Charles H. Doebler IV, director of admission, reported on the findings of the study in 1970.Admission
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
Theta Epsilon was for a time in the 1950s a graduate chapter, then gained more undergraduate members in the late 1950s, before becoming inactive from 1962 to 1970.African Americans
An announcement of Afro-American Studies courses appeared as an insert in the annual catalogue for 1970-71, which announced the Afro-American Studies Program with W. A. Jeanpierre as chairman, and listed new courses which focused attention on aspects of the black experience which were not covered by the courses related to Afro-American studies in the Anthropology, English, French, History, Music, and Political Science Departments.Afro-American Studies
Rites and Reason, the research theatre and performing arts component of Afro-American Studies, formed in 1970, provided interaction with the local Afro-American community.Afro-American Studies
The building at 59 George Street was occupied by the Department of Religious Studies in 1970 and named Steiger House in 1984 in recognition of the generosity of W. Sheldon Steiger ’34.Alumni House
The band played for Commencements until 1970, after which the Brown Band accompanied the procession.American Band
Anthropology was part of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology until 1970 when, with eleven faculty members, 25 graduate students, and sixty undergraduates, a separate Department of Anthropology was established with Philip E. Leis as chairman.Anthropology
Philip Leis was program director from 1968 to 1970, with Alex F. Ricciardelli as acting program director in 1969-70.Anthropology
Since Anthropology became a department in 1970, the chairpersons have been Philip Leis, George L. Hicks, Douglas D. Anderson, Richard A. Gould, and Lina M. Fruzzetti.Anthropology
Smiley taught astronomy enthusiastically until 1970, and probably led more eclipse expeditions than anyone.Astronomy
The method of fulfilling this ratio after the initial four women were elected was the provision that after 1970 two alumni would be elected each year and one alumnae would be elected in four out of every five years.Brown Corporation
Their second son, J. Carter Brown, former director of the National Gallery of Art, was awarded an honorary degree in 1970.Brown family
Under the direction of a Bicentennial Publication Committee, a series of volumes, "Bicentennial publications: Studies in the Field of General Scholarship," was published between 1962 and 1970.Brown University Press
The final "Brun Mael" in 1970 had a mirrored cover with the phrase "I FIND (ME printed in reverse) ONLY HERE ."Brun Mael
The elms on the campus, which had given to the Class Day exercises the name of "Under the Elms," were stricken by Dutch Elm disease about 1970.Campus
Biennial catalogues replaced the annual catalogues since the 1966-68 edition, with the exception of one single year catalogue in 1970-71, and the latest catalogue is for the year 1991-94.Catalogues
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
Richard A. Dannenfelser, a Presbyterian minister, became assistant chaplain in 1967 and associate chaplain in 1970.Chapel
Later occupied by Katherine Gibbs School, the building was acquired by Brown in 1970.Churchill House
No dance was held in 1970, to the dismay of many alumni.Class Day
The Commencement of 1970 was different, coming after a spring when student strikes protested the invasion of Cambodia and the killing of four Kent State students by National Guard troops during a protest.Commencement
The method of fulfilling this ratio after the initial four women were elected was the provision that after 1970 two alumni would be elected each year and one alumnae would be elected in four out of every five years.Corporation
James E. Dougherty was Dean of Student Affairs between 1970 and 1975.Dean
Debating was a student activity until 1970, when it became a team connected to the English Department, which it remained for about ten years.Debating
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
Harrison E. Farnsworth retired in 1970 and moved to Tucson, Arizona, where he set up a laboratory at the University of Arizona, which he later moved to his home, so that he continued his research almost until his death in Tucson on November 14, 1989.Farnsworth, Harrison E.
After 1962 Omega Psi Phi was dormant until 1970, when a new group of pledges seemed to assure the continuance of an undergraduate chapter, and a separate graduate chapter, Sigma Nu, was formed.Fraternities
In 1963 Phi chapter, which a year earlier had narrowly defeated a motion to become a local fraternity, unanimously voted to secede from the national fraternity and to continue its existence as Alpha Pi Lambda until about 1970.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
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
Jackie Court has coached women’s gymnastics since from 1970.Gymnastics
Hunter Dupree (history of science and technology), Abbott Gleason (Russian history), Barry D. Karl (recent United States history), R. Burr Litchfield (French and Italian economic and social history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries), Norman Rich (German political and diplomatic history since 1850), and David Underdown (English politics in the seventeenth century); in 1970, Howard P. Chudacoff (nineteenth and twentieth century United States urban history), Charles E. Neu (foreign relations of the United States in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries), Robert C. Padden (the expansion of Europe and Comparative American colonial societies) and Gordon S. Wood (American colonial history); and in 1973, Lewis Perry Curtis (modern British history) and James T. Patterson (American history).History
After seven years of no hockey at Brown and an informal team in 1946-47, the coaches were Westcott E. S. Moulton from 1947 to 1952, Donald Whiston from 1952 to 1955, James Fullerton from 1955 to 1970, J. Allan Soares from 1970 to 1974, Richard Toomey from 1974 to 1978, Paul Schilling from 1978 to 1982, Herbert Hammond from 1982 to 1988, and Bob Gaudet, whose four-year record frow 1988 to 1992 was 15-19-6.Hockey
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
In the Second Annual Loyola University Invitational Hockey Tournament for Women, held in Montreal in January 1970, the Pandas outshot Loyola’s team 30-0 and won 8-0.Hockey
The suggestion of a faculty member in 1970 that Brown give an honorary degree to controversial trial lawyer William Kunstler caused another dispute on the campus.Honorary degrees
As a compromise, the Class of 1970 decided to give its own "honors," which were awarded, mostly "in absentia" to Shirley Chisholm, Ramsey Clark, David Deldlinger, Charles Evers, Roswell Johnson, Robert Lowell, Ralph Nader, Milton Stanzler, Mikis Theodorakis, and Tom Wicker.Honorary degrees
After 1970 a faculty-student committee was formed for the purpose of suggesting a list of honorees.Honorary degrees
When Donald F. Hornig accepted the presidency of Brown in March of 1970, he said, "My father has told me my decision is distinctly irrational.Hornig, Donald F.
Donald F. Hornig accepted the challenge of the years ahead at his inauguration on October 4, 1970, with these words, "If the private university is to continue as an important social and intellectual force, it must remain firmly in the storm center.Hornig, Donald F.
Professor of astronomy Charles H. Smiley took charge for the next forty years, and on his retirement the observatory became the responsibility of the Physics Department, and was directed by Phillip J. Stiles from 1970 to 1986 and by Hendrik J. Gerritsen from 1986 to 1989.Ladd Observatory
In 1908 the women’s pages disappeared, and in 1909 the Women’s College started its own annual, "Brun Mael," which was published until 1970, after which the "Liber Brunensis" became the yearbook of the coeducational institution brought about by the merger of Brown and Pembroke.Liber Brunensis
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
"Los," subtitled "a magazine of poetry," was published by the graduate students of Brown University from March 1967 to the spring of 1970.Los
The accompanying performances, workshops, and recitals went on for a week, and included a performance of "The Master," a play written by Professor James Schevill, directed by Professor John Emigh, and performed by Professor James O. Barnhill and Julia Roig 1980, a lecture by John Ford Noonan, a theatre arts workshop with Richard Foreman 1959, and the first class held in the new theatre, which was taught by Robert Bailey 1970.Lyman Hall
In 1970 a 48 by 32 feet rowing tank to accommodate sixteen crew members at one time was erected adjacent to the boat house.Marston Boat House
The Chorus became the first Brown performing arts group to represent the University abroad when it traveled to England for the 350th anniversary of the crossing of the Mayflower in 1970 and sang in thirteen English cathedrals.Musical Clubs
The design was awarded first place from among 670 entries in a competition sponsored by the magazine "Progressive Architecture" in 1970, but construction was postponed when the city refused to grant a zoning exception.New Pembroke
On November 12, 1970 a motion adopted by the Advisory and Executive Council of the Corporation announced, "It is the sense of this meeting that it would be in the best interests of the University that appropriate steps be taken to consolidate the administrative functions at Pembroke College with corresponding functions at The College."Pembroke College
The last issue, printed on May 5, 1970, in its first page under the words "Save the "Record!""Pembroke Record
In October 1970 Perelman left the United States to live in London "forever" as a "resident alien."Perelman, S. J.
Physical education was required for freshmen only in 1924, was reduced to two hours in 1947, and finally became voluntary in 1970.Physical Education
In the fall of 1962Plantations House was assigned to the house at 20 Benevolent Street, and was later located at 219 Bowen Street from about 1970 until the early 1980s, when there was no further need for a day center for commuters.Plantations House
The 1970 freshman crew won an IRA championship, and Brown won the Ivy League title in 1972.Rowing
In 1970 Brown won the Virginia Commonwealth Cup again by defeating Notre Dame, this time in overtime, but had a less successful tour in England, winning one of six games.Rugby
The culmination of Walter H. Snell's work was "The Boleti of Northeastern North America," written with Esther Dick, and published in 1970.Snell, Walter H.
In 1970 the entertainment was provided by Jefferson Airplane, Ray Charles, and Judy Collins and the preaching by William Sloane Coffin.Spring Weekend
During the Vietnam War a student strike in May of 1970 followed upon the announcement on April 30 that Unites States troops had entered Cambodia, and on May 4 of the unfortunate death of four students shot by National Guardsmen during a demonstration at Kent State University.Student protests
With the rise of the Black Power movement, Tougaloo no longer welcomed white students and the exchange ceased in 1970, and was not resumed until 1980.Tougaloo College
The remaining treasurers have been Arnold Buffum Chace1866 from 1882 to 1900; Cornelius S. Sweetland 1866 from 1900 to 1923; Frank W. Matteson 1892 from 1923 to 1933, Edwin Aylsworth Burlingame ’14, acting treasurer from 1933 to 1934; Harold C. Field 1894 from 1934 to 1949; George Burton Hibbert from 1949 to 1950; Gordon L. Parker ’18 from 1950 to 1965; Patrick J. James ’32 from 1965 to 1970; Joseph W. Ress ’26 from 1970 to 1979; Andrew M. Hunt ’51 from 1979 to 1988; and Marie J. Langlois ’64 since 1988.Treasurer