery of what it World make all of this moot? No one won the struction of Europe would meant that the U.S. had that It was not your every- Cold War alleviate his fears and help power. "He sent for his col- day classroom experience. contain the Soviet Union. leagues, saying, 'The bal- For one thing, many partici- "I personally don't think we However, "World War II ance has been thrown; we pants, most of them Brown won the Cold War," Bundy was a far more desperate must right that balance,' " alumni or parents, were as said. "I think the Soviets de- struggle for the Soviet Union Bundy said. old as the faculty. When his- cided to end the Cold War. . . . than for the U.S," Neu said. Stalin's abrupt decision torian Charles Neu de- 'Win' and 'lose' are not By 1943, Stalin knew he to pull his negotiators home scribed the Cold War's roots good words." He character- needed the U.S. and a sec- from the Paris meetings on in the aftermath of World ized the past forty-five years ond front. After the war, he the Marshall Plan was an- War II, for instance, gray of U.S. -Soviet relations as a needed help handling Ger- other case in which expecta- heads nodded knowingly. drama in which repeatedly many, and he hoped for re- tions were dashed and mis- Informal discussion groups "fears outrun reality and . . . construction aid. understanding escalated. met with the faculty over hopes are largely disap- "He did not want a ma- Bundy said. lunch and frequently ad- pointed." jor confrontation with the When Roger Hale '56 journed to the Green, where From the beginning, he U.S.," Neu said, but "he asked Bundy what he would iROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 13 like to ha\o seen h^indled differently, I5iind\' pointed to Korea. "Did the\' antici- pate such a strong, fast reac- tion?" he asked, suggesting that we failed to warn the North Koreans adequately. "There is another, more gen- eral moral in Korea," he said: "if [North Korean Prime Minister] Kim Song Ju [was pushing to invade] and Stalin was saving 'Go carefully,' we misread it, seeing Stalin behind the in- vasion." If that were the case, the U.S. reaction only upped the ante. During the fifties and sixties, "the two most seri- ous superpower crises were Berlin and the Cuban mis- sile crisis," Bundy said. "Khrushchev used, or tried to use, the nuclear danger to strengthen his cause. . . . We thought he was bluffing, and we now know he was, but it was high tension be- cause it felt dangerous." Nevertheless, he said, "the successful resolution of these crises did lower the temperature." Ronald Reagan's great accomplishment, Bundy said, "was saying out loud, 'A nuclear war cannot be won and shouldn't be fought.' He got Gorbachev to say it with him - aloud. It is 'not an accident,' in the Soviet phrase, that Gor- bachev and Reagan were able to reach an accord. Most of all, Reagan and Gor- bachev began a change in communications, reaching a level of straightforward- ness, honesty - both with each other and with the me- dia - that we have never had before, even in World War II." The great danger throughout the history of the Cold War, Bundy said, is "actions that give our oppo- nents fears unnecessarily and unintentionally." We now understand the impor- tance of reassuring the Sovi- ets: thev must know, he concluded, "that we do not want dissatisfied, griev- ance-seeking Germans ei- ther." Ahead, he said, lies "the process of turning enemies into friends for good." Howard Swearer on Gorbachev "I was rather hoping you would all be in church this morning," Howard Swearer told the full house that faced him that Sunday morning. His topic was to be "Pere- stroika, Gorbachev, and the Roots of Change," and Swearer admitted to feeling gloomy. He described a meeting last January with the mayor of Moscow, who "was talk- ing about the novelty of switching to a revenue- based budget for the Mos- cow city government." The city. Swearer said, will soon take over the subways. "Go now, while you can get around," he warned his au- dience. Although Swearer gave Gorbachev credit as a politi- cian, he said the Soviet lead- er's economic policies are shaky. He joked a bit about Gorbachev's law, which holds that "if it ain't broke, it soon will be." Then he listed Chernobyl, the earth- quakes in Armenia, last winter's cold spells - all bad luck, but no help to a leader trying to retain control. "Gorbachev has had an impact," Swearer said, "but the media put too much em- phasis on the man. This is really a generational change that we're seeing. His gen- eration has waited a long time to move out the geron- tocracy." To the younger Soviet leaders falls the task of bringing a government in line with societal changes and revamping an economy that by the late 1970s was not able to compete, espe- cially. Swearer said, given the likelihood of technologi- cal spin-offs from the Strate- gic Defense Initiative. "Gor- bachev's main aim was to modernize that economy." "Many Communists re- gard Gorbachev as a traitor to the party," Swearer said. In the past few years, the Soviet head gave up the doctrine of international class struggle and started talking about human values instead. He talked about the futility of nuclear war and about environmental coop- eration, and he began mak- ing recommendations for improving the United Na- tions. He stepped up arms control. Why? Swearer asked. The primary reason was economic. "The military was costing three times the amount of the Soviet GNP that we were spending in the U.S. Easing military ex- penditures would help the economy elsewhere." Then there was the problem of Third World ex- pansion, which was losing momentum. Client states - Cuba especially - were be- coming economic burdens, Swearer said. "The Afghan War had Howard Swearer gave Gorbachev credit for political savvy but questioned his economic policies. become terribly debilitating and draining by 1986-87," he said, "and it was bring- ing drugs into the Soviet Union, as Vietnam had into the U.S. Gorbachev decided to cut his losses." Eastern Europe had so nationalized that if the Sovi- ets had attempted to inter- vene, the nationalist govern- ments would have directed their revolutions against the U.S.S.R. "And," Swearer said wryly, "some of it was pro- paganda." On the economic front, Gorbachev moved less forcefully. "His initial steps were administrative," Swearer said. "He talked about discipline in the workplace and addressed the alcohol problem strictly. Vodka became hard to get . . . .Gorbachev put the em- phasis on machine tools, trying to build up consumer plants. But it didn't work. There were sugar shortages caused by people making moonshine in response to his anti-alcohol campaign." People began hoarding con- 14 / SEPTEMBER 1990 sumer goods. Wage infla- the political clout to make times." (One alumnus later sile." SALT II "doesn't tion led to a budget deficit deals on arms control. "In compared him to Dr. count cruise missiles, so that rose to an estimated 14 less than five years, the So- Strangelove. "Glad he's on cruise missiles become the percent of the GNP; by com- viet Union has gone from a our side!" the alumnus weapon of choice." In the parison, ours is 3 percent. major threat to a somewhat said.) end, he said, "me and my Managers were reluctant dependent country," he Now, Fought is a special friends in DOD (the Depart- to make the changes Gor- said. There is talk of an aid candidate in what he called ment of Defense) always bachev wanted. Swearer package. There are ethnic "a roll-your-own Ph.D pro- found ways of getting the said; the command system conflicts. Gorbachev and gram," working with facul- new weapons we wanted." was disrupted, but no new others did not understand ty in the Center for Foreign And what of the freeze? system put in place. The the intensity of nationalism Policy Development and the "Freeze what?" Fought peasants received "shock. and ethnic tensions. And Institute for International asked. "It all becomes a bit but no therapy." the economic decline has Studies. of a circular argument." "Some American econ- exacerbated those tensions. "The central question," The lessons of history omists believe Gorbachev "Gorbachev may be able he said, "is does the arms are not much help, he said. might have done better to to pull it all together," he race breed wars? Do guns "Historians are just people come in and make a sharp said. But he warned that a kill people or do people kill who attempt to forecast the change - to make the ruble conservative could, in people?" Arms control and past and usually fail. Sec- convertible while his image league with the KGB, oust disarmament are "two dif- ond, history just repeats it- was still fresh," Swearer him. Or the stalemate could ferent subjects," he says. self over and over, and there continued. They believe he continue. "In summary," For the past two years. is no way to stop it." should have followed Deng's Swearer said, " I'm confused. Fought has tried - and failed The principal issue. Chinese example and en- and I suspect you are, too!" - to do the math that would Fought said, should be mak- couraged the peasants to es- In a question and an- make comparisons between ing sure unintended wars tablish more private farms. swer period that Swearer U.S. and Soviet weapons do not happen. The Soviet As it is. Swearer sees the So- kiddingly referred to as systems possible. "How do withdrawal from Eastern viet Union repeatedly "amateur hour," he nostal- you count superiority?" Europe has left deep-seated. "marching up to the brink gically reminded at least he asked. Do you count unresolved tensions and an- of a market economy and one viewer of his many ap- charges? Missiles? War- imosity, he said. "They hate then backing down. pearances before Brown au- heads? Damage expectancy? each other. That's a prob- "I have a sense that diences as the University "How about exchanging lem, and I sure have an in- things are frozen in the So- president. "Where are all target sets? No, that won't terest and you sure have an viet Union," he said. "I have the radicals going to go. work either because that interest in making sure it a few half-baked ideas about now that they've lost Com- gives us more weapons." In doesn't get out of hand. Su- the future." He predicted munism?" a participant the end, he said, "if you perpower influence is on first that the Communist asked him. can't count, you can't com- the wane," he stressed. Party will split into a Marx- Without missing a beat. pare; and if you can't com- We need to look at the ist platform and a demo- the former president an- pare, you can't balance. As arms control/disarmament , cratic one. "The U.S. press swered dryly: "They'll come Ronald Reagan said, 'The issue differently. Fought has focused on Yeltsin," he to Brown." process is fatally flawed.' " suggested. Soviet troops said. "My prediction is that The aims of arms control might stay in Europe, but he will be less important Does the arms race are threefold, he said: their weapons go into stor- than the new head of the breed wars? • To reduce the risk of age at home, or U.S. weap- Communist Party." war. ons stay, but troops go home. On the economic front. • To reduce the cost of He supported the idea of let- Swearer foresaw several For many, one of the most war. ting each side observe troops possibilities: first, a stale- entertaining, if eerie, per- • To reduce the cost of training. mate. "Laws can be passed. spectives came from a not- preparing for war. The political process is and local party functionaries so-average Brown graduate These three goals are so far ahead of the arms- can sabotage them at the lo- student, Lt. Col. Steve mutually inconsistent and control process. Fought said. cal level." Another possibili- Fought, an exuberant engi- contradictory, he said: "The that we need to let politics ty is that the economy will neer and ex-B-52 pilot who way we insure against war settle out for a few years. become more regionalized. teaches military strategy at is to insure that the cost is as has started to happen in the Naval War College in terminal." From the horse's Moscow and Leningrad, Newport. Until recently. From the start. Fought mouth which are refusing to sell Fought said, "1 worked put- said, arms control has been goods to those from outside ting together your nuclear thwarted. When SALT I lim- the region. war plans and other nice ited the number of missiles. Summer College 1990 was. On the global front. things like that. My hori- "the ink was not dry before by all accoimts, the best ever Swearer expressed fear that zons were pretty much lim- both sides put more than (one alumnus described it as Gorbachev may not have ited to tomorrow's bomb one warhead on each mis- "the most exhilarating cam- BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 1 = pus oxperionco I can av.ill"). I'ho iiiiniodiacN' and m.igni- tude oi the topic gave the sessions a sense of urgency. Discussions were just plain hard to lea\o: it all felt too important. One parent ot a Brown alumna said that she was hearing the news for the first time, "without the filter of the media. These peop'. [the faculty] are really mak- ing policy decisions," she said. "We're getting it straight from the horse's mouth." At one point. Lieu- tenant Colonel Fought got the audience's attention to make a point that he feared the group might miss, gi\'en the self-deprecating style of some of the faculty. These people you're hearing from are not just desk scholars, he said, observing that Cen- ter for Foreign Policy Deyel- opment Director Mark Gar- rison still talks with his former colleagues in the State Department and that Professor of Political Science Terry Hopmann consults for NATO on arms control. While the conference seemed to generate more questions than answers, a few common threads emerged. One is the need to defuse the intense national- ism that threatens a success- ful European alliance. An- other is the importance of reassuring the Soviets that the U.S. wants stability, not grievances, in Europe. As the historians talked and as analysts pondered the future, it became clear that what one speaker called "the long and searing histo- ry" of U.S. -Soviet relations has been largely a string of misunderstandings: run- away fears and disappoint- ed hopes, as Bundy put it. The solution? To temper somehow those hopes and fears. Four days of Summer College seemed a good place to start. - C.B.H. A new director takes over the Third World Center I he challenge, says new X Third World Center Director Tommy Woon, is this: "How do we recreate universities so that they serve a multi-cultural popu- lation?" One approach, he says, is integrationist: that is, working within existing programs and support ser- vices, adapting them and adding to them in order to serve the needs of a more diverse student body. The other approach is to add new programs, specifically aimed at minority students. "Some people want to have integrated programs immediately," he says. "It saves money, but it doesn't produce adequate services." In an ideal world, he says, "we wouldn't need a Third World Center. But we're not there yet. "I think we need sepa- rate programs," he says, "until we have a communi- ty of people who are able to deliver truly multi-cultural services. . . White people can learn to work with students from other backgrounds, but until now, they haven't. In this country, we are just not socialized, nor are we edu- cated to deal with different social groups." That, he says, needs to change. Woon, who has a ready smile and a gentle, philo- sophical manner, came to Brown from Oberlin College, where he was assistant dean of student support services and director of multi-cultur- al affairs. His background, he says, is very different from that of many Asian- American students today, whose parents moved to this country relatively recently and work as professionals. "I come from three genera- tions of Chinese launderers," he says. "I trace my ances- try to southern China. The first Chinese to come to this country in the 1850s were from the Toisan district, in the south. They were peas- ants." Tommy Woon: Not an ideal world yet. Woon was the first in his family to attend college, en- tering the College of San Mateo in 1968, just as then- governor Ronald Reagan appointed a special force to quell campus unrest. "As a freshman," he says, "I re- member seeing cars getting checked for weapons as they headed to the campus." He switched to the University of California at Davis, where he earned his B.A. in psy- chology. He earned his mas- ter's in counseling at Cali- fornia State University at Sacramento. Initially, Woon says, he watched the growing Asian- American movement sym- pathetically, "but it was also frightening. White students wanted 'relevant' courses in those days," he recalls. " 'Relevant,' for us, meant bringing our education back to the communities from which we came." He has stuck with the movement over the past twenty years, seemingly re- maining unscathed by the dissent that has sometimes racked it, as those devoted to community-based studies railed against others who chose more traditional aca- demic approaches. Woon describes himself as a unifier. "I try to explain different peoples to each other," he says. "You can be accused of trying to please everybody. I hope that's not the case; I have my own principles. The idea of Third World unity is ambitious. [Blacks and Latinos and Na- tive Americans and Asians] don't know each other that well. I want to provide ethi- cal leadership." As a member of the staff of the dean of the College, Woon will counsel students and will direct such pro- 16 / SEPTEMBER ItJ^O grams as Minority Peer Counseling and the Third World Transition Program. He will also help develop an orientation program for freshmen to discuss race, di- versity, pluralism, and com- munity. Woon believes that the Third World Center must be student-run and that his role should be that of a part- ner. "I want to give students support, while respecting their power of self-determi- nation," he says. "It's tricky to lead other groups. It's tricky to represent them when you haven't been le- gitimized by them. Until I've gained some legitimacy, it's important for me to sup- port their interests and con- cerns - as they define them. "I hope I'll be able to re- spect students' right to be impatient ... to direct their alienation into actions that will lead to change. We can't afford to be discour- aged." - C.B.H. Once more, the BAM is among the top ten university magazines For the twentieth time in the past twenty-hvo years, the Brown Alumni Monthly, edited by Robert M. Rhodes, was named one of the nation's top ten univer- sity magazines in the annual competition sponsored by the Council for Advance- ment and Support of Educa- tion (CASE), based in Wash- ington, D.C. Four BAM features won awards in CASE'S "best ar- ticles of the year" competi- tion. A silver medal went to Managing Editor Anne Diffi- ly '73 for "Weighty Matters," her September 1989 article about obesity research being conducted by Dr. Thomas Wadden '75. Assistant Edi- tor Charlotte Bruce Harvey Alumni elect Darwyn Parker Harris and Gordon Williams In elections last spring, the Associated Alum- ni elected Darwyn Parker Harris '75 secretary and Gordon R. Williams, Jr., '63, treasurer. Each will serve a two-year term. Parker Harris, who holds a combined degree in biolo- gy and engineering from Brown and a master's in electrical engineering from Howard University, is a member of the technical staff at the MITRE Corporation in Bedford, Massachusetts. She chairs the Third World Alumni Network's New England Region, interviews for the National Alumni Schools Program (NASP), and has advised students about careers through the Student Alurruii Network since 1985. Williams is a partner with Wingate Financial Group, Cadwgan Associates, and president and owner of Guardian Trust, Inc., private trustees and investment managers, in Lexington, Massachusetts. He has been active in fundraising for Brown as a member of the Annual Fund's executive committee, the Major Gifts Campaign, the Corporation Committee on Development, and his class's twenty-fifth reunion committee. He has interviewed for NASP since 1977, chairing his region's efforts, and received an Alumni Service Award in 1987. - C.B.H. '78 received a silver medal for "To Be Asian-American" (November), which looked at the experiences of Asian students on campus. Free- lance writer David Temkin '89 won a silver medal for "Times of Tension" (June/ July 1989), his examination of race relations at Brown. Harvey also won a bronze medal for "The Death of Charity" (April 1989), her article on social responses to past epidemics and their implications in the light of the AIDS epidemic. The BAM won two awards for its design. Graph- ic designer Sandra Delany received a bronze medal for the cover of the April issue, featuring the AIDS story. Freelance illustrator Antho- ny Russo won a sUver medal for a series of drawings that accompanied Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.'s, "The Perils of Absolutism," which ap- peared in May 1989; Delany designed that layout as well. In a separate competition sponsored by the University and College Designers As- sociation, Delany was rec- ognized for her layout to the essay "Beyond Self-interest" in the May 1990 issue, which also featured illustrations by Russo. Several other Brown programs and projects were honored in this year's CASE competition. A twenty- minute film, "The Unity of Knowledge," about academ- ic life on campus won a gold medal, as did Brown's programs for parents and the president's newsletter. Photographer John Foraste won a silver medal for a series of photographs that appeared in a Brown Student Agencies calendar. Other awards went to the News Bureau, to Publications and Video Services, to the Print- ing Shop, and to the Admis- sion Office. - C.B.H. Nominations for Associated Alumni The nominating committee of the Associated Alumni will meet later this fall to select candi- dates for the 1991 election slate. Positions to be filled are one alumnae trustee, one alumni trustee, and president-elect of the Associated Alumni. Suggestions for all positions are invit- ed. Names of candidates, including any sup- porting information available, should be sent to Nominating Committee, Associated Alumni, Box 1859, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912. The deadline for nominations is Septem- ber 30. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 17 Sports By James Reinboki Dave Roach named athletic director Da\'e Roach, the highly successful former women's swimming coach at Brown who left to coach at the University of Tennessee, has returned to Brown as athletic director. The announcement by Presi- dent Gregorian came in late June, nearly seven months after John Parry '65 resigned, and followed the tenure of Steve Gladstone, the men's crew coach, who served as interim athletic director until July 1. "I am delighted that Dave Roach will be return- ing to Brown University as athletic director," Gregorian said. "While he was here, David put together one of the country's most success- ful women's swim teams, working within the Ivy League's philosophy of the scholar-athlete. I'm confident he will have the same effect on the overall athletic pro- gram. His work at Tennessee has shown that he can suc- ceed, no matter where he goes. I look forward to work- ing with him to maintain the high standards of the athlet- ic program here." Roach, 40, who left Brown in 1986 after eight years, was head coach of the women's swimming team at the University of Tennessee for the past three years. In his new role at Brown, he will oversee the department of athletics and physical ed- ucation and be responsible for hiring and supervising more than 100 employees, including coaches of thirty- one intercollegiate sports teams. The department also sponsors intramural and club sports teams. "Some people say that dreams can never come true," Roach said at a press conference. "With my wife, Ann, and I standing before you, we've proven that you can dream something and that if you want it bad enough, it can happen." Roach's teams have been winners. At Tennessee, his swimmers won 85 percent of their meets, and at Brown, where his overall record was 74-6-1, he guided teams to conference championships in 1983, 1984, and 1985, and won the Easterns in 1985 and 1986. "I'm familiar with the Brown student who is high- ly motivated, both academi- New Athletic Director Dave Roacb. cally and athletically. We'll run an athletic department that goes by the NCAA niles and that goes by the guide- lines of the Ivy League. With- in those guidelines, we'll give student-athletes the best opportunity to reach their potential. "I'm going to be a coach- es' athletic director. I just finished coaching and have a good feel of what it's like to be on the field, in the pool, or the court, and what the coaches are going through." In 1988, Roach was in- ducted into the Rhode Is- land Aquatic Hall of Fame and in 1989 into the Brown University Sports Hall of Fame. In 1985 he was coach of the U.S. National Swim- ming Team in the World University Games in Kobe, Japan. Roach is a graduate of Springfield College (1971, 1972) in Massachusetts. He was a member of the men's varsity swim team that was New England Conference champion three consecutive years. He was also co-cap- tain and assistant coach on that team. Before coming to Brown he was assistant coach of men's swimming at New Mexico State Uni- versity. What Roach inherits Brown University is thirty- one sports, not just three. The director of athletics is well aware of that, but often 18 / SEPTEMBER 1990 the fan is not. All too often, the athletic program is mea- sured by the performance of football, men's basketball, and men's ice hockey. Those teams were 22-40-3 in 1989-1990. Men's soccer was 3-11-1. Last year. Brown teams compiled a record of 283 wins, 223 losses, and 8 ties: a .558 winning percentage. Last year's success stories include: Baseball (19-21) finished second in the EIBL with an 11-7 record, and men's and women's basketball fin- ished third and second, re- spectively, in the Ivies. Men's crew finished third in the Ivy League and women's crew won the Easterns. Men's cross country came in fourth at the Heps. Field hockey (5-0-1) was the Ivy League and ECAC champion, and gymnastics (5-0) finished first in the Ivies. Men's ice hockey went to the ECAC playoffs, and men's lacrosse (11-5) ad- vanced to the NCAA play- offs. Women's soccer was the Ivy Champion for the eighth straight year, and Softball, with a school record thirty- one wins, won the Ivy League title for the second time in the past four years. Men's tennis (6-3) fin- ished third in the Ivies, and women's tennis was the ECAC champ. The unde- feated women's track and field team, indoor and out- door, finished second in the Heps in the spring and in the fall. Water polo, the perenni- al New England champ, did not disappoint, winning its fifteenth consecutive Ivy League and New England championships and finish- ing seventh in the NCAA Championship. Wrestling (5-1) was second in the Ivies. Changes ■ Ed Barry '52, director of support services since 1980, has retired. Barry, a member of the athletic staff since 1976, was responsible for athletic facilities scheduling and was involved in the construction and mainte- nance of athletic facilities. He also managed all athletic field services, including game preparation. ■ Scott Borek has been named associate head coach of men's hockey. The former assistant coach was largely responsible for the out- standing freshman class that was a key factor in Brown's successful season last year. As associate head coach, Borek will continue to be involved in all aspects of the Brown program, from re- cruiting to on-ice strategy and instruction. ■ Frank Castelli, former 1990 Football Schedule Sept. 15 Sept. 22 Sept. 29 Oct. 6 Oct. 13 Oct. 20 Oct. 27 Nov. 3 Nov. 10 Nov. 17 YALE at Rhode Island FORDHAM at Princeton HOLY CROSS PENN at Cornell (espn) at Harvard DARTMOUTH at Columbia assistant to Dave Stenhouse, who retired at the conclu- sion of last season, has been named coach of men's base- ball. For the past three years, Castelli was infield and batting coach, and last year he shared managerial duties with Stenhouse. A 1979 graduate of Eck- erd College in Florida, Cas- telli was a pitching coach at North Carolina-Wesleyan and then at Bryant before coming to Brown. ■ Stuart le Gassick, coach of men's squash in its inaugural season, has been appointed to the new posi- tion of director of squash. He will coach the men's team and replace Norma Taylor, who will devote her time to the women's tennis program, as the women's coach. Before coming to Brovwi, le Gassick was the squash professional at the Heights Casino in Brooklyn. He was a semi-finalist in the 1983 British Colleges Squash Championship. • Cliff Stevenson, men's head soccer coach for the past thirty years, will retire after the 1990 season. In 1982, he won his 200th game as Brown's coach. His career record, compiled over thir- ty-nine seasons, is 295-166- 43. In thirty years at Brown, he is 247-150-35. During his tenure. Brown has gone to the NCAA tournament thir- teen times, reaching the semifinals four times. His teams have won ten Ivy ti- tles, including six straight from 1963 to 1968. Stevenson also served as Brown's head lacrosse coach for twenty-two years, retir- ing in 1982. He is a member of the Brown Athletic Hail of Fame, and the soccer/la- crosse field was renamed Stevenson Field in 1979. Q SCOREBOARD 1990 Men's Soccer Schedule Sept. 11 Sept. 14 Sept. 18 Sept. 21 Sept. 25 Sept. 28 Oct. 2 Oct. 5 Oct. 9 Oct. 13 Oct. 16 Oct. 19 Oct. 24 Oct. 26 Oct. 30 Nov. 3 at Maine YALE at Providence at Rhode Island BOSTON UNIVERSITY ALUMNI MASSACHUSETTS at Princeton BOSTON COLLEGE at Columbia FAIRFIELD PENN at Connecticut at Cornell DARTMOUTH at Harvard 1990 Women's Soccer Schedule Sept. 13 Sept. 15 Sept. 19 Sept. 23 Sept. 28 Oct. 3 Oct. 6 Oct. 9 Oct. 10 Oct. 13 Oct. 14 Oct. 20 Oct. 24 Oct, 27 Oct. 28 HOLY CROSS YALE RHODE ISLAND NORTH CAROLINA at Harvard CONNECTICUT at Princeton DARTMOUTH at Providence VERMONT MASSACHUSETTS at Columbia BOSTON COLLEGE at Cornell at Hartford BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 19 frf/^MOi - M^ A niew Generation Confronts Vietnam BY BRUCE FELLMAM Captain Ricbaid Stratton, left, pretends to bow to bis North Vietnamese captors in this famous 1967 photo from Life mageizine. Picture yourself flying at about 12,000 feet off the coast of North Vietnam. Your as- signment was to check out the weather to see if it was suitable for flying missions that day, which was sort of funny, because you were going to fly regardless of the weather. "As it happened, my wingman and I spotted some cargo-carrying junks, and we attacked one. I fired off my rockets, but they collided in front of my jet, and all that debris got sucked into the engine, which works very well on air, but like your stomach, has difficulties with scrap metal. Where thrust was supposed to come out, the engine was now passing gas just like it had Boston Baked Beans. It gave up the ghost and blew off the tail of my A-4 Skyhawk, normally a very forgiving flying machine - but without a tail. . . Well, you may wonder what goes through your mind as you're about to die. . ." So began a lecture delivered by U.S. Navy Cap- tain Richard A. Stratton last April to a rapt under- graduate audience in a packed Alumnae Hall. Death, of course, did not take the hard-nosed, former fighter pilot. Instead, Stratton, now a men- tal health counselor, told students in graphic detail about a fate that to many must have seemed worse than death. "I was a prisoner of the North Viet- namese for approximately 2,251 days, 10 hours and 20 minutes," he explained. "It was hours and hours of boredom, interspersed with moments of sheer, stark terror." Lest anyone in that room think he was making up his tale of torture, starvation, and ultimately, tri- Toddlers at the time the war was fought. Brown's students jam Charles Neu's course about a conflict that tore the U.S. apart umph, Stratton walked off the podium and strolled around the room, his scars from ropes and mana- cles on display. Students winced and gasped. It was not your usual classroom lecture. "History 158 - America's Longest War: the United States in Vietnam" is not your usual class. Stratton's speech was one of a quartet of reminis- cences given by Vietnam combat veterans as part of historian Charles Neu's wildly popular look at that exceedingly unpopular war. Offered only the past two spring semesters. History 158 has been the course to take, with enrollments approaching 400 for Neu's rigorous - and steadfastly objective - ex- amination of the conflict that tore this nation apart at a time when most of today's students were tod- dlers. If anything, the course is too popular. At the opening class in January, the lanky, low-key expert on modern American foreign policy tried to whittle the enrollment to a more manage- able level. To encourage defection to other history offerings, Neu reminded the standing-room-only crowd that in addition to attendance at discussion sections, which could only be held every other week because there were not enough teaching as- sistants to handle the crowd, and lectures - his and the vets - there was a heavy reading hst, along with a requirement that students view a seventeen-hour- long, videotaped history of the war. If the work- load didn't dissuade them, maybe the depressing nature of the subject matter would. "Vietnam is a tale of defeat, death, enormous waste, and ultimate futility," Neu told prospective students. "It's a very sad journey." Despite these warnings, almost everyone decid- ed to come along for the ride: an intellectually chal- lenging and often deeply emotional semester spent trying to come to grips with a war that in many ways we're still fighting. "These kids all know that Vietnam is the major seminal event of the recent BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 21 The Vietnam War is the major modern event of which we historians have to make sense' past," says Neu. "They keep running intt) it in school, in their reading, at the movies - especially the movies - or maybe their parents talk about it, or they know someone who served there." Even though the war swirls all around them, it's also just a little beyond their reach, he explains. "Students don't have the opportunity to satisfy their curiosity in any substantial way. This course gives them that opportunity, and it also addresses the general curiosity that they have - remember, we're now dealing with a generation that came of age during the conservatism of the Reagan era - about the l%Os: the counterculture, the turmoil, and all the possibilities for political change that the sixties seemed to offer" The interest has been there for a long time, says Neu, who, since 1980, has taught a small seminar course on the war. But he resisted putting together History 158 in order to give the literature time to mature. "It's now rich, diverse, and deep," explains the fifty-three-year-old historian, whose family re- sponsibilities and teaching position kept him out of the reach of the draft that fueled the Vietnam con- flict. Armed with a doctorate from Harvard, Neu be- gan his academic career in 1963 at Rice University in Houston. The transi- tion from Cambridge to Texas was accompanied by "profound culture shock," but eventually, even that bastion of con- servatism was rocked by unrest. "As the war pro- gressed, it became ex- traordinarily controver- sial at Rice, which was hardly a hotbed of the counterculture," Neu ex- plains. "I always had a week-long segment on Viet- nam in my course on American foreign policy, and I can remember in the late 1960s, those discussion sections became so ferocious they'd occasionally break down and go into paralysis." Some of his students joined the anti-war move- ment; others headed for the jungles of Southeast Asia. "I had one student who just wanted to fly in Vietnam - he divorced himself from the controver- sy and developed a sort of tunnel vision. He went over as a second lieutenant, and he was killed. I've looked up his name on the Wall," says Neu. Coming to Brown in 1970, he decided to let the fires of Vietnam die down a little before he attempt- ed to tackle the subject again. But he knew he'd be back. "For any scholar in the field, the war is a wa- tershed - it's the major, modern event of which we have to make sense," he notes. Hollywood has certainly jumped on the band- wagon, but more than cinema accounts for the bulging class list of History 158. Students, says Neu, want to understand wiir, and not just Vietnam. "We've been surrounded by it in the twentieth century, and students know that war has played a major part in shaping the modern world, as well as the lives of their parents and grandparents. There's an enormous military establishment in this country, and all these military traditions," he notes. "But the kinds of students we get at Brown know almost nothing about any of it, and here, there's little chance for them to learn. There's no ROTC, no courses in military history or the history of warfare, and no way to get in touch with the people who are part of the military tradition. So when I bring in the veterans, it's like bringing in people from the moon. The kids have never met people like this." Few will ever forget them. When Captain Stratton walked around and pulled up his sleeves to show us his scars - that was really intense," notes Amanda Smith '91, an Amer- ican civilization major from New York City. "It was so hard to see that, and it was weird. I was think- ing, 'Why am 1 impressed by this? It's so gory. It's like rushing to the scene of a fire.' But there were so many things I wanted to know, and even though I felt like an outsider, and felt like I shouldn't be ask- ing questions, he was asking us to ask. Talking to the vets was enlightening - it was touching a reality that had been missing. In a course, you can discuss all the violence, the atrocities, and the horrible things about war, but none of them hit home until you talk to the people who endured them for real and who are willing to talk back to you." The vets are more than willing to share every aspect of their experience, and the no-holds-barred question and answer sessions have included every- thing from what it's like to kill and be wounded to considerations of international law and whether the war was right or wrong. The sharing, on both sides of the fence, is therapeutic. "Was it comfortable to speak in public?" asks Heather Harker '92, an international relations ma- jor from Frankfort, Kentucky, whose interest in the war was piqued when her father adamantly re- fused to let her see the movie Platoon. Stratton, an extremely competent speaker, ad- mitted to initial misgivings, but he explained that he opened up at the suggestion of his wife, a clini- cal social worker "Secrets are bad for your mental health," he tells Harker with a grin. And so the man whose picture, bowing and ap- parently confessing his sins to his North Vietnamese captors, shocked the nation when it appeared in Life magazine more than twenty years ago - that man is confessing yet again. Unlike the "confession" in the photograph, this one is for real. 22 / SEPTEMBER 1990 "People ask me, 'Why don't you let the past die?' Well, I can't. Every time I get up in the morn- ing, it's right there in front of me," says Stratton. But if shared pain is a window to the soul, so too is shared triumph. Marker's eyes light up when Stratton describes the communications code the captives devised. It was loosely based on the American Sign Language alphabet, something sec- ond-nature to Marker, who is hearing-impaired. "Communication is the first line of resistance," Stratton explains, adding that the sign language en- abled the soldiers to keep track of everyone in the prison system. "It also helped us keep our minds fresh. We taught subjects - 1 taught international re- lations and political science; others did French, Ger- man, and Russian - all without pencils and paper" Stratton's tale gave Marker a "personal connec- tion to history," she notes, and this powerful expe- rience was repeated over the course of the semes- ter, as veterans Tom Suprock, Tim Manigan, and Colonel John Waghelstein presented their versions of Vietnam reality. "For students to talk to the people who've lived the history they're studying, that's a great opportu- nity," declares Mark Miller '90, an American histo- ry major from Madison, Indiana. "It's been as valu- able as any classroom time I've ever spent." Andrew Chan '92, a dual American civiliza- tion/biology major from Flossmoor, Illinois, agrees. "The course wouldn't have been complete without Charles Neu (inset) began to develop his course on Vietnam while he was teaching at Rice; now Brown students almost fill Alumnae Hall for History 158. the vets - they gave us a real sense of what it means to fight a war" Which is to say, adds Amanda Smith, they gave students "bad dreams." Particularly gripping, she notes, was the tale of helicopter pilot Tom Suprock. "He told us that if two helicopters went down, you couldn't get all eight men on board - you could only pick up five. Think of the eight closest people to you in the world, and you're now responsible for deciding which three will die . . . Imagine being nineteen and having to make a decision like that! I'm twenty. It was horrifying." But well worth the nightmares. "If history is supposed to teach you about the past, and how to live in the future, then our experi- ence in Vietnam is important to learn about," says Andrew Chan. "The war has had a major impact on what's going on today, and the course allowed me to understand and really explore this event." BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 23 ■^4 m iaiill Brown at lAfar L . Ju H t would have been a univer- sity experience you'd never for- get." That was how Lauren Zuck- er '91, a dual American/French civilization major from South Orange, New Jersey, character- ized going to Brown in the tur- bulent 1960s, when protests against the Vietnam War sparked 1 BRLli^VEM HOME IbW! CONFRONT THE WARMAKERS a social upheaval that forever changed the campus. "A univer- sity really shapes a person - I found it fascinating that the students of that era also shaped the University," she notes. Zucker's research into Brown's his- tory was the subject of a term paper she wrote for Charles Neu's seminar course on the Vietnam War. "I had taken Histo- ry 158 [Neu's large lecture course on the war] last year, and I found it fasci- nating," she explains. "The whole Amer- ican mindset was changed dramatically and drastically by Vietnam. We'd always been the policemen of the world. The go-getters. Americans could do no wrong. But Vietnam destroyed so many people's faith in the country and the President. Now, in terms of foreign pol- icy, everything we do reflects back on the war - it's either, 'we don't want an- other Vietnam,' or 'we can't be scared of having another one' and not get in- volved. That's an intriguing historical development." Since much had been written - and continues to be written - about the war's effect on the U.S. government, Zucker decided to look closer to home for a paper topic. "I knew there had been many changes at Brown during that time, and I wanted to see if the war had any impact on them," she explains. "You hear so much about Berkeley and Columbia, but no one's explored the other universities." So she plunged into the Brown ar- chives in the John Hay Library, and took a tour of the mid-to-late sixties through the pages of the Daily Herald and the Alumni Monthly. In addition, she listened to the oral histories of Pembroke women, and she also inter- viewed faculty members Barrett Hazel- tine and William G. McLoughlin. Zucker discovered that in 1964 the University under then-president Barna- by C. Keeney was an ultra-conservative place, its students "bright but timid," she writes. Indeed, Dean Hazeltine told her that students "chose Brown because they didn't want a forceful institution like Princeton or Harvard." But by the end of the decade, the University had experienced a student strike, the curriculum had been radical- ly overhauled, and Brown no longer claimed to be in loco parentis. The Viet- nam War, she writes, was "a catalyst for the changes that took place on College Hill." "The war radicalized a lot of the stu- dent body," Zucker notes, and as the men of Brown took charge in trying to prevent the government from using them as an instrument of foreign policy, so too were students of every political persuasion empowered to demand con- trol of their University experience. Fervor peaked as changes in the draft law brought the war home to stu- dents. "You could no longer just sit on College Hill and do nothing. People suddenly wanted to become doctors, or go into draft-exempt careers," says Zucker. "I can't imagine my life being so focused on the draft." She shudders when she ponders the draft lottery: the torturous creation of the Selective Service Board in which a person's future would be decided by the random pick of a number, one to 365, each of which corresponded to a different day of the year. If your birth- day matched a low number, Zucker says, "you were up for induction; if it matched a high number, as in May 1 - number 330 (mine), you could continue life as you'd planned it." "I get worried about housing lottery numbers," says Zucker. "It shows you how concerns have changed." One thing hasn't changed, she ex- plains: the dynamism unleashed by protests against the war. On July 2, 1968, the Brown Daily Herald editorial- ized that this once-staid University was now at the "vanguard of progressive education." That it remains so today is a positive legacy of Vietnam. - B.F. In his opening lecture, Neu posed four essen- tial questions: Why did the U.S. get so deeply involved? Why did we fight the war the way we did? What was the nature of the enemy? Was American policy wise? Throughout the course, the historian offered "no easy answers. 1 think you could make a good case that Vietnam was awfully close to being in- evitable, given the way the Cold War developed up through the mid-sixties. It would have taken lead- ership of an extraordinary kind to have cut our losses," Neu suggests. The leadership wasn't up to that task. Nor was our military establishment. "The military is a big cumbersome institution, and it has its own way of operating - in the sixties it was geared to fight the Russians in Europe. That's the way it wanted to fight the war in Vietnam, and it never really changed its mind," he notes, adding that the top brass seriously underestimated the determination of the foe. "The Vietcong weren't rotated out on a twelve-month basis, nor did they receive hot meals in the field, nor were they helicoptered out to field hospitals - they were in there for the duration. They stayed in the jungles and kept fighting, hav- ing made a commitment no one on our side could imagine their making - until it was too late." As to the wisdom of our effort, Neu has to hedge. "We have the advantage of hindsight, and we also know how the Vietnamese revolution played itself out, to the disappointment of many," he explains. agam. "It's very, very tough to call," adds Mark Miller, who played football at Brown and took both of Neu's Vietnam courses. "The main premise of our involvement was the domino theory, and obvious- ly, it proved false. But I can see how very easy it was for the nation's leaders to have beheved that theory, and to have believed that our rea- sons for being in Southeast Asia were good and our mis- sion could be quickly and easily accomplished. We could stop communism and set up a democracy." Fifteen years after the fall of Saigon, have we learned anything? "We want a short quick lesson, and there isn't one in Vietnam," says Heather Harker. "Each situa- tion is unique to a time and place and circum- stances. All you can do is sort through Vietnam and try to prevent similar mistakes in terms of the chain of command. For that, we need more classes like this, and more people who'll take the time to really sit down and not expect a quick, one-line lesson." No easy answers. The students we get at Brown know almost nothing about American military traditions' There was, however, one simple truth Neu hoped everyone would take away from his course. He had drawn the final lec- ture to a close in late April, and he beamed as the class rose, en masse, to give him a thunderous standing ovation. But before the crowd filed out to get ready for finals, he had one more thing to say, although he almost couldn't get out the words. For his voice suddenly lost its strength, and to the sur- prise of everyone, Neu included, he struggled to hold back tears. "I want to thank the veterans for coming to tell their stories, and it wasn't easy for them to do so. They, like the war, will live in all of our memories, and 1 know as you pull this material together, you are going to learn many of the lessons of the war on a poHcy level, and you're going to ponder what you've learned and the experiences of the veterans who came to talk. But there is one lesson, and you certainly ought not to forget it or to miss it," Neu said, regaining his composure, "and that is how privileged your generation is not to have had to fight in Vietnam. Thank you very much." Later, in the silence of that now-empty room, Neu heaved a sigh of relief. "I think the course went well, and that feels good. It's always gratify- ing to take a complicated subject like this and put it together in a way that makes it accessible to large numbers of people. That's what teaching is all about," he explains, adding that he plans to take a year off from teaching about the war and instead concentrate on his two-part, "History of American Foreign Policy" course. "After two years of emo- tional and administrative fatigue, I need to forget about Vietnam for awhile." Then he paused for a moment. "You know, it wasn't the standing ovation that got me choked up. What did it was when I got to thanking the veter- ans - I just started thinking about all they went through, and all that everyone else went through. Even though I've heard their stories before, it still has this tremendous emotional impact on me. So I wanted to spell it out for the students. Too often they forget their good fortune or take it for granted: their good fortune of being in a great school, of not having to deal with the draft, of not having to serve in a war. . . . It's worth reminding them how lucky they are." It's a lesson many, including Amanda Smith, have taken to heart. "I've learned, but I can't say the important people, the people who should have learned, learned," she says. Perhaps the fact that this generation is asking hard questions may prevent generations to come from having to live through another Vietnam. ED BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 25 'The Mickey Kwiatkowslci Expeiimenf' On a sultry August afternoon when most citizens day- dream aLxnit vacationing at a beach-front cottage or a cabin in the cool, rustling pines, Michael Kv\'iatkow- ski, clati in shorts and polo shirt, was talking football - a subject he knows very well. But when Coach Kwiatkow- ski talks football, it is not X's and O's, W's and L's. He talks about football, but he really doesn't talk about football. His ruminations perhaps come more appropriately under the heading "Zen and the Art of Coaching Football." Or is Kwiatkowski more Platonic? He clearly enjoys philosophizing about the idea of football. The coach's philosophy of life is distilled through the medium of football, and the two are inextricably linked in what he calls "The Mickey Kwiatkowski Experiment." It should be noted that the Mickey Kwiatkowski Experiment is ongoing and it has several operant theorems, most importantly the "Moose Kurkela Theory," the "RVM (rear-view mirror) Theory," and the "Rose Kwiatkowski Rubber Buttocks Theory." The Kurkela theory has to do with rebuilding, which Coach Kwiatkowski is already hard at work on; the RVM theory should be self-explanatory; and the Rose Kwiatkowski theory will be am- plified later. Kwiatkowski brought his experi- ment - his living laboratory - to Brown last January, when he succeeded John Rosenberg, who had resigned a month earlier. Kwiatkowski came to Brown from Hofstra, where he compiled a 68- 22 record in regular season play and led his teams to NCAA Division III playoffs in five of his last seven years. According to Kwiatkowski, people are still scratching their heads; " 'Mickey, you had it all,' they say. 'You're not go- ing to win at Brown. You're not going to have success. Mickey, even if you win, winning will never be the same at Brown. Why did you do this?'" But to Kwiatkowski, that day in January when he accepted the head coaching job at Brown represented "the greatest opportunity" of his life. Eight months later, his enthusiasm and excitement have not dwindled. By James Reinbold Brown's new football coach begins the 'greatest opportunity' of his life "At Hofstra we had nine great years. The first two were a struggle and then we hit a series of seven years where we were 9-2 just showing up. It was OK. It was neat. It made me one of the winningest coaches in America, but it wasn't what I am really all about," he said. "Now, I'm representing one of the top universities in the world. For me to be its football coach is special to me. My definition of a football coach is not what the public sees: I'm a teacher, a faculty member, and an educator. Hopefully, I do more good off the play- ing field than on it. I've been called the academic coach, and that's true. I'm pro-academia. That is my priority. But I'm also big on citizenship and I'm big on discipline." No one wants to dwell on the recent past history of Brown football, especial- ly not Kwiatkowski. (There's a practical application for the RVM Theory). "Let's just say the program was new to me when I came," he says. "No negative or positive connotations. I'm a builder [c.f. Moose Kurkela Theory] and I'm here at Brown because there is an engine that needs some work. And this is where I am at my finest." For those who have not had the pleasure of hearing Kwiatkowski speak. Moose Kurkela was a neighbor in Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania, where Kwiatkowski grew up. Moose had a knack for repairing and restoring cars and then selling them at a profit. Coach Kwiatkowski is not a prod- uct of the five-second sound byte, the phenomenon we experience today as television viewers. He cannot be squeezed and distilled. Holding forth, in his office or on the lecture tour, is the heart and soul of his style. Here are some issues he discussed in August, graciously taking time from his hectic schedule. At the time of the interview, he and his staff were putting together practice sessions in anticipa- tion of the August 22 first day of prac- tice. His staff: "All of my staff, with the ex- ception of Dave Barton, is new. We had 175 applicants for six positions. I inter- viewed about forty-eight people. It was as diverse a group as you could get. "I was not looking for 'the Division I guy,' or 'the Ivy League guy.' I was looking for people who believe in the dream of amateur sports, and there are not many left. I wanted to find people who believed in these kids being stu- dents first. We're training players not just for four years but for the next fifty years of their lives. "I did as much listening to their philosophies as I did to their ability to teach. I think the coaching profession is full of wonderful teachers. We talked a little about technique, but my inter- views were philosophic. I wanted to know what the person stood for." The Mickey Kwiatkowski Experiment: "My parting message to Hofstra was, 'Thank you for letting the Mickey Kwiatkowski Experiment happen.' "Hofstra was gracious to allow a lot of mistakes to be made. I've taken nine years of experimental laboratory work and brought it to Brown. Do I have to do more chemistry? More blending? Of course I do. Everything is different. But I know the formula. Will it result in winning? I don't know. Do I hope it does? Sure. My goodness, yes. Because if it does, it allows me to continue with the experiment. "But if it doesn't I will still be who I am. I'll nod politely to the naysayers when they say, 'Yeah, Mickey, it all sounded good, but you know you were two-and-eight, so where's the differ- ence?' Well, they're not going to see the difference even if we happen to be eight-and-two. They're not the people 26 / SEPTEMBER 1990 I'm touching anyway. "If it happens that I win enough games to appease those who count wins and losses, then that's terrific. But that isn't a goal. I don't preach winning as a goal. That hamstrings kids. I think it ties people up. "I've got twenty years of coaching left in me and I would like to stay here. I only have to look as far as Carmen Cozza and Joe Restic to see that it can happen. I'd like to be at Brown for twenty years." On winning: "Winning has truly been a result of what I believe in. I believe winning is the result of doing every- thing the right way." Influences: "In the football environ- ment, I've been most touched and moved by my college experience under Tubby Raymond. I played for Coach Raymond for four years at the Univer- sity of Delaware and then was a gradu- ate assistant for two years. He gave me a lot of insight into organization and the philosophy of motivation. He was the consummate motivator. "Then that experience was enriched and enhanced to its fullest by Richard Johannemeyer, who I worked for at Southwest Missouri State. He may be the most moral, straightforward, 'knows-right-from-wrong guy' that was ever in the coaching profession. He is no longer a coach; he went with the NCAA enforcement committee some years ago. "But after Tubby, I was starting to see all kinds of sides to the coaching profession that were shaking my feel- ings. Johannemeyer came along at the most propitious time and said, 'No, no, no. Stand firm on your principles.' He vaulted me to my first head-coaching job, and it is his principles that I carry very firmly to this day. "There's nothing that I've read or heard about Joe Patemo that I don't like. He stands for everything that is good and true in our profession. "Then - and now let's not get melancholy here - my mom. I subscribe ^.^^ Kwiatkowski directs I . Browa 's one-day "spring practice." to the Rose Kwiatkowski Rubber But- tocks Theory of Life. Not that she ever used the word buttocks in her life, but the theory goes like this, 'Mickey, you have to have rubber buttocks. There's no shame getting knocked down. You're going to get knocked down. The only shame is not getting back up again.'" College athletics: "I am concerned. I see two distinct camps in the American amateur collegiate football scene. "I see what they call the CFA: the College Football Association. These are all the big-time sports people. I see this as semi-professionalism. They are in the entertainment business, with their individual television contracts and their terrific gate receipts. They are dif- ficult to control because they are self- contained economically. So you see continued on page 63 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 27 I II By Ann Cohen From the death of her infant daughter, Lois Bryant '77 has woven a series of tapestries that reflect the strength of the human spirit -r '^- - ■ : -.- ''?*«gs«ip ■;^i.:^^f^ ID 1 1 1 ii<^-r\.B >k M -- .-«i d iLSi sS ' 1 ' '/ "- '- ^^^n^i s 9 ''' * 1 W '' """,i ;: 1 1 r two decades as a weaver, Lois Bryant '77 knows her way around the art world. Bryant's colorful tapestries are displayed in museums and galleries throughout the U U computer-assisted weaving. Bryant has the kind of quiet confidence that comes when a career So it was particularly strange when, on an early spring afternoon two years ago, Bryant found her- self standing in a daze in an art supply store, the most familiar of settings, almost not sure of how she had gotten there. And it was odder still for Bryant, who has won national recognition for the bright colors and unique designs of her tapestries, to be concentrating so intently on picking out a couple of pencils in shades of gray and black. Bryant had never used the somber colors in her work before. Until then, the bold hues that were Bryant's sig- nature expressed the moods and images she want- ed to convey through her art. But the birth of Bryant's first child, Alison, a few weeks earlier had changed everything. Alison Elizabeth Chen was born in a New York City hospital on February 18, 1988, and Bryant and her husband, architect Larry Chen, ecstatically brought their daughter home three days later. "We were intimate strangers and closest friends, and the next two days were blissful," Bryant recalls. But on the morning of her fifth day of life, Alison's tiny body suddenly went limp in her mother's arms. She had stopped breathing. Alison was in a coma. "I would have done any- Itt the triptych, "Epitaph for AUson " (at left and detail opposite), the black of the baby's coma surrounds her body and eclipses the sun, which represents the grieving mother. I SErXFMRtR > 1 "l '! 1 •..'•,.' \ i!;!: 1 I J ) 1 During the last days of Alison's life, Bryant sat by her crib sketching, wondering how a soul looked leaving a body. In "Departure, " the semitransparent squares, representing the soul, rise up, as if "defying earthly physical laws, " she says. thing, short of selling my soul to the devil, to bring our baby back," Bryant says, very quietly. "I plead- ed with God to give me a second chance to be her mother. I pleaded with Alison to wake up. I longed to hear that baby's cry." She would never hear her cry again. The tiny baby underwent a barrage of medical tests, but doctors could not determine the cause of her coma. "At first, as each test came back negative, we were relieved," Bryant says. "No, she didn't have that problem; she didn't have that disease. There was still hope. But as the days turned into weeks, our hope was replaced by increasing de- spair. If they could find no cause, they would find no cure." Heartbroken and helpless, Bryant and her hus- band tried to comfort one another. "We sought spiritual advice and solace, searching for solutions and meaning in our religions. We prayed. They were fervent, tearful prayers. Relatives, friends, and total strangers prayed as well, all across the country." As the days wore on and Alison remained un- conscious, Bryant functioned in a nightmarish daze, spending most of her time at the hospital. Though working was far from her thoughts, one af- ternoon Bryant felt compelled to buy those gray and black pencils. When she returned to her vigil by the baby's hospital crib, Bryant began to sketch designs which became a sort of visual diary of the emoHonal and spiritual crisis caused by Alison's illness and her death at the age of two months. Bryant used those sketches to create a series of tapestries that are powerful expressions of love, sorrow, and a search for spiritual meaning. The weavings tell a story of profound pain and great hope. They are an elegy for Alison. "I will be honest with you: I did them purely for myself, to help me heal my grieving heart," Bryant says. "Perhaps weaving these tapestries was another way of praying." Bryant feared during the first few weeks of Ali- son's coma that the baby "would not return to her 30 / SEPTEMBER 1990 body, that her spirit had not occupied it for very long and would not know where to go back. Per- haps it would not realize it was hers to inhabit. Per- haps her spirit would be too confused, too disori- ented, too uncertain about the prospects of an earthly life. My biggest hope was that she would come back to us, if only by the sheer force of my fierce love. I know it sounds like voodoo, but that's how I felt," she says, laughing a little. "I was wondering, what was her earthly experi- ence? What was it like to be in a coma? Could she hear? Could she smell? Did she see me the times she opened her eyes? Did she have a sense of touch? Did she know when I was holding her and when I was not? Did she understand her state? Did she have dreams? 1 think not. Did she feel pain? They assured me she did not." Bryant created the design for "Mother Moon" when Alison had been in a coma for about a month. "It expresses my uncertainties and misgiv- ings," she explains. "Our hopes for her recovery were still alive, but our despair was growing. In the upper portion of the composition, the mother is represented as a large moon, the baby as a smaller satellite moving toward it. I was hoping that the gravitational pull of maternal love would be strong enough to pull Alison toward me and away from heaven. I felt Alison had had a glimpse of heaven the day she stopped breathing. How could my love possibly overpower that?" Is the weeks passed, Bryant's prayers changed. "At first, I prayed, 'Please God, give her back to me. Give me a second chance. Let me be her mother. Help the doctors make her well.' They were selfish prayers. As the weeks wore on and I wore down, my prayers became: 'Give me strength. Give us strength to get through this. I guess You see a bigger picture. I guess You know what's best.' We had to face the fact that it just wasn't Alison's des- tiny to stay with us on Earth." Bryant designed the tapestry titled "Departure" at Alison's cribside during the last week of her daughter's brief life. "As each day passed, I watched her grow more and more still as her body, soul, and life-energy separated from each other. I was thinking, what color is a soul? What shape? What does it look like leaving the body? That was my big concern." In this weaving, Bryant depicted the baby's body as a grid that was confining her spirit. "Little 'life-energy squares' are moving off to the edges," she explains. "Her soul, represented by the four semi-transparent squares, is rising up and away from the middle of the grid and seems to be defy- ing earthly physical laws." When Alison died, on her sixty-seventh day, Bryant says, "I quit praying. I was too numb, too numb even to realize how angry I was. I felt the ut- ter futility of all our efforts. There would be no first tooth, no first word, no first step. We would never get to know this little daughter of ours." Dazed and despairing, Bryant continued to de- sign and weave the tapestries telling Alison's story. She spent long, physically demanding hours at her loom, seeking escape and comfort in the familiar mechanics of weaving. First, as always, there were the many phases and rituals of preparation. Bryant filled notebooks with lists of images and words and even dreams that, with her sketches, were trans- formed into the complex designs of woven art. She cut pieces of pictures from magazines to experi- ment with color and shape. Then Bryant blocked out meticulous, colored pencil sketches on graph paper and transferred the patterns to a computer to keep track of the many technical details. The final step: the arduous winding of dozens of different yarns and threads onto twelve-inch bobbins. Before Alison died, when Bryant reached this stage of the process, she would take the phone off the hook, crank up the radio "to get the rhythm," sit down at her room-sized, wood-frame loom, "and then just go. But right after Alison died, I went through a stage of listening to tabloid TV BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 31 Brown University DEVELOPMENT ANNUAL 1989-90 The figures and graphs speak clearly enough to tell us that the alumni and friends of Brown have once more provided generously for the institution they love and admire. 1989-90 will go down as a continuation of the steady rise in revenue from private gifts which has characterized Brown for many years. This is the second highest year in the University's history, eclipsed only by the phenomenon of 1986-87 - the year before the tax rules changed. The total of $42 million received from private philan- thropy is an increase of 9.9% over the previous year, and nicely ahead of the inflation rate. To all who were a part of that by virtue of their caring gifts, Brown owes a deep debt of thanks. Gifts from individuals - always by far the largest por- tion of our charitable income — increased by a remarkable 26% . Within that total lies the first hard evidence that we are approaching a Campaign, for included are one or two extraordinary gifts to what will become the Campaign Nucleus Fund. Their public announcement, like much which surrounds the Cam- paign, will come another time. But the Corporate totals are up by more than twice that amount - a dramatic 64%. And we are happy to make these generous gifts public as they come, ibm, a long-time and generous sup- Gift FY90 FY89 Schg %chg Revenues in millions of $'s ndividuals Gifts $27,941.7 2-4,^43-3 $23,423.9 19,221.6 $4,517-8 5,021.7 19.3% 26.1% Bequests 3,698.5 4,202.3 (503.8) -1 2.0% Gifts reported according to stan- dards of the Council Corporations Matching Gifts 5,758-8 1,088.8 3,504.6 1,118.7 2,254.2 64.3% -2.7% for Aid to Education Other Corporate 4,670.0 -,385-9 2,284.1 95-7% -oundations 6,374-3 7,931-1 (1,556.8) -19.6% 'rivate Agencies Sc 1-2-74-3 1,312.1 (37-8) -2.9% Associations TOTAL CASH AND STOCK $41,349.1 $36,171.7 $5,177-5 14.3% Gifts-in-Kind 690.5 2,066.4 (1,375-9) -66.6% Grand Total $42,039.6 $38,238.1 $3,801.5 9-9% porter of the University, has completed a $4-million gift in support of the Institute for International Studies by a final, $i-million payment. Citicorp has begun the $3- million funding of The Coal- ition of Essential Schools, under Professor Ted Sizer, with an initial payment of $i-million. The 1990 Brown Annual Fund posted a final total of $9.3 million with nearly 19,000 gifts from alumni/ae, parents, friends and students. Although short of the pub- lished goal, this represents the largest Annual Fund result in Brown's history, continuing a steady six-year climb. Highlights from the year include: a million-dollar- plus total for the Phonothon program, including a one- night Major Gifts record of $170,000; significant in- creases in participation in each Reunion class; an in- crease in Alumnae partici- pation of 14.3%, and a new Parents Fund record of $811,336. The Brown Annual Fund is indebted to the 600 -I- volun- teers who worked with great energy, loyalty and commit- ment in this challenging year. REPORT And finally, our pride is enormous in the achievements of the youngest class of all, those who graduated last May. New records were broken by the class of '90 with seerhing ease. A well-organized com- mittee took the class to new heights of participation, reach- ing an amazing 81%, and quali- fying for all the incentive chal- lenges which had been laid out for them by the Corporation Committee on Development. The result was an astonishing $205,674 raised for a Class of 1990 Scholarship Fund, announced at Commencement Vice-chancellor Artemis A. W. '55 and Martha Sharp '58 Joukowsky received the Elwood Leonard, Jr. '51 Distinguished Achieve- ment Award at a ceremony in May in the Salomon Center for Teaching. The award recognizes their outstanding leadership and energetic, enthusias- tic and generous service to Brown. The Joukowskys received a com- memorative book plate, a replica of those which will be placed in books given in their name to the Brown University Library. Joukowsky, National Campaign Chairman, is the former chairman of the Corporation Committee on Development. Martha Joukowsky is an associate professor in the Center for Old World Archaeology and Art. Gift Revenues Comparison Fiscal years 1985-90 in millions of $'s and greeted with cheers by all. With talk of a Campaign in the air, there is a shift in the wind now in matters of fund- raising. A new Campaign Steering Committee is form- ing, with Vice Chancellor Art Joukowsky in the Chair and a host of veteran and new volunteers as members. The Development staff is restruc- turing itself in anticipation of the time when all of its work will be Campaign work and the fun really begins. Most of all, the President, the Provost and the Faculty will now be formulating the FY85 FY86 FY87 FY88 FY89 FY90 Gifts reported according to standards of the Council for Aid to Education academic vision at the core of the Campaign, in preparation for the public documents which will articulate the Uni- versity in the 1990's. Of one thing we can be sure: it will be a new Brown, dedicated to the quality of education which has made the Old Brown justly famous, and it will con- tinue to command the loyalty and support of those who are lucky enough to know it. Samuel F. Babbitt SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT THE CAMPAIGN . . . Brown will continue to command the loyalty and support of those who are lucky enough to know it!' while I was weaving - espociallv 'Geraldo.' Tiio more mindless, the more the show stank, the better it was," Bryant recalls, laughing. Art and design experts have high praise for Bryant's technical expertise as well as her ability to convey deep feeling through the starkly beautiful tapestries, whose rich colors are created by com- plex combinations of cotton, linen, and metallic yarns. The weavings, as large as seven feet square, feature Bryant's signature use of geometric shapes. "This last body of work by Lois is just incredi- ble," says Mary Denison, a Birmingham, Michigan, art collector and consultant who specializes in con- temporary works. "Lois has come to a period in her work where three aspects - a high sense of design, a strong touch of color, and content - have all come together, going beyond decoration and into art. Of course, you can enjoy decoration, but these pieces are very beautifully, spiritually motivated, and that comes across in the work." Denison, a member of the boards of the Detroit Institute of Art and Cranbrook Academy of Art, has followed Bryant's development as a weaver since Denison's daughter and Bryant were class- mates at the Kingswood School in suburban De- troit. Bryant first used a loom in the ninth grade. She sold a number of weavings to private and cor- porate clients in the Detroit area while she was still a teenager. "Lois's work has always been very beautiful and relevant, but now it has moved into the sublime," Denison says. "Art for me has to raise questions, and I think that's what these pieces do. For me, the important questions about faith and the hereafter are there." "Eulogy" was designed five weeks after the baby's funeral, "when I was struggling to find any meaning at all for her brief life," Bryant says. The orange characters at the right, like the characters in an Oriental painting, are a reference to the Chinese half of Alison's heritage. "They are the eulogy and serve to explain the picture. But because the eulogy is in a 'language' I cannot understand, I fail to grasp the meaning." In the three-paneled "Epitaph for Alison," black surrounds the figure representing the baby's earth- ly body, and black represents her coma. A black cir- cle also eclipses a sun, which depicts the grieving mother. Designed two months after Alison's death, "Epitaph" marked the first time Bryant included an image of herself in a composition since "Mother Moon," where she was in a haze. "I had been too stunned for months to think of my condition," she says. In the lower left panel, Alison's earthly body is a pink and purple circle surrounded by black. "The black area on the left is her coma. The characters in heavenly blues are the message she brought us from the spirit world. This message is difficult, per- haps impossible, to decipher," Bryant explains. "The golden yellow circles are Alison's soul floating off to heaven. The rectangles passing through and around them are my attempts to keep her here with us. She is floating out of the picture ciespite those attempts. Her fourth soul circle is halfway gone, looking like a setting or rising sun. I l(K>k at death that way: as an ending of life, but also as the beginning of a new phase for the spirit." The symbol for the mother, a sun in eclipse, is placed in an area which is changing from black to the beginnings of color. "These are not the intense colors 1 felt when Alison and hope were still alive, but rather they are bitter, sour colors. I was in a long, dark tunnel, and although I could not yet see the end of it, I had an idea of which direction to go," Bryant says. "The epitaph [on the right] is written in those enigmatic characters. It sums up the significance of Alison's life and how it affected mine. There is a greater range of colors in these characters than in 'Eulogy.' They include the red-orange pain in a field of gray grief. They also include yellow on lavender, the colors of Easter and the Resurrection, and symbolize my belief that the soul survives death. Golden yellow is the color of Alison's soul; lavender, the color of my love. We will be together some day." I hat underlying sense of hope is present in all the tapestries, even the ones Bryant created when she felt the most profound despair. Jean West, director of the Center for Tapestry Arts in New York, says she is surprised that the series, "which is such a personal state- ment about a pain that was so intense, is not at all a morbid experience for the viewer. There's a really wonderful design evolution with real feeling, but it's not feeling that is blatant." Bryant's "Alison Project" weavings are featured at the Center, at 167 Spring Street in Soho, in a one-person show during this September and October. Accompanying the ex- hibit will be a small, illustrated book. Unanswered Questions, which Bryant has written about the pieces. Bryant's work has been well known - and in demand - in the New York art world since she moved to the city after completing a double major in studio art and French at Brown and earning a master's degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. Bryant, now thirty-five, quickly established herself as a technical innovator as well as a talented artist. She researched antique fabrics and devel- oped ways to modify those designs to be compati- ble with a modem loom. Bryant was also among the first weavers to experiment with using a com- puter to keep track of the hundreds of complex de- sign combinations which create a woven piece, a groundbreaking technique she teaches at the Par- sons School of Design. Bryant's tapestries, which have been commis- sioned by private collectors and corporate clients throughout the United States, have also been exhib- ited in numerous galleries and museums. Two of 34 / SEPTEMBER 1990 her works were recently added to the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, and one of her pieces is currently on display at the Cooper- Hewitt Museum in New York, in an international show, "Color, Light, Surface," running through September 23. Milton Sonday, curator of textiles at the Cooper- Hewitt, which is part of the Smithsonian, says Bryant's latest weavings are "very powerful be- cause of what Lois has been through with the death of Alison. Many things produced in the art world lack that sense of honesty, conviction, strength, and commitment. But I don't think anybody who has seen these pieces isn't impressed by the strength of them." There is even a sense of humor in the tapestries. Bryant started to design the "Soul Seminar Series" about eight months after Alison died, when she had started to accept that Alison was gone and be- gan to wonder what she was doing. At left, Bryant at her computerized loom; behind her is "Soul Setninaz Series: Time and Space, " in which she whimsically contemplated courses of study for souls-in-train- ing. Above is a detail from "Pillars of Heaven, #2, " which is owmed by the Cooper-Hewitt and is on display in the exhibition "Color, Light, Surface, " rurming through September 23. "I pictured a spirit world populated by souls in varying stages of perfec- tion," Bryant says. "These souls spend their time exploring various concepts and come together now and then for seminars in which they share ideas and debate hypotheses. Topics for these seminars might include: Reason and Justice, Time and Space, Meaning, and Ways of Knowing. The atmosphere in these seminars is contemplative, play- ful, and open-minded." Bryant feels that creating the tapestries for the "Alison Project" has helped her "make sense of such a senseless experience," and hopes that view- ers wrestling with their own grief may find similar solace. "The weavings are affirmations of hope that the soul is eternal and survives death; and that a family can find reasons to carry on after such a shattering experience," she says. Today Bryant and her husband have moved from the Manhattan loft where they lived when Al- ison was bom into a house in Lindenhurst, Long Island. Bryant's loom has been reassembled on the first floor, and she's playing the radio loud again - instead of listening to tabloid TV - to set the rhythm for her weaving. Bryant smiles as she ex- plains: "I knew things were getting better when I stopped needing to hear about other people's sad lives." O Ami Cohen '77 is a freelance writer in New York. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 35 On tne Ola Rose Rustlers Tiail Tom Christopher '76 is one of a hardy band dedicated to preserving our floral heritage BY BRUCE FELLMAN t Tom Christopher (above and at right) "rustling" rose cuttings in Texas. Unlike today's finicky Hybrid Teas, the hardy heirloom varieties often flourish untended and unidentified. 'Duchesse de Brabant, ' the 1857 Tea rose at far right, was Teddy Roosevelt's favorite, and his customary choice for boutonnieres. I 36 / SEPTEMBER 1990 ^^ ^ m he looked thirty-something, and she ( -^ F was quite pretty, her features in soft, V ^ romantic focus as we watched her watch us through the screens of a second-floor window in an ancient farmhouse on the outskirts of Mid- dletown, Connecticut. "You were knocking on my door?" she asked with that half-curious, half-dismayed look reserved for purveyors of encyclopedias, vacuum cleaners, and religion. Thomas Christopher '76, a sturdy six-footer with thinning, curly brown hair and a ready smile, nodded, "1 wanted to ask you something about that rose," he said, pointing to a thicket of thorny canes that rambled up a lilac, which sagged under the weight of thousands of exquisitely fragrant, white blooms. "Did you know that it's a very old variety?" With that question, the woman dropped her guard - rosarians are not likely to be ax murderers or insurance salesmen - returned a smile, and trad- ed information about her 1730s-vintage home for the tale of this antique rose. "I'm quite sure this is an Alba rose - probably the 'White Rose of York,' which would make it at least four to five centuries old," Christopher, who recently moved to Middletown, explains. "It's also known as the 'Jacobite Rose,' because it was worn by supporters of the Stuart kings as a symbol of resistance. It has a rich history." So it is with roses, those magnificent flowers first domesticated by the Mesopotamians nearly four thousand years ago. Christopher - horticul- turist, garden writer, and classics major - has been under the spell of the genus Rosa for more than a decade, but not those modern, high-toned plants that grace the glossy pages of the "Jackson and Perkins" catalogues. Christopher's first book, /;; Search of Old Roses (Summit Books, 1989), is the fascinating tale of the BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 37 true aniateiirs behind a burgeoning movement among gardeners to bring baeiv wiiat are called heirloom roses: the Tea, i'ortland, Bourbon, Dam- ask, Gallica, Moss, Centitolia, Alba, Hybrid I'erpet- ual, China, and other varieties that ruled the roost until late in the last century, when the I Ivbrid Tea roses took over the scene and consigned all rivals to obscurity. But some things refuse to die, and across the country, a hardy band of "rose rustlers" is dedicated to preserving and promoting our floral heritage. "The modern roses. . ." Christopher sighs. "1 went through a period when I thought the modern ones were awful, but I've come back to liking them, and 1 think there's nothing that looks better in a vase than a Hybrid Tea. The problem is they tend to look alike. They look mass-produced, which they are." But the old varieties aren't off any horticultural assembly line, he explains, and therein lies much of their charm. "They're from the days of individu- al craftsmen. There's tremendous diversity. Each one represents somebody's idea of what a rose ought to look like," Christopher notes. Nor is the revival mere nostalgia. "The heir- loom roses are really practical. They're very hardy - if you find one that's been living in, say, the local cemetery for seventy-five to 100 years without spe- cial care, you know that's a tough rose that likes your climate and soil," he explains. "And they work well in a garden. They're exceptionally beautiful." And the smell. . . The creation of today's ever-blooming, or re- montant. Hybrid Tea varieties almost always in- volves a tradeoff. To craft roses that flower through- out the summer and early fall, plant breeders have generally had to sacrifice fragrance. The blooms are gorgeous, but they lack what turn-of-the-cen- tury garden writer Alice Morse Earle called the plant's "inherent witchery." "The fragrance of the sweetest Roses - the Damask, the Cabbage, the York and Lancaster - is beyond any other floral scent. It is irresistible, en- thralling; you cannot leave it. You can push aside a Syringa [a lilac], a Honeysuckle, even a Mignon- ette, but there is a magic something which binds you irrevocably to the Rose," Earle writes. The magic is in the aroma, which, says Christo- pher, can range from what most of us think of as rose, to such unexpected smells as tea, musk, cin- namon, apple, mango, and banana, to name a handful. We may be visual animals, but perfume goes straight to the soul - and the memory. "I smell certain things, like burning leaves, and pow! I'm right back there when I was six years old and helping my father rake the lawn in the fall. Then there's the smell of fresh bread," Christopher reminisces. "It takes me back to being fifteen and hanging around my high school girlfriend's house, waiting for the bread she liked to bake to be done." For many of us, the aroma of roses - which are, after all, the flowers ot love - carries us back to special places. "They're very evocative, and that has a lot to do with their popularity," he notes. Ironically, roses do not take Christopher, who was raised in the "sleepy, little, 1 ludson River backwater" town of Nyack, New York, back home. "1 didn't grow up with these flowers, so sometimes their scent takes me to places I've never been - that's part of the attraction," he explains. But other times, the heady perfume takes him back to central Texas and the "mother lode" hills of California; to England and Italy; to Barrington, Rhode Island and Lynchburg, Virginia; to Raleigh, North Carolina and Nashua, New Hampshire - to all the important stops he made on the old rose trail. The matchless fragrance also takes the writer through the history of horticulture, from the high- est-tech genetic engineering experiments of scien- tists who are trying to create a "blue rose," to the agricultural advice of the classicists, Christopher's first mentors. "... I discovered gardening through the pages of a two-thousand-year-old agricultural treatise," he writes in his book. "Classics were my first love, most particularly Latin literature and archaeology, but three years of chasing Caesar's ghost through the dusty stacks of the Brown University library left me ready for a change." I V — y hristopher had spent the fall of his ^ , junior year in Rome, and in the ^^ ^ course of researching ancient art and architecture, he realized that he wasn't "dedicated enough" to pursue a career in classics. "For me, it was an interest - for the people 1 was with in Rome, it was a pre-occupation, an all-consuming passion. 1 wasn't in their league," he admits. But during his semester abroad, he also found a new direction. In a library, he happened upon Mar- cus Porcius Cato's book, De Agriciiltura - On Farm- ing. Cato - nicknamed "the Censor" - exhorted readers to foresake the decadence of Roman life and return to a simpler, supposedly more moral existence on the land. Back at Brown, Christopher pursued his inter- est in ancient agriculture by reading the Georgics, Virgil's appreciation of country living. This beauti- ful poem, a combination of practicality and Yankee Magazine-type rural gossip, cinched it for Christo- pher. He did not, however, head for the nearest farm. "Like many kids in the late 1960s, I'd thought about going back to the land, and 1 give my dad a lot of credit here," says Christopher. "He was very cagey. He didn't argue with me. What he did was find me jobs on working farms." 38 / SEPTEMBER 1990 KOSA DAMASCKTSA corriNKA lU) S I F. R DE I'OBTI.O- BamASCKNA Varikwta ROSIKR dTokck kt i.ancas As a teen, Christopher toiled alongside dairymen in Ontario, where his family had land, and he worked on an experimental musk ox farm near Fairbanks, Alaska. "1 really enjoyed it, but the labor was truly backbreaking, and the experience stopped me from ever wanting to be a farmer" Still, he loved to grow things - he had run his own landscap- ing business - and from that, coupled with the agricultural fervor he picked up in Cato and Virgil, Christopher hatched a compro mise: horticulture. "There was a lot of idealism floating around then, and the idea of taking some corner of the world and leaving it in better shape than you'd found it struck me as important and worthwhile. It still does. Besides, if I got involved in horticulture, 1 could work outside and work something close to banker's hours," he notes. Instead of buying a piece of land and becom- ing a gentleman farmer - the path his classmates figured he'd take - Christopher arranged to grad- uate early and enroll in the intensive two-year apprenticeship program at the New York Botanical Garden. "They had to bend the rules to let me in," he says. "The program was designed to train gar- deners for American estates, and you weren't sup- posed to be eligible unless you already had a cou- ple of years of professional experience." Cutting lawns barely cut it, and then there was Christopher's academic background. "The head of operations was real dubious. He kept looking at Pierre Joseph Bedoute illustrated Les roses, in which these Damasks appear. The Portland rose (above, left), named after the Duchess of Portland who ostensibly brought it to England from Italy around 1800, founded an entirely new class of roses. 'York and Lancaster' (right) was first described in 1551, says Christopher. my degree and saying, 'Classics - what are you doing here?' Finally he said, 'you know, some of these guys are going to use some pretty strong language when you're working with them.' He must have thought I was such a pantywaist! As it happened, he needn't have wor- ried, because 1 didn't understand most of the strong language - it was all in Sicilian." Students in the program worked at the Botani- cal Garden during the day and took classes at night. While the apprentice enjoyed what he was doing, he was "desperately lonely" in New York City. He was also broke, so for companionship, he turned to the Garden's library, the finest collection of botanical and horticultural literature in North America. wo years of hands-on training and two years of ferreting out information stood him in better stead than he real- ized when in 1977 he tackled his first job: restoring the grounds of an estate that was part of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observa- tory. Christopher, playing the researcher, found a copy of the original landscaping plans, which had been drawn up, he found, by the "Olmsted Broth- ers" of Boston. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 39 "This is so unprofessional, but I called up directory assistance in Boston, and asked for all the listings under Olmsted. There was an Olm- sted Associates, so I called them and asked if they knew anything about the estate. Thev said, 'Of course, we have archives going back to Central Park,' which figured - Frederick Law Olmsted designed Central Park - and thev sent a bunch of old draw- ings and plant lists," he explains. Among the arcane varieties was a collection of roses with names he couldn't recognize. "Those took me back to my Charles Fornara days at Brown," Christopher recalls. Fornara, professor of classics, had taught a class in ancient Greek history that made an indeli- ble impression on the horticulturist. "He relished it if you had different opinions, and he was going to argue with you and not pull any intellectual punch- es. But it wouldn't leave him angry if you could prove your point. That got me really intrigued, and I'd try to catch him, which was not easy, because he had something like a photographic memory. I'd claim something, and he'd counter with, 'I believe, Mr. Christopher, that if you go to Herodotus, it's book 111, 1 think,' then he'd cite the line and quote it. I'd go back to look, and there it was. Every time this happened, 1 got more determined to catch him, and as a result, I ended up doing a tremendous amount of reading for the course. It taught me how to do real research," he explains. Confronted with the unknown roses on the Olmsted plans, Christopher plunged into learning as much as he could about them. At first, his research led him back to the library stacks of the When The Texas Old Rose Rustlers (inset), as they call themselves, couldn't identify the "Hole Rose, " which they found in a roadside hollow, they simply gave it a name. It later turned out to be the 1981 Tea Rose 'Marie van Houtte' (in larger photo). New York Botanical Garden, but in short order, his interest brought him in contact with some of the garden- ers who still worked with the heir- loom varieties. It was a case of love at first sight. "Part of the attraction was the people - here were all these amaz- ingly accomplished, almost rene- gade scholars, a lot of them with lit- tle or no university education, and they'd trained themselves and become great experts. They were the classic amateurs in the 1980s, when greed was in flower and everything was for sale. There was no possible profit to be made from these roses, and yet, they worked very hard. They appreciated a certain kind of beauty, and they felt that it was worth dedicating their lives to preserving it," says Christopher. The other attraction was the roses themselves. "I never really was a classicist; I was more an old- fashioned antiquarian who loved old and curious things. The antique roses fit that bill," he says. However, even as this love affair deepened, his desire for a career in gardening was waning. Christopher had been bitten by the writing bug. Not that it was any surprise. He'd grown up surrounded by journalists and authors, and his father - a writer and editor for Newszveek and now a professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism - had once set him up with a job at the Neuv of the Noiili in Yellowknife, capital of the Northwest Territories in Canada. But just as his exposure to farming showed him its warts, so did Christopher's upbringing point out the difficulties of the writing life. He vowed not to follow in his dad's footsteps. 40 / SEPTEMBER 1990 hat vow went by the boards in 1980, when he took a six-month leave of ab- sence from Lamont and headed back to Rome. Before settling down to write, Christopher traveled around Europe for six weeks to visit gar- dens. At the American Express office in Dublin, he picked up a letter from Natural History, a presti- gious magazine, telling him to go ahead with a sto- ry he'd proposed on the oldest botanical garden in Europe, which was in Padua. "Going by American Express to get letters from my editors, I felt like Ernest Hemingway. That was a real thrill," he says. The article opened doors, but true to the maxim of artists everywhere - "don't give up your day job" - Christopher returned to Lamont when he came back to the United States. He wrote on the side, and steadily perfected his skills. "For me, most of writing is spent polishing, going over and over until it's right. Gardening is like that, too. There are the days you're planting trees and flow- ers, but the vast majority of the time is spent weed- ing," he notes. Gardening had another role to play in his writ- ing success. In Nyack, Christopher met William A. Owens, the retired head of the writing program at Columbia. "He had these giant rhododendrons that had been started from cuttings thirty years earlier, and now they were obscuring the windows. So we worked out a deal: he gave me a lesson in writing for every rhododendron 1 moved. He also introduced me to my agent," says Christopher. From that collaboration, the book was born, and in 1987, the intrepid author left Lamont and hit the rose and writing trail full-time. His research took him around the country and to Europe, to track down rose history and to hobnob with the people who've kept these antiques alive when much of the rose-growing public had lost interest. A high point of his travels was a chance to go rose "rustling": to cruise the byways and graveyards - particularly the graveyards - with like-minded friends and search for roses that have survived for years, even centuries. When the rustlers find a good variety, they take cuttings - after, of course, they've asked for permission - which they root (the Texans use a special concoction made from chopped wil- low twigs steeped in water, but any rooting com- pound will do). If all goes well, in about eight weeks, the cutting should be growing on its own and ready as either an addi- tion to the garden, a gift, or trade bait. Thus is the past passed on. With the current old-rose revival, it is now possible to order plants from catalogues, and that's to the good. It means that many of these horticultural treasures will be 'American Pillar, ' a 1902 Rambler preserved. But "rustling" and rooting are also part of tradition, and here's hoping that they continue as well. Christopher's writing career is certainly contin- uing. The rose book was well-reviewed in both the Nezi' York Times and Horticulture, two publications he also writes for regularly. It sold out its first hardcover printing of 10,000 copies - a remarkable achievement for a gardening book, particularly in a bad year for the book industry - and the second printing is meeting with similar success. His work is in demand at a number of magazines, and he is about to begin a new book. Uncharacteristically, he'll tackle a modern topic. "I'm fascinated by the new styles of gardening that are evolving around the country to conserve water. It turns out that each year, the average American private home devotes around 90,000 gal- lons of water for landscaping purposes. We're just not going to be able to do that anymore," says Christopher, whose book will chronicle the "xeri- scaping" movement - the gardeners who are devel- oping ingenious ways to raise plants in increasing- ly thirsty times. "You can have a beautiful garden for 20 percent of the water used typically." But even as he talked about new trends, it was clear that he was wedded to old traditions, which, of course, is as it should be. "Like most gardeners, I have an abiding mis- trust in progress," he writes in the rose book. There will be future rose rustles, he explained, as we cruised the byways of Middletown in a blue Tercel that ought to have a bumper sticker warn- ing, "THIS CAR BRAKES FOR ANTIQUE ROSES." Christopher is always on the lookout for "new" old plants, and this day, he was breaking in a new disciple. "You train your eyes so, after awhile, these things leap out at you when you're driving around. You see things everyone else misses," he explains. Then you stop, inhale that marvelous scent to give you a shot of courage, and knock on the door. "I wanted to ask you something about that rose - did you know it's a very old variety?" That usually puts people at ease. "And by the way, could I take a few cuttings?" Ms. Thirtysomething said sure - that's almost always the case - and maybe by presstime, the "White Rose of York," a.k.a. "Bonnie Prince Char- lie's Rose," will have put down roots in my backyard. Maybe it won't be alone, for on the trip back home, I noticed a Gallica by an old farmhouse just up the road from my place. I'll bet its owner wouldn't mind shar- ing the antique wealth. E] BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 41 and^hakespeare By Charlotte Bruce Harvey he postcard was anonymous: "Do you teach that crap-ola?" it read. "Or just right [sic] about it to get pub- Hshed? God, lady, straighten it out." "It was crudely printed in pencil," recalls Pro- fessor of English Coppelia Kahn. "It was nasty. I'd received a few fan letters before, but never a piece of hate mail." The card came last March, on the heels of a Nezv York Times article that brought into the public eye a debate about Shakespeare that hitherto had seethed only within the pages of the highbrow Publication of the Modem Language Association. The fight was about feminist criticism - specifically, the appropri- ateness of applying it to Shakespeare: Were Kahn and other feminists, as one scholar charged, impos- ing twentieth-century concerns on sixteenth-centu- ry plays, reading in what they wanted to see and ignoring the parts that didn't fit their agenda? Or had they revealed yet another way in which the Bard of Avon fathomed the timeless complexities of the human condition? Coppelia Kahn, who joined Brown's English de- partment three years ago from Wesleyan, is one of the best known and most respected of this crop of scholars. Since the early seventies, she has been Opposite: a detail from Venus and Adonis by Giorgio Ghisi. Courtesy of the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. reading Shakespeare through the lens of Sigmund Freud and his followers, and she has found Shake- speare to be a keen observer of the human psyche - particularly the male psyche. She sees - in Adonis, in Richard III, in King Lear - men wrestling, whether in adolescence, adulthood, or old age, with masculine identity. The Times article cited an early essay Kahn wrote on Romeo and Juliet, arguing that Shakespeare used the feud between the Capulets and the Mon- tagues to symbolize the cruelty and violence of pa- triarchal society. By deciding to duel with Tybalt, Kahn says, Romeo chooses the "phallic violence" of the feud over his more feminine love for Juliet. Al- though Shakespeare does not reject the patriarchal society in which he lived, she believes he was am- bivalent about it, clearly weighing the toll of mas- culinity. Tragedy itself may be a masculine genre, Kahn says, a dramatization of a man's struggle to become himself in the face of family and social pressures. ow Freud and feminism make strange bedfellows. The doctor's ideas about penis envy and its im- pact on the psychology of women strike most feminists - and perhaps most women - as offensive, if not downright absurd. And many have questioned his conclusion that fear of castra- BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 43 tion leads men to define women as "castrated men" and to devalue all that is feminine accordingly. Nevertheless, Kahn believes Freud was on to some- thing: "He may ha\e been wrong about wi>men/' she says, "but many people think he may have been right about how the family works to distin- guish masculine from feminine." And it is that as- pect of Freud - his insights into hc)w little boys and girls dex'elop their identity, particiilarlv their sense of gender - that has fascinated Kahn and has illu- minated her readings of Shakespeare's plays and poems. "Shakespeare and Freud cieal with the same subject: the expressed and hidden feelings in the human heart. They are both psychologists," Kahn wrote in the introduction to her 1980 book, Mn)i's Estate: Miisculiiic Identity in Shnkespenn'. "While Shakespeare had no formal theory of the uncon- scious, he possessed extraordinary and sophisticat- ed insight into it, insight that cannot be explained by humors psychology or the lore of melancholy" so popular in his day. According to Freud and his followers, each of us is born swaddled in a cocoon-like oblivion to the outside world, the center of our own little universe. We cry; Mother feeds us. We howl; Mother gives us fresh diapers. We are omnipotent - or so we think. Growing up seems to be largely a process of gradu- ally discerning that we are separate - that is, form- ing an identity. To weave her own scenario of ego development, Kahn draws on the theories of such post-Freudians as Eric Erikson and Margaret Mahler. Although the process is lifelong, she writes, two milestones are crucial: one around the third year of life and the second in adolescence, when we break from our families. To develop a healthy ego, we need as infants a strong sense of unity with whoever is taking care of us, usually our mother. That bond is crucial for children to feel secure. "But," writes Kahn, "with- out separation, and the emotional growth depen- dent on it, there can be no close and meaningful re- lationships with others, no mature selfhood, and no sexual identity as a man or a woman." The split is frightening, for it means giving up what she calls "the magical omnipotence" of oneness with moth- er. With the exalting freedom to shout "No!" and to run away comes a terrifying feeling of helplessness, and during the "terrible twos" children vacillate between defiance and clinginess. The "good enough" mother, Kahn writes, manages to "both adapt to and frustrate her child's exasperating needs," to be "neither intrusive and smothering, nor distant and demanding." The mother who "conveys her own fears to the child, adopts a critical attitude toward his faltering efforts, or in general infantilizes him by encourag- ing passivity floods him not just with the terror of the endeavor itself but more importantly with the paralyzing magnitude of his need for her, which he experiences as being engulfed by her," Kahn writes. If children pull through the terrible twos, they come out .secure but independent. As adults, they will be able to enter into intimate relationships without fearing a loss of self. he proce.ss of developing a sexual identity is different for boys and girls, Kahn says. Freud believed that gender awareness followed the dis- covery of the penis and the Oedipal phase around age four, but subsequent psychologists have chal- lenged that theory, observing that even before age two some children are aware of gender. Kahn believes that Freud underestimated the importance of the fact that historically most chil- dren have been raised by women, in Shakespeare's time as in our own. A girl develops a sense of her- self as feminine in relation to a person of the same sex, she says, but a boy must develop a sense of his masculinity in oppjosition to that of his mother or nurse. The early close identification with mother secures a girl's sexual identity but threatens a boy's. Kahn argues that the tendency to categorize such traits as independence, power, and repression of feeling as masculine, and dependence, weak- ness, and tenderness as feminine, may well be a psychological defense against the undertow of that earlier oneness with mother. "A man whose sepa- ration with the mother was problematic or incom- plete has not fully secured his masculine identity/' she writes. "No matter how much status or power his sex per se allows him, he is likely to feel anxious when he is called upon to 'be a man' as husband or father. Once again he finds himself dependent on a woman to confirm his identity." Sixteenth-century society placed additional strains on masculine identity - pressures Shake- speare was particularly sensitive to, Kahn believes. Just as Christ was seen to be the head of the Church, and the King the head of the land, each husband was the undisputed head of his house- hold, absolutely (and often tyrannically) ruling his wife, children, and any others who might share his roof. Land and title passed from father to oldest son, and fathers determined whom their children would marry to perpetuate that lineage. There was a weak link in the transfer of all this power; with- out a willing wife, a man had no roost to rule; once again, men were dependent on women for their identity. The "invisible heart" of the system, Kahin writes, was each woman's willingness to marry the man her father chose and to bear legitimate heirs. For if confronted with an independent, spirited wife, as Petruchio is in The Taming of the Shrew, a man risked not only losing face personally but los- ing his stature in the community as well. Similarly, she says, the threat of cuckoldry is very much on the minds of Shakespeare's men, so much so that it drives Othello to believe the most outrageous of lago's lies about Desdemona's infidelity. 44 / SEPTEMBER 1990 In class, Coppelia Kahn requires that students pay close attention to Shakespeare's language, asking them to consider such questions as "What does it mean when Lady Macbeth asks to be 'unsexed' so that she can commit the murder?" n Mim's Estate, Kahn examines some of the ways Shakespeare's male char- acters struggle with these threats to their sexual identity. In the long poem, Venus and Adonis, for instance, the adoles- cent Adonis recoils from the goddess's amorous overtures. Kahn looks at the language with which Shakespeare describes Venus's seduction and finds it unremittingly oral. Venus kisses Adonis over and over, threatening to smother, to consume him: Even as an eagle, sharp by fast. Tires with her beak on feathers, flesh and bone. Shaking her wings, devouring all in haste. Till either gorge be stuffed or prey be gone: Even so she kiss'd his brow, his cheek, his chin. And where she ends she doth anew begin. Adonis fears that he will be consumed by love, so, rather than yield to eros, he goes off to hunt the wild boar. Kahn believes it is no accident that Shakespeare describes the boar in similar language to that depicting Venus: the boar is predatory, oral, with his snout and tusks "killing whate'er is in his way." Both Venus and the boar, Kahn writes, "are capable of a purely natural, unreflective, and im- personal kind of aggression. The boar personifies the aspect of Venus most threatening to Adonis: her seemingly insatiable desire." Rather than risk los- ing himself in love (as in infancy), he risks - and loses - his life hunting the boar. Upon his death, Adonis is transformed into a flower, which Venus plucks and clasps to her breast like an infant. "Lo in this hollow cradle take thy rest"; she says. "My throbbing heart shall rock thee day and night: /There shall not be one minute in an hour/Wherein I will not kiss my sweet love's flow- er." The devouring mother has become the nurtur- ing mother, Kahn writes, and like a dependent but omnipotent infant, Adonis has made her into his mother, totally subservient to his needs. Like Adonis, Romeo is caught in the identity crisis of adolescence. His "task," in psychological jargon, is to separate from his family and to marry, to start life as an independent adult. Although bet- ter adjusted than Adonis, Romeo, too, must choose between asserting his masculinity as a lover (Juli- et's husband) or as a fighter (a Montague). Traditionally, Romeo and Juliet has been viewed as an Aristotelian tragedy in which the hero's fatal flaw - his rash decision to murder Tybalt - leads to disaster. But Kahn disagrees. Romeo, she argues, is no more flawed, no more quarrelsome, no more im- petuous than his elders. When he finally gives in to the feud and slays Tybalt, it is after a long series of events that, she says, leave Romeo little room for choice. Even the audience wants Tybalt dead and Mercutio's death avenged. Rather than a tragic hero, Romeo is a young man in a tough spot: he must decide whether the "manly" course of action BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 45 is to obey his ties to family or be true ti> his bride. It is a dilomma that transcends time. Hven a character as old as Iamt wrestles with ambi\alence toward the iipswelling of "feminine" yeanlings within him, and it is that struggle that gives the play its tragedy, Kahn argues. In a 1982 article in Dincriticti, a journal of feminist thought, she uses King Lciir to illustrate what she calls "the maternal subtext." A lonely, old, and powerful king, Lear in his final years devises a scheme for dividing his wealth among his daughters while maintaining complete control. Like an infant, he "wants two mutually exclusive things at once: to have exclusive control over those closest to him, and to be able to be absolutely dependent on them," Kahn writes. Lear is, in Freud's phrase, "his majesty the baby." What the king wants, though he cannot admit it consciously, is for his daughters to mother him, to nurture and coddle him, while al- lowing him to remain omnipotent, she argues. Shakespeare's language bears out her theory. Re- jected by Regan and Goneril, Lear tries to repress his grief, which he calls a "mother": O! how this mother swells upward toward my heart! Hysteria passiol down, thou climbing sorrow! Thy element's below. "By calling his sorrow hysterical, Lear decisive- ly characterizes it as feminine - the disease of h\/s- ter, the womb," Kahn writes, noting that in Shake- speare's time women were frequently diagnosed as suffering from hysteria, or a wandering womb. The womb was also colloquially called the mother, she says. "When Lear begins to lose his habitual sense of himself as man, father, and king, he loses control of the womanish realm of feelings within himself," Kahn writes; "he becomes hysterical. He can't keep the rising mother down in her proper element, 'be- low,' where women and the needs and traits associ- ated with them are supposed to stay - denigrated, silenced, denied. "'The mother' is Lear's galling sense of loss at the deprivation of the mother's presence. . . [and he] re-enacts a child-like rage against the absent or rejecting mother as figured in his daughters." oppelia Kahn does not give the im- pression of one who courts contro- versy. Although full of force and grace in the classroom, offstage, a lit- tle like Garbo, perhaps, she seems to wish people would just leave her alone. Several weeks after re- ceiving her anonymous postcard, she still sounded ruffled. And when forced to endure several inter- views for this article, she seemed (and proved) fre- quently on the verge of asking, "Is that all? Are we finished yet?" Her office, off a noisy, vinyl-tiled cor- ridor in Horace Mann, has the feel of a sanctuary. serene with pale sky-blue walls and white trim on the arched windows behind her ciesk. A couple of worn Oriental rugs mute the tile, and a tapestry covers a dark oak table, which an antique brass scale and an espresso pot share alternately with her IBM PC. The books and prints that cover her walls also ricochet from old to new. The only child in "a very literate family," Kahn grew up in Seattle before making in 1959 "the big cultural leap to Barnard College in New York City," she says. "[There] I spent four years of silence lis- tening to very articulate and assertive women from New York City schools deal much more competent- ly with literature than I could have. I was over- whelmed." She majored in English and loved Shakespeare, so she went on to graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley. Deciding to go to graduate school, she says, "1 had no sense of a career. ... I defined myself as a woman in a field of study, a woman who would probably get married and whatever she did with that field of study would be secondary." She would, in fact, get married, and then remarry, but neither marriage nor raising two children would sideline her successful career in academia. The battle of the sexes was far from Coppelia Kahn's mind during those early years. "Wherever the women's movement was," she says, "I wasn't in it! I was not concerned at all with the category of gender - personally or academically." At Bar- nard, and then at Berkeley during the sixties, the dominant approach to literature was a school called formalism: "It was like walking down an art gallery lined with great paintings. Somebody just said, 'Here's a great painting; there's another great painting.' The plays came out as static, perfect arti- facts." Social issues, she says, "were simply back- ground; all we had to do was understand the for- mal features of the plays and read the text quite closely to appreciate the play of language. That would give us the meaning. There was no sense of a work of art emerging out of a cultural process where there was no one right answer, where there was ambiguity and controversy and conflicting in- terests. "Remember, this was the sixties," Kahn says. "Feminism, particularly academic feminism, was really nascent then. When did Kate Millett's Sexual Politics come out?" She stands up and walks across the room, pulling a copy of the book from a shelf: "1969," she says briskly, then heads back to her desk chair. "I was being a good girl, a good daugh- ter. I loved my graduate work, and I was not aware that there were any differences between me and my male colleagues who were graduate students. Not even when I had a baby at the end of it. It just seemed as though I could fit that in." Her first inkling that there were differences - "my initiation into the up-close realities of sexual politics," she says - came in 1971, when she was applying for her first teaching job. "One school said they were very interested m me, but they wouldn't 46 / SEPTEMBER 1990 consider interviewing me until they were assured that my husband would have a job nearby." Kahn did land a job that year at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and her husband was hired at Wesleyan. For a year they commuted be- tween Middletown, Connecticut, and western Mas- sachusetts; then Wesleyan offered her a job, starting in 1973. Since it was a better position and would eliminate the commute, she decided to switch. In the interim, she had a year to herself. That year proved propitious, though not neces- sarily in the ways Kahn anticipated. Seeing herself as "a systematic person," she decided this was the perfect time to read Shakespeare through, begin- ning to end. "So I started with one of his two early narrative poems called 'Lucrece.' It's a poem about a legendary rape in Roman history, the rape of Lu- cretia, which led to a popular uprising in which the last kings were driven from Rome and the republic began. "As I read, I said, 'My goodness, there's some- thing going on with this heroine here. Not only does everybody else seem to think that she was stained by what was done to her by her attacker, but she does, too.' So 1 started reading Freud at the same time to figure out the mechanism of what looked like a guilt without legal foundation." Kabn says that Shakespeare's imagery is like children 's dreams and fantasies: full of wild, magical dramas and make-believe. She sees in bis characters reenactments of children's earliest psychological dramas, their struggle to define a sense of self, their wonderings about what it means to be boy or girl. Freud, she says, was wrong about women, but she believes he and Shakespeare both were onto the way families shape children's gender. nitially predicted to be yet another fad in the fickle world of contempo- rary literary trends, feminist criticism has endured for nearly twenty years; English departments now commonly advertise for specialists in women's studies and feminist theory. That Brown would hire a feminist critic at the level of full professor would seem indicative of the re- gard in which the field is held. But the tone of the card Kahn received and the intensity of the literary debate hint that mere dura- bility may not indicate full acceptance on the aca- demic scene. Particularly when the topic is Shake- speare. "People don't like it," she says, "because you are bringing the timeless bard into the present, and into the present of an issue that continues to be troublesome - the status of women." People regard Shakespeare as a "sacred, canonical author," she says, and they view sexual politics as a contempo- rary phenomenon, thinking never the twain shall meet. For example, three years ago a colleague - "a senior professor at a major university," she says - remarked rhetorically to her, "Oh well, they really weren't thinking about gender in the Renaissance, were they?" It's a comment that clearly makes her boil. There's a tendency to think, '"Oh, you women are all het up about this now,'" as if awareness of gen- der were a late twentieth-century obsession, she says. The traditionalists accuse feminists of ignor- ing the historical facts, but Kahn argues that the opposite is true. Gender, she believes, is so basic to the human psyche that literature is naturally con- cerned with it. "Even the Greeks!" she says em- phatically. ED BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 47 48 / SEPTEMBER 1990 The Classes By James Reinbold 25 Attending our 65th reunion or some event thereof were Erwin Aymar, who drove from Ponte Vedro, Fla , Kurken Kalunian, Ben- jamin Roman, James Rogers, Marvin Bower, Walter Whitney, and Kingsley Bennett. Guests included Sandra Roman, Rose Kaluni- an, Madeleine Fish Neubauer, Marjorie Bradshaw, and Karen Ventrone. Among the activities attended were a cocktail party with the class of 1930, the Brown Bear Buffet, and the Campus Dance on Friday; forums and the class dinner at the Faculty Club on Saturday; and the "Hour with the President" on Sunday. Those participating in the Commencement procession were Erwin Aymar, Kurken Kalu- nian and his granddaughter, Karen Ventrone, Ben Roman, James Rogers, and Walt Whit- ney. Ben and Walt walked back up the Hill after fortification at the University Club. Commencement exercises and a luncheon fol- lowed. - Walter F. Whitney 28 It is not surprising that the number of classmates who meet for our annual mini-re- unions grows smaller each year. Fortunately, the enthusiasm doesn't decrease proportion- ately. Those who gathered at Francis Farm in Rehoboth, Mass., for our 62nd get-together were Francis Armington and Justine, Earl Bradley and Carolvn, Barbara Calder, Loretta Cleaves, Jesse Eddy, Ruth Goldberg, Seebert Goldowsky and Bonnie, Copeland Setchell, and Everett Woodmancy. Last-minute com- plications prevented Joe Merchant and Stu Woodruff from participating as they had planned. After a delicious clambake, we were enter- tained with a delightful program by the Jab- berwocks. A short business meeting followed during which the year's necrology was read, and reports from the secretary and the trea- surer were presented. There was a short dis- lOHN FORASTE Chet Wortbington, flanked by George Dexter and bis wife, Elsie, sing BTO^Am songs as the class of '23 is serenaded at Commencement by the Brown Band. cussion about the location of next year's meeting. Once more our participaticin in the Com- mencement procession was minimal. It was a case of the spirit being willing but the flesh not measuring up. - Francis B. Arlington 30 Our 60th reunion started out with twelve Pembrokers registered for some or all of the various events. We were guests again of the men of 1930 at a social hour preceding the Brown Bear Buffet, Lou Weinstein pro\ided nostalgic piano music. Most of us skipped the Campus Dance and returned to Wayland to do a lot of catching up on the past five years. On Saturday we separated for our own class luncheons and meetings in Sharpe Re- fectory. All twelve of us were present: Thel- ma Tyndall, president; Louise Kelley Daly, vice president; Dorothy Riley Laughlin, act- ing secretary; Helena Hogan Shea, acting treasurer; Lucy Fogarty Quirk, reunion co- chair; Dorothy Jencks Gauthier, Rose Hand Horn, Dorothy Hill, Sella Downing Metcalf, class marshal; Gertrude Rosenhirsh Zisson; Dorothy Taylor Cook, class agent; and Verna Follett Spaeth, reunion chairman. Our secretary led the memorial service for the twenty-two classmates we have lost since our 55th reunion in 1985. We voted to have annual mini-reunions hereafter, with notices in the Brown Alumni Montlih/. As the class- mate who had traveled furthest to the re- union. Rose Hand Horn, of Largo, Fla., was presented with a Foldaway traveling bag. Newsy letters and cards of greetings from twenty-four classmates who could not attend were read. At the conclusion of our meeting, in true Carberry fashion, we added another member to our class, this one honorary. We welcomed into 1930 Nan Bouchard Tracy '46, who had shepherded our class lovingly through many past reunions before her recent retirement. She was presented with a gift cer- tificate from the Brown Bookstore to buy books that J.S. Carberry would or would not have chosen. Sunday, which began as a beautiful day, turned into a very sad one when we learned that Dorothy Riley Laughlin had been rushed to Rhode Island Hospital with cardiac arrest and was in the intensive-care unit. Those of us who were gathered in Wayland's kitchen for our continental breakfast held a brief prayer service for Dorothy and then contin- BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 49 The Educated Choice FOR READERS. AND ADVERTISERS. For years, l\y League Magazines ha\e been bnnging news from around the world— and news from campus— to influential people. And, as our readers know the caliber of our readership better than an\'one else, the\' send their own ad\erHsing message to some of their best customers: their fellow alumni. I\T,- League Network maga- zines—the ecHucated choice tor reader and ad\ertiser. Call Rob Sennott at The h"\' League Magazine Network for more information on this influ- ential market at 212-684-5603. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY COLUMBIA MAGAZINE COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS DARTMOLTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE HARVARD MAGAZINE HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL BULLETIN THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE PRINCETON ALUMNI WEEKLY YALE ALUMNI MAGAZINE The Ivy League Magazine Network ui'd on to the Presidoiifs I lour, vvliich is what she vviHild ha\e wanted us ti) do When we returned Irom our early evening dinner we learned that Dorothy, our class president trom 1^27 to 1481), had died. The executive committee decided then that we would set up a memorial fund in her name. Classmates who would like to join in this are asked to make checks out ft) The Pembroke Club of Providence in her memory and send them in care of Helena Hogan Shea, 19 Fairfield Rd., Cranston, R.I. 02910. Condolences can be sent to Dorothy's sister, Mrs. Betty Baker, 1355 Wampanoag Tr., East Providence, R.I. 02914. Monday found five women of 1930 march- ing down the Hill in the Commencement procession behind our marshals, Zelia Down- ing Metcalf and Ray Chaplin. Many of our members lined the sidewalk and cheered us on the march, joining us at Sharpe Refectory after the ceremonies for a wine toast before the elegant (and free) luncheon to which the University treats all over-50 classes. We all loved the luncheon. It gave us one more chance to shake hands with our wonderful President Gregorian, who makes each of us oldsters feel as though the University couldn't get along without us. - Venia Follet Spmeth Dorothy Piggott Campbell, Peterborough, N.H., writes that her nephew, Richard Ver- ney '68, has a daughter at Brown. Virginia is a senior and a member of the sailing team. Richard planned a big surprise party for Dor- othy on the occasion of her eightieth birthday. 31 The men and women of 1931 held their 39th mini-reunion on May 25 in the Chancel- lor's Dining Room at the Brown Refectory. Our thanks go to Eleanor McAndrews Retal- lick for taking care of the arrangements so well. We went then to the Brown Bear Buffet and enjoyed a visit from Nan Bouchard Tracy '46, recently retired from the alumni office, and Robert M. Rhodes, editor of the Brown Alumni Monthly. After the buffet, those who wished were guests of the University at the Campus Dance. In attendance were: Bob Cronan, Joe Ma- hood, Eugene Gerry, Eleanor McAndrews Retallick, Clinton Williams, Joe and Fredda Heyman Galkin, Rosamond Danielson Bellin and Robinson, Elizabeth Dowd, Dr. Paul Thayer, Ben Greenfield and Doris, Judge William MacKenzie and Louise, Arthur Novogroski, Bill Hindley and Dorothy, Ann Carr Booth and Charles, Howard Angell, Hector Laudati and his wife, Edythe, his daughter, Rosalyn'71, and her husband, James Pick, and Richard "Rip " Hurley '32 and friend, Clarence Schaller. - 6(7/ Hindley 32 Dorothy Budlong, Katherine Burt Jackson and her husband, Mary Louise Hall Gleason and her husband, Helen Moffitt DeJong, Katherine Perkins, and Mildred Schmidt Sheldon and her husband remembered miss- ing classmates, read letters, exchanged pho- tos, reminisced, and made plans for the fu- ture. - Helen Moffitt Dejong ! 35 The women of 1932 continued their tradi- tion of holding off-year mini-reunions by meet- ing for luncheon on May 26 at the Refectory. Helen Baldwin Lang, Edith Berger Sinel, There were twenty-nine of us who regis- tered on Friday afternoon under the tent in the Wriston Quadrangle for our 1990 reunion weekend. Many faces were familiar, as we've met together each year since our graduation, but some who had not returned for years were a welcome sight. Twenty of us stayed in our headquarters, Buxton Hall, which, inci- dentally, was in tiptop shape and very com- fortable. We figured students must have set the dorm in order as all the beds were short- sheeted, much to our amusement. We enjoyed the Friday cocktail party in Buxton Lounge at the invitation of the men of 1935 before going over to the Brown Bear Buffet. We appreciated the serenade given us at the dorm by the Brown Band before we left for Sharpe Refectory. Our Saturday luncheon at the Faculty Club had the most in atten- dance. The food was excellent. On Saturday evening we had our cocktail party and dinner in the Crystal Room of Alumni Hall as we did five years ago. We noted that since our last visit it has been beautifully redone and looked again like the room in which we held tea dances in those long-ago days. On Sunday we merrily bounced our way by bus to Dot Maikoff Nelson's lovely home for a buffet lunch. Dot was her usual gracious hostess. Lilliem Hicock Wentworth showed slides of material she has gathered over the years, which caused a spell of reminiscing. We all enjoyed the applause given us by the onlookers at the Commencement proces- sion as we made our way around campus and through the Van Wickle Gates, led by our two class marshals, Betty Blanchard Nolan and Kay O'Meara Moriarty After Com- mencement ceremonies, we enjoyed the Fifty- Plus Luncheon, which enabled us to visit with some of the non-reunioning classes. Although not as many were able to return this year as five years ago, our count was al- most half of those left in our class able to get around. A number of us traveled from Con- necticut, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massa- chusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, and Virginia. Those who returned were: Ruth Sampson Aslmian, Esme Mclntyre Bauxar and her husband, Catherine Jodoln Beckley, Dorothy Currier Bourdon, Virginia Kempton Conner, Frieda Lisker Corris, Natalie Basford Fanch- er and her husband, H. Brainard, Deborah Richmond Frost, Gertrude Ketover Gleklen, Evelyn Kaplan Gompertz, Beatrice Wattman Miller, Catherine O'Meara Moriarty, Mar- garet Mason Morison, Dorothy Markoff Nel- son, Dorothy Sylvia Neville and her sister. 50 / SEPTEMBER 1990 Elizabeth Blanchard Nolan, Mary Fullerton Oleksiw, Sara Bloom Paul, Virginia Rice Sanborn, Dorothy Abeshaus Segool and Howard, Claire J. Shea, Alma Stone Sich, Es- telle Gould Terry, Alice Coen Tone, Sara Dowty Toney, Dorothy Blanchard Vam- vaketis, Carolyn Troy Watts, Lillian Hicock Wentworth, Pearl Miller Wilks, and Eliza- beth Shaw Williams Class officers for the next five years are: Dorothy Vamvaketis, president; Catherine Moriarty, vice president; Natalie Fancher, treasurer; Elizabeth Nolan, corresponding secretary; Virginia Conner, recording secre- tary; Alma Sich, reunion chairman; and Dorothy Nelson, class agent. Thanks to the members of the reunion committee, our student helpers, and to Susan Berry '81, who stepped in like a pro and gave us a very smooth-running reunion weekend. - Dot Blnncliard Vamvaketis 37 Dr. S. James Beale has been retired for ten years. Jim and his wife, Paula, have been married for fifty-one years and have four sons, one daughter, and ten grandchildren. Jim and Paula live in Jacksonville, Fla. George Lewis and his wife, Isabell, are taking life easy in Lake Worth, Fla. Richard D. Messinger, chairman of the board of Power Curbers Inc., received a doc- tor of humanitarian service degree during commencement ceremonies at Catawba Col- lege, Salisbury, N.C., in May. He lives in Salis- bury. Jim Rigby keeps in touch with Brown through contact with the Atlanta Brown Club and Stim Brown. Jim and his wife. Tee, trav- eled to England last spring but encountered nothing but high winds and cold tempera- tures. Jim and Tee live in Dunwoody, Ga. Gordon Todd is involved in commvmity work in Woods Hole, Mass. He and his wife, Alice, do a lot of traveling in their RV. 40 Five years ago we reported at our 45th that "Together is Better," to which we add a ;'ro;'OS our 50th, "... than Ever!" From Presi- dent Gregorian's delightful surprise visit to our cocktail party in Faunce House's Petteruti Lounge on Friday afternoon to his friendly greetings at the Fifty-Plus Luncheon of the Associated Alumni on Monday, every one of "The Golden Bears" gatherings was filled with delighted renewals of old friendships, with abiding support for Brown, and with unbelievably great weather. That two-thirds of the living members of the class contributed to the splendid Reunion Yearbook (a monument to the creative efforts of John McLaughry and Stan and Jean Bruce Cummings); that almost half of our living classmates returned to participate in one or more of the events; that some 200 graduates and their spouses attended the Brown Bear Buffet as well as our class reception and din- ner in the new Pizzitola Sports Center (due to the efforts of our planning committee togeth- er with Jean Bruce Cummings, Anne Keenan McCaffrey, and June Purcell Beddoe from Pembroke); and that (with the leadership of Harry Henshel, Fred Bloom, and Betty Hunt Schumann and their committees) we exceed- ed our annual fund goal by more than 20 per- cent are more dramatic measures of the levels of collective enthusiasm for and commitment to Brown that were generated. On Saturday while the men dined at Agawam Hunt, Pembrokers lunched at the Faculty Club, voted a Pembroke Class of 1940 unrestricted gift of $2,000 from the class trea- sury to the Pembroke Center, and elected the following class officers: June Purcell Beddoe, president; Betty Hunt Schumann, vice presi- dent; Phyllis Riley Murray, class agent; Gladys Chernack Kapstein, treasurer; and Jean Bruce Cummings and Anne Keenan McCaffrey, reunion co-chairs. A tasty Sunday buffet luncheon at the Fac- ulty Club followed by an open house at our reunion headquarters in the Wriston Quad- rangle completed our specifically-class re- union events. Our truly memorable march down the Hill on Monday was led by our illustrious class- mate, Brooke Hindle, who served as chief marshal for the Commencement procession. His aides included Stan and Jean Bruce Cummings, Russ Field, and Anne Keenan McCaffrey June Purcell Beddoe, Bob Engles, Harry Henshel, and Gladys Cher- nack Kapstein ser\ed as marshals for the alumni classes. Harry and Priscilla Phillips Smith carried the class banner. Finally, Dick Solomon's receipt of an honorary doctor of science degree was a high point of the Com- mencement proceedings for '40. Special thanks are due Ken Clapp, who engineered the tasteful reunion hats and Golden Bear key chain souvenirs; Vic Schwartz, who arranged our traditional wel- come at Agawam; Bob Engles, our man at the open bars; and John McLaughry and his wife, Anne, whose energetic commitment to the planning and execution of our 50th made it all possible. Finally we are much indebted to Pam Boylan '84 for her encyclopedic knowledge of reunion details and constant accessibility to our planning committee mem- bers. From twenty-two states, the District of Columbia, and one foreign country, those re- turning were: George Abraham and daughter Alice, Don Amidon and Doris, Shirley Roberts Barbour and Bill, Will Becker and Mary, June Purcell Beddoe, Saul Belilove and Jean, Jane Stahl Bergman, Seymour Berkman, Louis Bloch and Pauline, Fred Bloom and Edith, Grace Lillian Blumberg and Frank, Olga Komar Bolouch, Dave Borst and Lorraine, Alfred Boudreau, Kay Schatz Brant and Earl, Marjorie Leland Briggs, Harold Buck, Bert Buxton and Lois, Len Can- ner and Norma, Margaret Fico Capasso and Henry, Bret Carlson and Jane, J. Rayher Caswell, Borden Chase and Marjorie, Gus Cheever and Dot, Ken Clapp and Barbara, Bob Clifford and Janet, Dot Clothier, Byron Crossmem and Leila, Jean Bruce Cummings and Stan, Anne Mikolajewski Curtis and AI, Marian Johnson Danesi, Barbara Porter DeLuca, Steve Dore and E\ elyn, Mary J. El- liott, Jim Ely and Dorothy, Bob Engles, Polly Tirrell English, John Evans, Leone Brownell Fagan, Russ Field and Sukie, Clyde Fisk and Priscilla, Louise Fitch, Bob Fontes and Peg- gy, Bernice Temkin Freed and Shepard, Frank Giunta and Elizabeth, Herman Gold- stein and Myrtle, Jono Goodwin and Carol Ann, Sam Gourse and Bernice, Walter Gum- mere and Cinny, Bob Hemdy, Charlie Harkins, Penelope Hartland-Thunberg, Rho- da Harvey, Hap Henschel and Jov, Brooke Hindle and Helen, George Holswade and Fern, Bob Homma and Marion, Dick Horton and Janet, Roy Hunt and Jeanette, Howard Hunt and Laura, Margaret Butterfield Hyde, Rudy Jaworski and Gladys, Fred Jellison and Ruth, Gus Jones and Blanche, Ed Jones and Florence, Mary Kenyon Kagels, Gladys Chernack Kapstein and Sherry, Dorothy Golden Katz and Saul, Fred King, Hank Klie and Hester, Cliff Lathrop and Bette, Milton Leichter and Virginia, Ray McCuUough, Bill MacDonald and Stell, Vin Mangiante and Mary, Doug Martland and Muriel, Lee Mayo and Phyllis, Althea Hall McAleer and John, Anne Keenan McCaffrey, John McLaughry and Anne, Don McNeil and Angela, Sawyer Medbury and Lib, Miriam O'Brien Meehan, Ralph Messenger, Alan Moore and Ruth, Phyllis Riley Murray and Jim, Bob Nevrton and Dorothy, Sister Mary Frances Christo- pher O'Rourke, Alice Kutz Oster, Dave Par- lin and Ester, Joe Parnicky and Gail, Bob Perry and Jo, Helen Sterrett Peterson, Harold Pfautz and Kit, Harry Piatt, George Pond and Millie, Bob Poole and Jane, Dorothy Daw Powers and W Robert, Ruth C. Pratt, Virginia Quinton, Millie Resch and John, Jean Perry Reynolds and Charles, Bruce Robbins, Leon Rogers and Annette, Louise Parker Romanoff and Elijah, Betty Hunt Schumann, Victor Schwartz, Nicholas Shma- ruk and Xenia, Priscilla Phillips Smith and Henry, Robert I. Smith and Dolores, Betty Jencks Smoot, Dick Solomon, Bob Staff and Ginny, Dick Starrett, Hope Smith Sterrett, Muriel Port Stevens, Mac Sturtz and Carol, Jean M. Tetmant, Dick Uhle and Dorothy, Charlie Vivian and Betty, Dick Walker and Peg, Curt Warren and Ann, Mel Webster and Caroline, Joe Weisman and Bea, Charlie Winterrowd and Merrie, Clara Schwab Wis- bach, and Avery Zuckerman and Gertrude. Due to a large number of last-minute reg- istrants as well as the unexpected number of those returning and their spouses, there was a shortage of reunion hats. Anyone who paid a registration fee and did not receive a hat may request a $10 refund from our treasurer, Donald Jones, 58 Briarcliffe Rd., Cranston, R.I. 02910. Some extra copies of the 50th Reunion Yearbook are available from John McLaughry, 155 Brown St., Providence 02906. - Phytlis Riley Murray and Harold Pfautz BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 51 I 43 Marion Jagolinzer Goldsmith has |oirK\l the staff ot Honu'crott at Bkickstmu', the first life-care community to be built m Rhode Is- land She feels it will be a wonderful resource for all her "young-at-heart" contemporaries. In February, Marion's daughter, Barbara, married Peter Taub of Montreal, Canada. She adds she is already looking forward to the 50th class reunion in May UW."!. Marion lives in Seekonk, Mass. I 45 The 4Sth-4-45 reunion was a great success. Forty-eight Brunonians and thirty-three Pem- hrokers were joined by forty-eight spouses and guests for participation in at least one of the weekend events. Eighty-nine were pre- sent at the Hope Club on Saturday night. Bedecked in special 45th-4-45 pins and straw hats, and boasting a reunion giving record that sets a standard for future 45th re- union classes, the class cut a strong figure. As usual, a Sunday afternoon with the Sharpes at Pojac Point proved to be the vehicle for Brown and class unity as well as a special culinary delight. A strong '45 delegation marched down the Hill on Commencement morning, including Brown professor Melvin Feldman and three corporation members, Knight Edwards, Vern Alden, and Henry Sharpe. Special kudos go to Henry for the leadership and inspiration for our reunion giving record and to class President Dick Sil- verman for his shepherding of the question- naire he created into a class yearbook, which all members received. Rather than recount the pleasant details of each of our reunion events in these pages - we could fill the entire classnotes section - each participant salts away memories of a wonderful celebration and a wish that all our classmates will join together for the 50th in 1995. Plan on it! Class officers elected by the men were: Evan West, president; Dick Pretat, vice presi- dent; Stan Ehrlich, secretary; and Knight Ed- wards, treasurer. Class officers elected by the women were: Dorothy Kay Fishbein, president; Joyce Chadbourne Eschenfelder, vice president; Florence Asadorian Dulgarian, secretary; En- zina De Robbie Sammartino, treasurer; Olga Joannidi Antoniou, financial secretary; Jean- nie C. Stewart, historian; Kay Towne Ander- son, nominating committee chair; Lois Coli- nan Counihan, Jean Tanner Edwards, Joyce Chadbourne Eschenfelder, 50th reunion co- chairs. Those attending the reunion were: Vern Alden, Kay Anderson, Dora DeRobbio An- joorian, Olga Joannidi Antoniou, Sam Arnold, Jr., Frank Arnold, Bill Bateman, David Bell, Priscilla Bernd, Richard Blacher, Nancy Craig Blinn, Charles Briggs, F.I. Brown, Hank Brownell, Florence D. Burton, Mary Foster Cadbury, Earl Chambers, Bob Champney. Ted Chick, Barbara Fuchs Cinco, Bob Claflin, Lois Colinan Counihan, Martha C. Curley, Ruth Keily Dugas, Florence Asadorian Dulgarian, Joyce Eschenfelder, Jean Edwards, Knight Edwards, Stan Ehrlich, Janet Hackett Ewald, Daniel Fairchild, Mel Feldman, Dave Ferguson, Dorothy Fishbein, Guy Fiske, Roger Frost, Bob Furlong, Shirley M. Gallup, Don Gard- ner, Jim Geehan, John Graham, Don A. Guinan, Louis H. Hofmann, Ed Holmes, Fred Hunt, Hank Johnsen, Andrew Karnig, Jean Whitehead Kelly, Anne B. Krause, Custy Kulig, Bill Lawrence, Margaret Ajootian Kayshock, George A. Levine, Bill Luther, Bill Mason, Gene McSweeney, Beryl Meyer, Jack D. Mulcahy, Eleanor Musicant, William F. O'Brien, Dave Parker, Foula D. Peterson, Elizabeth Jackson Phillips, Betty H. Pickett, Dorothy Pillsbury, Dick Pretat, Peter Quinn, Melba Rosenbaum, Enzina DeRobbio Sam- martino, Henry D. Sharpe, Jr., Bob Siener, Richard Silverman, Agatha Stanard, Jim Starkweather, Martha Jane Hunt Stevens, William A. Stoops, Rose Boyajian VanDyke, Evan West, Roberta Wheeler, Scat Winter, Tom Woods, Phyllis Baldwin Young, Arnold M. Zais. 46 Woodbury Titcomb, president and chief executive officer of Peoples Bancorp of Worcester, Inc., and Peoples Savings Bank, was inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma at cer- emonies at Clark University's Graduate School of Management in May. He has been active in the greater Worcester community, serving such organizations as the YMCA and the Worcester Art Museum. He lives in Hold- en, Mass. 47 The women of 1947 joined those of 1948 for a lunch on campus during Commence- ment weekend. This off-year reunion fol- lowed one in March for our class that had seven in attendance. Such a good time was had by all that the two classes hope to have a similar reunion during next year's Com- mencement. In attendance were: Betty Asadorian Kougasian, Olga Buben Howells, Barbara Cohen Miller, Dorothy Hiller, Paula Libby Feldman, Louise Makepeace, Anne Renzi Wright, Joanne Vardakis Hologgitas, Jane Walsh Folcarelli, and Joyce Wetherald Fairchild. - Dorotln/ Hiller 49 Phyllis Whitman Beck, a judge on the intermediate appellate court in Pennsylva- nia, received the Judicial Award at the annual May meeting of the Pennsylvania Bar Associ- ation for her work as head of the Gover- nor's Commission on Judicial Reform. She lives in Wynnewood, Pa. 50 The fabulous 50s returned to campus for their 40lh reunion, and we've never had a bigger or better event. Two hundred and eighty-nine registered, including some who had never attended a reunion before. From the opening night dinner at Macha- do House to the Campus Dance, class meet- ings and luncheons. Pops Concert and clam- liake hosted by Jane Fagan Donovan and her husband, Gerry, at their extraordinary home on the ocean, it was a weekend to remember and a memory to cherish. If you missed it, we continue our mini-re- unions at each Commencement and we're an- ticipating an even bigger 45th. Plan on it. Officers elected at the class meeting in- clude: Phyllis Towne Cook, president; Lacy Herrmann, vice president; Maurice Bisso- nette, treasurer; Oliver Patrell, assistant trea- surer; Fredi Kovitch Solod, secretary; Richard Brackett, head class agent for men; and Ralph Seifert, chair for the 45th reunion com- mittee. Attending the reunion were: Lawson Ainsworth, Ginny Aldred, Jack Allen, Gor- don E. Allen, Arline Goodman Alpert, Eleanor Alpern, Jean Fitzgerald Andrews, Dick Armstrong, Anne Lord Arnold, Joe Asquino, Henry Bechman, Jay Becker, Eliza- beth Beizer, Herb Beizer, Paul Berard, An- thony Chompa, Arlene Bergwall, Hall Berg- wall, Bernie Berstein, Maurice Bissonnette, Dick Brackett, William S. Brady, Robert Breslin, Milton I. Brier, Janet Brof, Marcia Krawit Brown, Thomas Brown, Allan Camp- bell, Lester F. Carpenter, Bruce Bragdon Chick, Caroline Decatur Chick, Gary Clark, William J. Cochrane, Jr., Kip Cohen, Donald R. Colo, Jim Colville, Tony Combias, Jo Con- don, Jim Cook, Myles Cook, Phyllis Cook, Edward B. Corcoran, Bob Cowgill, Alice H. Cummings, Pauline Longo Denning, Bill De- Nuccio, Ned Dewey, Stan Dolin, Jane Dono- van, Dick Douglas, Billie Dupont, John Durnin, Stoughton Ellsworth, Nancy Atkins Erickson, Richard S. Ferenbach, Henry A. Ferrari, Roy S. Fidler, Bob Finlay, Seymour Fogwell, Gene Gallant, Shirley Gay, Allan H. Gervertz, June Gibbs, Erna Hoffner Gill, Shirley Glenney, Harold Godlin, Lois Booth Goodnow, Arnold Green, Lois B. Green, Gif- ford Grimm, Emilie C. Hagopian, Bob Hague, John Hammerslough, Phil Hand, Jean Stilwell Harlow, David H. Hawkins, Don Hazard, Virginia Fakoury Helsel, Mar- jorie Matz Henning, Dianne Muth Herr, Lacy Herrmann, Mary Holburn, Mary Ann Hull, Russ Hutton, Joe Jabbour, Martin Jacobs, Peter H. John, June Brenner Judson, Ray Kako, Pierce Kearney, Allen Kerr, Mary Tom- linson Kester, Lyn Murphy Kinne, Elizabeth Krohn, Harvey Lapides, Bailey Laughlin, Denton Stewart Layman, John Leeming, Ward Leonard, Ed Levis, William H. Leys, John Liddell, Paul Lipsitt, Phil Lundgren, John Lyons, Gardner Macartney, Donald MacDonald, Anthony Manyak, Zeke Mar- shall, William Mayer, Bob McCulloch, Vince McCulloch, Hank McGreen, Jim McKelvey, Don McLellan, Genelle Dolan McMahon, Joe McNally, Gene McNally, Flo Merjan, Rita Michaelson, John Moore, Dan Moran, Zach 52 / SEPTEMBER 1990 Morfogen, William C. Munroe, Roberta Abish Nachbar, Eve Thieben Nardone, Zal Newman, Tom Nye, Estelle Hopf O'Connell, Norris O'Neill, Margot Mendes Oppen- heimer, Pat Neal Orr, Carl W. Otto, Howard Page, Ollie Patrell, Roy I.L. Pearson, Bill Peckman, Pete Petropoulos, Rudy Petrucci, Ron Picerne, Janet Pinkham, Bill Pollard, Warren S. Randall, Hank Reynolds, Lombard Rice, Jean Stack Robbins, Jim Roberts, Jim Rogers, Donald Russo, Victor Russo, Bets Sanford, Frances Trambowicz Sarnecki, Walt Schortmann, I. Jack Schreiber, Barry Schwartz, John S. Scott, Frank Scott, Cy Seifert, Bruce Senior, Don Shaffer, Franklin O. Sheard, Robert Milo Shepard, Nancy Luther Sleicher, Fredi Solod, Barbara Bruce Stoddard, Jack Sullivan, Gustavo Tavares, Jane Greene Thompson, Doris Tobey, Ed- ward H. Torgen, Dorothy Callander Treney, Ernie Tuckerman, Fran Uricchio, Tom Walsh, Gerard E. Walters, Ernie Ward, Jan- ice Synes Weissman, John Welchi, Elizabeth Newcomb Wetter, Bob Whitney, Harriet Wil- son, Ron Wilson, Dave Zenker. 51 Bob Fearon is president of his own New York City business, recently renamed The Creative Zone. The company specializes in conceptual thinking and creative execution in marketing communications. Bob lives in New York City David Tillinghast has become a partner in the New York City law firm of Chadboume and Parke. David, who has practiced law for many years in New York, specializes in inter- national tax matters. 52 Bennett Aisenberg has been elected presi- dent of the Denver Bar Association for 1991- 1992 by its members. A lawyer in private practice in Denver, he is a past president of the Brown Club of Colorado, the Harvard Law School Association of Colorado, and the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association. 53 , Howard Wenzel writes that he and his wife, Anne Barr Wenzel '54, "survived the U.S. invasion of Panama in December of 1989." Howard, who is president and princi- pal investor in Computerland of Panama, said the store was looted of more than $200,000 (U.S.) in product during the chaos in the aftermath of the invasion. "There was no police protection for five days, one aspect of the invasion which was poorly executed by the U.S. Army. I was shot at by one of Norie- ga's goons near our store while trying to re- trieve our passports. We had planned to spend Christmas with our daughter in Talla- hassee, Fla., but because the airport was closed and our passports stolen, we were un- able to get out until several days after Christ- mas by military aircraft, in time for a reunion with our whole family for New Year's in Des- tin, Fla." Howard is serving as treasurer of the American Chamber of Commerce in Panama, "which has given me some input into the overall redevelopment plans for Panama." Anne completed her requirements for an M.L.A. from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in August and is librarian at the International School in Panama. 54 Sid Baumgarten (see Barrett Sheridan '82). 55 Sylvia Rosen Baumgarten and Jean Sheridan Adams (see Barrett Sheridan '82). 57 Norman Brust has been appointed vice president of sales and marketing for de Haart, Inc., a worldwide supplier of screen printers for the surface mount assembly and hybrid microelectronic industries, located in Burlington, Mass. Norman, who has thirty years of sales, management, and engineering experience in electronics, was president of NTB Associates, a private consulting firm, be- fore joining de Haart. He and his wife, Janet Biehn Brust '58, live in Pembroke, Mass. 60 Thomas J. Dunleavy, senior vice presi- cient of Risdon Corporation in Naugatuck, Conn., has also been named chief operating officer. He has been with the company for seventeen years. Risdon manufactures pack- aging for cosmetics and personal-care prod- ucts. Tom lives in North Salem, N.Y. Stephen J. Schulte, a senior partner of Schulte Roth & Zabel, a New York City law firm, has been elected chairman of Choate Rosemary Hall's board of trustees. He is a 1956 graduate of the Wallingford, Conn., in- dependent secondary school. Steve was named to the board in 1982 and has served as treasurer for the past six years. He lives with his wife in New York City. 61 A mini-reunion for Washington, Balti- more, Wilmington, and Philadephia-area resi- dents from the classes of 1961 and 1962 was held on April 29 at the home of Ellen Shaffer Meyer, Wilmington, Del. Attending were: Sandra Mason Barnett, Roger Barnett, Jane Ufford Bartlett, Joan Pinkerton Filson, Peter Keller, Barbara Chernov Levin, Bob Lowe, Helen Fish Marek, Richard Scharf, and Arthur Tuch; and Margaret Struble Buch- ness '62, Charlotte Tiedeman Feldman '62, and Art Padmore '62. Elizabeth Diggs's play, Niglitmgale, will be produced by Vineyard Theatre in New York City in November. She had a Guggenheim Fellowship in playwriting last year and this year received an NEA Playwriting Fellow- ship, which included a playwriting residency at Actor's Theatre in Louisville, Ky Liz teach- es playwriting and screenwriting in the dra- matic writing program at New York Universi- ty's Tisch School of the Arts. She lives in New York City James V. Shircliff, Lynchburg, Va., was re- cently selected by The White House to serve on the National Advisory Council of the U.S. Small Business Administration. He is chair- man of the newly-formed Arts Council of Central Virginia and serves on the Central Virginia Community College Foundation Board and the Culver Legion Board of the Culver Educational Foundation. 62 'ff Deena Rosen Mazer (see Barrett Sheridan'82). 63 Susan E. Davis has established Capital Missions Company in Chicago, a social ven- ture consulting firm. Since 1989 she has been a founding board member of the Social Ven- ture Network. She also co-chairs the Illinois Public-Private Child Care Council and serves on the board of Chicago's Business People for the Public Interest. Susan lives in St. Charles, IVY-FOOTBALL A 35th Birthday Party That Lasts for Three Months... And You're Invited! When the ball is teed up at the 35-yard line September 1 5, a three-month celebra- tion of Ivy League football's 35th birthday will begin. ESPN makes it very easy for you to join in the celebration. For the third straight year, the national cable network is proud topresent five action-packed games. Don't miss it! 9/1 5 Penn at Dartmouth 1 2:30 EI 9/22 Northeastern at Harvard 12:30 ET 10/6 Lafayette at Columbia 12:30 ET 1 0/27 Brown at Cornell 1 2:00 ET 11/10 Princeton at Yale 1 2:30 ET car-ii THE TOTAL srarrrs NETMroRfC BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 53 111., u ith hiM" two i.t.uij;h(ors. Terry Walz, New \brk Citv, has been for tour vcMrs the director of the American Research Center in Hgypt, a non-profit con- sortium of individuals, museums, and uni- versities (including Brown) that sponsors archaeoloj^ical and academic research in Egypt. Terrv, who received his I'h.D. in his- tory from Boston University, travels to Egypt at least once a vear to \isit the Cairo ."XRCE office and check on the archaeological work being done bv Americans along the Nile. Otherwise he can be found at the ARCE headquarters at New York University over- looking Washington Square. 65 .* We all had a wonderful time at our 25th reunion. The class was blessed with perfect weather for our activities, and we responded with enthusiasm. Our dinner with President Gregorian was followed bv the Pops Concert and a four- hour afterglow party featuring local disc jock- ev Chuck Ste\ens. Tremendous fun! At the class meeting all of the officers were re-elected: John McMahon, president; Jim Gardner, vice president, Diane Newton Mc- Clure, secretary; and Virginia Newton Schar- fenberg, treasurer. Jay Fluck will be chair- man of our 30th reunion committee. If you speak to someone who marched down the Hill on Monday morning, you will be convinced that you should attend the next reunion. The excitement was nearly tangible. It gets better e\ery year. Attending the reunion were: Nancy Adel- man, Janet Aliaga, Pamela Allara, Don An- derson, Charles Ansbacher, Stephen Arm- strong, Elinor Bachrach, Cherry Bamberg, George Barbae, Al Barney, Richard Baronio, Bernadine Courtright Barr, Henry L. Barr, James Barrett, Mary Ann Beck, Tony Beck, Estelle Bender, Richard Bennett, Stanley Bernstein, Suzanne Besser, Butch Bingham, Felicia Birnel, Douglas Bonner, Martin Broomfield, Wendell Brown, Melvin Bryant, Nancy L. Buc, Hugh Butler, Don Carcieri, Lynne Carter, Terry Chapman, Jonathan Cbarnas, Price Chenault, Frances Clukey, Jane Marantz Conner, Caroline Considine, Colette Coolbaugh, Marty Cooper, Paul Coughlin, Mary Counihan, James Cox, Phyl- lis Cox, Thomas Croke, Alan H. Dahl, Dona- te D'Andrea, Sharon J, Davis, Roger Deitz, Michael Dennis, Peg Dobbie, Christopher Donoho, Charles Donahue, John Dougherty, Jonas Dovydenas, Randall Drain, Ralph Duerre, Susan Dunham, William Earle, Su- san Eldred, Carol Epple, George Epple, Don Fancher, David Ferrarini, Lee Fifer, Linton Fluck, Ronald Formidoni, John Freeman, Marcia Frick, Arthur Friedman, Kay Fried- man, Barbara Garbus, James Gardner, Jeff Getman, Helen Goldberg, Alan Goodman, Phil Grantham, Carol Greenwald, Martha Haffey, Teresa Hale, Janice Hartman, Norma Hartley, Molly Hauck, Maryls Henke, Michael Henderson, Roger Hirschland, Den- nis Holt, Williams Hooks, Karen Horney, Charles Hobson, Richard Huffman, Web Hull, Claudia Hurley, Marney Janss, Ross Jones, Joshua Kalkstein, Bob Kanser, Clare Gregory Kastner, Barbara Katz, John Kelly, Allan Kirkman, Rebecca Knox, Ed Kovac, John Kuchta, Christine Kuhn, Daniel Kurtz, Robert Kurzon, Sally Lamprey, Peg McDon- ald Laney, Maureen Finkle Lasher, Lyle Lawrence, Thomas Lebach, Ed Levin, Jack Lewis, Betty Loggia, Toby London, HoUace Lorch, Michael Mackensen, Joe Macy, Alli- son Maggiolo, Ed Marecki, Lawrence Markowitz, Diana McClure, Patrick McDon- ald, John McMahon, Lance McVay, Thomas McWilliams, Gilbert Merrill, John Moncreif, Emerson Moore, William Morrow, Maurice Mountain, John Murray, Bethany Nichols, R. Craig Nielson, Janice Oursler, John Page, John Parry, Frank Pettrone, Suzanne Petty, Dean Pineles, Richard Plunkett, Wayne Po- miansky, John Poole, Robert Race, Burgess Record, Terry Richmond, Rick Rieser, Diana Risen, Charles Rohrbach, John Rose, Robert Rosen, John Rosenblum, Tom Scaramella, Virginia Scharfenberg, Doug Schneider, Tom Sculco, Stanley Schretter, Michael Searing, Glenn H. Shell, David Sholes, Judith Sims- Knight, Mark Slonim, Lee Smith, Mary Smith, Jim Stewart, William Sudell, Wells Sumner, Eunice Thomas, Gordon Thomas, Margot Thomas, Kate Throop, Wendy Tuller, Judith Van Riper, Frances Wallace, Pat Walsh, Vera Samar Wayne, Janet Wedlock, Marcia Weinstein, Peter R. Weitz, Sylvia Welch, Madeline Wikler, Lila Wolff Wilkin- son, Jay Williams, Irving Williamson, Richard Williamson, Cooper Winston, Ju- dith Well, Christian Yegen, Nancy Zisson - John McMalion 66 Philip M. Barry has joined Andersen Con- suiting's Chicago Systems Management Cen- ter as supervisor of the mainframe operating system group. His wife, Roberta Greenberg Barry, received her M.S.W. from the Jane Adams School of Social Work in 1988 and is now a social worker with the In-Home Com- panion Ser\-ice of the Council for Jewish El- derly in Chicago. Their son, Eric, is a fresh- man at Brown. Philip and Roberta live in Evanston, 111. William G. Droms has been appointed to the John J. Powers, Jr. Chair in the School of Business Administration at Georgetown Uni- versity. A member of the Georgetown finance faculty since 1973, he has served as assistant dean for undergraduate programs, associate dean for graduate programs and founding di- rector of the M.B.A. program, and associate dean for faculty affairs and faculty chairman at the business school from 1986 to 1989. He is the author or co-author of ten books, in- cluding The Dow jones-Irzvin Guide to Personal Financial Plnn)U)ig, The Life Insurance Invest- ment Advifor, and Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers. He lives in Burke, Va. Merlin M. Renne was elected a general district court judge of the Ninth Judicial Dis- trict for a six-year term by the 1990 Virginia General Assembly. 1 le has been common- wealth's attorney for York County and the city of Poquoson, Va., since 1980 and is serv- ing his third consecutive four-year term. In 1986-1987, he served as president of the Vir- ginia Association of Commonwealth's Attor- neys and was the only prosecutor selected by Virginia Chief Justice Harry Carrico to serve on his Commission on the Future of the Vir- ginia Judicial System, 1987-1989. Merlin lives in Williamsburg, Va. 68 Lynn Andrews DeNoia ('80 Ph.D.) has been named executi\'e director for informa- tion technology at Bryant College in Smith- field, R.l. She had been a consulting engineer at Codex Corporation. She also taught in the management information systems depart- ment at Boston University's School of Man- agement and in the computer information systems department at Bentley College, where she coordinated the Sc.M. program. Lynn lives in Charlestown, R.l. Ralph Harris has been appointed vice president of corporate development at Camp- bell Soup Company, Camden, N.J. He had been vice president of business development since 1987 for Quaker Oats Company in Chicago. Richard Verney (see Dorothy Piggott Campbell '30). 69 Richard R. Crocker ('69 A.M.), chaplain and lecturer in religion at Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, since 1978, has been ap- pointed dean of college life and associate pro- fessor of religious studies at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. Before his appoint- ment at Bates, he was pastor of the First Pres- byterian Church in Ripley, Term., chaplain at Rhodes College in Memphis, and chairman of the English department at Brentwood Acade- my, also in Tennessee. He was a Rhodes Scholar in 1970-1972. Scott D. Somers has joined the Los Ange- les office of Paul R. Ray & Company Inc., an international executive search firm, as vice president. He was formerly a vice president and partner with Korn/Ferry International. He lives in Glendale, Calif. 70 More than 150 classmates attended our very successful 20th reunion. The total num- ber in attendance, including spouses, friends, and children, was well over 300. We had peo- ple coming from nearly all parts of the U.S. The West Coast contingent included Greg Lloyd, Ron Hoover, and Alex Gordon from Oregon; Bill Cronin from Washington; and Steve Lindsay, Bob Starzak, Ron Hanoian, and David Elliott from California. Pat Tru- man came from Idaho, and Bruce Margolius from Utah. Some people crossed oceans to come to Pro\idence, including Kang Huang (France), Bob Shippee (England), Timothy 54 / SEPTEMBER 1990 Piatt (Sweden), Suella Pipal (Casablanca), and Larry Takumi (Hawaii). Herman Ssebaz- za came all the way from Mozambique with his wife and daughter. The reunion commit- tee will compile a more complete list of those who attended for publication in the next class newsletter Thanks are extended to the outgoing class officers: Jeff Bergart, president; Carole Collins, \ice president; Wade Wilks, treasur- er; and Dave Whitman, secretary. Special thanks should be extended to Jeff for his en- thusiasm, his great newsletters, and his many trips to Rhode Island from his home in Ac- ton, Mass., for meetings and class activities. A new slate of class officers was elected at the class meeting on Saturday of reunion weekend. These officers, who will serve until our 25th reunion (can you believe it!) in May 1995, are: Sue DiNorscia McMillan, president; Joy Veaudry, vice president; Michael Ed- wards, treasurer; and Clifford "Jack" Thach- er-Renshaw, secretary. You are invited to send news about yourself or other classmates to Jack at 25 Main St., Wickford, R.l. 02851. We hope to plan a mini-reunion during Homecoming weekend on October 13. De- tails will be published in the next newsletter. James A. Fellows has been named general manager of The Alkon Corporation, Colum- bus, Ohio. Prior to joining Alkon, he was presi- dent of Convey-All Corporation, a materials handling and conveyor manufacturer m W KUNION H" The class of '65 had "tremendous fun" at its 25th. 71 Muriel Johnson Murray, executive direc- tor of the Virginia Education Loan Authority and the State Education Assistance Authority, has been chosen president-elect of the Na- tional Council of Higher Education Loan Pro- grams. She will begin her one-year term in July 1991. She will serve on the council's ex- ecutive hoard during the upcoming Congres- sional reauthorization of the Higher Educa- tion Act. Murial lives in Richmond. admission to kindergarten for the fall of 1991. Vicky is a tenured associate professor at City College of the City University of New York, and Paul is chief of the breast service at Mount Sinai Medical Center. They live in New York City. 74 72 David Welch spent the past year traveling and painting in Australia while teaching at Copland College, Canberra. He and his wife, Cynthia, and sons, Nathan, 15, and Christo- pher, 13, returned in July to Philadelphia, where David teaches art at Germantown Friends School. 73 Miner Raymond IV and his wife, Beth, live in Ann Arbor, Mich., where Miner is vice president of marketing for Domino's Pizza, Inc. Their daughter, Carolyn, is 14 months old. Vivien Rothman Tartter ('75 A.M., '77 Ph.D.) and Dr Paul Ian Tartter ('77 M.D.) an- nounce the birth of their second son, Alexan- der Charles, on April 17. Eric is applying for Bruce Armstrong is press attache (infor- mation officer) at the American Embassy in Budapest. He joined the Foreign Service in 1987 after teaching in the German depart- ment at the University of Florida. Bruce and his wife, Christiane, have a daughter, Paula, who will be 2 in November A second child is due in November. They will be in Budapest until the summer of 1991. For fifteen years, Bruce Dorpalen, Phila- delphia, has worked with the community or- ganization, ACORN, and is now director of ACORN Housing Corporation, rehabilitating houses and "pressuring" banks to lend to low-income home buyers in poor neighbor- hoods in Philadelphia. He and his wife, Kee- lin Barry, have a son, Liam, 16 months, who "will probably be saying, 'End apartheid in South Africa,' by the time this appears." Jim Phillips has taken a leave of absence from the Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C., where he is senior policy analyst for Middle Eastern affairs. He was a visiting fel- low at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard in July and August and is writing BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 55 Alumni Calendar Dates of Interest Academic Year 1990-1991 September Wakefield. R.I. September 21. Brown Club ot South County, annual dinner. Larchwood Inn. Call James Wilson 7^,(401)596-0117. Kingston, R.I. September 22. Brown Club of Rhode Island, Brown Club of South County, and Brown Football Association co-sponsored "Brown on the Road." Pre-game buffet and tent, post- game wrap-up and refreshments with foot- ball coach Mickey Kwiatkowski. Brown vs. University of Rhode Island football. Kickoff, 1 p.m. Call Herb DeSimone '51, (401) 421- 8200. Toronto September 27. Eric Widmer, Dean of Admis- sion and Financial Aid, speaks to alumni and friends at the Park Plaza Hotel. Call John Freeman '65, (416) 733-3400. October Kent County, R.I. October 3. Brown Alumnae Club of Kent County annual covered dish supper, Green- wood Community Church. Call Peg Dolan '39, (401) 463-9596. Princeton October 6. New Jersey Council of Brown Clubs, Alumni Relations and Brown Sports Foundation co-sponsored "Brown on the Road." Brown vs. Princeton football. Kickoff, 1 p.m. Call Richard Nurse '61, (201) 932-7067. Providence October 5. Alumni Relations and Career Planning Services co-sponsored Alumni Ca- reer Forum, "Best Routes to an M.B.A." Pet- teruti Lounge, Faunce House. 3:30-5 p.m. Call Melanie Coon, (401) 863-3380. Westchester County, N.Y. October 6. Brown Club of Westchester, Board Meeting. All are welcome. Call Jay Fidler '43, (212)869-4330. Providence October 12. Deadline for Associated Alumni- sponsored January apprenticeship program sponsorship forms. Call Melanie Coon, (401) 863-3380. Providence October 12-14. Associated Alumni-sponsored Council '90 alumni leadership weekend, fea- turing fall faculty forums, student panels, jazz breakfast, and more. Call Melanie Coon, (401)863-3380. Providence October 13. Third World Alumni Steering Committee Meeting. Maddock Alumni Cen- ter, 7:30-9:30 a.m. Call Karen McLaurin,(401) 863-2287. Providence October 13. Alumni Relations and Associated Alumni co-sponsored Homecoming, featur- ing Homecoming Fun Run, Brown vs. Holy Cross, and post-game buffet supper. For homecoming brochure, call Sue Berry or Pam Boylan, (401) 863-1947. Providence October 13. Associated Alumni-sponsored seventh annual Alumni Recognition Ceremo- ny, honoring recipients of the Brown Bear, Alumni Service, and William Rogers Awards. Ceremony followed by a champagne dessert reception. Receiving Service Awards are: Ohver Cromwell '72, Jay Fluck '65, Judith Greenfield '56, Robert Janes '47, David Kauff- man '62, Elizabeth Mohr '61, Richard Nurse '61, Alex Szabo '75. Brown Bear Award win- ners are: Martin Tarpy '37, John Liebmann '41, Margaret Michael '51. William Rogers Award recipient: Kathryn Fuller '68. Call Pam Boylan, (401)863-1947. Providence October 19. Alumni Relations and Career Planning Services co-sponsored Alumni Ca- reer Forum, "Careers in Advertising." Pet- teruti Lounge, Faunce House. 3:30-5 p.m. Call Melanie Coon, (401) 863-3380. South Lake Tahoe, Calif. October 26-28. Continuing College weekend program, "Our Planet - Taking Care of the Earth and Its People." Faculty will include Brown's Doherty Professor of Oceanography John Imbrie; Brown's University Professor and Director of the Alan Shawn Feinstein Hunger Program Robert Kates; WilUam Dur- ham, Professor of Anthropology at Stanford's Center for the Advancement of Biological Sciences; Sandra Archibald, Assistant Profes- sor of Food Research, Stanford; and keynote speaker Jonathan Weiner, author of The Plan- et Earth. Located at Stanford's Sierra Camp. Call Bill Slack or M.L. Farrell, (401) 863-2474. Homecoming, October 13 Parents Weekend, October 19-21 Thanksgiving Recess, November 21-25 Semester I classes end, December 11 Final exam period, December 12-20 Winter Recess, December 21 -January 22 Ithaca, N.Y. October 27. Alumni Relations-sponsored "Brown on the Road." Brown vs. Cornell football. Kickoff, 12 noon EST. Tentative tele- vision simulcast locations: Chicago, Los An- geles, St. Louis, San Francisco, and Washing- ton, D.C. Call Davies Bisset, (401) 863-3309. October 27. Alumni Relations and Brown Sports Foundation co-sponsored "Brown on the Road" at Cornell. Pre-game tailgate and post-game reception. Brown vs. Cornell foot- ball. Kickoff, 12 noon. Call Julie Chrystie Webster '55, (607) 272-5109. Westchester County, N.Y. October 28. Brown Club of Westchester pre- sents "Afternoon with the Faculty: Professor Ed Beiser." Call Jay Fidler '43, (212) 869-4330. November Detroit November 1. Brown Club of Michigan pre- sents, "An Evening with Vartan Gregorian," Detroit Institute of Art. Call John Peracchio '82,(313)885-4424. Providence November 2. Alumni Relations and Career Planning Services co-sponsored Alumni Ca- reer Forum, "Careers in Educational Admin- istration." Petteruti Lounge, Faunce House. 3:30-5 p.m. Call Melanie Coon, (401) 863- 3380. This calendar is a sampling of events of interest to alumni reported to the Brown Alumni Monthly at press time. For the most up-to-date listing or more details, contact the Alumni Rela- tions Office, mi) 863-ii07. 56 / SEPTEMBER 1990 a book on the war in Afghanistan. He lives in Washington, D.C. 79 75 Nearly 300 classmates from the class of 1975 were on hand to celebrate their 15th re- union during Commencement weekend. On Friday, the class had a welcoming cocktail reception, where we were surprised by the Brown Band and President Gregorian. Later we all had a grand time at the Campus Dance. On Saturday, we had a wonderful class barbeque followed by the Pops Concert and a reunion dance that featured dancing music from the 1970s. The sunny weather continued for our class brunch on Sunday and the Commencement march on Monday. Class officers elected for 1990-1995: Alex Szeibo, president; John Berylson, Dave Given, and Faith LaSalle, \ ice presidents; Rhoda Port Walker, secretary; Bill Taylor, treasurer; and Susan Van Diepen Schreiber, 20th reunion chairperson. David B. and Jan Sholem announce the birth of their third child, Caroline Elisabeth Sholem, on May 3. They live in Champaign, 111. 76 William R. Koponen received his Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in June and is a lecturer in lit- erature and the arts in the English depart- ment at Stanford. 78 Howard Feldstein has been the owner and manager for the past three years of True Nature Foods, a natural food store in Boulder Creek, Calif. "Boulder Creek is in the Santa Cruz Mountains, epicenter of last October's earthquake," he adds. Howard's address is RO. Box 194, Boulder Creek 95006. Sarah Stratton Genton and her husband, Tom, have lived for the past two years in Yaounde, Cameroon, where Tom worked for the United States Information Agency (USIA), and Sarah kept busy with several contract jobs with the U.S. Aid for International De- velopment and CARE. In September, they moved to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, with their daughter, Katharine, 2. Randy Ellen Seller ('78 Sc.M.) and Dr. Stephen Jay Margulis ('81 M.D.) were mar- ried in Scarsdale, N.Y., on May 27, 1990. Many Brunonians attended the ceremony. Stephen's twin brother, Dr Michael Eliot Margulis ('81 M.D.), was best man. Randy is the assistant controller at CBS News in New York, and Stephen is an assistant professor of medicine and attending gastroenterologist at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical College. They live in Manhattan. Warren Strudwick (see Lee Anne Snede- ker '85). K Patricia Samors Benton has been named vice president of finance for COMSAT Corpo- ration's Intelsat Satellite Services (ISS) busi- ness unit. She joined COMSAT in 1983 and previously was controller for the firm's world systems division. She lives in Bethesda, Md., with her husband and two sons. Johanna Bergmans (see Barrett Sheri- dan'82). Rev. Jewelnel Davis, chaplain, lecturer in religion, and advisor on human relations at Carleton CoUege, has been elected president of the National Association of College and University Chaplains. She has served on the executive committee since 1987 and was elected vice president in 1989. She lives in Minneapolis. "Because we couldn't make our 10th re- union," Diane Lichtenstein writes, "we had our 11th in Chicago in June. Diane Douglas is executive director of the David Adler Cultur- al Center in Chicago and is married to Steve Perlmutter. Their son, David, is 3. Cindy Reich is director of education at Beth Shalom Congregation in Hopkins, Minn. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband, Harold Kravitz, and her children, Gabriel, 3, and Talia, 1. Susan Sarch is an attorney in Atlanta and is married to Eric lllowsky Mary Way is a resident in psychiatrv in Dallas. She is mar- ried to Douglas Rudley '78 and has a son, Mark, 4. We talked and talked and talked, amidst Greek and Thai food, family photos, miniature golf, and a premature used book sale." Diane, an assistant professor of English at Beloit College, lives in Beloit, Wis., with her husband, Steven Diamond, and her daughter, Rachel, 1. Lauren Post (see Lee Aime Snedeker '85). 80 Dr. Richard M. Linn completed his resi- dency training in orthopaedic surgery at Washington Uni\'ersity in St. Louis and his sports medicine fellowship in Minneapolis, where he assisted in the medical care of two professional sports teams, the Minnesota Vikings and the Minnesota Timberwolves. He moved to Bethesda, Md., in August and prac- tices orthopaedic surgery and sports medicine in the northern Washington, D.C. suburbs. 81 Mary Chapin Carpenter, CBS recording artist, won nine awards at the fifth annual Washington (D.C.) Area Music Awards, in- cluding best female vocalist in both the coun- try/roots and the folk/bluegrass categories. She won eight "Wammies" last year. Mary lives in Bethesda, Md. Dr. Jeffrey M. Factor, Forest Hills, NY, has been elected to fellowship in the Ameri- can Academy of Pediatrics. Kalle B. Gehring and Pascale Duplay an- nounce the birth of Clement Arthur Geh- ring on April 27. They have moved from Berkeley, Calif., to France, where Pascale is employed at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, and Kalle is working at the Ecole Polytech- nique in Palaiseau. Dr. Michael E. Swirsky is a third-year resi- dent in diagnostic radiology at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Mass. He frequently sees Dr. Terry Jacobs, a second-year pulmo- nary fellow at the University of Massachu- setts Hospital in Worcester. 82 Carol Rouslin Brooklyn (see John R. Brooklyn '89 M.D.). Steven J. DeRose (see Laurie Fields '89). Dr. Barbara Dworetzky graduated from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in June. She will start her residency in neurolo- gy at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston in July 1991 after completing an in- ternship in internal medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. Liana Pei is an associate in the trusts and estates department of the New York City law firm of White & Case. She is a 1987 graduate of Columbia University Law School. Liane is being married in mid-September and is living at 434 East 52nd St., Apt. 5G, New York 10022. Barrett Sheridan and Roger Baumgarten were married on Oct. 14 in Baltimore. Among the twenty-four Brown alumni in attendance were the groom's parents, Sid Baumgarten '54 and Sylvia Rosen Baumgarten '34; aunt, Deena Rosen Mazer '62; and cousin, Dr. Deb- orah Baumgarten '85; and the bride's aunt, Jean Sheridan Adams '55; and cousin, Jo- hanna Bergmans '79. In the wedding party were Jim Picado-Leonard, Rebecca Clark, Chris Golde, Kim McKittrick, Eric Wolf '84, Paul Davis '83, and Mason Woo '83 Nancy Bedard Stigers has been promoted to senior account executive at Lord, Sullivan & Yoder Public Relations in Columbus, Ohio. An account executive with LSY since 1987, she previously held account executive posi- tions with public relations firms in Provi- dence. Nancy lives in Columbus. Jeffrey Swartz, formerly senior \'ice presi- dent, international, has been appointed exec- utive vice president of The Timberland Com- pany, a manufacturer of men's and women's footwear and apparel located in Hampton, N.H. Jeff was the production and inventory control manager at the Lotus Development Corporation before joining Timberland, a company founded by his grandfather in 1973. Jeff lives in Newburyport, Mass. 83 Dr George A. Garcia and Maureen O'Brien have moved back to Massachusetts after four years of medical and graduate school at the University of Minnesota, Min- neapolis. George has begun his internship at Beth Israel Hospital and will continue with a residency in anesthesiology at Massachusetts General Hospital. Maureen continues to work on her Ph.D. dissertation in child psychology. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 57 which she will JokMid iii the t.ill, llioir ad- dress is 10 Burvvoll Rd., West Roxburv, Mass. 02132. (hl7)o27-^MWl Kay Levinson Gurtin aiul William Gurtin '82 atinoiiiui' tho hirlh of tlioii mhi. e.ranl David, on Mav 7 Ihev live in Chicago. Dr. Howaid L. Haronian and his wife, Jac- queline, announce the birth ot Morgan Jean on March 17. Howard completed his resilien- cy training in internal medicine at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and has begun a cardiology fellowship at \ale. His new address is 102 Watch Hill Kd , Bran- ford, Conn. 06405. Debra Thomason Roelke and 1 >r Marc Roelke announce the birth of .Alec Koclke on Mav 23. Marc began a fellowb.hip in cardiolo- gy at Massachusetts General Hospital in Bos- ton in July, and Debi, who completed a Ph.D. Classified Ads Vacation Rentals and Real Estate Investments FRENCH RIVIERA ■ ANTIBES. Modern equipped condo. 2 bedrooms. 2 bathrooms. Beach close by. Weekly. 617-527-9055. SANIBEL ISLAND. Expert guidance with real estate in\estment and vacation rentals on Sanibel Island. Eliot Fiske Sugerman '55, The Prudential Florida Realty, 1-800-245- 7284. PROVIDENCE. Prime location, top of Col- lege Hill, East Side. Exceptional Ilalianate- style building remodeled into 3 beautifully designed and detailed apartments. 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Box 58, Keene, NH 03431. 603-357- 1971. in clinical ps\chologv from Clark University inl'J84, IS teaching Ihey live in Reading, Mass. Dr Barbara Rolnick completed her resi- dency in peiliatrics at The Children's Hospi- tal of Philadelphia and has joined a general pediatric and adolescent practice in Wynne- wood, Pa. She'd love to hear from old friends at her new address, 26 Willowbrook Ave., Lansdowne, Pa. 19050. 86 84 Marcia C. Brand has been named presi- dent of Creafixe Marketing Concepts, Inc., McLean, Va. She had been vice president of marketing for CFM Management Services, Inc. Marcia li\'es in Baltimore. Jay Broadnax and Ingrid Rawlins (Boston College '81) were married on April 21. Jeff Bercovitz was a groomsman. Jay works for Polaroid Corporation. "1 am also pursuing God's work in ministry at St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church in Cambridge, Mass., and studying at Gordon Conwell The- ological Seminary's Center for Urban Minis- terial Education. I'd love to hear from Brown types." Marc Fleishhacker and his wife, Fran- cesca, announce the birth of Lorenzo Aaron Fleishhacker on March 2. Marc is director of marketing for Livraghi, Ogilvy & Mather- Italy in Milan. Suzanne Keen ('86 A.M.) completed her Ph.D. at Harvard and is an assistant professor of English at Yale. She'd love to hear from Brown friends at 61 Nash St., New Haven, Conn. 06511. Josef H. Norflus, New York City, works in the media group for Bankers Trust Company. He is enrolled in tlie executive M.B.A. pro- gram at Perm's Wliarton Business School and is engaged to Susan N. Crone (Yale '87). 85 Susan Epstein has joined the law firm of McDermott, Will & Emery. A trial attorney, she received her law degree in 1988 from Georgetown University Law Center. She practices in the firm's New York City office. Marta Hanson regrets that she couldn't make it to the 5th reunion. "If any of you wish to correspond with me or plan to cross the Atlantic, write to me c/o The Needham Research Institute, 8 Sylvester Rd., Cam- bridge CBS 9AF, England. And yes, I still study that Chinese medicine stuff." Peter J. Litman, Needham, Mass., gradu- ated from Northwestern University's J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management in June. Prior to attending the Kellogg School, Peter was a radio announcer for WHCN-FM in Hartford, Conn. Lee Anne Snedeker, Menio Park, Calif., received her M.B.A. from Stanford in June and is staying in the northern California area despite the earthquakes. She writes that War- ren Strudwick '78, Lauren Post '79, Boris Elisman '84, and Ralph Rosenberg '86 also received their M.B.A.'s. They celebrated to- gether in San Francisco. Lauren Ablow, Swampscott, Mass., An- drea Kupferberg, Port Washington, NY, and Jeff Nelson, I'ltlstown, N.J., graduated from Northwestern University's J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management in June. Pri- or to attending the Kellogg School, Lauren was an associate for Corporate Decisions Inc., of Boston, Andrea was a financial analyst for Morgan Stanley in New York City, and Jeff worked for Baxter Healthcare Corporation in Deerfield, 111 Barbara Myers and Michael Sean Davis are engaged and plan to marry in December 1991. They met in their freshman unit eight years ago. Michael has begun the doctoral program in clinical psychology at the Univer- sity of Michigan, and Barbara is working to- ward her Ph.D. in the history of art at Prince- ton. They will li\e in Ann Arbor after their marriage. AUyson C. Rosen defenc^ed her master's thesis and is continuing to work toward a Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Case Western Reserve University. Her address is 2489 Over- look Rd., #404, Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44106. Jeanine Marie Zegger completed her first year of an M.B.A. program at the Wharton School, where she had a fellowship in the Multinational Industrial Research Unit. After finals, she spent three weeks in Norway and East Germany with Kirsten Iversen. Nina would love to hear from Brown friends at 253 South 45th St., Apt. #3, Philadelphia, Pa. 19104.(215)386-7991. 87 John W. Blassingame, Jr., a second-year student at Tulane University School of Law, spent the summer working in New York City as a summer associate at the law firm of Cahill, Gordcm and Reindel. He is president of the law school's second-year class. Terri S. Chernick, Providence, is a student at Har\ard Business School. She spent three years working for Bain & Company and for a biotechnology start-up company in Cam- bridge. Dr. Jason H. Deutsch ('90 M.D.) and Samantha R. Levy '89 are engaged and plan to marry in June 1991. Samantha is attending Georgia State University's Ph.D. program in child and family clinical psychology, and Ja- son is receiving training in diagnostic radiol- ogy at the Emory University Hospital pro- gram. They live in Atlanta. Ilene Goldman received her master's de- gree in radio/television/film from North- western University. She is remaining at Northwestern to pursue a doctorate. Gersh Kuntzman announces his engage- ment to Jeanne Carey (Cornell '87). They plan to marry in May. "Owing to the rigors of her medical school training we seldom see each other despite co-habitating a Bronx studio apartment a few blocks from the home of Paul Lipson." Gersh adds that he is "still strug- gling to find decent work and living condi- 58 / SEPTEMBER 1990 tions in New York." He's working for a sub- urban daily paper, where he is "significantly less important than I wish." Wendy Mills, Highland Park, 111., graduat- ed from Northwestern University's J. L. Kel- logg Graduate School of Management in June. She was an assistant account executive for J. Walter Thompson, New York City, be- fore attending the Kellogg School. Abby Rich and John Weiss were married on May 27 in Washington, D.C. Many Brown friends were in attendance, including Gary Hill, who was a member of the wedding par- ty, and "a large contingent from Unit 33." Abby and John are living at 10 Laurel St., Arlington, Mass. 02174. Ann-Mara Scheff is attendmg Perm's Wharton Business School. She writes that she is engaged but that no wedding date has been set. 88 Julie Fenton, Providence, has joined Unit- ed Wav of Southeastern New England as di- rector of communications of donor services. She had been assistant director of develop- ment at Trinity Repertory Company in Provi- dence. Everett A. Petronio, Jr., and Ann C. Nealon '89 are engaged and plan to marry in August 1991. Ann is a media planner for Lin- tas: New York in New York City. Everett will graduate in the spring from Western New England College School of Law, where he will continue for his L.L.M. in banking law. 89 t Sonja Brookins is working in the New York City office of Teach for America, a pro- gram that trains college graduates in an in- tensive summer-long institute and then places them as teachers in areas of the United States with persistent teacher shortages. Laurie Fields and Steven J. DeRose '82, '89 Ph.D. were married on Jan. 20 in Glen El- lyn. 111. Nigel Freeman is enrolled in the M.F.A. program in painting at Columbia. He lives in New \ork City. Magali Parisien is attending Boston Uni- versity School of Medicine. Bill Silverman, New York City, is a law student at NYU Law School. Lara Stables worked at Argonne Labs out- side of Chicago through August and is now a graduate student in applied physics at Yale. Rich Sturim is a carpenter for Jackson Hole Builders and is li\'ing in Teton Village, Wyo. "1 managed to get in sixty days of ski- ing this past winter and intend to return to the Napa Valley for my second harvest crush at Mayacama Vineyards." Jill Sullivan was granted honorary life status by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce for her outstanding performance in the chamber's 1989-1990 membership cam- paign. She also received a round trip for two to Brussels, courtesy of Sabena Airlines. Jill works in the loan officer development pro- gram at the Bank of Boston and lives in Charlestown, Mass. Heidi Wainman teaches Spanish and Rus- sian at the Hackley School in Tarrytown, N.Y. Bryan Walpert is a business reporter for the Wiitciinin/ Republiciiii-Aiiicrican, a daily in Waterbury, Conn. He lives in Watertown, Conn. Karen M. Weiner is a registrar at The Katharine Gibbs School. She lives in Water- town, Mass., with Emily Manvel and Heidi Pasternak. 90 Toni K. Sciolto received the 28th annual Harry L. Gardner Award from the Rhode Is- land Lung Association in June. She is attend- ing the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. GS Burnett Meyer '45 Sc.M. has retired from the mathematics faculty of the University of Colorado at Boulder after forty-one years of college teaching. He plans, however, to teach one course in 1990-1991. He lives in Denver. Wilbert Neil Prentice '50 A.M., professor of mathematical sciences, has retired from Denison University in Granville, Ohio. He joined the faculty in 1957 and, in 1964, was appointed the first director of Denison's com- puter center, a position he held until 1971. He was twice chairman of the mathematical sci- ences department. Prentice established the National Science Foundation's Summer Insti- tute for Secondary Teachers of Mathematics in 1962 and served as its director several times. He and his wife, Betty, will continue to live in Granville. Mary Beaudry '75 A.M., '80 Ph.D. has been awarded tenure and promoted to associ- ate professor in the archaeology department of the Boston University College of Liberal Arts. A specialist in North American histori- cal archaeology, she has been teaching at the University since 1980. For the past two sum- mers, Beaudry has conducted field schools at the Spencer-Pierce-Little Farm in Newbury, Mass., and is preparing a booklet on boarding house archaeology in Lowell, Mass. Editor and co-editor of two books, she has been edi- tor of Northeast Historical Arclmcolog\/ since 1986 and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Field Arcliaeologx/. Beaudry lives in Newbury, Mass. Robert V. Casciani '75 Ph.D. has been named director, specialty chemicals research and development, at Sandoz Chemicals in Charlotte, N.C. He will direct Rc&D for spe- cialty chemicals used in the cosmetic/person- al care, paper, metals, household, and poly- mer industries. Casciani lives in Charlotte. Vivien Rothman Tartter '75 A.M., 77 Ph.D. (see '73), Randy Ellen Seiler '78 Sc.M. (see '78). Lynn Andrews DeNoia '80 Ph.D. {see '68). Lorrie Smith '81 A.M., '87 Ph.D., assistant professor of English at St. Michael's College in Colchester, Vt., was presented the Rev. Gerald Dupont Award in May for dedication to the liberal arts and for contributions to the college community. She has been teaching at the college since 1986 and is co-editor of a book of critical essays on American literature and the Vietnam War Smith lives in Shel- burne, Vt. Deborah Abowitz '82 A.M., '85 Ph.D. re- ceived the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching during commencement ceremonies at Bucknell Uni- versity, Lewisburg, Pa., in June. She joined the faculty in 1985 and teaches courses in so- ciology, population and environment, social movements and social protest, women and the family, and research methods. She has served as director of the freshman advisor seminar program, the Phi Beta Kappa awards committee, and the dean's faculty advisory committee on teaching. Suzanne Keen '86 A.M. (see '84). Steven J. DeRose '89 Ph.D. (see Laurie Fields '89). MD Paul Ian Tartter '77 MD. (see Vivien Rothman Tartter '73). Stephen Jay Margulis '81 M.D. and Michael Eliot Margulis '81 MD. (see Randy Ellen Seiler '78). John R. Brooklyn '89 M.D. delivered his daughter, Chelsea Alicia, at home on Nov. 21. John is in his first year of a residency in fami- ly practice at the University of Vermont Medical School. His wife, Rebecca, is with Planned Parenthood. They live in Burlington. Chelsea's grandparents are Ed and Carol Rouslin Brooklyn '82. Jason H. Deutsch '90 M.D. (see '87) Obituaries Dana Gardner Munroe 12, Princeton, N.J., re- tired professor of Latin American history and director of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs at Princeton, and a former member of the U.S. Foreign Ser- vice; June 16, in Falmouth, Mass. He was a pi- lot during World War I and then entered the U.S. State Department as an economist in 1919, and the diplomatic corps in 1922. He joined the history department at Princeton in 1930 and, in 1939, was appointed director of the Woodrow Wilson School, a post he held until retiring in 1958. During World War II, he worked as first assistant to Nelson Rocke- feller in the Latin American division of the State Department. He received an honorary de- gree from Brown in 1940. Phi Beta Kappa. Sur- vivors include his wife, Margaret, 345 Harrison St., Princeton 08540; and a son. Mildred F. Chase '20, Yarmouth, Mass.; March 19. She was an assistant librarian at the Providence Public Library from 1921 to 1928, librarian at the Elodie Farnum Memori- BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 59 ■il libr.uv from \^2X to l'->3ll aiui libi.uKiii .it the KocliiinitxMii tiriiiicti ot tin- IVov uii'nci' Public l.ibr,irv trom \'->M^ until hor rotiromt'iil in l%3. Shi- is siir\ i\ (.'d b\ .1 cousin, Marjorii- 1.. Chase, b78 BUickplain Kd„ North Smlth- tiold, K.l. 02828. Walter Richmond Gardner '20, South Kingstou n, R.I., Ian. 2. He was assistant di- rector of the research and statistics depart- ment of the International Monetary Fund be- fore retiring in 1%.^. .'\fter graduate school at Har\'ard, he joined the Federal Reser\'e Board as an economist. He participated in the 1946- 1947 Bretton Woods Conference in New Hampshire, which resulted in the founding of the IMF Psi Upsilon. Phi Beta Kappa. Sur- vivors include two sons, Emerson, of Mount Kisco, N.Y.: and Pierce, of Setauket, N.Y. Doris Allen Booth 22, Lutherville, Md.; date of deatli unknown. There is no information regarding survivors. Katharine Pease Carleton '22 A.M., Char- lotte, Vt.; March 3. She is survived by her son, Peter, RR 2-2585, Charlotte 05445. Miriam J. McCaughey '22, Bristol, R.I ; June 7. A teacher at Colt Memorial High School, Bristol, she retired in 1951. She was a former treasurer for the Bristol Home for Aged Women and class agent in 1961-1962. There are no known sun'ivors. Frederick Kenneth Armstrong '23, Branford, Conn.; Feb. 2. A sales engineer in the dairy industry for his entire career until retirement in 1971, he developed a bulk cooling system, which allowed the sanitary transportation of milk from the farm to the processing plant, and designed and supervised the installation of milk-processing and ice-cream equipment throughout southern New York and New England. He was a past president of the Con- necticut Association of Dairy and Food Sani- tarians. Sigma Chi. Among his survivors are four daughters, including Mary A. Esborn, 19 Wallace Rd., Branford 06405; and a brother, William '41. Eleanor Beers Brown '23, Providence; Feb. 20. Before her marriage she was a secretary for Paine Webber in Providence. There is no information regarding survivors. Ruth E. Parsons '23, '33 A.M., Attleboro, Mass.; Oct. 12. She taught English for forty- two years at Woonsocket High School in Rhode Island, serving as head of the depart- ment for twelve years before retiring in 1968. She was head of the high school's former public relations department from 1948 to 1955 and moderated a radio program, "Know Your Schools," in the 1950s. She was past director of the Rhode Island Institute of Instruction. A past president of the Woonsocket Business and Professional Women's Club, she was named the club's 1960 Woman of the Year. She is survived by two nephews and a niece. Donald Glencoe Bertch '24, Charlestown, K.l , March 16. 1 le was treasurer of the Still- water Worsted Company, Harrisville, R.I., for many years. Alpha lau C)mega. He is sur- vived bv his wife, Marv, 40 Sunset Dr., Quonochontaug, Charlestown 02813. Charles George Doll '24, '26 A.M., Essex Junction, Vt., March 12. He taught geology from 1927 to 1964 at the University of Ver- mont and was chairman of the department from 1946 until his retirement. He was state geologist of Vermont from 1947 to 1976. As director of the Vermont Project under the Ver- mont Geological Survey, he initiated and su- pervised basic mapping programs, resulting in a state bedrock map in 1961 and a state surficial geologic map in 1968; and super- vised the environmental geological mapping program from 1969 to 1974. He was a consul- tant for the deep-well drilling project in the Champlain Valley for natural gas and was in- volved on a continuing basis with the state mineral industries. Throughout his career, he wrote numerous professional articles and be- longed to many professional and academic organizations, including Sigma Xi, the Ameri- can Institute of Professional Geologists, and the Geological Society of America. His appre- ciation and respect for the Vermont wilder- ness were lifelong. In 1930 he and a fellow professor cleared the last twelve miles of the Long Trail from Jay Peak to International Boundary Post 592, and he remained an ac- tive member of the Green Mountain Club un- til his death. Survivors include two children and his wife, Ruth, 1 Mansfield Ave., Essex Junction 05452. Avis Price Kenyon '24, Providence, a self-em- ployed accountant; May 23. Survivors in- clude her son and a sister. Hazel F. Price, 74 Vassar Ave., Providence 02906. Francis Lawrence Nichols '24, Brattleboro, Vt.; March 31. He was a chemist, retired from the Sterling Company in Brattleboro. During World War II, he served in the chemical war- fare service of the Army Air Corps. He left the service as a captain. Lambda Chi Alpha. He is survived by a son, Geoffrey, 14 Forest St., Brattleboro 05301. Marjorie Tucker '24, Cromwell, Conn.; Jan. 21. She was employed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in New York City and the Visiting Nurses Association of Stam- ford, Conn., before retiring from the Massa- chusetts State Nursing Association in Boston. She was a 1927 graduate of the Yale Universi- ty Graduate School of Nursing. There is no information regarding survivors. Homer Parant Metzger '25, Freehold, N.J., a retired advertising account executive; Sep- tember 1989. He was a member of the foot- ball, track, and swimming teams at Brown. Psi Upsilon. There is no information regard- ing survivors. H. Vinton Potter '25, Greenwich, Conn., re- tired senior vice presideiU ol ( Iklahoma Nat- ural Gas Company; Nov. 26. He began his career at Blackstone Valley Gas and Electric Company in Pawtucket, R.I., and worked for ONG in the 1931)s, returning in 1955 as vice president. During the 1940s, he worked for the American Gas Association in New York as director of the New Freedom Gas Kitchen Bureau and later as promotion and advertis- ing director Among his survivors is a daugh- ter, Beverly P Wheeler, of Port Chester, N.Y. Ethel Haven Reid '25, Warwick, R.I.; Nov 13. She retired in 1967 as head of the foreign lan- guage department at Pilgrim High School in Warwick. She is survived by a brother, Walter, of North Scituate, R.I. Parkman Sayward '25, Santa Rosa, Calif., June 2. He joined the International Mercantile Marine in New York after graduation and in 1928 moved to San Antonio, where he worked for an oil development company. He volunteered for service during World War II and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Af- ter the war he joined Slick Airways in San Antonio, a pioneer in the air freight business. In 1950, he moved to Piedmont, Calif., and became vice president of sales and traffic for PIE., a transcontinental motor carrier head- quartered in Oakland, later becoming vice president of sales and marketing for Consoli- dated Freightways, Menlo Park. He retired in 1968 and moved to Evergreen, Colo., where he became active in local affairs and real es- tate. In 1986 he returned to Santa Rosa. He was a member of the football, wrestling, and track teams at Brown. Alpha Delta Phi. Among his survivors are his wife, Althea, 6417 Mesa Oaks PI., Santa Rosa 95409; three children, including Althea '53; and a brother, John '34. Col. Phyllis Smith Gray '26, USAF (Ret.), Avon, Conn.; Aug. 4, 1989. An instructor at Connecticut College and then chairman of the committee on student personnel at Boston University, she joined the women's reserve of the Navy during World War II and served as an intelligence officer After the war she was an editor of scientific data for the CIA. When the Women in the Air Force (WAF) was creat- ed in 1948, she was chosen its senior officer with the rank of major. She retired in 1957, the first and only WAF ever to attain the rank of full colonel. She is survived by her sister, Pauline Eberle, 64 Rosewood Rd., Avon 06001. Dorothy Nelson Hart '26, Annandale, Va.; June 1. She was office manager for the former accounting firm, Comery, Davison & Jacob- son, for thirty-seven years before retiring in 1969. Survivors include a son and a daughter, Barbara Shanahan, 8600 Pappas Way, Annan- dale 22003. Sarah E. Maclntyre '26, East Providence, R.I.; June 5. She taught English, Latin, and remedi- al reading at Hope High School, Providence, until retiring in 1970. She is survived by a sis- 60 / SEPTEMBER 1990 ter and a brother, John A. Maclntyre, of Bar- rington, R.I. Fr. Alaiic Scotcher '26, O.S.B., Saint Meinrad, Ind., monk and priest of Saint Meinrad Arch- abbev; Jan. 11. Ordained in 1950, he taught English literature at the Seminary College and received a master's degree in English from the University of Wisconsin in 1957. He also taught English at St. Benedict College, Ferdinand, Ind., from 1961 to 1964. He is sur- vived by sister, Alice, who lives in Colorado. George Francis Viault '26, Silver Spring, Md.; March 30. He worked in the federal gov- ernment from 1928 until 1959, serving as trea- surer of credit unions in TVA and in the social security board, before retiring as a manage- ment analyst for the Bureau of the Budget. He was commissioned as a captain in the Air Force in World War II and retired as a lieu- tenant colonel, having served in Europe. Sur- vivors include two children and his wife, Dorothy, 15133 Vantage Hill Rd., Silver Spring 20906. Sadie McMichael Winans '26, '28 A.M., San Diego, Calif.; May 19. She was chairman of the English department at E.R. Snyder Con- tinuation High School in San Diego, and a curriculum writer for the San Diego city schools. There is no information regarding survivors. Henry Patrick Hayes '28, Hightstown, N.J., a retired executive of the National Broadcasting Company; May 14. He was with NBC from 1930 to 1960 and served as business manager and later as manager of radio recording. He left to join the Television Bureau of Advertis- ing, where he was a vice president when he retired in 1976. He is survived by his wife. Amy, Meadow Lakes, Apt. 41-05, Hightstown 08520. Dr Fiorindo Anthony Simeone '29, North Providence, R.I., professor emeritus of biolog- ical and medical science at Brown and sur- geon-in-chief emeritus at Miriam Hospital; June 13. A 1934 graduate of Harvard Medical School, Dr Simeone had served as an assis- tant professor in surgery and genito-urinary surgery at Harvard Medical School, a profes- sor of surgery at Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Ohio, and director of surgery at the City Hospital of Cleveland. In 1960 he was a professor and chairman of surgery at the American University of Beirut Medical School and performed the first two open-heart operations ever done there and was made a Commander of the National Or- der of the Cedars of Lebanon, the highest honor a non-ruler can attain in the country. He had been a principal investigator, Rhode Island Cancer Control and Rehabilitation Pro- gram, National Cancer Institute, since 1974. A member of numerous national and regional societies, he was on the consulting staff at Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary, Rhode Is- land Hospital, Roger Williams General Hos- pital, and the Veterans Administration Medi- cal Center. Survivors include five children and his wife, Margaret, 104 Olney Ave., North Providence 0291 1 . Helen Anderson Smith '29, Pomona, Calif.; Dec. 17. There is no information regarding survivors. Dorothy Riley Laughlin '30, East Providence, R.I.; May 27. She was the owner of the former East Providence Bowling Academy from 1940 until 1946. She was secretary of the Rumford and Westerly Sunshine Clubs and treasurer of the Riverside House Association. She is sur- vived by her sister, Marion R. Baker, 40 Irving Ave., Apt. 605, East Providence 02914. Hendrik Romeyn '30 Sc.M., '32 Ph.D., Fort Myers, Fla.; Dec. 14. He retired as a depart- ment head at the Uniroyal Research Center, Wayne, N.J., in 1974, and then was a self-em- ployeci consulting physical chemist. He is survived by four children and his wife, Patri- cia, 3660 Woodstock Ct. SW, Fort Myers 33908. Victor Monroe Stockbridge '30, South Wey- mouth, Mass.; April 2, 1989. He was a retired design engineer at United Engineers and Constructors in Boston. A saxophonist and clarinetist, he played in several bands. Theta Delta Chi. Among his survivors are two sons, a daughter, and two stepsons, including James Duncan, 404 Summer St., East Bridge- water, Mass. 02333. Dr. Malcolm Albert Winkler '30, Newport, R.I., a retired dermatologist; May 7. In 1939, he established a dermatology practice on the East Side of Providence. He served on the staffs of Rhode Island Hospital, St. Joseph Hospital, and Miriam Hospital, where he had been chief of staff, consulted at several other hospitals, and was a medical adviser to Gov. John A. Notte. He retired in 1977. He was a diplomate of the American Board of Derma- tology, a fellow of the American Academy of Dermatalogy, and a member of numerous professional organizations. He is survived by a sister and a brother, Eli, of Cranston, R.I. Henry Pitman Graves '31, Branford, Vt., former assistant headmaster of St. Luke's School, New Canaan, Conn.; April 19. He is survived by his wife, Marjorie, Box 335, Bran- ford 05033. Alfred David Steiner '32, Warwick, R.I.; Jan. 3. He was a self-employed manufacturer's representative for fifteen years before retiring in 1976. He is survived by his wife, Phyllis, Wethersfield Commons, 631 Pocasset Ct., Warwick 02886; three sons; and two brothers, including Joseph '37. Harry Jacob Chernock '33, Boca Raton, Fla.; Feb. 27. He was a former assistant general counsel, education, in the Department of Health, Education & Welfare, Washington, D.C. He was a lieutenant in the Navy during World War II. Survivors include a sister. Anna Chernock Bander '35, 271-07P Grand Central Pkwy, Floral Park, N.Y. 11005. Faith Page Hawkins '33, Westboro, Mass., a retired psychiatric social worker; Feb. 21, 1989, in Daytona Beach, Fla. Among her sur- vivors are three children, including Jane Goland, of Westboro. William Van Antwerp Parker '33, Princeton, N.J.; June 21. He was a consultant and effi- ciency expert with the George C. May Com- pany. He served in the Marine Corps during World War II and is survived by his daughter, Pamela Hinds Parker, of Yarmouth, Mass. Kenneth Edmund Starrett '33, Warren, Maine, a retired electrical engineer; Sept. 19, 1989. Survivors include his wife, Dorothy, Rt. 1, Box 1054, Warren 04864; and a brother^ Donald '36. William Scott Wagner '33, Burlingame, Calif., an industrial engineer; Nov. 13. He was a bridge designer for the Wyoming State Highway Department from 1935 to 1941, when he was hired by the Seattle Army Corps of Engineers. During World War II, he worked on camouflage design and, in 1946, joined the overseas division of the Corps of Engineers. In 1951, he transferred back to the Seattle Corps and worked on hea\'y construc- tion and flood control dam projects, princi- pally the Chief Joseph Dam on the Columbia River. From 1965 to 1971, when he retired, he supervised major supply contracts for the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Phi Sigma Kap- pa. Survivors include his son, Robert, 1453 Pueblo Ct., San Jose, Calif. 95118. James Perry Patton '34, Melvin Village, N.H.; March 23. He was manager of sales for General Electric in Providence and later dis- trict manager of New England sales for GE. He played football at Brown and was class treasurer. Survivors include his mother and a sister, Eleanor Young, 1302 Atwood Ave., Johnston, R.l. 02902. Harry Weston Tapper '34, Hampton, N.H.; Nov. 1. He was a personnel director for DuPont, a consultant for Research Institute of America, and for thirty years owned and op- erated his own consulting firm. Advisory Ser- vices, in Hampton. Survivors include a daughter and his wife, E. Joan, 9 Richard St., PO. Box 35, Hampton 03842. Dr Nicholas Misischla '35, Bedford, Ohio, a retired obstetrician and gynecologist; June 7. He was the former chief of the departments of obstetrics at St. Alexis Hospital in Cleve- land and Marymount Hospital in Garfield Heights, Ohio. He was a lecturer in obstetrics at St. Alexis Hospital's school of nursing and on the staff of St. Ann Hospital in Cleveland. Survivors include four children and his wife, Margaret, 875 Wellmon St., Bedford 44146. Howard Smith Pease, Jr. '35, Stamford, Conn.; Oct. 6. He was director of pricing for 3ROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 61 Bigelovv-Santord, a carpot in.inuf.Ktiia'r iii Enfield, Conn., and New Mirk Cil). He re- tired in H77. Survivors include four children and his wife, Mildred, 41 Urban St., Slamloni Ethel Loveless Atkinson '3(1, Sharon, Mass.; March 17. She was a teacher in Smithfield, R.I., and Warwick, R.I., for ten years, and then at Sharon High School for twenty years before retiring in 1474. She is survived by two daughters and her husband, Bernard, 33 Summit .Ave., Sharon 02067. Theodore De Witt Etchings '36, Needham, Mass.; Feb. 20. He worked for Coca-Cola Bot- thng Companv for fourteen years before be- coming a sales manager for 7-Up Bottling Companv, where he worked for twenty-six years until his retirement in 1980. Among his survivors are three children, including Richard, P.O. Box 180, North Woodstock, N.H. 03262. Dr. M. Price Margolies '36, West Chester, Pa.; June 8. He served most recently as chief of the cardiology service, director of the heart sta- tion, vice chairman of the department of medicine, and member of the board of direc- tors of Brandywme Hospital in Coatesville, Pa. He was a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and of its subspe- cialty Board of Cardiovascular Diseases. He taught in the department of medicine at Perm's graduate school and was, for more than twenty years, chairman of the depart- ment of medicine and a former chief of staff at Coatesville Hospital. In 1966, he spent six months with CARE, the international relief agency, in Honduras, where he established an educational program for physicians, nurses, and technicians at the University of Hon- duras School of Medicine. A lieutenant com- mander in the Navy during World War II, he was a doctor on the destroyer Ll.S.S. Knapp and was in every battle from the Marshall Is- lands to Japan. He received nine battle stars and the Bronze Star. A generous supporter of Brown, he made a major contribution for the construction of the Olney-Margolies Athletic Center, which was dedicated in 1981. At the time, he said, "I've always had a great feeling of loyalty to Brown. My association with Brown really developed me as a person and I always felt that I would like to repay Brown for this." He was class marshal at the 1981 Commencement. He is survived by a daugh- ter and two sons, including Richard '74, 3355 Bums Rd., Ste. 205, Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. 33410. Ruth A. Coogan '37, Pawtucket, R.I.; March 9. She was chief of research and statistics for the state of Rhode Island before retiring in 1981. Phi Beta Kappa. She is survived by two sis- ters, including Edna Coogan Snow '43, 128 Allerton Ave., East Providence, R.I. 02914. Leonard Edward Cummings '37, Hyannis, Mass.; Feb. 8. He was a retired salesman for Costello Brothers, Inc., in Providence. Sur- vi\'ors include a son, Leonard, Id I larbor Blull Kd , llv.innis 02601. William F. Donovan '37, I'arpon Springs, Fla.; April 5, |4S!S. I le is survived by his wife, Dorothy, Ennisbrook, Lodge 14 Apt. #203, Tarpon Springs 33584. Robert L.B. McConnell '37, Wakefield, R.I.; May 6. A chemical engineer, he was chief esti- mator for the Atomic Energy Project, Ports- mouth, Ohio, before retiring in 1971. He was a captain in the Army Air Forces in World War II and served as a troop carrier pilot in the South Pacific. He was later commanding officer of Sturgis Air Force Base in Kentucky. He was a former vice president of the Brown Club of South County. Survivors include a daughter and his wife, Eloise, P.O. Box 481, Wakefield 02880. Charles Hacker Pinkham n '37, West Box- ford, Mass.; Dec. 8. He was general superin- tendent of the Lydia H. Pinkham Company, of Lynn, Mass. He was active in Boxford com- munity affairs and a World War II veteran. He is survived by his wife, Marie, 421 Main St., PO. Box 188, West Boxford 01885; two sons; and two brothers, including Richard '43. Dr. Russell Robert Jauernig '38, Yuba City, Calif., a retired radiologist; Dec. 18. He is sur- vived by Dorothy Jauernig, 176 El Verano Way, Yuba City 95991. Edward Hartwell Rogers, Jr. '38, Wellesley Hills, Mass.; Aug. 10, 1989. He was for many years the manager of the Edward H. Rogers Real Estate Management Company in Cam- bridge, Mass. Phi Gamma Delta. He is sur- vived by his wife, Elizabeth, 16 Sturbridge Rd., Wellesley Hills 02181. Charles E. H. Williams '38, Woodmont, Conn.; Nov. 12. He was a real estate broker and insurance agent with the Williams Agen- cy in Milford, Conn. He served in the Navy during World War II. Delta Tau Delta. He is survived by his wife, Florence, 17 Grove St., Woodmont 06460. Levis Wain Minford in '39, Montezuma, N.C., a sugar broker; date of death unknown. He is survived by five children and his wife, Jean, Box 504, Montezuma 28653. Leonard Melick Campbell '40, Cape May Courthouse, N.J.; Feb. 12. He joined Insur- ance Company of North America (INA) in 1957 and retired in 1983 as executive vice president of INA International Corporation. He was an officer in the Army during World War II. He was a member of the 1938-1939 Brown basketball team, which played against Villanova in the first NCAA Tournament. The team was enshrined in the Brown University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1979. Phi Beta Kap- pa. Survivors include his wife, Nancy, 20 Her- itage Dr, Cape May Courthouse 08210; and a daughter, Deborah Campbell Taylor '67. YatK. Tow '41, I'rovuleiHe resl.iuranteur; July 16, I le had been the owner of Pagoda Restaurant and the former China Clipper - later Ming Ciarden - which he owneil fnim the early 19.50s to 1973. He also ran the Mai Tai Restaurant. Since 1973, he was the owner of the Great House Restaurant in Warwick, R.I. A prominent civic leader, he was a corpo- rator of Rhode Island Hospital and the for- mer People's Bank. A sponsor and host for international students and families and an in- terpreter for the non-English-speaking Chi- nese community in Rhode Island, he was a member of the board of directors of Interna- tional House in Providence. He is survived by his wife, Lilly, 480 Elmgrove Ave., Provi- dence 02906; three daughters; and two sons, including Christopher '74. Leo Dunn '42, Boston, Mass.; May 9, of liver cancer. He retired as managing partner of the Boston law firm of Barron & Stadfeld in 1988 but continued as an active member of the firm, where he specialized in real estate trans- actions and estate planning, until February. A 1949 graduate of Boston University Law School, he served as a communications officer in the Army Air Corps in Italy and France during World War II. He was a past president of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, former chairman of the Fed- eral Savings and Loan Advisory Council, member of the corporation and executive committee of the Winsor School of Boston, and honorary trustee and former member of the executive committee of Beth Israel Hospi- tal. Survivors include three sons and his wife, Helen, 256 Beacon St. #6, Boston 02116. Henry Sargent Hardy '42, of Townsend, Mass., who died on April 5, was identified as Harry Sargent in the June/July 1990 issue. We apologize for the error. The Very Rev. Edward Price '43, Norristown, Pa., rector emeritus of Calvary Episcopal Church in Conshohocken, Pa.; Dec. 11. He be- came rector of the church in 1957 and retired in 1977. At the time of his death, he was dean emeritus of the Valley Forge Deanery, a group of Episcopal churches. After his retirement, he became assistant to the rector of Emanuel Church in Holmesburg and was chairman of the chaplains' committee at the Riverview Home for the Indigent, also in Holmesburg. He served as secretary for many years and later was president of the Conshohocken Clergy Association. Survivors include three children and his wife, Dorothy, 115 Surmyside Ave., Norristown 19403. Dr Domenic Basile '44, North Attleboro, Mass.; March 12. He practiced dentistry in North Attleboro for many years. He was a member of the board of trustees of Bishop Feehan High School in Attleboro. During World War II, he served in the Army infantry in East Africa, the Mediterranean, and Eu- rope. He is survived by six children and his wife, Marie, 97 Grove St., North Attleboro 02760. 62 / SEPTEMBER 1990 Wesley William Yando, Jr. '45, Pawtucket, R.I.; Dec. 26. He was assistant manager of Robin Rug Inc., Bristol, R.I. He was a member of the board of directors of Family Service Society and on the executive board of Boy Scouts of America, both in Pawtucket. During World War II, he served in the air weather service and air transport command with the U.S. Army Air Force. Sigma Nu. He is sur- vived by his wife, Betsey, 36 Cooke St., Paw- tucket 02860. Valborg Victoria Anderson '46 Ph.D., Col- ton, Oreg., professor emeritus of the Eng- lish department at Brooklyn College; Feb. 14, of Alzheimer's disease. She joined the faculty in the mid-1940s and remained there until 1976 when she retired. She was a Bollinger Fellow, receiving a stipend that enabled her to carry on her research on the Romantic poet William Wordsworth. She moved to Colton from Manhattan two years ago. Survivors in- clude a brother, Rognar, of Colton. Dr. Paul Vincent Riley '46, East Harwich, Mass.; March 23, 1989. A graduate of Tufts Dental School, he practiced for many years in Norwood, Mass. He was a Navy veteran of World War II. He is survived by his wife. Lea, 29 Bay Rd., East Harwich 02645. John Michael Hannan '49, Seal Beach, Calif.; April 9, of cancer He was an analyst for Dun & Bradstreef for thirty years and later a self- employed financial analyst and investor. He was a World War II veteran. He is survived by three daughters and his wife, Margaret, 1920 McKinney Way, Apt. 17-K, Seal Beach 90740. John James Cooney '50, Andover, Mass.; March 31, 1989. He was chief chemist for Flex-Fab Inc., in Hastings, Mich. Survivors in- clude his wife. Alma, 6 Athena Cir., Andover 01810; and a brother, William '50. John James Hughes '51 A.M., '57 Ph.D., Sharon, Mass., professor of economics at Boston University; June 25. He is survived by three children and his wife, Lucy, 16 Crest Rd., Sharon 02067. Paul Irving Woodward '51, Riverside, R.I.; Dec. 10, 1989. He was a claims interviewer for the Rhode Island Division of Employment Se- curity for ten years before retiring in 1987. He had also worked as an agent for the Gamwell & Ingraham Insurance Agency and the Stark- weather & Shepley Insurance Company. He was a Navy veteran of World War II. Sur- vivors include two daughters and his wife, Jean, 68 Sachem Rd., Riverside 02915. Francis Xavier Hassion '53 Ph.D., Spring- field, Mass., a retired physical chemist for Monsanto Corporation; May 7. He is sur- vived by a sister, Marie, 44 Glenham St., Springfield 01104. Frank Hoagland Meyer '54, West Haven, Conn.; April 10. He was the banking officer data processor at City Trust Bank, Trumbull, Conn. Before that he was an assistant vice president at Connecticut National Bank in Bridgeport. He served with the Marine Corps in the Korean War. He is survived by three children and his wife, Hope, 41 Kaye Rd., West Haven 06516. Max Emile Binz n '55, Wilmette, HI.; March 1. He was employed by Wayne Hummer & Company, Chicago, members of the New York Stock Exchange. Survivors include two children and his wife, Evelyn, 2438 Pomona Ln., Wilmette 60091. The Re\'. James Blaine Olmstead '55 A.M., Clinton, N.Y.; Feb. 17, 1989. A 1957 graduate of the General Theological Seminary, New York City, he was ordained a deacon in 1957 and an Episcopal priest in 1958. He served as assistant minister of St. Paul's Church, River- side, Conn., until retiring in 1962 because of poor health. He was an Army veteran of World War II. Survivors include four children and his wife, Joan, Indian Field Rd., RD 1, Clinton 13323. Kwiatkowski continued from page 27 head football coaches playing the role of admission officers, financial-aid offi- cers, and housing officers with their jock dorms. It is total semi-professional football. "I see the Ivy League as the true bastion of doing it the right vi'ay. The league stands for everything that I've ever felt is important. We're at one end, and the CFA is at the other "The gray area in between is scary. You have all these leagues giving schol- arships to kids to play football v^^hen their budgets are strapped. They don't have the gate receipts, and they don't have television contracts to justify that kind of financial outlay. "Rightly or wrongly, the CFA can justify itself economically. "The Ivy League is looking at itself and saying, 'Where should we go?' Why should we ever even ask that question? Why should we ever look to scholarships, or do this or that thing to be as attractive as Division I Baloney. Stand firm. "If we take a firm stand, I believe that in five to ten years all those schools in the gray area, from Division I-AA, I, and II that now give football scholar- ships, will come over to the Ivy League side. I predict that they will all give need-based aid. That's the right way of doing things because the student is ac- centuated and not the athlete. "I want Vartan Gregorian to lead the charge, to hold Brown up as an ex- ample, and not just to the Ivy League. "I came into this league for every- thing it stands for I think they are the right principles. If that ever changed, I would be scared to death. Not because I couldn't function - I can win in any environment - but because two-thirds of what I stand for would be out the window. "I stand for football excellence. I make no apology for the fact that I want the best football team we can have. We want to be the best that we can be. But my other two-thirds - citi- zenship and academics - I'd have to throw out the door And I don't want to do that. If I have to do that, I'll go into sales and make money." The 1990 season: "The average fan might not see a mosquito's butt of dif- ference. The skeptics will say, 'So this is the change Mickey Kwiatkowski brought Brown.' "Well, I say, it's still football. What the heck's the big deal. I'm not a foot- ball junkie. I don't watch football on television. What is it - this team trying to beat that team? Well, I know all those things. "The medium is the message. My medium is football. "Football is not the end-all, be-all of everything in the world that stands for goodness, truth, and the American Way. That's ridiculous. Football is a great game. That's all." Preparation for the season's opener: "I've sent all the players a thirteen- page newsletter It contains everything you were afraid to ask about Brown football. I'm organized . I have packets and packets of informa- tion. "My first message to the young men when they return will be organiza- tionally oriented. But I philosophize ev- ery day to my kids. My overall mes- sage is that we are not going to strive to win, but we are going to strive to be ex- cellent. That's the message. "On the front of our T-shirts we have a picture of two hands clasped and on the back it says, 'Brown Foot- ball, The Right Way.' I preach excel- lence. "That's it. "And then we're going to have a hell of a lot of fun. That's a given." E3 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 63 Finally... Alone in a country of exiles By Marsha Weinstein '82 Iliad never thought of myself as an exile until I attended an internation- al poetry festival last February in Jeru- salem, where I live. Most Jerusalemites expect politics to lurk around every cor- ner, but at a forum on "The Poet as Exile," there were no political exiles among the speakers. Poet Gunter Kunert admitted that he had left East Germany for political rea- sons, but insisted that since he had set- tled in West Germany, he was not an exile. Henrik Nordbrandt, a Danish poet living in Spain, explained that his pres- ence on the panel was a mistake. Despite my unmet expectations, it was these self-proclaimed non-exiles who spoke to me. Both insisted that exile is an existen- tial state. One advantage of exile, Nord- brandt said, is that the culture one runs to often enhances, or clarifies, the culture one has run from. Nevertheless, it is a painful condition. Exile also creates linguistic problems: To zphom to write? In what language? Nordbrandt writes in his native Danish. But the country I live in was built by exiles who forsook their native languages to write with new voices, in a new idiom. Since leaving Brown, I have not writ- ten much other than letters, and I have traded English for Hebrew and Arabic. For four years I have made learning these languages my prime concern; 1 have largely succeeded, though on occa- sion I have felt myself drowning in a sea of sounds, a maelstrom of meaning. Both English and Hebrew are in the well of my soul, but for a long time I could not draw from it a written word of either. Then Nordbrandt's words echoed in the well. I began to realize that it is not my being caught between lan- guages that has made me an exile. I was an exile before I knew He- brew, before I began to learn Arabic. I confess: I ran away from home. I felt I didn't belong there. In fact, I had always felt I would be an expatriate. It has taken my leaving home to make me realize precisely what I do, and do not, love about America. There is so much irony in this exile: exile from one country of exiles to anoth- er. Exile from the Jewish Exile to a home- land where I am really a foreigner, in exile from my homeland. I have tried, at times desperately, to make myself a part of my new homeland. Now I see that the exile is within me. Kunert said that one must be an outlaw, an outcast, to be a poet. I am no poet, but I am an outcast, never at home in either of my homes, never truly at peace. I find more camaraderie with dead poets than with live friends, more con- solation in unspoken words than in spo- ken ones. I live in silent, self-imposed exile in a romantic world of words. Mine is a lonely life in the country of literature, which is everywhere, and nowhere. It sounds irreconcilable, and it is very nearly so. Even though I can move freely between my two homes, I don't know which of them will become my L ISA MANNING permanent home. To seek peace, I have tried to live in both places and in both languages. I would not wish this exile on anyone; but having chosen it - like many others here and elsewhere - 1 will glean from it the rewards of conflict and resolution. Marsha Weinstein is a literary translator in Jerusalem. Readers of the BAM are invited to submit essays (approximately 500 to 800 words) to "Finally. . . ." Send typed, double- spaced manuscripts, or a Macintosh disk formatted in Microsoft Word, to Manag- ing Editor, Box 1854, Providence, R.I. 02912. To send via fax, dial (401) 751- 9255. On Bitnet, essays may be sent elec- tronically to adbam@br6wnvm. 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