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1988

  • 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
  • In 1988 Rites and Reason was cited by the New England Theatre Conference for "original work on the New World and Afro-American Experience," and by the National Council for Culture and Arts for sustained "excellence in Afro-American Theatre."Afro-American Studies
  • The whole athletic complex was renamed the Wendell R. Erickson Athletic Complex in 1988.Aldrich-Dexter Field
  • The program continued to be administered by an interdepartmental committee, which has been chaired or co-chaired by Donald Fleming, William G. McLoughlin, Hyatt H. Waggoner, Barry D. Karl, John L. Thomas, George Monteiro, Howard P. Chudacoff, David H. Hirsch, Bruce A. Rosenberg, Barton St. Armand, and Wilson J. Moses, In 1988 the program received departmental status and has been chaired by Mari Jo Buhle and Richard A. Meckle.American Civilization
  • When the Center for Information Technology building was opened in 1988, the division acquired the use of the former Computing Laboratory at 180 George Street.Applied Mathematics
  • In 1988 the Art Department split into two sections – the Program in the Visual Arts headed by Professor Hugh Townley and the Program in the History of Art and Architecture headed by Juergen Schulz.Art
  • The Foundation holds annual winter weekend sports-related events, which have featured as guests Penn State coach Joe Paterno ’50 in 1984, broadcaster Howard Cosell in 1985, broadcaster Frank Gifford in 1986, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach in 1987, and Minnesota Vikings tight end Steve Jordan ’82 in 1988.Athletics
  • In 1988 another president, Howard Swearer, was the baccalaureate speaker at the last exercises before leaving the presidency.Baccalaureate
  • The women’s teams have been coached by Mary Avery in 1958, Sarah Phillips in 1960, Jan Lutz in 1972-73, Gail Davis from 1973 to 1975; Carole Kleinfelder from 1975-76, Gail Klock from 1976 to 1980; Maureen Enos from 1980 to 1988; and Jean Marie Burr since 1988.Basketball
  • Coach Jean Marie Burr’s record for four years since 1988 is 73-31 overall and 41-15 in the Ivy League.Basketball
  • The statue was dedicated on November 12, 1988.Bear
  • The Secretaries of the Corporation have been Thomas Eyres from 1764 to 1776; Thomas Arnold 1771 from 1776 to 1780; David Howell from 1780 to 1806; Samuel Eddy 1787 from 1806 to 1829; Nathan Bourne Crocker from 1829 to 1837; Theron Metcalf 1805 from 1837 to 1843; William Giles Goddard 1812 from 1843 to 1846; Nathan Bourne Crocker from 1846 to 1853; John Kingsbury 1826 from 1853 to 1874; Samuel Lunt Caldwell from 1875 to 1889; Thomas D. Anderson 1874 from 1890 to 1924; Hermon Carey Bumpus 1884 from 1924 to 1937; Albert L. Scott 1900 from 1937 to 1945; Fred B. Perkins ’19 from 1945 to 1963; John Nicholas Brown from 1963 to 1972; Alfred H. Joslin ’35 from 1972 to 1982; Ruth Burt Ekstrom ’53 from 1982 to 1988; and Henry D. Sharpe, Jr. ’45 since 1988.Brown Corporation
  • Appleby Hall at 100 Charles Field kept its name until 1988 when it was renamed Barbour Hall for President Clarence Barbour.Bryant College
  • In their senior year Liman and Bartis conceived the idea of a nationwide association of college television stations, and in July 1988, with the assistance of Brown’s Development Office, they were able to receive a three-year grant of $300,000 from CBS to start the National Association of College Broadcasters with headquarters at Brown.BTV
  • In November 1988 NCAB held its first national conference at Brown with Walter Cronkhite as keynote speaker.BTV
  • The walks on either side of Sayles Hall were named the "Swearer Walkways" at a surprise gathering on the Middle Campus on November 9, 1988, to which an unsuspecting President Howard Swearer, soon to leave Brown, and his wife, Janet, were led by the Brown Bear and a portion of the Brown Band.Campus
  • In July 1988 twenty-six delegates from Brown traveled to Moscow for a conference on mutual security, and in November 1989 a second conference on mutual security was held at Brown.Center for Foreign Policy Development
  • The Center for Information Technology opened in June of 1988.Center for Information Technology
  • The dedication of the building as the Thomas J. Watson, Sr., Center for Information Technology took place October 7-8, 1988.Center for Information Technology
  • The Center for the study of race and ethnicity in America was established in July 1988 with professor of philosophy John Ladd as acting director, in response to a proposal which evolved from discussions among Ladd, professor of sociology Martin Martel and associate professor of history Rhett Jones.Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America
  • Richard Salomon ’32 (1979-1988) was chief executive officer of Lanvin-Charles of the Ritz from 1936 to 1971 and chairman of the board of the New York Public Library from 1977 to 1988.Chancellors
  • Way ’51, chancellor since 1988, is chairman of IBJ Schroder Bank and Trust Company.Chancellors
  • The Vice-Chancellors of the University have been Donald G. Millar ’19 (1964-1968), Alfred H. Joslin ’35 (1968-1969), Foster B. Davis ’39 (1969-1979), Thomas J. Watson, Jr. ’37 (1979-1985), Henry D. Sharpe, Jr. ’45 (1985-1988) and Artemis A. W. Joukowsky ’55, since 1988.Chancellors
  • Leallyn Burr Clapp (1913-1988), professor of chemistry, was born in Paris, Illinois, on October 13, 1913.Clapp, Leallyn B.
  • Leallyn B. Clapp suffered a massive heart attack on November 28, 1988, and died while lecturing in Metcalf Auditorium.Clapp, Leallyn B.
  • The new five-story Thomas J. Watson, Sr. Center for Information Technology was opened in 1988.Computer Science
  • After the opening of the Center for Information Technology in 1988, the Computing Laboratory building was reassigned for the use of the Applied Mathematics Division.Computing Laboratory
  • The Secretaries of the Corporation have been Thomas Eyres from 1764 to 1776; Thomas Arnold 1771 from 1776 to 1780; David Howell from 1780 to 1806; Samuel Eddy 1787 from 1806 to 1829; Nathan Bourne Crocker from 1829 to 1837; Theron Metcalf 1805 from 1837 to 1843; William Giles Goddard 1812 from 1843 to 1846; Nathan Bourne Crocker from 1846 to 1853; John Kingsbury 1826 from 1853 to 1874; Samuel Lunt Caldwell from 1875 to 1889; Thomas D. Anderson 1874 from 1890 to 1924; Hermon Carey Bumpus 1884 from 1924 to 1937; Albert L. Scott 1900 from 1937 to 1945; Fred B. Perkins ’19 from 1945 to 1963; John Nicholas Brown from 1963 to 1972; Alfred H. Joslin ’35 from 1972 to 1982; Ruth Burt Ekstrom ’53 from 1982 to 1988; and Henry D. Sharpe, Jr. ’45 since 1988.Corporation
  • Collaborative research at Brown got a boost in 1988 from a $750,000 grant from the Ford Foundation, which, when matched by $1.5 million from Brown, would be used to interest more students, especially minority students, in academic careers to meet the impending shortage of new college teachers, and to bring new ideas into Brown’s curriculum.Curriculum
  • In 1988 the faculty voted to change the number of courses required for graduation from 28 to thirty.Curriculum
  • The office of Dean of Students was held by Bruce M. Bigelow from 1943 to 1946, Robert W. Kenny from 1946 to 1947, Edward R. Durgin to 1952 to 1962, and John M. Robinson from 1979 to 1988.Dean
  • The office of Dean of Student Life was created in 1979 and held by Eric Widmer until 1988.Dean
  • John M. Robinson, who became Dean of Students in 1979, was Dean of Student Life from 1988 to 1990.Dean
  • Classes in Hindi were started in 1983 by Lecturer Robert Hueckstedt, and ended in 1988.East Asian Studies
  • Lecturer Andrew Kim replaced Ms. Choi in 1988.East Asian Studies
  • The Erickson Athletic Complex is the name given in 1988 to the former Aldrich-Dexter Field on Hope Street in honor of Wendell R. Erickson ’19, a catcher on the baseball team, whose six million dollar bequest to the University would be used in part for the maintenance of athletic facilities.Erickson Athletic Complex
  • The first annual Hunger Briefing and Research Exchange held at Brown in 1988 featured Kates’s "The Hunger Report," which concluded that current programs could be expected to effect the end of a significant portion of world hunger.Feinstein World Hunger Program
  • Students on Financial Aid (SOFA) is an organization which evolved in 1988 from a discussion group which had been meeting regularly in the chaplain’s office.Financial aid
  • John Rosenberg was named coach in 1984 and had three winning seasons from 1984 to 1987, including a second place in the Ivy League in 1987, before a losing streak of fourteen games in the 1988 and 1989 seasons, which was finally broken by Brown’s defeat of Cornell on October 19, 1989.Football
  • Among the golf coaches have been Frank S. Souchak from 1942 to 1943, Charles A. Engle in 1943 and again from 1947 to 1950, Ralph Anderton from 1951 to 1961, L. Stanley Ward from 1961 to 1963, J. Allen Soares from 1963 to 1970, Mike Koval in 1970-71, Jack Ferreira in 1971-71, Richard L. Toomey from 1972 to 1979, Jay Riley from 1979 to 1982, Paul Butler from 1982 to 1988, and Chris Humm, whose four-year record since 1988 is 24-16.Golf
  • Vartan Gregorian, sixteenth president of Brown University, was unanimously elected at a special meeting of the Corporation on August 31, 1988.Gregorian, Vartan
  • Vartan Gregorian accepted the presidency of Brown in 1988, arrived on campus in January 1989, and was formally inaugurated on April 9.Gregorian, Vartan
  • The team finished third in the Ivy League in 1986 and 1988.Gymnastics
  • Shepard Krech III has been director since 1988.Haffenreffer Museum
  • Robert Gaudet became coach in 1988.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
  • The awards were presented in 1986 to Thomas J. Watson, Jr. ’37 and Kathryn Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space, in 1987 to Vernon Alden ’45 and Joseph Paterno ’50, in 1988 to Artemis A. W. Joukowsky ’55, businessman H. Ross Perot, and former president Howard Swearer, in 1989 to President Gregorian and Federal Reserve Chairman Paul A. Volcker, in 1990 to Charles C. Tillinghast ’32 and Robert Edward "Ted" Turner ’60, and in 1991 to Apple Computer president Stephen P. Jobs, Marvin Bower ’25, and Nancy L. Buc ’65.Independent Award
  • In 1988 "Issues" changed its interest from literary and social commentary to include investigative reporting of the University administration, and in 1989 the administration was surprised and displeased to see confidential material and private communications printed in the magazine, but, after finding no proof that reporters had used unethical methods of obtaining their information, continued to provide financial support.Issues
  • Edward T. Kornhauser (1925-1988), professor of engineering, was born in Louisville, Kentucky, on June 30, 1925.Kornhauser, Edward T.
  • Edward T. Kornhauser died in Providence on November 17, 1988.Kornhauser, Edward T.
  • Candis Russell coached from 1981 to 1987, and Wendy Anderson from 1988 to 1992.Lacrosse
  • In 1988 the library designated as its two-millionth book a first-edition copy of Pavlov’s "Lectures on the Function of the Main Food-Digesting Glands," printed in St Petersburg in 1897.Library
  • The International Health Institute was created in 1988 to coordinate efforts at the University to improve health services to the world’s population.Medical education
  • A new wing on the building in 1988 added a music library.Music
  • Jonathan Smith ’83 rowed in the Olympics in Los Angeles in 1984 and in Seoul in 1988.Olympic Games
  • Edward Patton ’88 rowed in the men’s heavyweight eight in Seoul 1988.Olympic Games
  • The music library in the new wing built in 1988 was named for Mrs. Orwig, and was dedicated on two days in May 1988 at exercises featuring a performance by the Charleston String Quartet and an address by Joseph B. Kerman, professor of music at the University of California.Orwig Music Center
  • The Pizzitola Sports Center, built in 1987 and 1988 and opened in February 1989, is named the Paul Bailey Pizzitola Memorial Sports Center in memory of Paul Bailey Pizzitola ’81, whose father contributed two million dollars toward its construction.Pizzitola Sports Center
  • (1982), "The "The American High School" (1984), "Cost vs. Care: America’s Health Care Dilemma (1985), "Keeping America at Work" (1986), "Crime in America" (1987), "Ethics is American Public Life" (1988), "The Changing American Family" (1989), "Our Fragile Earth: Strategies for Survival (1990), "Free Expression after 200 Years" (1991), and "Who Will Save the American City?"Providence Journal–Brown University Public Affairs Conference
  • In 1988, the "new and improved" "Rake" sought input from its readers, both students and Brown workers, with this invitation, "You know what’s wrong with Brown.Rake
  • Jay Saunders Redding (1906-1988), professor of English, was born in Wilmington, Delaware, on October 12, 1906.Redding, Jay Saunders
  • Jay Saunders Redding died on March 2, 1988 in Ithaca, New York.Redding, Jay Saunders
  • The 1988 crew came in second in the IRA’s and third in the national championship on Lake Harsha in Ohio.Rowing
  • The women’s varsity won its first Eastern Collegiate Rowing Association Championship in 1988 with a record time of 6:23.2 on the 1,950-meter course on Lake Waramaug in Connecticut.Rowing
  • During this time Brown has won five Ivy League Tournament Championships (Spring) in 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987, and 1988.Rugby
  • The team has also toured extensively, to Ireland in 1983, to England and Wales in 1985, to Scotland in 1987, to Trinidad in 1988, to Ireland in 1990, and to England and Wales in 1991.Rugby
  • From 1980 to 1990 Brad Dellenbaugh ’76 coached sailing, and Brown turned out a series of All-Americans, Douglas Smith in 1984, James Cummiskey ’85 in 1985, Paul Grimes ’86 in 1985 and 1986, David Ullrich ’87 in 1986 and 1987, Molly Starkweather ’86 in 1986, Kevin Hall ’91 in 1988, 1990, and 1991, Kris Farrar ’91 in 1989, 1990, and 1991, and Mike Zani ’92 in 1990 and 1991.Sailing
  • Brown won the intercollegiate women’s sailing championship in 1985, 1988, and 1989, and came in second in in 1986, 1987, and 1990.Sailing
  • "Signs and Symptoms" began as "The newsletter of Brown University’s Program in Medicine" in February 1975, changed its subtitle to "The newsletter of Brown University’s Medical Education Program" in the second issue, and changed it again in 1979 to "A publication of the Brown University Medical Education Program," and in 1988 to "An alumni publication of the medical school at Brown University."Signs and Symptoms
  • Brown has had three four-time All-Ivy choices, Colleen O’Day ’86 from 1982 to 1985, Theresa Hirschauer ’89 from 1985 to 1988, and Suzanne Bailey ’91 from 1987 to 1990.Soccer
  • After Pincince’s first two years Brown has had consecutive winning seasons since 1981, and the women’s softball team won the Ivy title in 1982, tied with Princeton in 1986, came in second in the league in 1988, and won the championship again in 1990.Softball
  • Sue Cutler ’88 was a four-time All-Ivy team choice from 1985 to 1988.Squash
  • After leaving in December 1988, Howard R. Swearer was appointed director of Brown’s Institute for International Studies which he had helped to create.Swearer, Howard R.
  • In the 1988 NCAA track and field championships Greg Whiteley ’89 placed third in the 5,000 meters and Chris Schille ’88 finished seventh in the 10,000 meters.Track
  • The remaining treasurers have been Arnold Buffum Chace 1866 from 1882 to 1900; Cornelius S. Sweetland 1866 from 1900 to 1923; Frank W. Matteson 1892 from 1923 to 1933, Edwin Aylsworth Burlingame ’14, acting treasurer from 1933 to 1934; Harold C. Field 1894 from 1934 to 1949; George Burton Hibbert from 1949 to 1950; Gordon L. Parker ’18 from 1950 to 1965; Patrick J. James ’32 from 1965 to 1970; Joseph W. Ress ’26 from 1970 to 1979; Andrew M. Hunt ’51 from 1979 to 1988; and Marie J. Langlois ’64 since 1988.Treasurer
  • Under coach Cathy Fulford, who came in 1978, the teams progressed from a 7-17 first year record in 1978 through five 20-win seasons from 1980 to 1984 to the Ivy League championship in 1988, becoming the first team other than Princeton or Penn to win since volleyball became a League sport in 1977.Volleyball
  • Hyatt Howe Waggoner (1913-1988), professor of English, was born in Pleasant Valley, New York, on November 19, 1913.Waggoner, Hyatt H.
  • In 1988 Hyatt H. Waggoner received the House of Seven Gables Hawthorne Award.Waggoner, Hyatt H.
  • Hyatt H. Waggoner died on October 13, 1988 in Hanover, New Hampshire.Waggoner, Hyatt H.
  • In 1988 WBRU changed its format from rock ’n’ roll to "cutting edge" rock, "somewhere between the presentable side of punk rock and the dangerous side of more traditional rock radio fare."WBRU
  • The award was presented in 1988 to NBC economics correspondent Irving R. Levine ’44, in 1989 to Aaron T. Beck ’42, the founder of cognitive therapy, in 1990 to Kathryn S. Fuller ’68, president of the World Wildlife Fund, and in 1991 to Linda Mason ’64, executive producer of CBS News.William Rogers Award
  • The team was sixth in the EIWA in 1988 and fifth in 1989.Wrestling