Encyclopedia Brunoniana

1964

  • Given by an anonymous donor in 1964, it was designed by Anne S. K. Brown, an authority on military dress, who traveled with her husband, John Nicholas Brown, to Ireland to arrange with Walter Conan, master maker of gowns for the Irish universities, for the gown to be made by Irish craftsmen.Academic costume
  • President Keeney first wore the gown at the Bicentennial Convocation in the Colony House in Newport in the fall of 1964.Academic costume
  • Bass had been an assistant to poet Langston Hughes from 1959 to 1964.Afro-American Studies
  • The American Philosophical Society has numbered among its members the following individuals connected with Brown, elected to membership in the years indicated: Stephen Hopkins in 1769; Benjamin Waterhouse in 1791; Francis Wayland in 1838; John E. Holbrook 1815 in 1839; Alpheus S. Packard in 1878; George Dana Boardman 1852 in 1880; Henry S. Frieze 1841 in 1884; William Williams Keen 1859 in 1884; James Macalister 1856 in 1886; James Burrill Angell 1849 in 1889; Lester Frank Ward in 1889; Richard Olney 1856 in 1897; Stephen F. Peckham 1862 in 1897; John Hay 1858 in 1898; Robert H. Thurston 1859 in 1902; Carl Barus in 1903; Hermon Carey Bumpus 1884 in 1909; Charles E. Bennett 1878 in 1913; Winthrop John Vanleuven Osterhout 1893 in 1917; John Franklin Jameson in 1920; Charles Evans Hughes 1881 in 1926; Arthur F. Buddington ’12 in 1931; John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 1897 in 1931; Ernest E. Tyzzer 1897 in 1931; Gilbert Chinard in 1932; George E. Coghill 1896 in 1935; Harvey N. Davis ’01 in 1935; George Grafton Wilson 1886 in 1936; Frederick G. Keyes ’09 Ph.D. in 1938; Charles August Kraus in 1939; Walter S. Hunter in 1941; Leonard Carmichael in 1942; Zechariah Chafee ’07 in 1946; Robert Cushman Murphy ’11 in 1946; Otto E. Neugebauer in 1947; William A. Noyes in 1947; George Boas ’13 in 1950; Carl Bridenbaugh in 1950; Clarence Saunders Brigham 1899 in 1955; Clarence H. Graham in 1956; John Imbrie in 1956; Lars Onsager in 1959; John Wilder Tukey ’36 in 1962; Edmund Sears Morgan in 1964; Carl Pfaffmann ’33 in 1964; Vartan Gregorian in 1965; Barnaby C. Keeney in 1965; Donald F. Hornig in 1967; Floyd Ratliff ’50 Ph.D. in 1972; Leon N. Cooper in 1973; David E. Pingree in 1975; George F. Carrier in 1976; Eliot Stellar ’47 Ph.D. in 1977; Brooke Hindle ’40 in 1982; Thomas J. Watson, Jr. ’37 in 1984; Barbara K. Lewalski in 1986.American Philosophical Society
  • The Brown Center for Dynamical Systems was established in 1964 by Solomon Lefschetz and Professor J. P. LaSalle for research and advanced study.Applied Mathematics
  • The Arnold Fellowships were established in 1964 by Thomas J. Watson, Jr. ’37.Arnold Fellowships
  • Brown’s two All-Americans are David DeLuca ’64, who led New England batters in 1964 with a .397 average, and Bill Almon ’75, who was named College Baseball Player of the Year in 1974, when he batted .350, made ten home runs, batted in 31 runs, and stole twenty bases.Baseball
  • At that time George H. Bass met Langston Hughes, changed his interest to literature and went on to receive a master of arts degree from New York University’s Film School in 1964.Bass, George H.
  • George H. Bass was Langston Hughes’s secretary and literary assistant from 1959 to 1964, and became co-executor of Hughes’s estate in 1967.Bass, George H.
  • On March 27, 1964, a similar effort proclaiming "Pembroke No Longer ‘Coordinate’; Corporation Makes Brown ‘Co-ed’" and "Keeney Selects Special Committee to Supervise ‘Herald’" had brought forth no more than a cheerful communication to the managing board from President Keeney, probably because of the proximity to April Fool’s Day.BDH Brown Daily Herald
  • The Bicentennial celebration began on March 2, 1964, with a formal convocation in Sayles Hall at noon, with John Nicholas Brown as the principal speaker, after which the American flag was lowered and hoisted again with the Bicentennial Flag of the University flying below.Bicentennial celebration
  • The celebration of the bicentennial year included a variety of events between September 1964 and June 1965.Bicentennial celebration
  • On Wednesday, September 2, 1964 the annual meeting of the Corporation was held in the Colony House in Newport where the first Corporation met for the first time on the first Wednesday in September 1764, when 24 of the original incorporators took the oath of office.Bicentennial celebration
  • Elizabeth H. Leduc, who came in 1945 as assistant, became an assistant professor in 1953, associate professor in 1957, and professor in 1964, the first woman full professor in a teaching position.Biology
  • The Bio-Medical Research Laboratory, built in 1964, is a four-story building connecting Arnold Laboratory and the Metcalf Research Laboratory.Bio-Medical Research Laboratory
  • In June 1964 the Brown University Press was elected to full membership in the Association of American University Presses.Brown University Press
  • Leonard Carmichael retired in 1964.Carmichael, Leonard
  • The Catalogue was superseded by the "Brown University Alumni Directory," published in 1964 by the University, and published commercially in 1979, 1984, and 1989.Catalogues
  • Harold B. Tanner ’09 (1952-1964) was a lawyer, H. Stanford McLeod ’16 (1964-1968) an investment banker, and Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr. ’32 (1968-1979) among other things president of Trans World Airlines.Chancellors
  • The Vice-Chancellors of the University have been Donald G. Millar ’19 (1964-1968), Alfred H. Joslin ’35 (1968-1969), Foster B. Davis ’39 (1969-1979), Thomas J. Watson, Jr. ’37 (1979-1985), Henry D. Sharpe, Jr. ’45 (1985-1988) and Artemis A. W. Joukowsky ’55, since 1988.Chancellors
  • Under the pseudonym "Samuel Nomad" he published in 1964 a book of 66 sonnets (from beyond the grave) entitled "Nightmare Cemetery."Damon, Samuel Foster
  • 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
  • In 1964 the Corporation created the post of Dean of the University again and Merton P. Stoltz was named to the office.Dean
  • Robert O. Schulze was the Dean of the College from 1964 to 1968, followed by F. Donald Eckelmann from 1968 to 1971.Dean
  • Gordon R. Dewart was named assistant dean of the college in 1962, associate dean in 1964, and associate dean of academic affairs in 1971.Dewart, Gordon R.
  • In 1964 the Brownbrokers took "Statutory Scrape," which was about the theft of the Statue of Liberty, on the road for a repeat performance at the Brown Club of New York.Dramatics
  • Professor Stoltz later served as chairman from 1957 to 1964, and went on to become Provost and acting President of Brown.Economics
  • In the 1960s the department grew through the addition of faculty members Herschel I. Grossman in 1964, James A. Hanson and Harl E. Ryder in 1965, Benjamin Chinitz in 1966, and Ryuzu Sato in 1967.Economics
  • The Classes of 1907, 1924, 1929, and 1934 had their numerals added in 1964, and the Class of 1932 numerals were added to 1992.Fence
  • In 1964 a bicentennial flag bearing the bicentennial emblem, which was sewn by Shirley Morrison ’64, was flown each day beneath the American flag on the College Green.Flag
  • In December of 1964 the Brown chapter was dissolved as a result of a hazing incident in which a pledge collapsed.Fraternities
  • In about 1964 Phi Delta Theta became a local fraternity, Phi Delta Beta, after being instructed by the University to drop its national ties because of a discriminatory clause in the national constitution.Fraternities
  • The chapter disbanded in 1964.Fraternities
  • Sigma Nu, after trying for several years to persuade the national fraternity to drop discriminatory membership clauses from its constitution, became an independent local fraternity named Lambda Sigma Nu in 1964, and changed its name to Casements in 1970.Fraternities
  • A Bicentennial Development Program, designed to raised thirty million dollars by 1964 through growth in annual giving and bequests, was approved by the Corporation in October 1956.Fund-raising
  • On June 25, 1964, only a few days before the end of the fund raising period, the bell on University Hall was rung and the announcement made that $15,400,000 in matching funds were on hand.Fund-raising
  • The success of the campaign brought to the University in December 1964 a second Ford Foundation challenge grant, this time for five million dollars to be met by ten million raised by the University by June 30, 1967.Fund-raising
  • Fortunately for Brown the period of the challenge was retroactive to July 1, 1964, allowing an already received grant of two million from the James Foundation to be counted toward the matching funds.Fund-raising
  • The first Ph.D. in the Geology Department was awarded in 1964.Geology
  • Robley Matthews joined the staff in 1964, David G. Harkrider in 1965, Michael J. Chinnery in 1966, and John Imbrie in 1967.Geology
  • The department needed a new building, and architect I. M. Pei was hired in 1964 to design one, but it was not built.Geology
  • Julian H. Gibbs was chairman of the Chemistry Department from 1964 to 1972.Gibbs, Julian H.
  • J(ames) Louis Giddings (1909-1964), professor of anthropology, was born in Caldwell, Texas on April 10, 1909.Giddings, James Louis
  • James Louis Giddings's last expedition to Alaska was in the summer of 1964.Giddings, James Louis
  • James Louis Giddings died in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, on December 9, 1964 of injuries suffered in an automobile accident November 3.Giddings, James Louis
  • Vartan Gregorian earned his Ph.D. degree at Stanford in 1964, writing a dissertation on "Traditionalism and Modernism in Islam."Gregorian, Vartan
  • When Giddings died in 1964, his widow, Ruth Warner Giddings, stayed on as administrator of the museum.Haffenreffer Museum
  • In June 1964 Ray L. Heffner returned to Indiana as full professor and Vice-President and Dean of the Faculties.Heffner, Ray L.
  • 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
  • The 1964-65 team, led by All-American Bob Gaudreau ’66, Terry Chapman ’65 and Leon Bryant ’65, won the Ivy League championship and played in the NCAAs in Meehan Auditorium, losing to Michigan Tech, 0-4, and North Dakota, 5-9.Hockey
  • Women’s ice hockey started at Brown in 1964.Hockey
  • President Barnaby C. Keeney, conferring the honorary Litt.D. degree in 1964 and choosing this moment to call to mind a joke among Hexter’s acquaintances about his middle initial which stood for nothing, announced, "Jack "Hernando" Hexter."Honorary degrees
  • When the main library was removed to the new John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library in 1964, the John Hay Library retained the special collections and provided temporary quarters for the Physical Sciences Library until the Sciences Library was built.John Hay Library
  • 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
  • Chester H. Kirby retired in 1964 and died on March 5, 1975 at his home in Thetford, Vermont.Kirby, Chester H.
  • Reinhard Kuhn came to Brown in 1964 as professor of French.Kuhn, Reinhard
  • In 1964 the Brown lacrosse team had three All-Americans, Thomas H. Draper ’64, Michael T. Healy ’64, and William A. Lemire ’64.Lacrosse
  • Waldo G. Leland was a member of the Brown Board of Fellows from 1933 to 1964.Leland, Waldo G.
  • The Rockefeller Library with a capacity of 1,500,000 books was opened in 1964.Library
  • Engineering acquired new quarters in the Barus-Holley Building, built in 1964.Lincoln Field Building
  • Alexander Meiklejohn (1872-1964), professor of philosophy and dean of the college, was born in Rochdale, England, on February 1, 1872.Meiklejohn, Alexander
  • Alexander Meiklejohn died in Berkeley, California, on December 17, 1964 at the age of 92.Meiklejohn, Alexander
  • The Brown University Chorale accompanied the Brown University Brass Ensemble on a bicentennial tour of the Middle West during spring break in 1964.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
  • The last nursing diploma received by a Pembroke student was awarded in November 1963, and the last degree in nursing in June 1964.Nursing program
  • Otis Smith Farm, a seventeen-acre farm with a brook, on Scott Road in Ashton, Rhode Island, twelve miles from the campus, was left to Pembroke College in 1964 by Lura Mae Thomas Smith ’01, widow of Otis Smith.Otis Smith Farm
  • "Two Centuries of Brown Verse, 1764-1964" was selected and edited by Sharon Brown as a Bicentennial Publication in 1965.Poetry
  • 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
  • Since Schlosberg’s sudden death in 1964, the department has been chaired Julius W. Kling, Donald S. Blough, Peter D. Eimas, Russell M. Church, Bryan E. Shepp, and Jacques Wright.Psychology
  • Norris W. Rakestraw also was the first recipient in 1964 of Skin Diver Magazine’s Annual Award for Outstanding Service to Youth in the Field of Oceanography.Rakestraw, Norris W.
  • In 1964-65 Jay Saunders Redding was a fellow in the Humanities at Duke.Redding, Jay Saunders
  • His last appearance in December 1964 was described by W. Chesley Worthington ’23 in the "Brown Alumni Monthly:" "Though Charles Alexander Robinson had lately left his hospital room, his voice had its old booming vibrance, his joy in taking part was as infectious as ever.Robinson, Charles Alexander
  • That’s why I like to come back to the campus from time to time, and particularly to these reunions where we all meet on the old-tine footing and where again, to you, I’m only ‘Johnny Rock.’" At the dedication of the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library in 1964, his son David Rockefeller noted, "at Brown my father discovered an intellectual challenge to which he could respond.Rockefeller, John D., Jr.
  • When the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library was dedicated to him in 1964, his "credo," which had been expressed in a speech he delivered at the 75th anniversary celebration of Fisk University in 1941, was inscribed on the wall in the lobby of the library:Rockefeller, John D., Jr.
  • The Rockefeller Library was dedicated on November 16, 1964.Rockefeller Library
  • David Rockefeller spoke at the dedication on November 15, 1964 of the library named for his father, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 1897, "an alumnus whose services to society were characterized by distinction and integrity, and whose relations to the University those of a devoted alumnus."Rockefeller Library
  • Brown won Ivy titles in 1964 with skippers Chuck Paine ’66 and Earl Harrington ’66, and again in 1973 with skippers Ed Holt ’74 and Willie DeCamp ’73.Sailing
  • Harold Schlosberg (1904-1964), professor of psychology, was born in Brooklyn, New York, on January 3, 1904.Schlosberg, Harold
  • Harold Schlosberg died August 5, 1964 in Providence at the age of 61.Schlosberg, Harold
  • In 1964 Detlev W. Schumann received the Medal of Merit First Class, one of the highest medals of the German government, for promoting student exchanges between Brown and the University of Kiel, for the quality of his scholarship and teaching in German studies, and for the contributions to German culture afforded by dissertations supervised by him.Schumann, Detlev W.
  • An emblem for the bicentennial celebration of 1964 was composed of the first and third seals joined together.Seal
  • The 1964 Ivy championship was shared with Dartmouth.Soccer
  • The next year Brown, undefeated in 26 games since a loss to Dartmouth in October 1964, lost to Penn in the second game of the 1968 season.Soccer
  • Randall Stewart (1896-1964), professor of English, was born in Fayetteville, Tennessee, on July 25, 1896.Stewart, Randall
  • Randall Stewart died on June 17, 1964.Stewart, Randall
  • Merton P. Stoltz was chairman of the Department of Economics from 1956 to 1964, associate dean of the Graduate School from 1960 to 1964, and dean of the University from 1964 to 1966.Stoltz, Merton P.
  • 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
  • It was 1964 before the Brown team defeated its first Ivy opponent, Dartmouth with a 5-4 score.Tennis
  • 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
  • Tougaloo College and Brown entered into a compact in the spring of 1964, in which Brown volunteered to assist the struggling black college.Tougaloo College
  • Professor Harold Pfautz of Brown was named director of the program and went to Tougaloo in the fall of 1964.Tougaloo College
  • William Freeman Twaddell was chairman of a consortium of linguists from Brown, Cornell, the University of Michigan, and the University of Texas, which trained Egyptian teachers of English from 1958 to 1964.Twaddell, William Freeman
  • The wrestling coaches who followed Anderton were John F. Huntsman in 1963-64, Robert M. Litchard from 1964 to 1967, Mike Koval from 1967 to 1971, Jim Brumbaugh from 1971 to 1974; Joe Wirth from 1974 to 1980; Jim Tressler from 1980 to 1983; and Dave Amato since 1983.Wrestling
  • Basil G. Zimmer's book, "Rebuilding Cities: The Effects of Dislocation and Relocation of Small Businesses," was published in 1964.Zimmer, Basil G.