In November 1991, as part of Asian Awareness Month, a panel discussion was sponsored by the Brown Organization of Multiracial and Biracial Students (BOMBS).Asians
The number of varsity sports at Brown, men’s and women’s, grew to 31, before four varsity sports were dropped in 1991 as part of the University’s budget reduction.Athletics
In college he was All-Ivy and All-EIBL in 1973 and 1974, and after playing for the Padres, he returned to Brown as coach in 1992, replacing Frank Castelli, who had coached in 1991 and 1992.Baseball
Arthur D. Kahler coached from 1931 to 1938, George E. "Eck" Allen from 1938 to 1941, William H. H. Dye in 1941-42, Wilbur C. "Weeb" Ewbank (who much later made a name for himself in pro football by coaching both the Baltimore Colts and the New York Jets to league championships) in 1946-47, Robert B. Morris from 1947 to 1954, Stan Ward from 1954 to 1969, Gerry Alaimo from 1969 to 1978, Joe Mullaney from 1978 to 1981, Mike Cingiser from 1981 to 1991, and the present coach, Frank "Happy" Dobbs.Basketball
The 1991-92 team broke the school record for most wins in a season, 22-4 (13-1 in the League).Basketball
On November 2, 1991, the "Brown Daily Herald" held a one-hundredth anniversary celebration, at which William Kovach was the keynote speaker.BDH Brown Daily Herald
A recent honor which came to Professor Carberry was the award to him of an Ig Noble Prize at the First Annual Ig Noble Prize Ceremony on October 3, 1991.Carberry, Josiah S.
At this event sponsored by M.I.T. and the "Journal of Irreproducible Results," Carberry, the 1991 Ig Nobel Interdisciplinary Research Prize laureate, was cited as "bold explorer and eclectic seeker of knowledge, for his pioneering work in the field of psychoceramics, the study of cracked pots."Carberry, Josiah S.
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
One of the visiting scholars, spending the first semester of 1991-92 at the Center, was Sergei Khrushchev, son of former leader of the Soviet Union, Nikita KhrushchevCenter for Foreign Policy Development
The Center is one of thirteen federally supported Latin American Resource Centers, and with the University of Connecticut and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst forms a consortium, which has organized several conferences, including "Venezuela at the End of the Century/Venezuela: Sociedad y Cultura al Dinal del Siglo" in 1991.Center for Latin American Studies
In 1991, the Center was renamed the Malcolm S. Forbes, Jr. Center for Modern Culture and Media, in consideration of a two million dollar endowment from the Forbes Foundation on August 19, which would have been the seventy-second birthday of Mr. Forbes, received through Forbes’s son Timothy ’76, who had concentrated in semiotics.Center for Modern Culture and Media
Later Catholic chaplains were Rev. David Inman, who came in 1976 and Rev. Richard Perry since 1991.Chapel
Later minority chaplains were Reverend Darryl Smaw, a Baptist minister appointed in 1978, and Daphne Wiggins, also a Baptist minister, from 1985 to 1991.Chapel
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
Eric Widmer was acting dean from January to December of 1991, when Robin L. Rose was appointed.Dean
The degrees conferred by the University from its beginning are summarized in a recent "Catalogue," "As of May 1991, there were enrolled the names of 78,056 graduates, both men and women.Degrees
The department moved again in 1991 to the former Barus Lab.Education
In November 1991 a festival of contemporary African writing organized by Professor Robert Coover and the Program in Creative Writing brought eighteen African writers from eleven countries to Brown.English
In September 1991 there were 5,864 undergraduates, 3,009 men and 2,855 women, almost evenly divided among the four classes, and 816 men and 563 women in the Graduate School.Enrollment
In 1989 Brown’s request that the consent decree be terminated was denied by Judge Raymond Pettine, who ordered the University to grant tenure to thirteen more women by 1991.Faculty
In 1991 the awards honored the people of Iringa, Tanzania for a nutritional program for children, Nevin S. Scrimshaw for organizing a World Hunger Program at United Nations University, and Patricia Young for the observation of World Food Day.Feinstein World Hunger Program
The 1991 season ended with a four-way tie for the Ivy League championship shared with with Cornell, Harvard, and Princeton, and a loss in triple overtime to Princeton in the first round of the ECAC tournament.Field Hockey
Wendy Anderson’s record from 1984 to 1991 was 54-49-17.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
Funding for golf as a varsity sport was withdrawn in 1991 as part of the University’s budget reduction.Golf
The total enrollment of the Graduate School in September 1991 was 1379, composed of 816 men and 563 women, of whom 1316 are full-time and 73 were part-time students.Graduate School
Publication of the "George Street Journal," suspended in September 1991 for budgetary reasons, was resumed one year later, this time as a weekly paper.GSJ George Street Journal
Funding for women’s gymnastics as a varsity sport was withdrawn in 1991 as part of the University’s budget reduction.Gymnastics
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
Brown made the quarterfinals three more times, in 1990, 1991, and 1992.Lacrosse
The season of 1991, Brown’s finest, which included an undefeated regular season and the Ivy League title, ended when Brown’s second seeded team was eliminated in the NCAA quarterfinals, losing, 13-16, to the University of Maryland before 3,600 spectators at Stevenson Field.Lacrosse
The team went to two ECAC playoffs, in 1989 and 1991.Lacrosse
The 1991 team was ranked among the top ten nationally and played in the ECAC tournament, and two players, Suzanne Bailey ’91 and Monique Kapitulik ’91 were named to the All-American first team.Lacrosse
When Ladd Observatory celebrated its one hundredth anniversary on October 21, 1991, a tent adjoining the building was once more required to hold the visitors.Ladd Observatory
In 1991 "U.S. News and World Report," in an article rating graduate programs in the United States, ranked Brown number one of 66 medical schools specializing in primary care.Medical education
In October 1991 the Corporation voted to change the name of the Program in Medicine to the Brown University School of Medicine.Medical education
The celebration of the one hundredth anniverary of women at Brown began with an Opening Convocation address by Smith College College President Jill Ker Conway on September 3, 1991, and culminated in a four-day symposium in October, at which Mary Robinson, President of Ireland, delivered the principal address.Pembroke College
Stiles served as chairman of the department from 1974 to 1980, and was succeeded by Charles Elbaum who was named Hazard professor in 1991.Physics
(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
After a brief absence, the "Rake" resumed publication in December 1991 as "the principle independent campus journal focused on critical debate and news about progressive politics on and off the campus."Rake
In 1991 women’s crew boats finished first in the Head of the Ohio Regatta, second (but first collegiate) in the Head of the Connecticut, and tenth in the Head of the Charles.Rowing
Brown has also reached the Northeast Regional Collegiate Playoffs (Fall) on two occasions, in 1986 and in 1991.Rugby
The team has also toured extensively, to Ireland in 1983, to England and Wales in 1985, to Scotland in 1987, to Trinidad in 1988, to Ireland in 1990, and to England and Wales in 1991.Rugby
In 1991 the women’s team finished fourth of six teams in the Ivy Championships, and attained full member status in the New England RugbyFootball Union.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
In 1991 the Brown sailing team won, for the first time and by one point over Navy, the Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Association’s prestigious Fowle trophy, which includes men’s, women’s, single-handed, team, and sloop championships.Sailing
The record of coach Trevor Adair’s first season in 1991 was 7-6-2 overall and 3-3-1 in the league.Soccer
Soccer coaches at Brown have been Sam Fletcher from 1925 to 1946, Joe Kennaway from 1946 to 1959, Cliff Stevenson from 1960 to 1990, and Trevor Adair since 1991.Soccer
The winning streak ended in 1991, when the team finished below the .500 mark for the first time in the history of women’s soccer at Brown.Soccer
In 1991 the men’s squash team was ranked thirteenth in the nation.Squash
The team finished fourth in the Howe Cup Tournament in 1986 and was sixth in the nation in 1991.Squash
In the fall of 1991 the Thayer Street Quadrangle, designed by Davis Brody Associates, provided additional accommodations for more than 300 students in a new dormitory complex of two L-shaped buildings bordered by Thayer, Power, and Charles Field Streets.Student housing
The 1991 spring team finished its season with a 7-0 record and its first ever Ivy League championship.Tennis
Teri Smith ’91 set indoor and outdoor records in the 200 meter dash in 1989, and in 1991 won the 200 and 400 meter dashes and anchored the relay team which set a new 1600 meter relay record.Track
Mike Muska coached women’s cross country from 1987 to 1991 with a five year record of 20-10-1.Track
In 1991 Thomas P. Glynn became Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration, Donald J. Reaves became Vice President for Finance and Walter E. Holmes, Jr. became Vice President for Administration.Vice Presidents
Robert A. Reichley was named Vice President (University Relations) in 1977, and retitled in 1991 Executive Vice President (Alumni Relations, Public Affairs, and External Relations).Vice Presidents
Ann W. Caldwell was appointed to the position in 1991 when Babbitt was named Senior Vice President in charge of the new major capital campaign.Vice Presidents
Funding for women’s volleyball as a varsity sport was withdrawn in 1991 as part of the University’s budget reduction.Volleyball
The award was presented in 1988 to NBC economics correspondent Irving R. Levine ’44, in 1989 to Aaron T. Beck ’42, the founder of cognitive therapy, in 1990 to Kathryn S. Fuller ’68, president of the World Wildlife Fund, and in 1991 to Linda Mason ’64, executive producer of CBS News.William Rogers Award