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
Formally established as the Graduate Division of Applied Mathematics in May 1946 and staffed by faculty of the Departments of Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics, the program began to offer graduate courses the next semester.Applied Mathematics
Arthur Mangun Banta (1877-1946), professor of biology, was born in Greenwood, Indiana, on December 31, 1877.Banta, Arthur M.
Arthur M. Banta retired from teaching in June of 1945, with the intention of concluding some of his investigations, but died on January 2, 1946, his great work still unfulfilled.Banta, Arthur M.
Arthur D. Kahler coached from 1931 to 1938, George E. "Eck" Allen from 1938 to 1941, William H. H. Dye in 1941-42, Wilbur C. "Weeb" Ewbank (who much later made a name for himself in pro football by coaching both the Baltimore Colts and the New York Jets to league championships) in 1946-47, Robert B. Morris from 1947 to 1954, Stan Ward from 1954 to 1969, Gerry Alaimo from 1969 to 1978, Joe Mullaney from 1978 to 1981, Mike Cingiser from 1981 to 1991, and the present coach, Frank "Happy" Dobbs.Basketball
The department, which had a staff of three full professors, three assistant professors, and six assistants in 1945, began to expand in the following years with the addition of Frederick G. Sherman in 1946, Herman B.Biology
George L. Church joined the department as instructor in 1928, became assistant professor in 1934, associate professor in 1946, and professor in 1951.Botany
Brown Town was the name given to the temporary housing for veterans of World War II which was erected in 1946 near Marvel Gymnasium on the city-owned Sessions Street playground at the corner of Elmgrove Avenue and Sessions Street.Brown Town
"Brunonia," "a magazine published by the men and women students of Brown University and published with the cooperation of the English department" began with a Commencement issue in 1946.Brunonia
Robert P. Casey served as honorary curate at St. Stephen’s Church in Providence from 1939 to 1946 and was ordained to the Episcopal priesthood in 1940.Casey, Robert P.
In 1946, with the influx of students after the war, chapel was held three times a week with each student attending once.Chapel
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.
In 1942Commencement was held in May, and during the war years, up until 1946, Commencement was held three times a year, in June, October, and February, as students graduated under the accelerated program.Commencement
There was no Dean of the University until 1946, when Arnold assumed that office.Dean
After a lapse during World War II, debating was revived in October 1946, when a group of ten members without a coach practiced in the fall and won their first debate against the University of Connecticut on Friday the thirteenth of December.Debating
Also, for a few years, English 23-24, a course in play production introduced in 1946, held annual performances in the Faunce House Theatre.Dramatics
Van De Water (play writing and production) in 1940, Andrew J. Sabol (Renaissance literature) in 1941, Leslie Allen Jones (play production) in 1942, Charles H. Philbrick (poetry) and Elmer Blistein (Shakespeare and comedy) in 1946, and Edward Bloom (18th century and literary criticism) in 1947.English
The demand for higher education after the war brought 822 students into the freshman class in the fall of 1946.Enrollment
In June 1946 a Housing and Development Campaign was launched with G. Edward Buxton ’02 as chairman, its purpose to provide badly needed housing in the form of a new dormitory for Pembroke College and a quadrangle with dormitories for men students, fraternity houses, and a refectory.Fund-raising
George was a popular professor, known for his History D1 survey course and for "his deep resounding voice, his interesting lectures, his pleasing personality," noted in the "Pembroke Record" in 1946.George, Robert H.
Hans Rothfels, as visiting professor, taught seventeenth and eighteenth century European history from 1940 to 1946.History
After World War II, the History Department was strengthened by the arrival of several new professors, Edmund S. Morgan in 1946 to teach American colonial history and American social and intellectual history, Barnaby C. Keeney in 1946 as professor of medieval history, and William F. Church in 1947 as professor of seventeenth and eighteenth century European history.History
In 1946 an informal team coached by Mazzeo, having been denied the use of the college name, played under the name of "Providence Clippers."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
After this experience Donald F. Hornig came to Brown as assistant professor in 1946, and was promoted to associate professor in 1949.Hornig, Donald F.
Walter S. Hunter was editor of "Psychological Index" from 1926 to its termination in 1936, and editor of "Psychological Abstracts" from 1926 until 1946, when he resigned because he thought twenty years was long enough for a single editor.Hunter, Walter S.
After the war Barnaby C. Keeney studied for a year in Europe with a John Simon Guggenheim Post Service Fellowship, then came to Brown in 1946 as assistant professor of history.Keeney, Barnaby C.
Hunter Kellenberger was chairman of the Division of Modern Languages from 1946 until 1960, when the division was divided into separate departments, after which he was chairman of the Department of French Studies from 1960 to 1964 and chairman of the new Council on Languages and Literature from 1960 to 1963.Kellenberger, Hunter
His retirement in 1946 made very little difference in his life style, on which Charles A. Kraus commented, "you do your work, but you don’t get paid for it."Kraus, Charles A.
Leland was also one of the principal organizers and president from 1927 to 1946 of the American Council of Learned Societies.Leland, Waldo G.
In 1946, since all sports activities were centered at Marvel Gymnasium, the name of the building was changed from Lyman Gymnasium to Lyman Hall, and the Department of Naval Science moved in from its former quarters in Maxcy Hall.Lyman Hall
New additions to the faculty were Bjarni Jonsson and Herbert Federer in 1946, Frank M. Stewart in 1947, and E.H. Lee in 1948.Mathematics
Albert Davis Mead (1869-1946), professor of biology and vice-president of Brown University, was born in Swanton, Vermont on April 15, 1869.Mead, Albert D.
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
The department grew steadily with the arrival of William Dinneen in 1938, Francis K. C. Madeira in 1943, Edward B. Greene in 1946, Martin Fischer in 1947, Otto van Koppenhagen in 1949, Millard S. Thomson and Mildred Pansy in 1950, David Laurent in 1951, Ron Nelson in 1956, and Paul Nelson in 1964.Music
Physical education and intramurals were directed from 1946 to 1953 by Westcott E. S. Moulton, and after 1953 by John M. Heffernan.Physical Education
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
Otis Everett Randall (1860-1946), professor of mechanical drawing and dean of the University, was born in North Stonington, Connecticut, on February 28, 1860.Randall, Otis E.
The Registrars of the Women’s College and Pembroke College were Emma Bradford Stanton 1896 from 1897 to 1932, Mildred Williamson Cull ’29 from 1932 to 1938, Esther Hervey Smith from 1938 to 1946.Registrar
After time off for service with the Army Corps of Chaplains from 1942 to 1946, he returned to earn his Ph.D. degree in 1947.Religious Studies
It was through Roland G. D. Richardson's efforts that the Program of Advanced Instruction and Research in Mechanics was established at Brown in 1941, and became the Graduate Division of Applied Mathematics in 1946.Richardson, Roland G. D.
In 1946 John D. Rockefeller wrote of his changed opinion, "In view of the new world in which we are living, this country needs ... trained men and women of vision, breadth and courage.Rockefeller, John D., Jr.
In 1946 Brown, led by skippers Charlie Ill ’49 and Rick Wilson ’48, was second in competition for the Schell trophy, and the next year won the Danmark and Schell trophies.Sailing
On April 23, 1946 a stained glass window in the Little Chapel was dedicated to the chaplains in the United States Service.Sayles Hall
Soccer became an organized sport in 1925 with an informal team coached by basketball coach Harold Evans, which on November 14, lost its only game, 0-1, to the Pawtucket Y.M.C.A. Brown’s first official soccer coach, Samuel Fletcher, lasted for 21 seasons, before he resigned in 1946 to move to Florida.Soccer
The season ended with a 1-0 overtime defeat of M.I.T., but by that time the team was under the coaching of Joe Kennaway, who succeeded Fletcher on November 1, 1946.Soccer
Soccer coaches at Brown have been Sam Fletcher from 1925 to 1946, Joe Kennaway from 1946 to 1959, Cliff Stevenson from 1960 to 1990, and Trevor Adair since 1991.Soccer
Harold A. Gibbard and Clarence Glick were instructors and later assistant professors of sociology from 1938 to 1946.Sociology
Vincent H. Whitney came in 1946, and succeeded Bucklin as chairman in 1948.Sociology
In 1946-47 women were also living in Allinson House (named for Dean Anne Crosby Emery Allinson) at 48 Lloyd Avenue, Appleton House at 71-73 Brown Street, and King House (named for DeanLida Shaw King), at 34 Barnes Street.Student housing
When Ivan Fuqua, a member of the record-breaking 1600-meter relay team in the 1932 Olympics and former coach at the University of Connecticut, came to Brown in 1946, he was assured that a new field house and track would soon be built.Track
Laboratories in Princeton, and from 1944 to 1946 at Stromberg Carlson Company and Cornell University.Truell, Rohn
When Wach, who had first taken out his citizenship papers in 1938, applied for United States citizenship in 1946, his first petition in February was denied and his second in August granted.Wach, Joaquim
The station celebrated its tenth anniversary on November 30, 1946, with a half-hour program broadcast from Alumnae Hall throughout New England by the Yankee network.WBRU
To help out during the Second World War, Clarence M. Webster returned to teaching as an instructor in English at Brown, and was promoted to assistant professor in 1946 and associate professor in 1949.Webster, Clarence M.
Karl S. Weimar later taught at the Army training program at the University of Pennsylvania and the veteran’s extension division of Temple University, before coming to Brown in 1946.Weimar, Karl S.
Whitehall was built in 1946 behind Marston Hall on Brook Street to fill as quickly as possible the need for more classroom space required by the postwar increase in enrollment.Whitehall
The sport was revived after the second World War with the arrival in 1946 of Ralph Anderton ’30, New England champion in the 135-pound class in his senior year, as coach.Wrestling