After serving as a dormitory for both undergraduate and graduate students and for faculty offices, it was unused for two years before being renovated in 1961 as the headquarters of the Institute for Health Sciences which had been housed in Partridge Hall.Adams House
In 1961 the Ivy League institutions issued a joint statement of admission policies.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 1961, when the Department of Mathematics moved into the other half of the house, that section was named Howell House, taking its name from the former home of the Mathematics Department on College Street.Ames House
Professor Feldman’s specialities in painting and printmaking were augmented by those of Hugh Townley, who arrived in 1961 as Brown’s first sculptor.Art
In 1960 "Bear Facts" was a joint publication of the University Christian Association and the "Liber Brunensis," in 1961 was published for the University Christian Association by Liber Brunensis Publications, and was published by Liber Brunensis Publications from 1962 until 1978, when it was taken over by the Office of the Dean of Freshmen.Bear Facts
The last Class Day was held in 1961, when only about 125 seniors out of a class of 447 attended.Class Day
Rosalie L. Colie was an instructor at Douglass College in 1948-49, and an assistant and associate professor at Barnard College and Columbia from 1949 to 1961.Colie, Rosalie L.
Rosalie L. Colie was associate professor at Wesleyan College from 1961 to 1963, professor at the University of Iowa from 1963 to 1966, visiting professor at Yale in 1966-67 and visiting research professor at Oxford University in 1967-68.Colie, Rosalie L.
TheComputing Laboratory at 180 George Street, a gift of the widow and son of Thomas J. Watson, Sr., was dedicated in his memory on January 12, 1961.Computing Laboratory
Robert W. Kenny was acting dean during Miss Lewis’ illness in 1960-61, and Rosemary Pierrel was dean from 1961 until the office was discontinued in 1971, when Pembroke College was merged with Brown University.Dean
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.
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 Miss Rudd, field hockey was coached by Sarah Phillips from 1961 to 1968, Joan Taylor from 1969 to 1971, and Jan Lutz in 1972.Field Hockey
The federal loan program of the National Defense Education Act provided aid to students, but Brown withdrew from the program in 1961 in opposition to the requirement that a student applying for a loan sign a disclaimer affidavit stating that he did not belong to or support any association which believed in the overthrow of the government of the United States.Financial aid
In December 1961 the Cammarian Club passed a resolution calling on the fraternities to remove all membership restrictions based on race or religion, and gave the seven fraternities with such restrictions two years to comply.Fraternities
In June 1959 a major fund drive to raise fifteen million dollars was launched with Thomas J. Watson, Jr. ’37 as chairman, and continued through 1960 and the first part of 1961.Fund-raising
In June 1961 Brown was the sixth recipient of such a grant of $7.5 million, if fifteen million could be raised in three years.Fund-raising
F. Donald Eckelmann came in 1957 and became chairman in 1961.Geology
William Chapple and Richard Yund came in 1961.Geology
Bryant had purchased the building in 1961 for use as a library and had added a wing in 1962.Giddings House
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
Howell House at 155 Thayer Street was the third building on the campus to bear the name of the first professor, David Howell, and was the home of the Department of Mathematics, which moved there in 1961.Howell House
"Hubris" appeared in 1961, with the expectation of being published "quarterly" by St. David’s Press, with this editorial note: One of the "questions" of the time was an article entitled "The Cuban Achievement," in the first and only issue of the magazine.Hubris
Lacrosse was recognized as a club sport in 1961, and after two successful seasons under coach Cliff Stevenson, was once again accorded varsity status in 1963.Lacrosse
Stevenson, who coached from 1961 to 1982 and who once described lacrosse as "mayhem with a crooked stick," had a 20-year record of 188-100-0, with eight New England championships, six of them between 1962 and 1972, and shared the Ivy League title with Cornell in 1969.Lacrosse
In 1961 the library received a collection of 35,000 Chinese books from Dr. Charles Sidney Gardner of Harvard’s Yenching Institute.Library
The Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Defense Department (ARPA) entered a $3.5 million contract with Brown in 1961 for materials research to be conducted by the Departments of Chemistry and Physics and the Divisions of Applied Mathematics and Engineering.Materials Research Laboratory
The next move in 1961, necessitated by the impending razing of Howell House to make room for the Rockefeller Library, was to 155 Thayer Street, where the department occupied half a house which was given the name of Howell House, the other half of which was already named Ames House.Mathematics
Norman D. Johnson from 1959 to 1961, Col. William F. Lantz, USMC, from 1961 to 1963, Capt.Military education
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
In 1961 Otto Neugebauer was awarded an American Council of Learned Societies prize as one of ten outstanding American university professors who were honored for "distinguished accomplishment in humanistic scholarship."Neugebauer, Otto
Frances Dennett Tiedemann was director of physical education in 1926 until 1930, when Bessie Rudd arrived to preside over women’s athletics and physical education until 1961.Physical Education
Rosemary Pierrel, an assistant and instructor from 1950 to 1955, returned as associate professor in 1961, when she became Dean of Pembroke College.Psychology
His crews won the Dad Vail Regatta in 1959, 1960 and 1961.Rowing
In 1961, when the crew had a 5-1 record, a fifth place in the Eastern Sprints at Worcester and a seventh in the IRA, rowing became recognized as an intercollegiate sport supported by the University.Rowing
In August 1961 Victor H. Michalson came from coaching at Syracuse to become Brown’s first full-time crew coach.Rowing
She retired in 1961, at which time the Bessie H. Rudd Award was established, to be presented annually to the woman who did the most to advance women’s athletics at Brown.Rudd, Bessie H.
Ben Brewster’s twelve goals and seven assists for the season brought his career goals to 33 (tying Alan Young’s 1961-1963 record) and his career point total of 50 to a Brown record.Soccer
As an economist Stoltz was chosen to head the Special Providence Committee on Municipal Revenue in 1957 and served on the Rhode Island Fiscal Study Commission in 1961.Stoltz, Merton P.
In 1950Philip Taft was named by the President’s Council of Economic Advisors to a committee of experts on the New England economy, and in 1961 he was a member of a committee on labor-management reports set up by the U. S. Department of Labor.Taft, Philip
There were more winning seasons, nine of the eleven seasons before Brown’s entry into the Ivy League in 1961.Tennis
Fuqua’s teams won New England track and field titles in 1949, 1960, and 1961.Track
After retirement from Brown in 1961, Otto Van Koppenhagen continued to teach privately.Van Koppenhagen, Otto
Appleget retired in June 1959 and his position was vacant until John Van Gassbeek Elmendorf arrived in May 1961 from Mexico, where he had been Executive Director of the Mexican-American Cultural Institute and for eight years a member of the faculty and an administrative officer at Mexico City College.Vice Presidents