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Marache's marriage to Carolyn Ann Johnson, daughter of Ephraim and Harriette Butterfield Johnson, took place on June 19, 1919. Their daughter, Suzanne Marache Geyer, who was born December 26, 1922, in Brooklyn, N.Y., attended the Masters School, Pine Manor Junior College, and Goucher College, where she graduated with a B.A. degree. She was married some time ago and has one daughter. Their son, Herbert W., Jr., born March 22, 1928, prepared for college at St. Paul's, received a B.A. degree at Yale in 1950, and since February, 1951, has been in Korea as a second lieutenant in the 5th Regiment, 1st Marine Division.
RICHARD PENBERTHY MARTIN, JR. Member, technical staff, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., 463 West Street, New York 14, N.Y .; residence, 559 Lawrence Avenue, Westfield, N.J.
Martin, who received the degree of B.S. both at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard in 1917, has been with the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., in New York since March, 1934. Pre- viously he had been in the engineering department of the Western Electric Company in New York, with Perrin & Marshall, consulting
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engineers in New York, the Geohagan Construction Company of Brooklyn, and the department of development and research of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company from 1921 until its merger in 1934 with the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. He is a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and of the First Methodist Church in Westfield.
His marriage to Josephine Mirteenes McCormick took place on March 13, 1920, in Stamford, Conn. Their daughter, Edith McCor- mick, who was born on November 11, 1921, died on March 24, 1932.
CHARLES ELLSWORTH MARTZ. Editor, Our Times (publica- tion of the American Education Press), 400 South Front Street, Columbus 15, Ohio; residence, 2192 Tremont Road, Columbus.
"Looking back over thirty-five years, it's interesting to collect the paradoxes of life," is Martz' comment. "I find that I trained to be a teacher-and find myself an editor. I graduated with a major in mathematics-and spent twenty years teaching history.
"As to autobiography, from 1917 to 1937 I taught history-for one year at Pawling, and then at the West Chester (Pa.) Teachers College and at Western Reserve. This period was punctuated by a year and a half at Harvard, studying in the Graduate School. Then came this chance, with the company that has been publishing the good old standby, Current Events, for fifty years. In 1937 they de- cided to have a more advanced current events weekly for high school Seniors-and I have been the editor of that paper, Our Times, for about fifteen years.
"Of course, one becomes embroiled in the life of a community, and several points of contact were listed on the second page of this docu- ment. For fifteen years I have taught the adult church school class at Broad Street Presbyterian Church. A few years ago I served as chairman of the local Christian Palestine Committee. Most onerous job has been as moderator of Columbus Town Meeting, which has been broadcasting a discussion every Sunday at 1 o'clock for at least ten years. The program is now televised, with the result that total strangers accost me on the street with, 'I know you.' I find that I have to live an exemplary life in this community."
Martz' community activities have included the chairmanship (for several years) of the Speakers Bureau of the Columbus Community Chest. He is secretary-treasurer of the Columbus Torch Club, of which he was president in 1945, and has been an elder in the Presbyterian
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Church since 1936, first at the Fairmount Church in Cleveland and, since 1937, at the Broad Street Presbyterian Church in Columbus. During World War II he served on the local price panel. He says that he seems constantly to be tied up in speaking engagements before clubs and teachers' groups.
Mrs. Martz is president of the Columbus Y.W.C.A. Her maiden name was Edith Nissley Freed, and they were married on December 8, 1915. Their daughter, Mary Louise, who was born in New Haven on August 4, 1917, is a graduate of Mount Holyoke and attended the Yale Divinity School for a year. She married the Rev. Robert B. Weaver, who is minister of the Circleville (Ohio) Methodist Church, and has four children, two boys and two girls.
ROBERT ELDEN MATHEWS. Professor of law, Ohio State Uni-
versity; residence, 4895 Olentangy Boulevard, Columbus 2, Ohio. "I have taken a special interest at Ohio State in facilitating and en- couraging faculty participation in an advisory respect in the formula- tion of university policy," says Mathews, who has been professor of law there since 1924. "I was chairman of the committee on depart- mental organization and procedure in 1941 and participated in the drafting of a personnel code for the faculty that same year and a revision of it in 1951. This was approved by the board of trustees in 1941.
"I compiled a case book, known as Mathews' Revision of Mechem's Cases on Partnership, published in 1935, and another, Mathews' Cases on Agency and Partnership, which was published in 1940. A revision of the latter is now in process. I am editor-in-chief of a board of thirty- one lawyers and law teachers engaged in compiling three volumes of Cases on Labor Law, which has already appeared in temporary form in 1948 and in revision in 1950. A permanent edition is likely to be published in 1952. Also was the author of a text treatment of 'partner- ship' law in Ohio Jurisprudence (encyclopedia of Ohio law) and have published articles in various law reviews on such subjects as legal education, international law, partnership law, and, in one instance, a study of the administration of a certain government policy in respect to the maintenance of minimum labor standards in projects in foreign
countries from which we were procuring strategic materials during the war-a program of which I had charge during 1943-44."
From 1940 to 1942 Mathews was chairman of the Selective Service Board. He served on two Ohio minimum wage boards for the restaur-
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ant industry (1949 and 1950), organized the National Conference on the Training of Law Students in Labor Relations at the University of Michigan Law School in 1947, and has done occasional arbitration of labor disputes over the past ten years. He was a member of the general counsel's office of the Board of Economic Warfare and the Foreign Economic Administration from 1942 to 1944 and associate general counsel of the National War Labor Board the following year, being public member and co-chairman of the appeals committee for a time. In 1943 he served on the joint Bolivian-United States Labor Mission to Bolivia. He was recently appointed by the Department of State a member of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO.
Mathews is currently president of the American Association of Law Schools and in 1947 was president of the League of Ohio Law Schools. He belongs to the National Academy of Arbitrators, the Industrial Relations Research Association, the American Association of Univer- sity Professors, the Columbus, Ohio State, and American Bar associa- tions, and the Congregational Church and in 1947 was elected to honorary membership in Phi Beta Kappa.
On December 30, 1922, he married Grace Greenwood Caie, daugh- ter of Arthur Hugh and Harriet Dickinson Caie. Their son, Craig, born October 19, 1929, graduated from Yale in 1951 and is now enrolled in the Yale Law School. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa as a Junior, was a member of the Apollo and Yale Glee clubs and of Skull and Bones, and won his Freshman numerals in tennis.
JOHN GLEN MAYO. In the oil business, 433 Esperson Building, Houston, Texas; residence, 1002 Bissonnet Street, Houston.
Mayo, who was vice-president and general manager of the Hudson Nurseries in New York at the time Volume II of our Class History was published, is now an oil "wildcatter" in Texas. During 1950 he served as president and a director of the Yale Club of Southeast Texas. He is a member of the Houston Club and the Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club and still belongs to the Third Presbyterian Church of Rochester, N.Y. Mayo covers his political affiliations with "American, Republican, and Isolationist."
He was married in 1917 in New York City to Katherine Rodney Edwards, daughter of Edward L. and Lutie Kale Edwards. They have three daughters: Katherine, born on April 6, 1918, Joanne Rodney on March 14, 1922, and Kale Edwards on December 17, 1925. Kale, who married John Anton, is living in Anchorage, Alaska. Katherine
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is married to William T. Hancock, Jr., and Joanne to James S. Cooney, Yale '39 E.
PAUL BANWELL MEANS. Professor and head, Department of Religion, University of Oregon; residence, 2706 Floral Hill Drive, Eugene, Oregon.
Means writes: "To summarize my activities during the last twenty years, I can say that I spent two years studying for my doctor's degree at Columbia, seven years as a missionary in Malaya and southeast Asia, three years during World War II in intelligence work with the Navy, and eight years in college teaching. I am still in college teaching, very much enjoying the work with the students of the University of Oregon. Four acres give us an opportunity to follow many hobbies- chickens, goats, flowers, alfresco meals, etc.
"The last eighteen months, my wife, our youngest daughter Char- lotte, and I spent visiting our old home in Singapore and Sumatra and meeting many of our former friends and colleagues. I was engaged in a research project {on a Fulbright Fellowship] under the auspices of the University of Oregon and of the University of Malaya on a modern study of Islam, especially the trends and the effects of national- istic movements upon present-day Islamic thinking. It was great to have this privilege of study and travel over the wide area of Malaya, Sumatra, Java, Bali, and Borneo. I hope to write the material I have collected into book form within a few months. My main hobby in Singapore and Malaya has been literacy work among the Malays, Chinese, and Dayaks, illiterate adults who can normally be taught to read in the course of eight to ten lessons, i.e., within a week or two. I have worked along the lines of Dr. Frank C. Laubach, and as the result of my experience know that the adoption of the Laubach literacy techniques by mission and government agencies will revolutionize the educational picture in that part of the world.
"I came back from Borneo with a live gibbon, the smallest but one of the most intelligent of the anthropoid apes. This gibbon is now being raised as a pet in our family, under the care of my wife. He is in great demand for engagements with women's clubs, anthropological societies, biology and sociology classes, as well as useful for my classes in religion. We have had offers to turn him over to some zoos, but until he becomes more of a nuisance than he has yet been, we are planning to keep him. I am sure that he would qualify for the Yale gym team, if and when he is admitted to Yale.
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"In Singapore a few months ago I had a delightful visit with George Stewart, who was traveling for some educational commission, in con- nection with the British Army. From all reports of George's visit in Singapore, he made a grand impression upon officers and men of the various Army and Air Force units he visited.
"Here on the West Coast about the only contacts I have had with the Class of 1915 have been the recent visits to Seattle, where I have seen Gil Haight and Don Fisken. If any members of the Class are in the neighborhood of Eugene, please remember that our latchstring is always out."
From 1930 to 1932, and again from 1934 to 1939, Means was secretary of Christian literature for the Methodist Mission of South- east Asia and editor of Malaysia Message (a monthly publication), as well as district missionary at Singapore. He was assistant to the president of the College of Puget Sound at Tacoma from 1939 until becoming professor and head of the Department of Religion at the University of Oregon in 1941. During the period from 1943 to 1945, while on active duty as a lieutenant commander in the Navy, he served as intelligence officer on Admiral King's staff, for which work he received a commendation in 1945.
Means gave the following additional information about his travels: "From Singapore to New York in 1932 via Europe and England- studied at the Sorbonne for three months; three months in Germany in 1933-put out by Hitler's Gestapo because I was studying the church conflict; return to Singapore via Europe in 1934; travel in Malaya and Netherlands Indies, 1934-39; return to U.S. via China and Japan, 1939; travel to Malaya via Japan and Philippines, 1949; travel in Indonesia, 1950-51; return to U.S. via Hong Kong, 1951."
He took his Ph.D. at Columbia in 1935. That year the Round Table Press published his Things That are Caesar's, which was a Religious Book of the Month selection. Means is also the author of Kunchi Pelajaran, published by the Singapore Department of Education in 1950, and of numerous articles and reports in Christendom, Church History, the American Oxonian, and the Singapore Straits Times. He served as secretary for "Goats for Japan" for Lane County from 1947 to 1949, as Oregon secretary of the Rhodes Scholarship Committee, 1946-49, is a member of the council of the Atlantic Union Committee, and while in Singapore during 1950-51 was president of the Peoples' Education Association. He belongs to the American Philosophical Society, the American Church History Society, the Religious Educa-
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tion Association, Rotary National, and the Masonic order (Zetland in the East).
Means' marriage to Nathalie A. Toms, daughter of Abe Charles and Nellie E. Christensen Toms, took place July 21, 1926, in Spokane. They have four children: Gordon Paul, born May 9, 1927, in Spokane; Mariel Janet on October 26, 1928, in Medan, Sumatra; Virginia Claire on December 6, 1932, in Brooklyn, N.Y .; and Charlotte Louise on November 15, 1937, in Singapore. Gordon, who was a seaman 1/c in the Navy during 1945-46, received a B.A. degree at Reed College in 1950 and is now a teaching fellow at the University of Washington. The oldest girl is the wife of E. T. Ames; she attended Oberlin and the University of Oregon, where she graduated with a B.S. degree in 1949. Virginia is now at the University of Oregon.
JAMES LAWSON MELTZER. President, treasurer, and sole owner, Antipyros Company (dyeing and finishing of textiles), 1175 Man- hattan Avenue, Brooklyn 22, N.Y .; residence, 306 Brevoort Lane, Rye, N.Y.
Meltzer still maintains an office for the "inactive" practice of law at 475 5th Avenue, New York, although he retired from active practice in 1938, after enlarging his business activities with the Antipyros Company, with which he has been associated since 1919. "In addition to spending winters at our winter home at 1318 Harrison Street, Hollywood, Florida, I have traveled extensively with my wife and son in this hemisphere," he wrote. "We are leaving on June 22 for a three-month tour of western Europe, where I expect, not only to see the sights, but to visit plants in the same industry in France, Switzerland, Italy, and Germany. Although my hobby has always been golf, I have a great interest in and have made quite a collection of porcelains. My Meissen collection is considered one of the outstanding groupings of rare interest."
He added that he was actively engaged through his company in a tremendous amount of war work for all branches of service during World War II and that he is associated with many organizations en- gaged in philanthropic and relief activities. He belongs to the Quaker Ridge Golf Club and the Yale Club.
Meltzer was first married in June, 1924, to Lola Needles. His second marriage, to Gloria Amelia Krauss, daughter of Harry and Amelia Krauss, took place in New York City on February 1, 1928.
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Their son, John Joshua, who was born June 22, 1936, graduated from the Rye Country Day School and is now a Sophomore at Hotch- kiss.
CHARLES MERZ. Editor, New York Times, Times Square, New York, N.Y .; residence, 10 Gracie Square, New York.
Editor of the Times since 1938, Merz has been honored with the degree of Litt.D. from Yale (1942) and three other institutions: Colgate and the College of Wooster in 1939 and Columbia in 1944. He is on the boards of trustees of the Russell Sage Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Legal Aid Society, the Seamen's Church Institute, and the Century Club of New York. He belongs also to the New York Yale Club and the Elizabethan Club at Yale and is a member of the board of governors of the Yale University Press.
Merz is the author of The Great American Bandwagon, published in 1928, and The Dry Decade, published in 1931, and edited Days of Decision (1941). He has traveled extensively in Europe and Asia.
His marriage to Evelyn Scott, daughter of William F. and Rachel Scott, took place in Bennington, Vt., on June 30, 1924. They have no children.
Merz has commented on the rôle of a newspaper editor as follows: "For twenty-seven of the thirty-five years since the Class of 1915 was graduated from Yale I have been a newspaper editor-in the earlier part of that period, associate editor of the New York World; in the later part, editor of the New York Times. As such, morning after morning, for some ten thousand mornings, I have ventured to sound off on affairs of the day: political, economic, social. At the end of twenty-seven years I am still sounding off. And perhaps this reunion, within book covers, of the Class of 1915, is a good place to set down some of the conclusions I have reached, in this long process, about the business of being a newspaper editor.
"Certainly the editor's right to admonish his readers no longer derives from the fact that he owns a newspaper or has been employed to speak on behalf of the owner of a newspaper. The era of the self- assumed and wholly irresponsible authority of the old owner-editor is ended. A kind of democratic process now enters into what the editor says. He cannot afford to let himself be cajoled or bullied by groups among his readers, yet every day he must submit himself to their electoral franchise. If he outrages his readers' sense of what is fair, right, and reasonable, he will hear from them. Some of them
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will complain directly. Some of them will stop reading his newspaper. Some of them will continue to read the newspaper, but skip the editorial page-and the editor has means today of knowing when this happens, even though he lacked the intuition to realize it.
"He finds that he is limited in what he may do. He must not fall behind his constituency's moral or intellectual standards. He must not get so far ahead of them that his constituency will not understand him. But he can, if he is a good editor, sensitive to popular currents, keep a good step or two in front of the procession. He can set himself against the trend of the moment when he thinks that trend is wrong. He can do his best to precipitate discussion in a democracy. Only by following his conscience and his best judgment can he have or deserve influence.
"He can, of course, gain some following by expressing the prejudices or the foolishnesses of a large body of readers. Examples of this kind of editorializing are still easy to find. He does not gain respect in this way. He does not even gain influence, for he is simply exploiting states of mind and emotion that already exist.
"In the long run, the editorial page, like the rest of the newspaper, is what a majority of its readers are willing to have it be. It can con- tain much that they do not demand, but nothing that they will not accept. It can appeal to the best side of their natures, and do this successfully, but it cannot appeal to a side that does not exist.
"The editorial page, over a long period of time, is a social, not a purely individualistic, phenomenon. Its style may be personal, as in turns of phrase or emphases in thinking, but its implications are im- personal. At its worst it is hypocritical. At its best it is an expression of an inherent idealism in American life: a quality not fully realized in action, yet passionately sought. To the degree that it touches this idealism, it may be expected to survive."
WILLIAM MAURICE METTLER. Assistant secretary, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, 1144 East Market Street, Akron, Ohio; residence, Shade Road, Bath, Box 216, R.D. 14, Akron 3.
Mettler, who became connected with the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in 1916, has been assistant secretary of the company and several of its subsidiaries since May, 1926. He took an LL.B. degree at the Cleveland Law School in 1932 and, quite naturally, concentrates his efforts on corporation work. He has served on the budget com- mittee of the United Community Chest of Akron and Summit County
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since 1940, was president of the Bath Community Council from 1946 to 1949 (and on the executive committee for the next two years), and has been a trustee of the Family Service Society since 1945 (treas- urer, 1947-50) and vice-chairman and a trustee of the Y.W.C.A. since 1942. Since becoming a member of the Bath Community Church in 1944, Mettler has been a deacon and chairman of the board of trustees. A member of the Summit County Yale Alumni Association since its start in 1927, he served as president for a year and has also been president of the Sigma Chi Alumni Association. He has held various offices in the Bath Grange, is a member of the Summit County Pomona Grange and the Ohio State Grange, belongs to the Akron Bar Association, and is a Republican in politics. During the war he was an air raid warden. What spare time he has-and it can't be much-is devoted to farming and fishing.
Mettler was married in Akron, August 21, 1915, to Harriet Vernon Hotchkiss, daughter of Henry Vernon and Jessie Tier Hotchkiss. Her death occurred on March 1, 1921. His second marriage, to Margaret Elizabeth Young, daughter of Jacob and Josephine Pouchot Young, took place February 21, 1925. He has six children, all of whom were born in Akron: Nancy on May 23, 1916, William M., Jr., on July 11, 1917, John Hotchkiss on March 15, 1919, Margaret Anne on April 4, 1926, Belle Elizabeth on December 25, 1927, and Mary Alice on October 9, 1937.
The oldest girl, who is a teacher at the Central High School in Akron, received a B.A. degree at Mount Holyoke in 1938, a B.S. at Ohio State in 1940, and an M.A. at Western Reserve three years later. William, Jr. (B.A. Oberlin 1939), has been in the Air Force since January, 1942, serving as a lieutenant (fighter pilot) in New Guinea and currently as a major at the San Bernardino Air Base; he mar- ried Barbara Smith, of Proctor, Vt., in August, 1944, and has four children. John, who graduated from Ohio State in 1942, was married in May, 1943, to Dorothy Giesy, of New York City. He was a captain in the Combat Engineers during the war and is now with the General Electric Corporation in Cleveland. Margaret attended Middlebury College and Akron University, graduating from the latter with the degree of Bachelor of Secretarial Science in 1947. She was married that June to Richard Fairfax Schnorf. Belle attended the University of Southern California at Los Angeles for a time and then transferred to Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, where she graduated in 1949; she is working for the B. N. Ritter Company, leather brokers, of
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Cincinnati. The youngest child, Mary Alice, has just completed grade school.
GAZA HENRY MIKA. Address, 168 North Main Street, Old Forge, Pa.
SAMUEL WICKHAM MILLS. Physician and surgeon; office and residence, 60 West Main Street, Middletown, N.Y.
Mills, who has continued in the practice of medicine in Middletown, is associate surgeon at the Horton Memorial Hospital there. During the war he was chief examiner for the local Draft Board. He is a member of the American College of Surgeons and has served as presi- dent of the Orange County Medical Society and as chairman of the medical staff of the Horton Memorial Hospital. He belongs to the First Presbyterian Church in Middletown and is a Republican in politics.
Mills took three trips to the West Indies during the period from 1930 to 1940 and one to Labrador on a freighter. In the summer of 1938 he visited the surgical clinics of the leading European capitals and during the summer of 1950 went to Europe again, visiting eight countries.
He was married on September 3, 1919, at Pompton Lakes, N.J., to Dorothy Van Orden, daughter of Louis and Elizabeth Durland Van Orden. He gives us the following information about his two boys: "My older son, Samuel W. Mills, Jr. (born in Middletown, January 16, 1921), is the third in line to graduate from the College of Physi- cians and Surgeons at Columbia. He had previously graduated from The Hotchkiss School and Yale. Following his graduation from medical school and an interneship at the Lenox Hill Hospital, he was surgeon for two years at the Pentagon Building and is now resi- dent surgeon at the Lenox Hill Hospital in New York. He is married to Dorothy Sellew, of Brooklyn, N.Y., and has two daughters. My younger son, Louis V. Mills (born in Middletown, August 14, 1923), is district manager for the Equitable Life Assurance Society for Orange and Dutchess counties. He has been president of the Young Repub- lican Club of Middletown and was recently in charge of the local Red Cross drive. He is married to Roberta Arrowsmith, of Jackson- ville, Fla., and has two sons." In November, 1951, Louis was elected mayor of Middletown, incidentally the youngest mayor in the State of New York.
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