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Comniencenient  Jottings 


V  ►  All  the  time  that  General  Marshall 
stood  on  the  outdoor  platform  to  hear  the 
citation  of  his  honorary  degree,  a  large 
yellow-jacket  droned  a  few  inches  from  his 
head.  Any  former  buck  private,  drilled  in 
the  art  of  standing  at  attention,  would 
have  been  proud  of  the  General,  who 
didn't  budge. 

►  General  Marshall,  invited  to  receive  11 
honorary  degrees  this  June,  accepted  three: 
Harvard,  Amherst,  and  Brown.  He  came 
to  Providence  directly  from  Amherst. 

►  During  his  visit,  the  General  was  indus- 
triously guarded  by  Providence  police,  two 
of  whom,  marching  in  plain  clothes  near 
him  in  the  Commencement  procession, 
were  mistaken  for  U.  S.  Secret  Service 
men.  Two  policemen  were  on  duty  watch- 
ing over  President  Wriston's  house,  where 
Secretary  Marshall  was  an  overnight  guest 
Sunday  night.  Late  in  the  evening  they 
found  a  young  man  fumbling  at  the  lock 
on  the  back  door  and  pounced  on  him, 
letting  him  go  only  when  a  member  of  the 
household  identified  him  as  one  of  the  stu- 
dents who  has  been  living  in  the  Presi- 
dents   house   through   the   academic   year. 

►  Never  was  the  sidewalk  crowd  so  large 
nor  so  many  photographers  of  all  degrees 
of  competence  in  evidence  as  when  the 
1947  Commencement  procession  passed. 
All  eyes  were  waiting  for  the  Secretary  of 
State,  whose  presence  as  a  "guest  of  the 
University"  had  been  announced  (alt'.ough 
the  tradition  of  not  anticipating  honorary 
degrees  had  been  observed).  One  small 
boy  walked  the  whole  route  down  the  Hill, 
as  near  as  he  could  get  to  Mr.  Marshall, 
from  the  campus  to  the  church  door,  smil- 
ing up  at  his  hero.  Forgetting  that  the 
General  was  now  a  civilian,  many  looked 
for  an  officer  in  uniform.  (Some  people 
looked  twice  at  the  only  uniformed  Army 
officer  among  the  invited  gviests — Governor 
Pastore's  aide.) 

►  As  the  procession  moved  out.  Secretary 
Marshall  began  a  conversation  with  his 
marching  partner.  Allen  Dulles,  former 
diplomat  and  OSS  official  whose  views  on 
foreign  affairs  are  grounded  in  wide  ex- 
perience and  study.  The  chat  became  so 
spirited  and  Marshall  was  so  intent  in 
driving   home   points   that   he   seemed    un- 


aware of  his  surroundings  at  first.  The 
first  of  many  bursts  of  applause  at  the  Van 
Wickle  Gates,  seemed  to  take  him  by  sur- 
prise. Though  embarrassed  at  first,  he 
beamed  and  occasionally  acknowledged  the 
continuing  ovation. 

►  One  young  girl  broke  through  the  line 
on  the  return  to  the  campus,  saying  to  the 
plain-clothesmen,  "May  I  come  in?"  "Sis- 
ter, you're  in,"  they  said.  She  wanted  an 
autograph,  a  sudden  decision,  for  she  had 
no  pen  or  pencil.  The  General  fished  for 
his  own  pen,  signed  with  some  difficulty 
while  walking,  and  remarked,  "I  don't 
write  this  way  all  the  time."  The  girl  was 
Gwen  Anthony,  daughter  of  H.  Cushman 
Anthony  '26. 

►  When  the  procession  had  reached  the 
College  Green,  no  time  was  lost  in  summon- 
ing the  Secretary  of  State  to  the  platform, 
reading  the  citation,  and  placing  the  Brown 
hood  over  his  head.  General  Marshall  had 
to  leave  immediately  in  order  to  fly  to 
Washington  for  a  2:30  White  House  ap- 
pointment. He  did  not  change  from  his 
cap  and  gown  until  he  was  in  an  automo- 
bile on  the  way  to  the  Hillsgrove  Airport. 

►  When  General  Marshall  was  Chief  of 
Staff  in  the  War  Department,  running  a 
global  war,  his  assistant  secretary  was  Miss 
Florence  Newsome,  first  Rhode  Island 
woman  to  join  the  WAAC.  Now  Mrs. 
Charles  E.  Johnson  of  Brook  St..  she 
dropped  around  the  corner  to  President 
Wriston's  house  to  leave  a  small  gift  for 
the  General,  found  him  arrived  Sunday 
night  ahead  of  schedule,  and  was  one  of 
his  few  visitors. 

►  There  was  a  cute  youngster  of  four  or 
five  with  his  parents  in  Sayles  Hall  during 
the  Alumni  Meeting.  He  was  a  fine,  little 
lad  and  no  mistake,  but  the  restless  time 
arrived  when  his  chatter  began  to  distract 
those  who  sought  to  listen  to  Mr.  Dulles' 
important  speech.  The  mother  knew  the 
only  thing  to  do  was  to  take  the  boy  out 
of  the  hall.  His  neighbors  settled  back  to 
enjoy  the  new  silence  and  pick  up  the 
thread  of  the  discussion  again.  But  the 
boy  wasn't  done;  at  the  door,  )ust  as  he 
was  being  led  out,  he  turned  and  called 
to  Mr.  Dulles  with  a  polite,  good-humored 
and  very  loud  "Goodbye!" 


►  Among  the  duties  of  Prof.  Zenas  Bliss 
over  Commencement  was  to  act  as  aide 
and  guide  to  General  Marshall.  But  one 
responsibility  he  was  able  to  pass  on:  Uni- 
versity Hall  called  him  in  May  to  ask 
where  the  sun  would  be  at  10:30  on  the 
morning  of  June  16.  That  one  he  re- 
ferred to  the  Astronomy  Department,  al- 
though the  former  navigator  of  the  Amer- 
ica's Cup  Defenders  could  have  figured  it 
out,  no  doubt.  University  Hall  had  to 
know  about  the  sun  in  planning  where  to 
put  the  platform  for  the  outdoor  gradua- 
tion, so  that  the  question  had  a  point.  In- 
cidentally, the  sun  behaved  beautifully 
on  June  16, 

►  The  Brown  and  Pembroke  Seniors  had 
all  received  their  degrees,  obeying  the  Latin 
commands  implicitly.  Their  instruction  had 
included  interpretation  of  the  phrases 
"Candidati  .  .  .  consurgant"  and  "Candidati 
.  .  .  ascendant."  They  got  up  again  when 
Dr.  Wriston  ordered:  "Candidati  honorati 
nunc  ascendant."  The  Seniors  sat  down 
again,  however,  while  the  members  of  the 
Classics  Faculty  scowled  and  the  candidates 
for  honorary  degrees  mounted  the  plat- 
form, as  called. 

►  Jean  Muller  Ross,  Pembroke  Senior,  re- 
ceived her  degree  on  Commencement  Day 
in  Tokyo.  She  went  out  early  to  Japan 
with  her  husband,  who  is  with  the  State 
Department,  and  took  her  final  exams  by 
mail  through  special  arrangement  between 
Pembroke  and  the  Tokyo  Army  Educa- 
tional Center. 

►  Kenneth  J.  Hovey  '27  of  Baltimore 
proudly  wore  in  the  Commencement  pro- 
cession the  class  badge  of  his  grandfather, 
the  late  Rev.  Arthur  J.  Hovey  '69. 

►  President  Bixler,  speaking  at  the  Alumni 
Dinner,  said  he  had  recently  seen  in  Cali- 
fornia a  man  who  had  been  one  of  his 
"most  inspiring  teachers" — Dr.  Alexander 
Meiklejohn  '93. 

►  William  Ely  '78  of  Coronado,  Calif.,  was 
the  oldest  alumnus  to  take  part  in  the 
weekend  functions.  He  celebrated  his  89th 
birthday  by  attending  the  graduation  exer- 
cises. Since  his  own,  he  has  been  on  Col- 
lege Hill  virtually  every  year  for  Com- 
mencement and  this  year  drove  on  from 
the  Coast,  where  he  makes  his  winter 
home.  Sharing  the  applause  with  him  at 
the  Alumni  Dinner  were  three  members  of 
the  Class  of  1882  who  came  in  arm  in  arm. 

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COMMENCEMENT:  AL  FRESCO:  Looking  from  the  rear  of  the  crowd  of  4000  as  517  Seniors  received  their  de- 
grees at  Brown.    (All  pictures  bv  Brown  Photographic  Lab  unless  otherwise  noted.) 


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BROWN 

ALUMNI  MONTHLY 


JULY-AUGUST 
VOL.  XLVIII 


1947 
NUMBER  1 


Pitblis/ied  seven  times  a  year  in  August,  October,  December,  January,  February,  April,  and  June  by  Brown  University,  Provi- 
dence 12,  R.  I,    Admitted  to  the  second  class  of  mail  matter  under  the  Act  of  August  24,  1912,  at  the  Providence  Post  Office. 


►   ►   Variations  on  a  Commencement  Theme 


►  ►  A  broken  precedent,  on  which  the  gods  of  the  open 
air  smiled  for  the  consequent  benefit  of  517  Seniors  and 
thousands  of  witnesses,  was  the  feature  of  a  memorable 
June  weekend  at  Brown,  the  University's  179th  annual 
Commencement.  The  graduation  exercises,  June  16,  were 
split  between  the  First  Baptist  Meeting  House,  host  to 
graduating  classes  since  1776,  and  the  College  Green,  a 
happy  expedient  made  necessary  by  the  number  of  Seniors. 

What  would  have  happened  if  one  of  those  rare  rainy 
Commencements  had  arrived?  That  is  pure  horrendous 
speculation,  for  the  entire  weekend  was  marked  by  good 
weather — for  the  festivities  of  Class  Day  and  Class  Night, 
for  the  Graduate  Sehool's  separate  Convocation  (revived 
in  the  former  tradition)  on  Saturday,  for  the  Baccalaureate 
Service  and  President's  Reception,  for  the  great  day  itself, 
and  of  course  for  the  class  reunions  and  Alumni  Dinner. 

It  was  a  record-breaking  Senior  Class — 411  men  and 
106  Pembroke  women — and  the  dilemma  of  accommodat- 
ing their  guests  in  the  Meeting  House  when  they  were  to 
receive  their  degrees  was  discussed  at  some  length  in  the 
last  issue  of  this  magazine.  Other  thousands  had  an  inter- 
est in  the  occasion  when  it  was  announced  that  Secretary 
of  State  George  C.  Marshall  was  to  be  present,  to  march 
down  the  Hill  with  graduates  so  many  of  whom  had  fought 
under  his  command. 

BOTH   CHURCH   AND  GREEN 

►  Tradition  was  honored,  in  that  the  Seniors  and  the 
alumni  proceeded  as  always  to  the  Meeting  House  for  a 
portion  of  the  ceremony.  But,  after  the  delivering  of  the 
Senior  orations,  the  exercises  were  interrupted,  the  aca- 
demic procession  was  reformed,  and  all  returned  to  the 
top  of  the  Hill.  And  under  the  elms  of  the  College  Green, 
with  old  University  Hall  as  the  background  for  a  special 
platform,  the  Seniors  received  their  diplomas.  Parents, 
wives,  and  other  guests  who  could  have  found  no  place  in 
the  church,  thus  saw  the  formal  graduation  and  were 
proud.  They  had  also  listened,  over  a  public  address  sys- 
tem, to  the  earlier  proceedings,  broadcast  from  the  church 
to  Sayles  Hall. 

As  was  the  case  a  year  ago,  a  Pembroke  Senior  shared 
with  a  Brown  Senior  the  honor  of  addressing  the  graduat- 
ing class.  Miss  Frances  M.  Tallman  of  Providence,  seeking 
a  basis  for  international  understanding,  urged  an  organized 
system  of  personal  correspondence  between  individuals 
everywhere  to  bring  this  about.  Joseph  R.  Weisberger  of 
East  Providence  said  peace-makers  must  know  the  differ- 
ence between  solutions  and  expedients,  and  above  all  must 
know  themselves  if  we  are  to  avoid  another  Vienna  or 
Versailles.  The  Senior  orations  are  as  traditional  as  Com- 
mencement and  of  as  long  standing  as  Brown. 

Further  evidence  of  the  return  to  days  of  peace  was 
provided  when  Capt.  Francis  D.  McCorkle,  commanding 
officer  of  the  Navy  ROTC  unit  at  Brown,  mounted  the 
platform  to  swear  in  candidates  for  Marine  or  Navy  com- 
missions. Compared  with  last  June's  104,  only  eight  were 
commissioned. 


THROUGH  THE  VAN  WICKLE  GATES  as  the  proces- 
sion returned  to  the  ranipus.  Prof.  George  E.  Downing 
is  niace-bearer;  behind  him  Chancellor  Sharpe  and 
President  Wriston,  with  Chaplain  Washburn  following. 
The  gates,  of  course,  are  swinging  out,  as  always  on 
Cominencenient  Day. 

HIS  10th  annivers.ary 
►  It  was  President  Wriston's  10th  anniversary  at 
Brown,  and  a  brimming  one  it  proved  to  be  for  him.  There 
were  Senior  dinners  at  Brown  and  Pembroke,  there  were 
the  exercises  "Under  the  Elms"  on  Class  Day,  there  was 
his  reception  after  the  Baccalaureate  Service  on  Sunday. 
The  Corporation  held  its  annual  meeting  on  Saturday,  he 
paid  brief  visits  to  a  dozen  class  reunions  over  the  week- 
end, he  was  host  to  General  Marshall,  he  announced  the 
year's  benefactions  to  Brown  during  the  Sayles  Hall  meet- 
ing, he  dedicated  a  memorial  to  Dr.  Charles  H.  Hare  '85, 
benefactor  of  Andrews  House.  And  a  major  appearance 
was  as  guest  of  honor  at  the  Alumni  Dinner  in  Marvel 
Gym  Sunday  night  where  there  was  congratulatory  refer- 
ence not  only  to  his  10  years  at  Brown  but  also  his  im- 
pending wedding. 

But  to  many  an  alumnus  there  is  no  event  of  the  June 
weekend,  however  sentimental,  however  impressive,  that 
can  compare  with  the  simple  fact  that  Commencement 


THE  COVER  PHOTO:  A  rooftop  view  from  Slater  Hall  of   the  graduation   on   the  Green.     There  are  empty   seats   only 
because  Seniors  have  left  them  to  go  to  the  platform  for  their  diplomas. 


BROWN    ALUMNI    MONTHLY 

time  means  reunion  with  one's  college  friends.  This  fellow- 
ship in  a  curiously  persisting  timelessness  brings  the  men 
hack,  a  form  of  their  allegiance  to  the  central  Brown.  This 
year  all  major  anniversaries  were  observed  and  an  increas- 
ing number  of  minor  ones.  Three  reunions  were  campus- 
based,  while  scores  of  other  Brown  men  availed  themselves 
of  Commencement  housing  in  the  dormitories.  (It  is  our 
plan  to  report  fully  on  the  various  reunions  in  the  Sep- 
tember issue.) 

Exams  over,  the  Seniors  started  their  program  June  12 
with  dinner  in  Faunce  House,  attended  as  well  by  those 
men  who  had  completed  their  studies  in  February  and 
were  returned  for  the  graduation  formalities.  President 
Wriston,  at  his  best  on  such  an  occasion,  was  the  principal 
speaker,  but  Dean  Samuel  T.  Arnold  and  Alumni  Execu- 
tive Officer  William  B.  McCormick  also  talked  to  the  Sen- 
iors, the  latter  on  behalf  of  the  alumni,  in  welcome.  Vice- 
President  Bruce  M.  Bigelow  was  toastmaster,  while  Senior 
Marshal  Paul  A.  Nickel  presented  the  varsity  letter  awards 
to  the  athletes  and  acted  for  the  Class  of  1910  in  giving  its 
trophy  to  John  C.  Petropoulos,  whose  combination  of 
scholarship  and  football  achievement  entitled  him  to  it. 
There  were  cigars. 

CL.ASS  DAY  AND  NIGHT 

►  "Under  the  elms"  on  the  College  Green,  in  addition 
to  Marshal  Nickel  and  Dr.  Wriston,  the  participants  for 
the  Seniors  were  Michael  A.  Gammino,  Jr.,  historian; 
Abraham  Ehrenhaus,  orator;  and  M.  David  Bell,  poet.  A 
crowd  estimated  at  1000  had  a  preview  of  the  Commence- 
ment accommodations  in  the  open  air  between  University 
Hall  and  Sayles  Hall.  Dean  and  Mrs.  Arnold,  Dean  and 
Mrs.  Kenny,  and  Dean  and  Mrs.  Walker  received  the 
Seniors  and  their  guests  informally  at  the  end  of  the  exer- 
cises. The  same  wooden  floor  served  that  night  for  the 
"campus  dance"  of  Class  Night.  It  was  an  attractive  spec- 
tacle, an  opportunity  for  meeting  friends  during  the  prome- 
nade, and  a  good  party  generally.  At  midnight  the  danc- 
ing outdoors  and  in  Sayles  Hall  halted  for  the  time-pre- 
scribed singing  of  Brown  songs  on  the  steps  of  Sayles.  It 
was  one  of  those  moments  you  like  to  remember,  and  do. 


THEIR  60rh:  Dr.  Edmund  D.  Chescbro,  with  sign,  and 
Dr.  Arthur  I.  Connell  advertise  their  anniversary.  Sen- 
ator Green  marched  with  the  Fellows,  and  Irving  C. 
Hicks  also  attended  the  reunion. 


While  the  Corporation  met  on  Saturday,  the  Rhode 
Island  Alpha  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa  met  and  added  to  its  mem- 
bership and  the  alumnae  of  Pembroke  had  their  annual 
meeting.  In  the  afternoon  the  Graduate  School  awarded  48 
advanced  degrees  at  its  separate  Convocation  in  Sayles 
Hall,  with  Dean  Richard  Chace  Tolman  of  California 
Tech  as  speaker,  a  tea  in  the  John  Carter  Brown  Library 
adding  its  gracious  hour. 

Through  the  last  weeks  of  the  College  year,  one  occa- 
sion after  another  served  as  reminder  of  the  retirement  of 
the  Chaplain,  Dr.  Arthur  L.  Washburn.  His  last  chapel 
was  attended  by  a  warm  salute  from  the  students,  com- 
pliments came  to  him  at  formal  luncheon  and  informal 
dinner,  and  it  was  wholly  appropriate  that  he  should  be 
the  preacher  of  the  Baccalaureate  Sermon.  His  congrega- 
tion seemed  to  receive  the  full  depth  of  meaning  and  emo- 
tion in  his  valedictory  and  benediction.  The  President's 
Reception,  which  followed  the  service,  was  held  in  the 
open  air  on  the  south  end  of  the  College  Green  near  the 
flagpole.  Dr.  Wriston,  Dean  Morriss,  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Bige- 
low, Dr.  and  Mrs.  Arnold,  and  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Cochran  were 
in  the  receiving  line. 

THE  REUNION  OF  REUNIONS 

►  The  EXPERIMENT  of  holding  the  Alumni  Dinner  on 
Sunday  evening  seemed  to  work  out  well,  for  there  were 
large  delegations  which  came  back  from  the  reunions  to 
join  with  the  "off-year"  men  in  the  "reunion  of  reunions." 
More  than  600  thronged  the  Marvel  Gym  for  the  affair 
arranged  by  Judge  Robert  E.  Quinn's  committee.  Dominat- 
ing the  scene  was  the  large  painting  of  Van  Wickle  Gates 
and  University  Hall  by  Leslie  Allen  Jones  '26,  a  handsome 
and  deceptively  realistic  representation. 

Light-hearted  moments  were  interspersed  among  the 
serious  messages  from  the  head  table.  There  were  cheers 
for  alumni  venerables  and  other  notables  as  the  chair  noted 
their  presence.  There  were  rousing  songs  of  Brown  as 
prompted  by  Earl  M.  Pearce  '17  and  Earl  Perkins  '12.  And 
a  high  spot  was  a  presentation  to  Dr.  Wriston  by  Charles 
P.  Sisson  '11,  chairman  of  the  Association  of  Class  Secre- 
taries. The  gift  was  a  mammoth,  festive,  and  reputedly 
edible  cake  whose  origin  had  been  supervised  by  Fred  C. 
Broomhead  '05.  It  was  in  the  shape  of  a  quadrangle,  a 
completed  quadrangle,  with  10  figures  of  boys  and  girls, 
symbols  of  those  under  his  guidance,  serving  as  the  anni- 
versary candles.  On  top  were  the  figures  of  bride  and 
groom,  and  Mr.  Sisson  did  his  best  to  learn  the  secret  of 
Dr.  Wriston's  wedding  date.  ("I'd  tell  you  if  I  knew  the 
date  myself,"  the  President  rephed.) 

The  President  of  the  Associated  Alumni  was  not  on 
hand  until  the  next  day,  for  he  was  receiving  an  honorary 

►  BULLETIN:  Appointment  of  Robert  O. 
Loosley  of  Providence  as  Secretary  of  Brown 
University  was  announced  in  early  July  as  this 
issue  was  on  the  press.  He  will  not  assume  his 
duties  at  the  University  until  after  the  1947 
Red  Feather  campaign  of  the  R.  L  Community 
Chest,  of  which  he  has  been  executive  secre- 
tary. I 

"As  Secretary  of  the  University,"  President 
Wriston  said  in  newspaper  releases,  "Mr.  Loos- 
ley will  become  one  of  the  administrative  offi- 
cers of  Brown.  His  major  responsibility  will 
be  in  the  field  of  University  development,  and 
he  will  have  general  charge  of  long-term  finan- 
cial promotion.  His  first  responsibility  will 
be  for  the  completion  of  the  current  Housing 
and  Development  campaign."  i 


BROWN    ALUMNI    MONTHLY 


IN  THE  OPEN  AIR?  The  illusion  comes  from  Ihe  wonderful  backdrop  of  Van  Wickle  Gates  and  U.H.  painted 
by  Leslie  Allen  Jones  '26,  borrowed  from  Brownbrokers  and  hung  in  Marvel  Gj-ni  for  the  Alumni  Dinner.  The 
head  table  group,  left  to  right,  half  of  H.  Stanton  Smith  '21,  Dr.  Richard  C.  Tolman,  Judge  John  C.  Mahoney  '05, 
Chancellor  Henry  D.  Sharpe  '94,  Dr.  Wriston,  Judge  Robert  E.  Quinn  '15,  President  J.  Seelye  Bixler  of  Colby, 
Senator  Theodore  Francis  Green  '87,  Arthur  B.  Homer  '17,  Chaplain  Arthur  L.  Washburn.  Col.  G.  Edward  Bux- 
ton '02.  and  Charles  P.  Sisson  '11  are  obscured. 


degree  from  Wesleyan.  But  Vice-President  (and,  as  it 
proved.  President-elect)  H.  Stanton  Smith  '21  acted  for 
him,  paying  tribute  to  Dr.  Moses  L.  Crossley's  inspiring, 
forward-looking  leadership  and  his  faithful  attention  to 
office  during  the  two  years  of  his  term  now  ending.  Mr. 
Smith  made  the  annual  award  of  Brown  Bear  Trophies  for 
conspicuous  alumni  service  to  two  stalwarts,  Lewis  S.  Mil- 
ner  "02  of  Providence  and  William  P.  Burnham  "07  of 
Braintree,  Mass.  (Previous  winners  have  been:  Dr.  Cross- 
ley,  Dr.  John  J.  Morrissey  "10,  the  late  Col.  Karl  D.  Gard- 
ner "15,  Quentin  J.  Reynolds  "24,  W.  Earl  Sprackling  '10, 
Dr.  William  W.  Browne  "08,  Alexander  Graham  "06,  the 
late  Dennis  F.  O'Brien  "98,  the  late  Albert  B.  Meacham 
"96,  and  Ralph  M.  Palmer  "10,  all  of  New  York;  Nathaniel 
Blaisdell  "83  of  San  Francisco,  and  Henry  S.  Chafee  "09 
of  Providence.) 

CH.^MPIONS  OF  THE  MIND 

►  One  of  the  two  principal  speakers,  a  very  ingratiat- 
ing, effective  one — Dr.  J.  Seelye  Bixler,  President  of  Colby 
College,  warned  that  "there  is  much  knowledge  in  the 
world,  but  little  wisdom,  and  the  world  needs  wisdom  to 
survive.""  Reviewing  the  work  of  the  veterans  in  Ameri- 
can  colleges,   he   acknowledged  that   they   were  working 


hard  and  getting  high  grades.  But  he  wondered  if  some 
of  the  work  was  not  feverish  rather  than  reflective.  "If  we 
are  not  careful,  they  will  simply  add  to  the  number  of  those 
who  already  possess  knowledge  and  lack  wisdom,""  he  said. 
While  they  were  rushing  to  recoup  the  loss  of  the  best 
years  of  their  lives,  the  veteran's  plight  was  not  wholly  a 
war  aftermath,  for  before  the  war  it  had  become  fashion- 
able to  "play  down  the  claims  of  the  mind." 

"Now  we  find  ourselves  in  the  grip  of  fear.  It  is  impos- 
sible to  do  justice  to  the  aims  of  liberal  education  while  we 
are  in  this  mood.  We  shall  turn  our  backs  on  what  the 
study  of  the  mind  has  to  teach  us  if  we  accept  the  view 
that  life  is  lived  on  the  basis  of  sheer  competition.  We  must 
reach  the  level  where  we  understand  what  things  and  ideas 
are,  in  and  for  themselves.  Ten  years  ago  Brown  found  a 
President  who  understood  what  the  search  for  ideas  could 
mean  to  the  students  engaged  in  the  search  and  the  society 
influenced  by  it.  Under  his  leadership — and  he  has  fear- 
lessness to  match  his  active  mind — I  hope  American  educa- 
tion may  go  on  to  serve  our  times  and  the  future,  to  bring 
out  the  distinctive  contribution  the  mind  has  to  offer,  to 
insist  on  the  essential  relevance  of  the  intellectual  quest 
to  social  problems." 


BROWN    ALUMNI    MONTHLY 

President  Wriston  told  the  alumni  that  the  world  had  a 
lesson  to  learn  from  the  revolt  of  the  intellectuals,  in  the 
light  of  Europe's  tragic  experience  and  the  detachment  of 
our  own  intellectuals  from  the  social,  economic,  and  po- 
litical fabric  of  the  nation.  The  teachers'  strikes  showed 
how  seriously  the  community  had  come  to  undervalue  their 
services,  how  they  had  drifted  to  the  left  because  of  the 
destruction  of  the  vast  neutral  :one  of  liberalism,  how  the 
significance  of  the  individual  was  declining.  The  anti- 
intellectualism  of  society  is  provoking  trouble  as  a  natural 
consequence,  he  felt.  Larger  salaries  are  necessary  but  the 
least  of  the  necessities;  the  greatest  need  is  for  our  indus- 
trial society  to  realize  the  validity  of  the  words  of  our 
Charter  at  Brown:  that  institutions  for  liberal  education 
are  "highly  beneficial  to  society  by  forming  the  rising  gen- 
eration to  virtue,  knowledge,  and  useful  literature  and  .  .  . 
are  for  the  general  advantage  and  honor  of  the  govern- 
ment." 

A  general  reception  preceded  the  Alumni  Dinner,  with 
the  Athletic  Trophy  Room  attracting  a  large  number  of 
visitors  to  talk  of  victories  and  heroes  whose  souvenirs  are 
there  on  display  in  Marvel  Gym. 

AN  APPE.^L  TO  AID  EUROPE 

►  The  Commencement  came  to  its  close  with  the  cus- 
tomary Sayles  Hall  assembly,  the  annual  meeting  of  the 
Associated  Alumni,  which  was  particularly  well  attended. 
The  featured  speaker  was  one  of  the  new  alumni  of  the 
morning,  Dr.  Allen  W.  Dulles,  who  made  an  effective 
appeal  for  economic  aid  to  Western  Europe.  Admitting 
that  the  program  would  be  expensive  in  terms  of  money 
and  effort,  he  contended  such  assistance  was  vital  in  order 
to  forestall  disaster  abroad,  on  which  Communism  would 
feed.  He  urged  his  plan  as  a  preventive  but  also  believed 
it  would  bridge  the  gap  in  understanding  and  collaboration 
between  the  democratic  and  Communistic  states.  The  al- 
ternative might  be  an  economic  Pearl  Harbor,  he  said. 

His  program  was  five-fold:  1.  Take  account  of  the 
coal  problems  of  England,  France,  and  of  the  Ruhr.  2.  Deal 
with  the  food  production  shortages  in  those  countries  where 
local  production  is  insufficient.  3.  Permit  an  authoritative 
agency  to  deal,  even  drastically,  with  the  economy  of  the 
three  western  zones  of  Germany.  4.  Funnel  the  maximum 
share  of  available  credit  into  increasing  production  rather 
than  into  mere  feeding.  '!.  Take  account  of  the  overpopu- 
lation in  Western  Europe  and  the  need  for  a  controlled 
but  large-scale  emigration.  Our  share  in  the  cost  might 
approximate  the  cost  of  a  few  months'  participation  in 
World  War  II. 

Dr.  Dulles  pointed  out  that  his  observations  were  made 
after  his  convictions  had  been  strengthened  during  a  re- 
cent trip  abroad,  supplementing  his  wartime  impressions. 
Americans  at  home,  he  said,  do  not  appreciate  the  conse- 
quences of  Europe's  two  devastating  wars.  We  must  not 
overlook  the  historical  fact  that  peoples  have  maintained 
their  freedom  only  where  reasonable  standards  of  living 
have  been  preserved.  "The  time  has  come  to  draw  up  a 
balance  sheet,"  he  said,  "to  weigh  the  importance  to  the 
United  States  of  acting  in  time  to  give  Europe  a  chance  of 
survival  as  a  free  society."  The  plan  would  require  "a 
pooling  of  the  resources  of  democracy  in  the  common 
interest." 

Governor  John  O.  Pastore  brought  the  greetings  and 
compliments  of  the  State  of  Rhode  Island  in  cordial,  gra- 
cious fashion.  Dr.  Moses  L.  Crossley  '09  conducted  a  brief 
business  meeting,  during  which  alumni  election  results 
were  announced  and  amendments  to  the  alumni  by-laws 
were  voted  in  accordance  with  the  recommendations  from 
the  Advisory  Council  and  Executive  Committee  published 


in  the  last  issue  of  this  magazine.  President  Wriston,  be- 
speaking the  University's  gratitude  for  the  year's  gifts,  cited 
a  number  of  them,  the  full  list  being  published  in  advance 
proofs  of  the  Alumni  Monthly  story,  which  were  dis- 
tributed at  the  hall.  The  presiding  officer  was  Chapin  S. 
Ncwhard  "22  of  St.  Louis,  member  of  the  2  5 -year  class. 
The  platform  group  also  included  Chaplain  Arthur  L. 
Washburn,  Chancellor  Henry  D.  Sharpe  '94,  Col.  G.  Ed- 
ward Buxton  '02,  National  Chairman  of  the  Brown  Uni- 
versity Housing  and  Development  Campaign,  and  H.  Stan- 
ton Smith  '21,  alumni  president-elect. 

Throughout  the  Commencement  period,  the  LJniversity 
Club  held  open  house,  and  special  exhibits  in  the  libraries 
were  rewarding.  i 


MRS.  HENRY  M.  WRISTON:  The  bride  of  Brown's 
President  was  Miss  Marguerite  Woodworlh,  Dean  of 
Women  at  Oberlin  College,  who  held  similar  posts  at 
Syracuse  and  Lawrence  College.  A  graduate  of  Syracuse, 
she  also  studied  at  Columbia,  St.  Hugh's  College  (Ox- 
ford), and  the  Sorbonne.  Those  who  know  her  speak 
of  her  as  a  woman  of  charm  and  grace  as  well  as  profes- 
sional attainment,  and  all  Brunonians,  felicitating  the 
President  and  happy  for  him,  await  their  opportunity 
to  welcome  Mrs.  Wriston.  The  wedding  took  place  June 
28  in  Ilingham,  Mass.,  at  the  home  of  Dr.  Wriston's 
father.  Rev.  Henry  L.  Wriston,  who  officiated.  Only 
members  of  the  immediate  family  were  present,  with 
Miss  Barbara  Wriston  attending  the  bride  and  Walter 
B.  Wriston  serving  as  best  man. 


BROWN    ALUMNI    MONTHLY 


Accolade  for  10  < 

►  ►  Four  alumni  were  among  the  10  distinguished  Amer- 
icans upon  whom  Brown  University  conferred  honorary 
degrees  during  the  Commencement  exercises  on  the  College 
Green  this  year.  Popular  interest  centered  in  the  degree 
of  Doctor  of  Laws  which  Secretary  of  State  George  C. 
Marshall  received  as  the  first  act  in  the  precedent-making 
ceremony  in  the  open  air  east  of  University  Hall. 

The  alumni  included:  James  C.  Collins,  secretary  of 
the  Class  of  1892,  Providence  attorney  who  was  a  founder 
and  the  first  chairman  of  the  National  Association  of  Bar 
Examiners.  Arthur  B.  Homer, '17,  who  administered  the 
largest  ship  construction  project  in  the  world  during  the 
war  before  his  elevation  to  the  presidency  of  the  Bethle- 
hem Steel  Company  in  1945.  Miss  Marion  S.  Cole  '07, 
Principal  of  Lincoln  School  in  Providence,  prominent  in 
the  field  of  American  secondary  education.  Rev.  Merrick 
L.  Streeter  '07,  Baptist  minister  and  former  Burma  mis- 
sionary who  was  an  OWI  aide  during  the  war. 

Science,  public  service,  and  the  church  were  represented 
by  the  other  recipients.  Allen  W.  Dulles,  author,  diplomat 
and  New  York  lawyer,  is  president  of  the  Council  on  For- 
eign Relations  and  the  Near  East  College  Association.  He 
w'as  a  leading  figure  in  the  Office  of  Strategic  Services  dur- 
ing the  war  and  was  chief  of  the  OSS  Mission  to  Germany 
after  V-E  Day.  Rt.  Rev.  Granville  Gaylord  Bennett  is 
former  Bishop  of  Duluth  and  the  new  Bishop  of  the  Epis- 
copal Diocese  of  Rhode  Island.  Vice  Admiral  Harold  G. 
Bowen  was  director  of  the  Naval  Research  Laboratory  dur- 
ing the  war  and  special  advisor  to  the  Secretary  of  the 
Navy  on  scientific  matters.  He  is  the  brother  of  Col.  Wil- 
liam M.  P.  Bowen  '84.  Columbus  O.  Iselin,  a  leader  in 
oceanography,  has  been  director  of  the  Woods  Hole  In- 
stitution for  the  past  six  years.  Louis  C.  Gerry  is  president 
of  the  R.  I.  Hospital,  wartime  chairman  of  the  Providence 
Chapter  of  the  American  Red  Cross,  and  a  prominent 
business  executive. 

Announcement  was  also  made  that  Master  of  Art  de- 
grees ad  eundem  were  being  awarded  to  six  full  profes- 
sors, making  them  honorary  alumni  of  Brown,  since  they 
are  not  Brown  graduates.  They  are:  George  K.  Ander- 
son, English;  Maurice  H.  Heins,  Mathematics;  Hunter 
Kellenberger,  Modern  Languages;  Captain  Francis  D.  Mc- 
Corkle,  USN,  Naval  Science;  Harold  Schlosberg,  Psy- 
chology; and  Philip  Taft,  Economics. 

Presidential  citations  followed  the  Brown  tradition  for 
concise  eloquence  and  integrity,  as  Dr.  Wriston  spoke  for 
the  Board  of  Fellows.  The  citations  follow,  in  the  order 
of  the  conferring  (except  that  General  Marshall's  was 
read  first  to  permit  his  early  departure)  : 

LOUIS  CARDELL  GERRY,  A.M.:  Democracy  thrives  on 
public  spirit,  upon  the  readiness  of  citizens  to  contribute  time  and 
labor,  energy  and  money  to  private  agencies  dedicated  to  the 
public  interest.  Without  thought  of  recognition  you  have  put 
your  keen  insight  and  gift  of  analysis  at  the  service  of  the  Red 
Cross,  the  Rhode  Island  Hospital,  and  many  other  charitable  and 
educational  enterprises. 

MERRICK  LYON  STREETER,  D.D.:  Immediately  after  leav- 
ing divinity  school,  you  turned  your  talents  and  your  zeal  to  mis- 
sionary endeavor  in  Burma.  Your  frontier  post  in  one  of  the  most 
sensitive  areas  in  all  the  world  gave  you  profound  understanding 
of  the  Asiatic  temper.  Following  a  hazardous  escape  from  Japan- 
ese occupation  forces,  you  served  the  Office  of  War  Information 
with  rare  proficiency,  performing  onerous  assignments  as  trans- 
lator and  broadcaster  in  native  tongues,  exerting  influence  of 
strategic  value  upon  the  populations  of  Burma  and  Indo-China. 

MARION  SHIRLEY  COLE,  Ed.D.:  Transcending  sound  and 
constructive  administrative  management  of  an  educational  institu- 
tion are  ability  to  enlighten  and  inspire  unfolding  minds,  capacity 


TIBI  SOLEMNITER  TRADO:  The  Secretary  of  Slate 
receives  Brown's  honorary  degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws. 
With  Dr.  Wriston  on  the  platform  are  Prof.  Robert  H. 
George  and  Prof.  William  T.  Hastings. 

to  recognize  and  appreciate  subtleties  of  personality,  wisdom  in 
developing  individual  poise,  and  skill  in  encouraging  social  re- 
sponsibility. Because  in  all  these  respects  you  have  fully  capitalized 
rich  opportunities,  we  delight  to  honor  you. 

COLUMBUS  O'DONNELL  ISELIN,  Sc.D.:  Through  years  of 
patient  toil,  you  attained  a  position  of  leadership  in  a  field  of 
tremendous  military  and  civilian  significance.  Through  foresight 
and  wise  direction,  you  were  able  to  correlate  and  control  the  vast 
war  program  of  oceanographic  research  for  the  Navy.  Personifying 
the  true  scientific  spirit  in  your  own  labors,  you  added  deft  and 
tactful  guidance  to  scholarship  and  learning,  stimulating  others 
to  their  best  endeavors. 

HAROLD  GARDINER  BOWEN,  Sc.D.:  Son  of  Providence, 
product  of  its  schools  and  the  United  States  Naval  Academy,  with 
post-graduate  study  at  Columbia  and  the  Naval  Post-Graduate 
School  at  Annapolis:  Notable  innovations  with  high-pressure, 
high-temperature  steam;  valuable  experimentation  in  power  sys- 
tems, particularly  turbines;  pilot  operations  for  the  concentration 
of  fissionable  material;  contributions  to  the  refinement  of  radar; 
all  these  manifest  a  versatile  and  inquiring  intellect,  and  give  you 
distinction  in  a  distinguished  service. 

ARTHUR  BARTLETT  HOMER,  LL.D.:  The  historical 
American  success  story  tells  of  the  boy  who  began  at  the  bottom, 
and  by  virtue,  industry,  arid  ability  worked  his  way  to  the  top. 
Latterly  the  idea  that  a  man  can  achieve  success  by  sticking  to  his 
last  has  all  but  disappeared.  Modern  times  have  seen  restlessness 
in  shifting  from  one  employment  to  another.  With  particular 
pleasure,  therefore,  we  recognize  an  alumnus  who  has  moved 
steadily  from  responsibility  to  responsibility  within  a  single  cor- 
poration, growing  in  grasp  and  outlook,  as  in  authority.  There  is 
genuine  satisfaction  in  honoring  one  who  has  reached  a  post  of 
industrial  statesmanship  which,  through  his  own  endeavors,  he  is 
fully  qualified  to  fill. 

JAMES  CROSS  COLLINS,  LL.D.:  A  character  in  which  is 
neither  variableness  nor  shadow  of  turning;  a  mind  alert,  perceptive, 
resourceful  in  the  application  of  legal  procedures;  a  personality 
which  unites  warmth  with  dignity  and  reserve;  humor,  quick  and 
rich,  combined  with  self-restraint;  and  a  deep  sense  of  earnest- 
ness; these  traits  have  brought  you  recognition  at  the  Bar,  the 
cordial  respect  of  fellow  citizens,  and  the  loyal  affection  of  hosts 
of  friends. 

GRANVILLE  GAYLORD  BENNETT,  LL.D.:  Brown  Uni- 
versity seeks  to  honor  you,  not  so  much  for  having  attained  high 
office  in  the  Church,  nor  for  those  gifts  of  leadership  and  admin- 
istration which  twice  have  justified  your  being  chosen  head  of  a 
diocese;  rather  we  honor  your  inner  qualities  which  shine  through 
the  outword  deed;  your  dedication,  without  any  reservation,  to  a 
great  cause:  your  passionate  devotion;  the  conviction  and  penetra- 
tion of  your  exposition  of  the  gospel. 

ALLEN  WELSH  DULLES,  LL.D.:  An  inherited  interest  in 
American  diplomacy,  broad  experience  in  the  State  Department 
and  on  foreign  assignments,  the  practice  of  law  upon  an  interna- 
tional scale  laid  the  foundation  for  wartime  diplomatic  intelligence 
work  of  the  highest  order.    The  vast  energy,  the  infinite  resource- 


BROWN    ALUMNI    MONTHLY 

fulness,  the  sweep  of  imagination,  the  flawless  discretion,  and  rare 
discrimination  in  reporting,  which  you  put  at  the  service  of  your 
country,  bore  abundant  fruits  and  helped  end  the  strife  with  at 
least  one  of  our  principal  enemies. 

GEORGE  CATLETT  MARSHALL,  LL.D.:  No  one  in  Amer- 
ican history  has  manifested  more  effectively  the  statesmanship 
inherent  in  superb  military  leadership;  no  one  understands  more 
clearly  the  relationship  which  power  must  bear  to  political  com- 
mitments in  a  world  still  badly  disorganized;  no  other  person  has 
better  combined  shrewd  judgments  of  character,  rigorous  stand- 
ards of  performance,  and  unique  patience  in  securing  teamwork 
in  great  enterprises.  So  may  you  bring  to  fulfillment  Abraham 
Lincoln's  ideal,  and  "with  malice  toward  none,  with  charity  for 
all,  with  firmness  in  the  right  as  God  gives  us  to  see  the  right,  .  .  . 
strive  on  to  finish  the  work"  so  nobly  begun  and  "to  do  all  which 
may  achieve  and  cherish  a  just  and  lasting  peace  .  .  .  with  all 
nations." 

ISew  Honors  for  Dr.  Crossley 

►  ►  Wesley.\n  University  this  June  honored  Dr.  Moses 
L.  Crossley  "09,  "brilliant  son  of  our  neighbor  Brown  Uni- 
versity, inspiring  teacher  at  Wesleyan,-  and  since  1918  a 
recognised  leader  in  the  American  organic  chemical  in- 
dustry." President  Butterfield  conferred  the  honorary  de- 
gree of  Doctor  of  Science  with  the  following  citation : 

"Moses  Leverock  Crossley,  research  director  of  a  great 
chemical  concern:  after  serving  Wesleyan  well  for  five 
years  as  a  liberal  scholar  and  teacher,  you  soon  achieved 
leadership  and  distinction  in  the  field  of  industrial  re- 
search. Beyond  your  great  talents  for  organising  intelli- 
gent and  productive  research  are  even  greater  gifts  and 
attitudes  of  fundamental  importance  in  social  leadership. 
Committee  to  the  importance  of  pure  science,  aware  of 
the  need  for  broad  and  versatile  scholars,  you  are  above 
all  concerned  with  science's  contribution  to  human  welfare 
at  its  basic  levels  of  physical  and  mental  health,  and  social 
and  political  harmony.  Since  you  reflect  in  yourself  and 
your  achievements  the  faith  of  the  liberal  college,  we  wel- 
come you  back  among  us  to  achieve  at  our  hands  the  hon- 
orary degree  of  Doctor  of  Science." 

On  July  24  Dr.  Crossley,  who  has  just  completed  his 
term  as  President  of  Brown's  Associated  Alumni,  will  fly 
to  London  to  attend  the  11th  Congress  of  Pure  and  Ap- 
plied Chemistry.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  eighth, 
ninth,  and  tenth  Congresses  in  1912,  1934,  and  1938.  In 
addition,  he  will  be  U.  S.  delegate  to  the  Union  of  Applied 
Chemistry.  At  each  session  he  will  present  papers,  par- 
ticularly concerned  with  summarizing  work  in  the  chem- 
istry of  blood  proteins  in  disease. 

Dr.  Crossley  received  the  1947  Gold  Medal  of  the  Amer- 
ican Institute  of  Chemists  May  2.  Among  the  speakers  at 
the  Institute's  dinner  was  President  Wriston  who  de- 
scribed "Crossley  as  I  Know  Him."  They  were  colleagues 
on  the  Wesleyan  Faculty  before  their  association  at  Brown. 
The  June  issue  of  The  Chemist  gives  the  speeches  before  the 
Institute  on  "The  Scientific  Achievements  of  Dr.  Cross- 
ley"  by  Dr.  A.  J.  Hill,  director  of  Yale's  Sterling  Chemistry 
Laboratory,  and  "Dr.  Crossley  in  Industry,"  by  S.  C. 
Moody,  Vice-President  of  American  Cyanamid  Co.  and 
general  manager  of  Calco  Chemical  Division.  Dr.  Cross- 
ley's  response  on  "Research  and  Human  Welfare"  is  the 
lead  article  in  an  issue  which  has  his  portrait  on  the  cover 
and  is  otherwise  devoted  to  the  fine  tribute  paid  the  leader. 
Honorary  Degree  to  Dean  Arnold 

►  Dean  Samuel  T.  Arnold  '13,  cited  as  a  true  friend 
of  the  College  as  well  as  a  distinguished  scientist  whose 
wartime  service  in  the  Manhattan  District  was  of  high  im- 
portance, received  the  honorary  degree  of  Doctor  of  Sci- 
ence at  the  1947  Commencement  of  the  R.  I.  College  of 
Pharmacy  and  Allied  Sciences.  President  Albert  W.  Claf- 
lin  '06  read  the  citation.  Dean  W.  Henry  Rivard  '08  gave 
a  major  address. 


Aliiniiii  Choices   < 


H.  STANTON 
SMITH  '21 :  The  new 
President  of  the  As- 
sociated Alumni  re- 
reived  his  cane. 


►  ►  H.  Stanton  Smith  '21,  Rhode  Island  Vice-President 
of  the  Associated  Alumni  for  the  past  two  years,  became 
national  President  after  general  balloting  by  the  Brown 
alumni  this  spring.  When  his  election  was  announced  by 
his  predecessor.  Dr.  Moses  L.  Crossley  '09,  Smith  mounted 
the  platform  of  Sayles  Hall  on  Commencement  Day  to  re- 
ceive the  President's  Cane  as  symbol  of  office. 

Mr.  Smith  has  just  completed  an  effective  term  as  Presi- 
dent of  the  Providence  Brown  Club,  was  chairman  of  the 
1946  Alumni  Dinner,  is  treasurer  of  his  class,  chairman 
of  the  nautical  advisory  board  of  the  Brown  Yacht  Club, 
and  an  active  worker  in  the  Housing  and  Development 
Campaign.  Vice-President  and  director  of  the  Hope  Web- 
bing Co.  and  the  Anchor  Webbing  Co.,  he  is  also  active 
in  community  affairs  and  business  associations. 

John  S.  Collier  '29,  former  Olympic  hurdler,  now  a  mas- 
ter at  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord,  N.  H.,  was  chosen  alumni 
representative  on  the  Brown  Athletic  Advisory  Council  to 
succeed  Paul  N.  Swaffield  '16  of  Boston.  Starting  on  a 
three-year  term,  Mr.  Collier  will  be  one  of  three  Council 
members  representing  the  alumni,  including  the  new  Chair- 
man of  the  Council,  Thomas  F.  Gilbane  '33,  and  J.  Rich- 
mond Fales  '10. 

The  alumni  also  voted  on  Vice-Presidents  and  Directors 
for  their  respective  regions.  Vice-Presidents,  serving  two 
years,  will  be:  J.  CunlifFe  Bullock  '02  of  Providence;  Ed- 
ward T.  Brackett  '14  of  Boston;  Dr.  William  W.  Browne 
'08  of  Yonkers,  N.  Y.;  F.  Donald  Bateman  '29  of  Barring- 
ton,  111.;  and  Nathaniel  Blaisdell  '83  of  San  Francisco.  New 
Directors  are:  Howard  F.  Eastwood  '29  of  Providence, 
John  M.  Curtis  '30  of  Newton  Centre,  Mass.;  Robert  B. 
Perkins  '29  of  Ramsey,  N.  J.;  James  R.  Bremner  '34  of 
Chicago;  and  Lawrence  L.  Larrabee  '09  of  Los  Angeles. 

In  addition  to  those  named  on  the  back-cover  of  this 
issue,  the  Board  of  Directors  will  also  include  seven  alumni 
to  be  appointed  by  the  President  of  the  Associated  Alumni 
and  three  Alumni  Trustees  and  a  Faculty  representative 
to  be  appointed  by  the  President  of  the  University.  Fred- 
erick E.  Schoeneweiss  '20,  who  was  unopposed  for  re- 
election as  alumni  Treasurer,  is  also  a  member  of  the  new 
board,  which  will  meet  in  September  to  organise.  < 


8 


in  Andrews  House 

►  ►  In  A  QUIET,  stirring  ceremony,  apart  from  the  excite- 
ment of  Commencement,  Brown  University  honored  one 
of  its  most  generous  benefactors  Sunday  afternoon,  June 
15,  when  a  plaque  was  unveiled  in  memory  of  the  late  Dr. 
Charles  Henry  Hare  '85.  The  Boston  gynecologist,  reci- 
pient of  a  Brown  honorary  degree  at  the  end  of  his  career, 
had  given  $331,570  in  1937  to  establish  Andrews  House 
and  later  a  substantial  fund  to  provide  income  for  its 
maintenance  as  one  of  the  world's  finest  collegiate  infirma- 
ries. 

As  President  Wriston  pointed  out  in  a  brief  commentary 
before  the  gathering,  a  tablet  had  been  placed  in  the  main 
hall  of  Andrews  House  to  identify  the  principal  benefactors, 
but  the  inspiration  had  come  from  Dr.  Hare.  As  to  form, 
nature,  and  even  its  furnishings,  it  had  been  his  decision. 

"Dr.  Hare  was  interested  in  the  whole  man — not  just 
medical,  surgical,  or  neurological  care,"  Dr.  Wriston  said. 
"He  wanted  us  to  have  for  the  students  a  home  away  from 
home,  even  better  than  a  home.  He  had  been  shown  the 
first  plans,  for  a  modern  hospital,  clean,  aseptic,  hard.  In- 
stead, he  happily  selected  this  mansion  so  that  it  would 
be  a  home  in  atmosphere,  surroundings,  and  actuality. 

"This  building  reveals,  too,  the  influence  of  a  teacher  on 
a  student,  the  hard  electric  effect  a  mature  mind  makes  in 
contact  with  a  mind  less  mature  but  receptive,  rich,  and 
lively.  Bennie  Andrews  touched  the  life  of  the  young  man 
so  that  his  inspiration  always  remained.  It  was  a  specific 
request  that  the  building  should  be  named,  not  for  Hare  but 
for  Andrews.  It  was  his  hope  that  others  would  find  their 
interest  in  Andrews  House  grow  with  the  years.  That  in- 
terest was  there  when  Brown  first  opened  the  doors  of  An- 
drews House.   I  hope  it  continues  and  increases." 

►  In  wording  the  plaque  about  Dr.  Hare  is  fehcitous: 
"As  a  student  at  Brown  University  in  the  days  of  Prof.  E. 
Benjamin  Andrews,  he  caught  that  great  teacher's  infec- 
tious enthusiasm;  as  a  physician,  he  exhibited  profound  in- 
terest in  the  science  of  medicine  and  the  art  of  healing;  as 
a  loyal  alumnus,  he  gave  tangible  expression  to  his  deep 
concern  for  student  health  and  welfare  in  his  munificent 
gifts  for  Andrews  House."    (see  photo,  page  30.) 

A  prayer  by  Dr.  Arthur  L.  Washburn,  the  University 
Chaplain,  brought  the  simple  exercises  to  a  close,  with  these 
words:  "Almighty  God,  Our  Heavenly  Father,  we  here 
dedicate  this  tablet  to  the  daily  memory  among  us  of 
Charles  Henry  Hare,  and  in  lasting  gratitude  for  this  gift 
to  his  University  of  Andrews  House  We  pray  that  thy 
blessing  may  rest  upon  this  house;  that  here  may  dwell  the 
peace  and  the  unfailing  sense  of  Thy  Healing  Presence. 
Bless  its  officers,  doctors,  nurses,  and  patients,  and  all  who 
labor  for  its  maintenance.  And  grant  that  here  may  come 
that  health  and  strength  which  are  Thy  will  for  Thy  chil- 
dren that  in  well-being  of  soul  and  body  they  may  go  forth 
from  its  doors  with  renewed  powers  for  the  obligations  and 
duties  of  their  several  callings.  We  ask  this  our  prayer  in 
Christ's  name,  and  may  His  Grace  and  the  love  of  God  and 
the  fellowship  of  the  Holy  Spirit  abide  with  us  evermore." 

Among  those  present  were  such  friends  of  Dr.  Hare  as 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  John  T.  Williams  of  Boston,  George  J.  Holden 
'91,  Harold  A.  Grout  '13,  representing  the  Brown  Club 
of  Boston,  and  Mrs.  Grout,  members  of  the  Corporation, 
alumni  body,  student  body,  and  staff.  i 

Chosen  by  the  Cosmos  Club 

►  Dr.  Waldo  G.  Leland  '00,  member  of  the  Brown 
Board  of  Fellows  and  Secretary  of  the  Council  of  Learned 
Society,  is  the  new  President  of  Washington's  famous 
Cosmos  Club.  i 


BROWN    ALUMNI    MONTHLY 

►  The  New  Trustees 

►►  Roger  T.  Clapp  '19  of  Providence,  George  T.  Metcalf 
'  1 3  of  Providence,  retiring  chairman  of  the  Brown  Alumni 
Fund,  and  John  G.  Peterson  '17  of  Minneapolis  were 
elected  Trustees  of  Brown  University  at  the  annual  meet- 
ing of  the  Corporation  June  14.  The  Providence  men 
were  elected,  following  nomination  by  alumni  and  alumnae 
in  a  general  balloting  which  this  year  broke  records  in  the 
total  votes  cast.  The  percentage  of  ballots  returned  was 
more  than  adequate  to  validate  the  nomination  under  terms 
of  the  agreement  between  the  Corporation  and  the  Asso- 
ciated Alumni.  Clapp  and  Metcalf  were  the  leading 
choices  among  seven  candidates  on  the  alumni  ballot;  they 
succeed  Sidney  Clifford  '15  and  Dr.  Marshall  N.  Fulton 
'20. 

The  Corporation  accepted  the  resignation  of  Edward  A. 
Adams  '12  of  Los  Angeles,  because  of  ill  health,  electing 
Peterson  in  his  stead.  A  native  of  Saba,  Dutch  West  In- 
dies, the  latter  prepared  for  Brown  at  Hope  Street  High 
in  Providence.  He  was  a  banking  official  for  some  time, 
serving  with  the  Chase  National  Bank  of  New  York  and 
making  his  present  connection  through  that  agency.  He 
is  now  Vice-President  of  the  Cargill  Elevator  Company 
of  Minneapolis,  a  powerful  factor  in  the  grain  world.  He 
was  an  Army  Lieutenant  in  the  First  World  War. 

The  Corporation  heard  reports  from  the-  President  and 
Treasurer  of  the  University,  and  spokesmen  for  the  fol- 
lowing standing  committees:  Library  —  Dr.  Albert  C. 
Thomas  '08;  Management  of  the  John  Carter  Brown  Li- 
brary— Dr.  Wriston;  Board  of  Management  of  the  Brown 


"CAMPUS  BOOM"  won  the  prize,  and  Phil  Reisman, 
Jr.  '40,  took  the  bow.  He  is  editorial  manager  of  RKO 
Pathe,  whose  documentary  film  in  the  series  "This  Is 
America"  was  cited  by  the  American  College  Public 
Relations  Association  at  its  30lh  anniversary  dinner  in 
St.  Louis.  The  award  was  "for  distinguished  service  in 
the  interpretation  of  higher  education  through  the 
the  motion  picture,  for  realistic,  sympathetic  presenta- 
tion of  the  problems  involved  in  providing  higher  edu- 
cation for  the  veterans  of  World  War  II  and  for  the 
accurate,  faithful  and  interesting  portrayal  of  the  post- 
war American  campus  scene." 


BROWN     ALUMNI     MONTHLY 


THE  GENERAL  STAFF 
OF  THE  HOUSING  AND 
DEVELOPMENT  CAM- 
PAIGN: As  it  heard  the 
news  on  Coniniencenient 
Day  —  seated,  left  to  right, 
C.  D.  Mercer,  New  York; 
Col.  G.  D.  Buxton,  National 
Chairman;  H.  S.  McLeod, 
R.  I.;  Ronald  M.  Kimball, 
Chicago.  Standing,  N.  S. 
Case,  Washington;  H.  N. 
Sweet,  Boston;  M.  H. 
Glover,  Hartford ;  C.  S. 
Newhard,  St.  Louis. 


Union — Dean  Samuel  T.  Arnold  '13;  Board  of  Manage- 
ment of  the  Outing  Reservation — W.  Easton  Louttit  '25; 
Nautical  Advisory  Board — Mr.  Clifford;  Athletic  Ad- 
visory Council — William  P.  Burnham  '07. 

Elections  to  standing  committees  involved  the  following : 
Committee  on  Investments — Arthur  B.  Lisle,  re-elected; 
Advisory  and  Executive  Committee — Rowland  R.  Hughes 
'17  of  New  York  to  succeed  Mr.  Clifford;  Library — Chaun- 
cey  E.  Wheeler  '09  to  succeed  Mr.  Clifford,  Prof.  Robert 
H.  George  to  succeed  Prof.  Chester  H.  Kirby,  Faculty  nom- 
ination; Advisory  Committee  on  Pembroke  College — Mrs. 
Charles  A.  Stuart  '22  to  succeed  Miss  Ollie  A.  Randall  '12, 
on  alumnae  nomination;  Committee  on  Consultation  be- 
tween the  Corporation  and  Faculty — Prof.  J.  Walter  Wil- 
son '18  to  succeed  Prof.  Walter  H.  Snell  'IJ,  by  Faculty 
election;  Athletic  Advisory  Council — W.  Earl  Sprackling 
'12  to  succeed  William  P.  Burnham  '07  and  Prof.  Snell 
to  succeed  Prof.  Robert  F.  Chambers.  i 

Gaines  in  the  Middle  West 

►  Contracts  for  a  home-and-home  series  have  been  signed 
by  Brown  and  Western  Reserve  athletic  authorities,  look- 
ing forward  to  football  games  between  the  two  institutions 
in  1948  and  1949.  Western  Reserve  announced  it  as  a 
move  "into  big-time  football,  playing  Rutgers,  Brown,  and 
Pitt."  "The  game  with  Brown  will  be  the  first  time  an 
Ivy  League  school  has  played  a  Cleveland  team,"  it  noted. 

Brown  will  visit  Cleveland  next  winter,  however,  in 
basketball,  as  part  of  a  projected  vacation  tour  during 
which  four  Middle  West  opponents  will  be  faced. 

President  of  Providence  Mutual 

►  Percy  W.  G.ardner  '03,  Providence  attorney,  has  been 
elected  President  of  the  Providence  Mutual  Fire  Insurance 
Company,  He  was  formerly  Vice-President  and  Chairman 
of  the  Finance  Committee  of  this  company,  which  was  in- 
corporated in  1800.  A 


Baccalaureate  by  Wasliljurn  i 

►  It  w.^s  more  than  a  Baccalaureate  Sermon  which  Dr.  Ar- 
thur L.  Washburn  preached  this  Commencement  Sunday. 
It  was  a  summation  of  his  life's  creed,  stated  with  moving 
conviction  and  simplicity  on  the  eve  of  his  retirement  as 
Chaplain  of  Brown  University. 

His  topic  was  "Incentive  for  Valorous  Living."  It  was 
primarily  of  faith  of  which  he  spoke,  the  highest  expression 
of  existence  for  mankind,  its  greatest  hope  for  world  broth- 
erhood even  in  a  time  of  confusion  and  discouragement. 
It  was  secondarily  a  tribute  of  a  man's  tie  with  Brown  Uni- 
versity, for  he  said : 

"Remember,  as  you  go  out  from  our  gates,  that  you 
never  leave  Brown.  You  are  ever  of  her  great  household 
and  family,  for  we  are  eternally  united  in  the  common  in- 
heritance of  our  University's  faith  in  God's  power  in  His 
world,  her  faith  in  the  high  ideals  which  she  has  cherished 
throughout  the  years  and  now  entrusts  into  your  sacred 
keeping."  The  Seniors  had  first  been  admitted  into  Brown 
because  of  her  faith  in  them.  That  same  faith  in  them  would 
accompany  them  as  they  left  the  known  past  for  the  un- 
known future.  "Never,"  Dr.  Washburn  said,  "can  young 
men  and  young  women  meet  such  a  world  with  more  in- 
terest and  self-confidence  if  they  will  accept  the  challenge 
which  recognition  of  their  own  assigned  place  in  creation 
can  give  them  their  place  in  the  divine,  continuous  salva- 
tion of  this  world. 

"We  can  be  willing  not  to  see  very  far  ahead  as  we  go 
out  from  this  beloved  place.  We  can  he  sure  of  the  far- 
reaching  importance  of  present  work  well  done,  that  when 
we  stand  fast  those  who  follow  us  can  see  more  clearly  and 
progress  more  confidently  because  of  us.  Practice  of  our 
faith  in  ever  enlarging  service  and  love  of  people — such  a 
life  works  miracles."  i 


10 


BROWN    ALUMNI    MONTHLY 


►   ►     These,  Their  Gifts  to  Brown 


►  ►  While  the  Housing  and  Development  Campaign 
has  held  the  central  position  in  most  alumni  minds,  the 
steady  flow  of  benefactions  for  other  Brown  University 
purposes  has  continued  throughout  the  past  year.  Public 
acknowledgment  of  them  was  made  by  President  Henry  M. 
Wriston  when  he  appeared  before  the  annual  meeting  of 
the  Associated  Alumni  in  Sayles  Hall  on  Commencement 
Day.  He  announced  gifts,  apart  from  the  Housing  cam- 
paign, in  the  amount  of  $243,201.08. 

Eagerly  awaited  was  the  word  on  the  progress  of  the  big 
drive.  And  from  National  Chairman  G.  Edward  Bu.xton 
'02  came  the  rousing  news  that  gifts  since  the  1946  Com- 
mencement, totalling  $1,831,054,  had  brought  the  aggre- 
gate to  the  new  high  of  $2,883,078  toward  the  great 
objective.  (By  June  30,  further  gifts  had  brought  the  figure 
to  $2,897,452.) 

In  announcing  the  year's  benefactions,  President  Wriston 
revived  an  old  Brown  custom,  held  in  abeyance  during 
wartime.  There  were  gifts  large  and  small,  but  many  a 
small  gift  became  "major"  when  considered  in  terms  of 
individual  means.  As  always,  interest  in  the  listing  was 
high. 

This  June,  as  on  several  past  occasions,  the  alumni  were 
given  advance  proofs  of  pages  in  the  Alumni  Monthly 
which  enumerated  the  gifts  in  a  simple  listing.  Dr.  Wriston 
called  attention  to  some  items  which  invited  special  com- 
ment, and  expressed  the  deep  gratitude  of  the  University 
for  each  benefaction.  While  slighting  no  gift,  the  pro- 
cedure of  publishing  the  full  list  of  donations  served  to 
abridge  time  materially  and  profitably  in  the  interests  of 
the  meeting. 

Singled  out  for  special  notice  was  the  announcement  of 
more  than  $20,000  in  gifts  to  the  Brown  Alumni  Fund,  a 
remarkable  total  in  view  of  the  fact  that  no  active  campaign 
had  been  conducted  during  the  past  year.  Giving  a  clear 
field  to  the  Housing  and  Development  Fund  Campaign, 
the  Trustees  of  the  Alumni  Fund  through  Chairman 
George  T.  Metcalf  T3  took  satisfaction  in  the  firmly-fixed 
custom  of  annual  giving  through  this  medium.  (On  June 
•30,  this  total  had  risen  to  $23,800.) 

Benefactions  to  the  libraries  included  gifts  of  several 
thousand  books  as  memorials  to  men  whose  association  with 
University  scholarship  had  been  long  and  influential.  There 
were  class  gifts,  Brown  Club  scholarships,  grants  from 
foundations  and  corporations  in  support  of  research  and 
other  projects,  —  in  wide  variety.  The  generosity  of  many 
alumni  and  friends  is  here  reflected  in  the  list  of  major  gifts, 
grants,  and  bequests  to  the  University  since  July  1,  1946: 

►  For  the  Brown  Alumni  Fund,  $22,965.36  of  which 

$10,125  was  designated  for  the  Alumni  Endowment  of 

the  Brown  Alumni  Fund. 
For  the  Brown  Alumnae  Fund,  $13,513  of  which  $2,100 

was  designated  for  the  Alumnae  Endowment  of  the 

Brown  Alumnae  Fund. 
From  the  John  Carter  Brown  Library  Associates,  $7,132. 
From  John  Nicholas  Brown,  $2,000  for  the  John  Carter 

Brown  Library. 

From  Frederick  S.  Peck,  $7,152.59  for  the  Friends  of  the 
Library  to  purchase  books  for  the  John  Hay  Library. 

From  the  Mary  Dexter  Fund  and  Henry  S.  Chafee  '09, 
$450  as  an  addition  to  the  Chafee  Memorial  Fund  for 
the  libraries. 


From  Kenneth  H.  N.  Newton  '22,  $100  to  establish  the 
Malcolm  Nichols  Newton  Fund,  income  to  be  used  for 
purchase  of  books. 

From  William  P.  Burnham  '07,  $200  for  prizes  to  stimulate 
interest  in  writing  new  Brown  songs  and  to  provide 
orchestration  or  arrangements  for  band  and  orchestra 
use. 

From  Trustees  of  the  Samuel  C.  and  Miriam  D.  Lamport 
Foundation,  $150  for  academic  prizes.  (Mr.  Lamport's 
class  was  1906.) 

From  Charles  Henry  Hare  '85,  $7,375  as  an  addition  to  the 
Charles  Henry  Hare  Fund. 

From  William  A.  Harris  '97,  $274  for  a  moving  picture 
projector  for  the  Division  of  Athletics. 

From  an  anonymous  donor,  $5,000  for  special  purposes. 

From  anonymous  donors,  $85  5  for  beautification  of 
grounds.  This  is  in  addition  to  $15,000  given  previously 
in  the  same  way  and  for  the  same  purpose. 

From  an  anonymous  donor,  $500  for  special  purposes. 

SCHOLARSHIPS  and  FELLOWSHIPS 

►  From  Edward  J.  Sov.atkin,  $600  for  the  Stanley  B. 
Sovatkin  Scholarship  Fund.  This  makes  a  total  of 
$2,500  which  has  been  contributed  by  Mr.  Sovatkin  to 
establish  a  scholarship  in  memory  of  his  son,  Stanley  B. 
Sovatkin  '38,  who  died  in  service. 

From  the  Monday  Morning  Musical  Club,  $100  for  the 
Helen  Wheelwright  Memorial  Scholarship. 

From  the  Rhode  Island  Women's  Club,  $250  for  a  scholar- 
ship at  Pembroke  College. 

From  the  Rhode  Island  State  Federation  of  Women's  Clubs, 
$250  for  a  scholarship  at  Pembroke  College. 

From  S.  Watson  Smith  '19,  $500  for  the  Samuel  W.  Smith 
'80  Scholarship. 

From  the  Brown  Club  of  Providence,  $500  for  a  prize 
scholarship. 

From  a  group  of  friends  of  John  Gordon  Ives,  $800  for  the 
John  Gordon  Ives  Memorial  Scholarship  in  Pembroke 
College. 

From  the  Calco  Chemical  Division  of  the  American  Cyan- 
amid  Company,  $1,500  for  a  fellowship  in  Chemistry. 

From  E.  I.  duPont  de  Nemours  and  Company,  $2,800 
for  a  fellowship  in  Chemistry. 

From  the  Ethyl  Corporation,  $333.33  to  continue  the  Ethyl 
Corporation  Fellowship  in  Chemistry. 

From  the  R.  F.  HafFenreffer  Family  Foundation,  $3,600 
for  a  fellowship  in  the  Department  of  Medical  Sciences. 

From  an  anonymous  donor,  $10,000  for  the  President's  Fel- 
lowship Fund. 

From  Brown  Alumnae,  $143  as  an  addition  to  the  Florence 
B.  Beitenman  Scholarship  Fund. 

From  the  Class  of  1920,  $5,000  to  establish  the  Class  of 
1920  Fund  for  general  purposes. 

From  the  Class  of  1921,  $1,170  as  an  addition  to  the  Class 
of  1921  Fund  for  Scholarships. 

From  the  Brown  Alumnae  Club  of  New  York,  $2,550  as 
an  addition  to  the  Isabelle  Scott  Bollard  Fund  for 
Scholarships. 


11 


BROWN    ALUMNI    MONTHLY 


THE  MILLIONTH  PRINT:  Brown's  Photographic  Lab- 
oratory, microfilm  specialists,  passed  this  milestone 
recently.  Staffers  are  Annette  Gregoire  and  George 
C.  Henderson  '38 

From  an  anonymous  donor,  $240  as  an  addition  to  the 

Albert  A.  Bennett  '72  Prise  Fund. 
From  the  Estate  of  Reginald  S.  Fife  '89,  $200  as  an  addition 

to  the  Scholarship  Repayment  Fund. 
From  the  Central  Falls  High  School  Alumni  Association, 

$100  as  an  addition  to  the  William  Overton  '87  Scholar' 

ship  Fund. 
From  an  anonymous  donor,  $500  as  an  addition  to  the 

A.  R.  C.  Fund. 
From  Susan  B.  McCoid,  $2,500  to  establish  the  Mary  Elisa- 

beth  Baldwin  Scholarship  Fund,  and  a  further  gift  of 

$100  for  the  1947-48  award. 
From  Mrs.  Edythe  Woolf  Polsby,  $1,000  to  establish  a 

Fund  in  memory  of  Daniel  Polsby,  II  '30. 
From   Mrs.   Claus  B.   Abramson,   $1,000   to  establish   a 

scholarship   fund   in   memory   of   her  son,   Harry   B. 

Abramson  '25. 
From  Arthur  D.  Little,  Inc.,  $783.33  for  a  fellowship  in 

Chemistry. 
From  the  Rockefeller  Foundation,  $5,000  for  fellowships 

in  Advanced  Applied  Mathematics  for  the  year  1946- 

47.  This  is  the  first  payment  on  a  grant  of  $50,000  for 

suppoii  ui  scholarships,  assistantships,  and  fellowships 

in  advanced  applied  mathematics  over  a  period  of  five 

years  beginning  July  1,  1946. 
From  the  Rockefeller  Foundation,  $2,900  for  research  in 

biology. 
From  the  American  Cancer  Society,  $3,249.51  for  research 

in  biology. 
From  the  Social  Science  Research  Council,  $1,000  for  re 

search  on  the  Brown  Papers. 
From  the  Research  Corporation,  $3,000  for  research  in 

chemistry. 

BEQUESTS 
►  From    the    Estate    of    Joseph    Zarmon    Heyer    "11, 

$1,258.08. 
From  the  Estate  of  Jennie  M.  Ballou,  $5,000  to  establish 

the  Jennie  M.  Ballou  Endowment  Fund. 
From  the  Estate  of  George  Marsden  '00,  $2,500  to  estab- 
lish the  George  Marsden  Scholarship  Fund. 
From  the  Estate  of  Dennis  F.  O'Brien  '98,  $10,000,  the 

proceeds  of  a  life  insurance  policy.    This  becomes  a 


memorial  in  the  Alumni  Endowment  and  is  included 

in  the  Alumni  Fund  total  reported  above. 
From  the  Estate  of  Angeline  E.  Nichols,  $3,000  to  establish 

the  Angeline  E.  Nichols  Scholarship  Fund. 
From  the  Estate  of  Milton  Korb  '37,  $12,620.04  to  establish 

the  Fund  in  memory  of  Philip  and  Mary  Moskowitz 

Korb,  the  income  to  be  used  for  the  purchase  of  books 

in  biological  sciences. 
From  the  Estate  of  Alexander  G.  Mercer,  $4,136.90  as  an 

addition  to  the  Hall-Mercer  Scholarship  Fund. 
From  the  Estate  of  Henry  L.  Goddard  '88,  $12,629.13  as 

an  addition  to  the  Henry  L.  Goddard  Fund  for  faculty 

salaries. 
From  the  Estate  of  Albert  L.  Calder,  $16,332.02  to  estab- 
lish the  Albert  L.  Calder,  II  Fund. 
From  the  Estate  of  Burton  E.  Kile,  $2,218.03  as  an  addition 

to  the  Burton  E.  Kile  Fund. 
From  the  Estate  of  Charles  F.  Deacon  '96,  $63,170.76  to 

establish   the   Fund   in   memory  of   William   H.    and 

Elizabeth  A.  Deacon. 

OTHER  GIFTS 

►  From  Mrs.  Henry  F.  Lippitt,  128  books  chiefly  of  the 

16th  and  17th  centuries. 

From  Gorton  Thayer  Lippitt,  458  miscellaneous  family 
papers. 

From  Mrs.  Charles  F.  Stearns,  858  volumes,  chiefly  belles 
lettres  and  history,  from  Judge  Stearns'  library. 

From  the  heirs  of  Harry  Lyman  Koopman,  Librarian  of  the 
University  1893-1930,  his  library,  including  manuscript 
writings. 

From  Mrs.  E.  B.  Delabarre,  1039  volumes  from  the  library 
of  Professor  Delabarre,  a  selection  from  his  working 
library  in  the  fields  of  psychology,  philosophy,  and  his- 
tory of  religions. 

From  the  library  of  the  late  Dr.  Albert  D.  Mead,  500  books 
and  periodicals. 

From  J.  Francis  Driscoll,  43  old  pieces  of  sheet  music,  by 
Oliver  Shaw,  Reeves,  etc. 

From  the  Friends  of  the  Library,  5500  books  and  other 
items. 

From  the  Brown  Club  of  Providence,  several  gifts  including 
$486  toward  an  outdoor  hockey  rink  at  Marvel  Gymna- 
sium; and  a  rescue  boat,  valued  at  $700,  for  the  Brown 
Yacht  Club. 

From  W.  L.  L.  Pelts,  a  unique  stamp  collection  together 
with  a  gift  of  $1,000  to  be  used  for  its  maintenance,     i 

Award  Withheld  in  Song  Contest 

►  The  Brown  song  contest,  with  $200  in  prise  money, 
will  be  continued  another  year,  with  the  terminal  date 
extended  until  May  1,  1948,  the  committee  in  charge  an- 
nounced in  June.  Nearly  40  manuscripts  have  been  re- 
ceived thus  far,  and  the  committee  invites  others  most 
cordially.  Some  songs  are  under  consideration  for  the 
award,  but  certain  contest  restrictions  are  being  liberal- 
ised, particularly  to  permit  Pembroke  composers  as  well  as 
Brown  men  to  compete.  Prof.  Arlan  R.  Coolidge  of  the 
University  Music  Department,  chairman  of  the  commit- 
tee, gratified  by  the  response  to  date,  expresses  apprecia- 
tion to  all  those  who  have  thus  far  submitted  manuscripts. 
Previous  contest  ints  may  add  to  their  entry  with  new  com- 
positions before  next  May.  1 


12 


The  Big  Campaign  < 

►  ►  Spurred  hy  the  pre-Commcnct-mcnt  drive,  alumni  and 
friends  of  Brown  University  had  eontrihuted  $2,8S.i,078 
up  to  June  16  when  President  Wnston  told  the  annual 
meeting  of  the  Associated  Alumni  in  Sayles  Hall  that  the 
year  had  brought  in  a  total  of  $1,831,054.  Workers,  who 
had  come  within  striking  distance  of  the  intermediate  ob- 
jective of  $3,000,000  set  for  Commencement,  now  turn  to 
their  hope  of  completing  their  $4,000,000  goal  of  the 
Housing  and  Development  Fund  in  the  coming  academic 
year.  New  quarters  in  Robinson  Hall,  the  old  Economics 
Building  at  the  corner  of  Prospect  and  Waterman  Sts., 
have  been  established  for  the  balance  of  the  campaign. 

To  see  what  can  he  done  on  the  campus  when  the  final 
amount  is  pledged  and  given.  Dr.  Wriston  urged  the 
alumni  to  visit  Whitehall,  the  new  classroom  building  on 
Brook  St.,  and  Andrews  Hall,  the  new  Pembroke  dormitory 
which  is  scheduled  for  occupancy  next  term. 

Should  there  be  discouragement  because  the  Campaign 
failed  to  reach  its  $3,000,000  objective  at  Commencement? 
By  no  means.  President  Wriston  told  the  Corporation  at 
its  annual  meeting:  "No  one  in  his  right  mind  expected 
the  task  to  be  easy.  It  has  always  been  hard.  Moreover 
there  is  a  bright  side  to  the  shield :  we  have  done  better 
than  most  campaigns — far  better.  We  are  nearer  our  goal 
at  this  moment  than  the  community  expected  us  to  be. 


WINNERS  OF  THE  BEAR:  Burnham,  left,  and  Milner  received  this  high 
alumni  distinction  at  the  Marvel  Cyni  dinner  June  15.  Presentation  was 
made  by  H.  Stanton  Smith  '21,  Alumni  Vice-President,  at  right.  Citations 
appear  below : 


►  Lewis  Stanley  Milner  (1902):  The 
promotion  of  the  welfare  of  your  Alma 
Mater  has  ever  been  of  major  concern  to 
you.  Your  high  sense  of  loyalty  and  your 
unusual  capacity  for  generosity  and  kind- 
ness have  enabled  you  to  discharge  "the 
offices  of  Life  with  usefulness  and  reputa- 
tion." As  a  public-spirited  citizen  and 
loyal  friend,  having  many  talents  and  inter- 
ests, you  have  made  a  lasting  impress  on 
both  the  Community  and  the  University. 
Your  excellent  services  to  Brown  have  con- 
tributed much  to  the  establishment  of  prop- 
er public  relations  and  to  a  better  under- 
standing of  the  University's  aims  and  prob- 
lems. Your  time,  energy,  and  means  have 
been  employed  generously  and  unselfishly 
in  the  cause  of  Brown.  In  appreciation  of 
your  splendid  service  we  do  you  honor  and 
present  you  an  Alumni  Brown  Bear  award. 

►  William  Phineas  Burnham  (1907): 
With  loyalty  and  great  devotion  you  have 


given  generously-  of  your  time  and  means 
in  the  service  of  Brown.  Your  infectious 
enthusiasm  and  inspiring  leadership  compel 
others  to  participate  in  the  enjoyment  of 
such  service.  Wherever  Brown  men  gather 
your  presence  is  a  magnet  drawing  them 
closer  in  affection  to  their  Alma  Mater.  In 
the  true  spirit  of  Brown  University  you 
have  served  your  community  and  country 
with  honor  and  distinction.  In  recognition 
of  your  conspicuous  services  to  Brown  we 
are  happy  to  present  you  an  Alumni  Brown 
Bear  award,  symbolic  of  the  strength  and 
enduring  greatness  of  the  Brown  you  so 
dearly  love. 

A  Holiday  Until  Sept.  24 

Brown's  184th  academic  year  will  begin 
for  Freshmen  Sept.  15.  After  registration 
for  all  undergraduates  Sept.  17-23,  classes 
will  start  Sept.  24.  There  is  no  summer 
session . 

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BROWN     ALUMNI     MONTHLY 

We  have  had  large  gifts  which  had  not  been  counted  upon." 
The  great  need  of  the  Campaign  at  this  juncture  is  for 
more  workers,  he  said,  recognising  that  many  have  worked 
"with  heart  and  soul."  "The  cause  is  right,"  he  concluded. 
"By  persistence  and  courage  we  shall  succeed." 

The  Corporation  passed  a  resolution  expressing  deep 
appreciation  of  the  leadership  and  achievements  of  Col. 
G.  Edward  Buxton  as  National  Chairman  of  the  drive. 
During  May  and  June  five  issues  of  The  Home  Stretch 
provided  a  stimulus  to  giving  with  articles  on  memorial 
opportunities  still  available,  on  the  necessity  of  housing 
facilities  to  meet  the  great  need,  the  lack  of  dining  facili- 
ties, the  support  Brown  seeks  from  the  community  in  return 
for  many  services  of  significance,  and  classroom  and  faculty 
accommodation.  An  estimate  showed  that  800  Brown  stu- 
dents are  without  regular  eating  facilities,  that  only  a 
fraction  of  housing  needs  are  met  in  spite  of  congestion 
and  emergency  measures  that  added  dormitory  space  for 
400  more  than  the  900  previously  used.  Box  features  de- 
scribed other  "turning  points"  which  had  confronted  the 
University  in  the  past,  where  decisions  had  led  to  progress 
of  historic  importance. 

In  a  May  message  to  his  Campaign  army,  Col.  Buxton 
had,  as  always,  a  striking  punch-line:  "To  those  who  are 
firmly  determined  to  win  this  struggle  for  the  benefit  of 
another  generation,  we  say  to  the  bystander,  "Give  way 
to  the  right  and  let  fighting  men  pass."  i 

►  The  Marchers 

►  ►  There  were  those  who  said  it  was 
the  longest  Commencement  procession 
ever.  And  probably  they  were  right.  But, 
unfortunately,  no  one  ever  counts  the  num- 
ber of  those  in  line,  and  this  year  a  slight 
change  in  routing  of  the  march  made  it 
hard  to  make  comparisons. 

Formed  again  on  the  College  Green, 
after  last  year's  temporary  shift  to  the 
Front  Campus,  the  line  moved  out  to  the 
south,  countermarched  back  past  the  John 
Carter  Brown  and  Sayles,  swung  out 
through  Faunce  House  archway  to  Water- 
man St.,  returned  past  the  Pump  and 
Hope  College,  and  on  between  U.  H  and 
Manning  to  the  Van  Wickle  Gates.  As 
tradition  commands,  the  gates  swung  out. 
The  key  had  not  been  lost,  although  such 
a  contretemps  had  provided  the  plot  for 
the   1947  Brownbrokers  musical  revue. 

Arthur  B.  Homer  '17,  President  of  the 
Bethlehem  Steel  Corporation,  was  Chief 
Marshal  of  the  procession,  on  his  30th  an- 
niversary at  Brown.  Again,  however,  the 
man  behind  the  scenes,  the  Chief  of  Staff, 
J.  Cunlitfe  Bullock  '02  arranged  the  sur- 
prising amount  of  detail-work  that  goes 
into  this  simple,  sentimental  ceremony.  It 
was  not  only  the  march  down  thi.i  year, 
but  the  march-back  took  on  much  more 
importance  since  it  led  to  the  further  ex- 
ercises on  the  College  Green. 

Following  Paul  A.  Nickel,  Senior  class 
marshal,  came  alumni  by  the  hundred,  es- 
corting the  graduating  men  and  women. 
And  finally,  at  the  end  of  the  long  double 
file  came  the  Seniors,  Faculty,  guests  of 
honor,  members  of  the  Corporation,  Chan- 
cellor Sharpe,  President  Wriston,  Mace- 
Bearer  George  E.  Downing,  and  Michael 
F.  Costello  "05,  high  sheriff  of  Providence 
County,  accoutred  with  the  topper,  sash, 
sword,  and  full  evening  dress  so  necessary 
for  the  preservation  of  decorum. 


BROWN    ALUMNI    MONTHLY 


y  Assisting  the  Chief  Marshal  were  hi? 
aides:  Dr.  Robert  Cushman  Murphy  "11, 
Harry  H.  Burton  '16,  H.  Stanford  Mc- 
Leod  '16,  Frederick  E.  Schoeneweiss  "20, 
W.  Wilbur  Rice  16,  Dennison  W.  Green 
'24,  Kent  F.  Matteson  "28,  and  Thomas  F. 
Gilbane  '33.  Aides  in  charge  of  divisions: 
H.  Stanton  Smith  '21,  Arnold  K.  Brown 
'27,  Brenton  G.  Smith  "11,  and  Henry  G. 
Clark  '07.  Other  aides:  Mrs.  Barbara  A. 
Bliss  "40,  Prof.  C.  Raymond  Adams  '18, 
Prof.  Sinclair  W.  Armstrong. 

Marshals  included:  James  O.  Stark- 
weather '45,  Ivory  Littlefield,  Jr.,  "46,  Jo- 
seph P.  Lockett,  Jr.,  '42,  William  C.  Giles, 
Jr.,  '42,  Graham  W.  White  '37,  Jackson 
H.  Skillings  '37,  Alan  P.  Cusick  '32,  Rich 
ard  A.  Hurley,  Jr.,  '3  2,  John  E.  C.  Hall  '27 
Samuel  J.  McCormick  '27,  Edward  W 
Day  '22,  Stuart  H.  Tucker  "22,  Earl  M 
Pearce  "17,  William  B.  Farnsworth  "17 
Kip  I.  Chace  "12,  Ernest  I.  Kilcup  "12 
Roswell  F.  Brooks,  Jr.,  "07,  Homer  W 
Clark  "07,  Lewis  S.  Milner  "02,  Everett  J 
Horton  "02,  George  L.  Miner  '97,  Arthur 
M.  McCrilhs  "97,  Harvey  A.  Baker  "03, 
Dr.  Albert  L.  Midgeley  "01,  Albert  A. 
Baker  "84,  Prof.  Albert  K.  Potter  "86,  Prof. 
Herbert  N.  Couch,  Prof.  Robert  H.  George. 
For  the  graduating  men  of  1948:  William 
B.  Fernald,  Michael  A.  Gammino,  Jr., 
William  J.  Harrington.  John  F.  Heinz,  M. 
Jack  Levy,  Jr.,  Richard  M.  Morris.  John  P. 
Sweeney,  and  Roy  H.  Swingler;  for  1947 
men:  George  W.  Grimshaw,  Ray  G.  Hu- 
ling,  and  James  Lalikos;  Pembroke  Sen- 
iors: June  P.  Miller"  "47  and  Eleanor  S. 
Nadler  '47. 

Three  bands,  more  than  ever  before, 
played  the  familiar  ceremonious  strains  of 
Wally  Reeves"  Brown  Commencement 
March.  ^ 


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The  Best  Year  of  All"  t   t 


K  ►  "Recognizing  all  the  griefs  and  short- 
comings, I  think  this  is  the  best  college 
year  I  have  known  since  I  began  to  teach 
3  5  years  ago,""  President  Wriston  told  the 
Corporation  in  his  annual  report,  which 
marked  his  10th  year  at  Brown.  It  was  a 
theme  on  which  he  expanded  at  the  Senior 
Dinner  as  well.  "The  students  were  here 
by  their  own  choice;  by  and  large  they 
studied  harder  than  usual."" 

He  singled  the  "Veterans  College  out  for 
praise:  "It  has  outrun  every  expectation, 
in  size,  in  quality,  orderliness,  and  temper. 
It  has  attracted  wide  attention  as  a  drama- 
tic and  effective  way  to  meet  the  social  re- 
sponsibilities of  a  university  in  a  metropol- 
itan center  without  sacrificing  standards  or 
indulging  in  shoddy  pretense.  Nearly  a 
third  of  the  members  of  the  Veterans  Col- 
lege did  work  of  such  quality  that  out  of 
a  mere  fairness  we  transferred  them  to  the 
regular  college  program  at  mid-year.  Some 
others  will  be  transferred  at  the  end  of 
this  year.  (More  than  100,  as  it  proved, 
in  addition  to  139  at  the  end  of  the  pre- 
vious semester. — Ed.)  Thus  those  who 
expected  to  be  held  in  an  indetermined 
status  for  two  years  have  by  the  quality 
of  their  work  forced  our  hand." 

Dr.  Wriston  also  commented  in  his  re- 
port on  the  expansion  of  alumni  work: 
"More  time,  money,  and  effort  have  been 
devoted  to  alumni  work  than  ever  before 
in  our  history,"  he  said.  "I  have  been  at- 
tending alumni  meetings  for  over  25  years. 
Never  in  my  experience  have  there  been 
so  many  evidences  of  genuine  interest  in 
our  educational  program  as  this  year." 


iijuujL* 


THE  PRESIDENT'S  CAKE:  Chairman  Quinn  applauds,  and  Charles  P. 
Sisson  returns  to  his  seat  after  making  the  surprise  presentation  at  the 
Alumni  Dinner.    (See  page  4.) 

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At  the  Senior  Dinner,  the  President  re- 
peated his  statement  that  this  had  been 
his  best  year  in  3  5.  Although  it  was  the 
most  incoherent  student  body  he'd  ever 
known  and  college  spirit  was  "at  a  low 
ebb,"  phenomena  due  to  war  dislocations, 
all  undergraduates  were  here  of  their  own 
volition,  "eager,  clamoring  to  get  here." 
Moreover,  the  burden  was  off  the  Faculty 
in  many  respects,  and  men  were  teaching 
their  own  subjects  again  and  returned  to 
research  they'd  laid  aside  for  war  assign- 
ment. They  were  back  to  teach  "with  sin- 
cerity, enthusiasm,  and  reality."'  They  were 
feeling  the  squeeze  from  inflation  but  were 
patient  and  courageous  in  the  face  of  de- 
clining endowment  income.  For  all,  there 
was  crowding  and  housing  complication. 
The  campaign  was  hard  work,  at  a  time 
when  eight  billion  dollars  was  being  sought 
for  colleges,  churches,  and  hospitals  in  the 
country. 

Yet,  he  said  deliberately  it  was  a  won- 
derful year — even  in  the  face  of  world 
tragedy,  a  peace  thrown  away,  and  the  cost 
of  unemployment  relief  higher  than  it  had 
been  at  the  depths  of  the  depression,  moral 
recession  after  the  war,  political  grafting, 
and  great  fatigue.  "But  we  haven't  yielded. 
Don't  take  the  world  at  its  face  value,  keep 
a  fresh  outlook,  hold  to  your  sanity,  cour- 
age, and  faith.  And,  if  in  living  with 
yourself  you  can  find  peace,  then  educa- 
tion is  justified.  If  I  had  my  life  to  live 
over,  I'd  again  ask  to  live  on  a  college 
campus  with  those  who,  for  all  their  faults, 
are  the  best  students  in  the  world."  i 

Chaplain^s  ''Last  Chapel" 

►  ►  It  was  not  Dr.  Washburn"s  "last 
chapel,""  Dean  Arnold  pointed  out,  be- 
cause he  would  return  again  and  again  to 
speak  to  the  students  at  Brown.  But  it 
did  invite  a  few  recollections  of  the  retir- 
ing Chaplain  of  the  University. 

Dean  Arnold  thought  of  him  in  six 
connections: 

"1.  The  night  before  my  wedding  when 
a  student  stole  his  doormat,  and  he  re- 
ported the  fact."' 

"2.  His  request  for  a  seat  in  chapel 
(Tve  had  few  such  requests  for  reserva- 
tions) For  15  or  20  years  he  attended 
chapel  regularly  and  sat  in  seat  N-26. 

"3.  As  pastor,  friend,  and  teacher  of 
ethics.  After  helping  the  students  with 
their  Italian,  he  came  to  the  decision  he 
would  rather  be  their  Chaplain  than  edu- 
cate  them. 

"4.  The  services  he  conducted  in  fra- 
ternity houses  during  the  war  when  a  mem- 
ber was  reported  dead  in  combat  or  other 
military  service. 

"5.  In  Andrews  House,  a  friend  to  all 
there.  He  was  at  his  best  as  comforter  and 
companion  on  an  ambulance  ride,  and  in 
meeting  parents  of  students  in  the  Infir- 
mary, 

"6.  I  met  him  once  in  Siena.  I  urge 
you  to  look  him  up  if  you  are  ever  there."" 

The  informal  tribute  in  Sayles  Hall  at 
the  last  Chapel  of  the  year  was  serious  but 
with  an  over-lay  of  banter.  But  the  under- 
graduates knew  the  sentiment  which 
prompted  the  appreciation,  and  shared  it. 
They  stood  to  applaud  the  Chaplain  as 
few  have  been  applauded  in  that  hall  which 
is  accustomed  to  applause.  His  "God  Bless 
You"'  was  a  benediction  they  will  treasure. 


BROWN    ALUMNI    MONTHLY 


On  O.  E.  Rolls 

►  ►  Reputedly  the  largest  employers  of 
college-trained  men  in  industry,  the  Gen- 
eral Electric  Company  lists  69  Brown 
alumni  on  its  rolls,  perhaps  the  largest  con- 
tingent of  Brunonians  in  any  single  cor- 
poration. Only  the  University  itself  would 
seem  to  rival  it  in  Brown  personnel.  It  is 
of  note  that,  while  the  majority  are  en- 
gineering graduates,  a  considerable  num- 
ber hold  liberal  arts  degrees. 

The  following  list  was  provided  the 
Brown  Placement  Office  by  George  Camp- 
bell '07,  who  came  to  the  campus  in  April 
for  personnel  interviews  with  Seniors: 

River  works:  C.  H,  Douglass  "05.  W.  C. 
Norton  '10,  V.  W.  Leonard  '16,  M.  G. 
Robinson  "19,  K.  A.  Bjorklund  "21,  A,  D. 
Somes  "22,  E.  B.  Armour  "26,  R.  E.  Arnold 
'29,  B.  A.  Robhins  "40.  Schenectady  works: 
T.  W.  Gordon  "06,  R.  B.  Quimby  "16,  D. 
B.  Murphy  "21,  F.  L.  Miller,  Jr.,  "36.  Buf- 
falo office:  George  Campbell  "07,  manager. 
West  Lynn  works:  H.  B.  Hunt  '08,  G.  R. 
Sturtevant  "18,  J.  R.  Stetson  '30,  B.  B. 
Hardy  '40.  G.  E.  Supply  Corp.:  E.  M. 
Horton  "11,  F.  L.  Pierce  "26.  Central  Sta- 
tion, GO,  West  Lynn:  W.  M.  Howe  '13. 
Apl.  &?  Mdse.,  Bridgeport:  G.  S.  Good- 
speed  "14,  H.  R.  Smith  "30.  Pittsfield 
works:  F.  E.  Eck  '19,  W.  S.  Fielding  "27, 

F.  S.  Broadbent  '32,  W.  J.  Degman  '42, 

G.  A.  Stuckert,  Jr.,  '42.  Lamp,  Provi- 
dence: E.  H.  Tucker  "20,  A.  P.  Brugge  "31. 
Lamp,  Warren,  Ohio:  A.  D.  Dixon  "34. 
Philadelphia  office:  H.  D.  Moore  "24.  Mfg. 

•Genl  GO:  C.  S.  Stedman.  Jr.,  "24.  Hot 
Point,  Inc.:  C.  E.  Reed  "26.  Locke  In- 
sulator Corp.:  E.  H.  Hodson  "29.  Provi- 
dence office:  J.  P.  Patton  "34.  Electronics, 
Bridgeport:  V.  Vernon,  Jr.,  "34,  H.  Van 
Aken,  Jr.,  "36,  R.  M.  Gear  '44.  Bridgeport 
works:  P.  L.  Paulsen  '35.  Electronics, 
Syracuse:  H.  Fancher  '35:  electronics.  Ken. 
Rad:  A.  W.  McCabe  '35.  Accounting. 
GO:  L.  Drury  '36,  P.  B.  Hawkes  "41.  IGE 
Co.:  R.  C.  Fallon  "36.  Federal  and  Marine 
GO:  R.  E.  Anderson  "37.  Hanford  Eng. 
works:  H.  L.  Henry,  Jr.,  "37.  AC  ^  CR 
Dept.:  R.  Barker  "38.  Industrial  Eng.. 
GO:  D.  W.  Borst  "40.  R.  R.  Person  "41. 
Service  Eng.  GO:  D.  L.  Hall  "40.  Phila- 
delphia works:  F.  J.  Moury  "40.  Patent 
GO:  G.  E.  Sands  "40.  Test:  T.  H.  Daven- 
port '43,  L.  T.  Lubin  "43,  W.  S.  Mont- 
gomery '43,  H.  M.  Steiner  '43,  G.  L.  Heit- 
man  "45,  J.  M.  Brown  "45,  J.  L.  Randall 
"45,  H.  E.  Rudman  '45,  K.  D.  Tobin  "45, 
R.  J.  Tracy  "45,  R.  W.  Whipple  "46,  J.  A. 
Nelson  '46,  E.  A.  Coker  "46.  Rotating 
Eng.:  T.  D.  McKone  '43.  Telechron,  Inc.: 
G.  L.  DeWolf  "43.  Aero  and  Marine:  H. 
W.  Taylor  "43.  < 


►   ►  RoUcall  of  Brown  Clubs 


Belter  Than  a  Carnation 

►  Here's  a  new  use  for  the 
Brown  Alumni  Monthly: 

When  the  editor  visited  Pough- 
keepsie  May  15  to  attend  the  first 
meeting  of  the  new  Mid-Hudson 
Brown  Club,  he  stepped  off  the  train 
and  was  preparing  to  find  his  way 
to  the  meeting-place.  At  the  princi- 
pal exit  from  the  waiting  room  of 
the  station  stood  a  man  with  a 
Brown  Alumni  Monthly  under 
his  arm. 

President  Wm.  Howard  Young 
"16  had  hit  upon  this  effective  de- 
vice of  identifying  himself  to  the 
newcomer.  ^ 


NEW  YORK  CHOSE  Robert  C. 
Lilrhfield  '23  lo  be  President  of 
its  Brown  University  Club  next 
year. 

In  Western  Maine 

►  ►  Charles  C.  Chesley  '25  is  the  new- 
President  of  the  Brown  Club  of  Western 
Maine,  elected  at  the  annual  meeting  April 
21  in  Portland's  Graymore  Hotel.  Other 
officers  voted  at  the  dinner  are:  Vice- 
President  Albert  H.  Halberstadt  "34,  Secre- 
tary Robert  F.  Skillings  "11,  and  Treasurer 
Dr.  Thomas  J.  Burrage  "98;  Executive  com- 
mittee: Percy  W.  Sarle  "16,  E.  C.  Cough- 
lin,  Jr.,  "42,  and  Henry  D.  Burrage  '33. 

Mr.  Skillings,  veteran  secretary  of  the 
club,  presided.  Dr.  M.  Joseph  Twomey  "00 
spoke  in  eulogy  of  Dr.  Albert  H.  Stanton 
"04,  who  died  last  October  while  serving 
as  club  President.  Mr.  Skillings  called  on 
the  following  to  speak  informally,  telling 
how  they  came  to  be  in  Maine:  A  Thomas 
Scott  "28,  Edward  Heintz  "38,  assistant 
librarian  at  Bowdoin,  Frederick  Bloom  "40. 
and  Halberstadt.  Rev.  Charles  R.  Upton 
"84,  senior  alumnus  present,  also  greeted 
the  diners. 

Guest  of  honor  was  the  Alumni  Execu- 
tive Officer,  William  B.  McCormick  "23, 
who  brought  the  25  men  up  to  date  on 
College  Hill  happenings.  As  usual,  the 
meeting  had  good  publicity,  and  Newton 
C.  Reed  '03  again  brought  in  the  slate  of 
nominations,  on  behalf  of  Robert  J.  Curley 
"07,  Mr.  Sarle,  and  himself. 

Others  who  took  part  in  the  program 
were  Saul  H.  Sheriff  "36,  Harold  K.  Hal- 
pert  "28,  R.  W.  Sarle  '44,  A.  M.  Dodge  '19, 
Karl  D.  Patterson  '38. 

The  club  can  always  be  counted  on  for 
a  good  turnout  and  a  fine  spirit.  i 

Heading  It  Up  Pittsburgh 

►  Robert  B.  Clark  "39  is  at  the  helm  in 
Pittsburgh  for  the  next  year  as  president 
of  the  Brown  Club  of  Western  Pennsyl- 
vania. Serving  with  him  are  Vice-President 
Irving  S.  Pascal  "34,  Treasurer  Harry  K. 
Voelp.  Jr.,  '29,  and  Secretary  Gordon 
Ritchie,  Jr.,  "24.  All  were  chosen  at  the 
recent  annual  meeting  of  the  club.  i 

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Broivn  at  the  Pops 

►  >  Brown  night  at  the  Boston  Pops  was 
a  gala  affair  and  no  mistake.  The  problem 
was  to  get  tickets,  with  a  sell-out  so  early 
contrived.  Those  who  were  lucky  lound 
it  a  tine  musical  evening,  with  partisan  ap- 
preciation of  the  Brown  and  Pembroke 
Glee  Clubs  and  a  rousing,  roof-raising  re- 
ception of  the  new  Anderson  arrangement 
of  songs  of  Brown,  "Brunoniana.""  In- 
vited by  the  program  and  by  Pops  Con- 
ductor, Arthur  Fiedler,  the  audience  joined 
in  singing  the  familiar  songs. 

The  Glee  Clubs,  conducted  by  Prof.  Ed- 
ward B.  Greene,  sang  superbly,  both  as 
individual  units  and  as  one  chorus.  Their 
numbers  included:  Brahms,  "Chorus  of 
Homage""  and  "The  Trysting  Place"";  three 
folk  songs  from  "Choralia,""  arranged  by 
Delaney:  some  Davison  arrangements:  "At 
Father's  Door,""  "Fireflies,""  and  "Soon  Ah 
Will  Be  Done'";  the  finale  from  "The  Gon- 
doliers,'" and  "Alma  Mater."  The  new 
medley  is  a  highly  effective  provision  for 
'"When  Brunonia's  Big  Brown  Team."" 
"I'm  a  Brown  Man  Born,"  "We  Are  Ever 
True  to  Brown,""  "Chapel  Steps,""  and  The 
Commencement  March,  the  last  a  surprising 
but  appropriate  choice  for  the  climax. 

Incidentally,  the  evening  made  a  great 
New  England  reunion.  The  committee  un- 
der Homer  W.  Clark  '07  deserves  a  world 
of  credit.  Plans  are  already  under  way  to 
bid  for  a  1948  date.  * 

The  Washington  Brown  Club 

¥  In  support  of  a  more  active  Brown 
Club  program  in  Washington,  D.  C,  more 
than  50  Brown  men  came  to  the  National 
Press  Club  for  a  buffet  supper  and  a  wel- 
come to  Dean  Samuel  T.  Arnold  "13  on 
June  25.  Win  Southworth,  Jim  Bennett, 
and  Paul  Harrison  were  the  moving  spirits 
in  setting  up  the  meeting,  while  Warren 
Francis,  as  new  president  of  the  National 
Press  Club,  saw  to  it  that  the  alumni  had 
the  best  of  accommodation.  The  gathering 
was  notable  for  the  large  number  of 
younger  Brown  men  who  attended,  includ- 
ing delegations  from  the  State  Depart- 
ment, the  Naval  Research  Laboratory,  and 
the  Bureau  of  the  Budget. 

In  addition  to  those  previously  men- 
tioned, the  Club  also  heard  from  former 
Congressman  John  0"Connor  and  John 
French,  the  latter  for  advice  on  the  con- 
stitutionality of  certain  club  procedures. 
Mr.  Bennett  reported  on  the  Housing  and 
Development  Campaign  on  behalf  of  Re- 
gional Vice-Chairman  Norman  Case  and 
received  active  support.  The  Club  plans  a 
full  schedule  of  events  for  next  year. 

Glee  Club  in  Albany 

►  When  the  Brown  club  of  Northeast- 
ern New  York  presented  the  Varsity  Glee 
Club  in  its  April  11th  concert,  the  follow- 
ing served  as  committee  on  arrangements: 
Whitney  E.  Easton,  president;  Richard  S. 
Walter,  chairman:  and  S.  Vint  Van  Der- 
zee,  Walter  S.  Stedman,  E.  V.  Mullen- 
neaux,  Jr.,  Harry  W.  Hastings,  E.  Howard 
Hunt,  jr.,  J.  Gordon  Baxter,  Robert  For- 
ster,  David  W.  Borst,  and  Henry  N.  Lon- 
ergan. 

Among  those  present  was  Albert  H.  Hal- 
berstadt "34,  who  flew  over  from  Portland, 
Me.,  for  the  concert  in  Chancellors  Hall 
and  the  dance  at  the  Hotel  Ten  Eyck.        i 


BROWN    ALUMNI    MONTHLY 


The  51st,  Poughkeepsie 

►  ►  The  Mid-Hudson  Brown  Club  he- 
came  the  51st  Brown  Club  May  15  when 
W.  C.  Worthington  '23,  editor-manager 
of  the  Alumni  Monthly,  visited  Pough- 
keepsie. A  strong  group  had  met  in- 
formally earlier  in  the  year  and  voted  to 
organize.  Twenty-five  charter  members 
dined  at  the  Smith  Brothers  Restaurant 
and  revived  their  Brown  memories  while 
hearing  further  of  the  campus  of  today. 
Salutations  came  from  the  New  York 
Brown  Club  and  North  Shore  (Mass.) 
Club,  holding  their  annual  meetings  the 
same  night. 

A  strong  slate  of  officers  includes:  W. 
Howard  Young  "16,  President;  Raymond 
Crum  "15,  Vice-President;  Joseph  W.  Em- 
sley  "24,  Secretary-Teasurer.  A  committee 
consisting  of  Harold  I.  Long  "16,  Benson 
R.  Frost,  Jr.,  '41,  and  Robert  Golrick  "47 
was  appointed  to  arrange  the  fall  meeting, 
while  Louis  C.  Sigloch  '40  and  H.  "Wilson 
Guernsey  "43  will  be  in  charge  of  a  Mid- 
Hudson  trip  to  the  Brown-Yale  football 
game. 

Others  present  were:  Homer  W.  Guern- 
sey "06,  Leon  F.  Clark  "10,  Henry  M. 
Burke  "11,  George  T.  Welch  "19.  J.  Schuy- 
ler Fox  "94,  Robert  Closs  "41,  Erskine  M. 
Perry  "26,  Henry  F.  Drake  'H,  Mark  A. 
Golnck,  Jr.,  '19,  Everett  L.  Sweet  '21,  C. 
Carlton  Parker  "13,  Louis  Booth  '05,  Ches- 
ter H.  Golding,  Jr.,  '39,  Benson  R.  Frost 
"08.  There  were  greetings  from  Carl  F. 
Olson  '46,  Jack  Podret  '39,  W.  Irving  Tra- 
gle  "40,  Frederic  H.  Bontecou  "17,  Harold 
Grindle  '21,  Louis  Sweeny  "15,  Burt  Titus 
"38.  and  W.  W.  Burbank  "37,  while  a 
dozen  others  plan  to  affiliate  in  future. 

Among  the  towns  covered  are  Pough- 
keepsie, Wappingers  Falls,  Rhinebeck, 
Clinton  Corners,  Rhinecliff,  Lake  Mo- 
honk,  Pleasant  Valley,  Milbrook.  The  ex- 
act territory  which  the  lively  new  group 
will  regard  as  its  sphere  of  influence  is 
being  worked  out  in  co-operation  with 
neighboring  clubs  and  the  Alumni  Office. 

In  the  Merrimack  Valley 

►  A  PLEASURABLE  and  inspiring  evening 
was  in  store  for  members  of  the  Merrimack 
Valley  Brown  Club  when  it  held  its  annual 
meeting  in  the  Peabody  House  of  Phillips 
Academy,  Andover,  in  May.  Guests  from 
the  University  who  were  the  chief  speak- 
ers were  Dean  Samuel  T.  Arnold,  Alumni 
Executive  Officer  William  B.  McCormick, 
and  Athletic  Director  Paul  F.  Mackesey. 

Frederick  M.  Boyce  "09  of  Andover  was 
elected  President  for  next  season,  with  the 
following  aides:  Vice-President — Howard 
D.  Smith  of  Chelmsford;  Secretary-Treas- 
urer— James  S.  Eastham  of  Andover:  Ex- 
ecutive Board — Rufus  E.  Corlew  of  Haver- 
hill, Thomas  R.  Hadfield  of  Methuen,  Rev. 
Herman  L.  Noyes  of  Lawrence,  Everett  G. 
Perkins  of  Newburyport,  and  Paul  J.  Spen- 
cer of  Lowell. 

Others  present,  with  a  score  of  guests 
from  the  student  body  and  Faculty  of  the 
Academy,  included:  Garland  B.  Russell. 
Gerald  F.  Donohue,  Abraham  J.  Meister. 
James  Cantor,  Norman  L.  Duncan,  Fran- 
cis J.  Biery,  Weston  D.  Eastman,  Kenneth 
S.  Minard,  Rev.  Byron  O.  Waterman, 
Charles  R.  lovino,  Thomas  P.  Rockwell, 
Frederic  R.  Knipe,  George  W.  Langdon, 
Jr.,  Paul  Kessler,  and  Ned  L.  Brody.  ^ 

New  York's  ISetv  Slate 
►    Robert  C.  Litchfield  "23  is  the  new 
President  of  the  Brown  University  Club  in 
New  York,  elevated  at  the  annual   dinner 
meeting  in  the  Landon  room  of  the  club- 


house at  39  East  39th  St.  The  other  offi- 
cers are:  Vice-President  —  Frederick  H. 
Rohlfs  "26;  Treasurer  —  Everett  M.  Arn- 
old "21;  Secretary  —  William  C.  Perrin 
"36.  New  members  ol  the  Board  are:  Ger- 
ald Donovan  "12,  Wayne  M.  Faunce  "21, 
C.  Douglas  Mercer  "06,  Arthur  W.  Packard 
"25,  Ralph  M.  Palmer  '10,  Allen  B.  Sikes 
'23,  Clifford  P.  Ladd  '18,  and  Paul  D. 
O'Brien  "27. 

Planning  for  the  new  year  is  under  way 
this  summer.  ^ 

Two  for  the  Engineers 

►  A  WEEK  APART,  two  successful  meetings 
of  the  Brown  Engineering  Association  kept 
the  ball  rolling  in  that  lively  professional 
component  of  the  Associated  Alumni. 

In  New  York  on  May  16,  3  5  members 
heard  Joseph  L.  Richey  of  the  American 
Telephone  and  Telegraph  Co.  give  a  lec- 
ture demonstration  of  microwaves  and  their 
possible  applications  to  radio  and  tele- 
vision. Henry  Hallborg  "07,  President  of 
the  Association,  was  chairman,  with  his 
fellow  officers  Sidney  Wilmot  and  A.  M. 
Impagliaszo  with  him  at  the  head  table. 
William  A.  Jewett  '41,  University  Place- 
ment Director,  described  the  work  of  this 
active  bureau  and  told  how  the  new  place- 
ment committee  of  the  Engineering  Asso- 
ciation could  operate  in  conjunction  with 
it.  J.  T.  Connelly,  the  chairman  of  the 
Engineers'  committeee,  missed  the  meet- 
ing, excusably  because  of  commitments  as 
a  new  father. 

The  following  Friday  night  saw  75  En- 
gineers enjoying  a  lobster  dinner  at  the 
Providence    Spring   Meeting,    held    at   the 


AS  AN  UNDERGRADUATE 
Thomas  F.  Gilbane  '33  was  a 
champion  shotpulter  and  All-East 
football  center.  He  is  the  next 
chairman  of  Brown''s  important 
Athletic  Advisory  Council. 

16 


Rhode  Island  Yacht  Club.  Prof.  Leighton 
T.  Bohl  presided,  with  informal  remarks 
from  Prof.  Zenas  Bliss,  in  charge  of  ar- 
rangements, Benjamin  Graves  '07  of  Provi- 
dence, W.  C.  Worthington  '23  and  Ste- 
phen A.  McClellan  '23  of  New  York.  These 
Spring  meetings  are  noted  for  their  lack  of 
set  program,  their  good  humor,  and  their 
spirited  discussions.  Newcomers  to  the 
Faculty  were  introduced.  ^ 

Providence  Raises  Riker 

>  >  The  ANNUAL  dinner  and  meeting  of 
the  Providence  Brown  Club,  held  at  the 
Wannamoisett  Country  Club  May  22, 
ended  perhaps  the  most  active  and  pro- 
ductive year  in  the  history  of  the  alumni 
group.  It  marked  the  retirement  of  H. 
Stanton  Smith  '21  as  President,  with  J. 
Wilbur  Riker  "22,  long  a  leader  in  the 
club  succeeding  him  in   office. 

The  slate  headed  by  Mr.  Riker  follows: 
Vice-President  —  Mason  L.  Dunn  "35; 
Treasurer — E.  John  Lownes,  Jr.,  '23;  Secre- 
tary —  Arthur  H.  Feiner  '22;  Executive 
Committee — Vernon  Alden  '45,  Richard 
A.  Batchelder  '3  5,  William  T.  Brightman, 
Jr.,  '21,  Robert  W.  Brokaw  '38,  Joseph  E. 
Buonanno  '34,  Kip  I.  Chace  '12,  Foster 
N.  Davis,  Jr.,  '39,  Shirley  L.  Elsbree  '25, 
J.  Richmond  Fales  '10,  Thomas  F.  Gilbane 
"33,  Paul  F.  Gleeson  '32,  Albert  F.  Goff 
"24,  Frederick  L.  Harson  "31.  Stanley  Hen- 
shaw,  Jr.,  '3  5,  Stanley  F.  Mathes  '39,  Lewis 
S.  Milner  '02,  Ambrose  J.  Murray  '26,  H. 
Stanton  Smith  '21,  Henry  D.  Sharpe,  Jr., 
'45,  and  W.  C.  Worthington  '23. 

Other  speakers  at  the  annual  dinner 
were  Dean  Robert  W.  Kenny  and  Prof. 
W.  E.  S.  Moulton.  The  athletic  coaches 
were  included  in  the  dinner  company,  with 
the  new  basketball  coach.  Bob  Morris,  rep- 
resenting them  at  the  head  table. 

The  President-elect  said  the  Club  had 
only  one  axe  to  grind — support  of  Brown 
University.  It  believed  in  being  a  good 
rooter,  in  telling  the  public  about  the  good 
things  on  College  Hill,  and  in  building 
morale  through  help  and  recognition.  A 
brochure  reporting  on  the  year's  activities 
recorded  their  extent  and  quality,  as  pre- 
viously noted  in  these  pages.  ^ 

Planning  Time  in  Chicago 

►  New  officers  of  the  Chicago  Brown 
Club  are  planning  next  year's  program 
during  the  summer  months  under  the  lead- 
ership of  Homer  R.  Faulkner  '23,  Presi- 
dent. Installed  with  him  at  the  annual 
meeting  March  27  during  the  Continental 
Hotel  banquet  were  Vice-President — James 
R.  Bremner  '34;  Treasurer — George  Rich 
III  '44;  and  Secretary — Frederick  P.  Bas- 
sett,  Jr.,  '3  3.  Among  the  projects  are  the 
issuing  of  the  Club's  first  postwar  directory 
and  resumption  of  the  famous  and  useful 
periodical  Brown  Derby,  published  "at  very 
odd  intervals"  but  setting  a  high  standard 
for  such  "house  organs."" 

Invitation  from  Canton 

>  It  was  THE  FIRST  real  post-war  get- 
together  for  all  Brown  men  in  Northern 
Ohio,  and  the  turnout  at  the  Congress  Lake 
Country  Club  April  30  was  fine.  Within 
easy  access  of  Canton,  Akron,  Youngstown, 
and  Cleveland,  the  meeting  drew  good  dele- 
gations from  each  center.  There  was  golf, 
bridge,  and  general  sociability,  and  at  din- 
nertime Athletic  Director  Paul  Mackesey 
brought  reports  fresh  from  the  Hill.  The 
committee  on  arrangements  was  Hal  Broda, 
Lefty  Ostergard,  and  Sammy  Dreyer,  for 
the  sponsoring  Brown  Club  of  Canton.       ^ 


BROWN    ALUMNI    MONTHLY 


A  Money-Raising  Idea 

►  Seeking  to  bolster  its  scholar- 
ship fund,  the  North  Shore  Brown 
Club  in  Massachusetts  hit  upon  a 
novel  and  effective  scheme.  It  spon- 
sored a  series  of  six  motion  picture 
programs,  shown  exclusively  for 
children,  at  the  Warwick  Theatre  in 
Marblehead.  Films  were  selected 
with  the  young  audience  in  mind, 
with  educational  purposes  stressed 
as  well  as  entertainment.  The  profits 
were  $250  for  the  club. 

Elmer  P.  Wright,  president  of  the 
North  Shore  Club,  writes  that  the 
executive  committee  hopes  to  intro- 
duce similar  movie  programs  for  chil- 
dren in  one  or  two  other  communi- 
ties in  the  territory,  next  year.  i 


"THE  REUNION  OF  REUNIONS"  in  Marvel  GjTiinasiuin  the  night  before 
Coninjencenient.  The  photograph  taken  from  the  running  track  shows 
niueh  of  the  crowd  of  more  than  600  diners. 


Hartford  Picks  Henshaw 

>  Wallace  H.  Hensha\\'  '23  was  elected 
President  of  the  Hartford  Brown  Club  at 
its  annual  meeting  May  22,  succeeding 
Robert  Allison  "29,  who  has  done  an  out- 
standing job  for  the  past  two  years.  Other 
officers  chosen  were:  Vice-President  — 
Richard  P.  Eldridge  '31;  Secretary — Cyrus 
G.  Flanders  "18;  Treasurer — Marion  B. 
Denison  '83;  Assistant  Treasurer  —  Rev. 
Edwin  H.  Tuller  '3  5.  The  nominating 
committee:  Past  President  Paul  Monahan 
'31,  chairman,  Jesse  Bailey  '16,  and  Flan- 
ders. 

Athletic  Director  Paul  Mackesey  spoke 
in  straightforward  manner  about  the  prob- 
lems faced  in  his  field.  He  gave  great 
tribute  to  Wally  Snell  and  might  have 
given  himself  credit  for  his  own  good  work. 
The  group  liked  him  immensely  and  feels 
Brown's  athletic  program  for  the  future  is 
in  excellent  hands. 

William  B.  McCormick  '23,  Alumni  Ex- 
ecutive Officer,  sold  the  Alumni  Reor- 
ganization Plan  lock,  stock  and  barrel.  It 
was  most  gratifying  to  hear  the  lively  par- 
ticipation, evidence  of  a  lively  interest  in 
Brown  here  in  Hartford. 

Those  who  attended  included:  Bill  Bie- 
luch  '39,  Ray  Gallant 'KS,  Dan  Howard  '93. 
Arnold  MacDonald  '39.  Walter  Rolland 
'22,  Larry  Smith  "20,  Stuart  Tinkham  '23, 
Ken  Wright  '38,  Jarvis  Alger  '43,  John 
Balmer  '34,  Dick  Brainard  '46,  Bob  John- 


son '3  7,  Andy  Jack  '36,  Bob  Klie  '44,  Bert 
Howard  '28,  Constant  Kulig  '45,  Frank 
Jones  "97,  Joe  Lombardo  "43,  Fred  Lougee 
"21,  Abner  Newton  '23,  Joe  Stookins  '34, 
Avery  Tanner  '43,  and  Don  Tanner  "35. 

i 

Mackesey  in  Philly 

►  Philadelphia  welcomed  Athletic  Di- 
rector Paul  Mackesey  to  its  May  13  lunch- 
eon at  the  University  Club,  with  a  score  of 
alumni  getting  his  good  story  on  Brown 
athletics.  Everyone  was  most  favorably 
impressed  with  the  new  director. 

Among  those  present  were:  Dr.  M.  P. 
Margolies  "36,  and  his  father.  Dr.  Richard 
Margolies,  J.  Harold  Wilson  "25,  E.  Arthur 
Parker  '13,  Frank  J.  Watson,  Jr.,  '36, 
York  A.  King,  Jr.,  '34  (who  presided), 
Karl  E.  Stein  '30,  Manuel  E.  Pearson  '3  2, 
H.  H.  Mohrfeld  "33,  H.  M.  Mohrfeld  "26, 
Richards  J.  Conly  "25,  Emory  S.  Kates  "25, 
Morton  J.  Simon  "32,  Charles  C.  Myers 
"25,  Seth  H.  Mitchell  "15,  Harry  Leigh- 
ton  '03,  J.  M.  Gicker  '3  3,  and  R.  O. 
Brackett  '16.  C.C.M. 

Plainfield  Aids  the  Plan 

►  Impetlis  was  given  to  the  new  alumni 
organization  plan,  proposed  by  Dr.  M.  L. 
Crossley,  by  a  gathering  ot  39  Brown  men 
of  North  Central  New  Jersey  on  May  8th 
at  the  Park  Hotel,  Plainfield,  N.  J.  A  din- 
ner preceded  the  meeting  which  was  spon- 
sored by  the  Plainfield  Area  Section  of 
Brown  Alumni,  organized  in  October,  1946. 
and  the  officers  of  which  are  Edwin  B. 
Havens  "28,  president,  E.  Bruce  Wetzel 
"29,  treasurer  and  Joseph  K.  Burwell  "13, 
secretary.  The  meeting  was  arranged  by 
those  officers  and  Stanley  M.  Banfield  "13 
and  Alexander  Logan  "42. 

The  purpose  of  the  meeting  was  to  cre- 
ate interest  in  and  give  information  about 
the  new  alumni  organization  plan  so  that 
the  various  proposed  sections  and  groups 
represented  can  proceed  with  their  organ- 
ization. The  area  covered  was  a  radius  of 
about  20  miles  of  Plainfield  and  representa- 
tives attended  from  Plainfield,  Maplewood, 
West   Orange,   Metuchen,   Irvington,   East 

17 


Orange,  Westfield,  Rahway,  Newark,  Cald- 
well, Orange,  West  Caldwell,  Bloomfield, 
Verona,  Morristown,  Millburn,  Somerville, 
South  Plainfield  and  Arlington. 

Guests  were  Dr.  Bruce  M.  Bigelow,  Vice- 
President  of  Brown  University,  Dr.  M.  L. 
Crossley,  President  of  the  Associated 
Alumni  and  Paul  Mackesey,  Director  of 
Athletics.  Harold  W.  Lord,  President  of 
the  Northern  New  Jersey  Brown  Club,  was 
unable  to  be  present  for  business  reasons 
on  account  of  the  telephone  strike. 

Dr.  Crossley  explained  the  new  alumni 
organization  plan  and  urged  the  various 
sections  and  groups  to  organize  so  that 
Brown  can  have  an  active  alumni  organiza- 
tion started  this  year.  i 

Fete  for  Fay 

►  Edward  M.  Fay,  Providence  theatre 
man  and  former  orchestra  leader,  is  well 
known  to  many  a  Brown  alumnus.  He 
marked  his  50th  anniversary  in  the  enter- 
tainment business  April  21  with  many  a 
notable  singing  his  praises  at  a  testimonial 
dinner,  sponsored  by  the  Independent  Ex- 
hibitors of  Rhode  Island. 

State  and  city  officials  were  speakers,  to- 
gether with  presidents  and  vice-presidents 
ot  most  of  the  major  film  production  com 
panies,  and  Basil  0"Connor,  chairman  of 
the  American  Red  Cross  and  president  of 
the  National  Foundation  for  Infantile 
Paralysis,  Prof.  Ben  W.  Brown  "19  was 
spokesman  for  the  University,  while  Judge 
Ira  Lloyd  Letts  "13  was  toastmaster. 

A  special  train  brought  the  moving  pic- 
ture officials  from  New  York  to  join  the 
600  other  diners.  < 

Anyone  Find  a  Watch? 

►  Somewhere  between  the  grounds  of  the 
First  Baptist  Meeting  House  and  the  Brown 
campus,  Florica  H.  Cicma  of  63  Angell  St., 
Providence,  lost  a  highly  valued  lapel 
watch  on  Commencement  Day.  Two  leaves 
attached  to  the  sides  give  a  winged  effect. 
A  liberal  reward  is  offered,  including  re- 
payment of  any  costs  involved  in  the  re- 
turn. As  a  family  present,  the  watch  has 
great  sentimental  associations.  ^ 


BROWN    ALUMNI    MONTHLY 

For  Brown  Bookshelves 


"Alexander  the  Great" 

►  ►  No  NEW  HERO  is  being  introduced  to 
what  will  be  a  large  audience  for  "Alex- 
ander the  Great,"  a  splendid  new  biography 
by  Prof.  Charles  Alexander  Robinson,  Jr., 
of  Brown  University's  Classics  Department. 
No  new  wonder  is  expressed  at  the  fabulous 
adventure  of  world  conquest  and  world 
organization,  for  all  the  fresh  excitement 
that  the  reader  shares  in  the  exploit.  But, 
with  no  comparable  work  in  the  field  for  50 
years  by  an  American  author,  there  is  a  new 
perspective  which  would  be  sufficient  justi- 
fication in  itself,  apart  from  all  other  merits 
—  which  are  many. 

One  of  Prof.  Robinson's  major  purposes 
in  writing  this  delightful  book  is  to  bring 
to  the  reputation  of  Alexander  full  credit 
for  a  revolutionary  concept  —  the  idea  of 
the  brotherhood  of  man  under  the"  father- 
hood of  God,  the  idea  of  the  citizenship  all 
men  could  achieve  in  common  in  a  single 
world.  Without  over-emphasis,  the  presen- 
tation of  this  thesis  is  convincing,  and  illus- 
trative evidence  is  abundant. 

It  is  ambitious,  of  course,  to  try  to  read 
the  mind  of  a  man  who  lived  so  fully  so 
long  ago.  But  the  record  is  there,  and  Prof. 
Robinson  is  familiar  with  it,  as  his  previ- 
ously published  studies  attest.  He  is  known 
to  be  the  foremost  authority  on  Alexander 
in  America — Prof.  John  Spaeth  of  Wesley- 
an  so  speaks  of  him,  for  one.  And  here  is  the 
synthesis  of  his  earlier  inquiry,  weighing  of 
conflicting  testimony,  and  his  resolved 
thought.  He  gives  a  plausibility  and  con- 
sistency to  a  life  always  recognized  as  great 
(as  the  familiar  form  of  Alexander's  name 
shows).  But  it  has  been  a  life  of  such 
extraordinary  scope  and  variety  that  hereto- 
fore it  has  somehow  been  hard  to  compre- 
hend, hard  to  remove  from  romancing. 

Like  most  readers,  this  one  is  without 
scholarly  background  on  which  to  draw.  But 
as  a  reader  he  has  had  deep  pleasure  from 
this  book,  from  its  straightforward,  swift 
narrative  in  a  setting  and  time  made  real.  A 
leader,  younger  than  some  of  our  Brown 
undergraduates  today,  becomes  a  figure  of 
immense  attraction  in  a  yarn  of  action, 
peril,  and  success.  Prof.  Robinson's  stu- 
dents and  friends  know  him  to  be  a  man  of 
large  enthusiasms,  which  others  catch  from 
him.  The  reader  comes  upon  that  same 
sense  of  delight  and  inspiration  on  most 
readable  pages.  It  is  a  charming  and  provo- 
cative book,  commended  for  all. 

In  1948  Prof.  Robinson  returns  to 
Athens  as  Annual  Professor  at  the  Amer- 
ican School  of  Classical  Studies,  where  he, 
a  Prix  de  Rome  winner,  studied  for  two 
years  and  later  taught  as  Visiting  Professor. 
He  is  a  Fellow  of  the  American  Numismatic 
Society,  whose  members,  limited  to  150 
persons  in  the  world,  own  the  greatest  of 
coin  collections  in  this  hemisphere.  Under 
his  leadership,  the  Amateurs  of  Ancient 
Greece  have  had  amazing  vitality  and  fol- 
lowing. 

Incidentally,  most  of  the  administration 
of  the  Athens  School  is  concentrated  at 
Brown.  Prof.  Robinson  is  one  of  those  in 
charge  of  policy.  A  Brown  graduate  is 
paying  for  the  School's  excavations  in  the 
Athenian  Agora,  the  greatest  project  of  its 
kind  in  history,  in  which  Prof.  Robinson 
has  participated.  Until  this  winter  he  has 
been  chairman  of  the  Alumni  Association 
of  the  School  and  had  so  served  since  its 
founding.  He  is  one  of  two  persons  respon- 
sible for  the  operations  under  a  $100,000 


<        M 


ROBERT    CUSHMAN    MURPHY 
'11:  Grace  notes  in  a  logbook. 

budget,  including  a  publication  of  $30,000 
worth  of  books  annually  but  apart  from  the 
$75,000  spent  each  year  on  the  Agora  ex- 
ploration. All  members  of  the  Classics  De- 
partment at  Brown,  however,  participate 
actively  in  the  councils  of  the  school,  and 
one  carries  out  virtually  all  of  the  routine 
work  connected  with  it.  William  T.  Aldrich 
"00  is  architect  of  the  new  Agora  Museum. 
Former  students  elsewhere  enhance  the 
prestige  of  this  strong  Brown  Department 
in  the  eyes  of  the  scholarly  world.  Some 
day  this  magazine  hopes  to  tell  that  whole 
story. 

The  purpose  of  this  notice,  however,  is 
to  call  attention  to  a  new  work  of  import- 
ance and  general  interest,  commended  even 
for  summer  reading,  without  reservation. 
(The  publisher  is  Dutton:  the  price  $3.75; 
and,  quite  apart  from  its  content,  the  book 
is  happily  designed  and  well  made.  It  was 
on  sale  in  Providence  a  week  before  its 
national  distribution.) 

Brunonians  With  Eastman 

►  The  Eastman  Kodak  Company  of 
Rochester,  N.  Y.,  reports  the  following 
Brown  men  working  for  them,  all  products 
of  the  Graduate  School:  Fred  Holland, 
Master  of  Science  in  Physics  in  1943, 
Woodrow  Johnson,  Doctor  of  Philosophy 
in  Physics  in  1941,  T.  Doman  Roberts, 
Master  of  Science  in  Physics  in  1946,  and 
Andrew  Whitehead,  Master  of  Science  in 
Chemistry  in  1943.  ^ 


Their  Cheering  Section 

►  Dean  Samuel  T.  Arnold  en- 
countered something  new  when  he 
attended  the  dinner  which  the 
wrestling  squad  arranged  in  compli- 
ment to  its  popular  coach,  Ralph 
Anderton  '30.  When  the  Dean  ar- 
rived, he  was  a  little  surprised  to 
find  some  attractive  young  girls 
among  the  diners. 

"Who  are  they?"  he  asked  when 
he  had  a  chance  to  put  the  question 
to  one  of  the  varsity  men. 

"Oh,"  said  the  latter,  "they  are 
the  wives  of  the  wrestlers."  i 


"The  Island  War" 

BY  DEAN  ROBERT  W.  KENNY  '24 

►  ►  Frank  Hough  of  the  Class  of  1924 
has  spent  a  large  part  of  his  life  either 
lighting  or  writing  about  wars.  When  he 
appeared  on  the  Brown  campus  in  the  fall 
of  1920,  Frank  had  behind  him  some  very 
rough  months  of  fighting  with  the  Marine 
Brigade  in  France  from  which  he  emerged 
the  youngest  sergeant  in  the  Corps.  Drop- 
ping his  .03  Springfield  in  favor  of  the 
pen,  he  turned  out  short  stories  for  Case- 
ments and  at  least  one  original  play  which 
was  produced  by  Sock  and  Buskin  on  the 
rickety  stage  of  Rockefeller  Hall,  Faunce 
House,  to  you  young  chaps.  It  is  rumored 
that  he  had  a  hand  in  the  script  of  the  last 
and  most  famous  of  the  St.  Patrick's  Day 
Minstrels  of  yesteryear.  Since  graduation, 
Frank  has  been  a  free  lance  writer  and  has 
to  his  credit  three  novels  of  the  American 
Revolution;  Renown,  If  ?\Iot  Victory,  and 
The  Neutral  Ground,  the  latter  a  national 
best  seller. 

To  the  chagrin  of  his  publishers,  Frank 
could  not  remain  in  his  ivory  tower  writ- 
ing about  past  wars  when  his  old  outfit  was 
heavily  committed  in  World  War  II.  He 
started  this  tour  of  duty  as  a  captain  and 
ended  as  Major  Hough.  Out  of  his  year 
and  a  half  overseas  with  the  First  Marine 
Division,  and  many  months  of  pouring 
over  historical  records  section  of  the  Marine 
Corps  archives  in  Washington,  Frank  has 
written  The  island  War:  The  United  States 
Marine  Corps  in  the  Pacific. 

The  Island  War  is  not  the  official  history 
of  the  Corps;  that  will  be  years  in  the  mak- 
ing, but  it  is  an  accurate,  vivid,  fair,  and 
handsomely  illustrated  account  of  the  grim 
battles  which  have  become  bywords  of  our 
military  history.  Individual  exploits,  com- 
monly called  Joe  Blow  stories,  have  no 
part  in  this  book,  unless  the  heroic  act  had 
definite  bearing  upon  the  tactical  situation. 
What  is  here  in  abundance  is  the  history 
of  units  as  they  fought  at  Guadalcanal, 
Tinian,  Saipan,  Guam,  Peleliu,  Iwo  Jima, 
and  Okinawa.  How  these  bloody  actions 
fitted  into  the  large  strategic  picture,  and 
hsw  the  marines  adapted  their  tactics  to 
cope  with  the  Jap  in  the  jungle,  on  coral 
atolls  or  the  volcanic  escarpments  of  Iwo 
is  told  here  laid  on  the  line.  In  addition, 
there  is  a  fund  of  pithy  comment  upon 
Jap  tactics  and  technics  leading  to  the  as- 
sumption that  the  Jap  was  a  very  brave 
fighter  but  also  upon  many  occasions  a 
very  dumb  one. 

Major  Hough  is  imbued,  as  are  all  ma- 
rines, with  the  espirit  de  corps  of  his  out- 
fit. The  reasons  for  that  espirit  are  made 
clear  when  he  writes:  "This  is  not  the 
story  of  individual  men,  but  of  a  certain 
large  body  of  men  bound  together  by  the 
closest  of  all  masculine  ties:  that  comrade- 
ship born  of  the  shared  peril  and  hardship 
of  battle."  The  Island  War  tells  effectively 
what  the  Marines  did  and  shows  why  they 
are  so  justifiably  proud  of  their  outfit.  With 
all  this  pride  it  is  only  fair  to  point  out 
that  the  marines  are  not  glorified  at  the 
expense  of  the  other  services,  for  The 
Island  War  transcends  mere  corps  loyalty 
and  is  exciting  reading  for  all. 

Frank,  we  understand,  has  moved  to 
Florida;  whether  he  has  fallen  in  love  with 
palm  trees  or  is  hiding  in  the  Okefenokee 
Swamp  is  unknown,  but  from  his  retreat 
will  shortly  come  other  books,  whether  of 
this  war  or  the  Revolution  we  do  not 
know.  ^ 


18 


BROWN    ALUMNI    MONTHLY 


Murphy's  Log  i 

►  ►  It  was  the  chance  of  a  lifetime  for 
a  young  naturalist  just  out  of  college,  and 
Robert  Cushman  Murphy  "11  jumped  at 
it.  His  jump  took  him  aboard  the  Brig 
Daisy,  an  oldtime  New  Bedford  whaler, 
bound  from  Barbados  in  general  toward 
South  Georgia,  an  island  of  blizzards  and 
glaciers,  sea-beasts  and  sea-fowl,  the  pi- 
oneer base  of  Antarctic  whaling.  He 
poured  his  thoughts  and  emotions  into  a 
journal  for  the  bride  he  left  behind. 

Now,  3  5  years  later,  with  his  renown 
as  a  scientist  firmly  established.  Dr.  Mur- 
phy publishes  much  of  that  report  in  "Log- 
book for  Grace,"  one  of  the  season's  most 
acclaimed  books  (Macmillan,  $4.) 

Murphy's  errand  was  the  collection  and 
describing  wild  life  and  plant  life.  But 
adventure  inevitably  was  his  companion, 
along  with  a  ship's  company  of  interest  to 
him.  He  shared  in  the  sea  chores,  and  his 
entries  record  them  all,  from  the  routine 
trick  at  the  wheel  to  the  nine-hour  battle 
with  a  fighting  whale.  The  writing  has 
style,  substance,  and  humanity,  recreating, 
sharing. 

Occasionally,  a  Brown  man  encounters 
particular  bits  of  heart-warming  pleasure. 
Down  near  the  Horn,  for  instance.  Mur- 
phy took  from  the  letter  bag  "a  most  win- 
ning epistle  from  John  Francis  Green,  Pro- 


fessor of  Roman  Literature  and  History  at 
Brown,"  written  six  months  before.  That 
letter,  obviously,  has  been  treasured 
through  the  years: 

"Naturally,  when  I  think  of  a  former 
pupil  like  yourself,  I  often  recall  the  sub- 
jects we  thrashed  out  together — Horace, 
for  example.  You  certainly  are  going  to 
have  a  chance  to  prove  the  philosophy  of 
the  Integer  vitae.  Sing  of  your  Lalage, 
and  the  brutes  will  flee  you,  though  per- 
haps you  would  rather  catch  'em.  At  any 
rate,  you  will  have  the  scenic  background 
.  .  .  either  the  sunscorched  tropics  of  the 
polar  fields  where  there  are  no  trees  re- 
freshed by  summer's  breeze." 

Dr.  Murphy's  comment:  "I  realize  that 
the  day  of  the  classical  languages  is  wan- 
ing, and  that  there  are  new  humanities 
which  will  make  it  impracticable  for  the 
average  educated  man  of  the  future  to  dig 
into  Greek  or  Latin,  or  both,  for  from 
four  to  six  long  years.  But  I'm  glad  that 
I  hved  before  the  end  of  the  transition, 
because  the  apogee  of  my  college  course, 
for  sheer  fun,  came  when  I  faced  the  in- 
spired countenance  of  Johnny  Green  and 
read  Horace,  Catullus,  TibuUus,  and  Prop- 
ertius.  I  have  Horace  with  me  but,  in 
any  case,  I  know  by  heart  many  of  the 
lyrics.  Now  that  we  have  left  the  region 
of  the  too  near  sun  and  are  drawing  nigh 
one  o'er  which  brood  mists  and  a  gloomy 
sky,  I  "can  still  walk  the  quarterdeck  with 


The  Graduate  Convocation 

►  >  As  THE  separate  Convocation  for  the 
Brown  Graduate  School  was  revived  for 
the  first  time  since  1941,  the  University 
awarded  advanced  degrees  to  48  graduate 
students — 1 5  doctorates  and  3  3  master's 
degrees.  The  Convocation  was  held  Sat- 
urday afternoon  of  Commencement  week- 
end, preceded  by  an  academic  procession 
to  Sayles  Hall. 

The  graduates  heard  a  "Survey  of  the 
Sciences"  from  Dean  Richard  Chace  Tol- 
man  of  California  Institute  of  Technology, 
former  scientific  advisor  to  the  Atomic  En- 
ergy Commission.  Pointing  out  that  sci- 
ence is  neither  good  nor  evil  in  itself.  Dr. 
Tolman  showed  it  was  the  application  by 
man  which  gave  it  its  nature.  "In  pure 
science,  facts  are  ethically  neutral." 

Keeping  certain  facts  secret,  like  those 


BEFORE  THE  CONVOCATION: 

Dean  Richard  C.  Tolman  of  Cal- 

Tech,  speaker,  and  Dean  R.  G.  D. 

Richardson  of  Brown's  Graduate 

School. 

on   atomic  energy,   can   be   important  for 

the  time  being,  the  speaker  said.   But  such 

an   expedient   can   make   no   fundamental 

contribution  to  the  control  of  evil,  since 

the  facts  of  nature  are  open  equally  to  all 

men  for  study.  The  control  of  evil  will  be 

possible   through   the   ethical   insight   and 

scientific  intelligence  of   man. 

To  Dean  Roland  G.  D.  Richardson,  who 
presented  the  candidates  of  his  Graduate 
School  for  the  degrees.  Dr.  Tolman  paid 
a  special  compliment.  He  spoke  of  the 
Dean's  "sagacity  and  ability  in  fostering 
the  establishment  of  Brown  Uriiversity's 
Institute  of  Applied  Mathematics."  ^ 

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my  Lalage  and  sing,  under  my  breath,  to 
her  alone." 

The  dirty  weather  near  Cape  Horn  Mur- 
phy likened  to  "spending  a  few  February 
days  and  nights  on  Angell  St.,  Provi- 
dence." "Even  such  a  conception  falls 
short,"  he  adds,  "because  it  is  at  least  safe 
to  stand  up  on  Angell  Street,  but  here  it 
is  a  struggle  to  maintain  any  position  what- 
soever,  not  excluding  a  horizontal   one." 

►  It  was  quite  a  pull  getting  from  one 
hemisphere  into  the  other  during  a  con- 
trasting period  of  calm.  "I  found  myself 
obsessed  by  the  crossing  of  imaginary  lines, 
about  five  yards  apart,  and  my  fancy  car- 
ried me  back  to  football  games  that  you 
and  I  have  watched  together  during  the 
past  three  years.  Can  we  cross  the  goal  in 
today's  game?  I  kept  asking  myself  over 
and  over  again,  finally  drifting  off  into 
reverie. 

"Sprackling  has  sent  the  ball  down  the 
field  on  two  forward  passes  to  the  seven- 
yard  line.  Two  rushes  through  left  guard 
have  gained  five  yards,  and  now  it  is  sec- 
ond down,  with  45  seconds  of  the  game 
left  to  play,  and  the  score  0-0.  The  thrill- 
ing numbers  are  called;  the  Podunk  for- 
ward wall  stands  firm  as  a  rock  to  stave 
off  defeat.  Charlie  Sisson  snaps  the  pig- 
skin, and  Sprack  slams  it  into  the  pit  of 
Russ  McKay's  stomach,  who  plunges  for- 
ward like  a  battering  ram  into  the  hole 
my  brother  Ed  is  making.  .  .  ." 

"Logbook  for  Grace"  has  had  a  fine 
press.  William  McFee  said  in  the  T^ew 
forX  Sun  that,  with  a  little  luck,  it  "might 
join  Dana  on  the  shelf  of  permanent  travel 
classics  .  .  .  Something  should  be  done 
about  keeping  it  in  print  and  steering  it 
toward  the  young  people."  Lewis  Gan- 
nett, in  the  Hew  Tor\  Herald  Tribune, 
called  it  "a  book  to  set  on  the  shelf  be- 
side 'Moby  Dick'  and  'Two  Years  Before 
the  Mast.'  " 

►  Dr.  Murphy,  Chairman  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  Birds  at  The  American  Museum 
of  Natural  History,  New  York,  and  dis- 
tinguished ornithologist,  is  author  of  "Bird 
Islands  of  Peru"  and  "Oceanic  Birds  of 
South  America."  He  also  collaborated  on 
"Problems  of  Polar  Research."  In  addi- 
tion, he  has  contributed  numerous  articles 
on  marine  zoology,  ornithology  and  ocean- 
ography. His  scientific  interest  in  birds 
and  mammals  started  when  he  dissected  a 
two  weeks-dead  whale  on  Long  Island 
shore — long  before  he  entered  college. 

The  roundabout  trip  to  South  Georgia 
was  the  beginning  of  Dr.  Murphy's  bril- 
liant career  as  an  ornithologist.  He  not 
only  made  several  other  voyages,  but  was 
the  leader  for  expeditions  into  the  tropical 
and  sub-arctic  Atlantic  Ocean,  Lower 
California,  Mexico,  the  coast  and  island  of 
Peru,  the  western  Mediterranean,  Pacific 
Coast  of  Colombia  and  to  Peru  and  Ecua- 
dor. All  these  trips  were  made  in  behalf  of 
the  Brooklyn  Museum  and  The  American 
Museum  of  Natural  History  as  well  as  the 
American  Geological  Society. 

In  1918  Dr.  Murphy  received  his  A.M. 
from  Columbia  University,  and  in  1925 
the  University  of  San  Marcos  in  Lima, 
Peru,  awarded  him  his  D.  Sc,  honoris 
causa.  Brown  University  also  conferred  on 
him  a  similar  degree  in  1941.  Among  the 
several  awards  that  Dr.  Murphy  has  re- 
ceived for  his  contributions  to  science  are 
the  Brewster  Medal,  Bronze  Medal  and  the 
Cullum  Medal.  They  were  presented  to 
him  respectively  by  the  American  Orni- 
thology Union,  John  Burroughs  Associa- 
tion and  the  American  Geological  Society. 


BROWN    ALUMNI    MONTHLY 

Headliners  < 


Wellesley's  Word  for  Mead 

►  >  Wellesley,  too.  had  its  tribute  for 
Dr.  Albert  Davis  Mead.  Its  Board  of 
Trustees  adopted  a  minute  in  recognition 
of  his  services  as  a  member  from  1934  to 
1945:  "He  had  unique  qualifications  for 
usefulners." 

"He  was  the  husband  of  a  loyal  Welles- 
ley  alumna,  Ada  Wing  of  the  Class  of 
1886.  He  was  a  scientist  of  distinction, 
with  a  keen  understanding  of  the  teaching 
role  in  the  college  and  in  American  society. 
He  was  .  .  .  fully  aware  of  an  adminis- 
trator's problems.  The  versatility  of  un- 
derstanding was  combined  with  a  genial 
wit  which  made  him  a  refreshing  member 
of  the  Committee  on  Educational  Policy 
on  which  he  served  throughout  his  term 
of  office.  He  also  served  faithfully  and 
well    (the  Library  Council). 

"Because  of  failing  eye-sight.  Dr.  Mead 
resigned  from  the  Board  in  May,  194'?. 
That  did  not  sever  his  connection  with  the 
College.  .  .  .  His  letters  in  recent  years  had 
to  he  dictated  and  were  written  for  him  by 
Mrs.  Mead  until  her  death  in  May,  1946. 
They  were  characteristic  of  him  in  their 
encouragement  to  and  appreciation  of  any- 
thing which  vitalized  the  intellectual  life 
of  the  College." 

The  services  in  his  memory  at  Brown 
on  Feb.  21  were  marked  by  splendid  trib- 
utes from  his  associates  at  Brown  and  else- 
where in  Providence.  The  University  is 
publishing  their  words  in  a  special  pamph- 
let which  will  be  available  on  request.         i 

Honored  by  His  Race 

►  Bracketing  his  name  with  those  of 
Dr.  George  Washington  Carver  and  Percy 
Levon  Juhan  among  the  Negro  leaders  in 
chemistry.  School  and  Society  magazine 
pays  tribute  to  Bruce  Henry  Green  '02. 
Clarence  W.  Wright  wrote: 

"There  appeared  on  the  scientific  horizon 
toward  the  latter  part  of  the  19th  century 
one  destined  to  he  a  great  teacher  of 
science.  Although  he  did  not  make  any 
great  discoveries  in  science,  he  possessed  a 
natural  gift  for  imparting  knowledge  and 
unfolding  to  others  the  beauty  of  nature." 
A  professor  of  chemistry  at  Wilberforce 
University  for  more  than  a  quarter  of  a 
century  (until  his  death  in  1937),  Mr. 
Green  consecrated  his  life  "to  the  develop- 
ment of  race  leadership  in  chemistry  and 
the  bringing  about  of  needed  improvements 
in  the  teaching  of  chemistry. 

An  appropriate  way  in  which  to  keep 
alive  the  spirit  of  one  who  gave  so  unself- 
ishly to  the  training  of  youth  in  chemistry 
would  be  to  name  in  his  honor  a  public 
building  or  perhaps  a  laboratory  in  the 
proposed  Faith  Hall  of  Science  to  be  con- 
structed at  Wilberforce."  i 

Back  to  His  Hometown 

►  His  war  rovinos  on  behalf  of  USO  over, 
Hugh  Rennie  '23  particularly  enjoyed  his 
work  in  "Craig's  Wife"  this  winter  be- 
cause his  wife,  Dorsa  Duckworth,  also  had 
a  part  in  the  Broadway  revival.  In  addi- 
tion to  playing  Joseph  Catelle,  Rennie  was 
stage  manager. 

"This  is  not  new  work  for  Mr.  Rennie," 
remarked  Helen  Barrett  of  the  Wilming- 
ton, Del.,  Journal-Every  Evening  when  the 
show  played  there  in  February  trials.  "He 
served  in  a  similar  capacity  for  the  long 
run  of  'Arsenic  and  Old  Lace.'  As  an 
actor,  Mr.  Rennie  has  'Goodbye  Again,' 
'You  Can't  Take  It  with  You,'  and  'Fam- 
ily Portrait'  to  his  credit,  and  as  manager 


TWO  PRESIDENTS:  Harry  Truman  returned  the 
compliment  to  Warren  B.  Francis  '29  by  attending 
the  lattcr's  inauguration  as  President  —  of  the  National 
Press  Club.  Greatest  organization  of  its  kind  in  the 
world,  the  Washington  club  has  a  large  membership, 
a  half-niillion-dollar  property,  and  activity.  Francis, 
correspondent  of  the  Los  .4ngeles  Times,  is  first  West 
Coaster  to  be  NPC  President  in  24  years.  (Acme  Photo) 


and  director  spent  a  period  overseas  with 
the  USO  in  New  Guinea  and  the  Philip- 
pines. (He  presented  the  first  group  of 
shows  in  Manila  after  the  recapture  of  the 
islands.)" 

He  has  directed  summer  theatres  at 
Pompton  Lakes,  Cape  May,  and  elsewhere, 
and  he  has  played  in  supporting  casts  of 
such  stars  as  the  Lunts,  Katharine  Cornell, 
and  Blanche  Yurka.  The  home-town  col- 
umnist recalled  his  fine  performance  in  the 
title  role  of  "Monsieur  Beaucaire"  as  a 
Wilmington  High  School  student  and  re- 
ferred to  his  Sock  and  Buskin  days  at 
Brown. 

Like  her  husband,  Miss  Duckworth  has 
been  connected  with  the  Theatre  Guild 
and  played  in  a  large  number  of  hits  and 
near-hits.  ^ 

Phi  Betes  Elect  Branch 

►  Claude  R.  Branch  '07  is  the  new  Pres- 
ident of  the  Rhode  Island  Alpha  of  Phi 
Beta  Kappa,  chosen  to  succeed  Prof.  R. 
Bruce  Lindsay  '20  at  the  annual  meeting 
of  the  chapter  June  14.  Other  officers 
elected  are:  Vice-President — Prof.  James 
B.  Hedges;  Secretary — Prof.  William  T. 
Hastings  '03;  Treasurer — Ronald  B.  Smith 
'23;  Historian — Prof.  Lawrence  C.  Wroth; 
Auditor — George  L.  Miner  "97.  Roger  T, 
Clapp  19  was  chairman  of  the  nominating 
committee  which  brought  in  the  slate. 

After  the  meeting  12  Brown  and  Pem- 
broke Seniors  and  three  Juniors  were  ini- 
tiated and  were  guests  at  lunch.  Prof.  Vin- 
cent Tomas  being  the  principal  speaker.     ^ 

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Japan's  I\eiv  Destiny 

>  Japan  now  believes  its  destiny  linked 
with  the  United  States,  but  Russia  is  en- 
gaged in  an  extravagant  attempt  to  win — 
or  force  Japan's  approval,  in  the  opinion 
of  Lt.  Col.  John  F.  Aiso  '31.  The  Los  An- 
geles Times  further  quotes  him  as  saying  he 
believes  withdrawal  of  American  occupa- 
tion forces  would  spark  a  scramble  for  the 
domination  of  Nippon  by  the  other  powers. 

Aiso,  who  was  a  banker  in  Japan  before 
the  war,  served  for  more  than  a  year  in 
the  intelligence  staff  section  of  General 
MacArthur's  Tokyo  headquarters.  He  en- 
listed in  the  American  Army  as  a  buck 
private  in  April,  1941,  and  rose  to  hold 
the  highest  rank  ever  held  by  a  Nisei.  As 
director  of  academic  training  at  the  Mili- 
tary Intelligence  Service  Language  School 
at  the  Presidio  of  San  Francisco,  Camp 
Savage,  and  Fort  Snelling,  he  supervised 
the  indoctrination  and  training  of  nearly 
6000  intelligence  men.  Some  60'/p  of 
these  were  Japanese-Americans  who  served 
with  the  Americans  in  the  Pacific.  He 
wears  the  Army  Commendation  Ribbon 
with  Oak  Leaf  Cluster  for  his  work  at  the 
intelligence  school  and  in  Tokyo.  He 
plans  to  return  to  law  practice  in  Los  An- 
geles. 

"General  MacArthur  is  doing  an  admir- 
able job,"  Aiso  said  in  the  Times  interview, 
"but  it  will  take  at  least  20  years  to  demo- 
cratize Japan — time  enough  for  the  educa- 
tion of  one  complete  generation.  The 
Japanese  themselves  want  us  to  remain  as 
long  as  possible."  ^ 


History  Near  Home 

►  ►  "A  Nhw  Approach  to  Local  Busi- 
ness History"  by  Leon  S.  Gay  "06  has  cre- 
ated quite  a  stir  in  historical  circles.  Orig- 
inally presented  before  the  American  His- 
tiirical  Association  in  New  York  last  win- 
ter, it  has  now  been  printed  by  the  Busi- 
ness Historical  Society  (Harvard)  in  its 
Bulletin.  Mr.  Gay  came  to  Providence  to 
give  a  paper  on  the  subject  before  the  R.  L 
Historical  Society  in  March. 

The  Cavendish  manufacturer  who  is  also 
President  of  the  Vermont  Historical  So- 
ciety (re-elected  in  January)  practised  what 
he  preached.  He  believed  that  economic 
history  would  never  he  understood  with- 
out more  information  about  the  small  busi- 
ness man.  Also,  when  the  75th  anniversary 
of  his  company  was  approaching,  he  sought 
to  have  an  accurate  history  of  it  written  and 
"in  addition,  a  study  of  the  social  and  eco- 
nomic background"  of  the  community.  The 
result  was  the  now-famous  "Neither  Wealth 
Nor  Poverty"  by  Janet  Mabie,  published 
with  the  imprint  of  the  Vermont  Historical 
Society — the  first  work  of  its  kind  so  to  be 
sponsored  in  America,  apparently.  It  was 
based  on  original  records,  to  which  the 
writer  was  given  unrestricted  access. 

The  title  of  the  book  was  taken  from 
Mr.  Gay's  remarks  as  presiding  officer  at 
Brown's  1941  Commencement  meeting: 
"We  have  neither  wealth  nor  poverty,  but 
in  these  times  when  the  foundation  stones 
of  Liberty  and  Justice  are  being  shattered, 
we  feel  Vermont  has  a  way  of  life  to  olTer, 
to  her  Sister  States  and  to  the  world." 

The  book  attacked  two  conceptions: 
"that  an  historical  society  is  a  collection  of 
elderly  people  living  in  the  past,  dreaming 
about  a  dry  and  musty  world  which  has  no 
relation  to  present  day  problems;  and  that 
business,  while  a  necessary  part  of  the  pro- 
duction front,  is  a  shady  institution  which 
thrives  on  secrecy,  with  no  sense  of  obliga- 
tion to  the  public  which  makes  its  profits 
possible."  Seeking  to  enlarge  upon  his 
idea,  Mr.  Gay  suggested  to  the  New  Eng- 
land Council  that  other  State  societies  be 
encouraged  to  delve  into  local  business 
history — a  proposal  followed  up  with  a 
group  formed  to  watch  over  this  project. 

Mr.  Gay  was  elected  in  May  to  take 
the  place  of  the  late  Dr.  A.  D.  Mead  as  a 
Life  Trustee  of  Middlebury  College.  On 
one  of  his  visits  to  that  campus  he  shared 
in  a  panel  discussion  as  a  member  of  the 
Middlebury  Cultural  Conference,  taking 
the  part  of  Business  and  Private  Enterprise 
in  a  debate  with  nine  professors.  Mr.  Gay 
has  just  been  appointed  a  member  of  the 
taxation  committee  of  the  National  Asso- 
ciation of  Manufacturers.  i 

Stigler  Confers  Abroad 

¥  Dr.  George  J.  Stigler,  professor  of 
economics  at  Brown  University  and  one  of 
the  country's  leading  economic  theorists, 
is  back  from  Europe  after  attending  a  10- 
day  conference  of  economists  of  the  so- 
called  "uld-fashioned"  liberal  school  at 
Montpelerin,  Switzerland.  Stigler  was  one 
of  30  representatives  from  the  United 
States  attending  the  conference  along  with 
other  delegates  from  throughout  the  world. 
The  purpose  of  the  meeting,  held  in  ac- 
cordance with  a  plan  proposed  by  Fred- 
erick Hayek,  author  of  "Road  to  Serfdom," 
was  to  explore  the  desirability  of  organiz- 
ing a  society  of  economists  who  are  in 
sympathy  with  the  classical  liberal  view- 
point of  the  19th  century.  Such  an  or- 
ganization would  formulate  a  program  de- 
signed to  reaffirm  the  economic  philosophy 
of  the  classical  liberal  based  on  the  mainte- 


nance of  individual  liberty  in  economic  lite 
as  contrasted  with  the  idea  of  a  planned 
economy. 

Professor  Stigler,  author  of  numerous 
books  and  articles  on  economic  theory,  was 
appointed  to  the  Brown  faculty  in  March, 
1946,  as  a  full  professor.  He  has  also 
been  a  member  of  the  faculties  at  Iowa 
State  University  and  at  the  Universities  of 
Chicago,  Michigan  and  Minnesota.  Dur- 
ing World  War  II,  Dr.  Stigler  served  on 
the  Research  Staff  of  the  National  Bureau 
of  Economic  Research,  as  "principal  econ- 
omist for  the  Office  of  Price  Administra- 
tion and  as  principal  statistician  in  the 
Division  of  War  Research.  ^ 

Samson  of  the   IJISRRA 

►  ►  A  COPY  of  the  Canton  Daily  Sun 
reached  us  from  China  recently,  although 
it  was  dated  Jan.  21.  Its  principal  news — 
for  u.s — was  the  following  item: 

"Henry  T.  Samson,  newly  appointed 
UNRRA  Chief  Representative  for  Kwang- 
tung,  arrived  in  China  yesterday.  Mr. 
Samson  served  as  Head  of  the  Division 
of  Regional  Administration  in  the 
UNRRA  China  Office.  In  this  capacity  he 
analyzed  the  UNRRA  CNRRA  programs 
in  the  15  China  regions  and  made  recom- 
mendations to  the  Director  of  the  China 
Office,  Maj.  Glen  E.  Edgerton,  for  pro- 
gram changes  and  extensions  of  the  pro- 
grams within  the  regions.  Mr.  Samson 
also  formerly  served  as  Chief  Welfare  Of- 
ficer for  Hunan  Province,  advising  on  wel- 
fare operations  there  during  the  critical 
famine  period  last  summer.  Mr.  Samson's 
UNRRA  experience  includes  service  in 
Greece,  Germany,  and  as  chief  of  the 
Luxembourg  Mission  during  'The  Battle 
of  the  Bulge"  period." 

The  Sun  was  something  new  in  our  con- 
tacts with  journalism,  our  interest  also 
being  caught  by  the  price  (C.N.C.  $100) 
and  a  gossip  column  by  Lotof  Hui. 

About  the  same  time  a  letter  from  Mr. 
Samson  informed  us  he  would  be  in  charge 
of  the  UNRRA  South  China  Office  in 
Canton  until  September  —  "a  fascinating 
job."     "The    next    six    months,"    he    said. 


BROWN    ALUMNI    MONTHLY 

"should  tell  the  story  in  China  one  way 
or  the  other  —  and  anybody's  guess  is 
worth  listening  to,  providing  you  remem- 
ber that  at  best  it  can  be  only  a  guess.  The 
outcome  is  unpredictable  but  not  without 
hope  either  way." 

Samson,  with  compliments  for  this  maga' 
zine,  also  revealed  his  intention  to  make 
gifts  to  the  Housing  and  Development 
Campaign  and  the  Alumni  Fund  in  mem' 
ory  of  his  brother,  Seneca  (Brown  1921), 
his  son  Jim,  killed  on  the  beach  at  Saipan 
with  the  Fourth  Marines,  and  himself.       < 


Zeta  Psi's  95th 

>  Zeta  Psi  observed  the  95th  anniversary 
of  Epsilon  Chapter  at  Brown  at  the  Uni- 
versity Club  in  Providence  in  April. 
Speakers  included:  John  Desmond  Glover 
'36  of  the  Harvard  Business  school  faculty 
and  consulting  expert  to  the  Assistant  Sec- 
retary of  War  for  Air;  Clinton  N.  Wil- 
liams '31,  chairman  of  the  banquet  com- 
mittee; Bennett  B.  Fuller  '45,  chapter  presi- 
dent- and  Cresap  S.  Watson  '50,  initiate. 
Lt.  George  W.  Williams  "42,  White  House 
Naval   aide,  was  toastmaster. 

The  Zeta  Psi  Association  of  Rhode 
Island  elected  the  following  officers:  Presi- 
dent—William A.  Jewett  "41,  director  ot 
the  Placement  Bureau  at  Brown:  Vice- 
President— C.  Woodbury  Gorman;  Secre- 
tary —  E.  Sheldon  Knowles;  Treasurer  — 
Don  C.  Brewer. 

$140,000  for  Graduate  Students 
>  The  sum  of  $140,000  for  fellowships 
and  positions  as  assistants  at  Brown  Uni- 
versity is  available  for  the  academic  year 
of  1947-1948,  Dr.  Roland  G.  D.  Richard- 
son, Dean  of  the  Graduate  School,  an- 
nounces. Included  are  teaching  fellowships 
of  $1250  to  $1500;  40  fellowships  of  $600 
to  $1200  for  study  in  the  sciences  and 
liberal  arts,  and  research  fellowships  for 
Brown  graduates.  Stipends  of.  $800  to 
$1200  are  offered  in  a  number  of  depart- 
ments for  80  assistantships.  The  Registrar 
of  the  Graduate  School  will  be  glad  to 
provide  full  information. 


Lifted  from  Our  Letters 


Sir: 

Somewhere  I  read  "You  can  lead  a  boy 
to  college,  but  you  can't  make  him  think." 
Somebody  has  to  do  a  little  thinking  and 
planning.    Here  are  a  few  thoughts: 

Every  college  or  university  is  just  what 
the  alumni  make  it.  The  alumni  and  friends 
make  it  possible  for  Brown  to  carry  on. 
At  the  end  of  his  course  every  alumnus  is 
indebted  to  Brown.  Brown  uses  money 
and  equipment,  much  more  than  the  in- 
dividual pays,  to  give  opportunity  to  pre- 
pare to  play  the  game  of  life. 

Each  one  has  to  hve  his  own  life  in  his 
own  way — nobody  can  live  it  for  him.  He 
may  call  it  a  bond  issued  by  Brown  to  pay 
the  extra  cost.  The  alumnus  may  give 
something  to  the  Alumni  Fund  annually 
which  can  be  considered  interest  on  the 
bond. 

Now  we  come  to  a  time  when  it  seems 
best  to  see  to  it  that  Brown  continues  to 
be  "way  out  in  front,  carrying  on  the  best 
kind  of  education  for  future  generations. 
Think  It  over.  We  are  passing  this  way 
but  once  and  can  take  nothing  with  us. 
Let's  co-operate  and  squeeze  out  all  we  can 
now  in  the  present  time,  which  is  all  we 
know  anything  about. 

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Mother  Brown  did  much  for  us,  and 
now  it  is  our  turn  to  join  together  and 
make  every  effort  to  help  Brown  continue 
the  kind  of  education  which  will  be  most 
beneficial  to  those  coming  after  us. 

Harry  L.  Grant  "90 

Providence 

Recently  when  I  was  en  route  from  Phila- 
delphia to  New  York,  I  sat  beside  a  doctor, 
a  graduate  some  ten  years  ago  from  George- 
town University  Medical  School.  In  the 
conversation  he  asked  me  from  what  col- 
lege I  had  graduated.  When  I  told  him 
BROWN,  he  instantly  exclaimed,  "That  is 
where  Charles  Evans  Hughes  graduated."' 
It  was  not  a  particular  professor  or  half 
dozen  professors,  or  any  one  department 
that  made  Brown  loom  high  in  this  doctor"s 
mind.  It  was  a  man — our  highly  esteemed 
Charles  Evans  Hughes. 

In  this  case  a  man  is  greater  than  an  in- 
stitution. Arthur  Wakefield  "00 
Wyncote,  Pa. 

*  *  ^^ 

Have  noticed  Brown  is  getting  better 
and  more  publicity  lately. 

C.  C.  MYERS  "25 
Philadelphia 


BROWN    ALUMNI    MONTHLY 
Vital  Statistics    i 

ENGAGEMEISTS 

*  *  193  2  —  Miss  Helen  H.  Coons, 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wilfrid  H.  He- 
bcrt  of  Pittsfield,  to  Martin  J.  Daly. 

1935 — Mrs.  Patricia  Allen,  daughter  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Francis  A.  Satterthwaite  of 
Woburn,  Mass.,  to  William  O.  Wallburg. 

1936 — Miss  Barbara  Bigelow,  daughter 
of  Mrs.  Leonard  C.  Bigelow  of  Framing- 
ham  Center,  to  David  Balfour. 

1938^Miss  Paula  W.  Hurvitt,  daughter 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ely  Hurvitt  of  Maiden, 
Mass.,  to  Alexander  Kantor. 

1938 — Miss  Eann  B.  GanzenrauUer, 
daughter  of  Mrs.  Mildred  B.  Ganzenmuller 
of  Forest  Hills,  Queens  and  Mr.  William 
T.  Ganzenmuller  of  Teaneck,  N.  J.,  to  Carl 
G.  Nesbitt,  Jr. 

1939 — Miss  Evelyne  F.  Pick,  daughter 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  Pick  of  Providence 
to  Justin  L.  Robinson,  son  of  Benjamin 
Robinson    13. 

1940 — Miss  Dorothy  Ann  Dyson, 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  F.  Dyson  of 
Cleveland,  to  James  S.  Ely,  son  of  Prof.  Al- 
bert A.  Bennett  '10. 

1942 — Miss  Aline  F.  Barnes,  daughter 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  F.  Barnes  of  Syracuse, 
to  Andrew  S.  Clark. 

1943 — Miss  Barbara  A.  Keohane,  daugh- 
ter of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  S.  Keohane  of 
Chestnut  Hill,  Mass.,  to  Charles  D.  Houli- 
han. 

1943 — Miss  Lillian  M.  Baker,  daughter 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Samuel  M.  Baker  of  Provi- 
dence, to  Francis  X.  Cooney,  son  of  John 
J.  Cooney  '08. 

1943 — Miss  Elenore  S.  Finklestein, 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Benjamin  Finkle- 
stein of  Brockton,  to  Peter  S.  Freedman. 

1943 — Miss  Constance  Hubbard,  daugh- 
ter of  Lt,  Col.  Frank  E.  Hubbard  and  Mrs. 
Hubbard  of  Westford  Circle,  to  Marshall 
F.  Stock  well. 

1943 — Miss  Jean  M.  Kelly,  daughter  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Martin  J.  Kelly  of  Oak  Park, 
111.,  to  Howard  W.  Raymond. 

1944 — Miss  Eleanor  B.  Blaisdell,  daugh- 
ter of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sidney  B.  Blaisdell  of 
Providence,  to  Robert  G.  Berry. 

1945 — Miss  Margaret  E.  Benton,  daugh- 
ter of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  Benton  of 
Scarsdale,  N.  Y.,  to  F.  Lawrence  CufF. 

1946 — Miss  Jacqueline  S.  Berger,  Pem- 
broke '46,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Louis 
J.  Berger  of  Edgewood,  to  Charles  A. 
Wiesel. 

1946 — Miss  Frances  E.  Gerry,  daughter 
of  Mrs.  Edward  L.  Gerry  of  Lowell,  Mass., 
to  Ellwood  E.  Shields. 

1944— Miss  Ruth  S.  Warren,  Pembroke 
'46,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Nathan  P. 
Warren  of  Providence,  to  Leslie  B.  Cohen. 

1946 — Miss  Beth  Methot,  daughter  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Leonce  Methot  of  New  Bed- 
ford, to  Midshipman  Philip  W.  Erickson, 
USN. 

1947 — Miss  June  N.  Johnston,  daughter 
of  Lt.  Col.  and  Mrs.  Leicester  S.  Johnston 
of  Melrose,  Mass.,  to  Horace  Megathlin,  Jr. 

1947 — Miss  Harriett  V.  Brewer,  daugh- 
ter of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  N.  Howard  Brewer  of 
Hartford,  to  William  Welling. 

1947 — Miss  Virginia  B.  Swift,  daughter 
of  Mrs.  Marguerite  E.  Swift  of  Providence, 
to  Ens.  Wilson  J.  Rcmick,  USNR. 

WEDDiyCS 

>  1933 — Herbert  H.  PicKARD  and  Doro- 
thy Rice,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Vernon 
Rice  of  Wcstboro,  Mass.,  on  Oct.  5,  1946. 
Rev.  Kenneth  L.  Palmer  '31  officiated. 


EASTERN  CHAMPlOrsS:  Brown's  1947  NROTC  Rifle  Team  not  only 
won  regional  honors  but  won  24  out  of  23  matches. 


1933 — Maurice  T.  Taylor  and  Miss 
Charlotte  R.  Seserman,  daughter  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Leon  F.  Seserman  of  Colchester, 
Conn.,  March  2,  1947.  Address:  Norwich, 
Conn. 

1933 — Robert  W.  Wolfe  and  Miss  Mar- 
jorie  Froehlich,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Charles  F.  Froehlich  of  New  Rochelle, 
N.  Y.,  in  the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  on 
Feb.  8,  1947.  Arnold  Tulp  "33  and  Nor- 
man Pierce  '33  were  ushers.  Address: 
Essex  Falls,  N.  J. 

193  5— Robert  C.  Taylor  and  Miss  Hen- 
rietta L.  Jones,  in  Menauhant,  Mass.  on 
July  6,  1946. 

1936 — Stephen  N.  Burgess  and  Miss 
Emma  Louis  Heald,  daughter  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Charles  H.  Heald  of  Jackson,  Miss., 
in  the  Universalist  National  Methodist 
Church,  Washington,  D.  C,  on  March  14, 
1947.  Mr.  Ralph  Tanner  '36  was  best 
man.   Address:    Providence,  R.  L 

1938— J.  J.  Henry  Muller,  III  and  Miss 
Elizabeth  F.  Cottenham  of  Hudson  Falls, 
N.  Y.,  in  Zion  Episcopal  Church,  April  27, 

1946.  Mr.  James  R.  Cronkhite  '40  was  an 
usher.  Address:  5  Usher  St.,  Woodmont, 
Conn. 

1939 — Earl  H.  Metzger,  Jr.  and  Miss 
Elinor  R.  Sauls,  daughter  of  Rev.  and  Mrs. 
George  E.  Sauls,  in  St.  Andrew's  Episcopal 
Church,  Panama  City,  Fla.,  Feb.  22,  1947. 
Address:  Atlanta,  N.  J. 

1939 — Leonard  D.  LeValley  and  Miss 
Elizabeth  K.  Pentz,  daughter  of  Mrs.  Van 
Brunt  Seaman  of  Providence,  in  the  First 
Congregational  Church,  March  8,  1947. 
Mr.  Benjamin  A.  Chase  '38  was  best  man. 

1939 — William  L.  Carter  and  Miss  Mary 
Brauers,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  C. 
Brauers  of  Milwaukee,  in  St.  Nicholas  Mis- 
sion, Feb.  22,  1947.  Address:  Buenos 
Aires,  South  America. 

1940— Charles  B.  Chase,  Jr.  and  Miss 
Nancy  E.  Bastien,  daughter  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Alvin  E.  Bastien  of  Chicago,  Jan. 
25,  1947. 

1940 — Frederick  Bloom  and  Miss  Ann 
Berliner,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edwin 
E.  Berliner  of  Larchmont,  N.  Y.,  Feb.  20, 

1947.  Address:  South  Portland,  Me. 

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1941 — Alexander  Murdock,  Jr.  and  Miss 
Shirley  M.  Abbott,  daughter  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Merton  B.  Abbott  of  Norwalk,  Conn., 
Dec.  27,  1946.   Address:  Westport,  Conn. 

1942 — Dr.  Linwood  H.  Johnson,  Jr.  and 
Miss  Alma  Mae  Burton,  daughter  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Renald  V.  Burton  of  Hartwood, 
Va.  in  the  National  Baptist  Memorial 
Church,  Washington,  D.  C,  March  15, 
1947.   Address:  Washington,  D.  C. 

1942 — Elmer  M.  Blistein  and  Sophia 
SchafFer,  Pembroke  '41,  daughter  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  David  SchafFer  of  Pawtucket,  in 
Ohawe  Sholam  Synagogue,  Nov.  27,  1946. 
Bernard  E.  Bell  '42  was  best  man.  Address: 
228  Waterman  St.,  Providence. 

1943 — Joseph  L.  Johnson,  Jr.  and  Miss 
Ruth  S.  Hunter,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Louis  J.  Hunter  of  Newton  and  Duxbury, 
in  the  Grace  Church,  Newton,  March  29, 
1947.  Charles  Houlihan  '43  was  an  usher. 
Address:  Duxbury,  Mass. 

1943 — James  G.  Mitchell  and  Miss  M. 
Janet  Linderson,  Pembroke  '45,  daughter 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Harold  E.  Linderson  of 
Riverside,  R.  I.,  in  the  United  Presby- 
terian Church,  Fall  River,  Oct.   19,  1946. 

1943 — George  P.  Wargo,  Jr.  and  Miss 
Nancy  M.  Olsen,  daughter  of  Mrs.  Theo- 
dore Olsen  of  New  London  and  the  late 
Mr.  Olsen,  in  St.  Joseph's  rectory,  Feb.  24, 
1947.  Address:  New  London,  Conn. 

1944 — Edward  A.  Shields  and  Mis8 
Mary  K.  Hope,  daughter  of  Mrs.  John  A. 
Hope  of  Waban,  Mass.,  in  St.  Philip  Neri 
Church,  Feb.  15,  1947.  Henry  A.  Frost, 
Jr.,  '44  was  best  man,  Peter  Chase  '44, 
Robert  Dunbar  '44,  and  Philip  C.  Osberg 
'44  were  ushers. 

1944 — Robert  W.  Eisner  and  Miss  Eliza- 
beth Hatheway  Fuller,  daughter  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  William  E.  Fuller  of  New  Bed- 
ford, Mass.,  Dec.  28,  1946. 

1944 — Robert  H.  Batchelder  and  Miss 
Janet  W.  Bcntley,  daughter  of  Major  and 
Mrs.  Harold  G.  Bentley  of  Edgewood,  R.  I., 
in  the  Church  of  the  Transfiguration, 
March  22,  1947.  Richard  B.  Pretat  '45  was 
an  usher.  Address;  1981/2  Burlington  St., 
Providence. 


BROWN    ALUMNI    MONTHLY 


1944 — Joseph  W.  Schwanda  and  Miss 
Helen  J.  Goslin,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Joseph  V.  Goshn  of  Greenwich,  Conn.,  in 
St.  Mary's  Church,  Feb.  1,  1947.  Maxwell 
Montgomery  "44  was  an  usher. 

1945 — Martin  H.  Styles  and  Miss  Eliza- 
beth Hassell,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Ira  F.  Hassell  of  New  York,  in  the  Church 
of  the  Covenant,  March  29,  1947.  John  J. 
Mealy  '45  was  best  man  and  William  Hoff- 
man '45  was  an  usher. 

1945 — Joseph  A.  Charette,  Jr.  and  Miss 
Elisabeth  A.  Starkey,  Pembroke  '47,  daugh- 
ter of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fred  A.  Starkey  of 
Brockton,  Mass.,  in  the  Collegiate  Marble 
Church,  New  York  City,  Aug.  17,  1946. 

1946 — William  S.  Barrett  and  Miss  Jean 

C.  Jarden,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Car- 
roll R.  Jarden  of  Jenkintown,  Pa.,  in  the 
Church  of  Our  Saviour,  Feb.  15,  1947. 

1946 — Thomas  Asquith,  Jr.  and  Miss 
Edith  E.  Cook,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Berton  E.  Cook  of  Fall  River,  in  the  First 
Baptist  Church,^  Feb.   14,   1947.    Bradford 

D.  Davol,  3rd,  '46  was  an  usher.  Address: 
250  Mildred  Ave.,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

BIRTHS 

►  1927— To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Selig  Green- 
berg  of  Providence,  a  daughter,  Ann 
Gladys,  Feb.   12,  1947. 

1928— To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Kent  F.  Matte- 
son  of  Providence,  a  second  daughter, 
Lydia  Kent,  March  9,  1947. 

1929~To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  VanNest 
of  Worcester,  Mass.,  a  son,  Thomas  Lyons, 
Dec.  5,  1946. 

1933— To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Clarkson  A. 
Collins,  3rd,  of  Providence,  a  second  son, 
Lodowick  Updike,  March  8,  1947. 

1934— To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  K. 
Campbell  of  Chicago,  a  second  daughter, 
Judith  King,  March  26,  1947. 

1936 — To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  K.  Leahy 
of  Parlin,  N.  J.,  a  son  David  Hayes,  March 
28,  1947. 

1936— To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robert  Knobel 
of  Miami,  Fla.,  a  girl,  Sherrill  Lynn,  March 
11,  1947. 

1936 — To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  G. 
Krause  of  Lebanon,  Pa.,  a  daughter,  Nancy, 
April  24,  1947. 

1936 — To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Theodore  Tan- 
nenwald,  Jr.,  of  Washington,  D.  C,  a  son, 
Robert,  March  16,  1947. 

1937 — To  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Joseph  C. 
Dembo  of  Groton,  Conn.,  a  son,  Franklin 
Walt,  Dec.  13,  1946. 

1938— To  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Howard  A. 
Blazar  of  Philadelphia,  a  daughter,  Jean 
Barron,  Feb.  5,  1947. 

1940 — To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Norman  Stan- 
ley Case,  Jr.,  of  Bethel,  Vt.,  a  son,  John 
Warren,  Feb.  18,  1947. 

1940— To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  L. 
Wilder,  Jr.,  of  Washington,  D.  C,  a  daugh- 
ter, Emily  Kempton,  March  8,  1947. 

1940 — To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robert  S.  Ware 
of  Montclair,  N.  J.,  a  son,  Robert,  March 
14,  1947. 

1941— To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Richard  E. 
Hale  of  Boston,  a  daughter,  Judith  Bar- 
bara, Oct.  19,  1946. 

1941— To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Stephen  G. 
Stone,  Jr.,  of  Pleasantville,  N.  Y.,  a  son, 
Stephen  Grant  III,  Dec.  8,  1946. 

1941— To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Norman  D. 
Newcomb  of  Schoharie,  N.  Y.,  a  second 
son,  James  Allan,  Jan.  28,  1947. 

1942 — To  Captain  and  Mrs.  E.  T.  Savig- 
nano  of  Apponaug,  R.  I.,  a  second  son, 
Richard  French,  Sept.  27,  1946. 

1943— To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dwight  R.  Ladd 
of  East  Wareham,  Mass.,  a  son,  Dwight 
Robert,  Jr.,  March  5,  1947. 


1943— To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Donald  E.  Cor- 
zine  (Audrey  Armstrong,  Pembroke  '43) 
of  Milwaukee,  a  son,  Kent  Brayton,  Feb. 
20,  1947. 

1944 — To  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Eugene  D. 
Rames  of  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  a  son,  Peter 
Byron,  Feb.  17,  1947. 

1944 — To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Marshall  Dowe 
of  Daniclson,  Conn.,  a  daughter,  Susan 
Elizabeth,  Sept.  8,  1946. 

1944 — To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  Benjamin 
Nevin,  Jr.,  of  Providence,  a  daughter, 
Joyce,  March   10,   1947. 

1944 — To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Louis  R.  Glavis, 
Jr.,  of  Providence,  a  daughter,  Diane,  Jan. 
18,  1947. 


1944— To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  P. 
Isherwood  of  Tiverton,  R.  I.,  a  son,  David 
Durfee,  March  11,  1947. 

1945  —  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Paul  Fontan, 
twin  5ons,  John  and  Paul  Gregory,  January 
6,  1947. 

1945— To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robert  G.  Fur- 
long of  Montclair,  N.  J.,  a  son,  Robert  G., 
Jr.,  Jan  2,  1947. 

1945 — To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jonathan  P. 
Brooks  of  Providence,  a  daughter,  Carol, 
Feb.  7,  1947. 

1947 — To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Walter  E. 
Evans,  Jr.,  of  New  Orleans,  La.,  a  son, 
James,  Nov.  23,  1946  i 


►   ►  Brunonians  Far  and  Near 


EDITED   BY  JOHN 

1882 

The  Pawling  School  at  Pawling,  N.  Y., 
which  Dr.  Frederick  L.  Gamage  founded 
in  1907  and  where  he  served  as  headmas- 
ter or  chaplain  for  3  5  years,  has  been  ac- 
quired by  Trinity  School  of  New  York 
City.  Trinity  has  long  wished  to  have  a 
supplementary  boarding  school  in  the  coun- 
try and  will  open  the  Trinity-Pawling 
School  in  the  fall. 

1890 

Rev.    Abram    LeGrand,    D.D.,    has   be- 
come  interim  pastor  of  the   Summit  Ave. 
Baptist  Church  in  Jersey  City,  N.  J. 
1891 

We  note  with  regret  the  death  of  Mrs. 
Alice  A.  Taft,  widow  of  Robert  W.  Taft 
'91. 

1892 

Prof.  Edmund  B.  Munger  has  been  a 
resident  of  Xenia,  Ohio,  since  his  retire- 
ment from  Illinois  Wesleyan.  He  has  had 
a  long  record  of  excellent  teaching  and 
musicianship,  and  we  recall  a  piano  recital 
he  gave  in  Providence  some  years  ago  to 
the  delight  of  all. 

William  C.  Langdon  is  living  at  Rose- 
ville  Rd.,  Westport,  Conn. 
1893 

Robert  M.  Brown  sends  a  new  address 
at  Mount  Philo  Inn,  North  Ferrisburg,  Vt. 

Stephen  Hopkins  is  living  at  275  Elm 
St.,  Biddesford,  Me. 

Henry  Arnold  corrects  his  address  to 
read  Pemaquid,  Me. 

1894 

J.  Schuyler  Fox,  retired  principal  of  the 
Poughkeepsie  High  School  in  New  York, 
took  an  active  part  in  the  formation  of 
the  new  Mid-Hudson  Brown  Club  in  that 
city  and  had  a  post  of  honor  at  the  head 
table  as  the  senior  alumnus  present.    He 


Hawaiian  Chronicle 

►  George  McKinley  McClellan 
'95  has  been  in  Honolulu  to  do  some 
research  for  a  volume  on  the  early 
history  of  Hawaii  which  he  has  been 
commissioned  to  write.  He  was  a 
logical  choice  for  the  task  inasmuch 
as  he  played  a  lively  role  in  the  de- 
velopment of  Hawaii  through  its 
most  crucial  period. 

He  is  spoken  of  as  "one  of  the 
comparatively  few  men  living  today 
who  was  personally  associated  with 
those  responsible  for  overthrowing 
the  old  Hawaiian  monarchy,  setting 
up  the  RepuWic  of  Hawaii,  and 
turning  that  into  the  Territory  of 
Hawaii."  ^ 


B.  HARCOLRT  "43 

takes  great  satisfaction  in  the  good  men 
who  have  come  to  Brown  from  Pough- 
keepsie. 

1895 
George  E.  Smith  sends  us  his  address  at 
71  Broadway,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

1897 

Dr.  Marcius  H.  Merchant  is  the  first 
president  of  the  new  Bristol  County  Medi- 
cal Association  in  Rhode  Island.  He  has 
been  a  physician  in  Warren  and  Barring- 
ton  for  more  than  40  years. 

Francis  B.  Richard  sends  us  his  perma- 
nent address  at  the  Sandy  Hook  P.  O.  in 
Connecticut. 

Laid  up  for  repairs  and  not  able  to  come 
to  the  50th  reunion,  several  members  sent 
greetings:  Herbert  A.  Matteson  at  home 
at  30  Fairview  Ave.,  West  Warwick;  Clar- 
ence H.  Lingham,  retired  from  Ginn  8^  Co., 
publishing,  at  home  in  Littleton,  Mass.; 
Russell  Hathaway,  retired  in  1943  from 
the  Associated  Press,  is  convalescing  from 
a  siege  of  illness  but  sent  greetings  in  his 
own  hand,  cheerful,  from  35  Van  Schoick 
Ave.,  Albany. 

Prof.  Elijah  W.  Bagster-Collins,  of  the 
Faculty  of  Columbia  Teachers  College,  sent 
his  regrets  from  the  Siueen  Elizabeth,  say- 
ing that  he  and  his  wife  were  to  spend 
the  next  few  months  in  Switzerland. 

Arthur  M.  McCrillis,  as  deacon  of  the 
Central  Baptist  Church  of  Providence, 
acted  for  the  entire  congregation  in  pre- 
senting their  testimonial  to  the  retiring 
pastor.  Rev.  Dale  D.  Dutton. 

Russell  Grinnell,  President  of  Grinnell 
Corporation,  has  for  the  first  time  in  the 
company's  long  history,  made  public  its 
annual  report.  The  Wall  Street  ]ourna\ 
noted:  "Grinnell,  which  makes  sprinkler 
systems  for  industrial  and  other  buildings, 
has  decided  it  is  time  to  publish  earnings 
in  view  of  the  wider  distribution  of  its 
stock  as  compared  with  earlier  years." 

George  L.  Miner,  long  Treasurer  of  the 
Providence  Art  Club,  presented  his  resig- 
nation this  June  and  heard  pleasant  praise 
of  his  services. 

1898 

Richard  R.  Hunter,  the  Scarsdale  In- 
quirer reports,  has  received  official  War 
Department  commendation  "in  recognition 
of  meritorious  service  to  The  Quartermaster 
General  in  the  renegotiation  of  Govern- 
ment contracts  for  the  elimination  of  ex- 
cessive war  profits."  The  citation  contin- 
ues: "With  conscientious  and  painstaking 
care  he  devoted  himself  to  the  duties  of  ne- 
gotiator.   His  reasonable  and  judicial  atti- 


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BROWN    ALUMNI    MONTHLY 


A  Bear  for  the  Askings 

►  ►  In  A  CARTOON',  a  Bear  is  one  thing.  But  even  a  Brown  man  would  rather  not 
have  a  bear  on  his  property.  Its  something  you'd  as  soon  give  away — on  a  come- 
and'get-it  basis. 

When  Charles  Leslie  Paull  "97  came  back  for  his  50th  reunion,  he  brought  a 
clipping  of  a  gravure  feature  from  the  Denver  Post  for  Sept.  29,  1946,  docu- 
menting his  encounter  with  a  bear  in  his  hencoop  near  Englewood,  Colo.  As  it 
happened,  the  hencoop  was  unoccupied  and  abandoned,  and  it  provided  only  a 
trap,  for  Paull  shut  the  door  on  the  animal.  With  the  help  of  the  State  humane 
society,  the  county  sheriff,  and  the  superintendent  ot  the  Denver  Zoo,  Paull  rigged 
a  noose  on  the  end  of  a  stout  pole.  Hogtying  the  120-pound  youngster  followed, 
and  Bruno  moved  into  the  :oo  in  Denver  City  Park. 

Mr.  Paull  brought  a  number  of  Brown  souvenirs  which  the  University  Archivist 
gratefully  accepted.  They  included  an  acorn  carved  from  a  beam  from  Uni- 
versity Hall  in  1883  (turning  oak  back  into  acorn  was  a  neat  switch),  a  copy  of  the 
resolution  signed  by  President  Andrews  and  the  four  class  presidents  when  Paull 
went  off  to  the  Spanish  War,  and  photos  of  Profs.  Bumpus,  Mead,  Gorham, 
Tower,  and  Field  of  the  Biology  Department,  taken  in  their  offices  during  Paull's 
undergraduate  years.  A  veteran  of  the  Spanish  and  First  World  Wars,  Mr.  Paull 
worked  in  an  ammunition  factory  during  the  recent  war.  i 


tude  coupled  with  his  sagacity  in  business 
and  finance  and  his  tactful  and  persuasive 
manner  succeeded  in  winning  the  coopera- 
tion of  business  firms  in  achieving  fair  and 
sound  renegotiation  settlements."  Mr. 
Hunter  is  the  former  mayor  of  Scarsdale 
village. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dwight  K.  Bartlett  re- 
turned in  May  from  an  airplane  tour  of 
South  America.  He  is  an  officer  of  the 
Builders  Iron  Foundry  in  Providence 

George  W.  Harrington  is  now  living  at 
190  Upton  Ave.,  Providence. 

1899 

Clarence  S.  Brigham,  director  of  the 
American  Antiquarian  Society  of  Worces- 
ter, has  recently  completed  "A  History  and 
Bibliography  of  American  Newspapers," 
published  in  two  volumes  by  the  Harvard 
Press. 

Judge  Charles  A.  Walsh  was  named 
chairman  of  a  Providence  committee  to  ar- 
range a  program  for  "Operation  Naval 
Reserve"  held  here  in  May. 

John  D.  Burchard  sends  his  address  at 
Box  461,  Nenana,  Alaska. 

1900 

At  the  spring  meeting,  in  Montreal,  of 
the  Canadian  Section  of  the  American 
Water  Works  Association,  Charles  G. 
Richardson  read  an  illustrated  paper  on 
"Advances  in  Flow  Metering  and  Con- 
trolling Equipment." 

1901 

Why  wait  till  our  50th  anniversary? 
Secretary  William  H.  Hull  put  it  up  to 
the  members  of  the  class  in  a  letter  that 
went  to  all  in  May.  "At  our  45th  reunion 
last  June,  some  sentiment  was  manifest  for 
our  next  reunion  in  June,  1949,  rather  than 
wait  for  the  regular  fifth-year  date  in 
1951,"  he  reported.  "As  you  must  realize, 
we  are  not  getting  any  younger  each  year. 
We  would  like  very  much  to  have  your 
views  on  holding  a  reunion  in  1949." 

At  the  13th  annual  session  of  the  Insti- 
tute of  World  Affairs  to  be  held  at  Warner, 
N.  H.  next  August,  Dr.  Arthur  I.  Andrews 
will  teach  a  course  on  "The  Background  of 
Mediterranean  Problems."  Dr.  Andrews 
was  formerly  Professor  of  Diplomacy  at 
the  Charles  University  and  Lecturer  at  the 
University  of  Cluj  and  Sofia. 

The  Goodwin  Memorial  Library  in  Had- 
ley,  Mass.,  has  received  from  Col.  G.  A. 
Taylor  framed  pictures  of  the  13  men  from 
the  town  who  gave  their  lives  in  World 
War  II.  Col.  Taylors  poetry  was  praised 
at  a  recent  meeting  of  Hope  Grange  which 
featured  Hadley  writers. 


1902 

In  his  30  years  as  pastor  of  the  First 
Baptist  Church  in  Anderson  Park,  Hacken- 
sack,  N.  J.,  Dr.  Harry  C.  Leach  has  seen 
the  membership  grow  from  179  to  1051; 
the  Sunday  School  from  125  to  1201. 
Offerings  over  30  years  have  totalled  more 
than  $650,000,  while  the  church  property, 
including  $105,000  church,  chapel,  service 
house,  annex,  and  parsonage  are  all  debt- 
free.  Jeremiah  Holmes  left  with  us  at 
Commencement  time  the  program  of  the 
30th  anniversary  service  Dec.  8,  1946.  Dr. 
Leach  received  his  honorary  D.D.  from 
Wheaton  in   1931. 

James  B.  Littlefield  has  been  elected  92nd 
grand  master  of  The  Grand  Lodge  of 
Rhode  Island  Masons. 

P.  D.  Sherman  sends  a  new  address  at 
Townshend,  Vt. 

1903 

A  current  proposal  in  Phi  Beta  Kappa 
would  permit  election  of  memhers-at-large. 

Seizing  an  Opportunity 


in  addition  to  the  regular  selection  by  the 
various  chapters.  Prof.  William  T.  Hast- 
ings of  Brown  was  one  of  nine  signers  of  a 
statement  in  opposition  to  the  plan,  pub- 
lished in  Tlie  Key  Reporter  this  summer. 

Mrs.  Arthur  L.  Philbrick  died  suddenly 
of  a  heart  attack  May  7  at  the  Philbrick's 
home,  S  Moses  Brown  St.,  in  Providence. 
The  class  was  represented  at  her  funeral 
and  expresses  a  collective  sympathy. 
1904 

Herbert  Stowell  sends  a  new  address  at 
Room  616,  49  Westminster  St.,  Providence, 
R.  I. 

John  F.  Woodman,  who  has  retired,  is 
now  living  at  the  B.  P.  O.  Elks  National 
Home  in  Bedford,  Va. 

Chester  S.  Allen,  president  of  Lockwood 
Greene  Engineers,   Inc.,   of  New  York,   is 
living  at  71  W.  12th  St.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
1905 

Miss  Esther  Goodwin,  daughter  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  E.  Sykes  Goodwin  of  Ludlow, 
Vt.,  was  recently  married  to  the  Rev.  Felix 
Davis,  Fall  River  pastor. 

Rev.  Harold  G.  Arnold  has  announced 
his  retirement  from  the  First  Parish  Uni- 
tarian   Church   of   West   Roxbury,   Mass., 
after  3  5  years  of  service. 
1907 

Ben  Graves  of  Brown  &?  Sharpe  Manu- 
facturing Co.  prepared  a  paper  in  May  for 
delivery  at  the  annual  meeting  ot  the 
American  Society  for  Engineering  Educa- 
tion in  Minneapolis  on  "What  the  Machine 
Tool  Industry  Wants  of  Education."  He 
was  at  the  head  table  when  the  Brown  En- 
gineering Association  held  its  May  23  din- 
ner at  the  R.  I.  Yacht  Club  and  spoke 
briefly. 

Eugene  DeMerritt  is  signal  engineer  for 
what  he  abbreviates  as  "the  C.  of  Ga.  Ry. 
Co."  He  is  living  at  125  Buford  Place, 
Macon,  Ga. 

1908 

Although  Harry  A.  Ehmke-  had  been  ill 
for  some  time,  word  of  his  death  came  as  a 


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A  Chance  for  All 

►  Brown  University's  project  to  give  a 
college  chance  to  veterans  who  had  been 
disqualified  theoretically  by  low  high  school 
grades  or  lack  of  credits  from  admission  to 
other  schools  merits  thoughtful  study. 

Brown  set  up  a  special  project  for  such 
veterans  in  its  area — on  an  experimental 
basis  and  somewhat  pessimistically — with 
the  expectation  of  shifting  a  select  few  after 
two  years  to  the  established  college.  Actu- 
ally these  mature  GI  students,  who  lacked 
the  accepted  educational  background  for 
college  entrance,  have  demonstrated  such 
remarkable  capacity  that  one-third  of  them 
have  already  been  transferred.  Fifty  per- 
cent stand  as  high  in  scholarship,  or  higher, 
than  75  percent  of  the  "highly  qualified" 
regular  college  students. 

With  so  many  colleges  arbitrarily  rais- 
ing their  admission  "standards,"  these  re- 
sults are  important.  They  throw  doubt 
on  the  whole  philosophy  behind  college  ad- 
missions and  indicate  that  a  large  propor- 
tion of  the  Nation's  best  talent  is  being  lost 
and  many  capable  and  deserving  veterans 
are  being  unjustly  shut  out  of  the  colleges. 

The  Brown  experiment  ought  to  be  con- 
sidered carefully  by  the  Veterans'  Admin- 
istration, by  educators  and  by  other  public 
leaders  with  a  view  to  making  it  a  nation- 
wide program.  ^ 
— Philadelphia  hiquuer 

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Again,  the  Veterans 

►  Brown  university'.s  widely-publici:ed 
Veterans  College  has  again  proved  itself  to 
be  more  than  an  uncertain  educational  ex- 
periment to  meet  the  expediency  of  the 
moment.  An  announcement  of  the  scholas- 
tic averages  for  the  first  semester  of  the  cur- 
rent academic  year  shows  the  success  of 
Brown's  unique  method  of  meeting  its 
obligation  in  providing  educational  oppor- 
tunity to  424  veteran  men  and  women  who 
were  unable  to  satisfy  the  entrance  re- 
quirements of  the  regular  college. 

The  first  semester  scholastic  average  of 
the  Veterans  College,  2.0606,  compares  fa- 
vorably with  the  average  attained  by  mem- 
bers of  the  regular  college,  2.3  364.  This 
numerical  system  of  grading  indicates  that 
the  average  student  in  the  veterans  group 
IS  receiving  quality  grades  of  C  or  better. 

At  the  beginning  of  the  present  semester 
137  male  students  who  had  attained  a 
scholastic  average  of  2.9  were  transferred 
to  the  regular  college.  Three  female  stu- 
dents with  an  average  of  3.17  were  ad- 
mitted to  the  regular  sessions  in  Pembroke 
College.    (Another  100  transfer  this  fall.) 

This  transfer  occurred  a  year  and  one- 
half  earlier  than  had  been  originally  an- 
ticipated by  the  University  officials  and 
made  possible  the  admittance  of  155  addi- 
tional men  with  the  opening  of  the  new 
term  last  February.  The  present  enroll- 
ment of  the  Veterans  College  is  445.  i 


BROWN    ALUMNI    MONTHLY 


shock.  His  widow  wrote  Roy  Grinnell  May 
28  to  report  Harry's  passing  on  March  12, 
1947.  Three  sons  and  four  grandchildren 
also  survive.  Mrs.  Ehnike  added,  "May 
the  Brown  alumni  and  especially  the  class 
of  "08  continue  to  he  successtul  in  all  their 
undertakings."  Her  address:  108  Main  St., 
Silver  Creek,  N.  Y 

Having  prepared  for  Brown  at  Mo.scs 
Brown  School,  Ehmke  was  one  of  the  lead- 
ing athletes  in  the  class,  with  letters  in  both 
baseball  and  football.  He  left  after  his 
Junior  year  to  take  up  Forestry  studies 
elsewhere.  He  has  conducted  a  saw-milling 
and  contracting  business  lor  many  years. 
Three  brothers,  Frank  "OJ,  Charles  "05,  and 
Lester  Ehmke  "14,  also  attended  Brown, 
while  Murray  Ehnike  "37  is  a  nephew. 

Carl  H.  Carson,  who  is  sales  promotion 
manager  for  the  Precision  Precast  Concrete 
Building  Slabs  Co..  is  living  at  728  Moana 
Cottages,  Honolulu  11,  T.H. 

1909 

For  its  Annual  Reunion  the  Class  ol 
1909  had  a  luncheon  meeting  Sunday 
afternoon,  June  H,  at  the  Rhode  Island 
Country  Club.  A  number  of  the  members 
played  golf  but  most  conversed  during  the 
afternoon.  In  the  evening  the  Class  at- 
tended the  Brown  Dinner.  Those  present 
were  Messrs.  Sherwood,  A.  Manton  Chace, 
Henderson,  Sykes,  Sweetland,  Ward,  Tink- 
ham,  Whitmarsh,  Tanner,  Wilmot,  Poland, 
Chambers,  Hollen,  Wells,  Ross,  Nash,  Con- 
nell,  Connolly,  Turner,  Wheeler,  Lasker, 
Leach,   Curley,   Don  Jackson  and   Bugbee. 

Ev.  Manter  has  changed  his  address  to 
3  39  Lafayette  Road,  Portsmouth,  N.  H. 

Harold  High,  after  27  years  as  Manager 
of  Industrial  Relations  for  the  duPont 
Company,  has  retired.  He  is  now  occupy- 
ing his  Farm,  "High  Hopes",  at  Weston, 
Vt.,  where  he  expects  to  do  a  little  farming 
and  a  little  writing,  and  where  he  will  wel- 
come any  '09ers  passing  by. 

Billy  Miller,  past  president  of  the  Rhode 
Island  Historical  Society,  made  an  address 
to  the  Society  entitled,  "Shepard  Tom  and 
the  Narragansett  Country,""  May   1. 

James  Hess.  Jr.,  is  professor  and  head 
of  the  English  Department  of  the  Amer- 
ican College  at  the  University  of  Madras 
in  Madura,  India. 


36  Years  ns  Superintendent 

►  After  36  years  as  Superintendent 
of  Public  Schools  in  Wakefield, 
Mass.,  Willard  B.  Atwell  "03  ten- 
dered his  resignation  recently,  to 
take  effect  Jan.  1,  1948.  Appearing 
before  the  School  Committee  he 
spoke  feelingly  of  the  joy  he  had  ex- 
perienced in  his  work.  His  life  has 
been  one  of  complete  absorption  in 
school  affairs. 

At  the  time  of  his  resignation,  Mr. 
Atwell  had  only  one  senior  in  point 
of  .service  among  Massachusetts  su- 
perintendents. The  School  Com- 
mittee paid  high  compliment  to  his 
service,  noting  great  progress  made 
during  his  years  in  office,  as  well  as 
his  gift  in  human  relationships.  He 
has  recovered  from  serious  illness, 
which  prompted  his  decision  to  re- 
tire. 

Col.  Lawrence  A.  Atwell  "39,  for- 
mer Brown  football  star,  is  one  of  his 
four  sons,  all  of  whom  were  officers 
in  the  war  i 


PRESIDENT  of  the  national  alum- 
ni  aS!<ociation  of  Phillips  Exeter 
Academy  is  Royal  W.  Leith,  for- 
mer President  of  Brown's  Asso- 
ciated .41unini. 

Dr.  Moses  L.  Crossley  attended  the 
spring  meeting  of  the  Advi.sory  Board  of 
the  Rutgers  University  Research  Council. 
The  Rutgers  research  budget  this  year  is 
more  than  $1,100,000,  with  $600,000  of 
it  in  agriculture. 

1910 

Harold  L'Amoureux  is  floor  superintend- 
ent for  the  R.  H.  White  Corp.  in  Boston. 
His  address  is  34  Elm  St.,  Jamaica  Plain  30, 
Mass. 

Winfield  Potter  writes  that  he  is  prin- 
cipal of  the  High  School  in  Foxboro, 
Mass. 

Joseph   Bliss   sends    his   address   at    123 
Airemore  Drive,  New  Rochelle,  N.  Y. 
1911 

Charles  P.  Sisson  has  been  named  gen- 
eral chairman  of  the  1947  Red  Feather 
campaign  of  Rhode  Island  Community 
Chests. 

1912 

Dean  George  V.  Kendall  of  Wabash 
College  was  one  of  the  opponents  of  a 
proposal  for  membership-at-large,  signing 
a  statement  against  the  plan  in  Phi  Beta 
Kappa"s  Key  Reporter  this  summer. 

Dr.  William  L.  Stidger,  head  of  the  de- 
partment of  homiletics  at  the  Boston  Uni- 
versity School  of  Theology,  was  the  prin- 
cipal speaker  at  the  113th  annual  com- 
mencement exercises  of  Vermont  Junior 
College  June  8. 

1913 

Clarence  Philbrick  has  been  re-elected 
chairman  of  the  Friends  of  the  Library  of 
Brown  University. 

Commodore  Leighton  Bohl  was  recently 
honored  at  a  dinner  held  by  the  Rhode 
Island  Yacht  Club. 

1914 

Morgan  Rogers  is  living  at  Box  50, 
Wakefield,  R.  I.  He  is  associated  with 
Chas.  H.  Philbrick,  Inc.,  in  Providence. 

Dr.  George  Ronne  informs  us  that  his 
present  address  is  49  Fountain  St.,  Paw- 
tucket,  R.  I. 

1915 

Dr.  Ralph  L.  Blanchard  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  English  at  Brown  University  has 

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been  promoted  to  associate  professor.  On 
leave  of  absence  from  Brown  for  military 
service  since  September,  1942,  Professor 
Blanchard  was  advanced  from  Major  to 
the  rank  of  Lt.  Col.  upon  his  return  to  this 
country  in  December,  1945,  after  long 
Army  duty  overseas  in  Civil  Affairs  and 
Military  Government.  He  was  attached  to 
the  101st  Airborne  Division  when  Hol- 
land was  invaded,  landing  in  that  country 
by  glider.  He  also  held  a  Civil  Affairs  post 
in  France,  followed  by  a  Military  Govern- 
ment assignment  in  Germany  where  he 
was  in  charge  of  setting  up  several  military 
tribunals. 

During  World  War  I  Prof.  Blanchard 
served  as  a  Captain  with  the  U.  S.  Army; 
was  director  and  treasurer  of  The  Angus 
Co.  Ltd.,  Calcutta,  India,  from  1919  to 
1922;  and  then  taught  at  the  Lawrence- 
ville  and  Berkshire  Schools  until  his  ap- 
pointment to  Brown  in  1930.  He  is  a 
member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  the  Mediaeval 
Academy  of  America,  the  Shakespeare  As- 
sociation of  America,  and  the  Modern  Lan- 
guage Association  of  America.  During  the 
course  of  World  War  II,  he  sent  back  to 
Brown  over  100  volumes  of  Naji  propa- 
ganda, salvaged  from  discards,  former 
property  of  a  publisher  whose  plant  was 
then  under  his  control.  The  material,  con- 
sisting of  history  written  as  the  Nazis 
wished  it  to  be  understood,  was  exhibited 
at  the  John  Hay  Library. 

Louis  M.  Sweeny  is  living  on  Pine  Hill 
Road,  Pleasant  Valley,  N.  Y.  We  were 
glad  to  learn  this  having  been  without  a 
good  address  for  him  of  late. 

Don  Dike  was  recently  elected  1st  Vice- 
President  of  the  Massachusetts  Teachers 
Federation.  Don  is  principal  of  the  High 
School  in  Athol,  Mass.,  and  will  be  a  dele- 
gate to  the  National  Education  Association 
Convention  in  Cincinnati  and  the  National 
Conference  for  Improved  Teaching  in  Ox- 
ford, Ohio,  this  July. 

Commodore  George  T.  Paine  retired  last 
February  after  30  years"  service  to  enter 
the  civilian  engineering  field. 

Henry  Drake  is  living  at  Clinton   Cor- 
ners, Dutchess  County,  N.  Y. 
1916 

Harold  I.  Long,  22  years  in  Pough- 
keepsie,  N.  Y.,  is  head  of  the  English  De- 
partment in  the  High  School.  His  two 
boys  are  at  Brown. 

1917 

Howard  D.  Williams  of  Rockland,  Mass., 
has  the  sympathy  of  the  class  in  that  his 
wife  died  in  May. 

Col.  Elmer  Barnes  sends  us  a  corrected 
address:  Headquarters,  Second  Army, 
Baltimore.  Md. 

1918 

George  C.  Hull  of  the  Providence 
Eveninf!.  BuIIetiti  attended  the  final  seminar 
of  the  American  Press  Institute  at  Colum- 
bia. 

Edward  Butler,  who  writes  that  he  is  a 
business  broker,  is  living  at  4061   Hill  St., 
Huntington  Park,  Calif. 
1919 

Beale  M.  Gordon  writes  to  tell  us  that 
he  has  been  released  from  active  duty  as 
Lieut.  Comdr.  after  66  months  of  active 
duty  in  the  Navy.  He  is  now  associated 
with  the  A.  E.  Hunt  Steel  Co.  in  Boston 
and  is  living  on  Beach  St.,  Wickford,  R.  I. 

S.  Watson  Smith  is  archaeologist  for  the 
Peabody  Museum  at  Harvard.    His  address 
is  18  Francis  Ave.,  Cambridge,  Mass. 
1920 

Arthur  J.  Frey,  business  manager  of 
Wilson    College,    Chambersburg,    Pa.,    has 


BROWN    ALUMNI    MONTHLY 


STEPHEN  W.  HOPKINS  '21:  For 
Theta  Delta  Chi  he  heads  up  the 
New  York  Graduate  Association 
and  serves  the  Theta  Delta  Press  as 
Secretary  and  Director.  (Photo 
courtesy  of  The  Shield.) 

been  named  comptroller  of  the  Rhode 
Island  School  of  Design. 

Dr.  Marshall  N.  Fulton  of  Providence 
gave  a  paper  on  "Curable  Heart  Disease", 
at  the  n6th  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Rhode 
Island  Medical  Society  in  May. 

Dr.  Herman  A.  Lawson  has  been  ap- 
pointed a  member  of  the  Board  of  Hospital 
Commissioners  in  Providence.  Dr.  Lawson 
is  a  specialist  in  internal  medicine  and  dur- 
ing the  war  was  commanding  officer  of  the 
48th  Evacuation  Hospital  in  the  India- 
Burma  sector. 

Kenneth  Bitting's  .son,  Kenneth  H. 
Bitting,  Jr.,  recently  became  engaged  to 
Miss  Adelaide  Hare  Powcl  of  Providence. 
1921 

William  W.  Hall,  who  has  been  repre- 
senting Standard  Oil  in  Sweden,  has  been 
transferred  to  Italy,  according  to  Everett 
Sweet  of  Poughkeepsie,  whom  Bill  visited 
on  his  last  trip  home. 

Harold  L.  Grindle,  for  whom  we  have 
lacked  a  good  address  for  some  time,  is  at 
Lake  Mohonk,  N.  Y.  in  hotel  management, 
we  hear. 

Dr.  Arcadie  Giura  is  a  councillor  of  the 
recently  organized  Bristol  County  Medical 
Association  in  Rhode  Island. 

R.  D.  Standish,  in  Calcutta  for  the  past 
six  or  eight  months,  is  now  on  his  way  to 
Japan  for  the  National  City  Bank. 

Max  Meyer  is  living  in  Jacksonville,  Fla., 
P.  O.  Box  2610. 

Marshall  Cannell  writes  that  he  is  vice- 
president  of  the  Columbia  Drug  Products, 
Inc.  in  Providence.  He  is  living  here  at 
2  Ray  St. 

E.  Standish  Palmer  has  a  new  address  at 
821-A  El  Redondo  St.,  Redondo  Beach, 
Ca!. 

Coe  S.  Mills  is  now  living  at  P.  O.  Box 
5  52,  Midland,  Texas. 

1922 

You  read  about  these  things  in  the 
papers,  and  once  in  a  while  they  hit  home. 
When  the  Eastern  Airlines  plane  crashed 


in  Maryland  May  3U,  Norman  MacKay  '22 
was  one  of  those  who  lost  his  life.  Forty- 
seven  years  old,  the  commercial  manager 
of  Station  WBAY  in  Coral  Gables,  Fla., 
he  was  going  home  after  having  accom- 
panied Capt.  Eddie  Rickenbacker"s  party 
on  Its  record-breaking  Constellation  flight 
to  New  York  May  28. 

Mr.  MacKay  had  been  director  of  ad- 
vertising and  programs  for  WQAM  Miami 
for  15  years  prior  to  July  1945  when  he  re- 
signed that  post.  He  was  in  Hollywood 
briefly  but  returned  to  Florida  to  help  or- 
ganize WIRA  Fort  Pierce,  in  September 
moving  on  to  WBAY.  He  was  past  gov- 
ernor of  the  Florida  Advertising  Federa- 
tion. His  first  post  had  been  in  the  ad- 
vertising department  of  the  Proi'ideiicc 
l^ews  but  went  south  for  similar  work  on 
the  staff  of  the  Miami  Herald.  With  Joseph 
Cotton,  now  of  the  films,  Mr.  MacKay  took 
part  in  several  productions  of  the  Miami 
Civic  Theatre  and  also  served  as  its  di- 
rector. He  was  President  of  the  First 
Nighters  Club  of  Miami. 

His  fraternity  was  Delta  Tau  Delta. 
The  former  Harriet  L.  Seabury,  Mrs.  Mac- 
Kay, survives  him  with  two  sons:  Donald, 
a  Navy  veteran,  and  Douglas,  honor  grad- 
uate of  Miami  Senior  High.  WBAY  dedi- 
cated a  memorial  quarter  hour  to  Mr.  Mac- 
Kay on  May  31. 

Raymond  Rich  Associates  and  William 
Cherin  Associates,  congenial  firms  in  the 
public  relations  field,  have  merged  their 
interests  and  established  Raymond  Rich  H 
William  Cherin  Associates.  They  offer 
counsel,  research,  and  evaluation  services 
to  non-profit  organizations  and  founda- 
tions on  structure,  policy,  management, 
program,  and  educational  promotion  at 
30  East  22nd  St.  Publication  of  the  refer- 
ence work,  "American  Foundations  and 
Their  Fields,"  will  continue  under  the  As- 
sociates, the  sixth  edition  now  being  in 
preparation. 

Lawrence  Whitcomb  has- become  Presi- 
dent-Elcct  of  the  Pennsylvania  Academy  of 
Science  and  will  take  office  at  the  1948 
Spring  Meeting. 

Louis  Chick,  who  was  formerly  with 
Lever  Brothers,  Inc.,  has  been  appointed 
manager  of  the  sales  promotion  department 
of  the  grocery  division  of  Standard  Brands, 
Inc. 

Howard  Cummings  has  announced  the 
formation   of   a  law   partnership   in    Phila- 


Cftrds'  Scoiii  **Snoic6ownd" 

►  Ankle-deep  in  snow  as  he  sat 
on  the  grandstand  at  Pittsfield, 
Mass.,  Arthur  S.  Fox  "23  was  a  dis- 
consolate figure  in  the  Associated 
Press  wire-photo  following  April's 
freak  storm.  Although  dressed  in 
his  baseball  uniform,  he  looked 
glumly  down  at  the  overshoes  he 
was  also  wearing.  But  his  nine,  the 
Pittsfield  High  School  team,  man- 
aged to  play  out  its  schedule  just 
the  same,  winning  13  of  15  games 
and  standing  on  the  verge  of  a 
county  championship  (one  victory 
needed)  when  he  wrote  at  Com- 
mencement time. 

In  addition  to  his  duties  as  head 
coach  of  football,  baseball,  and 
basketball  at  Pittsfield,  the  former 
Brown  star  has  signed  to  scout  for 
the  St.  Louis  Cardinals  this  summer. 

Art,  Jr.,  had  a  fine  year  at  Worces- 
ter Academy.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fox  are 
counting  on  a  return  to  Providence 
for   1923's  25th  reunion  next   June. 

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delphia  in  the  Provident  Trust  Building. 
The  firm  is  Cummings,  Stewart,  and 
Palmer. 

S.  Watson  Remington,  Jr.,  is  living  at 
37  Herman  St.,  Glen  Ridge,  N.  J.  and  is 
working  with  the  Champlain  Corp.  in 
Bloomfield,  N.  J. 

William  Ryon,  Jr.,  writes  he  is  indus- 
trial engineer  for  the  Ecusta  Corp.  in 
Brevard,  N.  C.  His  address  is  174  Dor- 
chester Ave.,  Ashville,  N.  C. 

Albert  Jeffers  sends  a  new  address  at  3  53 
Birch  Ave.,  Mount  Lebanon,  Pgh.   16,  Pa. 

Kcnilworth  H.  Mathus  is  manager  of  the 
Book  Department  of  Printers'  In/^  at  205 
East  42nd  St.,  New  York  17,  N.  Y.  He 
was  for  a  long  time  with  Popular  Science. 

192.3 

T.  G.  Simmons  came  east  in  June  and 
spent  the  20th  and  21st  in  Providence,  un- 
fortunately missing  Commencement  by  a 
hair.  But  some  of  his  Brown  contempora- 
ries got  together  to  give  him  and  his  fine 
family  a  welcome.  Pete  was  a  delegate  to 
the  June  convention  of  Rotary  Interna- 
tional in  California. 


Perelnian  on  the  Prowl  <   < 


►  ►  Globe-trotting  (and  pacing,  too, 
probably)  for  Holiday  magazine,  S.  J. 
Perelman  '25  wrote  from  Penang,  Malaya, 
in  May  to  tell  Vice-President  Bigelow  what 
travel  was  like  these  days: 

'It  demands  a  cast-iron  stomach,  an  ex- 
chequer like  the  Bank  of  England,  and  an 
infinite  capacity  to  withstand  boredom," 
he  said.  "I  was  53  days  getting  to  Singa- 
pore from  San  Francisco  and  lay  about 
Bangkok  a  month  trying  to  badger  the 
French  into  letting  me  cross  into  Indo- 
China.  They  wore  out  all  the  excuses  about 
how  dangerous  Angkor  Wat  was,  how  I 
might  be  ambushed  by  the  Vietnamese,  and 
so  forth,  and  finally  as  much  as  admitted 
that  they  don't  want  anyone  with  a  type- 
writer to  snoop  around  their  private  war. 
It  was  a  pity;  I  would  have  liked  to  see 
their  Foreign  Legionnaires,  most  of  whom 
are  ex-members  of  the  Afrika  Korps  and 
revel  through  the  streets  of  Saigon  shout- 

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ing  "Sieg  Heil"  and  chanting  the  Horst 
Wessel  song  .  .  . 

"Next  jump  from  this  little  stronghold 
of  British  colonial  power  is  Ceylon  and 
Bombay;  I  hope  to  spend  a  month  in 
Baroda,  Jaipur,  New  Delhi,  and  Ka.shmir, 
and  after  that  head  for  Nairobi  in  East 
Africa.  If  the  tse-tse  fly  (or  still  worse, 
English  cooking)  doesn't  get  me,  I  ought 
to  be  in  Paris  by  September  1st  and  home 
by  early  October. 

"Watch  for  somebody  closely  resembling 
Trader  Horn,  with  a  mahogany-colored 
face,  a  tarry  pigtail,  and  a  rolling  walk.  In 
the  meanwhile,  all  my  best,  and  please  tell 
Kappy  (cryptic  though  it  may  sound)  that 
I  wish  I'd  paid  more  attention  to  Winslow's 
Geography  back  at  the  Candace  Street 
Grammar  School.  As  it  is,  all  I  know  now 
about  the  principal  exports  of  Malaya  are 
rubber,  copra,  and — er — ignoramuses  like 
myself.  "  ^ 


BROWN    ALUMNI    MONTHLY 


Mrs.  Albert  E.  Mulliken,  acknowledging 
Bill  McCiirmick"s  note  of  sympathy  at  her 
husband's  death,  writes  of  her  family. 
Harry,  the  oldest  son,  is  a  Marine,  serving 
at  Pearl  Harbor,  and  wants  to  study  lor' 
estry  later.  John  has  finished  his  Freshman 
year  at  Fort  Lewis,  a  branch  of  Colorado 
A.  y  M.  College,  but  hopes  to  transfer  to 
Denver  University  and  become  a  lawyer. 
There  are  two  daughters  as  well.  Mrs. 
Mulliken  is  teaching  in  the  high  school  at 
Silverton,  Colo. 

Frank  E.  Fahlquist  spoke  on  "Geology 
Applied  to  Engineering"  before  a  Brown 
geology  seminar  in  May. 

Surgery  for  April  publishes  a  descrip- 
tion of  a  new  operative  technique  devel- 
oped by  Dr.  Daniel  V.  Troppoli.  His 
method  of  repairing  incisional  hernia  re- 
duces fat  dissection  and  operative  time, 
giving  a  firm  repair  of  the  hernia.  In  call- 
ing this  to  our  attention,  Larry  Lanpher 
writes:  "It  really  is  something  to  have  a 
new  technique  accepted  by  the  American 
Medical  Association,  and  this  one  has 
brought  Dan  nationwide  recognition."  Dr. 
Troppoli  is  currently  secretary  of  the  Provi- 
dence Medical  Association,  serving  under 
Dr.  Guy  Wells  "16. 

Dwight  Bartlett's  son  Harlan  is  headed 
for  Brown  this  fall.  A  former  Exeter  crew 
man,  the  boy  is  also  a  nephew  of  Norman 
Ballou  of  our  class. 

George  H.  Young  has  been  elected 
President  of  the  New  Bedford  Bar  Associa- 
tion, following  10  years  as  Secretary.  The 
Standard  Times  commented  that  he  "brings 
to  the  presidency  a  genial  and  even  dis- 
position, as  well  as  executive  and  legal  abil- 
ity." A  member  of  the  bar  for  20  years, 
he  has  been  active  in  Inter-Church  Coun- 
cil and  Community  Chest  efforts. 

For  the  first  time  in  many  years  Theo- 
dore R.  Jeffers  missed  the  Commencement 
festivities  because  he  was  attending  the 
National  Convention  of  the  American 
Dental  Trade  Association  in  Banff  in  June. 
As  a  member  of  the  Association's  Analysis 
Committee  he  presented  the  important  re- 
port to  the  Convention  as  to  the  year's 
business  throughout  the  country  in  the 
trade. 

Noyes  C.  Stickney  writes  that  he  is 
representative  for  the  F.  E.  Compton  Pub- 
lishing Co.  of  Chicago.  He  is  located  at 
1176  Woodbury  Ave.,  Portsmouth,  N.  H. 

Donald  Armstrong  sends  us  his  address 
at  R.F.D.  11,  Box  21,  Richmond  24,  Va. 
Don  is  working  in  the  Government  Cold 
Storage  Warehouse  in  Richmond.  Offi- 
cially, it's  "War  Department,  Quartermas- 
ter Market  Center,  Perishable  Subsistence." 

1924 

Gordon  Ritchie,  Jr.,  newly  installed  as 
secretary  of  the  Brown  Club  of  Western 
Pennsylvania,  notes  with  some  satisfaction 


that  his  classmates,  William  A.  Dyer  and 
Earle  C.  Drake,  hold  similar  posts  in  the 
Brown  Clubs  of  Indiana  and  .Syracuse,  re- 
spectively. Gordon  is  agent  for  the  Na- 
tional Liberty  Insurance  Company  of 
America  with  offices  at  820  Investment 
Building,  Pittsburgh  22,  Penn. 

Clarence  C.  Chaffee  has  been  re-ap- 
pointed assistant  professor  of  physical  edu- 
cation at  Williams  College  for  a  three  year 
term. 

Frank  Ring,  Staff  Personnel  Assistant  of 
Wm.  Filene's  Sons  in  Boston,  came  down 
to  Brown  recently  to  give  placement  in- 
formation to  those  interested  in  department 
store  management,  merchandising,  and  pub- 
licity. 


Edson  C.  Lockwood  and  his  family  are 
returning  to  Ceylon,  according  to  the 
Alumni  y^ews  at  Mt.  Hermon  School, 
where  he  has  been  head  of  the  department 
of  mathematics  for  several  years.  "The 
contribution  to  the  .social  and  religious  life 
of  Hermon  made  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lock- 
wood  will  always  be  a  stimulating  recollec- 
tion to  their  many  friends  here,"  said  the 
magazine. 

W.  Easton  Louttit's  collection  of  mate- 
rial on  the  legend  of  the  Wandering  Jew 
made  an  interesting  feature  story  in  a  re- 
cent Providence  Sunday  Journal. 

Melvin  Apple,  who  has  been  fighting  a 
losing  battle  with  our  mailing  stencils, 
writes  to  assure  us  that  he  is  really  living  at 


Who  Paid  for  It? 


►  Typical  of  new  activity  through  class 
agencies  was  a  letter  sent  to  members  of 
1937  by  William  R.  Hulbert,  Jr.,  chairman 
of  the   10th  reunion  gift  committee: 

"Who  paid  for  your  education  at 
Brown?"  he  began.  "Not  you — at  most 
you  paid  only  half  the  bill.  The  balance 
came  from  the  generous  gifts  of  others  who 
had  gone  before.  Now  you  and  I  have  an 
opportunity  to  participate  in  a  plan  to  make 
Brown  a  finer  place  for  those  who  follow 
us:  The  Housing  and  Development  Pro- 
gram will  expand  Brown's  physical  facilities 
to  a  point  deserved  and  required  by  the 
University's  top  ranking  educational  posi- 
tion." 

Recognising  the  success  of  the  Housing 
campaign  to  be  the  most  important  goal  of 
the  College  today,  the  Class  of  1937  has 
decided  to  give  no  special  10th  reunion 
gift.   Instead,  "1937"s  gift  will  be  the  sum 


total  of  our  contributions  to  the  Building 
Drive."  Hulbert  continued:  "Except  for 
individual  memorials  (which  you  are  free 
to  give),  every  cent  donated  will  be  credited 
to  our  Class,  and  the  housing-unit  financed 
by  our  combined  contributions  will  become 
a  permanent  memorial  to  Classmates  killed 
in  the  war." 

Class  rivalry  showed  in  the  announce- 
ment that  1937  was  well  ahead  of  either 
1936  or  1938.  The  showing  was  possible 
because  of  the  number  of  gifts  of  $100  or 
more,  since  less  than  one-fifth  of  the  Class 
of  '37  had  pledged,  Hulbert  reported.  He 
asked  for  commitments  by  June  "so  that  we 
may  announce  at  the  reunion  the  size  and 
nature  of  the  building  unit  to  be  given  by 
us."  His  slogan:  "A  gift  to  '37  is  a  gift 
to  Brown — a  gift  to  Brown  is  a  gift  to  '37." 


Frank  L.  Milan  has  been  named  high 
priest  of  the  Pine  Tree  Royal  Arch  Chapter 
of  Masons  in  Stonington,  Me. 

Mahlon  Meier  writes  that  he  is  living 
at  1812  G  St.  N.W.,  Washington,  D.  C. 
and  is  counsel  for  the  R.F.C. 

Earl  C.  Wilson  is  an  engineer  for  C.  W. 
Blakeslecy  Sons  in  New  Haven,  Conn.  He 
is  living  there  at  794  Townsend  Ave. 

1925 

Col.  Charles  H.  Morhouse  completed  his 
year  of  studies  at  Harvard  in  June,  had 
orders  calling  for  a  few  months  in  Wash- 
ington on  special  assignment,  and  then  will 
head  for  Randolph  Field  to  serve  on  the 
faculty  of  the  School  of  Aviation  Medicine. 
When  he  received  his  Harvard  degree  of 
Master  of  Public  Health,  Ty  acted  as 
marshal  for  his  School  in  the  Commence- 
ment exercises. 


Events  Betteeen  the  Walls 

►  ►  A  MEMBER  of  the  class  of  1919,  a  man  with  a  good  classical  and  Classical 
background,  read  with  interest  the  announcement  from  the  Providence  Brown  Club 
that  it  would  hold  its  annual  outing  at  the  Wannamoisett  on  May  22.  He  also 
noted  that  Westcott  Moulton  would  talk  on  "Intermural  Sports." 

The  alumnus  wrote:  "According  to  my  Century  Unabridged,  while  Intramural 
sports  relate  to  contests  within  walls,  Intermural  sports  concern  events  between 
walls.  This  should  accordingly  be  both  a  unique  and  interesting  discourse.  Among 
Intermural  events  which  offhand  occur  to  me  are: 

"1.  Shadow-casting.  2.  Loss  of  face.  3.  Outpointing.  4.  Who  cast  the  first 
brick?    5.  Intercoping.    6.  Coursing.    7.  Mortarfication.    8.  Footing.    9.  Archery." 

In  replying,  we  told  him  his  letter  had  left  us  "wall-eyed."  And,  although  inno- 
cent of  the  announcement,  we  did  hope  the  Club  did  a  good  vallum  of  business. 
In  conclusion,  we  told  the  feller  to  go  to  Walla  Walla.  ^ 


82  Rock  St.,  Whitman,  Mass.  He  adds 
that  he  is  presently  engaged  as  Industrial 
Engineer  for  the  National  Chair  of  Whit- 
man, Mass. 

Llewellyn  B.  Van  Doren  sends  a  new 
address  at  108  Glenbrook  Rd.,  Morris 
Plains,  N.  J. 

1926 

Two  members  of  the  class  are  currently 
on  the  faculty  of  the  Associated  Colleges  of 
Upper  New  York.  Frank  B.  Mitchell,  who 
took  his  A.M.  in  1926,  is  an  associate  pro- 
fessor of  modern  languages  at  Champlain 
College,  Plattsburg.  Isaak  D.  Orleans  is 
an  assistant  professor  of  English  at  Samp- 
son College,  near  Geneva,  N.  Y. 

Edward  C.  Muhlhausen  was  nominated 
in  May  as  a  candidate  for  School  Trustee 
in  Hartsdale,  N.  Y.  Mr.  Muhlhausen  is  a 
member  of  the  Empire  Trust  Co.  of  New 
York  and  has  been  active  in  civic  affairs  in 
Hartsdale. 

Stanley  Hunt,  Lt.  Comdr.  in  the  Navy 
during  World  War  II,  has  opened  an  of- 
fice for  consultation  on  personnel  and  labor 
problems  in  Worcester,  Mass. 

Paul  A.  Williams  is  teaching  in  the 
Brookline  High  School,  Brookline,  Mass. 
His  address  is  82  Bound  Brook  Rd.,  New- 
ton Hills,  Mass. 

Theodore  Hunt  is  minister  of  music  in 
the  Presbyterian  Church  in  Columbus,  Ind. 

Edmund  Leeds,  Jr.,  is  northern  repre- 
sentative for  the  W.  R.  C.  Smith  Publish- 
ing Co.  He  can  be  reached  at  5  Everett  St., 
Cambridge,  Mass. 


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BROWN    ALUMNI    MONTHLY 

Horace  F.  Altman  is  housing  manage- 
ment adviser  for  the  Federal  Public  Hous- 
ing Authonty  in  Boston.  His  address  is 
Argilla  Rd.,  Ipswich,  Mass. 

We  learn  that  Dr.  James  H.  Peers  is 
with  the  Division  of  Pathology  of  the  Na- 
tional Institute  of  Health  at  Bethesda,  Md. 

Philip  Jordan  is  manager  of  the  Four 
Flags  Hotel  in  Los  Angeles.  Cal. 

Elon  Notley,  living  at  434  N.  20th  St., 
Phoenix,  Ariz.,  is  an  adjuster  for  the  Aetna 
Co.  in  Phoeni.x. 

Charles  H.  Stickel  has  a  new  address: 
Box  No.  427,  Manassas,  Va. 

1927 

Wcndell  S.  Fielding  is  the  new  chair- 
man of  the  Pittsfield  Section  of  the  Amer- 
ican Institute  of  Electrical  Engineers,  tak- 
ing office  June  !.  He  is  administrative  as- 
sistant in  the  Power  Transformer  Engineer- 
ing Division,  General  Electric  Company, 
and  has  been  with  GE  since  graduation. 
His  first  assignments  were  to  tests  in  Lynn, 
Schenectady,  and  Pittsfield;  then  in  the 
Motor  Engineering  Section,  in  the  High 
Voltage  lab.  For  17  years  he  served  in  the 
Personnel  Division,  being  put  in  charge  of 
technical  placements  until  promotion  to 
his  present  post.  I.  H.  Gamwell  '96  was 
our  informant. 

R.  Allan  Johnston  writes  us  that  he  was 
discharged  from  the  Air  Corps  and  is  now 
teaching  English  and  Biology  at  Hopkins 
Grammar  School,  New  Haven,  Conn,  He 
expects  to  take  his  M.A.  degree  from  Yale 
this  June. 

William  Kraemer  is  with  the  Motor  Sales 
Co.,  Bel  Air,  Md. 

Roy  F.  Nelson  is  director  of  grease  re- 
search for  the  Texas  Co.  He  is  living  in 
Port  Arthur  at  3  207   13th  St. 

John  C.  Aisthorpe  is  merchandise  man- 
ager for  Sears  Roebuck  (^  Co.  in  Memphis, 
Tenn.  His  home  address  there  is  649  Uni- 
versity St. 

Alan  P.  Fort  is  living  at  6  Devon  Rd., 
Noroton  Heights,  Darien,  Conn.  He  is 
working  in  New  York  City  as  manager  of 
statistics  and  research  for  the  S-M  New< 
Co. 

Thornton  W.  Trimble  is  auditor  for  the 
S.  H.  Kress  y  Co.  in  New  York.  His  ad- 
dress: 77-12  3  5th  Ave.,  Jackson  Heights, 
N.  Y. 

Fred  H.  Van  Duyn  is  district  manager 
for  Near's  Food  Co.,  Inc.  in  Shelby,  N.  C. 
He  is  living  there  at  706  Blanton  St. 

Wesley  Martin  is  president  of  the  Mar- 
tin Motor  Sales  Co.  in  Fenton,  Mich. 

Merritt  Seymour  is  engineer  and  office 
manager  for  the  J.  J.  White  Mfg.  Co.,  in 
Providence.  His  home  is  at  3129  Paw- 
tucket  Ave.,  Riverside  15,  R.  I. 

Ralph  Fulton  is  an  engineer  for  the 
U.  S.  Rubber  Co.  in  New  York  City.  He 
address:  181  Meadow  St.,  Naugatuck, 
Conn. 

John  McGeeney,  who  was  with  the 
Columbia  University  Division  of  War  Re- 
search, is  now  with  the  N.  Y.  Telephone 
Co.  He  is  living  at  113  Vanderbilt  Rd., 
Manhasset,  N.  Y. 

John  G.  Dow  is  living  at  195  River  Rd., 
Grand-View-on-Hudson,  N.  Y.  He  is 
working  in  New  York  City  with  the  Stand- 
ard Foods  Co, 

John  A.  Taylor  is  senior  field  representa- 
tive for  the  New  Jersey  Department  of 
Economic  Development.  He  can  be  reached 
at  Box  17,  Titusville,  N.  J. 

Lewis  Wilson  is  secretary  of  the  Wilson 
6?  English  Construction  Co.  in  New  York 
City.  He  is  living  in  New  Rochellc,  N.  Y., 
at  46  Fifth  Ave. 


NORMAN    MaeKAY 
Photo   courtesy,    Broadcasting 


Phone  Call  from  Miami 

>  When  the  1922  reunion  was 
at  its  height  in  Sakonnet  Saturday 
evening,  June  14,  there  was  a  phone 
call  from  Miami,  Fla.  "This  is  Mrs. 
Norman  MacKay,"  said  a  voice. 

Norman  MacKay  '22,  Florida  ra- 
dio executive,  had  been  killed  only  a 
few  weeks  before  in  the  Maryland 
plane  crash.  And  his  widow  wanted 
to  tell  the  class  how  much  Norman 
had  counted  on  attending  the  2Tth 
reunion.  She  wanted  to  send  her 
greeting  to  them  all. 

"That  took  grit,"  said  one  of  the 
group  when  the  message  was  shared. 


New  address  lor  Clinton  Sweet:  2?4 
North  Broadway,  Yonkers,  N.  Y. 

1928 

Just  back  from  Bombay,  Walter  Shackle- 
ton  checked  in  at  Washington  in  May.  In 
India  for  OWI,  he  was  in  charge  of  the 
U.  S.  Information  Service.  One  incident 
was  the  riot  of  several  hundred  Indians  out- 
side his  agency's  library  in  February,  1946, 
when  an  American  flag  was  burned.  Shac- 
kleton  is  reported  to  be  hopeful  of  return- 
ing to  India  for  the  State  Department. 

H.  Clinton  Owen  has  recently  been 
named  administrative  assistant  to  Mayor 
Dennis  J,  Roberts  of  Providence.  Owen 
previously  was  manager  of  the  Union  Mu- 
tual Life  Insurance  Co,  here. 

The  Very  Rev.  Duncan  Fraser  has  re- 
signed as  dean  of  the  Cathedral  of  St.  John 
in  Providence  and  has  accepted  the  pas- 
torate of  Christ  Church  in  Cooperstown, 
N.  Y. 

Julian  L.  Solinger  has  been  promoted 
from  a.ssistant  professor  to  associate  pro- 
fessor of  biology  at  Simmons  College  in 
Boston. 

Holdswfirth  G.  Minnigerode  is  now  con- 
sul to  the  American  Consulate  at  Karachi, 
India. 

Richard  A.  Chase  is  now  overseas  as 
an   army  librarian.     His   prsent   address   is 

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MARBO  Library  Depot  Hq.,  APO  246, 
San  Francisco,  Cal, 

George  D.  Eggleston,  president  of  the 
Triple  Cities  Builders  Supply  Co.,  can  be 
addressed  at  P.O.  Box  1031,  Binghampton, 
N.  Y. 

Charles  R.  Consodine  will  continue  this 
fall  as  teacher  and  coach  at  the  Newton 
High  School,  Newtonville,  Mass. 

John  F.  Fellows  is  with  the  American 
Cyanamid  Co.  in  New  York  City. 

Dave  Jacobs  is  living  at  126  Elm  St., 
Woodmere,  Long  Island,  and  is  practicing 
law  with  Finke,  Jacobs,  and  Hirsch  in  New 
York  City. 

Paul  Bonynge,  Jr.,  is  assistant  treasurer 
of  the  Bankers  Trust  Co.  in  New  York 
City.  He  is  living  at  1  Grace  Court,  Brook- 
lyn, N.  Y. 

Samuel  Levy  is  an  attorney  in  Philadel- 
phia with  the  firm  of  Wolf,  Black,  Schorr, 
S"  Solis-Cohen.  He  is  living  at  415  Shoe- 
maker Rd.,  Elkins  Park,  Pa. 

Alexander  Buchmann  is  in  the  invest- 
ing business  in  Santa  Monica,  Cal.  His 
address:  Sovereign  Apts.,  Santa  Monica, 
Cal. 

Sanford  Friedman,  who  was  a  major  in 
the  Air  Corps,  is  now  an  executive  with 
the  Hecht  Co.  in  Washington,  D.  C. 

Dr.  Louis  Pomiansky  is  practicing  den- 
tistry at  93  Eddy  St.  in  Providence. 

William  Pardee  is  title  man  with  the  At- 
lantic Refining  Co.  in  Dallas.  Texas.  His 
address  is   3  549  Haynie,   Dallas   5,  Texas. 

Some  current  addresses:  John  S.  Brook- 
field,  331  State  St.,  Grove  City.  Pa.;  John 
L.  Frank,  171  Walnut  St.,  Lynbrook, 
N,  Y.;  Frederick  B.  Agard,  408  N,  Caynga 
St.,  Ithaca.  N.  Y.;  Francis  Plumb,  161  Rut- 
land Rd.,  Glen  Rock,  N.  J.;  Dr.  Irving 
Barnes,  21  W.  Concord  St.,  Dover,  N.  H.; 
Richard  D.  Heins,  43  Webster  St.,  Mal- 
verne.  Long  Island,  N.  Y.;  Harry  Lynch, 
375  Riverside  Drive,  New  York,  N.  Y, 

1929 

Morrison  Sharp  writes  that  he  is  associ- 
ate professor  of  the  Social  Sciences  and 
head  of  the  department  at  Northland  Col- 
lege, in  Ashland,  Wis. 

Claude  Belknap,  with  the  R.  I.  Hospital 
Trust  Co.  as  assistant  trust  officer,  is  living 
in  Rumford  at  129  Center  St. 

Bill  Cavanagh  is  managing  a  restaurant 
in   Atlanta,  Ga. 

John  Hinrichs  is  located  in  Watcrbury, 
Conn.,  where  he  is  district  manager  for 
the  Mack  Motor  Truck  Co.  He  adds  that 
he  is  now  building  a  new  home  in  Middle- 
bury,  Conn. 

Bradford  Clark  is  a  bacteriologist  for 
the  Water  Purification  Plant  at  Scituate, 
R.  I.  His  home  address  is  1745  Westmin- 
ster St.,  Providence. 

Walter  Gaw  writes  that  he  is  assistant 
professor  at  the  School  of  Business  Admin- 
istration of  the  College  of  the  City  of  New 
York  and  also  research  associate  of  the 
Committee  on  Consumer  Relations  in  Ad- 
vertising. His  home  is  at  P.O.  Box  580, 
Bayvillc,  Long  Island. 

We  learn  that  Major  John  P.  Dickson, 
USMCR,  is  expected  to  return  to  the  States 
in  the  near  future. 

George  E.  Hummel,  Jr.,  president  of  the 
David  Hummel  Building  Co.,  writes  us 
from  3112  Victoria  Boulevard,  Cincinnati. 

Myron  Smith  is  doing  sales  promoting 
for  the  Rhode  Island  Ice  Co.  His  home  is 
in  Providence  at  22  Savoy  St. 

Pemberton  L.  Killeen  is  a  geologist  with 
the  U.  S.  Geological  Survey  in  Washing- 
ton, D.  C.  He  is  living  at  5601  5th  St. 
South,  Arlington,  Va. 


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Harold  Cole  is  an  attorney  in  the  ofEce 
of  Alley,  Cole,  Grimes  y  Friedman  in  New 
York  City.  His  address:  1088  Park  Ave., 
New  York,  N.  Y. 

Joseph  O'Connell,  Jr.,  is  living  at  41 
Intervale  Rd.,  Providence.  He  is  president 
and  treasurer  of  a  local  woolen  mill. 

Emil  Balzerini  writes  that  he  is  with  the 
Prudential  Life  Insurance  Co.  as  assistant 
manager  in  Jersey  City.  His  home  address; 
2020  West  St.,  Union  City,  N.  J. 

Dr.  E.  Kenneth  Carpenter  is  associate 
professor  and  head  of  the  Psychology  de- 
partment at  the  University  of  Massachusetts 
at  Fort  Devens. 

Frank  Snow,  Jr.,  is  assistant  manager  of 
export  sales  for  the  Anaconda  Wire  6' 
Cable  Co.  in  New  York  City. 

J.  B.  Cauvet  writes  that  he  is  managing 
the  California  Hotel  in  Santa  Monica, 
Cal. 

Some  "29  addresses:  Philip  A.  White, 
River  Park  Apts.  No.  4C,  White  Plains, 
N.  Y.;  John  Abbott,  902  Summit  Ave., 
Westfield,  N.  J.;  James  Archibald,  Jr.,  1501 
Mahantongo  St.,  Pottsville,  Pa.;  Roswell 
Burchard,  Jr.,  3066  Porter  St.,  N.W., 
Washington,  D.  C;  A.  Michael  Basile,  350 
W.  25th  St.,  Apt.  2D,  New  York  1,  N.  Y.; 
Byron  Romero,  Arlington,  Vt.;  R.  P.  Ster- 
ritt,  c/o  Montgomery  Ward  &  Co.,  13th 
St.  y  7th  Ave.,  Beaver  Falls,  Pa. 

1930 

When  Bruce  Bigelow  took  his  whirl 
through  the  United  States  he  picked  up 
some  vagrant  information  about  the  mem- 
bers of  the  Class  of  1930.  For  instance, 
while  we  knew  that  Don  Flynn  was  busy 
and  active  in  Kansas  City,  we  did  not  know 
that  Sam  Henry  had  decided  to  go  out 
there  to  make  it  his  headquarters. 

In  St.  Louis  Johnny  Mosby  and  Rod 
Meyer  attended  the  St.  Louis  functions  so 
that  the  Class  of  1930  was  well  represented. 

Another  bit  of  news  bobbed  up  in  the 
fact  that  Norman  McCabe  is  head  of  the 
Federal  Bureau  of  Investigation  in  In- 
diana. These  data  were  missing  from  our 
files  until  the  Bigelow's  visitation  to  In- 
dianapolis brought  them  to  light.  We  are 
glad  to  see  that  Charlie  Menges,  the  able 
illustrator,  and  Freddy  Crescitelli,  the 
equally  able  scientist,  both  appeared  at  the 
Los  Angeles  meeting,  which  indicates  there 
is  a  little  life  still  left  in  the  Class  of  1930. 

Another  comment  buried  in  the  Alumni 
News  last  month  was  that  Johnny  McFad- 
den  is  apparently  developing  into  an  after 
dinner  speaker  in  that  he  was  supposed  to 
be  the  "piece  de  resistance"  at  the  Girl 
Scout  Banquet  in  Evanston,  but  unfor- 
tunately he  had  the  "flu". 

Phil  Lingham's  father  has  been  seriously 
ill  at  the  New  England  Baptist  Hospital. 
Phil  reports  he  is  as  busy  as  a  one-armed 
paper  hanger  down  at  the  Westinghouse 
Manufacturing  Company,  Nuttall  plant,  in 
Pittsburgh. 

HAL  CARVER 

1931 

Alden  Walls  is  now  headman  with  the 
Manton  Mills  of  the  American  Woolen  Co. 
at  993  Manton  Ave.,  Providence.  He  was 
promoted  from  his  work  for  the  same  com- 
pany at  its  National  and  Providence  Wor- 
sted Mills. 

Bradford  C.  Jones  is  geologist  for  the 
Union  Oil  Co.  He  is  living  at  1519  W. 
59th  St.,  Los  Angeles  44,  Cal. 

Galen  Hall  is  practicing  law  with  the 
firm  of  Brady  ^  Daly  in  Newark,  N.  J.  His 
home  is  at  135  Hillside  Ave.,  Glen  Ridge, 
N.J. 


Ray  Ely  is  manager  of  the  New  England 
Tel.  y  Tel.  Co.  in  Quincy,  Mass. 

Joe  Coleman  is  with  the  Maiden  Form 
Brassiere  Co.  in  New  York  City.  His  ad- 
dress is  5051  Iselin  Ave.,  New  York  63, 
N.  Y. 

Laurence  Reid  writes  that  he  is  man- 
ager of  the  Art  Jewelry  Co.  in  Plymouth, 
Mass.  His  home  is  at  School  St.,  Kingston, 
Mass. 

Milton  Kingsley  is  with  the  Providence 
Lithograph  Co.  and  is  living  in  Cranston 
at  84  Colonial  Ave. 

John  J.  Green  is  sales  engineer  for  the 
Arizona  Steel  Building  Supply  Co.  in  Tuc- 
son, Arizona.  His  home  is  at  444  East 
Kelso  St.,  Tucson,  Ariz. 

Paul  Wicks  is  living  at  10  Austin  Ave., 
Albany,  N.  Y.  He  tells  us  he  is  produc- 
tion superintendent  for  the  National 
Bakery  Division  of  the  A  6?  P  Tea  Co. 

Jack  Kellman  writes  he  is  vice-president 
and  sales  manager  of  the  Natco  Inc.  in 
New  York  City.  His  home  address  is  160 
W.  87th  St.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Other  "31  addresses:  John  Also,  112 
North  San  Pedro  St.,  Los  Angeles,  Cal.; 
John  Gillies,  1562  33d  St.,  N.W.,  Wash- 
ington, D.  C;  Joseph  Coleman,  Bayville, 
N.Y.;  William  Hardy,  6  Walk  St.,  Lacey 
Park,  Hattshoro,  Pa.;  Sam  Flora,  1001  S. 
Oakland  St.,  Pasadena,  Cal.;  Maurice 
Bragg,  117  Hope  St.,  Providence,  R.  I.; 
Robert  Robertson,  Tepee  Lodge,  Big  Horn, 
Wyo.;  Wilbur  Frost,  308  Lyman  Bldg., 
Muskegon,  Mich. 

1932 

C.    Hollister    Ludd,    Jr.,    writes    us    that 


NORMAN  R.  SINGLETON  '34:  As 
Direct  Mail  Manager  of  Maey's, 
New  York,  he  points  wilii  pride  to 
the  store-wide  spring  circular,  the 
largest  ever  published,  mailed  to 
300,000  customers.  He  handles 
all  magazine  ads,  catalogues,  cir- 
culars, daily  handbills,  etc.,  hav- 
ing been  in  his  present  post  since 
October.  Sparks,  Macy  house 
organ  which  kindly  provided  the 
photo  above,  gave  these  personal 
highlights:  "Born  on  Friday  the 
13th,  1913,  without  superstitions; 
spoke  Welsh,  Lancashire,  Irish  and 
Connecticut  Yankee  dialects  at  an 
earlv  age;  main  ambition  is  to  visit 
England,  specifically  Ostletwistle, 
to  see  if  it's  really  there." 

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he  is  president  of  Expeditions  Unlimited 
in  Summerville,  S.  C. 

James  Roe  is  working  as  Internal  Reve- 
nue Agent  for  the  Treasury  Department 
in  Providence.  He  is  living  in  Taunton, 
Mass.,  at  56  Prospect  St. 

Frank  Rook  is  assistant  national  adver- 
tising manager  for  The  Providence  Jour- 
nal Co.  His  home  is  at  33  Hazelwood  St., 
Cranston,  R.  I. 

Albert  Barden,  Jr.,  is  chairman  of  the 
department  of  zoology  and  instructor  in 
zoology  at  the  University  of  Maine. 

John  Caulkins  is  with  the  Swiss  Bank 
Corporation  in  New  York  City.  His  mail- 
ing address  is  333  East  53d  St.,  New  York, 
N.  Y. 

Henri  Beziat  is  immigrant  inspector  with 
the  Immigration  (f  Naturalization  Service 
in  Galveston,  Texas.  His  home  is  at  5317 
Borden  Ave.,  Galveston,  Tex. 

Some  current  addresses:  David  Salmon, 
Shelton  Hotel,  Lexington  Ave.  y  49th  St., 
New  York,  N.  Y.;  David  Lider,  North- 
ville,  N.  Y.:  Dr.  E.  J.  Mulligan,  5600  Hart- 
ford Rd.,  Baltimore,  Md. 

Of  Gordon  Pyper"s  work  as  director  of 
admissions  at  Mt.  Hermon  School,  the 
Alumni  News  said  in  June:  "Practically 
every  vacancy  for  the  Fall  term  is  filled; 
but  stacks  of  applications  still  stand  in  Mr. 
Pyper's  fifes.  We  think  that  Mr.  Pyper, 
assisted  by  Mr.  McVeigh,  has  done  a  won- 
derful job.  These  two  men,  snowed  under 
by  an  impossible  load  of  work,  still  smile 
and  quite  adequately  get  the  job  done." 

1933 

Harry  R.  Chernock,  Senior  Attorney 
with  the  Federal  Security  Agency,  is  also 
teaching  the  course  in  Trusts  at  the  Na- 
tional University  School  of  Law,  Wash- 
ington, D.  C.  After  three  years  in  the  Navy 
as  a  Lt.,  Harry  is  living  with  his  family  at 
2703  8th  St.,  South,  Arlington,  Va.  There 
are  two  children — Joan,  3'/2,  and  Stephen, 
1. 

Dr.  Ezekiel  Limmer  has  been  out  of  the 
Army  for  a  year  (he  was  a  Capt.,  AUS). 
Since  then,  he  has  been  with  the  War  As- 
sets Administration  in  Washington  as  Chief 
of  its  Management  Section.  He  received 
his  Ph.D.  in  economics  at  American  Uni- 
versity in.  1942. 

H.  F.  Newkirk  sends  us  a  new  address 
at  7639  W.  Clarke  St.,  Wauwatosa  13, 
Wis,    He's  in  real  estate. 

Dr.  Newell  R.  Kelley  has  withdrawn 
from  general  practice  and  has  accepted  a 
full  time  position  with  the  medical  depart- 
ment of  the  Phoenix  Mutual  Life  Insur- 
ance Co.  in  Hartford. 

Charles  Swartz  is  running  for  a  position 
on  the  Taunton  School  Committee. 

We  hear  that  F.  Jackson  Hauser  is  en- 
gaged in  a  business  of  his  own  in  Bermuda. 

Thomas  F.  Gilbane  is  president  of  the 
R.  I.  Chapter  of  the  Associated  Contractors 
of  America. 

Preston  D.  Mitchell  sends  a  new  address 
at  25280  Shore  View  Drive,  Euclid  23, 
Ohio. 

Thomas  G.  Webber  is  a  chemist  in  the 
Deepwater,  N.  J.,  laboratory  of  the  Du- 
pont  Co.  He  is  living,  with  his  wife  and 
two  children,  at  8  So.  Monroe  Ave., 
Wenonah,  N.  J. 

Alan  Hovey  writes  that  he  is  the  owner 
of  Hovey's  Beach  and  Lodges  in  Newport, 
Vt.  He  adds  that  during  the  winter  he  is 
a  coach  and  teacher  in  Newport  Center,  Vt. 

Al  Hiorns  tells  us  to  drop  the  military 
title  and  describes  himself  as  back  on  the 
job  as  Production  Manager  of  WAAB  in 


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Worcester.  Al  was  two  years  in  the  Navy 
and  served  as  a  Radar  Operator. 

Dr.  Arnold  Newcomb  has  his  practice 
in  Berkley,  Mich. 

Edward  Taylor  is  an  electrical  engi- 
neer at  the  U.  S.  Naval  Shipyard  in  Brook- 
lyn. He  is  living  at  23  1  Foster  Ave.,  Val- 
ley Stream,  N.  Y. 

Arthur  Brown  is  with  the  Liberty  Mu- 
tual Insurance  Co.  in  Philadelphia.  His 
home  address  is  1318  Edge  Hill  Road, 
Lansdownc  Park,  Darby,  Pa. 

Charles  J.  Schiele,  Jr.,  is  living  at  60 
Granvie  Drive,   Belleville,  111. 

Dr.  Robert  Van  Wart  is  practicing  os- 
teopathy in   Winthrop,  Me. 

Jack  Crusoe  is  a  salesman  for  the  Mack 
Truck  Co.  in  Providence.  Jack  lives  in 
Greenwood,  R.  I.,  at  93  Myrtle  Ave. 

Richard  Bujzell  is  with  Barrington  As- 
sociate, Inc.  in  New  York  City  and  lives 
there  at  86  W.   12th  St. 

Herbert  Simpson  writes  that  he  was  re- 
leased from  the  Army  with  the  rank  of 
Captain  in  January,  1946,  and  is  now 
office  manager  for  the  Airlines  Negotiating 
Committee  in  New  York   City. 

William  A.  Semmes  is  sales  manager  fur 
the  Eastman  Motors,  Inc.  in  Stamford, 
Conn. 

John  M.  Wilson  is  Director  of  Employee 
Relatiorks  for  the  United  Fuel  Gas  Co.  in 
Charleston,  W.  Va. 

J.  Stewart  Rigby  is  a  field  dealer  for 
the  Wear-Ever  Aluminum  Co.  in  Mont- 
pelier,  Vt. 

Edward  H.  Quillan  is  living  at  R.F.D. 
2,  East  Greenwich,  R.  I. 

Henry  Holland,  with  John  N.  Holland 
6^"  Co.  in  New  York,  is  living  at  27  Bel- 
vedere Place,  Yonkers,  N.  Y. 

Charles  G.  Quinn  is  an  army  officer,  sta- 
tioned at  the  New  York  Port  of  Embarca- 
tion.  His  home  address:  125  Seaman  Ave., 
New  York,  N.  Y. 

George  H.  Stauifer  is  treasurer  of  the 
Crown  Oil  y  Wax  Co.  in  Frederick,  Md. 

Bernard  Spector  is  teaching  in  the  Fill- 
more Union  High  School,  Fillmore,  Calif. 

F.  J.  Keefer  is  a  salesman  for  the  Chase 
Brass  and  Copper  Co.  in  Rochester,  N.  Y. 
He  is  living  at  71  Fuller  Ave.,  Webster, 
N.  Y. 

1934 

Harry  Jackson  has  been  elected  vice- 
president  and  director  of  G.  H.  Jackson 
Co.,  a  general  insurance  brokerage  in  New 
York  City. 

Ben  Holmes  is  working  for  the  Provi- 
dence Journal  Co.  as  copy  editor  in  the 
news  room.  His  home  is  at  81/2  Pratt  St., 
Providence,  R.  I. 

Harry  Kurtz,  Jr.,  writes  that  he  is  man- 
ager of  the  United  Command  Sales  Co.  at 
934  S.  Maple  St.,  Los  Angeles,  Cal. 

Kenneth  Hampson  is  a  lecturer  in  in- 
dustrial management  at  Hofstra  College  in 
Hempstead,  N.  Y. 

Alan  DeWitt  is  now  assistant  depart- 
ment head  of  the  Montgomery  Ward  Co. 
in  Albany,  N.  Y.  His  address  is  R.F.D. 
No.  1,  Rensselaer,  N.  Y. 

Richard  Millard  notifies  us  that  he  is 
assistant  buyer  of  piece  goods  for  the 
Jordan,  Marsh  Co.  in  Boston.  He  is  living 
at  239  Beacon  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 

New  addresses:  Randolph  C.  Rounds, 
Box  1084,  North  Attleboro,  Mass.;  John 
Pennell,  97  North  St.,  Hamden,  Conn. 

Walter  Gager,  D.D.S.,  is  practicing 
dentistry  at  506  N.  Larchmont  Blvd.,  Los 
Angeles,  Cal. 


THE  MAIN  WHO  GAVE  Andrews  House  was  honored  at  Coninienrenient, 
with  Chaplain  Washburn  and  Dr.  Wriston  taking  part  in  the  exercises. 
(Story  on  page  9.) 


James  MacKintosh  writes  he  is  assistant 
supervisor  of  the  Travelers  Insurance  Com- 
pany Agency  Field  Service.  He  is  living 
at  130  Maple  St.,  Wethersfield,  Conn. 

George  R.  Payne,  no  longer  Lt.,  USNR, 
is  now  at  1845  Stewart  Ave.,  New  Hyde 
Park,  N.  Y. 

Edward  S.  Jones,  2nd,  is  a  member  of 
the  firm  of  Jones  ii  Dane  (Earle  B.  Dane, 
Jr.,  '41)  engaged  in  export-import  trade 
with  China.  The  partners  saw  much  mili- 
tary service  there  during  the  war. 

Jerome  M.  Herman  is  completing  his  first 
year  on  the  staff  of  the  Personnel  Service, 
Veterans  Administration  Branch  No.  1, 
in  Boston,  although  living  in  Providence 
still,  at  21  Duncan  Ave.  His  post  followed 
naturally  his  last  work  in  military  service: 
he  was  vocational  adviser  at  Camp  Ed- 
wards Convalescent  Hospital  until  Feb.  23, 
1946.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Herman  (she  was 
Rosalind  Rakusin)  are  the  proud  parents 
of  year-old  twins — Harriet  Leslie  and 
Sheila  Carol,  born  May  7,   1946, 

Dr.  Harold  L.  Dean  of  the  English  fac- 
ulty at  Marietta  College  in  Ohio  will  be 
promoted  from  instructor  to  assistant  pro- 
fessor, effective  Sept.  1.  This  Vermonter 
received  his  Ph.D.  at  Brown  in  1943  before 
going  west. 

Elbridge  Taylor  is  an  inspector  for  the 
Western   Electric   Co.   in   Haverhill,  Mass. 

Herbert  Molden  can  be  reached  at  233 
Summer  St.,  New  Bedford,  Mass. 

George  Farrell  is  working  for  the  Boston 
Herald-Traveler  and  is  living  in  Wellesley 
Hills. 

William  Thrall  writes  he  is  a  special 
agent  for  the  Republic  Insurance  Co.  in 
New  York.  His  home  address  is  18  Ged- 
ney  Park  Drive,  White  Plains,  N.  Y. 

John  Given,  Jr.,  retired  from  business, 
is  now  living  in  New  York  at  the  Park  Cen- 
tral Hotel. 

L.  Richard  Fried  is  in  the  import-export 
line  with  Eciraex  Co.,  Inc.,  in  New  York 
City.  He  lives  at  the  Sagamore  Farm, 
Stamford,  Conn. 

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Harold  Sauers  is  vice-president  of  the 
Wico  Electric  Co.  in  West  Springfield, 
Mass.    His  home  is  in  Suffield,  Conn. 

York  A.  King,  Jr.,  sends  us  a  new  ad- 
dress:   156  N.  22nd  St.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

We  hear  that  Robert  Arnott  is  now  in 
San  Juan,  Puerto  Rico. 

Caesar  M.  Danesi  is  sales  engineer  for 
the  Griscom  Russell  Co.  in  Chicago.  A 
card  gives  us  his  home  address  at  4461 
Franklin  Ave.,  Western  Springs,  111. 

Richard  Millard  writes  that  he  is  living 
at  239  Beacon  St.  in  Boston,  where  he  is 
an  assistant  buyer  for  Jordan  Marsh  Co. 

Dr.  Walter  C.  Lobitz,  Jr.,  is  on  the  staff 
of  the  Hitchcock  Clinic  in  Hanover,  N.  H., 
and  also  instructs  in  dermatology  and 
syphilology  at  the  Dartmouth  Medical 
School. 

Edwin  B.  Brown  has  left  the  Rhode 
Island  School  of  Design  and  is  now  at 
Alfred  University,  Alfred,  N.  Y. 

Nestor  W.  Wawro,  M.D.,  is  practicing 
in  Hartford,  Conn. 

Gordon  Carr  is  sales  manager  for  the 
E.  A.  Erickson  Monumental  Works  in 
Quincy,  Mass.  His  home  address:  9  Ryden 
St.  in  Quincy. 

Louis  Hand  is  doing  design  engineering 
for  the  Thurston  Mfg.  Co.  in  Providence. 

Warren  J.  Green  writes  he  is  director  of 
student  activities  at  Sampson  College, 
Sampson,  N.  Y. 

Alexander  Resko,  Jr.,  is  doing  produc- 
tion management  work  with  the  Viscose 
Corporation  of  America  in  Lewistown,  Pa. 

Eugene  O.  Swayne  sends  us  his  address 
as  Route  1,  McHenry,  III. 

We  learn  that  Rev.  Harold  A.  Carlson 
was  a  chaplain  and  is  now  pastor  of  the 
Covenant  Church  in  Garney,  Cal. 

Rev.  Knight  W.  Dunkerley  has  been 
Chaplain  and  Master  at  the  Hoosac  School, 
Hoosick,  N.  Y.  since  last  September. 

1935 

The  sympathy  of  the  class  is  extended  to 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  D.  Gerald  Ferry,  whose  five 
year   old   son,   Thomas   Hand   Ferry,   was 


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killed  hy  a  milk  truck  in  front  of  the  Ferry 
home  in  May.  The  family  lives  at  R.F.D. 
No.  I,  Wyckoff,  N.  J. 

Simon  England,  Jr.,  has  been  named 
head  of  the  mercantile  section  of  the  Pitts- 
field,  Mass.,  YMCA  World  Youth  Fund 
campaign. 

Dr.  William  Loebcnstcin  is  working  in 
Washington  with  the  Bureau  of  Standards 
and  can  be  reached  at  4108  Ingomar  St., 
Washington  15,  D.  C. 

Ralph  Walker  is  a  men's  clothes  buyer 
for  the  G.  Fox  6?  Co.  Department  Store  in 
Hartford,  Conn.  His  address:  6?  Flagg 
Rd  ,  West  Hartford,  Conn. 

Tom  Carberry  writes  us  from  the  Canal 
Zone  where  he  is  chief  of  the  personnel 
.section  of  the  Special  Engineering  Divi- 
sion of  the  Panama  Canal.  His  address: 
Box  1211,  Diablo  Heights,  Canal  Zone. 

Donald  W.  Moores  is  working  for  the 
Internal  Revenue  Bureau  in  Newark,  N.  J. 
as  U.  S.  Storekeeper  and  Gauger  of  the 
alcohol  tax  unit.  He  is  living  at  1  Franklin 
St.,  Penns  Grove,  N.  J. 

Vincent  Reade,  Jr.,  is  assistant  operating 
manager  for  the  Whitehead  Metal  Products 
Co  in  New  York  City.  He  is  living  at 
81  Walgrove  Ave.,  Dobbs  Ferry,  N.  Y. 

Some  recent  addresses:  Warren  Groce, 
Provident  Mutual  Life  Ins.  Co.,  10  South 
LaSalle  St.,  Chicago  3,  111.;  James  Staniels. 
R.F.D.  No.  1,  Laconia,  N.  H.;  Robert 
Loeb,  Jr.,  Pegasus  Books  Inc.,  185  No 
Wabash  Ave.,  Chicago,  111.:  Robert  Silton. 
21  Rye  Road,  Rye,  N.  Y.:  Richard  Hill, 
48  Franklin  Square,  New  Britain,  Conn. 

Raymond  Miller  is  research  engineer  for 
the  Federal  Products  Co.  in  Providence. 

William  Wentworth  is  maintenance  su- 
pervisor for  the  Yellow  Cab  Co.  in  Provi- 
dence, 

Gordon  Salmonsen  is  general  manager  of 
the  Wiehl  Nash,  Inc.  in  Bridgeport,  Conn, 
His  home  address  is  269  Puritan  Rd.,  Fair- 
field, Conn. 

Howard  Low  is  with  the  New  York 
Trust  Co.  in  New  York  City  and  is  living 
in  Yonkers  at  563  South  Broadway. 

Tilden  B.  Mason  directed  a  recent  pro- 
duction of  "The  Late  George  Apley," 
put  on  by  "The  Players"  in  Providence. 
Mr.  Mason  is  research  assistant  for  the  R.  I. 
Public  Expenditure  Council. 

1936 

The  parishioners  of  Christ  Church, 
Providence,  honored  their  rector,  Rev. 
Genio  Scaringi,  at  a  reception  in  May. 
They  presented  him  a  communion  set  for 


The  Time  of  Mghl 

►  You  CAN  NOW  LEARN  the  "time 
of  night"  after  dark  on  the  Brown 
campus.  Since  early  February  the 
clock  on  Wilson  Hall  has  been  il- 
luminated, much  to  general  satisfac- 
tion. Although  provision  for  illum- 
ination was  made  in  the  original  in- 
stallation, no  use  of  the  lighting 
seems  to  have  been  made  until  Super- 
intendent Davenport  explored  the 
possibility  recently. 


Insight  for  Magnolia 

►  The  first  electron  microscope 
in  Texas,  of  the  most  powerful  type 
in  the  world,  is  being  used  by  Dr. 
Paul  Reichertz  of  Dallas,  senior 
physicist  of  the  Magnolia  Petroleum 
Co.  who  received  his  Ph.D.  from 
Brown  in  1943  and  helped  develop 
wartime  radar.  The  instrument.  50 
times  as  powerful  as  the  best  optical 
microscope,  permits  the  scientist  to 
get  pictures  of  tiny  objects  magni- 
fied 100,000  times. 

The  particles  of  matter  studied  by 
Dr.  Reichertz  are  so  tiny  that  if 
they  were  ranged  in  single  file  it 
would  take  2^  million  of  them  to 
form  a  line  an  inch  long.  Yet  study 
and  classification  of  them  will  mean 
billions  of  dollars  to  Texas'  greatest 
industry,  says  the  Dallas  Daily 
Times  i 


use  in  sick  calls.  Mr.  Scaringi  is  also  a 
member  of  the  staff  of  chaplains  for  the 
Rhode   Island   State   Institutions. 

Rev.  Albert  W.  Low  was  recently  or- 
dained to  the  Catholic  priesthood  in  Bos- 
ton. Fr.  Low  celebrated  his  first  Mass  at 
St.  Joseph's  Church  in  Lynn  on  May   11. 

Dr.  Abraham  Binder  has  announced  the 
opening  of  his  office  in  Lynn,  Mass.  Dr. 
Binder  will  be  specializing  in  diseases  of 
the  skin. 

Dr.  Samuel  Bojar,  who  was  with  the 
Army  Medical  Corps  for  three  years,  is 
now  a  member  of  the  resident  staff  of  the 
Boston  Psychopathic  Hospital. 

William  George  writes  to  tell  us  of  the 
birth  of  his  first  child,  William  E.  George, 
and  to  announce  a  change  of  address  to 
9  Ashton   St.,  Pawtucket. 

Conrad  Green  is  an  architect  in  the 
office  of  Albert  Harkness  in  Providence. 
He  is  living  at  109  Wilson  Ave.,  Rumford. 

Dr.  Robert  W.  Wilson  is  working  with 
the  Veterans  Administration  in  Maine  as 
medical  rating  specialist.  His  address: 
73  Winthrop  St.,  Augusta,  Me. 

Louis  Novak,  Lt.  Comdr.  in  the  U.S.M.S. 
Medical   Corps,   is   now   in   San   Francisco. 

New  addresses:  Albert  Dykes,  49  Fair- 
way Lane,  Manhasset.  L.  I.,  N.  Y.  Fred- 
erick May.  6  Williams  Terrace,  Bellows 
Falls,  Vt.:  Dr.  Frank  Ziobrowski,  Health 
Service,  University  of  Michigan,  207 
Fletcher  Ave.,  Ann  Arbor.  Dr.  B.  B.  Mon- 
gillo,   574  Angell  St.,  Providence. 

Stewart  Anderson  lectured  recently  at 
the  Boston  Public  Library  on  "15,000 
Miles  in  a  Modern  Covered  Wagon",  an 
account  of  a  camping  trip  covering  30 
states,  three  Canadian  provinces,  and  part 
of  Mexico. 

Dr.  Clarence  D.  Hawkes  is  now  prac- 
ticing neurological  surgery  in  Memphis, 
Tenn.  He  is  also  an  Assistant  in  Neuro- 
surgery and  Neurology  in  the  University 
of  Tennessee  Medical  School.  His  address: 
Forrest  Park  Hotel,  22  North  Manassas, 
Methis,  Tenn. 

Lt.  Comdr.  Leon  Eisman,  USNR,  has 
been  recalled  to  active  duty  and  is  with  the 
Epidemiology  Unit  No.  24,  N.O.B.,  Nor- 
folk, Va. 

The  last  address  we  can  find  for  Fred- 
erick Adams  is  7320  Austin  St.,  Forest 
Hill,  N.  Y. 

Pfc.  Ed  Siegmann  is  a  patient  in  the 
Murphy  General  Hospital,  Waltham,  Mass. 
Ed,  who  was  wounded  in  the  December  of 
1944,  expects  to  be  discharged  and  back  in 
New  York  hy   fall. 

Dr.  Minot  Fryer  is  practicing  in  St. 
Louis.  His  home  address;  5000  Waterman 
Ave.,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Bill  Griffin  is  teaching  at  the  Stoning- 
ton  High  School,  Stonington,  Conn.  He 
is  living  at  183  West  Broad  St.,  Westerly, 
R.  I, 

George  Munde  is  living  at  407  Dakota 
St.,  Norman,  Okla. 

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Jim  Maiden,  lormerly  an  Army  captain, 
is  now  at  the  Glen  Cove  (N.  Y.)  High 
School  where  he  is  an  instructor  in  history 
and  coach  of  the  soccer  and  golf  teams.  He 
has  two  daughters,  Virginia  and  Elizabeth, 
both  of  whom  have  red  hair  like  their 
father.  Address;   116  Forest  Avenue. 

Richard  Frcund  is  in  the  real  estate  busi- 
ness in  Detroit.  He  is  living  there  at  the 
Book  Cadillac  Hotel. 

George  Kuhn  is  field  service  representa- 
tive for  The  Travelers  Insurance  Co.  in 
Peoria,  111.  George  is  living  in  Peoria,  at 
214  N.  Frink  St 

Theodore  Bedrick  is  instructor  of 
Classics   at  the  University  of  Illinois. 

William  Heyer  is  living  at  74  Harrison 
St.,  Verona,  N.  J. 

Harold  Bright  is  registrar  of  the  San 
Angelo  College  in  San  Angelo,  Texas. 

Irving  Williams  is  teaching  at  the  Mt. 
Kisco  (N.  Y.)  high  school. 

1937 

Bob  Johnson,  sales  manager  fur  the 
Casey  Folson  Co.  in  Hartford,  has  been  ap- 
pointed that  organization's  local  contact 
man  in  the  wholesale  distribution  of  auto- 
motive equipment. 

Robert  Noon  is  working  as  public  rela- 
tions organizer  for  various  Massachusetts 
and  Rhode  Island  charities.  He  is  living 
at  10  Appian  Way,  Cambridge,  Mass. 

Milo  Welch  is  manager  of  the  House- 
hold Finance  Corp.  in  Boston.  His  home 
is  at  50  Stedman  St.,  Quincy,  Mass. 

Allen  Krause  is  an  attorney-at-law  in 
Lebanon,  Pa. 

Joseph  Navas  is  with  the  Hammel-Dahl 
Co.  in  Providence  and  lives  at  2  Spencer 
Drive,  Wickford,  R.  I. 

Some  new  addresses:  Leslie  Joyner,  Wex- 
ford, Pa.;  Bob  Macdonald.  621  Massa- 
chusetts Ave.,  Cambridge,  Mass. 

Dr.  Nathan  Coleman  is  practicing  medi- 
cine in  Mattapan,  Mass.  The  Colemans 
are  living  at  23  5  Reedsdale  Rd.,  Milton, 
Mass. 

Richard  Emery  is  assistant  operations 
manager  for  the  Isthmian  Steamship  Co.  in 
New  York.  His  home  address  is  at  1225 
Park  Ave. 

Gordon  Walls  is  living  at  131  School 
St..  Lebanon,  N.  H.  He  is  with  the  Amer- 
ican Woolen  Co.  in  Lebanon. 

Harry  Snellenburg  is  owner  of  the 
Henny  Penny  Farm,  Ivyland,  Bucks 
County,  Pa. 

Harlan  Paine,  out  of  the  service  after 
four  years  as  a  Coast  Guard  Lt.,  is  now  an 
administrative  interne  at  the  Mass.  General 
Hospital.  He  writes  that  he  is  now  com- 
pleting his  studies  for  the  degree  of  Mas- 
ter of  Hospital  Administration  from 
Northwestern  University. 

Don  Daniels,  discharged  last  March 
from  the  Army  Air  Forces  as  Captain,  re- 
cently announced  the  formation  of  the 
Canner-Danicls  Insurance  Agency  in  Bos- 
ton. 

Dave  McGovern  was  toastmaster  for  the 
47th  annual  dinner  of  the  Friendly  Sons 
of  St.  Patrick,  held  in  Providence  this 
March.  Dave  has  the  distinction  of  being 
the  youngest  man  ever  selected  as  toast- 
master  for  this  occasion. 

Walter  Davol  writes  us  that  he  is  to 
open  a  new  office  of  the  Aetna  Casualty 
and  Surety  Co.  in  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  this 
month. 

Norman  Watson  is  with  the  Defense 
Plants  Division  of  the  Reconstruction 
Finance  Corporation  in  Providence. 

Edmond  Schiller  is  living  at  75  Arling- 
ton Ave.  in  Caldwell,  N.  J.,  and  is  appli- 


BROWN    ALUMNI    MONTHLY 

cation   engineer   in    the    Crocker-Wheeler 
Electric  Mfg.  Co.  in  Ampere,  N.  J. 

Bill  Baker  is  vice-president  in  the  Baker 
Chevrolet  Co.  in  Taunton. 

We  learn  that  Jerome  Goldsmith  is  liv- 
ing at  6026  Earnest  Ave.  in  Los  Angeles. 

Joe  Tausch  is  operating  the  Larchmont 
Lamp  Studios  in  Larchmont,  N.  Y. 

Oliver  Hayes  is  patent  attorney  for  the 
Polaroid  Corp.  in  Cambridge,  Mass. 

John  D.  Powell  is  in  Tacoma,  Washing- 
ton. 

Bob  Anderson,  who  now  has  two  daugh- 
ters, is  living  in  Bermuda.  His  address: 
Spruce  Cottage,  Smith's  Parish. 

Charles  Walz  is  sales  representative  for 
the  Stephen  Whitman  y  Son  Co.  in  New 
York  City.  He  is  living  in  Plainfield,  N.  J., 
at  720  Hobart  Ave. 

Tom  O'Keefe  is  a  Kresge  manager  in 
Washington,  D.  C. — S.  S.  Kresge  Co.,  that 
is. 

Russell  Smith  is  now  at  the  English 
Dept.  of  Cleveland  College,  Cleveland, 
Ohio. 

Hugh  Wallace  is  working  as  analyst 
with  The  California  Bank  in  Los  Angeles. 
He  is  living  at  1845  Hope  St.  in  South 
Pasadena. 

We  have  received  this  address  for  Henry 
T.  Van  Dyke:  12700  Gulf  Blvd.,  Treasure 
Island,  St.  Petersburg,  Fla. 

Arthur  Crowlet  writes  he  is  with  the 
Keystone  Readers  Service,  Inc.  in  Phila- 
delphia as  manager  of  the  magazine  sub- 
scription agency.  His  home  is  at  11 36 
Madison  Ave.,  Prospect  Park,  Penn. 

Ed  Fearncy  is  instructor  of  architecture 
at  the  University  of  Florida  in  Gainville, 
Fla. 

Jim  Henry's  address  comes  to  us  as  214 
Boulevard,  Scarsdale,  N.  Y. 

Lt.  (j.g.)  James  Bugg,  USN,  is  at  the 
Naval  School  (Elect.  Mat'l.),  W.O.R.E.S. 
No.  26,  Naval  Research  Lab.,  Washington, 
D.  C. 

We  hear  that  Tom  Kennedy  is  living  in 
Blackstone,  Mass.  and  working  in  Boston. 

Bill  Hickey  is  cost  accountant  for  the 
U.  S.  Navy  Dept.  in  Silver  Spring,  Md. 
His  home  address  is  4324  Kentbury  Drive, 
Bethesda,  Md. 

D.  Stuart  Campbell  writes  he  is  restaura- 
teur with  the  Cape  Cod  Cottages  Inc.  in 
Los  Angeles. 

Dr.  Jay  D.  Mann  is  on  the  staff  of  the 
Albany  Hospital,  Albany,  N.  Y. 

Ernest  Beck  is  working  in  the  legal  de- 
partment of  DuPont  in  Wilmington,  Del. 
His  home  address  is  14  B  Corhin  Court, 
Wilmington. 

Frank  Fletcher  writes  he  is  a  teaching 
fellow  at  the  University  of  Michigan. 

James  Frazer  is  with  the  Guaranty  Trust 
Co.  in  New  York.  He  is  living  at  15  Chest- 
nut St.,  Garden  City,  L.  I.,  N.  Y. 

Dr.  Charles  Cashman  is  chief  of  the 
paraplegia  section  of  the  Gushing  Veterans 
Administration  Hospital  at  Framingham, 
Mass. 

Dick  Holt  is  city  manager  of  Northeast 
Airlines,  Inc.  in  New  Bedford. 

Dr.  Freeman  D.  Love  is  practicing  medi- 
cine in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Jim  MacNeill  is  now  living  at  7307 
Elbow  Lane,  Philadelphia. 


Why  She  Needed  to  Know 

y  "Which  is  the  biggest  elm  tree 
on  the  Brown  campus?"  A  woman 
wanted  to  know  and  came  into  Uni- 
versity Hall  on  Commencement  Day 
in  an  effort  to  find  out.  It  was  one 
question  none  of  the  staff,  for  all  its 
varied  experience,  had  ever  been 
asked,  and  the  inquirer  would  take 
no  guesses  for  an  answer.  Several 
likely  trees  among  the  older  elms 
were  pointed  out,  but  she  repeated, 
"Which  is  the  largest?" 

"Do  you  need  to  know  today?  ' 
parleyed  one  of  the  secretaries. 

"I  certainly  do,"  was  the  response. 
"I  must  find  the  biggest  elm.  My 
husband  told  me  to  meet  him  under 
it."  < 


1938 

Arnold  Noble  has  been  appointed  plant 
manager  for  Arnold,  Hoffman  y  Co.'s  new 
southern  plant  at  Charlotte,  N.  C.  Arnold 
has  obtained  his  manufacturing  experience 
at  the  company's  Anchor  Division  in 
Dighton,  Mass.,  in  all  control  laboratories 
and  production  departments. 


Roderick  M.  Chisholm  has  been  made 
assistant  professor  of  philosophy  at  Brown. 
Dr.  Chisholm  comes  to  us  from  the  faculty 
of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  and  dur- 
ing the  war  served  as  an  officer  clinical 
psychologist. 

Myles  Grover  announces  a  change  of 
address  to  23  Prospect  St.,  East  Orange, 
N.  J.  (building  6,  Apt  1-A). 

George  H.  Springer  is  in  Dayton,  Ohio, 
where  he  is  assistant  professor  of  Geology 
at  the  University  of  Dayton. 

Phil  Myers  is  studying  for  a  Master  of 
Education  degree  at  Springfield  (Mass.) 
College. 

Richard  Earle's  address  is  3301  Austin 
Ave.,  Waco,  Texas.  He  is  partner  in  the 
Clement  Grain  Co.  there. 

Gabriel  Geuer  writes  he  is  chemist  in 
the  Development  Laboratory  of  the  Nor- 
wich (N.  Y.)  Pharmacal  Co. 

Bill  Michael  is  living  at  60  Malhonc  Rd. 
in  Newport. 

Samuel  Strong  is  at  Carleton  College  in 
Northfield,  Minn. 

More  and  more  we  see  the  work  of 
Alan  Fontaine  in  the  topflight  magazines. 
As  a  photographer  he  works  in  the  fashion 
field,  often  in  color,  with  a  further  flair 
for  still  life,  illustration,  montage,  and  ex- 
perimentals.  His  studio  is  at  135  East  40th 
St.,  New  York  16.  Still  single,  he  told  Jim 
Gurll,  in  spite  of  the  gorgeous  models  he 
encounters  in  the  course  of  a  day's  work. 
Martin  G.  RoUand,  whose  mail  was  re- 
turned to  us  from  California  last  winter, 
sends  a  new  address  showing  him  back  in 
the  East  at  5  Bishop  Rd.,  WoUaston,  Mass. 
He  notes  that  he  has  been  travelling  about 
the  country  for  the  past  three  or  four  years. 
Reevan  Novograd  writes  us  from  Ger- 
many where  he  is  working  for  the  Head- 
quarters of  Military  Government  on  the 
development  of  a  new  civil  service  system 
for  the  German  government.  He  expects 
to  return  to  the  states  in  the  fall  after  two 
years  overseas  and  after  that  would  like  to 
spend  a  year  at  the  University  of  London 
to    t'ldy  the  British  Civil  Service  system. 

Rev.  Everett  Sherwood,  now  a  Major  on 
the  Army  Air  Force  inactive  list,  is  pastor 
of  the  Central  Baptist  Church  in  South- 
bridge,  Mass. 

Howard  Jordan  is  a  partner  in  the  Case 
and  Jordan  Co.,  tire  distributors,  in 
Phoenix,  Ariz.  His  address;  Route  2,  Box 
262,  Phoenix. 

Horatio    LaFauci    is    now    teaching    at 
Becker  Junior  College  in  Worcester,  Mass. 
Joseph   Cooper  writes   that  he  is   vice- 
president  of  the  Harry  D.  Cooper  and  Co., 

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British  Continental  Sales  Co.,  Inc.  in  New 
York  City. 

E.  Robert  LaCrosse  is  working  with  the 
Combustion  Engineering  Co.  in  New  York 
City.  He  is  living  at  86  S.  Harrison  Ave., 
East  Orange,  N.  J. 

Floyd  Hinckley  is  living  at  13  1  N.  Broad- 
way, Los  Angeles,  Cal. 

Raymond   Hanson   sends   an   address  at 
4  Central  Ave.,  South  Hadley  Falls,  Mass. 
Alderic   Senecal   is   selling   for   The   At- 
lantic Refining  Co.  in  Worcester.  His  home 
is  at  2  Elliott  St.  in  Westminster,  Mass. 

E.  W.  Cokefair  is  office  manager  for  the 
Mt.  Hope  Finishing  Co.  in  New  York. 

Bob  Richard  is  with  the  Travelers  Fire 
Insurance  Co.  in  Los  Angeles  and  is  living 
at  1733  Mines  Blvd.  in  Whittier,  Cal. 

A  card  from  George  Pierce  states  that 
he  is  chief  passenger  and  cargo  agent  for 
American  Airlines  in  the  Greater  Cincin- 
nati Airport,  Erlanger  Station,  Kentucky. 
We  learn  from  Cy  Flanders  that  Floyd 
Hinckley  is  in  San  Pedro,  Cal. 

Carl  Nesbitt  is  in  the  insurance  business 
with  the  Phoenix  London  Group  in  New 
York  City. 

1939 
Ralph  P.  Semonoff  is  now  practicing  law 
in    Providence    in    association    with    Judah 
C.  Semonoff  '1 1. 

E.  W.  Renfree,  formerly  at  the  New 
York  office  of  the  U.  S.  Rubber  Co.,  is 
now  at  the  Chicago  branch  as  Midwestern 
District  Engineer  for  the  Wire  and  Cable 
Division  of  the  company.  His  new  address: 
1340  North  State  St.,  Chicago  10,  111. 

Stanley  Mathes,  long  active  in  alumni 
atfairs  in  Providence,  has  been  transferred 
by  the  Grinnell  Corporation  to  Daugherty 
Co.,  Inc.,  502  Union  National  Bank  Bldg., 
Youngstown  3,  Ohio. 

Charles  L.  Kramer  recently  announced 
his  association  with  Milton  Broadman  in  a 
New  York  City  law  office. 

G.  Holmes  Wilson  is  announcer  and 
script  writer  for  Station  WSAR  in  Fall 
River,  Mass. 

Arthur  Oppenheimer  is  practicing  law 
in  Chicago  and  is  living  at  917  S.  St.  Johns 
Ave.,  Highland  Park,  111. 

Ken  Vale  is  a  latex  chemist  with  the 
American  Wringer  Co.  in  Woonsocket, 
R.  I.  Ken's  home  is  at  11  Hill  Ave.,  Es- 
mond, R.  I. 

Rev.  R.  L.  Seekins  is  now  rector  of  St. 
Thomas'  Church  in  Providence  and  can 
be  reached  at  721  Douglas  Ave.,  Provi- 
dence. 

New  addresses:  Floyd  Shumway,  "And- 
way",  1150  Old  Mill  Rd.,  Lake  Forest,  111.; 
Kenneth  Frank,  6229  North  Bay  Ridge 
Ave.,  Milwaukee  11,  Wis. 

Bob  Simon  directs  us  to  leave  off  his 
military  title,  stating  that  "it  brings  back 
memories  that  are  better  forgotten".  MIS- 
TER Simon  is  living  at  114  University  Rd., 
Brookline,  Mass. 


Query  on  Tradition 

►  The  first  question  was  easy: 
"Does  your  campus  promote  the 
merits  of  the  traditional?" 

But  the  second  was  not  simply 
answered,  though  the  inquiry  from 
the  Middle  West  was  honest  and 
seeking:  "Will  you  please  send  a 
description  of  what  is  traditional  on 
your  campus?" 

That  was  a  big  order  for  a  school 
that  has  been  in  business  since  1764. 


BROWN    ALUMNI    MONTHLY 


We  learn  that  John  Rowe  is  now  at 
the  Universidad  del  Cauca,  Popayan,  Co- 
lombia. South  America. 

Bill  Bieluch  has  been  taking  some  special 
law  studies  under  American  Bar  Associa- 
tion  auspices  in  Hartford.  Henry  Muller 
'38  has  also  attended. 

Ben  Hunter,  Muller  also  reports,  is  work- 
ing in  radio  broadcasting  at  the  station  in 
Scranton,   Pa. 

Norden  Schloss  is  now  working  with 
the  North  Carolina  Power  and  Light  Co 
in  Roxboro,  N.  C.  Norden  was  a  bom- 
bardier in  the  8th  Air  Force  during  the 
war. 

Andrew  Comstock  informs  us  that  Frank 
McEvoy  is  taking  a  law  course  at  the  Uni 
versity  of  Virginia.  Frank  and  his  wife  arc 
living  at  1021  West  Main  St.  in  Char- 
lottesville, Va.  and  will  be  in  Clinton, 
Conn,  this  June.  While  they  are  there. 
Frank  hopes  to  run  up  to  Providence  for 
the  Commencement  season. 

F.  Raymond  Zulch,  D.D.S.  is  practicing 
Dentistry  in  Scarsdale,  N.  Y. 

Fred  Rhodes  has  taken  a  position  with 
Bloomingdale's  Department  Store  in  New 
York,  entering  a  special  course  for  junior 
executives.  Fred  had  spent  three  and  a 
half  years  in  the  Pacific  as  a  field  artillery 
captain. 

Earl  Metzger  is  an  examiner  with  the 
U.  S  Civil  Service  Commission  in  Atlanta, 
Ga. 

Bob  O'Brien  has  a  new  address:  26  Hill 
crest  Ave.,  Yonkers,  N.  Y. 

Howard  Shaw  is  sales  manager  with 
Stark  Hickey,  Inc.  in  Detroit.  His  home 
is  at  1386  Harvard  Rd.,  Grosse  Pointe, 
Mich, 

Phil  Creighton  is  a  partner  in  the  firm  of 
Creighton  6?  Sullivan,  Food  Brokers  and 
Mfgrs'  Agents  in  Portland,  Ore.  Pre- 
viously, he  was  in  Washington  with  the 
O.P.A. 

Harold  Speel  is  living  at  100  Miller  St., 
Wickford. 

1940 

Dick  Struble,  in  merchandising  work  for 
the  Esmond  Mills  in  New  York  City,  ex- 
pects to  be  married  in  October.  His  fiancee, 
Mary  Jane  Hayes  Jones,  Mt.  Holyoke  "44, 
is  on  the  staff  of  Glamour  magazine, 

John  Young  has  passed  his  written  and 
oral  examinations  for  the  State  Department 
Foreign  Service  examination.  He  should 
be  a  specialist  on  Greece  and  the  Islands 
after  his  years  there. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Norman  S.  Case,  Jr.,  have 
been  in  Bethel,  Vt.  since  last  September, 
and  Norman  has  opened  his  law  office 
there.  Noting  that  Bethel  is  his  birth- 
place, Norman  writes  that  he  finds  his  law 
work  "most  pleasant".  The  Cases"  new 
son  is  named  for  the  late  Lt.  John  Warren 
Case,  "42,  Norman's  brother. 

Ray  Comyn,  returned  to  inactive  duty 
in  the  Navy,  is  now  living  at  Apt.  202, 
950  25th  St.,  NW,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Ralph  Harris  is  now  living  at  13  27  Tot- 
ten  Ave.,  Richland,  Wash, 

Capt.  Spencer  Manrodt,  USAAF,  is  now 
at  the  Fairtield-Suisin  Army  Air  Base  in 
California. 

Ray  McCulloch  is  working  for  the  Vet- 
erans Administration  in  Boston  and  is  at- 
tending Boston  College  Law  School  in  the 
evenings. 

Curtis  Warren  writes  that  he  is  a  student 
at  Penn. 

Stan  Cummings,  foreign  correspondent 
lor  the  Brown  Herald,  recently  interviewed 
Professor  George  J.  Stigler  of  the  Brown 
Economics  Dept.  when  the  latter  attended 


a  conference  of  economists  in  Switzerland. 
It  made  a  lively  column  for  the  campus 
paper. 

Washington  I.  Tragle,  3rd,  is  out  of 
service  and  back  in  Poughkeepsie,  where  he 
is  living  at  44  Raymond  Ave.  He"s  in  the 
real  estate  business. 


CLARK  T.  FOSTER  '40:  He  un- 
tangled snarls  in  Seoul.  (Photo 
rourtesy  of  The  Eastern  Under- 
writer.) 

Korean  Headache 

►  ►  How  WOULD  YOU  have  liked  the  job 
of  untangling  the  affairs  of  19  Japanese 
insurance  companies  operating  in  Korea  be- 
fore our  occupation?  That  was  what  landed 
in  the  lap  of  Clark  T.  Foster  '40,  previously 
an  Air  Corps  Captain. 

When  he  was  assigned  to  military  gov- 
ernment in  Korea,  it  was  discovered  that  he 
had  an  actuarial  background,  says  T/ie 
Eastern  Underu;riter.  He  was  made  mili- 
tary government  actuary  and  summoned  to 
headquarters  in  Seoul  to  work  under  the 
Major  in  charge  of  all  insurance  matters. 
He  had  to  evaluate  the  business  of  the  Jap 
companies,  supervise  the  actuarial  opera- 
tions of  the  one  existing  Korean  life  insur- 
ance company  and  help  set  up  two  pros- 
pective organizations. 

Only  three  of  the  Korean  aides  had  any 
knowledge  of  actuarial  matters  at  all. 
Equipment  consisted  of  two  hand-oper- 
ated calculating  machines,  an  ancient  type- 
writer, and  innumerable  abacuses  ("the 
primitive  calculators  Americans  usually  as- 
sociate with  the  sidesof  babies' play-pens"). 
Moreover,  the  Japanese  taught  Foster  at 
the  military  government  school  had  given 
no  vocabulary  drill  in  such  words  as  re- 
serve, premium,  and  commutation  column. 
Most  of  the  original  records  were  in  Japa- 
nese home  offices,  too. 

Foster  is  back  now,  a  member  of  the 
Group  department  of  The  Prudential's  ac- 
tuarial division.  A  former  managing  editor 
of  the  Brown  Daily  Herald  and  Phi  Beta 
Kappa  member,  he  joined  the  Army  Air 
Corps  in  1942.  He  served  in  the  China- 
Burma-India  theatre  as  a  weather-radar 
officer  after  meteorology  courses  at  N.Y.U., 
before  being  assigned  for  military  govern- 
ment and  language  study.  He  had  been 
with  The  Prudential  before  the  war.  ^ 

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The  editor's  apologies  go  to  Frederick 
Bloom  for  some  misinformation  previously 
printed  about  his  wedding.  As  noted  in 
the  Vital  Statistics  department,  he  was 
married  Feb.  20,  1947,  to  Miss  Ann  Ber- 
liner, daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edwin  E. 
Berliner  of  Larchmont,  N.  Y,  They  are 
living  at  66  Adelbert  St.,  South  Portland, 
Me,,  Fred  being  engaged  in  shoe  manu- 
facture since  his  return  to  civilian  life. 
(He  is  a  veteran  of  the  Aleutians,  where 
he  was  in  the  Army's  signal  intelligence 
branch.)  He  has  already  entered  into  the 
activities  of  the  Brown  Club  of  Western 
Maine,  and  writes  proudly  of  his  own 
"little  white  house  with  garden  and  all 
the  fixings," 

Frederick  King's  father  died  in  March, 
we  regret  to  report,  assuring  Fred  of  the 
class'  sympathy.  Fred  is  purchasing  agent 
for  Textron  in  New  York  and  lives  at  103 
Montgomery  Ave.,  Oceanside. 

Jim  Kennedy  gives  us  a  new  address  at 
Byram  Lake  Road,  Mt.  Kisco,  New  York. 

Bob  Logan  is  practicing  law  in  Chicago 
and  living  at  716  Harvard  Court,  High' 
land  Park,  111. 

Eiiiil  Dietz  is  with  the  Automatic  Heat- 
ing Corporation  in  Ridgewood,  N.  Y.  His 
home  is  at  176-56  80  Road,  Jamaica,  N.  Y. 

Lt.    Comdr.    Gordon    Brown,    USN,    is 

Walter  Gummere  is  assistant  production 
stationed  at  the  Quonset  Point  NAS. 
manager  at  the  Plywood  Division  of  the 
Louisville  Plants  of  the  Mengcl  Co.  He  is 
living  at  Box  11,  Locust  Lane,  Jefferson- 
town,  Ky. 

Bill  Reisman  is  purchasing  agent  for 
Wm.  S.  Reisman,  Inc.,  in  New  York  City. 
His  home  address  is  40  Willow  Drive,  New 
Rochelle,  N.  Y. 

Eugene  Simon  is  living  in  Winnetka, 
111.,  at  1225  Asbury  Ave. 

Ed  Hale  is  industrial  engineer  for  the 
Hemphill  Manufacturing  Co.  in  Pawtucket, 

R.  I. 

Tom  Mahony  sends  us  a  current  address 
at  Maliwah,  N.  J, 

Rev.  Daniel  Partridge  is  minister  of  the 
Methodist  Church  in  Champlain,  N.  Y. 

Melvin  Swart:  is  a  graduate  student  at 
Columbia. 

George  Sawyer  notifies  us  of  a  change 
of  address  to  117  Thompson  Terrace  Plan, 
Castle  Shannon  Post  Office,  Pittsburgh, 
Pa. 

Chaplain  Bob  Handy  was  promoted  to 
the  rank  of  Captain  in  January  and  sepa- 
rated from  the  Army  in  March.  He  is  now 
at  316  South  Wapella  Ave.,  Mount  Pros- 
pect, 111. 

Duncan  Cleaves  is  living  in  San  Jose, 
Calif.,  and  is  working  there  with  the  In- 
ternational Mineral  and  Chemicals  Co. 

Louis  Sigloch  is  an  architect  in  associa- 
tion with  his  father  in  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y. 
He  can  be  reached  at  Box  101,  Rhinecliff, 
N,  Y. 

Henry  Wilder,  living  at  2515  K,  St. 
NW,  Washington,  D.  C,  is  an  instructor 
in  the  sales  division  of  American  ,^irlines, 
Inc. 

1941 

Benson  R.  Frost,  Jr..  is  practicing  law 
with  his  father  in  Poughkeepsie  and 
Rhinebeck,  N.  Y.  A  fellow  townsman  is 
Robert  "W.  Gloss. 

Al  Carpenter  is  medical  sales  representa- 
tive for  Sharp  6?  Dohme,  Inc.,  of  Phila- 
delphia. His  mailing  address  is  P.  O.  Box 
63  3,  Greensburg,  Pa. 

Bill  Stinson  tells  us  to  address  him 
c/o  Aetna  Life  Insurance  Co.,  735  N. 
Water  St.,  Milwaukee,  Wis. 


BROWN     ALUMNI    MONTHLY 


Bob  Gosselin  is  doing  physiological  re- 
search at  the  University  of  Rochester 
School  of  Medicine  and  Dentistry. 

Bill  Sheehan,  Jr.,  sends  a  new  address 
at   12  Mawney  St.,  Providence,  R.  I. 

John  Liebmann  reports  he  is  a  salesman 
for  the  Liebman  Breweries,  Inc.,  in  Brook- 
lyn. His  mailing  address:  157  West  57th 
St.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Channing  Cox,  Lt.,  USN,  is  now  sta- 
tioned at  the  Patuxent  River,  NATC,  Mo. 

Fred  Barlow  is  a  student  teacher  and 
graduate  student  here  at  Brown.  His  home 
is  at  1639  Post  Rd.,  Lincoln  Park. 

Allan  Nunes  has  just  been  awarded  his 
M.A.  from  Harvard  and  plans  to  stay  on 
for  his  doctorate.  His  address  is  51  Oxford 
St.,  Cambridge,  Mass. 

Henry  Eldredge,  no  longer  Ensign,  is 
now  living  at  75  Kenyon  Ave.,  East  Green- 
wich, R.  I. 

Harold  Greenwald  was  promoted  to 
Major  on  his  return  from  overseas  last  year. 

Robert  W.  Gloss  is  a  partner  in  Gloss 
Bros.,  dealers  in  feed  and  grain  at  Rhine- 
beck,  N.  Y. 

Dave  Welch  has  joined  the  sales  depart- 
ment of  the  Naugatuck  Chemical  Com- 
pany, after  three  years  with  the  OiEce  of 
Rubber  Reserve  in  Washington,  D.  C. 

Fred  Ball  is  associate  attorney  in  a  Cleve- 
land law  office.  He  is  living  there  at  11505 
Lake  Shore  Blvd. 

John  Gilbert,  formerly  Lt.  with  the 
Army  Air  Force,  is  now  living  at  4  Cold 
Spring  Road,  Barrington. 

John  Bcnn  is  layout  engineer  for  the 
Turner  Construction  Co.  in  Trenton. 

Phil  Hawkes  is  now  living  at  840  De 
Camp  Ave.,  Schenectady. 

Don  MacAusland,  out  of  the  army, 
sends  us  this  address:  Gourmet  —  The 
Plaza,  New  York  19,  N.  Y. 

Walter  LeBlanc  is  a  student  at  Louisiana 
Tech. 

John  McEvoy  is  training  as  an  indus- 
trial engineer  with  the  Owens  Corning 
Fiberglas   Corporation,   Ashton,   R.   L 

Carl  Barus  writes  that  he  is  out  of  the 
Navy  and  is  now  a  part-time  graduate 
student    and    research    assistant   at   M.I.T. 

1942 

Jim  Fish  is  back  in  this  country  with  his 
English  bride  after  two  years  overseas.  He 
is  still  with  Pratt  6?  Whitney,  he  reported 
on  a  visit  to  the  Alumni  Office  late  in  April. 

Bill  Lambert  is  now  enrolled  at  Harvard, 
learning  social  and  other  brands  of  psy- 
chology in  the  new  department  of  social 
relations.  He  observes  trenchantly  that,  in 
comparing  Brown  and  Harvard,  he  is  re- 
minded of  the  remark  that  at  Harvard  even 
the  flowers  are  made  of  glass. 

Fred  Byerly  is  living  on  DeForest  Rd., 
Wilton,  Conn,  and  is  working  with  the  Un- 
excelled Mfg.  Co. 

Nathan  Pulling  is  doing  graduate  work 
at  the  Harvard  Biological  Laboratories.  He 
is  living  at  14  Winthrop  Rd.,  Wellesley, 
Mass. 

Bernard  Bell  sends  a  changed  address: 
102  Blackstone  Blvd.,  Providence. 

Ed  Swanezy  is  a  chemist  for  Merck  6? 
Co.,  Inc.  in  Rahway,  N.  J.  His  home  is  at 
369  Upper  Mountain  Ave.,  Upper  Mont- 
clair,  N.  J. 

Ed  Sarnoff  is  busy  formulating  dealer 
training  programs  for  agents  of  his  new 
company.  Radio  Appliance  and  Distrib- 
utors, in  Hartford.  He  was  formerly  exe- 
cutive radio  officer  on  General  Mac- 
Arthur's  Tokyo  staff. 


!\ine  Other  Secretaries 

►  ^X'HEN  Gen.  George  Catlett  Mar- 
shall received  the  honorary  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Laws  at  the  Brown  Com- 
mencement, he  was  the  10th  Secre- 
tary of  State  of  the  United  States  to 
receive  such  citation  from  the  Uni- 
versity. Four  of  his  predecessors  had 
been  alumni:  William  L.  Marcy, 
1808:  Richard  Olney,  1856;  John 
Hay,  1858;  and  Charles  Evans 
Hughes,  1881. 

Recipients,  with  the  date  of  the 
conferring  of  the  Brown  honorary 
degree,  have  been:  John  Jay,  the  first 
Secretary  of  State,  1794;  Thomas 
Jefferson,  1787;  Timothy  Pickering, 
1799;  Mr.  Marcy,  1833;  Mr.  Olney, 
1893;  Mr.  Hay,  1897;  Mr.  Hughes, 
1909:  Frank  B.  Kellogg,  1930;  Cor- 
dell  Hull,  1936. 

In  addition  to  Mr.  Jefferson,  five 
Presidents  of  the  United  States  have 
also  received  the  honorary  LL.D. 
from  Brown:  George  Washington 
in  1790;  John  Adams,  1797;  Wil- 
liam Howard  Taft,  1913;  Woodrow 
Wilson,  1903;  Herbert  Hoover, 
1916.  i 


Bill  Danforth  is  now  associated  with  the 
First  National  Bank  of  Boston. 

Joseph  F.  Lockett,  Jr.,  is  a  new  member 
of  the  University  Club  of  Boston. 

Charles  C.  Spencer  3rd,  former  Navy 
lieutenant,  has  been  awarded  the  Bronze 
Star  Medal  with  Combat  "V"  for  meri- 
torious service  during  operations  against 
the  Japanese  near  Molucca  Islands  in  1944 
and  1945. 

Robert  Rogerson  is  out  of  the  Navy  and 
is  now  living  at  328  Allen  St.,  Lansing, 
Mich. 

Edmund  Armstrong,  out  of  the  Coast 
Guard  where  he  held  a  commission  as  Lt. 
(j.g.),  is  now  a  teacher  and  coach  at  the 
Moses  Brown  School  in  Providence. 

Charles  Lincoln  is  attending  law  school 
at  the  University  of  Michigan. 

1st  Lt.  Edward  M.  Daniels,  M.C.,  is 
now  stationed  at  Gushing  Veterans"  Hos- 
pital, Framingham,  Mass. 

Alan  Wettcrau  writes  he  is  assistant  to 
the  president  of  the  Photovolt  Corporation 
in  New  York  City,  where  he  is  living  at 
117  W.  10th  St. 

Wallace  Adams  is  in  Pittsburgh,  where 
he  is  special  agent  for  the  Providence 
Washington  Insurance  Co. 

Arnold  Katz's  current  address  is  15 
Royce  Rd.,  Brookline,  Mass. 

Bob  Parr  also  has  a  new  address:  4400 
Belmont  Ave.,  North,  Robbinsdale,  Minn. 

Carl  Draues  is  living  at  262  Walnut 
St.,  Pottstown,  Pa.  He  is  chemist  and 
compounder  for  the  B.  F.  Goodrich  Co. 
there. 

Bill  Denniston  writes  he  is  engineer  and 
assistant  sales  manager  for  the  Eureka 
X-Ray  Tube  Corporation  in  Chicago. 

Douglas  Leach  is  a  student  in  the  Grad- 
uate School  of  Arts  and  Sciences  at  Har- 
vard. 

Jim  Lukens  is  a  chemist  for  E.  R.  Squibb 
y  Sons  in  New  Brunswick,  N.  J.  His 
home  is  at  310  Elberon  Ave.,  AUenhurst, 
N.J. 

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Eugene  Lester  is  attending  the  Yale 
University  School  of  Music. 

Dave  Troup  is  a  freshman  at  the  Balti- 
more College  of  Dental  Surgery,  Dental 
School,  University  of  Maryland. 

Some  new  addresses:  Howard  Lyman, 
1909  Washington  Ave.  South,  Minneap- 
olis, Minn.;  Peter  Klein,  308  Bidwell  Rd., 
Mincola.  N.  Y. 

Lt.  John  H.  Sullivan  was  the  only  R.  I. 
reserve  officer  on  board  the  U.  S.  S.  Wis- 
consin during  recent  sea  maneuvers. 

1943 

H.  Wilson  Guernsey,  Jr.,  has  not  pre- 
viously been  reported  out  of  service,  al- 
though he  was  discharged  in  December, 
1945.  Buz  attended  the  first  meeting  of 
the  new  Mid-Hudson  Brown  Club  in 
Poughkeepsie  in  May,  with  his  father,  with 
whom  he  is  associated  in  the  real  estate 
business. 

John  Chandler,  Bob  Erickson,  and  their 
wives  have  been  seeing  a  good  bit  of  each 
other  this  spring  in  Detroit.  Chandler  has 
been  taking  graduate  work  at  Wayne  but 
started  on  his  Volker  Fellowship  in  June. 

Bob  Achorn  writes  telling  us  to  delete 
the  "Lt.  (jg)"  from  his  mailing  stencil.  He 
is  now  living  at  10  Charles  St.,  Westboro, 
Mass.  and  has  been  working  since  last 
October  as  a  reporter  for  the  Worcester 
Tele.uram. 

C.  Robert  Carlisle  is  now  living  at  7028 
W.  Milwaukee  Ave..  Milwaukee,  Wis.,  an 
engineer  with  Allis  Chalmers. 

Dick  Fletcher  sends  a  new  address:  14 
South  Meadow  Lane,  Barrington,  R.  I. 

Leonard  Campbell  is  working  for  Carver 
6?  Co.,  Inc.,  Boston  brokers,  and  is  living  at 
133  Peterborough  St.,  Apt.  5 A,  Boston. 

Brainerd  S.  Bates  is  now  in  the  Informa- 
tion Section  of  the  Curtis  Publishing  Co. 
Research  Department. 

Lt.  John  D.  Bacon  will  make  a  Naval  Re- 
serve cruise  to  northern  European  ports 
this  summer. 

Charles  D.  Houlihan  is  a  new  member 
of  the  University  Club  in  Boston. 

Albert  Hausmann  of  Litchfield,  Conn., 
who  is  getting  his  Master's  degree  this 
June,  is  working  at  the  National  Fire  In- 
surance Co.  in  Hartford. 

Bill  Saunders  is  back  from  the  Army 
where  he  was  engaged  in  public  relations 
and  personnel  work  and  is  now  staff  an- 
nouncer for  Station  WTRY  in  Troy,  N.  Y. 
In  addition  to  his  announcing,  he  also  pro- 
duces three  popular  talent  shows  each  week. 

Walter  Sammartino  is  now  sales  man- 
ager for  the  Sammartino  Brothers  Co., 
Jewelry  Manufacturers,  in   Providence. 

Lt.  (j.g.)  John  Gerfin,  USNR,  can  now 
be  reached  at  1087  Wendell  Ave.,  Schenec- 
tady, N.  Y. 

Louis  R.  Glavis,  Jr.,  is  with  the  Jordan 
Jewelry  Co.  of  Providence.  The  daughter, 
whose  birth  is  announced  elsewhere,  is  the 
Glavises'  second  child,  Louis  Russell,  3rd, 
having  been  born  May  31,  1945. 

John  Lyman  is  working  in  the  engineer- 
ing department  of  the  Massachusetts  Gear 
and  Tool  Co.  His  home  is  at  59  Elm  St., 
Woburn,  Mass.  A  son,  Jeffry  Carroll,  was 
born  to  the  Lymans  last  December. 

Hermon  Carey  Bumpus  advises  us  of  a 
change  of  name  to  William  N.  Bumpus. 

Norman  Creighton,  who  is  living  at  300 
Fifth  Ave.  South,  Clinton,  Iowa,  writes 
that  he  is  working  as  methods  and  stand- 
ards engineer  for  DuPont. 

Bob  Lynch  gives  us  a  current  address  at 
63   Orange  Road,  Montclair,  N.  J. 

Arthur  Parker  can  be  reached  at  Room 
541,   Hotel   Brunswick,  Boston. 


BROWN     ALUMNI     MONTHLY 


Paul  Armor  is  with  the  Chance  Vought 
Aircraft  Co.  in  Stratford,  Conn.,  where  he 
is  senior  electronic  engineer.  His  home  is 
at   105  Charles  St.,  Fairfield,  Conn. 

W.  Robison  McKee  is  engaged  in  soap 
manufacture  in  Los  Angeles  where  he  is 
owner  of  the  Burmac  Products  Co.  The 
home  address  is  1205  Wilson  Ave.,  San 
Marino,  Cal. 

Kingsley  Meyer  is  in  the  Sales  Depart- 
ment of  the  Davol  Rubber  Co.  in  Provi- 
dence. 

Jay  Fidler  sends  us  a  corrected  address 
at  966  East  24th  St.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Boh  Drake  is  working  in  the  U.  S.  Naval 
Ordnance  Laboratory  in  Washington, 
D.  C.  as  Chief  of  the  Fragmentation  Sec- 
tion in  the  Explosives  Division. 

John  Chandler  is  now  living  at  15908 
Sussex  St.,  Detroit,  Mich. 

Charles  P.  Littlefield  writes  that  he  is 
agency  group  supervisor  in  the  Providence 
office  of  the  Massachusetts  Mutual  Life 
Insurance  Co. 

John  Boudreau  is  doing  accounting  with 
the  International  Derrick  and  Equipment 
Co.  in  Columbus,  Ohio.  He  can  be  reached 
at  P.  O.  Box  177,  Station  E,  Columbus, 
Ohio. 

Flint  Ricketson  is  manager  of  the  Stam- 
ford office  of  the  Liberty  Mutual  Insurance 
Co.  He  is  currently  living  at  the  YMCA 
in  Greenwich,  Conn. 

Gordon  Neale  has  withdrawn  from  Har- 
vard Law  School  and  is  now  assistant  to 
the  controller  in  the  Textron  Mills,  Man- 
viUe,  R.  I. 

1944 

Louis  Jackvony  is  now  studying  law  at 
Boston  University.  During  the  war  Lou 
was  a  technical  sergeant  in  Military  In- 
telligence, serving  in  France  and  Germany. 
Louis  III  was  born  this  January.  The 
Jackvony  family  is  living  in  Providence, 
at  21  Lotus  Place. 

Henry  Packer  writes  he  is  assistant  man- 
ager of  the  Independent  Laundry  in  Fall 
River,  Mass. 

Al  Anthony  sends  us  a  new  address  at 
30  Daily  St.,  Nutley,  N.  J. 

Allen  Ferguson,  back  from  the  armed 
services,  is  now  doing  work  at  Yale,  where 
his  address  is  24  Hillhouse  Ave.,  New 
Haven,   Conn. 

Ray  Huling  is  a  special  agent  for  the 
Northwestern  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Co. 
in  Providence. 

Arthur  Maier  informs  us  that  he  is  study- 


Brotcn  Took  First  Prize 

►  A  COLLEGE  CATALOGUE  is  a  pro- 
saic tool  designed  for  useful  refer- 
ence. And  there  is  an  unexpected 
dividend  when  it  attracts  attention 
for  some  other  virtue. 

All  the  more  pleasant,  then,  was 
the  first  award  accorded  Brown  Uni- 
versity at  the  national  convention  of 
the  American  College  Public  Rela- 
tions Association,  held  in  St.  Louis 
in  May.  Judged  in  competition  with 
hundreds  of  other  college  catalogues, 
the  Brown  booklet  was  judged  the 
best  on  the  basis  of  typographical  ex- 
cellence and  general  copy  arrange- 
ment. The  work  was  edited  by  Reg- 
istrar Gilbert  Case.  The  award  was 
accepted  on  his  behalf  by  Howard 
S.  Curtis,  Director  of  the  Brown 
News  Bureau,  who  was  attending  the 
conference  as  New  England  chair- 
man of  ACPRA.  i 


WHO'S  INTERVIEWING  WHOM?  Bob  Rocrhio  of  the  Brown  Herald  and 
William  G.  Avirett,  Education  Editor  of  the  /Veic  York  Herald  Tribune, 
during  the  latter's  visit  to  Brown  this  spring.    (.Herald  pholo.) 


ing  for  his   LL.B.   and   LL.M.   degrees  at 
Boston  University. 

Frank  Lawton  writes  that  he  is  Provi- 
dence Division  Adviser  for  the  Westmor- 
land Sterling  Silver  Co.  Frank  is  living  at 
195  Pond  St.,  South  Weymouth,  Mass. 

Bill  Perry  is  living  in  New  Bedford, 
Mass.,  where  he  is  a  Junior  Accountant 
with   the   American   Optical   Co. 

Richard  Houck  is  one  of  a  quartet  of 
Brown  alumni  in  training  with  the  Grin- 
nell  Corporation  in  Providence  to  become 
fire  protection  engineers.  Robert  Black  '46 
and  Jonathan  Brooks  '45  are  others. 

Dave  MacCabe  writes  he  is  a  store  man- 
ager trainee  with  Goodyear  Tire  and  Rub- 
ber, Inc.  His  home  address  is  at  133  East 
St.,  Wrentham,  Mass. 

C  Howard  Nold  is  now  living  at  Apt. 
No.  22,  51  Brattle  St.,  Cambridge,  Mass. 
Howard  writes  that  he  is  now  employed  by 
the  Armstrong  Cork  Co.  in  Boston. 

John  Pattee  has  begun  a  period  of  prac- 
tice teaching  in  the  mathematics  department 
of  the  Torrington,  Conn.,  high  school. 
John  was  a  Lt.  (j.g.)  in  the  Navy  during 
the  war. 

Glenn  Prescott  is  a  graduate  assistant 
in  the  Geology  Department  at  Brown.  Also 
back  at  Brown  is  Howard  G.  Baetzhold. 

T.  B.  Schlesinger  is  now  with  The  Char- 
lotte T^ews,  Charlotte,  N.  C. 

Sherwood  Moe  is  attending  the  School 
of  International  Affairs  at  Columbia. 

Dr.  Thomas  Mathieu  received  his  M.D. 
at  Yale  last  March  and  is  now  an  intern 
at  R.  I.  Hospital. 

Dr.  Lawrence  Berns  has  announced  the 
opening  of  his  office  of  dentistry  in  Man- 
chester, Conn. 

John  Ulen  informs  us  that  he  is  adver- 
tising copywriter  for  Raleigh  Haberdasher 
in  Washington,  D.  C. 

Fred  Heck  has  a  new  address:  31  Massa- 
chusetts Ave.,  Boston,  Mass. 

Charles  Robinson  writes  us  that  begin- 
ning this  June  he  will  be  a  graduate  stu- 
dent and  research  assistant  in  the  Chemis- 
try Dept.  at  M.  I.  T.  Charlie  will  be  living 
at  31   Concord  Ave.,  Cambridge,  Mass. 

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Eliot  Bliss  is  now  vice-president  and 
treasurer  of  the  Leselle  International  Cor- 
poration in  New  York  City.  Eliot  received 
a  M.S.  degree  in  engineering  at  Harvard 
last  October. 

Ray  Smith  sends  us  an  address  at  RFD  4, 
Box  38,  Danbury,  Conn. 

Elmer  Stafford,  Jr.,  is  now  head  book- 
keeper for  Kaplan  Bros.  Furniture  Co.  in 
Fall  River,  Mass.  He  is  living  in  Fall  River 
at  80  Irving  St. 

Benjamin  Taylor  is  attending  Harvard 
Law  School. 

Albert  Anthony  notifies  us  of  a  change 
of  address  to  30  Daily  St.,  Nutley,  N.  J. 

Frank  McDonough  is  an  engineer  with 
the  Southern  New  England  Telephone  Co. 
He  is  living  at  79  Martin  St.,  West  Haven, 
Conn. 

L.  W.  Plympton,  Jr.,  is  president  of  the 
New  England  Helicopter  Service,  Inc.  One 
of  his  planes  gave  Coach  Rip  Engle  an 
aerial  view  of  intra-squad  scrimmage  dur- 
ing Brown's  spring  practice. 

Bob  Klie's  address:  171  Sigourney  St., 
Hartford. 

1945 
Robert  C.  Fisher  of  Bridgeport,  Conn., 
has  received  a  university  fellowship  in  the 
Divinity  School  of  the  University  of  Chi- 
cago, where  he  will  work  toward  a  Ph.D. 
in  church  history.  He  was  due  to  receive 
his  Bachelor  of  Divinity  degree  from 
Princeton  Seminary  this  year. 

Bob  Breeding  has  a  new  job  with  the 
Circulation  Auditing  Dept.  of  Time  and 
Life  Magazines  in  New  York  City. 

Bob  Shallow  is  studying  at  Dartmouth. 
His  home  address:  121  Wigwam  Circle, 
Hanover,  N.  H. 

Fred  Easton  was  due  to  receive  his  M.D. 
this  June  at  Harvard. 

Byron  Adams  is  studying  for  an  ad- 
vanced degree  in  mechanical  engineering  at 
R.P.I,  in  Troy,  N.  Y. 

Vernon  Baker,  Judd  Mealy,  and  Arnold 
Zais  are  all  in  the  graduate  school  of  chem- 
istry at  M.I.T.  Vern  and  Arnie  are  both 
married  and  are  living  in  Boston. 


BROWN    ALUMNI    MONTHLY 


It  Was  1948  and  l\o  Mistake 

►  ►  It  was  startling  to  see  the  numeral;  ■'1948"  over  the  Van  Wickle  Gates  and 
in  front  of  Sayles  Hall  on  Class  Night  for  the  campus  dance.  But.  because  of  the 
wartime  acceleration,  this  was  the  first  section  of  1948  which  was  being  graduated. 
Actually,  of  course,  men  from  classes  in  the  early  '40s  were  receiving  their  degrees. 
(Given  their  option,  most  of  them  chose  their  original  class  as  the  one  with  which 
they  want  all-time  affiliation.) 

Curiously  enough,  next  June  the  Class  Night  numerals  will  still  he  1948,  for 
the  final  section  of  the  class  will  be  graduated  then.  During  the  period  of  accelera- 
tion, with  three  semesters  a  year,  each  class  consisted  of  three  divisions.  A  man 
in  the  third  semester  of  his  college  studies,  normally  a  Sophomore,  could  thus  be 
a  classmate  of  an  entering  Freshman.  (Do  you  wonder  Faculty  and  administrators 
are  glad  Brown  is  hack  on  the  normal  calendar  at  last^  There  is  no  summer  session 
this  year,  except  for  a  few  engineering  classes.)  i 


Joe  Macioci  is  attending  Boston  Univer- 
sity Law  School;  he  and  Judd  Mealy  are 
rooming  together  in  Boston. 

Ted  Chick  is  teaching  German  at  Hebron 
Academy  in  Lewiston,  Maine. 

Knight  Edwards  and  Bill  Barton  are  at 
Harvard  Law  School. 

Al  Bellin  is  doing  graduate  work  at  the 
Harvard  Engineering  School. 

Stan  Ehrlich  is  working  for  his  Ph.D. 
in  Physics  at  M.LT. 

Bob  Furlong  is  working  for  the  New 
Haven  Watch  and  Clock  Co.  Bob,  Jr.,  was 
born  in  Montclair  on  January  2nd. 

Eddy  Gamble  is  studying  design  adver- 
tising at  the  Parson  School  of  Design  in 
New  York. 

Don  Guinan  is  at  the  University  of  Ver- 
mont Medical  School. 

The  last  news  from  Gloster  Hevenor — 
received  last  fall — was  that  he  was  about 
to  rejoin  the  U.  S.  Merchant  Marine. 

Bob  Jacobson  is  still  at  Los  Alamos, 
working  in  the  atomic  bomb  laboratories. 

Larry  Okerblom  and  Harper  Brown  are 
at  Harvard  Business  School. 

Hank  Sharpe  is  working  at  Brown  and 
Sharpe  in  Providence. 

Jack  and  Priscilla  Cokefair  had  their 
second  daughter  about  the  first  of  the  year. 

Jim  Cooper  is  studying  at  the  Columbia 
Business  School. 

Frank  Siniscalchi  writes  he  is  laboratory 
technician  in  the  Interlaken  Mills.  He  is 
living  at  656  Providence  St.,  West  War- 
wick, R.  L 

Al  Emerson  is  doing  graduate  studies 
here  at  Brown. 

Joe  Macioci  is  a  student  at  the  Boston 
College  Law  School. 

Don  Gardner  is  engaged  in  a  job  train- 
ing program  with  the  Industrial  Paper  (i 
Cordage   (x).   in   Rumford,   R.   L 

Ed  DePaul  is  attending  the  University 
of  Pennsylvania  Law  School. 

Malcolm  Smith  writes  he  is  a  junior  stafT 
member  with  Scovell,  Wellington,  y  Ck)., 
Auditors,  Accountants,  and  Management 
Consultants,  in  New  York  City. 

Julius  Batenic  is  living  at  23  1  So.  Marion 
St.,  Oak  Park,  111.  He  is  sales  representa- 
tive for  the  Imperial  Brass  Mfg.  Co.  in 
Chicago. 

Joe  Corcoran  sends  us  his  current  ad- 
dress at  4410  Greenwich  Parkway,  N.W., 
Washington,  D.  C. 

John  Willemscn  is  working  with  an 
office  equipment  concern  in  Guatemala 
City.  His  mailing  address  is  Apartado 
Postal  No.  214,  Guatemala  City,  Guate- 
mala, Central  America. 

Ed  Davis  informs  us  he  is  a  student 
salesman  for  the  Gulf  Oil  Corporation  in 
Boston.  Ed  is  living  at  251  Bowen  St.,  in 
Providence. 

Dick  Whitney  is  in  the  oil  and  coal  busi- 
ness in  Sharon,  Mass.  His  home  is  "Oak- 
wud",  Foxboro,  Mass. 


Charles  J.  Anthony  is  living  at  36  Wind- 
son  St.,  Waterbury,  Conn.  He  is  employed 
as  chemist  by  the  United  Chromium  (jor- 
poration. 

Ed  Fiorento  recently  signed  to  play  with 
the  Bo.=ton  Yanks  of  the  National  Foot- 
ball League  next  fall. 

1946 

Joseph  Charette,  with  Dun  6?  Brad- 
street's  New  York  office,  is  living  at  1388 
Bedford  Ave.,  Brooklyn.  He  and  Mrs. 
Charette,  the  former  Elisabeth  Ann 
Starkey,  Pembroke  '47,  will  celebrate  their 
first  wedding  anniversary  Aug.   17. 

David  G.  Thornton  is  working  at  Grote 
6?  Weigel  in  Hartford  (Spruce  St.). 

Henry  C.  Aitken  has  been  designated  by 
Sigma  Chi  fraternity  as  the  winner  of  the 
Balfour  Province  Award  for  the  New  Eng- 
land-Nova Scotia  province.  Chosen  the 
outstanding  Sigma  Chi  in  that  area  by  the 
Grand  Praetor,  he  received  a  special  badge- 
chairman  in  token  of  the  honor. 

Ernest  Hofer  is  instructing  in  the  English 
Department  here  at  Brown  and  expects  to 
receive  his  M.A.  this  June.  He  and  Ernest 
Frerichs  recently  gave  a  highly  successful 
two-piano  recital  at  the  R.  I.  School  of 
Design. 

Herbert  Barlow  is  an  examiner  in  the 
Electronics  Division  of  the  U.  S.  Patent 
Office.  He  is  living  in  Washington,  D.  C. 
at  1725  New  Hampshire  Ave.,  N.W., 
Apt.  303. 

Bob  von  der  Lieth  is  doing  graduate 
work  at  Brown. 

John  Petropoulos  writes  he  is  chemist 
with  the  American  Cyanamid  Co.  He  is 
living  at  57  Cedar  St.,  So.  Norwalk,  Conn. 

Roland  Casperson  is  an  assistant  in  the 
Psychology  Department  at  Brown.  He  tells 
us  of  the  arrival  of  a  son,  Peter  H.,  last 
July. 

Rev.  W.  Hollis  Tegarden  received  his 
S.T.B.  degree  from  the  Harvard  Divinity 
School  last  January  and  is  now  minister  of 
the  First  Parish  (Unitarian)  in  Ashby, 
Mass. 

John  Kenney  is  with  the  Engineering 
Dept.  of  the  Kidder  Press  Company  in 
Dover,  N.  H. 

Morris  Stout  is  teaching  at  the  Chestnut 
Hill  Academy  in  Philadelphia.  His  home 
address  is  34  Hilltop  Rd.,  Chestnut  Hill, 
Pa. 

Sgt.  Paul  Hicks  is  doing  recruiting  work 
in  Ft.  Payne,  Ala. 

Carl  Becker  provides  us  with  a  new 
address:  105  Kenmore  Ave.,  Forest  Hills, 
Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

A/c  Harry  L.  Sheppard,  USNR,  has  a 
service  address  at  Class  11-A  Brks.  624, 
NATB,  Pensacola,  Fla. 

Ken  Persits  is  manager  of  "Lou's  Ap- 
parel" in  Marquette,  Mich. 

Hueston  Hyde  is  living  at  1 1 1  East  St., 
Ft     Edward,   N.    Y.     He   is  supervisor   for 

36 


the  H  y  F  Binch  Co.,  Inc.  in  Glens  Falls, 
N.  Y. 

Rev.  Emil  A.  Ahokas  writes  that  he  is 
now  located  in  Chelsea,  Vt. 

Frank  Kattwinkel  has  recently  been 
placed  on  inactive  duty,  U.  S.  Army  Air 
Forces.  He  is  living  at  306  West  First  St., 
Clifton,  N.  J. 

Bernard  O'Brien  is  a  student  at  the  N.  Y. 
University  College  of  Dentistry. 

Bob  Lowe  is  doing  engineering  for  Bab- 
cock  and  Wilcox  Co.  in  New  York  City. 
He  is  living  at  549  Tremont  Ave.,  West- 
field,  N.  J. 

Jim  Siegal  has  been  at  Brown  as  an  in- 
structor during  the  second  semester.  He 
has  been  in  the  Engineering  Division,  giv- 
ing the  Sophomore  course  in  Mechanics. 
Jim  came  out  of  the  Army  last  November. 

Midshipman  John  McTammary  is  at  the 
Naval  Academy,  Annapolis. 

Addresses:  Ross  L.  Heald,  Wilton,  N.  H.; 
Walter  Dautel,  P.  O.  Box  344,  Rockaway, 
N.  Y.;  Kenneth  Richter,  Rt.  3,  Box  413, 
Ft.  Collins,  Col.;  Jim  Hooker,  Box  892, 
RR  No.  1,  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

1947 

George  S.  Gordon  wrote  in  April:  "We 
Brunonians  of  the  class  of  '47  encounter  no 
difficulty  here  on  the  Norfolk  Naval  Station 
in  finding  a  classmate  with  whom  to  revive 
the  happy  memories  of  Brown.  The  fact  is, 
here  on  the  USS  Okanogan  PA  220  I  am 
within  shouting  distance  of  three  erstwhile 
Brown  men.  They  arc.  Hank  Greenberg, 
Joe  Dolinski  and  Whitney  B.  Callahan. 
Leonard  Schaeffer  is  an  Engineering  Officer 
on  the  USS  F.  D.  R.  CVB  42;  Reid  Watt 
has  been  transferred  from  the  USS  Midway 
to  an  LSM  operating  out  of  Guam.  He  is 
expecting  an  heir  in  September.  Ensign 
John  Shunny  paid  us  a  visit  from  D.  C. 
where  he  works  with  BUPERS  along  with 
Ensign  Tom  Pfundstein,  who  has  taken  the 
first  step  toward  wedlock  by  becoming  en- 
gaged. Dick  Applebach  and  his  wife  are  in 
the  neighborhood.  Dick  is  now  Regular 
Navy  and  has  been  transferred  to  the  LST 
391  operating  out  of  Little  Creek,  Va. 
Gerry  Wichelns  returned  from  the  South 
Polar  Expedition  last  week  and  he  offered 
the  following  statement  concerning  the  trip, 
"BRRRRR."  The  home  port  of  his  des- 
troyer is  Newport,  Gerry  has  also  signed 
over  to  the  Regular  Navy.  2nd  Lt.  Jack 
Sheldon,  USMC,  signed  his  life  over  to 
Marge   Davidson  of  Iowa,   Saturday  April 


Schooling  For  Nets 

>  Nelson  Lambert  has  been  going 
to  school  this  spring.  Maybe  we'd 
better  explain  that  Nelson  Lambert 
is  "Nels"  of  Faunce  House,  to  be 
sure  you'll  know  the  fellow  we're 
talking  about. 

Well,  Nels  had  to  attend  some  lec- 
tures on  safety  provided  by  the  com- 
pany which  handles  employe  liability 
for  the  University.  And  it  seems 
that  Nels  went  protesting. 

"I've  been  all  over  the  world,"  he 
said.  "I  sailed  on  a  whaler  and  went 
through  all  kinds  of  trouble  at  sea. 
I  went  up  the  masts  in  storms  and  all 
that.  And  then  I  came  to  Brown  in 
1909 — been  here  ever  since,  getting 
along  with  everybody  all  that  time, 
looking  after  hundreds  of  my  boys. 

"They  think  I  don't  know  how  to 
take  care  of  my.self  after  all  those 
years.  They're  trying  to  teach  me. 
Huh!"  i 


BROWN    ALUMNI    MONTHLY 


1  2th  when  they  were  wed  at  Jack's  home- 
town in  Frewsburg,  N.  Y,  Met  Dick  Beck 
and  Mrs.  Suzie  Beck  the  other  night  (he 
is  Supply  Officer  aboard  a  can).  Jack 
Schleck  is  also  stationed  here  at  Norfolk, 
aboard  the  USS  Strihlmg  DD867.  Also  a 
member  of  the  Destroyer  Fleet  is  Woody 
Thomas  assigned  to  this  area.  Henry 
Zooloomian  was  in  town  a  few  weeks  ago. 
He  is  on  the  Allagash,  AO  98. 

"Well,  that's  the  Alumni  News  from 
Norfolk,  Brown's  Southern  Exposure." 

Tom  Asquith,  Jr.,  sends  us  a  new  ad- 
dress at  21  Main  St.,  Camillus,  N.  Y.  Tom 
writes  us  that  he  has  been  with  the  Syra- 
cuse China  Co.  since  leaving  Brown  and  is 
now  employment  manager  of  their  Court 
St.  Plant  in  Syracuse. 

Ray  Bowen  is  living  at  Homestead,  Fla. 
(Bo.\  1?3)  and  is  in  the  insurance  business. 

Midshipman  C.  W.  Hines  is  completing 
his  third  year  at  the  Naval  Academy  in 
Annapolis,  Md.,  and  asks  for  his  Alumni 
Monthly  at  that  address. 

George  Lewis,  III,  is  in  California  where 
he  is  going  to  school  and  living  at  628  West 
13  3rd  St.,  Hawthorne. 

Carlton  Klaiber  is  living  at  72  Dwight 
Rd.,  Springfield,  Mass,  He  began  work 
this  June  with  Associate  Engineers,  Inc., 
in  Springfield. 

Ed  McGowan  is  a  sales  trainee  with  the 
Associate  Hospital  Service  Insurance  Co. 
He  is  living  in  Brooklyn  at  1351  Hancock 
St. 

Jonathan  Sisson  recently  received  his 
commission  as  Ensign  at  the  U.  S.  Naval 
Academy  at  Annapolis.  He  was  27  in  the 
class  of  494. 

Three  members  of  the  class  finished  their 
Navy  duty  at  San  Diego  with  the  Pacific 
Reserve  Fleet  this  spring:  Al  Dow  and 
John  McMorrow,  both  ensigns  in  the  Sup- 


ply Corps,  were  mustered  out  on  the  same 
day  and  finished  their  terminal  leave  June 
23.  Al  was  to  marry  Miss  Anne  Dean, 
Pembroke  '47,  in  Douglaston,  L.  I.  on 
June  21.  Thomas  F.  McCormick  expected 
to  be  out  of  the  Navy  in  June,  too,  though 
left  behind  in  San  Diego  by  the  others. 

Ralph  Jacobs  is  in  the  building  business 
in  Boston.  He  is  living  at  1874  Centre  St., 
W.  Roxbury,  Mass. 

Irving  Berstein  writes  that  he  is  an  in- 
structor in  Chemistry  and  Plastics  at  the 
New  England  Technical  Institute  in  Provi- 
dence. 

Joseph  Dowling,  Jr.,  and  Bob  Lord  are 
medical  students  at  Tufts. 

Maurice  Alley,  Jr.,  is  attending  the 
Spartan  School  of  Aeronautics  in  Tulsa, 
Oklahoma. 

Bill  Corvese  is  in  his  second  year  at 
Harvard  Medical  School.  Also  studying 
medicine  at  Harvard  is  Edward  Bowen,  Jr. 

Ray  Barnstone  is  a  graduate  student  at 
M.I.T.  He  is  living  at  104  Pleasant  St., 
Brookline,  Mass. 

Ken  Brown  writes  that  he  is  with  the 
engineering  dept.  of  the  American  Steel 
and  Wire  Co.  in  Worcester,  Mass. 

Jim  Alexander  is  studying  at  the  Catholic 
University  in  Washington,  D.  C. 

Ray  Ilia  sends  his  mailing  address  at 
P.  O.  Box  291,  Elgin,  111.  Ray  is  working 
in  Elgin  as  a  paint  technician  for  the  Neil's 
Paint  Co. 

Vincent  Guagliardo  is  a  student  at  the 
Krissler  Business  Institute  in  Poughkeep- 
sie,  N.  Y. 

Stuart  Goodman  writes  he  is  a  salesman 
for  the  H.  6?  H.  Goodman  Co.  in  New 
York  City.  He  is  living  at  146  Pacific 
Blvd.,  Long  Beach,  L.  I. 

Charles  Fecto,  Jr.,  was  a  Senior  at  Trin- 
ity College,  Hartford,  this  past  spring. 


Phi  Psi  War  Dead  Honored 

►  Honoring  seven  members  of  the  chap- 
ter who  gave  their  lives  in  the  Second 
World  War,  Phi  Kappa  Psi  held  a  memo- 
rial service  at  the  chapter  house  on  Water- 
man St.  Sunday  afternoon,  June  15.  A 
plaque  was  unveiled  bearing  the  names  of: 
Henry  D.  Barbadoro  '27,  Russell  J.  Hall 
'43,  Robert  C.  Jones  '38,  Philip  M.  Knesal 
"40,  Wilh'am  A.  Lewis  '34,  Bronislaw  J. 
Stepczyk  '40,  and  W.  Birkett  Williams 
'42.  The  latter's  father  is  the  donor  of  the 
plaque  and  was  present.  The  memorial  was 
thus  placed  in  the  center  of  campus  in- 
timacy during  their  student  days,  to  be 
installed  later  in  the  Phi  Psi  section  of  the 
new  quadrangle.  Dean  Samuel  T.  Arnold 
"13   was  the  principal  speaker,  while   the 


AT  PHI  PSI  DEDICATION:  Bir- 
kett  L.  Williams  of  Cleveland,  with 
Richard  M.  Field  '43,  President  of 
the  Brown  chapter's  alumni. 

University  Chaplain  gave  the  benediction. 
An  honor  roll  listing  200  members  of 
the  fraternity  who  served  in  the  war  was 
also  dedicated  during  the  exercises,  at- 
tended by  a  large  group  of  alumni  and 
undergraduates  of  the  chapter.  Donors  of 
the  latter  roster  were  Arthur  L.  Young  '04, 
W.  Clifton  Slade  '07,  Paul  L.  Chipman 
'08,  Andrew  B.  Comstock  '10,  Irving  R. 
Smith  '12,  and  Clarence  H.  Philbrick  "13. 
These  six  members  had  sons  in  service  who 
are  also  members  of  the  Rhode  Island 
Alpha.  < 

37 


Devereux  Josephs,  Jr.,  is  living  at  164 
E.  72nd  St.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

George  Joyce  is  at  the  Oswego  State 
Teachers  College,  Oswego,  N.  Y. 

Bob  Aitken  is  living  at  50  Bar  Beach 
Rd.,  Port  Washington,  N.  Y.  Bob  is  an 
engineer  with  the  Hazletine  Electronics 
Corp. 

Tec  5  Philip  Curtis,  Jr.,  is  stationed  at 
Camp  Lee,  Va.,  in  the  Q.M.  Board  De- 
tachment 

John  DuPoint  is  a  student  at  Harvard 
and  is  living  at  100  Fair  Oaks  Ave.,  New- 
ton, Mass. 

Al  Borelli  is  working  in  the  research  dc 
partment  of  Pittsburgh-Corning  Co.  His 
address  is  Box  102-A,  Roulette,  Pa. 

Bernard  Kahn  is  an  engineer  with  the 
R.  I.  Insulated  Wire  Co.  He  is  living  at 
152  Camp  St.,  in  Providence. 

Richard  Bube  is  doing  graduate  work 
in  Physics  at  Princeton. 

Bill  Finnerty,  Jr.,  writes  that  he  is  a  stu- 
dent and  gives  his  address  at  898  Irvine  St., 
Bronx,  N.  Y. 

Bob  Anderson  is  living  at  2960  Briggs 
Ave.,  Box  58,  New  York,  N.  Y.  He 
describes  his  work  as  a  chain  store  special- 
ist for  the  Thomas  Lipton  Co. 

Jim  Nahrgang  is  working  with  the  Dept. 
of  the  Interior  as  an  Hydraulics  Engineer 
for  the  U.  S.  Geological  Survey.  His  ad- 
dress is  1402  Harrison  Ave.,  Helena,  Mon- 
tana. 

Howard  Craft  is  a  student  in  Ypsilanti, 
Michigan. 

Rev.  Norman  Brooks  is  minister  for  the 
Lyonsville  Congregational  Church  at  La- 
Grange,  111. 

Henry  Anthony  is  a  student  at  Eckel's 
College  of  Mortuary  Science  in  Phila- 
delphia. 

Warren  Hook  is  at  Tufts  College  and  is 
living  at  215  Henry  St.,  Hasbrouck 
Heights,  N.  J.  (mailing  address). 

John  Kaminski  is  working  in  Providence 
as  draftsman  for  the  Miller  Motors  Co. 

George  Deckey  is  a  research  chemist  for 
the  Rumford  (R.  I.)  Chemical  Works. 

Dave  Cargill  is  at  Yale.  His  address: 
192  Green  St.,  Fairhaven,  Mass.  Stan 
Bremer  has  been  at  Yale,  too. 

Ray  Annis  is  a  medical  student  at  the 
University  of  Illinois.  He  is  living  at  327 
N.  Briggs  St.,  Joliet,  111. 

Bob  Coon  is  attending  Syracuse  Uni- 
versity and  is  living  at  4304  E.  James  St., 
East  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

Edmund  Eager  is  a  student  at  Worcester 
Polytechnic  Institute. 

Ed  Haire  is  living  at  138  Lyndon  Rd., 
Cranston,  R.  L 

Joe  Galligan  is  studying  at  the  U.  of 
San  Francisco.  He  is  living  at  2204  Ade- 
line St.,  Burlingame,  Calif. 

Frank  Druen,  Jr.,  writes  that  he  is  a 
map  maker  with  the  Fairchild  Aerial  Sur- 
veys Co.  in  Long  Island  City,  N.  Y. 

Bernard  Gladstone  is  attending  the  Uni- 
versity of  Virginia  Law  School. 

Isadore  Hakel  is  working  with  the  Navy 
Department  as  planning  and  production 
clerk  at  the  Naval  Ammunition  Depot, 
Hingham,  Mass. 

George  Goeke  is  now  at  the  Fairlcigh 
Dickenson  Junior  College  in  Rutherford, 
N.J. 

Bob  Buckingham  informs  us  he  is  an 
engineering  aide  at  Langley  Field,  Va.  His 
home  is  at  2203  Parish  Ave.,  Newport 
News,  Va. 

Tom  Kavanzajian,  now  at  New  York 
University,  was  spoken  of  as  a  "veteran 
back"  during  spring  football  practice  there. 


BROWN     ALUMNI     MONTHLY 


Dan  Grodofsky  writes  that  he  is  a  clerk 
in  the  Veterans  Administration  at  Fort 
Snelling,  St.  Paul,  Minn. 

Bill  Cox,  Jr.,  is  at  Columbia  and  is  liv- 
ing at  Army  Hall,  1560  Amsterdam  Ave, 
New  York,  N.  Y. 

Gustav  Getter  writes  that  he  is  doing 
engineering  for  the  N.  Y.  City  Housing 
Authority.  Just  now  he  is  at  the  Jacob 
Riis  Project  in  New  York  City. 

Eugene  McMahon,  Jr.,  is  a  law  stu' 
at  St.  John's  University,  Brooklyn,  N 

Jim  CofFman  is  with  the  Rhode  J 
Hospital  as  laboratory  technician. 

Arthur  Claflin  is  living  at  180  Medway 
St.,  Providence. 

John  Elmer,  Jr.,  is  in  sales  work  for  Foss 
U  Co.  in  Bridgeton,  N.  J. 

Al  Crowell  is  at  the  Harvard  Graduate 
School. 

Tec  y  James  Heaton  is  stationed  in 
Korea.  His  military  address:  Hdqs.,  7th 
Inf.  Div.  (A.G.Sec.)  A.P.O.  7,  San  Fran- 
cisco, Calif. 

Rufus  Fuller,  III,  is  a  graduate  assistant 
in  the  Biology  Department  at  Amherst  Col- 
lege. 

Arthur  Bussey  is  working  as  timekeeper 
for  the  Gammino  Construction  Co.  in  Man- 
chester,  Conn. 

John  R.  Brown  is  living  at  35  Stephen 
St.,  Montclair,  N.  J. 

Robert  L.  Krouskoff,  three  semesters 
with  the  class  during  the  days  of  the  Navy 
unit,  reports  himself  an  art  student  with 
no  further  interest  in  getting  our  maga- 
zine. (He  lives  at  1  Fountain  Place,  New 
Rochelle,  N.  Y.) 

Ralston  B.  Read,  Jr.,  has  been  at  St. 
Andrew's  School,  Harrington,  R.  I.,  this 
year  as  Junior  Master  and  assistant  coach. 

James  R.  Nahrgang  has  an  interesting 
post,  as  hydraulics  engineer  with  the  U.  S. 
Geological  Survey  Office  in  Helena,  Mont. 
They  are  measuring  the  waterflow  in  the 
Montana  Rockies  at  present,  and  Jim  is 
living  at  1402  Harrison  Ave.,  Helena. 

Donald  J.  Krokus  is  in  the  areodynamics 
section  of  the  Douglas  Aircraft  Co.  at 
Santa  Monica,  Calif.  His  home  address 
therefore  has  changed  from  St.  Albans, 
N.  Y.,  to  2923  Sixth  St.,  Ocean  Park. 
Calif. 

Bill  McGee  is  in  Denver,  Col.,  where  he 
is  an  electrical  engineer  with  the  U.  S. 
Bureau  of  Reclamation.  His  mailing  ad- 
dress is  General  Delivery,   Denver  2,  Col. 

Stan  Blacher  is  with  Blacher  Bros.,  Inc., 
manufacturers  of  metal  bag  frames  here  in 
Providence. 

Jack  Bussey  writes  that  he  is  Junior 
Chemist  with  Arnold,  Hoffman  and  Co. 
in  Pawtucket,  R.  I.  Jack  tells  us  he  is  to 
be  married  this  April  to  Miss  Madelyn 
Claire  Bosworth. 

Jim  Lalikos  is  Junior  Engineer  with  the 
Detroit  Edison  Co.  in  Detroit,  Mich. 

Warren  Macdonald  writes  he  is  a  part- 
ner in  the  Walter  Macdonald  and  Sons 
Engineering  Company  in  Providence. 

Jim  Coflman,  now  living  at  311  East 
Brayton  Road,  Mt.  Morris,  111.,  announces 
that  he  will  be  entering  medical  school  in 
the  fall. 

Bob  Gobrick  informs  us  that  he  is  learn- 
ing the  publishing  business  with  the  West- 
ern Printing  and  Lithographing  Co.  in 
Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y. 

Don  Thompson,  who  was  married  last 
August  to  Miss  Margaret  E.  Lindgren,  is 
currently  a  student  at  Worcester  Tech. 

Henry  Wilkins  is  an  instructor  in  Elec- 
trical Engineering  at  Brown. 


JIM  BRYAN,  taplain  of  Brown'.^, 
1947  nine.  Although  his  team  won 
only  five  of  18  games.  Pitcher 
Brvan  uas  good  enough  to  attract 
the  attention  of  a  Yankee  scout 
and  has  signed  a  contract. 

Charlie  Goodwin  is  teaching  at  the  Gil- 
man  Country  Day  School. 

Ens.  John  Johnson,  USNR,  sends  us  an 
address  on  the  U.S.S.  Yosemite  (AD-19), 
c/o  Fleet  P.O.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Joe  Towne  is  freight  clerk  for  the  Bos- 
ton and  Maine  Railroad  in  Lynn,  Mass. 
He  is  living  at  4  A  Enon  Village,  Beverly, 
Mass. 

Ens.  John  Dixon,  USNR,  is  stationed  at 
the  U.  S.  Navy  Base  in  Charleston,  S.  C. 
He  gives  his  mailing  address  c/o  P.O. 
Box  66,  Fayettesville,  N.  C. 

Several  '47  men  write  that  they  are  con- 
tinuing their  studies:  Bill  Loring  in  Bos- 
ton; Al  Denman  at  Columbia;  Dave  John- 
ston at  the  University  of  New  Hampshire; 
Fred  W.  Cleaver  at  V.P.I  in  Blacksburg, 
Va. 

1948 

Pvt.  John  R.  Decker  is  now  in  Italy, 
where  he  is  attached  to  the  medical  de- 
tachment of  the  3  50th  Infantry  Regiment. 
His  military  address  is:  Medical  Detach- 
ment, 3  50th  Inf.  Regt.,  88th  Div.,  APO 
88,  c/o  PM,  New  York  City.  He  repre- 
sented his  division  in  a  ski  meet  in  Trieste 
recently. 

William  B.  McDonnell,  Jr.,  who  had  to 
leave  college  because  of  ill  health,  is  a  pa- 
tient at  the  Wallum  Lake  State  hospital  in 
R.  I.  He  is  on  leave  as  a  road  draftsman 
from  the  R.  I.  Dept.  of  Public  Works. 

Lewis  W.  Bennett  plans  to  enter  the 
R.  I.  School  of  Design  in  the  fall. 

Bob  Brady  is  studying  at  Union  College 
in  Schenectady.  His  home  address  is  23 
Dutchmans  Village,  Schenectady,  N.  Y. 
Also  at  Union  is  Joseph  Brogan,  Jr.,  who 
is  living  at  the  Beta  Theta  Pi  House.  Har- 
rie  Mallcry  is  there,  too. 

Ed  Cafferty  is  an  equipment  installer  for 
the  New  England  Tel.  &  Tel.  Co.  Ed  is 
living  at   2050  Broad  St.,  Cranston,  R.  I. 

Dich  Harter  writes  that  he  is  a  student 
and  is  living  at  54  Fletcher  Ave.,  Valley 
Stream,  N.  Y. 

Joseph  Kovarik  is  enrolled  in  the  Uni- 
versity of  Nebraska  College  of  Medicine. 

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He  can  be  reached  at  1435  Pasadena  Ave., 
Omaha,  Neb. 

Ralph  Knowlton  is  studying  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Maine  and  is  living  at  the  Phi 
Kappa  Epsilon  House  there. 

Don  Beckley  can  be  addressed  at  168 
Lyons  Rd.,  Scarsdale,  N.  Y.  He  is  now 
attending  Williams  College,  WiUiamstown, 
Mass. 

Harold  Buckner  is  doing  civil  engineer- 
ing in  Cleburne,  Texas. 

Paul  Garabedian  is  going  to  the  Harvard 
Graduate  School.  His  mailing  address  is 
Norton,  Mass. 

Leopold  Adler  is  living  at  2765  Cheshire 
Bridge  Rd.,  Atlanta,  Ga.  He  is  now  in  a 
training  squad  in  the  M.  Rich  Inc.  Depart- 
ment Store  there. 

Ray  Massie  is  working  for  the  Gener.al 
Baking  Co.  in  Providence.  His  home  is 
at  13  Sears  Ave. 

Travis  Houck  is  now  at  the  Indiana  State 
Teachers  College. 

Normand  Laflamme  is  now  ofKce  man- 
ager for  the  C.  F.  Church  Mfg.  Co.  in  Mon- 
son,  Mass.  He  is  living  in  Monson  at  16 
Harrison  Ave. 

Don  Mathewson  writes  that  he  is  work- 
ing in  Providence  as  a  sheet  metal  worker 
in  the  Providence  Ventilating  Co. 

Paul  Kelly  sends  his  address  as  4112 
Northcote  Ave.,  East  Chicago,  Ind. 

John  Eckman  is  now  at  the  Central  Mis- 
souri State  College.  He  can  be  addressed 
at  429  W.  Central  Ave.,  Carthage,  Mo. 

Allan  Frew  is  attending  Middlebury  Col- 
lege, Middlebury,  Vt. 

Bob  Grout  is  working  for  the  Morgan 
Bros.  Creamery  in  Wellesley  Hills,  Mass. 
His  home  address  is  24  Riverdale  Rd., 
Wellesley  Hills. 

Bill  Carter  is  studying  at  Washington 
University,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Bob  Carroll  sends  an  address  at  Lake 
Champlain  Bridge,  Crown  Point,  N.  Y. 
Bob  is  now  at  Syracuse  University. 

Howard  Abbott  is  at  Williams   College 

Leonard  Maher  is  director  of  music  at 
the  Houlton  High  School,  Houlton,  Maine. 

Philip  Gutenkunst  states  he  is  a  student 
and  is  living  at  3418  No.  Summit  Ave., 
Milwaukee,  Wis. 

Jerry  Blount  is  at  Washington  Univer- 
sity in  St.  Louis. 

Tom  Jenkins  gives  his  mailing  address 
at  912  Lake  Ave.,  Baltimore,  Md.  Tom  is 
now  going  to  Princeton. 

Burton  Goldstein  is  at  the  College  of 
the  City  of  New  York. 

Roy  Debus  is  living  at  11  Leeds  St., 
Staten  Island,  N.  Y.,  and  is  going  to  Wag- 
ner College. 

1949 

Pvt.  William  C.  Proctor  has  been  sent 
overseas  with  the  20th  Infantry  Regiment 
for  occupational  duty  in  Korea. 


She's  a  Broivn  Engineer 

►  Among  the  94  engineering  stu- 
dents who  received  degrees  on  Com- 
mencement Day  was  Anna  C.  Renzi 
of  Providence,  first  girl  ever  to  earn 
Brown's  Sc.B.  in  engineering.  Of 
her  relationship  with  the  other  stu- 
dents as  the  only  girl  in  the  class, 
she  said:  "They  got  used  to  me." 
She  admitted  she  was  looking  for  a 
job:  "No  one  takes  women  en- 
gineers very  seriously.  They  say 
we're  too  likely  to  run  off  and  get 
married."  ^ 


Ronald  Campbell  is  now  enrolled  at 
Syracuse  University.  He  sends  us  his  mail- 
ing address  as  1000  So.  Thompson  St., 
Jackson,   Michigan. 

Fred  Davis  can  be  reached  at  the  Old 
Post  Road,  Northford,  Conn. 

Cpl.  Hardy  L.  Payor  is  overseas  with 
the  IWATE  Military  Government  Team, 
APO  547,  c/o  Postmaster  San  Francisco. 
He  is  in  the  Legal-Government  Section 
office. 

Roger  Anderson  is  now  studying  at 
Rhode  Island  State  College. 

Julian  Kaplin  has  enlisted  in  the  Army 
and  is  stationed  in  Pusan,  Korea.  His  mili- 
tary address  is  Gen.  Hdqts.  Sixth  Inf.  Div., 
A.P.O.  6,  San  Francisco,  Calif. 

Clayton  Lyons  is  living  at  322-72  St. 
No.,  Bergen,  N.  J. 

Pvt.  Alfred  Kratiert,  Jr.,  sends  us  his 
address:  Co.  I.  Mtr.  Bn.,  Hq.  6?  Su.  Gp., 
G.H.Q.  F.E.C.,  A.P.O.  500,  San  Francisco, 
Calif. 

Al  Lisi  is  head  football,  basketball,  and 
baseball  coach  at  Marianapolis  Academy 
in  Thompson,  Conn.  Al  is  living  in  Provi- 
dence at  1 1  Almira  St. 

Henry  Barr,  Jr.,  is  with  the  Monadnock 
Paper  Mills  in  Bennington,  N.  H. 

Charles  Mason  writes  that  he  is  a  car- 
penter for  the  Cape  Codder  Hotel  in 
Falmouth,  Mass.  His  home  is  at  26  Com- 
monwealth  Ave.,   North   Attleboro,   Mass. 

Everett  Gibbs,  Jr.,  is  living  at  814  Dob- 
son  Ave.,  Evanston,  111. 

Michael  Cody  writes  us  from  Box  173, 
Westhampton  Beach,  L.  I.,  N.  Y.,  and 
says  he  intends  to  return  to  college  in  the 
fall. 

Steve  Flanagan  is  studying  at  the  Tri- 
angle School  of  Drafting  in  Pittsburgh. 
He  is  living  in  that  city  at  4052  Mintwood 
Street. 

John  Martuccelli  is  an  aviation  cadet  at 
the  NATB,  Corpus  Christi,  Texas. 

Leo  Hartman  is  studying  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Cincinnati  and  is  living  at  1937 
Courtland  Ave.,  Norwood,  Ohio. 

Raymond  Haas  is  attending  Wisconsin 
University. 

Ray  Ignatz  writes  he  is  doing  electrical 
work  for  Westinghouse  in  Cheehtowaga, 
N.  Y.  His  home  is  at  Aurora  Rd.,  Lan- 
caster, N.  Y. 

Jean  Gumcne  is  studying  at  Purdue  Uni- 
versity. 

Morris  Hutchinson  is  an  accountant  with 
the  Fort  Dodge,  Iowa,  National  Bank.  He 
is  living  there  at  1229  5th  Ave.,  No. 

Ray  Elser  is  hving  at  1246  Buffalo  Rd., 
Rochester  11,  N.  Y.,  and  is  going  to  night 
school  at  the  University  of  Rochester. 

Cy   Flanders,   Jr.,   is   playing   third   base 

Their  Military  Background 

►  Military  service  statistics,  compiled  by 
the  Dean  of  Students  in  April,  provide  an 
interesting  glimpse  at  the  current  under- 
graduate body  at  Brown.  Twenty-one  hun- 
dred are  veterans  or  reservists,  including 
men  who  served  with  the  Greek,  British, 
and  Italian  armies  and  the  Royal  Canadian 
Air  Force.  Of  other  veterans,  755  were 
in  the  Navy.  630  in  the  Army,  341  in  the 
Army  Air  Force,  40  in  the  Naval  Air 
Force,  69  in  the  Marines,  30  in  the  Coast 
Guard,  1 1  in  the  Merchant  Marine,  and 
3  in  the  Maritime  Service;  148  were  IC, 
particular  service  not  designated  on  the 
cards.  ^ 


Du  Pont  Felloicihips 

►  Brown  University  is  one  of  the  in- 
stitutions to  which  the  Du  Pont  Company 
has  awarded  post-graduate  fellowships  in 
chemistry  for  1947-48,  a  Wilmington  an- 
nouncement said  in  February.  Each  such 
fellowship  provides  $1200  for  a  single  per- 
son or  $1800  for  a  married  person,  together 
with  an  award  of  $1000  to  the  University 
to  finance  tuition  and  fees.  Throughout  the 
nation  Du  Pont  is  setting  up  74  fellowships 
for  1946  as  compared  with  35  in  1945.      i 

on  one  of  the  camp  teams  at  Ft.  Bragg. 

Norman  DiSandro  is  living  in  Provi- 
dence at  106  Langdon  St. 

Dave   Zuber    and    Bert   Blumenfeld    are 
attending  the  City  College  of  New  York. 
Vincent  Cook   can  be   reached   at   RD. 
No.  2,  Cato,  N.  Y. 

Joe  Brown  writes  us  from  1004  Chandler 
St.,  Danville,  111.,  and  says  he  is  at  present 
a  student.         • 

David  Knights  is  shipper  for  the  Mass. 
Machine  Shop,  Inc.  in  Boston.  He  is  hving 
in  Marblehead,  Mass.,  at  18  Breystone 
Rd. 

Chris  Georges  sends  us  an  address  at  72 
12th  St.,  Lowell,  Mass. 

Bruce  Davis  is  enrolled  at  the  Academy 
of  Aeronautics,  LaGuardia  Field,  N.  Y. 

Anthony  Cecconi  is  working  as  night 
foreman  for  the  Lefrancois  Transfer  and 
Teaming  Co.  in  Woonsocket,  R.  I. 

Carlton  Lowenberg  is  living  at  93  Arnold 
St.,  Providence. 

Ed  Holmes  writes  that  he  is  living  at  42 
Finch  St.,  Rochester,  N.  Y.  Ed  is  working 
for  the  Retail  Credit  Co.  there. 

Bill  Gallagher  is  living  at  Spencer  Ave., 
East  Greenwich. 

Art  Forrest,  Mid'n  3d  class  in  the  navy, 
is  stationed  at  the  Naval  Air  Station,  Ot- 
tumwa,  Iowa. 

Augustine  McNamee,  Jr.,  is  living  at  57 
Roanoke  St.  in  Providence. 

Malcolm  Daniels  writes  us  that  he  is 
convalescing  from  the  recurrence  of 
wounds  (received  while  in  service)  at  his 
home  at  87  Myrtle  Ave.,  Cranston,  R.  I. 
Tom  Molder  sends  his  address  at  111 
Victory  Rd.,  Dorchester,  Mass.,  and  adds 
that  he  is  a  molder  at  the  Boston  Naval 
Shipyard. 

John  Elliott  is  junior  accountant  for  the 
Otis  Elevator  Co.  in  Boston. 

Bob  Dunn  is  an  insurance  broker  and 
can  be  reached  c/o  Dunn  and  Fowler,  70 
Pine  St.,  New  York  5,  N.  Y. 

Charles  McMurry  is  living  in  Cayce,  Ky. 
Joseph    Giardino   is   a    freshman    at    the 
R.  I.  School  of  Pharmacy. 

Carlton  Cleveland  is  living  at  1110  W. 
Fullerton  Ave.,  Chicago,  111. 
1950 
Milton  Levin  is  living  in  Providence  at 
242  Fourth  St.  He  is  now  assistant  treas- 
urer for  the  United  Plumbing  and  Heating 
Supply  Co. 

John  Flodin  writes  he  is  sales  representa- 
tive for  EFCO  Distributors,  Inc.,  in  Provi- 
dence. John's  home  is  in  Greenwood,  R.  I., 
at  1016  Greenwich  Ave. 

Ernest  Forst  is  second  mate  for  Bernuth. 
Lembcke  Co.  in  New  York  City.  He  gives 
us  a  mailing  address  at  774  Albany  St., 
Schenectady  7,  N.  Y. 

Frank  Bueche  is  special  agent  for  the 
New  York  Life  Insurance  Co.  in  Cincin- 
nati. Frank's  home  address  is  2963  Lischer 
Ave.  there. 

Tom  LeGore  is  now  a  supervisor  with 
Universal  Chemists  in  Boston,  living  at  14 
Elm  St.,  Hingham,  Mass. 

39 


BROWN    ALUMNI    MONTHLY 

"Brown  and  White" 

Sir: 

You  have  more  than  made  amends  for 
the  pardonable  omission  of  my  son's  name 
in  the  original  article  on  second-generation 
Brown  men.  The  block  in  the  current  is- 
sue of  the  Allmni  Monthly  does  the 
trick  nicely. 

You  arc  right  that  both  of  us  are  proud, 
and  now  my  classmates  and  other  readers 
of  the  Monthly  will  know  that  the 
"White"  line  is  being  perpetuated  at 
Brown.  After  all,  to  whom  are  they  re- 
ferring when  they  sing,  "Come_on,  ye 
loyal  sons  of  'Brown  and  White.'  " 

IRVING  C    WHITE    16 
Washington.  D.  C, 


►  Jottings 


continued  from  page  2 
The  trio,  observing  the  class's  65th  anni- 
versary, was  made  up  of  Charles  H.  S. 
Weaver,  Rev.  Frank  Everett,  and  Dr.  Wil- 
liam H.  Tolman.  What  a  cheer  they  re- 
ceived when  the  toastmaster  introduced 
them  to  the  crowd. 

►  Another  big  hand  was  reserved  for  the 
surprise  announcement  that  Ralph  Den- 
ison  '17,  former  Varsity  pitching  ace,  had 
come  from  Tokyo  for  his  30th.  Not  long 
before  leaving  Japan  he  had  played  golf 
with  Gen.  William  C.  Chace  '16.  A  resi- 
dent in  the  Orient  since  1919,  he  is  cur- 
rently petroleum  adviser  in  the  Adjutant 
General's  office. 


Brown  Alumni  Monthly 

Published  bjr  Brouin  University  for  its  Alumni 

UEMBEK,     AMERICAN     ALUMNI     COUNCIL 

Board  of  Editors 

CARLETON  D.  MORSE  '1! 

Chairman 
PROF.  I.  J.  KAPSTEIN  '26 
Vice-chairman 
DR.  MOSES  L.  CROSSLEY  '09 
C.  ARTHUR  BRAITSCH  '23 
GEORGE  F.  TROY.  JR.  '31 
GEORGE  W.  POTTER  "21 
CHAUNCEY  S.  WHEELER  '09 


CHESLEY  WORTHINGTON  '23 
Manager-Editor 


Entered  at  the  Providence  Post  Office 
as  second-class  matter 


VOL.   .XLVIII  JULY-AUG.,    I'J47 


NO. 


To  Forward  This  Issue 

>  Additional  postage  is  neces- 
sary if  this  copy  of  the  Brown 
Alumni  Monthly  is  being  sent 
forward  to  an  address  other  than 
that  used  on  our  stencils.  (Other- 
wise it  conies  back  to  the  Univer- 
sity.) This  issue  needs  4  cents' 
postage  for  such  forwarding  in 
this  country. 

Please  notify  the  Alumni  Office 
of  any  corrections  which  should 
be  made  in  the  address  used.  If 
a  military  title  appears,  please 
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SECRETARIES       OF       BROWN       CLUBS 


I      ASSOCIATED 

I      Alumni 

i        OF  BROWN  UNIVERSITY 


Honorary  Chairmen 

Charles  Evans  Hughes  '81 
Henry  Dexter  Sharpe   '94 
Henry  Merritt  Wriston 
Fred  Tarbell  Field  '00 


=    President 


H.  Stanton  Smith  "21 


Vice-Presiden  I  s 

F.  Donald  Bateman  "2^ 
Nathaniel  Blaisdell  '83 
Edward  T.  Brackett  "14 
William  W.  Browne  "08 
I.  CunlifFe  Bullock  '02 


=     Treas 


=    Secretary 


Fred  E.  Schoeneweiss  '20 


_  William   B.   McCormick  '23 

=  Ahimiii  Executive  Officer 

=  Directors 

=  C   Arthur  Braitsch  "23, 

=  J     Richmond    Fales    "10,    David    G 

=  Fanning  "25,  Cyrus  G.  Flanders  "18, 

=  S.  Abbott  Hutchinson  "31,  Nelson  B. 

=  Jones    "28.    Carleton    D.    Morse    "13. 

=  Fred  A.  Otis  "03,  Fremont  E.  Roper 

I  "11,   Roy   H.    Smith    "01,    Chester   S. 

=  Stackpole  '22,  Martin  L.  Tarpy  "37, 

i  Sidney    Wilniot    "09.     (11    Directors 

=  ii'ill  be  added  b>  appointment. j 


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Akron G.  H.  Gates  "23,  2129  17th  St.,  Cuyahoga  Falls,  Ohio. 

Alt.\  California  (San  Francisco)  .  .    F.  E.  Roper  '11,  2943  Elmwood  Ct.,  Berkeley,  Cal. 

Amherst  (Mass.) B.  B.  Wood  '05,  Mass.  State  College,  Amherst,  Mass. 

Arizona Arthur  L.  Flagg  '06,  29  Holly  St.,  Phoenix,  Ariz. 

Baltimore C.  P.  Ives  '25  c/o  The  Sun,  Baltimore,  Md. 

B0.STON Edward  T.  Brackett '14,  3  5  Congress  St.,  Boston  9,  Mass. 

Brown  Engineering  Assn.  .     .     .A.  M.  Impagliazzo  '34,  Griscom  Russell  Co.,  285  Madison  Ave. 

New  York  17,  N.  Y. 

Buffalo Dr.  Harry  W.  Rockwell  '03,  State  Teachers  College,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

Canton Robert  H.  S.  Kaufman '33,  Carrollton  Mfg.  Co.,  Carrollton,  O. 

Chicago .  Frederick  P.  Bassett,  Jr.,  '33,  6246  Kenmore  Ave. 

Cincinnati Robert  A.  Stoehr,  Jr. '27,  4785  Eastern  Ave.,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

Cleveland Harry  L.  Hoffman,  18141  Clifton  Rd.,  Lakewood  7,  Ohio 

Connecticut  Valley  (Springfield,  Mass.) George  F.  Affleck  '41,  5  Crystal  Ave., 

Detroit Bruce  N.  Coulter '20,  Cranbrook  School,  Bloomfield  Hills,  Mich. 

Fall  River Arthur  C.  Durfee '22,  578  Osborn  St.,  Fall  River,  Mass. 

Georgia .      .     Norman  P.  Arnold  '30,  2386  Alston  Drive,  Atlanta,  Ga. 

Hartford  .  Cyrus  G.  Flanders  '18,  Conn.  State  Employment  Service,  414  Capitol  Ave., 

Hawaii Warren  C.  Johnson  '10,  c/o  OPA,  lolani  Palace,  Honolulu,  T.  H. 

Indiana William  A.  Dyer,  Jr., '24,  Indianapolis  Star,  Indianapolis,  Ind. 

Kansas  City  .....  William  B.  Remington,  Jr.,  '42,  2316  Burlington  Rd.,  North  Kansas  City 

Los  Angeles W.  W.  Mann  '28,  643  Moreno  Ave.,  West  Los  Angeles,  Cal. 

Louisiana       ....     Dr.  Dean  H.  Echols '27,  Ochsner  Clinic,  1428  First  St.,  New  Orleans,  La. 

Merrimack  Valley James  S.  Eastham '19,  250  Stuart  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 

Mid-Hudson Wm.  Howard  Young  '16,  109  College  Ave.,  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y. 

Milwaukee Leonard  L.  Oster '30,  1102  N.  Third  St.,  Milwaukee,  Wis. 

New   Bedford Edward  S.  Burkle '36,  51  Liberty  St.,  New  Bedford,  Mass. 

New  Haven Leonard  W.  Smith  "13,  105  Wayland  Ave.,  Hamden,  Conn. 

Newport John  H.  Greene,  Jr.  "15,  Eustis  Ave.,  Newport,  R.  I. 

New   York     .      .     Mrs.  Doris  Johnston,  New  York  Brown  Club,  39  East  39th  St..  N.  Y.  16,  N.  Y. 

North   Shore   (Mass.) S.  A.  Hutchinson  "31,  27  Pilgrim  Rd,  Marblehead,  Mass. 

N.  E.  New  York E.  V.  Mullenneaux,  Jr.  "43,  864  Mercer  St.,  Albany,  N.  Y. 

N    E.  Pennsylvania    .     .     .   Henry  W.  Peterson  "21,  409  Miners  Bank  Bldg.,  Wilkes- Barre,  Pa. 

Northern  New  Jersey Roland  D.  Beck  "20,  125  Willard  Ave.,  Bloomfield,  N.  J. 

Northwest  (Seattle) S.  H.  Shefelman  "20,  3620  42nd  Ave.,  NE,  Seattle,  Wash. 

Oklahoma Edwin  J.  Schermerhorn  "34,  2824  So.  Columbia  Place,  Tulsa,  Okla. 

Oregon Ashley  Greene  "21,  1207  Public  Service  Bldg.,  Portland  4,  Ore. 

Philadelphia Charles  C.  Myers  "25,  317  Hamilton  Road,  Merion,  Pa. 

Plainfield  Area  Section  1      .      .      .      Joseph  K.  Burwell  "13,   165  Crescent  Ave.,  Plainficld,  N.  J. 

Providence Arthur  H.  Feiner  "22,  49  Westminster  St.,  Providence,  R.  I. 

Rochester Balie  P.  Cantrell  "28,  253  Alexander  St.,  Rochester,  N.  Y. 

Rocky  Mountain Judge  Joseph  E.  Cook  "14,  West  Side  Court,  Denver  Colo. 

St.  Louis   .     .    Chapin  S.  Newhard  "22,  Newhard,  Cook  6?  Co.,  Fourth  6?  Olive  St.,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Syracuse  Earle  C.  Drake  "24,  Box  42,  Eastwood  Sta,,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

Texas  Dr.  Robert  M.  Pike  "28,  6202  Vickery  Blvd.,  Dallas  14,  Tex. 

Virginia Walter  I.  Dolbeare  "23,  3213  Griffin  Ave.,  Richmond  22,  Va. 

Washington,  D.  C.    .     .     .      Winthrop  M.  Southworth,  Jr.  "30,  3700  Massachusetts  Ave.,  N.W., 

Western  Maine Robert  F.  Skillings  "1 1,  Room  50,  City  Bldg.,  Portland,  Mc. 

Western   Penn  .      Gordon  Ritchie,  Jr.,  "24,  187  Broadway  Dr.,  Pleasant  Hills  RD.  No.  6, 

Pittsburgh  10 

Woonsocket Himan  M.  Caslowitz  "28,  P.  O.  Box  5  3  3,  Woonsocket,  R.  I. 

Worcester  County  (Mass.)  .      George  E.  Marble  "00,  14  High  Ridge  Rd.,  Worcester,  Mass. 

Younostown Richard  B.  Wilson  '12,  304  Dollar  Bank  Bldg.,  Youngstown,  Ohio 


ASSOCIATION       OF       CLASS       SECRETARIES= 


1879  __  Dr.  Stephen  A.  Welch,  253  Washington  St.,  President 

1881  —  F.  H.  Gifford,  380  County  St..   New  Bedford,  Mass. 

1882  —  Charles  H.  S.  Weaver,  Fitchville,  Conn. 

1883  —  Prof.  H.  P.  Manning,  148  Governor  St. 

1884  —  Col.  W.  M,  P.  Bowen,  635  Hospital  Trust  Bldg. 

1885  — Frank  Hail  Brown,  P.  O.  Box  1172,  President 

1886  —  Prof.  A.  K.  Potter,  212  Waterman  St. 

1887  —  Dr.  Edmund  D.  Chesebro,  2  Hawthorne  St. 

1888  —  Prof.  A.  E.  Watson,  30  Congdon  St. 

1889  —  B.  S.  Blai.sdell,  539  Potters  Ave. 

1890  — Dr.  Harry  L.  Grant,  297  Wayland  Ave. 

1891  — Frank  L.  Hinckley,  2200  Industrial  Trust  Bldg. 

1892  —  James  C.  Collins,  1030  Hospital  Trust  Bldg. 

1893  —  R.  M.  Brown,  60  Alfred  Drowne  Rd.,  West  Barrington 

1894  —  Daniel  F.  George,  177  Brown  St. 

1895  — J.  A.  Tillinghast,  1204  Industrial  Trust  Bldg. 

1896  —  Charles  R.  Easton,  42  Westminster  St. 

1897  —  George  L.  Miner,  276  Blackstone  Blvd. 

1898  —  Thomas  E.  Steere,  21  Barnes  St. 

1899  —  C.  C.  Remington,  902  Union  Trust  Bldg. 

1900  — Clinton  C.  White,  P.O.  Box  1505. 

1901  —William  H.  Hull,  P.O.  Box  1318. 

1902  —  Edward  K.  Aldrich,  Jr.,  3  3  Eddy  St. 

1903  —  Fred  A.  Otis,  605   Hospital  Trust  Bldg. 
19Q4 — Edmufid  K.  Arnold,  35  Lenox  Ave. 

1905  ^-  Charles  L.  Robinson.  425  Brook  St. 

1906  — Percy  Shires.   11  Thurston  St. 

1907  —  Alfred  H.  Gurney.  14  Young  Orchard  Ave. 

1908  —  C.  L.  Grinnell,  Main  Rd.,  Tiverton,  R.  I. 

1909  — Henry  S.  Chafee,  P.O.  Box  1342. 

1910  —  Elmer  S.  Horton,  2300  Industrial  Trust  Bldg. 

191 1  —  Charles  P.  Sisson,  117  Everett  Ave. 

1912  —  Earl  P.  Perkins,   10  Gibson  Ave.,  Narragansett,  R.  I. 

1913  —  Prof.  L.  T.  Bohl,  Brown  University. 

1914  —  0.  Lester  Woolley,  10  Wildwood  Ave. 


Charles  P.  Sisson  "11,  C/iairttian 

—  Sidney  Clifford,  1503  Turks  Head  Bldg. 


1915  — ...o,.^,  ^ ......    .„.„„„.„„. 

1916  —  John  W.  Moore,  378  Auburn  St.,  Cranston,  R.  I. 

1917  — Earl  M.  Pearce,  P.O.  Box  1505. 

1918  — Walter  Adler,   1006  Hospital  Trust  Bldg. 

1919  —  Fred  B.  Perkins,  1204  Industrial  Trust  Bldg, 

1920  —  Henry  C.  Aylsworth,  Allenton,  R,  I. 

1921  —  Alfred  Mochau,  87  Irving  Ave. 

1922  — J.  Wilbur  Rikcr.  208  Hospital  Trust  Bldg. 
1923 — W.  C.  Worthington,  Brown  University 

1924  —  P.  A.  Lukin,  2nd,  Lawrence  Fertig  Q?  Co.,  149  Madison  Ave.,  N.Y.C. 

1925  —  Thomas  W.  Taylor,  20  Benevolent  St. 

1926  —  Jacob  S.  Temkin,  540  Hospital  Trust  Bldg. 

1927  —  Irving  G.  Loxley,  94  Albert  Ave.,  Edgewood,  R.  I. 
R.  I.        1928  —  Nelson  B.  Jones,  Brown  University. 

1929  —  Walter  Ensign,  94  Slater  Ave. 

1930  —  E.  J.  Farrell,  61  Daniel  St.,  Pawtucket,  R.  I. 

1931  —  Frederick  L.  Harson,  570  Broad  Street 

1932  —  Richard  A.  Hurley,  Jr.,  80  Don  Ave.,  Rumfurd,  R.  I. 

1933  —  Franklin  A.  Hurd,  5  Meredith  Drive,  Cranston.  R.  I. 

1934  —  Bancroft  Littlefield,   1109   Hospital  Trust   Bldg. 

1935  — Alfred  H.  Joslin,  100  Hazard  Ave. 

1936  —  Robert  W.  Kenyon.  433  Westminster  St. 

1937  —  Martin  L.  Tarpy,  36  Prince  St.,  Pawtucket,  R.  I. 

1938  — Paul  W.  Welch,  26  Gaspee  Point  Drive. 

1939  —  Charles  W.  Gustavesen,  Jr.,   12  Burlington  St. 

1940  —  Joseph   C.  Harvey,   55   Mountain   Ave.,  Riverside 

1941  — John  R.  Mars,  Culver  Mil.  Academy,  Culver,  Ind., 

1942  —  William  I.  Crooker,  Brown  University. 

1943  —  William  H.  Sullivan,  1928  Cranston  St.,  Cranston,      . 

1944  —  W.  S.  Maxwell  Montgomery,  26  Linden  St.,  Brooklinc,  Mass. 
1945 — James  O.  Starkweather,  23  Autenrieth  Road.  Scarsdale,  N.  Y. 

1946  —  Hugh  A.  W.  MacNair,  Chase  C-41,  Soldiers"  Field,  Boston  63,  Mass. 

1947  —  Richard  W.   Carpenter,   2514  4th  Ave.,  S.,  Minneapolis  8,  Minn. 
1947  —  Richard  M.  Morris,  75  Division  St.,  North  Attleboro,  Mass., 

Klew  £n«iand  Deputy. 


15,  R.  I. 
President. 

R.  I. 


Note:  Unless  otherwise    indicated,  all  addresses  are  in  Providence.