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1968

  • Traditional black gowns were worn until 1968, when Brown, following the lead of Harvard, Columbia and others, adopted the school colors for the gowns worn by recipients of advanced degrees.Academic costume
  • The first Black Arts Festival, "New Souls of Black Folks," was held in April 1968.African Americans
  • In December 1968 65 of the 85 black students enrolled marched down College Hill to the Congdon Street Baptist Church, where they camped for three days in an attempt to force the University to increase the number of blacks in each entering class to eleven per cent, the percentage of blacks in the national population.African Americans
  • The number of black students had risen from 85 (2.3 per cent) in 1968 to 417 (8.9 per cent) in 1972.African Americans
  • In September 1968 the administration responded to student demand and added a course in American negro literature to the already planned history course, "History of the Negro in America," a colloquium limited to twenty students and conducted by Professor John L. Thomas.Afro-American Studies
  • By the end of 1968-69 an independent concentration in Afro-American Studies designed by a committee of both faculty and students headed by Charles H. Philbrick was approved.Afro-American Studies
  • Alex F. Ricciardelli, who had been visiting assistant professor in 1962-63, was named director of the Haffenreffer Museum in 1968 and taught courses in archaeological methods and theory.Anthropology
  • Philip Leis was program director from 1968 to 1970, with Alex F. Ricciardelli as acting program director in 1969-70.Anthropology
  • Both Licht and Lowry left the department in 1968, Licht to become director of the Florida State University Study Center in Florence and Lowry to become director of the Museum of Modern Art.Art
  • In 1968 Juergen Schulz, an authority in the history of architecture, came to Brown as chairman of the department.Art
  • Athletic directors at Brown have been Fred Eugene Parker from 1895 to 1903, Frederick W. Marvel from 1903 to 1938, Thomas W. Taylor from 1938 to 1942, Walter H. Snell, acting director from January to June 1943 and director until 1946, Paul F. Mackesey from 1947 to 1962, Edward R. Durgin from 1962 to 1963, Philip R. Theibert from 1963 to 1968, John M. Heffernan from 1968 to 1971, Ferdinand A.Athletics
  • There have been only four editors of the "Monthly," Henry Robinson Palmer, from 1900 to 1931, W. Chesley Worthington from 1931 to 1968, Robert A. Reichley, 1968 to 1971, and Robert M. "Dusty" Rhodes, who has been editor since March of 1971.BAM Brown Alumni Monthly
  • Stanley Ward’s teams from 1965 to 1968 had a 40-57-2 record.Baseball
  • In the years after that George H. Bass was a free lance writer and director in New York and attended the Yale School of Drama from 1966 to 1968.Bass, George H.
  • George H. Bass was also associate producer and story editor of a series of original plays entitled "On Being Black" produced on WGBH-TV in 1968 and 1969 and aired nationally over the Public Broadcasting System.Bass, George H.
  • In 1968 Beverly Hodgson ’70 was acclaimed by the press as "First Woman Editor of Ivy League Daily" (and coincidentally later married the nephew of Audrey Mishel, the woman editor of the "Herald-Record" of World War II), and with her managing editor, another woman, Laura Hersh ’70, got the "Herald" out from its new offices at 195 Angell Street.BDH Brown Daily Herald
  • Dr. Pierre Galletti, M.D. was chairman of the division from 1968 to 1972.Biology
  • After his retirement in 1968, Leicester Bradner continued to work for Brown, donating one day a week to catalogue search projects in the Rockefeller Library.Bradner, Leicester
  • "Cities in Revolt: Urban Life in America, 1743-1776," in 1955, "Mitre and Sceptre: Transatlantic Faith, Ideas, Personalities, and Politics," in 1962, "Vexed and Troubled Englishmen, 1590-1642," in 1968, "Fat Mutton and Liberty of Conscience: Society in Rhode Island, 1636-1690," in 1974, "The Spirit of ’76: the Growth of American Patriotism before Independence," in 1975, "Jamestown, 1544-1699," in 1980, and "Early Americans," in 1981.Bridenbaugh, Carl
  • In 1968 he donated to the Boy Scouts a rescue boat which was named "Charlie Brown," and decorated with a likeness of the comic strip character of that name.Brown, Charles Wilson
  • In January 1967 there was a revival of the "Brown Jug" which continued into the fall of 1968.Brown Jug
  • The photographs of the seniors grew from a little over an inch (accompanied by much text describing the student) to a whole new format in 1968, when large photographs depicted the individual graduates in poses of their choice, which were taken inside and outside, in sunshine and in shade, and occasionally in the rain.Brun Mael
  • In 1968 members were elected from both Brown and Pembroke College.Cammarian Club
  • 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
  • Compulsory attendance at the convocations was discontinued for all but freshmen at Brown at the beginning of 1968-69, and in November 1968 the taking of attendance at Pembroke covocations was ended.Chapel
  • In 1968 Reverend Herbert O. Edwards, then an assistant in the Religious Studies department, had informally served as a chaplain for black students.Chapel
  • In 1952, Professor Coles left to become first president of Bowdoin College and then in 1968 president of the Research Corporation.Chemistry
  • W. Nelson Francis, whose field was the structure and history of the English language, joined the department in 1962 and was appointed chairman in 1968.Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
  • In January 1968 Northwestern and Brown were invited to participate in a tenth-anniversary rematch, from which Brown returned with the victory and $10,000 in scholarship money.College Quiz Bowl
  • In 1968 the University published "William Blake: Essays for S. Foster Damon," and celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday with a two-day festival in 1968, during which Damon read from his poems, a music professor played Damon’s compositions, and students performed parts of Damon’s play, "Witch of Dogtown," and a seminar on Blake was held.Damon, Samuel Foster
  • He also received an honorary Litt.D. degree from Brown in 1968, awarded with a citation which began: Damon died on December 25, 1971 in Smithfield, Rhode Island.Damon, Samuel Foster
  • Robert O. Schulze was the Dean of the College from 1964 to 1968, followed by F. Donald Eckelmann from 1968 to 1971.Dean
  • From 1968 to 1980 the department housed the editorial offices of the "American Economic Review," the main publication of the American Economic Association.Economics
  • 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
  • Courses in film criticism were initiated by Mark Spilka about 1968, and in the fall semester of 1970-71 Maurice Rapf, New York film writer and director was a visiting instructor in the art of film making.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 chapter became inactive in 1968.Fraternities
  • Paul C. Hess, and John F. Hermance came in 1968.Geology
  • Golf became a recognized sport in 1920, and over the years had a few highly successful seasons, which occurred in 1931, 1941, 1949, 1955, 1956, 1968, 1971, 1972, and 1975.Golf
  • The Graduate Center, built in 1968, was composed of four six-story dormitory towers around a central four-story commons building.Graduate Center
  • The dedication of the Center, at which Margaret Mead was the principal speaker, was held on October 12, 1968.Graduate Center
  • Vartan Gregorian taught at San Francisco State University from 1960 to 1968.Gregorian, Vartan
  • Vartan Gregorian won the Danforth Foundation’s Harbison Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1968, and in the same year became professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.Gregorian, Vartan
  • In 1968 Alex F. Ricciardelli, an authority on the North American Indian and a former student of Giddings, was appointed curator.Haffenreffer Museum
  • .up .bd Hellcoal Press issued the first of the "Hellcoal Press Pamphlet Series" in March 1968, a pamphlet of four poems by visiting professor Edouard Roditi and Richard Dean Rosen.Hellcoal Press
  • The press also printed individual pamphlets of selected poetry and fiction, including "Pound," poems written at a poetry workshop at Tougaloo College in 1968.Hellcoal Press
  • 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
  • Barbara Jacobskind ’67, who had assisted Sarah Phillips, coached the women players between 1968 and 1970 with help from the men’s hockey team.Hockey
  • The Pandas ventured into international competition in January 1968 in Kingston, Ontario, where they were overcome, 1-10, by an amateur Canadian team, the Humberside Omegas, and in a second game by the Golden Gals of Queen’s University, 1-4.Hockey
  • When the Graduate Center was opened in 1968, a honey locust tree was planted in his honor, a gift of Sol B. Korn ’65 as a tribute to his "friend and counselor," crediting Kapstein, with whom he had never taken a course, as being the person who encouraged him when he thought of dropping out of college.Kapstein, I. J.
  • He also published "The Nature of Physics" in 1968, "Lord Rayleigh, The Man and His Work" in 1970, and "Julius Robert Mayer, Prophet of Energy" in 1973.Lindsay, Robert Bruce
  • The Literary Magazine of Brown University appeared in two issues only, in May 1967 and March 1968.Literary Magazine of Brown University
  • The Division of Biology and Medicine, which had been formed as a single department in 1968 was reorganized in 1985 into two administrative units, the Program in Biology and the Program in Medicine.Medical education
  • Pierre M. Galletti, who had been chairman of the Division of Biological and Medical Sciences since 1968, was named Vice-President for Biology and Medicine in 1972.Medical education
  • The annual review was picketed again in 1968.Military education
  • In 1968 the commissioning ceremony of the ROTC had been separated from the Commencement exercises and held later in Sayles Hall, where an unscheduled appearance was made by Bob Hope, who had received an honorary degree at the Commencement exercises.Military education
  • In the summer of 1973 there was another trip to Czechoslovakia (where the Chorus, with Robert Molison as director, gave the first officially recognized American concert in Prague since the Russian invasion of 1968), Hungary, and Austria.Musical Clubs
  • Thomas A. Mutch was chairman of the Department of Geological Sciences from 1968 to 1971.Mutch, Thomas A.
  • When he moved to the University of Birmingham in 1968, Park Honan started a British branch of "Novel," and with David Lodge, set up a symposium on the Novel in which "nine very active British critics" participated at the Stratford Institute at Stratford-on-Avon on December 7 and 8, 1968.Novel
  • Robert R. Gaudreau ’66 was a defenseman on the Olympic hockey team that played at Grenoble in 1968.Olympic Games
  • In 1968 Lars Onsager won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work which he had done at Brown and had published in 1931.Onsager, Lars
  • Editors of the "Pembroke Alumna" were Polly Welts Kaufman ’51 from October 1957 to January 1968, Sally Kappelman Riggs ’62 from April 1968 to July 1971, after which the "Pembroke Alumna" merged with the "Brown Alumni Monthly."Pembroke Alumna
  • In 1968-69, its final year, the paper changed its title to "Record" (no longer "Pembroke Record)," its format to tabloid size with "Record" in large ornamental letters, and its content to feature articles with occasional poetry and reviews.Pembroke Record
  • Charles H. Philbrick published two other books of poetry, "Wonderstrand Revisited" in 1960, and "Voyages Down" in 1967, and a novel, "Westaway," in 1968.Philbrick, Charles H.
  • Three Brown physics professors served as president of the Society, Lindsay in 1957, Robert W. Morse, who came to Brown in 1946, in 1966, and Robert T. Beyer, who came to Brown in 1950, in 1968.Physics
  • Edward N. Beiser, who came in 1968, an expert in public law, was instrumental in the founding in 1977 of the Center for Law and Liberal Education, of which he became the director.Political Science
  • William Prager was asked to come back in 1968.Prager, William
  • With the help of a National Science Foundation grant in 1957 the department expanded, and at the time of Quinn’s retirement in 1968 had a staff of ten.Quinn, Alonzo W.
  • Jacob Neusner, professor of Judaic studies, was appointed in 1968, after an experimental program funded by the Gottesman Foundation had brought a series of scholars scholars of Judaica to Brown.Religious Studies
  • There have been twenty recipients of the medal: William Williams Keen in 1925, Charles Evans Hughes in 1928, John Davison Rockefeller, Jr. in 1931, Charles Value Chapin in 1935, Mary Emma Woolley in 1937, Fred Tarbell Field in 1940, Henry Dexter Sharpe in 1944, Zechariah Chafee, Jr. in 1947, Warren Randolph Burgess in 1953, Rowland Roberts Hughes in 1955, Theodore Francis Green in 1956, Alexander Meiklejohn in 1959, Waldo Gifford Leland in 1965, Thomas John Watson, Jr. in 1968, Henry Merritt Wriston in 1976, Richard Salomon in 1982, Charles Carpenter Tillinghast, Jr. in 1982, Howard Robert Swearer in 1983, Otto Eduard Neugebauer in 1987, and Roderick Milton Chisholm in 1992.Rosenberger Medal
  • In 1968 Brown hosted the first annual Ivy League Rugby Tournament, winning over Columbia (11-0), Harvard (11-3), and Penn (6-3), and losing to Princeton (3-6).Rugby
  • 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
  • The 1968 team did get to play in the tournament and after beating Fairleigh-Dickinson in the NCAA opener at Brown, defeated Army, 3-1, then lost to Michigan State, 0-2, in the semifinals at Georgia Tech’s field.Soccer
  • Brown finished third in the Ivy League in 1972, but it was a good year, as Brown won its first New England championship since 1968, and the team scored the most goals in a season, 57, and the most points, 93.Soccer
  • During Stevenson’s thirty-one years of coaching at Brown his record was 251-160-30, and his teams had 24 winning seasons, captured ten Ivy League and seven New England titles, and advanced to the NCAA playoffs thirteen times (eleven of them from 1968 to 1978), and to the semifinals four times, in 1968, 1973, 1975, and 1977.Soccer
  • The students were voicing concern that Brown was not living up to commitments made after the black walkout in 1968.Student protests
  • 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
  • Philip Taft retired in 1968, but kept an office in Robinson Hall and continued as before to work long hours on his research.Taft, Philip
  • Will Samuel Taylor (1882-1968), professor of art, was born in Ansonia, Connecticut, on November 27, 1882.Taylor, Will S.
  • Will S. Taylor died on December 5, 1968, in New London, Connecticut.Taylor, Will S.
  • Rohn Truell (1913-1968), professor of applied mathematics, was born on April 6, 1913, in Washington, D. C. He earned a bachelor of science degree in engineering at Lehigh University in 1935, and received his Ph.D. degree from Cornell in 1941.Truell, Rohn
  • Rohn Truell established the Metals Reseach Laboratory in 1948, and was chairman of the laboratory until his sudden death in Providence on January 10, 1968, following a stroke.Truell, Rohn
  • Hyatt H. Waggoner's "American Poets: From the Puritans to the Present," published in 1968, was a 740-page volume which grew out of one of his courses.Waggoner, Hyatt H.
  • Required as an FCC-licensed station to carry a certain amount of news coverage, WBRU was fortunate in being named an ABC radio news affiliate in 1968, after the other Providence FM stations declined.WBRU