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He was married in Newark on June 9, 1917, to Wanda Fredericka Schneider, daughter of Louis and Louisa K. Schneider. Their older son, Charles H., Jr., who was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., November 1, 1918, graduated from Yale in 1939. During the war he was a staff sergeant in the Army Air Force, assigned to the Training Aids Division, and he is now vice-president of the William Steinen Manu- facturing Company and treasurer of the William F. Steinen Company, both of Newark, executive vice-president of Steinen of Connecticut, Inc., of Thomaston, Conn., and president of the Bar-Work Manu- facturing Company, Inc., of Waterbury. He was married on September · 20, 1941, in Maplewood to Alma R. Steinen and has three children: Richard C., Robert W., and Sally Anne. The family lives in South Orange.
The younger boy, Henry Wilkinson (named after Jung's room- mate), was born in Newark, November 24, 1922. He attended Yale from September, 1941, until October, 1942, when he left to enlist in the Army Air Force. He too was in the Training Aids Division and became a sergeant. At present he is with the Chase National Bank in New York. He has taken night courses at the Rutgers University School of Business Administration for two years and has also attended summer sessions of the Institute of Banking. Henry's marriage to
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Ruth Sly took place in Maplewood on August 22, 1945. They are living in Livingston, N.J., and have two daughters: Barbara Ruth and Judith Sly.
WILLIAM B. JUTTE. Address, care Mrs. Irving G. Knox, 34 East 50th Street, New York, N.Y.
JAMES MONROE KEITH. Residence, 632 Romeo Road, Rochester, Mich.
Keith, who was connected with the sales and advertising department of the Ainsworth Manufacturing Company in Detroit at the time our Quindecennial Record was published, retired from business on October 1, 1949. He was first married on March 12, 1917, in Brooklyn, N.Y., to Elizabeth Casey, from whom he was divorced in 1935. His second marriage, to Aune Aho, daughter of Gurt and Ida Aho, took place in Middleboro, Ky., on September 23, 1935. Keith's daughter, Eliza- beth Annie, was born in Detroit on January 8, 1918. She married Robert Beckrold and has three daughters: Karen, Laura, and Sally.
MILES COVERDALE KENNEDY. Partner, Coverdale & Colpitts, consulting engineers, 120 Wall Street, New York 5, N.Y .; resi- dence, 45 Fifth Avenue, New York 3.
Kennedy, who was a staff member of Coverdale & Colpitts from 1927 to 1932 and again from 1936 to 1942, became a partner in the firm on January 1, 1943. During the year 1932-33 he was chief examiner for the railroad division of R.F.C., for the next two years executive secretary of the Eastern Regional Coordinating Committee (railroads), and then for a year Eastern regional director of the office of the Federal Coördinator of Transportation. At the present time he is chairman of the board of the Tennessee, Alabama & Georgia Railway Company and a director of the Illinois Terminal Railroad Company and Ameri- can Export Lines, Inc.
Kennedy is the co-author with George H. Burgess of Centennial History of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He is a Republican and an Episcopalian and belongs to the Down Town Association, the Yale Club of New York, and the Racquet Club of Philadelphia. He is unmarried.
THOMAS THACHER KENT. Engaged in real estate appraisal; business and residence, Laurel Way, Kentfield, Calif.
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"In 1930," writes Kent, "my kids were four and I had just finished my stint as a land appraiser in San Diego. I opened an appraisal office in San Rafael and wondered what was going to happen as things went from bad to worse. The phone rang, and I met Newton Drury, executive secretary of the State Park Commission. They had rather liked my beach appraisals in San Diego and wanted me to work for them. They were wonderful people, and in the next five years I ap- praised nearly all of the present parks in the State chain (over 110 projects, covering several hundred thousand acres) outside the red- wood belt. Things got tougher and tougher and leaner and leaner, but the contacts made got me into several other interesting jobs. Probably the best was a condemnation suit by the Interior Department against W. R. Hearst at the Grand Cañon. I hold no brief for Mr. Hearst, but the offered price was less than ten per cent of the cost, and we succeeded in getting the Federal Court to award about six times the offered price. Since then I have worked all over the West on valuation matters. I have had some signal triumphs and some awful beatings in state and federal courts.
"During the war I was a shipyard welder and finished up bossing a crew of women. It was necessary and useful work, and if I do say so, I was damn good at it after the first year. The Air Service would have none of my old carcass during the war, so I continued with my very useful work as a shipyard welder (a trade learned after age 50). My personal work was in 150 ships, including the William Kent, launched on Armistice Day in 1942 and sponsored by my twin daughters.
"After the war I was a V.A. appraiser for two years, then decided that a general knowledge of the tax procedures in California would be useful both to me and the taxpayers, and accepted a temporary appointment under the State Board of Equalization as assistant ap- praiser. I started to take Civil Service examinations in 1948 and can assure any Yale graduate that any of them are easy (I came out first of about 150 applicants). I chose to continue to work for the State Board of Equalization on a statewide survey of the assessors' offices and spent nearly three years at it. These surveys meant months in the field and the most meticulous analysis of statistics (which were gathered by actual count of items in hundreds of volumes). The job consisted of surveys in twenty counties of our state, and most of them were touchy as hell, politically. I enjoyed the work thoroughly and passed my examinations for a higher rating, but did not like the routine of the regular job after the survey was over and was tired of
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hotels and hash house food. So on January 1, 1951, I quit the State job, and since then I have run my own appraisal business under my hat, with no office rent, no expense, and more work than I can do. My clients are mostly bucking the State against the new freeway through the county. We all know that the freeway is good, and about half of the cases have been settled out of court. I personally hope that all of them will be so settled.
"Hobbies include many diverse things, such as barbecue chef (I have cooked for as many as 500), photography (I helped develop and print 25,000 prints of engineering photographs of the Golden Gate Bridge) , jewel cutting (strictly amateur, but some pretty good), gardening (Anne's), fighting and justifying the government, and arguing with friends and acquaintances. In my work I have been in every county (fifty-eight) in California and pride myself on knowing it 'like the back of my hand.' I have no special interest outside of people and things.
"I was appointed first chairman of the County Planning Commission, was elected to the board of directors of the Main Municipal Water District in March, 1920, and have been elected a director ever since and served as president for about eight years. In politics I have always been strictly non-partisan. I can call to mind no published speeches and have no particular desire to dig up unpublished ones, though many of them seemed good at the time. Doctors I patronize only when necessary, but lawyers are my stock in trade, and I frequently have cases for or against three or four of my legal friends. I still have the same wonderful wife, and my youngsters have made real places for themselves."
Kent belongs to the Elks (Lodge 1108, San Rafael) and was form- erly a member of the Meadow Club of Tamalpais and the University Club of San Francisco. He was married August 16, 1918, in White- stone, N.Y., to Anne Helen Thompson, daughter of Charles A. and Ann Shannon Thompson. Their adopted children, the twins, Anne and Martha, were born in San Francisco on December 1, 1926. Marty is married to Richard Erskine, who graduated in engineering from Stanford University, took his M.A. degree at the University of Cali- fornia, and also studied at Cornell. He is working for the Bechtel Corporation, building a new synthetic catalyst plant for a major oil company in Paulsboro, N.J. They have a son, Richard Kent Erskine, called Kent, who was born in 1949. Anne (Nancy) graduated (B.A.) from the University of California in 1949 and spent a year at the Library School at Merritt Hospital in Oakland, getting a certificate
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as a registered medical record librarian. She is now working as assistant record librarian at the Children's Hospital in San Francisco and has passed her national tests.
CHARLES PARKHURST KINGSLEY. Residence, R.R. 3, Chester- town, Md.
Kingsley sent us the following brief report: "Retired from Mabon & Company and as a member of the New York Stock Exchange in De- cember, 1937. Have a farm here on the Eastern Shore with my brother, Mabon Kingsley."
Kingsley had been connected with Mabon & Company since his graduation from Yale. He was married some time ago to Virginia Kelsey, daughter of Horatio Nelson and Burnette B. Kelsey. They have no children.
HARRY WALTER KINSLEY. In the insurance business, with offices at 97 Washington Street, South Norwalk, Conn., and 55 Liberty Street, New York 5, N.Y .; residence, 35 Bayview Avenue, South Norwalk.
Kinsley has been independently engaged in the insurance business since 1929 and now has an office in South Norwalk, as well as in New York City. He was elected a director of the South Norwalk Public Library in 1931, becoming secretary three years later and vice- president in 1947. Since January, 1943, he has been senior warden of Trinity Church in South Norwalk, of which he was formerly a vestryman.
Kinsley's marriage to Alice Isbell, daughter of Revillo Frank and Mary T. Voltz Isbell, took place in New Haven on February 7, 1920, in Christ Church, where her parents had been married in 1889. They have four children: Mary Jane, born December 30, 1920, in Lawrence, Mass., Alice Isbell on April 2, 1922, in New Haven, Harry Walter, Jr., on July 10, 1930, in Norwalk, and Carol Waters on December 24, 1933, also in Norwalk. The oldest girl spent two years at Russell Sage College with the Class of 1942. On August 7, 1948, she was married in South Norwalk to Kenneth B. Lole, who is a graduate of the University of London and also has a D.D.S. degree from North- western. They are living in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, England. Her husband served for seven years as a captain in the Royal Army Dental Corps. Their daughter, Cynthia Jane, was born March 1, 1951. Alice, who graduated from the University of Connecticut with a B.A. degree
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in 1942, was married in South Norwalk, February 22, 1943, to David W. Clark, Jr., Yale '42 S. They have three children: Carol Evenden, born on December 25, 1943, Elizabeth Kinsley on April 17, 1945, and David William, 3d, on December 25, 1949. (Christmas Day must be rather special in that family!) They make their home in Hamden, Conn. Harry, Jr., Yale '52, graduated from Exeter in 1948. Carol graduated from the Northfield School last June and is now in the Freshman Class at Connecticut College for Women.
SIMON KLEIN. Lawyer, 400 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y .; residence, 277 Park Avenue, New York.
Klein continued in business as a surety agent and insurance broker until 1933, his last connection being with the National Surety Corporation of New York. He was admitted to the New York Bar that year and for a time was a clerk in the law office of Powers, Kaplan & Berger in New York, following which he became associated with the firm of Brush & Bloch. He was subsequently in the law office of Rosston, Hort & Brussel and then from 1942 to 1945 was connected with the enforcement legal division of the Office of Price Administration in Newark, N.J. Since then he has been practicing independently as an attorney and counselor at law in New York, conducting a general civil commercial practice, with emphasis on surety law.
On July 30, 1918, Klein was married in New York to Julia Green- baum, daughter of Dr. Solomon Greenbaum and Kate Greenbaum, of Newark. Her death occurred on April 16, 1948. Their older daughter, Marjorie Lillian, who was born in Newark, September 23, 1920, received a B.A. degree at Montclair Teachers College in 1941. She married Maurice D. Godine (B.A. and D.D.S. McGill) and is living in Hampstead, Montreal; they have a daughter, Julia, born August 6, 1949. The younger girl, Rose Marie, born May 5, 1925, in East Orange, also has a B.A. degree (1945) from Montclair State Teachers College. She was a winner of the Prix de Paris in the Vogue National Contest. She married Julian E. Agoos, Harvard '40, and has two daughters: Susan, born August 8, 1946, and Emily on April 7, 1950; the family lives in Wilmington.
DWIGHT RUFUS KNAPP. Surgeon, 710 Water Street, Kerrville, Texas; residence, Thistle Hill Ranch, Junction Road, Kerrville.
Knapp deserted New England for the Lone Star State some years ago and since 1941, in addition to carrying on his surgical practice, has
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been operating a ranch. He was surgeon at the Secor Hospital and Clinic from 1930 to 1937, medical director and surgeon at the Kerr- ville General Hospital for the next twelve years, and since 1949 has been a staff member of the Sid Peterson Memorial Hospital.
He had resigned his captain's commission in the Reserve in 1930, and during the war he served as director of medical emergency for the county and also as a Draft Board examiner. He was elected presi- dent of the County Medical Society in 1933 and of the Southwest Texas Medical Society in 1949, and he is a director of the County Tuberculosis Association and the Red Cross and has taken an active part in other civic organizations, including the Tuberculosis Seal Committee and the Boy Scouts. During 1948-49 Knapp was a vestry- man of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, and he is a past grand master of the Odd Fellows, a former lieutenant governor of Kiwanis, and belongs also to the Masonic order. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and has had several surgical papers published, among them "The First Use of Vitallium as a Skull Plate" and "A New Method for Repair of Recurrent Prolapsus Uteri."
"We have not been out of the country, except to Mexico and Canada, since 1930," he writes, "but very thoroughly around it: duck shooting in the Dakotas, deer, turkey, dove, and quail shooting in Texas; some fishing, but none of it seems as good as that I did in Maine with Phil Badger, or in the Northwest. We have game on the ranch, which is on one of the few clear water rivers of the West. George Stewart is the only classmate to have visited us, but we sit and wait for you, with the inevitable swimming pool and tall glass and plenty of discussion. The others of the Class in this profession do not need to be told that I work long hours-mine is a twenty-four hour a day responsibility as long as I am in Kerrville-and enjoy every minute of it. I spend a month to six weeks a year visiting medical centers and meetings.
"As another hobby, I have designed and built several houses. After improving my golf to about 80, I gave it up because the greens were too handy and every game was interrupted by patients. I don't know whether running the ranch is another business or a hobby. Some years it seems to be one and next year the other.
"Our house is a rambling one, set casually in natural surroundings. Our elevation of two thousand feet gives us cool nights all summer. In winter we have only a few severe north winds. There are few places with so pleasant a climate, and the few severe cold spells are more than compensated for by the dry clear weather usually found.
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The city has about ten thousand inhabitants, with a large resort population around it. Eddie Rickenbacker has just bought a ranch here, but most ranching here is serious, and we are in the center of the largest Angora goat raising district in the world, with plenty of cattle and sheep also. Our new six-story hospital, completely air- conditioned, is one of the finest in the United States and was given a Time news story. Come for a visit, and stay to live."
Knapp was first married in April, 1925, in San Antonio, Texas, to Georgia P. Hays, from whom he was divorced in 1937. His second marriage, to Mary Louise Bowen, daughter of Oscar M. and Eugenia Baxter Bowen, of Houston, took place in Kerrville on July 5, 1940. "She was for years popular as a solo dancer," Knapp says, "but her career was interrupted by a severe illness, which may have been my good fortune, because I met her then." They have a daughter, Linda Jeanne, born on April 6, 1941, whose chief hobby is swimming -and who is "as remarkable as any of 1915's daughters, although not yet as remarkable as her mother."
HERMAN LANDE. Physician, 1049 Park Avenue, New York 28, N.Y .; residence, 1192 Park Avenue, New York.
Lande, who has been engaged in the practice of medicine in New York for some years, is director of the consultation service at Mt. Sinai Hospital. During World War II he was on active service as a colonel in the Medical Reserve for three years, twenty-nine months of which were spent overseas. He served as commanding officer of the 301st General Hospital.
Lande's marriage to Janet Green took place in New York on July 26, 1951.
ALVIN HUEY LANE. Partner, Lane & Savage, lawyers, 1106 Republic Bank Building, Dallas 2, Texas; residence, 4248 Arm- strong Parkway, Dallas.
Lane, who has been a partner in the above firm since its organization in the fall of 1945, writes: "I used to play golf and bowl, but my interests now have pretty much narrowed down to law, business, politics, and of course my family." His practice is a general civil one -corporate, oil, probate, banking, and insurance law.
The law firms with which Lane has been associated in the past are: Gresham, Willis & Freeman, Winfrey & Lane, and Runge, Lane & Savage. At the present time he is vice-president, general counsel,
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and a director of the State National Life Insurance Company; secretary, general counsel, and a director of the Huey & Philp Hardware Com- pany and the Dalclark Oil Corporation; secretary and general counsel of the Old South Royalty Company; and general counsel and a director of the First National Bank of Corsicana, Texas, the Magna Realty Company, the Griffin Realty Company, and the Huey & Philp Realty Company. He served on the Dallas Zoning Board of Adjust- ment from 1943 to 1946, was general counsel for the Republican State Executive Committee in 1944, and a delegate to the National Con- vention in 1948. In the latter year he was the Republican candidate for Governor. Lane has been a member of the board of stewards of the First Methodist Church in Dallas for several years, his terms of office being rotated, and he belongs to the Insurance Club of Dallas, the Salesmanship Club, the Dallas Country Club, the Dallas Chamber of Commerce, the Sons of the American Revolution (formerly presi- dent of the Dallas chapter), the American Legion, and the Dallas County, Texas State, and American Bar associations. He is a thirty- second degree Mason and a member of the Scottish Rite and Shrine.
Lane was first married on October 14, 1920, at Green Bay, Wis- consin, to Carol Smith, who died some years ago. On January 1, 1940, he was married in Dallas to Marianne Halsell, daughter of Lee Ray and Lucile Stinnette Halsell. He has three children: Elizabeth Angele, born October 29, 1921, Annabelle on May 1, 1941, and Alvin Huey, Jr., on May 2, 1942, all in Dallas. Elizabeth, who attended the Baldwin School in Bryn Mawr, Pa., and Hollins College, is married to Vaughan Morrill, Jr., of St. Louis, and has two children: Vaughan, 3d, and Elizabeth Lane.
WILLIAM JOSEPH LEETE. Lawyer, 542 South Broadway, Los Angeles 13, Calif .; residence, 536 North Gower Street, Los Angeles. "Heading twenty-five gives rise to these thoughts," said Leete when he returned our questionnaire. "After thirty-five years, are our accom- plishments measured only in terms and symbols of offices, money, or power? Aren't such gauges and standards too narrow and rudimentary? The possessor of such is concerned, true enough, in a sense of vanity or power, but as for the rest of us, and the world at large?
"Could not another heading be added, and these various subdivisions had?
"What life, if any, have you lived in the imagination? What devel- opment or refinement of your sensibility to visual forms or color, or
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to sounds (music), or to tastes have you attained? What insight into that rich world of spiritual experiences stored up in the great works of art, did you acquire? Did any one of us experience any of those innumerable shades of feeling and overtones in our daily life, the possession of which is 'one of the marks of a man of culture, a necessary complement to the possession of a well-stored and logical mind'?
"Were there any adventures in the life of the spirit? (Two good examples are those of Freddie Meyer and Plute Weiss.) These make insignificant the 'achievements' which at best are simulacres or will-o'- the-wisps. With glory and pleasure, they are smitten with the same . defects, being material and wholly transitory. Can activities or pursuits be listed which brought happiness to others as well as yourself? What good did you do in the world? What did you do to attain inner peace and security in these times of violence and turbulence, which may witness the end of the world in its organization, structure, and operation as we knew it?"
He adds, "I lived in French Oceania (Tahiti, etc.), where some sanity still prevailed in the world. I have made a study of string instruments (violins, violas, and cellos) and their bows for over thirty years, having a collection of some thirty instruments, practically all by modern makers (after 1800). It was my pleasure to introduce these modern makers of the Italian, French, and English schools to the professional musicians in Hollywood, etc., and thereby to have created an understanding and taste for such, that so far in every test the old classic makers as Stradivarius, Guar'nerius del Gesù, and the Guad- gnini, etc., including Amati, have been vanquished. Age has deterio- rated the majority of these old specimens, so that tonally they are worthless. It took many years and much money to find this out. Hill & Sons of London, England (the greatest authority in the world), and many leading artists, William Primrose the latest, have written me concurring completely in these conclusions.
"The matter of tone and tone production in string instruments has occupied my attention for years. Experiments on woods from Alaska, the Rocky Mountains, California, Bohemia, London, etc., on gut, bridges, etc., led to certain findings which it is hoped will revolution- ize and change the conception of tone prevailing among the virtuosi, professionals, and all other players, and especially the teachers. It is astounding, the ignorance and general incapacity that is shown in matters of tone among the artists, symphony players, and teachers.
"Not forgetting my bow collection, which includes three certified specimens by François Tourte."
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'Naturally, I play in various symphony orchestras," he concludes.
Leete has been engaged in the general practice of law in Los Angeles for a number of years. He is a Mason, belonging to the Scot- tish Rite and Shrine. He has never married.
COOLIDGE LESURE. Address, 2354 Hurst Drive, N.E., Atlanta, Ga.
HYMAN ALEXANDER LEVIN. Physician, 1142 Chapel Street, New Haven, Conn .; residence, 168 Linden Street, New Haven.
Levin, who received his M.D. degree at New York University in 1918, has been practicing in New Haven since 1919. He specializes in genito-urinary diseases and surgery, is on the attending urological staff at the Hospital of St. Raphael and the Grace-New Haven Hospital, and is consultant in urology at the Griffin Hospital in Derby, Conn., and also at the Jewish Home for the Aged in New Haven.
"Like many others in my profession," he says, "I have been inter- ested in medical economics and the problems of physicians, having served as a member of the house of delegates of the Connecticut Medical Society from New Haven County and as president of the New Haven Medical Society in 1950." Levin is also a member of the American Urological Society. He has had numerous articles dealing with urological surgery published in the Journal of Urology, the Uro- logic and Cutaneous Review, and the Connecticut State Medical Journal. He belongs to the Congregation Mishkan Israel in New Haven. He mentions that he and his family have traveled considerably abroad and in this country for pleasure and for educational purposes.
Mrs. Levin was Clara Dorothy Persky, daughter of Simon and Frances Persky, of New Haven. They were married in New York on August 3, 1921, and their daughter, Lee Fay, was born in New Haven on February 12, 1925. "She has always been interested in the theatre and later in radio and television, particularly in direction and produc- tion," Levin says. "She studied at the Academy of Dramatic Art, Carnegie Hall, New York City, the Department of Drama at Yale, and later at the Television Workshop in New York City. She was married to Harry Wolf Werschulz, of Louisville, Ky., December 28, 1949, and makes her home in that city. They have a son, Arthur Gustav."
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