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BroiA»ft— 

Alumni  Monthly 

ne  evening  nearly  fifty  years  ago,  Donald 
Hornig  sat  in  a  tower,  loo  feet  above  a  desolate 
New  Mexico  mesa,  guarding  the  world's  first  atomic 
:)omb.  Around  him  a  thunderstorm  raged.  Com- 
ponents of  the  A-bomb  had  been  tested  countless 
times,  but  the  bomb  itself  was  just  hours  away  from  its 
first  and  only  full  dress  rehearsal  -  the  Trinity  Test. 
''Lightning  was  flashing  and  thunder  crashing  all 
around  me,''  Hornig  recalls.  'T  kept  picturing  this  giant 
storm  setting  off  the  Trinity  blast  and  wasting  the 
whole  national  supply  of  plutonium."  That  such  a  blast 
would  also  kill  him  he  barely  considered.  Hornig  sat 
on  a  folding  chair  beneath  a 
naked  sixty-watt  bulb,  read  a 
paperback  novel,  and  waitec . 


DONALD    HORNIG    REFLECTS 


Introducing  a  Five-Part 

Continuing  College  Series 

in  the  BAM 


WHY 
WHAT 


if 

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TEACH 
LEARN 


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I  he  idea  that  education  does  not  end  with 
■  graduation  is  today  so  obvious,  it  has 
become  the  most  common  of  commencement 
cHches.  And  yet  it  has  taken  our  institutions  nearly  a 
century  to  focus  the  lifelong  relationship  with  our 
alumni  on  the  sound  foundation  of  education.  As 
president  of  Amherst  College, 
Alexander  Meiklejohn  posed  the 
challenge  in  the  early  1900s: 
"Education  for  alumni,"  he  said, 
"must  be  part  of  every  alumni 
affairs  program,  not  simply  one 
aspect  of  a  specific  program  called 
'continuing  education.'" 

Later  Brown  presidents  ech- 
oed the  theme.  Henry  M.  Wriston 
urged  alumni  leaders  to  talk  edu- 
cation first  at  all  meetings.  Under 
Barnaby  Keeney,  the  first  Alumni 
College  in  the  country  was  held  in 
i960,  returning  graduates  to  cam- 
pus for  an  intensive  week  with 
faculty. 

When  Pembroke  and  the 
College  merged  in  1971,  President 
Donald  F.  Hornig  appointed  a 
review  committee,  chaired  by  Trustee  Knight 
Edwards  '45,  to  combine  and  strengthen  alumni/ae 
programs.  Its  most  important  legacy  was  the  report 
of  a  subcommittee  on  continuing  education,  chaired 
by  Trustee  Robert  Fearon  '51,  which  set  the  course  for 
alumni  education  through  the  milennium  and 
became  a  model  for  other  colleges.  And  it  established 
the  Continuing  College  as  the  umbrella  for  the  Uni- 
versity's alumni  education  programs. 

The  Continuing  College  enjoyed  its  greatest 
growth  during  Howard  Swearer's  presidency.  At  the 
very  beginning  of  Vartan  Gregorian's  presidency, 
another  ad  hoc  committee,  chaired  by  Trustee 
Michael  Gross  '64,  reviewed  sixteen  years  of  alumni 
education  programs  and  set  new  challenges  for  the 
twenty-first  century. 


Brown  Faculty  on  the  Joys 
and  Challenges  of  Teaching 


The  Continuing  College  now  has  seven  pro- 
grams: on-  and  off-campus  seminars.  Commence- 
ment and  Parents  Weekend  forums.  Summer  Col- 
lege, educational  travel,  Meetings  of  the  Mind 
(club-initiated  readings  under  faculty  direction),  the 
Wriston  Lectures,  and  special  projects.  In  addition, 
there  are  the  Campaign  Colloquia  during  the  current 
Rising  Generation  effort,  one-night  faculty  programs 
sponsored  by  alumni  clubs,  and  the  longstanding 
commitment  by  the  Brown  Alumni  Monthly  to  high- 
light faculty  scholarship. 

At  the  heart  of  these  efforts  is  the  faculty,  whose 
dedication  is  honored  by  the  special  t~ive-part  series. 


I  sometimes  think  the  only  real 
test  of  our  teaching  is  that  of  the 
extent  to  which  pupils  continue 
to  study  our  subjects  after  they 
leave  us. 


Alexander  Meiklejohn,  Class  0/1892 


"Why  I  Teach/What  I  Learn."  Beginning  in  this  issue 
of  the  BAM,  five  Brown  faculty  members  will  write 
about  the  joy  and  challenges  of  teaching  and  the 
scholarship  that  engages  them.  Each  insert  will  con- 
clude with  essays  about  learning  written  by  former 
students. 

Cosponsored  by  the  Continuing  College  and  the 
BAM,  "Why  I  Teach/What  I  Learn"  is  a  reminder 
that,  as  President  Gregorian  often  remarks.  Brown 
has  not  had  to  rediscover  teaching.  In  a  university- 
college  in  which  all  faculty  teach,  these  professors 
and  their  colleagues  are  central  to  an  educational 
process  that  does  not  end  at  Commencement. 

Robert  A.  Retchley 

Executive  Vice  President 

Alumni,  Public  Affairs,  and  External  Relations 


Ik. 


J^^  ^n^  M  mgMl  February  1994 

Alumni  Monthly 

12  Under  the  Elms 

$50  million  of  Walter  Annenberg's  Ssoo-million  educa- 
tion challenge  comes  to  Brown's  National  Institute  for 
School  Reform  .  .  .  Dean  Blumstein  heads  back  to  the 
lab  . . .  the  Medical  School  revamps  its  curriculum  .  .  . 
and  a  backward  glance  at  Mark  Twain:  Was  he  gay? 

30  No  Regrets 

He  witnessed  the  testing  of  the  atomic  bomb 
and  the  flourishing  of  Cold  War  science.  Now 
former  Brown  President  Donald  Hornig  reflects 
on  the  environmental  challenges  of  a  post- 
Soviet  world.  By  Aiidicio  Szciiitoi 


■\.AjJh 


36  Peggy  and  Fred,  Isabelle  and  Leslie 

Senior  Lecturer  Leslie  Thornton  turns  her  avant-garde 
lens  toward  North  Africa  for  a  film  "quasibiography"  of 
traveler  Isabelle  Eberhardt.  By  jaincs  Rcinbold 


\' 


WHY 
WHAT 


n 


TEACH 
lEARN 


41  The  Cosmopolitan  Campaign 

In  an  art-filled  mansion  on  the  banks  of  London's 
Thames  River,  Brown  widens  the  Campaign's  scope. 
By  Richard  Hnlstcnd  'gi 

44  Hot  Topics 

Vartan  Gregorian  talks  about  political  correctness, 
free  speech,  and  community.  Iiitctvicw  by  Aiiiw  Diffily 


'^^"^'^'I'y  on  the  lays 


The  sy„3bus  for  Professor  Meera 
^-anathan-s  course  on  trave, 
'-tore  incomes  accounts  Of  tr.ps 

"«^e  she  recalls  her  own  iournev 
;;°the  Classroom,  an.fi::,. 

''-tstell  Where  she  too.  then,. 


46  Portrait:  Wall  Street  Wannabe? 

No  way.  Mark  Winston  Griffith  '85  has  set  up 
shop  in  Central  Brooklyn,  where  his  credit 
union  serves  low-income  neighbors. 
B\i  Lisa  Fodcraro  '8^ 


Departments 

Carrying  the  Mail  2 

Books  11 

Sports  27 

The  Classes  48 

Obituaries  61 

Finally  64 


Cover:  Photograph  of  Donald  Horuig  by  ]ohn 
Foraste. 


Volume  94,  Number  5 


Brown        Carrying  the  Mail 


Alumni  Moiitlilu 

February  1994 
Volume  94,  No  >; 

Editor 

Anne  Hinm.in  Diffily  '73 

Managing  Editor 

Charlotte  Bruce  Harvey  '78 

Art  Director 

Katlir\n  de  Boer 

Assistant  Editor 
Jennifer  Sutton 

Editorial  Associate 

James  Keinlxild  '74  A.M. 

Pliotography 

John  Foraste 

Design 

Sandra  Delany 

Katie  Cliester 

Sandra  Kennev 

Administrative  Assistant 

Pamela  M.  Parker 

Board  of  Editors 

Chairman 

Peter  W.  Bernstein  '73 

Vice  Chairman 

Lisa  W.  Foderaro  '85 

Ralph  J.  Begleiter  '71 

Philip  J.  Bray  '48 

Douglas  O.  Gumming  '80  A.M. 

Rose  E.  Engelland  '78 

Annette  Grant  '63 

Fraser  A.  Lang  '67 

Debra  L.  Lee  '76 

Martha  K.  Matzke  '66 

Cathleen  M.  McGuigan  '71 

A\-a  L.  Seave  '77 

Robert  Stewart  '74 

Tenold  R.  Sunde  '59 

Jill  Zuckman  '87 

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The  Title  IX  lawsuit 

Editor:  Regarding  the  article  ("On  Bal- 
ance," October)  concerning  Brown's 
elimination  of  varsity  status  from  two 
women's  teams  (along  with  two  men's 
teams)  as  part  of  a  cost-saving  action, 
the  "playing  field"  is  not  level.  As  the 
parent  of  three  former  Ivy-League 
daughters,  two  of  whom  played  varsity 
sports,  I  have  adopted  a  siege  mentality. 
Nonetheless,  the  glass  ceiling  and  other 
instances  of  sex  discrimination  are  well- 
documented.  1  am  thankful  that  there 
are  individuals  who  take  up  the  gauntlet 
and  seek  to  prevent  erosion  of  women's 
hard-won,  and  woefully  late,  benefits. 

President  Gregorian's  reported  state- 
ment that  the  University  must  be  free  to 
manage  its  own  budget  completely 
misses  the  mark.  Aside  from  the  obvious 
fact  that  universities  do  not  have  the  right 
to  disregard  the  law,  I  sometimes  won- 
der about  the  common  sense  of  Brown's 
administration.  A  number  of  years  ago, 
we  were  treated  to  an  extended  plavout 
of  a  sex  discrimination  suit  involving 
faculty  hiring  and  promotion  practices 
that  ultimately  led  to  an  expensive 
settlement.  From  ongoing  reports  in  the 
various  media  at  the  time,  the  e\'entual 
outcome  was  certainly  predictable. 
When  1  read  in  the  BAM  that  the  present 
administration  promises  to  appeal  any 
adverse  decision  all  the  way  to  the 
Supreme  Court,  1  have  an  uncomfortable 
sense  of  deja  vu. 

President  Gregorian  is  reported  to 
assert  that  fighting  the  discrimination 
suit  is  a  matter  of  high  principle.  Well, 


his  principle  is  not  in  sync  with  mine. 
And  Gregorian's  athletic  director's 
apparent  belief  that  cutting  two  men's 
and  two  women's  varsity  sports  would 
immunize  the  school  from  attack  simply 
reflects  a  naivete  about  what  the  struggle 
to  eradicate  sex  discrimination  is  all 
about. 

Arnold  Cohen  '60 

Phoenixville,  Pa. 

Editor:  No  offense  intended,  but  after 
reading  "On  Balance,"  I  conclude  that  it 
is  a  good  thing  for  the  nation  that  the 
circulation  of  BAM  is  not  larger  than  it 
is.  At  least  the  risk  is  minimized  that 
some  foreign  interest  desirous  of  gaug- 
ing our  national  resolve  might  learn  the 
awful  truth  that  we  are  besotted  with 
the  tri\'ial. 

At  the  risk  of  sharing  the  fate  of  he 
who  voiced  the  emperor's  nakedness,  I, 
too,  have  an  idea.  Why  don't  we  let  the 
universities  decide  how  to  allocate  their  ( 
finite  resources,  free  of  governmental 
supervision?  Then  any  boy  or  girl  who 
found  a  university's  allocation  not  per- 
fectly to  their  liking  could  weigh  that 
against  other  factors  (such  as  the  qualit) 
of  the  education  to  which  they  might  be 
exposed),  compare  the  net  to  those  of 
other  institutions,  and  decide  where  the; 
want  to  go  to  school.  In  the  process,  the 
kids  might  learn  a  lesson  about  how 
adults  handle  living  with  the  perceix^ed 
imperfections  of  the  real  world  -  a  lessor 
more  valuable  than  anything  thev  migh 
derive  from  Psych.  101. 

After  all,  isn't  it  part  of  the  uni\'er- 
sity's  function  to  teach  the  young  some- 
thing about  reality? 

R.K.  Gad  HI  'bS 

Boston 

Editor:  During  my  years  at  Bro^vn,  I 
saw  many  women's  teams  started  and 
watched  the  Pandas  on  occasion.  That 
Brown  of  all  places  would  be  subject  to 
this  suit  is  amazing  to  me,  for  the  many 
reasons  stated  in  vour  article. 

The  breadth  of  the  equality  mandatt^ 


by  Title  IX  seems  to  he  limited  only  bv 
1  the  action  of  the  courts.  It  will  be  most 
interesting  to  see  whether  even  Brown's 
\ery  aggressive  actions  toward  equality 
ot  opportunity  are  enough  to  satisfy  the 
mandates  of  this  legislation. 

1  still  wonder  whether  there  need  be 
full  equality  at  the  level  of  participation. 
It  was  pointed  out  that  40  percent  of  the 
women  and  over  60  percent  of  the  men 
participate,  and  that  this  was  one  exam- 
ple of  Brown's  failure  to  satisfy  the  Title 
IX  mandates.  This  claim  relies  on  the 
assumption  that  men  and  women  are 
eqiinlhj  interested  in  participating  in 
sports!  Now,  that  may  be  true,  but  it  cer- 
tainly may  not  be,  as  well.  This  would 
be  no  lack  in  men's  and  women's  char- 
acters, just  a  difference.  Men  anci  women 
nre  different,  after  all,  in  some  ways. 

My  daughter  is  interested  in  theater, 
for  instance.  In  her  theater  groups  there 
are  far  more  girls  than  boys,  not  because 
of  lack  of  opportunity  for  the  boys  (actu- 
ally, a  boy  would  have  a  much  easier 
time  getting  a  part  in  a  play  than  a  girl), 
but  because  of  the  level  of  interest  the 
girls  have  in  drama.  Can't  the  inverse 
work  in  regards  to  sports?  I  think  so.  Yet 
to  mandate  levels  of  involvement  that 
are  equal  seems  to  be  going  beyond  the 
underlying  reality  of  the  situation. 

I  hope  that  Brown's  sincere  efforts  in 
support  of  women's  sports  are  not  deni- 
grated. 

Richard  Shnlvoif  '77  Ph.D. 

Cheshire,  Conn. 

Editor:  A  former  captain  of  the  West 
Point  baseball  team  wrote,  "Upon  the 
fields  of  friendly  strife  are  sown  the 
^eeds  that,  on  other  fields  on  other  days, 
.vill  bear  the  fruits  of  victory." 

These  days,  as  Brown  sues  Brown 
-inder  Title  IX,  we're  talking,  "Within 
he  courts  of  useless  strife  are  sown  the 
ieeds  that,  in  appellate  courts  on  spite- 
ul  days,  will  rot  in  litigation." 

Enough  waste!  It's  time  to  end  this 
•illy  game,  be  good  sports  about  the 
inancial  realities,  and  try  to  compete  as 
vlacArthur  advised.  Otherwise,  Brunonia 
;eeps  caving  in  to  the  P.C.  police  and,  it 
oUows,  next  time  there's  a  war  we  send 
he  Brown  gymnasts. 

Mark  Candon  'j/^ 

Rutland,  Vt. 


'.Aitor:  Budget  cuts  are  an  unfortunate 
lart  of  higher  education  today.  The  ath- 
?tic  department  is  certainly  not  alone  in 
javing  to  "downsize"  its  program, 
'absent  from  Andrew  Szanton's  article. 


however,  is  mention  of  several  incidents 
in  which  the  athletic  department 
severely  mishandled  the  cutting  of  the 
women's  volleyball  team. 

The  volleyball  team  found  out  they 
had  been  cut  when  an  employee  of  the 
weight  room  informed  them  they  no 
longer  had  varsity  status,  in  reply  to  a 
player's  question  about  their  weight 
program.  Such  rude  notification  did  not 
lay  the  groundwork  for  good  future 
communication  or  show  any  considera- 
tion for  the  feelings  of  the  athletes,  many 
of  whom  had  turned  down  athletic 
scholarships  at  other  schools  to  come  to 
Brown.  Similarly,  club-varsity  status  did 
not  just  mean  the  four  sports  would  have 
to  raise  their  own  funds.  Despite 
promises  and  a  signed  contract  to  the 
contrary  by  Dave  Roach,  the  women's 
volleyball  team  found  their  status 
severely  compromised. 

The  volleyball  team  was  forced  from 
varsitv  locker  rooms  to  common  locker 
rooms,  was  told  it  could  not  host  the  Ivy 
championship  when  it  was  Brown's 
turn,  and  frequently  had  to  practice  at 
East  Providence  High  School  when  it 
was  not  allowed  gym  time.  In  addition, 
the  volleyball  team  was  told  it  would 
have  access  to  athletic  department  vans 
for  transportation.  At  least  once  members 
arrived  to  depart  for  a  tournament  to 
find  the  van  missing,  and  had  to  carpool 
in  private  cars. 

Injured  volleyball  players  were  given 
low  priority  by  the  trainers,  and  in  more 
than  one  case,  had  to  visit  Health  Ser\'ices 
because  the  athletic  department  trainers 
would  not  treat  them.  Such  incidents  tell 
me  that  club-varsity  status  certainly 
means  more  than  loss  of  funds,  at  least 
in  the  eyes  of  the  athletic  department.  In 
view  of  the  above  incidents,  I  strongly 
believe  the  athletic  department  was 
doing  its  utmost  to  discourage  the  volley- 
ball players  from  playing. 

Regardless  of  how  the  court  decides 
the  Title  IX  case,  the  athletic  department 
has  a  long  way  to  go  in  improving  basic 
communication  skills,  showing  respect 
for  student-athletes,  and  following 
through  on  promises. 

Rebecca  Bliss  '92 

Stanford,  Calif. 

Athletic  Director  David  Roach  replies: 

It  is  much  easier  to  accept  the  general 
premise  that  budget  cuts  are  necessary 
than  it  is  to  specifically  acknowledge  that 
one's  own  area  may  be  an  appropriate 
subject  of  the  cuts.  When  an  institution 
or  department  is  required  to  downsize. 


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it  means  more  than  just  a  reduction  in 
budget. 

The  decision  to  change  the  status  of 
the  four  teams  (two  men's  and  two 
women's)  was  designed  to  allow  them 
to  continue  their  operations  through 
fundraisint:,  rather  than  to  eliminate 
them.  It  is  unfortunate  that  a  decision 
intended  to  minimize  the  negative 
impact  on  the  teams  has  been  portrayed 
as  the  exact  opposite. 

The  volleyball  team's  unofficial 
notice  of  the  downsizing  decision  was 
not  in  accordance  with  the  plans  of  the 
department.  The  coach  was  informed 
and  a  meeting  was  arranged  with  the 
entire  team  prior  to  the  comments  heard 
in  the  weight  room. 

The  change  in  the  locker  room 
assignment  for  the  volleyball  team  from 
the  overcrowded  women's  varsity  locker 
room  to  the  women's  general  locker 
room  did  not  benefit  anv  male  teams,  but 
rather  the  women's  tennis  and  women's 
squash  teams.  Several  men's  teams  also 
were  assigned  lockers  in  the  men's 
general  locker  room. 

Missing  from  the  letter  is  any  mention 
of  the  other  factors  which  resulted  in  the 
problems  encountered  in  practice  times. 
Practice  was  held  at  a  local  high  school 
for  part  of  the  preseason  because  the 
contractor  hired  to  refinish  the  floor  did 
not  complete  the  work  in  a  timely  fash- 
ion. To  assist  the  volleyball  team,  space 
was  offered  in  the  Olney-Margolies 
Athletic  Center.  This  was  deemed  unac- 
ceptable by  the  coach. 

The  issue  of  regular-season  practice 
time  arose  only  when  basketball  practice 
(women's  and  men's)  began  on  October 
15.  In  reality,  space  was  available  at  8  p.m. 
or  earlier  every  day,  with  four  exceptions 
for  the  entire  season  (men's  and  women's 
basketball  occasionally  practice  at  6  a.m. 
or  8  P..M.  due  to  scheduling  conflicts). 
It  is  my  understanding  the  volleyball 
team  chose  to  practice  off-campus  on 


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those  dates.  There  are  explanations  for 
the  other  so-called  incicients  which 
would  show  that  problems  are  not  lim- 
ited to  any  team  or  group  of  teams,  no 
matter  how  they  are  defined. 

None  of  the  teams  whose  status  was 
changed  missed  a  season  of  varsity  com- 
petition, including  the  season  between 
the  time  the  changes  were  enacted  and 
the  lawsuit  was  filed.  The  second  season 
was  much  smoother  for  all,  because  the 
policies  and  procedures  had  been 
worked  out. 

Any  clepartment  should  strive  to 
improve  communications  -  particularly 
one  serving  an  entire  student  body,  fac- 
ulty, and  staff,  as  well  as  thirty-three 
varsity  teams  and  many  club  sports, 
along  with  providing  intramurals,  phys- 
ical education,  and  recreation.  Such 
efforts,  however,  should  be  a  two-way 
street.  They  might  also  be  aided  by  the 
acknowledgment  that  all  that  is  painful 
is  not  necessarily  unfair. 


Doublemint  jeopardy 

Editor.  At  one  moment  in  BAM's  hagio- 
graphic  portrait  of  Arnold  Weinstein 
("The  Last  Universalist,"  September)  as 
one  of  the  last  apostles  of  a  dying  uni- 
versalism,  Weinstein  himself  ironically 
belies  the  inevitably  political  nature  of 
such  humanism. 

Professor  Weinstein's  disparaging 
remarks  about  the  University  of  Wis- 
consin -  its  gum-chewing  faculty,  its 
"bureaucratic"  architecture  -  and  his 
simultaneous  longing  for  Harvard 
Square  testify  to  little  else  than  the  way 
in  which  the  Great  Books  of  the  humanist 
tradition  facilitate  academic  power 
structures  that  are,  in  this  case,  informed 
by  political  realities  of  class  and  region. 

The  "luggage"  which  Professor  Wein- 
stein admittedly  brought  to  Madison, 
Wisconsin,  he  inevitably  brings  as  well 
to  the  likes  of  Faulkner,  Conrad,  anci 
Kafka.  Much  of  cultural  criticism  today 
rightly  demystifies  the  "eternal  verities" 
by  situating  all  language  in  contexts  -  an 
act  that  ultimately  empowers  students. 
Doublemint  in  the  Heartland?  The  hor- 
ror, the  horror.  .  .  . 

Philip  Could  '83 

Chicago 


Women  and  AIDS 

Editor.  In  your  article,  "Women  and 
AIDS"  (September),  many  statistics  are 


given  in  the  form  of  percentages,  but  no 
numbers  on  which  the  percentages  are 
based.  How  many  HIV-positive  men  and 
women  are  enrolled  in  your  BRUNAP 
program?  How  many  HIV-positive 
women  are  there  in  the  Rhode  Island 
prison?  How  many  HIV-positive  stu- 
dents are  there  at  Brown? 

Dr.  [Kenneth]  Mayer  suggests  that 
HIV-positive  women  should  have 
babies  in  order  to  fulfill  their  own  emo- 
tional needs.  Wouldn't  Mother  Nature 
discourage  any  woman  from  having  a 
child  knowing  that  it  would  suffer  the 
same  horrors  of  the  disease  she  already 
knows,  and  probably  as  an  orphan? 
The  unsafe  sex  necessary  to  conceive  a 
baby  is  presumably  discouraged  bv 
BRUNAP's  counseling.  In  fact,  the  issue 
of  the  social  responsibility  incumbent  on 
HIV-positive  men  and  women  to  prevent 
the  spread  of  AIDS  is  not  mentioned  in 
this  article.  Hopefully,  it  is  a  linchpin  in 
Dr.  Mayer's  program. 

Alice  Berkeley 

Estoril,  Portugal 
The  zvriter  is  a  Brown  parent.  Figures  sup- 
plied In/  Brown's  AIDS  program  indicate 
that  in  2992-93,  BRUNAP  folloiced  407 
women  and  883  men  with  HIV  and  AIDS. 
In  the  prison,  sixty-four  women  and  26y 
men  tested  positiiv  from  1992  through  tlie 
first  six  months  of  iggj.  The  number  of 
inmates  ivith  HIV  or  AIDS  cliauges  con- 
stant!]/ because  of  short-term  prison  sen- 
tences. Broum's  Health  Services,  u'hich 
serves  students,  currently  is  following  no 
students  with  HIV  or  AIDS  -  but  that  does 
not  mean  that  none  has  the  virus.  Health 
Services  Codirector  Marlene  Eckerle  says 
that  one  in  soo  college  students  nationally 
is  estimated  to  have  HIV  or  AIDS.  -  Editor 

Professor  of  Medicine  Kenneth  Mayer 
responds: 

Ms.  Berkeley  misconstrues  the  ethi- 
cal conundrum  that  BRUNAP  clinicians 
routinely  face  in  caring  for  HIV-infectedi 
women  who  decide  to  become  preg- 
nant. We  certainly  do  not  advocate  that 
HIV-infected  women  become  pregnant, 
but  it  is  our  responsibility  to  provide 
optimal  and  unconditional  care  if  a 
woman  elects  to  carry  a  child  to  term 
after  having  been  apprised  of  potential 
medical  and  psychosocial  problems.  My 
remarks  in  the  BAM,  if  read  in  full  con- 
text, were  intended  to  explain  some  of 
the  moti\'ations  for  HIV-infected  womei 
who  decide  to  become  pregnant:  they 
did  not  imply  an  endorsement. 

Many  BRUNAP  faculty  efforts  are 
directed  toward  HIV  prevention  actixi-^ 


4  /  FEBRUARY   1994 


ties,  ranging  from  counseling  and 
behavioral-intervention  research  to  run- 
ning community-based  sites  that  provide 
"one-stop  shopping"  for  high-risk  unin- 
fected persons.  We  always  try  to  be 
proactive  in  our  outreach  and  counseling, 
but  we  know  that  we  cannot  invariably 
eliminate  risk-taking,  HIV  transmission, 
and  pregnancies.  The  sobering  reality  is 
that  we  have  a  long  way  to  go  before 
effective  behavioral  interventions,  pro- 
phylactic vaccines,  or  efficacious  antivi- 
ral treatments  are  available  to  stop  the 
spread  of  AIDS. 


Obscene  cover 

Editor:  I've  been  meaning  to  write  since 
I  received  the  September  issue.  I  think/ 
feel  that  the  cover  [referring  to  the  feature 
on  women  and  AIDS]  is  in  very  poor 
taste.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  obnoxious  - 
obscene. 

Robert  Meredith  '^.g 

Rochester,  N.Y. 


Rowing's  beginnings 

Editor:  1  refer  to  page  23  of  the  October 
issue.  If  men's  crew  started  in  1961, 
what  was  I  doing  rowing  my  heart  out 
(with  a  brown  and  white  shirt  on)  down 
the  Seekonk  in  1950  and  1951?  It  is  not 
worthy  of  the  memory  of  Jim  Donaldson 
'51  not  to  acknowledge  the  wonderful 
beginnings  of  the  sport  back  in  1948-49. 

Richard  A.  Clough  '^2 

Charlotte,  N.C. 


Surgeons  who  served 

Editor:  I  was  interested  to  learn  that  Dr. 
John  Constable  has  maintained  his  ties 
with  the  Vietnamese  medical  community, 
and  that  Bryant  Toth  is  participating 
with  him  in  the  Indochina  Surgical  Edu- 
cation Exchange.  But  Susanna  Levin's 
gee-whiz  article  ("Surgeon  with  a  Con- 
science," September)  pays  inadequate 
attention  to  the  pattern  of  voluntary  ser- 
vice -  as  physicians  and  as  teachers  - 
established  by  scores  of  American  sur- 
geons like  Dr.  Constable  in  an  earlier 
day  a  quarter  of  a  century  ago.  Nor  does 
Levin  mention  the  contributions  to 
Vietnam's  medical  system  made  by  sur- 
geons from  a  wide  range  of  American 
medical  schools  and  teaching  hospitals 
back  in  the  sixties  and  early  seventies. 
Further,  I  see  in  the  article  no  recogni- 


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tion  of  the  astonishingly  high  quality  of 
many  of  the  graduates  of  the  Faculty  of 
Medicine  at  the  University  of  Saigon, 
where  the  Americans  taught.  By  way  of 
example,  for  a  number  of  years  the  best 
of  these  graduates  were  enabled  to  come 
to  the  United  States  to  pursue  further 
medical  training  under  the  guidance  of 
the  American  physicians  and  surgeons 
who  had  taught  for  one,  two,  and  some- 
times more  semesters  at  the  Faculty  of 
Medicine.  It  was  an  eye-opener  to  many 
to  observe  the  performance  of  these  Viet- 
namese doctors-in-training;  at  least  a 
dozen  of  them  led  their  American  classes, 
although  they  were  in  every  case  work- 
ing and  studying  in  their  third  language, 
after  Vietnamese  and  French.  Incidentally, 
right  up  to  the  final  debacle,  all  of  them 
returned  to  Vietnam.  It  had  been  antici- 
pated that  many  of  them  would  become 
teachers  in  the  Faculty  of  Medicine. 

Ms.  Levin  observes  that  Vietnam's 
medical  system  was  decimateci  when 
doctors  fled  the  country  after  the  war's 
end.  Decimation  implies  a  loss  of  10  per- 
cent of  the  medical  system,  and  it  is  pos- 
sible that  10  percent  of  South  Vietnam's 
doctors  have  fled  the  country,  in  1974  or 
in  the  ensuing  nineteen  years.  But  those 
who  remained,  by  choice  or  otherwise, 
were  not  denied  access  to  advances  in 
medicine  solely  by  what  Ms.  Levin 
terms  international  economic  embargo. 
That  there  has  been  an  American  em- 
bargo is  true,  but  international?  More  to 
the  point,  Vietnamese  leadership  after 
the  reunification  chose  to  dispatch  many 
of  the  South  Vietnamese  doctors  to  "re- 
education centers";  in  addition  to  those 
who  had  studied  under  American  teach- 
ers, in  Vietnam  or  in  the  United  States, 
many  French-trained  doctors  and  grad- 
uates of  the  medical  school  in  Hanoi 
who  moved  to  or  were  already  living  in 
the  south  at  the  time  of  Vietnam's  parti- 
tion were  deemed  to  be  in  need  of  "re- 
education." Thereafter,  many  were 
denied  the  right  to  practice  medicine. 

Those  of  us  who  endeavored  to  aug- 
ment the  quality  of  Vietnamese  medicine 
a  quarter  of  a  century  ago  applaud  the 
work  of  I-SEE,  even  if  we  were,  in  words 
that  Ms.  Levin  attributes  to  Dr.  Toth, 
"typically  nearsighted"  in  building  a 
Saigon  hospital  to  American  specifica- 
tions. One  day  Dr.  Toth  may  locate 
some  of  the  fine  surgeons  trained  by 
some  of  the  nearsighted  Americans  who 
worked  in  Vietnam  when  Dr.  Toth  was 
eighteen  years  old. 

Albert  E.  Farwell  'j^ 

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Grammatical  query 

Editor.  It  ma\-  well  be  that  Protessor 
Scholes  knows  his  tore  from  his  att  and 
his  bow  from  his  stern,  but  he  clearly 
doesn't  know  his  singular  from  his  plu- 
ral. "SomaKit"  who  knows  their  aft"?  I  am 
tempted  to  inquire  if  this  man  knows 
his  aft  from  his  elbo\v.  Is  this  a  joke? 

PItyllif  Kolhiicr  Sniitiy  '66 

New  \'ork  Cit\' 


Jessica's  best  interests 

Editor.  I  read  with  great  interest  [editor 
Anne  Diffilv's]  endpaper  titled  "Real 
Parents"  (October).  1  concur  completely 
with  much  of  the  essay,  and  I  applaud 
the  fact  that  Diffily  has  been  able  to 
empathize  with  the  birthmother's  posi- 
tion (which  many  adoptive  parents  are 
unable  to  do).  I  am  sure  she  will  bring 
an  equally  balanced  understanding  to 
her  adoptive  children's  feelings  when 
they  reach  maturity  and  wish  to  know 
more  about  their  biological  past. 

Diffily  has,  however,  used  the  Jessica 
DeBoer  story  as  the  springboard  for  her 
piece,  and  it  is  apparent  that  she  has 
come  to  a  judgment  of  that  case  which  is 
exactly  the  judgment  the  national  media 
want  us  to  come  to.  I  would  urge  read- 
ers not  to  leap  to  such  a  judgment  too 
hastily.  After  reviewing  the  facts  of  the 
case,  I  suggest  a  careful  consideration  of 
two  additional  factors. 

The  first  is  the  extent  of  the  media  cir- 
cus instigated  by  the  DeBoers,  plus  the 
theatrics  thev  indulged  in  (for  example, 
signs  plastered  on  the  front  of  their  house 
on  the  day  they  turned  over  Jessica),  in 
contrast  to  the  extent  to  which  Jessica's 
biological  parents  kept  entirely  out  of 
the  limelight. 

The  second  factor  is  the  question  of 
how  much  influence  the  (undeniable) 
bonding  that  has  occurred  in  the  first 
two-and-a-half  years  of  life  will  have  on 
the  development  of  the  mature  individ- 
ual, against  all  of  the  other  developmen- 
tal influences  after  that  period.  We  all 
know  that  very  young  children  can  be 
seriously  disturbed  by  such  disruptions, 
but  we  also  know  how  fast  they  can  for- 
get many  things,  especially  if  they  are  in 
a  nurturing  environment. 

I  am  not  trying  to  suggest  that  there 
are  not  some  very  real  and  important 
issues  embodied  in  this  case  which  need 
to  be  considered  in  the  legal  system.  It  is 
long  past  time  for  the  courts  to  realize 
that  the  best  interests  of  the  child  should 

6  /  FEBRUARY  1994 


be  paramount  in  such  cases. 

1  would  like  to  suggest,  though,  that 
in  this  particular  case  the  decision  of  the 
courts,  while  possibly  not  "Solomonic," 
might  have  been  more  in  the  best  inter- 
ests of  Jessica  than  the  popular  press 
would  leaci  us  to  believe.  I  suggest  that 
this  is  possible  even  though  the  legal 
basis  on  which  the  court  made  its  deci- 
sion had  nothing  to  do  with  this.  The 
court  decided  on  the  basis  of  existing  law 
in  this  country  -  which  is  what  courts 
are  supposed  to  do.  If  those  laws  need 
changing,  that  is  up  to  us. 

jcroiiic  R.  HiVjlcy  ' ^j 

Albany 


The  Brown  seal 

Editor.  Why  and  when  did  Brown's  ultra- 
liberal  administration  remove  the  motto 
"In  Deo  Speramus"  from  the  University 
seal? 

Williaiit  C.  Bii'luch  '39 

Hartford 
According  to  E.xccutive  Vice  President  for 
Ahiiiiui,  Public  Affairs,  and  External  Rela- 
tions Robert  A.  Reichley,  Brown  lias  not 
changed  the  University  seal.  -  Editor 


Classism  isn't  funny 

Editor:  As  current  students,  we  were 
deeply  concerned  by  an  entry  in  the 
"October  Datebook"  (Under  the  Elms, 
October)  which  was  a  reprint  of  an  item 
that  appeared  in  the  campus  police  blot- 
ter on  October  20,  1977.  The  report  read, 
"a  decrepit-looking  man  was  spotted 
yesterday  night  attempting  to  enter 
Emery-Woolley  Hall.  Although  security 
officers  could  not  find  him,  [later]  it  was 
learned  that  he  was  the  father  of  an 
undergraduate." 

Since  this  was  a  relatively  minor 
event  in  Brown's  history,  as  readers  we 
are  left  to  wonder  why  this  item  was 
included  in  the  datebook.  Presumably, 
the  editors  of  BAM  expect  its  readers  to 
find  humor  in  the  idea  that  the  campus 
police  were  chasing  down  a  Brown 
parent.  But  this  incident  was  not  the  least 
bit  funny  if  you  happened  to  be  that 
student  or  one  of  countless  other  students 
at  Brown  who  do  not  come  from  privi- 
leged backgrounds  and  whose  parents 
may  look  "decrepit"  due  to  their  financial 
status. 

Certainly  some  classist  assumptions 
were  at  work  when  the  police  chased 
down  this  father  trying  to  visit  his  child. 


and  those  underlying  values  should  be 
addressed  and  changed.  But  digging 
this  blurb  out  of  the  Broicn  Daily  Herald's 
police  blotter  and  reprinting  it  sixteen 
years  later  without  explanation  in  the 
alumni  magazine  does  little  to  raise 
awareness  about  this  type  of  classism, 
those  assumptions  which  poorer  students 
at  Brown  must  confront  daily.  We  expect 
better  from  BAM. 

Marshall  Miller  'g6 

Eileen  Anderson  '()4 

Katin/  Deleon  '94.5 

Kent  B.  Ibsen  '95 

David  Levitlwn  '94 

Seetha  Ramachnndran  'g^ 

Campus 


"Reunioning"  redux 

Editor.  If  I  may  suggest  a  way  to  recoup 
for  the  Alumni  Monthly  its  right  to  pro- 
gression in  the  use  of  language  ("There 
goes  the  language,"  Mail,  October):  May 
I  suggest  referring  to  Webster  for  the 
meaning  of  union.  It  is  a  noun,  but  with 
a  difference.  This  noun  is  an  act.  An  act 
itself  implies  action;  therefore  it  is  an 
action  noun.  An  action  noun  is  close  to  a 
verb.  Therefore,  the  same  may  be  applied 
to  reunion. 

So  what's  wrong  with  "reunioning         | 
alumni"?  I  like  it. 

Ireite  Lee  Yen  '^o 

Wayne,  Pa. 


Jabberwocks  reunion 

Editor:  Forty-five  years  ago,  four  young 
men  gathered  in  the  basement  of  an  off-    ' 
campus  building  around  a  battered  old 
piano.  This  quartet  formed  the  nucleus 
of  an  a  cappella  tradition  that  continues 
to  this  day;  the  Jabberwocks. 

There  have  been  many  milestones 
over  the  years,  but  none  so  special  as  the 
reunion  this  spring  which  will  celebrate 
our  forty-fifth  anniversary.  It  is  a  tradi- 
tion born  in  '49  and  very  much  alive  in 
'94.  We  ask  that  all  join  five  decades  of 
Jabberwocks  in  a  concert  sure  to  be  full 
of  memories  -  Salomon  Hall  on  May  29. 

Skip  Danforth  '^2 

Barrington,  R.I. 


Labels 

Editor:  It  is  ludicrous  that  in  a  pluralistic, 
academic  community  like  Brown  Uni- 
versity one  is  not  allowed  to  question 


the  system.  Specifically,  in  the  case  of  the 
homosexual  lifestyle,  one  is  not  allowecl 
to  ask,  "whv?"  Whenever  one  has  the 
temerity  to  question  the  assumptions, 
one  is  labeled  "prejudiced,"  "ignorant," 
"hateful,"  "unenlightened,"  and  so  forth. 

In  the  case  of  respondents  (Mail, 
October)  to  my  letter  (Mail,  June/July) 
asking  why  the  homosexual  lifestyle  is 
assumed  normal,  neither  of  the  letters 
dealt  with  the  question.  Both  attacked 
the  writer. 

So  much  for  academic  freedom. 

Leo  Setiim  \$ 

Siloam  Springs,  Ark. 


Jefferson's  slaves 

Editor:  Is  it  too  late  to  comment  on  your 
article  about  Professor  Gordon  Wood 
{BAM,  March  1993)?  I  am  tardy  only 
because  I  just  received  the  issue,  which 
had  been  mailed  to  me  in  the  United 
Kingdom  and  was  kindly  delivered  by 
an  English  visitor. 

1  found  Professor  Wood's  views  on 
the  American  Revolution  refreshing, 
particularly  his  comments  on  Thomas 
Jefferson.  Indeed,  as  he  states,  Jeffer- 
son's views  have  been  retrospectively 
altered  to  suit  changing  values.  In  writ- 
ing a  book  about  Jefferson  {Thomas  Jeffer- 
son and  the  Declaration  of  Independence, 
Scribners,  1977)  I  was  intrigued  to  dis- 
cover in  a  notebook  he  kept  in  Philadel- 
phia in  the  summer  of  1776  references  to 
a  slave.  Bob  Hemmings,  who  accompa- 
nied him  to  the  city  of  brotherly  love 
and  waited  on  him  there.  As  I  recall,  the 
fact  that,  while  composing  the  Declara- 
tion, Jefferson  was  served  by  a  young 
slave  was  ignored  by  all  historians  with 
the  exception  of  a  small  footnote  in  [the 
biography  by]  Dumas  Malone. 

Also,  I  was  far  from  unique  in  believ- 
ing that  Jefferson  had  magnanimously 
freed  all  his  slaves  upon  his  death.  The 
discovery  that  Waslungtou  had  freed  all 
his  slaves  and  that  Jefferson  had  not, 
and  that,  indeed,  Jefferson  remained 
adamant  against  freeing  anv  of  his  slaves, 
provided  much  food  for  reflection,  lead- 
ing to  my  growing  radicalization  as  1 
advance  in  years.  I  found  that  when  this 
same  Bob  Hemmings  (who,  incidentally, 
was  related  to  Jefferson  bv  marriage, 
being  his  wife's  half-brother)  impreg- 
nated the  servant  of  a  Richmond  physi- 
cian and  wished  to  marry  her,  and  the 
physician  offered  to  purchase  Hemmings 
from  Jefferson  in  order  to  give  him  his 
freedom,  Jefferson  turned  him  down. 


These  discoveries  did  not  alter  my 
high  opinion  of  Jefferson.  They  did 
cause  me  to  question  my  own  assump- 
tions about  virtue.  If  a  person  as  bril- 
liant and  broadminded  and,  yes,  as  lib- 
eral as  Jefferson  could  preach  one  thing 
and  do  another,  how  many  sins  was  I 
commiting  because  of  easy  acceptance 
of  per\'asive  values? 

My  brush  with  the  sage  of  Monticello 
directly  led  to  my  perception  of  our  per- 
manent war  economv  and  pervasive 
"defense"  spending,  the  dependence  on 
Pentagon  contracts  for  employment  and 
economic  health,  as  the  moral  equivalent 
of  slavery;  and,  indeed,  to  disenchant- 
ment with  "market  economics"  and  our 
wage  and  debt  system  of  servitude. 

James  Munves  '43 

New  York  City 


Coach  K.'s  departure 

Editor.  I  was  saddened  to  hear  about 
Athletic  Director  David  Roach's  decision 
to  let  Head  Football  Coach  Mickey 
Kwiatkowski  go  following  the  1993  foot- 
ball season.  While  Brown  amassed  a 
record  of  just  7-33  under  Coach  K.,  Roach 
should  have  recognized  that  Kwiatkow- 
ski has  made  remarkable  progress  and 
deserved  to  have  his  contract  extended 
another  vear  so  that  we  could  all  see 
the  fruits  of  his  labors. 

When  Coach  K.  came  to  Brown  for 
the  1990  season,  the  Bruins  were  coming 
off  seasons  with  records  of  0-9-1  and 
2-8.  His  predecessor,  John  Rosenberg, 
had  left  the  program  in  a  state  of  disar- 
ray that  took  Kwiatkowski  some  time  to 
sort  through.  The  change  in  coaches 
during  the  1989-90  off-season  likely  dis- 
couraged many  quality  players  from 
attending  Brown,  and  thus  the  class  of 
1994  was  weaker  than  it  could  have  been. 

This  year,  Kwiatkowski  finally  had 
all  of  his  own  players  in  the  program, 
and  the  result  was  a  4-6  season  and  a 
3-4  fourth-place  finish  in  the  Ivy 
League.  While  the  1993  season  was 
something  less  than  legendary.  Brown 
was  competitive  in  nearly  every  game. 

For  1994,  Brown  may  have  been  able 
to  build  upon  this  year's  success  and 
perhaps  could  have  challenged  for  the 
Ivy  title  under  Kwiatkowski.  It  is  a  terri- 
ble shame  that  Mr.  Roach  did  not  choose 
to  recognize  Mickey's  accomplishments, 
and  instead  has  forced  Brown  football 
to  take  yet  another  step  backward. 

What  high  school  senior  will  want  to 
attend  Brown  now?  The  result  will  be 


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yet  another  lost  recruiting  class  —  this 
time  the  Class  of  1998,  which  may  plague 
Brown's  next  coach  for  years  to  come. 

1  had  the  opportimity  to  interact  with 
Mickey  during  my  junior  and  senior 
years  at  Brown.  He  is  a  kind,  decent  per- 
son. Frankly,  Brown  needs  more,  not 
fewer,  people  like  Mickey  Kwiatkowski. 

Michael  A.  Kirsli  'gi 

Tenafly,  N.J. 

Editor.  Recently  a  group  of  us  "old 
timers"  were  discussing  the  unceremo- 
nious dumping  of  Mickey  Kwiatkowski, 
the  football  coach  at  Brown.  Admit- 
tedly, none  of  us  are  experts  on  the 
game,  but  we  are  knowledgeable  fans. 

Frankly  speaking,  we  think  that 
Mickey  got  a  raw  deal.  We  are  not 
proud  of  the  way  in  which  he  was  dis- 
missed or  the  reasons  given  for  it.  In 
fact,  we  believe  that  Bill  Reynolds's  arti- 
cle in  the  Providence  journal  about 
Brown's  dismal  football  teams  over  the 
years,  their  coaches'  brief  tenures,  and 
the  scanty  crowds  they  are  able  to 
attract  was  right  on  the  dot. 

Can  all  the  football  coaches  Brown 
hired  over  the  years  have  been  at  fault? 
Were  they  dealing  with  topnotch  foot- 
ball candidates?  Not  by  a  long  shot! 

Why  not  give  Mickey  a  break.  Extend 
his  contract  another  two  years  and  then 
put  his  record  under  the  microscope. 
Let  him  work  with  the  fellows  he  him- 
self recruited,  not  inherited.  We  are  will- 
ing to  bet  he  will  produce  a  first-rate 
Brown  football  team  that  will  not  only 
beat  Yale  and  Harvard  again,  but  all  the 
rest  of  the  Ivy  League  teams. 

Beatrice  C.  Minkins  '36 

Pawtucket,  R.I. 


Intellectually  incorrect 

Editor.  On  October  9  Brown  University 
dedicated  the  John  Rowe  Workman  Dis- 
tinguished Professorship  in  Classics  and 
the  Humanistic  Tradition.  Professor 
Workman,  who  died  in  1985  soon  after 
his  retirement,  taught  classics  at  Brown 
for  thirty-eight  years.  He  was  a  monu- 
mental influence  on  me  as  an  under- 
graduate, if  not  on  everyone  privileged 
to  know  and  learn  from  him.  It  is,  how- 
ever, tfifficult  to  imagine  that  Professor 
Workman  would  take  pride  in  the 
Brown  of  recent  years. 

From  the  time  Brown  female  under- 
graduates first  made  headlines  by 
scrawling  the  names  of  "rapiists"  on 
bathroom  walls.  Brown  has  shown 


leader-of-the-pack  determination  in 
matters  of  political  correctness. 

The  zeal  of  Brown's  speech-code 
enforcement,  of  its  judiciary  "tribunals," 
of  its  "date-rape"  "counselings"  and 
"play  actings"  makes  the  head  reel  and 
the  gut  churn.  The  McCarthyesque  or, 
these  days,  MacKinnonesque  atmo- 
sphere of  accusation,  the  date-rape  and 
harassment  hysteria,  and  the  fostering 
of  a  pervasive  victim  mentality  (all 
women  the  victims  of  all  men,  all  men 
the  victims  of  their  own  libido,  all 
minorities  the  victims  of  white  males)  is 
the  stuff  of  paranoids  and  emotional 
basket  cases. 

Today's  politically  and  sexually  cor- 
rect Brown  is  not  a  place  where,  to  para- 
phrase President  Gregorian's  welcome 
in  the  Workman  dedication  brochure, 
young  men  and  women  mav  be  shown 
how  to  attain  greatness.  Free  expression 
and  inquiry  are  stifled  bv  dogma  and 
orthodoxy.  Sound  education  is  subordi- 
nated to  aberrant  forays  into  social 
transformation. 

In  a  frenetic  tarantella  of  capitulation 
(or  is  it  danse  macabre?)  Brown  cannot 
step  quickly  enough  to  embrace  the 
overwrought  and  barelv  postadolescent 
sensibilities  of  minority  groups,  whether 
in  matters  of  comportment,  curriculum, 
admissions,  or  hiring.  The  ner\'e  and 
utter  self-absorption  of  minoritv  fresh- 
men protesting  their  "underrepresenta- 
tion"  on  campus!  (Under  the  Elms, 
November)  While  any  one  of  them  may 
yet  change  the  world,  it  is  sooner  their 
time  and  place  as  freshmen  to  he  changed. 

The  classical  and  humanistic  learning 
for  which  Brown  has  sought  to  com- 
memorate Professor  Workman  are 
mocked  by  the  plague  of  political  correct- 
ness on  campus.  What  will  Brown's 
president  do  to  restore  the  integritv  of 
Professor  Workman's  vision,  to  see  that 
the  institution  again  thrives? 

leffrey  M.  Dnban  '71 

New  York  City 
Tlie  icritcr,  a  fanner  professor  of  classics,  is 
a  lawyer  with  a  specially  in  education  law. 
For  President  Gregorian's  vieii's  on  this  and 
related  topncs,  please  see  page  44.  -  Editor 


Corrections 

In  a  December  teature  on  the  "Summer  of 
Service,"  a  BAM  reporter  misspelled  the  name  of 
Julie  Frieciberg  '93,  who  plaved  a  major  role  in 
the  New  Orleans  Summerbridge  program.  .Wso, 
a  December  classnote  describing  the  recent 
accomplishments  of  .Ann  Matteodo  tXipre  '61 
contained  an  incorrect  first  name.  The  f>.4;V1 
regrets  the  errors. 


8  /   FEBRUARY   1994 


Drink  up 

Editor.  Your  "Inquiring  Minds"  column 
(October)  on  recommended  daily  fluid 
intake  contained  two  errors  which  I  feel 
compelled  to  point  out. 

Dr.  Abuelo  stated  that  "any  fluid  can 
be  substituted  (for  water),  with  the 
exception  of  hard  liquor,"  because  other 
drinks,  including  beer,  are  "99-percent 
water."  Beer  is  clearly  more  than  one- 
percent  alcohol  by  volume.  More  impor- 
tantly, both  beer  and  caffeine-containing 
drinks  have  a  diuretic  effect  that  causes 
the  body  to  lose  fluid  when  they  are  con- 
sumed. The  response  should  have  stated 
that  any  non-alcoholic  beverage  can  sub- 
stitute for  water,  with  reasonable  limita- 
tions on  caffeine-containing  beverages. 

Thirst  is  actually  a  poor  indicator  of 
fluid  needs.  People  involved  in  activities 
under  dehydrating  conditions  (such  as 
"working  in  the  garden  on  a  hot  day") 
should  drink  before  they  get  thirsty  and 
continue  to  do  so  both  during  and  after 
the  activity,  in  order  to  avoid  heat 
exhaustion  or  heat  stroke.  Dr.  Abuelo  is 
correct  that  no  one  should  ignore  thirst, 
but  the  absence  of  thirst  does  not  always 
mean  fluid  status  is  ideal. 

Dr.  Abuelo's  statement  of  the  mini- 
mum fluid  intake  (one  eight-ounce 
glass)  also  deserves  comment.  While 
this  may  be  correct  as  an  absolute  mini- 
mum for  survival,  it  is  far  from  ideal, 
and  may  be  dangerous  in  warm  cli- 
mates. Since  appropriate  fluid  intake 
varies  with  activity  level  and  ambient 
temperature  and  humidity,  1  prefer  to 
answer  the  question,  "How  much  water 
should  a  person  drink  each  day?"  by 
using  urine  concentration  as  an  outcome 
measure.  In  persons  with  normal  kidney 
function,  darkly  colored  urine  indicates 
that  the  body  is  working  to  conserve 
fluid,  and  intake  should  be  increased.  If 
the  urine  is  light  in  color,  intake  is  prob- 
ably adequate. 

Victoria  Kapriclian  joliiison,  M.D.  '81 

Durham,  N.C. 
The  writer  is  assistant  clinical  professor  in 
the  Department  ofCoinnninity  and  Family 
Medicine  at  Duke  University.  -  Editor 


Thankful  for  aid 

Editor:  As  a  recent  graduate,  I  owe 
thanks  to  many  outstanding  people  who 
enriched  my  Brown  education.  But  I  am 
writing  in  particular  to  thank  the  Uni- 
versity and  its  donors  for  the  thousands 
of  dollars  in  financial  aid  which  allowed 


me  to  attenti  Brown.  Too  few  of  my 
classmates  who  received  financial  aid 
appreciated  that  every  dollar  came  from 
generous  donations  or  from  the  high 
tuition  paid  by  other  students. 

Financial  aid  is  not  a  right,  and  no 
one  is  "entitled"  to  it.  Rather,  it  is  an 
investment  the  University  makes  in 
itself  to  ensure  the  diversity  and  quality 
of  its  student  body.  As  such,  the  Univer- 
sity is  free  to  decide  how  much  it  wishes 
to  allocate  to  financial  aid  each  year. 
Need-blmd  admissions  is  a  worthy  goal, 
but  if  the  University  finds  it  cannot 
afford  it  or  chooses  to  allocate  its 
resources  to  other  areas,  that  is  its  pre- 
rogative. 

I  for  one  am  thankful  for  every  dol- 
lar put  towards  flnancial  aid.  All  of  us 
who  have  benefited  from  it  need  to 
show  a  little  more  appreciation. 

Noali  Sachs  '93 

Bethesda,  Md. 


The  gentler  life 

Editor:  Many  thanks  to  Katharine  Eban 
Finkelstein  for  reviving  fond  memories 
of  my  own  yearly  journeys  to  Oxford 
("Finally,"  September).  In  writing  of  the 
British  queuing  system,  Finkelstein  is 
correct  when  she  observes  that  the  sort 
of  long-suffering  patience  exhibited  by 
her  fellow  patrons  in  a  High  Street  shop 
would  be  unthinkable  in  New  York, 
indeed  in  much  of  urban  America,  And 
although  she  was  probably  indulging  in 
a  certain  amount  of  authorial  license  for 
the  sake  of  humor  and  effect,  in  fact 
she's  surely  on  the  mark  when  she 
hypothesizes  what  a  Big  Apple  crowd's 
reaction  might  have  been  in  a  similar 
situation.  Also  accurate  was  her  juxta- 
position of  the  methodical  British  clerk 
and  her  "I-can-do-four-things-at-once" 
American  counterpart  -  a  British  clerk's 
mannerly,  focused  approach  to  one  cus- 
tomer at  a  time  would  be  anathema  to 
the  average  American! 

I  do  hope,  however,  that  as  well  as 
having  a  full  store  of  amusing  memories 
in  her  larder  after  time  spent  there,  she 
came  away  feeling  somewhat  wistful 
that  whatever  Americans  have  gained  in 
being  faster,  ruder,  and  more  efficient 
(and  I'm  not  really  sure  what  has  been 
gained),  the  so-called  advantages  are 
cold  comfort  when  compared  to  what 
has  been  lost:  an  ability  to  pass  through 
life  with  a  respectful  eye  to  tlie  past  and 
a  gentle,  centered  grasp  of  the  all-impor- 
tant present. 


In  closing,  1  would  carry  Miss 
Finkelstein's  hypothesis  one  step  further 
by  suggesting  that  if  an  American  clerk 
were  to  call  a  female  American  patron 
"Love,"  the  response  at  best  might  be  a 
militant  glare,  at  worst  a  charge  of  sex- 
ual harassment.  That's  really  quite  a 
shame,  and  only  one  of  the  reasons  why 
marking  time  in  a  British  queue  seems  a 
small  price  to  pay  for  a  bit  of  "cultivated 
civility." 

Kathleen  A.  Nelson 

Campus 
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rate.  Meat  packers  and  farm-equipment 
manufacturers  made  the  city  an  indus- 
trial center.  "There  were  pockets  of 
wealth,  but  many  streets  were  quagmires 
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its  visitors,  and  it  could  disgust  them 
as  well,"  Jay  Pridmore  writes  in  Chicago 
Arcliitecture  and  Design. 

When  fire  devastated  the  city  in  1871, 
leaving  go,ooo  people  homeless,  many 
viewed  the  disaster  as  a  "cleansing 
apocalypse."  Harper's  Weekly  wrote  that 
Chicago  "will  be  made  a  better  city  than 
it  ever  could  have  become  but  for  this 
fire." 

Among  the  Eastern  architects  who 
came  to  rebuild  Chicago  were  John 
Welborn  Root,  Daniel  Burnham,  Louis 
Henry  SuUivan,  and  William  Holabird. 
"As  their  ideas  were  realized,  they 
attracted,  in  turn,  other  architects  with 
ideas  of  their  own,"  Pridmore  writes. 
"So  began  a  succession  that  continued 
through  the  twentieth  centurv." 

Two  aspects  of  Chicago  architecture 
make  the  city  and  its  environs  unique. 
The  Prairie  School  gave  residential  archi- 
tectural style  a  new  openness.  Unlike 
wealthy  Easterners  who  still  demanded 
English  country  houses,  Midwesterners 
found  comfort  in  the  organic  structures 
of  Frank  Lloyd  Wright.  The  precursor 
of  the  modern  skyscraper,  the  Home 
Insurance  Building  engineered  by  William 
Le  Baron  Jenney,  was  completed  in  1883. 
In  the  1940s  and  1950s  Ludwig  Mies  van 
der  Rohe  put  his  imprint  on  the  city- 
scape  with  his  steel,  concrete,  and  glass 
skyscrapers. 

The  Chicago  World's  Columbian 
Exposition  in  1893  was  "a  beaux-arts 
extravaganza,"  Pridmore  writes.  And  it 
drew  the  battle  lines  between  classicists 
like  Burnham,  who  in  1909  would  devise 


DRICH-BLtSSINC 


the  Chicago  Plan  calling  for  parks  and 
an  open  lakefront,  and  such  practitioners 
of  the  emerging  Chicago  style  as  Louis 
Sullivan,  whose  Transportation  Building 
was  placed  away  from  the  main  con- 
course. Six  years  later,  in  1889,  the  Sulli- 
van and  Dankmar  Adler-designed  opera 
house,  the  Auditorium,  was  completed. 
The  building's  blend  of  "rational  structure 
with  poetic  ornament"  signaled  the  be- 
ginning of  an  "American  style  when  one 
did  not  previously  exist,"  Pridmore  writes. 
During  the  Great  Depression  broth- 
ers George  Fred  Keck  and  William  Keck 
built  the  first  truly  modern  home,  the 
House  of  Tomorrow,  which  was  exhibited 
at  Chicago's  Century  of  Progress  Expo- 
sition in  1933.  Furniture  and  interior  fin- 
ishes were  simple;  convenience  became 
an  aesthetic.  Because  the  house  was  con- 
structed in  the  winter,  the  Kecks  discov- 
ered the  possibilities  of  solar  heat.  In 
later  years  the  brothers  teamed  up  with 
developer  Edward  Green  to  make  and 
market  Green's  Ready-Built  Homes, 
attractive  prefab  houses  which  made  use 
of  solar  energy.  But  the  prefabs  could 
not  be  standardized  to  meet  the  variety  of 
building  codes  in  the  Midwest.  Solar 
energy  lost  its  appeal  as  modern  central 
heating  came  into  vogue  and  fossil  fuels 
became  inexpensive.  "In  this  environ- 
ment, home  buyers  were  tvpicallv  more 
concerned  with  initial  cost  than  operating 
cost,"  Pridmore  explains.  "The  enter- 
prise folded  after  a  few  years,  an  idea 
that  came  and  went  before  its  time. 


Marina  City  (1961),  on  the 
Chicago  River  between 
State  and  Dearborn  streets, 
was  designed  by  Bertrand 
Goldberg,  a  native  Chica- 
goan  who  studied  at  the 
Bauhaus. 

Fortunately  the  Kecks 
had  clients  who  liked 
modern  houses.  Mrs.  Ben- 
jamin Cahn,  a  wealthy 
Chicagoan,  hired  the  Kecks 
to  build  her  weekend 
home  in  Lake  Forest.  She 
knew  about  the  House  of 
Tomorrow,  she  told  them; 
what  she  wanted  was 
"the  house  of  the  day  after 
tomorrow." 

The  book  has  250  illus- 
trations, 100  in  full  color. 
More  than  seventy  impor- 
tant buildings  are  pic- 
tured, most  with  exterior 
and  interior  images. 

Pridmore,  a  freelance  writer  and  a 
frequent  contributor  to  the  Chicago  Tri- 
bune, recently  completed  a  history  of  the 
Museum  of  Science  and  Industry  in 
Chicago.  Larson  is  an  architect  and  chair- 
man and  director  of  Design  of  Larson 
Associates  in  Chicago. 


Also... 

Buildings  of  Alaska  by  Alison  Hoagland 
'73  (Oxford  University  Press,  New  York, 
N.Y.,  1993),  $45. 

Based  on  Sir  Nikolaus  Pevsner's  The 
Buildings  of  England,  a  county-by-county 
survey  of  England's  architecture,  the 
Buildings  of  the  United  States  series  now 
has  its  fourth  volume.  Buildings  of 
Alaska,  by  Alison  Hoagland.  It  follows 
books  on  Michigan,  Iowa,  and  the 
District  of  Columbia.  Two  to  four  new 
volumes  are  expected  each  year. 

Hoagland's  survey  includes  Russian 
Orthodox  churches,  log  roadhouses, 
false-front  stores  constructed  during 
the  gold  rush,  concrete  Moderne  public 
buildings  of  the  1930s,  and  high-rise 
office  buildings  erected  during  the  oil 
boom  of  the  1970s  and  1980s.  There  are 
250  photographs  and  maps. 

Hoagland  is  a  senior  historian  with 
the  Historic  American  Building  Survey, 
and  has  a  research  interest  in  cultural 
landscapes  and  vernacular  housing.  El 


iROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY   /   11 


UNDER      THE 

ELMS 


1^ 


$50  million  of  Walter  Annenberg's  $500-million  gift  to 
public  education  goes  to  Brown's  Annenberg  National 
Institute,  headed  by  reformer  Ted  Sizer 


p 


resident  Bill  Clinton's 
announcement  on 
December  17  that  philan- 
thropist Walter  Annenberg 
was  giving  $500  million  to 
reform  the  nation's  public 
schools  was  hailed  nation- 
wide as  a  holiday  gift  to 
America's  children. 

On  campus,  Annenberg's 
gesture  held  particular  sig- 
nificance: S50  milium  of  the 
money  was  coming  to 
Brown's  new  Annenberg 


National  Institute  for  School 
Reform,  founded  in  October. 
It  was  the  largest  gift  in  the 
University's  history. 

The  gift  underlined  the 
importance  of  work  being 
carried  on  at  Brown  and  in 
thirty-two  states  to  date  by 
reformer  Theodore  Sizer,  the 
Walter  H.  Annenberg  Distin- 
guished Professor,  and  his 
colleagues.  Since  taking  over 
Brown's  comparatively  tiny 
education  department  in 


1984,  the  former  Harvard 
education-school  dean  and 
Phillips  Anciover  headmaster 
has  overseen  the  growth  of 
his  Coalition  of  Essential 
Schools  from  twelve  reform- 
minded  high  schools  to  700 
this  year,  along  the  way 
attracting  more  than  $50  mil- 
lion in  donations  and  grants. 
In  October,  Brown  Presi- 
dent Vartan  Gregorian 
announced  that  a  $s-million 
gift  from  anonymous  donors 


would  establish  a  nonparti- 
san National  Institute  for 
School  Reform  here,  with 
Sizer  as  executive  director. 


Vowing  to  combat  school 
violence  by  improving  public 
education.  Walter  Annenberg 
joins  President  Clinton  and 
Education  Secretary  Richard 
Riley  in  the  Roosevelt  Room 
December  17  to  announce  his 
$500-million  challenge. 


12  /  FEBRUARY  1994 


When  Annenberg  issued  his 
philanthropic  challenge  to 
the  nation's  schools,  the  new 
institute  and  its  director  sud- 
denly were  at  the  center  of 
the  action. 

Annenberg,  a  former  U.S. 
ambassador  to  Great  Britain 
who  made  his  fortune  in 
publishing,  wants  to  spend 
his  half-billion  over  the  next 
five  years.  Advising  him  is 
Gregorian,  a  close  friend  for 
more  than  twenty  years, 
whom  Annenberg  has  asked 
to  plot  a  strategy  for  using 
the  money  to  best  advantage. 
"Walter  Annenberg  is  a  fol- 
lower of  Alexis  de  Tocque- 
ville,"  Gregorian  says.  "He 
believes  that  true  individual- 
,  ism  has  a  social  dimension. 
He  believes  foundations  are 
there  not  to  accumulate 
wealth,  but  to  dispense  it.  He 
does  not  want  to  leave  his 
money  unspent." 

By  June  Gregorian  must 
report  to  Annenberg  with  a 
plan.  Before  that  Sizer  must 
report  to  Gregorian.  "We 
have  six  months,"  Sizer  says, 
sitting  in  his  office  in  Provi- 
dence's Davol  Square  two 
weeks  after  Annenberg's 
I  j  announcement.  A  major 
snowstorm  is  threatening  the 
East  Coast,  and  Sizer  is  can- 
celing meetings  for  the  fol- 
lowing day  and  planning 
more  for  later  in  the  week. 
His  schedule  is  backed  up  like 
737s  at  the  airport,  and  the  air 
at  Davol  Square  is  electric. 

The  plan,  in  the  broadest 
terms,  is  to  build  a  coalition 
of  education  reformers 
nationwide.  "Mr.  Annenberg 
is  shrewd  in  knowing  that 
the  resistance  of  the  status 
quo  is  very,  very  powerful," 
Sizer  says,  "and  that  those 
who  argue  for  a  higher  stan- 
dard have  got  to  be  a  pretty 
solid  group." 

In  addition  to  the  Annen- 
berg Institute,  the  other 
major  initial  beneficiary  of 
Annenberg's  pledge  is  the 
^ew  American  Schools 
Development  Corporation 
NASDC),  which  also 
'eceived  $50  million.  Started 


in  1991  as  part  of  President 
Bush's  America  2000  effort, 
and  continued  under  Presi- 
dent Clinton,  NASDC  func- 
tions as  a  laboratory,  funding 
and  incubating  nine  models 
of  school  reform.  Annenberg 
has  served  on  NASDC's 
board,  and  his  gift  will  make 
possible  the  project's  comple- 
tion in  1995. 

When  NASDC's  results 
are  in,  the  Education  Com- 
mission of  the  States  (ECS), 
a  governors'  group  formed 
in  1964  and  now  headed  by 
former  University  of  Rhode 
Island  President  Frank  New- 
man '47,  will  spread  the  word 
nationwide.  Annenberg  has 
promised  $15  million  to  the 
states  and  the  territories 
through  ECS,  stipulating  that 
governors  provide  matching 
funds  to  implement  NASDC's 
successful  models.  The 
Annenberg  Institute,  Grego- 
rian says,  will  be  "the  heir  of 
NASDC,"  continuing  after 
that  agency's  work  is  done. 

I     ed  Sizer,  with  his  easy, 
-A.    commonsense  Yankee 
style,  seems  a  natural  choice 
to  build  a  national  school- 
reform  coalition.  But  he  sees 
hard  work  ahead.  Dissent 
among  reformers  stems  not 
from  contrary  goals,  he  says, 
but  from  different  "points  of 
entry." 

To  explain,  he  talks  about 
his  work  over  the  past  eigh- 
teen months  with  Yale  fac- 
ulty member  James  Comer 
on  the  ATLAS  Project,  a  joint 
Yale /Brown /Harvard  effort 
sponsored  by  NASDC.  As  a 
developmental  psychiatrist. 
Comer  naturally  approaches 
schoolchildren's  problems  in 
terms  of  family  relationships; 
Sizer  comes  at  them  as  an 
educator,  focusing  on  peda- 
gogy. In  addition.  Comer's 
work  is  on  primary  grades, 
while  Sizer  specializes  in 
high  schools.  They  have 
learned  to  pool  their  knowl- 
edge in  order  to  pursue  a 
common  goal,  Sizer  says. 
"But  even  among  old  friends. 


it  takes  time  to  see  how  these 
different  points  of  entry  or 
cultures  can  be  harnessed  so 
that  they  are  more  than  the 
sum  of  their  parts.  That's  the 
challenge." 

Sizer's  immediate  goal  is 
to  build  what  he  calls  a  radar 
set.  He  is  organizing  meet- 
ings with  teachers,  with  prin- 
cipals, and  with  policymak- 
ers in  the  Department  of 
Education  ("There,  I  plan  to 
listen,"  he  says).  On  the  phone 
to  an  old  friend  -  a  principal 
involved  in  the  Coalition  from 
early  on  -  Sizer  jokes,  "I  feel 
like  a  junior-high  kid  who's 
been  drafted  to  play  with  the 
Red  Sox."  He  asks  the  princi- 
pal to  join  him  and  others  for 
a.day-long  brainstorming 
session  in  Providence  two 
weeks  later. 

At  the  heart  of  Annen- 
berg's challenge  is  a  require- 
ment that  communities 
match  his  grants  with  public 
and  private  funds  of  their 
own,  magnifying  their 
impact.  With  that  in  mind, 
the  Institute's  strategy  will  be 
to  establish  a  network  of 
existing  "lead  schools." 

"Mr.  Annenberg  wants  us 
to  focus  on  alUances  of  proven 
national  efficacy,"  Sizer  says. 
"He  is  not  seeding  untested 
new  ideas."  To  demonstrate 
how  this  will  work,  Sizer  says, 
"Let's  go  to  greater  Chicago. 
You  find  twentv-five  schools 


After  Annenberg  reveals  that 

Vartan  Gregorian  (above) 

will  coordinate  a  strategy  for 

allocating  the  remaining 

$285  million,  Brown's 

president  takes  questions 

from  reporters.  One  priority, 

he  says,  will  be  to  link  school 

libraries  electronically. 


which  are  really  on  the  move, 
and  you  pump  money  into 
them.  You  accelerate  their 
progress.  In  the  process,  you 
gain  the  political  protection 
and  support  of  district  and 
state  officials. 

"Instead  of  [improving] 
one  or  two  or  three  schools, 
you  have  a  critical  mass  of 
schools  whose  kids  are  doing 
much  better  than  anyone 
expected  them  to  do." 

The  next  step  will  be  to 
identify  the  country's  ablest 
teachers  and  school  adminis- 
trators -  national  faculty, 
they  will  be  called  -  and  help 
them  not  only  to  work  in 
their  own  schools  but  with 
others  elsewhere. 

"The  only  way  that  you 
get  the  rapid  ratcheting-up  is 
by  taking  the  people  in  the 
line  and  freeing  a  bit  of  their 
time  to  help  others,"  Sizer 
says.  "Schools  are  full  of 
skeptics,  and  they  can  brush 
professor  types  like  me  off 
very  easily.  But  it's  [harder] 


L 


BROWN  ALUMNI  IVIONTHLY  /   13 


to  dismiss  the  work  of  a 
teacher  or  a  principal  from  a 
school  that  has  students  like 
vours  but  in  fact  is  running  a 
ven,'  different  type  of  school. 

"Then,"  he  says,  "you 
connect  all  those  faculty 
members  b\'  e-mail  and  tele- 
conferencing and  meetings  to 
constantly  share  experiences 
-  and  to  make  sure  that  folks 
don't  feel  isolated."  He 
pauses  a  moment.  "Of  course 
what  I'm  describing  on  a 
large  scale  is  what  the  Coali- 
tion does  and  in  a  way  what 
ATLAS  does  and  in  a  way 
what  the  School  Develop- 
ment Project  at  Vale  does." 


On  the  wall  of  Sizer's 
office,  facing  his  desk,  is  an 
old-fashioned  slate  chalk- 
board, the  sort  on  which 
teachers  and  students  of  an 
earlier  age  worked  sums  and 
diagrammed  sentences.  When 
he  started  the  Coalition,  Sizer 
emphasized  that  education  is 
fundamentally  about  the  rela- 
tionship between  kids,  teach- 
ers, and  ideas.  Never  lose 
sight  of  that,  he  warned. 
Now,  as  he  immerses  himself 
in  the  complexities  of  govern- 
ment bureaucracy,  politics, 
and  other  extraneous  pres- 
sures which  tug  and  prod  at 
schools,  Sizer  must  constantly 


When  President 
Howard  Swearer 
persuaded  Ted  Sizer  to  join 
the  Brown  faculty,  the  former 
dean  and  headmaster  came 
fresh  from  a  five-year  study 
of  American  high  schools 
that  resulted  in  his  acclaimed 
1984  book,  Horace's  Compro- 
mise, about  a  fictional  com- 
posite teacher  forced  to  make 
difficult  decisions.  Sizer's 
research  left  him  with  two 
overwhelming  convictions, 
both  of  which  still  hold,  he 
says:  that  American  kids  are 
intellectually  docile  and  that 
their  schools  are  remarkably 
misdesigned. 


Over  lunch  at  Washington, 

D.C's  Willard  Hotel, 

Education  Secretary  Riley 

announces  Annenberg's  gift 

to  reporters  and  guests.  On 

the  podium  with  him  are 

(seated)  Ted  Sizer  and 

NASDC  head  David  Kearns; 

and  (behind  them)  NASDC 

leaders  Diana  Lam,  John 

Richards,  and  Marc  Tucker 

'61,  who  is  president  of  the 

National  Center  on  Education 

and  the  Economy  and 

director  of  the  National 

Alliance  Design  Team. 


remind  himself  of  that  simple, 
defining  principle. 

Too  often,  he  says,  "peo- 
ple in  the  policy  world  dev- 
elop interesting-looking 
proposals  and  practices  that 
are  matters  of  general  public 
administration  -  not  in  sup- 
port of  learning.  We've  got  to 
attend  to  this  broader  context 
but  always  without  confu- 
sion about  our  goal." 

If  on  occasion  these  days 
Ted  Sizer  feels  out  of  his 
league,  he  is  clearly  in  his  ele- 
ment. 


"There's  this  assumption 
that  you  can  teach  130  kids  at 
once,"  Sizer  laments,  "that 
you  can  divide  the  curricu- 
lum up  into  little,  completely 
self-contained,  ill-defined 
packages,  and  that  people 
will  learn  serious  things  in 
thirty-five-minute  snippets. 
It's  crazy.  And  these  prac- 
tices are  consistent  across  the 
country,  which  is  amazing. 
We  have  no  centralized  min- 
istry of  education,  but  you 
can  go  to  schools  anywhere 
and  they're  all  organized 


around  the  same  ideas." 

With  the  backing  of  presi- 
dents Swearer  and  then  Gre- 
gorian, Sizer  threw  his  ener- 
gies into  building  the  Coali- 
tion of  Essential  Schools, 
eventually  stepping  down 
from  the  chairmanship  of  the 
education  department  in 
order  to  devote  more  time  to 
the  thriving  organization. 
"Brown  is  entrepreneurial," 
Sizer  says.  "It  supports  its 
faculty  in  taking  risks.  And 
the  kind  of  work  that  we  do 
is  risky.  It's  necessarily  politi- 
cal. We're  ultimately  inter- 
ested in  studying  why  good 
schools  are  good  schools.  In 
order  to  get  good  schools  you 
have  to  go  out  and  help  peo- 
ple create  them." 

While  Coalition  schools 
differ  wildly,  they  share  a  set 
of  nine  organizing  principles. 
Most  of  the  principles  are 
pedagogical:  less  is  more,  for 
instance  (i.e.,  schools  should 
do  fewer  things  w'ell  rather 
than  attempting  to  do  many 
poorly),  that  teachers  should 
serve  as  coaches  to  students, 
that  students  should  be 
grouped  not  by  age  but  bv 
skill  level,  and  that  they 
should  earn  graduation  by 
completing  an  exhibition  of     1 
their  mastery  -  not  bv  doing 
time  or  passing  tests.  Other 
principles  are  structural:  that 
no  teacher  should  be  respon- 
sible for  more  than  eighty 
students,  for  instance.  (In 
most  high  schools  teachers 
are  responsible  for  100  stu- 
dents each  term  -  even  more 
in  low-income  areas.) 

In  the  beginning,  the 
Coalition  attracted  little  criti- 
cism other  than  the  occa- 
sional vague  accusation  of 
flakiness.  But  as  it  has  grown, 
ultraconservati\'e  groups  in 
some  states,  such  as  Col- 
orado, have  accused  the 
Sizer-led  reform  effort  of 
communism  and  godlessness,; 
linking  it  to  other  allegedly 
radical  movements.  Those 
attacks  may  increase  as  the 
effort  gains  broader  national 
visibility.  To  do  its  job,  Sizer 
maintains,  the  Annenberg 


14  /  FEBRUARY  1994 


Teacher  Suzy  Ort  '89  (above 
left)  assists  a  student  in  her 
"family  group"  at  University 

Heights  High  School,  a 
Coalition  member  school  in 
the  Bronx,  New  York  City. 


Institute  will  have  to  be  non- 
partisan and  at  the  same  time 
remain  "deeply  involved  in 
political  discourse." 

President  Gregorian 
emphasizes  that  the  institute 
is  at  Brown  but  not  of  Brown. 
It  will  be  semi-automomous. 


governed  by  a  board 
of  overseers  with 
Sizer  as  executive 
director.  "This  is  a 
national  thing  that 
happens  to  be  at 
Brown,"  Sizer  says, 
"not  a  Brown  thing 
that  relates  to  the 
nation's  concerns." 
He  stresses  the 
importance  of  keep- 
ing the  two  separate 
so  that  Brown's  aca- 
demic agenda  won't  unduly 
influence  the  institute's  goals, 
and  the  institute's  potentially 
controversial  work  won't 
reflect  on  Brown.  The  Annen- 
berg  Institute,  Sizer  says,  will 
bring  to  campus  people  at 
the  forefront  of  education 
theory  and  practice.  They 
will  serve  as  clinical  profes- 
sors and  visiting  fellows,  but 
the  goal  will  be  to  solve  the 
nation's  educational  crisis, 
not  to  meet  Brown's  research 
needs  or  to  offer  classes  or 
degrees. 


The  $50o-milIion  Annen- 
berg  education  chal- 
lenge makes  good  on  a  pro- 
mise Ambassador  Annen- 
berg  made  six  months  ago, 
after  setting  the  philan- 
thropic world  on  its  ear  with 
more  than  $365  million  in 
donations  to  Harvarcl,  the 
universities  of  Southern  Cali- 
fornia and  Pennsylvania,  and 
the  private  Peddie  School  in 
New  Jersey.  In  an  interview 
then,  Annenberg  vowed  to 
turn  his  attention  next  to  the 
nation's  pubhc  schools.  Both 
Gregorian  and  Sizer  describe 
Annenberg  as  a  nineteenth- 
century  idealist  who  believes 
fervently  in  the  power  of 
education  to  create  citizens. 
In  announcing  his  gift  to 
the  nation  at  the  White  House 
in  December,  Annenberg 
lamented  school  violence, 
predicting  that  uncheckeci  "it 
will  not  onlv  erode  the  educa- 
tional system,  but  destroy  our 
way  of  life  in  the  United 
States."  He  called  on  others 


who  control  sizable  funds  to 
"join  this  crusade  for  the  bet- 
terment of  our  country." 

Next  to  Ted  Sizer's  office 
door  is  a  framed  quote  from 
Thomas  Jefferson:  "I  know  of 
no  safe  depository  of  the  ulti- 
mate powers  of  society  but 
the  people  themselves,  and  if 
we  think  them  unenlightened 
enough  to  exercise  their  con- 
trol with  wholesome  discre- 
tion, the  remedy  is  not  to  take 
it  from  them;  but  to  inform 
their  discretion." 

The  role  of  education  in  a 
democracy  is  "to  ensure  a  cit- 
izenry of  informed  skeptics," 
Sizer  says.  "Both  words  are 
important."  He  wants  to  make 
sure  American  kids  learn  to 
acquire  information  and  to 
question  it.  The  Annenberg 
gift  is  potentially  a  giant  step 
toward  accomplishing  those 
goals.  -  C.B.H. 


Fellow  and  benefactor 
Thomas  J.  Watson  Jr.  '37  dies 


b; 


rown  Fellow  Thomas 
'  J.  Watson  Jr.  '37,  chairman 
emeritus  of  IBM  and  former  U.S. 
Ambassador  to  the  Soviet  Union, 
died  Friday,  December  31,  at 
Greenwich  Hospital  in  Green- 
wich, Connecticut,  of  complica- 
tions from  a  stroke  he  suffered 
earlier  In  the  month.  He  was  sev- 
enty-nine, 
internationally  famous  for 
building  the  company  founded  by  his  father  Into  a  giant 
among  computer  manufacturers,  Watson  Is  equally 
renowned  within  the  Brown  community  for  his  leadership 
as  a  longtime  Corporation  member  and  one  of  the  Univer- 
sity's most  generous  donors. 

Among  his  legacies  are  the  Thomas  J.  Watson  Sr.  Cen- 
ter for  Information  Technology,  center  for  many  of 


Brown's  computing  activities;  the  Thomas  J.  Watson  Jr. 
Institute  for  International  Studies;  the  Arnold  Fellowships 
for  graduating  seniors;  Wriston  Fellowships,  which  support 
curricular  innovation  by  young  faculty  members;  and  the 
1974  "Watson  Report"  -  a  key  document  reflecting  three 
years  of  study  by  the  Committee  on  Plans  and  Resources, 
which  Watson  chaired.  The  report  reaffirmed  the  Univer- 
sity's commitment  to  the  1969  curriculum,  reversed  a  trend 
toward  larger  undergraduate  student  bodies,  and  empha- 
sized excellence  in  teaching  as  well  as  In  research. 

In  recent  years  Watson  was  involved  in  the  activities  of 
Brown's  Institute  for  International  Studies  and  the  Center 
for  Foreign  Policy  Development,  both  of  which  benefited 
from  his  diplomatic  contacts  and  his  knowledge  of  the  for- 
mer Soviet  Union.  In  addition,  Watson  was  the  honorary 
chairman  of  the  University's  current  comprehensive  cam- 
paign. President  Gregorian  described  the  late  Fellow  as  "a 
great  leader  for  the  nation  and  for  Brown." 

A  fuller  account  of  Tom  Watson's  life  and  his  contri- 
butions to  Brown  will  appear  in  the  next  Issue  of  the 
BAM.-A.D. 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /   15 


After  seven  years  as 

dean  of  the  College, 

Sheila  Blumstein  returns  to 

teaching  and  research 


You  could  call  this,  'Get 
a  lite,  Blumstein!'  " 
jokes  Brown's  enormously 
popular  dean  of  the  College, 
Sheila  Blumstein.  In  Novem- 
ber she  announced  her  deci- 
sion to  return  to  teaching  and 
research  full-time  after  seven 
vears  of  juggling  that  career 
with  responsibilitv  for  man- 
aging Brown's  undergraduate 
College.  "It  was  not  an  easy 
decision,"  Blumstein  says.  "It 
tore  me  apart." 

In  the  end,  she  savs,  "the 


sion  to  more  rigid,  core 
plans.  Brown  was  still  right 
to  make  students  responsible 
for  their  education.  Ulti- 
matelv,  Blumstein  says,  "you 
challenge  young  people,  and 
they're  up  to  the  task."  On 
the  CCC's  advice,  though, 
the  faculty  voted  to  increase 
the  number  of  credits  rec]uired 
for  graduation  from  twenty- 
eight  to  thirty.  Concluding 
that  students  needed  better 
academic  guidance,  Blum- 
stein beefed  up  counseling 


Sheila  Blumstein:  Time  to  get  off  the  roller-coaster. 


twelve-hour-day  syndrome, 
six  days  a  week  -  sometimes 
seven  days  a  week  -  is  not 
good  for  you." 

Blumstein's  announce- 
ment was  met  with  appar- 
ently unanimous  disappoint- 
ment on  campus.  A  linguist 
and  a  key  member  of  the  cog- 
nitive and  linguistic  science 
faculty,  Blumstein  had  been 
named  dean  of  the  College  in 
1987  by  President  Howard 
Swearer.  Vartan  Gregorian 
persuaded  her  to  continue. 

Early  in  her  tenure  as 
dean,  she  worked  with  the 
College  Curriculum  Council 
on  a  major  review  of  the  cur- 
riculum, concluding  that, 
despite  other  schools'  rever- 


for  freshmen  and  sopho- 
mores and  created  the  Guide 
to  Liberal  Learning  and  the 
University  Courses  program. 

More  than  any  specific 
program,  Blumstein  is  proud 
of  the  style  of  her  deanship. 
Her  easy  humor,  intelligence, 
and  down-to-earth  manner 
earned  her  the  respect  and 
frienciship  of  students,  fac- 
ulty, and  staff.  An  editorial  in 
the  Brown  Daily  Herald 
observed  that  Blumstein's 
presence  will  "be  welcome  in 
the  classroom,  [but]  sorely 
missed  in  University  Hall." 

She  believes  the  Brown 
curriculum  works  for  faculty 
as  well  as  for  students.  "Pre- 
scriptive curricula  stifle  cre- 


ativity even  for  good  fac- 
ulty," she  says.  "We  say,  'Be 
creative.'  Then  you  have  stu- 
dents being  trained  by  peo- 
ple at  the  cutting  edge." 

It  is  the  cutting  edge  of 
research  that  has  lured  Blum- 
stein away  from  University 
Hall.  She  studies  the  way  lan- 
guage is  organized  in  the 
brain,  working  with  stroke 
victims  and  others  who  have 
lost  language  abilities  to 
determine  what  has  actually 
happened.  Over  the  past  few 
years,  her  research  group  has 
found  evidence  that  aphasia 
-  loss  of  language  -  may  not 
be  a  matter  of  losing  lan- 
guage, per  se,  but  of  losing 
access  to  it.  Language,  she 
says,  may  be  like  a  software 
program  that  stroke  victims 
have  trouble  using. 

Her  findings  currently  are 
being  cited  in  scholarly  pub- 
lications, and  she  says,  "1 
want  to  push  it.  I  just  haven't 
been  able  to  keep  up,  work- 
ing on  this  part-time."  Start- 
ing in  July,  she  will  take  an 
overdue  sabbatical,  visiting 
hospitals  to  learn  about  state- 
of-the-art  neurology. 

Then  Blinnstein  plans  to 
resume  teaching  her  course 
on  language  and  the  brain 
and  whatever  other  courses 
the  department  needs,  proba- 
bly on  language  and  speech 
processing. 

The  past  seven  years  have 
been  "the  roller-coaster  ride 
of  my  life,"  Blumstein  says, 
"with  the  highest  highs  and 
the  lowest  lows.  I've  come  to 
a  much  richer  understanding 
of  what  a  university  is  about. 
And  there  has  been  a  human 
sicie  of  it,  too.  As  a  faculty 
member  you  don't  see  the 
contours  of  the  countryside 
in  quite  the  same  way.  The 
kid  who  drops  out  of  your 
class,  you  may  never  see 
again.  We  [deans]  know 
what  happens  to  that  kid." 

A  search  is  on  for  Blum- 
stein's successor.  She  plans  to 
step  down  June  30  -  "unless 
they  find  someone  who 
wants  to  start  earlier,"  she 
says  with  a  laugh.  -  C.B.H. 


University  Professor  Martha 
Nussbaum  was  among 
twenty-one  writers  hailed  as 
"Literary  Lions"  by  the  New 
York  Public  Library  in 
November.  The  author  of 
Love's  Knowledge  and  Vie 
Fragility  of  Goodness,  Nuss- 
baum teaches  classics,  phi- 
losophy, and  comparative 
literature. 

Honoring  President  Vartan 
Gregorian  as  a  "teacher, 
administrator,  and  leader  pc 
excellence,"  the  Charles  A. 
Dana  Foundation  gave  him 
its  Distinguished  Achieve- 
ment Award  in  November. 
The  $25,000  prize  was  dis- 
tributed among  causes  of 
Gregorian's  choosing, 
including  undergraduate 
financial  aid  and  libraries  a 
Brown. 

Two  Brown  scientists  have  J 
won  Young  Investigator 
awards  -  Associate  Profess 
of  Neuroscience  Mark  Beai( 
from  the  Society  for  Neuro- 
science; and  Associate  Pro- 
fessor of  Mathematics  Nioo^ 
laos  Kapouleas,  from  the 
National  Science  Foundatio 

The  NSF  also  recognized  th 
research  of  engineering  pre 
lessor  Lambert  Ben  Freunc 
this  month  with  a  s\'mpo- 
sium  at  the  California  Insti- 
tute of  Technology  in  his 
honor.  The  topic:  dynamic 
failure  mechanics  of  moder 
materials. 

The  Association  for  Compv 
ing  Machiners'  has  bestowe 
its  Karl  V.  Karlstrom  Out- 
standing Educator  Award 
and  its  ACM  Fellows  Awai 
on  Andries  van  Dam,  the  L 
Herbert  Ballou  University 
Professor  and  professor  of 
computer  science. 


16  /  FEBRUARY  1994 


i 


Here's  the  sce- 
nario: it's 
Commencement,  and 
the  newly  minted 
M.D.'s  file  down  Col- 
lege Hill,  their  green 
velvet  collars  glowing 
softly  against  brown 
robes.  As  one  student 
passes,  a  faculty  mem- 
ber whispers  to  a  col- 
league, "He's  going  to 
make  a  great  doctor." 

"That's  where  we 
started  -  at  the  end," 
says  Dr.  Steven  R.  Smith, 
the  Medical  School's 
associate  dean  for  educa- 
tion. "We  wanted  to  see 
what  it  is  about  that  can- 
didate that  will  make 
him  a  great  doctor:  what 
knowledge?  What  abili- 
ties? What  personal  val- 
ues?" 

In  1990  Brown  was  one  of 
a  dozen  medical  schools  to 
receive  $150,000  grants  from 
the  Robert  Wood  Johnson 
Foundation  to  take  the  first 
step  toward  reforming  med- 
ical education:  determining 
what  works.  Last  April  the 
School  of  Medicine  published 
An  Educational  Blueprint,  writ- 
ten by  Smith  and  Curriculum 
Coordinator  Barbara  Fuller, 
proposing  a  "competency- 
based"  curriculum.  Now, 
with  a  $124,000  grant  from 
the  Culpeper  Foundation,  the 
Medical  School  will  begin 
implementing  that  curricu- 
lum, dubbed  MD  2000.  Smith 
hopes  it  will  serve  as  a  model 
for  schools  nationwide. 

To  those  who  have  fol- 
lowed Professor  of  Education 
Theodore  Sizer's  efforts  to 
reform  secondary  education, 
MD  2000  will  sound  familiar. 
It  starts,  not  with  the  existing 
slate  of  course  requirements 
and  timetables,  but  with 
goals.  "Instead  of  focusing  on 
input,  we  decided  to  focus  on 
outcomes,"  Smith  says.  He 
believes  current  medical  cur- 
ricula are  inordinately  influ- 
enced by  departmental  bick- 
ering and  politicking;  the 
most  powerful  departments 


MD  2000:  the  Medical  School 

begins  implementing  a 

curriculum  for  the  21st  century 


determine  what  students  will 
ultimately  take. 

The  Educational  Blueprint 
identifies  nine  abilities  as 
essential  to  the  practice  of 
medicine.  Some  are  obvious: 
basic  clinical  skills,  for 
instance,  and  the  ability  to 
diagnose  and  manage  dis- 
ease. But  the  Blueprint  also 
emphasizes  skills  seldom 
addressed  directly  by  med- 
ical curricula,  such  as  self- 
awareness  and  the  habit  of 
lifelong  learning.  It  stresses 
the  social  contexts  of  health 
care  and  moral  reasoning. 

All  students  would  be 
expected  to  reach  an  interme- 
diate level  of  expertise  in 
each  of  the  nine  areas,  and 
students  would  select  spe- 
cific areas  in  which  they 
would  strive  for  greater  skill. 

Smith  believes  medical 
education  is  in  a  rut,  with 
faculty  teaching  students  the 
way  they  themselves  were 
taught.  One  of  his  goals  is  to 
break  that  cycle. 

Faculty  response  has  been 
mixed.  Of  the  1,300  clinical 
and  campus-based  medical 
faculty,  310  have  expressed 
interest  in  being  involved  in 
the  new  curriculum's  imple- 
mentation phase.  Already, 


several  faculty  have  incorpo- 
rated the  Blueprint's  ideas 
into  their  courses. 

Dr.  Allan  Erickson,  who 
runs  the  twelve-week  clerk- 
ship in  medicine,  changed 
one  method  of  evaluating  stu- 
dents. Instead  of  grilling  stu- 
dents in  oral  exams,  faculty 
have  put  together  a  hands-on 
test,  using  examining  rooms 
at  Miriam  Hospital's  Ambula- 
tory Care  Center  at  night  to 
stage  a  series  of  tasks  for  stu- 
dents to  perform.  The  method 
is  still  experimental,  Erickson 
emphasizes,  but  it  is  gaining 
popularity  nationally. 

In  one  room,  students 
might  listen  to  a  patient's 
heart  murmur  and  try  to 
diagnose  a  cardiac  valve 
defect.  "In  another,"  Smith 
says,  "might  be  a  person 
who's  recovering  from  a 
heart  attack  and  needs  to 
have  nutritional  counseling. 
Another  might  have  a  micro- 
scope with  a  slide  under  it." 

Changing  the  testing 
method  has  changed  the  way 
students  learn,  Smith  says. 
"Now,  instead  of  disappear- 
ing during  the  clerkship  to 
memorize  textbooks,  stu- 
dents are  grabbing  residents 
to  say,  'Show  me  how  to  pal- 


An  innovative  series  of 

hands-on  tests  that 
replace  some  oral  exams 

for  medical  students 

was  developed  by  Dr. 

Allan  Erickson  (facing 
camera),  here  leading  a 
class  on  chest  X-rays  for 

third-year  students  at 
the  VA  IVIedical  Center. 


pate  a  spleen;  I  forgot.' 
Or  they're  going  down 
to  the  labs  and  actually 
getting  technicians  to 
ask  how  to  interpret  [a 
test  result].  They  retain 
much  more." 

But  other  faculty 
are  wary.  Associate  Pro- 
fessor of  Medicine  Gary 
Abuelo  worries  that  con- 
tent may  be  sacrificed  in 
the  push  for  new  teach- 
ing methods,  and  he  believes 
faculty  are  already  stretching 
to  include  the  material  they 
must  cover.  "We  use  a  multi- 
ple-choice test  in  my  course 
that  the  secretaries  can 
grade,"  Abuelo  says.  "Allan 
Erickson  may  get  better 
results,  but  he  expends  ten 
times  more  energy  getting 
there." 

Smith  has  encouraged 
faculty  to  set  up  small  groups 
in  which  students  learn  by 
attacking  problems  them- 
selves, rather  than  passively 
listening  to  lectures.  He 
argues  that  students  retain 
more  this  way.  Abuelo  says 
that  would  be  great  if  the  stu- 
dent-driven classes  didn't 
spend  so  much  time  chasing 
red  herrings.  "What  are  we 
going  to  do?  Say  we  just  had 
time  for  sore  throats,  we 
didn't  get  to  pneumonia?" 
Abuelo  asks  only  half-face- 
tiously. 

"There  are  a  lot  of  impor- 
tant questions  about  medical 
education,  especially  perti- 
nent to  infcirmation  over- 
load," Abuelo  says.  "I  think 
Steve's  grant  is  asking  these 
questions,  and  that's  good. 
We  just  have  to  see  how 
they're  answered."-  C.B.H. 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /   17 


Anthropologist 

Ellen  Messer  heads  World 

Hunger  Program 


In  a  world  where  we 
ha\'e  the  technical  solu- 
tions, hunger  shouldn't  be 
a  problem,"  savs  Ellen 
Messer,  who  this  tall  was 
named  director  of  the  Alan 
Shawn  Feinstein  World 
Hunger  Program.  A  nutri- 
tional anthropologist  bv 
training,  Messer  has  been 
an  associate  professor 
since  1987;  she  succeeds 
founding  director  Robert 
Kates,  University  profes- 
sor emeritus,  who  retired 
in  January  1993. 

The  Hunger  Program, 
Messer  believes,  is  uniquely 
situated  to  bring  together  not 
only  researchers  and  policy 
makers,  but  also  local  people 
who  are  working  to  combat 
hunger  around  the  globe. 
"We  see  the  people  in  these 
communities  as  participants, 
not  just  subjects  of  research," 
Messer  emphasizes. 

She  plans  to  continue 
promoting  global  awareness 
through  the  annual  Himger 
Awards,  which  highlight 
people  and  organizations 
making  exceptional  strides 
worldwide;  the  Hunger 
Briefing,  which  brings  those 
in  the  field  to  Brown  to  share 
their  work  each  year;  and 
other  projects,  such  as  the 
Hunger  Research  Exchange. 

She  also  plans  to  continue 
the  Hunger  Program's  edu- 
cational activities,  including 
her  University  course,  "Feast 
or  Famine;  the  Ecology  and 
Politics  of  World  Hunger"; 
and  an  upper-level  seminar. 
Messer  received  her  bache- 
lor's degree  from  Harvard 
and  her  master's  and  doctor- 
ate -  all  in  anthropology  - 
from  the  University  of  Michi- 
gan. She  did  postdoctoral 
work  in  botany,  ecology,  and 
nutrition.  She  is  now  con- 


Messer:  Can  a  Flavor-saver 

tomato  help  prevent 

world  hunger? 

ducting  searches  for  two  new 
faculty  members. 

Among  the  Hunger  Pro- 
gram's current  and  upcoming 
projects  are  nutritional  work 
on  various  ethnic  diets,  and  a 
study  of  the  way  biotechno- 
logical  advances  can  influ- 
ence Third-World  diets,  envi- 
ronment, and  biodiversity. 
"Does  a  Flavor-saver  tomato 
have  anything  to  contribute 
to  hunger  prevention?"  she 
asks.  "That  kind  of  question." 

"We're  also  looking  at 
how  hunger  relaies  to  other 
development  goals,"  Messer 
says.  "The  principal  cause  of 
hunger  is  still  food  wars  - 
conflict.  We're  looking  at  the 
relationship  between  hunger 
and  public  health;  between 
hunger,  economic  develop- 
ment, and  democratization." 

She  and  the  program's 
other  faculty  will  continue  to 
fight  hunger  locally,  lectur- 
ing and  volunteering  their 
time.  The  bottom  line,  says 
Messer,  is  that  "hunger  is 
caused  by  lack  of  respect  for 
the  humanity  of  others." 
Changing  attitudes  is  the  real 
challenge.  -  C.B.H. 


What  do  people  talk 
about  on  Brunonia, 
the  electronic  discussion  list 
for  Brown  alumni  and 
friends?  Here  are  some  of 
the  topics  that  surfaced  in 
the  last  year-and-a-half: 

1.  The  Brown  Curriculum  vs. 
Great  Books 

2.  Students  with  guns  and 
bullwhips 

3.  Spouses  who  met  at  Brown 

4.  All-nighters 

5.  The  dollar  value  of  a 
Brown  degree 

6.  Nude  swimming  in  Col- 
gate-Hoyt  Pool 

7.  Brown's  best  teachers 

8.  The  Mad  Peck 

9.  Which  East  Side  ice  cream 
is  better  than  sex 

10.  Hate  speech;  speech  codes 

11.  Why  it's  called  the  "Pig 
Book" 

12.  Mr.  Magoo  in  Faunce 
House  Theatre 

13.  The  worst  dorm  rooms  on 
campus 

14.  The  economics  of  need- 
blind  admissions 

15.  What  was  "P.C."  at 
Brown  in  the  1950s  (not 
liking  Ike;  liking  T.S.  Eliot; 
joining  NAACP  and  ROTC) 

16.  Music:  a  cappella  singing 
groups;  the  Brown  Band 

17.  Roy  G.  Biv 

18.  Long-gone  eateries 
(Sam's  Deli,  Toy  Sun,  Lloyd's) 

19.  "Charlie  Chaplain" 

20.  Brown  as  Nirvana  (or, 
according  to  some  grad  stu- 
dents, Hell) 


0t 


Anyone  with  a  computer 
and  access  to  the  Internet, 
BITNET,  or  many  of  the  com- 
mercial networks  available  to 
home-computer  users  with 
modems  can  join  the  discus- 
sions. Established  by  this 
magazine's  current  editor  in 
April  1992,  Brunonia  pro- 
vides an  informal,  often 
informative,  and  invariably 
friendly  forum  for  considera- 
tion of  topics  relating  to  the 
University  and  higher  educa- 
tion, as  well  as  for  reaction 
to  and  suggestions  for  arti 
cles  in  the  BAM. 

About  200  people  all 
over  the  world  now  sub- 
scribe to  Brunonia,  and  hun- 
dreds more  read  and 
respond  to  the  list  from 
within  the  University's  cam- 
pus computer  system.  There 
are  alumni  from  the  forties, 
fifties,  and  sixties,  as  well  as 
the  more  predictable  cohort 
of  computer-literate  seven- 
ties, eighties,  and  nineties 
grads;  alumni  of  the  Gradu- 
ate School;  parents;  students; 
current  and  emeritus  faculty; 
a  dean  or  two;  and  other 
Brown  staff. 

To  join  Brunonia,  send  e- 
mail  to  <listserv@brownvm. 
brown. edu>  with  the  follow- 
ing text:  <subscribe  brunonia  < 
John  Doe  '65>.  From  a  BIT- 
NET  address,  you  can  send  a 
message  rather  than  e-mail 
by  typing  the  following:  <tell 
listserv@brownvm.  brown, 
edu  subscribe  brunonia  Jane 
Smith  '83>.  -A.D. 


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18  /  FEBRUARY  1994 


J 


Visiting  scholar  says 

Twain  may  have  been 

homosexual 


Photographs  of  Mark 
Twain  always  look  the 
same:  the  creased  face  with 
its  overgrown  mustache,  wiry 
eyebrows,  and  unruly  white 
hair  stares  at  young  readers 
from  back  covers  of  The 
Adventures  of  Tom  Saun/er  and 
Huckleberry  Finn.  But  what  if 
someone  shaved  off  Twain's 
mustache?  An  equally  drastic 
image  change,  says  a  Brown- 
affiliated  researcher,  is  sug- 
gested by  his  new  theory  on 
Twain's  sexuality. 

At  a  conference  last 
August,  Andy  Hoffman  '88 
Ph.D.,  a  visiting  scholar  in  the 
English  department,  intro- 
duced his  hypothesis  that 
Twain  was  involved  in 
"strong,  loving,  romantic 
relationships  with  men" 
when  he  lived  in  Nevada  and 
California  during  the  i86os. 
In  1870,  he  married  Olivia 
Langdon  and  eventually  had 
four  children.  The  alleged 
affairs  with  men  may  or  may 
not  have  been  sexual,  Hoff- 
man says,  but  they  were 
"homoerotic."  Romantic 
same-sex  relationships  were 
not  uncommon  among  young 
people  then,  according  to 
Hoffman,  because  the  lives  of 
men  and  women  were  kept 
separate  before  marriage.  But 
"to  place  the  relationships 
I  into  the  current  context  of 
what  we  consider  gay  is 


wrongheaded,"  he  says. 

Fellow  Twain  scholars 
didn't  welcome  Hoffman's 
findings  when  he  presented 
them  at  the  conference  in 
Elmira,  New  York,  where 
Twain  did  much  of  his  later 
writing.  A  subsequent  article 
in  the  Chronicle  of  Higher  Edu- 
cation spawned  op-ed  attacks 
on  Hoffman  in  newspapers 
across  the  country. 

Much  of  the  criticism  has 
focused  on  Hoffman's  lack  of 
proof.  "There  is  no  proof, 
only  evidence,"  Hoffman 
acknowledges.  "I'm  trying  to 
outline  what  I  see  as  a  strong 
possibility.  It  makes  too  much 
sense  to  simply  dismiss  it." 

The  theory  came  about  by 
accident,  Hoffman  says. 
While  researching  a  biogra- 
phy of  Twain,  he  found 
almost  no  trace  of  the  year 
1865,  when  Twain  was  living 
in  San  Francisco.  So  he  began 
examining  the  lives  of 
Twain's  acquaintances,  who 
turned  out  to  be  mostly  writ- 
ers, performers,  and  "bohemi- 
ans,"  the  term  then  used  to 
describe  homosexuals. 

Hoffman  then  backtracked 
to  the  early  1860s,  when 
Twain  worked  as  a  reporter 
in  Virginia  City,  Nevada.  "A 
pattern  began  to  emerge," 
Hoffman  says,  "of  strong, 
close  associations  with  indi- 
vidual men  that  were  broken 


off  in  an  immediate,  passion- 
ate, fiery  kind  of  way  with  no 
contact  afterward.  Friend- 
ships sometimes  go  that  way, 
but  it's  much  more  a  pattern 
of  romantic  relationships." 

The  pattern  at  first  made 
Hoffman  uneasy.  "1  really  felt 
I  was  barking  up  the  wrong 
tree,"  he  says.  "I  was  uncom- 
fortable pursuing  something 
that  was  so  far  from  anything 
anybody  had  ever  said  about 
the  man."  But  after  consult- 
ing with  several  other  Twain 
scholars,  Hoffman  plowed 
ahead  with  his  research. 

His  documentation 
includes  a  letter  to  Twain 
from  Artemus  Ward,  a  popu- 
lar humorist  at  that  time,  that 
begins,  "My  dearest  love." 
There  is  also  a  newspaper 
column  written  by  reporter 
Dan  de  Quille,  who  lived 
with  Twain  in  a  one-bed- 


years,  since  Mark  Twain  died, 
we've  looked  at  the  materials 
in  only  one  way,  and  it's  time 
to  admit  they  can  be  inter- 
preted differently,"  he  says. 
"If  I  had  something  I  didn't 
feel  was  substantiated,  I 
would  have  floated  the  idea 
over  a  beer  with  friends.  I 
wouldn't  have  bothered  to 
make  a  scholarly  presenta- 
tion about  it." 

Other  critics  accuse  Hoff- 
man of  looking  for  publicity 
to  sell  his  book,  tentatively 
titled  hirentijig  Mark  Tumin. 
Hoffman  disagrees,  pointing 
out  that  the  book  is  far  from 
finished  and  not  due  out 
until  mid-1995.  He  says  his 
editor  and  literary  agent 
wanted  him  to  hold  back  on 
presenting  his  theory  on 
Twain's  sexuality  until  the 
book  was  closer  to  publica- 
tion, but  he  declined. 


room  apartment,  that  read, 
"We  (Mark  and  I)  have  the 
'sweetest'  little  parlor  and  the 
snuggest  little  bedroom  all  to 
ourselves."  And  the  Gold  Hill 
News,  a  Nevada  newspaper, 
announced  in  1864  that  "Dan 
de  Quille  and  Mark  Twain 
are  to  be  married  shortly. 
About  time." 

Hoffman  admits  "it's 
entirely  possible"  that  he  is 
reading  too  much  into  docu- 
ments that  were  meant  as 
jokes,  as  some  of  his  critics 
have  said,  but  he  insists  his 
theory  deserves  further  con- 
sideration. "For  eighty-three 


The  notion  of  a  gay  Mark 

Twain  "makes  too  much 

sense  to  dismiss  it, "  says 

Andy  Hoffman,  shown  above 

at  home  in  Pawtucket,  Rhode 

Island,  where  he  writes  and 

cares  for  daughter  Alicia 

(left)  and  son  Marcus. 

Hoffman,  who  wrote  his 
doctoral  dissertation  on 
Twain,  lives  in  Pawtucket, 
Rhode  Island,  with  his  wife 
and  two  children.  His  first 
novel.  Beehive,  an  adventure 
set  in  the  United  States  and 
the  Middle  East,  was  pub- 
lished in  1992. -/.S. 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /   19 


After  a  controversy  about 

separatism,  black  students  find 

a  home  in  Harambee  House 


From  the  outside,  Chapin 
House  looks  the  same  as 
it  did  last  semester.  The 
inside  doesn't  look  much  dif- 
ferent, either.  But  the  north- 
em  end  of  the  Wriston  Quad- 
rangle building  has  a  new 
name  -  Harambee  House  - 
and  is  the  newest  alternative 
housing  option  on  campus. 

"Harambee"  means 
"community"  and  "coming 
together"  in  Swahili.  Con- 
ceived by  black  students, 
many  of  whom  belong  to 
the  Organization  of  United 
African  Peoples  (OUAP),  the 
house  is  open  to  students  of 
African  descent,  who  speak 
an  African  language,  who 
major  in  "Pan-African  Stud- 
ies," or  who  are  "truly  com- 
mitted" to  learning  about 
African  history  and  culture, 
according  to  the  OUAP  hous- 
ing proposal  submitted  last 
spring.  Organizers  sparked  a 
campus  debate  about  sepa- 


ratism when  they  asked  the 
undergraduate  Residential 
Council  and  the  Office  of 
Residential  Life  for  "a  space 
to  construct  a  home,  to  form 
community  . . .  [to]  celebrate 
our  people  and  our  culture." 

"When  1  first  came  to  this 
campus  I  spent  a  lot  of  time 
searching  for  people  who 
were  like  me  -  other  black 
people,"  says  sophomore 
Zawadi  Powell,  the  resident 
historian  of  Harambee 
House.  "Not  that  1  didn't 
want  to  associate  with  white 
people,  but  since  I  come  from 
an  all-black  neighborhood,  it 
was  hard  to  be  in  this  all- 
white  setting.  [The  house]  is 
something  we  need  to  make 
our  stay  at  Brown  easier, 
more  comfortable  ...  a  place 
where  we  don't  have  to 
always  explain  ourselves." 

Although  the  Residential 
Council  and  the  administra- 
tion ultimately  approved  the 


proposal  for  what  was  then 
being  called  Africa  House, 
there  were  weeks  of  debate 
last  spring.  Latino  and  Asian 
organizations  worried 
whether  such  a  house  would 
lessen  minority  students' 
unity  on  campus,  and  admin- 
istrators were  concerned 
about  the  "activist,  political 
tone"  adopted  by  organizers, 
according  to  Arthur  Gal- 
lagher, associate  dean  of  stu- 
dent life  and  director  of  resi- 
dential life.  "It's  good  to  have 
a  wide  variety  of  housing 
options  for  upperclass  stu- 
dents," he  says,  "but  it's  a 
problem  if  groups  become  so 
narrowly  focused  that  they're 
attracting  people  who  are  very 
much  the  same  and  aren't 
open  to  new  ideas.  That  was  a 
concern  with  Africa  House." 

Two  Bwu'ii  Doily  Herald 
editorials  denounced  the 
proposal  as  promoting  sepa- 
ratism, stating  it  would  "serve 


Harambee  residents  Zawadi 

Powell  '96,  Nicole  Williams 

'96,  Monique  Bobb  '96,  and 

Abigail  Ramsay  '95  gather 

on  the  house's  terrace. 

exclusionary  ends,"  "further 
divide  an  already  segregated 
campus,"  and  "diminish"  the 
education  Brown  offers.  The 
editorials  were  followed  by 
more  than  a  dozen  letters 
and  op-ed  pieces,  both  for 
and  against  the  house. 

"The  BDH  blew  the  prob- 
lem out  of  proportion,"  Pow- 
ell maintains.  "If  we  were 
truly  separatists,  we  wouldn't 
be  here;  we  would  ha\'e  gone 
to  Howard  [University].  Our 
idea  was  to  simply  solidify 
our  community." 

"People  of  likeness  tend 
to  be  together,"  adds  junior 
Abigail  Ramsay,  head  of 
public  relations  for  Haram- 
bee House.  "People  who  play 
lacrosse  are  together.  If  you 
play  football,  you're  together. 
It's  just  a  wav  of  feeling  at 
home." 

Gallagher  says  he  encour- 
aged Kliary  Lazarre- White 
'95,  one  of  Harambee  House's 
organizers,  to  request  space 
in  Chapin  Hall  on  Wriston 
Quadrangle,  traditionally 
home  to  Brown's  mostly- 
white  fraternities,  instead  of 
in  a  building  on  the  Pem- 
broke campus,  where  many 
minority  upperclass  students 
choose  to  live.  "That  would 
have  solidified  a  camp 
mentality,"  Gallagher  says. 
"Instead,  this  was  a  great 
opportunity  for  more  diver- 
sity to  exist  in  Wriston.  I  give 
[the  organizers]  a  lot  of  credit 
for  saving  okay." 

Harambee  House  joins 
twenty-two  other  alternati\'e 
houses  on  campus:  twelve 
fraternities  and  sororities, 
and  ten  ethnic,  language,  and 
special-interest  houses, 
including  Hispanic  House, 
East  Asian  House,  French 
House,  and  Environmental 
House.  AH  are  re\'ie\veti 
annually  by  the  Residential 
Council.  If  the  council  feels 
an  alternati\e  house  has  held 


20/  FEBRUARY  1994 


too  few  public  events,  is  too 
self-serving,  or  hasn't 
attracted  enough  residents,  it 
issues  warnings  and,  in 
extreme  cases,  can  advise 
administrators  to  disband  the 
house.  Harambee  House  and 
other  alternative  houses  will 
undergo  that  review  in  the 
spring.  Meanwhile,  accord- 
ing to  Gallagher,  the  Office  of 
Residential  Life  has  set  a 
moratorium  on  new  alterna- 
tive housing  proposals  while 
it  "reexamines"  the  campus 
housing  situation.  The  mora- 
torium is  effective  through 
this  academic  year,  and  may 
be  extended,  Gallagher  says. 

Harambee  House  is  cur- 
rently home  to  eighteen  stu- 
dents, according  to  Powell 
and  Ramsay  -  sixteen  blacks, 
one  white,  and  one  Asian- 
American.  All  are  sopho- 
mores and  juniors.  The  house 
has  both  double  and  single 
rooms,  as  well  as  a  lounge 
and  a  library  "that  really 
needs  books,"  says  Ramsay. 
All  of  the  residents  help  run 
the  house;  this  fall  they  have 
organized  activities  such  as 
voter  registration  on  the 
Green  and  get-togethers  with 
other  Wriston  groups.  Powell 
and  Ramsay  say  they  hope  to 
plan  more  events  that  focus 
on  African  culture  -  a  dance 
class,  perhaps,  or  discussion 
groups. 

So  far,  both  residents  and 
administrators  are  pleased 
with  Harambee  House's 
progress,  and  Ramsay  pre- 
dicts its  membership  will 
grow  next  year.  Dean  of  Stu- 
dent Life  Robin  Rose  and 
Associate  Dean  of  Student 
Life  Leonard  Perry  sent  letters 
of  support  earlier  in  the 
semester.  While  Gallagher 
admits  Harambee  House  has 
attracted  more  attention  than 
other  alternative  houses  seek- 
ing approval,  he  says  the  Uni- 
versity's questions  had  to  be 
answered.  "A  lot  of  staff  were 
unsure  at  first  about  what 
was  wanted,"  he  says.  "Yes, 
the  process  was  difficult.  But  I 
think  the  end  result  has 
worked  out  well."  -].S. 


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Inquiring  Minds 


!:£  What  makes  us  yawn? 
And  why  do  we  yawn 
when  we  see  other  people 
yawning? 


rl  Mary  Carskadon  replies:  Yawning  is 
actually  a  complex  process  and  one  about 
which  much  remains  to  be  learned.  We  do 
know  there  are  two  principal  types  of  yawns. 
Spontaneous  yawns  occur  in  all  mammals 
and  first  appear  before  birth.  Contagious 
yawns  -  yawns  in  reaction  to  other  yawns  - 
are  apparently  exclusive  to  humans  and  do 
not  develop  until  about  two  years  of  age. 

Three  factors  are  commonly  thought  to 
be  related  to  yawning.  Sleepiness  has  a  lot  to 
do  with  it,  but  we  still  don't  know  If  yawns 
help  a  person  fall  asleep  sooner  or  help  one 
stay  awake  longer.  Boredom  is  also  related 
to  yawning,  though  students  taking  Psychol- 
ogy 55  (Introduction  to  Sleep)  found  that 
sleepiness  was  much  more  yawn-provoking 
than  boredom.  A  third  common  conception 
is  that  yawning  is  related  to  too  much  car- 
bon dioxide  or  too  little  oxygen,  but  scien- 


tific studies  do  not  support  this  possibility. 
Yawning  is  much  more  than  just  a  deep 
breath;  it's  like  a  stretch.  Test  this  in  yourself 
by  trying  to  yawn  through  your  nose  with 
your  mouth  closed  and  teeth  clenched. 

Scientists  have  shown  that  contagious 
yawns  depend  upon  a  visual  pattern  detec- 
tor in  the  brain.  Stimulating  this  "yawn 
detector"  requires  more  than  just  a  gaping 
mouth,  so  politely  covering  your  mouth 
when  you  yawn  may  not  prevent  the  conta- 
gious response.  Reading  about  yawning  is 
also  an  effective  yawn  stimulus. 

Mary  Carskadon  is  professor 
of  psychiatry,  adjunct  pro- 
fessor of  psychology,  and 
director  of  the  chronobiol- 
ogy  center  at  E.P.  Bradley 
Hospital  in  East  Providence. 

She  edited  Ihe  Encyclopedia  of  Sleep  and 

Dreaming  (MacMillan,  1993). 

If  you  tiave  a  question  for  a  member  of  the  Brown 
faculty,  please  send  it  to  Inquiring  Minds,  BAM,  Box 
1854,  Brown  University,  Providence,  R.I.  02912.  Fax 
{401)751-9255, 


Diplomat  Twaddell  faces  tough 
questions  on  Liberia 


William  Twaddell 
'63  is  no  stranger 
to  political  unrest.  As  the 
United  States's  diplomatic 
representative  in  Liberia 
since  1992,  he  has  witnessed 
what  he  calls  four  years  of 
"brutal  civil  war."  Last  sum- 
mer, after  months  of  negotia- 
tion moderated  by  the  United 
Nations,  leaders  of  several 
Liberian  factions  reached  a 
fragile  ceasefire.  Next  on  the 
U.N.'s  agenda  is  demobiliza- 
tion of  the  various  troops, 
democratic  elections,  and  a 


I: 


transition  back  to  peace,  but 
Twaddell  warned  that  the  sit- 
uation is  "precarious  from 
the  ground  up." 

Liberians  living  in  Rhode 
Island  think  so,  too,  and  they 
want  the  United  States  to  do 
something  about  it.  That's 
the  message  they  brought  to 
Twaddell  when  he  spoke 
about  conflict  resolution  in 
Liberia  at  Brown's  Watson 
histitute  for  International 
Studies  in  December.  Joining 
Brown  students  and  faculty 
at  the  lecture,  the  expatriates 


pleaded  with  Twaddell  to  do 
more  to  bring  peace  to  their 
country  and  restrain  Charles 
Taylor,  leader  of  the  violent 
NPFL  party. 

"The  U.S.  should  look  out 
for  our  cry  and  put  out  more 
effort/'  one  man  said.  "We 
are  very  tired.  We  want  to  go 
home." 

Twaddell  expressed  sym- 
pathy with  Rhode  Island's 
displaced  Liberians,  but 
maintained  that  the  United 
States  couldn't  erase  the 
anger  and  distrust  between 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /  21 


warring  parties.  The  \vhi>le 
situation  is  "fraught  \vith 
betrayal,  intrigue,  vou  name 
it,"  he  said. 

Shghth-  larger  than  New 
Jersey,  Liberia  was  go\erned 
for  more  than  a  century  b\' 
the  fraction  of  its  population 
called  .Americo-Liberians  - 
former  slaves  who  returned 
from  the  United  States  anci, 
Twaddell  said,  ran  the  coun- 
try in  their  own  interests.  By 
the  mid-igoos,  howeyer, 
leaders  were  trying  to  incor- 
porate indigenous  Liberian 
peoples  into  society  and  to 
broaden  benefits  of  the  coun- 
try's economic  boom.  But 
corruption  and  nepotism 
took  root,  and  a  1980  coup 
left  more  than  a  dozen  gov- 
ernment officials  dead. 

An  election  in  1985 
seemed  promising,  but  a  can- 
didate who  had  participated 
in  the  coup  stole  ballot  boxes 
when  voting  turned  against 
him.  After  an  unsuccessful 
counter-coup,  divisions 


between  tribal  peoples  grew 
more  intense,  and  in  the  late 
1980s  Taylor  began  attracting 
followers.  In  1990  they 
advanced  into  the  capital  city 
of  Monrovia,  leaving  a  wake 
of  "carnage,"  Twaddell  said. 
A  prolonged  ceasefire  held 
for  more  than  a  year,  but 
Taylor  again  attacked  Mon- 
rovia in  1992,  and  the  United 
Nations  stepped  up  its  role. 

Twaddell  said  he  is  in  fre- 
quent contact  with  some 
leaders  of  Liberia's  parties 
(but  not  with  Taylor),  even 
though  he  describes  his  role 
in  the  civil  war  as  "non-direct 
involvement." 

The  United  States  does 
not  formally  recognize 
Liberia  because  it  has  no  offi- 
cial government,  so  Twaddell 
is  called  chief  of  mission 
instead  of  ambassador.  After 
graduating  from  Brown  and 
serving  in  the  Peace  Corps  in 
Brazil,  he  honed  his  diplo- 
matic skills  in  State  Depart- 
ment posts  in  Saudi  Arabia, 


Venezuela,  Guinea,  Bissau, 
Mozambique,  and  Mali. 
Ronald  Reagan  appointed 
him  ambassador  to  Maurita- 
nia in  1988. 

Twaddell  admitted  that 
the  United  States  had  made 
mistakes  in  its  dealings  with 
Liberia  in  the  past,  such  as 
sending  millions  of  dollars  in 
aid  to  corrupt  leaders  during 
the  ]  980S,  and  then  doing 
nothing  when  Taylor's  fol- 
lowers staged  their  violent 
takeover  of  Monrovia,  in 
1990.  Washington  was  preoc- 
cupied with  Saddam  Hus- 
sein's invasion  of  Kuwait  at 
the  time,  Twaddell  said. 

Now,  though,  the  United 


States  is  trying  to  maintain 
"a  fine  line  of  objectivity," 
according  to  Twaddell. 
"There's  nothing  [Ameri- 
cans] can  do  to  make  peace 
in  Liberia,"  he  said,  respond- 
ing to  an  audience  member's 
request  for  action.  "We  can 
provide  conditions  that 
enable  Liberians  to  reconcile, 
but  there's  no  way  I  can  force 
you  and  Mr.  Taylor  to  sit 
together  and  become  a  har- 
monious group." 

Others  wondered  why 
the  United  States  would 
choose  to  send  peacekeeping 
troops  to  Somalia  but  not 
Liberia.  Twaddell  would 
only  repeat  that  Washington 
had  chosen  to  keep  its  assis- 
tance in  Liberia  humanitar- 
ian, not  military.  "I  cannot 
deny  the  feehng  of  attach- 
ment that  many  Liberians 
have  for  [the  United  States]," 
he  said.  "It's  not  unrequited, 
but  the  view  from  Washing- 
ton is  not  stirred  by  a  compa- 
rable affection."  -  J.S. 


Endowment  earns  21.3  percent  for  1992-93 


r^V  rown  s  investment 
JL^  strategy  paid  extra 
dividends  last  year,  with 
annual  returns  on  the  endow- 
ment totaling  21.3  percent  - 
well  above  the  13.6-percent 
Standard  &  Poor's  500  stock 
index  increase  and  the  13.2- 
percent  Lehman  Brothers 
Government /Corporate 
bond  index  increase.  Prelimi- 
nary surveys  of  364  institu- 
tions' endowment  perfor- 
mance showed  Brown  in  the 
top  2  percent,  according  to 
the  National  Association  of 
College  and  University  Busi- 
ness Officers. 

Assistant  Vice  President 
for  Investments  Robert  J. 
Kolyer  Jr.  attributes  the  ban- 
ner year  to  more  aggressive 
management  by  the  Corpora- 
tion's investment  committee. 
Over  the  past  several  years 
the  committee  has  expanded 


the  University's  strategy  to 
diversify  Brown's  holdings 
and  to  take  advantage  of  new 
opportunities.  Particularly 
strong  performers  last  year 
were  investments  in  natural 
gas,  emerging  markets,  and 
smaller  and  mid-sized  U.S. 
companies.  The  University's 
stock  and  bond  portfolio  is 
increasingly  global,  Kolyer 
says;  "new  markets,  such  as 
Southeast  Asia  and  Latin 
America,  are  opening  up  and 
that's  where  we're  looking." 

Those  managing  the  Uni- 
versity's portfolio  are  differ- 
ent, too,  Kolyer  says.  "When 
I  came  here  five-and-a-half 
years  ago.  Brown's  strategy 
was  pretty  typical.  We  had 
three  stock  managers  and  a 
couple  of  bond  managers." 
All  dealt  primarily  in  the 
United  States. 

Brown  now  hires  a  wide 


range  of  investment  man- 
agers who  work  in  two  dis- 
tinct ways.  Niche  managers 
are  hired  specifically  to  take 
advantage  of  opportunities 
in  a  particular  field  -  energy 
or  junk  bonds,  for  instance. 
Using  this  approach.  Brown 
took  advantage  of  the  plum- 
meting junk-bond  market  in 
1989-90,  profiting  on  the 
rebound.  "We  had  a  phe- 
nomenal return  for  a  couple 
of  years,"  Kolyer  says,  "then 
we  cut  back  and  upgratied 
our  portfolio.  It  was  strictly 
opportunistic."  In  addition. 
Brown  hires  a  pool  of  high- 
performance  managers  to 
invest  where  they  see  fit. 

"You  need  to  take  selected 
risks  to  make  returns," 
Kolyer  says.  "There's  a  lot  of 
risk  in  emerging  markets,  but 
there's  also  a  lot  of  potential 
for  return."  He  believes  the 


breadth  built  into  the  Univer- 
sity's strategy  offsets  its 
aggressiveness:  the  niche 
managers  are  in  different 
fields  by  definition,  and  the 
flexible  managers'  numbers 
should  provide  stability, 
since  not  all  will  be  in\'esting 
in  the  same  markets  at  the 
same  time.  "The  way  we're 
moving,"  Kolyer  obser\'es, 
"is  the  way  the  investment 
management  business  is 
moving." 

Of  1993-94  *'-''  ft""'  Kolyer 
savs,  "We're  doing  fine.  It's 
tough  to  do  this  on  a  sus- 
tained basis,  though.  If  vou 
can  manage  to  perform  in  the 
top  25  percent  routinely, 
you're  doing  well." 
-  C.B.H. 


22  /  FEBRUARY  1994 


The  Latest 


Viexos,  reviexvs,  and  news  you  can  use  from  Brown's  faculty  compiled  by  Jennifer  Sutton 


Big  boys  should  cry 

Men  who  keep  their  feelings  under 
wraps  may  be  putting  themselves  at  a 
greater  risk  for  cholesterol-related  dis- 
eases, according  to  a  study  by  Ray- 
mond Niaura,  assistant  professor  of 
psychiatry;  Peter  Herbert,  professor  of 
medicine;  and  Lynn  Sommerville,  clini- 
cal assistant  professor  of  medicine. 

The  study,  published  in  a  recent 
issue  of  Psychosomatic  Medicine,  showed 
that  men  who  repressed  negative  emo- 
tions had  higher  cholesterol  levels  than 
men  who  did  not  deny  those  emotions. 
According  to  the  report,  blood  samples 
were  analyzed  from  the  study  partici- 
pants, who  answered  two  true-false 
questionnaires,  one  that  measured  anx- 
iety and  one  that  measured  "psycho- 
logical defensiveness." 

The  men  who  acknowledged  anger, 
fear,  selfishness,  and  other  negative 
feelings  scored  low  in  defensiveness 
and  anxiety.  Those  who  had  high  lev- 
els of  defensiveness  but  reported  low 
aitxiety  were  identified  as  "repressive 
copers,"  and  their  total  cholesterol  lev- 
els were  higher  than  the  all-around 
low  scorers. 

"Repression  is  something  that  may 
not  be  under  conscious  control,  so 
telling  a  man  to  express  himself  more 
might  not  help  at  all,"  Niaura  says. 
"But  we  can  encourage  more  aware- 
ness of  emotional  reactions." 

Women  in  the  study  showed  the 
opposite  effect.  Repressive  copers  came 
out  with  lower  total  cholesterol  levels 
than  those  who  face  negative  emotions 
head-on.  Niaura  says  these  results 
could  mean  that  repression  is  a  good 
coping  strategy  for  women,  or  that 
men's  and  women's  bodies  react  differ- 
ently to  stress  and  negative  emotions. 


Brown  bat:  Some  brain! 

Using  sound  to  see 

It  has  long  been  known  that  bats  "see" 
by  hearing,  using  echoes  of  their  own 
high-pitched  squeaks  to  guide  their 
flight.  But  according  to  a  report  in  the 
August  issue  of  Nature,  bats  are  able  to 
form  in  their  brains  intricate  pictures 
of  their  environment,  including  the 
insects  they  are  hunting. 

Steven  Dear,  research  assistant  pro- 
fessor of  psychology;  James  Simmons, 
professor  of  psychology  and  neuro- 
science;  and  Jonathan  Fritz,  a  graduate 
student  in  neuroscience,  built  their 
research  on  previous  studies  that  found 
certain  brain  cells,  called  "delay-tuned 
neurons,"  allow  bats  to  calculate  the 
distance  between  themselves  and 
objects  in  their  path.  Some  of  these  neu- 
rons react  to  echoes  with  long  delays, 
while  others  react  to  shorter  delays,  so 
the  bats  know  which  objects  are  close 
and  which  are  farther  away.  The  cells 
enable  them  to  create  a  sort  of  sonar 
map  of  their  mid-air  surroundings. 

But  the  Brown  team's  study  of  bat 
brain  cells  indicates  "there's  something 
more  than  just  a  map  in  there,"  says 
Dear.  "The  bats  can  clearly  tell  a  moth 
from  tree  branches  and  leaves."  As  the 
neurons  respond  to  sonar  echoes,  they 
differentiate  between  objects  the  bat  is 
approaching.  "This  fine-tuning  ability 
helps  the  bat  determine  how  objects  it 
perceives  are  related  to  one  another," 
Dear  told  the  Neio  YorA:  Times.  "The 
mechanism  is  identical  to  a  process  used 
in  computer  vision  to  analyze  images." 


Strep  linked  to  tics 
in  children 


The  streptococcus  bacteria  (Group  A) 
may  cause  more  than  red,  sore  throats. 
In  children  it  can  trigger  movement 
disorders  such  as  facial,  body,  and 
vocal  tics,  and  even  Tourette's  syn- 
drome, which  causes  involuntary  mus- 
cle spasms  and  vocal  outbursts. 

Louise  Kiessling,  associate  profes- 
sor of  pediatrics  and  an  expert  on 
attention  deficit  hyperactivity  disorder 
(ADHD);  Aim  Marcotte,  clinical  assis- 
tant professor  of  psychiatry;  and  Larry 
Culpepper,  associate  professor  of  fam- 
ily medicine,  published  their  study  in 
the  July  issue  of  Pediatrics.  They  found 
that  within  a  group  of  children  being 
evaluated  for  hyperactivity,  behavior 
problems,  and  learning  disabilities, 
those  with  movement  disorders  were 
four  or  five  times  more  likely  to  have 
"antineuronal  antibodies"  in  their 
blood  than  children  without  move- 
ment disorders. 

These  antibodies  are  manufactured 
by  the  body  to  attack  strep  bacteria 
and  help  end  the  throat  infection.  But 
according  to  Kiessling,  the  antibodies 
also  can  attack  a  group  of  nerve  cells 
that  somehow  resemble  strep  bacteria; 
this  interaction  causes  the  tics  to  occur. 
Antibiotics  may  shorten  the  course  of 
tics  for  some  children,  Kiessling  says, 
but  they  are  not  considered  a  cure. 

"Gradually  the  antibodies  die  out, 
and  the  tics  usually  go  away,"  she 
says.  "But  girls  may  get  the  tics  back 
when  they  become  pregnant  or  go  on 
birth  control  pills." 

Kiessling  and  her  colleagues  under- 
took the  study  after  noticing  a  drastic 
increase  in  the  late  1980s  in  both  strep 
cases  and  movement  disorders  in  chil- 
dren treated  at  Memorial  Hospital  in 
Pawtucket,  Rhode  Island.  "We  began 
to  wonder  if  we  were  seeing  an  epi- 
demic," Kiessling  told  New  York  News- 
day  in  August.  Further  studies  are 
under  way. 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY   /  23 


New  addiction  training  program  to 
be  headquartered  at  Brown 


Health  care  workers 
in  New  England 
soon  will  have  access  to  a 
new  type  of  professional 
training,  thanks  to  a  federal 
grant  awarded  to  Brown's 
Center  for  Alcohol  and 
Addiction  Studies  last  fall. 

The  S3.4-million,  five- 
year  grant  comes  from  the 
Center  for  Substance  Abuse 
Treatment,  a  branch  of  the 
National  Institutes  of  Health. 
It  will  finance  a  comprehen- 
sive program  across  New 
England  to  train  people  who 
treat  substance  abusers. 
Counselors,  social  workers, 
nurses,  and  physicians  will 
be  plugged  into  a  network  of 
expertise  set  up  by  a  Brown- 
led  consortium  of  schools. 

Dr.  David  Lewis  '57,  Don- 
ald G.  Millar  Professor  of 
Alcohol  and  Addiction  Stud- 
ies in  the  School  of  Medicine 
and  director  of  the  Center  for 


Alcohol  and  Addiction  Stud- 
ies, will  oversee  the  training 
program.  He  counts  among 
the  program's  supporters  the 
governors  of  all  six  New 
England  states  and  nearly 
every  university  in  the  region 
that  has  an  interest  in  addic- 
tion treatment. 

This  level  of  cooperation 
is  rare,  according  to  Lewis. 
Traditionally,  counselor 
training  and  community- 
based  treatment  centers  have 
worked  with  government, 
but  not  with  academia;  doc- 
tors have  been  closely 
aligned  with  universities,  but 
not  with  government. 

Each  of  the  four  profes- 
sional components  of  the 
program  will  be  coordinated 
by  a  different  institution.  The 
Boston  University  School  of 
Social  Work  will  develop 
training  standards  for  social 
workers,  the  University  of 


Connecticut  School  of  Nurs- 
ing will  do  the  same  for 
nurses,  the  University  of 
Massachusetts  Medical 
School  at  Worcester  for 
physicians,  and  the  New 
England  Institute  of  Addic- 
tion Studies  and  ETP  Consul- 
tants of  Windsor,  Connecti- 
cut, for  counselors.  These 
coordinating  schools,  with 
Brown's  help,  will  select 
numerous  training  sites  in 
communities  throughout 
New  England  and  designate 
faculty  who  will  teach  the 
addiction  treatment  curricu- 
lum. Harvard  Medical  School 
staff  will  evaluate  the  project; 
the  University  of  Connecti- 
cut's Addiction  Research 
Center  will  provide  materials. 

Lewis  has  set  two  priori- 
ties for  the  program.  First,  he 
hopes  to  recruit  minorities 
into  the  program  and  eventu- 
ally into  the  addiction  treat- 


On  rounds  in  Roger 
Williams  Medical  Center. 
Dr.  David  Lewis  '57  and  stu- 
dents examine  a  recovering 
drug  addict. 

ment  field.  "A  lot  of  people 
who  are  addicted,  particularly 
in  urban  areas,  are  members 
of  minority  groups,"  he 
explains.  "We  need  to  have 
professionals  who  are  knowl- 
edgable  about  minority  cul- 
tures as  well  as  addictions." 
Stipends,  to  be  paid  for  by  the 
grant,  will  help  lure  promis- 
ing students. 

Second,  Lewis  wants  to 
reach  "underserved  popula- 
tions" that  need  help  kicking 
alcohol  and  drug  habits, 
namely  pregnant  women  and 
prison  inmates.  He  says 
Brown  and  the  other  coordi- 
nating schools  will  try  to 
select  training  sites  and  fac- 
ulty with  these  groups  in 
mind. 

Although  some  of  the 
sites  will  accommodate  a  par- 
ticular group  of  trainees,  oth- 
ers will  bring  counselors, 
nurses,  social  workers,  and 
doctors  together  to  learn 
about  addiction  treatment. 
"We're  going  to  be  looking 
very  closely  at  multidiscipli- 
nary  training,"  Lewis  says. 

The  trainees  also  will  tap 
the  expertise  of  the  larger 
addiction  treatment  commu- 
nity in  New  England  through 
a  computer  network  Lewis 
plans  to  set  up  "Our  main 
mission  at  Brou'n  has  been 
the  dissemination  of  informa- 
tion," he  says.  "Since  we've 
been  useful  to  the  field  in  a 
major  way  through  print  and 
videos  and  teaching  slides,  it 
seems  that  a  natural  exten- 
sion is  to  get  into  electronic 
media." 

The  evaluation  conducted 
by  Harvard  Medical  School 
will  help  determine  the  num- 
ber of  trainees  the  program 
can  accommodate,  the  size 
of  their  stipends,  the  length 
of  training  sessions,  and 
other  details.  The  program  is 
expected  to  begin  in  about 
one  year.  -  ].S. 


24  /  FEBRUARY  1994 


High-profile  authors  mark  debuts  of  two 
student-published  scholarly  journals 


I     he  young  editors  of 
JL    two  new  student  peri- 
odicals have  lined  up  a  head- 
turning  array  of  guest  writers 
to  underscore  the  seriousness 
of  their  scholarly  aims. 

Within  the  past  eighteen 
months,  the  two  magazines  - 
the  Bivzi'ii  Eavuvuic  Review 
and  The  Brown  journal  of  For- 
eign Affnirs  -  have  featured 
the  bylines  of  such  luminar- 
ies as  United  Nations  Sec- 
retary General  Boutros 
Boutros-Ghali  and  former 
New  York  Mayor  Ed  Koch. 
Articles  in  the  two  new  pub- 
lications {which  have  no  con- 
nection with  one  another) 
have  examined  such  topics  as 
the  Middle  East  peace 
process,  Russia's  economic 
future,  the  workings  of  Wall 
Street,  and  how  to  keep 
health  insurance  competitive. 

Both  magazines  take  a 
broad  perspective,  and  the 
editors  admit  they  want  to 
cover  a  little  of  everything  in 
their  respective  fields.  Both 
are  nonpartisan  and  welcome 
opposing  points  of  view. 

Founded  in  late  1991,  the 
Brown  Economic  Reviezv 
expects  to  bring  out  its  third 
issue  next  month.  Publication 
originally  was  planned  for 
each  semester,  but  financial 
constraints  limited  the  staff 
to  one  issue  each  in  1992  and 
1993,  according  to  Editor-in- 
Chief  Min  Soo  Kim  '95.  "We 
didn't  want  to  put  out  some- 
thing that  was  mediocre,  so 
we  waited,"  Kim  says. 

With  a  glossy  cover  remi- 
niscent of  The  Economist,  in- 
depth  interviews  with  CEOs, 
and  articles  written  by  pro- 
fessors as  well  as  students, 
the  Economic  Reviezc  hardly 
looks  or  reads  like  a  rag.  "Our 
goal  is  to  produce  a  quality 
publication  that  addresses 
issues  affecting  our  economy 
and  the  global  economy," 


Kim  says.  "1  know  it  sounds 
general.  We  want  it  that  way." 
Last  year's  issue  included 
a  piece  by  Mayor  Koch  on 
Middle  East  politics  from  an 
Israeli  perspective.  The  edi- 
tors are  trying  to  convince 
Hillary  Rodham  Clinton,  Ira 
Magaziner  '69,  and  Ross  Perot 


last  fall  when  a  trio  of  seniors 
-  Daniel  Cruise,  Alexander 
Scribner,  and  Michael  Sous- 
san  -  saw  a  graduate-student 
journal  from  Columbia  Uni- 
versity and  felt  they  could 
produce  something  similar. 
When  they  approached 
members  of  Brown's  interna- 


to  write  for  them.  Long  shots, 
yes  -  but  Kim  recognizes  that 
"controversy  makes  a  maga- 
zine more  interesting,"  and 
celebrity  authors  lend  credi- 
bility to  fledgling  periodicals. 

The  Brown  Journal  of  Foreign 
Affairs  has  a  similar  penchant 
for  high-profile  authors.  Its 
premiere  issue,  wliich  came  out 
in  December,  features  a  piece 
by  Secretary  General  Boutros- 
Ghali;  an  interview  with  for- 
mer National  Security  Advi- 
sor Zbigniew  Brzezinski;  and 
an  essay  on  global  communi- 
cations by  Lee  Huebner,  for- 
mer publisher  of  the  Uiterna- 
tioual  Herald  Tribune.  The 
editors  attribute  such  coups 
to  the  staff  and  their  families, 
many  of  whom  are  active  in 
international  diplomacy. 

The  journal  got  its  start 


tional  relations  faculty  for 
advice,  the  response  was  cau- 
tious. "The  key  words  we 
heard  were  'too  ambitious,'  " 
says  Cruise. 

But  after  a  few  months  of 
frantic  work,  the  first  issue 
came  out  looking  like  a  pro- 
fessional journal.  Articles 
focus  on  the  Middle  East, 
Eastern  Europe,  NATO,  and 
the  United  Nations.  "We  try 
to  find  the  most  poignant 
themes,  issues  that  are  at  the 
forefront  of  people's  minds," 
Cruise  says. 

Editors  from  both  maga- 
zines lobbied  the  Undergrad- 
uate Finance  Board  and  the 
administration  for  financial 
help,  but  ultimately,  only  by 
digging  into  their  own  pock- 
ets did  they  fully  cover  print- 
ing and  mailing  costs.  The 


Aiming  for  credibility:  Editor 

Min  Soo  Kim  '95  of  the  Brown 

Economic  Review  (top)  and 

editors  Alex  Scribner  '94 

(above  left)  and  Daniel 

Cruise  '94  of  the  Brown 

Journal  of  Foreign  Affairs. 


magazines  have  been  mailed 
free,  although  the  journal  has 
a  newsstand  price  of  $6.95, 
with  proceeds  benefiting  the 
Red  Cross. 

Despite  wobbly  finances, 
editors  at  the  Revicio  and  the 
journal  are  optimistic.  "I 
know  we  can  create  a  prod- 
uct we're  proud  of,"  Kim 
says.  "Maybe  it  won't  be  up 
there  with  the  Wall  Street 
journal,  but  who  knows? 
Maybe  it  will."  -  j.S. 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /  25 


Here's  looking  at  you, 
BroiAm  alumni 

Compiled  by  James  Reinbold 


Total  Brown  Club  membership 

5,000  (estimated) 


How  many  of  you  there  are 

Total  undergraduate 

63,146 
52,507 

Number  of  Brown  Clubs 

60  domestic,  9  overseas 

Alumni 
Alumnae 
Graduate  School 

32,803 

19.704 

9-309 

Oldest  Brown  Club 

Brown  University  Club  in 
New  York,  1869 

Medical  School 

1,330 

Sources:  Alumni  and  Dei'elopment 
Information  Resources,  Registrar, 
Brown  Medical  School,  College 
Admission  Office,  Development 
Office,  Ahimiii  Relations  Office 


Median  graduation  year 


How  memy  of  you  give  to  Brown    38.6  % 

What  some  of  you  do 

Law,  judiciary 

Physicians 

Chair  of  the  board 

Nonprofit  institutions 

Ministry 

Retired 

Where  most  of  you  live 

Manhattan 
Greater  Providence 
Greater  Boston 
Washington,  D.C.,  area 
San  Francisco 
Greater  Chicago 
Los  Angeles  area 

Where  none  of  you  live 

Afghanistan;  Northwest  Territories 
(Canada);  Belize;  Kuwait; 
Luxembourg;  Western  Australia 


Newest  Brown  Club 

1973  Brown  Club  of  Moscow,  1993 

Westernmost  Club 

Brown  Club  of  Hawaii 

Easternmost  Club 

Brown  Club  of  Toyko 


Sports 

By  James  Reinbold 


Kwiatkowski  out, 

Whipple  in 
at  football  helm 


At  a  press  conference 
in  the  Maddock 
Alumni  Center  on  November 
22,  David  Roach,  director  of 
athletics,  announced  that 
Brown  would  not  renew  the 
contract  of  head  football 
coach  Mickey  Kwiatkowski. 
Less  than  a  month  later,  on 
December  21,  Roach  told  the 
news  media  assembled  at  the 
Pizzitola  Sports  Center  that 
Mark  Whipple  '79  had  been 
chosen  Brown's  eighteenth 
head  football  coach. 

Despite  1993's  4-6  season, 
which  included  three  Ivy 
League  wins.  Roach  said  he 
felt  a  change  in  the  program 
was  necessary.  The  athletic 
director  emphasized  that  the 
decision  was  his,  and  his 
alone.  "I  received  input  from 
several  people  whom  I  trust," 
Roach  said,  "but  this  is  my 
decision  alone  and  was  made 
over  the  course  of  the  entire 
football  season." 

Kwiatkowski  came  to 
Brown  in  January  1990  after 
the  departures  of  football 
coach  John  Rosenberg  and 
athletic  director  John  Parry 
'65.  After  three  rocky  years  in 
which  the  team  won  only 
three  games,  Kwiatkowski 
finished  his  fourth  year  with  a 
respectable  four-victory  sea- 
son; but  that  was  not  enough 
to  save  his  job. 

"1  feel  that  Brown  can  be 
successful  in  football,  as  it 
has  been  in  virtually  all  other 
men's  and  women's  sports," 


Roach  said.  "We've  instituted 
some  major  changes  in  our 
recruiting  efforts  that  are 
starting  to  show  some  posi- 
tive results.  But  1  have  higher 
goals,  and  Brown  needs  to 
move  toward  them." 

Kwiatkowski,  who  was 
not  present  at  the  press  con- 
ference, had  prepared  a  state- 
ment: "It  is  with  mixed  emo- 
tion that  I  say  1  am  now 
unable  to  coach  Brown  to  an 
Ivy  title  contention  in  '94. . .  . 
However,  I  can  say  with 
pride  that  we  did  turn  Brown 
around.  This  program  will 
have  our  name  all  over  it." 

Mark  Whipple,  who  suc- 
ceeds Kwiatkowski,  has  been 
the  head  football  coach  at  the 
University  of  New  Haven  for 
the  past  six  years.  He  com- 
piled a  48-17  record  as  head 
coach  and  offensive  coordi- 
nator and  took  his  team  to 
consecutive  NCAA  Division 
II  playoff  appearances  in  1992 
and  1993.  His  1992  team  was 
ranked  fifth  nationally,  and 
the  1993  team  was  undefeated 
before  losing  in  the  second 
round  of  the  NCAA  champi- 
onship. 

"We're  extremely  pleased 
that  Mark  Whipple  is  coming 
home  to  Brown  University," 
Roach  said  at  the  December 
press  conference.  "He's  an 
outstanding  young  football 
coach,  a  Brown  graduate,  a 
proven  winner,  and  a  great 
recruiter." 

Under  Whipple,  a  highly- 


regarded  offensive  strategist. 
New  Haven's  offense  led  all 
college  football  divisions  in 
scoring  (50.5  points  per  game) 
and  total  offense  in  1992.  His 
1993  team  averaged  52.5 
points  per  game. 

Whipple  went  to  New 
Haven  after  two  years  as 


history  professor  Howard 
Chudacoff;  and  two  mem- 
bers of  the  football  team. 

Whipple  promised  to 
bring  pride  back  to  Brown 
football.  "I  love  this  school 
and  what  it  has  done  for 
me,"  he  said.  "I  have  deep 
feelings  for  Brown,  and  I  am 
happy  for  the  opportunity  to 
give  something  back." 

The  new  coach  will  bring 


Four  losing  seasons  and 
Mickey  Kwiatkowki  (inset) 

was  history.  New  coach 

Mark  Whipple  (right) 

promises  to  bring  the  pride 

back  to  Brown  football. 

offensive  coordinator  at  the 
University  of  New  Hamp- 
shire. At  Brown,  he  was  the 
starting  tjuarterback  in  1977 
and  1978,  leading  the  Bears 
to  a  13-5  record  and  a  pair  of 
second-place  Ivy  League  fin- 
ishes. 

Roach  praised  the  alacrity 
of  the  search  committee, 
which  completed  its  mission 
in  two-and-a-half  weeks.  The 
committee  was  composed  of 
Bernie  Buonanno  '60,  an 
emeritus  member  of  the  Cor- 
poration; Bob  Hall  '66,  a 
businessman  and  former  All- 
America  football  player;  Joan 
Taylor,  associate  director  of 
athletics;  men's  basketball 
coach  Frank  Dobbs;  head  ath- 
letic trainer  Frank  George; 


with  him  three  of  his  New 
Haven  assistant  coaches:  Joe 
Wirth,  defensive  coordinator; 
Phil  Gorham,  defensive  line 
coach;  and  Keith  Dudzinski, 
linebacker  coach. 

Whipple  said  his  team 
will  use  the  passing  game  to 
establish  the  running  game, 
and  employ  a  swarming 
defense.  "We  have  the  ath- 
letes to  do  things  on  both 
sides  of  the  ball,"  he  said. 

Pride  and  confidence  will 
be  the  cornerstones  of  Whip- 
ple's program.  "I  make  the 
kids  believe  in  themselves 
because  I  believe  in  myself," 
he  said,  Whipple  also  will 
recruit  local  athletes,  a  strat- 
egy he  used  successfully  at 
New  Haven. 

When  asked  by  a  reporter 
what  he  was  going  to  do  the 
day  after  the  press  conference, 
Whipple  exclaimed,  "Tomor- 
row? We're  going  to  get 
started  tonight." 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /  27 


From  wheat  jeans  to  weight  training: 
The  Pandas  celebrate  a  thirty-year  odyssey 


Now  the  Gals  Want 
Hockey  on  the  Ice." 
That  was  the  headUne  on 
John  Hanlon's  sports  column 
in  the  Providence  Journal  on 
December  13,  1963.  He 
quickly  dispensed  with  the 
other  sports  news  from 
Brown  -  the  reappointment 
of  John  McLaughry  '40  as 
head  coach  of  football  -  to 
get  on  with  the  story  about 
"the  lady  hockey  player." 

The  Brown  men  had  lost 
to  Boston  College,  4-1,  and 
Coach  Jim  Fullerton  wanted 
to  rally  his  troops,  lighten  up 
the  atmosphere,  or  just  have 
a  good  laugh.  Whatever  his 
motives,  he  loaned  a  uniform 
to  Nancy  Schieffelin  '67,  a 
freshman  whom  he  had 
noticed  skating  and  handling 
a  puck  during  free  ice  time  at 
Meehan,  and  sent  her  dis- 
guised onto  the  ice  to  prac- 
tice with  the  men.  Schieffelin 
was  discovered  soon  enough 
-  and  the  joke  and  its  impli- 
cation, one  imagines,  was 
noted  by  the  players  -  but 
she  skated  for  the  entire  ses- 
sion and  put  the  puck  into 


the  net  a  couple  of  times. 

"Fullerton  set  me  up," 
Schieffelin  recalletl  recently 
from  Belmont,  Massachu- 
setts, where  she  is  a  clinical 
social  worker.  "Sure,  it  was 
sexist;  but  I  saw  it  as  an 
opportunity." 

Schieffelin  acted  quickly. 
By  the  following  spring, 
women's  hockey  was  part  of 
Pembroke's  physical  educa- 
tion program,  and  by  1966  it 
had  club  status.  Schieffelin 
was  a  tireless  recruiter  in  the 
Pembroke  residence  halls.  "1 
went  to  women  who  had 


played  field  hockey,  which 
really  wasn't  that  much  dif- 
ferent," she  recalls,  "and  to 
women  who  knew  how  to 
skate,  although  those  two 
qualities  were  not  necessarily 
found  in  the  same  person." 

It  was  difficult  getting  ice 
time  in  those  early  days.  Often 
the  women  had  to  assemble  at 
Meehan  at  10  p.m.  to  practice. 

Even  more  difficult  was 
finding  competition.  As  the 
only  women's  college  team 
in  the  nation,  the  Pandas 
took  on  such  teams  as  the 
Walpole  Brooms,  which  was 


Above,  an  early  scrimmage 

in  Meehan  Auditorium, 

refereed  by  future 

NHL  star  Curt  Bennett  '70 

(background).  Many  Pandas 

then  wore  figure  skates. 

At  left,  the  senior  members  of 

the  1993-94  Pandas.  Front: 

Chie  Chie  Sakuma,  Sheumon 

Bryant.  Back:  Kaitie 

Donovan,  Kate  Presbrey, 

and  Cassie  Whittet. 


made  up  primarily  of  the 
wives  of  a  semiprofessional 
men's  team;  and  Canadian 
college  teams.  The  team's 
first  intercollegiate  game  was 
in  1968  at  MacDonald  Col- 
lege in  Canada.  According  to 
Linda  Fox  Phillips  '68,  \vho 
played  a  key  role  in  getting 
the  Pandas  club  status,  "We 
borrowed  shirts  from  the 
Brown  team  and  still  had  no 
hockev  pants.  Our  uniforms 
were  blue  oxford  shirts  and 
wheat  jeans.  The  administra- 
tion wanted  us  to  tuck  in  our 
shirts  and  hair."  Pembroke 


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scored  its  first  Canadian  win 
in  the  Loyola  of  Montreal 
Tournament  during  the 
1969-70  season,  beating  the 
women  of  Loyola.  The  Pan- 
das then  lost  to  McGill  in  the 
championship  game. 

Soon  after  the  women 
skaters  were  accorded  club 
status,  the  Brmivi  Daily  Herald 
ran  a  contest  to  name  the 
team.  Associate  Director  of 
Athletics  Arlene  Gorton  '52, 
who  had  supported  the  orga- 
nization from  the  start, 
recalls  that  the  jury  consid- 
ered any  name  unless  it  was 
"obscene  or  ended  in  'ette,' 
like  'Brunettes.'  "  Cubs  and 
Cubbies  were  among  the 
rejects.  The  winning  entry: 
Pandas.  Varsity  status  and 
uniforms  followed  in 
lyji-'jy,  and  the  first  Ivy 
League  Tournament,  involv- 
ing Cornell,  Brown,  Prince- 
ton, and  Yale,  was  hosted  by 
Brown  at  the  conclusion  of 
the  1975-76  season.  (Brown 
finished  second.) 

Center  Cathryn  "Cappy" 
Cummings  Nunlist  '70  was 
the  Pandas'  cocaptain  for  two 
years.  "We  had  a  really  good 
time  with  what  little  we  had," 
she  says  from  her  home  in 
Lebanon,  New  Hampshire.  "1 
think  Coach  Fullerton  thought 
it  was  neat  that  we  played. 


Most  everybody  viewed 
us  with  affectionate  amuse- 
ment." 

Nunlist  taught  recruits  to 
skate.  "About  half  had  never 
skated;  others  were  figure 
skaters,"  she  remembers. 
"The  most  fun  was  teaching 
people  to  skate  backwards." 

In  her  senior  year,  with 
competition  still  scarce,  Nun- 
list visited  the  athletic  depar- 
ment  at  the  University  of  New 
Hampshire  to  see  if  there  was 
any  interest  in  starting  a 
women's  ice  hockey  program. 
Today  the  UNH  team  is  one 
of  best  in  the  nation.  But 
when  Nunlist  made  her  pitch 
twenty-five  years  ago,  her 
reception  was  chilly.  "They 
told  me  that  hockey  was  a 
man's  sport.  They  said  my 
idea  was  one  of  the  most  stu- 
pid things  they  had  ever 
heard,"  she  recalls  with  a 
laugh. 

While  the  Pandas  had  no 
official  coaches  until  the  mid- 
seventies,  physical  education 
staff  member  Janet  Lutz  pro- 
vided administrative  leader- 
ship and  support.  And  the 
women  icers  could  always 
call  upon  Brown  players  to 
coach  them  on  the  finer 
points  of  the  game.  Some 
who  offered  instruction  in 
the  early  years  were  Dennis 


Macks  '67,  who  was  listed  as 
coach  for  the  1966-67  season; 
Bill  Clarke  '68,  Tom  Coakley 
'68,  Bob  Devaney  '69,  Bob 
Fleming  '70,  Steve  Shea  '73, 
and  Tom  Garland  '74. 

Shea  was  a  varsity  player 
who  went  into  prep-school 
teaching  and  coaching  after 
graduation,  first  in  New  Hamp- 
shire. When  he  returned  to 
Providence  a  year  later,  a 
chance  meeting  with  Arlene 
Gorton  led  to  his  accepting  the 
Pandas  coaching  job,  which 
he  held  from  1974  to  1989. 

"It  was  always  fun,"  Shea 
says.  "What  began  mostly  as 
a  social  activity  soon  evolved 
into  something  else."  The 
skill  level  of  the  players, 
practice,  and  training  all 
changed  quickly  in  those 
years.  No  longer  did  coaches 
have  to  teach  women  to  skate 
backwards;  the  new  breed  of 
Panda  arrived  with  extensive 
hockey  experience  and  high 
expectations  for  fitness  and 
skills.  "Now  the  women  use 
weight  training  and  dry  land 
training,"  Shea  remarks. 
"Those  training  techniques 
were  not  even  used  when  1 
was  playing." 

Shea  led  the  Pandas  to 
three  Ivy  championships:  in 
1981,  when  Brown  shared  the 
title  with  Cornell;  and  in  1985 


These  two 

Pandas  sport  typical 

uniforms  of  the  late 

sixties  -  wheat  jeans, 

turtlenecks,  and  shin 

guards  and  elbow 

pads  worn  on  the 

outside.  The  skater  in 

front  appears  to 

be  Janet  Fox 

Fleming  '70. 


and  1986,  when  the  Pandas 
won  the  title  outright.  The 
1984-85  and  1985-86  teams 
featured  two  of  the  best  play- 
ers to  wear  Pandas  uniforms: 
Mardie  Corcoran  Leys  '86, 
who  was  twice  Ivy  League 
Player  of  the  Year,  and  Lisa 
Bishop  Tuckerman  '86. 

"My  son  was  born  in 
1988,  and  it  was  then  1  de- 
cided I  had  to  make  some 
choices,"  says  Shea,  who  has 
taught  English  at  Mount  St. 
Charles  Academy  in  Woon- 
socket,  Rhode  Island,  for 
twenty  years.  He  retired  as 
Pandas  coach  at  the  end  of 
1988-89  season.  "It  was  a 
great  experience.  Every  year 
was  different  -  new  players, 
new  challenges,"  he  recalls. 
"And  I  outlasted  four  men's 
coaches." 

Shea  was  succeeded  by 
Margaret  Degidio-Murphy, 
a  Cranston,  Rhode  Island, 
native  and  former  All-Ivy 
forward  at  Cornell  who  had 
been  assistant  coach  at  Brown 
since  1987.  Coming  into  her 
fifth  season  this  year,  Degidio- 
Murphy  had  a  42-42-3 
record,  and  it  appears  this 
year's  may  be  her  best  team 
yet.  As  of  early  January,  the 
Pandas  were  7-2  overall 
(undefeated  in  the  ECAC  and 
the  Ivy  League)  and  had 
knocked  off  crosstown  rival 
Providence  College  at  that 
perennial  powerhouse's  home 
arena. 

Allison  McMillan  '74, 
who  played  hockey  for  four 
years  and  is  the  current  pres- 
ident of  Friends  of  Brown 
Women's  Hockey,  organized 
a  celebration  on  February  5  - 
"Thirty  Years  of  Women's  Ice 
Hockey  at  Brown  Univer- 
sity" -  that  brought  more 
than  fifty  former  players 
back  to  Meehan  for  an  alum- 
nae game. 

"Thirty  years  ago  we 
were  the  only  college  in  the 
United  States  with  a  team  on 
the  ice,"  McMillan  notes.  "In 
1998  women's  ice  hockey  will 
be  played  at  the  Olympic 
Games.  I  think  that's  pretty 
amazing."   ED 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY   /  29 


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Donald  Hornig  began  his  career  as  a  chemist 

on  the  Manhattan  Project.  He  went  on  to 

become  science  adviser  to 

three  U.S.  presidents  and 

president  of  Brown.  Now 

seventy-three,  he  reflects 

on  science  after  the  bomb 

and  sounds  an  environmental  warning 


No  Regrets 


BY     ANDREW     SZANTON 


One  evening  nearly  fifty  years  ago, 
Donald  Hornig  sat  in  a  tower  loo  feet 
above  a  desolate  New  Mexico  mesa,  guarding  the 
world's  first  atomic  bomb.  Around  him  a  thunder- 
storm raged. 

The  Manhattan  Project  was  in  full  swing,  and 
Hornig  was  part  of  a  team  of  scientists  in  Los 
Alamos,  New  Mexico,  working  feverishly  to  com- 
plete the  bomb  that  would  devastate  Hiroshima. 
Components  of  the  A-bomb  had  been  tested  count- 
less times,  but  the  bomb  itself  was  just  hours  away 
from  its  first  and  only  full  dress  rehearsal  -  the 
Trinity  Test. 

At  the  last  minute,  lab  director  Robert  Oppen- 
heimer  became  worried  about  sabotage.  He  decided 
to  post  guards,  and  Don  Hornig,  a  twenty-five- 
year-old  group  leader,  drew  the  first  shift:  9  p.m.  to 
midnight.  At  the  top  of  the  tower  he  sat  in  a  twelve- 
by-twelve-foot  shed.  By  his  side  was  the  bomb. 

"Lightning  was  flashing  and  thunder  crashing 
all  around  me,"  Hornig  recalls.  "1  kept  picturing 
this  giant  storm  setting  off  the  Trinity  blast  and 
wasting  the  whole  national  supply  of  plutonium." 

That  such  a  blast  would  also  kill  him  he  barely 
considered.  He  took  the  optimist's  view:  the  tower 
was  wet  and  well-grounded;  no  explosion  was 
likely.  If  it  came,  death  would  be  instantaneous.  So 
Hornig  sat  on  a  folding  chair  beneath  a  naked  sixty- 
watt  bulb,  read  a  cheap  paperback  novel.  Desert 
hlnnd  Decmneron,  and  waited. 

t: 

■        orty-eight  years  later,  he's  still  here.  Since 
-JL.     that  evening  in  the  tower,  Donald  Hornig 
has  led  several  lives:  he's  been  a  distinguished 
research  chemist  and  teacher;  a  science  adviser  to 
U.S.  Presidents  Eisenhower,  Kennedy,  and  John- 
son; and  from  1970-76,  president  of  Brown. 

When  the  Trinity  Test  went  off  at  5:29  a.m.  on 
July  16, 1945,  Hornig  was  just  inside  the  door  at 
the  test's  control  bunker,  10,000  yards  south  of 


Ground  Zero.  He  was  staring  at  a  console,  holding 
the  switch  that  would  cut  the  connection  between 
the  tower  and  the  bomb  if  anything  went  wrong. 
Nothing  went  wrong.  "Up  to  the  moment  of  the 
blast,"  he  says,  "my  only  thought  was,  'Don't 
blow  it.'  I  was  very  intent  on  doing  my  job.  At  the 
moment  of  the  blast,  all  the  needles  dropped  to 
zero.  There  was  a  great  flash  of  light.  I  looked  out- 
side and  saw  a  luminous,  billowing  fireball  -  peach, 
blue,  green  -  a  magnificent  ball  of  colors  going 
up  and  up." 

When  word  came  that  the  atomic  bomb  had 
been  dropped  on  Hiroshima  on  August  5,  Hornig 
was  in  Milwaukee  visiting  his  parents.  "I  had  a  flat 
feeling,"  he  says.  "I'd  expected  it,  but  I  certainly 
saw  this  had  opened  a  can  of  worms.  I  thought, 
'Where  do  we  go  from  here?'  " 

Historians  of  the  Manhattan  Project  sometimes 
portray  the  scientists  who  worked  on  it  as  wracked 
by  conscience  while  they  secretly  prepared  the 
world's  greatest  weapon.  Hornig  doesn't  recall  it 
that  wav.  He  was  too  young  to  grasp  the  event 
fully,  and  there  was  never  much  time  to  reflect,  he 
says:  "There  were  far  fewer  people  who  were 
philosophical  about  it  at  the  time  than  have  since 
become  philosophical  about  it  in  the  literature." 

Oppenheimer  later  spoke  of  having  "blood  on 
my  hands."  Hornig  regards  the  Manhattan  Project 
pragmatically,  expressing  no  regrets.  "Look,"  he 
says,  "I  wish  that  no  one  had  e\'er  discovered 
nuclear  fission.  But  from  the  time  that  1  came  into 
the  picture,  fission  was  a  fact  of  life." 

What  World  War  11  gave  Donald  Hornig  was 
not  a  guilty  conscience  but  a  global  perspecti\e.  and 
his  work  as  presidential  science  ad\'iser  widened 
that  view.  In  the  Johnson  years  alone,  he  visited 
twenty-nine  countries.  He  was  the  first  U.S.  official 
to  meet  with  Soviet  Premier  Leonid  Brezltnev  after 
he  took  power.  The  visit  coincided  with  the  anni- 
versary of  the  October  Rexolution,  Hornig  recalls, 
and  after  viewing  the  military  parade  in  Red  Square 
that  morning,  he  and  Brezhnev  spoke  through 


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"It  was  hard  talking  to  the  Russians 
about  science  during  the  Cold  War, " 
Hornig  says.  "A  Russian  scientist 
once  told  me  it  was  like  two  explor- 
ers going  up  the  Amazon  River 
together  in  separate  boats.  For  2,000 
miles,  the  second  explorer  is  only 
one  boat  length  behind.  But  the  first 
one  makes  all  the  discoveries. " 


interpreters  at  an  evening  reception.  Later  Hornig 
and  a  Soviet  counterpart  signed  an  agreement  to 
cooperate  on  a  scientific  project  of  mutual  interest 
-  desalinating  sea  water  for  agriculture. 

Hornig  visited  Pakistan  in  1966,  primarily  to 
gauge  whether  the  Pakistanis  were  building 
nuclear  weapons,  and  if  so,  how  far  along  they  were. 
But  the  event  that  left  the  most  lasting  impression 
on  Hornig  was  a  tour  of  a  remote  population- 
control  center.  "A  barefoot  doctor  was  holding  a 
clinic,"  he  remembers,  "but  to  reach  it,  many  Paki- 
stani women  had  to  walk  fifteen  miles  across  a 
blazing  desert,  often  with  a  child  on  their  hip."  He 
arranged  for  the  United  States  to  ship  Pakistan 
$500,000  worth  of  Jeeps. 

In  1962  environmentalist  Rachel  Carson  caught 
the  world's  attention  with  her  book,  Silent  Spring, 
which  warned  of  the  dangers  DDT  and  other  pesti- 
cides posed  to  wildlife.  Like  many  Americans, 
Hornig  was  profoundlv  moved  by  the  book.  By  1964 
he  was  in  a  position  to  act.  President  Johnson  was 
setting  up  task  forces  to  steer  his  administration, 
and  Hornig  proposed  a  task  force  on  the  environ- 


ment, which  was  headed  by  Brown 
Fellow  Emeritus  John  Tukey  '37, 
then  a  Princeton  chemist  and 
mathematician. 

These  three  intertwined  con- 
cerns -  globalism,  the  environment, 
and  population  growth  -  have 
driven  Hornig's  work  since  he  left 
Brown  in  1976.  He  joined  the  fac- 
ulty at  Harvard's  School  of  Public 
Health  and  started  its  Interdisci- 
plinary Programs  in  Health,  which 
link  environmental,  health,  and 
public-policy  studies.  He  has  helped 
shape  industrial  policies  on  pollution 
and  chaired  the  National  Academy 
of  Science's  primary  committee 
on  the  environment.  Now  Alfred 
North  Whitehead  Professor  of  Chem- 
istry Emeritus,  he  continues  to  work 
parttime,  dividing  his  time  between 
Cambridge,  Massachusetts,  and  Little  Compton, 
Rhode  Island,  where  he  and  his  wife,  Lilli,  own 
a  house. 

"Over  time,"  he  says,  "my  views  on  the  environ- 
ment have  evolved.  The  problems,  sadly,  are  much 
bigger  and  more  complex  than  1  first  imagined. 
The  biggest  single  environmental  problem  is  that 
there  are  too  many  people  on  this  planet.  World 
population  has  doubled  in  the  past  thirty-five  years, 
and  we  can't  sustain  that  kind  of  growth.  Ethically, 
we  want  all  citizens  of  the  world  to  have  their 
material  needs  met.  . . .  But  environmentally  that 
means  we  want  to  help  far  more  people  consume 
and  dispose  of  the  earth's  resources.  I'm  afraid  that 
political  and  environmental  tensions  related  to 
o\'erpopulation  will  haunt  the  young  generation 
on  the  earth  for  the  rest  of  their  lives." 


Andrew  Sznuton  is  n  freelance  writer  specializing 
in  tite  history  of  the  Manhattan  Project.  He  coauthored 
The  Recollections  of  Eugene  P.  Wigner,  the  igb} 
Nobel  Prize  winner  in  phi/sics. 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /  31 


Don  Hornig  had  no  thought  of  saving  the 
world  when  he  fell  in  love  with  science 
as  a  teenager  in  Milwaukee.  "At  about  fourteen, 
I  began  to  read  the  scientific  journals,"  he  says.  "\ 
found  out  that  you  could  write  away  for  chemical 
samples."  To  accommodate  his  son's  interest, 
Hornig's  father,  a  housing  contractor  hard-pressed 
bv  the  Depression,  built  him  a  lab  in  the  family's 
basement. 

As  a  Harvard  doctoral  student  in  chemistry, 
Hornig  specialized  in  molecular  spectroscopy  - 
using  infrared  light  to  study  the  structure  of  mol- 
ecules. But  World  War  II  intervened,  and  in  1942 
his  research  group  began  measuring  the  shock 
waves  produced  by  explosives.  The  methods  they 
used  would  now  be  thought  hopelessly  primitive, 
but  Hornig  was  thrilled  by  the  work.  Testing  small 


ON  THE  ATOMIC  BOMB 


'Look,  I  wish  that  no  one 
had  ever  discovered 
nuclear  fission.  But  from 
the  time  I  came  into  the 
picture,  fission  was  a 
fact  of  hfe' 


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explosions  in  an  open  lot  in  Cambridge  led  to  test- 
ing two-ton  bombs  at  Aberdeen  Proving  Ground  in 
Maryland.  After  finishing  his  doctorate  in  1943, 
Hornig  went  to  work  for  the  Woods  Hole  Oceano- 
graphic  Institute  in  Massachusetts. 

It  was  there,  in  what  Hornig  calls  "a  little  comic 
opera,"  that  his  mentor,  E.  Bright  Wilson,  one  day 
invited  him  up  to  the  attic  for  a  chat.  "Hornig,  how 
would  you  like  another  job?"  Wilson  asked. 

"Have  I  done  something  wrong?" 

"No,"  Wilson  said.  "You're  wanted  elsewhere." 
Where,  he  wouldn't  say;  nor  by  whom,  or  for  what 
reason. 

"Is  this  job  in  the  Northeast,  the  Southwest,  the 
Southeast,  or  the  Northwest?"  Hornig  asked. 

"I  can't  tell  you  that,"  Wilson  replied.  "But  will 
you  take  the  job?" 

Hornig  knew  the  job  must  be  war  work.  He 
went  home  and  discussed  the  situation  with  Lilli, 
who  was  also  a  chemist.  They  decided  it  was  too 
much  of  a  gamble,  so  Hornig  returned  to  work  the 
next  day  and  told  Wilson,  "No  -  why  should 
I  buy  a  pig  in  a  poke?" 

The  following  morning  Hornig's  intercom 


blared:  "Telephone  call  for  Dr.  Hornig  from  Wash- 
ington." On  the  line  was  James  Bryant  Conant,  a 
senior  administrator  of  the  Manhattan  Project  and 
president  of  Harvard.  "He  told  me  how  unpatri- 
otic I  was  not  to  take  a  position  1  didn't  know  any- 
thing about,"  Hornig  recalls  wryly. 

A  few  hours  later  the  intercom  blared  again  - 
this  time  the  call  was  from  Santa  Fe.  It  was  one  of 
Hornig's  favorite  Harvard  professors,  George 
Kistiakowsky,  on  the  line.  Kistiakowsky  assured 
Hornig  that  there  were  lots  of  jobs  for  chemists 
on  the  mystery  project  and  that  Lilli  Hornig,  too, 
would  be  able  to  find  good  work  there.  A  few 
weeks  later,  without  telling  even  close  friends  of 
their  plans,  Don  and  Lilli  Hornig  packed  up  their 
car  and  headed  for  Santa  Fe.  When  they  arrived, 
they  were  directed  to  a  place  whose  name  they 
had  never  heard  before:  Los  Alamos,  New  Mexico. 

Hornig's  first  days  in  Los  Alamos  were  a  bitter 
disappointment.  The  critical  bomb  tests  were 
months  off  and  he  had  no  apparent  role.  But  at  one 
of  Robert  Oppenheimer's  staff  meetings,  Hornig 
had  a  sudden  insight.  "Oppenheimer  was  talking 
about  the  central  problem:  how  to  focus  the  shock 
wave  on  the  plutonium  core  of  the  bomb.  We 
had  to  initiate  a  series  of  sixteen  explosive  lenses 
within  one  ten-millionth  of  a  second.  1  had  an  idea 
how  to  do  this  -  with  a  set  of  triggered  spark  gaps." 
Oppenheimer  liked  the  idea  and  asked  Hornig  to 
develop  it.  He  put  together  a  team  and  began 
work.  The  spark  gap  solution  proved  critical  to  the 
bomb's  success. 

JL    JL.  academic  love,  molecular  spectroscopy, 
joining  the  Brown  faculty  in  1946  and  taking  a  post 
at  Princeton  in  1957  -  the  same  year  Sputnik  I's 
success  took  the  United  States  unaware.  "I  was  sur- 
prised that  Russian  rocketry  was  that  good,"  Hornig 
says.  "We'd  been  caught  napping."  He  was  asked 
to  serve  on  a  committee  advising  the  new  National 
Aeronautics  and  Space  Administration  (NASA), 
created  in  1958. 

Under  first  Eisenhower  and  then  Kennedv  and 
Johnson,  U.S.  science  boomed.  "From  1945  to 
about  1968  was  a  time  of  great  optimism  and  rapid 
expansion,"  Hornig  says.  "Federal  support  for 
science  grew  and  grew." 

The  commitment  to  put  a  man  on  the  moon 
was,  he  recalls,  almost  entirelv  political;  Kennedy 
wanted  to  show  the  world  dramatic  e\idence  that 
the  United  States  was  preeminent  in  space.  "The 
manned  landing  on  the  moon  was  a  perfect  choice," 
Hornig  says.  "It  was  a  dramatic  objective,  easy  for 
the  common  person  to  understand." 

Apollo  II  was  a  symbolic  political  and  historical 

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WHY 
WHAT 


t1 


TEACH 
LEARN 


Brown  Faculty  on  the  Joys 
and  Challenges  of  Teaching 


The  Voyage  In 


Like  Chaucer's  Nicholas,  that  erstwhile 
scholar  of  whom  we  are  told,  "Gladly 
wolde  he  lerne,  and  gladly  teche,"  I  take 
a  heady  pleasure  in  the  twin  pursuits  of  the 
academy  -  the  acquisition  and  transmission  of 
knowledge.  Would  that  these  were  neat  consecu- 
tive steps:  learn,  disseminate,  learn,  disseminate. 
The  unsettling  truth,  though,  is  that  knowledge  is  a 
messy  business,  given  that  understanding  is  always 
incomplete  and  usually  in  a  state  of  flux.  To  com- 
plicate matters,  each  new  bit  of  knowledge  is  not 
merely  added  to  a  stockpile  but  instead  functions 
to  destabilize  the  existing  store  so  that  a  new  equi- 
librium must  be  established.  Teachers  tlnd  that  in 
the  process  of  educating  students  they  themselves 
invariably  are  learning  as  well.  Rather  than  being 
urbane  cicerones  guiding  credulous  wayfarers 
through  the  landscape  of  intellectual  monuments, 
we  -  teachers  and  students  alike  -  are  all  provin- 
cials, stumbling  together  through  the  turnstiles  of 
understanding. 

My  first  day  of  teaching  at  Brown  ten  years  ago 
engendered  something  akin  to  panic  in  me.  Newly 
emerged  from  the  chrysalis  of  graduate  school,  I 
was  a  tender  thing,  untried  and  wobbly,  hoping 
that  what  I  was  experiencing  was  an  adrenalin 


Meera  Viswanathan  is  associate  professor  of  compar- 
ative literature  and  East  Asian  studies.  This  is  the 
first  in  a  series  of  five  essays  on  teaching  and  research 
written  by  Brown  faculty  and  their  former  students, 
produced  by  the  Brown  Alumni  Monthly,  and  spon- 
sored by  the  Continuing  College. 


BY  Meera  Viswanathan 


surge.  As  I  sidled  into  the  classroom,  nervous  and 
dry-mouthed,  to  teach  a  course  on  Japanese  litera- 
ture, the  students  looked  skeptically  at  me,  and 
one  inquired  charitably,  "Are  you  the  T.A.?"  Wish- 
ing desperately  at  that  moment  that  I  were  a  wiz- 
ened Taoist  sage,  I  gamely  tried  out  the  unimagin- 
able words,  "No,  I  am  the  professor,"  only  half 
believing  them  myself 

I  quickly  discovered  that  it  is  one  thing  to 
decide  to  teach  and  another  to  do  so  well.  In  col- 
lege, I  remember  being  handed  back  a  ten-page 
paper,  marked  only  with  an  A-  and  the  single 
comment,  "Perceptive."  By  turns,  I  was  pleased, 
dismayed,  baffled,  and  outraged.  What,  I  won- 
dered, was  perceptive  in  those  ten  pages,  and  what 
was  not?  Why  not  a  grade  of  B-i-  or  an  A?  What 
evidence  did  I  have  that  my  essay  had  been  read 
and  understood?  Similarly,  I  was  disturbed  to  find 
that,  in  some  courses,  lectures  merely  replicated 
what  was  in  the  texts  and  hence  seemed  expend- 
able. In  some  other  classes,  professors  read  their 
lectures  verbatim,  making  me  question  why  they 
did  not  simply  photocopy  and  distribute  them, 
saving  us  all  much  effort,  given  the  limited  aural 
attentiveness  of  most  of  us  in  the  modern  era. 

At  that  point  I  vowed  that  were  I  ever  to  have 
the  opportunity  to  teach,  I  would  fashion  my 
courses  differently.  A  noble  aim,  but  in  my  colle- 
giate zeal,  I  did  not  pause  to  reflect  much  on  how  I 
would  structure  my  classes,  and  other  such  peda- 
gogical quandaries.  Then,  in  a  religious-studies 
course,  I  came  across  a  Buddhist  text  that  offered 
some  insight  into  the  question  of  how  to  teach.  In 
The  Lotus  of  the  Wonderful  Law  Sutra,  Buddha  is 


mm 

Presented  by  the  Brown  Alumni  Monthly  and  the  Continuing  College      S  "L''  3 


asked  how  to  present  the  sublime 
truth  to  those  ignorant  ot  it, 
whose  very  lack  of  understanding 
renders  them  unable  to  recognize 
truth  as  truth  (what  can  crudely 
be  termed  the  "swine-pearl  dilem- 
ma"). Buddha  responds  by  advo- 
cating the  need  for  what  is  called 
hoben  in  Japanese  or  iipaya  in 
Sanskrit,  devices  such  as  using 
parables  or  storytelling  to  trans- 
mit truth.  In  other  words,  the 
truth  must  be  presented  in  such  a 
way  as  to  become  meaningful  to 
the  unaware,  even  at  the  risk  of 
being  perceived  as  "merely"  fic- 
tion. What  prevents  the  truth, 
then,  from  remaining  in  that  state 
of  relative  triviality?  The  skillful 
teacher  -  who  constantly  reshapes 
understanding  to  accommodate 
the  growing  awareness  of  the  stu- 
dent until  that  moment  when  truth 
may  finally  be  perceived  as  itself. 

I  often  cite  to  my  classes  the 
example  of  the  Chinese  Zen 
(Ch'an)  master  who  said,  "When  I 
was  young,  I  saw  mountains  as 
mountains  and  waters  as  waters, 
but  after  studying  Zen  for  twenty 
years,  I  realized  that  mountains 
were  more  than  just  mountains 
and  waters  were  more  than  just 
waters.  Now  at  the  end  of  my  life, 

1  have  finally  come  to  understand  the  truth. 
Mountains  are  mountains  and  waters  are  just 
waters."  Initially,  my  students  see  this  as  empty 
sophistry;  only  on  reflection  does  one  intuit  that 
this  narrative  metaphorically  represents  the  three- 
part  voyage  of  understanding.  At  first  we  simply 
identify  a  thing  or  a  concept,  Xas  X.  Then  through 
analogy  we  are  led  to  reflect  upon  how  X  might  be 
related  to  other  things  or  concepts,  that  which  is 
not-X.  Finally  we  are  enabled  to  see  the  thing  itself 
in  such  a  way  that  we  recognize  -  Hterally  reknow 
-  Xas  X.  In  short,  what  seems  familiar  is  defamil- 
iarized  in  order  to  make  us  attentive  to  its  discrete 
being,  allowing  us  once  again  to  familiarize  it  and 
incorporate  it  into  our  mental  framework. 

2  WHY   I   TEACH    •  WHAT   I    LEARN 


Similarly,  in  my  courses  what  I  aspire  to  con- 
vey is  not  so  much  nuggets  of  wisdom  or  simply 
information  about  specific  literary  texts,  but  rather 
the  process  whereby  students  can  themselves  con- 
struct a  persuasive  and  enlightening  interpretation 
of  a  work.  This  is  not  at  all  to  dismiss  the  signifi- 
cance of  factual  information  -  just  the  opposite. 
What  I  want  students  to  be  able  to  do  is  to  ask 
judicious  questions  about  meaning  and  signifi- 
cance in  the  context  of  historical  and  cultural  par- 
ticulars. The  exercises  I  pose  may  well  help  my  stu- 
dents become  better  literary  analysts,  but  more 
importantly,  my  intent  is  to  teach  them  how  to 
undertake  for  themselves  the  process  of  under- 
standing. 


i 


My  intent  is  to  teach 
students  how  to  undertake 
for  tJieniselves  the  process 
of  understandinq 


By  contrast  with  my  first  day  of  teaching,  what 
causes  my  heart  to  skip  a  beat  now  is  when  I  dis- 
cover that  students  have  not  only  absorbed  what  I 
have  taught  but  have  gone  beyond.  During  a 
recent  three-hour  final  exam  in  which  students 
scribbled  furiously  to  finish,  a  student  who  knew 
nothing  of  the  topic  three  months  before  wrote  a 
brilliant  essay  on  Japanese  fiction  and  the  problem 
ot  modernity.  Her  argument  was  cogent,  well-sup- 
ported by  textual  examples,  and  wonderfully  illu- 
minating. Most  significantly,  it  was  not  mine.  She 
evoked  in  me  not  the  teacherly  smugness  charac- 
terized by  what  the  eighteenth-century  writer 
Edward  Young  called  "flatulent  fumes  of  self- 
applause,"  but  instead  the  admiration  I  bestow  on 
colleagues  whose  insights  may  spark  those  of  oth- 
ers. I  think  of  the  poem  the  great  haiku  poet  Mat- 
suo  Basho  wrote  to  one  of  his  students  shortly 
before  his  death  in  1694: 
Ware  ni  niiia 

Do  not  be  like  me  - 
Futatsu  ni  wareshi 

Cloned  like  the  two  halves  of 
Makuwaiiri. 

A  split  cantaloupe. 
As  a  result  of  the  ideas  students  bring  to  my 
classes,  our  time  together  often  takes  the  form  of  a 
mosaic.  I  find  I  prepare  extensively  for  my  lec- 
tures, though  I  rarely  carry  with  me  more  than 
skeletal  notes,  often  consisting  of  less  than  two 
dozen  words.  The  point  is  not  to  impress  on  stu- 
dents a  perfect  seamless  vision  of  my  own  fashion- 
ing, but  rather  to  invite  them  to  pardcipate  by 
making  specific  observations  about  texts  and  pos- 
ing questions  about  them.  My  role  is  to  frame, 
shape,  and  place  all  of  our  insights  into  a  larger 
picture,  so  that  by  the  end  of  the  class  hour,  we 
may  step  back  and  muse  on  the  contours  of  what 
we,  as  a  group,  have  constructed. 

3  /VISWANATHAN 


D 

I      ^^    ut  before  entering  the  classroom  and 
I  I    disseminating  knowledge  (or  is  it  af- 

—1—-^  ter?),  there  is  the  pursuit  of  it.  Like 
Chaucer's  Nicholas  alluded  to  earlier,  I  have  a  dis- 
quieting passion  for  books.  Its  provenance  may 
be  attributable  to  my  background:  for  Hindus, 
knowledge  is  sacred  and  hence  all  texts  are  consid- 
ered holy.  In  fact,  I  was  taught  from  the  time  I  was 
a  child  that  evil  inheres  only  in  ignorance  or  the 
absence  of  knowledge.  Thus,  by  extension,  to  step 
carelessly  on  any  random  piece  of  paper  signified  a 
trampling  of  knowledge  that  could  blind  one  to 
truth.  My  sister  and  I  were  warned  about  the  seri- 
ousness of  this  terrible  act  even  as  preliterate 
beings,  and  when  we  trod  on  paper,  however  acci- 
dentally, we  immediately  touched  our  right  hands 
first  to  the  paper,  then  to  our  closed  eyelids,  and 
then  again  to  the  paper  as  both  atonement  and  a 
plea  for  greater  vision.  As  immigrant  children,  we 
were  mortified  to  be  unable  to  control  that  reflex- 
ive behavior  in  front  of  our  bemused  American 
playmates. 

To  this  day  I  feel  distressed  when  I  must  visit 
friends  who  are  in  the  midst  of  house-painting, 
knowing  that  the  floors  inevitably  will  be  swathed 
in  newspaper.  Nor  can  I  keep  from  bellowing 
wildly  when,  as  happened  in  one  of  my  seminars,  a 
student  slipped  off  her  shoes  and  neatly  placed 
them  atop  her  books,  or  when  my  husband  (admis- 
sion dean  Eric  Widmer)  fails  to  create  sufficient 
walking  room  through  the  piles  of  applications  to 
Brown  that  are  strewn  across  the  floor  of  our  house 
during  certain  months.  Perhaps  this  helps  explain 
my  obsessive  preoccupation  with  textual  matter. 

Then  again,  this  fascination  with  books  may 
have  begun  when  my  mother  led  me  by  the  hand 
at  the  age  of  six  to  the  local  public  library  in  Los 
Angeles  and  helped  me  procure  my  own  library 
card.  On  our  weekly  forays,  I  would  load  up  an 
armful  of  books,  feeling  secure  that  the  universe 
now  rested  on  my  forearms.  I  was  enthralled  to 
think  that  all  knowledge  awaited  my  discovery 
along  those  aisles  through  which  I  could  plot  my 
own  trajectory.  My  mother  was  appalled  to  dis- 
cover that  I  was  so  loath  to  return  those  sacrosanct 
volumes  that  I  soon  racked  up  sizable  overdue 
fines.  In  retrospect,  I  realize  that  the  larger  part  of 
my  intellectual  development  was  accomplished  at 
that  small,  nondescript  branch  library  rather  than 


at  any  tower  of  learning.  Is  it  not  remarkable  that 
an\one  can  saunter  into  a  public  library  and  be 
granted  access  to  books,  tapes,  and  other  materi- 
als? We  hear  much  these  days  about  freedom  of 
speech  and  its  singular  relation  to  the  American 
ideal,  but  I  wonder  sometimes  if  the  freedom  to 
know,  embodied  in  the  institution  of  American 
free  public  libraries,  does  not  convey  just  as  much 
about  a  society's  fundamental  beliefs  concerning 
the  importance  of  knowledge  and  ideas  and  its 
confidence  in  its  citizenry. 


Meerd  Sushila  Viswanathan 


age:  37 

position:  Associate  professor  of  comparative 
literature  and  East  Asian  studies 

BEGAN  TEACHING  AT  BROWN:  I983 

education:  A.B.  '78  in  English,  A.M.  '84  and 
Ph.D.  '85  in  comparative  literature,  all  from 
Stanford  University 

courses:  Japanese  Literature  and  Society; 
MuUci  ii  lapanese  Fiction;  Japanese  Court  Literature;  The  Japanese 
Novel  in  Film;  Japanese  Poetry,  Past  and  Present;  Gigantic  Fictions: 
Tlic  Tide  ofGeiiji.  War  and  Peace,  and  Ulysses;  Dark  and  Cloudy 
Words:  Metaphor  and  Poetry 

awards:  Hazeltine  Award  for  Outstanding  Teaching  and  Service, 
1990;  First  Prize,  1988  Asiatic  Society  of  Japan  Scholarly  Essay 
Competition;  Wriston  Grant  for  research  and  course  development, 
1988 

books  UN  PROGRESS):  A  Century  of  Poets:  A  Translation  ofFuji- 
wara  Teika's  "Ogura  Hyakunin  Isshu,"  and  Aesthetics  of  Being:  Three 
Models  of  Cultural  Influence  and  Appropriation  in  Early  Twentieth 
Century  Japanese  Thought 


No  doubt  it  was  in  part  my  own  voyage  ot  emi- 
gration that  catalyzed  my  interest  in  travel  litera- 
ture and  the  metaphor  of  the  journey.  At  Brown, 
in  addition  to  courses  on  Japanese  literature 
and  aesthetics,  I  teach  a  number  of  comparatist 
courses,  including  one  titled  "Travel  and  Tourism 
through  the  Ages."  In  it,  the  class  examines  both 
"actual"  travel  accounts  of  historical  figures  (Mar- 
co Polo,  Olaudah  Equiano,  Charles  Darwin,  Ibn 
Fadlan,  Lady  Mary  Wortley  Montagu)  and  imagi- 
native ones  (Pilgrim's  Progress,  journey  to  the  West, 
The  Time  Machine,  The  Wild  Seed),  as  well  as  those 
that  span  these  distinctions  (Ki  no  Tsurayuki's 


Tosa  Diary,  Bruce  Chatwin's  Songlines,  William 
Least  Heat  Moon's  Blue  Highways,  Jamaica  Kin- 
caid's  A  Small  Place). 

Both  travel  writing  and  allegory  concern  them- 
selves with  issues  of  movement  and  transcendence, 
physical  and  spiritual.  They  may  be  seen  as  inverse 
genres,  since  allegory  with  its  multiple  levels  of 
meaning  proposes  the  existence  of  this-ness,  the 
literal  present,  and  that-ness,  the  figurative  goal, 
while  travel  focuses  on  the  process,  the  movement 
from  origin  to  goal.  Thus  the  pilgrimage,  or  sacred 
voyage,  emerges  as  the  ultimate  travel  allegory, 
uniting  as  it  does  the  physical  and  spiritual  goals 
into  a  coherent,  ordered  whole. 

In  the  seventeenth-century  English  work  Pr7- 
griui's  Progress,  we  see  a  peculiar  tension  evolving 
among  Christian,  the  protagonist  who  hopes  to 
make  his  way  to  the  Celestial  City;  the  dreamer- 
narrator  who  tells  the  tale;  and  the  reader.  At  times 
the  three  are  collapsed  into  one  figure,  in  which 
the  dreamer  disappears,  and  we  as  readers  vicari- 
ously sojourn  as  the  pilgrim.  At  other  times  we 
sense  three  different  levels  of  narrative.  In  the  end 
the  pilgrims  Christian  and  Hopeful  enter  through 
the  Gates  of  the  City,  the  dreamer  remains  outside 
the  Gates  vainly  trying  to  peer  in,  and  we  as  read- 
ers are  left  only  with  the  recollected  glimpses  ot 
our  narrator.  This  tension  is  the  hallmark  of  alle- 
gory that  seeks  to  represent  the  perfect,  the  atem- 
poral  through  the  historical,  and  in  that  very 
attempt,  underscores  its  own  inability  to  do  so. 
Consequently,  it  is  able  only  to  hint  or  point 
vaguely  at  the  truth  that  lies  within  the  Gates.  In 
this  type  of  allegory,  progress  is  linear  and  move- 
ment is  directed  toward  an  end.  The  voyage,  if 
successful,  is  unidirectional.  There  is  no  home- 
coming or  return  to  this-ness. 

By  contrast,  the  second  type  of  allegory  re- 
quires a  homecoming  that  exposes  the  absurdity  of 
a  belief  in  the  very  idea  of  "goal,"  given  that  one 
has  possessed  the  truth  all  along.  Ironically,  the 
voyage  remains  necessary  as  a  means  whereby  the 
traveler's  delusion  is  exposed.  An  example  of  this 
kind  of  travel  allegory  is  the  sixteenth-century 
Ming  Chinese  narrative.  Journey  to  the  West.  In  it, 
a  motley  group  of  pilgrims,  consisting  of  a  weak 
and  cowardly  Buddhist  monk,  a  rascalh'  magical 
monkey,  a  gluttonous  monster,  a  sand\-  beast,  and 
a  white  horse,  make  a  pilgrimage  from  China  to 


4      WHY   I   TEACH   •  WHAT   I    LEARN 


As  children  we  were  taiiqht 
that  to  step  carelessh/  on  a  piece 
of  paper  signified  a  traniphnq 
of  knowledge 


India  in  search  of  Mahayana  Buddhist  scriptures. 
Once  found,  the  scriptures  are  discovered  to  be 
blank.  Complaining  bitterly  to  the  Buddha  about 
the  deceit  of  his  underlings,  the  pilgrims  persuade 
him  to  give  them  new  scrolls,  which  are  inscribed. 
But  Buddha,  after  relenting,  remarks  that  the  writ- 
ing is  nothing  more  than  an  expedient  for  the 
ignorant;  the  true  scrolls  are  indeed  blank.  Here 
the  irony  inheres  in  a  text  denying  itself  lust  as  the 
pilgrims  foolishly  allow  themselves  to  believe  that 
the  truth  may  be  represented  by  text  and  do  not 
realize  they  already  have  access  to  the  truth,  so, 
too,  the  reader  realizes  uncomfortably  that  the 


allegory  at  hand  is  merely  an  expedient  for  those 
who  are  not  already  aware. 

Both  of  these  types  of  travel  allegory  suggest 
models  for  the  process  of  engaging  with  knowl- 
edge and  truth.  Both  implicate  the  reader  in  those 
same  voyages  of  understanding:  our  voyages  are 
not  outward,  but  inward.  It  is  on  that  "voyage  in" 
that  we  are  able  to  compare  where  we  are  with 
where  we  have  been,  what  was  with  what  is. 

A  comparatist  approach  offers  us  a  method  of 
study,  a  chance  to  place  works  in  dialogue  with 
one  another  so  we  can  see  the  deeper  implications 
of  each  through  counterpoint.  In  contrast  to  the 
current  debate  in  the  academy  over  what  com- 
prises the  canon,  which  in  turn  has  generated  a 
national  nervousness  about  the  definition  of  a  lib- 
eral education,  this  approach  focuses  not  so  much 
on  what  we  teach,  but  liow  and,  by  implication, 
how  well  we  teach  it. 

We  seem  to  be  in  an  era  of  anxious  enumera- 
tion of  particulars  -  courses,  disciplines,  majors 
and  minors  -  in  the  hope  that  what  results  will 


5      VISWANATHAN 


emerge  as  a  harmonious  whole.  But  at  the  heart  of 
a  Hheral  education  He  not  simply  platitudes  about 
well-roundedness  or  diversity,  but  basic  assump- 
tions about  life.  First,  as  rational  beings  we  believe 
that  knowledge  is  good,  and  that  education  func- 
tions as  a  way  to  apprehend  better  the  truth,  how- 
ever we  detme  that.  Second,  a  liberal  education 


Education  is  not  a  zero-sum 
game  ii]  which  the  price 
of  one  person's  understanding 
is  another's  ignorance 
or  dimifushed  awareness 

6      WHY   I   TEACH    •  WHAT   I    LEARN 


presumes  freedom  of  access  to  knowledge.  Educa- 
tion is  not  a  zero-sum  game  in  which  the  price  of 
one  person's  understanding  is  another's  ignorance 
or  diminished  awareness.  Ideally  knowledge  should 
not  function  as  a  shibboleth  -  to  maintain  the  insu- 
larity of  those  in  power,  those  in  the  know;  there 
should  be  no  "insider  information." 

T7 

t^H    inally,  a  liberal  education  as- 
I  sumes  certain  priorities  about 

■  m  .  how  we  order  our  lives.  The 
best  example  I  can  think  of  comes  from 
my  own  family  lore.  My  grandfather, 
S.M.B.  Easwaran,  used  to  tell  the  story  of 
how  when  he  was  an  asthmatic  adoles- 
cent, the  youngest  of  a  large  brood,  he 
would  engage  in  furious  verbal  battles 
with  his  father,  who  was  an  extremely 
formidable  and  imperious  district  judge. 
Finding  his  father  dogmatic  and  unsym- 
pathetic, my  grandfather  decided  to 
throw  off  the  shackles  of  parental 
authority  by  leaving  college  in  Madras 
and  running  off  to  Bombay.  He  thought 
that  by  succeeding  in  business  he  could 
prove  himself  to  his  father. 

Within  a  fortnight  of  his  arrival 
there,  though,  he  landed  in  a  hospital 
with  severe  breathing  problems;  the  doc- 
tors feared  he  might  not  live.  While  he 
hesitated  about  what  to  do,  feeling  too 
proud  to  contact  his  father  and  return 
home,  some  intermediary  informed  his 
father  about  his  condition.  My  great- 
grandfather, realizing  the  resentment 
that  would  accrue  if  he  hauled  his  son 
home,  sent  a  laconic  cable,  which  read,  "Health 
first,  education  next,  prospects  last."  My  grandfa- 
ther would  chuckle  about  his  father's  shrewdness 
in  constructing  a  telegram  that  demonstrated  his 
concern  while  protecting  his  son's  sense  ot  amour 
propre,  dignity,  thereby  guaranteeing  his  return. 

Health  first,  education  next,  prospects  last. 
This  is  the  hierarchy  of  values  embraced  by  those 
who  espouse  a  liberal  education.  These  are  the  val- 
ues which  have  made  Brown  University  such  a 
congenial  place  for  me  to  learn  and  teach. 


i 


ALUMNI   REFLECTIONS:  The  Voyage  ConLinues 


The  Value  of  Ideas 


BY  Susannah  Hill  '87 


Susannah  Hill  '87  is  a  first-year 
student  at  the  Sloan  School  of 
Management  at  the  Massachusetts 
Institute  of  Technology.  She 
previously  worked  for  a  public- 
relations  agency,  a  software  com- 
pany marketing  department,  a 
television  station  newsroom, 
and  as  an  independent  corporate- 
video  producer. 


Recently  I  was  talking  with  a  fellow  Brown 
alumnus  in  my  M.B.A.  program,  and  we 
were  trying  to  put  into  words  a  quality  we'd 
noticed  among  Brown  graduates.  He  described  the 
attitude  this  way:  "I  have  an  idea.  Get  out  of  my 
way."  His  depiction  is  accurate,  I  had  to  admit.  We 
can  be  opinionated  and  devoted  to  the  paths  we 
have  chosen,  even  though  others  question  them. 
We  were  trained  to  develop  our  ideas  and  to  de- 
fend them  rigorously.  Our  instructors  demanded 
it.  They  are  guilty  of  making  us  irritating  to  dis- 
agree with,  and  Meera  Viswanathan  is  certainly 
guilty  in  my  case. 

At  Brown  I  took  many  fascinating  classes  that 
explored  topics  I  had  never  before  imagined  would 
interest  me.  One  of  those  was  Meera's  course  on 
Japanese  aesthetics.  She  taught  us  to  search  for 
what  I  came  to  think  of  as  "breathtaking  concep- 
tual encapsulations."  She  prompted  us  to  clarify 
our  idea  of  what  a  work  of  literature  should  be, 
and  left  us  to  draw  our  own  connections  among 
the  different  works  we  were  studying.  So  fantastic 
was  the  achievement  of  coming  up  with  a  great 
answer  to  a  question  in  the  classroom  that  it  took 
me  by  surprise  to  realize  my  bosses 
and  coworkers  were  not  always 
thrilled  with  my  answers  -  or  my 
questions,  for  that  matter  -  in  the 
workplace. 

When  I  entered  the  professional 
world,  I  continued  to  develop  ideas 
and  use  them  to  form  new  perspec- 
tives on  how  to  solve  problems.  At 
one  agency  where  I  worked,  I  was 
the  team  member  who  volunteered 
for  complex  writing  jobs,  such  as 
white  papers,  speech  abstracts,  and  strategy  papers. 
I  also  organized  a  women's  lunch  discussion  group 
in  the  office.  When  it  came  time  to  buy  a  new 
plain-paper  fax  machine  for  the  office,  I  even  had 
opinions  about  that.  My  ability  to  synthesize  dis- 
crete ideas  into  strategies  was  in  fact  valued.  But 
my  desire  to  jump  into  everything  and  to  apply  my 
analytical  thinking  to  all  problems,  not  just  those 


in  my  post,  was  not  always  esteemed.  And  that  is 
one  of  the  reasons  I  decided  to  enter  management. 
Eagerness  to  get  my  hands  into  everything  will  be 
taken  for  granted. 

Because  we  Brown  undergraduates  had  so 
much  flexibility  in  designing  our  own  courses  of 
study,  we  chose  disciplines  and  instructors  that 
interested  us  most,  and  we  became  devoted  to 
them.  I  was  engrossed  by  what  I  studied  and  never 
would  have  described  my  education  as  "detached 
intellectual  furtherment."  I  got  caught  up  in  the 
enthusiasm  and  rigor  of  each  professor's  class.  The 
teachers  with  whom  I  chose  to  study  were  those 
who  encouraged  the  analytical  thinking  crucial  to 
cracking  problems:  the  ability  to  draw  together 
disparate  elements  and  draw  conclusions  about 
how  they  work  together.  That  skill  was  taught  in 
courses  as  wide-ranging  as  Meera's  Japanese 
poetry  and  Jim  Head's  planetary  geology  and  Hen- 
drik  Gerritsen's  holography.  As  I  took  those  great 
courses,  I  slowly  began  to  realize  that  knowing  it 
all  is  a  far  less  winning  trait  than  being  interested 
in  it  all. 

Between  graduating  from  Brown  and  coming 
to  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology  for 
business  school,  I  worked  hard  in  a  smattering  of 
professions.  I  dropped  my  seniority  and  experi- 
ence in  each  one  as  a  salamander  leaves  behind  its 
tail.  Friends  warned  me  that  my  record  would 
scare  off  future  potential  employers.  But  for  me, 
that  approach  to  a  career  was  the  logical  next  step 
after  a  Brown  education.  I  was  learning  by  sam- 
pling and  assessing  my  potential  in  new  vocations 
in  order  to  identify  the  most  promising  path.  If  I 
had  to  make  a  change,  my  early  twenties  was  the 
time  to  do  it,  and  I  had  the  courage  to  do  it.  I 
firmly  believe  that  my  ability  to  focus  on  what  is 
important  is  a  valuable  quality  that  I  learned  by 
studying  at  Brown,  and  now  I  have  found  a  profes- 
sion in  which  I  will  do  it  for  a  lifetime. 


7  •  VISWANATHAN 


idU_ 


The  Poetiy  of  Teaching 


BY  William  Robins  '86 


William  Robins  '86  is  a 
Ph.D.  candidate  and  an 
assistant  in  instruction 
in  the  Department  of 
Comparative  Literature 
at  Princeton  University. 


Every  weekday,  after  spending  the  morning  at 
tiie  library,  double-checking  obscure  foot- 
notes or  deciphering  jargon  only  literary  specialists 
can  understand,  I  head  across  campus  to  teach  lit- 
erature to  undergraduates.  Today,  having  spent 
my  early  hours  researching  a  forgotten  Latin 
grammarian,  I  must  quickly  switch  gears  to  eluci- 
date Tolstoy's  work.  On  my  walk  over  to  the  class- 
room, however,  yet  another  literary  form  comes  to 
mind,  the  Japanese  art  form  called  rcnga. 

Renga  is  poetry  composed  by  improvisation,  in 
which  a  group  of  poets  take  turns  responding  with 
a  half  stanza  to  the  previous  poet's  half 
stanza,  producing  a  sequence  of  interlock- 
ing but  separate  poems.  I'm  thinking  how 
my  research,  my  teaching,  and  my  stu- 
dents' work  and  interests  are  something 
like  renga.  I  know  that  my  morning's 
research  will  likely  somehow  influence 
what  I  say  about  Tolstoy,  and  that  my  lec- 
ture will  undoubtedly  elicit  some  response  I  have 
not  prepared  for  from  my  students.  It's  a  process 
I've  come  to  love  and  look  forward  to. 

I  first  encountered  renga  my  senior  year  at 
Brown  in  Professor  Meera  Viswanathan's  course 
on  Japanese  poetry.  I  remember  the  day  because 
the  class's  excitement  at  learning  a  new  literary 
form  prompted  us  later  to  compose  our  own  in- 
terlocking poem  over  lunch  at  Louis'.  Still,  it  took 
an  entire  term  of  delicate  guidance  before  I  could 
feel  how  the  phrase 

While  he  takes  pleasure 
sketching  pictures  with  brush  ami  ink, 
autumn  nears  its  end, 
is  perfectly  answered  by 

and  what  joy  he  has  in  wearing 
those  fashionable  knitted  socks. 
Like  Professor  Viswanathan's  class,  my  best 
courses  at  Brown  were  ones  that  appealed  to  my 
fascination  for  a  mix  of  the  known  and  the  new, 
the  familiar  and  the  strange:  medieval  archaeology, 
neun "science,  non-Western  theater,  the  contem- 
porary long  poem.  Because  of  Brown's  generous 
policies  for  course  changes  and  pass-fail  options,  I 


felt  free  to  roam  widely  in  search  of  the  fitting  bal- 
ance among  the  material,  the  professor,  and  my 
own  interests. 

In  my  sophomore  year  my  practice  of  shopping 
for  courses  reached  an  extreme.  At  the  beginning 
ot  one  term  I  attended  more  than  twenty  classes, 
spending  weeks  before  I  decided  on  four.  Many  of 
my  friends  seemed  to  know  which  interests  they 
wanted  to  pursue  or  which  charismatic  lecturers 
they  hoped  to  hear,  but  my  own  sense  of  excite- 
ment, dissatisfaction,  and  experimentation  made 
me  unsure  and  even  a  little  defensive  in  the  face  of 
their  certainty.  Now,  as  a  teacher  of  undergradu- 
ates myself,  I  wonder.  What  was  I  looking  for? 
How  can  a  teacher  get  a  course  to  fall  into  that  rare 
and  perfect  balance? 

What  I  wanted,  and  what  I  found,  was  the  kind 
of  spontaneity  and  connectivity  I  learned  from 
renga.  In  her  teaching.  Professor  Viswanathan  was 
responding  to  the  direction  her  research  was  tak- 
ing, often  putting  those  discoveries  into  words  for 
the  first  time  in  front  of  the  classroom.  Her  teach- 
ing was  an  improvisation  guided  by  her  own 
excitement. 

Most  of  the  courses  I  took  had  not  been  offered 
before  and  had  no  textbook  or  syllabus  to  follow. 
A  teacher's  attempt  to  articulate  new  ideas  ran 
parallel  to  my  own  attempts  at  understanding,  and 
the  courses  often  had  an  underlying  current  of 
both  urgency  and  tentativeness.  It  was  almost  as  if 
the  students'  responses  were  the  next  half  stanza, 
the  sign  that  would  tell  whether  the  experiment 
had  worked. 

As  I  work  to  master  the  skill  of  teaching,  I  am 
learning  just  how  difficult  it  is  to  convey  the 
beauty  of  the  material  along  with  the  excitement 
one  derives  from  one's  research.  In  my  own  teach- 
ing I  try  to  respond  to  the  charge  of  my  under- 
graduate teachers  at  Brown,  teachers  such  as 
Meera  Viswanathan.  I  hope  that  my  students  in 
turn  feel  a  similar  charge  as  they  come  to  realize 
how  much  their  involvement  matters.  • 


8  /WHY   I   TEACH   •  WHAT   I    LEARN 


continued  from  pnge  32  before  insert 

coup,  but  the  unmanned  space  missions  provided 
most  of  the  substantive  advances  in  science.  "We 
have  now  seen  every  planet  in  our  solar  system 
except  Pluto  in  a  depth  of  detail  that  was  unthink- 
able in  the  1950s,"  Hornig  says.  "We  have  learned 
a  tremendous  amount  about  how  stars  are  formed, 
how  galaxies  are  formed,  how  the  universe  was 
created." 

To  those  who  challenge  NASA's  roughly  Sis- 
billion  budget,  he  retorts,  "The  space  program  has 
transformed  the  world  we  live  in."  Communications 
satellites  alone  justify  its  entire  cost,  he  believes. 


"In  a  way  that  would  have  been  completely  incom- 
prehensible forty  vears  ago,  these  satellites  have  tied 
the  world  together."  He  notes  that  the  space  pro- 
gram led  to  dramatic  advances  in  X-ray,  ultraviolet, 
and  infrared  astronomy.  Pausing  a  moment  to  con- 
sider the  contributions  of  Galileo  and  Copernicus, 
he  speculates  that  "the  last  two  decades  may 
have  been  the  greatest  in  the  history  of  astronomy." 

In  the  late  sixties,  federal  science  funding  stopped 
growing,  signaling  the  start  of  what  Hornig  calls 
the  "mature"  period  of  American  science  -  1968  to 
1988.  "Some  scientists  were  sore  when  funding 
leveled  off,"  he  says.  "They  saw  increasing  federal 
funding  as  an  entitlement.  But  I've  never  agreed." 
He  compares  the  growth  of  American  science  in 
the  sixties  to  that  of  an  adolescent:  "He  doesn't  grow 
forever;  he  gets  to  be  eighteen  and  slows  down." 

In  the  late  eighties  U.S.  science  funding  entered 
a  new  phase  -  "one  of  real  reexamination,"  Hornig 
says.  "People  are  less  supportive  of  pure  research. 
The  byword  now  is  'strategic'  research."  Money  is 


At  the  Sandia  nuclear  weapons  laboratory  in  1962, 
President  Kennedy  views  the  spacecraft  Vela 
Hotel,  designed  to  monitor  compliance  with  the 
atmospheric  test-ban  treaty.  With  him  are  Hornig 
and  (from  Kennedy's  right)  National  Security 
Adviser  McCeorge  Bundy,  NASA  chief  Bob  Seamans, 
Secretary  of  the  Air  Force  Harold  Brown,  and  White 
House  staff  member  Spurgeon  Keeney. 


COURTESY  OF  DONALD  HORNIG  ( 


"Lyndon  Johnson  was  a  people 
person,"  Hornig  says.  "He 
knew  everyone's  strengths 
and  weaknesses.  He  was  the 
supreme  arm-twister. "  Hornig 
tried  to  quit  his  post  as  sci- 
ence adviser  several  times, 
and  when  he  finally  resigned 
to  take  a  job  at  Eastman 
Kodak  ten  days  before  Nixon's 
inauguration,  LBJ  exploded, 
calling  Hornig  a  traitor.  So 
Hornig  remained  in  Washing- 
ton those  last  ten  days. 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /  33 


ON  POPULATION  GROWTH 


'Ethically,  wc  want  all  citizens 
of  the  world  to  have  their  material 
needs  met.  But  environmentally 
that  means  helping  far  more 
people  consume  and  dispose  of 
the  earth's  resources' 


^^■■^■^ 


short,  and  the  pubHc  is  skeptical.  He  believes  sci- 
entists must  do  a  better  job  of  explaining  why  their 
work  is  crucial. 

"The  public  is  asking,  'If  we  have  the  best  sci- 
ence in  the  world'  -  which  we  do,  incidentally  - 
'then  why  are  the  Japanese  giving  us  so  much 
trouble?' "  Hornig  says,  "hi  overall  productivity 
the  Japanese  really  don't  come  close  to  us.  They 
match  us  in  carefully  selected  fields  -  mainly  in 
consumer  electronics  and  in  automobiles.  Neither 
one  depends  much  on  progress  in  basic  scientific 
research." 

Hornig  argues  that  the  federal  governinent 
must  continue  to  fund  pure  research  in  universities 
-  though  not  at  the  escalating  levels  it  did  in  the 
fifties  and  sixties.  "Basic  research  fills  our  well  of 
knowledge,"  he  says.  "Applied  researchers  build 
using  the  tools  and  knowledge  produced  by  basic 
research." 

Since  1945  the  federal  government  has  sup- 
ported university  research  in  two  important  ways, 
he  says:  by  subsidizing  bright  students  who 


couldn't  otherwise  afford  to  make  science  a  career, 
and  by  putting  state-of-the-art  equipment  within 
academics'  reach.  To  dramatize  the  advances  made 
possible  by  current  equipment,  he  points  to  the 
experiments  that  determined  the  structure  of  vita- 
min B-12;  they  took  years  anci  won  a  Nobel  Prize 
for  the  woman  who  did  them.  With  modern 
instruments  and  computers,  he  says,  those  experi- 
ments could  be  done  in  two  or  three  days. 

Boosted  by  federal  funding,  Hornig's  own  field 
of  spectroscopy  has  been  revolutionized  since 
1970.  "Spectroscopy  used  to  be  proud  of  being  able 
to  look  at  events  that  occurred  in  a  microsecond," 
he  says.  "Now,  with  better  equipment,  people  are 
studying  things  at  lO'?  seconds;  that's  a  billion 
times  faster  than  a  microsecond." 

Hornig  does  not  endorse  all  federally-funded 
research.  He  is  caustic  on  the  subject  of  President 
Reagan's  Star  Wars  program.  "Star  Wars  was  a 
very  expensive  sham,"  he  says.  "It  was  clear  from 
the  beginning  that  it  was  kooky  science.  A  space    m 
shield  was  hugely  expensive,  and  not  clearly  feasi-" 
ble.  Even  if  it  hnd  been  built,  the  Soviets  could  have 
defeated  it  with  a  few  extra  missiles." 

Hornig  regrets  that  Congress  last  fall  \oted  to 
kill  the  $S-billion  Superconducting  Supercollider 


34  /  FEBRUARY  1994 


The  state  of  the  earth  is  what  worries 
Don  Homig  most  these  days.  He  and 
his  wife,  Lilli,  keep  tabs  on  their 
stretch  of  the  environment  in  Little 
Compton,  Rhode  Island,  where  they 
built  a  cottage.  Most  of  the  year  they 
live  in  Cambridge,  Massachusetts, 
where  Homig  works  part-time  at 
Harvard's  School  of  Public  Health. 


T 


ON  PURE  RESEARCH 


'It  fills  our  well  of  knowledge.  Applied 
researchers  build  using  the  tools  and 
knowledge  produced  by  basic  research' 


project,  but  accepts  it  as  a  political  decision,  made 
by  leaders  more  concerned  with  a  budget  shortfall 
than  with  unraveling  the  mysteries  of  the  universe. 
"The  fundamental  laws  of  physics  and  of  nature 
aren't  going  anywhere,"  he  says  philosophically. 
"If  we're  not  willing  to  spend  the  money  to  dis- 
cover them  now,  they'll  stay  there  and  wait  for  the 
next  generation." 

In  the  future,  without  the  Cold  War  lending 
urgency  to  the  science  race,  "much  less  science  will 
be  funded  out  of  the  Department  of  Defense," 
Hornig  notes.  But  he  believes  other  government 
departments  will  pick  up  the  slack.  "The  federal 
government  doesn't  innke  anything  happen,"  he 
says,  "but  it  recognizes  and  funds  good  ideas,  and 
it  will  keep  doing  that." 


oday,  at  seventy-three, 
Donald  Hornig  is  at  peace,  a 
thoughtful  man  with  a  clear  memory 
and  firm  priorities.  "My  wife,  Lilli, 
has  been  married  to  me  for  fifty  years, 
and  has  expertly  balanced  family 
duties  with  her  own  scientific  career," 
he  says  with  pride.  "I  have  four  chil- 
dren -  none  of  them  chemists,  but  all 
of  them  idealists  who  lead  meaning- 
ful lives.  They've  given  us  plenty 
of  grandchildren,  too."  The  profes- 
sional achievement  he's  most  proud 
of  is  neither  the  Manhattan  Project 
nor  the  Brown  presidency,  but  the 
basic  scientific  research  he  conducted 
while  teaching  at  Brow^n  and  Prince- 
ton, when  he  helped  develop  some 
of  the  early  infrared  spectrometers. 

What  brings  passion  to  his  voice  at 
this  stage  in  life  is  the  fragile  state 
of  the  earth.  He  believes  people  can 
halt  the  process  of  ozone  depletion 
by  changing  their  habits,  for  example,  by  taking 
CFCs  -  chlorofluorocarbons  -  out  of  air  conditioners. 
"Alternatives  are  expensive,  but  they're  plausible," 
he  says.  More  worrisome  is  global  warming,  a  direct 
environmental  cost  of  population  growth.  Global 
warming  results  from  burning  too  much  coal,  gaso- 
line, and  oil  -  the  fuel  we  need  to  warm  and  power 
our  society,  he  observes.  "We  may  have  to  go  back 
to  nuclear  power.  We  may  have  to  look  more  seri- 
ously at  solar  energy,  wind  energy,  tidal  energy. 
But  finding  new  power  sources  is  not  enough. 
"We  need  to  cut  our  consumption  of  energy,"  he 
says  urgently.  "We  need  to  recycle  all  we  can.  Insist 
on  clean  air  and  clean  water.  And  above  all,  cut  the 
growth  in  human  population."  The  earth  is  a  finite 
system.  There  are  no  big,  simple  steps  to  saving  it. 
Whether  we  can  keep  our  world  clean  will  depend 
on  thousands  and  thousands  of  little  steps. 

"We  don't  keep  our  homes  clean  just  so  our 
house  guests  won't  get  sick,"  he  continues.  "It  goes 
deeper  than  that.  You  want  to  be  a  good  house- 
keeper because  the  house  itself  has  meaning  to  vou. 
We've  got  to  start  acting  as  though  this  earth  has 
meaning.  We've  got  to  be  good  housekeepers."  EO 


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Peggy  and  Fred  in  Hell  secured  Leslie  Thornton's  reputation  as  one  of 
the  leading  avant-garde  filmmakers  working  today.  Now  she  is  attempting 
to  attract  a  wider  audience  with  her  new  feature-length  film,  The  Great 
Invisible,  a  biography  of  the  Victorian  eccentric,  Isabelle  Eberhardt 


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eslie: 


LESLIE  THORNTON 


by  James  reinbold 


Isabelle  Eberhardt  was  many  things  to  many 
people:  traveler,  explorer,  spy,  saint,  libertine. 
Her  drowning  in  a  1904  flash  flood  in  Ain  Sefra, 
Algeria,  at  the  age  of  twenty-seven  only  added  to 
her  mystery.  Today,  when  most  place  names  in 
North  Africa  have  reverted  to  Arabic,  nearly  every 
large  town  has  a  Rue  d'Isabelle  Eberhardt. 

"The  true  story  about  me  is  perhaps  less 
romantic,  and  surely  more  modest,  than  the  legend 
in  question,"  Eberhardt  wrote  in  1903,  responding 
to  false  charges  that  she  was  anti-French  and  anti- 
Semitic.  The  illegitimate  child  of  Russian  refugees 
-  an  aristocrat  and  her  anarchist  lover  -  Eberhardt 
was  born  and  raised  in  Geneva,  Switzerland,  where 
her  father  gave  her  an  eclectic  home  education.  At 
twenty  she  fled  to  North  Africa,  following  her  step- 
brother, who  had  joined  the  French  Foreign  Legion. 
Fluent  in  Arabic  and  familiar  with  the  Koran,  she 
disguised  herself  as  a  male  Turkish  student  and 
gained  acceptance  in  the  Arab  community.  Even- 
tually she  married  an  Arab  clerk  who  worked  for 
the  French  military.  She  escaped  an  assassination 
attempt  and  became  a  go-between  for  the  powerful 
sheiks  of  southern  Morocco  and  the  French.  By  the 
end  of  her  life,  both  sides  thought  she  was  a  spy. 
The  question  of  who  Eberhardt  really  was  has 
engaged  more  than  one  scholar  in  the  latter  part  of 


this  century.  But  the  first  in-depth  examination  of 
her  life  on  fllm  awaited  the  particular  talents  of 
Senior  Lecturer  Leslie  Thornton  of  Brown's  Malcolm 
Forbes  Center  for  Modern  Culture  and  Media 
(MCM)  Studies.  Ten  years  ago  the  avant-garde  film- 
maker came  under  Eberhardt's  enduring  spell.  "I 
was  drawn  to  Isabelle  because  I  thought  hers  was 
the  story  of  failure,"  Thornton  says.  "She  was  more  a 
victim  of  circumstances  -  her  family  life  and  politics 
-  than  were  other  Victorian  women  travelers.  She 
also  was  a  cross-dresser  and  a  strong  woman,  which 
makes  her  appealing  to  the  twentieth  century." 

At  the  time,  Thornton  was  teaching  at  San  Fran- 
cisco State  University,  where  Ellen  Zweig  (now  a 
visiting  associate  professor  in  the  visual  art  depart- 
ment at  Brown)  also  was  teaching  and  putting 
together  a  multimedia  project  on  Victorian  women 
travelers.  Zweig  asked  Thornton  and  two  other 
artists  to  contribute  a  work  on  the  topic.  For  her 
part,  Thornton  began  what  would  become  an 
hour-long  videotape  about  Eberhardt,  There  Was 
All  Unseen  Cloud  Moving.  In  1984,  when  Thornton 
joined  the  Brown  faculty,  she  brought  the  project 
with  her  and  involved  her  undergraduate  video 
class.  Some  of  the  scenes  her  students  created  are 
in  the  flnal  video,  completed  in  1986.  Then,  in 
1990,  Thornton  began  work  on  Tlie  Gient  Invisible,  a 


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feature-length  film  on  Eberhardt  that  she  describes 
as  "quasibiography  and  antitravelogue." 

A  number  of  Brown  students  and  recent  gradu- 
ates have  been  involved  in  The  Great  Invisible  from 
the  start.  The  director  of  cinematography  is  Pete 
Zuccarini  '88,  and  one  of  the  associate  producers  is 
Brian  Goldberg  '89.  Eurvidice  Kamvisseli  '93  M.F.A. 
and  Rebecca  Baron  '91  helped  write  some  of  the 
scenes  in  the  script.  Others  who  have  acted,  helped 
with  shooting,  and  made  other  contributions  to  the 
film  include  Robin  Hessman  '94,  Rob  Bingham  '88, 
Carol  Irving  '90,  Rob  Reynolds  '92,  Mark  Haffen- 
reffer  '89,  Kent  Rollins  '87,  and  Barry  Ellsworth  '83. 

Shot  in  North  Africa,  Europe,  and  the  United 
States,  the  film  is  to  be  released  this  summer  on  the 
international  art-cinema  circuit.  Thornton  also 
anticipates  that  she  will  tour  North  Africa  with  the 
film  through  an  arrangement  with  the  U.S.  Infor- 
mation Agency. 

Leslie  Thornton  started  out  to  be  a  painter, 
but  early  in  her  artistic  career  she  grew 
disillusioned  with  the  medium.  In  the  late  1960s 
and  early  1970s  most  young  painters  followed  the 
acrylic  trail  left  by  the  conceptualists  and  the  mini- 
mahsts.  "1  realized  that  if  1  continued  painting  I 
would  soon  have  to  erase  the  painting  completelv 
once  I  finished  it,"  Thornton  savs.  "I  needed  some- 
thing more  complicated,  something  less  in  my  con- 
trol." She  found  the  challenge  she  sought  in  film- 
making, where  she  could  deal  with  such  concepts 
as  the  nature  and  limitations  of  communication, 
narrative,  and  biography. 

She  transferred  from  Tufts  to  the  State  Uni\'ersity 
of  New  York  at  Buffalo,  and  went  on  to  earn  an 
M.F.A.  in  film  studies  from  the  Hartford  Art  School 
in  1976.  Since  1974  more  than  twenty  of  her  films 
and  videos  have  been  shown  at  festivals,  including 
Rotterdam,  Berlin,  London,  and  Montreal;  and  in 
museums,  universities,  and  arts  centers  worldwide. 
Cahicrs  dii  Cinema,  the  international  film  magazine, 
places  Thornton  among  the  160  leading  American 
filmmakers.  She  is  the  only  one  on  the  list  who 
teaches  fulltime,  and  she  is  probablv  the  most  avant- 
garde  and  least  commercially  oriented. 

"The  fact  that  1  teach  at  Brown  and  work  on 
small-budget  ($50,000  to  $250,000)  independent 
features  has  enabled  me  to  maintain  complete  cre- 
ative freedom,"  Thornton  says.  "But  the  flip  side  to 
that  is  that  'art  films'  are  generally  relegated  to 
obscurity."  She  is  trying  to  break  down  the  bound- 
aries that  distinguish  -  sometimes  arbitrarily  -  art 
films  (or  a\'ant-garde  films)  from  commercial  films. 

Much  of  Thornton's  work  has  been  an  attempt 
to  define  and  then  push  the  parameters  of  video 
and  film.  "No  one  has  demonstrated  a  more  sus- 
tained investigation  of  the  medium  than  Leslie," 
says  MCM  professor  John  Siherman.  Using  a  mon- 
tage style,  often  overlapping  images  and  layers  of 
sound,  her  non-traditional  approach  to  narrative 
makes  her  films  difficult.  But  while  a  \ie\\or  may 


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have  to  search  for  meaning,  a  Thornton  film  never 
lacks  for  a  striking  image  or  sequence. 

"She  built  the  film  program  at  Brown,"  says 
Professor  Mary  Ann  Doane,  who  has  chaired  the 
center  for  the  past  two  years.  "MCM  has  developed 
a  reputation,  under  Leslie's  guidance,  as  unique 
for  the  way  the  film  program  combines  theory  and 
practice." 

Of  Thornton's  films,  none  has  brought  more 
recognition  than  Peggy  and  Fred  in  Hell  -  a  work  in 
progress  that  has  gained  cult  status.  Both  Cahiers 
dit  Cinema  and  the  Village  Voice  included  it  in  their 
ten-best-of-1989  lists.  In  the  December  1992  issue 
of  Cahiers,  Bill  Krohn,  one  of  the  magazine's  found- 
ing members  and  now  its  American  correspondent, 
writes  that  Thornton's  "place  in  cinema  history  has 
already  been  assured  for  the  sole  reason  that  she  is 
the  author  of  Peggi/  and  Fred  in  Hell.  Forever  unfin- 
ished, Thornton's  magnum  opus  resembles  nothing 
else  known  in  the  cinema  avant-garde." 

Thornton  began  the  film  in  1981  while  teaching 
at  San  Francisco  State.  "I  turned  three  rooms  of  the 
house  1  was  living  in  into  a  set  and  filled  the  rooms 
with  machine  parts  -  a  cacophony  of  references.  It 
looked  like  an  exploded  living  room,  the  inside  of  a 
factory.  The  idea  was  watching  two  children  become 
social  subjects,  adapting  to  impossible  situations. 

"I  wanted  to  make  a  film  that  dealt  with  cultural 
anxiety,"  Thorton  continues.  "During  the  early  1980s 
there  was  concern  over  the  so-called  information 
explosion.  Peggi/  and  Fred  is  a  film  about  the  devel- 
opment of  technology  in  relation  to  the  individual." 

As  developed  in  Peggy  and  Fred,  Thornton's 
"cultural  anxiety"  is  an  apprehension  about  the  uses 
and  abuses  of  technology,  specifically  weapons  of 
mass  destruction.  "Both  my  father  and  grandfather 


worked  on  the  Manhattan  Project,"  she  says.  After 
the  atom  was  demonstrated  in  its  most  destructive 
form,  Americans  were  challenged  to  accept  its 
beneficence  as  well.  "Around  my  house,"  Thornton 
recalls,  "there  was  always  talk  about  'atoms  for 
peace.'  "  But  for  her  and  for  many  others  of  the 
postwar  generation,  images  of  Hiroshima  were 
vivid  reminders  of  the  nation's  nuclear  priorities. 

Thornton  refers  to  Peggy  and  Fred  as  a  science- 
fiction  film,  because  everything  that  happens  is 
outside  the  realm  of  day-to-day  life.  "The  ruse  in 
Peggy  and  Fred  is  that  the  children  think  they  are 
the  only  two  people  in  the  world,"  she  explains. 
"Their  socialization  is  entirely  controlled  by  televi- 
sion. Everything  they  learn  is  from  television,  and 
they  in  turn  think  they  are  on  television." 

Ten  years  in  the  making,  "the  film  is  not  done 
by  any  means,"  Thornton  says.  When  she  began, 
the  characters  were  six  and  eight  years  old.  Thorn- 
ton says  the  next  segment  might  document  their 
lives  as  young  adults:  Peggy  serving  in  the  U.S. 
Army;  Fred  playing  in  a  rock  band  and  serving  as 
an  AlDS-research  volunteer. 

"No  matter  how  she  chooses  to  complete  Pegg]/ 
and  Fred,  if  she  ever  does,"  writes  Krohn,  "the  film 
will  live  eternally  as  a  psychic  landscape  of  the 
nineties,  unraveling  into  a  never-ending  poem  or 
nightmare." 

Other  Thornton  films  touch  on  the  nature  and 
difficulty  of  communication,  the  structure  of  narra- 
tive, the  limitations  of  biography,  and  Orientalism 

▼  Thornton  filmed  in  Tolga,  Algeria,  on  her 
second  trip  to  North  Africa.  Abderrahmane  Hellal, 
the  city's  Imam,  playfully  peeks  over  her  shoulder 
as  she  films  his  storefront. 


-  a  theory  (described  in  Edward  Said's  book  of  the 
same  name)  of  how  the  West  imposes  its  impres- 
sions on  the  East,  thereby  dominating  it. 

Thornton  made  Atii/imtti  (1983)  after  reading 
Said's  booi<;  it's  about  "the  Western  world's  Oriental 
gaze,"  she  says.  The  film  begins  with  a  photograph 
of  a  Chinese  couple,  a  formal  portrait  taken  in  the 
nineteenth  century  by  a  Western  photographer.  The 
soundtrack  includes  rare  ethnographic  recordings 
of  Chinese  opera  from  the  1920s,  a  Cuban  rhumba. 
Bach,  the  Hartz  Mountain  Canary  Orchestra,  crick- 
ets, birds,  thunderstorms,  and  a  spoken  passage  in 
which  English  and  Chinese  are  mixed  and  synco- 
pated with  the  gestures  of  the  characters.  While 
Thornton  says  her  intent  was  to  examine  the  ways 
in  which  Westerners  imagine  and  portray  the  East, 
a  few  critics  have  accused  her  of  the  very  racism 
she  exposes. 


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nice  1990 
Thornton 
has  made  three  trips 
to  North  Africa, 
shooting  footage  for 
The  Grcnt  Invisible  in 
Morocco,  Tunisia, 
and  Algeria.  Thorn- 
ton believes  biogra- 
phy is  specious; 
what  passes  for 
truth  about  Isabelle 
Eberhardt's  life 
often  turns  out  to  be  fantasy.  Eberhardt's  journals 
contradict  much  of  what  has  been  written  about 
her.  But  after  her  escape  from  an  assassin's  dagger 
she  did  nothing  to  discourage  the  mythopoesis 
that  would  turn  her  into  a  living  icon.  Eberhardt's 
life  becomes  interesting,  Thornton  suggests,  only 
when  she  is  seen  as  "a  kind  of  cipher  for  an  era, 
and  for  cross-cultural  movement,"  rather  than  as  an 
idealized  figure. 

The  Great  Invisible  juxtaposes  the  often-contra- 
dictory "truths"  about  Eberhardt,  reflecting  the 
fragmented  quality  that  emerges  from  her  journals. 
Thornton  has  four  different  women  play  Eberhardt 
in  the  film,  each  representing  one  of  her  personas,  a 
device  Thornton  experimented  with  in  Tiiere  Was  Au 
Unseen  Cloud  Moving.  One  of  the  actresses  is  Assis- 
tant Professor  of  Comparative  Literature  Susan 
Slyomovics,  an  anthropologist  who  specializes  in 
Middle  Eastern  theater,  film,  and  performance. 
While  helping  Thornton  organize  shoots  in  Algeria, 
Slyomovics  met  her  husband,  Nadjib  Berber. 

Another  serendipitous  result  of  the  production 
was  that  Slyomovics  joined  the  Brown  faculty  in 
1992.  "One  day  several  years  ago  Susan  mentioned 
that  she  was  a  finalist  for  a  position  at  Brown," 
recalls  Thornton.  "She  was  teaching  at  N.Y.U.  and 
was  an  ardent  New  Yorker.  I  told  her  that  Provi- 
dence was  really  a  nice  place  to  live."  Now  all  three 
of  the  film's  progenitors  -  Zweig,  Thornton,  and 


Slyomovics  -  find  themselves  continuing  their 
careers  and  friendships  in  Providence. 

The  last  time  the  latter  two  traveled  to  North 
Africa,  in  December  of  1991,  they  witnessed  a  his- 
toric event:  the  first  free  elections  in  Algeria.  Arriv- 
ing after  a  thirty-hour  boat  trip  from  Marseilles  to 
Algiers  -  "as  Eberhardt  would  have  done  it,"  Sly- 
omovics points  out  -  she  and  Thornton  watched 
and  filmed  events  that  were  largely  unseen  by  the 
rest  of  the  world.  "There  were  huge  rallies  and 
parades,"  Thornton  recalls.  "The  official  estimate 
for  one  rally  was  300,000  people,  and  one  parade 
was  said  to  have  been  composed  of  a  million  women 
in  traditional  clothing  as  well  as  Western  attire." 

After  Islamic  fundamentalists  won  the  election, 
the  Algerian  military  immediately  took  over, 
promising  a  runoff  which  has  yet  to  take  place.  "It 
was  extraordinary  and  rather  harrowing,"  Thornton 
says  of  the  election  and  its  aftermath.  The  election 
results  were  announced  in  classical  Arabic,  which 
none  of  the  men  clustered  around  the  television  in 
Thornton  and  Slyomovics's  hotel  lobby  understood. 
"It  was  one  of  the  high  points  of  Susan's  life  as  an 
Arab  scholar  to  translate  the  new  president's 
remarks  for  the  men  in  the  room,"  Thornton  says. 

Thornton  returned  to  North  Africa  last  month 
to  film  the  final  scenes  of  The  Great  Invisible,  which 
she  hopes  to  finish  editing  during  a  spring  sabbati- 
cal -  in  time  for  the  New  York  and  Locarno  film 
festivals.  She  envisions  the  film  as  a  potential  land- 
mark in  her  career.  "My  reputation  is  within  the 
cinema  avant  garde,  yet  this  is  a  crossover  film  that 
will  reach  a  more  general  audience,"  she  says. 

In  Eberhardt's  flight  from  the  strictures  of  Vic- 
torian Europe,  Thornton  finds  a  fictionalized  per- 
spective for  viewing  the  present  from  a  distance. 
She  sees  turn-of-the-century  Europe  as  the  birth- 
place of  an  itieologv  of  the  West  which  still  reigns 
today,  especially  in  relation  to  the  family  and  mid- 
dle class.  And  she  sees  in  Eberhardt  a  window  to  a 
spiritual  world  the  West  has  not  grasped.  In  the 
introduction  to  The  Oblivion  Seekers,  a  volume  of 
Eberhardt's  writings,  Paul  Bowles,  author  of  The 
Sheltering  Sky,  wrote,  "Her  nature  combined  an 
extraordinary  singleness  of  purpose  and  an  equally 
powerful  nostalgia  for  the  unattainable.  Over  the 
years  the  goal  imperceptibly  changed  from  the 
idea  of  simple  escape  to  the  obsession  of  total  free- 
dom, only  later  manifesting  itself  in  a  quest  for 
spiritual  wisdom  through  the  discipline  of  Sufism." 

In  the  process  of  deciphering  the  cipher  of 
Isabelle  Eberhardt,  Thornton  probes  the  present  and 
the  West,  the  past  and  the  East.  "There's  a  sense  of 
urgency  about  anything  dealing  with  Arab  culture," 
she  says.  Eberhardt's  story  challenges  Western 
representations  of  Islam:  "Going  against  the  current   ' 
anti-Semitic  tide,"  Thornton  says,  "this  stor\'  points 
to  our  own  cultural  illiteracy  about  what  other 
people  regard  as  sacred."  E] 


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.  1   ca-t  ever  trae  w 


THE 


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osmopo 


lifaii  (^ 


At  a  two-day  gain  kickoff 

in  London  last  fall,  Brown 

flexed  its  international 

fnndraising  muscles  and 

introduced  potential  donors  to 

the  notion  of  philanthropy, 

American-style 

BY  Richard  Halstead  '91 

ILLUSTRATIONS  BY  TeD  DeWAN  '83 


Power  conversations  are  breaking 
out  left  and  right.  Business  cards 
are  migrating  between  wallets. 
It's  a  Tuesday  night  -  November  16  -  in 
south  London,  the  second  twenty-four 
hours  of  Brown's  British  kickoff  for  the 
comprehensive  Campaign  for  the  Rising 
Generation. 

Trustee  Tim  Forbes  '76,  national 
chairman  of  the  Brown  Annual  Fund 
and  a  member  of  the  campaign  steering 
committee,  has  loaned  the  campaign 
his  family's  ornate,  art-filled  mansion  in 
Battersea,  a  few  hundred  yards  from 
the  banks  of  the  Thames,  for  a  late  din- 
ner party.  The  200  guests  have  just  been 
bussed  over  from  the  American  Embassy 
in  Grovesnor  Square,  where  they  were 
thrown  willingly  in  the  deep  end  of 
information  technology,  courtesy  of  a 
satellite-borne  Professor  of  English  Robert 


ampaign 


Coover  and  a  more  tangible  Professor  of 
Computer  Science  Andries  van  Dam. 

A  two-hour  multimedia  show  at  the 
embassy  introduced  Brown's  European 
alumni  to  hypertext,  a  computer-based 
information  storage  and  retrieval  system 
that  provides  users  with  an  interactive, 
easily-manipulated  library,  on  the  one 
hand,  and  for  the  novelist,  fiction  that 
conveys  meaning  in  an  extra  dimension. 
The  presentation  also  touched  on  the 
fashionable  concept  of  cyberspace,  which, 
though  pioneered  by  Brown's  now- 
defunct  IRIS  group,  has  been  developed 
by  other  institutions  -  notably  the  Uni- 
versity of  North  Carolina  at  Chapel 
Hill.  UNC  faculty  appeared  onscreen  at 
the  London  seminar  to  demonstrate 
how  to  walk  around  a  computer-gener- 
ated church  with  the  aid  of  a  pair  of 
old  bicycle  handlebars  attached  to  a 


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treadmill,  and  special  goggles. 

This  e\-ening's  e\'ent  is  the  second 
London  party  in  two  days  tor  Brown's 
fvmdraising  troops.  The  message  is  clear: 
to  help  reach  the  $450-million  campaign 
goal,  the  Uniyersity  is  looking  to  a  seg- 
ment of  its  alumni  body  -  those  liying 
outside  the  United  States  -  it  hasn't  really 
tapped  before. 

"The  international  side  of  the  cam- 
paign is  in  many  ways  an  exploration  of 
new  sources  of  support,"  says  Ann  W. 
Caldwell,  yice  president  for  deyelop- 
ment.  Eleyen  percent  (about  800)  of  cur- 
rent undergraduate  and  graduate  stu- 
dents now  come  from  abroad,  up  from  5 
percent  ten  years  ago,  according  to  John 
Eng-Wong  '62,  director  of  foreign  stu- 
dent, faculty,  and  staff  services.  It  fol- 
lows that  a  larger  chunk  of  total  cam- 
paign gifts  may  be  raised  from 
international  alumni  and  parents.  To 
date,  in  fact,  donations  to  the  campaign 
from  outsicle  the  United  States  are  esti- 
mated to  total  about  $4.5  million. 


Raising  funds  for  the  University 
overseas,  however,  is  a  chal- 
lenge. Outside  the  United  States 
the  culture  of  philanthropic  giving  is 
less  advanced.  The  idea  of  contributing 
money  to  an  institution  that  already 
has  asked  parents  for  the  better  part  of 
$100,000  might  get  a  frosty  reception 
in  other  countries.  Even  Americans  living 
abroad,  well-versed  in  their  responsibil- 
ities to  alma  mater,  have  found  it  awk- 
ward to  write  checks  for  which  no  local 
tax  credit  is  available. 

In  the  United  Kingdom,  however,  a 
Brown  trust  fund  qualifies  British  donors 
for  tax  relief.  Caldwell  wants  to  go  a 
step  beyond  the  logistical,  however,  and 
begin  to  change  attitudes  toward  philan- 
thropy in  general.  "The  campaign  events 
have  been  designed  to  raise  everyone's 
sights  about  the  merits  of  the  University," 
she  says.  "But  the  real  challenge  is  to 
persuade  international  alumni  that  sup- 
port, in  the  traditional  American  sense, 
can  be  rewarding." 


"In  many  countries,  including  Britain," 
says  Ronald  D.  Margolin,  assistant  vice 
president  for  international  development, 
"education  is  paid  for  by  the  state,  so 
there  is  no  expectation  that  one  should 
contribute  towards  it.  We're  hoping  to 
capitalize  on  the  charitable  impulse  that 
is  present  in  all  societies  but  manifests 
itself  in  different  ways." 

At  the  hypertext  presentation,  the 
approach  to  potential  donors  was  soft-seU. 
Late  in  the  program,  as  if  an  afterthought, 
the  Rising  Generation  promotional  video- 
tape flashed  on  the  screen  and  tugged 
heartstrings  with  images  of  sunny  days 
on  the  Green  and  Commencement 
euphoria. 

When  the  actual  "ask"  comes,  as  it 
will  over  the  next  few  months,  the  asker 
is  likely  to  be  Trustee  Emeritus  Paul 
Dupee  '67,  chairman  of  the  campaign 
volunteer  committee  in  the  United 
Kingdom.  Dupee,  who  recently  gave 
$600,000  for  the  completion  of  the  Uni- 
versity library's  on-line  catalog,  beUeves 


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f 


in  practicing  the  art  of  giving  as  well  as 
preaching  it.  "It's  very  hard  to  look 
someone  in  the  eye  and  say,  'Give  until 
it  hurts,'  until  you've  been  there  your- 
self," he  says,  adding,  "We're  trying 
to  make  some  cultural  changes  here,  but 
we're  particularly  interested  in  the 
younger  generation.  We  need  to  develop 
the  University's  next  leaders." 

It's  past  ten  o'clock,  and  a  few  stom- 
achs are  rumbling.  An  hour  has 
slipped  by  in  sipping  drinks  and 
admiring  the  walls  of  the  Battersea  house, 
which  groan  under  the  weight  of  the 
I  Forbes  art  collection.  The  dinner  guests 
are  now  seated  in  a  tent  in  the  back  gar- 
den, with  space-heaters  churning. 

President  Gregorian,  whose  style  can 
best  be  described  as  equal  measures  of 
ebullience  and  endurance,  dispenses 
well-timed  backslaps  and  handshakes. 


He  has  assembled  a  formidable  support- 
ing cast  at  the  event,  including  Anthony 
Quentin,  the  eloquent  curator  of  the 
British  Library  and  former  president  of 
Trinity  College,  Oxford;  Lord  Quentin's 
deputy  at  the  library,  Nicholas  Barker; 
and  a  gaggle  of  Americans,  including 
Brown  Trustee  J.  Carter  Brown  and  Vice 
Chancellor  Artemis  A.W.  Joukowsky  '53. 

The  pre-dinner  speeches  by  these 
notables  expand  (with  Anglicized  humor) 
the  theme  of  the  evening:  the  future  of 
education  and  technology.  Gregorian 
lays  down  a  challenge.  "Our  successors, 
and  my  successor,"  he  says,  "are  going 
to  have  an  easier  time  because  of  you." 
As  the  duck  appetizer  appears,  the  idea 
of  giving  to  Brown  is  beginning  to  seep 
into  the  diners'  communal  consciousness. 

The  development  office's  apparatus 
for  international  fundraising  demon- 
strates the  seriousness  of  the  University's 
intent.  For  its  Asian  effort  the  campaign 


recruited  such  eminent  players  as 
Japan's  Akio  Morita,  chairman  of  Sony 
Corp.,  who  helped  organize  a  leadership 
group  of  several  dozen  corporate  CEOs; 
and  the  heads  of  powerful  industrial 
families  in  South  Korea  (some  of  them 
alumni)  who  send  children  to  Brown. 

The  campaign's  swing  through 
Europe  is  expected  to  produce  an  enthu- 
siastic response.  "In  the  past  we've  done 
an  uneven  job  of  keeping  in  touch  with 
foreign  alumni,"  says  Dupee,  "although 
Britain  is  an  exception,  with  all  the  work 
Nancy  Turck  '68  has  done  as  president 
of  the  Brown  Club  here.  There  are  many 
reasons  why  alumni  fall  out  of  the  loop, 
and  our  job  is  to  restore  a  sense  of  cohe- 
sion between  the  University  and  its  fam- 
ily in  other  countries." 

In  particular,  Dupee  believes  Brown 
must  achieve  the  sort  of  brand  recogni- 
tion among  foreign  corporate  investors 
that  Harvard  and  Yale  now  enjoy.  It  is 
among  corporate  donors,  of  course,  that 
the  potential  for  really  large  gifts  lies  - 
gifts  that  can  propel  the  campaign,  and 
future  fundraising  efforts,  toward  their 
goals. 

With  campaign  events  such  as  those 
in  London,  Brown  is  spending  some 
money  to  solicit  gifts,  but  it  is  also  mar- 
keting the  University's  future.  Perhaps 
those  who  dined  on  duck  in  Battersea 
will  be  moved  to  do  something  that,  for 
the  circumspect  British  at  least,  is  entirely 
novel:  promote  their  university's  good 
name  among  their  peers.  It's  an  American 
idea  whose  time  just  may  have  come.  El 


Journalist  Richard  Halstead  '91  and  illus- 
trator Ted  Deivan  '83  live  in  London. 


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President 

Gregorian 

on  "P.C./' 

protests,  and 

more 


Hot  topics 


What  makes  news?  Controversy,  for  one,  and 
Brown  has  not  been  immune  in  the  nineties. 
From  the  appearance  several  years  ago  of  bath- 
room graffiti  accusing  male  students  of  rape, 
to  the  1990  expulsion  of  an  undergraduate  for 
drunkenly  shouting  obscenities  and  threatening 
fellow  students,  to  the  1992  occupation  of  Uni- 
versity Hall  by  students  protesting  the  Univer- 
sity's financial-aid  policies  and  last  fall's  protests 
by  Latino  students,  to  the  perceived  foibles  of 
Brown's  curriculum,  College  Hill  has  provided 
lively  fodder  for  the  newswires  and  for  assorted 
acerbic  commentators. 

Concern  among  alumni,  parents,  and  other 
Brown  friends  about  controversial  news  often 
finds  its  way  to  University  Hall  in  the  form  of 
letters  and  other  queries  to  President  Vartan 
Gregorian.  During  his  five  years  as  president,  in 
fact,  he  has  spoken  on  a  number  of  occasions  to 
various  assemblies  of  students,  faculty,  and  par- 
ents on  such  subjects  as  freedom  of  speech  and 
standards  of  behavior.  Recently  Gregorian  dis- 
cussed his  views  with  BAM  editor  Anne  Diffily; 
excerpts  from  his  remarks  follow. 


ON  POLITICAL  CORRECTNESS 

Political  correctness  is  not  a  modern  invention. 
Throughout  history  it  has  been  hard  for  people 
to  understand  and  accept  those  who  express 
"unpopular,"  "unpatriotic,"  "inflammatorv"  opin- 
ions. Even  in  America  we  have  not  been  able  to 
deal  well  with  people  who  benefit  from  our  Con- 
stitutional and  other  freedoms  but  also  retain  and 
exercise  their  right  to  be  intolerant,  anarchist,  fas- 
cist -  to  be  noncomformist  and  proud  of  it.  During 
World  War  I,  it  was  politically  incorrect  not  to 
believe  in  the  draft,  to  speak  German,  to  say 
"frankfurter"  rather  than  hot  dog,  to  listen  to  Wag- 
ner. During  the  McCarthy  era  it  became  incorrect 
to  be  a  Communist  or  a  "fellow  traveler."  But  now 
all  of  a  sudden  political  correctness  is  supposed  to 
be  the  sole  preserve  of  the  academy. 

Learning  -  the  kind  of  learning  especially  that 
takes  place  at  our  unix-ersities  -  always  has  been  an 
interplay  between  orthodoxy  and  heterodoxy.  It  is 
that  interplay  that  has  been  associated  with  progress 
and  tension  in  our  society.  At  the  university,  just  as 
in  society,  those  who  ha\e  doctrinaire  views  must 
be  free  to  express  them.  But  the  uni\'ersitv  also  must 
have  equally  powerful  voices  that  challenge  those 
views.  The  uni\'ersitv  is  not  a  place  for  mono- 
logues; it  is  a  place  for  dialogue  and  conversation. 

I  ha\'e  always  adhered  to  the  principle  of  free 


44  /  FEBRUARY   1994 


All  of  a  sudden  political 

correctness  is  supposed 

to  be  the  sole  preserve 

of  the  academy 


speech,  and  I'm  glad  that  during  my  presidency 
Brown  has  witnessed  an  ongoing  dialogue.  We 
have  had  many  lecturers  come  to  our  campus  rep- 
resenting varied  ideologies:  Arthur  Schlesinger 
spoke  recently  about  his  discomfort  with  multi- 
culturalism,  Cornel  West  presented  a  differing 
view  of  racism,  Camille  Paglia  discussed  her  ver- 
sion of  feminism.  We've  had  Charles  Colson  '53 
talking  about  evangelical  Christianity,  Ed  Meese 
defending  the  Reagan  administration's  record, 
conservative  Justice  Antonin  Scalia,  radical  scholar 
Angela  Davis,  Fred  Barnes  of  The  Neiv  Republic. 

The  very  fact  that  none  of  these  speeches,  nor  any 
other,  has  been  interrupted  or  disrupted  must  come 
as  an  unpleasant  shock  to  people  who  think  Brown 
would  silence  dissenting  voices. 

I  have  gotten  letters  accusing  Brown  of  being  a 
hotbed  of  political  correctness.  These  tend  to  be 
from  people  who  don't  know  what  is  going  on  or 
who  did  not  read  about  the  major  national  confer- 
ence here  on  this  very  topic  -  the  Brown-Prou/dence 
journal  public  affairs  conference  on  freedom  of 
speech  ["How  Free?",  BAM,  May  1991].  Yesterday 
someone  sent  me  Dan  Cerf's  Dictionary  of  Political 
Correctness,  and  while  I  found  in  it  a  large  section 
devoted  to  Smith  College,  I  could  not  find  Brown 
mentioned  at  all. 

People  who  have  in  mind  the  Brown  of  the  sev- 
enties and  eighties,  who  are  still  mesmerized  by 
old  news  of  Amy  Carter's  protesting  and  suicide 
pills,  will  be  fascinated  to  read  such  reports  as  Tim 
Forbes's  ('76)  defense  of  Brown  in  the  Wall  Street 
Journal.  [In  a  letter  to  the  Wall  Street  Journal  in 
November,  Forbes  defended  the  Brown  curriculum:  "It 
assumes  that  bright  young  individuals  are  capable  of 
finding  their  own  way  to  a  liberal  education,"  Forbes 
wrote.  ".  .  .  It  was  this  affirmation  of  individual  choice 
and  responsibility  that  attracted  me,  a  conservative 
Republican  then  and  still,  to  Brown."] 

I  don't  think  Marxism  is  new  on  campuses,  nor 
liberalism,  radicalism,  or  faddism.  Every  genera- 
tion has  considered  what  was  going  on  at  the  uni- 
versities as  a  departure 
from  orthodoxy.  I  consider 
all  differing  views  - 
deconstructionism  ami  its 
critics,  for  example  -  as 
part  of  an  ongoing  dia- 
logue in  the  "marketplace 
of  ideas,"  provided  no  one 
of  them  dominates  or 
imposes  its  will  on  another.  To  think  without  prej- 
udice and  to  teach  without  fear  are  central  to  the 
mission  of  our  University. 

That  is  where  presidents,  provosts,  and  deans 
have  a  major  role  to  play:  to  see  to  it  that  we  do  not 
create  uniformity  under  the  guise  of  autonomy, 
but  rather  that  we  provide  and  encourage  a  diver- 
sity of  views  -  not  for  the  sake  of  diversity  alone, 
but  because  knowledge  requires  it.  The  thing  I  can- 
not stand  is  mindlessness,  argument  without 
integrity  from  intellectual  exhibitionists  who  tiiink 
formulas  will  impress  people  and  pass  as  a  substi- 


tute for  knowledge.  It  is  our  duty  as  educators  to 
make  sure  the  university  is  encouraging  students 
to  challenge  all  orthodoxies,  whether  on  the  left, 
on  the  right,  or  in  the  center.  The  key  is  not  to  be 
disagreeable;  civil  discourse  can  be  conducted  and 
students  may  oppose  each  other's  views  without 
being  enemies.  It  is  all  right,  I  tell  my  students,  to 
have  friends  on  opposite  ideological  poles. 

One  of  the  wonderful  experiences  I've  had  here 
was  teaching,  with  Professor  of  History  Steven 
Graubard,  a  course  on  Alexis  de  Tocqueville's 
Democracy  in  America.  For  a  full  semester  we  read 
the  two  volumes.  The  course  brought  together 
some  twenty  students  with  different  backgrounds 
and  opposing  ideologies  -  left-  and  right-wing. 
Christian,  Jewish,  people  with  Midwestern  and 
Eastern  attitudes.  At  the  end  they  came  to  under- 
stand what  a  university  is  all  about,  what  America 
is  all  about;  they  came  out  of  the  course  with  a 
great  respect  for  one  another.  For  me  that  course 
was  the  essence  of  liberal  education:  scholarship,  a 
zest  for  learning,  informed  and  honest  dialogue. 
We  are  fortunate  to  attract  students  from  the 
top  one  percent,  academically,  in  the  country.  We 
are  getting  an  independent-minded,  albeit  idealis- 
tic, student  body.  These  are  students  who  are 
eager  to  learn,  eager  to  contribute,  eager  to  become 
citizens.  I  have  urged  Brown  students  always  to 
challenge  each  other,  because  in  my  opinion  peer 
pressure  to  conform  intellectually  can  be  the  most 
influential  neutralizing,  silencing  force. 

I've  been  delighted  to  see  that  many  people  at 
Brown  have  taken  up  my  challenge  -  from  Jeff 
Shesol  '91,  who  gave  "political  correctness"  a  bad 
name  through  his  "Thatch"  cartoons;  to  the  late 
Professor  William  McLoughlin,  who  wrote  a  col- 
umn in  the  Broivn  Daily  Herald  about  the  exaggera- 
tion of  political  correctness  as  a  weapon  for  silenc- 
ing others;  to  Jacob  Levy  '93,  a  libertarian  student 
of  mine  who  wrote  columns  for  the  BDH  and  other 
publications,  including  the  BAM  [see  "The  Ennui 
of  P.C,"  BAM,  October  1991  ].  Last  year  I  received 
a  letter  from  a  parent  who  is  a  Christian  minister, 
and  he  thanked  me  for  allowing  his  child  to  attend 
a  university  where  her  views  were  respected,  her 
values  maintained,  and  her  integrity  not  violated. 


ON  COMMUNITY  STANDARDS 

To  the  great  chagrin  of  those  who  have  made  up 
their  minds  about  Brown,  we  do  not  have  a 
"speech  code."  We  have  a  behavior  code.  Some 
have  said  this  distinction  is  spurious,  but  I  beg  to 
differ.  There  is  a  difference  between  unpopular 
ideas  expressed  in  a  public  context  and  epithets 
delivered  in  the  context  of  harassing,  intimidating, 
or  demeaning  behavior.  At  Brown,  we  expect  our 
students  to  know  the  difference.  For  twelve  years 
our  freshmen  have  received  the  University's  Tenets 


contiiiued  on  page  6j 


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PORTRAIT 


WALL  STREET  WANMBE? 


Mark  Wiufitivi  GriffitJi  'S5  has  been  called  the  hip-hop  banker, 
but  Ills  real  goal  is  to  provide  loans  to  his  Brooklyn  neighbors 


T 

I    o  anyone  who  graduated  from 
JL  Brown  in  the  mid-eighties,  it's  a 
jarring  sight:  Mark  Winston  Griffith  in 
a  crisp  gray  suit,  presiding  oyer  a  bank. 
A  bank?  After  all,  this  is  the  guy  whose 
anti-racism  rallies  on  the  Green  pre- 
saged a  decade  spent  ad\'ocating  for  the 
poor,  studying  poetry  in  Nigeria,  and 
working  for  a  black  state  legislator  in 
New  'V'ork. 

But  the  dreadlocks  crowning  Grif- 
fith's corporate  uniform  suggest  that  he 
is  no  ordinary  banker.  And  his  is  no 
ordinary  bank.  The  Central  Brooklyn 
Federal  Credit  Union  is  the  only  finan- 
cial institution  exclusively  serving  the 
predominantly  African-American  and 
Caribbean  communities  of  central  Brook- 
lyn. At  the  bank's  opening  ceremonies 
last  April,  Griffith,  the  cofounder  and 
president,  pronounced  it  the  "world's 
first  hip-hop  credit  union." 

"Bring  the  noise!"  he  challenged  the 
audience.  "We're  'bout  to  take  it  to  ya 
face." 

When  he  discusses  the  credit  union's 
purpose,  however,  Griffith  turns  seri- 
ous, and  talk  of  redlining  and  reinvest- 
ment replaces  his  street  slang.  The  credit 
union,  the  first  to  be  granted  a  govern- 
ment charter  under  the  Clinton  Admin- 
istration, is  part  of  a  national  network  of 
community-development  banks  ciesigned 
to  help  the  deteriorating  neighborhoods 
commercial  banks  have  shunned.  Nation- 
wide, the  practice  of  redlining  -  in  which 
bankers  draw  a  line  around  blighted 
areas  considered  poor  credit  risks  -  has 
long  impeded  economic  development, 
making  it  hard  for  residents  to  finance 
homes  or  start  businesses. 

"We  feel  that  economic  empower- 
ment is  the  last  frontier,"  says  Griffith, 
sitting  in  his  comer  office,  which  looks 
out  on  the  Bedford-Stuyvesant  section 
of  Brooklyn.  An  African  mask  gazes 
down  at  the  computer  on  his  desk.  "In 

46  /  FEBRUARY  1994 


the  whole  history  of  black  struggle  in 
this  country,  we  have  to  a  certain  extent 
achieved  political  power,  and  we've 
achieved  a  cultural  consciousness.  But 
economically,  there  is  an  entrenched 
underclass,  and  to  a  very  large  extent 
black  people  have  not  been  made  finan- 
cial citizens  of  this  country." 

The  credit  union  grew  out  of  the 
Central  Brooklyn  Partnership,  a  coalition 
of  community  organizations  Griffith 
convened  in  the  late  1980s.  Its  goal  was 
to  promote  "financial  literacy":  to  con- 
duct research  and  to  develop  leadership 
skills  in  young  people.  One  of  the  orga- 
nization's studies  showed  that  for  every 
dollar  large  banks  received  in  deposits 
from  residents  of  Brooklyn's  poverty- 
stricken  Bedford-Stuyvesant,  Flatbush, 
Crown  Heights,  and  Prospect  Heights 
neighborhoods,  only  one  penny  was 
given  back  in  the  form  of  home  loans. 

That's  where  the  credit  union  comes 
in.  For  now,  with  700  members  and  $1.5 
million  in  deposits,  the  union  offers  sav- 
ings and  checking  accounts  and  makes 
personal  loans  up  to  $10,000.  In  a  year 
regulators  are  expected  to  raise  the  ceil- 
ing on  loan  amounts. 

Most  of  the  credit  union's  assets  are 
from  deposits  made  by  commercial  banks 
that  would  prefer  to  "park"  their  money 
there,  since  those  deposits  are  federally 
insured,  and  leave  the  risks  of  loan-mak- 
ing to  the  union.  It's  a  quid  pro  quo 
arrangement  that  has  helped  the  credit 
union  get  up  and  running  quickly,  while 
enabling  the  banks  to  fulfill  their  lending 
obligations  to  poor  neighborhoods  under 
the  1977  Community  Reinvestment  Act. 

"There's  a  slight  contradiction 
because  we're  a  self-help  institution," 
Griffith  says.  "But  this  lets  us  get  money 
out  on  the  street  very  fast  and  do  the 
kind  of  lending  that  otherwise  would 
have  taken  us  five  or  six  years  to  do." 

Establishing  the  credit  union  in  Bed- 


HloWay 

BY   LISA   W.    FODERARO    '85 


ford-Stuyvesant  is  part  homecoming, 
part  political  statement  for  Griffith.  As  a 
child  he  lived  just  ten  blocks  away  until 
his  parents  moved  to  a  working-class 
neighborhood  in  Queens.  Then  Griffith 
was  off  to  the  privileged  world  of  the 
Lawrenceville  School  in  Princeton,  New 
Jersey,  where  his  uncle  taught  English. 
Griffith  became  the  first  black  president 
of  the  private  boarding  school's  student 
body.  At  Brown  he  concentrated  in 
English  and  Afro-American  studies  and 
became  president  of  the  Organization  of 
United  African  Peoples. 

After  graduation,  material  success 
never  beckoned  -  only  his  roots.  "There 
always  seemed  to  be  a  strength  here,  a 
grittiness  and  a  color  and  a  vitality  that  1 
wanted  to  be  part  of,"  says  Griffith, 
whose  apartment  is  a  short  walk  from 
his  office. 

"It's  difficult,"  he  continues.  "This 
place  is  very  violent.  But  I  need  to  feel 
connected,  to  have  a  physical  stake  in 
this  community.  And  I  do  think  that  I'm 
considered  to  be  legitimate.  I'm  not  seen 
as  a  carpetbagger,  someone  who  is  here 
to  exploit  the  moment." 

After  long  days  at  the  credit  union, 
Griffith  treks  uptown  to  take  two 
evening  courses  at  Columbia  Univer- 
sity, where  this  year  he  is  a  Revson  Fel- 
low, one  of  ten  New  York  City  residents 
chosen  for  their  contributions  to  urban 
life.  He  is  studying  sociology  and  fic- 
tion-writing -  subjects  that  may  fore- 
shadow his  next  undertaking.  "My 
dream  is  to  write  the  biz^iflble  Man  for 
this  generation,"  Griffith  says.  "Ralph 
Ellison  encapsulated  so  much  of  ^\•hat 
happened  in  our  community,  and  I 
think  those  stories  can  be  told  much 
more  effecti\'ely  in  fictional  form."  Q 

Lisa  W.  Foderaro  is  a  reporter  for  The 
New  York  Times  ami  I'icc-clmirman 
of  the  BAM'.-;  Boani  of  Editors. 


OUSIS  )LODVALKI6 


Once  upon  a  time  several  decades  ago,  the  drinking  age  was 
eighteen  and  the  Graduate  Center  Bar  on  the  ground  floor 
of  the  Graduate  Center  was  where  the  action  was.  A  GCB 
membership  was  considered  essential  by  many  undergrad- 
uates, as  well  as  graduate  students,  faculty,  and  staff  who 
packed  the  cozy  bar  area  and  the  larger  "Jellybean  Lounge" 
each  night  for  beer  (sold  by  the  bottle,  glass,  or  pitcher), 
conversation,  and  on  weekends,  dancing  to  live  bands. 
These  photographs  were  taken  in  the  early  and  mid-1970s. 
Today  the  GCB  occupies  a  much  smaller  space  on  the 
Graduate  Center's  second  floor  and  is  frequented  primarily 
by  graduate  students.  The  former  bar  and  lounge  space  on     ^ 
the  ground  floor  houses  a  student  computing  cluster 


i; 

it 


48  /   FEBRUARY  1994 


The  Classes 


By  James  Reinbold 


24 


The  70th  reunion  will  be  held  May  27-30. 
If  you  have  any  questions  or  suggestions, 
please  call  reunion  headquarters  at  (401)  863- 
1947.  Remember  to  save  the  dates. 


28 


Ruth  Hill  Hartenau,  Larchmont,  N.Y., 
writes  that  after  her  very  enjoyable  65th 
reunion  she  took  an  interesting  trip  in  July  to 
Scotland,  England,  and  Germany  with  son 
Chris  '69  and  his  wife;  daughter  Veronica 
and  her  husband;  and  five  grandchildren. 


29 


The  65th  reunion  will  be  held  May  27-30. 
If  you  have  any  questions  or  suggestions, 
please  call  reunion  headquarters  at  (401)  863- 
3380.  Remember  to  save  the  dates. 

Mae  Sydney  Alimena  lives  in  Manhattan, 
where  she  is  awaiting  the  birth  of  her  fourth 
great-grandcliild. 

Everet  H.  Wood,  Black  Mountain,  N.C., 
serves  on  the  board  of  the  Western  North 
Carolina  Visual  Rehabilitation  Center.  He 
holds  support-group  meetings  for  visually- 
handicapped  people. 


32 


The  Re\ .  Frederic  P.  Williams,  venerable 
canon  of  St.  Paul's  Episcopal  Church  in  Indi- 
anapolis, was  honored  on  the  occasion  of  his 
85th  birthday  when  the  music  director's 
office  was  dedicated  in  his  honor,  in  recogni- 
tion of  Frederic's  important  role  in  the  cre- 
ation of  Tlie  Hymnnl  1982.  'T'm  ready  to  head 
for  ninety,"  he  adds. 


33 


Harold  and  Ruth  Gary  Boynton  '34  live  in 
Hope,  R.l.  "We  just  hit  our  82nd  and  Both 
birthdays  -  have  been  retired  since  1976.  We 
have  four  children,  fifteen  grandchildren, 
and  six  great-grandchildren.  We  are  well." 


34 


\  our  reunion  committee  is  busy  making 
plans  for  the  60th  reunion  to  be  held  May 
27-30.  If  you  have  any  questions  or  sugges- 
tions, please  call  reunion  headquarters  at 
(401)  863-1947.  Remember  to  save  the  dates. 

E.  Davis  Caldwell,  Chagrin  Falls,  Ohio,  says 
it's  time  to  start  talking  up  the  60th  reunion. 

Benjamin  D.  Crissey,  Overland  Park, 


Kan.,  writes  that  1992  was  a  year  of  rehabili- 
tation. In  March  he  had  two  knee  replace- 
ments, and  in  November  he  had  a  left  hip 
replacement.  He's  known  by  family  members 
as  the  "bionic  man."  At  83,  Ben  can  still  drive 
and  walks  with  a  cane.  In  September  he  and 
four  of  his  children  honored  his  wife,  Ruth, 
on  the  occasion  of  her  8oth  birthday  with  a 
high  tea  at  the  Kansas  City  Ritz  Carlton  Cafe. 
Forty-four  guests  attended.  "My  aim  is  to 
become  steady  enough  to  get  hack  to  trap- 
shooting  at  our  local  gun  club.  1  still  paint 
miniature  lead  soldiers  and  have  a  collection 
of  about  750." 


35 


Ross  A.  DeMatteo  II,  Bradenton,  Fla., 
received  an  Alumni  Service  Award  at  the 
10th  Annual  Alumni  Recognition  ceremony 
on  Sept.  10.  He  had  an  exhibition  of  his 
sculptures  at  Longboat  Key  Art  Center  in 
October. 

Lt.  Col.  Lee  LaBonne,  USA  (Ret.),  Somers, 
N.Y.,  writes  that  he  is  "looking  forward  to 
the  both  reunion." 


36 


Helen  Johns  Carroll  attended  a  lecture 
given  by  Maureen  McConaghy  74,  manager 
of  the  Sumter,  S.C.,  Social  Security  Adminis- 
tration, at  Shepherd's  Center  in  Sumter. 

Regina  A.  DriscoU,  West  Hartford,  Conn., 
continues  to  teach  part-time  at  Holy  Apostles 
College  and  Seminary  in  Cromwell,  Conn. 
"Also,  I've  become  a  member  of  a  weekly  Tai 
Chi  class,  part  of  a  program  called  BAGEL  - 
Balance  and  Gait  Enhancement  Laboratory  - 
at  University  of  Connecticut  Health  Center. 
It's  great." 


38 


Robert  H.  Blewitt  Sr.,  Waterbury,  Conn., 
writes  that  he  left  Connecticut  last  year  only 
for  two  trips  to  Falls  Church,  Va.,  to  see  his 
daughter  and  her  family.  While  there  he  vis- 
ited Virginia's  historic  sites. 

Allan  R.  Brent,  Baton  Rouge,  La.,  contin- 
ues to  be  active  in  the  Service  Corps  of 
Retired  Executives.  "In  April  I  lost  my  dear 
wife,  Adalie,  after  fifty-one  years  of  marriage." 

Alan  Fontaine  photographed  the  trials  of 
the  Junior  Olympics  track  and  field  events  in 
Venice,  Italy,  last  year.  "It  was  one  of  the 
most  exhilarating  and  exciting  experiences  in 
my  career  as  a  commercial  photographer. 


What's  new? 

Please  send  the  latest  about  your  job, 
family,  travels,  or  other  news  to  The 
Classes,  Brown  Ahnnni  Monthly,  Box 
1854,  Providence,  R.I.  02912;  fax  (401) 
751-9255;  e-mail  BAM@brownvm. 
brown.edu.  Or  you  may  send  a  note 
via  your  class  secretary.  Deadline  for 
the  July  issue:  April  1. 


After  opening  a  new  studio  in  Westport, 
Conn.,  with  Edie  Van  Breems,  a  close  photog- 
rapher friend,  it  seemed  a  great  way  to  start 
the  New  Year." 

Philip  H.  Glatfelter  III,  York,  Pa.,  enjoyed 
the  5sth  reunion  and  catching  up  with  some 
of  his  old  buddies. 


39 


Calling  all  women  of  '39!  Our  55th  reunion 
IS  getting  closer.  Let's  all  plan  to  come  and 
make  it  a  great,  happy,  exciting  time.  Helen 
Gill  Engles,  activities  chair,  is  planning  a 
wonderful  array  of  activities  for  you  to  enjoy. 
You  won't  want  to  miss  a  thing. 

Teresa  Gagnon  Mellone,  class  gift  chair, 
is  encouraging  all  classmates  to  be  as  gener- 
ous as  possible  and  to  break  our  own  50th- 
reunion  participation  record  of  94  percent. 
Let's  make  it  closer  to  100  percent!  With  your 
continued  loyalty  and  support  we'll  do  it. 

Mark  your  '94  calendar  for  Commence- 
ment/Reunion Weekend  -  Friday,  May  27, 
through  Monday,  May  30  -  and  come. 

Gilbert  E.  Cain,  Wilmington,  Del,  urges 
classmates  to  make  a  real  effort  to  attend  the 
55th  reunion. 

Dick  Goodby  is  chairman  and  CEO  of 
Sanson  &  Rowland  Inc.,  of  Philadelphia,  a 
103-year-old  fastener  company.  Dick  started 
as  sales  manager  in  1949  and  became  presi- 
dent in  i960.  He  lives  in  Gladwyne,  Pa.,  and 
spends  much  of  the  summer  at  his  home  in 
New  Hampshire.  He  has  a  son.  Rick;  a  daugh- 
ter, Susan;  and  six  grandchildren.  Wife  Ginny 
graduated  from  RISD  in  1941. 


43 


L.  Robert  Campbell  and  his  wife  sold 
their  property  on  Hilton  Head  Island,  B.C., 
and  are  living  in  Arizona. 


44 


Brown  and  Pembroke  reunion  committees 
continue  to  meet  and  put  our  game  plan  into 
action.  Please  refer  to  your  last  mailing  and 
review  the  itinerary  detailing  special  events 
that  promise  you  a  weekend  of  treasured 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY   ,'   49 


memories.  It  vou  have  not  recei\ed  a  mail- 
ing, please  call  reunion  headquarters  at  (401) 
S63-ig47. 

Make  vour  plans  to  return  to  vour  alma 
mater  on  May  27-30.  Your  presence  will  pro- 
vide the  spirit  of  friendship  and  fellowship 
needed  for  a  successful  soth  reunion. 

^  our  committees  are  headed  b\'  Mike 
Leacli  Charlie  Collins,  Preston  Atwood, 
Haig  Barsamian  Lillian  Affleck,  Dodo  Hirsch, 
Marcella  Hance,  and  Jane  Cottam  Subcom- 
mittees are  also  at  ivork  and  are  an  important 
link  in  the  planning  process. 

Phyllis  Bidwell  Oliver,  Rloomtield,  Conn., 
writes  that  her  first  granddaughter,  Maggie, 
arrived  on  Aug.  31.  On  Sept.  10,  Phyllis  and 
Don  flew  to  Athens  for  a  two-week  land  and 
sea  trip  that  included  visits  to  Istanbul  and 
Ephesus,  Turke)'.  "Mv  biggest  shock  was  that 
1  cannot  walk  and  climb  as  well  as  1  did 
\\hen  we  were  there  in  1983." 


I 


46 


Bette  Lipkin  Brown,  West  Palm  Beach, 
Fla.,  IS  in\ ohed  with  fundraising  for  the 
Campaign  for  the  Rising  Generation  and  inter- 
views prospective  Brown  stucients  in  Florida. 
"For  me  it  is  a  special  privilege  to  work  for 
our  alma  mater." 

Ed  Clarke  and  Vivian  Bergquist  Clarke 
'49  traveled  with  a  group  of  Rotarians  to  the 
internadonal  convention  in  Melbourne,  Aus- 
tralia, last  May  and  early  June.  The  trip 
included  a  week  in  New  Zealand  and  a  few 
days  in  Fiji,  where  "we  assisted  poor  villagers 
by  providing  them  with  simple  but  strong 
homes  that  can  resist  the  devastating  cyclones 
that  regularly  hit  the  islands."  Ed  and  Vivian's 
entire  family  of  four  children,  three  daugh- 
ters-in-law, and  twelve  grandchildren  came 
together  in  Julv  for  the  first  time  ever  to  cele- 
brate the  baptism  of  the  two  newest  grand- 
daughters: one  from  Phoenix,  and  the  other 
from  Appleton,  Wise.  "The  possibility  of 
retirement  is  beginning  to  sneak  up  on  us." 
They  live  in  Paxton,  Mass. 

Arnold  Durfee  and  his  wife,  Alicia,  retired 
as  classroom  teachers  in  1983.  They  have 
three  children,  Matthew,  Anne  Mary,  and 
Marian;  and  six  grandchildren.  Arnold  and 
Alicia  volunteer  with  a  number  of  local  orga- 
nizations. In  the  summer  they  cruise  Narra- 
gansett  Bay  in  their  Pearson-26  sloop.  Arnold 
is  looking  forvvard  to  the  50th  reunion. 

Paul  Green  and  his  wife,  Eleanor,  pre- 
sented a  panel  for  the  AIDS  Quilt  the  week- 
end of  Oct.  23  on  behalf  of  their  daughter, 
Ann  Craig  '74.  "Ann  was  a  talented  per- 
former, and  the  panel  celebrated  her  life  of 
innovation  and  talent,  including  a  Village 
Voice  review  of  her  shows  at  the  Pyramid 
Club  in  New  York  City.  We  hope  that  any  of 
our  classmates  v\ho  have  an  opportunity  to 
view  the  Names  Project  quilt  will  do  so.  It 
brings  home  the  epidemic  in  a  dramatic  and 
moving  way.  Life  in  Westport,  Conn.,  contin- 
ues well  with  no  thoughts  of  retiring  ever 
from  my  publishing  activities.  Thanks  to  my 
Mac  and  my  fax  all  is  possible.  We  look  for- 
ward to  seeing  everyone  at  the  50th." 

Betty  Sue  Ernst  Greenebaum  continues 
as  vice  president  of  the  Scarsdale  (N.Y.)  His- 


torical Societv,  w'here  she  is  involved  in  vari- 
ous school  programs.  She  has  worked  for 
more  than  thirty  years  at  White  Plains  Hospi- 
tal. Bettv  Sue  "commutes"  to  Phoenix,  Ariz., 
to  visit  with  her  daughter  and  her  4-year-old 
grandson.  She  still  attends  concerts,  exhibi- 
tions, antique  shows,  and  craft  shows. 

Edwin  M.  Knights,  Bloomfield  Hills, 
Mich.,  is  easing  into  retirement  while  con- 
sulting in  pathology  for  private  medical  labo- 
ratories and  hospitals.  He's  planning  to  move 
back  to  New  England.  He  and  his  wife  have  a 
condo  in  Flagship  Wharf  in  the  Charlestown 
(Mass.)  Navy  Yard  and  are  building  a  hilltop 
home  in  Grantham,  N.H.  "We  hope  to  be 
using  both  places  next  fall." 

James  S.  Siegal,  Tustin,  Calif.,  hosted  a 
family  reunion  last  July  in  Newport,  R.I. 
"Looking  forward  with  pleasure  to  our 
Brown  50th.  I've  been  in  California  since  1958 
and  recently  toured  the  campus  for  the  first 
time  since  1945.  Talk  about  nostalgic  experi- 
ences. Dr.  Gregorian  told  me  that  one  cannot 
change  one's  memories." 


49  MHasi- 


47 


Hope  Finley  Boole  is  hack  in  California, 
poor  but  happy,  after  retiring  from  paying 
jobs  a  year  ago.  "Three  daughters  live  in  this 
area;  a  son  lives  in  Raleigh,  N.C.;  and  another 
in  Dallas.  1  spent  the  summer  on  the  East 
Coast  as  if  1  was  independently  wealthy,  hit- 
ting Dallas  on  the  way  out  and  coming  hack. 
Among  others,  Larry  and  Fran  Richardson 
Brautigam  took  me  in,  as  did  Myra  and  Dick 
Crossley,  wonderful  old  friends,  all  in  good 
spirits  and  health.  Out  here,  Carl  Paulson  '4b 
and  I  get  together  for  lunch  and  do  muse- 
ums, etc.  He  lives  five  minutes  away.  Small 
world.  I  am  expecting  my  fifth  grandchild  in 
February." 


48 


Ernest  S.  Frerichs,  director  of  Brown's 
Program  in  ludaic  Studies,  was  honored  at 
the  Touro  Synagogue  in  Newport,  R.I.,  on 
Oct.  3  by  the  Touro  National  Heritage  Trust, 
of  which  Bernard  Bell  '42  is  president.  The 
Trust  recognized  Ernie  for  distinguished  ser- 
vice. The  Touro  National  Heritage  Trust  pro- 
vides an  annual  fellowship  in  the  John  Carter 
Brown  Library  at  Brown.  Ernie  also  has  been 
elected  a  trustee  and  vice-president  of  the 
American  Schools  of  Oriental  Research,  the 
oldest  academic  society  in  the  United  States 
dedicated  to  archaeological  and  related  stud- 
ies in  the  Middle  East. 

Stephen  Stanley  received  the  1993  Voca- 
tional Excellence  award  from  the  Middleboro 
(Mass.)  Rotary  Club  at  a  dinner  reception  in 
October.  Steve,  who  was  a  tackle  on  the 
Brown  football  team,  has  owned  Steve's  Sports 
Den  for  forty-four  years.  He  is  active  in  civic 
affairs  and  was  instrumental  in  forming 
the  Middleboro  Little  League.  Present  at  the 
award  ceremony  were  Middleboro  Rotary 
Club  past  presidents  Jack  Beckford  '60  and 
Robert  Saquet  'hz. 

Robert  H.  Wehrman,  Fountain  Valley, 
Calif.,  writes  that  he  keeps  in  touch  with 
nephew  Phil  '52  and  son  Bob  '69. 


V :  Reserve  May  27-30  to  return  to  campus 
for  a  memorable  weekend.  If  you  have  not 
received  your  first  mailing,  please  contact 
reunion  headquarters  at  (401)  863-3380. 

The  Pembroke  Class  of  '49  held  a  delight- 
ful mini-reunion  at  the  Harvard  Club  in 
New  York  City  on  Oct.  is.  Classmates  who 
attended  were  Anne  Day  Archibald,  Caroline 
Kittredge  Barlow,  Marilyn  Taft  Blake, 
Shirley  Prager  Branner,  Dolores  Pastore  Di- 
Prete,  Lois  Jagolinzer  Fain,  Rose  Jamiel 
Falugo,  Adele  Miller  Fiderer,  Janice  Eppler 
Hagemann,  Marjorie  Logan  Hiles,  Muriel 
Broadbent  Jones,  Jeanne  Maroney.  Jean 
Miller,  Alice  Kirk  Overton,  Renee  Broder  Par- 
vin  Eloise  Fleischer  Pollack,  Joanne  Worley 
Rondestvedt,  Chris  Brown  Shults,  Ruth 
Anderson  Tumey,  Olga  Glassman  Weiss, 
Henny  Wenkart,  Marion  Stewart  Wenzel,  Sally 
deVeer  Whipple,  and  Doris  Payne  Williams 

The  Pembrokers  came  from  Massachu- 
setts, Rhode  Island,  Connecticut,  New  York, 
and  New  Jersey.  Sex'eral  from  New  England 
braved  the  early  morning  hours  to  hop  on  an 
Amtrak  club  car,  and  made  it  a  full  day  by 
enjoying  both  breakfast  and  dinner  on  the 
train.  Others  spent  the  weekend  in  the  city, 
or  drove  in.  It  was  an  adventure  for  all. 

An  elegant  luncheon  and  enough  time  to 
socialize,  reminisce,  and  catch  up  rounded 
out  this  most  successful  mini-reunion.  We  are 
eagerly  looking  forward  to  our  return  to  the 
campus  for  our  4Sth  reunion  in  May.  Sally 
deVeer  Whipple  and  Lorraine  Bliss  are 
reunion  cochairs. 

Judge  Phyllis  Whitman  Beck  x\as  elected 
to  the  American  Judicature  Society's  Board  of 
Directors  at  the  Society's  annual  meeting  in 
New  York  City.  She  is  chair  of  the  Go\'ernor's 
Judicial  Reform  Commission  and  a  member 
of  Pennsvlvanians  for  Modern  Courts  and 
the  American  Law  Institute,  for  which  she 
serves  on  the  commitee  on  famih-  dissolu- 
tion. She  is  a  former  \'ice  dean  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  Pennsylvania  Law  School.  She  lives  in 
Wynnewood,  Pa. 

John  F.  Prendergast  (see  Steve  Dorsey  '80). 


50 


June  Brenner  Judson  is  founder  and  con- 
tinues as  artistic  director  of  Theatre  in  Pro- 
cess, Boston,  which  has  received  a  major 
grant  from  the  Massachusetts  State  Arts  Coun- 
cil. June  plans  to  use  the  grant  to  support  the 
theater's  next  project,  which  she  will  direct: 
a  workshop  production  of  a  new  musical 
for  family  audiences,  Slicrlock  Bona  ivid  Tlie 
Case  of  the  Vanisliiiig  Diiwfaiirs.  bv  Dennis 
Livingston. 

Diana  Harvie  Maher  still  owns  Maca 
Dourada,  a  bar  in  Rio  de  Janeiro.  She  has  five 
married  children  and  seven  grandchildren. 
"1  visit  the  States  a  couple  of  times  a  year," 
she  writes,  "plus  other  travels  to  places  like 
China  and  Greece." 

Fredi  Kovitch  Solod  and  Beth  Pollock  ^1 
toured  the  Alaska  Inland  Passage  aboard  the 
S.S.  Universe  in  late  August  and  September. 
They  flew  by  helicopter  to  and  walked  on 
glaciers  and  rafted  through  an  eagle  preserve 


SO  /  FEBRUARY  1994 


along  the  wav.  "The  country  is  as  spectacular 
as  we'd  imagined."  Fredi  lives  in  Providence, 
and  Beth  lives  in  Barrington,  R.I. 


51 


Col.  Norman  Duquette,  USAF  (Ret.), 
Anchorage,  enjoyed  a  September  ski  vacation 
in  New  Zealand.  "Experiencing  spring 
foliage  at  that  time  of  the  year  was  different." 

Henry  F.  Shea  Jr.  retired  from  Monsanto 
in  June  1991  ami  from  Novos  International,  a 
Monsanto  spin-off,  last  June.  He  hves  at  475 
Buttercup  Trace,  Alpharetta,  Ga.  30201. 


53 


Sheba  Fishbain  Skirball  writes  that  Bill 
Gindin  and  his  wife,  Emily,  spent  some  time 
with  her  on  their  recent  visit  to  Israel  during 
the  fall  holy  days.  Sheba  and  her  family  are 
delighted  to  welcome  any  Brown  alumni  vis- 
iting Israel.  Sheba,  who  lives  in  Jerusalem, 
is  president  of  the  Brown  Club  of  Israel.  Her 
home  telephone  is  (02)  813498. 


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A  tribute  to  our  college  days  is  being 
planned  and  we  want  you  to  be  there.  Save 
the  dates  of  May  27-30.  Being  there  is  really 
what  the  reunion  is  all  about.  If  you  have  not 
yet  received  your  first  mailing,  please  contact 
reunion  headquarters  at  (401)  863-1947. 

Peter  P.  DePaola,  Fall  River,  Mass.,  retired 
in  June  1990  after  thirty-five  years  of  teach- 
ing, twenty  of  which  he  served  as  depart- 
ment head  of  foreign  languages  at  Classical 
High  School,  Providence. 

Doris  Eisenberg  Epstein,  Ames,  Iowa, 
had  a  great  summer  despite  the  floods.  Ruth 
Finkelstein  Ignatoff  \'isited  for  two  weeks. 
"1  think  we  talked  nonstop."  After  that  Doris 
helped  her  daughter  pack  for  a  move  from 
flooded  Manhattan,  Kansas,  to  Boulder,  Colo. 
In  August  she  went  to  Canada  with  her  hus- 
band, Abe,  who  had  business  meetings,  and 
then  they  drove  to  Cape  Cod  for  a  visit  with 
Doris's  brother,  Ben  '31. 

Joseph  A.  Meschino  is  celebrating  his  third 
year  with  the  National  Institute  of  Allergy 
and  Infectious  Diseases  as  chief,  pharmaceu- 
tical and  regulatory  affairs  branch,  a  part  of 
the  division  dedicated  to  discovering  and 
developing  new  treatments  and  vaccines 
against  AIDS-related  diseases.  He  lives  with 
his  wife,  Gloria,  in  Vienna,  Va.,  and  thev 
enjoy  visiting  their  six  grandchildren  in  Mont- 
pelier,  Vt.;  Memphis,  Tenn.;  and  Newtown, 
Conn. 


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s     We  are  pleased  to  report  that  thirteen 
classmates  were  on  campus  this  past  Com- 
mencement weekend.  Dazzle  Devoe  Gidley, 
Julie  Petrarca,  and  John  Peterson  got  them- 
selves invited  to  '55's  Saturday-night  dinner 
at  the  Faculty  Club.  Later  thev  were  joined  at 
the  Pops  Concert  bv  Judy  Gagnon  Davidson, 
Ginnie  Clark  Levin,  Dick  Williams,  Dorothy 
Mancini  Lafond,  Hank  Vandersip,  and  Jiffy 
Morgan  Massey. 


Sunday  morning  most  of  us  reassembled 
at  Hank's  house  in  Cranston,  R.I.,  where  he 
and  his  wife,  Phebe,  put  on  their  third  annual 
reunion  brunch.  Also  there  were  Judy  Kwe- 
skin  Greenfield,  Linda  Kessler  Fishman, 
David  Fishman,  and  Carol  Jordan  Hamilton 

On  Monday  morning  Hank,  John,  Dazzle, 
Jiffy,  and  Judy  Greenfield  carried  the  '56  ban- 
ner down  the  Hill.  We  should  also  note  that 
both  Judy  and  Jiffy  had  sons  graduate  that 
day,  and  it  was  a  repeat  experience  for  both. 
Judy  had  a  daughter  graduate  in  1983,  and 
Jiffy  had  a  daughter  graduate  in  1985. 

We  hope  many  of  vou  will  join  us  next 
year. 

Hideo  Masuda,  Kyoto,  Japan,  writes  that 
while  doing  research  at  Bowdoin  College  in 
1985,  he  visited  Brown  for  the  first  time  since 
1952.  "1  was  delightfully  surprised  that  so  lit- 
tle has  been  changed." 

John  Robinson  (see  Chase  Robinson  '85). 


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Robert  E.  Connell,  Pittsburgh,  is  head 
librarian  of  Washington  and  Jefferson  College 
and  was  recently  named  professor  of  Latin 
by  the  Beattv  Foundation. 

Olga  Gemski  Robinson  (see  Chase  Robin- 
son '85). 


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Stephen  Barkin  and  his  wife,  Madeline, 
joyfully  announce  the  birth  of  their  second 
grandchild,  Jesse  Lee  Barkin,  on  April  22. 
They  live  in  New  York  City. 

William  F.  Gleason  Jr.  (see  Stephanie  A. 
Jeong  '87). 

William  F.  Johnston,  Weston,  Mass.,  has 
been  appointed  full-time  lecturer  in  manage- 
ment at  Babson  College,  Wellesley,  Mass. 
Previously  he  was  an  executive-in-residence 
and  part-time  lecturer  at  the  college.  He  was 
president  and  CEO  of  Fenwal  Inc.,  a  manu- 
facturer of  industrial  temperature  and  process 
controls  in  Ashland,  Mass. 

C.  William  Stamm,  Stonington,  Conn., 
writes  that  it  was  exciting  to  share  his  35th 
reunion  with  the  graduation  of  his  youngest 
child,  Jeffrey  Palmer  Stamm  '93.  "We  are 
looking  forward  to  going  to  reunions 
together." 

Joan  Kopf  Tiedemann,  Baldwin,  N.Y., 
received  an  Alumni  Service  Award  for  distin- 
guished volunteer  service  to  Brown  at  the 
10th  Annual  Alumni  Recognition  ceremony 
on  Sept.  10.  Her  daughter,  Cathy  '84,  is  com- 
pleting her  MBA  in  marketing  at  Columbia 
and  interned  at  Colgate  Palmolive.  Son  John 
'87  is  in  sales  at  Rolling  Stone  magazine. 


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Come  back  to  campus  May  27-30  for  our 
fabulous  35th!  If  you  or  anyone  you  know 
did  not  receive  our  first  mailing  in  October, 
please  call  (401)  863-3380.  -  Diane  Scola  and 
Clark  Sammartino 

Lois  Wolpert  Graboys  (see  Angela  S. 
Graboys  '84). 


Wendell  B.  Barnes  Jr.,  Gresham,  Oreg., 
writes  that  "during  m9^  my  travels  took  me 
to  China  five  times,  to  India  twice,  lugging  a 
(John)  ScuUey  Powerbook,  and  sanity  being 
saved  bv  Ted  Turner's  CNN  International. 
Son  Wendell  111,  iu,  is  in  Germany  and  Czech 
Republic  teaching  English,  and  daughter  Dei- 
dre,  28,  is  in  Great  Falls,  Mont.,  working  for 
a  title  insurance  company." 

Roger  and  Sandy  Mason  Bamett  have 
moved  to  Newport,  R.L,  where  Roger  is  a 
Secretary  of  the  Navy  Fellow  at  the  Naval 
War  College.  Their  address  is  6  Whitwell  PI., 
Newport,  R.I.  02840. 

Robert  J.  Echenberg,  Bethlehem,  Pa.,  is 
chairman  of  the  city's  Perinatal  Ethics  Com- 
mittee. He  had  a  paper  published  in  the  fall 
1992  issue  of  The  journal  of  Clinical  Ethics. 

Don  E.  Hamilton,  Laguna  Beach,  Calif., 
writes  that  his  first  granddaughter.  Sierra 
Gustava  Hamilton,  was  born  Feb.  18,  1993. 

John  ScuUey  left  Apple  Computer  Inc.  to 
become  chairman  and  chief  executive  officer 
of  Spectrum  Information  Technolcigies  Inc.,  a 
Manhasset,  NY.,  company  that  holds  several 
patents  in  the  area  of  error-free  transmission 
of  computer  data  over  cellular  networks. 


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Dorothy  Pierce  McSweeny,  Washington, 
D.C.,  writes  that  her  youngest  son,  Terrell 
Pierce  McSweeny,  is  a  freshman  at  Harvard. 
Her  oldest,  Ethan  Maverick  McSweeny,  grad- 
uated from  Columbia  last  spring  and  is  the 
resident  director  of  the  National  Shakespeare 
Theatre  of  Washington,  D.C. 

Ray  Merson  (see  David  Soule  Merson  '89). 


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William  R.  Caroselli,  Pittsburgh,  has  been 
named  honorary  chairperson  for  the  1994 
Easter  Seal  Society  of  Allegheny  (Pa.)  County 
national  telethon  on  March  5  and  6.  He  is  a 
partner  at  Caroselli,  SpagnoUi  &  Beachler,  a 
law  firm  specializing  in  personal  litigation 
and  worker's  compensation. 

On  May  31  Carol  Spindler  Duncan  and 
daughter  Alison  Carroll  Duncan  marched  in 
Brown's  Commencement  procession,  Carol 
as  an  aide  to  the  chief  marshal  and  Alison  as 
an  almost-graduating  senior  with  one  course 
and  one  thesis  to  go.  In  addition,  Carol's  son, 
Andrew,  graduated  from  the  Williston- 
Northampton  School  in  Easthampton,  Mass., 
on  May  30.  Carol  lives  in  Lowell,  Mass. 

Gary  E.  Seningen  moved  to  Bethlehem,  Pa., 
in  1992  when  he  relocated  his  job  to  Bridge- 
water,  N.J.  He  works  for  Met  Life  Insurance 
Company  as  director  of  comprehensive  plan- 
ning. His  son,  Scott,  is  a  sophomore  at  Vil- 
lanova.  "1  enjoyed  seeing  Brown  play  Lehigh 
on  Sept.  2s.  Ran  into  Lee  Steele  '62.  He  lives 
around  the  corner." 


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««s  Don't  forget  to  make  your  plans  now  to 
return  to  campus  for  our  30th.  May  27-30  are 
the  dates  to  join  oki  and  new  friends.  We  are 

BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY   /  51 


planning  on  bringing  b.ick  old  memories  .ind 
establishing  new  memories.  It  \ou  ha\e  not 
yet  received  \oiir  first  mailing,  please  call 
reuniiMi  headquarters  at  (401)  .Sti ■<- 1 1.147. 

Michael  Broomfield  and  Deborah  Nadler 
Broomlield  announLC  the  birth  ot  their 
daughter,  Caroline  Abigail,  on  July  9-  "We 
hope  to  attend  the  30th  reunion  this  spring, 
particularly  if  anyone  is  bringing  a  teenager 
who'd  like  to  babysit."  Michael  and  Deborah 
h\  e  in  New  ^  ork  City. 

William  Cutler  is  a  clinical  ps\chologist 
in  pri\  ate  practice.  His  w\ie,  Mary,  is  a  senior 
mental-health  worker  and  MSVV  candidate. 
Their  daughter,  Cara,  is  a  freshman  at  North- 
field  Mount  Hermon.  William  and  Mary  live 
in  Gales  Ferr\-,  Conn. 

Albert  E.  Labouchere  hosted  a  surprise 
birthday  graduation  parts'  in  Salisbury,  Conn., 
last  summer  for  his  wife,  Anne  Doswell 
Labouchere  bs,  who  graduated  from  Averett 
College  with  a  4.0  average.  Anne  works  in 
the  development  office  of  Chatham  Hall 
School  and  writes  poetry.  Brown  alumni  join- 
ing the  celebration  included  J.  David  Cum- 
mings  d',,  Robert  E.  Dineen  'h^,  Carole  Ann 
Jones  Dineen  h-,,  Frederic  E.J.  Helbig, 
Stephen  W.  Jenks,  Jackson  W.  Robinson, 
and  Albert  Suttle  Jr. 

Susan  Rosenfeld  married  Frederick  J. 
Stielow,  executive  director  of  the  Amistad 
Research  Center  at  Tulane  University,  on 
March  27.  Susan  is  a  research  fellow  at 
Tulane  this  year.  They  live  in  New  Orleans. 

Col.  David  K.  Rumsey,  USMC,  was 
recalled  to  acti\e  dut\'  with  the  Marine  Corps 
in  February  1991.  Last  October  he  returned  to 
his  old  job  as  domestic-relations  master  in 
Prince  George's  County,  Md.  He  looks  forward 
to  the  30th  reunion  and  to  his  son  Alans 
graduation  in  May.  David  lives  in  Upper 
Marlboro,  Md, 

Loretta  G.  Stokes,  Mill  Valley,  Calif., 
is  director  of  human  resources  at  Dominican 
College  in  San  Rafael,  Calif.  Her  daughter, 
Alison,  graduated  last  June  from  Curry  College, 
Milton,  Mass.,  and  son  Derek  graduated  from 
the  San  Francisco  Art  Institute  in  December. 


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William  G.  Hooks  was  transferred  to  Sin- 
gapore as  managing  director,  HBO  Asia, 
where  he  manages  the  startup  of  an  English- 
language,  satellite-delivered  movie  service 
targeted  at  a  dozen  countries  in  Southeast  Asia. 
The  job  in\-o!ves  a  lot  of  travel  in  the  region, 
and  he  is  enjoying  the  cultures  and  people. 
Bill  expects  to  be  in  the  area  for  at  least  two 
more  years;  the  ultimate  goal  is  to  deliver 
ser\'ice  into  China.  He  is  also  doing  NASP 
interviewing  and  reports  that  six  Singaporeans 
matriculated  at  Brown  last  fall.  Bill's  daugh- 
ter is  Lisa  Hooks  47. 

Ross  Jones  was  named  senior  vice-presi- 
dent and  chief  financial  officer  at  Knight- 
Ridder  Inc.,  .Miami,  on  Oct.  i.  He  joined 
Knight-Ridder  last  February  after  serving  as 
vice-president  and  treasurer  of  Reader's 
Digest  since  1985. 

Kenneth  A.  Klein  is  a  radiation  oncologist. 
He  lives  in  Racine,  Wise,  with  his  wife, 
Anne,  and  their  two  sons,  Jeff  and  Mike. 


Literature  as  a  tool 
for  reform 

Many  have  argued  that  prison  Is  a  school 
for  crime  and  that  few  criminals  are  reha- 
bilitated during  their  incarceration.  In  the 
hope  that  literature  might  influence  lives 
gone  astray,  Robert  Waxier,  professor 
and  chair  of  the  English  department  at  the 
University  of  Massachusetts-Dartmouth, 
teaches  a  literature  class  at  the  university 
to  criminals  who  have  been  given  the 
choice  of  enrolling  or  going  to  jail. 

"I  really  believe  that  of  all  the  tools  that 
we  have  to  humanize  the  world,  literature 
remains  the  most  powerful,"  Waxier  said 
in  an  article  in  the  Neiv  York  Times.  The 
alternative  sentencing  program  is  for  offend- 
ers who  have  been  convicted  of  crimes 
ranging  from  burglary  to  assault;  repeat 
offenders  also  are  eligible.  To  be  accepted 
into  the  program,  convicts  must  be  literate 
and  must  convince  a  judge  and  a  proba- 
tion officer  that  they  want  to  turn  their  hves 
around,  according  to  the  Times  article. 

The  classes  are  not  meant  to  be  group 
therapy  sessions;  rather,  they  focus  on 
works  by  such  authors  as  John  Steinbeck, 
Jack  London,  Ernest  Hemingway,  and 
Toni  Morrison.  "Part  of  the  value  is  that 
we're  really  not  engaged  in  personal  reve- 
lations around  the  table,"  Waxier  said. 
"But  at  the  same  time,  we're  discussing 
the  larger  patterns  of  everybody's  lives." 

The  program  was  created  several  years 
ago  by  Waxier  and  his  friend  and  tennis 
partner.  Judge  Robert  Kane  of  New  Bedford 
(Massachusetts)  District  Court.  "I've  seen 
that  the  traditional  approach,  weighted 
toward  jail,  is  not  always  effective,"  Kane 
said  in  the  Boston  Globe.  "As  a  lifelong 
believer  in  literature,  1  thought  this  was 


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James  Davenport  was  promoted  to  asso- 
ciate chairman  of  the  physics  department  at 
Brookhaven  National  Laboratory.  He  and  his 
wife,  Deborah  Morgan  Davenport  '70,  live  in 
Setauket,  N.Y. 

Marjorie  J.  Marks  has  made  Snowmass, 
Colo.,  her  official  and  legal  home,  although 
she  continues  to  maintain  a  residence  in  New- 
York  City,  "which  helps  me  realize  how 
lucky  we  are  to  have  found  Colorado.  1  am 


worthy  of  an  experiment.  It's  turned  into 
my  best  experience  on  the  bench."  The 
friends  enlisted  the  help  of  probation  officer 
Wayne  R.  St.  Pierre  and  won  a  grant  from 
the  Shaw  Foundation  in  Boston.  To  date, 
fifty-four  men  have  participated  in  the  lit- 
erature class. 

Not  everyone  favors  the  program.  Some 
faculty  members  at  UMass-Dartmouth 
have  questioned  bringing  criminals  onto  the 
campus,  and  the  president  of  a  New  Bed- 
ford crime-watch  group  accused  the  pro- 
gram of  coddling  criminals,  the  Globe 
reported. 

But  a  recent  study  by  G.  Roger  Jarjoura, 
a  professor  of  criminal  justice  at  Indiana 
University,  was  encouraging.  He  followed 
thirty-two  men  who  took  the  class  for 
one  to  two-and-a-half  years  and  found  that 
only  six  of  them  were  convicted  of  new- 
crimes.  Over  the  same  period  he  tracked 
forty  men  with  similar  backgrounds  who 
had  not  taken  the  class;  eighteen  were  con- 
victed of  new  crimes,  reported  the  Times. 

Waxier  finds  his  convict  students  very 
capable.  At  the  conclusion  of  a  recent  class 
he  told  the  group  that  the  discussions 
were  "good  and  sometimes  better  than  the 
discussions  I've  had  in  my  day  classes. 
You  guys  are  bright  and  capable  of  going 
on  to  get  more  education,  no  matter  w-hat 
level  you're  at  now." 


going  through  my  first  retirement,  but  start- 
ing a  consulting  business  in  Colorado.  1  also 
ha\'e  become  quite  a  middle-aged  jock,  w^hich 
will  certainly  surprise  all  who  knew  me  in 
the  sixties.  So  I  ha\'e  to  figure  how-  to  juggle 
working  with  skiing  (downhill  and  cross- 
country), tennis,  biking,  hiking,  white-water 
raffing,  fishing,  and  rollerblading." 

Joseph  J.  Ruma,  North  Andover,  Mass., 
writes:  "I  came  to  appreciate  life  a  bit  more 
this  past  year  helping  my  fiancee.  Helaine 
Benson  Palmer  '(i8,  fight  an  aggressixe cancer 


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and  survive  the  rigorous  treatment  and  a 
bone-marrow  transplant.  It  was  wonderful  to 
celebrate  Helaine's  25th  reunion." 


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After  ten  years  in  New  York  City,  Terry 
Gross  returned  to  San  Francisco,  where  he 
will  continue  his  law  practice  at  One  Maritime 
Plaza,  Suite  1040,  specializing  in  complex 
civil  and  criminal  litigation,  intellectual-prop- 
erty and  entertainment  law.  First  Amend- 
ment and  media  law,  and  civil-rights  and 
employment  discrimination.  He  is  of  counsel 
to  the  firm  Rahinowitz,  Boudin,  Standard, 
Krinsky  &  Lieberman,  P.C,  of  New  York. 
Terry's  wife,  Victoria  Kelly,  is  a  writer,  direc- 
tor, and  actress.  "We  are  following  the  lead 
of  our  children,  who  as  soon  as  they  left 
home  after  high  school  returned  to  the  West 
Coast."  Terry's  name  was  omitted  from  the 
list  of  attendees  at  the  2sth  reunion. 

Elliot  E.  Maxwell  is  director  of  interna- 
tional technology  policy  and  programs  at  the 
U.S.  Department  of  Commerce  in  Washing- 
ton, DC.  He  lives  in  Bethesda,  Md. 

Michael  F.  O'Connor  writes  that  "after 
several  years  of  huffing  and  puffing  to  earn  a 
second-string  defenseman's  slot  with  Mary- 
land's Eastern  Shore  Men's  Lacrosse  League, 
1  took  last  summer  off  to  teach,  as  adjunct 
professor  of  law  at  the  University  of  Mary- 
land School  of  Law  in  Baltimore.  At  this  time, 
I'm  back  in  the  world  of  crimes  and  court- 
rooms as  public  defender  for  the  Tidewater 
Communitv  of  Easton,  Md." 


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^S3n^f!*smr^s!ieef 


Richard  Blackman,  Robert  Huseby,  Linda 
Abbott  Antonucci,  and  their  enthusiastic 
committee  have  a  wonderful  weekend 
planned.  May  27-30.  We  look  forward  to  cel- 
ebrating this  milestone  reunion  with  many  of 
vou.  If  you  or  anyone  you  know  didn't 
receive  our  first  mailing  last  May,  please  call 
(401)  863-3380.  Don't  forget  to  return  your 
2Tth  reunion  yearbook  survey  if  you  haven't 
done  so  already  -  you'll  want  to  be  part  of 
this  instant  bestseller! 

Paul  H.  Ellenbogen,  Dallas,  writes  that  his 
son,  Jeff,  is  a  freshman.  Paul  is  looking  for- 
^vard  to  the  25th  reunion. 

Christopher  Hartenau  (see  Ruth  Hill 
Hartenau  '28). 

Ronald  A.  Landay,  Pittsburgh,  reports 
that  his  daughter,  Melanie,  is  a  member  of 
the  class  of  '97. 

Robert  J.  Rothstein  recently  celebrated 
twenty-two  years  of  living  in  Brussels  by 
founding  a  computer  consulting  company, 
Baudet  International.  (Baudet  means  mule  in 
French,  he  notes.).  Bob,  his  wife,  Anne,  and 
daughters,  Shona,  11,  and  Liane,  8,  "moved 
jnto  a  hirn-of-the-century  townhouse  that 
uill  probably  be  completely  renovated  by  the 
next  turn  of  the  century."  Baudet  consults 
-nostly  for  the  Dutch /Belgian /French  com- 
pany, Multihouse,  which  installs  clinical  lab- 
oratory computer  systems  in  France  and  the 
'Benelux  countries.  Bob  is  also  on  the  board 
,  't  the  European  MUMPS  Users  Group. 

Elizabeth  Pfeiffer  Tumbas  is  pursuing 


her  California  teacher's  credentials  at  St. 
Mary's  College.  Stephen  Tumbas  '72  contin- 
ues in  his  fifth  year  as  director  of  food  and 
beverage  at  the  Lafayette  Park  Hotel.  They 
live  in  Walnut  Creek,  Calif. 


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Helena  Formal  Lehrer  writes  that  Michael 
'93  is  attendmg  University  of  Pennsylvania 
Medical  School  and  misses  his  Brown  friends. 
Joshua  '96  "is  busy  as  a  sophomore  and 
enjoying  all  that  Brown  has  to  offer.  1  am  look- 
ing forward  to  our  25th  reunion." 

Pat  Truman,  Boise,  took  a  workshop  for 
teachers,  "Mathematical  Modelmg,"  at  Boise 
State  University,  taught  by  Alan  Hausrath 
'72  Ph.D.,  a  Boise  professor  of  mathematics. 


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Richard  F.  Erwin  and  his  wife,  Diane,  have 
moved  to  12  Sound  Bay  Dr.,  Lloyd  Neck, 
N.Y.  11743.  They  have  a  son.  Matt,  14,  and  a 
daughter,  Gianna,  12. 

Charles  O.  Monk  II,  Baltimore,  was  elected 
managing  partner  of  his  law  firm,  Weinberg 
&  Green,  last  year.  The  firm  employs  120 
attorneys. 

Carol  L.  Newman,  Encino,  Calif.,  was 
named  to  the  board  of  transportation  com- 
missioners for  the  City  of  Los  Angeles. 

Joseph  Roback  has  formed  a  new  partner- 
ship, Feldman  &  Roback,  attorneys  at  law,  in 
Bradenton,  Fla.  He  and  his  wife,  Iras,  have 
two  teenaged  daughters.  Rebecca  "has  visited 
Brown  and  expressed  a  genuine  interest  in 
Dad's  alma  mater.  The  younger  one,  Phyllis, 
wants  to  keep  her  options  open." 

Norman  E.  Swanberg  is  enjoying  the  cli- 
mate and  lifestyle  of  San  Diego.  "More  impor- 
tantly, I  am  satisfying  my  lifelong  interest  in 
music  as  a  weekend  DJ  on  KSDS,  winner  of 
the  Marconi  Award  for  Best  Jazz  Station  in 
the  country."  Friends  can  contact  Norman  at 
home:  14815  High  Valley  Rd.,  Poway,  Calif. 
92064. 


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Vincent  S.  Chao  and  Lorelei  Leung 
proudly  announce  the  birth  of  their  first 
child,  Maxwilliam  Leung  Chao,  on  May  27. 
Vincent  is  a  school  principal  in  San  Francisco 
Unified  School  District,  and  Lorelei  is  an 
executive  assistant  at  the  City  College  of  San 
Francisco. 

William  V.  Grickis  Jr.,  Bethlehem,  Conn., 
is  corporate  counsel  for  Loctite  Corporation, 
where  he  has  worked  for  the  past  twelve 
years.  He  and  his  wife,  Ellen,  an  interior 
designer,  have  two  daughters:  Carter,  4,  and 
Grayson,  3  months. 

Gary  D.  Mooney,  Phoenixville,  Pa.,  is 
president  of  the  Phoenixville  Area  Soccer 
Club  for  1993-94.  The  organization  provides 
soccer  programs  and  teams  for  nearly  500 
children  ranging  in  age  from  4'/  to  18.  Gary 
also  coaches  the  under-11  team,  the  Torna- 
does, which  includes  his  son,  Ryan,  at  left 
wing.  Gary  adds,  "Now  I  have  no  time  left  in 
my  life  for  anything  else." 

R.  Paul  Richard  is  working  in  the  White 


House  as  deputy  staff  secretary  to  the  Presi- 
dent. He  lives  in  Washington,  D.C. 


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Roxana  Rogers  DeSoIe  lives  in  Harare, 
Zimbabwe,  where  slie  is  the  population  offi- 
cer with  USAID.  "Harare  is  a  lovely  city;  we 
hope  to  stay  two  more  years.  Quite  a  few 
Brown  grads  ha\'e  pitched  up  here,  including 
the  ambassador,  E.  Gibson  Lanpher  '65, 
Robin  Sandenburgh  '76,  and  Lisa  Lang- 
haugh  qo  ' 

Scott  Blake  Harris  and  Barbara  Straughn 
Harris  are  pleased  to  announce  the  birth  of 
Margot  Straughn  Harris  on  April  10.  Colin  is 
3.  Last  August  Scott  left  Williams  &  Connolly 
to  accept  an  appointment  as  chief  counsel  for 
export  administration  with  the  U.S.  Depart- 
ment of  Commerce.  Scott  and  Barbara  live  in 
Washington,  DC. 

Dianne  M.  Thomason,  Bethesda,  Md.,  is 
working  at  the  Embassy  of  Japan  in  Washing- 
ton, D.C.  "Playing  piano,  swimming,  bicy- 
cling, playing  tennis  as  much  as  possible.  I'm 
enjoying  being  an  aunt  seventeen  times.  D.C. 
is  great  -  culturally  speaking." 


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Come  back  to  campus  May  27-30  for  our 
fabulous  20th!  If  you  or  anyone  you  know 
did  not  receive  our  first  mailing  in  October, 
please  call  (401)  863-3380. 

Nancy  Campbell  has  moved  to  Kirksville, 
Mo.,  for  a  two-year  residency  in  osteopathic 
manipulative  medicine.  "1  am  the  first  M.D. 
to  be  accepted  into  this  training  program.  1  am 
honored  and  excited."  Nancy  address  is  Rte. 
6,  Box  138,  Kirksville  63501;  (816)  627-5234. 
Craig  A.  Jacobson  writes  that  with  the 
addition  of  Hillary  Erica  in  January  1993,  the 
family  has  moved  into  larger  quarters  in  Santa 
Monica.  The  twins  are  entering  first  grade. 
Craig's  law  firm,  Hansen,  Jacobson,  Teller  & 
Hoberman,  has  moved  to  a  larger  space  in 
Beverly  Hills.  The  firm  represents  clients  in 
the  entertainment  industry. 

Richard  E.  Johnson  '81  Sc.M.,  '88  M.D.  and 
Amy  Beth  R.  Hilton  (Harvard  '83)  '88  M.D. 
announce  the  birth  of  their  first  child, 
Christopher  Malcolm  Sven  Owen  Johnson, 
on  July  27.  Dick  and  Amy  Beth  recently 
joined  the  anesthesiology  faculty  of  Duke 
University  Medical  Center  after  completing  a 
fellowship  in  neuroanesthesia  and  a  chief 
residency  in  anesthesiology,  respectively,  at 
Thomas  Jefferson  University  Hospital  in 
Philadelphia.  They  live  at  29  Quail  Ridge  Rd., 
Durham,  N.C.  27705;  (919)  382-7321. 

John  P.  Pelegano  and  his  wife,  Nancy, 
live  in  Charlottesville,  Va.,  with  their  8- 
month-old  son,  Benjamin  James.  John  is  assis- 
tant professor  of  pediatrics  at  the  University 
of  Virginia,  and  Nancy  is  a  nursing  instruc- 
tor. "We're  really  enjoying  parenthood  and 
its  special  little  pleasures:  like  finding  soggy 
Cheerios  in  your  shirt  pocket." 

Stanley  Spinola  is  an  associate  professor 
in  the  department  of  medicine  in  the  division 
of  infectious  diseases  at  Indiana  University. 
His  wife,  Marianne,  directs  a  senior's  fitness 
program.  They  have  three  children:  Stan,  8, 


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Suzanne.  =;,  .ind  Caroline,  i.  Their  address  is 
7041  Bluttridge  Blvd.,  Indianapolis  4(1278. 
C.A.  Stein,  \e\v  Citv.  \'.^  .,  is  a  cancer 
research  scientist  at  Columbia  University. 
■■.■\long  with  m\-  colleagues,  I  ha\e  introduced 
the  drug,  suramid,  into  clinical  trials  for  hi>r- 
nione-retractorv  metastatic  prostate  cancer. 
1  have  also  become  coeditor  of  a  new  journal, 
Antifcrisc  Rcxiirch  ami  Dcvrloi'inait,  and  ha\'e 
been  using  antisense  technology  to  de\elop 
new  antineoplastic  agents." 


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Joan  Gozonsky  Chamberlain,  Cupertino, 
Calif.,  writes  that  with  botli  kids,  William 
and  Sarah,  in  school  for  the  day  she  has 
become  a  director  of  the  American  Museum 
of  Quilts  and  Textiles  in  San  Jose.  "Designing 
quilts  is  something  I  never  dreamed  that  1 
would  be  doing,"  she  writes.  "1  finished  my 
stint  as  PTA  president,  so  this  museum  work 
will  keep  me  busy." 

Christine  Gleason  is  director  of  the  neo- 
natology di\  ision  in  the  department  of  pedi- 
atrics at  the  Johns  Hopkins  Children's  Cen- 
ter. Her  husband,  Erik  Larson  (Pennsylvania 
'76),  is  a  staff  writer  for  the  Wall  Street  Journnl. 
His  second  book.  Lethal  Passage,  about  the 
U.S.  gun  culture,  will  be  published  in  March. 
They  have  "two-and-a  -half"  children  and 
live  in  Baltimore. 

David  Hirshland  and  Kathv  McDonald 
announce  the  birth  of  their  second  son,  Colin 
Kirk,  on  July  3.  David  is  a  transactional  enter- 


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tainment  attorney  at  Rosenfeld,  Meyer  &  Sus- 
man  in  Be\erly  Hills. 

John  W.  Kresslein  and  his  wife,  Cindy, 
proudK  announce  the  birth  of  their  first  child, 
Robert  Luke,  on  July  30.  John  is  an  electrical 
engineer  at  the  Johns  Hopkins  Applied  Physics 
Laboratory  in  Laurel,  Md.  The  Kressleins  live 
at  9014  Flower  Ave.,  Sih'er  Spring,  Md.  20901. 

Peter  Piness  is  public  affairs  officer  at  the 
America  Embassy  in  N'Djamena,  Chad. 

Cheryl  Soled  Reid,  Moorestown,  N.J.,  is 
continuing  to  build  the  Regional  Genetics 
Program  for  Southern  New  Jersey.  She  is  the 
new  president  of  the  Society  of  Craniofacial 
Genetics,  a  national  professional  society. 

Nancey  Rosensweig  li\es  in  New  York 
City  with  her  husband.  Bob  Friedman,  a 
mathematician  at  Columbia,  and  their  two 
children,  Zacharv,  j,',<,  and  Leah,  3.  Nancey 
has  danced  and  taught  professionally  since 
1977,  but  is  currently  at  Columbia's  School  of 
Nursing,  planning  to  become  a  midwife. 

Howard  A.  Sobel  and  his  wife,  lleene 
Smith,  announce  the  birth  of  Rebecca  Julia  on 
Jan.  17,  1993.  Nathaniel  is  4'A.  Howard  is  a 
partner  in  the  Manhattan  law  firm  of  Kramer, 
Levin,  Naftalis,  Nessen,  Kamin  and  FrankeL 
specializing  in  corporate  finance  transactions. 
The  family  lives  in  New  York  City. 

Gerson  Zweifach  is  a  lawyer  with 
Williams  &  Connolly  in  Washington,  D.C.  He 
and  his  wife,  Jackie  Zins,  have  two  children: 
Ben,  6,  and  Sarah,  3. 


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Todd  K.  Abraham  and  his  wife,  Anne, 
have  mo\'ed  to  a  new  home  at  8007  W.  18th 
St.,  St.  Louis  Park,  Minn.  55426.  They  both 
still  work  at  Pillsbury;  Anne  is  an  engineer- 
ing manager,  and  Todd  is  a  research  &  devel- 
opment director.  They  have  two  children. 

Drusllla  Blackman  has  joined  Columbia 
University  as  dean  of  undergraduate  admis- 
sions and  financial  aid,  a  new  position.  She  had 
been  dean  of  graduate  admissions  and  finan- 
cial aid  at  Harvard.  The  appointment  marks  a 
return  to  Columbia,  where  she  was  formerly 
assistant  director  of  admissions. 

Barbara  M.  Elkins  continues  to  teach 
linghsh  at  the  Lawrenceville  School,  Lawrence- 
ville,  N.J.,  along  with  her  husband,  Tim 
Brown,  who  teaches  mathematics  and  ecology. 
"We  are  also  the  exhausted  parents  of  4-year- 
old  twin  boys,  a  7-year-old  girl,  and  a  new 
puppy." 

Nancy  Siwoff  Gilston  is  living  at  1356 
Madison  Ave.,  Apt.  1  South,  New  York,  N.Y. 
10128  with  her  husband,  Bruce,  and  sons  Ben 
and  Joseph.  "We  haven't  given  up  on  New 
York,"  she  writes. 

William  Grebenc,  Ladue,  Mo.,  was  named 
an  assistant  vice-president  for  the  North 
American  Grain  Division  of  Continental  Grain. 


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Richard  J.  Carell  and  Aileen  Jordan 
Carell  '78,  San  Francisco,  report  thev  have 
received  "several  anonymous  photcis  of  chil- 
dren in  envelopes  containing  a  Maine  post- 
mark. Either  Dan  Scofield  '78  is  up  to  his  old 
tricks  or  we  will  contact  the  authorities." 


Julia  Lancaster  Forgaard  writes  that  Kvle 
Andrew  Forgaard  was  born  on  Dec.  29,  1992. 
She  and  her  husband.  Randy  (MIT  '81),  "are 
having  a  wonderful  time  being  parents.  Kyle 
came  with  us  to  Brown  for  Commencement 
weekend  in  May,  stayed  with  us  in  the  dorm, 
and  marched  in  the  Commencement  proces- 
sion." Julie  and  Randy  live  in  Lexington,  Mass. 

Susan  Maikis  Hans  and  Mark  Hans 
annouce  the  arrival  of  Thomas  Mark  on  Nov. 
28, 1992.  He  joins  Sara,  9,  and  Jack,  6.  The 
family  lives  in  Berea,  Ohio. 

Ann  L  Jones,  Chevy  Chase,  Md.,  is  special 
litigation  counsel  to  the  assistant  attorney  gen- 
eral in  the  antitrust  division  at  the  U.S. 
Department  of  Justice.  She  was  formerly  a 
partner  at  Blecher  &  Collins,  a  Los  Angeles 
firm  specializing  in  antitrust  law.  She  adds 
that  Ed  Sargus  '75  is  now  U.S.  Attorney  for 
the  Southern  District  of  Ohio. 

Steven  A.  Ladd  and  Judith  A.  Durant, 
Meriden,  N.H.,  are  self-employed  computer 
consultants.  They  have  three  children:  Ben,  9, 
Nathan,  7,  and  Bethany,  5.  During  a  five- 
week  trip  across  Canada  and  the  United 
States,  they  stopped  to  visit  Alan  Schrift  and 
his  wife,  Jill,  in  Grinnell,  Iowa. 

Barbara  Sunderland  Manousso  married 
Jean  (John)  Manousso  on  May  27  after  a 
seven-week  courtship.  They  honeymooned  in 
Santorini,  Greece.  "As  a  togetherness  project, 
Jean  and  1  became  Texas-certified  as  alterna- 
tive dispute  resolution  mediators.  I  am  focus- 
ing on  health-care  issues  and  disputes  using 
my  M.P.H.  Jean  has  been  with  Bowen  Tool 
for  thirty-two  years  and  is  concentrating  on 
international  oil  business  and  financial  dis- 
putes. Our  union  has  made  me  a  stepmother 
of  Nicole  and  a  grandmother  to  two  girls  and 
a  boy.  In  Greek,  I'm  a  yaya  -  grandmother." 
Barbara  has  been  president  of  the  Houston 
Brown  Club  for  thirteen  years. 

Gregory  J.  Miller,  Salt  Lake  Citv,  has 
returned  to  the  Rocky  Mountains.  "Would 
love  to  ski  with  anyone  visiting  Salt  Lake 
Citv  -  or  just  drop  by  and  chat." 

Matthew  R.  Mock  has  been  appointed  to 
the  national  board  of  the  Asian  American 
Psychological  Association.  He  has  also  been 
designated  Cultural  Competence  Coordina- 
tor for  the  City  of  Berkeley,  Calif.,  where  he 
has  worked  as  director  for  the  Family,  "iouth 
and  Children's  Mental  Health  Division.  He 
continues  as  a  professor  of  multicultural  psy- 
chology at  two  local  professional  schools.  His 
wife,  Sharon  Ngim,  and  2-year-old  daughter, 
Rachel,  "keep  my  life  nicely  in  balance." 
He  can  be  reached  at  (510)  655-5601. 


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David  Hahn  received  a  Ph.D.  in  music 
from  Stanford  this  past  summer.  He  and  his 
wife,  Gordana,  live  in  Seattle,  where  he  is 
active  as  a  composer  and  performer.  His 
compositions  for  tele\ision  and  film  are  rep- 
resented by  DSM  Producers,  New  York  City. 
Friends  are  in\'ited  to  contact  him  at  10027 
31st.  NE,  Seattle  gSi25. 

Alison  O'Connell  and  Steve  Neumann 
(University  of  Oklahoma  '76,  '79  .A.M.)  were 
married  on  Oct.  1.  Alison  is  a  freelance  mar- 
keting, advertising,  and  sales  promotion 


54  /   FEBRUARY  1994 


What  is  important 
in  life 


Two  years  ago  Andrew  Tonks  of  Yarmouth, 
Maine,  resigned  as  a  vice  president  at  Citi- 
bank Maine  and  enrolled  at  Antioch  New 
England  Graduate  School  in  New  Hamp- 
shire. There  he  earned  a  master's  degree  and 
a  certificate  to  become  a  Waldorf  teacher. 
Today  he  teaches  first  grade  at  the  Merri- 
coneag  School  in  South  Freeport,  Maine. 

"I  realized  all  that  I  had  done  to  try  to 
change  the  world,  both  at  work  and  as  a 
volunteer,  tended  to  be  from  the  top  down," 
Tonks  told  The  Times  Record  of  Brunswick, 
Maine,  in  a  recent  article.  "1  realized  I 
needed  to  start  working  from  the  bottom  up." 

Tonks  chose  the  Waldorf  approach  to 
education  because  it  emphasizes  a  child's 
"feeling  and  doing  capacities,"  he  said. 
"We  need  to  educate  the  whole  child,  to 


copywriter,  and  Steve  is  director,  marketing 
research,  for  OTC  and  Suncare,  Schering- 
Plough  Healthcare  Products  in  Liberty  Cor- 
ner, N.J.  The  couple  lives  in  Basking  Ridge, 
N.J.  Alison's  mother  is  Frances  Waxier 
O'Connell  'si. 

Cathleen  M.  Sullivan,  Wakefield,  Mass., 
has  been  promoted  to  manager  of  system 
documentation  for  Dragon  Systems,  Inc.,  of 
Newton,  Mass. 


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Watch  your  mail  for  reunion  registration 
materials.  If  you  have  questions,  call  the  alumni 
relations  office.  Start  to  put  some  money 
aside  so  you  can  join  us  for  the  entire  weekend. 

W.  Barry  Blum  and  Lori  Blum  (Johns 
Hopkins  '80)  announce  the  arrival  of  Brian 
Scott  Blum  on  April  18.  He  joins  Jeffrey,  who 
turned  3  four  days  later.  Barry  is  a  founding 
shareholder  in  the  Miami  law  firm  of  Schulte 
Blum  McMahon  &  Joblove,  and  Lori  is  a 
clinical  psychologist  in  private  practice.  They 
live  in  Miami. 

Robert  A.  Fields  and  Randi  L.  Dodick  '81 
added  Jessica  to  their  familv  on  June  is,  1992, 
and  moved  to  San  Francisco  in  November 
1992.  Friends  are  welcome. 

Jeffrey  A.  Graham,  Los  Angeles,  attended 
a  Brown  Club  e\'ent  at  Shutters,  a  new  hotel 
jon  the  beach  in  Santa  Monica,  Calif.  "Fun 
CTowd.  1  was  a  distinct  minority.  Wow,  the 
class  of  se\enty-something.  My  son  is  1." 

Abby  Jennis  and  Steven  Sokolow 
announce  the  birth  of  Rebecca  Lynn  on  Jan. 
'^7.  1993-  She  joins  Brian,  who  is  3.  They  live 
m  New  York  City. 


develop  healthy,  active,  self-aware,  and 
compassionate  people." 

Tonks's  wife,  Patricia  Hart  Tonks  '75, 
is  the  coordinator  of  administration  and 
development  at  Marriconeag.  Their  com- 
bined salaries  amount  to  about  half  of  his 
former  earnings  as  a  banker. 

The  couple  has  three  sons.  "They  cer- 
tainly have  enjoyed  having  their  dad 


Alan  D.  Schiffres  and  his  wife,  Lynda,  are 
pleased  to  welcome  Gavin  Mever,  born  Aug. 
23,  into  the  family.  Jeremy  is  5.  The  family 
lives  in  the  South  Street  Seaport  section  of 
New  York  City  and  encourages  friends  pass- 
ing through  the  area  to  stop  by. 


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Rick  Deutch  and  his  wife.  Amy,  of  Miami, 
are  proud  to  announce  the  birth  of  their  first 
child,  Allison  Blair,  on  Sept.  6. 

Steve  Dorsey  and  Julie  Prendergast 
Dorsey  announce  with  pleasure  the  birth  of 
their  second  daughter,  Jessica  Elizabeth,  last 
August.  John  F.  Prendergast  '49  is  the  proud 
grandfather.  Steve  and  Julie  live  in  Spokane, 
Wash.,  after  moving  from  El  Paso,  Texas. 

William  C.  Fox  III,  Chicago,  writes  that  he 
saw  Vaughan  Johnson  '79  in  August,  and 
attended  Joe  Mixie's  '79  wedding  in  Barring- 
ton,  R.I.,  m  September.  Bill  Dobson  '78  came 
up  from  Miami  for  the  e\'ent.  "My  wife,  Teri, 
had  our  first  child,  Ian  Michael,  on  Oct.  4. 
Business  travel  takes  me  to  Boston  a  lot  these 
days.  Life  is  hasicallv  good." 

Sarah  C.  Francois-Poncet  is  working  for 
a  new  law  firm.  She  moved  to  a  new  address 
in  Paris  and  attended  the  wedding  of  Jeanne 
Hoberman  in  Boston  last  June.  "It  was  good 
to  see  Amy  Fitzgerald  and  Jan  Graff  and 
many  others. 

Tenia  Teresa  Healey  has  moved  to  Cape 
Cod  to  work,  commune  with  nature,  and 
write  poetrv. 

Jennifer  D.  Lish  and  Frederic  H,  Schwartz 
were  married  on  Oct.  3  in  Villanova,  Pa.  Jen- 
nifer, who  received  her  Ph.D.  in  clinical  psy- 


around  more  often  than  he  was  before," 
Patricia  says.  The  boys  have  learned  some 
valuable  lessons,  as  well.  When  Patrick, 
thirteen,  wanted  a  new  bicycle,  he  had  to 
earn  the  money  by  mowing  lawns.  "Before, 
we  might  have  just  gone  out  and  bought 
him  the  bike,"  Andrew  says. 


chology  from  New  York  University,  is  a 
research  assistant  professor  of  psychology  at 
the  University  of  Pennsylvania.  Frederic  is 
an  internist  with  the  American  Health  Care 
Group  of  Pennsylvania  in  Philadelphia. 

Catherine  Loudon  and  her  husband, 
Andrew  Borovik,  got  their  Ph.D.'s  in  1986; 
coordinated  postdoctoral  research  positions 
in  Minneapolis,  Ithaca,  and  Berkeley;  and 
landed  in  Manhattan,  Kansas,  where  they  are 
both  assistant  professors  at  Kansas  State  Uni- 
versity -  Kate  in  entomology  and  Andy  in 
chemistry.  Their  son,  Jedidiah,  is  2. 

Andy  Lowen  and  Corey  Sheff  Lowen  '8i 
live  in  Lexington,  Mass.,  with  tlieir  children 
Gregory,  3,  and  Eve,  1;^.  Andy  is  a  senior 
product  manager  at  the  Shipley  Company, 
and  Corey  has  "retired"  from  IBM  after 
twelve  years.  She  plans  to  teach  high-school 
chemistry  as  her  next  career. 

Tom  O'Connell  married  Christine  Sagnier 
on  July  29.  Chrishne's  daughter,  Natacha,  made 
the  cake  "and  all  other  important  decisions." 
Tom  and  Christine  live  in  Valencia,  Calif. 

Douglas  James  Rose  and  Anouk  Geerts, 
formerly  of  S'Hertogenbosch,  Netherlands, 
are  married  and  living  in  the  Washington 
Park  section  of  Providence.  Doug  is  associated 
in  general  trial  law  practice  with  Jarret  & 
Mitson  of  Woonsocket,  R.I. 

Julia  H.  Sail,  Newton,  Mass.,  is  vice-presi- 
dent of  marketing  at  MathSoft,  where  she  has 
been  for  fi\'e  years.  She  and  Eric  welcomed 
Charlotte  to  their  family  in  January  1993. 
Maddy  is  -\. 

Graham  Sullivan  has  returned  to  Stanford 
for  his  third  master's  degree,  this  one  an 
MBA.  He  lives  on  the  campus  with  his  wife. 


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Rumey  Ishizawar  '96  will  be  listed  as  co-author  of  Dr.  Ken  Ain's  ('78  M.D.) 
upcoming  paper  on  the  subject  of  the  effect  of  the  drug  Suraman  on  human 
thyroid  cancer  cells.  Rumey  apprenticed  in  Ken's  lab  in  Lexington,  Kentucky  last 
summer,  and  Ken  says,  "If  she  were 
local,  I'd  hire  her  in  a  minute  as  a  lab 
technician.  In  the  eight  weeks  she  was 
here,  she  learned  two  to  three  times 
what  she  could  have  during  a  similar 
period  of  course  work.  Rumey  was  an 
outstanding  addition  to  the  lab." 
Rumey,  from  Colonial  Heights,  Vir- 
ginia, agrees  with  Ken  that  her  experi- 
ence was  invaluable.  "I  was  amazed 
that  Ken  had  me  working  on  his  own 
pioneering  research.  I  feel  more  confi- 
dent in  my  lab  skills  as  a  result  of  my 
collaboration  with  Ken." 


Alumni  Apprenticeships 

Summer  '93  at  a  glance 

Number  of  apprenticeships  offered:  177 
Number  of  paid  apprenticeships:  58 
Number  of  vokmteer  apprenticeships:  119 
Number  of  repeat  sponsors:  45,  or  2^% 
22  career  fields  represented.from 
medical  research  to  film  production 
Most  apprenticeships:  New  York 
Most  exotic  location:  Guam 
Decade  with  most  sponsors:  1980s 

It's  easy  to  offer  an  apprenticeship 

call  401  863-3380  for  a  sponsor  form 
follow  the  easy  instructions  on  the  form 
fax  your  completed  form  to: 
401  863-7070  or  mail  to: 
Apprenticeships,  Box  1859, 
Brown  University,  Providence,  R! 
02912-1859  by  Fehruarv  21,  1994 


Jane  Levine  '88  was  instrumental  in 
getting  the  apprenticeship  program 
off  the  ground  while  she  was  an 
undergraduate.  Last  summer  Jane  was 
in  a  position  to  bring  an  apprentice 
into  the  Washington,  D.C.,  firm  where 
she  works  as  a  corporate  art  consul- 
tant. "It  was  a  terrific  experience." 
Susan  Chew  '95  of  Flushing,  New  York, 

is  equally  enthusiastic.  "I  participated  in  all  parts  of  the  business,  from  routine 
office  work  to  meetings  with  clients  at  the  gallery,  to  correspondence  with 
artists."  Would  Jane  hire  another  apprentice?  "In  a  minute!" 


For  information  on  other  programs, 
please  call  401  863-3307. 


The  Associated  Alumni  of  Brown 
University  (AABU)  is  the  offi- 
cial, independent  cr^nnization  of 
all  Brcwn  alumni.  The  AABWs 
mission  is  to  keep  alumni  ii'fcr- 
ested  in,  involved  vAth,  am!  1  n- 
necled  to  the  Univer'^ity  for  iiv 
purpose  of  strengthening;  fir  ?,  : 
atut  creating  goodwill  ammix 
alumni.  To  fufill  this  mission, 
the  AABU  brings  a  wide  range 
of  programs  and  activities  to 
alumni  worldwide. 


Stephanie  Jones  '94  of  San  Mateo,  California,  apprenticed  with  Dana  Buchman  '73 
last  summer  at  Dana's  fashion  design  business,  a  division  of  Liz  Claiborne, 
Inc.  Stephanie  "assumed  key  responsibilities  and  quickly  became  an  important 
member  of  the  Dana  Buchman  'design  team.'  Stephanie  is  a  true  delight!  She  made 
a  valuable  contribution  to  our  company."  Stephanie  feels  her  apprenticeship  mth 
Dana  "allowed  me  to  be  an  integral  part  of  the  fast-paced  world  of  fashion,  and 
introduced  me  to  career  options  within  the  industry.  Such  an  opportunity  would 
not  have  been  possible  without  Brown's  apprenticeship  program,  or  Dana's 
willingness  to  sponsor  current  Brown  students  for  summer  positions." 


Slviron,  ciiid  their  Ivvo  boys:  Conor,  y/,,  and 
Ir.ijan,  I'A.  Visitors  are  welcome:  Box  3042, 
Slanl^ord,  Calif.  94309;  (415)  497-6604. 


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Eli  N.  Avila  '86  M.D.  finished  residencies 
in  medicine  and  ophthalmology  and  is  on  the 
clinical  faculty  at  the  University  of  Connecti- 
cut. He  plans  to  return  to  New  York  City  next 
lulv  to  a  private  practice  in  refractive  surgery 
and  as  a  member  of  the  faculty  at  Columbia. 
His  wife,  Elena,  is  manager  of  diversity  and 
training  at  Sony  Music  Inc.,  and  a  choir  direc- 
tor. Thev  live  in  New  York  Citv. 

Janet  L.  Levinger  and  William  Poole  VIII 
are  getting  settled  into  California  life,  enjoy- 
ing exploring  a  new  area  and  spending  time 
with  manv  friends  who  have  visited.  They 
live  in  Millbrae,  Calif. 

Beth  Lipoff  and  David  Glass  were  married 
last  year  at  their  country  house  in  Scotland. 
Siren  Drake  (AISEC,  summer  '80)  flew  in 
from  Oslo  to  attend  the  weekend  house 
party.  After  ten  years  of  systems  work  in  the 
financial  industry,  Beth  "is  for  the  moment 
enjoying  a  life  of  leisure  and  travel.  We  main- 
tain homes  in  Scotland  (near  St.  Andrews), 
Manhattan,  and  London,  and  can  most  often 
be  reached  at  7  Eaton  Mews  North,  London, 
SWiX  8AR;  (071)  235-2380. 

Gena  Cohen  Moses,  her  husband,  and 
two  children  ha\e  relocated  to  Concord,  N.H., 
from  Washington,  D.C. 

Diane  Eliopoulos  Sharp  and  her  husband, 
Nicholas,  live  in  Paris  with  their  daughter, 
Hermione,  b'A,  and  son  Robin,  3Vi.  Friends  can 
reach  them  at  11  bis  rue  Ampere,  75017  Paris. 


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B  Robin  W.  Asher  announces  the  birth  of 
Madeline  Rose  on  Feb.  14,  1993.  Robin  lives 
in  Natick,  Mass.,  and  practices  child,  adoles- 
cent, and  adult  psychiatry  in  Providence.  She 
keeps  in  close  touch  with  Lisa  Kirsch  and 
Lauren  Frisch  ('8s  M.D.) 

Marissa  Winter  Kahen  and  her  husband, 
David,  announce  the  birth  of  Joanna  Frances 
on  Sept.  25.  Gabriel  is  2!-.  The  family  lives  in 
Manhattan,  where  David  practices  tax  law 
and  Marissa  "practices  keeping  her  sanity  as 
a  full-time  mom." 

Joy  Ryan  is  enrolled  in  law  school  at 
Catholic  University.  She  would  enjoy  hearing 
from  friends  in  the  area  at  1201  F.  St.,  NE, 
Washington,  D.C.  201102. 

Mimi  Brown  Simpson,  Grantham,  N.H.,  is 
working  at  Dartmouth,  managing  a  depart- 
ment and  implementing  health-care  reform 
projects  -  one  in  Russia.  She  is  the  mother  of 
a  1-year-old  and  is  in  contact  with  several 
alumni  from  '82  and  '83.  "Things  are  great." 
Douglas  T.  Sovern  is  a  reporter  at  KCBS 
ewsradio  in  San  Francisco  after  several 
ears  with  the  Associated  Press  and  another 
■an  Francisco  radio  station.  He  is  writing  his 
irst  novel,  a  murder  mystery.  "1  still  play 
■ock  and  roll,  though  only  in  the  privacy  of 
y  home.  My  last  band,  Nice  Boys  From 
ew  York,  put  out  one  independent  album 
lefore  breaking  up.  1  live  in  Oakland,  Calif., 
ith  my  girlfriend,  Hannah,  and  our  cat. 


Angus.  1  hang  out  with  Brad  Levy  '81,  who 
owns  his  own  restaurant  in  San  Francisco." 

Judy  Sternlight  marks  her  fifth  year  with 
Some  Assembly  Required,  a  New  York  Citv 
improvisational  theater  and  training  com- 
pany. Her  troupe  last  performed  "Absolute 
Freefall"  at  the  Society  of  Illustrators  in  New 
York  City. 


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Andrea  Terzi  Baum  and  her  husband, 
David  Baum,  announce  the  birth  of  Jeffrey 
Steven  on  July  12.  Andrea  is  a  vice  president 
and  manager  of  the  financial  analyst  pro- 
gram, and  David  is  a  vice  president  in  merg- 
ers and  acc^uisitions,  both  in  the  investment 
banking  division  of  Goldman  Sachs  in  New 
York  City.  They  live  at  25  Joanna  Way,  Short 
Hills,  N.J.  07078. 

Karen  Becker  has  begun  a  Congressional 
fellowship,  fully  sponsored  and  competi- 
tively selected  by  the  American  Veterinary 
Medical  Association  in  participation  with  the 
American  Association  for  the  Advancement 
of  Science.  She  will  be  working  full-time  on 
such  legislative  issues  as  animal  welfare, 
wildlife  protection,  and  health  care.  Karen 
welcomes  visitors  or  phone  calls  at  917  South 
Carolina  Ave.  SE,  Washington,  D.C.  20003; 
(202)  547-6642, 

Lisa  Gertzis  and  Dan  Curhan  (Columbia 
'Si,  1  iar\ard  '84  J.D.)  were  married  on  Aug. 
8.  Among  the  Brown  friends  not  present  were 
Nancy  Lee  Fitzpatrick  and  her  husband.  Jack, 
who  were  awaiting  the  arrival  of  their  baby 
hoy,  Mark  Christopher.  The  Curhans  live  in 
Newton,  Mass.  Brown  friends  are  encouraged 
to  call. 

Patricia  Keenan-Byrne  returned  to  Brown 
in  the  fall  of  1993  as  the  director  of  school 
programs  for  the  Choices  Education  Project 
at  the  Center  for  Foreign  Policy  Develop- 
ment. She  married  William  Byrne  in  Novem- 
ber 1992,  and  they  live  in  Quincy,  Mass.  They 
would  love  to  hear  from  Brown  friends. 

Mary  L.  Metayer  writes  that  she  appreci- 
ates receiving  the  magazine  in  Zurich. 

Peter  K.  Poll,  LaCanada,  Calif.,  reports  that 
his  wife,  Pamela,  gave  birth  to  their  second 
daughter,  Courtney,  on  March  29.  Cara  is  X'-- 

Gordon  Thames  and  his  wife,  Martha 
(Mount  Vernon  College  '86),  proudly  announce 
the  birth  of  William  Gordon  Thames  111  on 
Oct.  16.  Gordon  and  Martha  live  in  Tallahas- 
see, Fla.,  where  Gordon  is  president  of  Arbor 
Properties  Inc.,  a  property-development  and 
management  organization.  He  and  his  wife 
enjoyed  the  10th  reunion,  where  Gordon  ran 
into  manv  of  his  Delta  Phi  fraternity  brothers. 

Robert  A.  Walsh  Jr.  writes  that  "after  the 
campaign  for  U.S.  Congress  proved  less  than 
successful,  1  am  an  assistant  executive  direc- 
tor with  the  National  Education  Associa- 
tion/Rhode Island.  As  always,  feel  free  to 
check  in  at  the  Elton  Hotel  when  in  Providence; 
(401)  331-1451." 


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maihng  or  have  any  questions,  please  call 
reunion  headquarters  at  (401)  863-1947. 

Lorna  Loo  Aratani  and  her  husband,  Ter- 
rence,  of  Honolulu  announce  the  birth  of  their 
first  child,  Tyler  Harrison,  on  July  7.  Lorna  is 
a  staff  attorney  for  the  State  of  Hawaii  Office 
of  information  Practices. 

Patty  Arledge  is  a  producer  for  "NOW 
with  Tom  Brokaw  and  Katie  Couric,"  NBC's 
new  prime-time  news-magazine  program. 
Last  year  she  was  honored  with  three 
national  media  awards  for  a  series  she  wrote 
and  produced  on  "Women  and  Alcohol."  The 
honors  included  the  Scott  Newman  Drug 
Abuse  Prevention  Award,  an  American 
Women  in  Radio  and  Television  Award,  and 
a  special  honor  from  the  Academy  of  Televi- 
sion Arts  and  Sciences.  Patty  lives  in  Los 
Angeles  but  gets  back  to  New  York  City  often 
enough  to  enjoy  Brown  friends  on  both  coasts. 

Sally  Belcher,  Los  Angeles,  is  chief  resi- 
dent in  family  medicine  at  UCLA  for  the 
1993-94  year.  Her  daughter,  Mary  Evelyn, 
was  born  on  Feb.  6,  1993. 

Kay  Gamo  completed  a  residency  in  fam- 
ily practice  and  moved  to  San  Francisco, 
where  she  is  working  with  the  public  health 
department  and  with  a  group  practice.  She 
would  love  to  hear  from  Brown  friends  at  490 
Hill  St.,  #6,  San  Francisco,  Calif.  94114;  (415) 
824-6905. 

Angela  S.  Graboys  was  ordained  a  rabbi 
in  1989  after  concluding  five  years  of  gradu- 
ate studies  at  the  Hebrew  Union  College  in 
Cincinnati.  For  two  years  she  served  as  a  con- 
gregational rabbi  in  Hot  Springs,  Ark.  She  is 
pursuing  a  Ph.D.  in  Berkeley,  Calif.  Angela's 
mother  is  Lois  Wolpert  Graboys  '59,  '73 
M.A.T.,  of  Barrington,  R.l. 

William  G.  Mowat  and  his  wife,  Debbie 
Grodin,  moved  to  14486  NE  58th  St.,  Belle- 
vue.  Wash.  98007;  (206)  882-8805.  Their 
daughter,  Nina,  is  16  months  old.  William  is 
still  working  at  Microsoft.  He  and  Debbie 
would  lo\'e  to  hear  from  okl  friends. 

Maureen  Mulligan,  Arlington,  Mass.,  is 
an  attorney  in  the  litigation  department  at 
Peabody  &  Arnold,  Boston,  and  teaches  part- 
time  at  Boston  University  Law  School. 

Eva  Pressman  is  finishing  her  fellowship 
in  maternal-fetal  medicine  at  Johns  Hopkins. 
Her  second  daughter,  Anna  Elizabeth,  was 
born  on  Aug.  22.  Eva  lives  in  Baltimore. 

Gene  Guirini,  Chicago,  is  finishing  his  res- 
idency in  radiology  and  will  begin  a  fellow- 
ship in  neuroradiology  at  Northwestern  Uni- 
versity/McGraw  Medical  Center.  "It  was 
great  to  see  many  Brunonians  at  the  wedding 
of  Dave  Lieberman  and  Karen  Berman." 

Cathy  Tiedemann  (see  Joan  Kopf  Tiede- 
mann  's8). 


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Your  reunion  committee  has  been  busy 
making  plans  for  the  10th  reunion  to  be  held 
on  May  27-30.  If  you  did  not  receive  a  fall 


John  F.  Medler  Jr.,  Ballwin,  Mo.,  writes 
that  his  4-year-old  son,  Ryan,  was  ciiagnosed 
with  cancer  on  Aug.  23.  "Fortunately,  doctors 
say  with  fifteen  months  of  chemotherapy 
treatments  he  should  be  OK.  Need  everyone's 
prayers.  Also,  my  wife  and  1  are  expecting 
our  third  child  in  May." 

Sarah  H.  Goff  Raslowsky  is  teaching 
mathematics  at  the  Little  Red  School  House - 


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Personals 

DATE  SOMEONE  IN  YOUR  OWN  LEAGUE. 
Graduates  and  faculty  of  the  Ivies  and  Seven 
Sisters  meet  alumni  and  academics.  Civilized 
and  affordable.  THE  RIGHT  STUFF.  800-988- 
5288. 

Travel 

CHELSEA  FLOWER  SHOW.  Royal  Gala  Pre- 
\ie\\  and  pri\ate  garden  \  isits  in  Wales,  May 
17-26,  sponsored  by  National  Gardens  Scheme 
Charitable  Trust,  London.  Call  Cultural  Con- 
nections 800-523-2786,  213-642-7003. 

EXOTIC  BALI/ JAVA  THIS  SUMMER.  Enjoy 
unique  first-class,  small-group  arts/culture 
tour  led  by  Cara  Horowitz  '64.  201-224-3828. 


Vacation  rentals  /  House 
exchanges 


ANDALUSIA,  SPAIN.  Beautiful  Mediterranean" 
village.  Clean,  comfortable  villa.  Spectacular 
sea  views.  Sleeps  four.  Weekly,  monthly,  year- 
roimd  Sn^o-SS^o/week.  Owner  212-496-1944. 

CASTLES,  COTTAGES,  &  FLATS.  Distinctive, 
self-catered  holiday  rentals  in  the  UK,  Ireland, 
France,  and  Italy.  Telephone  617-742-6030, 
800-742-6030.  Fax  617-367-4521. 

FLORIDA  KEYS,  BIG  PINE  KEY.  Fantastic  open 
water  view,  Kev  Deer  Refuge,  National  Bird 
Sanctuary,  stilt  house,  3/2,  screened  porches, 
fully  furnished,  stained-glass  windows,  swim- 
ming, diving,  fishing,  boat  basin,  non-smok- 
ing, starting  at  Si,50o/week.  305-665-38 "^2. 

LAKE  WINNIPESAUKEE,  NEW  HAMPSHIRE 

Waterfront  home.  617-729-7^^1. 

ROME,  ITALY.  18th-century  country  villa. 

Spectacular  views.  Ideal  family  home.  609-921- 

8595 

ST.  CROIX.  Lovely  3-bedroom,  2-bath  villa. 

Large  pool  and  deck.  Gorgeous  view.  Steps 

from  beach  and  snorkeling.  From 

Si,30o/week.  508-653-6047. 

ST.  JOHN.  Beautiful  2-bedroom  villas.  Pool. 
Privacv'.  Beach.  800-858-7989. 

TORTOLA,  BVI.  2-bedroom,  i-bath  cottage 
overlooking  Cane  Garden  Bay.  Fully 
equipped,  secluded,  maid  sertice.  516-673- 
6980. 

WEST  CORK.  IRELAND.  Stone  cottage.  Reno- 
vated. 2  bedrooms.  2  baths.  Bates,  Main  Road, 
Granville,  Mass.  01034. 


Elisaboth  Irwin  School  in  Greenwich  Village, 
New  York  Cilv,  an  independent  K-12  coeci 
school.  In  addition,  she  is  finishing  her  mas- 
ter's degree  in  mathematics  education  at  Rut- 
gers and  c]uilting  in  her  free  time.  Sarah, 
Gabe  Kater,  and  Sabina  Siani  Soloway  were 
bridesmaids  at  the  wedding  of  Deanna 
Dorsey  and  Brad  Wadell  in  Kennebunkport, 
Maine,  last  June.  Sarah  lives  in  Hoboken,  N.J. 

Katherine  Melchior  Ray  and  David  Ray 
'84  passed  through  Providence  recently  and 
took  photos  in  front  of  the  Van  Wickle  Gates 
with  a  future  class  of  2015  student,  their 
daughter,  Sabin  Hana  Ray,  who  was  born  on 
July  3.  The  Ravs  live  in  New  York  City. 

Chase  Robinson  and  Emiko  Terasaki 
Robinson  are  living  in  Oxford,  England,  with 
their  daughter,  Mayumi,  2'a.  Emiko  is  com- 
pleting recjuirements  for  Brown's  M.D.  at 
Oxford's  medical  school.  Chase  is  university 
lecturer  and  fellow  of  Wolfson  College  at 
Oxford.  He  received  his  Ph.D.  from  Harvard 
last  year.  Chase  is  the  son  of  John  '56  and 
Olga  Gemski  Robinson  '57  of  Newton  High- 
lands, Mass. 

Grace  Tsuang  Yuan  has  been  named  to 
the  Western  Washington  University  board  of 
trustees.  She  is  an  attorney  with  Preston  Thor- 
grimson  Shidler  Gates  &  Ellis  with  a  practice 
in  municipal,  land  use,  and  education  law. 
She  is  the  general  counsel  for  tlie  King  County 
School  Coalition  and  a  special  counsel  for 
school  districts  throughout  Western  Wash- 
ington. Grace  is  also  vice-presicient  of  the 
Asian  Bar  Association  of  Washington  and  on 
the  Washington  Council  of  School  Attorneys 
board  of  directors. 


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Amy  Barasch  has  returned  from  three 
years  in  France  anci  is  attending  Columbia 
Law  School. 

Nancy  L.  Easton  c^uit  her  full-time  art 
director  job  in  February  1993  to  go  into  busi- 
ness for  herself.  Since  then,  "I've  been  work- 
ing day  and  night  as  a  freelance  art  direc- 
tion/design/production specialist,  doing 
everything  on  my  Mac."  Nancy  would  love 
to  hear  from  classmates,  especially  any  pass- 
ing through  Chicago,  at  4257  N.  Ashland, 
Apt.  3,  Chicago,  III.  60613;  (312)  525-0781. 

Leon  L.  Haley  finished  his  year  as  chief 
resident  and  is  now  senior  staff  phvsician  at 
Henry  Ford  Hospital  in  the  department  of 
emergency  medicine.  His  wife,  Caria  (Penn 
State  '86),  is  a  third-year  resident  in 
medicine/pediatrics  at  the  Detroit  Medical 
Center.  They  live  in  Southfield,  Mich. 

Jecca,  who  moved  to  Paris  last  July, 
returned  in  October  for  a  solo  exhibit  at  the 
Newton  Arts  Center,  Newtonville,  Mass.  The 
show  included  450  photographs  of  a  tree 
taken  over  a  period  of  4'A  years.  In  Paris,  she 
can  be  reached  at  43-38-69-03. 

Alexandra  Matthews  completed  her 
Ph.D.  in  child  development  at  the  University 
of  Minnesota  and  is  teaching  there;  her  dis- 
sertation was  on  brain  development  in 
preterm  infants.  She  and  Mischa  McCormick 
'85  were  married  in  1991.  Thev  li\e  with  a 
cat  and  a  dog  in  Minneapolis  and  "dream  of 
traveling  around  the  world  or  joining  the 


Peace  Corps."  All  are  welcome  to  contact  them 
at  2405  Bryant  Ave.  South,  Minneapolis, 
Minn.  55405;  (612)  377-2969. 

Lee  Anne  Nugent,  Basking  Ridge,  .N.J., 
resigned  from  Bell  Laboratories  and  is  in  her 
second  year  as  physics  teacher  and  alumnae 
director  for  Villa  Walsh  Academv,  a  small 
girls'  Catholic  high  school  in  Morristown, 
N.J.  "I  love  it.  Teaching  these  girls  that  thev 
can  be  successful  leaders  and  scientists  is  so 
important.  I  hope  to  send  some  to  Brown." 

Eric  and  Sarah  Geary  Ottem  have  mo\ed 
to  201  S.  26th  Ave.,  Yakima,  Wash.  98902. 
Gordon  is  5,  and  Conrad  is  21  months.  The 
couple  would  love  to  hear  from  friends. 

Katherine  W.  Oxnard  is  still  working  on  her 
A.M.  in  fiction  at  NYU.  She  expects  to  gradu- 
ate in  May.  "Hard  to  believe,  but  I'll  actually 
be  teaching  undergraduates  in  the  spring. 
Went  to  two  Brown  weddings  this  summer: 
Matt  Scott  and  Karen  Darby,  and  Mike 
Coughlin  and  Angle  Kelly.  Saw  Alex  Sens  and 
his  wife,  Christie,  and  occasionally  see  Bob 
Zimmerman,  Sue  Berfield,  Julie  Feldman, 
and  Art  Jones." 

Scott  Tarabek  received  his  MBA  in  1991 
from  the  University  of  Pittsburgh.  He  married 
Kathy  Karas  (Slippery  Rock  University  '87) 
in  June  of  1992,  with  George  Klipa  serving  as 
best  man.  Scott  is  a  senior  engineer  with 
Westinghouse  Electric  in  Pittsburgh.  He  and 
Kathy  live  in  North  Huntingdon,  Pa. 


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Kimberly  Birkenfeld  graduated  from 
Harvard  Business  School  and  returned  to 
Hawaii  to  windsurf  and  work  for  PepsiCo 
Foods  International  as  associate  marketing 
manager.  Friends  can  drop  her  a  note  at  1336 
Mokulua  Dr.,  Kailua,  Hawaii  96734. 

Deborah  J.  Erb,  Mt.  Gretna,  Pa.,  writes 
that  in  addition  to  a  2-year-old  son  Graey, 
she  has  another  son,  Morgan,  born  last  April. 

Asli  Giray  married  Fran  Raman  in  Febru- 
ary 1993.  He  is  the  principal  flutist  with  the 
State  Symphony  Orchestra  of  North  Cyprus. 
Asli  is  teaching  music  history  at  International 
University,  Cyprus,  and  giving  concerts  with 
her  husband. 

On  Oct.  10  a  group  of  Brown  graduates 
met  in  Puerto  Rico  to  celebrate  the  marriage 
of  Henry  Hedge  Hammond  n  to  Mimi  Neu- 
man  (Pennsylvania  '86).  Suited  up  in  tuxedos  : 
as  members  of  the  wedding  part\-  were 
Willie  Stamp,  Craig  Blackwell,  Matt  Hen- 
drickson.  Jay  Gibson  8b,  Dave  Warren,  Chris 
Bagley,  and  Charlie  Weiland.  More  Brown 
alumni  were  among  the  guests. 

Stephanie  A.  Jeong  married  William  F. 
Gleason  III  (Cornell  '87)  on  Sept.  18  in  Cam- 
den, Maine.  Among  the  Broivn  alumni  in 
attendance  was  bridesmaid  Maggie  Linvill. 
Bill's  father  is  William  F.  Gleason  Jr.  58. 
After  a  Bali  honeymoon,  the  couple  is  living 
in  New  York  City,  where  both  are  \ice-presi- 
dents  in  corporate  finance  at  J. P.  Morgan. 

Cori  Lopez-Castro  married  Brad  Horn- 
bacher  on  .April  id  m  Miami,  Fla.  Both  prac- 
tice law  in  Miami. 

Karen  Ekberg  Moritz,  Westport,  Conn., 
left  IBM  in  1992  to  work  for  Parametric  Tech- 
nology. 


58  /  FEBRUARY  1994 


Andrew  Bidwell  '91 


You  would  expect  to  find 
tanks  at  Fort  McCoy  Mil- 
itary Reservation  in  west 
central  Wisconsin.  You 
might  not  expect  to  find 
butterflies.  But  because  of  the  wild  blue 
lupine,  which  grows  on  the  reservation,  the 
endangered  Karner  blue  butterfly  is  there. 

Andrew  Bidwell,  a  graduate  student  at 
the  University  of  Wisconsin-Stevens  Point, 
is  conducting  research  on  Karner  blue  pop- 
ulations at  Fort  McCoy.  During  the  sum- 
mers of  1990  and  1991  he  worked  for  the 
Nature  Conservancy  in  New  Hampshire  and 
studied  the  only  remaining  population  of 
Karner  blues  in  New  England. 

According  to  Bidwell,  whose  research 
was  featured  in  the  Steivns  Point  journal, 
lupine  is  the  only  plant  the  butterfly  will  eat 
in  its  larval  stage  as  a  caterpillar.  The 
Karner  blue  was  added  to  the  federal  gov- 
ernment's endangered  species  list  in 
December  1992. 

"The  butterfly  could  formerly  be  found 


Rick  Perera  received  his  master's  degree 
at  the  Fletcher  School  of  Law  and  Diplomacy, 
and  after  a  summer  fellowship  in  journalism 
at  the  Poynter  Institute  in  St.  Petersburg,  Fla., 
he  landed  a  job  at  CNN  in  Atlanta  as  a  writer 
and  editorial  assistant  for  "Headline  News." 
It's  much  less  glamorous  than  it  sounds,  he 
writes,  but  he  hopes  it  will  open  doors.  Friends 
can  contact  Rick  at  233  Harralson  Ave.,  NE, 
Atlanta  30307;  (404)  681-1283. 

Lisa  Ryan  Boyle  was  married  in  July  of 
1991  and  is  a  lawyer  in  Georgtown  clerking 
for  a  judge  in  Washington,  D.C.  Her  husband 
works  for  Alex  Brown  in  Baltimore.  They 
live  in  Silver  Spring,  Md. 

John  Tiedemann  (see  Joan  Kopf  Tiede- 
mann  '58). 


Poor 
butterfly 


in  ten  states  from  New 
Hampshire  to  Minnesota, 
and  in  the  Canadian 
province  of  Ontario,"  Bid- 
well  says.  "However, 
populations  are  now  extinct  in  three  states 
and  Ontario,  and  other  states  have  experi- 
enced greater  than  90-percent  decreases  in 
populations." 

The  butterfly's  demise  has  been  caused 
by  the  destruction  of  its  habitat  by  devel- 
opment and  a  lack  of  natural  fires,  which, 
according  to  Bidwell,  "played  a  major  role 
in  maintaining  the  open  oak  savanna  and 
pine  barren  habitats  in  which  lupine  and 
Karner  blues  thrive." 

But  there  is  hope,  unlikely  as  it  may 
seem,  that  Fort  McCoy  may  prove  benefi- 
cial for  the  butterfly.  "It  is  possible  that 
tank  traffic  and  other  disturbances  create 
and  maintain  open  and  sun-filled  areas," 
Bidwell  notes,  which  is  exactly  what  fires 
did  in  other  habitats. 


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Emanuel  Alves  has  joined  the  regional 
law  firm  of  Brown,  Rudnick,  Freed  &  Gesmer 
as  an  associate  in  the  firm's  litigation  practice 
group  in  the  Boston  office.  He  worked  for 
two  years  as  a  senior  credit  analyst  at  Bank  of 
New  England  before  enrolling  in  Boston  Col- 
lege Law  School,  where  he  received  his  J.D. 
in  1993.  Emanuel  lives  in  Milton,  Mass. 

Katherine  Eban  Finkelstein  has  returned 
from  three  years  of  studv  in  England  and  is  a 
writer  in  New  York  City.  She  has  completed 
a  novel.  Soil;  and  in  collaboration  with 
Maryann  Mohit  '89,  a  screenplay.  The  Gift. 

Doug  Liman  has  directed  his  first  feature, 
reports  Jeff  Southard  '90.  Doug  and  a  long 


list  of  Brown  alumni  sweated  through  a 
sticky  summer  shoot  in  Durham,  N.C.:  Steve 
Klinenberg  '90  found  the  project,  Jeff  rewrote 
some  scenes,  Lauren  Zalaznick  '84  organized 
the  mess,  Kathleen  Kim  'iji  kept  the  camera 
running,  John  Christie  '88  and  Lisa  Kaufman 
'91  built  the  set,  and  John  Hamburg  '92  kept 
it  quiet.  Getting  In  should  arrive  in  the  spring 
with  the  tag  line:  "Getting  into  medical 
school  can  be  murder." 

John  Manzon,  executive  director  of  Asian 
&  Pacific  Islander  Coalition  on  HlV/AlDS 
Inc.,  New  York  City,  has  been  named  to  the 
Burroughs  Wellcome  Companv's  HIV  Com- 
munity Advisory  Board.  The  multiethnic 
board  was  formed  in  1990  for  the  development 
of  educational  activities. 

Santiago  Roca,  Guavaquil,  Ecuador,  is 
"enjoving  the  married  life  and  starting  my 
own  business." 

Bernard  Whitman  and  his  wife,  Deborah, 
proudly  announce  the  birth  of  their  flrst  child, 
Zachary  David,  on  Aug.  24.  Bernard  works  in 
New  York  City  but  plans  to  attend  Harvard's 
Kennedy  School  of  Government  in  the  fall. 
Any  friends  passing  through  New  York 
should  call  (718)  522-0477. 


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Nancy  Erban,  Michael  Kezirian,  and  their 
committee  thank  everyone  who  returned  the 
reunion  surx'ey  and  especially  those  who 
paid  class  dues.  If  you  or  anyone  you  know 
did  not  recei\'e  the  first  mailing  in  October, 
please  call  (401)  863-3  "(80. 

Erika  Banks  and  Gavriel  Rosenfeld  were 
married  in  Santa  Monica,  Calif.,  on  Sept.  S- 
Numerous  Brown  friends  attended.  Erika  is 
finishing  her  fourth  year  of  medical  school  at 
use,  and  Gav  is  nearing  completion  of  his 
Ph.D.  in  European  history  at  UCLA.  They  live 
in  Hollywood  and  would  love  to  hear  from 
friends  at  2590  Glen  Green  #6,  Los  Angeles 
90068. 

Suzanne  F.  Bavly  is  at  the  University  of 
Chicago  pursuing  a  Ph.D.  in  education  policy. 
She  sends  greetings  to  friends,  roommates, 
and  colleagues  in  San  Francisco,  where  she 
spent  the  past  few  years  "working  and  living 
the  good  life."  Recently  she  returned  to 
Brown  with  Monica  Brady  and  Jalu  Kurtis 
to  scout  the  Green  in  anticipation  of  the  sth 
reunion.  Suzie's  address  is  5400  S.  Woodlawn, 
Apt.  #3,  Chicago,  III.  60615. 

Marc  Brands  is  enrolled  in  the  M.B.A. 
program  at  Columbia.  He  would  love  to  hear 
from  friends  at  (212)  866-2043. 

Peter  M.  Bridge  has  started  his  residency 
in  plastic  and  reconstructive  surgery  at  Ohio 
State  University  and  would  love  to  hear  from 
friends  at  619  Jasonway  Ave.,  Columbus, 
Ohio  43214. 

Valerie  Dabady  is  a  second-year  associate 
in  the  corporate  department  of  Baker  & 
McKenzie  in  New  York  Citv. 

Karen  Finkelman  married  Chris  Churchill 
in  Dallas  last  April  18.  Manv  Brown  friends 
were  there,  inckiding  Ellen  Freund,  a  brides- 
maid. Leslie  Stern  married  Ira  Richard  in 
Philadelphia  on  June  12;  Susan  Kardos  was  a 
bridesmaid.  Jenny  Sweet  married  Rich 
Esposito  in  Massachusetts  on  July  24.  Eirinn 

BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /  59 


Buckley  .iiul  Claudia  Gras  were  bridesmaids. 
Erin  Maguire  ni.irned  la'orge  AIIe\'  on  Oct.  ■? 
in  Telluride,  Colo.  Susan  was  a  bridesmaid. 
Claudia  received  her  M.P.H.  from  Michigan 
and  left  in  October  tor  a  t\\o-vear  interna- 
tional public  health  appointment  in  Campinas, 
Brazil. 

Michael  B.  Householder  90  M.A.T.  and 
Suzanne  M.  Rivera  qi  were  married  on  June 
2C  at  the  ippi  Inn  on  Block  Island,  R.I.  San- 
dra Liu  and  Norbert  Hendrikse  were  wit- 
nesses, and  Elsa  Jimenez  cm  caught  the  bou- 
quet. Other  Brown  alumni  and  staff  attended. 
Michael  and  Suzanne  li\e  in  the  San  Fran- 
cisco Bav  area,  where  Michael  teaches  English 
at  Castro  \'alle\'  High  School,  and  Suzanne  is 
a  Presidential  Management  Intern  with  the 
Administration  for  Children  and  Families  of 
the  U.S.  Department  of  Health  and  Human 
Services.  The\'  welcome  correspondence  at 
2120  40th  Ave,  rear,  Oakland,  Calif.  94601. 

Elisabeth  Kashner  teaches  a  fourth-grade 
bilingual  (.Spanish/  English)  class  in  Brent- 
wood, Calif.  She  sees  Liz  Maker  SS,  Josie 
Porter  '88,  Jill  Huchital,  Micah  Altman, 
Hank  Obermayer  87,  Isobel  White  go,  and 
Steve  Zilber  '88.  Elizabetli's  sister,  Megan 
Kashner  '92,  li\'es  in  Chicago,  where  she 
works  for  Traveler's  Aid  and  is  studying  for 
her  M.S.W.  at  the  University  of  Chicago.  "I 
am  doing  research  on  new  methods  of  teach- 
ing science  as  well  as  ethical  dilemmas  with 
the  school  context,"  Elizabeth  reports.  "I  am 
interesting  in  hearing  from  other  alumni  who 
teach  elementary  school  as  well  as  out-of- 
touch  Brown  friends."  She  can  be  reached  at 
83A  Glen  Ave.,  Oakland,  Calif.  94611;  (510) 
655-6385. 

Nancy  J.  Matchett,  Baltimore,  is  complet- 
ing her  Ph.D.  in  philosophy  at  the  University 
of  .Marvland,  College  Park.  She  is  engaged 
to  Timothy  R.W.  Kubik  (Yale  '88),  and  they 
plan  to  marrv  on  June  18. 

David  Soule  Merson  graduated  from  Cor- 
nell Law  School  in  .Vlav.  Attending  were 
Carol  and  Ray  Merson  '62.  David  has  been 
commissioned  into  the  Naval  Judge  Advo- 
cate General  Program  and  will  be  stationed  at 
the  Great  Lakes  Naval  Base  after  training  at 
the  Naval  Justice  School  in  Newport,  R.l. 
David  adds  that  Anthony  B.  Radin  '90  and 
Sang  Lee  'qn  graduated  with  him. 

Donald  Thumim  married  Anna  Kirsanova 
in  .Moscow  on  Aug.  19.  She  was  to  arrive  in 
the  United  States  in  December.  Donald  can  be 
reached  at  11  Harold  St.,  Apt.  2,  Somerville, 
Mass.  02143;  or  via  e-mail:  dthumim® 
husc.har\-ard.edu. 

Lane  Wood  married  Sheryl  Kidney,  his 
girlfriend  from  high  school,  on  March  7,  1992. 
He  is  president  of  Daystar  Publishing  Inc.,  a 
publisher  of  full-color  real  estate  magazines. 
He  placed  second  in  the  Florida  Sunshine 
State  Games,  a  track  and  field  competition,  and 
is  trying  out  with  professional  football  teams 
in  the  NFL,  CFL,  and  new  World  League. 
Lane  and  Sheryl  live  in  Winter  Park,  Ra. 


90 


.  Erin  J.  Crawley  married  Scott  D.  Fairbairn 
on  Sept.  1 1  in  Gresham,  Oreg.  Scott  attended 
Johnson  &  Wales  University  and  URI  and 

60  /   FEBRUARY  1994 


runs  his  own  remodeling  companv.  Erin  is 
the  assistant  risk  manager  for  Systran  Finan- 
cial Services  Corporation,  a  factoring  com- 
pany. They  live  in  Lake  Oswego,  Oreg. 

Greg  Gore  sends  this  update:  "After 
laboring  a  drearv  hut  excellent  last  winter 
awav  in  Brussels  at  the  Commission  of  the 
European  Communities  along  with  Jay 
Backstrand  and  Neil  McGaraghan  gi,  1  am 
comfortably  settled  along  the  warm  sea  in 
Orange  County,  working  for  Pacific  Invest- 
ment Management  Company,  a  money  man- 
agement firm  specializing  in  fixed  income 
assets.  Tom  Tobiason  '88  is  in  town,  and  I  see 
San  Francisco  with  Chris  Jerde  '89,  Tony 
Steams  '93,  Elizabeth  Twaddell  '88,  Doug 
Edwards,  and  Rich  Siefert  88  Darren  Brady 
'86  and  his  wife  were  kind  enough  to  show 
me  the  sunny  side  of  Portland  in  August. 
Seeing  him  evoked  good  memories  of  Marvel 
Gym  and  the  1986  basketball  team."  Greg  can 
be  found  at  310  Marguerite  Ave.,  #A,  Corona 
del  Mar,  Calif.  92625;  (714)  675-9725. 

Brian  Kaye  quit  his  job  with  a  government 
contractor  in  Washington,  D.C.,  last  summer 
and  traveled  around  the  western  United 
States  for  a  month,  living  out  of  his  truck  and 
in  a  tent.  He  finally  settled  in  Frisco,  Colo., 
and  is  working  in  a  design  and  print  shop. 
"It  won't  be  a  successful  move  unless  I  get  at 
least  100  days  of  skiing  in,"  Brian  writes  from 
the  heart  of  Summit  County.  Write  or  call 
with  vacation  plans:  P.O.  Box  4114,  Frisco, 
Colo.  80443;  (303)  668-3319 

Gabrielle  L.  Nohrnberg  received  her  mas- 
ter's in  elementary  education  from  Teachers 
College,  Columbia  University,  and  is  a  head 
teacher  at  Temple  Emanu-el  Nursery  School 
and  Kindergarten  in  Manhattan. 

Jill  Sands  has  graduated  from  New  York 
University  School  of  Law,  where  she  was  a 
member  of  the  Moot  Court  Nationals  Team. 
She  has  begun  her  legal  career  at  the  law  firm 
of  Rivkin,  Radler  &  Kremer  in  Uniondale, 
Long  Island.  Friends  can  reach  her  at  (516) 
357-3000. 

Elizabeth  W.  Scott,  Chicago,  is  in  her  last 
year  of  law  school  at  the  University  of  Chicago 
and  will  clerk  next  year  for  Judge  Mary 
Schroeder  of  the  gth  Circuit. 


91 


Blake  Andrews,  Portland,  Oreg.,  is  in  the 
"management  trainee  program  at  Bob's  cor- 
ner footlong  stand.  Eliza  is  expecting  Blake 
Jr.  in  December.  When  she  returns  from  the 
birthing  ward,  we  will  move  into  our  new 
home  along  the  Sandy  River  just  outside  Gre- 
sham. My  degree  hangs  proudly  above  the 
crib  where  little  BJ  will  take  his  first  year's 
slumber.  Hi  to  all  fellow  '92  alumni,  and  God 
be  with  you." 

Michele  Deppler  and  Alison  Berube  are 
both  engaged;  Michele  will  marry  Brian 
Moore  in  October,  and  Alison  will  marry  Tim 
Sullivan  in  September.  Michele  has  returned 
from  the  Czech  Republic  and  is  working  in 
the  Washington,  D.C.,  area.  Her  address  is 
3326  Woodburn  Village  Dr.,  #23,  Annandale, 
Va.  22003.  Alison  is  completing  her  master's 
degree  at  WPI  in  Worcester,  Mass. 

James  S.  Eidson,  Alexandria,  Va.,  "relo- 


cated in  Washington,  D.C.,  for  a  position  as 
second  assistant  to  head  busboy  but  couldn't 
take  the  pressure.  1  am  now  pursuing  a 
career  in  video,  and  working  on  a  cure  for 
male  pattern  baldness  in  my  free  time.  For 
follicular  advice,  call  (703)  642-1967." 

Laura  Kumler  is  in  her  second  year  of 
teaching  U.S.  history  and  EngUsh  at  St.  Mary's 
High  School  in  Medford,  Oreg.  "I'm  treading 
through  the  waters  of  grading  essays,  plan- 
ning classes,  and  coaching.  I  thought  second- 
year  teaching  was  supposed  to  be  easier  than 
first  year.  It  all  evens  out  with  the  quality 
of  life  factor  out  here.  I  can  be  reached  at  1026 
Henry  St.,  #2,  Ashland,  Oreg.  97520;  (503) 
482-7645." 

Rose  Ann  Miller  is  enrolled  in  the  Hollins 
College  writing  program,  "in  the  beautiful 
Virginia  mountains.  I'd  love  to  hear  from  any 
Brunos  who  happen  to  be  trucking  through 
the  Roanoke,  Va.,  area  at  (703)  345-3713." 

MacArthur  White  married  Tolla  Shalewa 
Anderson  on  April  17  at  the  Mt.  Wade  Bap- 
tist Church  in  Terry,  Miss.  Tolla  graduated 
from  Bryant  College,  Smithfield,  R.L,  and  is  a 
license  and  copyright  associate  for  Malaco 
Records  in  Jackson,  Miss.  MacArthur  carries 
a  badge  and  gun  for  the  Jackson  Police 
Department.  MacArthur  and  Tolla  can  be 
reached  at  8783  Tank  Rd.,  Terry,  Miss.  39170. 
MacArthur  adds,  "Life  is  looking  up  when 
they  pay  you  to  carry  your  9mm." 


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Christopher  M.G.  Johnson,  Cambridge, 
Mass.,  played  the  lead  role  of  Kilian  in  the 
feature  film,  Kilmtt's  Chnmictt',  which  was  shot 
over  the  summer  in  Massachusetts  and  Con- 
necticut. He  is  playing  the  role  of  Lancaster 
in  the  upcoming  American  Repertory-  Theater 
Mainstage  production  of  Henry  IV,  Partf  1 
and  U. 

Jaime  Rossi  and  Melissa  Morton  are 
teaching  elementary  school  in  South  Central 
Los  Angeles  through  the  Teach  for  America 
program. 

Hale  Pulsifer  ivrites  that  his  band,  Angry 
Salad,  signed  a  record  deal  with  Breaking 
World  Records.  The  band  started  at  Brown 
and  played  at  the  Campus  Dance  in  1992. 
"I'm  sure  classmates  will  have  a  few  fond 
memories  of  the  band  that  once  pla\'ed  at  the 
Underground,  the  lounge  of  Delta  Tau  Delta, 
Phi  Psi,  Sigma  Chi,  and  Delta  Upsilon:  a  band 
that  is  now  readying  for  a  national  tour." 
Hale  can  be  reached  c/o  Breaking  World 
Records,  P.O.  Box  962,  Dept.  319,  Cambridge, 
Mass.  02140;  (617)  279-2S22. 

Susan  Upright  married  Br\-an  Mont- 
gomery (Lni\ersit\  of  Portsmouth,  England 
'92),  of  Waterlooville,  England,  on  June  5  in 
New  Paltz,  NY.  Lara  Tannenbaum  was  the 
honor  attendant,  and  two  of  Susan  s  former 
roommates,  Caryl  Waggett  and  Deana  Ther- 
oux  (a  second-year  medical  student  at 
Brown),  were  bridesmaids.  A  number  of 
alumni  also  attended.  Susan  works  for  Policy 
Research  Associates  and  is  pursuing  her  mas- 
ter's of  public  health  degree  part-time  at 
SUNY- Albany.  She  and^Bryan  li\'e  at  6A  Old 
Hickory  Dr.,  Apt.  2B,  Albany,  N.Y.  12204, 
and  would  lo\e  to  hear  from  friends. 


93 


~.  Josh  Berberian  and  Maria  T.  Davila  were 
among  twelve  Brown  iilumni  and  students 
who  worked  in  the  Exploration  Summer  Pro- 
gram at  Wellesley  College  last  summer.  Now 
in  its  sixteenth  year,  the  program  has  a  staff 
of  125  college  students,  graduate  students, 
and  recent  graduates  who  design  workshops, 
create  and  lead  extracurricular  activities  and 
live  with  youngsters  as  residential  advisors. 
Josh  and  Maria  worked  in  the  junior-high 
program;  Josh  taught  music  and  boat  design, 
and  Maria  taught  courses  in  the  sociology  of 
music  and  the  United  Nations. 

Robin  Halsband  spent  a  year  in  San  Fran- 
cisco teaching  at  the  histitute  of  Reading 
Development.  She  roomed  with  Tracy  Brim, 
who  is  pursuing  a  career  in  film  production, 
and  together  they  played  host  to  hordes  of 
classmates  who  passed  through.  Robin  is 
now  teaching  English  and  French  in  Zamora, 
Mexico.  "If  you  can  find  her,  drop  in,"  writes 
her  father,  Earle  Halsband  '6v 

Jed  Simon  and  Jason  Kaplan  are  living 
together  in  San  Francisco.  Jed  has  opened  the 
first  of  what  he  hopes  will  be  a  chain  of 
boutiques.  The  Modern  Man,  in  the  Bay  area. 
Jason  has  been  teaching  aerobics  at  Gold's 
Gym  and  accepted  a  managerial  position. 
"We  recently  applied  for  adoption  of  a  son  and 
are  keeping  our  fingers  crossed.  We'll  keep 
you  posted." 

Michael  Lehrer  (see  Helena  Formal 
Lehrer  '70). 

Jeffrey  Palmer  Stamm  (see  C.  William 
Stamm  '58). 


GS 


t   GunfightL'r  Nation:  The  Myth  of  the  Frontier 
in  zotii-Cenlury  America  (1992)  by  Richard  S. 
Slotkin  '67  Ph.D.  has  been  nominated  for  a 
National  Book  Award.  It  completes  a  trilogy 
that  began  with  Ref^eucratioii  Tliroiigli  Violence, 
based  on  Slotkin's  graduate-school  thesis. 
He  teaches  at  Wesleyan  University  and  lives 
in  Middletown,  Conn. 

Peter  S.  Allen  '68  A.M.,  "yi,  Ph.D.  and 
Susan  Heuck  Allen  '90  Ph.D.,  Providence, 
announce  the  birth  of  their  fourth  child,  Ken- 
neth Peter  Cornelius  Allen,  on  Sept.  19. 

E.  Bruce  Goldstein  '68  Ph.D.,  Pittsburgh, 
writes  that  lus  text.  Psychology,  has  been  pub- 
lished bv  BrouUs-Cole  Publishers. 

Winfried  Schleiner  '68  Ph.D.  and  Louise 
Gittings  Schleiner  '73  Ph.D.  celebrated  their 
25th  wedding  anniversary.  They  live  in  Pull- 
man, Wash. 

Phillip  J.  Campana  '70  Ph.D.,  Cookeville, 
Tenn.,  was  reappointed  to  the  board  of  gov- 
ernors of  the  Tennessee  Foreign  Language 
Institute  for  three  years.  He  serves  as  secre- 
tary-treasurer of  tlie  state  agency.  Campana 
is  one  of  two  of  the  original  members 
appointed  in  1986. 

Alan  Hausrath  '72  Ph.D.  (see  Pat  Truman 
'70). 

Richard  E.  Johnson  '81  Sc.M.  (see  '74). 

Chris  Clouet  '87  A.M.  is  the  director  of 
resources  and  learning  technology  for  the 
Hamden  Public  Schools  in  Connecticut.  He 
recently  was  appointed  to  the  state's  Joint 


Commission  on  Educational  Technology. 
Chris  lives  in  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

Ivette  N.  Hernandez-Torres  '88  A.M.  has 
been  appointed  an  instructor  in  Spanish  at 
Colby  College  in  Waterville,  Maine.  Her  spe- 
cialty is  Latin  American  colonial  literature, 
and  she  is  a  scholar  of  Puerto  Rican  literature 
and  history.  Her  most  recent  publications  are 
five  entries  in  Diccionario  dc  literatiira  espauola 
e  hispnnoamcricana  (1993). 

Misha  Hoekstra  '90  M.F.A.  took  the  fall 
semester  off  from  teaching  creative  writing 
and  literature  at  Deep  Springs  College  to  be  a 
faculty  guest  at  Cornell's  Telluride  House. 
Michael  B.  Householder  '90  MAT.  (see 
■89), 

Joaquin  Roses  '91  Ph.D.  is  professor  of 
Hispanic  literature  at  the  University  of  Cor- 
doba in  Spain.  His  book,  Una  Poetica  de  la 
Oscuridmi:  La  Recepcion  Critica  de  las  Soledades 
en  el  Siglo  XVII,  will  be  published  by  Tamesis 
Books  Ltd.  (London)  in  1994. 

Hirokazu  Sakal  '92  Sc.M.  works  for  Toy- 
ota Motor  Corporation  and  lives  in  Nagoya, 
Japan.  "We  are  very  busy  even  after  the  bub- 
ble economy,"  he  writes. 

Robert  C.  Welshon  '93  Ph.D.  has  accepted 
a  position  as  assistant  professor  in  philoso- 
phy at  the  University  of  Colorado,  Colorado 
Springs.  He  lives  in  Lakewood,  Colo. 


MD 


Lewis  M.  Satloff  '83  M.D.  and  his  wife, 
Wendy,  were  expecting  their  first  child  on 
Dec.  31.  They  live  in  Beverly  Hills,  Calif. 

Eli  N.  Avila  '86  M.D.  (see  '81). 

Amy  Beth  R.  Hilton  '88  M.D.  (see  Richard 
E.  Johnson  74). 

Richard  E.  Johnson  '88  M.D.  (see  '74). 


Obituaries 

Edwin  Croston  Brady  '23,  South  Dartmouth, 
Mass.;  Oct.  18.  He  was  retired  president  and 
director  of  Coaters  Inc.,  New  Bedford,  Mass. 
He  is  survived  by  a  son,  William  '50,  496  Elm 
St.,  South  Dartmouth  02748. 

Nathan  Benjamin  Silberman  24,  Stamford, 
Conn.;  Oct.  31,  1987.  A  1928  graduate  of  New 
York  University  Law  School,  he  was  an  attor- 
ney with  his  own  practice.  He  is  survived  by 
a  grandson,  Fredric  Silberman,  28  Luquer 
Rd.,  Port  Washington,  N.Y.  11050. 

John  Howard  Kazanjian  Jr.  '25,  Portsmouth, 
R.I.;  Oct.  7.  I  ie  was  the  retired  coowner  of 
John  H.  Kazanjian  &  Company,  Newport, 
R.I.,  a  home  furnishings  business  begun  by 
his  father  in  the  1870s.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  vestry  of  Trinity  Church  in  Newport,  a 
past  treasurer  and  member  of  the  Point  Asso- 
ciation, and  a  member  of  the  Redwood 
Library.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife.  Alberta, 
20  Indian  Ave.,  Apt.  i,  Portsmouth  02871. 

Robert  Ingle  Williams  '23,  Garrison,  N.Y.; 
June  10,  1992.  He  was  a  retired  insurance 
consultant  for  Westchester  County,  N.Y. 


William  George  Chace  '26,  Punta  Gorda, 
Fla.;  July  31,  from  injuries  sustained  in  an 
automobile  accident.  He  was  a  retired  physi- 
cist with  the  U.S.  Air  Force  at  the  Cambridge 
Research  Laboratory  in  Bedford,  Mass.  Prior 
to  that,  he  taught  in  the  engineering  and 
chemistry  departments  at  the  Lowell  (Mass.) 
Technical  Institute  for  fourteen  years.  He  was 
a  lieutenant  commander  in  the  U.S.  Navy 
during  World  War  II. 

Arthur  John  Barry  Jr.  '27,  Naples,  Fla.;  Aug. 
26.  He  was  in  the  radio  advertising  business, 
and  when  World  War  II  broke  out  he  joined 
the  U.S.  Navy,  where  he  served  as  a  fighter 
director  on  a  carrier  in  the  Pacific.  He  pro- 
duced nine  training  films  at  the  Walt  Disney 
Studios  and  a  magazine  on  aircraft  produc- 
tion for  the  Navy,  as  well  as  writing  a  book, 
Allie  Dear.  After  the  war  he  reentered  the 
radio  advertising  business  as  vice  president 
of  Free  &  Peters  Inc.,  and  later  was  president 
of  WEOK  in  Poughkeepsie,  N.Y.  He  is  sur- 
vived by  his  wife,  Martha,  576  Tierra  Mar 
Ln.,  Naples  33963;  and  a  son. 

Beatrice  Simpson  Brown  '30,  Eugene,  Oreg. 
She  was  active  in  volunteer  organizations 
including  the  League  of  Women  Voters  in 
Geneva,  N.Y.,  and  Mayaguez,  Puerto  Rico, 
when  her  husband  was  an  English  professor 
at  the  University  of  Puerto  Rico.  She  wrote  a 
column,  "In  and  Around  Mayaguez,"  for 
the  English-language  Snn  juan  Star.  She  is 
survived  by  a  daughter,  Diana;  a  son-in-law, 
J.  Edmund  Sheridan  60,  2686  Cresta  de 
Ruta,  Eugene  97403;  and  a  granddaughter, 
Elissa  Sheridan  '86. 

Ann  Marie  Flynn  32  A.M.,  Warren,  R.I.; 
Sept.  5.  She  was  executive  director  of  the 
USO  from  1944  to  1971.  She  is  survived  by  a 
nephew.  Jack  Flynn,  791  Main  St.,  Warren 
02885. 

Maurice  Theodore  Taylor  '33,  West  Palm 
Beach,  Fla.;  April  4.  He  was  president  of 
Brooklyn  Outfitters  Inc.,  a  Norwich,  Conn., 
men's  and  boy's  furnishings  business 
founded  by  his  father.  He  received  his  law 
degree  from  Boston  University  in  19^7  and 
was  a  sergeant  in  the  quartermaster  corps 
during  World  War  II.  He  is  survived  by  his 
wife,  Charlotte,  Dover  C  260,  West  Palm 
Beach  33417. 

Francis  Luther  Moses  '34,  East  Providence, 
R.I.;  Oct.  13.  He  was  a  warehouse  manager 
for  the  former  G.A.F.  Corporation  before 
retiring.  He  served  on  tlie  board  of  deacons 
of  Newman  Congregational  Church  in  East 
Providence.  He  is  survived  by  a  son  and  a 
daughter,  Beverly  Sawyer,  Second  Point  Rd., 
Warwick,  R.I.  02886. 

Harry  Goldberg  '35,  Warwick,  R.I.;  Oct.  14. 
He  graduated  from  the  University  of  Penn- 
sylvania Dental  School  in  1939  and  had  a 
dental  practice  in  Providence  for  forty-seven 
years  until  retiring  in  1991.  He  had  been 
assistant  dental  director  at  the  Joseph 
Samuels  Dental  Clinic  in  Providence,  and 
was  a  member  of  the  dental  staff  at  the  Miriam 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /  hi 


Hospital.  Providence.  He  served  in  the  U.S. 
Arni\-  Dental  Corps  in  the  Panama  Canal 
Zone  during  World  War  11.  He  had  been  vice 
president  of  the  former  Temple  Beth  Israel, 
Providence,  and  a  member  of  the  lewish  Fed- 
eration of  Rhode  Island,  the  Providence 
Helirew  Free  Loan,  and  the  Jewish  Home  for 
the  .-^gecl.  He  was  a  Bov  Scout  leader  in  War- 
wick in  the  iq40s  and  igsos.  He  is  survived 
bv  his  wife,  Charlotte,  121  Puritan  Dr.,  War- 
wick 02088. 

Reuben  Botsford  Johnson  '^8  Sc.M.,  Storrs, 
Conn.,  director  emeritus  of  alumni  relations 
at  the  L'niversitv  of  Connecticut;  July  13.  He 
served  as  dean  of  men  at  the  University  of 
Connecticut  from  1946  to  i960,  and  as  direc- 
tor of  alumni  relations  from  1962  until  his 
retirement  in  1970.  In  1990  he  and  his  wife,  a 
retired  assistant  professor,  received  the  uni- 
versitv's  highest  award,  the  University 
Medal,  for  their  ser\'ice.  As  an  undergraduate, 
he  was  captain  of  Connecticut's  1935  football 
team.  He  taught  high-school  science  and 
mathematics  in  North  Canaan  anci  Windsor, 
Conn.,  before  returning  to  the  university  as  a 
dean.  During  World  War  11  he  was  a  U.S. 
Armv  intelligence  officer,  attaining  the  rank 
of  colonel,  and  he  later  served  in  the  Korean 
War.  He  was  in  the  Connecticut  National 
Guard  from  1948  to  1966,  retiring  as  a 
brigadier  general.  Survivors  include  his  wife, 
Louise,  15  Eastwood  Rd.,  Storrs  06268;  a 
daughter;  and  a  son. 

Helen  M.  Cavanaugh  '39,  Fall  River,  Mass.; 
Oct.  30.  She  was  a  clerk  for  the  Fall  River 
Electric  Light  Companv  for  twenty-nine 
vears  before  retiring  in  1981.  She  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  American  Association  of  Univer- 
sity Women. 

Alan  Metcalf  Decker  '42,  Providence;  Oct.  26. 
He  was  a  merchant  marine  during  World 
War  11  and  an  office  worker  at  the  former  Tri- 
angle Prints,  West  Warwick,  R.I.  He  is  sur- 
vived bv  a  brother,  Malcolm  '39,  P.O.  Box 
234,  Charlestown,  R.l.  112813. 

Jane  Spencer  Schwantes  '44  A.M.,  Wood- 
stown,  N.J.;  July  8,  1992.  She  taught  Spanish 
for  sixteen  years  at  Woodstown  High  School. 
She  was  a  member  of  the  Woman's  Club  of 
Woodstown  and  the  American  Association  of 
L'niversitv  Women,  and  a  volunteer  at  the 
Woodstown  Library.  Survivors  include  her 
husband,  John,  R.R.  2,  Box  108A,  Marlton  Rd., 
Woodstown  08098;  and  two  children. 

Alfred  Henry  Bosworth  Jr.  '4s,  Lebanon, 
Conn.;  Aug,  27.  He  retired  from  Pratt  and 
Whitney,  East  Hartford,  Conn.,  where  he 
designed  jet  aircraft  and  ICBM  missiles.  He 
also  worked  in  nuclear  manufacturing  and 
submarine  and  jet-engine  testing.  He  was  a 
scoutmaster  and  activities  chairman  in 
Woodbridge,  Conn.,  and  active  in  musical 
organizations,  including  the  Apollo  Swedish 
Singing  Society,  the  Lebanon  Community 
Chorus,  the  Manchester  Silk  City  Barber- 
shoppers,  and  the  Rose  City  Barbershoppers, 
of  which  he  was  past  president.  He  served  in 
the  U.S.  .\avy  during  World  War  II.  Sur- 


\'ivors  include  four  sons,  a  daughter,  and  his 
wife,  Olive,  49  Madley  Rd.,  Lebanon  06249. 

Eliot  Stellar  '47  Ph.D.,  Ardmore,  Pa.,  former 
provost  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania; 
Oct.  12,  of  cancer.  After  four  years  as  a  U.S. 
Armv  psychologist  and  seven  years  on  the 
faculty  at  Johns  Hopkins  University,  he 
arrived  at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  in 
1954  as  an  associate  professor  of  physiologi- 
cal psychology  in  the  medical  school.  He  was 
named  professor  in  i960,  and  five  years  later 
was  named  to  head  Pennsylvania's  Institute 
of  Neurological  Sciences,  where  he  carried  on 
reseatch  in  brain  function,  appetite,  and  obe- 
sity. He  was  named  Penn's  provost  in  1973. 
During  his  tenure  he  was  instrumental  in 
establishing  the  new  Faculty  of  Arts  and  Sci- 
ences, placing  renewed  emphasis  on  under- 
graduate education  and  fostering  interdis- 
ciplinary learning.  When  he  resigned  the  post 
in  1978,  he  returned  to  his  position  as  profes- 
sor of  physiological  psychology.  Largely 
because  of  his  work,  the  19SOS  became  "the 
age  of  the  hypothalamus"  in  physiological 
psychology.  He  coauthored  PIn/fiological  Psy- 
diology,  the  standard  text  in  the  field,  and 
wrote  with  his  son,  James,  The  Nctirobiology  of 
Motivation  and  Rcioani.  He  edited  the  journal 
of  Comparative  &  PIn/siological  Psycliologi/  (now 
lourual  oj  Behavioral  Ncurofcicncc)  and 
founded  the  Progress  in  Physiological  Psychol- 
ogy series  with  James  Sprague.  His  article, 
"The  Physiology  of  Motivation,"  which 
appeared  in  Psi/chological  Review  in  1954,  was 
one  of  eight  articles  selected  by  the  Review  for 
a  centennial  edition  of  the  most  influential 
papers  of  the  twentieth  century.  At  the  time 
of  his  death  he  was  chairman  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  Cell  and  Developmental  Biology,  for- 
merly the  anatomy  department,  at  Penn.  Mr. 
Stellar  was  elected  to  the  National  Academy 
of  Sciences,  the  American  Academy  of  Arts 
and  Sciences,  and  the  American  Philosophi- 
cal Society,  of  which  he  was  president  for  six 
years.  He  had  a  lifelong  interest  in  human 
rights,  serving  on  a  presidential  committee 
that  developed  the  ground  rules  on  the  use  of 
human  subjects  in  research,  and  was  an 
active  member  of  the  Committee  on  Human 
Rights  of  the  National  Academy  of  Sciences. 
In  1991  friends  and  colleagues  from  around 
the  country  honored  Mr.  Stellar  in  a  two-day 
tribute  at  Penn.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife, 
Betty  Housel  Stellar  '42,  172  Cedarbrook 
Rd.,  Ardmore  19003;  a  son;  and  a  daughter. 

Alvin  Zell  Freeman  '49  A.M.,  Williamsburg, 
Va.;  June  22.  He  was  professor  emeritus  of 
history  at  the  College  of  William  and  Mary, 
and  previously  taught  at  Black  Mountain 
College  and  Allegheny  College.  His  specialties 
were  medieval,  constitutional,  and  military 
history.  He  was  elected  three  times  to  a  visit- 
ing fellowship  at  Robinson  College  at  Cam- 
bridge University,  England.  During  World 
War  11  he  was  stationed  in  the  Pacific  and  par- 
ticipated in  the  Battle  of  Okinawa.  During  the 
Korean  War  he  was  a  combat  historian,  retir- 
ing as  a  major.  For  two  years  afterward,  he 
was  in  civil  service  with  the  U.S.  Air  Force  as 
a  scientific  historian,  and  was  on  the  Marine 
Corps  Historical  Foundation  board  of  direc- 


tors. His  collection  of  Japanese  swords  was 
displayed  at  Bowdoin  College's  Walker  Art 
Museum,  the  Zollinger  Museum,  and  the 
Williamsburg  Regional  Library.  He  cata- 
logued collections  at  the  MacArthur  Memo- 
rial in  Norfolk,  Va.,  and  the  Virginia  Military 
Institute  Museum.  He  was  chairman  of  the 
Japanese  Sword  Society  of  the  United  States 
for  six  years.  A  member  of  the  Marine  Corps 
rifle  team,  he  won  two  state  rifle  champi- 
onships and  was  invited  to  the  final  tryouts 
for  the  1966  Olympics.  He  is  survived  by  his 
wife,  Margaret  Wooster  Freeman  '45, 150 
Ridings  Cove,  Williamsburg,  Va.  23185;  a 
daughter;  and  a  son,  John  '70. 

Clara  Sprankle  Lee  '49,  New  Canaan,  Conn.; 

June  23.  She  was  a  real  estate  broker  and 
appraiser  for  thirty-five  years.  Active  in 
many  community  organizations,  she  was  a 
past  president  of  the  New  Canaan  Commu- 
nity Nursery  School  and  of  the  Silver  Hill 
Community  Association.  She  is  survived  by 
her  husband,  John  '46,  160  Mill  Rd.,  New 
Canaan  06840;  two  sons;  and  a  daughter. 

Leonard  Bouras  '35,  Boston;  Oct.  24,  of 
leukemia.  An  interventional  radiologist,  he 
was  associated  with  Lynn  (Mass.)  Hospital 
from  1965  to  1988  and  introduced  percuta- 
neous arteriography,  mammography,  needle 
aspiration,  and  other  interventional  radiol- 
ogy techniques  in  the  area.  He  was  chief  of 
radiology  at  the  hospital  in  1982  and  1983.  He 
also  had  been  an  associate  clinical  professor 
of  radiology  at  Boston  University  School 
of  Medicine,  where  he  received  his  medical 
degree,  and  at  Boston  City  Hospital.  He  is 
survived  by  his  wife,  Elaine  Meier-Bouras, 
P.O.  Box  1257,  Boston  02117;  and  two  daugh- 
ters, including  Jennifer  Bouras  Sheppard  '87. 

Robert  Francis  Cahill  '33,  Alexandria,  Va.; 
Jan.  IT,,  1993,  of  cancer.  He  was  a  retired 
insurance  broker  specializing  in  employee 
benefits  with  Aetna  Life  &  Casualty.  After 
graduation  he  was  commissioned  a  second 
lieutenant  in  the  U.S.  Air  Force  and  served 
two  years'  active  duty  at  Lowery  Air  Force 
Base  in  Denver.  He  was  a  former  managing 
editor  of  the  Brown  Daily  Herald  and  a  mem- 
ber of  Alpha  Delta  Phi.  He  is  survived  by  his 
wife,  Mary  Lou,  6040  North  Morgan  St., 
Alexandria  22112;  and  four  children. 

Barbara  Couse  Rahn  '37,  San  Antonio,  Texas; 
July  4.  She  is  survived  bv  her  father,  John  C. 
Couse,  of  Rock  Hall,  Md.;  and  a  sister. 

Marjorie  W.  Champlin  's9  A.M.,  Jamestown, 
R.L;  Oct.  T.  She  was  a  retired  Latin  teacher, 
having  taught  at  Cranston  (R.l.)  High  School 
and  North  Kingstown  (R.l.)  High  School. 

James  Wallace  '61  Ph.D.,  Sudbur\',  Mass.; 
Sept.  24.  He  was  the  founder  and  president  of 
Far  Field  Inc.  in  Sudbury.  A  research  scientist 
who  published  numerous  technical  papers, 
he  was  an  internatitinally  recognized  expert 
in  the  field  of  laser  propagation.  Sigma  Xi.  He 
is  survived  by  his  wife,  Nancy,  6  Thoreau 
Way,  Sudbury  01776;  and  five  children.  El 


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I  tell  our  students: 

You  may  raise  your 

voice,  but  you  may  not 

impose  your  will  on 

everyone  else 


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of  Connnunih/  Behavior  and  have  acknowledged  in 
writing  their  understanding  that  the  University 
will  hold  them  to  that  standard  of  behavior. 
Indeed,  the  underlying  principle  of  the  Tt')/cfs  is 
that  "a  socially  responsible  community  provides  a 
structure  within  which 
individual  freedoms  may 
flourish,  but  not  so  self- 
indulgently  that  they 
threaten  the  rights  or  free- 
doms of  other  individuals 
or  groups."  Intellectual 
independence  and  social 
responsibility  are  not 
mutually  exclusive. 

Brown  University  has 
an  obligation  to  protect  the  safety  and  dignity  of 
the  young  people  who  have  come  here  to  study,  to 
affirm  their  right  to  learn  without  intimidation  or 
fear.  This  is  the  reason  the  University  occasionally 
is  involved  in  hearing  charges  of  sexual  miscon- 
duct. Criminal  charges  of  sexual  assault  can  take 
months  or  even  years  to  come  to  trial.  As  members 
of  this  community,  our  students  can  choose 
instead,  on  the  basis  of  solid  evidence,  to  ask  the 
administration  to  protect  them  when  they  feel 
unsafe  being  on  the  same  campus  -  perhaps  in  the 
same  dormitory  or  classroom  -  as  the  person 
whom  they  believe  assaulted  them.  Naturally  the 
first  recourse  is  to  resolve  such  problems  through 
mediation,  but  when  that  fails,  we  have  an  obliga- 
tion to  hear  testimony  and  rule  in  as  fair  and  bal- 
anced a  manner  as  possible. 

There  are  nearly  10,000  people  in  this  constantly- 
changing  community,  living  on  and  near  campus. 
For  Brown  to  hear  two  or  three  cases  of  sexual 
assault  in  one  year  does  not  constitute  a  trend  or  a 
norm;  such  cases  are  the  rare  exceptions. 


ON  PROTESTS  AND  LEADERSHIP 

Throughout  the  history  of  this  University  -  and 
every  other  university  -  there  have  been  student 
protests.  In  retrospect  we  can  say  some  of  them 
had  a  point  and  others  did  not.  In  my  five  years 
here  Brown  has  had  protests,  sit-ins,  and  demon- 
strations. But  these  have  not  deterred  me  from 
stating  the  University's  goals.  I  am  not  persuaded 
by  force;  1  am  not  intimidated  by  demonstrations. 
What  I  mil  impressed  with  are  the  logical  argu- 
ments of  faculty,  staff,  and  students  who  make  a 
compelling  case  to  me  that  something  is  wrong 
and  who  provide  constructive  solutions.  When  I 
came  here,  for  example,  women  on  the  faculty  and 
staff  told  me  Brown  needed  a  daycare  center;  we 
needed  more  equitable  maternity  leaves.  Those 
were  great  ideas,  and  we've  acted  on  them. 

I  have  told  our  students:  you  may  demonstrate, 
you  may  picket,  but  you  may  not  disrupt  the  func- 


tions of  this  University.  You  may  raise  your  voice, 
but  you  may  not  impose  your  will  on  everyone 
else.  Further,  I  have  tried  to  make  clear  my  belief 
that  you  cannot  commit  acts  of  intimidation  in  the 
name  of  your  cause  and  afterward  try  to  gain 
amnesty  from  the  legal  consequences  of  your  acts. 
Civil  disobedience  as  practiced  by  Gandhi,  by 
Martin  Luther  King,  was  a  method  of  educating 
that  included  suffering  the  consequences  of  one's 
actions.  I  respect  that. 

For  230  years  Brown  University  has  had  rules 
and  regulations.  The  legal  responsibility  for  run- 
ning the  University  belongs  to  the  Corporation, 
which  has  delegated  day-to-day  authority  to  me 
and  my  senior  colleagues  in  the  administration. 
Last  fall  1  distributed  a  document  to  all  incoming 
freshmen  as  well  as  all  students  on  campus,  delin- 
eating the  University's  governance  rules  and  the 
participation  of  the  faculty  and,  where  appropri- 
ate, students.  I  told  the  students  that  if  they  want 
to  participate  in  governance,  they  cannot  bypass 
the  prescribed  channels  and  go  directly  to  the  pres- 
ident with  demands  for  change. 

Students  know  that  I  do  not  accept  demands, 
nor  do  1  respond  to  them.  Two  years  ago,  instead 
of  pursuing  a  dialogue  with  the  administration,  a 
group  of  students  occupied  University  Hall  and 
dictated  their  conditions  for  leaving.  As  you  know, 
the  occupation  resulted  in  the  arrest  of  251  stu- 
dents, all  of  whom  later  wrote  a  letter  of  apology 
to  our  employees  and  voluntarily  placed  them- 
selves on  probation  for  one  year,  and  paid  fines. 


ON  FAIRNESS 

As  president  of  this  University  1  am  in  charge  of 
the  welfare  of  all  our  faculty,  students,  and 
staff.  I  have  not  allowed  any  individual's  views  or 
opposition  to  me  to  result  in  a  withdrawal  of  sup- 
port for  their  worthy  projects,  nor  to  interfere  with 
their  appropriate  recognition  for  academic 
achievement  or  their  plans  for  the  future.  1  con- 
sider it  normal,  for  example,  to  name  a  fellowship 
and  to  plant  trees  in  honor  of  Professor  McLough- 
lin,  or  to  write  recommendations  on  behalf  of  stu- 
dents with  excellent  academic  records  who  might 
have  criticized  me  or  Brown.  I  distinguish  between 
ability  and  ideology,  as  well  as  between  integrity 
and  deception. 

I  remember  when  I  was  in  San  Francisco 
attending  a  seminar  given  by  Episcopal  Bishop 
Pike,  and  he  said,  "Categorization  is  sin."  I  believe 
in  that,  because  if  unchecked  categorization  may 
lead  to  dehumanization  and  stereotyping.  I  don't 
want  people  to  pigeonhole  Brown  on  the  basis  of  a 
few  incidents  that  get  publicity.  1  want  people  to 
judge  Brown  on  the  basis  of  facts,  not  perceptions. 
People  who  are  prejudiced  against  this  University 
are  falling  into  their  own  mode  of  political  correct- 
ness. They  have  made  up  their  minds  and  they 
say,  "Don't  confuse  me  with  facts."  Gl 


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Finally... 


By  Maggie  Rosen  '8^ 


Mailbox  of 
my  dreams 


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^^^  hortiv  before  the  1992  presidential 
^_  J  election,  while  1  was  working  as 
an  education  reporter,  1  dreamed  that 
then-Education  Secretary  Lamar  Alex- 
ander was  c]uitting  his  post  to  enter 
the  winter  Olympics  as  a  speed  skater. 
The  contest  was  being  held  in  sunny, 
mild  Tennessee.  Get  it?  He  was  skating 
on  thin  ice. 

1  have  strange  dreams. 

For  many  years  now  I  have  had  a 
recurring  dream  about  Brown.  1  think  it 
is  the  only  dream  1  have  about  Brown, 
and  I  seem  to  have  it  regularly,  at  least 
once  every  other  month.  It  usually  starts 
as  the  typical  freshman  anxiety  dream, 
except  I'm  my  current  age:  I'm  return- 
ing to  campus  after  years  away,  and  1 
can't  remember  how  the  routine  works. 
I'm  struggling  to  set  up  mv  class  sched- 
ule, buy  books,  and  find  my  classrooms. 

The  weird  part  is  that  as  1  head  across 
the  Green  to  my  first  class  -  sensing,  of 
course,  that  it  has  already  started  and  it 
will  be  futile  to  find  it  -  I  remember  that 
I  haven't  checked  my  mail  in,  say,  four 
years.  I  go  straight  to  Faunce  House  and 
open  my  mailbox,  and  there  it  is:  a  huge 
pile  of  letters,  flyers,  advertisements, 
and  announcements  of  activities  long 
since  missed. 

You  tell  me:  what's  it  supposed  to 
mean? 

After  a  particularly  dramatic  version 
of  The  Dream,  in  which  1  search  the 
Brown  Bookstore  -  renovated  to  resem- 
ble the  Charles  DeGaulle  Airport  -  for 
an  office  where  I  must  obtain  permis- 
sion to  register  for  classes,  I  decide  to 
take  an  informal  poll. 

I  ask  my  friend  Keshini  Ladduwa- 
hetty  '85  if  she  ever  dreams  about 
Brown.  Not  surprisingly,  Keshini  says 
no.  She  is  a  supremely  rational  woman 

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who  doesn't  dream  about  real  things; 
she  dreams  weird,  illogical  stuff.  She 
thinks  it's  hilarious  that  I  have  dreams 
with  plots. 

So  I  call  Liz  Wagner  '85.  We  were 
roommates  for  three  years  and  we're 
still  close,  although  we  haven't  lived  in 
the  same  city  for  eight  years  now.  I  ask 
Liz,  "Do  you  ever  dream  about  Brown?" 

"All  the  time,"  she  says.  "I'm  rushing 
around  trying  to  find  out  where  my 
classes  are  and  the  list  isn't  posted,  or 
I'm  late  for  my  first  class."  A  pause. 
"And  my  mail.  I  always  go  to  check  my 
mailbox  at  Faunce  House." 

"Because  you  haven't  gone  in  a  long 
time?" 

"Yeah,"  says  Liz.  "It's  stuffed.  But  I 
can't  remember  the  combination  to  get  it 
open." 

There  has  to  be  some  great  Brown 
unconscious  that  draws  us  together  for 
four  years,  then  sends  us  off,  changed, 
into  the  wilderness.  These  fragmented 
memories,  the  bits  and  pieces  of  a  rou- 
tine long  since  abandoned,  reveal  them- 
selves like  shards  from  ancient  civiliza- 


tions, like  refrains  from  nursery  rhymes 
our  mother  sang  to  us.  I  don't  dream 
about  "Rock-a-Bye,  Baby."  I  dream  of 
Brown  in  the  first  shock  of  September, 
when  submerged  color  breaks  forth  on 
the  leaves,  new  books  release  crisp  smells 
of  ink,  and  dark  stairways  lure  you  to 
unknown  classrooms. 

I'm  yearning  for  that  lost  sense  of 
embarking,  of  starting  a  wild  voyage 
with  all  possibilities  ahead.  I'm  nostal- 
gic for  the  fear  I  felt  as  a  new  under- 
graduate, fresh  from  North  Carolina  and 
nearing  what  I  had  wanted  for  so  long: 
to  be  around  people  who  talked  fast  and 
thought  fast  in  a  place  with  a  choke  hold 
on  ideas. 

In  my  dreams,  as  1  peer  into  that 
tiny  cubbyhole  in  Faunce  House,  I'm 
casting  into  my  old  self  to  see  if  it 
remembers  me,  waiting  for  that  fearful, 
happy  student  all  those  years  ago  to 
send  me  word.  ED 

Maggie  Rosen  of  Alcximdriii,  Virginia,  is  a 
writer  and  a  graduate  student  in  education 
at  George  Waslungton  Universit\/. 


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/■  s  Paul  Kennedy  argues  in  his  recent  work, 
JTM-Prcparing  for  the  Twenty-First  Century, 
"globalization"  -  the  triple  whammy  of  the 
communications  and  financial  revolutions  and 
the  spread  of  the  multinational  corporation  -  is 
a  process  which  will  result  in  increasingly  diverg- 
ing lists  of  economic  winners  and  losers  as  we 
move  into  the  next  century. 

Brown's  own  globalization  is,  however,  a  win- 
ning situation.  Brown  has  come  a  long  way  from 
our  days  at  the  University  when  the  number  of 
foreign  students  could  be  counted  on  your  fingers. 
Courses  on  third-world  subjects  were  in  their 
infancy  and  foreign  study,  when  possible,  usually 
required  extended  time  at  Brown.  With  its 
plethora  of  internationally-focused  centers  and 
courses,  a  significant  percentage  of  international 
undergraduates  and  numerous  foreign  study 
opportunities.  Brown  has  gone  truly  global. 

This  expanded  international  dimension  has 
given  those  of  us  who  choose  to  live  as  expatriates 
even  more  reason  to  remain  interested  and 
involved  in  Brown  and  its  future.  It  has  become 
increasingly  common  to  meet  Brown  alumni  living 
abroad,  and  the  University  has  demonstrated  an 
active  interest  in  its  foreign  and  expatriate  alumni 
through  the  international  Brown  Club  network. 

For  those  reasons  and  because  no  matter 
where  we  are  (even  in  Samarkand  as  pictured), 
"we  are  ever  true  to  Brown"  and  have  chosen  to 
bequeath  substantial  portions  of  our  estates  to  the 
University  -  in  particular  its  new  Islamic  Studies 
Program  and  other  international  activities. 

Only  with  the  loyal  and  generous  support  of 
its  alumni  can  Brown  keep  pace  with  its  interna- 
tional competitors  and  continue  to  produce 
graduates  ready  and  able  to  face  the  global  chal- 
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