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REX MAURICE NAYLOR. Historian, U.S. Air Force; address, Headquarters, Tactical Air Command, Langley Air Force Base, Va .; residence, 738 Longfellow Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
In 1940 Naylor resigned as instructor in history at Washington Square College, New York University, to go with the Office of the District Postal Censor in New York City, where he was engaged in work in connection with the national censorship until 1945, serving pro- gressively as examiner, consultant on business mail, assistant censor, censor, chief of the control division, acting chief of operations, and assistant chief of examination. From 1945 to 1947 he was associated with the New York regional office of the Veterans Administration as a training officer and since October, 1949, has had his present position with the U.S. Air Force.
In answer to our question about retirement, Naylor said: "At fifty- eight? Nonsense! Expect to be in harness for at least ten years longer, God willing." He adds: "I do not consider that I have excelled in my profession. My greatest satisfaction is derived from the fact that I have taught men who have attained distinction in the field of history and this, to my mind at least, is a greater glory. I acknowledge, with a deep sense of gratitude, my indebtedness to President-Emeritus Sey- mour and to the late Professors George Burton Adams, Charles M. Andrews, and Max Farrand, who taught me the real meaning and significance of history and enabled me to pass it on to the next gen- eration.
"During the war years I feel that I made a modest contribution to national security by my tour of duty in the Office of Censorship. This agency performed a great service to the United States and its allies in World War II, and I feel sure that its operations will be equally valuable in World War III.
"During World War III the Tactical Air Command will have a most important rôle in gaining air superiority over the enemy, in
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interdicting battle fields, and in furnishing close support to our ground forces. For this reason, I am altogether proud of functioning as a Command historian, in order that the operations of the Command may be analyzed and interpreted for the benefit of the officers and airmen destined to be assigned to this Command."
Naylor gives the following information about his writings: "I contributed an article, 'Reduction and Control of the Liquor Traffic' (exposing the economic fallacies of the 18th Amendment), to the Yale Review for December, 1931. A year or so after its publication this article was listed by the Yale Review as one of the many articles published since its inception which lent distinction to its prestige as a national publication. I had a review of Harry Elmer Barnes' book, Prohibition vs. Civilization, in the Saturday Review of Literature in 1932. Dr. Barnes, in his book, took it for granted that the 18th Amend- ment was here to stay, since any thirteen states could block its repeal. In my review I predicted the early repeal of the Amendment, largely by the votes of the very people who had secured its enactment, because it had failed to accomplish the expected results by ignoring the law of supply and demand."
During the period from 1942 to 1945 Naylor served as an air raid warden in New York. He was elected to membership in Lambda Chi Alpha in 1925 and is a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. On February 1, 1947, he was married in New York City to Martha Margaret Ball, daughter of Jesse and Mary Schadel Ball. "No kids," he says. "Give us time. Maybe we can produce a member of the Class of 1973 or 1974, unless it should happen to be a girl."
BARNES NEWBERRY. Address, Box 3096, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Newberry's questionnaire was a bit late in coming and so the com- mittee wrote him urging him to send in information, "even in words of one syllable if necessary." We quote his reply verbatim:
"My age is three score, my weight is eight score, my blood count O.K., my skin black, my hair gray and my eyes cat. I live down here, I have a new bride and a new home and we both love it. This town is our home and for your dope sheet the next time I go north I will be in a crate.
"I have lost your damn sheet so I do not know what you want to know but I will take a chance and guess. I am a full comm ex U.S.N.R. (use your dumb head for what it stands for) as of six years past. I went through both wars and no scratch. I got out of the last one with
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three gold stripes on my sleeve and six 'decs' on my left chest on three of which are gold stars for all of which I am proud tho I did nil to earn them but I had a swell job and a swell C.O.
"Three of my four kids are hooked for life. The first aged three four has two girl kids, the next kid aged three two has three male brats, my third kid a male aged three nought has one son named for me (why I do not know), my fourth kid a male aged two three is in his twoth year at U. of R.I. My son and heir was chief on a D.E. U.S.N.R. in the last mess. Both sons in law were loot comms in the last mess, so we are all sprayed with salt. None of them went or will go to Yale, they are too hard at work.
"I guess that is all. I will bet you do not print it, but do not say that I let you down. At least I wrote you. From your use of Box 3096 you know where I live.
"Yours (in words of one syllable)
Barnes
"P.S. Up until this very moment I have never fully realized how utterly difficult and complicated it is to become the author of an epistle written in words of a single syllable. I only hope that you will with your usual magnanimous way of thinking appreciate the terrific effort which I have made to bring about your request. My mentality at this point is utterly exhausted.
Signed (ipse) Barnes Newberry
The commander-in-chief of the department of utter confusion and happiness."
LAWRENCE ADELBERT NORTON. Residence address, Box 763, Route 2, Tucson, Ariz.
Norton, who was a partner in L. A. Norton & Company, a New York security firm, until it was dissolved in December, 1938, writes, “I had a prolonged illness, starting in February, 1942, and lasting a year. Came to Arizona in search of health and have been much improved, although unable to engage in active business.
"By persistent reading and exposure to prominent Arizona visitors I manage to keep very well posted on business and world affairs. My study of the stock and bond market has continued since my retire- ment from active business. Have rental cottages, by month or by season, at my thirty-acre residence ranch fifteen miles east of Tucson on the Tanque Verde Road. Have been president of the Tucson Yale
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Club (over fifty members) for the past three years and was vice- president of the Tucson University Club for three years.
"The growth of Tucson has been quite astounding since my arrival here almost nine years ago. It is an inspiring atmosphere of hope and ambition which surrounds me and my wife and infant daughter.
"My visit to New York and the Yale campus in May, 1951, was the first time I had been East in almost six years. My wife and I occa- sionally visit California-with favorite spots San Francisco, Santa Barbara, La Jolla, and Lake Tahoe.
"Any classmate thinking about retirement, in a favorable climate and close to any spot in the world via airplane, should put Tucson under observation."
Norton belongs to the Old Pueblo Club of Tucson. His first marriage (February 5, 1925), to Anne Dodd Bingham, terminated in divorce. In March, 1949, he married Mary Lou Minnick Bertermann, of In- dianapolis and Tucson. He has two children by his first marriage: Mary Louise, a graduate of Wells College, who is now Mrs. John S. McBride, of Yonkers, N.Y., and Lawrence A., 3d, Yale '51, who expected to enter the field of medicine; and a daughter, Linda, by his second marriage, who was born December 12, 1949-and whose interest in New Haven is being stimulated by the possession of two Yale Co-op stuffed blue bulldogs.
WALTER LOUIS NUSCHKE. Office manager, Naval Supply De- pot, Mechanicsburg, Pa .; residence, 160 East High Street, Carlisle, Pa.
Nuschke continued in the position of county commissioner of Potter County, Pa., until 1931. During the next four years he was deputy to the insurance commissioner (the state insurance department) in Harrisburg in charge of both the division of agents and the division of companies. From 1937 to 1944 he was auditor for a large casualty insurance company and then for two years was in the office of the state Auditor-General. He has been office manager at the Naval Supply Depot at Mechanicsburg since December, 1944, the assignment being in connection with the Navy Security Department.
Nuschke has been an elder of the First Presbyterian Church in Carlisle since 1939. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and a mem- ber of the Shrine. In his spare time he does quite a bit of fishing for brook trout.
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On June 14, 1920, he was married in Austin, Pa., to Mary Kathern Brisbois, daughter of Delphis F. and Catherine C. Brisbois. Their children are: Paul L., born September 7, 1921, in Olean, N.Y., Nancy M. on January 14, 1923, in Austin, and Joseph Walter on April 27, 1928, in Coudersport, Pa. The older boy, who graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1944 with the accelerated Class of 1945, is now a senior grade lieutenant and is taking his first year of post- graduate work at the Naval Academy, with two more years to follow at Massachusetts Tech. He married Thelma Louise Brumley, of Bogata, Texas, and has a son, Walter Louis, 2d, born August 16, 1947. During the war Nancy was chairman of junior hostesses for the U.S.O. at Carlisle and also served as a Red Cross ambulance driver. Her husband, Robert H. Ramp, who graduated in industrial design from Pratt Institute, is a designer at Reed & Barton, silversmiths, in Taunton, Mass .; he served as a lieutenant in the Medical Corps during the war. They have a daughter, Robbyn Lynn, born October 12, 1947, and a son, Steven Richard, born April 20, 1951. Following three years in the Navy Joseph entered Temple University, where he was a member of the Class of 1951.
CASPER YOST OFFUTT. Vice-president and trust officer, United States National Bank of Omaha, 1612 Farnam Street, Omaha, Nebr .; residence, 109 North 54th Street, Omaha.
Before forming the above connection in January, 1940, Offutt prac- ticed law under the firm name of Wells, Martin, Lane & Offutt. He is a director of the bank and also of the Carpenter Paper Company, the Omaha Bakers Supply Company, and the Roundup Coal Mining Company and is a trustee and chairman of the finance committee of the Forest Lawn Cemetery Association. Offutt is serving on the Omaha Foreign Affairs Committee and as vice-president and chairman of the finance committee of the Munroe Home for Convalescing Crippled Children. From 1936 to 1940 he was chairman of the budget committee of the Omaha Community Chest, of which he was president in 1941, and from 1937 to 1940 he was chairman of the board of trustees of the First Presbyterian Church. He is a Republican and belongs to the Omaha Club and the Omaha Country Club. In the summer of 1936 he took a trip to Europe-especially Sweden, Nor- way, and Denmark.
On November 2, 1921, Offutt was married in Bryn Mawr, Pa., to Mary Esterbrook Longmaid, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Long-
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maid. They have three children, all of whom were born in Omaha: Mary Esterbrook on November 23, 1923, Casper Yost, Jr., on May 13, 1927, and John Longmaid on March 1, 1933. Mary, who attended the Shipley School in Bryn Mawr and Vassar, married Richardson Pratt, Jr., and has two children: Mary Laura, born December 1, 1945, and Thomas Richardson on March 12, 1948. The family lives at Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. Casper, Jr., graduated from Lawrenceville in 1945 and from the University of Michigan with a B.A. degree in 1950. The younger boy graduated from the Cambridge School in Weston, Mass., last June.
ALFRED O'GARA. Partner, Alfred O'Gara & Company, invest- ment bankers, 134 South LaSalle Street, Chicago 3, Ill .; residence, 1540 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago 10.
O'Gara was associated with Thomson & Mckinnon, a Chicago broker- age firm, from 1920 to 1932. In the meantime (1928) he had be- come chairman of the board of the Midwest Investors Company and continued in this connection until 1942. He was also a partner in Harrison, O'Gara & Company from November, 1932, to July, 1938, and has since been a partner in Alfred O'Gara & Company. Since 1947 he has, in addition, been chairman of the board of the Serrick Cor- poration of Defiance, Ohio, which has four divisions serving princi- pally the automotive, refrigeration, and stove industries.
O'Gara has been a member of the advisory board of the Mary Bartelme Club since 1945, and he belongs to the Saddle and Cycle Club and the Racquet Club of Chicago. He says he has traveled rather extensively and that his recreations are backgammon, bridge, and canasta and his special interests, politics, good government, and clean elections. This latter interest is obviously a major one as indicated by the following summary taken from his report: "Vice-president, Republican Citizens' Finance Committee of Illinois, 1947-49; on executive committee, 1949 to date; chairman, Finance Committee for Charles S. Dewey 1944 Campaign for Congress; one of leaders in movement to draft Douglas MacArthur for President in 1948; mem- ber, Business Men's Committee, since 1940, chairman since 1946. This committee, formed to give an opportunity to private citizens to become more effective in their participation in government, has num- bered among its activities: (a) recruiting, training, and placing of workers as poll watchers to prevent fraudulent voting in elections in Chicago since 1940; (b) raising funds for Congressional candidates in
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1944; (c) managing of and raising funds for certain campaigns and assisting in the management of and raising funds for others since 1944; (d) public relations programs sponsoring get-out-the-vote drives in Chicago and Cook County in 1946 and nationwide in 1950."
O'Gara's marriage to Sarah Elizabeth Carpenter Felts, daughter of Hugh Milton and Elizabeth Hampson Carpenter, took place in Miami Beach, Fla., on May 10, 1933. His stepson, Gordon Carpenter O'Gara, who was born on February 1, 1920, in Los Angeles, was educated at the California Preparatory School and Princeton University (B.A. 1942). He served as a lieutenant in the Navy from June, 1942, to April, 1946, and at present is assistant sales manager of the Acme- Lees Division of the Serrick Corporation at Muncie, Ind. Gordon is the author of Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of the Modern Navy, published by the Princeton University Press in 1942.
ALGOTH OHLSON. President emeritus, North Park College, 3225 Foster Avenue, Chicago 25, Ill .; residence, 5312 North Sawyer Avenue, Chicago 25.
Ohlson served as president of North Park College from June, 1924, until December, 1949, when he became president emeritus. In 1942 he received an honorary LL.D. degree at Augustana College and a D.D. at Upsala College, and in June, 1946, he was decorated by the King of Sweden as a Knight of the Order of the North Star. Ohlson's church affiliations are with the Evangelical Covenant. He says that he and his wife visited Sweden, Norway, and Denmark for three months in 1950 and that an occasional game of golf has to serve for recreation, while his hobbies are chiefly wood carving, art collect- ing, and antique collecting, in that order.
He was married in Washington, Conn., September 6, 1911, to Ruth Eleanor Carlson, daughter of John A. and Hannah Carlson. Their son, John, who was born June 21, 1915, received a B.A. degree at Northwestern in 1936 and an M.A. in 1938, subsequently continued his graduate work at Stanford and Duke, and is now a psychologist in the California State Department of Mental Hygiene. He is com- pleting an intelligence test for spastics as a part of the thesis require- ment for his Ph.D. degree. On May 3, 1945, he married Grace M. Kneedler (M.A. University of California), and they have two chil- dren: Mary Britta and Nils Patrick. Their daughter, Alice Eleanor, born July 30, 1918, received a B.A. degree at Northwestern in 1940. Her marriage to S. L. Cederborg (M.A. California), who served
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as a captain in the Judge Advocate General's Department during the war, took place on August 3, 1941. They have three children: Timothy Samuel, Lydia Eleanor, and Margaret Ann. Carl Venell, the younger boy, born July 2, 1921, took his B.A. degree at North- western in 1943 and that same year enlisted in the Navy with the rank of ensign. He saw service both in the Atlantic and the Pacific and ranked as lieutenant (j.g.) at the close of the war. He is now en- gaged as production manager with the Lincoln Line, Inc. He married Gwendolyn F. Johnson on August 6, 1944, and has two children: Thomas Mark, who was born May 31, 1947, and Steven Bruce on April 26, 1949.
GARDNER OSBORN. Address, Federal Hall Memorial Asso- ciates, Inc., Sub-Treasury Building, Wall and Nassau Streets, New York 5, N.Y.
CLEON SCOTT OSBOURN. Salesman, Connecticut General Life Insurance Company and other companies, 129 Church Street, New Haven, Conn .; residence, 450 Riverside Drive, New York 27, N.Y. "My vocation since 1932 has been selling life insurance," Osbourn says. "My avocation has been, and still is, the winning of a just and permanent peace. It still can be done. During the war I made con- siderable effort towards the establishment of a world government with powers adequate for the preservation of law and order."
Osbourn was Freshman football coach and Freshman athletic di- rector at Yale through the fall of 1931. He is a member of the River- side Church in New York and during the period from 1945 to 1948 served as president of the men's class.
His marriage to Beth Neal, daughter of O. Warren and Nellie Hadley Neal, took place in Portland, Maine, on June 28, 1922. Their son, James Burr, who was born in New Haven on January 18, 1928, graduated from Yale with a B.A. degree in 1950 and since graduation has been on active service as an ensign in the Navy, at present being assigned to the aircraft carrier Oriskany. While in col- lege, he was awarded his major "Y" in basketball.
LEONARD OUTHWAITE. Writer; also engaged in consulting work and research; residence, "Little Orchard," East Norwich, N.Y.
"The best news of 1951," says Outhwaite, "is that we have bought a nice old house and some acres here in Muttontown, Long Island-
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name, 'Little Orchard'; post office address, East Norwich. We are gradually getting settled, library installed, pictures hung, etc.
"I have not retired and still do administrative, consulting, and re- search work, but try to have more time for completing the many books and articles that I have developed over the years. War or no war, I still try to get in some travel, and I sail any time any one wants to fly the blue peter."
He brings us up-to-date with the following summary: "1930- published Atlantic Circle (Scribners, 1936) and began Unrolling the Map.
"1932-Undertook special report for Rockefeller Foundation; served as anthropologist to Foundation during this period-compre- hensive report on primitive man in the modern world.
"1933-Unrolling the Map published {John Day-Reynal & Hitch- cock; also two editions in England-1935, 1938, Denmark, Iceland, etc.]. About this time undertook for Rockefeller Foundation special studies on museum and exhibition techniques.
"1934 on-Served many museums and other institutions as con- sultant on management and exhibition and educational problems; made surveys for Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences, the New York Zoological Society (Bronx Park), etc. Organized and directed Outhwaite Exhibits-a complete technical service for exhibitors at New York World Fair.
"1939-Went to Washington to do a special survey of the opera- tion of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. That same year served as acting director of resettlement for the F.S.A., Department of Agriculture.
"1940 and on-Served successively on National Resources Plan- ning Board, the War Manpower Commission, the Bureau of Budget, etc.
"During this period, with Floyd Reeves, made special nation-wide survey of rehabilitation of the physically handicapped; drafted the bill later enacted for a revision of the Federal Rehabilitation Service.
"Then served as secretary of the President's Conference on the Post- War Readjustment of Civilian and Military Personnel. This con- ference drafted the report which formed the basis of the President's program and was largely embodied in the so-called G.I. Bill of Rights.
"Became director of the staff of the Federal Board of Hospitalization and served in this capacity until 1945, when I resigned from govern- ment service. When our board began its operations, federal hospitals had reached an all-time high of around 600,000 hospital beds. In the
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first year of operation we brought about increased exchange of service between different agencies of government; reduced the number of overlapping services and the number of idle beds; by forecasting future demand, regularized construction and prevented the construc- tion of a considerable number of wasteful or unnecessary projects. Altogether we saved the government many score of millions of dollars without curtailing just and needed services to individuals.
"I formerly took considerable pride and satisfaction in this and in the demobilization operation, but when I now view the exuberant ex- travagance, cynical apathy, and corruption of government I wonder why we took so much trouble.
"After some years in an industrial venture I resumed consulting work and the conduct of special inquiries and researches."
Outhwaite adds that he has had articles in Harper's and other maga- zines and that he has a new book in preparation for McGraw-Hill, as well as three other books in research and preparation-and that on moving to Washington in World War II he sold an extensive library in English literature, first editions, and association items and that he has improved his nautical library and his library of the literature of the sea. He belongs to the Union and Explorers clubs of New York and for a number of years served as chairman of the entertainment committee of the former and as a member of the board of governors, editor, and chairman of the entertainment committee of the latter.
He was first married on October 17, 1914, in New York City to Katharine Borden. They were divorced in 1925. On September 26, 1925, he was married in Washington to Mrs. Georgia Schofield Washburn, from whom he was subsequently divorced. His marriage to Lucille Conrad, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert F. Conrad, took place in Hollywood, Calif., on March 1, 1936. Outhwaite's daughter, Joan, who was born in New York in 1919, attended Rosemary Hall and the University of Michigan. She married Lelan F. Sillin, a grad- uate of the University of Michigan Law School, and has three sons. Her husband, who served with the Marines in the Western Pacific, ranking as a captain at the time of his separation from service, is a member of the law firm of Gould & Wilkie in New York. Outhwaite has two younger daughters, both of whom were born in Washington -Ann, aged eight, and Lynn, six.
CHARLES RALPH PAGTER. Address, 36471/2 Eighth Avenue, Los Angeles 18, Calif.
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EDWARD CHARLES PALMER. President, Terminal Grain Cor- poration, 614 Benson Building, Sioux City, Iowa; residence, 2902 Jackson Street, Sioux City.
For a number of years after graduation Palmer was with the Palmer Candy Company of Sioux City, but since 1935 he has been president of the Terminal Grain Corporation. He is a director of the Security National Bank of Sioux City and since 1930 has been a trustee of the William B. Palmer Estate.
In March, 1942, he joined the Naval Reserve and was assigned to the Shipping Control Office at Rio de Janeiro, with the rank of lieutenant commander. In May, 1944, he was transferred to the U.S.S. General Omar Bundy (AP 152), on which he served in the Pacific until November, 1945. He was separated from service in June, 1946, with the rank of captain, which he still holds in the Organized Reserve.
Palmer says that he is much interested in Mexico and has made frequent visits there. His marriage to Dorothy Eaton (B.A. Smith 1916), daughter of F. L. and Lillian Gale Eaton, took place on April 24, 1920, in Sioux City. Their children are: Gale, born March 1, 1921, Edward Charles, Jr., on May 15, 1923, and William E. on August 31, 1924, all in Sioux City. Gale, who attended Northwestern University and Iowa State College, is married to C. K. Williams and has three daughters and a son. The older boy has a B.A. degree from Iowa State, while William received an M.S. degree at the California Institute of Technology.
IRVING PARIS. Assistant branch manager, First Investors Cor- poration, 1 Park Avenue, New York 16, N.Y .; residence, 235 East 46th Street, New York 17.
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