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March  1995 


Alumni  Monthly 


8  Under  the  Elms 

Cyberspace  cops  .  . .  hanging  with  Bell  Gallery  director  Diana 
Johnson  .  .  .  why  Brown  cares  about  Congress  (and  City  Hall) 
.  .  .  an  applied  mathematician  gets  inside  our  heads  .  .  . 
an  important  legal  collection  emerges  from  obscurity  in  the 
stacks  .  .    the  co-op  movement  lives  .  .  .  and  more. 


18  Carpe  Diem 


It's  still  controversial  at  age  twenty-five.  Was 
the  New  Curriculum  an  educational  blunder 
or  the  best  thing  that  ever  happened  to  Brown? 
By  Janet  Phillips  'jo 


26  Wayland's  Legacy 


Contrary  to  widely-held  belief,  curricular 
reform  at  Brown  did  not  begin  in  1969.  Its  roots 
extend  at  least  as  far  back  as  the  presidency  of 
Francis  Wayland  (1827-55).  By  Vartan  Gregorian 


28  Liberal  Education,  Liberal  Campus 

Brown  students,  argues  a  recent  graduate,  benefit  more 
from  courses  they  take  outside  their  concentrations 
than  do  undergraduates  elsewhere  who  merely  fulfill 
distribution  requirements.  By  Jaeob  Levy  'qj 


30  'My  Foot  Is  in  My  Mouth' 

Three  alumnae  in  Asia  are  among  many  who 
have  fanned  out  from  the  Van  Wickle  Gates  to 
teach  English  in  schools  around  the  world.  The 
experience  sometimes  disappoints,  but  also 
enlightens  in  unexpected  ways.  By  Jennifer  Sutton 


34  Portrait:  Through  a  Lens,  Darkly 

Christine  Vachon  '83  has  made  her  cinematic  name 
outside  Hollywood  by  producing  movies  that  probe 
humanity's  dark  side.  By  Jennifer  Sutton 


Cover:  If  the  curriculum  could  be  said  to  have 
a  grandfather,  it  would  be  Professor  George 
Morgan  (at  blackboard),  an  early  force  behind 
interdisciplinary  studies  at  Broiim.  One  of 
his  students  was  Ira  Magaziner  '69  (inset). 
Cover  design  by  Sandra  Delany;  file  photographs. 


Volume  95,  Number  6 


Departments 

Carrying  the  Mail 

4 

Sports 

16 

Books 

17 

The  Classes 

36 

Obituaries 

51 

Finally 

56 

Brown       Carrying  the  Mail 


Alumni  Moiithh/ 

March  lygs 
Volume  93,  No.  6 

Editor 

AniH'  Miiini.in  niffilv  '73 

Managing  Editor 
Norman  Boucher 

Art  Director 

Kathrvn  de  Boor 

Assistant  Editor 

jonnitcr  Sutton 

Editorial  Associate 

James  Reinhold  -4  A.M. 

Photography 
John  Foraste 

Design 

Sandra  Delany 
Sandra  Kennev 

Business  Manager 

Pamela  M.  Parker 

Administrative  Assistant 

Chad  Gaits 


Board  of  Editors 

Chairman 

Ralph  J.  Bej^leiter  '71 

Vice  Chairman 

Lisa  W.  Foderaro  '85 

Tom  Bodkin  '75 

Philip  Bray  '48 

Douglas  O.  Cmnming  '80  A.M. 

Rose  E.  Engelland  '78 

Eric  Gertler  '85 

Annette  Grant  '63 

Eraser  A.  Lang  '67 

Dehra  L.  Lee  '76 

Martha  K.  Matzke  '66 

Cathleen  M.  McGuigan  '71 

Ava  L.  Seave  '77 

Robert  Stewart  '74 

Tenold  R.  Sunde  '59 

Jill  Zuckman  '87 

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To  our  readers 

Letters  lire  alwnifs  leelcome,  and  we  try  to 
print  nil  we  receive.  Preference  'will  be  giivn 
to  letters  that  address  the  content  of  the 
magazine  and  arc  limited  to  200  words.  We 
reserve  the  right  to  edit  for  style,  clarity,  and 
length.  -  Editor 


The  Stealth  Professor 

Editor:  My  love-hate  I'elatioiiship  with 
Brown  and  its  local  manifestation  in  my 
life,  the  BAM,  continues  unchecked.  Just 
when  I  think  I  can  dismiss  the  BAM  as 
just  another  liberal  magazine,  you  come 
back  at  me  with  such  pieces  as  Hugh 
Pearson's  story  about  his  book  on  the 
Black  Panthers  ("A  Hero  in  Name 
Only,"  November)  and  John  Minahan's 
"The  Stealth  Professor"  (December)  that 
challenge  and  intrigue  my  generally 
conser\'ative  mind.  The  latter  article 
brings  me  to  write,  however. 

Minahan's  class  on  "The  Personal 
Essay"  sounds  like  one  I  would  have 
enjoyed  had  it  fit  into  my  graduate 
physics  program.  Tlie  topic  dovetails  so 
well  with  our  nation's  current  reexami- 
nation of  its  values  and  directions.  It  is  a 
comfort  to  me  to  see  such  courses  being 
taught.  I  guess  I  can't  write  Brown  off  as 
totally  sold  out  to  the  liberal  canon  -  not 
yet,  anyway. 

Consider  the  discussion  presented 
about  the  Bill  of  Rights.  "It's  amazing 
how  suspicious  of  power  this  thing  is," 
one  student  says.  This  is  an  essential 
concept  of  how  our  government  was 
supposed  to  function.  The  Bill  of  Rights 
and  the  Tenth  Amendment  in  particular 
were  seen  as  unnecessary  by  the  Feder- 
alists, but  insisted  upon  bv  the  Antifed- 
eralists  as  guarantees  against  growing 
central  government  power.  How  right 
their  concerns  were.  It  is  good  that  such 
ideas  are  seriously  debated  at  Brown. 


In  turn  I  wish  we  could  have  seen 
where  the  discussion  of  implied  rights 
finally  ended.  The  issue  of  strict  inter- 
pretation is  even  more  essential  now 
than  it  was  then.  The  creativity  of  our 
courts  must  be  seen  as  another  way  our 
Constitution  is  amended,  but  one  that 
bypasses  The  People.  A  serious  point, 
well  worth  serious  evaluation. 

Finally,  the  discussion  of  Hirsch's 
Cultural  Literacy  caught  my  eye,  as  his 
books  occupy  a  valued  place  in  my 
library.  I  would  have  dearly  enjoyed 
being  in  on  the  discussions  described 
here. 

Classes  such  as  this  represent  the 
best  I  can  expect,  and  may  force  me  to 
skew  my  stereotyping  of  Brown.  A  fair 
and  open  airing  of  truly  diverse  values, 
rather  than  a  lockstep  politically-correct 
curriculum,  should  be  what  Brown 
offers.  It  appears  there  are  some  glim- 
mers of  political  diversity  at  Brown.  To 
my  mind,  that's  good  news  and  a  story 
well  worth  sharing  with  us.  Thanks! 

Richard  Shalvoy  'yj  Ph.D. 

Cheshire,  Conn. 


Spare  change 

Editor.  The  late  Irving  Harris  '28, 
founder  and  leader  of  the  Brown  Band 
for  his  four  college  years,  was  my  late 
husband  -  hence  my  interest  in  the 
Brown  Alumni  Monthly. 

The  article,  "Small  Change,"  by 
Sarah  Baldwin-Beneich  '87  (Finally, 
December),  has  moved  my  present  hus- 
band and  me  to  insure  that  we  always 
have  coins  in  our  pockets  to  help  those 
less  fortunate.  We  will  be  rich  as  we 
help  others. 

It  is  a  beautifully-written  piece  and 
should  influence  many  of  your  readers. 

Beiilah  Harris  Ignall 

New  York  City 


4  /   MARCH   1995 


Free  markets 

Editor.  I  enjoyed  the  article  and  photos 
about  open-air  markets  in  Asia  by 
[Assistant  Editor]  Jennifer  Sutton  and 
[photographer]  John  Foraste  ("To  Mar- 
ket," December). 

Yes,  we  lose  much  by  "pushing 
metal  carts  under  fluorescent  lights  and 
buying  food  in  boxes  and  cans."  We  lose 
our  freedom. 

What  would  happen  in  a  U.S.  city  if 
individual  vendors  tried  to  set  up  such 
markets?  First  the  city  would  demand  a 
business  license.  Next  the  inspectors 
would  come.  Third,  insurance  would  be 
required.  In  the  name  of  safety,  security, 
and  governmental  order,  the  poor  ven- 
dor would  be  out  of  business  before  he 
or  she  had  a  chance  to  start. 

When  governments  learn  to  get  out  of 
the  way  and  allow  people  to  earn  a  living, 
we  will  be  one  step  closer  to  the  multisen- 
sory  beauty  of  Asia's  back-alley  markets. 

Congratulations  to  the  Broiun  Alumni 
Monthli/  for  sharing  such  beauty  with 
us.  Congratulations,  also,  to  the  author 
and  the  photographer. 

Frank  Ri/ajk  jr.  '66 

Jefferson  City,  Mo. 


Judging  Chuck  Colson 

Editor.  Since  the  article  on  Chuck  Colson 
'53  appeared  ("Prophet  for  a  Postmod- 
ern Era?"  September),  I've  been  sad- 
dened by  the  cynicism  of  so  many  who 
have  written  to  you.  I  have  not  only 
read  many  of  Colson's  books  and  heard 
him  speak,  but  I  know  the  man  who 
was  a  vital  instrument  in  turning  Colson 
to  God  twenty  years  ago. 

I  firmly  believe  the  sincerity  of  Col- 
son's conversion  and  faith.  He  is  no 
saint,  but  neither  is  he  self-serving; 
rather,  he  is  serving  others  and  his  Lord. 

Gilbert  Pierce  '62 

Wayland,  Mass. 

Editor:  Thank  you  for  your  cover  story 
on  Chuck  Colson  and  for  printing  the 
wildly  divergent  responses. 

1  am  intrigued  that  such  a  polariza- 
tion of  views  about  this  man  has  sur- 
faced. Your  cover  headline,  "Sinner  or 
Saint?"  was  apt;  it  seems  there  is  no 
middle  ground.  Yet  one  writer  pointed 
out  that  the  two  terms  are  not  mutually 
exclusive,  with  which  I  agree. 

I  am  saddened  that  the  philosophies 
of  correspondents  Vogt  and  Allen  have 
no  room  for  compassion.  Respectively, 


they  referred  to  Chuck  as  "a  convicted 
criminal"  and  "some  convicted  felon."  It 
seems  they  cannot  see  any  good  in  Col- 
son's work  since  his  conversion. 

No  doubt  Colson  would  be  the  first 
to  admit  he  is  not  perfect.  He  has 
embraced  Christianity's  central  message 
of  redemption  for  himself  and  is  trying 
to  carry  it  to  others.  To  believe  that  the 
Watergate  Chuck  is  doomed  to  a  life  of 
sin  is  a  very  dark  world-view  indeed. 

The  Nazi  Oskar  Schindler  was  lion- 
ized by  Jews  for  saving  a  tiny  percent- 
age of  them  from  the  Holocaust.  His 
was  a  story  of  redemption  for  himself 
and  for  a  handful  of  survivors,  who  did 
not  begrudge  him.  He  was  both  sinner 
and  saint.  You  don't  have  to  agree  with 
Schindler's  political  beliefs  to  admire 
what  he  did;  the  same  is  true  for  Colson. 
After  all,  politics  is  only  religion 
stripped  of  mysticism. 

/,  Douglas  Sivnffield  'j^ 

Danvers,  Mass. 


Fuzzy-headed  futurists 

Editor.  I  was  surprised  to  read  in  "Four 
Choices,  Twelve  Voices"  (December) 
that  the  distinguished  group  had  con- 


cluded the  main  threats  to  the  future  of 
the  world  were  dictators,  global  warm- 
ing, and  America's  economic  decline. 

There  are  lots  of  things  declining  in 
this  country,  such  as  morals,  principles, 
and  common  sense,  but  one  thing  that 
isn't  is  the  economy  of  the  United  States. 
Gross  domestic  product  is  expanding 
beyond  record  heights  and  will  proba- 
bly continue  to  do  so  if  fuzzy-headed 
futurists  such  as  the  person  who 
believes  "competitiveness  is  destruc- 
tive" will  stay  out  of  the  way. 

].L.S.  McLay  '51 

Garrett,  Ind. 


Carberry  checks  in 

Editor.  On  a  visit  to  the  LBJ  ranch  (Lady 
Bird  and  I  have  been  discussing  Barn- 
aby  Keeney's  leaving  Brown  -  at  Lyn- 
don's request  -  to  head  the  NEH),  I  was 
handed  a  copy  of  the  December  BAM. 

While  one  dislikes  to  carp  about  pos- 
itive press  (or  about  such  honors  as  the 
naming  of  the  on-line  service  at  the 
libraries,  or  the  naming  of  the  snack  bar 
at  the  new  dorm),  modesty  compels  an 
appeal  for  restraint.  After  all,  only  a 
Carberry  still  expected  (by  some)  to 


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life  when  I 
should  be 

overwhelmed  with  choices, 

it  should  be  now." 


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iictuall\-  delher  a  lecture  remnins  a  Car- 
berr\  trulv  worth  following.  Too  much 
attention  to,  shall  we  say,  my  spotty 
attendance  record  (to  sav  nothing  of  pri- 
\  ate  famih'  matters)  threatens  the  hard- 
earned  family  reputation. 

This  is  not  to  sav  that  1  do  not  con- 
sider myself  still  not  eligible  for  ser\ing 
in  the  office  of  the  president,  should  it 
become  a\ailable,  or  not. 

Josiah  S.  Carbern/ 

Somewhere  in  the  Texas  hill  country 
P.S.  We'll  be  back  in  Little  I^ody  soon  - 
the  armadillos  here  are  hell  on  Grayson. 
The  writer,  n  professor  of  psi/chocemniics,  is 
on  an  extended  sabbatical.  -  Editor 


Patterns  of  bias 

Editor.  As  a  current  Brown  student,  I 
read  with  interest  the  article  in  vour 
November  issue  (Under  the  Elms)  on  the 
U.S.  Department  of  Education's  investi- 
gation of  the  Office  of  Financial  Aid. 
Since  the  federal  inquiry  into  racism  and 
elitism  opened  in  early  September,  the 
Brown  administration  has  consistently 
tried  to  discredit  both  stvident  com- 
plaints of  poor  treatment  and  the  investi- 
gation itself.  Citing  the  basis  for  the 
investigation  as  a  series  of  inter\'iews 


Now  available  at  a  computer 
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Information"  in  the  "Brown  Alumni  Infor- 
mation" folder. 

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conducted  oyer  a  two-year  period,  the 
article  adds  that  the  interviewer,  Kathy 
DeLeon,  recently  began  serving  a  ten- 
month  sentence  in  a  federal  penitentiary. 

By  casting  doubt  on  DeLeon's 
integrity.  Brown  hopes  to  undermine 
the  credibility  of  the  interviews,  and 
hence,  the  investigation.  What  the  Uni- 
\ersity  refuses  to  admit,  however,  is 
that  students  ha\'e  been  organizing  to 
fight  discriminatory  treatment  in  the 
Office  of  Financial  Aid  for  years.  The 
problems  that  DeLeon  documents  are  in 
no  way  isolated  to  the  students  with 
whom  she  spoke,  nor  should  we  think 
her  results  are  somehow  flawed  because 
of  her  current  whereabouts.  Rather,  her 
research  reveals  patterns  of  bias 
towards  students  of  color  and  working- 
class  students  that  the  federal  govern- 
ment finds  disturbing,  even  if  the 
Brown  administration  doesn't. 

The  administration  has  attempted  to 
further  compromise  the  investigation  by 
framing  the  issue  as  one  of  communica- 
tion and  claiming  that  financial  aid  offi- 
cers engage  in  "ec^ual  opportunity  rude- 
ness" without  respect  to  a  student's  race 
or  class.  That  officers  behave  rudely  is 
troubling  in  itself,  hut  this  defense  disre- 
gards the  extent  of  the  problems  in  the 
Office  of  Financial  Aid.  The  situation 
cannot  be  resolved  simply  by  changing 
leadership  or  disciplining  personnel,  but 
instead  rests  on  the  fundamentally 
inequitable  ways  in  which  the  Univer- 
sity distributes  financial  aid. 

Brown  might  be  able  to  justify  its 
policies  when  it  chooses  the  forum,  but 
both  students  and  the  federal  govern- 
ment have  thus  far  refused  to  accept  the 
University's  response.  As  members  of 
the  Brown  community,  we  are  entitled 
to  fair  coverage  of  this  investigation. 

Leyla  Mei  'g; 

Campus 
The  imprisoiiincnf  on  federal  charges  of  any 
principal  in  a  formal  complaint  against  the 
Universiti/  is  newsioortln/.  For  that  reason 
we  noted  Ms.  DeLeon's  current  status  in 
our  report  on  the  financial-aid  investigation. 
-  Editor 


Irony  men 

Editor.  In  the  December  obituary  col- 
umn, it  is  ironic  that  Alan  S.  Rosenberg 
'44,  the  manager  of  the  football  team, 
was  listed  alongside  Daniel  G.  Savage 
'44,  the  captain  of  the  same  team. 

V.j.  McManus  '4.4 

Providence 


Intolerance 

Editor.  As  one  who  has  studied  the  Bha- 
gavad-gita  and  the  Bhaga\ata  Purana  for 
the  last  fifteen  years,  1  had  some  doubts 
about  Dilip  D'Souza's  article  on  religious 
intolerance  (Finally,  September). 
Although  his  concerns  are  valid,  I  am 
worried  that  his  emphasis  may  promote 
an  unnecessary  cynicism  toward  religion. 

In  the  Gaudiya  Vaisnava  tradition, 
which  some  might  consider  a  Hindu  sect, 
there  is  the  idea  of  the  "neophyte  de\o- 
tee."  The  neophyte  has  faith  in  God  and 
worships  Him,  but  doesn't  respect  other 
people.  This  beginning  worshipper  is 
expected  to  elevate  himself  to  the  middle 
level  by  studying  imder  the  direction  of  a 
realized  soul.  The  middle-level  devotee 
treats  people  so  that  their  spiritual  con- 
sciousness develops.  Beyond  this  is  the 
topmost  devotee,  who,  filled  with  love  of 
God,  sees  each  soul  to  be  God's  servant, 
regardless  of  his  position  in  society,  and 
sees  God  situated  in  everycine's  heart. 

In  any  religious  faith  neophyte  devo-      | 
tees  are  most  numerous.  Neophytes  of  ; 

different  religions  may  sometimes  clash 
over  relatively  unimportant  issues,  such 
as  method,  time,  or  place  of  worship  or        I 
c^ualification  of  the  worshipper.  This  is         1 
simply  a  fact  of  life,  and  those  actually  | 

aware  of  religious  principles  must  try  to       ! 
bring  such  people  to  a  higher  level  of  ' 

spiritual  realization. 

The  Gaudiya  Vaisnavas  say  Krsna  | 

descended  as  the  Lord  Sri  Krsna  Cai-  | 

tanya  about  500  years  ago  in  Bengal.  At 
that  time  there  were  many  Moslems  in 
Bengal,  including  some  who  were  vio- 
lently anti-Hindu,  but  Lord  Caitanya 
never  encouraged  the  harming  of 
Moslems  or  their  mosques.  Rather  Cai-        . 
tanya  taught  Hindus,  Moslems,  and 
Buddhists  ahke  that  one  should  chant 
the  holy  names  of  God,  tolerate  offenses         ^ 
against  oneself,  and  offer  all  respects  to 
others  without  demanding  any  respect 
for  oneself.  This  process  frees  one  from 
all  sectarian  designations  and  develops       j 
one's  dormant  love  of  God.  \ 

I  submit  that  the  solution  to  intoler-        ! 
ance  in  the  worki  is  to  follow  the  instruc- 
tions of  saintly  authorities.  Merely  to  : 
claim  to  belong  to  some  particular  reli-        ^ 
gious  faith,  be  it  Hindu,  Moslem,  or 
whatever,  will  not  do.  Neither  will 
denying  religion  altogether,  which  will 
deprive  society  of  the  godly  people  who 
develop  when  sincere  souls  apply  them- 
selves to  religious  principles. 

Christopher  Beetle  'Si 

Alachua,  Fla. 


6  /   MARCH  1995 


The  Latin  diploma 

Editor.  The  dates  accompanying  Dr. 
Ruth  Hanno's  complaint  (Mail,  Septem- 
ber) that  she  dici  not  know  what  her 
Brown  diploma  said  because  it  was 
written  in  Latin  bespeak  a  disturbing 
lack  of  intellectual  curiosity.  She 
received  that  diploma  in  1972!  In  1994, 
she  finds  its  words  incomprehensible 
and  is  moved  to  protest. 

As  Dean  Hall  points  out  in  her 
response,  any  graduate  can  inquire  of 
the  registrar's  office  as  to  the  meaning  of 
the  Latin  ciocument.  But  what  difference 
do  the  words  make?  The  diploma  is  the 
symbol  of  the  completion  of  a  course  of 
studies  developed  in  Europe  over  1,500 
years;  a  course  universally  conducted 
(imtil  quite  recently)  in  Latin;  a  course  to 
which  no  one  had  admission  without  that 
language.  Is  it  surprising  that  this  vestige 
of  an  ancient  tradition  should  inspire 
respect  in  the  academic  community? 

When  the  barbarian  hordes  engulfed 
the  western  Roman  Empire  and  were 
introduced  to  its  glorious  heritage,  there 
were  some  who  rejoiced  in  what  they 
found  and  began  to  build.  There  were 
others  who  saw  an  opportunity  to 
express  their  indifference  anci  spent 
their  energies  in  destroying  what  they 
could  not  understand.  They  were  called 
Vandals. 

They  are  still  aroimd. 

Robert  F.  Higgins 

Jupiter,  Fla. 
The  writer,  a  Brown  parent,  is  a  retired 
Latin  teacher.  -  Editor 


A  stigma  overcome 

Editor:  I  want  to  tell  a  personal  story  that 
may  cast  some  light  on  the  admission 
process  at  Brown.  I  was  born  in  the 
United  States  in  1958;  my  family  emi- 
grated to  Israel  when  I  was  eleven  years 
old.  At  the  age  of  twenty-one,  after  com- 
pleting my  military  service,  I  applied  to 
\-arious  American  universities,  includ- 
ing Brown,  Harvard,  Wesleyan, 
Amlnerst,  and  Rutgers.  Everyone  turned 
me  down  except  Brown.  The  problem 
was  that  my  SAT  scores  were  unimpres- 
sive: 510  in  English  and  600  in  Math. 
Someone  at  the  Brown  admission  office 
decided  to  look  past  my  scores,  and  that 
person  changed  my  life. 

I  graduated  from  Brown  magna  cum 
laudc,  went  on  to  complete  a  doctorate 
in  philosophy  at  Yale,  and  then  applied 
to  law  school  in  Israel.  The  Israeli  law 


schools  asked  me  to  submit  SAT  scores, 
so  I  took  the  exams  again.  This  time  I 
was  twenty-nine  years  old.  My  math 
score  remained  unimpressive  (620),  but 
my  English  score  soared  to  740. 

I  now  serve  as  assistant  to  the  dis- 
trict attorney  of  the  central  region  of 
Israel.  I  also  teach  legal  philosophy  at 
two  universities. 

What  is  the  point  of  all  this?  I  think 
my  case  illustrates  the  Catch-22  of 
admission  to  American  universities.  My 
SAT  scores  improved  dramatically 
because  I  studied  at  first-rate  American  uni- 
versities. But  all  of  the  first-rate  universi- 
ties, except  for  Brown,  rejected  me 
because  of  my  poor  SAT  scores. 

Is  this  an  argument  for  affirmative 
action?  I  am  not  sure.  But  I  am  sure  of 
one  thing:  someone  at  Brown  was  wise 
and  kind  enough  to  ignore  the  stigma  of 
my  SAT  scores.  I  hope  other  admission 
officers  will  follow  his  or  her  example. 

David  Weiner  '82 

Ramat  Aviv,  Israel  El 


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Her  name  is  Stacy 
Bauerschmidt,  hut 
on  the  internet  slie  calls  tier- 
self  White  Knight.  As  an 
agent  for  the  U.S.  Secret  Ser- 
vice, White  Knight  jousts 
with  hackers  and  dumpster 
di\ers;  she  ferrets  out 
viruses,  worms,  and  demon 
dialers.  And  she  warns  that 
"university  computer  sys- 
tems are  the  ones  hackers 
most  often  attack." 

"Hackers,"  Bauerschmidt 
insists,  is  too  benign  a  word 
for  them.  She  once  tracked 
down  a  student  who  threat- 
ened President  Clinton  via  e- 
mail.  She's  peered  into  the 
darkest  comers  of  cyberspace 
and  found  a  subculture  of 
pedophiles:  "Yoimg  computer 
geeks  are  being  lured  by 
these  guys.  They  can't  do  it  at 
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ents are  nearby,  watching. 
But  if  Junior  is  upstairs  on 


the  modem,  you  don't  know 
who  he's  talking  to." 

Bauerschmidt's  stark 
observations  were  part  of  a 
January  panel  discussion  of 
burgeoning  computer  crime. 
Convened  to  help  Brown's 
computer-svstem  managers 
anticipate  invaders  of  their 
cyberspace  realms,  the  panel 
also  included  Bauerschmidt's 
boss,  computer  sleuths  from 
the  Rhode  Island  state  police, 
and  one  of  the  state's  assis- 
tant attorney  generals. 

Tlie  speakers  urged  Brown 
to  protect  itself  from  a  wide 
range  of  felonies,  from  on- 
line software  piracy  to  finan- 
cial fraud.  Bauerschmidt 
described  a  hacker  who'd 
written  a  program  for  his 
computer  that  dialed  an 
account-balance  telephone 
number  for  a  bank  credit 
card.  When  the  bank's  auto- 
mated system  answered. 


the  hacker's  computer  fired 
off  random  bursts  of  digits. 
Whenever  it  received  a  bal- 
ance back  from  the  bank,  it 
recognized  the  "hit"  and 
saved  the  valid  credit  card 
number  onto  a  disk.  "After 
losing  $1.5  million,"  Bauer- 
schmidt says,  "the  bank  fig- 
ured it  had  a  problem." 

The  incident  illustrates 
the  most  likely  threat:  unau- 
thorized access  through  a  so- 
called  "back  door."  Savvy 
hackers  "sniff"  their  way  to 
it  with  a  device  that  can  cap- 
ture passwords  and  sign-on 
protocols,  and  then  use  them 
to  get  in.  Bauerschmidt,  who 
says  she  has  busted  fourteen 
sniffers  in  the  last  year,  esti- 
mates that  about  13,000  oper- 
ate on  the  Internet. 

Unfortimately,  such  a 
scheme  is  usually  a  solitary, 
private  act.  "The  biggest 
problem  in  solving  computer 


crimes,"  explains  Robert 
Mattos,  director  of  the  Rhode 
Island  state  police's  financial 
crimes  unit,  "is  the  lack  of 
eyewitnesses  able  to  identify 
the  perpetrator."  And  even 
when  one  is  caught,  admits 
Rhode  Island  assistant  attor- 
ney general  Richard  Ratcliffe, 
current  law  rarely  covers 
the  crime. 

"Most  laws  weren't  writ- 
ten for  the  world  of  cyber- 
space," he  says.  "Under  com- 
mon law,  for  example, 
stealing  requires  something 
you  can  pick  up  and  carry 
away."  Pirating  software  off 
a  university  computer  system 
and  distributing  it  for  free 
(as  students  at  Brown  and 
MIT  did  last  year)  does  not 
deprive  the  "victim"of  its  use 
and  does  not  meet  the  copy- 
right-theft requirement  that 
the  perpetrator  profit  materi- 
ally from  his  crime.  "These 
hackers,"  Ratcliffe  says,  " 
are  almost  like  anarchists." 
Which  is  precisely  the  point, 
say  the  hackers,  who  view 
themselves  as  smart,  adven- 
turous Robin  Hoods  or 
cyberspace  Hardy  Boys. 

But  whether  these  com- 
puter trespassers  are  adven- 
turers or  rogues,  universities 
should  beware:  While  lawyers 
upgrade  old  laws  for  cyber- 
space, someone  had  better  be 
keeping  a  sharp  eye  on  the 
back  door.  -N.B. 


I  MARCH  1995 


Hanging 
Weegee 

Polict'  arri\  ing  at  an 
accident  or  murder  in 
New  York  City  in  the  1930s 
and  '40s  often  found  Arthur 
Fellig  already  photographing 
the  scene.  In  fact,  the  dean  of 
the  crime  paparazzi,  who  died 
in  1968,  was  so  skilled  at 
seeking  out  tragedy  that  he 
started  calling  himself  Wee- 
gee,  his  phonetic  play  on  the 
name  of  the  fortune-telling 
game  Ouija. 

His  first  one-man  show. 
Murder  is  My  Business,  was 
held  in  1941  at  New  York's 
Photo  League;  his  latest  runs 
through  March  12  at  Brown's 
David  Winton  Bell  Gallery. 
The  exhibition  is  the  brain- 
child of  the  gallery's  director, 
Diana  Johnson  '71  A.M., 
whose  eclectic  exhibitions  - 
from  Kiki  Smith  "multiples" 
to  works  by  Mexican-Ameri- 
can artist  Celia  Alvarez 
Mufioz  and  photos  of  North- 
ern Ireland  -  have  made 
the  Bell  an  increasingly 
prominent  center  of  contem- 
porary art. 

The  diversity  of  media 
and  styles  reflects  Johnson's 
inclusive  vision  of  what  a 


Weegee 's  Norma,  The  Star  of  Sammy's-on-the 
presented  by  Diana  Johnson,  star  of  the  Bell 


University  gallery  should  be. 
"Half  our  audience  is  from 
Brown  and  RISD,"  she  says, 
"and  half  is  the  community 
beyond  them.  I  do  see  us  as 
one  of  the  areas  in  the  Uni- 
versity that  reaches  out  into 
that  community." 

Johnson's  broad  outlook 
developed  over  what  she 


Revenge  of  the  nerds 


CIENCEWATCffir^ 


In  a  surprise  for 
those  who  associ- 
ate Brown  with 

liberal  arts,  the 

University  was 
recently  rated  the  top  engineering  school  in  the  country 
by  Science  Watcli,  a  magazine  that  monitors  basic 
research.  The  November /December  issue  calculated  the 
rate  at  which  more  than  100  universities  were  cited  in 
academic  papers  between  1981  and  1993.  The  magazine 
concluded  that  the  impact  of  work  done  at  Brown 
exceeded  that  of  such  better-known  engineering  schools 
as  Caltech  and  MIT. 


calls  a  long  and  checkered 
career.  Fresh  out  of  Radcliffe 
in  1962  with  a  B.A.  in  govern- 
ment and  international  rela- 
tions, she  went  to  Washing- 
ton to  fulfill  her  ambition  to 
join  the  Foreign  Service. 
Women,  however,  were  rare 
in  the  Service  at  the  time; 
unable  to  get  in,  she  consoled 
herself  with  visits  to  the 
National  Gallery.  "I  looked  at 
art,"  she  says,  "and  it  made 
me  feel  a  whole  lot  better." 
After  moving  with  her 
husband  to  Providence  in 
1964,  Johnson  eventually 
enrolled  in  the  first  class  of 
Brown's  art  history  graduate 
degree  program.  To  support 
her  activism  in  the  arts,  she 
left  College  Hill  for  a  down- 
town job  as  a  \'ice-president 
of  Fleet  National  Bank.  Art 
was  never  far  from  her  mind, 
though.  In  1982  she  became 
chairwoman  of  the  Rliode 
Island  State  Council  on  the 
Arts,  a  post  she  held  until 
1989.  She  became  director  of 
the  Bell  the  following  year. 


-Bowery, 
GaiJery. 

These  days  Johnson's 
time  is  divided  between  the 
gallery's  exhibitions  and 
its  permanent  collection. 
Thanks  to  her  passion  for 
photography  -  and  a  gener- 
ous group  of  donors  -  the 
collection  is  about  to  obtain 
100  prints  by  the  photogra- 
pher Harry  Callahan.  She 
has  also  collaborated  with 
several  Brown  academic 
departments  to  tie  shows 
into  classroom  study.  John- 
son points  to  a  recent  exhibit 
of  "outsider"  art  (works  by 
artists  with  no  formal  train- 
ing) as  "a  particularly  inter- 
esting counterpoint  to  a 
university  setting." 

As  for  Weegee  -  well,  it's 
fun,  but  is  it  art?  "If  you  think 
it's  art,"  Johnson  says,  "it's 
art.  If  somebody  else  says  it's 
art,  it's  art."  The  more  inter- 
esting question,  she  argues, 
is  whether  what's  called  art  is 
any  good.  Around  Brown, 
Weegee's  photos  are  adding 
fodder  to  this  perennial 
debate. -N.B. 


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Future  shock 


■  onventional  wisdom 

^->    -  has  it  that  officials 
lose  elections  because  they're 
out  of  touch  with  the  elec- 
torate. But  what  if  voters 
want  contradictory  things? 

Puzzling  out  the  future  of 
federal  funding  for  higher 
education  is  not  for  the  faint 
of  heart.  On  the  one  hand, 
voters  last  fall  elected  a  Con- 
gress of  aggressive  budget- 
slashers  who  pledged  to  bal- 
ance Washington's  books  in 
seven  years,  mostly  through 
cuts  in  domestic  programs, 
including  those  affecting 
higher  education.  Yet  domes- 
tic programs  make  up  less 
than  one-third  of  the  federal 
budget,  which  means  reduc- 
tions will  have  to  be  severe. 
The  same  public  that  elected 
fiscal  conservatives  in 
November,  however,  was 


telling  pollsters  in  February 
that,  after  Social  Security,  the 
program  they  most  want  left 
intact  is  stvident  financial  aid. 

Welcome  to  the  surreal 
world  of  politics  and  govern- 
ment. These  days  it's  also  the 
world  of  Edward  Abrahams 
'80  Ph.D.  and  Christine 
Heenan,  the  newly  appointed 
staff  of  Brown's  Office  of 
Government  and  Commu- 
nity Relations.  Figuring  out 
just  what  government  is 
up  to  is  difficult  enough,  but 
Abrahams  and  Heenan  also 
find  that  many  students, 
faculty,  and  alumni  don't 
sufficiently  understand 
the  importance  of  federal 
funds  to  Brown. 

"One-fifth  of  the  Univer- 
sity's budget  flows  from  or 
through  the  federal  govern- 
ment," says  Abrahams,  a 


Capitol  Hill  veteran  who 
became  director  of  the  office 
last  fall  after  the  retirement  of 
Vice  President  Levi  Adams. 
"Yet  our  natural  constituen- 
cies don't  really  grasp  gov- 
ernment's important  role 
in  making  education  and 
research  opportunities  possi- 
ble here."  Even  Heenan,  who 
became  associate  director 
in  January,  did  not  under- 
stand until  recently  that  the 
Rhode  Island  state  scholar- 
ship she  received  as  a  Boston 
University  undergraduate 
was  financed  by  government. 

One  potential  change  in 
higher-ed  programs  could  hit 
students  particularly  hard, 
says  Heenan,  a  Providence 
nati\'e  and  former  senior  pol- 
icy analyst  in  the  Clinton 
White  House.  "The  fastest- 
growing  piece  of  Brown's 


Christine  Heenan  and 

Edward  Abrahams  '80  Ph.D. 

are  getting  the  word  out  that 

today's  government  austerity 

threatens  the  quality  and 

affordabiiity  of  tomorrow's 

college  education. 


budget  is  financial  assistance 
for  Brown  students,"  she 
explains.  Forced  to  cover 
even  more  of  these  costs,  the 
University  will  increasingly 
face  the  same  tradeoffs  now 
confronting  health  care: 
trying  to  ensure  access  for 
students  who  have  the  talent 
but  not  the  money  to  attend 
Brown,  while  attempting 
to  maintain  its  high-caliber 
research  and  teaching. 

Heenan,  who  handles 
Brown's  local  and  state 
affairs,  is  particularly  con- 
cerned about  the  impact  of 
the  coming  budget  squeeze 
on  the  Rhode  Island  econ- 
omy. "Legislators  are  having 
to  meet  voter  demands  to 
do  more  with  less,"  she  says, 
"while  growing  the  state 
economy  by  generating  jobs 
in  new  and  growing  indus- 
tries. No  single  course  for 
doing  that  is  more  important 
than  having  a  quality  research 
university  in  the  state." 

The  sense  of  urgency  has 
never  been  greater.  "There 
has  been  a  bipartisan  consen- 
sus since  World  War  II  that 
excellence  in  education  and 
research,  as  well  as  access  to 
it,  are  important  national 
goals,"  says  Abrahams,  a  for- 
mer historian  and  author  of 
The  Li/rical  Left:  Randolph 
Bourne,  Alfred  Steiglitz,  and 
the  Origins  of  Cultiirnl  Radi- 
calism in  America.  "That  con- 
sensus is  now  in  danger  of 
falling  apart.  Should  that 
happen,  it's  going  to  be  diffi- 
cult to  maintain  the  excel- 
lence Brown  has  achieved 
through  the  years."  He 
pauses.  "That's  the  issue  in 
a  nutshell:  The  shape  of  our 
future  is  at  stake."  -  N.B. 


10  /  MARCH  1995 


In  your  head 


T 

I     his  is  science  fiction 
JL   at  the  moment,"  Ulf 
Grenander  says,  pausing 
to  call  up  images  on  the  com- 
puter of  two  human  heads, 
one  pink  and  one  pastel  green. 
With  the  click  of  a  few  keys, 
Grenander  rotates  them 
and  cuts  each  like  a  deck  of 
cards,  revealing  two  of  the 
128  magnetic  resonance 
imaging  (MRl)  slices  that 
form  each  brain. 

The  futuristic  vision  of 
Grenander,  professor  emeri- 
tus of  applied  mathematics  at 
Brown,  and  his  engineering 
colleague  Michael  Miller  of 
Washington  University  in  St. 
Louis,  is  to  incorporate  such 
images  into  a  centrally 
located  database  of  three- 
dimensional  templates  for  the 
entire  human  body.  These 
could  one  day  be  called  up 
by  physicians  on  a  hospital 
terminal  a  thousand  miles 
away  and,  by  using  certain 
mathematical  equations, 
compared  to  the  cerebral 
images  of  the  patient  before 
them.  Already  a  project  at  the 


National  Library  of  Medicine 
is  constructing  a  "Visible 
Human"  made  up  of  com- 
puter-generateci  templates  of 
a  "normal"  man  and  woman. 

Such  a  project  is  the  cul- 
mination of  recent  break- 
throughs in  imaging  technol- 
ogy, especially  in  the  fine 
resolution  now  provided  by 
MR]  and  in  the  ability  of 
positron  emission  tomogra- 
phy (PET)  to  detect  changes 
in  blood  flow.  Using  such 
techniques,  scientists  can  now 
observe  metabolic  changes 
in  the  brain  when  a  patient 
moves  a  finger,  for  example, 
or  sings  a  song.  Grenander 
says  that  with  PET  one  of  his 
colleagues  can  even  watch  a 
brain  think. 

But  there  is  one  obstacle 
left,  and  that  is  where  Gre- 
nander's  mathematical  wiz- 
ardry comes  in.  "Variability  - 
that's  what  makes  this  diffi- 
cult," he  says.  "If  all  normal 
brains  were  alike,  it  wouldn't 
be  difficult  to  find  what  is 
abnormal  and  what  is  not." 
Grenander,  who  last  year  liter- 


ally wrote  the  book  on  the 
field  of  pattern  theory,  is  in 
effect  trying  to  invent  an 
algebra  of  brain  configurations. 

"The  idea  is  not  compli- 
cated," he  says.  "It's  that  bio- 
logical variability  can  be 
understood.  Formulas  can 
express  that  in  a  typical  brain 
the  distance  between  the  left 
and  right  ventricles  is  this 
distance  with  this  percent  of 
variability."  Computers  then 
take  this  information  and 
produce  an  elastic,  three- 
dimensional  template  that 
incorporates  countless  varia- 
tions on  the  normal.  The  fin- 
ished template  could  be  a 
map  guiding  early  diagnosis 
of  an  ailment  such  as  schizo- 
phrenia, which  some  doctors 
say  is  preceded  by  abnormal 
volume  changes  in  a  part  of 
the  brain. 

All  this  talk  of  swelling, 
brain  shapes,  and  human 
behavior  is  reminiscent  of  the 
long-discredited  science  of 
phrenology,  which  postulated 
that  the  shape  and  protuber- 
ances of  the  skull  can  predict 
certain  personality  traits. 
Grenander,  when  asked  about 
this  parallel  to  his  work, 
smiles  impishly.  "Something 
like  that,"  he  says.  -  N.B. 


What  They 
.  Wrote 

"In  Western  literature, 
the  'East'  is  often  an  exotic 
and  imaginary  realm,  con- 
jured up  by  its  more  fabu- 
lous folk  tales,  its  classic 
literature,  its  historical  leg- 
ends, while  our  own  part 
of  the  world  Is  more 
prosaic,  workaday,  often 
oppressive,  devoid  of  mar- 
vels: Dorothy's  gray  Kansas 
is  West  and  Munchkinland, 
over  the  rainbow,  is  East." 

Robert  Coover,  T.B.  Stowell 
University  Professor,  re- 
viewing a  collection  of  Sal- 
man Rushdie  short  stories 
in  the  the  January  15  New 
York  Times  Book  Review. 


"It  Is... unlikely  that  Con- 
gress can  change  another 
reality  of  life  on  the  Hill: 
the  power  of  special-inter- 
est groups. . . .  Nothing 
in  the  political  history  of 
the  past  century  suggests 
that  these  interest  groups 
will  lose  influence  or  that 
Congress  as  an  institution 
can  curb  them  in  ways 
that  will  enhance  its  public 
reputation." 

James  Patterson,  professor 
of  history,  in  "Not  So  Fast, 
Newt, "  published  in  the 
January  23  New  Republic. 


te: 


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BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /   11 


Country  doctor 


I     he  cluttered  alctne 
_M.    of  the  genernl  store  in 
remote  Guateniala  is  a  strik- 
ing contrast  to  Dr.  Steven 
McCloy's  bright  and  spot- 
less examining  room  in 
Providence. 

Cases  of  Pepsi  are  stacked 
just  a  couple  of  feet  away  as 
he  peers  at  his  patient,  a  tiny 
infant  in  the  arms  of  a  mother 
who  appears  barely  into 
her  teens.  Another  girl  waits 
nearby,  her  elbow  hooked 
over  the  rim  of  a  grimv  oil  bar- 
rel that  serves  as  a  trash  can. 
The  young  mother's  color- 
ful embroidered  pullover, 
favored  by  the  Mavan  women 
of  the  Guatemalan  highlands, 
brightens  the  dingy  room. 

McCloy,  a  clinical  assis- 
tant professor  of  medicine  at 
Brown,  saw  the  girls  last 
August  during  his  sixth  trip 
to  the  remote  villages  clinging 
to  the  steep  volcanic  slopes 
above  Lake  Atitlan,  along 
Guatemala's  Pacific  Coast.  He 
is  now  preparing  to  return 


again  this  summer, 
as  part  of  the  San 
Lucas  Project,  a 
Rhode-Island-based 
effort  that  has  been 
bringing  volunteer 
phvsicians  to  the 
region  for  the  past 
seven  years. 

Mostly  the  work 
involves  treating  the 
illnesses  of  poverty, 
particularly  the  diar- 
rhea that  can  kill 
an  infant  living  with 
poor  nutrition,  inad- 
equate sanitation, 
and  dirty  water.  It's 
work  made  easier  by 
the  warmth  ancH  dig- 
nity of  the  patients,  whose 
company  keeps  drawing 
McCloy  and  his  colleagues 
back.  "Guatemala  has  become 
a  passion  for  me,"  he  says. 

Other  Brown  doctors  have 
joined  McCloy  from  time  to 
time,  and  their  enthusiasm 
is  spreading.  Elaine  Bearer,  a 
pathologist  in  the  medical 


McCloy  and  the  Pepsi  generation. 


school  who  accompanied 
McCloy  last  summer,  is  trying 
to  devise  a  way  of  bringing 
Brown  medical  students  to 
the  region,  an  experience 
that  she  and  McCloy  are  con- 
vinced would  benefit  both 
impoverished  Mayans  and 
future  physicians.  "1  just 
believe,"  McCloy  says,  "that 


life  without  service  to  other 
people  is  an  empty  life." 

-Richard].  Walton  '51 

Contributions  to  the  San  Lucas 
Project  can  be  sent  to  the  Rhode 
Island  Central  America  Fund, 
P.O.  Box  2314s,  Wei/bosset  Hill 
Station,  Providence,  R.I.  oigoj. 


Save  that  comb! 

Question:  What  do  stumptail  macaque 
monkeys  and  members  of  the  Hair 
Club  for  Men  have  in  common? 
Answer;  a  tendency  to  go  bald.  Which 
is  why  researchers  at  the  pharmaceuti- 
cal giant  Merck  recently  enlisted  the 
help  of  James  Harper,  a  clinical  associ- 
ate professor  of  pathology  and  veteri- 
narian for  one  of  only  three  stumptail 
colonies  in  the  Uruted  States. 

Harper  gave  the  primates  daily 
doses  of  finasteride,  a  Merck  drug  origi- 
nally designed  to  treat  benign  prostate 
enlargement  in  men,  but  which  also 
reverses  baldness.  In  a  recent  issue  of 
the  Journal  of  Clinical  Endocrinologij  and 
Metabolism,  Harper  reported  that  his 
monkeys  -  both  male  and  female  - 
re-grew  hair  within  two  months. 
His  study  is  the  first  to  include  sim- 
ian females.  More  recent  trials  have 


The  Latest 

Nezvs  from  Broivn 's  faculty 


produced  hair  growth  on  men,  and 
researchers  hope  to  eventually  test 
finasteride  on  women,  who  can  suffer 
hair  loss  after  menopause. 

Blowin'  in  the  wind 

El  Nino  is  back,  sending  soaking  rains 
to  the  California  coast,  flooding  roads 
in  Florida,  and  generally  raising  havoc 
with  the  world's  weather.  According  to 
David  Murray,  a  senior  research  associ- 
ate in  geology  who  has  been  studying 
the  phenomenon's  history  in  the  sedi- 
ments of  the  Gulf  of  California,  strong 
El  Ninos  like  this  one  have  occurred 
about  every  dozen  years  for  centuries. 
During  an  El  Nino  year,  equatorial 
tradewinds  relax;  warm  surface  waters 


slosh 
east- 
ward in 
the  Pacific 
and  flow  north  and 
south  along  the  American 
coasts.  By  monitoring  phytoplankton 
in  Gulf  waters,  Murray  found  that  trop- 
ical forms  of  these  minute  floating 
aquatic  plants  are  more  abundant  in  the 
area  during  El  Nino  events.  Their  skele- 
tal remains,  preserved  in  deep-sea  sedi- 
ments, provide  a  history  of  the  pattern 
over  the  past  few  thousand  years. 

By  placing  today's  El  Nino  in  the 
context  of  past  events,  Murray  and  liis 
colleagues  hope  to  one  day  predict  the 
weather  system's  development  far 
enough  ahead  to  prepare  for  the  floods 
and  crop  damage  that  can  result. 


12  /   MARCH  1945 


Physician, 
humanize  thyself 


Among  the  skills 
aspiring  physicians 
need  to  be  taught  these  days 
is  how  to  be  human.  Cost- 
cutting  has  so  overwhelmed 
the  medical  profession  that 
primary-care  doctors  face 
mounting  pressure  to  rush 
one  patient  out  of  the  office 
so  the  next  one  can  come 
in.  No  longer  is  it  "take  two 
of  these  and  call  me  in  the 
morning."  Now  it's  just 
"take  two  of  these." 

Such  trends  worry  Leon 
Eisenberg,  chairman  of  the 
social  medicine  department 
at  Harvard's  medical  school 
and  a  leader  in  promoting 
the  idea  of  physician-activists. 
Eisenberg  believes  that 
today's  emphasis  on  medi- 
cine's bottom  line,  as  well 
as  overreliance  on  what  he 
calls  "molecular"  or  high-tech 
medicine,  is  increasingly 
forcing  doctors  to  ignore  the 
patient  in  favor  of  the  disease. 

This,  he  says,  is  bad  med- 
icine. "Disease  is  never  the 
same  from  patient  to  patient," 
he  told  Brown  medical  stu- 
dents on  January  30  in  the 
inaugural  Stanley  D.  Simon 
Lecture.  (Simon  was  a  Rhode 
Island  surgeon  and  local 
activist  who  died  in  1993.) 
"And  illness  is  a  family  afflic- 
tion incurring  severe  burdens 
such  as  loss  of  income,  major 
changes  in  life  planning, 
and  delayed  medical  care." 


Good  doctoring,  therefore, 
requires  not  only  accurate 
diagnoses,  but  some  under- 
standing of  the  impact  of 
sickness  on  a  patient's  life. 
Begin  by  being  a  good  lis- 
tener, he  advises.  "Get  to 
know  your  patient.  When  you 
ask  him  how  he  is  feeling, 
let  him  talk.  Let  him  tell  you." 

Eisenberg's  words  fell 
on  a  receptive  audience. 
Beginning  in  their  third  year. 
Brown  medical  students 
must  join  a  faculty-directed 
"affinity  group"  focused  on 
such  concerns  as  cross-cul- 
tural medicine  and  doctor- 
patient  relationships.  These 
sometimes  interdisciplinary 
groups  aim  to  make  Brown 
M.D.'s  acutely  aware  of 
the  human  as  well  as  physio- 
logical complications  of 
medical  practice. 

Most  of  tomorrow's  doc- 
tors will  labor  for  huge  health 
insurance  conglomerates  and 
HMOs  that  watch  every  dol- 
lar spent.  Eisenberg's  lecture 
was  a  reminder  that  access 
and  quality  must  be  equally 
urgent  concerns.  With  40  mil- 
lion uninsured  Americans, 
and  high  infant  mortality  in 
sections  of  seemingly  pros- 
perous cities,  doctors  need  to 
remember  who  it  is  they  are 
trained  to  serve.  "You  must," 
Eisenberg  told  them,  "change 
the  social  context  in  which 
medicine  is  practiced."  -  J.R. 


What  They  Said 


6^ 


ii 


^6 


If  we  all  retreat  to  our 
laptops  and  hold  our 
conversations 
on  the  Internet,  that 
may  be  another  kind 
of  community,  but 
there's  nothing  like 
human  warmth  and 
contact." 

Madeleine  Kunin, 

deputy  secretary  of 
the  U.S.  Department 
of  Education,  at  Sayles 
Hall  January  25. 


When  people  mention  'middle  class'  in  reference 
to  blacks,  they  talk  about  Oprah  Winfrey  and 
Bryant  Gumbel  and  Montel  Williams.  It  takes 
$38  million  a  year  to  make  a  black  person  [be  per- 
ceived as]  middle  class." 

Patricia  Williams,  Columbia  law  professor  and 
author  of  The  Alchemy  of  Race  and  Rights,  at  a 
February  2  talk  in  Alumnae  Hall  on  The  Rooster's 
Egg,  a  work-in-progress. 


I  v^as  terribly  mistaken  to  think  that  in  the  late 
twentieth  century  you  could  be  a  college  presi- 
dent and  not  be  a  fundraiser.  It's  taken  a  toll 
on  me  -  physically,  psychically.  You  have  to  be 
nice  all  the  time!" 

Brown  president  Vartan  Gregorian,  answering 
questions  faxed  by  alumni  from  twenty-five  sites 
nationwide  during  a  February  1  telecast  originat- 
ing from  Sayles  Hall.  Despite  the  toll  on  Gregorian, 
fundraising  has  lately  been  successful.  The  Cam- 
paign for  the  Rising  Generation  recently  passed 
the  $400-million  mark. 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /   13 


A  room  of  its  own 


When  should  hiunan- 
rights  violations 
trigger  United  Nations  inter- 
vention? What  business  does 
a  group  of  countries  have 
telling  another  nation  how  to 
treat  its  citizens? 

As  a  scholar  who  often 
travels  to  U.N.  hot  spots  in 
search  of  answers  to  such 
questions,  Jarat  Chopra,  a 
research  associate  at  Brown's 
Thomas  J.  Watson  Institute 
for  International  Studies, 
likes  to  remind  students  the 
answers  have  been  fought 
over  for  centuries.  That's  one 
reason  why  an  increasing 
amount  of  Chopra's  on-cam- 
pus  time  in  recent  years 
has  been  spent  on  a  crusade 
to  dust  off  the  history  of 
international  law. 

A  starting  point  has 
been  tracking  down  and 
reassembling  the  Univer- 
sity's Wheaton  Collection. 
Donated  in  1902,  this  assort- 
ment of  6,000  international- 
law  books  is  named  after 
Henry  Wheaton,  class  of 
1802,  who  as  court  reporter 
for  the  U.S.  Supreme  Court 
was  one  of  the  first  jurists  to 
grasp  the  significance  of  a 


realignment  of  international 
law  that  still  dominates 
world  affairs  today. 

Until  the  nineteenth  cen- 
tury, Chopra  explains,  coun- 
tries such  as  the  United  States 
could  act  anywhere  in  the 
world  against  piracy,  for 
example,  because  there  were 
universal  laws  understood 
by  all  nations.  At  the  Supreme 
Court,  Wheaton  had  a  front- 
row  seat  from  which  to 
observe  the  eclipse  of  that 
tradition  by  the  near-absolute 
sovereignty  of  the  nation- 
state.  "Wheaton's  Elements 
of  Intenmtiotml  Law,"  says 
Chopra,  "is  a  critical  work  in 
describing  this  transition  to 
a  new  state-based  system." 

Understanding  that 
transition  was  still  important 
enough  early  this  century 
for  the  Wheaton  Collection 
to  have  a  room  of  its  own 
in  the  John  Hay  library.  (It 
"looks  eastward  across  the 
campus  towards  Europe  and 
The  Hague,"  according  to  a 
1910  Broum  Alumni  Monthly.) 
Inexplicably,  says  Chopra, 
"over  time,  it  just  began  to 
get  broken  up  and  forgot- 
ten." He  only  learned  of  the 


collection's  existence  three 
years  ago  through  a  tip 
from  another  scholar. 

Even  though  the  scholar 
told  Chopra  the  Wheaton 
Collection  is  one  of  the  best 
around  on  international  law, 
it's  now  haphazardly  dis- 
persed throughout  the  stacks 
and  cellars  of  the  Hay  and 
Rockefeller  libraries.  Chopra 
and  Jennifer  Eadie  '94  have 
been  tracking  the  books 
using  an  old  hand-typed  bib- 
liography dug  up  by  Univer- 
sity Archivist  Martha  Mitchell. 

Chopra  argues  that  recent 
developments  both  at  Brown 
and  in  the  world  at  large  have 
made  the  collection  timely 
once  again.  In  early  December 
a  faculty  legal-studies  group 
was  formed  to  discuss  creat- 
ing a  concentration  in  law. 
And  the  U.N.'s  limited  suc- 
cess with  recent  interventions 
in  Somalia  and  Bosnia  under- 
score the  current  legal  and 
intellectual  drift  in  interna- 
tional relations.  "The  need 
is  to  look  at  how  that  state- 
based  system  that  Wheaton 
described  was  built,"  Chopra 
says,  "because  it's  now 
unravelling."  -  N.B. 


During  a  January  luncheon 
at  the  Presidential  Palace 
in  Lisbon,  President  Mario 
Soares  surprised  Brown 
President  Vartan  Gregorian 
with  the  medal  oi  gnnide 
oficial  da  Ordem  do  Infante 
D.  Henrique,  one  of  Portu- 
gal's highest  honors.  Soares, 
who  received  a  1987  hon- 
orary doctorate  from 
Brown,  recognized  Grego- 
rian's  service  to  higher 
education,  his  support  of 
Portuguese  and  Brazilian 
studies,  and  his  work  in 
strengthening  cultural  rela- 
tions between  the  United 
States  and  Portugal. 

Election 
to  the 
National 
Academy 
of  Engi- 
neering is 
one  of  the 
tughest 
honors  in 
the  field.  Recently  named  a 
member  was  Lambert  Ben 
Freund,  the  Henry  Ledyard 
Goddard  University  Profes- 
sor of  engineering,  for  his 
research  on  "dynamic  frac- 
ture mechanics  and  .  . .  the 
mechanics  of  dislocations 
of  thin  layers." 

Brown /RISD  Hillel  Director 
Alan  Flam  was  one  of  four 
directors  singled  out  as  an 
"Exemplary  Hillel  Profes- 
sional" at  the  national  Hillel 
Staff  Conference  held  in 
New  Jersey  in  December. 
In  nominating  Flam  for  the 
award,  local  HiUel  Founda- 
tion President  Robert  M. 
Goldberg  '81  described  him 
as  a  teacher  "who  is  con- 
stantly exploring  and  seek- 
ing new  ideas." 


14   /  MARCH  1995 


A  few  short  months 
ago,  it  was  a  hodge- 
podge of  half-stripped 
wooden  paneling,  donated 
sinks,  old  carpets,  and  scat- 
tered tools. 

But  in  January,  eleven 
students  moved  into  116 
Waterman  Street,  the  latest 
acquisition  of  the  Brown 
Association  for  Cooperative 
Housing  (BACH).  The 
$335,000  house  on  the  corner 
of  Waterman  and  Hope 
was  the  first  BACH  has  pur- 
chased without  Brown's 
financial  backing.  It  will  be 
the  fourth  cooperative  orga- 
nized by  the  student-run 
corporation. 

BACH  searched  six  years 
for  the  right  building.  Since 
closing  the  mortgage  in 
the  fall,  the  group  has  trans- 
formed a  big  mess  into  a 
proper  home.  Under  the 
watchful  eye  of  Dave  Klap- 
haak,  a  recent  RISD  graduate 
and  coordinator  of  the 
New  House  Project,  walls 
have  been  plastered,  doors 
himg,  sheh'es  and  refrigera- 
tors installed.  The  renova- 
tions have  been  done  almost 
entirely  by  students,  in 
keeping  with  BACH's  philos- 
ophy that  cooperation  gets 
the  job  done  well  at  signifi- 
cantly lower  cost. 

The  product  of  a  Group 
Independent  Study  Project 
(for  academic  credit)  on  the 
then-young  cooperative 
movement,  BACH  was  con- 
ceived by  undergraduates 
in  1970  as  a  housing  alterna- 
tive that  would  focus  both 
on  interdependence  and 
independence.  The  organiza- 
tion acquired  its  first  three 
houses  in  1971,  leasing  two 
of  them,  Carberry  and  Mil- 


Studentside 


The  houses  that  BACH  built 
by  Dorian  Solot  '95 


The  CO  op  life:  steamed  broccoli  and  knowing  you're  not  alone. 


hous,  from  Brown,  and  pur- 
chasing a  third,  Watermyn. 
The  self-governed  houses  are 
very  different  from  dorms,  as 
inhabitants  are  quick  to  point 
out.  Residents  share  respon- 
sibilities for  cooking,  clean- 
ing, organizing,  and  main- 
taining each  house.  They  also 
enjoy  the  sense  of  commu- 
nity that  co-ops  seem  to  kin- 
dle. "There's  something  so 
nice  about  saying  it's  your 
home,"  observes  Adam  Lowe 
'96,  BACH  coordinator.  Bren- 
dan Neagle  '97  adds,  "It's 
good  to  live  in  a  place  where 
people  are  aware  that  they're 
not  the  only  ones  here.  It'd  be 
nice  if  everyone  [at  Brown] 
felt  that  way." 

The  co-ops  must  be  doing 
something  right;  each  year's 
waiting  list  has  more  than 
100  students.  With  a  year  in 
a  dorm  roughly  twice  the 
cost  of  one  in  a  co-op,  the 


attraction  for  some  may  be  a 
good  deal.  But  money  isn't 
the  only  thing  on  students' 
minds.  Homecooked  food 
(almost  entirely  vegetarian), 
the  notion  that  each  person 
counts  (decisions  are  made 
by  consensus),  and  a  palpa- 
ble sense  of  community  are 
equally  important.  Says  Tom 
Flaherty  '96,  "There's  some- 
thing terribly  artificial  and 
alienating  about  living  in 
dorms." 

One  would  be  hard-put 
to  use  the  word  "alienating" 
to  describe  a  co-op.  A  typical 
end-of-the-day  scene  includes 
students  cooking  dinner  - 
tonight  it's  African  peanut 
stew,  steamed  broccoli,  and 
sesame  biscuits  -  to  the  sound 
of  folk  music  on  the  stereo. 
Other  residents  lounge  on 
sofas  to  read  the  Nexv  York 
Times  or  discuss  campus 
issues,  pausing  to  stroke  the 


ears  of  an  orange-and-white 
dog  that  wanders  through. 

Eric  Deriel  '96,  BACH's 
bookkeeper,  notes  that 
BACH  has  had  decades  to 
adjust  to  being  a  three-house 
organization.  "Now  we're 
shaking  things  up  again.  We 
haven't  done  anything  new 
and  exciting  in  a  long  time." 

One  major  question 
remains:  What  will  the  new 
house  be  named?  A  contest 
last  year  failed  to  produce  a 
winner.  Three  Milhous  alumni 
have  already  written  a  con- 
gratulatory letter  to  BACH, 
playfully  pledging  a  total  of 
fifteen  dollars  "in  exchange 
for  a  smallish  plaque,  prefer- 
ably in  some  bathroom  [of 
the  new  house],  bearing  our 
names."  Quips  Deriel, 
"That's  a  good  start." 

Dorian  Solot  is  a  senior  from 
CoUingsivood,  New  Jersey. 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY   /   15 


Marian  and  Dick 
Lloyd  will  tell  you 
they  never  really  thought 
much  about  it.  "We've  always 
done  it,"  they  say,  almost 
apologetically.  "It's  impor- 
tant to  us.  It's  our  way  of 
being  with  our  sons  as  they 
are  growing  up." 

"It"  is  attending  just 
about  every  basketball  game 
their  two  sons.  Rick  '92  and 
Brian  '96,  have  ever  played. 
The  streak  began  when  Dick 
coached  his  sons  in  the  Little 
Lad  League  in  their  home- 
town of  Belle  Mead,  New 
Jersey.  Since  then  the  Lloyds 
have  gone  to  extraordinary 
lengths  -  and  places  -  to 
achieve  this  remarkable 
attendance  record.  A  few 
years  ago,  there  was  the 
problem  of  conflicting  sched- 
ules when  Rick  played  for 
Brown  while  Brian  was 
at  Rutgers  Prep.  The  solu- 
tion? One  parent  went  to 
Providence,  the  other  to  New 
Brunswick.  When  Rick 
played  basketball  for  a  year 
overseas  after  his  Brown 


graduation,  Marian  and 
Dick  journeyed  to  Manches- 
ter, England,  to  cheer  him. 

Even  injuries  haven't 
slowed  them  down.  Plagued 
by  a  back  injury  in  December 
1991,  Dick  piled  up  the  pil- 
lows and  got  to  the  Provi- 
dence Civic  Center  to  see 
Rick  score  twenty-nine 
points  in  a  71-69  overtime 
upset  over  Providence  Col- 
lege, Brown's  first  win 
over  its  crosstown  rival  in 
eleven  years. 

Dick  himself  played  at 
Bloomsburg  University  of 
Pennsylvania,  and  Marian,  a 
member  of  Drexel's  sports 
hall  of  fame,  excelled  at  bas- 
ketball, field  hockev,  and 
tennis.  Before  the  boys  were 
born,  the  couple  ran  a  sum- 
mer basketball  camp  in  the 
Pennsylvania  Poconos  for 
eighteen  years. 

Dick  has  been  both  assis- 
tant and  head  basketball 
coach  at  Rutgers,  where  he  is 
now  assistant  vice  president 
for  alumni  relations.  He  also 
broadcasts  Rutgers  basket- 


Dick  Lloyd  videotapes 
son  Brian  '96  while  Marian 
looks  on.  "We  have  taped 

over  some  of  the  stuff 
we  don 't  particularly  want 
to  remember, "  Brian  says. 


ball  on  the  radio,  sometimes 
going  directly  from  a  broad- 
cast booth  in  New  Jersey  to  a 
bleacher  seat  at  Pizzitola. 

Marian  tries  to  manage 
her  schedule  as  special 
events  manager  for  Johnson 
&  Johnson  to  accommodate 
her  first  priority.  The  jug- 
gling is  so  successful  that  the 
Lloyds'  near-perfect  atten- 
dance confounds  even  their 
children.  Rick  and  his  sister, 
Debbie,  sometimes  travel  to 
games  from  their  homes  in 
Boston  and  New  Jersey;  but 
they  can  barely  keep  up  with 
their  parents.  "It  still  baffles 
me,"  says  Brian,  "how  they 
make  it  to  so  manv  games." 

The  unflinching  support 
of  Marian  and  Dick  may  be 
one  reason  the  sons  have 
done  so  well  at  their  guard 
positions.  Rick  is  fifth  on 
Brown's  all-time  scoring  list. 
Brian,  who  can  be  deadly 
from  three-point  range,  aver- 
aged 12.3  points  a  game  last 
year  and  was  an  All-Ivy  hon- 
orable-mention. A  few  years 
ago,  when  Rick  was  a  half- 


dozen  baskets  away  from 
scoring  his  one-thousandth 
point,  the  Lloyds,  video  cam- 
era in  hand,  were  poised  to 
record  the  historic  event. 
Unfortunately,  Rick  managed 
only  six  points.  Dick  and 
Marian  flew  off  to  honor  other 
commitments,  but  were  back 
the  next  night  to  see  their  son 
shoot  his  way  into  the  Brown 
record  book. 

Many  athletes  would  be 
nervous  striving  for  such  a 
landmark  under  their  par- 
ents' scrutiny.  Not  Rick.  "I 
was  never  nervous,"  he 
says,  "because  they  were 
always  there." 


Men's  soccer 
coach  to  Clemson 

Trevor  Adair,  who  in 
four  seasons  took 
men's  soccer  to  the  NCAA 
quarterfinals,  armounced  on 
January  24  that  he  had 
accepted  the  head  coaching 
job  at  Clemson.  In  his  final 
season,  Adair's  team  finished 
at  13-4-1,  including  an  early 
NCAA  tournament  win 
against  first-ranked  Boston 
University.  The  team  also  fin- 
ished in  a  first-place  Ivy 
League  tie  with  Harvard,  its 
first  such  title  since  1976.  ED 


Scoreboard 

(Febriiaiy  9) 

Men's  hockey  (10-7-2) 
Women's  hockey  (14-1-3) 

Men's  basketball  (9-9) 

Women's  basketball  (7-10) 

Men's  swimming  (3-6-1) 

Women's  swimming  (3-7) 

Men's  squash  (4-5) 

Women's  squash  (5-3) 

Wrestling  (11-2) 

Gymnastics  (3-2) 


16  /  MARCH  1995 


Books 

By  James  Reinbold 

The  doctor  is  out 


The  Strange  Case  of  Dr.  Kappler:  The  Doc- 
tor WJio  Became  a  Killer  by  Keith  Russell 
Ablow  '83  (The  Free  Press,  New  York, 
N.Y.,  1994),  $19.95. 

On  April  14, 1990,  Dr.  John  Kap- 
pler, a  retired  Los  Angeles 
anesthesiologist,  left  his  daughter's 
apartment  in  Medford,  Massachusetts, 
to  begin  the  return  trip  to  his  Califor- 
nia home.  For  reasons  not  altogether 
clear,  his  wife  planned  to  return  sepa- 
rately. But  only  moments  into  his  trip. 
Dr.  Kappler  veered  off  the  Alewife 
Parkway  at  a  high  rate  of  speed  and 
smashed  his  Hyundai  Sonata  into  two 
people.  The  collision  killed  a  jogger.  Dr. 
Paul  Mendelsohn,  and  injured  a  pedes- 
trian, Deborah  Brunet-Tuttle. 

Kappler's  attorney  used  the  insanity 
defense,  but  the  jury  didn't  buy  it.  Today 
the  doctor  is  serving  a  mandatory  life 
sentence  for  second-degree  murder. 

But  that  is  only  the  beginning  of  this 
compelling  tale.  In  telling  the  sad  story 
of  Dr.  Kappler's  life,  psychiatrist  Keith 
Ablow  explores  terrifying  regions  of 
madness  and  suggests  the  human 
tragedy  of  perpetrators  as  well  as  victims. 

We  learn  that  John  Kappler  was 
bom  in  Pittsburgh  to  a  teenage  couple 
who  abused  both  alcohol  and  their  son. 
Throughout  his  life  Kappler  sought  to 
expunge  his  past.  He  graduated  from 
Emory  University  in  Atlanta  and  then 
from  Bowman  Gray  School  of  Medicine 
in  North  Carolina,  married,  and  had 
children.  But  tragedy  seemed  to  stalk 
him:  he  lost  a  brother  to  cancer;  and  his 
first  child,  a  daughter,  was  born  with 
cancer  and  died  at  age  three. 

Throughout  his  medical  career,  Kap- 
pler, who  was  known  to  have  a  violent 
temper,  suffered  numerous  mental 
breakdowns.  For  some  he  was  hospital- 
ized; other  times  his  wife,  Tommie,  iso- 
lated him  in  his  bedroom  and  fed  him 
medication  until  his  mental  state 
stabilized.  After  each  episode,  Kappler 
returned  to  work  -  one  of  the  more 
horrifying  observations  in  Ablow's  chill- 
ing narrative. 


Kappler's  destructive  pattern  began 
in  1975,  when  in  a  single  day  he 
attempted  to  kill  three  patients,  includ- 
ing a  pregnant  woman,  by  administer- 
ing the  wrong  anesthetic.  In  1980  he 
injected  a  patient  with  a  near-lethal  dose 
of  anesthetic,  inducing  cardiac  arrest. 
None  of  the  patients  died,  although  the 
pregnant  woman  suffered  brain  dam- 
age. In  1985  Kappler  was  accused  of 
shutting  off  the  life-support  system  of  a 
quadriplegic  patient,  who  also  survived. 
The  physician  was  arrested  for  attempted 
murder,  but  freed  on  insufficient  evi- 
dence. After  that  he  retired  and  van- 
ished from  the  newspapers  until  com- 
mitting the  1990  Massachusetts  murder 
that  finally  put  him  behind  bars. 

Ablow  devotes  much  of  the  book  to 
the  revelations  of  Kappler's  numerous 
psychiatrists.  Most  of  them,  it  appears, 
never  treated  the  troubled  man  beyond 
simply  prescribing  medication.  Kap- 
pler's medical  colleagues  essentially 
looked  the  other  way  because,  as  Ablow 
explains,  doctors  traditionally  have  been 
pressured  not  to  take  action  against 
other  doctors,  even  those  who  are  obvi- 
ously impaired. 

As  Kapper  attempted  to  bury  his 
unpleasant  childhood,  he  became 
an  enigma  to  all  who  came  in  contact 
with  him.  "He  was,  by  any  measure,  a 
terribly  angry  man,"  writes  Ablow, 
reporting  on  the  murder  trial.  "...  He 
had  remained  silent . . .  never  taking  the 
stand  in  his  own  defense.  Whether 


found  guilty  or  irmocent,  he  could 
be  confident  that  there  was  not  a 
«       soul  in  the  courtroom  that  winter 
day  who  would  ever  come  close  to 
knowing  him." 

Ablow,  who  was  a  friend  of  Kap- 
pler's victim,  Paul  Mendelsohn,  has 
entitled  several  of  his  chapters  "First 
Person"  to  separate  passages  dealing 
with  his  personal  feelings  from  his  oth- 
erwise clinical  approach.  The  book 
addresses  two  main  questions:  First,  is 
John  Kappler  mad,  or  is  he  evil?  Was  his 
final  violent  act  one  of  uncontrollable 
madness  or  calculated  murder? 

Second,  did  Kappler's  peers  in  the 
medical  community  act  responsibly 
when  they  learned  of  his  serious  mental 
illness?  Did  the  psychiatrists  who  treated 
him  and  sent  him  back  to  work?  Did  the 
wife  who  sheltered  him? 

"Psychiatry  having  failed  to  heal  him, 
his  colleagues  having  looked  the  other 
way,  his  wife  having  cast  her  own 
shadow  over  his  life,  the  criminal  justice 
system  having  failed  to  contain  him," 
Ablow  writes,  "John  Kappler  had  finally 
left  behind  undeniable  evidence  of  his 
destructiveness."  ED 


Cl^        Keith  Russell 
^^B        Ablow  is  a 
■0(9^       practicing  psy- 
P.  Ji   JM.       chiatrist  who 
'"■^^^■Ktt^    writes  a  column 
iS^^^F^     on  psychiatry 
I'W*^  and  society  for 

the  Washington 
Post.  A  graduate  of  the  Johns  Hop- 
kins University  School  of  Medicine, 
he  lives  and  practices  in  Chelsea, 
Massachusetts. 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /   17 


l,s 


iL-rcrfCffRTfT 


111  1969  ^ 

the  University  made 
a  bold  coiiiniitiiient 

to  a  radical  educational 
pliilosophy,  one  that 
has  been  celebrated 
and  second-guessed 

\  \      ever  since 


his  academic  year  marks  two  twenty- 
fifth  anniversaries  which  are  impor- 
tant to  my  ties  with  Brown  and 
which  have  become  linked  in  my  mind.  The  first  is 
the  anniversary  of  the  launching  of  Brown's  New 
Curriculum  in  1969-70.  When  the  BAM  asked  me 
to  do  a  retrospective  on  it,  I  found  myself  thinking 
about  the  second  milestone,  fast  approaching:  the 
twenty-fifth  reunion  of  the  class  I  was  supposed  to 
graduate  with,  the  Class  of  1970. 

We  were  only  the  first  class  to  get  a  taste  of  the 
New  Curriculum,  but  we  certainly  got  the  full 
flavor  of  the  academic,  social,  and  political  ferment 
that  helped  create  it.  We  arrived  at  our  respective 
campuses  -  Brown  or  Pembroke  -  in  the  antedilu- 
vian year  1966,  on  the  brink  of  momentous  changes 
in  the  University,  the  nation,  and  our  minds.  After 
three  years  of  upheaval,  the  New  Curriculum  was 
heralded  as  a  climactic  event,  a  culmination  of 
those  revolutionary  trends.  Then  most  of  us  gradu- 
ated and  moved  on. 

My  own  path  meandered.  I  took  several  leaves 
of  absence,  changed  my  major  twice,  and  finally 
graduated  in  1974.  That  gave  me  a  few  extra  years 
to  try  out  the  New  Curriculum  and  see  how  it 
actually  worked.  After  graduating,  1  spent  six  years 
at  the  BAM,  then  went  to  graduate  school  at  Boston 
College.  It  wasn't  until  1987  that  I  found  myself 
back  at  the  University  -  this  time  as  a  freelance 
writer  for  the  admission  office  and  University  rela- 
tions. What  I  found  was  an  institution  that  had 
transformed  itself  profoundly. 

For  all  its  fits  and  starts,  in  its  first  decade  the 
New  Curriculum  clearly  awakened  a  once  rather 
sleepy  institution.  But  it  became  obvious  to  me  in 


During  the  1968-69  academic  year,  a  group  of 
students  led  by  Ira  Magaziner  '69  organized  noon 
rallies  on  the  Green  (left)  to  discuss  the  450-page 
treatise  that  grew  out  of  an  independent  study 
project  on  curricular  reform  at  Brown.  The  report 
provided  the  framework  for  the  so-called  New 
Curriculum  adopted  later  that  year. 

1987  that  curricular  reform  was  not  a  relic  of  sixties 
activism  that  Brown  was  trying  to  prop  up  in  the 
face  of  reactionary  social  trends.  In  reality  it  started 
a  much  longer-lasting  revolution,  an  ongoing  pro- 
cess that  has  reshaped  not  only  the  undergraduate 
curriculum,  but  the  entire  academic  enterprise  - 
indeed,  the  University  itself.  Indisputably  it  is  the 
curriculum  that  sparked  Brown's  transformation 
over  the  past  quarter-century  from  a  lesser-known 
Ivy  school  into  an  internationally-renowned  uni- 
versity with  extremely  competitive  undergraduate 
admissions. 

The  curriculum  itself  has  been  under  a  micro- 
scope for  twenty-five  years,  most  recently  at  an 
academic  convocation  last  October,  which  concluded 
with  President  Gregorian  awarding  honorary 
degrees  to  Ira  Magaziner  '69  and  Elliot  Maxwell  '68 
(Under  the  Ekns,  December).  At  times  the  media's 
perennial  fascination  with  the  curriculum's  partic- 
ulars -  "satisfactory/no  credit"  grade  options,  the 
absence  of  graduation  requirements  save  those 
pertaining  to  one's  concentration  -  has  obscured 
the  larger  picture  of  how  the  curriculum  catalyzed 
Brown's  transformation. 

To  get  additional  insight  into  that  process,  I 
interviewed  a  nimiber  of  people  in  the  senior  faculty 
and  the  administration  who  have  both  observed 
and  used  it  over  the  years.  With  the  exception  of 
George  Morgan,  recently-retired  University  Profes- 
sor, who  came  to  Brown  in  1950,  most  of  those  I 
talked  with  arrived  in  the  late  sixties  to  early  seven- 
ties, during  the  curriculum's  gestation  or  infancy. 


n  the  late  sixties,  as  Elliot  Maxwell  observed 
at  last  October's  convocation.  Brown  suf- 
fered from  "a  lack  of  certainty  about 
where  it  fit  in  American  higher  education."  Under 
the  leadership  of  Presidents  Henry  Wriston  and 
Bamaby  Keeney  from  the  1940s  through  the  mid- 
sixties.  Brown  grew  from  "an  essentially  regional 
college  into  a  university  with  many  strong  depart- 
ments," physics  professor  Frank  Levin  points  out. 
But  it  was  still  in  the  shadow  of  Harvard,  Yale,  and 
Princeton.  Since  college  curricula  in  those  days 
shared  a  general  uniformity  of  content  and 
approach,  it  wasn't  easy  for  Brown  to  distinguish 


BY    JANET    PH  ILLIPS    '70 


THOSE    INTERVIEWED 


1  Sheila  Blumstein,  dean  of  the  College  and 
Albert  D.  Mead  Professor  of  Cognitive  and  Lin- 
guistic Sciences 

2  Ferdinand  Jones,  professor  of  psychology  and 
former  director  of  psychological  services 

3  Elizabeth  Kirk,  professor  of  English  and  com- 
parative literature 

4  Frank  Levin,  professor  of  physics 

5  George  Morgan,  University  Professor,  emeritus 

6  Robert  Scholes,  Andrew  W.  Mellon  Professor  of 
the  Humanities  and  professor  of  modern  culture 
and  media,  English,  and  comparative  literature 

7  Arnold  Weinstein,  Henry  Merritt  Wriston 
Professor  and  professor  of  comparative  literature 

8  Eric  Widmer,  headmaster  of  Deerfield  Academy, 
former  professor  of  Chinese  and  central  Asian 
history  and  (consecutively)  executive  officer 
for  faculty  and  academic  affairs,  dean  of  student 
life,  and  dean  of  admission  and  financial  aid 


itself  from  comparable 
institutions. 

Yet  Brown's  con- 
ventional curriculum 
belied  a  long  tradition 
of  innovation,  as  Presi- 
dent Gregorian  has 
noted  (see  page  26). 
Throughout  its  history 
Brown  has  shown  a 
willingness  to  reexam- 
ine and  refashion  itself 
and,  when  necessary, 
to  make  a  fairly  radical 
break  with  tradition  - 
most  notably  in  the  nineteenth  century  under 
Francis  Wayland,  who  became  famous  for  his  cur- 
ricular  reforms.  Former  Dean  of  Admission  Eric 
Widmer  observes  that  while  the  1969  reforms  were 
the  most  far-reaching  yet,  they  were  constructed  by 
students,  administrators,  and  faculty  who  were 
part  of  the  "old  Brown."  The  "New  Curriculum" 
thus  wasn't  as  sui  generis  as  it  sometimes  seems. 

The  modern  foundations  for  the  1969  curricu- 
lum were  laid  ten  years  earlier  by  George  Morgan, 
then  a  youthful  professor  of  applied  mathematics 
who  took  a  leave  of  absence  from  Brown  in  1936-37 
to  wrestle  with  his  intellectual  conscience.  As  he 
explains  it,  "I  wanted  to  make  questions  of  human 
existence  more  central  to  my  work,  because  learn- 
ing and  life  have  to  go  together."  He  began  looking 
for  ways  to  apply  mathematical  analysis  to  real- 
world  concerns  -  for  example,  using  his  work  in 
fluid  dynamics  to  analyze  blood  circulation,  or  to 
study  estuaries  and  ocean  currents.  As  a  visiting 
scholar  at  Har\'ard,  he  sought  out  scholars  in  psy- 
chology, anthropology,  and  sociology  -  the  so-called 
"soft"  sciences  -  to  see  if  they  were  interested  in 
using  mathematical  models  in  their  work. 

Those  early  explorations,  though,  brought  Mor- 
gan to  an  unexpected  impasse.  He  began  to  realize 
that  the  social  sciences  could  not  be  molded  into 
the  same  conceptual  and  methodological  framework 
as  the  physical  sciences,  and  that  any  attempt  to 
force  that  model  upon  them  led  to  distortions.  "The 
scientific  approach  to  social  studies  leaves  you  in 
the  end  unable  to  see  the  real  individual  or  society," 
he  says.  That,  in  turn,  led  him  to  questions  such  as. 


What  is  science?  Is  it  truly  value-neutral,  as  is  often 
claimed?  What  can  and  cannot  be  studied  scientifi- 
cally? "\  was  not  putting  down  'hard'  science,"  he 
says,  "but  instead  seeing  it  as  only  one  sector  of 
the  human  mind,  to  be  given  its  appropriate  place 
within  the  whole." 

Morgan  became  convinced  that  there  had  to  be 
ways  for  such  issues  to  be  raised  in  the  university 
curriculum.  He  went  to  see  Barnaby  Keeney,  who 
gave  him  an  unexpectedly  enthusiastic  reception. 
"Keeney  felt  undergraduate  education  wasn't  vital 
enough,  that  it  lacked  coherence,  and  that  the 
trend  to  specialization  was  too  strong,"  Morgan 
recalls.  As  president  of  the  University  and  head  of 
the  Curriculum  Committee,  Keeney  was  in  a  posi- 
tion to  give  Morgan  the  go-ahead  to  teach  a  new, 
extradepartmental  course  in  1958-59:  "Modes 
of  Experience:  Science,  History,  Philosophy  and  the 
Arts."  Because  there  was  no  place  in  the  curricu- 
lum where  such  a  course  fit,  it  was  given  the  new 
designation  "University  Course." 

A  handful  of  faculty  who  were  also  interested 
in  synthesizing  approaches  fell  in  step  with  Mor- 
gan and  created  other  University  Courses.  Bruce 
Lindsey,  dean  of  the  Graduate  School,  taught  a 
course  on  "Science  and  Civilization,"  for  example, 
and  a  course  taught  by  Professor  of  Spanish  Juan 
Lopez-Morillas,  "The  Functions  of  Literature," 
planted  the  seeds  of  the  future  comparative  litera- 
ture department. 

George  Morgan's  second  University  Course, 
"Conceptions  of  Man:  Diversity  and  Coherence," 
led  to  Brown's  first  nondepartmental  concentra- 
tion. Keeney  appointed  Morgan  to  the  Curriculum 
Committee  in  the  1960s,  and  in  1967,  feeling  that 
"students  needed  an  opportunity  to  make  more  of 
a  coherent  whole  of  their  major,"  Morgan  devel- 
oped a  concentration  in  human  studies.  Foreshad- 
owing the  New  Curriculum's  emphasis  on  inde- 
pendent, integrative  studies,  it  required  students 
to  organize  a  prcigram  of  courses  from  various 
departments  around  a  particular  topic,  find  a  fac- 
ulty sponsor,  and  present  their  plan  to  a  committee 
for  approval.  (It  required  a  senior  thesis  as  well.) 
The  class  of  1969  was  the  first  eligible  to  choose  this 
concentration.  One  of  those  who  did  was  Ira  Mag- 
aziner,  who,  along  with  Elliot  Maxwell,  had  taken 
Morgan's  "Modes  of  Experience"  course. 


20  /   MARCH  1995 


Throughout 

its  history  Brown  has 

shown  a  wilhiiguess 

to  reexamine  itself 

and,  when  necessary, 

to  make  a  fairly 

radical  break  with 

tradition 


T 

^^M         he  explosive  energies  of  the  late 
^H         sixties,  which  on  many  campuses 
^^^^B     led  to  confrontation  and  chaos, 
found  a  positive  outlet  at  Brown  in  curricular  reform. 
"We  got  this  curriculum  bccniisc  of  the  kind  of  stu- 
dents and  faculty  we  had,  and  the  interaction 
between  them,"  Professor  Robert  Scholes  observes. 
The  reforms  were  debated  civilly  and,  once  passed, 
were  implemented  in  a  confident,  orderly  manner. 

What  the  New  Curriculum  accomplished 
immediately  was  to  give  Brown  "a  niche,  a  way  of 
being  looked  at  as  distinctive,"  in  Eric  Widmer's 
words.  In  a  decade  that  wihiessed  much  educational 
debate.  Brown  went  further  than  most  colleges 
were  willing  to  go,  risking  two  centuries'  worth  of 
history  and  prestige,  and  the 
support  of  a  fairly  conservative 
alumni  body,  on  one  of  the 
most  ambitious  experiments  in 
American  higher  education.  In 
retrospect,  it  was  a  remarkable 
act  of  faith,  one  that  Frank  Levin 
summarizes  this  way:  "Insti- 
tutions generally  change  slowly, 
which  is  a  good  thing  -  but 
every  so  often  it's  carpe  diem." 
Outside  the  University  the 
curriculum  was  often  misinter- 
preted as  a  demolition  project: 
doing  away  with  old  structures 
and  rules  without  building 
anything  new  in  their  place.  But 
as  Magaziner  noted  at  a  tenth- 
anniversary  Commencement 
forum  in  1979,  the  curriculum 
was  an  attempt  both  to  articu- 
late a  broad  vision  of  liberal  education  and  to  iden- 
tify specific  ways  of  achieving  that.  Along  with 
promoting  student  independence  and  maturity,  its 
long-range  goals  included  stressing  active  learning 
and  conceptual  thinking  rather  than  assimilation 
of  facts,  fostering  closer  student-faculty  contact 
throughout  the  undergraduate  years,  and  breaking 
down  traditional  disciplinary  boundaries  to  inte- 
grate knowledge. 

It  aimed,  in  short,  to  create  a  whole  new  climate 
of  learning,  replacing  the  old  hierarchical  /  com- 
partmental  model  with  a  collaborative  one,  and 


replacing  coercion  with  freedom  of  choice.  But 
even  those  who  planned,  voted  for,  and  imple- 
mented it  probably  couldn't  grasp  fully  the  magni- 
tude of  the  change  they  were  setting  in  motion, 
where  it  would  lead,  and  what  it  would  recjuire. 
On  one  hand,  the  reforms  anticipated  a  major  intel- 
lectual trend  of  the  late  twentieth  century  toward 
the  integration  of  knowledge;  on  the  other  hand, 
they  bucked  an  entrenched  system  in  higher  edu- 
cation (and,  by  extension,  the  professions)  that 
demanded  and  rewarded  increasing  specialization. 
George  Morgan  discovered  that  some  faculty 
looked  askance  at  the  human  studies  concentration, 
which  they  suspected  was  draining  away  potential 
concentrators  (and  ultimately  faculty  positions 
and  funding)  from  their  departments. 

Furthermore,  the  creation  in  1969  of  several 
dozen  Modes  of  Thought  courses  taught  by  enthu- 
siastic faculty  volunteers  did  not  add  up  to  the  kind 
of  broad-based  institutional  commitment  needed 
to  support  extradepartmental  efforts.  As  Scholes 
points  out,  the  New  Curriculum  was  launched  with- 
out a  real  appreciation  of  the  resources  needed  to 
implement  its  long-range  goals  -  and  at  a  time,  more- 
over when  Brown  faced  a  deepening  fiscal  crisis. 

T 

^H         he  publicity  and  controversy  that 
^H         attended  Brown's  Great  Leap  For- 
^^^^     ward  evenhially  brought  the  College 
a  flood  of  applicants  -  although  there  were  other 
reasons,  too,  for  its  new  popularity.  Eric  Widmer 
notes  that  applications  rose  sharply  after  the  Brown- 
Pembroke  merger  in  1971,  which  "made  Brown 
appeal  to  women  as  a  place  where  they  were 
respected  and  valued  as  eciuals."  The  founding  of 
the  Program  in  Medicine  in  1972  also  attracted  a 
generation  of  students  who  were  moving  away 
from  activism  and  toward  what  was  dubbed  "pre- 
professionalism."  But  despite  these  strides,  the 
mood  of  the  campus  in  the  early  years  of  the  New 
Curriculum  was  decidedly  mixed.  Brown  was 
overextended  financially,  a  problem  made  much 
worse  by  the  oil  crisis  and  subsequent  recession  of 
1973-74.  And  its  new  president,  Donald  Hornig, 


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The  curriciilvun  was 
liberating  faculty,  too: 

instead  of  offering 

the  same  courses  taught 

in  the  same  way, 

year  after  year,  they 

were  free  to  be 
creative  and  original 


was  both  out  of  step  with  the 
curriculum  and  unable  to 
solve  the  fiscal  woes  that 
threatened  to  undermine  it. 
When  Hornig,  a  chemist 
and  former  Graduate  School 
dean,  became  president 
in  1970,  the  Corporation  im- 
pressed on  him  the  need  to 
close  the  University's  bud- 
get gap.  He  had  been  cho- 
sen in  part  because  he  was 
seen  as  someone  who  could 
bring  more  government 
funding  to  Brown.  But  fed- 
eral support  for  higher  edu- 
cation was  leveling  off,  and 
in  any  case  it  could  not  have 
erased  Brown's  deficits. 
The  administration's  stop- 
gap solution  was  to  collect  more  tuition  and  fees 
by  increasing  undergraduate  enrollment  each  year. 
Alarmed  by  this  trend,  which  threatened  Brown's 
identity  as  a  medium-sized  university-college,  the 
Corporation  appointed  a  Committee  on  Plans  and 
Resources,  chaired  by  the  late  Thomas  J.  Watson  Jr. 
'37,  to  assess  Brown's  financial  and  institvitional 
health  and  to  recommend  long-range  solutions. 
Every  page  of  the  so-called  Watson  Report, 
released  early  in  1974,  reflected  the  gravity  of  Brown's 
financial  condition.  Drawing  the  line  at  an  under- 
graduate enrollment  of  5,150,  the  report  recom- 
mended that  Brown  strive  for  a  major  increase  in 
endowment,  actively  seek  funds  to  implement  the 
New  Curriculum,  scale  back  or  eliminate  weaker 
departments,  be  more  selective  in  supporting 
graduate  programs,  shift  the  burden  in  financial 
aid  toward  loans  and  work-study  jobs,  and  con- 
sider year-round  operation.  The  following  Febru- 


ary, Hornig  released  a  "white  paper"  show- 
ing where  the  tough  budgetary  choices 
were  going  to  be  made.  His  announcement 
of  cutbacks  in  financial  aid,  faculty,  and  the 
resident  fellows  program  elicited  howls 
from  various  campus  constituencies  and 
triggered  a  takeover  of  University  Hall  by 
the  Third  World  Coalition  in  April  1975. 
Three  months  later,  Hornig  announced  he 
would  step  down  as  president  the  follow- 
ing year. 


t  the  1979  Commencement 
forum,  Ira  Magaziner 
remarked  that  when  he 
visited  the  campus  in  1975  the  curriculum  appeared 
to  be  "dead  in  the  water."  In  reality,  it  was  only 
semi-comatose.  It  was  true  that  Modes  of  Thought 
(MOT)  courses,  intended  to  be  a  cornerstone  of  the 
New  Curriculum,  had  instead  become  a  sort  of 
foster  child,  thanks  to  insufficient  funding  and 
structural  support.  It  was  true  that  the  current  gen- 
eration of  students  was  more  careerist  and  less 
flexible  or  experimental.  And  it  was  certainly  true 
that,  as  the  takeover  of  University  Hall  showed, 
the  vision  and  cooperative  spirit  of  the  sixties  had 
been  frayed  by  an  atmosphere  where  everyone 
was  scrambling  to  survive,  with  no  fiscal  relief  in 
sight.  Nonetheless,  the  basic  tenets  of  the  curricu- 
lum -  freedom  of  choice  and  integrative  learning  - 
were  still  in  place  and  putting  down  roots. 

As  Widmer  obser\'es,  the  format  of  MOTs  wasn't 
as  central  as  the  idea  behind  them,  which  contin- 
ued to  function  in  other  guises.  "What  was  central," 
he  says,  "was  for  faculty  and  students  to  recom- 
bine  subject  matter  and  find  new  ways  of  approach- 
ing their  topics."  By  1975,  enough  faculty  had 
begun  to  sense  the  possibilities  of  interdisciplinary 
work  that  even  standard  departmental  course 
offerings.  Professor  of  English  Elizabeth  Kirk  notes, 
began  to  be  rethought  and  retaught  along  MOT 
lines.  University  Courses,  Modes  of  Thought, 
Modes  of  Analysis,  Special  Themes  and  Topics,  et 
ai,  became  part  of  a  movement  toward  interdisci- 
plinary perspectives  that  has  permeated  all  levels 
of  the  University.  The  curriculum,  as  it  turned  out, 
was  liberating  faculty  as  well  as  stvidents:  instead 
of  meeting  the  distribution  requirements  by  offer- 
ing the  same  courses  taught  in  the  same  way,  year 
after  year,  they  were  free  to  go  beyond  departmen- 
tal boundaries  and  to  be  more  creative  and  origi- 
nal. Of  course,  as  Scholes  points  out,  the  curricu- 
lum's "market  forces"  almost  demanded  that  they 


I 


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be  so  if  they  wanted  to  attract  students  and  keep 
them  interested. 

As  interdisciplinary  approaches  took  hold,  new 
concentration  programs  and  centers  for  teaching 
and  research  began  to  crystallize  around  them:  urban 
studies  (1973),  semiotics  (1974),  the  Center  for 
Energy  Studies  (1976),  the  Center  for  Law  and  Lib- 
eral Education  (1977),  for  example.  The  infrastruc- 
ture was  expanding  to  include  not  just  roads  and 
bridges  between  academic  departments,  but  whole 
new  buildings  that  sprang  up  at  disciplinary  inter- 
sections. That  trend  eventually  supplanted  the  cur- 
riculum's emphasis  on  independent  studies  and 
concentrations,  which  became  institutionalized  in 
a  lengthening  roster  of  programs.  (Brown  now  offers 
more  than  eighty-five  concentrations,  compared  to 
forty  in  the  early  1970s.) 

By  1977,  not  only  were  the  worst  years  of  re- 
trenchment over,  but  Brown  had  a  highly-regarded 
new  president,  Howard  Swearer.  An  observation 
made  about  Elisha  Benjamin  Andrews's  presidency 
in  the  1890s  could  equally  have  been  made  about 
Swearer's:  "At  his  touch,  the  old  college  leaped 
into  new  life  and  began  to  grow  at  an  astonishing 
rate."  Swearer  resonated  to  Brown's  educational 
philosophy  and  encouraged  interdisciplinary  work, 
which  flourished  as  never  before.  He  also  had 
visions  of  his  own,  particularly  with  respect  to  pub- 
lic ser\'ice  and  international  studies  -  two  fields  in 
which  Brown  is  now  an  acknowledged  leader. 
Applications  for  admission  began  to  rise  sharply  soon 
after  Swearer  arrived  on  College  Hill,  and  by  the 
early  eighties  Brown  was  the  most  sought-after 
undergraduate  school  in  the  country.  To  ice  the  cake, 
in  1979  Swearer  launched  a  major  capital  campaign 
that  raised  more  than  $180  million  in  five  years, 
providing  a  foundation  for  stability  and  growth. 


Dick  Salomon  rose 

"to  speak  as  a  trustee  on  behalf 

of  what  the  curriculum 

has  (lone  for  Brown.  We've 

made  the  greatest  strides 

m  the  University's  liistory 

by  sticking  to  it" 


T 

^^M         he  success  of  the  capital  campaign, 
^^M         which  raised  $22  million  more  than 
jJILr     it^  g'^^l'  ^^s  ^  testament  to  the 
University's  vitality  and  stature.  Ten  years  after 
Brown  had  gambled  so  much  on  curricular  reform, 
it  was  reaping  the  rewards,  as  its  newly-appointed 
chancellor,  the  late  Richard  Salomon  '32,  observed 
at  the  1979  Commencement  forum.  Salomon  rose 
from  his  seat  in  the  audience  "to  speak  up  as  a 
trustee  on  behalf  of  what  the  curriculum  has  done 
for  Brown.  We've  made  the  greatest  strides  in  the 
University's  history  over  the  past  decade  by  enact- 
ing it  and  sticking  to  it." 

The  curriculum,  and  the  institution  as  a  whole, 
were  being  energized  not  only  by  Swearer  but  by  a 
dynamic  dean  of  the  College,  the  physicist  Walter 
Massey,  who  committed  himself  in  the  mid-seven- 
ties to  curricular  development  -  including  finding 
the  funds  to  support  it,  a  key  recommendation 
of  the  Watson  Report.  Massey,  with  the  backing  of 
Swearer  and  Provost  Maurice  Glicksman,  asked 
George  Morgan  in  1978  to  become  special  adviser 
to  the  dean  for  curricular  development.  Morgan 
assembled  a  working  group  of  faculty,  out  of  which 
grew  the  Wayland  Collegium  for  Liberal  Learning, 
formally  organized  in  1980  and  funded  by  Dick 
Salomon,  who  backed  up  his  endorsement  of  the 
curriculum  with  a  $i-million  gift.  The  Collegium's 
mission  was  (and  is)  to  provide  funding  and  struc- 
tural support  for  the  kinds  of  interdisciplinary 
efforts  embodied  in  University  Courses  and  MOTs: 
broad-ranging  teaching  and  scholarship  that 
addresses  "fundamental  themes  of  human  life"  and 
integrates  the  perspectives  of  various  disciplines. 
The  Collegium  supplies  incentive  grants  for  course 
development  and  grants  to  support  study  groups 
whose  projects  may  involve  research,  publication, 
and  new  courses,  and  whose  participants  include 
faculty,  students,  and  outside  scholars.  Over  the 
years  the  Collegium  has  spawned  courses  on  top- 
ics ranging  from  "Drugs,  Health,  and  Culture"  to 
"Introduction  to  the  Theory  of  Literature"  to 
"Medical  and  Geological  Aspects  of  Natural  and 
Man-Made  Disasters"  -  functioning  as  a  sort  of 
auxiliary  engine  to  keep  the  curriculum  moving  for- 
ward and  on  track. 

As  applications  to  the  College  swelled  in  the 
1980s,  Brown  had  the  luxury  of  being  increasingly 
selective  in  its  admissions.  The  University's  pro- 
gressive reputation  tended  to  attract  maverick  stu- 
dents. The  admission  committee  all  along  had  picked 
applicants  from  diverse  backgrounds  who  seemed 
to  be  a  good  "fit"  with  Brown:  not  just  bright, 
but  independent,  highly-moti\'ated,  and  socially 
aware.  At  times,  Eric  Widmer  says,  that  gave  the 
admission  office  a  reputation  for  being  unpre- 
dictable and  for  passing  over  some  of  the  most  aca- 


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Stiuloiils  are  ahlo  to  make  eoiitril>iitioiis 

to  scliolarsliip  and  teacliiiig, 

instead  of  being  mere  feeders  at  the 

trough  of  knowledge 


demicallv-qualified  students.  But  by  all  measures 
the  caliber  of  Brown  undergraduates  in  the  eight- 
ies was  higher  than  ever,  and  they  seemed  well- 
equipped  to  take  advantage  of  Brown's  unique 
opportuniHes. 

As  Magaziner  and  Maxwell  understood  at  the 
outset,  students  would  need  to  be  creative  and 
independent  in  order  to  get  the  most  out  of  the 
Brown  curriculum  and  to  contribute  something  to 
the  academic  community.  The  University  had  made 
a  fundamental  shift  from  treating  undergraduates 
as  older  children  to  treating  them  as  young  adults, 
capable  not  only  of  making  informed  choices  but 
also  of  teaming  with  faculty  as  partners  in  learning. 

Students  were  now  able  to  make  real  contribu- 
tions to  scholarship  and  teaching,  instead  of  being 
mere  feeders  at  the  trough  of  knowledge.  One 
of  the  best  examples  of  this  is  UTRA,  for  Undergrad- 
uate Teaching  and  Research  Assistantships, 
launched  by  a  Ford  Foundation  grant  in  the  1980s 
and  built  on  a  pilot  program  at  Brown  called 
Odyssey,  which  was  developed  by  Associate  Dean 
of  the  College  Karen  Romer.  UTRA/Odyssey  has 
two  goals:  to  create  a  mechanism  for  injecting  new 
ideas  and  perspectives  into  faculty  research  and 
course  offerings,  and  to  mitigate  a  national  short- 
age of  college  teachers  by  attracting  more  students 
-  especially  minorities  -  to  careers  in  academia. 
The  ideas  and  perspectives  come  from  students 
themselves,  whose  questions  often  suggest  direc- 
tions for  scholarship  or  alternative  ways  of  looking 
at  a  subject.  UTRA  allows  faculty  and  student 
teams  to  develop  these  ideas  -  many  of  which 
have  become  standard  course  offerings  -  by  fund- 
ing research,  bibliographic,  and  teaching  assistant- 
ships  for  undergraduates. 

Having  bright,  hardworking  students  who  want 
to  experiment  and  develop  their  ideas  has  been  "a 
constant  stimulus  to  faculty,"  Professor  of  Com- 
parative Literature  Arnold  Weinstein  observes.  He 
adds  that  the  caliber  of  its  undergraduates  has  been 
an  important  factor  in  Brown's  ability  to  attract 
stellar  faculty  in  recent  years.  So  has  the  multitude 
of  opportunities  for  interdisciplinary  work,  which 
creates  a  "yeasty,"  intellectually  dynamic  atmo- 
sphere. (Many  Brown  professors  are  now  so  multi- 
departmental  that  their  titles  are  positively  un- 
wieldy.) Elizabeth  Kirk  echoes  the  sentiments  of 
many  when  she  says,  "I  continue  to  find  this  an 


extraordinarily  exciting  curriculum  to  teach  and 
advise  in."  Kirk  also  points  out  that  Brown  hires 
very  carefully  at  the  junior-faculty  level  and 
doesn't  treat  assistant  professors  as  disposable. 
"Many  of  the  best  candidates,"  she  says,  "choose 
Brown  because  it's  a  real  job  with  a  future,  not  a 
six-year  postdoctoral  position." 

In  1987,  the  year  before  Howard  Swearer 
stepped  down  as  president,  the  Univer- 
sity commissioned  Daniel  Yankelovich,  a 
Brown  parent  and  head  of  a  well-known  survey 
research  firm,  to  conduct  a  survey  of  New  Curricu- 
lum alumni:  the  graduates  of  the  classes  of  1973 
through  1985.  These  young  alumni  proved  to  have 
overwhelmingly  positive  feelings  about  Brown 
and  to  be  strongly  supportive  of  the  curriculum  -  a 
powerful  validation  of  Brown's  educational  philos- 
ophy, both  in  terms  of  the  undergraduate  experi- 
ence it  offered  and  how  well  it  prepared  its  gradu- 
ates for  life  beyond  college.  But  they  were  also 
candid  about  what  they  saw  as  major  weaknesses. 
First,  the  academic  counseling  system  (an  essential 
underpinning  of  the  curriculum)  was  inadequate 
and  poorly  organized.  Second,  the  curriculum  was 
so  unstructured  that,  outside  of  the  standard  con- 
centration programs,  it  failed  to  provide  guidelines 
to  help  students  define  and  meet  their  educational 
goals.  Third,  the  number  of  courses  required  to 
graduate  (twenty-eight)  was  too  low. 

None  of  this  came  as  a  total  surprise:  faculty 
and  administrators  were  aware  of  these  weak- 
nesses, even  if  they  didn't  have  solutions  for  them. 
But  the  survey  became  a  point  of  departure  for  an 
exhaustive  internal  review  of  the  curriculum 
undertaken  by  Dean  of  the  College  Sheila  Blum- 
stein  (at  President  Gregorian's  request)  in  1989. 
While  she  found  that  students  were  already  doing 
a  good  job  of  balancing  their  studies  among  the 
major  areas  of  inquiry  -  the  humanities,  natural 
sciences,  and  social  sciences  (90  percent  of  the  class 
of  1989  took  at  least  two  courses  in  each  area)  - 
her  report  recommended  a  new  University-wide 
initiative  for  general  education. 

Out  of  this  came  the  Guicie  to  Liberal  Educa- 
tion, a  section  of  The  Guide  to  Liberal  Learning,  a 
booklet  about  the  curriculum  for  incoming  students. 
The  Guide  to  Liberal  Education  broadly  defines 
the  components  of  a  liberal  education,  lists  several 
hundred  courses  that  could  be  used  as  building 
blocks  for  a  student's  education  program,  and  pro- 
vides a  worksheet  for  planning  that  program. 
(Brown  resurrected  the  term  University  Courses 


24  /   MARCH   1995 


Dean  Bluiiisteiii's 
1989  survey  foiuid  that 
90  percent  of  Brown's 
undergraduates  took  at 

least  two  courses  in 

each  of  the  three  major 

academic  areas 


as  an  umbrella  for  these 
building-block  offerings, 
although  most  were  existing 
courses  with  an  interdis- 
ciplinary flavor  rather  than 
special  extradepartmental 
courses.)  The  review  also 
led  to  the  development  of 
the  Curricular  Advising 
Program  (CAP),  a  system- 
atic effort  to  strengthen 
academic  advising  for  fresh- 
men and  sophomores  by 
linking  each  student  with  a 
faculty  member  who  teaches 
introductory  courses  in  the 
student's  field  of  interest, 
and  by  teaming  faculty  with  upperclass  student 
advisers  familiar  with  other  subjects.  Brown  also 
instituted  a  writing-competency  requirement  (with 
resources  such  as  the  Rose  Writing  Fellows  pro- 
gram to  back  it  up)  and  increased  to  thirty  the  num- 
ber of  courses  needed  to  graduate. 

But  while  the  curriculum  has  been  time-tested 
and  its  flaws  fine-tuned,  it  still  faces  challenges. 
Psychologist  Ferdinand  Jones  notes  that,  particularly 
since  the  1980s,  the  curriculum's  experimental 
spirit  has  been  dampened  by  students'  anxiety  about 
their  long-term  economic  security  and  by  their  fear 
of  jeopardizing  career  prospects.  The  curriculum 


was  launched  in  an  era  of  national  prosperity  which, 
even  if  it  didn't  trickle  down  into  Brown's  coffers, 
gave  students  a  sense  of  economic  optimism;  a 
bachelor's  degree  in  1969  was  a  marketable  cre- 
dential, not  just  a  ticket  to  graduate  school  and  fur- 
ther debt.  Nowadays  Brown's  graying  professors 
and  deans  often  find  themselves  in  the  ironic  posi- 
tion of  being  more  experimental  than  the  eighteen- 
year-olds  they're  advising.  Their  advice,  almost 
universally,  is  to  loosen  up.  "If  anything.  Brown 
students  tend  to  be  too  goal-oriented,  and  they 
need  the  curriculum  as  a  counterbalance,"  Eliza- 
beth Kirk  says.  "A  very  large  percentage  plan  to  go 
into  law  or  medicine  when  they  first  get  here,  but 
many  are  cured  of  that." 

For  all  the  interdisciplinary  emphasis  at  Brown, 
Arnold  Weinstein  says  faculty  are  still  caught  in 
the  old  tug-of-war  between  specialization  and 
integration.  "The  real  intellectual  issues  are  at  the 
boundaries  between  fields,  both  in  the  sciences  and 
the  humanities,"  he  says,  "but  pioneering  is  some- 
thing scholars  do  at  their  own  risk.  Interdisciplin- 
ary work  is  often  not  as  recognized  or  rewarded  as 
what  you  do  within  your  field."  The  University 
as  a  whole  has  gotten  flak  from  traditionalists  who 
regard  interdisciplinary  work  (on  principle)  as 
"mushy"  or  lacking  in  rigor.  Everyone  I  spoke 
with,  however,  agreed  that  whatever  image  prob- 
lems Brown  has  stem  much  more  from  a  certain 
defensiveness  about  the  curriculum  than  from  the 
curriculum  itself.  The  latter  is  something  Brown 
has  earned  the  right  to  be  proud  of. 

What  strikes  me  most  in  looking  back  is  that 
Brown,  far  from  being  a  "trendy"  school,  has  kept 
a  singularly  steady  course  amid  all  the  ups  and 
downs  of  academic  fashion  over  the  past  twenty- 
five  years.  In  1969  the  University  made  a  bold 
commitment  to  an  educational  philosophy,  and  it 
has  stuck  with  that  commitment  through  lean  years 
and  fat,  staying  true  to  the  principles  of  the  New 
Curriculum  while  continuing  to  reevaluate  and 
refine  it.  The  payoff  has  been  a  consistent  growth 
in  excellence  -  by  any  measure  you  care  to  use, 
whether  it's  U.S.  Neivs  &  World  Report's  annual  col- 
lege rankings  or  the  amount  of  outside  funding 
awarded  to  Brown  programs  or  feedback  from 
recent  graduates  -  and  a  palpable  increase  in  the 
energy,  zest,  and  optimism  of  virtually  all  segments 
of  the  Brown  community.  I  think  any  member  of 
the  class  of  '70  who  gets  reacquainted  with  Brown 
at  our  reunion  this  May  will  agree  that  the  progress 
we  saw  during  our  undergraduate  years  was  past 
a  prologue.  [D 

Janet  Phillips,  a  former  assistant  editor  of  this  maga- 
zine, is  a  freelance  writer  in  Wariuick,  Rhode  Island. 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /  25 


Wayland's  Legacy:  The  Very  Model 


BY  VARTAN   GREGORIAN 


'The  various  courses 
should  be  arranged 
that,  insofar  as  it  is 
practicable,  every 
student  might  study 
vi^hat  he  chose,  all 
that  he  chose,  and 
nothing  but  what  he 
chose" 

Francis  Wayland 
President,  1827-1855 


When  Francis  Wayland  became  its 
tourtii  president  in  1827,  Brown 
was  a  community  of  three  profes- 
sors, two  tutors,  and  ninety  students.  The  situation 
in  Providence  was  not  very  different  from  that 
which  existed  elsewhere.  B\'  1850,  in  all  of  New 
England,  putatively  the  intellectual  center  of  the 
country,  the  enrollment  in  all  the  colleges  and  uni- 
versities of  the  region  scarcely  exceeded  2,000. 
These  figures  were  not  substantially  changed  from 
what  they  had  been  two  decades  earlier,  and  the 
College  came  close  to  bankruptcy  on  several  occa- 
sions during  Wayland's  term  in  office. 

If  the  American  democracy  had  required  new 
forms  of  government,  so  it  needed  new 
forms  of  education,  animated  by  concerns 
that  expressed  the  genius  and  ambition  of 
an  American  society  disinclined  to  value 
the  monarchical  and  aristocratic  tradi- 
tions of  Europe.  Like  a  handful  of  others, 
Wayland  knew  that  fundamental  reform 
was  needed,  that  only  such  changes  serv- 
ing to  make  Brown  more  useful  to  the 
city,  the  state,  and  the  nation  could  rescue 
the  institution  from  its  doldrums.  The 
United  States  could  no  longer  afford  a 
higher  eciucational  system  so  little  altered 
from  what  it  had  been  in  the  eighteenth 
century. 

That  Wayland,  trained  in  the  earlier 
tradition,  should  have  seen  the  necessity 
to  alter  it,  recognizing  that  it  would  almost 
certainly  make  his  own  theological  inter- 
ests and  concerns  less  central,  suggests  a  remarkable 
tolerance  for  what  was  incontestably  novel.  Way- 
land  retired  in  1855  before  all  of  his  proposed 
reforms  were  implemented  at  Brown,  but  the  Uni- 
versity nevertheless  became  something  of  a  "nurs- 
ery" for  a  whole  generation  of  college  and  university 
presidents  and  deans  who  spread  his  educational 
message,  with  its  emphasis  on  teaching,  through  the 
country.  This  major  educational  reform,  which 
would  find  place  in  the  curriculum  for  science  and 
technology,  and  allowing  for  student  choice  in  the 
subjects  studied,  acknowledged  a  simple  fact: 
Students  came  to  college  with  obviously  different 
interests  and  aptitudes,  intent  on  pursuing  very 
different  careers.  It  was  only  reasonable  for  a  college 
like  Brown  to  be  aware  of  the  vocational  interests 
of  its  students,  and  indeed  to  provide  for  them. 

Throughout  the  late  nineteenth  and  early  twen- 
tieth centuries,  over  the  course  of  major  institu- 


tional changes  -  the  admitting  of  women  and  the 
founding  of  the  Graduate  School  -  Brown's  com- 
mitment to  teaching  remained  central.  In  pursuing 
Wayland's  ideals  long  after  he  had  left  office,  it 
achieved  a  level  of  financial  stability  it  had  never 
previously  known.  With  its  new  and  much  broader 
curriculum,  which  made  room  for  science  and 
much  else  that  had  not  been  thought  appropriate, 
Wayland's  hopes  were  realized.  Brown  appealed 
to  more  students;  its  tuition  income  grew,  and  so 
did  its  faculty. 

■      he  American  research  university  came  of 

H      age  after  World  War  II.  While  institutions 
.^^L.    like  Brown  continued  to  conceive  of 
teaching  as  their  prime  purpose.  Brown  professors, 
increasingly  recruited  from  many  of  the  older  and 
more  celebrated  American  research  universities, 
insisted  that  their  own  intellectual  life  and  that  of 
their  students  depended  on  their  being  active 
scholars,  as  well.  Two  distinguished  Brown  presi- 
dents, Henry  Wriston  and  Barnaby  Keeney,  who 
held  office  from  1937  to  1967,  assisted  in  trans- 
forming the  University  into  much  more  a  center  of 
scholarship  and  serious  research.  In  addition, 
under  Keeney  the  University  inaugurated  a  series 
of  interdisciplinary  "University  Courses"  and,  in 
1963,  a  new  curriculum  that  loosened  Brown's  dis- 
tribution requirements  and  allowed  freshmen  to 
begin  taking  courses  toward  their  concentrations. 

But  the  major  post- World  War  II  reforms  at 
Brown  came  later,  in  1969,  mostly  through  the  work 
of  a  small  number  of  students  and  faculty.  It  was 
Francis  Wayland  who  first  propounded  the  princi- 
ples that  the  New  Curriculum  advocates  argued 
for.  Wayland  had  said:  "The  various  courses 
should  be  arranged  that,  insofar  as  it  is  practicable, 
every  student  might  studv  what  he  chose,  all  that 
he  chose,  and  nothing  but  what  he  chose."  Way- 
land,  persuaded  that  such  freedom  would  not  lead 
to  deleterious  intellectual  results,  that  compulsory 
courses  were  outmocfed,  that  thev  did  not  achieve 
their  intended  results,  had  provided  a  lesson  in 
the  virtues  of  the  "free  market"  in  academe.  In  his 
view,  it  represented  the  best  hope  for  making  all 
study  vivid,  for  giving  even  the  most  traditional  sub- 
jects new  life,  nev\'  x'itality. 

The  new  curriculum,  with  its  pro\ision  for 
"Modes  of  Thought"  courses,  intendeci  to  introduce 
students  to  ways  of  knowing,  emphasizing  the 


26   /  MARCH  1995 


'or  a  Modern  Brown  Curriculum 


Vartan  Gregorian 
and  the  portrait  of 
Francis  Wayland 
that  hangs  in 
his  University  Hall 
office. 


"languages"  of  the  various  disciplines  and  not  spe- 
cific texts  awarded  a  canonical  importance,  simply 
institutionalized  what  was  already  happening 
in  many  courses  at  Brown.  In  fact,  the  Modes  of 
Thought  courses  never  achieved  the  reputation  that 
was  hoped  for.  Many  faculty  were  doing  precisely 
these  same  things  in  departmental  courses.  The 
experiment  failed,  in  its  new  institutional  form,  and 
went  off  the  Brown  academic  stage  rather  quietly. 
Not  so  the  supposedly  revolutionary  changes  intro- 
duced with  respect  to  grading.  The  proposition  that 
there  be  only  three  grades.  A,  B  and  C,  and  that  D 
and  E  disappear  from  the  academic  menu,  seemed 


to  those  who  wished  to  punish  delinquency  and 
indolence  a  mockery  of  everything  that  the  Univer- 
sity purportedly  stood  for. 

Yet,  for  those  who  knew  their  Wayland,  the  pro- 
posal made  excellent  sense.  It  was  not  necessary 
to  punish  delinquency  by  inscribing  failure  as  its 
inevitable  consequence.  If  the  student  did  not  do  the 
requisite  work,  or  failed  to  do  it  in  a  satisfactory 
manner,  he  would  receive  no  grade.  In  a  university 
where  entry  had  become  highly  competitive,  and 
where  many  were  turned  away,  it  was  taken  for 
granted  that  few  would  in  fact  not  receive  a  grade 
of  A,  B,  or  C.  Indeed,  one  of  the  other  most  impor- 
tant reforms,  intended  to  encourage  students  to 
elect  courses  in  subjects  known  to  be  difficult  or 
unfamiliar  to  them  -  to  experiment,  in  short  -  was 
the  introduction  of  another  grading  innovation, 
the  satisfactory  /  no  credit  option. 


■      hose  who  had  argued  for  the  New  Cur- 
H      riculum  had  intuited,  however  partially 
.^^L.    and  inchoately,  something  about  the 
nature  of  learning  and  scholarship  in  the  latter  part 
of  the  twentieth  century.  "Information  overload" 
became  a  preoccupying  issue,  and  those  who 
thought  about  it  knew  it  required  tolerance  for 
diverse  learning  styles.  While  some  universities 
might  still  seek  to  provide  the  same  basic  informa- 
tion to  all,  imagining  that  this  could  be  done 
through  compulsory  courses,  this  no  longer  corre- 
sponded with  the  inteUectual  and  professional  expe- 
rience of  most  faculty.  Even  the  best  of  them  were 
specialized,  and  only  a  few  were  prepared  to 
accept  that  their  own  special  and  general  knowl- 
edge was  less  important  than  that  of  a  colleague  in 
another  department. 

The  principle  of  a  common  curriculum  remains 
valid  for  secondary  schools,  where  it  is  reasonable 
to  argue  that  all  pupils  should  be  instructed  in 
basic  skills.  But  in  the  last  part  of  the  twentieth  cen- 
tury, an  analogous  purpose  cannot  be  set  for  uni- 
versities. Brown  had  recognized  this  very  early, 
and  transformed  its  curriculum  to  take  account  of 
the  new  conditions  that  prevailed.  ID 


Vartan  Gregorian  is  president  ofBrozvn  University. 
The  material  on  these  pages  is  excerpted  from  a  long 
essay  on  Brown's  past,  present,  and  future  that 
appeared  in  the  1994  Annual  Report. 


iROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY   /  27 


Liberal 
Education 
Liberal 
Campus 


BY    JACOB     T.    LEVY     '93 


When  I  arrived  at  Brown  in  the 
fall  of  1989, 1  took  no  small 
pleasure  in  the  University's 
lack  of  a  life-sciences  recjuirement.  Biol- 
ogy as  a  discipline  held  little  interest  for 
me,  and  as  I  looked  ahead  to  college  I  had 
dreaded  the  notion  of  sitting  through  a 
semester  of  it  to  satisfy  a  distribution 
requirement. 

Two  years  later,  however,  as  I  began 
to  focus  my  academic  interest  in  political 
theory  and  philosophy,  I  foimd  myself  at 
an  impasse.  Many  political  philosophies 
are  grounded  in  philosophies  of  the  indi- 
vidual, of  identity,  of  (in  some  sense)  the 
mind.  I  couldn't  evaluate  such  material, 
though;  I  had  no  idea  where  good  phi- 
losophy turned  into  bad  science.  Which 
sorts  of  questions  about  the  person,  the 
mind,  and  the  reasoning  process  should  I 
expect  philosophy  to  answer,  and  which 
are  appropriate  for  science?  In  order  to 
continue  my  work  in  political  theory, 
I  paused  for  a  semester  of  biology  in  the 
cognitive  sciences  department. 

Faced  with  a  distribution  require- 
ment, 1  would  have  tried  to  rush  through 
the  Life-sciences  part  as  early  as  possible, 
taking  a  meaningless  freshman-level 
course  along  with  several  hundred  other 
social-science  and  humanities  majors 
who  didn't  want  to  be  there.  (A  few 
more  years  in  academia,  at  other  schools, 
have  confirmed  my  suspicion  that  the 
teacher  wouldn't  have  wanted  to  be 
there,  either.)  Instead,  I  discovered  on 
my  own  the  necessary  ties  between  areas 


hKbU  L'iNcH 


of  academic  pursuit;  and,  having  made 
the  discovery,  I  was  ready  to  find  courses 
from  which  I  could  actually  benefit. 
My  story  is  not  at  all  exceptional. 
Others  have  noted  that  most  Brown  stu- 
dents take  a  wide  enough  range  of 
courses  to  satisfy  most  schools'  distribu- 
tion requirements.  Less  noted,  though. 


is  the  likelihood  that  Brown  students 
benefit  more  from  the  courses  outside 
their  major  fields  than  do  students 
merely  fulfilling  such  requirements.  The 
former  have  decided  that  the  courses 
are  important  for  their  education,  while 
too  many  of  the  latter  end  up  killing  time 
in  search  of  a  credit.  If  we  believe  the  rea- 


28  /   MARCH   1995 


I  discovered  on  my  own  the  necessary  ties 
between  areas  of  academic  pursuit 


sorting  behind  distribution  requirements 
-  that  the  various  fields  of  knowledge  are 
connected  and  related,  making  it  impos- 
sible to  be  well-educated  in  one  while 
remaining  ignorant  of  all  the  rest  -  we 
are  led  back  to  the  Brown  curriculum. 
Students  are  capable  of  finding  tliis  truth 
out  for  themselves,  and  they  are  more 
likely  to  believe  it  when  they  do  so. 

These  are  strange  times,  when  the 
noble  word  "liberal"  is  considered 
to  be  synonymous  with  every 
political  idea  that  comes  from  the  left. 
Ironically,  those  labeled  most  liberal 
may  show  no  signs  of  the  classic  liberal 
virtues:  tolerance,  open-mindedness, 
rationality,  independence  of  thought, 
belief  in  the  usefulness  of  learning  and 
the  possibility  of  progress. 

The  same  unfortimate  confusion  of 
terms  has  occurred  with  respect  to  col- 
leges. The  polihcal  warfare  in  academia 
has  been  misconstrued  as  a  conflict 
between  liberals  and  conservatives. 
Arguments  on  both  sides  often  seem 
disturbingly  dogmatic:  self-proclaimed 
"liberals"  accuse  traditionalists  of 
racism  and  bigotry,  while  smug  conser- 
vatives charge  their  opponents  with 
trashing  the  very  foundations  of  west- 
em  civilization.  Truly  liberal  colleges 
have  become  a  rarity,  though  much  of 
academia  seems  dominated  by  the  left, 
ti  the  midst  of  this  rhetorical  wind- 
storm. Brown  has  stuck  by  its  1969  cur- 
ricular  reforms  and  thus  retained  its 
dedication  to  a  liberal  education,  both 
teaching  and  practicing  the  virtues  men- 
tioned above. 

The  alternative  to  Brown's  curricu- 
lum is  a  centrally-directed  and  planned 
model,  with  all  students  forced  to  take 
either  a  set  group  of  courses  (a  core  cur- 
riculum) or  certain  kinds  of  courses  (a 
distribution  requirement).  Such  systems 
tend  to  polarize  a  campus.  A  core  cur- 
riculum can't  avoid  politicization;  it  is  a 
political  statement  in  and  of  itself.  Once 
a  university  declares  that  "all  students 
must  know  these  authors  and  these 
facts,"  unrest  and  tension  are  inevitable. 


What,  and  whom,  should  everyone  be 
required  to  know?  Plato?  Locke?  Mary 
Wollstonecraft?  Abigail  Adams?  The 
Koran?  Rigoberta  Menchu?  A  university 
with  a  structured  set  of  curricular  re- 
quirements is  making  enforceable  value 
judgments;  anyone  who  finds  those 
judgments  objectionable  has  an  incen- 
tive to  take  his  grievance  public. 

A  few  years  ago  William  F.  Buckley 
Jr.  asked  President  Gregorian  when  he 
was  going  to  put  a  little  order  into  our 
education.  (Interestingly,  Buckley  claims 
to  understand  and  believe  the  insights  of 
the  late  economist  F.A.  Hayek,  particu- 
larly the  idea  that  order  arises  sponta- 
neously from  the  choices  of  individuals.) 
Later  in  my  Brown  career.  Professor 
Ronald  Takaki  of  the  University  of  Cali- 
fornia-Berkeley urged  Brown  to  stop 
"hiding  behind"  its  curriculum  and  to 
require  a  course  in  ethnic  studies  for 
graduation. 

Both  Buckley  and  Takaki  assumed 
that  any  set  of  requirements  Brown  might 
adopt  would  be  inarguably  the  require- 
ments tluy  had  in  mind.  That's  exactly  the 
problem  with  a  core  curriculum:  it  does 
not  allow  those  who  seek  a  Buckley-style 
course  of  study,  presumably  involving 
European  and  American  history,  lan- 
guages, and  "classic"  works  of  literature 
and  philosophy,  simply  to  pursue  their 
studies  and  leave  those  who  think  like 
Professor  Takaki  to  pursue  theirs. 

Even  distribution  requirements,  which 
seem  more  benign  than  a  list  of  required 
courses,  are  hazardous.  The  most  com- 
mon of  them  mandate  a  certain  number 
of  courses  in  the  sciences,  a  certain  num- 
ber in  the  social  sciences,  and  a  certain 
number  in  the  arts  and  humanities. 
In  today's  increasingly  interdisciplinary 
academic  world,  what  happens  when 
someone  tries  to  decide  whether  a  course 
in  women's  studies  or  Afro-American 
studies  falls  under  the  social  sciences  or 
the  humanities?  What  happens  when 
a  Professor  Takaki  urges  that  ethnic  stud- 
ies be  added  as  a  fourth  required  cate- 
gory? The  political  battle  lines  are  drawn 
again.  Indeed,  one  of  the  most  vicious 
battles  in  the  curriculum  wars  in  recent 
years  took  place  over  the  content  of  one 


university's  required  freshman  course  in 
writing  and  composition. 

People  at  Brown  are  interested  in 
one  another's  academic  experiences,  but 
no  one  has  a  compelling  reason  to  con- 
trol them.  There  are  active  intellectual 
disagreements  about  what  constitutes  a 
valuable  education  -  minus  the  distrac- 
tion of  political  battles  over  what  courses 
everyone  must  take.  Significantly,  the 
style  of  argument  in  an  ongoing  intellec- 
tual disagreement  is  very  different  from 
that  of  a  rhetorical  battle  which  must  be 
won  before  a  vote.  One  is  scholarly, 
reason-based,  persuasive.  The  other  is 
political,  divisive,  stigmatizing.  Which 
is  a  more  enriching  form  of  discourse 
on  a  college  campus?  Which  capitalizes 
on  the  intellectual  energy  of  faculty  and 
students,  and  which  dilutes  and 
depletes  it? 

At  the  most  basic  pedagogical 
level.  Brown's  curriculum  is  on 
solid  ground.  Students  learn 
more  when  they  are  not  dragged  into 
courses;  professors  teach  more  enthusi- 
astically when  they  know  the  students 
want  to  be  there. 

I  am  convinced  that  I  learned  more, 
and  more  effectively,  at  Brown  than  I 
could  have  elsewhere,  both  for  the  sim- 
ple reason  that  I  was  in  each  class  by 
choice  and  for  the  more  complex  one 
that  academic  pursuits  are  not  disrupted 
and  politicized  at  Brown  the  way  they 
are  at  so  many  other  schools.  I  consider 
myself  the  beneficiary  of  both  a  well- 
rounded  liberal  education,  which  the 
Brown  curriculum  encouraged,  and  the 
generally  liberal  environment  that  the 
curriculum  helps  preserve.  El 

Jucob  Levy  is  a  graduate  student  in  political 
science  at  Princeton.  He  spent  last  year  on 
a  Fulbright  scholarship  at  the  Australian 
Defence  Force  Academy,  studying  the  rights 
of  cultural  and  ethnic  minorities,  especially 
aboriginal  land  rights.  Earlier  versions  of 
this  essay  appeared  in  several  editions  of  the 
Guide  to  Liberal  Learning. 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY   /  29 


stsd 


Uni^TSity  o/Firtanctiand  EconomU 
nortli^astem  China  consider  themselves  lucky. 
To  thlm,  Li  says,  an  American  teacher  is 
"the  key  to  their  economic  success. " 


"My  Foot  is  in  My 


30  /   MARCH   1995 


Three  Brown  alumnae  succumb  to 
the  allure  -  and  the  frustrations  - 
of  teach  ing  English  in  Asia 


Mouth 


BY    JENNIFER    SUTTON 


ff 


n  1986  the  New  York  Times  published  an 
excerpt  from  Iron  and  Silk,  a  book  of  essays 
.about  a  young  man's  experience  teaching 
English  in  the  People's  Republic  of  China.  Mark 
Salzman  had  graduated  from  Yale  with  a  degree  in 
Chinese  literature  and,  desperate  for  a  job,  had 
signed  on  with  the  English  department  at  Hunan 
Medical  College  in  the  city  of  Changsha.  There  he 
taught  doctors  and  medical  students  who  affec- 
tionately called  him  "Teacher  Mark."  He  studied 
ivusliu  -  martial  arts  -  with  a  venerable  old  fighter 
nicknamed  "Iron  Fist."  He  disguised  himself  in 
order  to  ferry  a  Chinese  woman  friend  around  town 
on  his  bicycle  without  attracting  attention.  At  the 
time  the  article  appeared  I  was  a  senior  in  college, 
finishing  a  degree  in  East  Asian  studies. 
Salzman  seemed  to  be  living  a  great 
adventure,  one  that  beckoned  me  as  well. 
Six  months  later  I  found  myself  stand- 
ing in  a  classroom  in  Taipei,  Taiwan. 
Instead  of  doctors,  I  faced  neat  rows  of 
thirteen-year-olds  in  black-and-white 
school  uniforms.  At  their  parents'  prod- 
ding they  came  to  me  after  school,  two 
days  a  week,  to  polish  their  awkward 
English.  I  also  taught  a  rowdy  group  of 
nine-year-olds  and  a  class  of  four-year- 
olds  who  should  have  been  home  playing 
or  taking  naps.  But  learning  English  was 
considered  a  ticket  to  success  in  Taiwan, 
and  parents  started  their  children  early, 
giving  pri\'ate  "cram  schools"  such  as  the 
one  that  employed  me  plenty  of  business. 
I  had  entered  the  country  on  a  tourist  visa,  which 
made  my  job  illegal  -  a  detail  that  seemed  unim- 
portant at  the  time.  I  was  too  anxious  to  test  three 
years  of  college  Chinese  and  live  what  1  imagined 
would  be  an  exotic  life. 

Like  most  of  my  western  coworkers  in  Taiwan, 
I  was  not  trained  to  teach  English  as  a  foreign  lan- 
guage (EFL).  To  my  employer  it  mattered  only 
that  I  was  a  native  speaker  with  no  police  record. 
Teaching  English  is  big  business  outside  the  United 
States,  according  to  Casey  Turner,  coordinator  of 
Brown's  summer  English  program  for  foreign  stu- 
dents. In  Asia,  "people  need  the  language  primar- 
ily for  economic  reasons,"  she  says:  to  attend  a 
western  university  or  operate  with  a  western  cor- 
poration, to  get  a  job  or  further  a  career. 

Among  the  many  Brown  alun\ni  who  have 
joined  the  growing  EFL  industry  are  Edith  Li  '93 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY   /  31 


and  Irene  Eng  '92,  both  of  whom  taught  for  a  year 
at  the  Tianjin  University  of  Finance  and  Economics 
in  China;  and  ingrid  Orlow-Klein  '93  Ph.D.,  an 
assistant  professor  at  the  Nagoya  Uni\'ersity  of 
Commerce  and  Business  Administration  in  Japan. 
They  and  others  teaching  EFL  overseas  are  moti- 
\ated  not  hv  money  (most  salaries  are  modest) 
but  by  the  opportunity  to  tra\'el  and  teach  in 
another  culture.  It  is  inevitable,  says  Turner,  that 
the  distinctly  different  motivations  of  students 
and  teachers  may  bewilder  them  both.  EFL  jobs  do 
open  doorways  to  other  worlds.  But  the  very  cul- 
tural contrasts  that  attract  Americans  can  make 
the  English-teaching  experience  more  confusing 
than  they'd  anticipated. 

Several  years  ago  Ingrid  Orlow-Klein  began 
seeking  a  university  teaching  position  that 
would  be  worthy  of  her  Ph.D.  in  compara- 
ti\'e  literature  and  that  would  also  offer  a  departure 
from  the  intellectual  elitism  she'd  experienced  at 
Brown  and  at  Stanford,  where  she  earned  her 
undergraduate  degree.  Weary  of  longwinded  liter- 
ary discussions  and  students  who  "were  positively 
throbbing  with  the  experience  of  their  own  intelli- 


gence," she  wanted  to  teach  from  scratch.  The  stu- 
dents at  Nagoya,  a  combination  university-junior 
college  250  miles  southwest  of  Tokyo,  seemed 
"build-up-able,"  she  says. 

Orlow-Klein  quickly  noticed  that  her  junior- 
college  students,  all  women,  focused  intently  on 
their  studies.  They  needed  English,  they  told  her, 
to  land  glamorous  jobs  as  flight  attendants,  tour 
guides,  and  hotel  clerks,  all  of  which  involved 
contact  with  foreigners.  In  contrast,  the  university 
students  surprised  Orlow-Klein  by  studying  little 
.^nd  attempting  to  nap  during  class,  though  they 
\  tre  considered  academically  superior  and  were 
1 1   ided  for  management  jobs.  Even  more  of  a  sur- 
prise tc  Orlow-Klein  was  that  other  teachers  and 
administrators  didn't  mind. 

College'  in  Japan,  she  learned,  is  viewed  as  "a 


four-year  trough"  between  rigorous  high  school 
classes  and  demanding  jobs.  "Students  spend  so 
much  time  studying  during  high  school  that  they 
have  no  social  life  at  all,"  Orlow-Klein  explains. 
"The  whole  dating  thing  is  postponed  -  movies, 
anything  that  has  to  do  with  leisure  time  or  plea- 
sure. What  Americans  do  at  sixteen,  Japanese 
don't  do  until  they're  nineteen  or  twenty."  Once 
students  pass  university  entrance  exams,  "they 
don't  have  to  demonstrate  anything  else." 

But  Orlow-Klein  is  kibishii  -  strict.  She  requires 
that  her  students  come  to  class,  refrain  from  sleep- 
ing, and  hand  in  their  homework  on  time.  In  her 
cavernous  classroom,  with  its  miniature  video 
screens  built  into  every  desk,  she  tries  to  enliven ' 
classes  with  discussions  of  current  events  and  ref- 
erences to  popular  culture.  Despite  her  efforts, 
even  students  who  have  spent  time  in  the  United 
States  sound  shy,  meek. 

"The  general  attitude  in  Japan  is  that  English  is 
terribly  difficult,"  Orlow-Klein  says,  "so  if  they 
learn  a  little  bit,  that's  great.  No  one  expects  them 
to  make  great  strides."  That  attitude  frustrates 
Orlow-Klein,  who  has  come  to  a  fresh  apprecia- 
tion of  the  arduous  literary  discussions  of  her  past. 
"I  like  language-teaching  up  to  a  point,"  she  says, 
"but  then  I  want  to  go  beyond  the  language  itself 
and  talk  about  how  people  communicate,  why  they 
say  the  things  they  say." 

My  foot  is  in  my  mouth,"  shouts  a 
student  in  Irene  Eng's  English  con- 
versation class  in  Tianjin,  China. 
"Please  stop  pulling  my  leg,"  counters  another. 
They  are  testing  their  skills  with  a  "Family  Feud" 
game  featuring  what  Eng  calls  "idioms  with  leg 
parts."  Down  the  hall,  Edith  Li's  more  advanced 
students  pretend  they  are  astronauts  marooned 
on  an  unfamiliar  planet.  "Do  you  know  what  grav- 
ity is?"  she  asks.  "Stick  to  the  land!"  one  student 
calls  out  triumphantly. 

More  than  a  thousand  miles  from  Orlow's  enor- 
mous, high-tech  classroom  in  Japan,  Li  and  Eng 
hold  court  in  small,  mildewy  rooms  with  stained 
concrete  floors  and  peeling  paint  on  the  walls. 
On  this  hot  summer  day  the  dusty  Tianjin  campus 
has  fallen  quiet;  it's  the  end  of  the  semester  and 
students  are  beginning  to  prepare  for  final  exams. 

Like  Orlow,  Eng  has  a  keen  interest  in  teaching; 
Li  took  her  job  as  a  way  to  get  to  China.  Both  studied 
Chinese  at  Brown,  which  comes  in  handy  as  they 
steer  their  classes  through  vocabulary  exercises. 

Li  and  Eng  attribute  the  lively  quality  of  their 
coed  Tianjin  classes  partly  to  their  youth  and  casual 
teaching  styles,  and  partly  because,  as  Americans, 
they  are  celebrities  on  campus.  Students  assigned 
to  their  classes  feel  privileged,  says  Eng,  even 
though  English  study  is  mandatory  and  often 
viewed  as  a  burden.  Other  courses  are  more  typi- 
cal of  what  Eng  calls  the  "Chinese  education 
mentality":  a  professor  lectures;  students  listen 
and  memorize.  "They're  not  supposed  to  ask  ques- 


32  /   MARCH   1995 


In  Tianjin,  Irene 
Eng  (above)  loosens 
up  hei  English 
class  with  a 
vocabulary  exercise 
a  la  Family  Feud, 
while  Ingrid  Orlow- 
Klein  (left)  relishes 
a  rare  moment  of 
giddiness  with  her 
students  in  Nagoya, 
Japan.  "I'm  more 
on  their  wavelength 
than  some  other 
professors  they 
have, "  she  says. 


tions,"  says  Li,  who  once  was  told  by  a  Chinese 
professor  that  she  instructs  her  students  never  to 
say  "I  don't  understand."  When  the  American 
teachers  try  to  draw  students  out  in  class,  "they 
actually  apologize,"  Eng  says.  "Tliey  say,  'We  know 
you  want  us  to  pardcpate  more.  We're  sorry.'  " 

The  woman  who  serves  as  liaison  between  Li 
and  Eng  and  their  department  has  noticed  a  differ- 
ence in  the  students;  they're  more  responsive  in 
class,  she  says,  more  likely  to  challenge  other  pro- 
fessors. This  news  both  pleases  the  two  English 
teachers  and  worries  them.  "You  won't  get  very 
far  in  Chinese  society  if  you  think  or  act  differ- 
ently," Eng  says. 

An  emphasis  on  conformity  is  everywhere  on 
campus.  The  Communist  Party  is  the  only  official 
student  club.  University  administrators  post  the 
names  of  rule-breakers  on  yellow  pieces  of  paper 
on  a  bulletin  board.  One  student  made  the  "crime 
list"  when  a  dean  found  him  and  his  girlfriend 
kissing  on  campus  and  told  them  to  stop,  and  the 
young  man  said  no.  "It  goes  on  his  permanent 
record,"  Li  says.  "It'll  be  there  every  time  he  looks 
for  a  job." 

Since  we  visited  them  last  summer,  Li  and 
Eng  have  returned  to  the  United  States; 
Orlow-Klein  will  come  back  in  a  few 
months.  Although  Eng  still  is  considering  a  career 
teaching  EFL,  the  work  lost  much  of  its  allure  for 
Orlow-Klein  and  Li.  "I'm  not  sure  I  ever  had  a 
rosy  vision,"  says  Orlow-Klein,  but  she  had  not 
expected  the  constant  pondering  of  basic  linguistic 


technicalities.  The  exciting  stuff  -  getting  students 
to  "think  and  play  with  issues,"  says  Li  -  was  an 
infrequent  diversion.  "People  [who  take  EFL  jobs] 
often  expect  an  American-type  classroom,"  Turner 
says,  where  relationships  are  open  and  direct 
and  debate  is  encouraged.  As  an  alternative,  Li  and 
Eng  formed  friendships  with  their  students  out- 
side class,  since,  as  Turner  says,  "the  educational 
systems  in  China  and  Japan  are  more  rigid  and 
prescribed." 

But  adjusting  to  the  unfamiliar  is  one  reason 
Li,  Eng,  and  Orlow-Klein  took  their  jobs;  they  wel- 
comed the  challenge  of  "realizing  there's  not  one 
right  way  of  doing  something,"  says  Eng.  Mark 
Salzman  wrote  in  Iron  ami  Silk  that  when  he  grew 
exasperated  with  his  elderly  Chinese  teacher's 
pointed  advice  on  clothes,  diet,  and  exercise,  she 
was  appalled  that  a  twenty-two-year-old  should 
exhibit  such  independence.  In  China,  she  explained, 
the  traditional  relationship  between  teacher  and 
student  was  a  close  one.  "You  are  far  away  from 
home,"  she  told  him.  "If  I  don't  care  about  you, 
won't  you  be  lonely?" 

Eng  found  new  insights  outside  the  classroom 
as  well  as  within.  She  had  hated  the  way  her  Chi- 
nese-bom grandparents  constantly  forced  her  to 
eat  whenever  she  visited  them  in  Wisconsin  -  until 
she  spent  time  in  people's  homes  in  Tianjin  and 
experienced  the  same  thing.  In  China,  she  found, 
food  defines  hospitality.  Good  hosts  pamper  a 
guest  with  elaborate  meals  that  can  cost  an  entire 
month's  wages.  In  her  grandparents'  home,  she 
says,  "it's  a  way  of  expressing  love." 

Like  all  good  teachers,  she  learned.  E] 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /  33 


PORTRAIT 


Through  a  lens. 


FUmmaker 
Christine  Vachon '83 

and  her  postcards 

from  *e  edge 

f ...„„.. 

^M  the  movie  Forre:^t  Gump,  and 

^M       I    it's  easy  to  understand  why. 
^M      j    The  cheerhil  story  of  a  dimwit 
^^^      who's  always  in  the  right  place 
at  the  right  time  is  e\erything  her  films 
are  not:  sentimental,  apolitical,  comfort- 
able. And  a  box-office  smash. 

The  thirty-three-year-old  indepen- 
dent producer  and  champion  of  films 
with  gay  and  lesbian  themes  could 
not  care  less  about  moviegoers'  comfort. 
Making  films  that  are  "provocative, 
different,  that  agitate,  get  under  peo- 
ple's skin"  -  this  she  cares  about. 

Take  Poison,  the  unsettling  winner 
of  the  Sundance  Film  Festival  Grand 
Jury  prize  in  1991.  Directed  by  Vachon's 
frequent  collaborator,  Todd  Haynes 
'85,  Poison  braids  together  three  separate 
stories:  a  science-fiction  parable  about 
AIDS,  a  portrait  of  a  misfit  boy  who 
shoots  his  abusive  father  and  flies  away, 
and  a  Jean  Genet-inspired  tale  of  vio- 
lent sex  among  prison  inmates.  Sivoon, 
by  Tom  Kalin,  retells  the  1924  story  of 
Nathan  Leopold  and  Richard  Loeb, 
lovers  who  plotted  the  murder  of  a 
young  boy  and  then  blamed  each  other 
for  the  crime.  With  their  bleak  plots 
and  frank  homosexuality,  both  movies 
appealed  to  narrow  audiences.  Still, 
each  broke  even. 

As  a  producer,  Vachon  is  the  engine 
that  drives  a  movie.  With  her  company. 
New  York-based  Apparatus  Produc- 
tions, she  raises  money,  finds  locations, 
hires  a  cast  and  crew,  then  peddles  the 
finished  project.  Rarely  is  the  job  easy, 
but  Vachon  often  complicates  it  by 
choosing  scripts  that,  at  first  glance, 
seem  unmarketable. 

Such  choices  bely  her  concern  for 
"the  question  of  audience,"  something 

34   /   MARCH  1995 


she  says  is  often  forgotten  by  indepen- 
dent filmmakers.  "I'm  not  from  the 
school  of  thought  that  says  a  filmmaker 
should  be  allowed  to  masturbate  on  cel- 
luloid if  that's  their  preference,"  she 
says.  Without  an  audience,  a  movie 
makes  no  money.  And  if  a  movie  makes 
no  money,  there's  no  next  movie. 

But  unlike  many  producers,  Vachon 
won't  take  on  a  project  she  hates //(Sf  to 
make  money.  Case  in  point:  Postcards 
From  America,  a  low-budget  film  due  out 
this  spring,  based  on  the  life  of  the  late 
David  Wojnarowicz,  a  former  abused 
child  and  teenage  hustler  who  became  a 
controversial  artist  and  AIDS  activist. 
"It's  a  difficult  movie  with  difficult  sub- 
ject matter,  very  intense,"  says  Vachon. 
"I  know  I  can  count  on  a  core  gay  audi- 
ence, but  I  don't  know  if  it  will  cross 
over  to  anyone  else." 

Go  Fish,  the  lighthearted  lesbian 
romance  that  made  the  rounds  last  sum- 
mer, did  cross  over  to  mainstream  audi- 
ences -  though  not  as  far  as  the  suburban 
multiplex  -  and  was  a  far  greater  com- 
mercial success  than  Vachon's  previous 
movies.  "I  knew  it  would  have  tremen- 
dous appeal  in  the  U.S.,"  she  says, 
"because  lesbians  are  starved  for  images 
of  themselves,  but  also  because  it's 
essentially  a  feel-good  date  movie."  Go 
Fish's  girl-meets-girl  simplicity  sets  the 
story  apart;  there  are  none  of  the  expected 
coming-out  struggles,  just  a  portrayal  of 
a  lively,  tender  lesbian  community. 

Despite  that  foray  into  optimism, 
Vachon  generally  is  drawn  more  to  dark 
themes  than  to  pretty  picloires.  One  of 
her  favorite  movies  is  Night  of  the  Hunter, 
the  1933  thriller  in  which  a  psychotic 
preacher  preys  upon  homeless  children. 
And  there  is  nothing  pretty  about  her 
upcoming  film,  another  Todd  Haynes 
directorial  effort.  The  protagonist  of  Safe 
is  a  woman  infected  with  an  environ- 
mental illness  that  breaks  down  her 
immune  system.  She  becomes  allergic  to 
almost  everything.  This  idea  digs  into 
the  "national  Zeitgeist,"  says  Vachon. 
"Practically  every  time  I  pick  up  a  news- 
paper, there's  a  story  about  factory 
workers  suddenly  coming  down  with  a 


mysterious  disease,  or  the  carpet  in  a 
new  office  building  making  employees 
too  sick  to  go  to  work." 

Vachon  is  proud  of  Safe;  it  boasts  a 
recognizable  star,  Julianne  Moore  of 
Short  Cuts  and  Vau\/a  on  42nd  Street.  But 
actually  shooting  it,  she  recalls,  was  a 
nightmare.  Investors  kept  pulling  out, 
and  the  January  1994  earthquake  in  Los 
Angeles  disrupted  producticm.  The  $1- 
million  budget,  higher  than  that  of  any 
other  Vachon  film,  fueled  crisis  after  cri- 
sis. "On  a  $200,000  movie,"  she  explains, 
"you  never  have  to  make  decisions 
about  whether  to  get  this  or  that.  You 
have  no  choice.  You  can't  afford  it." 
With  $1  million  or  $1.5  million  -  the  cost 
of  Stoneioall,  a  film  due  later  this  year  - 
Vachon  can  do  more,  but  still  not  as 
much  as  she  or  her  directors  would  like. 
Instead  of  no  decisions,  there  are  con- 
stant decisions:  a  crane  or  more  extras? 
More  film  stock  or  a  nicer  set?  "You're 
always  skating  the  edge,"  says  Vachon. 

On  the  downtown  Manhattan  set 
of  Stonewall  last  November,  Vachon 
wandered  aroimd  in  jeans  and  a  faded 
T-shirt,  mingling  with  her  young  cast 
and  crew  while  the  director  did  most 
of  the  visible  work.  The  movie's  name- 
sake is  the  Greenwich  Village  gay  bar 
where  repeated  incidents  of  police  bru- 
tality sparked  riots  in  1969,  helping 
launch  today's  gay-rights  movement. 

Over  and  over  a  pretty  blond  boy 
swaggers  onto  the  set  to  tlirt  with  a  stat- 
uesque drag  queen  tending  bar.  What 
takes  hours  to  shoot  will  end  up  as  just 
a  few  seconds  of  dialogue  in  the  final 
movie.  To  Vachon,  it  is  "the  part  you 
ha\'e  to  get  through."  The  magic  will 
happen  during  post-production,  when 
all  the  raw  pieces  are  painstakingly  fit- 
ted together. 

Vachon  says  Stonewall  is  one  of  her 
more  conventional  films,  but  that  doesn't 
mean  she's  looking  to  join  tlie  main- 
stream movie  industry.  "What  would  I 
do  in  Hollywood?"  she  demands.  Vachon 
prefers  being  a  "grovsing  marginal  pres- 
ence" in  the  independent  film  world. 
"It's  a  hard  life,"  she  savs.  "But  I  get  my 
phone  calls  returned."  El 


BY     JEN  IKF  ER     SUTTON 


s^^m 


In  the  past  five  years,  Vachon  has 
produced  seven  films.  "I  like  being 
prolific, "  she  says.  "I  like  putting 
my  stamp  on  a  lot  of  movies. " 


%. 


■^^wNARCHivrs 


It's  deadline  time,  but  the  staff  of  the  1956  Pembroke  Record 

just  keeps  on  smiling.  The  weekly  newspaper  was  pubhshed 

from  December  1922  through  May  5,  1970, 

when  the  women's  coordinate  college  ceased  to  fund  it. 

(The  following  year,  Pembroke  merged  with  Brown.) 

This  photograph  first  appeared  in  another  now-extinct  publication, 

the  Pembroke  yearbook,  Brun  Mael. 


3b  /   MARCH   1995 


The  Classes 


By  James  Reinbold 


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25 


The  70th  reimion  will  be  held  Memorial 
Day  weekend,  May  26-29.  If  you  have  ques- 
tions or  suggestions,  please  call  reunion 
headquarters  at  (401)  863-1947.  Remember  to 
save  the  dates. 


26 


Horace  S.  Mazet  writes,  "Capt.  Joseph 
Bailey  was  a  rough-rider  and  a  guerrilla  in 
Arkansas  during  the  Civil  War  with  plenty  of 
desperate  actions  -  shot  through  the  chest 
once,  but  survived  to  fight  the  full  four  years. 
His  hell-for-leather  story  has  been  accepted 
by  Eric  Hammel,  the  well-known  author, 
who  will  add  it  to  his  Military  History  Guild 
project  for  publication  in  1995.  This  is  the 
sixth  and  probablv  the  last  book  for  me." 
Horace  lives  in  Carmel,  Calif. 


ic; 


28 


Fn-e  members  of  the  class  of  1928  met  for 
lunch  and  an  enjoyable  mini-reunion  at  the 
Larchwood  Inn,  Wakefield,  R.I.,  on  Aug.  24. 
Attending  were  Arline  Dyer  Beehr,  Eleanor 
Sarle  Briggs,  Ruth  Hill  Hartenau,  Gladys 
Kletzle  Murphey,  and  Doris  Hopkins  Staple- 
ton.  -Ruth  Hill  Hark'uau 

Althea  Page  Smith  (see  Catherine 
Towne  Anderson  '45). 

Perry  A.  Sperber  and  his  wife,  Muriel, 
celebrated  their  ssth  wedding  anniversary  on 
Sept.  28.  Before  retiring.  Perry  practiced 
meciicine  in  Providence,  New  York,  with  the 
U.S.  Army,  and  then  in  Daytona  Beach,  Fla., 
where  the  couple  moved  in  1974.  He  has 
published  scientific  articles,  books,  and 
songs.  He  and  Muriel,  a  retired  registered 
nurse,  live  in  South  Daytona,  Fla. 


30 


Your  reunion  committee  has  been  busy 
making  plans  for  your  Pembroke  and  Brown 
65th  reunion  to  be  held  Memorial  Day 
weekend.  May  26-29.  If  you  have  questions 
or  suggestions,  please  call  reunion  headquar- 
ters at  (401)  863-1947.  Remember  to  save 
the  dates. 


33 


Simon  J.  Copans,  Paris,  France,  writes 
that  he  landed  at  Omaha  Beach  in  June  1944 
for  the  Voice  of  America.  He  arri\'ed  in  Paris 
on  Aug.  25,  1944  -  Liberation  Day  -  and  was 
interviewed  on  French  television.  An  article 


on  his  arrival  in  Paris  appeared  in  the  weekly 
L'Evi'iienieiit  du  jeudi. 


34 


On  Saturday,  Dec.  10,  class  officers 
attended  a  committal  service  at  the  Cypress 
Columbarium  at  Swan  Point  Cemetery,  Prov- 
idence, for  class  treasurer  Daniel  W.  Earle. 
Dan,  as  you  remember,  served  as  associate 
vice  presicient  and  director  of  development  at 
our  alma  mater;  he  was  present  at  our  60th 
reunion  last  May.  We  shall  miss  his  timely 
and  expert  advice. 

Among  those  present  at  the  service  were 
Ray  Chace  and  Alice;  Maury  Caito;  Marshall 
Allen's  wife.  Norma;  and  Edith  Janson 
Hatch.  We  were  able  to  speak  a  few  moments 
with  Dan's  wife,  Marian.  Our  deepest  sym- 
pathy to  her,  Diane,  and  Dan  Jr. 

As  spring  draws  near  we  begin  to  think 
of  what  our  calendar  of  events  will  look  like 
when  the  weather  appears  promising.  Your 
officers  wish  to  extend  to  all  a  heartfelt  invi- 
tation to  attend  our  annual  reunion  luncheon 
at  noon  on  Friday,  May  26,  at  the  Metacomet 
Country  Club  in  East  Providence,  R.I.  It 
seems  the  older  we  get,  the  more  loyal  we 
become.  Try  to  be  in  the  area  for  Commence- 
ment weekend.  Let  us  hear  from  you  if  can't 
join  us.  -  Edith  Jaiifoii  Hatch 

E.  Davis  Caldwell  writes  that  he  and 
York  King  had  then-  annual  class  meeting  on 
Martha's  Vineyard  in  September.  "Beautiful 
weather,"  Dave  says,  "marred  only  by  the 
loss  to  Yale." 

Ralph  L.  Foster  Jr.,  Albany,  Texas,  still 
plays  the  organ  at  two  local  churches  and 
serves  as  a  docent  at  "our  now  famous"  Old 
Jail  Art  Center.  "CBS  showed  a  documentary 
on  the  Old  Jail  Art  Center  Dec.  11  on  their 
early-morning  program.  A  segment  of  the 
film  featured  the  10-0'clock  coffee  club  at  the 
First  National  Bank,  where  we  oldtimers 
meet  every  weekday  to  determine  who's  sick, 
who  died,  and  whose  birthdav  it  is.  I  was  81 
on  Sept.  9." 

York  A.  King  Jr.  writes  that  "good  ole" 
Marty  Tarpy  '37  phoned  while  visiting  in 
Wavne,  Pa.  "It  was  good  to  hear  a  voice  from 
Phi  Psi  past." 


35 


Your  Pembroke  and  Brown  reunion  com- 
mittees have  been  busy  making  plans  for  the 
60th  reunion  to  be  held  Memorial  Day  week- 
end. May  26-29.  If  y-^"  have  questions  or 


suggesHons,  please  call  reunion  headquarters 
at  (401)  863-1947.  Remember  to  save  the  dates. 


36 


Alice  Van  Hoesen  Booth  writes  from  High- 
land, Md.,  that  she  has  completed  her  chemo- 
therapy treatments  for  ovarian  cancer.  "So 
far,  so  good.  I'm  back  to  swimming  and  teach- 
ing French  to  senior  citizens." 

Barbara  Hubbard,  Wethersfield,  Conn., 
says,  "The  older  I  get,  the  more  I  enjoy 
reading  about  today's  Brown.  I  will  reach  80 
in  April  and  my  60th  reunion  if  I  can  hold 
out  until  '96." 


37 


William  Ryan,  Los  Altos,  Calif.,  writes, 
"The  years  keep  moving  on.  I  just  attended 
the  50th  anniversary  reunion  of  my  Navy 
fighter  squadron." 


40 


Your  Pembroke  and  Brown  reunion  com- 
mittees have  been  busy  making  plans  for  the 
55th  reunion  to  be  held  Memorial  Day  week- 
end. May  26-29.  If  you  have  questions  or 
suggestions,  please  call  reunion  headquarters 
at  (401)  863-1947.  Remember  to  save  the  dates. 


42 


Jared  Linsly  Jr.,  Virginia  Beach,  Va., 
writes,  "Fortunatelv  still  very  healthy  and 
running  a  small  broker/dealer  firm.  Seventh 
grandchild  arrived  last  July." 


43 


m  Flint  Ricketson  winters  in  Arlington, 
Texas,  and  summers  in  Maine.  "Best  of  both 
worlds?  Had  to  come  home  to  outfit  all  the 
grandkids  for  Halloween." 


44 


Gene  Gannon  Gallagher  has  been  living 
at  a  retirement  center  since  the  death  of  her 
husband  last  January.  Gene's  address  is 
Greenwich  Bay  Manor,  945  Main  St.,  Apt.  7C, 
East  Greenwich,  R.I.  02818. 

Kenneth  A.  McMurtrie  writes  that  Lou 
Howayeck  \'isited  last  summer.  Lou  and 
Ken,  along  with  Gene  Castellucci,  Tom  Dav- 
enport, Hervey  Gauvin,  John  McHale,  and 
Roger  Sampson,  entered  the  Army  Signal 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /  37 


Keeping  Brown  in  the  Vanpard 


i 


II 


Nat  Marshall  '44 

and  his  wife,  Gloria, 

estabhsh  a  charitable 

remainder  trust  to 

ensure  Brown's 

preeminence. 


.-JSti 


C4 


Since  the  Campaign  for  the  Rising 
Generation  began,  almost  250  peo- 
ple have  made  a  planned  gift  to 
Brown,  providing  them  with  income 
and  tax  advantages  while  allowing 
them  to  make  a  significant  contri- 
bution to  the  University,  if  you  are 
interested  in  learning  more  about 
whether  a  life  income  gift  is  right 
for  you,  please  call  or  write: 

Marjorie  A.  Houston 

Director  of  Planned  Giving 

Shawn  P.  Buckless 

Associate  Director  Planned  Giving 

The  Office  of  Planned  Giving 

Brown  University  Box  1893 
Providence,  Rhode  Island  02912 
1-800-662-2266,  ext.  1221 


own 

THE    Rising   GENERATION 


w 

■    ■   c 


hen  I  started  my  college 
career  at  Brown  in  1940, 
I  never  expected  that  at  the  end  of 
my  sophomore  year,  I'd  be  in  a  race 
with  Uncle  Sam.  But  when  the  war 
intervened,  I  was  forced  to  accelerate 
my  education.  With  the  aid  of  a 
scholarship,  plus  campus  jobs,  I  grad- 
uated from  Brown  in  October  of 
1943  with  an  engineering  degree.  I 
was  promptly  sworn  in  as  an  ensign 
in  the  Naval  Reserve  and  assigned 
to  radar  training  at  MIT. 

After  the  war,  my  engineering 
background  led  me  to  a  long  associa- 
tion with  General  Precision  Equip- 
ment Corp.  Moving  to  Arizona  in 
1967, 1  became  CEO  of  Systems  Com- 
munications Cable,  Inc.,  a  pioneer  in 
the  cable  television  industry. 


Last  year,  my  adviser  suggested  I 
diversify  my  portfolio  by  establishing 
a  charitable  remainder  trust  for  Brown 
with  some  stock  I  had  been  holding 
for  a  long  time.  It  really  was  an  ideal 
opportunity  to  help  both  Brown  and 
the  Engineering  Department  and 
to  provide  for  my  children,  by  setting 
the  trust  for  a  term  of  years.  I  also 
wanted  to  make  a  special  gift  to  Brown 
to  celebrate  my  fiftieth  class  reunion. 
My  wife,  Gloria,  and  I  are  happy  to 
contribute  in  this  way  to  the  long- 
term  success  of  Brown  and  to  take  an 
active  role  in  guaranteeing  that  Brovm 
will  remain  in  the  vanguard  of  great 
universities  in  the  years  to  come.  ^  % 

Nathaniel  Marshall,  Class  of  1944 
Scottsdale,  Arizona 


Corps  in  October  1943.  "We  were  graduates 
at  that  time,  thanks  to  attending  two  summer 
semesters."  Ken  and  his  wife,  Carolvn,  com- 
pleted their  fourth  two-month  cruise  around 
South  America,  visiting  twenty-two  ports  in 
nine  countries.  They  live  in  Salem,  S.C. 


_.  The  time  is  drawing  closer  and  we  want 
everyone  to  join  us  for  our  50th  reunion.  May 
26-29.  W^  have  planned  a  gala  weekend  for 
all  to  enjoy.  Come  back  to  Providence  to 
share  memories  of  college  and  to  update  the 
stories  of  our  lives.  If  you  have  not  received 
any  mailings  from  your  committee,  please 
call  reunion  headquarters  at  (401)  863-1947. 
Your  final  reunion  registration  mailing  will 
be  arri\'ing  in  the  mail  soon. 

A  reminder  to  the  women  of  '43.  If  vou 
have  already  sent  in  your  dues,  we  thank  you. 
If  not,  please  send  them  to  Enzina  De-Robbio 
Sammartino,  25  Greening  Ln.,  Cranston,  R.I. 
02920,  to  help  develop  our  plans.  We  look  for- 
ward to  a  great  reunion  weekend. 

Catherine  Towne  Anderson  writes  that 
she  was  saddened  by  the  passing  of  Althea 
Page  Smith  '28,  a  fellow  member  of  North 
Congregational  Church  in  Amherst,  Mass. 
"She  was  a  delightful  person;  we  shall  miss 
her.  I  was  glad  of  the  chance  to  meet  her  sis- 
ter, Dorothy  Page  Webb  '^S." 


46 


William  H.  Stone,  San  Antonio,  Texas, 
was  on  sabbatical  lea\'e  for  the  1994  fall  semes- 
ter. He  spent  the  time  in  Barcelona,  Spain, 
doing  clinical  genetic  research  and  enjoying 
the  great  food,  wine,  and  cultvire. 


50 


...   We  hope  you  have  reserved  the  weekend 
of  May  26-29  f'^''  your  45th  reunion.  The 
excitement  is  building  and  we  are  looking 
forward  to  seeing  as  many  classmates  as  pos- 
sible. You  should  be  receiving  your  registra- 
tion mailing  shortly.  If  you  have  not  received 
any  mailing  regarding  the  reunion,  please 
contact  reunion  headquarters  at  (401)  86^-3380. 

Bruce  and  Caroline  Decatur  Chick  (see 
Nancy  Chick  Hyde  '80). 

Pauline  Longo  Denning  (see  Teresa  Den- 
ning Sevilla  82). 

Ema  Hoffner  Gill  (see  Laura  Gill  '85). 

Fran  Becker  Koenig  is  in  her  fifth  year  of 
retirement  from  Central  Michigan  University. 
She  is  busy  in  church  and  community  activi- 
ties, especially  as  head  of  fundraising  for  the 
local  chapter  of  Habitat  for  Humanity.  Fran 
lives  in  Mt.  Pleasant,  Mich. 

Donald  A.  Marshall,  Sarasota,  Fla., 
retired  again  in  No\'ember,  this  time  from 
county  government.  Now,  he  says,  he  has 
more  time  for  volunteer  work,  travel,  and 
outdoor  activities. 

Bernard  M.  Schuman,  gastroenterologist 
and  director  of  the  special  procedures  and 
endoscopy  unit  at  the  Medical  College  of 
Georgia  (MCG),  has  been  elected  a  master  of 
the  American  College  of  Gastroenterology. 
He  was  made  a  fellow  in  1980.  In  1988  he 


The  people's 
politician 


■  first;  politics  second.  Tliose  were 
es  lovino's  priorities  through  many 
i  of  public  service  -  as  the  first  town 

:  manager  of  Randolph,  Massachusetts;  as 
town  manager  and  first  mayor  of  Milford, 
Connecticut;  and  as  city  manager  of  Nor- 

pvich,  Coraiecticut. 

"I  was  \  er\'  controversial,"  lovino  said 
in  a  December  profile  in  the  Lawrence, 
Massachusetts,  Sundat/  Eiiglc-Tribiiiic.  "I 
always  put  the  well-being  of  the  people 
first.  Politicians  hated  my  guts,  but  I  didn't 
care.  I  made  sure  there  was  no  corruption." 

His  first  job,  after  military  service  in 
World  War  II  and  then  studying  city  man- 
agement at  Northeastern  University,  was 
as  administrative  assistant  to  the  Quincy, 
Massachusetts,  city  manager.  In  1955  he 
became  Randolph's  first  town  manager. 

Dui"ing  his  career,  lovino  recounts,  he 
slugged  it  out  with  selectmen  and  went 
toe-to-toe  with  aldermen.  With  no  political 
agendas,  he  hired  people  based  on  merit, 
including  Milford's  first  woman  treasurer 
in  7962  and  a  black  man  as  his  assistant 

Ldirector  of  finance.  "I  broke  the  ice,"  he  says. 

I'       In  November  1959  the  town  of  Milford 
decided  to  switch  from  an  appointed  to  an 
elected  form  of  government,  and  lovino, 
the  town  manager,  was  chosen  as  mayor. 


receix'ed  the  Schindler  Award,  the  highest 
award  given  by  the  American  Society  for 
Gastrointestinal  Endoscopy,  and  in  1991  he 
was  awarded  the  Society's  Distinguished 
Service  Award.  He  also  has  received  a  distin- 
guished faculty  award  for  patient  care  from 
MCG  School  of  Medicine  and  the  first  Pre- 
miere Physician  Award  of  the  Crohn's 
and  Colitis  Foundation  of  Georgia.  He  is 
immediate  past  president  of  the  Georgia  Gas- 
troenterologic  and  Endoscopic  Society 
and  has  been  a  member  of  the  MCG  faculty 
since  1983. 


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< :  Judith  Brown  MacDonald,  Tenafly,  N.J., 
has  published  Tcncluiig  and  Parenting:  Effects 
oftlw  Dual  Role  with  Um\'ersitv  Press  of 
America.  She  is  an  associate  professor  in  the 
department  of  curriculum  and  teaching  at 
Montclair  State  Uni\'ersitv  in  New  Jersey.  She 
is  interested  in  hearing  from  teaching  parents 
about  their  views  of  the  dual  role. 


As  mayor  and  town  manager,  Charles 
lovino  looked  out  for  the  little  guy. 

It  was  the  first  time  in  history  that  a  towr^ 
manager  whose  go\'ernmenf  was  vo 
out  was  voted  in  as  mayor,  accordij 
the  Eagle-Tribune.  "I  had  spoken  oui 
ing  the  mayor  form  of  go\'ernment  iii 
corruption,"  lovino  recalls.  But  voters 
knew  who  the  best  man  was  for  the  job. 
And  it  had  been  Io\'ino  who  brought  indusr 
trial  growth  and  jobs  to  Milford. 

In  1967,  when  his  term  as  Norwich, 
Connecticut,  city  manager  ended,  lovino  3 
retired  from  government  and  joined  a 
private  engineering  firm.  But  lovino  re 
excited  by  talk  of  politics  and  muni^ 
governance,  focusing  now  on  his  presenf 
hometown  of  Andover,  Massachusetts.  "1 
watched  every  piece  of  expenditui"e  of 
public  monev,"  he  recalls  of  his  career.  "And 
officials  should  do  that  today." 


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J.  James  Gordon,  Greenwich,  Conn.,  was 
elected  to  the  board  of  directors  of  Keystone 
Bank  of  Stamford,  Conn.  He  also  serves  on 
the  board  of  directors  of  Liz  Claiborne  Inc. 
and  as  director  and  vice  president  of  the  Jew- 
ish Federation  Association  of  Connecticut, 
and  chairman  and  vice  president  of  the 
WJA/ Federation  of  Greenwich,  Conn.,  com- 
munity relations  committee.  He  is  still  run- 
ning Gordon  Textiles  International  Ltd.,  con- 
sultants for  companies  on  five  continents. 

Margaret  Jacoby  is  professor  of  astron- 
omy and  physics  at  Community  College  of 
Rhode  Island  and  director  of  the  college's 
observatory  in  Warwick,  R.I.  Last  No\'ember 
she  received  a  Faculty  Recognition  Award 
from  the  Community  College  Consortium. 
The  awards  were  given  to  thirty  teachers 
throughout  the  U.S.  and  Canada.  Since 
1992-93  she  has  been  listed  in  Marquis'  Wlio's 
Who  in  Science  and  Engineering,  and  since 
1993-94  she  has  been  listed  in  Marquis'  Who's 
Who  in  the  World.  Last  summer,  she  adds,  "I 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY  /  39 


oxperionci'd  the  thrill  of  winning  >i  gold 
modal  .It  tho  141)4  North  Amoricin  N.ition<il 
Championships  in  tho  Cold  International 
level  of  ballroom  dancing.  After  eight  won- 
derful years  mv  teacher/partner  has  retired, 
so  mv  competition  days  are  now  a  happy 
memory. "  Margaret  lives  in  Pawtuckef,  R.l. 

Russ  Preble,  a  member  of  Team  USA  '94, 
raced  in  the  International  Triathlon  Union's 
World  Championship  Duathlon  (10k  run,  40k 
bike,  ^k  run).  The  event  was  held  in  Hobart, 
Tasmania,  on  Nov.  20.  More  than  700  athletes 
from  twenty-three  coimtries  participated. 
Russ  competed  in  the  60-64  '^ge  category. 


153 


Janice  Brown  Downey  and  her  husband. 
Burton  '^2,  are  en|oying  retirement,  spending 
the  winter  months  in  Naples,  Fla.,  and  the 
summer  at  the  New  Jersey  shore.  Janice  was 
a  librarian  in  public  libraries  in  Glen  Ridge, 
N.J.;  Coronado,  Calif.;  and  Bremerton,  Wash. 
They  also  live  some  of  the  year  in  Dallas, 
where  Janice  has  done  volunteer  work  at  the 
Dallas  Museum  of  Art  and  remains  active  in 
the  International  Women's  Club  of  Texas  and 
the  Brown  Club  of  North  Texas. 

Ruth  Burt  Ekstrom  is  executive  director 
of  the  education  policy  research  di\ision  of 
the  Educational  Testing  Service.  She  has  pub- 
lished widely  and  is  a  fellow  of  the  American 
Psychological  Association,  the  American  Psy- 
chological Society,  and  the  American  Associ- 
ation for  the  Advancement  of  Science.  Ruth 
served  on  the  Brown  Corporation  from  1972 
to  1988.  She  and  her  husband,  Lincoln,  live  in 
Princeton,  N.J. 

David  Kramer,  New  York  City,  writes 


that  his  son,  Douglas,  graduated  from  Alfred 
University  last  May. 

Sheba  Fishbain  Skirball  is  a  lecturer  at 
the  Rdthberg  School  tor  0\'erseas  Students  at 
Hebrew  University  in  Jerusalem,  where  she 
lives.  She  is  completing  a  book.  Women  in 
hrncli  Cinema.  She  had  been  the  director  of 
information  services  for  Israel  Film  Archive/ 
Jerusalem  Cinematheque  after  receiving  her 
master's  degree  from  Columbia  in  1970. 


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55     li«S!BB*- 


The  countdown  has  started  anci  we  are 
looking  for  you  to  return  to  your  40th 
reunion.  Mark  your  calendars  for  May  26-29 
or  arrive  a  day  early  and  join  classmates  for 
golf  or  tennis  and  a  special  jump-start  dinner. 
You  should  be  receiving  your  registration 
mailing  shortly.  If  you  did  not  receive  the  fall 
reunion  newsletter,  please  contact  reunion 
headquarters  at  (401)  863-1947. 

John  T.  Strong  Jr.,  Setauket,  NY.,  retired 
from  Northrop  Grumman  last  July  and  is 
enjoying  golf,  tennis,  yard  work,  "and  what- 
ever else  seems  interesting." 


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Florence  L.  Burke,  Mays  Landing,  N.J., 
retired  last  June  from  teaching  high  school 
Latin. 

Neil  Dickerson  retired  from  Bellcore  after 
thirty  years  and  formed  Dickerson  Associates, 
a  consulting  company  specializing  in  quality 
managment  and  the  application  of  interna- 
tional standards.  He  and  his  wife,  Carol,  live 
in  Middletown,  N.J.  They  are  looking  forward 
to  the  40th  reunion  in  1996. 


I  )uring  the  weekend  of  Nov.  1 1,  approxi- 
mately thirty  classmates  and  their  friends 
and/or  spouses  gathered  at  Brown  for  the 
first-ever  mini-reunion.  Warren  Paul  and  his 
wife  came  from  Australia,  and  Bob  Strand  and 
his  wife  came  from  San  Francisco.  Tlie  theme 
of  the  reunion  was  "58  is  58,"  as  most  of  us 
have  the  dubious  distinction  of  turning  or  hav- 
ing tvimed  s8  during  the  1994-95  school  year. 

Events  kicked  off  Saturday  with  a  tailgate 
lunch  prior  to  the  exciting  Brown-Dartmouth 
football  game.  Brown  won!  After  a  postgame 
victory  party  we  met  at  the  elegant  home  of 
Art  '55  and  Martha  Sharp  Joukowsky  for 
cocktails  and  dinner.  A  serenade  by  the  ever- 
popular  Jabberwocks  was  the  highlight  of  the 
evening,  especially  when  classmate  Bob  Wood 
joined  in,  proving  he  is  still  in  great  voice. 
The  balance  of  the  evening  was  given  over  to 
catching  up  and  recapping  the  past  thirty-six 
years  -  where  we've  been  and  how  our  years 
at  Brown  have  factored  into  our  lives. 

The  next  morning  class  copresidents  Pat 
Patricelli  and  Jerry  Levine  hosted  breakfast  at 
the  new  Brown  guest  rooms  on  Thayer  St.  The 
consensus  was  that  mini-reunions  are  a  great 
idea,  giving  a  wonderful  opportunity  to  visit. 
Plans  are  afoot  for  the  next  gathering.  Your 
ideas  for  themes  and  locations,  and  offers  to 
host  a  cocktail  party  or  dinner  or  to  work  on 
the  next  event,  are  most  welcome.  Contact 
Jerry  or  Pat  at  your  earliest  convenience. 

George  Antone  has  been  appointed  visit- 
ing professor  of  history  at  the  Universite 
d'Angers  in  France.  He  and  his  wife,  Allen, 
will  be  there  through  May. 

Charles  H.  Turner's  resignation  on  April 


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2, 1993'  ''ff^'"  more  than  thirty  years  with  the 
U.S.  Department  of  justice,  was  "based  in 
large  part  on  the  President's  demand  for  my 
resignation  as  U.S.  Attorney  for  Oregon,  a 
post  I  had  held  for  eleven  years.  All  for 
the  best  as  1  am  now  working  as  a  Circuit 
Court  judge  in  the  county  hearing  felony 
cases  -  very  interesting  but  also  a  bit  depress- 
ing for  all  of  the  usual  reasons  we  read  about 
every  day."  Charles  and  his  wife,  Margot 
Mackmull  '59,  enjoy  hiking,  camping,  work- 
ing in  their  woods,  and  red  meat.  Son 
Charles  Scott  is  a  firefighter  in  Redmond, 
Wash.,  and  daughter  Cynthia  Dale  Turner  is 
a  third-generation  lawyer  in  Olympia,  Wash. 
"In  all  other  respects  life  has  been  good, 
and  we  are  enjoying  what  has  often  been 
described  as  the  Golden  Years,"  Charles 
concludes. 


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Michael  Mitchell  and  Brooke  Hunt 
Mitchell  (see  Katherine  Mitchell  Constan  '88). 


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The  time  has  come  to  celebrate  the  35th, 
May  26-29.  Look  for  your  registration 
mailing  this  month,  and  return  the  forms  as 
soon  as  possible  so  we  can  save  you  a  spot. 
Peter  A.  Domes,  Atlanta,  writes;  "Last 
year  1  drove  my  199 "5  Land  Rover  Defender 
to  Prudhoe  Bay,  Alaska,  the  farthest  point 
north  you  can  cirive  to  in  North  America. 
This  year  (1994)  1  drove  the  same  vehicle 
from  Caracas,  Venezuela,  through  the  heart 
of  the  Amazon  region  of  Brazil  to  Ushuaia, 
Argentina,  the  southernmost  city  in  the  world, 
located  on  the  island  of  Tierra  del  Fuego. 
From  there  I  drove  to  Buenes  Aires  and 
shipped  the  vehicle  back  to  the  U.S.  The  total 
land  trip  took  six  weeks  and  covered  11,000 
miles  through  savannahs,  jungles,  rain 
forests,  the  Andes  Mountains,  and  the  deserts 
of  Patagonia." 


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;:&  The  Rev.  Douglas  Abbott  is  a  counselor  at 
New  Caanan  (Conn.)  High  School.  He  is  a 
facilitator  at  the  Center  for  Hope  in  Darien, 
Conn.,  where  he  coleads  a  support  group  for 
people  with  life- threatening  illnesses  and  a 
support  group  for  people  in  bereavement, 
and  teaches  a  class  in  meditation.  Doug  also 
serves  as  a  Parish  Associates  Minister  for  the 
Wilton  Congregation  Church.  He  completed 
a  nine-year  term  on  the  board  of  directors  for 
the  Exceptional  Cancer  Patient  Organization 
in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

David  Babson  has  been  elected  to  the 
New  Hampshire  legislature. 

EUie  Farfarfas  Balco  is  now  single,  living 
in  Albuquerque,  N.  Mex.,  and  teaching  at 
Albuquerque  Academy. 

Bill  Berkson  is  the  author  of  ten  books 
and  pamphlets  of  poetry,  including  Snluniay 
Night:  Poems  1960-61,  Shining  Leaves,  Recent 
Visitors,  Enigma  Vnrintions,  Blue  is  the  Hero, 
and  Lush  Life.  He  is  a  corresponding  editor 
for  Art  in  Americn  and  a  regular  contributor 
to  Artforum  and  other  magazines.  From  1971 


to  1978  he  was  editor/publisher  of  Big  SAri/ 
magazine  and  books.  He  has  received  a  num- 
ber of  awards  and  grants  for  poetry  and  his 
work  has  been  included  in  many  literary 
journals  and  anthologies.  He  is  currently  the 
coordinator  of  art  history,  theory,  and  criti- 
cism at  the  San  Francisco  Art  Institute,  where 
he  has  taught  and  directed  the  public  lectures 
program  since  1984. 

Elizabeth  Diggs  is  working  on  a  new 
musical,  Mnette,  based  on  Emily  Arnold 
McCully's  Caldecott  Award-winning  chil- 
dren's book,  Mirette  on  the  Higli  Wire,  in  col- 
laboration with  Tom  Jones  and  Harvey 
Schmidt,  who  did  Vie  Fantasticks.  Liz  worked 
on  Mirette  at  Robert  Redford's  Sundance 
Institute  in  Utah  last  summer. 

Dona  AcuH  Fitzsimons  writes  that  her 
daughter,  Susan,  had  a  baby,  Nicholas  Jeffer- 
son Lyon,  on  Jan.  11,  1994.  Nicholas  is  Dona's 
first  grandchild. 

Mark  Foster  has  been  a  professor  of 
history  at  the  University  of  Colorado  at  Den- 
ver for  twenty-two  years.  He  recently 
stepped  down  as  department  chair  and  is 
enjoying  being  free  of  administrative  duties. 
Mark,  a  big  Colorado  Rockies  fan,  has  co- 
authored  a  book  with  a  sportswriter  from  the 
Denver  Post.  Homerun  in  the  Rockies:  The  His- 
tory of  Baseball  in  Colorado  traces  baseball  in 
the  territory  back  to  1862.  Mark  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Colorado  Vintage  Baseball  Associa- 
tion. The  members  dress  in  1872  uniforms 
and  play  ball  accorciing  to  1872  rules. 

Aldie  Nordquist  Laird's  daughter,  Wendy, 
and  Wendy's  husband,  Yves,  have  three  boys 
and  live  in  Senegal.  Aldie  and  her  husband 
are  both  retired  and  can  be  reached  at  P.O. 
Box  420072,  Summerland  Key,  Fla.  33042, 
from  May  to  October.  They  continue  to  sum- 
mer in  Maine. 

Walt  McCarthy  was  married  last  June  to 
Clara  M.  Veland.  "To  allay  any  fears  on  the 
part  of  Sandy  Mason  Barnett,  Clara  and  1  are 
the  same  age,"  Walt  writes. 

Emily  Arnold  McCully  has  published 
three  more  children's  books:  My  Real  Family 
(Harcourt),  The  Amazuig  Felix  (Putnam),  and 
Crossing  the  Neio  Bridge  (Putnam). 

Chuck  Sternbergh  is  a  grandparent.  His 
son,  W.C.A.  Sternbergh  III  '84,  and  wife 
Parker  are  the  parents  of  Whitney,  3,  and  Jar- 
rod,  born  in  1994.  Chuck  writes  that  he  and 
Martha  are  well  and  happy  and  enjoyed  vis- 
its last  spring  from  Fred  Foy  and  his  wife, 
Gilda,  and  Phil  Schuyler  and  his  wife,  Lois. 
Chuck  continues  to  practice  with  the  Neuro- 
surgical Group  of  Chattanooga,  Tenn. 

Judith  Phillips  Tracy  announces  "a  won- 
derful life-affirming  event"  -  the  birth  of  her 
first  grandchild,  Jarrett  William  Tracy,  on 
Aug.  21,  1993. 

Harry  Usher  writes,  "After  reading  the 
recent  announcements  of  my  classmates 
having  grandchildren  and  having  none  of  my 
four  children  in  their  20s  even  remotely 
thinking  of  marriage,  1  decided  to  have  my 
own:  Sam,  4,  and  Jack,  1,  Brown  classes 
of  2012  and  2015,  respectively.  It  will  be  inter- 
esting for  them  to  reflect  on  our  $1,800 
tuition,  room  and  board  packages." 


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Jay  Stevens  reports  that  his  daughter, 
Tara  Jones,  is  a  member  of  the  class  of  1996. 


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Joanna  Rapf  is  teaching  in  the  film  studies 
department  at  Dartmouth  and  has  bought  a 
log  cabin  on  the  New  Hampshire  bank  of  the 
Connecticut  River.  Her  book  on  Buster  Keaton 
(Greenwood  Press)  came  out  in  February  for 
his  100th  birthday.  Joanna's  son,  Alexander 
Eaton,  is  a  senior  at  Hanover  High  School. 


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A.  Thomas  Levin,  Rockville  Centre,  N.Y., 
is  a  fellow  of  the  American  Bar  Foundation. 

W.  Richard  Ulmer  is  CEO  and  president  of 
InVitro  International.  Located  in  Irvine,  Calif., 
the  publicly-held  company  researches  and 
develops,  manufactures,  and  markets  human 
and  environmental  response  technologies. 


Denial  won't  work!  On  May  26-29  the 
great  class  of  1965  will  celebrate  thirty  years 
of  survival  after  Brown.  Come  for  one  event, 
a  full  day,  or  the  whole  weekend,  but  come 
back.  See  the  new  Thayer  Quad  and  com- 
puter science  building,  rebuilt  downtown 
Providence,  and  the  professors,  students,  and 
campus  that  are  Brown  today.  A  full  sched- 
ule and  registration  materials  will  be  mailed 
soon.  Call  reunion  staff  coordinator  Carol 
Healey  with  any  questions  at  (401)  863-1947. 


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John  A.  McDonnell,  Falls  Church,  Va.,  is 
on  rotation  for  a  year  from  the  CIA's  Office 
of  Slavic  and  Eurasian  Analysis  to  the  Bureau 
of  Intelligence  and  Research  at  the  State 
Department. 

Frank  Rycyk  Jr.  recently  published  his 
first  book.  The  Rycyk  Reports:  Vol.  I  The  Neio 
Constitution,  about  governmental  reform  and 
personal  political  empowerment.  He 
describes  his  company,  Pencil-Power  Press, 
as  a  "nickel-dime  upstart.  The  first  printing 
was  handbound  to  save  expenses."  More 
information  may  be  obtained  by  sending  an 
S.A.S.E.  to  Pencil-Power  Press,  406  Chestnut 
St.,  Jefferson  City,  Mo.  65101;  (314)  636-2135. 
Frank  says  he  tired  of  agricultural  regulatory 
work  with  the  State  of  Missouri  after  fifteen 
years  of  service.  He  now  pays  his  bills  with 
food-service  and  inventory-auditing  work 
while  pursuing  his  newly-discovered 
creative-writing  and  rhetoric  skills.  "Rush 
Limbaugh  may  have  finally  met  his  match." 

Van  Whisnand  was  named  a  trustee  of 
the  Darden  School  Foundation,  a  nonprofit 
foundation  that  supports  the  University  of 
Virginia's  graduate  school  of  business 
administration.  A  graduate  of  the  school.  Van 
has  chaired  Darden's  alumni  council  and 
serves  on  the  school's  capital  campaign  steer- 
ing committee.  He  is  a  partner  at  Combined 
Capital  Management  of  Charlottesville,  Va. 
Previously  he  was  president  and  chief 


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Carlotta  Hayes,  Dorchester,  Mass.,  writes 
that  last  year  she  fountleci  the  Boston  All- 
Stars,  a  new  affiliate  of  the  National  AUStars 
Talent  Show  Network,  a  nationwide  anti-vio- 
lence program  for  inner-city  youth  that 
started  in  the  South  Bronx  in  the  early  igSos. 
Since  May  of  last  year,  the  Boston  AUStars 
have  produced  two  citywide  talent  shows, 
bringing  the  grand-prize  winner  from  each 
show  to  a  national  competition  in  New  York. 

After  seven  years  in  Botswana,  Eric  W. 
Richardson  is  now  stationed  in  Kingston, 
Jamaica,  working  with  USAID  in  the  regional 
housing  and  urban  development  office  as  a 
housing  finance  and  projects  specialist.  He 
can  be  reached  during  office  hours  at  (8og) 
926-3645.  Eric's  wife,  Dukie,  is  working  for 
an  architectural  firm.  "The  monsters,  John  and 
Thabo,  8%,  attend  the  fourth  grade  at  Hillel 
Academy  and  are  getting  over  their  Botswana 
homesickness  -  the  only  home  they  had  previ- 
ously known  -  by  immersing  themselves  in 
sports  and,  God  forbid,  video  games." 


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Gloria  Colb  Einstein  and  her  son,  Jacob 
Zoske,  spent  a  month  in  Israel  last  summer; 
Gloria's  husband.  Bill  Zoske,  managed  z'A 
weeks  there.  "We  are  all  having  problems 
adjusting  to  real  life  now,"  Gloria  writes  from 
Jacksonville,  Fla.  "The  reunion,  which  1  did 
not  attend,  sparked  correspondence  with  a 
number  of  people  with  whom  I'm  very 
happy  to  be  in  touch." 

Bill  Russo,  head  coach  of  the  Lafayette 
College  football  team,  was  named  the  1994 
Patriot  League  coach  of  the  year.  It  was  the 
second  time  he  was  so  honored  in  the  last 
three  years.  Lafayette,  which  finished  the  sea- 
son with  a  record  of  5-6,  was  undefeated 
(5-0)  in  league  play  and  won  its  third  league 
title  in  seven  years  -  its  second  in  the  last 
three.  Bill  has  completed  fourteen  seasons  as 
head  coach  at  Lafayette. 


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y    We  all  look  forward  to  celebrating  our 
milestone  25th  reunion  with  a  great  crowd  of 
classmates.  May  26-29.  Please  return  your 
registration  forms  as  soon  as  you  receive  them 
and  save  a  spot  at  the  reunion  of  a  lifetime. 

Glenn  Orton  writes  that  he  had  an  inter- 
esting summer,  including  two  weeks  at  the 
summit  of  Mauna  Kea  as  the  leader  of  a  team 
of  astronomers  observing  Comet  Shoemaker- 
Levy  9  crash  into  Jupiter,  part  of  a  month- 
long  campaign  at  NASA's  Infrared  Telescope 
Facility.  He  was  also  a  collaborator  on  observ- 
ing programs  at  several  other  telescopes, 
including  the  Hubble  Space  Telescope.  He 
gave  reports  on  NASA  Select,  did  live  inter- 
views with  the  BBC,  and  appeared  (for  about 
five  seconds)  on  CNN's  Headline  News.  "I'm 
awash  in  data,"  Glenn  writes,  "and  giving 
talks  about  the  event  about  every  two  weeks." 

Patricia  S.  Radez,  Piedmont,  Calif.,  has 


Onward  and  upward 


When  the  call  came  from  the  Northeastern 
Association  of  the  Blind,  asking  him  to 
serve  as  attending  physician  on  its  upcom- 
ing "Vista  Climb"  of  Mount  Kilimanjaro, 
in  Tanzania,  Alexander  Fillip  said  yes.  For 
the  forty-seven-year-old  ophthalmologist, 
an  experienced  luker  and  backpacker, 
the  invitation  to  climb  a  major  mountain 
was  irresistible. 

The  purpose  of  the  Vista  Climb  was  to 
increase  awareness  of  the  potential  of 
blind  people.  Training  and  preparation 
began  in  September  1993  for  the  August 
1994  climb.  The  team  consisted  of  four 
blind  climbers  (ranging  in  age  from  fifteen 
to  thirty-seven)  and  seven  support  person- 
nel, including  Fillip. 

"Preparing  for  the  climb  was  in  itself  an 
educational  experience,"  Fillip  says.  "Rigor- 
ous training  was  necessary,  since  the  team 
had  chosen  the  more  difficult  Machame 
route  over  the  popular  tourist  route." 

The  team  trained  in  the  Adirondack 
Moimtains,  with  Fillip  hiking  blindfolded. 
"I  quickly  sensed  the  unseen  dangers,"  he 
recalls.  On  a  snowy,  windy  November 
day,  the  team  hiked  up  Mt.  Noonmark  in 
the  Keene  Valley  of  the  Adirondacks.  "We 
continued  our  training  hikes  throughout  a 
severe  winter,  facing  snow,  ice,  sleet,  rain, 
and  mud,"  Fillip  says. 

At  almost  20,000  feet,  Mt.  Kilimanjaro 
is  in  the  altitude  range  for  potentially  seri- 
ous medical  problems,  so  FiUip  studied 
the  literatirre  on  acute  mountain  sickness. 
He  also  read  up  on  malaria,  yellow  fever, 
typhoid,  "and  a  host  of  nasty  diseases  we 


been  named  a  partner  in  the  San  Francisco 
office  of  the  international  law  firm  of  Gibson, 
Dunn  &  Crutcher.  She  is  a  member  of  the 
firm's  labor  department  and  has  extensive  lit- 
igation experience.  She  has  served  of  counsel 
to  the  firm  since  1991. 

Jobeth  Williams  received  the  Barbara 
Eck  Menning  Award  from  Resolve,  a 
national  advocacy  and  support  organization 
for  people  coping  with  infertility.  Menning  is 
the  founder  of  Resolve.  Jobeth,  a  film  and 
television  actress,  is  the  adoptive  mother  of  7- 
and  4-year-old  sons. 


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Jeffrey  L.  Meikle  and  his  wife,  Alice, 
returned  to  Pro\idence  for  Jason's  gradua- 
tion last  May.  "Is  it  possible  that  I'm  the  first 


medical  students  studied  in  parasitology 
and  infectious-disease  classes."  FiUip 
immunized  the  team  against  yellow  fever, 
typhoid,  and  tetanus,  and  packed  Lariam 
to  prevent  malaria.  'The  thought  of  every 
insect  bite  being  potentially  lethal  was  dis- 
tressing," he  says. 

The  team  started  the  cUmb  on  a  wet 
morning  through  muddy  rainforest.  After 
the  second  day's  hike  they  were  above 
13,000  feet,  and  the  snowy  summit  of  Kili- 
manjaro was  visible.  On  the  sixth  day  the 
team  began  its  assault  on  the  summit. 
"From  15,000  feet  it  was  literally  a  step 
and  a  breath,  a  step  and  a  breath,"  Fillip 
says.  "It  was  physically  and  mentally  the 
most  difficult  day  in  my  life." 

Shortly  after  daybreak  the  Vista  team 
reached  the  summit.  Eleven  of  thirteen 
made  it  to  the  top.  When  asked  why  a 
blind  person  would  attempt  such  a  climb. 
Fillip  replies,  "We  expect  the  bUnd  to  set 
modest  goals.  'We  are  urged  to  shoot  for 
the  bushes  instead  of  the  stars,'  one  of  our 
hikers  said.  Well,  they  showed  the  world 
they  could  shoot  for  the  stars  and  reach 
them,  or  at  least  tlie  summit  of  Kilimanjaro." 


from  our  class  to  have  a  child  earn  a  degree 
from  Brown?"  Jeffrey  and  Alice  have  been 
living  in  Austin  since  1979,  when  he  began 
teaching  in  the  American  studies  program  at 
the  University  of  Texas.  They  spent  1992-93 
in  London  while  Jeffrey  was  a  Fulbright  lec- 
turer at  the  University  of  London's  Institute 
of  United  States  Studies.  He  recently  was 
appointed  full  professor  at  Texas  and  has  a 
book  coming  out  titled  American  Plastic: 
Moldiui^  II  Culture  of  New  Materials. 

David  Rubin,  Chappaqua,  NY.,  is  an 
attending  physician  at  Columbia  Presbyterian 
Medical  Center  and  on  the  fulltime  faculty. 
His  office  number  is  (914)  428-3888. 

Constance  A.  Sancetta,  Vienna,  Va.,  is 
at  the  National  Science  Foundation,  manag- 
ing grant  proposals  in  the  Division  of  Ocean 
Sciences. 


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Carolyn  Wade  Blackett  '79 


Shelby  County, 
Tennessee's  first  female 
criminal  court  judge 

The  selection  of  Carolyn  W.  Blackett  as 
Shelbv  County,  Tennessee,  criminal  court 
judge  by  Governor  Ned  McWherter  was  a 
surprise  to  members  of  the  criminal-justice 
community.  They  had  expected  an  assis- 
tant public  defender  to  get  the  job,  accord- 
ing to  an  article  in  the  Memphis  Commer- 
cial Apfval.  It  was  also  a  shock  to  Blackett, 
who  was  in  her  office  at  the  law  firm 
of  Waring  Cox  when  the  governor's  call 
came  in. 

"It  was  a  complete  surprise,"  Blackett 
said.  "Any  time  a  challenge  like  that 
comes  up,  the  first  thing  I  do  is  pray. 
Things  happen  for  a  reason."  While  she 
may  have  felt  unprepared  for  the  news, 
she  believed  herself  to  be  well  qualified  for 
the  post.  "You  have  to  look  at  what  it 
takes  to  be  a  judge  rather  than  what  you 
know  in  a  specific  area,"  Blackett  told 
the  Commercini  Appeal  in  an  interview  fol- 
lowing her  appointment.  "I  am  a  firm 
believer  that  with  dedication  and  hard 
work  you  can  learn  anything." 

Blackett  moved  to  Memphis  in  1982 
after  receiving  her  law  degree  from  St.  Louis 
University.  She  worked  for  the  National 
Labor  Relations  Board  and  then  for  Fed- 


eral Express,  where  she  was  first  an  associ- 
ate and  then  a  senior  attorney.  In  1989  she 
was  named  the  company's  manager  of 
government  and  legislative  affairs  for  thir- 
teen Southern  states.  She  worked  on  the 
1992  Clinton  presidential  campaign,  but 
has  resisted  offers  to  work  in  Washington. 

At  thirty-seven  she  is  the  second- 
youngest  judge  in  the  state  judicial  system, 
and  her  helpful  colleagues  refer  to  her  as 
"the  baby  judge."  "I  take  it  as  a  compli- 
ment," Blackett  said.  "Every  judge  here 
was  a  'baby  judge'  and  had  to  learn." 

Blackett's  appointment  is  effective 
until  August  1996,  when  voters  will  decide 
who  serves  out  the  eight-year  team  of 
Judge  H.T.  Lockard,  who  retired  because 
of  ill  health.  Blackett  has  emphasized  that 
she  is  "not  just  passing  through";  she 
plans  to  be  on  the  election  ballot  in  1996. 


Lee  A.  Thompson  opened  his  own  law 
office,  specializing  in  environmental  and  real 
estate  matters,  after  thirteen  years  in  the 
general  counsel's  office  at  Stanford.  His  office 
is  located  at  301  University  Ave.,  Palo  Alto, 
Calif.  94301. 


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Barry  Goldwasser  writes  that  he  and  his 
family  ha\e  mo\ed  back  to  Israel  after  four 
years.  "One  of  the  nicest  things  about  being 
in  the  U.S.  was  seeing  Brown  friends  who  are 
scattered  all  over  the  country.  Unca,  Lanny, 
Tom  and  1  thank  everybody,  and  all  are  wel- 
come here." 

Ruth  C.  Loew  is  married  to  Rabbi  Robert 
Tabak,  and  the\'  have  three  cliildren:  Gabriel, 
10,  and  Aaron  and  Nathan,  8.  Ruth  has  a 
research  position  at  Children's  Seashore 
House  in  Philadelphia.  The  family  lives  in 
Melrose  Park,  Pa. 

Nancy  Patricia  Pope,  St.  Louis,  in  addi- 
tion to  her  usual  mix  of  teaching  and  child- 
rearing,  is  coordinating  a  conference  at  which 
Nadine  Gordimer  is  speaking,  and  is  Cub- 


master  of  a  fifty-boy  Cub  Scout  pack.  She 
says  she  continues  to  enjoy  both  her  profes- 
sional and  private  lives. 

Donald  D.  Silverson,  Erdenheim,  Pa.,  has 
joined  a  consulting  firm  specializing  in  public 
finance  after  fifteen  years  in  the  public  sector. 
His  wife,  Kate,  has  returned  to  school  "for 
yet  another  degree,  and  Nat,  12,  and  Nick,  5, 
are  a  great  source  of  pride." 


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Linda  Stanley,  Cherry  Hill,  N.J.,  is  married 
to  G.  Bruce  Ward,  an  attorney.  She  has  two 
sons:  Jordan  F.S.  Ward,  4,  and  Kamil  R.  Ward, 
18.  Linda  is  chief  of  obstetrics  at  Our  Lady  of 
Lourdes  Medical  Center,  Camden,  N.J. 


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,.    William  L.  Hyde  has  joined  the  Tallahas- 
see, Fla.,  office  of  Gunster,  Yoakley,  Valdes- 
Fauli  &  Stewart,  P.A.,  where  he  is  a  partner 
practicing  water-resource  and  environmental 
and  land-use  law.  His  address  is  515  North 
Adams  St.,  Tallahassee  32301. 


Joel  I.  Shalowitz  '77  M.D.  recently  was 
apptiinted  protessor  of  medicine  at  North- 
western University  Medical  School.  He  is 
also  professor  and  director  of  the  health  ser- 
vices management  program  at  J.L.  Kellogg 
Graduate  School  of  Management  at  North- 
western. He  and  his  wife,  Madeleine  UUman 
Shalowitz  '7s,  '78  M.D.,  li\e  in  Glencoe,  III. 

Marge  Drucker  Thompson  '79  Ph.D.  and 
Ian  G.  Thompson  ('74  Ph.U.)  announce  the 
birth  of  Iheir  seventh  child.  Griffin  James, 
Sept.  26.  They  live  in  Providence. 


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'-   May  26-29  srt^  the  dates  that  should  be 
saved  on  your  calendar.  Our  20th  reunion 
promises  to  be  a  memorable  weekend.  Come 
to  one  event  or  come  to  them  all,  but  be  sure 
to  come  back  to  Brown  and  meet  old  and 
new  friends.  You  should  be  receiving  your 
registration  mailing  shortly.  If  you  did  not 
receive  the  fall  mailing  regarding  the 
reunion,  please  contact  reunion  headquarters 
at  (401)  863-1947. 

Jan  Blacher  is  the  editor  of  When  There's 
No  Place  Like  Home:  Options  for  Children  Liinng 
Apart  from  Their  Natural  Families  (Paul  H. 
Brooks  Publishing  Company,  1994).  A  lead- 
ing researcher  on  out-of-home-placement  of 
children,  Jan  is  professor  of  education  at  the 
University  of  California,  Riverside,  and  prin- 
cipal investigator  of  the  university's  NIH- 
funded  research  project  on  children  with  dis- 
abilities and  their  families.  She  lives  in  Los 
Angeles  with  her  husband  and  two  sons. 

Susan  Schlamb  Carroll  writes  that  Nadia 
Jasmine  Carroll  joined  her  brother,  Aidan  Car- 
roll, on  Oct.  27, 1993.  "She  now  keeps  me  on 
my  toes  as  she  races  to  keep  up  with  Aidan," 
Susan  says  from  Highlands  Ranch,  Colo. 

Susan  M.  Casey  has  been  named  a  part- 
ner in  the  Wasliington,  D.C.,  office  of  Kirpatrick 
&  Lockhart,  a  national  business  and  litigation 
law  firm.  Susan  counsels  investment-manage- 
ment and  financial-instihitions  clients. 

Cmdr.  John  E.  Fraser,  USN,  is  on  duty  at 
the  Naval  Air  Station,  Sigonella,  Italy.  He 
joined  the  Navy  in  1977. 

Ed  Frongillo  continues  working  as  a 
statistician  and  nutritionist  with  the  College 
of  Human  Ecology  and  the  Division  of  Nutri- 
tional Sciences  at  Cornell.  He  has  been  doing 
a  little  traveling  as  a  consultant  for  the  World 
Health  Organization,  and  can  be  reached  at 
eafi@cornell.edu. 

Hilary  Walker  Miller  and  George  Miller 
('78  A.M.,  '81  Ph.D.)  belatedly  announce 
the  birth  of  Laurence  in  July  1993.  Caroline  is 
6,  and  Alec  is  4.  "1  am  thriving  as  an  unpoliti- 
cally-correct  fullfime  homemaker  and  am 
now  in  my  second  year  of  home-schooling 
my  daughter.  1  am  also  a  Sunday  school 
teacher  and  moderator  of  my  church's  twenty- 
four  deacons.  George  is  a  partner  with  the 
law  firm  of  Wyatt,  Tarrant  &  Combs.  Contin- 
uing our  seventeen-year  tradition  of  no  inter- 
ests in  common,  George  has  now  taken  up 
the  hobby  of  homebrewing.  1  can't  abide  beer. 
Fortunately  we  do  share  a  common  interest 
in  our  children  -  maybe  that's  why  we  keep 
having  them." 


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Laurie  Bass  and  David  Fine  have  hvo 
daughters:  Rebecca,  4'A,  and  Hannah,  I'A. 
Laurie  is  writing  math  educational  materials 
at  home  in  a  harried  attempt  to  have  it  all  - 
work  and  kids.  They  live  and  skirmish  in 
Riverdale,  N.Y. 

Rebecca  Matthews  and  James  Wallack 
announce  the  birth  of  a  daughter.  Carina, 
Sept.  29.  She  joins  Eliana,  4.  The  family  lives 
in  Newton,  Mass. 

Griffin  P.  Rodgers  and  Sherry  Mills  '78 
welcomed  their  second  son,  Gregory  Ryan, 
on  Sept.  1.  Christopher  is  4.  Both  continue  to 
work  at  the  National  Institutes  of  Health; 
Sherry  practices  preventive  medicine  in  the 
Division  of  Cancer  Prevention  and  Control, 
and  Griff  was  recently  appointed  chief  of  the 
molecular  hematology  section.  They  live  in 
Kensington,  Md. 


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Sally  Danto  is  living  at  215  E.  68th  St., 
#17M,  New  York,  N.Y.  10021  with  Justy,  5, 
and  Jake,  I'A.  Her  husband,  Michael  Clancy, 
is  starting  a  marketing  and  advertising 
agency  in  Toronto. 

Jonathan  Gregg,  formerly  of  the  Provi- 
dence band,  "The  Mundanes,"  has  released 
his  second  CD,  "Unconditional,"  on  his  own 
Jagdisc  label.  His  first  CD,  "Blue  on  Blonde" 
(1992),  also  released  independently,  got  a 
three-and-a-half  star  review  from  Rolling 
Stone  and  raves  in  Stereo  Review,  Creem,  Audio 
magazine,  and  countless  newspapers  across 
the  country.  Fellow  ex-Mundane  John 
Andrews  '76  played  on  most  of  the  first  album, 
and  William  Smylie  '82  appears  on  both 
records  and  has  been  playing  bass  in  the  New 
York-based  band  for  the  past  five  years.  Con- 
tact Jonathan  at  Jagdisc,  304  Mulberry  St., 
#LJ,  New  York,  N.Y.  10012;  (212)  941-7884. 

Elin  F.  Spring  Kaufman  received  a  faculty 
appointment  in  October  at  Harvard  Medical 
School  and  is  working  in  the  department  of 
neurobiology  with  Gary  Blasdel,  Margaret 
Livingstone,  and  Nobel  Laureate  David 
Hubel  doing  studies  on  primate  visual  sys- 
tems. Alexandra  is  10,  and  William  is  8. 
Friends  are  encouraged  to  visit  or  write  Elin 
and  Ned  (MIT  '78,  Pennsylvania  '82  M.D.)  at 
69  Atlantic  Ave.,  Swampscott,  Mass  01907. 

David  M.  Lesser  is  a  parthme  partner  at 
Katten  Muchin  &  Zavis  in  Chicago  and 
founder  of  Klarian  Enterprises,  a  consulting 
and  financial  advisory  firm  that  matches 
businesses  with  equity  sources  and  serves  as 
telecommunications  consultants.  David  can 
be  reached  at  {:!i2)  244-4900. 

Matthew  R.  Mock  received  the  1994  Cul- 
tural and  Economic  Diversity  Award  from 
the  American  Family  Therapv  Academy.  He 
also  was  selected  as  a  fellow  with  the  Okura 
Mental  Health  Leadership  Foundation  in 
Washington,  D.C.,  last  September.  Most 
recently  he  represented  Asian-American 
community  concerns  about  managed  mental- 
health  care  at  an  international  conference  in 
San  Juan,  Puerto  Rico.  Matthew  is  the  men- 
tal-health program  supervisor  for  Family, 
Youth  and  Children's  Services  for  the  city  of 


Berkeley,  Calif.,  where  he  has  a  multicultural 
clinical  and  consulting  practice.  He  can  be 
reached  at (sio) 655-5601. 

Brent  H.  Taylor  has  joined  J. P.  Morgan  as 
vice  president  and  assistant  general  counsel  at 
the  Wall  Street  headquarters.  New  York  City. 


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Anne  Corsa  Carlon  announces  the  birth  of 
her  third  son,  Daniel,  Oct.  22. 

Stephanie  De  Jesus  writes  from  New 
York  that  "no  news  is  good  news." 

James  Frank  and  his  wife,  Leslie, 
announce  the  birth  of  their  third  child,  James 
Nepenthe  ("banisher  of  pain  and  suffering") 
Smith  Frank,  on  July  24.  He  joins  sisters  Mar- 
gaux  Isabella  and  Alessandra  Merced,  and 
brother  John  Demase.  The  family  lives  in 
Springfield,  Mass.,  where  James  is  a  surgical 
oncologist  at  Baystate  Medical  Center.  He 
is  also  an  assistant  professor  of  surgery  at 
Tufts  University  School  of  Medicine. 

Holly  Hanson  will  be  in  Uganda  all  this 
year  on  a  Fulbright  fellowship  to  study  the 
changing  meaning  of  land  ownership  in  the 
former  kingdom  of  Buganda.  Her  address  is 
c/o  Makerere  Institute  of  Social  Research, 
Makerere  University,  P.O.  Box  16022,  Kam- 
pala, Uganda.  Her  permanent  business  add- 
ress is  c/o  Center  for  African  Studies,  427 
Grinter  Hall,  University  of  Florida,  Gaines- 
ville, Fla.  32611. 

Lt.  Cmdr  David  E.  Jones,  USN,  recently 
reported  for  duty  at  the  Naval  War  College, 
Newport,  R.l.  He  joined  the  Navy  in  1980. 

Steven  J.  Miller  writes  that  the  name  of 
the  law  firm  now  reads  Goodman  Weiss 
Miller  Freedman.  At  home  renovations  con- 
tinue, and  Emma,  \'A,  "is  even  more  of  a  daily 
joy  than  we  could  have  imagined."  Steven 
lives  in  Shaker  Heights,  Ohio. 

Richard  A.  Mitchell,  Candia,  N.H.,  is 
managing  director  of  Sulli\'an  &  Gregg,  P. A. 
More  importantly,  he  says,  he  is  the  father  of 
three  children:  Parker,  6;  Antigone  (Annie), 
yA;  and  Ariadne  Mavis  (Maeve),  16  months. 

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sM  John  A.  Gausepohl  transfered  to  England 
to  take  a  promotion  to  general  manager  for 
Bayerische  Landesbank,  London.  His  wife, 
Katie,  and  their  four  children,  Andrew,  8, 
Adam,  7,  Sarah,  4,  and  Benjamin,  2,  moved 
from  Southport,  Conn,  in  January.  They  plan 
to  live  in  Surrey  for  the  next  five  years.  John 
can  be  reached  through  his  office,  Bayerische 
Landesbank,  Bavarian  House,  13/14  Appold 
St.,  London  EC2;  071-955-5165. 

Philip  D.  Gibbons,  Manhattan  Beach, 
Calif.,  is  vice  president  for  First  Interstate 
Bank,  Los  Angeles.  "If  you  are  an  expert  wit- 
ness in  the  neighborhood,  you  may  reach  me 
at  (310)  376-3814. 

Paul  J.  Jester,  San  Diego,  is  the  national 
sales  manager  at  Vortex  Inc.,  a  Russian- 
American  joint  venti.ire.  "Tlie  economic  and 
political  instability  there  creates  nearly  insur- 
mountable business  problems  here,  but  we 
push  forward  anyway."  Paul  adds  that  Kyle 
Warren,  who  will  be  2  in  May,  loves  visiting 
"cousins"  Elizabeth,  David,  and  Matthew 


Frantz,  children  of  "uncle"  Ron  Frantz  and 
"aunt"  Julie  Evans  in  Mission  Viejo,  Calif. 
Paul  and  Karen  traveled  East  to  attend  his 
sister's  wedding,  and  while  in  Connecticut 
visited  Nancy  Czapek.  Johanna  Bergmanns 
visiteci  on  Halloween  while  on  a  business  trip 
to  San  Diego. 

Lt.  Col.  Kathleen  A.  Maclssac,  USAF 
Medical  Corps,  is  due  to  return  to  the  U.S. 
after  four  years  in  Wiesbaden  and  Landstuhl, 
Germany.  It  was  a  busy  time,  she  writes,  with 
Serbia,  Croatia,  the  Middle  East,  and  Soma- 
lia. "1  have  learned  how  much  our  country 
takes  for  granted." 

Dawn  Raffel's  story  collection.  In  the  Year 
of  Long  Division,  was  published  in  January  by 
Knopf.  She  is  fiction  editor  at  Redbook  and  lives 
in  Hoboken,  N.J.,  with  her  husband,  Mike 
Evers,  and  their  son,  Brendan. 

Carolyn  R.  Spencer  is  acting  director  of 
the  legal  skills  program  at  Quinnipiac  College 
School  of  Law.  She  is  coauthor  of  The  Con- 
necticut Trial  Evidence  Notebook  (Butterworth 
Legal  Publishers).  Friends  may  write  or  call 
at  291  Lexington  Ave.,  New  Haven,  Conn. 
06513-4047;  (203)  467-3444. 


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Get  ready  to  celebrate  our  15th,  May 
26-29.  We  look  forward  to  seeing  many  class- 
mates and  their  families.  Please  register  as 
soon  as  you  receive  your  registration  mailing 
and  reserve  a  spot  at  all  our  great  events. 

Jeanne  Hoberman  Besser  and  Richard 
celebrated  the  birth  of  Alexander  Joseph  Oct. 
25.  They  live  in  San  Diego. 

Robert  J.  Cohen  and  Jill  Fujisake  were 
married  Aug.  13  in  Berkeley,  Calif.,  overlook- 
ing San  Francisco  Bay  on  a  "gloriously  clear 
evening.  We  brought  together  quite  a  few 
Brown  alumni,  including  some  I  didn't  know 
at  Brown." 

Nancy  Chick  Hyde,  Westwood,  Mass., 
vs'rites  that  not  only  is  she  working  with  Deb- 
bie Ruder  and  Betsy  August  on  the  class 
reunion,  but  she  also  has  her  hands  full  with 
twins  Nathan  and  Sara,  who  were  bom  Nov. 
29  after  a  long  thirty-eight  weeks.  "They 
really  put  me  through  quite  a  challenge  as 
they  weighed  in  at  7  lbs.,  4  oz.,  and  6  lbs.,  4 
oz.,  respectively."  Carrie  is  3.  Grandparents 
include  Bruce  '50  and  Caroline  Decatur 
Chick  'so;  Debi  Chick  Burke  '77  is  an  aunt. 

Michael  Martin  is  a  partner  in  the  law 
firm  of  Baker  and  Hostetler.  He  lives  in  Den- 
ver with  his  wife,  Michelle,  and  children  Lau- 
ren, 9,  and  Chase.  4.  Michael  writes  that  all 
are  looking  forward  to  returning  for  the  15th. 

Gina  F.  Sonder  and  her  husband,  Lewis 
Dalven,  had  a  son,  Eli  Sonder  DaKen,  last 
May  3.  Gina  is  an  associate  at  Arrowstreet 
Inc.,  on  maternity  leave  until  June.  They  live 
in  Arlington,  Mass. 


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Harry  Schwartz  is  enjoving  gastroenterol- 
ogy practice,  and  Dana  Spergel  Schwartz  '82 
is  practicing  pediatric  ratiiology.  Their  son, 
Corey,  5,  loves  kindergarten.  They  can  be 
reached  at  10  Blue  Trail  Dr.,  Woodbridge, 
Conn.  06525. 


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Susan  Szabo  antl  hor  husband,  Mark, 
Oshkosh.  Wise,  art'  oxpcvting  thoir  st'cond 
child  in  Mav.  Urin  will  ho  2  in  April. 


Tomas  E.  Ramirez  '86 


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'     Stephen  H.  Beck  and  his  wife,  Kazuko, 
are  living  m  Campbell,  Calif.  Steve  is  a  prod- 
uct manager  at  Unisys  Corporation  in  San 
Jose.  Kazuko  is  an  independent  translator  of 
Japanese  and  English  documents.  Thev 
encourage  classmates  and  friends  to  visit 
when  in  northern  California:  {408)  866-7610 
(home);  (408)  436-5595  (work);  (408)  378-7834 
(fax);  or  e-mail  shb@sj.unisys.com. 

Carolyn  Greenspan  and  Marshall  Ruben 
announce  the  birth  of  their  fourth  child, 
James  Tyler  Ruben,  on  Aug.  25.  Andrew  is  6, 
Jillian  is  4,  and  Elizabeth  is  2.  Carolyn  is  on 
hiatus  from  practicing  law,  while  Marshall 
has  opened  his  own  law  firm  in  Hartford. 
Thev  li\  e  in  A\  on.  Conn. 

Jeffrey  R.  Keitelman,  Chevy  Chase,  Md., 
recently  was  promoted  to  partner  at  Shaw, 
Pittman,  Potts  &  Trowbridge,  Washington, 
D.C.'s  fourth-largest  law  firm,  where  he  spe- 
cializes in  commercial  real  estate  and  business 
transactions.  "An  even  brighter  moment 
occurred  with  the  birth  of  my  daughter,  Rachel, 
who  recently  joined  me,  Charis,  and  Matt." 

Jeffrey  Lesser  '84  A.M.  has  published 
Welccniin\^  the  Undesirables:  Brazil  and  the  few- 
ish  Question  with  the  University  of  California 
Press.  His  e-mail  address  is  jhles@conncoll. 
edu. 

Michael  Macrone's  fifth  book.  Eureka!  A 
Layman's  Guide  to  the  Great  Ideas  of  Western 
Culture,  was  published  in  October  by  Harper- 
Collins. A  book  on  animals  and  animal 
phrases  is  forthcoming  from  Doubleday. 
Michael  and  Catherine  Kamow  would  like  to 
announce  the  arrival  of  Clea  and  Didot  to 
their  San  Francisco  flat. 

Beth  Rubin  has  been  promoted  to  part- 
ner at  the  law  firm  of  Hogan  cfe  Hartson  in 
Washington,  D.C. 

Teresa  Denning  Sevilla  and  her  hus- 
band, Ed,  announce  the  birth  of  their  daugh- 
ter, Nina  Denning  Sevilla,  on  Feb.  12,  1994. 
Pauline  Longo  Denning  '50  is  the  proud 
grandmother.  After  a  four-month  maternity 
leave,  Terri  returned  to  work  as  vice  presi- 
dent, credit  product  management,  at  Bay- 
Banks.  The  Sevillas  live  in  Wellesley,  Mass., 
and  can  be  reached  at  (617)  235-5354. 

Lucienne  M.  Thys-Senocak  writes  that  it 
was  great  seeing  Professor  Wyatt  of  the  Brown 
classics  department  in  Istanbul  at  a  Brown 
alumni  gathering.  Anyone  coming  to  Istanbul 
is  invited  to  drop  by  the  history  department 
at  KOQ  University,  Istinya,  Istanbul. 

Frances  Silva's  e-mail  address  is 
Melvin@Jimmy.Harvard.edu. 

Mark  R.  Thompson  is  an  assistant  profes- 
sor at  the  Dresden  University  of  Technology, 
Inshtute  of  Sociology  in  Germany.  Tele- 
phone: 01149-351-463-2318. 

Henrik  Von  Sydow  married  Maria 
Asberg  at  the  Djurgarden  Church  in  Stock- 
holm, Sweden,  on  Dec.  17.  Henrik's  best  man 
was  his  former  roommate,  Steven  Katz,  who 
sent  this  news. 

Christopher  and  Susan  Nangle  Wright 


Youngest  principal  in  Providence 


Tomas  Ramirez,  assistant  principal  for  two 
years  at  Mount  Pleasant  High  School  in 
Providence,  was  named  principal  of  Oliver 
Hazard  Perry  Middle  School  last  fall.  At 
thirty-four,  he  is  the  youngest  principal  in 
city  schools.  Ramirez  is  also  an  adjunct  pro- 
fessor of  education  at  Rhode  Island  College. 

At  the  time  of  the  appointment  in 
October,  Providence  School  Superinten- 
dent Arthur  Zarrella  told  the  Providence 
journal,  "Ramirez  was  a  student  of  mine 
when  I  was  a  history  teacher  and  guidance 


have  moved  to  Malvern,  Pa.,  with  their 
daughters,  Genevieve,  6,  and  Katherine,  3. 


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M  Matt  Cairns  reports  that  he,  Tracey,  and 
Elisabeth,  5,  still  live  in  Concord,  N.H.,  but 
have  added  a  daughter,  Madison  Lindsay, 
born  July  22.  Matt  is  a  director  and  member 
of  the  litigation  department  at  Ransmeier  & 
Spellman  P.C.  in  Concord.  The  family  can  be 
reached  at  49  Auburn  St.,  Concord  03301; 
(603)  228-6172;  (603)  228-0477  (Matt's  office). 

Suzy  L.  Kim  and  Walter  R.  Ott,  Decatur, 
Ga.,  announce  the  birth  of  their  first  child, 
Christopher  Alan  Ott,  Oct.  27.  Suzy  continues 
at  Emory  University  as  assistant  professor  of 
gastroenterology. 

Neil  McKittrick,  an  attorney  in  the  litiga- 
tion department  at  the  Boston  law  firm  of 
Hill  &  Barlow,  was  appointed  an  assistant 
director  of  the  White  House  Security  Review 
Team.  The  appointment  was  made  Oct.  20  by 
Secretary  of  the  Treasury  Lloyd  Bentsen.  Neil 
took  a  ninety-day  leave  of  absence  from  Hill 
&  Barlow,  during  which  time  the  review 
team  completed  its  work.  The  team  was 
established  to  review  and  make  recommen- 
dations concerning  security  at  the  White 
House  following  the  crash  of  a  small  plane 
and  a  shooting  incident. 

Laurie  Rubin  and  Morgan  Spangle  '81 


counselor  at  Central  High  School  |in  Prov- 
idence], so  I'm  particularly  pleased  by  his 
accomplishment.  He  has  tremendous 
potential  as  an  administrator,  and  we  look 
forward  to  his  filling  the  role  of  educational 
leader  and  role  model  for  the  school." 

At  Brown  Ramirez  concentrated  in 
chemistry.  He  went  on  to  earn  a  master's 
degree  in  biUngual-bicultural  education, 
and  later  a  cerhficate  of  advanced  gradu- 
ate study  in  school  administration,  both 
from  Rhode  Island  College. 

While  pursuing  his  master's  degree, 
Ramirez  worked  as  an  analytical  chemist 
for  Engelhard  Industries  in  Plainville, 
Massachusetts,  and  as  a  bilingual  teacher 
of  chemistry  and  general  science  at  Central 
and  Hope  high  schools  in  Providence. 

Ramirez  ser\'es  as  president  of  the  board 
of  Progreso  Latino,  and  is  a  board  member 
of  the  Children's  Crusade  for  Higher  Educa- 
tion, the  Rhode  Island  Association  for  Super- 
vision and  Curriculum  Development,  the 
Regional  Alliance  for  Mathematics  and  Sci- 
ence Education  Reform,  and  Volunteers  in 
Providence  Schools. 


had  a  boy,  Dylan,  on  Dec.  2,  1993.  They 
closed  their  art  gallery  in  Soho  in  1992.  Now 
Laurie  is  a  private  dealer  and  curator,  and 
Morgan  is  a  vice  president  at  Christie's  in 
New  York,  where  he  is  a  specialist  in  the  con- 
temporary art  department.  "We  love  our  new 
jobs  and  most  of  all  love  being  parents." 

Clare  Stone  married  Martin  Wencek  on 
Sept.  24.  Visitors  and  correspondence  are 
always  welcome  at  676  Middlebridge  Rd., 
South  Kingstown,  R.I.  02879. 


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;•  Dale  Baker  "just  wanted  to  let  everyone 
know  that  they  have  only  a  few  more  months 
to  make  vacation  plans  in  Croatia.  Erica  and  I 
will  finish  our  tour  at  the  U.S.  Embassy  in 
Zagreb  in  June."  After  a  home  leave  in  Texas 
and  training  in  Washington,  D.C,  they  will 
go  to  Mauritius,  where  Dale  will  be  the  direc- 
tor of  the  U.S.  Information  Service  office. 
"We  expect  a  lot  more  visitors."  E-mail 
dbaker@rujan.srce.hr  through  June,  or  write 
AE  Zagreb,  Unit  1345,  APO  AE  09213.  Dale's 
international  address  is  U.S.  Embassy, 
Andrije  Hebranga  2,  41000  Zagreb,  Croatia. 

After  ten  years  in  Washington,  D.C, 
Michael  S.  Greenspun  mo\ed  to  Chicago  to 
open  his  fifth  ROSExpress.  The  stores  special- 
ize in  the  delivery  of  high-quality  long- 
stemmed  roses.  His  other  shops  are  in  Wash- 


46  /  MARCH  1995 


inj^ton,  Boston,  San  Francisco,  anci  Philadel- 
phia. Michael  can  be  reached  at  (312)  563-0060. 

Ross  Knights  missed  some  of  the  10th- 
reunion  actisities  because  of  his  May  29  wed- 
ding to  Anne  Rundle  (Simmons  College  '87). 
Vlany  Brunonian  friends  attended,  as  did 
family  members  Edwin  M.  Knights  '46, 
Ross's  father:  Edwin  B.  Knights  '72,  Ross's 
brother;  Lynn  Courtney  '71 ;  Harold  Prescott 
'53;  and  Rebecca  Anderson  Huntington  S4 
Ross  is  employed  at  Apple  Computer  in 
Cambridge,  Mass.,  and  can  be  reached  at 
(617)  374-5377;  e-mail  knights@cambridge. 
apple.com. 

Lillian  Schlessinger  Meyers  and 
Andrew  Meyers  '1^3  announce  the  birth  of 
Daniel  Leo  Meyers  on  March  17,  1994.  He 
joins  Katie,  6,  Aaron,  4,  and  Jacob,  2.  Andrew 
is  executive  vice  president  at  PIMCO  Advi- 
sors Distribution  Company  in  Stamford, 
Conn.,  and  Lillian  is  at  home  with  the  chil- 
dren in  Weston,  Conn. 

Amy  Glamm  Price  has  relocated  to 
Atlanta.  She  was  with  Booz  Allen  &  Hamil- 
ton but  is  now  home  with  Michael  Ian,  2. 
Friends  can  reach  her  at  (404)  579-2707. 

James  M.  Slayton  and  Phillip  Hernandez 
celebrated  their  life-commitment  ceremony  at 
the  Charles  Hotel,  Cambridge,  Mass.,  on  Oct. 
9.  More  than  130  people  attended  the  festivi- 
ties, including  many  Brown  alumni.  Jim  and 
Phil  are  both  in  their  final  years  of  training  in 
psychiatry  at  Harvard-affiliated  hospitals. 
They  send  all  the  best  to  friends  from  Brown 
and  invite  them  to  call  and  drop  by  90  Forest 
Hills  St.,  #1,  Jamaica  Plain,  Mass.  02130;  (617) 
983-9004. 


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Your  reunion  committee  has  been  busy 
making  plans  for  your  10th  reunion  to  be 
held  Memorial  Day  weekend.  May  26-29.  If 
you  have  questions  or  suggestions,  please 
call  reunion  headquarters  at  (401)  863-1947. 
Remember  to  save  the  dates. 

Sandra  Lilley  Benya  and  J.P.  Benya 
announce  the  birth  of  Alexandra  Nicole  on 
Sept.  27.  "Both  mother  and  child  are  doing 
well;  the  father,  however,  doubts  he  will  ever 
see  the  inside  of  Fanelli's  again."  Sandra  is  on 
maternity  lea\e  from  her  position  as  news 
director  at  WNJU-TV,  and  J.P.  is  a  product 
manager  at  Schering-Plough  and  "regretfully 
is  not  on  paternity  leave."  They  live  in  Upper 
Montclair,  N.J.,  and  would  love  to  hear  from 
classmates  at  (201)  783-8532.  "A  forewarning: 
visitors  will  certainly  be  put  on  diaper  duty." 

James  Berkowitz  and  his  wife,  Nina 
Hartley-Berkowitz,  aixnounce  that  their  2- 
vear-old.  Zona,  has  successfully  completed 
the  first  ritual  of  harmonic  spiritual  cleans- 
ing. Present  at  the  ceremony  were  Evan  Fox 
and  his  wife,  Helen  D'Andrade  '81;  John 
Groch  '84  and  his  wife.  Amber;  and  Spencer 
Green  '88.  "We  all  enjoyed  the  blintzes." 

Brian  and  Debra  Lang  Culhane  write 
from  Reston,  Va.,  that  their  second  family 
addition,  Joshua  Taylor,  joined  them  last  June 
29.  Alison  is  3. 

Jessica  Cooper  Foltin  completed  her 
pediatrics  residency  at  Mount  Sinai  Hospital 
in  Manhattan  and  is  now  doing  an  emer- 


gency pediatrics  fellowship  at  Montefiore 
Hospital  in  the  Bronx.  She  lives  with  her  hus- 
band, George  Foltin,  director  of  emergency 
pediatrics  at  Bellevue  Hospital. 

Lucia  Gill  and  Peter  Case  '83  were  mar- 
ried Julv  lb  in  South  Penobscot,  Maine,  at  the 
summer  house  of  Lucia's  parents,  Erna 
Hoffner  Gill  'so  and  Benjamin  F.  Gill.  "We 
had  a  glorious,  windswept  day  and  a  won- 
derful time  with  family  and  friends."  Lucia 
teaches  history  and  dance  at  Moses  Brown 
School  in  Providence,  and  Peter  is  in  the 
architecture  program  at  RISD.  Lucia  would 
like  to  find  Gail  Belmuth.  The  Cases  can  be 
reached  at  23  Bluff  St.,  Riverside,  R.I.  02915. 

Adrienne  Metoyer  lives  in  San  Francisco 
and  is  enrolled  in  a  Ph.D.  program  in  organi- 
zational psychology.  She  sees  Deeanna 
Franklin  and  William  Madison  '86  often. 
Ckassmates  may  write  to  Adrienne  at 
AMETOYER@aol.com. 

Janine  Roeth  and  Henry  Hooker 
announce  the  birth  of  Simone  Roeth  Hooker 
on  July  28  in  Santa  Cruz,  Calif.  "There  are 
quite  a  number  of  Brown  girls  from  1985  hav- 
ing West  Coast  babies  this  year,  and  I'm 
proud  to  be  one  of  them." 


1995  is  the  20th  anniversary  of  one  of  the 
first  college  women's  centers. 

Join  us  in  celebrating  this  historic  event 
with  a  reunion,  April  7-9,  1995,  at  Brown. 

If  you  are  a  Sarah  Doyle  alumna  who  has 
not  yet  received  a  registration  packet, 
please  call  Gigi  DiBello  at  (401)  863-2189. 


Karen  L.  Seller  and  her  husband,  Dan 
Stone,  had  a  son,  Alexander,  on  Sept.  13. 
They're  all  doing  fine  in  Providence. 

Felice  Miller  Soifer,  Todd  Soifer,  and 
their  i-year-old  daughter,  Marci  Cara,  have 
moved  to  200  Juniper  Circle  North, 
Lawrence,  N.Y.  11559. 


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Dorothy  Faulstich  Bowe  and  John  Bowe 

('86  Sc.M.)  announce  the  birth  of  Hannah 
Marie  Bowe  on  Nov.  29.  "We'd  also  like  to 
announce  that  we're  getting  plenty  of  sleep, 
but  that  would  not  be  true." 

Matthew  Brown  and  Beth  Montgomery 
announce  the  birth  of  twins,  Katherine  and 
Sophia,  in  New  York  City  on  Aug.  20,  1993. 
In  July  the  family  moved  to  Denver.  Beth 
teaches  history  at  Cherry  Creek  High  School, 
and  Matthew  is  a  senior  energy  policy  spe- 
cialist for  the  National  Conference  of  State 
Legislatures.  Their  address  is  6327  South 
Olive  St.,  Englewood,  Colo.  80111.  They  can 
also  be  reached  through  CompuServe  at 
70571,2473,  and  would  love  to  hear  from 
Brown  friends. 


David  Diamond  and  Caroline  Donnen- 
feld  '87,  former  freshman-hall  friends  in 
Perkins,  were  married  in  a  small  wedding 
attended  by  family  members  on  Oct.  8  in 
Montvale,  N.J.  They  honeymooned  in  Aus- 
tralia and  New  Zealand.  On  Dec.  3  they  had 
a  party  for  friends  at  the  Cambridge  (Mass.) 
Multicultural  Arts  Center.  Many  from  Brown 
attended,  including  Lisa  and  Bud  Daley, 
Chrishne  and  Dana  Erikson,  Virginia  and 
Drew  Wolflein,  Lisa  and  Bob  Shea,  Lisa  and 
Doug  Frankel,  loanna  and  Bob  Schlansky, 
Janet  and  Eric  Schwartz  '85,  Cindy  and  Todd 
Doolan  '8s,  Carolvn  and  Chuck  Wood, 
Teruca  Bermudez  '88  and  Steve  Kalandiak 
'88,  Colleen  Phillips  and  husband  Jim 
Panzini,  Sue  Sgambati,  Michael  and  Kim 
Commoroto,  and  Suzanne  Charnas  '87.  Car- 
oline is  in  charge  of  marketing  reseach  for 
Colgate  Oral  Pharmaceuticals  in  Canton, 
Mass.,  and  David  is  a  vice  president  and 
portfolio  manager  at  the  Boston  Company, 
Boston.  Their  address  is  175  B  Centre  St., 
#211,  Quincy,  Mass.  02169;  (617)  479-4327. 

Shaun  Kelley  Jahshan  and  Jibran 
Jahshan  announce  the  birth  of  a  boy,  Tariq 
Khalil,  on  Sept.  13.  Friends  are  welcome  to 
write,  call,  or  stop  in  at  1232  University  Dr., 
Menlo  Park,  Calif.  94025;  (415)  325-1476. 

Robert  G.  Markey  Jr.  and  Lisa  Peterson 
were  married  on  Aug.  20.  The  wedding  was 
attended  by  lots  of  Brown  friends.  The  couple 
lives  in  Wellesley,  Mass.,  and  recently  bought 
a  house. 

Seth  Ross  has  launched  Albion  Books,  a 
San  Francisco-based  publishing  firm  that  put 
out  two  books  last  summer:  Netiqucttc  by  Vir- 
ginia Shea  (Princeton  '82)  and  The  MiUcnuiuin 
Shou's  by  Philip  Baruth  '84.  Seth  can  be 
reached  at  (415)  752-7666,  or  e-mail  seth® 
albion.com.  His  snail  mail  address  is  4547 
California  St.,  San  Francisco  94118. 

Patrik  Schumann  finished  his  postgradu- 
ate research  degree  in  housing  and  urbanism 
at  the  Architectural  Association  Graduate 
School  in  London.  While  on  the  staff  at  the 
environment  and  energy  programme  there, 
he  has  continued  private  practice  through  his 
consultancy  in  New  Mexico  and  Arizona,  a 
partnership  in  London,  and  a  global  profes- 
sional network.  Friends  and  anyone  interested 
in  appropriately  built  environments  may 
reach  him  at  three  addresses:  ecOasys  (by 
design),  421  Cornell  SE,  Albuc[uerque,  N.  Mex. 
87106;  (505)  254-3990;  ecoasys@igc.apc.  org. 
Environment  by  Design,  43  Holland  St.,  Lon- 
don W8  4LX,  England;  44  (171)  937  8255; 
ecoasys@gn.apc.org,  and  AAGS,  36  Bedford 
Sq.,  London  WCiB  3ES,  England;  44  (171)  636 

0974;  44  (171)  414  "7''^-^' 

Barbara  Shinn-Cunningham  completed 
her  Ph.D.  in  electrical  engineering  at  MIT  in 
September.  On  October  4  she  gave  birth  to 
Robert  Nicholas  Cunningham.  "He  was  8 
lbs.,  IS  oz.  and  came  out  shouting  'Ra-ra-ra' 
for  Brown,"  says  the  boy's  father,  Robert  K. 
Cunningham  '85. 


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Benjamin  Bailey  and  Julia  Ruesche- 
meyer  married  on  Sept.  4  in  Little  Compton, 
R.I.,  with  many  Brown  friends  in  attendance. 


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Julia  i.s  a  staff  attorney  at  the  I  larriott  Biiliai 
Center  for  Family  Law,  a  nonprofil  orj^ani/a- 
tion  serving  low-income  ciients  in  Soiitfi  Cen- 
traf  I, OS  Angefes,  and  Henjamin  is  a  Jacob  Jav- 
its  Ivllow  in  lingiiistu  antliropology  at  UCLA. 

Sarah  F.  Smith  Bernard  and  lier  fius- 
band,  i\icl^  Bernard,  are  remodefing  tfieir 
inousefioat  in  Saiisafito,  Calit.  Lliiring  her  free 
time,  Sarah  works  as  manager  of  customer 
operations  for  Working  Assets  l^ing  Dis- 
tance, "the  only  socialiy-responsibie  phone 
company."  Polly  Arrenberg  is  an  in-house 
consultant  for  Working  Assets,  Sarah  adds. 
Sarah  woufd  icne  to  hear  from  ofd  friends 
visiting  the  Bay  area. 

Ilene  S.  Goldman,  Evanston,  Iff.,  com- 
pieted  her  Ph-D.  in  the  Department  of 
Raclio/Television/Piim  at  Northwestern  and 
is  teaching  film  studies  in  the  Chicago  area. 
She  writes  that  Debra  Karp  ('c)0  M.D.)  mar- 
ried Hal  Skopicki  (Brandeis  '82,  Chicago 
Medical  Scfioof  '90  M.D,,  Ph.D.)  on  Oct.  22  in 
New  York  City.  In  addition  to  liene,  Kath 
Wydler  and  Jonas  Karp  cjs  participated  in 
the  ceremony.  Debra  and  Hai  live  in  Boston, 
where  Debra  is  a  dermatopathology  fellow  at 
Beth  Israel  Hospital  anci  Hal  is  a  cardiology 
fellow  at  Massachusetts  General  Hospital. 

Martin  and  Susan  Toung  Horvath 
announce  the  birth  of  Madeleine  last  April 
30.  Six  days  later  Susan  received  her  M.D. 
degree  from  the  University  of  Illinois, 
Chicago.  In  Octciber  Martin  successfully 
defended  his  Ph.D.  thesis  in  biochemistry  at 
the  University  of  Chicago.  They  live  in  Den- 
ver, where  Susan  is  doing  an  ob/gyn  resi- 
dency at  the  University  of  Colorado  Health 
Sciences  Center,  and  Martin  is  planning  to  do 
a  postdoctoral  fellowship  at  the  Unixersity  of 
Colorado,  Boulcler.  "Madeleine  is  looking  for 
a  nanny."  Their  adciress  is  1241  Kearney  St., 
Denver,  Colo.  80220;  {303)  321-1779. 

Andrew  G.  Moore  is  married  and  in  the 
second  year  of  his  internal  meclicine  resi- 
dency. "Thanks  to  Geoff  Gilson  for  driving 
all  night  to  be  at  my  wedding."  Andrew  Hves 
in  Nashville,  Tenn. 

Gyneth  Sick  works  in  editing  and  pub- 
lisfdng  for  Aspen  Institute  Italia,  a  private, 
nonprofit  organization  affiliated  with  the 
Aspen  Institute.  She  and  James  Walker  live  at 
Via  della  Farnesina  5,  00194  Rome,  Italy;  (39- 
6)  3340973.  After  playing  professional 
women's  soccer,  she  is  now  being  slightly 
less  competitive  in  Master's  swimming.  She's 
pretty  much  gi\'en  up  the  cello  in  order  to 
have  at  least  one  evening  a  week  free  for 
James,  but  rents  a  piano  and  endeavors  to 
bother  the  neighbors  as  often  as  possible. 


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Katherine  Mitchell  Constan  and  Andrew 
Constan  (Pennsyh  ania  'H6)  announce  the 
birth  of  William  Nicholas  Constan  on  Sept. 
27.  Katherine  and  Andy  live  in  New  York 
City,  where  Andy  works  for  Salomon  Broth- 
ers and  Katherine  is  enjoying  being  a  mom. 
William's  grandparents  are  Michael  Mitchell 
'59  and  Brooke  Hunt  Mitchell  '^q;  his  aunt  is 
Elizabeth  Mitchell  'ijo. 

Stephen  Intihar  has  joined  the  law  firm 
of  Chester,  Wilcox  &  Saxbe,  Columbus,  Ohio, 


as  an  associate.  Formerly  with  the  law  firm  of 
Pitch,  Davis  and  Humphrey,  he  practices  in 
the  areas  of  commercial  litigation  and  com- 
mercial debtor  and  creditor  representation. 
Before  going  to  law  school  (he  graduated 
with  honors  in  1991  from  Ohio  State  Univer- 
sity College  of  Law),  Stephen  was  an  electri- 
cal engineer  for  Parker  Hannifin  Corporation. 

Tom  Jardine  is  splitting  time  Ix'tween  his 
second  year  of  business  school  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Chicago  and  his  two  boys:  Tom,  who 
was  3  in  December,  and  Hayden,  who  was 
born  in  August.  Tom  spoke  to  Tom  Sullivan  , 
who  is  in  Colorado  after  honeymooning  in 
South  Africa. 

Ellen  Jensen  married  Perg  Abbott  (Dele- 
ware  'B'i)  on  June  18  in  Squam  Lake,  N.H. 
Jane  Jaffin  was  maicH  of  honor.  Many  other 
Brown  alumni  attended.  Ellen  and  Perg  are 
living  in  Westtown,  Pa.,  where  Ellen  teaches 
English  and  is  associate  dean  of  students  at 
the  Westtown  School.  Perg  teaches  science  at 
Strath  Ha\-en  Middle  School  in  Swarthmore. 

Michele  Lichtenstein  Lederberg  prac- 
tices law  at  the  firm  of  Partridge,  Snow  & 
Hahn  in  Providence,  where  she  focuses  on 
health  care.  She  and  her  husband,  Tobias  M. 
Lederberg,  live  in  Providence. 

For  the  past  year-and-a-half.  Art  Mark- 
man  has  been  an  assistant  professor  of  psy- 
chology at  Columbia.  Those  who  want  to 
contact  him  may  write  to  403  W  1 15th  St., 
Apt.  41,  New  York,  N.Y.  10025.  "^^  h'ld  a 
baby  on  May  13.  His  name  is  Lucas  and  he  is 
the  world's  cutest  baby  -  I  have  pictures  on 
my  office  door  to  prove  it."  Art  was  at  Brown 
in  December  to  give  a  talk  in  the  cognitive 
and  linguistic  sciences  department.  "It  was 
great  to  see  everybody  again,"  he  writes. 

Royce  Sussman  is  engaged  to  David  Bat- 
tleman.  She  has  returned  from  Los  Angeles 
to  New  York  City,  where  she  is  senior  coun- 
sel of  business  and  legal  affairs  for  Hallmark 
Entertainment,  a  producer  of  made-for-tele- 
vision  movies  and  special  events.  Friends  can 
reach  her  at  work  at  (212)  977-9001. 

Steven  M.  Tapper,  Atlanta,  is  a  law  clerk 
for  the  Hon.  Horace  T.  Ward,  U.S.  Senior  Dis- 
trict Judge,  Northern  District  of  Georgia. 
Steven  can  be  reached  at  (404)  321-5070. 


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Jonathan  F.  Bastian  married  Julie  K.  Ker- 
estes  (Northern  Illinois  Uni\'ersity  '88)  on 
Nov.  5  in  Rockford,  111.  The  bridal  part\ 
included  John  Simon  and  ushers  Judd  Bran- 
deis, John  Herrmann  '88,  and  Rod  McRae  in, 
with  more  Brown  alumni  in  attendance. 
After  a  week  in  Jamaica,  Julie  and  Jonathan 
returned  to  the  U.S.  in  time  to  attend  John 
Herrmann's  wedding  to  Mary  Font  in 
Florida.  The  Herrmanns  honeymooned  in 
northern  California.  Julie  and  Jonathan  live  at 
6504  Shadybrook  Tr.,  Loves  Park,  111.  61111- 
7102;  (81s)  6^1-2745.  Julie  is  a  caseworker  for 
United  Cerebal  Palsv,  and  Jonathan  is  in 
international  and  private-label  sales  for  the 
Testor  Corporation.  Friends  can  e-mail 
Jonathan  at  firemanjb@aol.com. 

In  November  Navy  Lt  John  M.  Donovan 
was  selected  safety  pro  of  the  week  \\  ith 
Helicopter  Anti-Submarine  Sc^uaciron  Light 


48  /   MARCH   1995 


42,  Detachment  Seven,  Naval  Air  Facility, 
Mayport,  Fla.,  aboard  the  guided-missile 
cruiser  USS  Hue  City. 

Carol  L.  Karp  has  joined  the  faculty  at 
Bascom  Palmer  Eye  Institute  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Miami.  She  completed  a  fellowship  in 
cornea  and  external  diseases  the  previous 
year.  She  is  enjoying  life  and  welcomes  visi- 
tors to  Miami.  Carol  can  be  reached  at  work 
(305)  326-61^6  or  at  home  (305)  672-5575. 

Todd  Lappin  is  attending  the  Graduate 
School  of  Journalism  at  UC-Berkeley.  He  can 
be  reached  at  toddsl@aol.com. 

Anne  Leader  has  left  the  corporate  world 
and  New  York  City  to  pursue  a  master's  in 
early  childhood  education  at  the  University 
of  Pennsylvania's  Graduate  School  of  Educa- 
tion. She  can  be  reached  at  2400  Chestnut  St., 
#2004,  Philadelphia  19103. 

Eben  Lenderking  is  living  in  London  and 
"working  all  over  the  place."  He  can  be 
reached  at  o/i-S^s-obqo. 

Lt.  David  S.  Merson,  JAGC,  USNR,  has 
been  transferred  to  the  Naval  Legal  Service 
Office  in  Newport,  R.I.,  where  he  works  as  a 
legal  assistance  attorney  and  defense  counsel 
for  sailors,  marines,  and  their  dependents. 
David  is  engaged  to  Rebeka  J.  Rand,  a  gradu- 
ate student  in  shark  biology  at  the  University 
of  Rhode  Island.  They  live  in  Newport  and 
plan  to  marry  on  Cape  Cod  next  October. 


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Celebrate  with  us.  May  26-29.  The  5th 
wouldn't  be  the  same  without  you.  Return 
your  registration  forms  as  soon  as  you 
receive  them. 

Wendy  Brandt  was  married  to  John 
Benedict  (Cornell  '88)  last  April  9  in 
Lafayette,  Ind.  Jennifer  C.  Kotanchik  '91, 
who  sent  this  note,  was  maid  of  honor. 
Wendy's  uncle  is  Willard  Yeats  '63.  Wendy 
and  John  graduated  from  the  University  of 
Virginia  Medical  School  last  May.  Their 
address  is  411  Jersey  Ave.,  Winston-Salem, 
N.C.  27101. 

Amir  Mehran  finished  medical  school  at 
Duke  and  is  doing  a  residency  in  general 
surgery  at  UC-San  Francisco.  He  can  be 
reached  at  1921  Jefferson  St.,  #205,  San  Fran- 
cisco, Calif.  94123. 


91 


Reuben  Beiser  is  a  third-year  architec- 
tural studies  student  at  the  Bezalel  Academy 
of  Art  and  Design  -  "Israel's  RISD"  -  in 
Jerusalem.  He  is  corresponding  secretary  of 
the  Brown  Alumni  Association  of  Israel  and 
invites  Brown  faculty  and  students  who  find 
themselves  in  Israel  or  plan  to  visit  to  contact 
him.  He  has  enjoyed  hosting  the  Brown  Cho- 
rus, Brown  students  studying  at  Hebrew 
University  for  their  junior  year,  and  several 
faculty  members  who  came  to  lecture  or 
vacation.  Reuben  is  at  32/5  HaTayasim  St., 
922509  Jerusalem,  Israel;  1-972-2-664172. 

Sonia  Fujimori  is  living  in  the  Bay  Area, 
where  she  coordinates  a  program  that  helps 
developmentally-disabled  adults  with  par- 
enting and  living  skills.  She  sees  a  lot  of  Scott 
Crowder  '89,  who  hopes  he  is  in  his  last  year 


of  collecting  degrees  from  Stanford.  Recently 
Pamela  Bogart  and  Jenny  Bloomfield  vis- 
ited. Pamela  is  coordinating  a  volunteer  net- 
work of  basic-literacy  and  English  as  a  Sec- 
ond Language  tutors  in  Ann  Arbor,  Mich. 
Jenny  recently  directed  a  production  of  her 
work.  Escaping  Warsaw,  at  a  Pittsburgh  the- 
ater to  rave  reviews.  Jenny  visited  Eric  Mag- 
nuson,  a  graduate  student  in  sociology  at 
UCLA,  and  while  she  was  there,  John 
Allrich,  who  is  living  in  Albuquerque,  called 
to  say  hello  and  to  berate  Eric  for  his  answer- 
ing-machine  greeting.  Sonia  can  be  reached 
at  750  Sylvan  Ave.,  #10,  Mountain  View, 
Calif.  94041;  (415)  903-9344.  Pamela  can  be 
reached  at  403  Pauline  Blvd.,  Apt.  2,  Arm 
Arbor,  Mich.  48103;  (313)  769-7580  or  pame- 
lasb@aol.com.  If  you'd  like  to  get  in  touch 
with  Jenny,  call  her  parents  at  (301)  460-1299, 
or  ask  Pamela  and  Sonia  and  they  will  know 
where  in  the  world  she  is. 

Frances  Galvin,  Brighton,  Mass.,was 
engaged  to  Stephen  Dolce  (Boston  College 
'90)  on  Oct.  29  in  Nantucket,  Mass.  They  are 
planning  a  July  wedding.  Frances  continues 
as  a  research  assistant  at  Dana-Farber  Cancer 
Institute  in  Boston,  and  Steve  trades  foreign 
currencies  at  Grantham,  Mayo,  Von  Oterloo 
in  Boston.  Frances  would  love  to  hear  from 
old  friends  at  (617)  783-2167. 

Elizabeth  A.  Gordon  is  a  first-year  stu- 
dent at  Harvard  Business  School.  Many 
Brown  alumni  are  there,  she  says,  including 
Scott  Meyer  and  Matt  Merrick  '89. 


David  Mendel  is  a  law  student  at  the 
University  of  Michigan  after  two  years  in  the 
Peace  Corps  in  Mali,  West  Africa. 

Manila  Ochis  graduated  from  Michigan 
Law  School  and  is  clerking  for  a  federal  dis- 
trict court  judge  in  Providence.  She  can  be 
reached  at  30  President  Ave.,  Providence 
02906;  (401)  455-3632. 

Anthony  B.  Ohm  lives  in  the  Soho  district 
of  New  York  City  and  would  love  to  see 
more  Brunonians.  His  telephone  number  is 
(212)  431-1444.  He  is  doing  multilingual  sales 
for  the  NYNEX  Yellow  Pages.  "My  Sanskrit 
and  Tibetan  language  skills  may  not  carry  far 
in  Manhattan,  but  I'm  banking  on  Spanish 
and  Korean  and  I'm  contemplating  taking  up 
Cantonese  as  well." 


92 


Allison  Browm  has  finished  her  first 
semester  of  clinical  psychology  in  the  mas- 
ter's program  at  Wheaton  College  in  Illinois, 
after  a  year  in  Cairo,  Egypt,  and  another  in 
Mountainside,  N.J.  Friends  in  the  Chicago 
area  can  reach  her  at  309  W  Union  St.,  Apt.  4, 
Wheaton  60187;  (708)  260-5963;  e-mail 
acnet.wheaton.edu. 

Liza  Cooper  is  pursuing  her  M.S.W.  at 
Boston  University  and  living  in  Providence, 
where  she  is  doing  her  field  placement  at 
Family  Services  of  R.I.  "It  is  emotionally 
draining  but  wonderful  work,"  she  writes. 
She  is  living  with  Robert  Sokolic,  who  is 


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coniplotini;  his  third  viMr  of  Brown  Modiail 
School  .inii  doh.iting  what  area  of  medicino  to 
focus  on.  L.i/a  and  Rob  spent  last  vear 
together  outside  Washington,  D.C.,  living  on 
the  NIH  campus,  where  Rob  was  the  recipi- 
ent of  a  Howard  Hughes  Research  Scholar 
fellowship  and  Liza  worked  at  the  National 
Registry  of  PsNchologists.  They  saw  Kather- 
ine  Belsey  in  Switzerland  this  past  summer; 
she  loves  film  school  and  in  the  midst  of 
making  her  thesis  into  a  mo\ie  with  Josh 
Brown  'gi.  Liza  and  Rob  can  be  contacted  at 
2S4  VVavland  Ave.,  Apt.  4,  Proxidence  o2yo6; 
(401)  jsi-'iiafi;  Robert  Sokolic@brown.edu. 
Lisa  Forman,  Anne  Quinney,  and  Liza 
reunited  this  summer:  Anne  is  pursuing  her 
Ph.D.  in  French  literature  at  Duke  and  is  on  a 
fellowship  in  Bordeaux  teaching  English  to 
French  teenagers:  Lisa  is  in  her  second  vear 
of  New  York  Medical  College,  on  the  wa\  to 
becoming  a  pediatrician.  Gwendolyn  Beck- 
mann  married  Axel  Stefan  Pretzsch  in  Ger- 
manv  over  Thanksgiving  and  is  interested  in 
jobs  teaching  English.  Liza  saw  Liz  Van 
Voorhees  last  November.  She  is  considering 
psychology  and  California. 

Sayantani  DasGupta  published  her  first 
book,  Vic  Dciiioii  S/iii/ccs  mid  Other  Storicf. 
Bengnii  Folk  Tnlcs,  with  Interlink  Books.  The 
book  is  a  collection  of  Indian  adventure  tales, 
animal  stories,  and  poems  translated  by 
Savantani  and  her  mother,  Shamita  Das  Das- 
gupta.  Sayantani  is  trying  to  continue  writing 
as  she  completes  her  second  year  of  medical 
school  at  Johns  Hopkins  University.  She 
would  love  to  hear  horn  Brown  friends  in  the 
Baltimore  area  at  (410)  433-5234. 

Becky  Levenson  is  in  her  third  year  of 
law  school  at  the  University  of  Virginia.  She 
will  be  working  in  Washington,  D.C.,  at 
Skadden,  Arps,  Slate,  Meagher  &  Flom. 
Becky  writes  that  Heike  Lueckerath  "can 
now  legally  remain  in  the  country.  She  and 
Ed  Malakoff  recently  tied  the  knot  in  Seat- 
tle." The  wedding  was  attended  by  numer- 
ous members  of  the  class  of  iqq2.  Becky  con- 
tinues: Sheryl  Cardoza  and  Heath  Brackett 
are  li\ing  in  Sun  Valley,  though  not  together. 
Liz  Hobson  is  getting  her  master's  degree  in 
en\ironmental  studies  at  Duke.  Tabatha 
Brochu  and  Blake  Andrews  are  doing  "the 
domestic  thing"  in  Portland,  Oreg.  Cara 
Foldes  is  in  medical  school  at  Mt.  Sinai  in 
NYC,  and  Kara  Kee  and  Lauren  Traister, 
who  li\'e  in  Boston,  threw  a  huge  New  Year's 
bash.  Kara  works  for  a  biotech  company,  and 
Lauren  works  at  an  environmental  nonprofit. 
Stephanie  Cooper  is  working  for  the  EPA  in 
Seattle.  Shane  Spradlin  is  in  his  final  year  of 
law  school  at  UCLA  and  will  be  working  for 
Latham  &  Watkins  in  New  York  City.  Katy 
Tresness  has  returned  from  the  sun-soaked 
beaches  of  St.  Lucia  and  is  in  her  first  year  of 
business  school  at  the  University  of  Chicago. 
Becky  can  be  reached  at  rjl^kiSvirginia.edu. 

Ho  Lin  received  a  master's  degree  in  cre- 
ative writing  from  Johns  Hopkins  and  is 
spending  the  year  at  the  People's  University 
of  China  in  Beijing  as  an  English  reading  and 
writing  instructor.  "Being  here  isn't  that  bad 
as  long  as  you  can  avoid  all  the  bicycles  and 
Mao's  Revenge."  He  "thirsts  for  any  letter 
scribbled  in  English"  at  Foreign  Experts 


Building,  #"(04,  People's  Uni\ersity  of  China, 
■\q  Haidian  Rd.,  100872  Beijing,  PRC. 

Joanne  D.  Quinones  is  in  hn  lust  Mar  at 
I  ordhani  Law  School,  along  with  Mito  Todd 
anil  Tom  Jordan  'qi. 

David  Yasher  writes  that  after  two  years 
as  a  financial  analyst  at  Chase  in  New  York 
City  he  left  to  hike  the  Appalachian  Trail.  He 
started  in  early  May  in  Georgia  and  reached 
Mount  Katahdin  in  northern  Maine  on  Oct.  5. 
He  reports  there  was  a  foot  of  snow  on  the 
Katahdin  summit.  David  lives  in  Providence 
and  works  for  a  travel  agency. 


93 


Shelby  Balik  received  an  MA.  in  educa- 
tion from  the  Uni\'ersitv  of  Michigan  in 
August,  and  li\-es  in  Seymour,  Conn.,  teach- 
ing English  and  social  studies  in  an  alterna- 
tive program  for  students  at  risk.  Friends  can 
contact  Shelby  at  50  Balance  Rock  Rd.,  Sey- 
mour, Conn.  o648"t;  e-mail  sbalik@aol.com. 

Daniel  D.  Miller,  Washington,  D.C.,  is  a 
second-year  student  in  Georgetown's  master 
of  public  policy  program  and  works  for  the 
Joint  Economic  Committee  of  Congress. 

Joseph  O'Connor  is  a  first-year  law  stu- 
dent at  American  University.  He  is  at  2305 
38th  St.  N.W.,  Washington,  D.C.  20007-1710. 

Betsy  Wiedenmayer,  Tom  Huntington 
'91,  and  Eliot  Fisk  'm,  all  of  whom  are  lixing 
and  working  in  Hong  Kong,  "sacrificed  their 
legs  and  underwear  (ask  Eliot  for  the  story) 
to  complete  the  14th  Annual  Macao  Mara- 
thon (check  your  atlas).  Eliot  finished  in  3:13, 
Betsy  almost  beat  Oprah,  and  Tom  provided 
logistical  support,  bananas,  and  shorts." 


94 


Rebecca  D.  Feldman  and  John  J.  Shein- 
baum  '9"!  announce  their  engagement.  Jack  is 
a  first-year  student  in  musicology  at  Cornell, 
and  Becky  is  teaching  English  at  the  Cas- 
caclilla  School,  a  small  private  high  school  in 
Ithaca.  The  wedding  is  planned  for  June  in 
Washington,  D.C.  They  welcome  mail  at  9F 
Gaslight  Village,  Ithaca,  N.Y.  14850;  e-mail 
j  js  1 3@c0rnell.edu . 


GS 


Regina  Bannan  '71  A.M.  received  her 
doctorate  in  American  civilization  from  Penn 
in  May  and  is  teaching  American  studies  at 
Temple  University  in  Philadelphia. 

Nan  McCowan  Sumner-Mack  '71  A.M., 
'82  Ph.D.  IS  teaching  "Introduction  to  the 
Arts"  and  writing  at  Hawaii  Community 
College.  She  would  love  to  hear  from  old 
Brunonian  friends  at  60  Nohea  St.,  Hilo, 
Hawaii  96720. 

Kathy  J.  Phillips  is  the  author  of  Virginin 
Woolf  agi^iust  Empire,  published  in  December 
by  the  University  of  Tennessee  Press.  Phillips 
is  a  professor  of  English  at  the  Unix'ersity  of 
Hawaii  in  Manoa. 

G.  Thomas  Couser  '77  Ph.D.  has  been 
awarded  an  NEH  Fellowship  for  College 
Teachers  and  Independent  Scholars  to  work 
on  a  book  on  contemporary  American  life- 
writing,  illness,  and  disability.  With  the  help 


of  the  grant,  he  will  take  a  year's  sabbatical 
from  his  job  as  professor  of  English  at  Hofs- 
tra  L'ni\riMl\ . 

George  Miller  '78  A.M.,  '81  Ph.D.  (see 
Hilary  Walker  Miller '7^). 

Marge  Drucker  Thompson  '79  Ph.D.  and 
Ian  G.  Thompson  '711  I'h  D  (see  '74). 

Melissa  McFarland  Pennell  '81  A.M.,  '84 
Ph.D.,  Londonderry,  N.H.,  has  been  named 
assistant  for  special  projects  to  the  provost 
and  vice  chancellor  for  academic  affairs  at  the 
University  of  Massachusetts-Lowell.  She  will 
continue  as  associate  professor  of  English. 
Pennell  joined  the  UMass-Lowell  faculty  in 
1985  and  teaches  nineteenth-century  Ameri- 
can literature,  composition,  and  a  course  on 
crime  and  literature. 

William  Ehmann  '83  Sc.M.  has  been 
named  assistant  professor  of  environmental 
science  at  Trinity  College,  Washington,  D.C. 

Carolyn  Beard  Whitlow  '84  A.M.  is  asso- 
ciate professor  of  English  at  Guilford  College, 
Greensboro,  N.C.  Her  poetry  has  appeared  in 
a  number  of  literary  journals,  and  her  collec- 
tion. Wild  Meat,  was  published  by  Lost  Road 
Publishers  in  1986.  Her  essay,  "Blues  in  Black 
and  White,"  appears  in  the  recently-published 
Nezv  Essi7i/s  in  Poetic  Form  and  Narrntizv  (Sto- 
ryline Press),  edited  by  Annie  Finch.  She  was 
a  finalist  for  the  Barnard  New  Women  Poets 
Prize  in  1991  and  was  named  the  1988  Phi 
Beta  Kappa  Poet  of  the  Rhode  Island  Alpha. 

John  Bowe  '86  Sc.M.  (see  Dorothy 
Faulstich  Bowe  86). 

Young-Cho  Chi  '89  Ph.D.  has  joined  the 
international  business  management  consult- 
ing firm  of  McKinsey  &  Company,  Seoul,  as 
an  associate.  He  spent  the  last  five  years  at 
AT&T  Bell  Laboratories  in  New  Jersey  as  a 
systems  engineer  on  signaling-network  plan- 
ning. He  and  his  wife,  Hae-Kyung  Oh  '87 
Sc.M.,  have  a  son,  Minsoo,  and  a  daughter, 
Minjung.  He  can  be  reached  at  398-2500  in 
Seoul.  His  mailing  address  is  McKinsey  & 
Company,  igth  floor,  Kyobo  Building,  Chon- 
gro-ku,  Seoul,  110-714,  Korea. 

Parker  Potter  '89  Ph.D.  is  the  author  of 
Public  Arclincologi/  in  Aiiiinpjolif,  published 
bv  Smithsonian  Institution  Press  in  Novem- 
ber. He  is  the  administrator  of  planning  and 
registration  and  director  of  publications  for 
the  New  Hampshire  Division  of  Historical 
Resources. 


MD 


Joel  I.  Shalowitz  77  M.D.  (see  '74). 

The  organization  Children  and  Adults 
with  Attention  Deficit  Disorders  chose  Alan 
Zametkin  '77  M.D.  as  one  of  three  1994  inau- 
gural inductees  into  the  Attention  Deficit  Dis- 
order (ADD)  Hall  of  Fame.  Zametkin  was 
recognized  for  outstanding  professional 
achievement  in  the  study  of  ADD.  He  is  a 
senior  staff  psychiatrist  at  the  clinical  brain 
imaging  section  of  the  National  Institute  of 
Mental  Health. 

Laura  Anne  Gallup-Hotchkiss  '87  M.D. 
and  her  husband,  Bruce,  announce  the  birth 
of  their  second  child,  Beth  Lauren,  on  Oct.  29. 
Thev  live  in  San  Antonio,  Texas,  where  Laura 
is  a  radiologist  at  Wilford  Hall  Medical  Center. 


50  /   MARCH   1995 


Obituaries 


Marguerite  Armstrong  Jackson  '20,  Edgar- 
town,  Mass.;  Oct.  ig.  She  taught  English  and 
foreign  languages  in  several  school  systems 
in  Massachusetts  before  her  marriage.  She 
was  a  Girl  Scout  leader  and  during  World 
War  II  was  an  airplane  spotter.  She  had  a  life- 
long interest  in  art  and  was  an  avid  gardener. 
She  is  sur\i\ed  bv  a  sister,  Louise  Priestlev  of 
East  Providence,  R.I.;  and  two  graiuichiidren. 

Myron  Urban  Lamb  '23,  Limerick,  Me.;  Sept. 
28.  In  the  mid- 1920s  he  joined  Olmsted 
Brothers,  Portland,  Me.,  after  graduating 
from  Harvard  Graduate  School  of  Design, 
where  he  stuiiied  landscape  architecture  and 
city  planning.  An  accomplished  musician,  he 
was  a  concert  pianist  and  taught  at  the  Hart- 
ford School  of  Music.  He  was  an  early  mem- 
ber of  the  Portland  Svmphony  Orchestra,  for 
which  he  played  bassoon  for  thirty  years. 
During  World  War  II  he  was  a  foreman  at  the 
Fore  Ri\er  Shipvard  in  Portland.  Later  as  a 
self-employed  lancHscape  arcliitect  he  super- 
vised the  landscaping  of  parks  in  Portland, 
Wiscasset,  and  Falmouth,  Me;  and  designed 
the  layouts  of  Sebago  Lake  State  Park  and 
Reid  State  Park,  both  in  Maine.  He  was  a  past 
president  of  the  Maine  mineralogical  and 
geological  societies  and  a  woodworker  and 
cabinetmaker.  He  is  sur\ived  bv  three 
daughters,  including  Judith  Lamb  Juncker 
'58,  6  River  Rd.,  Annisquam,  Gloucester, 
Mass.  oiqio. 

William  Fletcher  Jr.  '24,  Barrington,  R.I.; 
Nov.  28.  He  was  a  realtor  and  tax  assessor  for 
the  Town  of  Barrington.  Sur\'i\'ors  include  a 
son,  William  Fletcher  III  '55,  21  Woodland 
Rd,,  Barrington  02806. 

Annabel  Howarth  Robotham  '24,  West  Hart- 
ford, Conn.;  No\'.  18.  She  was  a  past  presi- 
dent of  the  Hartford  Pembroke  College  Club 
and  was  an  active  community  volunteer.  She 
is  surviveci  by  a  son,  Donald  W.  Robotham, 
Murray  Hill  Rd.,  Hill,  N.H.  03243;  and  a 
brother,  Donald  C.  Howarth  '39. 

Lester  Milton  Anderson  '2s,  Oakland,  Calif. 

Gertrude  L.  Annan  25,  Hightstown,  N.J.; 
Dec.  2,  1991.  She  retired  in  1970  as  curator  of 
the  rare  book  room  and  librarian  of  the  New 
York  Academy  of  Medicine,  New  York  City, 
Tlirough  her  efforts  the  Medical  Library  Cen- 
ter of  New  York  was  established  as  a  central 
repository  for  health-services  literature.  She 
published  more  than  fifty  articles  dealing 
with  medical  library  collechons,  rare  books, 
archives,  and  medical  history,  and  was  coedi- 
tor  of  Hniulbook  ofMi'iliail  Practice.  After 
working  for  two  years  as  an  assistant  to 
Lawrence  C.  Wroth,  librarian  at  the  John 
Carter  Brown  Library,  she  was  asked  to  orga- 
nize the  rare  book  and  history  of  medicine 
collections  at  the  New  York  Academy  of 
Medicine  in  1929,  and  then  headed  the  collec- 
tions until  1953,  when  she  became  associate 
librarian  with  administrative  responsibilities 
for  the  entire  library.  She  was  a  member  of 


numerous  library,  bibliographical,  and  his- 
torical societies,  and  is  listed  in  Wlw's  Wlio  of 
American  Women. 

Katharine  Heady  Finch  '25,  Reading,  Pa.; 

Nov.  1.  She  was  a  librarian  at  the  University 
of  Connecticut,  Storrs.  She  is  survived  by  a 
daughter,  Sarah  Rothermel,  20  Glenbrook 
Dr.,  Reading  19607. 

Elinor  Van  Dom  Smith  '25,  '30  A.M.,  '37 
Ph.D.,  Hadley,  Mass.;  Aug.  16.  She  joined  the 
faculty  of  Smith  College  in  1926  as  an  instruc- 
tor in  bacteriology.  She  was  named  a  full  pro- 
fessor in  1953,  director  of  the  Clark  Science 
Center  in  1966,  and  professor  emeritus  upon 
her  retirement  in  1969.  She  was  dean  of  the 
classes  of  1948  and  1938.  She  published  arti- 
cles on  enteric  pathogens  and  was  the  author 
a  book.  Public  Health  in  Hadlei/:  Histon/  of  joo 
Years.  She  was  a  member  of  a  number  of  pro- 
fessional institutes  and  associations  in  her 
field  of  study  and  was  a  fellow  of  the  Ameri- 
can Association  for  the  Advancement  of  Sci- 
ence and  a  trustee  of  Hopkins  Academy  in 
Hadley.  She  was  a  past  trustee  and  treasurer 
of  the  First  Congregational  Church  of 
Hadlev.  Sigma  Xi.  She  is  survived  by  a  niece, 
Helen  S.  Folweiler,  of  Bedford,  Mass. 

T.  Edward  Beehan  '27,  Newport  Beach,  Calif.; 
Feb.  17,  1994.  He  retired  as  corporate  secretary 
of  Aerojet-General  Corporation  in  El  Monte, 
Calif.  He  is  sur\ived  by  his  wife,  Claire,  1600 
Cornwall  Ln.,  Newport  Beach  92660. 

Ralph  Eugene  Fulton  '27,  Bensalem,  Pa.;  Oct. 
31.  He  was  an  engineer  and  executive  with 
U.S.  Rubber  Company  (later  UniRoyal)  for 
forty-one  years.  He  was  involved  with  the 
construction  during  World  War  II  of  one  of 
the  first  synthetic  rubber  plants,  in  Naugatuck, 
Conn.,  and  of  a  ferris  wheel  in  the  form  of  an 
eighty-foot  tire  for  the  New  York  World's  Fair 
in  1964.  At  the  time  of  his  retirement  in  1970, 
he  was  manager  of  facilities  engineering  in 
UniRoyal's  corporate  office.  He  was  rehired  to 
oversee  the  construction  of  a  mile-long  tire 
plant  in  Ardmore,  Okla.  He  was  treasurer  of 
the  Howard  Whittemore  Library  and  chair- 
man of  the  Environmental  Advisory  Board  of 
the  borough  of  Naugatuck,  Conn.,  where  he 
resided  from  1942  until  1989.  He  is  survix-ed 
bv  a  daughter  and  by  two  sons.  Chandler  M. 
Fulton  '56,  21  Hillcrest  Rd.,  Weston,  Mass. 
02193;  and  William  E.  Fulton  '61. 

Pauline  Nardelli  McKendall  '27,  Longwood, 
Fla.;  June  199  V  She  is  survived  by  her  hus- 
band, Benjamin  S.  McKendall  25,  i6o 
Islander  Ct.,  Longwood  32730. 

Karl  Royce  '27,  Remsenburg,  N.Y.  He  was  a 
retired  procedures  analyst  for  American 
Sugar  Company,  New  York,  N.Y. 

Althea  Page  Smith  '28,  '30  Sc.M.,  Amherst, 
Mass.;  Oct.  11.  She  received  her  Ph.D.  from 
Radcliffe  and  taught  at  the  University  of  Ver- 
mont and  Mount  Holyoke  College.  She  par- 
ticipated in  geological  research  and  contin- 
uecl  to  hike  in  the  Amherst  area  until  a  few- 
weeks  before  her  death.  She  was  a  member  of 


the  Appalachian  Mountain  Club  since  the 
1920s.  She  is  survived  by  three  sons,  includ- 
ing Myron  Smith  of  Amherst. 

Elizabeth  Herr  Witmer  '28,  Camp  Hill,  Pa.; 
Sept.  1.  A  secretary  before  her  marriage  in 
1933,  she  was  a  volunteer  for  the  American 
Red  Cross.  She  is  survived  by  a  son,  John 
Witmer,  520  Rutland  Dr.,  Swatara,  Pa.  17111. 

Robert  David  Allison  '29,  Simsbury,  Conn.; 
May  12.  He  was  a  retired  manager  of  U.S. 
Envelope  Company  and  a  former  president  of 
the  Brown  Club  of  Hartford,  He  is  survived 
by  three  children,  including  Robert  D.  Allison 
Jr.  '54,  5  Russell  Rd.,  Springfield,  Vt.  05156. 

Averill  Houghton  Wetherald  Cooper  '29, 
Rochester,  N.Y.;  Dec.  14.  She  was  a  secretary 
in  the  liberal  arts  division  of  the  Rhode  Island 
School  of  Design  for  ten  years  before  retiring 
in  1966.  While  living  in  Providence,  she  was  a 
member  of  se\'eral  garden  clubs  and  the  R.I. 
Federation  of  Garden  Clubs.  She  is  survived 
by  a  son,  Houghton  Wetherald  59,  281  Shore- 
ham  Dr.,  Rochester  14618. 

Albert  John  Harvey  Jr.  '29,  North  Palm 
Beach,  Fla.;  Jan.  30,  1994.  He  was  president  of 
Vaporized  Coatings  Inc.,  Milwaukee,  Wise. 
He  is  survived  by  a  son,  A.  John  Harvey  III. 

James  Banigan  Hurley  '29,  Canton,  N.C.; 
Oct.  28.  He  was  chairman  of  business  admin- 
istration for  Champion  Papers  Inc.,  and  then 
taught  at  Asheville-Buncombe  Technical 
Institute  in  Asheville,  N.C.  He  is  survived  by 
his  wife,  Daisy,  75  Newfound  St.,  P.O.  Box 
174,  Canton  28716. 

Frank  Winthrop  Snow  '29,  Warwick,  R.I.; 
Dec.  9.  He  was  sales  manager  for  Anaconda 
Wire  &  Cable  Company,  New  York  City. 

George  Bertram  Thomas  '29,  Middleboro, 
Mass.;  Sept.  28.  Until  his  retirement  he  was 
an  owner  of  the  Thomas  Brothers  Construc- 
tion Company.  He  is  survived  by  three  chil- 
dren, including  Gregory  K.  Thomas  of 
Charleston,  S.C. 

Hazel  Rees  Brown  '30,  Shrewsbury,  Mass. 
She  is  survived  by  a  daughter,  Joanne  Brown 
Goethert  '61,  430  Locust  St.,  Edgewood,  Pa. 

1^218. 

Paul  Theodore  David  '30  A.M.,  '33  Ph.D., 
Charlottesville,  Va.;  September  1994.  He  was  a 
professor  of  political  science  at  the  University 
of  Virginia.  Previously  he  was  a  research  fel- 
low at  The  Brookings  Institution,  Washington, 
D.C.,  and  a  fellow  at  the  Center  for  Advanced 
Study  of  Behavioral  Sciences,  Stanford,  Calif. 
He  is  survived  by  his  wife.  Opal,  University 
Village,  Apt.  1310,  2401  Old  Ivy  Rd.,  Char- 
lottesville 22903. 

J.  Clarke  Ferguson  31,  Ipswich,  Mass.;  Oct. 
23.  A  pioneer  in  the  marketing  of  air  travel,  he 
retired  from  American  Airlines  as  a  vice  pres- 
ident in  1974  after  forty  years.  He  was  hon- 
ored bv  the  industry  numerous  times  and 
was  responsible  for  introducing  jet  service  to 


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many  cities.  He  was  a  trustee  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Society  for  the  Prexention  of  Blind- 
ness and  the  Salvation  Armv.  He  is  survived 
bv  two  daughters  and  his  wife,  Dorothy,  ^8 
Market  St.,  Ipswich  oig-tS. 

Richard  Lawrence  Haviland  1 1,  0\d  Green- 
wich, Conn.;  Ian.  29,  1994.  He  was  a  district 
manager  for  the  Birds  Eve  Division  of  Gen- 
eral Hoods  Corporation.  He  is  survived  bv  his 
wife,  Louise,  57  Northridge  Rd.,  Old  Green- 
wich 06870. 

Irving  Meyer  Marks  '11,  Pawtucket,  R.I.;  Dec. 
27.  He  was  a  pharmacist  in  Providence, 
Cranston,  and  Newport,  R.I.,  and  retired  in 
1974.  He  was  a  U.S.  Armv  veteran  of  World 
War  11.  He  is  survived  by  tw'o  brothers, 
including  Milton  Marks  of  Pawtucket. 

Gilbert  Charles  Strubell  '31,  SKiart,  Fla.; 
April  iS.  He  \vas  administrative  director  of 
metallurgy  and  research  for  Anaconda  Amer- 
ican Brass  Company,  Waterbury,  Conn.,  at 
the  time  of  his  retirement.  He  is  sur\'ived  by 
a  son,  Taylor  Strubell  '69,  4335  Senna  Dr., 
Las  Cruces,  N.  Mex.  88001. 

William  Walton  '->,i,  Glen  Cove,  N.Y.:  Sept.  1 
He  was  a  retired  administrator  at  New  York 
Hospital-Cornell  Medical  Center  in  New 
York  City.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  Doris, 
18  Stuart  Dr.  East,  Glen  Cove  11542. 

Samuel  Calvin  Clark  '32  A.M.,  Melrose  Park, 
Pa.;  Oct.  3.  He  taught  at  the  Patton  School  in 
Elizabethtown,  Pa.,  anci  Shadyside  Academy 
in  Pittsburgh,  in  the  late  1950s  and  early 
1960s.  He  is  sur\i\-ed  by  his  wife,  Ruth,  7442 
Overhill  Rd.,  Melrose  Park  19027. 

T.  Allen  Crouch  '32,  Pawcatuck,  Conn.;  Nov. 
21.  He  taught  social  studies  and  was  depart- 
ment head  at  Stonington  (Conn.)  High  School 
before  becoming  superintendent  of  the  Ston- 
ington school  system  from  1944  to  i960,  the 
longest  term  of  any  superintendent  in  the 
town's  history.  After  retiring  as  superinten- 
dent for  health  reasons  he  returned  to  teaching 
social  studies  at  Pine  Point  School.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Stonington  Board  of  Education 
from  1973  to  1977.  He  was  a  corporator  of  the 
Westerly  Hospital  in  Rhode  Island;  a  former 
member  of  the  board  of  the  Westerly  YMCA, 
of  which  he  was  vice  president;  and  former 
vice  president  of  the  Community  Chest.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Connecticut  and  national 
associations  of  school  administrators.  He  is 
survived  by  a  brother,  Howard  E.  Crouch,  31 
West  Broad  St.,  Pawcatuck  06379. 

The  notice  of  the  death  of  Mary  Lally  Mur- 
phy '32,  '37  A.M.  in  the  November  issue  did 
not  mention  by  name  her  surviving  son,  John 
'69;  and  a  niece,  Barbara  Murphy  Patrick  '58. 

Dorothy  Whittemore  Olson  '32  A.M.,  St. 
Petersburg,  Fla.;  Oct.  7.  A  mathematician  for 
the  U.S.  government  for  ten  years,  she  had 
hved  in  Florida  since  1966.  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 
She  is  survived  by  twin  sons,  Jofm  Whitte- 
more Olson,  2234  N.  Winthrop  Circle,  Mesa, 
Ariz.  85213;  and  Peter  Orbuck  Olson  of  El 


Paso,  Tex.;  and  a  daughter,  Karen  tUson 
Lennon  of  Cos  Cob,  Conn. 

R.  Ford  Bentley  '33,  Chicago;  Dec.  28.  He 
worked  as  an  advertising  executive  until 
retiring  in  u)s8.  As  an  undergraduate  he  was 
active  in  Sock  &  Buskin.  He  is  survived  by 
his  wife,  Elizabeth,  One  East  Schiller  St., 
Chicago  60610;  and  two  daughters. 

Alvin  Lester  Natelson  '33,  of  Boca  Raton, 
Fla.,  and  Wantagh,  N.Y.;  Mar.  15,  1994.  A 
self-employed  insurance  consultant,  he  was 
active  in  Brown  alumni  affairs  and  was  a 
NASP  volunteer.  He  had  been  an  editor  of 
the  Bwwn  Daily  Herald  and  a  member  of  the 
Brown  Debate  Team.  He  is  survived  by  his 
wife,  Jo,  3600  Manchester  Rd.,  Wantagh 
1 1793;  and  three  daughters,  including  Wendy 
Natelson  Nolan  75,  and  Debbie  Natelson 
Rollinger  '80. 

Edward  Thomas  Raney  '33  A.M.,  '38  Ph.D., 
Birmingham,  Mich.;  Feb,  1,  1991.  He  was  an 
assistant  professor  and  later  chairman  of  the 
department  of  management  at  Wayne  Uni- 
versity in  Detroit. 

Bessie  May  Troutman  Steinmetz  '33,  Rich- 
land, Pa.;  No\'.  17.  She  was  active  in  commu- 
nity affairs  and  was  a  member  of  the  local 
branch  of  the  American  Association  of  Uni- 
versity Women. 

Paul  Boyles  Chaney  '34,  Whittier,  Calif.;  Oct. 
g.  He  retired  in  1975  as  shipping  coordinator 
for  Caltex  Petroleum  Corporation,  New  York 
City,  after  twenty-seven  years.  He  is  survix'ed 
by  a  niece  in  Whittier. 

Daniel  William  Earle  34,  Manchester,  Conn  ; 
Dec.  5,  of  cancer.  He  was  associate  vice  presi- 
dent and  director  of  development  at  Brown 
for  fifteen  years  before  retiring  in  1973. 
Before  joining  the  Brown  administration  he 
held  several  executive  positions  with  the  Boy 
Scouts  of  America.  He  was  a  former  national 
director  of  financial  ser\'ices  for  the  Girl 
Scouts  of  America.  He  served  on  the  advisory 
committee  of  the  Narragansett  Council,  BSA, 
and  on  numerous  committees  of  the  Episco- 
pal Diocese  of  Rhode  Island  and  the  Rhode 
Island  Council  of  Churches.  During  World 
War  II  he  was  a  special  agent  in  the  U.S.  Army 
Counterintelligence  Corps  in  the  Pacific  The- 
ater. He  was  secretary  of  his  class.  He  is  sur- 
vived by  his  wife,  Marion,  The  Arbors,  403 
West  Center  St.,  Apt.  108,  Manchester,  06040; 
and  two  children. 

John  Henry  French  Jr.  '34,  Grosse  Pointe 
Farms,  Mich.;  Aug.  3.  A  leading  figure  in  the 
Detroit  banking  community  in  the  vears  fol- 
lowing World  War  II,  he  was  said  to  be 
Michigan's  youngest  bank  president  when  he 
took  over  at  City  National  Bank  in  1953.  He 
was  a  consultant  before  retiring  in  1983.  He 
was  an  Army  Air  Forces  veteran  of  World 
War  11.  He  is  survix'ed  by  his  wife,  Katharine, 
130  Merriweather  Rd.,  Grosse  Pointe  Farms 
48236;  and  two  sons. 


Barbara  Strachan  Trinick  '34,  Nashua,  N.H.; 
Jan.  2.  A  social  worker  for  the  American  Red 
Cross,  she  was  executive  secretary  of  its  Cape 
Cod  chapter  in  Hyannis,  Mass.,  until  her 
marriage  in  1969.  During  World  War  II  she 
worked  in  private  hospitals  in  Rhode  Island 
and  for  the  Red  Cross.  Survivors  include  a 
sister,  Dorothy  Whipple  Chaplin,  of  Nashua. 

Dorothy  Currier  Bourdon  '35,  Ft.  Myers,  Fla.; 
Dec.  17.  She  was  actixe  in  social  and  commu- 
nity affairs  in  Albany,  N.Y.,  where  she  lived 
before  moving  to  Florida.  In  the  1960s  she 
was  first  vice-chair  of  the  New  York  State 
Women's  Joint  Legislative  Forum.  She  was  a 
class  agent.  She  is  survived  by  a  son,  Clinton 
C.  Bourdon  '66,  45  Candlewood  Rd.,  Ipswich, 
Mass.  01938. 

Robert  Jerrett  Jr.  '35,  Palm  Beach  Gardens, 

Fla.;  Nov.  14,  in  Mt.  Pleasant,  S.C.  After 
working  in  the  airline  industry  before  and 
after  World  War  II,  he  was  a  consultant  for 
McKinsey  &  Company,  New  York;  vice  presi- 
dent and  general  manager  of  American 
Tackle  &  Equipment,  Philadelphia;  and  cor- 
porate controller  for  Daystrom,  Inc.,  Murray 
Hill,  N.J.  In  the  late  1960s  he  formed  Venture 
Resources  Inc.,  and  served  as  vice  president 
for  finance  at  Emerson  College,  Boston. 
Before  retirement  he  was  an  independent 
consultant.  He  was  chairman  of  the  race  com- 
mittee and  commodore  of  the  Corinthian 
Yacht  Club  in  Marblehead.  He  served  with 
the  Naval  Air  Transport  Service  during 
World  War  II,  attaining  the  rank  of  lieutenant 
commander.  He  is  sur\'ived  by  his  wife,  Lee, 
P.O.  Box  31563,  Palm  Beach  Gardens,  Fla. 
33410;  and  three  sons,  including  Robert  Jer- 
rett in  '6s  and  David  H.  Jarrett  '66. 

William  Raymond  Loughery  '15,  Middle- 
town,  RL;  Dec.  20.  He  was  principal  of  Mid- 
dletown  High  School  from  1961  until  1971, 
when  he  retired.  Before  that  he  was  a  teacher 
in  Providence,  and  from  1950  until  i960  he 
was  head  of  the  fiistory  department  at  Rogers 
High  School  in  Newport,  R.I.  He  was  a  U.S. 
Navy  veteran  of  World  War  II  and  retired 
from  the  Navy  Reserve  as  a  commander.  He 
is  surv'ived  by  his  wife,  Mary,  2  Jude  St.,  Mid- 
dletown  02840. 

Jacob  Miller  '35,  Providence;  Nov.  19,  1992. 
He  was  a  retired  teacher.  He  is  survived  by 
his  wife,  Natalie  Rouslin  Miller  '41,  84  Savoy 
St.,  Providence  02906. 

Harrlette  O'Neil  Stone  '35,  Warwick,  R.I.; 
Nov.  26.  She  was  a  teacher  in  the  Warwick 
school  system  from  1942  to  1979  and  an  edu- 
cator at  the  Rliode  Island  College  Off-Cam- 
pus Facility  in  Providence  for  twenty  years. 
She  was  a  member  of  the  Warwick  Retired 
Teachers  Association  and  the  Rhode  Island 
Retired  Teachers  Association,  the  Humane 
Society,  and  the  East  Greenwich  Animal  Pro- 
tection League.  She  is  survived  by  her  hus- 
band, Raymond,  525  Love  Ln.,  Warw-ick 
02887;  and  three  sons. 

Ralph  Roscoe  Walker  '35,  Bryn  Mawr,  Pa.; 
Dec.  23.  He  was  manager  of  Strawbridge  & 


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Clothier,  a  Philadelphia  department  store, 
from  1954  to  1977-  He  served  in  the  U.S. 
\'avy  during  World  War  II  and  was  com- 
manding officer  of  the  USS  George  E.  Dnvis. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  National  Bonsai 
Society,  past  president  of  the  Pennsylvania 
Horticultural  Society,  and  a  member  of  the 
American  Red  Cross.  He  is  survi\'ed  by  two 
sons,  including  Donald  Walker  of  Rockport, 
Texas. 

Thomas  John  Caracuzzo  '^6,  Baltimore;  Dec. 
2.  He  was  a  former  \ice  president  of  the  Title 
Guarantee  Company  of  Baltimore  and  retired 
in  igSo.  In  World  War  II  he  served  in  the 
311th  Fighter  Squadron,  Asiatic-Pacific  The- 
ater, U.S.  Army  Air  Forces.  He  was  a  1940 
graduate  of  Columbia  University  School  of 
Law.  Among  his  sur\'ivors  are  two  sons, 
including  Thomas  J.  Caracuzzo  Jr.,  Sand  Cas- 
tle Key,  Secaucus,  N.J.  07094. 

George  Maynard  Kuhn  Sr.  '36,  Houston, 
Texas;  Nov.  7.  He  retired  from  the  Travelers 
Insurance  Company  after  forty  years.  He  is 
survived  by  his  wife,  Helen,  of  Houston;  and 
two  sons. 

Irving  Lionel  Himmel  '38,  Clearwater,  Fla.; 
Oct.  iS,  1993.  He  was  a  U.S.  Army  veteran  of 
World  War  II.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife. 
Ruby,  2492  Laurelwood  Dr.,  Apt.  D.,  Clear- 
water 34623. 

Donald  William  MacMillan  '38,  San  Fran- 
cisco, Nov.  22.  He  was  president  of  the  Motor 
Carriers  Accountants  Council  from  1959  to 
i960  and  entered  city  civil  service  shortly 
thereafter,  retiring  from  the  assessor's  office 
for  the  City  and  County  of  San  Francisco  in 
1977.  During  World  War  II,  he  served  with 
the  U.S.  Navy  on  convoy  duty  in  the  North 
and  South  Atlantic  and  the  Mediterranean. 
He  is  sur\'iyed  by  his  wife,  Harriet,  2739  38th 
Ave.,  San  Francisco  94116;  and  three  daughters. 

Mildred  Vandam  Bomstein  39,  Interlaken, 
N.J.;  Dec.  18.  She  was  a  school  teacher  in 
Asbury  Park,  N.J.,  for  many  years  before 
retiring  in  1981.  She  was  a  member  of  the 
Monmouth  County  (N.J.)  and  national  educa- 
tion associations,  and  of  the  Monmouth 
County  Symphony  League.  Survivors 
include  a  daughter,  Kate  Bomstein  '69,  78 
Webster  St.,  San  Francisco  941 17;  and  a 
brother,  Leroy  Vandam  '34. 

Raymond  William  DeMatteo  '^9,  Warwick, 
R.I.;  Jan.  21.  He  was  a  sales  manager  for  the 
Jannell  Truck  Body  Co.,  Woonsocket,  R.I.,  for 
thirty-five  years  before  retiring  in  1983.  He 
was  a  U.S.  Navy  veteran  of  World  War  II  and 
secretary  of  the  Class  of  1939.  He  is  survived 
by  his  wife.  Moraine,  38  Vancouver  Ave., 
Warwick  02886;  and  three  children. 

Carlotta  Jencks  Grazulis  '19,  Sterling,  Mass.; 
Dec.  5.  She  was  an  English  teacher  at  North 
High  School,  Worcester,  Mass.,  for  many 
years.  She  was  a  former  regent  of  the  Colonel 
Timothy  Bigelow  Chapter  of  the  Daughters 
of  the  American  Revolution,  and  a  member 
of  a  number  of  education  and  teacher  associ- 


ations. She  is  survived  by  a  sister,  Elizabeth 
Baldarelli,  22  Bean  Rd.,  Sterling  01564. 

Charles  Frederic  Mort  '39,  Winchester,  Va.  He 
was  a  retired  sales  representative  for  Westing- 
house  Electric  International  Company,  New 
York  City.  He  was  a  captain  in  the  U.S.  Army 
Chemical  Corps  during  World  War  II. 

Lt.  Col.  Robert  Ralph  Clifford  40,  USAF 
(Ret.),  Costa  Mesa,  Calif.;  June  30.  He  was  a 
navigator  in  the  U.S.  Air  Force  for  Iwenty- 
two  years.  Among  his  awards  were  the  Air 
Medal  and  the  Korean  War  Medal.  He  then 
had  a  nineteen-year  career  with  Douglas  Air- 
craft Company  in  Long  Beach,  Calif.,  retiring 
in  1984  as  manager  of  material  for  the  DC- 
10/KC-io  programs.  He  is  survived  by  three 
daughters  and  his  wife,  Janet  Fine  Clifford 
'42,  2775  Tern  Cir.,  Costa  Mesa  92626. 

Harold  Eshleman  Weaver  '40  Ph.D.,  St. 
Simons  Island,  Ga.;  Nov.  4.  A  longtime  resi- 
dent of  Paoli,  Pa.,  he  retired  as  manager  of 
the  ion  exchange  department  of  Rohm  and 
Haas  Company,  Philadelphia.  He  was  a  life 
member  of  the  American  Chemical  Society. 
He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  Paula,  and  three 
children. 

George  McTammany  '41,  Foxboro,  Mass.; 
Dec.  15.  He  worked  for  the  Foxboro  Com- 
pany for  thirty-five  years,  retiring  in  1982  as  a 
certified  purchasing  manager.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  New  England  Purchasing 
Agents  Association  and  former  treasurer  of 
St.  Mark's  Episcopal  Church  in  Foxboro.  He 
served  as  a  staff  sergeant  in  the  U.S.  Army 
Transportation  Corps  during  World  War  II. 
He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  Agnes,  15  Clark 
St.,  Foxboro  02035;  3""^  three  daughters. 

Peter  Prudden  '41,  Hingham,  Mass.;  Jan.  8. 
He  was  a  district  sales  manager  for  American 
Airlines  in  Boston  before  going  into  business 
on  his  own.  For  his  service  in  World  War  II 
as  lieutenant  commander  of  a  Naval  Air 
Squadron  in  the  South  Pacific  he  was 
awarded  two  Purple  Hearts  and  the  Distin- 
guished Flying  Cross.  A  trustee  of  the  Hing- 
ham Bathing  Beach,  he  was  also  on  the  Hing- 
ham Cemetery  Committee.  He  is  survived  by 
his  wife,  Constance,  and  four  children. 

Carlton  Manock  Singleton  '41,  '51  A.M., 
Arlington,  Va.;  Feb.  28,  1991.  He  worked  for 
Education  Inc.,  Washington,  D.C.,  in  the  late 
1960s.  Before  that  he  was  deputy  director  of 
Appalachia  Educational  Laboratory,  Inc., 
Charleston,  W.  Va. 

Thomas  Edward  Morton  '42,  Fair  Haven, 
N.J.;  May  30,  1993.  He  was  retired  sales  man- 
ager for  Parmatic  Filter  Corporation,  Living- 
ston, N.J.  He  was  a  lieutenant  commander  in 
the  U.S.  Navy  Reserves  during  World  War  II. 

Charles  Merriam  Raymond  '42,  Doylestown, 
Pa.;  Aug.  9,  1979.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife, 
Hilary,  Box  so6,  Doylestown  18901. 

William  Scott  Potter  '43,  Houston;  Aug.  3. 
He  was  retired  from  Fallon  Industries,  Hous- 


ton, where  he  was  an  engineer.  He  is  sur- 
vived by  his  wife,  Alice,  7480  Beechnut,  No. 
433,  Houston  77074. 

Arvid  Herbert  Seaburg  Jr.  '43,  Glastonbury, 
Conn.;  Nov.  11.  He  retired  in  1986  from 
Arbor  Acres  Inc.,  a  construction  company. 
Before  that  he  worked  for  L.F.  Silversmith 
Construction  Company,  Hartford.  He  is  sur- 
vived by  his  wife,  Geraldine,  98  Minnechaug 
Dr.,  Glastonbury  06033;  ''"d  ^  s""- 

A.  Harry  Sharbaugh  III  '43  Ph  D.,  Clifton 
Park,  N.Y.;  Aug.  15.  He  worked  in  research 
and  development  for  General  Electric  Com- 
pany, Schenectady,  N.Y.,  for  forty-two  years, 
retiring  in  1984.  He  held  ten  patents,  pub- 
lished more  than  100  scholarly  articles,  co- 
authored  ten  books,  and  lectured  worldwide. 
He  received  the  IEEE  Dakin  Award  for  out- 
standing technical  contribution  in  electrical 
insulation  and  was  former  secretary,  vice 
chairman,  and  chairman  of  the  National 
Academy  of  Science's  conference  on  electrical 
insulation.  He  was  a  fellow  of  the  Institute  of 
Electrical  and  Electronics  Engineers.  Phi  Beta 
Kappa.  Sigma  Xi.  Survivors  include  his  wife, 
Doris,  28  Hemlock  Dr.,  Clifton  Park  12065; 
and  two  sons. 

Hilda  A.  Calabro  '45,  '50  A.M.,  Providence; 
Sept.  30.  She  was  professor  emeritus  of  edu- 
cation at  the  University  of  Rhode  Island.  She 
also  taught  at  Salve  Regina  University,  New- 
port, R.I.;  and  in  the  North  Providence,  R.I., 
school  system.  She  is  survived  by  two  sisters, 
including  Olga  Calabro  Howell  '53,  John 
Mowrv  Rd.,  Pole  159,  Smithheld,  R.I.  02917. 

Alex  Anderson  Trout  '45,  Harper  Woods, 
Mich.;  1993.  A  U.S.  Army  veteran  of  World 
War  II,  he  was  wounded  in  the  Battle  of  the 
Bulge.  He  graduated  from  the  University  of 
Michigan  Law  School  and  practiced  law  in 
Detroit  until  retiring  in  1992.  He  is  survived 
by  his  wife  and  three  children. 

Gerald  Francis  Franklin  '46,  Glastonbury, 
Conn.;  Sept.  2(1.  He  was  a  professor  of  eco- 
nomics at  the  University  of  Miami  and  assis- 
tant dean  of  its  school  of  business  administra- 
tion from  1948  to  1954.  In  1955  he  joined  Pratt 
&  Whitney  Aircraft,  retiring  in  1985.  He  was 
a  lieutenant  in  the  U.S.  Navy  on  the  Cruiser 
U.S.S.  Fargo  during  World  War  II.  He  is  sur- 
vived by  his  wife,  Jeannie,  76  Shipman  Dr., 
Glastonbury  06033;  'i'''^"'  f^'o  children. 

Harold  Joseph  Rose  '46,  Marina  del  Rey, 
Calif.;  May  29,  of  lung  cancer.  He  was  Harold 
Rosenblum  while  at  Brown.  An  engineer  and 
a  businessman,  he  was  also  leader  of  the  Hal 
Rose  Orchestra,  which  played  in  the  Los 
Angeles  area.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  Bar- 
bara, P.O.  Box  9519,  Marina  del  Rev  90295. 

William  Charles  Wattendorf  '46,  Scituate, 
Mass.;  Sept.  1 1,  1991.  He  was  an  Army  vet- 
eran of  World  War  II. 

Walter  Hardie  Zillessen  Jr.  '46,  .Atlanta,  Ga.; 
No\'.  23.  He  was  a  broker  with  Insurance 
Underwriters  of  Georgia  Inc.  He  served  in 


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U.S.  Armv  Intelligence  during  World  VVor  II 
and  w,is  stationed  in  India 

Thomas  John  O'Neill  47,  I'alm  City,  Fla.; 
Sept.  21),  ot  a  heart  attack.  A  highlv-regarded 
member  ot  the  bankruptcy  bar,  he  was  a 
partner  in  the  Newark,  N.J.,  law  firm  of 
Crummy,  (.VNeill.  DelDeo  and  Dolan,  as  well 
as  O'Neill,  Moore  and  Mclinroe.  At  the  time 
of  his  death  he  maintained  an  office  in  Clifton, 
N.J.  He  was  a  first  lieutenant  and  a  na\'igator 
with  the  Eighth  .Air  Force  in  Europe  during 
World  War  11.  .After  the  war,  he  was  a  special 
agent  for  the  FBI  in  North  Carolina  and 
Kansas.  He  was  a  life  member  of  the  Ameri- 
can Bar  .Association,  the  New  Jersey  Hospital 
and  Health  Council,  and  the  Essex  County 
Retarded  Children's  Association.  He  is  sur- 
viyed  by  his  wife,  Mary,  2207  Seagrass  Dr., 
Palm  City  34990;  and  two  children. 

Cmdr.  Stanley  Wadsworth  Birch  Jr.  '48, 

USN  (Ret.),  Virginia  Beach,  Va.;  Dec.  17.  He 
began  his  career  in  the  Nayy  after  gradua- 
tion. .After  retiring  in  1974  he  taught  mathe- 
matics at  Jones  Junior  High  School,  Hamp- 
ton, Va.,  for  eleven  years.  He  is  survived  by 
Jiis  wife,  Louise,  3417  Warren  PI.,  #101,  Vir- 
ginia Beach  23452;  and  four  children. 

Robert  Faulkner  Dinnie  '49,  Somerset,  Mass.; 
Dec.  13.  An  engineer  and  surveyor  for  the 
Montaup  Electric  Company,  Fall  River,  Mass., 
he  retired  as  its  vice  president  and  general 
manager  in  1983.  He  was  a  U.S.  Navy  veteran 
of  World  War  II,  serving  in  the  Seabees.  Sur- 
vivors include  his  wife,  Dorothy,  687  Buffin- 
ton  St.,  Somerset  02726;  and  three  children. 

George  William  Hagman  '49,  Clover,  S.C; 
Oct.  2.  He  \s  as  a  national  markets  manager 
for  United  States  Plywood,  president  of  Con- 
tinental Vinyl  Products,  vice  president  of 
marketing  for  Phillips  Industries,  and  presi- 
dent of  Vanply,  a  subsiciiary  of  Getty  Oil  in 
Charlotte,  S.C.  He  was  a  U.S.  Army  veteran 
of  World  War  II  and  retired  from  the  reserves 
as  a  captain.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  Phyl- 
lis, 14  Hollyberry  Woods,  Clover  29710;  four 
children;  and  a  stepson. 

Richard  Swan  Hale  '49,  Plainfield,  Mass.  He 
was  the  owner  of  an  antiques  store  in  Plain- 
field.  He  was  a  decorated  Air  Force  veteran 
of  World  War  II. 

RoUand  Henry  Jones  '49,  East  Greenwich, 
R.I.;  Oct.  29.  He  was  a  general  agent  for  the 
New  England  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Com- 
pany, Providence,  for  forty-two  years.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  company's  hall  of  fame 
and  its  Million  Dollar  Round  Table.  He  previ- 
ously worked  for  the  Phoenix  Mutual  Life 
Insurance  Company,  East  Providence,  R.I., 
and  was  associated  with  the  First  Colony  Life 
Insurance  Company  of  Virginia.  For  thirty 
years  he  operated  The  Bearers,  a  concession 
stand  at  Brown  Stadium.  He  was  a  U.S.  Army 
Air  Forces  veteran  of  World  War  II.  He  was  a 
class  agent,  secretary,  and  president  of  his 
class,  and  a  NASP  volunteer.  Among  his  sur- 
vivors are  his  wife,  Alice,  401  Cedar  Ave., 
P.O.  Box  294,  East  Greenwich  02818;  five 


daughters,  including  Elizabeth  Jones  '79; 
and  three  sons,  including  Holland  H.  Jones 
Jr.  '66  and  Jeffrey  Jones  ^S 

Edward  Forbes  Smiley  11  '49  Sc.M.,  Bedford, 
N.H.;  Sept.  27.  He  was  an  engineer  in 
research  and  development  for  Sanders  Asso- 
ciates, Nashua,  N.H.,  for  thirty-five  years 
until  retiring  in  1989,  after  which  he  owned 
and  operated  a  horticultural  book  business. 
He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  Adele,  41  Liberty 
I  till  Rd.,  Bedford  03102;  and  four  children. 

Howard  Van  Name  Young  Jr.  '49  A.M.,  '38 
Ph.D.,  Hampton,  Va.;  Sept.  17.  Professor 
emeritus  at  Hampton  University,  he  was 
appointed  chairman  of  the  history  depart- 
ment and  director  of  the  general  honors  pro- 
gram in  1966.  He  was  a  Fulbright  program 
faculty  advisor  and  held  numerous  other  fac- 
ulty committee  positions.  In  1962  he  was  a 
participant  in  the  first  Summer  Institute  in 
Chinese  Civilization  at  Tunghai  University  in 
Taiwan.  He  was  a  member  of  a  number  of 
historical  associations. 

Henry  Linwood  Barker  II  '50,  New  Rochelle, 
N.\  .  He  was  a  buying  manager  for  Lever 
Brothers  Co.,  New  York  City. 

George  Ogilvie  Brodley  '50,  Savannah,  Ga.; 
1993.  He  worked  in  the  industrial  relations 
department  of  Sylvania  Electrical  Products, 
New  York  City.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife, 
Shirley,  41  Delegal  Rd.,  Savannah  31411. 

Earl  Henry  Conn  '30,  Narragansett,  R.I.;  Nov. 
3.  He  was  president  of  Breakwater  Village  in 
Narragansett  for  twenty-nine  years  before 
retiring  in  1989.  Survivors  include  three  chil- 
dren and  two  brothers:  Alton  Conn  's7,  s 
Jack  Pine  Rd.,  Coventry,  R.I.  02816;  and  Ken- 
neth Conn  '-^c|. 

Alan  Sheldon  Lash  '50,  East  Providence,  R.I. 
He  was  the  owner  of  the  Fashion  Store,  Fall 
River,  Mass. 

Rodney  Blair  Noble  '50,  Mount  Laurel,  N.J.; 
Oct.  15, 1992.  He  rehred  as  principal  engineer 
for  Esscube  Engineering  Inc.,  Marlton,  N.J., 
in  1992. 

John  David  Warwick  Sr.  '51,  Cary,  N.C.; 
Nov.  9.  He  was  retired  from  Johns  Manville 
Sales  Corporation,  Newbern,  N.C.,  where  he 
was  a  sales  engineer.  He  was  a  U.S.  Na\'y 
pilot  during  World  War  II.  He  is  survived  by 
his  wife,  Helene,  200  West  Cornwall  Rd., 
#2114,  Gary  27S11,;  and  five  children. 

Mary  Alice  Bullen  Rich  '52,  Tucson;  June  27. 

George  Graham  Vest  '52,  New  Canaan, 
Conn.;  Dec.  13.  He  was  a  partner  at  Cum- 
mings  &  Lockwood  in  Stamford,  Conn.  He  is 
survived  by  his  wife,  Elizabeth,  43  St.  John 
PI.,  New  Canaan  06840. 

Earl  Francis  Bradley  Jr.  '34,  Stratford,  Conn.; 
Nov.  27.  He  was  a  teacher  and  dean  of  stu- 
dents at  Andrew  Warde  High  School  in  Fair- 
field, Conn.,  and  a  member  of  the  Fairfield 


Education  Association,  the  Connecticut  Edu- 
cation Association,  and  the  National  Educa- 
tion Association.  He  was  a  U.S.  Army  Air 
Force  veteran  of  World  War  II.  He  is  sur- 
vived by  his  wife,  Dorothy,  595  N.  Johnson 
Ln.,  Stratford  06497;  and  three  children. 

Roger  J.R.  Cromwell  'S4,  Cheshire,  Conn.; 
Nov.  2  V  I  le  was  publisher  of  Search,  the 
Source  nfBKsi/if.ss  Opporhiiiitiea,  a  national 
publication  of  mergers  and  acc]uisitions;  and 
chief  executive  officer  of  the  Cromwell 
Group  Inc.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  Ilene, 
1696  Orchard  Hill  Rd.,  Cheshire  06410;  and 
two  children. 

John  Joseph  Henningson  '34,  Southborough, 
Mass.;  Nov.  1 3.  He  was  employed  by  the 
New  England  Electric  System  in  Westboro, 
Mass.,  and  retired  in  1993  as  director  of  labor 
relations.  He  taught  at  Anna  Maria  College 
Graduate  School  of  Business,  Fisher  College, 
and  Clark  University,  all  in  Massachusetts. 
He  served  as  chairman  of  the  Regional  Edu- 
cation Council  of  the  Board  of  Education  for 
the  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts,  and 
was  on  the  board  of  directors  and  a  trustee 
for  the  Alliance  for  Education.  He  coached 
youth  basketball  and  baseball  for  many 
years.  He  served  in  the  U.S.  Navy  from  1955 
to  1958  and  retired  from  the  Naval  Reserve  in 
1991  as  a  commander.  Survivors  include  his 
wife,  Alyce,  10  Tara  Rd.,  Southborough 
01772;  and  six  children. 

Presley  F.E.  Norton  'ss,  Guayaquil,  Ecuador; 
1994.  He  is  survived  by  a  cousin,  David  M. 
Gray  'ss,  4364  Hopeloa  PI.,  Honolulu, 
Hawaii  96816. 

Sue  Curtis  Trainor  '56,  Phoenix;  Sept.  8.  For 
the  last  ten  years  she  was  an  editorial  assistant 
at  Applied  Computer  Research  in  Phoenix. 
She  is  sur\i\ed  by  four  children,  including 
Michelle  Trainor,  3321  N.  41st  PI.,  Phoenix 
83018;  and  a  sister,  Nancy  Curtis  Kem  '55. 

Gordon  Hazard  Greene  '57,  East  Greenwich, 
R.I.;  Dec.  10.  He  was  an  electrician  for  Nyman 
Manufacturing  Company,  East  Providence, 
R.I.,  for  twelve  years.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  R.I.  Historical  Society  and  the  R.I.  and 
New  England  genealogical  societies,  and  of 
the  American  Radio  Relay  League.  Survivors 
include  his  wife.  Beryl,  128  Friendly  Rd.,  East 
Greenwich  02818;  and  two  children. 

Francine  Glaser  Aron  '39,  Cranston,  R.I.; 
Dec.  19.  She  was  a  member  of  the  Women's 
Association  of  Miriam  Hospital,  Providence, 
and  the  Cranston  League  of  Women  Voters. 
Survivors  include  her  husband,  Edward, 
169  Beechwood  Dr.,  Cranston  02921;  and  two 
children. 

William  Joseph  Donovan  '39,  Malibu,  Calif.; 
July  6,  of  a  brain  tumor  diagnosed  two  years 
earlier.  He  spent  his  entire  career  with 
Atlantic  Richfield  Oil  Company  and  at  the 
time  of  his  death  was  a  vice  president  of 
ARCO  Products  Company.  He  ser\'ed  two 
years  in  the  U.S.  Marine  Corps  and  was  dis- 
charged as  a  lieutenant  in  1961.  He  played 


54  /  MARCH  1995 


basketball  at  Brown.  He  is  survived  bv  his 
wife,  Carol,  of  Malibu;  and  three  children. 

Allen  Compere  Pipkin  '59  Ph.D.,  Rumford, 
R.I.;  Oct.  30.  He  was  a  professor  of  applied 
mathematics  and  engineering  at  Brown.  He 
was  a  research  associate  at  the  University  of 
Maryland  before  joining  the  Brown  faculty  in 
i960.  As  a  Guggenheim  fellow  he  taught  at 
the  University  of  Nottingham  in  England  in 
1968  and  received  senior  visiting  fellowships 
from  the  British  Science  Research  Council  in 
1978  and  1982.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife, 
Ann,  87  Greenwood  Ave.,  Rumford  029:6; 
and  three  children. 

Russell  Gilpin  Weeks  '61,  Ivyland,  Pa.;  Oct. 
7.  He  was  product  manager  for  Clemmens 
Construction  Company,  Philadelphia. 

Rev.  William  Carl  Lieneck  Jr.  '62  M.A.T., 
Worthington,  Mass.;  May  7,  1991.  He  was  an 
assistant  professor  of  mathematics  and 
physics  at  Concordia  Collegiate  Institute, 
Bronxville,  N.Y.,  in  the  1960s.  In  the  1970s  he 
served  as  pastor  of  Christ  Evangelical 
Lutheran  Church,  Yonkers,  N.Y.,  until  his 
retirement.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  Mar- 
jorie  Hartmann  Lieneck  Jr.  '48,  Box  95, 
Worthington  01098. 

John  Chauncey  DeWolfe  HI  '65,  Chicago; 
March  4,  1994.  A  1968  graduate  of  Cornell 
Law  School,  he  practiced  in  Chicago  for  many 
years,  he  is  survived  by  his  wife,  Dorothy, 
1448  North  Lake  Shore  Dr.,  Chicago  60610. 

Robert  Alexander  Davidson  '66,  Gilroy, 
Calif.;  Sept.  21.  He  was  employed  by  Digital 
Equipment  Corporation  for  twenty-five  years 
and  at  the  Hme  of  his  death  was  Western 
Region  credit  manager.  An  avid  sailor,  he  was 
a  member  of  the  U.S.  Power  Squadron  and 
Anacortes  Yacht  Club.  He  is  survived  by  his 
wife.  Donna,  6630  Angela  Ct.,  Gilroy  95020. 

Col.  Joseph  Jennings  Ladd  '66  M.A.T., 
USAF  (Ret.),  Bensalem,  Pa.;  Oct.  17,  1987.  He 
is  survived  by  his  wife,  Betsy,  Wood  River 
Village,  Apt.  202,  Bensalem  Blvd.,  Bensalem 
19020;  two  daughters,  Martha  Ladd  '61  and 
Louise  Ladd  Wiener  's8;  and  son-in-law 
Thomas  F.  Wiener  '57. 

Yvonne  Luttropp  Sandstroem  '66  A.M.,  '70 
Ph.D.,  Providence;  Nov.  20.  She  was  a  profes- 
sor of  English  at  the  University  of  Massachu- 
setts-Dartmouth since  1969.  She  was  a  trans- 
lator of  Swedish  literature,  and  her  work  was 
published  in  Tlw  New  Yorker  and  by  the  pub- 
lishing house  New  Directions.  She  was  also  a 
Renaissance  scholar  and  received  numerous 
grants  and  honors,  including  several  from 
the  NEH.  She  was  a  member  of  the  Modem 
Language  Association,  the  Society  for  the 
Advancement  of  Scandinavian  Studies,  the 
Milton  Society,  and  the  American  Literary 
Translators  Association.  She  is  survived  by  a 
companion,  Albert  Katt,  of  Providence;  and 
two  daughters. 

Gordon  Lee  Rashman  Jr.  '67,  Buffalo,  N.Y.; 
Nov.  15.  After  graduating  from  Cornell  Law 


School  in  1970,  he  worked  as  an  attorney  in 
an  anti-poverty  program  in  Philadelphia 
before  returning  to  Buffalo  to  join  the  family 
business,  L.L.  Berger  Inc.,  a  department  store. 
He  was  elected  president  of  Berger's  in  1984 
and  remained  in  that  office  until  the  store 
closed  in  1991.  In  the  last  two  years  he  had 
been  working  with  investors  to  open  a  travel 
goods  and  clothing  store.  He  coached  and 
organized  youth  sports  programs.  He  served 
on  the  Nicliols  School  Alumni  Board  and  the 
boards  of  Buffalo  Place  and  Planned  Parent- 
hood of  Buffalo  and  Erie  County.  He  was 
active  with  the  Downtown  Retail  Merchants 
Association.  He  played  golf  at  Brown  and 
was  a  two-time  champion  at  Westwood  Coun- 
try Club.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  Mary 
Ellen,  665  Lafayette  Ave.,  Buffalo  14222;  and 
three  sons. 

John  Louis  Ciani  '73,  Washington,  D.C.;  Dec. 
22,  of  non-Hodgkin's  lymphoma.  A  Jesuit 
priest,  he  was  director  of  Roman  Catholic 
ministry  and  a  professor  of  theology  at  George- 
town University  since  1992.  In  1993  he  was 
named  one  of  the  university's  top  ten  profes- 
sors. He  was  a  preacher  and  lecturer  at  Holy 
Trinity  Catholic  Church  in  Georgetown.  A 
historian  of  the  Catholic  Church,  he  wrote  a 
book.  The  Vatican's  America:  Catholicism  in  the 
United  States  Obseroed  in  an  Age  of  Crisis,  i8<)i  - 
1914.  He  is  survived  by  his  parents,  John  and 
Phyllis  Ciani,  1923  Narragansett  Ave.,  Bronx, 
N.Y. 10461. 

Robert  Stang  Follett  '74,  Santa  Monica, 
Calif.;  Jan.  4.  He  was  an  economics  consultant 
for  Welch  Associates,  Santa  Monica,  for  twenty 
years  after  receiving  his  master's  degree  from 
UCLA.  He  is  survived  by  his  parents,  Warren 
S.  and  Phyllis  F.  Follett,  95  Audubon  Rd., 
Warwick,  R.I.  02888. 

Betsy  A.  Lehman  '77,  Newton  Centre,  Mass.; 
Dec.  3,  while  undergoing  treatment  for  breast 
cancer.  For  the  past  eight  years  she  wrote 
"Health  Sense,"  an  award-winning  column  in 
the  Boston  Globe  wliich  was  syndicated  to 
about  350  newspapers.  Before  joining  the 
Globe  in  1982  as  a  general  assignment 
reporter,  she  was  a  reporter,  food  editor,  and 
editorial  writer  for  the  Worcester  Telegram  in 
Massachusetts,  and  a  feature  writer  at  the 
Stamford  Adz'ocate  in  Connecticut.  Phi  Beta 
Kappa.  She  is  survived  by  her  husband, 
Robert  J.  Distel,  170  Jackson  St.,  Newton  Cen- 
tre 02159;  ^ri'l  t^'"  daughters.  Contributions 
to  establish  an  award  for  excellence  in  writ- 
ing may  be  sent  to  the  Betsy  A.  Lehman 
Memorial  Fund,  Box  1893,  Brown  University, 
Providence  02912. 

Patricia  C.  McDonagh  '78,  Brooklyn,  NY.; 
Dec.  19,  of  cancer.  She  was  an  associate  at  the 
law  firm  of  Lankier  Siffert  &  Wohl  in  New 
York  City  for  ten  years,  specializing  in  litiga- 
tion. She  was  an  author  and  speaker  on 
breast  cancer  awareness.  She  won  a  land- 
mark lawsuit  against  Blue  Cross/Blue  Shield 
of  New  York  regarding  insurance  coverage  of 
experimental  cancer  treatments  and  was  a 
member  of  the  Cancer  Forum,  an  on-line 
computer  support  and  information  group  for 


cancer  pahents.  At  Brown  she  was  the  first 
student  publicist  for  the  Sarah  Doyle 
Women's  Center,  and  her  logo  for  the  Provi- 
dence "Take  Back  the  Night"  march  is  still  its 
official  logo.  She  is  survived  by  her  parents, 
Edward  and  Cathy  McDonagh,  80  Fisher  Rd., 
Unit  45,  Cumberland,  R.l.  02864;  tw  broth- 
ers; and  seven  sisters,  including  Dolores 
McDonagh  '80. 

Coe  C.  Paisley  '86,  Key  Biscayne,  Fla.;  Aug.  4. 
She  is  survived  by  her  parents,  Adelia  and 
James  Paisley,  345  Redwood  Ln.,  Key  Bis- 
cayne 33149. 

Michael  Puglisi  '88,  Chicago;  Sept.  11.  He 
received  his  master's  certificate  from  Penn  in 
1990  and  was  a  physicist  at  the  Supercon- 
ducting Super  Collider  Laboratory,  Dallas, 
until  1993.  He  moved  to  Chicago,  where  he 
was  a  securities  trader  at  Martial  Trading  Inc. 
He  was  captain  of  the  Brown  fencing  team 
for  two  years.  He  is  survived  by  his  parents, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Anthony  J.  Puglisi,  320  West 
Swedesford  Rd.,  Exton,  Pa.  19341. 

Robert  Scott  Martin  '92,  St.  Charles,  111.;  Dec. 
4,  1993.  He  was  a  graduate  student  at  North- 
western Uni\'ersity.  Survivors  include  his 
father,  Robert  H.  Martin,  3N  772  Mead- 
owridge,  St.  Charles  60175. 

Martin  Henry  Dawson  '94,  Chestnut  Hill,  Pa.; 
Dec.  22,  in  an  automobile  accident.  Known  as 
"Tinry,"  he  was  working  in  Boston  and  plan- 
ning a  career  in  secondary-school  teaching 
and  coaching.  At  Brown  he  was  captain  and 
MVP  of  the  rugby  team  that  went  to  the  New 
England  Invitational  and  Ivy  League  Rugby 
Tournament  finals  last  spring,  and  was 
named  to  the  All-New  England  team.  He  was 
a  Big  Brother  and  coached  an  undefeated 
youth  soccer  team.  Survivors  include  his  par- 
ents, Murray  and  Elizabeth  Dawson,  102 
West  Mermaid  Ln.,  Chestnut  Hill  19118.  A 
memorial  fund  has  been  established  to  sup- 
port a  rugby  award  and  to  provide  an  annual 
event  for  Providence  children.  Donations 
payable  to  Brown  University  (Men's  Rugby 
Endowment  Fund,  in  memory  of  Martin 
Henry  Dawson)  should  be  mailed  to  Brown 
Rugby,  c/o  Jay  Fluck  '65,  Box  1932,  Provi- 
dence, R.I.  02912. 

Dr.  Edward  Allen  Mason,  Barrington,  R.L; 
Oct.  27,  of  prostate  cancer.  He  was  the  New- 
port Rogers  Professor  of  Chemistry  Emeritus 
at  Brown  and  a  chemical  physicist  known  for 
his  work  with  intermolecular  forces.  The 
author  of  336  works,  he  contributed  to  the 
theory  of  transport  phenomena,  especially 
the  thermal  conductivity  of  molecular 
masses.  His  research  resulted  in  a  quantita- 
tive treatment  of  gas  transport  in  porous 
media  that  has  come  into  widespread  use  in 
engineering  practices.  Before  joining  the 
Brown  faculty  in  1967,  he  taught  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Wisconsin,  Pennsyh-ania  State  Univer- 
sit\',  and  the  Uni\'ersity  of  Mar^'land,  where  he 
was  head  of  the  Institute  for  Molecular  Physics. 
He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  Ann,  26  Nayatt  Rd., 
Barrington  02806;  and  four  children.  E3 


BROWN  ALUMNI  MONTHLY   /  55 


Finally... 

By  Lynne  I'atnode  Nado.iii  'Sz  A.M. 


The  Vocation 


S 


o  1  am,  once  again,  a 
teacher.  The  profes- 
sion I  have  worked  toward, 
rebelled  against,  acquiesced 
to,  and  left  behind  for  thir- 
teen years  has  reasserted 
itself. 

It  began  in  my  1960s 
childhood.  As  I  grew  from 
preschooler  to  adolescent,  1 
answered  that  tedious  adult 
question,  "What  do  vou 
want  to  be  when  you  grow 
up?"  with  an  acceptable 
girl  response:  "A  teacher." 
I  was  an  insatiable  reader. 
When  my  father  used  diffi- 
cult words,  I  looked  them 
up.  Soon  a  child's  unin- 
formed choice  crystallized 
into  a  goal. 

In  college  I  worked 
dutifully  on  my  education 
certificate  and  my  English 
degree.  I  found  part-time 
jobs  as  a  writing  tutor  and 
a  professor's  assistant.  But 
a  sudden  attack  of  doubt 
during  student  teaching  my 
senior  year  led  me  to  inves- 
tigate other  jobs.  I  made  the 
interview  rounds,  talking 
to  insurance  companies  and 
other  corporations.  Since 
teaching  positions  were 
scarce  in  1978, 1  half-expected  the  offers 
I  received  to  make  my  decision  for  me.  I 
reckoned  without  fate.  Unexpectedly,  my 
application  for  a  prestigious  teaching 
fellowship  at  a  preparatory  school  came 
through.  I  was  the  first  senior  from  my 
undergraduate  school  to  be  accepted 
into  the  program.  Under  pressure  from 
my  own  past,  I  took  the  position. 

During  my  year  at  the  private  school 
and  two  years  in  a  public  high  school, 
I  enjoyed  the  portion  of  my  work  that 
I  could  rightly  call  "teaching."  But  it 
seemed  a  small  percentage  of  the  whole. 
The  students  did  not  share  my  enthu- 


CAROLINA  ARENTSEN 


siasm,  and  I  found  myself  doing  more 
babysitting  than  teaching.  I  began  to 
make  mistakes,  to  feel  frustrateci. 

My  temporary  solution  was  to  spend 
a  year  at  Brown  earning  a  master's  degree 
in  literature.  I  loved  the  long  hours  of 
reading,  writing,  and  talking.  But  even 
then,  teaching  dogged  my  footsteps. 
After  my  oral  presentation  in  one  grad- 
uate course  a  classmate  commented  that 
my  paper  was  one  of  the  few  that  had 
kept  her  awake.  I  knew  what  this  meant: 
I  am  natural  in  front  of  a  classroom;  my 
emphasis  is  right  for  my  audience;  I  cap- 
ture attention.  I  am,  in  short,  a  teacher. 


After  graduate  school  I 
believed  I  had  turned  my 
back  on  education,  although 
my  new  job  as  a  magazine 
editor  felt  oddly  akin  to  teach- 
ing writing.  Then,  after  the 
birth  of  my  second  daughter, 
I  spent  several  years  at 
home.  I  joined  and  often  led 
a  book-discussion  group;  I 
created  and  presented  a  first- 
grade  poetry  unit  in  my 
daughters'  school.  I  volun- 
teered to  do  literary  readings 
and  discussions  at  the  local 
library.  I  joined  the  state 
humanities  council  as  an  inde- 
pendent scholar.  For  a  long 
time,  I  did  not  see  the  pattern 
in  these  choices.  But  then  - 
from  fellow  readers,  from  my 
children's  teachers,  and  finally 
from  my  own  heart  -  I  heard 
the  old  refrain:  "Why  aren't 
you  in  the  classroom?" 

Last  summer  I  saw  a  tiny 
classified  ad  seeking  adjunct 
faculty.  Classes  would  be  at 
night  and  close  to  home.  My 
youngest  child  was  entering 
first  grade.  Friends  encour- 
aged me  to  apply.  When  he 
hired  me,  the  dean  observed 
that  1  had  been  teaching  all 
along. 
For  the  first  time  in  thirteen  years,  I 
have  a  classroom.  My  teaching  has 
changed.  I  have  changed.  But  it  feels  right, 
this  calling  with  which  I  have  struggled. 
When  family  and  friends  ask  me  how 
my  work  is  going  I  tell  them  that,  to  my 
surprise,  I  am  still  a  teacher.  E3 

Lyime  Patnode  Nadeaii  teaches  English 
composition  at  New  Hampshire  Technical 
College.  She  originalh/  zvrote  this  essay  to 
giiv  her  students  a  chance  to  criticize  and 
respond  to  her  writing;  the  final  version 
reflects  their  questions  and  thoughts. 


56  /  MARCH   1995 


■8 


How  DO 

YOU   KNOW 

WHEN   IT'S 

YOUR  TURN 

TO  GIVE? 


You  may  have  a  good  idea  how  much  it  cost  you  to  go  to 
I  Brown.  But,  what  you  probably  didn't  know  is  that  the  price  of  pro- 

t       viding  a  Brown  education  has  always  far  exceeded  the  cost  of  tuition. 
That's  why  we  depend  on  the  generosity  of  alumni  and 
I  friends  to  help  us  furnish  all  the  benefits  of  living  and  studying  in  the 

Brown  community. 

Every  gift,  no  matter  how  large  or  small,  means  that  we  can 
continue  to  maintain  the  highest  level  of  excellence. 


Why  not  take  a  turn  at  giving  something  back?  Once  you 
take  a  look  at  all  that  Brown  has 
given  you,  you'll  come  around. 


Brbwn 


TH  E    R/silll'  OENt  RATION 


Your  gift  is  the  one  we  need. 


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