Encyclopedia Brunoniana

1974

  • In 1974 seven of the 9,441 applicants, all high scorers on Latin proficiency tests, received their letters of acceptance in Latin in the style of Cicero, written by classics professor John Rowe Workman.Admission
  • Alan P. Maynard, who had been Director of Financial Aid since 1974, retired in 1987; James H. Rogers, who had been Director of Admission since 1969, resigned in 1988; and Eric Widmer was named Dean of Admission and Financial Aid.Admission
  • The event was renamed Brown Field Day in 1974.Alumni Field Day
  • From 1970 to 1974 the house at 159 George Street was Alumni House.Alumni House
  • In 1974 the Alumni offices moved into the Maddock Alumni Center.Alumni House
  • In the 1970s the department was enlarged by the arrival of William O. Beeman in 1973, Marida C. Hollos in 1974, and Lina M. Fruzzetti in 1975.Anthropology
  • The Center was dedicated to Lefschetz in August, 1974.Applied Mathematics
  • In college he was All-Ivy and All-EIBL in 1973 and 1974, and after playing for the Padres, he returned to Brown as coach in 1992, replacing Frank Castelli, who had coached in 1991 and 1992.Baseball
  • Brown’s two All-Americans are David DeLuca ’64, who led New England batters in 1964 with a .397 average, and Bill Almon ’75, who was named College Baseball Player of the Year in 1974, when he batted .350, made ten home runs, batted in 31 runs, and stole twenty bases.Baseball
  • Under coach James G. "Gerry" Alaimo ’58 the team improved slowly, and in 1972-73 had its first winning season since 1959-60, as five sophomores, Phil Brown ’75, Jim Busam ’75, Vaughan Clarke ’75, Lloyd Desvigne ’75, and Eddie Morris ’75, finished 14-12 and third in the Ivy League, and went on to 17-9 and a tie for second in the league in 1973-74, and 14-12 and a tie for third in 1974-75.Basketball
  • In the first year of intercollegiate competition since the 1960s the women’s team, led by Sara Diedrick ’76, compiled a 13-1 record in 1973-74, and on February 16, 1974, with Providence College, was one of the first woman’s athletic teams to compete in the Providence Civic Center.Basketball
  • The Brown women were 16-4 in 1974-75 and 13-7 in 1975-76.Basketball
  • In Ivy League competition the women’s team finished in second place in 1974-75.Basketball
  • The "Herald," still in debt after a 1974 operating loss of $10,000, began an alumni subscription drive, filed claims against its creditors, and sought incorporation under the laws of Rhode Island.BDH Brown Daily Herald
  • It was destroyed on July 29, 1974, in a fire allegedly set by a twelve-year old boy.Boat House
  • "Cities in Revolt: Urban Life in America, 1743-1776," in 1955, "Mitre and Sceptre: Transatlantic Faith, Ideas, Personalities, and Politics," in 1962, "Vexed and Troubled Englishmen, 1590-1642," in 1968, "Fat Mutton and Liberty of Conscience: Society in Rhode Island, 1636-1690," in 1974, "The Spirit of ’76: the Growth of American Patriotism before Independence," in 1975, "Jamestown, 1544-1699," in 1980, and "Early Americans," in 1981.Bridenbaugh, Carl
  • Bridge-Prop is the title given to the sculpture on the College Green near Faunce House, executed by Henry Moore and given to the University in 1974 by Mr. and Mrs. David Finn of New Rochelle, New York, the parents of three Brown students.Bridge-Prop
  • Moore visited the campus in May 1974 to view the sculpture and officiate at the opening of an exhibition in the List Art Building of photographs which David Finn had taken of it.Bridge-Prop
  • Charles Wilson Brown (1874-1974), professor of geology, was born in what is now Overton, Nebraska, on August 11, 1874.Brown, Charles Wilson
  • Charlie Brown died in Providence on August 11, 1974, just three weeks short of his one hundredth birthday.Brown, Charles Wilson
  • Harcourt Brown was one of the founders of the "Annals of Science," and served as associate editor from 1935 to 1974.Brown, Harcourt
  • One hundred and fifty years later a different type of Brown Medical Association was formed in 1974 in connection with the new medical program.Brown Medical Association
  • Bryant’s administration building at 154 Hope Street, which had been named Taft for its first owner Robert W. Taft, was renamed King House in 1974 in honor of Lida Shaw King, former dean of Pembroke College.Bryant College
  • In 1974 it became the Brown-Fox Point Day care center, a bilingual facility for children of Brown students and staff and other community families.Bryant College
  • Gardner Hall, a dormitory built on Power Street in 1960, was renamed Perkins Hall in 1974 in honor of Judge Fred B. Perkins ’19.Bryant College
  • Jacobs Hall on Young Orchard Avenue, built in 1956, was renamed Theodore Francis Green Hall in honor of Senator Green 1887 in 1974.Bryant College
  • Previous proposals had been defeated in 1974 and 1977, but polls had shown the a majority of the students wanted to have first-semester examinations scheduled before Christmas.Calendar
  • In a five-year plan written by the Office of Institutional Research in 1974, the University affirmed its intention of non-expansion of land area and its policy of intensifying usage of already acquired property.Campus
  • The Pembroke College property was extended to the east, and the dormitory quadrangle of Champlin and Morriss Halls and Emery and Woolley Halls were built in the early 1960s and New Pembroke was built on Thayer Street in 1974.Campus
  • Professor Carberry has been the subject of articles in a number of periodicals, including the "New York Times," which proclaimed him "The World’s Greatest Traveler" on the front page of its Sunday travel section in 1974, and in "Yankee" magazine, where he was "The Absent-Bodied Professor" in 1975.Carberry, Josiah S.
  • The scope of the program was described in the University catalogue for 1985-87: The first undergraduate concentration in the country in Semiotics, the study of signs and systems of communication, was established by the Department of English in 1974 in response to student interest.Center for Modern Culture and Media
  • There were four concentrators in 1974.Center for Modern Culture and Media
  • With his office at St. Stephen’s Church Reverend Wylie served until 1958, and was followed by Canon Crocker from 1959 to 1969, and Rev. Sheldon Flory from 1970 to 1974.Chapel
  • A difference over the ecumenical nature of the services caused the removal of the services to Manning Chapel in April 1974.Chapel
  • Reverend David Ames became the new Episcopal chaplain in 1974 and brought the University Church back to St. Stephen’s in 1975, where it remained until 1980.Chapel
  • The first chaplain for minority students was Geoffrey Black, appointed in 1974.Chapel
  • In 1973 Professor Clapp and in 1974 Professor John O. Edwards received the Manufacturing Chemists Award for excellence in teaching chemistry, and in 1974 Professor Cole received the Irving Langmuir Prize, this country’s highest award in chemical physics, for his work in dielectrics.Chemistry
  • The Child Study Center was established in 1967, as a result of a study begun ten years earlier, when Brown participated in the National Collaborative Project, which until 1974 collected information on 50,000 children from birth to the age of eight.Child Study Center
  • "Clio," subtitled "A journal of history," appeared in the fall of 1974, announcing that "CLIO is an autonomous organization affiliated with the History Department of Brown University and the Brown University History Society," committed to the publication of outstanding and controversial works of historical scholarship by Brown undergraduates.Clio
  • The College Venture Program began in 1974 as a pilot program financed by the Braitmayer Foundation to help students who needed or wanted to drop out of college temporarily.College Venture Program
  • The position of Dean of the College was reestablished in 1974 with Thomas F. Bechtel, who had been Dean of Counseling, as acting dean, followed by Walter Massey from 1975 to 1979, Harriet Sheridan from 1979 to 1987, Sheila Blumstein from 1987 to 1997, Nancy Dunbar from 1998 through December 2000, and Paul Armstrong from January 2001 through June 2006.Dean
  • An engineer and physicist who had been on the faculty since 1969 and had served as chairman of the Faculty Policy Group, he was appointed Dean of the Graduate School in 1974, and in 1975 was also named Acting Dean of the Faculty and Academic Affairs, succeeding Jacqueline A. Mattfeld, who had held that position since 1974, and had previously been Dean of Academic Affairs from 1971 to 1974.Dean
  • The Deans of the Graduate School since that time have been Barnaby C. Keeney from 1949 to 1953, Robert Bruce Lindsay from 1954 to 1966, Michael J. Brennan from 1966 to 1974, Maurice Glicksman from 1974 to 1976, and Ernest S. Frerichs from 1976 to 1982.Dean
  • Gordon Rohde Dewart (1920-1974), professor of French and associate dean of academic affairs, was born in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, on July 4, 1920.Dewart, Gordon R.
  • Gordon R. Dewart died suddenly in Providence, after being stricken at the University Club, on April 20, 1974.Dewart, Gordon R.
  • John Lucas took over as producer in 1971, and served in that capacity until 1974.Dramatics
  • New faculty members in the 1970s included Allan Feldman in 1971, J. Vernon Henderson and William Poole in 1974, and in the 1980s Louis Putterman in 1980, Rajiv Vohra in 1983, Oded Galor and Robert Moffitt in 1984, Peter Garber in 1985, Talbot Page in 1986, Anthony Lancaster in 1987, and Mark Pitt in 1989.Economics
  • The English Department of the 1940s was recalled by Mark Spilka ’49 in his address to Phi Beta Kappa in 1974: Later additions to the faculty were Albert D. Van Nostrand in 1951, James O. Barnhill in 1953, Hyatt H. Waggoner and Barbara K. Lewalski in 1956, R. Verlin Cassill, John C. B. Hawkes, and David Krause in 1958, Charles H. Nichols in 1960, David H. Hirsch in 1961, James E. Schevill and John Shroeder in 1968, Michael S. Harper and Robert E. Scholes in 1970.English
  • In 1974 the report of the Committee on Plans and Resources recommended that undergraduate registration be limited to 5,150.Enrollment
  • In the 1970s a large majority of the faculty was still male, when Louise Lamphere, an assistant professor of anthropology who had not been granted tenure in 1974, brought a class-action suit against Brown University, charging sex discrimination in hiring, promotion, renewal of contracts, and granting of tenure.Faculty
  • Debbie Field coached in 1974.Field Hockey
  • In 1974 the club acquired a new glider with better performance, and moved to North Central Airport in Lincoln, Rhode Island.Flying Club
  • The Anderson years were better, as his teams finished 4-3-1 in 1973, 5-4 in 1974 and 6-2-1 in 1975.Football
  • In 1974 Richard Salomon ’32 assisted the annual Brown Fund with a challenge grant of $500,000, which matched increases in donors’ gifts and gifts from those who had not subscribed the year before.Fund-raising
  • The record-breaking years for the Brown Fund in 1974-75 and 1975-76 won for Brown the U. S. Steel Alumni Giving Incentive Award.Fund-raising
  • In 1974 the Henry L. and Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation offered $500,000 for a chair of oceanography, provided the University would raise $250,000.Geology
  • Leland M. Goodrich was also the author of "The United Nations in a Changing World" in 1974.Goodrich, Leland M.
  • Following Dean Richardson, the deans of the Graduate School have been Barnaby C. Keeney from 1949 to 1953, Robert Bruce Lindsay from 1954 to 1966, Michael J. Brennan from 1966 to 1974, Maurice Glicksman from 1974 to 1976, Ernest S. Frerichs from 1976 to 1982, Mark B. Schupack from 1983 to 1986, and Phillip J. Stiles (as Dean of the Graduate School and Dean of Research) since 1986.Graduate School
  • In 1974, in recognition of his life’s work in tribology and its significance in alleviating the energy shortage, Mayo D. Hersey was awarded a gold medal by a group of British engineering societies.Hersey, Mayo D.
  • In Soares’s final game on February 6, 1974, the team received eleven penalties, injured three Harvard players, and lost the game 6-1, all of which resulted in the replacement of Soares by freshman coach Dick Toomey.Hockey
  • Coach Toomey’s record from 1974 to 1978 was 73-44-2.Hockey
  • Goalie Kevin McCabe’s ’77 career record of 43-20 from 1974 to 1977 still stands.Hockey
  • After seven years of no hockey at Brown and an informal team in 1946-47, the coaches were Westcott E. S. Moulton from 1947 to 1952, Donald Whiston from 1952 to 1955, James Fullerton from 1955 to 1970, J. Allan Soares from 1970 to 1974, Richard Toomey from 1974 to 1978, Paul Schilling from 1978 to 1982, Herbert Hammond from 1982 to 1988, and Bob Gaudet, whose four-year record frow 1988 to 1992 was 15-19-6.Hockey
  • In 1974 a team from John Abbott College of Quebec visited Brown, and was twice defeated by the Pandas.Hockey
  • Dom Starsia ’74, who never saw a lacrosse game before he came to Brown, was All-American in 1973 and 1974, and in his senior year captain of his team in both the North-South All-Star and the New England All-Star games.Lacrosse
  • Women’s lacrosse began in earnest in 1974 with Dale Philippi as coach.Lacrosse
  • Van Hoesen from 1930 to 1949, David A. Jonah from 1949 to 1974, Charles D. Churchwell from 1974 to 1979, C. James Schmidt from 1979 to 1982, and Merrily Taylor since 1982.Library
  • Children of both donors, Amy Leeds 1974 and Samson Ashamu 1979, had studied at Brown.Lyman Hall
  • The center was dedicated on May 1, 1974 and named for Paul L. Maddock ’33, principal donor to the cost of the renovation.Maddock Alumni Center
  • In 1974 William Ermey replaced Robert Molison as director of the University Chorus and the Chamber Choir.Musical Clubs
  • New Pembroke, a new style of dormitory complex, was built in 1974.New Pembroke
  • Stiles served as chairman of the department from 1974 to 1980, and was succeeded by Charles Elbaum who was named Hazard professor in 1991.Physics
  • In 1974 William Prager was elected a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences at Paris, the highest honor in France for a scientist who is not a French citizen.Prager, William
  • Women’s crew began in the spring of 1974.Rowing
  • In the only meet of 1974 the crew outrowed Assumption College, Holy Cross, and Clark University on Lake Quinsigamond.Rowing
  • The 1974 team, led by Phil McMorrow ’75 (21 tries in eleven games), won the Ivy League championship.Rugby
  • Since 1974, when the boat house presented by the Class of 1907 in 1937 was destroyed by fire, the club has sailed out of the Edgewood Yacht Club on Narragansett Bay.Sailing
  • Smiley viewed his last eclipse in Providence in 1974.Smiley, Charles H.
  • The 1974 team won another Ivy title and was defeated by the University of Connecticut in the NCAA regional playoffs.Soccer
  • Sororities did not reappear on campus until 1974, when fourteen black women undergraduates.Sororities
  • New Pembroke with rooms for 200 students was built on Thayer Street in 1974.Student housing
  • When Brown’s 1974-75 team won the New England championships at the Brown pool, Burrows took three individual events for three new records, the 200 and 400 individual medleys and the 200 butterfly.Swimming
  • Florence Filippo coached in 1971 and 1972, and Lynda Calkins from 1974 to 1978.Swimming
  • The women’s tennis team had its first undefeated season, 9-0 in the fall of 1974, followed by more successful seasons in the spring of 1975, 7-0, and the fall of 1975, 5-1, with the help of Nancy Fuld ’76 and Nancy Lewis ’77.Tennis
  • Before this happened he had to leave, retiring in 1974.Track
  • Doug Terry followed Fuqua in 1974.Track
  • In 1974 two women students, Karen Zaccor ’78 and Andrea Thach ’77, wanted to start track and cross country for women.Track
  • Even though there were 1,213 people enrolled in 65 extension courses in 1974-75, University Extension was suspended in 1975 as part of the University’s solution to the fiscal emergency at that time.University Extension
  • Professor Basil Zimmer of Sociology reorganized the Urban Studies Program in 1974 and was chairman until 1986.Urban Studies
  • Hyatt H. Waggoner's other books included "William Faulkner: From Jefferson to the World" in 1959, "Emerson as Poet" in 1974, and "American Visionary Poetry" in 1982.Waggoner, Hyatt H.
  • The report was accepted by the Corporation in February 1974.Watson Report
  • Karl S. Weimar published "Concept of Love in the Works of Hermann Stehr" in 1945, "German Language and Literature" in 1974, and "Views and Reviews of Modern German Literature" in 1975.Weimar, Karl S.
  • The wrestling coaches who followed Anderton were John F. Huntsman in 1963-64, Robert M. Litchard from 1964 to 1967, Mike Koval from 1967 to 1971, Jim Brumbaugh from 1971 to 1974; Joe Wirth from 1974 to 1980; Jim Tressler from 1980 to 1983; and Dave Amato since 1983.Wrestling
  • In 1974 Basil G. Zimmer reorganized the Urban Studies Program, of which he was chairman from that time until his retirement in 1986.Zimmer, Basil G.