Reunion Report: Class of 1950

May 3rd, 2007

It couldn’t have been better! A third of our living classmates attended the reunion, and not a single person had a bad time. Attendees went out of their way to say how proud they are of Brown and how happy they were to be at the reunion.

On Friday night we had a great dinner party at Andrews Hall. The next day we enjoyed listening to Joe Paterno’s talk. About 400 classmates and guests came to the Westin Hotel for a cocktail party that evening.

Since we were the first freshmen to enter Brown after World War II ended, we presented a plaque on Saturday afternoon to thank the University for establishing the Veterans College. The plaque, presented by Ron Wilson with more than fifty classmates looking on, will be installed near Soldiers Arch.

On Sunday we had a wonderful time at our class breakfast with Chancellor Emeritus Art Joukowsky ’55 and President Sheila Blumstein. Next, we attended the all-class memorial service. While some classmates headed to Newport for an afternoon barbecue, others stayed in town to watch the WaterFire display.

More than 55 percent of the class contributed to our class gift, bringing total gifts and pledges to $2.6 million. We hope to soon reach $3 million. – Lacy Herrmann


50th reunion attendees:

Thomas Abbott
Gene Ahearn
Gordon Allen
Jack Allen
Lester Allen Jr.
Arline Goodman Alpert
Ginny Dolbeare Anderson
Roy Anderson
Jean Fitzgerald Andrews
Edna Graham Anness
Dick Armstrong
Ken Arsenian
Jean Steinbright Atherton
Joe Baclawski
Cynthia Vaughan Baker
Hank Barksdale
Eleanor Trumpold Batty
Sidney Bearman
Betty Brownell Beizer
Paul Berard
Arlene Reed Bergwall
Hal Bergwall
Bernie Berstein
Moe Bissonnette
George Blessing
Sheila Anderson Bourbeau Uhl
John Boyce
Dick Brackett
Gerald Brady
Bob Breslin
Milt Brier
Janet Brof
Henry Bromberg
Ellie Dell’Orco Brown
Marcia Krawit Brown
Tom Brown
Bob Bryant
John Butterworth
Clem Cameron
Allan Campbell
Bob Carangelo
Peter Carbone
Les Carpenter
George Chapin
Caroline Decatur Chick
Bruce Chick
Bill Cochrane
Kip Cohen
Donald Colo
James Colville
Tony Combias
Joseph Condon
Jim Cook
Phyllis Towne Cook
Ned Corcoran
Ted Crane
Peter Cruise
Alice Hambleton Cummings
Bob Cummings
Philip Curtis
Dorothy Smith Curtis
Tony D’Amario
Harry Dahl
George Davis
Jim DeForest
Pauline Longo Denning
Ned Dewey
Frank Dixon Jr.
Jane Fagan Donovan
Alice Ruyter Drummond
Bob Dunham
Billie Loiacono Dupont
Jack Durnin
Nate Ellis
Stote Ellsworth
Lew Emerson
Nancy Atkins Erickson
Bruce Espey
H. Cutler Fall
Peggy Flores Fallon
Howard Farrow
Temple Fawcett
Dorothy Baker Feld
Dick Ferenbach
Hank Ferrari
Pat Leddy
Ferreira
AM Ferreira
Donn Fichter
Roy Fidler
Bob Finlay
Carol Edwards Fisher
Foggy Fogwell
Ted Foster
Art Foster
Carol Wentz Foulke
Gene Gallant
Joan Appel Garner
Shirley Brown Gay
June Johnson Gibbs
Don Gleason
Shirley "Kenny" Kenyon Glenney
Hal Godlin
Hal Goldman
Eleanor Boudreau Goodge
Lois Booth Goodnow
Paula Fineman Gorobzov
Doris Dionne Goulart
Lois Bates Green
Arnold Green
Mary Grillo
Gifford Grimm
Dickie Karibian Grossmann
Bob Hague
Norman Hall
John Hammerslough
Phil Hand
Jean Stilwell Harlow
Bob Harwood
Dave Hawkins
Hap Hazard
Virginia Fakoury Helsel
Marjorie Matz Henning
Bill Henshaw
Dianne Herr
Lacy Herrmann
Nancy Gilbert Higley
Alex Hindmarsh
Mary Holburn
Elee Hull
Russ Hutton
Martin Jacobs
Mel Jacobson
Arthur Jacobson
Dean Jacoby
Al Jeffers
Peter John
June Brenner Judson
Joseph Kenney Jr.
Allen Kerr
Mary "Tommy" Tomlinson Kester
Ed Kiely
Bob King
Lyn Murphy Kinne
Russ Kinne
Fran Becker Koenig
Elizabeth "Georgia" Krohn
Robert Kulason
Dave Kushner
Harry Lane
Harvey Lapides
Denton Layman
Jack Leeming
Ward Leonard
Viola Lenk Leonard
Martin Levine
Rita Gottlieb Levis
Edwin Levis
John Liddell
Martha Mayr Linden
Paul Lipsitt
Bob Lownes
Ed Lownes
Philip Lundgren
John Lyons
Tom Macartney
Dick Macdonald
Donald MacDonald
Gordon Macklin
Verna Bailey Malloy
Zeke Marshall
Philip Martin
Bill Mayer
Vince Mc Culloch
Bob Mc Culloch
Hank Mc Green
Jim Mc Kelvey
Don Mc Lellan
Gene Mc Nally
Joe Mc Nally
Walter Mendoza
Florence Malone Merjan
Graham Michael
Petey Peterson Michael
Rita Caslowitz Michaelson
Charlie Miller
William Milligan
Barbara Dressner Mills
John Moore
Nancy McKenna Moore
Zachary Morfogen
Bill Munroe
Roberta Abisch Nachbar
Eve Thieben Nardone
Zal Newman
Nancy Lee Nimick
Gordon Noble
Tom Nye
Lou O’Brien
Estelle Hopf O’Connell
Grace’Noyes O’Connor
Tom O’Connor
Bob O’Day
Margot Mendes Oppenheimer
Pat Neal Orr
Carl Otto
Howard Page
Roy Papp
Bill Parker
Joe Paterno
Ollie Patrell
Bennett Patrick
Penny Pendleton
Ernest Perreault
John Perrine
Ann Christman Peters
Pete Petropoulos
Rudy Petrucci
R. Wendell Phillips
Ron Picerne
Janet Reeh Pinkham
Roy Piper
Chazz Pleasance
Bill Pollard
Bob Pollock
David Price
Ken Provost
Richard Putscher
Arnie Raphaelson
Don Rawson
Tom Raymond
Lombard "Lom" Rice
Ursula Heineman Rickenberg
Jean Stack Robbins
Jim Roberts
James Rogers
Seymour Rosen
David Rosenfield
David Rothman
Bob "Moose" Rougvie
V. Donald Russo Jr.
Anne Crane Ryan
Shirley Lechtman Sallet
Bets Swantz Sanford
Walter Schortmann
Barry Schwartz
Frank Scott
Cy Seifert
Don Shaffer
Bob Shepard
Julian Sincoff
Kenny Sisson
Nancy Luther Sleicher
Bill Smith
Fredi Kovitch Solod
Jay Solod
Joe Souza
Burt Staugaard
V-J Walpole Steen
Barbara Bruce Stoddard
Bob Stoecker
Jack Sullivan
Andy Swanson
Gustavo Tavares
Martin Temkin
Ted Tharp
David Thomas
Jane Greene Thompson
George Thurman
Doris Saunders Tobey
Edward Torgen
Tony Travisono
Dorothy Callander Treney
Ernie Tuckerman
Ann deFuria Twombly
Sally Sikes Tyrrell
George Tyrrell
Fran Keily Uricchio
Arthur Urrows
Diane Deland Wagner
Bill Wallace
Millie Patenaude Wallace
Bob Walling
Tom Walsh
Gerard Walters
Ernest Ward
Claire Mauretti Ward
J. William Weeks
Joe Weissfeld
Janice Synes Weissman
John Welchli
Lee Newcomb Wetter
Bob Whitney
Charles Williamson
Ron Wilson
Harriet Rotman Wilson
Dave Zenker

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