Emery R. Walker was Dean of Admission from 1946 to 1957, and was followed by Lloyd W. Cornell, Dean of Admission and Financial Aid in 1957-58 and Director of Financial Aid from 1958 to 1969, Charles V. Doebler, Director of Admission from 1958 to 1969, and for the women students, Eva A. Mooar from 1947 to 1953, Alberta F. Brown from 1954 to 1970.Admission
Aldrich-Dexter Field, consisting of thirty-nine acres within the stone wall along Hope Street, Stimson Avenue, Angell Street, Arlington Avenue, and Lloyd Avenue, was purchased in 1957 as an athletic facility for the University.Aldrich-Dexter Field
After lengthy proceedings the sale of the land by sealed bids on September 26, 1957 was authorized.Aldrich-Dexter Field
In 1957 the classes of 1949, 1950, and 1951 joined in a similar celebration of their off-year on-campus reunion in a tent, with activities for the whole family.Alumni Field Day
In 1957 and 1958 Ulf Grenander was professor of probability and statistics.Applied Mathematics
Elizabeth H. Leduc, who came in 1945 as assistant, became an assistant professor in 1953, associate professor in 1957, and professor in 1964, the first woman full professor in a teaching position.Biology
Walter J. Kenworthy joined the department in 1951, Richard J. Goss in 1952, Richard Ellis in 1956, George W. Hagy in 1957, and Seymour Lederberg in 1958.Biology
In 1957 the Brown Key amended its constitution, changed its stated purpose from an honor society to a service organization, the members of which would be elected from a ballot of forty men chosen on the basis of interviews.Brown Key
David Jonah, Librarian of the University and one of a three-man committee to select works to be published, ran the Press out of his office from about 1957 to 1963, when a full-time staff became necessary.Brown University Press
Rosalie L. Colie's published works included "Some Thankfulness to Constantine: A Study of English Influence upon the Work of Constantine Huygens" in 1956, "Light and Enlightenment: A Study of the Cambridge Platonists and the Dutch Arminians" in 1957, and "Paradoxia Epidemica" in 1966.Colie, Rosalie L.
The cricket club he formed fielded a team of six seniors, four juniors, and a sophomore in 1957.Cricket
The short-lived cricket experiment ended with the departure of Chorley in 1957.Cricket
In November 1957 teams from 42 schools from ten states and Canada came to Brown for a debate on "Open Shop for the Labor Union."Debating
The Master of Arts in Teaching degree was introduced in 1957.Degrees
The shows produced in 1956, "Barney ’n Me," and in 1957, "Fiddle-De-Dee," had books and lyrics by future Oscar-winner Alfred F. Uhry ’58.Dramatics
Professor Stoltz later served as chairman from 1957 to 1964, and went on to become Provost and acting President of Brown.Economics
In the 1950s the department grew through the addition of faculty members George H. Borts in 1950, Jerome L. Stein in 1953, Michael J. Brennan in 1957, Phillip D. Cagan in 1958, and Martin J. Beckmann and Mark B. Schupack in 1959.Economics
In 1957, with a grant from the Fund for the Advancement of Education, Brown was able to institute a new program leading to the degree of Master of Arts in Teaching.Education
New additions to the faculty of the department were Roberta Kellogg in 1957, Reginald Archambault in 1965, and Herman Eschenbacher in 1967.Education
In 1957 a new room in the basement was opened as a self-service lunchroom and later in the afternoon as an informal cocktail lounge, for which the principal ingredients were stored by faculty members in rented lockers.Faculty Club
A chance to rejuvenate the Brown chapter came with the initiation in 1957 of Wallace Terry ’59, Arthur Lamb ’59, Wortham Baskerville ’58, and Joel Stokes ’58.Fraternities
F. Donald Eckelmann came in 1957 and became chairman in 1961.Geology
For fifteen years Mayo D. Hersey was employed by the National Bureau of Standards, and he also served as a consultant to the Manhattan Project at Columbia during World War II and worked for the Naval Engineering Experiment Station at Annapolis from 1947 to 1957.Hersey, Mayo D.
After retirement from government service in 1957 Mayo D. Hersey returned to Brown as visiting professor in engineering.Hersey, Mayo D.
On the occasion of the Brown hockey team’s visit to Harvard’s new Donald C. Watson Rink in 1957, the Brown Club of Boston presented a plaque which commemorated the first game and generously omitted the score.Hockey
Reinhard Kuhn received his bachelor of arts degree in 1952, his master of arts in 1954, and his Ph.D. in 1957, all from Princeton.Kuhn, Reinhard
Robert Bruce Lindsay published a number of textbooks, among them, "Acoustics – A Text on Theory and Applications" with G. W. Stewart in 1934, "Physical Mechanics" in 1933, "Foundations of Physics" with Henry Margenau in 1936, "Concepts and Methods of Theoretical Physics" in 1951 (with a Japanese translation published in 1957).Lindsay, Robert Bruce
In 1957 Brown was selected as one of fourteen child-study centers by the National Collaborative Study of Cerebral Palsy, Mental Retardation and Other Sensory and Psychological Defects.Medical education
Other officers who headed the Air Science Department were Col. Gilbert E. Goodman from 1955 to 1957, Lt. Col. George W. Hutcheson from 1958 to 1960, Major Arthur E. Allen from 1960 to 1961, Lt. Col. William J. Grundmann from 1962 to 1966, Major Robert G. Liotta from 1966 to 1969, and Capt.Military education
Later invitations to apply for accreditation in 1953 and 1957 were not pursued.Nursing program
The "News Letter" was edited by Gertrude Allen McConnell ’10 until her retirement in 1955, and then by Doris Hopkins Stapelton ’28 until 1957.Pembroke Alumna
Editors of the "Pembroke Alumna" were Polly Welts Kaufman ’51 from October 1957 to January 1968, Sally Kappelman Riggs ’62 from April 1968 to July 1971, after which the "Pembroke Alumna" merged with the "Brown Alumni Monthly."Pembroke Alumna
His many humorous books included "Dawn Ginsbergh’s Revenge," which was published anonymously in 1929, "Parlor, Bedlam and Bath" in 1930, "Crazy Like a Fox" in 1944, "The Swiss Family Perelman" in 1950, and "The Road to Miltown" in 1957.Perelman, S. J.
Three Brown physics professors served as president of the Society, Lindsay in 1957, Robert W. Morse, who came to Brown in 1946, in 1966, and Robert T. Beyer, who came to Brown in 1950, in 1968.Physics
In 1957 Williams was able to bring in Leon Cooper in solid state theory.Physics
Among the faculty members he recruited were Trygg Engen (olfactory research) in 1954, Anthony Davids (behavior pathology of children) and Russell M. Church (perception and judgment of time) in 1955, Lewis Lipsitt (developmental research and founder of the Child Study Center) in 1957, Allan M. Schrier (primate behavior) in 1958, and Bryan E. Shepp (comparative studies of thinking and judgment) in 1964.Psychology
With the help of a National Science Foundation grant in 1957 the department expanded, and at the time of Quinn’s retirement in 1968 had a staff of ten.Quinn, Alonzo W.
In 1928 K. Brooke Anderson came to Brown as executive secretary of the Brown Christian Association, and remained in that position until his retirement in 1957.Religious Societies
Reverend Sam H. Newcomer served as executive secretary of the Brown Christian Association from 1957 to 1963.Religious Societies
In 1957-58 there were two full-time faculty members, and for a long time the emphasis had been on the teaching of Biblical literature and the history of religions.Religious Studies
In the spring of 1957 a constitution for a women’s intercollegiate sailing association was drawn up at Brown and presented to Wheaton College and Connecticut College for Women.Sailing
In 1983 Brown won the New England fall championships for the first time since 1957, when Ted Turner ’60 sailed for Brown.Sailing
Kurt B. Mayer became chairman of the department in 1957, and was succeeded by Sidney Goldstein in 1963.Sociology
As an economist Stoltz was chosen to head the Special Providence Committee on Municipal Revenue in 1957 and served on the Rhode Island Fiscal Study Commission in 1961.Stoltz, Merton P.
Philip Taft was the author of numerous articles and fourteen books on the labor movement, among them, "The Structure and Government of Labor Unions" in 1954, "The AFL in the Time of Gompers" in 1957, "Organized Labor in American History" in 1964, and "Labor Politics, American Style" in 1968.Taft, Philip
The next year Otto Van Koppenhagen was appointed to the regular staff of the Department of Music, and in 1957 he was named associate professor of music (artist), a title used for the first time at Brown to distinguish a professor who is a performing musician from one involved in teaching and research.Van Koppenhagen, Otto