ebruary 1993 Aliinini Monthly f i\ Country's Darling Mniy-Clmpiii Carpenter 'Si Donor Profile Bt^ own THE Rising CENERATIOt For more information on Life Income Gifts and a copy of Invest in Brouni write: Marjorie A. Houston Director of Planned Giving Hugh B. Allison '46 Associate Director of Planned Giving Shawn P. Buckless Associate Director of Planned Giving The Office of Planned Giving Brown University Box 1893 Providence, Rhode Island 02912 or call 1 800 662-2266, ext. 1221. Vernon R. Alden '45 Home: Brookline, Massachusetts Gift: Life Income Gift 6 rown has been and continues to be a vital influence on my life. In 1941 Brown offered me a full scholarship, making it possible for me, a minister's son, to begin my college education. The War interrupted my undergrad- uate years, but I returned to campus in 1946 to complete my studies and then serve as an admission officer. I worked closely wnth two of Brown's greatest boosters, Bruce Bigelow and Emery Walker. President Henry Wriston was for me a mentor and a role model. He was a truly great academic leader and he served also as a U.S. State Depart- ment consultant and a corporate director. As I watched him stride confidently across campus I would think, "What a wonderful life! " When I ultimately assumed the presidency of a large university, Wriston continued to be for me an inspiration and a paradigm. For a total of seventeen years I had the honor of serving Brown as a trustee or fellow. Two of my sons and my daughter were fortunate enough to benefit from a rich academic experience and rewarding extracurricular life at Brown. Although I have made gifts to the Brown Annual Fund every year since graduation and have participated in each of the capital campaigns, my 43th Reunion year provided a unique opportunity for me to make a more substantial gift by establishing a Life Income Plan. It is my hope that this gift and those of others will enable our great university to maintain its standard of excellence and continue to offer an enriching experience for many generations to come. I F I C F I I \ N N E D G I ; ASirO^ATZh^" February 1993 Alumni Monthly 10 Under the Elms The University nixes the campus police's request for guns . . Title IX lawsuit moves into another round ... A "Great Books" project looks for answers to the canon debate, with the help of a new grant . . . Rose Fellows mark ten years of helping students with their writing . . . Professor VVilUam G. McLoughlin remembered . . . plus The Latest. 20 Back to School They may be lost in the sea of black gowns on Com- mencement Monday, but their achievement is con- spicuous. Since 1972 about 400 graduates of Brown's Resumed Undergraduate Education (RUE) program - including retirees, returnees, and mothers - have completed their degrees after years away from school. Country's Darling The road to stardom is seldom an interstate. After nearly a decade of back roads and a few dead ends - leading her from Providence to Washington, D.C., to Nashville - Mary-Chapin Carpenter '81 has arrived. A Dream Deferred The American Dream - that anyone with talent and drive can ascend the socioeconomic ladder - is a myth. Worse, history professor William G. McLough- lin said in one of his last speeches, the failure of the dream exposes the depth of the country's institution- alized racism. 36 Teacher without a Classroom Mike's parties drew hundreds of students to no-alcohol dance benefits on campus during the eighties and made their nerdy host an instant celebrity. These days Mike's creator, Harry Gottlieb '88, is making educational videos, books, and games with the same flair. Departments Carrying the Mail 4 Sports 16 Books 18 The Classes 38 Alumni Calendar 45 Obituaries 52 Finally 56 Cover: Mary-Chapin Carpenter '81 in concert, photographed by William Campbell. 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Wald '76 Jill Zuckman '87 National Advertising Representative John Donoghue Ivy League Magazine Network 21 Charles Street Westport, Conn. 06880 (203) 221-1 1 1 1 / Fax (203) 221-7618 ©1993 by BroiDn Alumni Monthly . i'ublished monthly, except January', June, and August, by Brown Univer- sity, Providence, R.I Pnnted by The Lane Press, P.O. Box 130. BurUngton, Vt. 05403. Send changes of address to Alumni Records, P.O. Box 1908, Providence, R.I. 02912; (401) 863-2307. Send editorial correspon- dence to Box 1854, (4011863-2.S73; fax (401) 751-9255. E-mail; BAM@brovvnvm.brown.edu (Internet) or BAM®brovvnvm (BITNET), Member, Council for the Advancement and Support of Education Address correction requested Truman: Model or moral lesson? Editor: The Convocation ceremony, dur- ing which Harry Truman was presented to the class of '96 as a paragon, is one of those circumstances that precipitates thoughts in many directions {"What Is It about Harry Truman?" October). What is a university for? Is it to train young people or to liberate them? Trained to take over as their elders retire, keeping the train "on track"? It is David McCuIIough's job as a biographer to record what was. So here the class of '96 is exposed to what was. For the next four years are they only to learn about what was and what is? What about what might have been? Or might be? Decisiveness and conviction - the qualities McCullough holds up for praise - in the service of what? What convictions? Is the class of '96 to explore such questions as: Was the Cold War inevita- ble? Was the permanent war economy inevitable? The witch hunt that crippled our foreign service? The CIA's "opera- tional" capability? The nuclear-arms race? The impotence of international law? Exploitation of the Third World? Uncon- trollable population growth? What is a university for? Is it to turn out young men and women who won't make waves, who will leave for their descendants a world no better than the one we are leaving to them? James Munves '43 Tunbridge Wells, England An end to historical silence Editor: I appreciated Professor Thomas E. Skidmore's article "The (3uincentennial Quagmire" (October). I thought "quan- dary" might be more fitting, as "quag- mire" dredges up visions of denseness and difficulty, as in "Christian's Voyage in the Slough of Despond." Yet the quagmires I've visited abound with life and regeneration, and so, it seems, does the educational environment of which Dr. Skidmore writes and in which we should all be invested. Everyone should confront these complex and perplexing issues. There has been a historical silence, an igno- rance, a failure, or perhaps even a fear, until now, to explore what has been excluded from our history books. What the recent controversy tells us is that we need to relearn history, to challenge the status quo, to determine where - and why - we should seek further dimen- sions and greater accuracy. I'm relieved to know students are skeptical - by which I infer that they bring critical inquiry to their learning. People must be open to alternative per- spectives, to the possibility that stories can have different versions. But when Professor Skidmore states, "We live in a profoundly secular and capitalistic age," I wonder if students aren't more incredulous than skeptical. News media remind us daily of the power religious groups hold over societies in every nation of the world. The separation of church and state has been negligible throughout history and to this day. The words "under God" were artfully added to our Pledge of Allegiance by one of our presidents; another restored diplomatic relations with the Vatican after a congressional ban of more than 100 years. Contraceptive devices must be obtained sub rosa in many parts of the world, and women in Poland and Ireland must leave their countries if they choose to have abortions. Wars in the Balkan Peninsula and Near East threaten to annihilate entire populations of "non- believers." That "none of these charges [the 'relentless subjugation of original 4 / FEBRUARY 1993 habitants'] is new" attests to the histori- cally relentless nature of humans on this planet. What is new is that people are actively challenging information and attitudes that have hitherto been simply and generally accepted. Though Bar- tolome de las Casas publicly denounced the brutal treatment of indigenous people by the Spaniards, Bishop Diego de Landa was exonerated for the atroci- ties he perpetrated on those people. Furthermore, he was responsible for destroying their written records, their stories, their history. Only three Mayan manuscripts survive, named for the cities where they are now kept: Madrid, Dresden, and Paris. Modern Mayan people do not even own their written documents, yet they can show you stones from their destroyed temples in the walls of present-day cathedrals. That story is "etched in stone." People have been "converted," but they remember. What does this say about sixteenth- century political power, ideology, and sincere religious faith? How has reli- gious dominion changed since the time of European expansion to "new worlds"? Does Dr. Skidmore consider the Medi- eval and Spanish Inquisitions a part of the "deeply medieval ethos" of which he speaks, and are there parallels and connections in other centuries? What about the present? 1 think students will find that there are. We all become "victims" when we ignore differing points of view, when we invest in ourselves a superiority that permits intolerance of others, when we fail to realize that stories can be lost - even destroyed - because their existence might explode the myths we have been led to believe. That is the significance of our "quincentennial quagmire." Long may it flourish! Martha Dwight Trowbridge '53 New York City Worth a thousand words Editor. I thought the cover of the June/ July BAM was terrific! Congratulations to Brian Floca and Jeff Shesol. "A picture (or illustration) is worth a thousand words." I wish them well in what appears to me to be an interesting and rewarding future career. They have talent, plus a sense of humor. Well done. Robert S. Hallock '46 Orange, Conn. I Free Business Class Air Upgrade Is Now Available. Aboard tne Royal Viking Queen's China Snowcase sailing April 11-26, 1993, Hong Kong to Beijing, witn a tnree nignt stay in Beijing Guest speaker btanley Kamow, Harvara 47, Author ana Correspondent Pre-cruise briering by Ambassador James Lilley, Yale '51 Brieiing in Beijing by Ambassador). 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A socially committed scholar Editor: Diirinj; a litotinie many different sorts of people contribute to one's per- sonal development. A particularly gifted teacher may change a person's way of thinking or professional direc- tion. A spiritual leader mav alter one's moral stance in the world. Intimate friends may sustain one through diffi- cult times, while others mav affect a person through example and gentle col- PINE CAY I s ^^*^^ ^^ peopU ^othtre. U A D r\ "rtls Men d, on Cluk nArVU on?,n« Q,i, TOTur^5 and CsiMi UUnJs, Jl/lt 12 6uiT«S, ontofO milu of b«acl< I II tI^/ snorKeling, brcydin^, tennis, fresh-wittr pool A barefoot retreat for very bysy people- RMI M»r*«lm9(8cX)>331-115V THINKERS Classrooms to playing fields. The Masters School student is challenged to strive, to achieve, to lead, to win and, above all, to think. She learns tliat tlie greatest competition is within herself - to grow mind, skills and talents. We provide the tools, teachers, support and encouragement. 1-50 college prep courses. AP sections, all suljjects. Fine visual & perfonniiig arts. Many sports, clubs, cultiu-al & commimity service activities. 7:1 student/l'acult) latio. Boarding & Day on Hudson River campus in \X estchester Countv. Catalog. The Masters School AT DOBBS FERRY Setting the atandnrd since 1877. 49 Clinton Avenue Dobbs Ferry. NY 10522 (914) 693-1400 legiality. In my life Bill Mcl.oughlin fit into this last category. I came to Providence in the mid- sixties as a young woman embarking on a course of graciuate study and clearly headed toward becoming a college pro- fessor. Those were the days of a still- youthful anci somewhat-timid peace movement (the younger ones reading this need to remember that it was the height of the Cold War and the real war in Vietnam grew daily hotter) and of a nationwide movement to integrate schools, even those of the urban North - even the schools in Providence. The movement to integrate the Providence Public Schools provided my first memo- ries of Bill. His hair wasn't so white, but he still seemed terribly professorial and New England to me. As I watched him work as school principal of the tempo- rary Freedom Schools set up as part of a school boycott aimed at forcing the city to produce a viable integration plan, I also thought that he represented the best tradition of Yankee free thought and public and committed action. I still think this. More personally, through his ex- ample, he helped me see the possibility that a professor at an Ivy League uni- versity need not live in an ivory tower. In the days before the concept of a role mocHel became cliche, he was one. He was what I wanted to become: a profes- sor who taught both by word and by deed, both in the academy and outside it, not separated from and suspicious, but respectful of people educated by life rather than in the classroom. Bill under- stood that there was more than one way to learn about the world, that Ivy League professors held no monopoly on knowledge, and that one could be objec- tive and passionate at the same time. He also gave me - not by exhortation but by example - the courage to enter into an unfamiliar part of town and face something that never was and never will be my strong suit, a class of wriggling, excited eight-year-olds. Obviously, I learned more than 1 taught in those few days (the boycott was brief and encied with a plan that structures the school system still today). By all accounts Bill was an exacting teacher. He would tolerate neither sloppy thinking and argumentation nor late papers. But the students who form part of my grapevine all admitted to leaving his classroom better thinkers than when they entered. His more special- ized writing improved the horizons of his colleagues in history, yet he also translated his work into material acces- sible to the layperson. His Rhode Island history was both scholarly and widely reaci. Again, he provided a living exam- ple: One does not need to write obscurely and use long words to be scholarly. It is a direction of thought that I wish many more in academia would follow. Words are intended to communicate, not to hide behind. Over the years 1 crossed paths with Bill many times, more often on the picket line than in the Faculty Club. I was honored to find his name in my FBI file, acquired, apparently, for my own antiwar and feminist activities. We con- spired occasionally in faculty meetings, and he could always be depended on to take national and international causes into the sacrosanct chambers where the professors deliberated. He got involved in causes, such as peace and democracy for Central America; I got involved in the many facets of the feminist move- ment. Always when we met, there was a good cheer and knowledge that we wanted many of the same things: a world in peace, a world without want or hun- ger, and above all - in our roles as col- lege professors - committed scholarship. Bill gave me a model of the socially committed scholar that I try to emulate. He did it not through intimate friend- ship or by any active persuasion, but simply by example, by being true to him- self. I will miss him, but it helps the deep sadness I feel at his passing to know that his spirit is immortal. 1 do not mean immortal in the religious sense, but only that those who have learned from him will in turn become models and exam- ples for others. If I achieve nothing else in my own life, it will have been enough. Thank you. Bill, and rest in peace. Anne Faiisto-Sterling Professor of Medical Science, campus Presidential void Editor. 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Social/Intellectual History I iv 1993 History Book (^lub. tnc All orders subjecl #053 STRONGLY UKE 5 to approval Prices generally tiigtier in Canada blind ndmission process even >U this late date. What 1 and maybe others are puz- zling over is the current "stealth" presi- dent who occupies University Mall. It the BAM's audience is the alumni/ alumnae community, why is the "prez" so conspicuous by his absence from its pages? Aren't we one of his major con- stituencies? 1 can't recall the last time (or the first) that he appeared in your pages to address a significant issue. To one who was tutored intellectually by Henrv Wriston in weekly compulsory chapel attendance, the presidential void is glaring. Ob\'iouslv, there is a connection between the two issues raised above. When you next do your mission state- ments, the vision thing, or whatever you call it at the BAM, think about incor- porating a total quality management program. Please try to fill the vacuum in some of your issues with some output from the gray matter in U.H. Nature isn't going to help you! R./. Cotter '51 Durham, N.H. Pn'suient Vnrtnn Gre^orinn is mentioned or quoted frequently in the BAM. In the Win- ter 1992-93 issue he was quoted at length about Brown's position on need-blind admission in "The Price of Admission." In the pjrevious issue "The Minority Deficit" highlighted the Leadership Alliance, one of Gregorian's national priorities. Rather than simply record administrative statements, the BAM strives to report on the issues fac- ing higher education ami to reflect what is happening on campus and among alumni. - Editor Statistic check Editor: You write (Under the Elms, October), "Twenty-nine percent of the [new freshmen] class is minority, which places Brown as the third most diverse university in the country, behind Har- vard and Columbia, [President Vartan] Gregorian said." 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Having been associated for nearly forty years with the Rocketdyne division of Rockwell International, I was particu- larly interested in the June/July issue, which featured astronaut Byron Lichten- berg '69 (Under the Elms). Rocketdyne makes the Space Shuttle Main Engine, which powers the space shuttle into orbit after a lift-off assist from the two large solid rocket boosters. Rocketdyne also makes the Atlas rocket engine sys- tem, which powers the General Dynam- ics Space Systems Division Atlas expandable launch vehicle. Thus, I was surprised to read that the space shuttle "was powered by an Atlas I rocket." I am sure that Byron Lichtenberg was equally surprised to read this, since the Atlas, a smaller rocket system using a different fuel propellant, would not have gotten him and his crew into orbit. Both rocket engines perform well in their proper vehicles. I am proud to have worked on both engine systems and proud to see a Brown alum as one of the astronauts. 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The teen- they provided about 127,000 its sixty-one members, nine- sion of an ad hoc committee ager ran out to the Green, rides last year, and many teen have completed Rhode of faculty, staff, and stu- shooting into the air near students living off-campus Island's Municipal Police dents, which last fall exam- Faunce Arch. This time his depend on the services for Academy and are fully ined safety on campus and gun fired. transportation at night. But licensed as police officers. the risks to those charged In November the ad hoc the students who drive the Brown is the most sexually with protecting it. The com- committee was appointed vans worry that Providence and ethnically diverse force mittee reported its findings under the chairmanship of police will not respond as in the state, Boucher says, to President Vartan Grego- chemistry professor William quickly to their calls for and he believes it could be a rian on December 6, and he Risen. It concluded that cur- assistance as Brown police model. What hinders them, immediately endorsed its rent practices were endan- have. As a result, the com- many officers feel, is that conclusion. gering Brown's officers. It mittee recommended con- Brown doesn't trust them to In October, concerned recommended that they tinuing the services though carry weapons. that officers are facing an stop responding to high-risk they might need to be But some students and unacceptably high degree calls, discontinue stopping curbed. faculty see things differently. of risk, Chief of Pohce and suspicious vehicles, and Over winter break Chief At a rally on the Green Security Dennis Boucher restrict patrols to the area in of Police Boucher proposed December 7, minority stu- asked Gregorian either to which they have jurisdiction that the shuttle run a shorter dents - especially African- limit the department's re- - that is. Brown-owned route and that the escort American men - said they sponsibility or to authorize property and the streets serve only off-campus stu- have been harassed by a full-tledged campus police immediately adjacent. That dents and only for school Brown police and asked to agency, allowing licensed would leave more of the business - not for rides to show their IDs while walk- officers to bear side arms in area around the campus to parties or to the local video ing on the campus at night. certain circumstances. Providence police to patrol. store. They must register to They argue that they are not An incident after a fra- The committee also urged use the service at the start of protected now and that ternity party in Sayles Hall increasing staff so security each semester. Recent angry if officers have guns it will October 18 intensified the officers could patrol in pairs letters to the Brown Daily only be a matter of time until issue. At 2 a.m., as the party and improving communica- Herald indicate that more someone, whether a student was breaking up, several tions with Providence police negotiating may be in store. or an outsider, is acciden- Providence teenagers ap- regarding crimes near Brown. The issue of guns on tally shot. The protest drew proached a student from One of the most divisive campuses is a hot one. Half only a small crowd to the another local college threat- issues the committee ad- the Ivy League schools - Green, but it was clear that eningly. When the student dressed was the future of Harvard, University of the issue is emotionally and ran back inside Sayles and the security shuttle van and Pennsylvania, Yale, and poUtically charged. stood next to a Brown police escort service. The shuttle Cornell - have armed their Of claims that officers officer, the intruder followed. circles the East Side, picking officers. In the past twenty are harassing students. aiming a gun at the student. up and dropping off stu- years Brown's security force Boucher says, "the last time The officer tried to persuade dents and employees along has evolved from a part- someone filed a complaint him to put his gun away. an established route. The time staff into a much more was 1978." Boucher says, but the teen- escort delivers riders point professional department To improve relations BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 11 between students and offi- cers, Rison's committee sec- onded Boucher's recom- mendation that a ci>mniittee of students, police and secu- rity, administrators, and faculty be appointed to appro\e hires and look into complaints. It also recom- mended that an outside audit be performed annu- ally and that officers meet regularly with students, especially incoming and minority students. Despite its conclusion that Brown is not ready to issue firearms, the com- mittee urged the adminis- tration to look into legal, jurisdictional, liability, and other issues that would arise should the University be forced to do so in the future. Risen says he hopes the campus will come away from last fall's discussions with a greater sense of respect for the officers pro- tecting it. "They could have been angry at the decision, and I'm sure many of them are, but they've been very professional about it." -C.B.H. The Rose Writing Fellows Program turns ten Writing is about rewriting and about communicating one's expertise, says Tori Haring- Smith, founder of the Rose Writing Fellows Program, which is ten years old this year. But when students learn to write, thev are rarely doing either of those things. "Students write to be graded on a final product, and they write for teachers who know more about the subject than they do," she says. "So they can't write with any authority. That has nothing to do with the real world, where you receive feedback straight along and you are writing in your area of expertise." When Haring-Smith joined the Brown faculty in 1981, the late Harriet Sheri- dan, then dean of the Col- lege, charged her with work- ing on students' writing problems. One solution she came up with was the peer- tutoring program, at the time a new concept for North American universities. About forty under- graduate fellows are trained each year, with about eighty working at any one time, offering help in thirty selected courses per term. Students in those courses bring early drafts of writing assignments to the fellows to critique. Then they go back and rewrite. The program's guiding tenets are that writing is The secret to good writing is in the rewriting, according to the principles of the ten-year-old Rose Writing Fellows Program. a thinking process and that writing style may be ana- lyzed and criticized sepa- rately from content. "We work on the assumption that you don't know what you want to say until you say it," explains Rhoda Flaxman, director of the program. "The process of writing and revising is a process of discovery." One of the program's biggest challenges is con- vincing students to put hon- est effort into writing well ahead of the due date. "If I get a ten-page paper some- one rattled off in an hour," fellow Keith Rosen '93 says, "I will still try to work with it, if only to try to give the writer a sense that it is important to write drafts and to revise." The fellows realize that a student may be knowledge- able in a subject but lack the skills to communicate that on paper - something pro- fessors grading final papers don't or can't always distin- guish. "One thing you notice when you read a lot of papers," observes recent fel- low Hillary Poole '92, "is that the more complicated the idea, the more compli- cated the sentence structure. In high school you could write a paper on Hamlet that was basically a book report. Now, all of a sudden, you look at the historical context of Hamlet, feminist perspec- tives on Hamlet, deconstruc- tionist interpretations of Hamlet. That requires more complex language and structure." To learn those writing concepts, all fellows must complete Flaxman's one- credit Seminar on the Teach- ing of Writing. "I have the fellows do a thorough anal- ysis of one of their own papers," she says. "It's a notorious assignment. They have to count the number of words in their sentences, the ratio of adverbs to verbs. and so on. That leads to various levels of revelation. Students may say. Wow, I never realized that every sentence I write goes on for five lines so that no one can stop for breath or that I use adjectives in every sentence." Students, rather than the faculty, have always been the program's principal skep- tics. A senior once stormed into Haring-Smith's Faculty Fellow house saying, "I am an editor at Issues magazine. Are you telling me that some sophomore is going to criticize my paper?" But by most accounts, the program has been a suc- cess. Flaxman has more fac- ulty requests for fellows than she can accommodate. Nearly fifty high schools and universities - among them Harvard, Swarthmore, and Bucknell - have adopted Brown's model. In April, Brown is holding a national conference for representa- tives from those schools and for Rose Writing Fellows alumni. "Everybody here writes so many papers, and profes- sors don't spend that much time talking about them," Poole comments. "There are times at Brown that you feel like a paper machine, and you start to wonder. Am I doing it well? The Writing Fellows Program is a way to show that someone in the institution cares about writ- ing." -Joanna Norland '94 12 / FEBRUARY \9ce they came, A thousand jjtiliH? o' !Jght or shame. Baby, I don't t;i:;jy - From "Stones in ibe RoiiJ" iiy Mitnj-Chapin Cnrpcnhr to do my song at all was flattering, so in a way it was easy to do it." When Rolliii;^ Stone reviewed Baez's album recently, much of the praise was for "Stones in the Road." About the song she explains, "I suppose I was thinking about how to articulate the mystery of everything, about the time when you think. If 1 just follow the markers, follow the stones in the road, then I'll get to where I want to go, and you realize that's not always the case. It's a take on what I consider the danger in my generation of becoming overly concerned with materialism." One of the first times Carpenter sang solo before an audience was during the year she took off between Taft and Brown. A coworker at Brentano's Bookstore in Wash- ington, D. C, thrust her in front of an open mike at the Red Fox Inn in Bethesda, Maryland. "The place was dead silent while she played," recalls close friend Wendy Franklin, "and then she would jump off the stool and run offstage and never say a word." In those days Carpenter performed the work of other singers and songwriters. She had no stage patter. At Brown, friends pushed her to perform at the Grad Center Bar once, but mostly she played in her room. An American-civilization concentrator and "the ultimate liberal-arts junkie," she says. Carpenter in essence conducted her own music apprenticeship: studying how songs were put together, trying out riffs on her guitar, recording herself on a cassette player, and listening, listen- ing, listening. One fellow dorm resident recalls yelling late at night for Carpenter to tone it down. "It was very irritating," she says. "Of course, the laugh's on us. Who knew then that we were listen- ing to a future Grammy Award winner?" During her last two years at Brown, Carpenter lived in a big rented house on the corner of Fones Alley and Brook Street - which later housed a stereo store before it burned last year. Even then she filled the place with music. "She lived on the third floor with her epileptic dog, Molly, and that's what she would do a lot," says housemate Elizabeth Kellner Suneby '80. "Her room was her cocoon." Carpenter's Brook Street housemates also recall her irreverent and ribald sense of humor, her pri- vacy, her shyness. "She was always writing," re- members Lynn Shiverick. "Anything that happened to her or us, she would retreat to her room and write some rag about it and sing it. Maybe it would only be performed once and then be gone forever." Carpenter compares performing to a wall. "Some nights I make it all the way up and over the top, and some nights I make it partway up and fall back. " During her difficult years plying her trade on the D.C. club scene. Carpenter hooked up with several local musicians, notably guitarist John Jennings, who urged her to perform only in places that allowed her to play her own material. Gradually she amassed a devoted local following. In 1986 she won five "Wammies" - Washington Area Music Awards - including best new artist and best song- writer. With Jennings as producer and musical partner. Carpenter put together a demonstration tape to sell when she performed. With characteris- tic humor, she called her publishing company Getarealjob Music. "I knew right away she was a major talent," remembers Tom Carrico, a longtime manager and publicist and an acquaintance of Jennings, when he heard the tape. "Not just as a singer, but as a writer, she was doing something unique." Carrico and John Simson, partners in Studio One Artists, have since become Carpenter's managers. She was on the verge of signing a contract with Rounder Records when a vice president for CBS Recorcis (now called Columbia) in Nashville also heard her tape, signed her on, and produced her first album, Hometowu Girl, in 1987. Issuing an album, even with a major label, was no guarantor of success, however. Carpenter kept her day job at the Area Foundation - and kept per- forming. In 1987 organizers of the Philadelphia Folk Festival invited her to sing on the main stage in a prime-time slot, a coup for a still-unknown singer. She also began to tour with a band, which unglued her from her solitary post on a stool at center stage. "Work- ing with a band is totally dif- ferent," she says. "It freed me up psychologically and musi- cally and spiritually, too." Carpenter began to move on stage, to talk a little between songs, to become a performer. In 1989 Carpenter released State of the Heart, her second album. Though categorized as country. Carpenter's songs avoid country-music cliches and the simplistic view of life and love that emanates from Nashville. Not that she doesn't ever write about love and loss - she sang two offerings from "my latest ex-boyfriend tril- ogy" at a recent concert - but her lyrics have a rare, tightly packed poetry both critics and fans love. "I think you have to accept the premise that country music really has changed and evolved," says Carpenter, who is more likely to be found in a pair of black canvas flats than Tony Lama boots. "1 think of myself as a singer-songwriter, and country is open to that. A lot of artists don't fit neatly into the categories. It's the nature of the busi- ness that they need you to fit neatly, and it's been a hard road for me. As artists, though, we spend less time worrying about it than anybody else." In the spring of 1989 a contract with EMI April Music allowed Carpenter to work full-time writing and performing. And in October 1990 she released her third album. Shooting Straight in the Dark. At some point between her second and third albums, Carpenter slipped a hyphen into her first name. "Everyone was calling me Mary," she says. Known as Chapin at Brown, she was called Mary Chapin at home, to distinguish her from her father, Chapin Carpenter. "1 was tearing my hair out and some- one at the record label suggested hyphenating my name. Well," she says ruefully, "it hasn't helped at all. Ninety-nine percent of the time the hyphen ends up between Chapin and Carpenter. One reviewer in Ohio actually wrote Mary-Chapin- Carpenter. It's a pain." An avid book and newspaper reader, Carpenter checks out the Sunday New York Times in the lounge of her bus on the way to a concert . BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY /29 ^m. w.*i\ Well I strolled down to the corner, gave my numbers to the clerk. The pot's eleven million, so I called in sick to work. I t)ought a pack of Camels, a burrito, and a Barq's, Crossed against the light, made a beeline for the park. The sky began to thunder, the wind began to moan, i heard a voice above me saying, Girl, you'd bener get back home. But I feel lucky, I feel lucky. ' York Times, the Wnshiugton Post, People, Time, Newsweek, and Rolling Stom' and was making the talk-show and morning-news rounds - David Letterman, Arsenio Hall, "The Today Show." Her Grammy last year was for her rendition of "Down at the Twist and Shout," a rollicking, Cajun- sauced tribute to a Bethesda, Maryland, dance hall. In June she released her fourth album. Come On Come On - not, as one paper had printed, C'mon, C'mon. "There's a very big spiritual difference between the two," she comments. When the Coun- try Music Association named her Female Vocalist of the Year in October, Carpenter was visibly sur- prised. Fittingly, she got up and performed a rous- ing version of her recent hit, "I Feel Lucky." On the road Carpenter now travels with two buses for her four-member band, six- person crew, and at least a dozen guitars. Because she uses many unusual modal tunings. Carpenter changes guitars after nearly every song, prompting one fellow at an Austin, Texas, gig to query, "Do you play those, or are they just props?" "Naw," Carpenter joked, retelling the story for a Chicago audience last fall, "girls can't play gui- tars." In fact, while she's playing one number, her guitar technician retunes another instrument back- Carpenter's appeal crosses over to both urban and rural, country and singer-songwriter fans: at the Beacon Theater in New York City and at the Borrowed Money club in Lubbock, Texas (inset). stage to get ready for the next. She may make fif- teen or more instrument switches in the course of one concert. Backstage, after giving three encores to the enthusiastic Chicago crowd, an ebullient Carpen- ter said, "I view it as climbing a wall. Some nights I make it all the way up and over the top, and it's great, and some nights I make it partway up and fall back. It doesn't really have much to do with how we do musically but more with how the crowd reacts and responds to us. Two years ago in Athens, Georgia, we played this dive - an old movie theater full of dust - but the crowd was so much with us. They treated us like the Beatles!" Carpenter's recent celebrity comes packed with its problems, too. Life on the road is drain- ing. It's difficult to sustain intimate relationships. Carpenter conducts most of her friendships via voice mail. She misses her family, having stayed close to her parents and three sisters, Mackenzie, Camilla, and Sophie. And living on the road, sleeping in hotels or bunked in a tour bus, she finds it hard to hole up and write. For Carpenter, writing is a personal and a private experience, something she is able to do only in her two-bedroom apartment in Alexandria, Virginia, she says. "I recently read an article in a magazine by Sharon Olds, the poet, and she explained the feeling of writing something and feeling it slowly separate itself from her, when it goes off on its own, and there's this incredible fulfillment in that," Carpen- ter says, describing her own writing process. "I feel that way." What about those songs that don't declare in- dependence? "Sometimes I come back to one that I've left for a while and say, 'Aaargh. What was I thinking?' and it just doesn't resonate the way I thought it did," she says. Others feel right from the start and feel right each time she performs them. As she has become an increasingly public fig- ure. Carpenter has had to grapple with maintain- ing her privacy - and her integrity. Recently, for instance, she was invited to cohost a television show only to discover that the producers' vision - which included scantily clad dancers performing a vari- ety of suggestive numbers - was quite foreign to her own. Carpenter tried to withdraw, but lawsuits were threatened, and she felt compelled to go through with it. "That was devastating to me," she recalls, "that I was forced to be a part of something that I was uncomfortable about. You struggle so hard to put something out there that you believe in and that is you. And then there is so much you can't control." In December and January, Carpenter took a needed rest, but in February she is jetting off for continued on page 55 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHL1' / 31 r.TTTV:*' '■^■^ ■jirtr»*ftw v< A' A DREAM BY WILLIAM G. McLOUGHLIN DEFERRED This country needs not only a new political and social agenda but also a new American Dream. The old dream has failed blacks and whites alike, and it is pitting races against one another w ▼ T hat c hat does the end of the American Dream have to do with "The New Racism"? I could say that the United States started its Revokition in 1776 with the beUef that it was self-evident that "all men are created equal." We'd like to think that Martin Luther King Jr. had that same dream. Since the murder of Dr. King, however, that dream has become a nightmare. The American Dream that most of us have heard about is the concept of equal opportunity in the United States. It is sometimes spoken of as "the success myth" - the myth that anyone who has talent and drive can rise from rags to riches, log cabin to president, office boy to chairman of the board. Many who see this as an exaggeration still believe that in America our children and grand- children can rise higher on the socioeconomic lad- der than their parents. It has become increasingly clear in the past twenty years that this aspect of the American Dream has failed. It has failed for many white Americans as well as black Americans. One could even say it has failed for black Americans because it has failed for white Americans. As whites face hard times, such as the depression that has plagued us for the past three years, they look for scapegoats and find them in affirmative action and preferential hiring of African- Americans, oblivious to the fact that the American historian William G. McLaughlin died December 28. His obituary appears in Under the Elms. He delivered this address last May as part of a Com- mencement forum on the new racism in America. loss of jobs has been far more devastating for black Americans than white Americans. The English philosopher G.K. Chesterton once described the United States as "a nation with the soul of a church." From the days of the first aboli- tionists, there has always been a spark of con- science at work in our national life. But the power of conscience to galvanize social reform on behalf of people of color has been small and often feeble; today it has been badly blunted with the rise of a new and more virulent libertarian individualism, which insists that all must lift themselves by their own bootstraps. The reason for the growth of libertarianism is in part a growing dislike for what is called Big Government. During the recent election campaigns we witnessed a heightened cynicism about our elected representatives, which simply mirrors our individual cynicism about the American way of life. We have lost confidence in our national dream. To attribute this simply to corruption in govern- ment or bloated bureaucracy is to grasp only half the story. And to say, as sociologist and educator William Julius Wilson did, that the declining influ- ence of race grows from the impact of economic deprivation of black Americans is equally one-sided. Racism and economic oppression have always gone hand in hand. The cynicism does not come simply from the bottom up; it is just as virulent from the top down. Ronald Reagan's attacks on "big government" and the "welfare state" were really code words for the new racism. When he spoke of "welfare queens" and the Cadillacs driven by "welfare cheats," he BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 33 was really talking about race. George Bush used Willie Horton to get reelected and then bashed civil-rights legislation for creating quotas. Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina stirred the flames of racism with television ads in 1988 attacking affir- mative action and preferential hiring, telling white voters, "You needed that job, and you were the best qualified. But it had to go to a minority because of a racial quota." In 1982 a potent new form of sexism killed the Equal Rights Amendment and the new feminist movement out of fear that too many women were taking the jobs of white men. Dan Quayle's rhetoric of family values is really a code for keeping women in the home. At the root of these alarming trends lies "the new segregation," which leaves the poor in the decaying inner city while placing the affluent in sub- urbs where a black The U.S. is too deeply in debt person is such an anomaly that the to help the white middle class, let alone those below the poverty line police are likely to pick him up for tres- passing. There is now no way to desegregate urban schools because there are not enough whites to balance the school populations. Efforts to bus children from the suburbs were long ago labeled "forced bus- ing," and school desegregation is currently facing its final assault from the courts that inaugurated it; these new judges are the appointees of Republican presidents who have written off the black vote. We are, as historian and critic Andrew Hacker recently wrote, "a nation separate, hostile, and unequal." But I think we have always been that way. It started with wars against the Indians and with black slavery. All that's new is the death of the American Dream. That rhetoric has ceased to perform its pacifying function on the poor. Equal opportunity is not available today for poor blacks. Today not only will few blacks ever rise to the top by hard work, but even poor whites who work hard all their lives will not rise far. The middle class is being pressed down by lower pay, fewer bene- fits, loss of pensions, and higher educational and health costs. The nation is too deeply in debt to help the white middle class, let alone those below the poverty line. Our most basic institutions, our whole infrastructure is crumbling. And at the same time we are confronting environmental disasters that are overwhelming - from toxic waste to ozone holes. It seems that the United States does not have enough to go around, and statistics show that fewer and fewer people are accumulating more and more wealth. No wonder we turn against each other. It seems a matter of survival of the fittest, except that this game is not being played on an even playing field. Much of the current hostility toward blacks, allegedly based on affirmative-action regulations, comes not from the fact that blacks are taking white jobs - they are not. Rather it comes from whites' paranoid fear that in their desperate hunt for good jobs, they are losing the racial edge they had under a hiring system that gave preference to them, not to mention male preference over women. When Shawn Slater, the leader of the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado, says that he believes in "equal rights for all, special privileges for none," he strikes a deep chord in those who believe that the United States always has provided an even field, when in fact, the playing field has always been tilted toward white males. Calls to get back to "the good old days of equal rights for all" are really calls to sustain institutional racism and sexism in America. Similarly, the fears of multicultural plural- ism are veiled expressions of a longing for the days when America was run by and for the WASPs, and they don't want to give them up. The Ameri- can way of life has not been a fair game. Our real problem is deeply imbedded institu- tional racism, which can be defined as the tilt in all aspects of American life toward preference for whites. When the Ku Klux Klan calls for a return to "equal rights for all," it is really seeking to retain white favoritism - that is, I don't want a law telling me I have to hire a black when I prefer to hire a white. White people do not want a change in the traditional pecking order of American society. The present economic depression (code word: "recession") helps to accentuate this animosity. We are using racism as a means of changing the way we divide our limited resources. Our war on poverty is over. The dream of an open, classless society was never true. We used to have a sense of social conscience that occasionally inspired us to equalize opportunitv. That seems to have died, and those at the bottom have lost hope. The vio- lence in our cities is the result of too many stifled hopes, too many frustrated dreams, too many roadblocks in the road out of poverty. It takes two to have a race riot. We are just beginning to realize that the middle class is also being oppressed these days - which helps explain the recent effort at Brown to reinstate need-blind admissions and more financial aid to middle-class families. In Los Angeles, whites allowed their policemen to brutal- ize the poor, to keep them locked in ghettos. We would rather make guns available to everyone than to provide equal job opportunity for all. Guns are great equalizers, but only for social destruction. 34 / FEBRUARY 1993 Long ago Calvin Coolidge said, "The business of America is business." In recent years that has meant that the fundamental good of the nation has been defined in terms of using governmental assis- tance to provide svibsidies to the business sector and expecting the wealth to trickle down to the poor in increased job opportunities. We measure progress in terms of the rise in the gross national product and not in the well-being of the general society. We provide subsidies, tax breaks, and incentives to the rich and insist that the poor lift themselves by their own bootstraps. George Bush provided us with the latest illustration of that when he said too many welfare entitlements had deprived the poor of their pride and dignity. Enti- tlements for the rich, however, do not deprive them of any pride. Anna Quindlen, a columnist for the Neiv York Times, wrote of the Los Angeles riots, "America continues to be a country whose people are ob- sessed with some spurious pecking order .... The old myth was that black Americans are incapable of prosperity. . . . The new myth is that the world is full of black Americans prospering unfairly at white expense. ... It is one of those 'good-old- days' constructs to believe [America] had a system based purely on merit, but we know that's not true. It is a system which favored" whites, and many are fearful that this might end. The new racism is really the old racism exacer- bated by the growing gap between white and black, rich and poor. It is a source of never-ending astonishment to me that so many black Americans, Asian- Americans, and Latino Americans still have faith in the American Dream. I'd really like to believe with Martin Luther King that that dream would someday come true. But then I think of what writer Toni Morrison recently said: "At no moment in my life have I ever felt as though I am an American." This country not only needs a new social and political agenda - a major political and economic re- structuring. We also need a new American Dream: one that provides a basis for hope, self-esteem, and true equality of opportunity for all. One that builds community, not alienation; sharing, not self-aggrandizement. In short, an American Dream that is more consistent with our original claim as a nation that it is self-evident that all human beings are created equal and that, in a classless society, all have a chance to live up to their full potential. I only hope we find it soon. The old dream is lead- ing us to chaos. El 3ROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 35 F ^hi oil Teacher WITHOUT A CLASSROOM our venrs ago, when Harry Got- tlieb '88 decided to produce an educa- tional film, he wanted it to be perfect. Never mind that it was his first try. "I wanted to make the most effective, exciting educational film ever," says Gottlieb, founder of Learn Television in Chicago. "I wanted to tackle an increcli- bly hard subject and make it fun. My entire self-esteem was riding on this project." In the hands of a less adroit film- maker, a ninety-minute movie on how to use a library might have put insomniacs to sleep. But this is the same Gottlieb whose satirical Party Productions videos - featuring geeky host Mike - gathered mobs of viewers in Faunce House and drew hundreds of students to Sayles Hall for no-alcohol dance benefits. Of his four campus videos, Gottlieb's swan song, A Surprise Party for Mike, is the best remembered. It featured appearances by Jane Fonda, Ed Asner, Nick Nolle, Willie Shoemaker, and Chuck Norris, who reminisced about their friendship with Mike and lamented his retirement from party planning. "Either we had connections to those people through our parents, or they'd come to Brown, and 1 approached them," he says. "I didn't have natural chutzpah. I developed it." Gottlieb's new film, Tlie Mind's Trea- sure Chest is a Hollywood-style, music- laced drama that features the same quirky plot twists, special effects, and left-of-center humor that made Gottlieb's work the talk of Brown in the mid- eighties. Blending education with enter- tainment, the film chronicles the aca- demic coming of age of Jack, a smug high-school senior who's running for student-council president. He thinks he can win the election by upstaging his opponent in a challenge of intellect. "Nice place - a lot of books in here," Jack says as he enters the library for the first time. During an overnight study marathon. Jack learns about the Cuban Harry Gottlieb '88 makes films, books, video games - whatever it takes - to get kids to learn ar\d think BY CYNTHIA HANSON '86 Missile Crisis with the help of a friend who introduces him to every reference source available, from the card catalog to databases on compact disc. By the film's end. Jack is a reformed under- achiever high on the research process. "We tried to show kids that learning isn't about memorization; it's about per- sonal growth," Gottlieb says. "The film really is about becoming an active, life- long learner and independent seeker of truth. When you know how to ask questions and know where to find the answers, you've learned how to learn." By the end of the 1993-94 school year an estimated 2 million junior-high and high-school students will have seen The Mind's Treasure Chest, hailed in Book Report Magazine as the first film in twenty-five years that "effectively demonstrates the process of research in an interesting and unique way." Among the awards that it has collected are the Gold Plaque from the Chicago Inter- national Film and Video Festival and the Best of Classroom for Grades 7-12 award from the National Educational Film and Video Festival. The Mind's Treasure Chest was a colos- sal undertaking for the twenty-seven- year-old filmmaker. Gottlieb served as screenwriter, director, and producer and, with Steve Gable '86, raised most of the film's $800,000 budget from cor- porate sponsors, which included FoUett Software Co., Encyclopedia Britannica, and Apple Computer Co. Over three years the script went through thirty-five drafts and was reviewed by more than 100 educators, librarians, and students before being shot in Evanston, Illinois. "By receiving lots and lots of feed- back along the way, you'll know every possible thing that can go wrong," says Gottlieb, who cowrote the screenplay with Phil Scher '87, who played Mike in the party videos. "Because I take criti- cism so seriously, I feel confident that what I'm doing is going to work." Gottlieb's adventures in filmmaking predate the years he toted a camcorder around College Hill. For his thirteenth birthday, he asked his father to finance a fifty-minute, Super-8 parody of Rocky and Saturday Night Fever that took him a year to make. As a high-school senior, he skewered the fast-food industry in a documentary that linked a decrease in the birthrate to a proliferation of "fast- children" establishments. Gottlieb is now developing That's a Fact, Jack, an educational software game about climbing the political ladder. Based on the characters in The Mind's Treasure Chest, the game will be played on a home computer and will teach problem solving through American his- tory. "It's the year 2025, Jack Patterson is president, and you're the secretary of defense," Gottlieb explains. "There's a hostage crisis, and Jack needs you to present a plan of action. You consider all the options and compile evidence to support your position, using the mini- library contained in the game. You win if you have the best evicience. "Maybe kids will get into it because it's fun and exciting," he says. "Maybe they'll stay with it because they're asked to think. Learning and thinking are addictive." O Cynthia Hanson '86 is a free-lance leriter in Cine ago. 36 / FEBRUARY 1993 Harry Gottlieb '88 is now working on a slide show about a greedy > trick-or-treater. He 0ans to take the best illustrations, created by inner-city teens at a aiicago arts center, aid publish the fable If/ M.D. practices pedi- atric neurology in Rhode Island and has an appointment at Brown. She and her husband, John P. Donoghue, live in Providence and have two children: Jacob, 6; and Noah, 3. Wendy Finkel Moskowitz and her hus- band, Dan, live in Armonk, N.^ ., with their four children: Ari, 7; Deena, 5; Rafi, 2'i; and Maya, b months. Wendy works part-time as an in-house attorney for a real-estate com- panv in New York City. Esther Nash '81 M.D. (see Barbara Rol- nick 83). Jean Rawson (see William Rawson '46). I 79 Dr. Ken Berkowitz and his wife, Jessica, announce the birth of their second child, Daniel Adam, on May 12. Daniel joins Hillary, 5. Ken is a full-time pulmonary and critical-care physician at both the New York University Medical Center and the New York Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Cen- ter and an assistant professor of medicine at the New York University School of Medicine. The family lives in Port Chester, N.Y. Frances X. Durkin and T. Stevens Spruth announce the birth of John Barthley on May 4. Big brother Henry is 2. They Uve at 4925 Aldrich Ave. S, Minneapolis, Minn. 55401; (612)827-1713. Lizarme Landsman Rosenzweig and her husband, Jeffrey Rosenzweig (Hobart '77), are the parents of two boys: Steven, 7; and Kenny, 4. They recently discovered that they live down the street from Eric Rosenfeld and his wife, Lisa, parents of two girls and a baby boy. Anyone interested, feel free to contact Lizanne and Jeffrey at 453 Sterling Rd., Har- rison, N.Y. 10528. I 80 Peter Benjamin and his wife, Kate, com- pleted the 1992 Hawaii Ironman Triathlon. They have moved to Miami and can be reached through Peter's office: Vitas Health- care Group, 100 S. Biscayne Blvd., Miami, Ha. 331 31; (305) 350-6009. Debra Bradley married Eric Ruder (Wes- leyan '81) on Aug. 23 in Waltham, Mass. The best woman was Debra Block, whose hus- band. Rabbi Bill Hamilton, officiated at the ceremony. Other classmates in attendance included Shoshana Rosenfeld Goldhill, Kathy Kelleher Wechsler, Liz Roberts, Mary Aim Weidinger Rotar, Nancy Chick Hyde, and Irene losefsohn Lukoff . Betsy August, an obstetrician-gynecologist by profession, baked the wedding cake. Debbie and Eric live in Newton, Mass. Jon R. Davids is a pediatric surgeon at Children's Hospital and the University of CaUfornia at San Diego Medical Center. Sarah A. Freiberg performs modern and baroque cello with the Streicher Trio in the San Francisco Bay area and teaches at Uni- versity of California at Llavis. The Cerman Bayer label released the trio's recording ot Mozart's Fortepiano Trios to favorable reviews. The trio and the Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra, with which Sarah also performs, have been invited to Germany in 1993. Sarah also plays in the Sierra String Quartet and a contemporary-music ensemble, Earplay. She would love correspondence: 6635 Richmond Ave., Richmond Heights, Calif. 94805. John Schvtfimmer and Rosemary Jackovic Schwimmer announce the birth of their son, Jacob Jonah ("Jake"), on April 17. John is a partner, specializing in business litigation, at Alschuler, Grossman, & Pines, Los Angeles. They live in Sherman Oaks, Calif. ^82 81 Louise Benjamin married Jean-Michel Malek in Houston on Oct. 25. Both attended the University of Texas School of Law in Austin (he graduated in 1980 and she in 1984) and are practicing lawyers in Houston. In attendance were Mark Benerofe and Diane Flannery Knight, both of whom flew in from New York City for the weekend cele- brations. Any other friends who are in the Houston area are welcome to visit! Amy Kuhllk and her husband, Kevin Raftery, announce the birth of their first child, Rebecca Allison, on June 2. Rebecca was born two-and-a-half months early but is now at home, healthy, and thriving. Amy works as a nephrologist at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. Marion Pandiscio '85 M.D. is returning to civilian life after leaving the U.S. Air Force in November. She has relocated to San Antonio and will marry Daniel Await in April. Kerri Ratcliffe and Maxanne Resnick write of an '81 mini-reunion after the Oct. 10 Brown-Princeton game for classmates in the New Jersey, New York City, and Philadel- phia areas. Kerri and her husband, Doug Henderson, hosted the get-together, which included Christy Black and her husband, Frank Carling; Randi Dodick and her hus- band. Bob Fields '79; Gretchen Fricke; Julie Harris and her husband. Ken Silverstein; Bob Pannell and his wife. Sue; Maxanne Resnick; Julie Rothhouse; and Jeff Senior and his wife, Tami. Seven offspring also joined the festivities. Kerri and Doug also announce the birth of Micaela Eliza, born April 21, who is now playing with her brother Shane, 2, at home in Princeton, N.J. They invite any friends from Brown to stop by and visit if they are in the area ("always a spare room waiting!"). Their address is 79 Lafayette Rd., Princeton 08540; (609) 252-0604. Amy Lowrie Taivalkoski and her hus- band, Paul, announce the birth of Jarrett Lowrie on June 14. Amy and Paul recently bought a house in Sussex, Wis., where Amy "is currently staying at home to play with the little guy." Claire Treves married Dr. Ted Brezel on Nov. 16, 1991, in New York City. Anne Nichols was a member of the wedding party and a reader at the ceremony. The bride is the daughter of Clotilde Sonnino Treves '49. Bill Frank married Kim joly on June 27 and now lives in Vernon, Conn. Diana Marcus wed David MuUer '81 on Oct. 31 in Cambridge, Mass. Brown was well represented with Irene Sinrich Sudac '81, matron of honor; Eric Muller '84, best man; and Jim Muller '52, the groom's father. A hectic summer saw Diana leave New York City and David leave London to settle in Hong Kong for the next few years. David is a vice president in counterparty risk manage- ment for J. P. Morgan, and Diana works for the Asian Cultural Council as a program con- sultant. They can be reached at 55 Garden Rd., Flat 29A, Estoril Court, Block 1, Hong Kong; telephone (852) 521-0948. Dr. Dean Mitchell and his wife. Dr. Ricki Mitchell, enjoy their joint private practice, the Ocean Allergy and Nutrition Center in Oceanside, N.Y. Dean was recently appointed as a consultant to Abbott Laboratories for evaluating new diagnostic equipment to treat allergies. They welcome calls at (516) 678-9600. Dr. Mark Rast juggles a "full spectrum" of family medicine, bluegrass banjo music, and fatherhood - Rebecca, 2'/^, and a son on the way. Mark lives with his wife. Dr. Cyn- thia Kilbourn, in Ventura, Calif. Arthur Rosenberg (see Allan J. Rosen- berg '46). John Walsh resigned as creative director at PotterHazlehurst, East Greenwich, R.I., to become a partner at Walsh & Associates, a Providence creative shop started by his brother, Robert Walsh (RISD '81). 83 Si The class of '83 will celebrate its 10th reunion on the weekend of May 28-31. Remember to save the dates! If you did not receive a fall reunion mailing, please call reunion headquarters at (401) 863-1947. Calling all funny college photos; please send photos for a reunion slide show by March 30 to Alex Pruner, 75 Club Dr., Sum- mit, N.J. 07901. If you want originals back, please label them and include a self- addressed, stamped envelope. Jon Anderson has been elected to a two- year term on the Pawtucket, R.I., School Committee. Elizabeth Rawson Berg (see William Rawson '46). Jeffrey Fine screened his new film, Sand- ntan, at the Virginia Festival of American Film. The Vietnam-era movie, about a 12- year-old boy who finds the ocean a treacher- ous adversary as he learns to surf, was Jeff's master's thesis film at the University of Southern California film school. Other alumni who screened films at the festival were Alfred Uhry '58 and Ross McEIwee '71. Barbara Rolnick married Nathan Blum in Philadelphia on April 5. Esther Nash '78, '81 M.D., was matron of honor, and Carmel Fra- tianni '84 sang at the ceremonv. Also in attendance were Sydna Budnick. Lisa Shul- man, Susan Greenfield, Matthew Weissman, Norah Gaughan. Jane Chamin- 46 / FEBRUARY 1993 Aker, Luise Woelflein, Eric Schnurer '80, and Robert Kay '53. Barbara is in a private pediatric practice in Wvnnewood, Pa., and Nathan is completing a fellowship in devel- opmental and behavioral pediatrics at the Children's Seashore House in Philadelphia. They live in Lansiiowne, Pa. Dr. Michael Schaffer wed Amy Weitzel on Oct. 24 in Bucks Coimty, Pa. Brown friends in the wedding party included Ryne Johnson and Andrew Cohen Other atten- dees included Susan Goldberg Gevertz and her husband, John Gevertz '78; Daniel Stur- man '85; the groom's father, Lewis Schaffer '56; and the groom's uncle, David Schaffer '59. The newlyweds live in Hartsdale, N.Y. Michael is completing a fellowship in neuro- ophthalmology at Montefiore Medical Cen- ter, and Amy is working as a nurse manager at Our Lady of Mercy Hospital. Buffy Stoloff Vehse and Ted Vehse announce the birth of their first child, Nathan Everett, on Nov. 27. 84 H Dr. Michael Brown married Rabbi Judith Gary (University of Pennsylvania Veterinary School '92) in Wyncote, Pa., on July 12. Michael's "forever roommate," Dr. John Gnassi, served as best man, and the many Brown alumni in attendance serenaded the newlyweds at the reception. Michael and Judith have relocated to Minnesota, where he administers care in a small-group family prac- tice while she searches for a small-animal veterinary practice. Friends can reach them via e-mail at mdbrown@aol.com or via mail at 6135 Chasewood Pkwy., #312, Minne- tonka, Minn. 55343. Jill Christians decided "it's never too late to he a student again" and threw herself back into school at MIT's Sloan School of Manage- ment. She lives in Boston and enjoys seeing new and olti Brown friends. "Call if you're passing through Beantown: (617) 267-1568." Laurie A. Crockett wed Michael P. Bar- clay (Fordham '84) on Oct. 10 in Williams- port, Pa. Bridesmaids included Bonnie Gitlin '85 and Jennifer Montana Glatt. Brenda Doherty read Scripture. The Barclays live in Ridgefield, Conn. Gerald Flibbert earned the professional designation Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter after completing an extensive ten-part program. Gerald and his wife, Linda, hve in Webster, Mass. Patty Nawrocki (see Patrick M. Murphy '88). Michael A. Shantzis Uves in San Francisco with his wife of one year, Lori Feld Shantzis, and two cats. He works at Pixar, Richmond, Calif., where he has been involved with Walt Disney Feature Animation designing a computer-animation system that was used on Tlw Rescuers Down Under, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin. In 1992 Michael received a Scientific and Engineering Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sci- ences for his contributions to the project. He, Lori, and the cats love visitors, so feel free to call or stop by when in California: 86 East- wood Dr., San Francisco, Calif. 94112; (415) 337-2601. Elizabeth Tauro (Cornell Law School '87) changed her job, her marital status, and her name in September. On Sept. 19, she married Todd R. Saunders of Boston. After a month- long honeymoon in Australia and New Zea- land, the couple took up residence in Boston. Earlier in the month Beth became associate general counsel to Arthur D. Little Inc., Cam- bridge, Mass., an international consulting firm. Beth, the daughter of U.S. Chief District Judge Joseph L. Tauro '53, a Brown trustee emeritus, is a director of the Brown Sports Foundation and of the Brown Club of Boston. 85 Mark Atlas and Danny Sterman roomed together in Philadelphia for the past three years during their residencies. Mark com- pleted his training in pediatrics at the Chil- dren's Hospital of Pennsylvania and will practice pediatrics in Pago Pago, American Samoa, until May, when he will move to Reach 70,000 readers nine times a year Use Brown Alumni Monthly classified and display ads For information, call Pamela Parker at the BAM (401) 863-2873 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 47 Chiaigo to do .1 tcllowsliip in pediatric henwtologv .ind oncology gist in Valley Forge, Pa. Along with Mark, Jonathan Goldberg 'S.'i was an usher, and Jim Davis, Karen Haney Jacobs, Andy Jacobs '82, Peter Lesser, Dan Liebholz '86, and Mike Schaffer '83 also attended. Jamine and Danny invite friends to stop by and say hello to their samoyed puppy, Winston, at 1601 Countryside Ln., Jeffersonville, Pa. 19403. Dr. Phil Bilello and his wife announce the birth of their son, Charles Philip, on March 6. After Phil completes his anesthesia residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital in June, the family will move to Fairfield County, Conn., where he has joined Norwalk Hospital's pri- vate anesthesiology group. Doris Constantinides recently married Gary Christelis (Trinity College '85), an inter- national corporate attorney with Baker & McKenzie. Attending the festivities in New- port, R.I., were a host of Brown alumni, including Minas Constantinides '83, Marti Schiff Constantinides '83, Athena Demo- poulos '83, K. Brett Wesner '84, Steve Barber, Lisbeth Diringer '86, and Lee Dunst '86. The couple can be reached at 120 Central Park S, New York, NY 10019. William R. Rodriguez, a fourth-year stu- dent at the Yale University School of Medicine, received the 1992 William and Charlotte Cadbury Award from the National Medical Fellowships Inc. on Nov. 10. The award recog- nizes a senior minority student who displays outstanding academic, leadership, and com- munity achievements. William is the president of the Yale chapter of the Student National Medical Association, an organization for minority medical students; its projects include designing a multicultural curriculum in inner- city elementary schools. He is also a profes- sional Frisbee player and competed with his team, the New York Ultimate, in the national championship in San Diego in November. Gordon D. Row? married Leslie Holcombe '88 in May in Lexington, Mass. Pam Boe '87 attended the wedding. Gordon and Leslie are enjoying suburban life in Lexington and "solicit letters from friends at 83 Winter St., Lexington 02173." Jim Welters '88 M.D. married Joan Schwantes in Lancaster, Wis., on Oct. 10. The wedding party included best man Marc Lanctot, Chris Bannon, Jeff Scott, and Corey Greenwald '90 .M.D. Other guests included Ann Harada, Peter Litman, Holly Sklar, Manu Rajachandran 88 M.D, and Laura Lyvehse '90. Jim practices family medicine, and Joan is a registered nurse in Plymouth, Minn., where the couple lives. '86 David Aaron Ines in Londtin, trading cur- rencies for Bankers Trust and heading the NASP program in the United Kingdom. All visitors are welcome! Renate Adloff-Hogan received her master's degree in international relations in 1990 from the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California at San Diego, home of former Brown professor Van Whiting. She is married to Joe Hogan (Columbia '69) and works at Planned Parent- hood of San Diego and Riverside Counties as a bilingual reproductive-health educator. Renate and Joe live in the hills of Escondido, Calif., with four dogs; Lopez, Oliver, Reina, and Bella. Simone Jackiw Ahlbom and L. David Ahl- born '88 expect tlieir first child in February and look forward to David's fifth reunion in May. Simone teaches Spanish at Shore Coun- try Day School while finishing a master's in Spanish after three summers of study abroad. They live in Manchester by the Sea, Mass. "We have ocean views from every window and invite old friends to come check out the North Shore." Michael Aieta completed his master of science program in computer studies in music at Northwestern. His band. Schwa, appears regularly on the Chicago club scene, "coming soon to an MTV near you!" Write him at 3851 N. Southport, 3R, Chicago, 111. 60613; (312) 871-5936. Consuelo Blocker Barontini was married in April 1990 in Florence, Italy, where she now lives and works for a U.S. duty-free organization. She welcomes letters; Via San Felice a Ema 30-1, Florence, Italy 50125. Erik Paul Belt practices law at the Boston firm of Hale and Dorr. "But the big news is that I will be marrying Deborah Freedman (Northwestern '85) in May. We expect a large Brown contingent to attend." Wendi Berkovvitz married John Terrant (Georgetown '85) in October 1991. They live in San Francisco, where Wendi is a trial lawyer, and welcome contact from old and new friends. David M. Bernstein works as a field pro- ducer and associate producer for E! Entertain- ment Television in Los Angeles, interviewing celebrities and producing entertainment-news segments for a daily half-hour news show. He would love to hear from any Brown friends at 10983 Wellworth Ave., #311, Los Angeles, Calif. 90024; (310) 444-9340. Darren Brady received his MB. A. in June 1991 from Anderson Graduate School of Management at the University of California at Los Angeles. He currently works in the banking division of Citibank, Los Angeles. Heather D. Cady will graduate from New York University School of Law in May. Beth Simpson Cannizzo and her hus- band, Joe (Wesleyan '85), would love to hear from friends at 3645 Crew Canyon Rd., San Ramon, Calif. 94583. Karen Smith Catlin and Timothy Catlin, after spending a year in England, moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. They live at 7 Skvmount Ct., Belmont, Calil. 941102. Bruce M. Chanen married Jill E. Schachner (Northwestern '86) on Oct. II in Washington, DC. The wedding party included Trent H. Norris. Bradley Chase, Providence, is engaged to Kristen Tatt of Cranston, R.l. They will marry on May 30 in Newport, R.I. Ellen B. Corson works at the Portland (Maine) Newspapers in the community- relations department. Her favorite project, the Bruce Roberts Santa Fund, involves pro- viding toys for needy families at Christmas. Cynthia Cryan is operations manager at the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, a large home-health agency in Manhattan, and is living in a beautiful brownstone in Brook- lyn. In November she and Ayesha Mazhar were bridesmaids in the wedding of Yukiko Ishizaka in Maui, Hawaii. Paula DeCubellis stays at home in Nee- nah. Wis., with her two children; Ryan Chris- topher, 2; and Jordan Patrick, born Nov. 10. Martha McGavic Edwards married Dr. Nathaniel Edwards in May 1991. Dr. Heidi Steams Angle was a bridesmaid. Martha will complete her residency in pediatrics at the University of Virginia in June, then will spend a year as chief resident. Nat is completing a residency in internal medicine and plans to start a cardiology fellowship. They ask old friends to write, visit, or call: 2419 Jefferson Park Ave., Chariottesville, Va. 22903; (804) 971-8637. Heidi Feldman is a second-year faculty member at the University of Michigan Law School and is completing her doctoral work in philosophy. She teaches first-year law stu- dents, keeping a "special eye out for those from Brown!" Dr. Susan Glick and her husband, David (Princeton '86), had a daughter, Jennifer Rachel, on Sept. 29. Susan is a resident at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis and next year will be a gastroenterology fellow. David is a third-year surgical resident at Barnes and plans to become a cardiothoracic surgeon. Joel Goldstein lives in Lincoln, Mass., and works at Digital Equipment Corp. as U.S. manager of organization development. The past year Joel traveled to France, England, and Hawaii to teach executive-development programs. Wendy Silverman Gordon was promoted to policy and program analyst in the Office of Water Resource tvlanagement at the Texas Water Commission. She and her husband, Jesse M. Gordon (University of Pennsylvania '82, University of Michigan '90 Ph.D.), are building a house in Austin, with lovely views of the Texas hill country. After February their address will be 7130 Valbum Dr., Austin, Tex. 78731. Bob Harrington and his wife, Lisa, live in Westchester, N.Y., with their 16-month-old daughter, Kyla. Bob is a vice president for Paine Webber in New York City. Lisa Creane Hayden is busy and happy completing her predoctoral internship in clinical psychology at the Worcester Youth Guidance Center and working at Bradley Hospital in East Providence. She lives in 48 / FEBRUARY 1993 Coventry, R.I., with her children, Caitlin, Ryan, Dante, and Sheyanne. Yulia Hirschberg does pharmaceutical research for CIBA/Geigy Corp. in West- chester, N.Y. In Mav l'*'?! she attended the wedding of Lisa Tarbox in Naperville, 111. Yulia would love to hear from old Brown friends and classmates who live in or plan to visit the New York City area: 81 Charter Cir., #5H, Ossining, N.Y. 10562; (914) 923-4851. Dina Holder received her M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in June 1991 and married and moved to Melbourne, Australia, in June. She now works as a marketing man- ager with Agfa-Gevaert Ltd. and runs a small business on the side. Paul Hrisko, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, earned his M.B.A. from Case Western Re- serve University's Weatherhead School of Management in 1992. He now works as a banker at Society National Bank in Cleveland. Christian Ingerslev married Suzuki Kar- lowatz (Berkeley '86). Attendees included Amy Robinson, Barry Freidman '85, and Valerie Freidman '88. Anyone in the Los Angeles area, call (310) 838-4470. Laurie Israel, after working for Booz, Allen & Hamilton in Washington, D.C., for four years, went to Harvard Business School and graduated in 1992. She currently works in brand management for Kraft U.S.A. in Chicago and recently became engaged to Allen Cubell (Harvard Business School '92). They plan a September wedding. Kirsten Iverson moved to Seattle last year and now enjoys sailing and skiing in the Pacific Northwest with friend Dave Wysack. "We get rained on a lot and drink lots of coffee." Mark C. Johnson returned to Providence to do joint-venture software development at Ubisoft. Brian Monnin '92 works as a mar- keting intern for Mark. Bobby Jones, district sales manager for Baxter Healthcare, is married to Allison Jones, a registered nurse. They live in Everett, Wash., where Bob enjoys boating and water skiing. He is involved with Big Brothers and coaches hockey. Rebecca Kaufmann, after workmg as a management consultant for more than two years in London, moved to San Francisco. She sees many old friends while she also looks for her next job. She can be reached at 324 Avila St., San Francisco, Calif. 94123; (415) 567-3535. Laura Kelleher works in retirement and pension plans at the Wyatt Co., an actuarial consulting firm in Washington, D.C. She is studying for the actuarial exams to become an associate in the Society of Actuaries. Todd Kerns spent summer 1992 teaching in Romania, Moldova, and Russia. "The situ- ation over there is fascinating," he writes, "everything you've heard and more." Mamix Koumans is completing his first year at the consulate general in Amsterdam. Friends are welcome to stop in. Write Marnix atMuseumplein 19, 1071 DJ Amsterdam, Netherlands. Diane Koziol moved to Manhattan Beach, Calif., where she is "four houses away from the beach." After returning from a two-week vacation bicycling through Tuscany, Italy, Diane began a new job in the environmental department of the law firm of Harvey & Simon. Her address: 130 Rosecrans PI., Man- hattan Beach, Calif. 90266. David Lai lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and works as an associate con- ductor for Miss Saigon on Broadway. "Stop by the pit and say hello!" Elizabeth Lawrence finished her master's in education at the University of California at San Diego. She currently teaches third and fourth grades in the San Diego city schools. In addition, she has given several lectures on teaching at UCSD and sits on the district curriculum-writing committee for San Diego history, Martha Munroe Layzer graduated from the University of Washington with a master's degree in health-services administration in June 1992. She now works in long-term care administration in a continuing-care retire- ment center. "If anyone's headed to Seattle, I'd love to see you - it's great out here!" Ka Yea Christina Lee and Thuong Van Ha "finally got engaged on May 24 at Brown." Ka Yee earned her Ph.D. in applied physics at Harvard in June and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. Thuong will graduate from the University of Massachusetts Medical School in the spring and plans to head west for his internship. Ka Yee would love to hear from old friends at 535 Arastradero Rd., #313, Palo Alto, Calif. 94306. Charles Leeming, Laguna Hills, Calif., is now vice president of sales with After Hours Software. He works v\-ith Charles Haspel '88. Sharon Lubkin is a visiting assistant pro- fessor of mathematical biology at the Univer- sity of Pittsburgh. Robin Lumsdaine earned a Ph.D. in eco- nomics in June 1991 and currently teaches at Princeton as an assistant professor of eco- nomics. Her new address is Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. 08544. Kathy Mackenzie graduated from Boston University with a master's in social work, and now works on a crisis team that per- forms emergency mental-health evaluations for children and adolescents in the New Bed- ford, Mass., area. Melissa Masnick married Mark Pasanen in June at a Vermont inn with many Brown alumni in attendance. Among them were Mark's father, Wayne Pasanen '67; and Melissa's sister, Alexis Masnick '89. Meli.ssa and Mark settled in Seattle, where Mark is a first-year internal-medicine resident at the University of Washington and Melissa is a product manager at Microsoft Corp. Anyone coming to the Northwest can reach them at 2518'.<: Yale Ave. E, Seattle, Wash. 98102; (206) 720-1726. Amy McCoy Mastin and her husband, Kevin, became parents in June when daugh- ter Helen was delivered by Dr. Laura Emmons at Mt, Auburn Hospital in Cam- bridge, Mass. Amy and Kevin moved back to Colorado and live within walking distance of the lifts at Keystone Ski Area. All friends are welcome. Scott T. Mclsaac works as an environ- mental geologist for Green Environmental Inc. in Quincy, Mass. He is a director of the Brown University Club of Boston. James McLean, currently working his way through a physics Ph.D. at Cornell Uni- versity, wonders where all the other physics majors are. Holly Rohrbach Meeks and her husband moved out of Chicago and into the suburbs of Lake Forest, 111. Their two labradors, Kaos and Peru, run freely through the outdoors now. "Also, we had a baby boy, Forster, on Aug. 15 - nothing could be better than this bundle of joy!" Dr. Rosemary Boghosian Miner married Captam Thomas J. Miner '91 M.D. in Decem- ber 1991. They both serve in the U.S. Army Medical Corps in Germany. Dr. Mary Jane Minkin writes that she is taking care of her obstetric-gynecological patients and two charming and lovely chil- dren: Allegra, 4; and Max, 2. The 1992 class of Yale Medical School awarded her the Frances Gilman Blake Award at graduation for excellence in clinical teaching. Diane L. Moss and Obi J. Imegwu '88 were married on June 13 in Maplewood, N.J., with a reception at the Orange Lawn Tennis Club in South Orange, N.J. James Brooks and Rodika Eccles '87 were in the wedding party. Diane graduated from Harvard Law School in 1989 and is currently an attorney at Time Warner Inc. Obi graduated from Thomas Jefferson Medical College in June and is current a surgical resident at Albert Einstein-Montefiore Medical Center in New York City. They live in Manhattan. Nancy T. Nahigian received her M.B.A. from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University in June. Upon graduation, she vacationed for a month and a half, hiking and fishing through the U.S. National Parks from Mon- tana through New Mexico. She currently works as an assistant vice president in the strategic planning and corporate develop- ment department of Fleet Financial Group in Providence. Nancy Norfolk Nevlls graduated cum laude from Suffolk University Law School in May 1991. On May 23, 1992, she married Timothy F. Nevils Jr. (Dartmouth '88), also a cum laude Suffolk Law graduate, in Baton Rouge, La. Nancy currently works in Boston as an attorney-advisor at the Department of Labor, Office of Administrative Law Judges, while Tim is an assistant district attorney in Essex County, Mass. The couple lives in Salem, Mass. Alison Terbell Nlkltopoulos announces her marriage to Dimitris Nikitopoulos '82 M.S., '86 Ph.D., on Dec. 15 in Athens, Greece. Susan Becker Norton, Adelphi, Md., gave birth to Rachel Terra Norton on Jan. 18, 1992. Susan teaches drama to Head Start students and also acts and directs children's theater. Norman R. Owens and Marta E. Hanson '85 remain in Beijing, where Norman has taken up his latest career teaching seventh- BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 49 grade mathom.itics. Thcv would love to share the eitv with anv alumni making their wav to the East. Leave messages at the Inter- national School of Beijing: telephone ?l)(lbh8S, extension li^W. Doug Parr welcomed "his middle ages bv purchasing furniture and becoming half L\n Ironnian." Allison R. Polly is vice president and cre- ative manager of McCann-Erickson Advertis- ing Agency in New York City. She lives in Westchester County, N.Y. James Reiner writes, "I'm single, and I still like to mingle, and 1 am in Motown pur- suing an ever-elusive singing career." MOVING? To change vour address for the BAM and all other University mailings, fill out this form and mail it to: ALUMNI RECORDS OFFICE Box 1908, Brown University Providence, RI 02912-1908 Please attach old address label here: New Address: (Name and Class) (Street) (City, State, Zip Code) Beth Sperber Richie, Silver Spring, Md., belatedly sh.nes the news of her lime 31), \^>'->0. nunriage to Jordan Richu'. Jennifer Gold, Rachel Rock .S7, and Rebecca Westrick Miller attended, Beth is currently a doctoral student in psychology at the Univer- sity of Maryland. Cynthia Rigby earned a master of divin- ity degree from Princeton Theological Semi- nary in 1989; spent a year working in Min- danao, Philippines, as an ecumenical associate for the United Church of Christ in 1989-90; and is now halfway through a Ph.D. program in systematic theology at Princeton Seminary. Conrad Rippy, Richmond, Va., clerks for the I ionorable lohn D. Butzner Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Con- rad maintains contact with many Brown friends and, of course, his sister Marguerite '89, who lives just up the road in Washing- ton, D.C. The siblings have yet to miss a Campus Dance. Jorge F. Roca married Maria de Lourdes Jaramillo in November 1990. He works in personal and family businesses, including oil trading, investment banking, home-goods retailing, white-goods manufacturing, shrimp farming, mining, and a medical- assistance charity foundation. He lives in Cuenca, Ecuador's third largest city. "If any Brown classmate has anything to do with Ecuador and wants some help or if anyone wants to visit, I'll be glad to guide you around." His address: P.O. Box 01.01.0157, Borrero 13-45, Cuenca, Ecuador. Jeffrey Rodgers is editor of Acoustic Guitar. In August 1991 he married Cecilia Van HoUen '87, and the couple Hves in San Rafael, Calif., where Jeffrey writes music and performs locally with his band. Heavy Wood. Meg Andrews Rosecky married John M. Rosecky (Drexel '83) on Nov. 10, 1990. The wedding party included bridesmaid Nancy J. Jacobs and the bride's father, Graham D. Andrews '51. Dr. Arlene Rosenberg-Henick is a second- year ophthalmology resident at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. Her husband. Dr. David Henick, is an ear, nose, and throat fellow at Montefiore Medical Center. They had their first child, Steven Maxwell Henick, on Nov. 10. Linda Sanches spent five years in the San Francisco Bay Area and recently relocated to Washington,' D.C. She finished the M.P.H. program at the University of California at Berkeley last spring, then spent the summer backpacking in Europe before taking a job as a program analyst for the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Secretary. Friends may reach her at (202) 234-8507. Deborah Klein Sokol and David Sokol announce the birth of Rebecca Claire on Oct. 12. Deborah and David are both in their last year of internal-medicine residencies at Tem- ple University Hospital in Philadelphia. Dr. Selim Suher finished his third Brown degree and currently is working on his fourth. He starteci a residency in emergency medicine at Rhode Island Hospital. "The old gang" - Selim, Tony Alberghini, and Jim Caulfield - met recently in Boston and had a few beers. For anyone in Providence, Selim's new phone number is (401) 353-0814. Dr. Gary Tamkin graduated from the University of Calilornia at Irvine Medical College in June He received the Senior Humanitarian Award and the Award for Excellence in Emergency Medicine. Gary is completing his residency in emergency medicine at Oakland's Highland General Hospital. Steven Toms '89 M.D. is currently a neurosurgical resident at the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio. Tracy TuUis continues to work toward a Ph.D. in history at New York University, with a concentration on the history of Ameri- can women. She lives half the year in New Ycirk City, the other half in Cairo, Egypt. Peter Vaughn, after living five years in Boston, moved to Fontainebleau, France, last year and completecJ his M.B.A. studies at INSEAD. He now works for American Express in London and "would love to see anyone who finds himself on the other side of the Atlantic!" Reach Peter at his AmEx office: (01 1 ) 44-444-252-fi79. Karen Wohlblatt (nee Wohl) lives with her husband, Jeremy Wohlblatt (ne Blatt, Princeton '85), in New Jersey and commutes to Harvard University Graduate School of Education for her fifth year of study to com- plete her Ed.D. Karen and Jeremy have been married for four years. Contact Karen at 35A Keep St., Madison, N.J. 07940. Dr. David Wolfsohn is finishing his internal-medicine residency at Cornell. He and John Keegan just returned from moun- tain climbing in Russia, and David is now doing tropical-medicine work in Brazil. Nina Zegger, after graduating from Wharton Business School in May 1991, began work as an investment officer in the Inter- national Finance Corp.'s resident mission in Warsaw, Poland. She writes, "There's a large U.S. and Western European expatriate com- munity of young people here, and Poles for the most part are open and eager to learn. Highlights of the past year have included travels throughout central Europe and Rus- sia, running the Munich marathon, and mas- tering basic Polish." She'd love to welcome any classmates to Warsaw, so please contact her if you plan to come: International Finance Corp., 65/79 Jerozolimskie, 9th floor. Room 14, Warsaw, Poland 00697. 87 Melissa Birch married Kirk Glerum (Uni- versity of Washington '83) on Oct. 17 in Seattle. Emily Tseng and Pam Wasserman were her attendants Jennifer Apy, Donald Apy, and Momi Furuya Akeley also joined in the festivities. The couple lives in Redmond, Wash., where both are software engineers with Microsoft Corp. Angela Lorenz "rarely knows anyone who writes in to the BAM." She has lived in Bologna, Italy, making artist's books since 1989. "The similarly delinquent Alison 50 / FEBRUARY 1993 Wald" stopped by for a visit in November atter a brief trip to Prague. Eric Tsuchida has begun his first year of the j.D.-M.B.A. jouit degree at Harvard. The class of '88 will celebrate its 5th reunion on the weekend of May 28-31. Remember to save the dates! If you did not receive a fall reunion mailing, please call reunion headquarters at (401) 863-1947. Ernest Bates is currently pursuing a joint M.B.A.-M.A. between the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School and the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He expects to graduate in May. Jonathan Bauman attended a barbecue in San Diego and hit the town with Eric Anton '89, Perry Herst '86, Dan Meltzer Sm, p.j. Palmer, Nigel Paxton '87, Jon Pliner, and Eliot Posner 'S7. Jonathan practices corpo- rate and securities law in Centurv City, Calif., with Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Mar- maro. He regularly sees Steve Baldlkowski '90, Bryan Behar, and Todd Hoffman '89. Debra Chason recently received her mas- ter's in education, with a specialty in learn- ing disabilities, from American University. She Uves in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Tarasa L. Davis won a lironze medal in yachting at the 1991 Pan American Games. She works for Anderson Consulting in Atlanta. Steve Glenn, vice president of Sim- Graphics Engineering Corp., was named director of the company's new Entertainment Group, which will focus on pioneering interactive, three-dimensional, real-time, computer-animation software. Michele Hangley, after working in Lon- don as a paralegal for two years, began a yearlong trip through Africa, India, Nepal, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia, and New Zealand. As of December, she was scuba div- ing off the Great Barrier Reef and expected to head to New York City in January. Patricia Hayes is a second-year M.B.A. student at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School and will graduate just before the reunion, which she plans to attend. David Huttner lives in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and works as a marketing manager for a marine-fuel-supply company. "Dubai is a wonderful place for nine months of the year, but during the summer it's Hke a sauna," he writes. "There are incredible mountains, long white beaches, and yes, there are bars and nightlife, and women can work, drive, and wear regular clothes. Mail is welcome, and if you find yourself in the neighborhood, please drop in." His address: c/o FAL Energy, Box 6600, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; telephone 011-971-4-526-530. Ellen Jensen is working on her master's at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Anneka Kindler, after surviving the San Francisco earthquake of 1989, working in Tokyo with Erika Collins, traveling in Asia with Amy Sherman in 1990, and working at a San Francisco law firm in 1991-92, is now at the Georgetown Graduate Public PoUcy Program working on an M.P.P. She'd love to hear from classmates: 3519 S St. NW, Wash- ington, DC. 20007. Lisa Lebow married Mark Kaufman '87 in January 1992. The couple lives in North Bethesda, Md. Heather Meredith '91 M.Ed. (University of California at Los Angeles) married Robert H. Tyndall 89 M.S. (Northeastern) on Sept. 5 in Newton, Mass. Many Brown graduates attended, including best man George Siberry and bridesmaid Bonnie Freeman. Heather teaches high-school history and English as a second language in Lynn, Mass. Rob works as a senior consultant at Price Waterhouse in Boston. They live at 50 Basset St., Lynn, Mass. 01902; (617) 593-9671. Brad Montgomery, a stand-up perfor- mance artist and magician, recently was named the Colorado Magician of the Year. He has been the opening act for comedians George Carlin and Buddy Ebsen. Patrick M. Murphy and his wife, Patty Nawrocki '84, celebrated their first wedding anniN'ersarv in August. Thev hve in Mans- field, Mass. Dr. Uma Reddy and George Siberry announce that they will be married in March 1993. They live in Baltimore. Valerie Gates Senft is a photographer in Los Angeles shooting fashion, album covers, and portraits. She is also starting out as a video director. Valerie's husband, Barry Friedman '85, works as an art director for an independent music label. John Schmidtlein graduated from Georgetown Law School in spring 1992 and now clerks for a federal judge in Baltimore. Gregory W. Sullivan has joined the U.S. Department of State as a foreign-service offi- cer. Now living in Alexandria, Va., Gregory will be leaving for his first post in September. Jennifer Sullivan married David Collins (RISD '88) in 1992 and is now working on a master's in environmental engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. She lives in San Francisco. 89 , Kaui Chun, attending Stanford in pursuit of a j.D. and MB. A., writes about Brown friends: Luther Ampey '88 and Amy Blunt married last year; Amy will receive her M.D. this spring, and Luther received his last spring and is now doing his residency, both at the University of Virginia. Daniel Azcona is working on an M.B.A. at the University of Texas at Austin. James Brooks '88 is an inde- pendent computer consultant in the San Francisco Bay Area. Chris Burge works at Solomon Brothers. Shawn Cadawallader is with the admissions office at the University of the Pacific. Jennifer Chang and Chris Het- terly married and now live in San Francisco, where Jennifer was active in the Clinton cam- paign and Chris works for Wells Fargo. Christina Ching is an accounting supervisor, Tom Connors a collections supervisor, Kevin JoUey an accountant, and Earl Owens '88 a technical marketer, all at Oracle Corp. in Bel- mont, Calif. Henry Chang is studying for his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at the Univer- sity of California at Berkeley. Scott Clarke is at an advertising firm in New York City. Jor- dan Cohen '88 recently married and lives in San Francisco. Valerie Dabady received her J.D. from Harvard this past spring and is now an associate at a New York City law firm. Chris Dowling is an assistant vice pres- ident at Bankers Trust in New York City. Clayton Earle '88 is working on an M.B.A. at Harvard Business School. Garry Etgen, a Ph.D. student in neurophysiology at the Uni- versity of Texas at Austin, and Carrie Arnold Etgen are expecting a baby in the spring. Laura Froelich is working as an advertising executi\-e for Allure magazine at Conde Nast. Brian Hunt '88 is in his first year at Kellogg. Adam Leichtling '88 is on the Laiv Rex'iew at the University of Miami Law School. Jean- Pierre Louis attends medical school in New York City. Jamie Martin '88 is a software developer at Sybase. Hersey Moore '87 and James Monroe '88 both attend Stanford Graduate School of Business; James spent two-and-a-half years as a field engineer for IBM. Damon Owens '88 obtained his M.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and works at AT&T Bell Labs. Anne Stringer is pursuing a mas- ter's in computer education at the University of San Francisco. Mark Thompson, after his appearance at the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in the 400-meter hurdles, is back in Florida Tim Wall is in Boston, looking to return to medical school. Laura L. Stone married David C. Quam (Duke '90) on Aug. 15 in Rhode Island. Laura's grandfather is the late Anthony A. Kemalian '30, and her mother is Barbara Kemalian Stone '53. The bride's brother, Thomas P. Stone, was a groomsman, and Caroline M. Villela was maid of honor. Bridesmaids included Laura Froelich, Anne P. Stringer, Alexandra S. McKechnie, and Elizabeth J. Kemalian '92. Laura Stone, an attorney, clerks for the Honorable Robert Brandt of the Tennessee Chancery Court, and David is a third-year law student at Vander- bilt University. They can be reached at 21 10 Portland Ave., Apt. 305, Nashville, Tenn. 37212; (615) 269-4398. Doug Tudor has been promoted to Los Angeles manager for Southern Liz'ing maga- zine. Doug oversees the southern California, southern Nevada, Arizona, and Hawaii sales territories. 90 Steve Harrison married Kristen Berry (West Virginia State '94) on Aug. 7 at the Glasgow Church of the Nazarene in Glas- gow, W. Va. Steve was elected to a seat in the West Virginia House of Delegates on Nov. 3. They live at 611 Cross Lanes Dr., #6, Nitro, W. Va. 25143. Jennifer Kim and Boise Ding enjoy life at Harvard Law School and annciunce their engagement. Laura Lyvehse (see Jim Welters '85). Kristen E. Welsh began a Ph.D. program in Russian literature at Yale. 5ROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 51 I 91 Alexander Cooper is currcntlv studying eighttviitlvti'iiturN Hnglisli liti-rature for ht-r master's in pliilosopin M B.illinl College, Oxford, Hnglcind. Chris Crosman, .ifter >i cross-coiinlrv trek [vom \\ ashmglon, DC, \sitli Diana Pittet, has settled m jn ap.ntment in Venice Beach, Calif., with Brent Curtis '42, a few blocks from Jason Lowith '^>0. Diana went home to New Jersew while Chris now works as a paralegal at the law firm Arnold & Porter. Brent is a technical consultant with AID, a recording-equipment company, and Jason is working at the Odvssev Theatre. Thev have received \ isits from David Stellwagen, Derek Matsuura ''■>2, Charlene Ku '94, Kim- berly Nicholls '^>4. Geoff Talvola '93, and Marc Mayer ''■>?'. They encourage people to write and "move out here." Their address: 1918 Pacific Ave., #3, Venice 90291. Tom Dans works for Allen & Co., an investment-hanking firm specializing in the media and entertainment industries, along- side Dara Khosrowshahi He lives in New York Citv with Adam Kulick, who works for Citicorp; and Jim Hurst '92, a Lehman Broth- ers banker. Michael Fleischer (see Stuart Fleischer '39). Nicole Hoffmeister and Jeff Cooper (Har- vard '90) plan an Aug. 7 wedding. Nicole works as a development officer at the Execu- tive Council on Foreign Diplomacy in Ar- monk, N.Y., and Jeff will graduate from Yale Law School in June. "We'd love to hear from you. Greetings, advice, and visitors are all welcome at 13 Cole Dr., Armonk 10504." Tara Koslov is in her second year at Har- vard Law School and has joined the editorial board of the Hnrvard journal on Legislation. She wrote a student note for the journal of Lau\ Mcilicinc, anil Hcaltli Care regarding the recent Supreme Court abortion decision. Reed Pruyn is the activitv coordinator for the California Autism Foundation. He lives at (i(W Summit Ave., Mill Valley, Calif. 94941. Greg Siegle married Monica Barback on |uly 3. He is currently a graduate student at Northwestern University. Andrea Silverman is studying for her master's at the Columbia University School of Journalism. She can be reached at (21 2) 853-4073. 92 Rebecca Bliss, a graduate student in the School of Education at Stanford, is director of the Women's Center at Stanford University. Matt Dunne won a three-way race to cap- ture a new Vermont House of Representa- tives seat representing Hartland and West Windsor. Democrat Matt, an administrative assistant at Dartmouth College, beat Republi- can Clyde Jenne by 167 votes. Adina G. Gordon is the executive director of Schola Cantorum, a 130-voice concert cho- rus based in Palo Alto and Mountain View, Calif. "Amazingly, 1 find myself doing exactly what I want to be doing. Anyone who comes to visit me is offered complimen- tary tickets to a concert." She can be reached at 316 Escuela, Apt. 110, Mountain View 94040; (415) 988-1848. Brian Monnin (see Mark Johnson '8b). GS Beatrice Emil Wickett Hall '45 M.A., '80 D.E.D., was invested as a member of the Order of Canada in September 198b. Her undergraduate university, Acadia, conferred upon her an honorary l.D.E. in education in 1983, and its Alumni Association elected her its Distinguished Alumnus in 199 L She has also been president of the Canadian Psycho- logical Association. Charles Anderson 'b5 Ph.D., an engineer at Los Alamos National Laboratory, has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. David B. Bogy bb Ph.D., El Cerrito, Calif., chairman of the mechanical-engineering department at the University of California at Berkeley, has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Engineers. Bruce H. Fort Jr. '67 MAT., professor and chairman of the department of Motor Sciences, Albany State College, Albany, N.Y., retired after thirty-four years of service. Martha Cornog 'b8 M.A. (see '66). Elaine I. Savage '7b Ph.D. (see Everett W. Schreiner '32) Mark Asquino '78 Ph.D. (see '71). Dimitris Nikitopoulos '82 M.S., '86 Ph.D. (see Alison Terbell Nikitopoulos '86). MD Stephanie Spangler '76 MD. (see '73). Linda Chen '79 M.D. (see '73). Esther Nash '81 MD. (see Barbara Rol- nick '83). Karen Kerman '83 M.D. (see '78). Marion Pandiscio '85 M.D. (see '81). Andy Moore '88 M.D. (see Jun Welters '85). Jim Welters (see '85). Manu Rajachandran '88 M.D. (see Jim Welters '85). Steven Toms '89 M.D. (see '86). Corey Greenwald '90 M.D. (see Jim Wel- ters '85). Captain Thomas J. Miner '91 M.D. (see Rosemary Boghosian Miner '86). Obituaries Ralph Gibney Hurlin '12, 13 A.M., '15 Ph.D., Savannah, Ga.; Nov. 14. He was an instructor at Brown while studying for his advanced degrees and was an associate professor at Clark University, Worcester, Mass., from 1915 to 1918. While on leave from Clark, he served as a major on statistical duty with the general staff of the U.S. Army. He joined the Russell Sage Foundation as a statistician in 1919 and was executive director at his retire- ment. Phi Beta Kappa. Survivors include his wife, Marion, 13 Village Green Cir., Savan- nah 3141 1; and two daughters, Barbara Hur- lin Zovickian '39 and Mary Hurlin Glen '41. Elsie Northrup Center '17, Greenfield, Mass.; Sept. 17. Before her marriage to Benjamin Center, she was a high-school teacher and a secretary at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston. She was active in the American Association of University Women, the Red Cross, the Greenfield Parent-Teacher Associ- ation, and the Greenfield School Committee. She was class agent for her class. Among her survivors are a daughter, Carolyn Center Browning '61, 10 Union St., Greenfield 03101; and a grandson, William N. Center Jr. '80. Benjamin Howard Slade 18, Kingston, R.I.; Nov. 19. He was secretary and purchasing agent for Westcott, Slade & Balcom Co. In 1957 he was elected director of the Retail Paint and Wallpaper Distributors of Amer- ica. During the 1940s he was elected to the Rhode Island House of Representatives and served as deputy minority floor leader. He was a veteran of Worki War 1. He is survived by two daughters, including Jane S. Prince, 58 Bayberry Rd., Kingston IJ2881. Frank Carlin Lynch '20, Quogue, NY.; Oct. 19. For many years he worked for General Motors Overseas Operations, New York City. There is no information available regarding survivors. Hope Thornton Burke '25, Keene, N.H.; Nov. 17. She was a case worker for the New Hampshire Department of Public Welfare and in the late 1960s was a member of Keene's housing authority. Survivors include a son and a daughter, Patricia B. Wright, 214 Court St., Keene 03431-2599. Catherine Fitzgerald Hagan '25, '27 A.M., Providence; Nov. 6. She retired in 1970 as chairman of the history department at Tol- man Senior High School, Pawtucket, R.I., after more than twenty-five years of teach- ing. At Tolman she was a drama coach and a Rhode Island Model Legislature advisor. She was a past president of the James L. McGuire Parent-Teacher Association and a former member of the executive committee of the Rhode Island PTA. During the 1950s she was arts and crafts director for the Pawtucket Recreation Department. During World War II she was a member of the North Providence Rationing Board and the North Providence District Nursing Association Board of Direc- tors. She was president of the Pembroke class of '25. Phi Beta Kappa. Among her sur- 52 / FEBRUARY 1993 vivors are two daughters and two sons, including William, 79 Dana St., Provi- dence 02906. Thomas Patrick Haven '25, Mansfield, Mass.; July 8, 198t). He was superintendent of the former Defiance Bleachery in Norton, Mass., where he worked for thirty-five years before retiring. He is survived by three sisters. Gurda Pritchard Nevers '25, Whitefield, N.H.; Aug. 21. She was retired as a librarian at the Jefferson, N.H., Public Library. Phi Beta Kappa. Survivors include a son, Wilbur, 41 Love Ave., Lynn, Mass. 01904. Richard Lincoln Wheelock '25, Phoenix; Oct. 24. He was a retired electrical engineer. His guardian was David A. Wing, 15435 28th St., Phoenix, Ariz. 85044-8995. Domenico Antonio lonata '26, Providence: Oct. 26. He was a manufacturing superinten- dent and engineer for the Providence Gas Co. for thirty-eight years before retiring in 1964. While working for the utility, he adapted new gas-production techniques after coal gas was phased out. He was also an engineer for the Rhode Island Division of Roads and Bridges. He served on the Rhode Island Building Board of Review and was a founder of the Rhode Island State Engineers Society, receiving its Engineer of the Year award in 1972. He was a past president and national director of the National Society of Professional Engineers. He was a past presi- dent and treasurer of the Italo-American Club of Rhode Island and was a three-time president of the Federal Hill Housing Associ- ation. He was a former member of the Rhode Island Civic Chorale and Orchestra. The Domenico A. lonata Fund was established at Brown in 1976, the year of his 50th reunion, and each year gives an award to a senior engineering concentrator who demonstrates creativity and imagination in an independent- study project. Mr. lonata served as his class secretary and on the Brown Board for Aca- demic Excellence. He came to this country from Fornelli, Italy, as a teenager and worked in mills and attended night school to learn English. He later taught Italian at Hamilton House, Providence. Survivors include a brother; a son, Richard '57, 13310 N.E. 287th Cir., Battle Ground, WA 98604; and two daughters. Leonard Earl Wilson '27, Glastonbury, Conn.; Nov. 5. He was a salesman for the Charles Jacquin Co. in Philadelphia until retiring in 1970. He is survived by his son, Bruce A. Wilson of Farmington, Conn.; and a daughter. Faith A. Lawton of Windsor, Conn. John Graham Jr. '29, Lincoln, R.I.; Oct. 31. He was a reporter for the Pnwtucket Times and the Prcvuience journal-Bulletin, Paw- tucket, R.I., office, before retiring twenty years ago. A widower, he is survived by a niece and two nephews, including Fred Car- penter of Lincoln. Dorothy E. Miller '30, Boston; Oct. 15. Her career in radio and television began in 1935 with WBZ radio in Boston, when she acted in the nationally broadcast radio serial "Harvey and Dell." She began her work in television in 1948 and was continuity director for WBZ- TV when she retired in 1971. She is survived by nieces, nephews, and cousins, including Hope L. Douglass, 199 Cummings Rd., Swansea, Mass. 02777. Linnell Jones '32, New York City; Sept. 5. He was a retired vice president of public affairs for ITT Continental Baking Co. in Rye, N.Y. He was formerly editor of the Mapkivood (N.j.) Neu'S. He is survived by his wife, Mil- dred, 119 Payson Ave., New York, N.Y. 10034. H. William Koster '32, Bristol, R.I.; Oct. 27. After graduating, he became program director at WPRO radio for eleven years. Later he was program director of radio stations KSK in St. Louis and WAAB in Worcester, Mass. He returned to Rhode Island in 1947 to become the general manager of WPJB and later of WEAN as well. He then became director of television broadcasting for the Providence Journal Co. He was also secretary of Colony Communications, a Journal cable-television company. He was president of the Rhode Island Radio and Television Broadcasters Association, a director of the New England Associated Press Broadcasters Association, and a member of the Broadcast Pioneers and the Broadcasting Executives Club of New England. He was a director of the Providence Better Business Bureau and one of the first men to become a member of the American Association of University Women. He was a corporation member and a trustee of the Rocky Hill County Day School, East Greenwich, R.I. He was a member of the board of the Old Warwick League Library and served on the Warwick Mayor's Traffic Safety Committee. He was vice chairman of the council of Pil- grim Lutheran Church and was on the board of directors of the Providence Community Concert Association. He served on the board of Steere House, Providence, and was a mem- ber of the state Educational Television Com- mission. He is survived bv two sons and his wife, Margaret, 286 N. Farm Dr., Bristol 02805. W. Stimpson Brown Jr. '37, Stone Mountain, Ga.; Aug. 1. He worked for forty-two years and retired as production superintendent in the fabrics and finishes department at E.I. Du Pont de Nemours. Among his sur\'ivors are his wife, Jane, 2110 Gunstock Dr., Stone Mountain 30087; five children, including Wendell ni '65, '67 Sc.M.; a sister; and four brothers, including Edmund '39, Roger '41, and John M. '45. Jack Washbume Hawley '38, Lakeville, Conn.; Oct. 28. He worked at Community Service Inc., a coal, grain, and building- materials company in Lakeville, for forty-five years before retiring in 1983. He was a trustee of the Dr. William Bissell Fund and a treasurer of the Lakeville-Salisbury Baseball Association. During World War II he served with the U.S. Army in the South Pacific. He is survived by a son. Jack W. Hawley II, P.O. Box 136, 172 Sharon Rd., Lakeville 06039. Elsbeth L. Beeh '39, Enfield, Conn.; Feb. 1, 1992. She was a retired elementary-school teacher. There is no information regarding survivors. George Louis Playe '39, '40 A.M., Phoenix; Oct. 16. He was a professor of romance lan- guages and literature at the University of Chicago from 1946 to 1986, when he retired as professor emeritus. He received his doc- torate from the University of Illinois in 1949. He was director of financial aid at the Uni- versity of Chicago from 1957 to 1959, dean of undergraduate students from 1959 to 1971, chairman of the committee on the humanities from 1971 to 1982. He was a trustee of the vil- lage of Homewood, III, from 1959 to 1963, and a member of the Flossmoor, 111., School Board from 1965 to 1972. He was a lieutenant in the U.S. Army during World War II. Phi Beta Kappa. He lived in Phoenix and in Ray- mond, N.H. Survivors include his wife, Joan, 13 Beach Head Rd., Raymond 03077; two children; and seven stepchildren. Arthur Weightman Smith '41, Narragansett, R.I.; Oct. 28. He was a marine biologist with the U.S. Public Health Service, Food and Drug Administration, until retiring in 1979. He owned a fishing dragger and a lobster boat in Point Judith, R.I., for many years and was a member of the Point Judith Fisher- men's Co-op. He was a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy during World War II, serving as a bomber pilot in the Pacific. Survivors include his wife, Dorothy, 375 Wandsworth St., Nar- ragansett 02882; two sons; and a brother. Browning '49. Dr. Nelson Lionel Portnoy '43, Boynton Beach, Fla.; Sept. 15. He opened a private practice in urologv in New Bedford, Mass., in 1952 and later was chief of urology at St. Luke's Hospital there. He was on the faculty of Tufts University School of Medicine and founded the New Bedford Urological Associ- ation Inc. He retired in 1985. He was a cap- tain in the U.S. Army medical corps from 1946 to 1948 and president of Tifereth Israel Synagogue in New Bedford from 1966 to 1968. Survivors include two children and his wife, Gloria, 50 Bristol Dr., Boynton Beach 33436. Elton Piers Wunsch '43, San Jose, Calif.; Jan. 12, 1992. He was a retired builder. There is no information regarding survivors. John Browning Lynde '46, Middleborough, Mass.; June. 6. He was retired from the Mid- dleborough Co-operative Bank. He served with the U.S. Navy during World War II. He is survived by his wife, Barbara, 27 Rock St., Middleborough 02346. W. Livingstone Voos '46, Cheshire, Conn.; Sept. 29. He was president of Voos Cutlery Inc. He is survived by his daughter, Gayle BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 53 Paulick, r.O. Bo\ 4')0. 1001 I.irvis St., Chesh- ire 0h4 10. William Moyer Wheeler '4(1, Vincentown, N.].; Aug. 13. ! le was d sales engineer with Saivill Manufacturing Co., VVaterbury, Conn. 1 le served with the U.S. Navy amphibian corps during World War II. Survivors include his wife, Betty Jane, 19 Finchley Ct., Vincentown 08088-1006. Jane Luerssen Gilford '48, Reading, Pa.; Oct. lb. She was a volunteer leader in many Read- ing community agencies and a member of several boards of directors. Survivors include a daughter, a son, and her husband, Robert L. Gilford Jr. '46, 515 Elm Ave., Reading l'^605. Frederick Vamey Moulton '50, Topsfield, Mass.; Nov. 18, IWl. He was director of credit and collections at the corporate head- quarters of Intercontinental Transport Ser- vices Inc., Peabody, Mass. He was previously international sales manager of A.C. Law- rence Leather Co., Peabody. He is survived by his wife, Deborah, 129 Main St., Tops- field 01983. Richard Diamand '51, Norwood, Mass.; Oct. 5, of cancer. He worked for Filene's depart- ment store for thirty-seven years, beginning in 1953 as an executive trainee. He was divi- sional merchandise manager and general manager of the Wellesley, Belmont, and Brookline stores before becoming advertising director and divisional vice president. After his retirement he worked for the Service Corps of Retired Executives and served on the boards of directors of Temple Shaare Tefilah in Norwood and of the Filene's Credit Union. Survivors include two sons and his wife, Jodie, 36 Churchill Dr., Norwood 02602. Paul Remi Goyette '53, Bristol, R.I.; date of death not available. He worked in sales for Nicholson File Co., East Providence, R.I., and later with W. Henry Coleman, Barrington, R.I. There is no information available regard- ing survivors. Dorothy Ann Cox '58, Roslindale, Mass.; Dec. 2, of lung cancer. She received her master's in social work from Boston College. She worked as a social worker for the Massachusetts Soci- ety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children; supervisor at the South End Neighborhood Action Program; chief social worker at the May Unit of Boston State Hospital; head social worker at the Solomon Carter Fuller Mental Health Hospital and at the Shattuck Hospital, Dorchester unit; and associate director of the Roxbury Children's Service. She also volunteered at Rosie's Place, a women's shelter, caring for chronically men- tally ill women; the women's issues commit- tee of the National Association of Social Workers, Massachusetts chapter; the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood House; the Shattuck shelter; and the parish council of Blessed Sacrament Church in Jamaica Plain. She is survived by two sons, including Lorenzo Cox, 30 Coniston Rd., Roslindale 02131. 54 / FEBRUARY 1993 Dudley Alan Voorhees Jr. '60, Vineyard 1 liUen, Mass.; Nov. 27. Most recently a pri- vate consultant, he had worked for several advertising agencies, including Compton Advertising and Gardner Advertising, and had been a vice president of the Whitehead Group Inc., all in New York City. Among his survivors are a daughter, Ann Morton, P.O. Box 2757, Vineyard Haven 02568; two sons; and four stepchildren. Walton Boston Koch '61, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Sept. 1, of an apparent heart attack while bicycling. After receiving his master's and doctoral degrees at Washington State University, he taught at Montana State Uni- versity and then at the Allendale, Mich., campus of Grand Valley State University since 1971 in the anthropology and social- sciences departments. In 1985 he helped pro- cure a mastodon skeleton for the school and in 1990 helped obtain a Michigan historical marker for the 1800s lumber town of Blendon Landing, located on the school's campus. He was a member of the curriculum committee of the Allendale Public Schools. He is sur- vived by his parents and his companion, Judy Spencer, 1655 Woodward SE, Grand Rapids 49506. Robert Michael Shannon '63, Lake Bluff, 111.; Sept. 19, of cancer. He was a partner at Arthur Andersen & Co., Chicago. Survivors include two children and his wife, Anne, 119 Oak Terr., Lake Bluff 60044. Margaret M. Sloan '64, Tempe, Ariz.; Sept. 25. She was a professional development man- ager for Intel Corp. Survivors include her husband, John Kasson, 5602 S. Rocky Point Rd., Tempe 85283-2134; and two children. Barbara Buckbee Hebron '68, Davis, Calif.; Nov. 13. She was a management service offi- cer at the University of California at Davis. She is survived by her parents; her compan- ion, Robert DuPlaine of Davis; and two chil- dren, including David Bartis '88, 6903 Rose- wood Ave., Los Angeles, Calif. 90036. Melvin Winfred Dixon '73 A.M., '75 Ph.D., Stamford, Conn.; Oct. 26, of complications from AIDS. He taught English at Queens College, City University of New York. In 1989 he won the first Charles H. and N. Mil- dred Nilon Excellence in Mincirity Fiction award for his first novel, Twubli' the Water. He had previously published three books on academic subjects, including an African- American literature textbook and a book of poetry. He had taught at Columbia, Williams, and Fordham, and received a Ful- bright senior lectureship to teach at the Uni- versity of Dakar, Senegal, before joining the Queens College faculty in 1986. He is sur- vived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Handy Dixon, 245 Fairfield Ave., Stamford 06902. Dr. Edward W. Collins '75 M.D., East Provi- dence, R.I.; Nov. 3, of pneumonia while under treatment for a neurokigical ailment. He was director of the Rhode Island Depart- ment for Children and Their Families from 19H5 to 1988, when he left to become state child-policy coordinator. In 1990 Dr. Collins returned to private practice in behavioral pediatrics. He was head of the Rhode Island Hospital Child Abuse Team and was an assistant professor of pediatrics at Brown. He was a sailing enthusiast and was active in yacht regattas on Narragansett Bay. Sur- vivors include a daughter and his wife, Bar- bara, 73 Terrace Ave., East Providence 02912. Thomas Anthony Grossi Jr. '81, Grenoble, France; Nov. 15. He was a computer engineer for eight years at Cap Gemini Innovations, Grenoble. Before moving to France, he had been employed by Hughes Aircraft of Middle- town, R.I. He received his master's from Yale in 1983. He was an accomplished organist and was studying music at the Conservatory of Grenoble at the time of his death. He is survived by his companion, Ivan Pabilla Chasing, Grenoble; and two sisters, includ- ing Dr. Catherine A. Grossi '86, 132 Turn- pike Ave., Portsmouth, R.I. 02871. Joseph Paul Cerami '82, Miami; Oct. 23. He was an associate director of high-yield capi- tal markets for the investment firm of Bear, Stearns, New York City. He received his M.B.A. from Columbia. He is survived by his parents and his wife, Jennifer, 830 N.E. 128th St., Miami, Fla. 33161-4914. William G. McLoughlin Jr., see page 16. Dr. Zbigniew A. Zawadski, Providence; Dec. 7. A Polish-horn physician, researcher, and journalist, Dr. Zawadski was a professor in the Program in Medicine from 1974 to 1987. During World War II, when the Nazis closed all schools of higher education in Poland, he continued his education in the Warsaw underground medical school. He was also active in the Polish underground resistance and was often cited by colleagues and the Polish government for his courage and com- passion. He came to this country in 1961 with his first wife, a dentist; and his two daugh- ters. They settled in Pittsburgh, where he was chief of hematology and oncology at the Veterans Administration Hospital and asso- ciate professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. After com- pleting a hematology fellowship at Tufts- New England Medical Center, Boston, he practiced as a hematologist and oncologist. He joined the faculty at Brown as associate professor of medicine in 1974. He was also chief of clinical immunology at Memorial Hospital, Pawtucket, R.I. Dr. Zawadski was internationally recognized for his research in multiple myeloma and other blood disorders and wrote for several professional publica- tions. After his retirement from Brown and private practice in 1987, he wrote primarily in Polish publications about his wartime experiences and about current medical con- troversies. He is survived by two daughters, a stepdaughter, and his wife, Urszula, 202 Governor St., Providence 02906. ED Chapin-Carpenter. . . continued from page 31 Finally... continued from page 56 concerts in England, Scotland, and Ire- land, and by March and April she'll be touring again with country crooner Vince Gill. By the end of the summer Carpenter figures she'll be ready for a substantial vacation from touring. "I want to do a whole lot of writing and some other projects fermenting in my brain," she says, "and see what it's like to be home for a while." Let us hope she finds time to take up her yellow legal pad and write more songs. As she has shown, country music isn't only about big hats and boots. It's about telling stories, real stories, stories from the land of the heart, and at the moment Mary-Chapin Carpenter is telling those stories just about as well as they can be told. ED A former managi)ig editor of the Brown Alumni Monthly, Debra Shore is noiv a free-lance writer based in Chicago. Acknowledgements "Hometown Girl" by Mary-Clmpin Carpenter. © 1985 EMI April Music Inc./ Getarealjob Music. All rights controlled and administered by EMI April Music Inc. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Used by permission. "I Feel Lucky" by Mary-Chapin Carpenter and Don Schlitz. © 1992 EMI Aprd Music Inc. I Getarealjob Music/Almo Music Corp./Don Schlitz Music. All rights for Getarealjob Music controlled and administered by EMI Aprd Music Inc. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Used by permission. "Stones in the Road" by Mary-Chapin Carpenter. © 2992 EMI Aprd Music Inc./ Getarealjob Music. AU rights controlled and administered by EMI Aprd Music Inc. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Used by permission. zombie then - like all Muslims - 1 was hypnotized, pointed in a certain direc- tion and told to march. Well, I guess a man's entitled to make a fool of himself if he's ready to pay the cost. It cost me twelve years." That post-Mecca Malcolm - the truth seeker and optimist - is a man worth celebrating. That Malcolm, still a harsh critic of racist whites, believed select black- white coalitions could fell the ugly struc- ture of racism and uplift black America. 1 wonder, though, if this is the Malcolm X black college students are celebrating. The growing popularity of a number of college-circuit speakers who espouse thinking similar to that of the pre-Mecca Malcolm indicate that the message of Malcolm's entire life is not being heard or celebrated. And that is disturbing. For example, Leonard Jeffries, chair of the Afro- American studies department at City College of New York, who is becom- ing a regular on the college lecture circuit, claims that whites are biologically infe- rior to blacks, that the "ultimate culmina- tion" of the "white value system" is Nazi Germany, and that wealthy Jews were responsible for financing the slave trade. Louis Farrakhan and his Nation of Islam disciples - such as Conrad, Khal- lid, and Don Muhammad - also receive speaking invitations, despite the Nation's well-documented history of racism and anti-Semitism. Speaking at Harvard last year, Conrad Muhammad blamed the Jews for trashing the environment and destroying the ozone layer. Khallid Muhammad began a Columbia talk by saying, "My leader, my teacher, my guide is the honorable Louis Farrakhan. I thought that should be said at Columbia Jewniversity." This foolishness has gone on at Brown as well: ■ Last year a predominantly black campus group invited Public Enemy rapper Chuck D. to speak on "Issues of Race and Class." The invitation concerned some campus Jews. Public Enemy has long flirted with anti- Semitism. Particularly worrisome to some in the Jewish community was the fact that only weeks before his lec- ture at Brown, Chuck D. had appeared at Harvard with Conrad Muhammad. ■ In 1991 a black fraternity and the Organization of United African Peoples sponsored a Black History Month lec- ture by Don Muhammad. During the question-and-answer period Muham- mad said that Zionists had collaborated with Hitler "to buy Arab land." An infuriated campus Jewish leader responded in the Brozvn Daily Herald. His well-researched article revealed Muhammad's claim to be patently false. Neither the black fraternity nor OUAP issued a public apology. ■ Last year Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., chairman of Harvard's Afro- American studies department, spoke at Brown. Responding to a student's ques- tion. Gates denounced Leonard Jeffries, saying, "We have to stop this talk about Jews running the slave trade." The mostly black audience, which had been responding with applause and laughter, met this statement with stony, almost hostile silence. How can black students honor Mal- colm X? First, we must acknowledge the faults of the pre-Mecca Malcolm, the self-proclaimed fool. Then we must stop acting like fools. E3 Readers are invited to submit essays of 500 to 800 words for the Finally... column. Send a typed, double-spaced inanuscript or a Macintosh disk for- matted in Microsoft Word to: Manag- ing Editor, Brown Alumni Monthly, Box 1854, Providence, R.I. 02912; fax (401) 751-9255. Essays may also be submitted via electronic mail to: BAM@browtmvm.brown.edu. Authors of published essays will receive an honorarium. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY / 55 Finally... Which Malcolm X? By Eric A. Watts '93 Every February many in Brown's African-American community don black clothing, gather large radios, and annex a portion of Sharpe Refectory known as "Little Africa" to commemo- rate Malcolm X. I have mixed feelings about this ritual. Who was this Malcolm X? In the past few years intense interest in Mal- colm X has been renewed - evidenced by X baseball caps, his voice on rap records, an opera called X, the rise of his autobiography on best-seller lists, and Spike Lee's reverential film, Malcolm X. But how many of us really know who Malcolm X was and what he stood for? Certainly Malcolm fearlessly exposed America's racist legacy and armed blacks with a revolutionary spirit necessary for the civil-rights struggle. But while Malcolm talked about revolu- tion, Martin Luther King Jr. led one. While Malcolm stood on a soapbox in Eric A. Watts '93 is concentrating in phi- losophy at Broicn. Harlem, King's nonviolent, multiracial coalition infiltrated and toppled some of the most racist institutions in America. King, perhaps more than any other civil-rights leader, ensured that millions of blacks could and would go to college. Until the last year of his life Mal- colm's vision was the antithesis of King's. He rejected nonviolence, despite the fact that no sane alternative was available. Blacks were outnumbered ten to one, and the white majority controlled the police and armed forces. Malcolm advocated black separatism. But to accept sepa- ratism is to allow the charge of racial inferiority to go unchallenged. How can black people prove they are not inferior without making it in white America? Also, at the time, whites were joining mainstream civil-rights groups by the thousands. Malcolm condemned them as a "bleached-out race of devils," created, he said, by one Mr. Yacub, a "mad scien- tist" born sixty-six hundred years ago, and genetically predisposed to the sys- tematic destruction of "every race of man not white." Even as Jews com- prised two-thirds of the Freedom Fight- ers and more than one-half of the Mis- sissippi Summer Volunteers, Malcolm proclaimed them "one of the worst dev- ils." Before he made his life-changing pilgrimage to Mecca in 1964, Malcolm's worldview was that of a fool. What makes Malcolm a tragic figure - and an admirable one - is his realiza- tion of that fact a year before his assassi- nation. His autobiography clearly shows he was leaving behind racism and separatism and moving toward King's doctrine of universal humanism: In the book Malcolm recalls a young white college woman coming to a Black Muslim restaurant and asking him, "What can I do?" He told her, "Noth- ing," and she left in tears. He then admits, "Well, I've lived to regret that incident. In many parts of the African continent I saw white students helping black people. Something like this kills a lot of argument. I did many things as a Muslim that I'm sorry for now. I was a continued on page 55 56 / FEBRUARY 1993 T ne Year Brown Rose to tne Occasion It was an exciting year. Charles Evans Hughes, class of 1881, was narrowly defeated for the presidency by Woodrow Wilson. 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