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Under the Elms io

The Campaign ends with a laser Old Believers 20

blast . . . unearthing the history Far from their spiritual homeland m Siberia, a group of religious of the spice trade ... a student

. expatriates celebrates . Providence . inflation finds itself at a crossroads in Oregon. Text by Eileen M.

beats sex . . . the Great Chicago Kane 'p./, photography by Manuel Cuotemoc Malle '94

Fire on the Web . . . presidential

mockery. . . Since Last Time . . and more. Third Rock from DEPARTMENTS a Failed Sun 2 8

Ganymede is the biggest moon in our solar system, but, as a Here & Now 2 group of studems is discovering, taking pictures of it from 500 Carrying the Mail 3 million miles away isn't easy. By Chad Gaits

Sports 15

Women warriors on the ice Q&A 16 History's Storyteller 32 Political theorist John Tomasi James Patterson once covered traffic court for the Hartford Studentside 17 Conrant. Now a history professor, he has written a book that may Living Light change the way you think about America. By Norman Boucher By Rachel Widome 'p/

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Rctliiiikiii^ Race: Fram Boas and Portrait: Up From the Underground His Contemporaries, ^^ by Vernon J. Williams '73 '77 Jr. A.M., Ph.D. ReaUty doesn't bite for Lisa Loeb '90. The smger-songwriter in Reviewed by Rhett Jones '76 Ph.D. cat's-eye specs has rocketed into pop's top echelon. By Sliea Dean The Classes 38

Obituaries 54 cover: Two Old Believer sisters in a Volume 97 • Number 3/ November 1996

Finally. . 56 photograph taken during a lull in their Candidate Mom exodus from Russia to China, Man- By Elise Sprunt Sheffield '84 churia, Brazil, and - finally - Oregon. " Here & Now

Believer clearly elated, yet his happiness had a tiny, True bitter edge. The previous week, some students had written to the Brown Daily Her- ald criticizing the Joukowsky tamily's undisclosed expenditure for the show, Vartan Gregorian was holding forth pointing out ways the money could have one recent Saturday on philan- been better spent, implying that the show history, from his birth to Russian expatri- thropy, particularly the unique loyalty was an indulgence. One student had even ates in China, through the family's immi-

Americans have to their alma maters. It is e-mailed Martha Joukowsky to complain. gration to the United States (where he

a phenomenon not found, Gregorian It seemed to me that the critics, while was viewed suspiciously as "the blue-eyed emphasized, elsewhere in the world. well-intentioned, had missed a point. To Chinese boy"), to his Brown education. "Alexis de Tocqueville wrote that in wit: raising enough money to get a major He described his early roots as "air roots -

America, chanty is part and parcel of our university sately into the next century is fully formed but never planted in one society," Gregorian said. "Here, you care desperately hard work. Hundreds of stafl country or any one culture." because you have invested." and thousands of alumni and parent vol- Now Artie's roots are firmly planted These thoughts caused me to glance unteers knocked themselves out for five in America and in the culture of Brown. at the smallish man standing alertly in the years to meet an unprecedented dollar In the late 19S0S, after his retirement from rear of Salomon Hall. Artemis A.W. goal, which they exceeded by more than the international insurance business and

Joukowsky '55 —"Artie" to his friends - is 18 percent. Joukowsky himself traveled, being named Brown's vice chancellor, he

Brown's vice chancellor and one ot its literally, the entire world to meet with and Martha pulled up stakes m New York most generous benefactors. He and his donors, racking up 97,378 documented air City, bought a house two blocks from "bride," as Artie genteelly refers to Pro- and surface miles in the process. campus, and proceedeci to devote them-

fessor of Archaeology Martha Sharp No one in my acquaintance is better selves full-time to the University. Joukowsky '55, have given millions upon at combining passion, hard work, and "Only America," Artie said in 1988, in millions of dollars to Browns hbranes, sheer enjoyment than Artie Joukowsky. In words uncannily similar to Gregorian's academic ficilities, athletic programs, and the ten years I've knovv'n him, I've come last month, "has a historic tradition of

the beautification ot its public spaces. He to expect words such as these: "Wonder- individual responsibility' for independent

is also, I freely disclose, my triend, so what ful." "Just great!" "Fabulous." "Splendid." institutions like Brown. . . . Without the

you're about to read is not unbiased. If ever the man has known a discouraging acceptance of such responsibility, private

The evening before, many ot us had word, he has put it quickly behind him. education could eventually disappear. gathered on the Green to receive another And Brown has been the principal bene- We're all the richer when an Art

of Artie's gifts, one he had conceived and ficiary of this true-believer /oif. loukowsky emerges to give, and give, and seen to fruition: a professionally produced So Artie threw a major-league party give to Brown - not "till it hurts." as the outdoor "sound and light show" that on the Green last month. Perhaps we can late chancellor Richard Salomon '32 used

brought to life the University's history all learn to applaud such catholic generos- to say, only half-joking, but until it feels,

and Its heritage. This spectacular display ity and to see each gift, whether it sup- well, iiviideifiil. Splcfidid.Jiisr '^rcat. aptly concluded Brown's successful com- ports a professorship or financial aid or a

prehensive campaign (see page 10). Hght show, for what it is: an act of love.

The ne.xt morning I ran into Artie In his speech upon accepting the New- near Faunce House and congratulated York Brown Club's Independent Award

him. "Wasn't it great?" he beamed. He was in 1988, Artie outlined his colorful family

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NOVEMBER I 996 Carrying the Mail

An impassioned voice situation here, where "we" are the people ot European descent and

" I was pleased to read the article by Mane "they are the remaining people of

Ci. Lee \S6 on the Asian-American expe- the world, who have no name, no rience at Brown titled "Findnig Their identuy of their own, and can be Voice" (April). The last article BAM ded- characterized completelv by their icated to this significant coininuiiity was nationalities? in November 1989 ("To Be Asian-Amer- .ishim Gaig 'g2 Sc.M., \)6 ican"). Now that the Asian community Ph.D. has grown significantly at Brown, so too C Campus has the need to support who we are. The ii'riter is a postdoctoral research

I was honored to speak last No\ember associate in the Department oj Com- during Asian Heritage Month. As a psy- puter Science. - Editor chotherapist, director of mental-health we are, equal to others. I encourage Brown, services, and psychologN- professor spe- the B.-i.M. and the University's adminis- cializing in multiculturalism and Asian- tration to continue its eftbrts to be mclu- The real alternative

Americans, I knew I could speak from a si\-e and give reflection to those who make highly academic position. Instead, I chose up the future ot our country. The more The commercialization ot^WBRU has to speak more spontaneouslv. with pas- we give mirroring opportunities to oth- gone too tar.WBRU's vote to jettison the sionate words that I had held m abevance ers, the more cliverse and healthy we will popular "360-Degree Black Experience in the years since 1 had been a Brown ,ill become in the country's reflection. in Sound" ("Radio Haze," Elms, July) indi- undergraduate. This benetits all cultures. We simply want cates how the radio station views serving

As I shared m\ reflections in a room to know who we are and to be here on the Providence and Brown communities brimming with interested students, I was ec]ual terms. as a lower priorirv' than the pursuit of touched by the enthusiastic response. After- .Matthew R. .Mock 'jy private profit. WBRU benetits from an w ard, students met with me, talking about Berkelev. Calif ambiguous tax status and the free labor how they too were going through an of Brown students, but it does not show evolving awareness of their Asian identity. much appreciation for these benefits by This continued throughout the evening, Us and them giving anvthing substantial back to the through the next day, as I strolled back to community that nurturecl it. my inn, even as I visited the bookstore. I would like to congratulate you for the I am also distressed by the racial politics

Students from that day are still con- remarkable job you do in publishing the of the vote to discontinue "360." "Alter- tacting me. One of them is working on a magazine and maintaining closeness among native" radio used to be oppositional to local writing project. 1 understood these the Brown community, which is spread corporate-controlled entertainment. Now, positive reactions as longings to h.n'e all over the world. 1 enjoyed the September alternative is just another demographic someone acknowledge and reflect their issue ver\- much; however, there was a small niche to be bombarded by marketing experiences, someone who could posi- imperfection that 1 would like to bring to consultants. Who says alternative music tively "nurror" that being ot Asian heritage your notice. has to exclude nonwhite performers? is just as valuable as being of other her- A report titled "Olympians; Brown WBRU refiases to include both white and itages. In growing up Asian-Americans, we Shines in Arianta" (Elms) describes the black musicians on its playlist because are still confronted by racism, stereot\'p- bronze-medal eflort otjim Pedro '96 marketing consultants advise that it is eas- ing, and the myth of being the model and notes that "Pedro lost to a Mongo- ier to make a financial killing by balkan- nunority, which is often used as a wedge lian m the second round but flipped izing the airwaves. The segregation of between us and other communities. As Martin Schmidt of Germany." I find it black and white performers unfortunately history shows, we are visible when a interesting that, except for the Mongo- parallels the lack of interaction between scapegoat is needed, invisible when we lian, everybody else is mentioned by black and white students in social settings become too strong. name, including Martin Schmidt, who, on campus. Brown students usually ha\-e

It IS about time that we are viewed as like the Mongolian, is neither a U.S. ath- racially mtegrationist ideals, but they tail

lete nor affiliated with Brown. Is it the to live up to these ideals in practice. One

case that the reporter couldn't find the of the most common reasons I have heard TO OUR READERS name of the Mongolian? Or simply did black and white students give for not not care to find out the name? interacting more with students of dili'erent

Letters arc always welcome, and we try to We see in books and movies with races is that"T/)('y don't listen to the same prim all we receive. Preference will be given to "us-against-them" themes - for example, music that ire do. " Instead of contributing those that address the content of the magazine. war movies - that "we" always have names, to the sorting of students into tiny racial, Please lintit letters to 200 words. We reserve whereas "they" need not, and usually do demographic niches, WBRU should be the right to edit for style, clarity, and length. not, ha\'e anv names. Do we see a similar encouraging more students to cross the

BROWN ALUMNI M (J N T H L Y 3 color line - both musically and socially. Jon C. Pennington 'g4 Conshohocken, Pa.

WBRIJ has overturned its vote to discontinue "360," and the program continues to air on Sundays. - Editor

To the heart

My late wife, Frances Thomas Davis, was art of science a 1948 graduate of Pembroke, and I con- j The tmue to receive the BAM and enjoy it. I was really touched by the story "The People Next Door" in the May issue. You ! by Leonardo daVinci continue to go to the heart of most issues you address. i Discover Leonardo da Vincis rare and brilliant scientuic | S. Davis manuscript, in which ev6ry page reveals intimate F Edward Wilton, Conn. observations of the natural world.

Leonardo's Codex Leicester: Image question A Masterpiece of Science October 26, 1996 - January 1, 1997 Some years ago I wrote asking the BAM

to examine its conscience before accept- Principal sponsorship of this exhibiiion is provided by Merrill Lynch. ing hquor advertising. Many issues since have, in fact, been free from ads for alco-

American Museum of Natural History hol. I became hopeful that the BAM had adver- Central Park West at 79th street, New York 212-769-5100 severed its dependency on liquor

Oil ihc intcnwi. hilp:.''w\\w:anwlt.*ir-; tising and adopted a more enlightened ad policy.

With some dismay, I discovered that the BAM had sold the back cover of the July issue to a company trumpeting "Abso- The Best of New England, lut Nantucket," accompanied by a color photo depicting a previously lovely beach .... Newton WelUsley Hospital Boston Edison Company Boston University Worcester Telegram & adorned with a boardwalk built in the Gazette Digital Equipment Corporation Doubleday Book Shops, Inc. Fidelity Properties, Inc. First shape of a vodka bottle. The vodka has no National Bank of Boston Keyport Life Insurance Leggat McCall Properties Massachusetts Institute of England Headquarters England Telephone Technology Mutual Funds Service Company NYNEX New New more to do with Nantucket than it does Sybase The Carell Group The Druker Company the May Design & Construction Company Thompson Financial Tufts University Meredith & Grew, Inc. Brown, but its makers find it advantageous Company McKinsey & Company, Inc. Carpenter & Company Boston Wharf to be associated with both. NYNEX Telesector Group Polaroid Rainin Instrument Company Rose Man- agement Corporation Shawmut Bank Apple Computer Genzyme Corporation Liquor producers should have to accept The Chiofaro Company Northland In vestment Corp. The Beal Companies a growing general awareness of the seri- Bingham, Dana & Gould Hewlett Packard Hines Interests Limited Part- nership The Children's Hospital Boston Globe Newspaper Company New ous risks inherent in alcohol, without the England Deaconess Association New England Medical Center Hospitals offsetting benefit of a stamp of Mead Consulting Allendale Insur- ance U. S. Telecenters The Codman powerful Bank Boston Boston Properties, Inc. Company, Inc. Federal Reserve of tacit Ivy League approval. It's not a mat- Liberty Mutual Insurance London & Leeds Development Corporation Massachusetts General Hospital Prudential Insurance Company/Real Estate ter of morality or being stuffy. An increas- Microsystems Sybase Investment R.M.Bradley State Street Bank Realty, Inc. Sun ing number of serious pubhc and private Thinking Machines Corporation Harvard Real Estate, Inc. Federated Department Stores, Inc. New England Deaconess Association Beth Israel Hospital Whitehead Institute The Children's Hospital problems are connected with alcohol, Real Estate Harvard Medical School Massachusetts Port Authority The Gunwyn Company Jaymont which, like tobacco, can be tragically de- Properties Inc. Hyatt Regency Hotel Connecticut College Blue Cross-Blue Shield Wellesley College Pfizer, Inc. Nippon Electric, Co. Metromedia Television Marriott Hotel A.W.Perry, Inc. Aetna Casualty structive and addictive. Why should Brown, and Surety Mutual Funds Service City of Chelsea Bowdoin College Bose Corporation Brown University which wishes to be perceived as a center of educated leadership, have anything to Build with the Best do with enhancing the image of alcohohc beverages?

It appears that Brown has sold not

only its good name but also that of an unconsenting island, for a price, to a liirner liquor distributor. This may not be per- 855 Boylston Street Boston, MA 02116 (617) 247-6400 ceived as a bad thing to do - if you choose to rationalize that it does no real AS THE LEADING GENERAL BUILDER IN AMERICA finance the TURNER IS PROUD TO HAVE BUILT FOR THE harm while helping BAM. NATION'S LEADING INSTITUTIONS. But it is glaringly inconsistent with

4 NOVEMBER I996 Br-iwh's clamiv to greatness. I'm i.crt.iiii which was tilled with books, mementos, tli.it more people than the BAM miglu and comfortable furniture. The windows BEAVERKILL expect will joHi me in feeling a sense ot proNided a sweeping view of Doc's care- By tbe river where fly fishing began, loss to the University. tlilK- tended Hower gardens and a grand discover a last great retreat With Please reconsider your adxertising panorama of the fields and hills beyond. thousands of preserved acres, the BeavertiiU offers a spectacular^ policy ill this significant area. It was an incredible \iew tliat by itself natural setting for a Aliiii F.Aiuvcd 'i6 defined why Doc loved the place. After ,1 country home Only Nantucket. Mass. delightful luncheon in the apartment, 2 V2 hours I 1 )oc .mnounced that he would now con- NYC duct a walking tour of his Siena, and we spent the rest of the day walking the city streets, listening to Doc's uniquely intimate descriptions of the architecture and history before us. We weren't six feet into lodge Historic the tour realized when we what a revered 1850's angler retml on 232 acres with owner ship of 6 miles of the 104 Acres ofNatural Beauty Beaverklll River Town Country homesite cnmbin ofHanlenburgh.$lM SOLUTIONS, INC ing size, location and natu ral beauty ad|acent to a PROGRAMMER protected recreational area. Riverbemt Town of Colchester $100,000 INTEX SOLUTIONS, located in Needham. 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an eccentric professor magazines for $43,435. Together with the taglines: "So this is Po- near the stadium gates of Ivy - didn't a 746.072 you know, the magazines reach land?" and "Poland - ever>'one's League football games, including photo essay on the oldest bving households. vacation countr>'." the 1994 Harvard-Yale game. graduate and maybe a flattering As might be expected, the de- "So far, the early response Cruise lines, meanwhile, ad- profile of the dog track impresa- mographics of those households has been less than overwhelm- vertise alumni holidays on the rio who's also the school's largest are an advertiser's dream. Medi- ing," says tourist office director high .seas. Sometimes these contnbutor. an income is estimated at Leszek Mokrzycki. "But we see cruises are capped off with a lec- Harvard Magazine is differ- S132.300. the network says. this as an initial investment." ture and a reception at a US ent, both in editonal content and Last year, total ad revenues course, a few other maga- consulate at a cruise ship's port of in the type of advertising it ac- were $1.74 million, up 24 percent, Of cepLs. Instead of ads touting a Freid says. Among new adver- zines can also offer strong call. (US ambassadors are often

locaJ mth.-^keller - or no ads at all tisers are car companies, cruise demographics. In pitching space Iv>' League grads.) - Harvard Magazine features lines and retailers of luxury to big advertisers, the Ivy net- "We're looking at ways to lend

glossy ads for Cadillac, Cartier goods. work's sales force notes that its our cachet to advertisers." Freid and Absolut Vodka. In buying print ads for its lux- readers spend 84 minutes perus- says. "We're looking to add val- ut7 cars. di\ndes Indeed, next to an article Lexus ing their alumni magazines; the ue." about how the Shining Path of magazines into several categor- comparable figure for many other Looking to boost circulation to Peru is one of the few guerrilla ies. The \\y alumni magazines fall magazines is under an hour. 1 million subscribers, the network groups to accept women in top into the "thought-leader cate- "Our readers think they own ponders expanding its ranks to leadership positions, there's an ad gory'." which includes Atlantic, the magazine." says Freid, offer- include Johns Hopkins Universi- for a no-load mutual fund. the New Yorker and the New ing her theor\' for why iv>' ty, Duke University and "that big Such ads are increasingly York Times Sunday Magazine, subscribers read longer. school down the river," says common. Two years ago, the Iv>' says Ken Thomas, the media subscribers also like Leapje Network of alumni maga- manager for Lexus, And hy Freid, presumably alluding to zines decided to pitch itself more The high number of "thought- U) socialize as a group, something MIT. aggressively to major advertisers. leader" readers makes the alumni else thai sets them apart. Of the Uy League Network, Though it's been been around magazines an ideal spot to place "! read Vogue, but that she says, "We're a small pond for

111 some form for many years, the ads for companies looking to doesn't mean I want to get to- advertisers to find a lot of big fish network hxs been a well-kept se- change a brand's image, Freid gether with other Vogue cret, says iLs executive director, says. readers." Freid says. Laura Freid, WTien Con'ette wanted to get .AJumni magazine readers, in So. since 1994. the mission out the word that it's a iuxun.' car contrast, frequently mingle in statement has been to alert many as much as a hot rod, it included clubs and at school homecomings. major advertisers that here's an the i\7 League alumni magazines Macallan Single Highland 1\T League network of nonprofit in its advertising buy. Malt Scotch Whisky, for example, alumni magazines for BrowTi, When the US Postal Service just running ads in alumni Cornell. Dartmouth. Harvard, isn't wanted to buff up its image, it too Pnnceton, Yale and the Universi- magazines; it's also conducting ran ads in the alumni magazines. ty of Pennsylvania. (Stanford was tastings at the Yale and Prince-

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In a conlinii'mg

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Itzhak Perlman, H. '96 Veterans Memorial Auditorium performing with violin

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Concerto No. 1 86* Catt 401 j in C major, op. 1i

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pharmacy the climax of an outdoor WAS A SCENE OUt of TIlC general and Brown in partic- fast-paced music, the laser IT sound-and-light show tracing Around lO ular must face?" The presi- beams crisscrossed the Green IViZivd ofOz. - in a dazzling aerial display the University's history was P.M. on a crystal-cold October dent's prerecorded words rolled minutes. part of a weekend-long cele- night, the south facade of across hundreds of spectators that lasted a good five may indeed bration on October 11-13 of Faunce House filled suddenly wrapped in blankets on the While many consider Gregorian a wizard the overwhelmingly success- with a gargantuan image of Green. No sooner had the support ful Campaign for the Rising Vartan Gregonan's tace. "As oration ceased than multicol- who has conjured October). all corners of the globe, Generation (BAM, the year 2000 approaches," ored lasers stabbed out from from display wasn't about Oz, By its conclusion last June, boomed a familiar, Armenian- Gregorian s very lips and this about the four-year fund-raising accented voice, "what are the raced over the heads of those but rather entirely spectacular - effort aimed at strengthening challenges that education in assembled. Accompanied by Brown. The laser

10 • NOVEMBER I996 received from donors was produced by Aquila Produc- worth every handshake, tions and Brown's Office of

speech, and airline dinner. Special Events, featured a "The past six years," he told host of Brunonian narrators, those at the celebration, most prominently actors Jo- "have reaffirmed my faith in beth Williams '70 and James the wonderful mind and Naughton '67, and a pan- heart that characterize my oramic display of projected University." images on the buildings sur- He and Brown Fellow H. rounding the Green. Special .Anthony Ittleson '60, the lighting effects turned the campaign's executive chair- Green's elms into technicolor man, seemed genuinely sur- puff^s of cotton candy as the prised when Gregorian sum- narration and sound effects moned them to the staee to took viewers from Brown's

National campaign chairman Art Joukowsky '55 signals victory (above)

at a dinner for volunteers on October II. Alluding to the University's

pre-Revolutionary roots - which were illuminated in a sound-and-llght

spectacular on the Green later that night featuring, among others,

University Hall visitor George Washington (left) - Joukowsky noted that the need for Brown to educate "the rising tide of America's youth"

remains as great today as it was in 1764.

receive the President's Medal, modest founding in 1764 to the highest honor a Brown Its present eminence. president can bestow, in honor Next morning, alumni

of their work. All three re- were still enthused. "I saw Brown's teaching and scholar- ident also thanked Vice Presi- ceived standing ovations, as did sound-and-llght shows last sJiip had surpassed its original dent Ann Caldwell, her pre- Gregorian's wife, Clare, who summer at the pyramids in goal of S450 million and decessor, Samuel Babbitt, and "for thirr^'-six years has stood Egypt and at the Jerusalem brought in a total of mil- S534 the development office staff" by and supported me," beamed 300G celebration," commented lion {BAM, October). for their leadership and work. the president. EUe Hirschfeld '71, "and "We did it. You did it!" Vice Chancellor Artemis A rousing ovation, too, was Brown's was far better done. Gregorian exulted earlier that A.W.Joukowsky "55, the cam- accorded the show on the It was wonderful." evening at a dinner for campaign's national chairman Green later that night. A gift Ooohs. Aaahs. Awe that paign volunteers and donors. who logged untold hours and from the Joukowsky family "we did it." What a weekend "Thanks to you, many doors nearly 100,000 miles on its to the University community, it was. And what a campaign. have been opened." The pres- behalf, said the response he "Legacy of Generations," -A.D.

BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY • II "

Presidential candidate satirist Alice Tuan '97 M.F.A. on the Faunce

House steps. If elected, she planned

to drain Lake Erie and fill it with

beer.

SchiUer was reluctant to identify a single reason for the gulf between lay people's opinions and those of professional economists. He did note, however, that the word inflation seems to be the most commonly used economic term among reporters and the pubhc. In a search of the Nexis database, which scans

all English-language news publications, Schiller found "inflation" in 872,004 stories — 200,000 more than stories Lighten Up In his opening remarks, News Hour using the word se.\. Keezing credited novelist - Chad Gaits Putting the humor back in Coover, author of the pohtical Economics politics. parody Tlie Cut in the Hat Inflation: better than sex? for President, for paving the way for the Millennial Party's THIS year's Presidential unusual platform. As an alter- ROBERT SCHILLER believes candidates oozed earnest- native to "the Clindole cor- economists are out of ness. Dole, Clinton, Perot: porate duopoly," Keezing touch. "We're like physicians they seemed so determined to stumped for (among other who say, 'I don't care about let us know they care. If any things) government action on the patient. I just want to see " of them had a sense of humor, "illegal aliens" - the kind from the lab tests,' said Schiller, he kept it hidden, for fear, outer space, that is, "a class a Yale economist who visited perhaps, of being perceived as of aliens no major political Brown in September to pre- insufficiently serious. In late party before our own has had sent his paper, "Why Do September, last-minute \vrite- the guts to confront. People Dislike Inflation?" in candidates Michael Keez- Ne.\t,Tuan floated a host Influenced, perhaps, by ing '97 M.F.A. and Alice of fi-esh ideas. She promised to the trickle-down effects of the Tuan '97 M.F.A. cHmbed the let loose the id — "the root Federal Reserve's inflation Faunce House steps deter- of all desires" - if elected, and phobia, 92 percent of ordinary mined to change all that. to throw a millennial party citizens in a Schiller survey Mario Molina (above),

As part of an experimen- that would include draining said they think controlling winner of a 1995 Nobel tal-narratives class offered Lake Erie and filling it with inflation should be a govern- Prize for his work on ozone by English professor Robert Bud, planting the San Fer- ment priority. None of the depletion, stressed the

Coover, Keezing and Tuan nando Valley with cannabis, respondents said they had ben- importance of science in a formed their own party, the and detonating fourth-fifths efited from inflation. liberal arts curriculum at Millennial Party, to satirize of the U.S. nuclear arsenal to Specialists in monetary the W. Duncan MacMillan political banalities and jargon. "light up the hemisphere." policy couldn't disagree more. '53 Hall groundbreaking

Besides making speeches, The Millenials' proposals Schiller also surveyed econo- ceremony on October II the candidates hosted an "un- garnered applause from a small mists and found that only (see "The Twenty Percent convention" and created a crowd on the Green, but en- 5 percent were uneasy about Solution, " BAM, October). home page on the World Wide thusiasm alone does not win inflation and worried that Afterwards MacMillan

Web. "We're trying to get an election. For now, it seems, their income would not keep (right) toured the building people to re-envision pohtics," these unconventional candi- pace with rising prices. More site and made the most of says Tuan. "And to do that, dates will continue to cfeclaim and more of them believe his naming opportunity. we're trying to break down the from the steps of Faunce modest levels of inflation are seriousness that renders stale House rather than from the part of a healthy, normal language." White House. - Shea Dean economy.

12 • NOVEMBER I996 Under THE Elms

SINCE LAST TIME... Service comes

naturally for The Office of Student Life banned alcohol sales at all campus Trimbur Lucia parties after a female Brown student allegedly was raped at a Phi '97, who teaches Kappa Psi fraternity party on October 6... tfie College Curricu- ESL (left) at Providence's lum Council voted unanimously to approve the establishment of Calvary Baptist a racial and ethnic studies concentration. ... the University put Church. eight Fox Point houses on the block, with special deals for

faculty and staff, to encourage owner-occupancy in the area. award dming an event cele- Local Hero ... the debate about arming campus officers flared up again after brating Brown's relationship a slashing incident at Harambee House forced police and secu- A atudciif who ii/ii'i;)'.v /?/;(/.•; with Providence. To love the University, said rity to call in the Providence PD....the Undergraduate Council of tiiiic to help. Mayor Buddy Cianci, is to love the city. Students asked the administration to put a hold on its "red THE Faunce House Unlike many Brown ON light" policy, which denies students with unpaid bills of more stage on September 17, alumni, Trimbur tell in love local dignitaries and Brown with Providence first. Born than $1,000 access to the libraries and athletic center.. ..the officials tound themselves and raised in nearby Cranston, Refectory will purchase new food trays for the first time in stepping aside for a most she was volunteering in Prov- seven years; the old trays will be given away to students to use as unlikely star: Lucia Trimbur itience long before she came '97. the shy and awestruck- to Brown. The University's sleds. ...Associate Professor Carolyn Dean, who teaches the lookmg first recipient of the Swearer Center for Public history of sexuality and modern culture, was named the 1996 Unan Dickinson Community Service simply offered her new Rhode Island Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Public Service Award. The opportunities to continue what Founda- award is named for Dickin- she'd already been doing for tion for the Advancement of Teaching. son "76 A.M., an editorial years. Alter enrolling, she taught columnist for the Providence classes in English as a Second Journal who continues to Language (ESL), helped write while immobilized by coach a local track team, and Hocking, the Swearer center's Banda Dreams Lou Gehrig's disease ("How w^orked tor the hungry. director, emphasized that it is to Live," B.'^4.\/. March). In presenting the Dickin- meant to recognize the fami- Soiiictiiiics research takes Tnmhur accepted the son award to Trimbur, Peter hes of recipients, too. Trimbur you half a world airay. credits her early involvement in teaching ESL to the ex- WHEN IT CCJMES TO field ample set by her father, an work, graduate stu- English professor at Worcester dents in anthropology range Polytechnic Institute. They far and wide. But few venture now team-teach an ESL class farther than Peter Lape hopes

at South Providence Neigh- to this winter. If all goes well, borhood Ministries, where in February the third-year Trimbur's sister Catherine, a doctoral candidate will lead a student at Cranston East High group of volunteers on the

School, also volunteers. first archaeological expedition With a combined con- ever to dig in eastern Indo- centration in American Civi- nesia. "There has been virtu- lization and human ecology, ally no archaeological research Trimbur has been working in Indonesia," he says. "The

with the World Hunger Pro- government closed it off until gram to study the problem ot about three years ago." Dur- hunger in Providence. How, ing a preliminary trip to the her research asks, can public- area in the summer of 199s. assistance programs be made Lape says he could see ceramic more user-friendly? Trimbur's shards and other artifacts sur-

ideas are likely to derive as facing through the soil. much from experience as Lape specializes in "cul- from theorv. — Chad Galls ture contact," or trying to

BROWN ALUMNI M O N T H I. "l' • I Under THE Elms

Anyone interested in joiniiii; Peter Lape's Earthwatch project as Europeans can reach him at (401) J51-16S4. encountered in digenous peopl for the first time. "Some- Far left: the view from Fort Revenge times the Euro- on Pulau Ai, Banda Islands. In the peans were distance is Gunung Api, an active attacked," he says, "and some- volcano, and the town of Neira. times they were worshipped. The Dutch traded Manhattan to the What caused these dift'erent English so they could acquire the reactions?" Contact in eastern nutmeg and mace on Pulau Ai.

Indonesia came early, and it Near left: inside Fort Revenge. was often brutal. Until a century ago, the part ot Indonesia where Lape hopes to con- duct his research - called the Banda Islands - were the world's only source of nutmeg PICK O'THE WEB and mace. The tremendous profits to be made from the spice trade attracted the Por- Back tuguese in isi2.They were succeeded by the Dutch, who monopolized spice trading throughout southeast Asia. At one point, Dutch merchants effected the massacre of 90

percent of Banda 's residents.

Very little is known about life on the Banda Islands before

and after colonization; it is on this empty page that Lape hopes to make his mark. Supported by research money from the Graduate

School, Lape has done all the preliminary work he can.

Now It's time to dig. He has persuaded the research orga- nization Earthwatch to spon- sor his field work. Earthwatch matches scientists with paying volunteers for two-week projects ranging from observ- ing black rhinos in Africa to

digging for dinosaur bones 111 Scotland. Before Lape's project can begin, however, at least fifteen volunteers must put down deposits. "I hope enough people sign up," he says. "They'll have a chance to see how things have changed over time in a place we know absolutely nothing about." — N.B. Sports

in I'l I 1 U MAN DLL

Ice hockey can seem. ,it Princesses of pads: Kelly MacKinnon times, like ballet and. ,it '98 (right) and Alison Brewer '00. other times, like a horseless joust-

ing match. This is true not oiilv

for the ti\'e skaters but also tor the gctlie. Motionless and vigi- hear her teammates' shouts of lant tor long minutes, the goal- encouragement from the ice and

tender explodes into a Hurrv of the bench, it is this silent mono- graceful leaps and pirouettes to logue, she says, that most helps stop speeding pucks. She repels her refbcus. the pokes and slashes of enemy A goalie's public humiliation sticks with all the finesse and rarely ends with the red light or a brute strength ot Xena, Warrior number on the electronic score- Princess. board. "Sometimes the crowd

How does It teel to guard a will taunt you," says Brewer. "If

four-foot-high by six-foot-wide you let in a goal, they'll scream target from wrist shots and slap- that you're a sieve." Both goalies shots that can arrive at speeds steel themselves for hostile

of up to sevent\'-five miles per crowds at away games. "I find it

hour? I put this question to the kind ot flattering," Brewer adds, v\'omen"s hockey teams two net- "that they're trying to rattle me." minders. Junior Kelly MacKin- MacKinnon remembers play-

non ot Glen Cove, New York, is ing a game in Toronto last winter an experienced veteran of colin front of a noisy crowd. "1 must lege play; freshman Ali Brewer ot^ have had thirty shots fired at me Racine, Wisconsin, brings junior in a period-and-a-half," she national team credentials to her recalls. "1 was practically standing battle tor the job. on mv head, stopping shots." Both goahes immediately Amid this siege, MacKinnon began talking about one thing: suddenly tapped into a Zen-hke padding. Hockey goalies labor plane of unshakable confidence, a under twenty-five pounds of mental plateau reserved for equipment, perhaps more than Woman Warriors goalies. Crouched m her twenty- any player in any other sport. For five pounds of armor among an average-size woman, the req- organ sounds, rhythmic clapping, Stopping a puck iiicaus staying in focus. uisite face iTiask, chest pad, thigh and terrifv'ing echoes of the puck pads, bulky leg pads (which start rocketing off" opponents' sticks. "I above the knee and continue down to shots. When 1 hear the crack, 1 go down felt." she says, "like a brick wall that noth-

cover the skate), arm pads, and spine pad on my knees and flair my legs to the side insr c ould get throuijh. " cv^; can make quick reactions feel like slow to guard against a low puck."

motion. "My equipment was hell fresh- And what it the shot still manages to

man year," says MacKinnon. "Its all stitT whistle past, glancing off post, glove, or AS OF OCTOBER 6 and foreign. You don't know how the pad into the net? In ice hockey, the fail-

puck's going to bounce otT it. You feel ure of a single player to do her job gener- bulky and off-balance. Even now that I'm ates a red light as accusing as any state

used to It, it there's a wrinkle in my sock, trooper's. "When that light goes on," says

I can't get at it. It can take your focus MacKinnon, "it's adding insult to injury. away and drive you absolutely crazy." After a goal you have to pull yourself

Equipment isn't the only distraction together. I brush the ice away, bang both between the pipes. Brewer says the area posts to get relocated, and tap myself on

directly in front of her is often a mael- my leg pads." Sometimes she removes her strom of sticks, skates, and spraying ice. helmet, runs a hand through her sweaty "When people are blocking my view," she hair, and has a drink of water. Brewer cir- says, "I have to listen for the shot. Slap- cles the net while reciting a private

shots are a lot easier to hear than wrist mantra to ease the stinii. While she can Q&\

what the United States is etiquette: you can hold a door open for

founded on, with the fiinda- someone, but no one's going to demand it, mental premise that people and you have the right to close the door.

are mdividuals, responsible You have to choose to do it for people. tor their own lives. Com-

munitarians believe people But the just society has long been an .'{ineri- are more dependent on can ideal. their environment and on their interactions with one In the 1950s and '60s the federal govern- another. ment used justice to right some of soci- Liberals believe the gov- ety's most egregious wrongs. But as soci- ernment should intervene eties become more just, there's a real only to protect individual danger that people become more docile, rights; communitarians give callous, and numb to what they're doing. primacy to collective con- Consider taxes: Americans are giving cerns. For example, when away more and more of their income, yet

someone buys a piece of I wouldn't say they're becoming more property and wants to open generous or caring. Justice, however noble

up a pornography shop, its ambitions, threatens to crowd out the liberals will ask if that per- tiner ethical sensibilities of people.

son has a right to buy the Because of its drive toward uniformity

property, to get a permit. and systematization, justice as a concept

Communitarians want to is spectacularly unable to track the idio- know if the store would syncratic terrain ot human ethical nature. hurt the community. If so, they say, the government How do people become virtuous? should intervene. By listening not only to what the govern- How do liberal and comiiut- ment says but also to what our family, iiitarian ideas enter today's friends, neighborhood, and ethnic back-

politics? ground tell us. That would lead us to become more responsible for every aspect Rights and Wrong This IS one of those dis- of our society, not just the little bits the

putes that scrambles or is government forces us to deal with. Political theorist John Tomasi wonders scrambled by conventional

pohtics. Republicans say 117;)' aren't we doing this already? whether our pursuit of individual rights they're in favor of individ- has {Joiie too far. ual freedom and rights and I think justice should have a role in a

ot allowing people to do good society much like the role it has in economically with one the character of a well-rounded person:

I title: Stanley J. Bernstein Assistant Pro- another what they choose. Yet they think basic but marginal. There is the fear that

fessor of Social Science It's appropriate to legislate morality re- without justice people wouldn't do things

I education: B.A., Colby; M.A., Uni- garding sexuality and other social issues, for each other — so people tall back on

versity of Arizona; B. Phil., D. Phil., {democrats, on the other hand, say people justice. Justice is like a big heavy blanket

Oxford should be tree sexually and in other social on a cold morning: it dulls us, but at least

I specialty: Pohtical theory, ethics and ways witht)ut being as free economically. It keeps us warm. public policy

At what point do individual rights harm the The society you're describing sounds like a

cohcsiveness of society? Utopia. Can it happen?

Conventional political categories such as liberal and consen'atii'e seem to mean less with There's a tendency in liberal thought to Can we throw otT the blanket and con- every passing year. What ideas have domi- make social issues such as weltare and front the uncertainties of the day? I don't

nated political theory? ethnicity simply a matter of justice, of know. The vision I'm developing is an

rights. That is a gross mistake. Rights are ideal, but I hope it's not Utopian, cv^ In the late 19S0S philosophers began de- the beginning; they're by no means the bating liberalism versus communitarian- end. With rights comes the responsibility Interview by Shea Dean ism. Liberalism is, in most people's view. ot deciding how to exercise them. It's like

16 NOVEMBER I996 Studentside in RAc:nKi winoME 97

On the first day of ot my mother, father, and September I stopped brother, furnished with their by n\\ friend [ake's to wel- choices, not mine. Changes come him back to Brown. occur no faster than they did

He had skyscrapers of boxes when I lived there, but even clustered in the center of his \ the smallest ones become room. "You know," he said, ^ startling when I'm not there "Tm getting rid ot most ot to see them evolve. "Since this. I'm going tor the no- when do we subscribe to stutf look this year." 1 Scu'sweek?" I ask as I walk thought of the even larger through the house during a ciryscape that loomed in my visit. "Why did you change own room, waiting to be brands of spaghetti sauce?" dismanded over the next My parents' house isn't few days. Perhaps the no- truly home, but then neither stuff look might work tor is Brown. I've noticed that me, too. when I return to school in

This was a revolutionary the fall I say, "I'm back." idea for someone who col- Not "I'm home." Brown is a lects - both intentionally comfortable but temporary and inadvertantly - every- place. My friends make a thing fi-om T shirts to candy nice family. The campus is wrappers. In my natural familiar and welcoming. The habitat the only uncluttered dining hall serves as a area is the trash can. So kitchen - the center of any of course I followed my home. When I graduate in mothers advnce when she 1 May, however, I'll be evicted suggested three years ago. ~ from my room. I'U box my as I was about to start 2 belongings once again, carry ^ my fi-eshman year, that I them down the stairs just bring everything 1 could to like last year, and shove them help make my dorm room Living Light in the car, destined for, most cozy and famihar. I packed hkely, another temporary enough to fill every nook: place. U'licii is a home not a honie? my favorite books, my ratt\' Someday I would like to old bedside rug, and even find a place to live, fill it Peter Rabbit, my childhood stuffed ani- yet you never have enough rime to settle with stuff, and stay there. But with tran- mal. But after nine months I moved out into a living space and make it your own. sience comes a freedom that, at this age, I ot that room and into a summer dwelling. It's no wonder that many college students appreciate.

In the fall I moved again. Every year eventually stop trying so hard for that Maybe as I travel I'll come across a since, it's been the same. The weather is cozy, tamiliar teel.They know that every- place to settle. But for now, I'm not sure always sweltering, my boxes get heavier, thing they take out of a box will soon what place to call home. I know it's not storage spaces are plagued by leaky ceil- enough have to be repacked. In each new necessarily where my stuff is. In fact, I may ings, and things get lost. Once a shoe box room we must choose benveen settling m not have a home right now. It may be a ftill of old letters and important tidbits - focusing on the present - and living psychological privilege that my peers and that I used to hide under my bed acciden- Hght - looking toward the next relocation. I are not enrided to yet. Mo.st of the time tally ended up in a dumpster. Not only are we transients hopping I'm too busy for this lack of a home to Minimalism comes naturally once you trom dorm room to dorm room; we're bother me. But on some weekends, espe- learn that moving is easier if you have less also adrift between our parents' homes cially rainy ones with a lot of homework, stuff. But It's not just the physical labor and wherever our futures take us. As a I miss having a permanent address, c^ that IS so irksome. After eighteen years of freshman I viewed college as going away trimming and perfecting a space in your from home. Now I realize the place I left Raclicl ]]'idonic is iiii ,villiwpoloiJY cwiceiilra- parents" house, you leave and start over, is not even mine atwmore. It's the home tor jrom Hcrs]ic)'. Pvnnsylvania.

BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY I7 Books BY RHETT JONES '72 A.M., '76 PH.D.

The More ot the successes of the twentieth-century civil rights movement. But Williams is too good a historian to settle for demonstrat- Things Change ing tacile parallels between Boas's era and ours. Instead, he traces the complex web of institutional, academic, and personal re- RcthiiikiiitJ Race: Fran: Boas ami His Coii- lationships in which Boas developed his

tcinporaries. by Vernon J. Williams Jr. theories during the first four decades of '73 A.M., '77 Ph.D. (I'j'jCi, UiiiVL-rsity the twentieth century. Drawing on Boas's Press of Kentucky, 152 pages, S34. 95). own correspondence as well as on that of such leading figures as W.E.B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, antl Robert E. Park, Williams demonstrates Boas's con- w\/\/ hen we were graduate stu- siderable influence on his contemporaries. T T dents at Brown m the seven- Washington, for example, "initially

ties, Vernon Wilhanis was known among conceived of his African ancestors as his peers as "the walking bibUography" or, primitive barbarians," Williams writes. as one wag remarked, "the walking anno- Washington insisted that blacks had relied tated bibliography." He seemed not only tar too much on the federal government to have read virtually everything written during Reconstruction, and he "exoner- about African Americans, but he also ated white Southerners ot responsibility

could tell you in detail what the scholar- that m the 19.SOS virtually all anthro- tor the so-called Negro problem. Fearn- ship had to say. Now an associate profes- pologists in the country had studied mg the virtues ot common labor, he sor of history at Purdue, WiUiams makes under Boas or one of his students. Boas, believed, would yield far more gains [tor good use of this encyclopedic knowledge Williams writes, "established that white blacks] than politics." Influenced by Boas, in his new book on Franz Boas, whom prejudice was the major obstacle to black however, Washington gradually came to Williams calls the "father of modern progress, rather than assumed innate racial understand the powertul forces of racism. American anthropology." By examining traits." Boas argued that blacks were not In a 191S speech, he notecl that while the Boas and his fellow scholars, WiUiams intellectually interior to whites and that African American was held to be inferior, traces both the deeply ingrained racism of legal barriers to black achievement there- in practice "the idea appears to be that he

American culture and the continuing tore were unfair. Yet, typically tor his time, is a sort of superman. He is expected with conflicts within American social science. even Boas was not fuUy convinced that about one-fifth of what whites received Born into a Jewish household m Ger- blacks were able to produce as many for their education to make as much many in 1858, in 1887 Boas emigrated to "men of high genius" as whites. progress as they are making." the United States where, according to Some of my undergraduate students Williams traces the impact of Boas's Williams, he encountered "virulent anti- use the term "Jim Crow IF" to character- ideas as they were refracted through such Semitism." Despite such discrimination. ize contemporary American race rela- white institutions as Columbia Univer-

Boas s brilliant work eventually led to his tions. By this they mean that lust as sity, the Rosenwald Foundation, and the appointment in 1899 as professor of mandatory segregation, lynching, and dis- American Association ot University Pro- anthropology at Columbia, a position he entranchisement followed the nineteenth- fessors, and through such black ones as held until his death in 1942. His impact century emancipation of black slaves, so Howard University, the Association for on American anthropology was so great has a period of racist reaction grown out the Study of Negro Life and History, And The Ncgw)car Book. He also demonstrates that blacks were not simply people to whom things happened, but rather active

ABOUT THE AUTHOR crusaders against racism in its many mani- festations. According to Williams, Boas On sabbatical from teaching this year, Vernon Williams is received strong support from African-

helping Purdue revise its currciculum to focus more on American intellectuals in his campaign to debunk Hider's race theories near the end undergraduate teaching. He is currently working on an of his life. (Boas died of a heart attack suf- article about George Washington, whose relationship to fered while speaking against Nazi anti- blacks was, Williams says, "characterized by political Semitism.)

accommodation on the one hand and black self-reliance Today the alliance between Jewish and black intellectuals remains emotionally on the other." charged. Some black commentators attack other blacks for slavishly accepting a

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has found sanctuary after generations ofrootlessness.

Will television and junkfood undo what JOG years ofliarassrnent could not?

I I eix' you both are, I heard a voice say in geologists had spotted their primitive camp hom a ^L JL Russian. "We were worried you would helicopter. Who were these rebels of Russian history never find us." A woman emerged from the after- who had managed even in the Soviet era to preserve noon crowd at the air- their ancient Orthodox port in Portland, Ore- taith and culture? gon, and stepped toward During a visit to one

us. With a white head family in Siberia, the scarf concealing her hair fither had handed me a

and a hand-embroidered slip of paper with Stepan

dress tailing modestly to Kiryanov's name and a

just above her ankles, she telephone number on it.

was easy to spot, even in "He is trom our village

this busy airport lobby. and is living in America Her husband stood be- now. You may want to

side her, dressed in a silk talk to him," the man

tunic and sporting a said. I stared at the Ore- wild, bushy beard. Nod- gon number m disbelief.

ding and bowing in wel- Today's love, tomorrow's hope: Suruival of Old Believer I knew that m 1667

come, Puikeria Kiryanov society depends on the stability oj its families (above) thousands of Russian

and her husband, Stepan, and the will of its children (right). Orthodox dissenters had grabbed rwo of our bags fled to the far reaches of and led photographer Cuotie Malic and me out to the Empire rather than submit to hturgical reforms

their parked car. imposed upon them by the patriarch of Moscow. The sight of Puikeria and Stepan on that April These Old Believers, as they came to be known, set- afternoon was a reminder of the ten days Cuotie and tled in desolate pockets of land where they could

I had spent in Russia the previous winter. Thanks practice their faith in peace. I knew also that Soviet to President Vartan Gregorian, who funded the re- persecution and fear of contamination from the

search, I'd gone there to work on my senior honors modern world eventually pushed many Old Believ- thesis on a Siberian Old Believer village during the ers out of Russia and set them wandering the globe

Soviet era; Cuotie had gone to photograph the vil- for most of the twentieth century. But Oregon?

lagers' way of life. I had been intrigued by Old So here was Stepan Kiryanov outside the Port- Believers since my high-school Russian teacher had land airport, stowing our luggage in the trunk of his told me the incredible story of a family holed up in new, four-door Mazda sedan. Puikeria slid into the

a corner of the Siberian taiga in the 1930s. There driver's seat, and we set off on the thirty-five-mile

they'd remained for fifty years, until a group of Soviet ride to Woodburn, home of 5,000 Old Believers, one

By Eileen M. Kane '94 / Photographs by Manuel Cuotemoc Malle '94

20 NOVEMBER 199 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 21 "

of the largest such groups in the world. "You look

hke your father," I said to Stepan. His small black

eyes, his habit of shyly lowering them, and his slight

build combined to make hini a diminutive copy of

his father, Pyotr, with whom Cuotie and 1 had stayed in Siberia. Stepan nodded shyly and then turned in

his seat to ask a question I had heard many times that

winter. "Nil kak vain iinwltsia luislia priroda zctes?" he asked, gesturing proudly out the car windows to the

lush Oregon countryside as we approached Wood- burn. "How do you like our nature here?" Nature has always been a provider for Old

Believers. Known for their success as farmers, they

honed their skills over years of living in tangled, unexplored landscapes out in the Russian hinter- lands. The unspoiled stretches of pme trees in Siberia shielded Old Believers from harm and symbolized

a purity they sought to achieve in their faith. When we had visited Siberia,

In practicing their rituals, the Old Believers had wanted to know about the schism they believe to be tainted with heresy. The Old Believers use only Oregon, whether there icons on Pulkeria's shelf had been carted around were trees in that tar- Russia, into China, and through Brazil before ending ancient psalters and icons. away place. up in Woodburn. "They are our most valuable pos-

"They are our most "It's rainier here sessions," said Pulkeria. "They are our history."

than in Siberia, but the imlnahle possessions," says one. pine trees remind me "They are our history. ot home," Stepan said as Pulkeria turned at As houseguests of the Kiryanovs, we spent the Woodburn exit. I looked out the window at the the next five days with them and their

strip malls and Mexican discos whizzmg by - a tar friends. At first glance Old Believers seem an anach-

cry from virgin Siberian taiga. But soon the com- ronism, transplanted Russian villagers dressed in fash-

mercial area was past, and farmlands stretched out all ions outdated for centuries and following rituals that

around us. Then came rows ot aluminum-sided ranch are just as old. To outsiders they appear to be new

houses. I caught sight ot a flowered, kerchiet-covered immigrants, not yet assimilated. The irony is that head in one front yard, an Old Behever grandmother most of the Woodburn Old Believers have been in

bent at the waist, pulling up weeds around yellow the United States for at least thirty years. Only a few flowers. Mexican children speaking Spanish were were born in Russia, the land of their language and

kicking a ball in the street when we pulled into the native culture, and almost none has ever set foot on

driveway at Pulkeria and Stepan's house. The house Russian soil.

was identical to all the others, e.xcept for the delicate In most ways the Old Believers are an island set

white lace curtains at the front window. apart from the mainstream community in Wood-

"I built it myselt," Pulkeria said of the house, fol- burn. Old Believers are forbidden to take food and lowing my gaze around the wide living room. She drmk with nonbelievers. They must not dine in paid for the materials, and the men in the commu- restaurants or, except for such staples as sugar and

nity pitched in to build it. "I paid them back with flour, buy packaged foods prepared by outsiders. As a

embroidery," she said, pointing to samples of her work, result. Old Believers keep to themselves socially and blue flowers on white curtains drawn slightly to reveal buy their produce and milk trom one another's

dark, gildecl Russian icons. Used daily for prayer and farms. A sister village settled by their relatives exists in placed strategically near the door, where worshippers Nikolaevsk, Alaska, and the two communities regu- bow and make the sign of the cross before entering larly trade shipments of Alaskan fish and tresh honey

the house, the icons on the shelf, I knew, were more for vegetables and berry preserves. Most C^ld Believ- than three centuries old. In practicing their sacred, ers hand sew their clothes from cloth purchased at

seventeenth-century rituals. Old Believers use only Vera's, an Old Believer-owned sewing shop on ancient psalters and icons - anything produced after Woodburn's main street.

22 NOVEMBER I996 /#> /fff^ /#^ 4i%^ 4h^ ^ 3^o,y/V ^?.-;Vf'*J-

.^£1.

/I Riissiaii-itYlc church

stands heliiiid a chain-link fence

in tlic "Turkish villii<^c." ii'liile floral embroidery

decorates a room in a Woodhurn ho)ne.

Such cullural flourishes help Ohi Believers

preserve their way of life

even in the homogenizing suburbs.

HROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 23 .

At the same time, the Old Behevers are very Old Believers do whatever it takes much a part ofWoodburns workforce. It is common to see Old Believers in a variety of nine-to-tive jobs to prosper, ivhether ^^rowing crops around town: as a teller m the First Pacific Bank or or clerking at the local Safeway. a grocery bagger at the local Safeway. Pulkeria

shrugged her shoulders when I asked if it was diffi-

cult to work with nonbelievers."It is just work," she

said. "Afterward we go home and see our families boysenberry bushes. Pulkeria pointed out a pretty,

and live our lives." To justify this delicate balancing of freckle-faced girl in a brown satin dress squinting in uncompromising faith and modern accommodation. the sun beside several women. All were plucking

Old Believers often cite a Bible passage about obey- chickens over a wide plywood table. The girl's family

ing authority, a passage they have interpreted as sanc- had arrived from Brazil just a month earlier, Pulkeria tioning some participation in temporal society. Com- said, explaining that new arrivals quickly find work

plementing this has been their belief that hard work on big tarins.The Old Believers' expertise at farming

is an expression of their commitment to God. first led them to Woodburn in the 1960s, when a Because of these two tenets. Old Believers do what- local farmer housed them in a converted barn and

ever it takes to prosper, whether growing crops or paid them to till his land. Today the community's

clerking at the local Safeway. agrarian economy is a magnet for other displaced

One day we visited Vasilii Kem, a tall man with a Old Believers, who come to Woodburn seeking a

kind face, who owns a berry farm on the outskirts of unit^' weakened by the diaspora the Soviet system Woodburn. He and his created. "Vasihi Kern's sister took care of me in Istan- wife, Mariya, were among bul," Stepan explained one afternoon as he scooped

the first Old Believers to Alaskan honey from a pail into plastic containers,

arrive in Woodburn in the gifts, he said, for Cuotie and me to take back East. 1960s, when the Tolstoy "She bought me my plane ticket."

Foundation, a New York- Unity, however, is difficult to achieve in a com- based supporter of political munity where the slightest innovation can set off

refugees worldwide, helped alarm bells. Ten years ago a schism rocked the Wood- the displaced Old Believers burn Old Believer community, sending a splinter

immigrate to the United group to settle empty lands near a wheat field in

States from spots all around Gervais, adjacent to Woodburn. "I have an aunt who

the globe. Vasilii Kerns lives out there," Pulkeria told me one day. "1 see her

route to Oregon is a typi- in the grocery store sometimes, but I never stop to

cal odyssey. He was born in talk. I just say hello and push my cart and keep

Aksehir, a city in central going." Today about fifty homes stand in the Gervais Turkey, to parents who had settlement in what has become known as the Turkish

migrated there from village, because its residents came to Oregon from

Siberia. After Vasilii's birth, Turkey. Fred Snegiryov, a born-again Old Believer Having arriucd in Uboiibnin the family moved to China from the Woodburn camp, explained that the rift from Brazil a month earlier, and then Brazil before occurred when some Old Believers traveled to a girl works at plucking chicken coming to the United Ronrania and came back claiming they had received at an Old Believer farm States. Our hostess, Pulke- a blessing from a priest named Pokhoranie. The

ria, came to Woodburn whole thing was a hoax, Fred maintained, and the

from China; others arrived from Brazil. When I asked result IS an irreparable heresy. Residents of the Turk- one Old Believer where his homeland was, he ish village dispute this explanation and, in turn,

paused. "Homeland? I guess Brazil is my homeland accuse the Woodburners of heresy.

because that's where I was born. I've never seen Rus- Within the Turkish village disagreements have led

sia, and I wouldn't know it." to yet another split. A new aluminum-sided church

Vasilii's farm is one ofWoodburn's biggest. Green now houses a group that will no longer worship with

fields sweep for acres in all directions from the farm- Its neighbors. Russian, and later Soviet, scholars eager

house where Vasihi and his wife live with their eight to see the demise of Old Believers have long argued children. On the day we visited. Old Believer men that such accusations of heresy would eventually lead

and women were hard at work in the fields beside to so much fragmentation that the Old Believer

seasonal Mexican workers. They tilled crates with red movement would disintegrate into oblivion. Despite peppers and tended row after row of raspberry and these predictions. Old Believers continue to thrive.

24 NOVEMBER I996 Stcpaii ami Piilkcria Kirycnhii', at center, stiiiui outside

tlieiy house eiijoyiiii^ a Icstive momctit witli jriendi.

At the Turkish village. Marfa Basargin, dinner one night, making the sign of the cross before sevent\'-six years old, invited us into her drinking from the Coke can in front of her.

home for a drink. Inside, she sat weaving a multicol- In the Old Believer struggle to preserve the

ored yarn belt and told us her life story: fleeing Vladi- ancient taith and customs, television, the great assim-

vostok as a child after the Soviet occupation, crossing ilator, IS perhaps the most formidable temptation. into China on foot, being chased out of Manchuria According to church elders. Old Behevers may not by the Japanese, and then settling for years in Brazil. even own a set — they claim that icons exposed to

"Life IS much better here," Maiia explained, pausing television become tainted. Old Believer parents, in her weaving to examine the almost-finished work. however, dismiss the icon theory and worry more "Our village in Brazil was so hot our butter would about what to do with kids addicted to Saturday- spoil before we could sell it because we had no morning cartoons and the huge dose of consumer refrigerators. Here the land is good, and there are lots culture that goes with them. of trees." "I definitely worry about television," Fevrosiya

Despite — or perhaps because of - so many Snegiryov, a mother of two in her early forties, told decades of tenaciously holding onto the Old Believer me. "My daughter runs around the house singing way, Marfa seemed to understand and tolerate some that Barney song, 'I love you, you love me, we're a

ot the temptations ot suburban life for the young. happy tamily.' She never wants to speak Russian, and

When we accepted her invitation to have a drink, at four years old her English is better than mine." But she scuttled oft to a small adjacent room and pulled a while Old Believers voice concern about television si.x-pack ot orange soda from under the bed. "1 keep and cluck their tongues at the sinfulness of someone it around for young people," she sheepishlv con- up the road with a VCR, just about everyone owns a fesseci. And she's not alone. Most Old Believers will set. Ot course, they are loath to admit it to one admit, although discreetly, that they have tasted pizza another and would sooner die than install a roof and visited McDonald's once or twice. "Whether it's antenna. "In church it was announced there was a Ust wrong or not, I adore Coca-Cola," Pulkeria said at ot all families with televisions," Fred Snegiryov

BROWN .ALUMNI MONTHLY • 1 <, i:mr-

Slepnii Kiyyaiiop at irork in in liii iidnh'n.

explained with a deep laugh. "Those families who surrendered their TV sets to the church would be

punished less. And do you know what people did?

They went out to the Goodwill and bought a televi-

sion for a few dollars and brought that one in. There's no way they were going to hand over their brand- new Sonys!" Relatives back in Russia who have caught wind of this phenomenon of owning televisions and driving cars have accused their coreligion-

ists of straying from the taith. Snegiryov snorted at

the idea when I asked him about it, saying, "They

should talk! Out there in Siberia they probably all shave and drink vodka!" Despite the wish of Old Believers to avoid conta-

mination and maintain a distance from the outside world, they have been embraced by their American neighbors. A Chamber of Commerce brochure touts Woodburn as the multiethnic City of Unity - Mexi- cans make up the second largest immigrant group — and also protectively advises that Russian Old

Believers "cherish their religion and their privacy." It tary School. Ten years ago Old Believer students would be difficult to find a bigger fan of Old Belief rarely finished high school. With farming work to be

than Milt Parker, principal of the Lincoln Elemen- done and a belief that outside education teaches a

heretical worldview, most parents pulled their chil-

dren out of school as soon as they could. Today three

EiLEEN M. Kane '94 of the teacher's aides at Parker's school are Old Believer parents who recently received their high- Since finishing her senior thesis about Old Believers - school-equivalency diplomas, and almost a quarter written with the guidance of Professor of History Abbott of the students are Old Believers. When Cuotie and Gleason - Kane has spent little time at her family's Massa- I visited Parker in his office one morning, he chusetts home. When not visiting Old Believers in Oregon, explained that Old Believer children bring to school she has been a Fulbright scholar based in Istanbul study- with them strong moral values, and, in return, his ing the historical links between Turkey and the Muslim peo- school does all it can to work with Old Believer par- ples of the former Soviet Union. "I have also," she says, "managed to track ents on such touchy issues as the theory of evolution Old - down Believers living here in Turkey near the Aegean coast I got their and long absences during the major Old Behever phone number from our hosts in Oregon - and will be meeting with them soon holidays.

in Istanbul. I am curious to see how their culture is faring in Muslim Anatolia." Still, Old Believers look with real concern toward

their children, who, like most U.S. children, laugh at Manuel Cuotemoc Malle '94 Bart Simpson's antics and beg their parents to buy

When Eileen Kane first told Malle about the proposed them video games. For now, at least. Old Believer jl^^ I WV^li topic of her senior thesis, Malle, who had never heard of teens are satisfied to straddle the conflicting cultures

• • ^ tugging at them without giving up either one. One " Old Believers, asked on impulse if he could come along afternoon during our stay on an Old Believer farm, on her research trip. Six months later they were in Siberia, i two teenage boys pulled up in a new Nissan and Malle had the material for his visual arts thesis. "I Pathfinder with tinted windows. Dressed m hand- hope that my photographs and Eileen's article show that embroidered silk tunics and Levi's, their fuzzy chins Old Believers are not some bizarre religious cult," he says. "They are warm, and cheeks still untouched by razors in accordance caring, curious, and tolerant people with a wonderful sense of humor. I will with an Old Belief prohibition, the two boys spun never forget the warmth with which Eileen and 1 were welcomed when we out of the driveway, leaving behind a cloud of dust arrived in that small, snow-covered village and knocked unannounced at a and the scent of cologne. They were headed to town, stranger's door." The son of the late filmmaker Louis Malle, he now lives in New their mother sighed, for a night of roller skating at

York City, where he is attending New York University's graduate film school. Skate Palace.

26 NOVEMBKR 1996 "

ur hosts, l*iilkcria and Stepan, on her face and realized she felt no shame. "It's okay o were as strict as tlicir Russian once in a while," Pulkeria said with a smile as she ate countL'i'parts m obse'ivnii; ancient cus- her pizza. "Bet

toms with Cuotie and nic. Durnig our would sometimes order pizza and go on a picnic.

stay we ate from dishes reserved tor use Over supper on that last night in Woodburn I

hv the occasional worldly visitor and kept thought about all the rule breaking 1 had witnessed

in a separate cupboard. We washed our 111 tive days and about how Old Believers are a very

dishes ourselves in a big sink in the forgiving people. They condemn people who zliit' [w

garage just outside the kitchen. Pulkeria slabosti (live a life of weakness), but they welcome and Stepan bent the rules by eating at the them back into the community' when they're ready same table with us, but once when to resume the Old Believer way. One man summed

friends were over and a tour-year-old girl up his sins when he was "young and stupid" as fifteen

grabbed a piece of bread otf my plate, years of riding around on a Harley-Davidson, smok- Stepan scowled at his wife and pointed: ing cigarettes, and drinking. Pulkeria told me about "Why aren't you watching the table? The her aunt who recently returned to the faith. "She has

child IS eating off the Americans" plates!" three children by three different men - she doesn't

This ambivalence toward the world even know who the father is for one of them - but

outside the Old Behever community can she is accepted because she no longer runs around stUl take extreme forms. On the day and smokes and drinks."

Cuotie and I were guests at one berry Centuries of suftering and loss have taught Old

tarni, several men explained their theory Believers that the key to their survival is a steadfast about Armageddon and consumer bar faith coupled with an understanding of human codes. According to the men, the codes nature. Their great strength comes from a recognition

are the U.S. government's way of monitoring the that the struggle of Old Behef is not about things activities ot each and every person in the country. "If

my number is punched in, they'll see everything I've

ever bought and every flight I've ever taken," Fred

Snegiryov explained earnestly, picking up a plastic bag from the table and pointing to the bar code.

"This is how the government controls us." The bar codes, the men explained, are one step in the Anti- christ's campaign to gain control of the whole world.

Interestingly, the men at the berry tarm first dis-

covered the bar-code theory in a pamphlet distrib-

uted by a Jehovah's Witness. But the source is of litde concern to them - the theory has the perfect ingre-

dients of manipulation and control by a higher force

that fit with their worldview. Just as their seven-

teenth-century ancestors fled central Russia in search ot new frontiers far from a tainted society, Wood- burn's Old Believers beheve that even in the United

States they are surrounded by heretics. A child dances lliroiii;li ipriii^ grass,

On our last night in Woodburn, Pulkeria sug- choosing nature over video games — for noiv. gested we order pizza, and Cuotie and I insisted on buying - the least we could do, I thought, after the like television and Coca-Cola but about keeping hospitality- they had shown us. I volunteered to go their conmiumty intact and vital. Only this will out and pay the delivery boy, lest one of the neigh- encourage new generations to stav. Onlv this will cir- bors see Pulkeria and tattle on her. Stepan looked cumvent a culture so inflexible it will have to resume disapprovingly at the checkered pizza box but said Its wandering in search of another uncontaminated nothing. He chose to have cabbage soup tor supper place. "Wherever you go, it'll be the same," Fred Sne- instead. "He's from Russia, not like the rest of us, so giryov told me as his wife buckled the kids into their he doesn't have a taste for American food," Pulkeria deep-blue Chevrolet Lumina late one afternoon. He explained, waving her hand in indifterence and sit- sounded like any other suburban parent in America. ting down at the table with us. I felt guilrv', treating "You just have to raise your kids well and hope they her to something so forbidden, until I saw the glee will steer clear of the troublemakers." r^

BKOWN ALUMNI M O N T H L 'i' 2 J Third Roc from a Failed Sun

he speaker phone m |ini resulting data ha\x- answered enough old questions Scientists have waited T Head's office has suddenly about the Jovian moon to inspire a constellation of seven years for the gone dead. Head, a professor of new ones.

geology, and Bob Pappalardo, a As members of the Cialileo mission's Solid State Galileo spacecraft to post-doctoral researcher ni plan- Imaging team. Head and Pappalardo are part of a return pictures of etary geology, turn and stare at group of scientists from around the world responsible each other in exasperation. No for pointing the spacecraft's camera and managing Jupiter's four largest strangers to technical ditliculties. the return of its data. Their group shares the space- moons. Guess who's the two men spend most of their craft's tiny data stream with groups studying the waking hours trying to get an other moons and teams working with the craft's nine

getting the first look? unmanned spacecraft with a other scientific instruments. After Galileo's second broken antenna to take pictures pass by Ganymede in early October (when the color BY CHAD GALTS of Ganymede, Jupiter's third photo on the facing page was taken), the spacecraft

moon. This is harder to do when had only twenty-three days in which to return all of

you lose an important conference call with your fel- the Ganymede data before it began its next orbit and

low space scientists. started recording new data about Callisto, Jupiter's

The spacecraft, Galileo, was launched in 1989 to fourth moon. Under such circumstances, it's crucial study Jupiter's four largest moons. Discovered when for the team to stay in close touch. The phone has

Galileo Galilei turned the first astronomical telescope to work. to the heavens in 1610, the Jovian system has been a The conference calls, or telecons, are usually a

focus of scientific inquiry ever since. It is a miniature forum for mission planning and for managing space- version of our solar system, with Jupiter - 318 times craft resources. Mission coordinator Mike Belton, how-

more massive than the Earth - playing the role of a ever, is still disconnected when the line is restored, so failed sun. To learn more about the Jovian system, those remaining on the call begin to talk science.

scientists believe, is to learn about our own world. "I'm having a hard time with these new Europa For example, since the surface of Ganymede hasn't images distinguishing between what's an impact

changed much since humans first appeared on the crater and what's not," the British voice of Michael

Earth, our planet's history is written all over it, wait- Carr crackles over the speaker phone. Head urges

ing to be read. "If I wanted to understand you," Head Pappalardo, who has recently solved a similar prob-

says. "I'd want to know what happened to you in lem with Ganymede data, to speak up; he isn't about your formative years. We are totally clueless about to let his younger colleague miss a chance to com-

the first half of the earth's life." pare notes with Carr, a prominent scholar who was a The spacecraft's antenna problems, however, wiU team leader on NASA's Mars Viking orbiter mission.

make our understanding wait a little longer. Two For Pappalardo, a thirty-two-year-old Cornell years after the spacecraft's launch, NASA scientists alumnus who got his Ph.D. at Arizona State University discovered they could not open Galileo's sixteen- two years ago, speaking to scientists who have been

foot-wide antenna, so they turned to a backup and working on the Galileo project since he was in grade

gave the onboard computers the equivalent of an in- school IS daunting - and thriUing. A space-exploration

flight brain transplant. Returning data to the earth afi(;ionado since boyhood, Pappalardo wrote his first

at an excruciatingly slow rate — an average of fort)' college astronomy paper on Ganymede. He still has a

instead of 134,400 bits per second - Galileo will still copy of the 1982 issue of Astronomy in which he first

fulfill the majority of its objectives; but every time read about the Galileo mission. He serves as Head's Head, Pappalardo, and their colleagues want to right hand on the current project, helping him make

record an image they face a massive logistical prob- scientific decisions and coordinating the students

lem. If their calculations are off by a fraction, the data who do most of the project's legwork. they receive may not answer significant questions Pappalardo's quickness of mind landed hiiii this

about Ganymede. Thus far, however, tiie team has hit supporting role, as was clear at the Jet Propulsion

each of its targets with uncanny precision. The Laboratories QPL) in Pasadena, California, last suni-

B R U WN ALUMNI MONTHLY 29 mer when Pappalardo was approached by a panicked mission manager. Galiko\ trajectory had changed

sHghtly on its approach to Ganymede, and the mis-

sion team needecl to update the camera "s prearranged

coordinates or they would end up with a series of photographs they didn't want. "I had three hours before they had to send the information to the

spacecraft," Pappalardo says. "We had to do the num- bers right there." Although he was away from his

desk, his charts, his computer, and everything else he

would normally use to make an accurate set at calculations, Pappalardo managed to hash out exactly the right coordinates. According to Head, there

COURTESY JET PROPULSION LABOHM f ^ are two types of people; those who, understanding the need

to cio the best possible job in

the time allowed, do it; and those who cant. "You're either

onboard or you're not," he says.

It takes forty minutes for a message to reach Galileo from

Earth, and it the spacecraft can't

understand the message, it takes another forty minutes for those on the ground to find out. One does not have time to banter

idly with a sophisticated ma-

chine millions ot miles from the the target coordinates for Galileo^ camera on the I'oy-

earth, hurtling through space at aj^er images. Each target is intended to solve a mys-

Something old, something new: when super- more than five kilometers per tery of Ganymede's surface by filling in details miss- imposed on Voyager images (background), second. "You don't work on ing from the Voyager mission. If the camera doesn't

Galileo's photographs (inside the rectangles) things in near real-time," Head take precisely the picture Collins and his colleagues fill in the blanks and reveal a whole new says. "Otherwise it's like trying intend, the team will still end up with new informa- face of Ganymede. to do a mid-course correction tion, but with little new understanding of the moon.

during a bungee jump." With an average surface temperature of 120 Kel- vin (about -243 Fahrenheit), Ganymede's terrain of grooved and mottled ice has been the subject of

intense scientific debate ever since Ibyagcr sent back

c^^ itting at a table covered with maps and new its first pictures. How does ice behave at these tem- ^^r pictures ot Ganymede, Geoft Collins '96 Sc.M. peratures? Does the moon have a molten core? Does

pulls an image at random from the piles and carefully it have a magnetic field? Why do some areas look

traces a jagged line on the moon's surface with the older and more cratered than others? Is there vol-

eraser-end of a pencil. "We were targeting this light- canic or tectonic activity that could explain its resur-

dark boundary because we thought it might be vol- faced areas?

canic," he says. "But it's just a patch of dark terrain." Burrowing into his pile of maps and images,

Collins spends long hours looking at charts like this Collins hopes to emerge with some answers to these

one, trying to figure out just what makes Jupiter's questions, and being one of the first people on the

largest moon tick. planet to have access to the Galileo data helps his

Galileo is returning images that are some twenty chances. When Galileo transmits snapshots of Gany-

times more detailed than those taken by the Voyager 1 mede's surface, they are picked up by NASA's Deep

and II missions in the late 1970s. A crucial first step in Space Network, a series of large radio antennas in helping scientists understand the Jovian system, the Australia, Spain, and California. The data are then

Voyager pictures today provide road maps for Galileo transferred to J PL, where they are put through a series scientists. Collins and other team members overlay of decompression algorithms that transform them

30 • NOVEMBER 1996 Team Ganymede at work in the Lincoln Field geology

building. From left: graduate student Geoff Collins, post- docoral researcher Bob Pappalardo, and undergrads

Nikola Smith and Jiganesh Patel.

his exceptional beaurv'.) The International Astronom-

ical Union, whose experts decide what monikers wiU

end up on all newly discovered astronomical objects,

provided Head's team with a list of acceptable names

for all the features they thought the Ganymede team would discover. But no one anticipated how detailed

(jiililco's images would be or how many new features would need names.

Patel, a geologv' concentrator, is so enthusiastic

about his work with Head's team that he has founded Students tor the Exploration of Space, a clearinghouse tor information about such events as

October's full lunar eclipse. Biolog\' concentrator Smith, on the other hand, didn't know what the Clalileo mission was until she started working with

the team. When she isn't working on Ganymede, Smith helps Brown's Swearer Center for Public Ser- vice compile an oral history of the women's suffrage

mowmeiit in Rhode Island. Although she didn't have much computer e.xperience when she started

into a picture. The final images are sent via the Inter- working on the project, she now helps process new net to members ot the imaging team, whereupon images and decide what features of Ganymede's Collins goes to work. He pieces the images together topography are prominent enough to need their own and compares the resulting mosaic to the Voyager names.

images to assess how well camera tound its targets. Once those features are identified. Smith and "Sometimes my students get their hands on this Patel - images and maps m one hand, the rules of - stuft' before I do," Head says. "I have to keep moving planetary nomenclature m the other hit the refer-

pretrv' fast." ence room at the Rockefeller Library and search the

World Wide Web to find suitable matches. "If it's a

facula," Smith says, referring to a bright patch on the moon's surtace, "that would need to be something As each of Galileo's close encounters with from an ancient fertile crescent phase of the moon in Jupiter's moons ends, team members get Mesopotamia." The process. Smith says, "has given ready to dig into their new data and discoveries. me a whole new appreciation for other time periods

They are faced, however, with the rather unscientific and ancient cultures." But she is also a bit apprehen- - problem of naming what they're looking at - in this sive about the impact she is having on the future

case, Ganymede's craters, ridges, depressions, and fault when all of the official maps of Ganymede will have hnes. In an effort to keep himself Pappalardo, and features named by her and Patel. "It's kind of scary CoUins focused on science. Head has turned the what we're doing," she adds. "Really." naming assignment over to Nikola Smith "gy and Years from now, when scientists talk about the Jiganesh Patel '99. Heliopolis facula or the Xibalba crater, they probably The rules of planetary nomenclature are almost as won't know where the names came from. They will

mysterious as Ganymedian topography. Jupiter's envy those who saw the first detailed pictures ot

moons, for example, are all named after subjects of Ganymede drifiing in from space, even if they don't

the mythic god's lust - most of whom didn't want to remember Brown's modern-day Galileos stooped have anything to do with hiin. (Ganymede, a son of over maps and ini.iges in the Lincoln Field geology the king ofTroy, was kidnapped by Jupiter because ot building giviiit; names to the heavens. 0&^

BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 3 I ^L m hange was in the perience before completing, c^^^^^^ air in 1959. For thirty-seven years later, an

years it had been building. iS29-page book the Atlantic

Soon it would erupt into Monthly would call "a magiste-

the catapultmg arc of the rial history." 1960s, but for now change was The book. Grand Expecta-

a low current, perceptible to tions: The United Slates. ic>4!)-

only the closest observers. In igy4, is Patterson's eighth. A the White House, President selection of the History Book

Dwight Eisenhower was wind- Club, It is part of the Oxford ing down his term before the History of the United States, sparkle ot Kennedys Canielot. History's the most prestigious series of The first unexpurgated edition American historical scholar- of D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chat- ship in print. Published earlier

terly's Lover rested on the titth Storyteller this year by Oxford University

spot of the best-seller hst. In Press, Grand Expectations is not 1959 Fidel Castro took over only a synthesis of almost the government of Cuba. The three decades of U.S. history;

Soviets landed a lunar probe, it is the kind of book that With the intellect a capturing the first pictures of encapsulates the career of a

of the dark side of the historian at the peak of his historian and the instincts of moon. Back on earth, Betty powers. In size and scope it Friedan pondered the status ot a reporter, James Patterson has dwarfs each of his previous women; the following year in books, yet they lead inexorably written what may beconie the Good HoHsckccpiiii> she would to it, each a slightly different

describe "a strange stirring, a apprenticeship. standard history of the post- World dissatisfied groping, a yearning, Patterson, now the Ford

a search that is going on in the War II United States. And take Foundation Professor of Amer- minds of women." Soviet Pre- ican History, has always been a heart: he's an academic who mier Nikita Khrushchev vis- quick writer, but Grand Expec-

ited New York in 1959, looked tations was researched and happens to be a terrific read. America over, and declared: composed in a kind ot creative

"We will bury you." frenzy. He began work on it in That year, a young gradu- 1991 and mailed the 1,100- ate of Williams College named James Patterson page typescript to the publisher in the spring of

signed on as a reporter with the Hartford CoiiriiiU, 1995. For most of those years, Patterson was teaching hoping to offer earnest insights into the lofty world full-time. "I don't recall having any serious writer's

ot public affairs. Instead, he was assigned to cover the block," he says with characteristic understatement. suburb of Wethersfield, Connecticut. The public Clearly, the habit of steady production cultivated

affairs he covered included zoning, planning, and the during his year-and-a-half stint as a newspaper

workings of the local traffic court. Patterson dutifully reporter is still fundamental to his approach as a

filed twenty to twenty-five inches of copy every day. writer of serious history. "Most scholars are trained

He could not know it at the time, but the job was a to look in archives and gather historical informa-

kind of apprenticeship, one of many he would e.x- tion," says Patterson. "How to write it all up is not as

BY NORMAN BOUCHER

32 NOVEMBER I996 important. At the Conniiil the premium was on brevity, elaritx; and making the material interesting. I trained m\ self to think of an audienee out there and to try to appeal to it." Pattersons book provides an important and lueid historical context for understanding today's unsettling cynicism o\'er everything from talk shows to presidents. Sweeping in its scope, meticulous in its crafts- manship. Giiiiiii HxpiciUitioiis chronicles two strong and tlnally contradictory trends in the history of the post-World War II United States. As the book's tide underscores, the decades after the war were years of growing national self-confidence and ambition. Most Americans. Patterson notes, agreed with publisher Henry Luce when he declared that the twentieth century would be the "American Century." No obstacle, whether diplomatic, cultural, military, scientific, or economic, would be too great for the United Patterson provides a historical context States to overcome. For most of those decades, the for understanding country was not only prosperous; it was prosperous to an unprecedented extent. "The prosperity of the today's cynicisni oi>er everything period." Patterson writes, "broadened gradually in from talk shoii's to presidents. the late 1940s, accelerated in the 19.SOS. and soared to unimaginable heights 111 the 1960s. By then it was a boom that astonished observers." In what is arguably the most significant change since the end of World The existence ot racism, sexism, and economic

War II. economic progress, Patterson continues, "shot injustice were widely noted at the time, of course; millions of people into the ranks of the home-own- Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal programs in the ing, high-consuming, ever-better-educated middle 1930s had sought to address at least some of these class." These decades were, he concludes, "above all issues. But during the decades after World War II. years of nearly unimaginable consumption ot goods." middle-class prosperity tended to give the status quo

If democracv and market capitalism could work a certain pleasant harmony; there was litde patience so well here, why not everywhere? Patterson contin- for sour notes. Then, m the 1960s, the two narratives ues,"The leaders ot Americas postwar foreign policy described in Grand Expectations collided. Like

— a group that came to be known as the Establish- unstoppable forces in a Greek tragedy, grand ex- ment — developed a selt-confidence that occasionally pectations battled what Patterson describes as bordered on selt-righteousness. Their rising certitude an increased "rights-consciousness." With the civil rested on the beliet that the Soviet Union was a dan- rights movement growing rapidly. President Lyndon gerous foe. that the United States had large interests Johnson shrewdly exploited the outpouring of grief in the world, and that it must assert these interests and sympathy that followed the assassination of Pres- strongly; 'appeasement' led inevitably to disgrace and ident Kennedy by pushing through many Great defeat." Society programs that, Patterson writes, "would be

Running parallel in Grand Expectations to this qualitatively better and that would guarantee 'rights' narrative ot a people feeling "increasingly flush," and government entitlements." At the same time, Earl however, is a tar grimmer story. There was. ot course, Warren's Supreme Court was delivering landmark what was known in the 1940s as the "Negro prob- decisions on such crucial issues as voter redistrict- lem." Summing up a perception held by many ing, racial discrimination, and the separation of

African Americans at the time, one World War II vet- church and state. "The convergence of these ideas eran exclaimed. "Just carve on my tombstone, here and assumptions." Patterson writes, "promoted lies a black man killed fighting a yellow man for the an increasingly powerful - and ultimately near- protection of a white man," a sentiment that would irresistible — drive for the expansion of individual resurface thirty' years later in Vietnam. Poverty, dis- rights in the United States." crimination against minorities and women, witch The war in Vietnam further added to the turmoil hunts: these are all subplots in Patterson's narrative of of the period and eventuallv led to |ohnson's deci- the postwar United States. sion not to run for a second term. Soon a recession

BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 33 set in, deflating the promise of unlimited and eternal prosperity. Then came the Watergate scandal. Grand expectations were giving way to frustrated expecta-

tions, a situation that has become particularly acute in recent years. "When economic growth declined,"

Patterson concludes Grand Expcctaiioiis, "especially

after 1974, it did not kill |near-tantastic expectations about the Good Lite] or destroy the quest for rights. ...But the sluggishness of the economy widened the

gulf between grand expectations and the real limits of progress, undercutting the all-important sense that the country had the means to do almost anything, and exacerbating the contentiousness that had been

rending American society since the late 1960s. This was the hnal irony ot the exciting and extraordinarily

expectant thirty years tbllowing World War II."

Postwar snapshots from the • "^^ rand expectations were beginning to fade Brown campus: Boater-bedecked ^^^^^ by 1972. Reflecting the upswing in rights

friends Bob Fearon '51, Bill consciousness, Ms. magazine began publishing that

Maloney '49, and Bob Anderson year. President Richard Ni.xon, before his fall re-

'51, above, exemplify the jaunty election, signed the bill that would later be known as

optimism of the late forties. Civil Title IX, banning sex discrimination in higher edu-

rights leader Rev. Martin Luther cation. On May 15, a man named Arthur Bremer

King Jr. is shown, left, speaking shot George Wallace, paralyzing him from the waist

on campus in 1960. Students at a down. The Club ot Rome, a group ot scientists, tech-

1967 anti-draft rally (below) are nocrats, and politicians, published Tlic Limits to

confronted by a detractor. Givu'tli, which predicted that civilization would col- lapse by the end ot the century unless something was done about population and mciustrial growth. And

James Patterson began teaching at Brown.

Pattersons arrival was part ot a flurry of history-

department hirings during that period that also marked the arrival ot Abbott Gleason, Gordon Wood, and Charles Neu. In Patterson, the University got a thirty-seven-year-old author of three books,

the third published just that year. Born in Bridge-

port, Connecticut, Patterson was raised tirst in Mil- ford and later m Old Lyme by a homemaker mother later and a Republican father, J. Tyler Patterson, who became the Speaker of the Connecticut House of

Representatives. "There was a lot of talk about poli-

tics in our house," Patterson remembers, then quickly

adds, "but don't make it out like we were the Kennedys." Patterson's father worked closely with his

children to ensure the quality ot their education. Post-war prosperity tcinicd (James's brother, David, is also a historian; his sister,

to give the middle-class status quo Marjorie, is a fund-raising consultant.) "Reading,

thinking, and being engaged 111 the matters ot the a certain pleasant liariiioiiy; world were verv much a part ot ni\' upbringing,"

Patterson says. there u'as little patience lor sour notes. Patterson discovered an aftection tor history

while attending the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville,

34 NO v liM BE R 1996 C'oiinecticiit. After graduating in 1952, he briefly

attended a 400-year-old school in Sussex, England, At llic time of W'atcii^atc, called t'hrist's Hospital. "It's also known as the Blue- coat School." Patterson says, "because we had to wear gniiid expectations were giving way long blue coats, a clerical napkin around our necks, and bright orange stockings with knickers." I\itterson to fnistniled expecliUioiis, graduated from Williams College m 1957 with no a situation that has hecoitie ambition to become an academic. But after covering Wethersfield for the Hanford Cowaul. he tired of particularly acute in recent years. writing about the same people he was running into

at the local lunch counter every day. "A really good journalist on a beat like that is the enemy of his tion and anger Patterson felt about his wife's medical

sources," he explains."! thought, Why can't I do some- and social treatment as a cancer patient no doubt

thing with people who are on the same side I'm on?" fueled the book, Patterson insists The Dread Disease

So Patterson entered the graduate history probe seen as a scholarly piece of social history and not

gram at Harvard. Unfortunately, some of the depart- as a personal book. "I didn't even think of doing this

ment's stars, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and McGeorge until 1982, two years after my wife died," he says. "It's

Bundy among them, had gone otf to Washington to not a deeply personal book, not in the least. I'm basi- join the Kennedy administration. "I basically hated cally old-tashioned about this. I don't think I've ever

Harvard," Patterson says. "It was impersonal, cold, full used the personal T in a book." of arrogant professors. Frank Freidel was one excep- In 19S3 Patterson married Cynthia Burdick '65, a tion. He was warm, friendly, and accessible." After former head of development for the Rhode Island Patterson received his Ph.D., Freidel. Franklin Roo- Audubon Society and now chair ot the board of

sevelt's biographer, recommended him for a teaching Women anci Infants Hospital in Providence. After job at Indiana Umversit)', where Patterson taught for The Dread Disease, Patterson considered and rejected

eight years betore landing the job at Brown. various book projects. He had done academic his-

Freidel also helped Patterson tind the subject tor tory, general-interest biography, textbooks, and social

his first two bociks. Congressional Conservatism and the history. What would come next?

Sew Deal, published in 1967, and New Deal and the "In the cancer book and the poverty book I was

States: Federalism in Transition, which appeared in studying a problem or phenomenon and taking it

1969. Both books explore different tacets ot the con- through a hundred years of history," he says. "I'm

servative opposition to Franklin Roosevelt's New using these problems as a window or as a lens

Deal programs. Countering the mistaken notion that through which I try to make other broad generaliza-

there was very httle resistance to the New Deal at tions about American attitudes. There are a lot of

the time, the books trace the outlines of a sturdy things you can say, for example, about gender and

conservative coalition that exists to this day. race and attitudes toward science and toward media,

With two tairly dry academic books finished, and about how we see the good lite, when you write

though. Patterson was ready to let the journalist's a history of cancer." desire for a general audience resurface. He wanted to Grand Expectations, his great triumph, has allowed

try his hand at biography. He convinced the Taft Patterson to combine these approaches into one family to grant him access to the papers of Robert A. continuous narrative history. The e.xperience was

Taft, the son ot President Wilham Tatt and a U.S. gratifying enough that he may one day do it again. Senator trom Ohio tor fourteen years. The resulting For now, though, he's preparing to edit a series of

biography, Mr Republican , was pubhshed the year Pat- books called Debating .'imerica; each volume will pre-

terson began teaching at Brown. Patterson then sent a pair of essays written by two historians who

edited a book ot interpretive essays and wrote a te.xt- disagree on a specific topic. But he also has been book on twentieth-century American history. Next talking with his publisher about writing the ne.xt

he tried his hand at social history, publishing America's volume in the Oxford History of the United States

Struggle Against Poverty. igoo-igSo \n i9

In 19S7, Patterson published a second social his- ceed almost to the end ot the twentieth century, a

tory, Tlie Dread Disease: Cancer and Modern American period, Patterson says, "that some wouldn't even con-

Culture. Seven years earlier, in October 19X0, his first sider history yet." Faced with such contemporary wife, Nancy, had dieci ot brain cancer, leaving behind material, Patterson admits he may be tempted to

two children, Stephen, who was fifteen at the time, express a few personal opinions. One wonders if he

and Marjorie, who was eleven. Although the frustra- might even use that pronoun "I " c^

BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY JS \

SiirlsKi-fifyi^fX: PORTRAIT: LISA LOEB '90

After graciuating, Loeb moved to cckod out in ,i wildly Up from the D patterned nunidiess and New York CiU', continuing to play pearlv go-go boots. Lisa Loeb for a time with Mitchell .it Mii.ill - makes her way across the vast Ben Underground clubs. But then the duo broke up and lerrx's Newport Folk Festival Mitchell to play in her own band, Ida, and Loeb to form Nine Stories, stage as tliough tiptoeing across A pop star strives for a minefield. A local DJ has just named after the j.D. Salinger short- — showered her with lavish praise, and staying power. story collection and Loeb found a sold-out audience of 10,000, her way into the studio again. In the draped o\'er lawn chairs and spring of 1992, she teamecl up with BY SHEA DEAN sprawled across beach blankets, now Juan Patino to produce The Purple waits expectantly for Loeb to prove Acoustic Tape, which she hawked

\\ hy the New York Times has called after gigs. After a year of graduate her "one of pop's most promising school at NYU, a summer at

personalities." Later, though, Loeb makes it clear she Boston's Berklee College of Music, and a

Loeb peers at the sun-baked crowd doesn't want to be known as a one-hit host of temp jobs. Loeb recorded "Stay" tlrrough her signature horn-rimmed, cat- wonder. "Ultimately I'd like to be known in Patino's Manhattan apartment. Loeb eye spectacles and says that not long ago as a musician," she says, a touch of her says that until then her parents had she had been "out there" in the audience, native Dallas accent creeping into her thought her work-by-day, gig-by-night

too, a Brown student drenched in voice, "someone people come to see life "wasn't the best thing you could do

coconut oil and listening to some of her because they like the music, not just with a Brown education." Then came the

fworite performers. Yet even as she tries because they heard the song on the radio." call from the producers of Reality Bites.

to connect with the crowd, her voice While it's true her following mush- As her song climbed the charts, Loeb cracks. She laughs nervously. Then she roomed after the success of "Stay," Loeb held on to her independence. "I wrote places her fingers on the neck ot her had been winning audience respect long 'Stay' on my own," she says. "Juan Patino

acoustic guitar and strums her first chord, before Ethan Hawke, the star of Reality and 1 did it exacdy the way we wanted to

and the jitters of those first moments sub- Bites, lobbied for her music to be indo It and gave it to them, and it succeeded

side. Loeb's voice shimmers above her cluded in the movie's sound track. Loeb in their world. That gave record companies

assured strumming and picking, deliver- first picked up the guitar in junior high the trust in us to do whatever we want."

ing lyrics that are at turns defiant and school, when she and some friends Last year she released her eclectic apologetic, cryptic and confessional. She decided to form a band based on the debut album, 7iii7i, to critical and public

wonders at one moment, "Do you eat, Police. She was the only member who acclaim. This summer she chipped in a

sleep, do you breathe me anymore?" and stuck with her instrument through high song for the sound track of the hit movie in the next she declares, "I don't know school, playing covers of her favorite Twister, helped pack a 17,000-seat Detroit singer- and I don't care if I ever see you again." songs by the Cure and David Bowie. arena as part of an all-woman That bait-and-switch formula, lay- Then came Brown. As a first-year songwriter lineup, and toured as the ered over sudden harmonic and rhythmic student, Loeb and her roommate, Eliza- opening act for Lyle Lovett. But as she changes, has served Loeb well, starting beth Mitchell '90, sang together, with tells the crowd at Newport, she begged to

with her hit song "Stay," which played Loeb playing the guitar and writing most play at the folk festival, even though it over the closing credits of the 1994 film of the originals. Over the next few years, meant ditching Nine Stories and Lyle Reality Bites. With lyrics describing the their folk duo, Liz and Lisa, gained a ded- Lovett in California for a ciay. The annual fear that often goes hand in hand with icated following through their shows at festival, she says, is "the biggest coffee-

love, the song soared to the number-one the campus bar the Underground. Mean- house in the world," a venue she couldn't

slot on the Billboard charts, making Loeb while Loeb strayed from her concen- pass up.

the first artist not yet affihated with a tration in comparative literature to take Standing on that enormous Newport record company to reach that lofty studio recording classes in the music stage, her nervousness melting away with height. A certified gold record, "Stay" sold department - classes she credits with every song, Loeb strips her slickly pro- 750,000 copies and won Loeb and her developing both her musical style and her duced tunes down to their basic acoustic band. Nine Stories, a Grammy nomina- production know-how. "We sat around elements. If there are any doubts about

tion. When she strums the song's first and we critiqued each other's music." she Lisa Loeb, they're not evident here: before

arpeggio at Newport, clusters of fans says, "telling each other what we hated she even finishes, the line for autographs

jump to their teet. about it and what we liked." is already a hundred strong. Ov

BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY • 3 7 3 8 NOVEMBER I996 )

The Class

1! Y kl M HI HI ! 1-KLNCII

Eighty years ago this month. Republican nominee Charles Evans Hughes, class of 1881, went to bed thinking he would be the 28th President of the United 1^3^ 65th Reunion practice in Taunton, Mass. He is enjoying States. He awoke to find he had been retirement and works out at the local YMCA defeated by Woodrow Wilson, who had Penibrokers, wo liope you've marked your three mornings a week. John and his wife. carried California. Hughes, pictured here 1997 calendars for May 23-26, our 6sth. Your Ruth, keep active and try to be helpful with with his wife, Antoinette, went on to reunion comnnttee consists of Kitty Burt their nine children and many grandchildren. writes that become Warren Harding's Secretary of Jackson, ch.unnau: Dot Budlong, class presi- Bruce R. Gordon Bob dent; Evadne Maynard Lovett; Kay Per- Adamson is the unly classmate who has made State, aad In 1930 he was appointed kins; Millie Schmidt Sheldon; and Edith It to Fairbanks, Alaska. "I'd be delighted to Berger Sinel. We welcome your sUL;i;cstions. see more," he writes. Our deepest sympathy is extended to the Robert Hallborg. C^ranberrv', Pa., wntes, " t'amilv of our loyal classmate Doris Aldrich lime fust nibbles and then crunches. There

Colbom, who died March 3 1 in Lake City, is much more to this aging process than was Minn. - Kitty Burt Jaikiou ever included in our curricula. Gerontology

remains a novel exploration, even as I live it." He has been both divorced and widowed and lives in a retirement community twenty-three 1933 miles north of Pittsburgh with his three-year- Edgar Dannenberg. New York City, con- old boxer. Robert has three children and tnhuted intbmiation to the recent dual biog- three grandchildren raphy Hdhnaii ami Hammelt. by Joan Mellen John W. Manchester moved to a life- (HarperCollins). care facility in Orange City, Fla., in Novem- Joseph E. Fanning. Providence, was ber 1994. He celebrated his eightieth birthday named Evenone's Hibernian of the Year by with aU SIX kids and reports that his health is

the William |. McEner,- Dmsion of the Ancient as good as it deserves to be. i Order of Hibernians in Johnston, R.I., on James F. McCoy, Providence, retired May 18. He is a state organizer and a division after fifty-four years of practicing law in Paw- treasurer tor the order. tucket, R.I., not including four years in the U.S. NaN'y. Now he travels, visits t'nends. and plays golf and tennis. 1936 William Ryan, Los Altos, Calif, and his wife, Sally, have been travehng: to Brazil, the David Field received the Good Heart Senior Amazon, and Devil's Island; Providence, New- Volunteer Award from the Volunteer Center port, R.I.. and N.intucket and Martha's Vine-

of Sarasota, Fla. He has been a volunteer at the yard, Mass. - "a near miss from Hurricane Senior Friendship Health Clinic there since Bertha"; and m September to Maui. 197S, helping provide health and dental services Arthur I. Saklad, Fort Lauderdale. Fla.. to senior citizens. He and his wife. Mildred, has been retired since 19S6. For the past two also deliver meals to homebound seniors. years he has been recuperating from congeni- tal heart failure. He periodically visits Harold Hassenfield. who has had a stroke.

Wallace is still enjoying retire- )Oth Reunion Hugh H. ^957 ment m Onnda, Calif, where he "takes daily walks, does light gardening, plays poker with Your reunion committee has been busy plan- a bunch of other old geezers, and enjoys social- ning class activities for our upcoming 6oth. iznig with other couples." He and his wife. Remember to save the dates. May 23-26, and Sunny, celebrated their fift)--fifth wedding anniversary on 18. feel free to caU reunion headquarters at (40 1 July

863-1947 with any questions or suggestions. Charles J. White, Avon, Conn., stays We hope to see you next spring as we cele- bus\- with duplicate bridge, golf and his flour- brate our lifelong connections v\'ith one another and with Brow n. Edward Maurice Feamey. Micanopy.

Fla., retired in 1980 after teaching architecture

at the University of Flonda for thirty-five years WHAT'S NEW?

and at the University of Southeast Louisiana Pkitic scthi the liVcit dhoiit your job, J'atiiily, for five years. "I have four children, all suc- triit'cis, or other ticit's to Hie Classes. Brown cessful in their fields, and six grandchildren. Alumni Monthly, Box 1(154, Provideiia'. Through the years, my wife, children, and 1 R.I. 0igi2; fax I401J .s'fij-ijsijg,- e-mail did much traveling and studying abroad, but BAM^'tbroii^ni'iti.hrou'ii.edii. Deadlinefor lately reading is about it." BROWN ARCHIVES March dassiiotes: Deeeiitber 16. John E. Fenton retired in 1994 after forrv-one vears in a tamilv internal-niedicme

BROWN A I U M N I M (1 N T H I. V 39 ishing investment-counseling business, WIS. Remember to save the dates. May 23-26, and his wife, Bonnie, travel extensively in the

He is a registered licensed investment advisor feel free to call reunion headquarters at (401) United States and abroad and play in interna- and manages large retirement plans, many of 863-1947 with any questions or suggestions. tional tennis tournaments.

them the same accounts he serviced as a We hope to see you next spring as we cele- Edward J. Barry Jr., Charlestown, R.I., stockbroker. brate our hfelong connections with one received the Paul Maddock '33 award for another and with Brown. distinguished service to Brown athletics at the The work of interior designer Ray Elias, 1995 Hall of Fame dinner. New Lyme, Ohio, was featured in an article Davies W. Bisset Jr. retired from Aimca 1939 on bathhouses in the July issue of Ckvclaitd Mutual Insurance Co. as senior vice president Enrico Casinghino and Carter Childs, magazine. Ray also volunteers as a substitute of underwriting in December 1995, after roommates m Hope and Slater for three years teacher in three local school districts. forty-one years with the company. He has who had not seen each other for fifty-seven five children: Davies III '85, who is married years, celebrated a mini-reunion in Apnl. to Megan (Lynchburg College '90); Andrew Rico, a retired mathematics teacher, and his 1948 '86; Elizabeth Bisset Hoy '88, who is mar- wife, Emma, came from SufField, Conn., to ried to John Hoy '93 M.D.; Robert (Boston join Carter, a retired AT&T lawyer, and his William M. Peterson, Southampton, NY., College '90); and Kimberly (Boston College wife, Madeline, at their home 111 Williams- dehvered a paper titled "O'Neill's Divided '94). Davies divides his time between Naples, burg, Va. The talk. Carter reports, ran to Agonists" in May at an international confer- Fla., and Narragansett, R.I., and is working families (Rico and Emma have great-grand- ence at Suffolk University in Boston and on lowering his golf handicap. children), the hurncane of 1938, the cheap published an article, "A Portrait of O'Neill's Glen N. Bower is enjoying retirement meals on Federal Hill, and Brown, which was Electra" in the spnng/faU 1993 issue of T?;e 111 Pinehurst, N.C. "a comfortable safe harbor in the late 1930s Eugene O'h'eill Review. StafTord Burrell, Dennis Port, Mass., for students with low finances, high energy, Alice Farrell Reynolds (see Anne retired from Neworld Bank after thirty-five and bright hopes." Reynolds "Ward '82). years. He bought an RV and has been travel- George Slade and Ins wife, Harnett, spent ing North America, visiting five children and their first summer in Naples, Fla., since retire- two grandchildren. ment there in 1980. They may be reached at 1949 Paul E. Burton is a senior research asso- 830 New Waterford Dr., #101, Naples 34104; ciate in technology at Exxon Chemical Co. gslade@naples .net. John T. Townsend, Newton, Mass., retired as in Baton Rouge, La., and an active member professor emeritus of New Testament, Judaism, ot the local retired-officers club. and BibUcal languages at the Episcopal Divin- Francis N. Carmichael, Clarksburg, 1940 ity School in Cambndge, Mass., in June 1994. Mass., IS enjoying retirement. He and his wife "After a couple of months without students, I travel a good bit and are renovating their house

The Rev. John Howard Evans, Portsmouth, needed a fix," he writes, "so I became a visit- gradually. Their daughter is in medical school

R.I., is the author of a poem, "The Pleas of a ing lecturer on Jewish studies at the Harvard in New York City, and their son works for Patriot," which will appear in a 1996 volume Divinity School." He may be reached at WBC-TV in Pittsburgh. of thoughts on the end of World War II, jtownsend(§]div. harvard.edu. James A. Chronley. Santa Ana, Calif, published by the National Library of Poetry recently helped a Colombian restaurant com- in Owings, Md. pany expand into ice-cream manufacturing 1950 and sales. His article about his volunteer work in the International Executive Service Corp. 1^4^ 55th Reunion Henry P. Reynolds Jr. (see Anne Reynolds appeared in the May issue of Corporate Real Ward '82) Estate Executive. Your reunion committee has been busy plan- Ralph R. Crosby Jr. writes that Gene ning class activities for our upcoming 53th. Tortolani. Jim Sweet, and he recently Remember to save the dates. May 23—26, and I95I attended the 50th reunion of Waves Camps feel free to call reunion headquarters at (401) on Damanscotta Lake, Maine. Ralph and his 863-1947 with any questions or suggestions. Saul D. Arvedon hosted William Sur- wife, Joan Hastings Crosby '52, spend the We hope to see you next spring as we cele- prenant. Thomas Brady, and Pete Williams winter months at 2204 Gulf Shore Blvd. N, brate our lifelong connections with one another in August at his oceanside home in Plymouth. Naples, Fla. 34102; (941) 262-6980. and with Brown. Mass. "After much food and drink and dis- Rosemarie Duys Doane married Bob cussion of their recent 45th reunion," Saul Doane (MIT '52). She spends summers on writes, "all agreed that their 50th will be Martha's Vineyard hiking, building, and garden- spectacular in 2001." ing, and winters in Canaan, Maine, sledding 1945 and cross-country skiing. She retired in 1991 Phyllis Baldwin Young exhibited her after twenry-six years teaching kindergarten. watercolors at the Larchmont, N.Y., Library I^J2 45th Reunion Bob retired in 1988; he was a Sloan Fellow during October. Her son, Andrew Baldwin and a senior execufive officer in the U.S. Air

Young "87, was married to M. Noel O'Don- Your reunion committee has been busy plan- Force. He is now an active designer, carpen- nell on June 15 in Washington, D.C., with ning class activities for our upcoming 45th. ter, builder, and cook and also the father of fourteen Brown alumni attending. Phyllis may Remember to save the dates. May 23-26, and three and grandfather of one. he reached at 24 Howell Ave., Larchmont feel free to call reunion headquarters at (401) Alan C. Eckert, Fairfax, Va., retired in 10538; (914) 834-7587. 863-1947 with any questions or suggestions. February' 1996. We hope to see you ne.xt spring as we cele- Jeanne Silver Frankl moved M her brate our lifelong connections with one weekend house near the ocean in Amagansett, 1947 50th Reunion another and with Brown. N.Y. She has left the New York City Public Gilbert F. Bach, New York City, retired Education Association, of which she was e.xec- Your reunion committee has been busy plan- as managing director of the Latin American utive director for thirteen years, and is work- ning class activities for our upcoming 50th. region for Lehman Brothers in 1995. He and ing as a consultant on educational projects. Her

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NAME daughter Kathy will graduate from Pace Uni- five years. She recently took a trip to Alaska have made outstanding contnbutions to pedi- versity next year and plans to teach young and has traveled to every state and camped m atnc surgery. Marc is a fomier chief of the children. Her husband, Ken, is enjoying retire- most state parks. She is a charter member of Division of Pediatric Surgery of the University ment, playing the piano, and working with the Kiwanis Club, a haison to the high-school of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and surgeon- feanne in the garden. Key Club, and was voted Woman of the Year in-chief of Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.

Fredric S. Freund, San Francisco, is still in 1996. Her husband, Russell, retired as vice Phyllis Eldridge Suber, Princeton. active in commercial real estate as senior vice president of BIF. Her daughter Susan works N.J., loves retirement and is busier than ever president of Hanford, Freund and Co., which tor the U.S. Postal Service; her son Russ, a with travehng, volunteenng. spending time he sold in 1994 to an associate. He enjoys graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, is with grandchildren, gardening, and enjoying working, sailing, and rowing. His daughter flying B-52S in Barksdale, Cahf ; and her music, "The days aren't long enough!"

LesHe is collections manager at the Hearst daughter Diane is deceased. Janis Cohen Weissman. Roslyn

Museum at UC-Berkeley, and daughter Ellen Margaret M. Jacoby "rti M.A.T. is Heights, N.Y., is a staff attorney for an advo-

'8y IS in the biology Ph.D. progi'am at Stantord. spending more time since retirement at her cacy center for schoolchildren and people Carolyn Gagliardi, Milford, Conn., condo on Goat Island, R.I., overlooking with disabihties. Her husband, Saul "Sonny," retired in 1 992 after thirty-nine years of teach- Narragansett Bay, and has become a volun- died in May 1995 of a subdural cerebral hem- ing. She is enjoying her home at the shore teer for Save the Bay. orrhage. She has three grandchildren: Jeffrey and still teaches as .1 substitute. Samuel W. Keavy. Barnstable, Mass., Weissman, 8; Connor Wolfe, 2. and Sarah

Susan Brailsford Gallagher is working has been retired from IBM for fitteen years. Wolfe. 6 months. to establish a botanical garden in Naples, Fla. He keeps busy buying, selling, and appraising Daniel M. Garr and his wife, jane, cele- Amencan antiques and volunteenng at Cape brated their 40th anniversary on June 23 and Cod Hospital. He and his wife, Jean, plan to took a cruise among the Greek islands in keep traveling the world until they can't; then ^953 October. Their four children have five grand- they'll take the cruises. Ralph Stoddard (see James A. Stoddard children. Daniel and Jane winter in Vero Nancy Lant retired as an educational •87). Beach, Fla. psychologist for the New Bedford. Mass.,

Bob Goodell is enjoying his family- School Department in 1995. She has started a medicine practice m downtown Boston and small business. Images of Light, exhibiting 1954 living in a 1760 Cape in Marshfield, Mass. and selling photographs, and is a board mem-

His wife, Del, is a senior nurse at the visiting- ber of Gallery X, a cooperative gallery in New- Alan M. Corney, Berkeley Heights. NJ., nurse association in Plymouth. Their daugh- Bedford. She has two black Persian cats, two retired in January 1991 and took a seven-day, ter Karen 'S8 married John Hunter '88. sons, two daughters, five grandsons, and one 123-mile solo kayak trip down the Thames

Julia Potts Grehan, New Orleans, is grandaughter. River. His wife. Judy Robinson Corney expecting her tirst grandchild in November. Sandra R. Lloyd retired from Atlantic 'ss, just celebrated her twentieth year with

Happy IS chairman for volunteers for NASP, Richfield Co. in Los Angeles and has moved Burgdortf Realtors, a thirty-four-otFice real- and she volunteers with a fourth-grade pub- to Atlanta. She recently visited with Ann estate firm. She still enjoys her career as a lic-school horticultural program. She and Thomas Moring '53 from Cincinnati. "I hved relocation director and expects to keep at it Harold took a walking tnp to Tuscany, Italy, m Los Angeles through the 19S4 Olympics another tew years. Their son Steve (St. Law- this fill. They enjoy golf tennis, and a week- and got through the 1996 Gaines in Atlanta," rence '80) is president of Koll-CBS commer- end home in Pass Christian, Miss., on the she writes. "They were great fun." cial real-estate management in Phoenix, and Gulf Coast. Hilary Masters published his eighth novel. daughter Andrea (Wesleyan '83, Stanford '90)

Daniel W. Grisley Jr., Webster, N.Y.. Home Is llic Exile, in August and is giving is a business consultant in Palo Alto, Cahf retired from Eastman Kodak in 1991 as a tech- readings this tall in San Francisco, Los Ange- Anne Deriner Stoddard (see James A. nical safety engineer. He and his wife, Cath- les, Des Moines, Kansas City, and Miami, Stoddard '87). enne, have three inarned children and five among others. He is a tenured protessor of grandchildren; n.vo girls and three boys, all English and creative writing at Camegie Mellon under age 5. Daniel recently had successful and just returned from a working sabbatical 1955 surgery for prostate cancer and is feeling well on the Cote d'Azur, France. "Six months and and enjoying his retirement. finally got tired of French food!" he writes. Ziginund Dermer (see James A. Stod- Barbara Kirk Andrews Hail, Barring- Robert D. Milner retired and moved to dard S7) ton, R.I.. IS deputy director and curator of Petersburg, Va., to garden and breed plants Brown's Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology full-time. in Bnstol. She recently took a research tnp to John F. Navatney Jr., Lakewood, Ohio, 1956 Oklahoma to study Kiowa and Comanche IS with the law tirm Baher and Hostetler in decorated cradles and their cultural significance; Cleveland. Charles Merritt (see Liz Merritt 89). her interviews with elders will be edited for a F. Stanley Phillips writes. "I am a Shel Siegel and his wife, Lolly (Welles- video to accompany an exhibit and catalog. semiretired migrant worker, picking grapes 111 ley 'S7), announce the birth of their first Her husband, Ted '49, retired from Brown in Naples and Hilton Head. My wife, Nancy, grandchild, Alexander Logan Siegel, in Ather-

1 9S9 after twenty-seven years and is Associate has continued to make our love affair worth- ton. Calif, to H.B. Siegel 'S3, and his wife,

Dean of the College Ementus. Three of their while since 1950. Our daughter, Linda Vineeta. H.B. is chief technical officer for seven children are alums: Andy Hail '75 Magover, lives in Easton, Mass." LucasFihias. Industrial Light & Magic, and Sky- works tor Digital; Clinton Andrews '77 is on Larry Ross. New York City, closed his walker Sound in San R.it'ael. C'alif Shel is the faculty' of the Woodrow Wilson School of internal-medicine and cardiology practice and retired president and CEO of WLVT-TV in

Public and International Policy at Pnnceton; is a consultant to Empire Blue Cross's fraud Alleiitown, Pa. He may be reached at and Elizabeth Andrews Byers '78 is a department and to the legal profession on [email protected]. hydrologist with the Mountain Institute in medical malpractice. He is happily remarned

West Virginia, most recendy based in Nepal at and IS M-\ avid tennis player. the Makalu-Banin Conservation Project. Marc Rowe, Pittsburgh, received the 1996 I^J7 40th Reunion Beverly Calderwood Hart, Seekonk, Ladd Medal of the American Academy of

Mass., retired 111 1991 after teaching tor thirty- Pediatrics, which recognizes physicians who Your reunion committee has been busy plan-

42 NOVEMBER 1996 mug class activities for our upconiiiii; 40tli Judith Griswold Hicks is still working ment from Travelers Insurance in 1993 and Reineniber to save the dates. May 23-26, and at the Mystic and Noank, Conn., library on has become a partner and vice president at

t'eel free to call reunion headquarten at (401) local-history research projects, which will C&B Consulting Group in Westburg. N.Y., S63-i(;47 with any questions or suggestions. provide databases for researchers and genealo- which speci.iHzes in employee benefits, man-

We hope to see you next spring as we cele- gists. She is enjoying her first grandchild, James, aged care, retirement plans, and related prod- brate our lifelong connections with one who lives in Mystic. Her older son and his ucts. Barbara retired in 1995. Daughter Linda another and with brown. w-ife are expecting this year, and her younger '91 graduated in May from SUNY-Albany Mark Abraniowitz will celebrate both son was married in September. Judith enjoyed W'lth a master's in history and library- science. his 40th reunion and his 40th wedding anniver- a Brown cruise on the Baltic Sea last summer, Francis 'W. Thorley has been president san' in 1997. He and his wife. Joan. h.ive two where she met Jack Giddings and his wife. of High Strengths Steel since September 1994.

daughters, Shari "Si and Laurie 83; and four Sue, and son Matt. He IS building a new- house for his retirement

grandchildren: Max. 6: Kate and Henry. 3. Lewis A. Kay, Moorestown, N.J. .just on Chesapeake Bay at 29242 Glencoe Rd.,

\\ ho were bom on the same night to different finished his tenii as president of the Amencan Kennedville, Md. 21645. '65 daughters; and Andrew, i . Mark is the man- Acadamy of Pediatric Dentistry. He found Charlotte Lowney Tomas A.M.

aging partner at Parker, Chapen, Flatton and traveling .and meeting people Kin. but he is glad wntes that her husband, Vmce. died in Novem-

Klimpl, a 1 20-la\wer finn in New York Cit\'. to be treating patients .igain and is enjoying ber 199.S. In May she went to Portugal and

Joan is vice president of marketing at Random his tour grandchildren. Spam with the Brown Club of Rhode Island

House. Shan is a pediatrician in Newton, Mass., Patricia Hofmann Landmann has and in June to England with a Brown Travel-

and Laune is a tax lawyer in New- York Ciry. moved to East Sandwich. Mass. ers group, which included Ann Stewart Robert H. Ackerman, Gloucester, Mass., Paul K. Langc has practiced law in Orth 'ss and Barbara Spero Robbins. widow

is a neurologist and neuroradiologist at Massa- Rochester, N.Y, speciahzing in civil Utigation of Edgar B. Robbins '47. chusetts General Hospital and Har\'ard Medi- and personal injury, since graduating from the cal School and the director of the hospital's University of Michigan Law School in i960. neurovascular laboratory. He enjoys rowing, His most recent accomplishments are improv- 1958 gardening, and traveling. ing his tennis and blackjack games. Ardell Kabalkin Borodach and her hus- Bob Minnerly retired after ten years as Norman Grace (see Robert C. Grace "84). band. Jerry ss, are planning to move back to headmaster of Charles Wnght Acadamy in Manhattan and look forward to seeing old Tacoma, Wash., and a thirty-four-year career friends and classmates. Jerry retired from the m independent schools. He celebrated thirty- i960 anesthesiolog)' department at the Washington nine years of marriage in June and has three Universit\' Medical School in St. Louis in grandchildren. Theodore R. Boehm. Indianapolis, was August. Son Sam '87 practices patent law in Thaddeus S. Newell III retired in 1990. sworn in as one ot the tive justices on the New York City and lives in Teaneck, N.J., Terry divides his time between Rochester. Indiana Supreme Court on Aug. 7. His wife.

with his wife. Patn,', and their three children: N.Y.; the Ocean Reef Club in Key Largo. Fla.; Peggy, is chair of the Indiana State Board of

Ben. 4: Sarah. 2; and Simcha, y months. and Nantucket, Mass. Two of his three sons Tax Commissioners, the state agency that Daughter Abby married Kenn Elmore 'Ss are manned, and he has two grandchildren. oversees the property-tax system and the bud-

on June 2. Abby is acting director ot student He sees Dick Thompson "56 regularly and gets of all local government agencies.

activities, and Kenn is assistant director of res- visited Harvey Sproul m May. Francelia Mason Clark and her hus-

idential life, both at Boston University. Son Kathleen Patnaude Reis, Marion, band. Walter, retired to their beloved New Andrew '93 will graduate from Har\'ard Law- Mass., runs a sm.ill business growing and sell- Hampshire woods in Hancock in 1993, after School in 1997. ing heirloom and contemporary tomato plants careers teaching literature and wnting at the John Chandler, Lakeville, Conn., com- and has a hig garden and a small greenhouse. University- of Michigan. Their daughter Ahson pleted his year as headmaster ot Hotchkiss in Her husband, Richard '56 A.M., "62 Ph.D.. graduated from the University ot Michigan in

June and is continuing as assistant headmaster IS a professor ementus at the University of zoology and wnting in 1995. FranceHa's career for external aflairs. During Rust)-'s year as Massachusetts at Dartmouth. They have one can be traced in the book Tlieme in Oral Epic headmaster, the school achieved a record goal West Coast child and one East Coast child, mid in Beowulf {Girhnd, 1995). "We are happy,

of Sio million in its Centenmal Campaign, set both mamed. and one grandchild. doing what we did but now on our own a new- Annual Fund record of $2.7 million, Robert Rosenblatt and his wife. Carol. schedule, and prowling the land," she wntes. and was accredited by the New England Shngerlands. N.Y.. have five children and

Association of Colleges and Schools. r\vo grandchildren. He is an obstetrician- Mary Polly Griscom opened a twelve- gynecologist and the medical director of the 1962 35th Reunion member artists' cooperative gallers- ciUed the Delmar Women's Health Care Association.

Windsor Gallery of Art in Windsor. Vt. She Robert Saltonstall Jr. is the director of Our reunion committee, chaired by Dotsy

IS showing her watercolors there and at sev- physical plant at Wesleyan University, work- Haus Testa and Guy Lombardo, has been

eral other gallenes. She is married to Warren ing three days a week. He hves with his wife busy planning class activities for our upcom- Elliott. Together, they have seven children on a pier in the Charlestow-n Navy Yard ing 3.sth. Save the dates. May 23-26, and call and five grandchildren, with two on the way. above Boston Harbor. All their children are reunion headquarters at (401) 863-3380 with

William Hayes. New York City, was grown and employed, and he is enjoying an any questions or suggesrions. We hope to see recently reelected president of the New York active semiretirement. you next spring as w-e celebrate our htelong Socierv- ot Secuntv' Analysts. Alan R. Shalita was .ippointed distin- connections with each other and Brown. Dorothy Crews Herzberg. El Cerrito. guished teaching protessor ot dermatology at — Lcn Charney, class presiJctir

Cahf . has been teaching Enghsh as a second the SUNY Health Science Center in Brook- Dee Nash Bates is moving to Tucson,

language in middle school for five years and lyn. He IS also the president-elect of the Asso- Anz., this tall after twenty-three years in also teaches citizenship to adults in the evening. ciation of Professors of Dermatology. GranviUe, Mass. Avery '61 wiU continue the Last year she traveled to Turkey and to Israel James F. Smith teaches bndge at the final phase of their Alabama development,

to visit her daughter, Laura, who is in medical senior centers in Longnieadow and East Long- and they may return to renovating old homes. school in Tel Aviv. In August. Dorothy went meadow. Mass., and directs bridge games in "We are excited by the prospect of living on an archaeology- dig m Ireland with Earth- both towns and m Enfield, Conn. near a university. Mexico, and our four chil-

watch. Robert L. Sweeney took early retire- dren," she writes. "When it gets too hot.

BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 43 ELIZABETH DIGCS '61

Playwright Elizabeth Diggs and Friends in High lyricist Tom Jones (left) pose before one of Emily McCully's Places illustrations.

Eavesdropping on people you live with is great and what stinks, someone

unavoidable - but can be mutually rewarding. whose opinion you respect and

Playwright Elizabeth Diggs saw the stage trust. For the past twenty years

potential in Mirette on the High Wire, the the two writers have read each

children's book written and illustrated by her other's drafts and given advice on

friend Emily Arnold McCully '61, as soon as how to bring projects to life. "It's

she read an early draft. But McCully had a fabulous arrangement," Diggs

her doubts. The picture book has a powerful says. "We know a lot about each

emotional subtext - it's about a Parisian girl other's fields even though we're

who, determined to learn to walk on the high not in each other's fields. We can

wire, ends up helping a high-wire star face lANC SOBOLEWSKI bring a different eye to a draft but

his fears. McCully wasn't sure how it would was staged in August at the Goodspeed Theatre still look at it with a lot of knowledge."

translate to another genre. After the book in Chester, Conn. The play is the first project McCully has just sold Diggs the rights to

won the Caldecott Award in 1992, calls from the two friends have worked on together her 1995 children's book. Bobbin Cirl, set in

theaters asking for rights to the book came since 1959, when they cowrote the Brown the Lowell, Massachusetts, mills during one of

ringing in to the house Diggs and McCully brokers musical Happily Never After - whose the first strikes by women workers. "Who's

share in the Berkshires. As soon as Diggs "improper language" provoked the Pembroke the publisher?" Diggs called into the other

heard what was going on, she insisted, deans to walk out during the first act. room when asked by a reporter. "Dial," came

"Don't give anybody else the rights. I want Yet Diggs and McCully have long had the a voice from under the eaves. - Kimberly

to do it." sort of collaborative relationship that writers French

The result was the musical Mirette, which dream of - someone who will tell you what's

we'll escape to our Insh cottage." daughter Gail completed her treshman year strategic planning, business-process redesign,

Alfred M. Benson, Tucson, Ariz., is with honors at the LJniversity of Colorado; interim management, and searches. She is also continuing to have fun as president of a small and son Mark entered the School of Engi- vice president of a new nonprofit organiza- corporation that appraises real property and neenng at the University of Syracuse. "To tion created to develop and nin a hospital, consults on investment properties in the maintain my sanity, 1 just bought my first research, and education facility for stranded

Southwest. He is still marned to Kathy, and Harley-Davidson!" he wntes. nianne animals. Her husband, Michael T. their kids are grown. Sandra Budnitz Mosk, Beverly Hills, Corgan, is an associate professor of interna-

Kenneth Blackman (see Susan Black- Calif, is the director of educational therapy tional relations at Boston University. man Tilson Sy). for ERAS Center School and Agency in Cul- Susan Budnitz Sokoloffand her hus-

Paula Fitzpatrick Budinger, Bothell, ver City and is in private practice as an edu- band, Stan, Beverly Hills, Clilif , have two

Wash., is working as a medical transcriptionist cational therapist. She became a grandmother grandchildren: John Simon, i, Cambridge, at a local hospital. Roger has retired. Her on June 15. Mass.; and Sophia Shoulson. S months, Miami. daughter Beth is married and is a nurse practi- Marion Welch O'Neill '68 Phi:), retired Their son Peter is in the graduate school of tioner in Seatde. and son C'hns is also marned troni the law department ot Spnnt Corp. on architecture at Columbia University and spent and working for the Manott. Feb. 2. She is marned to Bernard '6^ Ph.D. the past two years traveling around the world. Michael French and his wife, Ruth, Their daughter Marie received her B.A. from Stan continues in his law practice, and Susan moved to Palo Alto, Calif., in January, when Brown in 1990. In the spring Marion enjoyed is a child and family counselor. Michael joined a consulting firm as director a visit to Judy Hexter Riskind at her home Margery Goddard Whiteman, Albany, of market research. in Highland Park, 111. N.Y., visited Marty Poole m Colorado in '97 John E. Morris III, Dallas, Pa., left his Robert J. Paradowski, Scottsville, N.Y., |une. Margery's son Stephen is in Taiwan pnvate law practice in 1992 to become general W.1S promoted to tuU professor at the Rochester for six months improving his Mandann and will counsel for a 200-bed hospital, which imme- Institute of Technology, where he heads the return to Brown in January to complete his diately underwent a merger, and he became science, technology, and society department. double major in Asian art history and Asian his- executive vice president and general counsel Eugenia W. Pitts (see Mark Aikens 'S[). tory. Her daughter Bailey began the graduate of a complex health-care system with 5,200 Sallie Kappelnian Riggs, North Fal- vocal-perfomiace diploma program at New- employees. His son John graduated from Get- mouth, Mass., is an associate of a national England Conservatory in August. Her youngest, tysburg CoUege and is in graduate school; consulting firm serving higher education m Eliza, IS a ninth grader at Andover.

44 NOVEMBER I 996 .

1963 David Hawk .ind Janet Levinc Hawk. Kyle and Jarretl were born on May 12. Mendham, NJ., will celebrate their 30th

Susan E. Davis is (.haimian and CEO of reunion, 30th wedding anniversary, and the C'apital Missions Co. in West Chicago, 111., graduation of daughter Amy '97 next spring. 1968 which created the program for the recent Inau- 1 Xivid left Prudential in December after gural Women's Economic Summit and was a twenty-tour years, to head Met Life's new Joel P. Bennett, Gaithersburg, Md., was

cooperating partner tor the recent State ot the Fixed Income/Global Finance unit. Janet is selected as chair-elect ot the Law Practice World Forum, which brought together soo te.iching English at Oak Knoll School in Sum- Management Section of the American Bar

world leaders, from heads ot state to C'EOs ot mit, NJ. Daughter Wendy ('gs RISD) is a Association in August. He may be reached at

global companies to spintual leaders. Susan also potter 111 Boston. [email protected].

continues to grow the Investors" Circle, a na- James Naughton is back on Broadw.iy tional network of socially responsible venture- in the musical Chicago, which opens Nov. 17 capital investors started by Capital Missions. at Richard Rogers Theatre, New York City. 1969 Thomas C. O'Keefe III, Natick, Mass.,

owns two law firms and is engaged to Claudia John Thelin began a new position as a pro- 1966 Barber Greene, fomierly of West Warwick, fessor at the University of Kentucky in R.l. They have a summer home and boats 111 August. He had been a professor of the his- Jay A. Burgess was awarded the U.S. Wicktord, R.l. Thomas's son Daniel will tory of higher education and philanthropy at Department of Commerce's (iold Medal tor graduate tirom Brown in 1997. daughter Megan Indiana University. L.ist tall he was a visiting Distinguished Achievement m the Federal m 199S, and son Timothy will graduate from scholar at UC-Berkeley. His book,G(J»if5 Service by the late Secretary Ronald H. Brown Rivers Country Day in 1997. Dan was the Colleges Play, a history of college-sports scan- in October 1995. Jay's award was given "for first sophomore ever elected as president of dals, was selected as one of the outstanding leadership in national initiatives strengthening Brown Student Agencies and was president of academic books of the year by the Association market democracy and expanding U.S. trade Delta Phi, class representative to the Under- of College and University Research Libranes.

and investment in Central and Eastern Europe." graduate Council, and vice chainnan of the The address for John and his wife, Sharon, is

He IS director ot botli the Central and Eastern Greek Council. 324 Chinoe Rd., Lexington, Ky. 40502. European Division and the Central and East- David T. Riedel received the Rhode ern Europe Business Infoniiation Center with Island Bar Association's Award of Ment on the Conmierce Department's International June 2 1 . He is now with the new fmn Till- 1970 Trade Administration. He is responsible tor inghast Licht & Semonoffin Providence, a policies and programs promoting U.S. eco- merger of Licht & Semonoffand of Tilhng- Daniel E. Stein and his wife, Michelle, nomic and commercial relations with fifteen hast Collins & Graham, where David has Essex Junction, Vt., announce the birth of

countries. He and his wife. Kathie. a lawyer, practiced for twenry-six years. Gabriel Benjamin on Dec. 1 1

live in Alexandna, Va. Joseph Ruma is enjoying mamed hfe with Helaine Benson Paliner '68, who has recovered trom her bone-maiTow transplant l^yZ 25th Reunion 1967 30th Reunion of 1993. Joseph lives in Andover, Mass., and continues to do acquisitions for National Reunion-activities cochairs Chas Gross, Your reunion conuiiittee has been busy plan- Medical Care's dialysis-services division. Guy Buzzell. and Don Stanford '77 Sc.M.

ning class activities for our upcoming 30th. William D. Singsen is comptroller of have been working with their committee to Remember to save the dates, May 23-26, and Citizens for Citizens, a community-action plan a memorable 25th, featuring gala special fee! tree to call reunion headquarters at (401) program in Fall River, Mass. His wife, Judy events and plenty of time to reconnect, remi- S63-1947 with any questions or suggestions. Klein Singsen '70. continues as the publica- nisce, and look to the future with old fnends We hope to see you next spniig as we cele- tions coordinator at the RISD Museum of and classmates. We hope to break attendance

brate our lifelong connections with one Art. Their son Doug is a National Merit records so make your plans now to attend this another and with Brown. tinahst, a two-time Rhode Island state high- milestone celebration. May 23-26. If you have

Laurie Griffin Broedling. Spnngtield, school debate champion, and a summa cum not received a copy of our fall maihng, call

Va., is senior vice president of human resources laude graduate of Classical High School in reunion headquarters at (401) 863-3380.

and quahty at McDonnell Douglas Corp. Her Providence and is now attending Hartford David E. Breuer and his wife, Lynn,

daughter Abby is a treshman at Virginia Tech, College. Daughter Margaret, a high-honor- Washington Township, NJ., celebrated their

and her daughter Emmy is a treshman in high roU student, is a sophomore at Classical. 25th wedding anniversary on Aug. 7. Their school. Mark D, Stem and his wife, Lynn, have daughters -Jennifer, 23; and Megan, 20 -

Donald P. Gleiter took early retirement two children: Gabnela, s; andjesse, 3. With gave them a party on July 20. Attendees after t\\enr\-nine years as an aerospace engineer the Boston looth, Mark has completed t\vo included Alpha Delta brothers Bob Forbes.

for the U.S. Navy and is now a statT systems marathons and is running on a 50-plus team. Chas Gross, and Glenn Norniile. Dave is engineer working on satellite ground stations They spend much of their time in Maine, and an environmental-atfairs director with Inter-

for Lockheed Martin Management & Data he still practices law in Boston and Somer- national Flavors and Fragrances in New York Systems in Valley Forge, Pa. ville, Mass. City. He may be reached at (212) 708-7104 Marshall Goldberg has been practicing Jim 'Van Blarcom moved to Charlotte, or [email protected]. law in commercial litigation and real estate N.C., in October 1995, after almost twentv' Jeff Paine and his wife, Maggie, Los

for the past r^venry years with a 210-person years of living in Greenwich Village. "What a Altos, Cahf , announce the birth of their sec-

tirm in Stamtord, Conn. His wife, Joanne, is change!" he writes. "A house, lawn, attached ond daughter, Chantal Alexandra, on Feb. 28.

an assistant state's attorney, juvenile-court garage, ru^o can, lake, no winter clothes, no Her sister Giselle is 2. JetTmay be reached at

prosecutor. Jason, ig, is a sophomore at Har- traffic, instant grits, and popcorn shnmp." [email protected].

vard; and Jonathan, 15. is a sophomore at Carolyn Laughlin Vandam, Hingham, West Hill High School in Stamtord. Mass., writes that her son graduated from

Diane Sones Gruenewald is now a Brown in 1992, and her daughter will finish freelance researcher in New York City, after in December. ^975 rwentv-tour vears as a hbrarian. Chandler 'Vishner writes that twins Eric Buermann was reappointed by Florida

BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 45 Gov. Lawton Chiles to a second four-year temi She and Richard have two children: Tomas, 4; Crohn's disease; I was able to run a marathon

as one of the seven members of the Flonda and Elena, 2. They are enjoying visits from in 1992, but some days 1 hardly find the Elections Commission in July- He has twice Virginia's three stepsons: Rich, 28; Peter, 22; strength to get dressed. My own illness and been elected vice chainnan of the commis- and Danny, 18. For nine years Virginia has losses have made me a better doctor, more sion. He IS president of Pioneer Associates been the director of architectural projects at the compassionate. Life goes on and is a strong Inc., a Miami investment and brokerage com- Public Archaeology Laboratory, a cultural- force; death no longer seems something to pany. Eric Hves in IVliami with his wife and resource management firm in Pavvtucket, R.I. deny or fear."

two daughters. Clinton Andrews (see Barbara Kirk Byron Jones, Berkeley, Cahf , is married

Susan Au Doyle, Honolulu, is finishing Andrews Hail '52.) to Julie Mornson and has a son, Galen, 3.

her first year as executive director of the Bruce Bettencourt works in project Robyn R. Jones has been married for

YWCA of Oahu, Hawaii. She welcomes finance for Chase Manhattan m London, after eight years to Adrian |. Moody (Holy Cross anyone to drop by the historic building for a a two-year stint in Pans. He and Helene are '78). They have two boys: Nicholas, 6; and workout or a swim, or the camp for some trying to keep up with their boy Julien, 2, Dylan, 4. Robyn pracrices obstetncs and gyne-

respite by Kaneohe Bay. She saw Paiii and manage their new house. Helene is at Gen- cology with the Woman to Woman Care Howard Varrin and Rene Varrin two eral Re Securities, covering the francophone group in Philadelphia, part of the Hospital of years ago at the National Governors Associa- European countries. the University of Pennsylvania. tion meeting in Boston. Lois Bryant is a tapestry artist, with Diane Krejsa recently became university works in Liz Claiborne stores in New York counsel at the University of Maryland at Col- Ciry; Boston; Dallas; West Palm Beach, Fla.; lege Park and would love to hear from educa- 1975 McLean, Va.; and Troy, Mich. She lives with tion-counsel alums. Her husband. Peter Levy, her husband and two girls, 2 and 5, in Lin- is a history professor at York College. They

Frederick Rigby Barnes and his wife, denhurst, N.Y. have two children: Jessica, 9; and Bnan 7. Nancy, Prairie Village, Kans., are both K.U. Mark Christiansen became an account Barbara Sunderland Manousso mar-

Jayhawks now. Frederick is in his second year vice president at the A.G. Edwards & Sons, ried John Manousso on May 27, 1993, and at the University of Kansas School of Law, branch office in Mequon, Wise, in June. He acquired a daughter, a son-in-law, three and Nancy is a doctoral student in the depart- would like to hear from old friends at grandchildren, and a retreat home in San- ment of educational psychology and research. mequonman(aiaol.com. torini, Greece. She is teaching developmental

Frederick was pleased to encounter a fellow Douglas Cosgrove is a psychijtnst liv- English at Houston Community College and

Bninonian, Roscoe Howard '74. a law pro- ing and working in Philadelphia. is also a dispute-resolution mediator and arbi- fessor there, Ann-Christine Duhaime practices trator. Barbara and John appeared as extras in

Crawford B. Bunkley III is the author pediatric neurosurgeiy at the Children's Hos- scenes with Shirley MacLaine and Jack of Till- African American Nelwcirk (Plume, 1996), pital of Philadelphia and does laboratory work Nicholson in the movie Evening Star. They which lists more than 5,000 prominent Afncan in pediatric head injury. On weekends off, Tina are now writing a book about an experience - Americans in politics, sports, entertainment, and her husband, Stan, and their children at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome in May 1995, business, media, the arts, and other fields. He Jonas, 10; and Alida, 5 - pack up the car and when they photographed a form that appears

is also a senior public-aftairs representative head for their large extended family's beach to be Jesus surrounded by seven angels; at the

with E.xxon. He lives in Houston and is mar- house in Saunderstown, R.I. time they thought it was only a tourist photo

ried to novelist Anita Richmond Bunkley. Lisa C. Fancher, Austin, Tex., is the of light flowing from the dome. "If this event

Andy Hail (see Barbara Kirk Andrews lead vocalist, guitarist, and pnmary songwriter had not happened to us, I would think it was Hail '<,!.) for the band Firewater, which has been per- a hoax," she writes. Over the past year the

Margaret Haskell Moss lives in Grand- forming for the past year. phenomenon has led to Barbara's first published

viUe, Mich., with her husband, Frank; chil- Elizabeth Saslow Fields is director of magazine article, television and radio appear-

dren Mike, 13, and Tim, 10; and new puppy. marketing for Looney Tunes at Warner ances, and seminars on religious occurrences

Max. She is a middle-school special-educa- Brothers Consumer Products in Los Angeles. and miracles. tion teacher and may be reached at Her son Noah was born m February 1995, Karen Misler '77 A.M. spent the summer

peggysuemifaiaol.com. and she is expecting twins in December. with her husband, Barry Feigenbaum, and - Kenneth J. Warren was appointed to David J. S. Flaschen, Kenilworth, 111., is children -Jeremy, 7; and Stephanie s pack-

chair the pubhc-service task force of the now chainnan and CEO of Donnelly Mar- ing and moving to Teaneck, N J. Both chil- American Bar Associations's Section of Natu- keting, after ten years with Dun & Bradstreet. dren are now in school full-time, so Karen ral Resources, Energy, and Environmental most recently as president and chief operating has more time for freelance editorial and mar- Law in August. He directs the environmen- officer of A.C. Nielsen, North America. ket-research assignments. tal-litigation practice at Manko, Gold Ik Lynn Dawley Forsell gave birth on Jo Woolf Mordecai, Kfar Yona, Israel,

Katcher, an environmental and land-use law Sept. 22, 1995, to Evan John Foi^sell, who joins wntes that she is married with two daughters:

fimr in Bala Cynwyd, Pa. brother Eric, 5. Lynn and her husband. Bill, Alonah, 8; and Lilach Sham, 3. She coordi- and children live in Summit, NJ., where they nates home-based services for a senior-citizen are continually renovating their house. Lynn day-care center sponsored by Social Security. 1977 20th Reunion works part-time as a consultant to Salomon In the last year she initiated an ennchment pro- Brothers' commercial-mortgage finance gram for special-needs children in the Northern Your reunion committee has been busy plan- group. Sharon area, inspired by Alonah. She would

ning class activities for our upcoming 20th. Karen Kenney Dickson Johnson. love to hear from any and all at Rehov Ram-

Remember to save the dates. May 23-26, and North Oaks, Minn., is now remarned to bam 2h, Box 419, Kfar Yona, Israel 40300;

feel free to call reunion headquarters at (401) Steven Johnson, a St. Paul native. She is in israjoCS'inter.net.il. 8(13-1947 with any questions or suggestions. private medical practice as well as various Mark Musen '80 M.D. and his wife, Elyse, We hope to see you next spring as we cele- consultative positions. "My three children announce the May 31 birth of Kate Hannah, brate our lifelong connections with one seem my most important and endunng who joins brother Jay, 9. Last year Mark was another and with Brown. achievement," she writes. "Raymond's promoted to associate professor of medicine

Virginia H. Adams lives in Seekonk, death was a profound shock and loss. Some- and computer science at Stanford, where he is

Mass., with her husband, Richard F. Savignano, how I have survived the loss of my spouse head of the section on medical informatics.

son ot the late Ernest T. Savignano '42. and longest, dearest friend. I suffer from Elyse is an associate professor of anthropology

46 N ( ) V E M B H H 1996 flutist witli Parkway CAincert Orchestra and BARNABY EVANS '75 a cofounilcr of the Boston West Recorder Group

Brent Taylor lives 111 Ho Ho Kus, N.J., w ith his wife. Carla, and two daughters,

Alexandra and Jacqueline. He is vice presi- -(Hi" dent and assistant general counsel at J. P. Renaissance Morgan in New York City. Earlier this year

'^llllllO' , he was named to head the U.S. Regulatory -^iiniiK / Artist and ("ompli.uKc Te.im at Morgan.

"(mi- , -IHHIII- Elizabeth M. Wright is now senior vice

. -'('laiir president with First Manner Bank in Baltimore,

'IIIHIIP' i heading commercial and real-estate lending. Over the past several years downtown I -"IHIII" lu

Providence's empty commercial spaces and industrial waterfront have been 1978 refurbished into a new city center that Elizabeth Andrews Byers (see Barbara

is pedestrian friendly, safe, and clean. Kirk Andrews Hail '^2). Lee Fleming Callander Doyle, Arling- But it took the artwork of Barnaby ton, Mass.. announces the birth ot Rosita Evans to give these changes a heart. Consuelo Doyle on M.iy 29. "[Providence] created a wonderful Fred Sherrill and Michelc Dreyfuss

stage set for the city," he told the Provi- Sherrill, Short Hills. NJ., announce the birth of Isaac Matthew on Sept. 15, 1995. dence Journal in July. "But a stage set Isaac joins Philip, 13; Teddy, 10; and Emily, needs a play - it needs something for 6. Fred has become a senior vice president people to come to." and manager of fixed-income sales and trading at Ryan. Beck &• Co., after twelve years Casting its glow over the eastern at Mernll Lynch. part of downtown, Evans's work, Water Paul Stoddard (see James A. Stod- Fire, was a series of thirty-five open fires dard '87)

in spherical steel braziers along the

Woonasquatucket river on nights throughout Above: Water Fire in action along Providence's newly renovated riverfront the summer. Twenty-four of them floated in 1979 last summer. Inset, Barnaby Evans. '82 the water, anchored to buoys, and the rest Jill Wiener Quentzel M.D. lives in Westport. Conn., with her husband, Howard were mounted on small granite posts mark- Quentzel, and their two children: Felicia, 8: and ing the river's course. A soundtrack of slide that had art built into them." Originally Jeremy, 6. JiU is an assistant professor of neu- guitar by Ry Cooder, chanting by local artist designed for Providence's First Night cele- rology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in York City and an attending physician Sandor Bodo '75, and bird, cricket, and bration. Water Fire was such a success New at the Bronx Veterans Administration Medi- cicada sounds tied the sights and smells of among residents that Evans was asked to cal Center. Howard is chief of infectious dis- the work together. repeat it and to consider setting up a perma- eases at Gnffm Hospital, an affiliate of Yale

A biology concentrator at Brown, Evans nent installment. University.

maintains a deep interest in the environ- "In this age when public art seems to be ment, especially his own habitat. "Many a frill that attracts protest, and a lightning 1980 people don't realize the unique combination rod for controversy," Evans says, "Water

Lawrence N. Scult is starting his own prac- of things we have here," he says. "Genera- Fire has become symbolic of the renaissance tice in commercial transactions and real-estate tions ago people were building buildings of downtown Providence." - Cliad Calls law, with an office in Boston, after six years as in-house counsel at Shawmut/ Fleet Bank and six years at Csaplar & Bok in Boston. Larry hves in Wayland, Mass., with his wife, at nearby Foothill Community' College. Mark IBM in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., where he has Ellen, and sons: Matthew, 8; and Corey. 5. may be reached at [email protected]. worked since graduation.

Steven Parker, Bethesda, Md.. is direct- Ava Seave left Tlie Village Voice, where she ing a full-length feature film about medicine, was general manager, to become a marketing I981 a dark comedy called Wiiliiii Xomml Liinils. director at the children's book company He would love to hear from anybody in the Scholastic in New York City. "My 7-year-old Shari Abramowitz (see Mark Abramo- film biz. daughter is compensated for my working witz '57). Peter Relson. Poughkeepsie, N.Y., was harder by getting zillions of books to have Mark Aikens was elected mjune to the mamed in June 1994 to Carol Anderson, and to give to her school," Ava writes. board of directors of the Monmouth-Ocean whom he met while folk dancing in Stowe, Susan Greenhaus Silverman is a senior Development Council in Manasquan. NJ., '62. Vt. They honeymooned on a safari in Africa. associate actuaiy at John Hancock in Boston. whose director is Eugenia W. Pitts They enjoy bird watching and walking their She has three children: Dan 12; Jonathan 8; Mark is a partner with the law firm Carton, Falls. dog Sofie. Peter is a senior programmer at and Dehby, S. She is the pnncipal second Witt, Arvaitis & BarisciUo in Tinton

BRCJWN ALUMNI MONTHLY • 47 Tne Year Brown Rose to tne Occasion

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Allow three to four weeks for delivery. 1982 15th Reunion sights around campus and Providence. If you have not received a copy of our tall mailing, WANTED... Robin Asher Ss M.P. and Ikt luisb.iiKl. call reunion headquarters at (401) 863-3380.

tlit- Susan became associate lott", N.itick. M.iss., wekonu- May 2Z Kometsky Software Architect birth of Amanda Rachel Bninetti. who joins director of research at the Segal Co.'s Wash- in August. She lives in her iister. Madchno Ro'^c. 3. ington. D.C.. office Tins piisitmii suppiirts the evolution ot Nadine Cartwright Ss MP. and Paul Silver Spring, Md., with her husband, Mark the distributed campus computing .md their son Ari. R. Lowe hve m Huntington. Conn., with Mendv. infrastructure. They will help to develop their tliree eliildren: Paul 1 1; Veronica. Plante and his wife, Lon, .innounce Jr.. 9; Tom strategies for desktop and server software Douglas. 6. Nadine is the medical direc- the birth of Zachap,' Thomas Elias on April and environments, evaluate software products tor of the Center for Personal Health, an 24. Tom IS an associate professor of psychology, to determine how well they support these internal-medicine practice. Paul is a principal and both Tom and Lori are clinical assistant strategies, develop recommendalions 011 o{ Baker Hewett & Associates, a health-care professors of psychiatry at Stanford. They how specific products could be used at management finn. and Baker Hewett Capital. share a private practice in Menlo Park, Calif Brown, and package them for deployment a liealth-care venture-capital finn. They may be reached at (41s) 326-5930 or to the campus. This is not an operations Jennifer Coopertnan. New York C.it\\ tplante(oiscuacc. scu.edu. position (install, configure, and maintain), recently became executive assistant and direc- Beth Sullivan recently jomed Arnold although strong technical knowledge and tor ot' policy for the New York State Banking C'onimunications 111 Boston as senior vice skills will be required. Departnient. which regulates all New York president, director ot marketing research. She State licensed banks and fmanci.il institutions. will help manage the consumer insight group The successful candidate must have experience supporting a complex distributed Beth Deutch. Holmdell, N.J., is the and oversee research and planning for clients medical director and breast-imaging director Playskool and Big Yellow. Beth previously environment with UNIX based servers. They at the [acquehne M. Wilentz Comprehensive spent thirteen years at Hill, Holhday, where must be familiar with current issues and Breast Center at Monmouth Medical Center she was a senior vice president, working with practices in areas such as security (authenti- in Long Branch, N.J. Her son Simon H.D. such clients as Advanced Micro Devices, the cation and authorization, public key and Rubm was bom March II, 1994. Her hus- Massachusetts State Lottery Commission, and Kerberos), naming, and distributed infrastruc- band. Larry- Rubm. is a senior trader ot Lotus Development Corp. tures (e.g. DCE, Intranet style applicarions). emerging markets with Smith Barney in New Anne Reynolds Ward and George Send resume and cover letter to Human Ward, Newtown. Conn., announce the birth YorkCiry. Resources, Brown University, Box 1879/ Barbara Dworetzky is an assistant pro- of George Henry, who is the grandson of B237, Providence, R.I. 02912, or email to fessor ot neurology at the Boston University Henry P. Reynolds '50 and Alice Far- Jr. [email protected]. School of Medicine. She lives in West Rox- rell Reynolds '49 and the great-grandson of bury. Mass.. with her husband, Christopher, Henry P. Reynolds 14. Equal OppDrtunity/Affirmative Action Employer and son Benjamin Ely Sarahan. i. Kenneth Wishnia. Setauket. NY.,

Carlos Fernandez is adjunct assistant received his Ph.D. in comparative literature professor with the Oepartment of Architec- from SUNY-Stony Brook, with a dissertation ture. College ot Environmental Design. LJC- on twenneth-century Ecuadoran and Amencan Brown in Business Berkeley. and is a practicing architect. He hterature. He was a fellow at the YIVO Insti- mamed Maureen Mulligan '84 on Aug. 17. tute for Jewish Research in New York City, Brooks R. Fudenberg teaches at the where he dehvered the Vivian Hort Memorial ORIENTAL ART Umversiry of Miami Law School. Lecture on early-twentieth-century American Vanessa F. Hol(ien 'S2, tunnerly with Sotheby's, Joseph Gallo bought a "money pit" near Yiddish satire. He teaches wnting in the English specializing in antique Chinese snuff bottles. New York City alter four years m Milan. department at CUNY-Queens College. She can advise you about almost any aspect of Italy, and repons that his family - his wife, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese works of art- 2 Ann; and daughters Adriana. 3, and Phoebe, She has exhibited in the United States, Europe, — are happily re-Amencanized. He works in :i 1983 and Asia. For infomution call 12-5 17-2920, investment banking at Smith Barney. or fax 212-472-5S60- Amy Dubin George, Stamford, Conn., Laurie Abramowitz (see Mark Abramo- is director ot customer brands for James River -witz '57). Corp., where she has worked for nine years. Arden Blair and her husband. Ken Clark BOYNTON BEACH, FL She and her husband, Andy, have three chil- (University of L^elaware '84), are living be-

dren: Kevin, 6; Enc, 3; and Brendan, 7 tween Baltimore and Washington, D.C., months. where they share a house with Robert Dahni Let Us Be Your Host Larry Gerstner and Christiana Endres (Bradley 'Sj) and his two cats. Snowball and o • Gerstner, Norwood, Mass., are busy raising Hairball. They all work for Excalibur Tech- 1.5 miles To The Beach

their daughters: Emily, 6; and Polly, 3. Larry' nologies developing text-search and -retneval • Golf Courses is a marketing manager at Motorola, and software, except Snowball and Hairball. Arden • Museums & Art Centers Chris is a programmer/analyst and is getting a would like to hear from Paul Freitag '84 and • Between Palm Beach master's in educational technology. Marlena Erdos and may be reached at 95 1 5 Bob Goodinan is living in suburban Red Ram Path, Columbia, Md. 21046; (301) & Boca Raton express* New York City with his wite and two chil- 72S-3306; ablair(a!excalib.com. 561-734-9100 • 800-HOLIDAY dren and commuting each week to Memphis, David Dermer (see James A. Stod- R\chman where he runs a company making wireless ,S7). dard '81 1-95 & Boynton Beach Boulevard telecommunication equipment. Stacy Pierce Gasteiger and her hus- Eric Moscahlaidis and his hardworking band, Daniel, announce the birth of Cassidy reunion committee have come up with a on June 16. She joins Matthew, 3'/^; Calluni,

great program for the 1 5th, so plan to come 2; and Olive the dog, 8. Stacy is "doing the back to Brown to celebrate with fnends and full-time mom thing and loves playing all day classmates and to take in the old and new- without guilt." She may be reached at 187

BROWN ALUMNI M O N [ H I Y 49 " "

Ridge Rd.. Lewishiirg, Pa. 17837. Ray '8s announce the birth of their second

Pamela Keld married Joseph Edeliiian child. Hunter Melchior Ray. on March 13.

on June 16. She is a speech pathologist, and The Rays have moved to Portland, Oreg.,

he is a biotechnology analyst. Long-lost where Kathenne is vice president of intenia- friends are welcome to contact them at 101 tioiial for Hanna Andersson and David leads

When. W. 90th St., #i8H , New York, N.Y. 10024: the marketing communications for Medica- (212) 496-6991. Logic, a software company in the medical field. are often asked: "What is the We Brian Loo niamed Lisa Bowdeii on July David may be reached at david_ray@ccmail.

best time to drink The Macallan ? 7 in an outdoor wecicimg near Waikiki Beach, niedicalogic.com. Hawaii. Bob Reinhold and Greg Thorson It is like asking someone: presented a grand toast during the reception. "When should I be happy?" Brian and Lisa may be reached in Honoltiki at 1985 loo. bnan.bk(a)bhp. coni.au. You could, of course, drink it as a H.B. Siegel (see Shel Siegel '56). Davies W. Bisset III (see Davies W. Bis- celebration. For The Macallan set Jr. 'S2). Kenn Elmore (see Ardell Kabalkin Malt Whisky is a splendid event 1984 Borodach 's7). in itself Or you could invoke it as Wes Merritt (see Liz Merritt '89). Carole Cain received her Ph.D. from the Sylvia Veh mamed Michael Elsbury a spirit-lifter. For as malt is above University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Indiana LIniversity '81) on Nov. 11, 199.S, in blended whisky, so The Macallan - in 1995 and works with the Duke University Chicago. She is a freelance Kidswear designer unimaginably smooth - collaborative study of Alzheimer's disease and for Lands' End. memory in aging. She may be reached at 527 transcends malt. Manns Chapel Rd., Pillsboro, N.C. 27312. You could inspire a sandwich wdth Mark Dinman and his wife, Michele 1986 (University ot Missoun '86, Boston University it. Chase a soup. Or linger with it 90 M.P.H.), announce the birth of Bryan Andrew Bisset (see Davies W. Bisset Jr. '52). over coffee. And there are many Reuben Dinman on June 27. He joins brother Lee G. Dunst and Lisbeth Diringer Jonathan Abraham, born March 25, 1993. announce the birth ot C'harles Dinnger Dunst who swear by it as a nightcap. They recently left Washington, D.C., for St. on June 27. Lee is an assistant U.S. Attorney

Louis. Michele is taking a break from her in the eastern district of New York. Days public-health career to care for Bryan and after Charles was born, Lee finished a seven- Jonathan. Mark just completed his eleventh week criminal tnal with guilty verdicts on aU

year with EDS and is currently a systems- forty-three counts 111 a niultimiUion-dollar

engineer supervisor. He is also in a new pro- aviation-insurance fraud case. Lissie is the fessional M.B.A. program at the W-ishington senior development otTicer for major gifts at University Olin Business School. Friends are the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They may encouraged to contact them at 353 Ridge- be reached at 76622.1 s4S(g!compuserve. com.

meadow Dr., Chesterfield, Mo. 63017: Gloria Gonzalez is an assistant professor [email protected]. teaching business communications to Spanish Robert C. Grace and his wife, Anne students for the University College Dublin's

(Boston University '86), 2-year-old-daughter overseas program in La Corufia, Spain. She is Sarah Brooke, and beaming grandpa Nor- also working on a Ph.D. in English philology.

man Grace '58 welcomed Julia Susan into She IS happily married and has a son, Carlos,

"Chase that soup. their lives on Halloween 1995. After complet- 5. She would love to hear from old friends at ing his M.S. in energy and resources at UC- cesugaWlcg. serviconi.es.

Berkeley in 1993, Bob returned with Anne, Willis Navarro m.iy be reached at 8 s So to the question "What is the a tax manager at Ernst & Young, to Massa- Castenada Ave., San Francisco, Cahf 941 16; electnc- willisn(a!itsa.ucsf edu. best time to drink The Macallan?" chusetts, where Bob now works on utility-industry restructuring as a pnncipal Elisa van Dam, Somerville, Mass., mar- there is only one reply. analyst for New England Electric Systems, ned Ahmet Luleci on March 24, 1995. As soon as you possibly can. along with Jose Rotger '86. Sarah and Julia's Rick Weinland and his wife, Sandy playmates include C'arlos Rotger, son ofjose Novo, announce the birth of Lucas Adrian

and Barbara Anderson Rotger "86; Karl Weinland m August 199.S. They hve in Cara- To join our small (but devoted) band zur Loye, son of Hanno zur Loye '83 and cas, Venezuela. his wite. Dee Hull; and Matthew and Alexan- of merry malt sippers, please call der C.arcia, sons of George Garcia '83 and 1-800-428-9810. Maureen O'Brien '83. Lnends may contact 1987 10th Reunion Bob at [email protected]. Eric Mailer and Leslie Branden-Muller Your reunion committee has been busy plan- (Penn '84) had their second child, Nina Emily ning class activities for our upcoming loth. THE MACALLAN. Muller, on July 2. Eric is on the faculty at the Remember to save the dates. May 23-26, and University ot Wyoming College of Law. Eric's feel free to call reunion headquarters at (401) THE SINGLE MALT article on race and gender discrimination in 863-1947 with any questions or suggestions. SCOTCH. jury selection appeared in the October issue We hope to see you next spnng as we celebrate ot the V'

Whisky. alc./vol, Inc THE MACAUAN Scotch 43% Remy Amerique. , at i6s2 Edward Dr., Laramie, Wyo. 82070; with Brown. sole U.S. importer THE MACAU.AN is a registered trademark o( Macallan-Glenlivet P.LC «i 19% Macallan-Glenlivet P.LC [email protected]. Sam Borodach (see Ardell Kabalkin David W. Ray and Katherine Melchior Borodach 's7).

SO NOVEMBER I 996 James A. Stoddard iii.irni.\i Siiu.i Cliondio (M.iraii.ith.i t;hnsti,in University ot

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RETAIL BUSINESS, respected, diversified, on Bissetjr. >2) ROME, ITALY. Eighteenth-century country villa. Cape Cod twelve years is for sale. Just shy of $1 Spectacular views. Featured in Gounnct Magazine. million gross. Main store plus satellite. Will offer (609) 921-8595. long lease with option to buy re.il estate. Apartment 1989 available if desired for e.xpansion or residence. All SANTA FE. One-bedroom mountain guest house. types processing with state-of-art equip- of photo $650 weekly. (402) 473-7946. Lt. Colin S. Farrar departed on a six-month ment. Enlarging, copying, plus cameras, binoculars, TIBURON, SAN FRANCISCO BAY waterfront. deployment in August with Strike Fighter spotting scopes, custom picture framing, lithographs, City views, deck, Jacuzzi, sleeps four. $1,200 per Squadron 81 of the U.S. Navy on the aircraft alternative cards, unique gitts. Eight to nine employees, including owner and wite. Excellent week. (415) 435-2619. earner USS Enterprise. The squadron will be return. Owner, Box 301 1, Pocasset, Mass. 02559 operating m the Adriatic and Mediterranean VAIL, BEAVER CREEK. Luxury ski rentals. (50S) 563-6334. Condos, homes, B&Bs. 450-729S, X6768. seas in support of NATO peace etlorts. (800) Ellen Freund (see Fredric S. Freund VANCOUVER, CANADA. Island coach house. 947-9491. RETIREMENT LIVING (604) '89, '93 M.I)., mamed Albert Jenny Hua IRELAND. Traditional stone cot- IN Dun- WEST CORK, Stanford) on May 26 in RETIREMENT CONNECTICUT. Koong (M.D., Ph.D. tage. Renovated. Two bedrooms, rwo baths. A.W. caster, a not-for-profit retirement community, offers Chattanooga, Tenn., wntes Anthony Lom- Bates, 2821 E. Third St.. Tucson. Ariz. 85716. an active lifesryle, cultural and educational oppor- bardi '89, '93 M.D.Jenny is in her final year tunities in a country setting, yet convenient to city of her obstetrics/g\'necolog\' residency at attractions. Enjoy fine dining, extensive services, Stanford. Bndesmaids included Kerin Lou, and the peace of mind of on-site health care. YEARBOOK WANTED who IS working in the fishion industry in Choice of Life Care, Rental, and Assisted Living. DESPERATELY IN SEARCH OF 1950 class York and who made the bndes- Contact Maryalice Widness, LoetBer Rd., New C\Vf 40 yearbook. Will compensate. George Sotiropoulos is teach- Bloomfield, Conn. 06002 (800) 545-5065. maids' dresses: and Kathy Kau, who (Soter), 321 Orchard St.. Rocky Hill. Conn. 06067 in Seattle, where ing elementary school Kay LISTEN TO THE BROWN FOOTBALL (860) 563-5888. Chang "89, '92 M.D., is in an ear, nose, and GAME BY SIMPLY OPENING YOUR WIN- throat residency. Other guests included Kim- DOW. Laurelmead on Blackstone Boulevard is an berly Townsend '89, '93 M.D.. who com- adult residential community located on the historic RATES pleted her pediatncs residency in Cincinnati East Side of Providence, minutes from the Brown 1 to 3 consecutive insertions $2.50/word campus. Laurelmead enables you to enjoy the com- and IS moving back to Rhode Island to prac- 4 to 6 consecutive inserrions $2.35/word all the worries of "89, '93 forts of home ownership without tice pediatncs; Howard Komstein 7 to 9 consecutive insertions.. $2.20/word home maintenance. Call now for information and M.D., who IS doing his ophthalmology resi- to find out why so many Brown alumm and retired Display ads: $95 per column inch, camera-ready. dencv in New York Cin.-; Anthony Lom- faculty are calling Laurelmead home. 355 Black- bardi, recently completed his residency Copy deadline is six weeks prior to issue date. Pub- who stone Blvd., Providence, R.I. 02906 (Soo) 2S6-9550. lished monthly except Janu.iry. June, and August. in internal medicine at Rhode Island Hospital Prepayment required. Make check payable to Brown and IS starting private practice with Coastal University, or charge to your VISA, Mastercard, or Medical Inc. in Cranston, R.I.; Anita Lee TRAVEL Amencan Express. Send to: Brown AInimii Monlhly, and Charles Leng. who are both doing VISIT THE HEART OF ITALY. Leam about Box 1854, Providence, R.I. 02912. intemal-medicine residencies at the Univer- healthy ways to eat. Enjoy outstanding food. sity of Pennsylvania; and Jennifer Kramer Mediterranean Food and Health Tours. '91, who is in a graduate program in anthro- UMBRIA-i, fax (718) 376-3494, e-mail pology at Columbia University. medtourfii'inail. idt.net.

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Liz Merritt grLidujted summa cum l.iude swank parties in New York City and Aspen also employs Don Tupper '94. She may be from the- National College of Chiropractic in and singing at the Plaza, CBGB's, and the reached at (315) 375-4683, ext. 6025; maryeg 1994 3S salutatorian and recipient of the Smith Bottom Line. She just released her first album @gators. uaa.ufl.edu. and Rupolo scholarships for excellence in clin- with her band Mehssa & the Moguls. She ical skills. Five days later she moved to Nor- may be reached at (212) 755-6047. way and has learned Noi-wegian and opened Sarah SafHan has lett her post as a fea- 1993 a practice outside Oslo. In July she married tures reporter for the .Wir York Daily News.

Bjorn Arne Waalherg. Helping them celebrate She IS writing a memoir as an adoptee who Andrew Borodach (see Ardell Kabalkin were Liz's hither, Charles Merritt "56, and was found by her birth parents, to be published Borodach '57). brother Wes Merritt '8s. She would love to by HarperCollins in 1998. She has also begun Lt. Scott D. Nader is an infantry officer hear from t'riends at Eikskollen iiD, Osteras the two-year M.F.A. nonfiction writing pro- in Savannah, Ga. "I'm dividing my time 1345, Norway; [email protected]. gram at Columbia. Fnends and people with between the 'sands of Arabia' and the South- Pam Peters, Estes Park, Colo., just fin- adoption stories may write her at 315 W. 23d ern hospitality of my fiancee. Diana." ished hiking all 472 miles of the Colorado Street, #2D, New York, N.Y. looii. Trail as part of a promotion of her new back- Lee Skinner has begun an appointment country guide business. Adventures Afoot. as an assistant professor m the Spanish and 1994 She may be reached at pam(a!afoot.coni or Portuguese department at the University of http://w\vw,atoot.coni. Kansas. He may be reached at Iskinner After a two-year academic hiatus. Vincent Susan Blackman Tilson and Whitney @falcon. cc.ukans.edu. Ferrell began law school at Louisiana State Tilson (Har\ard 'Sy) announce the arrival of Linda Sweeney (see Robert L. University in August. Fnends may contact Alison Kate on April 24. Proud relatives include Sweeney '57). him at his parents': 3868 Deercreek Ln.. Har- grandfather Kenneth Blackman '62 and vey. La. 70058; [email protected]. uncles Michael Blackman '87 and Kevin Ayanna Gaines and Tom Smith '95, Blackman "92. Susan returned to work part- I^^2 5th Reunion both fonner Delta Psi presidents, were mamed time ill October as a tnists and estates attor- on Sept. 22 and now hve near Chicago. Ayanna ney at Schulte Roth & Zabel in New York Reunion-activities cochairs Shelly Berry, is English editor of reference manuals for soft- City. Susan, Whitney, and Ahson would love Marc Harrison, and Shonica Tunstall ware programs at DDC Publishing, where she to hear from friends at 175 E. 62d St., Apt. have been planning our big 5th celebration. does technical editing, fbnnatting. and writ- iiA, New York, N.Y. 10021; (212) 755-3917; May 23-26, and hope classmates from near ing of guides. Tom is an editor and developer [email protected]. and far are making plans now to get back to for Mayfair Games. His first project was a

Providence for this first "official" gathering collectible card game called Fantasy Adven- since May 25, 1992. If you have not received tures. They may be reached at 8227 Keating 1990 a copy of our fall mailing, please call reunion Ave.. Apt. 2B. Skokie. 111. 60076; Tom at headquarters. (401) 863-3380. [email protected]; Ayanna at isiskitten@ John A. Abom received his J.D. from Dick- Marc E. Babej works as an account aol.com. inson School ot Law in Carlisle, Pa., in June. planner .it Kirshenbaum Bond & Partners in Brian Hombuckle and his wife. Jalene. Greg Bashaw and Fernanda Moore New York City. He often sees Dimitri have moved from Clarksdale. Miss., to Ann Bashaw announce the birth of Alexander Gazis, Salime Samii '91, Jennifer Grazel Arbor. Mich. Bnan started graduate school

Gnmke on March 25. "We are both still at '93, Dimi Barinstein '93, and George this fall and will work in the University of Stanford — Greg's getting a Ph.D. in biology, Marroig-Tagle '91. Marc may be reached Michigan's electrical-engineering and com- and I'm working on one, sort of, in compara- at [email protected]. puter-science radiation laboratory while pur- tive literature," Fernanda writes. "The baby is Leo G. Garofalo was awarded Ford suing a Ph.D. Jalene is looking for an elemen- much more compelling, I must say." They may Foundation and Fulbnght fellowships to com- tary teaching position. They may be reached be reached ^t [email protected] plete research m Peru for his doctoral disserta- at 1586 Murfm. Apt. 1. Ann Arbor 48105; and [email protected]. tion m history at the University of Wisconsin (313) 764-1515; buckle(fl)engin. uniich.edu. Jamie F. Metzl has published Western at Madison. He and his wife, Elaina, a mitive Nadirah L Moreland. Hayward, Cahf

Rcspotiici lo Hiitiuin Riglils Abuses in Cambodia: of Peru, will spend a ye.ar there. finished her master's degree at the University i97S-^o (St. Martin's Press). He lived in Cam- Kenneth Gaw and Patricia Tung were of Michigan and is now "finally defi-osting

i bodia for two years, where he worked as a married in Hong Kong on June . Hayley from SIX years of cold winters in Michigan human-rights officer for the United Nations Werner was a bndesmaid. Kenneth is doing and New England." she wntes. She has run Transitional Authonty. investments for the family business, and Patncia into Kwame Denianke '96. Jolene McAuley

Marie O'Neill (see Marion Welch is with an entertainment company expanding '96. and Sue Evans. Nadirah may be reached

O'Neill '62). its regional cineplex and film-distnbution net- at [email protected].

Sarah McFarland Taylor is engaged to work. They would love to hear from friends at marry Kevin Charles Looper (Yale '91) in June. 100261. 1 [email protected]. Sarah has developed a new course. Radical Maryelizabeth Grace received her Ph.D. Spirits and Righteous Discontent: Women in higher-education administration, speciahz- ^995 and Religion in American Culture, which she ing in intercoUegiate-athletics finance, from Jennifer De Lucia is a research teaching began teaching this fall at UC-Santa Barbara. the Univeristy of Florida in August. Betsy has specialist at the Robert Wood Johnson Medi-

She IS completing her Ph.D. in religion and been in Gainesville since 1993, after working cal School of the University of Medicine and

American culture and hopes to return to the for a year as a systems analyst in Washington, Denfistry of New Jersey. She works 111 the

East Coast to teach both religious and women's D.C., with Stephanie Bratiotis. Betsy was HIV culture lab, which is involved in the studies. Sarah may be reached at an assistant to the Lady Gator Track and Field nationwide AIDS Clinical Tnal Group. She

[email protected]. Team that earned fourth place this past year at began the M.P.H. program there this fall. indoor nationals and sent several athletes to Jennifer would love to hear from alums in the

the Olympic trials. She is an adjunct professor area at [email protected]. I99I of anatomy and physiology and the administra- Sallie Lin is working for a planning and tive .issistant for women's sports for the Uni- engineering company based in Kansas City, Melissa Levis has been writing songs for versity of Florida Athletic Association, which Mo., with an office next to Pike Place Market

52 N O V E M B H R I 9 9 6 TOM GARDNER '90 named a fellow of the American Statistical the Rhode Island Optometric Association and

Association in August. He is a chiet research Obituaries served as president of the Wanen Distnct statistician at the National Agricultural Statis- Nursing Association for sixteen years. He was tical Service of the U.S. Department of Agri- Lawrence L. Hall 'is. North Kingstown, a past president of the Warten Rotary Club culture in Fairfax, Va. R. I.; July 25. At los, he was one of Brown's and of the Aguifath Achim Synagogue in Karen Misler '77 A.M. (see '77). oldest alumni and walked in the 1989 Com- Bristol, R.l. Survivors include his wife. Rose, Jim Shepard 'So A.M., Williamstown, mencement Procession. He was a retired 585 Main St., Warren 02885; two daughters; Mass., has published a collection of his short actuanal assistant and departmental paymaster and a son. stones titled B

Tobias Woltfto appear in Tlic Best American War I, he was captain of the track team in his Aut;. 16.

Short Stories ii)l)4. senior year and a member of Sigma Chi. Sur- Ann Marie Jodoin '86 A.M. has joined vivors include a son, Lawrence, 904 E. Lib- AmeUe Zell Richmond '36, Denver; July a group of artists, historians, scholars, and actors, erty Dr., Wheaton. 111. 60187. 10. A retired rancher, she was a past president led by producer and director Louis Burke and of the Fortnightly Club and an active mem- actor lames Earl Jones, to revive the detunct Wallace R. Chandler Jr. 16, Red Bank, ber of the Society of Colonial Dames in Col- American Shakespearean Festival Theatre m N.|.; July 19. After receiving his law degree orado. Sur\ivors include her husband. Dr. Stratford, Conn. After finishing postdoctoral from Harvard in 1921, he was an assistant dis- Gerald Richmond '36, 3950 S. HiUcrest research in speech and drama, Ann Mane spent tnct attorney in Providence. From 1930 to Dr., Denver, Colo. 80237; and four stepchil- '65. time in London with the British Voice Asso- 1 97 1 he practiced with Riker, Danzig, Scherer, dren, including Gerald Jr. ciation. She is president of Professional Com- Hyland & Perretti in Newark, N.J. He was an munique Consultants, a firm whose mission is ensign in the U.S. Navy during World War I. Virginia Gagnon Bolevitch '38, North to improve international communication. Survivors include a daughter. Kingstown, R.L; Aug. 15. She was a teacher John Higgins '87 Ph.D. has, after seven in the Providence school system for tliirtv' yean. years in cancer research, joined the corporate Florence Thomae Colmetz "19, Norton, worid at McNeil CPC in Fort Washington, Mass.; Aug. 4. She was a decorative-painting Eugene W. Cokefair "38, Wiscasset, Maine; Pa., as a senior research scientist and director and stenciling teacher for many years. Previ- May 20. He owned the Madison Pet Shop in of the matenals-characterization department. ously she taught Latin, math, and English in Madison, N.J., for twenty-six years before his

"This shirt and tie are strangling me!" he Milford. N.H., and Newburyport, Mass. She retirement in 1982. Survivors include his writes. was president of her church group and a wife, Gloria, R.R. i, P.O. Box 564, Wiscas- Larissa Taylor '90 Ph.D. received a fel- member of the Attleboro Museum. Survivors set 04578; a son; and a daughter. lowship to study at the Herzog August Bib- include a daughter, Jacquehne Boudreau, 20 liothek in Wolfenbuttel, Germany, in 1997. Freeman St., Norton 02766. Preston H. Hood Jr. '41, Somerset, Mass.; She may be reached at [email protected]. July 21. A ninth-generation descendant of Kohei Kawashima '92 Ph.D. and his Avis Sugden Beach '26, Chatham, Mass.; Roger Williams, he was a lawyer in pnvate

wife, Akiko, announce the birth of their |ulv 1 1 . She founded and was the first presi- practice with Hood & Hood for many years daughter Rinako on May 2. Their new dent of the Pembroke Club of Rochester, before his retirement this year. Since 1947 he address is 3-4-15-209 Koenji-Minami Sugi- N.Y., and was active in the Episcopal church. served as director and most recently as senior nami Tokyo 166, )apan; Ioi390(5),sinet.ad.jp. Survivors include her husband, Raymond vice chairman of the Fall River People's Patricia A. KoUander '92 Ph.D. was '32, 627 Old Harbor Rd., Chatham 026S0; a Cooperative Bank, now the Bank of Fall promoted to associate professor with tenure daughter, Susan Beach Willis '56; and a River. He was a past chairman of the school in Flonda Atlantic University's history depart- son, David '61. committee in Swansea, Mass., where he was ment. Her book Freiicriik III: Gcnnaiiy's Lib- also a volunteer firefighter. He was a member eral Emperor was published by Greenwood Reginald A. Allen '28, Providence; Aug. 3. of the Massachusetts, Bnstol County, and Fall

Press last year. She and her husband, Bruce He w.is a pediatrician for fitty-three years River bar associations. He was a lieutenant in Fuller, live m Boca Raton, Fla. Patricia can before his retirement in 1988. Some ot his the U.S. Navy dunng World War II and a be reached at koUandeCoJacc. fau.edu. later patients were the grandchildren of the member of Sigma Chi fraternity. Survivors children he had cared for in the early part of include his wife, Marilyn, 2500 County St., his career. He was a U.S. Navy veteran of Somerset 02726; a son; and two daughters. MD World War H, serving as a doctor aboard a earner in the Pacific. He was a member of Norton Hirsch '43, Brewster, Mass.; Aug. Mark Musen '80 M.D. (see "77). the American Academy of Pediatncs and the 14. of cancer. He was vice president of the

Jill Wiener Quentzel '82 M.D. (see '79). New England Pediatnc Society. Survivors Ballred Floor Covenng Co. in East Provi- Robin Asher '8s M.D. (see "82). include his wife, Annette, 297 Watemian St., dence, R.L, for titty years before his retire- Nadine Cartwright '85 M.D. (see "82). Providence, R.l. 02906. ment last year. He was a tbnner reunion chair John Hoy '93 M.D. (see Davies W. and class marshal, and with his wife founded Bissetjr. "52). Lois Nuzum Devore '30, Stockton, NJ.; the Hirsch Family Book Fund at Brown in Jenny Hua '93 M.D., Kay Chang '92 Aug. 8. She was a laboratory technician and 1985. He was a U.S. Army veteran of World M.D.. Kimberly Townsend '93 M.D., research bacteriologist at various offices in War II and served with the 416th Bomb Howard Komstein '93 M.D., and Anthony New Jersey before setting up a private medi- Squad. Sur\'ivors include his wife, Doris Lonibardi '93 M.D. (seejenny Hua '89). cal lab in Princeton. She was a past president Fain Hirsch '44, 15 Overlook Ln., Brewster of her local Parent Teacher Association and 02631; a brother-in-law, Bernard I. Fain vice president ot her community' league. Sur- '52; a son, John '74; and a daughter. vivors include her son, Richard, 90 Federal Twist Rd., Stockton 08SS9. Cmdr. Robert H. Curtin 44. Fairfax. Va.; Dec. 2, 1993. A U.S. Navy veteran of World Leo Jacobson '30. Warren, R.L; Aug. 31. War II, he served aboard the USS Zellars in He was an optometnst for fifty years before the Pacific and remained in the service until his retirement in 1988. He was a member of his retirement. He was a member of the first

54 • NOVEMBER I996 NROTC group to graduate from Brown, w.is a district sales manager for American Air- teacher at Colegio San Antonio in Humacao, •uid during his career worked in the naval lines in Dallas. He was a member of Sigma Puerto Rico; a dean's assistant at Tougaloo nuclear-propulsion trainnig unit in Idaho Nu fraternity. Sun'ivors include his wife, College; an administrative analyst at UC-

Falls. Idaho, and at the Pentagon. He was June. 2208 Fiesta Dr.. Troy 4S373; and three Santa Cruz; and an assistant to the dean of captain ot' the varsir,- baseball team in his children. academic affairs at Brown. Phi Beta Kappa. senior and junior years. Sur\'ivors include his Survivors include his partner. (Jeotf Booth, 1 wite, Ann. ySiy Ashby Rd., Fairta.x 22031; Maitland McLarin so. Mountain Lakes. Mira Flores Ln., Tiburon 94920. and a brother. Richard '37. NJ.; Dec. 20. He was a retired software engineer for Orbiting National Obser\'atories in James S. Coles, New York City; June 13. A Garfield S. Chase Jr. '4^. Wolfeboro, Red Bank, NJ. Previously he worked for recipient of the President's Certificate of N.H.; July 24. He was m the antiques busi- General Electric as a checkout engineer in the Merit for his work on antisubmarine warfare ness for twentN' years. Previously he was in Apollo support division and for Lockheed Air- during World War II, he worked for the business-machine sales for the Victor Comp- craft Corp. in the aircraft and spacecraft elec- Underwater Explosives Research Laboratones tometer Corp. in Waltham. M.iss., and the tronics-systems testing department. He was a in Woods Hole, Mass.. before coming to

Monroe Calculation Machine C"o. in Boston. member ot the Institute ot Aeronautics Sci- Brown as a chemistry professor in 1 946. At

.\ U.S. .'\miy veteran of World War II. he ences and the Amencan Rocket Society. Sur- Brown he helped revise the chemisti-y depart- ser\'ed in the 10th Mountain Division in Italy, vivors include his wife, Nancy, 16 Litdewood ment's cumculum and was acting Dean of the the Phihppmes. and during the Japanese Ct., Mountain Lakes 07046; a son; and a College in 1951. He went on to become occupation. Survivors include his wife, Con- daughter. president of Bowdoin College and lead the stance Lucas Chase "44. P.O. Box 12 17, Research Corp., a private foundation for the Wolfeboro 03S94: a brother, Elwood "37; Lawrence L. Humphreys '51, Fort Laud- advancement of science and technology in three sons; a daughter; stepsons Jef&ey erdale. Fla.; July 17. He was a senior account Tucson, Ariz. While at Bowdoin he oversaw Heidt "67 and Peter Heidt '6y; and a step- executive for Memll Lynch for many years. He the revision of its curriculum and bolstered daughter. was an avid tennis player and sailor. Survivors programs to help low-income students. At include his brother. William. P.O. Box 316, the Research Institute he managed projects Benjamin A. Joelson '48. Beverly Hills. Isleshoro, Maine 04848; and two daughters. for nutntion research and medical mycology

Cahf ; Aug. 24, of complications from lung and helped the foundation increase its assets disease. A television writer and producer, he Harriet Waterman Lutes '55. Portland, from $1 1 miUion to $46 million. He was a began his career writing for "Candid Cam- Maine; July 22. She was a chemist with fellow of the American Academy of Arts and era" and "The Robert Q. Lewis Show" on Polaroid Corp. in Cambridge, Mass., and is Sciences and a former trustee of the Woods CBS. With Art Baer. he cowrote more than hsted on several patents for color film. She Hole Oceanographic Institute. Survivors 100 scripts for such shows as "Gomer Pyle," was also a professional modem dancer and include his wife, Cecily Cannan Selby Coles; "Get Sman." "The Odd Couple," "Thejef- studied with the Martha Graham Dance a daughter; two sons; and three stepchildren. fersons," and "Hogan's Heroes." From 1977 Company in Boston. Previously she was a to 1985 Joelson and Baer wrote and produced perfonning member of the Ann Arbor Con- William A. Ward. Providence; Sept. 13. of "The Love Boat" for Aaron Spelling Produc- temporar)- Dance Group and a member of an aortic aneurysm. Before coming to Brown tions. Joelson also wrote variety shows for the Ram Island Dance Company. She as a visiting professor of Egyptology ten years such stars as Victor Borge, Perry Como, and received the Deborah Morton Award for dis- ago, he taught in Beirut, Lebanon, for Jim Nabors and earned an Emmy Award in tinguished professional and civic service in twenty-eight years, first at the Beirut College 1972 for his work on Carol Burnett's show. 19S8 and was president of the Victoria Soci- tor Women and then at the American Uni- He estabhshed the Benjarmn A. Joelson ety of Maine from 1987 to 1989. She was also versity of Beirut, where he chaired the Scholarship at Brown in 1982. Survivors president of the Museum Guild and in 1993 department of religious studies and was an include his wife, Rhoda. 908 N. Beverly Dr., cofounded the Maine Equits' Chapter, a non- associate dean. At Brown he had directed the Beverly Hills 90210; brothers Robert '43 and profit advocacy group for diversity and equal program in ancient studies for the past five George '43; a son; a daughter. Melissa '85; opportunity. In her junior year she was prom years and drew many new students into and a niece, Amy Joelson Fisher '80. queen of Pembroke Spnng Weekend and Egyptology'. He specialized in Egyptian his- received the University's chemistry prize. She tory and archaeology, comparative religions

James E. DuBois '50, Providence; June 4. was a generous supporter of Brown's libraries, of the ancient Near East, and the Phoenician A former member of the BAXFs board of edi- dance program, and Annual Fund. Survivors language. He wrote seven books and more tors, he was a former vice president and cre- include her husband. Chris '54, 36s Spnng than sixty scholarly articles and was coauthor ative director with the Horton, Church & St., Portland 04102; four sons, including of many others. He was a coeditor of Ber)'!ui Gotf advertising agency for many years, retir- Chris Jr. '83. Justin 90, and Jonathan '91; ArcluKological Studies and was an editorial assis- ing in 1986. He was a member of the Shel- and a daughter, Jessica '87. tant for the Aihlior Bible Didionary. A model- bume, Mass., Histoncal Society and the First railroad enthusiast and Phoenician-coin col- Unitarian Church of Providence. A hiking Steven V. Hershenow '62, West Hartford, lector, he taught at the Brown Learning enthusiast, he was a member of the Conn.; July 9. A graduate of Tufts Medical Conmiunity, lectured at local schools, and Appalachian Mountain Club. He was a U.S. School, he was a lecturer in medicine at Har- was a volunteer English instnictor for Inter-

Na\y veteran of World War II and survived vard Medical School and was a physician in national House. He is survived by his wife, the sinking of the aircraft earner Si. Lo in the pnvate practice in Boston and then West Ula, and sLx children. O^ Battle of Leyte Gulf in the Philippines. Sur- Hartford. He was a veteran of the U.S. Air vivors include his wit'e, Sara, 272 President Force. ser\'ing at Plattsbutg Air Force Base, Ave.. Providence, R.I. 02906; a son. Ethan N.Y. Survivors include two sons. '76: a daughter; a sister-in-law, Elizabeth

'3 '72, Shaw Williams s; and a daughter-in-law, Gary G. Babcock Tiburon, Calif ; July

Linda Borges DuBois '76. I, of AIDS. He founded and was president of Computer Assisted Learning Corp. and Richard T. Jones Jr. "50, Troy, Ohio; Feb. worked briefly as a publications specialist for 24. ot cancer. He was a manager for Emery Oracle Corp. in Redwood Shores, Calif Pre- Air Freight in Vandaha. Ohio. Previously he viously he was a physics and chemistry

U R O W N .M U M N I MONTHLY • 55 Finally... BY ELISE SPRUNT SHEFFIELD '84

Candidate Mom

I'll run for the Virginia legislature if you will," sweet-talked the love ot my

life. No big deal. Run cheap. Keep the big guys honest. A three-month civic-duty

fling.

"Get a third person on the slate," I

replied, "or no deal." That's how I ended up running for office last November

when I could have been home reading Babar. My husband, Eric, and our friend Stephanie ran for the House of Delegates,

and I headed the ticket as the Green Party candidate for the Virginia Senate. We knew nothing about campaign- ing, but by kickoff time we had slogans, speeches, and a party platform with CHRIS BURRELL enough planks to build a barn. The only thing we didn't have was money. In keeping with our advocacy of campaign- your only chance to register your dissent. the hot-air balloons, elephants, steam

finance reform, we limited contributions At campaign forums I said exactly locomotives, and biplanes puUing ban-

to $100, mothers of candidates included. what I meant. Yes, I'm for term linuts, en- ners. All for an $18,000 part-time job. By Labor Day we had $1,025.59 in our vironmental regulation, increased spend- The last days heated up, and good collective war chest. We paid for 15,000 ing on education, and gun control. No, news: I was making enemies left and brochures, 800 posters, and two pairs of I'm not in favor of the death penalty, ever, right. The incumbent began taking swipes

pantyhose and hit the trail. or Virginia's brand of welfare reform. at me. By golly, he was nervous. The his That's when I discovered I was preg- Some voters liked what I said or, at least, other challenger turned unctuous,

nant. how I sounded. "It was so good to hear young staff patronizing. "Ever considered

I Election special, I wanted to shout, your voice," one woman told me. "That running for school board, Elise?" But

vote for one, get the other free! But the other candidate was barking at us." Others knew something they didn't. I had earned

little upstart, I decided, would stay under didn't care for my ideas, but liked my can- a loyalty close to one of their hearts.

wraps. Then came my first campaign invi- dor and how it put the other candidates Very close. "Oh, Elise, I'd vote for you in

tation. Speak to 500 cattle farmers? No on the spot. But winning respect, I a heartbeat," confided a middle-aged problem. Face their 500 plates of steaming quickly learned, had little to do with win- woman in a nicely tailored suit, "if only

barbecue?You've got to be kidding. In the ning votes. "Breath of fresh air," I heard you weren't running against my husband." Election Day. early weeks of my pregnancy I couldn't more than once, "but I can't vote for you And then it was We ." posters in front of every even look a potato in the eye. because . . pounded our last cast But soon I perked up. I got a couple Meanwhile, our home was a wreck: precinct. We shook a few hands, of power dresses from a thrift shop, finance reports, surveys, clippings every- our own votes. Thirty-five hundred miles, latched on some pearls, shined my pumps, where. Our two-year-old was not amused. fourteen forums, ten TV features, nine

and lit out with my bag of Saltmes. At bath time she worked out the personal radio interviews, sixty-three newspaper

The district territory is huge: four dynamics with the shampoo bottles. articles, and four prenatal checkups later, " sprawling counties, acres of farnJand and 'Granny,' said the mommy, 'here, take it was over. " national forest, a couple small cities, and care of my dear sweet child. Bye.' The OK, so we got only 2,019 votes. Three

dozens of crossroads with names like tall bottle and the small bottle wobbled percent, the radio reminded me, as I drove those ChurchviUe, Bustleburg, and Dooms. I off, leaving the mom bottle staring at the around pulling up posters. Save

made the rounds. I talked to reporters, drain. posters, my beloved urged, for next time. nurses, Dupont factory workers. Republi- As the campaign cranked into its final Yeah, right. Wearily, I tossed the posters in

can lawyers, small-town feminists, and a weeks, I had just two outfits that still fit. the back of the car and drove home. That's

Shaklee vitamin group. I explained why it Yes, a tight race all around. My two senate when I felt the baby kick. Ov

was worth running even if I didn't have a rivals thought so, too. They shelled out chance, why voting for a loser made more than $100,000 each for ads, calls, Elise SpninI Sheffield lives with her husband

sense. Here in the land ofJerry Falwell, it's and slick slam mailings, not to mention and IH'O dtiin;hteis near Biieiia I 'ista, I 'iri;iiii,i.

56 NOVEMBER I996 "

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