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"Living at Laurelmead on Blackstone Boulevard " is Like Living Back on Campus... Only Better Introducing the new Brown campus connection, Laurelmead on Blackstone Boulevard. Located only minutes from Brown, Laurelmead is a distinguished residential community for independent adults. Owners enjoy an engaging lifestyle with the assurance of 24-hour security and home and grounds maintenance services. The Laurelmead campus includes beautiful common areas, resident gardens, and walking trails along the Seekonk River. Find out why so many Brown and Pembroke alumni, retired faculty, and fellow colleagues have chosen to make Laurelmead their new home. Dining at Laurelmead: From elegant dining to cafe or pub dining... this is the meal plan we dreamed of as students. The Fitness Center: Yoga, aquatics, weights, are considered an elective. The Odeon at Laurelmead: Where a variety of lectures and perforinances are attended. Come visit Laurelmead during your LAURELMEAD^^ Distinguished Adult Cooperative Living next visit to Providence, or call for 355 Blackstone Boulevard more information at (800) 286-9550. Providence, Rhode Island 02906 (401) 273-9550 • (800) 286-9550 NAN BOUCHARD TRACY '46 ^SiWli>i«ii«.t«Ml6; PRODUCED BY THE ALUMNI RELATIONS OFFICE Inscribe your name on College Hill. I he Brown Alumni Association invites JL. you to celebrate your lifelong connection to Brown by purchasing a brick in the Alumni Walkway. Add your name - or the name of any alumnus or alumna you wish to honor or remem- ber - to the beautifully designed centerpiece of BROIfiN the upcoming Maddock /\ | ^ [^ l\V±y 1 Alumni Center garden ASSOCIATION restoration project. Celehratintj Our THE PROPOSED ALUMNI WALKWAY Connections to Brown MADDOCK ALUMNI CENTER, BROWN UNIVERSITY Join the hundreds of alumni who have already purchased their bricks! ORDERED BY NAME . BROWNALUMNI MONTHLY Under the Elms 8 Commencement #228: Sandra Day Nan and Dick's Excellent Reunion 22 O'Connor makes the law . the Esther "Nan" Bouchard and Dick Tracy have been a couple for Aga Khan makes history . Mary Chapin Carpenter friends . makes fifty-four years, Brown alumni for fifty. This year their entire class What They Said at the forums . was counting on them to orchestrate a reunion to remember. rededicating a war memorial . the Byjohfj Foraste and Anne Diffily "Colonel" goes on reserve duty . financial advice for slackers . Since Last Time . and more. DEPARTMENTS Turning Point 30 Here & Now 2 Professional ballet dancers disciphne their bodies to perform with grace, style, and precision. Meet nine resumed-education students Carrying the Mail 3 with minds to match. By Richard P. Morin Sports 16 The bests and worsts of 1995-96 Q&cA 20 Associate Director of Athletics Pop-Up Culture 36 Arleiie Ciorton '52 What do Tom Wolfe, Teri Garr, O.J. Simpson, and I Can't Beheve StUDENTSIDE 21 It's Not Butter! have in common? They're all fi.xes for one Beyond the Bedroom Wall writer's media addiction. By David Shichis 'yS By Meredith Cristiano 'g6 Books i8 Drinking: A Love Story Caroline by Portrait: The Bootmaker Knapp '81. Reuiewed by David Duncan 40 Timberland CEO Jeffi-ey Swartz '82 wants his company to make The Ci^\sses 42 good boots, a decent profit, and a better world. By Jennifer Sutton Obituaries 60 Finally. 64 Confessions of a Fish Killer cover: Nan Tracy '46 in her marshal's Volume 96 Number 9/luly 1996 By Deborah Navas 'yi regalia on Commencement morning. Photograph by John Foraste. )W Worth Noting I xcuse me, dear reader. I don t ^L^a mean to alarm you. But 1 think you should know: sooner or later I or one Story of their lives: items from the Tracys' alumni folders. of my successors will rummage around in your life. Don't worry - we're not gomg to show up at your door, steno pad in lege record a half-century earlier. I shake tricity about who will miss me someday, hand, asking nosey questions. It all hap- my head over a letter in which a faithful who may consider that 1 gave care and pens right here, and it's an essential part of son of Brown explains that the University attention to people, duties, and ideals in doing business. Researching alumni lives will get "not another cent" from him any measure worth noting. helps fill this magazine with classnotes, because a son was rejected tor admission. Happily, we have plenty of occasions alumni profiles, and obituaries - our As I read old letters written in the slant- to peruse "bio folders" while the subjects bread and butter. ing Palmer hand once taught in every are alive and well. This was the case as we In the basement of the alumni center grammar school, sometimes I am sur- prepared a reunion photo essay on Nan there is a manila folder with your name prised by my own warm tears. Here is and Dick Tracy, both class of 1946. In her on it. Depending on when you entered news of a child's accidental death, here a file I found Nan's graduation portrait Brown and how closely you've kept in clerk's notation on a pledge card: "Please from St. Xavier Academy and a wedding touch, your folder may contain an appli- take Mr. Smith off your mailing list. He is photo in a yellowed newspaper chpping. cation tor admission, a punch card on ill a nursing home and can't read." In an old Providence Journal I saw Dick at which you listed college activities, news- 1 had thought nothing could make an alumni meeting thirty-seven years ago. paper clips noting your wedding and pro- me as aware ot my mortality as the I delighted in the Tracys' four birth motions, baby announcements, reunion immense responsibility of parenthood. announcements; felt tor them when I questionnaires, address changes, and more. Reading about dead alumni comes close. noted a child's serious illness. Inevitably, one day your folder will come Yet I also gain an appreciation for the You can't read Nan and Dick's folders, upstairs to the BAM containing a news- flow and meaning of life. I observe a but you'll see, in John Foraste's photos paper announcement of your death or bright-eyed Pembroker progress firom beginning on page 22, the joie de vimc with returned mail stamped "Deceased." bride to mom and career woman, which they planned and celebrated their Preparing BAM obituaries is a funny, to retirement, to travel with triends, to fiftieth reunion. It's a story that under- poignant business. Atter a statl writer does residence at a nursing home... and death. scores yet again a privilege of working at the first dratt, an editor, usually me, tact- Checking a list of survivors, 1 unagine the BAM: the opportunity to peek into checks and copyedits it. Many a week- how each misses her. A grieving relative others' lives and to share them with you. night I bend over our dining table, its sur- or classmate may write, "Mom was the face entirely covered with folders and linchpin of the family" or "Joe always had galleys. I find myself smiling at the face of time for his fraternity buddies, even atter a young woman, framed with crimped he made CEO." Such tributes set me to Anne Hinman Diffily '73 curls, in the tiny photo pasted to her col- speculating with typical human egocen- Editor Editor: Anne Hinnian Diffily '73 Board of Editors Local Advertising: C 1996 by Brown AUimm Moixthiy. SpragLie Publishing Published monthly, except January, Managing Editor: Boucher Chair: Monaghan 'ss Norman John June, and August, by Brown University, (401) 294-123S '82 Providence, P.. I. Printed bvThe Lane Art Director: Kjthryn de Boer Vice Chair: Dana B. Cowui (401) 294-1239 FAX Press. PO. Box iio. BurUngton.Vt. BROWN Send changes of address to Assistant Editor: Jemnter Sutton Tom Bodkin '75. Anne Azzi National Advertising 0540.1 A I U M N I MONTHLY Alumni Records. PO. Box 1908. Prov- Davenport "8s, Rose E. Representative Editorial Associate: C\\id Gaits idence, R.I. 02912; (401) S63-2307; EngeUand '78, Eric Gertler '85, Ed Antos, Ivy alumi^.'brownvm.brown, edu. Send Business Manager: Pamela M. Parker Edward Marecki '65. Martha League Magazine editorial correspondence to BAM. July 1996 K, Matzke '66, Carolyn Cardall Network Sports: Peter Mandel 'Si A.M. H.'X tSs4. Providence, R.I. 029t2; Volume 96, No, 9 Neu-som V.2, Stacy Palmer '82. 7 Ware Street, (401) Sft_i-2S73;FAX {401) 86j-ysyy; Photography: John Foraste j:,„ ^^ |„,^,,. .,, ^^^ ^ Cambridge, Mass. f-nuil L5AM{M' brownvni. brown. cdu. Web page: www.brown.edu./Adniinis- Design: Sandra Delany and Sandra Seavc 77, Lisa Smghania '94, 02138 tration/ Brown_AIumni_Monthly/ Kenne\' Benjamin Weiser "76. Bill (617) 496-7207 Wooten '68 Ph.D. Address correction requested PRINTED IN THt U.S.A. JULY 1996 ^/ The 'wall of shame' deserved to attend Brown, but proceeded to do so with tniancial assistance from 1 read witli deep concern that some resi- many different sources. dents ot Haranibee House created a list, a 2. Mr. Hunt expresses surprise that "wail ot sliame,"" made up of black men Tabitha Suarez '97, "whose surname is His- who dare to date outside their race panic, wasn't given a free ride at Brown." ("Into the Open." Elms. April). Well, it may surprise him further to dis- According to the article, the Office of cover that, while my surname is Irish, Student Life did not have the hst removed I happen to be mostly African-American. or punish the students involved. Franklv, He may also be astonished that not all I hnd this very disturbing.