Brown University - Liber Brunensis Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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The year, though, was highhghted by develop- ments in the sports field. Here the incoming men were not hesitant about contributions, and Brown enjoyed crowd-pleasing seasons for all freshman teams. Butch Bruno VII joined the campus person- ality list, and freshmen marched through the tunnel after the UConn Rally. The stage was set for frosh gridders Pastusak and Beaulieu, Sullivan and Borje- son to lead their team to within one game, a 20-6 loss to Harvard, of Brown's first undefeated, untied sea- son in any sport. In the meantime freshman cheers were heard far away as the varsity football team upset Yale. It was Casey and Whiston for the Freshman Hockey Team, and Duncan Gray for the swimmers with Win Wilson hot in the 440. Dave Michael and Perry Herst sparked the cub soccermen under new coach Kennaway. Bill Hayes pitched a no-hitter for his fourth victory in a row for the freshman baseball aggregation, and Crimmin of Brown lost a 600 meter run to world champion Herb McKinley by a fraction of an inch. The club of the year, however, was the frosh basketball unit of Whelan, Hayes, Creswell, Braye, Thurott, Sullivan, and Tillinghast. Breaking a hot RIS win streak, the team finished the season with the creditable record of fourteen wins and three defeats. On the intellectual side freshman Dick Israel was winning as was the Brown debating team, a club which emerged from competition holding the league crown. This was the year of freshman activity-beanies were brought back, the Herald began again as a daily opening a new field for expression for interestedmen, the V.C. descended with showers and paddling to be promptly hung in effigy. Melleens, SIkl What, no Baked Alaska? Those old Registration blues. This was the year of influences-the IBM poured forth its stream of grades, and freshmen grew used to the new Brown; Dartmouth painted the Marvel Gy m bear and class spirit rose another notch. Never- theless, the sophomores won the flag rush, the result s-only a little more added determination. And as a year of participation the class recorded the election of Frankenbach and Gage as Co- Marshalls. That year Walter S. B. Tate, Deke president, was given the alumni Bear Cub Award for outstanding undergraduate achievement. That was the year for the foundations, and as old Butler 2108 rolled down the hill for the last time so rolled eventually much naivete and scepticism. The ground was fertile and cultivated, and the seeds sown, and another three years remained to reap the harvest.

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FRESHMAN YEAR - Class of 1951 In September of 1947, as usual, a new group of becoming ritual. College life was wonderful. It entering freshmen arrived at Brown to become as- swirled about you making you feel important. similated by the vast scheme of university fife, to But the swirl was remembered. grow as Brown grew, to become four years hence Brown's first normal graduating class. That first Buzzing in six hundred ears was the news that a predominantly non-veteran group plunged imme- million dollar refectory was to be constructed, to diately into college life, drawing from it experience be completed sometime in the future. Freshmen be- sufficiently rich to build the Brown of 1951. came acquainted with the idea that President Wriston was opposed to federal aid to education, and the uni- versity bell rang steadily for a minute for the Save the Marshall Plan Rally. In the more personal brack- ets, Elhot Lawrence's band was introduced to many first yearmen, anevent profitable todancecommit - The year was not an uneventful one for them, and though time was necessary in order to become pre- pared to make a concrete contribution, that body of newly arrived seniors-to-be added to the records the permanent foundations of individual performance g which in themselves have become a record. teed B0 L0 t0 iy s The dances, banquets, and parties, as well as the fellowship of the fraternity system became more than fact to many as the rushing season opened. Another That initial plunge, the year 1947-1948, left its memories on the class as well. Its members became acquainted with Suicide Circle and the tunnel's last trolley, with all the facets of life around Provi- dence. It came to know the pros and cons of college dating, weighing well the local prospects, and it fought through the crowds at smokers, orientation meetings, activities night, participated inbull sessions to pick up all the intricacies of campus banter, of campus events. It learned the unimportant with the important, the Herald-Brunonia feud, and chapel, and the distribution system. outlet for development was widening. The Pi Lam grey flannel-blue serge feud, the Kappa Sig pinning of Esther Williams, and the Beta mock wedding were characteristic of future fun. The new loock came to the Brown campus. Flattop added its new look, one shghtly incongruous with the longer skirts. The educational discoveries of the class were not limited to the realm of text books, with poker, bridge, beer, and weekends at other schools gradually Riding high on the last trolley.

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g I N SOPHOMORE YEAR - eiassof 1951 w ; n A i i Growth, always gradual, marked the year with its slow approach toward normalcy. That second lap, 1945-1949, was one of setback as well as advance. Faunce House was modernized, work on the refec- tory began, maid service was reduced, and football cuts were disallowed. On the rebound from the latter, no cut days were abolished, and Mr . Rockefeller pre- sented the university with his conditional 400,000 dollars. Official chairs were tilted back ancther notch. A little ground was cut in the vicinity of the Brown Jug. From the sophomore's viewpoint the year was an important one: a rigid Vigilance Committee enforced freshman hazing competently, so well that enough spirit was engendered in the frosh to produce the second consecutive flag rush defeat for the Class of 24 Harvard retaliationfalse alarm. 1951. Sports also were in the air, and the sophomore contributions were of great moment. Hill, Frankenbach, Chernak-names to recall on the gridiron-to be Jjoined by Mahoney, Altieri, Kozak-Brown over Princeton and hysteria every- where, thanks to the fabulous Condon toe. Ups and downs: the Kodiac bear is presented to the school for an increase in football fervor, and Norm lacuele is lost for the season. Dave Michael teams with brother Gray to spark the soccer and wrestling teams; Win Wilson continues swimming success. Sports, yes, but not alone. An excellent Sock and Buskin all-Trish season opened with Dyer and Dono- van playing various leads; Dyer and UHan brought out the winning Brownbrokers show, and Masters and Wood kept Brunonia improving. And around the campus there were little notes of things to come-Mr . Jewett became Recorder, before the Connecticut game the football team boasted the nation's leading pass defense, the Thayer St. school disappeared, and following Dewey's smiling speech in Providence, President Truman was re-elected.