Encyclopedia Brunoniana

1986

  • 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
  • In 1986, with the sponsorship of the Federal University Research Initiative Program, the division acquired three new centers: the Laboratory for Fluid Mechanics, Turbulence, and Computation (in cooperation with the Division of Engineering); the Center for Control Sciences; and the Center for Intelligent Control Systems (in cooperation with Harvard and M.I.T.).Applied Mathematics
  • On the advice of an ad hoc Committee on Governance in 1986, a new streamlined Board of Governors replaced the old Board of Directors and the executive committee.Associated Alumni
  • The Foundation holds annual winter weekend sports-related events, which have featured as guests Penn State coach Joe Paterno ’50 in 1984, broadcaster Howard Cosell in 1985, broadcaster Frank Gifford in 1986, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach in 1987, and Minnesota Vikings tight end Steve Jordan ’82 in 1988.Athletics
  • His 1986 team had 23 wins, the most in Brown baseball history for a season, and eighteen losses.Baseball
  • A weekend insert called "good clean fun "" was added in 1986.BDH Brown Daily Herald
  • The "Brown Spectator" began publication in the spring of 1986, and announced in its first issue, "As an opinion journal, we shall make it our concern to devote our attention to issues of both national and campus concern, addressing issues others have ignored, while generating rational discussion where others have been silent.... Should some of the expressed viewpoints prove hateful to the Brown community’s majority opinion, we are reminded of the majority’s fallibility and the academic virtue of ideas held in contention.Brown Spectator
  • The "groundbreaking" for the CIT on October 11, 1986 involved no digging.Center for Information Technology
  • "Cleavage," subtitled "the Brown undergraduate journal of women’s studies," began as a project conceived by a collective of six undergraduate women in the fall of 1986 as a forum for art and scholarly works by Brown students in the area of women’s studies.Cleavage
  • Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences became a department in 1986, with Sheila Blumstein as its first chairperson.Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
  • John Quinn was Dean of the Faculty from 1986 to 1989, followed by Thomas J. Anton in 1990-1991, and Bryan E. Shepp since 1991.Dean
  • The title of the office was changed in 1983 to Dean of the Graduate School and Research, and has been held by Mark B. Schupack from 1983 to 1986 and by Phillip J. Stiles since 1986.Dean
  • New faculty members in the 1970s included Allan Feldman in 1971, J. Vernon Henderson and William Poole in 1974, and in the 1980s Louis Putterman in 1980, Rajiv Vohra in 1983, Oded Galor and Robert Moffitt in 1984, Peter Garber in 1985, Talbot Page in 1986, Anthony Lancaster in 1987, and Mark Pitt in 1989.Economics
  • In October 1986, as part of World Hunger Week, the first national Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger Program Awards were presented to Ahangamage Tudor Ariyaratne, founder of the Sarvodaya Shramadan rural development movement in Sri Lanka, and Achola Pala Okeyo from Kenya, representing the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology.Feinstein World Hunger Program
  • In 1986 Brown hosted the New England Championships at Marvel Gym.Fencing
  • Elliot Lilien, an outstanding high school fencing coach, succeeded Duncan Smith as coach in 1986.Fencing
  • Lauren Becker was a three-time All-Ivy choice from 1984 to 1986.Field Hockey
  • The chapter left the national fraternity in 1967 and continued as Kappa Delta Upsilon, then reaffiliated with Delta Upsilon in 1986, and in 1991 became for the second time Kappa Delta Upsilon.Fraternities
  • Zeta Psi began to initiate women members in 1983, and in 1986 withdrew from the national fraternity to become Zeta Delta Xi.Fraternities
  • In 1986 the Brown Annual Fund began to emphasize reunion giving, with the result that the fund revenues rose from $5.3 million to $10.5 million in the next five years.Fund-raising
  • The three-year fund-raising drive which began in from 1986 through 1989 was named "The Challenge Years."Fund-raising
  • In the spring of 1986 Professor Prell, led a scientific team composed mostly of members of the department on a cruise aboard the Research Vessel Robert D. Conrad to search for evidence of past changes in the Indian Ocean monsoon climate system.Geology
  • Following Dean Richardson, the deans of the Graduate School have been Barnaby C. Keeney from 1949 to 1953, Robert Bruce Lindsay from 1954 to 1966, Michael J. Brennan from 1966 to 1974, Maurice Glicksman from 1974 to 1976, Ernest S. Frerichs from 1976 to 1982, Mark B. Schupack from 1983 to 1986, and Phillip J. Stiles (as Dean of the Graduate School and Dean of Research) since 1986.Graduate School
  • The team finished third in the Ivy League in 1986 and 1988.Gymnastics
  • Patricia Herlihy joined the department as a tenured professor of Russian history in 1986, along with her husband, David Herlihy, who was a professor of medieval history.History
  • Sachs became chairman of the department in 1965, Toomer in 1980, and Pingree in 1986.History of Mathematics
  • The awards were presented in 1986 to Thomas J. Watson, Jr. ’37 and Kathryn Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space, in 1987 to Vernon Alden ’45 and Joseph Paterno ’50, in 1988 to Artemis A. W. Joukowsky ’55, businessman H. Ross Perot, and former president Howard Swearer, in 1989 to President Gregorian and Federal Reserve Chairman Paul A. Volcker, in 1990 to Charles C. Tillinghast ’32 and Robert Edward "Ted" Turner ’60, and in 1991 to Apple Computer president Stephen P. Jobs, Marvin Bower ’25, and Nancy L. Buc ’65.Independent Award
  • The Institute for International Studies was established in September 1986.Institute for International Studies
  • When the Institute was officially inaugurated on September 25 and 26, 1986, Senator J. William Fulbright made the principal address and received an honorary LL.D. degree, former President Jimmy Carter addressed a public meeting on the Green, and two forums were held with Cyrus Vance, Daniel Yankelovich, and Harrison Salisbury among the participants.Institute for International Studies
  • In 1986-87 the new technology was applied to two courses, George Landow’s "English Literature from 1700 to the Present," and Peter Heywood’s "Plant Cell Biology."Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship
  • Among the best seasons for women’s lacrosse were 1977 with 8-0-2, in 1978 with 10-4, in 1986 with 8-4, and 1989 with 10-4.Lacrosse
  • 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
  • Regular admission of college graduates into the medical program was discontinued in 1986-87, after which students have been admitted as freshmen or as transfers from other medical schools at the beginning of the clinical years.Medical education
  • The Center for Language Studies was established in 1986. to facilitate contact and cooperation among foreign language faculty across individual department boundaries.Modern Languages
  • Robert Lanou followed as chairman in 1986, and Anthony Houghton in 1992.Physics
  • It ceased publication in 1986.Proteus
  • (1982), "The "The American High School" (1984), "Cost vs. Care: America’s Health Care Dilemma (1985), "Keeping America at Work" (1986), "Crime in America" (1987), "Ethics is American Public Life" (1988), "The Changing American Family" (1989), "Our Fragile Earth: Strategies for Survival (1990), "Free Expression after 200 Years" (1991), and "Who Will Save the American City?"Providence Journal–Brown University Public Affairs Conference
  • In 1986 the rear section of the building was razed and replaced by a new classroom building, which was opened in 1989 as the Richard and Edna Salomon Center for Teaching.Rogers Hall
  • Brown won the Intercollegiate Rowing Association championship in 1983, 1986, and 1987.Rowing
  • During this time Brown has won five Ivy League Tournament Championships (Spring) in 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987, and 1988.Rugby
  • Brown has also reached the Northeast Regional Collegiate Playoffs (Fall) on two occasions, in 1986 and in 1991.Rugby
  • From 1980 to 1990 Brad Dellenbaugh ’76 coached sailing, and Brown turned out a series of All-Americans, Douglas Smith in 1984, James Cummiskey ’85 in 1985, Paul Grimes ’86 in 1985 and 1986, David Ullrich ’87 in 1986 and 1987, Molly Starkweather ’86 in 1986, Kevin Hall ’91 in 1988, 1990, and 1991, Kris Farrar ’91 in 1989, 1990, and 1991, and Mike Zani ’92 in 1990 and 1991.Sailing
  • Brown won the intercollegiate women’s sailing championship in 1985, 1988, and 1989, and came in second in in 1986, 1987, and 1990.Sailing
  • Detlev Walther Schumann (1900-1986), professor of German, was born in Kiel, Germany, on May 20, 1900.Schumann, Detlev W.
  • Detlev W. Schumann died in Providence on December 29, 1986.Schumann, Detlev W.
  • After Pincince’s first two years Brown has had consecutive winning seasons since 1981, and the women’s softball team won the Ivy title in 1982, tied with Princeton in 1986, came in second in the league in 1988, and won the championship again in 1990.Softball
  • Lisa Gawlak ’89 was selected for the All-Ivy team four times from 1986 to 1989, and Theresa Hirschauer ’89 three-times, in 1986, 1987, and 1989.Softball
  • The best years for women’s squash were 1980-81 (7-4), 1981-82 (7-4), and 1986-87 (8-2).Squash
  • The team finished fourth in the Howe Cup Tournament in 1986 and was sixth in the nation in 1991.Squash
  • A peaceful confrontation in April of 1986 involved the building of a shanty on the College Green by the Brown Free Southern Africa Coalition "to present to the administration, the Brown Corporation, and the greater Brown community a tangible image of the kind of misery and degradation our investments in South Africa are helping to maintain."Student protests
  • The Swearer Center for Public Service was founded in 1986 to support programs and provide resources to enable students to integrate public service into their education.Swearer Center for Public Service
  • In Dave Roach’s eight years as coach from 1978 to 1986, the team won three consecutive Ivy League championships in 1983, 1984, and 1985.Swimming
  • In 1986 the team won its second consecutive Eastern championship at Penn State, and Carolyn Ryder ’89 and Karen Dieffenthaller ’89 qualified for the Nationals.Swimming
  • Dave Roach, who began coaching the women’s team in 1978, had a 74-6-1 record for the next seven years; Mark Johnston’s record since 1986 is 43-16 overall and 24-11 in the Ivy League.Swimming
  • In 1985 Preston Smith was appointed director of the Center, and in 1986 the Center moved from Churchill House to Partridge Hall.Third World Center
  • Jon Hird returned in 1982 and coached until 1986.Track
  • Coach Bob Rothenberg’s five-year record since 1986 was 25-5 (16-2 indoor and 9-3 outdoor).Track
  • John Hird’s coaching record from 1979 to 1986 was 25-21.Track
  • Professor Basil Zimmer of Sociology reorganized the Urban Studies Program in 1974 and was chairman until 1986.Urban Studies
  • J. Vernon Henderson, professor of economics, became Director of Urban Studies in 1986.Urban Studies
  • Brian L. Hawkins became Vice President for Computing and Information Services in 1986.Vice Presidents
  • In 1986 the award was presented to Kurt Luedtke ’61, screenplay writer and former editor of the Detroit "Free Press."William Rogers Award
  • In 1974 Basil G. Zimmer reorganized the Urban Studies Program, of which he was chairman from that time until his retirement in 1986.Zimmer, Basil G.