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The  Grueling  Year 


To  an  intern 

medical  school  was 

the  easy  part 


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It's  Not  Whether  You  Win  Or  Lose. 


How  politically  incorrect  can  we  get? 
Very.  But  the  truth  is,  winning  feels 
good,  whether  it's  in  the  classroom,  the 
board  room,  the  operating  room,  or  on 
the  field.  Or,  think  of  it  this  way. 
What's  it  like  when  you  pick  up  the 
morning  paper  and  read  that  Brown 
won?  Makes  you  smile,  doesn't  it? 
Beats  the  alternative,  doesn't  it?  Fact  is, 
we're  winning  more  than  any  other 
time  in  our  athletic  history.  And  let's 
not  kid  our  intellectual  selves. 
Winning  teams  enhance  the  overall 
image  of  the  University.   That's  reality. 

Like  Hell  It's  Not. 


The  men  and  women  athletes  of 
Brown  appreciate  your  support  as 
much  as  they  benefit  from  it.  And  this 
year,  obviously,  they  need  your  help 
again.  Remember,  winning  is  not  a 
dirty  word.  It's  just  expensive.  So  give 
to  the  Brown  Sports  Foundation  as 
generously  as  you  can. 


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Help  us  keep  winning  by  giving  or  pledging  to  the  Brown  Sports 

Foundation.   You  can  assign  your  gift  to  your  favorite  sport(s)  or  to  sports  in 

general.   For  more  information,  write,  call  or  fax  us.  Our  deepest  thanks. 

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BROWN  SPORTS  FOUNDATION  *A  & 

David  Zucconi  '55,  Executive  Director  I^V^M 

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Gordon  Perry  '55,  President  •  Liz  Chase  '59,  Vice  President  •  Bob  Hall  '66,  Treasurer 

Bernie  Buonnano  '60,  Secretary  •  Alexis  McCarthy  '85,  Asst.  Treasurer  •  Hank  Cashen  '61,  Asst.  Secretary 


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20  YEARS! 

OF  OCCUPATjC  ' 

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Under  the  Elms    h 

Another  court  decision  on  Title 
IX  . . .  two  BACH  houses 
shutting  down  . . .  remembering 
Billy  Meiklejohn  .  . .  psyching  up 
athletes . . .  Richard  Holbrooke 
on  Bosnia .  . .  the  founder  of 
college  radio . . .  Pick  o'  the  Web 
. . .  Since  Last  Time . . .  and  more. 


DEPARTMENTS 

Here  &  Now 

2 

Carrying  the  Mail 

5 

Sports 

18 

Showdown  for  the  Ivy  title 

Q&A 

19 

Psychologist  Cynthia  Garcia 

Coll 

Studentside 

21 

White.  Black,  and  Yellow 

By  David  Tsang  \)i) 

Books 

20 

Holiday  Roundup 

Reviews  by  Chad  Gaits 

The  Classes 

40 

Obituaries 

53 

Finally.  . . 

56 

Show  and  Tell 

By  Jennifer  Castle  '8g 

The  Youngest  Doctors 


Is  it  chattel  slavery,  rigorous  training,  or  both?  With  medical 
school  behind  them,  interns  face  their  toughest  year  yet. 
By  Jennifer  Sutton 


The  Best  Homework  Ever? 

A  professor  of  mathematics,  a  gifted  student,  and  the  delicate 
contours  of  algebraic  surfaces.  By  Thomas  BauchojJ 


Man  Without  a  Nation 


22 


30 


32 


In  October,  the  Nobel  Peace  Prize  suddenly  focused  the  world 
on  tiny  East  Timor's  independence  struggle.  A  resistance  leader, 
now  a  Brown  undergraduate,  describes  his  arrest  and  torture. 
By  Constdncio  Pinto  \)$  and  Matthew  Jardine 


Portrait:  Criminals,  Beware!  38 

Ken  Carlson  '86  turned  family  tragedy  into  a  personal  law- 
enforcement  vendetta.  His  beat:  your  television  set.  By  Chad  Gaits 


cover:  Preetha  Basaviah  '91,  '95  M.D. 
examines  x-rays  and  CAT  scans  at 
Boston's  Beth  Israel  Hospital.  Photo- 
graph by  Mark  Morelli. 


Volume  97  ■  Number  4/ December  1996 


Here  &  Now 


AT   °^NI 


Sliding  Down 
the  Years 

A- _ - 

-i.  i^had  commuters  nosing  their  cars 
along  Providence  streets  slicked  with  black 
ice.  The  sight  caused  me  to  wonder,  not 
for  the  first  time,  how  winter  denizens  ot 
Providence  got  up  College  Hill  before 
the  days  of  radial  tires.  1  imagined  cruel 
scenes  reminiscent  of  Black  Beauty:  coach 
horses  whipped  to  a  lather,  their  breath 
huffing  from  flared  nostrils  as  they  labored 
up  glazed  cobblestones. 

After  brooding  along  these  lines  for 
several  minutes,  I  reached  for  a  bound 
volume  of  Alumni  Monthlys  from  ninety 
years  ago.  While  I  found  no  answers  to 
my  musings  about  winter  transportation,  I 
brightened  at  the  sight  ot  the  December 
1906  BAM  cover,  which  depicted  Brown's 
seal  encircled  in  holly. 

The  holiday  mood  was  sustained  by 
several  advertisements,  including  that  of 
Tiffany  &  Co.  selling  articles  "suitable  for 
Christmas  gifts."  Who  could  resist  one  of 
the  "Mantel  Clocks  striking  hours  and 
halt-hours  on  Cathedral  gong,"  ranging 
from  $20  to  $55?  More  practical  shoppers 
could  hie  themselves  to  86  Westminster 
Street,  where  Owen  E.  Leavens  &  Co. 
offered  "Ramie  Health  Underwear  -  The 
Underclothing  of  the  Future. ...  It  Pre- 
serves Health,  It  Restores  Health." 

But  the  biggest  news  trom  College 
Hill  ninety  years  ago  this  month  was  foot- 
ball."Brown  23,  Dartmouth  o,"  crowed  the 


headline  about  a  game  played  November 
24  in  Springfield,  Massachusetts,  before 
8,000  spectators.  "Cheering  was  inces- 
sant," the  BAM  reported,  "both  colleges 
keeping    the    air    lively    with    songs    and 

shouts Bushnell  of  Brown,  dressed  as  a 

bear,  danced  about  the  players."  That 
night  Brown  men  celebrated  with  "the 
greatest  nightgown  and  pajama  parade 
seen  in  Providence  for  years.  Led  by  Fay's 
band,  students  marched  up  and  down  the 
main  thoroughfares  of  the  city  cheering, 
singing,  and  setting  off  fireworks.  Cars 
were  stopped  tor  over  an  hour."  Robert 
P.  Brown,  class  of  1871,  proposed  in  an 
essay  that  the  win  over  Dartmouth  "was 
the  victory  of  harmony,  of  a  united  body 
of  students,  alumni,  and  football  enthu- 
siasts..  Joined  in  one  thought  of  the 
redemption  of  Brown."  Hallelujah! 

Redemption,  however,  had  yet  to 
materialize  for  the  1906  faculty,  whose 
salaries,  another  article  noted,  were  "the 
same  as  twenty-five  years  ago."  More  for- 
tunate were  the  undergraduates:  their 
souls  were  attended  to  by  the  Christian 
Association,  subject  ot  a  feature  by  Percy 
W.  Gardner  '03.  The  organization,  he 
wrote,  "calls  upon  every  man  in  Brown  to 
forget  himself  and  help  his  fellow  men." 

Class  notes  occupied  only  two  pages, 
but  they  included  several  ot  historical 
interest:  a  reference  to  the  election  of 
Charles  Evans  Hughes,  class  ot  1 88 1,  as 
governor  ot  New  York;  mention  ot  a 
memorial  window  dedicated  at  Temple 
Keneseth  Israel  of  Philadelphia  in  honor 
of  the  late  John  Hay,  class  of  1856,  and  his 
efforts  while  Secretary  of  State  to  protect 
Jews  in  Romania  and  Russia.  And  lest  you 
think  Joe  Paterno  '50  is  the  only  alum  to 


coach  a  college  football  power,  check  this 
entry  for  the  class  of  1903:  "Ex-Captain 
Thomas  A.  Barry  of  the  Brown  football 
team  has  made  a  great  success  as  coach  at 
the  University  of  Notre  Dame,  Indiana." 

The  magazine's  back  cover  advertised 
the  Union  Trust  Company:  "In  our  Sav- 
ings Department,  new  accounts  may  be 
opened  on  a  deposit  ot  one  dollar  or 
more.  [We  pay]  4  per  cent  Interest." 

Interest  rates  may  rise  and  tall,  but 
today  the  BAM  again  relies  on  advertise- 
ments to  help  pay  publishing  and  mailing 
costs.  And  as  did  our  ninety-year  prede- 
cessor, 111  this  issue  we  report  on  a  pivotal 
Brown-Dartmouth  football  game  (albeit 
one  with  a  nail-biting  finish;  see  page  18). 

1  closed  the  bound  volume.  My  brief 
trip  down  memory  lane  had  provided  a 
fortifying  dose  of  perspective,  history,  and 
college  spirit.  Brown  circa  1906,  I  mused, 
was  a  nice  place  to  visit.  But  just  the 
same,  as  another  New  England  winter 
begins  I'm  glad  to  be  living  111  the  era  ot 
snowplows  and  radial  tires. 

Happv  New  Year  to  all  our  readers. 


AuSjm 


Anne  Hinman  Diffily  '73 
Editor 


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AlUMNI         MONTHIV 

December  [996 

Volume  97,  No.  4 


Editor:  Anne  Hinm.111  Diffily  '73 
Managing  Editor:  Norman  Boucher 
Art  Director:  Kathryn  de  Boer 
Assistant  Editor:  Jennifer  Sutton 
Editorial  Associate:  Chad  Gaits 
Business  Manager:  Pamela  M.  Parker 
Sports:  Peter  Mandel  '81  A.M. 
Contributing  Writer:  Shea  Dean  '<j2 
Photography:  |ohn  Foraste 
Design:  Sandra  Delany  and  Sandra 
Kenney 

Administrative  Assistant:  Sheila 
Cournover 


Board  of  Editors 

Chair:  John  Monaghan  '55 

Vice  Chair:  Dana  B.  Cowin  '82 

Tom  Bodkin  '75,  Anne  Azzi 
I  lavenport  '85,  Rose  Engelland 
'78,  Eric  Gertler  'Ss,  Edward 
M.irccki  '65,  Martha  Matzke 
'66,  Cathleen  McGuigan  '71, 
Carolyn  Cardall  Newsom  '62, 
Stacy  Palmer  "82,  Eric  Schrier 
'73,  Ava  Seave  '77.  Lisa  Sing- 
li.inia  '04.  Benjamin  Weiser  '76, 
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Ivy  League  magazines  boast  a  million  readers  and  an  average  income  of  $132,000. 

Advertisers  find  new  upscale  audience 


By  Laura  Gardner 

ASSOCIATED  PRESS 

NEW  YORK  —  Looking  for  new 
clients  with  money  to  invest,  Neu- 
berger  &  Berman  Management  Inc. 
found  a  ready-made  way  to  reach  af- 
fluent and  educated  readers:  adver- 
tise in  Ivy  League  alumni  maga- 
zines. 

The  investment  firm,  which  is 
based  in  New  York,  tapped  into  the 
Ivy  League  Magazine  Network,  a 
consortium  of  eight  nonprofit  maga- 
zines that  together  reach  about  one 
million  readers  with  an  annual  me- 
dian household  income  of  $132,300. 

The  magazines  reach  "a  lot  of  in- 
telligent people  who  are  smart 
about  their  money,"  said  Steve 
Klein,  media  director  of  Kirshen- 
baum  Bond  &  Partners,  who  placed 
the  ads  for  Neuberger 

"Plus,  they're  magazines  people 
care  about." 

The  network  is  based  in  Cam- 
bridge, Mass.  It  was  founded  in  the 
mid-1970s,  and  it  has  grown  substan- 
tially in  the  past  two  years  through 
a  national  sales  push  that  has 
brought  in  such  names  as  British 
Airways  and  Cadillac. 

Sales  representatives  in  Cam- 
bridge, Detroit  and  New  York  sell 
ad  space  at  the  rate  of  $43,435  for  a 
full  page.  The  ads  then  appear  in 
publications  sent  to  the  alumni  of 
Brown,  Cornell,  Dartmouth,  Har- 
vard, Princeton,  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania,  Yale  and  one  non-Ivy, 
Stanford. 

Columbia,  the  eighth  member  of 
the  Ivy  League,  does  not  participate 
in  the  sales  consortium. 

The  network  keeps  about  15  per- 
cent of  the  ad  revenue  to  cover  mar- 
keting and  operating  costs.  The  rest 
is  divided  among  the  magazines 
based  on  their  circulations.  The  rev- 


enue has  buoyed  some  of  the  publi- 
cations during  an  era  of  skyrocket- 
ing paper  prices  and  increased  post- 
age costs. 

Ad  sales  increased  20  percent  last 
year  to  $1.41  million,  and  another  20 
percent  gain  is  expected  in  1996, 
said  Laura  FYeid,  executive  director 
of  the  network. 

'The  demographics  in  a  lump  sum 
are  hard  to  resist,"  said  Carter  Wise- 
man, editor  of  the  Yale  Alumni  Mag- 
azine. 

Nearly  half  of  the  Ivy  readers 
have  done  postgraduate  study.  Only 
readers  of  the  Atlantic  Monthly 
have  higher  levels  of  education,  ac- 
cording to  Mendelsohn  Media  Re- 
search Inc.,  in  New  York. 

And  the  median  income  of  read- 
ers tops  that  of  many  upscale  publi- 
cations, including  Worth,  Barrons, 
The  Wine  Spectator  and  Conde  Nast 
Traveler,  Mendelsohn  said. 

In  addition,  readers  are  "totally 
invested  in  this  magazine,"  said 
Anne  Diffily,  editor  of  the  Brown 
Alumni  Monthly.  "They  are  much 
more  intimate  with  it  than  they  are 
with  a  newsstand  magazine." 

The  average  reader  spends  80 
minutes  with  an  issue  and  picks  it 
up  on  more  than  two  occasions,  ac- 
cording to  Mark  Clements  Research 
Inc.,  in  New  York. 

Dartmouth  graduate  Betsy  Ben- 
nett said  she  opens  her  alumni  mag- 
azine as  soon  as  it  arrives  at  her  San 
Francisco  home.  "First,  I  read  the 
class  notes  to  see  what  people  in  my 
class  are  doing.  Then,  the  letters  to 
the  editors.  I  read  the  whole  thing 
and  save  back  copies,"  Bennett  said. 

The  combination  of  upscale  demo- 
graphics and  reader  involvement 
has  lured  advertisers  of  luxury 
products,  including  Lexus  cars,  Ab- 
solut Vodka  and  Bermuda  tourism. 


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Carrying  the  Mail 


Off  by  a  Zero 

The  October  BAM  was  a  delight.  Pick- 
ing but  one  example.  Chad  Galts's  article, 
"The Twenty  Percent  Solution."  made 
fascinating  reading  out  of  something  as 
di  \  .is  building  design  and  function.  Hav- 
ing spent  tour  graduate  years  in  old  houses 
made  over  into  biology  buildings.  1  can 
appreciate  the  wonders  of  modern  sci- 
ence facilities. 

I  only  wish  that  our  modest  home, 
with  mostly  gas  appliances,  could  get  along 
on  what  is  attributed  to  each  of  the  5,000 
homes  in  your  opening  paragraph. Then- 
average  rate  of  consumption  (0.05  s  kw) 
would  barely  keep  one  of  our  medium- 
sized  light  bulbs  operating  continuously. 
Now  those,  by  golly,  are  green  houses. 

Don  Forbes  '6i  Ph.D. 

Malvern.  Pa. 
As  Mr.  Forbes  implies,  the  figure  in  the  open- 
ing paragraph  is  incorrect.  MacMillan  Hall's 
yearly  power  consumption  would  be  enough  for 
500  homes,  not  =>,ooo.  —  Editor 


Expert  Moms 

The  degree  to  which  the  knowledge  and 
experience  ot  mothers  is  disparaged  will 
never  cease  to  amaze  me.  I  guess  because 
we  all  think  our  children  are  the  most 
wonderful  creatures  on  earth,  our  opin- 
ions and  observations  are  suspect. Yet  all 
ot  us  have  seen  our  babies  and  small  chil- 
dren do  things  which  the  "experts"  say 
they  cannot  do. 

I  read  the  article  on  Carolyn  Rovee- 
Collier  '66  Ph.D.  ("Mind  Reader,"  Sep- 
tember) with  a  smile  of  recognition. When 
my  daughter,  Ellen,  was  born,  I  was  work- 
ing at  home  as  a  graphic  designer  and 
printer;  I  went  back  to  work  when  the 
baby  was  three  days  old.  Ellen  did  not 
sleep  during  the  day,  and  I  became  frantic 
searching  for  ways  to  keep  her  entertained 
so  I  could  work.  A  small  chandelier  hung 


TO     OUR     READERS 

Letters  are  always  welcome,  and  we  try  to 
print  all  we  receive.  Preference  will  be  given  to 
those  that  address  the  content  of  the  magazine. 
Please  limit  letters  to  200  words.  We  reserve 
the  right  to  edit  for  style,  clarity,  and  length. 


near  my  printing  press.  One  day.  1  put 
Ellen  111  her  baby  seat  and  tied  one  end  of 
a  piece  of  yarn  to  her  wrist  and  the  other 
to  the  chandelier.  Within  minutes  she- 
was  waving  her  arm  around  and  making 
the  chandelier  lights  sway.  She  was  a  few 
weeks  younger  than  Rovee-Collier's 
Benjamin  was  when  he  made  the  mobile 
move.  Unfortunately,  genius  that  she  is, 
Ellen  tired  of  it  after  a  week,  and  we  had 
to  move  on  to  other  diversions. 

Not  knowing  there  were  supposed 
to  be  limits  on  my  daughter's  learning 
ability,  I  had  not  expected  any.  Most 
mothers  can  tell  you  that,  if  you  remove 
a  small,  decorative  item  from  a  room,  an 
adult  won't  notice  it  for  a  week,  but  a 
two-year-old  will  notice  it  the  first  time 
she  or  he  walks  into  the  room. That  it 
took  Rovee-Collier  four  years  to  publish 
her  work  was  a  sad  commentary  on  her 
profession.  I  can  only  hope  the  observa- 
tions ot  mothers  now  carry  more  weight 
-  but  I'm  not  holding  my  breath. 

Susan  Collier  'yo 

Santa  Rosa,  Calif. 
The  writer  is  no  relation  to  Carolyn  Rovee- 
Collier.  —  Fditoi 


Blackboard  Boot  Camp 

Your  article  describing  Brown  Summer 
High  School  ("Blackboard  Boot  Camp." 
September)  demonstrates  how  good 
teachers  can  be  trained  to  be  great  teach- 
ers when  Brown  and  the  Coalition  of 
Essential  Schools  set  their  minds  and 
hearts  to  it. 

Professor  Reginald  Archambault  '52 
asks,  "How  is  it  possible  that  students  can 
graduate  from  high  school  without  know- 
ing how  to  read  and  write? . . .  That's  a 
tragedy."  It  will  continue  to  be  a  tragedy 


until  colleges  and  universities  train 
teachers  to  teach  the  reading 
process. 

As  a  special-education  teacher 
and  a  teacher-trainer  in  reading,  I 
see  that  teachers  have  been  deeply 
saddened,  frustrated,  and  exhausted 
by  the  failure  of  their  education  to 
prepare  them  for  teaching  all  stu- 
dents to  succeed  in  reading,  writ- 
ing, and  spelling. 

If  every  college  and  univer- 
sity with  an  education  curriculum 
will  require  at  least  one  practicum  in 
reading  instruction  through  a  structured, 
systematic,  phonologically  based  approach, 
the  results  will  be  dramatic.  This  method- 
ology, in  concert  with  the  beauty  and 
creativity  ot  the  Whole  Language  approach 
so  firmly  established  in  today's  schools, 
will  most  certainly  turn  the  tide. 
Maxine  Rosenbaum  Goldman  '51 
Swampscott,  Mass. 

I  was  amused  by  the  title,  "Blackboard 
Boot  Camp,"  when,  in  fact,  the  students 
described  in  your  article  are  there  volun- 
tarily. And  being  there  voluntarily,  one 
can  assume  that  a  fair  amount  of  moti- 
vated, efficient,  self-directed,  and/or  inte- 
grated learning  is  going  to  take  place.  But 
it  educators  such  as  Ted  Sizer  believe  they 
are  preparing  teachers  for  service  in  a 
regular  school,  I  think  they're  kidding 
themselves. 

Compulsory  attendance  means  that 
any  school,  public  or  private,  feels  like  jail 
to  the  average  kid.  John  Holt  was  correct 
when  he  wrote,  in  How  Children  Fail, 
"The  major  difference  between  the  good 
student  and  the  poor  one  is  that  the  poor 
student  forgets  right  away,  while  the 
good  one  is  careful  to  wait  until  after  the 
examination." 

Unfortunately,  credential-based  edu- 
cation, with  its  required  courses,  authori- 
tarian judgments,  and  formal  assessments, 
is  inherently  coercive.  Combined  with 
its  inability  or  unwillingness  to  promote 
active,  self-directed,  curiosity-based  learn- 
ing, this  results  in  colleges  and  medical 
schools  that  feel,  to  me,  very  much  like 
the  first  grade  writ  large. 

Our  schools  and  colleges  are  not,  as 
happens  in  a  good  home  education,  turn- 
ing out  the  flexible,  creative,  question- 
asking,  and  socially  adept  citizens  we 


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need.  l'he\  are  turning  out  the  products 
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for  getting  us  into  Vietnam  and  punching 
buttons  on  computers,  but  which  isn't 
going  to  help  us  solve  the  venous  problems 
we  are  accumulating. 

Robert  E.  Kay  '_s  > 

Philadelphia 


Resolution,  Rwanda-style 

The  article  on  Assistant  Professor  Peter 
Uvin  ("Hunger  Politics."  October)  left 
out  the  best  part  on  the  most  recent  of 
the  genocides  in  Rwanda,  namely,  how  it 
was  resolved.  It  was  not  resolved  by  peo- 
ple reading  the  professor's  learned  dis- 
courses. It  was  not  resolved  by  convoking 
an  international  peace  conference  and 
getting  the  two  sides  to  sit  down  and 
talk.  It  was  not  resolved  by  sending  in 
peacekeepers. 

It  was  resolved  when  one  of  theTut- 
sis,  a  graduate  of  the  U.S.  Army's  Com- 
mand and  General  Staff  College,  applied 
violence  in  a  rational  manner  to  achieve 
his  ends.  French  helicopter  gunships,  for- 
eign-aid officials,  and  peacemongers  of  all 
stripes  could  not  get  out  of  the  way  of 
his  light  infantry  fast  enough.  Way  to  go, 
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as  part  of  a  quest  tor  higher  rank,  cushy 
assignments,  and  larger  retirements  were 
actually  put  to  work. 

1  hope  the  Rcwandans  are  enjoying 
the  air-conditioned  sports-utility  vehicles 
the  foreign-aid  types  had  to  leave  behind. 
Maybe  they'll  let  the  professor  ride  in  one 
of  them  when  he  visits  as  part  of  some  as- 
yet-unnamed  fact-finding  mission. 

Gilcin  F.  Meaders  III  '66 

Flintstone,  Md. 


Oxfam  Exonerated 

In  your  article  on  my  work  a  small  but 
unfortunate  mistake  was  made.  The  article 
says  that  "development  aid  from  the 
United  Nations,  individual  governments, 
and  non-governmental  agencies  such  as 
Oxfam  contributed  to  the  deaths  of  one 
million  people  in  Rwanda." 

My  problem  is  not  with  this  strong 
statement  as  such  -  the  rest  of  the  article 
synthesizes  quite  well  the  nuanced  nature 
of  that  reasoning  -  but  with  the  unfor- 
tunate mention  of  Oxfam  in  this  phrase. 
Of  all  NGOs  I  know,  Oxfam  is  without 
doubt  one  of  the  very  best,  on  all  accounts, 
and  consistently  so.  In  the  case  of  Rwanda, 
Oxfam  is  the  only  international  develop- 
ment NGO  I  know  of  that  organized  and 
sponsored  activities  to  deal  with  racism 
and  conflict  in  society. 

Peter  Uvin 

Campus 
The  writer  is  Joukowsky  Family  Assistant 
Professor  in  the  World  Hunger  Program. 
-  Editor 


BACH  Talks  Back 

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House,  a  building  owned  and  managed 
by  the  Brown  Association  for  Coopera- 
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•  According  to  Ramzi  Loqa  of  the 
Providence  Department  of  Inspection 
and  Standards,  Finlandia  was  condemned 
because  it  was  being  used  as  a  multi-unit 
residential  facility  rather  than  as  the  busi- 
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The  root  of  the  zoning  problem  is  that 
there  exists  no  category  specific  to  co-ops. 

•  The  visit  from  the  Department  of 
Inspection  and  Standards  did  not  come  as 
a  surprise:  Finlandia  was  being  inspected 
because  BACH  was  in  the  process  of  fil- 
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•The  very  da\  we  received  the  evic- 
tion notice,  the  Providence  Building  Board 
approved  all  of  our  renovation  plans  and 
granted  each  of  the  variances  we  sought. 

•The  violations  of  lighting  and  ven- 
tiliation  standards  represented  conditions 
that  predated  BACH's  purchase  of  the 
house;  we  were  consequently  granted 
variances  tor  them.  It  is  the  rare  house 
built  prior  to  1900  that  conforms  to  mod- 
ern standards  for  lighting  and  ventilation. 

•  We  are  being  required  to  renovate 
to  meet  the  fire  code  because  of  our 
change  in  zoning.  Had  we  maintained 
the  usage  of  the  previous  owners,  we 
would  likely  not  have  been  required  to 
upgrade  to  1996  fire  standards. 

•Your  characterization  of  BACH's 
attitude  toward  Finlandia  House  as  one 
of  "benign  neglect"  betrays  a  shallow 
understanding  of  the  matter.  In  the  months 
prior  to  the  |une  27  inspection,  BACH 
had  been  meeting  with  Mr.  Loqa  in  an 
effort  to  design  a  plan  to  maintain  a  sev- 
enteen-person  occupancy  for  FinaJandia; 
the  inspection  of  the  house  was  waiting 
on  the  outcome  of  those  meetings.  We 
considered  going  before  the  zoning 
board  to  request  an  exemption  from  the 
minimum  occupancy;  before  doing  that, 
however,  we  had  to  speak  to  our  neigh- 
bors. Far  from  neglecting  Finlandia, 
BACH  was  busy  negotiating  a  solution  to 
allow  the  greatest  number  of  Brown  stu- 
dents an  opportunity  to  experience 
cooperative  living. 

The  omission  of  these  points,  each  of 
which  I  explained  in  two  interviews  with 
the  BAM,  served  to  infuse  the  article  with 
a  decidedly  anti-BACH  slant.  For  many 
alumni,  the  BAM  is  their  only  source  of 
current  information  about  Brown.  Given 
the  responsibility  this  implies,  I  had 
expected  from  you  a  more  thoroughly 
researched  story  and  a  more  careful  pre- 
sentation of  the  facts. 

Cartnel  T.  Drewes  'g8 

Providence 
The  writer  is  iggb-g-j  BACH  coordinator.  For 
further  news  of  BACH,  see  Under  the  Elms, 
page  12.  -  Editor 

Writer  Shea  Dean  responds: 
Ms.  Drewes's  letter  skirts  the  basic  issue: 
Why  were  the  residents  of  Finlandia 
House  kicked  out  with  only  twenty-four 
hours'  notice?  Providence  Department  of 
Inspections  and  Standards  director  Ramzi 
Loqa  told  me  he  was  shocked  -  prior 
meetings  notwithstanding  -  by  the  unsafe 
conditions  he  found  on  his  June  27  visit. 
He  said  he  served  the  eviction  as  a  way 
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to  my  two  interviews  with  Carmel 
Drewes,  Ms.  Drewes  returned  my  phone 
calls  after  the  story  was  already  filed. 
Neither  conversation  took  longer  than 
five  minutes,  and  my  notes  show  that  Ms. 
Drewes  said  nothing  to  contradict  the  facts 
of  our  story.  (A  quote  from  Ms.  Drewes 
was  added  after  the  story  was  laid  out.) 


Florida  Fan  Mail 

I  used  to  grab  the  latest  issue  of  the  BAM, 
skim  through  articles  of  interest,  say  to 
myself, "I  should  read  this,"  and  check  on 
the  classnotes  and  obits.  Now  I  take  each 
issue  and  read  it  from  cover  to  cover, 
page  by  page,  because  I  don't  want  to 
miss  anything. 

In  the  BAAFs  pages,  controversial  fig- 
ures and  issues  are  explored  with  a  curi- 
ous and  open  mind.  Each  individual's 
point  of  view  is  examined,  and  I  enjoy 
reading  the  alumni  responses  in  the  mail 
in  subsequent  issues. These  often  spark 
imaginary  dialogues  with  the  letter  writ- 
ers, during  which  times  I  try  to  apply  the 
concepts  of  philosophy  I  studied  under 
Professor  Vince  Lopez  back  in  1950  in 
Philosophy  Di  and  D2. 


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It  is  also  fascinating  to  read  in  your 
pages  about  the  accomplishments  of 
alumni  from  the  early  twentieth  century 
to  the  near  end  of  the  century.  Educators, 
inventors,  business  entrepreneurs,  religious 
leaders,  medical  researchers,  community 
leaders,  publishers,  media  experts,  musi- 
cians, sailboat  designers,  new  parents,  ad 
infinitum,  all  contribute  to  the  flow  of 
humanity  that  influences  our  world  and 
its  communities. 

Your  September  excerpt  from  the  Aga 
Khan's  baccalaureate  address  ("A  Bridge 
of  Hope")  gave  us  an  enlightening,  pro- 
vocative concept  to  consider.  The  presen- 
tation of  reasonable  thoughts  from  the 
Islamic  world  can  lead  to  dialogue  and 
understanding  between  people. 

I  hope  more  people  take  the  time  to 
read  what  is  going  on  throughout  the 
world  and  at  their  University  in  the  BAM. 

Ellen  Eaton  Wilson  '51 

Fernandina  Beach,  Fla. 


Progressive  Voices 

After  witnessing  the  torrent  of  letters  to 
the  editor  in  response  to  the  conservative 
student  Tabitha  Suarez's  essay  ("Are You 
My  University?"  February),  I  feel  the 
need  to  remind  alumni  that  Brown  still 
has  a  strong  progressive  voice. 

I  was  encouraged  to  see  that  David 
Wade  '97  is  national  president  of  the  Col- 
lege Democrats  of  America,  the  largest 
student  political  organization  in  the  coun- 
try. He's  been  featured  on  NBC  News 
with  Tom  Brokaw,  and  we  caught  him  on 
MTV.  (But  not  in  the  BAM.)  Wade  and 
Marilyn  Concepcion  '99  spoke  in  Chicago 
at  the  Democratic  National  Convention. 
In  the  past  year,  Brown's  College  Democ- 
rats, honored  in  1996  as  the  most  active 
College  Dems  in  the  nation,  brought 
Senators  Chris  Dodd   and  Claiborne  Pell 


and  Representatives  Dick  Gephardt  and 
Patrick  Kennedy  to  campus.  Impressive,  I 
think. 

Howard  Hunt  and  the  Watergate  gang 
better  not  get  too  comfortable.  It's  not 
"his  university"  yet,  not  by  a  long  shot. 

Jeffrey  Mai  '97 

Campus 

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A  Better  Hour? 

With  all  due  respect  and  with  much 
appreciation  tor  well  planned  reunion 
activities,  I  suggest  an  alternate  time  for 
the  popular  Commencement  Weekend 
event  "Hour  with  the  President." 

The  eleven  o'clock  Sunday  morning 
hour  is  traditionally  associated  with  the 
time  tor  Christian  worship.  I,  therefore, 
feel  it  would  behoove  Brown  to  encour- 
age this  worship,  rather  than  to  inhibit  it. 
This  could  be  facilitated  by  allocating 
Mr.  Gregorian's  remarks  to  a  more  propi- 
tious time  during  the  weekend  -  perhaps 
early  Saturday  or  Sunday  afternoon. 

1  make  this  suggestion  with  the 
knowledge  that  many  alumni  look  for- 
ward to  the  president's  comments  with 
great  anticipation. 

Rupert  Austin  ]r.  '48 

Sunsbury,  Conn.  O^i 


CORRECTIONS 

In  a  September  "Under  the  Elms"  report 
on  new  alumni  trustees,  the  class  year  of 
Thomas  Berry  '69  was  misstated. The 
BAM  regrets  the  error. 

Also  in  the  October  Elms  section,  the 
phone  number  for  Bill  Caskey,  interim 
director  of  the  Alumni- Admission  Rela- 
tions Program,  was  inaccurate.  The  cor- 
rect number  is  (401)  863-1839. 


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Under  the  Elms 


ON  A  RAINY  NIGHT  in 
November,  as  students 
tromped  down  Charlesfield 
Street  toward  the  Ratty,  famil- 
iar sounds  floated  out  the 
open  windows  of  Milhous, 
the  University-owned  co-op 
on  Charlesfield  Street.  From 
the  kitchen,  one  could  hear 
talking  and  laughing,  the  clat- 
ter of  pots  and  pans  -  the 
general  racket  of  dinner  being 
made  tor  twenty  hungry 
students.  From  another  room 
came  the  sound  ot  someone 
banging  away  on  an  out- 
ot-tune  piano. 

Come  next  fall,  Milhous 
and  its  companion  down  the 
street.  Carberry,  will  be  filled 
with  banging  of  another  sort: 
the  hammering  of  renova- 
tion crews.  After  a  long,  some- 
times antagonistic  year  of 
negotiations,  on  November  12 
the  Brown  Association  for 
Cooperative  Housing  (BACH) 
rejected  the  University's  final 
lease  offer  and  moved  to 
sever  its  twenty-five-year-old 
tenant-landlord  ties  to  Brown. 
"The  decision  wasn't  easy," 
said  Carmel  Drewes  '98,  this 
year's  BACH  coordinator. 
"These  houses  are  our  lives." 

Although  the  nonprofit 
organization  will  remain  intact, 
the  decision  to  vacate  its  two 
Brown-owned  Victorians  will 
cut  its  membership  in  half. 
BACH  will  hold  on  to  Water- 
myn  and  Finlandia  (formerly 
Gnu),  the  two  co-ops  it  owns, 
and  will  begin  looking  for 
additional  housing.  For  stu- 
dents and  alumni  the  decision 
marks  the  end  ot  a  quarter- 
century  of  officially  sanctioned 
co-op  living  that  many 
believed  was  an  important 
complement  to  academic  life. 
To  the  University  the  end 
ot  the  arrangement  means  it 
can  now  renovate  the  two 
large  buildings  tor  office  and 
academic  space. 


What  Next? 

Two  BACH  houses  will  close  for  good 


In  many  ways  the  end  has 
been  in  sight  for  some  time, 
as  the  gap  has  widened  be- 
tween the  ideal  of  cooperative 
living  and  the  nuts  and  bolts 
of  implementing  it.  The  first 
serious  ritt  between  BACH 
and  the  University  opened  in 
1994,  when  Brown  rejected 
the  group's  choice  of  a  con- 
tractor and  took  control  of  a 
$60,000  electrical-system 
upgrade  that  was  required  in 
the  lease.  While  supervising 
the  work.  University  officials 
found  other  problems  in 
the  buildings,  problems  so 
numerous  that  since  Novem- 
ber 1994  University  inspectors 
have  cited  Milhous  and  Car- 
berry  for  more  than  ninety- 
one  tire-code  violations. 
The  most  recent  was  on  Hal- 
loween, when  a  false  fire 
alarm  during  a  Milhous  party 
triggered  an  inspection  by 
the  Providence  Fire  Depart- 
ment. After  finding  four  feet 
ot  combustible  foam  on  the 


floor  of  an  upstairs  room,  a 
spliced  electrical  cord,  and 
blocked  entrances  and  exits, 
fire  officials  deemed  the 
house  unsafe  tor  occupancy. 
It  took  BACH  members  and 
supporters  tour  days  to  cor- 
rect enough  violations  for  the 
twenty  Milhous  residents  to 
be  allowed  to  return  home. 
The  roots  ot  the  conflict 
are  in  BACH's  original 
agreement  with  the  Univer- 
sity. In  1971,  according  to 
Director  of  Residential  Lite 
Arthur  Gallagher,  Brown 
agreed  to  charge  the  co-ops 
minimal  rent  and  to  allow 
them  almost  complete  auton- 
omy only  if  co-op  members 
kept  up  the  houses.  Over  the 
years,  Gallagher  maintains, 
BACH  members  elected  to 
take  on  mortgages  for  two  of 
its  own  houses;  meanwhile, 
maintenance  on  the  Brown 
houses  slipped.  Under  the 
current  lease,  BACH  takes  in 
roughly  $S2,ooo  a  year  111  rent 


from  the  two  Brown-owned 
co-ops  and  pays  the  Uni- 
versity 815,171  of  that  amount. 
The  remainder  goes  toward 
paying  utilities,  insurance,  and 
the  $30,ooo-a-year  mort- 
gage on  BACH's  newest 
acquisition,  Finlandia 
House.  "BACH  was 
able  to  provide  low- 
cost  housing  because  we 
gave  them  low  rent  and 
they  didn't  spend  anything  to 
maintain  the  buildings,"  Gal- 
lagher says. 

When  the  University 
made  its  lease  offer  on 
September  19,  the  final  con- 
frontation was  under  way. 
The  University  wanted  to 
take  over  all  maintenance  of 
the  buildings  and  raise  the 
rent  from  $15,171  a  year  to 
$100,000  a  year  to  cover  the 
costs.  "We  believe  that  we're 
liable  for  whatever  happens 
in  the  buildings,"  says  Vice 
President  of  Administration 
Walter  Holmes,  "and  if  we're 
liable,  we  want  them  to  be 
maintained  to  our  standards." 
BACH  members  denounced 
the  600-percent  rent  increase 
as  a  violation  of  "BACH's 
mandate  to  offer  a  low-cost 
housing  option  to  students." 
The  proposed  University  rent 
increase  would  have  meant  a 
minimum  increase  of  $500 
per  year  for  each  student  liv- 
ing in  the  co-ops  and  would 
have  left  BACH  hard-pressed 
to  fulfill  its  other  financial 
obligations. 

Neither  BACH  nor  the 
University  is  willing  to  com- 
pletely sever  their  mutual  ties. 
Brown  has  pledged  to  help 
the  co-ops  find  and  finance 
new  off-campus  housing,  and 
a  representative  from  the 
University  will  sit  on  a  board 
of  advisers  BACH  formed 
last  spring  to  focus  on  long- 
term  planning.  "We've  said  all 
along  that  we  weren't  putting 


♦    DECEMBER      I  996 


Under  the  Elms 


the  co-ops  out  of  business," 

Gallagher  s.ivv  "  I  he  co-ops 
will  always  exist."' 

Even  BACH  leaders  are 
Starting  to  sound  more  con- 
ciliatory. Sitting  on  a  Millions 
couch  the  day  after  BACH 
announced  its  rejection  oi 
the  lease  offer.  Alan  Tobin  '97, 
BACH's  director  of  member 
services,  said  talks  with  the 
University  had  recently  he- 
come  more  "holistic."  rather 
than  purely  financial.  Drewes 
added,  "Now  we're  two  orga- 
nizations working  together 
for  a  mutually  supported 
goal"  -  keeping  the  co-ops 
alive.  -  Shea  Dean 


Measure  of 
Relief? 

Dissent  marks  latest 
Title  IX  verdict 

ON  NOVEMBER  2  1    111 
Boston,  a  divided  U.S. 
Court  of  Appeals  for  the  First 
Circuit  upheld  a  1995  District 
Court  ruling  that  Brown's 
athletic  program  violates  Title 
IX,  the  statute  prohibiting  sex 
discrimination  in  education. 
The  appeals  court  upheld 
the  lower  court's  judgment 
that  the  University  does  not 
provide  women  as  many 
competitive  opportunities 


as  it  provides  men. 

[wo  ot  the  three  judges 
on  the  panel  voted  to  uphold 
the  lower  court  decision, 
writing  that  "Brown's  failure 
to  accommodate  fully  and 
effectively  the  interests  and 
abilities  lit  the  underrepre- 
sented  gender  is  clearly  estab- 
lished." The  dissenter  was 
Chief  fudge  [uan  R.Torruella. 
who  argued  that,  under  the 
majority's  interpretation,  com- 
plying with  Title  IX  could 
only  be  done  through  a 
potentially  unconstitutional 
quota  scheme. 

The  nub  of  the  disagree- 
ment is  the  lower  court's 
judgment  that  Brown  has  not 
done  enough  to  ensure  that 
women  are  represented  among 
its  athletes  in  the  same  pro- 
portion as  they're  found  in 
the  entire  student  body.  "I  am 
in  square  disagreement  with 
the  majority,"  Torruella  wrote. 
"We  must,  as  Brown  urges, 
reexamine  the  Equal  Pro- 
tection challenge  to  the  three- 
prong  [compliance]  test  as 
interpreted  by  the  District 
Court." 

The  appeals  panel  did 
give  the  University  some 
relief.  It  reversed  the 
lower  court's  order  that 
complying  with  the  law- 
would  require  funding 
four  additional  women's 
teams;  Brown's  preference 
was  tor  bringing  the  numbers 
in  balance  by  cutting  men's 
programs.  The  University- 
now  may  submit  an  alterna- 
tive compliance  plan  to  the 
District  Court  for  approval. 

Immediately  after  the 
Circuit  Court  decision  was 
announced,  each  side  claimed 
a  degree  ot  victory.  Arthur 
Bryant,  executive  director  of 
the  DC. -based  Trial  Lawyers 
for  Public  Justice,  called  the 
latest  decision  "a  wake-up 
call  to  schools  all  around  the 
country."  Bryant's  group  filed 
the  original  1992  suit  against 
Brown  on  behalf  of  women 


SINCE     LAST     TIME... 

Thanks  to  fallout  from  recent  cases  of  alleged  date  rape  on  cam- 
pus, public  discussion  about  gender  equity  and  sexual 
assault  reached  a  new  intensity:  a  forum  in  Faunce  House  on 
November  19  and  a  Novembet  20  rally  on  the  Green  each  drew 
crowds  of  150  students,  faculty,  and  administrators...  Early 
applications  for  admission  passed  the  3,000  mark  for  the  first 
time  in  University  history;  almost  half  the  class  of  2001  may  be 
early  applicants.  ...Associate  Dean  of  Student  Life  Toby  Simon 
announced  her  resignation;  Simon  founded  the  Sexual  Assault 
Peer  Education  Program  at  Brown  and  was  an  advisor  to  the  trav- 
eling Anti-Sexual  Assault  Program. . . .  Brown  researchers  received 
about  $63  million  in  funding  last  year  -  a  9-percent  increase 
over  the  $58  million  received  for  the  1993-94  fiscal  year;  since 
1986-87  an  average  of  585  out  of  900  research  proposals  have 
been  approved  by  funding  agencies. 


gymnasts  and  volleyball  play- 
ers whose  funding  had  been 
cut.  One  ot  Brown's  legal 
team,  Jeffrey  Michaelson  '80, 
found  "gratifying"  the  rever- 
sal of  the  District  Court's 
compliance  order:  "It  was  an 
important  point  to  win." 

As  the  BAM  went  to  press, 
University  officials  had  not 
decided  on  the  nature  of  their 
appeal.  Brown  can  either 
petition  the  appeals  court  to 
reconsider  its  decision  or  take 
its  case  to  the  U.S.  Supreme 
Court.  -  Anne  Diffily 


Wired 

The  founder  oj  college  radio 
looks  back 

THE   YEAR   WAS    I936,  and 
the  Net  was  just  getting 
started.  No,  not  the  Internet 
—  the  Brown  Net.  That's  what 
first-year  engineering  stu- 
dents David  Borst  '40  and 
the  late  George  Abraham  '40 
called  the  system  they  had 
devised  to  connect  Brown 


dorm  rooms  before  tele- 
phones w-ere  installed. 

The  Net  was  a  web  ot 
copper  wires  stretched 
through  the  treetops  to  link 
radios  from  dorm  to  dorm. 
Students  could  send  their 
own  messages  through 
microphones  Borst  installed, 
while  over  a  second  line 
Abraham  broadcast  music  and 
occasional  interviews  from 
his  room.  On  February  3, 


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Under  the  Elms 


1937,  Borst  and  Abraham 
offered  the  first  college-radio 
coverage  of  a  live  event:  the 
inauguration  of  Henry  Mer- 
ritt  Wriston  as  Brown's  elev- 
enth president. 

In  November  Borst  re- 
turned to  campus  to  meet  with 
students  trying  to  revive  the 
AM  descendent  of  the  Net, 
WBSR,  whose  equipment  is 
so  outdated  that  its  signal 
has  been  barely  audible  in  re- 
cent years.  Celebrating  its  six- 
tieth anniversary  this  year, 
the  station  considers  itself 
(rather  than  its  big  FM  brother, 
WBRU)  the  true  heir  to 
Borst's  efforts.  Fittingly,  Daniel 
Oppenheim  '98,  WBSR  s 
general  manager,  is  working 
to  bring  it  back  Brown  Net- 
work style.  He's  imagining 
a  station  with  campus  news, 
homespun  music,  Bruin  sports- 
casts  (which  have  already  be- 
gun), and  quiz  shows  -  college 
stuff. 

Borst,  white-haired,  tweedy, 
and  affable,  regaled  Oppen- 
heim and  his  colleagues  with 
dozens  of  stories.  He  explained 
how  as  the  Brown  Network 
gained  popularity  he  ran 
30,000  feet  of  wire  through 
the  underground  steam  tun- 
nels -  groundskeepers  didn't 
like  the  wires  sparking  in  the 
trees  when  it  rained  -  all 
to  send  out  a  two-watt  signal. 
(Today,  WBRU  puts  out 
20,000  watts.) 

In  1940,  Borst  and  Abra- 
ham founded  the  Intercolle- 
giate Broadcast  System.  Its 
first  convention  -  the  nation's 
first  college-radio  conference 
—  drew  representatives  from 
thirteen  colleges.  Today  IBS 
boasts  more  than  500  mem- 
ber stations,  and  Borst  still  sits 
on  its  board  of  directors. 

As  Borst  told  his  tales, 
Oppenheim  listened  respect- 
fully. "This  is  a  famous  guy  in 
Brown  history  and  in  radio 
history,"  he  said  excitedly 
afterward.  "I  mean,  this  was 
cutting  edge."  -  Shea  Dean 


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The  John  Carter  Brown  Library's  copy  of  the  Eliot 
Bible  (left)  led  to  a  dissertation  for  Edward  Gray 
'96  Ph.D.  (above). 


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At  the  JCB's  150th  anniversary  convocation  in  November, 
honorary  degrees  went  to  (standing,  from  left)  historian  Sir 
John  Elliott,  anthropologist  and  historian  Miguel  Leon-Portilla, 
industrialist  and  book  collector  Jose  Mindlin,  and  (sitting) 
Smithsonian  ethnology  curator  William  Sturtevant. 


The  Word 

Striking  gold  among  the 
stacks 

THE  JOHN  CARTER  BROWN 
Library  is  iso  years  old 
this  year,  and  to  measure  the 
impact  it  continues  to  have 
on  Brown's  academic  life,  one 
has  only  to  look  at  Edward 
Gray  '96  Ph.D.  Gray  started 
his  history  graduate  program 
unsure  of  what  to  study,  but 
when  he  first  walked  into  the 
John  Carter  Brown  Library 
he  knew  he  wanted  to  study 
it  there.  Finding  the  JCB,  he 
says,  "turned  an  ordinary  grad- 
uate-school experience  into 
a  process  of  real  discovery." 

Among  Gray's  early  fasci- 
nations at  the  JCB  was  a  copy 
of  the  Eliot  Bible,  one  of 
the  most  highly  sought-after 
prizes  in  American  book  col- 
lecting. The  work  of  John 
Eliot,  a  Puritan  minister  and 
missionary  from  Roxbury, 
Massachusetts,  1 ,000  copies  of 
the  Eliot  Bible  were  printed 
111  [663,  making  it  the  first 
complete  book  printed  in  the 
western  hemisphere.  It  was 
also  the  first  complete  trans- 


14    ♦    DECEMBER     I996 


Under  the  Elms 


Peace  Broker 

Richard  Holbrooke  's 
Bosnian  deal 


Grad  Students  by  the  Numbers 

FROM  THE  1995-96  SURVEY  OF  GRADUATE  STUDENT  LIFE 

Brown  students  who  are  graduate  students:  20% 

Graduate  students  who  are  women:  44% 

Those  who  belong  to  a  minority  group:  12% 

Those  who  are  from  outside  the  United  States:  28% 

Those  who  receive  some  financial  aid:  78% 


lation  ot  the  Bible  into  a  non- 
European  language  -  Massa- 
chusetts to  be  exact,  a  dialect 
of  the  eastern  Algonquian 
family  ot"  Native  American 
languages. 

At  an  October  conference 
that  was  part  of  the  JCB's 
anniversary  celebration.  Gray 
discussed  the  results  of  his 
research  on  the  Eliot  Bible, 
focusing  on  how  it  tared  dur- 
ing the  years  shortly  after  it 
was  published.  Most  copies  of 
the  1663  edition,  he  said,  were 
burned  during  King  Philip's 
War.  which  began  ten  vears 
after  the  bible  came  oft  press. 
Viewed  by  Native  Americans 
as  an  intrusion  into  their 
way  of  life  and  distrusted  by 
Puritans  who  could  not  read 
it.  the  Eliot  Bible.  Gray  con- 
tends, may  have  fueled  the 
acrimony  between  Puritans 
and  the  Indian  population, 
increasing  the  tensions  leading 
to  the  war  between  the  two. 

Gray  is  now  hard  at  work 
on  New  World  Babel:  Language 
and  Culture  in  Early  America, 
a  book  based  on  his  disserta- 
tion, to  be  published  by 
Princeton  University  Press. 
Gray  credits  the  library,  and 
especially  its  director,  Norman 
Fiering.  for  providing  the 
right  atmosphere  to  work  111. 
"There  was  a  constant  parade 
of  scholars  with  all  kinds  of 
interests."  Gray  says.  "For  a 
student  to  be  exposed  to  this 
kind  of  range  is  a  very  enrich- 
ing experience."  -  Chad  Gaits 


What  was  the  right 
moment  for  the  United 
States  to  intervene  in  Bosnia? 
Why  were  European  coun- 
tries so  ineffectual  in  settling 
such  a  gruesome  conflict  111 
their  own  back  yard?  Histo- 
rians and  diplomatic  scholars 
will  no  doubt  debate  these 
questions  for  decades.  If  his 
October  speech  in  the  Olney- 
Margolies  Athletic  Center  is 
any  indication,  however.  Assis- 
tant Secretary  of  State  Richard 
Holbrooke  '62  believes  that 
the  tragedy  of  Bosnia  was  at 


least  partly  due  to  the  reluc- 
tance of  the  United  States  to 
admit  that  it  alone  retains 
the  military  might  to  end 
such  wars. 

Holbrooke,  who  was  on 
campus  to  receive  the  Alumni 
Association's  William  Rogers 
Award  for  service  to  society, 
was  the  chief  U.S.  negotiator 
of  the  1995  Dayton  Peace 
Accord.  As  such  he  got  a  first- 
hand look  at  "the  unspeak- 
able catastrophe  in  Yugoslavia." 
a  catastrophe  that  he  believes 
should  have  been  averted. 
"An  American-European  joint 
position  could  have  prevented 
the  war."  Holbrooke  claimed, 
but  officials  vacillated  between 
horror  over  what 
was  happening  and  a 
squeamishness  about 
getting  mired  in  a 
protracted  military 
venture.  By  1991,  when 
Yugoslavia  "began  to 
come  apart  at  the 
seams,"  he  said,  repre- 
sentatives of  the  Euro- 
pean Union  told 
American  officials  that 
they  would  handle  the 
problem.  The  United 
States  agreed  to  stay 
out,  but  its  acquies- 
cence, said  Holbrooke, 
was  a  critical  mistake: 
"The  Europeans  were 
not  unified  enough 
and  didn't  have 
enough  moral  and 
military  authority  to 
stop  the  war." 

By  the  summer  of  1995, 
Holbrooke  continued,  Bosnia 
"stood  at  the  abyss."  Enter 
President  Clinton,  who  tapped 
Holbrooke  to  lead  a  U.S.  del- 
egation to  end  the  slaughter. 
A  veteran  of  the  Vietnam 
War's  Paris  Peace  Talks  and  a 
recent  U.S.  ambassador  to 
Germany,  Holbrooke  and  his 
team  held  talks  with  the 
region's  leaders  -  talks  that 
led  nowhere  until  the  United 
States  gave  NATO  the  go- 
ahead  to  begin  bombing  Serb 


strongholds.  After  that,  "the 

negotiations  made  consider- 
able progress,"  Holbrooke  said 
drily,  "and  by  October  199s 
we  were  ready  for  an  all-out 
peace  process." The  result  was 
the  Dayton  Accord,  which 
has  so  far  held  up.  though 
with  a  longer  commitment  of 
U.S.  forces  than  was  origi- 
nally anticipated. 

"When  there  is  a  crisis." 
Holbrooke  concluded. 
"America  must  lead.  ...  It 
was  only  when  the  United 
States  assumed  a  leadership 
role  under  NATO's  banner 
that  things  began  to  turn 
around."  He  argued  that  "his- 
torians will  look  back  on 
last  tall  as  a  turning  point  for 
America's  role  in  Europe." 
-  Anne  Diffily 


The  Face  in 
the  Mirror 

Carlos  Fuentes  on 
the  novel 

In  A  freewheeling  Presi- 
dent's Lecture,  Mexican 
writer  and  diplomat  Carlos 
Fuentes  paid  homage  not 
only  to  dozens  ot  great  Anglo 
writers  but  also  to  the  grow- 
ing ranks  of  non-Anglo 
ones.  Authors  such  as  Kazuo 
Ishiguro  and  Gabriel  Garcia 
Marquez,  Fuentes  said,  are 
redefining  Anglophone  literary 
terrain.  "We  are  experiencing 
a  universal  explosion  111 
writing,"  explained  Fuentes. 
a  professor  at  large  in  the 
Department  of  Hispanic  Stud- 
ies. In  addition  to  yielding 
some  of  the  finest  literature 
of  the  century,  that  explosion 
is  helping  to  shatter  old 
prejudices. 

"We  are  frightened  and 
angry  when  the  reflection  111 
the  mirror  is  not  our  own," 
Fuentes  said,  "but  we  can't 
grasp  reality  alone.  That  is  the 
challenge  ot  the  other."  As  a 


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striking  example,  Fuentes  para- 
phrased Gregor  from  Kafka's 
Metamorphosis:  "Are  you  going 
to  squash  me  because  I  have 
become  a  bug?  Can't  you  rec- 
ognize my  humanity?" 

For  Fuentes,  literature  can 
play  a  mediating  role  among 
cultures  by  forcing  readers  to 
imagine  lite  from  other  per- 
spectives. "We  can't  recognize 
our  own  humanity  until  we 
recognize  it  in  others,"  he 
said.  "When  we  exclude,  we 
are  poor.  When  we  include, 
we  are  rich."  -  Shea  Dean 


in  advance,  so  when  Hempel 
held  hour-long  conferences 
with  them  she  was  able  to 
target  her  advice  about  tone, 
voice,  structure. 

"We  talked  about  specific 
problems  in  specific  stories 
that  can  be  amplified  into 
larger  concerns,"  she  said  at 
an  afternoon  demitasse  at 
Blistein  House.  Hempel  knows 
how  important  mentors  are. 
She  credits  her  own,  the 
New  York  writer  and  editor 
Gordon  Lish,  with  develop- 
ing her  craft  and  giving  her 


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From  the  mouths  of  pros 

Writers  are  always 
looking  for  mentors. 
Every  Raymond  Carver 
wants  his  John  Gardner,  every 
Thomas  Wolfe  his  Maxwell 
Perkins.  This  year  students 
working  toward  an  M.F.A.  in 
fiction  got  Amy  Hempel, 
whose  funny,  lyrical  short  sto- 
ries, many  of  which  star  dogs 
and  other  furry  creatures, 
have  made  her  one  of  the  top 
short-fiction  writers  in  the 
country. 

Hempel  came  to  Brown 
for  a  week  in  November  to 
meet  with  seven  students 
hungry  for  a  fresh  perspective 
on  their  work.  The  students 
had  sent  her  their  manuscripts 


confidence.  "He  took  it  as 
an  article  of  faith  that  every- 
one could  write  a  surpassing 
story,"  she  said.  To  do  that, 
Lish  told  her,  it  took  not  just 
talent  but  will.  -  Shea  Dean 


Billy  Blue  Room 

Good-bye  to  the  man 
everyone  knew 


D 


URING  THE  LAST  WEEK 

in  October  the  flag  was 
lowered  to  half-staff,  and 
across  the  Green  the  Faunce 
House  Blue  Room  became  a 
somber  place.  When  William 
Meiklejohn  died  suddenly 
of  a  heart  attack  at  the  age  of 
forty-seven  on  October  26, 
the  University  lost  one  of 


Billy  Meiklejohn  (right)  and  coworker  at  the  lunch  counter 
in  the  1984  Blue  Room. 


those  reassuring  human  refer- 
ence points  who  cross  con- 
centrations and  class  years  to 
create  a  shared  memory  of 
Brown. 

For  twenty-seven  years 
Meiklejohn  was  the  first  per- 
son many  Brown  students, 
faculty,  and  employees  saw 
each  morning.  He  began 
pouring  coffee  and  wiping 
tables  111  the  Blue  Room  111 
1971,  not  long  after  Donald 
Hornig  became  the  Univer- 
sity's president,  and  he  kept  at 
it  throughout  the  eleven-year 
reign  of  Howard  Swearer. 
Most  assumed  he  would  out- 
last even  the  indefatigable 
Vartan  Gregorian. 

A  down-to-earth  man 
whose  friendliness  and  good 
nature  were  a  welcome 
reprieve  from  the  sometimes 
rarefied  air  of  the  classroom, 
Meiklejohn  had  two  great 
loves  at  Brown:  Softball  and 
theater.  He  attended  almost 
every  student-theater  open- 
ing night  for  the  last  thirty 
years  and  was  an  enthusiastic 
participant  in  the  "strikes,"  or 
breakdown  of  sets,  when  the 
shows  closed.  Meiklejohn 
stayed  in  touch  with  the  stu- 
dents he  met,  and  wherever 
he  traveled  on  summer  vaca- 
tions he  visited  such  theater 
alumni  as  Ted  Ewing  '79,  a 
conductor  and  director  in 
San  Diego.  "Billy  was  a  kind 
of  savant  when  it  came  to 


theatrical  productions," 
Ewing  says.  "He  would  talk 
about  the  shows  in  apprecia- 
tive and  joyful  ways  that 
really  stuck  with  you." 

Meiklejohn  earned  his 
nickname  on  the  interoffice 
sottball  diamond  when  a 
teammate,  unable  to  remem- 
ber his  last  name,  put  Meik- 
lejohn into  the  batting  order 
as  "Billy  Blue  Room."  The 
moniker  stuck,  even  after 
Meiklejohn  was  transferred 
this  fall  from  the  Blue  Room 
to  Josiah's,  the  snack  bar  at 
the  Thayer  Street  dorm. 

At  a  Manning  Chapel 
memorial  service  in  Novem- 
ber many  staff,  faculty,  alumni, 
and  students  gathered  to 
trade  Billy  Blue  Room  stories. 
Philip  Howell  '82,  '83  Sc.M., 
Meiklejohn's  long-time  soft- 
ball  teammate,  described  his 
"knack  for  making  the  plays 
and  getting  the  hits  you 
didn't  expect."  Claiming  that 
Meiklejohn  had  only  one 
fault  -  he  was  a  Yankees  fan  - 
Howell,  now  a  research  pro- 
grammer for  the  geological 
sciences  department,  said  their 
relationship  persevered  through 
the  many  phases  of  Howell's 
career  at  Brown.  "Billy  was 
a  constant,"  Howell  said.  "It's 
hard  to  imagine  the  Brown 
summer  Softball  league  and 
the  Blue  Room  without 
him."  -  Chad  Galls 


16    •     DECEMBER     I  9  9  6 


Under  the  Elms 


Jock  Treatment 

Hoir  the  best  athletes 
get  better 

WHEN  SEAN  MCCANN  '82 
was  an  undergraduate 

psychology  concentrator. 
he  spent  as  much  time  as  lie 
could  racing  bicycles,  a  pre- 
occupation that  continued 
after  graduation."!  was  a  crazed 
amateur  working  in  a  bike 
shop  to  support  my  habit."  he 
said  during  a  November  visit 
to  campus.  When  he  finally 
got  around  to  graduate 


Sean  McCannn  '82  helps  Olympians 
develop  a  psychological  edge. 

school  at  the  University  ot 
Hawaii,  he  decided  to  apply 
his  psychology  background 
to  sport.  "I  got  interested  in 
how  bike  racers  handle  pain," 
he  says.  In  1988  he  had  the 
novel  experience  of  doing  his 
research  on  the  U.S.  Olympic 
bike  team  at  the  Olympic 
Training  Center  in  Colorado 
Springs,  Colorado. 

Today  McCann  is  the 
head  sports  psychologist  at 
the  training  center.  On  cam- 
pus to  talk  about  psychology 
and  sport  with  faculty  and 
students,  he  described  his  job 
as  helping  athletes  overcome 
everything  from  nervousness 
before  a  big  event  to  crip- 
pling eating  disorders.  So  far. 


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Victorian 
Secrets 

WHERE  IT  IS: 

http://www.stg.brown.edu/ 
projects/hypertext/landow/ 
victorian/victov.html 

WHAT  YOU'LL  FIND: 


■  An  exhaustive,  well-catalogued  overview  of 
life  in  Victorian  England. 

■  More  than  seventy-five  student  and  faculty 
contributors  writing  on  everything  from  Victorian 
furniture  design  to  phrenology  to  British  class 
structure. 

■  Separate,  internal  "sub-Webs"  on  individual 
works,  gender  issues,  and  such  great  thinkers  as 
Charles  Dickens,  Thomas  Carlyle,  Sigmund  Freud, 
and  others. 

■  A  showcase  for  George  P.  Landow,  a  profes- 
sor of  English  and  art  history  at  Brown  and  a  noted 
hypertext  pioneer,  who  conceived  and  engineered 
the  site. 


V     WHAT  I  THINK: 

Stunningly  ambitious  and 
/      richly  comprehensive.  Addic- 
tive, whether  you  are  a  Victo- 
rian enthusiast  or  think  history 
begins  with  Microsoft.  After  spend- 
ing an  entire  day  reading  about 
William  Makepeace  Thackeray,  Moravian 
religious  dissenters,  Charles  Darwin's  voyage  to 
the  Galapagos,  and  Queen  Victoria's  mourning 
over  the  death  of  her  "rather  priggish,  sanctimo- 
nious, and  intellectually  shallow"  husband,  Albert, 
I  had  barely  scratched  the  surface.  Instead,  I'd 
stumbled  into  a  Web  vortex  and  was  soon 
engaged  in  the  Internet  equivalent  of  channel 
surfing:  each  link  seemed  more  interesting  than 
the  work  waiting  on  my  desk. 

The  site's  desire  to  be  all  things  Victorian, 
however,  sometimes  gets  out  of  hand.  While  the 
information  is  clearly  presented  and  easily  navi- 
gable, the  effect  can  be  as  windy  as  a  serialized 
Victorian  novel  -  "a  loose,  baggy  monster,"  as 
Henry  James  said  of  Thackeray's  The  Newcomes. 
Be  prepared  to  surrender  some  time. 


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he  said,  he  has  focused  par- 
ticularly on  the  women's 
alpine  ski  team  in  the  winter 
and  the  men's  shooting  team 
in  the  summer.  This  often 
means  dispensing  guidance  in 
unusual  places.  With  the  ski 
team,  for  example,  "I'm 
meeting  with  athletes  on  a 
chair  lift,  or  in  hotel  rooms, 
or  right  on  the  hill." 

His  work  with  teams  has 
not  prevented  him,  however, 
from  also  helping  such  indi- 
viduals as  the  wrestler  who  had 
fifteen  surgeries  over  the  last 


three  years  and  who  consulted 
McCann  on  whether  trying 
to  stay  in  competition  was 
even  worth  it.  After  deciding 
to  keep  at  it,  the  man  won 
a  medal  at  the  summer  games 
in  Atlanta.  (McCann  won't 
reveal  the  athlete's  name.) 

What  distinguishes  world- 
class  athletes  from  run-of-the- 
mill  ones,  McCann  believes, 
is  precisely  this  attitude  toward 
injury  and  pain.  "At  the  elite 
level,"  McCann  explained, 
"the  idea  of  the  runner's  high 
doesn't  go  far.  The  athletes 


concentrate  on  their  pain.  By 
paying  close  attention  to  it, 
they  can  go  a  little  bit  harder." 
This  ability  to  maintain  focus 
under  adverse  conditions  is 
a  crucial  psychological  edge 
at  the  Olympic  level,  he  added. 
All  the  hype  and  drama  can 
be  unsettling,  so  McCann 
tries  "to  get  athletes  to  stay 
focused  on  the  task  in  front  of 
them"  and  not  on  what  will 
happen  if  they  win  or    lose. 
-  Norman  Boucher 


BROWN    ALUMNI    MONTHLY    ♦    I  7 


Sports 


BY   PETER   MAN  DEI. 


It's  Saturday  on  the  East  Side 
of  Providence,  and  I'm  walk- 
ing about  a  block  behind  a  Brown 
pennant  flapping  from  a  child's 
stroller.  As  I  follow  the  pennant 
around  a  corner,  the  sounds  of  the 
Brown  band  grow  brassier  and 
more  insistent. 

Thud,  thud,  thud.  The  bass 
drum  is  an  urgent  heartbeat  for 
the  most  meaningful  Brown  football 
game  in  seventeen  years  -  the  November 
16  contest  against  undefeated  Dartmouth. 
A  win  today  will  earn  the  resurgent  Bears 
a  tie  for  the  league  lead  and  a  shot  at  an 
Ivy  trophy  to  match  its  first  one  from 
twenty  years  ago. 

Climbing  up  the  stands,  dodging 
teenagers  in  fluorescent  jackets,  I  look 
down  at  a  Brown  team  that  has  won  five 
straight  atter  three  demoralizing  losses. 
The  season  opened  with  a  disaster  against 
Yale,  a  game  that  coach  Mark  Whipple  '79 
told  the  Providence  journal  he'd  never 
understand  "until  they're  shoveling  dirt 
on  my  coffin."  Then  came  a  loss  to  a  Col- 
gate team  that  hadn't  won  in  two  years. 
The  turnaround  began  with  a  comeback 
win  over  Princeton  fueled  by  quarterback 
Jason  McCullough  '97,  who  has  broken 
every  Brown  passing  record.  In  the  games 
since,  the  Bears  have  remade  themselves 
into  a  serious  contender. 

In  the  press  box,  reporters  from  papers 
that  usually  ignore  Brown  sports  mill 
around  with  styrofoam  cups  of  coffee. 
When  favored  Dartmouth  scores  first, 
laptop  keyboards  record  it  with  an  omi- 
nous clatter.  On  the  visitors'  side  of  the 
field,  thickly  forested  with  green  wool 
overcoats,  green  sleeves  and  scarves  erupt 
in  unison  at  every  Dartmouth  first  down. 
But  with  five  minutes  left  in  the  fust 
quarter,  the  Bears  strike  back.  A  Brown 
field  goal  and  an  interception  set  up  some 
McCullough  magic  -  a  pass  that  settles 
neatly  into  the  hands  of  fullback  Mike 
Wall  '99  for  a  10-7  Brown  lead. 

Dartmouth  answers  with  a  touch- 
down of  its  own.  When  McCullough  is 
intercepted  at  midfield,  the  seesaw  tilts 
back  toward  Dartmouth.  Again  and  again, 
as  he  has  done  all  season,  the  announcer 
bellows  out  the  classic  football  name  of 
Brown's    middle    linebacker:  "Tackle    by 


t  k 

First  and  Goal 

Facing  Dartmouth 
with  the  Ivy  title  in  reach. 


Kar-cut-skie!"  With  eight  minutes  left  in 
the  half,  Joe  Karcutskie  '88  nails  a  Dart- 
mouth receiver  at  the  Brown  thirty-yard- 
line  and  prevents  a  touchdown. 

The  Big  Green  marches  into  the  halt- 
time  break  with  a  seven-point  lead.  The 
Dartmouth  band  sports  neat  haircuts, 
blazers,  and  a  smiley-face  painted  on  its 
drum.  Is  it  something  about  this  whole- 
some display  that  propels  the  Bears  into 
a  spasm  of  second-half  savagery?  Wide 
receiver  par  excellence  Sean  Morey  '99  fol- 
lows his  own  thirty-yard  kickoff  return 
with  several  key  receptions.  Then,  deep  in 
enemy  territory,  McCullough  hands  off 
to  senior  running  back  Marquis  Jessie, 
who  has  been  mounting  his  own  assault 
on  the  Brown  and  Ivy  record  books. Jessie 
lofts  a  surprise  rainbow  down  the  left 
sideline,  and  it's  pulled  in  for  a  touch- 
down by  —  of  all  people  —  McCullough. 

Before  exultant  Brown  fans  can  finish 
slapping  palms  over  the  schoolyard  option 
play,  however,  Dartmouth  pounds  to 
another  touchdown  and,  since  the  Bears 
missed  the  extra  point,  a  24-16  lead.  But 
the  seesaw  still  teeters,  thanks  to  two 
superb  end-zone  receptions  by  tight  end 
Paul  Choquette  '97. The  first,  for  a  touch- 
down, has  Choquette  clutching  the  ball  in 
a  death  grip;  the  second,  for  a  game-tying 
two-point  conversion,  finds  him  juggling 
it  and  falling  just  inside  the  goal  line. 

As  the  lengthening  shadow  of  Brown 
Stadium  stalks  the  field,  the  Bears  miss 
a  second  field  goal,  and  Dartmouth  is 
eating  up  yardage.  With  its  back  against 


Marquis  Jessie  '97  fighting 
for  every  yard  in  the  race  to 
become  champions. 


r  the  goal  line,  the  Brown  defense 

■fl  comes  tacemask-to-tacemask  with 

™  the  Big  Green's  blasting  tailback, 

0  Greg  Smith,  son  of  former  NFL 

S    star  Jackie  Smith.  Brown  holds  the 

a  J 

2  Green  at  third  and  goal  on  the 
5  one-yard  line;  Dartmouth  settles 
;  for  three  points  and  a  nail-biting 
27-24  lead  with  ninety  seconds 
left  in  the  game. 

Normally  blase  press-box  denizens  are 
now  on  their  feet,  yelling  as  McCullough 
mounts  Brown's  final  drive.  Squiggles  of 
confetti  fly  up  from  the  stands.  It's  a  quar- 
terback scramble  for  a  first  down.  Incom- 
plete pass.  A  running  back  stopped  dead  at 
the  line  of  scrimmage.  Fourth  and  two,  a 
McCullough  pass  over  the  middle  —  first 
down!  The  Bears  at  the  Dartmouth  thirty. 
Albert  Lairson  '98  hauls  in  a  pass  and 
squirms  out  of  bounds,  stopping  the  clock 
at  twenty-one  seconds. 

There  is  a  brief,  breathless  moment 
when  some  of  us  believe  Brown  is  about 
to  do  it.  Jason  McCullough  lofts  the  foot- 
ball in  a  high  spiral,  perfectly  timed  to 
meet  Sean  Morey's  outstretched  hands  as 
he  dives  into  the  end  zone.  We  let  out  a 
victory  yell!  But  the  ball  falls  to  the  grass, 
and  though  McCullough  cranks  out  one 
more  completion,  the  afternoon  and 
Brown's  title  hopes  have  run  out. 

The  crowd  backs  up  near  the  exit,  and 
we  listen  to  the  Dartmouth  players 
singing.  I  take  a  final  look  around,  hoping 
to  find  that  stroller  with  the  Brown  pen- 
nant. It  will  be  back,  I  hope,  next  year.  c>&> 


AS  OF  NOVEMBER  13 

Men's  Cross  Country 

2-0 

Women's  Cross  Country 

2-0 

Field  Hockey 

8-9 

Football 

5-3 

Men's  Ice  Hockey 

0-3 

Women's  Ice  Hockey 

1-1-1 

Men's  Soccer 

7-5-4 

Women's  Soccer 

4-10-3 

Women's  Tennis 

2-2 

Volleyball 
Water  Polo 

16-13 

19-10 

8    ♦    DECEMBER     I996 


Q&A 


!MH 


The  Ties  That  Bind 

Psychologist  Cynthia  Garcia  Coll  says  blaming  everything 

from  high  crime  rates  to  teenage  sex  on  a  decline  in  family  values 

is  a  dangerous  oversimplification. 


inn:  Professor  of  education,  psychol- 
ogy, and  pediatrics;  associate  director  of 
the  Center  for  the  Study  of  Human 
Development 

education:  B.A.,  University  of  Puerto 
Rico:    M.A.,    University    of    Florida; 
Ph.D..  Harvard  University 
specialty:  Child  and  family  develop- 
ment 


II7i)'  has  the  action  of  family  values  resonated 
so  with  the  public? 

People  are  looking  for  simple  answers. 
The  notion  of  family  values  fits  in  with 
the  rugged  individualism  that  is  part  of 
U.S.  culture.  There's  a  sense  of  "We  give 
you  opportunities,  and  if  you  don't  make 
it.  it's  your  fault." 

II liy  is  tins  'pull  yourself  up  by  your  boot- 
straps' attitude  coming  back  in  vogue? 

The  perception  we  had  in  the  1950s  is 
that  there  were  resources  for  everything; 
now  the  perception  is  that  resources  are 
scarce.  People  feel  threatened  by  immi- 


grants and  by  affirmative  action.  They're 
saying,  "It's  those  people's  fault,  and  I'm 
not  going  to  share  my  resources  with 
them." 

How  has  this  attitude  conic  to  dominate? 

Humans  always  respond  to  things  in  two 
ways:  economically  and  ideologically. 
When  the  economics  get  worse  —  when 
we  think  we're  in  a  crisis  —  then  the  ideo- 
logical takes  over.  Right  now  the  national 
ideology  is  that  individuals  are  responsible 
for  their  own  development.  We  celebrate 
individuals  who  are  making  it,  not  social 
institutions  that  are  making  it. 

Bur  some  people  argue  that  many  institutions 
-  welfare,  for  example  -  aren  V  really  'making 
it.'  Critics  say  they  encourage  a  habit  of 
dependency  and  stifle  initiative. 

I'm  not  against  revamping  the  welfare 
system.  Anybody  who's  able  to  work 
should  work.  But  a  lot  of  people  who 
want  to  work  can  only  get  low-paying 
jobs  with  no  child  care  or  medical  insur- 
ance; it  doesn't  pay  tor  them  to  work  it 


they  have  families  to  support.  People  on 
welfare  with  whom  I've  come  in  contact 
-  teen  mothers,  women  in  prison,  poor 
families  -  get  criticized  for  being  promis- 
cuous and  lazy.  That  is  an  unfair  portrayal. 
Most  of  them  have  the  right  values;  they 
just  don't  have  the  right  resources  to 
make  those  values  work.  We  have  to  make 
opportunities  available  -  real  opportuni- 
ties —  so  people  can  exercise  their  values. 

Where  mould  opportunities  come  from? 

Businesses,  universities,  government,  and 
communities  need  to  build  partnerships, 
invest  money.  Without  this,  we'll  be 
putting  many  more  families  into  poverty 
without  a  satetv  net.  Child  abuse  nun- 
increase;  more  kids  will  go  hungry.  I  hope 
this  trend  is  a  pendulum,  that  we'll  soon 
realize  how  disastrous  welfare  cuts  are  and 
start  developing  new  policy  models. 

And  the  family? 

The  nuclear  family  is  only  one  configura- 
tion —  any  structure  can  work.  Kids  need 
at  least  one  person  whom  they  feel  close 
to  and  who  has  an  investment  in  them. 
Aside  from  that,  the  family  can  be  any 
shape  or  form. 

In  the  past  it  was  not  just  one  person's 
or  one  couple's  responsibility  to  raise 
children;  there  were  always  extended  fam- 
ilies, networks  of  friends  and  neighbors. 
But  the  survival  skills  that  were  good  fifty 
years  ago  no  longer  work. 

Given  that  extended  families  living  close 
together  are  rare  these  days,  what  do  you  sug- 
gest we  do? 

We  need  a  new  model  of  family  in  which 
all  members  get  to  fulfill  their  develop- 
mental needs  instead  of  having  the 
mother  and  father  make  all  the  sacrifices. 
Let's  say  that  I  stay  home  for  five  years 
because  my  kids  need  me.  Then  for  the 
next  five  years  the  whole  family  will  sup- 
port my  development,  whether  that 
means  going  back  to  work  or  to  school. 
After  all,  research  tells  us  that  a  mother's 
education  is  one  of  the  strongest  predic- 
tors of  children's  social,  emotional,  and 
educational  success.  c^> 

Interview  by  Shea  Dean 


BROWN    ALUMNI    MONTHLY    •     I  ') 


Books 


)Y   CHAD   GALTS 


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Holiday  Roundup 


Speak  Sunlight,by  Alan  Jolis  '73  (St.  Mar- 
tin's Press,  192  pages,  $20.95). 

A  childhood  memoir  set  in  1960s 
France  and  Spain,  this  book  has  a  light 
and  sensitive  touch.  It  tells  the  story  of  the 
family  cook,  Maruja,  and  butler,  Manolo, 
Jolis's  surrogate  parents.  Maruja,  a  peasant 
from  backwoods  Spain,  is  large,  animated, 
and  masterful  at  preparing  meals.  Unable 
to  bear  children  of  her  own,  she  becomes 
attached  to  young  Jolis.  Manolo,  out- 
wardly shy  and  reserved,  takes  a  perverse 
glee  in  misinforming  Jolis  about  sex,  love, 
and  life  when  they  are  alone.  Jolis's  prose 
evokes  the  feel  of  a  poignant,  intimate  tale 
told  to  a  friend. 

Ivy  League  Autumns:  An  Illustrated  History 
0/  College  Football's  Grand  Old  Rivalries,  by 
Richard  Goldstein  (St.  Martin's  Press,  256 
pages,  $29.95). 

A  sports  editor  for  the  NewYork  Times, 
Goldstein  harkens  back  to  the  glory  days 
of  the  Ivy  League  and  the  sport  around 
which  it  was  formed.  He  uncovers  such 
gems  as  an  account  of  John  Heisman's 
first  football  game  at  Brown.  Heisman, 
class  of  1891,  and  some  fellow  students 
scrimmaged  against  a  group  of  Provi- 
dence boys,  an  encounter  that  left  Heis- 
man with  a  "roughly  black  eye  and  a 
freely  bleeding  nose."  (We  don't,  however. 


find  out  if  he  won  the  game.)  Also  cov- 
ered are  Brown's  legendary  1916  Rose 
Bowl  team  and  black  AU-Amencan  Fritz 
Pollard  '19.  Aimed  at  the  hard-core  grid- 
iron tan,  this  thoroughly  researched  book 
is  packed  with  archival  photographs  and 
details. 

Batting  Against  Castro,  by  Jim  Shepard 
'No  A.M.  (Alfred  A.  Knopf,  197  pages, 
$22.00). 

In  the  title  story  of  this  skillfully  com- 
posed, witty  collection,  Fidel  Castro  leads 
the  third-base  side  of  a  Havana  baseball 
stadium  in  a  Spanish  version  of  "Take 
Me  Out  to  the  Ballgame"  and  beans  an 
American-expatriate  batter  with  a  loaded 
burnto.  An  oddball  assortment  of  "what- 
ifs?",  this  book,  Shepard's  fourth,  contains 
allegorical  tales  of  the  sort  you  might 
halt-imagine  but  never  share  for  fear 
ot  seeming  slightly  deranged.  They  im- 
bue U.S. -Cuban  relations,  among  other 
things,  with  meanings  you  will  never  find 
in  a  history  book. 

Down  with  the  Old  Canoe:  A  Cultural  His- 
tory of  the  Titanic  Disaster,  by  Steven  Biel 
'83  (W.W.  Norton  &  Co.,  300  pages. 
$25.00). 

"The  Titanic  went  down  at  a  cultural 
moment,"'  Biel  writes  m  the  introduction 


to  this  lively,  informative  history.  That 
moment,  he  adds,  was  one  ot  "intense 
concern  about  the  'race  problem,'  the 
'woman  problem,'  the  'labor  problem.'  and 
the  'immigration  problem." "Tracing  how 
each  ot  these  issues  was  aggravated  or 
mollified  by  the  ocean  liner's  sinking  on 
April  14,  [912,  Biel  analyzes  an  era's  semi- 
nal event  and  describes  its  long-term 
effect  on  American  culture.  While  he  is 
well-versed  in  the  wreck's  details,  Biel 
goes  far  beyond  a  simple  rehash  of  the 
ship's  demise. 

National  Parks  and  the  Woman's  Voice:  A 
History,  by   Polly   Welts    Kaufman    '51 

(University  of  New  Mexico  Press,  320 
pages,  $42.50). 

The  National  Park  Service,  Kaufman 
contends,  has  had  a  split  personality:  it  has 
been  both  a  guardian,  protecting  parks 
from  poachers  and  fires,  and  a  public  rela- 
tions agent,  welcoming  and  educating  vis- 
itors. Until  the  1960s,  women  -  often 
rangers'  wives  -  tended  to  perform  the 
latter  services.  But  women,  Kaufman  says, 
have  also  been  instrumental  in  the  explo- 
ration, establishment,  and  maintenance  ot 
every  national  park  in  the  country.  Kauf- 
man's book  clarifies  the  critical  role 
women  played  in  what  might  seem,  at 
first  glance,  to  be  a  mostly  male  saga.  o^> 


20    ♦    DECEMBER     I  996 


Studentside 


B>    DA\  1  H    I  SANG     99 


It  was  my  first  day  as  a 
summer-school  teacher 
at  Summerbridge,  a  program 
tor  middle-school  students 
in  Louisville.  Kentucky.  The 
topic  was  Chinese  history. 

"l'ut  everything  you  know- 
about  China  on  the  board."  I  said. 

"Like  what?"  one  kid  asked. 

"Anything."  I    responded.  "It 
can   be  something  you've  seen 
on  TV." 

I     waited    a    tew    minutes 
while      the      students      stood 
squirming    at    the    chalkboard. 
When  they  sat  down  I  saw  they 
had   written    two    things:  "take-out 
food"  and  "karate."  So  much  for  my 
dream    of   discussing    the    merits    of 
Communist  economic  policy. 

When  I  was  asked  to  design  and 
teach  an  elective  in  addition  to  the 
two  other  classes  on  my  Summer- 
bridge    schedule,   the    first    topic 
that  came  to  my  mind  was  Chi- 
nese history,  specifically  Mao  Tse- 
tung    and    Deng    Xiaoping,    kev 
leaders  who  founded  the  People's 
Republic   ot   China.   I    wanted    to 
talk    about    them    as    people    rather 
than  as  dry  political  figures  from  some 
dusty  textbook.  Because  most  middle- 
and    high-school    history    classes    devote 
only  a  few  days  to  3,000  years  of  Chinese 
civilization,  I  didn't  expect  my  students  to 
be  wellsprings  ot  knowledge  about  Chi- 
nese history.  But  I  hoped  their  knowledge 
would    extend    beyond    sweet-and-sour 
pork  or  karate   (which  is  Japanese,  any- 
way). 

A  tew  years  ago,  though.  1  wasn't 
much  different  from  them.  1  was  so  busy- 
keeping  up  with  the  teenage  status  quo,  I 
didn't  have  time  for  racial  and  ethnic 
soul-searching.  But  after  supper  one 
evening  during  my  sophomore  year  in 
high  school,  my  grandfather,  who  was 
born  near  Shanghai,  told  a  story  about  his 
lite  during  World  War  II.  From  1939  until 
the  end  of  the  war.  he  worked  for  the 
Chinese  government  securing  loans  so 
that  China  could  buy  supplies  to  protect 
herself  against  Japan.  Meanwhile,  his  wife 
and  children  -  my  grandmother,  father, 
and  uncle  -  were  stranded  in  the  Philip- 


White,  Black,  and  Yellow 


After  learning  about  his  family's  past,  a  student 
tries  to  lessen  the  prejudice  around  him. 


pines       under       Japanese 
occupation.  It  was  a  terrible 
time:  more    than    20   million 
Chinese    citizens,    many    ot 
whom  were  divided 

between      Nationalist      and 
Communist  camps,  lost  their 
lives  in  the  war. 

The  more  my  grandfather  told  me, 
the  more  I  wanted  to  know.  And  the 
more  I  learned,  the  more  I  began  to  per- 
ceive among  Americans  a  pervasive  igno- 
rance of  China,  even  though  the  country 
is  back  on  its  feet  and  boasts  the  world's 
fastest-growing  economy.  I  read  m  the 
newspaper  about  Congressmen  who 
wanted  to  "contain"  China,  as  if  it  was  a 
malevolent  beast.  Once,  during  my  junior 
year  in  high  school,  as  I  walked  the  sleepy, 


tree-lined  streets  ot  my  Long 
Island  hometown  a  carload  of 
boss  from  the  local  private 
school  screeched  racial  epi- 
thets at  me.  I  was  astonished 
that  young  kids  could  take 
such  pleasure  in  mocking  a 
person  thev  didn't  even  know. 

To    help    combat    such    ignorance,    I 
decided  to  share  what  I  had  learned.  My 
students    in    Kentucky    asked    me    what 
China    had    to    do    with    their    lives.    I 
pointed   out   that   many   ot  their  clothes 
and  televisions  and  stereos  were  directlv 
connected  to  China.  But  one  day  I  real- 
ized the  lesson  had  to  go  beyond  eco- 
nomics and  history.  One  ot  my  best  stu- 
dents,       who         happened         to        be 
Chinese-American,  tried  to  leave  the 
class,  claiming  Chinese   history   was 
too  hard  and  too  boring.  When   1 
took    him    aside,   I    noticed    tears 
starting  to  trickle  from  his  eyes. 
Head  down  and  voice  quivering, 
he    described    how    kids    at    his 
middle   school   taunted   him   for 
being     ot     Chinese     descent.     I 
knew    how   he   felt.  So   I   passed 
out    dictionaries    and    asked    the 
students  to  write  down  definitions 
tor    three    words:  "white."  "black." 
and  "yellow."  Thev  found  that  black's 
synonyms    included    "sinister"    and 
"evil."  Yellow   was   associated   with 
"cowardly"  and  "disease."  "White." 
on  the  other  hand,  was  followed  by 
the  words  "pure"  and  "for- 
tunate." Most  of  the  stu- 
dents   were    saddened 
and    puzzled    by    the 
^i*         unfairness     ot     these 

definitions. 
On  the  last  day  of  class  I  gave 
them  the  same  assignment  I  had  given  the 
first  day:  write  what  you  know  about 
China. The  same  people  who  had  written 
"karate"  and  "take-out  food"  earlier  were 
now  writing  words  like  "Communism," 
"May  4th  movement."  and 
"Mao  Tse-tung."  It  was  a 
start.  c^> 


David  Tsang  is  from  Mineola, 
New  York. 


1  R O  W  N    A  L  I  M  M    MONTHLY    ♦    2  1 


A  new  generation  of  doctors:  Sara  Fazio 
(this  page)  and  Preetha  Basaviah  (with  Fazio, 
opposite)  are  internal-medicine  residents  at 
Boston's  Beth  Israel  Hospital. 


The  Youngest  Doctors 


Interns  work  long  days 
and  nights  doing  everything 
from  taking  pulses  to 
helping  patients  face  death. 
The  hard  part  is  knowing 
what  to  feel. 


BY  JENNIFER   SUTTON 


The  names  of  patients  Inwe  been 
changed  to  protect  their  privacy. 


/ 

It  is  shortly  after  7  a.m.  on  a  Friday  in  March  when 
Dr.  Sara  Fazio  '91,  '95  M.D.  walks  into  Boston's 
Beth  Israel  Hospital.  The  sky,  already  bright  blue, 
holds  the  promise  of  a  gorgeous  early-sprmg  day,  but 
once  Fazio  enters  the  hospital  she  leaves  the  weather 
and  the  streets  behind.  She  won't  go  home  for  ten  or 
eleven  hours  -  an  average  day  for  an  intern.  Some- 
times she  works  more  than  thirty  hours  straight. 

A  lively  twenty-six-year-old  with  long  brown 
hair  and  an  easy  smile,  Fazio  is  more  than  halfway 
through  the  first  year  of  a  three-year  residency  in 
Beth  Israel's  department  of  internal  medicine.  After 
eight  years  at  Brown  -  four  as  an  undergraduate  and 
four  in  the  School  of  Medicine  -  she  is  living  a 
dream  she's  had  since  high  school. 

Walking  briskly  out  of  the  twelfth-floor  elevator, 
the  first  of  many  cups  of  coffee  flowing  through  her 
bloodstream,  Fazio  sheds  her  coat  and  shoulder  bag 
in  a  dorm-room-sized  cubicle  furnished  with  bunk 
beds  and  a  cot.  This  is  where  she  sleeps  —  if  she  gets 
the  chance  -  for  a  few  hours  during  the  nights  she's 
on  call.  Over  her  turtleneck  sweater  she  slips  on  a 
white  lab  coat,  its  pockets  sagging  with  pens.  She 
slmgs  a  stethoscope  around  her  neck  and  is  ready  for 
pre-rounds  -  brief  visits  with  the  patients  she  treated 
yesterday. 


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Her  first  stop  is  Room  1287.  "Good  morning," 
she  says  cheerfully,  sitting  by  the  bedside  of  an  elderly 
Russian  man  who  was  admitted  a  tew  days  earlier 
with  chest  pain.  Opening  his  blue  striped  robe,  she 
raises  the  stethoscope  to  her  ears,  leans  in,  and  wrin- 
kles her  forehead  in  concentration.  "BolitT'  she  asks 

in    Russian.  "Does    it 


hurt?"  She  listens,  and 
hears    what    she    was 
hoping  tor.  "I  think  we 
can    send    you    home 
today,"    she    telJs    the 
man,  who's  been  look- 
ing  anxiously    at   her 
face.  "Ah,  goot,  goot," 
he  says  with  relief. 
In  the  room  next  door  lies  an  old  man  with  an 
infected   gall   bladder   and   colon.   His   breathing   is 
labored  and  raspy.  Fazio  places  her  face  less  than  a 
foot  from  his.  "Mr.  Jacobs,  can  you  open  your  eyes  for 


Interns  are  soldiers  in  medical 
boot  camp,  caught  in  an  endless 
flow  of  charts  and  vital  signs 
and  patients  looking  to  them 
for  answers. 


me?"  she  asks,  raising  her  voice  slightly.  He  can't.  She 
listens  to  his  chest  with  her  stethoscope.  "Carl,"  she 
asks,  switching  to  his  first  name,  "how  are  you?  Can 
you  squeeze  my  hand?"  He  squeezes  ever  so  slightly. 
"Good,  that's  great,"  Fazio  says. 

Outside  the  door  of  each  patient's  room  hangs  a 
clipboard  charting  vital  signs.  Fazio  copies  these  onto 
a  large  index  card  before  entering  the  room. 
Throughout  the  day  she  will  also  keep  a  to-do  list  on 
the  card  of  everything  each  patient  needs.  She  runs 
it  all  by  a  third-year,  or  senior,  resident  during 
rounds.  Despite  her  smooth  bedside  manner,  Fazio  is 
still  in  training;  she  consults  extensively  with  the  res- 
ident as  she's  treating  each  patient.  Before  she  goes 
otf-duty  she  will  log  onto  a  computer  near  the 
nurses'  station  and,  using  the  index  cards  as  a  refer- 
ence, update  each  patient's  hospital  record.  As  an 
intern  she  is  both  doctor  and  secretary. 

And  sometimes  counselor.  When  Fazio  offers  to 
prescribe  the  painkiller  Percocet  for  an  older  woman 


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A  glamorous  job  it's  not.  Fazio 
spends  nearly  as  much  time 
on  paperwork  (far  left)  as  she 
does  on  patients. 


with  lung  cancer,  the  woman  whimpers, "I  must  have 
been  a  very  bad  person  to  end  up  like  this."  "No,  I 
think  you're  a  very  good  person,"  counters  Fazio, 
who's  heard  statements  like  this  before.  A  few  minutes 
later  she  checks  on  a  thirtyish  asthmatic  with  pneu- 
monia. The  woman  is  anxious  to  get  out  of  the  hos- 
pital; she  missed  a  big  presentation  at  work  the  day 
before.  "You've  got  to  relax  a  little,"  Fazio  suggests. 

Finally  she  enters  the  room  of  a  man  she's  been 
treating  for  more  than  a  week.  His  chart  lists  his  age 
as  seventy-one,  but  he  looks  much  older,  with  pale, 
papery  skin  and  faded  white  hair.  He  has  prostate 
cancer,  and,  despite  bouts  of  chemotherapy  and  radi- 
ation, he  is  still  in  great  pain.  His  "quality  of  life," 
Fazio  says,  is  all  but  gone.  As  Fazio  checks  the  man's 
breathing,  his  wife  makes  up  the  cot  she's  been  sleep- 
ing on  all  week  and  motions  Fazio  into  the  hallway. 
Should  her  husband  get  more  radiation,  as  their  reg- 
ular physician  has  advised?  He  can  no  longer  feed 
himself;  how  will  he  eat?  Radiation  probably  won't 


do  any  more  good,  Fazio  replies. 
And  feeding  would  require  the 
painful  and  undignified  measure  of 
sliding  a  tube  down  her  husband's 
throat.  "I  don't  know  it  he'd  want 
to  do  that,"  Fazio  says  gently. 

Giving  the  woman's  arm  a 
squeeze,  Fazio  turns  to  leave,  her 
face  somber,  her  lips  drawn  tightly 
together.  "I'm  afraid  her  husband  is 
going  to  die  very  soon,"  she  says  a 
moment  later.  "I  don't  want  to 
back  off  and  say  there's  nothing 
more  we  can  do,  but  there's  not  a 
lot  we  can  do,  except  be  support- 
ive." Watching  people  die  was  part 
ot  Fazio's  training  in  medical 
school,  and  nine  months  as  an 
intern  have  given  her  plenty  of 
practice.  Yet  because  of  her  youth, 
she  cannot  begin  to  understand 
what  it's  like  to  be  with  someone 
for  a  lifetime  and  then  have  to 
=  make  huge  decisions  about  his 
-  death.  Fazio  became  a  doctor  in  part 
because  healing  people  feels  natural 
to   her.   Learning  that   she   cannot 

always  say  the  right  thing  to  a  patient  or  a  distraught 

relative  is  a  particularly  hard  lesson. 


F 


azio's  classmate.  Dr.  Preetha  Basaviah  '91,  '95 
M.D.,  is  working  in  the  medical  intensive  care 
unit,  three  floors  down.  A  nurse  has  just  informed 
her  that  a  patient's  blood  pressure  has  plummeted. 
The  man.  in  his  sixties,  was  admitted  with  congenital 
heart  failure  two  days  earlier  and  suffered  a  second 
heart  attack  and  cardiogenic  shock  in  the  hospital. 
Because  he  has  responded  poorly  to  the  strongest 
available  medications,  Basaviah  invites  his  son  and 
cousin,  who  happen  to  be  visiting,  into  a  conference 
room  to  talk. 

A  petite  woman  of  Indian  descent,  Basaviah 
wears  a  purple  sweater  and  skirt  under  her  white  lab 
coat.  At  first  glance,  with  her  curly  black  hair,  huge 
dark  eyes,  and  delicate  voice,  she  appears  somewhat 


BUOWN    ALUMNI    MONTHLY    •    2s 


Basaviah  must  learn  to  explain 
illness  two  ways:  to  her  fellow 
doctors  (above)  and  to  patients 
and  their  families  (right). 


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timid.  When  the  cousin's  elderly  husband  walks  into 
the  room,  he  looks  around  and  asks,  "Who  is  the 
doctor?"  Basaviah  smiles  politely  and  holds  out  her 
hand  m  greeting.  "I  am  the  doctor."  she  s.ivs  firmly. 

'"1  know  this  is  difficult,"  she  continues,  fixing  her 
eves  on  the  son.  "hut  now 's  the  time  to  discuss  how 
aggressive  you  want  his  treatment  to  be.  We'll  start 
with  heart  medication  in  his  IV,  and  we  should  see  a 
change  in  his  overall  condition  in  a  day  or  two.  It  his 
heart  gets  worse  and  has  a  potentially  fatal  rhythm, 
we  can  shock  him,  which  is  painful  -  " 

The  son  cuts  her  off.  "What  are  his  chances?"  he 
asks  curtly. 

"It's  very  hard  to  say,"  explains  Basaviah,  keeping 
her  voice  even.  "The  thing  to  talk  about  is  what  he 
would  want  in  terms  of  life-prolonging  measures, 
how  long  he'd  want  to  be  on  a  breathing  machine." 

"But  what's  the  percentage?"  the  son  persists, 
looking  tired  and  annoyed. 

"I'm  sorry,  but  we  can't  put  a  percentage  on  his 
life."  Basaviah  says.  "We're  going  to  do  all  we  can.  If 
you  decide  vour  tather  wouldn't  want  extra  measures 
taken  to  keep  him  alive,  you  need  to  let  us  know, 
because  right  now  we'll  be  doing  every  possible 
thing." 

The  son  and  cousin  look  blankly  at  her  and  say 
nothing;  Basaviah  excuses  herselt,  adding  that  she'll 
talk  to  them  soon.  Out  ot  earshot  she  confides  her 
dismay  that   the   son   seems   so   disinterested  in   his 

father's  condition.  Com- 
ing from  a  tightly  knit 
family,  she  is  saddened 
when  people  tail  to  draw 
together  during  a  rela- 
tive's illness  or  death. 
One  of  her  favorite 
memories  from  medical 
school  is  ot  a  family  she 
met  while  working  at  a 
Providence  hospital:  a 
woman  diagnosed  with 
breast  cancer  was  so  par- 
alyzed  by  tear  that  she 
refused  treatment.  It  was 
the  patient's  mother  and 
sister,  both  breast  cancer 
survivors,  who  con- 
vinced her  to  tight  the 
disease. 

The  case  occupying 
most  of  Basaviah's  atten- 
tion today  is  that  ot  a 
man  with  sleep  apnea  who  was  admitted  atter  he  fell 
asleep  at  the  wheel  ot  his  car.  During  rounds  -  when 
the  doctors  examine  their  patients  en  masse  — 
Basaviah  explains  his  situation  to  her  intensive-care 


team  of  two  other  interns,  a  second-war  resident, 
and  an  attending  physician,  the  most  senior  doctor  in 
the  group.  This  is  the  second  car  accident  the  patient 
has  had  as  a  result  ot  apnea,  a  disorder  m  which  an 
obstruction  in  his  throat  or  narrowed  air  passages 
impair  his  breathing 
while  he  is  asleep.  Atter      _,        ...  ■■      ■  ■    . 

,   ,  ,        ,  The  elderly  man  walked  into 

choking    and    awaken-  ' 

ing  repeatedly  at  night        tne  room    |ooke(J  ar0Und,  and 

he  is  exhausted  during 

the    day    and    prone    asked,  "Who  is  the  doctor?" 

to   accidents.  Basaviah,       _  .    ,    ■     ,  ,       .  ■        ■         ■ 

,         ,  Basaviah  held  out  her  hand 

the     only     woman     m 

the  group  of  doctors,     jn  greeting.  "I  am  the  doctor," 

speaks    in    a    soft    even 
tone  as  she  runs  down       She  S3ld. 
the      patient's      history 

and  current  condition,  her  eyes  darting  from  face  to 
face. The  others  listen  intently,  standing  in  a  tight  cir- 
cle around  a  portable  metal  cart  stacked  with  three- 
ring  binders,  one  for  every  patient  in  intensive  care. 
Basaviah  has  opened  the  apnea  patient's  binder,  but 
during  her  fifteen-minute  report  she  glances  at  it 
only  once  or  twice. 

Basaviah,  Fazio,  and  other  interns  are  usually  the 
first  doctors  patients  see  in  the  hospital.  The  interns 
make  these  daily  reports  to  the  more  senior  doctors, 
who  ask  questions  and  make  suggestions,  pushing  the 
interns  to  formulate  treatment  strategies.  Atter  each 
report  the  team  troops  into  a  patient's  room,  and  the 
doctors  all  lean  forward  with  their  stethoscopes. 
Some  patients  appear  taken  aback  by  the  semicircle 
of  serious  young  faces;  others  relish  the  attention. 
"Look  at  all  the  attractive  doctors,"  an  elderly  woman 
says  coyly  when  Basaviah's  team  enters  her  room. 
Basaviah  and  Fazio  find  this  group  approach,  the 
backbone  of  teaching  hospitals,  a  supportive  training 
environment.  They  can  polish  their  skills  without 
hesitation,  knowing  there  is  a  squadron  of  more 
experienced  doctors  ready  to  back  them  up. 

T 

he  day  goes  on  and  on:  patients  and  families, 
H  the  sick  and  the  not-so-sick.  A  doctor's  work 
is  often  mundane  and  routine  -  medications  to  pre- 
scribe, pulses  to  check,  paperwork  to  update.  But 
there  are  also  medical  riddles  to  solve.  To  be  a  doctor 
is  to  concentrate  fully  on  whatever  comes.  This 
requires  great  reserves  ot  discipline  and  confidence, 
attributes  not  always  fully  developed  among  people 
in  their  twenties. 

Both  Basaviah  and  Fazio  have  enjoyed  two  things 
since  they  were  kids:  science  and  making  people  feel 
better.  Basaviah  worked  in  a  nursing  home  during 
high  school  in  suburban  New  Jersey  and  volunteered 


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A  patient's  death  should  never 
be  easy.  "It's  okay  to  feel  sad," 
says  Fazio,  "but  not  to  feel  it 
so  deeply  that  I'm  unable  to 
do  everything  else  I  need  to  do." 


at  a  women's  health  clinic  in  a  rural  town  in  India 
after  her  sophomore  year  at  Brown.  In  Warwick, 
Rhode  Island,  Fazio  grew  up  accompanying  her 
chronically  ill  mother  to  doctors'  offices,  an  experi- 
ence that  made  her  powerfully  aware  of  medicine 
from  the  patient's  side  ot  the  examination  table. 

Although  they  may  specialize  later  in  their 
training,  both  women  are  considering  careers  in 
primary  care.  Early  in  medical  school  Fazio  thought 
she  would  choose  a  specialty,  because  she  liked  the 

idea  ot  knowing  a  lot 
about  one  thing.  Now, 
though,  she's  not  so 
sure  she  wants  to  give 
up  what  she  calls  the 
essence  of  internal 
medicine:  "knowing  a 
lot  about  a  lot  ot 
things." 

There  is  much  to 
learn  in  a  short  time. 
As  interns,  they  are  soldiers  in  medical  boot  camp, 
enmeshed  in  an  exhausting  grind,  an  endless  flow  of 
charts  and  vital  signs  and  patients  looking  to  them 
for  answers,  while  supervising  doctors  peer  over  their 
shoulders.  Internal  medicine  covers  all  areas  that 
aren't  surgery-related,  so  each  month  Fazio  and 
Basaviah  rotate  from  one  unit  of  the  hospital  to 
another:  intensive  care,  emergency  room,  cardiology, 
outpatient  clinic,  the  general  wards.  They  also  do 
rotations  outside  Beth  Israel  -  at  the  Dana  Farber 
Cancer  Institute,  for  example,  and  the  V.A.  Hospital 
in  West  Roxbury.  Besides  attending  to  patients,  the 
interns  act  as  mentors  to  medical  students,  attend  lec- 
tures and  conferences,  spend  hours  on  the  telephone 
dictating  notes  to  a  medical  transcribing  service,  and 
work  through  the  night  one  to  three  times  a  week. 
On  those  shifts  they  are  responsible  for  up  to  forty 
patients.  "When  I  was  in  medical  school  and  had  to 
follow  the  intern  around,  I'd  think, 'How  will  I  ever 
manage  so  many  details?  It's  too  much,'  "  Fazio  says. 

It  is  too  much,  agrees  Stephen  Smith,  associate 
dean  for  medical  education  at  Brown,  who  views  the 
internship  year  as  a  form  of  ritualistic  torture.  "Soci- 
ologists and  anthropologists  would  probably  explain 
it  as  a  rite  of  passage  in  which  the  initiates  permit  - 
even  invite  —  themselves  to  be  abused."  Despite  all 
the  learning  that  goes  on,  Smith  calls  the  experience 
"the  closest  thing  in  Western  civilization  to  chattel 
slavery."  Interns,  after  all,  are  specifically  excluded 
from  certain  federal  labor  laws  that  protect  workers. 
Nothing  can  prepare  new  medical-school  graduates 
for  how  grueling  the  year  will  be.  But  at  the  same 
time,  says  Smith,  "all  your  apprehensions  about  your 
competence  to  be  a  doctor  are  dispelled  completely 
in  the  first  twenty-tour  hours.  You  realize  you  really 


are   a   well-prepared  physician,  capable   of  handling 
most  of  what  you'll  see." 

Fazio  and  Basaviah's  fear  is  that  the  illnesses,  med- 
ications, and  paperwork  will  become  so  overwhelm- 
ing that  the  patients  themselves  will  get  pushed  into 
the  background.  From  time  to  time  they  step  back 
and  remember  why  they  became  doctors:  to  work 
with  people  as  well  as  with  science,  to  soothe  as  well 
as  to  investigate.  To  make  sure  words  like  empathy, 
kindness,  and  compassion  are  always  part  ot  their 
professional  vocabulary. 

T 

he  following  Monday,  Fazio  is  on  call.  A  white 
T-shirt  and  blue  hospital  scrub  pants  have 
replaced  the  lambswool  sweater  and  creased  trousers 
she'd  worn  two  days  earlier,  but  she  is  still  wearing 
makeup.  Even  in  the  late  afternoon  her  lipstick  is 
fresh,  as  if  to  brighten  what  promises  to  be  a  long 
night.  She  heads  down  to  the  emergency  room  with 
Adam  Citu,  her  senior  resident,  to  admit  a  patient 
whose  chart  indicates  she  is  HOH  —  hard  of  hearing. 
A  triage  nurse  and  an  emergency-room  physician 
have  noted  on  the  chart  that  the  eighty-four-year- 
old  woman  suffers  from  a  serious  cough,  night 
sweats,  confusion,  and  dizziness. 

"Hi,  Mrs.  Miller.  I'm  Dr.  Fazio  and  this  is  Dr. 
Cifu,"  Fazio  begins.  "I'll  be  taking  care  of  you 
upstairs.  What's  been  going  on  the  past  few  days  that's 
brought  you  here?" 

The  woman  doesn't  want  to  talk.  She  grips  the 
metal  railing  on  either  side  of  her  bed,  folds  of  crin- 
kled skin  hanging  off  her  forearms.  "I've  answered  all 
those  questions  before,  young  lady." 

"I'm  sorry,"  Fazio  says,  "but  I've  got  to  ask  them." 

With  Cifu  hovering  beside  her,  Fazio  inquires 
whether  the  woman  has  been  vomiting.  What  was 
the  color  of  the  vomit,  and  was  there  any  blood  in  it? 
Having  seen  the  woman's  chest  x-rays,  she  is  fairly 
sure  this  is  a  case  of  pneumonia,  but  tuberculosis  is  a 
remote  possibility.  She  shines  a  light  into  the  woman's 
eyes  to  check  their  pupillary  reflexes,  feels  for  lymph 
nodes  on  her  neck  and  behind  her  ears,  and  presses 
the  stethoscope  first  to  the  woman's  chest  to  listen  to 
her  heart,  and  then  her  back  to  check  her  breathing. 

"Say  the  letter  E,"  Fazio  says. 

"Eeeeeeee,"  the  woman  responds  obediently.  "A- 
E-I-O-Uuuuuuuu." 

The  two  doctors  take  turns  prodding  the  woman's 
belly  and  squeezing  her  ankles  and  fingers  to  check 
for  swelling.  Now  the  patient  will  be  taken  up  to  the 
twelfth  floor  by  an  orderly  while  Fazio  fills  in  her 
chart. "I'll  see  you  upstairs  in  a  little  while,  okay?"  she 
tells  the  woman.  "Wait  a  minute,  young  lady,"  comes 
the  response.  "What  was  your  name  again?" 


;8    •    DECEMBER    1996 


The  end  of  a  long  shift 
finds  Basaviah  updating  the 
files  of  each  patient  she  has 
treated  that  day. 


An  hour  or  so  later,  Fazio  manages  to  gulp  down 
her  fourth  or  fifth  cup  of  coffee  of  the  day,  along 
with  a  plate  of  greasy  macaroni  from  the  hospital 
cafeteria.  The  doctors  not  on  call  have  turned  then- 
patients  over  to  her  for  the  night  and  gone  home. 
There  are  special  instructions  from  the  other  intern 
on  her  rotation  regarding  one  patient:  "She's  got  a 
glass  eye  and  sometimes  takes  her  eye  out,  so  you 
might  get  called  to  put  her  eye  back  in."  Fazio  sighs. 
There  are  taint  circles  under  her  eyes. 

A-  r -  7 

m  V  Basaviah  signed  two  death  certificates  in 
thirty7  minutes.  Worse,  though,  was  when  four 
patients  died  in  one  night.  "Its  kind  of  hard  to  get  up 
and  come  in  to  work  when  you're  wondering, 'Okay, 
who's  going  to  die  today,'  "  she  says.  While  a  dying 
patient's  relatives  deal  with  one  overwhelming  feel- 
ing —  grief-  the  doctor  faces  multiple,  often  contra- 
dictorv  emotions.  "People  think  death  will  be  an 
ugly,  frightening  thing,  but  tor  so  many  it  is  the  only 
way  they  can  be  at  peace,"  Basaviah  says.  "Sometimes 
I  wonder  why  I'm  treating  a  person  who  just  wants 
to  be  left  alone.  At  the  same  time,  I  feel  compelled  to 
do  everything  I  medically  can,  and  I  feel  terrible 
when  I  try  everything  and  there's  no  response.  That's 
when  I  have  to  come  to  terms  with  the  limits  of  my 
ability  -  and  medicine's  ability  -  to  heal." 

This  is  especially  true  when  Basaviah  has  forged  a 
bond  with  a  patient.  Getting  overly  attached  is  an 
occupational  hazard  tor  young  doctors,  and  both  she 


and  Fazio  are  still 
learning  how  to  ration 
their  emotions.  Keeping 
an  appropriate  distance 
is  equally  challenging: 
too  much  detachment 
and  they  come  off  as 
cold;  too  little  and  they 
find  themselves  emo- 
tionally spent  before 
the  day  is  half  over. 
During  one  of  Fazio's 
rotations  in  intensive 
care,  she  worked  the  entire  month  with  a  young 
woman  suffering  from  cancer.  Late  one  night  she 
stopped  by  the  woman's  room  to  check  on  her  dete- 
riorating condition  and  stayed  for  a  half-hour,  look- 
ing at  family  photographs  the  woman's  relatives  had 
placed  around  the  room.  When  Fazio  walked  out,  she 
was  devastated.  "I  remember  thinking  to  myself, 
What  are  you  doing? 

"I  don't  think  death  should  ever  be  easy  for  a 
doctor,"  she  continues.  "It's  okay  to  feel  a  peripheral 
sadness,  but  not  to  feel  it  so  deeply  that  I'm  unable  to 
do  everything  else  I  need  to  do."  She  and  Basaviah 
try  to  remain  objective  in  their  relationships  with 
patients,  to  simply  be  their  advocates  in  the  health 
care  process. 

It  is  almost  7  p.m.  when  Fazio  returns  to  check  on 
her  prostate-cancer  patient.  The  man  managed  to  hang 
on  through  the  weekend,  but  his  condition  remains 
poor.  His  children  and  their  spouses,  knowing  he  will 
die  soon,  have  gathered  111  the  hallway  outside  his 
room.  Inside,  the  window  curtain  is  open  to  the 
deepening  twilight.  The  man's  wife  sits  in  a  chair 
beside  the  bed.  It  is  very  quiet  -  peaceful,  almost. 

Fazio  sits  on  the  bed  and  feels  the  patient's  pulse. 
It  is  a  little  better.  He  slowly  opens  his  eyes  and 
mumbles  a  few  words,  as  if  he's  been  waiting  for  her. 
She  pats  his  hand  before  moving  out  of  the  way  of 
the  family,  who,  upon  hearing  his  voice,  weak  though 
it  is,  begin  crowding  into  the  room.  In  the  doorway, 
one  of  the  man's  daughters,  her  eyes  tired  and  damp 
from  crying,  impulsively  turns  to  Fazio  and  hugs  her 
awkwardly.  Fazio  hugs  her  back,  then  strides  down 
the  hall  toward  her  next  patient.  Ov 


HllllWN    ALUMNI    MONTHS     •    2  <■) 


By  Thomas  Banchoff 


The  Best 
Homework  Ever? 


CASSIDY  CURTIS'S   MARVELOUS  SURFACE   DRAWINGS 


u 

I  omework  is  a  necessary  chore 
H  for  teachers  as  well  as  for  stu- 
dents. Occasionally,  though,  a  routine 
assignment  produces  something  that  is  a 
pure  joy. 

Every  instructor  can  recall  students 
who  have  done  outstanding  jobs  on 
assignments  that  stretch  over  a  number  of 
days,  but  I  have  a  candidate  for  the  Best 
Overnight  Homework  Ever.  Nine  years 
ago  I  was  teaching  an  honors  course  in 
the  calculus  of  several  variables  to  a  group 
ot  well-prepared  first-year  students.  In  my 
calculus  courses  I  always  encourage  stu- 
dents to  draw  -  first  of  all  so  they  can 
sketch  graphs  of  curves  in  the  plane,  and 
then  so  they  can  begin  to  visualize  sur- 
faces in  space.  Visualization  techniques 
have  always  been  important  in  mathemat- 
ics and  its  applications,  and  they  are  espe- 
cially so  nowadays  as  sophisticated  com- 
puter graphics  enhance  our  ability  to 
interpret  phenomena  we  could  not  imag- 
ine a  generation  ago.  But  you  can  only 
really  appreciate  what  the  computer  is 
showing  you  if  you've  tried  to  render  the 
curves  and  surfaces  freehand.  Almost  all  of 
my  students  get  the  hang  of  it  well 
enough  to  draw  a  pretty  good  surface,  and 
some  display  a  particular  talent  for  illus- 
trating mathematical  ideas. 

Right  from  the  beginning,  Cassidy 
Curtis  '92  was  unusually  adept  at  drawing 
surfaces  representing  complicated  alge- 
braic expressions  in  two  variables.  He 
seemed  instinctively  able  to  choose  just 
the  right  viewing  angle  to  display  the 
salient  features  of  a  surface,  and  he  used 
color  and  shading  to  bring  out  key  prop- 
erties. He  was  equally  impressive  with 
colored  pencils  and  with  the  interactive 


computer-graphics  tools  we  were  devel- 
oping at  Brown. 

What  astounded  me,  though,  was  his 
response  to  my  first  lecture  on  functions 
of  three  variables.  We  had  spent  a  good 
deal  of  time  analyzing  contour  lines  of 
functions  of  two  variables,  such  as  the 
curves  ot  equal  temperature  or  pressure 
on  a  weather  map  or  the  contours  of 
mountains  on  a  topographical  survey.  I 
then  introduced  the  analogous  concept  of 
contour  surfaces  for  functions  of  three 
variables,  such  as  the  points  of  equal  tem- 
perature in  a  room  with  a  wood  stove.  I 
had  a  particular  challenge  in  mind.  The 
previous  summer,  I  had  attended  a  series 
ot  esoteric  lectures  at  Berkeley  given  by 
Professor  Friedrich  Hirzebruch  from  the 
University  of  Bonn.  Professor  Hirzebruch 
was  interested  in  a  surface  with  many  sin- 
gularities (points  where  the  surface  looks 
like  two  cones  with  their  points  touch- 
ing) defined  using  a  polynomial  in  three 
complex  variables: 

f(x,y,z)= 

(-$x-l+Sx2-i)+(-8)>4+8y2-l)+(-Sz't+Sz2-i) 

Although  the  lecturer  said  he  knew  a 
great  deal  about  this  function  from  the 
point  of  view  of  calculus  and  linear  alge- 
bra, he  regretted  that  he  could  not  visual- 
ize its  geometric  shape.  I  thought  our 
graphics  team  could  help  him  out.  I  tele- 
phoned my  sophomore  assistant,  Ed 
Chang  '91,  who  rendered  the  surface  on  a 
computer  using  a  contour-surface  algo- 
rithm developed  by  Steve  Ritter  '85  and 
Kevin  Pickhardt  '85  in  Professor  Amines 
van  Dam's  computer-graphics  course. 
Thanks  to  overnight  mail  and  one-hour 


film  developing,  we  had  slides  of  the  sur- 
face in  Berkeley  in  time  for  Professor 
Hirzebruch's  next  lecture.  He  was 
delighted,  and  he  has  used  our  computer- 
graphics  illustrations  in  his  lectures  and 
publications  ever  since. 

When  1  wrote  that  same  equation  on 
the  board  for  my  freshman  honors  stu- 
dents the  following  semester,  I  didn't  tell 
them  how  difficult  a  visualization  chal- 
lenge it  was.  I  had  planned  to  spread  the 
story  over  two  weeks  of  class  periods,  cli- 
maxing by  exhibiting  our  computer  illus- 
trations. 

But  I  hadn't  counted  on  Cassidy.  The 
very  next  class,  he  came  up  to  me  and  said 
he  knew  what  those  surfaces  looked  like. 
He  showed  me  a  page  of  drawings  that 
were  unlike  anything  I  had  ever  seen  from 
a  student  —  perfect,  hand-drawn  rendi- 
tions of  the  object  we  had  created  on  the 
computer  the  previous  summer  with  such 
labor,  not  just  one  image  but  an  entire 
sequence.  And  on  the  next  page  of  note- 
book paper,  he  showed  how  to  stack  all 
the  color-coded  surfaces  together  in  four- 
space,  something  our  computer  could  not 
do  at  the  time! 

Since  then  I  have  shown  slides  ot  Cas- 
sidy's  work  all  over  the  world:  in  schools 
and  universities,  at  conferences  and  art 
shows,  for  research  mathematicians  and 
for  alumni  groups.  This  is  not  only  the 
best  freshman  math  homework  I  have  ever 
received.  I  contend  it  is  the  best  overnight 
homework  any  teacher  has  ever  received 
in  any  course  at  any  level  at  any  place  in 
any  subject  at  any  time,  ever,  ever,  ever. 
That  is  an  extreme  claim,  but  I'm  still 
waiting  for  another  teacher  to  produce  a 
worthy  challenger.  o^> 


3  0*    DECEM  BED     1996 


OPTICAL   PohjT^ 


Four.  LEV/EL  SuKfT&S 


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Thomas  Banchoff  (right,  in  photo)  has  been  professor  of  math- 
ematics at  Brown  since  1967.  He  is  a  pioneer  in  the  geometry  of 

the  fourth  and  higher  dimensions,  and  his  Scientific  American 
volume,  Beyond  the  Third  Dimension,  recently  came  out  in 
paperback.  He  told  the  story  of  his  student's  achievement  dur- 
ing his  acceptance  speech  for  the  Mathematical  Association  of 
America's  national  award  for  distinguished  college  or  univer- 
sity teaching.  After  graduating  in  1992,  Banchoff's  student, 
Cassidy  Curtis  (left,  in  photo),  went  on  to  do  computer  anima- 
tion for  XAOS,  an  advertising  agency  in  San  Francisco,  where 
his  credits  included  the  countdown  visual  sequence  for  MTV. 
He  then  worked  on  animation  for  Pacific  Data  Images.  Curtis  is 
now  in  Seattle  working  on  graphics  projects  with  David  Salesin  '83, 
professor  of  computer  science  at  the  University  of  Washington. 


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Banchoff  had  never  seen  anything 
like  the  drawings  (top)  produced 
overnight  by  a  freshman,  Cassidy 
Curtis.  On  an  accompanying  sheet 
(opposite  page)  Curtis  "stacked" 
his  surface  renditions,  causing  a 
teaching  assistant  to  note:  "Wow!" 
Above,  a  computer-generated 
illustration  by  Ed  Chang  '91  of  the 
same  algebraic  function. 


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hopes  to  awaken  the  world  to 
the  struggle  of  the  former  Por- 

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tuguese  colony  of  East  Timor. 

ir^  '                               BY  CONSTANCIO  PINTO  '98  AND  MATTHEW  JARDINE 

"My  name  is  Constancio  Pinto.  I  was  born  in  Dili,  the  capi- 
tal oj  Portuguese  Timor,  on  January  25,  1963. 1  was  my  par- 
ents'first  oj  eleven  children.  Fortunately,  all  of  my  brothers 
and  sisters  are  still  alive.  " 

So  begins  East  Timor's  Unfinished  Struggle:  Inside 
the  Timorese  Resistance,  published  last  month  by 
Boston's  South  End  Press.  The  book  is  the  memoir  of  a  life 
engaged  in  the  struggle  for  freedom  and  independence  in 
East  Timor,  which  lies  in  the  Malay  archipelago  off  the 
northwestern  coast  of  Australia.  A  Portuguese  colony  until 
1975,  East  Timor  briefly  declared  its  independence  before 
Indonesia  annexed  it  by  force  a  few  months  later. 

As  secretary  of  the  clandestine  front  within  tin- 
National  Council  of'Maubere  Resistance  (CNRM),  Pinto 
has  lived  on  the  razor's  edge:  ostensibly  cooperating  with  the 
Indonesian  government  while  in  fact  leading  the  under- 
ground movement  to  free  East  Timor  from  its  tight-fisted 
rule.  Among  Pinto's  colleagues  have  been  Bishop  Carlos 
Ximenes  Belo  and  Jose  Ramos  Horta,  who  shared  this 
year's  Nobel  Peace  Prize.  Ramos  Horta  was  the  first  to 
greet  Pinto  when,  facing  almost  certain  death  at  home,  he 
began  a  long  journey  of  escape  that  ended  at  the  airport  in 
Lisbon  more  than  lour  years  ago. 


In  September  1993,  thanks  to  the  efforts  of  Associate 
Dean  of  the  College  DavidTargan,  Pinto  entered  Brown.  At 
about  the  same  time,  Ramos  Horta  appointed  Pinto  U.S. 
and  U.N.  representative  for  the  CNRM.  Later  that  year  he 
was  joined  in  Providence  by  Gabricla,  his  wife,  and  Tilson, 
their  son.  (They  have  since  had  a  daughter,  Tima.j  The  fol- 
lowing excerpt  adapted  from  East  Timor's  Unfinished 
Struggle  describes  his  arrest  and  torture  in  EastTimor. 


My  arrest  took  place  on  January  25,  1 991,  at 
nine  in  the  morning.  I  was  going  to  my 
office  at  the  Diocese  of  Dili.  The  Indonesians  had 
planned  to  arrest  me  for  a  traffic  violation.  They 
already  knew  that  I  had  a  motorcycle  but  no  license. 
At  nine,  on  the  way  to  the  diocese  office,  in  front 
of  the  old  municipal  market,  I  suddenly  found  myself 
surrounded  by  police.  I  had  all  the  newspaper  clip- 
pings and  the  notes  from  the  executive-committee 
meeting  the  previous  evening  in  my  backpack.  I 
immediately   realized   that   I    was   111    trouble.  There 


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were  two  policemen.  One  hit  me  on  my  head,  I  fell 
down,  and  they  grabbed  me.  They  hit  my  head  and 
my  body.  They  called  me  Terus  -  they  already  knew 
my  nom  de  guerre. 

"Terus,  where  are  you  going?"  they  asked  me. 
They  began  to  beat  me  really  hard,  right  there  on  the 
street  in  front  of  people.  Immediately  blood  came  out 
of  my  nose  and  mouth  like  someone  had  turned  on  a 


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Top:  Nobel  Peace  Prize  co-recipient  Jose  Ramos  Horta 
during  a  November  13  address  at  Georgetown  University. 
He  urged  the  Clinton  administration  to  help  bring  peace 
to  East  Timor. 

Bottom:  Co-recipient  Bishop  Carlos  Ximenes  Belo  delivers 
a  homily  during  a  mass  in  the  capital  city  of  Dili  on 
October  13. 


'If  I  had  caught  you,"  the  policeman  said, 
'I  would  have  broken  your  head 
immediately.  You  wouldn't  have  survived." 

faucet.  My  head  hurt  incredibly.  I  telt  like  I  was  going 
to  die.  They  kicked  me  in  the  stomach  with  their 
boots  very  hard,  like  someone  kicking  a  ball,  and  in 
my  back  and  my  head.  I  couldn't  move,  and  I  was 
crying.  They  just  kept  beating  me. 

A  lot  of  people  were  there.  Everyone  was  scared, 
of  course.  People  couldn't  say  anything.  The  police 
put  handcuffs  on  me,  with  my  hands  behind  my  back. 
They  didn't  put  me  in  a  truck,  because  I  was  right  in 
front  of  the  police  station.  They  just  walked  me  to  the 
station  and  beat  and  kicked  me  all  the  way  there,  in 
my  stomach  and  my  head.  They  were  hitting  me  in 
the  stomach  karate-style. 

Inside  the  station  one  of  the  police  approached 
me.  "If  I  had  caught  you,"  he  said  to  me,  "I  would 
have  broken  your  head  immediately.  You  wouldn't 
have  survived."  And  then  many  others  came  to  me 
and  said  while  laughing,  "Look  at  this  traitor."  I  just 
kept  silent. 

The  police  took  me  into  a  room. There  were  a  lot 
of  intelligence  people  there,  men  and  women.  They 
were  there  just  to  watch  me.  The  police  took  off  my 
clothes,  so  I  only  had  underwear  on,  and  they  started 
to  beat  me  again  really  hard,  hitting  my  face  and 
body,  and  kicking  my  legs  and  stomach. They  ordered 
me  to  put  my  hands  against  the  wall  over  my  head. 
People  outside  the  room  shouted,  "Look  at  that  trai- 
tor! We'll  teach  him  tonight.  We'll  teach  him 
tonight!" 

After  that  they  took  me  to  an  interrogation  room. 
When  I  entered  the  room,  there  was  a  Balinese  police 
captain  named  Edy  and  two  others.  The  room  was 
small,  maybe  twelve  feet  by  twenty-four  feet.  I  sat  on 
a  chair.  They  had  maps  and  a  schema  of  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  underground.  I  don't  know  where  they 
got  the  information,  but  some  of  it  was  true. 

The  police  official  interrogated  me  about  the 
chart  and  tried  to  force  me  to  say  the  schema 
was  true.  "Do  you  know  Bishop  Belo,  Father  Leao, 


Pinto  at  an  October 
1995  demonstration 
in  New  York  City 
protesting  Indonesia's 
1975  annexation  of 
East  Timor. 


and  Father  Cunha?"  he  asked  me. 

"I  know  Bishop  Belo  as  the  head  of  the  Catholic 
Church,"  I  replied.  "I  know  Father  Leao  and  Father 
Cunha  because  they  were  my  priests  and  my  teachers." 

"Do  you  know  that  they  are  working  with  the 
resistance?"  he  asked. 

"I  don't  know,"  I  answered.  "And  I  don't  have  to 
know.  That  is  their  business." 

"You  know,  you  traitor!"  he  yelled,  and  he  hit  me 
in  the  face  really  hard.  The  interrogation  continued, 
accompanied  by  torture. 

I  knew  that  the  Indonesians  had  captured  many 
documents  implicating  me  as  the  head  of  the  under- 
ground three  months  earlier  when  they  raided  the 
guerrilla  leader  Xanana  Gusmao's  camp;  they  already 
knew  my  nam  de  guerre,  Terus,  and  they  had  arrested 
me  with  incriminating  information  in  my  backpack, 
so  I  couldn't  deny  that  I  was  the  secretary  of  the 
executive  committee.  They  already  had  their  proof, 
but  I  wanted  to  make  sure  that  they  obtained  as  little 
information  from  me  as  possible.  Their  objective  was 
to  destroy  the  entire  underground;  they  wanted  to 
know  the  identities  of  all  my  contacts.  I  thought  that 
if  I  admitted  to  being  the  secretary  of  the  executive 
committee  and  took  responsibility  tor  the  activities 
of  the  underground,  the  Indonesians  would  concen- 
trate on  me,  rather  than  on  others  whom  they  sus- 
pected of  underground  activity. 

"You  don't  have  to  accuse  me  of  having  contacts 
with  this  one  or  that  one,"  I  told  them.  "Now  you've 
got  the  right  person.  I  am  the  secretary  ot  the  execu- 


tive committee.  I  am  responsible  for  everything." 

They  continued  to  hit  me,  and  I  continued  to 
refuse  to  give  them  the  information  they  wanted 
about  my  contact  with  others.  With  each  question 
I  would  get  two  or  three  punches  in  the  face.  When 
someone  punches  you  so  much  and  so  hard,  it  feels  as 
if  your  face  is  broken.  People  hit  me  on  my  back  and 
on  my  sides  with  their  hands  and  then  kicked  me. "If 
you  don't  tell  the  truth,  you  will  be  responsible  for 
your  own  life,"  they  threatened. 

I  was  crying,  but  they  were  beating  me  so  hard 
that  my  body  became  like  wood.  They  beat  me  as 
someone  beats  a  cow.  They  beat  me  so  many  times 
I  couldn't  feel  it.  But  .is  time  passed  I  felt  the  effects 
very  much;  my  body  felt  like  it  was  broken.  When 
they  first  started  beating  me  very  hard,  I  kind  ot  lost 
consciousness.  When  they  stopped  beating  me  tor  a 
few  minutes,  I  touched  my  head  and  my  jaw  to  see  if 
they  were  broken;  I  couldn't  believe  that  they  were 
not.  It's  unbelievable  how  strong  your  body  is.  And  it 
was  not  small  people  who  beat  me,  but  people  who 
were  strong  and  who  beat  me  with  all  their  energy.  I 
prayed  to  God,  and  God  helped  me  at  that  time. 
Without  God,  I  would  probably  be  dead. 

They  hit  me  from  nine  in  the  morning,  when 
they  first  arrested  me,  until  one  the  next  morning.  I 
almost  lost  consciousness  a  few  times.  At  one  a.m., 
there  was  a  telephone  call  from  the  head  of  military 
intelligence.  Colonel  Gatot  Purwanto.  He  told  them 
to  move  me  from  the  police  station  to  Colmera.  a 
military  intelligence  jail.  About  half  an  hour  later. 


BROWN    ALUMNI    MONTHLY    •    35 


Preserving  Hope 


The  most  striking  thing  about  Constan- 
cio  Pinto  is  what  he  is  not.  Despite  cru- 
sading for  independence  in  East  Timor  for 
most  of  his  adult  life,  he  is  not  didactic. 
Despite  being  torn  from  his  family  and 
exiled  from  his  country,  he  is  not  nostalgic. 
And  despite  the  grave  injustices  he  has  wit- 
nessed, both  in  East  Timor  and  in  the  inter- 
national political  arena,  he  is  not  bitter.  He 
is,  of  all  things,  hopeful,  with  an  almost 
puckish  air  of  glee. 

Sitting  on  a  Victorian  couch  in  his  Paw- 
tucket,  Rhode  Island,  apartment,  surrounded 
by  his  children's  picture  books  and  plastic 
trucks,  Pinto  explains  that  the  night  before 
the  Nobel  Peace  Prize  was  announced,  his 
attitude  was  different.  He  knew  that  his 
friend  Bishop  Belo  was  on  the  Nobel  com- 
mittee's short  list,  but,  he  says,  "I  had  no 
hope  at  all  that  the  bishop  would  win  the 
prize."  He  learned  of  the  award  to  Belo  and 
exiled  East  Timorese  activist  Jose  Ramos 
Horta  the  next  morning,  when  Beverly 
Skillings,  assistant  to  Associate  Dean  of  the 
College  David  Targan,  stopped  him  on  his 
way  to  art-history  class  and  asked:  "Haven't 


you  heard?  "His  country,  which  most  Ameri- 
cans had  never  heard  of,  was  suddenly  in 
the  international  spotlight.  "I've  never  seen 
anyone  so  happy,"  says  Skillings.  "Constancio 
was  jumping  up  and  down.  It  was  the  best 
thing  that  could  have  happened  for  his 
country  and  his  people." 

Through  his  work  as  the  leader  of  the 
underground  movement  in  East  Timor  and, 
earlier,  as  the  head  of  a  Catholic  boys' 
group,  Pinto  knew  Belo  well.  Because  of 
Belo's  high-profile  position  in  East  Timor, 
which  is  90-percent  Catholic,  the  bishop 
could  express  his  support  for  East  Timorese 
independence  more  freely  than  others.  He 
opened  his  door  to  hundreds  of  dissidents 
seeking  protection  from  the  police.  "He  was 
the  only  one  we  could  trust,"  Pinto  says. 


Until  his  es- 
cape from  East 
Timor,  Pinto  knew 
of  Ramos  Horta 
only  through  their 
years-long  corre- 
spondence about 
the  independence 
movement.  While  Pinto  helped  organize 
demonstrations  inside  the  country  -  includ- 
ing the  November  12,  1991,  march  that 
turned  into  the  famous  Santa  Cruz  massacre 
-  Ramos  Horta  drummed  up  support  for 
East  Timor  in  the  international  community. 

These  days  Pinto  somehow  takes  a  full 
load  of  classes  as  a  concentrator  in  develop- 
ment studies;  helps  his  East  Timorese  wife, 
Gabriela,  take  care  of  their  two  children; 
speaks  on  college  campuses  and  at  U.N. 
conferences  about  East  Timor;  and  has 
coauthored  a  book.  His  homework  often 
gets  done  on  airplanes.  "It's  a  little  bit 
stressful,"  he  says,  lacing  his  delicate  fingers 
together,  "but  moments  of  opportunity  are 
very  important.  If  you  miss  one,  it  will  take 
time  until  there's  another."  -  Shea  Dean 


they  put  me  in  a  truck.  I  was  in  a  lot  of  pain.  I  was 
afraid  that  they  were  taking  me  somewhere  to  kill 
me.  They  put  two  police  behind  me  in  the  truck  and 
two  in  front  of  me. 

"Where  are  you  taking  me?"  I  asked. They  didn't 
answer. 

"Are  you  going  to  kill  me?"  I  asked. 

"No,  we  are  not  going  to  kill  you  right  now," 
they  stated.  But  then  one  of  them  turned  to  me  and 
said,  "Traitor,  if  I  had  arrested  you,  if  I  had  captured 
you,  1  would  have  shot  you  right  away."  Then  we 
arrived  in  Colmera,  a  neighborhood  in  Dili  where 
there  was  a  prison  for  political  prisoners.  They  put 
me  in  a  room  and  resumed  the  interrogation. 

At  the  beginning,  the  Indonesians  said  the  same 
thing  as  they  did  at  the  police  station.  "We  know 
that  you  are  the  leader  of  the  underground  move- 
ment," they  said.  "We  know  you  have  a  very  close 
relationship  with  Xanana  Gusmao.  We  know  that 
you  know  everything  about  the  underground  move- 
ment. Please  tell  us  everything.  If  vou  don't,  you 


will  be  responsible  for  your  own  lite." 

Every  time  they  asked  me  a  question,  the 
Indonesians  would  add  a  threat.  "We  know  every- 
thing about  you,"  they  told  me,  "so  just  be  honest.  If 
you  are  not,  you  will  suffer."  As  they  were  saying  this, 
they  would  point  a  pistol  at  my  head.  "We  are  nice 
people,  but  we  have  colleagues  who  are  not  so  nice, 
who  use  razor  blades  and  electric  shocks  during 
interrogation.  It's  your  choice."  Sometimes  the 
Indonesians  would  order  me  to  smoke  a  cigarette 
and  to  take  a  few  moments  to  think. 

On  the  first  two  days,  they  didn't  show  me  any 
documents.  On  the  third  day,  though,  they  showed 
me  my  documents.  Imagine,  they  brought  out  all  my 
documents  and  letters  and  put  them  on  the  table  - 
letters  that  I  had  sent  to  Xanana  over  a  period  of 
almost  one  year.  When  I  looked  at  those  letters  and 
documents,  I  began  crying.  I  was  crying  at  the  sight 
of  my  letters.  They  laughed  at  me. 

After  having  breakfast  the  next  day,  I  was  taken  to 
meet  with  Gatot  Purwanto  in  the  Farol  section  of 


36    ♦    DECEMBER     IO96 


Xanana  Gusmao,  military  leader  of  the  East  Timor  resistance.  In  1993 
Gusmao  was  sentenced  to  life  in  prison,  a  sentence  that  was  later 
reduced  to  twenty  years  by  Indonesian  President  Suharto.  His  treatment 
has  been  criticized  by  Amnesty  International  and  by  many  newspapers 
around  the  world. 


Dili.  The  night  before  I  met  Gatot,  I  thought  to 
myself  that  if  I  stayed  in  the  prison,  I  wouldn't  be 
able  to  do  anything  else  for  the  underground  and  my 
country.  I  realized  that  the  Indonesians  needed  me 
and  that  they  would  probably  ask  me  to  work  tor 
them.  I  tried  to  think  about  what  I  would  do  if  they 

said  that  they  would 
release  me  on  the  condi- 
tion that  I  would  work 
for  them  as  an  agent. 

Gatot's  office  was  in 
an  old  Portuguese  house 
near  the  lighthouse  on 
the  Dili  waterfront.  "Well,  I  have  been  looking  for 
you  for  a  long  time,  but  now  you  are  here,"  he  said. 
"So,  tell  me,  why  do  you  do  all  these  things  against 
the  Indonesian  government?" 

I  decided  to  give  a  diplomatic  answer.  "I  have 
done  many  things  against  the  Indonesian  govern- 
ment, and  I  want  to  apologize.  If  you  don't  accept 
my  apology,  I  am  already  in  your  hands.  You  can  do 
whatever  you  can  do  to  me.  I  am  ready  to  accept  it.  I 
will  consider  your  punishment  of  me  as  a  punish- 


My  life  was  on  a  dangerous 
path.  I  was  beginning  to  play  an 
extremely  risky  game. 


mi  nt  that  comes  trom  a  father  to  a  son. 
1  consider  the  Indonesian  government 
to  be  like  my  father." 

"Well,  as  you  have  already  recog- 
nized your  fault,  I  will  let  you  go  home, 
with  the  condition  that  vou  present 
yourself  to  us  regularly  and  provide 
information  to  us,"  Gatot  responded. 
"Of  course  you've  done  a  lot  of  terrible 
things  against  the  government. You  have 
to  work  for  us  now;  you  have  to 
denounce  all  those  terrible  things  that 
you  have  done.  But  remember,  don't  tell 
people  that  you  were  arrested  for  politi- 
cal reasons,  but  because  you  didn't  have 
your  driver's  license  and  the  proper 
motorcycle  document." 

"I  promise,  Commander,"  I  an- 
swered. "I  won't  tell  anybody.  I  really 
want  to  work  and  cooperate  with  you." 
While  in  the  prison  I  had  found  out 
that  there  were  thirty  other  East  Timo- 
rese who  had  been  there  for  a  long  time 
before  I  arrived.  So  I  added  a  condition: 
the  release  of  these  thirty  people. 

"Commander  Gatot,  I  appreciate 
vour  decision,"  I  said.  "But  I  think  it  will 
be  difficult  for  people  to  believe  that  I 
was  arrested  merely  because  I  didn't 
have  my  driver's  license.  If  that  were  the 
case,  why  would  you  keep  me  here  for 
almost  a  week?  Another  big  mistake  was  to  put  me  in 
the  same  jail  where  the  others  are  imprisoned.  I  think 
it  would  be  helpful  if  you  release  the  other  prisoners 
before  vou  release  me.  If  you  don't,  people  won't 
believe  in  me.  People  will  say  that  I  am  working  for 
intelligence.  People  won't  believe  me  anymore." 

Gatot  was  convinced  by  my  argument.  "I  think 
you  are  right."  he  said  to  me.  The  next  day  the 
Indonesians  released  the  thirty  prisoners. 

A  couple  of  days  later,  after  seven  days  in  prison, 
the  Indonesians  released  me  as  well.  The  date  was 
February  I,  1991.  But  despite  my  release.  I  wasn't 
happy  at  all,  because  my  life  was  on  a  dangerous  path. 
I  was  beginning  to  play  an  extremely  risky  game  and 
I  was  conscious  of  that. 

At  five  o'clock  on  the  morning  of  May  16,  1992,  Con- 
stdncio  Pinto  left  Dili  to  begin  his  escape  from  EastTimor. 
He  arrived  in  Lisbon,  a  free  man,  six  months  later.  o^> 


Matthew  Jardine  is  a  Los  Angeles-based  researcher  and  acti- 
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PORTRAIT:     KENNETH     A.CARLSON    '86 


1/ 

■  ^k  (    irlson    lias    put    thirrv 

H  ^^  hard-core  criminals  behind 
bars,  but  lie's  never  worn  .1  badge.  As 
.1  producer  and  reporter  for  the  Fox 
television  network's  /4menfdi  Mosl 
Wanted  from  [992  to  [995,  Carlson 
profiled  more  than  200  ot  the  coun- 
try's most  vicious  murderers,  rapists, 
thieves,  and  child  molesters.  In  addition 
to  chronicling  the  stories  of  crime 
victims,  he  had  to  face  the  suffering 
of  their  families  and  friends.  "Some- 
times 1  was  more  ot  a  counselor  than 
a  producer."  Carlson  savs.  "It  was 
often  one  of  my  mam  roles  -  and  one  ot 
the  things  1  felt  most  comfortable  with." 

Carlson  is  comfortable  consoling  vic- 
tims' survivors  because  he  is  one.  In  the 
summer  of  1 990,  his  sister-in-law  was 
found  murdered  in  her  home  in  a  small 
Washington,  D.C..  suburb.  Until  then, 
Carlson,  a  former  varsity  linebacker  who 
studied  organizational  management  and 
behavior  at  Brown,  had  been  leading  the 
workaday  life  of  an  advertising  executive. 
After  the  local  police  department,  which 
had  budgeted  less  than  Ssoo  for  homi- 
cide investigations  that  year,  failed  to  turn 
up  suspects  or  make  any  arrests.  Carlson 
decided  to  take  action.  He  began  calling 
the  offices  of  America's  Most  Wanted,  a 
new  realm-based  television  program  that 
staged  reenactments  ot  unsolved  crimes 
and  asked  viewers  to  phone  in  tips.  "I 
knew  there  was  a  way  to  cut  to  the 
chase."  he  says.  "You  can  put  up  posters  in 
the  post  office,  but  you  can't  reach  8  mil- 
lion people  unless  you  go  on  television." 

Carlson  badgered  the  show's  execu- 
tives until  they  finally  dispatched  a  pro- 
ducer to  look  into  the  case.  The  producer 
took  notes  and  did  interviews,  but  once 
he  listened  to  Carlson's  advice  on  how 
to  profile  the  killer,  he  realized  he  had 
stumbled  onto  more  than  a  good  story. 
He  offered  Carlson  a  job.  Two  years  later 
Carlson  moved  to  Los  Angeles  to  work  in 
the  program's  news  division.  The  tact  that 
a  family  tragedy  provided  his  entree  into 
the  film  and  television  business  left  Carl- 
son with  mixed  feelings.  "It  was  an 
uncomfortable  segue,"  he  says,  "but  I  also 
think  it  made  me  better  at  the  job." 


CRIMINALS, 
BEWARE! 

When  a  relative  was  murdered, 

this  crusading  television  producer 

went  after  the  bad  guys. 

All  of  them. 

BY  CHAD  GALTS 
PHOTOGRAPH  BY  CATHERINE  KARNOW  '82 


In  his  earlv  days  with  America's  Most 
Wanted  Carlson  worked  a  grueling  sched- 
ule. If  a  crime  was  committed  over  a 
weekend  he  would  fly  to  the  location 
Monday  morning  and  interview  surviv- 
ing victims,  their  families,  and  the  police. 
He'd  plan  and  write  the  re-creation  on 
Tuesday,  film  it  on  Wednesday,  edit  it  on 
Thursday,  and  feed  it  via  satellite  to  the 
main  office  in  time  for  the  show's  Friday- 
night  air  time.  Such  a  quick  turnaround 
often  meant  that  Carlson  was  one  of  the 
first  people  on  the  crime  scene  after  the 
police. 

Yet  more  taxing  than  the  frantic  pace 
was  having  to  prepare  distraught  family 
members  and  friends  of  victims  to  per- 
form for  a  television  audience.  Carlson 
repeatedly  found  himself  walking  the  fine 
line  between  doing  good  on  behalf  of  a 
family  overcome  with  grief  and  turning 
that  grief  into  a  slick  package  that  would 
get  high  ratings.  The  son  of  a  United 
Church  of  Christ  minister,  Carlson  is  a  de- 
vout Christian  who  admits  he  sometimes 
felt  morally  at  odds  with  his  work.  "There 
I  was.  consoling  a  woman  crying  on  my 
shoulder,  holding  her  husband's  hand," 
Carlson  recalls.  "And  the  on-camera  talent 
was  poking  me.  saying,  'Let's  roll  this!' 
You  feel  you're  compromising  the  victims' 
true  feelings  and  your  integrity."  Still. 
Carlson  is  adamant  that  the  show's  results 
far  outweigh  its  intrusions.  "America's 
Most  Wanted  and  other  reality-based  pro- 
grams have  gotten  a  bad  rap,"  he  says.  He 
agrees  that  the  show's  tend  to  capitalize  on 
grief  and  make  personal  tragedies  fodder 
for  ratings  races,  but  "the  end  result  —  you 


can't  beat  it."  he  says.  "More  than  400 
criminals  have  been  put  behind  bars 
because  ot  America's  Most  Wanted.  Is 
this  wrong?  Absolutely  not." 

In    1995,  Carlson  decided  he  was 
ready  for  his  next  career  move.  He 
had    graduated    from    the    program's 
news    division    to    its    higher-budget 
film   reenactments.   More   important, 
his  wife,  Katrina  Schoen  Carlson  '88, 
was  pregnant.  With  almost  300  credits 
on    the    show,    Carlson's    name    was 
becoming  familiar  in  the  wrong  circles. 
America's  Most  Wanted,  he  explains,  is 
as  closely  watched  by  prison  inmates  as  it 
is  by  cops.  The  show's  creator  and  host, 
John  Walsh,  has  to  travel  with  bodyguards 
because  of  constant  threats  to  his  life,  and 
Carlson  himself  was  beginning  to  receive 
threats.   So    he    began    to    put    the    skills 
he'd  mastered  at  America's  Most  Wanted  to 
other  uses.  Earlier  this  year  he  produced 
Wild  Bill,  Hollywood  Maverick,  a  film  biog- 
raphy of  the  pioneer  director  William  A. 
Wellman.  Between  his  hands-on  produc- 
tion experience  at  America's  Most  Wanted 
and  the  Hollywood  history  lessons  from 
his  work  on  Wellman,  Carlson  feels  ready 
to   tackle   larger  projects   and  movies.  "I 
never  went  to  film  school,"  he  says,  "but 
I   have  a  complete  film  education.  I  just 
happened  to  get  paid  for  it." 

Carlson's  work  with  America's  Most 
Waited  isn't  quite  finished,  however.  His 
segments  are  still  turning  up  leads  for  the 
police,  and  he  works  as  a  consultant  on 
the  production  of  program  updates  when 
viewers  send  in  new  information  related 
to  his  profiles.  And  though  America's  Most 
Wanted  never  produced  a  segment  about 
his  sister-in-law's  murder,  Carlson  con- 
vinced another  reality-based  program. 
Unsolved  Mysteries,  to  cover  it.  After  the 
episode  aired,  one  suspect  was  convicted 
and  jailed.  Carlson  believes  there  is  at  least 
one  more  person  still  at  large  who  was 
involved  in  the  crime,  but  he  has  begun 
to  put  the  tragedy  behind  him.  "Very  tew 
people  who  are  victims  -  and  I  consider 
myself  a  victim,"  he  says, "have  the  oppor- 
tunity to  see  resolution,  to  see  closure,  to 
sec  someone  incarcerated.  Helping  other 
people  has  really  helped  me."  0^1 


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BROWN    ARCHIVES 


Thank  you,  sir,  may  I  have  another?  The  1936  Sophomore 
Vigilance  Committee  goes  to  work  on  five  neophytes  who 
have  broken  the  rules  governing  freshman  behavior.  Those 
assuming  the  position,  from  left:  Donald  A.  Jones,  Arthur 
W.  Doherty,  George  Holswade,  Herbert  Nahas,  and  Raymond 
Curran.  The  lords  of  discipline,  from  left:  Irving  A.  Hall  Jr., 
Howard  Lane,  Harold  Ipsen,  Alfred  Bloomingdale,  and 
Howard  Shaw. 


40    ♦    DECEMBER     I996 


The  Classes 


\i\    (   HAD    I.  A  I    I  S 


1925 


Ben  Roman  received  the  Boston  Post  Cane 

at  .1  gathering  .it  the  Alstead.  Mass..  Fire  Station 
111  August.  Traditionally  the  cine  is  given  to 
the  oldest  resident  of  Alste.id.  Ben  is  a  former 
dean  and  professor  emeritus  at  Brown,  and  .1 
former  headmaster  of  the  Peddle  School  in 
New  Jersey. 


I927 


70th  Reunion 


Our  70th  reunion  will  be  held  Memorial  Day 
Weekend,  May  23—26.  If  you  have  any  ques- 
tions or  suggestions,  please  call  reunion  head- 
quarters at  (401)  863-1947.  Remember  to  save 
the  dates. 


1928 


Oscar  H.  Hartenau.  Larchmont,  NY.,  spent 
the  summer  at  his  Charlestown,  R.I.,  summer 
home  with  his  two  children,  their  spouses,  and 
five  grandchildren. 


I929 


Louis  Miller  married  Meredith  Gale  on  [une 
16  in  Scottsdale,  Anz.  Miller's  first  wife,  of 
fifty-seven  years,  was  Helene  Chase  Miller 
'28.  His  daughter  is  Devra  Miller  Breslow 
'54  of  Los  Angeles.  His  nephew  is  Jonathan 
Kagan  '64  of  New  York.  Louis  can  be  reached 
at  S431  East  Welsh  Trail,  Scottsdale  85258; 
(602)  998-9895. 


I93O 


Karl  Stein.  Chicago,  writes.  "Thanks  to  the 
BAM  I  received  a  telephone  call  from  my 
former  classmate  Stephen  DeLise.  We  have 
not  spoken  in  sixty-five  years.  Though  I  am 
87  years  young,  I  am  still  able  to  be  a  crew- 
member  and  race  on  a  forty-two-foot  sloop. 
The  three-day  Tn-State  race  over  Labor  Day 
weekend  was  the  highlight  ot  my  season." 


WHAT'S     NEW? 

Please  send  the  latest  about  your  job,  family, 
travels,  or  other  news  to  Tlie  Clones,  Brown 
Alumni  Monthly,  Box  1854,  Providence. 
R.I.  02912; fax  (401)  863-0,509;  e-mail 
BAM@broumum.brown.edu.  Deadline  tor 
April  dassnotes: January  15. 


1932 


65th  Reunion 


Rev.  Byron  O.  Waterman,  class  president,  is 
looking  ahead  to  the  65th  reunion.  On  August 
8  he  met  with  Everett  Schreiner.  Charles 
Tillinghast  Jr..  Miles  Sydney,  and  Paul 
Mackesey  for  preliminary  planning. 

Dorothy  Budlong  met  with  Alan  and 
Helen  Cusick  in  Newport.  They  took  a 
moment  to  remember  the  recent  death  of 
Louise  Schreiner. 


l933 


York  A.  King  Jr.  and  his  wife,  Margaret,  Val- 
ley Forge.  Pa.,  celebrated  their  60th  wedding 
anniversary  on  October  1  o.  York  retired  from 
Rose  Exterminator  Co.  in  1975  and  is  now 
"managing  his  estate,"  which  fronts  on  Valley 
Forge  Park.  At  a  party  organized  by  his  son, 
1  )ave,  and  daughter,  Caroline  King  Hall  '60. 
'73  Ph.D.,  a  professor  of  English  at  Penn  State. 
York  recited  his  favorite  Ogden  Nash  toast: 
"To  keep  your  marriage  brimming  with  love 
in  the  loving  cup;  whenever  you're  wrong, 
admit  it;  whenever  you're  right,  shut  up!" 


I936 


Naming  names  is  always  dangerous,  and  it  was 
inevitable  that  we  would  leave  someone  out 
of  our  reunion  report.  But  why  did  it  have  to 
be  Harry  Moses,  who  hasn't  missed  a  reunion 
since  our  5th?  We  promise  it  won't  happen  at 
our  65th,  and  certainly  not  our  70th.  We  also 
neglected  to  mention  Jim  Rooney  '8y  of 
alumni  relations,  without  whom  we  wouldn't 
have  had  a  reunion.  He  was  pleasant,  helpful, 
cheerful,  and  reliable  -  we  were  in  good  hands. 
—  Howard  Silverman 


l937 


60th  Reunion 


The  Pembroke  and  Brown  reunion  committees 
have  been  busy  making  plans  for  our  60th  to 
be  held  Memorial  Day  Weekend,  May  23-26. 
If  you  have  any  questions  or  suggestions,  please 
call  reunion  headquarters  at  (401)  863-1947. 
Remember  to  save  the  dates. 


I938 


Larry  A.  Atwell,  Fairfax.  Va.,  writes,  "I  had 
the  pleasure  of  meeting  with  Joe  Paterno  so 
on  the  practice  held  at  Penn  State  in  August. 
I  was  very  impressed  with  his  organizational 
ability  —  he  had  eight  teams  on  four  corners  of 
the  field  operating  various  formations  and  plays, 
while  kicking  specialists  perfected  their  skills. 


[oe  walked  over  to  meet  me  and  mv  two  grand- 
sons, high  school  all-stars  from  Pensacola,  Fla., 
and  greeted  us  with  warmth  and  vigor.  I  have 
been  associated  with  many  of  the  famous  coaches 
ot  this  century,  and  I  would  place  Joe  in  the 
top  five.  He  is  a  credit  to  Brown  in  every 
respect." 

The  obituary  for  Elizabeth  Waterman 
Derry  in  the  September  BAM  neglected  to 
mention  her  maiden  name.  The  BAM  regrets 
the  error. 


1941 


Secretary  Earl  W.  Harrington  Jr.  writes  that 
Madge  Thomson  McCririck.  Vancouver, 
"our  only  '41  Pembroke  Canadian,"  wrote  to 
President  Gregorian  offering  a  British  Columbia 
flag  to  display  at  Commencement.  (Apologies 
for  inadvertently  leaving  this  material  out  of 
the  November  Classes.) 

Earl  and  his  wite.  Louise  '39.  had  a  great 
day  on  Cape  Cod  at  the  Brown  Sports  Foun- 
dation's triennial  celebration  at  the  home  of 
Genie  and  Bob  Birch  '61,  August  10.  They 
were  joined  by  Bob  Rapelye  and  shared  a 
table  during  the  lobster-  and  clambake  with 
four  from  '42.  Some  alumni  enjoyed  golf, 
tennis,  and  swimming,  while  others  enjoyed 
visiting,  sightseeing,  and  bay  cruises.  The  eve- 
ning entertainment  included  singing,  dancing, 
and  the  country  singer,  storyteller,  and  come- 
dian Mike  Cross.  On  August  26  Earl  and 
Louise  welcomed  granddaughter  Sarah  Youn- 
kin  '97  to  Providence  for  her  senior  year  and 
Samuel  Younkin  '00  as  a  freshman.  Both 
grew  up  in  Cleveland  Heights,  Ohio. 

Allen  R.  Ferguson  wrote  to  Sophie 
Blistein  as  a  result  of  their  reunion  discussions, 
enclosing  material  for  the  library's  military 
collection  and  a  copy  ot  a  snapshot  of  Sophie. 
Lucky,  and  Allen  taken  by  his  wife,  Audrey 
Mitscher  '42,  way  back  when.  Sophie.  Allen, 
and  Lucky  started  together  in  the  fifth  grade 
and  continued  together  through  Brown.  Allen 
is  now  writing  a  memoir,  which  may  take  the 
form  either  of  a  single  volume  published  in 
2000  or  of  smaller  segments  published  earlier. 
Look  for  more  on  this  from  John  E.  Lieb- 
111.11111  in  the  next  class  newsletter.  Classmates 
can  send  information  for  the  newsletter  to  John 
at  1 133  Park  Ave..  New  York  City  10128.  by 
early  January.  —  Earl  If.  Harrington  jr. 

The  Rev.  Robert  A.  Tourigney  and  his 
wife,  Helen,  returned  to  Palos  Verdes  Estates. 
Calif.,  in  October.  St.  Francis  Parish,  which 
Bob  founded  and  served  for  thirty-seven  \  ens. 
rededicated  the  parish  hall  in  his  name.  Bob 
writes  that  since  his  name  is  difficult  to  pro- 
nounce and  does  not  lend  itself  to  abbreviation, 
he  suggested  the  parish  use  his  Brown  nick- 
name and  call  the  building  "Tigger  Hall." 


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1942 


55th  Reunion 


1944 


The  reunion  committee  has  been  busy  nuking 
plans  for  our  55th  to  be  held  Memorial  Day 
Weekend,  May  23-26.  If  you  have  any  ques- 
tions or  suggestions,  please  call  reunion  head- 
quarters at  (401)  863-1947.  Remember  to  save 
the  dates. 

Edith  Herrmann.  Elizabeth.  N.J..  traveled 
to  the  Gulf  Coast  of  Florida  with  her  former 
library  director  in  the  early  summer.  They  took 
many  auto  trips  and  visited  the  Edison  and 
Ford  winter  estates  in  Fort  Myers.  Edith's 
church,  Second  Presbyterian,  hosted  the  Kiev 
symphonic  choir  and  orchestra  as  the  first  stop 
on  a  thirty-concert  tour  throughout  the  United 
States.  "'Three  women  from  the  choir  stayed 
at  my  apartment  for  two  nights,"  Edith  writes. 
"I  had  the  opportunity  to  show  them  my  late 
mother's  treasures  from  old  St.  Petersburg 
before  the  Soviet  rule." 

Helen  Reilly  Hoyt,  Ridgefield.  Conn., 
writes,  "It  is  with  deep  sadness  that  I  report 
the  death  of  my  husband,  Richard  H.  Hoyt 
(Columbia  '36),  on  June  4.  He  was  one  of 
the  few  remaining  hat  manufacturers  before 
that  industry  was  forced  to  close  altogether." 


J943 


Growing  old  gracefully  seems  to  be  a  common 
goal,  and  the  returns  from  our  mid-summer 
solicitation  for  news  look  quite  encouraging  - 
and  even  a  bit  inspiring.  Jay  Rossbach  became 
a  grandfather  on  Dec.  24,  1995.  He  plays  golf, 
tennis,  and  croquet  in  the  Palm  Beach,  Fla., 
area,  where  he  is  also  chairman  of  the  local  Red 
Cross  chapter.  Bruce  Donaldson  did  Jay  a 
notch  better  by  becoming  a  £rMf-grandfather 
in  August.  Bruce  admits  that  golf  is  his  real 
passion,  even  if  his  handicap  has  sneaked  up 
from  8  to  16  over  the  past  few  years.  He  con- 
tinues to  travel  annually  to  Scotland,  where 
he  is  a  member  of  the  Royal  and  Ancient  Golf 
Club  of  St.  Andrews.  Bob  Walker  moved 
from  New  Jersey  to  Peterborough.  N.H.,  last 
winter.  He  is  adjusting  to  a  life-care  commu- 
nity where  snow  removal,  grass  cutting,  and 
home  repairs  are  ancient  history.  He  enjoys  a 
busy  schedule  of  group  activities  and  pleasure 
trips.  He  recently  took  a  trip  to  the  U.K. 
and  its  islands,  and  he  is  looking  forward  to  a 
regular  schedule  of  cruises.  Bob  Radway 
remains  mostly  retired,  but  a  host  of  boards, 
committees,  and  commissions  keeps  him 
on  his  toes.  Bob  is  proud  of  the  giant  tomatoes 
he  grows  at  his  summer  home  in  Saunders- 
town,  R.I.,  and  he  still  does  a  bit  of  financial 
consulting  through  the  local  office  of  the 
Small  Business  Administration.  He  celebrated 
V-[  Day  by  watching  videotapes  about  am- 
phibious landings  in  the  Pacific  during  World 
War  II.  -  Boh  Radway 

Marguerite  Connelly  Carroll's  sons  held 
a  family  reunion  111  July  in  Windsor,  Conn. 
Family  and  friends  came  from  California,  Col- 
orado, Maryland,  Connecticut,  Oklahoma, 
Massachusetts,  and  Rhode  Island. 


The  sympathy  of  the  class  goes  out  to  Connie 
Lucas  Chase  on  the  death  of  her  husband, 
Garfield,  on  July  24. 

Miriam  Norbery  Schofield  retired  in 
1992  and  lives  in  Miami.  "Contrary  to  many 
people's  opinions,"  she  writes,  "I  like  living 
here."  She  is  a  member  of  the  Miami  Commis- 
sion on  the  Status  of  Women  and  of  Demo- 
cratic Power,  a  women's  political  organization. 
She  is  active  in  a  Congregational  church  and 
attends  classes  two  days  a  week  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Miami's  Institute  for  Retired  Profes- 
sionals. She  also  attends  art  classes  and  plans  to 
take  a  computer  class  in  January.  A  member 
of  a  women's  travel  club,  she  spent  a  week  in 
Maui  and  two  weeks  in  San  Francisco,  both 
in  May,  and  two  weeks  in  France  touring 
Provence  and  the  Riviera  in  September  1995. 
Ruth  Cunningham  Lyons  and  Miriam  re- 
connected at  their  50th  reunion  and  have  met 
a  couple  of  times  in  Florida.  Miriam  has  three 
children  and  five  grandchildren. 


1945 


Phyllis  Baldwin  Young  (see  Andrew  B. 
Young   '87). 


I946 


Bobby  Smith  Thomas  writes,  "Although  I 
graduated  in  1946,  I  had  never  gone  through 
the  Van  Wickle  Gates  until  I  returned  to  Brown 
for  my  50th  reunion  111  May.  In  the  emotions 
of  the  day  my  husband  and  I  forgot  to  bring 
our  camera  along.  A  bystander,  who  was  a 
brother  of  one  in  our  marching  group  (classes 
1946  and  earlier),  kindly  took  pictures  of  me 
at  various  points  along  the  way.  Unfortunately. 
I  .1111  unable  to  remember  the  photographer's 
name  or  that  of  his  brother.  Perhaps  someone 
reading  the  BAM  can  help  me  track  him 
down."  Bobby  can  be  reached  at  16  2  Gre- 
gory St.,  Marblehead,  Mass.  01945. 


1947 


50th  Reunion 


The  plans  for  your  50th  reunion  are  well  under 
way.  Be  sure  to  mark  your  calendars.  May 
23-26.  If  you  haven't  already  done  so,  please 
return  your  yearbook  questionnaire  as  soon  as 
possible.  Call  reunion  headquarters  at  (401) 
863-1947  if  you  have  any  questions  or  have 
not  received  a  reunion  mailing. 


I948 


Our  off-year  mini-reunion  was  held  at  the  Fac- 
ulty Club  on  May  25.  We  were  joined  by  the 
classes  at  [945,  '47,  '48.  and  '49,  and  by  our 
scholarship  student.  Leslie  Jonas  '97.  Attendees 
were  so  enthusiastic  about  the  joint  reunion 
that  we  plan  to  do  it  again  tins  year,  Saturday. 


May  24,  at  the  Faculty  Club.  Those  who 
attended  included  Florence  Asadorian  Dul- 
garian  '4s.  Jane  Walsh  Folcarelli  '47,  Eileen 
Cummings  Heaton  '47.  Joan  Fitzgerald 
Goldrick  '47,  Betty  Asadorian  Kougasian 
'47,  class  president  Nancy  Cantor  Eddy, 
Gloria  MarkofT  Winston,  Constance  Hur- 
ley Andrews.  Muriel  Simon  Flanzbaum, 
Barbara  Soloman  Goldstein,  Betty  Daly 
Connelly,  June  Anne  Mullane  Aumand. 
Singer  Gammell,  Barbara  Oberhard 
Epstein,  Lotte  Van  Geldern  Povar,  class 
president  Dolores  Pastore  DiPrete  '49, 
Marilyn  Ehrenhaus  '49,  Glenna  Robinson 
Mazel  '49,  Rev  Marjorie  Logan  Hiles  '49, 
and  Jean  E.  Miller  '49.  We  have  had  four 
meetings  for  our  soth  reunion,  which  is  less 
than  two  years  away.  Hope  you  will  be  with  us. 
-  Nancy  Cantor  Eddy 

A  |uly  classnote  incorrectly  referred  to 
Jack  Frankel  as  "Joel."  "I'll  admit  the  latter 
has  a  fine  ring,"  he  writes  from  his  home  in 
Treasure  Island,  Fla.,  "but  I'm  really  conser- 
vative Jack."  The  BAM  regrets  the  error. 


I949 


John  L.  Waterman.  Rehoboth.  Mass.,  re- 
tired in  January  after  ten  years  in  the  rubber 
industry  and  is  working  as  a  consultant  one 
day  a  week.  He  is  very  active  in  his  church, 
enjoys  his  five  grandchildren,  and  is  hoping 
for  a  sixtli  from  China  in  the  near  future. 


I95O 


Joe  Paterno  (see  Larry  A.  Atwell  '38). 

I^^    45th  Reunion 

Be  sure  to  save  the  dates,  May  23-26,  so 
you  can  come  join  the  fun.  Your  committee 
is  hard  at  work  planning  your  reunion.  The 
weekend  will  be  a  good  time  to  catch  up 
with  old  friends  and  make  new  ones.  If  you 
have  not  received  your  first  mailing,  please 
contact  reunion  headquarters  at  (401)  863-1947. 

Miles  E.  Cunat  Jr.  has  retired  from 
Chicago  Title  Co.  and  now  does  part-time 
real  estate  legal  consulting.  He  recently 
recovered  from  some  major  health  problems 
and  would  like  to  hear  from  classmates.  He 
and  his  wife.  Rita,  enjoy  spending  time  with 
their  grandchildren.  They  can  be  reached  at 
29S  Northwood.  Riverside.  111.  60546. 

Mark  Rowe  is  the  1996  recipient  of  the 
Ladd  Medal,  an  award  that  recognizes  physi- 
cians who  have  made  outstanding  contributions 
to  the  field  of  pediatric  surgery.  Mark  is  a  fel- 
low of  the  American  Academy  of  Pediatrics, 
former  chief  of  the  division  of  pediatric 
surgery  at  the  University  of  Pittsburgh  School 
of  Medicine,  and  former  surgeon-in-chiet  of 
general  pediatric  surgery  at  the  Children's 
Hospital  of  Pittsburgh. 


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!954 


Bethany  Bearce  Moore  '89). 


Devra  Miller  Breslow  (see  Louis  Miller  '29). 


1955 


Ceroid  Borodach  retired  from  the  practice 
of  anesthesiology  and  from  teaching  at  Wash- 
ington University  School  of  Medicine  111  Sept- 
ember. He  was  on  the  staff  at  Barnes  Hospital 
in  St.  Lotus  for  ten  years.  Ceroid  and  his  wife, 
Ardell  Kabalkin  '57,  are  looking  forward  to 
retirement  in  New  York  City,  where  their 
son.  Samuel  '87,  is  a  patent  attorney  with 
fish  0\  Richardson.  Samuel  and  his  wife,  Patty, 
have  three  children:  Ben,  Sarah,  and  Simha. 
Gerold  and  Ardell's  daughter.  Abigail  (Boston 
University  '86),  is  acting  director  of  student 
activities  at  Boston  University  and  was  married 
in  lime  to  Kenneth  Elmore  '85,  assistant 
director  of  residence  life  at  B.U.  Andrew  '93 
is  starting  his  last  year  at  Harvard  Law,  and 
worked  last  summer  for  the  New  York  City 
firm  of  DeBevoise.  Plimpton. 


I956 


Denny  Bearce  (see  Bethany  Bearce 

Moore  'Sy). 


1957 


40th  Reunion 


Save  the  dates.  May  23-26.  A  tribute  to  our 
college  days  is  being  planned,  and  we  want 
you  to  be  there.  If  you  have  not  yet  received 
your  first  mailing,  please  contact  reunion 
headquarters  at  (401)  863-1947. 

William  Hayes.  New  York  City,  is  m 
his  second  term  as  president  of  the  New  York 
Society  of  Security  Analysts.  He  is  also  a  part- 
ner ofWalter  N.  Frank  &  Co.,  a  New  York 
Stock  Exchange  specialist  firm. 

Alan  R.  Shalita.  New  York  City,  was 
appointed  distinguished  teaching  professor 
of  dermatology  at  SUNY-Brooklyn's  Health 
Science  Center  in  1996.  He  is  also  president- 
elect of  the  Association  of  Professors  of  Der- 
matology and  secretary-treasurer  of  the  Amer- 
ican Dermatological  Association. 


1958 


Carl  E.  Aronson  retired  to  emeritus  status  at 
the  University  of  Pennsylvania  on  June  30, 
after  thirty-one  years  of  service.  He  will  con- 
tinue teaching  pharmacology  and  toxicology 
on  a  limited  basis  at  the  university's  School  of 
Veterinary  Medicine  for  the  next  three  years. 
This  fall  he  began  a  part-time  career  in  the 
chemistry  department  at  Haverford  College. 


1959 


i960 


Caroline  King  Hall  "73  Ph.D.  (see  York  A. 
King  Jr.    33). 


I96l 


In  accordance  with  the  vote  taken  at  our  35th 
reunion,  $750  was  given  to  the  Brown  libraries 
to  purchase  one  book  in  memory  of  each  ot 
our  classmates  who  had  died  since  our  gradu- 
ation. The  books  have  now  been  purchased 
and,  where  possible,  are  related  to  the  class- 
mate's concentration.  Each  bears  a  bookplate 
with  the  classmate's  name.  As  we  all  spent 
many  hours  111  the  libraries,  this  seems  a  fitting 
memorial.  Our  particular  thanks  to  Catherine 
Dennmg,  the  University  Gifts  Librarian,  for 
her  help  with  this  project.  -  Sara-Jane  Komblith 
Richard  G.  Unruhjr..  Philadelphia,  was 
promoted  to  president  of  Delaware  Investment 
Advisers.  Previously  he  was  executive  vice 
president  and  senior  portfolio  manager  for  the 
company.  He  joined  the  firm  in  1982  after 
nineteen  years  with  Kidder,  Peabody  &  Co. 


1962 


35th  Reunion 


Dotsy  Testa.  Guy  Lombardo,  and  their 
committee  look  forward  to  seeing  you  at  the 
35th  reunion.  May  23-26.  Watch  for  registra- 
tion information  in  early  spring. 

Richard  Kostelanetz,  New  York  City, 
was  listed  in  A  Reader's  Guide  to  Twentieth 
Century  Writers  (Oxford  University  Press,  1996), 
which  described  him  as  "probably  the  world's 
most  experimental  writer,  or  at  least  he  repre- 
sents the  farthest  extreme  of  the  formalist 
approach  within  the  broader  field  ot  'experi- 
mental wnting.'  " 

Philip  J.  Schwarz.  Richmond,  Va.,  has 
published  Slave  Laws  in  I  'irginia  (University  of 
Georgia  Press,  1996). 

John  R.  South  was  named  president  and 
CEO  of  Staodyn  Inc..  a  developer  of  electro- 
medical treatment  devices  in  Longmont,  Colo., 
111  fune.  Previously  he  was  president  of  the 
medical  and  diagnostic  division  of  Dynatech 
Corp.  in  Burlington,  Mass.  John  and  his  wife, 
Martha  Hill  South,  moved  to  Longmont  in 
September.  They  have  since  spoken  to  Kelly 
Cardall  Newsom  about  the  35th  reunion, 
which  they  plan  to  attend.  They  can  be  reached 
at  1288  Fox  Hill  Dr.,  Longmont  80501. 


I964 


Scott  Bearce  and  J.  Russell  French  (see 


Jonathan  Kagan  (see  Louis  Miller  '29). 

Barbara  Zwick  Sander,  St.  Louis,  Mo., 
is  the  Parents  As  Teachers  training  coordinator 
for  the  State  of  Missouri.  Her  son,  Brad  Lewin 
'94,  is  getting  a  master's  at  the  University  of 
Dayton.  Her  daughter  got  an  M.S.W.  and 


lues  in  Roikvillc.  Md.,  with  her  husband 

Tom  and  Judy  Macintosh  O'Neil  (see 
Marc  Harrison  '92). 


1966 


Richard  K.  Bell.  Fresno.  Calif,  was  named 
president  of  David  &  Sons.  ,1  national  manu- 
facturer and  distributor  of  roasted  seed  snacks 
and  pistachio  nuts.  Previously  he  was  vice 
president  for  sales  and  marketing  at  Commits 
Inc.  and  executive  vice  president  ot  Koala 
Springs  International  Inc.  Richard's  wife,  Linda 
Sommers,  and  daughters  Meredith,  14,  and 
Samantha,  to,  joined  him  in  Fresno  last  summer. 

G.  Scott  Briggs  received  the  first  life- 
time achievement  award,  named  in  his  honor, 
for  service  to  the  El  Paso  County  Bar  Associ- 
ation in  Colorado  Springs,  Colo.,  where  he 
has  worked  for  the  last  twenty-five  years.  He 
also  received  an  award  from  the  Colorado  Bar 
Association  in  recognition  of  his  professionalism, 
ethics,  and  civility-.  He  is  a  primary  author  of 
the  forthcoming  Before  the  Bar:  A  History  of  the 
El  Paso  County  Bar  Association,  t^02-igg}. 

Carol  Dannenberg  Frenier's  first  book. 
Business  and  lite  Feminine  Principle:  Tlie  Untapped 
Resource,  was  released  in  September  by  Butter- 
worth-Heinemann  as  part  ot  its  U.S.  Business 
Books  series.  "This  book  is  not  another  critique 
of  what  is  wrong  with  the  largely  masculine 
system  in  business,"  Carol  writes.  "Instead  it 
explores  how  the  feminine  side  of  everyone's 
nature  could  impact  organizations  if  it  were 
better  understood."  She  still  enjoys  living  in 
rural  Vermont  with  her  husband.  Bob. 

Frank  Rycyk  Jr.  recently  self-published 
his  second  book.  Tlie  I  Isionary  I  lewpoint,  he 
writes,  "is  futuristic,  philosophical,  and  enter- 
taining." Frank  continues  to  work  in  food 
service  and  inventory  auditing,  and  he  delivers 
an  occasional  sermon  to  the  local  Unitarian 
Universalist  Fellowship.  He  can  be  reached  at 
406  Chestnut  St.,  Jefferson  City,  Mo.  65101. 

Richard  Webber  (see  Wendy  Webber 
'93)- 


I967 


30th  Reunion 


Don't  forget  to  make  plans  now  to  return  to 
campus  for  our  30th.  We  look  forward  to 
seeing  you  May  23-26.  Save  the  dates  for  gala 
times,  renewed  friendships,  and  joyful  remi- 
niscing. Please  contact  reunion  headquarters 
at  (401)  863-1947  if  you  have  not  received 
a  mailing. 

Michael  Diffily  (see  Leslie  Diffily  '93). 

Dale  Kennedy  Domingue  (see  Leslie 
Diffily   93). 

Jeff  and  Muriel  McCormick  Foster 
(see  Melisa  Lai  '94). 

Marilyn  Friedman  Hoffman,  London- 
derry, N.H.,  retired  last  December  after  twelve 
years  as  museum  director  of  the  Currier  Gallery 
of  Art. 

Bonnie  Winters  Klein  '67  (see  Jill 
Winters  Ortman  '70). 


BROWN     ALUMNI     MONTHLY    •    43 


JOSEPH     E.     BILLOTTI     '69     PH.D 


Padre  in  Paradise 


Palm  trees,  sapphire  water,  lush  green  hills  - 
all  drenched  in  sunshine.  The  campus  ot  the 
Ponape  Agriculture  and  Trade  School  (PATS) 
in  Pohnpei,  Caroline  Islands,  looks  a  lot  like 
paradise.  But  its  teenaged  students  -  160  boys 
hailing  from  the  Pacific  islands  that  comprise 
the  Federated  States  of  Micronesia  -  have  little 
time  to  enjoy  the  scenery.  Their  studies  begin 
at  7:45  a.m.  and  last  until  4:30  p.m.  every  day, 
with  study  hall  each  night. 

It's  a  tough  schedule  but  a  necessary  one 
for  the  young  men's  futures,  says  the  Rev. 
Joseph  E.  Billotti  '69  Ph.D.,  the  school's  direc- 
tor since  May  1995.  "This  area  doesn't  have 
much  industry,"  he  explains.  "The  biggest  are 
fishing  and  agriculture."  But  modernization 
is  coming  to  Micronesia,  and  with  it  increased 
tourism,  mechanization,  and  a  demand  for 
skilled  workers. 

This  is  where  PATS  comes  in,  with  its  inten- 
sive training  programs  in  agriculture,  construc- 
tion, and  mechanics.  Begun  by  a  Jesuit  priest 
in  1965,  the  school  initially  enrolled  thirty-one 
boys.  Today  its  800  alumni  are  playing  key 
roles  in  developing  their  home  islands.  "One 
problem  in  this  area  has  always  been  that  chil- 


dren went  off 
and  got  an  edu- 
cation, but  they 
didn't  return  to 
their  communi- 
ties," Billotti  says.  Now,  more  and  more  PATS 
graduates  are  staying  to  help  the  local  econ- 
omies. "We're  a  small  school,"  Billotti  adds, 
"but  our  influence  extends  throughout  Micro- 
nesia" -  2,000  small  islands  sprinkled  over 
more  than  3  million  square  miles  of  ocean. 
Vocational  education  is  a  new  twist  for 
Billotti,  who  has  spent  most  of  his  career  in 
academe.  After  earning  his  doctorate  in  applied 
mathematics  at  Brown,  the  Jesuit  priest  taught 
for  ten  years  at  LeMoyne  College  in  Syracuse. 
In  the  1980s  he  served  as  principal  of  Canisius 
High  School  in  Buffalo.  Then  Billotti's  superior 
asked  him  to  take  the  helm  at  PATS.  Having 
spent  a  year  in  the  early  1970s  working  at  a 
Mexican  orphanage,  he  felt  comfortable  about 
living  in  a  foreign  country.  He  was  also  used  to 
answering  higher  calls.  "You  preach  your  avail- 
ability fifty-two  weeks  a  year,"  he  says.  "When 
something  like  PATS  comes  up,  you  see  the 
opportunity  to  serve." 


Father  Billotti  and  PATS  student  David 
Rumen  atop  a  campus  sundial. 

Is  Pohnpei  paradise?  "Well,  it's  eighty- 
eight  degrees  every  day,"  Billotti  says  with  a 
smile.  "But  there's  a  lot  of  humidity.  When  I 
got  my  first  bicycle  here,  I  sprayed  it  with 
Rustoleum.  In  two  weeks  it  had  begun  to  rust." 

Yet  he  loves  his  job,  the  "wonderful  kids 
who  work  so  hard  -  and  you  should  hear 
them  sing  harmonies  at  mass,"  the  ongoing 
challenge  of  raising  money.  Big  changes  are 
ahead:  the  school's  new  institutional  plan 
calls  for  the  admission  of  girls  in  1998.  "We 
hope  PATS  will  be  in  the  forefront  in  Microne- 
sia in  opening  up  to  women  trades  tradition- 
ally identified  with  men,"  Billotti  says. 

PATS  and  its  director  are  already  in  cyber- 
space; e-mail  is  Billotti's  lifeline  to  stateside 
contacts.  Want  a  quick  trip  to  paradise?  Cruise 
to  http://pats.edu.  -  Anne  Diffily 


1968 


Esther  Ferster  Lardent  was  made  a  mem- 
ber of  the  American  Bar  Association  Board  of 
Governors  on  Aug.  7.  A  consultant  in  pro- 
grams development,  administration,  and  legal- 
services  analysis  111  Washington,  D.C.,  she 
will  serve  a  three-year  term  on  the  board  rep- 
resenting the  District  of  Columbia  and  Vir- 
ginia. She  is  a  vice  president  and  board  mem- 
ber of  the  National  Legal  Aid  and  Defenders 
Association,  a  special  advisor  to  the  Public 
Service  Activities  Review  Committee  of  the 
District  of  Columbia  Bar,  and  a  recipient  of 
the  1995  William  Reece  Smith  Jr.  Pro  Bono 
Service  Award  and  the  1993  Founder's  Award 
from  the  Philadelphia  Bar  Association. 


I969 


Richard  Chambers,  Nashville,  sold  his  Check 
Express  franchise  to  ACE  Cash  Express  in  July. 


His  wife,  Carol  McCoy,  was  elected  Chancery 
Court  Judge  in  Nashville  on  Aug.  1.  Richard, 
who  managed  the  campaign,  can  be  reached 
with  new  business  ideas  at  (615)  292-8735. 


I97O 


Jill  Winters  Ortman  and  her  husband, 
John,  still  live  in  Quito,  Ecuador,  where  they 
own  La  Bodega  and  Centro  Artesenal  handi- 
craft stores,  an  art  gallery,  and  a  jewelry  store. 
Daughter  Rebecca  '98  is  spending  the  year  in 
Bologna,  and  Katie  is  a  senior  in  high  school. 
Jill's  sister,  Bonnie  Winters  Klein  '67,  visited 
last  April.  The  Ortmans  welcome  visits  from 
any  alumni  who  find  themselves  in  Ecuador. 
They  can  be  reached  at  Juan  Leon  Mera  614, 
Quito,  Ecuador. 

Jane  Sisto  Long  has  been  appointed  assis- 
tant professor  of  fine  arts  at  Roanoke  College 
in  Salem,  Va.  She  received  her  Ph.D.  in  art 
history  from  Columbia,  where  she  specialized 


in  Italian  Renaissance,  Northern  Renaissance, 
and  medieval  art.  A  Fulbnght  Scholar  in  Flo- 
rence, she  had  taught  previously  at  Mary 
Washington  College,  the  Savannah  College 
of  Art  and  Design,  Columbia,  and  the  New 
York  Institute  of  Technology. 


1971 


David  A.  Tillson  was  named  managing 
director  of  United  States  Trust  Co.,  New 
York  City,  on  Sept.  19.  He  is  a  senior  portfo- 
lio and  department  manager  in  the  company's 
personal  investment  division  and  since  1994 
has  managed  the  Excelsior  Equity  Fund,  a 
$28o-million  mutual  fund.  Previously  he  was 
president  and  founder  of  TDA  Capital  Man- 
agement Co.;  a  senior  vice  president  at  Matrix 
Asset  Advisors;  and  a  vice  president,  portfolio 
manager,  and  director  of  research  at  Manage- 
ment Asset  Corp.  David  lives  in  Westport, 
Conn.,  with  his  wife,  Nancy,  and  two  children. 


44    ♦    DECEMBl-.li     [996 


1972 


25th  Reunion 


Chas  Gross,  Guy  Buzzell.  Stephen  Bacon, 
and  Don  Stanford  urge  you  Co  return  the 
2\th  reunion  yearbook  questionnaire.   I  he) 
want  as  many  classmates  as  possible  included 
m  this  collection  of  memories  and  current 
information.  They  look  forward  to  seeing 
you  \li\  23   -"  for  the  greatest  reunion  ever. 
Registration  information  should  reach  you 
by  early  spring.  Reserve  your  place  .is  soon  as 
you  receive  the  packet. 

Tony  Allison  lives  in  Carlisle.  Mass., 
with  his  wife,  Nicole,  and  two  children.  He  is 
part  owner  and  vice  president  of  sales  for 
BSR  Inc.  "We  sell  alumni  and  development 
computer  software  to  universities  and  colleges," 
he  writes.  "In  fact.  Brown  just  selected  my 
softw  are  to  more  effectively  solicit  alums.  You 
can  run  but  you  can't  hide  from  the  Brown 
Fund!" 

John  M.  Holod  writes,  "After  twenty 
years  of  feeding  patients  in  hospitals  up  and 
down  the  East  Coast,  I  made  a  career  and 
location  change  in  January.  I  am  now  work- 
ing for  Ikon  Office  Solutions  in  Las  Vegas, 
selling  Ricoh  copier  systems.  My  wife.  Carol, 
and  son.  J. P.,  are  thoroughly  enjoying  lite  in 
the  great  Southwest."  John  can  be  reached  at 
holod@aol.com. 

Jeff  Paine,  Los  Altos,  Calif,  decided 
to  move  back  to  the  Bay  Area  when  his  last 
employer  relocated  to  Montreal.  He  is  now 
vice  president  of  sales  and  marketing  tor  Net- 
work Tools,  Santa  Clara,  a  network  software 
company.  He  can  be  reached  atjpaine@ 
networktools.com. 

Steven  A.  Rothstein  lives  in  Wilmette, 
111.,  with  his  wife  and  three  children.  He  is 
chairman  of  the  board  of  National  Securities, 
a  publicly  traded  brokerage  firm  headquar- 
tered in  Seattle. 


1973 


Nancy  Cassidy  and  Jeff  Schreck,  Provi- 
dence, had  triplets  on  May  1 1.  not  twins  as 
was  implied  by  their  note  in  the  October 
BAM. 

Alpin  C.  Chisholm,  North  Attleboro, 
Mass.,  was  appointed  to  the  board  of  directors 
of  the  OPC  Foundation,  a  standards  organiza- 
tion in  the  Process  Control  Industry. 

Anne  Hinman  Diffily  (see  Leslie 
Diffily  '93). 

Kenneth  Slaughter  joined  Venable  law 
firm  as  a  partner  in  the  business  division  of 
the  Washington,  D.C.,  office  in  August.  He 
specializes  in  general  corporate  law,  health-care, 
commercial,  and  regulatory  matters.  Previ- 
ouslv  he  was  corporate  vice  president,  general 
counsel,  and  secretary  of  National  Cooperative 
Bank. 


wuh  Russell  Reynolds  Associates  during  which 
he  became  a  member  of  the  firm's  executive 
committee,  launched  Crist  Partners  Ltd.  111 
Chicago  in  1995. 

Steve  Dentel  was  promoted  to  lull  pro- 
li'ssoi  .it  the  University  of  Delaware  and  con- 
tinues his  research  and  teaching  in  water  and 
wastewater  treatment.  He  played  a  key  role  in 
the  establishment  of  .1  bachelor's  degree  pro- 
gram 111  environmental  engineering. 

Samuel  J.  Docknevich  has  left  the  sys- 
tems integration  company  lie  headed  tor  the 
past  five  years  and  joined  the  IBM  Consulting 
Croup  as  .1  network  consultant.  He  helps 
companies  111  the  Northeast  keep  their  com- 
puter networks  healthy  and  aligned  with  then- 
business  requirements.  After  six  months  of 
being  together  only  on  weekends,  Sam  and 
his  family  are  united  again  in  Hopkmton, 
Mass.  "Eric,  s,  and  Katie,  S,  have  made  many 
friends  and  are  happily  settled  in  new'  schools," 
Sam  writes.  "Laurie  (Georgetown  '79)  is  glad 
all  the  cleaning,  showing,  selling,  looking, 
buying,  packing,  moving,  and  unpacking  are 
behind  her  so  she  can  start  enjoying  our  new 
neighborhood."  Sam  works  out  of  IBM's 
Waltham  office  and  can  be  reached  at  (617) 
895-2569  or  sdocknevichw  vnet.ibm.com. 

Delbert  Field  lives  in  a  400-year-old 
farmhouse  outside  Geneva,  Switzerland,  w  here 
he  works  with  the  International  Organization 
for  Migration.  He  has  three  children:  Ludovica, 
17,  George,  1 1 ,  and  Emily.  8.  Brown  friends 
can  contact  him  at  field@geneva.iom.ch. 

John  Heasley,  Elhcott  City,  Md.,  spent  a 
sunny  day  on  a  beach  in  Maine  last  summer 
with  his  daughter,  Rachel. 

Jay  Pridmore,  Lincoln  Park,  111.,  has  pub- 
lished Inventive  Genius,  a  history  of  the  Chicago 
Museum  of  Science.  The  book  chronicles 
events  and  people  from  the  restoration  ot  the 
crumbling  Palace  of  Fine  Arts  to  the  installa- 
tion of  the  museum's  "Coal  Mine"  and  "U- 
505  Submarine"  exhibits.  Jay  has  written  ten 
other  books,  is  a  regular  contributor  to  the 
Chicago  Tribune,  and  has  written  for  the  New 
York  Times,  the  Christian  Science  Monitor,  and 
Archaeology  magazine. 


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1975 


1974 


John  C.  Ford  and  his  wife,  Mary  Grace,  Win- 
netka.  111.,  announce  the  birth  of  twin  girls  on 
June  10.  Tallaght  Brook  and  Grace  Dunning 
join  brothers  Connell,  5,  and  Taylor.  4.  John 
was  honored  with  the  Alumni  Service  Award 
by  Northwestern  University,  where  he  received 
his  orthodontic  training.  He  is  president  of 
the  Illinois  Society  of  Orthodontists. 

Mark  Weston's  play  about  George  Orwell, 
The  Last  Man  in  Europe,  was  performed  at  the 
National  Arts  Club  in  New  York  City  in  May 
and  at  the  Garrick  Club  in  London  in  October. 
His  book  of  biographies.  Giants  of  Japan:  Hon' 
Forty  .Men  and  Women  Shaped  then  Nation,  will 
be  published  by  Charles  Tuttle  Co.  in  [998. 


Michael  Baumstein  is  the  new  president  oi 

the  Brown  Club  of  New  York.  Anyone  look- 
ing for  1  opies  of  the  club's  monthly  newsletter. 
Bruno  News,  New  York,  or  information  about 
facilities  arrangements  with  the  Cornell  Club 
in  midtown  Manhattan  should  leave  contact 
information  on  the  club's  voicemail  at  (212) 
661- 1 1 10. 


1977 


20th  Reunion 


Your  20th  reunion  committee  promises  to 
bring  you  back  to  the  good  old  days.  Mark  your 
calendars  now:  May  23—26.  You  should  have 
received  a  letter  with  preliminary  information, 
a  list  of  hotels,  and  a  request  for  a  biographical 
update.  Please  return  the  update  as  soon  as  pos- 
sible so  we  can  put  together  a  yearbook  tor 
the  reunion.  If  you  have  any  questions  please 
call  reunion  headquarters  at  (40 1)  8(13-1947. 

Tracy  Baer  and  his  wife,  Dana.  Beverly 
Hills.  Calif,  announce  the  birth  of  a  son, 
Tristm  Alexander,  on  Aug.  20. 

Holly  Holmes  married  Larry  Freidman 
on  Oct.  5  in  Cold  Spring,  N.Y.  Larry  is  di- 
rector of  the  School  to  Work  Partnership  in 
Greenfield,  Mass.,  and  Holly  is  looking  for 
editorial/communications  work.  They  can  be 
reached  at  37  Shattuck  St.,  Greenfield  01301. 

Jody  Levine  Mahr's  address  appeared 
incorrectly  111  the  July  BAM.  She  can  be 
reached  at  Bamboo  Grove,  78  Kennedy  Rd., 
Flat  1  102.  Wan  Chai,  Hong  Kong. 


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Peter  D.  Crist,  after  an  eighteen-year  career 


David  Hahn.  Seattle,  recorded  a  full-length 
compact  disk  of  his  music  at  the  Studio  Kate- 
drala  in  Zagreb.  Croatia,  last  summer.  The 
culmination  of  a  collaboration  with  soprano 
1  (avoka  Horvat  and  alto  saxophonist  and  bass 
clarinetist  Damir  Horvat,  the  CD,  titled  Con- 
nexions, was  funded  by  a  grant  from  ArtsLink 
and  will  be  released  this  winter.  In  August 
David  and  Andrea  von  Ramm,  a  well-known 
German  mezzo-soprano,  collaborated  on  a 
comic  ballet-theater  piece,  Tlie  Ants.  Ms.  von 
Ramm  contributed  the  story,  and  David  wrote 
the  music  for  the  piece,  which  takes  the  ant 
world  as  a  metaphor  for  collective  human 
behavior. 

Carla  Tachau  Lawrence,  Seattle,  is  the 
proud  mother  of  Rebecca,  bom  Sept.  8,  1995. 
A  Seattle  native,  Rebecca's  favorite  word  is 
"backpack."  Carla  is  an  attorney  doing  freelance 
work;  her  husband.  David,  started  a  genatne- 
care  management  business.  Last  summer  they 
were  visited  by  Julie  Deutsch  Gottlieb  '79. 
Steve  Gottlieb  '77.  '81  M.D.,  and  their  three 
children,  as  well  as  by  Diane  Peterson,  her 
husband,  Chris  Smith,  and  their  son,  Max. 

Earl  Varney,  Walhngford,  Pa.,  writes. 
"The  western  suburbs  of  Philadelphia  aren't  a 
bad  place  to  live.  No  earthquakes,  few  hurri- 
canes, not  too  many  floods.  Mina  and  I  are 


imiUVN     ALUMNI    MONTHLY    ♦    45 


Teri  Williams  Cohee 
Alumni  Service  Award  1993 


Recognize  any  of  these  people? 


The  Brown  Alumni 
Association  does! 


Since  1984,  the  Brown 
Alumni  Association  has 
hosted  the  Alumni  Recogni- 
tion Ceremony,  honoring 
alumni  who  have  given  out- 
standing service  to  Brown 
and  their  communities.  This 
year  we  ask  your  help  in 
nominating  alumni  for  three 
Brown  Alumni  Association 
awards  to  be  presented  in 
the  fall  of  1997. 


BROWN 

ALUMNI 

ASSOCIATION 


BROWN  BEAR  AWARD 

Established  in  1946,  in  recog- 
nition of  "outstanding  and 
wide-ranging  personal  ser- 
vice rendered  to  the  Univer- 
sity over  a  period  of  years." 
The  anonymous  nominating 
committee  follows  the  origi- 
nal recommendation  that 
"neither  financial  aid  given 
the  University  nor  achieve- 
ment in  the  fields  of  business 
or  profession"  be  considered. 
Winners  of  the  Brown  Bear 
Award  have  usually  distin- 
guished themselves  as  volun- 
teers for  Brown  in  more  than 
one  area. 


ALUMNI  SERVICE  AWARD 

Given  annually  since  1984  for 
distinguished,  continuing 
volunteer  service  to  Brown  in 
any  field  of  alumni  activity 
"to  recognize  those  very  spe- 
cial people  whose  work,  love 
of  Brown,  spirit  of  coopera- 
tion and  selflessness  stand 
out . . .  and  who  will  continue 
to  provide  these  invaluable 
services."  The  nominating 
committee  of  alumni  leaders 
and  staff  consider  volunteer 
service  as  the  key  nomination 
criteria,  regardless  of  finan- 
cial contributions  made  to  the 
University. 


JOHN  S.  HOPE  AWARD 

Created  in  1994  to  commem- 
orate the  centennial  of  Hope's 
graduation  from  Brown, 
the  award  honors  community 
volunteerism  among  Brown 
alumni.  Nominees  should 
have  a  long-standing  (three 
years  or  more)  volunteer 
commitment  to  community 
service  that  has  had  a  demon- 
strated positive  effect  on  the 
larger  community.  (Service 
that  is  part  of  one's  paid  pro- 
fessional work  is  not  eligible 
for  consideration.) 


To  nominate  alumni  for  any  of  the  awards  listed,  please  call  401  863-1946  or  e-mail 

alumni  relations@brown.edu.  for  a  nomination  form.  Deadline  for  submission  is  March  15,  1997. 


PRODUCED   BY   THE    BROWN   ALUMNI    ASSOCIATION 


enjoying  the  exploits  of  second-graders  and  .1 
lively  Brittany  spaniel." 

Murat  Yalnian  has  been  promoted  to 
vice  president  of  product  and  market  stateg)  at 
Nissan  North  America.  Previously,  .is  director 
of  product  and  market  strategy,  he  led  the 
team  that  brought  the  Nissan  Altim.i  to  market. 
Murat  is  a  member  of  the  board  of  advisors 
for  the  UC-Davis  Institute  of  transportation 
Studies.  He  lives  111  Manhattan  Beach.  Calif., 
with  his  wife  and  daughter. 


1979 


Jed  A.  Kwartler,  South  Orange.  N.J., 
received  the  Honor  Award  from  the  Ameri- 
can Academy  of  Otolaryngology-Head  and 

Neck  Surgerv  in  September.  The  award  recog- 
nizes those  who  have  made  exceptional  con- 
tributions to  the  Academy  with  m  instruction 
course,  scientific  paper,  or  participation  in  a 
continuing  education  committee  or  faculty. 

Laurel  Ellson  Martinez  and  George 
Martinez  announce  the  birth  of  Genevieve 
Grace  on  Sept.  10.  She  joins  Lindsay.  2.  They 
can  be  reached  at  539  Retreat  Ln.,  Powell. 
Ohio  4306s;  (614)  S4S-S406. 

Anthony  M.  Miller  is  living  on  .1  hilltop 
in  Hong  Kong  with  his  wife.  Cecilia  Mehn. 
and  their  daughter.  Magda  Rebecca  Miller, 
bom  Apnl  3.  "After  extensive  negotiation," 
Tony  writes,  "Magda  will  go  into  the  world 
with  my  last  name  and  Cecilia's  Swedish  citi- 
zenship." Tony  is  president  of  Asian  Invest- 
ment Partners,  a  small  merchant  bank  with 
offices  in  Hong  Kong.  New  York  City,  and 
Beijing.  Visitors  are  welcome  at  1 S  Mount 
Kellett  Rd..  The  Peak.  Hong  Kong;  (852) 
2849-5798;  fax  (852)  2849-5715. 


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Dr.  Pamela  Summit  Bohn  and  her  husband, 
Paul,  Santa  Monica.  Calif,  announce  the  birth 
of  twins  Zoe  and  Zachary  on  Apnl  1 1,  1995. 

James  Dudek  has  been  living  in  Oslo, 
Norway,  for  four  years.  He  is  a  sales  manager 
for  Norwegian  PC  Producer,  an  import  and 
assembly  firm.  He  is  expecting  his  third  child. 
a  boy,  in  February.  Erik  is  8,  and  Kaitlin  is  (>. 
James  can  be  reached  atjamesd@rask.no. 

Jeffrey  P.  Greenbaum  received  his  Ital- 
ian law  degree  in  September  and  is  practicing 
with  the  law  offices  of  Pavia  &  Ansaldo  in 
Rome.  Jeffrey  and  his  wife,  Alessandra,  and 
son,  Tommaso,  were  joined  by  Lorenzo  on 
June  1 1. 


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2,     15th  Reunion 


Eric  Moscahlaides  and  his  committee  have 
been  busy  making  plans  for  our  15th,  May 
23—26.  If  you  have  any  questions  or  sugges- 
tions, please  call  reunion  headquarters  at  (401) 
863-3380.  Remember  to  save  the  dates. 

Brian  Adler  writes.  "I'm  happy  to  re-enter 


the  real  world  after  getting  .111  M.B.A.  at  Stan- 
ford. I've  joined  Bay  Partners,  .1  venture  capi 

tal  firm  in  Silicon  Valley,  investing  in  early- 
stage  information  technology  companies.  My 
wife.  Anita,  our  three-year-old  son,  Jonah 
Max,  and  I  have  moved  to  Sunnyvale,  Calif." 
Brian  can  be  reached  at  (40S)  725-2444  or 
adleru;  baypartners.com. 

Amy  Dubin  George  and  her  husband, 
Andy  (Lehigh  '76),  Stamford,  Conn.,  announce 
the  birth  of  Brendan  Colwell  on  May  17.  He 
joins  Kevin  Newman,  7,  and  Erin  Morgan,  4. 
Amy  is  director  of  customer  brands  at  James 
River  Corp. 

Doug  Green  is  director  of  consumer 
imaging  products  for  the  Brooktree  Corp.  111 
San  Diego,  where  he  has  bought  a  house. 

Carolyn  Berman  Grinberg  and  Robert 
Grinberg  (Penn  '70)  have  two  children:  Barne 
Jane,  6,  and  Jeremy  Schorr.  4.  In  June,  Car- 
olyn left  her  job  as  a  radio  announcer  with 
WH|Y-FM  in  Providence  and  is  spending 
time  with  her  kids  in  Boston  and  Nantucket, 
Mass.  She  plans  to  return  to  the  airwaves  in 
the  Boston  area  soon  and  study  Judaic  studies 
at  Hebrew  College. 

Bill  Gurtin  and  Kay  Levinson  Gurtin 
'83  live  in  Glencoe,  111.,  with  their  two  chil- 
dren, Grant,  6,  and  Liza,  2.  After  ten  years  at 
Goldman  Sachs,  Bill  accepted  a  job  as  senior 
vice  president  at  Merrill  Lynch  last  year.  Kay 
has  been  running  Executive  Options,  which 
places  executives  in  part-time  jobs  and  pro- 
jects, since  she  started  the  company  in  1990. 

Debra  Hendrickson  and  Alan 
Fruzzetti  'Si  announce  the  arrival  of  Ben- 
jamin Aaron  Fruzzetti  on  July  10.  Ben  joins 
Sam,  6,  and  Rachel,  4.  Alan  is  an  assistant 
professor  of  psychology  at  the  University  of 
Nevada  at  Reno,  where  the  family  has  lived 
since  1994.  Debra  plans  to  be  a  full-time  mom 
for  a  couple  more  years  before  returning  to 
work  as  a  water-resources  planner  for  local 
government. 

Betsy  Hinden  finished  her  Ph.D.  in 
clinical  psychology  at  the  University  of  Ver- 
mont and  is  doing  a  year-long  internship  at 
Judge  Bale  Children's  Center  and  Children's 
Hospital  in  Boston.  She  will  be  living  with 
Marie  Ghitman.  Adam  Burrows,  and  their 
two  children  in  Jamaica  Plain,  Mass. 

Kristen  E.  Kearney  has  left  cooking  and 
begun  a  career  in  horticulture  as  the  field  man- 
ager of  Tranquil  Lake  Nursery  in  Rehoboth, 
Mass.,  the  largest  grower  of  day  lilies  on  the 
East  Coast.  She  is  also  working  on  a  second 
B.A.  in  horticulture  and  society  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Massachusetts  at  Dartmouth. 

Lise  Kowalski  '86  M.D.  works  with  .1 
family  practice  group,  and  her  husband,  Selby, 
does  logging  and  tree  fanning  on  their  spread 
of  Vennont  countryside  near  Montpeher. 
They  manned  in  December  1990  and  are  now 
building  their  home. 

Steven  Kussick  and  Laura  Brown 
Kussick  'S3  have  lived  in  Seattle  for  the  past 
eleven  years.  Steven  did  an  M.D. -Ph.D.  pro- 
gram at  the  University  of  Washington,  recently 
finished  a  pathology  residency,  is  now  doing 


,1  fellowship  in  blood  pathology,  and  is  hoping 
to  get  .1  l.u  ulty  position  there  in  .1  year  01  two 
Steven  and  Laura  recently  had  their  first  child, 
Jack. 

Sarah  Lamb  and  Ed  Black  now  have 
two  daughters:  Rachel,  3,  and  Lauren,  10 
months.  They  have  moved  from  California 
to  Boston,  where  Sarah  is  .1  professor  of 
anthropology  at  Bnuideis  and  Ed  is  a  lawyer 
with  Floey,  Hoag  and  Eliot. 

Joseph  Lellman  joined  New  England 
Orthopedic  Surgeons  111  Northampton.  Mass., 
111  August.  He,  his  wife,  Martha  (Stonehill 
College  '87),  and  daughters  -  Charlotte,  3,  and 
Sophie,  1  —  are  excited  about  the  move  but 
will  miss  Chester,  N.H.Joseph  races  bicycles 
in  his  spare  time. 

James  Lutz  practices  vascular  and  inter- 
ventional radiology  as  a  partner  with  Radiology 
Associates  of  San  Antonio.  His  wife,  Anne  de 
Compiegne  Lutz  (Southern  Methodist  Uni- 
versity '86),  is  a  clinical  assistant  professor  of 
radiology.  They  celebrated  their  10th  anniver- 
sary this  fall  and  have  three  children:  Emily,  7, 
Mark.  6,  and  Mane,  1. 

Merrilea  Mayo  and  her  husband,  Altaf 
Canm  (MIT  '82),  both  received  tenure  as  asso- 
ciate professors  in  the  department  of  materials 
science  and  engineenng  at  Penn  State.  Merrilea 
works  mostly  with  nanocrystalhne  matenals  - 
metals  and  ceramics  whose  crystal  sizes  are  less 
than  too  nanometers.  She  may  be  reached  at 
mayo@ems.psu.edu. 

Mark  Malamud,  Seattle,  has  recently 
moved  into  the  Advanced  Technology  Group 
at  Microsoft,  working  on  variants  of  engram- 
posting  algonthms,  using  data  from  Nancy 
Dee.  Holly  Kowitt,  and  Michael  Pronko 
He  spent  the  past  three  years  leading  the  user- 
interface  design  that  eventually  became  Win- 
dows 95.  Outside  the  office  Mark  is  working 
on  the  second  annual  Seattle  SnrArtsCore 
at  Marlinspike,  which  this  year  will  include 
performances  by  Ginger  Parker  '84  and 
Hilary  Stout  '84.  Mark  may  be  reached  at 
markmal@microsoft.com. 

Laura  A.  McGrath,  Weston,  Mass.,  is  a 
grant  wnter  and  garden  designer  specializing 
in  native  plants.  Her  favorite  garden  clients 
are  Bonnie  Waltch  and  her  husband.  Paul. 
Laura  has  also  raised  funds  for  thirty-five  Boston 
public  high-school  students  to  publish  an 
environmental  newspaper  called  Greenspeak, 
read  by  more  than  10,000  fifth  graders. 

Lynn  Meister  lives  in  Coral  Spnngs, 
Fla.,  with  her  husband,  Seth  Tarras  (Stanford 
'80),  and  children  Stephanie,  8,  and  David,  5. 
Lynn  is  a  pediatric  hematologist/oncologist  at 
the  |oe  DiMaggio  Children's  Hospital  in 
Holyvvood,  Fla.  Seth  is  a  neurologist. 

Claude  Ann  Mellins  and  husband  Michael 
Conard  wrote  that  they  were  expecting  a  son 
in  September  to  join  Nicholas,  2';.  She  is 
cofounder  and  codirecor  of  the  special-needs 
clinic  at  Presbyterian  Hospital  111  New  York 
City,  which  has  treated  more  than  600  children 
and  families  affected  by  HIV  and  substance 
abuse  since  its  inception  four  years  ago. 

John  Michael  Montgomery  '92  M.D. 


BROWN    ALUMNI    MONTHLY    ♦    47 


recently  completed  a  residency  in  family  prac- 
tice at  Naval  Hospital,  Jacksonville,  Fla.  He 
and  his  wife,  Antoinette  Lloyd,  have  two  chil- 
dren: John  Michael,  10,  and  Joy  Michelle,  2. 
John  is  vice  president  of  Biologic  Research 
Development  Co.  and  a  physician  at  the  U.S. 
Navy  Submarine  Base  Medical  Clinic  in  Kings 
Bay,  Ga. 

Jodi  Pliskin,  Brookville,  N.Y.,  is  busy 
with  volunteer  work  and  raising  her  children: 
Adam.  (>' 2,  Stuart,  5,  and  ]ulie,  20  months. 

Donna  Shapiro  Rabiner  is  a  research 
health  scientist  at  the  National  Center  for 


PERSONALS 


ATTRACTIVE,  FIT  WOMAN,  s's",  120  lbs. 
Wanting  to  meet  mature,  accomplished  man, 
45—55.  Interests  include  performing  arts,  romantic 
dining.  Seeks  gentleman  oflike  interest.  Phone 
(401)  943-2700. 

CULTURED,  ATHLETIC:  Educated  (MA)  pro- 
fessional, 39,  s'5",  130  lbs.,  blonde.  I  love  it  all. 
from  sailing  in  the  Caribbean  to  fine  dining  or  hik- 
ing in  the  mountains.  Would  like  to  meet  man  of 
equal  stature  and  interest,  40-50.  Phone  (401)  274- 
6277. 

DATE  SOMEONE  IN  YOUR  OWN  LEAGUE. 
Graduates  and  faculty  of  the  Ivies  and  Seven  Sisters 
meet  alumni  and  academics.  THE  RIGHT 
STUFF.  (Soo)  98S-5288. 


RETIREMENT  LIVING 


RETIREMENT  IN  CONNECTICUT.  Dun- 
caster,  a  not-for-profit  retirement  community,  offers 
an  active  lifestyle,  cultural  and  educational  opportu- 
nities in  a  country  setting  yet  convenient  to  city 
attractions.  Enjoy  fine  dining,  extensive  services, 
and  the  peace  of  mind  of  on-site  health  care.  Choice 
of  Lite  Care,  Rental,  and  Assisted  Living.  Contact 
Maryalice  Widness,  40  Loeffler  Rd.,  Bloomfield, 
Conn.  06002.  (800)  545-5065. 

LISTEN  TO  THE  BROWN  FOOTBALL  GAME 
BY  SIMPLY  OPENING  YOUR  WINDOW. 
Laurelmead  on  Blackstone  Boulevard  is  an  adult 
residential  community  located  in  the  historic  East 
Side  of  Providence,  minutes  from  the  campus  of 
Brown  University.  Laurelmead  enables  you  to 
enjoy  the  comforts  of  home  ownership  without  all 
the  worries  ot  home  maintenance.  Call  now  for 
mtormation  and  to  find  out  why  so  many  Brown 
alumni  and  retired  faculty  are  calling  Laurelmead 
home.  355  Blackstone  Blvd..  Providence,  R.I. 
02906.  (800)  286-9550. 

VACATION  RENTALS 

"THE  BLUFFS,"  CHATHAM,  MASS.  Wonderful, 
large,  professionally  decorated  home,  perfect  for 
family  reunions,  rehearsal  dinners,  or  for  individual 
family  rentals.  Six  to  eight  bedrooms,  two  beautiful 
living  rooms,  huge  private  yard.  Available  fall, 
winter,  spring,  and  summer.  Call  Susan  Dearborn 
(617)  235-2920. 

CANCUN:  PLAYA  DEL  CARMEN.  Gorgeous 
villa  opens  to  palms,  sun.  and  Caribbean  Sea.  Maya 
archaeological  sites  nearby.  Large  2  bedrooms.  2 
bathrooms.  Located  111  Yucatan's  famous  Playacar 
golf  resort.  (703)  241-7979. 


Health  Promotion  based  at  the  Burham,  Va., 
Medical  Center  and  a  research  assistant  pro- 
fessor at  the  Duke  University  Center  on  Aging 
and  Human  Development.  Dave  Rabiner 
'81  continues  to  teach  clinical  psychology  to 
graduate  students  at  the  University  of  North 
Carolina  at  Greensboro.  Their  daughter  Sarah 
started  third  grade  in  August. 

Richard  Rento  '86  M.D.  and  Lisa 
Casanova  Rento  '86  M.D.  have  built  a  new 
home  in  Newport  News,  Va.  They  have  two 
daughters  -  Nicole,  3,  and  Chloe,  2  —  and 
were  expecting  a  third  child  in  November. 


GLOUCESTER,  MASS.  Spectacular  waterfront 
location.  Three  cottages  on  private  estate  with 
beaches,  walks,  tennis.  May-October.  Call  Mrs.  Foz 

(617)  964-1578. 

IRELAND,  FRANCE,  UNITED  KINGDOM, 
ITALY,  SPAIN,  PORTUGAL,  GREECE.  Cottages, 
small  and  large  castles,  villas,  and  city  apartments 
tor  individual  travelers,  family  reunions,  business 
conferences,  honeymoons.  Vacation  Homes  Abroad. 
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PROVENCE.  Charming  4-bedroom,  2-bath  vil- 
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PROVENCE.  Lovely  hilltop  village  home  in 
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ROME,  ITALY.  Eighteenth-century  country  villa 
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Lisa  is  an  obstetrician/gynecologist,  and 
Richard  is  a  urologist  in  group  practice  in 
Newport  News. 

Joel  Rosh,  New  Rochelle,  N.Y.,  is  the 
director  of  pediatric  gastroenterology  at  the 
Morristown,  N.J.,  Memorial  Hospital.  He  has 
three  children:  Danielle,  6.  |eremy,  4,  and 
Alexander,  born  March  28. 

Amy  Schustack  and  her  husband, 
Michael,  sold  their  house  in  Sherborn,  Mass., 
and  are  renovating  a  condo  on  the  Charles 
River  in  Cambridge.  Amy  began  doctoral 
work  this  fall  at  the  Harvard  Graduate  School 
of  Education. 

Mona  Lisa  Schulz  finished  a  Ph.D.  in 
behavioral  neuroscience  and  an  M.D.  at 
Boston  University  in  1993.  She  is  now  com- 
pleting a  psychiatry  residency  at  the  Maine 
Medical  Center  in  Portland  and  plans  to  write 
a  book  on  memories,  dreams,  and  intuition. 
She  has  a  practice  in  medical  intuition  and 
does  research  for  Dr.  Christine  Northrup's 
newsletter,  "Health  Wisdom  for  Women." 

Howard  Sh.11/  is  a  Ph.D.  candidate  at 
the  Kennedy  School  of  Government  at  Har- 
vard. His  dissertation  is  on  "Determinants  of 
Foreign  Direct  Investment." 

Kevin  Silver  is  a  cardiologist  in  group 
practice  in  Westwood,  N.J.  He  is  married  to 
Sharon,  and  they  have  a  2-year-old,  Rachel. 

Philip  Squattrito.  Mount  Pleasant,  Mich., 
is  an  associate  professor  of  chemistry  at  Central 
Michigan  University.  He  spent  the  first  half 
of  1996  as  a  visiting  scientist  at  the  University 
of  Tokyo  and  lectured  on  his  research  at  uni- 
versities in  Japan  and  South  Korea,  where  he 
also  toured  the  United  Nations  base  at  Pan- 
munjom  and  was  "permitted  to  set  foot  in 
North  Korea." 

Pam  Strauss  and  Michael  Zislis,  Denver, 
married  in  1993  and  added  Abbie  Zislis  to  their 
family  on  July  14,  1995.  Pam  is  a  corporate 
counsel  for  Pnmestar  by  TCI,  which  sells 
minisatellite  dishes  and  programming. 

Stuart  Tarmy  married  Mane  Wolfson  in 
July  and  honeymooned  in  Greece  and  Egypt. 
Friends  may  reach  them  at  (201)  316-0395  in 
Boonton,  N.J.  Stuart  is  vice  president  of  busi- 
ness development  and  strategy  for  the  Smart 
Card  division  of  Mastercard  International. 

Frank  Voss  and  his  wife,  Tracey  Robert- 
son, both  work  for  the  University  of  South 
Carolina  School  of  Medicine.  They  have 
three  children:  Allison,  6,  Katherine,  4,  and 
Andrew,  2. 

David  Walker,  Brighton,  Mich.,  mamed 
Beth  Williams,  a  classmate  at  the  University 
of  Michigan  Business  School,  in  1985.  They 
have  two  children:  Sara,  5,  and  Jeff,  1.  David 
has  spent  eleven  years  at  General  Motors 
Acceptance  Corp.,  the  past  tour  as  director  of 
liability  management,  responsible  for  funding 
U.S.  operations. 

Elizabeth  Zwick  is  a  doctoral  student  in 
the  organizational-behavior  department  of  the 
Boston  University  School  of  Management. 
She  married  John  Colangelo  of  Buffalo,  N.Y.. 
in  July  1995,  and  they  sailed  to  Provincetown, 
Mass.,  for  their  honeymoon.  She  was  the  coor- 


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dinatoi  of  the  Sarah  Doyle  Women's  Center 
at  Brown  from  1985  to  1989. 


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Steven  Biel  lias  published  Down  With  tin- 
( )/,/  Canoe:  A  Cultural  History  of  the  Titanic 
Disaster  (W.W.  Norton  &  Co  .  $25.00).  (See 
Books,  page  20.)  Steven,  who  is  also  author 
of  Independent  Intellectuals  111  the  United  States, 
1  jn>-ig-/.s.  lives  111  Wakefield,  Mass. 

Karen  Brinkmann  and  her  husband, 
1  red  [ohnsen,  announce  the  birth  of  Elizabeth 
Eleanor  Brinkmann Johnsen  on  Oct.  30.  1995. 
Her  hie:  sister.  Katie,  turned  three  111  May. 
Since  returning  to  work  111  Washington  after 
Lisa's  birth.  Karen  has  been  associate  chief 
of  the  Wireless  Telecommunications  Bureau 
at  the  Federal  Communications  Commission. 
Previouslv  she  was  legal  advisor  to  the  chair- 
man. Reed  Hundt.  Fred  continues  to  take 
care  of  the  kids  and  leads  the  Capybara 
Mountain  Biking  Club  on  rides  in  Mankind 
and  Virginia.  They  may  be  reached  at  (301) 
805-1649  or  kbnnkmaffl  fcc.gov. 

David  R.  Evans  and  his  wife,  Carin 
(Cornell  'S3),  announce  the  birth  of  their  first 
child.  Richard  Franklin,  on  June  19.  David  is 
vice  president  and  national  marketing  man- 
ager for  the  international  banking  department 
of  Mellon  Bank,  N.A.,  New  York  City.  He 
would  like  to  hear  from  old  friends  at  (2 1 2) 
702-4032. 

Laura  Haynes  has  moved  to  Montecito, 
Calif,  with  her  husband,  Robert  Collector, 
and  children  Lizzie,  9,  and  John,  5.  She  can 
be  reached  at  660  Oak  Springs  Ln..  Montecito 
93108;  (805)  969-5468. 

Karen  Melchior  received  an  MBA.  from 
Stanford  and  is  a  product  manager  at  Intuit. 
"I'm  still  playing  competitive  volleyball  and 
learning  to  rollerblade  and  windsurf "  she  wntes. 
"It's  a  great  thnll  to  be  an  auntie  to  Hunter 
Ray,  born  March  13,  and  his  brother  Sabin, 
children  of  {Catherine  Melchoir  Ray  '85  and 
David  Ray  '85." 

Suna  Qasim  and  his  wife,  Nisreen, 
announce  the  birth  of  their  daughter.  Dyala, 
on  July  4.  Suna  is  a  reproductive  endocrinology 
and  infertility  specialist  111  central  New  Jersey. 
He  was  recently  asked  to  republish  some 
of  his  research  in  OB /GYN  Digest.  Nisreen 
is  completing  a  master's  in  education.  They 
would  love  to  hear  from  friends  at  #201—165 
Essex  Ave.,  Metuchen,  N.J.  08840. 


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Jonathan  Edwards  and  his  wite.  Martha, 
announce  the  birth  of  William  Spalding  on 
Sept.  3.  Jonathan  can  be  reached  atjonatha@ 
1bn1.net. 


Margaret  Leeson  and  her  husband.   I  0111 
Gramaglia,  announce  the  arrival  of  then  first 
.  hild,  Abigail  Peace  Gramaglia,  on  May  31. 
"She  is  a  beautiful,  healthy,  and  smiley  baby," 
Margaret  writes.  "Motherhood  exceeds   ill 
expectations  by  fai'" 


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Andrea  Kupferberg  Brown,  her  husband. 
Bruce,  and  their  son  Jason.  3,  are  pleased  to 
announce  the  arrival  of  Natalie  Sharon  on 
June  28.  Andrea  and  her  family  Live  in  Deer- 
field.  111.,  where  she  is  balancing  part-time 
work  and  motherhood. 

Benjamin  Compton  and  his  wife,  Naoko, 
announce  the  birth  of  a  daughter,  Emi  Soleil. 
on  Dec.  12.  1995.  "She  provides  sunshine  to 
burn  away  the  cold  summer  San  Francisco 
fog,"  Benjamin  writes.  He  can  be  reached  at 
1  2--  1  sth  Ave..  San  Francisco  94122;  (415) 
242-1. SS 1 ;  genkurt  eanhlink.net. 

Paul  Gallagher  has  moved  to  San  Fran- 
cisco after  nearly  three  years  with  the  Boston 
Consulting  Group  in  Olunich.  Germany.  He 
is  vice  president  for  strategic  planning  at  Wells 
Fargo  Bank.  Friends  can  reach  him  at  2.S03 
Jones  St.,  San  Francisco  94133;  (415)  440-S724; 
paul.gallagheru;  wellsf.irgo.com. 

Gloria  Gonzalez  wntes.  "After  ten  years 
of  flipping  through  the  class  news  in  the  BAM 
I  have  found  time  to  wnte  my  own.  I  have 
been  living  in  La  Corufia,  Spain,  since  I  left 
Brown.  1  am  now  an  assistant  professor  at 
University  College  Dublin,  teaching  business 
communications  to  Spanish  students  in  their 
overseas  program.  I  am  also  working  on  my 
Ph.D.  in  English  philology.  I  am  happily 
married  and  have  a  five-year-old  son.  Carlos." 
Gloria  would  love  to  hear  from  old  friends  at 
Manuel  Murguia  12.  3  Izq.,  15011  La  Corufia. 
Spam;  cesuga@lcg.servicom.es. 

Janet  Lindsay  Weinberg  and  her  hus- 
band. Stephen,  announce  the  birth  ot  a 
daughter.  Lindsay  Rose,  on  June  26.  Janet  is 
on  leave  from  the  Lucile  Packard  Children's 
Hospital  at  Stanford.  She  can  be  reached  at 
1499  Hudson  St..  Redwood  City,  Calif.  94061; 
(415)  364-3979- 


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10th  Reunion 


1985 


Kenneth  Elmore  (see  Gerold  Borodach  '55). 


The  reunion  committee  has  been  busy  making 
plans  for  our  10th  to  be  held  Memorial  Day 
Weekend.  Mav  23—26.  If  you  have  any  ques- 
tions or  suggestions,  please  call  reunion  head- 
quarters at  (4011  863-1947.  Remember  to 
save  the  dates. 

Michael  Blackman  is  111  his  fourth  year 
of  medical  school  at  Brown.  He  married 
Susan  Rosenau  (Vermont  '84)  last  December. 

Samuel  Borodach  (see  Gerold  Boro- 
dach '55). 

Laura  Brill  is  a  law-  clerk  to  U.S. 
Supreme  Court  Justice  Ruth  Bader  Ginsburg. 

Maria  Lewis  Brinza  married  Daniel 
Brinza  (Harvard  Law  'So)  on  May  [6,  1992. 


Maria  received  her  M.S.W.  in  May  1993  and 
winks  part-time  as  a  school  social  worker.  Dan 
works  for  U.S.T.R.  in  the  general  counsel's 
office.  I  hey  live  in  Vienna.  Va..  with  their 
children.  Sean  and  Annmanc. 

Gladys  Capella  earned  an  Ed.D.  from 
Han  aid  111  [une  [995  and  is  teaching  education 
foundation  and  research  courses  at  the  Uni- 
versitv  of  Puerto  Rico  at  Arecibo.  She  founded 
and  directs  Proyecto  Aurora,  an  educational 
and  research  center  for  pregnant  adolescents 
and  young  mothers. 

Lauren  Christman  lives  in  Seattle  with 
her  husband.  Ira  -  "a  great  guy  who  makes 
me  laugh."  She  is  the  dean  of  students  and  a 
teacher  at  a  school  for  massage  therapists  and 
practices  massage  therapy,  splitting  her  time 
betw  een  personal  referrals  and  people  with 
end-stage  AIDS. 

Matthew  Cohen  is  in  his  third  year  of 
a  fellowship  in  digestive  diseases  at  Yale.  In 
October  he  married  Michele  Sharon  (Univer- 
sity of  Illinois  '91),  who  teaches  high-school 
biology  in  Ridgefield,  Conn. 

Joan  Cummins  is  working  on  her  Ph.D. 
in  art  history  at  Columbia.  Her  dissertation  is 
on  northern  Indian  Hindu  temples  dedicated 
to  the  sun  god. 

Catie  Curtis.  Cambridge.  Mass.,  debuted 
her  major-label  release,  Trutli  from  Lies,  on 
EMI/Guardian  this  year.  "I  tour  nationally 
and  always  like  it  when  classmates  turn  up  at 
gigs  and  say  hi." 

Randall  Dunn  married  Liz  Hopkins  on 
[an.  1  111  famaica.  Kevin  Richardson  '90  was 
best  man.  Randall  is  head  of  the  upper  school 
and  Liz  is  the  administrative  coordinator,  both 
at  Derby  Academy.  They  live  in  Braintree. 
Mass. 

Martin  Edwards  and  his  wife,  Lon.  were 
expecting  a  second  child  in  September.  Martin 
was  promoted  to  chief  of  ophthalmology  ser- 
vices at  Walson  U.S.  Air  Force  Hospital  111 
Fort  Dix,  NJ.,  111  August.  Friends  may  con- 
tact them  at  (609)  783-0892. 

David  Estin  is  a  resident  in  neurosurgery 
at  Tufts  New  England  Medical  Center  and 
Beth  Israel  Hospital  111  Boston,  and  Mindy 
Wiser-Estin  is  in  an  obstetrics-gynecology 
private  practice  at  Brigham  and  Women's 
Hospital  in  Boston.  "We  are  very  excited  to 
be  .m  'aunt  and  uncle'  to  (ared  Thomas  Calise, 
born  to  Erica  Tachera  and  Phil  Calise  on 
[ulv  S."  they  write. 

Edward  J.  Goddard  married  Jill  Calvi 
on  M.i\    1  1  m  Warwick.  R.I.  Edward  is  prac- 
ticing law  111  Boston  with  an  emphasis  on 
labor  and  employment  issues. 

Elizabeth  Wilen  Halpern  and  Marcelo 
Halpem  (Wesleyan  '85),  Chicago,  announce 
the  birth  of  Samantha  Ellen  last  Jan.  5. 

Eric  Hjerpe  married  Karol  Johnson 
(Simmons  College  '88)  111  January  1994.  after 
receiving  his  M.S.M.  from  the  Sloan  School 
of  Management  at  MIT.  They  welcomed 
Linnea  Elaine  into  the  world  in  February. 

Tomoko  Hori-Callery  left  IBM  in 
1991.  completed  an  M.B.A.  at  Harvard  Business 
School,  joined  Norelco  Consumer  Products 


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in  marketing,  and  is  now  in  the  marketing 
department  of  Converse  Inc.  She  married 
Robert  Callery  in  November  1994. 

Avery  Ince  finished  a  Ph.D.  in  cancer 
biology  at  the  University  of  Illinois  at  Urbana- 
Champaign  in  1994.  He  plans  to  fimsh  medical 
school  this  May.  Friends  may  contact  him  at 
b-ince@students.uiuc.edu. 

Michael  Keden  and  his  wife,  Knsten 
(Trinity  '88),  moved  into  a  new  house  in  Fair- 
field, Conn.  Knsten  teaches  kindergarten,  and 
Michael  runs  a  money-management  business. 
They  have  a  new  puppy  named  Holly. 

Dana  Kraus  completed  a  residency  in 
family  practice  in  Portland,  Oreg.,  in  July  1995. 
She  married  Tom  Forster,  a  middle-school 
science  teacher,  on  Sept.  3,  1995.  After  vol- 
unteering for  six  months  in  Nepal,  they  have 
settled  into  St.  Johnsbury,  Vt.  Dana  joined 
another  family  physician  in  private  practice. 
She  and  Tom  like  to  hike,  mountain  bike, 
swim,  garden,  and  make  jam  and  pesto. 

Shelley  Krause  has  lived  in  Philadelphia 
for  ten  years  but  is  planning  to  move  to 
Princeton,  N.J.,  where  her  partner  lives  and 
works.  Since  graduating  from  Brown,  Shelley 
has  worked  in  admissions  at  Penn  and  has 
been  writing,  singing  with  the  Anna  Crusis 
Women's  Choir,  and  traveling.  She  may  be 
reached  at  420  W.  Price  St.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
1 9144;  shellyk@admissions.uguo.upenn.edu. 

Edward  Krigsman  recently  returned  to 
Seattle  to  work  in  real  estate  after  six  years  of 
running  his  own  business  in  Chicago. 

Rebecca  Zeigler  Mano  and  her  hus- 
band, Reneth  Mano,  announce  the  birth  of 
Grace  Vimbai  on  May  15.  They  are  moving 
this  fall  to  Zimbabwe,  where  Reneth  and 
Rebecca  will  work  at  the  University  of  Zim- 
babwe. Rebecca  writes,  "Asli  Giray  and  her 
husband  are  musicians  in  Cyprus;  Asli  was 
awarded  a  fellowship  to  study  piano  in  Lon- 
don this  fall.  Florence  Farrell  is  pursuing  a 
Ph.D.  in  psychology  from  the  University  of 
Massachusetts  at  Boston." 

Carrie  Thompson  Mauro  teaches  French 
and  computers  to  grades  seven  and  eight  and 
coaches  girls'  varsity  swimming  and  girls'  bas- 
ketball at  Chalk  Hill  Middle  School  in  Monroe, 
Conn.  She  earned  an  M.A.  in  computers  and 
education  in  1990  and  a  C.A.S.  in  secondary- 
administration  in  1994  from  Fairfield  Univer- 
sity. She  and  her  husband,  Mark,  are  the  parents 
of  David  Lytle  Mauro,  born  May  2. 

Cathleen  O'Connell,  Cambridge,  Mass., 
was  an  associate  producer  and  archival  re- 
searcher on  the  PBS/BBC  series  "Rock  and 
Roll,"  which  won  a  Peabody  Award  and  is 
nominated  for  an  Emmy.  "I  can  name  any 
Beatles  song  in  four  notes  or  less,"  she  writes. 
She's  now  working  for  the  Discovery  Channel. 
She  ran  one  marathon  and  has  gone  back  to 
ioKs  and  is  still  in  close  touch  with  Sherri 
Lyons  and  Liz  Bolger  '86. 

Elizabeth  Raymond  Ohlson  married 
John  Ohlson  '86  in  1990.  Caroline  Beatty 
Ohlson  was  born  on  June  3,  1996.  Elizabeth 
is  working  at  Andersen  Consulting  in  Boston. 

Rebecca  Pearlman  is  teaching  math  at 


The  annual  Alumni  Recognition  Ceremony  on 
October  12  featured  a  speech  on  the  Bosnia  situ- 
ation by  William  Rogers  Award  recipient  Ambas- 
sador Richard  C.  Holbrooke  '62  (front,  center), 
the  chief  negotiator  of  the  Dayton  Peace  Accord 
(see  Under  the  Elms,  page  1 5).  The  award  honors 
service  to  society.  Others  feted  at  the  luncheon 
in  Olney-Margolies  Athletic  Center  were,  front  row: 
Brown  Bear  Award  winners  Robert  A.  Reichley 
(left),  retired  executive  vice  president  for  Univer- 
sity relations  and  now  secretary  of  the  University; 
and  Fellow  H.  Anthony  Ittleson  '60,  executive 
chair  of  Brown's  Campaign  for  the  Rising  Gener- 
ation. In  the  second  row:  Trustee  Emerita  Martha 
Sharp  Joukowsky  '58,  associate  professor  of  Old 
World  art  and  archaeology,  philanthropist,  and 
a  leader  of  Friends  of  the  Library;  and  Robert  I. 
Kramer  '54,  a  Dallas  physician  who  has  recruited 


countless  Texans  for  Brown  and  served  on  a 
number  of  alumni  and  University  committees. 
Third  row:  Alumni  Service  Award  recipients 
Diana  Marcus  Miller  '82,  Victoria  Leung  Lee  '67, 
Carol  A.  Steadman  '76,  Ruth  Tenenbaum  Silver- 
man '36,  and  Stacy  E.  Palmer  '82.  Back  row:  the 
event's  master  of  ceremonies,  Steve  Jordan  '82; 
Alumni  Service  Award  recipient  Michael  Ursillo 
'78;  Elwood  E.  Leonard  Jr.  '51  Distinguished 
Achievement  Award  recipient  David  E.  McKinney, 
parent  of  three  Brown  alumni;  Alumni  Service 
Award  winner  Howard  D.  Silverman  '36;  and  H. 
Anthony  Ittleson  '60  Award  recipient  and  trustee 
Timothy  C.  Forbes  '76.  Earlier,  the  Alumni  Asso- 
ciation presented  the  John  S.  Hope  Award  for  com- 
munity service  to  Marcia  Loebenstein  McBeath 
'45,  a  Peace  Corps  volunteer  in  Lesotho,  Jamaica, 
and  Namibia. 


John  O'Connell  High  School  and  playing 
"tons  of  tennis"  in  San  Francisco.  She  may  be 
reached  at  rebvista@aol.com. 

Rick  Perera  received  a  fellowship  to 
work  for  broadcaster  Sat.  1  in  Berlin,  Germany. 
His  new  position  is  doing  documentary  and 
investigative  work  at  CNN  Special  Reports. 

Lauren  Resnick  and  David  Coonin 
'85  had  a  son,  Jacob  Ben  Coonin,  on  Sept.  is, 
1995.  Lauren  is  an  assistant  U.S.  Attorney  in 
Brooklyn,  prosecuting  organized-crime  cases 

Susannah  Hill  Sardera,  Cambridge, 
Mass.,  married  Esteban  Sardera-Schneider  on 
July  8,  1995. 

Claire  Schen  married  Greg  Cherr  (Uni- 
versity of  Virginia  'S7)  in  April  199s;  Martha 


Hall  was  a  bridesmaid.  Claire  earned  a  Ph.D. 
from  Brandeis  in  February  199s.  They  live  in 
Winston-Salem,  N.C.,  where  Claire  is  an 
assistant  professor  of  history  at  Wake  Forest 
and  Greg  is  finishing  his  general-surgery  resi- 
dency at  Bowman  Gray. 

Kelley  Shanahan  married  Ward  Bobitz 
(Columbia  '86;  University  of  Michigan  '93 
J.D.)  on  Oct.  12.  Bridesmaids  were  Lisa 
Doherty.  Carrie  Thompson  Mauro,  and 
Mindy  Wiser-Estin.  Kelley  welcomes  class- 
mates in  New  York  City  to  call  or  drop  by. 

Paul  Shriver  taught  math  in  the  Peace 
Corps  for  two  years  111  Zimbabwe,  where  he 
met  Kelley  Wilson  '93  and  Josh  Glazerhoff 
'9(1  A.M.  Paul  is  in  the  Twin  Cities  looking 


5  0    ♦    DECEMBER     1996 


foi  short-term  teaching  work  before  return- 
ing to  graduate  school  in  [997. 

Debra  Karp  Skopicki  '90  M.D.  and  her 
husband,  H.il.  announce  the  birth  of  Hannah 
Rose  on  Aug.  -    "Mom  and  Dad  say  she  is 
incredibly  beautiful,"  Debra  writes.  Visitors 
can  see  for  themselves  .it  15  River  St..  #801. 
Boston  02108. 

Sue  Metcalfe  Speno  and  Andy  Speno 
'88,  Cincinnati,  announce  the  birth  ofErin 
Auld  Speno  on  May  27. 

Mike  Tempero.  Boston,  is  an  equity 
research  analyst  .it  Fidelity  Investments. 

Sally  Diggs  Vlamis  and  Dan  Vlamis 
'8(5  are  enjoying  raising  their  son  Chris,  born 
May  19.  1995.  Sally  is  an  editor  and  technical 
writer  at  Cemer  Corp..  a  maker  of  health- 
care information  systems  in  Kansas  City,  Mo., 
and  Chris  attends  the  on-site  day  care  there. 

Otto  Yang  '90  M.D.  finished  three  years 
of  internal-medicine  residency  at  New  York 
Universiry-Bellevue  Hospital.  He  is  currently 
a  research  and  clinical  fellow  in  the  infectious- 
disease  department  of  Massachusetts  General 
Hospital  in  Boston  doing  HIV  research. 

Andrew  B.  Young  married  Mars'  Noel 
of  Bethesda.  Md..  on  June  15  in  Washington. 
D.C.  Many  Brunonians  attended,  including 
the  groom's  mother.  Phyllis  Baldwin 
Young  '45,  and  best  man  Paul  F.  Hoff- 
mann. Pictures  from  the  wedding,  including 
one  of  the  Brown  group,  are  on  the  web  at 
http://users.aol.com/abynod  wedding.html. 
Andy  and  Noel  live  in  Menlo  Park,  Calif. 


I988 


Rowin  Yavel  Cantrell  and  her  husband, 
Steve,  announce  the  birth  of  their  first  child, 
Jackson  Thomas  Cantrell.  on  May  13.  Rowin 
is  finishing  her  psychiatry  residency  at  the 
UCLA  Neuropsychiatry  Institute,  and  Steve 
is  working  on  his  dissertation  in  USC's  School 
of  Public  Administration.  They  would  love  to 
hear  from  friends  at  cantrell@scf.usc.edu. 

Katherine  Mitchell  Constan  and  her 
husband.  Andrew,  New  York  City,  announce 
the  birth  of  Charlotte  Brooke  on  Aug.  16. 
She  joins  William  Nicholas,  2.  Charlotte's 
babysitters  include  Katherine's  sister.  Eliza- 
beth Mitchell  '90.  and  her  parents.  Bonnie 
Hunt  Mitchell  '59  and  Michael  Mitchell 
'59.  Katherine  is  at  home,  and  Andy  is  a  man- 
aging director  at  Salomon  Brothers. 

Karen  Fuhrman  married  Anthony 
Marker  111  West  Orange.  N.J.,  on  Sept.  I. 
The  Rev.  Rebecca  Parkhill  '89  coofficiated 
at  the  mterfaith  ceremony,  which  many  other 
Brown  alumni  attended.  Karen  and  Tony  met 
at  Indiana  University-,  and  they  now  live  in 
Cincinnati.  Karen  works  as  a  multimedia 
designer,  and  Tony  is  completing  his  doctoral 
degree.  Karen  can  be  reached  at  kfrnarkei  5 
aol.com. 

Michael  Papamichael  is  chief  engineer 
with  British  Petroleum.  Cyprus.  He  can  be 
reached  at  mixalisfu  zenon.logos.cy.net. 

Steve  Salee.  New  York  City,  does  capital 


tin. in,  ing  for  the  subway .  bus.  and  commuter 
1  nl  systems.  He  lives  with  his  partner,  Hans 
Luepold,  and  can  be  reached  at  stevesalee 
(5  aol.com 

Johnny  Stein  is  living  111  his  hometown. 
Pans,  working  at  the  Organization  for  Eco- 
nomic Cooperation  Development  in  the 
environment  directorate.  A  musician,  singer, 
and  songwriter,  he  will  be  putting  out  a  CD 
111  1997.  "Dave  Favro  '8_  visited  in  October 
-  his  first  trip  to  Europe."  Johnny  writes.  "If 
anyone  knows  the  whereabouts  ot  Chris 
Reimer.  I'd  love  to  hear  from  him."  Johnny 
can  be  reached  at  233  rue  de  Charenton, 
75012  Pans;  john.stem@oecd.org. 

Clare  Shawcross  and  Michael  Nosal 
'90  were  married  on  May  7,  1994,  in  Win- 
chester, Mass..  with  many  Brown  friends 
attending.  Since  then  they've  been  joined  by 
Annika  Elizabeth,  born  in  Boston  on  June  6, 
199s.  "We  don't  get  as  much  sleep  as  we 
used  to,"  Clare  writes,  "but  life  is  very  good." 
Clare  is  helping  run  the  Personal  Computing 
Support  Center  at  Boston  University,  and 
Michael  "bug  checks"  web-authonng  tools 
for  FutureTense  Inc.  in  Acton,  Mass.  They'd 
love  to  hear  from  old  friends  at  54  Hartwell 
Rd..  Bedford,  Mass.  01730;  clare@bu.edu; 
niikefa  futuretense.com. 


I989 


Jonathan  F.  Bastian.  a  volunteer  with  the 
North  Park  Fire  Department,  helped  rescue 
a  7-year-old  girl  from  a  house  fire  in  Maches- 
nev  Park.  111.,  on  March  8.  "At  about  12:10 
a.m.  a  91 1  call  advised  that  a  house  was  on 
tire  and  people  were  trapped  inside,"  Jonathan 
writes.  "On  arrival  we  found  fire  engulfing 
about  one-third  of  the  house.  As  a  member  of 
the  first  arriving  engine  company.  I  entered 
the  smoked-tilled  house  and  located  the  girl. 
With  the  assistance  of  two  other  firefighters, 
the  girl  was  passed  out  a  window,  earned  to  an 
ambulance,  and  raced  to  a  local  hospital.  She 
was  sent  by  helicopter  to  a  Chicago-area  hos- 
pital for  treatment  of  smoke  inhalation.  Five 
days  later  she  left  the  hospital  fully  recovered. 
No  one  else  was  injured."  Jonathan  and  the 
two  firefighters  who  helped  pass  the  girl  out  ot 
the  house  were  given  commendations  by  the 
department.  Life  Saving  Awards  by  the  Vil- 
lage of  Machesney  Park,  and  Certificates 
of  Recognition  by  the  Office  of  the  State  Fire 
Marshal.  Jonathan,  who  has  been  with  the 
department  for  six  years,  received  his  EMT 
training  at  Brown. 

Gregory  Johnson  '93  M.D.  married 
Michelle  Jean-Jacques  (Boston  University 
'94  M.D.)  111  May  1993.  They  live  in  Dorch- 
ester. Mass.  Michelle  is  finishing  her  residency 
in  internal  medicine  at  B.U.,  where  Greg  is 
pursuing  an  M.P.H.  while  completing  a  fel- 
lowship m  general  internal  medicine.  They 
can  be  reached  at  (617)  298-9410. 

Bethany  Bearce  Moore  and  her  husband, 
Jay,  Downington,  Pa.,  announce  the  birth  of 
their  first  child,  Nicole  Jordan,  on  Feb.  21. 


Scott  Bearce  '59  is  the  proud  grandfather, 
and  Denny  Bearce  '56  and  J.  Russell 
French  III  '59  are  great-uncles. 

Keelan  Stern  '89  isee  Jonathan  Bodow 

•92). 

Anne  Trutnbore  married  David  Stephens 
(Denison  '76)  on  Sept.  28.  Many  Brown 
alumni  attended  the  ceremony.  The  couple 
lives  in  Los  Angeles. 


I99O 


Eric  Arons  finished  his  doctoral  degree  in 
applied  physics  at  the  University  of  Michigan. 
He  lives  in  San  Francisco  and  works  in  Menlo 
Park  at  SRI  International.  "I  know  there  are 
tons  of  Brown  people  out  here,"  he  writes. 
"Where  are  you?  I  also  want  to  apologize  to 
Mike  Burns  for  all  the  crap  that  happened  at 
Brown.  I  hope  things  are  going  well  for  you 
and  Clea."  Eric  can  be  reached  at  410  Eliza- 
beth St.,  #4,  San  Francisco  941 14;  arons@ 
umx.sri.com. 

Garrett  Fitzgerald  writes,  "After  some 
time  spent  delivering  pizza  for  a  living,  I'm 
back  at  MicroKnowledge,  a  small  systems 
house  in  Bangor,  Me.,  researching  rapid 
application  development  tools  in  Visual  Fox- 
Pro. I'm  on  the  advisory  board  of  Orono 
Assembly  #38,  International  Order  of  the 
Rainbow  for  Girls."  He  can  be  reached  at 
103  Kenduskeag  Ave.,  #2,  Bangor,  Maine 
04401;  (207)  990-0359;  gfitzger@nyx.net; 
http://wr\\rvv.nyx.net/~gfitzger/home.html. 

Rohina  Gandhi  '94  M.D.  married 
David  Hoffman  in  a  dual  Hindu/Jewish  cere- 
mony on  Sept.  1  in  Florham  Park,  N.J.  Many 
Brown  alumni  attended,  including  maid  of 
honor  Lisa  Taitsman  '94  M.D.  and  brides- 
maids Nancy  Castro.  Sandy  Watts,  Nancy 
Kwon.  and  Sondra  Vazirani  Spitz.  Jacob 
Blumenthal  '89.  '94  M.D.  and  Eric  Yap  '94 
M.D.  were  ushers.  Rohina  and  David  live  in 
Los  Angeles,  where  they  are  finishing  their 
residencies  -  Rohina  at  UCLA  Medical  Center 
and  David  at  Cedars-Sinai  Medical  Center. 


1991 


Angelika  DeVaris  writes,  "I  recently  mar- 
ried an  Ecuadorian  man,  so  my  name  techni- 
cally is  Angelika  Cruz.  I  live  in  Guayaquil. 
Ecuador,  where  I  teach  high-school  English." 
She  can  be  reached  at  P.O.  Box  1053. 
Guayaquil,  Ecuador;  593-4-385-679. 

Rachel  Marxe  and  Mark  Fain  (Boston 
University  '90),  New  York  City,  were  married 
on  Sept.  8  in  Sag  Harbor,  N.Y.  The  wedding 
party  included  Jill  Dunkel  McKissock  and 
Jen  Hunter  '92.  Many  other  Brown  alumni 
attended.  The  couple  traveled  to  Hawaii  for 
their  honeymoon.  Rachel  completed  her 
master's  in  physical  therapy  at  Emory  in  May 
and  is  a  therapist  in  New  York  City,  where 
Mark  is  a  portfolio  manager  for  a  financial- 
services  firm.  This  note  was  submitted  by 
Eileen  Rocchio  '93. 


BROWN    ALUMNI    MONTHLY    •    5  1 


Dan  Newman  continues  in  the  graduate 
program  in  social  psychology  at  UC-Berkeley. 
He  has  started  a  software  and  consulting  busi- 
ness, Berkeley  Voice  Solutions,  specializing  in 
voice-recognition  computing.  Alisa  Tanaka 
graduated  from  Berkeley  in  May  with  a  mas- 
ter's in  public  policy,  Dan  writes.  She  is  now 
in  Washington,  D.C..  working  for  the  U.S. 
Senate.  Marty  Wattenberg  received  his  Ph.D. 
in  math  from  Berkeley  last  spring.  He  lives  in 
Manhattan  and  edits  the  on-line  version  of 
Snuut  Money  magazine. 

Andrea  Silverman  graduated  from  the 
University  of  Virginia  Law  School  and  is  an 
associate  with  Kirkpatnck  &  Lockhart  in 
Boston. 

I^^2    5th  Reunion 

Marc  Harrison,  Shonica  Tunstall.  Shelly 
Berry,  and  their  great  reunion  committee 
remind  everyone  to  update  them  on  your 
whereabouts  so  they  can  send  you  up-to-the- 
minute  information  about  the  reunion  m 
early  spring.  Save  the  dates.  May  23—26. 

Sharad  Aggarwal  and  Myriam  Khoury 
recently  moved  to  Sarajevo  from  Split,  Croatia, 
where  Myriam  has  been  working  with  Scottish 
European  Aid  and  Sharad  with  the  Interna- 
tional Rescue  Committee.  Anyone  traveling 
to  the  area  is  requested  to  bring  a  copy  of  the 
Sunday  New  York  Times,  a  garlic  bagel  with 
light  veggie  cream  cheese  for  Sharad,  and  .1 
cinnamon  raisin  bagel  with  honey-walnut 
cream  cheese  for  Myriam.  They  can  be  readied 
c/o  Mercy  Corps,  Scottish  European  Aid, 
Kosevsko  Brdo  25,  71000  Sarajevo,  Bosnia- 
Herzegovina;  mercy-corps_sa@zamir-sa. 
ztn.apc.org. 

Jonathan  Bodow  and  Keelan  Stern  '89 
have  moved  from  Buffalo,  N.Y.,  to  Tempe, 
Ariz.  Jonathan  is  in  the  M.B.A.  program  at 
Arizona  State  University,  and  Keelan  is  an 
attorney  for  Anderson,  Kill  &  Olick.  "We'll 
be  here  for  at  least  two  years,"  Jonathan 
writes,  "depending  on  the  beauty  of  the  sun- 
sets, warm  winter  breezes,  and  my  chances  of 
working  for  the  expansion  Arizona  Dia- 
mondbacks baseball  team  in  1998."  They  can 
be  reached  at  5103  S.  Mill  Ave.,  #168, 
Tempe  85282;  jbodow92@imap1.asu.edu. 

Holly  Caldwell  and  Jacob  Harrison 
'94.  Durham,  N.C.,  announce  the  birth  of 
Max  William  Harrison-Caldwell  on  Aug.  26. 
Rebecca  Zacks  '94  assisted  in  the  birth.  Jake 
is  doing  graduate  work  in  biology  at  Duke, 
and  Holly  is  staying  home  with  Max.  Jake  can 
be  reached  at  jcli2@acpub. duke.edu. 

Bridget  Carpenter  '95  M.F.A.  was  .1 
finalist  111  the  1996  Claudier  Competition  tor 
her  play.  The  Death  of  the  Father  qj  Psychoanal- 
ysis (&  Anna).  The  play  was  performed  by 
Shakespeare  &  Company  in  Lenox,  Mass.,  in 
August.  Bridget.  ,1  [erome  Fellow  at  the  Play- 
wrights ("enter  111  Minneapolis,  has  had  her 
work  produced  by  LaMama  ETC,  New  York 
City;  the  Hasty  Pudding  Theater.  Cambridge, 
Mass.;  and  the  Playwrights  Center. 


Julian  Chan  reports  that  Dirk  Woerpel 
and  Theresa  Romens  Woerpel  '94  cele- 
brated their  second  year  of  marriage  with  a 
religious  ceremony  in  a  gazebo  by  a  small  lake 
near  Milwaukee.  Many  Brunomans  attended. 
Chuck  Singson  is  at  Kellogg  business  school 
in  Chicago.  Martin  Sabarsky  is  an  attorney 
for  a  large  law  turn  111  Hollywood.  James 
Fukuda  and  Dawn  Feldman,  Boston,  recently 
announced  their  engagement.  Julian  can  be 
reached  at  jchan@pentus.com. 

Natasha  Fried,  New  York  City,  is  an 
associate  producer  and  newswriter  for  the  Fox 
News  Channel. 

Marc  Harrison  writes,  "After  five  years 
of  dating,  Christie  O'Neil  '91  and  I  were 
married  in  her  hometown  church  in  Rock- 
land, Mass.,  on  Aug.  17.  The  wedding  was 
hosted  by  the  bride's  parents.  Tom  and  Judy 
Macintosh  O'Neil  '64.  Close  to  thirty 
Brown  alumni  from  the  1960s,  '70s,  '80s,  and 
'90s  attended.  After  honeymooning  in  Penn- 
sylvania, New  Jersey,  and  Toronto,  we  are 
settling  down  to  our  commuter  lifestyle. 
Christie  works  in  Providence,  and  I  work  in 
Boston."  They  can  be  reached  at  71  Chilson 
Ave.,  Mansfield,  Mass.  02048;  ceo@ebt.com; 
marcrh@aol.com. 

Jonathan  Lax  and  Jennifer  Benjamin 
(UMass  '92,  Michigan  '94),  Boston,  announce 
their  engagement.  They  are  planning  their 
wedding  around  the  Michigan  football  sched- 
ule. Last  summer  they  spent  time  with  Dave 
Borah  and  Kara  Kee,  Rick  Patzman,  Bert 
Hancock  '93,  and  Mike  Kesselman  '93. 

Heidi  Mattson  s  autobiography.  Ivy 
League  Snipper,  was  released  in  paperback  by 
St.  Martin's  Press  in  May.  The  movie  version 
ot  Heidi's  lite  is  in  development  at  NBC. 
"Publicity  interest  has  been  wide  and  deep," 
she  writes.  "The  Brown  Daily  Herald  voted  me 
'Best  Alum  of  the  Year.  1995.'  I  would  be 
pleased  to  catch  up  with  friends  and  hear  from 
anyone  with  comments  or  questions  about 
my  Brown  experiences."  She  can  be  reached 
at  P.O.  Box  10702,  Manna  Del  Rey.  Calif. 
90292. 

Carlo  R.  Singson  returned  to  the 
Philippines  after  graduation  and  worked  as  an 
account  executive  for  Grey  Advertising  Co. 
for  three  years.  Last  year  Chuck  entered  the 
M.B.A.  program  at  theJ.L.  Kellogg  Graduate 
School  of  Management  at  Northwestern 
University.  He  did  a  summer  internship  at  the 
new  products  division  of  Jim  Beam  Brands 
Co.  and  plans  to  graduate  next  June. 


1993 


Andrew  Borodach  (see  Gerold  Borodach 

'55)- 

Leslie  Diffily  married  Jonathan  Lowen- 
stein  on  Oct.  5  at  Manning  Chapel.  Douglas 
Lowenstein  '90  was  best  man.  The  bride's 
mother,  Dale  Kennedy  Domingue  '67, 
father  Michael  Diffily  '67,  and  stepmother 
Anne  Hinman  Diffily  '73  were  among  the 
many  Brunonians  attending  the  ceremony. 


Leslie  works  in  marketing  tor  the  American 
Mathematical  Society  in  Providence,  and  Jon 
is  an  intern  at  a  Providence  architectural  firm. 
The  couple's  address  is  1S8  Newman  Ave., 
Seekonk.  Mass.  02771. 

Avi  Margolis  married  Clara  Smith  of 
Potomac,  Md.,  on  June  30  at  B'nai  Israel 
Congregation  Synagogue  in  Rockville,  Md. 
Cathy  Goldberg  '94  was  a  bridesmaid,  and 
Graeme  Lipper  and  Philip  Korn  were 
groomsmen.  Clara  is  in  her  tinal  year  in  the 
special-education  program  at  the  University 
of  Maryland.  Avi  got  his  master's  in  computer 
science  trom  Maryland  and  is  a  production 
executive  for  Proxima,  an  Internet  business 
solutions  provider  in  McLean,  Va.  The  cou- 
ple honeymooned  in  Jamaica  and  lives  in 
Laurel,  Md. 

Seth  Newman  married  Bethany  Perry 
on  July  6  m  Villanova,  Pa.  The  wedding  party 
included  brother  Dan  Newman  '91  (who 
sent  this  note)  and  Keith  Rosen.  The  couple 
resides  in  Philadelphia,  where  both  attend 
Temple's  medical  school. 

Wendy  Webber  married  Eric  Nelson  111 
Manning  Chapel  on  June  22.  Richard  Web- 
ber '66  escorted  his  daughter  down  the  aisle, 
and  bridesmaids  included  the  groom's  sister, 
Lynn  '91.  Jennifer  Winn,  and  Julie  Olbrys 
'95.  The  groom's  brother,  Paul  '98,  was 
best  man.  Michael  Graham,  Luke  Franks, 
Courtney  Kurk.  and  Siddhu  Nadkarni 
were  ushers.  The  ceremony  was  attended  by 
many  other  Brown  alumni,  and  the  reception 
was  held  at  the  Faculty  Club.  Wendy  is 
working  on  her  Ph.D.  in  the  molecular  phar- 
macology and  biotechnology  at  Brown,  and 
Eric  is  an  admission  officer  for  the  University. 

Kelley  Wilson  (see  Paul  Shriver  '87). 

Andrew  J.  Wu  left  his  job  as  a  manage- 
ment consultant  at  APM  Inc.  and  spent  last 
summer  studying  Chinese  at  the  Stanford 
Center  in  Taipei.  "It  was  a  very  intense  ex- 
perience, but  my  Chinese  has  gotten  much 
better,"  he  writes.  Andrew  is  now  in  his  first 
year  at  the  Wharton  School.  He  can  be 
reached  at  2400  Chestnut  St.,  #  2910,  Phila- 
delphia 19103;  (21s)  988-9735;  andyp8@ 
wharton.upenn.edu. 


1994 


Eddie  Gonzalez  coordinates  outreach  pro- 
grams for  the  American  Association  tor  the 
Advancement  of  Science.  He  and  Erik 
Franklin  are  trying  to  maintain  their  college 
habits,  and  they  frequently  see  Michaela  All- 
bee,  who  just  started  Georgetown  Law 
School.  Kevin  Ruby  and  Matt  Carvalho 
moved  to  D.C.  for  the  summer  before  finish- 
ing up  their  last  year  of  law  school.  Eddie  can 
be  reached  at  2602  Lee  Highway  Bi,  Arling- 
ton, Va.  22201;  (703)  527-8922  (home),  (202) 
326-6673  (work);  egonzale@aaas.org. 

Michael  Hurt  has  returned  from  two 
years  on  a  Fulbnght  111  Korea.  He  is  now  in 
the  ethnic  studies  program  at  UC-Berkeley, 
working  on  his  Ph.D.  He  can  be  reached  at 


DECEMBEB     1  996 


420  \Y    Hudson  Ave  Davton.  Ohio  45406; 
76202.2  ihmii  compuserve.com. 

Suzanne  Y.  Kao  and  Andrew  C. 
Coulam  still  live  in  North  Carolina.  Suzanne 
has  returned  from  her  halt-year  stay  in  Taipei 
and  has  started  her  tirst  year  of  law  school  at 
U.N.C..  where  Andrew  is  finishing  his  mas- 
ter's in  classics.    I  hey  would  love  to  hear  from 
friends  at  skao@email.unc.edu  or  acoulam(5 
email. uiu.edu. 

Melisa  Lai  reports.   "Karen  Foster  wed 
Benjamin  Armand  Emmanuel  Mane  de  Foy 
(Cambridge  University  '94)  in  a  bilingual 
(English  and  French)  ceremony  on  Aug.  4  in 
Cambridge,  England.  Many  Brunonians  were 
m  attendance,  including  the  bride's  parents. 
JefTVi-  and  Muriel  McCormick  Foster  '67. 
Bridesmaids  and  former  roommates  included 
myself  and  Abigail  Demopulos.  Karen 
and  Ben  are  graduate  students  at  Cambridge. 
Karen  is  completing  her  Ph.D.  in  molecular 
biology,  and  Ben  is  completing  his  Ph.D.  in 
engineering.  The  couple  can  be  reached  at  765 
King's  College,  Cambridge  CB2  1ST,  Eng- 
land; kaf@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk.  Larry  Small 
is  also  in  Cambridge  finishing  up  his  two-year 
studies  on  a  Keasbey  fellowship."  Melisa  can 
be  reached  at  melisa_lai(§  brown.edu. 

Brad  Lewin  (see  Barbara  Zwick 
Sander  '64). 

Dana  Mitra  married  Todd  Litzinger  on 
Aug.  3  in  Pittsburgh.  Carolyn  Hutter  and 
Jane  Kaufman  were  bridesmaids,  and  Kris- 
ten  Jackson  delivered  a  reading.  Many  other 
Brown  alumni  attended.  Dana,  who  is  an  ele- 
mentary-school teacher  at  St.  Patrick's  Epis- 
copal Day  school  in  Washington,  D.C.,  writes, 
"Carolyn  is  working  towards  her  Ph.D.  at 
Cornell.  Jane  is  in  medical  school  at  George 
Washington  University.  Kris  has  just  moved 
to  New  York  Citv.  Dave  Hannallah  has 
started  medical  school  at  Washington  Univer- 
sity in  St.  Louis.  Lisa  Schocket  is  in  medical 
school  at  Perm.  Jacob  Forman  has  started  a 
master's  in  creative  writing  at  Brown.  Ian 
Reifowitz  is  working  on  a  Ph.D.  at  George- 
town." Friends  can  reach  Dana  and  Todd 
at  6129  Leesburg  Pike.  #1 1 19  Falls  Church, 
22041;  dmitra@aol.com. 

Gregory  Reidy  and  Tara  Schulz  plan 
to  marry  in  May  in  New  Jersey.  Greg  is 
working  in  New  York  City  as  a  sales  execu- 
tive for  United  Healthcare,  and  Tara  is  study- 
ing for  a  master's  in  occupational  therapy  at 
the  Medical  College  of  Virginia  in  Richmond, 
Va.  They  would  love  to  hear  from  old  friends 
at  tschulz@gems.vcu.edu. 


I996 


1995 


Lindsey  Arent  went  to  Medellm.  Colombia, 
and  taught  English  for  six  months  after  gradu- 
ation. She  then  traveled  throughout  Colombia, 
Ecuador,  and  Peru.  Lindsey  now  lives  in  Los 
Angeles  and  works  as  a  researcher  at  a  docu- 
mentary production  company.  She  can  be 
reached  at  (310)  858-6863,  lmarent@aol.com. 


Kristcn  Lonergan  is  working  for  Congres 
sional  Quarterly  blouse  Action  Reports,  writ 
ing  up  information  on  bills  and  other  materi 
als  for  members  of  Congress  and  their  suits 
She  and  Greg  Koblentz  can  be  reached  at 
1 -si  [8th  St.  N.W.,  Apt.  2,  Washington. 
D.C.  20009;  klonergan@cqalert.com. 


GS 


Ashok  Kalelkar  '69  Ph.D.,  Lexington.  Mass., 
w  .is  appointed  to  the  board  of  directors  at 
Arthur  D.  Little  Inc.,  an  international  man- 
agement and  consulting  firm.  During  his 
twenty-five  years  with  the  company,  Kalelkar, 
a  senior  vice  president,  has  managed  consult- 
ing groups  in  international  energy,  environ- 
mental health  and  safety,  Latin  American 
management,  and  technology  and  product 
development.  He  is  a  member  of  the  com- 
panv's  leadership  team  and  is  responsible  tor 
its  applied-technology  business. 

Josephine  Olson  '70  Ph.D.,  professor 
of  business  administration  and  economics  at 
the  University  of  Pittsburgh's  Katz  Graduate 
School  of  Business,  was  appointed  associate 
dean  on  Oct.  1 .  She  provides  oversight  tor  the 
master's  and  doctoral  programs,  faculty  recruit- 
ing, and  a  variety  of  related  activities.  Olson 
has  published  extensively,  is  a  trustee  of  Teach- 
ers Insurance  and  Annuity  Association,  and 
is  on  the  board  of  advisors  for  HealthAmenca 
of  Pittsburgh. 

Caroline  King  Hall  '73  Ph.D.  (see 
York  A.  King  Jr.    33). 

David  Curtis  '77  Ph.D.,  professor  of 
English  at  Sacred  Heart  University  in  Fairfield. 
Conn.,  was  named  chair  of  communication 
studies  on  Aug.  1.  He  has  taught  at  the  uni- 
versity for  more  than  fifteen  years  and  served 
as  chair  of  the  English  department  from 
1985-88.  Previously  he  was  an  assistant  pro- 
fessor at  the  University  of  Rhode  Island  and 
at  Wilkes  College  in  Pennsylvania. 

Barry  R.  Davis  '82  Ph.D..  professor  ot 
biometry  at  the  University  of  Texas  School  of 
Public  Health  in  Houston,  has  been  named 
a  fellow  of  the  American  Statistical  Association. 

Christal  Whelan  '86  A.M.  has  published 
Tlie  Beginning  oj  Heaven  and  Earth:  The  Sacred 
Book  of  Japan's  Hidden  Christians  (University 
of  Hawaii  Press,  $34),  which  she  translated  and 
annotated.  Whelan  is  a  lecturer  in  the  foreign 
language  department  at  Sophia  University. 
Tokyo,  and  is  currently  working  on  a  docu- 
mentary of  the  Kakure  Kinshitan  ot  the  Goto 
Islands. 

Ann  Harleman  '88  A.M.  has  published 
her  fourth  book,  Bitter  Lake  (Southern  Metho- 
dist University  Press,  $22.50).  a  novel  set  in  a 
Pennsylvania  mill  town.  Harleman's  short- 
story  collection.  Happiness,  won  the  1993  Uni- 
versity of  Iowa  Short  Fiction  Award.  She 
has  been  a  Guggenheim  and  Rockefeller  fel- 
low, and  she  won  a  1991  PEN  Syndicated 
Fiction  Award.  She  is  a  professor  of  English  at 


R  Isl  )  and  a  visiting  scholar  in  Brown's 
Department  of  American  Civilization. 

Bridget  Carpenter  '95  Mi  A.  (see  '92). 

Claire  Long  '95  A.M..  Cape  May.  N.J., 
curator  of  the  Cape  May  Historical  and 

Genealogical  Society,  was  awarded  a  fellow- 
ship to  attend  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Mid- 
Atlantic  Association  of  Museums.  She  writes  .1 
weekly  newspaper  column  on  local  history 

Josh  Glazerhoff  96  A.M.  (see  Paul 
Shriver    87). 


MD 


Steve  Gottlieb  '81  (see  Carla  Tachau 
Lawrence  '78). 

Lise  Kowalski  '86  M.D.  (see  '82). 

Richard  Rento  '86  M.D.  and  Lisa 
Casanova  Rento  '86  M.D.  (see  '82). 

Debra  Karp  Skopicki  '90  (  see  '87) 

Otto  Yang  '90  M.D.  (see  '87). 

John  Michael  Montgomery  '92  M.D. 
(see  '82). 

Gregory  Johnson  '93  (see  '89). 

Jacob  Blumenthal  '94  (see  Rohina 
Gandhi  '90). 

Rohina  Gandhi  '94  (see  '90). 

Lisa  Taitsman  '94  (see  Rohina  Gandhi 
'90). 

Eric  Yap  '94  (see  Rohina  Gandhi  '90). 


Obituaries 


George  D.  Morrow  '26.  Monson,  Mass.; 
Aug.  10.  He  taught  Latin,  algebra,  and  Ger- 
man at  Monson  Academy  for  forty-two  years, 
retiring  in  1971. 

William  E.  Braisted  Jr.  '27.  Achilles,  Va.; 
Aug.  28.  After  receiving  his  M.D.  from 
McGill  University  in  1936,  he  was  a  medical 
missionary  for  the  American  Baptist  Foreign 
Mission  Society  and  was  physician  and  sur- 
geon in  charge  of  the  Chin  Li  Hospital  111 
Katyang,  Kwangtung.  South  China,  for  fifteen 
years.  At  the  end  of  the  Sino-Japanese  war 
his  hospital  was  overrun  and  looted  by  the 
Japanese  army.  Braisted  secured  U.S.  war-sur- 
plus supplies  and  equipment  and  reestablished 
medical  services  until  the  start  of  the  Korean 
War.  at  which  time  he  was  placed  under 
house  arrest  by  China's  Communist  Party  for 
eighteen  months.  He  moved  to  the  Clough 
Memorial  Hospital  in  Ongole.  Andhra  Pradesh. 
South  India,  and  for  six  years  ran  programs  in 
medical,  surgical,  and  obstetrical  services;  started 
rural  medical  climes;  and  trained  Indian  sur- 
geons. Upon  his  return  to  the  United  States. 
Braisted  became  chief  of  surgery  at  the  V.A. 
Hospital  111  West  Haven,  Conn.,  and  an  assis- 
tant clinical  professor  at  Yale  Medical  School. 
After  a  brief  retirement  he  returned  to  med- 
icine as  a  physician  at  the  Connecticut  Hospice 
and  was  medical  director  for  the  Branford 
Hills  Healthcare  Center,  both  in  Branford, 


BROWN    ALUMNI    MONTHLY    ♦    S3 


Conn.  A  fellow  of  the  Royal  College  of  Sur- 
geons of  Canada,  Braisted  remained  active  in 
the  Baptist  Church  throughout  his  life  and 
often  spoke  in  public  about  his  missionary 
experiences.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife, 
Doreen,  P.O.  Box  215,  Achilles  23001;  and 
nephews  Paul  '49  and  Donald  '53. 

Catherine  Eisenberg  Levin  '27,  Plymouth, 
Minn.;  May  25.  She  was  a  teacher  in  the 
Central  Falls  (R.I.)  and  Bamngton  (R.I.)  pub- 
lic schools  for  many  years,  retiring  in  1972. 
She  is  survived  by  two  sons,  including  Harry 
'58,  9038  Yellowwood  Ct.,  Indianapolis  46260; 
and  two  daughters. 

Robert  M.  Pike  '28,  '32  Ph.D.,  Dallas;  July  5. 
A  member  of  the  original  faculty  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Texas  Southwestern  Medical  School 
in  Dallas,  he  was  a  professor  ot  microbiology 
and  bacteriology  until  1974,  when  he  was 
named  professor  emeritus.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  American  Board  of  Microbiology  and  a 
charter  fellow  of  the  American  Academy  of 
Microbiology.  He  is  survived  by  his  son, 
Robert  Jr.,  P.O.  Box  17681,  Fort  Worth, 
Tex.  76102;  and  two  daughters. 

A.  Elston  Cuddeback  '29,  Rockville,  Md.; 
May  20.  1992.  An  assistant  to  the  vice  president 
of  manufacturing  at  the  Thomas  J.  Lipton 
Co.,  he  retired  in  1970.  Previously  he  was  an 
assistant  chief  engineer  at  Sheffield  Farms  111 
New  York  City  and  a  plant  manager  tor 
Continental  Foods  in  Hoboken,  N.J.  He  is 
survived  by  two  sons,  including  Tom,  5441 
Marlin  St.,  Rockwell,  Md.  20853;  and  -1 
nephew,  Douglas  '76. 

Theodore  B.  Wallace  '30,  Plymouth  Meet- 
ing, Pa.;  July  30.  After  receiving  a  master's  in 
English  from  Penn  he  joined  Smith,  Kline  & 
French  Labs  in  Philadelphia  in  1933.  He  was 
named  director  of  medical  affairs  in  1959  and 
retired  in  1970.  At  Brown  he  was  an  editor  of 
the  Brown  Jug  and  a  member  of  the  varsity 
lacrosse  team.  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  He  is  survived 
by  his  wife,  Dorothy,  3  1 17  Spring  Mill  Rd., 
Plymouth  Meeting  19462:  a  daughter;  two  sons; 
and  a  grandson,  Robert  W.  Chapman  '98. 

John  M.  Kenny  '31,  Mansfield,  Mass.;  Sept. 
9.  He  worked  tor  the  Lumb  Leasing  Co.  in 
Pawtucket,  R.I.  He  is  survived  by  a  son, 
Robert  '55,  125  Seegar  Rd.,  Upper  St.  Clair, 
Pittsburgh,  Pa.  15241. 

Kenneth  J.  Rupprecht  '32,  Westerly,  R.I.; 
Aug.  10.  He  developed  rubber  plantations  in 
Malaysia  and  was  an  engineer  for  the  former 
U.S.  Rubber  Co.  before  joining  United  Elastic 
Co.  in  1964.  In  1969  he  was  named  vice  pres- 
ident and  technical  director  of  Globe  Manu- 
facturing Co.,  Fall  River,  Mass.,  retiring  in 
1975.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  Eleanor 
Peabody  Rupprecht  '33,  61  Elm  St.,  West- 
erly 02891;  and  a  son. 

Doris  Aldrich  Colborn  '32,  Lake  City, 


Minn.;  March  31.  She  was  a  teacher  in  the 
Woodridge  school  system  in  Hasbrouck 
Heights,  N.J.,  where  she  was  also  a  member 
of  the  University  and  Emanon  clubs.  She 
moved  to  Minnesota  after  her  retirement  in 
1974  and  was  active  in  the  Methodist 
Church.  She  is  survived  by  a  son,  Robert. 

Sylvia  Rouse  Malm  '34  A.M.,  Cornwall, 
Pa.;  Aug.  12.  She  received  her  Ph.D.  from 
Bryn  Mawr  College  in  1937  and  was  a  profes- 
sor of  biology  at  Lebanon  Valley  College  in 
Lebanon,  Pa.  She  was  active  in  the  League  ot 
Women  Voters,  the  Swatara  Creek  Water- 
shed Association,  and  the  American  Associa- 
tion of  University  Women.  She  is  survived  by 
her  daughter,  Sylvia  Malm,  413  Elm  Ave., 
Takoma  Park,  Md.  20912. 

Walter  F.  Olney  '35,  St.  Petersburg,  Fla.;July 
29.  A  longtime  resident  of  Coventry,  R.I.,  he 
owned  and  operated  Washington  Blue  Gas 
Co.  for  more  than  twenty-five  years,  retiring 
in  1972.  An  avid  ham  radio  operator,  he  was 
known  as  Uncle  Walt  and  belonged  to  various 
radio  clubs.  He  is  survived  by  two  sons. 

Harold  G.  Young  '35,  Cranston,  R.I.;  July 
29.  A  bassoonist  for  the  former  Providence 
Symphony  Orchestra,  for  sixteen  years  he  was 
an  assistant  purchasing  agent  for  the  former 
Asoma  Wire  and  Cable  Co.  before  retiring  in 
1974.  He  was  a  board  member  of  the  Western 
R.I.  Civic  Historical  Society.  He  is  survived 
by  his  wife,  Barbara,  34  Manon  Ave.,  Cranston 
02905;  and  two  daughters. 

Walter  G.  Barney  '36,  Warwick,  R.I.;  Sept. 
16.  He  was  owner  and  president  ot  Radix 
Wire,  Cleveland,  for  eighteen  years  until  his 
retirement  in  1978.  Previously  he  was  vice 
president  and  plant  manager  for  the  Ken- 
necott  Wire  and  Cable  division  of  Okonite 
Co.,  Philhpsdale,  R.I.  A  former  director  of 
the  Butler  Hospital  finance  committee  and 
corporator  of  Citizens'  Bank,  he  was  a  member 
of  the  East  Greenwich  Rotary  Club  which, 
along  with  the  East  Providence  Boys'  Club, 
awarded  him  the  1965  "Man  and  Boy  Award" 
for  his  work  in  civic,  religious,  and  youth 
organizations.  Active  in  the  alumni  associa- 
tion, he  founded  the  Barney  Family  Book 
Fund  in  1981  and  was  a  generous  supporter  of 
his  class's  annual  scholarship  fund  and  Brown 
athletics.  He  is  survived  by  his  wite,  Betty 
'38,  269  Red  Chimney  Dr.,  Warwick  02886; 
two  sons,  including  Walter  '63;  and  a  daughter. 

John  W.  Tingley  Jr.  '38,  Seekonk,  Mass.; 
Aug.  24.  He  was  a  consulting  design  engineer 
of  power  plants  and  utilities  for  Halhwell 
Engineering  Associates,  retiring  in  1978.  Pre- 
viously he  worked  tor  Babcock  &  Wilcox  Co., 
J.D.  Guillaumette,  and  E.L.  Wooley  Co., 
where  he  was  vice  president  and  treasurer.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  American  Society  of 
Mechanical  Engineers  and  served  on  the  Cen- 
tral Congregational  Church  of  Providence's 
plant  and  properties  committee.  He  is  survived 


by  his  wife,  Beatrice,  38  Harman  Ave.,  Seekonk 
02771;  a  brother,  Lawrence  '37;  and  two 
daughters,  including  Lois  Tingley  Wyatt  '68. 

Melanie  Shroder  Totenberg  '38,  Newton, 
Mass.;  Sept.  1,  of  cancer.  She  was  business 
manager  for  her  husband,  the  violinist  Roman 
Totenberg,  for  fifty  years,  and  worked  as  a 
residential  real  estate  agent  for  Hunneman 
and  Co.  in  Newton.  She  was  executive  vice 
president  of  the  Massachusetts  chapter  of 
Americans  for  Democratic  Action.  She  is  sur- 
vived by  her  husband,  329  Waverley  Ave., 
Newton  02158;  and  three  daughters. 

Franklin  W.  Palmer  III  '40,  Nokomis,  Fla.; 
Sept.  5.  He  was  a  salesman  for  the  former 
Fmberg  Manufacturing  Co.  Previously  he 
worked  for  the  L.G.  Balfour  Co.  and  the 
Catamore  Co.  in  Providence.  He  was  a  U.S. 
Army  Signal  Corps  veteran  ot  World  War  II 
and  a  member  ot  the  Overseas  Lodge  of 
Providence.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife.  Bar- 
bara, P.O.  Box  657,  Nokomis  34274. 

Mae  Post  Noyes  '48,  Peterborough,  N.H.; 
July  29.  She  is  survived  by  a  daughter,  Nancy 
Noyes  '55,  15  Gray  Hill  Rd.,  P.O.  Box 
3304,  Peterborough  03458;  and  a  son,  F.C. 
Noyes  '59. 

Vincent  J.  Rothemich  '48,  Palos  Verdes 
Estates,  Calif;  July  10.  He  was  administrator 
for  the  South  Bay  school  district  in  Los  Ange- 
les. Previously  he  had  been  a  teacher  m  War- 
wick, R.I.,  and  Carlsbad,  N.M.  He  was  a 
U.S.  Army  veteran  of  World  War  II,  serving 
under  General  Patton  in  the  Third  Infantry 
Division  for  two  years.  He  is  survived  by  his 
wife,  Reba,  289  Via  Colorin,  Palos  Verdes 
Estates  90274;  and  a  son. 

John  F.  Ensminger  '49.  Niantic.  Conn.; 
May  1 1 .  He  was  a  senior  industrial  engineer 
for  United  Nuclear  Corp.  in  Uncasville, 
Conn.,  retiring  in  1988.  Previously  he  was 
president  and  CEO  of  Anderson  Brothers  Co. 
in  Danville.  Va.,  and  southeastern  regional 
sales  manager  for  the  Scovill  Manufacturing 
Co.  in  Waterbury,  Conn.  He  was  a  veteran 
of  the  U.S.  Army  Air  Corps,  flying  twenty- 
one  B-17  missions  over  Germany  in  World 
War  II.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Danville, 
Va.,  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  the  Ameri- 
can Institute  of  Industrial  Engineers.  He  is 
survived  by  three  sons,  including  James,  73 
Flanders  Rd.,  Niantic  06357. 

Donald  M.  O'Brien  '50,  Westford,  Mass.; 
Aug.  7.  He  was  a  senior  vice  president,  mar- 
keting executive,  and  retailing  consultant  for 
several  large  companies,  including  Gimbels, 
Mabley  &  Carew,  Allied  Stores,  Jordan  Marsh, 
Hecht  Co.,  and,  most  recently,  Brookstone 
Inc.  He  received  the  Silver  Plaque  Award 
from  the  National  Retail  Merchants  Associa- 
tion and  was  a  featured  speaker  at  the  1985 
International  Conference  of  Retailers  in  Lon- 
don. He  served  in  the  U.S.  Navy,  U.S. 


54    ♦    DECEMBER     I  9  9  6 


Army,  and  U.S.  National  Guard.  He  is  sui 
vived  by  his  wife,  Gretchen,  9  Bradley  1  n  . 
Westfbid  oi  886. 

Peter  Pedicini  '50,  Spring  Hill,  Fla.;  Aug. 
28.  Ho  and  Ins  wife  owned  and  operated  a 
millinery  shop  in  Watertown,  Mass..  until 
moving  to  Florida  in  ig-s.  He  was  also  .1 
deliver)  foreman  and  postal  supervisor  for  the 
U.S.  Postal  Service.  He  was  a  U.S.  Navy  vet- 
eran of  \\  orld  War  11.  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  1  [e  is 
survived  b\  Ins  wife,  Geraldine,  141 61 
Segovia  St..  Spring  Hill  54609. 

Elliot  Rhian  'si.  Providence; July  29.  After 
receiving  his  master's  from  Penn  State,  he 
studied  undersea  systems  for  the  U.S.  Navy 
and  the  National  Academy  of  Sciences  at  the 
university's  Ordnance  Research  Lab.  He 
became  a  professor  ot  marine  science  at  the 
University  of  Miami  Marine  Laboratory,  spe- 
cializing in  the  nature  of  underwater  sound. 
In  i960  he  was  recruited  by  the  Philco  Division 
of  the  Ford  Motor  Co.  to  work  on  undersea 
missile  tracking  systems  and  was  involved  111 
the  development  ot  deep-submergence  rescue 
vehicles.  He  managed  the  development  of  the 
first  undersea  nuclear  detection  system  off 
the  coast  of  California  for  the  enforcement  of 
the  Nuclear  Test  Ban  Treaty  with  the  former 
Soviet  Union.  He  was  involved  in  the  con- 
struction of  a  desalination  plant  at  the  U.S. 
Naval  Base  at  Guantanamo  Bay,  Cuba,  and 
managed  asbestos  abatement  programs  tor 
many  private  and  public  facilities.  In  1974  he 
founded  Thermex  Inc.,  an  insulation  and 
coatings  firm  that  specialized  111  energy  effi- 
ciency, retiring  in  1987.  A  veteran  of  the  U.S. 
Army  Signal  Corps,  he  participated  111  the 
Normandy  invasion  and  served  in  France.  Bel- 
gium, and  Germany  during  World  War  II.  He 
is  survived  by  his  wife,  Barbara,  1 5  Parkside 
Dr..  Providence  02910;  a  daughter;  and  a  son. 

Alan  R.  Sarle  '53,  Worthington,  Ohio;  May 
25.  He  was  a  systems  designer  for  Hoechst- 
Celanese  Plastics  Co.  in  Columbus,  Ohio, 
and  General  Electric  in  Worthington.  Previ- 
ously he  was  a  production  planning  and  con- 
trol manager  for  Industrial  Nucleonics  Co.  in 
Columbus.  He  was  an  executive  engineering 
officer  in  the  U.S.  Navy  from  1953-57.  He  is 
survived  by  his  wife,  Ruth,  313  Highland 
Ave..  Worthington  43085;  brothers  Richard 
'44  and  Rodney  '46;  and  two  sons. 

Normand  O.  Vandal  '53,  Cumberland,  R.I.; 
July  21.  He  was  a  senior  engineer  for  Factory 
Mutual  Research  Co.  in  Norwood,  Mass., 
for  sixteen  years  before  his  retirement  in  1989. 
Previously  he  was  a  project  engineer  in  the 
research  and  development  division  of  Grinnel] 
Corp.,  Providence.  He  was  a  U.S.  Navy  and 
U.S.  Marine  Corps  veteran  of  World  War  II. 
serving  in  the  Asia-Pacific  Theater.  He  was 
a  32nd-degree  Mason  and  a  deputy  grand 
knight,  fourth  degree,  of  the  Knights  of  Colum- 
bus. He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  Frances,  63 
Heroux  Blvd..  Cumberland  02S64;  and  a  son. 


Chase  Patterson  Kimball  '54.  Chicago;  Aug 
24.  of  complications  from  Alzheimer's  disease 
Professor  emeritus  oi  medicine  and  psychiatry 
at  the  University  of  <  Chicago,  he  was  a  crusadei 
for  medical  ethics  and  was  prominent  in  the 
new  field  of  biopsviliosoci.il  medicine.  Previ- 
ously he  was  an  assistant  professor  ot  medicine 
and  an  attending  psychiatrist  at  Yale  and  the 
University  of  Rochester.  His  1981  book.   The 
Biopsyehosocial  Approach  to  the  Patient,  urged 
doctors  to  emphasize  the  patient's  social  and 
emotional  circumstances.  He  was  president  ot 
the  International  College  of  Psychosomatic 
Medicine  and  a  member  of  the  American  Col- 
lege of  Physicians.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife, 
Anne.  5723  S.  Kenwood  Ave.,  Chicago  60637; 
four  daughters,  including  Lisa  '82;  and  a  son. 

Dominic  V.  Balogh  '56.  Hamden,  Conn.; 
Aug.  28.  He  was  a  jet  pilot  instructor  for  the 
U.S.  Air  Force  and,  for  eleven  years,  the 
recreational  supervisor  for  the  Connecticut 
Department  of  Corrections.  Previously  he- 
was  a  partner  in  the  former  S.S.  &  M.  Builders 
of  Hamden;  and  was  a  teacher,  coach,  and 
athletic  director  at  Cheshire  Academy.  He 
was  also  owner  and  operator  ot  the  former 
Balogh's  Restaurant  in  Hamden.  A  quarter- 
back for  the  varsity  football  team,  he  was 
inducted  into  the  New  Haven  Gridiron  Club 
All-Distnct  Hall  of  Fame  in  1986.  He  is  sur- 
vived by  his  wife,  Anne,  73  1  Still  Hill  Rd., 
Hamden  06518;  two  daughters;  and  two  sons. 

Adolph  P.  DiSandro  Jr.  '58,  East  Providence, 
R.I.;  Sept.  8.  He  was  president  and  CEO  of 
A.D.  Investment  Corp.  in  Rumford,  R.I. 
Previously  he  was  president  ot  New  England 
Electrical  Contracting  Co.,  Woonsocket 
Electrical  Engineering  Inc.,  and  Atlantic  Elec- 
trical. He  was  a  trustee  of  Fogarty  Memorial 
Hospital.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  Dorothy, 
P.O.  Box  661,  East  Providence  02914;  and 
three  sons. 

Gordon  I.  Lindsay  III  '62,  Rowayton, 
Conn.;  July  1.  He  was  a  senior  managing 
director  for  Bear,  Stearns  &  Co.  Inc.,  New 
York  City.  Previously  he  was  president  of 
Rowayton  Capital  Management  and  a  prod- 
uct director  for  Vick  Chemical  Co.  He  is  sur- 
vived by  his  wife,  Betsy,  13  Sunwich  Rd., 
Rowayton  06853. 

Celia  McCullough  Millward  '63  A.M.,  '66 
Ph.D.,  Washington.  D.C.;  Sept.  12.  Since  1966 
she  had  been  a  professor  of  English  at  Boston 
University,  where  she  was  awarded  the  Met- 
calf  Award  for  excellence  in  teaching  in  1977. 
She  founded  the  Richard  B.  Millward  Fund  at 
Brown  in  memory  of  her  late  husband,  who 
was  a  professor  of  psychology  at  Harvard  and 
Brown.  She  is  survived  by  her  son.  James,  53 
Forest  St.,  Providence  02906. 

J.  Paul  Kinloch  '66,  Malibu,  Calif; July  26. 
He  received  his  M.B.A.  from  Harvard  and 
was  managing  director  of  the  Los  Angeles 
branch  of  Lehman  Brothers  for  twenty-five 


years.  Previously  he  was  a  senior  vi<  e  presi 
dent  at  Hornblower,  Weeks.  1  leinphill  & 
Noyes  in  New   York  (  jtv.  I  [e  was  the  lead 
banker  111  more  than  twenty  mergers  and 
acquisitions  and  was  a  board  member  at  sev 
eral  firms,  including  Sizzler  Restaurants  Inter- 
national Inc.  and  Orbital  Sciences  Corp.  The 
recipient  of  a  kidney  transplant  in  [985  and  a 
former  captain  of  the  varsity  swim  team,  he 
won  a  silver  medal  in  swimming  at  the 
National  Transplant  Olympics,  was  an  advi- 
sory director  of  the  National  Kidney  Founda- 
tion, and  was  a  director  ot  the  Southern  Cali- 
fornia Organ  Procurement  Center.  In  the 
summer  of  1993  he  rode  across  the  country 
on  his  Harley-Davidson  motorcycle,  con- 
ducting business  along  the  way  on  his  cellular 
phone,  computer,  and  tape  recorder.  He  is 
survived  by  his  wife,  Eileen,  29751  Pacific 
Coast  Highway,  Malibu  90265;  two  daugh- 
ters; and  a  son. 

William  R.  Ponte  '66,  Plymouth,  Mich.; 
May  20.  He  worked  for  the  Ford  Motor  Co. 
He  is  survived  by  his  ex-wife,  Patricia  Ponte, 
9447  Marilyn  Ave.,  Plymouth  48170. 

Jean  Piatt  Nwachuku  '67,  "72  Sc.M., 
Ellington,  Conn.;  Sept.  13.  She  was  a  com- 
puter-systems specialist  for  Pratt  cV  Whitney 
Aircraft  for  many  years.  Previously  she  spent 
twelve  years  in  Nigeria,  where  she  was  involved 
with  the  Ndoki  &  Ohanku  Welfare  Associa- 
tion and  was  the  principal  systems  analyst  for 
Anambra  State  University.  She  is  survived  by 
her  husband,  Adiele,  65  Mountain  St.,  Elling- 
ton 06029;  a  daughter;  and  two  sons. 

George  I.  Schulman  '72  A.M.,  New  York 
City;  Aug.  9,  ot  complications  from  lymph- 
oma. From  1968-95  he  worked  for  various 
offices  for  the  City  of  New  York,  including 
the  Department  of  Ports  and  Terminals,  the 
Office  of  Management  and  Budget,  the  Bureau 
of  Standards  and  Appeals,  and  the  Depart- 
ment of  Employment.  He  is  survived  by  his 
wife,  Theresa,  }22  Central  Park  West,  #3, 
New  York  City  10025;  and  two  daughters. 

Timothy  J.  Stryker  '77.  Danbury,  Conn.; 
Aug.  6.  He  was  a  writer,  artist,  and  avid 
paraglider.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  Chris- 
tine, 94  Hammersmith  Apts.,  Danbury  06810; 
and  four  children. 

Elizabeth  McLaughlin  Miller  '82,  Maple 
Grove.  Minn.;  July  1.  She  is  survived  by  her 
husband,  David  '81,  8179  Ramer  Ln..  Maple 
Grove  5531 1. 

M.  Leo  Albert  '91,  Falmouth,  Mass.;  Aug. 
26.  He  was  a  graphic  designer  with  Beth 
Tondreau  Design  in  New  York  City.  He  is 
survived  by  his  parents,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Marcel 
Albert,  70  Walker  St..  Falmouth  02540;  two 
brothers:  and  a  sister.  Ov 


BROWN    ALUMNI    MONTHLY    ♦    55 


Finally. 


BY  JENNIFER   CASTLE 


Show  and  Tell 


In  February  1994,  in  a  small  town  in 
upstate  New  York  at  a  hospital  whose 
name  I  could  never  pronounce  as  a  child, 
my  grandmother  lay  dying.  I  was  alone 
with  her  for  the  last  time.  I  had  a  few 
hours  before  my  plane  left;  she  had  ninety 
years  of  life  behind  her.  It  was  morning, 
the  time  when  she  was  most  likely  to  be 
alert.  I'd  learned  that  over  the  previous 
few  days,  as  I'd  also  learned  to  tip  a  cup 
of  broth  to  her  lips,  and  as  I'd  learned  that 
though  she  was  unable  to  speak,  she  could 
understand  everything  we  said.  In  be- 
tween these  lessons  I  took  walks  in  the 
frigid  parking  lot,  rehearsing  in  my  head 
what  I'd  say  when  it  was  time  to  leave. 

As  a  creative  writing  concentrator 
at  Brown,  I'd  come  to  understand  that 
powerful  writing  results  not  only  from 
what  you  say,  but  also  from  what  you 
leave  out.  A  favorite  classroom  mantra 
was  "Show,  don't  tell."  It  has  served  me 
well  writing  fiction  and,  more  recently, 
as  a  screenwriter,  one  who'd  sooner  write 
a  car-chase  sequence  than  a  "loved-one- 
dying"  scene. 

Still,  there  I  was  in  my  grandmother's 
hospital  room,  feeling  the  pressure  to  get 
my  lines  just  right.  While  my  parents 
spoke  tearfully  to  lawyers  111  the  hall,  I 
imagined  my  script  for  the  last  good-bye: 

Jennifer  (smiling  bravely):!  wish 
I  could  take  you  home  so  you  could 
cook  something  for  us. 

nana  (opening  her  eyes):  Don't  be 
silly. There's  brisket  and  matzoh  ball 
soup  in  the  freezer.  I  may  be  stuck 
in  this  bed,  but  I'll  be  damned  if  my 
family  doesn't  have  a  decent  dinner. 

In  real  life,  though.  Nana  squirmed  as 
I  held  her  hand.  I  pulled  my  chair  closer 
and  looked  straight  at  her  for  the  first 
time  that  morning.  She  stared  straight 
back.  I  knew  she'd  hate  that  I  felt  the 
need  for  a  speech.  It  made  my  rehearsals 
seem  pointless. 

As  we  looked  at  each  other,  I  relaxed. 
I  found  I  didn't  mind  that  she  was  incom- 
prehensibly tiny  and  her  hair  was  thin,  her 


lips  dry  and  pale,  her  catheter  bag  full.  I 
began  to  see,  instead,  the  Nana  I  loved  as  a 
child,  the  one  who  bought  me  a  Fonzie 
locket  atter  my  mother  refused  to,  the  one 
who  showered  us  with  foil-wrapped 
tudge  brownies.  There,  too,  it  seemed,  was 
the  Nana  I  loved  as  a  teenager,  the  one 
who  took  me  shopping  for  designer  jeans 
and  mortified  me  by  telling  every  sales 
clerk  my  report-card  grades  and  the  name 
of  my  current  crush. 

Clearest  ot  all  was  the  Nana  I'd  loved 
as  an  adult,  the  one  who  lived  gracefully 
alone  for  almost  three  decades,  who  had 
friends  more  numerous  than  all  the  peo- 
ple I'd  ever  known,  who  headed  up  a 
retirement  home  filled  with  what  she 
called  "my  old  ladies,"  even  though  most 
of  them  were  younger  than  she  was.  I  saw 
Nana  as  she  would  have  preferred:  wear- 
ing a  blue  suit  and  pumps,  her  hair  dyed 
jet  black  and  freshly  styled,  her  Clinique 
lipstick  just  right. 

When  I  finally  managed  words,  they 
came  out  all  wrong.  I  stumbled.  1  was 
embarrassed.  I  think  I  told  her  she  had 
been  a  perfect  grandmother.  I  told  her  I 
hoped   to   make   her  proud  of  me.  As   I 


spoke,  I  looked  at  the  oxygen  machine 
and  at  her  slippered  feet  resting  limply  on 
a  needlepoint  footstool  brought  from 
home.  But  what  I  recall  best  are  the  tears 
that  came  to  her  eyes.  Somehow,  Nana 
understood  what  I  was  trying  to  say,  and 
that  it  was  simply,  "Good-bye." 

A  week  later  I  stood  before  her 
friends  and  relatives  in  a  dress  she  would 
have  said  made  me  look  grown-up,  and  I 
delivered  her  eulogy.  I  had  stayed  up  late 
the  night  before,  writing,  editing,  delet- 
ing, and  marking  text  blocks  on  my  com- 
puter, repeating  each  sentence  aloud  to 
make  sure  it  flowed: 

"/  hope  she  knows  that  everything  I  am 
and  everything  I  do  is  partly  because 
of  her.  She  is  a  foothold  of  my  past,  a 
spirit  in  my  present,  and  the  inspiration 
lor  my  future.  Sana,  I  love  yon  always." 

What  I  read  that  day  came  out  sound- 
ing perfect.  Too  perfect.  I'm  glad  Nana 
wasn't  there  to  hear  it.  0&> 

Jennifer  Castle  lives  and  writes  in  West  Holly- 
wood, California. 


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