Encyclopedia Brunoniana

1944

  • In the summer of 1943, and again in 1944, plots of land at Aldrich Field were made available to faculty and employees of the University to plant "Victory Gardens," in which to raise their own vegetables as part of the World War II effort.Aldrich Field
  • More changes were made in 1944, when it was decreed that the Director of Athletics would be designated an officer of administration responsible to the University rather than to the Athletic Council.Athletics
  • In February 1944, when a winter commencement was held during wartime without the usual ceremony, Mr. Wriston delivered a baccalaureate address at the request of the graduates.Baccalaureate
  • The lobster hatchery suffered damage in the hurricanes of 1938 and 1944, and the work there was discontinued.Biology
  • Dr. Wilfred Pickles, a physician, was part of the department from 1925 to 1944.Biology
  • From 1938 to 1944 the members of the Key were elected by the sophomore class.Brown Key
  • A new constitution in 1944 returned the right of election to the members and added to the duties of the Key the supervision of athletic rallies and the cheerleaders.Brown Key
  • The title, "Brunonian," was used from time to time by other publications, including a rival publication to the "Brown Paper" in 1866, a publication of Delta Upsilon in the late 1930s, a publication of Alpha Delta Phi in 1963, and the only issue of "a university publication prepared for all Brown alumni in military service" in August 1944.Brunonian
  • The subject came up again in 1944, when the tax assessors decided that the fraternity houses deeded to the University should be taxed as well as those which were still the property of the fraternities.Charter
  • Rosalie L. Colie received a bachelor of arts degree from Vassar College in 1944, a master of arts from Columbia in 1946 and a Ph.D. in English and history from Columbia in 1950.Colie, Rosalie L.
  • Theodore Collier was professor of European history from 1917 to 1923, professor of history and international relations from 1923 to 1944, and head of the Department of History from 1917 to 1939.Collier, Theodore
  • When Theodore Collier retired from Brown in 1944 at the age of 70, he said that what he would miss most was "the direct contact and association with young minds which is the great delight and reward of a teacher’s life."Collier, Theodore
  • The annual musical was omitted in 1943 because of the war, but Brownbrokers returned in 1944 with "Scuttlebutt," a navy show, for which some of the performers wore their own uniforms for costumes.Dramatics
  • In 1944 the Board of Governors admitted women to the main dining room.Faculty Club
  • From 1944 to 1946 Hugh B. Killough was chief of the Employment and Occupational Outlook Branch of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.Killough, Hugh B.
  • In 1944 the Observatory began to test the Civil Defense air raid signals at the fire stations every day at noon.Ladd Observatory
  • Nancy Duke Lewis continued as social director until 1946, also serving as assistant dean from 1944 to 1947.Lewis, Nancy Duke
  • The "Liber" has continued to be published annually, except when prevented by wartime conditions in 1944.Liber Brunensis
  • A combined 1944-1945 book was issued the following year.Liber Brunensis
  • Charles Arthur Lynch was instructor in Greek and Latin classics at Brown in 1927-28 and again in 1932, becoming assistant professor in 1935, associate professor in 1944, and professor in 1951.Lynch, Charles Arthur
  • On June 19, 1944, the Corporation voted to establish a Department of Medical Sciences "for instruction and research in the medical sciences ... the importance of health and hygiene ... a better orientation for students who are preparing for the art and science of medicine ... opportunity for advanced study ... cooperation of the University with the Hospitals of the community in programs of post-graduate education."Medical education
  • A medical convocation was held in the Faunce House Theatre on August 9, 1944, to inaugurate the new department.Medical education
  • Henry M. Briggs from 1942 to 1944, and Capt.Military education
  • Emanuel A. Lofquist in 1944-45, After the war there were three types of officer-candidates: 1) regular NROTC students who were midshipmen in the Naval Reserve, were educated at government expense, and were required to serve on active duty after graduation; 2) contract students who as civilians entered a contract with the Navy, paid for their own education while receiving uniforms and a commuted ration (65 cents a day in 1946), and were required to accept a commission in the Naval or Marine Corps Reserve; 3) naval science students in excess of the quota of the NROTC unit, who were permitted to take naval science courses for credit and were eligible for the NROTC when vacancies occurred.Military education
  • Philip H. Mitchell was chairman of the department from 1933 to 1944, and was named Robert P. Brown Professor of Biology in 1936.Mitchell, Philip H.
  • Margaret Shove Morriss served as national president of the American Association of University Women from 1937 to 1944, and as president of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges in 1941.Morriss, Margaret Shove
  • The University acquired ownership of the house in 1944, with an agreement that Mrs. Nicholson had the right to occupy it during her lifetime.Nicholson House
  • 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.
  • On June 9, 1939, the Rockefeller Foundation agreed "to appropriate up to $49,000 to Brown University for expenses of installing a Microfilm Photographic Laboratory, and of supplementing through filming the resources of the Library in the field of mathematics during the period ending June 30, 1944."Photographic Laboratory
  • Dorothy Spencer Horton was Recorder from 1944 to 1963.Registrar
  • There have been twenty recipients of the medal: William Williams Keen in 1925, Charles Evans Hughes in 1928, John Davison Rockefeller, Jr. in 1931, Charles Value Chapin in 1935, Mary Emma Woolley in 1937, Fred Tarbell Field in 1940, Henry Dexter Sharpe in 1944, Zechariah Chafee, Jr. in 1947, Warren Randolph Burgess in 1953, Rowland Roberts Hughes in 1955, Theodore Francis Green in 1956, Alexander Meiklejohn in 1959, Waldo Gifford Leland in 1965, Thomas John Watson, Jr. in 1968, Henry Merritt Wriston in 1976, Richard Salomon in 1982, Charles Carpenter Tillinghast, Jr. in 1982, Howard Robert Swearer in 1983, Otto Eduard Neugebauer in 1987, and Roderick Milton Chisholm in 1992.Rosenberger Medal
  • Bessie H. Rudd was promoted to associate professor of physical education in 1944 and named full professor in 1952.Rudd, Bessie H.
  • Bessie H. Rudd wrote frequently for the "National Field Hockey Guide," and was its editor in 1944.Rudd, Bessie H.
  • He also initiated in 1944 dinners attended by local newspapermen, coaches and university officers to improve relations with the press.Stadium
  • Appointed instructor in 1923, Charles A. Stuart was promoted to assistant professor in 1925, associate professor in 1931, and professor in 1944.Stuart, Charles A.
  • His best swimmer was Carl Paulson ’46, who was All-American in both 1943 and 1944 and won the national NCAA 200-yard butterfly championship in 1944.Swimming
  • Philip Taft was promoted to associate professor in 1944 and professor in 1947.Taft, Philip
  • "Rip" Engle took over from 1942 to 1944.Tennis
  • George Anderson began coaching in 1941, but left for the Navy in 1942, and was replaced by Roland K. Brown, who coached from 1942 until 1944, with football coach Neil "Skip" Stahley designated as acting coach during those years.Track
  • "Rip" Engle, was named coach in 1944.Track
  • Rohn Truell was a research physicist from 1942 to 1944 at the R.C.A.Truell, Rohn
  • Laboratories in Princeton, and from 1944 to 1946 at Stromberg Carlson Company and Cornell University.Truell, Rohn
  • Joaquim Wach's publications include "Das Verstehn," a three-volume work on the theory of general interpretations, published between 1926 and 1932, "An Introduction to the Sociology of Religion in 1932, and" "Sociology of Religion" in 1944.Wach, Joaquim
  • Karl S. Weimar received his bachelor’s degree in 1937, his master’s in 1938, and his Ph.D. in 1944, all from the University of Pennsylvania.Weimar, Karl S.
  • In retirement Mary Emma Woolley began to write her autobiography, but suffered a stroke in 1944 which left her partially paralyzed.Woolley, Mary Emma
  • From May 1943 to May 1944 pre-meteorologists of the 58th Army Air Force Technical Training Detachment studied at Brown under three successive commanding officers, Major Arthur B. Campbell, Capt.World War II
  • The Edward Leo Barry Gate on Thayer Street honors Brown’s popular swimming coach who died in 1943, and its funding was begun by the Class of 1944 as seniors.Wriston Quadrangle
  • Lawrence C. Wroth published "The Colonial Printer" in 1931, "The Way of a Ship, an Essay on the Literature of Navigation" in 1936, and "The Early Cartography of the Pacific" in 1944.Wroth, Lawrence C.