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Alumni  Monthly 


March  1993 


Under  the  Elms 

The  Magic  Flute  mesmerizes  audiences  in  Sayles 
Hall .  .  .  Dusty  Rhodes  retires  as  editor  of  the  BAM  .  .  . 
gay  protestors  draw  battle  lines  over  military  recruit- 
ment .  .  .  tuition  increase  lowest  in  a  decade  ...  at  the 
sign  of  the  Faunce  House  barber  pole,  a  new  unisex 
hair  salon. 


22  A  Radical  History 


In  his  prize-winning  new  book.  The  Radicalism  of  the 
American  Revolution,  Professor  Gordon  S.  Wood  says 
the  revolution  succeeded  too  well  -  in  a  materialistic 
sense.  The  founding  fathers  expected  virtue  but  got 
self-interest  instead. 


28  Walking  Out  of  the  Darkness 

Three  dissident  Chinese  writers,  unwelcome  in 
their  homeland,  struggle  with  artistic  freedom  and 
watch  with  guarded  optimism  for  human-rights 
changes  in  China. 


32  Brown's  Sculpture  Garden 

An  eclectic  mix  of  sculpture  is  scattered  across  the 
campus  -  from  Dante's  brooding  bust  on  the  John  Hay 
Library  terrace  to  Henry  Moore's  comfortable  abstrac- 
tion in  front  of  Faunce  House.  John  Foraste  turns  his 
camera  on  these  works  of  art,  which  often  go  unnoticed 
in  the  bustle  of  campus  life. 


A  Legal  Legend 

Louis  L.  Redding  '23  is  proof  that  one  individual 
can  make  a  difference.  A  statue  of  the  civil-rights 
lawyer  was  recently  unveiled  at  the  Wilmington, 
Delaware,  city-county  building,  which  was  renamed 
in  his  honor. 


Departments 

Carrying  the  Mail 

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Sports 

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Books 

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The  Classes 

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Alumni  Calendar 

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Obituaries 

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Finally 

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Cover:  Gordon  Wood,  photographed  by  John 
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Volume  93,  Number  6 


BroiATn 

Alumni  Moiithhj 

Mtirch  1993 
Volume  93,  No.  6 


Carrying  the  Mail 


Acting  Coeditors 

Anne  Hinnian  Dittily  '73 

Charlotte  Bruce  Harvey  '78 

Consulting  Editor 

kimberlv  French 

Art  Director 

Kafhrvn  de  Boer 

Editorial  Associate 

Jiimes  Reinbold  '74  A.M. 

Photography 

John  Foraste 

Design 

Sandra  Delany 
Katie  Chester 
Leslie  Mello 

Administrative  Assistant 

Pamela  M.  Parker 

Editorial  Intern 
David  Scott  Westreich  '92 

Board  of  Editors 

Chairman 

Peter  W.  Bernstein  '73 

Vice  Chairman 

Stacy  E.  Palmer  '82 

Ralph  J.  Begleiter  'yi 

Philip].  Bray '48 

Douglas  O.  Cumming  '80  A.M. 

Rose  E.  Engelland  '78 

Lisa  W.  Foderaro  '85 

Annette  Grant  '63 

Martha  K.  Matzke  '66 

Gail  E.  McCann  '75 

Cathleen  M.  McGuigan  '71 

Robert  Stewart  '74 

Tenold  R.  Sunde  '59 

Matthew  L.  Wald  '76 

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The  price  of  admission 

Editor:  I  hope  many  Brown  alumnae 
had  the  same  reaction  to  "The  Price  of 
Admission"  (BAM,  Winter)  that  I  did. 
The  issue  of  need-blind  admissions  was 
not  a  great  concern  when  I  was  at  Brown 
in  the  late  seventies,  so  your  article  was 
somewhat  shocking.  It  seems  to  me  that 
all  of  us  who  have  benefited  from  our 
time  at  Brown  have  a  moral  obligation 
to  do  whatever  we  can  to  work  toward 
the  goal  of  a  need-blind  system.  On  a 
more  personal  level  it  saddens  me  not 
only  that  Brown  might  become  less 
diverse,  but  also  that  my  own  children 
could  someday  be  denied  admission 
solely  because  of  budget  constraints. 

So  I  am  enclosing  a  contribution  des- 
ignated for  financial  aid  and  hope  you 
will  forward  it  to  the  appropriate  person 
or  office.  This  is  what  I  can  do.  Maybe 
there  are  other  alums  out  there  who 
would  do  the  same  and  join  me  in  trying 
to  prove  the  folks  at  Marts  and  Lundy 
wrong. 

Wendy  Shornstcin  Good  '80 

New  Orleans 


Editor:  The  Brown  administration's  sup- 
port for  the  goal  of  need-blind  admis- 
sions, as  well  as  its  general  rhetoric 
about  financial  aid,  apparently  does  not 
recognize  that  the  recent  intervention 
of  the  federal  government  has  changed 
the  rules  of  the  financial-aid  policy  game. 
Specifically,  the  antitrust  case  brought 
by  the  Justice  Department  against  the 
Ivy  group  has  ended  the  annual  "over- 
lap meeting"  at  which  the  Ivy  universi- 
ties discussed  financial-aid  packages  for 
individual  students.  Without  the  coordi- 
nation and  discipline  provided  by  the 
overlap  meeting,  sooner  or  later  one  Ivy 
university  or  another  will  be  unable  to 
resist  the  temptation  to  stretch  its  defini- 
tion of  "need"  in  its  desire  to  recruit 
talented  students.  In  response,  the  other 
Ivy  universities  will  feel  that  they  have 
to  match  financial-aid  offers,  and 


strictly  need-based  financial  aid  will  be 
history.  The  controversy  over  need- 
blind  admissions  will  become  irrelevant. 

In  this  process,  the  financial-aid 
practices  of  the  Ivy  universities  will 
come  steadily  to  resemble  the  financial- 
aid  policies  of  the  elite  non-Ivy  universi- 
ties that  openly  award  scholarships 
based  on  merit  as  well  as  on  need.  The 
Ivy  universities  probably  will  claim  that 
they  are  continuing  to  base  financial  aid 
strictly  on  need  and  will  deny  that  they 
are  offering  merit  scholarships,  but 
their  practice  will  become  increasing  at 
variance  with  their  rhetoric. 

I  do  not  think  that  these  develop- 
ments should  upset  us.  In  my  opinion, 
the  Justice  Department  did  the  right 
thing  in  attacking  the  financial-aid  prac- 
tices of  the  Ivy  universities. 

My  main  objection  to  need-based 
financial  aid  is  that  it  penalizes  industri- 
ous and  thrifty  families  who  have 
worked  and  saved  in  order  to  send  their 
children  to  college,  while  it  rewards 
spendthrift  families  who  have  failed 
to  take  responsibility  for  their  children's 
education.  Need-blind  admissions,  as 
practiced  by  the  richer  Ivy  universities, 
is  even  more  unfair  because  it  denies 
hardworking  and  thrifty  families  any 
advantage  in  being  able  to  get  their  chil- 
dren admitted  to  the  college  of  their 
choice. 

Responding  to  the  incentives  created 
by  need-based  financial  aid,  middle- 
income  families  have  steadily  come  to 
regard  saving  to  send  children  to  college 
as  pointless  and  foolish.  Need-blind 
admissions  only  reinforces  this  attitude. 

The  Ivy  universities  have  argued  that 
the  ending  of  strictly  need-based  finan- 
cial aid  and  the  introduction  of  merit 
scholarships  would  cause  "bidding  wars 
for  top  applicants."  This  propaganda 
makes  the  Ivy  group  sound  just  like  any 
other  price-setting  cartel  that  has  run 
afoul  of  the  antitrust  laws.  The  elite  non- 
Ivy  universities  that  award  merit  schol- 
arships do  not  engage  in  "bidding 
wars."  Rather,  they  make  prudent  use 


4  /  MARCH  1993 


of  merit  scholarships  to  help  in  the 
recruiting  of  talented  students. 

Another  false  argument  is  that  need- 
based  financial  aid  is  necessary  to  permit 
talented  but  needy  students  to  attend 
the  Ivy  universities.  On  the  contrary, 
with  financial  aid  based  on  merit,  finan- 
cial aid  will  not  be  a  reward  for  being 
poor,  as  it  is  now  at  the  Ivy  universities. 
Rather,  financial  aid  will  be  a  prize 
available  to  any  applicant,  rich  or  poor, 
who,  on  the  basis  of  ability,  industry, 
and  any  other  relevant  characteristics, 
ranks  at  the  top  of  the  applicant  pool. 

Herschel  I,  Grossman 

Campus 
The  writer  is  the  Merton  O.  Stoltz  Professor 
in  the  Social  Sciences  and  professor  of  eco- 
nomics. -  Editor 


Editor:  Thank  you  for  the  article  on 
need-blind  admissions.  When  you  cov- 
ered the  takeover  last  year  of  University 
Hall,  I  wrote  asking  for  a  deeper  profile 
of  the  student  group,  SAMA.  I  appreci- 
ate this  move  in  that  direction. 

Still  more,  I  appreciate  the  work  of 
SAMA  and  wish  them  continued  energy. 
And  I'd  like  President  Gregorian  and 
SAMA  to  know  that  I  am  one  alum  who 
just  might  contribute  to  a  campaign 
for  need-blind  admissions,  though  I'm 
not  contributing  to  the  current,  more 
general  fund-raising. 

Sandi/  Martin  '82 

Cambridge,  Mass. 


Editor:  The  Washington  Post,  April  26, 
1992,  reported  14.5  percent  of  Brown's 
tuition  and  fees  ($19  million)  will  go 
toward  financial  aid. 

1  would  encourage  Brown  to  desig- 
nate this  figure  on  student  bills  so  that 
this  value  ($2,666)  could  be  designated 
as  a  charitable  contribution  for  tax 
purposes. 

A  few  years  ago  in  the  Cornell  Alumni 
Neivs,  a  parent  wrote  of  financially 
squeezing  middle-income  students  from 
Cornell  -  i.e.,  lower-income  students 
had  financial  aid,  upper-income  students 
had  family  funds,  but  middle-income 
students  had  neither.  It  seems  ironic 
that  a  middle-income  student  might  not 
apply  to  Brown  because  she  (he)  could 
not  afford  to  contribute  toward  the  costs 
of  a  lower-income  student.  Acknowl- 
edging this  ($2,666)  contribution,  thus 
saving  families  hundreds  in  federal  and 
state  taxes,  might  just  make  the  full 


tuition  burden  affordable. 

I  would  hope  that  no  family  would 
refuse  to  contribute,  and  I'm  sure  the 
Internal  Revenue  Service  will  be  vexed, 
but  let's  put  our  creative  legal  minds 
behind  all  this  so  that  all  might  benefit. 

Sylvia  Thorp 

Potomac,  Md. 
The  -writer  is  a  Brown  parent.  -  Editor 


Chefs  year 

Editor.  Your  eminent  predecessor,  Chet 
Worthington,  graduated  from  our  Col- 
lege on  the  Hill  in  1923,  not  1928,  as  some- 
one says  on  page  6  of  the  Winter  issue. 

Emery  Walker  '39 

Pomona,  Calif. 
Our  apologies  to  Editor  Emeritus  Worth- 
ington for  the  typographical  error.  -  Editor 


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Virginia 

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Massachusetts 

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The  grammar  that  binds 

Eililor:  In  the  Winter  i.ssuc,  Lydia  Bear- 
den  rightly  points  out  by  example  that 
the  verb  "degenerate"  cannot  take  a 
direct  object.  Unfortunately,  she  calls  it 
a  "transitive"  verb.  I  was  taught  that  a 
transitive  verb  does  take  a  direct  object. 
Of  course,  some  verbs  can  be  used 
either  transitively  or  intransitively,  but 
"degenerate"  is  used  only  intransitively. 

The  point  I  wish  to  make  goes 
beyond  mere  pedantry.  Many  in  our 
educational  system  think  that  because 
grammar  and  grammatical  terminology 
are  often  artificial  they  amount  to  intel- 
lectual tyranny  and  restraints  on  cre- 
ativity or  are  barriers  to  upward  mobil- 
ity. That  provides  a  good  excuse  not 
to  teach  a  difficult  subject  that  students 
dislike  anyway.  The  problem  is  that 
we  are  rapidly  losing  any  common  basis 
for  rational  communication  with  each 
other.  The  artificial  creation  known  as 
Standard  Formal  English  evolved  from 
the  need  for  a  nation  to  have  a  common 
language  that  meant  the  same  thing 
to  all  users  in  order  to  avoid  misunder- 
standing and  confusion.  Sometimes 
breaking  a  rule  can  be  an  effective  and 
precise  means  of  communication,  but 
only  if  everyone  understands  the  rule 
that  is  being  broken. 

One  of  the  most  useful  courses  that 
I  ever  took  was  the  rigorous  freshman 
composition  course  in  expositor}/  prose 
that  I  had  to  take  at  Brown.  I  hope  that 
such  a  requirement  has  not  been  aban- 
doned now,  when  it  is  needed  more  than 
ever. 

Allen  M.  Ward  '64 

Storrs,  Conn. 
Aceording  to  the  Brozcn  catalogue,  the  Col- 
lege requires  entering  students  who  have 
not  demonstrated  competence  in  writing  to 
enroll  during  their  first  semester  in  a  -writ- 
ing course.  -  Editor 


Beyond  football  records 

Editor:  I  have  difficulty  becoming  exer- 
cised over  our  esteemed  University's 
losing  football  record.  Certainly,  for 
the  players  themselves,  I  wish  them  the 
opportunity  to  experience  a  winning 
season,  or  at  least  a  season  where  they 
take  a  few  games.  However,  I  feel  it  is 
silly  to  measure  the  success  or  failure  of 
a  university  on  its  win-loss  record  on 
the  football  field. 

If  alums  wish  to  find  cause  for  pricle 


and  satisfaction  in  Brown,  they  need  not 
look  under  a  rock.  Brown  faculty  mem- 
bers are  involved  in  many  important 
and  pressing  issues.  Ted  Sizer,  chairman 
of  the  Coalition  of  Essential  Schools,  is 
nationally  recognized  for  working  to 
make  public  schools  effective  and  com- 
petitive. The  University  is  home  to  the 
Alan  Shawn  Feinstein  World  Hunger 
Program,  an  organization  devoted  to 
wiping  out  hunger  and  homelessness 
around  the  country.  The  University  has 
also  developed  the  Early  Identification 
Program,  designed  to  identify  and 
match  talented  minority  sttidents  from 
around  the  country  with  Brown  profes- 
sors who  can  serve  as  mentors.  These 
are  just  a  few  examples.  One  has  only  to 
thumb  through  any  BAM  to  find  count- 
less causes  for  pride  among  alumni. 

Finally,  if  one  must  turn  to  athletics 
as  the  sole  marker  of  progress,  don't 
forget  to  look  to  such  perennial  success 
stories  at  Brown  as  men's  and  women's 
crew,  sailing,  and  soccer  (the  women 
have  won  eleven  Ivy  titles  since  1980). 

Bill  Caskey  '85 

Decatur,  Ga. 


The  weaker  sex 

Editor:  Sometimes  I  get  the  feeling  that 
Lewis  Carroll  is  with  us  still  and  is 
secretly  operating  national  TV  news. 

As  was  the  case  recently  when  ABC 
News  showed  a  handful  of  college  girls* 
at  Brown  University  clamoring  for 
"ecjuality"  in  sports. 

Jabberwocky! 

It  would  serve  them  right  if  they 
got  it. 

True  ec]uality  would  mean  of  course 
just  one  varsity  basketball,  one  tennis 
team,  etc.  There  would  be  no  more  seg- 
regation by  gender. 

How  many  girls  would  ever  play 
varsity  sports  in  a  system  with  true 
equality? 

The  current  system  is  grossly  loaded 
in  favor  of  the  (physically)  weaker  sex 
so  that  some  of  them  can  get  to  play, 
and  that's  OK  with  most  people. 

On  the  other  hand,  the  men's  teams 
are  the  ones  that  return  some  of  the 
funds  expended,  and  they  deserve  recog- 
nition for  that. 

Richard  T.  Doivnes  '45 

Atlantic  Beach,  Fla. 
*  My  dictionary,  having  been  hidden 
away  from  the  PC  police,  says  it's  OK  to 
call  them  girls. 


6  /  MARCH  1993 


Mother  Hubbard 

Editor:  Re:  "Carrying  the  Mail/'  Winter 
1992-93,  page  6: 

Old  Mother  Hubbard,  she  went  to  the 

cupboard 
To  find  what  was  tasty  and  tempty. 
When  its  door  was  unjammed 
She  found  it  was  crammed 
With  containers  none  of  which  were 

non-empty. 

Old  Mother  Hubbard,  she  went  to  the 

cupboard 
To  find  some  leftovers  for  luncheon. 
But  when  she  had  reached  it,  aside  from 

a  peach  pit. 
There  was  nothing  to  nibble  or  munch 

on. 

Old  Mother  Hubbard,  she  goes  to  the 

cupboard 
To  discover  what  food  it  encloses. 
But  when  it's  inspected,  there  is  nothing 

detected 
Inoffensive  to  sensitive  noses. 

Old  Mother  Hubbard,  she  went  to  the 

cupboard 
To  get  something  bubbly  and  fizzy. 
And  when  she  got  there,  out  tumbled  a 

bear- 
The  rest  of  the  story's  too  grisly. 

Mnrlou'  Sholander  '49  Ph.D. 

Shaker  Heights,  Ohio 


Ron  Brown 

Editor:  In  reading  your  article  about  Ron 
Brown  '79  (Under  the  Elms,  November), 
I  was  caught  off  guard  by  the  mention 
of  even  a  small  minority  of  alumni  being 
concerned  about  his  race.  If  this  did  in 
fact  have  any  impact  on  his  decision  not 
to  accept  the  job  [as  head  coach],  this 
group's  ignorance  prevented  the  Univer- 
sity from  adding  a  quality  individual  to 
its  football  program. 

My  association  with  Ron  was  brief, 
but  I  learned  enough  about  him  in  that 
short  time  to  know  that  his  work  ethic 
and  dedication  would  make  him  a  tre- 
mendous role  model  for  any  young  ath- 
lete who  came  in  contact  with  him.  (His 
involvement  with  the  underprivileged 
children  of  Nebraska  gives  one  a  pretty 
good  indication  of  his  character.) 

If  at  some  point  in  the  future  this 
situation  is  repeated,  I  would  hope  that 
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without  apprehension  and  that  Ron 
Brown  would  accept.  I  know  I  would  be 
pleased  to  have  Ron  coach  my  son. 

Jom  Clark  'jb 

Jamison,  Pa. 


Hard  boiled 

Editor:  Professor  Josiah  S.  Carberry  has 
been  grossly  careless  in  releasing  his 
version  of  J.  Carter  Brown's  recipe  for 
boiling  water  (Under  the  Elms,  Winter). 
Carberry,  impatient  as  usual  with 
details,  omits  a  final  and  critical  step 
that  Carter  Brown  always  emphasized: 
"Warning  -  Allow  finished  product  to 
cool  before  serving." 

This  cautionary  note  was  also  over- 
looked at  the  annual  Recipe  Raffles  of 
Les  Amis  d'Escoffier,  convening  in 
Casablanca  back  in  1939.  Several  partici- 
pants lisped  thereafter. 

Incidentally,  J.  Carter  Brown's  recipe 
for  frying  water  is  much  more  exciting 
and  productive.  I  wonder  if  that,  too,  is 
in  the  Carberry  files. 

Bill  Schofield  '31 

Newton,  Mass. 

Editor:  Frankly,  I  question  the  authentic- 
ity of  the  boiled-water  recipe  attributed 
to  J.  Carter  Brown  in  your  recent  issue. 

A  careful  reading  of  the  instructions 
leads  the  cook  into  a  trap.  By  introduc- 
ing the  need  to  observe  bubbles  by  both 
location  and  size,  in  order  to  adjust  the 
burner,  the  recipe  guarantees  failure. 

It  is  a  well-known  precept  that  a 
watched  pot  never  boils.  Neither  Car- 
berry nor  Brown  would  be  party  to  such 
deception.  Further,  neither  would  be 
guilty  of  such  casual  scholarship. 

Dougks  R.  Eoiue  '55 

CarroUton,  Texas 


Ukraine,  not  Russia 

Editor:  This  letter  concerns  the  narrative 
of  a  cruise  described  on  page  49  of  the 
Winter  1992-93  edition  of  the  Broum 
Alumni  Monthly. 

We  wish  to  point  out  that  the  follow- 
ing statement  is  inaccurate:  "Dnieper 
River  Cruise,  embarking  at  Kiev  and 
traversing  the  heartland  of  Russia  to 
Odessa  on  the  Black  Sea. .  .  ."  If  you  de- 
part from  Kiev  and  go  to  Odessa  along 
the  Dnieper  River,  you  will  be  travers- 
ing the  heartland  of  the  Ukraine,  not 
Russia.  Ukraine  has  never  been  a  part  of 


Russia.  During  its  domination  by  the 
Russian  Communist  government,  it  was 
a  part  of  the  Soviet  Union,  as  were 
Lithuania,  Georgia,  Armenia,  and  all  the 
other  "soviet  states."  But  a  part  of  Rus- 
sia -  NEVER! 

We  were  very  surprised  and  disap- 
pointed to  see  such  an  inaccurate  state- 
ment in  the  Brown  Alumni  Monthly,  from 
whom  we  have  higher  expectations  of 
accuracy. 

Larisct  Szumnkow  Streetcr  Sc.M.  '82 

Harold  F.  Strccter  B.S.  '79,  Sc.M.  '82 

Houston 


Meteor  impact 

Editor:  Re:  "Terror  from  the  sky"  (Under 
the  Elms,  Winter).  Fascinating  piece! 
From  a  safe  distance  and  vantage  point 
the  fireball  would  have  been  visible  for 
one  to  two  minutes,  I  think. 

Has  Peter  Schultz  published  a  paper 
or  article  on  this  episode  that  might  be 
available  to  me? 

Always  enjoy  my  issue  of  BAM. 
Keep  up  the  good  work. 

Michael  Johnson  '68 

Boston 
See  "Teardrops  on  the  Pampas,"  by  Peter  H. 
Schultz  and  ].  Kelly  Beatty,  Sky  and  Tele- 
scope, Apjril  1992,  pp.  ^Sy-^gi.  -  Editor  CD 


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The  first  Rose  Bowl? 

Two  readers  questioned  our  claim  in  an  ad' 
vertisement  for  the  1916  Rose  Bowl  poster 
(see  page  2)  that  Brown  played  in  the  first 
Rose  Bowl  game.  "Look!"  wrote  James  Cun- 
ningham '72  of  Bloomfield  Hills,  Mictiigan. 
"Enclosed  is  a  local  article  about  the  Univer- 
sity of  Michigan's  perennial  appearances  in 
Rose  Bowls  and  it  shows  a  1902  Rose  Bowl 
game." 

As  it  happens,  a  case  can  be  made  for 
both  claims  to  "firsts," 

In  his  1992  biography  of  football  wizard 
Fritz  Pollard  '19  (BAM,  October),  John  Car- 
roll '65  noted  that  in  1901,  the  Tournament 
of  Roses  Association  organized  an  East-West 
football  game.  On  January  1, 1902,  the  Uni- 
versity of  Michigan  played  Stanford.  But  the 
game  appears  never  to  have  been  completed. 

"The  event  was  a  financial  success  but 
an  embarrassment  for  Pacific  Coast  football," 
Carroll  writes.  "The  powerful  Wolverine 
team  thrashed  Stanford  by  a  score  of  49-0  in 
a  game  terminated  before  the  final  whistle 
because  the  Indians  were  unable  to  continue 
due  to  injuries." 

After  that  debacle.  Tournament  of  Roses 
officials  discontinued  the  football  contest. 
There  was  not  another  until  1916,  when 
Brown  played  State  College  of  Washington 
and  began  the  annual  series  that  continues 
to  this  day. 

In  any  case,  the  poster  is  a  beauty. 
-  Editor 


8  /  MARCH  1993 


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Applause!  Some  of  the  170 
students,  faculty,  and  others 
who  put  on  two  standing-room- 
only  performances  of 
Mozart's  Magic  Flute  take  their 
bows  in  Sayles  Hall. 


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Students,  professionals  work  magic  with  Mozart's  Flute 


IT 

I      he  scene  was  a 
JL    packed  Sayles  Hall  on 
two  evenings  in  February. 
The  e\'ent  was  Mozart's 
opera.  The  Ma^^ic  Flute,  in 
English  translation  -  the 
first  opera  done  at  Brown  in 
twenty-fi\'e  years.  The  pro- 
duction included  170  people 
-  musicians,  singers,  and 
production  types  -  and  the 
overwhelming  majority 
were  students.  There  were 
also  three  members 
of  the  faculty,  some 
alumni,  and  a  few 
hired  hands  from 
professional  ranks. 

The  result  was 
so  impressive,  it  was 
hard  to  remember 
that  most  of  the  per- 
formers were  liberal- 
arts  students  whose 
careers  will  be  in 
places  other  than  the 
theater  or  concert 
stage. 

Wrote  Providence 
JounwI-BuUetin  music 
critic  Channing 
Gray,  "Tlie  produc- 
tion .  .  .  was  a  curi- 
ous hybrid,  pairing 
professionals  with 
students,  staged  ...  in  (the) 
bare-bones  fashion  that 
the  hall  would  allow. . .  . 
But  the  rough  edges  did  not 
bother  the  standing-room- 
only  crowd,  nor  did  tliey 
keep  the  spirit  of  Mozart's 
final,  perhaps  miraculous 
opera  from  shining  through." 

The  idea  for  the  produc- 
tion came  last  summer 
when  Brown  Orchestra  con- 
ductor Paul  Phillips  was  in 
the  pits.  The  orchestra,  with 
a  series  of  concerts  with 
world-class  soloists  behind 
it  since  1977,  was  conung  off 
its  biggest  year  ever:  a  suc- 
cessful benefit  concert  with 
violinist  Itzhak  Perlman 
at  Lincoln  Center  in  March, 
and  another  with  flutist 


Eugenia  Zukerman  in  Provi- 
dence at  Commencement. 

There  was  nothing  spe- 
cial to  look  forward  to  in 
1992-9^. 

Phillips  loves  opera,  and 
the  challenge  of  doing  a  big 
one  -  the  Flute  -  became  a 
daunting  possibility.  He  put 
the  question  to  his  eighty- 
student  orchestra.  They 
loved  it. 

The  sheer  task  of  mobi- 


on  a  temporary  visa,  Katka 
Ailova,  living  on  College 
Hill;  she  did  the  costumes. 
He  persuaded  theatre  pro- 
fessor John  Emigh  to  lend 
him  his  collection  of  Poly- 
nesian masks.  Scenic 
designer  Joyce  Devine  lives 
in  Wakefield,  Rhode  Island. 
Choreographer  Michelle 
Bach  is  in  residence  at 
Brown. 

For  the  performers. 


Sandy  Choi  '95  (second  from  right)  played  Papagena,  and  the 
three  boys  were  (from  left)  Anna  Liao  '94,  Gretchen  Greene 

'96,  and  Deborah  Hartman  '95.  The  scene  design  was  by 
Salzburg  native  Joyce  Devine,  now  a  Rhode  Island  resident. 


lizing  170  people,  securing 
$17,000  to  fund  the  perfor- 
mance, and  squeezing 
it  into  the  somber  space  of 
Sayles  Hall  soon  proved 
overwhelming.  Phillips  got 
cold  feet  and  almost  backed 
away  from  it.  His  orchestra 
said,  No  way;  the  deal  is 
done. 

Phillips  found  Robert 
Bailey  '70,  a  talented  stage 
manager,  in  New  York.  He 
collared  Elysa  Marden  '92 
for  the  prodigious  task 
of  production  stage  manager. 
He  found  a  Czech  student 


Phillips  drafted  his  wife,  pro- 
fessional soprano  Kathryne 
Jennings,  as  Pamina.  He 
found  the  perfect  humorist- 
singer  for  Papageno  in  Rene 
de  la  Garza,  who  recently 
moved  to  College  Hill. 
Another  professional  singer, 
anthropology  professor 
William  Beeman,  was  a  mag- 
ical Sarastro.  Four  students 
sang  lead  roles.  And  acting 
Brown  Chorus  director  Fred 
Jodry,  whose  students  also 
sang,  was  an  audience  favor- 
ite as  Monostatos. 

Jodry,  in  fact,  was  one  of 


Phillips's  two  most  pleasant 
surprises.  "Fred  is  a  Renais- 
sance and  Baroque  scholar," 
Phillips  says,  "and  Monos- 
tatos is  a  grotesque,  lecher- 
ous, repulsive  character 
designed  to  upset  the  audi- 
ence. Fred  was  wonderful." 
Phillips's  orchestra  is  so 
big  that  he  had  to  divide  it 
in  two,  each  performing  one- 
half  of  the  program.  That 
decision  drew  critic  Gray's 
suggestion  that 
Phillips  should  have 
skimmed  the  cream 
and  let  only  the  bet- 
ter students  play. 

"I  just  couldn't 
do  that,"  says 
Phillips.  "The  orches- 
tra was  the  engine 
behind  the  whole 
idea.  Further,  I  do 
not  believe  that  many 
other  non-conser- 
vatory orchestras 
could  have  done  as 
well  as  our  students." 

Phillips's  other 
surprise?  It  was  not 
that  most  of  the 
$17,000  was  raised 
from  gifts  and 
oversubscribed 
ticket  sales. 

"No,  it  was  the  moment 
I  walked  into  Sayles  Hall  for 
dress  rehearsal.  I  never 
envisioned  that  what  I  saw 
would  be  as  grand  as  it 
turned  out  to  be,"  he  says. 
"There  were  the  beautiful 
and  colorful  costumes, 
and  the  set,  and  everybody 
ready  to  go.  It  was  thrilling." 
On  his  deathbed,  Mozart 
said,  "I  should  like  to  have 
heard  my  Zauberflote  one 
more  time."  We  did,  and  the 
performance  was  deserving 
of  one  of  Mozart's  greatest 
gifts.  -  Robert  A.  Reichley 
(Bob  Reichley,  executive  vice 
president  for  University  rela- 
tions, is  a  former  editor  of  the 
BAM.) 


10  /  MARCH  1993 


Robert  M.  Rhodes,  the 
editor  of  the  Brown 
Alumni  Month!}/  for  the  past 
twenty-two  years,  ended 
one  of  the  longest  and  most 
celebrated  careers  in  his 
field  when  he  announced 
that  he  would  retire  this 
month. 

"He  was  the  dean  of  the 
Ivy  editors,"  says  Executive 
Vice  President  for  University 
Relations  Robert  A.  Reich- 
ley,  Rhodes's  boss  and 
predecessor.  "Dusty  led  the 
BAM  to  its  prominence  as 
one  of  the  most  emulated  of 
all  alumni  magazines." 

Rhodes,  sixty-seven,  had 
been  on  medical  leave  from 
the  magazine  since  last 
August,  when  he  suffered  a 
stroke. 

Dusty  Rhodes  was  an 
alumni-magazine  editor 
throughout  his  forty-four- 
year  career,  beginning  at  his 
alma  mater,  the  University 
of  Arkansas.  After  graduating 
in  1949,  the  former  student- 
newspaper  editor  was 
named  executive  secretary 
of  the  alumni  association 


and  editor  of  the  Arkansas 
Alumnus.  Corbin  Gwaltney, 
editor  of  Johns  Hopkins  Mag- 
azine in  the  1950s  and  now 
of  The  Chronicle  of  Higher 
Education,  recalls  his  old 
friend  as  "a  quick  study  in 
developing  the  [Arkansas] 
magazine  into  a  national 
force." 

He  left  his  beloved  home 
state  to  work  for  Lehigh 
University,  which  made  him 
manager  of  publications  and 
editor  of  the  Leliigli  Alunnii 
Bulletin  in  1957.  Three  years 
later,  Rhodes  began  a  distin- 
guished decade  as  editor 
of  the  University  of  Pennsyl- 
vania's Pennsylvania  Gazette. 

By  the  1960s,  Rhodes 
and  a  few  other  university 
editors  were  reporting  on 
protests,  strikes,  takeovers, 
and  sit-ins.  Until  then,  most 
alumni  magazines  had  been 
"compendia  of  class  notes 
and  press  releases,"  says 
Gwaltney.  "Dusty  was  one 
of  the  dozen  movers  and 
shakers  who  brought  about 
a  true  revolution  in  alumni 
publishing,  turning  their 


magazines  into  publications 
that  could  compete  with 
the  best  of  the  commercial 
magazines." 

In  1970,  when  then-BAM 
editor  Reichley  was  pro- 
moted to  associate  vice- 
president,  the  Board  of  Edi- 
tors invited  Dusty  Rliodes 
to  be  the  magazine's  fourth 
editor  since  its  founding  in 
1900.  He  came  to  work  at 
Brown  on  February  1,  1971, 
near  the  end  of  perhaps  the 
most  tumultuous  era  in  the 
history  of  higher  education. 

Rhodes  directed  the 
BAM's  coverage  of  the  then- 
New  Curriculum,  various 
protests,  and  the  fiscal  hard 
times  Brown  experienced 
in  the  early  and  mid-1970s. 
He  recalls  the  magazine's 
extensive  reporting  on  a 
1975  student  occupation  of 
University  Hall  as  "one  of 
the  high-water  marks  of  my 
time  as  editor.  It  is  to  Brown's 
credit,"  he  adds,  "that  we 
were  allowed  to  cover  that 
protest  completely.  You 
can't  say  that  of  many  other 
universities.  It's  the  reason 


A  man  for  all  seasons: 
Editor  Rhodes  (left,  at  a  1986 
Associated  Alumni  gathering) 

favors  Coke  for  breakfast, 

Razorbacks  in  the  fall,  and  a 

1930s  Underwood  typewriter 

year  after  year. 


the  BAM  has  more  credibil- 
ity than  most  alumni  maga- 
zines." 

The  editorial  indepen- 
dence of  the  magazine,  in 
fact,  was  an  attractive  part 
of  the  Brown  job,  he  says,  as 
was  the  BAM's  long  history 
of  reader  loyalty. 

"I  had  met  [former 
editor]  Chet  [Worthington 
'23]  early  in  my  years  at 
Arkansas,"  Rhodes  recalls. 
"I  realized  then  that  the 
BAM  was  viewed  by  its 
readers  the  way  I  hoped  any 
magazine  I  ever  edited 
would  be."  After  he  left  Penn, 
he  adds,  "every  time  1  ran 
into  [former  Penn  PresidentI 
Martin  Meyerson,  he  would 
ask  me,  'Dusty,  I  never  did 
understand  why  you  left  us 
for  Brown.'  And  I  told  him 
that  I  left  for  the  best  alumni- 
magazine  editing  job  in 
the  country." 

During  the  twenty-two 
years  of  Rhodes's  editor- 
ship, the  BAM  was  named 
one  of  the  top  ten  alumni 
magazines  in  the  country 
eighteen  times  by  the  Coun- 
cil for  the  Advancement  and 
Support  of  Education 
(case).  In  1973, 1975,  and 
1976,  it  won  the  Robert  Sib- 
ley Award  as  the  best 
alumni  magazine.  In  addi- 
tion, articles  by  staff  and 
freelancers  won  numerous 
awards  in  the  "staff  writing" 
and  "best  articles  of  the  year" 
categories  in  the  annual 
CASE  competitions. 

"If  you  believe  writing 
is  next  to  godliness,  as  I  do," 
says  Bob  Reichley,  "you 
know  that  writing  is  one  of 
the  strengths  of  the  BAM. 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /   11 


Dustv  championed  it 

with  profiles  of  retired 

fashion  he  drank  Coca-Cola 

Southern  Methodist  Univer- 

throughout his  career  at 

Brown  faculty  members 

as  others  quaff  coffee,  from 

sity.  "He  helped  me  to  see 

Brown  and  elsewhere,  and 

written  by  the  late  Jay  Barry 

early  morning  until  supper- 

myself  as  part  of  the  contin- 

he hired  a  succession  of 

'30,  in  iq82.  Finally,  the 

time.  And  to  the  end  of  his 

uum  of  editors  improving 

excellent  writers." 

detaileci  pictorial  history,  A 

career,  he  tapped  on  the 

alumni  magazines  across 

Text  wasn't  his  only 

Tale  of  Two  Centuries,  pub- 

familiar keys  of  an  antique 

the  country." 

strong  suit,  however.  "Dusty 

lished  in  1985,  entailed  a 

Underwood  manual  type- 

Lately Dusty  and  Beth 

is  a  master  of  picti.ire  jour- 

massive editing  job  that 

writer,  eschewing  the 

Rhocies  have  been  cleaning 

nalism,"  notes  Gwaltney. 

Rhodes  undertook  in  con- 

computers that  had  won 

out  his  office,  sorting 

"From  his  earhest  days  he 

junction  with  Barry  and 

over  other  editors  and  his 

through  mementoes  of  the 

demonstrated  an  outstand- 

University Archivist  Martha 

own  staff. 

past  twenty-two  years  and 

ing  appreciation  of  photog- 

Mitchell, the  book's  co- 

Rhodes's easy  drawl  and 

boxing  those  that  will  go 

raphy  as  a  journalistic  and 

authors. 

love  of  good  conversation 

home  with  them  to  Barring- 

literary  medium.  That  is 

During  his  career 

fostered  countless  friend- 

ton, Rhode  Island.  In  one 

something  that  seems  sim- 

Rhodes was  a  leader  in  sev- 

ships and  endeared  him  to 

corner,  what  is  possibly  the 

ple,  but  it  really  isn't." 

eral  national  professional 

several  generations  of  col- 

world's ugliest  typewriter 

In  the  latter  half  of  his 

organizations.  He  chaired 

leagues  and  admirers.  "What 

stand  (a  turquoise-and- 

Brown  tenure.  Dusty 

the  American  Alumni  Coun- 

a joy  it  was  to  work  with 

brown  relic  of  the  early 

Rhodes  came  to  wear  a  vari- 

cil in  1971-72  and  helped  to 

him,"  muses  Gwaltney. 

1960s)  holds  the  editor's  old 

ety  of  hats  at  the  magazine. 

oversee  its  subsequent 

"Not  just  because  Dusty 

black  Underwood.  Officially 

Astronomical  increases  in 

merger  with  the  American 

was  a  pro,  but  because  he  is 

it  is  still  on  Brown's  equip- 

publication costs  in  the  last 

College  Public  Relations 

such  a  delight  as  a  human 

ment  inventory  rolls,  but  it 

two  clecades,  coupled  with 

Association  to  form  case. 

being." 

is  clearly  a  machine  whose 

pressure  to  trim  the  Univer- 

He was  one  of  twelve  alumni 

To  younger  editors  he 

time  has  passed  -  except 

sity's  expenditures,  made 

editors  who  founded  Edito- 

was a  generous  mentor.  "He 

in  the  eyes  of  one  retiring 

it  necessary  for  the  editor  to 

rial  Projects  for  Education 

gave  me  a  great  deal  of 

editor. 

became  both  fund-raiser 

(epe),  which  produced  the 

encouragement  when  I  was 

"Maybe,"  says  Dusty 

and  advertising  manager.  In 

newsletter  that  became 

starting  at  smu,"  says  Patri- 

Rhodes, "no  one  at  the  Uni- 

1975 the  BAM  began  soHcit- 

today's  Chronicle  of  Higher 

cia  LaSalle,  assistant  vice 

versity  will  cry  if  I  take  the 

ing  "voluntary  subscrip- 

Education and  now  also  pub- 

president for  public  affairs 

Underwood  home  with 

tions"  -  donations  from  its 

lishes  Education  Week  and 

and  university  editor  at 

me."  -A.D. 

readers  (all  of  whom  have 

Teacher  magazine.  "As  a 

received  and  will  continue 

member  of  epe,"  says  Corbin 

to  receive  the  magazine  free 

Gwaltney,  "Dusty  and  his 

of  charge). 

"We  asked  for  $3," 

colleagues  have  had  a  great 
deal  of  national  influence." 

Corporation  sets 

Rhodes  recalls  of  that  first 

He  remains  on  epe's  board 

1993-94 

fund-raising  effort,  "and  we 

of  trustees. 

got  a  total  of  $14,000.  That 

For  all  his  honors  and 

tuition  and  fees 

amount  might  seem  laugh- 

achievements, Rhodes 

^v  ^v^  ^m  ^F  ^"  ^i^  ^*  ^»       ^^^^*  i^B  ^t^wt       ^m  ^t^   ^t^  ^t^ 

able  now,  but  keep  in  mind 

remained  throughout  his 

A 

that  in  1975,  it  paid  for  an 

career  an  unassuming. 

/  \    t  its  winter  meeting  in  February,  the  Brown 

entire  issue."  The  annual 

genial  man.  The  guiding 

X     JLCorporation  set  the  cost  for  an  undergradu- 

voluntary subscription  cam- 

spirit behind  innovative 

ate  year  at  Brown  -  tuition,  room,  board,  and  fees  - 

paign  has  been  a  much- 

alumni  magazines  was  per- 

for next  year  at  $24,618,  an  increase  of  5.42  percent 

copied  success  ever  since. 

sonally  steady  and  pre- 

over the  1992-93  bill  of  $23,353. 

and  this  year  it  is  projected 

dictable.  His  loyalties  never 

The  percentage  increase  is  smaller  than  any  in  the 

to  bring  in  more  than 

wavered.  He  was  true  to  the 

past  twenty-five  years.  The  actual  dollar  increase  - 

$200,000. 

gridiron  Razorbacks  and 

$1,265  ~  is  slightly  higher  than  the  average  for  the 

In  addition  to  his  editorial 

baseball's  San  Francisco 

past  ten  years. 

and  financial  achievements. 

Giants  ("Even  in  their  dark 

Tuition  for  1993-94  will  be  $18,512,  room  $3,364, 

Rhodes  is  particularly 

days,"  notes  Bob  Reichley, 

board  $2,248,  and  fees  $494. 

proud  of  the  three  books 

"when  they  were  nothing. 

Under  policy  set  by  President  Vartan  Gregorian 

published  by  the  magazine 

Dusty  always  had  a  Giants 

three  years  ago,  the  base  budget  for  undergraduate 

during  his  tenure  -  each  one 

cap  hanging  in  his  office."). 

scholarships  rises  in  direct  proportion  to  increases  in 

edited  by  him.  The  series 

A  framed  photograph  of  his 

tuition  and  fees.  Next  year  that  budget  is  expected 

began  in  1980  with  Broum: 

musical  idol.  Count  Basie, 

to  be  approximately  $20.5  million,  including  $170,000 

A  Pictorial  Album,  featuring 

adorned  the  editor's  office 

allocated  from  funds  raised  by  the  Campaign  for  the 

the  photos  of  Uosis  Juod- 

alongside  family  pictures  of 

Rising  Generation.  -  K.F. 

valkis.  The  next  volume  was 

wife  Beth  and  daughter 

Gentlemen  Under  the  Elms, 

Meredith.  In  true  Southern 

12  /  MARCH  1993 


It  was  a  Friday  afternoon 
and  the  interview  was 
already  an  hour  late  in  start- 
ing. It  would  be  delayed 
again.  "I  have  to  show  this 
letter  to  the  Provost  before 
making  it  public  Monday 
morning,"  said  Fernando  de 
Necochea,  the  University's 
new  director  of  financial 
aid.  "It's  about  work-study; 
1  want  the  letter  to  sound 
friendlier  and  warmer." 

Friendlier?  Warmer? 
This  sounds  more  like  a 
politician  than  an  adminis- 
trator. And  that  is  one  of  the 
reasons  that  out  of  103  appli- 
cants, a  Brown  search  com- 
mittee selected  de  Necochea 
for  the  critical  position  of 
financial  aid  director,  which 
he  assumed  on  December  1. 
It  is  a  job  that  requires  navi- 
gating political  minefields, 
and  it  can  be  a  thankless 
balancing  act. 

According  to  James 
Wyche,  associate  provost 
and  chair  of  the  search  com- 
mittee, de  Necochea  has 
the  skills  "to  commvmicate 
with  all  elements  of  the  Uni- 
versity. The  trustees  and 
alumni  need  information 
if  they  are  to  commit  funds, 
the  faculty  need  to  under- 
stand the  process,  and  the 
students  need  to  know  it  is 
an  equitable  process.  They 
especially  need  to  know  that 
he  will  be  their  advocate  in 
that  office." 

De  Necochea  reports 
to  Eric  Widmer,  dean  of 
admission  and  financial  aid. 
"He  brings  to  us  an  enor- 
mous amount  of  experience 
in  higher  education,"  says 
Widmer,  "as  well  as  a 
strong  interest  in  participat- 
ing in  the  national  debate 
over  financial  aid  for  college 
students." 

De  Necochea's  extensive 
resume,  although  packed 
with  accomplishments 
in  higher  education,  commu- 
nity service,  and  interna- 
tional exchange,  lacks  in- 


Fernando  de  Necochea: 
A  communicator  and  bridge- 
builder  in  the  financial-aid 
minefield 


Brown's  new  tmanciat-aid  director  wants  to 

respond  to  students'  and  parents'  needs. 
"Sending  a  child  to  Brown, "  he  notes,  "is  an 
investment  second  only  to  buying  a  home. " 


depth  experience  in  finan- 
cial aid  administration. 
Brickson  Diamond  '93,  one 
of  two  students  on  the  com- 
mittee, says  that  he  and  his 
colleagues  were  emphatic 
about  "not  needing  a  techni- 
cian. We  [looked  for]  some- 
one who  is  good  at  manag- 
ing people,  who  is  concerned 
about  need-blind  admis- 
sions, and  who  is  willing  to 
ask  tough  questions  to  make 
it  happen." 

De  Necochea  stood  out, 
says  Diamond,  because  of 
his  "ability  to  communicate 
(with)  students.  He  has  a 
genuine  concern  for  stu- 
dents that  dissipates  conflict 
and  anguish.  He  listens  and 
encourages  you  to  talk." 

De  Necochea  himself 
speaks  candidly  about  his 
belief  in  need-blind  admis- 
sion. He  believes  financial 
considerations  "poison" 
admissions.  "An  applicant 
should  not  be  privileged  or 


disadvantaged  by  his  or 
her  ability  to  pay,"  the  new 
director  says.  "The  real 
question  is,  how  can  we  pay 
for  a  need-blind  process? 
If  we  increase  the  resources 
and  stretch  the  ones  we  have, 
if  we  are  effective  managers, 
if  we  are  imaginative  and 
take  initiative,  then  we  can 
make  financial  aid  as  little 
an  intrusion  as  possible 
in  the  admissions  process." 

An  eighth-generation 
Mexican-American,  de  Neco- 
chea was  born  and  raised  in 
the  border  town  of  Calexico, 
California,  the  oldest  of 
seven  children  and  the  son 
of  an  accountant.  "I  grew  up 
in  my  father's  office,"  he 
recalls,  "opening  packages, 
sorting  receipts,  posting 
expenses,  doing  balance 
sheets."  Academic  scholar- 
ships enabled  him  to  attend 
Dartmouth,  where  he  was 
the  only  Mexican-American 
student  on  campus.  He 


studied  government  and 
Latin-American  studies 
there  and  at  universities  in 
Spain  and  Peru,  graduating 
from  Dartmouth  in  1962.  De 
Necochea  went  on  to  UCLA 
for  graduate  work  in  com- 
parative government. 

For  the  past  two  decades 
he  has  been  making  his 
mark  in  higher  education, 
first  at  the  University  of  Cal- 
ifornia at  Santa  Barbara 
(1968-1980),  where  he  was 
the  first  Hispanic  adminis- 
trator; then  at  Stanford 
(1980-1991).  Most  recently 
he  served  as  executive 
director  of  the  U.S.-Mexico 
Border  Progress  Founda- 
tion, a  binational  organiza- 
tion with  offices  in  both 
countries;  and  as  codirector 
of  the  U.S.-Mexico  Project 
on  Higher  Education,  Eco- 
nomic Development  and 
Institutional  Change. 

At  Stanford,  where  de 
Necochea  served  as  assis- 
tant provost  and  advisor  to 
the  president,  he  worked  to 
improve  access  for  under- 
represented  groups,  institu- 
tionalize racial  and  cultural 
diversity,  and  increase  inter- 
national programs.  He 
managed  and  served  on  the 
provost's  task  force  of  fac- 
ulty and  students  that  pro- 
posed fundamental  -  and 
controversial  -  changes 
in  the  Western  culture  pro- 
gram, adding  the  study  of 
non-European  cultures  that 
are  components  of  Ameri- 
can society.  The  committee's 
landmark  proposal  for  a 
year-long  program  called 
"Cultures,  Ideas,  and  Values" 
sparked  national  debate  over 
multiculturalism  and  was 
overwhelmingly  adopted  by 
the  faculty  senate  as  a 
requirement  for  all  Stanford 
freshmen. 

De  Necochea  comes  to 
Brown  with  a  plan.  "I  have 
set  out  four  goals  which 
will  drive  me  in  my  role  as 
director  of  the  office,"  he 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /  13 


savs.  His  first  priority  is  to 
improve  service  to  students, 
parents,  and  families.  The 
telephone  svsteni  is  being 
revamped  and  streamlined. 
Letters  and  forms  will  be 
simplified,  making  them 
more  readable.  "I'm  looking 
for  better  technology,"  he 
says,  "but  I  still  want  to 
emphasize  being  helpful 
and  accessible." 

Second,  de  Necochea  is 
"retooling"  his  staff  to 
function  as  a  team,  rather 
than  as  rigidly-defined  spe- 
cialists. "For  the  student, 
who  is  our  client,  the  spe- 


cialist model  is  frustrating," 
he  explains.  "Needs  analysis 
is  something  every  staff 
member  can  and  should 
learn.  There  still  will  be  some 
specialization,  but  everyone 
will  be  talking  to  students." 

His  third  goal  is  to  make 
the  best  use  of  financial-aid 
resources.  He  is  especially 
sensitive  about  scholarship 
funds  given  by  Brown 
alumni.  "Those  awards  are 
a  very  valuable  resource," 
de  Necochea  says,  "and 
they  must  be  given  out  with 
care  and  consistency." 

Fourth,  de  Necochea  will 


be  actively  involved  in  fund- 
raising  for  financial  aid.  He 
already  has  met  with  alumni 
in  Miami  and  is  scheduled 
to  meet  with  the  Brown  Club 
of  San  Francisco  as  part  of 
the  capital  campaign.  "As 
you  cross  the  University 
campus,"  he  points  out,  "one 
out  of  every  three  students 
you  see  is  the  direct  benefi- 
ciary of  [alumni]  efforts  to 
provide  higher  education  to 
young  men  and  women  of 
outstanding  talent. 

"Sending  a  son  or 
daughter  to  Brown,"  says  de 
Necochea,  "represents  an 


investment  second  only  to 
buying  a  home.  Even  though 
1  will  be  working  on  policy 
and  fiscal  issues  in  a  rapidly 
changing  financial-aid  envi- 
ronment, the  most  satisfying 
part  of  this  job  for  me  is  the 
front-line  aspect  -  helping 
students  and  parents  to 
assess  their  financial  needs, 
and  enabling  people's  sons 
and  daughters  to  study  at  a 
world-class  institution." 
-  Liiidn  Peters  Mnhdesinn  '82 
(Linda  Mahdesian  ;s  a  free- 
lance writer  in  Providence.) 


Goal -minded 

Last  year,  as  part  of  the 
national  Adopt- a-School 
Program,  Brown  varsity  atli- 
letes  became  big  sisters  and 
brothers  to  the  children  at 
Fox  Point  Elementary  School 
in  Providence.  As  part  of 
their  continuing  commit- 
ment, the  athletes  pay 
weekly  visits  for  one-on-one 
tutoring  sessions  in  reading, 
arithmetic,  computers, 
and  English,  as  well  as  for 
special  events.  One  day  in 
January,  Fox  Point  student 
Wendy  Parra  (at  left)  and  her 
fellow  third-graders  in  Mary 
Brennan  's  class  received 
not  only  tutoring  from  the 
women's  ice  hockey  team, 
but  also  the  chance  to  try  on 
a  Pandas  jersey  for  size. 


14  /  MARCH  1993 


The  Latest 

Viezus,  reviews,  and  news  you  can  use  from  Broivn's  faculty 
compiled  by  Kimberly  French 


A  gene 
that  fights  cancer 

To  date,  most  cancer  research  has 
focused  on  kilhng  cells  that  contain 
damaged  DNA.  The  damaged  cells 
divide,  sometimes  rapidly,  and  form 
tumors.  The  strategy  of  radiation 
or  chemotherapy  is  to  kill  those  cells 
before  they  can  spread. 

Luba  L.  Dumenco,  assistant  profes- 
sor of  pathology,  recently  worked  on 
a  study  with  colleagues  from  Case 
Western  Reserve  University  School  of 
Medicine  that  took  a  completely  new 
approach.  In  the  January  8  issue  of 
Science,  the  researchers  reported  on 
their  work  on  a  gene  that  repairs  DNA 
damage  before  it  causes  cancer. 

The  researchers  developed  some 
mice  with  a  gene  that  contains  an 
enzyme  that  naturally  repairs  DNA. 
Then  the  mice  were  given  a  chemical 
known  to  cause  lymphoma.  Mice 
with  the  gene  were  protected,  while 
those  without  the  gene  contracted 
cancer. 

It  might  be  possible  that  in  the 
future,  Dumenco  theorizes,  gene-trans- 
fer therapy  could  be  used  to  prevent 
cancer  in  humans. 


The  man  with  the  plan 

Late  last  year  Michael  Rich,  assistant 
professor  of  political  science  and  pub- 
lic policy,  was  tapped  for  a  big  new 
job  -  solving  Providence's  urban  woes. 
As  executive  director  of  Mayor  Vincent 
A.  Cianci  Jr.'s  newly  organized  Provi- 
dence Plan,  Rich  will  be  concentrating 
on  six  areas:  housing,  education,  crime, 
jobs,  downtown  revitalization,  and 
prevention  of  middle-class  flight  from 
the  city.  Rich  is  on  leave  from  Brown 
this  semester,  and  his  teaching  contract 
expires  in  June. 

The  first  priority  will  be  housing. 
"While  housing  is  unaffordable  for 
renters  and  homeowners,  there  are  700 
abandoned  properties  in  the  city," 
Rich  says. "We've  got  to  stop  that  Wight 


from  spreading,  and  recapture  and 
reclaim  the  neighborhoods."  Matthew 
Powell,  head  of  the  Providence  Plan's 
housing  program,  was  expected  to 
announce  thirteen  programs  to  address 
housing  problems  in  March.  One, 
called  Paint  the  Town,  gives  owners 
financial  assistance  to  paint  their  homes. 

With  a  staff  of  two  and  a  modest 
budget  -  $200,000  this  year,  $500,000 
next  -  Rich  sees  as  his  first  job  creating 
a  blueprint  to  coordinate  the  efforts 
of  the  public  and  private  sectors  and 
nonprofits,  all  of  whose  interests 
he  in  improving  the  city.  He  plans  to 
announce  soon  how  others  can  get 
involved.  He  projects  that  the  plan  will 
be  in  place  by  October. 


Moveable  math 

Interactive  textbooks  -  textbooks  on 
disk  that  allow  students  to  work  with 
examples,  diagrams,  and  problems 
on  screen,  moving  or  changing  ele- 
ments as  they  wish  -  are  an  idea  that 
has  been  talked  about  for  years. 

Thomas  Banchoff,  professor  of 
mathematics,  is  the  first  to  develop 
such  a  book  at  the  freshman  level  of 
calculus.  Most  interactive  math  text- 
books are  available  only  at  higher 
levels,  he  says. 

When  students  feel  they  have  read 
enough  text  and  are  ready  for  a  dia- 
gram or  problem,  they  can  click  on  an 
adjacent  box.  Several  windows 
appear,  one  with  an  equation 
they  can  alter,  the  others 
showing  different 
views  of  the  fig- 
ure under 
study.  Stu- 
dents use 
networked 
Sun  work- 
stations in 
a  weekly 
lab  at  the 
Center  for 
Information 
Technology. 


They  can  ask  questions  on  screen 
about  the  problems  as  they  go  along,  to 
be  answered  by  teaching  assistants. 

"We're  further  along  with  interac- 
tive textbooks  largely  because  we've 
had  so  manv  students  working  on 
them  since  the  beginning  and  a  large 
number  of  undergraduates  working 
collaboratively  with  professors  in 
mathematics,"  Banchoff  says.  "There 
are  tremendous  educational  possibili- 
ties, and  we're  poised  to  make  great 
advances." 

Next  fall  Wellesley  College  will  use 
the  textbook,  and  in  the  spring  Holy 
Cross  will  use  it.  Electronic  Book  Tech- 
nologies of  Providence  is  publishing 
the  disk  in  its  developmental  stage, 
and  Banchoff  is  hopeful  that  eventually 
it  will  be  used  in  universities  across 
the  country. 

The  chambered  nautilus  (below),  which 
grows  as  the  snail  grows  without 
changing  in  shape,  is  an  example  of  a 
diagram  in  Thomas  Banchoff 's  interac- 
tive calculus  textbook.  Illustration  by 
graduate  student  Davide  Cervone. 


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An  unusual  confcrcucc  takes  a  philosopjliical  approach 

to  sexuality,  marriage,  por)iographi/,  and  more 

by  Eric  Watts  '93 


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^^ki'xual  orientation,  gender,  and  the 
L,   yinnVtlv  were  the  subjects  addressed 
at  a  conference,  "Laws  and  Nature," 
held  on  the  first  weekend  in  February 
at  Brown.  Conceived  and  coordinated 
bv  Assistant  Professor  of  Philosophy 
David  Estlund,  the  event  featured  a 
varied  list  of  speakers:  Stanford  Uni- 
versity's Susan  Moller  Okin,  author  of 
Justice,  Gender,  and  the  Family;  Brown's 
Martha  Nussbaum,  University  Profes- 
sor of  philosophy,  classics,  and 
comparative  literature;  University  of 
Chicago  Professor  of  Jurisprudence 
Cass  R.  Sunstein;  U.S.  Court  of  Appeals 
Judge  Richard  A.  Posner;  Harvard  Pro- 
fessor of  Government  Stephen  Macedo; 
and  University  of  Michigan  Professor 
of  Law  Catharine  MacKinnon. 

Students  were  well-represented 
among  the  several  hundred  who 
attended  the  two-day  event.  For  those 
of  us  who  are  philosophy  concentrators, 
it  was  a  chance  to  explore  topics  rarely 
examined  in  everyday  course  work. 

Okin  and  Nussbaum  opened  the 
conference  by  positing  sexuality  as  a 
socially-constructed  concept  -  not 
rooted  in  biology  or  nature,  but  rather 
dependent  upon  cultural  interpretation. 
Nussbaum  claimed  that  recent  bio- 
logical research  has  bolstered  this  view 
by  "stressing  the  extent  to  which 
human  . . .  sexuality  is  plastic,  not  sub- 
ject to  rigid  genetic  or  hormonal  pat- 
terning, but  determined  by  the  learning 
and  symbolic  areas  of  the  brain." 

Okin  cited  historian  Thomas  Laquer 
to  support  her  argument  that  "the 
emphasis  on  sexual  difference  is  a  rela- 
tively recent  phenomenon. . . .  Until  the 
latter  eighteenth  century,  women's  and 
men's  genitalia,  internal  reproductive 
organs,  and  sexuality  in  general  were 
not  seen  as  so  different  as  they  have 
come  to  be  constructed  over  the  last  two 
centuries."  Both  women  cited  ancient 
Greece  as  a  culture  that  tolerated  and 
even  celebrated  homosexuality. 

Their  argument  surprised  me  on 
two  counts.  Biological  evidence  for  the 


constructionist  approach  is  ambiguous, 
at  best.  And  while  I  generally  agree 
with  constructionists  such  as  Okin  and 
Nussbaum,  they  rely  heavily  on  ancient 
Greece  to  validate  their  views.  Further- 
more, whether  the  Greeks  were  gener- 
ally tolerant  of  homosexuality  is  highly 
disputable,  as  academics  such  as 
Posner  have  pointed  out. 

Judge  Posner  spoke  on  Saturday 
morning;  his  topic  was  "The  Economic 
Approach  to  Homosexuality."  He  gave 
economic  arguments  for  repealing 
sodomy  laws  and  retaining  (or  not  re- 
taining) the  military  ban  against  homo- 
sexuals, but  avoided  concepts  such 
as  justice  and  antidiscrimination. 

Thankfully,  Cass  Sunstein  offered  a 
principled  strategy  to  end  discrimina- 
tion on  the  basis  of  sexual  orientation. 
The  logic  of  Sunstein's  Rawlsian  "sex- 
ual anticaste  principle"  is  that  "with- 
out very  good  reasons,  social  and  legal 
structures  ought  not  to  turn  differences 
that  are  irrelevent  from  the  moral  point 
of  view  into  social  disadvantages.  A 
difference  is  morally  irrelevant  if  it  has 
no  relationship  to  individual  entitlement 
or  dessert.  Sex  is  certainly  a  morally 
irrelevant  characteristic  in  this  sense." 

Sex  was  morally  relevant  to 
Stephen  Macedo,  we  soon  learned, 
although  in  a  different  sense.  He  decried 
the  excesses  of  the  sexual  revolution, 
claiming  it  had  led  to  a  "sex-riddled" 
modernity  characterized  by  "rampant 
promiscuity."  To  offset  this  trend,  he 
advocated  the  promotion  of  stable, 
loving  relationships,  with  the  ultimate 
goal  of  revitalizing  marriage  and 
the  family. 

Whether  or  not  one  agreed  with 
Macedo's  take  on  modernity,  I  thought, 
the  promotion  of  love  can't  be  a  bad 
thing.  Or  can  it?  Female  respondents  to 
his  talk  rejected  Macedo's  emphasis  on 
marriage,  which,  in  their  view,  was 
"not  good  for  women"  and  "histori- 
cally, the  cradle  of  gender  injustice." 
The  moderator  went  so  far  as  to  advo- 
cate the  abolition  of  the  institution. 


I  had  thought  it  was  obvious  that 
Macedo  was  encouraging  good  mar- 
riages. 

For  feminist  legal  scholar  MacKin- 
non, the  final  speaker,  the  supposed 
tension  between  free  speech  and  the 
censorship  of  pornography  was  appar- 
ently no  tension  at  all.  "The  social  data, 
lab  data,  interviews,  testimony  from 
real  women  that  counts,  overwhelm- 
ingly supports  the  conclusion  that 
exposure  to  porn  .  .  .  makes  women's 
lives  more  dangerous  and  unequal," 
she  said.  Pornography  causes  harm; 
therefore  it  should  be  banned  -  this 
seemed  to  be  MacKinnon's  conclusion. 

Commentator  Joshua  Cohen  of  MIT 
considered  MacKinnon's  view  too  sim- 
plistic. There  should  be  a  way,  he  said, 
"to  attack  inequality  and  subordination 
that  respects  the  views  of  those  who 
find  their  pleasures  in  pornography." 

True  free-speech  absolutists  seemed 
scarce,  although  one  young  woman 
received  mild  applause  when  she  re- 
marked that  the  lesbian /gay  commu- 
nity had  the  most  to  lose  from  suspen- 
sions of  civil  liberties. 

MacKinnon,  however,  stood  her 
ground  on  pornography.  She  also  was 
unrelenting  in  her  criticism  of  Posner's 
recent  book.  Sex  and  Reason.  MacKin- 
non criticized  Posner's  essentialist 
views  of  gender  and  proclaimed  him 
ignorant  of  social-science  data  that 
links  pornography  and  sex  crimes.  She 
also  attacked  his  economic  criteria  for 
protecting  pornography  -  briefly,  that 
porn  should  be  protected  because  what 
the  artist  (the  pornographer)  does  is 
valuable  and  people  will  pay  for  it.  In 
that  case,  MacKinnon  said,  why  not 
justify  slavery? 

To  my  surprise,  Posner  did  not 
respond  to  MacKinnon's  critique.  After 
two  days  of  exchange  and  debate, 
the  Laws  and  Nature  conference  ended 
with  an  uncomfortable  silence. 

Eric  Watts  is  a  first-semester  senior  from 
Springfield,  Massachusetts.  -  Editor 


16  /  MARCH  1993 


Gay  and  lesbian  armed-services  debate 
stirs  the  campus 


I     he  national  debate 
JL    over  whether  gays 
and  lesbians  should  be  per- 
mitted to  serve  in  the  mili- 
tary has  touched  the  Brown 
community  in  several  ways. 

In  January,  Brown  Presi- 
dent Vartan  Gregorian 
wrote  to  President  Clinton 
supporting  an  executive 
order  to  ban  discrimination 
in  the  armed  services  based 
on  sexual  orientation. 

"ITlhere  is  no  valid  rea- 
son for  maintaining  any  pol- 
icy of  discrimination,"  Gre- 
gorian wrote.  "It  is  illogical 
and  wasteful  of  our  coun- 
try's human  potential  to  con- 
tinue a  policy  of  exclusion 
which  deprives  the  United 
States  of  the  abilities  of 
some  of  our  best  and  bright- 
est women  and  men." 

In  February,  members  of 
Radical  University  Queers 
United  and  Strong  (RUQUS) 


staged  a  rally  on  the  Green 
to  protest  Air  Force  recruit- 
ment on  campus.  A  similar 
protest  took  place  last  fall 
when  the  Navy  came  to 
recruit.  In  that  protest  sev- 
eral gay  and  lesbian  students 
signed  up  for  interviews 
in  order  to  challenge  the  ban 
on  homosexuals. 

At  the  February  rally, 
RUQUS  member  Stephanie 
Pope  '95  argued  that  al- 
though the  University's  anti- 
discrimination clause  was 
written  in  1989,  little  has  been 
done  since  then  to  enforce 
employment  antidiscrim- 
ination, provide  benefits  for 
same-sex  domestic  partners 
of  employees,  or  prevent 
restrictive  institutions  such 
as  the  military  from  recruit- 
ing on  campus.  "If  it's  a 
human-rights  commitment, 
this  University  needs  to  take 
a  stand,"  she  said. 


The  previous  weekend 
Brown  Corporation  members 
had  discussed  the  issue  at 
their  February  meeting  and 
decided  to  maintain  the  cur- 
rent policy  of  permitting  the 
military  to  recruit  on  cam- 
pus so  long  as  it  does  not 
violate  federal  law.  In  a  let- 
ter responding  to  concerns 
raised  by  Associate  Profes- 
sor of  English  David  Savran, 
acting  head  of  the  Commit- 
tee on  Lesbian,  Gay,  and 
Bisexual  Concerns,  Presi- 
dent Gregorian  explained 
the  Corporation's  position, 
saying  that  members  are 
hopeful  that  President  Clin- 
ton will  change  the  current 
policy  within  the  next  six 
months.  He  also  stated  that 
there  have  been  no  formal 
complaints  of  discrimina- 
tion on  the  basis  of  sexual 
orientation  in  admission  or 
employment  at  Brown. 


In  addition,  Gregorian 
announced  that  henceforth 
the  University  will  require 
all  recruiting  companies  and 
organizations  to  provide  the 
Career  Planning  Services 
office  with  a  complete  state- 
ment of  their  policies  and 
practices  regarding  discrim- 
ination. Previously,  compa- 
nies were  required  to  state 
on  job  description  forms 
that  they  do  not  discrimi- 
nate based  on  federal  laws. 
But,  as  in  the  case  of  the  mil- 
itary, federal  laws  are  not  as 
stringent  as  some  state, 
local,  and  individual  com- 
pany antidiscrimination 
policies.  Having  more  com- 
plete statements  available 
for  viewing,  Gregorian  said, 
will  give  students  a  chance 
to  understand  the  policies 
under  which  they  might  be 
working  if  they  accept  a  job 
with  a  company.  -  K.F. 


U.S.  must  help  eastern 
Caribbean  countries,  says 
Dominica  prime  minister 


The  destinies  of  the 
United  States  and  its 
neighbors  in  the  Caribbean 
are  inextricably  linked  both 
economically  and  politically, 
said  M.  Eugenia  Charles, 
prime  minister  of  the  tiny 
island  nation  of  Dominica,  in 
an  Ogden  Lecture  delivered 
at  Brown  on  February  10. 
She  urged  the  U.S.  not  to 
apply  the  same  policies  to 
Caribbean  nations  as  it  does 
to  Latin  America,  and  em- 
phasized the  enormous  dif- 
ferences between  the  two 
regions.  A  potential  takeover 
of  the  European  banana 
market  by  Latin  American 
countries  is  of  particular 
concern,  Charles  said;  banana 
sales  to  Europe  are  the  back- 
bone of  Dominica's  economy. 

A  lawyer  who  has  been 
compared  to  other  influen- 


tial women  leaders  such  as 
Golda  Meir  and  Margaret 
Thatcher,  Charles  has  helped 
to  bring  political  stability  to 
Dominica  since  taking  office 
in  1980.  She  called  for  the 
Clinton  administration  to 
restore  democracy  to  Haiti, 
using  military  means  if  nec- 
essary to  prevent  the  up- 
heaval and  oppression  in 
that  country  from  spreading 
to  nearby  nations  "like  a 
contagion."  Before  coming 
to  Providence,  Charles  met 
with  President  Clinton  and 
Vice  President  Gore  to 
discuss  the  Haitian  issue. 

The  Ogden  Lecture 
series,  a  memorial  to  Stephen 
A.  Ogden,  Jr.  '65,  has  brought 
many  heads  of  state,  diplo- 
mats, and  scholars  to  speak 
at  Brown  on  international 
affairs.  -  A.D. 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /  17 


Pink  and  green  neon 
glows  from  the  white- 
blinded  window  in  the 
basement  of  Faunce  House. 
The  revolving  red  and  white 
pole  says  "hair  stylist,"  and 
the  word  "barber"  has  been 
removed  from  the  door.  In- 
side, there  are  black  leather 
chairs  and  black-and-white- 
tiled  walls. 

Michael  Anthony,  the 
new  occupant  of  the  former 
barbershop,  is  every  bit  the 
measure  of  a  modern  unisex 
hair  salon  -  a  far  cry  from 
the  shears-and-razor  opera- 
tion presided  over  by  the 
late  Larry  Picerno,  who  was 
a  Faunce  House  institution 
for  sixty  years  until  his 
death  in  1992. 

Michael  Cardillo,  owner 
of  the  updated  salon,  is  no 
stranger  to  the  East  Side 
of  Providence.  In  the  1960s 
he  cut  hair  on  Wickenden 
Street.  "Back  then,"  he  says, 
"a  lot  of  guys  had  long  hair 
down  to  their  shoulders, 
and  women  had  short  cuts, 
like  Mia  Farrow  when  she 
was  married  to  Frank  Sina- 
tra." Before  that,  Cardillo 
recalls,  real  men  went  to  bar- 
bershops for  haircuts,  had 


At  the  sign  of  the  barber 

pole,  "Michael  Anthony" 

styles  a  new  image  for 

Faunce  House  haircutting 


their  necks  sprinkled  with 
talc,  and  read  Argosy  and 
the  Policemen's  Gazette.  "Bar- 
bers told  men  not  to  wash 
their  hair  every  day,"  he  says. 
"They  said  it  was  unhealthy. 
Men  used  hair  tonic;  boys 
used  butch  wax.  No  one  was 
into  wash,  cut,  and  style." 

Cardillo,  forty-four,  has 
been  cutting  hair  all  his  adult 
life,  and  he  has  changed 
with  the  times.  He  has  taken 
courses  in  Boston  from  the 
likes  of  Vidal  Sassoon;  he 
anticipated  tonsorial  change 
and  left  Wickenden  Street. 
There  are  seven  salons 
there  now,"  he  says,  giving 
credence  to  the  theory  that 
Providence  may  have  more 
hair  salons  per  capita  than 
any  city  in  the  country. 

Eventually  Cardillo 
opened  his  own  salon, 
Headhunters,  in  East  Provi- 
dence, and  also  cut  hair  in 
the  student  union  at  the 
University  of  Rhode  Island 


in  Kingston.  When  he  heard 
about  an  opportunity  to  set 
up  shop  at  Brown,  he 
jumped.  "I  like  the  college- 
campus  atmosphere,"  he 
said.  "And  I  wanted  to  get 
back  to  Providence." 

Cardillo  has  good  days 
and  days  when  he  wonders 
what  he's  gotten  himself 
into.  On  the  Thayer  Street 
shopping  strip  there  are  no 
fewer  than  five  hair  salons. 
Since  February  Michael 
Anthony  has  been  compet- 
ing with  them  while  trying 
to  shake  off  the  shave-and- 
a-haircut  image  of  its  pre- 
decessor. 

Image,  we  are  told,  is 
everything.  After  he  was 
hired  at  Brown,  Cardillo 
sank  a  lot  of  his  own  money 
into  the  shop,  totally 
redesigning  the  space.  He 
sells  several  lines  of  upscale 
salon  hair-care  products, 
including  Paul  Mitchell, 
Nexus,  and  Redken.  The 


Many  of  his  faithful  clients, 

such  as  Dorothy  Hamilton 

(above,  in  chair),  have 

followed  Michael  Cardillo  to 

the  spiffed-up  hair  salon  in 

the  former  Faunce  House 

barbershop. 


cost  of  a  haircut,  too,  has 
gone  a  bit  upscale  -  from 
seven  dollars  in  Larry  Picer- 
no's  last  years  to  a  range  of 
ten  to  eighteen  dollars  for 
a  Cardillo  cut. 

Business  is  picking  up, 
says  the  styHst,  who  brought 
some  of  his  clientele  with 
him  from  Headhunters.  In 
the  near  future  he  plans 
to  add  nail  care,  perms,  and 
coloring,  as  well  as  seminars 
on  hair  care.  So  far,  most  of 
his  campus  clients  are  men; 
the  majority  of  his  women 
customers  buy  products, 
not  cuts. 

"It's  funny,"  Cardillo 
muses.  "I  used  to  come  in 
here  and  ask  Larry  if  he 
wanted  someone  to  cut  hair 
with  him,  but  he  didn't 
want  to  expand  his  busi- 
ness." Now  it  is  Cardillo's 
business,  and  expansion  is 
the  order  of  the  day.  -  J.R. 


18  /  MARCH  1993 


PEOPLE 


Dr.  Paul  Calabresi,  chairman  of  Brown's  department  of 
medicine,  has  been  named  a  fellow  of  the  American  Association 
for  the  Advancement  of  Science.  He  was  recognized  for  his  lead- 
ership in  clinical  investigation.  Calabresi  has  been  a  Brown  fac- 
ulty member  since  1968  and  chairman  since  1974.  He  is  also 
chairman  of  the  National  Cancer  Institute's  National  Cancer 
Advisory  Board,  president  of  the  Rliode  Island  division  of  the 
American  Cancer  Society,  and  associate  editor  of  Cancer. 

Professor  of  English  Michael  Harper  was  one  of  twenty-four 
writers  recognized  at  the  twelfth  annual  Literary  Lions  dinner  at 
the  New  York  Public  Library.  The  dinner  recognizes  men  and 
women  "whose  words  and  ideas  are  the  lifeblood  of  a  library." 
His  books  of  poetry  include  Images  of  Kin;  Nightmare  Begins 
Responsibility;  History  Is  Your  Ozvn  Heartbeat;  Dear  John,  Dear  Col- 
trane;  and  most  recently  Healing  Song  for  the  Inner  Ear. 

David  Kertzer  '69,  the  Paul  Dupee  Jr.  University  Professor  of 
Social  Science  and  professor  of  anthropology  and  history,  was 
instated  in  December  as  president-elect  of  the  Society  for  the 
Anthropology  of  Europe  (SAE)  at  its  annual  meeting  in  San  Fran- 
cisco. He  will  serve  two  years  as  president-elect  and  two  years  as 
president  of  the  700-member  society.  Kertzer  specializes  in  the 
study  of  social  organization,  politics  and  culture,  and  political 
economy  and  family  systems.  His  next  book.  Sacrificed  for  Honor: 
Infant  Abandonment  and  the  Politics  of  Reproduction  in  Italy,  will  be 
published  by  Beacon  Press  this  spring. 

Professor  of  AppUed  Mathematics  Harold  Kushner  received  the 
1992  Control  Systems  Award  of  the  Institute  of  Electrical  and 
Electronics  Engineers  for  "fundamental  contributions  to  stochas- 
tic-systems theory  and  its  engineering  operations."  Stochastic 
systems  are  those  that  operate  under  a  degree  of  uncertainty, 
such  as  telecommunications  systems  that  are  affected  by  variable 
amounts  of  manmade  and  natural  noise  or  radar-based  guidance 
systems.  A  Brown  faculty  member  since  1964,  Kushner  is  the 
author  of  six  books  and  140  research  papers.  He  and  Assistant 
Professor  of  Applied  Mathematics  Paul  Dupuis  recently  pub- 
lished Numerical  Methods  for  Stochastic  Control  Problems  in  Contin- 
uous Time. 

Anne  Morgan  Spaltei,  adjunct  lecturer  in  visual  arts,  created  a 
computer  art  piece  that  was  painted  onto  a  forty-eight-by-four- 
teen-foot  billboard  in  Providence.  A  Modern  Landscape  represents 
"a  smoldering  industrial  panorama,"  Spalter  says.  "Instead  of 
landscapes  of  the  past,  which  illustrate  rolling  hills,  cows,  and 
pastoral  images,  I  wanted  to  reflect  what  I  believe  is  a  more 
appropriate  image  of  today's  urban  landscape."  Whiteco  Metro- 
corn,  a  national  billboard  agency,  donated  the  space  and 
employed  the  painters  who  re-created  the  work. 

Professor  of  Slavic  Languages  Michael  Shapiro  has  been  elected 
president  of  the  Semiotic  Society  of  America.  The  author  of  two 
books  and  more  than  two  dozen  articles  on  Russian  literature, 
Shapiro  is  writing  a  book  about  Pushkin's  poetry.  His  research 
interests  are  in  linguistics,  literature,  poetics,  semiotics,  folklore, 
mythology,  philosophy,  and  anthropology. 

Associate  Professor  of  Political  Science  Darrell  M.  West  delivered 
the  John  D.  Lees  Lecture  at  the  annual  conference  of  the  Ameri- 
can Politics  Group  in  Manchester,  England,  in  January.  His  talk 
dealt  with  television  advertising  in  U.S.  election  campaigns.  West 
is  a  visiting  scholar  at  Nuffield  College,  Oxford  University,  for 
the  spring  semester. 


Two  members  of  Brown's  Thomas  J.  Watson  Jr.  Institute  for  Inter- 
national Studies  -  Associate  Director  Thomas  Weiss,  who  also  is 
associate  dean  of  the  faculty  for  international  affairs,  and  Visiting 
Research  Fellow  Larry  Minear,  a  member  of  the  Refugee  Policy 
Group  in  Washington,  D.C.  -  have  been  invited  to  spend  July  in 
residence  at  the  Rockefeller  Foundation's  Study  and  Conference 
Center  in  Bellagio,  Italy.  They  will  be  writing  the  first  draft  of 
Humanitarianism  and  War:  Learning  the  Lessons  of  Recent  Armed  Con- 
flicts. The  book  is  derived  from  the  Humanitarianism  and  War 
Project,  which  they  codirect  and  which  is  cosponsored  by  the 
Watson  Institute  and  the  Refugee  Policy  Group. 

Dr.  Kenneth  H.  Mayer,  chief  of  infectious  disease  and  associate 
professor  of  medicine  and  community  health,  was  program  mod- 
erator for  "Management  of  HIV  Disease:  Current  Clinical  Con- 
cepts," presented  recently  in  Boston  by  World  Health  Communi- 
cations. Dr.  Mayer  was  a  speaker  and  panel  moderator  at  the 
second  International  Conference  on  the  Prevention  of  Infection, 
in  Paris,  and  a  panelist  at  the  International  Congress  of  Infectious 
Disease  in  Nairobi. 

In  January,  Barrett  Hazeltine,  professor  of  engineering  and  asso- 
ciate dean  of  the  College,  began  a  six-month  appointment  at  the 
University  of  Botswana  on  a  Fulbright  grant,  teaching  and  assist- 
ing with  curriculum  development  in  business  administration.  In 
1970  and  1976  Hazeltine  taught  at  the  University  of  Zambia,  and 
in  1980, 1983,  and  1988  -  the  last  year  as  a  Fulbright  scholar  - 
he  taught  at  the  University  of  Malawi.  He  also  has  taught  and  con- 
sulted for  institutions  in  Bangladesh,  Indonesia,  the  Philippines, 
Taiwan,  and  Thailand. 

Sidney  Goldstein,  the  George  Hazard  Crooker  University  Profes- 
sor and  professor  of  sociology,  received  a  certificate  of  lifetime 
achievement  from  the  Association  for  the  Social  Scientific  Study 
of  Jewry.  A  former  director  of  Brown's  Population  Studies  and 
Training  Center,  Goldstein  has  directed  or  codirected  a  number  of 
community  studies,  including  two  surveys  of  Rhode  Island 
Jewry,  and  serves  as  chairman  of  the  technical  advisory  commit- 
tee on  population  studies  sponsored  by  the  Council  of  Jewish 
Federations.  He  is  cochair  of  the  International  Scientific  Advisory 
Committee  on  1990  Census  Surveys  of  World  Jewry,  sponsored 
by  the  Jewish  Agency  in  Jerusalem.  A  member  of  the  Brown 
faculty  for  more  than  thirty-five  years,  Goldstein  has  received  sev- 
eral prestigious  awards  for  his  work,  including  the  1992  medal 
for  distinguished  service  from  the  University  of  Mahidol, 
Thailand. 

The  American  Society  of  Mechanical  Engineers  (ASME)  Center 
for  Research  and  Technology  Development  recently  presented  a 
citation  to  Joseph  Kestin,  research  professor  of  engineering  and 
former  director  of  Brown's  Center  for  Energy  Studies,  for  his 
leadership  in  stimulating  steam  research  in  the  U.S.  and  abroad. 
Kestin  began  his  association  with  ASME  more  than  thirty  years 
ago,  when  he  received  the  organization's  support  to  conduct 
research  at  Brown  that  measured  the  viscosity  of  steam. 

Theodore  Sizer,  professor  of  education  and  chairman  of  the  CoaU- 
tion  of  Essential  Schools,  will  receive  the  University  of  Pennsyl- 
vania Education  Alumni  Association's  1993  National  Award  of 
Distinction.  The  award  will  be  presented  at  a  ceremony  on  April 
14,  the  same  week  Sizer  is  to  dehver  the  university's  spring 
forum  lecture.  In  1984  Sizer  founded  the  CoaUtion  of  Essential 
Schools,  an  education  reform  movement  based  at  Brown  and  cur- 
rently comprising  200  schools  nationwide. 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /  19 


orts 


By  James  Reinbold 


Steve  King  scores  big  time 


When  Steve  King 
'9:  took  to  the  ice 
in  December  at  Madison 
Square  Garden  wearing  the 
red,  white,  and  blue  of  the 
New  York  Rangers,  he 
became  the  first  Brown 
hockey  player  in  more  than 
a  decade  to  make  the 
National  Hockey  League. 
"It  was  a  dream  come  true," 
says  King,  who  was  called 
up  from  the  Rangers' 
minor-league  affiliate  in 
Binghamton,  New  York,  on 
December  6.  "Playing  in  the 
pros  was  something  1  had 
always  wanted." 

King  returned  to  Bing- 
hamton after  ten  games,  but 
he  made  a  lot  of  folks  sit  up 
and  take  notice  when  he 
scored  in  each  of  the  first 
four  NHL  games  he  played. 
After  netting  a  power-play 
goal  in  his  debut,  he  scored 
third-period  game  winners 
in  two  successive  contests 
against  Tampa  Bay.  He  also 
had  a  goal  and  two  assists 
against  Montreal.  "The 
coach  showed  a  lot  of  confi- 
dence in  me,  putting  me  on 
the  ice  in  some  key  situa- 
tions," King  says.  "I  just 
capitalized."  When  a  num- 
ber of  previously  injured 
players  returned  to  the 
Rangers,  King  was  sent  back 
to  Binghamton. 

There,  King  took  up 
where  he  had  left  off.  In 
thirty-five  games  he  netted 
25  goals  and  22  assists.  His 
stellar  play  was  not  lost  on 
the  Rangers,  and  in  late  Jan- 
uary, King  was  called  up 
again. 


A  fistful  of  recent 
alumni  have  been  drafted 
by  professional  teams,  but 
none  save  King  has  been 
called  up  to  the  big  time. 
Those  playing  minor-league 
hockey  include  Kevin  Burke 
'92,  Darren  McKay  '89,  Paul 
Ohman  '92,  Chris  Harvey 
'90,  and  Mike  Brewer  '92, 
last  year's  Ivy  League 
Player  of  the  Year.  In  Jan- 
uary, Tim  Chase  '93  left  to 
join  the  Fredericton  Canadi- 
ans of  the  AHL,  the  Montreal 
Canadiens'  top  minor- 
league  affiliate.  King,  who 
led  the  Bears  in  scoring  in 
three  of  his  four  seasons, 
joins  Curt  Bennett  '70,  Tim 
Bothwell  '78,  and  Mark 
Holden  '80,  all  of  whom  had 
professional  careers.  Both- 
well,  who  played  eleven  sea- 
sons with  the  New  York 
Rangers,  St.  Louis  Blues,  and 
Hartford  Whalers,  was 
recently  named  head  coach 
of  the  Phoenix  Roadrunners, 
the  minor-league  affiliate  of 
the  Los  Angeles  Kings. 

As  a  sophomore  at 
Bishop  Hendricken  High  in 
Warwick,  Rhode  Island, 
King  didn't  make  the  hockey 
team,  and  after  his  senior 
year  he  was  recruited  by 
only  three  Division  1  schools. 
Luckily,  one  of  those  schools 
was  Brown.  Herb  Ham- 
mond, then  head  coach  at 
Brown  and  now  a  Rangers 
scout,  had  coached  Steve  at 
a  summer  tournament  in 
Boston,  and  he  knew  what 
King  could  do  for  the  Bears. 
"He  had  scored  a  lot  of 
goals,  which  we  certainly 


Rookie  forward  King 

netted  a  power-play  goal 

in  his  first  game  with  the 

NHL  Rangers. 


needed  at  the  time,"  Ham- 
mond says.  "And  he  also 
had  a  real  mean  streak.  Not 
many  players  come  to  the 
Ivy  League  with  toughness. 
I  knew  he  could  be  an 
impact  player."  Hammond 
was  right  on  all  counts. 

King  scored  19  goals  in 
both  his  junior  and  senior 
years,  leading  the  team  in 
scoring  with  34  points  in 
1990-91,  and  led  the  Bears 
to  the  Ivy  League  champion- 
ship that  year.  "Winning  the 
Ivies  was  one  of  my  biggest 
highlights  as  a  player,"  says 
King,  who  scored  two  goals 
in  the  title-clinching  game 
against  Princeton.  "It  was 
nice  to  turn  things  around  at 
Brown.  We  had  come  such  a 
long  way  since  my  fresh- 
man year,"  when  the  Bears 
were  3-22-1. 


JOHNGIAMUNDO 

When  Coach  Bob  Gaudet 
took  over  the  hockey  pro- 
gram, he  left  King's  mission 
essentially  the  same.  "Steve's 
role  was  to  score  goals  and 
to  go  where  other  guys 
didn't  want  to  go,  in  front  of 
the  net  and  into  the  comers," 
Gaudet  says.  "He  was  out- 
standing. He  scored  so 
many  big  goals  for  us.  He 
had  great  hands  and  a  great 
release.  He  also  had  a  knack 
for  those  bone-crunching 
checks.  But  Stevie  wasn't 
one  to  get  the  stick  up.  He 
would  always  hit  with  the 
shoulders." 

Following  that  champi- 
onship season  at  Brown,  the 
Rangers  drafted  King  in  the 
supplemental  round,  which 
meant  he  had  to  prove  him- 
self in  training  camp  to  earn 
a  contract.  King  did,  and 


20  /  MARCH  1993 


within  a  year  he  was  one  of 

Center  in  January.  Wilson 

Starsia,  a  two-time  All- 

University."  The  results 

the  top  minor-league  play- 

swam 4,310  yards,  breaking 

America  defenseman. 

ranged  from  the  painfully 

ers  in  the  country.  -  Andy 

the  old  record  of  4,285 

coached  Brown's  men  to 

descriptive  to  the  staunchly 

Bernstein  '94 

yards. 

two  Ivy  championships  and 

optimistic.  Perhaps  the 

(Andy  Bernstein  is  a  staff 

five  NCAA  tournaments  in 

Brown  band  could  do  an 

zvriter  for  the  Brown  Daily 

Former  men's 

ten  years.  He  was  twice 

anagramatically-correct  half- 

Herald.) 

lacrosse  coach 

named  NCAA  Division  I 

time  show  at  a  football  game 

honored 

coach  of  the  year,  the  sec- 
ond time  in  1991,  when  the 

next  season. 
A  sampling: 

Dom  Starsia  '74,  who  left 

team  was  ranked  second 

Brown,  i.e.  Ivy  runts 

Winter  sports 

Brown  at  the  end  of  last  sea- 

nationally. 

Subvert  irony;  win! 

update 

son  to  coach  men's  lacrosse 

Robust  hn/  winner 

at  Virginia,  was  honored 

Name  game 

Verity:  Bruno  wins 

Two  highlights  of  the  sea- 

by Words  Unlimited,  Rhode 

Ivy  winner  or  bust! 

son  were  women's  hockey 

Island's  organization  of 

To  test  a  computer  program 

Out  of  BrovvTi  University  also 

winning  the  Beanpot  Tour- 

sportswriters and  sportscast- 

that  creates  anagrams. 

comes  a  wonderful  descrip- 

nament in  Boston  and 

ers,  with  the  Frank  Lanning 

Andrew  Shaindlin  '86,  assis- 

tion of  the  bronze  bear: 

men's  basketball  beating 

Award  at  the  group's  annual 

tant  director  of  alumni  rela- 

"/, Bruno,  ivy-strewn."  ED 

Princeton  at  the  Pizzitola.  It 

dinner  on  February  21. 

tions,  typed  in  "Brown 

was  only  the  Bears's  thir- 

teenth win  over  the  Tigers 

in  ninety-three  games,  the 

SCOREBOAR 

n   1 

iJ  1 

last  win  coming  during  the 
1987-88  season. 

^J 

In  the  Beanpot,  women's 

(January  12  -February  16) 

hockey  beat  Harvard  and 
Cornell  en  route  to  a  win  in 

Men's  Hockey  (9-9-2) 

Women's  Basketball  (14-6) 

Wrestling  (14-7) 

the  final  over  Northeastern. 
Brown  had  beaten  North- 

Brown 5,  Dartmouth  4 

Vermont  4,  Brown  2 

Brown  7,  Union  4 

New  Hampshire  67,  Brown  59 

Brown  64,  Central  Connecticut  54 

Brown  69,  Yale  65 

Brown  27,  Army  12 

Brown  21,  Franklin  &  Marshall 

15 

eastern  early  in  the  season 

RPI  5,  Brown  2 

Northeastern  61,  Brown  52 

Brown  21,  Lehigh  15 

in  regular  league  play  and 

Brown  8,  Princeton  2 

Brown  71,  Yale  65 

Brown  23,  Hofstra  10 

remains  the  only  team 

Brown  6,  Yale  2 

Brown  yj,  Hartford  71 

Brown  43,  Springfield  3 

to  have  beaten  the  ECAC- 

Brown  82,  Cornell  63 

Brown  29,  Princeton  6 

leading  Huskies.  The  tourna- 

Women's Hockey  (14-7-1) 

Brown  68,  Columbia  46 

Brown  31,  Pennsylvania  3 

ment  MVP,  goalie  Kate 

Brown  12,  McGill  2 

Brown  69,  Pennsylvania  40 

Brown  30,  Cheyney  0 

Presbrey  '94,  had  twenty- 
four  saves. 

Brown  3,  Concordia  3 
St.  Laurents  4,  Brown  3 

Brown  68,  Princeton  63 
Brown  76,  Dartmouth  57 

Cornell  18,  Brown  14 
Brown  39,  Columbia  3 

Brown  10,  Bowdoin  4* 

Brown  77,  Harvard  64 

Meanwhile,  women's 

St.  Lawrence  6,  Brown  5* 

Men's  Squash  (7-6) 

basketball  took  sole  posses- 

New Hampshire  5,  Brown  0 

Men's  Swimming  (6-6) 

Brown  5,  Dartmouth  4 

sion  of  first  place  in  the  Ivy 

Dartmouth  4,  Brown  3 

Brown  127,  Pennsylvania  114 

Yale  9,  Brown  0 

League  with  an  8-0  record. 

Brown  4,  Providence  3 

Brown  151,  Providence  91 

Brown  6,  Navy  3 

and  men's  hockey,  with  an 

Dartmouth  3,  Brown  2 

Syracuse  67,  Brown  46 

Brown  6,  Cornell  3 

overall  record  of  9-9-2, 

Brown  2,  Harvard  1** 

Cornell  140,  Brown  103 

Brown  9,  Hobart  0 

moved  into  a  tie  with  Ver- 

Brown 5,  Cornell  2** 

Columbia  126.5,  Brown  116.5 

Brown  8,  Tufts  1 

mont  for  fifth  place  in  the 

Brown  4,  Northeastern  3** 

Army  135,  Brown  108 

Amherst  7,  Brown  2 

r 

ECAC.  The  top  six  finishers 
receive  first-round  post- 
season playoff  byes. 

Brown  8,  Yale  2 

Brown  9,  Connecticut  College  0 

Princeton  3,  Brown  2 

Providence  8,  Brown  3 

*Colby  Invitational 

Women's  Swimming  (3-7) 

Brown  165,  Pennsylvania  135 
Yale  168,  Brown  135 

Brown  8,  Army  1 
Trinity  9,  Brown  0 

**Beanpot  Tournament 

Brown  131,  Providence  111 

Women's  Squash  (4-5) 

Syracuse  57,  Brown  56 

Brown  5,  Dartmouth  4 

Pending  world 

Men's  Basketball  (7-13) 

Cornell  159,  Brown  141 

Yale  7,  Brown  2 

record 

New  Hampshire  70,  Brown  53 

Columbia  159,  Brown  140 

Brown  6,  Tufts  3 

Yale  58,  Brown  43 

Amherst  7,  Brown  2 

Win  Wilson  '51  of  West 

Rider  82,  Brown  70 

Men's  Indoor  Track 

Trinity  8,  Brown  1 

Greenwich,  Rhode  Island, 

Yale  60,  Brown  52 

ist.  New  England  Challenge 

set  a  new  -  but  still  unoffi- 

Rhode Island  90,  Brown  50 

Cup,  Boston  College 

cial  -  world  record  in  the 

Cornell  74,  Brown  63 

Columbia  86,  Brown  53 

Women's  Indoor  Track  (4-0) 

65-69  age  group  for  the  one- 
hour  swim  at  the  annual 

Pennsylvania  89,  Brown  54 
Brown  48,  Princeton  41 

Brown  79,  Boston  University 
60,  Rhode  Island  41,  Providence 

Postal  Swim  for  Distance, 

Dartmouth  70,  Brown  60 

39,  Massachusetts  31 

held  at  Brown's  Smith  Swim 

Brown  72,  Harvard  71 

1st,  Yale  Invitational 

BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /  21 


Eiigii-.A'-ci  Piiiitec  vSold  bvPAUI*^ 


Gordon  S.  Wood 
reflects  on  the 
ongoing  dialogue 
between  the  present 
and  the  past 

BY  Missy  Daniel 


Paul  Revere  depicted  the 
Boston  Massacre  in  this  1770 
engraving.  He  and  bis  com- 
patriots based  tbeir  vision  on 
ideals  of  virtue  and  republi- 
canism. But  more  radical  still 
-  and  more  lasting  -  was 
the  society  that  evolved  out 
of  tbeir  notion  of  equality. 


c 

^L        ^W  ordon  S.  Wood's  acclaimed  history, 
^^^^^  The  Radicalism  of  the  American  Revolu- 
tion, almost  reads  like  The  Failure  of  the  American 
Revolution  -  until  the  last  few  pages.  Then  Wood's 
message  becomes  clear:  Though  the  founding 
fathers  -  or  perpetrators,  as  he  sometimes  calls 
them  -  were  deeply  disillusioned  with  what  they 
had  put  into  action,  that  didn't  mean  the  revolu- 
tion had  failed.  It  had  simply  succeeded  too  well, 
in  fact,  far  better  than  they  had  ever  dreamed. 

"It  was  much  more  commercial  than  the 
founders  expected,"  says  Wood,  a  University  Pro- 
fessor and  professor  of  history,  who  won  Phi  Beta 
Kappa's  1992  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson  award  for  the 
book.  "And  in  that  sense,  they  were  disillusioned. 
They  expected  more  virtue,  more  of  what  John 
Kennedy  said,  'Ask  not  what  your  country  can  do 
for  you,  but  what  you  can  do  for  your  country.'  In 
fact,  what  happened  is  that  a  society  based  on  self- 
interest,  on  people's  commercial  activities,  was 
much  more  stable  and  much  more  fulfilling  of  the 
happiness  of  more  people  then  they  could  have 
ever  expected." 

What  made  the  American  Revolution  so  radi- 
cal, he  contends,  is  that  it  brought  more  lasting 
social  change  than  any  revolution  in  history.  It 
transformed  a  monarchical  society  into  a  democ- 
racy -  and,  most  radically,  into  a  stable  democracy. 
The  conventional  historical  view  has  been  to  look 
on  the  American  Revolution  as  a  conservative 
movement  to  protect  a  fledgling  society,  with  its 
own  structures  already  in  place,  against  Britain's 
grasping  possessiveness.  Wood  rejects  that  idea. 

"The  revolution  was  an  extraordinary  develop- 
ment that  I  hadn't  fully  appreciated  when  I  first 
set  out,"  he  says.  "It  just  became  more  and  more 
amazing  to  me  -  this  transformation  that  we  take 
for  granted  now.  All  we  think  of  are  the  things 
that  didn't  happen  -  the  way  women  were  still 
held  in  subjection  within  households  and  the  fact 
that  slavery  persisted  in  the  Southern  states.  And 
that's  true  enough,  but  what  you've  got  to  appreci- 
ate is  what  it  meant  for  ordinary  people,  who  for 
thousands  of  years  had  been  held  in  contempt  by 
tiny  elites,  regarded  as  little  better  than  animals. 
To  have  that  transformed  in  a  relatively  short 
period  of  time  is  one  of  the  great  transformations 
of  world  history."  Furthermore,  he  argues,  it  set 
into  motion  the  forces  that  made  the  demands  for 
true  equality  for  all  -  from  women,  racial,  and 
other  minorities  -  inevitable. 

Missy  Daniel  is  a  stringer  for  U.S.  News  &  World 
Report  and  a  writer  and  editor  at  Harvard  Divinity 
School.  Consulting  editor  Kimberly  French  also 
contributed  to  this  profile. 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /  23 


T  A  7 

■/       mf     ood  was  born  in  193^  in  West 
W  W      Acton,  Massachusetts,  where  his 

family  had  a  chicken  farm.  His  voice  still  carries 
traces  of  a  blue-collar  Massachusetts  accent  when 
he  talks  to  his  classes  about  social  and  economic 
inequality  and  hierarchy  in  the  colonies.  His  lec- 
ture style  in  the  classroom  is  easy,  almost  matter  of 
fact.  The  power  of  a  class  with  Wood  lies  not  in  a 
captivating  delivery,  but  in  the  strength  of  his 
belief  in  the  singular  importance  of  the  Revolution 
to  modern  society.  As  his  ideas  unfold,  in  lecture 
or  on  the  blackboard,  students  come  away  ener- 
gized with  a  startling  new  look  at  an  event  that  has 
often  grown  ordinary  in  its  teaching  and  reteaching. 

'What  you've  got  to  appreciate  is  what 
the  American  Revolution  meant  for 
ordinary  people,  who  for  thousands  of 
years  had  been  held  in  contempt  by 
tiny  elites,  regarded  as  little  better  than 
animals' 

Educated  at  Tufts  and  then  Harvard,  Wood  came 
to  teach  at  Brown  in  1969,  the  year  he  published 
his  first  book.  The  Creation  oj  the  American  Republic, 
I7j6-ij8y,  which  won  the  Bancroft  and  John  H. 
Dunning  prizes.  He  also  writes  reviews  for  the  New 
Republic  and  the  New  York  Review  of  Books.  Next  fall 
Wood  will  be  on  sabbatical  at  the  Smithsonian's 
Woodrow  Wilson  Institute  continuing  work  on 
two  projects:  the  Oxford  History  of  the  United  States 
volume  covering  1789  to  1815  and  a  book  on  the 
Americanization  of  Benjamin  Franklin. 

Like  many  history  graduate  students  at  Har- 
vard in  the  sixties.  Wood  cites  as  his  primary  influ- 
ence the  gifted  American  historian  Bernard  Bailyn. 
Before  he  met  Bailyn,  he  claims,  he  never  really 
knew  what  the  discipline  of  history  was  about.  In 
a  1991  festschrift  called  The  Transformation  of  Early 
American  History,  Wood  writes  of  what  Bailyn 
taught  him:  "To  have  a  sense  of  the  tragedy  of 
life,  to  have  neutrality,  comprehensiveness,  and 
breadth  of  sympathy  for  people  in  the  past,  to 
understand  their  blindness  and  folly,  to  see  the 
extent  to  which  they  were  caught  up  in  circum- 
stances over  which  they  had  little  control  yet 
struggled  against  those  circumstances,  and  to  real- 
ize the  degree  to  which  they  created  results  they 
never  intended  -  to  understand  all  this  is  to  have  a 
historical  sense." 

However,  Wood  emphasizes,  it's  important  to 
keep  history  in  perspective  and  not  to  make  the 

24  /  MARCH  1993 


past  a  god.  While  oft-quoted  philosopher  George 
Santayana  warned  that  those  who  cannot  remem- 
ber the  past  are  condemned  to  repeat  it.  Wood 
contends  the  opposite:  Those  who  remember  the 
past  are  condemned  to  repeat  it.  "Too  much  his- 
torical sense,  as  Friedrich  Nietzsche  said,  can  stifle 
action,"  he  says.  "If  you  want  to  be  a  Napoleon, 
you'd  better  just  get  rid  of  your  memory.  Forget 
the  past,  because  you'll  get  too  stymied." 

That  was  Adlai  Stevenson's  problem.  Wood 
says.  His  well-rounded  historical  view  enabled  him 
to  give  many  sides  on  each  campaign  topic.  While 
voters  found  him  likable,  they  perceived  him  as 
too  indecisive  to  lead.  Furthermore,  Wood  adds,  in 
trying  too  hard  to  avoid  the  mistakes  of  the  past, 
leaders  often  blunder  into  ill-advised  moves  that 
have  the  same  disastrous  results.  As  an  example, 
he  cites  Dean  Rusk,  John  Kennedy's  secretary 
of  state,  whose  justification  for  sending  troops  into 
Vietnam  was  "Well,  we  don't  want  another 
Munich."  Rusk  was  too  concerned  with  avoiding 
the  mistake  Neville  Chamberlain  had  made  with 
Adolf  Hitler  in  1938  -  appeasing  the  enemy  - 
when  the  British  statesman  allowed  the  dismember- 
ment of  Czechoslovakia  in  the  hope  of  securing 
peace.  Yet  simply  avoiding  one  known  failed 
strategy  didn't  make  Rusk's  plan  any  more  viable. 

Wood's  musings  on  the  point  prompt  him  to 
run  down  a  few  U.S.  presidents  to  test  his  hypo- 
thesis: "Lyndon  Johnson  probably  had  very  little 
sense  of  the  past  other  than  what  he  had  picked 
up  in  conversation.  Presumably  Harry  Truman  had 
a  good  sense  of  the  past,  and  now  he's  being  cele- 
brated. He  read  Shakespeare.  He  read  the  Bible. 
He  had  a  temperament  that  was  attuned  to  the  dif- 
ficulties he  was  in,  but  1  wouldn't  call  him  a  well- 
read  man  with  a  great  historical  sense.  Teddy 
Roosevelt  had  a  good  historical  background,  but 


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dent. He  was  a  bright  fellow. 

"I  think  it's  important  that  our  society  has  a 
sense  of  the  past,"  he  concludes,  "but  not  so  much 
that  you  end  up,  like  the  English,  wallowing  in  it. 
Americans  don't  have  an  acute  sense  of  the  past, 
and  maybe  that's  been  part  of  our  success  -  that 
we've  been  always  thinking  in  terms  of  the  future." 

Part  of  the  reason  may  be  because,  through 
much  of  its  history,  the  United  States  did  not  expe- 
rience defeat  the  way  European  countries  did, 
which  gave  them  a  tragic,  or  ironic,  sense  about  the 
present,  he  says.  For  the  same  reason.  Southerners 
tend  to  have  a  tragic  historical  sense  more  than 
Northerners.  It  shows  up  in  the  work  of  such  writers 
as  William  Faulkner,  "who  has  an  acute  burden 
of  the  past,"  Wood  notes. 

But  the  American  notion  that  "the  past  is 
something  to  be  bulldozed  over,  to  be  destroyed 
in  favor  of  a  brighter  and  better  future"  may  be 
changing,  he  allows.  "Vietnam  certainly  was  a  kind 
of  defeat,  and  there  is  a  different  outlook  among 


Americans.  They're  not  quite  so  optimistic  as  they 
used  to  be.  So  maybe  we're  developing  more  of  a 
sense  of  history." 

The  young,  especially,  tend  to  think  of  the 
present  in  extremes  -  as  either  the  best  or  worst  of 
times.  But  look  back  at  some  of  the  dire  predic- 
tions that  were  made  in  the  early  part  of  the  twen- 
tieth century.  Wood  advises:  We've  got  ten  more 
years  of  coal.  We're  coming  to  the  end  of  our 
resources.  The  economy  is  going  to  come  to  a  stand- 
still. Historian  Frederick  Jackson  Turner  was 
lamenting  the  end  of  the  frontier.  Franklin  Roose- 
velt echoed  the  theme  in  his  1932  campaign,  say- 
ing that  the  task  at  hand  was  to  divide  up  the  de- 
clining pie.  "That  led  to  the  first  New  Deal,"  Wood 
observes,  "but  Roosevelt  couldn't  have  been  more 
wrong.  The  economy  had  plenty  of  growth  left. 

"Historical  knowledge  gives  one  a  perspective 
on  one's  own  time,"  he  continues,  "so  that  we're 
less  exuberant  about  the  possibilities  of  change  and 
less  pessimistic  about  how  bad  things  are.  Maybe 
that's  not  the  best  attitude  to  have  at  all  times.  You 
need  exuberance  sometimes  to  get  up  the  gump- 
tion to  do  things.  What  history  teaches  is  wisdom, 
not  any  particular  lessons  for  any  particular 
actions." 


To  illustrate  the  revolution's  impact  on  American 
society,  Wood  contrasts  a  pyramid  with  king  at  the 
top  (circa  1760)  with  the  revolutionaries'  hope  of  a 
circle  of  equal  citizens  and  the  eventual  stratifica- 
tion of  social  classes.  The  Constitution  did  not  meet 
automatic  approval  in  the  colonies;  Rhode  Island's 
ratification,  below,  wasn't  signed  until  1790. 


of   the    United   States  of  America. 


States,  in  order  to  form  a 

:e,  infure  domcftic  tranquil- 

lote  the  general  welfare,  and 

and  our  pofterity,  do  ordain 

ted  Stales  of  America. 

E       I. 

(hall  be  veiled  in  a  Congrefs  of  the 
3ufe  of  Reprefentativef. 
rompofed  of  Members  chofen  every 
d  the  Eieflors  in  each  State  Ihall 
the  moil  numerous  branch  of  the 

t  have  attained  to  the  age  of  twen- 
Uniied  States,  and  who  Ihall  not, 
|:h  he  fcall  be  chofen. 


prefented  to  the  Picfidept  of  the  United  States  ;  and  before  the  fame  ftall  take  eff.it, 
(hall  be  approved  by  him.  or,  being  difapproved  by  him,  fliall  be  repafli;d  by  two-thirdt 
of  the  Senate  and  Houfe  of  R.eprefen'aiivei,  according  (o  the  rules  and  liAitationi  pre- 
fcribed  in  the  cafe  of  a  bill. 

Sea.  8.  The  Congrefs  fbal I  have  power 

To  lay  and  colleft  taxes,  duties,  imports  and  excifes,  to  pay  the  debts  asd  provide 
for  the  common  defence  and  general  welfare  of  the  United  States  ;  but  all  duties,  ia~ 
pods  and  excifes  fhall  be  uniform  throughout  the  United  States  ; 

To  borrow  money  on  the  credit  of  the  United  States  j 

To  regulate  commerce  with  fbreiga  nation;,  and  among  the  feveral  States,  and  with 
the  Indian  tribes  ; 

Toeftablilh  an  uniform  rule  of  nataralicaiion,  and  uniform  lawt  on  the  fubjeA  of 
bankruptcies  throughout  the  United  States  ; 

To  coin  money,  regulate  the  value  thereof,  and  of  foreign  coin,  and  fix  the  flandard 
of  weights  and  meafures  ; 

To  provide  for  the  punilhment  of  connterfciting  the  fecarities  and  current  coin  of 
the  United  States  ; 


T 

■      lie  disillusionment  felt 
JL    by  . . .  the  founding 
fathers  was  a  strange  sort  of  dis- 
illusionment. It  was  not  the 
disillusionment  that  Enghsh  and 
European  liberals  like  [English 
poet  William]  Wordsworth  and 


The  American 
Revolution: 

The  Nation's  Biggest 
Success  Story 


[French  writer  Benjamin]  Con- 
stant felt  over  the  failure  of 
the  French  Revolution.  That  the 
French  Revolution  ended  in 
Napoleonic  despotism  could  to 
some  extent  have  been  expected; 
the  course  of  the  French  Revo- 
lution followed  the  classic  cycU- 
cal  pattern  -  excessive  democ- 
racy leading  to  dictatorship 
and  tyranny.  The  failure  of  the 
French  Revolution  did  not 
destroy  the  idea  of  revolution 
in  Europe;  the  possibility  of  a 
successful  repubUcan  revolu- 
tion next  time  was  kept  alive. 
In  America,  however,  the 
disillusionment  was  different. 
The  fotmding  fathers  were  un- 
settled and  fearful  not  because 
the  American  Revolution  had 
failed  but  because  it  had  suc- 
ceeded, and  succeeded  only  too 
v/ell.  What  happened  in  Amer- 
ica in  the  decades  following  the 
Declaration  of  Independence 


was  after  all  only  an  extension 
of  all  that  the  revolutionary  lead- 
ers had  advocated.  White  males 
had  taken  only  too  seriously 
the  belief  that  they  were  free 
and  equal  with  the  right  to  pur- 
sue their  happiness.  Indeed, 
the  principles  of  their 
achievement  made  possi- 
ble the  eventual  strivings 
of  others  -  black  slaves 
and  women  -  for  their 
own  freedom,  indepen- 
dence, and  prosperity. 
The  very  fulfillment 
of  these  revolutionary 
ideals  -  the  very  success 
of  the  Revolution  -  made 
it  difficult  for  those  who  bene- 
fited from  that  success,  for 
ordinary  people  and  their  new 
democratic  spokesmen,  to 
understand  the  apprehensions 
of  the  founding  fathers.  The 
people  looked  back  in  awe  and 
wonder  at  the  revolutionary 
generation  and  saw  in  them 
leaders  the  likes  of  which  they 
knew  they  would  never  see 
again  in  America.  But  they  also 
knew  that  they  now  lived  in 
a  different  world,  a  democratic 
world,  that  required  new 
thoughts  and  new  behavior. 
We  cannot  rely  on  the  views  of 
the  founding  fathers  anymore, 
Martin  Van  Buren  told  the  New 
York  convention  in  1820.  We 
have  to  rely  on  our  own  experi- 
ence, not  on  what  they  said  and 
thought.  They  had  many  fears, 
said  Van  Buren,  fears  of  democ- 
racy that  American  experience 
had  not  borne  out. 


A  new  generation  of  demo- 
cratic Americans  was  no  longer 
interested  in  the  revolution- 
aries' dream  of  building  a  classi- 
cal republic  of  elitist  virtue  out 
of  the  inherited  materials  of  the 
Old  World.  America,  they  said, 
would  find  its  greatness  not  by 
emulating  the  states  of  classical 
antiquity,  not  by  copying  the 
fiscal-military  powers  of  mod- 
ern Europe,  and  not  by  produc- 
ing a  few  notable  geniuses  and 
great-souled  men.  Instead,  it 
would  discover  its  greatness  by 
creating  a  prosperous  free  soci- 
ety belonging  to  obscure  people 
with  their  workaday  concerns 
and  their  pecuniary  pursuits  of 
happiness  -  common  people 
with  their  common  interests  in 
making  money  and  getting 
ahead.  No  doubt  the  cost  that 
America  paid  for  this  democracy 
was  high  -  with  its  vulgarity, 
its  materialism,  its  rootlessness, 
its  anti-intellectualism.  But 
there  is  no  denying  the  wonder 
of  it  and  the  real  earthly  bene- 
fits it  brought  to  the  hitherto 
neglected  and  despised  masses 
of  common  laboring  people.  The 
American  Revolution  created 
this  democracy,  and  we  are  liv- 
ing with  its  consequences  still. 

-  frotn  The  Radicalism  of  the 
American  Revolution  by 
Gordon  S.  Wood,  Alfred  A. 
Knopf,  publisher. 

©  1992,  Gordon  S.  Wood 


26  /  MARCH  1993 


In  recent  years  political  philosophers,  lawyers, 
judges,  and  legal  scholars  have  looked  to 
the  eighteenth-century  notions  of  "republicanism" 
and  "virtue"  uncovered  by  historians  such  as 
Wood  and  tried  to  apply  them  to  the  present  - 
"much  to  the  surprise  of  us  historians,"  Wood 
remarks. 

That  may  be  fine  in  many  disciphnes,  but  not 
in  history,  he  says.  For  example,  in  looking  for 
alternatives  to  liberal,  rights-oriented  policies, 
legal  theorists  have  searched  out  precedents  that 
would  allow  deprivation  of  individual  rights  in 
favor  of  the  communal  good.  "If  you're  a  law  pro- 
fessor looking  for  new  justifications  for  interpret- 
ing the  law  -  justifications  for  the  community  to 
suppress  pornography,  for  example  -  it's  quite 
legitimate  to  go  back  and  see  if  you  can  find  some 
sources  of  communitarianism  in  the  past.  I  see 
nothing  wrong  with  that.  1  think  it's  different  if  an 
historian,  who  is  presumably  dedicated  to  recover- 
ing the  past  in  all  of  its  accuracy,  purposefully 
goes  back  and  distorts  that  past  because  there's  an 
overriding  present  need." 

Yet  that  charge,  called  "presentism"  -  applying 
contemporary  values  to  the  people  and  events  of 
the  past  -  is  being  leveled  at  some  historians  these 
days.  Thomas  Jefferson  has  been  a  prime  target 
of  these  reinterpretations,  a  trend  Wood  expects  to 
escalate  in  this,  the  250th  anniversary  of  Jefferson's 
birth.  Jefferson  is  a  Wood  favorite  -  the  subject  of 
a  lecture  he  delivered  to  the  House  Democratic 
Caucus  a  few  years  ago. 

"It's  one  of  the  great  ironies  in  American  his- 
tory that  our  greatest  spokesman  for  democracy 
was  a  slaveholder,"  Wood  says.  "So  it's  quite 
understandable  that  someone  as  symbolic  as  Jeffer- 
son will  bear  a  tremendous  burden  in  this  time  of 
racial  ambiguity  and  racial  trouble.  His  own  com- 
plicated racial  attitudes  are  bound  to  become 
crucial  in  this  debate.  1  don't  see  anything  wrong 
with  that.  It  means  that  the  past,  at  least,  is  ahve  for 
some  people.  But  it  does  mean  that  the  symbolic 
Jefferson  overawes  the  human  Jefferson.  It's  very 
hard  to  recover  the  human  being  beneath  all  of  this 
symbol  making.  And  there  was  a  very  real  human 
being  there,  with  all  of  his  human  weaknesses 
and  human  foibles." 

Wood's  own  treatment  of  slavery  also  has  come 
under  attack.  Princeton  historian  Sean  Wilentz 
writes  in  the  Neiv  Republic,  "...  Wood  excuses  him- 
self from  grappling  with  slavery  at  all,  apart  from 
a  few  paragraphs  in  passing.  As  a  result,  his  book's 
view  of  the  Revolution  ends  up  skewed.  The  Rev- 
olution did  not  simply  fail  to  abolish  slavery; 
thanks  to  the  Constitution,  slavery  in  some  ways 
emerged  more  firmly  entrenched  than  ever  before." 

Yet  Wood  is  resolute  in  his  conviction  that  the 
American  Revolution  was  the  first  step  in  abolish- 
ing slavery,  not  just  a  lofty  ideal  that  "all  men  are 


created  equal,"  whose  creators  were  willing  to  over- 
look several  substantial  exceptions.  First,  Wood 
says,  the  revolution  did  abolish  slavery  in  the 
North,  where  it  had  been  flourishing  without  criti- 
cism for  centuries.  Second,  it  put  slavery  seriously 
on  the  defensive  in  the  South. 

"It's  very  radical,"  Wood  argues.  "Jefferson's 
radical.  Even  though  he  himself  never  frees  all  his 
slaves  and  never  accepts  black  equality,  what  I 
find  amazing  is  that  this  whole  crew  of  Southern- 
ers -  not  just  Jefferson,  but  Madison,  Henry  -  grew 
up  in  a  society  where  slavery  was  taken  for  granted, 
yet  they  came  to  oppose  the  institvition.  That 
meant  that  they  transcended  the  world  in  which 
they  lived.  Now  Jefferson  never  transcended  it 
enough.  He  never  actually  abolished  slavery  in  his 
own  midst.  But  he  spoke  against  it.  He  said  he 
hated  it,  and  I  believe  him.  Given  the  fact  that  these 
men  were  reared  in  that  society  and  that  it  was 
not  in  their  interest  to  be  opposed  to  slavery,  it  is 
radical  that  they  stood  out  against  it.  That  needs  to 
be  emphasized  if  you  want  to  get  the  proper  his- 
torical perspective  on  the  event." 

In  order  to  remain  evenhanded  himself, 
Wood  cultivates  a  healthy  ambivalence  in 
his  teaching  and  his  scholarship.  His  refusal  to 
pick  sides  frustrates  some  students  and  colleagues 
eager  for  more  concrete  answers.  "People  have 
said  to  me,  'I  never  know  whether  you're  for  the 
federalists  or  for  the  antifederahsts.  Are  you  for  the 
elites,  or  are  you  for  the  common  people?'  I  think 
I  would  have  been  one  of  those  people  on  the 
fence,  the  mugwump,  I  guess. 

"It's  the  same  thing,  I  suppose,  as  in  university 
life,"  he  adds.  "I  have  ambivalent  feelings  about 
faculty  pretension.  I  mean,  I'm  one  of  them.  I  share 
in  the  privileges  and,  I  suppose,  in  the  pretensions 
of  the  faulty.  But  at  the  same  time  1  have  a  skepti- 
cism and  a  doubt  and  a  sense  of  the  ridiculousness 
of  most  faculty  members  that  makes  me  feel  at  one 
with  the  Pat  Schroeders  and  the  other  recent  critics 
of  academia." 

In  his  writing.  Wood  tries  to  put  together  the 
puzzle  of  the  American  Revolution  and  then  to 
interpret  it,  rather  than  tell  a  dazzling  story. 
Unlike  the  nineteenth-century  school  of  history 
writing,  in  which  the  story  was  supreme  and  was 
narrated  with  fervor,  his  prose  is  fastidious,  delib- 
erate, scholarly,  and  conscientious.  And  he  never 
loses  touch  with  what  he  calls  "the  wonder  of  the 
revolution"  and  the  immediacy  of  the  fact  that 
"we  are  living  with  its  consequences  still."  El 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /  27 


Walking  out  off  the 

Three  Chinese 
writers  at  Brown 


By  James  Reinbold 
Photographs  by  John  Foraste 


a  Bo,  Xue  Di,  and  Bei  Ling  sit  in  an 
austerely-furnished  office  in  Blistein 
House,  home  of  Brown's  Graduate 
Program  in  Creative  Writing.  The  three  political 
refugees  are  speaking  of  how  their  lives  were 
changed  forever  by  the  demonstration  in  Beijing's 
Tiananmen  Square  in  the  spring  of  1989. 

As  the  police  and  military  presence  in  Tianan- 
men Square  became  more  threatening,  the  stu- 
dents broke  into  two  factions.  Ma  Bo  explains. 
"There  were  those  who  wanted  to  abandon  the 
demonstration,"  he  says,  "and  those  who  wanted 
to  hang  on  in  the  square."  Ma  Bo  stayed  with  the 
hangers-on.  "No  one  really  thought  the  army 
would  use  tanks  and  guns,"  he  says  quietly. 

"The  students  thought  that  the  Tiananmen 
demonstration  would  change  life  in  China,"  Xue 
Di  says.  "They  thought  that  life  could  be  different, 
that  life  could  be  more  hopeful.  But  then  came 
martial  law." 

Watched  and  harassed  by  the  police,  fearful  of 
censorship  and  imprisonment.  Ma  Bo  and  Xue  Di 
made  their  way  out  of  China  soon  after.  Bei  Ling, 
who  was  already  in  this  country,  was  censored  in 
absentia  for  his  activities  prior  to  Tiananmen  Square 
and  threatened  with  reprisals  if  he  returned.  The 
exiles  have  been  at  Brown  since  January  of  1990, 
first  as  visiting  fellows,  and  now  as  visiting  scholars. 

Novelist  Robert  Coover,  T.B.  Stowell  Univer- 
sity Professor  and  adjunct  professor  of  English, 
played  a  major  role  in  bringing  the  writers  to 


Brown.  He  met  with  President  Vartan  Gregorian 
soon  after  the  bloody  conclusion  to  the  Tiananmen 
Square  demonstrations  to  discuss  how  the  Univer- 
sity could  provide  a  haven  for  a  few  prominent 
Chinese  writers.  With  help  from  the  international 
organization  of  poets,  editors,  and  novelists  -  PEN 
-  Ma  Bo,  Xue  Di,  and  Bei  Ling  were  identified  as 
being  in  danger  should  they  stay  in  or  return  to 
China. 

Under  the  then-newly-formed  Freedom  to 
Write  program  the  three  were  brought  into  Brown's 
Graduate  Program  in  Creative  Writing  as  non- 
teaching  faculty.  A  portion  of  their  stay  was  under- 
written by  University  funds  and  the  Artemis  A.W. 
Joukowsky  Fellowship. 

With  appointments  ending  in  June,  the  writers 
are  unsure  of  their  next  stops.  Sensing  moderation 
in  the  government's  position  on  dissidents  (China 
recently  freed  the  last  of  the  Tiananmen  prisoners), 
Bei  Ling  is  hoping  to  go  home  for  several  months 
later  this  spring.  He  has  applied  to  study  in  Johns 
Hopkins  University's  Chinese  studies  program 
next  fall.  Ma  Bo  wishes  to  return  to  China,  too, 
but  his  plans  are  much  less  definite.  All  three  have 
applied  to  the  International  Writers  Program  at 
the  University  of  Iowa  for  a  semester's  residence 
beginning  in  September. 


28  /  MARCH   1993 


Xue  Di 

Xue  Di  organized  members  of  the  Beijing  brancli 
of  tfie  Chinese  Writers'  Association  in  support  of 
the  Tiananmen  students'  hunger  strike.  Then  as 
the  dream  of  democracy  died,  Xue  Di  watched 
helplessly  as  the  tanks  rumbled  into  the  square. 
He  helped  the  wounded  and  the  dying. 

Another  ordeal  began:  obtaining  his  passport 
and  visa  so  he  could  leave.  In  Beijing  and  other  big 
Chinese  cities,  Xue  Di  says,  everyone  is  watched. 
Retired  people  report  on  the  comings  and  goings 
of  those  who  live  in  their  neighborhoods.  Because 
of  his  involvement  in  Tiananmen  Square,  police 
questioned  Xue  in  his  home  nearly  every  day  and 
at  all  hours.  "They  asked  me  all  sorts  of  questions; 
they  wrote  everything  down,"  he  recalls.  "Then 
they  would  come  back  and  ask  the  same  ques- 
tions, or  a  question  in  a  slightly  different  way, 
always  trying  to  get  me  to  contradict  myself  so 
they  could  say  I  was  lying."  To  get  a  visa  and 
passport  to  leave  China,  one  must  obtain  from  the 
neighborhood  "watcher"  a  letter  of  recommenda- 
tion, which  is  approved  and  presented  to  the 
authorities  when  filing  the  passport  application. 
Finally,  after  satisfying  the  police  and  the  watcher 
that  he  was  no  longer  an  anti-government  agitator. 


The  Chinese  people,  says  Xue  Di,  are 
like  the  shipwrecked  survivors  in 
Cericault's  painting.  The  Raft  of  the 
Medusa,  on  the  wall  behind  him. 


Earth  by  Xue  Di 

Dry  eyed,  we  gaze  down  the  road 

at  parents  and  children  returning:  scattered 

bones  abandoned  on  the  waste  land  of  memory 

Each  and  every  night  the  dead  come  back 

carrying  bouquets,  wearing  laundry-marked  shirts 

recognizing  the  sleepers.  They  guard  us 

When  they  leave,  they  leave  their  bouquets 

next  to  our  pillows.  We  wake,  see  the  sunlight 

Maybe  we  hear  birds.  Awake,  we've 

first  of  all  the  palpable  recollection 

of  having  been  somewhere,  having  felt  some 

cold,  having  done  something.  Wide 

awake:  to  wake  is  to  forget 

What  shines  is  only  the  morning  sun 

and  its  light  is  not  from  life 

Our  eyes  dry,  an  earth  remote  from  us 

eats,  drinks,  sickens  us 

bewitches  and  crazes  us.  Still 

deeply  in  love,  we 

left  our  lovers.  Leaving  our 

childhood  there,  we  left  our  roots 

Only  in  sleep  do  we 

rejoin  our  relations.  Each  night 

returning,  quietly  to  feel 

all  old  familiar  faces,  before 

dawn,  before  we  wake 

Since  then,  living  between  two  realities 

we  age  at  double  speed 

sunk  in  a  confusion  of 

everyday  and  inner  worlds 

We  live  and  move  along  widening  fissures 

of  fatigue,  despair,  dream,  forgetfulness 

Childhood  remains  on  that  earth 

of  no  return.  Sleeping 

we  make  love  to  an  old  lover 

loving  again  in  sleep,  kissing  and 

drinking  that  earth  in  our  lover's  body 

weeping  for  past  love,  writing  for 

love  past,  waking,  wanting 

to  sleep  again.  Sitting  in  the  sun, 

1  watch  myself  age  towards  that  distant  earth 

aching  to  lift  the  light  and  the  fruit  that 

loom  in  the  loneliness,  lifting  them  high 

in  the  old  love,  here  among  untold  strangers 

[translated  by  Wang  Ping  and  Keith  Waldropl 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /  29 


Bei  Ling  rents  a 
simply-furnished 
room  which  contains 
the  sum  of  his 
possessions,  including 
a  bed  and  a  small 
writing  desk. 


Xue  got  the  letter  and  fled  China  in  January  1990. 

A  founding  member  (1983)  of  the  avant-garde 
Yuan  Ming  Yuan  Poetry  Society  and  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  Survivors  Poetry  Club,  Xue  Di  has 
written  two  books  of  poetry  in  Chinese,  one  book 
of  poetry  in  English  translation,  and  one  book  of 
criticism.  His  work  has  appeared  in  ten  Chinese- 
language  anthologies,  two  of  which  he  edited;  in 
a  number  of  prominent  Chinese  journals;  in  such 
American  journals  as  Tyuomji,  The  Taos  Rei'ieiv, 
and  Cathm/;  and  in  an  anthology.  This  Same  Sh/. 

In  an  essay,  "Coming  Out  of  Darkness,"  which 
Xue  Di  wrote  in  1991  for  the  creative  writing  pro- 
gram newsletter  and  which  was  later  reprinted  in 
the  Providence  Sunday  journal  magazine,  he  speaks 
of  the  difficulty  of  adjusting  to  newfound  creative 
freedom: 

"In  our  struggle  to  fight  for  our  mere  existence, 
we  have  neglected  looking  into  our  inner  worlds. 
We  now  realize  that,  apart  from  vague,  rebellious 
instincts,  we  know  virtually  nothing  about  our- 
selves. In  an  environment  of  free  expression,  we 
have  lost  our  words. 

"I  stare  at  myself.  I  hear  a  new  voice  rising 
from  my  soul,  the  voice  of  my  new  self.  I  continue 
to  write  about  what  I  know,  about  my  confusion 
and  pain,  and  about  my  awakening.  I  write  about 
my  efforts  to  learn  a  new  culture  in  despair  and 
ecstasy,  about  my  thoughts  on  the  gap  between 
the  two  cultures.  Also,  I  write  about  my  country 
which  is  deep  in  misery  and  crimes,  about  my 
broken  heart  for  her.  I  write  about  my  love  for 
the  people  who  continue  to  fight  for  freedom  and 
democracy,  about  my  support  for  them. 

"I  see  myself  walking  out  of  the  darkness.  I  see 
Freedom  and  humanity." 


Bei  Ling 

Bei  Ling  was  not  in  China  during  the 
Tiananmen  Square  demonstrations.  He 
had  left  in  October  1988  and  was  in  New 
York  editing  Hai  Net  Wai,  a  literary  mag- 
azine, and  commuting  to  Harvard  to 
deliver  lectures  on  the  political  and  liter- 
ary climate  in  China. 

A  graduate  of  Beijing  College  of 
Finance  and  Trade,  Bei  Ling  has  written 
experimental  poetry  since  the  mid-1970s 
and  is  the  author  of  two  books.  Wandering 
in  March  and  The  Deceived.  He  coedited 
an  anthology,  Thirty-Eight  Contemporary 
Chinese  Poems,  and  a  yearly  magazine. 
Directions,  both  published  in  China. 

He  had  been  involved  in  Chinese  stu- 
dent movements  since  1976,  when  he 
participated  in  the  5th  April  Movement, 
a  major  demonstration.  Despite  warn- 
ings from  police  and  college  authorities  in  1981, 
Bei  Ling  organized  a  campus-wide  movement  at 
Shenzhen  University,  demanding  a  new  student 
union  with  democratic  elections.  He  was  suspended 
from  his  teaching  post  in  absentia  in  1989,  the  same 
year  the  government  blacklisted  him,  making  him 
subject  to  immediate  arrest  should  he  return  to 
China.  Today  he  is  active  with  the  Human  Rights  in 
China  organization  and  with  Asia  Watch. 

While  at  Brown,  Bei  Ling  has  been  involved  in 
three  projects:  a  Chinese  literature  magazine;  his 
poetry;  and  a  book  based  on  a  history  of  post-Mao 
underground  writing.  Three  years  ago  he  founded 
Chinese  Writers  in  Exile,  an  international  support 
group  for  dissidents  and  political  exiles. 

In  his  essay,  "Exile,  "  published  in  the  anthol- 
ogy, Ohi  Ghosts,  Neil'  Dreams  (1989),  Bei  Ling 
wrote:  "I  often  ask  myself,  is  it  possible  for  a  Chi- 
nese writer  to  exist  in  exile  in  the  West?  .  .  .  The 
cultural  difference  between  East  and  West  is  so 
massive. . . .  Starting  with  the  language,  you  must 
endure  a  life  of  spiritual  poverty.  You're  no  longer 
young;  the  first  enemy  you  must  confront  is  your- 
self, your  temperament  that  has  been  conditioned 
by  an  authoritarian  environment,  your  physical 
weakness,  and  all  the  habits  born  of  the  slow- 
paced  society  from  which  you  come. 

"This  is  exile,  a  life  without  a  sense  of  belong- 
ing, one  made  up  of  difficulties.  It's  not  only  a 
matter  of  lifestyle,  it  is  something  that  touches  on 
the  very  essence  of  existence.  Even  while  you 
examine  it,  exile  examines  you  and  may  draw  its 
own  conclusions. 

"You  need  determination,  belief,  and  all  your 
painful  memories  to  bear  it.  Because  you  still 
haven't  lost  the  ability  to  look  out  at  the  world." 


30  /   MARCH  1993 


Honeysuckle  Blooms  Every  Year  by  Bei  Ling 


chart  is  clear        extend  from  here 
night  is  cut  determinedly  from  night 

joys  gather  together 

sufferings  gather  together 
those  expectations  from  several  sacred  wishes 
watch  over  the  forest  of  the  universe 

enjoying  many  pasts 

enjoying  many  beginnings 

tell  you 

I  will  also  tell  you 

grass  will  grow 
the  sun  above  the  valley  naked  and  strong 
after  passing  the  lawn 
the  plateau  still  barren 

in  the  yard,  the  honeysuckle  blooms  every  year 

all  the  vegetation  melts  into  rock 

holding,  holding  the  rhythm  unwilling  to  sleep 

waiting  on  this  side  calmly  expecting  the  call  of  the 

unknown 

does  it  need  proof? 

does  it  need  to  check  its  weight  in  the  name  of  the  grow- 
ing ring? 

turtle-doves  no  longer  coo 

even  seeds  can  pierce  the  earth  and  grow 

north,  Uke  the  rise  and  fall  of  hills 

scattered  and  strong 

paddy  after  paddy 
wheat  after  wheat 


the  wild  edible  swift  flowers 

spread  out  in  rhombus  formation 
declare  a  war  on  solitude  with 
an  unswerving  splendour 
invigoration  in  a  cold  wind  with  the 
high  wall  grown  over  like  a  canopy 
matching  its  sharpness,  its  strength 

deliver  my  call 

and  your  call 

moisten  the  stalk  with  fertile  richness 
stratum  of  rock  will  be  pressed  and 
accept  weathering  day  by  day 

light  coloured  bluebell 

hazel  tree  that  stretches  numerous  arms 
with  the  honeysuckle 
spreading  life 
held  deep  in  storage 
surrounding  the  fierce  sandstorm 
together  with  dawn  endlessly  unfolding 
opening  with  massive  intercourses 

those  expectations  from  several  sacred  wishes 
watch  over  the  forest  of  the  universe 

enjoying  many  pasts 

enjoying  many  beginnings 

[from  New  Tide:  Contemporary  Chinese  Poetry, 
Tang  Chao  &  Lee  Robinson, 
editors  and  translators, 
Toronto:  Mangajin  Books,  1992.] 


Ma  Bo,  who  fled  China  in  1989,  sits  in  the  kitchen 
of  his  Fox  Point-neighborhood  apartment.  His  wife 
and  ten-year-old  son  joined  him  last  year. 


Ma  Bo 

After  studying  in  Beijing,  Ma  Bo 
joined  the  Cultural  Revolution  and 
worked  as  a  famnhand  in  Inner 
Mongolia,  where  he  was  ostra- 
cized and  branded  a  counterrevo- 
lutionary for  criticizing  his  supe- 
riors. In  1988  he  published  an 
account  of  his  farming  experience 
called  Blood-Red  Sunset.  An  instant 
bestseller  and  winner  of  several 
Chinese  literary  prizes,  the  book 
became  the  most  popular  serious 
novel  in  China  since  the  1970s. 

In  the  pre-Tiananmen  climate, 
when  the  Chinese  government 
tolerated  a  certain  amount  of  free 
expression.  Ma  Bo  enjoyed  a  brief 
season  of  success  and  comfort.  Today,  Blood-Red 
Sunset  cannot  be  found  in  any  bookstore  in  China, 

continued  on  page  41 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /  31 


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nveiling  the  equestrian  statue  of  Marcus 
Aurelius  Antoninus  (these  pages)  on  June  i, 
1908,  President  H.P.  Faunce  was  moved  to  propose 
that  a  statue  of  Francis  Way  land.  Brown's  president 
from  1827  to  1855,  one  day  grace  the  front  campus. 
Inspired,  W.C.  Poland,  class  of  1868  and  professor  of 
Greek,  Latin,  and  later  art  history,  called  for  four  more 
statues:  of  James  Manning,  Brown's  first  president;  of 
Nicholas  Brown,  the  benefactor  for  whom  the  Univer- 
sity was  named;  of  Francis  Wayland's  son;  and  of 
statesman  John  Hay,  class  of  1858. 

Alas,  Professor  Poland's  gallery  never  came  to 
pass,  and  President  Faunce  never  saw  the  figure  of 
Francis  Wayland  cast  or  carved.  But  the  campus  did 
not  go  sculptureless.  By  the  end  of  Faunce's  term 
busts  of  John  Hay  and  Dante  Alighieri  adorned  the 
John  Hay  Library,  a  statue  of  Caesar  Augustus 


guarded  Rhode  Island  Hall  on  the  front  campus,  and 
a  massive  bronze  bear  had  been  hoisted  onto  a  plat- 
form at  the  entrance  to  Marvel  Gym. 

Sculpture  acquisitions  experienced  a  hiatus  dur- 
ing the  middle  of  this  century  but  picked  up  again  in 
1974,  when  Laura  and  David  Finn  donated  Bridge- 
Prop,  Henry  Moore's  bronze  of  a  reclining  woman. 
Since  then  the  University  has  been  given  several  sculp- 
tures -  some  representational,  most  abstract.  Their 
meaning  is  more  elusive  than  that  of  their  nineteenth- 
century  predecessors,  a  sign  of  the  times.  At  the 
October  12, 1990,  ceremony  to  dedicate  the  gift  of 
America  One,  donor  Artemis  Joukowski  '55  observed 
that  people  compared  the  sculpture  to  a  giant  soccer 
ball.  "That's  the  way  it  should  be,"  he  said.  "Modern 
sculpture  invites  discussion  and  interpretation. 
After  all,  this  isn't  a  statue  of  George  Washington." 


.!*„'vy.^v. 


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P  H  O  T  O  G  R 


JOHN    FOK ASTE 


Text  by  James  Reinbold 


34  /  MARCH  1993 


any  undergraduates  never  set  foot  in  all 
three  of  Brown's  rare-book  libraries, 
superstitious  that  so  doing  might  jeopardize  their 
chances  of  marriage  or  graduation.  Even  more 
students  may  graduate  without  spying  the  bust  of 
Dante  (below),  so  obscured  is  it  by  forsythia. 
Located  on  the  south  terrace  of  the  John  Hay, 
where  the  pavement  steeply  pitches 
downward,  the  poet's  hero-size, 
bronze,  laureled  head  lacks  an  easy 
vantage  point.  The  sculpture  was  pre- 
sented to  Brown  by  the  Italian  commu- 
nity of  Rhode  Island  in  1921,  commem- 
orating the  sixth  centenary  of  the  poet's 
death.  Traditionally,  portraits  of  Dante 
are  based  on  a  mask  in  the  Dante 
museum  in  Ravenna,  Italy,  which  was 
probably  made  in  the  sixteenth  century 
by  the  Venetian  sculptor  Tullio  Lombardo.  Paolo  S 
Abate,  creator  of  Brown's  Dante,  no  doubt  fol- 
lowed that  course. 

The  bust  of  John  Hay  (left)  presides  over  the 
foyer  to  the  library  that  bears  his  name.  No  one 
knows  when  the  tradition  of  rubbing  Hay's  nose 
for  luck  before  final  exams  began,  but  it  is  clear 
that  many  have  indulged. 

Augustus  Saint-Gauden  completed  the  bust 
around  1904;  Hay  died  in  1905  and  the  sculptor 
soon  thereafter.  Some  years  later  Hay's  wife, 
Clara  Stone  Hay,  gave  the  bust  to  the  Univer- 
sity. The  library,  by  the  way,  was  dedicated  on 
November  11, 1910,  six  years  after  President 
Faunce  deemed  the  former  library,  now  Robinson 
Hall,  to  be  "detrimental  and  dangerous  both  to 
books  and  those  who  use  them."  A  gift  of  $150,000 
from  Andrew  Carnegie  came  with  two  strings 
attached:  first,  that  alumni  and  friends  match  his 
gift;  and  second,  that  the  library  be  named  for  his 
close  personal  friend,  John  Hay.  So  respected  and 
revered  was  Hay  that  the  money  was  quickly  raised. 
On  Commencement  weekend  1906,  President 
Faunce  oversaw  the  unveiling  of  a  statue  of  Caesar 
Augustus  (right)  in  front  of  Rhode  Island  Hall. 


During  the  1938  hurricane  Caesar's  right  arm 
broke  off,  and  it  was  later  found,  washed  by  tor- 
rents of  rain  to  the  foot  of  College  Hill.  It  was 
replaced  but  broke  off  again.  Where  is  the  arm?  No 
one  seems  to  know.  Lore  has  it  that  a  replacement 
arm  was  fashioned  but  was  not  a  good  fit.  That 
only  deepens  the  mystery,  for  now  there  is  a  miss- 
ing arm  and  a  missing  prosthesis.  In  1952  the 
statue  was  moved  to  Wriston  Quad. 

Behind  the  bas-relief  bronze  doors  of  the 
Annmary  Brown  Memorial  (below  left)  lie  the 
crypts  of  Annmary  Brown  Hawkins  and  her  hus- 
band. General  Rush  Hawkins.  The  mausoleum  also 
contains  Hawkins's  collection  of  incunabula  and 
paintings,  which  was  given  to  the  University  in  1948. 

The  doors,  created  by  Austin  Hayes, 
are  signed  and  dated  1905,  and  the 
allegorical  figures  on  them  repre- 
sent art  and  learning.  Since 
1907,  when  the  memorial  was 
completed,  the  building  has 
remained  a  rare-book  reposi- 
tory, an  art  gallery,  and  a 
mausoleum. 


aura  and  David  Finn,  who  saw  three  chil- 
dren graduate  from  Brown,  gave  Henry 
Moore's  Bridge-Prop  (top  right)  as  a  first  step  in  a 
plan  to  make  sculpture  "a  living  and  vital  experi- 
ence" on  campus,  so  that  "students  can  encounter 
great  works  of  art  in  environments  best  suited  to 
reveal  their  inner  qualities."  Students  immediately 
perceived  the  bronze's  additional  potential  as 
backrest,  chaise  longue,  and  social  center  during 
sunbathing  months. 

Following  the  Finns'  lead.  Art  Joukowsky  '55, 
vice  chancellor  of  the  University,  and  his  wife, 
Martha  '58,  associate  professor  of  Old  World 
archaeology  and  art,  commissioned  and  gave  to 
the  University  two  modern  sculptures:  I  '/^  (right) 
and  S.75  -  AL  -  America  One  (above  and  above 
center).  At  the  dedication  of  1  'A  during  Commence- 
ment weekend  in  1985,  Joukowsky  said,  "Brown 
needs  more  areas  of  comfort  and  peace  and  poten- 
tial contemplation.  It's  wonderful  for  kids  to 
grow  up  with  these  kinds  of  things  around  them, 
rather  than  just  see  them  in  museums." 

1  %,  which  is  made  of  bronze  and  stainless 
steel  and  rests  on  black  Swedish  granite,  was 


made  by  Carla  Lavatelli,  an  American  sculptor 
working  in  Italy.  Nine  feet  tall  and  weighing  more 
than  7,000  pounds,  the  piece  stands  near  Manning 
Walkway,  between  the  Geochemistry  Building 
and  the  Sciences  Library.  A  smaller  version  of  the 
sculpture  is  on  the  campus  of  Stanford  University. 
Of  her  work,  Lavatelli  says,  "I  have  continued 
to  struggle  to  make  beautiful  forms  and  beautiful 
places,  places  where  my  work  and  my  sculptures 
could  be  alive  and  one  could  stop  awhile  and 
be  inspired." 

America  One  is  the  work  of  Yugoslavian  sculp- 
tor Dusan  Dzamonja.  Dedicated  on  October  12, 
1990,  the  giant  spherical  metal  piece  stands  by  the 
main  entrance  to  the  Thomas  J.  Watson  Sr.  Center 
for  Information  Technology.  Joukowsky  commis- 
sioned the  work  after  seeing  some  of  Dzamonja's 
sculpture  on  a  visit  to  Zagreb.  Dzamonja  is  known 
for  public  monuments  dedicated  to  the  heroes  and 
victims  of  World  War  II.  He  uses  found  objects 
such  as  nails  and  chains  to  create  his  sculptures, 
and  much  of  his  work  contains  circles  and  spheres 
as  symbols  of  unity.  El 


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By  Cris  Barrish 


A  Legal  Legend 


An  outstanding  orator  at  Brown, 
Louis  Lorenzo  Redding  '23  has 
made  his  voice  count  in  the  fight 
for  civil  rights 


■         he  small  crowd  gasped  as 

I        Louis  Lorenzo  Redding  '23 
^L      was  rolled  up  in  his  wheel- 
chair for  a  statue  unveiling  in  Wilming- 
ton, Delaware,  last  May.  At  ninety-one. 
Redding  is  blind,  nearly  deaf,  and  living 
in  a  nursing  home.  His  surprise  visit 
to  the  ceremony  is  the  last  public  appear- 
ance he  has  made. 

The  bronze  statue,  located  in  front 
of  the  newly  named  Louis  L.  Redding 
City-County  Building,  depicts  Redding, 
Delaware's  first  black  lawyer  and  a 
champion  of  desegregation,  standing 
behind  a  black  boy  and  a  white  girl  car- 
rying schoolbooks.  Since  Redding 
couldn't  see  the  sculpture,  before  it  was 
installed,  artist  Charles  Parks  helped  lift 
him  so  he  could  feel  it.  "You  could  see 
his  face  light  up  when  he  touched  the 
mustache,"  Parks  says. 

Despite  Redding's  years,  his  voice 
was  strong  and  clear  that  day  as  he 
urged  young  African- Americans  to  keep 
up  the  fight  for  civil  rights:  "They  should 
be  aware  that  the  opportunities  which 
they  have  now  did  not  come  easily. 
They  had  to  be  fought  for  right  up  and 
down  the  line.  Those  opportunities 
should  be  guided  and  guarded  so  they 
don't  slip  away." 

It's  a  fight  he  has  fought  long  and 
well.  Redding  was  one  of  few  blacks  in 
his  undergraduate  class  at  Brown  and 
the  only  black  graduating  from  Harvard 
Law  School  in  1928.  On  a  trip  home 
from  law  school  he  visited  a  Delaware 
courtroom  and  sat  down  to  observe  the 
proceedings.  A  bailiff  rudely  directed 

At  a  statue  unveiling  in  his  honor,  civil- 
rights  advocate  Louis  Redding  '23  urges 
young  African-Americans  not  to  let 
hard-fought-ior  opportunities  slip  away. 


him  to  the  Jim  Crow  section  reserved  for 
blacks.  When  Redding  refused,  two 
bailiffs  forced  him  off  the  premises.  He 
didn't  return  until  he  was  sworn  in 
there  as  the  state's  first  black  lawyer  in 
1929  -  he  would  remain  its  only  black 
lawyer  for  the  next  twenty-six  years. 

Redding's  Ust  of  accomplishments  is 
long.  He  worked  closely  with  the  late 
Thurgood  Marshall,  then  a  lawyer  for  the 
National  Association  for  the  Advance- 
ment of  Colored  People,  on  several 
cases,  including  the  1954  Broum  v.  Board 
of  Education  case  that  desegregated 
schools  nationwide.  Redding  won  two 
cases  against  Delaware  school  districts, 
which  became  part  of  the  naacp's 
desegregation  campaign. 

Five  years  earlier  he  had  won  a  dis- 
crimination case  against  the  University  of 
Delaware  for  its  refusal  to  admit  thirty 
black  students,  the  first  time  a  court  had 
ordered  a  state  school  to  desegregate. 

Another  of  his  cases  became  a  law- 
school  textbook  case.  In  1961  the  Supreme 
Court  ruled  that  a  Wilmington  restau- 
rant located  in  a  federally  funded  build- 
ing couldn't  refuse  service  to  a  black 
city  councilman. 

The  son  of  a  Wilmington  mailman 
who  had  graduated  from  Howard  Uni- 
versity, Redding  often  took  cases  of  black 
clients  who  could  pay  Uttle  or  nothing, 
in  addition  to  the  ones  with  national 
significance.  He  never  became  wealthy, 
but  he,  his  wife,  and  three  children  lived 
comfortably  in  rural  Pennsylvania. 
Always  impeccably  dressed,  he  liked  to 
visit  New  York  City  to  buy  suits,  catch 
a  play,  or  see  the  tennis  matches  at 
Forest  Hill. 

Earlier  this  year  Littleton  Mitchell,  a 
longtime  friend  and  former  head  of  the 
NAACP  in  Delaware,  visited  Redding 
at  the  nursing  home  and  found  him 
napping  in  a  day  room.  Mitchell  tapped 
Redding  on  the  shoulder.  "Lou,  it's  Lit," 
he  said  c^uietly. 

Redding  woke  instantly.  He  sat  up 
and  smoothed  his  multicolored  V-neck 
sweater  and  beige  slacks.  "Hello,  how 
are  you?"  he  asked  in  a  booming  voice. 
"Thank  you  for  stopping  by." 


Redding's  voice  -  at  times  sonorous, 
often  a  commanding  whisper,  always 
dignified  -  has  always  been  one  of  his 
hallmarks.  At  Brown  he  won  several 
prizes  in  oratory,  and  his  speeches  drew 
crowds.  He  was  selected  to  give  a  Com- 
mencement address  based  on  an  origi- 
nal essay  on  Booker  T.  Washington.  He 
spoke  of  the  "demonstration  of  personal 
greatness  that  this  man,  born  without 
patrimony  or  name,  should  leave  a  vast 
heritage  -  magnified  by  being  shared 
among  the  thousands." 

Actually,  Redding's  graduation 
from  Brown  had  been  a  little  touch  and 
go.  Though  an  excellent  scholar,  he  didn't 
pass  the  school's  swimming  require- 
ment until  Commencement  eve. 

His  memories  of  Brown  are  now 
fading,  but  a  few  remain  clear.  "I  don't 
remember  anybody's  saying.  Look,  you 
should  go  to  Brown,"  he  says.  "But  I 
was  influenced  by  two  people,  neither 
of  whom  was  aware  of  it."  One  was 
Nellie  Nicholson  '11,  his  teacher  at  all- 
black  Howard  High  School  in  Wilming- 
ton, and  the  other  was  Samuel  Milton 
'23,  a  black  student  he  had  met  at  a 
party,  whose  older  brother,  Lorimer  '20, 
'20  A.M.,  was  at  Brown.  Two  qualities 
stood  out  in  Nicholson  and  Milton,  he 
recalls:  "Their  bearing  and  speech  im- 
pressed me  greatly.  So  1  went  to  Brown." 

When  asked  about  his  favorite  place 
in  Providence,  Redding  hesitates,  then 
begins  laughing.  "There  was  a  place 
where  we  went  to  find  girls,"  he  recalls. 
"We  went  to  church."  He  adds,  however, 
that  he  didn't  care  much  for  organized 
religion. 

Reflecting  on  his  career.  Redding 
downplays  his  "so-called  achievements," 
but  there  is  one  he  clearly  values  most  - 
breaking  the  racial  barrier  of  the  Dela- 
ware bar.  "If  anything  is  important,  that 
is,"  he  says.  "I  think  that  alone  helped 
because  there  are  more  and  more  Negroes 
now.  They've  come  in  bit  by  bit,  and  as 
long  as  they  do  well  at  the  bar,  that  in  and 
of  itself  is  quite  an  important  factor."  ED 

Cris  Barrish  writes  about  government  for 
the  Wilmington  News  Journal. 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /  39 


Books 

By  James  Reinbold 


The  money  trap 

Your  Monci/  or  Your  Life:  Trnusfprmiu;^ 
Your  ReliJtiouihip  with  Monexi  and  Achiev- 
ing Financial  Independence  by  Joe  Domin- 
guez  and  Vicki  Robin  '67  (Viking,  New 
York  City,  1992),  S20. 

We  work,  we  pick  up  our  paycheck,  we 
spend  our  paycheck.  Most  of  us,  says 
Vicki  Robin,  are  consumed  by  making 
money  and  spending  money,  trapped  in 
a  neyer-ending  cycle.  We  are  a  nation 
of  profligate  consumers,  and  our  goy- 
emment  is  a  heedless  spender  -  for 
proof,  look  at  the  morbidly  bloated 
national  debt. 

In  Your  Mone\j  or  Your  Life,  Robin 
and  coauthor  Joe  Dominguez,  her  com- 
panion for  many  years,  label  this  coun- 
try's obsession  with  the  accumulation  of 
wealth  an  addiction.  Americans,  swal- 
lowing the  cultural  creed  that  more  is 
better,  are  constantly  trying  to  make  more 
money.  "Two  of  the  emotional  driyers 
are  fear  and  greed,"  Robin  said  in  a  tele- 
phone interyiew  from  Seattle,  where 
she  is  president  of  the  New  Road  Map 
Foundation.  The  non-profit  organization 
offers  financial  support  to  grassroots 
organizations  which  deal  with  enyiron- 
mental  and  ecological  matters,  conflict 
resolution,  empowerment,  and  bottom- 
up  change  issues. 

Your  Moneii  or  Your  Life  is  a  financial 
management  plan,  but  unlike  others 
it  emphasizes  values,  ethics,  and  fulfill- 
ment. Furthermore,  it  questions  long- 
held  assumptions  about  money.  Most 
people,  Robin  believes,  do  not  even 
know  what  material  level  they  want  to 
achieve.  "People  do  not  set  limits,"  she 
says;  "they  never  define  how  much 
is  enough."  Using  a  nine-step  program 
outlined  in  the  book,  Robin  shows  peo- 
ple how  to  free  themselves  from  the 
cycle  of  consumption. 

Her  program  is  designed  to  transform 
the  way  we  think  about,  earn,  and  spend 
money.  It  is  a  method  for  getting  out  of 
debt,  for  developing  a  savings  plan,  and 
for  rearranging  material  priorities.  The 
system  is  not  based  upon  sacrifice  or 
deprivation,  but  simply  on  clarifying 
what  brings  happiness  and  fulfillment. 


"Most  of  us  are  asleep  when  we 
spend,"  Robin  says;  we  just  go  through 
the  motions.  She  has  received  letters 
from  many  erstwhile  members  of  Shop- 
pers Anonymous.  One  woman  filled  her 
garage  with  purchases  and  then  bought 
a  storage  shed  to  accommodate  even 
more.  Another  bought  sets  and  sets  of 
china,  which  she  left  unopened  in  the 
original  boxes. 

"Money  is  what  you  trade  your  life 
energy  for,"  Robin  says.  "If  we  take  a 
long  look  at  how  we  spend  our  money, 
we  will  quickly  reorder  our  priorities. 
Things  which  don't  bring  pleasure  will 
disappear." 

Robin  says  that  following  her  nine- 
step  program  will  result  in  a  twenty- 
percent  reduction  in  expenditures,  which, 
in  turn,  will  increase  individual  or  family 
savings.  Of  the  world's  industrialized 
nations,  the  United  States  ranks  last  in 
per-capita  saving.  Among  those  indi- 
viduals who  do  save,  the  average  Amer- 
ican saves  only  three  to  four  percent  of 
his  or  her  income. 

Now  in  its  eighth  printing,  with 
115,000  copies  in  print,  Robin's  book  is 
in  its  second  year  on  the  New  York  Times 
bestseller  list.  Before  writing  it,  Robin 
presented  similar  material  in  seminars 
and  on  an  audiocassette  (which  is  still 
available  from  the  New  Road  Map 
Foundation). 

"When  Dan  Quayle  brought  up  the 
whole  issue  of  family  values  during  the 
last  presidential  campaign,  he  missed 
one  key  element,"  Robin  says.  "There 
was  once  a  river  of  thrift  that  ran  through 
this  country;  now  it  has  all  but  dried  up." 

She  recently  returned  from  a  ten-city 
promotional  tour  and  was  surprised  by 
the  positive  response  to  the  book's  mes- 
sage. "I  felt  as  if  I  was  performing  a  cul- 
tural intervention  in  our  addiction  to 
consumption,"  Robin  says.  "The  mes- 
sage is  universal.  All  of  us  have  bought 
into  the  lie  that  more  is  better.  But  stan- 
dard of  living  has  nothing  to  do  with 
quality  of  life." 


Going  hack  to  old  values,  such  as 
cutting  consumption  and  saving,  can 
have  enormous  benefits  not  only  for 
individual  families  but  for  the  country 
as  a  whole.  "Backpedaling  can  actually 
push  us  ahead,"  Robin  believes. 

Why?  Because  there  is  more  to  life 
than  nine  to  five. 


Of  winged  rhinoceroses 

The  Medieval  Menagerie:  Animals  in  the 
Art  of  the  Middle  Ages  by  Janetta  Heboid 
Benton  '82  Ph.D.  (Abbeville  Press,  New 
York  City,  1992),  $29.95. 

Medieval  artists  portrayed  an  endless 
array  of  animals,  from  the  familiar 
(horses,  cows,  household  pets)  to  the 
exotic  (camels,  lions,  and  elephants) 
to  the  imaginary  (dragons,  unicorns, 
griffins,  and  hydras).  All  were  pre- 
sented with  equal  verisimihtude. 

Bestiaries,  popular  compendia  of 
animal  information,  analogy,  and 
imagery,  "demonstrate  that  medieval 
interest  in  animals  was  based  largely 
on  their  usefulness  as  symbols,  particu- 
larly for  allegorical  purposes,"  Benton 
writes.  "The  characteristics  and  habits 
attributed  by  bestiary  writers  to  both  real 
and  imaginary  animals  were  designed 
to  make  them  effective  as  moral  and  reli- 
gious models."  Lion  cubs,  for  example, 
were  said  to  be  born  dead  and  resur- 
rected by  the  father  lion  three  days  later. 

Using  the  menagerie,  Benton  explores 
the  medieval  vision  of  the  world  and  its 
attitudes  toward  antiquity,  science,  and 
the  meaning  of  artistic  representation. 
The  text  is  illustrated  by  fifty  black-and- 
white  and  100  color  photographs  of 
medieval  paintings,  sculpture,  decora- 
tive arts,  and  manuscripts. 

Benton  is  a  professor  of  art  history 
at  Pace  University,  Pleasantville,  New 
York,  and  a  lecturer  at  the  Metropolitan 
Museum  of  Art  in  New  York  City.  ED 


40  /  MARCH  1993 


Three  Chinese  writers 

continued  from  page  31 


Dozens  of  cows  cried  all 
night  long  in  the  freezing  cold., 


It  was  very  late  when  I  got  back  to  my  yurt. 

Dozens  of  cows  had  gathered  around  the 
spot  where  one  of  their  number  had  been 
slaughtered  that  day,  lowing  sadly.  They 
pawed  the  frozen  ground,  then  licked  the 
dried  traces  of  their  fallen  companion's  blood 
and  bellowed  sorrowfully,  tears  of  grief  turned 
to  frozen  residue  in  their  eyes.  Several  of  them 
actually  loped  over  to  a  spot  in  front  of  the 
yurt,  where  they  sniffed  the  felt  skin  and 
snorted  loudly. 

In  my  whole  life  I'd  never  seen  cows  actu- 
ally choking  with  sobs,  and  it  scared  me  at  first 
-  don't  you  come  rushing  in  and  trample  us  to 
death!  But  I  soon  realized  that  grief  hadn't 
clouded  their  reason,  after  all,  because  I  easily 
drove  them  away  with  a  few  well  placed  hits 
with  a  stick  . . .  but  it  wasn't  long  before  they 
came  together  again  . . .  there  was  no  way  1 
could  drive  them  away  for  good. 


Things  came  to  a  head  in  the  middle  of  the 
night.  Together  they  lowed  loud  and  long,  so 
choked  up  with  sobs  they  nearly  broke  down. 
How  could  we  sleep  with  that  racket  going  on? 

I  thought  back  to  the  gloomy  targets  of  the 
dictatorship  out  there  on  Dictatorship  of  the 
Proletariat  Square  . . .  the  lonely  old  woman 
with  the  white  cloth  pinned  on  her  back  way 
out  on  the  plains  . . .  the  boy  in  rags  sharing  a 
bone  with  his  dog  in  Daoerji's  yurt . . . 

Dozens  of  cows  cried  all  night  long  in  the 
freezing  cold.  What  a  miserable  night! 

The  Erenhot  steppe,  with  all  its  romanti- 
cism, seemed  shrouded  in  bitter  cold. 

-from  Blood-Red  Sunset,  a  novel  by  Lao  Gui 
(Ma  Bo),  translated  from  the  Chinese  by  Howard 
Goldblatt,  November  iggo. 


although  authorities  insist  it  has  not  been  banned. 
During  his  stay  in  Providence,  Ma  Bo  has  com- 
pleted a  sequel.  Bloody  Sunrise,  which  chronicles 
life  in  China  in  the  years  following  the  Cultural 
Revolution;  it  will  be  printed  and  published  in 
Taiwan.  (The  publication  in  English  of  Blood-Red 
Sunset  has  been  postponed  by  Viking/Penguin 
until  1994.) 

Long  before  Tiananmen  Square,  Ma  Bo  was  an 
activist.  He  participated  in  the  1979  Beijing  Spring 
Movement,  and  his  investigation  into  Chinese 
prisons  led  to  a  groundbreaking  report  on  human- 
rights  abuses  in  1984.  It  is  not  surprising  that  he 
was  in  Tiananmen  Square  from  the  beginning,  on 
April  15,  until  the  brutal  conclusion. 

After  the  June  4  massacre,  police  entered  his 
house  several  times.  "First  they  took  my  com- 
puter," he  says.  "Later,  they  came  back  and  took 
all  my  papers,  my  manuscripts,  and  the  drafts  of 
my  work." 


Fearing  further  censorship  and  imprisonment. 
Ma  Bo  escaped  by  boat  to  Hong  Kong,  then  made 
his  way  to  France  and  later  to  America.  After  sav- 
ing himself,  he  lived  in  fear  for  the  safety  of  his 
wife  and  son;  it  was  two  years  before  they  were 
permitted  to  join  him.  Today,  in  an  apartment  in 
the  Fox  Point  section  of  Providence,  Ma  Bo  is 
reunited  with  his  family  and  has  the  freedom  to 
write.  He  says  with  a  slight,  ironic  smile,  "I  lead 
a  very  boring  life.  In  the  morning  1  write.  In  the 
afternoon  I  read  the  newspaper.  And  in  the 
evening  1  watch  television." 

Ma  Bo  is  optimistic  about  democracy's  chances 
in  China.  He  wants  to  return  and  believes  he 
would  no  longer  be  in  peril  there.  "The  political 
atmosphere  is  changing,"  he  says,  "because  of  eco- 
nomic issues."  Ma  Bo  may  be  accepted  in  China 
if  he  remains  silent,  but  that  is  something  he  has 
never  been  known  to  do.  Q 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /  41 


The  Classes 

By  James  Reinbold  and  David  Scott  Westreich 


Hope  you  have  reserved  the  weekend  of 
May  28-31  for  your  reunion.  You  should 
receive  your  registration  mailing  any  day 
now.  When  you  do,  please  fill  it  out  and 
return  it  as  soon  as  possible  so  that  the 
reunion  activities  committee  can  finalize  all 
plans.  If  you  have  any  questions  about  the 
weekend,  please  call  reunion  headquarters  at 
(401)  863-1947. 


25 


m  Comdr.  Erwin  Aymar  has  returned  to 
Carl  Vinson  Hall,  a  Navy,  Marine,  and  Coast 
Guard  retirement  residence  for  officers  and 
their  spouses,  widows  of  officers,  and  single 
officers.  The  address  is  6251  Old  Dominion 
Dr.,  Apt.  349,  McLean,  Va.  22101.  He  spent 
the  past  two  years  in  Florida  during  the  ter- 
minal illness  of  his  wife,  Frances. 


The  class  of  1928  will  celebrate  its  65th 
reunion  on  Friday,  May  28,  and  Saturday, 
May  29, 1993.  Remember  to  save  the  dates. 
Alumni  Relations  will  pav  all  of  the  costs  of 
the  reunion  other  than  the  Saturciay  lun- 
cheon to  be  held  off  campus.  If  you  or  some- 
one you  know  did  not  receive  a  fall  reunion 
mailing,  please  call  reunion  headquarters  at 
(401)  863-3380. 


133 

P  Thp  rla 


The  class  of  1933  will  celebrate  its  6oth 
reunion  on  the  weekend  of  May  28-31,  1993. 
Remember  to  save  the  dates.  A  registration 
packet  will  be  mailed  to  you  soon  -  please 
return  the  forms  as  early  as  possible.  If  you 
have  any  questions,  please  call  reunion  head- 
quarters at  (401)  863-1947. 


38 


-    The  class  of  1938  will  celebrate  its  55th 
reunion  on  the  weekend  of  May  28-31,  1993. 
Remember  to  save  the  dates.  A  registration 
packet  will  be  mailed  to  you  soon  -  please 
return  the  forms  as  early  as  possible.  If  you 
or  someone  you  know  did  not  receive  a  fall 
reunion  mailing,  please  call  reunion  head- 
quarters at  {401)  863-1947. 


41 


Dr.  Arthur  I.  Holleb,  Larchmont,  N.Y., 
has  retired,  but  remains  active  as  a  volunteer 
for  the  American  Cancer  Society.  Arthur  has 
four  grandchildren,  but,  he  writes,  they're 
not  quite  ready  to  apply  to  Brown  yet.  "It's 
interesting  to  see  my  class  move  to  the  front 
page  of  the  class  notes  -  certainly  better  than 
being  listed  in  the  back  section." 


43 


:  Apologies  to  the  class  of  '4^;  due  to  a  typeset- 
ting error,  the  following  reunion  notice  appeared 
under  '42  in  the  Winter  issue.  -  Editor 

Draw  a  red  circle  around  the  dates  May 
28-31.  They  will  be  red-letter  days  in  our 
lives  as  we  celebrate  fifty  years  since  gradu- 
ating from  Brown.  Come  back  to  Providence 
to  share  memories  of  college  and  to  update 
the  stories  of  our  lives  with  classmates. 
Another  exciting  joint  reunion  is  planned. 
Most  class  of  '43  activities  will  be  held  near 
the  Alpha  Chi  Omega  house,  our  campus 
headquarters  located  in  Wriston  Quadrangle. 

After  a  welcoming  cocktail  party  there  on 
Friday  night,  we'll  walk  100  yards  to  a  class 
dinner  at  the  Brown  Bear  Buffet  in  the  Refec- 
tory. And  later,  for  watchers  and  dancers,  we 
have  a  table  saved  for  us  at  the  Campus 
Dance.  Not  your  preference?  Then  you  can 
attend  the  theater  or  visit  with  friends  -  so 
many  choices. 

On  Saturday  morning  and  afternoon  you 
may  choose  to  participate  in  the  faculty- 
inspired,  mind-expanding  Commencement 
forums  or  wander  around  campus  to  see  the 
changes  in  our  alma  mater  during  the  past 
fifty  years  -  new  buildings  and  renovations 
to  buildings  that  were  so  familiar  to  us.  Yes, 
there  will  be  a  map.  The  traditionally  sepa- 
rate luncheons  are  planned  for  the  men  and 
women  at  noon.  The  women's  luncheon,  to 
which  the  wives  of  the  men  of  '43  are  cor- 
dially invited,  will  be  at  the  Faculty  Club.  On 
Saturday  night  there'll  be  a  change  of  pace 
for  all  '43ers  and  their  guests  with  an  elegant 
dinner  at  a  country  club  followed  by  the 
Pops  Concert  back  on  campus  -  we'll  be 
seated  at  reserved  tables  with  our  classmates. 
Other  activities  are  available  for  Saturday 
evening  if  you  so  choose,  and  headquarters 
will  always  be  open  for  an  opportunity  to 
visit  with  classmates.  That's  an  overview  of 
only  the  first  two  days  of  Reunion  50. 


What's  new? 

Please  send  the  latest  about  your  job, 
family,  travels,  or  other  news  to  The 
Classes,  Broion  Alumni  Monthly,  Box 
1854,  Providence,  R.l.  02912;  fax  (401) 
751-9255;  e-mail  BAM@brownvm. 
brown.edu.  Or  you  may  send  a  note 
via  your  class  secretary.  Deadline  for 
the  June/July  issue:  April  15. 


Have  you  received  your  registration 
packet?  With  so  many  exciting  activities,  you 
will  want  to  let  Brown  know  that  you're 
coming  and  send  in  your  registration  as  soon 
as  possible.  Do  you  know  someone  who  has 
not  received  a  registration  packet?  Phone 
(401)  863-1947,  and  one  will  be  sent  pronto. 

The  1943-1993  Yearbook  will  be  sent  to  us 
early  in  April,  and  we'll  be  able  to  look  up 
the  phone  numbers  and  addresses  of  those 
special  '43ers  whom  we  would  like  to  see 
and  to  share  this  5oth-reunion  once-in-a-life- 
time  experience  with.  There  will  be  many 
"singles,"  and  some  will  travel  with  friends  - 
all  will  be  welcome  -  it  will  be  a  celebration 
to  include  everyone.  Return  for  reunion! 
-  Carol  Taylor  Carlisle 

"With  the  help  of  a  hardworking  commit- 
tee, the  fund-raising  campaign  is  receiving  a 
wonderful  response.  Of  course,  we  are  aim- 
ing for  100  percent  participation  -  that  would 
truly  be  good  news,"  report  Lois  Lindblom 
Buxton  and  Jay  Fidler. 


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Carolyn  Helliwell  Campbell  volunteers  in 
kindergarten  -  "sort  of  a  resident  grandma" 
-  and  as  a  driver  for  Senior  Home  Care  Ser- 
vices, taking  nondriving  elders  to  doctors' 
appointments.  Her  retired  husband,  a  certi- 
fied ski  instructor,  can  be  found  either  on  the 
slopes  or  the  golf  course.  They  live  in  Tops- 
field,  Mass.,  "healthy,  happy,  and  seeing  a  lot 
of  our  five  grandchildren  -  ages  9  to  2." 

Dr.  Richard  E.  Deutch,  Miami,  writes  that 
Hurricane  Andrew  put  him  out  of  business 
for  almost  three  months,  but  things  are  now 
back  to  normal. 

Don  Greenebaum  is  retired;  he  and  his 
wife,  Janet,  have  six  grandchildren.  His 
career  has  encompassed  the  family  leather- 
tanning  business,  metal  fabricating,  real 
estate,  and  a  Milwaukee  travel  agency  with 
which  he  remains  associated.  He  plays  golf 
and  tennis  and  attends  the  opera,  ballet,  and 
symphony.  Don  would  Hke  to  hear  news  of 
George  Aronson  and  Paul  Green.  Winter 


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address:  9080  N.  8fath  PI.,  Scott^dalc,  Ariz. 
85258-1934.  Summer:  1469  E.  Goodrich  Ln., 
MiluMiikeo,  Wis.  s'!^  17-2950. 

Edna  L.  Weed  Logan  moved  two  years  ago 
from  0<\lui  to  tho  bi^  isl.ind  of  Hawaii  with 
her  daughter,  son-in-law,  and  grandchildren 
The  move  coincided  with  Edna's  retirement 
as  director  of  the  Kapiolani/  Strauh  Children's 
Center  after  fifteen  years  with  Hawaii  Child 
Centers.  She  now  teaches  twenty  three-vear- 
oldsat  W'aikoloa  Baptist  Keikiland. 

Robert  H.  Mareneck,  Kingston,  Jamaica, 
is  now  in  his  fifth  year  volunteering  as  coun- 
try director  in  Jamaica  for  International  Exec- 
utive Service  Corps.  He  and  his  wife.  Ruby, 
feel  thev  are  "doing  some  good"  developing 
projects  in  the  Jamaican  private  sector.  On 
the  home  front,  their  seven  children  (Ruby's 
two  and  his  five)  and  ten  grandchildren  are 
in  all  stages  of  hfe.  Granddaughter  Alpha 
Anderson  graduated  from  Pitzer  College  in 
California  in  May.  Members  of  all  three  gen- 
erations have  now  attended  nine  colleges 
and  universities.  "We've  considered  estab- 
hshing  a  special  conference,"  Robert  writes. 
He  would  love  to  hear  from  classmates  at  the 
Pegasus  Hotel,  Box  133,  Kingston  s,  Jamaica. 

Bunny  Meyer,  Atlanta,  saw  her  stature 
increase  in  her  u-year-old  grandtiaughter 
Dara's  eves  this  year.  An  aspiring  writer,  Dara 
attended  a  talk  by  her  favorite  children's 
book  author,  Lois  Hammersberg  Lowry  '58, 
and  was  thrilled  to  learn  that  Lois  had  atten- 
ded her  grandmother's  alma  mater.  After- 
wards Dara  dragged  Bunny  to  a  book  signing, 
where  the  author  and  the  grandmother 
exchanged  memories  of  Pembroke,  while 
"Dara  basked  in  the  glow  of  this  unexpected 
development."  Lois  was  profiled  in  the  Win- 
ter issue  of  the  BAM. 

WiUiam  Stone,  San  Antonio,  recovered 
from  prostate  surgery  and  is  back  on  the 
squash  court.  Still  teaching  and  researching, 
William  was  flattered  to  receive  the  Distin- 
guished Texas  Geneticist  Award  last  May 
from  the  Texas  Genetics  Societv.  His  son, 
Alexander,  graduates  from  high  school  next 
June  and  plans  to  apply  to  Brown. 

■  Hope  you  have  reserved  the  weekend  of 
May  28-31  for  your  reunion.  You  should 
receive  your  registration  mailing  any  day  now. 
When  you  do,  please  fill  it  out  and  return  it 
as  soon  as  possible  so  that  the  reunion  activi- 
ties committees  can  finalize  plans.  If  you 
have  any  questions  about  the  weekend,  please 
call  reunion  headquarters  at  (401)  863-1947. 

Robert  R.  Eisner,  Milwaukee,  is  a  vice 
president  with  Manpower  Inc.  As  owner  of  a 
1916  Frank  Lloyd  Wright  house,  Robert  was 
a  patron  of  the  Milwaukee  Art  Museum's 
show,  "Wright  in  Wisconsin"  upon  the  125th 
anniversary  of  Wright's  birth  .  Two  children 
attended  Brown:  John  '80  and  Margaret  '86. 


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The  class  sends  its  condolences  to  Jean 
Amirault  Brown  on  the  loss  of  her  husband, 
Charles  J.  Brown.  We  also  send  our  condo- 
lences to  the  tamilies  of  Dr.  Phihp  Storer 
Campbell,  Kuno  K.J.  Doctor,  and  Dr  George 
Ginsberg.  -  MatI  Fciii 

William  P.  Hinckley,  Southhampton,  N.J., 
writes  that  his  daughter,  Marjorie  H.  Garard, 
married  into  a  golfing  family  and  moved  to 
Denver.  She  took  up  the  game  about  a  year 
ago  and  won  the  first  three  tournaments  she 
entered  -  four  months  pregnant  and  with  a 
one-stroke  handicap.  "When,  oh  when,  do 
we  get  a  football  team  that  wins  a  few 
games?"  William  writes.  "We  laughed  at 
Columbia;  now  it  is  our  turn." 

Leslie  Wendel,  Brooklyn,  Conn.,  reports 
that  Sam  Abt  lives  in  Paris,  where  he  is 
deputy  editor  of  the  Inlcnmtional  Tribune. 

Suzanne  R.  Zeckhausen,  Wilbraham,  Mass., 
announces  the  engagement  of  her  daughter, 
Tracey  '85,  to  David  Poole  of  Springfield, 
Mass.,  a  student  at  Boston  University  School 
of  Theology.  They  plan  an  October  wedding. 


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Nancy  T.  Bowers,  Apopka,  Ha.,  writes  that 
when  Security  First  Savings  and  Loan  was 
sold,  she  embarked  on  a  new  career  with  the 
Orlando  office  of  Right  Associates,  a  human- 
resources  consulting  firm.  She  now  conducts 
career-development  seminars  for  major  com- 
panies -  "my  dream  job,"  she  writes.  In  addi- 
tion, she  is  plugging  away  on  her  M.B.A.  at 
the  University  of  Central  Florida.  "One  of 
these  years  1  u'lll  get  that  degree." 


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Britten  Dean's  second  volume  of  trans- 
lations of  the  contemporary  Chinese  woman 
writer  Cheng  Naishan  was  published  in 
December  1992  by  China  Books,  San  Francisco. 
Set  in  Shanghai  during  World  War  II,  The 
Banker  is  a  historical  novel  that  chronicles  the 
banking  career  of  the  author's  grandfather. 
Britten  is  professor  of  East  Asian  history  at 
California  State  University,  Stanislaus. 

Michael  Stern  (see  Richard  Stern  '88). 


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,'-   The  time  has  come  to  celebrate  the  35th, 
May  28-31.  Look  for  your  registration  mail- 
ing this  month,  and  return  the  forms  as  soon 
as  possible  so  we  can  save  you  a  spot. 

Lois  Hammersberg  Lowry  (see  Bunny 
Meyer  '^M. 


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Celebrate  with  us  May  28-31  -  the  40th  is 
a  big  reunion.  Return  your  registration  forms 
as  soon  as  you  receive  them. 


Cynthia  Wayne  Acker,  Hinsdale,  111., 
reports  that  her  son,  Richard  Acker  '91,  is 
attending  Princeton's  Woodrow  Wilson 
School  to  earn  his  M.P.A.  with  a  specializa- 
tion in  global  environmental  issues.  Her 
daughter,  Jennifer,  is  a  junior  at  Brown. 

John  F.  Bennett,  Fort  Lauderdale,  Fla., 
opened  a  second  building-material  supply 


location  m  Miami  to  service  construction 
rebuilding  efforts  after  Hurricane  Andrew. 
"The  devastation  is  absolutely  unbelievable." 

Dr.  Jim  Botwick,  Hilton  Head,  S.C,  is 
urging  his  2-year-old  grandson  to  preapply 
to  the  class  of  2013. 

Joseph  P.  Carr  retired  from  Royal  Insur- 
ance on  Jan.  3  and  now  owns  a  human- 
resources  consulting  company  in  Rock  Hill, 
S.C,  where  he  lives.  He  is  completing  his  sec- 
ond term  as  chair  of  the  York  County  Board 
of  Mental  Retardaticm  and  Developmental 
Disabilities.  He  and  his  wife,  Roz,  have 
started  Lizzie  Tish  Fashions  for  women. 

Raynor  W.  Clark,  Killingworth,  Conn., 
reports  that  his  son,  Scott  Clark  '95,  is  a 
member  of  Brown's  soccer  team.  Though 
sidelined  last  season  by  injuries,  Scott  looks 
forward  to  playing  next  fall. 

Gordon  Cohen,  Orange,  Conn.,  reports 
two  granddaughters  born  this  year:  Sarah 
Anne  Alpert,  to  Bruce  and  Terry  Cohen 
Alport  '85;  and  Katelyn  Marie  MacDougald, 
to  Joe  '87  and  Lisa  Cohen  MacDougald  '87. 

Dr.  John  M.  Cohen  practices  pediatrics  at 
Newton-Wellesley  (Mass.)  Hospital;  he 
recently  finished  five  years  as  a  call-in  pedia- 
trician for  the  midday  news  on  wcvb-tv  in 
Boston.  He  also  has  been  featured  in  Ameri- 
can Baby  and  on  "The  Maury  Povich  Show." 
John  lives  in  Boston. 

Stephen  A.  Cohen  and  his  wife,  Eileen,  of 
Sands  Point,  N.Y.,  celebrated  their  28th  wed- 
ding anniversary  last  summer  by  traveling  in 
Italy.  They  plan  to  go  to  Zimbabwe  next 
summer.  Oldest  son  David  graduated  from 
Hofstra  Law  School,  passed  the  New  York 
and  New  Jersey  bar  exams,  and  works  for  a 
law  firm  in  New  York  City.  Middle  son  Peter 
'90  returned  from  a  two-year  stint  in  Tokyo 
to  enroll  at  New  York  University  School  of 
Law.  Youngest  son  Jonathan  attends  Wash- 
ington University  in  St.  Louis,  majoring  in 
German  and  English.  Stephen  has  been  prac- 
ticing law  for  thirty  years  and  is  a  partner 
with  Morrison,  Cohen,  Singer,  &  Weensteens, 
New  York  City.  Classmate  Henry  A.  Singer 
and  Leslie  D.  Corwyn  '69  are  also  partners 
there,  and  Amy  Reiss  '84  is  an  associate. 

Dr.  Philip  J.  DiSaia  was  named  to  Good 
Houselieeputg  magazine's  Ust  of  the  best  can- 
cer specialists  in  the  United  States.  A  profes- 
sor of  obstetrics  and  gynecology,  Philip  holds 
the  Dorothy  Marsh  Chair  for  Reproductive 
Biology  at  the  University  of  California, 
Irvine;  his  research  includes  methods  of 
treating  ovarian  cancer. 

Arthur  Goldberg,  Chestnut  Hill,  Mass., 
had  his  first  compact  disc,  A  Chance  to  Love, 
released  by  Blue  Hill  Recordings.  He  is 
working  on  a  second  recording. 

S.  Albert  Hanser  lives  in  Minneapolis.  His 
son,  Albert,  is  a  freshman  who  plays  rugby 
and  club  hockey. 

Ron  Harrison,  Salem,  Mass.,  reports  that 
his  daughter,  Whitney,  graduated  from  Van- 
derbilt  University,  and  his  son,  Bradford,  is  a 
senior  at  Elon  College  in  North  Carohna.  Ron 
enjoys  playing  as  much  golf  as  he  can  and 
looks  forward  to  mo\'ing  south. 

Preston  Hobart  owns  a  manufacturer's 
representative  firm  in  Seattle,  selling  elec- 


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troiiic  components  in  the  Pacific  Northwest. 
Son  Robert  is  a  senior  at  the  University  of 
Washington,  and  Tim  is  a  sophomore  at 
Western  Washington  University.  Preston  and 
his  wife  are  adopting  a  15-year-oId  deaf  girl 
from  Bulgaria. 

John  R.  Jolly,  Tarrytown,  N.Y.,  has  a 
daughter  Jacqueline,  I't?.  Older  daughter 
Vanessa  is  applying  to  Douglass  College  in 
Brunswick,  N.J.,  to  pursue  a  doctorate  in 
psychology. 

Dr.  Waiter  F.  King  m  married  Dr.  Brita 
Lehmann  on  September  8,  iggo.  Brita,  a 
school  psychologist,  and  Walter  live  in  Luck- 
enwalde,  Germany;  between  them,  they  have 
seven  grandchildren. 

Rohr  E.  Kresko  retired  as  managing  partner 
of  Trammell  Crow  Co.  in  December  1989  and 
is  vice  chairman  of  Nooney  Krombach  Co.  in 
St.  Louis.  His  outside  involvements  include 
the  Missouri  Botanical  Garden  and  the  Nahon- 
al  Tree  Trust.  Mike  Peters  and  family  spent  last 
Christmas  Eve  with  the  Kreskos  in  St.  Louis. 

Mel  S.  Lavitt,  New  York  City,  became  a 
managing  director  of  Unterberg  Harris,  a 
technology  and  life-science  investment  bank- 
ing firm,  in  August  1992. 

Arthur  L.  Levin  is  Hving  in  Pleasant  Val- 
ley, NY. 

Dr.  Donald  E.  Loew  continues  in  a  small 
group  practice  of  internal  medicine  and  cardi- 
ology in  Attleboro,  Mass.  After  thirty-five  years 
following  Brown  football,  he  is  convinced  the 
Bruins  will  win  the  Ivy  League  someday. 

Dudley  B.  Morrison,  Apex,  N.C.,  works 
for  the  state's  League  of  Municipalities.  He  is 
planning  for  the  National  Packard  Meet,  June 
21-25,  in  Asheville,  N.C,  This  year  marks  the 
fortieth  anniversary  of  the  Packard  owners' 
club  and  the  twenty-third  year  Dudley  has 
had  his  Packard. 

Bruce  W.  Mosher  spent  a  full  year  as  a 
legal  abstractor  under  the  title  Mosher  & 
Associates.  He  lives  in  Abbeville,  Ga. 

Jerry  Moskowitz  sees  classmate  Jake 
Weber  often  -  they  both  live  in  Mill  Valley, 
Calif.  On  a  trip  east  last  summer  Jerry  had  a 
nice  rendezvous  with  Pup  Mendelson. 

Vail  Palomino,  Oakland,  Calif.,  rebuilt  the 
house  he  lost  in  the  October  1991  fire  and  has 
moved  back.  More  construction  is  under 
way,  and  his  street  should  be  about  90  per- 
cent rebuilt  in  the  coming  year. 

Dr.  Alan  W.  Bobbins,  Freehold,  N.J.,  writes 
that  his  private  surgical  practice,  the  Hernia 
Center,  recently  opened  the  country's  first 
privately  owned,  office-based,  federally  certi- 
fied surgical  facility  for  the  practice  of  hernia 
surgery.  Patients  are  on  the  way  home  within 
a  few  hours  after  surgery  and  back  to  work 
several  days  later. 

Jack  J.  Rosenblum  coauthored  Maiingiiig 
from  the  Heart.  First  published  by  Delacorte  in 
September  1991,  the  book  is  now  in  its  third 
printing  and  will  be  out  in  paperback  in  June. 

Lewis  S.  Sandler,  Scarsdale,  NY.,  is 
remarried  to  Siv  Sjostrom  Adam.  His  son, 
Ted,  is  a  freshman  at  Tufts  University,  and 
Lewis  is  a  partner  at  Beigel  &  Sandler,  a  law 
firm  with  offices  in  New  York  City,  Chicago, 
and  Los  Angeles. 

Barry  Schwartz,  Wellesley,  Mass.,  writes 


that  all  four  kids  are  grown  and  self-support- 
ing: "1  now  have  'my  time.'  "  He  has  a  life 
insurance  and  mutual  fund  business  and  a 
small  recording  studio.  His  main  focus,  how- 
ever, is  Giving  Back,  which  trucks  100,000 
pounds  of  food  a  week  from  the  New  England 
Produce  Center  to  Boston  shelters,  rehabilita- 
tion centers,  and  twenty-eight  outdoor  loca- 
tions where  people  can  fill  bags  with  fresh 
produce  for  $1  each.  "It's  the  most  rewarding 
venture  Vve  been  involved  in." 

William  W.  Scott  of  Chevy  Chase,  Md., 
finished  his  eighth  Marine  Corps  marathon 
in  November.  "The  older  1  get,  the  longer  it 
takes,"  he  writes.  He  crossed  the  finish  line 
in  4  hours,  26  minutes  this  year.  His  best  time 
was  3  hours,  39  minutes  in  1985. 

Carolyn  Gaines  Specter  continues  to 
teach  French  at  Lane  Community  College 
and  reviews  hooks  for  klcc-fm,  a  National 
Public  Radio  station  in  Eugene,  Oreg.,  where 
she  lives  with  her  husband,  John  Bredisen, 
director  of  engineering  at  klcc/klco-fm. 
Daughter  Miriam,  23,  attends  school  in  Port- 
land, Oreg.,  and  son  Bob,  27,  is  a  video  editor 
in  San  Francisco. 

Jim  Steiner,  Montclair,  N.J.,  is  recovering 
from  lung  surgery  and  looking  forward  to 
playing  Softball  in  three  leagues  -  over  30, 
over  50,  and  over  tt. 

Dr.  Raymond  E.  Sullivan  completed  a 
three-year  term  as  chief  of  staff  at  the  Water- 
bury  (Conn.)  Hospital  Health  Center.  His 
son,  R.J.  '86,  Georgetown  '91  M.D.,  married 
Catherine  Beerman  '86,  '89  M.D.  R.J.  is  a  sec- 
ond-year orthopaedic  resident  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Pennsylvania,  and  Cathy  is  a  senior 
resident  in  pediatrics  at  Children's  Hospital 
of  Philadelphia.  Ray  Hves  in  Middlebury, 
Conn. 

Wallace  Terry  was  named  Seigenthaler 
Lecturer  for  the  John  Seigenthaler  Chair  of 
First  Amendment  Studies  at  Middle  Ten- 
nessee State  University  for  1992-93.  In  addi- 
tion, Wally  and  the  Unterberg  Poetry  Center 
in  New  York  sponsored  a  program  on  "The 
Vietnam  War:  Literature  and  Experience." 

Alan  Weber  writes:  "To  Aaron  and  Carl 
in  Massachusetts  -  from  Jake  and  Jerry  in 
Mill  Valley:  Get  ready  for  the  35th." 

Norman  White  remains  "underemployed 
-  i.e.,  idle  in  Florida."  Friends  are  welcome  to 
call  him  in  St.  Petersburg  at  (813)  894-5267. 


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Thomas  J.  Dunleavy,  North  Salem,  NY., 
announces  the  birth  of  a  fifth  grandchild  last 
August.  His  son  Daniel  plays  football  at 
Georgetown  University. 


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Jim  Butler,  Syracuse,  NY.,  was  inter- 
viewed on  the  public  television  program 
"The  Victory  Garden"  in  a  December  seg- 
ment that  featured  his  118-year-old  com- 
pany, Syracuse  Pottery.  It  ships  about  4,000 
tons  of  red-clay  pots  each  year  and  employs 
fifty  people.  The  show,  which  spotlights  pub- 
lic and  private  gardens,  was  taped  on-site  at 
the  factory  in  October. 


Tony  Booth  '57 


Scouting  in 
Siberia 


For  the  past  seventy  years,  scouting, 
regarded  as  a  singularlv  wholesome 
pursuit  in  the  West,  was  regarded  as  a 
dissident  activity  in  the  Soviet  Union. 
Thus,  among  the  multitude  of  changes 
wrought  by  the  union's  collapse  is  a 
resurgence  of  scouting  in  Russia. 

In  1991  the  Federation  of  the 
Scouts  of  Russia  was  created.  Its  lead- 
ers asked  the  Boy  Scouts  of  America  to 
help  them  get  started.  That  is  now  the 
job  of  Tony  Booth  '57,  project  director 
for  the  Siberian  Scout  Initiative  and  a 
professional  in  the  Boy  Scouts  since 
1959.  Booth  will  be  spending  thirty  to 
thirty-five  weeks  of  each  of  the  next 
three  years  in  Siberia  to  help  organize 
scouting  programs  for  youths  there,  he 
told  the  BAM. 

The  task  is  daunting.  While  an  esti- 
mated 1,000  scouts  participate  in 
thirty-two  groups  in  fifteen  Siberian 
cities,  virtually  no  adults  have  any 
knowledge  or  experience  in  scouting. 
Furthermore,  volunteerism  and  chari- 
table giving  are  foreign  concepts  to 
most  Russians.  Still,  Booth  is  optimis- 
tic. "My  wife,  Barbara,  and  I  are 
received  so  warmly  anti  openly  by  the 
Siberians  because  they  are  hungry  to 
provide  their  youth  with  new  oppor- 
tunities," he  says.  -  D.S.W. 


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■^T^JtelK. 


Hope  you  have  reserved  the  weekend  of 
May  28-31  for  your  reunion.  You  should 
receive  your  registration  mailing  any  day  now. 
When  you  do,  please  fill  it  out  and  return  it 
as  soon  as  possible  so  the  reunion  activities 
committees  can  finalize  all  plans.  If  you  have 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /  45 


>inv  iiiu'stions  iihinit  tliL'  weekend,  please  Ccill 
reiinum  headqii.irters  at  (401)  863-1947. 

Ann  Kidder  Bickford  is  an  associate  in 
insurance-a)\erai;e  litigation  with  Skadden, 
Arps,  Slate,  Meagher,  &  Hlom.  Her  son, 
David  'tij,  works  as  a  reference  librarian  at 
the  Phoenix,  Ari/..,  public  library.  Daughter 
Jill  graduated  trom  George  Washington  Uni- 
versity in  June  1992  and  is  an  information 
specialist  at  the  National  Clearinghouse  for 
Alcohol  and  Drug  hiformation  in  Rock\ille, 
Md.  Ann's  husband,  Larrv,  continues  as  a 
consultant  in  executive  compensation  for 
Frederick  VV.  Cook  &  Co. 

Steven  J.  Comen  has  become  a  partner  of 
the  law  firm  ot  Goodwin,  Procter  &  Hoar  in 
Boston.  He  concentrates  in  the  resolution  of 
problems  arising  in  major  public  and  private 
construction  projects.  Steven  lives  in  Brook- 
line,  Mass.,  with  his  wife,  Miriam,  and  their 
two  children. 

Elaine  Filler  Congress,  New  York  City, 
assistant  professor  in  Fordham  University's 
Graduate  School  of  Social  Science,  recently 
had  articles  published  in  The  Cliincnl  Supervi- 
sor and  Social  Work  in  Hcaltli  Care. 

Lewis  Feldstein,  upon  being  invited  to 
Little  Rock,  Ark.,  to  work  with  President  Bill 
Clinton's  transition  team,  visited  Tougaloo 
College,  where  he  worked  after  graduating 
from  Brown.  "Was  delighted  to  see  that  the 
Brown-Tougaloo  connection  endures."  Lewis 
hves  in  Hancock,  N.H. 

In  1992  Nancy  Frazier  Herman  became  a 
clinical  member  of  the  American  Association 
of  Marriage  and  Family  Therapists  and  com- 
pleted a  certificate  of  advanced  study  in  mar- 
riage and  family  therapy  at  the  State  Univer- 
sity of  New  York,  Oneonta. 


Jean  A.  Dowdall  '63,  '72  Ph.D. 


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m  Dennis  S.  Kennedy  received  his  master's 
in  family  therapy  from  Friends  University, 
Wichita,  Kans.,  last  May.  He  is  a  senior  coun- 
selor in  the  adolescent  division  of  Recovery 
Services,  Inc.  His  wife,  Elizabeth  Davidson 
Kennedy  '65,  is  associate  director  of  the  Old 
Cowtown  Museum,  an  open-air  living  his- 
tory museum  in  Wichita.  Their  daughter, 
Eleanor,  graduated  from  Friends  in  1991  and 
works  as  a  counselor  at  the  Alcohol  and 
Family  Consultation  Center;  their  son,  Bert, 
is  a  freshman  at  the  University  of  Montana. 
Beth  Oakes  Wood  moved  to  Santa  Bar- 
bara, Calif.,  where  she  is  working  on  her 
Ph.D.  in  cultural  resources  management  at 
the  University  of  California.  She  has  two 
sons:  Daniel,  17;  and  John,  15.  All  are  healthy 
and  active,  enjoying  music,  politics,  sports, 
and  life.  Her  new  address  is  541 1  Berkeley 
Rd.,  Santa  Barbara  93111-1613. 


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»  Michael  Diffily  and  his  wife,  Anne  Hin- 
man  Diffily  '73,  announce  the  birth  of  a  son, 
Kevin,  on  Aug.  13.  Kevin  joins  siblings 
Richard,  10;  Andres,  7;  and  Melinda,  2,  at  the 
family's  home  in  Providence.  Mike,  who  is 
associate  dean  of  Brown's  Graduate  School, 
is  also  the  father  of  Leslie  '93  and  David,  19. 


Simmons  College  picks  its  first  woman 
president 


When  Jean  A.  Dowdall  assumes  the  pres- 
idency of  Simmons  College  in  June,  she 
will  become  the  first  woman  to  head  the 
Boston  women's  college  in  its  ninety- 
three-year  history. 

"1  think  the  most  important  things 
that  happened  to  me  in  my  academic 
experience  were  when  a  couple  of  faculty 
members  encouraged  me  to  set  my  sights 
higher  than  1  might  have,"  Dowdall  told 
the  BAM.  "To  this  day,  1  have  kept  a  letter 
written  to  me  by  a  faculty  member  in 
which  he  encouraged  me  to  go  to  gradu- 
ate school." 

An  anthropology  major  at  Brown, 
Dowdall  went  on  to  earn  her  master's  in 
anthropology  at  the  University  of  Roches- 
ter and  returned  to  Brown  to  complete  a 
doctorate  in  sociology  in  1972.  She  taught 
for  a  decade  before  turning  to  academic 
administration.  In  1986  she  was  tapped  to 
become  vice  president  of  academic  affairs 
and  dean  of  Beaver  College,  a  2,000-stu- 
dent  college  outside  Philadelphia. 

Dowdall  believes  that  encouraging 
students  to  raise  their  sights  is  critical  for 
women.  "Because  there  was  a  women's 


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Jerry  Batty,  Margaret  Gardner,  Dick 
Trull,  and  their  enthusiastic  committee  look 
forward  to  celebrating  our  milestone  25th 
reunion  with  a  great  crowd  of  classmates. 
May  28-31.  Don't  forget  to  return  tour  regis- 
tration forms  as  soon  as  possible. 

Alan  Bogdanon  (see  Ann  Oppenheimer 
Bogdanon  '70). 


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Leslie  D.  Corwyn  (see  Stephen  A. 
Cohen  '59). 


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Jerry  Beers  is  beginning  his  fourth  year 
in  the  San  Francisco  Bay  area,  living  in  San 
Carlos.  He  has  been  with  Genentech  Inc.  for 
three  years,  most  recently  as  director  of  mar- 
keting, planning,  and  development.  Though 
he  missed  the  initial  excitement  (and  "the  big 
bucks,"  Jerry  writes)  at  Genentech,  he  hopes 
to  discover  a  start-up  with  promising  prod- 
ucts to  help  commercialize. 

Jeff  Bergart,  Acton,  Mass.,  and  his  son, 
Da\'id,  traveled  last  year  to  a  ten-day  Inter- 


college  within  the  University,  there  was  a 
sensitivity  to  the  educational  needs  of 
women.  I  took  away  a  commitment  and 
determination  to  nurture  others  the  way 
1  was  nurtured,  to  push  people  whose 
aspirations  might  be  lower  than  they 
should  be." 

Dowdall's  husband,  George  Dowdall 
'72  Ph.D.,  is  a  professor  of  sociology  at  St. 
Joseph's  University  in  Philadelphia.  Their 
daughter,  Nina  '86,  lives  in  California. 
-D.S.W. 


national  Archery  Camp.  Jeff  also  led  a  Boy 
Scout  troop  on  a  white-water  rafting  trip  and 
passed  both  his  mutual  fund  securities  exam 
and  an  international  soccer  referee  exam. 

Ann  Oppenheimer  Bogdanon  has  lived  in 
Dallas  for  sixteen  years.  Her  husband,  Alan 
Bogdanon  '68,  is  managing  partner  of  his  law 
firm,  Hughes  &  Luce.  Ann  is  president-elect 
of  the  Juvenile  Diabetes  Foundation's  Dallas 
chapter.  Their  son,  Peter,  is  '96,  and  daughter 
Leslie  is  a  freshman  at  the  Greenhill  School 
in  Dallas. 

Kate  Hillbum,  Brookline,  Mass.,  joined 
Carpenter  and  Co.,  a  Boston-area  real-estate 
developer,  as  comptroller,  "a  far  cry  from 
what  1  would  have  predictecl  in  1970,"  she 
writes.  She  and  her  husband,  Dave,  have  two 
daughters:  Laura,  12;  and  Joanna,  7. 

Marianne  Hirsch  is  spending  1992-93  at 
the  National  Humanities  Center  in  North 
Carolina  working  on  a  book  about  family 
photographs. 

Glenn  S.  Orton,  Arcadia,  CaUf.,  is  acting 
chair  of  the  Galileo  Mission  (Jupiter  Orbiter 
and  Probe)  Atmospheres  Working  Group, 
which  is  responsible  for  planning  and  inte- 
grating the  science-observing  requirements 
for  the  four  remote  sensing  instruments  on 
the  science  platform  of  the  Galileo  orbiter.  He 


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recently  presented  a  low-cost  concept  for  a 
Jupiter  Polar  Orbiter  mission  to  a  special 
NASA  conference.  On  the  home  front,  Glenn 
continues  as  a  soccer,  T-ball,  swimming,  and 
dance-class  dad  for  his  5-  and  7-year  olds, 
and  marks  his  fourteenth  wedding  anniver- 
sary with  Linda  Brown,  an  infrared  molecu- 
lar spectroscopist  also  at  the  Jet  Propulsion 
Laboratory.  Glenn  can  be  reached  via  e-mail 
at:  (Internet)  go@orton.jpl.nasa.gov;  or 
(SPAN)  JPLSC8::GO. 

After  five  years  in  London,  Robert  W. 
Shippee  moved  back  to  Greenwich,  Conn. 
He  is  still  with  Chase  Manhattan  Bank  as  a 
senior  vice  president  responsible  for  the 
bank's  real-estate  financial  business  in  the 
eastern  United  States.  "We  had  a  wonderful 
time  abroad,  but  it's  great  to  be  home." 

Patricia  Truman,  Boise,  ldaho,was  recog- 
nized as  an  Outstanding  Teacher  of  the  Year 
by  the  Idaho  Council  for  the  Social  Studies. 
Pat,  who  teaches  sixth  grade  at  St.  Mary's 
School,  advised  thirteen  students  during  the 
1992  Idaho  History  Day  Competition  pro- 
jects. Her  son,  Mark,  is  a  sixth  grader,  and 
her  daughter,  Kate,  competes  with  the 
YMCA  swim  team. 

Steve  Wilber  and  his  wife,  Claire,  have 
recently  adopted  an  Indonesian  baby  girl, 
Katherine  Dewi. 


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Bruce  A.  Henderson,  Grosse  Pointe, 
Mich.,  is  managing  director  of  TRW  Quahty 
Safety  Systems,  a  joint  venture  with  Tokai 
Rika  Co.  Ltd.  of  Japan.  They  manufacture 
seat  belts  and  employ  more  than  500  people. 

Carolyn  R.  Smith,  Mill  Valley,  Cahf., 
spent  last  September  in  St.  Petersburg,  Rus- 
sia, training  doctors  and  nurses  to  be  sup- 
portive of  AIDS  patients  and  to  avoid 
burnout.  Doctors  from  thirty  cities  of  the  for- 
mer Soviet  Union  attended.  Carolyn  then 
spent  October  in  Riga,  Latvia,  creating  a  sup- 
port group  for  children  with  leukemia  and 
training  hospital  workers  to  run  the  group.  A 
similar  group  she  created  in  Moscow  last 
spring  is  still  going  strong  six  months  later. 


72 


Deborah  Lisker,  Philadelphia,  and  her 
husband,  Ed  Chernoff,  announce  the  birth  of 
Benjamin  Lisker  Chernoff,  on  April  g,  1992. 
Since  her  part-time  job  at  Campbell  was 
eliminated,  Deborah  has  been  home,  learning 
how  busy  two  children  can  be.  Hillary,  3, 
loves  being  a  big  sister.  Deborah  was  sorry  to 
miss  the  20th  reunion  and  hopes  to  make  it 
to  the  25th. 

Josef  Mittlemann  and  his  wife,  Marsy, 
funded  a  pilot  program  called  the  "Commu- 
nication Course  for  Educators"  in  the  West- 
bury  (N.Y.)  School  District  on  Long  Island. 
The  program  was  such  a  success  that  the  Mit- 
tlemanns  were  honored  by  the  Westbury 
Board  of  Education. 

Leslie  Winner,  Charlotte,  N.C.,  was 
elected  to  the  North  Carolina  State  Senate  in 
November.  In  order  to  reserve  some  time  for 
her  family,  Leslie  resigned  from  her  law  firm 


W.  Chesley  "Chet"  Worthington  '23 


Never  too  old  (or  cold)  to  party 


February  2,  1993,  was  no 
ordinary  birthday  for  Chet 
Worthington  '23.  First,  tem- 
peratures were  near  the 
record  low  that  Gr(5undhog 
Day.  Nonetheless,  at  8  a.m.  more  than  100 
friends  gathered  outside  Worthington's 
Providence  home,  with  the  Brown  band 
playing  "Happy  Birthday,"  to  celebrate 
his  ninetieth  year. 

He  beckoned  the  crowd  to  come 
inside,  but  they  opted  not  to,  so  he  joined 
them  in  the  minus-twenty-five-degree 
wind  chill.  The  band  broke  into  the  alma 
mater  as  he  stepped  onto  his  porch,  and 
Worthington  instructed  the  crowd,  "You 
don't  have  to  take  your  hats  off."  Though 
he  has  been  reputed  to  say  about  his 
birthday,  "When  1  see  my  shadow,  I 
crawl  back  in  for  six  weeks,"  that  morn- 
ing he  outlasted  all  well-wishers. 

The  party  was  the  brainchild  of  Egyp- 
tology researcher  Barbara  Lesko  and  her 
husband.  Professor  of  Egyptology 
Leonard  Lesko,  both  of  whom  coordi- 


and  will  now  focus  on  improving  access  to 
health  care,  public  education,  and  early- 
childhood  development  programs. 


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Hope  you  have  reserved  the  weekend  of 
May  28-31  for  your  reunion.  You  should 
receive  your  registration  mailing  any  day 
now.  Please  fill  it  out  and  return  it  as  soon  as 
possible  so  that  the  reunion  activities  com- 
mittees can  finalize  all  plans.  If  you  have  any 


nated  the  event  with 

if  o  Associate  Vice  President 
'  m  for  University  Relations 
fj  G     Eric  Broudy.  Barbara 

learned  of  Worthington's 
impending  birthday  during  a  Brown- 
sponsored  trip  to  Egypt  in  the  summer  of 
1992,  in  which  Chet  routinely  displayed 
more  energy  and  vivacity  than  travelers 
half  his  age. 

In  the  spring  of  1931  Worthington,  a 
sharp  reporter  with  a  quiet  sense  of 
humor,  became  editor-in-chief  of  the 
Brown  Alumni  Montlily,  a  position  he  held 
until  July  1968.  His  monthly  column.  Small 
Talk,  which  he  simply  signed  "Buster," 
consistently  won  American  Alumni 
Council  prizes  and  was  probably  the 
magazine's  most  popular  section  in  its 
time. 

"Next  year,"  he  told  the  Providence 
lournal-BulIetin,  "we're  going  to  celebrate 
the  birthday  in  July."  That's  fine;  we'll 
celebrate  it  whenever  he  wants.  Here's  to 
many  more  happy  years.  -  D.S.W. 


questions  about  the  weekend,  please  call 
reunion  headquarters  at  (401)  863-1947. 

Anne  Hinman  Diffily  has  retvirned  to  her 
job  as  managing  editor  of  the  BAM  after  a 
six-month  leave  following  the  birth  of  a  son, 
Kevin,  on  Aug.  13.  Kevin's  dad  is  Michael 
'67,  and  the  couple's  other  children  are 
Richard,  10;  Andres,  7;  and  Melinda,  2.  They 
live  in  Providence. 

Dr.  Phyllis  A.M.  Hollenbeck  '77  M.D. 
moved  to  Martha's  Vineyard,  Mass.,  in 
September  with  her  husband,  William  Doran, 


BROWN  ALUMN!  MONTHLY  /  47 


and  their  thtee  childivn,  Williom,  l.el.ind,  iiiid 
Ann<i.  I^hvllis  leaves  behind  her  diuil  chairs  in 
family  practiee  at  St.  Vincents  Hospital  and 
the  Fallon  Clinic,  Worcester,  Mass.,  both  pro- 
grams that  she  created.  She  also  left  teaching 
positions  at  St.  Vincent's  and  the  University 
of  Massachussetts  Medical  School,  where  she 
was  an  assistant  professor.  Phyllis  says,  "I 
needed  more  time  to  watch  our  children 
play,  to  listen  to  the  worlds  they  created,  and 
to  write.  ...  So  1  am  surrounded  by  the  sea, 
working  part-time  in  the  always-interesting 
emergency  department  at  Martha's  Vineyard 
Hospital,  writing  fiction  and  nonfiction." 

Michael  O'Neil  and  his  wife,  Cathy, 
became  parents  of  twin  boys  on  Nov.  12. 
Ryan  was  born  with  a  heart  problem  and 
died  after  eight  days  of  heroic  intensive  care. 
His  twin,  Sean,  ami  big  sister.  Heather,  are 
well.  Congratulations  and  condolences  can 
be  sent  to  418  E.  Erie,  Tempe,  Ariz.  85282. 

Lou  Peck  is  editor  of  the  CongressDaily ,  a 
weekday  fax  newsletter  that  tracks  legislation 
and  gossip  for  "infomaniacal"  Washington 
politicians  and  lobbyists.  In  a  year-and-a-half 
of  operations,  the  newsletter  has  attracted 
642  subscribers.  It  is  owned  by  National  Journal. 

Nancy  Macko  Shelby  and  husband  Alan 
adiled  another  child  to  the  fold,  Amanda  Lee 
Marie  Shelby,  on  Aug.  23.  Amanda  joins 
older  brother  Russell  at  the  home  Nancy  and 
Alan  built  last  year  in  Houston.  Brown  visi- 
tors have  included  Lynn  Forsell  and  family. 


I 


74 


Pamela  Constable  has  been  appointed 
Washington  deputy  bureau  chief  of  the 
Boston  Globe.  Since  1983  she  had  been  a  for- 
eign correspondent  for  the  Globe,  specializing 
in  Latin  America. 


I 


75 


Richard  Kettler  continues  to  serve  as 
director  of  Children's  Hospital  in  Washing- 
ton, D.C.  His  son,  Frank,  is  2. 

Last  fall  Peter  G.  Piness  became  public- 
affairs  officer  at  the  American  Embassy  in 
N'Djamena,  Chad  -  Peter's  third  overseas 
post  with  the  U.S.  Information  Agency.  He 
previously  worked  in  Dakar,  Senegal;  and 
Lubumbashi,  Zaire. 


i 


76 


Victor  Sauerhoff,  and  his  wife,  Debbi, 
Somers,  N.Y.,  announce  the  birth  of  their 
daughter,  Hailey  Spera  Sauerhoff,  on  Oct.  25. 
Hailey  joins  siblings  Eric,  6;  and  Emily,  3. 
Victor  is  still  the  business  manager  for  Sports 
Illustrated. 


I 


77 


Dr.  J.A.  Owens-Stively  welcomed  daugh- 
ter Grace  Alexandra  to  the  world  on  Aug.  1. 
She  joins  older  brother  Evan,  3!^  J.A.  left  his 
private  pediatric  practice  after  two  years  and 
returned  to  academia  as  director  of  the  Pedi- 
atric Ambulatory  Clinic  at  Rhode  Island  Hos- 
pital and  assistant  professor  of  pediatrics  at 


Andre  Leon  Talley  '73  A.M. 


A  prodigy  in  fashion 


"Fashion  was  always 
my  passion,"  Andre 
Leon  Talley  '73  A.M., 
creative  director  for  Vogue 
magazine,  told  the  Neiv 
York  Times  in  a  December 
6, 1992,  profile.  Talley  knew 
from  age  fourteen  that  he 
wanted  to  be  a  fashion  edi- 
tor, he  says. 

Raised  by  his  grand- 
mother in  Durham,  North 
CaroUna,  Talley  liked  to  stay 
up  late  reading  Flaubert  and 
Baudelaire  on  dandyism  as  a 
teenager.  During  a  summer 
break  from  French  studies  at  5  ^^"■ 

Brown,  he  dressed  mannequins  ":'■-  ' 

for  designer  Diana  Vreeland  for  a 
Metropolitan  Museum  of  Art  fashion 
show.  The  two  hit  it  off,  and  she  wrote 
several  letters  of  introduction  for  him, 
including  one  to  Andy  Warhol,  with 
whom  Talley  landed  his  first  permanent 
job  for  $50  a  week.  From  there,  he  went  to 
Warhol's  Intervieu'  magazine.  Women's 
Wear  Daily,  W,  Vanity  Fair,  HG,  then 
Vogue  in  1983. 

"About  25  percent  of  the  job  is  being  a 
glorified  flight  attendant  on  the  ground, 
making  people  feel  as  comfortable  as  pos- 
sible on  a  shoot,"  Talley  says.  But  the  six- 
foot-seven  editor  doesn't  put  up  with 
overripe  egos.  "The  first  time  was  at  Inter- 


Brown.  The  family  has  moved  from  Lakeville, 
Mass.,  to  75  Macomber  Ln.,  Portsmouth,  R.I. 
02861;  (401)  683-3481. 

178  i^S^^s. 
Get  ready  to  celebrate  our  15th,  May 
28-31.  We  look  forward  to  seeing  many 
classmates  and  their  families.  Don't  forget  to 
register  as  soon  as  possible. 

Peter  Bopp  lives  in  New  York  City  and 
works  at  American  Express  as  vice  president 
of  small-business  services.  March  marks  his 
fourth  year  there,  after  six  with  General  Foods. 
Peter  spends  his  vacations  travehng  and 
learning  how  to  ski.  In  the  last  two  years  he 
has  rafted  down  the  Colorado  River  in  the 
Grand  Canyon  and  traveled  through  Spain 
and  Portugal  during  the  Columbus  quincen- 
tennial.  He  keeps  up  with  Tina  Evangelides 


.ndM-'^! 


Fasla^o^ 


Is/lad 


vieio.  I'd  prepared  for  two  weeks,  booked 
the  studio.  Then  Cher  refuses  to  wear  any 
of  the  clothes.  She  wants  to  wear  her 
bathrobe.  I  say,  'Fine,  have  a  nice  day,' 
and  leave  her  standing  there  in  her 
bathrobe." 

Talley  values  a  sense  of  historical  per- 
spective in  fashion  design.  "Diana  Vree- 
land taught  me  [about  linkages],"  he  told 
the  Times.  "You  can't  look  at  John  GaUiano 
and  not  know  Viormet's  bias  cut.  You 
can't  look  at  Gianni  Versace's  ski  jackets 
and  not  know  that  he  was  inspired  by  the 
great  work  of  Charles  James  in  the  Victo- 
ria and  Albert  Museum  in  London." 


and  Ann  Iseley,  both  in  New  York  City,  and 
Steve  Kurtz,  who  lives  in  Princeton,  N.J.  Tom 
Finn  and  his  wife,  Kathleen,  now  living  in 
Maryland,  visited  Peter  over  Christmas.  Peter 
also  reports  that  Anne  Scott  and  Rob  Wexler 
were  expecting  their  first  child  in  January,  and 
that  Larry  and  Adrianne  Muller  Camesas 
live  out  on  Long  Island.  He's  looking  forward 
to  seeing  more  old  friends  at  the  reunion. 
Mark Filipowski mo\ed  to soggv San 
Francisco  to  work  for  a  general  engineering 
contractor  after  spending  the  last  fourteen 
years  in  shaky  Orange  County,  Calif.,  work- 
ing in  the  construction  industry.  During  that 
time  Mark  earned  an  M.B.A.  from  Pepperdine 
University,  lowered  his  golf  handicap  to  the 
average  number  of  beers  he  drank  on  an  aver- 
age day  at  Brovvai,  and  married  Stephanie, 
whom  he  adores.  Says  Mark,  "We  have  no 
children,  pets,  or  money.  Despite  the  book  my 


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wife  is  currently  writing,  Confessions  of  an  Ivy 
League  Loser,  I  am  deliriously  content." 

Dr.  Stephen  R.  Shorofsky  became  a  fac- 
ulty member  in  the  cardiology  department  of 
the  University  of  Maryland  Hospital  on  Jan. 
1.  His  wife,  Sheryl  Jacobs  '79,  looks  forward 
to  being  at  home  for  a  few  months  with 
Michael,  5;  and  Benjamin,  2;  before  resuming 
work  as  a  clinical  psychologist.  Although 
they  miss  Chicago,  they  would  like  to  renew 
friendships  with  Brown  friends  in  their  new 
home  at  6  Biehl  Ct.,  Owings  Mills,  Md.  21117. 


ing  their  first  child  last  November.  They 
were  expecting  number  three. 


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Randee  L.  Cassel,  Brookline,  Mass.,  joined 
Boston  Financial  Asset  Management,  a  division 
of  the  Boston  Financial  Group,  as  vice  presi- 
dent. She  earned  a  J.D.  from  Boston  Univer- 
sity in  1982  and  is  a  member  of  the  American, 
Massachusetts,  and  Boston  bar  associations. 

Dr.  Stanley  P.  Maximovich  practices  plas- 
tic, cosmetic,  and  reconstructive  surgery  in 
Hinsdale,  111. 

In  September,  Teretha  Lundy  Thomas 
was  elected  a  judge  in  the  Dade  County,  Fla., 
court.  She  took  the  bench  in  January.  She 
lives  in  Opa  Locka,  Fla. 


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Dr.  Duane  M.  Smith  '84  M.D.  (see  Lori 
Pope  '88). 

Karen  Ticktin,  New  York  City,  after 
eleven-and-a-half  years  ("yikes")  in  the  cre- 
ative services  department  at  Showtime  Net- 
works, moved  over  to  marketing  as  vice 
president  of  advertising.  She  would  love  to 
hear  from  old  friends:  (212)  708-1465. 


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We  would  like  to  remind  our  classmates 
to  please  send  their  1992-93  class  dues  of  $10. 
The  dues  help  defray  the  costs  of  newsletters 
and  any  class  activities  or  reunions.  Thanks 
to  all  of  you  who  sent  in  your  dues  for  1991- 
92;  we  really  enjoy  hearing  from  you.  Checks 
are  payable  to:  Class  of  1981  -  Brown  Univer- 
sity; they  can  he  sent  to  Dave  and  Dorothy  Q. 
Nelson  Kellogg,  class  treasurers,  17  Burling- 
ton St.,  Providence  02906. 

Dave  Kellogg  and  Dorothy  Q.  Nelson  Kel- 
logg announce  the  arrival  of  Louisa  Dorothy 
Quincy  June  4.  She  joins  Sam,  3.  Dave  is  a 
vice  president  in  the  corporate  loan  workout 
department  at  Fleet  Bank.  Between  diaper 
changes,  Q  is  working  toward  her  master's  in 
natural  resources  management  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Rhode  Island. 

Charles  E.  Taylor  married  Lisa  Cannon 
June  13.  Several  Brown  classmates  attended, 
including  Will  Bunch  and  Glen  McDonald. 
Lisa  and  Charles  are  expecting  their  first 
child  in  April.  Charles  manages  a  family  real 
estate  business  and  practices  criminal  law, 
which,  he  writes,  is  "a  little  schizophrenic." 
Friends  and  classmates  are  welcome  when- 
ever they  pass  through  Atlanta:  300  The 
Prado  NE,  Atlanta,  Ga.  30309-3338. 

The  Winter  issue  mistakenly  reported  that 
Bill  Woods  and  his  wife,  Susan,  were  expect- 


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Catherine  Kamow's  fifth  book  of  pho- 
tographs, Tlie  Insight  Guide  to  Wasliingtan, 
D.C.,  has  just  been  published.  Her  recent 
work  can  also  be  seen  in  A  Day  in  the  Life  of 
Hollywood.  Catherine  currently  lives  in  Wash- 
ington, D.C.,  but  plans  to  move  to  San  Fran- 
cisco to  live  with  Michael  Macrone. 

Andrea  Johnson  Razzaghi  and  her  hus- 
band, Babak,  announce  the  birth  of  their  sec- 
ond son,  Bijan  Anthony,  on  July  23.  He  joins 
his  brother,  Aryaan,  4M  Andrea  recently 
made  a  career  change  at  NASA's  Goddard 
Space  Flight  Center  (Greenbelt,  Md.)  from 
engineering  to  project  management  by  taking 
a  position  as  an  instrument  manager  on  the 
Tropical  Rainfall  Measuring  Mission 
(TRMM).  Part  of  NASA's  Mission  to  Planet 
Earth  program,  the  project  is  a  joint  venture 
with  the  Japanese  space  agency,  NASDA. 
Andrea's  instrument,  a  microwave  imager, 
will  collect  rainfall  data  in  the  tropics  and 
subtropics  from  the  TRMM  spacecraft. 


83 


The  class  of  1983  will  celebrate  its  10th 
reunion  on  the  weekend  of  May  28-31. 
Remember  to  save  the  dates.  A  10th  reunion 
registration  packet  will  be  mailed  to  you 
soon  -  please  return  the  forms  as  early  as 
possible.  If  you  or  someone  you  know  did 
not  receive  a  fall  reunion  mailing,  please  call 
reunion  headquarters  at  (401)  863-1947. 

Send  photos  for  a  reunion  slide  show  by 
March  30  to  Alexandra  Garbers  Pruner,  75 
Club  Dr.,  Summit,  N.J.  07901.  If  you  want 
originals  back,  please  label  them  and  include 
a  self-addressed  stamped  envelope. 

William  and  Patricia  Rogers  Cunning- 
ham announce  the  birth  of  their  first  child, 
Evan  Robert,  on  Sept.  24.  William  works  as 
the  manager  for  executive  compensation  at 
the  General  Motors  treasurer's  office,  while 
Patty  is  on  leave  from  her  job  as  an  associate 
at  Rogers  and  Wells.  They  live  at  3  Lakeside 
Ave.,  Darien,  Conn.  06820. 


84 


Stephen  Hill  (see  Lori  Pope  '88). 
Amy  Reiss  (see  Stephen  A.  Cohen  '59). 


85 


Terri  Cohen  Alpert  (see  Gordon  Cohen 

■59). 

Robert  Cunningham  and  Barbara  Shinn- 
Cunningham  live  in  Littleton,  Mass.  Rob  has 
been  admitted  to  a  Ph.D.  program  in  cogni- 
tive and  neural  systems,  while  Barb  contin- 
ues work  on  her  Ph.D.  thesis  in  auditory  per- 
ception. She  plays  oboe  and  English  horn 
with  several  groups  in  the  Boston  area. 

Tracey  Zeckhausen  (see  Suzanne  R. 
Zeckhausen  '5s). 


Catherine  Beerman  (see  Raymond  Sulli- 
van '59). 

Kitty  Eisele  recently  won  an  Emmy  for 
her  work  as  producer  of  "The  Civil  War" 
documentary  series  on  public  television.  She 
is  a  writer  and  producer  for  public  radio  in 
Minneapolis  and  is  at  work  on  a  new  film. 

Heidi  Li  Feldman  is  in  her  second  year  as 
an  assistant  professor  of  law  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Michigan,  Ann  Arbor.  She  expects  to 
complete  her  doctorate  in  philosophy,  also  at 
the  University  of  Michigan,  by  the  end  of 
1993.  Heidi  says  she  enjoys  life  on  the  faculty 
side  of  the  classroom  tremendously  and 
always  checks  for  Brown  students  in  her 
first-year  torts  classes. 

After  three  years  of  working  for  the  com- 
mercial real  estate  division  of  G.E.  Capital, 
Christopher  J.  Good  joined  Fleet  National 
Bank.  Chris  continues  to  live  in  Providence, 
struggling  to  repair  and  renovate  his  old 
house. 

Brian  W.  Heffernan  is  marrying  Nancy 
Bellomo  (Regis  College  '88)  on  March  13. 
They  purchased  a  house  in  Holliston,  Mass. 
The  wedding  party  includes  Steve  Heffernan 
'85,  Alan  Stern,  Pat  McCormack,  Rich  Col- 
lett,  and  Scott  Lohan. 

Allyson  Rosen  is  completing  her  Ph.D.  in 
clinical  psychology  at  Case  Western  Reserve 
University  and  is  applying  for  internships. 
Please  say  hi  if  you  are  passing  through: 
2374  Euclid  Heights  Blvd.,  #305,  Cleveland 
Heights,  Ohio  44106.  (216)  229-5462. 
Allyson's  e-mail  address  on  Internet  is 
acr@po.cwru.edu. 

R.J.  Sullivan  (see  Raymond  Sullivan  '59). 


87 


David  Bickford  (see  Ann  Kidder  Bick- 
ford  '63). 

Bryan  Curran  married  Patricia  McCormick 
(Bryant  College  '86)  on  Oct.  24  in  Hyannis, 
Mass.  Several  alumni  attended,  including 
Keith  Gruen,  Amanda  Nelligan,  and  Pauline 
Rubis.  Bryan  and  Patty  took  a  honeymoon 
cruise  in  the  western  Caribbean.  They  work 
together  as  software  engineers  for  Mead  Data 
Central  in  Dayton,  Ohio. 

Tom  Erwin,  Pasadena,  Calif.,  works  as  an 
editor  for  the  syndicated  television  series 
"Baywatch." 

Joe  MacDougald  and  Lisa  Cohen  Mac- 
Dougald  (see  Gordon  Cohen  '59). 

Ivan  Weinstein  completed  training  as  a 
Foreign  Service  Officer  with  the  U.S.  Infor- 
mation Agency  and  has  been  assigned  to  the 
American  Embassy  in  Budapest. 


88 


The  class  of  1988  will  celebrate  its  5th 
reunion  on  the  weekend  of  May  28-31. 
Remember  to  save  the  dates.  A  5th  reunion 
registration  packet  will  be  mailed  to  you 
soon  -  please  return  the  forms  as  early  as 
possible.  If  you  or  someone  you  know  did 
not  receive  a  fall  reunion  mailing,  please  call 
reunion  headquarters  at  (401)  863-3380. 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /  49 


Alumni  Calendar 


March 


New  York  City 

March  27.  "Immigration,  Violence,  and 
Ethnic  Identity,"  Continuing  College  semi- 
nar and  tour  of  Ellis  Island  with  History 
Department  Chair  Volker  Berghahn, 
cosponsored  by  the  Brown  University  Club 
in  New  York  and  Associated  Alumni.  Call 
Paul  Jones  '76,  (212)  319-4800. 

Philadelphia 

March  18.  "Eastern  Europe:  Economic 
Conflict,  Ethnic  Conflict,"  lecture  by  Pro- 
fessor Mark  Kramer  of  the  Watson  Insti- 
tute for  International  Studies,  sponsored 
bv  the  Brown  Club  of  Philadelphia.  4  p.m.. 
Board  Room,  Fidehty  Bank,  Broad  and 
Walnut,  5th  floor.  Call  Bob  Siwicki  'yj, 
(215)  988-0100. 


April 


Washington,  D.C. 

April  17.  Continuing  College  and  Metro- 
politan Area  Campaign  Kickoff  for  alumni 
and  parents.  Goldberger  Professor  of 
Economics  William  Poole  will  present 
"The  Risks  and  Rewards  of  European 
Unification."  A  reception  and  a  presentation 
on  the  Campaign  for  a  Rising  Generation 
will  follow.  Call  Colman  Levin  '55,  (202) 
223-0716. 

Boston 

April  22.  Bid  for  Brown  Night,  a  silent  and 
live  auction  to  raise  money  for  the  Edward 
T.  Brackett  '14  Memorial  Scholarship  Fund, 
sponsored  by  the  Boston  Brown  Club. 
International  Place.  For  more  information, 
call  Dave  Crimmin  '72,  (508)  263-5434. 

Providence. 

April  23-24.  Club  Leaders'  Workshop,  an 
on-campus  weekend  for  Brown  Club  offi- 
cers. More  information  and  registration 
information  will  be  iiiailed  to  Brown  Club 
officers  in  early  spring.  Call  Andy 
Shaindlin  '86,  (401)  863-^309. 


Brown  Travelers 


Join  Brown  alumni  and  friends  on  these 
1993  educational  travel  programs.  For 
complete  information,  call  Therese  Ciesin- 
ski,  (401)  863-1946. 

April  22-May  1.  Holland  by  Barge  and 
Bike,  a  sail  through  the  narrow  canals  of 
the  Dutch  countryside  at  the  height  of  the 
tulip  season,  stopping  at  Haarlem,  Leiden, 
Gouda,  the  Hague,  Amsterdam,  and  a  vari- 
ety of  museums,  with  Associate  Professor 
of  the  History  of  Art  and  Architecture  Jef- 
frey MuUer. 

June  9-22.  Cotes  du  Rhone  Passage,  an 

exploration  of  the  landmark  sites  and  leg- 
endary cuisine  of  Provence  and  Burgundy, 
beginning  in  Cannes  on  the  Cote  d'Azur 
and  concluding  with  two  nights  in  Paris, 
with  Professor  of  Comparative  Literature 
Arnold  Weinstein. 

July  7-21.  Dnieper  River  Cruise,  embark- 
ing at  Kiev  and  traversing  the  heartland  of 
Ukraine  to  Odessa  on  the  Black  Sea,  with 
stays  at  the  Metropol  in  Moscow  and  the 
Grand  Hotel  in  St.  Petersburg,  with  Associ- 
ate Professor  of  History  Patricia  Herlihy. 

This  cakndar  is  a  sampling  of  activities  of 
interest  to  alumni  reported  to  the  Brown 
Alumni  Monthly  at  press  time.  For  the  most 
up-to-date  listing  or  more  details,  contact  the 
Alumni  Relations  Office,  (401)  S63-3307. 


Dates  of  Interest 

Academic  Year  1992-93 

Spring  Recess 

March  27-April  4 

Spring  Semester  Classes  End 

May  1 1 

Final  Exam  Period 

May  12-21 

Reunion-Commencement  Weekend 

May  28-31 


Paul  Aliker  is  in  his  final  trimester  at 
Northwestern  University  Dental  School.  He 
accepted  a  one-year  hospital  dentistry  resi- 
dency at  the  V.A.  Hospital  in  Palo  Alto, 
which  is  affiliated  with  Stanford  University. 
"See  vou  at  reunion!" 

Jon  Bauman  practices  corporate  and 
securities  l.uv  in  Century  City,  Calif.,  where 
he  regularly  sees  Bryan  Behar,  Jon  Pliner, 
Perry  Herst  '8h,  Todd  Hoffman  89,  Steve 
Baldikoski  't)(>.  Brad  Galinson  '90,  Brad 
Small  '90,  and  Evan  Silver  '91.  Jon  recently 
served  on  the  executive  committee  of  the 
Brown  Club  for  Southern  California. 

Amy  Brothers  practices  law  in  Guam. 
Write  to  her  at  275  G.  Farenholt  Ave.,  Suite 
#4,  Tamuning,  Guam  96911.  Call  her  at  (671) 
472-827S  (work)  or  (671)  646-4881  (home). 

Beth  Chiarucci  graduated  from  the  Uni- 
versity of  Michigan  Business  School  with  an 
M.B.A.  last  May.  She  works  at  Leo  Burnett  in 
Chicago  and  loves  it. 

Melissa  Cole  will  graduate  from 
Columbia  Law  School  in  May.  "1  will  prac- 
tice public-interest  law  (hopefully  in  the  area 
of  women's  issues)  in  an  as-yet-undeter- 
mined city  that  will  not  be  New  York!" 

Anne  Croker  is  looking  forward  to  the 
reunion.  She  graduates  from  Wharton  the 
week  before,  and  then  will  move  back  to 
New  York. 

Pamela  Dorrell  and  Amit  Pandey  are  liv- 
ing in  Calcutta.  Amit  works  as  a  consultant, 
and  Pam  specializes  in  international  develop- 
ment. They  can  be  contacted  through  the 
India  office,  McKinsey  International,  55  E. 
S2nd  St.,  New  York,  N.Y.  10022.  "Gareth, 
what's  your  address?" 

Susan  Emmer  lives  in  Washington,  D.C, 
where  she  works  for  Senator  Graham  and 
attends  Georgetown  lavv  school  part-time. 

Mark  Feldman  and  Kirsten  Bloomberg 
were  married  June  7  in  South  Salem,  N.Y'.  The 
wedding  party  included  Lesley  Otto  Nikoloff, 
Sean  Hood,  Stephen  Dietz,  and  Anne  Buehl. 
Mark  will  receive  his  master's  in  public 
administration  from  Harvard's  Kennedy 
School  of  Government  in  June,  while  Kirsten 
will  receive  her  M.A.  in  teaching  from  Tufts 
University  in  July.  "Then  who  knows?" 

John  FuUerton  is  a  second-year  law  stu- 
dent at  New  York  University.  He  will  be 
working  as  a  summer  associate  in  the  labor/ 
employment  law  department  at  Proskaver, 
Rose,  Goetzch  &  Mendelsohn  in  New  York 
City. 

Erik  Ginsburg  will  graduate  from  the 
University  of  Chicago  with  a  J. D. /M.B.A.  in 
June.  He  will  continue  to  live  in  Chicago. 

Brad  Classman  is  still  "doing  the  law 
thing"  at  the  University  of  Virginia,  as  well 
as  a  master's  in  philosophy.  "Give  a  holler  if 
you're  in  C-ville." 

Karen  Godell  is  studying  evolution  and 
genetics  in  the  botany  department  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  California  at  Riverside.  She  expects 
to  be  there  for  the  next  five  years. 

Suzanne  Goldstein  will  graduate  from 
Harvard's  Kennedy  School  of  Govemment  in 
June  with  a  master's  in  public  policy. 

Thomas  Jardine  reports  that  his  son, 
Thomas  Jr.,  turned  1  on  Dec.  8. 


50  /  MARCH   1993 


Dan  Kaul  will  graduate  from  the  Univer- 
sity of  Chicago  Medical  School  this  spring. 

Peter  Knapman  sends  "a  big  aloha  to 
everyone  back  East."  He  is  a  social  worker 
with  the  Maui,  Hawaii,  courts.  He  won't  be 
able  to  attend  the  reunion  this  vear  but  hopes 
to  make  the  loth. 

Since  her  graduation  from  law  school  in 
June  1991,  Anakarta  Kotval  has  lived  in  Paris, 
working  for  a  French  international  law  firm. 
She  and  her  husband,  Zubeen  Shroff,  cele- 
brated the  birth  of  their  first  child,  Zal  Kotval 
Shroff.  They  will  be  returning  to  New  York 
in  March  and  look  forward  to  catching  up 
with  friends. 

Debbie  Kuklis  is  finallv  out  of  the  Army 
(and  Hawaii),  and  is  working  for  Booz-Allen 
and  Hamilton  Consulting  in  Washington,  D.C. 

Bradley  Moskowitz  is  a  Ph.D.  candidate 
in  applied  mathematics  at  the  University  of 
California,  Los  Angeles. 

Darlene  Netcoh  is  teaching  English  at 
Winman  Junior  High  School,  Warwick,  R.I., 
for  the  third  year.  Before  that  she  taught  for 
two  years  in  the  Westerly,  R.I.,  public  school 
system.  While  teaching  full-time,  Darlene 
completed  her  master's  in  English  at  Rhode 
Island  College,  earning  her  degree  last  May. 
"Those  semiotics  courses  I  took  at  Brown 
came  in  handy,"  she  writes.  Entitled  "The 
Eyes  Have  It!  Hybrid  Humans  in  Post-Mod- 
ern  Science  Fiction,"  her  thesis  drew  on  the 
Terminator  films,  RohoCop,  Blade  Runner,  and 
various  cvberpunk  texts. 

Jeanne  Olivia  returned  to  Providence  this 
year  as  a  third-year  student  in  the  Brown- 
Dartmouth  Program  in  Medicine. 

Elise  Packard  is  engaged  to  marrv  Bryan 
Jones  'cSg  in  June.  She  works  for  Chief  Judge 
Judith  Rogers  on  the  Washington,  D.C, 
Court  of  Appeals. 

Bill  Perry  is  engaged  to  Rosalie  Gigliotta 
(Uni\'ersitv  of  Rochester  '88,  Simon  School  '91 
M.B.A.).  They  plan  a  March  1994  wedding. 

Lori  Pope  '91  M.F.A.  married  Stephen  Hill 
'84  on  Jan.  2  in  Piqua,  Ohio.  Brown  alumni  in 
the  wedding  party  included  Gary  Hill  '87, 
Stephanie  Rogen  '86,  James  M.  Little  '87. 
Brian  Robinson  and  Lynnea  Stephen  '90  were 
soloists,  and  Duane  M.  Smith  '80  read  scrip- 
ture. Robe  Imbriano  '86  emceed  the  reception. 
Several  other  alumni  attended.  Lori  and 
Stephen  live  in  Boston,  where  Stephen  loves 
his  job  as  program  director  and  morning-show 
crazy  guy  at  wild  radio,  and  Lori  works  at 
the  Bunting  Institute  at  Radcliffe  College.  She 
moonlights  with  freelance  writing  and  pub- 
lishing her  poetry.  Friends  can  reach  them  at 
12  Stoneholm  St.,  Apt.  301,  Boston  02115. 

Dr.  Uma  M.  Reddy  '91  M.D.  will  marry 
George  Siberry  in  New  York  City  on  March 
29.  Uma  lives  in  Baltimore  and  is  an  obstet- 
rics-gynecology  resident  at  Johns  Hopkins, 
where  George  will  complete  a  joint  M.D./ 
master's  in  public  health  in  May  1994. 

Svetlana  Rekman  is  working  as  a  para- 
legal for  an  immigration  law  firm  and  is 
applying  to  law  schools  for  next  fall. 

Wendy  Gail  Simon  and  Matthew  Adlai 
Solit  were  married  June  21  in  Jamesburg, 
N.J.,  under  a  tie-dyed  chuppah  and  sur- 
rounded by  family  and  friends,  including 


many  alumni.  Music  was  provided  by  the 
New  Originals,  a  band  founded  at  Brown 
and  now  based  in  New  York  City.  Wendy 
and  Matt  now  share  the  last  name  Adlai- 
Gail.  They  live  in  Chicago,  where  Matt  is  a 
training  development  specialist  at  OmniTech 
Consulting  Group  and  Wendy  is  a  fourth- 
year  graduate  student  in  human  develop- 
ment at  the  University  of  Chicago. 

Andrew  Snoey  moved  to  Seattle  after 
graduation  to  work  for  Boeing  as  an  engi- 
neer. Last  June  he  was  promoted  to  customer 
engineer,  and  he  is  now  the  technical  inter- 
face with  Air  New  Zealand  and  South 
African  Airways.  Since  moving  to  Seattle, 
Andrew  has  taken  up  mountaineering  and 
has  gone  on  climbing  trips  in  Oregon,  Cali- 
fornia, Wyoming,  Alaska,  and  Switzerland. 

Karen  Stem  married  B.  David  Hammar- 
strom  on  Aug.  18, 1991.  Karen  teaches  English 
as  a  second  language  at  Quincy  High  School 
in  Quincy,  Mass.,  and  David  attends  Boston 
University  Law  School.  Karen  received  her 
M.Ed,  in  reading  from  Harvard  University  in 
June  1990.  The  couple  lives  in  Providence. 

Richard  Stem  married  Sharon  Lehrberger 
(Baruch  '86)  on  Oct.  11  in  Woodbury,  N.Y. 
Among  the  thirteen  Brown  alumni  in  atten- 
dance were  ushers  David  Sloan  and  Rob 


Friedman  '86,  and  the  groom's  father, 
Michael  Stem  '^7. 

Alison  Stewart  is  alive  and  well  in  New 
York  City,  recovering  from  covering  the 
presidential  elections  for  mtv.  She  was 
recently  named  an  on-air  reporter  for  mtv 
news.  "So  tune  into  your  cable  and  watch  me 
babble  on  TV."  She  spends  what  little  free 
time  she  has  with  David  Kim,  who  is  an  edi- 
tor with  the  Village  Voice,  and  Scott  Alpert 
'87,  who  is  a  production  associate  with  abc 
News.  Alison  has  returned  to  Providence 
twice  in  the  past  five  years,  for  Campus 
Dance  and  for  Kris  Davitt's  wedding.  She 
looks  forward  to  seeing  everyone  in  May. 

Gregory  W.  Sullivan  joined  the  State 
Department  as  a  foreign  service  officer  and 
will  be  departing  for  Cairo  next  October.  His 
address  there  will  be  American  Embassy 
Cairo,  apo  ae  09839. 

Jens  Teagan  cannot  attend  the  reunion; 
she  is  earning  her  M.B.A.  at  the  London  Busi- 
ness School  and  classes  do  not  end  until 
June.  Her  London  address  is  41  Clarence 
Gate  Gardens,  Glentworth  St.,  London  .NWi 
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Solo  nttonds  the  Uiiivorsitv  nt  Michigan, 
whero  she  is  getting  <i  master's  degree:  si''^ 
Lawrence  St.,  ,-Vnn  .Arbor,  Mich.  48104. 

Tracey  Thayer  graduates  trom  1  lar\  anl 
Business  SchiHil  this  spring. 

Joanne  Walters  is  in  her  first  year  of  the 
M.15.A.  program  at  the  University  of  Cahfor- 
nia,  Los  Angeles. 

Jennifer  Wayne,  after  receiving  her  mas- 
ter's from  the  ( letcher  School  of  Law  and 
DiplomacN  and  living  in  Spain  for  si,\  months, 
nciw  lives  in  Menlo  Park,  Calif.,  and  works  as 
a  research  associate  at  the  Institute  for  the 
Future  a  strategic-planning  and  forecasting 
consulting  firm.  She  recently  was  named  a 
full  board  member  of  the  Washington-based 
China  Open  Door  Foundation  and  will  be 
traveling  to  China  this  spring.  She  would 
love  to  hear  from  anyone  living  in  or  passing 
through  the  Bay  Area  ("Katie  Woodruff?" 
Jennifer  writes):  3215  Alameda  de  las  Pulgas, 
Menlo  Park,  Calif.  94025;  (415)  854-8554. 


190 

B  Peter 


Cohen  (see  Stephen  A.  Cohen  'sp). 


191 

Richard  Acker  (see  Cynthia  Wayne 
Acker  'sg) 

92 

Emma  Bermingham  received  a  Rhodes 
scholarship  and  will  be  studying  law  at 
Oxford  starting  next  October.  Treasurer  of 
the  class  of  '92,  she  is  working  as  a  researcher 
at  the  Advisory  Board  in  Washington,  D.C., 
for  the  remainder  of  the  academic  year. 


GS 


i  Elizabeth  Zimmerman  Burkhart '31  A.M., 
Emmaus,  Pa.,  remains  physically  fit  and  men- 
tally sharp.  In  June  1987  she  drove  to  Chur- 
chill, Manitoba,  to  observe  bird  migration  and 
tundra  flowers.  In  1989  she  traveled  to  Essen, 
Germany,  home  of  her  niece's  family,  and  then 
joined  an  expedition  to  the  canyon  lands  of 
Arizona  and  Utah.  In  1990  she  visited  a  friend 
and  attended  an  elderhostel  in  Silver  City, 
N.M.  In  1991  she  returned  to  the  Grand 
Canyon  to  try  and  see  the  rare  Karbal  squirrel 
-  unsuccessfully.  "Life  is  very  good!"  she 
writes. 

Lori  Pope  '91  M.F.A.  (see  '88). 

i    Phyllis  A.M.  HoUenbeck  '77  M.D. 
(see  '73), 

Duane  M.  Smith  '84  M.D.  (see  Lori 
Pope  '88). 

Catherine  Beerman  '89  M.D.  (see  Ray- 
mond Sullivan  '59). 

Uma  M.  Reddy  '91  M.D.  (see  '88). 


Obituaries 


Irving  Turple  Gumb   15,  McLean,  Va.;  Dec. 
20.  He  worked  his  way  through  Brown  as  a 
gymnasium  instructor  and  a  public  speaker 
and  served  as  a  chief  pietty  officer  in  the  U.S. 
Navv  during  World  War  I.  After  the  war  he 
conducted  special  studies  of  economic  and 
sociological  conditions  in  the  Middle  East 
and  Puerto  Rico  and  later  did  relief  and  edu- 
cational work  in  those  areas.  He  served  as 
secretary  of  the  American  Good  Will  delega- 
tion to  Greece  following  the  burning  of 
Smyrna  and  the  evacuation  of  Christians 
from  Asia  Minor  in  1922.  He  joined  the  New 
Jersey  State  Chamber  of  Commerce  in  1937 
and  eventually  served  as  its  chief  executive 
officer,  executive  vice  president,  and  a  con- 
sultant and  vice  chairman  of  its  Citizenship 
Responsibility  Program  Committee.  He  was 
appointed  to  the  board  of  managers  and  fac- 
ulty of  the  Northeastern  Institute  at  Yale  in 
1944  and  served  as  its  president.  He  cele- 
brated his  looth  birthday  last  June.  Survivors 
include  two  sons,  Dana,  1040  Brook  Valley 
Ln.,  McLean  22102;  and  Irving  Jr.  '44. 

Whiting  Hayden  Preston  15,  Bradenton, 
Fla.;  Jan.  2(1,  198s.  He  was  retired  as  presi- 
dent of  the  Manatee  Fruit  Co.,  Tampa,  Fla. 
No  information  regarding  survivors  was 
available. 

Harley  Joslin  '16,  Berkley,  Mass.;  June  1992. 
He  was  a  retired  salesman  for  the  Goodyear 
Tire  and  Rubber  Co.,  Boston.  He  is  survived 
by  a  daughter. 

Alice  Randall  Pierson  '16,  South  Kingstown, 
R.I.;  Nov.  16.  Before  her  marriage  in  1919,  she 
worked  for  Kidder,  Peabody  and  Co.,  New 
York  City,  and  for  the  Family  Welfare  Depart- 
ment of  New  York.  During  World  War  II  she 
was  an  inspector  for  General  Motors  Aircraft. 
Survivors  include  two  daughters:  Barbara 
Pierson  Grossetete  '46,  Colombes,  France; 
and  Virginia  Pierson  Cummings  '42,  2732 
Kingstown  Rd.,  Kingston,  R.l.  02881. 

Cyrus  Glenn  Flanders  18,  Windsor  Locks, 
Conn.;  Jan.  11.  He  was  manager  of  the  Hart- 
ford office  of  the  Connecticut  State  Employ- 
ment Service  from  1935  to  1955,  except  during 
World  War  II,  when  he  served  on  the  War 
Manpower  Commission.  Prior  to  his  retire- 
ment he  was  executive  secretary  of  the  Gov- 
ernor's Committee  to  Hire  the  Handicapped 
for  many  years.  He  received  an  award  from 
the  President's  Committee  on  Employment 
for  the  Handicapped  and  the  Edward  B. 
Chester  Award  for  Outstanding  Achievement 
on  behalf  of  the  handicapped.  He  received  a 
distinguished-service  citation  from  the  Dis- 
abled American  Veterans.  The  Cyrus  G.  Flan- 
ders Award  is  presented  each  year  for  out- 
standing contributions  to  the  employment  of 
peopMe  with  disabilities,  and  the  Cyrus  G. 
Flanders  Scholarship  is  awarded  to  disabled 
students  in  Connecticut.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Windsor  Locks  Board  of  Education,  pres- 


ident of  the  Windsor  Locks  Library  Board, 
and  founder  of  the  Windsor  Locks  Senior 
Citizens  Club.  He  was  secretary  of  the  Hart- 
ford Brown  Club  for  many  years  and  received 
a  Brown  Bear  Award  in  1979.  He  was  a  vet- 
eran of  World  War  1  and  had  lived  in  Windsor 
Locks  since  1920.  He  is  survived  by  a  daugh- 
ter; four  sons,  Samuel  '50,  Urban  '49,  John  '53, 
and  C.  Glenn  Jr.  '50,  52  Church  St.,  Windsor 
Locks  0609(1;  and  sixteen  grandchildren, 
including  John  Flanders  '79  and  Marianne 
Flanders  '8 1 

Howard  Douglas  Wood  '21  A.M.,  '25  Ph.D., 
Reston,  Va.;  Jan.  31,  1992.  From  1961  to  1966, 
he  was  dean  and  then  president  of  Curry 
College,  Milton,  Mass.  During  his  career  in 
education,  he  also  taught  elementary,  junior 
high,  and  high  school.  He  served  as  principal 
of  Hope  High  School,  Providence,  from  1938 
to  1956;  assistant  superintendent  of  schools  in 
Providence;  superintendent  of  schools  in 
Weston,  Conn.;  and  supervisor  of  attendance 
at  Masconomet  Regional  School,  Boxford, 
Mass.  He  is  survived  by  a  son,  Albert  '51,  '59 
Ph.D.,  1130  Secretarial  Ct.,  Great  Falls,  Va. 
22066. 

Dora  Sherman  '22,  Providence;  Jan.  12.  During 
her  thirty-six-year  career,  she  taught  biology 
and  related  sciences  at  Mount  Pleasant  and 
Hope  high  schools.  She  held  life  teacher  and 
hfe  master  teacher  certificates  and  served  as 
a  critic  teacher  for  many  biology  teachers.  She 
started  a  horticulture  club  in  an  unused  school 
greenhouse  at  Hope  High  School  in  the  early 
1940s,  where  her  students  experimented  with 
hydroponics.  She  was  a  judge  at  the  state 
high-school  science  fair  for  many  years.  She 
combined  her  interest  in  photography  with 
world  travel  and  was  a  volunteer  slide  lecturer 
for  educational  and  charitable  groups.  She 
was  a  life  member  of  Hadassah,  the  Women's 
Association  at  Miriam  Hospital,  and  the  Jew- 
ish Home  for  the  Aged,  where  she  had  been 
an  active  volunteer.  She  is  survived  by  a 
nephew  and  three  nieces,  including  Bettye 
Kennison  Sopher  '45  and  Grace  Kennison 
Alpert  '51,  53  Wingate  Rd.,  Providence  02906. 

Ruth  Upton  Burt  '23,  Cranston,  R.L;  Dec.  15. 
Before  her  retirement  in  1965,  she  was  secre- 
tary to  the  director  of  curriculum  for  the 
Providence  School  Department.  She  had  also 
worked  for  Educational  Exhibition  Co.  and 
Hospital  Trust  Co.,  both  in  Providence,  and 
at  Cranston,  Technical,  and  Central  high 
schools.  No  information  regarding  survivors 
was  available. 

Earl  Clifton  Wilson  '24,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.; 
Dec.  26.  He  was  a  retired  engineer  with  C.W. 
Blakeslee  and  Sons  Inc.,  New  Haven.  He  is 
survived  by  a  son,  Robert. 

Evan  Lawrence  Fellman  '25,  Memphis;  Dec. 
14.  After  fortv-eight  years,  he  retired  in  1965 
as  senior  vice  president  of  the  E.L.  Bruce  Co., 
a  hardwood-flooring  manufacturer.  He  orga- 
nized the  Bruce-Terminix  Division,  a  termite- 
control  division,  in  1927  and  developed  the 
household-products  division  in  1944.  Sur- 


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vivors  include  a  daughter,  Mrs.  Robert  Flem- 
ing, 6825  Neshoba  Rd.,  Memphis,  Tenn.  38120. 

Alfred  Carsten  Nispel  '26,  Juno  Beach,  Fla.; 
July  4.  He  was  retired  as  president  of  A.C. 
Nispel  Inc.,  a  raw-material  supplier  to  indus- 
try in  Wakefield,  Mass.  He  is  survived  by  a 
daughter,  Jane  Nispel  Brown  '52,  82  Coun- 
try Club  Dr.,  Yarmouth  Port,  Mass.  02675. 

Margaret  Matheson  Orkney  '26,  Largo,  Fla.; 
Jan.  17,  1986.  Survivors  include  a  nephew, 
Peter  A.  Matheson  '69. 

Lucy  Russell  Pope  '26,  South  Yarmouth, 
Mass.;  Jan.  28.  Before  her  marriage,  she 
taught  at  Pawtucket  (R.I.)  High  School.  She 
was  a  member  of  the  Daughters  of  the  Amer- 
ican Revolution  of  the  Federated  Women's 
Club  and  of  the  Joshua  Gray  Chapter,  South 
Yarmouth.  She  is  survived  by  a  son,  Russell, 
of  Quogue,  N.Y. 

Harold  Marshall  Soars  '26,  Naples,  Fla.;  date 
of  death  unknown.  He  was  retired  as  chair- 
man of  Sprout  Waldron  and  Co.,  a  manufac- 
turer of  farm  tools  in  Muncy,  Pa.  He  received 
an  honorary  doctor  of  laws  degree  from 
Bucknell  University  in  1975.  He  is  survived 
by  a  son,  J.  Richard,  303  Hillcrest  Ln.,  Lewis- 
burg,  Pa.  17837. 

Kathe  Beyer  Liedke  '27,  Charlestown,  R.I.; 
Oct.  26,  1991.  She  received  a  master's  degree 
from  the  University  of  Chicago  in  1928  and  a 
doctorate  from  Columbia  in  1942.  She  was  a 
biology  professor  at  Fairleigh  Dickinson  Uni- 
versity from  i960  to  1970,  after  a  number  of 
years  as  a  lecturer  at  Vassar  College,  New 
York  Medical  College,  and  Hunter  College. 
Phi  Beta  Kappa.  Survivors  include  a  daugh- 
ter, Margarethe  Kulke,  518  Bavarian  Ct., 
Lafayette,  Cahf.  94549. 

Everett  Mercer  Lewis  '28,  Wakefield,  R.I.; 
Dec.  14.  He  retired  in  1973  as  president  and 
treasurer  after  forty  years  with  the  O.P. 
Kenyon  Co.,  a  Wakefield  department  store. 
After  retirement,  he  worked  for  several  years 
for  the  Providence  journal-BuUetin.  He  had 
been  a  member  of  the  Wakefield  Business- 
men's Association  and  the  South  Kingstown 
Chamber  of  Commerce.  He  had  served  as 
secretary  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  South 
County  Hospital  for  eighteen  years  and  was 
a  member  of  the  advisory  board  of  the  for- 
mer Industrial  National  Bank,  now  Fleet 
Bank.  Survivors  include  his  wife,  Doris,  39 
Warner  Ave.,  Wakefield  02879;  snd  a  son. 

Thomas  Francis  Peterson  Jr.  '28,  Easton,  Pa.; 
April  22.  He  retired  from  White  and  Case,  a 
New  York  City  law  firm,  in  1973.  No  infor- 
mation regarding  survivors  was  available. 

Florence  Weinstein  Halpert  '29,  Miami 
Beach,  Fla.;  date  of  death  unknown.  She  was 
the  retired  owner  of  an  interior-design  firm, 
Horence  Halpert  Associates  in  New  York 
City.  She  was  president  of  the  Brown  Club  of 
Maine  in  the  1950s  and  active  in  the  Pem- 
broke Club  of  New  York  from  1968  to  1974. 


Survivors  include  a  son,  Stephen  '55,  150 
Craigie  St.,  Portland,  Maine  04102. 

Frances  Perry  '29,  Greene,  R.I.;  Dec.  1.  She 
received  a  master's  degree  from  Radeliffe  in 
1931  and  was  librarian  at  the  Greene  Public 
Library  for  many  years  before  her  retirement. 
She  was  a  member  of  the  Audubon  Society  of 
Rhode  Island.  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  Survivors 
include  a  sister,  Charlotte  Perry  Phillips  '25, 
Tabor  Hill  Road,  R.F.D.  #7,  Lmcoln,  Mass. 
01773. 

E.  Gertrude  Kingsley  '30,  Westerly,  R.I.;  Nov. 
30.  She  taught  in  the  Westerly  school  system 
beginning  in  1931  and  was  head  of  the 
English  department  at  Westerly  High  School 
from  i960  until  her  retirement  in  1970.  She  is 
survived  by  a  cousin,  Ruth  Baird,  Westerly. 

Louis  William  Rubenstein  '30,  Boca  Raton, 
Fla.;  Sept.  24.  He  was  a  retired  sales  executive 
for  Security  Mills  Inc.,  Newton,  Mass.  Also 
known  as  Louis  W.  Urban,  he  was  a  com- 
poser and  pianist  and  a  member  of  the  Amer- 
ican Society  of  Composers,  Authors,  and 
Publishers.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  Beat- 
rice, 6100  N.W.  2nd  Ave.,  Boca  Raton  33487. 

Edward  Valdemar  Osberg  '31,  Lake  Worth, 
Fla.,  date  of  death  unknown.  He  was  retired 
president  of  National  Polychemicals  Inc., 
Wilmington,  Mass.;  a  former  editor  of  Rubber 
World,  New  York  City;  and  a  contributing 
editor  of  Rubber  and  Plastics  Nezvs,  Akron,  Ohio. 
He  was  a  director  of  the  Smaller  Business 
Association  of  New  England  Inc.,  Waltham, 
Mass.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  Alice,  1  S. 
Lakeside  Dr.,  Apt.  D-4,  Lake  Worth  33460. 

Frances  McGovem  Flynn  '32  AM.,  Framing- 
ham,  Mass.;  Jan.  2.  She  taught  for  many  years 
in  secondary  schools  in  Massachusetts  and 
published  articles  in  the  Neiv  York  Journal  of 
Education  and  Massachusetts  Teacher.  She  was 
one  of  the  founding  members  of  the  New- 
comers Club,  Wellesley,  Mass.  Survivors 
include  her  husband,  Thomas  '28,  25  Prescott 
St.,  Framingham  01701;  a  daughter;  and  two 
sons. 

Miriam  Berman  Kaplan  '32,  Gedera,  Israel; 
summer  1992.  She  was  retired  from  Hebrew 
University.  She  is  survived  by  a  son  and  a 
daughter,  both  of  Israel. 

Everett  Lloyd  Angell  '33,  Sarasota,  Fla.;  Dec. 
17.  He  was  an  electrical  engineer  and  estima- 
tor for  the  Cohen  Co.,  Providence,  for 
twenty-seven  years  before  retiring  in  1973. 
Previously,  he  had  been  employed  by  Narra- 
gansett  Electric  Co.,  Providence;  and  General 
Electric  Co.,  Pittsfield,  Mass.,  where  he  was 
responsible  for  the  design  and  supervision  of 
electrical  installation  at  a  number  of  naval 
facilities,  sewer-treatment  plants,  and  indus- 
trial sites.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Mystic 
(Conn.)  Marine  Museum,  the  Cranston  (R.I.) 
Historical  Society,  the  Brown-Manatee 
Alumni  Club  in  Sarasota,  and  active  with  the 
Boy  Scouts  until  1957.  Survivors  include  his 
wife,  Elizabeth  Tillinghast  Angell  '33,  5128 


Grebel  Ln.,  Sarasota  34232-2612;  three  sons; 
and  a  brother,  Howard  '31. 

Howard  William  Marschner  '34,  Lakewood, 
N.J;  April  12.  He  was  retired  as  a  principal 
real-estate  appraiser  for  the  New  York  State 
Banking  Department.  During  World  War  II 
he  served  in  the  U.S.  Naval  Reserve.  Survivors 
include  his  wife,  Charlotte,  227-B  Buckingham 
Ct.,  Lakewood  08701;  a  nephew,  Timothy  C. 
Marschner  '68;  a  niece,  Mary  Marschner 
Doherty  61;  and  a  sister-in-law,  Ida  A. 
Marschner  '28 

William  Otho  Paine  '34,  Massapequa,  N.Y.; 
Dec.  28.  He  is  survived  by  a  daughter,  Ann 
Gail  Gennett,  Massapequa. 

John  Alexander  Steen  '35,  Yarmouth  Port, 
Mass.;  Oct.  24.  He  was  retired  as  assistant 
treasurer  for  Cincinnati  Milacron  Inc., 
Cincinnati.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  Olga, 
3210  Heatherwood  at  Kings  Way,  Yarmouth 
Port  02675. 

Geoffrey  Graham  36,  Lyndonville,  Vt.;  date 
of  death  unknown.  He  received  a  master's 
degree  from  the  University  of  Connecticut. 
During  his  thirty-five-year  career  in  educa- 
tion, he  taught  high-school  English;  served  as 
principal  of  elementary,  junior-high,  and 
high  schools  in  Connecticut  and  Vermont; 
served  as  superintendent  of  schools  in  Rut- 
land, Vt.;  and  was  an  associate  professor  of 
education  at  Lyndon  State  College,  Lyn- 
donville. He  is  survived  by  his  wife, 
Gretchen,  RD  #1,  Box  42,  Lyndonville  05851. 

R.  Joyce  Harman  '36,  Lake  Havasu  City,  Ariz.; 
Oct.  1 .  After  retiring  as  assistant  to  the  direc- 
tor of  MIT's  Lincoln  Laboratory,  Lexington, 
Mass.,  she  moved  to  Lake  Havasu  City,  where 
in  1986  she  was  elected  vice  mayor.  No  infor- 
mation regarding  survivors  is  available. 

Gordon  Charles  Kaelin  '36,  Tenafly,  N.J.; 
Sept.  24.  He  was  a  sales  manager  for  Kaelin, 
Ruesch,  and  Co.,  an  embroideries  manufac- 
turer in  Union  City,  N.J.,  and  then  worked 
for  the  U.S.  Postal  Service.  He  is  survived  by 
a  daughter. 

Karl  Everitt  Righter  '36,  Columbus,  Ga.;  Nov. 
26.  A  retired  professor,  he  taught  at  State 
University  of  New  York  at  Buffalo;  Pacific 
States  University  in  Los  Angeles;  Long  Beach 
City  College;  and  Cerritos  College,  Norwalk, 
Calif.  He  earned  a  master's  from  suny  and 
had  graduate  engineering  diplomas  from 
Harvard  and  mit.  While  working  for  North 
American  Rockwell  in  Downey,  Calif.,  he 
helped  design  the  navigation  and  flight-con- 
trol systems  for  the  B-i  bomber,  the  space 
shuttles,  and  the  Apollo  command  module. 
He  was  a  lieutenant  in  the  U.S.  Army  during 
World  War  II,  serving  in  Italy,  France,  and 
Germany,  and  was  an  Eagle  Scout.  He  is  sur- 
vived by  a  brother  and  two  sons,  including 
Peter,  7034  Widgeon  Dr.,  Midland,  Ga.  31820. 

George  Francisco  Follett  '37,  Pawtucket, 
R.I.;  Jan.  15.  He  is  survived  by  a  daughter 


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>iiu1  his  wile,  Margdicl,  m  1  liimos  St.,  Paw- 
tiicki't  02860. 

Rita  Kenefick  Lipman  'iS,  Now  RoclioUe, 
N.\  .;  d.\tv  ot  do.ith  unknown.  Survivors 
includo  a  tl.iughtcr,  Sue  Hckstein,  1 1005 
C.irolhvood  Dr.,  Tampa,  Ha.  3-^618. 

Dorothy  W.  Gifford  41  AM.,  Providence; 
Jan.  8.  She  i;raduated  from  Mount  1  lolyoke 
College  in  1922  and  joined  the  faculty  of  Lin- 
coln School,  Providence,  in  1925  as  the  head 
of  the  science  department.  She  remained  at 
l.incohi  for  fortv-five  vears,  teaching  classes 
in  all  the  sciences  while  specializing  in  chem- 
istrv  and  phvsics.  After  retiring  in  1972,  she 
serwd  as  a  member  of  the  board  of  overseers 
and  as  a  trustee  of  the  Lincoln  School  Foun- 
dation. In  19S1  the  upper  and  middle  school's 
science  wing  was  named  in  her  honor,  anci  in 
198 'i  the  school  created  the  Dorothy  W.  Gif- 
ford Faculty  Chair,  given  annually  to  an  out- 
standing faculty  member.  In  1957  she 
recei\'ed  an  honorary  doctor  of  science  degree 
from  Mount  Holyoke.  She  was  president  of 
the  New  England  Association  of  Teachers  of 
Chemistry.  She  taught  chemistry  in  the 
National  Science  Foundation  Summer  Insti- 
tute at  the  University  of  New  Hampshire  for 
fifteen  years  and  was  the  associate  director  of 
the  program  for  ten  years.  She  received 
Sigma  Xi  awards,  the  James  Bryant  Conant 
Award  from  the  American  Chemical  Society 
as  an  outstanding  teacher  of  secondary- 
school  chemistry,  and  the  Elizabeth  Thomp- 
son Award  from  the  American  Academy  of 
Arts  and  Sciences  for  exemplary  teaching  of 
science.  She  was  a  clerk  for  the  Obadiah 
Brown  Benevolent  Fund  and  a  board  mem- 
ber of  Tockwotton  in  Harrington,  R.L,  a  con- 
tinuing-care  retirement  community.  She  is 
survived  by  nephews  and  nieces. 

John  Brooks  MacGregor  '42,  Bristol,  R.L;  Jan. 
4.  He  was  an  industrial  gas  engineer  with  the 
Blackstone  Valley  Gas  and  Electric  Co.,  Paw- 
tucket,  R.L,  and  later  with  MacGregor  Asso- 
ciates, Bristol.  He  served  in  the  U.S.  Naval 
Reserve  during  Worki  War  IL  He  is  survived 
by  a  son;  a  daughter;  and  his  wife,  E.  Bar- 
bara Peterson  MacGregor  '42,  43  Harrison 
St.,  Bristol  02809. 

Mary  Kayser  Johnson  '44,  South  Kmgstown, 
R.L;  Jan.  5,  in  Xian,  China.  She  had  been  an 
educator  for  twenty-five  years  in  public  and 
private  schools  and  also  an  instructor  at  the 
former  Mount  St.  Joseph  College,  Wakefield, 
R.L,  and  at  the  University  of  Rhode  Island. 
At  the  time  of  her  death,  she  was  in  China  as 
the  United  National  specialist  for  the  U.S. 
government.  She  served  in  the  Peace  Corps 
in  Liberia  for  two  years  and  in  Belize  for  two 
years  and  was  a  member  of  the  United 
National  Foreign  Language  Institute  in  Xian. 
She  founded  the  Rhode  Island  Citizens  for 
Decent  Literature  in  South  County,  the 
Women's  Democratic  Organization,  and 
cofounded  the  Rhode  Island  Citizens  for 
Educational  Freedom.  She  was  a  past  board 
member  of  the  Narragansett  Democratic 
Town  Committee,  the  Catholic  Teachers  of 


Khode  Island,  aiul  the  National  Board  tor 
Citizens  for  Educational  Freedom.  She  served 
in  the  Women's  Army  Corps  during  World 
War  II.  She  swam  for  the  Pembroke  College 
team  in  1940-41  and  for  the  U.S.  Olympic 
Team  in  the  backstroke  in  1942.  She  was  also 
an  accomplished  musician  on  the  string  bass 
and  violin.  She  is  survived  by  six  daughters; 
five  sons;  and  a  brother,  Harold  '41,  1553  East 
3010  South,  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah  84106. 

Emily  R.  Poynter  '45,  Shelbyville,  Ky.;  March 
1,  1992.  She  received  a  master's  degree  from 
Simmons  College  and  was  a  retired  social 
worker.  No  information  regarding  survivors 
was  available. 

F.  Edward  Ehlers  '47  Sc.M.,  '49  Ph.D., 
Seattle;  July  13.  He  worked  at  mit  during 
World  War  II,  where  he  helped  develop 
microwave  components  for  radar  systems, 
then  was  employed  by  the  Boeing  Co.  in 
Seattle  for  thirty  years.  He  played  piano  in 
movie  houses  as  a  youth  and  later  in  life 
taught  himself  to  play  the  organ.  When  he 
retired  from  Boeing  in  1983,  he  performed 
classical  organ  concerts  in  the  Seattle  area. 
He  was  church  organist  and  choir  director  at 
Good  Shepherd  Lutheran  Church  in  Seatac 
for  twenty-five  years.  He  was  a  longtime 
member  of  the  American  Guild  of  Organists 
and  dean  of  the  organization's  local  chapter. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Puget  Sound  Choral 
Directors  Guild,  the  Rainier  Chorale,  and 
was  a  past  president  of  the  Association  of 
Lutheran  Choir  Directors  and  Organists.  He 
is  survived  by  two  sons  and  a  daughter. 

Frank  Edmondston  Kilpatrick  '47,  Salem, 
N.Y.;  Dec.  31.  He  was  an  executive  vice  presi- 
dent of  Bristol  Laboratories,  Syracuse,  N.Y., 
and  corporate  treasurer  of  Bristol-Myers  Co., 
New  York  City.  Previously,  he  had  worked 
in  the  accounting  department  of  Time-Life 
Inc.  and  served  as  financial  vice  president  of 
the  overseas  chemical  division  of  W.R.  Grace 
and  Co.  He  received  his  M.B.A.  from  Har- 
vard. He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  Mary,  P.O. 
Box  460,  Salem  12865. 

Donald  Solon  Putnam  '47  A.M.,  Lakeville, 
Mass.;  Dec.  9.  He  taught  at  Middlebury  Col- 
lege Breadloaf  Conference  Center  in  Vermont 
and  Hamhne  University,  St.  Paul,  Minn.  A 
1942  graduate  of  Middlebury  College,  he 
served  as  a  lieutenant  in  the  U.S.  Coast  Guard 
during  World  War  II,  mostly  on  North 
Atlantic  antisubmarine  patrol  vessels.  Sur- 
vivors include  two  daughters  and  a  brother. 

Dr.  Roland  Abston  Bill  '48,  Memphis;  May  6. 
He  was  a  sales  manager  for  the  O.K.  Storage 
Co.  in  Memphis  and,  following  his  graduation 
from  the  University  of  Tennessee  Dental 
School  in  196^,  practiced  dentistry  in  Mem- 
phis. Survivors  include  a  daughter. 

Thomas  Joseph  Wallace  '48,  '62  A.M.,  Mil- 
ton, Mass.;  Dec.  18.  He  was  a  professor  of  art 
at  Simmons  College.  He  is  survived  by  his 
wife,  Christine,  64  Maple  St.,  Milton  02186. 


Hervey  Armstrong  Ward  Jr.  '48,  Amherst, 
N.I  1.;  Dec.  2.  He  worked  for  many  years  as 
an  office-equipment  salesman  and  later 
owned  and  operated  Colonial  Fence  Co., 
Merrimack,  N.l  I.,  until  his  retirement.  He 
was  a  decorated  staff  sergeant  in  the  U.S. 
Army  during  World  War  II,  serving  in  the 
European,  African,  and  Middle  Eastern  the- 
aters. Among  his  survivors  are  his  wife,  Mar- 
ion, 233  Boston  Post  Rd.,  Amherst  03031;  and 
two  sons,  including  Hervey  III  '72. 

Robert  Fleming  Ward  '48,  Chatham,  Va.; 
June  1992.  He  was  an  attorney  with  the  22d 
District  Juvenile  and  Domestic  Relations 
Court,  Chatham.  No  information  regarding 
survivors  is  available. 

Joseph  Auclair  Rice  '49,  Swansea,  Mass.; 
Dec.  1.  He  was  a  U.S.  Army  veteran  of  World 
War  II  and  was  held  as  a  prisoner  of  war. 
Survivors  include  his  wife,  Frances,  20  Sea- 
view  Ave.,  Swansea  02778;  three  sons;  and 
two  daughters. 

Charles  Richard  Slattery  '49,  Stoneham, 
Mass.;  July  28.  He  was  a  retired  teacher  in  the 
Arlington,  Mass.,  school  system.  He  had  pre- 
viously taught  junior  high  in  West  Spring- 
field, Mass.  He  is  survived  by  a  sister. 

Browning  Webb  Smith  '49,  La  Mirada,  Calif.; 
Dec.  q.  He  worked  for  the  Amica  Insurance 
Co.  for  thirty  years  and  was  branch  manager 
for  the  Los  Angeles  and  Orange  County 
offices  before  retiring  in  1980.  He  was  a  U.S. 
Navy  lieutenant  and  a  fighter  pilot  in  World 
War  II,  serving  in  the  Pacific.  Survivors 
include  a  daughter  and  his  wife,  Joyce,  14809 
Jalisco  Rd.,  La  Mirada  90638. 

John  Joseph  Harrington  '50,  Warwick,  R.I.; 
Jan.  8.  He  was  the  director  of  development 
for  the  Catholic  Diocese  of  Erie,  Pa.,  for  four 
years  until  retiring  in  1984.  Before  that  he 
had  been  the  director  of  development  for  the 
Catholic  Diocese  of  Richmond,  Va.;  executive 
director  for  the  United  Way  of  Ottawa, 
Canada;  executive  director  of  the  Altoona 
(Pa.)  Community  Chest  and  Welfare  Cciuncil; 
and  assistant  executive  director  of  the  United 
Way  of  Provic"lence.  Since  retiring,  he  was 
involved  with  the  Retired  Senior  Volunteer 
Program  and  with  adult  literacy  tutoring 
programs.  He  was  on  the  board  of  directors 
for  the  Rhode  Island  Volunteers  in  Action 
and  was  a  member  of  the  advisory  board  for 
the  Roger  Williams  University  School  of 
Social  Services.  He  received  a  master's  in 
social  work  from  Columbia  University  in 
1952.  Survivors  include  his  wife,  Barbara 
Harrop  Harrington  '49,  602  Pocasset  Ct., 
Warwick  02886;  two  sons;  and  a  daughter. 

John  Chester  Sheppard  '50,  Dublin,  Ohio; 
Dec.  11.  He  had  been  president  of  John  Shep- 
pard and  Associates  Inc.,  Dublin;  vice  presi- 
dent and  director  of  )ECC  Corp.,  Tokyo; 
director  of  Barneby  Cheney  Inc.,  Columbus, 
Ohio;  senior  vice  president  and  director  of 
cvi  Inc.,  Columbus;  vice  president  and  gen- 
eral manager  of  McDowell  Wellman  Inc., 


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Cleveland;  and  vice  president  of  cti  Nuclear, 
Helix  Technology  Corp.,  Waltham,  Mass.  He 
was  a  U.S.  Navy  veteran  of  World  War  11.  Sur- 
vivors include  his  wife,  Ruth,  5936  Macewen 
Ct.,  Dublin  43017;  a  daughter;  and  a  son. 

Joseph  Paul  Silva  '51,  Peterborough,  N.H., 
Jan.  1,  after  a  fall  while  skiing.  He  was  resi- 
dent manager  of  Woodland  Heights,  a  resi- 
dential community,  since  its  opening  in  1990. 
He  was  a  sales  representative  for  Burwyn 
Inc.,  a  water-filtration  company.  For  many 
years  he  worked  in  the  women's  apparel 
industrv  in  New  York  City.  He  was  active  in 
church  ministries,  including  a  prison  out- 
reach program  in  Gardner,  Mass.  He  was  a 
U.S.  Navv  veteran  of  World  War  11.  He  was 
an  avid  skier  and  founded  and  directed  the 
Penguin  Ski  Club  of  Lincoln,  N.H.,  where 
Loon  Mountain,  site  of  the  accident,  is 
located.  Surviving  are  two  sons;  four  daugh- 
ters; a  sister,  and  two  brothers,  including 
Edward,  25  Harden  Ln.,  Warren,  R.I.  02885. 

Albert  Michael  Spellman  '51,  North  Attle- 
boro,  Mass.;  Dec.  18.  He  was  vice  president 
in  charge  of  production  for  Swank,  where  he 
worked  for  forty  years,  until  retiring  in  1990. 
He  was  a  U.S.  Na\'y  veteran  of  World  War  II 
and  served  in  the  Philippines  and  the  Pacific. 
Among  his  survivors  are  his  wife,  June,  1 
Oak  Knoll  Dr.,  North  Attleboro  02760;  two 
daughters;  and  a  son. 

Caroline  A.  deFurla  '54,  Media,  Pa.;  Aug.  26. 
For  many  years  she  was  a  secretary  to  physi- 
cians at  Columbia  Presbyterian  Hospital  in 
New  York  City  and  the  Hospital  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Pennsylvania  in  Philadelphia.  She 
received  her  master's  degree  in  liberal  arts 
from  Widener  University,  Chester,  Pa.,  in 
1988.  She  was  assistant  administrator  of 
Granite  Farms  Estates  from  1990  until  her  ill- 
ness. She  was  a  trustee  and  elder  of  the 
Swarthmore  Presbyterian  Church.  Survivors 
include  a  daughter;  a  son,  William  Wittreich, 
9092  Garland  St.,  Westminster,  Colo.  80021;  a 
sister,  Ann  deFurla  Twombly  '50;  and 
brother-in-law,  John  R.  Twombly  '51. 

Richard  Donald  Lavallee  '54,  Cumberland, 
R.I.;  Oct.  29.  He  was  a  self-employed  real- 
estate  broker.  He  served  in  the  U.S.  Air  Force 
from  1954  to  1958.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife, 
Esther,  10  Cumberland  St.,  Cumberland 
02864;  two  daughters;  a  stepdaughter;  and  a 
stepson. 

EUzabeth  Tonkin  Moore  '54,  Eagles  Mere,  Pa.; 
Jan.  25, 1992.  A  former  resident  of  Seattle,  she 
served  on  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  Seattle 
Repertory  Theatre,  the  board  of  the  Women's 
Committee  of  the  Seattle  Symphony,  and  as  a 
docent  at  the  Seattle  Art  Museum.  She  is  sur- 
vived by  her  husband,  Mechlin  Moore,  P.O. 
Box  184,  Geyelin  Avenue,  Eagles  Mere  17731; 
and  a  son,  Lansing  '80. 

James  Edgar  Swain  Jr.  '56,  Allentown,  Pa.; 
March  26,  1992.  He  was  a  science  teacher,  later 
head  of  the  science  department,  assistant  to 
the  headmistress,  and  then  headmaster  of  the 


Swain  Country  Day  School,  Allentown.  He 
later  was  director  of  operations  for  Outdoor 
World,  Timothy  Lake  Resort,  East  Strouds- 
burg.  Pa.;  and  for  Rank-Ahnert,  Bushkill,  Pa. 
He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  Jeaime  MacKenzie 
Swain  '58,  1110  S.  24th  St.,  Allentown  18103. 

Roger  Bennett  Williams  '56,  LawTence,  Kans.; 
Jan.  8.  Despite  a  lifelong  battle  with  muscular 
dystrophy,  he  had  a  long  career  as  an  author, 
artist,  sculptor,  scholar,  and  lawyer.  He 
received  master's  and  law  degrees  from  the 
University  of  Kansas.  He  wrote  numerous 
scientific  papers  and  collaborated  on  the 
encyclopedic  Trcntisc  of  Palcoiitological  bwcrtc- 
brates.  He  was  illustrations  editor  for  the 
Paleontological  Institute  at  the  University  of 
Kansas.  The  U.S.  Postal  Service  chose  his 
design  for  a  stamp  commemorating  the  John 
Wesley  Powell  Expedition  of  1869,  and  he 
sculpted  the  commemorative  seal  for  the  cen- 
tennial celebration  of  the  University  of  Kansas 
State  Geological  Survey  in  1964.  Known  in 
Lawrence  as  the  "father  of  accessibility,"  he 
was  a  cofounder  and  first  president  of  Inde- 
pendence Inc.,  a  community  advocacy  group 
for  persons  with  disabilities.  He  served  on 
the  Architectural  Barrier  Committee  at  the 
University  of  Kansas,  and  in  1992  he  received 
the  Roger  Hill  Volunteer  Center's  first  award 
for  excellence  for  his  efforts  on  behalf  of  dis- 
abled people.  He  was  a  retired  member  of  the 
Kansas  and  Douglas  County  bar  associations 
and  was  a  former  member  of  the  Lawrence 
Breakfast  Cosmopolitan  Club.  He  is  survived 
by  his  wife,  Michele,  2425  Ohio  St.,  Lawrence 
66044;  'wo  daughters;  a  sister;  and  a  brother. 
Mason  '51. 

Samuel  Nutt  '59,  San  Francisco;  May  2.  Before 
retiring,  he  was  a  communication  consultant 
with  Pacific  Telephone  Co..  He  is  survived 
by  a  sister,  Harriett  Nutt  Hays  '54;  and  a 
brother,  Charles  '37,  69  Walbridge  Rd.,  West 
Hartford,  Conn.  06119. 

Robert  McAllister  Ramsay  Jr.  '59,  Rumford, 
R.I.;  Jan.  20.  He  worked  for  Amica  Insurance 
Co.,  North  Kingstown,  R.l.  He  is  survived  by 
his  mother,  Janet,  20  Roger  Williams  Ave., 
Rumford  02916-3511;  and  a  sister,  Janet 
Ramsay  Spurgeon  '57. 

Rufus  Bullock  '59,  Greenwich,  Conn.;  Dec.  25. 
He  was  chairman  of  Edgewood  Management 
Co.,  an  investment  advisory  firm  in  New  York 
City.  Previously  he  was  a  vice  president  of  the 
First  Boston  Corp.  He  received  an  M.B.A.  from 
the  University  of  Pennsylvania  in  1962.  At 
Brown  he  played  on  the  varsity  tennis  team. 
Survivors  inckide  his  wife,  Mimi,  50  Upland 
Dr.,  Greenwich  06830;  and  three  daughters. 

Henry  Ephrem  Chaput  Jr.  '61,  Cumberland, 
R.L;  Dec.  11.  He  was  a  teacher  at  Cumberland 
High  School.  He  is  survived  by  a  brother, 
Robert,  46  Highbridge  Dr.,  Cumberland  02864. 

James  Franklin  Trafton  '61,  Keene,  N.H.; 
February  1992.  He  was  general  manager  of 
Computer  Tax  Service  of  New  England, 
Boston,  until  his  retirement.  Previously  he 


had  been  manager  of  administration  of 
Chart-Pak  Inc.,  Leeds,  Mass.;  director  of 
finance  for  Chartpak  Rotex  Division  of  Avery 
Products  Corp.,  Northampton,  Mass.;  vice 
president  of  finance  of  General  Offset  Print- 
ing Co.,  Springfield,  Mass.;  controller  for 
Jacob's  Manufacturing,  West  Hartford, 
Conn.;  and  president  of  Computer  Financial 
Corp.,  Hartford.  No  information  regarding 
survivors  was  available. 

Henry  Clinton  Pollack  Jr.  '63,  New  York 
City;  Feb.  18,  1990.  He  was  president  of  Pace 
Securities  Inc.,  New  York  City.  Previously,  he 
had  been  president  of  The  Solutions  Group 
Inc.,  New  York  City;  and  vice  president  of 
Lippincott  and  Margulies  Inc.,  New  York 
City.  Survivors  include  his  wife,  Jessie,  17  E. 
89th  St.,  New  York,  N.Y.  10128;  a  son,  Henry 
in  '91;  and  his  father,  Henry  Sr.  '32. 

Edward  Thomas  Pryor  '66  Ph.D.,  Ottawa; 
Nov.  9,  of  cancer.  A  sociologist,  he  began  his 
academic  career  at  the  University  of  Western 
Ontario,  where  he  was  chair  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  Sociology.  Since  1968  he  had  been 
associated  with  Statistics  Canada,  the  Cana- 
dian census  bureau,  of  which  he  had  been 
director  general  since  1982.  His  research 
interests  included  the  changing  structure  of 
the  family  and  immigration  between  the 
United  States  and  Canada.  He  received  a 
Graduate  Alumni  Citation,  which  recognizes 
graduate-school  degree  recipients  for  their 
contributions  to  society  through  scholarship 
or  related  professional  activity,  at  the  1992 
Commencement  ceremonies.  Survivors 
include  his  wife,  Claire,  32  Sioux  Crescent, 
Nepean,  Ontario  K2H  7ES,  Canada. 

George  Patton  Kent  '78  Ph.D.,  Vienna,  Va.; 
Oct.  22,  of  liver  cancer.  He  served  in  the  U.S. 
Army  from  1966  to  1970,  including  a  tour  in 
Europe  with  the  Army  Security  Agency.  He 
studied  Czech  at  the  Army's  language  school 
in  Monterey,  Calif.;  was  a  Fulbright  scholar 
in  Prague;  and  studied  German  at  the  Goethe 
Institute  in  Germany.  Before  moving  to  the 
Washington,  D.C.,  area  in  1981  as  a  freelance 
translator  of  twenty-two  languages,  he  taught 
Slavic  languages  at  Texas  Tech  University.  He 
had  taught  Russian  and  English  as  a  second 
language  at  Wilson  High  School,  Washing- 
ton, D.C.,  since  1990.  Survivors  include  his 
former  wife,  Jirina  Froelich,  9807  Sweet  Mint 
Dr.,  Vienna  22180;  a  son;  and  a  daughter. 

Nancy  Su  Hou  '93,  Peoria,  111.;  Dec.  21,  an 
apparent  suicide.  An  economics  concentra- 
tor, she  was  a  cheerleader  in  her  freshman 
and  sophomore  years  and  a  manager  of  the 
football  team  during  her  junior  year.  She  is 
survived  by  two  sisters  and  her  parents,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Ching-Tsang  Hou,  705  N.  Deer- 
brook  Dr.,  Peoria  61615.  ^ 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /  55 


Finally... 

By  Lisa  Brownell  '7b 


Rim  with  a  view 


First  came  Thelma 
and  Louise's  fatal 
plunge.  Then  a  televi- 
sion commercial.  Next  a 
succession  of  travel  sto- 
ries appeared.  Finally, 
there  was  a  popular  film 
in  which  two  beleaguered 
families  share  a  revela- 
tion at  its  rim. 

Sometime  last  year, 
I  realized  that  I  was 
slowly  being  seduced  by 
the  Grand  Canyon. 

Its  long-distance  calls 
came  frequently  to  my 
Connecticut  home  and 
office.  At  first  I  dismissed 
it  altogether.  The  Grand 
Canyon  had  too  many 
drawbacks,  I  rationalized. 
First  and  foremost,  it 
was  hopelessly  domestic, 
a  garden-variety  phe- 
nomenon, about  as  excit- 
ing as  a  backyard  with 
poor  drainage.  And  cer- 
tainly anyplace  that  had 
been  oohed  and  ahhed 
over  by  4  million  people  a  year  had  been 
used  up,  depleted  of  thrills,  reduced  to 
geological  cliche. 

In  my  own  way,  I  am  a  connoisseur 
of  elevating  moments  and  have  a  small 
collection  that  I've  neatly  labeled  and 
stored  like  jewels  in  an  otherwise  ordi- 
nary life.  From  time  to  time,  when  life 
seems  unbearably  ho-hum,  I  take  them 
down  from  the  shelf  of  my  memory: 
gazing  upon  the  Taj  Mahal  or  the  dis- 
tant slopes  of  Mount  Everest.  Practically 
dancing  with  glee  on  the  ice  floes  of 
Barrow,  Alaska.  Scaling  Kilimanjaro, 
my  favorite,  which  gathered  luster  from 
frequent  use-  standing  on  the  edge  of 
the  Great  Rift  Valley  and  watching 
dawn  break  over  the  Serengeti,  inhaling 
the  smell  of  the  red  earth  and  hearing 
the  wind  push  at  a  sea  of  golden  grass 
all  around  me. 

It  was  a  tough  act  to  follow. 


But  I  soon  began  to  recognize  the 
signs  of  infatuation.  In  a  clearance  bin  at 
the  local  Tape  World,  I  found  a  record- 
ing called  "Canyon"  by  the  jazz  artist 
Paul  Winter.  Listening  again  and  again 
to  compositions  inspired  by  the  Grand 
Canyon  and,  in  some  cases,  performed 
inside  the  chasm  itself,  I  wondered  if 
this  was  real  exaltation  or  just  grand  silli- 
ness. The  precise  sound  of  a  raven's 
wings  carrying  it  over  the  canyon  made 
my  heart  stand  still.  Was  this  something 
that  could  be  mixed  in  a  studio? 

It  suddenly  seemed  that  everyone 
I  knew  was  either  at  the  Grand  Canyon, 
going  to  the  Grand  Canyon,  or  just  back 
from  the  Grand  Canyon. 

Day  by  day,  this  rim  with  a  view 
pulled  me  closer  to  its  edge.  The  obvious 
route,  a  trip  with  my  husband  and  son, 
failed  to  find  recruits.  "Too  tame,"  my 
husband  said  of  my  proposed  plan  to 


fly  to  Phoenix  and  rent  a 
car.  "It  would  kill  me," 
he  pronounced,  citing  a 
preference  for  high 
adventure.  Friends  were 
occupied  with  jobs 
and  families,  and  the 
prospect  of  a  solo  trip  no 
longer  held  the  appeal  it 
did  when  I  was  younger. 
Then  the  person  who 
H^^  J       was  least  likely  to  accept 

JBr  jjB       my  offer  agreed  before 

y  ..iM^^       I  could  even  name  the 

^^rfflP^B       destination.  "I  don't  care 
^^       where  it  is.  I'll  go  any- 
where," cried  my  mother, 
leaping  up  from  her  seat 
at  the  kitchen  counter. 
Travel  with  mother. 
Here  was  terra  incognita 
crossed  by  only  a  daring 
few.  Had  I  finally 
snapped?  But  I  knew  it 
was  too  late  to  turn  back, 
and  no  one  seemed  the 
least  bit  interested  in 
stopping  me. 

So,  last  October  I 
found  myself  driving  down  a  deserted 
highway  on  a  plateau  that  seemed  to 
scrape  the  sky.  Something  told  me  I 
could  be  making  just  another  pointless 
detour  in  my  life.  Worse  yet,  1  couldn't 
help  thinking  about  Thelma  and  Louise 
and  their  final  exit. 

Before  I  knew  it,  I  was  rushing  to  the 
first  lookout.  I  saw  what  I  had  come  for, 
heard  the  immense  silence,  and  won- 
dered why,  with  all  I'd  heard  and  read, 
no  one  ever  warned  me  that  it  makes 
you  want  to  cry. 

The  next  morning  on  the  tiail,  a  raven 
swooped  above  me,  its  wings  beating 
the  air  with  a  sound  I  now  knew  to  be 
genuine.  Suddenly  the  Great  Rift  Valley 
slipped  into  second  place.  ED 

Lisa  Brownell,  ofLedyard,  Conn.,  is  coeditor 
0/ Connecticut  College  Magazine. 


CAROLINA  ARENTSEN 


56  /  MARCH  1993 


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When  I  was  growing  up  in  the  then  small 
town  of  Wellesley,  Massachusetts, 
I  was  regularly  exposed  to  Brown  University 
traditions.  My  dad  was  an  active  Brown 
alumnus,  and  my  grandfather  and  uncle  were 
also  alumni  of  Brown.  All  three  were  Phi  Beta 
Kappa.  I  did  not  follow  in  their  footsteps  in 
that  sphere  of  activity.  There,  however,  never 
seemed  to  be  any  doubt  that  I  would  attend 
Brown,  and  the  choice  turned  out  to  be  a  happy 
and  rewarding  one. 

Memories  of  Brown  include  the  comraderie  of 
fraternity  life  and  constructing  sets  for  Brown- 
brokers  and  Sock  and  Buskin  productions. 
I've  always  been  proud  to  identify  myself  as  a 
graduate  of  Brown  University,  and  have  noted 
with  great  pleasure  that  from  coast  to  coast 
this  institution  is  held  in  the  highest  esteem. 

I  had  always  hoped  to  make  a  meaningful  gift 
to  Brovm,  and  my  50th  Reunion  year  seemed  an 
appropriate  time  to  do  this  through  a  Charitable 
Gift  Annuity.  This  represents  a  win-win 
arrangement  both  for  the  University  and  for  me. 
My  gift  benefits  Brown's  endowment  and,  at  the 
same  time,  provides  me  with  an  annual  mcome 
as  well  as  significant  tax  benefits. 

With  this  gift  I've  given  up  nothing  during 
my  lifetime,  yet  I  have  the  satisfaction  of  giving 
back  to  the  University  a  part  of  what  prior 
generations  of  Brown  faculty  and  alumni  have 
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