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"My travels since my last report have been related to my profes- sional interests or were related to war activities. The only thing worth mentioning was a trip to South America during the war as a member of a commission of the Department of State to study education in Bolivia.
"My recreations have been limited to golf, walking, horseback rid- ing, and fishing, for none of which have I had enough time. The only hobby that I have been able to pursue with any degree of satisfaction is collecting old school and college textbooks and related manuscript and published materials. Over the years I have succeeded in picking up rare old books, such as a fair copy of Nomenclatura (1665), Dis- tichs of Cato (1751), and many texts published in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and early Nineteenth centuries for use in English public schools-Winchester, Eton, Westminster, and others. A highly prized
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piece of general interest is a copy of the first (printed) edition of the Connecticut Code of 1650 (Blue Laws). Another is an early edition of the Bay Psalm Book (1718). In this collection are examples of early school publications, the most highly prized being a bound volume of the Rugbean, an early Rugby magazine. A valuable part of the collection is a set of some fifty early Nineteenth Century prints of old English public and grammar schools. Another is a growing collec- tion of old histories of secondary schools, colleges, and universities in America and occasional histories of educational institutions in other countries."
In addition to his membership on the commission to Bolivia, Grizzell was engaged in other war-related activities with the Department of State and in connection with civilian committees on education to aid the war effort. His work in connection with committees and commis- sions on education has included the following: chairman, Commission on Secondary Schools, Middle States Association of Colleges and Sec- ondary Schools (1926-46); chairman, executive committee (1933- 49), and of general committee (since 1951) of Cooperative Study of Secondary School Standards; director, committee on implementation of studies in education of the American Council on Education (1939- 40), and chairman of its advisory committee on inter-American schools service (since 1944); member, commission on educational trends, Modern Language Association (since 1945), and of the commission on human resources and advanced training (since 1951). He has been a visiting professor during summer terms at the University of Michi- gan (1930), University of Washington (1932), Ohio State Uni- versity (1935), University of Virginia (1937, 1938, 1940, 1942, 1946), and University of Colorado (1951) and visiting lecturer at Johns Hopkins (1944-46).
Grizzell listed the following about his writings: "Author: American Secondary Education, Thomas Nelson Sons, 1937; Principles of Unit Construction (co-author), McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1939; Edu- cational Studies and Their Use, American Council on Education, 1940; 'Accreditation of Secondary Schools and Higher Institutions,' in Ency- clopedia of Educational Research, Macmillan Company, 1949; editor: Secondary Education in Philadelphia, Report of Survey, 1937, Phila- delphia Board of Education; Education in Delaware, Report of State School Survey, 1946 (unpublished); co-editor: Critical Issues and Trends in American Education, 1949, Annals of American Academy of Political and Social Science; contributor to year books of National
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Society of College Teachers of Education, the National Society for the Study of Education, and to professional magazines."
Among the organizations of which he is a member, in addition to those already mentioned, are the American Association of School Administrators, the National Society for the Study of Education, the American Historical Association, the Historical Society of Pennsyl- vania, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the American Political Science Association, the American Educational Research Association, the Lenape Club, and the Acacia Fraternity. Grizzell is a Baptist and an Independent in politics.
He was married on August 3, 1911, in Brooksville, Ky., to Ethyl Blackerby, daughter of William O'Rear and Louise Gilmore Black- erby. They have no children.
HERMAN WOLMER GRODIN. Physician; office and residence, 840 Howard Avenue, New Haven, Conn.
Grodin has continued in the practice of medicine at the same address. Much of his time is devoted to compensation and liability examinations, and since 1945 he has had the position of compensation consultant to the State of Connecticut. He also has a business connection-the vice-presidency of Berwald, Inc.
His marriage to Dora Esther Slosberg took place on February 26, 1918, in Norwich, Conn. They have four daughters: Beverly Grodin Berwald, who was born in Norwich on January 16, 1919; the twins, Rosalind Grodin Clayman and Shirley Grodin Blum, born in New Haven, January 23, 1921; and Rhoda Grodin Feinstein, born in New Haven, March 13, 1924. Grodin proudly proclaims that he has five grandsons and a granddaughter.
HENRY REW GROSS. Address, 2909 Indiana Avenue, Chicago 16, Ill.
GEORGE LEWIN GUTWILLIG. Broker, Scheuer & Company (gray goods brokerage), 66 Leonard Street, New York, N.Y .; resi- dence, 151 West 86th Street, New York.
Gutwillig, who has been a broker with Scheuer & Company since 1930, had previously had a similar connection with W. J. Beattie & Company. He is a member of the Woodmere Club. "During the last five years," he says, "we have toured the Canadian and Pacific North-
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wests, California, Colorado, and New Mexico. Have also had one trip to Europe, visiting Italy, Switzerland, France, and England."
On October 9, 1929, he was married in New York City to Ruth Becker, daughter of F. Maurice and M. Bessie Sheuerman Becker. They have a son, Roger, who was born in New York on January 8, 1934, and who is a Senior in the Fieldston School at Riverdale, N.Y.
CHARLES ARTHUR HACKNEY. Residence, 30 Walbridge Road, West Hartford 7, Conn.
In February, 1949, Hackney retired from his position as secretary of the life department of The Travelers Insurance Company of Hartford. He had become connected with the company in 1919, was elected assistant secretary of the life department in May, 1927, and secretary in January, 1946.
"Since my retirement I have taken no active part in music," he says, "but have become a patient listener. {He had taken his degree in music at Yale in 1917 and was subsequently assistant to the organist and choirmaster of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York.} During the last two winters I have traveled to the Caribbean, South America, Panama, Bermuda, Nassau, and Florida." Hackney belongs to the Hartford Club and the Hartford Golf Club and has several Masonic degrees (Blue Lodge, Chapter, and Council).
On June 22, 1921, he was married in Unionville, Conn., to Linda Lucile Thompson, daughter of Edward T. and Nettie Rexroth Thomp- son. Their daughter, Lucile Boyce, who was born on February 2, 1923, graduated with a B.A. degree from Smith College in 1945. She was married on September 25, 1948, to David Lee Williams, Wesleyan '47, and has a daughter, Linda Lee, born July 13, 1950.
GILBERT PIERCE HAIGHT. Member, Dorsey, Lubersky & Haight, lawyers, 802 Northern Life Tower, Seattle 1, Wash .; residence, 130 . 34th Avenue, North, Seattle 2.
"For the life of me I can't think of anything about myself that would have the slightest interest to the members of 1915"-thus Haight. "I'm not a director of the Three and a Half Cent Savings Bank or a trustee of the Society for the Relief of Supernatural Pretzel-Benders, occupations or avocations which appear so frequently in the blurbs accompanying the pictures of the hopeful candidates for the Corpora- tion. A little work, a little fun, a nice family, that modicum of civic and philanthropic work that is expected of any reasonably decent per-
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son-that about tells the story. Living far away from New Haven, my contacts with the Class have been few, but I look back upon our days of college with pleasure and my fellow members with affection."
Haight continued as a partner in the law firm of Haight & Haight until 1939, and for the past five years he has been a member of the firm of Dorsey, Lubersky & Haight. He was married on July 19, 1921, at Crystal Springs, Wash., to Ruth Gazzam, daughter of Warren Lea and Lulu Yeaton Gazzam. They have three children: Gilbert Pierce, Jr., born June 8, 1922, Mary Gazzam on August 8, 1924, and Warren Gazzam on September 7, 1929, all in Seattle. Following his graduation from Stanford in 1943, Gilbert, Jr., worked on the Manhattan Project for three years. He took his Ph.D. degree at Princeton in 1946, was a Rhodes Scholar during 1947-48, and is now assistant professor of chemistry at George Washington University. Married in 1946 to Shirley Grapek, he has three daughters: Jennifer Lea, Loisanne, and Charlene Ellen. Mary, who graduated from Smith in 1945, was married in 1949 to Otis A. Pease, Yale '49. He is a graduate student at Yale, and they are living in New Haven. The younger boy gradu- ated from Stanford with the Class of 1951; he makes his home in Seattle.
HOWARD PARKER HAMBLIN. Newspaper correspondent; resi- dence, 10 State Street, Worcester, Mass.
Hamblin writes: "I left the family business in 1930. Did some corres- pondence work for International News Service from April, 1932, until June, 1942. Also have had, from time to time, several daily papers on my correspondence string. Their number has been narrowed down to the Fitchburg Sentinel."
He adds that he has no political affiliations and votes independently, that he is a Congregationalist, that reading is his hobby, and that he has never married.
JOHN WESLEY HANES. Vice-president, Olin Industries, Inc. (manufacturing), 570 Lexington Avenue, New York 22, N.Y .; residence, Millbrook, N.Y.
Hanes continued as a partner in the New York brokerage firm of Charles D. Barney & Company until 1937. He then went to Wash- ington as commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission and after serving for a year in that capacity was with the Treasury Department for a year, first as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and
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then as Under Secretary. He was associated with the Hearst Corpora- tion from 1940 to 1947 and then became connected with the United States Lines Company, of which he is still a director and chairman of the executive and finance committee. Since 1950 he has been vice- president of Olin Industries, Inc., and he is also president of the Ecusta Paper Corporation and a director of the Bankers Trust Com- pany, the Johns-Manville Corporation, the Purolator Products Com- pany, and Thomas Young Orchids. In 1950 Hanes served as vice- chairman of the Republican Finance Committee. Yale gave him an honorary M.A. degree in 1940, and he received an LL.D. degree at Duke that same year and a D.C.S. at New York University in 1950.
He was first married on November 21, 1916, to Agnes Mitchel, whose death occurred in 1935. His second marriage, to Hope Yandell, took place on August 4, 1937, in Greenwich, Conn. He has five children, all of whom were born in New York: Agnes Philips on October 13, 1918, John Wesley, Jr., on March 31, 1925, Ormsby M. on November 15, 1928, Susan Yandell on May 19, 1938, and David Yandell on July 7, 1941.
ERSKINE BIRCH HARRISON. Residence, 2193 North Euclid Street, Upland, Calif.
"Listen, gentlemen," says Harrison, "there is no change, except that I now own no citrus and have taken up weaving for my spare time."
Turning to the Quindecennial Record, we find that after graduation Harrison settled down to a "free and easy life" on a lemon ranch in California and later worked for five years in a bank in Upland and subsequently for the Carlsbad (N.Mex.) National Bank. He was married on October 1, 1919, in Lidgerwood, N.Dak., to Eva Henrietta Movius. Their son, George Billingsley, was born on October 5, 1920, and their daughter, Margaret Adelaide, on June 28, 1924, both in Pasadena.
CARL ERIC HARSTRÖM. Address, Petroleum Heat & Power Company, Southfield Avenue, Stamford, Conn.
HORACE MCKINLAY HATCH. Customers' man, Gude, Win- mill & Company, brokers, 1 Wall Street, New York, N.Y .; resi- dence, 701 Park Avenue, New York 21.
"With the exception of nearly five years in Cuba {1919-23-with the National City Bank}, my life has followed a fairly conventional New
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York pattern," Hatch says. "I went to the Plattsburg camps in 1915, enlisted in Squadron A, New York Cavalry, that year, and went to the Border in 1916. I was commissioned in the 12th New York Infantry in April, 1917, but was discharged for physical disability. Later I was commissioned in the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps and won the war in Texas. I returned to Wall Street after Cuba and have been there ever since, with the exception of two war jobs of a few months' duration and little importance. Like most contemporary New York friends, I will probably end up on a farm. I'm still a bachelor, though I like to follow the women, as well as the horses."
Since 1939 Hatch has been associated with Gude, Winmill & Company, members of the New York Stock Exchange, handling his own customers. Before that he was with other Stock Exchange firms, including James H. Oliphant & Company and Watson & White. He is a Republican county committeeman and a member of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church and of the Union Club of New York and Holland Lodge, No. 8, A.F. and A.M. "My chief outside interest is literature and my chief hobby is working in the woods on my mother's farm in Barre, Mass.," he tells us-adding that he writes occasional fiery letters to the newspapers.
THOMAS PIERREPONT HAZARD. Engaged in handling various business interests; business and residence, Peace Dale, R.I.
Hazard writes: "On graduating from college, I went to work for the Solvay Process Company at Syracuse, N.Y., where I worked in a broad range of departments, and by 1922 I was serving as assistant to the president. In 1920 five chemical concerns, including the Solvay group, were merged into the Allied Chemical & Dye Corporation, whose management desired sweeping reorganization. As a result, in 1923 I found myself 'squeezed out.'
"I returned to Rhode Island to take over management of a number of ancient trusts and corporations. Some of these entities had been carried on since 1876, chiefly because no one had had sufficient time to give to their liquidation. So in a sense I became the 'clean-up' guy for four generations, since my having taken on such work meant that those of our time were prone to leave their problems to me to work out. It has been a most varied experience! At one time I was running a short line railroad, a large warehouse in Providence, a trout farm, a New Mexico pottery plant, and a four-thousand-acre ranch in Cali- fornia, as well as real estate properties in New Mexico, Vermont, New York, and Rhode Island.
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"It took a lot of time (and hard work) to find the right solution to such a variety and number of problems, but I now can say that I have just about worked myself out of a job, and that's all right with me. The few remaining assets are chiefly held in one entity. Others have a terminable existence to known and agreed owners!
"While carrying on this work, I entered politics, as a Republican. After serving my town as councilman and State Senator, I received the nomination for Congress in 1932. The F.D.R. wave engulfed me, as well as so many others. In 1938, after the hurricane, I was elected State Treasurer as part of Governor William H. Vanderbilt's team and had two very active years reorganizing the fiscal setup of the state. Vanderbilt and the rest of us were defeated for reelection, because of his over-ambitious efforts to 'clean up' the state. Rhode Island's first primary occurred in 1948. I was not originally the choice of the Re- publican State Central Committee as their nominee for United States Senator, but by personally canvassing a large majority of that com- mittee, I received their endorsement for that position and then collected more votes in the primary than the rest of the candidates put together. Any one who took part in the 1948 campaign in the East, I am sure, will agree that Republicans put up a listless, colorless fight, with the well-known result.
"I very much enjoy freshwater fishing and sailing. At surf bathing I use a novel small surfboard which gives me wonderful rides. I still play tennis-doubles only-whenever I can and enjoy it hugely. In the colder six months of the year I spend all the time I can spare in the woods, practicing 'forestry.' In my case this involves clearing out damaged or inferior trees, salvaging what I can from the operation. As a result I have been officially appointed Rhode Island Tree Farmer No. 2! Each year I saw up a few thousand board feet of lumber."
Hazard commented that his answers to the specific questions on our questionnaire seemed to him to present an odd picture. We wouldn't say that, but certainly a great variety of interests is covered. The current connections are as follows: president, Peace Dale Offices, Inc. (man- agement and sale of real estate); president, American Fish Culture Company (propagation and culture of trout ); partner, Sturges, Chaffee & Hazard of Providence (investment agents); president, Rhode Island Estates Corporation (management and sale of real estate); director, Allied Chemical & Dye Corporation, Rhode Island Hospital Trust Company, and United Electric Railway of Providence; executor of two estates and trustee of two trusts.
The "clean-up" process and previous occupations include the follow-
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ing: R. Hazard Estate, Inc. (management and sale of real estate)- vice-president, 1927-president, 1945-liquidated, 1950; Anna Haz- ard Land Company (management and sale of real estate)-treasurer, 1928, until liquidation, 1946; Rowland Third, Inc. (management and sale of real estate-properties in Vermont and New Mexico)-vice- president, 1932 - president, 1945 - liquidation, 1948; Associated Realty Corporation (management and sale of real estate)-president, 1934-45; Narragansett Pier Railroad Company (short line railroad) -president, 1926-43; executor of four estates, 1931-49; trustee of three trusts, 1932-last one terminated, 1949.
Hazard has been president of the Narragansett Library Association since 1926 and moderator of the Union Fire District since 1947. He was president of the South County Hospital from 1936 to 1938, served as chairman of the local Community Chest and American Red Cross in 1950, and as vice-president of the World Affairs Council of Rhode Island and chairman of the local chapter in 1950.
From 1941 to 1943 he was chief of the priorities division of the War Production .Board's Boston office. In May of the latter year he went on active duty as a major in the Army, serving until November, 1945, when he was released with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was in the Mediterranean theater until May, 1944, and subsequently served in the United Kingdom, Normandy, and Paris as a member of the G-5 staff of the deputy theater commander. He was awarded the Bronze Star and the following foreign decorations: Chevalier du Merite Agricole, La Croix d'Officier, Order of Adolph of Nassau, the Medal of Reconnaissance Française, and Officier de l'Instruction Pub- lique.
On May 20, 1922, Hazard was married in Philadelphia to Anne Francis Cope, daughter of the late Walter Cope and Eliza Middleton Cope. Their oldest daughter, Sophia Francis, who was born March 20, 1923, graduated from Sarah Lawrence in 1945. In 1946 she married Philip E. Barringer, Princeton '40, of Philadelphia, who is now with the Department of Defense in Washington; they have a son, Thomas, born in 1947. The older boy, Thomas P., Jr., born May 31, 1925, was in the Army from 1943 to 1946, serving with the 14th Armored Division, 7th Army. Mary Pierrepont, born April 12, 1927, attended Sarah Lawrence. The third daughter, Anne F., who was born December 5, 1929, attended Radcliffe with the Class of 1951, and the younger son, Oliver C., born December 7, 1931, is in the Yale Class of 1954. Sophia was born in Syracuse and the others in Providence.
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JOHN CRULL HERMAN. Senior partner, John C. Herman & Company, tobacco manufacturers, Box 22, New Cumberland, Pa .; residence, R.D., Dauphin, Pa.
"Have taken life rather easy," says Herman. "Kept the wolf from the door, but the emphasis was on rather easy living and devotion to family. Not much traveling, lots of golf in earlier years, now as much hunting (seven states last year; small game) and fishing (mainly . trout ) as possible."
Herman, who has been a partner in John C. Herman & Company since graduation, became senior partner in July, 1935. In April, 1945, he was appointed a member of the Pennsylvania Game Commission. During the war he was gunnery officer of Flotilla 58, Coast Guard Reserve (T), and also served in the Ration Board and as a member of the Post-war Planning Committee. He is on the board of stewards of the Methodist Church.
His marriage to Margaret Stackpole, daughter of Edward James and Maria Kate Hummel Stackpole (and sister of our Ed), took place in Harrisburg, Pa., on October 9, 1915. They have had four children: Margaret Stackpole, born October 19, 1916, John Crull, 3d, on Janu- ary 18, 1918, Nancy in August, 1923 (died August, 1926), and James Stackpole on August 17, 1928. Margaret, who is now Mrs. John S. Penna, of Belmar, N.J., has three daughters. John graduated from Yale with the degree of B.Arch. in 1942 and was on active duty as a lieutenant in the Navy from December, 1942, to November, 1945. After serving as Admiral Blandy's photographic officer through- out the Pacific campaign, he entered business in Denver, Colo., in connection with photographic interpretation for oil. He later joined Harrison's staff and helped to design the United Nations building (while designing elevations he occupied a desk opposite the Russian spy, Gubicheff). He is now with Cunningham & Company, engineers and contractors, in Detroit. The younger boy prepared for college at Andover, was in the Air Force from 1946 to 1948, and graduated from Yale in 1950. He is now associated with Ed Stackpole at the Telegraph Press.
THEODORE POMEROY HERRICK. Physician; offices, 10515 Carnegie Avenue, Cleveland 6, Ohio, and 21801 Lake Shore Boule- vard, Euclid 23, Ohio; residence, 27671 Lake Shore Boulevard, Euclid 23.
"I've had my nose pretty much to the grindstone in the private practice
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of pediatrics," Herrick says. "In the early years I did school examining in Cleveland, Cleveland Heights, South Euclid, and Lyndhurst. Then in 1926 I became medical examiner at the Fisher Body Company and in 1941 at the White Motor Company, each of these as a part-time job. Have been particularly interested in the work of the Association for Crippled and Disabled, where I became medical examiner in 1933. This is now the Cleveland Rehabilitation Center and during this last year has become affiliated with the Medical School of Western Reserve University. Have done the usual dispensary and staff work at St. Luke's Hospital and am looking forward to the work at the completion of the new Euclid-Glenville Hospital. Have had an office since 1930 in the Carnegie Medical Building, Cleveland, which is near the hospitals, and since 1947 have also had one in the adjoining city of Euclid at 21801 Lake Shore Boulevard, which is near my home."
Herrick has been chief of the pediatric service at the Glenville Hospital since 1943 and was recently appointed assistant clinical pro- fessor of pediatrics at Western Reserve, to serve on the committee for the Cleveland Rehabilitation Center. In addition to his connection with St. Luke's and the Glenville Hospital, he has visiting privileges to the private wards at the University, Babies and Children, Mt. Sinai, Huron Road, and Booth Memorial hospitals and MacDonald House. During the war he was active in civilian defense. He is a member of the Old Stone Presbyterian Church in Cleveland and is independent in politics.
Herrick's marriage to Barbara Watson Goss, daughter of Rollin Jones and Olive Watson Goss, took place in Wilder, Vt., June 18, 1921. Their older son, Theodore Pomeroy, Jr., born May 6, 1922, in Cleveland, attended Bethany College in West Virginia until reporting for service in the Army Air Force in 1943. He subsequently became a navigator and in November, 1944, was shot down in the Mercersburg raid over Germany and was taken a prisoner of war. Upon his return from service in 1945, he attended the University of Michigan, where he received the degree of B.B.A. in 1946 and an M.A. in accounting the following year. Since then he has been an instructor in accounting at Ohio State University, while finishing his work for his Ph.D. degree. He married Jean A. Rhodes on November 20, 1943, and has a daugh- ter, Nancy, born September 22, 1946. The younger boy, Thomas Goss, who was born in Cleveland, August 3, 1926, attended Western Re- serve until he went on active duty in the Army Air Force in 1945. He was later transferred to the Military Police while awaiting cadet train- ing. After the war he continued his course at Western Reserve and since
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