Encyclopedia Brunoniana

1954

  • 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
  • In 1949 the first professor appointed to the Graduate Division of Applied Mathematics was E. H. Lee, who became chairman in 1954.Applied Mathematics
  • Also in 1954 the name of the department was changed to Division of Applied Mathematics when an undergraduate curriculum leading to the Bachelor of Science degree in applied mathematics was instituted.Applied Mathematics
  • At this time the Associated Alumni asked for voluntary contributions which paid for the ninth issue until 1954, when the University subscription increased again.BAM Brown Alumni Monthly
  • Stan Ward’s fifteen-year coaching record from 1954 to 1969 was 133-261.Basketball
  • 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
  • Bruce Macmillan Bigelow (1903-1954), vice-president and director of admissions, was born in Norwood, Rhode Island, on August 27, 1903.Bigelow, Bruce M.
  • Bruce M. Bigelow's sudden death of a heart attack on December 27, 1954 shocked the University.Bigelow, Bruce M.
  • "Brunonia" planet is the name given in 1954, by Dr. S. Arend of the Royal Observatory in Belgium, to a planet originally discovered in 1948.Brown University Glacier
  • In 1954 Bishop John S. Higgins appointed Rev. Samuel Wylie the first full-time Episcopal chaplain to Brown and other local colleges, forming the Episcopal College Church.Chapel
  • On the recommendation of this committee, on April 9, 1954, the Advisory and Executive Committee of the Corporation voted, "That the University adopt as the standard colors for the lining of all its academic hoods, seal brown with a single chevron of cardinal red similar to the red in the cross of the University coat-of arms."College color
  • 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
  • In October 1954 an audience of about eleven hundred watched Brown, taking the negative side of "The United States should extend diplomatic relations to Communist China," overcome Oxford University by a 4-1 decision.Debating
  • Chichibu died in 1954 at the age of 22, and was buried in the back yard of the Ducasse home with a marker of blue (the color of Chichibu’s eyes) on the gravesite.Ducasse, Curt J.
  • Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering honor society founded at Lehigh University in 1885, established Rhode Island Alpha at Brown on February 12, 1954, at which time 128 alumni members were initiated.Engineering
  • Harrison E. Farnsworth was chairman of the Department of Physics in 1942-43 and a member of the executive committee of the department from 1954 to 1956.Farnsworth, Harrison E.
  • Financial need is determined by a system of needs analysis developed in 1954 by the College Scholarship Service of the College Entrance Examination Board, which was later made law by Congress.Financial aid
  • Oceanography was introduced at Brown in 1949 and taught by Visiting Professor Raymond B. Montgomery until 1954.Geology
  • Robert H. George's alma mater conferred an honorary L.H.D. degree upon him in 1954 with these words, "In the classroom you are a lecturer of rare artistry.George, Robert H.
  • Ray E. Gilman retired from Brown in 1954, but continued his teaching from 1954 to 1959 at Washington College in Maryland.Gilman, Ray E.
  • In 1954 Lewis H. Gordon was elected president of the American Association of Teachers of Italian.Gordon, Lewis H.
  • 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
  • After Haffenreffer’s death in 1954, his widow and sons decided to give the 500-acre estate with the museum to Brown.Haffenreffer Museum
  • In 1954-55 Whiston coached the team to a 9-8-1 record.Hockey
  • Whiston’s three-season record from 1952 to 1954 was 28-27-1.Hockey
  • Howard Terrace on Meeting Street was dedicated on May 9, 1954, in honor of Edith Lockwood Danielson Howard and her mother, Sarah L. Danielson, both of whom had done much for the College.Howard Terrace
  • Hunter Laboratory of Psychology, named for Walter S. Hunter, chairman of the psychology department from 1936 to 1954, was dedicated on November 1, 1958.Hunter Laboratory
  • Walter Samuel Hunter (1889-1954), professor of psychology, was born in Decatur, Illinois, on March 22, 1889.Hunter, Walter S.
  • Walter S. Hunter resigned the chairmanship of the Psychology Department on his 65th birthday in March 1954.Hunter, Walter S.
  • A few months later after returning from a trip Walter S. Hunter suffered a sudden coronary occlusion and died in Providence on August 3, 1954.Hunter, Walter S.
  • In February 1954 the Ivy Group announced that beginning in 1956 the eight colleges would set up schedules for yearly games with the other seven.Ivy League
  • The agreement signed in 1954 stated, "The Group affirm their conviction that under proper conditions, intercollegiate competition in organized athletics offers desirable development and recreation for players and a healthy focus of collegiate loyalty.Ivy League
  • In 1954 the house at 62 College Street was named Judson House.Judson House
  • Hunter Kellenberger was chairman of the first Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, which was held at Brown in 1954.Kellenberger, Hunter
  • Reinhard Kuhn received his bachelor of arts degree in 1952, his master of arts in 1954, and his Ph.D. in 1957, all from Princeton.Kuhn, Reinhard
  • Reinhard Kuhn served in the Army from 1954 to 1956.Kuhn, Reinhard
  • In 1954 the library announced the acquisition of its millionth item, "De Homine Figuris et Latinate Donatus a Florentio Schuyl" by Descartes, printed in Leyden in 1662, a gift of Albert E. Lownes ’20, and its eight hundred thousandth book, "Compendium Pharmaceuticum," compiled by John Francis Coste, physician-in-chief of the French forces in America in the Revolution, given by the heirs of Solomon Drowne 1773.Library
  • Robert Bruce Lindsay was named Hazard Professor of Physics in 1936 and chairman of the Physics Department in 1934, a post which he held until he became dean of the Graduate School in 1954.Lindsay, Robert Bruce
  • Carl W. Miller was a member of the National Geographic Society eclipse expedition to Siam in 1948, and was a research associate in the Office of Naval Research Beavertail project at Yale from 1952 to 1954.Miller, Carl W.
  • Since 1954 Otto Neugebauer had been associated with the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.Neugebauer, Otto
  • Only three issues were printed, the last in the winter of 1954.Nucleus
  • At Brown he started a bobsled club in 1954.Olympic Games
  • The 1907 Cabin was destroyed by fire in 1954 and rebuilt in 1955.Outing Reservation
  • Lindsay became Dean of the Graduate School in 1954, and Williams succeeded him as chairman of the department.Physics
  • Plantations House was opened in the fall of 1954 as a dormitory center for commuting students.Plantations House
  • Hunter retired from the chairmanship in 1954, and was succeeded by Schlosberg.Psychology
  • Among the faculty members he recruited were Trygg Engen (olfactory research) in 1954, Anthony Davids (behavior pathology of children) and Russell M. Church (perception and judgment of time) in 1955, Lewis Lipsitt (developmental research and founder of the Child Study Center) in 1957, Allan M. Schrier (primate behavior) in 1958, and Bryan E. Shepp (comparative studies of thinking and judgment) in 1964.Psychology
  • In 1954 Jay Saunders Redding wrote "An American in India" after a State Department assignment in India.Redding, Jay Saunders
  • The Brown club won the Macmillan Trophy in 1950, and in 1954 won the Jack Wood trophy for the first time in 22 years of competition with M.I.T., Harvard, Dartmouth and Coast Guard.Sailing
  • In 1954 Schlosberg was appointed chairman of the department and in 1960 he was named Edgar J. Marston Professor.Schlosberg, Harold
  • Harold Schlosberg was co-author with R. S. Woodworth of a revision in 1954 of Woodworth’s well-known "Experimental Psychology."Schlosberg, Harold
  • Henry Dexter Sharpe (1872-1954), twelfth chancellor of Brown University, graduated in 1894.Sharpe, Henry D. 1894
  • When Henry D. 1894 Sharpe died on May 17, 1954, his largest public bequest was to Brown.Sharpe, Henry D. 1894
  • In 1953-53 Snow House at 156 Meeting Street, named for Dean Louis Franklin Snow, was added as a freshman house, and in 1954-55 Mary Emma Woolley House (named for one of the first women graduates) was opened for freshmen and sophomores at 99 Brown St.Student housing
  • Howard R. Swearer attended public schools in Wichita, and graduated from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1954.Swearer, Howard R.
  • Philip Taft was the author of numerous articles and fourteen books on the labor movement, among them, "The Structure and Government of Labor Unions" in 1954, "The AFL in the Time of Gompers" in 1957, "Organized Labor in American History" in 1964, and "Labor Politics, American Style" in 1968.Taft, Philip
  • Other mural paintings by Taylor include two in the Providence Street School in Worcester, Massachusetts, and one of the burning of the schooner Gaspee, which he painted for the new building of the Firemen’s Mutual and Union Mutual Insurance Company in Providence in 1954.Taylor, Will S.
  • In 1954-55 William Freeman Twaddell was a Fulbright lecturer at Ain Shaims University in Egypt.Twaddell, William Freeman
  • Karl S. Weimar was promoted to assistant professor in 1948, associate professor in 1954, professor in 1965, and was chairman of the German Department from 1967 to 1973.Weimar, Karl S.
  • Weimar was active in his community, serving on the school committee of his town, North Kingstown, from 1954 to 1960, when he bought a larger house in Warwick.Weimar, Karl S.
  • John Rowe Workman was academic advisor and loyal supporter of the hockey team (his portrait hangs in Meehan Auditorium) and was revered by the students, so much so that the editors of "Bear Facts" chose to list him under "Brown Traditions:" He wrote "Arx Antiqua" in 1948, "A Term of College Latin" in 1954, and "New Horizons of Higher Education," describing the Identification and Criticism of Ideas curriculum at Brown, in 1959.Workman, John Rowe
  • Other outstanding seasons were 1954-55 (7-1-1) and 1956-57 (7-2).Wrestling
  • Basil G. Zimmer received his bachelor of arts degree in 1947, his master of arts in 1949, and his Ph.D. degree in 1954, all from the University of Michigan.Zimmer, Basil G.