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After one hundred thirty-five years of strenuous service, plans are under reconstruct HOPE COLLEGE within the original walls. The time has coi replace its tired timbers with steel, so that future generations of students in safety and comfort. Your gift to the new Brown University Fund of IS make it possible.

This year the annual Brown University Fund has TWO objectives: 1) sup the general educational program of the University, 2) a substantial contri the restoration of Hope College.

In 1956 the Fund total was $370,666 and ALL of it went into the operating of the University. This year, with TWO objectives, we must aim higher, a amount by which the Fund increases is the amount that will go towards the reconstruction of Hope.

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RESIDENT FELLOW

MARCH 1957

APPROACH of the Brown Bicentennial re- minds us of a story Frank Boyden of Deerfield told about a pageant he'd put into the program as part of their anniver- sary a few years back. A lady happened into town the afternoon of the big show and was somewhat surprised to find it swarming with young Indians, Colonials, Redcoats, and the rest all made up to pay their tribute to history. "What's going on here?" she asked.

"A pageant." they told her. "All about the history of the town and the Academy."

"Oh. And how often do they do this sort of thing?"

"Every 150 years."

She thought that one over, then said: "Well, I guess I'll stay."

> THE RETROSPECTIVE article about Hope College in the February issue reminds us that showers in dormitories are a compara- tively modern luxury. In December, 1884, the Advisory and Executive Committee of the Brown Corporation passed the follow- ing vote: "That tickets be sold to students wishing to use the bathing tubs in the base- ment of University Hall at the rate of 50(} for five tickets."

> WHEN fraternity rushing was at its height in February, the subject got around to initiation stunts. We're glad with every- one else that they are no longer public, but some of the old ones brought a laugh. One favorite of the '30s was to send a pledge delegation downtown to a movie show, where they scattered and took seats in vari- ous parts of the theatre. In the middle of the show, one of them had to stand up and inquire in a loud voice if there was a doc- tor in the house. Pretty soon a man would rise from his chair and admit that he was a doctor. This was the signal for the 15 or 20 initiates to stand somberly and cry in chorus: "Hi, doc!"

> THE DEPARTMENT of Applied Math re- cently received a letter from England ad- dressed to "Brown University, Providence 12, Ellis Island, U.S.A." Prof. Rohn Truell sent the envelope along to President Keeney with this notation: "Thought you'd like to know we've moved to the front lines."

> A wiiLTAMs PROFESSOR was puzzled by his pre-school daughter's habit of referring to her sister as "Madame Gazelle." Finally he realized it was her distortion of the French word for a young lady.

> ON A VISIT to New York, David Jacobson of Stanford was relaxing when a boxer struck up a conversation with him: "Where you from. Bud?"

"From the West Coast." said Jacobson.

"What's your racket. Bud?"

"I work for a university."

"Oh, you're one of them professors."

"No, my job is to raise money."

"How you doing?"

"Pretty well. About 6 million this year."

"What's your cut, Bud?"

"I don't get a cut, you see . . ."

"You're a damn fool. Bud. Always take a cut."

A cut? It sounded good to Jacobson. But reflection told him he'd already had a cut: "Every one of us got a cut — a big one — since the gifts of others had helped pay for our education."

> "DID YOU EVER talk to Hurry-Up Yost?" a friend asked Ring Lardner. (Edwin Pope records the colloquy in "Football's Greatest Coaches.") "No," Lardner replied. "I never talked to him. My folks taught me never to interrupt."

> A NUMBER of New England colleges have engaged the prisoners at Norfolk in debate, where the convicts are very able in the sport though apologetic about not be- ing able to schedule home-and-home. Dur- ing the intermission of one recent debate, the prison band played: "If I had the wings of an angel."

> A STUDENT at Duke, according to Presi- dent Edens' Founders' Day address, was complaining to the president of the local bus company about the cost of transpor- tation. If the fare were not reduced, the lad would have to buy a new car. He couldn't afford bus fare, he said.

> A SCHOLAR at the University of Michi- gan made a field observation that answers the ancient question: "How much vwod would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood?" He can and does chuck some, according to the Michigan Aliiinnus. but only those twigs and pieces of brush which interfere with his house- building activities.

> EVERYONE is talking about the hordes which will descend upon the colleges in the near future, with attendant pressures on them all for expansion to accommodate the demands. We liked a comment by Presi- dent Dodds on the situation at Princeton: "We have no illusions of grandeur which size will satisfy."

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Vol. LVII No. 6

Board of Editors

Chairman

C. Arthur Braitsch '23

Vice-Chairman George W. Potter '21

George R. Ashbey '21 Garrett D. Byrnes '26 Warren L. Carleen '48 Carleton Goff '24 Robert H. Goff '24 Prof. I. J. Kapstein '26

Managing Editor Chesley Worthington '2.'?

Assist an I Editor

John F. Barri. Jr., '50

In This Issue:

Bliss Moves to U.H. West Quadrangle Photos The First College Hockey I Am a Resident Fellow Help for School Teachers The Brown Clubs Report Brown's Winter Varsities Brunonians Far and Near Letters in Our Mailbox

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THE COVER PHOTO: Douglas Snow, Resident Fellow in Buxton House, tells how he "got ahead of the President" in his lively story on page 14. On the cover he is with two of his dormitory residents —Bob MacKay '59, left, and Bob Hell- strom '57, right, who is President of Buxton House.

Published October. November, December. January, February, March, April, May, and July by Brown University, Providence 12, R. I. Admitted to the second class of mail matter under the Act of Au- gust 24, 1912, at the Providence Post Office. Additiorial entry at Brattleboro. \'t. Member, American Alumni Council. The Magazine is sent to all Brown alumni.

Dean of the University

Appointment of Bliss to Administrative Diitij Proves a Popular Move

PRESIDENT Keeney broke the news at the meeting of the Advisory Council in February: Prof. Zenas R. Bliss '18, Executive Officer of the Division of Engineering, would be the new Dean of the University, in this important role to assist in the general administration of Brown. The delighted response to the announcement was only the first of public indications that this was the most popular appointment on College Hill in a long while. "Zene" Bliss has long had the respect and friend- ship of colleagues at Brown and elsewhere, in addition to the regard of students and alumni. He has talents and experience which will make his assumption of the new portfolio prompt and understanding.

Professor Bliss will accept a number of the duties of the late Provost, Dr. Samuel T. Arnold '13. One of his functions, ac- cording to the University news release, will be "to insure that all of Brown's activities are bent to an educational purpose." The Dean of the University, the statement continued, "will coordinate the three branches of the University, administered specifically by the Dean of the College, the Dean of Pembroke, and the Dean of the Graduate School." President Keeney was quoted as follows:

"We have considered many people for the post, from out- side the University as well as from within, and believe that Pro- fessor Bliss is most particularly qualified for this important po- sition. He is a respected alumnus of the University. He is an effective teacher and administrator and has been a valued member of many key committees. His long connection with the University and the community provides an element of con- tinuity that greatly strengthens the administration."

Anion^ His Assignments

Although his teaching has been confined to the Engineering Division since joining the Faculty in 1923, Professor Bliss has at the same time been associated with the wider academic in- terests of the University. He is a former Chairman of the Ath- letic Council and has served on the Faculty Committee on Curriculum. He is currently on the Committee on Academic Standing and the Board of Admission: he is Secretary of the Physical Sciences Council. He is Chairman of the Nautical Advisory Board, supervising the yachting program.

One of his duties in the Engineering Division has been as Director of Research, handling administrative details of Gov- ernment contracts. As a Faculty Counsellor, he has worked with students in the five-year program which leads to both an .'Vrts and a Scienc degree at its conclusion. His teaching has been largely at the undergraduate level, with work in Applied Mechanics, Machine Design, and Engineering Economy.

It is a little startling to note in the 1918 Lihcr that Professor Bliss' undergraduate nickname was "Dean." This, he points out, was due merely to the fact that his middle name was Ran-

BLISS: His undergraduate nickname was "Dean."

dall, and Otis E. Randall was then Dean of the University. Bliss had prepared for Brown at Providence Technical High School, a candidate for the Ph.B.

Why He Was "Grafted"

"Zene is a grafted member of our Class," says the biographi- cal note in the yearbook. "Having found the slow and thick- headed Juniors far below his speed, he decided to jump a cog and join a good organization. When a man graduates in three years and takes a large proportion of the Engineering courses in the Catalofiite to boot, we can salute him with respect. He is planning to come back next year and take graduate work in the Engineering Department, just to pass the time away until he gets old enough to cop a commission."

The Liber listed these activities: Sock and Buskin, Sphinx, Mandolin Club, Musical Clubs (President-Manager), Varsity track for one year, Francis Wayland Scholar, Captain ROTC, Athletic Board. He earned membership in both Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi, while his social fraternity is Delta Phi. With World War I on, he was a 1st Sergeant in the SATC at Brown and had orders to attend Engineers OTC in November, 1918 when the Armistice was signed.

Having earned his Sc.M. in 1919, he became an Inspector and Engineer with the Associated Factory Mutual Fire In- sLirance Companies for two years, then moved on to similar work wilh the What Cheer and Hope Mutual Fire Insurance Companies. He has been on the Brown Faculty since 1923. With Prof. W. S. Franklin of M.I.T., he wrote a popular text, "Engineering Mechanics," in 1929, his major publication. In addition to his teaching, he has been a consultant in mechani- cal engineering for a large number of industrial concerns in Rhode Island and elsewhere. His academic promotions were: to Assistant Professor in 1926, Associate Professor in 1934, and full Professor in 1940.

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Steady Progress

THE WEST QUADRANGLE

550 undergraduates will make their home next fall

in this newest of Brown's housing units.

First occupants may be reunion groups in June.

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E OF THE TWO ■ts, from the north, ilwork shows location ^all which eventually enclose the court, jto at left.)

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EVEN IN SUB-ZERO WEATHER, bricklayers could work inside the novel "plastic wrapping." The covering, believed one of the largest anywhere, provided a steam-heated corridor on the outside of the Quadrangle. View is from the southeast.

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BUILDING'S height is suggested in this view up Charles Field St.

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RECOLLECTION AND THE RECORDS:

Pioneers in College Hockey

COMMEMORATING

THE FIRST GAME OF INTERCOLLEGIATE

ICE HOCKEY PLAYED IN THE UNITED STATES

HARVARD vs BROWN

JANUARY 19, 1898 AT FRANKLIN PARK, BOSTON

PRESENTED TO HARVARD COLLEGE BY THE BROWN CLUB OF BOSTON

FEBRUARY 7, 1957

BRONZE, however handsome, has its limitations. The plaque transcribed above fittingly commemorates a great event in American athletics, but no one would suggest that it tells the whole story. The complete historian must speak at more leisure and more length.

The plaque was presented, as it says, on the February evening when the Brown hockey team was a visitor to Harvard's new Donald C. Watson Rink near the Stadium on Soldiers Field. Thanks to the initiative of the Brown University Club of Boston, future spectators there will be reminded of the arrival of inter-

collegiate hockey on the United States scene. The bronze, how- ever, can do little more than suggest how history came to be made 59 years ago. It does not even note the score of the now- famous game, for the donors had the grace not to boast of their team's 6-0 triumph.

Brown's 1898 Varsity went on to become the first inter- collegiate champion in ice hockey in this country. In a series in New York, the other leading teams, Yale and Columbia, also went down to defeat. (One of the most amazing features was that Brown went through the whole season without a single substitute available.) Brown's hockey tradition, subject to later interruptions but now given new hope with plans for an indoor ice rink, was given the finest of foundations in that pioneering year.

This is the time, it seems to us, for something rather thorough in the way of a chronicle of hockey's arrival in this country. Material in the Brown Archives is considerable, and personal recollections have been incorporated from the two Brown players alive: Horace T. Day '01, who attended the ceremonies in Boston on Feb. 7, has written us about the 1898 season from Scituate, Mass., while Dr. Charles O. Cooke '99 gave us a lively interview at his home at 167 Power St., Providence. These two Brown players combined for the first goal in intercollegiate hockey in this country. Day scoring on a pass from Cooke.

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BROWN CLUB President F. Hartwell Swaffield '37 presented the plaque to Harvard's Tom Bolles.

It was appropriate and almost inevitable that Brown should be one of the first to play hockey in this country, for five Brunonians had helped bring the game across the Canadian boundary. How that happened was described six years ago in this magazine by Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn '93, one of the pioneer group.

It all began when some Canadian and United States tennis players were together for a tournament at Niagara Falls in the summer of 1 894. On one sociable occasion off-court, they began talking about winter sports and found they were playing differ- ent games on ice. The Yankee version was "ice polo," in which Brown had been conspicuously successful. "Come on up and try our game," said the Canadians. The invitation was accepted that winter.

Ice polo's ancestor may have been field hockey, Irish hurling, or old-fashioned street shinny — we don't pretend to know. It was played with a short stick (with rounded end) and a rubber ball. It had a counterpart on roller skates, a slam-bang affair with fast attack and body contact. Professionals played the latter game in New England rinks — indoors, where it was easier to collect tickets from the large, partisan crowds. But ice polo long continued popular, and among its stars were Curley Oden '21 and Sgt. Walter McCoy, now boss of Brown's Campus Police. The latter says the game finally folded when proper sticks were no longer made.

Alexander Meiklejohn was an ardent devotee of both ice and roller polo. Brown had teams in ice polo for several years before the momentous trip to Canada, and Dr. Meiklejohn says, "My memory seems to tell me that we had never been beaten. I do remember very vividly a game against Harvard — on Spy Pond, I think — in which we had a lot of fun with a powerful fellow who caught on the Harvard baseball team and was tackle in football. I don't recall his name, but I still have in me the feel of the good comradeship of the talk as he and I, carrying our skates and sticks, walked back toward Cambridge after the game."

A Look at Both Varieties

The invitation of 1894-5 was for four games in Montreal, Ottawa, Kingston, and Toronto. Each engagement was to be a double-header, with sessions of Canadian hockey and U. S. ice polo bracketed. The apparent organizer was George Wright, who had been one of the early professional baseball players and later started the Wright and Ditson Company, makers and dis- tributors of athletic equipment. Meiklejohn had played cricket as a youngster against Wright when the latter was captain of the Longwood Cricket Club and met him later when Wright was coaching tennis (as an amateur).

The team of U. S. collegians included: Byron Watson '97, William A. Jones '96, George Matteson '96, and Meiklejohn from Brown; Malcolm Chace '96, who had transferred to Yale, and another Yale man, A. C. Foote; F. H. Clarkson of Harvard;

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Cooke and Day. The lost two, who teamed to score the first goal, contribute their recollections to this story.

and Billy Lamed of Columbia. Wright went along as a kind of manager, while the Associated Press assigned C. M. Pope to cover the expedition. Five of the men played when it was polo, and seven when it was hockey.

Meiklejohn's description continued: "Each evening we played two periods of polo and hockey before capacity crowds. The Canadians beat us easily at hockey, four straight games, if 1 remember rightly. Their game was much more highly developed than ours, as shown by their having a league with regular schedules and big buildings, which held large crowds of spec- tators.

"They had a couple of other advantages as well as greater skill: First, they had flat-bladcd speed skates as against our 'rockers,' which we had always used. Moreover, our hitting stroke with one hand would not move a flat puck along the ice. We were accustomed to play with a ball, not a puck. Their pushing stroke with both hands was effective in moving the polo ball, as well as in hockey. Nevertheless, we managed to win two games of polo and to tie the two others. (Billy .lones, who gave to the Brown Archives the photo of the U. S. squad, said at the time of his 50th reunion: "We broke even on the series, each winning the game with which we were familiar." That seems to be the more generally accepted version.)

We Liked Their Game Better

"The crowds were not only big but very friendly and much interested," Meiklejohn continued. "I remember with pleasure

seeing my Brown classmate, Leonard Therrien, a Canadian, as he yelled at me from a seat near the ice.

"It was pretty generally agreed among us, as a result of the trip, that the Canadian game was better than ours. Having learned the rudiments of play, we brought back with us the flat skates and pucks and sticks and proceeded to try to forget old habits and take on new ones. The AP man, on our return, raised money for the building of the old St. Nicholas Ice Rink in New York, which became a hockey center. Malcolm Chace, who was our Captain, played a lot there and developed, with his speed, a lot of skill.

"The following year, I went to Cornell as a graduate student. We organized there a hockey team, on which, on the strength of the Canadian trip, I'm sure, I was made Captain. In two years we played only one game (at St. Nick's) and lost it. Unlike Malcolm, t never really learned the new game and so always lamented the loss of the old.

"Nevertheless, my interest in hockey was so keen that, as soon as my three boys could stand on their feet securely, I got them on skates and tried to teach them the game. Perhaps I had better luck there than in teaching philosophy, which, as some readers will remember, I also tried to do. Two of the boys were Captains of their college teams tone at McGill), and one of them was twice chosen to play on the United States team at the Olympics. But I am getting off the subject, which is safer in philosophy, perhaps, than in hockey."

At Brown, the enthusiasm for the Canadian game continued.

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and new students took it up. They played the game informally on various ponds — most of the time over in East Providence at Railroad Pond (about a quarter of a mile north of Red Bridge), sometimes at Roger Williams Pond, occasionally in the old Cat Swamp, the site of today's Aldrich Field.

There were not many rules. There were no zones — you could pass anywhere, as long as the other player was skating even with you. A man was ruled offside if at any point he was ahead of the puck when a teammate was carrying it or shooting. You could not loaf offside. Touching the puck when you were offside constituted a foul and called for a face-off on the spot. If the infraction occurred right in front of a goal, the face-off took place 15 feet out and 10 feet to one side.

The ice surface for hockey was determined usually by the area of the pond, sometimes five or six times that of the modern rinks. Players kept fighting for the puck even far from the goal, for it was seldom that flags marked a boundary. There was many a time-out while the men searched for the puck in the weeds along the edge of a pond or tried to fish it out of a hole in the ice. Smooth ice was never guaranteed, and conditions would change by the hour with the weather. Sometimes there would be patches of water on the ice to give you a drenching during a skirmish. You had to keep an eye on pranksters, too; they might steal clothes or shoes. Coats or shoes or rocks from the shore might mark the goals. But it was a great game, as they all soon learned.

A "Brilliant" Debut for Brown

No one seems to know how the first intercollegiate contest came to be arranged, but it was inevitable that teams would be formed and look around for opponents. At any rate, the out- come of the negotiations was that Brown should send its team to Boston. Seven dollars in expense money came down from Cambridge to help finance the invasion.

If the players realized that they were making athletic history, the press did not. As the reporter for the Boston Herald wrote his account of the game for the paper of Jan. 20, 1898, there is no suggestion that he realized this was the first of its kind in the United States. Yet, one would almost suppose he had con- siderable familiarity with hockey as he made his commentary on the technique as well as the action. He recognized it as a debut for Harvard, and a "poor" one. Without noting that it was Brown's first game, too, he credited its team with playing "brilliantly." Here is his story:

"Harvard drew a blank in her first intercollegiate game of hockey with Brown University at Franklin Field yesterday after- noon. This is Harvard's first season at the favorite Canadian pastime, and the exhibition given by her team shows that it still has a great deal to learn. Brown cracked out six goals and prevented Harvard from scoring. The Providence collegians had speed, they supported one another finely, and the passing of the forwards was clean-cut and accurate.

"Two members of the Brown team, Pevear and Capt. Hunt, are well-known football players. Hunt played right end on the Brown Varsity last fall, and Pevear was substitute tackle. The forwards were very aggressive, and Pevear and Hunt did some very effective work in blocking off. Day and Cooke also came in for their share of the glory; the latter snapped three goals in the second period. The most sensational play of the game was from the center of the field by Capt. Hunt, who sent the puck skimming through the air with a pretty lift. Bucklin, Steere, and Barrows, who were in the back field, had very little to do, as little of the play went their way.

An Aplnecialion of Passing

"Of the Harvard players, Capt. Goodridge and Russell, the goal tend, made a very creditable showing, but the remainder of the crimson men were erratic and fell all over one another. They were too closely bunched, and in their eagerness to get at the ball did not appreciate the importance of keeping spread

out so that they could indulge in passing, which is the chief feature of the Canadian game.

"As the ball was in scrimmage almost all the while, with the Harvard players bunched, Brown frequently secured opportuni- ties for a run to goal by clear team work when the puck was knocked out of the crowd. Russell put up a strong defence at goal for Harvard, and if it were not for his good eye and sharp stick work Brown's score would have been twice as large.

"Harvard started off with a rush that carried the Brown men off their feet, but after some five minutes' play Brown settled down and commenced to pass beautifully. The first goal was made in 7m. 30s. on a pretty pass by Cooke to Day, who snapped the puck home. Pevear made the second goal, on an individual rush, taking the puck from about midfield and working his way through the bunch until he secured a favorable opportunity to make the score. This ended the scoring for the first half.

"In the second half there were several changes in the Harvard line-up, but the playing of the team did not improve. The Harvard men seemed to forget that they were playing hockey, and acted more like ice-polo players. This was especially notice- able from the manner in which they handled their sticks. In- stead of keeping their clubs close to the ice, they held them up in the air, and thereby missed quick opportunities for con- necting with the puck. The play was almost entirely in Harvard's territory, and the first two goals were made by Cooke in four minutes.

"Just before Brown scored her final goal, Capt. Goodridge of Harvard made a desperate bid for a goal. He picked up the puck near his own goal, and went through his field by clever dodging. Pevear tackled him, but Goodridge slid past, and, after safely eluding Hunt, he snapped the ball to one side to Beardsell. The latter connected all right and made a pretty shot for goal, but missed by a very narrow margin."

The line-ups: Brown — Pevear, Hunt, Cooke, and Day, for- wards; Bucklin, cover-point; Steere, point; Barrows, goal. Harvard — Goodridge, Beardsell, Matteson, Stevens, and Hardy, forwards; Hoxie and Clement, cover-point; Stevens and Hoxie, point; Russell, goal. The scoring was given thus: 1st period — Day 7:30; Pevear 9:00. 2nd period — Cooke 2:30, 1 :30; Hunt 8:00; Cooke 10:00. Time: 20-minute periods. (Apparently the times given for the goals represented the interval between scores, which would account for Cooke's second goal being listed as "1:30.") Referee — Mr. F. Holt. Umpires — Messrs. Wheeler and Clement. Timer — Mr. McNamara.

The Men Who Played

Two of the Brown players survive and three of the Harvard- ians. Day, whose great-nephew is a member of the current Brown Varsity, attended the Brown dinner on Feb. 7 and at- tended the ceremonies in the Harvard rink. He was associated for most of his business life with the Factory Mutual Fire Insurance Company as an appraiser of manufacturing plants. Now retired, he lives on Bassin Lane, Scituate, Mass. Cooke, retired after an active and useful life as a surgeon, is living in Providence at 1 67 Power St. Since his locomotion is not as good as it was in his hockey or tennis days, he was unable to go to Boston for the reunion, but he contributed some lively recollec- tions when we talked with him at home. He sent his greetings to Boston.

Dr. Albert A. Barrows '98 became a distinguished surgeon in Providence after getting his M.D. from Harvard. He was a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and served on the staffs of several Rhode Island hospitals as a consulting surgeon. He had duty as a Lieutenant in the Navy's Medical Corps in World War I.

Harris H. Bucklin '00 became prominent in textiles in New England as an officer and executive of the Interlaken Mills and the Arkwright Finishing Co. His most conspicuous civic service was as President of the Rhode Island Hospital in Providence,

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Irving O. Hunt '99, Captain and Manager, was a Providence lawyer for some time (Harvard was his law school) and then moved to Wyoming, Pa., where he was a gentleman farmer. One of Brown's greatest athletes, he was a frequent visitor in Providence; his brother is S. Foster Hunt '04. Both attended a Brown hockey reunion in 1948.

Jesse S. Pevear '99 became a railroad man: railway engineer. General Electric Co.: General Superintendent, Twin City Rapid Transit Co.; Vice-President and General Manager, Buffalo and Lake Erie Traction Co.: Vice-President, International Railway Co. His last post was as Chairman of the Board of the Birming- ham Electric Co. in Alabama. He was a Phi Beta Kappa student.

Robert W. Steere '01 was a New York cotton broker until his death in 1927. He was a resident of Providence for many years prior to going to New York. The group is one of which hockey may be well proud.

Dr. Cooke verifies our suspicion that the Matteson in the Harvard line-up was George A. Matteson, Brown '96, then a graduate student at Harvard Medical School, who had made the famous Canadian trip in the winter of 1894-5. Cooke recalls that Barrows also played for Harvard later while a medical student there. Cooke himself accepted other colors when he took his medical studies, playing for the Yale Freshmen against the Harvard Freshmen in Boston. "Things were pretty flexible then," he remarks. Living members of the Harvard team are Frederick Adams Russell '99 of Boston, William L. Beardsell '00 of Belmont, Mass., and Roger S. Hardy '01 of Litchfield. Conn.

"We Don't Need Any Subs"

Franklin Field, where the first game with Harvard was played, was in Dorchester, Mass. Because of the crowd. Day says, there was only a narrow strip of ice available. The surface was other- wise open, with no boards or rink. There were sticks or posts for the goals in this game, Cooke recalls. It was not until they played in rinks that anything like the modern cage was used.

The first Brown squad consisted of one full team and no more. Day recalls, although the Liber shows that there were two spares in the second season. When the players arrived for the first game with Harvard, the Crimson Captain asked where our substitutes were. Captain Hunt replied, "We don't need one." Day adds, "Brown confidence stimulated us to the tune of 6 to 0."

Of course, the iron-man tradition applied to most sports of the day, including football. But another explanation lay in the fact that body contact was at a minimum. But hockey was already on its way to being a rugged contact sport. The Brunonian says of one Yale game: "It was somewhat amusing that a few philistine reporters should have called it a 'rough game on both sides,' saying that 'sometimes they even called to take the man instead of the puck.' They do not seem to know that at certain times the proper play is to block a man in order to get the puck. We do not, as a rule, say a proper and legitimate play is rough, but only those in which unnecessary and un- gentlemanly force is used."

Dr. Cooke, whose nose still shows where a stick walloped it, says body checks were allowed and thrown. One Brown man was checked so hard in a Yale game that he was thrown over the boards off the ice at the Brooklyn rink, but there was no penalty. There was no "penalty box" nor sidelining of a player for a foul. The referee merely blew his whistle and called for a face-off. (Was there a free shot at the goalie, as in polo?) Still, "intentional roughness was about nil," Day remembers. "In spite of my 133 pounds, 1 fell only twice all season. Once was when a Yale man tripped me, and the other time was when I was standing still: both feet went out from under me due to exhaustion. Captain Hunt made me keep my position (left wing), and the whole half of the game was played on the other side of the rink, to lake advantage of our heavier wing-man there."

The Missing Trophy

The games in Brooklyn were stimulated by the offer of an intercollegiate trophy by a Mr. Ireland of the Skating Club of Brooklyn. The competitors were Brown, Columbia, and Yale. (Penn and Princeton were not listed, although Dr. Cooke says they organized teams about that time.)

Of the tournament, lasting over several weeks. Collier's Weekly said: "Although Brown's skaters had previously de- voted themselves entirely to ice polo, they nevertheless plunged into the new game with snap so characteristic of that university and actually won the series without losing a game, the scores against Yale being 1-0, 0-0, and 2-1. Against Columbia her victories were decisive, and Yale secured second place by also beating Columbia, 4-0 and 4-1."

In a Providence Evening Bulletin article in 1937, the late Joseph W. Nutter 24 wrote: "For reasons that have long since been lost to the memory of those who played in the period, the Ireland trophy was never presented to Brown. That item would be an interesting turn for some one bent on searching out lost treasures."

The pages of The Brunonian throw some light on the hockey season of 1898, with almost weekly references. Although es- sentially a literary magazine, it had reports on "The Week" as well as regular personal items about the alumni, much like our Class Notes of today. The first notice indicated practice through the Christmas holiday, "so that in spite of difficulties and dis- advantages we may hope to be well represented in that line." The publication, for some reason, used quotation marks when speaking of the "Hockey Team."

Later, The Brunonian said: "In the interval between the foot- ball and baseball seasons, the hockey and bowling teams are attracting attention. These teams are without financial assistance and even without recognition from the athletic association. They are doing excellent work and deserve general encourage- ment and support."

Instead of a mere paragraph, the team got a whole column's report on Feb. 5 : "This time we desire to give it special honor- able mention. The double victory of having won from both Harvard and Yale gives the team at once, a splendid standing. The game last Saturday with Yale (resulting in the score. Brown 1; Yale 0), was a hard one well fought. The puck continually oscillated between the two goals, keeping the activity and alert- ness of the players at high tension, and the interest of the spec- tators sustained. Many times the watchers rose to their feet with that little breathless gasp or that suppressed murmur that de- notes intense interest. And the applause was hearty when the only goal of the evening was made, within three minutes of the end of the game.

"Several times Yale seriously threatened Brown's goal, having a clear field for a shoot (sic), and on these occasions was pre- vented from scoring, only by the excellent work of Barrows at goal. All of the men played well and collectively showed good team work."

What Passed for Uniforms

The first uniforms were makeshift. Dr. Cooke recalls. The Brown players wore baseball trousers and turtle-neck sweaters of the sort then in collegiate vogue. Over heavy stockings, they wore the leg guards adopted from ice polo; the goalie's pads were no different from the others'. Yale's team was notable for wearing gauntlet-style gloves specially designed for hockey, but the others merely wore heavy wool or leather gloves.

"We bought our own skates," Day points out. "They were of the clamp variety, which you attached to ordinary shoes either with a little lever to make them take hold or with a key that screwed them on. Occasionally they worked loose. They cost about six dollars." Dr. Cooke believes that shoe-skate com- binations came in while he was still at Brown. (He was Captain of the 1900 team, while studying for his graduate degree on the Hill.)

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THESE "ALL-AMERICANS," including four Bru- nonians took ice polo to Canada in 1895 and brought back hockey. Top row, left to right: Pope, Clorkson, Jones, Wright; middle row: Matteson, Chace, Foote; bottom row: Meikle- john and Lamed. (Photo from Brown Archives.)

One remarkable feature was that a man's hockey stick lasted him all season, contrasted with the normal breakage in one of today's games. Both Cooke and Day used only one stick apiece in all their college games. They cost from 60^ to a dollar. "When mine became worn," Day writes, "I had a piece of hard wood riveted to it to restore the original width. When playing, I could hear the rivets digging into the ice, but the stick held up."

Although there was plenty of ice in the winter of '98, the team had its troubles. While Columbia had been able to use the New York rinks and play a few games before its encounter with Brown, The Bntnonian said: "The Brown team has had no practice since the heavy snow-fall." Between that game and the second Yale game. Brown again was unable to practice, perhaps explaining its failure to score in the tie game. But 1900 brought the worst problems. That year a rink was built on Lincoln Field on the old Back Campus, but there was ice for only one game. Dr. Cooke says.

Odds and Ends: Although the modern game calls for teams of six on the ice at one time, the original line-up included seven. There were four forwards — two wings and two centers. Of the defense men, the point played about halfway between the op- posing goals, where he could either defend or attack according to the situation. The cover point was normally posted about 10 feet in front of the Brown goal. Phipp Barrows, Day says, was an unusually fine goalie, although he had little to do in the first game.

The Brown players were wholly self-coached, except that Dean Meiklejohn joined them for a half-hour one day. "He was a good skater," Day says, "but considered the game too rough for him."

William Jones suggested in a letter in 1946 that the colleges were not the hockey pioneers in this country, for the game was known informally at St. Paul's School in Concord, N. H. But it was not played anywhere else, Jones said. He recalled the building of the original St. Nicholas Rink in New York at West 66th St. near Columbus Ave.: Some millionaires raised $300,- 000 in a few days' time in order to launch the sport there. He played for the St. Nick's for several seasons after graduation. He was quite an athlete, competing in national tennis tourna- ments as well.

Brown did meet defeat in that first season, but not from a college team. Day says: "Our last game was played at the St. Nicholas Rink in New York City against the New York City

Club. They were the professional champions of all North America, including Canada. Our individual style of play was no match for their clever passing and experience. During the first six or eight minutes, I was sick and no help to our team but had to stay in for we still had no subs. They scored six goals during that part of the game but only three later, in shutting us out 9-0."

The "H Book" of Harvard Athletics comments on this period as follows: "Brown University was our greatest competitor in the early games of polo and hockey. In February, 1896, Harvard won from Brown in ice polo on Spy Pond, Arlington, by a score of 5 to 4, and the following year the Harvard team went to Providence and defeated Brown 5 to 0 in Roger Williams Park. In each of the years 1898 and 1899, Harvard lost the Brown games, 0 to 6 and 1 to 2, respectively, these games being hockey, not polo. By this time hockey was well established, and on Feb. 26, 1900, Harvard played its first game with Yale in the St. Nicholas Rink, New York, which Yale won 5 to 4."

Dr. Cooke's undergraduate diary shows typical expenses for the trip to New York: $7.50 round trip on the train, $1.50 for a berth or $1.00 for a room; dinner 55<f, breakfast 35(', lunch 10<?. They would take the 11:18 train to New York, trolley over to Brooklyn to Clermont Ave., eat a big dinner, and go on the ice almost immediately afterward. (A modern trainer would throw up his hands in horror at the thought. No wonder Day recalls being ill in the last game.) The rinks paid the expenses for the New York trips, while Harvard provided a dollar a man for train fare to Boston for the first game. Even so, it was close figuring, and one diary entry notes that Cooke came home from New York once with Hi left.

His diary speaks of a visit to New York in November, 1899, to represent Brown at a meeting which drew up some rules for intercollegiate hockey and made the schedules for the winter. "Went to see John Drew at a matinee," he adds.

Although the newspaper account indicates that Day was the first to score against Harvard and so the first in American inter- collegiate play, he remembers, rather, the goal which broke the scoreless tie in the first Yale game: "I would have said this was the only goal I scored all season. At any rate, it was a big one. The whole Yale team was jammed around its goal, and one of our players flipped the puck out from in back of it. Although I was waiting out in front for a pass, 1 let the puck get by me. I swung my stick around behind me, like a horse swishing its tail at a fly. By good luck, 1 connected, knocking the puck through the mass of players and into the net."

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MARCUS AURELIUS faces east.

MEMORIAL ARCH, World War I.

Snowfall on the Hill

A Winter Portfolio

Robert W. Watson '58,

Brown Camera Club

BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY

VAN WICKLE GATES, atop College Hill.

SAYLES HALL and Wilson.

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My 5 Years in the Quad

Or How I Got Ahead of President Keeney

By DOUGLAS A. SNOW '45

Resident Fellow

It's a pleasure to welcome back to the pages of the Brown Alumni Monthly its former Assistant Editor. This time it is in his role as one of the 14 Resident Fellows in the Wriston Quadrangle. He appraises this fiiTiction and tells some of his adventures on the basis of five years' experience in Buxton House. Much of his story he told to the Boston Brown Club at a luncheon this winter. Snmv's major responsibilities on College Hill are as Manager of the University Store, where he is as popular and effective as in his dormitory— and that is no faint praise.

SPIKE Coles was the one who told me what it was all about. He was Dean of the College when the Resident Fellow System was inaugurated at Brown. (Dr. Coles, as you probably know, is now President of Bowdoin College — our Deans have a habit of becoming College Presidents it seems.) Anyway, when I received my appointment as Resident Fellow in Buxton House in February, 1952, the Dean said to me:

"You will reside in the Quadrangle in a room that will be furnished rent-free. You are entitled to one free meal a day to be eaten with the students in the Refectory. You have an annual expense account of $100. You will do whatever you think nec- essary to give the students the benefit of your presence in the dormitory. Do you have any questions?"

I had no questions. I had come to the Dean's Office pre- pared to take notes on my new duties, and I felt a little let- down by the vagueness of the instructions I received. I thought — and I still think — that the University (meaning, in those days, Mr. Wriston) was not itself sure what it wanted the Resident Fellows to do or what it expected the system to develop into. Now, that I have the perspective of a five-year practitioner, though, I can say sincerely that I think Spike knew what he wasn't talking about. "Giving the students the benefit of your presence in the dormitory" is the essence of the Resident Fellow program as I see it.

The Resident Fellow program at Brown is as varied from House to House and from year to year as the personalities and backgrounds of the Fellows themselves. They are of all ages, they come from all over the world, and they represent all fields of academic endeavor. I am only one of 16 full-time Resident Fellows on the campus this year. Please keep this fact in mind as you read, fully aware that only about 20% of what I say pertains to the program in general; the other 80% is personal opinion based on personal experience.

These Things He's Not

From a definitive point of view, it is easier to tell you what a Resident Fellow isn't than to tell you what he is: A Resident Fellow is not a spy for the administration. He is not a warden for the dormitory. He is not an amateur psychiatrist. He is not a house-father in the sense that Pembroke has house-mothers to see that the girls conform to the parietal rules. The Resident Fellow is, basically, a representative of the Faculty. As such, he is expected to carry over from the classroom into the dormitory some of the atmosphere of intellectual maturity.

The academic, the athletic, the social sides of campus life all contribute to the education of the whole man in this period of a student's intensive living. And the classroom is not the only place where guidance in the educating process is called for. The Coaches provide guidance at the gym and on the field; the Resident Fellows provide guidance in the living quarters.

The Resident Fellow makes himself available to the students whenever they feel the need of contact — for whatever reason — with an older person. The need can arise at any time of the week, day or night; it is not confined to classroom or Dean's office hours. And the need can run from borrowing shoe polish to get ready for an ROTC inspection to advice on how to talk to an Instructor who is "unfair"; from what to do when Dad has said that he won't send any more allowance to help in composing a letter applying for a summer job; from information about the infirmary to advice on etiquette. The significant fact is students are making use of the Resident Fellows.

The Dean of the College appoints all Fellows. They may be of any graduate rank and work in any division of the University. Only three — Bruce Hutchinson and Deene Clark of the Admis- sion Office and I — are members of the Administration currently active as Resident Fellows.* Bruce and I are charter members, having started when the Quadrangle opened.

Right Over the Arch

The Chief Resident Fellow lives with his wife in a very com- fortable apartment over Wayland House Arch. He handles ar- rangements for the weekly luncheons which are sponsored by the group as a whole. These luncheons feature a speaker from the Faculty or from outside — I'm going to have the pleasure in March of introducing Pembroke's Dean Nancy Duke Lewis— and are very well-attended. The luncheons attract Faculty mem- bers as well as students, and occasionally we even pick up a stray fraternity man. The Head Resident Fellow is at home for tea every Sunday during the academic year. In addition, he oversees the activities of the other Resident Fellows.

The latter live in bachelor quarters, either large single rooms or two-room suites, agreeably furnished by the University. They

*THE RESIDENT FELLOWS at Brown this year make an interesting group, with a variety of background. In addition to those mentioned above, they are: James Barnhill, English Dept., a Director in the Drama program, graduate of Yale and N.Y.U., taught at Dubuque. Dr. Joachim Bruhn, Modern Languages, grad- uate of Kiel, Germany, taught at Oxford and the University of London. Richard Chorley, Geology, graduate of Oxford, taught at Columbia. Mark Edwards, Classics, graduate of the University of Bristol, England. Dr. Walter Freiberger, Applied Math, graduate of the University of Melbourne and Cambridge. Warren llchman '55, Political Science, who had a year at Cambridge University as a Rotary Fellow. Donald Malm, Mathematics, graduate of North- western and Brown. Thomas Mulhern, Mathematics, graduate of Fordham and Brown. Dr. Walter Schnerr, Modern Languages, graduate of Penn, taught at Grinnell and Penn and has just re- turned from a sabbatical in Europe. Oliver E. Overseth, Jr., Physics, graduate of the University of Chicago. Richard Rosecrance, Politi- cal Science, graduate of Swarthmore and Harvard. Robert Gould, Political Science, graduate of the University of Maine and Brown. Ten are candidates for advanced degrees.

Dr. Henry Kucera, Head Resident Fellow, Modern Languages, is a graduate of Charles University, Czechoslovakia, and Harvard who had previously taught at the University of Florida. In addition. Dr. A. David Kossoff, Modern Languages, Dr. John Ladd, Phi- losophy, and Prof. C. A. Robinson, Jr., Classics, are Associate Fellows.

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all have private baths but no kitchen facilities. The Fellows are at home usually one night a week to serve coffee and cookies, but are available at other times as well. The University sets no restrictions on when or how often we should be "on call." The Fellows attend dorm meetings and dinners; they chaperon at parties; they do numerous other things that the system's first sponsors could never have foreseen. Most of all, they are "avail- able." Not the meanest of these fringe benefits are the books and records we lend from our personal libraries. As one Fellow re- marked in his annual report last June: "I am teacher, scholar, adviser, host, and handyman."

But enough for the 20''o; now you're going to hear about me.

Bi(xton House Sf>ecialties

My annual program in Buxton House begins with a welcom- ing party with cider and doughnuts in September. This gives us a chance to get to know each other. At a Christmas open house in December I serve a punch that has become famous over the years. (Recipe on request.)

Besides these particular affairs, I conform to the standard pattern of serving sherry before dorm dinners — pineapple juice is also on tap for those who prefer it — and having snack-times a night or two a week. Dorm dinners are usually held each month in one of the Refectory's private dining rooms; the students make all the arrangements and secure the guest speakers.

Ten o'clock in the evening is the most popular snack-hour. It offers a breather from the books, especially at term-paper or exam time. The new instant hot drinks are the answer to a Resident Fellow's prayers, especially when I can make coffee, tea or cocoa all from a single pot of boiling water. Peanut butter and crackers, and sometimes cookies and cake, provide dunking material. Such gatherings often develop into bull sessions that may drag on well beyond midnight. Subjects range from Secre- tary Dulles and the Suez question to whether William Words- worth was a simpleton or not and why girls aren't allowed in dormitory rooms above the first floor — especially on spring weekend!

My expense account pays for the refreshments. I also have enough to pay for subscriptions to a daily and a Sunday paper. I used to provide a couple of magazine subscriptions as well, but the boys themselves donate their own periodicals to the lounge.

Dance Lessons and Water-Fights

Now I'd like to touch lightly on some of the particular ex- periences I've had in the past five years to give you an idea of the variety we enjoy. First of all there was the boy who didn't know how to dance and was panic-stricken when a Pembroker invited him to the Junior Prom. I arranged with another student in the dorm to give him dance lessons in my room, and for a couple of weeks he practiced steps for 15 minutes each night right after dinner. He was still a little shaky when the big evening came, but he went, he danced, he had a wonderful time.

When water-fights started up one Spring, I tried to stop them by simple reasoning and was unsuccessful. One night a boy slipped on the wet floor and fell. The result was a slight brain concussion that kept him from taking his final examinations. The accident was enough to end the water-fights that semester, but they started up again the next year. I had to resort to some deception. I arranged with Bill Crooker '42, who was then Assistant Director of Student Residences, to have a letter sent to one of the three boys who were initiating the nightly battles. The letter advised this student that he was being transferred to another dormitory within the week.

The reaction was a little more than I expected. As I had ex- pected, the boy and his two cohorts came to me with the promise that they would stop the fighting if I would recall the eviction. I said that I couldn't do anything now, that I had tried to reason with them and failed, that this measure was the only

way out. What I wasn't prepared for was the contingent of non- combatants who promised that they would see to it that no more fights went on in the dorm if I let the boy stay in. Needless to say, I capitulated.

An NROTC student went home for Christmas his Senior year and came back to school wearing glasses. He needed them only for reading, but he was hesitant about letting the Navy know about his vision for fear he might be dropped from the unit. On the other hand, he wanted to know what would happen to him if the defect showed up in the final pre-commissioning physical exam. I made the necessary inquiries without mentioning any names — of Dean (Rear Admiral) Durgin and got the boy the information he wanted.

SNOW of Buxton House (right): Port of the job is listening and understand- ing. Student is S. A. McCleilan, Jr.

Last year I had three Freshmen in the dorm, in a double room furnished with a single bed and a double-decker. They were football players, pretty hefty. One night the boy on the bottom bunk kicked the boy on the top bunk off onto the single bunk, which collapsed. They managed to wire the bed together with coat-hangers so that it was serviceable for a couple of nights. But, knowing that the damage would be discovered sooner or later, they finally came down to tell me about it and ask my advice. By devious means I learned the replacement cost of such a bed; I told them they could report it themselves and pay for a new one, wait for it to be discovered and pay for a new one, or fix it themselves. One of the boys who lived nearby in Massachusetts took it home with him one weekend and brought it back one Sunday night, all repaired.

One night there were four students in the room at snacktime when another student came in to talk to me about a personal matter. Figuring that it was easier for me to leave the room with him than make the other boys get out, I went downstairs to the lounge to talk with him. I was gone about 10 minutes. When I returned, the room had been completely rearranged. Every piece of furniture was in a different place. I proved somewhat of a spoil-sport by remarking that I thought the new layout was wonderful and even wished that I had thought of it myself. They offered to put it back in place, but I said "No," that I liked it the way it was. However, when I discovered later that I couldn't open the closet door because of the placement of the bed, I did call them back in, and they returned everything to its proper location.

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I've also had the unmatchable pleasure of introducing a boy to the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In return, I learned from him to understand and appreciate modern jazz — much of it right up here at Storyville. One student taught me how to use a slide rule, another how to curse in Yiddish. As in all truly edu- cational experiences, I'm sure I've gained more than I've given out in the past five years.

If anyone should ask me what I consider the most important single thing that I do as a Resident Fellow, I would reply: "I listen." Most of the time, when a boy has a problem, all he is looking for is someone to tell it to.

There Are Occasional Problems

By no means is the system perfect. There are Resident Fellows who haven't the patience and flexibility necessary to meet stu- dents on a common ground. There are students who resist any attempt to be "reached." Usually, the Fellows who don't fit realize their miscasting and ask to be replaced. As for the stu- dents, I have learned that it is not wise to impose on their privacy. Most of them are contentedly self-sufficient; the ones who are in need of the contact will eventually come looking for it.

I remember one Resident Fellow who was too successful. He was too well-liked by the boys in his dormitory and left the ranks after two years because he never had any time to himself. He didn't have the heart to say he was busy when someone knocked on his door or to say he was going to bed when a discussion was still going strong at 12:30. Both of these inhospitable feints I have learned to make. The students understand.

I don't think they did understand one Visiting Professor, though. He was in his fifties, with a wife and family in England. He was a philosopher and a bit-distant. When he was advised that most Resident Fellows have a time each week when they are in their rooms and available to students, he promptly estab- lished 7 a.m. on Wednesdays as his visiting period. He even expressed surprise when no one showed up.

In five years, I find that I have experienced different degrees of interest myself regarding my attachment to Buxton House. When I moved in in 1952, there were 26 students in the dormi- tory. This number dwindled each year as the neighboring fra- ternity increased its membership, and my enthusiasm dwindled with it. At the lowest ebb, two years ago, I had 12 dormitory residents. Of these, four were members of Tower Club, three were pledged-but-not-initiated fraternity men, two were Seniors who liked being independent, and three were Freshmen. House spirit did not exist, there were no dorm dinners, my snack hours were poorly attended.

As compensation, I took it upon myself to get interested in a fraternity at which I had chaperoned. The brothers came over to play bridge or just shoot the breeze, and I was host to them as I would be to my own charges. I consider this a legitimate ex- tension of the Resident Fellow operation. Generally speaking, the fraternities do not seek us out very often, but I have had some rewarding experiences with the other 50% of our campus population. Every week I try to eat at least one of my Refectory meals in a fraternity dining room.

Continuity in the House

Originally, it was hoped that a Resident Fellow staying on in a dormitory would establish a house character that would carry over from year to year. However, the population fluctuates every year in one dormitory or another, since the available space is usually dependent on the size of adjacent fraternities. You'll recall that the partitions which separate fraternity from dormitory arc moveable. A growing fraternity may encroach on the dormitory space independent of it, forcing a dorm resident to surrender the room he has had and take another, despite his seniority. This fluctuation handicaps the development of con- tinuous House character. In fact, this was one argument used in

a recent Brown Daily Herald editorial which created a Campus sensation by urging that Brown substitute the house plan for fraternities.

We could have strong house loyalty, if it had a chance. Whether the new West Quadrangle, scheduled to open next fall, housing non-fraternity men only, will make such House char- acter possible, I do not know. In the new Quadrangle there will be three married Resident Fellows and three single Resident Fellows, and time alone will reveal what they can achieve. This year, I have come around full circle; I have 22 residents in Buxton House and I'm having a wonderful time again.

From a personal standpoint, a bachelor couldn't have a better deal if he has, as I do, an interest in the academic life and a sincere liking for people. I'm enthusiastic because I like it. The contacts I have made and the relationships I have enjoyed con- tinue to reward me, even after my particular friends among the students have graduated.

Above all, I remember the boy on the baseball team who lived across the hall from me in his Senior year. He went with a girl from Pembroke. She would come back to the dorm with him after a game and, while he was changing his clothes in his room, I would entertain her in mine. They were married a year after graduation, and last June they had a baby boy. "Ever true to Brown," they gave their son the middle name of Barnaby. But, while his middle name is Barnaby, his first name — and this I want you to note carefully — his first name is Douglas. And that's how I got ahead of the President!

The New Dean

(Continued from page 3)

A member of the American Society of Mechanical Engi- neers and the American Society of Electrical Engineers, he has been Chairman of the Student Branch Committee of ASME for Region One (New England and New York). He is a former Chairman of the Providence Section of ASME and a Past President of the Providence Engineering Society. He is one of the five members of the Standardization Commit- tee for the ASME, supervising all that it does for the American Standards Association in this field, and is Chairman of the Sectional Committee B-4 ( "standardization of limits and fits") . He is a member of the American Society for Metals and the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education. He has been a Vice-President of the Brown Engineering Association.

From Private to Colonel

As an Army Colonel, Bliss received the Legion of Merit award for duties performed in the military intelligence service in 1945 (he also has an Army Commendation Ribbon). He had been a member of the Rhode Island National Guard for nearly 20 years when it was inducted into the Army in Feb- ruary, 1941. He had enlisted as a private and moved up rap- idly. At one time, he served on the personal staff of Governor Norman S. Case '08 as military aide.

When the 43rd Division was "triangularized" at the start of World War II, Bliss was Executive Officer of the 58th Field Artillery Brigade with the rank of Lt. Colonel. After duty as Anti-Tank Officer of the Division, he served with the 4th Army Corps and 3rd Army Headquarters, was transferred to the anti-aircraft artillery, and finally moved on to military intelli- gence. It was while as a Colonel in the latter that he wrote: "Being the Commanding Officer of a Post Office Box sounds screwy, but that's what I am. I have about as near an inde- pendent command as it is possible to have, my nearest boss being 3000 miles away."

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AS MACE-BEARER, Professor Bliss has preceded the President in Brown academic processions, with the symbol of University authority. Now, as Dean of the University, he will be Dr. Keeney's principal executive aide.

One of his most extraordinary military experiences was as commanding officer of the Army's first experimental unit which attempted to discover whether illiterate soldiers could be taught to read and write in six weeks and so made useful to the Army. He proved it could be done, and the success of the work at Camp Shelby led to similar units elsewhere. During some six months in charge of this experiment, some 1500 men were trained.

Later, from Camp Wallace, he wrote: "I am still running an assortment of schools, but only incidentally, and I can re- ally consider that I am commanding a military unit instead of a kindergarten. My outfit is almost the size of Brown at its normal peacetime level, and I have learned that being a college president isn't probably too tough a job. I have one advantage, however, in that the Faculty damn well has to do what I say, or else. We have no problems of academic freedom."

Such comments, obviously not meant at the time for pub- lication, were contained in Christmas letters for the University Club of Providence, in which he has long been an active mem- ber. He served as its President for a number of years after the war.

From Rowboat to Cup Defender

Bliss' lifelong hobby has been sailing both as a casual boat- handler, cruiser, and competitor. Yankee magazine once said: "He says he was born in Cranston, R. I., in 1898, but his friends say he was born in a sailboat." He still sails an occa- sional race in Salt Pond, where he has been Commodore of the Point Judith Yacht Club. In 1927 he was Secretary of the Ship Model Society of Rhode Island, an organization with about 100 members. One of the Bliss models was of a New York pilot schooner. He is a member of the Cruising Club of America.

His international fame in yachting rests on his work as navi-

gator of the last two defenders of the America's Cup, the Rain- bow and the Ranger. "The most exciting thing that can happen to a navigator is to have his calculations work out right," said Yankee, "but no one else thinks this is exciting — they just ex- pect it. The navigator, therefore, can lose a race but never win one!" When the Rainbow won one of its races by one sec- ond, it was "the most exciting moment in Mr. Bliss' life. But no one said, 'Hurrah for Bliss.' "

The late Jeff Davis of the Providence Journal, one of the great ornaments of yachting for many seasons, once wrote of the navigator's "technical, complicated, and fussy job." "If Zene goes asleep at the switch. Rainbow probably won't win many races," said Jeff. "Zene sits in a little coop in the com- panionway with a chart of the course, parallel rules, compass, dividers, and a lot of other instruments in front of him, and traces the course of the boat as she goes, on the chart.

"After figuring speed, direction, leeway, whether the tide is setting him to windward or leeward, and, going into the fu- ture, what the same elements will do to the boat on the other tack, plus the position of the turning mark, the navigator can stick the point of his dividers in the chart and tell the skipper, 'We're here; we can fetch the mark on the other tack.' He also keeps the time at the start and on the different legs, watches for signals during the race, and keeps the log. Soft job? Maybe." Bliss also relieved tension aboard before the starts by playing his accordion. (The instrument has been neglected of late.)

"Best Navigator in the World"

W. Starling Burgess, designer of the Ranger, called the Brown Professor "the best navigator in the United States, if not in the world." Captain Ben Pine, master of the Gloucester fishing schooner, Gertrude L. Thebaud, also asked Bliss to be navigator in the 1938 races for the international fishermen's

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trophy against the Nova Scotian Bluenose. Bliss was in great demand as a lecturer on the various Cup races; with the pos- sible revival of America's Cup competition in the offing, he has had invitations again to speak on the subject this winter. He has taught navigation to Brown students, too, and helped the Brown Yacht Club get its new fleet of Fiberglas dinghies. A number of good skippers have come to Brown as undergradu- ates, knowing they would sail under his direction as Chairman of the Nautical Advisory Committee.

In September, 1934, Bliss had an unusual problem to re- solve, as the New York Herald Tribune pointed out at the time. As a Brown Professor, he had to get ready for fall classes. As a Captain in the National Guard, he had been sent to Sayles- ville for duty during the textile strike there. He was also re- ceiver for a rayon plant in Woonsocket, where there had been some disturbance. And, of course, he was to be the navigator on the Rainbow. It all worked out so that he could be on board.

An honor which came to Professor Bliss in 1949 was rather unusual for an engineer. He served for two years as President of the R. I. Alpha of Phi Beta Kappa. The nominating com- mittee of Sigma Xi had had its eye on him for its presidency, but he declined in view of the other commitment.

Filling out a blank for 1918's 30th reunion report, Bliss noted: "Just finished as President of the Providence Engineer- ing Society. Fairly active in professional societies. Ordinary lazy citizen, otherwise." But his citizenship was to include serv- ice on the Cranston School Committee, of which he is the current Chairman. He has been a member of the Narragansett Council, Boy Scouts of America, Secretary of the American Society for Nautical Research, The Players of Providence, the old East Side Skating Club, the U. S. Field Artillery Associa- tion, the Reserve Officers Association, National Sojourners, Providence Art Club, A.E. Club, and Harmony Lodge, F. & A.M., and Harmony Royal Arch Chapter.

Two minor occupations are a successful devotion to African violets and hi-fi equipment and records.

A Family of Brunonians

The first Zenas Bliss on the rolls of Brown University re- ceived an A.B. and an A.M. in 1826. The 10th item in the order of exercises at the Commencement that year was a dis- sertation by him on "The Influence of Theatrical Exhibitions on a Nation." He became a law student, calico printer, broker, and manufacturing agent.

Dean Bliss' father, Zenas Work Bliss, received an honorary degree from Brown in 1916. President Faunce's citation iden- tified him as a "Student of economic problems, Chairman of the Rhode Island Board of Tax Commissioners, who by long and patient study of the problems of taxation has rendered conspicuous service to the modern state." The senior Bliss, who died only a few weeks before his son's promotion at Brown, was also Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island.

Mrs. Bliss is the former Alice Taylor Wilcox, whom he married in 1924. She is the sister of Col. Howard D. Wil- cox, Jr., '35. John B. Kilton and George W. Kilton, both '25, are Bliss' cousins. The Dean's sons are Zenas W. Bliss '49 and Randall W. Bliss '50. The Bliss home is on Armington St., Edgewood, while their summer place in Matunuck has a sign "Elysium," leaving the passerby or visitor to recall that this means to the lexicographer and others "the abode of Bliss."

We referred above to the questionnaire for the 1948 re- union report of his Class. Asked to name the high spots of his life for that document, he replied: "Too many high spots to pick out anything special. All such things are relative, anyhow. To date, low spots have been few and very temporary. Must have been lucky." The questioning concluded with one more query: "Anything else?" Professor Bliss said, "Not now."

For the reunion in 1958, Dean Bliss will have a fresh an- swer to that question.

A New Program ' for Teachers

275,000 Grant Enables Brown to Try a Novel Move to Aid the Schools

ENABLED to do so by a $275,000 grant from the Fund for the Advancement of Education, Brown University this year will begin a new program designed to strengthen teach- ing at the high school level. It will offer courses leading to the degree of Master of Arts in Teaching, remarkable in that they will draw upon the full Liberal Arts resources of the Univer- sity.

The new intentions are three-fold: First, the program will give high school teachers graduate training which will round out their cultural background, with special emphasis in the fields in which they teach. Second, the program will seek to in- crease the supply of teachers by making it possible for Liberal Arts graduates to train in the techniques of teaching while they broaden and deepen their education. (At present, such graduates may not enter a public high school classroom with- out specific training in such techniques.) Finally, the program will attempt a better understanding between colleges and school officials through conferences, studies, and special work- shops in educational problems.

Brown has long offered undergraduate and graduate work in its Department of Education, with provision for a Master of Arts degree in Education. A major difference in the new pro- gram is that it will not be confined to the Department but draw upon others. If the "pilot operation" is successful at Brown, it may well provide a new pattern for teacher-training. In addi- tion to courses starting next September, Brown is also planning a summer session from July 1 to Aug. 15 for between 150 and 200 teachers who desire work at the graduate level.

"We'll Have a Clearer Conscience"

"Many universities have made an effort to improve the school system by the development of a College of Education," President Keeney explained. "Thereby they have cut off the student teachers from the full participation and influence of a Liberal Arts Faculty. Our plan is the reverse: to make impor- tant use of that Faculty. We shall offer the teacher a broad and intensive knowledge of subject matter in his field, which he has often had to neglect because of his preoccupation with pedagogy in the technical sense.

"We have a built-in obligation to help provide good teachers at all levels. A place like Brown ought to be taking a leading part in the preparation of teachers because it stands in the upper layer of education. We shall have a clearer conscience as we make this contribution from our strength. What we do will be compatible with our resources and beneficial to sec- ondary education.

"The immediate effect will be local in part. Because of the compactness of Rhode Island and our peculiar relationship with it. Brown is probably the only privately supported uni-

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KEY FIGURES in the new M.A.T. program at Brown: Profs. Gilbert E. Case '25 and Elmer R. Smith '26.

versity in the country which can carry on a program of teacher- training which will make an impact throughout the whole State. But the influence of our undertaking will be wider both through our product and our example. Herein lies the justifi- cation for the generous foundation grant we have received.

"Apart from the benefits to society in general, we have also a selfish interest in the program. When the foundation of edu- cation is weak, it reflects all the way up — even to the level of the doctorate. With better teaching, better prepared students will come to us from Rhode Island and elsewhere.

To Reverse a Trend

"We are concerned about the failure of our Liberal Arts graduates to go into high school teaching in larger numbers. The trend is reversing, especially at Pembroke, but not enough are looking to a career as teachers in secondary education, despite the national need and the growing rewards. The num- ber is small compared with those going on to graduate work in other fields like law, medicine, or arts and sciences. We be- lieve we shall open the door for more of our graduates to enter teaching.

"Put it another way: The American secondary school, seek- ing to strengthen and adapt its program to serve youth more effectively, represents an educational task worthy of the ablest talent a university can produce. Able Liberal Arts graduates who plan to make teaching their life work should be culti- vated, broad-minded persons capable of leadership of youth and of the community in a wide range of intellectual, social, and spiritual affairs. They should bring to the secondary class- room enthusiasm and superior intellectual training. The goal

of Brown's new program is to encourage and assist such worthy ambitions.

"The old view that 'teachers are born and not made' was an extreme attitude on the part of some college professors; it im- plied a contempt of the educationist. I don't believe a man is. born to teaching, but I do believe we can help the young teach- ers. We have succeeded with teaching 'interns' at the college level at Brown for some time, giving them the guidance of ex- cellent, experienced teachers. We can succeed with the same attitude toward high school teachers. The result will be both quantitative and qualitative.

"Who can predict or appraise the impact of a teacher on a student? The important contact may come outside of the class- room— in a conference, on the Campus, during a coffee-break, even at a dance. Something a good teacher says or does may change the student's whole life. We'd like to increase the fre- quency of that effect. The MAT candidate will have oppor- tunities for such contacts with our ablest men at Brown; in turn, he will make his impact on his own students more often when he is a better teacher himself. Even in mass education, the individual is still central."

The $275,000 grant is intended by the Fund for the Ad- vancement of Education to sustain the teacher-training pro- gram during its initial three years. Some of the money is in- tended to finance studies of the problems of secondary schools, to be jointly undertaken with the public school officials.

With the Faculty Behind It

The expanded program at Brown is the result of study ex- tending over a number of years, heightened during the past

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HORACE MANN: "The father of the American public school system" would have cheered his Alma Mater's program for teachers.

year and a half through the work of a committee of the Brown Faculty and Administration. Presiding over this was Dr. R. Bruce Lindsay '20, Dean of the Graduate School, working closely with Dr. Gilbert E. Case '25, Chairman of the Uni- versity's Department of Education. It has been approved by the Graduate Council, the Board of Fellows, and the Faculty. In fact. Faculty support of the project encouraged the com- mittee to make it a concrete proposal and make the overtures to the Fund for the Advancement of Education, which is fi- nanced by the Ford Foundation.

The policies of the program will be determined by a com- mittee headed by Dr. Lindsay and including Faculty mem- bers representing each of the participating subject fields. Ac- tive direction of the program will be by Prof. Elmer R. Smith '26 of the Department of Education.

When the first graduate courses leading to the Master of Arts in Teaching degree are offered in September, admission to the program will be open to qualified men and women grad- uates of colleges or universities. It is expected that these will have either an undergraduate major in the field in which they plan to teach or will be teachers in service who have demon- strated exceptional teaching ability.

The program will require completion of eight semester courses at the graduate level, including supervised practice teaching for those who require it, plus the writing of a thesis op report. It is expected that a Liberal Arts graduate devoting

full time to the program can complete work for the Master's degree during one full academic year.

Teachers in service, able to give only limited time to the program, necessarily will extend their study over a longer pe- riod, though courses in the Summer School will enable them to complete the necessary work within a shorter time. Classes will be scheduled at hours in the later afternoon or evening when teachers can come to the Brown Campus.

To Meet an Individual's Need

A standard curriculum is not proposed. Rather, each gradu- ate student will be able to arrange one almost tailor-made to his needs and interests. His program will vary according to his previous study. Normally, candidates will be expected to study in the field of their undergraduate majors; but, if the concen- tration has been too narrow, the students will be advised to take additional work elsewhere. A typical student will take four semester courses in the field in which he will teach, one semester course of his own choosing in another area, and a teaching seminar. The Liberal Arts graduate who has taken no courses in Education must also take courses in the History of Education, Principles and Philosophy of Education, Educa- tional Psychology, and Methods of Teaching.

Such courses will be directed toward meeting the profes- sional certification requirements for beginning teachers in New England, New York, and New Jersey. Candidates without teaching training or experience will take studies necessary to certification. Even so, substantially half of his courses will be in the Liberal Arts and Sciences; teachers in service, already certified, will take an even greater number of such courses.

According to present plans, the MAT degree will be awarded in English, Foreign Languages, Mathematics, Sci- ence, Social Studies, and specialties like Art and Music. In the first summer session the courses will include: American His- tory, Anthropology, Chemistry, English Literature, Mathe- matics, and Physics. Summer students will be housed in the Wriston Quadrangle and take no more than two courses.

For each such course oflfered in the MAT program, the De- partment will require a teaching replacement. Some of the foundation support will finance such supplementary instruc- tion. Other money will go toward scholarships, special equip- ment, counselling, and supervision.

Brown will, of course, maintain and strengthen its present program leading to the Master of Arts degree in Education. This work will be of special benefit to those preparing to teach in elementary schools, to assume administrative posts, or un- dertake research in education.

With Appreciation and Hope

Immediate comment on the new Brown program indicated that it will have an enthusiastic welcome. James K. Sunshine, Education Editor of the Providence Journal, wrote: "Brown University has placed itself in the forefront of the drive to im- prove the schools. Since its program is a practical one of con- siderable size, and since it is directed mainly at the teacher in the classroom, the effects are likely to be widespread but right to the point.

"The Brown program, in bringing the weight of its Faculty to bear on current education, is in sharp contrast to the atti- tude of many good Liberal Arts institutions. Too many have allowed their own pique and disdain for 'mass education' to separate them from any important contribution toward solving the problems produced by that education.

"Since education is apt to be contagious in some respects, the effects may be expected to exceed the actual number of the graduates in the schools (from 40 to 80 a year). What, for ex- ample, will be the situation when a liberally educated young teacher who has both a deep knowledge of his field and sound training in the techniques of his profession is thrown into con-

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tact with fellow teachers not so well versed? The hope of the program's planners is that he will act as a catalytic agent, in- spiring others, perhaps even irritating them into further edu- cation. And Brown, with evening courses and a summer school, stands ready to make it possible for them to obtain it.

"The University won the support of the foundation for its project largely because its entire Faculty will be involved not only in training the teachers but also in working directly with school officials to solve special problems in curriculum and organization."

"At a Time of Great Need"

Dr. William C. Gaige, President of the Rhode Island Col- lege of Education, called the program "an outstanding step forward." He praised it for being directed toward the specific needs of teachers rather than research scholars. "To the ex- tent that the program brings the superior intellectual resources of Brown to the high school teachers. Brown will be making a much-needed contribution," he said.

Dr. James L. Hanley, Superintendent of Schools in Provi- dence, said: "Brown's new program of service to schools and to teachers is wonderful news. The program will bring closer and make more available to teachers the great resources of the University. Its promise to add to the supply of teachers of high quality comes at a time of great need. While the news is of spe- cial significance to Rhode Island, its influence in leadership and service extends far beyond the State."

Charles B. MacKay '16, Superintendent in Warwick, R. I., said: "It's the most sensible thing I've heard as far as educa- tion is concerned."

The State Commissioner of Education, Dr. Michael F. Walsh, called it "gratifying and encouraging." He believes the program will be "beneficial to school administrators, princi- pals, heads of departments, and teachers but also to young people in our schools."

Sunshine, devoting a whole "blockbuster" page in the Prov- idence Journal to the news and a discussion of it, used a pic- ture of Horace Mann as one illustration. The "father of the American public school system" was a graduate of the Class of 1819. The caption, pointing to Mann as Brown's "prized link with public education," implied that he would have cheered the University's latest undertaking, in a long and active tradi- tion, in support of his dreams for the American public school.

DR. ALBERT D. VAN NOSTRAND (right) as he appeared on a Brown Univer-

sity television program with Dr. Jess Bessinger. His series on American Litero-

ture will have a national audience this spring.

MONDAYS, 6:30

Prof. Van Nostrand Will Be TV Consultant on Literature for NBC's Spring' Series

DR. Albert D. Van Nostrand, Associate Professor of Eng- lish at Brown University, is one of five men chosen to ap- pear on a series of programs planned by the National Broad- casting Company for presentation by the country's educa- tional television stations. The projected series will include five programs weekly for 13 weeks, with the starting date set ten- tatively for March 11. NBC production facilities and network lines will be offered to the educational TV outlets for prepara- tion and distribution of the programs.

Dr. Van Nostrand will be consultant for the series on Amer- ican Literature, presiding over each of its programs as com- mentator and as host to writers who will be guests. The Amer- ican Literature series will be presented Mondays from 6:30 to 7:00 p.m., EST.

Other programs in the series, which will be concerned with American Government, World Geography, Mathematics and Opera, will be presented on film on succeeding days each week. Each of the programs will be filmed, and there are tentative plans for their being telecast on a delayed basis over certain NBC affiliate stations.

Dr. Van Nostrand participated in four half-hour dialogues on Literature on the Brown University TV program "From College Hill" in 1954, attracting the attention of the Educa- tional Television and Radio Center at Ann Arbor. He and Prof. Jesse Bessinger, formerly of Brown, were asked to pro- duce eight programs called "A Prospect for Literature" for the Center. This filmed series will be broadcast over both edu- cational and commercial TV stations throughout the nation this spring.

A 1943 graduate of Amherst College, Dr. Van Nostrand holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. He served in the Navy during World War II and came to Brown in 1951 after serving as a teaching fellow in English literature at Harvard. He was promoted to associate professor in 1956. He has been director of the Brown Honors Programs since 1953 and has been a member of the Faculty Committee on Academic Standing for the last five years.

Dr. Van Nostrand currently has been pursuing research on American fiction and the book trade. A report on part of this work, "Making and Marketing Fiction," was published last summer in The American Quarterly. He is also preparing, with a colleague, Prof. Charles H. Watts '47, an anthology of Amer- ican poetry, called "The Conscious Voice," to be published in the fall. He has published or has in preparation numerous articles, mostly literary criticism, with some bibliographical reporting and expository writing. He is an active member of a number of learned societies.

Others scheduled to appear on the projected NBC series are: Dr. Albert E. Burke, Professor of Geography at Yale University; Dr. Paul Henry Lang, Professor of Musicology at Columbia University and music critic for the New York Her- ald-Tribune; Dr. Elmer E. Schattschneider, Professor of Gov- ernment at Wesleyan University, and James R. Newman, au- thor of "The World of Mathematics"

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The Brown Clubs Report

Through the Mid-West

EARLY IN January, Athletic Director Paul Mackesey and Football Coach Al Kelley packed their bags and headed for the NCAA Convention in St. Louis, visit- ing seven Brown Clubs along the way. Kel- ley joined Mackesey at the Club meetings in St. Louis, Detroit, Chicago, and Pitts- burgh; in addition, the Athletic Director also visited Rochester, Cleveland, and Syra- cuse.

Mackesey arrived in Rochester Jan. 4 on his way to St. Louis and was met at the airport by Dave Flint '42, President of the Rochester Brown Club. Later in the eve- ning, a dinner was held at the University Club. Following the meal, Mackesey spoke on the athletic picture at Brown and showed color films of the Colgate clash. Among those attending the meeting was Dr. Wilbur E. Saunders '16, President of the Colgate-Rochester Divinity School and a Trustee of Brown.

The next morning, Mackesey left for the convention in St. Louis, where he was joined by Kelley. While there, the men were entertained by President Ed Levis '50 of the St. Louis Brown Club, who arranged a cocktail party at the home of his father. Chape Newhard '22 was a visitor to the affair.

From St. Louis, Brown's two representa- tives journeyed to Chicago, arriving on Jan. 1 1, right in the middle of the furniture con- vention. This made getting a room a seri- ous problem, but Ron Kimball '18 came to the rescue and helped them over this hur- dle. A luncheon at the Yacht Club and a meeting at the University Club were the features of this stop. Several sub-Freshmen were invited to the meeting.

Detroit was next on the schedule, and a pair of '25 Classmates, Jack Foley and Bill Browne, met Paul and Al at the train. Jack, who is looking fine after being ill for a spell, was the host at his home Sunday evening, Jan. 13. The next day, lunch was held at the University Club, followed by a trip through the Chrysler plant, courtesy of Ken Brown '22. That evening, 40 men turned out for a dinner at the University Club. The list included a number of Sub- Freshmen and their fathers. One boy and his dad came 80 miles for the affair. Frank Finney's father was there and reported that he saw his son play in the first and last games on the Brown schedule, Columbia and Colgate.

Sam Flanders '50 and Harland Bartlett '51 met the visitors at the airport in Pitts- burgh and took them to dinner. The Uni- versity Club was the scene of a meeting that night. Marion Cancelliere '32 attended with his son. Vic Fusia, former Bear back- field coach and presently on the University of Pittsburgh staff, was also on hand.

While Al stayed on in Pittsburgh, Paul moved on to Cleveland on Jan. 16. The visit was short, but he managed to have lunch with some of the alumni in that area at the University Club. Ed O'Malley '54 did the honors bringing Paul in, and Don Colo '50, Captain of the Cleveland Browns, drove him back to the station following the meal.

Later the same day, Jan. 16, Paul flew into Syracuse. Ducky Drake '24 met him there and drove him to the dinner at the

Rotary Club. The next day there was a luncheon-meeting at the Citizens Club. Carl Schuette, line coach, met Paul there and accompanied him back to Providence.

The Glee Club on Tour

Alumni support will make possible a spring trip by the Brown Glee Club this year, with concerts scheduled in Manches- ter, Conn., Philadelphia, Washington, and Chappaqua, N. Y. The Club is directed by Prof. David Laurent '49, assisted by Daniel Abbott '54 and managed by Thomas F. Wiener '57. A typical program includes compositions ranging from Palestrina to Philip James, with groups of sea chanteys,

spirituals, and the new Ivy League medley by Fenno Heath.

Two of the concerts are sponsored by the Brown Clubs of Philadelphia (April 4) and Washington (April 5 at the National Press Club). The first concert, in Man- chester High School on Wednesday, April 3, will be under the auspices of the Man- chester, Conn., Junior Chamber of Com- merce, of which Ted LaBonne '49 is Presi- dent. He is also President of the Brown Club in Hockanum, Conn., which is help- ing promote the evening, along with alumni in Hartford. The local P.T.A. is the spon- sor of the April 6 concert in the Chap- paqua High School, with Brown men lend- ing their support.

Four of the Seven

Attendance at the January meeting of the Executive Committee of the Associated Alumni suggests how representative and faithful a group it is. Four of the associa- tion's seven Regional Vice-Presidents were

BOWDOIN COLLEGE hos received a new portrait of Dr. James Stocy Coles, its President. The work of Sidney E. Dickinson, it will hang in Hubbard Hall, the College Library, along with Coles' eight prede- cessors. The Bowdoin President was formerly Dean of the College at Brown University and Executive

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present: Eugene W. O'Brien '19 of Atlanta; John J. Roe, Jr., '27 of Patchogue, L. I.; Ralph Mullane '19 of Boston; and Stanley Mathes '39 of Providence.

Plans for the Advisory Council were dis- cussed, and the Executive Committee per- formed its function as a Nominating Com- mittee in approving a preliminary slate of Alumni Trustee candidates and other nomi- nations for the alumni ballot.

The Executive Committee heard Foster B. Davis, Jr., '39, tell of activity to finance a new hockey rink — he is heading up the selective solicitation for it. The Committee voted its approval and encouragement of the project.

President Robert H. Goff '24 announced that Thomas L. Yatman '43 had accepted the chairmanship of the 1957 Homecoming Committee. Other members will be: Wil- liam H. McCraw '50, William P. Sheffield, 3rd, '41, and Robert W. Thomas '38.

Publication of a new Alumni Directory was given preliminary consideration. It would be the first such publication since the Historical Catalogue of 1950 and would be less comprehensive. It would attempt no biographies but possibly list only alumni names and addresses by Classes, with sup- plementary regional hsting and alphabeti- cal index. The project still lacks final ap- proval.

Christmas in Pittsburgh

The Brown Club of Western Pennsyl- vania had a "bang-up" party Dec. 27 at the University Club, with members of the Brown Club, undergraduates, their fathers, and some young men from the local high schools who are interested in Brown gath- ering for a luncheon-meeting.

Dick Gage '51 led off by welcoming the guests and then turned the meeting over to Tony Waterman '51, Chairman of the af- fair. Tony told us of the death of Sam Arnold. Everyone there was shocked to hear the news. The floor was then turned over to Harlan Bartlett '51, who called on two of the undergraduates to give their views on Brown so that some of the visitors could get a better idea of why we think Brown is so outstanding. Dick Marcus '57 and Stanley Perl '60 were the undergradu- ates who talked. Movies showing all aspects of Brown life followed to close out the evening.

Those attending included: J. R. Hutton '51, R. K. Gage '51, L. A. Waterman '51, B. E. Hamlett '50, W. J. Barton '45, D. W. Baker '42, C. Leveroni '52, P. Lingham '30, B. Shanahan '51, A. E. Murphy '50, S. Flanders '50, J. Caton '51, A. Jeffers '22, J. Henderson '46, R. Crosby '52, J. Chesley 'II, J. Fay '54, L. Demmler '31, R. Mont- gomery '57 and father, M. Strem '58 and father, T. Petracca '60, D. Marcus '57 and father, E. Tapper '57, S. Perl '60, P. Herschfield '60, J. Cerasoli '57.

HARLAN A. BARTLETT

Detroit Double-Header

Frank Finney, star quarterback on the Big Brown football team last fall, was the guest of honor Dec. 28 at a luncheon held at the Detroit University Club. Frank, whose home is in Royal Oak, Mich., dis- cussed the past pigskin campaign and de- scribed some of the games in detail.

On Jan. 14, the Detroit University Club was the scene of a dinner-meeting for pros- pective students and their fathers. The guests at this affair were Paul Mackesey and Al Kelley. Both discussed athletic and scholastic life at Brown, and, later, Al

A Tribute to Arnold

The following statement was adopted at the January meeting of the Executive Committee of the As- sociated Alumni:

"Provost Samuel T. Arnold so lived that he had active affiliation with many groups in the University, community, and nation. Each was honored by his fellowship and better for his service.

"His relationship with the alumni of Brown University, however, was something special. They acknowl- edged his unselfish leadership, his thoughtful counsel, and the joy of a friendship shared. He brought com- panionship to working together and inspiration in the common cause by the example of his devotion.

"None have been in a better posi- tion than the alumni to know the ex- tent and quality of his contribution to the University. Members of the Executive Committee of the Associ- ated Alumni, meeting in Providence on January 18, 1957, have a sharp, fond awareness of his loss. They spread upon the minutes this memo- rial statement to suggest a vast alumni appreciation of Samuel T. Arnold and the sympathy they hum- bly offer to his family."

showed color films of the clash with Col- gate.

Alumni present for these two get-to- gethers included: Octave Beauvais '18, Ken Brown '22, Bill Browne '25, Jim Ely '40, Jack Foley '25, Bob Foley '56, Joe Freed- man '26, Dick Grout '42, Jack Hocking '46, Marvin Perils '47, Martin Rice '25, Jack Sanders '26, Carlton Scott '24, Dick Selleck '51, Ed Walmsley '22, and John WelchH '50.

JACK HOCKING '46

A Chicago Directory Vice-President Robert O. Case '44 is in the process of compiling a new directory for the Brown University Club of Chicago. He has circularized the men in the area asking for information to be used. "There has been a great deal of interest in pub- lishing the directory," Case noted, pointing out that the last one had an "enthusiastic reception." However, that was back in 1949.

Whalers Pick Young

Attorney Howard W. Young '44 was elected President of the Brown Club of New Bedford Jan. 28 in a meeting held at the New Bedford Hotel. Other officers elected include: Vice-President — James P. Lawton; Secretary-Treasurer — Jack M. Ro- senberg.

Al Kelley and Charlie Markham of the football staff were guests of the Club. Both spoke briefly on the football situation on the Hill and then showed color films of the sensational triumph over Colgate.

Those attending the meeting were as follows: Elmer P. Wright '21, Abel Gon- salves '50, the Rev. James V. Claypool '22, Howard W. Young '44, George R. Dewhurst '33, Jack M. Rosenberg '42, George H. Young '23, John Garcia '28, James P. Lawton '31, John B. Riddock '18, John D. Wilson '51, Howard C. Ren-

free '42, Paul S. Kramer '42, Chester M. Downing '18, Leon Sadow '48, Leonard D. LeValley '39, and Nathan S. Ellis '50.

JACK M. ROSENBERG '42

New York Activity The New York Brown Club's first af- fair of the new year was a Faculty Night Jan. 17, with Prof. Walter J. Wilson of the Brown Biology Department the guest speaker. Professor Wilson talked on some of the aspects of Federal Government grants to education and to research facil- ities at various universities, and, especially, to Brown.

The first monthly luncheon of the year was held Jan. 22 in the Landon Room of the Club. Arch Murray, staff sportswriter for the A'eii' York Post, was the guest speaker at this get-together. Arch has been very pro-Brown, pro-AI Kelley, and pro-Ivy League in his newspaper articles, and he was warmly received. He gave his views and impressions on Ivy League football and took part in a question-and-answer period with Club members.

Plans are well under way for the 89th Annual Dinner, April 23. We are fortunate in having Bill Bloomingdale '35 as our Dinner Chairman again this year. We all had such a fine time at Delmonico's last year that the Committee has decided to hold the 1957 dinner at the siame place. Another steak dinner is in prospect! Those who couldn't make it a year ago will now have an opportunity to catch up! President Keeney will be the guest speaker, and he will talk about Brown's Bicentennial, which will be celebrated in 1964, and other future plans of the University.

CHUCK BRADLEY '50

Next Fall's Round Robin

Ivy Football for '57

Again in 1957, Brovm and Columbia will open the Ivy League season by them- selves on the last Saturday of September. Again, they will face non-Ivy opponents in the last two weeks of November while the other six wind up their campaigns. The full roster of round-robin dates follows:

Sept. 28 — Columbia at Brown.

Oct. 5— Brown at Yale, Cornell at Har- vard, Dartmouth at Pennsylvania, Prince- ton at Columbia.

Oct. 12 — Brown at Dartmouth, Colum- bia at Yale, Pennsylvania at Princeton.

Oct. 19 — Pennsylvania at Brown (Home- coming), Columbia at Harvard, Yale at Cornell.

Oct. 26 — Cornell at Princeton, Dart- mouth at Harvard.

Nov. 2 — Princeton at Brown, Columbia at Cornell, Dartmouth at Yale, Harvard at Pennsylvania.

Nov. 9 — Brown at Cornell, Dartmouth at Columbia, Princeton at Harvard, Yale at Pennsylvania.

Nov. 16 — Brown at Harvard, Cornell at Dartmouth, Pennsylvania at Columbia, Yale at Princeton.

Nov. 23 — Dartmouth at Princeton, Har- vard at Yale.

Nov. 28 — Cornell at Pennsylvania.

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The Winter Varsities

THE BEARS HAD THEIR MOMENTS

Reversal on the Court

A HALE AND HARDY Joe Tebo, playing once again on two sound legs, led one of the most thrilling performances seen at Marvel Gym in many a year Jan. 31 as Coach Stan Ward's Bruins roared from be- hind to defeat Harvard 58-56 in overtime and snap a six-game losing streak. This win for Ward's warriors, the highlight of the first half of the campaign, was a most start- ling reversal of form. The Crimson had whipped Brown by 45 points, 92-47, earlier in the season.

The triumph proved a tonic for the Bears for they followed it up the next night with a 79-61 decision over a good Tufts team. In other games since the last report, the Bruins were defeated by Colby (76-56), Yale (91-67 and 84-53), and Dartmouth (93-56). The season's record stood at four wins and nine losses, with a 2-4 Ivy mark earning a fifth place tie in the League at the start of February.

Two free throws by Harvard's Dick Woolston with 15 seconds to play gave the Crimson a 52-48 lead and made Brown's chances appear slim. Then, Tebo and Cap- tain John Lyden went to work. First, Tebo hit with a layup at the 10-second mark to make the score 52-50. Then, when a Har- vard guard panicked and uncorked a wild and unnecessary pass, Lyden intercepted at mid-court and drove in for the tying basket with only five seconds left to play. This was Lyden's only basket of the night, but it may turn out to be his most impor- tant hoop of the season.

The Crowd Helped Out

The enthusiastic crowd, which had "picked up" the Brown team several times earlier in the game when Harvard had pulled ahead, flowed out on the court, and it took several minutes to clear the floor for the five-minute overtime period. Coach Ward later termed this the most encourag- ing display of student enthusiasm he has seen since coming to Brown three years ago.

Jerry Alaimo, who played a strong game both offensively and defensively, moved the Bruins ahead in the overtime with a hook, but Harvard came right back for another tie. Two foul shots by Brown's Jim Wright were countered by a pair of free tosses by the Crimson making the score 56-56.

With five seconds left, Lyden passed in to Tebo from behind the Harvard basket. Little Joe dribbled a few steps and cut loose with one of his favorite jump shots. The swish of the ball through the nets was followed almost immediately by the final buzzer. Again the crowd swarmed on to the court, surrounding Coach Ward, Tebo, Ly- den, and the entire Brown squad. There was little doubt that this was a cherished triumph.

The victory didn't come easy. After lead- ing 28-27 at the half. Brown saw its lead melt away as the Crimson stormed back

after intermission to rack up nine straight points for a 36-28 advantage. Here, Alaimo tossed in nine of his 14 points to help the Bruins pull back into a 44-40 lead. Alaimo also was a thorn in John Harvard's hide with 18 rebounds, high for the night.

Tebo's 21 points paced the Brown attack, and the scrappy little guard set up as many baskets as he scored with his deft passes. Al Poulsen, 6:8 Sophomore center, scored eight points and used his long arms to com- pletely foil Harvard's attempts to crack the Brown zone by driving through the middle.

The One-Two Punch

Tebo and Alaimo put on a two-man scoring show to topple Tufts almost single- handed. Tebo hit for 37 points and Alaimo had 30, accounting for 67 of Brown's 79 points. Wright, with two baskets, and Ly- den and Ron Harrison with one each, were the only other Bears able to score from the floor.

The Jumbos, coached by former Bruin star Woody Grimshaw '47, made it close during most of the first half, at which point Brown led 37-31. However, his thin squad tired later in the game, and the Bruins won going away, 79-61. Tebo's 37 points came on 15 baskets and seven foul shots. Alaimo had nine hoops and 12 points from the foul line.

Incidentally, Alaimo's 30 points against Tufts raised his Varsity total to an even 500 for a year and a half of action. Tebo has 671 points in the same period, and both appear certain of cracking the select "1,000" circle, reached so far by but two Bruins, Lou Murgo '54 (1147), and Grim- shaw (1010). Brown's other top scorers to date have been Ed Tooley '55 (886), Harry Piatt '40 (866), Moe Mahoney '50 (828), and Fred Kozak '50 (709).

Getting some scoring help from the rest of his lineup was Coach Ward's main prob- lem as he prepared to face the second half of the season. When two men, in a high scoring game, score 67 of a team's 79 points, the overall team picture is not healthy. On the other hand. reaMzing how important these two men are to the success of the team helps to explain the reason for some of Brown's troubles during the period that Tebo was nursing his bad ankle. It so happened that during this period, the Bruins were forced to play three of the toughest games on the schedule, one against Dartmouth and two against Yale.

To give you an idea of how the scoring has gone, here is a list of the average per game of Brown's top seven men: Alaimo 16.0, Tebo 13.0, Poulsen 6.8, Lyden 5.8, Wright 4.0. Wadsworth 4.7. and Bogar 3.8.

The Freshman quintet put together a win streak of five straight with decisions over Worcester Academy (84-73), Dean Jr. (82-76), Leicester jr. (109-53), Harvard (72-68), and Quonset Pt. (92-66). The season's record was 8-2 at the end of Jan- uary. Bob Read was leading the team in

scoring with a 17.3 average, while the other men in the top five scored as follows: Cliff Ehrlich 14.3, Al Diussa 12.1, Jack Belli- vance 11.9, and Bob Walsh 6.6.

Records in the Tank

Any swimmer who can establish new records in each of his first four outings has to be considered news. Brown has such a lad in the person of Barr Clayson. Al- though the team had only a 2-2 mark early in the year, it had garnered a fair share of the headlines due to this Junior backstroke star from Pittsfield. One of the most un- usual aspects of the story is that Clayson came to Brown noted not so much for his work in the tank as for his prowess on the gridiron. However, when an injury in his Freshman season sidelined him perma- nently from football he turned to his second love, swimming.

Coach Joe Watmough is one man who is happy about this change in plans. Used as a "fill" last season in a variety of events, Clayson proved a valuable man. Then, late in the season, he started to get "hot." He began to show all manner of potential, especially in the backstroke event. Wat- mough was so impressed that he decided to work with the youngster exclusively on the backstroke this season.

This concentration has paid off. Swim- ming in the Rhode Island AAA prior to the start of the season, Clayson turned in a time of 2:21.8 for the 200-yard backstroke. This set a new Brown record. Against Co- lumbia, swimming in the Colgate Hoyt Pool, he was clocked at 2:20.2, for a new Brown record and a new pool record. The next meet was at Amherst, where he dropped his time there to 2:19, for a new Brown record and a new Amherst pool rec- ord. Against Penn, at home, he made the distance in 2:19.6. This was slightly off his best time but good enough to set a new Brown pool record. Then, against Navy, he again made it in 2:19.6 — the first occasion all season in which he didn't establish a new record.

It should also be added that he broke an- other Brown mark this season. Swimming the 100-yard backstroke in the New Eng- land AAU he hit the finish line in 1:02.5, which, incidentally, was also a new NEAAU mark. Needless to say, Clayson is undefeated. Coach Watmough believes that he is good enough to get down near 2:15 for the 200-yard backstroke. If he can, this time would put him in the limelight nation- ally. A very bright future would appear to lie ahead in the tank for this husky Junior — and all because of a football injury!

While on the subject of records, the con- tribution of Al Chapman, another Junior, can't be overlooked. He also was unde- feated in the first four meets. He's been concentrating in the 200-yard butterfly this season and has set a new Brown pool rec- ord of 2:35.2 for that event.

■After defeating Columbia in the opening meet, the Bruins suffered a 48-38 defeat at the hands of Amherst, defeated Penn 55-31, and lost to Navy 45-41 in the final event. Brown led the undefeated Middies 41-38 going into the 400-yard freestyle relay, last event of the meet. In the 400-yard medley relay, the Bear team of Clayson, Bill Rid- dle. Capt. .\\ Chapman, and Dave Graham bettered the old Brown record of 4:15 as they got down to 4:03.9. This was also a new New England Intercollegiate Swim- ming .Association record: the old mark. 4:06.3. was held by the University of Con- necticut.

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The swimming situation at Brown is rather rosy. There is only one Senior on this year's team, Ira Levin. All the other men are expected back ne.\t season. In addi- tion, the Cubs should provide several able performers. Chief among these is Ed Nicholson, 6:1, 172-pound star from Grosse Pointe, Mich., performing in the sprints, where the Varsity is weakest. He has done the 50-yard freestyle in 24:3 and the 100 in 55:7, both times quite a bit faster than Varsity men have been able to post. Wat- mough believes he will do much better next year.

The Freshmen had a 3-1 record, with wins over Dean Academy (51-25), St. George (47-29), and Moses Brown (47- 30), and a 47-30 loss to La Salle Academy.

Outmanned on the Ice

The return to action of Senior Bill Sepe along with Juniors Paul Prindle and Ed Allard brightened the hockey picture on the Hill just as the Bruin skaters were about to face the bulk of the Ivy schedule in the second half of the season. However, on the debit side was the temporary loss of Sophomore find Dick Haskell.

Since the last report, the Bears won one game and lost three. They defeated Tufts (5-4) and lost to Dartmouth (5-3), Boston University (9-2), and Harvard (7-0). The sensational play of Junior Harry Batchel- der, in the nets, and Rod Dashnaw, at wing, were the highlights of the season.

Dashnaw led the team in scoring with 19 points on 1 1 goals and eight assists. Mak- ing his job much tougher was the fact that he was double-teamed in every game. The opposition knew that he carried Brown's main offensive hope while on the ice and set the defenses accordingly. Haskell, play- ing on the second line, had been the team's second high man.

In the goal, Batchelder grew steadily in stature despite the fact that several large scores were run up against him. His play drew comments from coaches around the circuit and from the fans alike. He has been at a disadvantage, however, in that he is playing this season on a team that is not blessed with strong defensemen. De- spite this fact, he has allowed an average of but five goals a game. With a less capable man in the nets, that figure might well have been doubled.

The inexperience and weakness of the defensemen has also been felt on the at- tack. None of the combinations used by Coach Fullerton has been able to feed out of the defensive zone. In addition to mak- ing the defensive position of a team pre- carious, such an inability is a heavy drag on the off'ense.

A pleasant surprise for Fullerton this winter was the way in which three of his Sophomore forwards, Haskell, Art Cleary, and Don Hebert, came from nowhere to become better than average hockey players. These men played on a Freshman team that won only one game in 12 starts. How- ever, they improved rapidly under Fuller- ton's tutelage and were just starting to click as a strong second line when Haskell be- came ineligible.

The Cubs had posted a 5-4 record. A 3-2 win over the powerful Harvard sextet high- lighted the campaign. Tufts was also de- feated 5-2, while recent losses were suf- fered at the hands of Boston University (6-3) and Harvard (5-1). Dave Kelley, fast-skating wing, was the leading Fresh- man scorer in New England early in Feb- ruary with II goals and 13 assists for 24 points. Ed Soares, defenseman, showed signs of becoming a future star.

PHENOMENAL PLAY by Goalie Harry Batchelder '58 has featured the Brown hockey season. He

likely candidate for all-star honors.

A Good Wre.stling Start

Winners over Penn (27-5) and Yale (16-12), the Brown matmen climbed into a tie with Cornell for the Ivy League [ead in early February, with four important matches ahead against the Big Red, Har- vard, Princeton, and Columbia. The over- all record was 3-1.

Against the Quakers, Coach Anderton and the Bruins were forced to give away five points at 123 on a forfeit for not en- tering a man. But. from there on. the meet was all Brown. John Cumniings in the 137- pound class and heavyweight Ed Eastman both pinned their opponents. George Seaver won at 130 pounds by default, and Frank Smith, Pete Roche, Lou Winner, and John Alexander won on decisions.

Prior to the Yale meet, the Bruins lost the services of Ed Eastman for the re- mainder of the season. To fill his shoes. Coach Anderton called on Gene Roberts, a 6:0, 177-pound Sophomore from Bethle- hem, Pa. The decision proved a wise one. The Bruins went into the final event with a scant 13-12 lead. However, Roberts came through in his first Varsity match with a 6-2 decision over Yale's Mike Schoeltle to give the Bears the meet 16-12. Again, Brown was forced to forfeit at I 23 pounds, thus giving the Elis an automatic 5-0 lead.

Co-Captain Frank Smith, in winning an 8-2 decision over Dick Hepner of Yale at 147 pounds, raised his Varsity record at Brown to 17-1-1 for two and one half sea- sons. He lost his second match as a Sopho- more to Columbia and was tied last season in the Cornell meet. Other Bruins unde- feated this year are Sophomore George Seaver at 130 pounds. Senior John Alex- ander at 177 pounds, and, of course, Rob- erts in the heavyweight class.

The Cub matmen, experiencing a rough season, stood 0-3 after meeting Springfield, Wesleyan, and Exeter Academy. The squad is thin.

Sports Shorts

PAUL Mackesey, Brown's Director of Athletics, last January was named to the Eligibility Committee of the National Collegiate Association at the organization's 51st annual convention in St. Louis. He has served on the NCAA Council as the District I representative and has been Vice- President of the District for several years. Mackesey's face was really red the night of Brown's exciting overtime victory over Harvard. You see, with the Crimson lead- ing 52-48 and only 15 seconds left on the

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clock, Paul figured he'd beat the crowd out of the Gym. So, he quietly slipped out of his seat, went to his office, put on his hat and coat, and prepared to leave. But then he stopped and began to wonder why the crowd hadn't started to file out. So, he went back into the basketball arena, heard the uproar, saw the scoreboard, which read 52-52. Although he was thus on hand when Tebo came through with his game-winning hoop, Paul was still a bit sore at himself for missing one of the greatest finishes in Brown's basketball history.

The swimming meet between Brown and Navy brought veteran-coach against former pupil. Bruin coach Joe Watmough helped develop John Higgins, Navy mentor, into a swimmer of national prominence when the latter was a youngster in boy's club cir-

cles and at Central High School in Provi- dence. Higgins was a member of the 1936 Olympic team just after leaving high school and was an Ail-American swimmer at Ohio State in 1938-39-40.

Coach Ivan Fuqua's mile relay team put on a fine show in the Millrose Games at Boston but ran second to Bates. They also ran well in the Washington Star Meet, fin- ishing third behind Maryland and Navy, and ahead of Duke and Virginia.

Also on the track front, Paul Choquette, a Freshman, related to the Gilbanes, placed fifth in the 16-pound shot-put in the BAA Meet at Boston. Competing against a 60- foot shot-putter. Ken Bantum of Man- hattan, for the first time in his life, he turned in the best performance of his ca- reer, 49:7. (Bantum won it at 55:2.)

Brunonians Far and Near

EDITED BY JAY BARRY '50

1887

SENATOR Theodore Francis Green, in addition to all his new duties as Chair- man of the Senate Foreign Relations Com- mittee, has been lending a hand to the drive aimed at keeping the Washington Senators baseball club in Washington. During the past two years, there has been some talk of moving the club to the West Coast. Recently, Senator Green was host to some 40 Washington business men, club officers, and players at a Capitol Hill luncheon — one of a series being held to promote ticket sales and forestall any fur- ther talk of the American League club moving West.

1901

Judge Rufus H. Cook, who has been practicing law in Northampton, Mass., since 1901, tendered his resignation as a Special Judge of the Probate Court in late December. He had been serving the four Western Counties of the State since 1923.

1902

Arthur W. Pinkham, the "head man" at the world-famous Lydia E. Pinkham Medi- cine Company, celebrated his 77th birth- day Dec. 9. Following a pattern of his two preceding birthdays, his family took no- tice of his new interest as a painter. Two years ago, his book "Reminiscences" was announced, and, last year, he revealed him- self to be something of a sculptor.

Brad Stephens is still doing a fine job as Editor of Direct Advertising, the impos- ing and beautifully illustrated quarterly publication of the Paper Makers Advertis- ing Association. His office is at 581 Boyls- ton St., Boston. Brad says he will be on hand for our 55th reunion next June.

The Viking Press announces it is bring- ing out a reprint of the biography of "Hart Crane, The Life of an American Poet" by Philip Horlon, published in 1937 by W. W. Norton Company. This is being published in the paperback Compass edition as well as in cloth binding, thus making it more available for school and college use. The New York Times refers to it as "a model biography, a great one on Crane, a great one in itself." Morton, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Everett J. Horton, is Senior Editor of The Reporter magazine in New York City.

1905

What does the High Sheriff of Provi- dence County do on Inauguration Day when he doesn't know which of two can- didates for Governor is to be inaugurated? Michael F. Costello faced this problem in Rhode Island Jan. 1 when the State Su- preme Court was still trying to decide on the legal issues involving Governor Rob- erts and the Republican candidate, Christo- pher Del Sesto. The final result wasn't announced until after 3 o'clock on Inaugu- ration afternoon. Ordinarily, Sheriff Cos- tello spends several months planning this ceremony, including, of course, his procla- mation. Not knowing whom he would pro- claim, Costello had said with utter candor, "I'm stuck." Normally, his preparations proceed with the "advice and approval of the Governor-elect."

The Rev. Hinson V. Howlett and Mrs. Howlett were honored Dec. 30 at a fare- well reception in the vestry of the Phentx Baptist Church, West Warwick, R. I., from which he retired. Gifts presented included a television set and a purse. Representatives of the community and the Rhode Island Baptist State Convention brought greetings and- best wishes.

1906

From a card forwarded by George Shor in Naples, Fla., there are indications that this much-traveled member of '06 again is on his winter circuit. After a few weeks in Florida, he intends to move on to Mexico. From there, he doubtless will go on for a visit with his son in California before re- turning East, in time for our 51st Reunion, we hope.

Oscar Rackle reports a safe arrival on the Coast after another cross-country drive in his Mercury. It was a pleasure to receive Christmas Greetings from him.

Walter Briggs (The Honorable Judge Walter A. Briggs) has retired from the bench and the Fourth District Bar Associa- tion. A group of his friends gave a testi- monial dinner in his honor recently at the Masonic Temple in Attleboro, Mass. In the next issue of the Brown Alumni Monthly we shall try and provide some of the details of this event. Walter's many friends in '06 wish him long life, excellent health, and a large measure of the good things that will be his.

ZECHARIAH CHAFEE, JR., 07 died of a heart attack on Feb. 8. Brown's memorial service the next doy will be described in our next issue. Portrait is that of the Harvard Law School.

1907

Samuel A. Steere, Vice-President, Tex- tile Mills, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., retired Feb. 1 after an outstanding career with Goodyear, beginning in 1922. Sam's forward progress, his achievements in his special textile field, have the admiration of all classmates, who recognize his abilities and appreciate his modesty. His mail ad- dress is 2831 Shade Road, Akron 13, O.

Charles R. Stark Jr.'s new book, "The Bering Sea Eagle," has had its publication date set as March 22 by Caxton Printers, Ltd. Charlie and Mrs. Stark are now plan- ning to leave Spokane in mid-April, make several stops along the way, then, with Providence as base, visit various parts of New England before Commencement. "I have agreed to take over a public relations job," Charlie wrote, "and that will make it necessary for me to be back in Spokane by June 10."

Norman F. MacGregor's address is said to be St. Andrews East, Quebec. Your Sec- retary has written MacGregor for verifica- tion.

Bob Curley, who fled from Biddeford, Me., as soon as cold weather struck, has been spending the winter in Mesa, Ariz., where his address is 1055 West Main St. Bob has our thanks for sending the De- cember issue of Arizona Highways, an un- usually beautiful magazine.

William E. Bright was re-elected Presi- dent and a Director of Green Ridge Bank, Scranton, Pa., at the annual meeting in January. Bill is already in contact with the Rev. Levi Hoftman about coming to our 50th Reunion.

Myron S. Curtis and Mrs. Curtis have been in Santa Barbara, Calif., but will re- turn to Cleveland early this month. "I have a system," Myron wrote, "whereby I dic- tate 'flying saucers' out here in Santa Bar- bara, send them back to Cleveland; and my secretary transcribes them. So that's why you get envelopes with the Cleveland postmark."

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The Rev. Edwin R. Gordon, Minister of Chiltonville Congregational Church, Plym- outh, Mass., and WilHam F. Huntley, practicing law at 11 Pemberton Square, Boston, were the first to respond to the Class letter regarding our 50th. Both said that they liked the idea of a reunion on the Campus. For their prompt replies, a salute to Ed and Bill.

"Am looking forward to plans for June," Bill White writes from Kingston, Ontario. "Staying together at the College sounds good to me."

R. W. McPhee, home again in Ann Ar- bor, Mich., after visiting his son, Ralph, Jr., in Palo Alto, Calif., and his daughter and her family in Seattle, Wash., says: "Re- ceived your letter announcing appointment of Bill Burnham as 50th Reunion Chair- man and think it a wonderful choice. I'll be there unless I have one foot in the

grave.

1908

Dr. W. Henry Rivard, Dean of the Rhode Island College of Pharmacy, was admitted to the Rhode Island Hospital in January after having suffered third degree burns about the face and hands when a cleansing fluid he was using became ignited. (His injuries, unfortunately, were fatal. He died Feb. 5— Ed.)

Ernest L. Blish is retired and living in Sarasota, Fla., spring home of the Boston Red Sox.

1909

Ed Squire, who has retired from Brook- lyn Polytech, plans to continue consulting work with Lockwood Kessler & Bartloff, Inc., One Aerial Way, Syosset, N. Y. His home address is 8 Terrace Circle, Great Neck, L. I., N. Y.

T. Harper Goodspeed has moved and is Hving at 661 Woodmont Ave., Berkeley 8, Calif.

1910

Robert L. Munson has sent in a letter from Florida giving a report of his last nine months. Between our undependable New England weather and illness by both Bob and his wife, he has experienced his share of the "downs." However, on the brighter side, they spent last summer on Pishaw Lake, near Old Town, Me., and they are presently located at 1000 Florida Ave., P.O. Box 946, Tarpon Springs, Fla. Any friends in '10 passing that way will be cordially received.

Alexander Wicliffe Muir has been direct- ing road construction for the government of Egypt. By the way, that's quite a prefix for old friend "Mule." On his Christmas card to Hoke Horton, he wrote: "Edith and Mule, thanks to orders from Uncle Sam, are home for Christmas. We had an inter- esting time in Egypt, which was terminated all too soon and too abruptly. We left most of our belongings over there, and, so far as we know, they are still there. We hope, ultimately, to get them back. Possibly we may return to the land of the Pharaohs to finish what we left undone, but that also is only speculation at the moment."

A classmate sent in a newspaper picture of Roy T. Davis scratching his head while answering the telephone. The caption un- der the picture read: "It's a mess. U. S. Ambassador Roy Davis en route to Wash- ington pauses at Miami airport to telephone ahead details of the turmoil in Haiti."

Edward J. Shaeffer and his family took an excellent South American trip last year, and a short while ago he sent a picture of them on their journey. He also commented that Skip Conant was well.

Malcolm S. Field has the sympathy of

the Class in the death of his wife last Oc- tober. She had been ill several months.

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1911

Julius A. Saacke, in Tucson during the winter, continues there for the spring. His address: Rosemont Apts., 5049 East Broad- way.

1912

William H. Dinkins, who served many years as President of Selma University, Selma, Alabama, reports that his son, a preacher, has been working with the In- ternational Sunday School Lesson Commit- tee. The Sunday School Publishing Board is in Nashville and operates under the Na- tional Baptist Convention. From 1951-54 Bill wrote 30 quarterlies for this publica- tion.

1913

Lionel M. Bishop decided to loaf after retiring as Publisher of Cosmopolitan. However, Bish couldn't stand this sort of life, and, after two months, he started a business in Florida. This didn't work out, for lack of manpower, and he's now back in Chicago as Manager of Western Family — and having fun in the bargain.

1914

The Rev. L. C. T. Miller continues as Associate Director of the Department of United Promotion of the Evangelical and Reformed Church. He gave the sermon recently at the Trinity Evangelical and Re- formed Church, Tamaqua, Pa., which of- ficially opened a campaign to raise $125,000 for building a much-needed church.

1916

Samuel R. Damon was appointed Con- sultant with the Indiana Board of Health Jan. 1. Formerly, he was Director of Labo- ratories at the Alabama State Department of Health, and, for the past 1 1 years, he has held the same position in the Indiana State Board of Health.

John B. Dunn has been re-appointed Providence Public Safety Commissioner.

1917

Ralph A. Armstrong has been named Assistant General Counsel for the Massa- chusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company. He has been with his company since 1927 and was appointed an Attorney in 1931, Assistant Counsel in 1945, and Associate Counsel in 1952. In his spare time, Ralph is Vice-Chairman of the Springfield chapter

A Tribute to a Trustee

HIGH Community Service" was the heading on the editorial in the Record-Gazette of Greenfield, Mass., for Dec. 19, which paid this tribute to Donald D. Millar '19:

Straight from the heart was the praise voiced by Greenfield Community YMCA directors Monday night on behalf of Donald G. Millar, retiring as president after three terms.

John W. Haigis, Chairman of the Board at Franklin County Trust Company, spoke of Millar's "industrial statesmanship and civic leadership." Howard J. Cadwell, President of Western Massachusetts Elec-

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trie Company, spoke of the retiring Y leader's "imposing list of accomplish- ments." Then the directors gave Millar a rising vote of thanks and applauded for a full two minutes.

If ever a tribute was deserved, it was in this instance. Among the men and women who have helped build Greenfield's Com- munity YMCA to its present position in Franklin County life, Mr. Millar has been one of the most active. His counsel has been constructive, and his vision has stood the test of uncertain time.

More than the Community YMCA has benefited from Don Millar's association with Greenfield Tap and Die Corporation for the past 20 years. Both town and county have gained. The area is better today be- cause of his energy and his foresight.

As head of the area's largest manufactur- ing concern, Mr. Millar might be forgiven the excuse that he is too busy to take part in civic projects. Instead he has taken an active role. Typical was his work in the recent United Fund drive which saw GTD owners, executives and employes play a leading part in the campaign's success.

Many other instances of the Tap and Die president's strong community spirit have received less public notice. Hardly a worth- while effort in recent years has not received sympathetic attention and personal assist- ance from the GTD official family under Don Millar's supervision. This attitude has been typical of the man and an inspiration to others to put forth similar effort.

Retirement as president will not lessen Mr. Millar's interest in the Community Y. No man could sever such close ties, especially a person so genuinely interested in the welfare of youth. Future Y leaders will always be able to count upon his coun- sel and active assistance. . . . Not only the Y but also Franklin County as an economic and social unit owes Donald G. Millar a vote of thanks for service beyond self.

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BROWN CHAIRS were a Christmas present to John S. Foley '25 of Grosse Pointe, Mich., so he and his

classmate, William M. Browne, had their pictures taken in them. "Afraid there's too much man and too

little choir," Foley comments, "but maybe it was because a friend from Penn State took the picture.

It was Christmas night." (Almost Dec. 26, if the clock is ony indication.)

of the American Red Cross, a Trustee of Western New England College and of the Brown University Fund, and a member of the Connecticut Valley Brown Club.

1919

Roger T. Clapp retired as President of the Narragansett Council, Boy Scouts of America, after presiding at the annual meeting in January. During his two years in office, the Scout membership in the area rose from 18,500 to 22,400. Clapp contin- ues as a member of the National Council, along with Walter Adler '18, Sidney Clif- ford '15, William J. Gilbane '33, Elmer S. Horton '10, Albert E. Lownes '20, Chesley Worthington '23, and Dean Edward R. Durgin.

Jack Haley was a member of the Awards Jury for the 2.'ith national competition and exhibit of outdoor advertising sponsored by the Art Directors Club of Chicago, Jan. 22-23. Jack continues as Advertising Man- ager and Director of the Narragansett Brewing Company.

W. Chester Beard has been appointed General Chairman of the 1957 Episcopal Charities Drive in Rhode Island. Other Brown men prominent in the 1957 plans are Robert H. Goff '24, Chairman of Ad- vanced Gifts, and William E. Bennett '30, Chairman of General Solicitations.

Fritz Pollard has turned his hand to the movies and has produced, in cooperation with Austin Productions, "Rocking the Blues," an all-Negro film which has been described by reviewers as "the last word in rock 'n' roll entertainment."

1920

James Q. Dealey, Jr., is Professor of Po- litical Science and also head of that de- partment at the University of Toledo. Be- fore joining his present college in 1947. Jim taught at Western Reserve, Cleveland and Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y. ^ Albert E. Lownes has been elected Pres- ident of the Rhode Island Historical So-

ciety. Several Brown men, also new mem- bers of the standing committees of that organization, include H. Cushman Anthony '26, membership; Ivory Littlefield, Jr. '46, lecture; and Garry Byrnes '26, publica- tions.

1921

Bob Buerhaus is the owner of the Con- tinental Soap Company, 18 Bartlett Sq., Jamaica Plain, Mass.

Classmates e.\tend their sympathy to Mark A. Nickerson on the death of his wife, Edna J. (Ricketson) Nickerson, Jan. 23, in Brookline, Mass.

1922

C. Manton Eddy hasn't "gone Holly- wood," but he's been there professionally. His company, Connecticut General Life Insurance Co., has produced a motion pic- ture designed to promote a better under- standing of group insurance benefits. Eddy, Vice-President of Connecticut General's group insurance and pension activities, par- ticipated in the development of the film at the studio of Parthenon Pictures.

Chapin S. Newhard, as President of the Board of St. Louis Country Day School, is giving leadership to its building program which will enable the School to move to its new campus next fall. He took an active part in ground-breaking ceremonies a year ago, as the cover picture of the School's Alumni Bulletin showed.

Dr. Theodore A. Distler's address at the Lehigh Founder's Day exercises last fall was published in the December issue of the Leiiigh Alumni Bulletin. Its title: "The Past Is Prologue." Distler, former Presi- dent of Franklin and Marshall College, is Executive Director of the Association of American Colleges.

William Paxton of the Moses Brown School in Providence is a member of the Executive Committee of the School and College Conference on English. He at- tended its meeting in Boston in December.

1923

Robert G. Bleakney, Western Area Su- perintendent with the New England Tele- phone and Telegraph Company, has been named to the new post of Assistant Gen- eral Manager for Massachusetts. Bob is a 32-year veteran of service with the Com- pany.

Stephen A. McClellan was a Campus visitor in January when his son returned to Brown after a period of military service.

The Class extends its sympathy to Don and Dick Thorndike on the death of their mother, Mabel G. Thorndike, Jan. 16, in Providence.

1924

It was going to be tight connections for Edward R. Place, President of the Brown University Club of Washington, to attend the February Advisory Council meetings in Providence. Ed had to make an address in South Bend, Ind., on Feb. 6 about the St. Lawrence Seaway project, of which he is Director of Public Relations. (The Ad- visory Council came two days later.)

Ernest W. Gray is Professor of English and Chairman of that Department at the University of Toledo, where he has been a member of the Faculty since 1947.

Frank Ring of Filene's of Boston con- tinues as an avid sports enthusiast. Accord- ing to a friend, "he likes the Red Sox, but if you really want to see him shout and wave his arms just drop in at the Boston Garden when the Boston Bruins are play- ing!"

1925

S. J. Perelman was signed by "Omnibus" to write its Jan. 27 show on the history of burlesque, starring Bert Lahr. As one col- umnist said, "Perelman is being garlanded all over the place for his script, 'Around the World in 80 Days.' "

Dr. Harry S. N. Greene, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pathology of the Yale University School of Medicine, spoke at the fourth annual Tulane Cancer Lecture recently in New Orleans.

Alden H. Norton has been aopointed Vice-President in charge of Editorial for Popular Publications, Inc. He has been as- sociated with the firm in various capacities for 22 years and is Executive Editor of Argosy Magazine.

Roger Cummings is Art Director with the Education Division of the International Cooperation Administration in Washing- ton, D. C.

Henry H. Macintosh was on the list of promotions announced in January by the Rhode Island Hospital Trust Bank in Provi- dence. His new post will be that of Assist- ant Vice-President.

1926

Amarendra Nath Sen, sending New Year's greetings to all the Class, provided a new address: "Amarniketan," 77/B, Rash- behary Ave., Calcutta 26, India.

R. Franklin Weller was named a District Director of the American Retail Associa- tion Executives at the group's 39th annual meeting in January. He is Manager of the Retail Trade Board of the Greater Provi- dence Chamber of Commerce and has been a member of the national group of retail trade executives for the past 10 years.

Leslie Allen Jones. Assistant Professor of English and Technical Director of Dra- matics at Brown, had a story on his favor- ite subject — clocks — published in the Rhode Islander section of the Providence Sunday Journal Dec. 30.

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Fla., has just completed a herculean task, putting together the 163 rd Street Shopping Center there. The job was like working on a $15,000,000 jigsaw puzzle, with thou- sands of pieces that have to fit into their proper places. A resident of Coral Gables since 1924, he was one of the men who helped in the writing of the Coral Gables zoning code. He has been Chairman of the Planning and Zoning Board since 1937.

Kent Godfrey took a leave of absence from his real estate business in Falls Church, Va., last August and took a vaca- tion in Miami. However, he soon found himself working as Advertising Manager of the Chamber of Commerce of Miami magazine and newsletter. The Miainian. He reports that "Florida has something!" He also reports that he has a granddaughter, Deborah Cheryl Hamilton, born Nov. 13, 1956. Both his daughter and her husband went to Virginia Polytech.

1927

Fred H. Barrows, Jr., reports that reun- ion plans are progressing smoothly. The schedule of events for the 30th was out- Uned in the December issue, providing an attractive weekend that starts with Friday, May 31. The reminder cards which went to all the Class are being followed up by a questionnaire.

The Rev. Franklin D. Elmer, Jr., of the First Baptist Church, Flint, Mich., has been invited to preach the morning sermon at the First Baptist Meeting House in Prov- idence on Commencement Sunday, June 2. It has been the tradition for some years for the Church to bring to its platform at that time a Baptist minister who is a Brown graduate. Fred Barrows writes: "This is indeed an honor both for Frank and the Class of 1927. Due to other commitments, Frank has not been able to return to prior reunions. We shall be happy to welcome him back."

Al Marble, a resident of Vicksburg, Miss., since 1939, says that he might be a "damn Yankee" by birth, but Mississippi is his adopted home, and he never plans leaving. From several reports, music of all kinds still comes from the organ when Al's fingers pound the key board. Incidentally, when his youngest son is graduated from Mississippi State this June, Al will have seen all six of his children through college.

1928

Kent Matteson is going to serve as Chair- man of our 30th Reunion. Tentative plans already have been made up, with a com- mittee consisting of Matteson, Lorin Litch- field, and Jack Heffernan. One point al- ready has been clarified. The wives will once again be an integral part of our pro- gram. If our 30th lives up to the standard set by our 25th. we will all be happy!

J. Saunders Redding was the guest lec- turer at the second session of the Cultural Series at the Delaware State College Li- brary recently.

Harrison Bullard has been promoted to Manager of the Saturday Evening Post in Minneapolis, and he left early in January to assume his new duties. He doesn't ex- pect to be able to bring his family along until May or June. On the agenda for this spring, however, is a visit to Providence to "show Pembroke to my daughter."

The Class offers its deepest sympathy to Benjamin S. Tully on the death of his mother, Mrs. Grace C. Tully, Jan. 16, in Barrington, R. 1.

1929

Doug Borden and his son, Doug Jr., '53, had an unusual experience Dec. 28. Each

became the father of a baby boy on that date! This was the second child and first boy for our Classmate and his second wife.

The Class offers its sympathy to Winston S. Dodge, on the death of his father, George S. Dodge, Jan. 6, in New Bedford.

Robert H. Blake is Assistant Manager of the Paris, France, office of the Guaranty Trust Company of New York. He is the Director of the American Aid Society of Paris, the American Interstate Commissary, and former President of the American Li- brary in Paris, and many other public- spirited organizations. In addition, he has received 10 French decorations, three mili- tary and seven civilian.

Promotion at M.I.T.

The practice at M.I.T., we're told, has been that all new depart- mental chairmen must be brought in "from outside." All the higher is the compliment to Prof. Irwin W. Sizer '31 in his selection as Chairman of M.I.T.'s Biology Department. The 21 years of his active teaching have all been spent at the Institute.

After getting his Ph.D. from Rut- gers in 1935, he went to Tech as In- structor and Research Associate in Biology and Public Health. He be- came Associate Professor in 1942, Executive Officer of the Department in 1954, and Acting Chairman last fall. He was a Visiting Lecturer at Brown in 1951, teaching a seminar course on enzymes, the field of his outstanding research. He has long directed the graduate research of students in his Department.

1930

Aaron H. Roitman has been named Chairman of the Providence Boy Scout District, replacing Wes Moulton '31, who became District Commissioner. Another Brunonian, Dr. Tom McOsker '39, was elected Vice-Chairman of the organization.

Edmund J. Farrell, Superintendent of Schools in Pawtucket, is a new member of the Board of the Community Workshops of Rhode Island, Inc.

1931

George F. Troy, Jr., is the new Literary Editor of the Providence Journal and edits the Sunday book page. Except for a year on the Brown Faculty, he has been with the Journal since graduation, for much of the time covering news of education. His writ- ing has included fiction (with at least one successful novel ) and book reviews.

Duncan Campbell of Lafayette, Calif., is teaching courses in Real Estate in the University Extension at the University of California. This is his busiest season, as he has had 38 classes scheduled in 19 cities in Northern California for February and March.

C. Newton Kraus, ham operator from Warren, R. I., who has kept many Rhode Island families in touch with their men at the South Pole, has been given the Navy's Distinguished Public Service Award, the highest honor paid by the Navy to civilians. Newt thus becomes the second member of his family to receive this award. His father. Dr. Charles A. Kraus, long a mem- ber of the Brown Faculty and a nationally- famous research chemist, won the honor in 1949 for his supervision of Navy contracts with Brown during the war.

Don O'Neill is the General Sales Man- ager with the Tuttle & Bailey Division of Allied Thermal Corporation.

1932

Dr. Alonzo Moron, President of Hamp- ton Institute, Hampton, Va., recently re- turned from an extensive trip through the Middle East. In late November, he gave a series of addresses based on his trip in six appearances in Rock Island and Davenport, 111.

Dr. Frederic W. Ripley, Jr., was re- elected 2nd Vice-President of the R. I. Di- vision of the American Cancer Society in January. Also on the Executive Committee is Stanley C. Paige.

1933

Daniel H. Rider was among the victors in the November elections. He was elected Representative in the General Court of Massachusetts as a Republican from the 6th Norfolk District, comprising the towns of Needham, Dedham, and Canton. He also is Chairman of the Needham School Committee, on which he has served for the past five years. He and his wife, two daugh- ters, and two sons reside at 177 Fair Oaks Park, Needham, where he is engaged in the private practice of law.

Frank Gammino presented a $15,000 gift to the Bishop Scalabrini Home for the Aged Fund Jan. 12 in the name of his parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Gammino.

Bill Gilbane was a proud and happy man in December. First, his daughter Ginny and her partner won the National Indoor Ten- nis Doubles Championship for girls 13 and under at the Longwood Cricket Club. Sec- ond, another daughter, Mary Lou, topped the 1956 singles rankings of the Rhode Is- land Tennis Association. She also was top rated in the 18-and-under girl's division.

Alfred T. Hill continues as Executive Secretary for the National Council for the Advancement of Small Colleges. He is liv- ing and working in Washington, D. C.

1934

Max H. Flaxman has been appointed as Assistant Principal at Classical High School in Providence. He had served as a Science teacher at Classical since 1952.

George A. Baker, Jr., has been elected a Vice-President of the American Screw Company of Willimantic, Conn. He has been with the firm since 1940, serving in sales analysis and market research. Since 1950, he has been Assistant to the Presi- dent.

Jim Knight, General Manager of the Miami Herald and Publisher of the Char- lotte Observer, has been elected President of the Southern Newspaper Publishers As- sociation.

Fred Haas has been appointed Fan Merchandising Specialist for the Diehl Manufacturing Company. He will work out of Diehl's office in Needham, Mass.

The Rev. H. Campbell Eatough has been called to the pastorate of the First Baptist Church of Franklin, Mass. He had been pastor at Bass River, Mass.

1935

William T. Broomhead is the new State Chairman of the Republican Party in Rhode Island. Although unsuccessful as candidate for Lieutenant Governor last fall, he made a fine campaign and im- pressed himself on his partisans doing so. Among those who backed him for his new post was Christopher Del Sesto, Republi-

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A Scholarship from 1936

GORDON Cadwgan acted for the Class of 1936 in January in presenting to the University a check for $2000 for scholar- ship purposes. The money will be used, be- ginning in the academic year 1957-58, to help one student through Brown, presum- ably at the rate of $500 a year. The fund came primarily through a drive conducted by a special committee of the Class follow- ing last June's reunion, with a supplement from the Class treasury.

The list of contributors includes: Byron H. Abedon, Norman M. Appleyard, Jr., Walter G. Barney, William H. Benton, Jr., Dr. Samuel Bojar, Richard K. Bristol, C. Warren Bubier, Cadwgan, Walter Chucnin, Paul O. Connly, Franklin Curtiss, Warren R. Daum, Jack Despres, John G. Dunn, Dr. Warren H. Eddy, Earl Fleisig, Arthur M. Freeman, John J. Gallagher, Clarence H. Gifford, Jr., Prof. John D. Glover, Walter Goetz, Jerome W. Gratenstein, Conrad E. Green;

Also, Dr. Wesley N. Haines, Frank G.

Handy, Dr. Clarence D. Hawkes, Paul W. Holt, John E. Howard, Paul S. Hoye, Wil- liam H. Kahler, Robert W. Kenyon, Charles B. Kiesel, Jr., Philip J. Lappin,Cdr. Stanton M. Latham, Harold H. Levene, Dr. Her- bert M. Levenson, the Rev. Albert W. Low, James C. Maiden, Jr., Dr. M. Price Mar- golies, Ambrose J. Murray, Charles E. H. Nauss, Dr. John O'L. Nolan, Dr. Louis J. Novak, Dr. Edward M. Ohaneson, Joseph Olney, Jr., Alfred J. Owens, Horace B. Passmore, Leon M. Payne, Robert E. Pickup;

Also, Richard M. Rieser, Karl E. Righter, Norman Russian, the Rev. Gene Scaring!, Joseph D. Small, Edwin S. Soforenko, Irv- ing H. Strasmich. William G. Summer, Charles Summerfield, Max Swartz, Theo- dore Tannenwald, Jr., William G. Thomp- son, Prof. John W. Tukey, Dr. Paul J. Votta, Norman B. Wakeman, Frank J. Watson, James L. Whitcomb, Isaac H. Whyte, Jr., Ernest C. Wilks, and Dr. Frank G. Ziobrowski.

can candidate for Governor, against whom the Supreme Court decided in its consid- eration of the absentee ballots and ballots from shut-ins.

Dr. Daniel D. Alexander, Psychiatrist at the Danvers State Hospital, was the guest speaker recently at the luncheon-meeting of the Greater Lynn (Mass.) Conference of Health, Education, and Social Workers. Dr. Alexander is in charge of the Out- patient Clinic at the hospital for patients over 16, and he also serves as Supervisor of Child Guidance work in Salem and Lynn.

H. Brainard Fancher has spent the last three months in full-time attendance at the General Electric Company Advanced Man- agement Center in Crotonville, N. Y., where the company is set up to offer the same type of advanced training as the Har- vard Business School.

Nelson Record has been ill recently, and his Classmates wish him a speedy recovery. He's living at 6 Whittier Drive, Johnston. R. I.

Al Joslin was Chief Counsel for Christo- pher Del Sesto, Republican candidate for Governor in Rhode Island, during the long legal battle following the November elec- tion.

1936

Walter Goetz is in charge of production for the popular television show, "The Mil- lionaire." He visited New Haven recently and recalled the many trips he made to that city while an undergraduate at Brown, usually to see the Bear battle the Bulldog. Walter is living at 411 '/» South Spaldine, Beverly Hills, Calif.

Alfred W. Shepherd is Field Manager with the Milton Bradley Company, Man- lius, N. Y. His address is Palmer Rd., Man- lius.

David C. Scott, Jr., is again a member of the Executive Committee of the Com- munity Workshops of Rhode Island, Inc., a social service agency.

Gordon Cadwgan led a committee of Rhode Island citizens who drew up a plan for new Slate aid to schools recently. He is with G. H. Walker Company, Providence investment bankers.

1937

Thurlow B. Bearse has been appointed to a three-year term on the Finance Com- mittee in the town of Barnstable, Mass. Treasurer of Bradford Hardware Company of Hyannis, he is a Past-President of the Cape Cod Hardware Dealers Association.

Austin N. Peck has been appointed Spe- cial Instructor in Accounting and Business Law for the spring semester at the Univer- sity of Rhode Island.

DR. LESTER H. SUGARMAN '30 will bs installed as President of the American Optometric Associ- ation during its 60th Annuol Congress in Los Angeles. He is a Past President of the New Eng- land Council of Optometrists and a former Chair- man of the Boord of Health in his home town, Meriden, Conn. He has also held the top posts at various times in the Meriden Council of PTA's, Fellowcraft Club, Temple Men's Club, and Meri- den Center Lodge, lOOF. The AOA is the na- tional organization of 11,000 optometrists.

Tom Keefe continues as Sales Promo- tion Manager for the Boston territory of Sears Roebuck & Company.

Grove S. Dow, Jr., is a Design Engineer with the University of California at its Los Alamos, N. M., Laboratory.

1938

Robert S. Burgess, Executive Director of the Rhode Island Heart Association, has informed the association that he will re- sign May 1 to take a position in Pittsburgh. There, he will become Executive of the Family and Child Welfare Division of the Health and Welfare Federation of Alle- gheny County. The Federation serves a territory of about three million people. Dr. Burgess has held his present position since 1950, and under him the Heart Association broadened its program from primary in- terest in children with heart disease to in- terest in both children and adults.

Antone G. Singsen has been named Vice- President of the newly-formed Blue Cross Association. This organization will act as the national spokesman for its members, the local non-profit Blue Cross plans deal- ing with national problems affecting the hospital care prepayment program. His headquarters will be in New York City. He is a former reporter and editorial writer for the Providence Journal-Bulletin and, most recently, has been serving as Associ- ate Director of the Blue Cross Commission in Chicago.

Bob Thomas, employed by the Automo- bile Mutual Insurance Company at the Providence office, has been named to the 1957 Homecoming Committee.

1939

Charles E. Gross has been elected an Assistant Trust Officer at the Rhode Island Hospital Trust Bank.

1940

Lou Valente, together with two friends, wrote and published the song entitled, "Give Your Love For Christmas," last November. Described as "a ballad with a message," Lou hopes that this tune will take its place among the annual Christmas songs in the years to come. While an un- dergraduate at Brown, three of Lou's songs were used in the varsity show, one being picked up by Fred Waring. While in the Army, he also wrote the songs for two mu- sical shows in Europe.

Samuel J. Sherer is on the West Coast serving with the United Airlines in Seattle as Special Assistant to the President.

Maj. Harlow L. Paul was transferred to Korea in January. He had been at Fort Banks, Winthrop, Mass.

Albert Bedell is Insurance Accounts Representative with C. R. Black, Jr., Cor- poration, 90 John St., N. Y.

1941

Dr. Allan Nanes has two articles in cur- rent publications. One comments on the at- tempt to form a European atomic com- munity in World Affairs Quarterly. The other, in Social Science, is on "Paying for Higher Education," a subject to which Brown men give more than casual interest. The author is with the Library of Congress in Washington.

Jan. 3 1 was the first day of the year 4655 on the Chinese calendar. Yat K. Tow, un- official Chinese Mayor of Providence, closed his restaurant early and held a New Year's celebration for his employees and family. Although the year was scheduled to be the Year of the Rooster, it was de-

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cided to call it the Year of the Chicken, as a compliment to the ladies, according to a Providence Journal story.

Tom Carty is head coach of the hockey team at Boston Trade this year, and he has fielded a fine sextet in the Boston Confer- ence's City League.

1942

Bill Beauchamp has been promoted to the rank of Major in the United States Army. He entered the service in 1952 and returned to the continental U. S. from a tour of duty in Alaska in July, 1955.

Charles E. Spencer has been elected a Director of Waterbury National Bank. He is with the Homer D. Bronson Company, Beacon Falls, Conn., as Personnel and Purchasing Director and Assistant Secre- tary.

Thomas G. Ahern, President and Treas- urer of Ahern Textile Printing, Inc., of Norwich, Conn., will be listed for the first time in the forthcoming edition of "Who's Who in Commerce and Industry."

John M. Sapinsley is now President of the Lowell Insulated Wire Corporation of Lowell, Mass., in addition to his duties as President of The Crescent Company in Pawtucket. The latter recently acquired the assets of the Lowell company and incorpo- rated it as a subsidiary.

1943

Kingsley Meyer, Sales Promotion Man- ager of the Davol Rubber Company, has been appointed Campaign Chairman for the annual fund drive of Junior Achieve- ment of Rhode Island, Inc. Goal for the drive this year is $35,000, which Junior Achievement Directors hope will make it possible to set up a second business center in the Providence area.

Ed Lancaster has been appointed Sales Representative of the Specialty Division and Progressive Manufacturing Division of the Torrington Company, Torrington, Conn. He will cover eastern New England from the firm's Worcester regional office. Prior to joining the Torrington Company, Ed had been employed as Assistant Mer- chandising Manager at the Union Hard- ware Company.

Henry C. Adams is living in Bangor, Me., where he is Traffic Superintendent with New England Tel & Tel. He covers the Eastern area of that State.

1944

Paul A. Cunningham is working out of Atlanta, Ga., as a newspaper representa- tive for Sawyer-Ferguson-Walker. His of- fice is in the First National Bank Building.

1945

M. David Bell has been appointed Chairman of the Publicity Committee of the Rhode Island Society for Mental Health. He had been doing publicity work in the radio field prior to his new position.

Arnold M. Zais has been named Man- ager of Administrative Operations of the Nuclear Development Corporation of America and will also act as Controller. Prior to his recent appointment, he had been the General Business Manager. The Corporation is located in White Plains, N. Y.

1946

Harold W. Demopulos, Providence law- yer, has been elected President of the Rhode Island Council of Eastern Orthodox Churches.

Hugh B. Allison has been named Vice- President in charge of Chem-o-sol sales for the Chemical Products Corp., East Provi-

THE MODERN LANGUAGE Association of America announced at its mid-winter meeting that the MLA-Crofts-Cornell Award for 1956 hod been given to Dr. Richard M. Chadbourne '43 for his book on "Ernest Renan and the Art of the Essay." The $1000 prize, open to all members of the MLA, is for a first-hand study in the field of mod- ern liberature. The winner is Assistant Professor of French at Fordhom. An earlier recipient of the some award was Thomas V/arren Ramsey, who received his Brown A.M. in 1946; his book was on "Jules Laforgue."

dence. He has been with this firm since graduation from Brown.

The Class extends its sympathy to Dante Pennacchia on the death of his father Jan. 9.

1947

Plans for the Big 10th Reunion began to take shape when the Class committee held its first meeting in Alumni House on Feb. 6. The major emphasis will be put on two days on the Hill, Friday, May 31, and Saturday, June 1. Registration and a cock- tail party will lead off on May 31, pre- liminary to the Alumni Dinner and Cam- pus Dance, which the Class will attend. Saturday's features include an outing and the Class Dinner. Ample mail notice is promised to all by Chairman Norm Jerome.

Committee assignments include: Ken Taylor and Dick Goff, cocktail party; War- ren Macdonald, Friday night events; Stan Blacher, outing; Bill Joslin and Joe Riker, Class Dinner; Ben Boyle and Don Creamer, publicity; plus Dom Canna, Art Bussey, and President Jay James, ex officio. Re- gional representatives will be announced shortly.

Donald E. Creamer is President and Robinson C. Trowbridge '52 is Executive Vice-President of Creamer-Trowbridge Co., Providence advertising and public rela- tions agency, which was incorporated as of Jan. 1.

1948

Morton J. Marks is employed as Special Assistant to the Solicitor of Labor in the U. S. Department of Labor, Washington, D. C. He celebrated the birth of his first child, Peter, in January by buying a new home at 3500 Dundee Drive, North Chevy Chase 15, Md.

Lew Shaw has been elected President of the Junior Chamber of Commerce in Springfield, Mass. Lew was able to catch but one football game last fall, but he

picked a good one — Brown's first pigskin triumph over Cornell on Homecoming Day. William E. McAuliffe, a recent Campus visitor, is New England Sales Manager for Miller Furniture Co. of Boston, special- ists in contemporary furniture. He has bought a new home at 9 Wesson Rd., Ash- land, where he and his wife are now living.

1949

Ted LaBonne is keeping busy in his "spare" time. He is Chairman of the Jun- ior Chamber of Commerce in Manchester, Conn., as well as President of the Hocka- num Brown Club of Manchester.

Richard Sayles, investigator for the U. S. Civil Service, has been transferred to Providence from the Boston office. He is residing at 88 Paine Ave., Cranston 10.

Lester E. Hunt was awarded his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota in Decem- ber.

Welles Hangen has resigned from the New York Times to head the Cairo Bureau of the National Broadcasting Company. He had been expelled from Moscow re- cently, the Soviet government claiming that he violated privileges of taking photo- graphs while on a tour. He had been with the Times since 1949.

Dom Sperduti, teacher at Durfee High, Fall River. Mass., reports a good early sale on his book, "For You I Commit Murder," published by the Christopher Publishing House of Boston.

Fred Govain has been appointed Scout Executive of Monadnock Council of Gard- ner, Mass. He had been Assistant Scout Executive and Camp Director at the Pom- peraug Council in Bridgeport, Conn.

Paul Yelavich of Clifton, N. J., has been promoted by the Prudential Insurance Company to Assistant Manager in the Sickness and Accident Claim Division. He had been serving as a Claim Advisor.

Dr. Harold Ludman is completing his second year as Resident Physician in In- ternal Medicine at the Brooklyn Veteran's Administration Hospital. He will go into private practice after a third year at this hospital. They have two sons, Mark David, born in December, 1 954, and Neil Charles, born in December, 1956.

1950

A quick glance at the records shows that the men of '50 are doing their part to actively support the Brown Clubs across the country. No less than 28 of our classmates are listed as officers of these various organizations. A year ago, 20 men of the Class were thus engaged.

The list of the men, their office, and their Club is as follows: Presidents — Robert F. King, Buffalo; Robert F. Hague, Eagle Rock, N. J.; Kenneth List, Fall River; Herb Wieboldt, Lackawanna, N. J.; Norris L. O'Neill, Hariford; Edwin Levis, Jr., St. Louis; Vice-Presidents — John F. Dator, Fall River; Anthony A. Combias. Lacka- wanna, N. J.; Robert H. Cowgill, Los Angeles; Richard W. Bracket!, Northeast- em N. Y.; Henry Barksdale, St. Louis; John F. Kimball, Western Maine. Secretaries — Edward J. Davidson, Alta California, Donald C. Hutchison, Connecticut Valley; Fred Kozak, Fall River; Hardy L. Payor, Florida; Thomas J. Costello, Northeastern N. Y.; Eugene J. McNally, Syracuse; Rich- ard B. Phillips, Washington, D. C; Arthur F. Murphy, Western Pennsylvania; Charles H. Bradley, II, Executive Secretary, New York. Treasurers — Edgar W. Swanson, Central New Jersey; Maurice Van Kave- laar, Delaware; Paul Thompson, Georgia; Edward B. Corcoran, Newport; Directors

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ADOLPH G. ABRAMSON, who received both of his graduate degrees from Brown University, is the new Director of Economic Planning for SKF Industries, Inc. He has been with SKF since 1940, for the lost seven years as Manager of the Com- mercial Research Department. He is o member of the Business Research Advisory Council of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and has served national and governmental agencies in his field. "Business Forecosting in Practice," of which he is co-author, was recently published.

— Ralph H. Seifert, Boston and Framing- ham; Stoughton Ellsworth, Framingham; Fred Baurenfield, Long Island.

Fred Diehl was on his way from Alex- andria when Duncan Grant "54 met him in Tripoli in January. Earlier he'd been at the American Embassy in Beirut, suggest- ing a specialty in Middle Eastern affairs.

Bill De Nuccio and Gene Gallant journeyed down from the State House to attend the last Class Luncheon. Bill, in fact, has been a regular customer since the meetings started in October. He is in the Department of Administration. Gene has been Administrative Assistant to Governor Roberts since 1955.

Jack Ellsworth, the voice of WHIM, Providence, back around 1947-48, is Pro- gram Director at WALK, Patchogue, "Long Island's most powerful radio sta- tion." Jack, who also does some disc-jockey work each day, "concentrates on the better music of today (of which there is little) pliis plenty of the great hits from the 'thirties and early 'forties." In addition to his regular radio duties, he does a special hour show each day called "Memories in Melody," in which he features nothing but the old standards. Jack has a large private collection of these old hits, a fact which gives him a decided advantage over the average disc jockey. In his spare time, he is raising two fine sons, managing a Little League Baseball team, teaching a Sunday School Class, and participating in Kiwanis activities, where he is First Vice-President. Last year, when Kiwanis staged a charity ball. Jack was able to get the recently re- organized Glenn Miller band to appear.

Bob McCann has been transferred from San Francisco to Taft. Calif., by the Standard Oil Company. He is an Analyst in charge of Organization and Accounting.

Giles Powell has moved to Albany, where he is a salesman with the Dixie Cup Company.

Roy Pearson is living in Washington while working for the Atomic Energy Com- mission.

Dave Rothman headed the committee which planned a reunion of Classical High School's class of January, 1947, held Feb. 9.

The Class extends its sympathy to Harold Harris on the death of his father, William H. Harris, Jan. 11, in Providence.

Lt. E. Franklin Stone, called into the Navy, will leave his medical training be- hind for the time being. He finished two and one half years at the Rhode Island Hospital in January, the first year as an intern, and the second as a Junior Assistant Resident in Medicine. The last six months were spent as a Resident in Pediatrics.

Bob Kulason is a Patent Attorney with the Texas Company. He's located at 135 East 42nd St., N. Y.

Chester Thomas worked in the North Carolina area this winter and early spring as a Cartographer with the U.S. Geological Survey.

Ted Brown is the Branch Manager in Utica, N. "V., for the Automobile Mutual Insurance Company of America. His office is located in the First National Bank Build- ing.

BOB CUMMINGS

1951

John Besozzi, out of the service, is work- ing as an insurance agent with his father's firm, the John F. Besozzi Insurance Agency in Torrington, Conn.

L. Donald Jaffin, after serving two years with the Army as a Special Agent in the Counter Intelligence Corps, has returned to his former position as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern Dis- trict of New York.

Albert Watkins, previously with Collier's Philadelphia ad sales office, has joined Time Magazine.

Malcolm L. Daniels, Cranston Republi- can City Committee Chairman, has been appointed as Executive Secretary to Mayor Earl A. Colvin. Daniels is associated with Z. Daniels Company, Providence crockery firm.

1952

Jerry Berkelhammer received his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry Jan. 9 at the Univer- sity of Washington in Seattle. He has accepted a position with the American Cyanamid Company in Stamford, Conn.

Albert Fournier is a Research Chemist with the U.S. Rubber Company in Passaic, N. J. He is in the Research and Develop- ment Department.

Ira L. Keats was discharged from the service Dec. 26 and is employed with Keats Motors, Inc., Trenton, N. J.

Joe Motherway is a Mechanical Engi- neer with the Electric Boat Division of the General Dynamics Corporation, Groton, Conn.

Dave Brodsky conducted a series of round table discussions on studies by the Harvard Business School in Trenton in January. He is a member of the staff of the Educational Testing Service of Princeton, N. J.

Ralph S. Cunningham is one of 14 stu- dents at the Harvard Law School elected as members of the Harvard Voluntary De- fenders. He is a second-year student at the Law School.

1953

Dwight Freeburg is about to be dis- charged from the Navy, where he has been

since graduation. He received his Commis- sion from OCS in January, 1954, and spent the next 16 months on the USS Monterey, a small aircraft carrier stationed at Pensa- cola, Fla. Since July of 1955 he has been attached to the Fleet Training Group in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as a Communica- tion Instructor.

George Bender is studying at the North- eastern University Law School for a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree. He was discharged from the service last August after two years of active duty.

Reece T. Clemens is the Advertising Production Manager with Viking Air Products, Cleveland.

1954

Richard L. Amill is associated with Life Magazine as a Retail Representative. His territory is Westchester County and Lower Connecticut.

Pvt. John W. Leahy has been graduated from the Parts Supply course at the Army's Armor Training Center, Fort Knox, Ky.

Ens. Duncan Grant of the USS Macon writes from Valencia, Spain: "Just a few days ago I bumped into Fred Diehl '50 in Tripoli, Libya. We had both been scattered by the Suez trouble — on opposite sides: Fred from Alexandria, while my port of departure was Haifa. We celebrated our good fortune of meeting where the desert meets the sea by swapping many tales of College Hill."

1955

2nd Lts. Richard J. DePatie and James T. Egan received the silver wings of an Air Force jet pilot recently at Laredo Air Force Base, Tex. The graduation cul- minated 14 months of intensive pilot train- ing.

Barry Burnham, who, incidentally, is call- ing himself Jim now, is enthusiastic about his Physics study at the University of Con- necticut. He hopes to have all his degree requirements out of the way by June of this year, for his Master of Science.

Henry Juncker has just made LTJG along with the rest of the class. His ship, the Great Sitkin, is undergoing overhaul in the Navy yard at Hoboken, and luckily, Hank could get home for the holidays.

Lew Kaplan is presently studying law at the University of Virginia Law School, where he had the honor to be elected to the Phi Delta Phi, international legal fraternity.

Joe Hilton is tearing things up down there too, and I understand from Hank that Joe is a member of the Law School Pub- lication, Tlie Reading Guide, and the year- book. The Barrister. Joe started at Brown an excellent organization called the Inter- national Relations Club.

Bill Joel and his wife are at Cherry Point, N. C. Bill is still with the Marines.

Derek Stedman has a new daughter named Linda who, he says, is taking up a lot of his time these days. To make room for the new addition he and his family have moved out to White Plains, N. Y.

I have seen quite a bit of Marty Schwal- berg around Quonset Point, and he is not sure if he likes being driven around in the Navy's AD's. He says they sound like a washing machine, and he doesn't see how they get off the ground at all. I had lunch some time ago with him and the class scholar, Dave Kunstler. Dave has had pretty extensive Combat Information schooling and enjoys it a great deal.

Mixie and I drove up to Providence the other day to see Warren llchman, but he was attending some conference in Wash- ington. Sounded to us like a pretty big deal.

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Headquarters for a Quest

IN THE FIGHT against cancer, there are few more strategic centers than the Ros- coe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory at Bar Harbor, Me. The successor to the famous Dr. Clarence C. Little as its Di- rector is Dr. Earl L. Green, who did his graduate work at Brown University. He assumed his new duties in October. An- nouncement of Dr. Green's appointment and Dr. Little's retirement after 27 years with the Laboratory added special signifi- cance to its 27th annual meeting last Au- gust.

"Dr. Green's appointment was made after careful consultation with a number of important organizations and individuals familiar with him and his work," Dr. Little said. "The reactions were unanimously enthusiastic. I have known Dr. Green since his student days, and we have had him as a summer investigator at the Labo- ratory. He is familiar with the Laboratory's past, is in touch with its present program, and has a fine vision and devoted confi- dence in its future."

Dr. Green came to Brown after gradua- tion from Allegheny College in 1935. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in genetics after studies in the Department of Biology, in 1937 and 1940 respectively. After a Fel- lowship year at the University of Chicago, he joined the Faculty of Ohio State Uni- versity in 1941, advancing to the rank of full Professor. He was a geneticist to the Division of Biology and Medicine, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission from 1953 to 1955 and was Editor of the Ohio Journal of Science. His field of research has concerned the developmental and quantitative genetics of the house mouse.

The Jackson Laboratory owes its incep- tion, inspiration to Dr. Little, who con- tinues his affiliation with its program. His greatest contribution to medical progress has been the development of standardized inbred strains of mice whose important uses facilitate research into such diseases of man as cancer, muscular dystrophy, and

arthritis. The Department of Biology has long had close association with the work at Jackson Laboratory.

Mrs. Green, the former Margaret Creighton, is a scientist in her own right, her field of research being radiation cytology and mouse genetics. She received her Master of Science degree from Brown in 1937 after graduation from Connecticut College. She was an Assistant on the Brown Faculty during her studies here. She be- came a Research Assistant at Iowa Uni- versity while earning her doctorate and has continued her scientific investigations at Ohio State. For one two-year period she was a biologist for the National Science Foundation.

DR. EARL L. GREEN

I am taking a Law degree by correspond- ence at LaSalle in Chicago to keep from losing all contact with the outside world.

DOC HOinc

1956

Ens. Carl Gable sent a letter that was full of information about classmates and we're very thankful for his efforts. He, Bob Norton. Nick Cappazolli, Brad Greer, and last year's wrestling captain. Joe Muse, are living in a house in Georgetown while serv- ing duty with the Navy in Washington. They have become affiliated with the Brown Club there and planned to attend the Feb. 20 meeting honoring Dr. Keeney. Bob and Carl are with the Office of Naval Intelligence. Nick and Brad are with Com- munications, and Joe is with Naval Ordi- nance as Procurement Officer. Their ad- dress is 2041 Huide Koper PI., N.'W.. Washington, D. C.

Bill Romano is in London with the Navy, and Wilder Lucas has been transferred to the Naval Judge Advocate Office from a ship at sea. Carl writes that he and Wilder are luncheon companions.

The Marines have not been idle, and I'm happy to report that the Hughes twins have been somewhat disrupted by Dick's marriage. I'm sure that the whole Class wishes him and his bride the best of luck. Both Guy and Dick, and also Dave Morean, are stationed at Quantico.

Dave Thompson is with a "moth ball fleet" in Glen Cove, Fla., and Steve You- man is in Washington with the National Security Agency. John Golden is also at- tached to the Navy in Washington, serving in communications.

Ens. Dick McKenny is another Navy man who swells our "moth ball" ranks. Dick is now in Philadelphia. Noel Field is at Fort Meade. Md.

Ex Bruin gridiron captain, Jim McGuin- ness, is helping to train recruits at Bain- bridge Navy Base, Md.

Bruce Lovell is planning on taking a wife in the near future. He's in Washington with the Navy.

Bob Sterling was graduated from OCS at Newport and has headed to "see the sea."

Pete Nachajski is a student at the George Washington University Medical School.

Dan Morrissey, narrator on the popular "Wriston and Brown" recording, is in the Foreign Service School at Georgetown.

Ralph Goodrum has been ushered by the Navy to Newfoundland, where he will help refuel planes flying the great circle route from the U.S. to Europe.

Carl Gable wrote that he and Norton brought a boat all the way down to Wash- ington from Massachusetts and have been doing a great deal of sailing in their "off" time. They also took a special course in Soviet Intelligence Operational Systems in the State Department Foreign Service In- stitute.

Dave Merson and Bob Gordon are two ex-businessmen who have made good starts at odd occupations. Bob was working with the Gordon Doll Company, but he has "retired" to serve some time with the Army. He is a medic at Ft. Hood, Tex., and ex- pects to head for Germany soon. Dave was engaged in the toupe and wig business in Lewiston, Me., and reportedly has several Broadway actors as clients. He, too, is now with the Army, as a clerk typist at Fort Dix, N. J.

Ex-WBRU executive Don Silverman is still working on captive audiences. He's with the Psychological Warfare School at Fort Bragg, N. C.

The New York Central Executive Train- ing Division hasn't been enough to check Jerry Jerome. He's enrolled in night classes at Columbia while living at 106 McClean Ave., Yonkers, N. Y.

Also at Columbia working for a Master's in Education is Tom Dacey.

Bernie Iser is working as an Assistant in production and direction for CBS.

Tom Bernstein is currently waiting as- signment with the Army.

Jim Gagliardi, working in Hartford for Connecticut General Life Insurance Com- pany, claims the distinction of being the only '56 fellow to get back to Brown every weekend thus far. There must be some at- traction in Providence other than the Campus!

Norm Cowen is at Penn Medical School along with Ed Forman, Lou Shaffer, and Evans Diamond.

Ens. and Mrs. Charlie Flather (the former Sandra Jean McCain, P '56) are awaiting Charlie's new assignment.

By the way, how about all you recently married chaps letting me know so that I can enroll you in the Future Fathers of '56. Then, when some new arrivals come, let us have the information, and we'll mail you a certificate of enrollment for your boy in the Class of '78, which we are sponsoring. The ladies of the future class at Pembroke also will be registered. My new address is the Lawyers Club, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

2nd Lt. Denny Bearce is with the U.S. Marines at Quantico.

Basil Tanenbaum is doing graduate work in Science at Yale.

Jim Kelly is at the Andover Newton Theological Seminary.

Bob Walls reports that he is with the Chemstrand Corporation in New York.

Add the name of Bob Elkins to our '56 future lawyers. He's at Rutgers now.

Art Lewry is doing advanced and inter- esting work with the Chrysler Institute of Engineering in Detroit.

Ex-Commander of Sigma Nu, Pete Shut- kin, is following in his father's footsteps. He's enrolled at Cornell Medical College and is living at 1300 York Ave., N.Y.C.

Bill Dyer is working with the H. C. Wainwright Company in Boston.

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Larry Hatch is doing graduate work at Purdue.

Don Trott is also at graduate school. He selected Columbia.

George Chapman is with Jordan Marsh in Boston.

Ens. John Seid has been assigned to the Bureau of Naval History in Washington.

Another former Bruin pigskin star, 2nd Lt. Dom Balogh, is with the Air Force in Georgia. He and his charming wife, Ann, are living on Route #6, Colonial Heights, Moultrie, Ga.

Bob Campbell is with Chrysler Corpora- tion at Birmingham, Mich., as a member of the Technical Training Division.

Al Perrino is doing graduate work at Notre Dame and living in Mishawaka, Ind.

Former Lambda Chi Alpha President, Frank Regan, is a 2nd Lt. with the Marines. He reports his hfe as "tough but good."

Ken Morley is a student at the Boston University School of Medicine, and he and his wife, popular Pembroker Peg Clune, live at 50 Peterboro Ave., Apt. 39, Boston.

Dwight Doolan has exchanged his Chase Manhattan Bank outfit for the garb of an officer candidate at Quantico.

Class President Ed Lary has returned to Brown for additional work. His address is Box 1037.

Watch for our '56 News and World Wide Report which will be published later this spring. This will be our first effort at what we hope will be an annual class newsletter.

I'm back at Michigan again after some time at home due to the illness of my

father, who, incidentally, is feeling much better. Send any and all information for this column to me there at the Lawyers Club.

Martin V. Arabian, located in Caracas, Venezuela, reports that his plans for the future are "many." He still intends to come back to the States and become an American citizen, figuring that within three months he can obtain an immigrant visa to re-enter the States. In the meantime, he is working there for General Electric and hopes to continue with them when he gets back to the U. S.

Henri Leblond is a graduate student at Brown studying French. He is studying under Prof. Hunter Kellenberger, Chair- man of the Modem Language Division. He has been elected unanimously for the sec- ond time to the Presidency of the Associa- tion de la Jeunesse Franco Americaine, a Franco-American youth movement which has chapters in all of the six New England states. He also has been appointed to the Comite d'Orientation Franco-Americaine, a committee with authority over all Franco- American organizations in New England. Finally, he is the new Editor of Le Voya- geiir (you guessed it, a Franco-American monthly).

Robert Swartz had an opportunity to work for the University Fund as a City Chairman but was forced to decline be- cause "the U. S. Army also has desires on my services and I guess they will have to come first."

MARV WILENZIK

Bureau of Vital Statistics

MARRIAGES

1921 — John R. Stevens and Miss Pris- cilla Horr, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Frank Horr of Providence, Nov. 23. At home: 166 Congdon St., Providence.

1938 — Perry N. Shor and Miss Maida Somers, daughter of Mrs. Nathan Somers of Saugus, Mass., and the late Mr. Somers, June 2. At home: 10976 Bluffside Dr., North Hollywood, Calif.

1944 — Paul A. Cunningham and Miss Ruth Sabina Woelfel, daughter of Mr. Robert G. Woelfel, of Larchmont, N. Y., and the late Mrs. Woelfel, Dec. 8.

1944 — Harvey M. Steiner and Miss Diane Kathleen Roth, daughter of Mrs. Lester L. Roth and the late Mr. Roth of San Francisco, Oct. 7. Joseph I. Steiner '37 was best man for his brother.

1949 — J. Pierce Anthony and Miss Dor- othy Eva Fitzpatrick, daughter of Mr. William M. Fitzpatrick of Wingdale, N. Y., Jan. 6. At home: Apt. 304, 116 North Carolina Ave., S.F., Washington 3, D. C.

1950 — Edgar D. Beacham and Miss Jane Ann Buckalew, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Buckalew of Bloomsburg, Pa., Jan. 12. Ushers included Norman E. Wright '49.

1950^John A. Blackball and Miss Evelyn Mitchell, daughter of Mr. Earle A. Mitchell of Pleasantville, N. Y., and the late Mrs. Mitchell, Dec. L Best man was James O. Alexander '51.

1951- — John E. Alden and Miss Suzanne Slater of Evanston, 111., in April, 1955.

1951 — A. Laney Lee and Miss Ann Day Collins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles

Collins of St. Louis, Dec. 21. Best man was George N. Diederich '52.

1951 — Elwood E. Leonard, Jr., and Mrs. Barbara M. Holmes of Providence, in July. The bride is Pembroke '46.

1951 — Richard B. Pemstein and Miss Dorothy R. Cotton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry M. Cotton of Worcester, Mass., Dec. 16. Ushers included Arthur Jacobson '50. The bride is Pembroke '58. At home: 77-9 Park Ave., Worcester.

1952 — William L. de Prosse, Jr., and Miss Rosalind Velva Clapp, daughter of Mrs. Paul S. Clapp of New York City, and the late Mr. Clapp, Jan. 19. Father of the groom is William L. de Prosse '26.

1952 — Peter Lombard!, Jr., and Miss Louise Emma Thomas, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Everett K. Thomas of Provi- dence, in October.

1952 — Marc I. Rowe and Miss Joyce Josephine Tetreault, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dewey J. Tetreault of Whitinsville, Mass., Dec. 16.

1952 — Eugene F. Tortolani and Miss Lucy Ann Brubaker, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Warren I. Brubaker of Annville, Pa., Dec. 29. Ushers included Russell Gower, Robert Marsello, and James Sweet all Brown '52. The bride is Pembroke '55. At home: 34 North Lake Shore Dr., Barring- ton, R. I.

1953 — Craig Gambee and Miss Mary Elizabeth Hall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Hall of Utica, N. Y., Dec. 16.

1953— Hugh J. Gourley, III, and Miss Janet Wilhelmina Heller, daughter of Mrs. William C. Heller of Fast Providence, and the late Mr. Heller, Dec. 29. Ushers in- cluded Martin J. Kantor '54. Father of the

groom is Hugh J. Gourley, Jr., '22. The bride was given in marriage Ijy her brother- in-law, Stephen Prager '47. The bride is Pembroke '53. At home: 462 Park Dr., Boston.

1953 — Kenneth L. Green, III, and Miss Marion Marino Bischoff, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Bischoff of St. Louis, Jan. 12. The groom's brother, Nat Green '56 served as best man. Ushers included Peter Bower '52, George Diederich '52, and James Mooney '53.

1953 — Lloyd Provost, Jr., and Miss Cherry Collins, niece of Mr. and Mrs. Ethan D. Alyea of Montclair, N. J., Jan. 5. Best man was Bruce Freitag '52. Ushers included David Lownes '53, William Pol- leys '54, Jack Hopkins '54, and Donald Barber '54. The bride is Pembroke '55. Bridesmaids included Janet Cabrera, Pat Goodman, Carlyn Wegner Hopkins, and Elizabeth Kreusler, all Pembroke '55. At home: 211 Orange Rd., Montclair, N. J.

1954 — Donald H. Breslow and Miss Joan Swartz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Swartz of Pawtucket, Dec. 25. Ushers included Frank Curhan '54. At home: 102-45 62nd Road, Forest Hills, N. Y.

1955 — Joseph R. Blumberg and Miss Betty Lou Perlroth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Perlroth of New Haven, Conn., Dec. 20.

1955 — John D. O'Brien and Miss Anne Murphy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Neale D. Murphy of Cranston, Oct. 13. At home: 6880 Meadowbrook Blvd., Apt. 449, St. Louis Park, Minn.

1956 — Daniel C. Boynton and Miss Janet Kay Jannsen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Jannsen of Bristol, R. I., Dec. 29.

1956 — William L. Demchak and Miss Marie Louise Clemens, daughter of Mr. John D. Clemens of Lake City, Pa., and Mrs. Joseph H. Newton of Geneva, 111., Nov. 26. The bride is Pembroke '58. At home: Apt. 28, Fleetwood 2012, Tele- phone Rd., Houston, Tex.

1956 — Lt. Dwight M. Doolan and Miss Sarah Leslie Chapman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gurdon T. Chapman of Killing- worth, Conn., Dec. 23. Ushers included James H. Rogers, Jr., '56 and James M. DeMund '56. The bride is Pembroke '58. At home: 515 Pitt St., Fredericksburg, Va.

1956— Richard E. Kendall and Miss Cynthia Carragher, daughter of Mrs. Mil- dred Carragher of Falmouth, Mass., Dec. 20.

1956 — Wesley M. Vandervliet and Miss Anne McCarty, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clinton McCarty of Torrington, Conn. and New York City, Dec. 29.

1956 — Charles H. Weingarten and Miss Jane Adele Albertson, Pembroke '57, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Murray Albert- son of Brookline, Mass., Dec. 23. Ushers included John Cutler '56, Joe Sheffer '56, and Leonard Rubin '54. At home; 174 Winthrop Rd., Brookline.

1958 — Edmund R. Gilmartin, Jr., and Miss Barbara Ann Hewitt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William F. Hewitt of Provi- dence, Dec. 29.

BIRTHS

1931— To Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Ru- tan of Montclair, N. J., their fourth child, a son, John Craig, Jan. 1.

1942 — To Mr. and Mrs. Gene Keenoy, Jr., of North Caldwell, N. J., their third child and first daughter, Patricia, Sept. 24.

1945— To Mr. and Mrs.. R. Harper

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Brown of Berwyn, Pa., twin daughters, Nancy Richardson and Linda Walters, Jan. 10. The Browns now have four daughters.

1945— To Mr. and Mrs. David E. Fer- guson of Niantic, Conn., their third child and second daughter, Alicia Anne, Nov. 26.

1946— To Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Saul of Providence, their third son, David For- rester, Jan. 21. Grandfather is William H. Edwards '19.

1948— To Mr. and Mrs. Morton J. Marks of North Chevy Chase, Md., a son, Peter Andrew, Jan. 6.

1948— To Mr. and Mrs. Ralph I. Wil- cox of Providence, their third child and second daughter, Carol Ann, Dec. 30.

1949 — To Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Aron- son of Allentown, Pa., a second son, Henry Roy, Dec. 6.

1949— To Mr. and Mrs. Alan S. Flink of Providence, their second son, Philip Jay, Aug. 24.

1950 — To Mr. and Mrs. John A. Dilling- ham of Westfield, Mass., their second child

and first son, Stephen John, Jan. 10. Grandfather is Albert E. Dillingham '18.

1950 — To Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Lapides of Barrington, twins, Robert Mark and Jane Ann, Dec. 9.

1950— To Mr. and Mrs. Dallas B. Trammell of Kenmore, N. Y., a daughter, Victoria Anne, Dec. 29.

1951— To Mr. and Mrs. Franklin O. Rose, Jr., of Providence, their second child and first daughter, Susanne Junipher, Jan. 20. Grandfather is Franklin O. Rose, former Professor of Engineering at Brown.

1951— To Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. White of Newport, their third child and first daughter, Andrea Mason, Jan. 1. Mrs. White is the former Gloria Mason, Pem- broke '53.

1952— To Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Berkel- hammer of Seattle, a daughter, Jill Barbara, Nov. 27.

1952— To Mr. and Mrs. G. Scott Sugden of Madras, India, a son, George Scott, Jr., May 31.

In Memoriam

NATHAN WHITMAN LITTLEFIELD

'99 in Sharon, Mass., Jan. 21. He had been a civil engineer for the New Haven Railroad until his retirement in 1943.

PHILIP DARRELL SHERMAN '02 in Townshend, Vt., Jan. 8. After receiving his A.M. from Brown in 1903, he be- came an instructor in English at Ohio Wesleyan University. He had been a Professor at Oberlin College for 35 years where he served as Director of the Ober- lin College Dramatic Association. He was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from Parsons College in 1941. A noted collector, he had an extensive private library of rare books, first editions, manuscripts, and associa- tion items of the literary great, which he had used with unusual effectiveness in his teaching and with benefit to scholar- ship in general. Phi Beta Kappa. Delta Upsilon.

MARTIN STUART HALL '05 in Roches- ter, N. Y., July 22. An electrical engi- neer, he had been with the Seneca En- gineering Co., in Montour Falls. He was a member of the American Society of Electrical Engineers, the Professional Engineering Society Steuben Chapter, and had been Historian of the Cornell Chapter Electrical Engineering Society. Phi Beta Kappa.

ALBERT EASTON WHITE '07 in Ann Arbor, Dec. 18. Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at The Univer- sity of Michigan and Director Emeritus of the University's Engineering Research Institute, he was recognized as one of that institution's outstanding teachers, administrators, and research scientists. During World War I, he served as head of the Inspection Division of the Ord- nance Department of the U.S. Army and attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Reserve Corps. During the Second World War he was Chairman of the Metallurgical Research Commit- tee of the National Defense Research Council and a member of the Metallur-

gical Committee of the Office of Scien- tific Research and Development. He was founder and first President of the Amer- ican Society of Metals and was President of the American Society for Testing Materials. He served as a manager and was a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and was a mem- ber of the American Chemical Society, the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, the Engineering Foundation, and the Engineering Society of Detroit. He was an honorary life member of the American Ordnance As- sociation. In 1925 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree by Brown. He was the author of ten books and numerous articles on metallurgy, and his work as a consultant gave him wide and varied experience. His sister was the late Mabel White Norton, Pem- broke '00. Phi Delta Theta. Phi Kappa Phi. Phi Lambda Upsilon. Sigma Xi. Tau Beta Pi.

LEWIS HAMILTON MEADER, JR., '09

in Providence, Jan. 1. A noted tree sur- geon, he was one of the founders of the National Shade Tree Conference. For years his company cared for the elms of the Brown Campus. He had been active in Masonic organizations and in patriotic societies as a great-great grand- son of Gen. Nathanael Greene. He also served the Episcopal Diocese of R. I. as a Field Committeeman. His sons are Brenton G. Meader '39 and Richard D. Meader '43. Sigma Chi.

GEORGE WALLER PARKER '10 in New York City, Jan. II. A well-known artist in this country and abroad, he had ex- hibited at the Paris Salon, the Durand- Ruel Gallery, the Chicago Art Insti- tute, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the National Academy of De- sign. His works are in the Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, Newark Mu- seum, New York Historical Society, and the Navy Building at Washington. He had been a member of the Salmagundi Club, Portland Art Society, and Societe Coloniale des Artistes Francais. Beta Theta Pi.

CHARLES G. RICHARDSON '00 (His obrtuory will appear next month)

ELLIOT HAROLD FALK '15 in Darien, Conn., Dec. 29. A New York stock- broker, he had been with Delafield & Delafield. At one time he owned a seat on the Stock Exchange. During World War I he served in France as a Lt. in the Field Artillery. He was with the War Production Board in Washington during World War II. Delta Upsilon.

EVARISTE ADRIEN ORTEIG '20 in New York City, Jan. 30. He was Co- Manager of the famous Lafayette Ho- tel, which was for 50 years a landmark and a shrine for gourmets. Founded by his father, it was carried on by Evariste and his brothers until 1949. He also assisted in the management of the Hotel Brevoort until it was sold in the depres- sion. In the last 10 years, he was a partner with his brothers in Lafayette Travel, Inc., a tourist agency of which he was Vice-President. Earlier he had been active in the same field as Presi- dent of Evariste Orteig, Inc. He served in the Navy in World War II. (The father made the $25,000 offer which stimulated Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic.) Alpha Tau Omega.

WILLIAM RAUCH BOGER '26 in Wash- ington, D. C, Jan. 26. A stockbroker, he had been associated with the invest- ment firm of Auchincloss, Parker and Redpath. He also was on the Board of Directors of the Coastal Corporation. Well-known in yachting circles, he was on the Board of Directors of the Presi- dent's Cup Regatta Committee. Phi Delta Theta.

THOMAS CLIFTON MORRIS "28 in Lexington, Mass., December 15. A re- search chemist, he had been with the B. B. Chemical Co. in Cambridge since 1937. In 1930 he had received his Mas- ter's degree from Western Reserve. He had been an active Mason and a mem- ber of the American Chemical Society. Sigma Xi.

HOWARD WILSON MEMMOTT '33 in Glastonbury, Conn., in December. An electrical engineer, he had been Indus- trial Sales Manager of the Connecticut Light & Power Co. He was a former Vice-Chairman of the New England Power Engineers Association and was an active Rotarian. Sigma Phi Sigma.

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Carrying the Mail

NICHOLAS

BROWN:

"\ have caused

this edifice to

be erected wholly

at my expense."

Apology to Nicholas

Sir: I owe Nicholas Brown an apology. Until you published your memorial medley of lore and legend about Hope College, 1 had always thought of Mr. Brown as a shrewd man who got a lot for a little. This was based on something that I heard or read to the effect that, when the Corpora- tion offered to name Rhode Island College for anyone who would give it $6000, there were no takers. When the asking price was reduced to $5000, Nicholas Brown then came forward, as I heard it. In the light of history, it seemed a spectacular bargain.

But you point out that this was neither his first nor his last gift to the institution. I hadn't realized that he also gave Hope College ("I have caused this Edifice to be erected wholly at my expense"). I hadn't appreciated that he also gave us Manning Hall and a law library and a gift which established the Library Fund, too. The total of $160,000 which you say he gave would be quite a tidy sum if translated into today's values.

So, forgive me, Nicholas Brown. I did you an injustice. Now I am more than ever proud to be a Brown man.

"humble pie '42"

(Appreciation, however late, must always be welcome to a doer of magnificent deeds. The story of the reduced rate for naming Rhode Island College does have some basis in fact. In 1795, the Corporation did say that anyone who gave $6000 might have the honor of naming the University. A let- ter to that effect went to Dr. Richard Fur- man of South Carolina, who later did have a college named for him there in 1826, but no one came forward for us. As early as 1783, President Manning had sought some "Gentleman of Fortune who wishes to rear a lasting Monument to his Honour." and letters went to John Ryland and Thomas Llewellyn in England about the matter, to no avail. The Corporation was still trying in 1803, with a $5000 gift specified, and it was not until a year later that Nicholas Brown, Jr., of the Class of 1786, came forward. Perhaps, as Treasurer of Rhode Island College, he was hoping someone else would be attracted by the proposal.

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This almost suggests that he would have been generous to his Alma Mater, even without the glory that was to be his. — Ed.)

Credit for Fogarty

Sir: In the recent issue of the Bronii Alumni Monthly (January), I was very much interested in the lead article on re- search grants which have been made to the University. There was, however, one thing which struck me as I read it — Representa- tive Aimee J. Forand announced the grant from the Health Service Research Facili- ties Act. The article then goes on to state that he, Forand, was the active member of Congress from Rhode Island who worked to get this legislation through Congress.

Representative John Fogarty is the one, however, who has worked so closely with all the health legislation. The announce- ment was made through Repressntative Forand's office since apparently it is a mat- ter of courtesy to have the representative in whose district the grant is to be made to have the honor of announcing it. However, I don't think Forand ought to get Fogarty's credit line on the Health Legislation.

MRS. JOHN LANGDON

R. I. Society for

Crippled Children and Adults

Hope College Nostalgia

Sir: "Vour entertaining history of Hope College brings back many a pleasant mem- ory of my three years there. Two of them, very different, stand out:

During our College years, Floyd Collins' imprisonment in a Kentucky cave was front page news for several days. This gave my fraternity brothers an idea. On the second or third floor of Hope was a tiny closet that housed the chapter telephone. (Dne evening, while I was making a call, the brothers de- cided I was Floyd and they would rescue me. The door was nailed tight.

Amidst great excitement, I was exhorted to keep my courage up: help was coming. With complete disregard of plaster, pails of water were poured from the floor above for my parched throat. Slices of very passe food were shoved through cracks in the door, accompanied by comments intended to be witty which were to keep up my mo- rale. After a half-hour of imprisonment, the door was ripped down, and I was car- ried to the nearest couch andgiven arti- ficial respiration that darned near killed me. Nowadays, when my son tells of some fantastic escapade. I try to remember that I was the Floyd Collins of Hope College.

The other incident was more intellectual. During the '20s, when pacificism was popu- lar, one of the brothers (now a distin- guished editorial writer) made the remark that every military chaplain was either an ass or a hypocrite. That started the bull session. His thesis was based on the futility of war and its being inconsistent with Christianity. This boy knew his Bible and could quote paragraph and verse. Being able to document his statements and having a quick mind, he withstood all attempts by some 30 Kappa Sigs to break down his ar- gument. A couple of Junior Phi Betes were thrown. While the session lasted only

some three or four hours, the repercussions lasted for days and were not confined to the Campus.

While the new Quadrangle buildings are far more elegant than Hope College in the '20s, I doubt if they stimulate any more challenging thinking. Pardon this long epis- tle, but, if you will write articles that make bald-headed and middle-aged alumni nos- talgic, you must suffer the consequences.

DAVID FANNING '25

Grafton, Mass.

What It Looked Like

Sir: I read your interesting story on Hope College. While going through some papers a night or two afterward, 1 came across the pictures of my Dad's room in Hope. As he graduated from Brown with the Class of 1905, these pictures were prob- ably taken around that time. I thought you might be interested to see how a College room looked in those days.

WALTER G. BARNEY '35

Rumford, R. I.

(Dad was Walter H. Barney '05. For two of the four wonderful pictures, see the fac- ing page. — Ed.)

To Float a Battleship Sir: After reading about Hope College, I am not surprised the grand old building has to be restored. Although I was never quartered in Hope, I knew many that were. If the student pattern hasn't changed in 135 years, I would say it is a testimonial to New England oak.

The dank smell in the halls is nostalgic, recalling the tons of water that flowed down her staircases. Enough water has flowed in Hope College to float one of Uncle Sam's mightiest battleships. It's a wonder she hasn't rotted away.

E. L. sherrill, jr. '46 East Hampton, N. i'.

"Si Moinimentiim . . ." Sir: Here's a real addendum to your re- cent discussion about the proper form of the phrase, "Si monumentum requiris circum- spice," the inscription about Wren in St. Paul's Cathedral which has its echo on the plaque for the Wriston Quadrangle. You will recall a challenge from New Haven on the basis of another usage at Yale.

James Bone's "London Echoing" (J. Cape 1948) has a reference on page 54 in a section on bomb losses in the Second War:

"The high explosive bomb that hit the north transept . . . brought down the in- side porch that bore the famous epitaph on Wren: 'Si monumentum requiris circum- spice.' When the new tablet is in the re- paired porch, the names of . . . the gallant Watch should surely be inset."

BEN C. CLOUGH

". . . Requiris"

Sir: My letter in more