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receiving his B.A. degree in September, 1948, has been with the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company, where, after three years of advanced training, he was assigned to the department of financial reports. His marriage to Dorothy I. Rhoades took place on September 13, 1947.
ROBERT COURTNEY HILLIARD. Address, 4717 Emerson Ave- nue, South, Minneapolis, Minn.
FRANCIS WORTHINGTON HINE. Address, care John G. Jack- son, 15 Broad Street, New York, N.Y.
WILLIAM HENRY TOWNE HOLDEN .. Address, 2042 Crary Street, Pasadena 7, Calif.
JOSEPH VALENTINE HOUGHTON. With Dun & Bradstreet (credit investigating, reporting, and analysis), 99 Church Street, New York, N.Y .; residence address, care Alfred S. Houghton, 252 Center Lane, Levittown, N.Y.
Houghton was an industrial engineer, employed successively by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in their printing division in New York from 1930 to 1936, the Standard Statistics Company of New York from 1936 to 1939, the Edo Aircraft Company of College Point, N.Y., from 1940 to 1946, and Eisen Brothers of Hoboken, N.J., in 1947. He was in ill health during the next three years as the result of a paralytic stroke, but since January, 1950, has been affiliated with Dun & Bradstreet. "My special hobby has been music-as a pianist, orchestra director, and manager," he says. "In my earlier years I managed and directed orchestras in the William Penn Hotel in Pitts- burgh, the Onondaga Hotel in Syracuse, and the Floridian Hotel and Rialto Theatre in Tampa, Fla. Earlier I had been connected with the Meyer Davis musical organization."
Houghton is an honorary life member of the Olean (N.Y.) Council of the Knights of Columbus after fifty years as an active member. He was married on October 3, 1919, in New York City to Lillian A. Tripp, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Tripp, of West Haven, Conn. Her death occurred on January 25, 1945. He has three sons: Joseph A., born July 9, 1917, Clayton W. on February 10, 1919, and Alfred Stanley on October 1, 1925. The youngest boy was born in Tampa and the others in Olean. Joseph, who is employed as a planner on the
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engine assembly line at the Curtiss-Wright plant in Woodbridge, N.J., is unmarried. Clayton, who attended Northwestern University, and Alfred, who went to St. Bonaventure University and Notre Dame, are both with the Fairchild Camera & Equipment Company of Jamaica, N.Y., which specializes in high-speed cameras designed for use on jet planes-Clayton being a production engineer and Alfred a labora- tory technician. Clayton was married in 1941 to Shirley Ann Folker, of St. Albans, and has a daughter, Cheryle Lynne; they live in West- bury, N.Y. Alfred's marriage to Jeanette Habersack, of New York City, took place in 1948. They have a daughter, Linda Susan, and are living in Levittown.
LEON BRADBURY HOVEY. Assistant manager, underwriting de- partment, John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company; residence, 7 Arlington Street, Cambridge, Mass.
Hovey, who has been with the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company for the past thirty-two years, became assistant manager of the underwriting department in 1939. During the war he served as an air raid warden. He plays quite a bit of golf and is a member of the Oakley Country Club.
Hovey's marriage to Grace Hilda Verity, Vassar '15, daughter of Walter Showler and Cora Hopkins Verity, took place in Cambridge on September 15, 1917. Their daughter, Evelyn Frances, who was born in Cambridge on October 1, 1918, graduated from Wellesley in 1941. She was married in February, 1943, to Harrison P. Baker and has two children: Carol Ann, born in July, 1945, and Robert H. in December, 1946.
Their son, Emerson Bradbury, born January 19, 1925, also in Cam- bridge, graduated from Harvard with the degree of B.A. in 1950 and is now a chemist with the B. B. Chemical Company of Cambridge. He had three years' service as a sergeant in the Army Engineers dur- ing the war and received four battle stars.
JO ROBERT HOWARD. Address, 1304 East University Street, Honolulu, Hawaii.
KENNETH DURYEE HULL. Assistant secretary-treasurer, Ameri- can Bureau of Shipping (ship registry), 45 Broad Street, New York 4, N.Y .; residence, 450 East 63d Street, New York 21.
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Hull continued as a general partner in Joseph Walker & Sons, mem- bers of the New York Stock Exchange, until 1939 and was a special partner the following year. For the past few years he has been assistant secretary-treasurer of the American Bureau of Shipping. Since 1930 he has been vice-president and a member of the executive committee of both the Fort Wayne & Jackson Railway and the Detroit, Hillsdale & Southwestern Railroad, of both of which he was president from 1942 to 1945. He has also been a director of the Sanborn Map Com- pany of New York since 1936.
In 1940 Hull was assistant to Alan Valentine, director of the Democrats for Willkie in the Presidential campaign, and during the war he was a building director and also active in the air raid service. His hobbies are drawing and painting-chiefly portraiture, and he has exhibited in the Yale Club art shows a number of times, receiving a first prize for a portrait in oil in the 1936 show and two second prizes in 1948, one for a still life in oil and the other in drawing. He has made about eight trips to Europe, five for pleasure and three on business, and took a short Mediterranean cruise in the winter of 1928 and a North Cape cruise in 1934.
Hull was first married on June 6, 1917, in Brooklyn, N.Y., to Dorothy N. Luckenbach, daughter of Edward and Henrietta Weber Luckenbach. They were divorced in 1945. His second marriage, to Marjorie Rhodes Towne Semple, daughter of Walter Mills and Lyda Maude Rhodes Towne, took place in Reno, Nevada, on June 1, 1946. He has two children: Shirley Tucker, born November 20, 1918, and Kenneth Duryee, Jr., on June 18, 1923, both in Brooklyn. Shirley attended the Greenvale School at Roslyn, N.Y., Westover, and the Briallmont School at Lausanne. A member of the Junior League, she was married in New York in June, 1942, to George L. de Peyster, Harvard '33. They live in San Francisco with their two children: George L., Jr., born April 1, 1943, and Francis Van Cortlandt on December 5, 1945, both in New York. Kenneth, Jr., attended the Greenvale and Eaglebrook schools and Choate. In 1941 he graduated from the Academy of Aeronautics, Flushing, N.Y., and during the war was a Pfc. in the Air Force, doing radar and highspeed radio work. He served in the Pacific area for three years and took part in the in- vasion of the Philippines. Following his discharge at the end of the war he entered Menlo Junior College in California. He later trans- ferred to Stanford, where he graduated in 1950, and is now taking courses at George Washington University in preparation for the diplomatic service.
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CARLTON CUYLER HUNT. Agent, The Travelers Insurance Company, 183 East Main Street, Rochester, N.Y .; residence, 383 Park Avenue, Rochester.
Hunt, who has been an agent for The Travelers in Rochester since September, 1925, is also a partner in the firm of Hunt-Miller Com- pany, manufacturers of bilge pumps and other marine hardware specialties, which was established in May, 1947. During 1943-44 he was a supervisor in a war plant engaged in the manufacture of carbines. Hunt, whose principal hobby is sailboat racing, served as commodore of the Canandaigua Yacht Club during 1940 and 1941. He is still a member of that club and also of the Monroe Golf Club at Pittsford, N.Y.
Hunt and his first wife, Adele Frances Wiedemann Hunt, were divorced in 1931. In September, 1932, he married Gladys Egbert, whose death occurred in September, 1944, and on March 31, 1951, he was married at Crystal River, Fla., to Irene Pembroke Yawger, daughter of Winfield P. and Sarah Pembroke. His son, Carlton C., Jr., who was born in Waterbury, Conn., on August 11, 1918, is a graduate of the Cornell Medical School. He interned at the New York Hospital, served as a captain in the Army Medical Corps during the war, and is now engaged in research at Johns Hopkins. He is married and has three sons.
ROBERT HUNTER. Proprietor, Robert Hunter & Company, invest-
ment and financial advisers, 112 South 16th Street, Philadelphia 2, Pa .; residence, Yale Club, 226 South 16th Street, Philadelphia 2.
Hunter writes: "From 1929 until the summer of 1931 I was sales manager in the Philadelphia office of Messrs. Graham, Parsons & Company, investment bankers. In 1931 I became the representative in the Philadelphia area for the New York banking firm of J. & W. Seligman, and I remained with them until 1933, when I resigned to go into business on my own account as investment and financial adviser to certain individuals with trust and other investment funds.
"The following articles ('company studies') were written by me and were published in Barron's National Business and Financial Weekly: 'Archer-Daniels-Midland'; 'Rayonier, Inc.'; 'Firestone Tire & Rubber'; 'Philadelphia Electric'; 'Lone Star Cement'; 'International Nickel'; 'Remington Rand'; 'Mohawk Carpet' {the first in 1949, the next five in 1950, and the last two in 1951].
"I have been very much interested in the Yale Club of Philadelphia
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since its organization in 1921. Have held various offices in the past and at present am the club's librarian. I have been living at the club since 1945. Among my recreational activities are the teaching of a game called sniff (played with dominoes) to the younger generations of the sons of Eli and a five to ten mile walk through the country every week-end. By the former I am able to keep my bar bill below the room rent, and by the latter I keep myself in condition to play more sniff.
"Ever since 1930 I have been filing for future reference data relat- ing to the subject of gold, in all of its aspects. In 1945 I started to write up some of the data with the hope of ultimately publishing a book that would be interesting and understandable enough to appeal to the general reader who might have completed a high school edu- cation. The primary purpose of the work is educational.
"At the risk of giving myself ulcers I have been working in my 'spare time,' because I am not in the fortunate position where I can retire from active business to complete the work. The main historical narrative is preceded by an introductory section which covers in out- line form a vast period of time, from the prehistoric to the establish- ment of credit currency in England. The main narrative falls naturally into two parts, the first from the fall of Rome to World War I and the second from World War I to the present time. I am now in the process of completing the introductory section in the hope that I shall be able to complete the whole matter during my present incarnation."
Since 1942 Hunter has been the sole proprietor of Robert Hunter & Company, which had previously been operated as a limited part- nership. He is a member of the Episcopal Church. His first marriage, to Christine Spencer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Graham Spencer, took place in Philadelphia on August 18, 1917. They were divorced in 1927. In 1929 he was married in Tuxedo Park, N.Y., to Margaret Shippen Ogden, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Ogden. They were divorced in 1937. He has two daughters: Margaret (Margot) Spencer, born in Philadelphia, December 24, 1918, and Elisabeth (Lisa) Ogden, born in 1931, also in Philadelphia. Margot, who was married in Philadelphia in 1938 to Lincoln E. Smith, has three chil- dren: Peter H., born in 1939, Michael in 1942, and Deidre in 1944. Lisa, since her graduation from school, has had a job with an insurance company. She wants to be a career woman, her father says.
ISAAC ROBERT HYATT. Secretary, Little, Somers & Hyatt Com- pany, Meriden, Conn .; residence, 24 Ten Acre Road, New Britain, Conn.
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In a note which came from Hyatt in November, 1951, he said that he had been out of action for several months, which explained the delay in sending his report. "Do not know my future plans, but expect to get back into something," he said. "I still keep my connection with the family concern in Meriden, the Little, Somers & Hyatt Company, as secretary, but consider it temporary."
Hyatt's marriage to Emily Elizabeth Cone took place in East Had- dam, Conn., on September 3, 1920. They have two children: Donald Bishop, who was born on April 22, 1924, and Jane Gillette, born on January 20, 1930. Donald graduated from The Taft School in 1942 and received a B.A. degree at Dartmouth in 1950. During the war he was a lieutenant in the Army Air Force, and he is now associated with the National Broadcasting Company in their New York televi- sion department. He was married in 1946 in Bakersfield, Calif., to Elaine Dickenson. Jane, who graduated from Northfield Seminary with the Class of 1947 and attended the New England Conservatory of Music for two years, is in the Class of 1952 in the Yale School of Music.
EDWARD JEROME. Lawyer, 60 East 42d Street, New York 17, N.Y .; residence, 311 East 72d Street, New York 21.
Jerome was in the law department of the General Electric Company in Schenectady, N.Y., until 1939 and has since been practicing alone, except for the period from 1942 to 1945, when he was in the Army.
"In December, 1939," he says, "I began work on a book to which I have given the title, Caesarism, An Essay on the Philosophy of Gov- ernment; and I completed writing it at 10:00 P.M., December 31, 1951. One publisher has the manuscript and seems to be favorably impressed by it, and another has asked for it. So I am hoping that the book will be published some time this year."
Jerome gives the following list of his published writings: Govern- ments and Money (Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 1935); The Problem of the Constitution (Longmans, Green & Company, New York, 1939); two articles: "What is Happening to the Bill of Rights?" in American Affairs, July, 1949, and "Mr. Justice Douglas' Imperium," in The Freeman, May, 1951.
He is a member of the Episcopal Church. His marriage to Albertina Lane Pitkin took place in Schenectady on October 11, 1930. They have no children.
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KENNETH CLARK JOHNSON. With White & Case, lawyers, 14 Wall Street, New York, N.Y .; residence, 60 Sargent Road, Scars- dale, N.Y.
Johnson has been associated with the New York law firm of White & Case since 1927. His marriage to Marione Virginia Fiske, daughter of Haley and Marione Cushman Fiske, took place in New York on February 21, 1918. They have two children: Barbara Anne Livesay, who was born in Cambridge, Mass., on August 2, 1920, and Kenneth Clark, Jr., born December 10, 1921, in New York City. The latter received a B.A. degree at Cornell in 1945 and an LL.B. three years later.
GEORGE BRINTON JOHNSTON. President, Legatees Funding Corporation, private bankers, 43 Exchange Place, New York 5, N.Y .; residence, 140 East 28th Street, New York 16; permanent address, 50 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York 17.
In 1937 Johnston founded and became president of the Legatees Fund- ing Corporation, whose business he describes as private banking- long-term financing secured by remainder estates. "It required all of twelve years after graduation for me to learn that no one was qualified to teach me what I desired to know," he says. "Accordingly, I spent the years from 1927 to 1932 in searching for some of the truth in the field of finance with the result that I was not wholly unprepared for the 'blow' which proved to be so complete as to expose the clay feet in our reputed idols. The results of my personal research during those years has been evident in my activities since."
In addition to the Legatees Funding Corporation, he is the founder of Independent Traders, Inc., "engaged in buying America by its citizens, i.e., financing their installment purchase of American securi- ties over a period of four to ten years under the novel plan that they will not be sold out, regardless of the market, so long as they make their regular payments. All securities are financed and registered in the name of the purchaser, whose life is insured for his debit balances. As Legatees is unique in its field, so the copyrighted contract of Inde- pendent Traders, Inc., is unique in its features.
"The Legatees Funding Corporation has supplied social relief (and additional capital for business purposes ) to those in distress, for the first time in American history at legal rates of interest, with the result that we have driven the Shylocks, formerly dominating this field, out of business. It has required a long period of arduous and patient effort
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in familiarizing the banking fraternity with this type of paper, new to them, but it now appears that the insurance companies will take it on as an investment, thereby relieving us of an onerous task of education.
"Latterly we have all been concerned with the constant pressure upon our body politic by the Red Column of Infiltration. Because the best publicity to combat this menace has little more effect than a daily splash in the papers, it was obvious that an equal and opposite force of constant pressure must be created to successfully meet this threat.
"Accordingly, under another corporate banner, we have initiated a program to provide long-term financing for the purchase of American securities by George Spelvin-the Sovereign Citizen. By spreading this term of purchase over a period of five to ten years, it is possible for the group in the lower middle earning bracket-the great mass of em- ployees-to participate in a consequential ownership of a number of American industrial and corporate enterprises.
"Once again this is a problem of education, but of self-education by George Spelvin based on the thesis that where one's treasure is, one's heart is also. If, obviously, the burden of maintaining our system of free enterprise and the philosophy of individualism must be borne directly by a greater number of us, then this segment of our population must be reached by direct ownership and educated by corporate pub- licity. If finally five hundred thousand new stockholders can be en- listed from the ranks of employees, then certainly they will join us, the opposition. Certainly we must win this Battle of the Centuries or else dig up the bones of our revered ancestors and, with them, seek anew some uncontaminated land.
"Retire? We have just begun to fight. May it not be too late!"
In 1949 Johnston became a member of the executive committee of the New York Home for Homeless Boys, Inc., and since 1950 has also been treasurer of its building and expansion fund. He is a Congrega- tionalist, belongs to the Yale clubs of New York and Philadelphia, and is past master of Independent Royal Arch Lodge, No. 2, A.F. and A.M., New York (founded 1760), and the York Rite bodies, includ- ing the honorary (elective) Red Cross of Constantine. He says that he has taken no part in politics other than assisting candidates in two campaigns. His reply to our question about recreations, hobbies, etc .: "Realizing the position into which we were both drifting and being led politically, I resorted to more active participation in the Fraternity that gave birth to this land of freedom with its accent on individual rights. There I found such relaxation from the activities of the day
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that it has become a virtual hobby, although, like all hobbies, it has entailed considerable work and effort."
On December 24, 1929, Johnston was married in New York to Elizabeth Belding Wilson, daughter of Thomas and Ida Wilson, of Washington, Ind., and a great-granddaughter of General William Clark of the Lewis and Clark expedition. They have no children.
J. RUSSELL JOHNSTON. Contracting officer, Air Matériel Com- mand, U.S. Air Force, 514 Harries Building, Dayton 2, Ohio; residence, 125 Crescent Boulevard, Dayton 9.
From 1930 to 1942 Johnston was in the investment brokerage busi- ness. During the next four years he was on active duty as a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force, with an assignment as plant representative of the Chief Production Section, Mid-Central District, in Chicago. He still holds the same rank in the Reserve. Upon his release to inactive duty in 1946 he became contract officer for the Veterans Administra- tion, 6th District Office, Columbus, Ohio. Since 1949 he has been con- tract officer in the Field Operations Office at the headquarters of the Air Matériel Command in Dayton, which is concerned with the pro- curement of airplanes and parts. Johnston is a member of the Forty and Eight, the American Legion, the Masonic order (Blue Lodge, Scottish Rite, and Shrine), and the Episcopal Church.
He was married some time ago to the former Ella M. Robinson. They have no children.
STANLEY BAYNE JONES. Address, 165 State Street, Nanticoke, Pa.
WILLIAM AMOS JORDAN. Staff assistant, commercial headquar- ters, Southern New England Telephone Company, 227 Church Street, New Haven, Conn .; residence, 4503 Whitney Avenue, Mt. Carmel, Conn.
Jordan has been with the Southern New England Telephone Company since 1915. In August, 1942, he was transferred from New Haven to Middletown, Conn., as manager in charge of the Middletown, East Hampton, and Moodus exchanges, but since March, 1948, has been back in New Haven in his present capacity. During the war he was chairman of the Middletown War Finance Committee (War Bond drives) and a member of the general committee of the War Council and of the Middletown Transportation Committee. He is a member
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of the Church of the Redeemer in New Haven, during the period from 1939 to 1942 being clerk of the church, and while living in Middletown he served for three years as a trustee of the First Church of Christ, Congregational. Jordan belongs to Wooster Lodge, No. 79, A.F. and A.M., in New Haven.
"My only travels, outside of New England," he says, "have been an annual trip to Missouri to visit my mother, who was 100 years old on July 24, 1951, and who is still active and mentally alert. My only hobby at the present time is gardening. During the last twenty years I have devoted much time to figure skating and have been a member of the New Haven Skating Club. I did a little stamp collecting, and I still keep up a collection of Yale football memorabilia that makes it possible for me to check facts about every game Yale has played since we entered college."
On June 15, 1918, he was married in Woodmont, Conn., to Marion Josephine Porter, daughter of George Willis and Mathilde Von Noll Friedrich Porter. Their daughter, Mary Porter, who was born in New Haven, December 5, 1924, received a B.A. degree at Vassar in 1945 and an M.A. at Wesleyan in 1947. She married Newell Charlton Gilbert, Washington and Lee '41, son of Frank Wellington Gilbert, Yale '16, and has a son, Charlton Hovenden, born on January 2, 1951.
CHARLES HENRY JUNG. Director, special educational adminis- trative services, New Jersey State Department of Education, 175 West State Street, Trenton 8, N.J .; residence, 17 Pierson Road, South, Maplewood, N.J.
Jung reports: "After graduation in 1915 I taught Latin for five years at Poly Prep Country Day School in Brooklyn, N.Y., and had a boys' camp in the summer at Readfield, Maine, on Lake Maranacook. In 1920 I left teaching to enter business with the father of one of my students at Poly Prep and became a traveling salesman for the W. D. Hannah Shoe Company of New York City and Newburyport, Mass. I traveled in New England, New Jersey, some of New York State, Philadelphia, Chester, Wilmington, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C., and as far south as Charlotte, N.C.
"Returned to educational work on March 1, 1930, as executive secretary of the New Jersey State Board of Regents, with offices in Newark, later moving to Trenton. Continued in this position until July 1, 1945, when reorganization consolidated much of the work of the Board of Regents with the newly reorganized State Depart- ment of Education. Am still in this department.
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"I have been much interested in church and religious education work. Have been president of the old Essex County Council of Re- ligious Education for three terms, vice-president of the old New Jersey Council of Religious Education for several years, president of the South Orange Council of Churches, chairman of the old New Jersey Christian Laymen's Commission, and president of the Presbyterian Men of the Norris and Orange Presbytery for a term. Am now an elder of the First Presbyterian and Trinity Church in South Orange and superintendent of the senior department and a teacher in the church school. Also happy with five grandchildren !!!!!
"A cabin on Gardiner Lake, East Machias, Maine, is my summer hobby and vacation. Am building an addition on it this year and hope to have it ready about the middle of July."
In 1940 Jung received the degree of M.A. at the School of Educa- tion of New York University. He has had several articles published in the Educational Bulletin issued by the New Jersey State Department of Education and is the co-author with Dr. M. W. Brown of an article on Library Building Needs in New Jersey in the American Library Board Journal. He has worked as a zone captain in the Community Chest drives of the Oranges and Maplewood for several years.
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