The Grueling Year To an intern medical school was the easy part 1 J?L *u *S It's Not Whether You Win Or Lose. How politically incorrect can we get? Very. But the truth is, winning feels good, whether it's in the classroom, the board room, the operating room, or on the field. Or, think of it this way. What's it like when you pick up the morning paper and read that Brown won? Makes you smile, doesn't it? Beats the alternative, doesn't it? Fact is, we're winning more than any other time in our athletic history. And let's not kid our intellectual selves. Winning teams enhance the overall image of the University. That's reality. Like Hell It's Not. The men and women athletes of Brown appreciate your support as much as they benefit from it. And this year, obviously, they need your help again. Remember, winning is not a dirty word. It's just expensive. So give to the Brown Sports Foundation as generously as you can. tWWWWMWwlw» Help us keep winning by giving or pledging to the Brown Sports Foundation. You can assign your gift to your favorite sport(s) or to sports in general. For more information, write, call or fax us. Our deepest thanks. Cash • Appreciated Securities • Property • Home • Closely Held Slock • Trusts • Boats • Art • Bequests BROWN SPORTS FOUNDATION *A & David Zucconi '55, Executive Director I^V^M BOX l«)2=i. Providence, R.I. 02912 MIM| (401) 863-1900 FAX (401) 863-3691 ^MPi Gordon Perry '55, President • Liz Chase '59, Vice President • Bob Hall '66, Treasurer Bernie Buonnano '60, Secretary • Alexis McCarthy '85, Asst. Treasurer • Hank Cashen '61, Asst. Secretary BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY (feP ED 20 YEARS! OF OCCUPATjC ' SE1 ~ Under the Elms h Another court decision on Title IX . . . two BACH houses shutting down . . . remembering Billy Meiklejohn . . . psyching up athletes . . . Richard Holbrooke on Bosnia . . . the founder of college radio . . . Pick o' the Web . . . Since Last Time . . . and more. DEPARTMENTS Here & Now 2 Carrying the Mail 5 Sports 18 Showdown for the Ivy title Q&A 19 Psychologist Cynthia Garcia Coll Studentside 21 White. Black, and Yellow By David Tsang \)i) Books 20 Holiday Roundup Reviews by Chad Gaits The Classes 40 Obituaries 53 Finally. . . 56 Show and Tell By Jennifer Castle '8g The Youngest Doctors Is it chattel slavery, rigorous training, or both? With medical school behind them, interns face their toughest year yet. By Jennifer Sutton The Best Homework Ever? A professor of mathematics, a gifted student, and the delicate contours of algebraic surfaces. By Thomas BauchojJ Man Without a Nation 22 30 32 In October, the Nobel Peace Prize suddenly focused the world on tiny East Timor's independence struggle. A resistance leader, now a Brown undergraduate, describes his arrest and torture. By Constdncio Pinto \)$ and Matthew Jardine Portrait: Criminals, Beware! 38 Ken Carlson '86 turned family tragedy into a personal law- enforcement vendetta. His beat: your television set. By Chad Gaits cover: Preetha Basaviah '91, '95 M.D. examines x-rays and CAT scans at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital. Photo- graph by Mark Morelli. Volume 97 ■ Number 4/ December 1996 Here & Now AT °^NI Sliding Down the Years A- _ - -i. i^had commuters nosing their cars along Providence streets slicked with black ice. The sight caused me to wonder, not for the first time, how winter denizens ot Providence got up College Hill before the days of radial tires. 1 imagined cruel scenes reminiscent of Black Beauty: coach horses whipped to a lather, their breath huffing from flared nostrils as they labored up glazed cobblestones. After brooding along these lines for several minutes, I reached for a bound volume of Alumni Monthlys from ninety years ago. While I found no answers to my musings about winter transportation, I brightened at the sight ot the December 1906 BAM cover, which depicted Brown's seal encircled in holly. The holiday mood was sustained by several advertisements, including that of Tiffany & Co. selling articles "suitable for Christmas gifts." Who could resist one of the "Mantel Clocks striking hours and halt-hours on Cathedral gong," ranging from $20 to $55? More practical shoppers could hie themselves to 86 Westminster Street, where Owen E. Leavens & Co. offered "Ramie Health Underwear - The Underclothing of the Future. ... It Pre- serves Health, It Restores Health." But the biggest news trom College Hill ninety years ago this month was foot- ball. "Brown 23, Dartmouth o," crowed the headline about a game played November 24 in Springfield, Massachusetts, before 8,000 spectators. "Cheering was inces- sant," the BAM reported, "both colleges keeping the air lively with songs and shouts Bushnell of Brown, dressed as a bear, danced about the players." That night Brown men celebrated with "the greatest nightgown and pajama parade seen in Providence for years. Led by Fay's band, students marched up and down the main thoroughfares of the city cheering, singing, and setting off fireworks. Cars were stopped tor over an hour." Robert P. Brown, class of 1871, proposed in an essay that the win over Dartmouth "was the victory of harmony, of a united body of students, alumni, and football enthu- siasts. . Joined in one thought of the redemption of Brown." Hallelujah! Redemption, however, had yet to materialize for the 1906 faculty, whose salaries, another article noted, were "the same as twenty-five years ago." More for- tunate were the undergraduates: their souls were attended to by the Christian Association, subject ot a feature by Percy W. Gardner '03. The organization, he wrote, "calls upon every man in Brown to forget himself and help his fellow men." Class notes occupied only two pages, but they included several ot historical interest: a reference to the election of Charles Evans Hughes, class ot 1 88 1, as governor ot New York; mention ot a memorial window dedicated at Temple Keneseth Israel of Philadelphia in honor of the late John Hay, class of 1856, and his efforts while Secretary of State to protect Jews in Romania and Russia. And lest you think Joe Paterno '50 is the only alum to coach a college football power, check this entry for the class of 1903: "Ex-Captain Thomas A. Barry of the Brown football team has made a great success as coach at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana." The magazine's back cover advertised the Union Trust Company: "In our Sav- ings Department, new accounts may be opened on a deposit ot one dollar or more. [We pay] 4 per cent Interest." Interest rates may rise and tall, but today the BAM again relies on advertise- ments to help pay publishing and mailing costs. And as did our ninety-year prede- cessor, 111 this issue we report on a pivotal Brown-Dartmouth football game (albeit one with a nail-biting finish; see page 18). 1 closed the bound volume. My brief trip down memory lane had provided a fortifying dose of perspective, history, and college spirit. Brown circa 1906, I mused, was a nice place to visit. But just the same, as another New England winter begins I'm glad to be living 111 the era ot snowplows and radial tires. Happv New Year to all our readers. AuSjm Anne Hinman Diffily '73 Editor BROWN AlUMNI MONTHIV December [996 Volume 97, No. 4 Editor: Anne Hinm.111 Diffily '73 Managing Editor: Norman Boucher Art Director: Kathryn de Boer Assistant Editor: Jennifer Sutton Editorial Associate: Chad Gaits Business Manager: Pamela M. Parker Sports: Peter Mandel '81 A.M. 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K. •parts - london - new york - san francisw Reprinted with the permission of The Philadelphia Inquirer Ivy League magazines boast a million readers and an average income of $132,000. Advertisers find new upscale audience By Laura Gardner ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Looking for new clients with money to invest, Neu- berger & Berman Management Inc. found a ready-made way to reach af- fluent and educated readers: adver- tise in Ivy League alumni maga- zines. The investment firm, which is based in New York, tapped into the Ivy League Magazine Network, a consortium of eight nonprofit maga- zines that together reach about one million readers with an annual me- dian household income of $132,300. The magazines reach "a lot of in- telligent people who are smart about their money," said Steve Klein, media director of Kirshen- baum Bond & Partners, who placed the ads for Neuberger "Plus, they're magazines people care about." The network is based in Cam- bridge, Mass. It was founded in the mid-1970s, and it has grown substan- tially in the past two years through a national sales push that has brought in such names as British Airways and Cadillac. Sales representatives in Cam- bridge, Detroit and New York sell ad space at the rate of $43,435 for a full page. The ads then appear in publications sent to the alumni of Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Har- vard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, Yale and one non-Ivy, Stanford. Columbia, the eighth member of the Ivy League, does not participate in the sales consortium. The network keeps about 15 per- cent of the ad revenue to cover mar- keting and operating costs. The rest is divided among the magazines based on their circulations. The rev- enue has buoyed some of the publi- cations during an era of skyrocket- ing paper prices and increased post- age costs. Ad sales increased 20 percent last year to $1.41 million, and another 20 percent gain is expected in 1996, said Laura FYeid, executive director of the network. 'The demographics in a lump sum are hard to resist," said Carter Wise- man, editor of the Yale Alumni Mag- azine. Nearly half of the Ivy readers have done postgraduate study. Only readers of the Atlantic Monthly have higher levels of education, ac- cording to Mendelsohn Media Re- search Inc., in New York. And the median income of read- ers tops that of many upscale publi- cations, including Worth, Barrons, The Wine Spectator and Conde Nast Traveler, Mendelsohn said. In addition, readers are "totally invested in this magazine," said Anne Diffily, editor of the Brown Alumni Monthly. "They are much more intimate with it than they are with a newsstand magazine." The average reader spends 80 minutes with an issue and picks it up on more than two occasions, ac- cording to Mark Clements Research Inc., in New York. Dartmouth graduate Betsy Ben- nett said she opens her alumni mag- azine as soon as it arrives at her San Francisco home. "First, I read the class notes to see what people in my class are doing. Then, the letters to the editors. I read the whole thing and save back copies," Bennett said. The combination of upscale demo- graphics and reader involvement has lured advertisers of luxury products, including Lexus cars, Ab- solut Vodka and Bermuda tourism. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY • CORNELL MAGAZINE • DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE • HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL BULLETIN HARVARD MAGAZINE • THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE • PRINCETON ALUMNI WEEKLY • STANFORD MAGAZINE • YALE ALUMNI MAGAZINE FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL Ed Antos (617) 496-7207 Cambridge, West Coast Tom Schreckinger (212) 852-5625 New York Boh Pierce (810) 643-8447, ext 303 Detroit Carrying the Mail Off by a Zero The October BAM was a delight. Pick- ing but one example. Chad Galts's article, "The Twenty Percent Solution." made fascinating reading out of something as di \ .is building design and function. Hav- ing spent tour graduate years in old houses made over into biology buildings. 1 can appreciate the wonders of modern sci- ence facilities. I only wish that our modest home, with mostly gas appliances, could get along on what is attributed to each of the 5,000 homes in your opening paragraph. Then- average rate of consumption (0.05 s kw) would barely keep one of our medium- sized light bulbs operating continuously. Now those, by golly, are green houses. Don Forbes '6i Ph.D. Malvern. Pa. As Mr. Forbes implies, the figure in the open- ing paragraph is incorrect. MacMillan Hall's yearly power consumption would be enough for 500 homes, not =>,ooo. — Editor Expert Moms The degree to which the knowledge and experience ot mothers is disparaged will never cease to amaze me. I guess because we all think our children are the most wonderful creatures on earth, our opin- ions and observations are suspect. Yet all ot us have seen our babies and small chil- dren do things which the "experts" say they cannot do. I read the article on Carolyn Rovee- Collier '66 Ph.D. ("Mind Reader," Sep- tember) with a smile of recognition. When my daughter, Ellen, was born, I was work- ing at home as a graphic designer and printer; I went back to work when the baby was three days old. Ellen did not sleep during the day, and I became frantic searching for ways to keep her entertained so I could work. A small chandelier hung TO OUR READERS Letters are always welcome, and we try to print all we receive. Preference will be given to those that address the content of the magazine. Please limit letters to 200 words. We reserve the right to edit for style, clarity, and length. near my printing press. One day. 1 put Ellen 111 her baby seat and tied one end of a piece of yarn to her wrist and the other to the chandelier. Within minutes she- was waving her arm around and making the chandelier lights sway. She was a few weeks younger than Rovee-Collier's Benjamin was when he made the mobile move. Unfortunately, genius that she is, Ellen tired of it after a week, and we had to move on to other diversions. Not knowing there were supposed to be limits on my daughter's learning ability, I had not expected any. Most mothers can tell you that, if you remove a small, decorative item from a room, an adult won't notice it for a week, but a two-year-old will notice it the first time she or he walks into the room. That it took Rovee-Collier four years to publish her work was a sad commentary on her profession. I can only hope the observa- tions ot mothers now carry more weight - but I'm not holding my breath. Susan Collier 'yo Santa Rosa, Calif. The writer is no relation to Carolyn Rovee- Collier. — Fditoi Blackboard Boot Camp Your article describing Brown Summer High School ("Blackboard Boot Camp." September) demonstrates how good teachers can be trained to be great teach- ers when Brown and the Coalition of Essential Schools set their minds and hearts to it. Professor Reginald Archambault '52 asks, "How is it possible that students can graduate from high school without know- ing how to read and write? . . . That's a tragedy." It will continue to be a tragedy until colleges and universities train teachers to teach the reading process. As a special-education teacher and a teacher-trainer in reading, I see that teachers have been deeply saddened, frustrated, and exhausted by the failure of their education to prepare them for teaching all stu- dents to succeed in reading, writ- ing, and spelling. If every college and univer- sity with an education curriculum will require at least one practicum in reading instruction through a structured, systematic, phonologically based approach, the results will be dramatic. This method- ology, in concert with the beauty and creativity ot the Whole Language approach so firmly established in today's schools, will most certainly turn the tide. Maxine Rosenbaum Goldman '51 Swampscott, Mass. I was amused by the title, "Blackboard Boot Camp," when, in fact, the students described in your article are there volun- tarily. And being there voluntarily, one can assume that a fair amount of moti- vated, efficient, self-directed, and/or inte- grated learning is going to take place. But it educators such as Ted Sizer believe they are preparing teachers for service in a regular school, I think they're kidding themselves. Compulsory attendance means that any school, public or private, feels like jail to the average kid. John Holt was correct when he wrote, in How Children Fail, "The major difference between the good student and the poor one is that the poor student forgets right away, while the good one is careful to wait until after the examination." Unfortunately, credential-based edu- cation, with its required courses, authori- tarian judgments, and formal assessments, is inherently coercive. Combined with its inability or unwillingness to promote active, self-directed, curiosity-based learn- ing, this results in colleges and medical schools that feel, to me, very much like the first grade writ large. Our schools and colleges are not, as happens in a good home education, turn- ing out the flexible, creative, question- asking, and socially adept citizens we BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY ♦ 5 The Year Brown Rose to the Occasion T ■ t was an exciting year. Charles JL Evans Hughes, class of 1881, was narrowly defeated for the presidency by Woodrow Wilson. Jazz was sweeping the country. Boston defeated Brooklyn to take the World Series. The year began with the blossoming of a new tradition - the Rose Bowl. And Brown was there. Now you can own this 20-by-26- inch, four-color, quality-poster- stock reproduction of the original issued in 19 16 — a memento of Brown's participation in the first Rose Bowl. £< Order Form Brown Alumni Monthly Brown University Box 1S54 Providence, Rhode Island 02912 Please send me. .poster(s) commemo- rating Brown's Rose Bowl appearance at $15 each (includes postage and handling). Make 1 cks payable to Brown University. Allow thi e to four weeks for delivery. now Yoar * ay Hkiwjiifer Floral Pa^anf FOOfl^LlL BROWN UMTOSIT^ TE COLLEOK fei^EW™^ - California Pasactena need. l'he\ are turning out the products of .1 boot-camp mentality - which is good for getting us into Vietnam and punching buttons on computers, but which isn't going to help us solve the venous problems we are accumulating. Robert E. Kay '_s > Philadelphia Resolution, Rwanda-style The article on Assistant Professor Peter Uvin ("Hunger Politics." October) left out the best part on the most recent of the genocides in Rwanda, namely, how it was resolved. It was not resolved by peo- ple reading the professor's learned dis- courses. It was not resolved by convoking an international peace conference and getting the two sides to sit down and talk. It was not resolved by sending in peacekeepers. It was resolved when one of theTut- sis, a graduate of the U.S. Army's Com- mand and General Staff College, applied violence in a rational manner to achieve his ends. French helicopter gunships, for- eign-aid officials, and peacemongers of all stripes could not get out of the way of his light infantry fast enough. Way to go, fellas! Lessons that are taught in the abstract Stop surfing and come ashore. www.brown.edu/Administration /Brown_Alumni_Monthly/ Read the BAM on-line. as part of a quest tor higher rank, cushy assignments, and larger retirements were actually put to work. 1 hope the Rcwandans are enjoying the air-conditioned sports-utility vehicles the foreign-aid types had to leave behind. Maybe they'll let the professor ride in one of them when he visits as part of some as- yet-unnamed fact-finding mission. Gilcin F. Meaders III '66 Flintstone, Md. Oxfam Exonerated In your article on my work a small but unfortunate mistake was made. The article says that "development aid from the United Nations, individual governments, and non-governmental agencies such as Oxfam contributed to the deaths of one million people in Rwanda." My problem is not with this strong statement as such - the rest of the article synthesizes quite well the nuanced nature of that reasoning - but with the unfor- tunate mention of Oxfam in this phrase. Of all NGOs I know, Oxfam is without doubt one of the very best, on all accounts, and consistently so. In the case of Rwanda, Oxfam is the only international develop- ment NGO I know of that organized and sponsored activities to deal with racism and conflict in society. Peter Uvin Campus The writer is Joukowsky Family Assistant Professor in the World Hunger Program. - Editor BACH Talks Back I wish to clarify several items in your arti- cle ("This Old House," Elms, September) about the temporary closing of Finlandia House, a building owned and managed by the Brown Association for Coopera- tive Housing (BACH). • According to Ramzi Loqa of the Providence Department of Inspection and Standards, Finlandia was condemned because it was being used as a multi-unit residential facility rather than as the busi- ness/residential facility it was zoned for. 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SAFEST CAR IN SWEDEN, THRICE! _HR— South County Motors, Inc. 245 Main St. Wakefield • (401) 789-9309 Reach 70,000 readers nine times a year T Use Brown Alumni Monthly classifieds For information, call Sheila Cournoyer at the BAM (401)863-2873 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY ♦ 7 ffl 1 This Problem Into mm$\ Imagine Someone Breaking Your Arm Because You Missed A Putt. This December, the Lexus Challenge Hosted by Raymond Floyd will provide more than dramatic competition. It will provide solace for abused and neglected children by raising funds for Childhelp USA, a national non-profit organization dedicated to the prevention of child abuse. Please join us in watching this prestigious tournament on NBC December 21st and 22nd. For the love of the game, and for the sake of the children. Childhelp usa LEXUS CHALLENGE HOSTED BY RAYMOND FLOYD ®1996Uxiu. A DMtwm OfTtnnta Motor Sola, ISA., he Uui.< , cU w«t '<>'< ' '"' '"""' in*!"""". ™< " " w-knupgam c cjl 800-USALEXUS (800-872-5398). •The very da\ we received the evic- tion notice, the Providence Building Board approved all of our renovation plans and granted each of the variances we sought. •The violations of lighting and ven- tiliation standards represented conditions that predated BACH's purchase of the house; we were consequently granted variances tor them. It is the rare house built prior to 1900 that conforms to mod- ern standards for lighting and ventilation. • We are being required to renovate to meet the fire code because of our change in zoning. Had we maintained the usage of the previous owners, we would likely not have been required to upgrade to 1996 fire standards. •Your characterization of BACH's attitude toward Finlandia House as one of "benign neglect" betrays a shallow understanding of the matter. In the months prior to the |une 27 inspection, BACH had been meeting with Mr. Loqa in an effort to design a plan to maintain a sev- enteen-person occupancy for FinaJandia; the inspection of the house was waiting on the outcome of those meetings. We considered going before the zoning board to request an exemption from the minimum occupancy; before doing that, however, we had to speak to our neigh- bors. Far from neglecting Finlandia, BACH was busy negotiating a solution to allow the greatest number of Brown stu- dents an opportunity to experience cooperative living. The omission of these points, each of which I explained in two interviews with the BAM, served to infuse the article with a decidedly anti-BACH slant. For many alumni, the BAM is their only source of current information about Brown. Given the responsibility this implies, I had expected from you a more thoroughly researched story and a more careful pre- sentation of the facts. Cartnel T. Drewes 'g8 Providence The writer is iggb-g-j BACH coordinator. For further news of BACH, see Under the Elms, page 12. - Editor Writer Shea Dean responds: Ms. Drewes's letter skirts the basic issue: Why were the residents of Finlandia House kicked out with only twenty-four hours' notice? Providence Department of Inspections and Standards director Ramzi Loqa told me he was shocked - prior meetings notwithstanding - by the unsafe conditions he found on his June 27 visit. He said he served the eviction as a way "to get [BACH's] attention."With regard Tlie Best of New England. .... Newton Wellesley Hospital Boston Edison Company Boston University Worcester Telegram & Gazette Digital Equipment Corporation Doubleday Book Shops, Inc. Fidelity Properties, Inc. 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Aetna Casualty and Surety Mutual Funds Service City of Chelsea Bowdoin College Bose Corporation Brown University Build with the Best Turner 855 Boylston Street Boston, MA 02116 (617) 247-6400 AS THE LEADING GENERAL BUILDER IN AMERICA TURNER IS PROUD TO HAVE BUILT FOR THE NAHON'S LEADING INSTITUTIONS. Put your business in the hands of your fellow Brown alumni ADVERTISE IN BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY For advertising rates and information contact: SPRAGUE • publishing (401) 294-1238 • Fax (401) 294-1239 610 Ten Rod Road North Kingstown, RI 02852 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY • Q to my two interviews with Carmel Drewes, Ms. Drewes returned my phone calls after the story was already filed. Neither conversation took longer than five minutes, and my notes show that Ms. Drewes said nothing to contradict the facts of our story. (A quote from Ms. Drewes was added after the story was laid out.) Florida Fan Mail I used to grab the latest issue of the BAM, skim through articles of interest, say to myself, "I should read this," and check on the classnotes and obits. Now I take each issue and read it from cover to cover, page by page, because I don't want to miss anything. In the BAAFs pages, controversial fig- ures and issues are explored with a curi- ous and open mind. Each individual's point of view is examined, and I enjoy reading the alumni responses in the mail in subsequent issues. These often spark imaginary dialogues with the letter writ- ers, during which times I try to apply the concepts of philosophy I studied under Professor Vince Lopez back in 1950 in Philosophy Di and D2. At The Providence Biltmore Elegant Hospitality Is The First Order Of Business. In our oversized and lavishly furnished guest rooms, you'll feel the special ambiance of another era. To make reservations, please call 401-421-0700. PROVIDENCE BILTMORE AGmtuI Heritage Hotel It is also fascinating to read in your pages about the accomplishments of alumni from the early twentieth century to the near end of the century. Educators, inventors, business entrepreneurs, religious leaders, medical researchers, community leaders, publishers, media experts, musi- cians, sailboat designers, new parents, ad infinitum, all contribute to the flow of humanity that influences our world and its communities. Your September excerpt from the Aga Khan's baccalaureate address ("A Bridge of Hope") gave us an enlightening, pro- vocative concept to consider. The presen- tation of reasonable thoughts from the Islamic world can lead to dialogue and understanding between people. I hope more people take the time to read what is going on throughout the world and at their University in the BAM. Ellen Eaton Wilson '51 Fernandina Beach, Fla. Progressive Voices After witnessing the torrent of letters to the editor in response to the conservative student Tabitha Suarez's essay ("Are You My University?" February), I feel the need to remind alumni that Brown still has a strong progressive voice. I was encouraged to see that David Wade '97 is national president of the Col- lege Democrats of America, the largest student political organization in the coun- try. He's been featured on NBC News with Tom Brokaw, and we caught him on MTV. (But not in the BAM.) Wade and Marilyn Concepcion '99 spoke in Chicago at the Democratic National Convention. In the past year, Brown's College Democ- rats, honored in 1996 as the most active College Dems in the nation, brought Senators Chris Dodd and Claiborne Pell and Representatives Dick Gephardt and Patrick Kennedy to campus. Impressive, I think. Howard Hunt and the Watergate gang better not get too comfortable. It's not "his university" yet, not by a long shot. Jeffrey Mai '97 Campus jefirey_mai@brown.edit A Better Hour? With all due respect and with much appreciation tor well planned reunion activities, I suggest an alternate time for the popular Commencement Weekend event "Hour with the President." The eleven o'clock Sunday morning hour is traditionally associated with the time tor Christian worship. I, therefore, feel it would behoove Brown to encour- age this worship, rather than to inhibit it. This could be facilitated by allocating Mr. Gregorian's remarks to a more propi- tious time during the weekend - perhaps early Saturday or Sunday afternoon. 1 make this suggestion with the knowledge that many alumni look for- ward to the president's comments with great anticipation. Rupert Austin ]r. '48 Sunsbury, Conn. O^i CORRECTIONS In a September "Under the Elms" report on new alumni trustees, the class year of Thomas Berry '69 was misstated. The BAM regrets the error. 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Please make a gift to Brown through the Annual Fund, this year and every year. Brown's excellence depends on your continuing commitment. _j_\\_J Vv IN ^he Brown Annual Fund, Box 1976, Providence, RI 02912-1976 ANNUAL FUND 800 662-2266 xi; fax 401 863-3866; support_excellence@brown.edu COMMITMENT TO GRADUATING CITIZEN-SCHOLARS Under the Elms ON A RAINY NIGHT in November, as students tromped down Charlesfield Street toward the Ratty, famil- iar sounds floated out the open windows of Milhous, the University-owned co-op on Charlesfield Street. From the kitchen, one could hear talking and laughing, the clat- ter of pots and pans - the general racket of dinner being made tor twenty hungry students. From another room came the sound ot someone banging away on an out- ot-tune piano. Come next fall, Milhous and its companion down the street. Carberry, will be filled with banging of another sort: the hammering of renova- tion crews. After a long, some- times antagonistic year of negotiations, on November 12 the Brown Association for Cooperative Housing (BACH) rejected the University's final lease offer and moved to sever its twenty-five-year-old tenant-landlord ties to Brown. "The decision wasn't easy," said Carmel Drewes '98, this year's BACH coordinator. "These houses are our lives." Although the nonprofit organization will remain intact, the decision to vacate its two Brown-owned Victorians will cut its membership in half. BACH will hold on to Water- myn and Finlandia (formerly Gnu), the two co-ops it owns, and will begin looking for additional housing. For stu- dents and alumni the decision marks the end ot a quarter- century of officially sanctioned co-op living that many believed was an important complement to academic life. To the University the end ot the arrangement means it can now renovate the two large buildings tor office and academic space. What Next? Two BACH houses will close for good In many ways the end has been in sight for some time, as the gap has widened be- tween the ideal of cooperative living and the nuts and bolts of implementing it. The first serious ritt between BACH and the University opened in 1994, when Brown rejected the group's choice of a con- tractor and took control of a $60,000 electrical-system upgrade that was required in the lease. While supervising the work. University officials found other problems in the buildings, problems so numerous that since Novem- ber 1994 University inspectors have cited Milhous and Car- berry for more than ninety- one tire-code violations. The most recent was on Hal- loween, when a false fire alarm during a Milhous party triggered an inspection by the Providence Fire Depart- ment. After finding four feet ot combustible foam on the floor of an upstairs room, a spliced electrical cord, and blocked entrances and exits, fire officials deemed the house unsafe tor occupancy. It took BACH members and supporters tour days to cor- rect enough violations for the twenty Milhous residents to be allowed to return home. The roots ot the conflict are in BACH's original agreement with the Univer- sity. In 1971, according to Director of Residential Lite Arthur Gallagher, Brown agreed to charge the co-ops minimal rent and to allow them almost complete auton- omy only if co-op members kept up the houses. Over the years, Gallagher maintains, BACH members elected to take on mortgages for two of its own houses; meanwhile, maintenance on the Brown houses slipped. Under the current lease, BACH takes in roughly $S2,ooo a year 111 rent from the two Brown-owned co-ops and pays the Uni- versity 815,171 of that amount. The remainder goes toward paying utilities, insurance, and the $30,ooo-a-year mort- gage on BACH's newest acquisition, Finlandia House. "BACH was able to provide low- cost housing because we gave them low rent and they didn't spend anything to maintain the buildings," Gal- lagher says. When the University made its lease offer on September 19, the final con- frontation was under way. The University wanted to take over all maintenance of the buildings and raise the rent from $15,171 a year to $100,000 a year to cover the costs. "We believe that we're liable for whatever happens in the buildings," says Vice President of Administration Walter Holmes, "and if we're liable, we want them to be maintained to our standards." BACH members denounced the 600-percent rent increase as a violation of "BACH's mandate to offer a low-cost housing option to students." The proposed University rent increase would have meant a minimum increase of $500 per year for each student liv- ing in the co-ops and would have left BACH hard-pressed to fulfill its other financial obligations. Neither BACH nor the University is willing to com- pletely sever their mutual ties. Brown has pledged to help the co-ops find and finance new off-campus housing, and a representative from the University will sit on a board of advisers BACH formed last spring to focus on long- term planning. "We've said all along that we weren't putting ♦ DECEMBER I 996 Under the Elms the co-ops out of business," Gallagher s.ivv " I he co-ops will always exist."' Even BACH leaders are Starting to sound more con- ciliatory. Sitting on a Millions couch the day after BACH announced its rejection oi the lease offer. Alan Tobin '97, BACH's director of member services, said talks with the University had recently he- come more "holistic." rather than purely financial. Drewes added, "Now we're two orga- nizations working together for a mutually supported goal" - keeping the co-ops alive. - Shea Dean Measure of Relief? Dissent marks latest Title IX verdict ON NOVEMBER 2 1 111 Boston, a divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit upheld a 1995 District Court ruling that Brown's athletic program violates Title IX, the statute prohibiting sex discrimination in education. The appeals court upheld the lower court's judgment that the University does not provide women as many competitive opportunities as it provides men. [wo ot the three judges on the panel voted to uphold the lower court decision, writing that "Brown's failure to accommodate fully and effectively the interests and abilities lit the underrepre- sented gender is clearly estab- lished." The dissenter was Chief fudge [uan R.Torruella. who argued that, under the majority's interpretation, com- plying with Title IX could only be done through a potentially unconstitutional quota scheme. The nub of the disagree- ment is the lower court's judgment that Brown has not done enough to ensure that women are represented among its athletes in the same pro- portion as they're found in the entire student body. "I am in square disagreement with the majority," Torruella wrote. "We must, as Brown urges, reexamine the Equal Pro- tection challenge to the three- prong [compliance] test as interpreted by the District Court." The appeals panel did give the University some relief. It reversed the lower court's order that complying with the law- would require funding four additional women's teams; Brown's preference was tor bringing the numbers in balance by cutting men's programs. The University- now may submit an alterna- tive compliance plan to the District Court for approval. Immediately after the Circuit Court decision was announced, each side claimed a degree ot victory. Arthur Bryant, executive director of the DC. -based Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, called the latest decision "a wake-up call to schools all around the country." Bryant's group filed the original 1992 suit against Brown on behalf of women SINCE LAST TIME... Thanks to fallout from recent cases of alleged date rape on cam- pus, public discussion about gender equity and sexual assault reached a new intensity: a forum in Faunce House on November 19 and a Novembet 20 rally on the Green each drew crowds of 150 students, faculty, and administrators... Early applications for admission passed the 3,000 mark for the first time in University history; almost half the class of 2001 may be early applicants. ...Associate Dean of Student Life Toby Simon announced her resignation; Simon founded the Sexual Assault Peer Education Program at Brown and was an advisor to the trav- eling Anti-Sexual Assault Program. . . . Brown researchers received about $63 million in funding last year - a 9-percent increase over the $58 million received for the 1993-94 fiscal year; since 1986-87 an average of 585 out of 900 research proposals have been approved by funding agencies. gymnasts and volleyball play- ers whose funding had been cut. One ot Brown's legal team, Jeffrey Michaelson '80, found "gratifying" the rever- sal of the District Court's compliance order: "It was an important point to win." As the BAM went to press, University officials had not decided on the nature of their appeal. Brown can either petition the appeals court to reconsider its decision or take its case to the U.S. Supreme Court. - Anne Diffily Wired The founder oj college radio looks back THE YEAR WAS I936, and the Net was just getting started. No, not the Internet — the Brown Net. That's what first-year engineering stu- dents David Borst '40 and the late George Abraham '40 called the system they had devised to connect Brown dorm rooms before tele- phones w-ere installed. The Net was a web ot copper wires stretched through the treetops to link radios from dorm to dorm. Students could send their own messages through microphones Borst installed, while over a second line Abraham broadcast music and occasional interviews from his room. On February 3, BROWN A I U \1 N I M ( I N I HIV ♦ I Under the Elms 1937, Borst and Abraham offered the first college-radio coverage of a live event: the inauguration of Henry Mer- ritt Wriston as Brown's elev- enth president. In November Borst re- turned to campus to meet with students trying to revive the AM descendent of the Net, WBSR, whose equipment is so outdated that its signal has been barely audible in re- cent years. Celebrating its six- tieth anniversary this year, the station considers itself (rather than its big FM brother, WBRU) the true heir to Borst's efforts. Fittingly, Daniel Oppenheim '98, WBSR s general manager, is working to bring it back Brown Net- work style. He's imagining a station with campus news, homespun music, Bruin sports- casts (which have already be- gun), and quiz shows - college stuff. Borst, white-haired, tweedy, and affable, regaled Oppen- heim and his colleagues with dozens of stories. He explained how as the Brown Network gained popularity he ran 30,000 feet of wire through the underground steam tun- nels - groundskeepers didn't like the wires sparking in the trees when it rained - all to send out a two-watt signal. (Today, WBRU puts out 20,000 watts.) In 1940, Borst and Abra- ham founded the Intercolle- giate Broadcast System. Its first convention - the nation's first college-radio conference — drew representatives from thirteen colleges. Today IBS boasts more than 500 mem- ber stations, and Borst still sits on its board of directors. As Borst told his tales, Oppenheim listened respect- fully. "This is a famous guy in Brown history and in radio history," he said excitedly afterward. "I mean, this was cutting edge." - Shea Dean .5 m mmmmmmmm.k_iM jMm "'; — >s» •Si wunneetupaKatamW.'.' BgQm \ U P-B I B L U M^G-< JJ« NANEESWE sInUKKONE TESTAMENT *j* KAH WONK SI WUSKU TESTAMENT. Nc qaofbkinnurnui tufhpc Wuttinncumuh £HR!$7 1.0b jfoowdtt JOHN ELIOT- ■«>«, CAMBRIDGE.- Primcurop ailhpc Simutl Grtta Liti M*nn*dAf JAitfia, 5o» , I t 6 J. |l jg immwmimiiiimmiimm The John Carter Brown Library's copy of the Eliot Bible (left) led to a dissertation for Edward Gray '96 Ph.D. (above). ' Ol U I I \^ 'AHTI-R BKIIWN IIBHAKY At the JCB's 150th anniversary convocation in November, honorary degrees went to (standing, from left) historian Sir John Elliott, anthropologist and historian Miguel Leon-Portilla, industrialist and book collector Jose Mindlin, and (sitting) Smithsonian ethnology curator William Sturtevant. The Word Striking gold among the stacks THE JOHN CARTER BROWN Library is iso years old this year, and to measure the impact it continues to have on Brown's academic life, one has only to look at Edward Gray '96 Ph.D. Gray started his history graduate program unsure of what to study, but when he first walked into the John Carter Brown Library he knew he wanted to study it there. Finding the JCB, he says, "turned an ordinary grad- uate-school experience into a process of real discovery." Among Gray's early fasci- nations at the JCB was a copy of the Eliot Bible, one of the most highly sought-after prizes in American book col- lecting. The work of John Eliot, a Puritan minister and missionary from Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1 ,000 copies of the Eliot Bible were printed 111 [663, making it the first complete book printed in the western hemisphere. It was also the first complete trans- 14 ♦ DECEMBER I996 Under the Elms Peace Broker Richard Holbrooke 's Bosnian deal Grad Students by the Numbers FROM THE 1995-96 SURVEY OF GRADUATE STUDENT LIFE Brown students who are graduate students: 20% Graduate students who are women: 44% Those who belong to a minority group: 12% Those who are from outside the United States: 28% Those who receive some financial aid: 78% lation ot the Bible into a non- European language - Massa- chusetts to be exact, a dialect of the eastern Algonquian family ot" Native American languages. At an October conference that was part of the JCB's anniversary celebration. Gray discussed the results of his research on the Eliot Bible, focusing on how it tared dur- ing the years shortly after it was published. Most copies of the 1663 edition, he said, were burned during King Philip's War. which began ten vears after the bible came oft press. Viewed by Native Americans as an intrusion into their way of life and distrusted by Puritans who could not read it. the Eliot Bible. Gray con- tends, may have fueled the acrimony between Puritans and the Indian population, increasing the tensions leading to the war between the two. Gray is now hard at work on New World Babel: Language and Culture in Early America, a book based on his disserta- tion, to be published by Princeton University Press. Gray credits the library, and especially its director, Norman Fiering. for providing the right atmosphere to work 111. "There was a constant parade of scholars with all kinds of interests." Gray says. "For a student to be exposed to this kind of range is a very enrich- ing experience." - Chad Gaits What was the right moment for the United States to intervene in Bosnia? Why were European coun- tries so ineffectual in settling such a gruesome conflict 111 their own back yard? Histo- rians and diplomatic scholars will no doubt debate these questions for decades. If his October speech in the Olney- Margolies Athletic Center is any indication, however. Assis- tant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke '62 believes that the tragedy of Bosnia was at least partly due to the reluc- tance of the United States to admit that it alone retains the military might to end such wars. Holbrooke, who was on campus to receive the Alumni Association's William Rogers Award for service to society, was the chief U.S. negotiator of the 1995 Dayton Peace Accord. As such he got a first- hand look at "the unspeak- able catastrophe in Yugoslavia." a catastrophe that he believes should have been averted. "An American-European joint position could have prevented the war." Holbrooke claimed, but officials vacillated between horror over what was happening and a squeamishness about getting mired in a protracted military venture. By 1991, when Yugoslavia "began to come apart at the seams," he said, repre- sentatives of the Euro- pean Union told American officials that they would handle the problem. The United States agreed to stay out, but its acquies- cence, said Holbrooke, was a critical mistake: "The Europeans were not unified enough and didn't have enough moral and military authority to stop the war." By the summer of 1995, Holbrooke continued, Bosnia "stood at the abyss." Enter President Clinton, who tapped Holbrooke to lead a U.S. del- egation to end the slaughter. A veteran of the Vietnam War's Paris Peace Talks and a recent U.S. ambassador to Germany, Holbrooke and his team held talks with the region's leaders - talks that led nowhere until the United States gave NATO the go- ahead to begin bombing Serb strongholds. After that, "the negotiations made consider- able progress," Holbrooke said drily, "and by October 199s we were ready for an all-out peace process." The result was the Dayton Accord, which has so far held up. though with a longer commitment of U.S. forces than was origi- nally anticipated. "When there is a crisis." Holbrooke concluded. "America must lead. ... It was only when the United States assumed a leadership role under NATO's banner that things began to turn around." He argued that "his- torians will look back on last tall as a turning point for America's role in Europe." - Anne Diffily The Face in the Mirror Carlos Fuentes on the novel In A freewheeling Presi- dent's Lecture, Mexican writer and diplomat Carlos Fuentes paid homage not only to dozens ot great Anglo writers but also to the grow- ing ranks of non-Anglo ones. Authors such as Kazuo Ishiguro and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Fuentes said, are redefining Anglophone literary terrain. "We are experiencing a universal explosion 111 writing," explained Fuentes. a professor at large in the Department of Hispanic Stud- ies. In addition to yielding some of the finest literature of the century, that explosion is helping to shatter old prejudices. "We are frightened and angry when the reflection 111 the mirror is not our own," Fuentes said, "but we can't grasp reality alone. That is the challenge ot the other." As a BROWN AIL.MNI MONTHLY • IS striking example, Fuentes para- phrased Gregor from Kafka's Metamorphosis: "Are you going to squash me because I have become a bug? Can't you rec- ognize my humanity?" For Fuentes, literature can play a mediating role among cultures by forcing readers to imagine lite from other per- spectives. "We can't recognize our own humanity until we recognize it in others," he said. "When we exclude, we are poor. When we include, we are rich." - Shea Dean in advance, so when Hempel held hour-long conferences with them she was able to target her advice about tone, voice, structure. "We talked about specific problems in specific stories that can be amplified into larger concerns," she said at an afternoon demitasse at Blistein House. Hempel knows how important mentors are. She credits her own, the New York writer and editor Gordon Lish, with develop- ing her craft and giving her 1 II J;| ■■'/'" m^m&^l Itttf^ ; I J '"a ■ pp* It If Essayist and fiction writer Amy Hempel at Blistein House. ^ Beyond Talent From the mouths of pros Writers are always looking for mentors. Every Raymond Carver wants his John Gardner, every Thomas Wolfe his Maxwell Perkins. This year students working toward an M.F.A. in fiction got Amy Hempel, whose funny, lyrical short sto- ries, many of which star dogs and other furry creatures, have made her one of the top short-fiction writers in the country. Hempel came to Brown for a week in November to meet with seven students hungry for a fresh perspective on their work. The students had sent her their manuscripts confidence. "He took it as an article of faith that every- one could write a surpassing story," she said. To do that, Lish told her, it took not just talent but will. - Shea Dean Billy Blue Room Good-bye to the man everyone knew D URING THE LAST WEEK in October the flag was lowered to half-staff, and across the Green the Faunce House Blue Room became a somber place. When William Meiklejohn died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of forty-seven on October 26, the University lost one of Billy Meiklejohn (right) and coworker at the lunch counter in the 1984 Blue Room. those reassuring human refer- ence points who cross con- centrations and class years to create a shared memory of Brown. For twenty-seven years Meiklejohn was the first per- son many Brown students, faculty, and employees saw each morning. He began pouring coffee and wiping tables 111 the Blue Room 111 1971, not long after Donald Hornig became the Univer- sity's president, and he kept at it throughout the eleven-year reign of Howard Swearer. Most assumed he would out- last even the indefatigable Vartan Gregorian. A down-to-earth man whose friendliness and good nature were a welcome reprieve from the sometimes rarefied air of the classroom, Meiklejohn had two great loves at Brown: Softball and theater. He attended almost every student-theater open- ing night for the last thirty years and was an enthusiastic participant in the "strikes," or breakdown of sets, when the shows closed. Meiklejohn stayed in touch with the stu- dents he met, and wherever he traveled on summer vaca- tions he visited such theater alumni as Ted Ewing '79, a conductor and director in San Diego. "Billy was a kind of savant when it came to theatrical productions," Ewing says. "He would talk about the shows in apprecia- tive and joyful ways that really stuck with you." Meiklejohn earned his nickname on the interoffice sottball diamond when a teammate, unable to remem- ber his last name, put Meik- lejohn into the batting order as "Billy Blue Room." The moniker stuck, even after Meiklejohn was transferred this fall from the Blue Room to Josiah's, the snack bar at the Thayer Street dorm. At a Manning Chapel memorial service in Novem- ber many staff, faculty, alumni, and students gathered to trade Billy Blue Room stories. Philip Howell '82, '83 Sc.M., Meiklejohn's long-time soft- ball teammate, described his "knack for making the plays and getting the hits you didn't expect." Claiming that Meiklejohn had only one fault - he was a Yankees fan - Howell, now a research pro- grammer for the geological sciences department, said their relationship persevered through the many phases of Howell's career at Brown. "Billy was a constant," Howell said. "It's hard to imagine the Brown summer Softball league and the Blue Room without him." - Chad Galls 16 • DECEMBER I 9 9 6 Under the Elms Jock Treatment Hoir the best athletes get better WHEN SEAN MCCANN '82 was an undergraduate psychology concentrator. he spent as much time as lie could racing bicycles, a pre- occupation that continued after graduation."! was a crazed amateur working in a bike shop to support my habit." he said during a November visit to campus. When he finally got around to graduate Sean McCannn '82 helps Olympians develop a psychological edge. school at the University ot Hawaii, he decided to apply his psychology background to sport. "I got interested in how bike racers handle pain," he says. In 1988 he had the novel experience of doing his research on the U.S. Olympic bike team at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Today McCann is the head sports psychologist at the training center. On cam- pus to talk about psychology and sport with faculty and students, he described his job as helping athletes overcome everything from nervousness before a big event to crip- pling eating disorders. So far. PICK O'THE WEB Back cO Forward Home Reload Images Open Print Find BY CHAD GALTS Victorian Secrets WHERE IT IS: http://www.stg.brown.edu/ projects/hypertext/landow/ victorian/victov.html WHAT YOU'LL FIND: ■ An exhaustive, well-catalogued overview of life in Victorian England. ■ More than seventy-five student and faculty contributors writing on everything from Victorian furniture desig n to phrenolog y to British class structure. ■ Separate, internal " sub-Webs " on individual works, gender issues, and such great thinkers as Charles Dickens, Thomas Carlyle, Sigmund Freud, and others. ■ A showcase for George P. Landow , a profes- sor of English and art history at Brown and a noted hypertext pioneer, who conceived and engineered the site. V WHAT I THINK: Stunningly ambitious and / richly comprehensive. Addic- tive, whether you are a Victo- rian enthusiast or think history begins with Microsoft. After spend- ing an entire day reading about William Makepeace Thackeray, Moravian religious dissenters, Charles Darwin's voyage to the Galapagos, and Queen Victoria's mourning over the death of her "rather priggish, sanctimo- nious, and intellectually shallow" husband, Albert, I had barely scratched the surface. Instead, I'd stumbled into a Web vortex and was soon engaged in the Internet equivalent of channel surfing: each link seemed more interesting than the work waiting on my desk. The site's desire to be all things Victorian, however, sometimes gets out of hand. While the information is clearly presented and easily navi- gable, the effect can be as windy as a serialized Victorian novel - "a loose, baggy monster," as Henry James said of Thackeray's The Newcomes. Be prepared to surrender some time. ■t//-sS) I Connect : Contacting host : ww.br ovn.edu. c ) m? a he said, he has focused par- ticularly on the women's alpine ski team in the winter and the men's shooting team in the summer. This often means dispensing guidance in unusual places. With the ski team, for example, "I'm meeting with athletes on a chair lift, or in hotel rooms, or right on the hill." His work with teams has not prevented him, however, from also helping such indi- viduals as the wrestler who had fifteen surgeries over the last three years and who consulted McCann on whether trying to stay in competition was even worth it. After deciding to keep at it, the man won a medal at the summer games in Atlanta. (McCann won't reveal the athlete's name.) What distinguishes world- class athletes from run-of-the- mill ones, McCann believes, is precisely this attitude toward injury and pain. "At the elite level," McCann explained, "the idea of the runner's high doesn't go far. The athletes concentrate on their pain. By paying close attention to it, they can go a little bit harder." This ability to maintain focus under adverse conditions is a crucial psychological edge at the Olympic level, he added. All the hype and drama can be unsettling, so McCann tries "to get athletes to stay focused on the task in front of them" and not on what will happen if they win or lose. - Norman Boucher BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY ♦ I 7 Sports BY PETER MAN DEI. It's Saturday on the East Side of Providence, and I'm walk- ing about a block behind a Brown pennant flapping from a child's stroller. As I follow the pennant around a corner, the sounds of the Brown band grow brassier and more insistent. Thud, thud, thud. The bass drum is an urgent heartbeat for the most meaningful Brown football game in seventeen years - the November 16 contest against undefeated Dartmouth. A win today will earn the resurgent Bears a tie for the league lead and a shot at an Ivy trophy to match its first one from twenty years ago. Climbing up the stands, dodging teenagers in fluorescent jackets, I look down at a Brown team that has won five straight atter three demoralizing losses. The season opened with a disaster against Yale, a game that coach Mark Whipple '79 told the Providence journal he'd never understand "until they're shoveling dirt on my coffin." Then came a loss to a Col- gate team that hadn't won in two years. The turnaround began with a comeback win over Princeton fueled by quarterback Jason McCullough '97, who has broken every Brown passing record. In the games since, the Bears have remade themselves into a serious contender. In the press box, reporters from papers that usually ignore Brown sports mill around with styrofoam cups of coffee. When favored Dartmouth scores first, laptop keyboards record it with an omi- nous clatter. On the visitors' side of the field, thickly forested with green wool overcoats, green sleeves and scarves erupt in unison at every Dartmouth first down. But with five minutes left in the fust quarter, the Bears strike back. A Brown field goal and an interception set up some McCullough magic - a pass that settles neatly into the hands of fullback Mike Wall '99 for a 10-7 Brown lead. Dartmouth answers with a touch- down of its own. When McCullough is intercepted at midfield, the seesaw tilts back toward Dartmouth. Again and again, as he has done all season, the announcer bellows out the classic football name of Brown's middle linebacker: "Tackle by t k First and Goal Facing Dartmouth with the Ivy title in reach. Kar-cut-skie!" With eight minutes left in the half, Joe Karcutskie '88 nails a Dart- mouth receiver at the Brown thirty-yard- line and prevents a touchdown. The Big Green marches into the halt- time break with a seven-point lead. The Dartmouth band sports neat haircuts, blazers, and a smiley-face painted on its drum. Is it something about this whole- some display that propels the Bears into a spasm of second-half savagery? Wide receiver par excellence Sean Morey '99 fol- lows his own thirty-yard kickoff return with several key receptions. Then, deep in enemy territory, McCullough hands off to senior running back Marquis Jessie, who has been mounting his own assault on the Brown and Ivy record books. Jessie lofts a surprise rainbow down the left sideline, and it's pulled in for a touch- down by — of all people — McCullough. Before exultant Brown fans can finish slapping palms over the schoolyard option play, however, Dartmouth pounds to another touchdown and, since the Bears missed the extra point, a 24-16 lead. But the seesaw still teeters, thanks to two superb end-zone receptions by tight end Paul Choquette '97. The first, for a touch- down, has Choquette clutching the ball in a death grip; the second, for a game-tying two-point conversion, finds him juggling it and falling just inside the goal line. As the lengthening shadow of Brown Stadium stalks the field, the Bears miss a second field goal, and Dartmouth is eating up yardage. With its back against Marquis Jessie '97 fighting for every yard in the race to become champions. r the goal line, the Brown defense ■fl comes tacemask-to-tacemask with ™ the Big Green's blasting tailback, Greg Smith, son of former NFL S star Jackie Smith. Brown holds the a J 2 Green at third and goal on the 5 one-yard line; Dartmouth settles ; for three points and a nail-biting 27-24 lead with ninety seconds left in the game. Normally blase press-box denizens are now on their feet, yelling as McCullough mounts Brown's final drive. Squiggles of confetti fly up from the stands. It's a quar- terback scramble for a first down. Incom- plete pass. A running back stopped dead at the line of scrimmage. Fourth and two, a McCullough pass over the middle — first down! The Bears at the Dartmouth thirty. Albert Lairson '98 hauls in a pass and squirms out of bounds, stopping the clock at twenty-one seconds. There is a brief, breathless moment when some of us believe Brown is about to do it. Jason McCullough lofts the foot- ball in a high spiral, perfectly timed to meet Sean Morey's outstretched hands as he dives into the end zone. We let out a victory yell! But the ball falls to the grass, and though McCullough cranks out one more completion, the afternoon and Brown's title hopes have run out. The crowd backs up near the exit, and we listen to the Dartmouth players singing. I take a final look around, hoping to find that stroller with the Brown pen- nant. It will be back, I hope, next year. c>&> AS OF NOVEMBER 13 Men's Cross Country 2-0 Women's Cross Country 2-0 Field Hockey 8-9 Football 5-3 Men's Ice Hockey 0-3 Women's Ice Hockey 1-1-1 Men's Soccer 7-5-4 Women's Soccer 4-10-3 Women's Tennis 2-2 Volleyball Water Polo 16-13 19-10 8 ♦ DECEMBER I996 Q&A !MH The Ties That Bind Psychologist Cynthia Garcia Coll says blaming everything from high crime rates to teenage sex on a decline in family values is a dangerous oversimplification. inn: Professor of education, psychol- ogy, and pediatrics; associate director of the Center for the Study of Human Development education: B.A., University of Puerto Rico: M.A., University of Florida; Ph.D.. Harvard University specialty: Child and family develop- ment II7i)' has the action of family values resonated so with the public? People are looking for simple answers. The notion of family values fits in with the rugged individualism that is part of U.S. culture. There's a sense of "We give you opportunities, and if you don't make it. it's your fault." II liy is tins 'pull yourself up by your boot- straps' attitude coming back in vogue? The perception we had in the 1950s is that there were resources for everything; now the perception is that resources are scarce. People feel threatened by immi- grants and by affirmative action. They're saying, "It's those people's fault, and I'm not going to share my resources with them." How has this attitude conic to dominate? Humans always respond to things in two ways: economically and ideologically. When the economics get worse — when we think we're in a crisis — then the ideo- logical takes over. Right now the national ideology is that individuals are responsible for their own development. We celebrate individuals who are making it, not social institutions that are making it. Bur some people argue that many institutions - welfare, for example - aren V really 'making it.' Critics say they encourage a habit of dependency and stifle initiative. I'm not against revamping the welfare system. Anybody who's able to work should work. But a lot of people who want to work can only get low-paying jobs with no child care or medical insur- ance; it doesn't pay tor them to work it they have families to support. People on welfare with whom I've come in contact - teen mothers, women in prison, poor families - get criticized for being promis- cuous and lazy. That is an unfair portrayal. Most of them have the right values; they just don't have the right resources to make those values work. We have to make opportunities available - real opportuni- ties — so people can exercise their values. Where mould opportunities come from? Businesses, universities, government, and communities need to build partnerships, invest money. Without this, we'll be putting many more families into poverty without a satetv net. Child abuse nun- increase; more kids will go hungry. I hope this trend is a pendulum, that we'll soon realize how disastrous welfare cuts are and start developing new policy models. And the family? The nuclear family is only one configura- tion — any structure can work. Kids need at least one person whom they feel close to and who has an investment in them. Aside from that, the family can be any shape or form. In the past it was not just one person's or one couple's responsibility to raise children; there were always extended fam- ilies, networks of friends and neighbors. But the survival skills that were good fifty years ago no longer work. Given that extended families living close together are rare these days, what do you sug- gest we do? We need a new model of family in which all members get to fulfill their develop- mental needs instead of having the mother and father make all the sacrifices. Let's say that I stay home for five years because my kids need me. Then for the next five years the whole family will sup- port my development, whether that means going back to work or to school. After all, research tells us that a mother's education is one of the strongest predic- tors of children's social, emotional, and educational success. c^> Interview by Shea Dean BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY • I ') Books )Y CHAD GALTS t c^GU£ Holiday Roundup Speak Sunlight,by Alan Jolis '73 (St. Mar- tin's Press, 192 pages, $20.95). A childhood memoir set in 1960s France and Spain, this book has a light and sensitive touch. It tells the story of the family cook, Maruja, and butler, Manolo, Jolis's surrogate parents. Maruja, a peasant from backwoods Spain, is large, animated, and masterful at preparing meals. Unable to bear children of her own, she becomes attached to young Jolis. Manolo, out- wardly shy and reserved, takes a perverse glee in misinforming Jolis about sex, love, and life when they are alone. Jolis's prose evokes the feel of a poignant, intimate tale told to a friend. Ivy League Autumns: An Illustrated History 0/ College Football's Grand Old Rivalries, by Richard Goldstein (St. Martin's Press, 256 pages, $29.95). A sports editor for the NewYork Times, Goldstein harkens back to the glory days of the Ivy League and the sport around which it was formed. He uncovers such gems as an account of John Heisman's first football game at Brown. Heisman, class of 1891, and some fellow students scrimmaged against a group of Provi- dence boys, an encounter that left Heis- man with a "roughly black eye and a freely bleeding nose." (We don't, however. find out if he won the game.) Also cov- ered are Brown's legendary 1916 Rose Bowl team and black AU-Amencan Fritz Pollard '19. Aimed at the hard-core grid- iron tan, this thoroughly researched book is packed with archival photographs and details. Batting Against Castro, by Jim Shepard 'No A.M. (Alfred A. Knopf, 197 pages, $22.00). In the title story of this skillfully com- posed, witty collection, Fidel Castro leads the third-base side of a Havana baseball stadium in a Spanish version of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" and beans an American-expatriate batter with a loaded burnto. An oddball assortment of "what- ifs?", this book, Shepard's fourth, contains allegorical tales of the sort you might halt-imagine but never share for fear ot seeming slightly deranged. They im- bue U.S. -Cuban relations, among other things, with meanings you will never find in a history book. Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultural His- tory of the Titanic Disaster, by Steven Biel '83 (W.W. Norton & Co., 300 pages. $25.00). "The Titanic went down at a cultural moment,"' Biel writes m the introduction to this lively, informative history. That moment, he adds, was one ot "intense concern about the 'race problem,' the 'woman problem,' the 'labor problem.' and the 'immigration problem." "Tracing how each ot these issues was aggravated or mollified by the ocean liner's sinking on April 14, [912, Biel analyzes an era's semi- nal event and describes its long-term effect on American culture. While he is well-versed in the wreck's details, Biel goes far beyond a simple rehash of the ship's demise. National Parks and the Woman's Voice: A History, by Polly Welts Kaufman '51 (University of New Mexico Press, 320 pages, $42.50). The National Park Service, Kaufman contends, has had a split personality: it has been both a guardian, protecting parks from poachers and fires, and a public rela- tions agent, welcoming and educating vis- itors. Until the 1960s, women - often rangers' wives - tended to perform the latter services. But women, Kaufman says, have also been instrumental in the explo- ration, establishment, and maintenance ot every national park in the country. Kauf- man's book clarifies the critical role women played in what might seem, at first glance, to be a mostly male saga. o^> 20 ♦ DECEMBER I 996 Studentside B> DA\ 1 H I SANG 99 It was my first day as a summer-school teacher at Summerbridge, a program tor middle-school students in Louisville. Kentucky. The topic was Chinese history. "l'ut everything you know- about China on the board." I said. "Like what?" one kid asked. "Anything." I responded. "It can be something you've seen on TV." I waited a tew minutes while the students stood squirming at the chalkboard. When they sat down I saw they had written two things: "take-out food" and "karate." So much for my dream of discussing the merits of Communist economic policy. When I was asked to design and teach an elective in addition to the two other classes on my Summer- bridge schedule, the first topic that came to my mind was Chi- nese history, specifically Mao Tse- tung and Deng Xiaoping, kev leaders who founded the People's Republic ot China. I wanted to talk about them as people rather than as dry political figures from some dusty textbook. Because most middle- and high-school history classes devote only a few days to 3,000 years of Chinese civilization, I didn't expect my students to be wellsprings ot knowledge about Chi- nese history. But I hoped their knowledge would extend beyond sweet-and-sour pork or karate (which is Japanese, any- way). A tew years ago, though. 1 wasn't much different from them. 1 was so busy- keeping up with the teenage status quo, I didn't have time for racial and ethnic soul-searching. But after supper one evening during my sophomore year in high school, my grandfather, who was born near Shanghai, told a story about his lite during World War II. From 1939 until the end of the war. he worked for the Chinese government securing loans so that China could buy supplies to protect herself against Japan. Meanwhile, his wife and children - my grandmother, father, and uncle - were stranded in the Philip- White, Black, and Yellow After learning about his family's past, a student tries to lessen the prejudice around him. pines under Japanese occupation. It was a terrible time: more than 20 million Chinese citizens, many ot whom were divided between Nationalist and Communist camps, lost their lives in the war. The more my grandfather told me, the more I wanted to know. And the more I learned, the more I began to per- ceive among Americans a pervasive igno- rance of China, even though the country is back on its feet and boasts the world's fastest-growing economy. I read m the newspaper about Congressmen who wanted to "contain" China, as if it was a malevolent beast. Once, during my junior year in high school, as I walked the sleepy, tree-lined streets ot my Long Island hometown a carload of boss from the local private school screeched racial epi- thets at me. I was astonished that young kids could take such pleasure in mocking a person thev didn't even know. To help combat such ignorance, I decided to share what I had learned. My students in Kentucky asked me what China had to do with their lives. I pointed out that many ot their clothes and televisions and stereos were directlv connected to China. But one day I real- ized the lesson had to go beyond eco- nomics and history. One ot my best stu- dents, who happened to be Chinese-American, tried to leave the class, claiming Chinese history was too hard and too boring. When 1 took him aside, I noticed tears starting to trickle from his eyes. Head down and voice quivering, he described how kids at his middle school taunted him for being ot Chinese descent. I knew how he felt. So I passed out dictionaries and asked the students to write down definitions tor three words: "white." "black." and "yellow." Thev found that black's synonyms included "sinister" and "evil." Yellow was associated with "cowardly" and "disease." "White." on the other hand, was followed by the words "pure" and "for- tunate." Most of the stu- dents were saddened and puzzled by the ^i* unfairness ot these definitions. On the last day of class I gave them the same assignment I had given the first day: write what you know about China. The same people who had written "karate" and "take-out food" earlier were now writing words like "Communism," "May 4th movement." and "Mao Tse-tung." It was a start. c^> David Tsang is from Mineola, New York. 1 R O W N A L I M M MONTHLY ♦ 2 1 A new generation of doctors: Sara Fazio (this page) and Preetha Basaviah (with Fazio, opposite) are internal-medicine residents at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital. The Youngest Doctors Interns work long days and nights doing everything from taking pulses to helping patients face death. The hard part is knowing what to feel. BY JENNIFER SUTTON The names of patients Inwe been changed to protect their privacy. / It is shortly after 7 a.m. on a Friday in March when Dr. Sara Fazio '91, '95 M.D. walks into Boston's Beth Israel Hospital. The sky, already bright blue, holds the promise of a gorgeous early-sprmg day, but once Fazio enters the hospital she leaves the weather and the streets behind. She won't go home for ten or eleven hours - an average day for an intern. Some- times she works more than thirty hours straight. A lively twenty-six-year-old with long brown hair and an easy smile, Fazio is more than halfway through the first year of a three-year residency in Beth Israel's department of internal medicine. After eight years at Brown - four as an undergraduate and four in the School of Medicine - she is living a dream she's had since high school. Walking briskly out of the twelfth-floor elevator, the first of many cups of coffee flowing through her bloodstream, Fazio sheds her coat and shoulder bag in a dorm-room-sized cubicle furnished with bunk beds and a cot. This is where she sleeps — if she gets the chance - for a few hours during the nights she's on call. Over her turtleneck sweater she slips on a white lab coat, its pockets sagging with pens. She slmgs a stethoscope around her neck and is ready for pre-rounds - brief visits with the patients she treated yesterday. B RO \V N ALUMNI M IINIH1V • 2 j Her first stop is Room 1287. "Good morning," she says cheerfully, sitting by the bedside of an elderly Russian man who was admitted a tew days earlier with chest pain. Opening his blue striped robe, she raises the stethoscope to her ears, leans in, and wrin- kles her forehead in concentration. "BolitT' she asks in Russian. "Does it hurt?" She listens, and hears what she was hoping tor. "I think we can send you home today," she telJs the man, who's been look- ing anxiously at her face. "Ah, goot, goot," he says with relief. In the room next door lies an old man with an infected gall bladder and colon. His breathing is labored and raspy. Fazio places her face less than a foot from his. "Mr. Jacobs, can you open your eyes for Interns are soldiers in medical boot camp, caught in an endless flow of charts and vital signs and patients looking to them for answers. me?" she asks, raising her voice slightly. He can't. She listens to his chest with her stethoscope. "Carl," she asks, switching to his first name, "how are you? Can you squeeze my hand?" He squeezes ever so slightly. "Good, that's great," Fazio says. Outside the door of each patient's room hangs a clipboard charting vital signs. Fazio copies these onto a large index card before entering the room. Throughout the day she will also keep a to-do list on the card of everything each patient needs. She runs it all by a third-year, or senior, resident during rounds. Despite her smooth bedside manner, Fazio is still in training; she consults extensively with the res- ident as she's treating each patient. Before she goes otf-duty she will log onto a computer near the nurses' station and, using the index cards as a refer- ence, update each patient's hospital record. As an intern she is both doctor and secretary. And sometimes counselor. When Fazio offers to prescribe the painkiller Percocet for an older woman 24 • DECEMBER I996 A glamorous job it's not. Fazio spends nearly as much time on paperwork (far left) as she does on patients. with lung cancer, the woman whimpers, "I must have been a very bad person to end up like this." "No, I think you're a very good person," counters Fazio, who's heard statements like this before. A few minutes later she checks on a thirtyish asthmatic with pneu- monia. The woman is anxious to get out of the hos- pital; she missed a big presentation at work the day before. "You've got to relax a little," Fazio suggests. Finally she enters the room of a man she's been treating for more than a week. His chart lists his age as seventy-one, but he looks much older, with pale, papery skin and faded white hair. He has prostate cancer, and, despite bouts of chemotherapy and radi- ation, he is still in great pain. His "quality of life," Fazio says, is all but gone. As Fazio checks the man's breathing, his wife makes up the cot she's been sleep- ing on all week and motions Fazio into the hallway. Should her husband get more radiation, as their reg- ular physician has advised? He can no longer feed himself; how will he eat? Radiation probably won't do any more good, Fazio replies. And feeding would require the painful and undignified measure of sliding a tube down her husband's throat. "I don't know it he'd want to do that," Fazio says gently. Giving the woman's arm a squeeze, Fazio turns to leave, her face somber, her lips drawn tightly together. "I'm afraid her husband is going to die very soon," she says a moment later. "I don't want to back off and say there's nothing more we can do, but there's not a lot we can do, except be support- ive." Watching people die was part ot Fazio's training in medical school, and nine months as an intern have given her plenty of practice. Yet because of her youth, she cannot begin to understand what it's like to be with someone for a lifetime and then have to = make huge decisions about his - death. Fazio became a doctor in part because healing people feels natural to her. Learning that she cannot always say the right thing to a patient or a distraught relative is a particularly hard lesson. F azio's classmate. Dr. Preetha Basaviah '91, '95 M.D., is working in the medical intensive care unit, three floors down. A nurse has just informed her that a patient's blood pressure has plummeted. The man. in his sixties, was admitted with congenital heart failure two days earlier and suffered a second heart attack and cardiogenic shock in the hospital. Because he has responded poorly to the strongest available medications, Basaviah invites his son and cousin, who happen to be visiting, into a conference room to talk. A petite woman of Indian descent, Basaviah wears a purple sweater and skirt under her white lab coat. At first glance, with her curly black hair, huge dark eyes, and delicate voice, she appears somewhat BUOWN ALUMNI MONTHLY • 2s Basaviah must learn to explain illness two ways: to her fellow doctors (above) and to patients and their families (right). 2 6 ♦ DECEMBER I y y 6 timid. When the cousin's elderly husband walks into the room, he looks around and asks, "Who is the doctor?" Basaviah smiles politely and holds out her hand m greeting. "I am the doctor." she s.ivs firmly. '"1 know this is difficult," she continues, fixing her eves on the son. "hut now 's the time to discuss how aggressive you want his treatment to be. We'll start with heart medication in his IV, and we should see a change in his overall condition in a day or two. It his heart gets worse and has a potentially fatal rhythm, we can shock him, which is painful - " The son cuts her off. "What are his chances?" he asks curtly. "It's very hard to say," explains Basaviah, keeping her voice even. "The thing to talk about is what he would want in terms of life-prolonging measures, how long he'd want to be on a breathing machine." "But what's the percentage?" the son persists, looking tired and annoyed. "I'm sorry, but we can't put a percentage on his life." Basaviah says. "We're going to do all we can. If you decide vour tather wouldn't want extra measures taken to keep him alive, you need to let us know, because right now we'll be doing every possible thing." The son and cousin look blankly at her and say nothing; Basaviah excuses herselt, adding that she'll talk to them soon. Out ot earshot she confides her dismay that the son seems so disinterested in his father's condition. Com- ing from a tightly knit family, she is saddened when people tail to draw together during a rela- tive's illness or death. One of her favorite memories from medical school is ot a family she met while working at a Providence hospital: a woman diagnosed with breast cancer was so par- alyzed by tear that she refused treatment. It was the patient's mother and sister, both breast cancer survivors, who con- vinced her to tight the disease. The case occupying most of Basaviah's atten- tion today is that ot a man with sleep apnea who was admitted atter he fell asleep at the wheel ot his car. During rounds - when the doctors examine their patients en masse — Basaviah explains his situation to her intensive-care team of two other interns, a second-war resident, and an attending physician, the most senior doctor in the group. This is the second car accident the patient has had as a result ot apnea, a disorder m which an obstruction in his throat or narrowed air passages impair his breathing while he is asleep. Atter _, ... ■■ ■ ■ . , , , , The elderly man walked into choking and awaken- ' ing repeatedly at night tne room | ooke( J ar0U nd, and he is exhausted during the day and prone asked, "Who is the doctor?" to accidents. Basaviah, _ . , ■ , , . ■ ■ ■ , , Basaviah held out her hand the only woman m the group of doctors, j n gree ting. "I am the doctor," speaks in a soft even tone as she runs down She S3ld. the patient's history and current condition, her eyes darting from face to face. The others listen intently, standing in a tight cir- cle around a portable metal cart stacked with three- ring binders, one for every patient in intensive care. Basaviah has opened the apnea patient's binder, but during her fifteen-minute report she glances at it only once or twice. Basaviah, Fazio, and other interns are usually the first doctors patients see in the hospital. The interns make these daily reports to the more senior doctors, who ask questions and make suggestions, pushing the interns to formulate treatment strategies. Atter each report the team troops into a patient's room, and the doctors all lean forward with their stethoscopes. Some patients appear taken aback by the semicircle of serious young faces; others relish the attention. "Look at all the attractive doctors," an elderly woman says coyly when Basaviah's team enters her room. Basaviah and Fazio find this group approach, the backbone of teaching hospitals, a supportive training environment. They can polish their skills without hesitation, knowing there is a squadron of more experienced doctors ready to back them up. T he day goes on and on: patients and families, H the sick and the not-so-sick. A doctor's work is often mundane and routine - medications to pre- scribe, pulses to check, paperwork to update. But there are also medical riddles to solve. To be a doctor is to concentrate fully on whatever comes. This requires great reserves ot discipline and confidence, attributes not always fully developed among people in their twenties. Both Basaviah and Fazio have enjoyed two things since they were kids: science and making people feel better. Basaviah worked in a nursing home during high school in suburban New Jersey and volunteered B U i > W N A 1 I M N I MONT II IV ♦ 27 A patient's death should never be easy. "It's okay to feel sad," says Fazio, "but not to feel it so deeply that I'm unable to do everything else I need to do." at a women's health clinic in a rural town in India after her sophomore year at Brown. In Warwick, Rhode Island, Fazio grew up accompanying her chronically ill mother to doctors' offices, an experi- ence that made her powerfully aware of medicine from the patient's side ot the examination table. Although they may specialize later in their training, both women are considering careers in primary care. Early in medical school Fazio thought she would choose a specialty, because she liked the idea ot knowing a lot about one thing. Now, though, she's not so sure she wants to give up what she calls the essence of internal medicine: "knowing a lot about a lot ot things." There is much to learn in a short time. As interns, they are soldiers in medical boot camp, enmeshed in an exhausting grind, an endless flow of charts and vital signs and patients looking to them for answers, while supervising doctors peer over their shoulders. Internal medicine covers all areas that aren't surgery-related, so each month Fazio and Basaviah rotate from one unit of the hospital to another: intensive care, emergency room, cardiology, outpatient clinic, the general wards. They also do rotations outside Beth Israel - at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, for example, and the V.A. Hospital in West Roxbury. Besides attending to patients, the interns act as mentors to medical students, attend lec- tures and conferences, spend hours on the telephone dictating notes to a medical transcribing service, and work through the night one to three times a week. On those shifts they are responsible for up to forty patients. "When I was in medical school and had to follow the intern around, I'd think, 'How will I ever manage so many details? It's too much,' " Fazio says. It is too much, agrees Stephen Smith, associate dean for medical education at Brown, who views the internship year as a form of ritualistic torture. "Soci- ologists and anthropologists would probably explain it as a rite of passage in which the initiates permit - even invite — themselves to be abused." Despite all the learning that goes on, Smith calls the experience "the closest thing in Western civilization to chattel slavery." Interns, after all, are specifically excluded from certain federal labor laws that protect workers. Nothing can prepare new medical-school graduates for how grueling the year will be. But at the same time, says Smith, "all your apprehensions about your competence to be a doctor are dispelled completely in the first twenty-tour hours. You realize you really are a well-prepared physician, capable of handling most of what you'll see." Fazio and Basaviah's fear is that the illnesses, med- ications, and paperwork will become so overwhelm- ing that the patients themselves will get pushed into the background. From time to time they step back and remember why they became doctors: to work with people as well as with science, to soothe as well as to investigate. To make sure words like empathy, kindness, and compassion are always part ot their professional vocabulary. T he following Monday, Fazio is on call. A white T-shirt and blue hospital scrub pants have replaced the lambswool sweater and creased trousers she'd worn two days earlier, but she is still wearing makeup. Even in the late afternoon her lipstick is fresh, as if to brighten what promises to be a long night. She heads down to the emergency room with Adam Citu, her senior resident, to admit a patient whose chart indicates she is HOH — hard of hearing. A triage nurse and an emergency-room physician have noted on the chart that the eighty-four-year- old woman suffers from a serious cough, night sweats, confusion, and dizziness. "Hi, Mrs. Miller. I'm Dr. Fazio and this is Dr. Cifu," Fazio begins. "I'll be taking care of you upstairs. What's been going on the past few days that's brought you here?" The woman doesn't want to talk. She grips the metal railing on either side of her bed, folds of crin- kled skin hanging off her forearms. "I've answered all those questions before, young lady." "I'm sorry," Fazio says, "but I've got to ask them." With Cifu hovering beside her, Fazio inquires whether the woman has been vomiting. What was the color of the vomit, and was there any blood in it? Having seen the woman's chest x-rays, she is fairly sure this is a case of pneumonia, but tuberculosis is a remote possibility. She shines a light into the woman's eyes to check their pupillary reflexes, feels for lymph nodes on her neck and behind her ears, and presses the stethoscope first to the woman's chest to listen to her heart, and then her back to check her breathing. "Say the letter E," Fazio says. "Eeeeeeee," the woman responds obediently. "A- E-I-O-Uuuuuuuu." The two doctors take turns prodding the woman's belly and squeezing her ankles and fingers to check for swelling. Now the patient will be taken up to the twelfth floor by an orderly while Fazio fills in her chart. "I'll see you upstairs in a little while, okay?" she tells the woman. "Wait a minute, young lady," comes the response. "What was your name again?" ;8 • DECEMBER 1996 The end of a long shift finds Basaviah updating the files of each patient she has treated that day. An hour or so later, Fazio manages to gulp down her fourth or fifth cup of coffee of the day, along with a plate of greasy macaroni from the hospital cafeteria. The doctors not on call have turned then- patients over to her for the night and gone home. There are special instructions from the other intern on her rotation regarding one patient: "She's got a glass eye and sometimes takes her eye out, so you might get called to put her eye back in." Fazio sighs. There are taint circles under her eyes. A- r - 7 m V Basaviah signed two death certificates in thirty 7 minutes. Worse, though, was when four patients died in one night. "Its kind of hard to get up and come in to work when you're wondering, 'Okay, who's going to die today,' " she says. While a dying patient's relatives deal with one overwhelming feel- ing — grief- the doctor faces multiple, often contra- dictorv emotions. "People think death will be an ugly, frightening thing, but tor so many it is the only way they can be at peace," Basaviah says. "Sometimes I wonder why I'm treating a person who just wants to be left alone. At the same time, I feel compelled to do everything I medically can, and I feel terrible when I try everything and there's no response. That's when I have to come to terms with the limits of my ability - and medicine's ability - to heal." This is especially true when Basaviah has forged a bond with a patient. Getting overly attached is an occupational hazard tor young doctors, and both she and Fazio are still learning how to ration their emotions. Keeping an appropriate distance is equally challenging: too much detachment and they come off as cold; too little and they find themselves emo- tionally spent before the day is half over. During one of Fazio's rotations in intensive care, she worked the entire month with a young woman suffering from cancer. Late one night she stopped by the woman's room to check on her dete- riorating condition and stayed for a half-hour, look- ing at family photographs the woman's relatives had placed around the room. When Fazio walked out, she was devastated. "I remember thinking to myself, What are you doing? "I don't think death should ever be easy for a doctor," she continues. "It's okay to feel a peripheral sadness, but not to feel it so deeply that I'm unable to do everything else I need to do." She and Basaviah try to remain objective in their relationships with patients, to simply be their advocates in the health care process. It is almost 7 p.m. when Fazio returns to check on her prostate-cancer patient. The man managed to hang on through the weekend, but his condition remains poor. His children and their spouses, knowing he will die soon, have gathered 111 the hallway outside his room. Inside, the window curtain is open to the deepening twilight. The man's wife sits in a chair beside the bed. It is very quiet - peaceful, almost. Fazio sits on the bed and feels the patient's pulse. It is a little better. He slowly opens his eyes and mumbles a few words, as if he's been waiting for her. She pats his hand before moving out of the way of the family, who, upon hearing his voice, weak though it is, begin crowding into the room. In the doorway, one of the man's daughters, her eyes tired and damp from crying, impulsively turns to Fazio and hugs her awkwardly. Fazio hugs her back, then strides down the hall toward her next patient. Ov HllllWN ALUMNI MONTHS • 2 <■) By Thomas Banchoff The Best Homework Ever? CASSIDY CURTIS'S MARVELOUS SURFACE DRAWINGS u I omework is a necessary chore H for teachers as well as for stu- dents. Occasionally, though, a routine assignment produces something that is a pure joy. Every instructor can recall students who have done outstanding jobs on assignments that stretch over a number of days, but I have a candidate for the Best Overnight Homework Ever. Nine years ago I was teaching an honors course in the calculus of several variables to a group ot well-prepared first-year students. In my calculus courses I always encourage stu- dents to draw - first of all so they can sketch graphs of curves in the plane, and then so they can begin to visualize sur- faces in space. Visualization techniques have always been important in mathemat- ics and its applications, and they are espe- cially so nowadays as sophisticated com- puter graphics enhance our ability to interpret phenomena we could not imag- ine a generation ago. But you can only really appreciate what the computer is showing you if you've tried to render the curves and surfaces freehand. Almost all of my students get the hang of it well enough to draw a pretty good surface, and some display a particular talent for illus- trating mathematical ideas. Right from the beginning, Cassidy Curtis '92 was unusually adept at drawing surfaces representing complicated alge- braic expressions in two variables. He seemed instinctively able to choose just the right viewing angle to display the salient features of a surface, and he used color and shading to bring out key prop- erties. He was equally impressive with colored pencils and with the interactive computer-graphics tools we were devel- oping at Brown. What astounded me, though, was his response to my first lecture on functions of three variables. We had spent a good deal of time analyzing contour lines of functions of two variables, such as the curves ot equal temperature or pressure on a weather map or the contours of mountains on a topographical survey. I then introduced the analogous concept of contour surfaces for functions of three variables, such as the points of equal tem- perature in a room with a wood stove. I had a particular challenge in mind. The previous summer, I had attended a series ot esoteric lectures at Berkeley given by Professor Friedrich Hirzebruch from the University of Bonn. Professor Hirzebruch was interested in a surface with many sin- gularities (points where the surface looks like two cones with their points touch- ing) defined using a polynomial in three complex variables: f(x,y,z)= (-$x-l+Sx 2 -i)+(-8)>4+8y 2 -l)+(-Sz't+Sz 2 -i) Although the lecturer said he knew a great deal about this function from the point of view of calculus and linear alge- bra, he regretted that he could not visual- ize its geometric shape. I thought our graphics team could help him out. I tele- phoned my sophomore assistant, Ed Chang '91, who rendered the surface on a computer using a contour-surface algo- rithm developed by Steve Ritter '85 and Kevin Pickhardt '85 in Professor Amines van Dam's computer-graphics course. Thanks to overnight mail and one-hour film developing, we had slides of the sur- face in Berkeley in time for Professor Hirzebruch's next lecture. He was delighted, and he has used our computer- graphics illustrations in his lectures and publications ever since. When 1 wrote that same equation on the board for my freshman honors stu- dents the following semester, I didn't tell them how difficult a visualization chal- lenge it was. I had planned to spread the story over two weeks of class periods, cli- maxing by exhibiting our computer illus- trations. But I hadn't counted on Cassidy. The very next class, he came up to me and said he knew what those surfaces looked like. He showed me a page of drawings that were unlike anything I had ever seen from a student — perfect, hand-drawn rendi- tions of the object we had created on the computer the previous summer with such labor, not just one image but an entire sequence. And on the next page of note- book paper, he showed how to stack all the color-coded surfaces together in four- space, something our computer could not do at the time! Since then I have shown slides ot Cas- sidy's work all over the world: in schools and universities, at conferences and art shows, for research mathematicians and for alumni groups. This is not only the best freshman math homework I have ever received. I contend it is the best overnight homework any teacher has ever received in any course at any level at any place in any subject at any time, ever, ever, ever. That is an extreme claim, but I'm still waiting for another teacher to produce a worthy challenger. o^> 3 0* DECEM BED 1996 OPTICAL PohjT^ Four. LEV/EL SuKfT&S « > Thomas Banchoff (right, in photo) has been professor of math- ematics at Brown since 1967. He is a pioneer in the geometry of the fourth and higher dimensions, and his Scientific American volume, Beyond the Third Dimension, recently came out in paperback. He told the story of his student's achievement dur- ing his acceptance speech for the Mathematical Association of America's national award for distinguished college or univer- sity teaching. After graduating in 1992, Banchoff's student, Cassidy Curtis (left, in photo), went on to do computer anima- tion for XAOS, an advertising agency in San Francisco, where his credits included the countdown visual sequence for MTV. He then worked on animation for Pacific Data Images. Curtis is now in Seattle working on graphics projects with David Salesin '83, professor of computer science at the University of Washington. <^^<^^ Mathematics professor Tom Banchoff had never seen anything like the drawings (top) produced overnight by a freshman, Cassidy Curtis. On an accompanying sheet (opposite page) Curtis "stacked" his surface renditions, causing a teaching assistant to note: "Wow!" Above, a computer-generated illustration by Ed Chang '91 of the same algebraic function. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY ♦ 3] Al 1 PHOTO/ALBERTO MARQUEZ ■ "* % slam n k2B r V*' SUM, ' %l ' i Above: Demonstrators outside the Indonesian embassy in the Philippines last month protesting police disruption of an East Timor conference held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Bottom: Prisoners released from a Malaysian police station after being detained thirty-five hours for participating in the same conference. LJ ,1 ,| r; SW,*?- Man Without a Nation Mi*- P .4? fourteen he was a guerrilla fighting for his homeland's ^^^W^^l ^B ^^^ independence. Arrested and tortured *^K at twenty-eight, an exile at 1 1 i twenty-nine, this undergraduate W ! 1 : ^ hopes to awaken the world to the struggle of the former Por- 1 ! y ^ tuguese colony of East Timor. ir ^ ' BY CONSTANCIO PINTO '98 AND MATTHEW JARDINE "My name is Constancio Pinto. I was born in Dili, the capi- tal oj Portuguese Timor, on January 25, 1963. 1 was my par- ents' first oj eleven children. Fortunately, all of my brothers and sisters are still alive. " So begins East Timor's Unfinished Struggle: Inside the Timorese Resistance, published last month by Boston's South End Press. The book is the memoir of a life engaged in the struggle for freedom and independence in East Timor, which lies in the Malay archipelago off the northwestern coast of Australia. A Portuguese colony until 1975, East Timor briefly declared its independence before Indonesia annexed it by force a few months later. As secretary of the clandestine front within tin- National Council of'Maubere Resistance (CNRM), Pinto has lived on the razor's edge: ostensibly cooperating with the Indonesian government while in fact leading the under- ground movement to free East Timor from its tight-fisted rule. Among Pinto's colleagues have been Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo and Jose Ramos Horta, who shared this year's Nobel Peace Prize. Ramos Horta was the first to greet Pinto when, facing almost certain death at home, he began a long journey of escape that ended at the airport in Lisbon more than lour years ago. In September 1993, thanks to the efforts of Associate Dean of the College DavidTargan, Pinto entered Brown. At about the same time, Ramos Horta appointed Pinto U.S. and U.N. representative for the CNRM. Later that year he was joined in Providence by Gabricla, his wife, and Tilson, their son. (They have since had a daughter, Tima.j The fol- lowing excerpt adapted from East Timor's Unfinished Struggle describes his arrest and torture in EastTimor. My arrest took place on January 25, 1 991, at nine in the morning. I was going to my office at the Diocese of Dili. The Indonesians had planned to arrest me for a traffic violation. They already knew that I had a motorcycle but no license. At nine, on the way to the diocese office, in front of the old municipal market, I suddenly found myself surrounded by police. I had all the newspaper clip- pings and the notes from the executive-committee meeting the previous evening in my backpack. I immediately realized that I was 111 trouble. There B 1( ( ) W N ALUMNI MONTHLY ♦ 33 ^ J were two policemen. One hit me on my head, I fell down, and they grabbed me. They hit my head and my body. They called me Terus - they already knew my nom de guerre. "Terus, where are you going?" they asked me. They began to beat me really hard, right there on the street in front of people. Immediately blood came out of my nose and mouth like someone had turned on a P# Top: Nobel Peace Prize co-recipient Jose Ramos Horta during a November 13 address at Georgetown University. He urged the Clinton administration to help bring peace to East Timor. Bottom: Co-recipient Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo delivers a homily during a mass in the capital city of Dili on October 13. 'If I had caught you," the policeman said, 'I would have broken your head immediately. You wouldn't have survived." faucet. My head hurt incredibly. I telt like I was going to die. They kicked me in the stomach with their boots very hard, like someone kicking a ball, and in my back and my head. I couldn't move, and I was crying. They just kept beating me. A lot of people were there. Everyone was scared, of course. People couldn't say anything. The police put handcuffs on me, with my hands behind my back. They didn't put me in a truck, because I was right in front of the police station. They just walked me to the station and beat and kicked me all the way there, in my stomach and my head. They were hitting me in the stomach karate-style. Inside the station one of the police approached me. "If I had caught you," he said to me, "I would have broken your head immediately. You wouldn't have survived." And then many others came to me and said while laughing, "Look at this traitor." I just kept silent. The police took me into a room. There were a lot of intelligence people there, men and women. They were there just to watch me. The police took off my clothes, so I only had underwear on, and they started to beat me again really hard, hitting my face and body, and kicking my legs and stomach. They ordered me to put my hands against the wall over my head. People outside the room shouted, "Look at that trai- tor! We'll teach him tonight. We'll teach him tonight!" After that they took me to an interrogation room. When I entered the room, there was a Balinese police captain named Edy and two others. The room was small, maybe twelve feet by twenty-four feet. I sat on a chair. They had maps and a schema of the organiza- tion of the underground. I don't know where they got the information, but some of it was true. The police official interrogated me about the chart and tried to force me to say the schema was true. "Do you know Bishop Belo, Father Leao, Pinto at an October 1995 demonstration in New York City protesting Indonesia's 1975 annexation of East Timor. and Father Cunha?" he asked me. "I know Bishop Belo as the head of the Catholic Church," I replied. "I know Father Leao and Father Cunha because they were my priests and my teachers." "Do you know that they are working with the resistance?" he asked. "I don't know," I answered. "And I don't have to know. That is their business." "You know, you traitor!" he yelled, and he hit me in the face really hard. The interrogation continued, accompanied by torture. I knew that the Indonesians had captured many documents implicating me as the head of the under- ground three months earlier when they raided the guerrilla leader Xanana Gusmao's camp; they already knew my nam de guerre, Terus, and they had arrested me with incriminating information in my backpack, so I couldn't deny that I was the secretary of the executive committee. They already had their proof, but I wanted to make sure that they obtained as little information from me as possible. Their objective was to destroy the entire underground; they wanted to know the identities of all my contacts. I thought that if I admitted to being the secretary of the executive committee and took responsibility tor the activities of the underground, the Indonesians would concen- trate on me, rather than on others whom they sus- pected of underground activity. "You don't have to accuse me of having contacts with this one or that one," I told them. "Now you've got the right person. I am the secretary ot the execu- tive committee. I am responsible for everything." They continued to hit me, and I continued to refuse to give them the information they wanted about my contact with others. With each question I would get two or three punches in the face. When someone punches you so much and so hard, it feels as if your face is broken. People hit me on my back and on my sides with their hands and then kicked me. "If you don't tell the truth, you will be responsible for your own life," they threatened. I was crying, but they were beating me so hard that my body became like wood. They beat me as someone beats a cow. They beat me so many times I couldn't feel it. But .is time passed I felt the effects very much; my body felt like it was broken. When they first started beating me very hard, I kind ot lost consciousness. When they stopped beating me tor a few minutes, I touched my head and my jaw to see if they were broken; I couldn't believe that they were not. It's unbelievable how strong your body is. And it was not small people who beat me, but people who were strong and who beat me with all their energy. I prayed to God, and God helped me at that time. Without God, I would probably be dead. They hit me from nine in the morning, when they first arrested me, until one the next morning. I almost lost consciousness a few times. At one a.m., there was a telephone call from the head of military intelligence. Colonel Gatot Purwanto. He told them to move me from the police station to Colmera. a military intelligence jail. About half an hour later. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY • 35 Preserving Hope The most striking thing about Constan- cio Pinto is what he is not. Despite cru- sading for independence in East Timor for most of his adult life, he is not didactic. Despite being torn from his family and exiled from his country, he is not nostalgic. And despite the grave injustices he has wit- nessed, both in East Timor and in the inter- national political arena, he is not bitter. He is, of all things, hopeful, with an almost puckish air of glee. Sitting on a Victorian couch in his Paw- tucket, Rhode Island, apartment, surrounded by his children's picture books and plastic trucks, Pinto explains that the night before the Nobel Peace Prize was announced, his attitude was different. He knew that his friend Bishop Belo was on the Nobel com- mittee's short list, but, he says, "I had no hope at all that the bishop would win the prize." He learned of the award to Belo and exiled East Timorese activist Jose Ramos Horta the next morning, when Beverly Skillings, assistant to Associate Dean of the College David Targan, stopped him on his way to art-history class and asked: "Haven't you heard? "His country, which most Ameri- cans had never heard of, was suddenly in the international spotlight. "I've never seen anyone so happy," says Skillings. "Constancio was jumping up and down. It was the best thing that could have happened for his country and his people." Through his work as the leader of the underground movement in East Timor and, earlier, as the head of a Catholic boys' group, Pinto knew Belo well. Because of Belo's high-profile position in East Timor, which is 90-percent Catholic, the bishop could express his support for East Timorese independence more freely than others. He opened his door to hundreds of dissidents seeking protection from the police. "He was the only one we could trust," Pinto says. Until his es- cape from East Timor, Pinto knew of Ramos Horta only through their years-long corre- spondence about the independence movement. While Pinto helped organize demonstrations inside the country - includ- ing the November 12, 1991, march that turned into the famous Santa Cruz massacre - Ramos Horta drummed up support for East Timor in the international community. These days Pinto somehow takes a full load of classes as a concentrator in develop- ment studies; helps his East Timorese wife, Gabriela, take care of their two children; speaks on college campuses and at U.N. conferences about East Timor; and has coauthored a book. His homework often gets done on airplanes. "It's a little bit stressful," he says, lacing his delicate fingers together, "but moments of opportunity are very important. If you miss one, it will take time until there's another." - Shea Dean they put me in a truck. I was in a lot of pain. I was afraid that they were taking me somewhere to kill me. They put two police behind me in the truck and two in front of me. "Where are you taking me?" I asked. They didn't answer. "Are you going to kill me?" I asked. "No, we are not going to kill you right now," they stated. But then one of them turned to me and said, "Traitor, if I had arrested you, if I had captured you, 1 would have shot you right away." Then we arrived in Colmera, a neighborhood in Dili where there was a prison for political prisoners. They put me in a room and resumed the interrogation. At the beginning, the Indonesians said the same thing as they did at the police station. "We know that you are the leader of the underground move- ment," they said. "We know you have a very close relationship with Xanana Gusmao. We know that you know everything about the underground move- ment. Please tell us everything. If vou don't, you will be responsible for your own lite." Every time they asked me a question, the Indonesians would add a threat. "We know every- thing about you," they told me, "so just be honest. If you are not, you will suffer." As they were saying this, they would point a pistol at my head. "We are nice people, but we have colleagues who are not so nice, who use razor blades and electric shocks during interrogation. It's your choice." Sometimes the Indonesians would order me to smoke a cigarette and to take a few moments to think. On the first two days, they didn't show me any documents. On the third day, though, they showed me my documents. Imagine, they brought out all my documents and letters and put them on the table - letters that I had sent to Xanana over a period of almost one year. When I looked at those letters and documents, I began crying. I was crying at the sight of my letters. They laughed at me. After having breakfast the next day, I was taken to meet with Gatot Purwanto in the Farol section of 36 ♦ DECEMBER IO96 Xanana Gusmao, military leader of the East Timor resistance. In 1993 Gusmao was sentenced to life in prison, a sentence that was later reduced to twenty years by Indonesian President Suharto. His treatment has been criticized by Amnesty International and by many newspapers around the world. Dili. The night before I met Gatot, I thought to myself that if I stayed in the prison, I wouldn't be able to do anything else for the underground and my country. I realized that the Indonesians needed me and that they would probably ask me to work tor them. I tried to think about what I would do if they said that they would release me on the condi- tion that I would work for them as an agent. Gatot's office was in an old Portuguese house near the lighthouse on the Dili waterfront. "Well, I have been looking for you for a long time, but now you are here," he said. "So, tell me, why do you do all these things against the Indonesian government?" I decided to give a diplomatic answer. "I have done many things against the Indonesian govern- ment, and I want to apologize. If you don't accept my apology, I am already in your hands. You can do whatever you can do to me. I am ready to accept it. I will consider your punishment of me as a punish- My life was on a dangerous path. I was beginning to play an extremely risky game. mi nt that comes trom a father to a son. 1 consider the Indonesian government to be like my father." "Well, as you have already recog- nized your fault, I will let you go home, with the condition that vou present yourself to us regularly and provide information to us," Gatot responded. "Of course you've done a lot of terrible things against the government. You have to work for us now; you have to denounce all those terrible things that you have done. But remember, don't tell people that you were arrested for politi- cal reasons, but because you didn't have your driver's license and the proper motorcycle document." "I promise, Commander," I an- swered. "I won't tell anybody. I really want to work and cooperate with you." While in the prison I had found out that there were thirty other East Timo- rese who had been there for a long time before I arrived. So I added a condition: the release of these thirty people. "Commander Gatot, I appreciate vour decision," I said. "But I think it will be difficult for people to believe that I was arrested merely because I didn't have my driver's license. If that were the case, why would you keep me here for almost a week? Another big mistake was to put me in the same jail where the others are imprisoned. I think it would be helpful if you release the other prisoners before vou release me. If you don't, people won't believe in me. People will say that I am working for intelligence. People won't believe me anymore." Gatot was convinced by my argument. "I think you are right." he said to me. The next day the Indonesians released the thirty prisoners. A couple of days later, after seven days in prison, the Indonesians released me as well. The date was February I, 1991. But despite my release. I wasn't happy at all, because my life was on a dangerous path. I was beginning to play an extremely risky game and I was conscious of that. At five o'clock on the morning of May 16, 1992, Con- stdncio Pinto left Dili to begin his escape from EastTimor. He arrived in Lisbon, a free man, six months later. o^> Matthew Jardine is a Los Angeles-based researcher and acti- vist. For more information about East Timor's Unfinished Struggle, call the South End Press at (800) 533-847$. HKI1WN ALUMNI MONTHLY ♦ 37 ** • PORTRAIT: KENNETH A.CARLSON '86 1/ ■ ^k ( irlson lias put thirrv H ^^ hard-core criminals behind bars, but lie's never worn .1 badge. As .1 producer and reporter for the Fox television network's /4menfdi Mosl Wanted from [992 to [995, Carlson profiled more than 200 ot the coun- try's most vicious murderers, rapists, thieves, and child molesters. In addition to chronicling the stories of crime victims, he had to face the suffering of their families and friends. "Some- times 1 was more ot a counselor than a producer." Carlson savs. "It was often one of my mam roles - and one ot the things 1 felt most comfortable with." Carlson is comfortable consoling vic- tims' survivors because he is one. In the summer of 1 990, his sister-in-law was found murdered in her home in a small Washington, D.C.. suburb. Until then, Carlson, a former varsity linebacker who studied organizational management and behavior at Brown, had been leading the workaday life of an advertising executive. After the local police department, which had budgeted less than Ssoo for homi- cide investigations that year, failed to turn up suspects or make any arrests. Carlson decided to take action. He began calling the offices of America's Most Wanted, a new realm-based television program that staged reenactments ot unsolved crimes and asked viewers to phone in tips. "I knew there was a way to cut to the chase." he says. "You can put up posters in the post office, but you can't reach 8 mil- lion people unless you go on television." Carlson badgered the show's execu- tives until they finally dispatched a pro- ducer to look into the case. The producer took notes and did interviews, but once he listened to Carlson's advice on how to profile the killer, he realized he had stumbled onto more than a good story. He offered Carlson a job. Two years later Carlson moved to Los Angeles to work in the program's news division. The tact that a family tragedy provided his entree into the film and television business left Carl- son with mixed feelings. "It was an uncomfortable segue," he says, "but I also think it made me better at the job." CRIMINALS, BEWARE! When a relative was murdered, this crusading television producer went after the bad guys. All of them. BY CHAD GALTS PHOTOGRAPH BY CATHERINE KARNOW '82 In his earlv days with America's Most Wanted Carlson worked a grueling sched- ule. If a crime was committed over a weekend he would fly to the location Monday morning and interview surviv- ing victims, their families, and the police. He'd plan and write the re-creation on Tuesday, film it on Wednesday, edit it on Thursday, and feed it via satellite to the main office in time for the show's Friday- night air time. Such a quick turnaround often meant that Carlson was one of the first people on the crime scene after the police. Yet more taxing than the frantic pace was having to prepare distraught family members and friends of victims to per- form for a television audience. Carlson repeatedly found himself walking the fine line between doing good on behalf of a family overcome with grief and turning that grief into a slick package that would get high ratings. The son of a United Church of Christ minister, Carlson is a de- vout Christian who admits he sometimes felt morally at odds with his work. "There I was. consoling a woman crying on my shoulder, holding her husband's hand," Carlson recalls. "And the on-camera talent was poking me. saying, 'Let's roll this!' You feel you're compromising the victims' true feelings and your integrity." Still. Carlson is adamant that the show's results far outweigh its intrusions. "America's Most Wanted and other reality-based pro- grams have gotten a bad rap," he says. He agrees that the show's tend to capitalize on grief and make personal tragedies fodder for ratings races, but "the end result — you can't beat it." he says. "More than 400 criminals have been put behind bars because ot America's Most Wanted. Is this wrong? Absolutely not." In 1995, Carlson decided he was ready for his next career move. He had graduated from the program's news division to its higher-budget film reenactments. More important, his wife, Katrina Schoen Carlson '88, was pregnant. With almost 300 credits on the show, Carlson's name was becoming familiar in the wrong circles. America's Most Wanted, he explains, is as closely watched by prison inmates as it is by cops. The show's creator and host, John Walsh, has to travel with bodyguards because of constant threats to his life, and Carlson himself was beginning to receive threats. So he began to put the skills he'd mastered at America's Most Wanted to other uses. Earlier this year he produced Wild Bill, Hollywood Maverick, a film biog- raphy of the pioneer director William A. Wellman. Between his hands-on produc- tion experience at America's Most Wanted and the Hollywood history lessons from his work on Wellman, Carlson feels ready to tackle larger projects and movies. "I never went to film school," he says, "but I have a complete film education. I just happened to get paid for it." Carlson's work with America's Most Waited isn't quite finished, however. His segments are still turning up leads for the police, and he works as a consultant on the production of program updates when viewers send in new information related to his profiles. And though America's Most Wanted never produced a segment about his sister-in-law's murder, Carlson con- vinced another reality-based program. Unsolved Mysteries, to cover it. After the episode aired, one suspect was convicted and jailed. Carlson believes there is at least one more person still at large who was involved in the crime, but he has begun to put the tragedy behind him. "Very tew people who are victims - and I consider myself a victim," he says, "have the oppor- tunity to see resolution, to see closure, to sec someone incarcerated. Helping other people has really helped me." 0^1 IROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY • 39 ^v ; r;^,~- - • .j • - BROWN ARCHIVES Thank you, sir, may I have another? The 1936 Sophomore Vigilance Committee goes to work on five neophytes who have broken the rules governing freshman behavior. Those assuming the position, from left: Donald A. Jones, Arthur W. Doherty, George Holswade, Herbert Nahas, and Raymond Curran. The lords of discipline, from left: Irving A. Hall Jr., Howard Lane, Harold Ipsen, Alfred Bloomingdale, and Howard Shaw. 40 ♦ DECEMBER I996 The Classes \i\ ( HAD I. A I I S 1925 Ben Roman received the Boston Post Cane at .1 gathering .it the Alstead. Mass.. Fire Station 111 August. Traditionally the cine is given to the oldest resident of Alste.id. Ben is a former dean and professor emeritus at Brown, and .1 former headmaster of the Peddle School in New Jersey. I927 70th Reunion Our 70th reunion will be held Memorial Day Weekend, May 23—26. If you have any ques- tions or suggestions, please call reunion head- quarters at (401) 863-1947. Remember to save the dates. 1928 Oscar H. Hartenau. Larchmont, NY., spent the summer at his Charlestown, R.I., summer home with his two children, their spouses, and five grandchildren. I929 Louis Miller married Meredith Gale on [une 16 in Scottsdale, Anz. Miller's first wife, of fifty-seven years, was Helene Chase Miller '28. His daughter is Devra Miller Breslow '54 of Los Angeles. His nephew is Jonathan Kagan '64 of New York. Louis can be reached at S431 East Welsh Trail, Scottsdale 85258; (602) 998-9895. I93O Karl Stein. Chicago, writes. "Thanks to the BAM I received a telephone call from my former classmate Stephen DeLise. We have not spoken in sixty-five years. Though I am 87 years young, I am still able to be a crew- member and race on a forty-two-foot sloop. The three-day Tn-State race over Labor Day weekend was the highlight ot my season." WHAT'S NEW? Please send the latest about your job, family, travels, or other news to Tlie Clones, Brown Alumni Monthly, Box 1854, Providence. R.I. 02912; fax (401) 863-0,509; e-mail BAM@broumum.brown.edu. Deadline tor April dassnotes: January 15. 1932 65th Reunion Rev. Byron O. Waterman, class president, is looking ahead to the 65th reunion. On August 8 he met with Everett Schreiner. Charles Tillinghast Jr.. Miles Sydney, and Paul Mackesey for preliminary planning. Dorothy Budlong met with Alan and Helen Cusick in Newport. They took a moment to remember the recent death of Louise Schreiner. l 933 York A. King Jr. and his wife, Margaret, Val- ley Forge. Pa., celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on October 1 o. York retired from Rose Exterminator Co. in 1975 and is now "managing his estate," which fronts on Valley Forge Park. At a party organized by his son, 1 )ave, and daughter, Caroline King Hall '60. '73 Ph.D., a professor of English at Penn State. York recited his favorite Ogden Nash toast: "To keep your marriage brimming with love in the loving cup; whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up!" I936 Naming names is always dangerous, and it was inevitable that we would leave someone out of our reunion report. But why did it have to be Harry Moses, who hasn't missed a reunion since our 5th? We promise it won't happen at our 65th, and certainly not our 70th. We also neglected to mention Jim Rooney '8y of alumni relations, without whom we wouldn't have had a reunion. He was pleasant, helpful, cheerful, and reliable - we were in good hands. — Howard Silverman l 937 60th Reunion The Pembroke and Brown reunion committees have been busy making plans for our 60th to be held Memorial Day Weekend, May 23-26. If you have any questions or suggestions, please call reunion headquarters at (401) 863-1947. Remember to save the dates. I938 Larry A. Atwell, Fairfax. Va., writes, "I had the pleasure of meeting with Joe Paterno so on the practice held at Penn State in August. I was very impressed with his organizational ability — he had eight teams on four corners of the field operating various formations and plays, while kicking specialists perfected their skills. [oe walked over to meet me and mv two grand- sons, high school all-stars from Pensacola, Fla., and greeted us with warmth and vigor. I have been associated with many of the famous coaches ot this century, and I would place Joe in the top five. He is a credit to Brown in every respect." The obituary for Elizabeth Waterman Derry in the September BAM neglected to mention her maiden name. The BAM regrets the error. 1941 Secretary Earl W. Harrington Jr. writes that Madge Thomson McCririck. Vancouver, "our only '41 Pembroke Canadian," wrote to President Gregorian offering a British Columbia flag to display at Commencement. (Apologies for inadvertently leaving this material out of the November Classes.) Earl and his wite. Louise '39. had a great day on Cape Cod at the Brown Sports Foun- dation's triennial celebration at the home of Genie and Bob Birch '61, August 10. They were joined by Bob Rapelye and shared a table during the lobster- and clambake with four from '42. Some alumni enjoyed golf, tennis, and swimming, while others enjoyed visiting, sightseeing, and bay cruises. The eve- ning entertainment included singing, dancing, and the country singer, storyteller, and come- dian Mike Cross. On August 26 Earl and Louise welcomed granddaughter Sarah Youn- kin '97 to Providence for her senior year and Samuel Younkin '00 as a freshman. Both grew up in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Allen R. Ferguson wrote to Sophie Blistein as a result of their reunion discussions, enclosing material for the library's military collection and a copy ot a snapshot of Sophie. Lucky, and Allen taken by his wife, Audrey Mitscher '42, way back when. Sophie. Allen, and Lucky started together in the fifth grade and continued together through Brown. Allen is now writing a memoir, which may take the form either of a single volume published in 2000 or of smaller segments published earlier. Look for more on this from John E. Lieb- 111.11111 in the next class newsletter. Classmates can send information for the newsletter to John at 1 133 Park Ave.. New York City 10128. by early January. — Earl If. Harrington jr. The Rev. Robert A. Tourigney and his wife, Helen, returned to Palos Verdes Estates. Calif., in October. St. Francis Parish, which Bob founded and served for thirty-seven \ ens. rededicated the parish hall in his name. Bob writes that since his name is difficult to pro- nounce and does not lend itself to abbreviation, he suggested the parish use his Brown nick- name and call the building "Tigger Hall." BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY ♦ 4 I 1942 55th Reunion 1944 The reunion committee has been busy nuking plans for our 55th to be held Memorial Day Weekend, May 23-26. If you have any ques- tions or suggestions, please call reunion head- quarters at (401) 863-1947. Remember to save the dates. Edith Herrmann. Elizabeth. N.J.. traveled to the Gulf Coast of Florida with her former library director in the early summer. They took many auto trips and visited the Edison and Ford winter estates in Fort Myers. Edith's church, Second Presbyterian, hosted the Kiev symphonic choir and orchestra as the first stop on a thirty-concert tour throughout the United States. "'Three women from the choir stayed at my apartment for two nights," Edith writes. "I had the opportunity to show them my late mother's treasures from old St. Petersburg before the Soviet rule." Helen Reilly Hoyt, Ridgefield. Conn., writes, "It is with deep sadness that I report the death of my husband, Richard H. Hoyt (Columbia '36), on June 4. He was one of the few remaining hat manufacturers before that industry was forced to close altogether." J 943 Growing old gracefully seems to be a common goal, and the returns from our mid-summer solicitation for news look quite encouraging - and even a bit inspiring. Jay Rossbach became a grandfather on Dec. 24, 1995. He plays golf, tennis, and croquet in the Palm Beach, Fla., area, where he is also chairman of the local Red Cross chapter. Bruce Donaldson did Jay a notch better by becoming a £rMf-grandfather in August. Bruce admits that golf is his real passion, even if his handicap has sneaked up from 8 to 16 over the past few years. He con- tinues to travel annually to Scotland, where he is a member of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews. Bob Walker moved from New Jersey to Peterborough. N.H., last winter. He is adjusting to a life-care commu- nity where snow removal, grass cutting, and home repairs are ancient history. He enjoys a busy schedule of group activities and pleasure trips. He recently took a trip to the U.K. and its islands, and he is looking forward to a regular schedule of cruises. Bob Radway remains mostly retired, but a host of boards, committees, and commissions keeps him on his toes. Bob is proud of the giant tomatoes he grows at his summer home in Saunders- town, R.I., and he still does a bit of financial consulting through the local office of the Small Business Administration. He celebrated V-[ Day by watching videotapes about am- phibious landings in the Pacific during World War II. - Boh Radway Marguerite Connelly Carroll's sons held a family reunion 111 July in Windsor, Conn. Family and friends came from California, Col- orado, Maryland, Connecticut, Oklahoma, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. The sympathy of the class goes out to Connie Lucas Chase on the death of her husband, Garfield, on July 24. Miriam Norbery Schofield retired in 1992 and lives in Miami. "Contrary to many people's opinions," she writes, "I like living here." She is a member of the Miami Commis- sion on the Status of Women and of Demo- cratic Power, a women's political organization. She is active in a Congregational church and attends classes two days a week at the Univer- sity of Miami's Institute for Retired Profes- sionals. She also attends art classes and plans to take a computer class in January. A member of a women's travel club, she spent a week in Maui and two weeks in San Francisco, both in May, and two weeks in France touring Provence and the Riviera in September 1995. Ruth Cunningham Lyons and Miriam re- connected at their 50th reunion and have met a couple of times in Florida. Miriam has three children and five grandchildren. 1945 Phyllis Baldwin Young (see Andrew B. Young '87). I946 Bobby Smith Thomas writes, "Although I graduated in 1946, I had never gone through the Van Wickle Gates until I returned to Brown for my 50th reunion 111 May. In the emotions of the day my husband and I forgot to bring our camera along. A bystander, who was a brother of one in our marching group (classes 1946 and earlier), kindly took pictures of me at various points along the way. Unfortunately. I .1111 unable to remember the photographer's name or that of his brother. Perhaps someone reading the BAM can help me track him down." Bobby can be reached at 16 2 Gre- gory St., Marblehead, Mass. 01945. 1947 50th Reunion The plans for your 50th reunion are well under way. Be sure to mark your calendars. May 23-26. If you haven't already done so, please return your yearbook questionnaire as soon as possible. Call reunion headquarters at (401) 863-1947 if you have any questions or have not received a reunion mailing. I948 Our off-year mini-reunion was held at the Fac- ulty Club on May 25. We were joined by the classes at [945, '47, '48. and '49, and by our scholarship student. Leslie Jonas '97. Attendees were so enthusiastic about the joint reunion that we plan to do it again tins year, Saturday. May 24, at the Faculty Club. Those who attended included Florence Asadorian Dul- garian '4s. Jane Walsh Folcarelli '47, Eileen Cummings Heaton '47. Joan Fitzgerald Goldrick '47, Betty Asadorian Kougasian '47, class president Nancy Cantor Eddy, Gloria MarkofT Winston, Constance Hur- ley Andrews. Muriel Simon Flanzbaum, Barbara Soloman Goldstein, Betty Daly Connelly, June Anne Mullane Aumand. Singer Gammell, Barbara Oberhard Epstein, Lotte Van Geldern Povar, class president Dolores Pastore DiPrete '49, Marilyn Ehrenhaus '49, Glenna Robinson Mazel '49, Rev Marjorie Logan Hiles '49, and Jean E. Miller '49. We have had four meetings for our soth reunion, which is less than two years away. Hope you will be with us. - Nancy Cantor Eddy A |uly classnote incorrectly referred to Jack Frankel as "Joel." "I'll admit the latter has a fine ring," he writes from his home in Treasure Island, Fla., "but I'm really conser- vative Jack." The BAM regrets the error. I949 John L. Waterman. Rehoboth. Mass., re- tired in January after ten years in the rubber industry and is working as a consultant one day a week. He is very active in his church, enjoys his five grandchildren, and is hoping for a sixtli from China in the near future. I95O Joe Paterno (see Larry A. Atwell '38). I^^ 45th Reunion Be sure to save the dates, May 23-26, so you can come join the fun. Your committee is hard at work planning your reunion. The weekend will be a good time to catch up with old friends and make new ones. If you have not received your first mailing, please contact reunion headquarters at (401) 863-1947. Miles E. Cunat Jr. has retired from Chicago Title Co. and now does part-time real estate legal consulting. He recently recovered from some major health problems and would like to hear from classmates. He and his wife. Rita, enjoy spending time with their grandchildren. They can be reached at 29S Northwood. Riverside. 111. 60546. Mark Rowe is the 1996 recipient of the Ladd Medal, an award that recognizes physi- cians who have made outstanding contributions to the field of pediatric surgery. Mark is a fel- low of the American Academy of Pediatrics, former chief of the division of pediatric surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and former surgeon-in-chiet of general pediatric surgery at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. 42 ♦ DECEMBER I 9 9 6 !954 Bethany Bearce Moore '89). Devra Miller Breslow (see Louis Miller '29). 1955 Ceroid Borodach retired from the practice of anesthesiology and from teaching at Wash- ington University School of Medicine 111 Sept- ember. He was on the staff at Barnes Hospital in St. Lotus for ten years. Ceroid and his wife, Ardell Kabalkin '57, are looking forward to retirement in New York City, where their son. Samuel '87, is a patent attorney with fish 0\ Richardson. Samuel and his wife, Patty, have three children: Ben, Sarah, and Simha. Gerold and Ardell's daughter. Abigail (Boston University '86), is acting director of student activities at Boston University and was married in lime to Kenneth Elmore '85, assistant director of residence life at B.U. Andrew '93 is starting his last year at Harvard Law, and worked last summer for the New York City firm of DeBevoise. Plimpton. I956 Denny Bearce (see Bethany Bearce Moore 'Sy). 1957 40th Reunion Save the dates. May 23-26. A tribute to our college days is being planned, and we want you to be there. If you have not yet received your first mailing, please contact reunion headquarters at (401) 863-1947. William Hayes. New York City, is m his second term as president of the New York Society of Security Analysts. He is also a part- ner ofWalter N. Frank & Co., a New York Stock Exchange specialist firm. Alan R. Shalita. New York City, was appointed distinguished teaching professor of dermatology at SUNY-Brooklyn's Health Science Center in 1996. He is also president- elect of the Association of Professors of Der- matology and secretary-treasurer of the Amer- ican Dermatological Association. 1958 Carl E. Aronson retired to emeritus status at the University of Pennsylvania on June 30, after thirty-one years of service. He will con- tinue teaching pharmacology and toxicology on a limited basis at the university's School of Veterinary Medicine for the next three years. This fall he began a part-time career in the chemistry department at Haverford College. 1959 i960 Caroline King Hall "73 Ph.D. (see York A. King Jr. 33). I96l In accordance with the vote taken at our 35th reunion, $750 was given to the Brown libraries to purchase one book in memory of each ot our classmates who had died since our gradu- ation. The books have now been purchased and, where possible, are related to the class- mate's concentration. Each bears a bookplate with the classmate's name. As we all spent many hours 111 the libraries, this seems a fitting memorial. Our particular thanks to Catherine Dennmg, the University Gifts Librarian, for her help with this project. - Sara-Jane Komblith Richard G. Unruhjr.. Philadelphia, was promoted to president of Delaware Investment Advisers. Previously he was executive vice president and senior portfolio manager for the company. He joined the firm in 1982 after nineteen years with Kidder, Peabody & Co. 1962 35th Reunion Dotsy Testa. Guy Lombardo, and their committee look forward to seeing you at the 35th reunion. May 23-26. Watch for registra- tion information in early spring. Richard Kostelanetz, New York City, was listed in A Reader's Guide to Twentieth Century Writers (Oxford University Press, 1996), which described him as "probably the world's most experimental writer, or at least he repre- sents the farthest extreme of the formalist approach within the broader field ot 'experi- mental wnting.' " Philip J. Schwarz. Richmond, Va., has published Slave Laws in I 'irginia (University of Georgia Press, 1996). John R. South was named president and CEO of Staodyn Inc.. a developer of electro- medical treatment devices in Longmont, Colo., 111 fune. Previously he was president of the medical and diagnostic division of Dynatech Corp. in Burlington, Mass. John and his wife, Martha Hill South, moved to Longmont in September. They have since spoken to Kelly Cardall Newsom about the 35th reunion, which they plan to attend. They can be reached at 1288 Fox Hill Dr., Longmont 80501. I964 Scott Bearce and J. Russell French (see Jonathan Kagan (see Louis Miller '29). Barbara Zwick Sander, St. Louis, Mo., is the Parents As Teachers training coordinator for the State of Missouri. Her son, Brad Lewin '94, is getting a master's at the University of Dayton. Her daughter got an M.S.W. and lues in Roikvillc. Md., with her husband Tom and Judy Macintosh O'Neil (see Marc Harrison '92). 1966 Richard K. Bell. Fresno. Calif, was named president of David & Sons. ,1 national manu- facturer and distributor of roasted seed snacks and pistachio nuts. Previously he was vice president for sales and marketing at Commits Inc. and executive vice president ot Koala Springs International Inc. Richard's wife, Linda Sommers, and daughters Meredith, 14, and Samantha, to, joined him in Fresno last summer. G. Scott Briggs received the first life- time achievement award, named in his honor, for service to the El Paso County Bar Associ- ation in Colorado Springs, Colo., where he has worked for the last twenty-five years. He also received an award from the Colorado Bar Association in recognition of his professionalism, ethics, and civility-. He is a primary author of the forthcoming Before the Bar: A History of the El Paso County Bar Association, t^02-igg}. Carol Dannenberg Frenier's first book. Business and lite Feminine Principle: Tlie Untapped Resource, was released in September by Butter- worth-Heinemann as part ot its U.S. Business Books series. "This book is not another critique of what is wrong with the largely masculine system in business," Carol writes. "Instead it explores how the feminine side of everyone's nature could impact organizations if it were better understood." She still enjoys living in rural Vermont with her husband. Bob. Frank Rycyk Jr. recently self-published his second book. Tlie I Isionary I lewpoint, he writes, "is futuristic, philosophical, and enter- taining." Frank continues to work in food service and inventory auditing, and he delivers an occasional sermon to the local Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. He can be reached at 406 Chestnut St., Jefferson City, Mo. 65101. Richard Webber (see Wendy Webber '93)- I967 30th Reunion Don't forget to make plans now to return to campus for our 30th. We look forward to seeing you May 23-26. Save the dates for gala times, renewed friendships, and joyful remi- niscing. Please contact reunion headquarters at (401) 863-1947 if you have not received a mailing. Michael Diffily (see Leslie Diffily '93). Dale Kennedy Domingue (see Leslie Diffily 93). Jeff and Muriel McCormick Foster (see Melisa Lai '94). Marilyn Friedman Hoffman, London- derry, N.H., retired last December after twelve years as museum director of the Currier Gallery of Art. Bonnie Winters Klein '67 (see Jill Winters Ortman '70). BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY • 43 JOSEPH E. BILLOTTI '69 PH.D Padre in Paradise Palm trees, sapphire water, lush green hills - all drenched in sunshine. The campus ot the Ponape Agriculture and Trade School (PATS) in Pohnpei, Caroline Islands, looks a lot like paradise. But its teenaged students - 160 boys hailing from the Pacific islands that comprise the Federated States of Micronesia - have little time to enjoy the scenery. Their studies begin at 7:45 a.m. and last until 4:30 p.m. every day, with study hall each night. It's a tough schedule but a necessary one for the young men's futures, says the Rev. Joseph E. Billotti '69 Ph.D., the school's direc- tor since May 1995. "This area doesn't have much industry," he explains. "The biggest are fishing and agriculture." But modernization is coming to Micronesia, and with it increased tourism, mechanization, and a demand for skilled workers. This is where PATS comes in, with its inten- sive training programs in agriculture, construc- tion, and mechanics. Begun by a Jesuit priest in 1965, the school initially enrolled thirty-one boys. Today its 800 alumni are playing key roles in developing their home islands. "One problem in this area has always been that chil- dren went off and got an edu- cation, but they didn't return to their communi- ties," Billotti says. Now, more and more PATS graduates are staying to help the local econ- omies. "We're a small school," Billotti adds, "but our influence extends throughout Micro- nesia" - 2,000 small islands sprinkled over more than 3 million square miles of ocean. Vocational education is a new twist for Billotti, who has spent most of his career in academe. After earning his doctorate in applied mathematics at Brown, the Jesuit priest taught for ten years at LeMoyne College in Syracuse. In the 1980s he served as principal of Canisius High School in Buffalo. Then Billotti's superior asked him to take the helm at PATS. Having spent a year in the early 1970s working at a Mexican orphanage, he felt comfortable about living in a foreign country. He was also used to answering higher calls. "You preach your avail- ability fifty-two weeks a year," he says. "When something like PATS comes up, you see the opportunity to serve." Father Billotti and PATS student David Rumen atop a campus sundial. Is Pohnpei paradise? "Well, it's eighty- eight degrees every day," Billotti says with a smile. "But there's a lot of humidity. When I got my first bicycle here, I sprayed it with Rustoleum. In two weeks it had begun to rust." Yet he loves his job, the "wonderful kids who work so hard - and you should hear them sing harmonies at mass," the ongoing challenge of raising money. Big changes are ahead: the school's new institutional plan calls for the admission of girls in 1998. "We hope PATS will be in the forefront in Microne- sia in opening up to women trades tradition- ally identified with men," Billotti says. PATS and its director are already in cyber- space; e-mail is Billotti's lifeline to stateside contacts. Want a quick trip to paradise? Cruise to http://pats.edu. - Anne Diffily 1968 Esther Ferster Lardent was made a mem- ber of the American Bar Association Board of Governors on Aug. 7. A consultant in pro- grams development, administration, and legal- services analysis 111 Washington, D.C., she will serve a three-year term on the board rep- resenting the District of Columbia and Vir- ginia. She is a vice president and board mem- ber of the National Legal Aid and Defenders Association, a special advisor to the Public Service Activities Review Committee of the District of Columbia Bar, and a recipient of the 1995 William Reece Smith Jr. Pro Bono Service Award and the 1993 Founder's Award from the Philadelphia Bar Association. I969 Richard Chambers, Nashville, sold his Check Express franchise to ACE Cash Express in July. His wife, Carol McCoy, was elected Chancery Court Judge in Nashville on Aug. 1. Richard, who managed the campaign, can be reached with new business ideas at (615) 292-8735. I97O Jill Winters Ortman and her husband, John, still live in Quito, Ecuador, where they own La Bodega and Centro Artesenal handi- craft stores, an art gallery, and a jewelry store. Daughter Rebecca '98 is spending the year in Bologna, and Katie is a senior in high school. Jill's sister, Bonnie Winters Klein '67, visited last April. The Ortmans welcome visits from any alumni who find themselves in Ecuador. They can be reached at Juan Leon Mera 614, Quito, Ecuador. Jane Sisto Long has been appointed assis- tant professor of fine arts at Roanoke College in Salem, Va. She received her Ph.D. in art history from Columbia, where she specialized in Italian Renaissance, Northern Renaissance, and medieval art. A Fulbnght Scholar in Flo- rence, she had taught previously at Mary Washington College, the Savannah College of Art and Design, Columbia, and the New York Institute of Technology. 1971 David A. Tillson was named managing director of United States Trust Co., New York City, on Sept. 19. He is a senior portfo- lio and department manager in the company's personal investment division and since 1994 has managed the Excelsior Equity Fund, a $28o-million mutual fund. Previously he was president and founder of TDA Capital Man- agement Co.; a senior vice president at Matrix Asset Advisors; and a vice president, portfolio manager, and director of research at Manage- ment Asset Corp. David lives in Westport, Conn., with his wife, Nancy, and two children. 44 ♦ DECEMBl-.li [996 1972 25th Reunion Chas Gross, Guy Buzzell. Stephen Bacon, and Don Stanford urge you Co return the 2\th reunion yearbook questionnaire. I he) want as many classmates as possible included m this collection of memories and current information. They look forward to seeing you \li\ 23 -" for the greatest reunion ever. Registration information should reach you by early spring. Reserve your place .is soon as you receive the packet. Tony Allison lives in Carlisle. Mass., with his wife, Nicole, and two children. He is part owner and vice president of sales for BSR Inc. "We sell alumni and development computer software to universities and colleges," he writes. "In fact. Brown just selected my softw are to more effectively solicit alums. You can run but you can't hide from the Brown Fund!" John M. Holod writes, "After twenty years of feeding patients in hospitals up and down the East Coast, I made a career and location change in January. I am now work- ing for Ikon Office Solutions in Las Vegas, selling Ricoh copier systems. My wife. Carol, and son. J. P., are thoroughly enjoying lite in the great Southwest." John can be reached at holod@aol.com. Jeff Paine, Los Altos, Calif, decided to move back to the Bay Area when his last employer relocated to Montreal. He is now vice president of sales and marketing tor Net- work Tools, Santa Clara, a network software company. He can be reached atjpaine@ networktools.com. Steven A. Rothstein lives in Wilmette, 111., with his wife and three children. He is chairman of the board of National Securities, a publicly traded brokerage firm headquar- tered in Seattle. 1973 Nancy Cassidy and Jeff Schreck, Provi- dence, had triplets on May 1 1. not twins as was implied by their note in the October BAM. Alpin C. Chisholm, North Attleboro, Mass., was appointed to the board of directors of the OPC Foundation, a standards organiza- tion in the Process Control Industry. Anne Hinman Diffily (see Leslie Diffily '93). Kenneth Slaughter joined Venable law firm as a partner in the business division of the Washington, D.C., office in August. He specializes in general corporate law, health-care, commercial, and regulatory matters. Previ- ouslv he was corporate vice president, general counsel, and secretary of National Cooperative Bank. wuh Russell Reynolds Associates during which he became a member of the firm's executive committee, launched Crist Partners Ltd. 111 Chicago in 1995. Steve Dentel was promoted to lull pro- li'ssoi .it the University of Delaware and con- tinues his research and teaching in water and wastewater treatment. He played a key role in the establishment of .1 bachelor's degree pro- gram 111 environmental engineering. Samuel J. Docknevich has left the sys- tems integration company lie headed tor the past five years and joined the IBM Consulting Croup as .1 network consultant. He helps companies 111 the Northeast keep their com- puter networks healthy and aligned with then- business requirements. After six months of being together only on weekends, Sam and his family are united again in Hopkmton, Mass. "Eric, s, and Katie, S, have made many friends and are happily settled in new' schools," Sam writes. "Laurie (Georgetown '79) is glad all the cleaning, showing, selling, looking, buying, packing, moving, and unpacking are behind her so she can start enjoying our new neighborhood." Sam works out of IBM's Waltham office and can be reached at (617) 895-2569 or sdocknevichw vnet.ibm.com. Delbert Field lives in a 400-year-old farmhouse outside Geneva, Switzerland, w here he works with the International Organization for Migration. He has three children: Ludovica, 17, George, 1 1 , and Emily. 8. Brown friends can contact him at field@geneva.iom.ch. John Heasley, Elhcott City, Md., spent a sunny day on a beach in Maine last summer with his daughter, Rachel. Jay Pridmore, Lincoln Park, 111., has pub- lished Inventive Genius, a history of the Chicago Museum of Science. The book chronicles events and people from the restoration ot the crumbling Palace of Fine Arts to the installa- tion of the museum's "Coal Mine" and "U- 505 Submarine" exhibits. Jay has written ten other books, is a regular contributor to the Chicago Tribune, and has written for the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, and Archaeology magazine. I976 1975 1974 John C. Ford and his wife, Mary Grace, Win- netka. 111., announce the birth of twin girls on June 10. Tallaght Brook and Grace Dunning join brothers Connell, 5, and Taylor. 4. John was honored with the Alumni Service Award by Northwestern University, where he received his orthodontic training. He is president of the Illinois Society of Orthodontists. Mark Weston's play about George Orwell, The Last Man in Europe, was performed at the National Arts Club in New York City in May and at the Garrick Club in London in October. His book of biographies. Giants of Japan: Hon' Forty .Men and Women Shaped then Nation, will be published by Charles Tuttle Co. in [998. Michael Baumstein is the new president oi the Brown Club of New York. Anyone look- ing for 1 opies of the club's monthly newsletter. Bruno News, New York, or information about facilities arrangements with the Cornell Club in midtown Manhattan should leave contact information on the club's voicemail at (212) 661- 1 1 10. 1977 20th Reunion Your 20th reunion committee promises to bring you back to the good old days. Mark your calendars now: May 23—26. You should have received a letter with preliminary information, a list of hotels, and a request for a biographical update. Please return the update as soon as pos- sible so we can put together a yearbook tor the reunion. If you have any questions please call reunion headquarters at (40 1) 8(13-1947. Tracy Baer and his wife, Dana. Beverly Hills. Calif, announce the birth of a son, Tristm Alexander, on Aug. 20. Holly Holmes married Larry Freidman on Oct. 5 in Cold Spring, N.Y. Larry is di- rector of the School to Work Partnership in Greenfield, Mass., and Holly is looking for editorial/communications work. They can be reached at 37 Shattuck St., Greenfield 01301. Jody Levine Mahr's address appeared incorrectly 111 the July BAM. She can be reached at Bamboo Grove, 78 Kennedy Rd., Flat 1 102. Wan Chai, Hong Kong. I978 Peter D. Crist, after an eighteen-year career David Hahn. Seattle, recorded a full-length compact disk of his music at the Studio Kate- drala in Zagreb. Croatia, last summer. The culmination of a collaboration with soprano 1 (avoka Horvat and alto saxophonist and bass clarinetist Damir Horvat, the CD, titled Con- nexions, was funded by a grant from ArtsLink and will be released this winter. In August David and Andrea von Ramm, a well-known German mezzo-soprano, collaborated on a comic ballet-theater piece, Tlie Ants. Ms. von Ramm contributed the story, and David wrote the music for the piece, which takes the ant world as a metaphor for collective human behavior. Carla Tachau Lawrence, Seattle, is the proud mother of Rebecca, bom Sept. 8, 1995. A Seattle native, Rebecca's favorite word is "backpack." Carla is an attorney doing freelance work; her husband. David, started a genatne- care management business. Last summer they were visited by Julie Deutsch Gottlieb '79. Steve Gottlieb '77. '81 M.D., and their three children, as well as by Diane Peterson, her husband, Chris Smith, and their son, Max. Earl Varney, Walhngford, Pa., writes. "The western suburbs of Philadelphia aren't a bad place to live. No earthquakes, few hurri- canes, not too many floods. Mina and I are imiUVN ALUMNI MONTHLY ♦ 45 Teri Williams Cohee Alumni Service Award 1993 Recognize any of these people? The Brown Alumni Association does! Since 1984, the Brown Alumni Association has hosted the Alumni Recogni- tion Ceremony, honoring alumni who have given out- standing service to Brown and their communities. This year we ask your help in nominating alumni for three Brown Alumni Association awards to be presented in the fall of 1997. BROWN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BROWN BEAR AWARD Established in 1946, in recog- nition of "outstanding and wide-ranging personal ser- vice rendered to the Univer- sity over a period of years." The anonymous nominating committee follows the origi- nal recommendation that "neither financial aid given the University nor achieve- ment in the fields of business or profession" be considered. Winners of the Brown Bear Award have usually distin- guished themselves as volun- teers for Brown in more than one area. ALUMNI SERVICE AWARD Given annually since 1984 for distinguished, continuing volunteer service to Brown in any field of alumni activity "to recognize those very spe- cial people whose work, love of Brown, spirit of coopera- tion and selflessness stand out . . . and who will continue to provide these invaluable services." The nominating committee of alumni leaders and staff consider volunteer service as the key nomination criteria, regardless of finan- cial contributions made to the University. JOHN S. HOPE AWARD Created in 1994 to commem- orate the centennial of Hope's graduation from Brown, the award honors community volunteerism among Brown alumni. Nominees should have a long-standing (three years or more) volunteer commitment to community service that has had a demon- strated positive effect on the larger community. (Service that is part of one's paid pro- fessional work is not eligible for consideration.) To nominate alumni for any of the awards listed, please call 401 863-1946 or e-mail alumni relations@brown.edu. for a nomination form. Deadline for submission is March 15, 1997. PRODUCED BY THE BROWN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION enjoying the exploits of second-graders and .1 lively Brittany spaniel." Murat Yalnian has been promoted to vice president of product and market stateg) at Nissan North America. Previously, .is director of product and market strategy, he led the team that brought the Nissan Altim.i to market. Murat is a member of the board of advisors for the UC-Davis Institute of transportation Studies. He lives 111 Manhattan Beach. Calif., with his wife and daughter. 1979 Jed A. Kwartler, South Orange. N.J., received the Honor Award from the Ameri- can Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgerv in September. The award recog- nizes those who have made exceptional con- tributions to the Academy with m instruction course, scientific paper, or participation in a continuing education committee or faculty. Laurel Ellson Martinez and George Martinez announce the birth of Genevieve Grace on Sept. 10. She joins Lindsay. 2. They can be reached at 539 Retreat Ln., Powell. Ohio 4306s; (614) S4S-S406. Anthony M. Miller is living on .1 hilltop in Hong Kong with his wife. Cecilia Mehn. and their daughter. Magda Rebecca Miller, bom Apnl 3. "After extensive negotiation," Tony writes, "Magda will go into the world with my last name and Cecilia's Swedish citi- zenship." Tony is president of Asian Invest- ment Partners, a small merchant bank with offices in Hong Kong. New York City, and Beijing. Visitors are welcome at 1 S Mount Kellett Rd.. The Peak. Hong Kong; (852) 2849-5798; fax (852) 2849-5715. I981 Dr. Pamela Summit Bohn and her husband, Paul, Santa Monica. Calif, announce the birth of twins Zoe and Zachary on Apnl 1 1, 1995. James Dudek has been living in Oslo, Norway, for four years. He is a sales manager for Norwegian PC Producer, an import and assembly firm. He is expecting his third child. a boy, in February. Erik is 8, and Kaitlin is (>. James can be reached atjamesd@rask.no. Jeffrey P. Greenbaum received his Ital- ian law degree in September and is practicing with the law offices of Pavia & Ansaldo in Rome. Jeffrey and his wife, Alessandra, and son, Tommaso, were joined by Lorenzo on June 1 1. 198 2, 15th Reunion Eric Moscahlaides and his committee have been busy making plans for our 15th, May 23—26. If you have any questions or sugges- tions, please call reunion headquarters at (401) 863-3380. Remember to save the dates. Brian Adler writes. "I'm happy to re-enter the real world after getting .111 M.B.A. at Stan- ford. I've joined Bay Partners, .1 venture capi tal firm in Silicon Valley, investing in early- stage information technology companies. My wife. Anita, our three-year-old son, Jonah Max, and I have moved to Sunnyvale, Calif." Brian can be reached at (40S) 725-2444 or adleru; baypartners.com. Amy Dubin George and her husband, Andy (Lehigh '76), Stamford, Conn., announce the birth of Brendan Colwell on May 17. He joins Kevin Newman, 7, and Erin Morgan, 4. Amy is director of customer brands at James River Corp. Doug Green is director of consumer imaging products for the Brooktree Corp. 111 San Diego, where he has bought a house. Carolyn Berman Grinberg and Robert Grinberg (Penn '70) have two children: Barne Jane, 6, and Jeremy Schorr. 4. In June, Car- olyn left her job as a radio announcer with WH|Y-FM in Providence and is spending time with her kids in Boston and Nantucket, Mass. She plans to return to the airwaves in the Boston area soon and study Judaic studies at Hebrew College. Bill Gurtin and Kay Levinson Gurtin '83 live in Glencoe, 111., with their two chil- dren, Grant, 6, and Liza, 2. After ten years at Goldman Sachs, Bill accepted a job as senior vice president at Merrill Lynch last year. Kay has been running Executive Options, which places executives in part-time jobs and pro- jects, since she started the company in 1990. Debra Hendrickson and Alan Fruzzetti 'Si announce the arrival of Ben- jamin Aaron Fruzzetti on July 10. Ben joins Sam, 6, and Rachel, 4. Alan is an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Nevada at Reno, where the family has lived since 1994. Debra plans to be a full-time mom for a couple more years before returning to work as a water-resources planner for local government. Betsy Hinden finished her Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the University of Ver- mont and is doing a year-long internship at Judge Bale Children's Center and Children's Hospital in Boston. She will be living with Marie Ghitman. Adam Burrows, and their two children in Jamaica Plain, Mass. Kristen E. Kearney has left cooking and begun a career in horticulture as the field man- ager of Tranquil Lake Nursery in Rehoboth, Mass., the largest grower of day lilies on the East Coast. She is also working on a second B.A. in horticulture and society at the Uni- versity of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. Lise Kowalski '86 M.D. works with .1 family practice group, and her husband, Selby, does logging and tree fanning on their spread of Vennont countryside near Montpeher. They manned in December 1990 and are now building their home. Steven Kussick and Laura Brown Kussick 'S3 have lived in Seattle for the past eleven years. Steven did an M.D. -Ph.D. pro- gram at the University of Washington, recently finished a pathology residency, is now doing ,1 fellowship in blood pathology, and is hoping to get .1 l.u ulty position there in .1 year 01 two Steven and Laura recently had their first child, Jack. Sarah Lamb and Ed Black now have two daughters: Rachel, 3, and Lauren, 10 months. They have moved from California to Boston, where Sarah is .1 professor of anthropology at Bnuideis and Ed is a lawyer with Floey, Hoag and Eliot. Joseph Lellman joined New England Orthopedic Surgeons 111 Northampton. Mass., 111 August. He, his wife, Martha (Stonehill College '87), and daughters - Charlotte, 3, and Sophie, 1 — are excited about the move but will miss Chester, N.H.Joseph races bicycles in his spare time. James Lutz practices vascular and inter- ventional radiology as a partner with Radiology Associates of San Antonio. His wife, Anne de Compiegne Lutz (Southern Methodist Uni- versity '86), is a clinical assistant professor of radiology. They celebrated their 10th anniver- sary this fall and have three children: Emily, 7, Mark. 6, and Mane, 1. Merrilea Mayo and her husband, Altaf Canm (MIT '82), both received tenure as asso- ciate professors in the department of materials science and engineenng at Penn State. Merrilea works mostly with nanocrystalhne matenals - metals and ceramics whose crystal sizes are less than too nanometers. She may be reached at mayo@ems.psu.edu. Mark Malamud, Seattle, has recently moved into the Advanced Technology Group at Microsoft, working on variants of engram- posting algonthms, using data from Nancy Dee. Holly Kowitt, and Michael Pronko He spent the past three years leading the user- interface design that eventually became Win- dows 95. Outside the office Mark is working on the second annual Seattle SnrArtsCore at Marlinspike, which this year will include performances by Ginger Parker '84 and Hilary Stout '84. Mark may be reached at markmal@microsoft.com. Laura A. McGrath, Weston, Mass., is a grant wnter and garden designer specializing in native plants. Her favorite garden clients are Bonnie Waltch and her husband. Paul. Laura has also raised funds for thirty-five Boston public high-school students to publish an environmental newspaper called Greenspeak, read by more than 10,000 fifth graders. Lynn Meister lives in Coral Spnngs, Fla., with her husband, Seth Tarras (Stanford '80), and children Stephanie, 8, and David, 5. Lynn is a pediatric hematologist/oncologist at the |oe DiMaggio Children's Hospital in Holyvvood, Fla. Seth is a neurologist. Claude Ann Mellins and husband Michael Conard wrote that they were expecting a son in September to join Nicholas, 2';. She is cofounder and codirecor of the special-needs clinic at Presbyterian Hospital 111 New York City, which has treated more than 600 children and families affected by HIV and substance abuse since its inception four years ago. John Michael Montgomery '92 M.D. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY ♦ 47 recently completed a residency in family prac- tice at Naval Hospital, Jacksonville, Fla. He and his wife, Antoinette Lloyd, have two chil- dren: John Michael, 10, and Joy Michelle, 2. John is vice president of Biologic Research Development Co. and a physician at the U.S. Navy Submarine Base Medical Clinic in Kings Bay, Ga. Jodi Pliskin, Brookville, N.Y., is busy with volunteer work and raising her children: Adam. (>' 2, Stuart, 5, and ]ulie, 20 months. Donna Shapiro Rabiner is a research health scientist at the National Center for PERSONALS ATTRACTIVE, FIT WOMAN, s's", 120 lbs. Wanting to meet mature, accomplished man, 45—55. Interests include performing arts, romantic dining. Seeks gentleman oflike interest. Phone (401) 943-2700. CULTURED, ATHLETIC: Educated (MA) pro- fessional, 39, s'5", 130 lbs., blonde. I love it all. from sailing in the Caribbean to fine dining or hik- ing in the mountains. Would like to meet man of equal stature and interest, 40-50. Phone (401) 274- 6277. DATE SOMEONE IN YOUR OWN LEAGUE. Graduates and faculty of the Ivies and Seven Sisters meet alumni and academics. THE RIGHT STUFF. (Soo) 98S-5288. RETIREMENT LIVING RETIREMENT IN CONNECTICUT. Dun- caster, a not-for-profit retirement community, offers an active lifestyle, cultural and educational opportu- nities in a country setting yet convenient to city attractions. Enjoy fine dining, extensive services, and the peace of mind of on-site health care. Choice of Lite Care, Rental, and Assisted Living. Contact Maryalice Widness, 40 Loeffler Rd., Bloomfield, Conn. 06002. (800) 545-5065. LISTEN TO THE BROWN FOOTBALL GAME BY SIMPLY OPENING YOUR WINDOW. Laurelmead on Blackstone Boulevard is an adult residential community located in the historic East Side of Providence, minutes from the campus of Brown University. Laurelmead enables you to enjoy the comforts of home ownership without all the worries ot home maintenance. Call now for mtormation and to find out why so many Brown alumni and retired faculty are calling Laurelmead home. 355 Blackstone Blvd.. Providence, R.I. 02906. (800) 286-9550. VACATION RENTALS "THE BLUFFS," CHATHAM, MASS. Wonderful, large, professionally decorated home, perfect for family reunions, rehearsal dinners, or for individual family rentals. Six to eight bedrooms, two beautiful living rooms, huge private yard. Available fall, winter, spring, and summer. Call Susan Dearborn (617) 235-2920. CANCUN: PLAYA DEL CARMEN. Gorgeous villa opens to palms, sun. and Caribbean Sea. Maya archaeological sites nearby. Large 2 bedrooms. 2 bathrooms. Located 111 Yucatan's famous Playacar golf resort. (703) 241-7979. Health Promotion based at the Burham, Va., Medical Center and a research assistant pro- fessor at the Duke University Center on Aging and Human Development. Dave Rabiner '81 continues to teach clinical psychology to graduate students at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Their daughter Sarah started third grade in August. Richard Rento '86 M.D. and Lisa Casanova Rento '86 M.D. have built a new home in Newport News, Va. 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Make check payable to Brown University, or charge to your VISA, Mastercard, or American Express. Send to: Brown Alumni Monthly, Box 1854, Providence. R.I. 02912. Lisa is an obstetrician/gynecologist, and Richard is a urologist in group practice in Newport News. Joel Rosh, New Rochelle, N.Y., is the director of pediatric gastroenterology at the Morristown, N.J., Memorial Hospital. He has three children: Danielle, 6. |eremy, 4, and Alexander, born March 28. Amy Schustack and her husband, Michael, sold their house in Sherborn, Mass., and are renovating a condo on the Charles River in Cambridge. Amy began doctoral work this fall at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Mona Lisa Schulz finished a Ph.D. in behavioral neuroscience and an M.D. at Boston University in 1993. She is now com- pleting a psychiatry residency at the Maine Medical Center in Portland and plans to write a book on memories, dreams, and intuition. She has a practice in medical intuition and does research for Dr. Christine Northrup's newsletter, "Health Wisdom for Women." Howard Sh.11/ is a Ph.D. candidate at the Kennedy School of Government at Har- vard. His dissertation is on "Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment." Kevin Silver is a cardiologist in group practice in Westwood, N.J. He is married to Sharon, and they have a 2-year-old, Rachel. Philip Squattrito. Mount Pleasant, Mich., is an associate professor of chemistry at Central Michigan University. He spent the first half of 1996 as a visiting scientist at the University of Tokyo and lectured on his research at uni- versities in Japan and South Korea, where he also toured the United Nations base at Pan- munjom and was "permitted to set foot in North Korea." Pam Strauss and Michael Zislis, Denver, married in 1993 and added Abbie Zislis to their family on July 14, 1995. Pam is a corporate counsel for Pnmestar by TCI, which sells minisatellite dishes and programming. Stuart Tarmy married Mane Wolfson in July and honeymooned in Greece and Egypt. Friends may reach them at (201) 316-0395 in Boonton, N.J. Stuart is vice president of busi- ness development and strategy for the Smart Card division of Mastercard International. Frank Voss and his wife, Tracey Robert- son, both work for the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. They have three children: Allison, 6, Katherine, 4, and Andrew, 2. David Walker, Brighton, Mich., mamed Beth Williams, a classmate at the University of Michigan Business School, in 1985. They have two children: Sara, 5, and Jeff, 1. David has spent eleven years at General Motors Acceptance Corp., the past tour as director of liability management, responsible for funding U.S. operations. Elizabeth Zwick is a doctoral student in the organizational-behavior department of the Boston University School of Management. She married John Colangelo of Buffalo, N.Y.. in July 1995, and they sailed to Provincetown, Mass., for their honeymoon. She was the coor- 4S ♦ DECEMBER I 996 dinatoi of the Sarah Doyle Women's Center at Brown from 1985 to 1989. I983 Steven Biel lias published Down With tin- ( )/,/ Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster (W.W. Norton & Co . $25.00). (See Books, page 20.) Steven, who is also author of Independent Intellectuals 111 the United States, 1 jn>-ig-/.s. lives 111 Wakefield, Mass. Karen Brinkmann and her husband, 1 red [ohnsen, announce the birth of Elizabeth Eleanor Brinkmann Johnsen on Oct. 30. 1995. Her hie: sister. Katie, turned three 111 May. Since returning to work 111 Washington after Lisa's birth. Karen has been associate chief of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau at the Federal Communications Commission. Previouslv she was legal advisor to the chair- man. Reed Hundt. Fred continues to take care of the kids and leads the Capybara Mountain Biking Club on rides in Mankind and Virginia. They may be reached at (301) 805-1649 or kbnnkmaffl fcc.gov. David R. Evans and his wife, Carin (Cornell 'S3), announce the birth of their first child. Richard Franklin, on June 19. David is vice president and national marketing man- ager for the international banking department of Mellon Bank, N.A., New York City. He would like to hear from old friends at (2 1 2) 702-4032. Laura Haynes has moved to Montecito, Calif, with her husband, Robert Collector, and children Lizzie, 9, and John, 5. She can be reached at 660 Oak Springs Ln.. Montecito 93108; (805) 969-5468. Karen Melchior received an MBA. from Stanford and is a product manager at Intuit. "I'm still playing competitive volleyball and learning to rollerblade and windsurf " she wntes. "It's a great thnll to be an auntie to Hunter Ray, born March 13, and his brother Sabin, children of {Catherine Melchoir Ray '85 and David Ray '85." Suna Qasim and his wife, Nisreen, announce the birth of their daughter. Dyala, on July 4. Suna is a reproductive endocrinology and infertility specialist 111 central New Jersey. He was recently asked to republish some of his research in OB /GYN Digest. Nisreen is completing a master's in education. They would love to hear from friends at #201—165 Essex Ave., Metuchen, N.J. 08840. I984 Jonathan Edwards and his wite. Martha, announce the birth of William Spalding on Sept. 3. Jonathan can be reached atjonatha@ 1bn1.net. Margaret Leeson and her husband. I 0111 Gramaglia, announce the arrival of then first . hild, Abigail Peace Gramaglia, on May 31. "She is a beautiful, healthy, and smiley baby," Margaret writes. "Motherhood exceeds ill expectations by fai'" I986 Andrea Kupferberg Brown, her husband. Bruce, and their son Jason. 3, are pleased to announce the arrival of Natalie Sharon on June 28. Andrea and her family Live in Deer- field. 111., where she is balancing part-time work and motherhood. Benjamin Compton and his wife, Naoko, announce the birth of a daughter, Emi Soleil. on Dec. 12. 1995. "She provides sunshine to burn away the cold summer San Francisco fog," Benjamin writes. He can be reached at 1 2-- 1 sth Ave.. San Francisco 94122; (415) 242-1. SS 1 ; genkurt eanhlink.net. Paul Gallagher has moved to San Fran- cisco after nearly three years with the Boston Consulting Group in Olunich. Germany. He is vice president for strategic planning at Wells Fargo Bank. Friends can reach him at 2.S03 Jones St., San Francisco 94133; (415) 440-S724; paul.gallagheru; wellsf.irgo.com. Gloria Gonzalez wntes. "After ten years of flipping through the class news in the BAM I have found time to wnte my own. I have been living in La Corufia, Spain, since I left Brown. 1 am now an assistant professor at University College Dublin, teaching business communications to Spanish students in their overseas program. I am also working on my Ph.D. in English philology. I am happily married and have a five-year-old son. Carlos." Gloria would love to hear from old friends at Manuel Murguia 12. 3 Izq., 15011 La Corufia. Spam; cesuga@lcg.servicom.es. Janet Lindsay Weinberg and her hus- band. Stephen, announce the birth ot a daughter. Lindsay Rose, on June 26. Janet is on leave from the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford. She can be reached at 1499 Hudson St.. Redwood City, Calif. 94061; (415) 364-3979- I987 10th Reunion 1985 Kenneth Elmore (see Gerold Borodach '55). The reunion committee has been busy making plans for our 10th to be held Memorial Day Weekend. Mav 23—26. If you have any ques- tions or suggestions, please call reunion head- quarters at (4011 863-1947. Remember to save the dates. Michael Blackman is 111 his fourth year of medical school at Brown. He married Susan Rosenau (Vermont '84) last December. Samuel Borodach (see Gerold Boro- dach '55). Laura Brill is a law- clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Maria Lewis Brinza married Daniel Brinza (Harvard Law 'So) on May [6, 1992. Maria received her M.S.W. in May 1993 and winks part-time as a school social worker. Dan works for U.S.T.R. in the general counsel's office. I hey live in Vienna. Va.. with their children. Sean and Annmanc. Gladys Capella earned an Ed.D. from Han aid 111 [une [995 and is teaching education foundation and research courses at the Uni- versitv of Puerto Rico at Arecibo. She founded and directs Proyecto Aurora, an educational and research center for pregnant adolescents and young mothers. Lauren Christman lives in Seattle with her husband. Ira - "a great guy who makes me laugh." She is the dean of students and a teacher at a school for massage therapists and practices massage therapy, splitting her time betw een personal referrals and people with end-stage AIDS. Matthew Cohen is in his third year of a fellowship in digestive diseases at Yale. In October he married Michele Sharon (Univer- sity of Illinois '91), who teaches high-school biology in Ridgefield, Conn. Joan Cummins is working on her Ph.D. in art history at Columbia. Her dissertation is on northern Indian Hindu temples dedicated to the sun god. Catie Curtis. Cambridge. Mass., debuted her major-label release, Trutli from Lies, on EMI/Guardian this year. "I tour nationally and always like it when classmates turn up at gigs and say hi." Randall Dunn married Liz Hopkins on [an. 1 111 famaica. Kevin Richardson '90 was best man. Randall is head of the upper school and Liz is the administrative coordinator, both at Derby Academy. They live in Braintree. Mass. Martin Edwards and his wife, Lon. were expecting a second child in September. Martin was promoted to chief of ophthalmology ser- vices at Walson U.S. Air Force Hospital 111 Fort Dix, NJ., 111 August. Friends may con- tact them at (609) 783-0892. David Estin is a resident in neurosurgery at Tufts New England Medical Center and Beth Israel Hospital 111 Boston, and Mindy Wiser-Estin is in an obstetrics-gynecology private practice at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. "We are very excited to be .m 'aunt and uncle' to (ared Thomas Calise, born to Erica Tachera and Phil Calise on [ulv S." they write. Edward J. Goddard married Jill Calvi on M.i\ 1 1 m Warwick. R.I. Edward is prac- ticing law 111 Boston with an emphasis on labor and employment issues. Elizabeth Wilen Halpern and Marcelo Halpem (Wesleyan '85), Chicago, announce the birth of Samantha Ellen last Jan. 5. Eric Hjerpe married Karol Johnson (Simmons College '88) 111 January 1994. after receiving his M.S.M. from the Sloan School of Management at MIT. They welcomed Linnea Elaine into the world in February. Tomoko Hori-Callery left IBM in 1991. completed an M.B.A. at Harvard Business School, joined Norelco Consumer Products Kill) W N A I . I J M \ I MONTHLY ♦ 4 9 in marketing, and is now in the marketing department of Converse Inc. She married Robert Callery in November 1994. Avery Ince finished a Ph.D. in cancer biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign in 1994. He plans to fimsh medical school this May. Friends may contact him at b-ince@students.uiuc.edu. Michael Keden and his wife, Knsten (Trinity '88), moved into a new house in Fair- field, Conn. Knsten teaches kindergarten, and Michael runs a money-management business. They have a new puppy named Holly. Dana Kraus completed a residency in family practice in Portland, Oreg., in July 1995. She married Tom Forster, a middle-school science teacher, on Sept. 3, 1995. After vol- unteering for six months in Nepal, they have settled into St. Johnsbury, Vt. Dana joined another family physician in private practice. She and Tom like to hike, mountain bike, swim, garden, and make jam and pesto. Shelley Krause has lived in Philadelphia for ten years but is planning to move to Princeton, N.J., where her partner lives and works. Since graduating from Brown, Shelley has worked in admissions at Penn and has been writing, singing with the Anna Crusis Women's Choir, and traveling. She may be reached at 420 W. Price St., Philadelphia, Pa. 1 9144; shellyk@admissions.uguo.upenn.edu. Edward Krigsman recently returned to Seattle to work in real estate after six years of running his own business in Chicago. Rebecca Zeigler Mano and her hus- band, Reneth Mano, announce the birth of Grace Vimbai on May 15. They are moving this fall to Zimbabwe, where Reneth and Rebecca will work at the University of Zim- babwe. Rebecca writes, "Asli Giray and her husband are musicians in Cyprus; Asli was awarded a fellowship to study piano in Lon- don this fall. Florence Farrell is pursuing a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Massachusetts at Boston." Carrie Thompson Mauro teaches French and computers to grades seven and eight and coaches girls' varsity swimming and girls' bas- ketball at Chalk Hill Middle School in Monroe, Conn. She earned an M.A. in computers and education in 1990 and a C.A.S. in secondary- administration in 1994 from Fairfield Univer- sity. She and her husband, Mark, are the parents of David Lytle Mauro, born May 2. Cathleen O'Connell, Cambridge, Mass., was an associate producer and archival re- searcher on the PBS/BBC series "Rock and Roll," which won a Peabody Award and is nominated for an Emmy. "I can name any Beatles song in four notes or less," she writes. She's now working for the Discovery Channel. She ran one marathon and has gone back to ioKs and is still in close touch with Sherri Lyons and Liz Bolger '86. Elizabeth Raymond Ohlson married John Ohlson '86 in 1990. Caroline Beatty Ohlson was born on June 3, 1996. Elizabeth is working at Andersen Consulting in Boston. Rebecca Pearlman is teaching math at The annual Alumni Recognition Ceremony on October 12 featured a speech on the Bosnia situ- ation by William Rogers Award recipient Ambas- sador Richard C. Holbrooke '62 (front, center), the chief negotiator of the Dayton Peace Accord (see Under the Elms, page 1 5). The award honors service to society. Others feted at the luncheon in Olney-Margolies Athletic Center were, front row: Brown Bear Award winners Robert A. Reichley (left), retired executive vice president for Univer- sity relations and now secretary of the University; and Fellow H. Anthony Ittleson '60, executive chair of Brown's Campaign for the Rising Gener- ation. In the second row: Trustee Emerita Martha Sharp Joukowsky '58, associate professor of Old World art and archaeology, philanthropist, and a leader of Friends of the Library; and Robert I. Kramer '54, a Dallas physician who has recruited countless Texans for Brown and served on a number of alumni and University committees. Third row: Alumni Service Award recipients Diana Marcus Miller '82, Victoria Leung Lee '67, Carol A. Steadman '76, Ruth Tenenbaum Silver- man '36, and Stacy E. Palmer '82. Back row: the event's master of ceremonies, Steve Jordan '82; Alumni Service Award recipient Michael Ursillo '78; Elwood E. Leonard Jr. '51 Distinguished Achievement Award recipient David E. McKinney, parent of three Brown alumni; Alumni Service Award winner Howard D. Silverman '36; and H. Anthony Ittleson '60 Award recipient and trustee Timothy C. Forbes '76. Earlier, the Alumni Asso- ciation presented the John S. Hope Award for com- munity service to Marcia Loebenstein McBeath '45, a Peace Corps volunteer in Lesotho, Jamaica, and Namibia. John O'Connell High School and playing "tons of tennis" in San Francisco. She may be reached at rebvista@aol.com. Rick Perera received a fellowship to work for broadcaster Sat. 1 in Berlin, Germany. His new position is doing documentary and investigative work at CNN Special Reports. Lauren Resnick and David Coonin '85 had a son, Jacob Ben Coonin, on Sept. is, 1995. Lauren is an assistant U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn, prosecuting organized-crime cases Susannah Hill Sardera, Cambridge, Mass., married Esteban Sardera-Schneider on July 8, 1995. Claire Schen married Greg Cherr (Uni- versity of Virginia 'S7) in April 199s; Martha Hall was a bridesmaid. Claire earned a Ph.D. from Brandeis in February 199s. They live in Winston-Salem, N.C., where Claire is an assistant professor of history at Wake Forest and Greg is finishing his general-surgery resi- dency at Bowman Gray. Kelley Shanahan married Ward Bobitz (Columbia '86; University of Michigan '93 J.D.) on Oct. 12. Bridesmaids were Lisa Doherty. Carrie Thompson Mauro, and Mindy Wiser-Estin. Kelley welcomes class- mates in New York City to call or drop by. Paul Shriver taught math in the Peace Corps for two years 111 Zimbabwe, where he met Kelley Wilson '93 and Josh Glazerhoff '9(1 A.M. Paul is in the Twin Cities looking 5 ♦ DECEMBER 1996 foi short-term teaching work before return- ing to graduate school in [997. Debra Karp Skopicki '90 M.D. and her husband, H.il. announce the birth of Hannah Rose on Aug. - "Mom and Dad say she is incredibly beautiful," Debra writes. Visitors can see for themselves .it 15 River St.. #801. Boston 02108. Sue Metcalfe Speno and Andy Speno '88, Cincinnati, announce the birth ofErin Auld Speno on May 27. Mike Tempero. Boston, is an equity research analyst .it Fidelity Investments. Sally Diggs Vlamis and Dan Vlamis '8(5 are enjoying raising their son Chris, born May 19. 1995. Sally is an editor and technical writer at Cemer Corp.. a maker of health- care information systems in Kansas City, Mo., and Chris attends the on-site day care there. Otto Yang '90 M.D. finished three years of internal-medicine residency at New York Universiry-Bellevue Hospital. He is currently a research and clinical fellow in the infectious- disease department of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston doing HIV research. Andrew B. Young married Mars' Noel of Bethesda. Md.. on June 15 in Washington. D.C. Many Brunonians attended, including the groom's mother. Phyllis Baldwin Young '45, and best man Paul F. Hoff- mann. Pictures from the wedding, including one of the Brown group, are on the web at http://users.aol.com/abynod wedding.html. Andy and Noel live in Menlo Park, Calif. I988 Rowin Yavel Cantrell and her husband, Steve, announce the birth of their first child, Jackson Thomas Cantrell. on May 13. Rowin is finishing her psychiatry residency at the UCLA Neuropsychiatry Institute, and Steve is working on his dissertation in USC's School of Public Administration. They would love to hear from friends at cantrell@scf.usc.edu. Katherine Mitchell Constan and her husband. Andrew, New York City, announce the birth of Charlotte Brooke on Aug. 16. She joins William Nicholas, 2. Charlotte's babysitters include Katherine's sister. Eliza- beth Mitchell '90. and her parents. Bonnie Hunt Mitchell '59 and Michael Mitchell '59. Katherine is at home, and Andy is a man- aging director at Salomon Brothers. Karen Fuhrman married Anthony Marker 111 West Orange. N.J., on Sept. I. The Rev. Rebecca Parkhill '89 coofficiated at the mterfaith ceremony, which many other Brown alumni attended. Karen and Tony met at Indiana University-, and they now live in Cincinnati. Karen works as a multimedia designer, and Tony is completing his doctoral degree. Karen can be reached at kfrnarkei 5 aol.com. Michael Papamichael is chief engineer with British Petroleum. Cyprus. He can be reached at mixalisfu zenon.logos.cy.net. Steve Salee. New York City, does capital tin. in, ing for the subway . bus. and commuter 1 nl systems. He lives with his partner, Hans Luepold, and can be reached at stevesalee (5 aol.com Johnny Stein is living 111 his hometown. Pans, working at the Organization for Eco- nomic Cooperation Development in the environment directorate. A musician, singer, and songwriter, he will be putting out a CD 111 1997. "Dave Favro '8 _ visited in October - his first trip to Europe." Johnny writes. "If anyone knows the whereabouts ot Chris Reimer. I'd love to hear from him." Johnny can be reached at 233 rue de Charenton, 75012 Pans; john.stem@oecd.org. Clare Shawcross and Michael Nosal '90 were married on May 7, 1994, in Win- chester, Mass.. with many Brown friends attending. Since then they've been joined by Annika Elizabeth, born in Boston on June 6, 199s. "We don't get as much sleep as we used to," Clare writes, "but life is very good." Clare is helping run the Personal Computing Support Center at Boston University, and Michael "bug checks" web-authonng tools for FutureTense Inc. in Acton, Mass. They'd love to hear from old friends at 54 Hartwell Rd.. Bedford, Mass. 01730; clare@bu.edu; niikefa futuretense.com. I989 Jonathan F. Bastian. a volunteer with the North Park Fire Department, helped rescue a 7-year-old girl from a house fire in Maches- nev Park. 111., on March 8. "At about 12:10 a.m. a 91 1 call advised that a house was on tire and people were trapped inside," Jonathan writes. "On arrival we found fire engulfing about one-third of the house. As a member of the first arriving engine company. I entered the smoked-tilled house and located the girl. With the assistance of two other firefighters, the girl was passed out a window, earned to an ambulance, and raced to a local hospital. She was sent by helicopter to a Chicago-area hos- pital for treatment of smoke inhalation. Five days later she left the hospital fully recovered. No one else was injured." Jonathan and the two firefighters who helped pass the girl out ot the house were given commendations by the department. Life Saving Awards by the Vil- lage of Machesney Park, and Certificates of Recognition by the Office of the State Fire Marshal. Jonathan, who has been with the department for six years, received his EMT training at Brown. Gregory Johnson '93 M.D. married Michelle Jean-Jacques (Boston University '94 M.D.) 111 May 1993. They live in Dorch- ester. Mass. Michelle is finishing her residency in internal medicine at B.U., where Greg is pursuing an M.P.H. while completing a fel- lowship m general internal medicine. They can be reached at (617) 298-9410. Bethany Bearce Moore and her husband, Jay, Downington, Pa., announce the birth of their first child, Nicole Jordan, on Feb. 21. Scott Bearce '59 is the proud grandfather, and Denny Bearce '56 and J. Russell French III '59 are great-uncles. Keelan Stern '89 isee Jonathan Bodow •92). Anne Trutnbore married David Stephens (Denison '76) on Sept. 28. Many Brown alumni attended the ceremony. The couple lives in Los Angeles. I99O Eric Arons finished his doctoral degree in applied physics at the University of Michigan. He lives in San Francisco and works in Menlo Park at SRI International. "I know there are tons of Brown people out here," he writes. "Where are you? I also want to apologize to Mike Burns for all the crap that happened at Brown. I hope things are going well for you and Clea." Eric can be reached at 410 Eliza- beth St., #4, San Francisco 941 14; arons@ umx.sri.com. Garrett Fitzgerald writes, "After some time spent delivering pizza for a living, I'm back at MicroKnowledge, a small systems house in Bangor, Me., researching rapid application development tools in Visual Fox- Pro. I'm on the advisory board of Orono Assembly #38, International Order of the Rainbow for Girls." He can be reached at 103 Kenduskeag Ave., #2, Bangor, Maine 04401; (207) 990-0359; gfitzger@nyx.net; http://w r \\ r vv.nyx.net/~gfitzger/home.html. Rohina Gandhi '94 M.D. married David Hoffman in a dual Hindu/Jewish cere- mony on Sept. 1 in Florham Park, N.J. Many Brown alumni attended, including maid of honor Lisa Taitsman '94 M.D. and brides- maids Nancy Castro. Sandy Watts, Nancy Kwon. and Sondra Vazirani Spitz. Jacob Blumenthal '89. '94 M.D. and Eric Yap '94 M.D. were ushers. Rohina and David live in Los Angeles, where they are finishing their residencies - Rohina at UCLA Medical Center and David at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. 1991 Angelika DeVaris writes, "I recently mar- ried an Ecuadorian man, so my name techni- cally is Angelika Cruz. I live in Guayaquil. Ecuador, where I teach high-school English." She can be reached at P.O. Box 1053. Guayaquil, Ecuador; 593-4-385-679. Rachel Marxe and Mark Fain (Boston University '90), New York City, were married on Sept. 8 in Sag Harbor, N.Y. The wedding party included Jill Dunkel McKissock and Jen Hunter '92. Many other Brown alumni attended. The couple traveled to Hawaii for their honeymoon. Rachel completed her master's in physical therapy at Emory in May and is a therapist in New York City, where Mark is a portfolio manager for a financial- services firm. This note was submitted by Eileen Rocchio '93. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY • 5 1 Dan Newman continues in the graduate program in social psychology at UC-Berkeley. He has started a software and consulting busi- ness, Berkeley Voice Solutions, specializing in voice-recognition computing. Alisa Tanaka graduated from Berkeley in May with a mas- ter's in public policy, Dan writes. She is now in Washington, D.C.. working for the U.S. Senate. Marty Wattenberg received his Ph.D. in math from Berkeley last spring. He lives in Manhattan and edits the on-line version of Snuut Money magazine. Andrea Silverman graduated from the University of Virginia Law School and is an associate with Kirkpatnck & Lockhart in Boston. I^^2 5th Reunion Marc Harrison, Shonica Tunstall. Shelly Berry, and their great reunion committee remind everyone to update them on your whereabouts so they can send you up-to-the- minute information about the reunion m early spring. Save the dates. May 23—26. Sharad Aggarwal and Myriam Khoury recently moved to Sarajevo from Split, Croatia, where Myriam has been working with Scottish European Aid and Sharad with the Interna- tional Rescue Committee. Anyone traveling to the area is requested to bring a copy of the Sunday New York Times, a garlic bagel with light veggie cream cheese for Sharad, and .1 cinnamon raisin bagel with honey-walnut cream cheese for Myriam. They can be readied c/o Mercy Corps, Scottish European Aid, Kosevsko Brdo 25, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia- Herzegovina; mercy-corps_sa@zamir-sa. ztn.apc.org. Jonathan Bodow and Keelan Stern '89 have moved from Buffalo, N.Y., to Tempe, Ariz. Jonathan is in the M.B.A. program at Arizona State University, and Keelan is an attorney for Anderson, Kill & Olick. "We'll be here for at least two years," Jonathan writes, "depending on the beauty of the sun- sets, warm winter breezes, and my chances of working for the expansion Arizona Dia- mondbacks baseball team in 1998." They can be reached at 5103 S. Mill Ave., #168, Tempe 85282; jbodow92@imap1.asu.edu. Holly Caldwell and Jacob Harrison '94. Durham, N.C., announce the birth of Max William Harrison-Caldwell on Aug. 26. Rebecca Zacks '94 assisted in the birth. Jake is doing graduate work in biology at Duke, and Holly is staying home with Max. Jake can be reached at jcli2@acpub. duke.edu. Bridget Carpenter '95 M.F.A. was .1 finalist 111 the 1996 Claudier Competition tor her play. The Death of the Father qj Psychoanal- ysis (& Anna). The play was performed by Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass., in August. Bridget. ,1 [erome Fellow at the Play- wrights ("enter 111 Minneapolis, has had her work produced by LaMama ETC, New York City; the Hasty Pudding Theater. Cambridge, Mass.; and the Playwrights Center. Julian Chan reports that Dirk Woerpel and Theresa Romens Woerpel '94 cele- brated their second year of marriage with a religious ceremony in a gazebo by a small lake near Milwaukee. Many Brunomans attended. Chuck Singson is at Kellogg business school in Chicago. Martin Sabarsky is an attorney for a large law turn 111 Hollywood. James Fukuda and Dawn Feldman, Boston, recently announced their engagement. Julian can be reached at jchan@pentus.com. Natasha Fried, New York City, is an associate producer and newswriter for the Fox News Channel. Marc Harrison writes, "After five years of dating, Christie O'Neil '91 and I were married in her hometown church in Rock- land, Mass., on Aug. 17. The wedding was hosted by the bride's parents. Tom and Judy Macintosh O'Neil '64. Close to thirty Brown alumni from the 1960s, '70s, '80s, and '90s attended. After honeymooning in Penn- sylvania, New Jersey, and Toronto, we are settling down to our commuter lifestyle. Christie works in Providence, and I work in Boston." They can be reached at 71 Chilson Ave., Mansfield, Mass. 02048; ceo@ebt.com; marcrh@aol.com. Jonathan Lax and Jennifer Benjamin (UMass '92, Michigan '94), Boston, announce their engagement. They are planning their wedding around the Michigan football sched- ule. Last summer they spent time with Dave Borah and Kara Kee, Rick Patzman, Bert Hancock '93, and Mike Kesselman '93. Heidi Mattson s autobiography. Ivy League Snipper, was released in paperback by St. Martin's Press in May. The movie version ot Heidi's lite is in development at NBC. "Publicity interest has been wide and deep," she writes. "The Brown Daily Herald voted me 'Best Alum of the Year. 1995.' I would be pleased to catch up with friends and hear from anyone with comments or questions about my Brown experiences." She can be reached at P.O. Box 10702, Manna Del Rey. Calif. 90292. Carlo R. Singson returned to the Philippines after graduation and worked as an account executive for Grey Advertising Co. for three years. Last year Chuck entered the M.B.A. program at theJ.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. He did a summer internship at the new products division of Jim Beam Brands Co. and plans to graduate next June. 1993 Andrew Borodach (see Gerold Borodach '55)- Leslie Diffily married Jonathan Lowen- stein on Oct. 5 at Manning Chapel. Douglas Lowenstein '90 was best man. The bride's mother, Dale Kennedy Domingue '67, father Michael Diffily '67, and stepmother Anne Hinman Diffily '73 were among the many Brunonians attending the ceremony. Leslie works in marketing tor the American Mathematical Society in Providence, and Jon is an intern at a Providence architectural firm. The couple's address is 1S8 Newman Ave., Seekonk. Mass. 02771. Avi Margolis married Clara Smith of Potomac, Md., on June 30 at B'nai Israel Congregation Synagogue in Rockville, Md. Cathy Goldberg '94 was a bridesmaid, and Graeme Lipper and Philip Korn were groomsmen. Clara is in her tinal year in the special-education program at the University of Maryland. Avi got his master's in computer science trom Maryland and is a production executive for Proxima, an Internet business solutions provider in McLean, Va. The cou- ple honeymooned in Jamaica and lives in Laurel, Md. Seth Newman married Bethany Perry on July 6 m Villanova, Pa. The wedding party included brother Dan Newman '91 (who sent this note) and Keith Rosen. The couple resides in Philadelphia, where both attend Temple's medical school. Wendy Webber married Eric Nelson 111 Manning Chapel on June 22. Richard Web- ber '66 escorted his daughter down the aisle, and bridesmaids included the groom's sister, Lynn '91. Jennifer Winn, and Julie Olbrys '95. The groom's brother, Paul '98, was best man. Michael Graham, Luke Franks, Courtney Kurk. and Siddhu Nadkarni were ushers. The ceremony was attended by many other Brown alumni, and the reception was held at the Faculty Club. Wendy is working on her Ph.D. in the molecular phar- macology and biotechnology at Brown, and Eric is an admission officer for the University. Kelley Wilson (see Paul Shriver '87). Andrew J. Wu left his job as a manage- ment consultant at APM Inc. and spent last summer studying Chinese at the Stanford Center in Taipei. "It was a very intense ex- perience, but my Chinese has gotten much better," he writes. Andrew is now in his first year at the Wharton School. He can be reached at 2400 Chestnut St., # 2910, Phila- delphia 19103; (21s) 988-9735; andyp8@ wharton.upenn.edu. 1994 Eddie Gonzalez coordinates outreach pro- grams for the American Association tor the Advancement of Science. He and Erik Franklin are trying to maintain their college habits, and they frequently see Michaela All- bee, who just started Georgetown Law School. Kevin Ruby and Matt Carvalho moved to D.C. for the summer before finish- ing up their last year of law school. Eddie can be reached at 2602 Lee Highway Bi, Arling- ton, Va. 22201; (703) 527-8922 (home), (202) 326-6673 (work); egonzale@aaas.org. Michael Hurt has returned from two years on a Fulbnght 111 Korea. He is now in the ethnic studies program at UC-Berkeley, working on his Ph.D. He can be reached at DECEMBEB 1 996 420 \Y Hudson Ave Davton. Ohio 45406; 76202.2 ihmii compuserve.com. Suzanne Y. Kao and Andrew C. Coulam still live in North Carolina. Suzanne has returned from her halt-year stay in Taipei and has started her tirst year of law school at U.N.C.. where Andrew is finishing his mas- ter's in classics. I hey would love to hear from friends at skao@email.unc.edu or acoulam(5 email. uiu.edu. Melisa Lai reports. "Karen Foster wed Benjamin Armand Emmanuel Mane de Foy (Cambridge University '94) in a bilingual (English and French) ceremony on Aug. 4 in Cambridge, England. Many Brunonians were m attendance, including the bride's parents. JefTVi- and Muriel McCormick Foster '67. Bridesmaids and former roommates included myself and Abigail Demopulos. Karen and Ben are graduate students at Cambridge. Karen is completing her Ph.D. in molecular biology, and Ben is completing his Ph.D. in engineering. The couple can be reached at 765 King's College, Cambridge CB2 1ST, Eng- land; kaf@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk. Larry Small is also in Cambridge finishing up his two-year studies on a Keasbey fellowship." Melisa can be reached at melisa_lai(§ brown.edu. Brad Lewin (see Barbara Zwick Sander '64). Dana Mitra married Todd Litzinger on Aug. 3 in Pittsburgh. Carolyn Hutter and Jane Kaufman were bridesmaids, and Kris- ten Jackson delivered a reading. Many other Brown alumni attended. Dana, who is an ele- mentary-school teacher at St. Patrick's Epis- copal Day school in Washington, D.C., writes, "Carolyn is working towards her Ph.D. at Cornell. Jane is in medical school at George Washington University. Kris has just moved to New York Citv. Dave Hannallah has started medical school at Washington Univer- sity in St. Louis. Lisa Schocket is in medical school at Perm. Jacob Forman has started a master's in creative writing at Brown. Ian Reifowitz is working on a Ph.D. at George- town." Friends can reach Dana and Todd at 6129 Leesburg Pike. #1 1 19 Falls Church, 22041; dmitra@aol.com. Gregory Reidy and Tara Schulz plan to marry in May in New Jersey. Greg is working in New York City as a sales execu- tive for United Healthcare, and Tara is study- ing for a master's in occupational therapy at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, Va. They would love to hear from old friends at tschulz@gems.vcu.edu. I996 1995 Lindsey Arent went to Medellm. Colombia, and taught English for six months after gradu- ation. She then traveled throughout Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Lindsey now lives in Los Angeles and works as a researcher at a docu- mentary production company. She can be reached at (310) 858-6863, lmarent@aol.com. Kristcn Lonergan is working for Congres sional Quarterly blouse Action Reports, writ ing up information on bills and other materi als for members of Congress and their suits She and Greg Koblentz can be reached at 1 -si [8th St. N.W., Apt. 2, Washington. D.C. 20009; klonergan@cqalert.com. GS Ashok Kalelkar '69 Ph.D., Lexington. Mass., w .is appointed to the board of directors at Arthur D. Little Inc., an international man- agement and consulting firm. During his twenty-five years with the company, Kalelkar, a senior vice president, has managed consult- ing groups in international energy, environ- mental health and safety, Latin American management, and technology and product development. He is a member of the com- panv's leadership team and is responsible tor its applied-technology business. Josephine Olson '70 Ph.D., professor of business administration and economics at the University of Pittsburgh's Katz Graduate School of Business, was appointed associate dean on Oct. 1 . She provides oversight tor the master's and doctoral programs, faculty recruit- ing, and a variety of related activities. Olson has published extensively, is a trustee of Teach- ers Insurance and Annuity Association, and is on the board of advisors for HealthAmenca of Pittsburgh. Caroline King Hall '73 Ph.D. (see York A. King Jr. 33). David Curtis '77 Ph.D., professor of English at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield. Conn., was named chair of communication studies on Aug. 1. He has taught at the uni- versity for more than fifteen years and served as chair of the English department from 1985-88. Previously he was an assistant pro- fessor at the University of Rhode Island and at Wilkes College in Pennsylvania. Barry R. Davis '82 Ph.D.. professor ot biometry at the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston, has been named a fellow of the American Statistical Association. Christal Whelan '86 A.M. has published Tlie Beginning oj Heaven and Earth: The Sacred Book of Japan's Hidden Christians (University of Hawaii Press, $34), which she translated and annotated. Whelan is a lecturer in the foreign language department at Sophia University. Tokyo, and is currently working on a docu- mentary of the Kakure Kinshitan ot the Goto Islands. Ann Harleman '88 A.M. has published her fourth book, Bitter Lake (Southern Metho- dist University Press, $22.50). a novel set in a Pennsylvania mill town. Harleman's short- story collection. Happiness, won the 1993 Uni- versity of Iowa Short Fiction Award. She has been a Guggenheim and Rockefeller fel- low, and she won a 1991 PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. She is a professor of English at R Isl ) and a visiting scholar in Brown's Department of American Civilization. Bridget Carpenter '95 Mi A. (see '92). Claire Long '95 A.M.. Cape May. N.J., curator of the Cape May Historical and Genealogical Society, was awarded a fellow- ship to attend the annual meeting of the Mid- Atlantic Association of Museums. She writes .1 weekly newspaper column on local history Josh Glazerhoff 96 A.M. (see Paul Shriver 87). MD Steve Gottlieb '81 (see Carla Tachau Lawrence '78). Lise Kowalski '86 M.D. (see '82). Richard Rento '86 M.D. and Lisa Casanova Rento '86 M.D. (see '82). Debra Karp Skopicki '90 ( see '87) Otto Yang '90 M.D. (see '87). John Michael Montgomery '92 M.D. (see '82). Gregory Johnson '93 (see '89). Jacob Blumenthal '94 (see Rohina Gandhi '90). Rohina Gandhi '94 (see '90). Lisa Taitsman '94 (see Rohina Gandhi '90). Eric Yap '94 (see Rohina Gandhi '90). Obituaries George D. Morrow '26. Monson, Mass.; Aug. 10. He taught Latin, algebra, and Ger- man at Monson Academy for forty-two years, retiring in 1971. William E. Braisted Jr. '27. Achilles, Va.; Aug. 28. After receiving his M.D. from McGill University in 1936, he was a medical missionary for the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society and was physician and sur- geon in charge of the Chin Li Hospital 111 Katyang, Kwangtung. South China, for fifteen years. At the end of the Sino-Japanese war his hospital was overrun and looted by the Japanese army. Braisted secured U.S. war-sur- plus supplies and equipment and reestablished medical services until the start of the Korean War. at which time he was placed under house arrest by China's Communist Party for eighteen months. He moved to the Clough Memorial Hospital in Ongole. Andhra Pradesh. South India, and for six years ran programs in medical, surgical, and obstetrical services; started rural medical climes; and trained Indian sur- geons. Upon his return to the United States. Braisted became chief of surgery at the V.A. Hospital 111 West Haven, Conn., and an assis- tant clinical professor at Yale Medical School. After a brief retirement he returned to med- icine as a physician at the Connecticut Hospice and was medical director for the Branford Hills Healthcare Center, both in Branford, BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY ♦ S3 Conn. A fellow of the Royal College of Sur- geons of Canada, Braisted remained active in the Baptist Church throughout his life and often spoke in public about his missionary experiences. He is survived by his wife, Doreen, P.O. Box 215, Achilles 23001; and nephews Paul '49 and Donald '53. Catherine Eisenberg Levin '27, Plymouth, Minn.; May 25. She was a teacher in the Central Falls (R.I.) and Bamngton (R.I.) pub- lic schools for many years, retiring in 1972. She is survived by two sons, including Harry '58, 9038 Yellowwood Ct., Indianapolis 46260; and two daughters. Robert M. Pike '28, '32 Ph.D., Dallas; July 5. A member of the original faculty of the Uni- versity of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, he was a professor ot microbiology and bacteriology until 1974, when he was named professor emeritus. He was a member of the American Board of Microbiology and a charter fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. He is survived by his son, Robert Jr., P.O. Box 17681, Fort Worth, Tex. 76102; and two daughters. A. Elston Cuddeback '29, Rockville, Md.; May 20. 1992. An assistant to the vice president of manufacturing at the Thomas J. Lipton Co., he retired in 1970. Previously he was an assistant chief engineer at Sheffield Farms 111 New York City and a plant manager tor Continental Foods in Hoboken, N.J. He is survived by two sons, including Tom, 5441 Marlin St., Rockwell, Md. 20853; and - 1 nephew, Douglas '76. Theodore B. Wallace '30, Plymouth Meet- ing, Pa.; July 30. After receiving a master's in English from Penn he joined Smith, Kline & French Labs in Philadelphia in 1933. He was named director of medical affairs in 1959 and retired in 1970. At Brown he was an editor of the Brown Jug and a member of the varsity lacrosse team. Phi Beta Kappa. He is survived by his wife, Dorothy, 3 1 17 Spring Mill Rd., Plymouth Meeting 19462: a daughter; two sons; and a grandson, Robert W. Chapman '98. John M. Kenny '31, Mansfield, Mass.; Sept. 9. He worked tor the Lumb Leasing Co. in Pawtucket, R.I. He is survived by a son, Robert '55, 125 Seegar Rd., Upper St. Clair, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15241. Kenneth J. Rupprecht '32, Westerly, R.I.; Aug. 10. He developed rubber plantations in Malaysia and was an engineer for the former U.S. Rubber Co. before joining United Elastic Co. in 1964. In 1969 he was named vice pres- ident and technical director of Globe Manu- facturing Co., Fall River, Mass., retiring in 1975. He is survived by his wife, Eleanor Peabody Rupprecht '33, 61 Elm St., West- erly 02891; and a son. Doris Aldrich Colborn '32, Lake City, Minn.; March 31. She was a teacher in the Woodridge school system in Hasbrouck Heights, N.J., where she was also a member of the University and Emanon clubs. She moved to Minnesota after her retirement in 1974 and was active in the Methodist Church. She is survived by a son, Robert. Sylvia Rouse Malm '34 A.M., Cornwall, Pa.; Aug. 12. She received her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College in 1937 and was a profes- sor of biology at Lebanon Valley College in Lebanon, Pa. She was active in the League ot Women Voters, the Swatara Creek Water- shed Association, and the American Associa- tion of University Women. She is survived by her daughter, Sylvia Malm, 413 Elm Ave., Takoma Park, Md. 20912. Walter F. Olney '35, St. Petersburg, Fla.;July 29. A longtime resident of Coventry, R.I., he owned and operated Washington Blue Gas Co. for more than twenty-five years, retiring in 1972. An avid ham radio operator, he was known as Uncle Walt and belonged to various radio clubs. He is survived by two sons. Harold G. Young '35, Cranston, R.I.; July 29. A bassoonist for the former Providence Symphony Orchestra, for sixteen years he was an assistant purchasing agent for the former Asoma Wire and Cable Co. before retiring in 1974. He was a board member of the Western R.I. Civic Historical Society. He is survived by his wife, Barbara, 34 Manon Ave., Cranston 02905; and two daughters. Walter G. Barney '36, Warwick, R.I.; Sept. 16. He was owner and president ot Radix Wire, Cleveland, for eighteen years until his retirement in 1978. Previously he was vice president and plant manager for the Ken- necott Wire and Cable division of Okonite Co., Philhpsdale, R.I. A former director of the Butler Hospital finance committee and corporator of Citizens' Bank, he was a member of the East Greenwich Rotary Club which, along with the East Providence Boys' Club, awarded him the 1965 "Man and Boy Award" for his work in civic, religious, and youth organizations. Active in the alumni associa- tion, he founded the Barney Family Book Fund in 1981 and was a generous supporter of his class's annual scholarship fund and Brown athletics. He is survived by his wite, Betty '38, 269 Red Chimney Dr., Warwick 02886; two sons, including Walter '63; and a daughter. John W. Tingley Jr. '38, Seekonk, Mass.; Aug. 24. He was a consulting design engineer of power plants and utilities for Halhwell Engineering Associates, retiring in 1978. Pre- viously he worked tor Babcock & Wilcox Co., J.D. Guillaumette, and E.L. Wooley Co., where he was vice president and treasurer. He was a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and served on the Cen- tral Congregational Church of Providence's plant and properties committee. He is survived by his wife, Beatrice, 38 Harman Ave., Seekonk 02771; a brother, Lawrence '37; and two daughters, including Lois Tingley Wyatt '68. Melanie Shroder Totenberg '38, Newton, Mass.; Sept. 1, of cancer. She was business manager for her husband, the violinist Roman Totenberg, for fifty years, and worked as a residential real estate agent for Hunneman and Co. in Newton. She was executive vice president of the Massachusetts chapter of Americans for Democratic Action. She is sur- vived by her husband, 329 Waverley Ave., Newton 02158; and three daughters. Franklin W. Palmer III '40, Nokomis, Fla.; Sept. 5. He was a salesman for the former Fmberg Manufacturing Co. Previously he worked for the L.G. Balfour Co. and the Catamore Co. in Providence. He was a U.S. Army Signal Corps veteran ot World War II and a member ot the Overseas Lodge of Providence. He is survived by his wife. Bar- bara, P.O. Box 657, Nokomis 34274. Mae Post Noyes '48, Peterborough, N.H.; July 29. She is survived by a daughter, Nancy Noyes '55, 15 Gray Hill Rd., P.O. Box 3304, Peterborough 03458; and a son, F.C. Noyes '59. Vincent J. Rothemich '48, Palos Verdes Estates, Calif; July 10. He was administrator for the South Bay school district in Los Ange- les. Previously he had been a teacher m War- wick, R.I., and Carlsbad, N.M. He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II, serving under General Patton in the Third Infantry Division for two years. He is survived by his wife, Reba, 289 Via Colorin, Palos Verdes Estates 90274; and a son. John F. Ensminger '49. Niantic. Conn.; May 1 1 . He was a senior industrial engineer for United Nuclear Corp. in Uncasville, Conn., retiring in 1988. Previously he was president and CEO of Anderson Brothers Co. in Danville. Va., and southeastern regional sales manager for the Scovill Manufacturing Co. in Waterbury, Conn. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army Air Corps, flying twenty- one B-17 missions over Germany in World War II. He was a member of the Danville, Va., Chamber of Commerce and the Ameri- can Institute of Industrial Engineers. He is survived by three sons, including James, 73 Flanders Rd., Niantic 06357. Donald M. O'Brien '50, Westford, Mass.; Aug. 7. He was a senior vice president, mar- keting executive, and retailing consultant for several large companies, including Gimbels, Mabley & Carew, Allied Stores, Jordan Marsh, Hecht Co., and, most recently, Brookstone Inc. He received the Silver Plaque Award from the National Retail Merchants Associa- tion and was a featured speaker at the 1985 International Conference of Retailers in Lon- don. He served in the U.S. Navy, U.S. 54 ♦ DECEMBER I 9 9 6 Army, and U.S. National Guard. He is sui vived by his wife, Gretchen, 9 Bradley 1 n . Westfbid oi 886. Peter Pedicini '50, Spring Hill, Fla.; Aug. 28. Ho and Ins wife owned and operated a millinery shop in Watertown, Mass.. until moving to Florida in ig - s. He was also .1 deliver) foreman and postal supervisor for the U.S. Postal Service. He was a U.S. Navy vet- eran of \\ orld War 11. Phi Beta Kappa. 1 [e is survived b\ Ins wife, Geraldine, 141 61 Segovia St.. Spring Hill 54609. Elliot Rhian 'si. Providence; July 29. After receiving his master's from Penn State, he studied undersea systems for the U.S. Navy and the National Academy of Sciences at the university's Ordnance Research Lab. He became a professor ot marine science at the University of Miami Marine Laboratory, spe- cializing in the nature of underwater sound. In i960 he was recruited by the Philco Division of the Ford Motor Co. to work on undersea missile tracking systems and was involved 111 the development ot deep-submergence rescue vehicles. He managed the development of the first undersea nuclear detection system off the coast of California for the enforcement of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty with the former Soviet Union. He was involved in the con- struction of a desalination plant at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and managed asbestos abatement programs tor many private and public facilities. In 1974 he founded Thermex Inc., an insulation and coatings firm that specialized 111 energy effi- ciency, retiring in 1987. A veteran of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, he participated 111 the Normandy invasion and served in France. Bel- gium, and Germany during World War II. He is survived by his wife, Barbara, 1 5 Parkside Dr.. Providence 02910; a daughter; and a son. Alan R. Sarle '53, Worthington, Ohio; May 25. He was a systems designer for Hoechst- Celanese Plastics Co. in Columbus, Ohio, and General Electric in Worthington. Previ- ously he was a production planning and con- trol manager for Industrial Nucleonics Co. in Columbus. He was an executive engineering officer in the U.S. Navy from 1953-57. He is survived by his wife, Ruth, 313 Highland Ave.. Worthington 43085; brothers Richard '44 and Rodney '46; and two sons. Normand O. Vandal '53, Cumberland, R.I.; July 21. He was a senior engineer for Factory Mutual Research Co. in Norwood, Mass., for sixteen years before his retirement in 1989. Previously he was a project engineer in the research and development division of Grinnel] Corp., Providence. He was a U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps veteran of World War II. serving in the Asia-Pacific Theater. He was a 32nd-degree Mason and a deputy grand knight, fourth degree, of the Knights of Colum- bus. He is survived by his wife, Frances, 63 Heroux Blvd.. Cumberland 02S64; and a son. Chase Patterson Kimball '54. Chicago; Aug 24. of complications from Alzheimer's disease Professor emeritus oi medicine and psychiatry at the University of < Chicago, he was a crusadei for medical ethics and was prominent in the new field of biopsviliosoci.il medicine. Previ- ously he was an assistant professor ot medicine and an attending psychiatrist at Yale and the University of Rochester. His 1981 book. The Biopsyehosocial Approach to the Patient, urged doctors to emphasize the patient's social and emotional circumstances. He was president ot the International College of Psychosomatic Medicine and a member of the American Col- lege of Physicians. He is survived by his wife, Anne. 5723 S. Kenwood Ave., Chicago 60637; four daughters, including Lisa '82; and a son. Dominic V. Balogh '56. Hamden, Conn.; Aug. 28. He was a jet pilot instructor for the U.S. Air Force and, for eleven years, the recreational supervisor for the Connecticut Department of Corrections. Previously he- was a partner in the former S.S. & M. Builders of Hamden; and was a teacher, coach, and athletic director at Cheshire Academy. He was also owner and operator ot the former Balogh's Restaurant in Hamden. A quarter- back for the varsity football team, he was inducted into the New Haven Gridiron Club All-Distnct Hall of Fame in 1986. He is sur- vived by his wife, Anne, 73 1 Still Hill Rd., Hamden 06518; two daughters; and two sons. Adolph P. DiSandro Jr. '58, East Providence, R.I.; Sept. 8. He was president and CEO of A.D. Investment Corp. in Rumford, R.I. Previously he was president ot New England Electrical Contracting Co., Woonsocket Electrical Engineering Inc., and Atlantic Elec- trical. He was a trustee of Fogarty Memorial Hospital. He is survived by his wife, Dorothy, P.O. Box 661, East Providence 02914; and three sons. Gordon I. Lindsay III '62, Rowayton, Conn.; July 1. He was a senior managing director for Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., New York City. Previously he was president of Rowayton Capital Management and a prod- uct director for Vick Chemical Co. He is sur- vived by his wife, Betsy, 13 Sunwich Rd., Rowayton 06853. Celia McCullough Millward '63 A.M., '66 Ph.D., Washington. D.C.; Sept. 12. Since 1966 she had been a professor of English at Boston University, where she was awarded the Met- calf Award for excellence in teaching in 1977. She founded the Richard B. Millward Fund at Brown in memory of her late husband, who was a professor of psychology at Harvard and Brown. She is survived by her son. James, 53 Forest St., Providence 02906. J. Paul Kinloch '66, Malibu, Calif; July 26. He received his M.B.A. from Harvard and was managing director of the Los Angeles branch of Lehman Brothers for twenty-five years. Previously he was a senior vi< e presi dent at Hornblower, Weeks. 1 leinphill & Noyes in New York ( jtv. I [e was the lead banker 111 more than twenty mergers and acquisitions and was a board member at sev eral firms, including Sizzler Restaurants Inter- national Inc. and Orbital Sciences Corp. The recipient of a kidney transplant in [985 and a former captain of the varsity swim team, he won a silver medal in swimming at the National Transplant Olympics, was an advi- sory director of the National Kidney Founda- tion, and was a director ot the Southern Cali- fornia Organ Procurement Center. In the summer of 1993 he rode across the country on his Harley-Davidson motorcycle, con- ducting business along the way on his cellular phone, computer, and tape recorder. He is survived by his wife, Eileen, 29751 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu 90265; two daugh- ters; and a son. William R. Ponte '66, Plymouth, Mich.; May 20. He worked for the Ford Motor Co. He is survived by his ex-wife, Patricia Ponte, 9447 Marilyn Ave., Plymouth 48170. Jean Piatt Nwachuku '67, "72 Sc.M., Ellington, Conn.; Sept. 13. She was a com- puter-systems specialist for Pratt cV Whitney Aircraft for many years. Previously she spent twelve years in Nigeria, where she was involved with the Ndoki & Ohanku Welfare Associa- tion and was the principal systems analyst for Anambra State University. She is survived by her husband, Adiele, 65 Mountain St., Elling- ton 06029; a daughter; and two sons. George I. Schulman '72 A.M., New York City; Aug. 9, ot complications from lymph- oma. From 1968-95 he worked for various offices for the City of New York, including the Department of Ports and Terminals, the Office of Management and Budget, the Bureau of Standards and Appeals, and the Depart- ment of Employment. He is survived by his wife, Theresa, }22 Central Park West, #3, New York City 10025; and two daughters. Timothy J. Stryker '77. Danbury, Conn.; Aug. 6. He was a writer, artist, and avid paraglider. He is survived by his wife, Chris- tine, 94 Hammersmith Apts., Danbury 06810; and four children. Elizabeth McLaughlin Miller '82, Maple Grove. Minn.; July 1. She is survived by her husband, David '81, 8179 Ramer Ln.. Maple Grove 5531 1. M. Leo Albert '91, Falmouth, Mass.; Aug. 26. He was a graphic designer with Beth Tondreau Design in New York City. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Marcel Albert, 70 Walker St.. Falmouth 02540; two brothers: and a sister. Ov BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY ♦ 55 Finally. BY JENNIFER CASTLE Show and Tell In February 1994, in a small town in upstate New York at a hospital whose name I could never pronounce as a child, my grandmother lay dying. I was alone with her for the last time. I had a few hours before my plane left; she had ninety years of life behind her. It was morning, the time when she was most likely to be alert. I'd learned that over the previous few days, as I'd also learned to tip a cup of broth to her lips, and as I'd learned that though she was unable to speak, she could understand everything we said. In be- tween these lessons I took walks in the frigid parking lot, rehearsing in my head what I'd say when it was time to leave. As a creative writing concentrator at Brown, I'd come to understand that powerful writing results not only from what you say, but also from what you leave out. A favorite classroom mantra was "Show, don't tell." It has served me well writing fiction and, more recently, as a screenwriter, one who'd sooner write a car-chase sequence than a "loved-one- dying" scene. Still, there I was in my grandmother's hospital room, feeling the pressure to get my lines just right. While my parents spoke tearfully to lawyers 111 the hall, I imagined my script for the last good-bye: Jennifer (smiling bravely):! wish I could take you home so you could cook something for us. nana (opening her eyes): Don't be silly. There's brisket and matzoh ball soup in the freezer. I may be stuck in this bed, but I'll be damned if my family doesn't have a decent dinner. In real life, though. Nana squirmed as I held her hand. I pulled my chair closer and looked straight at her for the first time that morning. She stared straight back. I knew she'd hate that I felt the need for a speech. It made my rehearsals seem pointless. As we looked at each other, I relaxed. I found I didn't mind that she was incom- prehensibly tiny and her hair was thin, her lips dry and pale, her catheter bag full. I began to see, instead, the Nana I loved as a child, the one who bought me a Fonzie locket atter my mother refused to, the one who showered us with foil-wrapped tudge brownies. There, too, it seemed, was the Nana I loved as a teenager, the one who took me shopping for designer jeans and mortified me by telling every sales clerk my report-card grades and the name of my current crush. Clearest ot all was the Nana I'd loved as an adult, the one who lived gracefully alone for almost three decades, who had friends more numerous than all the peo- ple I'd ever known, who headed up a retirement home filled with what she called "my old ladies," even though most of them were younger than she was. I saw Nana as she would have preferred: wear- ing a blue suit and pumps, her hair dyed jet black and freshly styled, her Clinique lipstick just right. When I finally managed words, they came out all wrong. I stumbled. 1 was embarrassed. I think I told her she had been a perfect grandmother. I told her I hoped to make her proud of me. As I spoke, I looked at the oxygen machine and at her slippered feet resting limply on a needlepoint footstool brought from home. But what I recall best are the tears that came to her eyes. Somehow, Nana understood what I was trying to say, and that it was simply, "Good-bye." A week later I stood before her friends and relatives in a dress she would have said made me look grown-up, and I delivered her eulogy. I had stayed up late the night before, writing, editing, delet- ing, and marking text blocks on my com- puter, repeating each sentence aloud to make sure it flowed: "/ hope she knows that everything I am and everything I do is partly because of her. She is a foothold of my past, a spirit in my present, and the inspiration lor my future. Sana, I love yon always." What I read that day came out sound- ing perfect. Too perfect. I'm glad Nana wasn't there to hear it. 0&> Jennifer Castle lives and writes in West Holly- wood, California. dec; ember 1996 y I ;. w . 5 i 11 s S o.'S s s s is 1 E -2 n cc 0) , frz^ S 1 \ tfj ^ovU S^afi #* il. R £ Si su ■'■■■■■J t Hi ' *V"""-\ i v'^ g MM SV- ' V ^^ »• • i-w Tj£* I » .;/ sil 1 -.'.'2. J ■ ■■^'. ". -.->.'• j iP !»l •■ . l HHbp^Wt^. a /"/ 'fl ■l t™f • Hi *2 s ss T ABSOLUT VODKA. 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