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
The field was their memorial, and after the new athletic fields were acquired in 1958, Aldrich Field was sold in 1961 for a residential development which included streets named for Presidents Maxcy, Faunce, Barbour, and Wriston.Aldrich Field
In 1958 the name was given to a dormitory at 150 George Street, which was half of the building at the corner of Thayer Street.Ames House
In 1957 and 1958 Ulf Grenander was professor of probability and statistics.Applied Mathematics
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
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
He retired in 1959, and Professor Church became chairman of the department in 1958.Botany
Carl Bridenbaugh was a State Department specialist on India in 1956, a fellow for the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in 1956-58, and a Guggenheim fellow in 1958 and 1962.Bridenbaugh, Carl
In March 1958 Brown was host to the sixth annual conference of the Association, attended by representatives of twenty colleges.Brown Key
The all male board of governors also changed, as "Bear Facts" announced in 1958 that membership on the board was limited to eight Brown men and two Pembrokers from each class.Brown Union
The first Brown University Press "Catalog of Books in Print" in 1958 listed 33 titles, many in series, as "Brown University Studies," "Brown University Papers," and "Colver Lectures."Brown University Press
On his return Millar Burrows was shown the manuscripts, which came to be known as the Dead Sea Scrolls, and, after that devoted himself to the study of the scrolls, on which he became an authority, publishing "The Dead Sea Scrolls" in 1955, and "More Light on the Dead Sea Scrolls" in 1958.Burrows, Millar
Reckard was succeeded in 1958 by Charles A. Baldwin, a 1950 graduate of Illinois College with a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Yale, who came to Providence as assistant minister of Central Congregational Church.Chapel
With his office at St. Stephen’s Church Reverend Wylie served until 1958, and was followed by Canon Crocker from 1959 to 1969, and Rev. Sheldon Flory from 1970 to 1974.Chapel
In January 1958 a new IBM650 Data Processing System (the only one of its kind between Hartford and Boston) was installed in the Applied Mathematics building.Computer Science
The five Deans of the College who became college presidents were: James Stacy Coles, acting dean of the College for one year when he became president of Bowdoin College in 1952; Brown president Barnaby Keeney, acting dean in 1952-53 and dean from 1953 to 1955; K. Roald Bergethon, acting dean in 1955-56 and dean from 1956 to 1958, who went to Lafayette College; Charles H. Watts II ’47, dean from 1958 to 1962, who became president of Bucknell; and Robert W. Morse, dean from 1962 to 1964, who became president of Case Western Reserve University.Dean
The 1958 production, "Down to Earth," was the first written entirely by Pembroke students.Dramatics
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 the 1950s the department grew through the addition of faculty members George H. Borts in 1950, Jerome L. Stein in 1953, Michael J. Brennan in 1957, Phillip D. Cagan in 1958, and Martin J. Beckmann and Mark B. Schupack in 1959.Economics
In 1958 the department received a grant from the Ford Foundation to study regional economic development in the United States.Economics
The "Editor" was published for the first time in the spring of 1958 and sold for 25 cents.Editor
In 1958 a National Science Foundation grant enabled the University to establish summer institutes for teachers under the direction of Professor Elmer R. Smith.Education
Caroline Nestman Peck, who received the first graduate degree in Egyptology in 1958, was the third.Egyptology
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
"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
His last book, "Cicero on the "Art "of Growing Old, "written while on sabbatical in 1958, was published after his death from a heart attack on June 6, 1959 in Providence.Herbert Newell Couch
Added to the department faculty were: in 1958, William G. McLoughlin, formerly of the Political Science Department (American religious and cultural history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries); in 1959, Donald G. Rohr (nineteenth century German social and intellectual history); in 1964, John L. Thomas (Civil War and Reconstruction); in 1965, Bryce Lyon (the Middle Ages); in 1966, Stephen R. Graubard, who had been a visiting professor the year before (Modern British and French history) and Anthony Mohlo (Renaissance and Reformation); in 1968, A.History
Remembering him at the dedication of the Hunter Laboratory of Psychology in 1958, Leonard Carmichael said, "Dr. Hunter early became one of the leading exponents of an enlightened objective and behavioristic psychology that has now come to be almost synonymous with scientific psychology in this country."Hunter, Walter S.
Other officers who headed the Air Science Department were Col. Gilbert E. Goodman from 1955 to 1957, Lt. Col. George W. Hutcheson from 1958 to 1960, Major Arthur E. Allen from 1960 to 1961, Lt. Col. William J. Grundmann from 1962 to 1966, Major Robert G. Liotta from 1966 to 1969, and Capt.Military education
Vincent A. Tomas came in 1938, Roderick M. Chisholm and Richard C. Taylor in 1947, John Ladd in 1950, John W. Lenz in 1953, and Richard Schmitt in 1958.Philosophy
Guy Dodge became chairman in 1950 and added to the department Whitney Perkins in 1953, Elmer Cornwell in 1955, and Lea Williams in 1956, Elliot Goodman, who was an intern in the department in 1955, became instructor in 1956 and assistant professor in 1958.Political Science
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
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
In 1958 the University Christian Association was formed by the merger of the Brown Christian Association, the Pembroke Christian Association, and various student groups of the neighboring churches.Religious Societies
Georgiana McLean was associate executive secretary of the University Christian Association from 1958 to 1960, and was succeeded by Nancy Simons, who was director of religious activities at Pembroke and became assistant chaplain in 1965.Religious Societies
Although the intercollegiate association did not materialize at this stage, the Pembroke Sailing Club was formed under Jessie Godfrey, who was replaced in 1958 by Janet Lutz.Sailing
Harold Schlosberg was responsible for the planning and supervision of construction of the Walter S. Hunter Laboratory of Psychology, built in 1958, which finally replaced the old frame houses and the basements where the department had been poorly housed for years.Schlosberg, Harold
The graduate program in demography began in 1952, and the first Ph.D. degree specializing in demography was awarded in 1958.Sociology
Coaches of women’s tennis have been Pat Schiltz from 1958 to 1964, Jan Lutz from 1964 to 1971, Joan Taylor from 1971 to 1978, Bill Cullen from 1978 to 1982, and Paul Moses from 1982 to 1985.Tennis
"Miss Lonelyhearts" failed as a play on Broadway in 1958, and a movie called simply "Lonelyhearts" about the same time did not meet with much success.West, Nathanael
On Wilson’s 62nd birthday in 1958 about forty of his former graduate students gathered to honor him with a Seminar on the Biology of the Cell and a Symposium on Training Biologists.Wilson, James Walter