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BENJAMIN LEVINSON. Lawyer, 10 South LaSalle Street, Chicago 3, Ill .; residence, 7238 South Coles Avenue, Chicago.
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Levinson writes: "Since 1932, when the economic cataclysm of that period forced me to detour from the trust and banking field back into law practice, I have passed through a difficult period of rehabilitation, with some small measure of success. Moreover, my activities in the realm of the practical have been supplemented in goodly measure by considerable devotion to civic and educational institutions. I have been particularly active in the affairs of the Board of Jewish Education of Chicago and the Zionist Organization of America, having played some small part in the historic movement which led eventually to the establishment of the new state of Israel. I have high hopes that this newest of democracies will play a great rôle in the development and enlightenment of the entire Near East.
"Just at present, shortly after my dear wife and myself have been blessed with the richest of dividends in the form of wonderful grand- children, we are hoping for that sense of serenity and security which comes only with the golden years of life. Just at this writing, how- ever, I am faced with the problem of deciding whether to take on some rather extensive community responsibilities which will take me away from sharing in these delightful family joys or to follow the more modest course and thereby reap more of the joys that come from sharing your time with those more immediately surrounding you."
Levinson's law practice is in connection with probate, real estate, reorganizations, and local tax matters. Prior to July, 1932, he was vice-president and trust officer of the Liberty Trust & Savings Bank of Chicago. He is a director of the Golde Manufacturing Company (moving picture equipment), a member of the board of governors of the College of Jewish Studies, and, in addition to the connections already mentioned, takes an active part in the affairs of the City Club of Chicago, the United Jewish Appeal, the American Legion, and the South Side Hebrew Congregation, of which he has been vice-president for the past three years. During the war he was active in civilian defense. He says that he and his wife have taken some interesting trips to California and other points in the Far West, as well as to New England and Canada and around the Great Lakes.
Mrs. Levinson was Sarah Aida Reinwald, daughter of Louis and Olga Reinwald, of Parkersburg, Iowa. They were married in Wash- ington, D.C., on August 28, 1919, and their twin daughters, Judith Ann and Ruth Marcia, were born on March 30, 1923, and their son, Daniel Orin, on April 23, 1926. The latter graduated from the Uni- versity of Chicago with the degree of Ph.B. and is now in medical school there. He served in the Anti-Aircraft Corps and the Air Force
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during the war. The girls attended the University of Chicago also. Judith is the wife of Dr. Albert J. Miller, a graduate of Northwestern, who has recently commenced the practice of internal medicine in Chicago. Their daughter, Lisa, is about a year and a half old. Ruth's husband, Frederick Breyer, who is chief engineer for the Mid-West Heat Company in Chicago, graduated from Carnegie Tech. They have a son, Mark, born a little over a year ago.
SYDNEY SHERMAN LEWIS. Account executive, B. G. Phillips & Company (investment securities ), 44 Wall Street, New York 5, N.Y .; residence, 164 West 79th Street, New York 24.
At the time our Quindecennial Record was published, Lewis was manager of the Community Collateral Corporation in Brooklyn. In 1940 he became the sole proprietor of the S. S. Lewis Company (in- vestment securities), but gave this up in 1947 to go with R. H. Johnson & Company in New York as an account executive. He has been associated with B. G. Phillips & Company since June, 1951.
Lewis' marriage to Lucille Adrious Dreher, daughter of Fred and Ida Raab Dreher, took place in New York City on July 25, 1918. Their daughter, Beverly Beatrice, who was born in New York on June 8, 1920, and who was married some time ago, attended the Barnard School for Girls in New York. Her husband is a technical sergeant in the Army.
THEODORE ALEXANDER LIGHTNER. Address, 325 East 57th Street, New York, N.Y.
KARL NICKERSON LLEWELLYN. Professor of law, University of Chicago Law School; residence, 4920 Kimbark Avenue, Chicago, Il1.
Llewellyn says that in general "his life has been devoted to an effort to do horse sense and a touch of lyric poetry in regard to this institu- tion of our law." He went to the Columbia Law School from Yale in 1925, was appointed to a professorship in 1927, and became Betts professor of jurisprudence in 1930, serving in this capacity until July, 1951, when he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School. He has been a director of the Legal Aid Society of New York and in 1950 became president of the American Association of Law Schools. He served for a number of years, beginning in 1926, as a member of the New York Commission on Uniform State Laws
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and since 1943 has been a reporter for the Uniform Revised Sales Act and chief reporter for the Uniform Commercial Code, the Con- ference on Uniform State Laws, and the American Law Institute.
Llewellyn is the author of a number of articles and books, including Cases and Materials on the Law of Sales (1930), The Bramble Bush (1930; revised edition 1947), Put in his Thumb (1931), Präjudizien- recht und Rechtsprechung in Amerika (1933), and The Cheyenne Way (with A. E. Hoebel; 1941). His third marriage, to Soia Mentchi- koff, took place on October 31, 1946.
DONALD GORDON LOOMIS. Credit manager, New York office, H. W. Gossard Company, corset manufacturers, 200 Madison Ave- nue, New York 16, N.Y .; residence, Kenilworth Apartment T-H, Garth Road, Scarsdale, N.Y.
Loomis has sent us the following summary covering his occupation in recent years: "1938-Olmstead Corset Company, New York City; 1940-H. W. Gossard Company, New York City; 1942-Federal Reserve Bank of New York (foreign funds control and acting chief of personnel); 1944-R.F.C. Surplus Property Division; 1945- R.F.C. field director, Warehouse 12, Buffalo, N.Y .; 1946-W.A.A., Buffalo; 1948-H. W. Gossard Company (credit department); Feb- ruary, 1951-credit manager, New York office, H. W. Gossard Com- pany." He adds that he has never married.
ADOLPH MAURICE LOVEMAN. Partner, A. M. Loveman Lum- ber & Box Company, Nashville, Tenn .; residence, Woodmont Boulevard, Nashville.
Loveman has been a partner in the A. M. Loveman Lumber & Box Company since 1919. He is a director of the Nashville Civic Music Association and the Jewish Community Center, is serving on the board of trustees of the Vine Street Temple, and belongs to the Rotary Club and the Woodmont Country Club. "I have made a number of trips and cruises in the Caribbean Sea area," he says. "Am interested in stamp collecting and music. Still play the flute. I play tennis and badminton regularly, doubles."
Loveman's marriage to Lucile Apfelbaum, daughter of Gus R. and Mildred Summerfield Apfelbaum, took place in Atlanta, Ga., on Sep- tember 30, 1930. They have a daughter, Emily, who was born in Nashville on October 20, 1936, and a son, Andrew M., born Janu- ary 20, 1941, also in Nashville.
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JAMES PAUL MCCARTHY. Chairman, Upper School Division, Shady Hill School, Cambridge 38, Mass .; residence, 201 Follen Road, Lexington 73, Mass.
McCarthy writes: "I returned to teaching (from advertising) in 1928 and have been at Shady Hill School ever since. Most of my teaching has been in Latin until recently, but now I teach more mathematics than Latin.
"After our marriage {September 4, 1933, in Cambridge to Elise Myrtle Bartlett, daughter of Clarence Aldis and Elsie Mary Gleason Bartlett] we lived in Cambridge for about five years and then moved to Belmont. When Katharine Anne was born {January 14, 1941], we moved here to Lexington, building our own house, fortunately, just before Pearl Harbor. Our good classmate, Lyon (Nick) Carter, introduced me around, and I've been in town politics ever since and in town affairs generally. Nick was the same good fellow here in Lexington and as much in things as he had been at Yale-and we all miss him.
"My life is a very quiet one and uneventful. I've never regretted my return to teaching, though it's a bit of a pull trying to make ends meet in such a period as this."
McCarthy has been a member of the Lexington Town Meeting since 1944 and treasurer of the Lexington Camping Committee, which raises funds to send children to summer camps, since 1946. He is active in the adult religion discussion groups of Sacred Heart Church and taught religious classes there for five years. He says that he is listed as a Republican, that he manages to get to Cape Cod for part of each summer, and that Latin Lessons, which he wrote for his own classes, has been accepted for publication by the Harvard University Press.
RANALD HUGH MACDONALD. General partner, Dominick & Dominick, investment bankers, 14 Wall Street, New York 5, N.Y .; residence, 911 Park Avenue, New York 21.
Macdonald, who has been a general partner in the Stock Exchange firm of Dominick & Dominick since 1927, served as a governor of the New York Stock Exchange from 1944 to 1950, of the Investment Bankers Association from 1945 to 1947, and of the Association of Stock Exchange Firms from 1942 to 1946. At present he is vice- president and a director of the National Shares Corporation, a trustee of the Franklin Savings Bank, and a director of the Great Plains De- velopment Company. Other current connections include the following:
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trustee and chairman of the finance committee of Pratt Institute and of the Museum of Modern Art, chairman of the finance committee of the St. Andrews Society of New York, a member of the finance com- mittee of the United Hospital Fund, president and a trustee of the Alumni Association of St. Paul's School, and a director and vice- chairman of the finance committee of the Y.M.C.A. of the City of New York and a trustee of the state organization. From 1936 to 1949 he was chairman and a director of the West Side Branch Y.M.C.A.
Macdonald's long period of service to the Yale Alumni Fund must be well known to you all, but we will mention that he was chairman of the Fund from 1943 to 1945 (also being a member of the Alumni Board during this period) and that he continues as one of our Class agents. During the war he was an air raid warning officer with the . 1st Fighter Command in New York City. His political affiliations are Republican, and he is a member of St. James' Church, New York, the Yale, Union, Bond, and Piping Rock clubs, and the Down Town Association.
On June 2, 1919, he was married in Brooklyn, N.Y., to Anne Hunter Thompson, daughter of Robert O. and Frances Thompson. They have two children: Anne Walton, born December 12, 1927, and Ranald Hugh, 3d, born December 15, 1923, both in New York. Anne, who attended the Brearley School, St. Timothy's, and Barnard College, married James A. Thomas, Jr., and has a daughter, Cameron. Ranald, 3d, prepared for college at the Buckley School and St. Paul's and graduated from Yale in 1945. A second lieutenant and first pilot of a B-17 in the 8th Air Force, he was awarded the Air Medal with four clusters. He was married several years ago and has a son, Ranald Hugh, 4th.
FRANCIS MICHAEL McGOLDRICK. Lawyer, 189 Montague Street, Brooklyn, N.Y .; residence, 127 River Road, Grand View- on-Hudson, N.Y.
McGoldrick has been independently engaged in the practice of law in Brooklyn since his graduation from the New York University Law School in 1916. He has been living at Grand View-on-Hudson for some time, was president of the School Board during the period from 1942 to 1946, and in 1948 was elected mayor. He is a trustee of the Rockland Country Club.
McGoldrick was first married on October 18, 1923, in New York City, to Genevieve Cullen, whose death occurred on January 20,
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1927. His second marriage, to Elizabeth Leitner, daughter of Dr. George A. Leitner and Maude Leitner, took place in Piermont, N.Y., on May 30, 1928. They have three sons: Francis M., born on March 16, 1929, George L. on September 16, 1930, and John G. on July 25, 1932, all in Nyack. The oldest boy, who graduated from Lehigh in 1951, is at present in the Army, stationed at Fort Dix. George is a Senior at Villanova, and John, after attending Holy Cross, is at present at St. Andrew's-on-Hudson in Poughkeepsie.
ARTHUR BUTLER McGRAW. Senior associate in general surgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit 2, Mich .; residence, 340 Lakeland Avenue, Grosse Pointe 30, Mich.
McGraw writes: "In 1938 I was elected a member of the Société . Internationale de Chirugie and attended its biannual meeting in Brus- sels that fall just at the time of the Munich crisis {also the meetings in New Orleans in 1949 and in Paris in 1951]. In April, 1941, I was elected a member of the American Surgical Association and the same month received the commission of lieutenant commander in the United States Naval Reserve Medical Group. One month after Pearl Harbor I was assigned to active duty and obtained a leave of absence from my duties as senior associate in general surgery in the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. I was on active duty in various capacities and in various places from that time until October, 1946. I was overseas in the Mediterranean area-in French North Africa and Sicily-from May, 1943, through February, 1944. For the last year and a half of hostilities I was chief of surgery in the Naval Hospital at the Navy Training Center in Bainbridge, Md.
"Upon release to inactive duty in October, 1945, I resumed my duties in the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit and am still on its staff. During two of the last four years I have been a member of the hospital medical board and for the last year a member of its committee for the erection of a new seventeen-story clinic building, the contract for which was let only last week.
"In addition to the American Surgical Association, I was elected a member of the Central Surgical Association shortly before World War II and a member of the Western Surgical Association since the war. As far as current affairs go, I remain as I have been for many years, a trustee of the Michigan Children's Aid Society and of the Boys Republic, both with headquarters in Detroit, Mich."
McGraw is also a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a
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trustee of the Yates Memorial Cancer Clinic in Detroit, and from 1930 to 1949 was on the board of the Detroit University School. He has served several rotating terms as a vestryman of Christ Church (Epis- copal) at Grosse Pointe. He has contributed occasional articles to medical journals. His hobbies are sailing and book collecting, and he belongs to the Grolier Club of New York. His travels, in addition to those mentioned, have included trips to England in 1936 and 1950 and one to Scandinavia in 1935. His politics are in general Republican, although he has voted independently.
He was married on October 12, 1921, in Garden City, N.Y., to Leola Stewart, daughter of John and Carrie Stewart. They have four children, all of whom were born in Detroit: Sarah Edma on August 21, 1922, Thomas Arthur on June 18, 1924, Grace Ingersoll on August 23, 1927, and Robert Stewart on July 14, 1929. McGraw gives the following information about them: "The oldest, Sarah, received her B.A. degree at Vassar in 1946 and is now Mrs. Fernando Cinelli, with three children, Peter, Catherine, and Francesca, living close by us at Grosse Pointe. Thomas received his B.A. degree at Yale in 1945. He was in the U.S.N.R. as midshipman and ensign from 1943 to 1946; received his M.D. degree at the Cornell Medical School in June, 1951; and is an interne at the Duke University Hospital, Durham, N.C. He was married October 27, 1951, to Miss Eleanor Braman, of New York City and Long Island.
"Grace received her B.A. degree at Vassar in 1949 and her M.A. in economics at the University of Michigan in 1951. She is at present employed at the Treasury Department in Washington. Robert re- ceived his B.A. degree at Yale in 1950 and is in his second year of medicine at the Johns Hopkins Medical School."
EDWARD DOMINIC McKEE. Address, 18 Walden Street, Ham- den, Conn.
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH. Writer; Boylston professor of rhetoric and oratory, Harvard University; residence, Conway, Mass.
MacLeish has been Boylston professor of rhetoric and oratory at Harvard since 1949. During the preceding decade he had had the following Federal appointments: Librarian of Congress, 1939-44; director of the Office of Facts and Figures, 1941-42; assistant director of the Office of War Information, 1942-43; Assistant Secretary of State, 1944-45. He was the American delegate to the Conference of
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Allied Ministers of Education in 1944 and during the period from 1943 to 1945 served on the American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Historic and Artistic Monuments in the war areas. In November, 1945, he was chairman of the American delegation to the London Conference to draw up the final constitution of the educa- tional, scientific, and cultural organization of the United Nations, and in 1946 he was deputy chairman of the American delegation at the first General Conference of UNESCO in Paris (he resigned this posi- tion in April, 1947). He became a member of the executive board of UNESCO in 1946.
MacLeish was made an Encomisado of the Order of El Sol del Peru in 1947 and is also a commander of the French Legion of Honor. He has the following honorary degrees: M.A. Tufts 1932; Litt.D. Wes- leyan and Colby 1938, Yale 1939, University of Pennsylvania 1941, University of Illinois 1946, and Washington University 1948; L.H.D. Dartmouth 1940; D.C.L. Union 1941; D.H.L. Williams 1942; LL.D. Johns Hopkins 1941 and University of California 1943. And we give still another list-a very important one covering his writings: The Happy Marriage (verse), 1924; The Pot of Earth, 1925; Nobodaddy (verse play), 1925; Streets in the Moon, 1926; The Hamlet of A. MacLeish, 1928; New Found Land, 1930; Conquistador (Pulitzer Poetry Prize of $1,000), 1932; Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City, 1933; Poems, 1924-1933; Union Pacific-a Ballet, 1934; Panic (verse play), 1935; Public Speech (verse), 1936; The Fall of the City (verse play for radio), 1937; Land of the Free, 1938; Air Raid ( verse play for radio), 1938; America Was Promises (verse), 1939; The Irre- sponsibles (prose), 1940; The American Cause (prose), 1941; A Time to Speak (prose), 1941; A Time to Act (prose), 1942; Ameri- can Opinion and the War (prose), 1942; American Story (broad- casts), 1944; Act Five, 1948.
MacLeish is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (director, 1948; secretary, 1949; chancellor, 1951) and of the Com- mission on the Freedom of the Press. He went to Japan in 1936, to Chile and the Argentine in 1937, to England each year from 1942 (when he gave the Rede lectures at Cambridge) to 1947, to France in 1946 and 1947, and to the British West Indies in 1949 and 1951. His recreations: "As much sun, sea, and silence as I can find before I kick off."
On June 21, 1916, he was married in Farmington, Conn., to Ada Taylor Hitchcock, daughter of William A. and Emily Boyle Hitch- cock. They have three children: Kenneth, born in Cambridge on
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February 4, 1917, Mary Hillard on August 24, 1922, also in Cam- bridge, and William Hitchcock in Boston on August 7, 1928. Kenneth graduated from Harvard in 1939, was in the Naval Air Force in World War II, and is at present science editor of Life Magazine. Mary, who is now Mrs. Karl Grimm, attended Westover. The younger boy, who graduated from Yale in 1950, was in the Army Air Force in the war.
JOHN CHARLES MACNEILL. Superintendent, Open Hearth No. 2, Bethlehem Steel Company, Bethlehem, Pa .; residence, 1124 West Broad Street, Bethlehem.
"The years since 1930 have been filled with work and play, principally work," MacNeill wrote. "We have passed through some very strenuous years which have kept me hustling. It seems that we are still in those times, so I really do not have too much time to play. However, in my leisure time, I do enjoy playing golf very much, being a member of the Saucon Valley Country Club, where the amateur championship of the U.S.G.A. will be held this coming September. It is a beautiful course, and I find time to play it two or three times a week. But I do not pretend to be a good golfer-just mediocre.
"In 1936 I was promoted to my present position-superintendent of the Saucon open hearths of the Bethlehem plant. My work is very interesting, and I find great enjoyment in it. I get to see a Yale foot- ball game at least once a year so that I can keep in touch with some of my classmates."
MacNeill, who has been with the Bethlehem Steel Corporation since graduation, was assistant superintendent of Open Hearth No. 2 for six years prior to being made superintendent. In addition to the Saucon Valley Country Club, he belongs to the Bethlehem Club and the Bethlehem Steel Club. His political affiliations are Republican, and he is a member of the Catholic Church of Sts. Simon and Jude.
His marriage to Ellen Veronica Love, daughter of Thomas and Ellen Love, took place in Brooklyn, N.Y., on February 2, 1921. Their daughter, Margaret Love, who was born in Bethlehem on December 19, 1921, received a B.A. degree at Bryn Mawr in 1943.
JOHN ELMER MCPHEE. Salesman, Aldom Painter Lumber Com- pany (wholesale lumber), 308 Tramway Building, Denver, Colo .; residence, 1441 Pennsylvania Street, Denver.
From 1929 to 1932 McPhee was an investment salesman with Calvin Bullock, and he had a similar connection with R. G. Bulkley & Com-
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pany in 1933. He was retail manager of the Colorado-Utah Coal Company from 1934 to 1946, and the following year had a business of his own, the McPhee Coal Company. Since then he has been with the Aldom Painter Lumber Company. He is a member of the Roman Catholic Church.
He was married in January, 1916, in Denver to Sarah Eddy, from whom he was divorced in 1933. He has four children: John Eddy, born in January, 1917, Robert Douglas in August, 1919, William Norvell in March, 1921, and Susan Norvell in September, 1924. John, who graduated from Yale with the Class of 1939 S., and who is with the John Widdicomb Furniture Company of Grand Rapids, Mich., was in the Navy for six years. He ranked as lieutenant commander and was assigned to the Bureau of Ships. The second boy, a graduate of the Colorado School of Mines in 1942 and now a civil engineer in Denver, had five years of service as a lieutenant in the Navy. Bill, who attended Yale with the Class of 1944, was in the Army for four years-a liaison pilot in the C.B.I. theater, with the rank of sergeant. He is in the Sociology Department at Columbia. Susan was a member of the Class of 1945 at Colorado College. The children are all mar- ried; John has two daughters, Marcia and Susan; Robert a son, Michael; Bill a son, John, and a daughter, Carolyn W .; and Susan a son, Daniel.
McPhee adds to our questionnaire a category of his own: "Greatest pleasure-Thirty-fifth Reunion and my first, but not last, I hope." He recalls that he "acted as judge to redetermine relative heights of Macdonald and Donaldson. Mac won by 1/32 of an inch! Particularly interested in youthfulness of Walker, Donaldson, MacLeish, Streeter Flynn, and Ed Stackpole."
CHARLES HENRY MALLORY. Senior partner, Mallory, Adee & Company, brokers, 120 Broadway, New York 5, N.Y .; residence, Strong, Maine.
Mallory continued as operating manager of the Munson Steamship Line until 1933 and then entered the brokerage business. He was with Noll, Berman & Langley until 1937 and then became associated with Reynold, Fish & Company, the name of which was later changed to Mallory, Adee & Company. He has been senior partner in the firm since 1938.
Mallory has never married. "I am devoting most of my time to developing my place in Maine," he says. "Have 4,500 acres-make 500 gallons of maple syrup a year-cut 250 tons of hay-have sixty
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head of pure-bred milking Short Horn cattle-raise 100-acres crop for canneries, etc. Also do considerable lumbering in Franklin County."
HERBERT WILLIAM MARACHE. Partner, Granbery, Marache & Company, investment bankers, 52 Broadway, New York 4, N.Y .; residence, 22 Murray Hill Road, Scarsdale, N.Y.
Prior to becoming a partner in Granbery, Marache & Company in August, 1937, Marache was a partner in another New York invest- ment banking firm. He is president and a director of the New York N-72 Corporation (real estate) and a director of the Lionel Cor- poration (toy trains), the Aerovox Corporation (electronics), and the Ross Engineering Corporation. He belongs to the New York Yale Club, the Down Town Association, and the Scarsdale Golf Club and politically is an independent Republican. "I have traveled in this country and abroad," he says. "Play golf regularly in the summer and bowl all winter. Chess is really my fun. I organized, played on, and managed the New York Stock Exchange chess team against the Amsterdam team in 1943 and 1949 (played by R.C.A. teletype) and played on the championship chess team in the Commercial Chess League, representing the investment banking team, in 1944, 1948, and 1951."
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