1951

James P. Adams came back to Rhode Island in 1951 to retire in Little Compton.Adams, James P.
Two years earlier the class of 1951 had held a Thayer Field carnival at its reunion.Alumni Field Day
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
Angell Hall was the name given to the former Psi Upsilon house on Thayer Street in 1951, when it was turned over to the Department of Biology for freshman laboratory instruction and for use of members of the biology faculty associated with freshman courses.Angell Hall
In 1951 he was kidnapped by North Koreans and was not heard from again.Asians
There have been four league batting champions from Brown: Al Gauthier in 1951 (.385), Tom Skenderian in 1966 (.514), Scott Bingham in 1972 (.394), and John King in 1979 (.512).Baseball
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
George L. Church joined the department as instructor in 1928, became assistant professor in 1934, associate professor in 1946, and professor in 1951.Botany
Benjamin W. Brown was named director of dramatic productions in 1939 and full professor in 1951.Brown, Benjamin W.
Half of the apartment buildings were removed in 1950, and the rest were taken down in June 1951, when almost all the married veterans had finished their education.Brown Town
Harold S. Bucklin retired in 1951.Bucklin, Harold S.
After army duty in World War II, William F. Church came to Brown as assistant professor of history in 1947 and was promoted to associate professor in 1948 and professor in 1951.Church, William F.
Edmund S. Morgan was acting dean in 1951-1952, and Donald F. Hornig in 1952-1953.Dean
Curt J. Ducasse was made full professor in 1929 and was head of the Philosophy Department from 1930 to 1951.Ducasse, Curt J.
Curt J. Ducasse retired in 1951, having reached the compulsory retirement age, but was asked to teach part-time.Ducasse, Curt J.
Curt J. Ducasse retired from part-time teaching at Brown in 1958, after which he accepted a part-time teaching position at New York University, He was the author of "The Philosophy of Art" in 1930, "Nature, Mind and Death" in 1951, and "A Critical Examination of the Belief in a Life after Death" in 1961, and numerous articles and other books.Ducasse, Curt J.
In 1951 Parker instituted a visiting scholar program, which in the next ten years brought scholars from England, Egypt, Israel, France, and Belgium to Brown.Egyptology
Paul F. Maeder received the first Ph.D. in engineering in 1951.Engineering
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
After the veterans had graduated, the male enrollment dropped to 2,077 in 1951.Enrollment
It remained in this unsatisfactory location, where cashiers sometimes had to wear boots when the floors were flooded, until 1951, when the shortage of dining facilities was ended with the opening of Sharpe Refectory.Flat Top
The "Liber Brunensis" in 1951, noting that the club now had two planes, mentioned a fringe benefit for members, who were allowed to "have use of the planes at their convenience ...Flying Club
In 1951 the Brown club won seven events in a Cape Cod meet sponsored by Harvard.Flying Club
"Rip" Engle (28-20-4) from 1943 to 1949, when he left for Penn State and took Joe Paterno with him; Gregory "Gus" Zitrides (1-8-0) in 1950; Alva E. Kelley (31-39-2) from 1951 to 1958; John J. McLaughry (17-51-3) from 1959 to 1966; Len Jardine (9-44-1) from 1967 to 1973; John Anderson (60-39-3) from 1973 to 1983; and John Rosenberg (23-33-3) from 1984 to 1989.Football
James Louis Giddings received his bachelor of science degree in engineering from the University of Alaska in 1932, his M.A. in anthropology from the University of Arizona in 1941, and his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1951.Giddings, James Louis
From 1940 until 1951 (with three years off for service in World War II) James Louis Giddings taught at the University of Alaska, where he was director of archaeological research and museum curator from 1938 to 1949.Giddings, James Louis
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
Acting deans were Curt J. Ducasse from 1947 to 1949, Edmund S. Morgan in 1951-52, and Donald F. Hornig in 1953-54.Graduate School
Elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1902, William T. Hastings was secretary of Rhode Island Alpha from 1920 to 1951, vice-president from 1951 to 1953, president from 1953 to 1955, and chapter historian until his death.Hastings, William T.
Brown was second in the Pentagonal league in 1951-52 behind Yale, and lost to Boston University in the New England Playoffs.Hockey
Donald F. Hornig was associate dean of the Graduate School in 1951-52 and acting dean in 1952-53.Hornig, Donald F.
Donald F. Hornig was promoted to full professor in 1951, when he was only 31 years old.Hornig, Donald F.
Barnaby C. Keeney became Dean of the Graduate School in 1949, when he was only 34, and in 1951 he was promoted to full professor.Keeney, Barnaby C.
Barnaby C. Keeney took a leave of absence in 1951 to work for the Central Intelligence Agency.Keeney, Barnaby C.
Robert W. Kenny returned as associate professor in 1928, and was named full professor in 1951.Kenny, Robert W.
Robert W. Kenny was recalled to active duty from 1951 to 1953.Kenny, Robert W.
Robert W. Kenny was appointed dean of students in 1946, then dean of the college from 1947 to 1951 and acting dean of Pembroke in 1961 after the retirement of Nancy Duke Lewis.Kenny, Robert W.
Edward T. Kornhauser came to Brown as assistant professor of physics in 1951, and was assistant professor of engineering in 1955-56, after which he became associate professor of engineering in 1956, and professor in 1963.Kornhauser, Edward T.
In 1949 the Lincoln Society affiliated with the Student Committee on Educational Democracy, described in "Bear Facts" as "a loose federation of college organizations acting as ‘a clearing house for ideas.’" Its last year as a student organization was 1951-52.Lincoln Society
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
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
Air Force ROTC units were established at Brown and 61 other institutions on July 1, 1951.Military education
The Margaret S. Morris Scholarship was established in 1951 to be given every four years to an entering freshman.Morriss, Margaret Shove
The Chattertocks got their start in the fall of 1951 in the interdormitory group singing competition, when Nancy Tobin ’55 arranged for her dormitory, Sharpe House, to perform a skit imitating the Jabberwocks.Musical Clubs
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
Otto Neugebauer's book, "The Exact Sciences in Antiquity," published in 1951, was awarded the Heineman Foundation Prize in 1952, the same year in which his "The Babylonian Method for the Computation of the Last Visibilities of Mercury" won the John F. Lewis Prize of the American Philosophical Society.Neugebauer, Otto
Robert Gale Noyes was promoted to full professor in 1951.Noyes, Robert Gale
Curt J. Ducasse joined the department in 1926, and in 1930 succeeded Professor Everett as chairman, a post he retained until his own retirement in 1951.Philosophy
The acoustics work of the department was primarily in underwater sound and in physical acoustics, especially nonlinear acoustics, a field in which Peter J. Westervelt, who joined the department in 1951, pioneered.Physics
Julius Kling, whose interest is experimental psychology, came in 1951.Psychology
Alonzo W. Quinn was appointed assistant professor in 1936, associate professor in 1942, and professor in 1951.Quinn, Alonzo W.
Then followed Jay Saunders Redding's books on the black experience, "They Came in Chains" in 1951, "On Being Negro in America" in 1951, "The Lonesome Road" in 1958, and "The Negro," a book on the role of blacks in America, written for U. S. Information Agency distribution in 1967.Redding, Jay Saunders
Milton E. Noble ’44 was appointed Recorder in 1951.Registrar
In the summer of 1951 it was converted to the use of the Graduate Division of Applied Mathematics and renamed for Roland G. D. Richardson, who initiated the Applied Mathematics program.Richardson Hall
Three years after her death, John D. Rockefeller married in 1951 Martha Baird Allen, widow of his classmate Arthur Allen.Rockefeller, John D., Jr.
The refectory was named for Chancellor Henry D. Sharpe 1894, and opened in January 1951.Sharpe Refectory
In 1951 upperclass women lived in Andrews, Miller, and Metcalf Halls; Bates House was a cooperative house, and freshmen lived in Allinson, Angell, East, Sharpe and Whittier Houses.Student housing
The fraternities continued to occupy their houses until the early 1950s, when the houses were deeded to the University in exchanged for quarters in the new residential quadrangle, later named Wriston Quadrangle, which opened in 1951.Student housing
His teams won New England championships in 1950, 1951, 1958, and 1961.Swimming
Rohn Truell was promoted to associate professor in 1946, and became professor of applied mathematics in 1951.Truell, Rohn
In 1951 William Freeman Twaddell became professor of linguistics and German.Twaddell, William Freeman
Verney and Woolley Dining Halls were built in 1966 in the space between Champlin and Morriss Halls and Emery and Woolley Halls, and named for Virginia Piggott Verney ’28, who was in 1951 the second woman elected to the Brown Board of Trustees, and Mary Emma Woolley 1894.Verney and Woolley Dining Halls
In 1951 WBRU broke the long-distance record for collegiate broadcasting – from the Ice Palace in Colorado Springs, covering Brown’s appearance in the NCAA hockey tournament and sharing its coverage with Providence station WFCI for the benefit of Southern New England fans.WBRU
George Grafton Wilson (1863-1951), professor of social and political science, was born in Plainfield, Connecticut, on March 29, 1863.Wilson, George G.
George G. Wilson died in Cambridge on April 30, 1951.Wilson, George G.
In September 1951 students were living in five of the nine housing units, although some construction-related work still went on around them.Wriston Quadrangle
Basil G. Zimmer was an instructor at Eastern Michigan University in 1950-51 and at the University of Michigan in 1951-52, assistant professor at Florida State University in 1952-53, and in 1953 became Resident Director of the University of Michigan Social Science Research Project.Zimmer, Basil G.