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ALIJMI^I  MONTHLY 


DECEMBER,    1936       VOL.   XXXVII,  No.   5 


Published  monthly,  August  and  September  excepted,  by  the  BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY,  Inc  ,  at  Brown  University,  Providence,  R.  L 
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Which  will  determine  the  choice  of  your 
Executor  -Trustee  ? 


As  anyone  who  has  faced 
the  iirolilem  will  emphat- 
icalh'  tell  you,  the  work 
of  settling  and  managing 
an  estate  is  not  a  task  for  inexperienced 
hands.  Too  many  complex  problems  are 
involved  —  economic,  business  and 
fmaiicial — the  handling  of  which  reciuire 
a  wide  fund  of  s]3ecializecl  knowledge 
and  broad  experience  if  the  danger  of 
delay  and  expense  to  the  heirs  is  to  be 
avoided. 

Think  of  this  if  you  are  prompted  by 
sentiment   alone   to   name   a    relati\e   or 


friend  as  your  executor-trustee.  Can  you 
afTord  to  allow  sentiment  to  influence  you 
too  strongly?  Isn't  it  better  judgment  to 
choose  the  one  best  qualified  by  experi- 
ence to  handle  this  important  task? 

To  the  many  duties  an  executor-trustee 
is  called  upon  to  assume,  the  Hospital 
Trust  Company-  provides  the  intimate 
knowledge  and  business-like  attention 
needed.  For  o\er  68  ^ears  it  has  been 
engaged  daily  in  the  work  of  managing 
and  conser\'ing  property  for  others.  To 
>our  estate  and  family  it  can  assure  the 
protection  >ou  desire  for  them. 


Hospital  Trust  Companu 


Pawtucket  —  Providence  —  Woonsocket 


The  Oldest  Trust  Company  in  New  England 


•  BROWX  ALUMBfl  MONTHLY  • 


Vol.  XXXVII 


PROVIDENCE,  R.  I.,  DECEMBER,  1936 


No.  5 


The  Youngest  Itro\^ii  Men 

BY  BRUCE  M.  BIGELOW,  DIRECTOR  OF  ADMISSIONS 


THREE  hundred  and  ninety-five 
Freshmen  arrived  on  College  Hill 
September  17  determined  to  show 
the  Tercentenary  celebrators  of  the 
City  of  Providence  that  life  begins 
v^ith  '40.  Boasting  of  the  fact  that  they 
were  selected  from  the  largest  number 
of  applicants  in  the  history  of  Brown 
University,  the  Class  of  1940  wasted 
no  time  in  letting  the  City  of  Provi- 
dence, Brown  University,  and  the  Class 
of  19J9  know  that  a  strong  Freshman 
Class  had  come  to  town. 

The  Director  of  Admissions  is  mak- 
ing no  wild  boasts  about  this  year's 
Freshman  Class.  He  is  not  going  to  be 
caught  saying  that  this  is  the  best  class 
ever  to  enter  Brown.  He  does  admit, 
however,  that  the  Class  of  1940  is  made 
up  of  an  enthusiastic,  likeable,  and 
well-mannered  group  of  young  men. 
Although  right  now  he  is  very  optimis- 
tic about  their  academic  ability,  he  will 
make  no  predictions,  for  only  in  June 
will  he  know  if  they  have  offered  the 
Faculty  more  than  courteous  salutes 
and  genial  smiles.  (Rsg^    ■ 

The  present  Sophomore  Class  showed  a  lower  mortality 
than  any  class  for  some  time.  This  is  an  indication  that  our 
selective  system  of  admissions  is  working  and  it  is  hoped  that 
the  present  Freshman  Class  will  help  further  in  proving  this 
point  as  Time  Marches  On. 

Born  During  War 

THE  Statisticians  of  this  year's  entering  class  show  us  that 
Joe  Freshman,  Brown  '40,  was  born  in  February,  1918. 
His  autobiography  tells  us  that  he  was  born  in  one  of  the 
worst  years  in  America's  history,  that  his  father  found  out 
that  voting  for  Wilson  did  not  "keep  us  out  of  war"  and  the 
boy  himself  later  discovered  that  the  war  itself  did  not  "save 
the  world  for  democracy."  In  February  of  1918,  the 
theatres  on  Broadway  were  closed  to  save  coal,  but  later  that 
year  Fred  Stone  warmed  the  hearts  of  theatergoers  in  "Jack 
O'Lantern"  and  Bruce  Bairnsfather  made  the  world  laugh 
with  his  dramatisation  of  Old  Bill  in  "The  Better  'Ole." 

When  Joe  Freshman  was  born,  36-year-old  Franklin 
Delano  Roosevelt  was  Assistant  Secretary  of  the  United 
States  Navy  and  Alfred  M.  Landon  at  thirty  was  a  First 
Lieutenant  in  the  Chemical  Warfare  Service  of  the  United 
States  Army.  Dr.  William  H.  P.  Faunce,  as  President  of 
Brown,  had  welcomed  a  Freshman  Class  of  203  and  a 
militarized  undergraduate  body  of  609.  Charles  Augustus 
Lindbergh  was  in  his  Senior  year  at  Little  Falls  (Minnesota) 


High  School,  but  young  Lindbergh  and 
Joe  Freshman  were  eclipsed  by  the 
World  War  and  Spanish  Influenza. 

Are  Freshmen  Different? 

EIGHTEEN  exciting  years  have  gone 
by  since  these  war  babies  of  1918 
came  into  the  world.  A  demoralising 
boom  and  a  catastrophic  depression 
have  both  been  witnessed  by  the  young 
men  of  the  Class  of  1940.  Has  it  made 
them  any  different  from  the  entering 
classes  in  1926  and  1916?  There  are 
some  educators  who  tell  us  that  college 
students  today  are  less  gentlemanly, 
that  they  are  too  sophisticated,  that 
they  have  no  sense  of  responsibility, 
that  they  lack  college  spirit,  and  that 
they  are  pitifully  soft.  I  don't  believe 
them.  Freshmen  are  after  all  18-year- 
old  boys  with  all  the  charm,  enthusi- 
asm, ambition,  recklessness,  and  zest  for 
life  which  you,  Mr.  Alumnus,  doubt- 
less had  in  1926,  1916,  or  1876. 

There  is  no  such  thing  as  a  Brown 

type.  The  Class  of  1940  is  made  up  of 

Dr.  Bigelow  395  individuals  who  have  come  from 

24  different  states  and  from  scores  of 
high  schools  and  private  preparatory  schools.  Those  of  us 
who  have  watched  the  geographic  distribution  over  the  last 
few  years  are  happy  to  note  that  Brown  is  gaining  in  strength 
outside  New  England.  This  year  40  per  cent,  of  the  Fresh- 
men have  come  from  across  the  New  England  border  as 
against  34.2  per  cent,  last  year.  The  figures  for  the  last  six 
years  are  as  follows:  1931— 34.37o;  1932— 34.5%. ;  1933— 
35.6%;  1934—32.9%;  1935—34.2%,;  1936—40.0%,. 

Another  interesting  observation  this  year  is  that  the 
number  coming  from  New  Jersey  has  doubled.  Unques- 
tionably this  increase  has  been  due  in  large  part  to  the 
activity  of  the  Brown  Club  of  New  York  and  the  rejuve- 
nated Brown  Club  of  New  Jersey.  Alumni  clubs  every- 
where have  done  their  part  in  the  Alumni  Cooperative 
Admissions  Program.  Charles  J.  Hill,  '16,  as  Chairman  of 
this  project  of  the  Associated  Alumni,  kept  in  close  contact 
with  the  various  clubs  during  the  year  and  gave  invaluable 
service  to  the  Admissions  office. 

Presidential  and  Other  Sons 

THE  present  and  past  presidents  of  the  Associated 
Alumni,  Royal  W.  Leith,  '12  and  Henry  S.  Chafee,  '09, 
have  both  been  enthusiastic  workers  in  the  Alumni  Admis- 
sions Program  and  this  year  we  were  glad  to  welcome  their 
sons  to  the  Freshman   Class   from   Exeter  and   Andover 


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respectively.  In  New  York  City  Dr.  Harvey  N.  Davis,  '01, 
President  of  the  Brown  Club,  Joseph  F.  Halloran,  '16, 
Chairman  of  the  Alumni  Cooperative  Admissions  Program, 
and  Joseph  A.  O'Neil,  '31,  Executive  Secretary  of  the 
Brown  Club,  have  arranged  luncheons  and  dinners  for 
scores  of  prospective  Freshmen.  Freshman  delegations 
from  all  the  club  areas  throughout  the  country  show  the 
result  of  increased  activity.  The  presidents  of  the  Chicago 
Brown  Club  during  the  year,  George  O.  Podd,  '20  and  John 
J.  Monk,  '24,  acclaim  their  delegation  this  year  as  the  best 
ever. 

Although  there  is  no  Brown  Club  in  Paris,  two  of  us  on 
the  Faculty  had  a  hand  in  the  matriculation  of  two  Freshmen 
who  had  spent  most  of  their  lives  in  France.  Frank  M. 
Warren,  son  of  Francis  W.  Warren,  a  consulting  engineer, 
and  George  Jay  Gould,  Jr.,  great-grandson  of  Jay  Gould, 
have  changed  their  addresses  from  Avenue  Foch  to  Hege- 
man  Hall. 

The  geographic  distribution  is  as  follows :  Massachusetts 
— 77;  Providence — 73;  Rhode  Island  (outside  Providence) 
— 59;  New  York — 66;  Connecticut — 22;  New  Jersey — 38; 
Pennsylvania —  1 1 ;  West  and  Middle  West — 34;  South — 8; 
Other  New  England  States-  -4;  Canal  Zone — 1 ;  Foreign — 
2;  Total— 395." 

Compared  with  last  year's  class,  there  is  an  increase  this 
year  in  the  number  of  Freshmen  who  have  entered  from 
private  schools.  We  anticipate  that  the  policy  of  having 
approximately  half  of  the  entering  class  from  private  schools 
and  the  same  for  public  schools  will  be  continued. 

Number  entering  from  Public  High  Schools:  New  Eng- 
land—144;  Outside  New  England— 79;  Total— 223.  Num- 
ber entering  from  Private  Preparatory  Schools:  New 
England— 91;  Outside  New  England— 81;  Total— 172; 
Grand  Total— 395. 

"After  College,  What?" 

FORTY-THREE  per  cent,  of  the  Class  of  1940  are  undecided 
about  their  vocations.  This  fact  may  be  construed  by 
some  people  as  an  indication  of  the  lack  of  intelligence  of 
modern  Freshmen,  but  most  of  us  feel  that  it  is  a  sign  of 
wisdom.  This  is  the  first  year  that  we  have  discovered  no 
entering  student  definitely  aiming  for  the  field  of  brokerage. 
Furthermore,  this  is  the  first  class  for  some  time  which 
boasts  of  three  boys  planning  on  farming.  And  yet  all  three, 
I  understand,  do  not  relish  eight  o'clock  classes!  One  young 
man,  wishing  to  take  no  chances  on  an  uncertain  market, 
has  indicated  embalming  as  his  choice.  Only  one  boy  is 
heading  now  for  politics,  yet  10  per  cent,  of  this  year's  class 
have  been  high  school  class  presidents. 

This  year  there  is  a  decline  in  the  number  going  into 
medicine,  but  this  is  due  to  our  selective  system  rather  than 
to  any  shift  in  the  interests  of  youth.  Brown  has  an  enviable 
reputation  in  the  pre-medical  sciences  and  there  is  a  con- 
tinual increase  in  the  number  of  applicants.  Those  of  us 
handling  admissions  have  selected  the  group  with  great  care 
so  that  our  reputation  in  the  pre-medical  course  will  not  only 
be  maintained  but  enhanced. 

Their  proposed  vocations  are:  Engineering — 43.  Law — 
30.  Medicine — 28.  Teaching — 21.  Business — 20.  Chem- 
istry— 14.  Journalism — 12.  Manufacturing — 8.  Banking 
— 4.  Research  (Science) — 4.  Farming — 3.  Finance — 3. 
Insurance — 3.  Ministry — 3.  Real  Estate — 3.  Advertising 
—  2.  Dentistry  —  2.  Metallurgy  —  2.  Textile  work  —  2. 
Theatre  —  2.  Architecture,  Aviation,  Contracting,  Em- 
balmer.    Florist,    Hotel    work,    Merchant,    Photography, 


Politics,  Publishing,  United  States  Navy,  and  Scouting — 1 
each.    Not  stated — 6.    Undecided— 168.    Total — 395. 

The  fathers  of  our  Freshmen  are  a  varied  group  as  far  as 
occupations  are  concerned.  Business  of  one  form  or  another 
heads  the  list  but  also  included  are  25  engineers,  16  lawyers, 
16  physicians,  10  educators  (one  a  college  dean),  and  army 
officers,  judges,  writers,  musicians,  artisans,  policemen, 
grocers,  architects,  theatrical  producers,  etc. 

The  Typical  Freshman 

APPLICATION  blanks  show  us  that  the  average  height  of 
the  Brown  Freshman  this  year  is  five  feet,  ten  inches. 
The  tallest  boy  is  six  feet  five,  and  the  shortest  exactly  five 
feet.  The  weights  average  154  pounds,  the  heaviest  boy 
weighing  220  pounds  and  the  lightest,  105  pounds.  The 
average  age  is  18  years  and  seven  months.  The  youngest  boy 
in  the  class  is  16  years  and  one  month  and  the  oldest  member 
of  the  class,  a  young  man  who  like  several  others  has  worked 
since  graduation  from  high  school,  is  23  years  and  11 
months. 

The  youngest  boy  is  one  of  thirty-five  sons  of  Brown 
alumni  who  are  members  of  the  Class  of  1940.  There  are 
altogether  1 1 3  boys  in  the  class  who  have  one  or  more  rela- 
tives who  attended  Brown.  We  have  found  the  sons-of- 
alumni  group  one  of  our  strongest  nuclei  in  Freshman 
classes.  Academically  and  socially,  they  reflect  great  credit 
on  their  fathers  and  the  college.  In  admissions  work,  they 
are  considered  a  preferred  group.  They  are  so  good,  how- 
ever, that  we  haven't  had  to  resort  to  the  policy  of  one 
college  dean  who  admitted  "we  will  admit  sons  of  alumni  as 
long  as  they  are  out  of  jail  by  the  time  college  opens." 

The  subjects  liked  best  by  our  Freshmen  this  year,  accord- 
ing to  their  own  statements  on  the  application  blanks,  are 
English,  History,  and  Mathematics.  The  least  liked  subjects 
"prize"  was  won  by  Foreign  Languages  with  History  and 
Algebra  receiving  "honorable"  mention.  In  almost  every 
case  we  find  that  if  the  student  liked  the  teacher,  he  liked 
the  subject. 

Outside  the  classroom,  our  Freshmen  showed  considerable 
interest  in  extra-curricular  activities.  The  class  officer  list 
is  as  follows:  President — 41.  Vice-President — 12.  Secre- 
tary— 4.  Treasurer — 21.  Student  Council — 58.  A  Club 
officer — 135. 

Athletics  attracted  297  of  the  Freshmen,  publications  170, 
dramatics  136,  glee  club  69,  debating  54,  orchestra  51,  and 
band  32.  It  is  most  unusual  to  find  any  student  in  the  class 
who  has  taken  no  part  in  school  activities. 

Our  interviewing  system  is  running  smoothly  and  alumni 
in  every  key  city  have  contributed  unsparingly  of  their  time 
and  energy.  Three  hundred  and  twenty-nine  Freshmen 
were  interviewed  by  the  Director  of  Admissions  in  schools, 
at  alumni  club  meetings,  or  in  the  Administration  Building. 
Hundreds  of  others  were  interviewed  by  alumni  and  admis- 
sion officers,  but  ninety-nine  out  of  the  three  hundred  and 
ninety-five  Freshmen  who  entered  were  seen  by  designated 
alumni  interviewers.  Six  sets  of  brothers  in  the  Class  of 
1940  added  to  the  confusion  in  the  Admissions  office  this 
Summer,  but  at  last  we  think  we  have  them  straightened  out. 

Three  Revolutionisers 

IT  seems  to  me  that  Admissions  offices  have  probably 
changed  more  in  the  last  quarter  century  than  during  any 
other  full  century  of  college  history.  Three  inventions  are 
chiefly  to  blame:  the  automobile,  the  typewriter,  and  the 
telephone.  A  boy  and  his  parents  now  step  into  their  car  in 
Peoria,  Illinois,  or  Pawtucket,  Rhode  Island,  and  visit  the 


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colleges  in  which  they  are  interested.  Campus  guides  at 
Brown  are  busy  all  Summer  showing  visitors  where  Rocham- 
beau's  troops  knocked  down  part  of  the  wall  of  University 
Hall  during  the  Revolution.  Admissions  officers  are  busy 
explaining  to  these  visitors  that  Tom's  record  is  full  of  holes 
and  that  he  is  inadequately  prepared  for  Brown,  that  Dick 
can  be  admitted  and  elect  the  courses  at  Brown  which  will 
prepare  him  for  his  chosen  vocation,  and  that  Harry  will  be 
able  to  secure  an  ideal  roommate.  The  automobile  has  moved 
the  applicant  right  into  the  Admissions  office. 

The  typewriter  has  made  it  possible  for  applicants, 
parents,  friends,  alumni,  and  undergraduates  to  write  hun- 
dreds of  letters  recommending  certain  candidates.  Admis- 
sions mail  has  probably  increased  a  hundredfold  since  the 
day  when  these  Freshmen  were  born.  The  telephone  has 
also  brought  the  voices  of  these  same  people  into  the  Admis- 
sions office  to  inquire  about  Jones,  and  to  recommend  Smith 
and  Brown.  No  longer  is  there  a  Summer  vacation  in  offices 
of  Administration  under  the  elms. 


These  three  inventions,  although  quadrupling  admissions 
work  and  revolutionizing  admission  procedure,  have  made  it 
possible  for  us  to  secure  a  fairly  complete  picture  of  every 
applicant.  Mistakes  are  still  made  but  they  should  be  fewer 
as  the  applicants'  personnel  information  is  increased.  Every 
Director  of  Admissions  wishes  that  parents  and  teachers 
could  somehow  convince  their  boys  of  the  importance  of  fill- 
ing out  application  blanks  with  care.  One  boy  this  year  gave 
us  the  following  name  and  address  as  a  reference:  Lulu 
Brown,  New  York  City.  We  would  like  to  know  what  Lulu 
thinks  of  this  young  man  but  we  can't  do  very  much  about 
the  matter  unless  we  at  least  have  her  telephone  number. 

En  Route  to  Brown 

A  GREAT  many  students  every  year  write  and  ask  us  how 
they  can  go  through  college  with  no  financial  resources. 
The  Horatio  Alger  influence  is  still  with  us  and  scores  of 
boys  believe  that  there  must  be  some  method  by  which 
tuition,  board,  room,  books,  and  incidentals  can  be  offered 


A-\D  THEIR  FATHERS  BEEURE  THEM    Mcmbera  of  the  Freshman  CIttss  at  Brown,  sons  oj  aiumni,  sat  joj  the  above 
traditiontil  photograph.    They  may  he  identified  as  foUows.  the  names  redding  from  left  to  right  in  all  cases: 


Front  Row  — Clark  T.  Foster.  Palisade.  N.  J.,  son  of  Harry  C.  Foster  "99;  Alfred 
H.  Boudreau.  Cranston.  R.  I.,  son  of  Alfred  H.  O.  Boudreau  '14;  John  R. 
Bailey.  Ashburnham.  Mass..  son  of  Joseph  C.  Bailey  'OS;  Robert  B.  Perry, 
Westerly,  R.  I.,  son  of  Arthur  L.  Perry  "00;  Victor  B.  Schwartz,  Providence, 
R.  I.,  son  of  Victor  A.  Schwarts  '07;  David  S.  Price,  East  Aurora.  N.  Y,,  son 
of  Irving  L.  Price  '05;  John  A  Leith,  Dedham,  Mass.,  son  of  Royal  W.  Leith 
'12;  Jonathan  W.  Brown.  Sioux  City.  Iowa,  son  of  Dr.  Harold  L.  Brown  '07. 

Second  Row: — John  J.  Cooney,  Jr.,  Providence,  R.  I.,  son  of  John  J.  Cooney  '08; 
James  M.  Carmark,  Providence,  R.  I.,  son  of  James  C.  Carmark  '21;  Edward 
E.  Ball.  Cranston,  R.  I.,  son  of  Claude  C.  Ball  '03;  Norman  S,  Case,  Jr.. 
Washington,  D.  C,  son  of  Norman  S.  Case  '08;  Henry  D.  S-  Chafee,  Provi- 
dence, R.  I.,  son  of  Henry  S.  Chafee  '09;  Bertram  H,  Buxton.  Jr.,  Providence, 
R.  I.,  son  of  Dr.  Bertram  H.  Buxton  '04;  Robert  E.  Staff.  Brockton,  Mass.,  son 
of  Arthur  E.  Staff  '11;  George  D.  Krause,  II,  Lebanon,  Pa,,  son  of  Maxwell 
Krause  '10. 

Third  Row: — Arthur  L.  McLaughlin,  Providence,  R.  I.,  son  of  Dr.  William  C. 
McLaughlin  '01;  Robert  I.  Smith,  Arlington,  N.  J.,  son  of  Irving  R.  Smith 


'12;  A-  Inman  Marshall,  Jr.,  Malone,  N.  Y.,  son  of  Alvin  I.  Marshall  '08; 

Ralph  B.  Harris,  Salem,  Mass.,  son  of  the  late  Ralph  B.  Harris  '97;  James  W. 

Dow,  Worcester,  Mass.,  son  of  Edwin  A.  Dow  "11;  George  E.  Teehan,  Jr., 

Cranston,   R.   I.,   son  of  Dr.   George   E.   Teehan   '04;   Russell  W.   Field,   Jr., 

Barrington,  R.  I.,  son  of  Russell  W.  Field  '13;  John  R.  Lemon,  Providence, 

R.  I.,  son  of  Alfred  B.  Lemon  '13. 
Fourth  Row: — Donald  A.  Jones,  Cranston,  R.  I.,  son  of  Frederick  A.  Jones  '96; 

Gordon  T.  Colley.  Providence,  R.  I.,  son  of  Dwight  T.  Colley  '18;  Albert  H. 

Curtis,  II,  Weston,  Mass.,  son  of  Paul  O    Curtis  '15;  Daniel  Partridge,  Jr., 

Pawtucket.  R.  I.,  son  of  Mrs.  Lizzie  A.   Blackburn  Partridge,   Pembroke  '07; 

John  B.  Moss,  Sharon,  Mass.,  son  of  Norman  A.  Moss  '00  and  Mrs.  Harriet 

I.    Brooks  Moss,    Pembroke    '99;   Myles   S.    Clegg,    Pawtucket,   R.    L,   son   of 

Charles  M.   Clegg  '15. 
Fifth  Row: — Kirk  Hanson,  Taunton,  Mass.,  son  of  the  late  Edward  S.  Hanson 

'99;  Harold  C.  Miner,  Jr.,  Providence,  R.  I.,  son  of  Dr.  Harold  C.  Miner  '15; 

Francis  W.  Rollins,  Jr.,  Providence,  R.  I.,  son  of  Francis  W.  Rollins  "16;  H. 

Charles  Redington.  Pittsburgh.  Pa.,  son  of  Horace  R.  Redington  "13. 


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by  the  University.  One  honest  young  man  applying  for  a 
job  stated  that  he  had  had  no  experience  except  in  one  occu- 
pation. He  had  worked  in  the  high  school  office  turning  the 
handle  of  a  mimeograph  machine.  Just  another  crank  letter 
for  the  files. 

We  are  particularly  interested  in  one  smart  young  man  in 
the  Class  of  1940  who  came  to  Brown  not  because  of 
faculty,  alumni,  or  undergraduates  —  attractive  as  they  may 
be.  In  a  small  high  school  in  Western  New  York  he  was 
directed  by  the  principal  to  do  some  housecleaning  in  the 
office  and  burn  several  hundred  old  catalogues,  bulletins, 
and  other  college  publications.  While  heaving  this  mass  into 
the  furnace,  he  was  attracted  by  "Student  Life  at  Brown", 
and  the  publication  in  turn  intrigued  him  to  enter  this 
University.  I  may  add  that  he  is  an  excellent  student  and  a 
leader  in  extra-curricular  activities.  Sub-freshman  work 
may,  therefore,  take  place  even  in  a  high  school  cellar. 

Most  of  the  new  men  in  college,  however,  do  not  come  by 
accident.  Ten  thousand  loyal  alumni,  twelve  hundred  active 
undergraduates,  and  two  hundred  members  of  the  Faculty 
are  chiefly  responsible  for  a  pri;e  Freshman  Class.  The 
assistance  given  to  this  work  by  all  members  of  the  Adminis- 
tration is  invaluable.  Those  most  actively  engaged  in  admis- 
sions this  year  were  Vice-President  James  P.  Adams,  Dean 
Samuel  T.  Arnold,  Assistant  Dean  Clinton  H.  Currier,  and 
Dr.  Arthur  R.  Tebbutt.  To  these  men  and  to  all  the  others 
—  Faculty,  alumni,  and  undergraduates,  I  offer  orchids. 


Dr.  Barbour  of  Broivn 

(An  editorial  in  the  Rochester  Chronicle) 

NEWS  that  Dr.  Clarence  A.  Barbour  is  to  retire  as  presi- 
dent of  Brown  University  is  of  interest  to  Roches- 
terians,  who  have  followed  the  distinguished  career 
of  their  fellow  townsman  since  he  left  Rochester  in  1929  to 
assume  the  presidency  of  one  of  the  East's  oldest  and  most 
distinguished  colleges. 

Few  men  have  made  the  impress  on  Rochester's  life  that 
Doctor  Barbour  did  during  the  years  he  was  minister  of  the 
Lake  Avenue  Baptist  Church  and  head  of  the  Rochester 
Theological  Seminar)'  here.  His  contacts  in  the  community 
early  leaped  the  bounds  of  the  Baptist  denomination;  he 
was  distinguished  in  the  fields  of  community  activity  and 
citizenship. 

Brown  has  always  been  close  to  Rochester,  because  of  the 
common  denominational  origin  of  the  university  with  the 
University  of  Rochester  and  the  eminence  of  the  Rochester 
Theological  Seminary  in  the  Baptist  denomination.  It  is 
recalled  in  fact  that  Dr.  Martin  Brewer  Anderson,  first 
president  of  the  University  of  Rochester,  once  was  offered 
the  presidency  of  Brown  but  declined  it  because  of  his  com- 
mitments here. 

Doctor  Barbour  is  a  man  of  broad  outlook  and  inspiring 
leadership.  He  has  led  Brown  capably,  as  he  led  his  Roches- 
ter charges  capably.  He  now  will  enjoy  the  well  earned  rest 
made  necessary  by  advancing  age  and  failing  health.  But 
in  his  leisure  years  he  can  contemplate  with  satisfaction  the 
fruits  of  his  labors  both  at  Rochester  and  at  Providence. 


DR.   WRISTON'S  INSTALLATION 

The  installation  of  Dr.  Henry  M.  Wriston  as 
President  of  Brown  ITniversity  will  take  place  on 
Wednesday,  February  3rd,  it  was  announced  as 
this  issue  was  on  the  presses.  Full  details  will  be 
available  in  the  January  issue. 


Problems; 
ISlioultlers 


LEAST  to  be  envied  of  all  Brown  men  are  the  members  of 
the  University's  Athletic  Council,  whose  weighty 
J  problems  pressing  for  attention  in  recent  weeks  have 
called  them  into  many  an  extra  session,  have  made  them  a 
clearing  house  for  much  heated  alumni  opinion,  and  on 
whom  alone  rests  the  decision  of  the  several  critical  ques- 
tions. 

In  the  immediate  foreground  was  the  matter  of  choosing 
the  football  coach  for  1937,  "Tuss"  McLaughry's  contract 
having  expired.  Whether  it  would  be  renewed,  as  had  been 
the  case  before  during  his  11 -year  tenure,  or  whether  the 
Council  saw  advantage  in  a  coaching  revolution,  had  not 
been  announced  in  mid-December.  That  Brown  football 
teams  had  been  outclassed  in  late  seasons,  no  one  denied,  but 
most  alumni  hesitated  to  ascribe  the  cause  to  any  one  factor. 
A  few  alumni  showed  no  hesitation  at  all,  as  Athletic 
Council  mail  probably  would  have  disclosed.  Men  from 
other  colleges  and  officials  at  Brown  games  seemed  agreed 
that  Brunonian  material  was  not  comparable  to  that  of  its 
rivals.  The  coaching  question  then  resolved  itself  as  to 
whether  the  best  use  had  been  made  of  that  material. 

In  the  background  still  loomed  the  problem  of  financing 
an  athletic  program  when  meagre  football  gate  receipts 
slashed  at  the  chief  prop  of  that  program.  Certainly  recent 
Brown  football  teams  have  not  been  good  drawing  cards, 
from  the  public's  point  of  view.  Did  an  endowment  hold 
promise  for  solving  sports  financial  worries?  If  so,  was  it  a 
possibility? 

Did  the  fault  with  the  football  situation  lie  with  the 
schedules?  Had  they  been  too  difficult  for  a  LJniversity  the 
size  of  Brown?  Or  does  competition  "make  a  team"  in  the 
long  run?  Would  easier  schedules  adequately  finance  the 
sports  program?  These  were  other  questions  raised  and 
considered  long  and  earnestly  by  the  Athletic  Council. 

Not  ignored  v^'as  the  fact  that  Brown  had,  despite  the 
varsity  football  slump,  an  athletic  year  in  1936  notable  for  its 
successes.  Three  championship  minor  sports  teams,  and 
improved  records  in  other  sports,  major  and  minor,  gave 
evidence  of  this  situation.  These  teams  had  faced  rugged 
schedules,  the  soccer  team  having  just  completed  its  season 
undefeated  although  playing  the  most  severe  schedule  ever. 
But  these  other  sports,  while  perhaps  more  fun  to  play  than 
football,  brought  little  revenue. 

The  demand  for  less  ambitious  schedules  in  varsity  foot- 
ball also  found  itself  not  easily  reconciled  with  such  a  hope 
as  membership  in  the  bruited  Ivy  League.  In  this  connection 
it  is  interesting  to  note  that  whereas  Brown  has  been  men- 
tioned with  the  group  in  previous  instances,  the  current 
rumors  left  her  outside.  As  one  sports  writer  said,  "While 
the  ivy  at  Brown  had  climbed  over  hundreds  of  square  feet 
of  ancient  brick  walls  before  the  concrete  was  dry  at  some 
of  the  seven  institutions  named,  the  deterring  factor  in 
Brown's  lack  of  consideration  is  doubtless  the  low  depth  to 
which  her  football  has  descended.  The  news  dispatches 
from  several  major  football  camps  this  fall  have  referred 
more  and  more  to  Brown  as  a  minor  rival,  and  the  recent 
teams'  records  did  little  to  change  that." 

As  Athletic  Council  members  continued  their  delibera- 
tions, they  hoped  to  find  courses  of  action  which  would  be 
the  best  for  Brown,  realized  the  impossibility  of  pleasing 
every  single  alumnus  with  their  eventual  decisions. 


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?iOT  LATELT  has  one  seen  sikh  a  sight  as  tfus  in  the  Brown  stadium.    Defeats  and  consequent  small  crowds  have  meant  dwindling  revenue. 

with  which  the  whole  athletic  program  is  to  be  financed. 


Football  Finale 

WHEN  nine  Seniors  trotted  out  onto  the  field  Thanks- 
giving morning,  none  of  them  had  shared  in  a  Brown 
varsity  football  victory  over  a  major  rival.  That 
record  was  still  mtact  at  the  end  of  the  game.  Only  once  as 
undergraduates  had  they  seen  such  a  game,  and  one  turns  to 
the  yellowing  records  of  1933  in  order  to  read  of  a  Brown 
gridiron  victory  of  consequence.  In  that  year  one  finds  a 
single  such  triumph,  over  Syracuse. 

The  season  of  1936,  conceived  in  optimism,  ended  with 
little  to  lighten  the  gloom  of  recent  years.  There  had  been 
three  games  won,  from  Rhode  Island  State  by  a  single  point, 
from  Tufts,  and  from  Colby.  Seven  games  had  been  lost :  to 
Connecticut  State  (20-0),  Harvard  (28-0),  Dartmouth 
(34-0),  Penn  (48-6),  Yale  (14-6),  Holy  Cross  (32-0),  and 
Colgate  (32-0). 

A  gallant  stand  had  been  made  at  New  Haven,  where 
many  observers  felt  that  Brown  had  outplayed  the  Eli. 
Some  fine  offensive  football  had  been  in  evidence  against 
Tufts,  when  the  Brunonians  accounted  for  half  of  their 
season's  total  of  76  points.  And  there  had  been  periods  of 
defensive  stubbornness,  especially  in  the  line,  against  Holy 
Cross  and  Colgate.  Otherwise  there  was  little  to  reward 
the  outmatched  players  for  the  heart-breaking  work  against 
physical  pounding  and  psychological  handicaps.  Several  of 
the  players  deserved  a  more  kindly  fate. 

The  contract  of  De  Ormond  McLaughry  terminated  with 
the  Colgate  game.  Brown  alumni  were  awaiting  with  in- 
terest the  decision  of  the  Athletic  Council  with  regard  to 
the  1937  coaching  staff,  momentarily  expected  as  the 
Alumni  Monthly  went  to  press. 

For  11  years  "Tuss"  McLaughry  has  directed  Brown 
football  destinies,  reaching  the  heights  and  the  depths  in 


that  time.  Coming  to  Providence  after  coaching  experience 
at  Westminster  and  Amherst  Colleges,  he  saw  his  teams 
win  54  games,  lose  45,  and  tie  three.  Of  them  10  victories 
and  26  defeats  were  incidents  of  the  last  four  years,  when 
fortunes  were  lowest.  Before  that,  his  1926  team  was  un- 
defeated, though  tied  by  Colgate;  his  1928  team  lost  only 
to  Yale  and  the  1932  team  only  to  Colgate. 

Brown  Seniors  who  have  played  their  final  games  on 
college  gridirons  are :  Captain  Warren  Ostergard,  Vernon 
Beaubien,  Freeman  D.  Love,  Robert  A.  Love,  Robert  H. 
Mangiante,  Forrest  A.  Pease,  Arthur  I.  Saklad,  Chester  A. 
Slater,  and  Luther  Stanhope. 

On  December  8  the  Athletic  Council  announced  the 
awarding  of  varsity  football  letters  for  1936  to  24  players, 
including:  Seniors — Beaubien,  Freeman  Love,  Robert  Love, 
Captain  Ostergard,  Pease,  Saklad,  Stanhope;  Juniors — 
Atwell,  Certuse,  Cioci,  Foster,  Hawley,  Petrone,  Riegler, 
Sharkey,  Turcone;  Sophomores — Battles,  Bernstein,  Blake, 
Carifio,  Hall,  Kapstein,  Larkowich,  Wisbach.  Seventeen 
lettermen  would  thus  presumably  be  available  for  next 
fall's  nucleus,  together  with  a  delegation  from  the  class  of 
1940's  undefeated  Freshman  team,  25  members  of  which 
were  accorded  numerals.  Speculation  for  next  year  is 
futile,  but  the  accent  is  on  hope. 


A  Championship  Well  Earned 

BROWN  won  the  New  England  Intercollegiate  Soccer 
League  title,  and  Yale  and  Wesleyan  tied  for  second 
place,  according  to  the  final  tabulations  announced  by  T.  W. 
Taylor  of  Brown,  Secretary  of  the  League.  Brown  finished 
with  14  points  with  an  undefeated  season,  Wesleyan  and 
Yale  finished  with  10  points  each;  Harvard  and  Dartmouth 
were  tied  for  third  with  eight  points  each;  then  followed 


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Mass.  State,  6;  Amherst,  5;  Williams,  3;  Conn.  State  and 
Tufts,  two  each;  Springfield,  one;  and  M.  I.  T.,  none. 

Bill  Margeson  of  Brown  led  the  individual  scorers  with 
1 2  goals.  Read  of  Brown  was  second  with  seven ;  Kenney  of 
Yale  was  third  with  six;  and  Bailey  of  Dartmouth  and  Jack- 
son of  Brown  followed  with  five  goals  each.  Burbank, 
GafFney  and  Swaffield  were  other  Brunonians  to  figure  in 
the  team's  scoring. 

The  final  team  and  individual  scoring  tabulations : 

Games  Played     V/on     Lost  Tied     Points 

Brown  8  '              6          0  2  14 

Wesleyan  7  5          2  0  10 

Yale  7  5          2  0  10 

Harvard  7  3           2  2  8 

Dartmouth  6  4          2  0  S 

Mass.  State  6  3          3  0  6 

Amherst  6  2           4  0  4 

Williams  4  12  13 

Conn.  State  5  14  0  2 

Tufts  5  14  0  2 

Springfield  3  0           2  1               1 

M.  I.  T.  4  0          4  (I  (I 


111  Tlie  x^lailbt^x 

Jewett  Farm, 
Hadley,  Mass. 
Nov.  28,  1936. 

The  Editor.  BROWN  ALJJMHl  MOHTHLT: 

PERMIT  me  to  congratulate  you  on  your  last  issue  of  the 
Monthly,  as  a  fine  piece  of  anti-football  propaganda. 
But  was  its  mailing  date  carefully  considered,  so  as  to  be 
received  by  us  old  grads  on  the  eve  of  the  annual  Colgate 
debacle? 

Pres.  Cutts  was  an  AU-American  Harvard  tackle.  Pres. 
Dennett  of  Williams  was  a  stand-out  at  tackle  on  the 
Williams  team  for  four  years.  Prof.  Marshall  Tyler  of 
R.  I.  State  was  an  All-American  tackle  at  Amherst.  Yale 
has  an  Angell,  Amherst  an  earthly  King,  and  Dartmouth 
wins  under  her  red-blooded  Hopkins.  Major  General  W. 
D.  Connor  of  West  Point  was  a  star  halfback.  .  .  . 

Yours  for  the  OLD  Brown, 

G.  A.  Taylor,  190/, 
Colonel,  U.  S.  A.,  retired. 

:{c         :f;         ^         :(:         ^ 

To  the  Editor  of  the  BROW'H  ALUMHI  MOHTHLT. 
Sir:— 

I  WISH  to  propose  a  plan  for  the  exchange  of  alumni  be- 
tween universities  and  colleges.  There  have  long  been 
exchanges  of  professors,  and  also  exchanges  (sometimes  in- 
voluntary) of  students.  So  why  not  exchanges  of  alumni? 

Such  a  plan  would  make  it  possible  for  a  discontented 
alumnus  to  transfer  to  an  institution  that,  in  his  maturer 
years,  he  might  prefer  to  his  own.  It  could  be  taken  advan- 
tage of  by  those  alumni  who  look  only  in  the  sports  pages 
tor  mention  of  their  Alma  Mater  and  then  curse  when  they 
find  it.  Such  alumni  could,  by  transfer  under  this  plan, 
identify  themselves  with  some  college  or  university  where 
athletics  receive  that  fostering  and  complete  attention  that 
their  importance  in  the  American  scheme  of  higher  educa- 
tion demands,  and  whose  football  team  is  able  to  fill  stadia 


and  rose  bowls  with  the  betting  public  and  empty  bottles. 
Reciprocally,  some  alumni  —  a  few  —  of  the  latter  college 
or  university  might  be  glad  to  transfer  their  allegiance  to  an 
institution  of  learning.  Thus  the  exchange  would  be 
mutually  advantageous. 

Of  course  the  plan  will  have  to  be  carefully  studied  and 
its  details  worked  out,  but  I  am  willing  to  do  so  if  I  receive 
any  encouragement.  Should  it  get  to  be  too  much  for  me, 
however,  I  am  sure  that  the  Resettlement  Administration, 
with  its  thousands  of  experts,  would  be  very  glad  to  handle 
it. 

Very  truly  yours, 

Waldo  G.  Leland,  1900. 
907  Fifteenth  Street, 
Washington,  D.  C. 
November  6,  1936. 

Pinilico  Memorial 

NAMED  in  memory  of  the  late  Charles  L.  A.  Heiser  '90, 
president  of  the  Maryland  Horse  Breeders'  Association, 
the  Charles  L.  A.  Heiser  Handicap  for  three-year  olds  was 
run  for  the  first  time  Tuesday,  Nov.  10,  at  Pimlico  track  in 
Maryland.  The  purse  was  $2,000;  the  distance  was  a  mile 
and  a  sixteenth;  and  the  winner  was  Snobby  Scamp,  owned 
by  Mrs.  John  Bosley,  Jr.  In  addition  to  the  first  prise  money 
Mrs.  Bosley  also  received  a  silver  bowl  to  commemorate  the 
first  running  of  the  race. 

Heiser,  owner  of  Snow  Hill  Farm,  Glyndon,  Md.,  was  a 
founder  of  the  Maryland  Horse  Breeders'  Association,  and 
on  the  farm  he  laid  out  a  steeplechase  course  which  has 
become  well  known  as  the  scene  of  the  Maryland  Hunt  Cup 
Steeplechase. 

In  his  early  years  in  Providence  he  played  polo  with  the 
Rumford  team  and  was  a  leader  in  promoting  outdoor 
sports  at  Agawam  Hunt  Club. 


"■They  Get  William  A.  Dyer'' 

WILLIAM  Allan  Dyer  '86,  recently  elected  Comman- 
der-in-Chief of  the  sons  of  Union  Veterans  of  the  Civil 
War,  was  guest  of  honor  at  a  reception  and  dinner  given  at 
the  Hotel  Syracuse,  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  Nov.  7.  He  told  his 
friends  and  neighbors  that  he  had  pledged  "a  virile  and 
vigorous  defense  of  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States" 
at  the  time  of  his  election  and  that  the  Sons  of  Union  Vet- 
erans would  "stand  fast  against  all  attempts,  open  and 
insidious,  being  made  to  weaken  the  Constitution."  He 
added  that  "the  Constitution  has  been  and  always  will  be  a 
symbol  of  strength  against  dictatorship  and  tyranny." 

His  fellow  speakers  lauded  him  for  his  constructive  civic 
work  in  Syracuse,  one  of  them  saying  with  force  and  point : 
"When  Syracusans  want  a  job  well  done,  they  get  William 
A.  Dyer  to  do  it." 


O'Brien  for  Brown 

EUGENE  W.  O'Brien,  editor  of  Southern  Power  Journal 
and  former  member  of  the  Brown  Faculty,  has  repre- 
sented Brown  on  two  recent  occasions  in  the  South  —  at  the 
100th  anniversary  of  Wesleyan  College,  Macon,  Ga.,  on 
Oct.  23  and  at  the  Centennial  of  Emory  University,  Atlanta, 
this  month.  The  Centennial  lasted  from  Dec.  ?  to  Dec.  13, 
with  the  academic  ceremonies  coming  on  Dec.  12. 


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The  Most  Venerable 

MARTIN  S.  Smith  '67,  marched  down  College  Hill  for 
the  last  time  last  Commencement.  He  died  on  No- 
vember 22  after  a  brief  illness,  in  his  92  nd  year.  A 
familiar  figure  at  all  Brown  functions,  and  one  of  her  most 
loyal  sons,  he  had  been  considered  by  many  the  oldest  living 
graduate  of  Brown  University.  In  years  he  was  the  senior 
of  all;  the  class  with  which  he  was  graduated  was  1867,  since 
he  had  interrupted  his  college  days,  begun  in  1861,  to  serve 
m  the  Union  ranks  during  the  Civil  War. 

Oldest  living  graduate  of  Brown  is  now  unquestionably 
Orray  Taft  '66  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  while  the  oldest  living 
alumnus  is  Horace  F.  Carpenter  '64  of  Edgewood,  R.  I. 
Theta  Delta  Chi  member,  Mr.  Taft  has  been  a  cotton  buyer 
in  New  Orleans  and  a  gas  company  executive  in  New  York. 
In  1934  he  came  back  to  the  Brown  campus,  his  second  visit 
since  graduation.  He  is  89  years  old. 

Martin  Smith  saw  Brown  grow  from  a  tiny  institution 
with  a  Freshman  class  of  50,  with  half  a  dozen  buildings  and 
a  cow  pasture  instead  of  a  middle  campus,  to  the  present 
University.  Except  for  three  years  in  Montana,  he  has 
always  arranged  to  be  on  hand  for  Brown  graduation  exer- 
cises. The  University  gave  him  a  cane  last  Alumni  Day. 

An  officer  in  the  Civil  War,  Mr.  Smith  was  prominent  m 
the  Rhode  Island  and  national  work  of  the  G.  A.  R.  In  his 
long  career  he  had  been  soldier,  miner,  merchant,  school 
teacher,  town  officer,  State  Representative  and  Senator, 
town  president,  trial  justice,  and  farmer.  He  was  famous 
for  his  knowledge  of  Rhode  Island  land  values.  He  lived 
most  of  his  life  on  the  farm  where  he  had  been  born,  but  his 
public  service  made  his  influence  widespread  and  his  busi- 
ness dealings  further  added  to  his  great  circle  of  friends.  "A 
life  well  lived,"  the  Providence  Joxcrnal  said  of  him  in  a  fine 
eulogy. 

In  connection  with  the  institution  of  "oldest  living  grad- 
uate", the  Alumni  Monthly  is  glad  to  print  expressions 
of  opinion  from  two  of  the  senior  alumni  of  Brown. 


"T/ie  Oldest  Living  Graduate" 

HAS  Brown  University  adopted  a  new  policy  in  deter- 
mining its  "Oldest  Living  Graduate?"  With  the  pass- 
ing of  our  good  old  friend  Martin  Smith,  it  has  become 
possible  to  ask  this  question  without  hurting  anyone's 
feelings. 

In  the  past  it  has  always  been  considered  that  "The  Oldest 
Living  Graduate"  was  the  oldest  member  of  the  oldest  class 
which  still  had  a  survivor,  or  survivors,  his  actual  age  as 
compared  with  the  members  of  later  classes  having  nothing 
to  do  with  the  question. 

In  a  discussion,  a  few  years  ago,  in  which  President 
Faunce,  Professor  Appleton,  William  R.  Tillinghast,  Henry 
R.  Palmer,  the  writer  and  possibly  others  took  part,  the 
above  rule  was  clearly  laid  down  by  Doctor  Faunce  and 
assented  to  by  all. 

Under  this  rule  Orray  Taft  of  the  Class  of  1866  should 
have  become  the  "Oldest  Living  Graduate"  on  the  death  of 
Dr.  George  B.  Peck,  instead  of  Martin  Smith  of  the  Class  of 
1867,  though  Smith  was  two  months  older  than  Taft.  In 
winning  this  title  it  is  the  scholastic  age,  not  the  physical  age 
which  counts.  The  race  for  the  distinction  of  O.L.G.  begins 
for  a  man  on  the  day  he  receives  his  degree. 

However,  it  has  worked  out  all  right  this  time;  Martin 


Smith  '67  has  enjoyed  the  title  which  now  falls  rightfully 
to  Orray  Taft  '66. 

It  is  necessary  to  go  back  only  a  few  years  to  find  a  prac- 
tical illustration  of  the  rule  traditionally  in  force  here  at 
Brown : 

The  late  Thomas  W.  Bicknell  of  the  class  of  1860  was,  for 
some  years  before  his  death,  the  oldest  living  alumnus  of 
Brown;  he  was  never  the  oldest  living  graduate,  that  honor 
being  held  in  succession  through  these  years  by  the  late 
Governor  Augustus  O.  Bourn  followed  by  the  Rev.  William 
J.  Batt,  both  members  of  the  Class  of  US';  5  but  both  younger 
than  Bicknell  of  the  Class  of  1860,  who  never  would  have 
yielded  to  another  a  distinction  which  he  believed  to  be  his 
own. 

A  clear  distinction  should  be  made  between  the  terms 
oldest  living  alumnus  and  oldest  living  graduate  for  they 
are  not  identical  and  may,  or  may  not  be  applicable  to  the 
same  individual.  The  present  is  a  good  time  for  a  thorough 
understanding  and  crystallization  of  the  rule. 

Walter  L.  Munro,  '79. 


To  the  Editor  of  the  BROWN  ALUMTil  MONTHLT; 

DR.  Munro  in  his  letter  says  that  a  distinction  should  be 
made  between  the  words  "graduate"  and  "alumnus", 
as  they  are  not  identical,  but  he  does  not  state  what  the 
distinction  is  or  should  be.  As  a  matter  of  fact  in  this 
country  they  mean  one  and  the  same  thing.  Webster's 
Dictionary  says  that  an  alumnus  is  "a  male  graduate  of  a 
college  or  university,"  and  the  Century  and  Standard 
dictionaries  concur.  In  Great  Britain  the  meaning  is  differ- 
ent, as  the  Oxford  dictionary  defines  the  word  as  meaning 
a  pupil.  The  original  Latin  meaning  was  one  who  draws 
nourishment  or  support  from  another,  a  foster  child,  a  pupil. 
Who  are  the  alumni  who  march  down  College  Hill  in  June? 
Brown  graduates,  none  other.  What  is  the  meaning  of  the 
term  in  the  title  of  this  magazine?  The  meaning  is  too  well 
established  to  be  disputed. 

The  expression  "oldest  living  graduate"  is  ambiguous.  It 
might  mean  oldest  in  years  since  birth,  or  since  graduation. 
The  latter  sense,  it  seems,  has  been  agreed  upon  and  accepted 
by  good  Brown  authority,  and  it  is  well  that  it  should  be  so 
understood  and  acted  upon  hereafter. 

Edward  S.  Marsh, 
Brown  graduate  and  alumnus,  1879. 
Brandon,  Vt.,  December  1,  1936. 

%        H:        :{:        :t:        4: 

ORRAY  Taft  '66,  who  succeeded  Mr.  Smith  as  the  dean 
of  Brown  graduates,  received  the  following  felicitous 
greeting  from  Acting  President  James  P.  Adams,  who, 
writing  on  November  27,  said: 

"I  am  informed  by  the  Secretary  of  the  Associated  Alumni  that 
you  are  now  the  oldest  hving  graduate  of  Brown  University  and  I 
am  writing  to  extend  to  you  the  felicitations  of  the  University,  of 
the  Corporation  and  Faculty,  and  of  the  Alumni.  It  is  our  hope 
that  you  may  long  hold  this  distinction  among  the  ten  thousand 
sons  of  Brown  who  are  scattered  throughout  the  world. 

"Seventy  classes  have  followed  in  your  footsteps  down  the  Hill. 
Brown  is  larger  today  than  when  you  left  her  gates — larger  in  terms 
of  physical  plant  and  in  terms  of  endowment,  larger  in  terms 
of  student  enrollment  and  Faculty  personnel.  But  we  cherish  the 
belief  that  Brown  is  still  adhering  to  the  high  purpose  which  was 
written  large  in  the  language  of  the  Charter  and  is  translating  her 
old  ideals  into  significant  educational  achievement  in  the  world  in 
which  we  live  today. 

"We  salute  you  and  send  our  affectionate  greetings  from  College 
Hill." 


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The  Academic  Side 
of  Campus  News 


Headquarters  for  History 

HISTORIANS  from  all  parts  of  the  United  States,  many 
of  them  among  the  nation's  leading  scholars,  will 
gather  in  Providence  on  Dec.  29,  30  and  31  under 
the  auspices  of  Brown  University  for  the  51st  annual  meet- 
ing of  the  American  Historical  Association.  The  program 
will  range  from  discussions  of  Mayan  civilization  through 
historical  aspects  of  the  Federal  Resettlement  Administra- 
tion. 

Founded  in  1884,  the  American  Historical  Association 
today  has  more  than  3,000  members,  representing  colleges 
and  universities,  libraries,  historical  foundations,  civic,  reli- 
gious and  other  organisations  throughout  the  nation.  It  is 
designed  to  coordinate  and  stimulate  interest  in  a  variety  of 
historical  and  related  fields. 

Ten  other  organizations,  with  interests  in  specialized  his- 
torical subjects,  will  meet  concurrently  with  the  historical 
association,  according  to  Prof.  James  B.  Hedges  of  Brown, 
chairman  of  the  program  committee.  Sessions  will  he  held 
at  the  Providence  Biltmore  Hotel  and  at  Brown. 

Organizations  represented  will  be  the  Mississippi  Valley 
Historical  Association,  Conference  of  State  and  Local  His- 
torical Societies,  Agriculture  Historical  Society,  American 
Society  of  Church  History,  American  Catholic  Historical 
Association,  History  of  Science  Society,  Bibliographical 
Society  of  America,  Mediaeval  Academy  of  America,  Na- 
tional Council  for  the  Social  Studies  and  the  Business 
Historical  Society. 

ALL  of  the  meetings  on  Wednesday,  Dec.  30,  will  be  held 
on  the  Brown  campus  and  at  Pembroke,  in  Faunce 
House,  Manning  Hall,  Alumnae  Hall  and  at  the  John 
Carter  Brown  LibrarJ^  Brown  will  be  host  to  the  delegates 
at  a  luncheon  in  Sayles  Hall  and  in  Faunce  House  dining 
rooms  at  noon.  The  association's  principal  dinner  will  be 
held  Wednesday  night  at  the  Biltmore  ballroom. 

Six  other  luncheons  and  dinners  are  planned,  including  a 
luncheon  conference  on  Hispanic  America,  a  luncheon  con- 
ference of  archivists,  and  a  dinner  of  the  Mediaeval  Acad- 
emy of  America,  all  on  Tuesday,  Dec.  29;  and  luncheon 
conferences  of  editors  of  historical  publications,  and  of  the 
American  Historical  Association  and  the  National  Council 
for  the  Social  Studies  on  Thursday,  Dec.  3 1 . 

The  committee  on  local  arrangements  includes  Henry  D. 
Sharpe,  chancellor  of  Brown,  chairman;  Prof.  Robert  H. 
George  of  Brown,  executive  secretary;  Prof.  Sinclair  W. 
Armstrong  and  Prof.  Jay  B.  Botsford  of  Brown;  Herbert 
O,  Brigham,  state  librarian;  John  Nicholas  Brown,  a  Fellow 
of  the  university;  Howard  M.  Chapin,  librarian  of  the 
Rhode  Island  Historical  Society;  Prof.  Theodore  Collier  of 
Brown;  Mrs.  Murray  S.  Danforth,  president  of  the  Rhode 
Island  School  of  Design;  Prof.  Chester  H.  Kirby  of  Brown; 
William  D.  Miller,  president  of  the  Providence  Public 
Library;  Prof.  Jarvis  M.  Morse  of  Brown;  Nathaniel  W. 
Smith,  president  of  the  Rhode  Island  Historical  Society;  and 
Dr.  Lawrence  C.  Wroth,  librarian  of  the  John  Carter 
Brown  Library. 


Heads  Economics  Department 

PROF.  George  E.  Bigge,  associate  professor  of  economics 
at  Brown  University,  has  been  designated  chairman  of 
the  Department  of  Economics. 

Since  1931,  when  Prof.  Adams  became  vice-president  of 
the  university,  Prof.  Bigge  has  been  secretary  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  Economics.  He  came  to  Brown  in  1927  as  assistant 
professor  of  economics,  and  was  promoted  to  associate  pro- 
fessor in  1932.  He  received  an  A.B.  degree  from  the  Uni- 
versity of  Michigan  in  1922  and  his  Ph.D.  from  Michigan 
in  1931.  Prof.  Bigge  was  an  instructor  at  Michigan  from 
1923  until  1927. 

Prof.  Bigge  has  been  called  upon  to  serve  the  State  during 
the  past  few  years.  He  was  chairman  of  the  Governor's 
Commission  on  Interstate  Compacts  Affecting  Industry  and 
Labor.  He  was  granted  a  leave  of  absence  from  Brown 
from  June  1  to  Oct.  1  this  year  to  permit  him  to  accept 
appointment  by  the  Governor  as  chairman  of  the  State 
Unemployment  Compensation  Board,  organized  under  the 
State  Unemployment  Insurance  Act. 

A  New  Freshman  Adviser 

NEWLY  added  to  the  staff  in  the  Admmistration  at  Brown 
is  Dr.  J.  Sutherland  Frame,  instructor  in  mathematics, 
who  is  now  serving  as  a  Freshman  Adviser  on  part  time.  In 
this  office  Dr.  Frame  is  associated  with  Dean  Samuel  T. 
Arnold,  dean  of  undergraduates,  and  will  be  primarily 
concerned  with  matters  of  educational  advice  and  direction 
for  Freshmen.  He  has  been  at  Brown  since  1934,  when  he 
was  appointed  an  instructor. 

Dr.  Frame  received  his  A.B.  and  Ph.D.  degrees  from 
Harvard  in  1929  and  1933.  He  was  an  instructor  in  mathe- 
matics at  Harvard  from  1930  to  1933,  and  held  the 
Harvard  Travelling  Fellowship  in  1933-34  while  he  studied 
at  the  Universities  of  Gottingen  and  Zurich. 

Rockefeller  Moderns 

SIX  American  artists,  generally  recognized  as  among  the 
most  outstanding  men  of  their  schools  on  this  side  of  the 
Atlantic,  were  represented  at  the  exhibition  of  25  water- 
colors  from  the  collection  of  Mrs.  John  D.  Rockefeller,  Jr., 
held  in  Faunce  House  Art  Gallery  at  Brown  during  Novem- 
ber. 

The  exhibition,  arranged  under  the  auspices  of  the  Brown 
University  Department  of  Art,  comes  from  the  Museum  of 
Modern  Art  in  New  York,  to  which  Mrs.  Rockefeller  re- 
cently gave  her  watercolors. 

"These  American  watercolors  are  generally  acknowl- 
edged to  be  the  finest  group  in  any  single  collection,"  Prof. 
Will  S.  Taylor,  chairman  of  the  Department  of  Art  at 
Brown,  told  students.  They  were  by  the  late  Charles 
Demuth,  "Pop"  Hart,  Charles  Burchfield,  Preston  Dickin- 
son, Edward  Hopper,  and  Maurice  Prendergast. 

Legacy  in  Litigation 

A  Court  Contest  has  centered  about  the  will  of  the  late 
Joseph  J.  McCaffrey  '99,  Providence  alumnus  who 
designated  generous  portions  of  his  estate  as  a  legacy  to 
Brown.  At  the  time  of  his  death  this  fall,  it  was  said  that 
he  left  $10,000  to  Rhode  Island  Hospital  to  establish  two 
free  beds,  bequests  to  friends  and  co-workers,  and  the  residue 
of  the  estate,  said  to  total  $1 50,000,  to  his  Alma  Mater.  An 
effort  to  break  the  will  has  begun,  however. 


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Books  for  Broi;vii  Shelves 


His  Bonus  Paid  for  It 

MANY  an  interesting  yarn  could  doubt- 
less be  told  of  the  uses  to  which 
World  War  bonuses  were  put  by 
American  veterans,  but  Harold  Murdock 
Taylor's  went  to  one  of  the  most  novel  pur- 
poses of  all.  The  payment  from  Uncle  Sam 
made  possible  the  publication  this  year  of 
the  "Family  History  of  Anthony  Taylor  of 
Hampton,  New  Hampshire,"  on  which  Mr. 
Taylor  (Brown  1915)  has  been  working 
steadily  for  ten  years.  Confined  to  bed  and 
chair  as  the  result  of  World  War  injuries, 
Mr.  Taylor  has  had  the  satisfaction  of  see- 
ing his  genealogy  actually  off  the  press. 
(Tuttle  Publishing  Co.,  $15.) 

Nearly  600  pages  long,  the  account  is 
richly  illustrated  and  impressive  in  its  com- 
pleteness. Twelve  generations  are  identified, 
spanning  the  three  centuries  from  163  5  to 
the  present,  and  no  records  are  suppressed, 
says  Mr.  Taylor.  He  found  none  of  the 
horse-thieves  and  freebooters  that  ancestor- 
hunters  are  traditionally  supposed  to  un- 
earth most  embarrassingly. 

"I  didn't  want  to  make  it  just  a  string  of 
dates,"  Mr.  Taylor  says,  and  that  approach 
gives  pleasure  to  a  reader  without  family 
ties  to  invite  him.  The  writer,  too,  smiles  as 
he  makes  an  entry  lor  1879  of  the  child 
"born  at  Hampton,  his  mother  being  provi- 
dentially there."  Other  early  notables  with 
a  touch  of  quaintness  are  the  woman  who 
"inherited  her  father's  remarkable  strength, 
could  lift  a  barrel  ot  cider  over  a  wagon 
wheel"  and  the  man  who  married  five  times 
and  was  joshed  for  his  numerous  matrimo- 
nial alliances.  He  remarked,  "When  God 
takes  one  wife,  I  take  another." 

According  to  one  Boston  review,  "An- 
thony Taylor  is  more  than  a  genealogy  or 
history  ot  a  particular  family.  ...  It 
abounds  in  early  American  history  and  is 
replete  with  incidents  quaint,  picturesque, 
and  otherwise  reflecting  the  manners  and 
customs  of  the  times.  .  .  .  William  Bradford, 
John  Winthrop  and  other  historic  worthies 
in  the  beginning  of  New  England  have 
long  had  their  books  and  papers;  now, 
some  of  the  less  known,  less  glamorous  of 
our  forefathers,  yet  equally  pioneers  and 
founders,  are  'breaking  into  print'!" 

The  book  contains  many  Rhode  Island 
records  and  references  to  important  events 


in  State  history.  At  least  eight  Brown  men 
and  women  come  in  for  mention,  detailed 
or  incidental,  including;  John  Merrill, 
1793,  early  Wiscasset  (Me.)  attorney  and 
overseer,  Bowdoin  College;  Samuel  Gridley 
Howe,  1821,  of  world  renown;  Rose  Ade- 
laide Witham,  gl901,  teacher,  editor  and 
author;  Amos  Leavitt  Taylor,  1901,  Boston 
attorney,  and  his  son,  Amos  Leavitt  Taylor, 
Jr.,  1935,  now  at  Harvard  Law  School; 
Raymond  L.  Stickney,  1915,  Providence 
artist;  Isabel  Taylor,  1918,  social  settle- 
ment director,  now  in  charge  of  Workers' 
Education  for  New  York  City;  and  the 
author,  former  advertising  executive. 

While  Anthony  Taylor  settled  in  Hamp- 
ton and  is  recognized  as  one  of  the  found- 
ers of  New  Hampshire,  descendants  fol- 
lowed the  ever  westward-moving  frontier 
and  grew  with  the  country.  Thus,  the 
book,  recording  these  changes,  contributes 
to  the  local  and  family  history  of  most 
States  and  Provinces  of  Canada.  There  are 
over  60  illustrations — of  old  documents, 
signatures,  homesteads,  maps  and  portraits; 
some  1500  other  surnames.  The  volume  is 
called  the  Tercentenary  edition  and  is  in- 
scribed to  the  memory  of  "Anthony  Taylor 
and  Phillipa,  His  Wife,  whose  decision  to 
emigrate  to  the  New  World  was  so  momen- 
tous in  consequence  to  their  descendants." 

It  is  a  splendid  record  of  a  splendid 
family,  and  New  Hampshire  folk  and 
Taylor  folk,  in  their  pride,  must  be  grateful 
to  the  Brunonian  whose  research  is  now  so 
happily  completed. 

H;       *       * 

A  Great  Task  Ended 

THE  Carnegie  Institution  of  Washington 
has  just  published  the  eighth  and  final 
volume  ot  the  important  series  edited 
by  Dr.  Edmund  C.  Burnett  '90,  Letters  of 
Members  of  the  Continental  Congress,  a 
portly  volume  of  999  pages.  The  editing  of 
this  valuable  series  has  been  Dr.  Burnett's 
principal  life-work,  and  has  occupied  him 
for  nearly  thirty  years.  As  the  Continental 
Congress  held  its  sessions  behind  closed 
doors,  the  six  thousand  letters  or  portions 
of  letters  printed  in  this  series  cast  more 
light  upon  its  transactions,  as  set  forth  in 
Its  published  journal,  than  has  ever  been 
cast  before  or  could  by  any  other  means  be 
provided;   and   competent  judges  have   de- 


■  WAIT  mo   FOR   LEFTY' 

A  dTamdtic  scene  from  the  distinguished  Soc\  and  Busltin  production 

of  the  contemporary  American  play. 


clared  that  Dr.  Burnett's  annotations  and 
introductions  to  these  volumes  constitute 
the  finest  large  piece  of  editorial  work  upon 
historical  documents  which  has  ever  been 
done  in  the  United  States.  Dr.  Burnett  is 
now  preparing  a  history  of  the  Continental 
Congress,  a  subject  of  which  he  knows  more 
than  anyone  else  ever  has  known. 
*  *  * 
Anti-Borah 

A  VIGOROUS  indictment  of  Senator  William 
E.  Borah  for  his  attitude  toward  the 
Negroes  of  America  was  printed  recently 
in  The  Crisis,  the  official  organ  of  the 
National  Association  for  the  Advancement 
of  Colored  People.  The  writer  was  Louis 
L.  Redding  '23,  who  continues  to  show  his 
ability  to  express  himself  forcefully  and 
well,  as  he  promised  to  do  as  an  under- 
graduate. 

"It  would  seem  from  this  analysis  of  the 
Senator  from  Idaho,"  says  the  editor's  fore- 
word, "that  Negro  citizens  can  place  little 
dependence  in  him  as  a  statesman,  and 
none  at  all  in  him  as  a  man  having  any 
conception  of  the  hopes,  ambitions,  and 
rights  of  Negro  Americans." 

Issues  discussed  were  the  famous  case  of 
the  25th  Infantry  (Colored)  at  the  time  of 
the  Brownsville  raid  in  1906,  when  Borah 
called  the  Negro  troops  "traitors";  quoted 
statements  of  Borah's  against  the  extension 
of  the  vote  to  Negroes;  and  especially  his 
activity  against  the  federal  anti-lynching 
bills. 

*  *      * 

Poetry  by  '91  Men 

A  VOLUME  of  '91  verse,  an  anthology  of 
the  work  of  a  class  noted  for  its  poets, 
is  projected  for  the  near  future,  according 
to  the  class  president.  Rev.  Charles  A. 
Meader.  He  has  appointed  as  a  committee 
to  edit  and  publish  such  a  collection:  Abram 
Mendenhall,  chairman,  Arthur  H.  Colby, 
William  H.  Paine,  and  George  J.  Holden. 

*  *      * 
Wheaton's  Editor 

DR.  George  Grafton  Wilson  "86  is 
back  in  Cambridge,  Mass.,  after  spend- 
ing the  summer  and  early  fall  in  Grafton, 
Vt.,  and  is  busy  on  various  projects,  one  of 
the  most  interesting  of  which  is  editing 
Wheaton's  77iterncitional  Law  to  commemo- 
rate the  100th  anniversary  of  the  edition  of 
1836.  He  is  now  free  from  class  room 
appointments  at  Harvard,  where  his  serv- 
ices were  proudly  noted  during  the  recent 
Tercentenary.  Wheaton,  a  member  of 
Brown's  class  of  1802  and  a  distinguished 
American  diplomat,  is  considered  the  father 
of  International  Law. 

*  *      * 
Selling  Ideas 

TESTED  Selling  Ideas,"  by  Carroll  B. 
Larrabee  '18,  managing  editor  of 
Printers'  Inl^,  and  Henry  W.  Marks,  a 
colleague,  has  been  published  by  McGraw- 
Hill  Book  Company,  New  York  City.  The 
book  contains  more  than  200  selling  ideas, 
taken  from  the  files  of  Printers'  In/;  and 
Printers'  ln}{  Mo7it/ily  and  the  material 
"covers  sales,  merchandising  and  advertis- 
ing problems." 

*  *      * 

Fictioneers 

David  De  Jong  (in  Esqiiire),  Walter  D. 
Shackleton  (in  Collier's),  and  Quentin  J. 
Reynolds  (in  Collier's)  are  among  Bru- 
nonians  whose  short  stories  are  currently 
on  the  magazine  stands. 


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The  Fraternity  Pledges 


AFTER  one  of  the  earliest  rushing  peri- 
l\  ods  in  recent  years,  the  19  national 
fraternities  pledged  their  1940  dele- 
gations on  November  2nd,  with  220  an- 
nounced pledges,  or  5  5  per  cent  of  the  class 
of  398.  The  number  and  percentage  repre- 
sent slight  declines  from  last  year. 

Alpha  Delta  Phi  and  Pi  Lambda  Phi, 
with  19  pledges  each,  led  the  list  of  houses 
with  large  delegations,  none  reaching  the 
maximum  of  20  permitted.  Phi  Gamma 
Delta  and  Psi  Upsilon  had  the  next  largest 
groups,  with  18  and  16  announced  for 
each,  respectively. 

A  sensation  of  the  last  days  of  the 
rushing  season  came  in  an  Interfraternity 
Governing  Board  action  which  penalized 
one  fraternity  for  rule-breaking.  The  house 
was  not  permitted  to  pledge  two  freshmen 
alleged  to  have  been  taken  to  Wellesley  on 
a  day  when  no  off-campus  contacts  with 
first-year  men  were  permitted.  The  fresh- 
men were  forbidden  to  join  any  fraternity 
until  after  the  spring  recess.  The  Herald 
declared  other  violations  had  been  as  fla- 
grant and  other  houses  had  been  "just  as 
guilty." 

The  list  of  pledges  to  the  Brown  chap- 
ters was  made  public  as  follows: 


Alpha  Delta  Phi- 


19 


Albert  P.  Bedell,  Albany,  N.  Y.;  Ray- 
mond V.  Bengert,  New  York  City;  Benja- 
min Bradford,  Providence;  Bertram  H. 
Buxton,  Jr.,  Providence;  Henry  D.  S. 
Chafee,  Providence;  Samuel  F.  Fellows,  La 
Crosse,  Wis.;  Edward  J.  Gilmore,  Jr., 
Montclair,  N.  J.;  Jonathan  H.  Harwood, 
East  Greenwich;  Theodore  H.  Johnson, 
Montclair,  N.  J.;  Harold  F.  Kellogg,  Jr., 
Boston,  Mass.;  Roger  C.  La  Croix,  Welles- 
ley,  Mass.;  John  J.  McLaughry,  Providence; 
William  M.  McLeod,  Newport;  John  G. 
Murray,  Mt.  Vernon,  N.  Y.;  Robert  L. 
Reynolds,  Syracuse,  N.  Y.;  Francis  W. 
Rollins,  Jr.,  Providence;  Victor  B.  Schwartz, 
Providence;  George  M.  Wallench,  River 
Forest,  111.;  Robert  S.  Ware,  Montclair, 
N.J. 

Alpha  Tau  Omega  —  4 

Junior  M.  Barney,  Longmeadow,  Mass.; 
Robert  W.  Bell,  Danielson,  Conn.;  Alfred 
B.  Cook,  Milford,  Mass.;  Vincent  Mangi- 
ante.  Providence. 

Beta  Theta  Pi  —  8 
David  W.  Borst,  North  Haven,  Conn.; 
Stuart  C.  Goodnow,  Lakewood,  Ohio; 
George  R.  Keller,  West  Haven,  Conn.; 
Robert  G.  Myers,  Jamesburg,  N.  J.;  Sidney 
T.  Ruck,  Lake  Placid,  N.  Y.;  George  E. 
Teehan,  Auburn;  Robert  E.  Trahan,  Provi- 
dence; John  B.  Young,  Verona,  N.  J. 

Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  —  15 
Robert  C.  Antonsen,  Chicago,  111.;  Stan- 
dish  K.  Bochman,  Maplewood;  Horace  A. 
Clem,  Cranston;  Daniel  W.  Daly,  Brad- 
ford, Pa.;  Emil  H.  Diets,  Richmond  Hill, 
N.  Y.;  Jonathan  Goodwin,  Hartford,  Conn.; 
Joseph  V.  Hogue,  Jr.,  Yonkcrs,  N.  Y.; 
David  P.  Housh,  Washington  Conn.;  Fran- 
cis MacBride,  South  Orange,  N.  J.;  A. 
Inman  Marshall,  Jr.,  Malone,  N.  Y.;  Ray- 
mond C.  McCulIoch,  Altoona,  Pa.;  Harold 
W.  Pfautz,  South  Orange,  N.  J.;  George  K. 
Pond,  Malone,  N.  Y.;  Bruce  A.  Robbins, 
Onset,  Mass.;  Myron  E.  Wilcox,  Jr.,  Cam- 
bridge, Mass. 


Delta  Phi —  10 
Edward  E.  Ball,  Edgewood;  Thomas  L. 
Chiifelle,  Slatersville;  Myles  S.  Clegg,  Prov- 
idence; Russell  W.  Field,  Jr.,  Barrington; 
Kirk  Hanson,  Taunton,  Mass.;  Henry  P. 
Hill,  Floral  Park,  N.  Y.;  Robert  I.  Homma, 
Jr.,  Montclair,  N.  J.;  Robert  I.  Homma,  Jr., 
Montclair,  N.  J.;  Robert  E.  Kells,  Brook- 
lyn, N.  Y.;  Herbert  F.  Lewis,  Providence; 
Harlow  L.  Paul,  Jr.,  South  Attleboro,  Mass. 

Delta  Tau  Delta —  15 
John  C.  Braman,  West  Newton,  Mas.*..: 
C.  Borden  Chase,  Fall  River;  Horace  E. 
Fritschle,  Chicago,  111.;  John  J.  Hackett, 
Providence;  George  R.  Holswade,  Spencer, 
West  Va.;  Henry  A.  Klie,  Jersey  City,  N. 
J.;  Clifford  E.  Lathrop,  New  York  City; 
John  R.  Lemon,  Providence;  Franklin  P. 
Losey,  Rye,  N.  Y.;  H.  Curtis  Mohler, 
Beckley,  W.  Va.;  Edgar  R.  Perkins,  Taren- 
tum.  Pa.;  H.  Charles  Redington,  Pittsburgh; 
Charles  C.  Swift,  Rutland,  Vt.;  Frank  S. 
Williams,  Providence;  Joseph  H.  Wendlc, 
West  Barrington. 

Delta  Upsilon  —  12 
Jonathan  W.  Brown,  Sioux  City,  Iowa; 
Norman  S.  Case,  Jr.,  Providence;  Byron 
Crosman,  Chicago,  111.;  James  S.  Ely,  Prov- 
idence; Walter  C.  Gummere,  Jr.,  Cuyahoga 
Falls,  Ohio;  Joseph  C.  Harvey,  E.  Provi 
dence;  Donald  A.  Jones,  Providence;  John 
C.  Lhotka,  Chicago,  111.;  John  G.  Porritt, 
Providence;  John  M.  Records,  Winnetka, 
111.;  George  E.  Sands,  Jr.,  Rio  De  Janiero, 
Brazil;  George  P.  Sawyer,  Montclair,  N.  J. 

Kappa  Sigma  —  9 

Robert  G.  Ashman,  Jr.,  Providence; 
Eugene  H.  Hastings,  Jr.,  Crestwood,  N.  Y.; 
Raymond  F.  Johnston,  Rumford;  William 
J.  MacDonald,  E.  Providence;  Alan  H. 
Moore,  E.  Providence;  Robert  T.  Poole, 
Riverside;  Earl  W.  Scott,  Jr.,  East  Provi- 
dence; Reade  Y.  Tompson,  Seekonk, 
Mass.;  W.  Irving  Tragle,  3rd,  Pough- 
keepsie,  N.  Y. 

Lambda  Chi  Alpha  —  1 

Wilbur  E.  Becker,  Yonkers,  N.  Y. 
Phi  Delta  Theta —  12 

George  Abraham,  New  York;  Raymond 
F.  Curran,  Providence;  Floyd  T.  Gould, 
Pelham,  N.  Y.;  John  L.  Hoar,  North  Gros- 
venordale,  Conn.;  Frederick  E.  King,  Prov- 
idence; Robert  B.  Perry,  Westerly;  Gordon 
E.  Poole,  Bloomfield,  N.  J.;  Howard  S. 
Progner,  Yonkers,  N.  Y.;  Elliott  Roberts, 
New  Bedford,  Mass.;  Louis  C.  Sigloch,  3rd, 
Pelham  Manor,  New  York;  Andrew  M. 
Sinclair,  Providence;  Richard  H.  Starrett, 
Providence. 


Phi  Gamma  Delta  - 


18 


Frederick  D.  Brown,  Montclair,  N.  J.; 
Alfred  B.  Cenedella,  Jr.,  Milford,  Mass.: 
Charles  R.  Conant,  Jr.,  Whitman,  Mass.; 
C.  William  Earnshaw,  West  Newton,  Mass.; 
Robert  T.  Engles,  New  Rochelle,  N.  Y.; 
Edward  J.  Henry,  Philadelphia,  Pa.iThomas 
H.  Hermann,  Cincinnati,  Ohio;  Donald 
S.  McNeil,  Wellesley,  Mass.;  Forbes  Mann. 
New  York  City;  George  L.  Mawhinney, 
Brookline,  Mass.;  Paul  A.  Nelson,  Lincoln, 
Mass.;  George  S.  Rowland,  W.  H.  J.  Row- 
land, both  of  Niagara  Falls,  N.  Y.;  William 
O.  Seelbach,  Jr.,  Cincinnati,  Ohio;  Donald 
A.   Thayer,   Worcester,   Mass.;   Fred   Von 


Steinwehr,  Cincinnati,  Ohio;  Richard  C. 
Walker,  Muskegon,  Mich.;  Lloyd  G.  Wil- 
liams, Great  Neck,  N.  Y. 

Phi  Kappa  Psi  —  1 1 

Sam  H.  Anderson,  Cranford,  N.  J., 
Charles  E.  Blount,  New  York  City;  John 
H.  Brigleb,  Cleveland  Heights,  Ohio;  Rich- 
ard S.  Emery,  Jr.,  Arlington,  Mass.;  Philip 
K.  Knesal,  Cleveland,  Ohio;  Joseph  Mason, 
Jr.,  Providence;  Henry  J.  Pinney,  Jr.,  Wor- 
cester, Mass.;  Robert  I.  Smith,  Arlington, 
New  Jersey;  Robert  M.  Smith,  Chestnut 
Hill,  Pa.;  Richard  E.  Strubel,  Bloomfield, 
N.  J.;  Richard  B.  Uhle,  Cleveland  Heights. 
Ohio. 

Phi  Sigma  Kappa  —  4 

Louis  C.  Ambrette,  Brooklyn,  New  York; 
Roy  E.  Hunt,  Rutherford,  N.  J.;  Ray  V. 
Manfredi,  New  York  City;  Ben  J.  Neff,  Jr., 
Wethcrsfield,  Conn. 

Pi  Lambda  Phi —  19 
Hadley  P.  Atlass,  Newark,  N.  J.;  Robert 
L.  Beir,  New  York  City;  Robert  I.  Berg- 
mann.  Great  Neck,  N.  Y.;  Alexander  F. 
Black,  New  Rochelle,  N.  Y.;  Frederick 
Bloom,  Brookline,  Mass.;  Daniel  J.  Brand, 
New  York  City;  Joseph  M.  Edinburg,  Wor- 
cester, Mass.;  Joseph  S.  Finkelstein,  Boston, 
Mass.;  Douglas  A.  Finkelstone,  Bridgeport, 
Conn.;  Albert  L.  Gerber,  Providence;  Wil- 
liam C.  Gleuck,  New  York  City;  Robert  L. 
Joslin,  Providence;  Milton  M.  Leichter,  Jr., 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.;  Robert  I.  Logan,  Provi- 
dence; Bernard  C.  Reiss,  New  York  City; 
Eugene  W.  Simon,  Glencoe,  111.;  Richard 
L.  Solomon,  Brookline,  Mass.;  Thomas  H. 
Steele,  Chicago,  111.;  Jerome  F.  Strauss,  Jr., 
Chicago,  111. 

Psi  Upsilon  —  16 
John  R.  Bremmer,  Jr.,  Rumson,  N.  J.; 
Kenneth  D.  Clapp,  New  York  City;  James 
T.  Clark,  3rd,  Newark,  N.  J.;  Jackson  B. 
Derflmger,  Clinton,  la.;  Frederic  F.  Flan- 
nagan,  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.;  L.  W.  Fuller 
Wakefield,  Mass.;  William  L.  Glatfelter 
2nd,  Spring  Grove,  Pa.;  R,  C.  Graham 
Kent,  Ohio;  John  A.  Lcith,  Boston,  Mass. 
Carl  Morton,  Lake  Bluff,  111.;  Joseph  L 
O'Neil,  Jr.,  Toledo,  Ohio;  Edward  Roth 
3rd,  Quarry  Height,  Canal  Zone;  Sam  J 
Sherer,  2nd,  Highland  Park,  111.;  William 
P.  Silsbee,  W.  Los  Angeles,  Calif.;  James 
A.  Smith,  Washington,  D.  C;  G.  C.  Wick, 
Cleveland  Heights. 

Sigma  Chi  —  II 
William  D.  Baird,  Red  Bank,  N.  J.: 
Charles  L.  Blute,  Danvers,  Mass.;  Alfred  H. 
O.  Boudreau,  Jr.,  Cranston;  Robert  Cole, 
Columbus,  Ohio;  Douglas  T.  E.  Foster, 
Pawtucket;  Harry  B.  Henshel,  Kew  Gar- 
dens, N.  Y.;  David  T.  Jennings,  Pitts- 
burgh; James  D.  Kennedy,  New  York  City; 
Stanley  R.  Millard,  Mamaroneck,  N.  Y.; 
Joseph  B.  Resch,  Jr.,  East  Greenwich; 
George  W.  Williams,  Pawtucket. 

Sigma  Nu  —  13 
Edward  T.  Dooley,  Johnston;  Ralph  B. 
Harris,  Salem,  Mass.:  John  A.  Kennedy, 
Saylesville:  Edward  F.  Lane,  Providence; 
Arthur  W.  Lindholm,  Milton,  Mass.;  Wil- 
ham  H.  McCall,  Jr.,  Providence:  Bernard  D. 
McKenzie,  Flushing,  N.  Y.;  Steven  W. 
Meader,  Jr.,  Moorestown,  N.  J.;  Harold  C. 
Miller,  New  York  City;  Clark  L.  Newton, 


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BROWJV  ALUMI^  MONTHLY 


Medford,  Mass.;  James  S.  Nicol,  Millburn, 
N.  J.;  Willard  F,  Turner,  Baltic,  Conn.; 
Charles  C.  Viall,  East  Providence. 
Theta  Delta  Chi  — 11 
Jefts  G.  Beede,  Belmont,  Mass.;  Gorden 
T.  Colley,  Providence;  Robert  B.  Dewey, 
Bennington,  Vt.;  James  W.  Dow,  Cam- 
bridge, Mass.;  Richard  W.  Horton,  Provi- 
dence; George  D.  Krause,  2nd,  Lebanon, 
Pa.;  Thomas  V.  Nash,  South  Weymouth, 
Mass.;  John  D.  Prodgers,  Pittsfield,  Mass.; 
Harry  Sharkey,  Brockton,  Mass.;  Carlton 
N.  Singleton,  Providence;  Robert  E.  Staff, 
Brockton,  Mass. 

Zeta  Psi —  12 
Charles  W.  Alden,  Woodside,  L.  I.,  N, 
Y.;  Albert  H.  Curtis,  Weston,  Mass.;  W. 
F.  DuComb,  Detroit,  Mich.;  Alvin  H.  Han- 
■son,  Lawrence,  Mass.;  David  F.  R.  Howe, 
Jr.,  New  York  City;  E.  Howard  Hunt, 
Hamburg,  N.  Y.;  Ormand  W.  McClave, 
Jr.,  Grantwood,  N.  J.;  William  C.  Mustard, 
Jr.,  Providence:  Robert  E.  Parish,  Philadel- 
phia, Pa.;  Richard  N.  Pease,  Worcester, 
Mass.;  David  S.  Price,  E.  Aurora,  New 
York;  Henry  L.  Wilder,  Jr.,  Manchester, 
N.  H. 

*     *     * 

With  the  Faculty 

DEAN  Roland  G.  D.  Richardson  of 
the  Graduate  School  presided  at  the 
meetings  of  the  Association  of  Amer- 
ican Universities  held  Nov.  4,  ?  and  6  at 
the  University  of  Texas.  He  also  spoke  at 
the  University  of  Iowa,  the  University  of 
Kansas,  and  Baylor  University,  and  on  his 
return  trip  stopped  at  Detroit  to  represent 
Brown  at  the  meeting  of  the  Association  of 
Urban  Universities.  The  Association  of 
American  Universities  will  meet  at  Brown 
in  November,  1937. 

Professor  C.  E.  Ekstrom  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  Education  in  an  address  at  the 
Warren  Baptist  Church,  Nov.  12,  called 
upon  the  citizens  of  Rhode  Island  to  con- 
demn "the  dire  social  and  moral  conse- 
quences" of  legalized  gambling  on  horse 
races  in  the  State. 

Campbell  B.  Beard  of  the  Department 
of  Social  and  Political  Science  discussed  the 
current  political  situation  in  Europe  at  the 
November  meeting  of  the  Rhode  Island 
Secondary  School  Principals"  Association  at 
the  University  Club,  Providence. 

Dr.  Lawrence  Wroth,  librarian  of  the 
John  Carter  Brown  Library,  gave  the  first 
Marshall  Woods  Lecture  of  the  present 
academic  year  in  Sayles  Hall,  Oct.  26,  his 
topic  being  "Roger  Williams." 

Professor  Jarvis  M.  Morse  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  History  gave  the  address  at  the 
Pembroke  College  assembly  on  Nov.  1  7  to 
commemorate  the  Rhode  Island  Tercente- 
nary. His  subject  was  Thomas  William 
Dorr,  champion  of  democracy  and  the  prin- 
ciple of  sovereign  freedom  of  government, 
and  leader  of  the  so-called  Dorr  Rebellion 
in  1840.  Professor  Morse  characterized 
Dorr  as  "a  genuine  reformer  and  not  a 
self-seeking   politician." 

Professor  Leland  M.  Goodrich  of  the 
Department  of  Social  and  Political  Science, 
who  spent  last  semester  in  Europe  observ- 
ing jhe  political  scene  at  first  hand,  spoke 
on  "Europe  as  Seen  From  Geneva"  at  the 
weekly  luncheon  of  the  Faculty  Club  the 
first  Wednesday  in  November.  Other  speak- 
ers since  then  have  been  Rev.  Dr.  Bernard 
Iddings  Bell,  whose  subject  was  "A  New 
England  Poet  in  Search  of  His  Soul,"  and 
Professor  Carl  W.  Miller  of  the  Depart- 
ment of   Physics   who   gave   an   illustrated 


talk  on  "Color  Photography."  Professor 
D'Arcy  Thompson  of  the  University  of  St. 
Andrews,  Scotland,  was  the  luncheon  guest 
Tuesday,  Nov.  24. 

Professor  W.  R.  Benford  has  been  ap- 
pointed a  member  of  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee of  the  Northeastern  Section  of  the 
American  Society  of  Civil  Engineers,  to 
make  arrangements  for  the  fall  convention 
of  the  Society,  to  be  held  in  Boston  in 
October,  1937.  He  will  represent  the  Prov- 
idence Section  of  the  American  Society  of 
Civil  Engineers. 

Oi'er  Buildings  and  Grounds 

NORMAN  W.  Marble,  former  superin- 
tendent of  the  State  House  and  State 
Office  Building,  Providence,  has  been  ap- 
pointed assistant  superintendent  of  build- 
ings and  grounds  at  Brown.  A  graduate 
from  the  Pratt  Institute  in  1914  in  archi- 
tectural engineering,  Mr.  Marble  has  also 
been  employed  in  architectural  drafting  for 
the  City  of  Providence. 

The  Associated 
Aliiiniii  of 
Brown 

Detroit 

DR.  Augustus  P.  Reccord,  "92,  was 
chosen  president  of  the  Brown  Club 
of  Detroit  to  succeed  William  A. 
Moffett  "14,  at  the  annual  meeting  and  din- 
ner held  at  the  Wardell,  Nov.  18,  with  T. 
R.  Jeffers  "23,  secretary  of  the  Brown  Uni- 
versity Council,  as  guest  from  College  Hill. 
Henry  P.  Stacy  "08  is  the  new  vice  presi- 
dent, and  Arthur  S.  Bush  "31  takes  the 
place  of  Frederick  L.  Robinson  "29  as  sec- 
retary-treasurer. The  Club  added  the  office 
of  vice  president  at  its  1935  annual  meet- 
ing with  the  understanding  that  the  vice 
president  would  hereafter  become  presi- 
dent. 

The  number  present  at  the  get-together, 
President  Moffett  wrote,  was  not  as  large 
as  hoped  for,  owing  to  the  New  York  auto- 
mobile show,  the  hunting  season,  and  sev- 
eral business  engagements  out  of  the  city. 
But  it  was  an  enthusiastic  gathering  just 
the  same;  Jeffers  made  a  fine  impression  on 
his  first  appearance  as  a  University  official; 
and  there  was  a  question  and  answer  peri- 
od which  lasted  nearly  two  hours.  "The  in- 
formation Jeffers  gave  in  answer  to  ques- 
tions gave  us  insight  into  what  is  happen- 
ing at  Brown  and  brought  us  up  to  date."' 

North  Shore 

WITH  Dean  Samuel  T.  Arnold  as  speak- 
er, the  fall  meeting  of  the  North  Shore 
Brown  Club  (Massachusetts)  was  held  at 
the  Lynn  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Tuesday  evening, 
Oct.  27.  Political  rallies  cut  into  the  at- 
tendance, our  correspondent  reported.  Dean 
Arnold's  talk  of  affairs  at  Brown,  of  ath- 
letics (there  were  many  questions  asked 
about  the  football  situation)  and  of  the 
change  by  which  Dr.  Henry  M.  Wriston 
will  become  president  of  Brown  in  Feb- 
ruary was  a  highly  interesting  one.  And 
Dean  Arnold  tried  to  answer  all  the  ques- 
tions put  to  him  from  the  floor.  Horace  M. 
Woodberry,  Jr.,  "13,  president  of  the  Club 
and  a  classmate  of  Dean  Arnold,  intro- 
duced the  speaker. 

Present  were  Edward  N.  Robinson  "96, 
Arthur  W.  Pinkham  '02,  Gordon  W.  Roaf 
"21,  H.  J.  Somers  "24,  Kenneth  T.  White 


'31,  Frank  N.  Ryan  "26,  S.  M.  Klivansky 
"23,  H.  M.  Davis  "16,  L.  G.  McGinn  "31, 
Daniel  J.  Santry  "32,  James  P.  Patton  '34, 
Endicott  Newhall  "30,  Frank  L.  Mansur 
'10,  W.  D.  Morrill  '10,  G.  G.  Foshay  "25 
R.  E.  Arnold  "29,  and  S.  Abbott  Hutch- 
inson "31,  secretary. 

Pieic  York 

A  T  a  beefsteak  party  given  at  the  Brown 
-'^  University  Club  in  New  York,  Thurs- 
day, Nov.  19,  Everett  B.  Morris,  sports 
writer  on  the  staff  of  the  Tiew  Tor\  Herald 
Tribime  and  an  old  New  England  boy, 
spoke  with  authority  and  great  interest  on 
the  current  football  season,  and  plays  and 
players  that  stand  out  in  his  memory.  Paul 
D.  0"Brien  "27  was  in  the  chair.  Most  of  the 
alumni  who  heard  Mr.  Morris  watched  the 
finals  of  the  Brown  Club  squash  handicap 
tournament  and  saw  A.  I.  Gilbert  "26  de- 
feat George  R.  Coughlan,  Jr.  "31  for  the 
title.    Prizes  were  awarded  at  the  dinner. 

The  December  Club  night  on  the  first  of 
the  month  had  Assistant  Dean  Edgar  J. 
Lanpher  "19  and  Leonard  Outhwaite. 
noted  explorer,  as  speakers  and  Everett 
Colby  "97  as  master  of  ceremonies.  Dean 
Lanpher  told  of  current  events  on  the  cam- 
pus in  his  inimitable  manner.  Mr.  Outh- 
waite"s  subject  was  "The  Shrinking  Con- 
tinent, the  Story  of  Antarctica."  As  a 
prominent  member  of  the  Explorers  Club, 
he  knows  personally  most  of  the  men  who 
played  a  part  in  developing  Antarctica 
from  a  vast  myth  to  a  real  continent.  He 
illustrated  his  talk  with  motion  pictures.  A 
large  number  of  alumni  attended  this  affair, 
one  of  the  most  successful  of  the  new 
season. 

The  Brown  Club's  Class  C  Squash  Rac- 
quets team  opened  its  season  in  the  Metro- 
politan League  Dec.  2.  and  will  meet  teams 
representing  the  following  Clubs  during 
the  winter:  Bard  Hall,  Columbia,  Down- 
town A.  C,  Cornell,  Williams,  7th  Regi- 
ment, and  Dartmouth.  At  present  writing 
the  leading  candidates  for  the  Brown  team 
are:  J.  M.  Curtis  "30,  G.  R.  Coughlan,  Jr. 
'31,  D.  H.  Scott  '32,  W.  T.  Hoyt  '28,  and 
R.  Small  '32. 

Since  the  last  issue  of  the  Monthly,  the 
following  alumni  have  been  elected  to  mem- 
bership by  the  Admissions  Committee:  S. 
E.  Ames  '24,  A.  F.  Bamberger  '36,  L.  G. 
Bloomingdale  '3  5,  W.  L,  S.  Bopp  '3  5,  Paul 
Bonynge,  Jr.  '28,  C.  B.  Brown  '31,  E.  D. 
Caldwell  "34,  C.  C.  Chaffee  "24,  A.  B.  Col- 
by "21,  J.  R.  Dorer  '21,  C.  C.  Fenno,  Jr. 
'34,  J.  G.  France  '36.  D.  Gardner  '32,  C. 
H.  Gifford,  Jr.  '36,  Geoffrey  Graham  '36, 
E.  E.  Hart  '28,  T.  R.  Jeffers  '23,  C.  R. 
Johnson  '23,  Lawrence  Lanpher  '23,  W.  R. 
L.  McBee  '16,  J.  N.  Micucci  '31,  S.  L. 
Rowley  '22,  F.  K.  Singi,ser,  Jr.  '28,  W.  F. 
Smith  '34.  J.  M.  Snitzler  "32,  and  W.  A. 
Stephens  "26. 

Washington 

ONE  of  the  best  meetings  in  the  history 
of  the  Brown  Club  of  Washington,  so 
Secretary  John  A.  French  "25  reported, 
took  place  at  Wesley  Hall  the  night  of 
Oct.  26,  at  which  time  Dr.  Waldo  G.  Le- 
land "00  of  the  Brown  Board  of  Fellows 
"spoke  superbly  of  the  job  the  committee 
had  given  to  it  to  choose  a  new  president 
of  Brown.""  James  L.  Whitcomb  "36,  the 
co-speaker,  talked  about  athletics  at  Brown 
and  your  correspondent  said  that  he  minced 
few  words  with  regard  to  what  is  wrong 
with  sports  on  College  Hill. 

Present  were  Emery  M.  Foster  '18,  Wil- 
liam Adams  Slade  '98,  Francis  M.  Ander- 


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son  '07,  N.  M.  Simraonds  '89,  John  B. 
Rae  '3  2,  M.  S.  Kantrowitz;  '22,  James  M. 
Dalton  '23,  W.  G.  Stuart  Sherman  '28,  A. 
C.  Eastburn  '12,  James  L.  Whitcomb  '36, 
Henry  M.  Barry  '94,  Harold  B.  Master  '27, 
Waldo  G.  Leland  '00.  Arthur  Deerin  Call 
'96,  William  Boger  '26,  Arthur  J.  Sund- 
lun  '11,  Harry  L.  Watson  '01,  Edwin 
Grant  Dexter  '91.  Norman  S.  Case  '08, 
Ernest  R.  Cleaveland  '14,  Joseph  J.  Lyman 
'35,  John  D.  Glover  '36,  Arthur  J.  Hunt 
'33,  Edmund  C.  Burnett  '90,  Ben  L,  La 
Garde  '35,  John  A.  French  '25. 

Philadelphia 

THE  dinner  of  the  Brown  Cluh  of  Phila- 
delphia at  the  Walnut  Park  Plaia, 
where  N.  A.  Tufts  "00  is  host,  the  night 
before  the  Brown-Penn  game  brought  out 
nearly  50  alumni  to  eat,  and  sing,  and  hear 
about  the  teams  from  Coach  McLaughry 
and  Captain  Ostergard  of  Brown,  and 
Coach  Harmon  and  Captain  Warwick  of 
Penn.  Dr.  Raymond  G.  Bugbee  '06,  team 
physician,  Roy  E.  Randall  '28,  head  coach 
at  Haverford  College,  and  Don  Emery  '36, 
his  assistant  coach,  were  also  present. 

"The  turnout  was  rather  remarkable," 
Secretary  J.  Harold  Wilson  '25  wrote,  "in 
view  of  the  threatened  disaster.  (The  Penn 
team  really  had  something  this  fall.)    Plans 


are  under  way  for  other  meetings  during 
the  winter,  and  the  feeling  is  that  the 
Brown  Club  is  definitely  going  forward 
once  more." 

The  officers  for  1936-37  are:  President, 
Seth  K.  Mitchell  '15;  'Vice  President, 
Thomas  R.  Marshall  '07;  Treasurer,  Ken- 
drick  B.  Brown  '22;  Secretary,  J.  Harold 
Wilson  '25. 

Brown   Engineers 

MEMBERS  of  the  Brown  Engineering  As- 
sociation went  on  a  specially  guided 
tour  through  the  fascinating  New  York 
Museum  of  Science  and  Industry  Friday 
evening,  Nov.  6.  They  saw  the  miniature 
housing  exhibit,  and  other  displays  which 
have  made  the  Museum  a  place  to  visit. 
An  informal  dinner  meeting  at  the  Old 
New  York  Room  in  the  Museum  preceded 
the  tour. 

The  Merrimac  Valley  Brown  Club,  under 
the  leadership  of  Joseph  N.  Ashton  '91, 
held  Its  late  fall  meeting  Monday,  Dec.  5, 
at  the  Country  Club,  Shawsheen  Village, 
Andover,  with  Professor  Charles  A.  Rob- 
inson, Jr.  of  the  Department  of  Greek  and 
Latin  Classics  as  speaker.  .  .  .  The  Brown 
Club  of  New  Bedford  is  discussing  a  meet- 
ing to  take  place  early  in  January.  Frank 
A.  Walker  '08  is  in  charge. 


Briiiioiiisiiis  Far  and  Near 


BY  A.   H.  GURNEY 


1814 

IN  the  items  placed  on  exhibition  in  the 
Harvard  College  Library  on  the  occa- 
sion of  the  Harvard  Tercentenary  are 
two  letters  of  interest  to  Brownians.  The 
first  is  an  autograph  letter  to  President 
Messer  of  Brown  from  President  Kirkland 
of  Harvard  dated  June  18,  1811.  This 
letter,  of  two  pages,  has  to  do  with  the 
admission  of  James  McPherson,  Esq.,  to 
Brown.  There  is  also  a  letter  from  Presi- 
dent Messer  to  President  Kirkland  accom- 
panying a  diploma  for  a  LL  D.  degree 
granted  to  President  Kirkland  by  Brown. 
This  letter  is  dated  August  20,  1811. 

1868 

William  E.  Lincoln  is  at  his  winter  home 
in  Sarasota.  Fla.,  where  his  address  is  P.  O. 
Box  1146.  His  son,  Kirke  P.  Lincoln  "02, 
is  with  him,  and  both  hope  to  catch  a  few 
big  fish  while  the  season  is  on. 

1875 

Dr.  Samuel  L.  Caldwell  of  Colorado 
Springs,  Colo.,  sailed  on  Nov.  21  from  San 
Pedro,  Calif.,  for  Honolulu  on  the  steam- 
ship Lurline.  This  is  his  fifth  visit  to  the 
Hawaiian  Islands,  being  taken,  he  modestly 
admits,  in  his  84th  year. 

1880 

Prescott  O.  Clarke,  retired  architect, 
died  in  Providence  Nov.  18,  1936,  after  a 
long  illness.  To  his  wife,  his  daughters  and 
his  son  the  sympathy  of  the  Class  is  given. 
An  account  of  his  career  will  appear  in  the 
January  issue  of  the  Monthly. 

1885 

Dr.  Walter  G.  Everett  was  elected  presi 
dent    of    the    Rhode    Island    Philosophical 


Society  at  the  annual  business  meeting  held 
at  Brown  last  month. 

1889 

Arthur  Gushing  is  vice  president  of  the 
Thomas  Angell  Family  Association  which 
held  its  annual  meeting  in  Providence  last 
month. 

1891 

Rev.  Charles  A.  Meader  of  St.  Luke's 
Church,  East  Greenwich,  R.  I.,  exchanged 
pulpits  recently  with  Rev,  H.  R.  Goodwin, 
rector  of  Trinity  Church,  Tilton,  N.  H. 
Mr.  Meader  took  his  vestry  along  with  him 
and  they  all  climbed  Mount  Kearsarge  dur- 
ing the  week-end,  said  a  newspaper  ac- 
count, which  added,  "It  was  his  Junior 
Vestry." 

Frank  L.  Hinckley,  senior  partner  of 
Hinckley,  Allen,  Tillinghast  ^  Wheeler. 
Providence,  has  been  appointed  a  member 
of  the  standing  Committee  on  Legal  Aid 
Work  of  the  American  Bar  Association. 

1892 

Rev.  Augustus  P.  Reccord,  D.D.,  of  the 
First  Congregational  Unitarian  Society  of 
Detroit  is  the  new  president  of  the  Brown 
Club  of  Detroit. 

1894 

In  memory  of  Dr.  John  Hope,  an  annual 
scholarship  has  been  established  by  Worces- 
ter Academy  at  Hampton  Institute.  The 
Worcester  Academy  student  body,  of  which 
Dr.  Hope  was  a  member  before  he  came  to 
Brown,  has  given  the  scholarship  as  a  trib- 
ute to  the  man  who  devoted  his  life  to  the 
higher  education  of  Negro  youth. 

Col.  H.  Anthony  Dyer,  who  is  a  des- 
cendant of  Roger  Williams,  made  the  dedi- 
catory address  at  the  Roger  Williams 
spring,    East    Providence,    Nov.    8.     The 


spring,  at  which  Roger  Williams  stopped 
to  drink  before  he  crossed  the  Seekonk  in 
1636,  IS  m  the  middle  of  a  plat  of  land 
which  has  been  beautified  as  East  Provi- 
dence's contribution  to  the  Rhode  Island 
Tercentenary. 

The  Secretary  records  with  regret  the 
death  of  Dr.  George  Warren  Gardner  in 
Damariscotta,  Me.,  Nov.  14,  1936,  and 
extends  the  sympathy  of  the  Class  to  Mrs. 
Gardner.  An  account  of  Dr.  Gardner's 
career  will  appear  in  a  later  issue  of  the 
Brown  Alumni  Monthly. 

1896 

Dr.  George  A.  Matteson  and  Mrs.  Mat- 
teson,  who  spent  the  summer  at  Hammond 
Hill  in  South  County,  are  living  for  a  few 
months  at  133  Pitman  Street,  Providence, 
before  going  home  to  San  Antonio,  Texas. 

Judge  G.  Frederick  Frost  of  the  Rhode 
Island  Superior  Court  presided  at  the  dedi- 
cation of  the  Roger  Williams  Spring  in 
East  Providence,  Nov.  8.  The  spring  is 
said  to  be  the  last  place  at  which  Roger 
Williams  stopped  before  he  crossed  the 
Seekonk  to  found  the  settlement  which  he 
called  Providence. 

1897 

Rev.  Benjamin  T.  Livingston  of  the  East- 
ern Theological  Seminary,  Philadelphia, 
made  the  address  at  the  280th  anniversary 
service  of  the  Second  Baptist  Church,  New- 
port, Sunday,  Nov.  22. 

1898 

William  Adams  Slade  of  the  Library  of 
Congress  has  changed  his  address  to  3425 
Ordway  Street,  N.  W.,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Judge  Henry  D.  C.  Dubois  has  been  ap- 
pointed a.ssociate  chaplain  of  Rhodes  Lodge 
of  Masons.  Pawtuxet. 

Frederick  W.  Arnold  has  been  at  Jane 
Brown  Hospital,  Providence,  recovering 
from  a  broken  leg  suffered  in  an  accident 
in  the  West  during  the  summer. 

1899 

Frank  E.  Richmond  of  the  Crompton 
Mills,  Crompton,  R.  I.,  has  been  elected  a 
director  of  the  Cotton  Textile  Institute  to 
serve  for  three  years. 

Raymer  B.  Weeden  was  chosen  Junior 
Vice  Commander  of  Providence  Post, 
American  Legion,  at  the  last  annual  meet- 
ing. 

Judge  Ralph  C.  Estes'  law  firm  is  now 
Estes  6?  Estes,  the  new  partner  being  the 
Judge's  son,  Ralph  H.  Estes  '32,  who 
became  a  member  of  the  Massachusetts 
bar  Nov.  4,  and  the  next  day  went  to  work 
with  his  father  at  214  Bronson  Building, 
Attleboro,  Mass. 

Charles  K.  Francis  and  Mrs.  Francis  have 
announced  the  marriage  of  their  daughter, 
Anne  Virginia,  to  James  Barnes  Diggs,  Jr., 
at  Trinity  Church,  Tulsa,  Okia  ,  Nov  12, 
1936.  A  month  before,  on  Oct.  7,  Miss 
Julia  Elizabeth  Davis  became  the  bride  of 
their  son,  Thomas  Willia,  the  ceremony 
being  performed  at  the  home  of  the  bride's 
parents  in  Tulsa. 

1902 

Arthur  E.  Munro  was  elected  and  in- 
stalled Worshipful  Master  of  Thomas 
Smith  Webb  Lodge  of  Masons  at  the  ninth 
annual  communication  held  in  Providence, 
Oct.  30.  Past  Master  J.  Cunliffe  Bullock 
of  St.  John's  Lodge  was  a  guest  at  the 
installation. 


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Charles  R.  Haslam  is  senior  partner  of 
the   newly-organised   law   firm   of   Haslam, 
Arnold   6?   Sumpter,   with   offices   at    1511 
Turks  Head  Building,  Providence. 
1903 

Lester  E.  Dodge  was  in  charge  of  the 
ceremonies  on  Block  Island,  Nov.  2,  at 
which  descendants  of  Trustrum  and  Ann 
Dodge  and  the  townspeople  gathered  to 
dedicate  a  monument  to  Trustrum  Dodge. 
The  day  was  known  as  "Dodge  Day,"  and 
much  was  told  about  Trustrum  Dodge, 
boat  builder  from  Newfoundland,  who 
came  to  Block  Island  nearly  300  years  ago 
to  teach  the  settlers  how  to  build  boats. 
The  monument  overlooks  the  ocean  where 
Trustrum  Dodge  sailed  his  double-enders 
and  where  succeeding  generations  of 
Dodges  have  been  conspicuous  as  sailors. 
The  first  Dodge  child,  Capt.  Nathaniel 
Dodge,  was  born  on  Block  Island,  Nov.  1, 
1681. 

Professor  Lester  B.  Shippee  of  the  De- 
partment of  History,  University  of  Minne- 
sota, IS  vice  president  and  a  member  of  the 
executive  council  of  the  Minnesota  Histor- 
ical Society. 

Dr.  William  O.  Rice,  Superintendent  of 
Rhode  Island  Hospital,  making  his  annual 
report  for  the  year  1935-36,  said  that  the 
total  number  of  admissions  for  the  year 
was  10,406,  "the  largest  the  Rhode  Island 
Hospital  has  ever  had."  He  emphasised  the 
high  percentage  of  chronically  ill  patients 
and  again  pointed  out  the  need  of  "a  hos- 
pital for  such  patients  in  the  State  or  City 
of  Providence." 

1904 

George  Sanford  Holmes,  with  the  Scripps 
Howard  Newspaper  Alliance  at  1013  Thir- 
teenth Street,  N.  W.,  Washington,  contin- 
ues active  as  Washington  correspondent  of 
four  Scripps  Howard  newspapers.  His 
house  address  is  3930  Connecticut  Avenue. 
N.  W.,  Apt.  301. 

Herbert  J.  Stowell  is  a  member  of  the 
law  firm  of  Woodbury  6?  Stowell,  42  Wey- 
bosset  Street,  Providence.  He  lives  at  141 
Park  Drive,  Riverside,  R.  I. 

1905 

T.  W.  Gordon  is  back  on  duty  at  the 
General  Electric  plant  in  Schenectady, 
N.  Y.,  after  a  trip  to  the  Pacific  Coast  to  see 
the  first  115,000  h.p.  generating  unit  start- 


Farley's  Greatest  Pleasure 

JOHN  D.  Rockefeller,  Jr.'s  letter 
to  James  A.  Farley,  chairman  of 
the  Democratic  National  Committee, 
made  public  the  week  after  election 
attracted  wide  notice  in  the  press.  In 
the  letter  Rockefeller  '97  ofl^ered  con- 
gratulations for  the  statement  made 
by  Farley  shortly  after  midnight  of 
election  day,  saying:  "As  one  citizen 
to  another  I  want  to  give  myself  the 
satisfaction  of  telling  you  that  I  think 
the  radio  talk  which  you  made  after 
midnight  on  election  night  as  re- 
ported in  the  (New  York  Sun  was 
one  of  the  most  statesmanlike  utter- 
ances made  on  either  side  during  the 

entire  campaign Your  statement 

exemplifies  the  finest  kind  of  sports- 
manship. I  congratulate  you  on  it." 
Farley,  in  reply,  said  that  no  letter 
received  since  election  had  given  him 
greater  pleasure. 


Praising  Endeavour 

C  Sherman  Hoyt  "01,  home 
•  from  a  summer  and  early  fall 
spent  largely  in  Germany  and  Eng- 
land, told  William  H.  Taylor  of  the 
Tiew  Tork  Herald  Tribune  that  the 
Endeavour  II,  which  he  looked  over 
while  she  was  laid  up,  was  a  fine 
yacht  and  that  in  races  "off  the  south- 
west coast  of  England,  where  con- 
ditions are  more  like  those  in  an 
America's  Cup  race  than  elsewhere, 
the  new  boat  made  her  best  show- 
ing." Hoyt  was  one  of  the  crew  of 
the  yawl  Roland  von  Bremen,  which 
won  the  race  from  Bermuda  to  Ger- 
many last  July.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  afterguard  of  the  last  America'^ 
Cup  defender. 


ed  at  Boulder  Dam  and  the  60,000  K.V.A. 
General  Electric  synchronous  condensers 
which  are  on  the  receivinc  end  of  the  290- 
mile  transmission  line  to  Los  Angeles.  His 
daughter,  Ruth  C.  Gordon,  was  married 
Aug.  22,  1936,  to  William  B.  Axtell.  with 
Rev.  Edwin  R.  Gordon  '07  officiating. 
Gordon  himself  nearly  missed  the  wedding 
as  he  was  in  a  motor  car  accident  early  in 
August,  But  his  surgeon  fixed  his  broken 
ribs  and  broken  shoulder,  and  he  played 
his  part  at  the  wedding  according  to  sched- 
ule. Bruce  Gordon  '37,  his  son,  is  back  at 
Brown  after  a  profitable  Junior  year  in 
France. 

1906 

Professor  Edgar  S.  Brightman  of  the 
Graduate  School,  Boston  University,  where 
he  teaches  philosophy,  spoke  on  "The  Uni- 
versal Quest  of  God"  at  the  recent  Parlia- 
ment of  Religions  held  at  Grace  Church 
parish  house.  Providence. 

Eliot  G.  Parkhurst's  daughter.  Miss  Mar- 
tha A.  Parkhurst,  has  been  elected  record- 
ing secretary  of  the  Sophomore  Class  at 
Wellesley  College,  where  she  is  trying  for 
a  place  on  the  editorial  board  of  the  Wel- 
lesley  College  J^ews. 

Rev.  Walter  E.  Woodbury,  settled  at 
7  Daisy  Place,  Tenafly,  N.  J.,  after  several 
years  in  Los  Angeles,  is  secretary  of  evan- 
gelism, American  Baptist  Home  Mission 
Society,  with  his  office  at  23  East  26th 
Street.  New  York  City. 

Philip  V.  Marcus  is  president  of  the 
Providence  Zionist  Society  for  the  year 
1936-37. 

Philip  E.  Langworthy's  new  house  ad- 
dress is  1113  Clifton  Street.  N.  W,,  Wash- 
ington, D.  C. 

1907 

HOTEL  Carlton  at  the  Pier  is  the  place, 
and  June  18-21  will  be  the  dates 
of  the  30th  Reunion.  Chairman  V.  A. 
Schwartz  of  the  Reunion  Committee  has 
already  named  the  following  sub-commit- 
tees: Publicity.  R.  B.  Jones.  Curtis,  Gur- 
ney.  Hurley.  Little:  Golf,  C.  R.  Branch, 
McCann,  M'ller.  Pearsall:  Entertainment, 
M,  H.  S.  Affleck.  McCann.  W.  P.  Burn- 
ham.  Snow.  H.  G.  Clark:  Costume,  L.  S. 
Little,  Curtis:  Welfare,  Dr.  F.  A.  Cum- 
mings.  The  Committee  held  its  second 
meeting  at  the  University  Club,  Providence, 
Oct.  29,  with  Messrs.  Schwartz,  Affleck, 
Burnham,  Cummings,  Curtis,  Gurney,  Lit- 
tle, McCann,  Miller.  Pearsall.  attending.  It 
was  the  sentiment  that  the  Publicity  Com- 


mittee should  immediately  prepare  a  pre- 
liminary announcement,  with  questions  for 
members  to  answer  on  a  travelling  equal- 
ization fee,  and  other  matters  of  special 
interest.  Harold  Miller  has  prepared  a 
tentative  cost  schedule:  Leonard  Little  has 
a  particular  costume  in  mind;  and  other 
men  on  the  committee  are  working  to  make 
the  Reunion  bigger  and  better  than  ever. 
The  next  committee  meeting  was  set  for 
Dec.  3  at  the  University  Club. 

Three  sons  of  "07  men  at  Brown  have 
qualified  for  honors  work  this  academic 
year.  They  are  A.  E.  Dickinson  '38,  eco- 
nomics: Myles  L.  Grover  '38.  mathematics; 
and  Robert  B.  Hallborg  '37,  pre-medical 
sciences. 

Claude  R.  Branch  stepped  on  the  politi- 
cal platform  late  in  October  when  he  came 
to  Providence  to  introduce  former  Gover- 
nor Joseph  B.  Ely  of  Massachusetts  who,  a 
Democrat,  spoke  against  the  New  Dealers 
and  their  pet  projects. 

R.  F.  Brooks  was  host  to  V.  A.  Schwartz 
and  A.  H.  Gurney  at  his  home  club,  Seg- 
regansett,  Taunton,  Mass.,  on  Election  Day 
and  showed  his  guests  what  he  modestly 
said  was  the  most  consistent  golf  he  had 
played  all  season. 

George  Hurley  is  chairman  of  the  Rhode 
Island  State  Minimum  Wage  Board,  which 
met  for  the  first  time  last  month  and  chose 
Hurley,  who  represents  the  public  at  large 
on  the  board,  as  its  head. 

Rev.  Eugene  C.  Carder,  D.D.,  associate 
minister  of  Riverside  Church,  is  a  member 
of  the  New  York  City  committee  which 
has  started  a  nation-wide  series  of  meetings 
to  inform  member  of  Protestant  churches 
of  the  plight  of  Christians  who  have  been 
forced  to  leave  Germany. 

1908 

Howard  M.  Chapin  of  the  Rhode  Island 
Historical  Society  wrote  a  fine  feature  arti- 
cle for  a  recent  issue  of  the  Providence 
Sunday  Journal  describing  the  120  town 
boundary  markers  that  have  been  set  up  on 
Rhode  Island  highways  to  commemorate 
the  Rhode  Island  tercentenary.  The  mark- 
ers are  cement  posts  triangular  in  shape 
tapering  toward  the  top.  They  have  metal 
plates  on  two  sides,  one  descriptive,  the 
other  armorial. 

Congressman  John  J.  O'Connor,  re-elect- 
ed from  the  16th  New  York  District  and 
chairman  of  the  Rules  Committee,  the  most 
powerful  body  of  the  House,  is  in  the  field 
for  the  majority  leadership  of  the  next 
House  of  Representatives,  convening  Jan. 
5,  1937. 

Edward  L.  Leahy,  chief  of  the  Division 
of  Corporations  of  Rhode  Island,  spoke  on 
tax  limitation  in  his  State  at  the  24th  an- 
nual conference  of  the  New  England  Tax 
Officials  Association  in  Burlington,  Vt.,  in 
October. 

Rev.  Woodbury  S.  Stowell  is  pastor  of 
the  Baptist  Church  in  Stoneham,  Mass., 
where  his  address  is  68  High  Street. 

A.  I.  (Bin)  Marshall  and  Mrs.  Marshall 
came  from  Malone,  N.  Y.,  to  spend 
Thanksgiving  at  Brown  with  Bin  Mar.shall. 
Jr..  '40,  and  to  visit  S.  Eugene  Jackson  and 
other  old  friends  in  Providence.  At  the 
Alumni  Office  he  checked  up  on  various 
members  of  the  Class  and  heard  with  regret 
about  Jim  Hall's  death. 

1909 

Alfred  J.  Maryott,  principal  of  Paw- 
tucket  Senior  High  School,  was  re-elected 
secretary  of  the  Rhode  Island  Institute  of 


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Instruction  at  the  recent  annual  meeting  in 
Providence. 

Dr.  Robert  H.  Whitmarsh  is  the  new 
president  of  the  Rhode  Island  Birth  Con- 
trol League. 

W.  R.  (Bob)  Nash  appears  comfortably 
settled  in  Providence  and  is  building  a 
house  here.  He  is  in  the  investment  bank- 
ing business,  with  his  office  at  303  Hospital 
Trust  Building. 

Albert  Harkness  is  one  of  the  new  direc- 
tors of  the  Providence  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce. 

Major  Joseph  Church,  U.S.A.,  attached 
to  the  12th  Infantry,  is  now  on  duty  at 
Fort  Howard,  Maryland. 

1910 

Dr.  Albert  Farnsworth,  master  in  history 
at  Worcester  Academy  since  1923,  has 
become  head  of  the  History  Department, 
State  Teachers  College,  Worcester.  "Con- 
gratulations and  best  luck,  'Doc',"  the 
Worcester  Academy  Bulletin  said  in  its  last 
issue,  and  all  of  us  echo  the  sentiment. 

The  First  Congregational  Church  of 
West  Springfield,  Mass.,  "the  church  on 
the  Green,"  of  which  Rev.  Harry  L.  Old- 
field  is  minister,  will  be  240  years  old  in 
1938.  In  a  recent  issue  of  the  Parish  Kiews 
Oldfield  said  that  "the  inhabitants  of  the 
West  Side  of  the  Great  River  (Connecti- 
cut) petitioned  the  General  Court  of  Mas- 
sachusetts in  1695  for  the  privilege  of 
maintaining  public  worship,  setting  forth 
their  distance  and  the  difficulties  and  dan- 
gers in  their  passing  of  the  River!  The  in- 
habitants of  the  East  Side  opposed  this 
petition  and  it  was  not  granted  until  1696, 
and  the  Church  was  organised  in  1698." 

Joseph  B.  Keenan,  Assistant  Attorney 
General  of  the  United  States,  was  the  Arm- 
istice Day  speaker  at  Asheville,  N.  C. 

Joseph  H.  Cull  has  been  giving  a  great 
deal  of  his  time  in  recent  weeks  to  explain- 
ing features  of  the  new  Rhode  Island  Un- 
employment Compensation  Act  before  busi- 
ness groups.  He  is  the  employers"  repre- 
sentative on  the  State  Unemployment  In- 
surance Commission. 

1911 

Dr.  Robert  Cushman  Murphy,  Curator 
of  Oceanic  Birds  at  the  American  Museum 
of  Natural  History,  New  York  City,  was 
elected  treasurer  of  the  National  Associa- 
tion of  Audubon  Societies  for  the  Protec- 
tion of  Wild  Birds  and  Animals  at  the 
annual  meeting  in  New  York,  Oct.  28. 

Earle  B.  Dane  has  been  elected  secretary- 
treasurer  of  the  Rhode  Island  Association 
of  Insurance  Agents  for  the  year  1936-37. 

1912 

WITH  Kip  I.  Chace,  Chairman,  the  2')th 
Reunion  Committee  has  fired  its  open- 
ing gun,  a  circular  which  has  gone  to  all 
members  of  the  Class  with  known  addresses 
telling  them  of  the  dates.  lunc  18-21.  1937, 
and  asking  for  ideas.  "The  Committee  is 
anxious  to  click  and  go  places,"  says  the 
circular.  "If  you  have  a  suggestion  to 
make,  contact  any  one  of  the  following: 
Kip  I.  Chace.  29  Weybosset  Street.  Provi- 
dence; Max  L.  Grant.  Karl  Humphrey, 
Henry  G.  Marsh.  Samson  Nathanson, 
Carleton  H.  Parker,  Wyman  Pendleton, 
Earl  P.  Perkins.  43  Adelphi  Avenue,  Provi- 
dence." 

Chu  Nien  Bien  of  Tientsin,  China,  who 
has  enrolled  in  the  Junior  Class  at  Pem- 
broke, is  the  daughter  of  Zue  Sun  Bien, 
our   classmate.     She   is   the   sister  of  three 


The  Colonel's  Puppy 

COL.  G.  A.  Taylor's  blue  belton 
setter  Norwottock  Kansas  Pete 
recently  won  the  silver  plate  for  the 
best  puppy  dog  shown  during  the 
past  year  at  American  Kennel  Club 
shows  by  a  member  of  the  English 
Setter  Association,  Kansas  Pete  had 
six  blue  ribbons.  Taylor  '01,  has  five 
other  field  trial  dogs  in  his  string  of  a 
dozen  which  he  has  been  running  this 
fall;  and  he  has  lately  been  busy 
breaking  his  younger  dogs  to  the  gun 
on  the  pheasants  in  the  Old  Hadley, 
Mass.,  meadows.  His  story,  "No 
Longer  Novices,"  a  picture  of  the 
Newport,  R.  I.,  Dog  Show,  came  out 
not  long  ago  in  the  Amherst  Record. 


Brown  graduates  (Bien  has  done  well  by 
Brown)  and  said  to  be  a  charming  young 
woman,  whose  major  academic  interest  is 
in  English. 

Leon  E.  Smith  was  again  chosen  presi- 
dent of  the  East  Providence  Town  Coun- 
cil at  the  organization  meeting  held  imme- 
diately after  election. 

Theodore  B.  Farnsworth  was  a  campus 
visitor  late  last  month,  having  come  from 
Detroit  to  spend  Thanksgiving  with  his 
daughter  at  Wheaton  College.  Ted  -still 
carries  on  as  an  amateur  yachtsman,  and  is 
fleet  captain  of  the  Bayview  Yacht  Club 
and  chairman  of  the  larger  sailing  craft 
committee  of  the  Detroit  Yacht  Club.  In 
July  he  and  his  crew  won  the  240-mile  race 
from  Port  Huron  to  Mackinaw  Island  in 
his  new  42-foot  ketch. 

Charles  A.  Archambault,  two  times  can- 
didate for  Mayor  of  New  Bedford,  Mass., 
again  has  had  his  hat  in  the  ring,  competing 
for  the  place  that  Mayor  Ashley,  now  78 
years  old,  has  decided  he  does  not  want  any 
more. 

The  Secretary  records  with  regret  the 
deaths  of  two  former  members  of  the  Cla.ss, 
Joseph  F.  Kivlin  and  Judge  Wayne  H. 
Whitman.  Kivlin,  who  was  at  Brown  in 
Freshman  year,  died  Nov.  10,  1936.  in 
Brighton.  Mass.  A  native  of  North  Attle- 
boro,  he  was  well  known  in  his  high  school 
days  as  a  baseball  pitcher.  During  the 
World  War  he  was  an  officer  in  the 
L'nited  States  Army,  the  newspapers  said. 
His  wife,  three  sons,  and  a  daughter  sur- 
vive  Judge    Whitman,    who    left 

Brown  in  June,  1909.  won  his  LL.B,  at 
Albany  Law  School  in  1911.  and  for  many 
years  had  been  an  active  political  figure  in 
the  town  of  Coventry,  R.  I.,  where  he  died 
suddenly  Nov.  IT,  1936.  He  leaves  his 
wife,  three  daughters,  and  a  son. 

1913 

Rabbi  Louis  I.  Newman  of  the  Temple 
Rodolph  Sholom,  New  York  City,  spoke 
on  "The  World  Tomorrow"  at  the  annual 
Armistice  Day  meeting  at  Sayles  Hall  on 
the  campus  Nov.  11.  His  fellow  speaker 
on  the  program  was  Professor  J.  Anton  De 
Haas  of  Harvard,  whose  topic  was  "The 
World  Today." 

Duncan  Langdon  and  Mrs.  Langdon 
have  changed  their  residence  to  14  Olive 
Street,  Providence.  Langdon  will  take  his 
place  in  the  Providence  Common  Council 
at  the  beginning  of  the  new  year,  having 
been  elected  to  succeed  Ivory  Littlefield  '09. 


1914 

C.  Lester  Woolley  is  the  new  recording 
secretary  of  St.  Andrew  Chapter  of  All 
Saints  Memorial  Church,  Providence,  and 
is  also  chairman  of  arrangements  for  the 
Christmas  show  which  the  Chapter  will 
give  at  the  parish  house,  Dec.  21. 

Robert  S.  Holding  of  the  J.  C.  Hall 
Company,  Providence,  was  re-elected  presi- 
dent of  the  directors  of  the  Rhode  Island 
Division  of  the  New  England  Council  at 
the  annual  meeting  in  Boston  last  month. 

Dr.  Robert  M.  Lord  was  a  recent  speaker 
in  the  series  of  public  lectures  being  given 
in  Providence  under  the  auspices  of  the 
Rhode  Island  Medical  Society  in  the  inter- 
est of  the  public  health.  His  topic  was  "Care 
of  Infants  and  Common  Diseases  of  Child- 
hood." He  said  that  "appendicitis  seems  to 
he  on  the  increase  in  children,"  warned  of 
the  dangers  of  measles  and  their  possible 
after  effects,  and  told  how  diphtheria  is 
being  gradually  eliminated  by  inoculations. 

1915 

Joseph  H.  Stannard,  former  associate 
principal  of  Central  High  School,  is  the 
new  principal  of  Hope  Street  High  School, 
succeeding  Harry  A.  Jager  '08.  Stannard 
has  been  teaching  in  the  Providence  schools 
for  24  years,  having  begun  his  work  in  the 
city  in  1912  at  the  old  Technical  High 
School.  He  has  done  graduate  work  at 
Brown,  University  of  Pennsylvania,  Rhode 
Island  College  of  Education,  and  Columbia. 

1916 

Wilbour  E.  Saunders,  headmaster  of 
Peddie  School,  spoke  on  "The  Challenge 
of  a  Cause,"  at  the  Father  and  Son  and 
Mother  and  Daughter  dinner  at  the  Cen- 
tral Baptist  Church,  Providence,  Nov.  5. 
The  next  day  he  was  guest  at  a  luncheon 
of  Peddie  alumni  in  the  city  and  State. 

Newton  P.  Leonard  of  the  staff  of  Hope 
Street  High  School  has  been  re-elected 
treasurer  of  the  Providence  Men's  High 
School  Teachers'  Association. 

1917 

Irving  S.  Eraser's  father  and  mother,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Horatio  Eraser,  observed  their 
53rd  wedding  anniversary  at  their  home  in 
Providence,  Nov.  6.  Mr.  Eraser,  Sr.,  was 
one  of  the  first  residents  of  Providence  to 
drive  up  College  Hill  in  a  motor  car. 

Gilbert  C.  Carpenter,  Jr.'s  new  house 
address  is  198  Waterman  Avenue,  East 
Providence. 

Remember,  the  20th  Reunion  is  on  the 
calendar  for  next  June  19-21,  and  that  the 
Reunion  Committee  is  expecting  that  every 
active  member  of  the  Class  will  be  back  to 
celebrate. 

1918 

Charles  H.  Eden,  Clifton  I.  Munroe  and 
Walter  Adler,  your  Secretary,  were  busily 
engaged  on  the  stump  during  the  recent 
political  campaign  in  Rhode  Island. 

Dr.  Wilfred  Pickles  has  completely  re- 
covered from  his  emergency  operation  for 
appendicitis. 

As  a  result  of  the  Democratic  land.slide 
in  Rhode  Island  it  seems  a  certainty  that 
M.  Joseph  Cummings  will  continue  to  be 
chief  of  the  State  Division  of  Banking  and 
Insurance,  with  Peter  Leo  Cannon  as  first 
assistant  in  charge  of  the  Insurance  Depart- 
ment. 

Maybe  it  is  a  little  late  to  mention  Alum- 
ni Day,  but  it  is  well  to  note  that  '18's  del- 


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FOR   AN'TIOCH    A    TWIH 
The   statue    of  Horace   Mann,    the   famous   educator,    before    the   Massachusetts    State    House. 
Antioch  Cotlege.  observing  the  Mann  centenary,  has  unveiled  the  counterpart  of  this  memorial. 


egation  was  a  large  one.  Several  who  had 
not  been  to  an  Alumni  Day  dinner  or  to 
any  Class  reunion  in  recent  years  were 
present.  George  J.  Heidt  came  from  New 
York,  and  Tom  Hall,  former  New  Yorker 
but  now  of  Providence,  was  there  to  greet 
old  cronies. 

William  H.  Higgins  reports  his  new  busi- 
ness address  to  be  70  Pine  Street,  Room 
4007,  New  York  City. 

Edward  J.  Dilts  is  living  at  the  Ford 
Hotel,  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  where  he  is  working 
for  the  Federal  and  State  Employment 
Agency. 

Dwight  T.  Colley,  New  England  man- 
ager of  Atlantic  Refining  Company,  has 
been  elected  a  director  of  the  Providence 
Chamber  of  Commerce. 

1919 

Manuel  G.  Robinson  who,  as  we  report- 
ed, has  changed   his  address   from   Lynn, 


Mass.,  to  63  Midland  Avenue,  Glen  Ridge, 
N.  J.,  is  still  an  engineer  with  the  General 
Electric  Company  on  duty  at  the  Bloom- 
field,  N.  J.,  works. 

William  E.  Parrnenter  is  the  new  Junior 
Warden  of  Corinthian  Lodge  of  Masons, 
Providence. 

Lincoln  Vaughan  and  Mrs.  Vaughan 
have  changed  their  residence  to  1 6  Cabot 
Street,  Providence. 

Harold  E.  Grover  is  a  manufacturer  of 
boxes,  with  his  factory  at  528  Broad  Street, 
and  his  house  at  179  Ocean  Street,  Lynn, 
Mass. 

James  A.  Peirce  has  the  sympathy  of  the 
Class  in  the  loss  of  his  father,  Augustus 
Richmond  Peirce,  dean  of  Providence 
bankers,  who  died  Nov.  16,  1936.  Mr. 
Peirce,  Sr.,  had  been  with  the  Industrial 
Trust  Company  for  57  years.  Another  son 
is  A.  Richmond  Peirce,  Jr.,  '32. 


1921 

Rev.  Herbert  E.  MacCombie,  pastor  of 
the  Elmwood  Baptist  Church,  Providence, 
for  the  past  eight  years,  has  become  pastor 
of  the  First  Baptist  Church,  Lynn,  Mass. 
During  his  years  in  Providence  he  has  been 
chaplain  of  the  243rd  Field  Artillery  and 
has  also  been  director  of  the  Royal  Ambas- 
sador Camp,  Ocean  Park,  Me. 
1922 

G.  Ellsworth  Gale,  Jr.,  is  associated  with 
the  Foreign  Department,  Vick  Chemical 
Company,  New  York  City,  and  has  re- 
moved with  his  family  from  Plainiield, 
N.  J.,  to  662  Wolf  Lane,  Pelham,  N.  Y. 

Rev.  H.  Lincoln  Mackenzie,  who  has 
been  executive  and  field  secretary  with  the 
Community  Church  Workers  of  the  United 
States,  reports  a  change  of  address  from 
Great  Neck,  N.  Y.,  to  40  Blaney  Street, 
Swampscott,  Mass. 

1923 

Howard  W.  Comstock  is  a  candidate  for 
member  of  the  school  committee  of  Fall 
River. 

W.  C.  Worthington,  tourist  in  Ireland 
with  Mrs.  Worthington  last  summer,  de- 
scribed his  tour  before  the  Providence  Art 
Club,  Friday  evening,  Nov.  20,  under  the 
engaging  title:  "'Dingle  to  Derry  (on  a 
bicycle  built  ior  one)". 

Charles  Robert  Meader,  infant  son  of 
Rev.  Robert  O.  Meader,  was  baptized  in 
St.  Andrew's  Church,  Providence,  this  fall 
in  the  presence  of  30  little  girls  who  are 
members  of  the  Girls'  Friendly  Society 
Candidates'  Class  of  the  parish,  of  which 
Meader  is  rector.  The  sponsors  included 
his  father,  the  Rev.  Charles  A.  Meader  '91, 
and  J.  A.  Lubrano  '24. 
1924 

Clarence  C.  Chaffee,  in  charge  of  ath 
letics  at  Riverdale  Country  School,  is  now 
living  at  18  Standish  Avenue,  Tuckahoe, 
N.  Y. 

Edward  R.  Place  has  opened  an  office  at 
1 1  Beacon  Street,  Room  502,  Boston, 
where  he  is  engaging  in  publicity  and  ad- 
vertising, with  his  particular  interest  in 
recreational  development.  He  has  had  con- 
siderable experience  in  this  line,  in  which 
he  specialized  while  with  N.  W.  Ayer  6? 
Son. 

Earle  Vincent  Johnson  of  Chicago  and 
Carleton  Scott  of  Birmingham,  Mich.,  were 
back  on  the  campus  the  week  end  before 
Thanksgiving,  visiting  friends  and  getting 
news  about  the  football  situation  and  such. 
Johnson  had  lunch  with  W.  C.  Worthing- 
ton '23  and  went  to  the  Brown-Colby 
game.  He  reported  that  his  second  daugh- 
ter, whose  arrival  is  announced  elsewhere 
in  this  issue,  was  doing  well.  Scott  spent 
the  holiday  with  his  father,  Wilbur  A 
Scott  '97,  and  other  relatives  in  Provi- 
dence. 

1925 

John  W.  Richmond  is  a  partner  in  Ray- 
mond-Whitcomb,  Inc.,  of  Rhode  Island, 
travel  agents,  with  offices  at  84  Westmin- 
ster Street  (Turks  Head  Building),  Provi- 
dence. 

C.  H.  (Hal)  Neubauer  has  been  ap- 
pointed New  England  district  manager  of 
Hiram  Walker,  Inc.,  nationally  known  dis- 
tillers. Shortly  after  repeal  Hal  went  to 
work  for  National  Distillers.  Then  he 
joined  Fleischmann  Distilling  Corporation 
as  New  England  manager,  and  has  been 
with  this  company  for  the  past  several 
years. 

Harry  L.  Hoffman,  back  in  Cleveland 
with  the  Society  for  Savings,  has  reported 


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on  his  hurry-up  visit  to  the  campus  in 
October.  He  was  on  his  way  to  Maine  on 
vacation;  he  had  an  hour  in  Providence  for 
lunch;  and  he  came  to  the  campus  long 
enough  to  make  contact  with  some  of  his 
old  friends.  "Sorry  that  time  prevented 
my  seeing  every  one  I  wanted  to,"  he 
wrote.  He  also  added  that  his  week  ends 
durnig  the  fall  have  been  largely  given 
over  to  planting  tulips,  and  that  he  hoped 
to  have  about  1500  bulbs  in  the  ground 
before  arrival  of  freezing  weather. 

Arthur  W.  Packard,  trustee  and  director 
ul  the  Davison  Fund,  Inc.,  recently  estab- 
lished by  John  D.  Rockefeller,  Jr.,  is  also 
a  trustee  of  Colonial  Williamsburg,  Inc., 
and  ol  the  Institute  of  International  Edu- 
cation. 

W.  Easton  Louttit,  Jr.,  is  a  trustee  of 
the  Rhode  Island  Infantile  Paralysis  Foun- 
dation, of  which  Dr.  Edward  A.  McLaugh- 
lin "14  IS  president. 

Harold  C.  Higgins  is  with  Paul  H.  Ray- 
nicr  Company,  radio  station  representatives, 
with  his  office  at  43  5  N.  Michigan  Avenue, 
Chicago. 

1926 

Dr.  William  J.  Turtle  has  opened  an 
olTice  in  the  Winchester,  Mass.,  National 
Bank  Building,  where  he  is  specializing  in 
pediatrics.  He  is  also  keeping  part  time 
contact  with  the  Children's  Hospital,  Bos- 
ton, where  he  was  interne  after  getting  his 
M.D.  at  Harvard  in  1933.  His  new  daugh- 
ter will  celebrate  her  first  Christmas  this 
month. 

Howard  G.  Lewis,  assistant  principal  of 
Nathan  Bishop  Junior  High  School,  spoke 
on  "Leisure  Time  Community  Programs  as 
They  Affect  the  Public  School"  at  the 
Rhode  Island  Institute  of  Instruction  which 
met  in  Providence  late  in  October. 

1927 

Rev.  Franklin  D.  Elmer,  Jr.,  was  in- 
stalled as  pastor  of  the  Baptist  Church  of 
Lockport,  N.  Y.,  Nov.  5,  the  ceremony 
bringing  together  all  the  Protestant  minis- 
ters and  several  of  the  leading  Baptist 
clergymen  of  Northern  New  York.  Elmer's 
new  address  is  189  Genesee  Street,  where 
he  lives  in  the  church  parsonage.  His 
church  has  a  membership  of  nearly  700. 
In  a  recent  letter  he  spoke  ol  Porter  Sha- 
han  and  Don  Pratt,  his  room  mates  at 
Brown,  and  said  that  "Shahan  has  been 
doing  a  mighty  fine  piece  of  work  as  exec- 
utive secretary  of  the  Illinois  Tuberculosis 
Association,  and  deserves  commendation 
for  It." 

Howard  E.  Husker  is  director  of  ath- 
letics and  a  member  of  the  teaching  staff  of 
Roosevelt  Academy,  Monsey,  N.  Y. 

Dr.  Donald  J.  Simons  has  opened  an 
office  at  3  East  76th  Street,  New  York 
City,  for  the  practice  of  neurologic  surgery. 

Thomas  E.  Bcehan  is  with  Outdoor  Ad- 
vertising, Inc.,  at  60  East  42nd  Street,  New 
York  City,  and  lives  at  3446  91st  Street. 
Jackson  Heights,  L.  I. 

Dr.  Henry  G.  Atha  of  the  Rhode  Island 
Hospital  has  received  his  certificate  entitling 
him  to  practice  medicine  in  Rhode  Island. 

Harold  B.  Master  and  Mrs.  Master  have 
changed  their  house  address  to  3  307  R 
Street,  N.  W..  Washington,  D.  C,  where 
Hal  is  senior  finance  examiner,  PWA,  De- 
partment of  the  Interior. 
1928 

Robert  N.  Conger,  with  the  New  Eng- 
land Power  Association,  is  a  member  of  the 
executive  committee  of  the  New  England 
Association  of  Beta  Theta  Pi. 


Circle's  Praise 

ERNEST  G.  Hapgood,  Jr.,  '31,  for- 
mer football  player  and  son  of 
the  well  known  Ernest  G.  Hapgood 
'01,  IS  still  trying  to  look  modest  in 
the  face  of  the  kind  (and  assuredly 
deserved)  words  The  Circle  of  Zeta 
Psi  had  for  him  in  its  October  num- 
ber as  "Hap's"  resignation  as  gen- 
eral secretary  of  the  fraternity  was 
announced. 

Alter  commenting  that  no  general 
secretary  considers  his  place  perma- 
nent, no  matter  how  interesting  he 
finds  the  work.  The  Circle  said  that 
"some  months  ago  "Hap"  advised  the 
Board  of  Trustees  that  he  wished  to 
be  relieved  of  his  secretarial  respon- 
sibilities at  a  convenient  date  this 
fall.  Meeting  on  October  9,  the 
Board  regretfully  accepted  this  resig- 
nation, effective  October  31.  .  .  . 

"Brother  Hapgood's  retirement  fol- 
lows less  than  twelve  months  after 
his  appointment  as  General  Secre- 
tary, but  he  previously  spent  four 
and  a  half  years  as  Assistant  Secre- 
tary, working  with  Bill  Butcher,  dur- 
ing the  trying  depression  years.  His 
career  has  won  him  a  rich  reward  in 
the  hundreds  of  friendships  made 
among  Zetes  who  warmed  to  his 
personal  charm.  The  Central  Office 
loses  a  loyal  worker,  a  worthy  repre- 
sentative. "Hap"  leaves  with  a  host 
of  well  wishes  for  his  future  and  an 
appreciation  of  his  contribution." 


Thomas  J.  Paolino  is  a  Republican  mem- 
ber of  the  Rhode  Island  Board  of  Vote 
Tabulation  which  has  recently  been  check- 
ing the  results  of  the  national  and  State 
elections  in  November. 

Loring  P.  Litchfield,  with  the  R  y  H 
Chemical  Department,  E.  I.  duPont  de 
Nemours,  Wilmington,  Del.,  is  national 
sales  manager  of  peroxygen  products. 

Fred  M.  Knight,  leature  sports  writer 
with  the  Boston  Traveler,  was  a  visitor  to 
Brown  Field  just  before  the  Brown-Holy 
Cross  game  and  wrote  a  fine  story  of 
Brown  hopes  and  outlook.  ""Brown  alumni 
are  clamoring  for  better  results,"  he  said, 
"but  they  don't  seem  to  be  "on'  McLaugh- 
ry — which  goes  to  show  that  they  realize 
that  Tuss  can't  be  expected  to  do  wonders 
with  the  mediocre,  or  rather  sub-par  mate- 
rial at  his  disposal  during  the  past  few 
years." 

Edgerton  Hart  is  with  the  Pure  Oil 
Company  and  is  getting  his  mail  at  6075 
Drexel  Road,  Philadelphia. 

Paul  Bonynge,  Jr.,  in  the  banking  busi- 
ness at  16  Wall  Street,  New  York  City, 
reports  his  mail  address  to  be  62  Pierre- 
pont  Street,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Dr.  Perry  Sperber  has  recently  received 
his  certificate  to  practice  medicine  in  Rhode 
Island.  He  lives  at  93  Lexington  Avenue. 
Providence. 

Harold  M.  Johnson  is  New  England  rep- 
resentative of  House  &  Garden,  with  his 
office  at  80  Bolyston  Street,  Boston,  and 
his  house  at  One  Leighton  Road,  Welles- 
ley,  Mass. 

1929 

Dr.  F.  A.Simeone,  Research  Fellow  on 
the  staff  of  the  Harvard  Medical   School 


this  academic  year,  was  guest  at  a  testi- 
monial dinner  at  the  Narragansett  Hotel, 
Providence,  Nov.  8.  Professor  Alfonso  De 
Salvio,  chairman  of  the  Department  of  Ro- 
mance Languages  at  the  University,  Dr. 
Ralph  Di  Leone  '17,  and  Thomas  J.  Pao- 
lino '28,  were  among  the  speakers.  Dr. 
Siraeone  recently  ended  his  interneship  at 
Massachusetts  General  Hospital. 

L.  Everett  Johnson  is  secretary  of  the 
New  England  Association  of  Beta  Theta 
Pi.  He  is  a  civil  engineer  in  Brookline, 
Mass. 

Everett  Eynon  and  Mrs.  Eynon  are  liv- 
ing in  San  Juan,  Porto  Rico,  where  Eynon 
is  with  P.  R.  R.  A.  as  an  investigator. 
They  expect  to  be  in  Porto  Rico  during 
the  next  two  years. 

William  A.  Carney  and  Mrs.  Carney 
have  changed  their  residence  to  27  Har- 
court  Avenue,  Pawtucket. 

Lieut.  Paul  Waterman,  Air  Corps,  U.  S. 
A.,  is  now  in  duty  at  Wheeler  Field,  Oahu, 
Hawaii,  where  he  will  remain  for  two  years. 
He  sailed  from  Mitchell  Field,  New  York, 
late  in  October  on  the  transport  Republic, 
going  by  way  of  the  Panama  Canal  and 
San  Francisco. 

Dr.  Edward  B.  Medoff  of  Woonsocket 
and  Dr.  Charles  Zurawski  of  Providence 
have  passed  examinations  and  received  cer- 
tificates entitling  them  to  practice  medicine 
in  Rhode  Island. 

1930 
Dr.  John  S.  Dziob,  graduate  of  Harvard 
Medical  School  and  interne  at  Rhode  Is- 
land Hospital  for  two  years,  has  passed  his 
examination  to  practice  medicine  in  Rhode 
Island.    His  home  is  in  Woonsocket. 

Rev.  Carl  B.  Bihldorff,  who  left  Brown 
to  take  his  bachelor's  degree  at  Rhode  Is- 
land State  College  and  who  graduated 
from  Yale  Divinity  School  last  June,  has 
become  pastor  of  the  First  Parish  Unitarian 
Church  at  Duxbury,  Mass.,  the  oldest  Uni- 
tarian church  in  this  country. 

Paul  E.  Marble  has  the  sympathy  of  the 
Class  in  the  loss  of  his  mother,  Annie  Rus- 
sell Marble,  author  and  literary  commenta- 
tor, who  died  at  her  home  in  Worcester, 
Mass.,  Nov.  23.  Mrs.  Marble  was  nation- 
ally known  for  her  short  stories,  essays, 
and  biographies. 

Alvah  I.  Winslow,  whose  marriage  is  re- 
ported elsewhere  in  this  issue,  is  with  the 
National  Research  Project  at  12  South 
12th  Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

1931 

Louis  F.  Demmlcr  and  Mrs.  Demmler  are 
at  last  settled  in  their  new  house,  which 
they  spent   the   summer   building,   on   Mc- 


Lynn  in  Lights 

WILLIAM  H.  Lynn  "10.  star  of 
"Three  Men  on  a  Horse,"  at 
last  has  his  name  in  electric  lights  in 
front  of  the  Fulton  Theatre,  New 
York  City,  where  the  comedy  is  play- 
ing after  a  run  of  nearly  750  per- 
formances at  the  Playhouse,  where  it 
opened  on  Jan.  20,  1935.  According 
to  the  Times:  "Mr.  Lynn  is  said  to 
have  missed  only  two  performances 
in  the  entire  run,  during  which  he 
has  had  seven  "wives,'  including  Kay 
Loring,  the  present  one." 


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BROWN  ALUIMDVI  MONTHLY 


Kelvy  Road,  Wilkinsburg,  a  suburb  of 
Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

Dr.  Arthur  H.  Vaughn  is  junior  staff 
physician  at  the  Rhode  Island  State  Infirm- 
ary, Howard.  Vaughn  took  his  M.D.  de- 
gree at  Hahnemann  Medical  College,  Phila- 
delphia, in  1935.  He  and  Mrs.  Vaughn, 
who  was  Miss  S.  Ruth  Ditt  '32,  Pembroke, 
and  whom  he  married  Sept.  5,  1936,  live 
at  100  Cross  Street,  Central  Falls. 

The  new  officers  of  the  Class,  elected  at 
the  Fifth  Reunion  in  June,  are;  President, 
J.  A.  O'Neil;  Vice  President,  Lee  M.  Mar- 
shall; Secretary,  Ernest  G.  Hapgood,  Jr.; 
Treasurer,  Ralph  D.  Richardson.  To  every 
member  of  the  Class  has  recently  been  sent 
an  attractive  bulletin,  giving  the  high  lights 
of  the  reunion  and  setting  forth  facts  on 
the  gift  of  $1,000  to  the  Brown  Yachting 
Program  and  of  $1,000  to  the  University 
as  a  nucleus  of  the  Class  of  1931  Scholar- 
ship, and  the  system  of  Class  dues  now  in 
effect.  The  dues  will  help  start  a  1931 
Class  Endowment  Fund  to  be  given  to 
Brown  in  1961. 

M.  G.  (Gus)  Lunstedt,  supervisor  of 
recreation  for  Lynn,  Mass.,  is  doing  a  com- 
mendable job,  our  Lynn  scout  reports.  Gus 
became  supervisor  in  1933,  after  two  years' 
experience  directing  athletics  in  the  city 
schools. 

Stephen  W.  Shanosky  was  recently  made 
manager  of  the  shipping  department  of  the 
Hygrade  Lamp  Company,  Salem,  Mass. 

W.  Lincoln  Fogarty  is  now  associated 
with  Lazard  Freres,  investment  bankers,  1  5 
Nassau  Street.  New  York  City. 

John  G.  Wright  is  advertising  manager 
for  Hanlon  ^  Goodman  Company,  Belle- 
ville, N.  J.,  and  lives  at  241  Grove  Street, 
Montclair.  N.  J. 

John  M.  Moler,  whose  marriage  we  re- 
port in  another  column,  is  secretary  to  the 
general  manager  of  the  Passenger  Depart- 
ment, Rock  Island  Lines,  Room  2122,  500 
Fifth  Avenue,  New  York  City. 

Paul  A.  M.  Snyder,  who  is  making  plans 
to  step  out  of  the  bachelor  class,  is  in  the 
motor  car  business  with  his  father,  and  is 
living  at  1313  Otter  Street,  Franklin,  Pa. 

D.  Russell  Brown  is  studying  printing  a: 
Carnegie  Institute  of  Technology,  Pitts- 
burgh, where  the  department  of  printing  is 
said  to  be  the  best  one  of  its  kind  in  the 
country. 

1932 

Andre  J.  Perry  is  working  for  the  First 
Fond  du  Lac  National  Bank,  and  is  living 
at  171  Sheboygan  Street,  Fond  du  Lac, 
Wis. 

Dick  Peirce  is  in  sales  advertising  with 
Bank  Lithograph  and  Supply  Company,  42 
Pine  Street,  Providence. 

Arthur  A.  Lewis,  who  is  doing  graduate 
work  in  education  on  the  Hill,  is  contrib- 
uting editor  on  the  staff  of  the  East  Provi- 
dence Sun,  a  weekly  newspaper  of  which 
Chester  R.  Feil  '36  is  publisher  and  general 
manager. 

Ralph  C.  Estes,  admitted  to  the  Massa- 
chusetts bar  on  Nov.  4,  has  become  a  mem- 
ber of  the  law  firm  of  Estes  y  Estes  at 
214  Bronson  Building,  Attleboro,  Mass. 
His  father.  Judge  Ralph  C.  Estes  '99,  is  the 
senior  partner. 

Gordon  F.  Pyper  is  Director  of  Admis- 
sions and  a  teacher  of  biology  at  Mount 
Hermon  School,  from  which  he  gradutaed 
in  1927.  In  another  column  we  report  the 
arrival  of  Robert  F.  Pyper,  Brown  '54,  or 
thereabouts. 


Hugh  S.  Butler,  district  manager  with 
the  Simmons  Company,  is  living  for  the 
present  at  the  University  Club,  State  Street, 
Albany,  N.  Y. 

1933 

Rev.  Gardiner  H.  Shattuck  is  an  assist- 
ant minister  at  Trinity  Church,  Boston,  in 
charge  of  work  among  students  in  the  par- 
ish. His  mail  address  is  132  Commonwealth 
Avenue,  Boston. 

Bill  Parker,  happily  married  and  settled 
at  1477  Beacon  Street,  is  an  advertising 
agent  with  Sutherland  Abbott  Company, 
234  Clarendon  Street,  Boston. 

Leo  L.  Tobak  from  Newport  and  Harry 
Goldstein  from  Providence  were  sworn  in 
as  members  of  the  Rhode  Island  bar  before 
the  Supreme  Court  in  Providence,  Oct.  28. 

Roland  K.  Brown,  member  of  the  teach- 
ing  staff  of   St.   Dunstan's    School,   Provi- 


dence, for  several  years,  has  returned  to  his 
old  love,  Worcester  Acadamy,  where  he  is 
instructor  in  English  and  assistant  in  ath- 
letics. 

Owen  F.  Walker,  back  from  his  three 
years  as  a  Rhodes  Scholar  at  Oxford,  where 
he  received  a  degree  in  June,  is  an  attorney 
with  Thompson,  Hine  and  Flory,  1122 
Guardian  Building,  Cleveland.  His  new 
mail  address  is  1183  East  Boulevard,  Cleve- 
land, Ohio. 

Dan  Costello,  Jr.,  writing  from  the  old 
home  town  of  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  where 
he  is  on  the  sales  staff  of  the  Deep  Rock 
Oil  Company,  says  that  the  Brown  Alum- 
ni Monthly  "is  a  credit  to  Brown"  and 
wishes  that  the  Brown  football  team  could 
be  as  good.  "The  showing  against  Yale 
was  heartening,  but  I  can't  help  recalling 
the  fall  of  '32." 


The  Romance  of  Real  Estate 

Everything  that  anyone  does  with  real  estate  affects 
national  wealth  and  progress. 

•  Railroads  run  over  it. 

•  Towns  and  cities  are  built  on  it. 

•  Wars  have  been  fought  over  it  from  ancient  times. 

All  the  sentiment  and  some  of  the  most  genuine  joys  of  life  are 
wrapped  up  in  the  average  man's  idea  "of  a  little  piece  of  ground  to  call 
my  own"  .  .  centered  and  shrined  in  tlie  idea  of  "home". 

So  powerful  a  force  in  many  lives  must  draw  its  source 
from  a  fundamental  instinct.  Do  you  possess  your  own 
home?  If  not,  isn't  it  time  you  did?  If  so,  isn't  it  an  advan- 
tageous time  to  capitalize  on  your  investment  by  taking 
action  while  prices  are  low?  Perhaps  Old  Colony  can  help 
you  with  the  financing. 

LD  Colony 

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Brown  Alumni  Monthly 

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Associated  Alumni 


CHESLEY  VVORTHINGTON  '23 
Managing  Editor 

ARTHUR  BRAITSCH  '23 
Business  Manager 

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Vol.  XXXVII        DECEMBER,   1936        No.  5 


Harry  D.  Deutschhein,  whose  college 
chums  said  that  he  would  be  the  last  one 
of  them  to  marry,  has  proved  the  prophets 
wrong,  as  we  report  elsewhere  in  this  issue. 
Harry  is  an  executive  with  the  Department 
of  the  Interior,  Washington,  D.  C,  and  he 
and  Mrs.  Deutschhein  live  in  Chevy  Chase, 
Md. 

Rev.  Read  Chatterton  is  pastor  of  the 
New  Fairfield  Congregational  Church,  R. 
F.  D.  3,  Danbury,  Conn.  He  won  his  divin- 
ity degree  last  May  at  Hartford  Theologi- 
cal Seminary,  and  became  a  minister  of  the 
Congregational  Church  by  ordination  Nov. 
17.  A  member  of  the  ordaining  council 
was  Rev.  Wilbur  F.  Deming  "12,  pastor  of 
the  Congregational  Church,  Washington, 
Conn.  Chatterton's  marriage  is  reported  in 
another  column  of  this  Monthly. 

1934 

Ed  Hickcy  was  recently  elected  president 
of  the  third  year  evening  class  of  George- 
town Law  School,  where  he  belongs  to  the 
Gould  Law  Club  and  is  on  the  editorial 
staff  of  the  Georgetown  Law  Journal.  He 
is  working  days  and  studying  nights,  and 
swimming  a  little  to  keep  in  shape. 

Caesar  M.  Danesi  is  doing  research  and 
development  work  in  the  engineering  de- 
partment of  the  Builders  Iron  Foundry, 
Providence. 

Walter  Porter  is  a  fingerprint  expert 
with  the  Department  of  Justice,  Washing- 
ton, and  he  and  Mrs.  Porter,  who  was 
Ruth  Crowel!  Milliken,  live  at  2-3  506  New 
Hampshire  Avenue,  N.  W.,  in  the  Capitol 
city. 

Ed  Tracy,  doing  graduate  work  in  civics 
at  Har\'ard,  is  living  at  9  Humboldt  Street, 
Cambridge.  Ed  hopes  to  win  his  A.M.  in 
June,  1937,  and  then  continue  his  teaching 
career. 

Dave  Caldwell  is  working  for  the  New 
York  Telephone  Company  and  lives  at  685 
West  End  Avenue,  New  York  City. 

Wilbur  F.  Smith  is  with  Price  Water- 
house,  Inc.,  accountants  and  auditors,  56 
Pine  Street.  New  York  City,  to  which  he 
commutes  from  his  home  at  8  Winthrop 
Place,  Maplewood,  N.  J. 

Jim  Mackintosh,  whose  engagement  we 
have  the  pleasure  of  reporting  in  this  issue, 
is  in  charge  of  the  Department  of  History 
at  Montclair,  N,  J..  High  School.  In  a 
recent  letter  Jim  said  that  he  liked  the 
work,  his  students,  and  his  surroundings. 


Ed  Robinson,  Jr.,  has  sold  a  story  to  the 
Saturday  Etieiu'ng  Post,  we  hear.  Since  he 
left  college  Ed  has  been  doing  a  lot  of 
writing  and  appears  to  be  on  the  road  to 
.success  as  a  writer  of  fiction. 

Cyril  Owen  is  a  graduate  assistant  in 
music  at  Brown,  with  Professors  Coolidge 
and  Hitchcock  finding  plenty  (so  he  says) 
to  keep  him  on  his  toes. 

1935 

Walter  Bopp  is  learning  as  much  as  he 
can  about  the  department  store  business 
with  Lord  6?  Taylor  in  New  York  City. 

Ed  Necarsulmer,  Jr.,  is  with  L.  F.  Roths- 
child y  Co..  investments,  at  120  Broadway, 
and  lives  at  21  East  87th  Street,  New  York 
City. 

Norman  Smith  is  a  teacher  at  the  Avon 
High  School.  Avon,  Mass.,  where  he  lives 
at  59  North  Main  Street. 

Sid  Johnson,  Jr.,  is  learning  the  wool 
business  with  the  Barre  Wool  Combing 
Company,  Ltd.,  South  Barre,  Mass. 

Hayward  Brown,  who  left  college  in 
Junior  year  to  go  to  work  for  J.  (i  P.  Coats 
Thread  Company,  is  now  vice  president 
and  treasurer  of  Newby  (i  Brown,  Inc., 
real  estate,  501  Ocean  Boulevard,  Daytona 
Beach,  Fla.  He  and  Mrs.  Brown  are  living 
at  714  North  Wild  Olive  Avenue. 

Robert  T.  Fowler,  Jr.,  member  of  the 
Class  for  two  years,  is  in  the  real  estate 
and  insurance  business  under  the  name. 
Ask  Mr.  Fowler,  at  700  Centre  Street, 
Jamaica   Plain,  Ma.ss. 

Jim  Brown,  who  left  college  at  the  end 
of  Sophomore  year,  is  a  salesman  with 
George  H.  Brown  Company,  printing  and 
stationery,  161  Summer  Street,  Boston, 
and  lives  at  215  Mill  Street,  Newtonville. 
Mass. 

Quentin  Rice  Cowman  is  agency  super- 
visor and  underwriter  with  the  Equitable 
Life  Insurance  Company  of  Iowa,  with  his 
office  on  the  1 3th  floor  of  the  Payne  Shoe- 
maker Building,  Harrisburg,  Pa. 

Howard  S.  Pease,  Jr.,  is  in  the  time 
study  department  of  the  Bigelow  Sanford 
Carpet  Co.,  Inc.,  Thompsonville,  Conn. 
He  was  married  Sept  23,  1936,  to  Miss 
Mildred  E.  Fuge,  and  he  and  Mrs.  Pease 
live  at  8  Blake  HiU,  Springfield,  Mass. 


Names  that  made  photos 

OF  recent  protographs  inspired  by 
the  Brown  University  News 
Service,  two  were  of  particular  inter- 
est to  alumni.  One  showed  two 
Freshmen  checking  up  on  their 
Brunonian  fathers  by  finding  the  sly 
things  said  about  them  in  Libers  of 
their  undergraduate  days.  The  Fresh- 
men were  John  A.  Leith  of  Dedham, 
Mass.,  son  of  Royal  W.  Leith  "12, 
president  of  the  Associated  Alumni, 
and  Henry  D.  S.  Chafee,  son  of 
Henry  S.  Chafee  "09,  former  presi- 
dent. 

The  other  photograph  showed 
George  Jay  Gould,  Jr.,  grandson  of 
the  past  century"s  boom  era  figure. 
Jay  Gould,  and  his  roommate,  Frank 
M.  Warren,  also  of  the  Freshman 
class.  The  two,  who  went  to  a  sec- 
ondary school  in  Paris  last  year,  were 
represented  as  listening  to  a  Paris 
broadcast  on  their  radio. 


1936 

Amby  Murray,  aide  in  the  publicity  cam- 
paign for  John  W.  Haigis  for  Governor  of 
Massachusetts,  is  now  working  for  the  Ed- 
ward R.  Place  Publicity  Bureau  (E.  R. 
Place  '24)  at  Room  502,  11  Beacon  Street, 
Boston.  Amby  writes  that  everything  is 
going  along  as  well  as  he  could  ask  for. 

Steve  (Red)  Armstrong  was  on  the  foot- 
ball coaching  staff  of  Norwich,  Conn.,  Free 
Academy,  his  old  school,  this  fall. 

Jim  France  was  back  on  the  campus  last 
month  for  a  flying  visit.  He  is  traveling 
secretary  for  his  fraternity.  Alpha  Delta 
Phi,  with  his  headquarters  at  136  West 
44th  Street,  New  York  City. 

Walter  Rollins  is  with  the  Brown  y 
Sharpe  Mfg.  Company,  Providence,  doing 
experimental  work. 

Bob  Pickup  directed  an  eloquent  tax  sur- 
vey the  results  of  which  The  Providence 
Joiinidl  recently  published.  Three  Rhode 
Island  families  kept  accounts  of  all  expen 
ditures  for  a  year,  and  Bob  and  his  staff 
told  the  public  how  much  of  that  money 
went  for  taxes.  The  series  of  articles  was 
widely  reprinted  in  the  American  press. 

Bob  Kenyon  has  changed  his  mail  ad- 
dress to  120  Larch  Street,  Providence.  He 
told  us  several  weeks  ago  that  he  had  a 
temporary  job  with  the  Howard  Realty 
Company. 

Roy  Leach,  3rd,  is  a  first  year  student  at 
Andover  Newton  Theological  School,  New- 
ton Centre,  Mass. 

Herb  Levenson  is  enrolled  at  the  Medical 
School,  Boston  University,  and  Jack  Nolan 
is  a  first  year  man  at  Tufts  Medical  School. 

Harvard  professional  schools  have  attract- 
ed 24  members  of  the  Class,  according  to 
a  survey  of  the  new  Harvard  Student  Di- 
rectory. Here  are  the  schools  and  the 
names:  Business  Administration:  Bristol, 
Handy,  lovino,  Wass,  and  Zeugner;  Law: 
Buhier,  DiMarco,  Dooley,  George,  Gregory, 
Hirt,  Moss,  Noonan.  Perrin,  Silverman, 
Tannewald,  and  Bill  Thompson;  Engineer- 
ing: Winsor;  School  of  Design:  Conrad 
Green:  Dentistry:  Field;  Medicine:  Ohane- 
son.  Zooloomian:  Arts  and  Sciences:  Young 
and  Gerald  Richmond. 

Walt  Gray  sets  himself  down  as  "mis- 
sionary and  salesman"  for  the  William 
Wrigley,  Jr.  Company,  whose  product  ev- 
erybody knows.  He  is  living  at  129  Benefit 
Street,  Providence. 

Harrie  Hart"s  new  house  address  is  One 
East  87th  Street,  New  York  City. 

Bill  Summer  is  an  apprentice  with  the 
West  Virginia  Rail  Company,  manufactur- 
ers of  steel  shapes  and  track  work,  in  Ham- 
ilton, where  he  and  Mrs.  Summer  are  living, 
as  we  note  in  the  marriage  column. 

Harry  Angelo  is  in  charge  of  the  order 
room  for  William  Iselin  Company,  private 
bankers,  3  57  Fourth  Avenue,  New  York 
City. 

Bill  Benton  is  an  apprentice  with  Ana- 
conda Wire  6?  Cable  Company,  but  writes 
that  he  prefers  to  get  his  mail  at  his  home, 
17  Gilman  Street,  Holyoke,  Mass. 

Jack  Bergeson  is  an  assistant  with  Mal- 
colm Pirnie.  water  supply  and  sanitary 
engineer,  and  has  recently  been  working  in 
Charlestown.  S.  C,  where  he  is  located  at 
55  Church  Street. 

Lucian  Drury  is  an  accountant  with  Gen- 
eral Electric  Company,  Bridgeport,  Conn,, 
where  he  lives  at  62  Coleman  Street. 

Dick  Ferris  is  a  member  of  the  sales  staff 
of  C.  V.  Stackpole  6?  Son,  Inc.,  electrical 


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appliances,  588  Chestnut  Street,  Lynn, 
Mass. 

Jim  Harrison  is  a  first  year  student  at 
the  Medical  School,  McGill  University,  and 
is  living  at  3419  University  Street,  Mont- 
real, P.  Q. 

Art  Heilman  is  doing  statistical  research 
with  the  Trcmco  Manufacturing  Co.,  main- 
tenance materials  tor  building  and  construc- 
tion, and  is  getting  his  mail  at  2828  Edge- 
hill  Road,  Cleveland  Heights,  O. 

Gordon  Kaelin  is  an  assistant  manager 
with  J.  J.  Newberry  Co.,  chain  stores,  and 
in  recent  months  has  been  on  the  job  at 
245  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York  City. 

Leigh  Lynch,  Jr.,  is  in  the  marine  under- 
writing department  of  Providence  Wash- 
ington Insurance  Co.,  20  Market  Square, 
Providence. 

Professor  W.  R.  Benford  and  C.  E.  An- 
derson'37,  R.  W.  Anderson  '37,  and  F.  C. 
Tyler  '37  attended  the  meetings  of  the 
New  England  Water  Works  Association 
held  in  Boston  Nov.  19.  They  also  took 
part  in  the  annual  student  night  sponsored 
by  the  Boston  Society  of  Civil  Engineers 
for  Civil  Engineering  Student  Chapters, 
and  held  in  Boston  on  the  same  date. 

Engagements 

MISS  Dorothy  M.  Phipps,  daughter  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  Lawrence  Phipps  of 
Woodmere,    L.    L,    to    Lieut.    Paul 
Waterman   '29,   Air   Corps,    U.   S.   A.,   of 
Washington,  D.  C. 

Miss  Mary  Lou  Carlon,  daughter  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Frank  C.  Carlon  of  Oil  City,  Pa., 
to  Paul  A.  M.  Snyder  '31  of  Franklin,  Pa. 

Miss  Patience  Y.  King,  daughter  of  Mrs. 
Sigmund  H.  King  of  New  York  City,  to 
K.  Bertram  Friedman  '3  3,  also  of  New 
York. 

Miss  Elisabeth  Choate  Crockett,  daugh- 
ter of  Judge  and  Mrs.  Ralph  W.  Crockett 
of  Lewiston,  Me.,  to  James  F.  Macintosh 
'34  of  Wellesley,  Mass.,  and  Montclair, 
N.  J.  Miss  Crockett  is  a  graduate  of  Ober- 
lin  College  and  a  great  grandniece  of  Rufus 
Choate. 

Miss  Carolyn  Colwell,  daughter  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Ralph  Colwell  of  West  Barring- 
ton,  to  Robert  S.  Drake  '3  5  of  Jersey  City. 
N.J. 

Miss  Jeanne  Agnes  Straight,  sister  of 
Miss  Mary  E.  Straight,  of  Providence,  to 
Louis  J.  Hand  '34,  also  of  Providence. 

Miss  Muriel  Monsell,  daughter  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Edwin  M.  Monsell  of  Tulsa, 
Okla.,  to  James  R.  Bremner,  Jr.  '34  of 
Lake  Forest,   111. 

Weddings 

1920— Elton  H.  Tucker  and  Miss  Grace 
Winifred  Williams,  daughter  of  Enoch 
Williams  of  Dorchester,  Mass.,  were  mar- 
ried in  Dorchester,  Nov.  6,  1936.  They 
are  at  home  at  3  50  Hope  Street,  Provi- 
dence. 

1923 — Harold  K.  Larson  and  Miss  Dor- 
othy Phillips  Grant,  daughter  of  Mrs.  Wil- 
liam P.  Grant,  were  married  in  Pawtucket, 
Nov.  5,  1936.  They  are  at  home  at  556 
Central  Avenue,  Pawtucket. 

1925— John  B.  Kilton  and  Miss  Ruth 
Leighton,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lewis 
C.  Leighton,  were  married  in  Providence, 
Oct.  23,  1936.  George  W.  Kilton  '25  was 
his  brother's  best  man.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Kil- 
ton are  at  home  at  105  Governor  Street, 
Providence. 

1930 — Alvah  I.  Winslow  and  Miss  Anna 
L.  Sampson,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J. 


Amendment's  Life 

r|R.  Gregory  D.  Walcott  "97, 
■'-'  Professor  of  Philosophy  at  Long 
Island  University,  has  come  forward 
with  the  suggestion  that  any  new 
amendment  to  the  Constitution  of 
the  United  States  be  "limited  to  a 
definite  period  of  years."  In  a  letter 
to  the  ?^ew  Tor\  Herald  Tribune 
under  date  of  Nov.  8,  he  wrote: 

"Not  a  few  people  think  that 
Amendments  Sixteen  and  Seventeen 
(the  income  tax  and  direct  election 
of  Senators  amendments)  might  well 
follow  the  late  Eighteenth  in  its  de- 
mise. Perhaps  some  of  our  present- 
day  ills  can  be  traced  to  one  or  the 
other,  or  both,  of  these  sources. 

"Might  It  not  be  advisable,  too,  in 
case  some  new  amendment  is  sought, 
to  have  it  limited  tu  a  definite  period 
of  years?  Whenever  any  such  change 
goes  into  force,  it  enters  the  trial- 
and-error  stage.  No  one  knows  how 
well  it  will  work  The  amount  of 
gray  matter  involved  in  its  formula- 
tion is  its  chief  guaranty  for  success, 
but  no  one  can  be  absolutely  sure. 
A  definite  limit  of  twenty  or  twenty- 
five  years  might  be  advisable. 

"If  toward  the  end  of  that  period 
there  should  be  much  criticism,  it 
could  automatically  cease  to  be  a 
part  of  the  Constitution,  but  if  it 
had  apparently  worked  well,  it  might 
then  be  made  permanent.  Such  pro- 
cedure might  lead  to  the  adoption  of 
more  amendments,  which  might  not 
be  an  evil,  but  at  any  rate  an  amend- 
ment that  had  proved  itself  undesir- 
able could  be  eliminated  without  any 
fuss." 


A.  Sampson,  were  married  in  Providence, 
Nov.  14,  1936.  They  are  living  in  Phila- 
delphia. 

1930 — Edwin  F.  Drew  and  Miss  Barbara 
Louise  Carpenter,  daughter  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  John  B.  Carpenter  of  East  Providence, 
were  married  in  Providence,  Nov.  5,  1936. 
They  are  at  home  at  3  5  Agawam  Road, 
Rumford. 

1931 — John  M.  Moler  and  Miss  Helen 
Marie  Leonhardt,  daughter  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  C.  F.  Leonhardt,  were  married  in 
Crestwood,  Yonkers,  N.  Y.,  Nov.  14,  1936. 
They  are  at  home  at  39  Chittenden  Ave- 
nue, Crestwood. 

1931 — Edward  C.  Ahern  and  Miss  Alice 
M.  Buckley,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  T. 
P.  Buckley,  were  married  in  Providence, 
Nov.  11,  1936.  They  are  at  home  at  11 
Glenwood  Avenue,  Eden  Park. 

193  1 — Robert  A.  Bowen  and  Miss  Sarah 
Phelan,  daughter  of  the  late  Professor  and 
Mrs.  Joseph  W.  Phelan  of  West  Medford, 
Mass.,  were  married  in  Boston,  Nov.  20, 
1936.  They  will  make  their  home  in  Prov- 
idence. 

193  3 — Harry  D.  Deutschbein  and  Miss 
Belle  Fit5gerald-Smith  of  Coronado,  Calif., 
and  Washington,  D.  C,  were  married  in 
Washington,  in  April.  They  are  living  at 
4511  Stanford  Street,  Chevy  Chase,  Md. 

1933 — Joseph  S.  Thompson  and  Miss 
Zellette    Louthan,    daughter    of   Mr.    and 


Mrs.  William  B.  Louthan,  were  married  in 
East  Liverpool,  O.,  Oct.   15,  1936. 

1933 — Rev.  Read  Chatterton  and  Miss 
Margaret  Ross  Grimes,  daughter  of  the 
Rev.  and  Mrs.  Harry  G.  Grimes,  were  mar- 
ried in  Newburyport,  Mass.,  Oct.  10,  1936. 
The  bride's  father  performed  the  ceremony 
in  Central  Congregational  Church,  and  the 
best  man  was  Arthur  G.  Brown  '3  3,  room 
mate  of  Chatterton  for  four  years  at  Brown. 
Mrs.  Chatterton  is  a  graduate  of  Mount 
Holyoke  and  the  Simmons  School  of  Social 
Work.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Chatterton  are  at 
home  in  Danbury,  Conn. 

1933 — John  M.  Redding  and  Miss  'Vir- 
ginia Seeds,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Henry  Benham,  were  married  in  Indian- 
apolis, Ind.,  Oct.  17,  1936.  They  are  liv- 
ing in  Chicago. 

1934  —  Oscar  P.  Hammer  and  Miss 
Norma  Alberta  Sawyer,  daughter  of  Dr. 
and  Mrs.  Carl  D.  Sawyer,  were  married  in 
Providence,  Oct.  24,  1936.  They  are  living 
in  Somerville,  Mass. 

1934  —  Rockwell  Gray  and  Miss  Mar- 
garet Elizabeth  Horton,  daughter  of  Elmer 
S.  Horton  '10  and  Mrs.  Horton,  were  mar- 
ried m  Barrington,  Oct.  31,  1936.  S. 
Turner  Blanchard  "3  3  was  best  man,  and 
Edward  M.  Horton  '39  was  an  usher.  They 
are  at   130  Pitman  Street,  Providence. 

1934— Daniel  W.  Earle  and  Miss  Mar- 
ian Fones  were  married  in  Washington, 
D.  C,  Oct.  10,  1936.  They  are  living  in 
Portsmouth,  R.  I. 

193  5 — Fred  S.  Niemann  and  Miss  Laura 
Leppler  were  married  in  Wilmette,  111., 
Sept.  27,  1936.  They  are  living  at  245 
Long  Avenue,  Chicago. 

1936 — William  G.  Summer  and  Miss 
Mary  Carpenter  Ettling,  daughter  of  Hen- 
ry C.  Ettling  and  graduate  (Pembroke  Col- 
lege) in  1934,  were  married  in  Springfield. 
Mass.,  June  16,  1936.  They  are  living  at 
123  5  Charleston  Avenue,  Huntington,  W. 
Va. 

1936 — Ambrose  J.  Murray  and  Miss 
Ruth  E.  Rudd  were  married  Sept.  4,  1936. 
They  are  at  home  at  1616  Massachusetts 
Avenue,  Cambridge,  Mass. 

Births 

1917— To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ralph  A.  Arm- 
strong of  Springfield,  Mass.,  a  third  son, 
Robert  Avery,  Oct.  29,  1936. 

1919— To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  J.  Walker 
of  Edgewood,  a  son  on  Oct.  29,  1936. 

1923— To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Walter  I.  Dol- 
beare  of  Norfolk,  Va.,  a  son,  Robert  Lor- 
ing,  Oct.  26,  1936. 

1924 — To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Earle  Vincent 
Johnson  of  Park  Ridge,  111.,  a  second 
daughter,  Nancy  Lee,  Aug.  31,  1936. 

1924— To  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Louis  E.  Hath- 
away of  Springfield,  Mass.,  a  son,  Louis  E. 
Hathaway,  3rd,  Sept.  16,  1936. 

1926  — To  Dr.  and  Mrs.  William  J. 
Turtle  of  Winchester,  Mass.,  a  daughter, 
Nancy,  Aug.  24,  1936. 

1929— To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  P.  How- 
ell of  Chicago,  111.,  a  daughter,  Marilyn 
Louise,  Nov.  5,  1936. 

1932— To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  C.  Til- 
linghast,  Jr.,  of  New  York  City,  a  son, 
Charles  C.  Tillinghast,  3rd,  Nov.  16,  1936. 

1932— To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gordon  F. 
Pyper  of  Mount  Hermon,  Mass.,  a  son, 
Robert  Fendel,  Aug.  23,  1936. 

1934 — To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frederic  A. 
Van  Doom  of  Newport,  a  son,  Arlan  King, 
Oct.  28,  1936. 


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1871 

Ri!v.  Daniel  Webster  Hoyt,  soldier 
at  19,  Baptist  minister  for  44  years, 
and  pastor  emeritus  of  the  Adams 
Square  Baptist  Church,  Worcester,  Mass., 
died  in  Memorial  Hospital,  Worcester, 
Nov.  5,  1936. 

Born  in  East  Haverhill,  Mass.,  Aug.  12, 
1845,  the  son  of  Daniel  C.  and  Lydia 
(Williams)  Hoyt,  he  prepared  at  Nevi? 
London,  N.  H.,  Literary  and  Scientific  In- 
stitute, now  Cblby  Junior  College,  and  in 
August,  1864,  enlisted  in  Company  M,  4th 
Massachusetts  Heavy  Artillery.  He  was  on 
duty  in  Washington  the  night  President 
Lincoln  was  assassinated  and  his  recollec- 
tion of  his  experiences  at  the  time  was 
always  a  vivid  one. 

Returning  from  the  war  in  the  summer 
of  1865,  he  worked  for  two  years  and  then 
entered  Brown,  where  he  became  a  charter 
member  of  Delta  Upsilon.  From  Brown  he 
went  to  Newton  Theological  Institution, 
graduated  in  1874,  became  a  Baptist  min- 
ister at  Amherst,  Mass.,  in  July  of  that 
year,  and  thereafter  held  pastorates  in  Mill- 
bury,  Worcester,  and  North  Oxiord,  Mass. 
For  three  years  he  was  head  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts City  Missionary  Society,  and  in 
that  time  he  organised  three  churches  and 
built  several  meeting  houses.  He  retired 
from  the  active  ministry  in   1918. 

But  in  his  retirement  he  kept  busy. 
He  frequently  preached  in  neighborhood 
churches  and  at  the  Adams  Square  church. 
He  joined  George  H.  Ward  Post,  G.  A.  R., 
in  1904,  was  post  chaplain  for  many  years, 
and  continued  his  interest  in  the  work  of 
the  post  until  his  death.  He  was  married 
Oct.  21,  1874,  to  Ella  Dexter  Mowry,  who 
died  in  1922.  Surviving  are  a  son,  John 
Irving  Hoyt,  three  daughters.  Miss  Abbie 
Louise  Hoyt,  Mrs.  Nelson  L.  Wheeler,  and 
Mrs.  Delbert  L.  Judd,  and  several  grand- 
children and  great  grandchildren.  Mr.  Hoyt 
used  to  say  that  although  he  had  lived 
through  six  major  depressions,  he  was  still 
an  optimist.  And  he  lived  up  to  his  self 
characterisation. 

1889 

ERNEST    Gilbert    Smith    died    at    the 
Rhode    Island    Hospital,    Providence, 
Oct.  22,   1936,  after  a  short  illness.    For 


many  years  he  had  been  connnected  with 
the  management  of  the  Rocky  Point  Amuse- 
ment Company. 

Born  in  Norwich,  Conn.,  Nov.  9,  1867, 
the  son  of  Miles  G.  and  Eunice  (Barnes) 
Smith,  he  prepared  at  Vermont  Academy 
and  graduated  from  Brown  with  honors  in 
Greek  and  high  standing  in  other  subjects. 
He  was  elected  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa  in  his 
Senior  year. 

Alter  graduation  he  went  to  work  lor 
the  Empire  Publishing  Company,  Philadel- 
phia. Returning  to  Providence  in  1891  he 
became  a  salesman  for  A.  J.  Smith  whose 
firm  is  now  the  Smith-Holden  Dental  Sup- 
ply Company.  He  left  this  company  in 
1900,  and  later  went  to  work  at  Rocky 
Point. 

He  was  married  June  13,  1897,  to  Miss 
Annie  A.  Degnan,  who  survives.  His  fra- 
ternity was  Zeta  Psi. 

1891 

DR.  Augustus  Woodbury  Calder, 
physician  and  surgeon  in  Providence 
lor  38  years  and  former  chief  surgeon  of 
the  Rhode  Island  National  Guard,  died  at 
his  home,  Oct.  25,  1936,  after  a  month's 
illness.  He  served  as  a  surgeon  in  the 
Spanish-American  War,  the  Mexican  Bor- 
der campaign,  and  the  World  War. 

Born  in  Providence,  Sept.  28,  1869,  the 
son  of  Albert  L.  and  Martha  Ann  (How- 
land)  Calder,  he  prepared  at  Mowry  ii 
Golf's  English  and  Classical  School,  was 
active  in  athletics  while  an  undergraduate 
at  Brown,  and  after  winning  his  A.B.,  en- 
tered Harvard  Medical  School,  from  which 
he  graduated  in  1895.  He  did  post  graduate 
work  in  Vienna,  Dresden,  and  Paris  in 
1895-96,  and  after  his  return  home  com- 
menced practice  in  Providence,  specializing 
in  nervous  disorders  and  surgery. 

Enlisting  in  the  Rhode  Island  National 
Guard  as  a  private  in  the  hospital  corps, 
he  received  commission  as  Second  Lieuten- 
ant in  December,  1898,  and  continued  to 
rise  in  rank  until  his  retirement  in  1919  as 
Lieutenant  Colonel.  He  was  a  post  surgeon 
in  the  Spanish-American  War;  surgeon  of 
cavalry  with  the  rank  of  Major  in  1906; 
and  chief  surgeon  ot   the   National  Guard 


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in  1911.  He  entered  Federal  service  in 
1916,  and  during  the  next  three  years  was 
on  duty  along  the  Mexican  border  and  in 
military  camps  in  this  country.  He  intro- 
duced typhoid  inoculation  to  the  National 
Guard  in  1913,  and  soon  made  it  popular. 
He  belonged  to  the  Providence  and 
Rhode  Island  Medical  Societies,  Associa- 
tion of  Military  Surgeons  of  the  United 
States,  Military  Service  Institute,  and  Psi 
Upsilon.  He  was  married  April  17,  1906, 
to  Sarah  Senter  Allen,  who  survives,  with 
two  sons,  A.  W.  Calder,  Jr.  '28,  and  Craw- 
ford A.  Calder;  and  a  daughter,  Miss  Mar- 
tha Howland  Calder.  Members  of  the  Class 
of  1891  attended  the  funeral  in  a  body. 

1891 

JOHN  William  Heisman,  famous  as  a 
football  coach  who  did  much  to  open 
up  the  game  by  use  of  the  forward  pass 
and  a  shilling  line,  died  of  broncho-pneu- 
monia at  his  home  in  New  York  City,  Oct. 
3,  1936.  His  career  as  a  coach  was  longer 
than  that  of  any  other  American  except 
Amos  Alonzo  Stagg,  who  is  still  active. 

Between  1892  and  1927  Mr.  Heisman 
coached  lootball  and  other  sports  at  Ober 
lin,  Akron,  Alabama  Polytechnic  Institute 
Clemson,  Georgia  School  of  Technology 
Pennsylvania,  Washington  and  Jefferson 
and  Rice  Institute.  In  1930  he  became 
physical  director  of  the  Downtown  Ath 
letic  Club  in  New  York,  and  held  that  posi 
tion  at  his  death. 

His  high  spot  as  a  coach  was  reached  at 
Georgia  Tech,  where  he  remained  for  16 
years  and  where  his  teams  in  1915,  1916, 
and  1917,  won  25  games  without  losing 
any.  With  Alonso  Stagg  and  Glenn  War- 
ner he  made  up  the  "football  trinity"  of 
the  years  belore  the  war.  He  won  his  games 
by  developing  speed  and  deception;  he 
made  successful  use  of  the  forward  pass 
while  other  coaches  were  complaining 
against  it;  and  he  showed  the  way  in  end 
runs  with  running  interference. 

He  was  born  in  Cleveland,  O.,  Oct.  23, 
1869,  the  son  of  John  and  Sarah  A.  (Lehr) 
Heisman.  He  prepared  at  Titusville,  Pa., 
High  School,  and  while  a  student  at  Brown 
lor  two  years,  1887-89,  played  football  and 
baseball.  He  transferred  to  Pennsylvania, 
playing  lootball  there  and  studying  for  the 
LL-B.  degree  which  he  received  in  1892. 
For  two  years  he  was  athletic  director  at 
the  Atlanta  Athletic  Club,  and  for  four 
years  president  ot  the  Atlanta  Baseball  As- 
sociation. He  was  president  of  the  Ameri- 
can Football  Coaches  Association  in  1923 
and  1924,  and  one  of  the  founders  and 
first  president  of  the  Touchdown  Club,  the 
object  of  which  was  to  get  old  football 
players  together  to  talk  about  the  game, 
past  and  present.  He  wrote  "Principles  of 
Football,"  and  newspaper  and  magazine 
articles  on  the  game.  His  wife,  the  former 
Miss  Edith  Maora,  survives. 

1894 

CLAYTON  Sedgwick  Cooper,  editor,  au- 
thor, lecturer,  and  friend  of  many 
Brown  men,  died  in  Rochester,  Minn.,  Oct. 
13,  1936.  He  had  gone  to  Rochester  to 
undego  treatment  for  his  eyes  after  having 
spent  the  summer  in  travel  through  the 
North  and  East  as  far  as  Poland  Springs, 
Me. 

For  the  past  ten  years  he  had  spent  most 
of  his  time  in  Florida,  where  he  was  presi- 
dent of  the  Miami  Beach  Committee  of 
100,  a  civic  and  social  group  which  was  a 
cross-section  of  America's  wealth,  industry. 


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and  commerce.  In  1924  and  1925  he  was 
editor  of  The  Miami  Tribune. 

Born  in  Henderson,  N.  Y.,  May  24, 
1869,  the  son  of  Ira  L.  and  Juha  (Dix) 
Cooper,  he  prepared  at  Adams  Collegiate 
Institute.  After  graduation  from  Brown  he 
served  for  a  year  as  college  secretary  of  the 
International  Committee,  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  and 
for  another  year  as  secretary  of  the  23rd 
Street  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  New  York  City.  He 
graduated  from  Rochester  Theological  Sem- 
inary in  1898,  did  graduate  work  at  the 
University  of  Chicago,  and  became  pastor 
of  the  Washington  Street  Baptist  Church, 
Lynn,  Mass.,  where  he  served  from  1898 
to  1902.  He  continued  graduate  study  of 
philosophy  at  Harvard  and  Columbia,  and 
received  his  A.M.  from  Columbia  in  190T. 
He  was  secretary  of  the  Bible  Study  De- 
partment, International  Committee  of  the 
Y.  M.  C.  A.,  1902-12.  In  1909  he  made  a 
world  tour  to  visit  students  of  India,  Cey- 
lon, China,  Korea,  and  Japan,  and  to  in- 
vestigate educational  and  industrial  condi- 
tions in  Europe,  Asia,  and  Africa. 

Since  1909  he  had  traveled  widely  in 
Europe,  Asia.  South  America,  and  had  lee- 
t'lred  before  hundreds  of  audiences  on  for- 
-•ign  trade,  one  of  his  favorite  studies,  and 
/avel.  He  was  editor  of  "Educational 
.foundations,"  1913-17,  and  editorial  direc- 
:or  of  W.  R.  Grace  ii  Company,  steamship 
agents,  from  1918  to  1922.  In  1924  he 
and  Mrs.  Cooper,  also  well  known  as  an 
author,  built  a  house  on  the  ocean  front  at 
Miami  Beach,  which  they  thought  to  be 
one  of  the  loveliest  spots  they  had  seen  in 
their  travels  around  the  world. 

Mr.  Cooper's  list  of  published  books  is  a 
distinguished  one,  including  "Why  Go  to 
College":  College  Men  and  the  Bible"; 
"The  Man  of  Egypt":  "The  Modernising 
of  the  Orient":  "Poetry  in  Religion";  "The 
Bible  and  Modern  Life";  "Understanding 
South  America":  "Understanding  Spain"; 
and  "Understanding  Italy."  He  also  wrote 
"The  Brazilians  and  Their  Country,"  a  his- 
tory of  the  Class  of  1894,  "Foreign  Trade 
Markets  and  Methods,"  and  "Latin  Amer- 
ica— Men  and  Markets."  He  was  a  former 
member  of  the  National  Arts  Club  and  The 
Players,  New  York,  and  belonged  to  Delta 
Upsilon. 

His  wife,  who  was  Elizabeth  Goodnow 
and  whom  he  married  in  1912,  is  his  only 
immediate  survivor. 

1894 

EBrucf  Mkrriman,  active  for  many 
•  years  in  the  business  and  social  life  of 
Providence,  died  at  his  home  Oct.  18,  1936, 
after  a  long  illness.  He  was  one  of  four 
brothers  who  received  their  degrees  from 
Brown  in  a  space  of  five  years  and  son  of 
Charles  Henry  Merriman,  recipient  of  an 
honorary  degree  in  1894. 

Born  at  Nayatt  Point,  Aug.  H.  1872, 
the  son  of  Charles  H.  and  Esther  H.  (Thur- 
ston) Merriman,  he  prepared  at  Mowry  & 
Goff's  English  and  Classical  School  and 
Providence  High  School:  and  after  gradua 
tion  from  Brown  went  to  work  for  the  Lip- 
pitt  Mills,  Woonsocket.  He  was  transferred 
to  the  New  York  office  in  1897,  worked 
there  for  four  years  and  resigned  in  1901 
to  go  into  the  bleaching  business  in  Appo- 
naug.  After  association  with  the  Eastern 
Coal  Company  and  the  Merriman  Consoli- 
dated Oil  Company,  which  he  organized, 
he  became  a  partner  in  the  firm  of  C.  A. 
Kilvert  6:?  Co.,  investments,  Jan.  1,  1918. 

During  the  World  War  he  gave  up  busi- 
ness to  join  the  American  Red  Cross,  with 


which  he  served  in  France  until  January, 
1919.  He  was  a  member  of  Agawam  Hunt 
Club,  Squantum  Association.  Hope  Club, 
Rhode  Island  Country  Club,  Turks  Head 
Club,  Racquet  Club  of  New  York,  Rhode 
Island  Historical  Society,  East  Side  Skating 
Club,  and  Psi  Upsilon.  His  summer  home 
was  at  Gull  Rock,  Newport. 

He  was  married  Nov.  28,  1900,  to  Miss 
Helen  A.  Pearce,  who  survives  with  two 
daughters,  Mrs.  Edward  M.  Weld  and 
Mrs.  Dudley  P.  King  Wood  of  New  York; 
and  three  brothers,  Charles  H.  Merriman 
"92,  Harold  T.  Merriman  "94,  and  Isaac  B. 
Merriman  '97. 

1895 

SUMNER  TiNGLEY  PACKARD,  president 
and  general  manager  of  the  Dana  S. 
Courtney  Company,  bobbin  and  spool  man- 
ufacturer, and  owner  of  the  Macrodi  Fiber 
Company,  died  at  the  Deaconess  Hospital, 
Boston,  Oct.  9,  1936,  after  an  illness  of 
three  weeks. 

As  president  of  the  Hampden  County 
Council,  Boy  Scouts  of  America,  and  presi- 
dent of  the  National  Bobbin  Association, 
he  was  not  only  well  known  in  Western 
Massachusetts  but  also  throughout  the  coun- 
try. He  was  a  former  president  of  the 
Connecticut  Valley  Brown  Club,  and  an 
energetic,  valuable  alumnus. 

He  was  born  in  Brockton,  Mass.,  July  4, 
1874.  the  son  of  David  S.  and  Emma 
(Tingley)  Packard.  He  entered  Brown  from 
Brockton  High  School,  took  courses  with 
intention  of  studying  law,  and  after  grad- 
uation went  to  Harvard  Law  School,  from 
which  he  received  the  LL.B.  degree  in 
1898.  He  became  a  member  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts bar  while  still  in  law  school  and 
practiced  law  for  a  short  time  in  the  office 
of  Judge  Reid  in  Brockton.  He  gave  up 
the  law  to  enter  business,  and  in  191  "i 
removed  to  Springfield,  where  he  became 
prominent  in  civic  and  religious  work  as 
well  as  in  business. 

In  1900  and  1901  he  had  been  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Common  Council  of  Brockton. 
In  Springfield  he  kept  out  of  politics,  giv- 
ing his  spare  time  and  energy  to  the  Boy 
Scouts,  the  Faith  Congregational  Church, 
where  he  was  president  of  the  Men's  Club, 
and  the  Rotary  Club.  "He  sincerely  believes 
in  scouting  and  as  president  of  Hampden 
County  Council  is  backing  it  with  all  the 
power  in  his  being,"  it  was  written  of  him 
three  years  ago.  His  other  afliliations  were 
with  Bay  State  Commandery,  Knights  Tem- 
plar, Springfield  Country  Club,  Ragged 
Mountain  Fish  and  Game  Club,  and  Delta 
Phi. 

He  was  married  June  0.  1903,  to  Miss 
Maude  E.  Norwood  of  Rockport,  Me.,  who 
survives,  with  a  son,  Sumner  T.  Packard, 
Jr.,  '27,  a  daughter.  Miss  Pauline  Packard, 
and  two  sisters. 

1901 

ARTHUR  Crawford  Wyman.  former 
assistant  curator  of  the  American  Nu- 
mismatic Society  and  one  of  the  recognized 
numismatists  of  the  United  States,  died  of 
a  heart  attack  at  Palo  Alto  Hospital.  Palo 
Alto,  Calif.,  Oct.  15,  1936.  For  the  pa.st 
six  years  he  had  been  living  in  Los  Altos, 
Calif. 

Born  in  Lincoln,  R.  I.,  Sept.  21,  1879, 
the  son  of  John  C.  and  Elizabeth  B.  (Chace) 
Wyman,  he  was  the  nephew  of  the  late 
Chancellor  Arnold  B.  Chace  '66.  He  came 
to  Brown  from  the  University  Grammar 
School  and  left  in  1900  without  taking  a 


degree.  In  1910  he  took  up  the  study  of 
law  at  Boston  University  Law  School,  but 
gave  It  up  to  go  to  New  York  City,  where 
he  joined  the  staff  of  the  American  Numis- 
matic Society.  He  resigned  in  1921  to 
travel,  spent  several  years  in  Europe,  and 
on  his  return  associated  himself  with  Gut- 
tag  Brothers,  foreign  exchange  brokers  in 
New  York  City. 

He  was  a  Fellow  of  the  American  Numis- 
matic Society  and  the  Royal  Numismatic 
Society  of  England;  president  of  the  Pacific 
Coast  Numismatic  Society:  president  of  the 
Los  Altos  Chamber  of  Commerce:  and  a 
member  of  Alpha  Delta  Phi.  He  was  mar- 
ried June  5,  1917,  to  May  A.  Lennon,  who 
survives. 

1902 

EUGENE  Bailfy  Jackson,  lawyer  and 
former  president  of  the  Brown  Club  of 
Boston,  died  suddenly  in  Boston,  Nov.  11, 
1936.  He  had  been  ill  for  more  than  a 
year. 

Born  in  Woonsocket,  Aug.  6,  1880,  the 
son  of  Frank  A.  Jackson,  for  many  years  a 
member  of  the  Rhode  Island  State  Board 
of  Food  and  Drug  Commissioners  and 
other  State  commissions,  and  Adele  S. 
(Howe)  Jackson.  He  prepared  at  Mowry 
6?  Golf's  English  and  Classical  School  and 
as  undergraduate  at  Brown  was  secretary 
of  his  class  in  Freshman  year  and  vice  pres- 
ident in  Sophomore  year.  He  was  an  editor 
of  Liber  Bnmensis.  a  Carpenter  Prize 
speaker.  Class  Orator  at  Commencement 
time,  and  active  in  social  and  dramatic 
work.    He  also  belonged  to  The  Owl. 


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From  Brown  he  went  to  Harvard  Law 
School,  received  his  LL.B.  degree  in  190T, 
and  commenced  practice  with  the  firm  of 
Powers  and  Hall,  Boston.  In  1910  he  es- 
tablished his  own  firm.  He  had  a  great 
interest  in  Brown  and  in  alumni  work,  and 
was  prominent  in  the  Brown  Club  of  Bos- 
ton, becoming  president  in  193  5.  He  had 
been  a  delegate  to  the  Advisory  Council  of 
the  Associated  Alumni  on  several  occasions. 
He  belonged  to  the  Harvard  Club  of  Bos- 
ton, the  Brookline  Amateurs,  a  dramatic 
society  to  which  he  gave  much  of  his  lei- 
sure time,  the  Boston  Tennis  and  Badmin- 
ton Club,  and  Zeta  Psi. 

He  was  married  Sept.  6,  1911,  to  Miss 
Caroline  Wilbour  Patten,  who  survives, 
with  a  daughter,  Mrs.  Harry  M.  McLeod 
nf  Lake  Forest,  111.:  a  son.  Anthony  Jack- 
son; and  a  brother,  Howard  K.  Jackson  "09, 
Chicago.  His  eldest  son.  Patten  Jackson, 
died  in  Bermuda  in  October,  1930,  while  a 
member  of  Dr.  William  Beebe's  oceann- 
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1908 

JAMES  Alexander  Hall,  Professor  of 
Mechanical  Engineering  at  the  Univer- 
sity, Secretary  of  the  Class  of  1908,  and 
nationally  known  by  reason  of  his  work 
for  the  American  Society  of  Mechanical 
Engineers,  died  of  a  cerebral  hemorrhage 
at  Jane  Brown  Hospital,  Providence,  Oct. 
29,  1936.  He  had  been  at  the  hospital  for 
a  week. 

"For  more  than  25  years,"  said  Acting 
President  James  P.  Adams  in  a  fine  tribute 
written  for  the  Brown  Daily  Herald,  "he 
has  been  associated  with  the  work  of  the 
Division  of  Engineering  and  hundreds  of 
Brown  men  in  all  parts  of  the  country  will 
feel  keenly  the  loss  of  one  who  was  for 
them  both  an  inspiring  teacher  and  a  per- 
sonal friend." 

During  the  past  year  Professor  Hall  had 
been  doing  his  full  share  of  work  even 
though  he  knew  that  he  was  physically 
below  par.  He  couldt  not,  would  not  give 
up.  At  the  beginning  of  this  academic 
year  his  colleagues  in  the  Division  of  Engi' 
ncering  persuaded  him  to  lighten  his  teach- 
ing burden  and  curtail  his  outside  activities. 
His  last  public  appearance  was  at  the 
Alumni  Day  dinner.  He  was  in  fairly  good 
spirits  then,  and  his  death  came  as  a  real 
shock  to  classmates,  the  University  family, 
and  his  friends  everywhere. 

Born  in  Berlin,  Vt.,  July  26,  1888,  the 
son  of  Rev.  John  J.  and  Agnes  B.  (Hardic) 
Hall,  he  prepared  at  Providence  Classical 
High  School  and  entered  Brown  two 
months  after  he  passed  his  1 6th  birthday. 
He  won  the  first  Hartshorn  Premium  in 
entrance  mathematics,  and  as  undergraduate 
belonged  to  the  B.  C.  A.  and  the  Brown 
Che.ss  Club.  He  took  his  A.B.  in  1908  and 
his  Sc  B.  in  1910,  the  year  in  which  he  was 
elected  to  Sigma  Xi.  He  was  assistant  and 
then  instructor  in  mechanical  engineering 
for  three  years  before  resigning  to  go  with 
the  Link  Belt  Company  of  Philadelphia  as 
research  engineer. 

Returning  to  Brown  in  1915  he  served 
for  five  years  as  Assistant  Professor  of 
Mechanical  Engineering,  five  years  as  Asso- 
ciate Professor,  and  Professor  since  192T. 
He  had  been  a  member  of  the  committee 
on  curriculum  and  other  major  committees, 
and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  on  the 
Brown  University  Athletic  Council.  Last 
spring  he  carried  out  the  difficult  task  of 
revising  the  daily  schedule  of  classes  to 
meet  changing  needs.  His  own  courses 
were  in  machine  design  and  industrial  man- 
agement, and  he  was  an  authority  on 
machine  development. 

As  a  member  of  the  American  Society  of 
Mechanical  Engineers  he  was  on  the  stand- 
ing committee  on  local  sections,  1922-26, 
and  chairman  in  1926.  He  also  served  on 
the  committee  on  the  cutting  and  forming 
of  metals,  and  was  chairman  of  that  com- 
mittee, 1925-27.  As  a  member  of  the  So- 
ciety's Council  he  was  ever  active  in  pro- 
moting the  Society's  progress  and  helping 
shape  its  policies.  He  was  a  past  president 
of  the  Providence  Engineering  Society,  a 
member  of  the  Society  for  the  Promotion 
of  Engineering  Education,  the  Brown  Engi- 
neering As.sociation,  the  Newcomen  Society, 
and  a  Fellow  of  the  .American  Association 
for  the  Advancement  of  Science.  He  was 
also  consulting  engineer  to  the  Brown  ^ 
Sharpe  Manufacturing  Company.  He  wrote 
numerous  articles  for  the  technical  press 
and  was  one  of  the  authors  of  "Profitable 
Science   in   Industry,"   published   in    1924. 


In  193  5  when  the  Rhode  Island  State 
Employment  Service  decided  to  hold  exam- 
inations similar  to  ones  in  use  by  the  United 
States  Civil  Service  he  was  named  special 
representative  to  conduct  the  tests.  And  he 
carried  out  the  rather  ticklish  assignment 
with  the  fairness,  the  enthusiasm,  the  atten- 
tion to  detail  that  he  showed  in  all  of  his 
varied  duties. 

He  was  married  June  21,  1919,  to  Miss 
Leila  Tucker  '10  (Pembroke  College),  who 
survives,  with  a  son,  James  A.  Hall,  Jr., 
and  two  daughters.  Flora  and  Margaret 
Hall.  At  the  funeral  Rev.  Albert  C.  Thom- 
as, D.D.,  his  classmate  and  intimate  friend, 
spoke  simply  and  truly  of  Jim's  attributes. 

"Brown  has  lost  a  devoted  son,  the  Fac- 
ulty a  beloved  colleague,  and  the  under- 
graduates an  inspiring  teacher." 


Alumnae  of 
Bro^vn 

BY  GERTRUDE  ALLEN  McCONNELL 


On  the  Calendar 

Dec. 

26,  3  P.  M.— Christmas  Party 

Jan. 

26-27-    Alumnac-Komians  Play 

Mar. 

13 — Alumnae  Education  Day 

Mar. 

28-April  6 — Spring  Vacation 

May 

15 — May  Day  and  Sophomore 

Masque 

June 

18— Ivy  Day 

June 

19 — Alumnae  Day 

June 

2 1  — Commencement 

Alumnae  Council 

THE  eleventh  annual  conference  of  the 
Alumnae  Council,  consisting  of  45 
members,  held  on  November  20th  and 
21st,  proved  most  successful.  On  Friday 
morning  the  alumnae  visited  classes  in 
economics,  history,  literature,  music,  and 
rhythm.  In  the  afternoon  a  visit  was 
made  to  the  Biological  Laboratory,  to  the 
exhibition  of  water-colors  from  the  collec- 
tion of  Mrs.  John  D.  Rockefeller,  Jr.  in  the 
Faunce  House  Art  Gallery,  and  to  the  new 
Field  House  and  Athletic  Field,  where  a 
game  of  hockey  was  in  progress.  This  was 
followed  by  an  informal  tea  in  the  Com- 
mons Room  of  Alumnae  Hall.  In  the  eve- 
ning Dean  Morriss  gave  her  annual  dinner 
for  the  members.  Prof.  George  E.  Bigge. 
chairman  of  the  Economics  Department, 
who  was  guest  speaker,  gave  a  most  inter- 
esting talk  on  "Social  Security." 

On  Saturday  morning  the  annual  busi- 
ness meeting  was  preceded  by  a  round-table 
discussion  for  alumnae  club  representatives. 
Mrs.  Paul  Kaufman  (Clarice  Ryther)  of 
Washington,  D.  C,  presided  and  the  meet- 
ing proved  helpful  and  productive  of  new 
ideas.  At  the  business  meeting  at  which 
Mrs.  John  H.  Williams  (Jessie  Monroe), 
President  of  the  Alumnae  Association,  pre- 
sided, the  speakers  were  Mrs.  Chester  Dur- 
fee,  Madeleine  Kane),  Chairman  of  the 
Scholarship  Committee,  which  sponsors  the 
regional  scholarships:  Mrs.  Leslie  E.  Swain 
(Anna  Canada),  Chairman  of  the  Brown 
Alumnae  Fund  Committee;  and  Dean  Mar- 
garaet   S.   Morriss,   who   presented   to   the 


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Council  members  a  five-year  plan  for  the 
College,  looking  forward  to  the  50th  anni- 
versary in  1942.  At  the  luncheon  which 
followed,  the  guests  included  the  Class 
Agents  on  the  Brown  Alumnae  Fund  Com- 
mittee, as  well  as  the  Council  members. 
The  guest  speakers  were  Miss  Eva  A. 
Mooar,  Director  of  Admissions  and  Person- 
nel, Miss  Bessie  H.  Rudd,  Chairman  of  the 
Department  of  Hygiene  and  Physical  Edu- 
cation, and  Mrs.  Flora  Ricker  Hopkins, 
director  of  the  college  dance  group. 

The  alumnae  who  attended  the  confer- 
ence were:  Mrs.  John  H.  Williams,  Mrs. 
Horace  G.  Bissell,  Mrs.  John  S.  Murdock. 
Mrs.  Henry  E.  Stoughton,  Miss  Mabel  L. 
Potter,  Mrs.  Augustus  F.  Rose,  Mrs.  Luther 

F.  Cobb,  Mrs.  Richard  B.  Snow,  Mrs.  Wil- 
liam T.  Hastings,  Mrs.  James  H.  Chase, 
Mrs.  John  W.  Cronin,  Mrs.  Joseph  H.  Cull, 
Miss  M.  Grace  Frost,  Miss  Beatrice  F.  Kohl- 
berg,   Mrs.   Leslie   E.    Swain,   Mrs.   Walter 

G.  Brown,  Mrs.  Chester  Durfee,  Mrs.  Ed- 
ward E.  Bunn,  Miss  Marjone  W.  Shaw, 
Mrs.  Adolph  B.  Benson,  Mrs.  Paul  Kauf- 
man, Miss  Florence  B.  Beitenman,  Mrs.  J. 
Murray  Beardsley,  Mrs.  Sharon  Brown, 
Mrs.  Morris  H.  Brown,  Mrs.  Leland  L.  At- 
wuod,  Mrs.  J.  Brewer  Marshall,  Mrs.  G. 
Allen  McConnell,  Miss  Alice  E.  Desmond, 
Mrs.  Albert  F.  Cappelli,  Mrs.  Joseph  W. 
Nutter,  Miss  Grace  A.  Hopkins,  Mrs.  Ed- 
ward J.  Hickey,  Miss  Helen  Wallace,  Miss 
Dorothy  Oborne,  Mrs.  Wilson  H.  Roads, 
Mrs.  Roger  B.  Corbett,  Mrs.  Robert  L. 
Sanderson,  Mrs.  Gilbert  Verney,  Mrs.  The- 
odore R.  Jeffers,  Miss  Natalie  Barrington, 
Miss  Olive  Richards,  Miss  Mary  G.  Fessen- 
den.  Miss  Marguerite  Melville,  Miss  Doro- 
thy Greene,  and  Miss  Marjorie  Hargreaves. 

The  Christmas  Party 

AT  the  annual  Christmas  party  of  the 
Alumnae  Association  is  to  be  held  on 
Saturday,  December  26th,  at  J  P.  M.,  Isa- 
bel Andrews  '34  will  present  some  of  the 
recent  alumnae  in  a  play-reading  program 
which  is  sure  to  prove  most  entertaining. 
Refreshments  will  follow  the  program  and 
will  be  served  under  the  chairmanship  of 
Fern  Nutter  '24,  assisted  by  a  dozen  or 
more  alumnae. 

Lest  We  Forget 

THE  officers  of  the  Alumnae  Association 
for  this  year  are:  President,  Jessie  Mon- 
roe Williams  '12;  1st  Vice  President,  Eliza- 


beth Little  Brown  '16;  2nd  Vice  President, 
Dorothy  Beals  Brown  "18;  Recording  Sec- 
retary, Virginia  Piggott  Verney  '28;  Cor- 
responding Secretary,  Winifred  Olendorf 
Marshall  '19;  Treasurer,  Beatrice  F.  Kohl- 
berg  '12;  Executive  Secretary,  Gertrude 
Allen  McConnell  '10;  Alumnae  Represen- 
tative on  the  Executive  Committee  of  Pem- 
broke College,  Marion  S.  Cole  '07. 


Early  Peru 

THE  Government  Printing  Office  has  just 
issued  a  handsome  volume  of  258  pages 
entitled  The  Hardness  Collection  in  the 
Library  of  Congress:  Documents  from  Early 
Peru — The  Pizzaros  and  Almagros,  i53i- 
]578,  edited  by  Stella  R.  Clemence  '10. 
Four  years  ago  the  Government  Printing 
Office  published  a  general  Caleyidar  of  the 
Spanish  manuscripts  concerning  early  Peru 
which  are  to  be  found  in  that  very  remark- 
able collection.  That  volume  was  prepared 
by  Miss  Clemence  with  great  and  scholarly 
care. 

She  follows  it  up  with  the  full  text  of 
some  67  documents  in  that  collection,  writ- 
ten by  or  to,  or  concerning,  the  chief  actors 
in  the  conquest  of  Peru.  The  documents 
have  been  deciphered  and  transcribed  by 
her  and  furnished  with  translations  and 
learned  notes,  and  the  volume  is  a  work  of 
first-rate  scholarship. 


Miss  Stanton^s  Appreciation 

WE  wrote  to  Miss  Stanton  to  tell  her  the 
good  news  that  we  had  completed 
raising  the  $5,000  for  the  scholarship  which 
bears  her  name  and  remarked  that  we  were 
so  happy  about  it  that  we  wanted  to  shout 
it  from  the  housetops.  We  received  the 
lollowmg  characteristic  reply: 

"Your  letter  takes  my  breath  completely 
away  so  that  I  have  none  left  to  shout  with! 

"How  have  you  and  they  done  it,  and  in 
these  hard  years!  It  seems  to  me  a  fairly 
miraculous  achievement  and  purely  a  mir- 
acle that  connects  my  name  with  it.  I  can 
only  feel  prouder  than  ever  to  belong  in 
such  a  company  and  more  grateful  than 
ever  for  their  friendship.  Well  I  realize 
that  I  have  never  done  any  particular  thing 
to  deserve  such  honor  at  their  hands,  but 
at  least  my  appreciation  and  loyalty  have 
never  wavered  and  never  will. 


A  Key  into  the  LANGUAGE 
of  AMERICA 

by  Roger  Williams  of  Providence  in  New  England 

HAS  JUST  BEEN  REPUBLISHED 

Written  in  1643,  copies  of  the  original  sell  for  $1000  each.  A  handsome 
reprint  consisting  of  240  pages,  bound  in  blue  cloth,  is  now  available  at 
the  nominal  price  of  $1.50  per  copy  post  paid.  A  delightful  gift  book. 

Send  your  order  to      E.     A.     JOHNSON     CO. 

Printers  —  71  Peck  St.,  Providence 


"After  all,  the  thing  for  us  to  be  glad- 
dest about  is  that  we  are  adding  to  the 
resources  of  the  College;  helping  it  to  in- 
vite a  few  more,  if  they  are  eager,  to  its 
table.  ..." 

Your  very  devoted 
Emma  B.  Stanton.  '96 


Pembroke 
Chronicle 

BY  MARY  LOUISE  HINCKLEY  '37 

THE  Pembroke  campus  was  alive  with 
book-worms  during  the  first  week  in 
November.  It  was  not  because  of  any 
sudden  interest  in  excessive  study  that  text- 
books were  at  a  premium.  The  reason  was 
Miss  Elizabeth  MacDonald  Osborne,  New 
York  "consultant  in  appearance,"  had 
strongly  recommended  the  practice  of  carry- 
ing books  on  the  head  to  and  fro  from 
classes,  in  the  act  of  seating  oneself,  and 
even  as  a  shoelace  is  tied.  Objectives:  good 
carriage  and  poise. 

Believing  that  good  appearance  is  a  pre- 
requisite to  successful  achievement  in  the 
present-day  business  world.  Miss  Osborne 
held  conferences  and  interviews  at  the  col- 
lege for  the  purpose  of  arousing  interest  in 
the  need  of  a  pleasing  appearance,  and  an 
intelligent  knowledge  of  the  factors  which 
contribute  to  it. 

Approximately  300  friends  of  Pembroke 
College  were  guests   in   Alumnae   Hall  on 


Providence 
National  Bank 

Established  1791 

100  Westminster  Street 


CAPITAL 
SURPLUS 


^1,500,000 
^2,000,000 


OFFICERS 

Moses  J.  Barber,  Chairman  of  the  Board 
Thomas  L.  Pierce,  President 
Earl  G.  Batty,  Vice  President  and  Cashier 
Charles  L.  Eddy,  Assistant  Cashier 
Henry  H.  Eddy,  Assistant  Cashier 
Charles  E.  Munyan,  Assistant  Cashier 
Ida  M.  Fryer,  Assistant  Cashier 
Charles  M.  Smith,  III,  Trust  Officer 
T.  I.  Hare  Powel,  Investment  Counsel 

Directors 
William  Gammell,  Jr.    Wilson  G.  Wing 


Moses  J.  Barber 
Paul  C.  DeWoIf 
Frank  E.  Richmond 
Richard  S.  Aldrich 
Edward  P.  Jastram 
Earl  G.  Batty 
A.  Livingston  Kelley 


John  Nicholas  Brown 
Thomas  L.  Pierce 
Lauriston  H.   Hazard 
WiUiam  L.  Sweet 
Frederick  T.  Moses 
John  B.  Lewis 
Charles  C.  Marshall 


Member  of  the  Federal  Deposit  Insurance  Corporation 


145 


BROWIV   ALUMIW   MONTHLY 


BROWN  DIRECTORY 

ARTHUR  H.  BLANCHARD,  C.  E..  '99 

Consulting  Engineer 

Highway  Traffic  Control 

Highway  Transport 

Airport  Runways  and  Landing  Fields 

Highway  Engineering 

Contract  and  Patent  Lawsuits 

Box  C,  Edgcwood  Station,  Providence 


HARRIS  and  GIFFORD 

Certified  Public  Accoutitants 

at 

840  HOSPITAL  TRUST  BUILDING 

PROVIDENCE,  R.  I. 

GAspec  7272 

Audits  —  Systems  Business  Research 

Taxes  and  Surveys 


Fownes  M.  Harris  '23 


Seth  B    Giflord  '20 


November  9  at  a  dinner  given  by  Dean 
Morris  and  the  college  for  the  purpose  of 
emphasizing  the  importance  of  a  liberal 
arts  college  in  a  community  and  its  vital 
contribution  to  the  higher  education  of 
young  women.  Dr.  Meta  Glass,  president 
of  Sweetbriar  College  and  national  presi- 
dent of  the  American  Association  of  Uni- 
versity Women,  was  the  principal  speaker. 
Gov.  Theodore  Francis  Green  welcomed 
the  guests  in  behalf  of  the  State.  The  Glee 
Club  and  Choir  presented  a  musical  pro- 
gram during  the  evening. 

After  a  nine-year  interval,  Pembroke  has 
taken  to  singing  again.  At  an  all-coUegc 
song  contest  sponsored  by  the  combined 
Musical  Clubs,  a  large  silver  cup,  first 
awarded  in  1914-15  and  last  awarded  in 
1927,  was  presented  to  the  Freshman  class. 
Each  of  the  tour  classes  was  responsible  for 
three  specified  coUee  songs,  one  original 
college  song,  and  one  original  comic  song, 
and  were  judged  on  the  basis  of  originality 
of  song,  manner  of  presentation,  and  qual- 
ity of  choral  singing. 


FRIDAY  the  nth  couldn't  have  been  an 
unluckier  day  for  Seniors  at  Pembroke, 
for  on  that  day  the  Freshmen  got  their 
revenge  tor  all  the  indignities  heaped  upon 
them  by  the  Seniors  during  the  recent  Scut 
Week.  At  the  written  demand  of  the  Frosh, 
Seniors  appeared  on  the  campus  with  large 
white  turkish  towels  wrapped  around  their 
heads,  large  name  tags  on  their  brows  to 
avoid  mistaken  identity,  ankle  socks,  to  be 
worn  only  with  high-heeled  shoes,  and  a 
heavy  excess  of  make-up.  Senior  rule- 
breakers  were  duly  punished  at  the  party 
given  by  Freshmen  for  the  whole  college. 

The  Pembroke  Debating  Society  partici- 
pated in  its  first  debate  as  a  member  of  the 
Intercollegiate  Debating  League  on  Nov. 
24  at  Lafayette  College,  Easton,  Pa.  The 
Intercollegiate    League    comprises    Mount 


Holyoke,   Amherst,   Wesleyan,   Bates,   La- 
layette,  Bowdoin,  M.  I.  T.,  and  Pembroke. 
Sixty-three  names  are  on  the  Dean's  List. 

Record  sent  two  delegates  to  the 

Associated  Collegiate  Press  conference  held 
in  Louisville,  Kentucky The  Junior- 
Freshman  party  consisted  of  a  satirical  farce 
concerning    the    rushing    activities    of    the 

Brown  men Brownie  Formal  was  held 

on  November  6 "The  Old  Maid" 

by  Zoe  Akins  was  presented  as  a  play- 
reading  by  Komians  at  the  first  organisa- 
tion meeting  of  the  year A.  A.  held 

a  barn  dance  in  the  new  field  house  for  the 
purpose  of  raising  funds  for  more  furnish- 
ings and  equipment  —  pumpkins,  squash, 
and  corn-stalks  were  used  for  decorations. 
....  Miller  Hall  held  its  first  dance  in  sev- 
eral years  following  the  Brown-Colby  game 
and  hopes  to  continue  a  series  this  winter. 


Aluntnae  Clubs 

THE  AlumnSe  Clubs  have  reported  most 
enthusiastic  meetings.  A  dinner  meet- 
ing tor  both  Brown  men  and  women 
was  held  in  New  Haven  on  ISovember  Vtli, 
with  Prot.  Harvey  N.  Davis  as  speaker.  A 
new  club  has  been  formed  in  Newport  and 
Dean  Morriss  and  Mrs.  McConnell  were 
the  guests  of  the  Club  at  a  dinner  meeting 
on  November  23rd.  The  Providence  Club 
conducted  a  successful  fashion  show  in 
November,  and  raised  Si'iO  at  the  scholar- 
ship bridge.  The  Boston  Club  held  a  suc- 
cessful sub-freshman  party  at  the  home  ol 
Jessie  Monroe  Williams  '1  2. 

Alumnae  who  are  not  already  affiliated 
with  a  Club  will  be  most  welcome  if  they 
will  communicate  with  the  nearest  Club. 
They  are  asked  to  get  in  touch  with  some 
one  of  the  following  officers; 

Boston — President,  Marjorie  W.  Shaw, 
5  1   Edgemere  Road,  Quincy. 

Providence — President,  Mrs.  Joseph  H. 
Cull,  270  Blackstone  Blvd. 

Worcester — Mrs.  Leland  L.  Atwood,  3  19 
June  St.,  Worcester. 

S.  E.  Massachusetts — President,  Grace 
A.  Hopkins,  184  Winthrop  St.,  Taunton. 
Fall  River  Representative,  Carrie  T.  Foulkes, 
89  Hanover  St.  New  Bedford  Representa- 
tive, Flora  B.  Peirce,  52  Morgan  St. 

Newport — President,  Margaret  F.  Phe- 
lan.  The  Rosary,  5  2  Morgan  St. 

Hartford — President,  Mrs.  Herbert  E. 
Nelson,   429  Broadview  Terrace. 

New  Haven — President,  Mrs.  Adolph  B. 
Benson,  548  Orange  St. 

New  York — President,  Dorothy  Oborne, 
109  East  67th  St. 

New  Jersey — Representative,  Marguerite 
Melville,  34  Norman  Road,  Upper  Mont- 
clair. 

E.  Pennsylvania  —  President,  Delia  E. 
Wood,  75  N.  Owen  Ave.,  Lansdowne. 

Pittsburgh — President,  Mrs.  Karl  Johans- 
son, 222  Lehigh  St.,  Swissvale  P.  O.  Edge- 
wood. 

Washington — President,  Mrs.  Paul  Kauf- 
man, 1903  Kenyon  St.,  N.  W. 

Cleveland — President,  Mrs.  Kern  Metz- 
ger,  13415  Shaker  Blvd.,  Shaker  Heights. 

Chicago — Representative,  Mrs.  Chauncey 
A.  Hobart,  1459  Asbury  Ave.,  Evanston. 

Southern  California  —  President,  Miss 
Sarah  E.  Bunnell,  45  Mar  Vista  Ave.,  Pas- 
adena. 


Class  Notes 

1901— Ella  B.  Winn  (Mrs.  Arthur)  is 
at  The  Plaza,  5020  Montrose  Boulevard, 
Houston,  Texas.  From  January  1st  to 
March  1st  they  will  be  at  119  North  Madi- 
son Avenue,  Pasadena,  Calif. 

1907 — Dr.  Araey  Eaton  Watson  is  Re- 
search Assistant  on  the  Pennsylvania  Com- 
mittee on  Public  Assistance  and  Relief.  At 
our  request  for  information  about  herself 
she  wrote:  "We  are  studying  public  assist- 
ance in  a  number  of  different  states  through- 
out the  country  to  assist  us  in  planning  for 
the  reorganization  of  public  welfare  in 
Pennsylvania.  We  are  to  publish  a  report 
by  December  1st,  preparatory  to  the  next 
session  of  our  Pennsylvania  Legislature, 
January  1st.  I  am  assisting  in  organizing 
Regional  Conferences  of  public  officials 
and  representatives  of  private  welfare  or- 
ganizations— to  arouse  public  opinion  and 
to  stimulate  representative  citizens  to  meet 
their  responsibilities  as  leaders  in  our  pres- 
ent grave  situation.  Before  coming  to  this 
present  position  in  February,  1936,  I  was 
District  Supervisor  of  the  Philadelphia  Old 
Age  Assistance  Fund  and  before  that,  was 
with  the  Delaware  County  Emergency  Re- 
lief Board."  Dr.  Watson's  son,  Curtis 
Brown  Watson,  is  a  junior  at  Brown  on  a 
John  Hay  scholarship.  She  and  her  hus- 
band, Prof-  Frank  D.  Watson,  of  Haver- 
tord  College,  hope  to  teach  in  China  nex'." 
year. 

1910 — Leila  Tucker  Hall  has  the  sincere 
sympathy  of  all  the  alumnae  in  the  death 
of  her  husband.  Prof.  James  A.  Hall  of  the 
Engineering  Department  at  Brown. 

1910' — Dorothy  Bourne  Myette  and  fam- 
ily are  at  Dellhurst,  Mentor,  Ohio. 

Engagements 

1930 — Marjorie  E.  Peck  to  Myron  Tay- 
lor Boutelle. 

1931 — Bernice  Grimley  to  Clifford  J. 
King,  Holy  Cross  '29. 

1931 — Alice  B.  Kennedy  to  Bernard 
O'Neil,  N.  Y.  University. 

1936 — Margaret  E.  Mason  to  Kenneth 
Morison. 

Weddings 

1925 — Katherine  Mayor  was  married  to 
Robert  Philip  Reichenbach,  Harvard  '28, 
on  November  6,  1936,  in  New  York  City. 
They  are  living  at  155  East  91st  Street, 
New  York  City. 

1926 — Frances  Hood  Mason  was  mar- 
ried to  Louis  Harris  in  Danvers,  Mass.,  on 
November  7,  1936. 

1935 — Bernice  ONeil  is  married  to 
John  Wayland  and  is  living  at  756  Harris 
Avenue,   Woonsocket. 


Births 

1928  — To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ernest  S. 
Schmidt  (Charlotte  Foye),  a  daughter, 
Nancy,  on  November  14,  1936.  They  are 
living  at  106  Queensbury  Street,  Boston, 
Mass. 

1931— To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Theodore  W. 
Millspaugh  (Katherine  Crawford),  a  son, 
Theodore  W.,  Jr.,  on  June  21,  1936.  The 
Millspaughs  are  living  at  71  Euclid  Ave- 
nue, Westwood,  N.  J. 

1932  — To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Alfred  E. 
Toombs  (Elaine  Seaman),  a  son,  Alfred 
E.,  Jr.,  on  October  7,  1936.  Their  address 
is  301  Woodford  Street,  Portland,  Maine. 


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