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Thanks for sharing the acccount by Barbara Weiss Kimmel ’83 of her days as Brown’s first female costumed mascot (“It’s A Bear’s Life,” March/April 2018). It speaks to the transformative powers of the Brown Bear. Barbara’s historic appearance follows in the bearprints of Helen, Brown’s first live-bear mascot who stood in for her cagemate Dinks, who refused to leave the cage for the football game with Dartmouth in 1905.

Thanks also for the “Ursus Brownicus” sidebar featuring live bear mascots. The full display can be viewed on the Brown Athletics website, in the Inside Athletics section under History.

Peter Mackie ’59 Lexington, Mass. The author is the archivist for the Robinson Collection of Brown Athletics.

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