Brown University - Liber Brunensis Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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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.

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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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l this fuss over water? In the same vein so was Dick Gage, again holding his class's top office, even though O0'Donnell's Cloth- ing Store supported Jim Mullaney. Other hints for the future were the political victeries of Handman and Anderson. Mentioning victories, ocne's mind returns to ath- letics for that was a winning year. Art Bartlett won the Ne w England shot put championship; with Cres- well sparkling, behind Kozak and Mahoney, the Brown cagers downed Holy Cross and Dartmouth in two spectacular upsets; Dick Phillips captured the NAAU high jump crown. The Narragansett La- crosse Club itself in its sophomore year scored an upset win over previcusly undefeated Worcester Poly. Bigmoments and little-today there is no Observ- er; there are still the travel experiences of JimDon- aldson. There are still the memories of 400 momen- tarily staunch sophomores crowded into Froebel Hall for the most gala beer party of them all. There was the professional touch football team from Edwards- Hopkins, and perhaps of longest remembered conse- quence the Harvard jinx: sport after sport-no vic- tory-then the hockey team again-this time with Priestly-Harvard was at last defeated. At last and at first, ayear of firsts-the first shell to appear on the Seekonk for a period of 74 years was lowered as the Brown Rowing Association began the evidences of that slow growth-evidences else- where: on the columns of the Widener Library, on the streets that Friday, Black Friday-gloom and no parties-spring brought back weekends and a new outlook-new outlooks for many freshmen become fraternity men, a wider college view-rushing from another angle-maturity, progress. And sports again: the baseball team features the It was Condon's kick, remember? 0 for 2nice try though. pitching of sophomore Bill Hayes, outstanding against Columbia and Dartmouth-Al Gauthier at bat-Gil Borjeson gains hammer throw recognition -sailing and lacrosse become respected competitors. Recognition for Brown: the trackmen win the New England title-Milt Brier, breaststroker for the Bruin swimmers, is named for honorable mention on the all-American team-quarterback Finn gains all- Eastern honors, and football guard John Chernak is one of the sophomore nation-wide selections. Change-the road toward the Brown of today: comprehensive exams reinstated, old notebooks leave the files-themore important change: the two year plan to reduce the student body by 1500, the gut course slowly disappearing-a course critique is planned, and improved student government is ef- fected under a new Cammarian Club constitution- two-thirds of the student body goes to the campus polls to vote, andthe Brotcit Daily Herald carries the editorial title, Exit Apathy? The campus answered, Yes . Growth was not to be denied.