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While living in Wisconsin, Smith was active in youth service work and for fifteen years served as a director of the Waukesha County Y.M.C.A. He was president of the Oconomowoc Rotary Club in 1948 and still belongs to the Oconomowoc Country Club and the Milwaukee University Club. He plays tennis and golf and, we are glad to note, has managed to do a bit of non-business traveling-a vacation trip in 1949 with his daughter to England, Scotland, and France. Smith is a Congregationalist.
He was married February 19, 1921, in Chehalis, Wash., to Anna Louise Urquhart, daughter of William Muir and Anna Manning Urquhart. Their daughter, Elizabeth Manning, who was born Febru- ary 20, 1922, in Evanston, Ill., graduated from Farmington in 1941,
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from Carleton College with a B.A. degree in 1945, and from the School of Occupational Therapy at Columbia as a registered therapist in 1947. She has practiced occupational therapy at Newington, Conn., and Los Angeles. Their son, Austin Chichester, Jr., born April 25, 1926, in Oconomowoc, graduated from Andover in 1944, received a B.A. degree at Yale in 1949, and is now a member of the Class of 1952 at the Yale Law School. He served in the Army from 1945 to 1947. He ranked as a corporal (T/5) and was with the Information and Education Division with the European Army of Occupation. Smith's father, Clarence Austin Smith, Yale '82, now ninety years old, is residing in Seattle, the oldest living Yale graduate in the Pacific Northwest. For fifty years he has been editor of Northwest Medicine.
EDWARD FAIRCHILD SMITH. Agricultural specialist and di- rector, Peoples Trust Company, St. Albans, Vt .; residence, R.F.D. 1, St. Albans.
"The pot must stop boiling before the stew can be eaten," says Smith. "My pot has cooled so that I now enjoy my meal in pleasure and at leisure. I am rusticating and enjoying it. My ambition is that any or all members of Yale '15 who are so inclined will come in their good time to rusticate with me, be it for a day or a year."
From the above we gather that Smith's position as agricultural specialist (since October, 1947) with the Peoples Trust Company doesn't keep him quite as busy as when he was president of the bank prior to joining the armed forces in 1942. While on active duty as a lieutenant colonel in Military Intelligence from 1942 to 1946, he traveled to North Africa, the Middle East, India, Great Britain, and the Continent. "Traveling done," he remarks with emphasis, adding, "Bought a 300-acre farm in Highgate, Vt., where I now live. This comprises my recreations, hobbies, collections, and special interests."
Smith still has a commission in the Inactive Reserve. He was ap- pointed to the Vermont Development Commission in April, 1951, is a Republican and a Congregationalist, and belongs to the New York Yale Club.
His marriage to Eleanor Reynolds Rice, daughter of George Howard Rice, Yale '93, and Agnes Reynolds Rice, took place on September 7, 1927. Their son, William Graham, who was born on March 1, 1929, is a student at the University of Vermont.
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EVERETT SMITH. Fiscal agent, Federal Home Loan Banks, 31 Nassau Street, New York 5, N.Y .; residence, 130 Round Hill Road, Scarsdale, N.Y.
Smith continued with the Discount Corporation of New York (as assistant treasurer ) until February, 1937, when he became fiscal agent for the Federal Home Loan Banks. Since the inception of the retire- ment fund of the Federal Home Loan Bank System in 1943 he has been its treasurer and administrative officer. He gives additional details of his interesting work: "In my capacity as fiscal agent for the eleven district Federal Home Loan Banks, I have marketed over three billion dollars of consolidated notes of the Federal Home Loan Banks. These notes are offered through a group of more than five hundred dealers and dealer banks in all parts of the country, which in turn sell them to institutional, corporate, and individual investors. The sales of these securities have enabled the Banks to make loans to their approximately four thousand member savings and loan associations, savings banks, and insurance companies for the purpose of financing homes and meet- ing withdrawal of savings. The Banks are wholly owned by their member institutions, although supervised by a congressionally created board in Washington. It is probably the nation's outstanding example of cooperation between government and private industry through the medium of a governmentally created but privately owned banking system. I also have the absorbing job of running a retirement fund with about a hundred and fifty separate employer members and sixteen hundred employee members. A fiscal agent's job-there is only one other comparable in the whole country-is an interesting but arduous one."
During the war Smith was a local aircraft spotter on the midnight- to-dawn shift. He is serving on the board of managers and the finance committee of the American Bible Society, is a member of the Hitch- cock Memorial Church (Presbyterian) in Scarsdale, and belongs to the New York Yale Club.
His marriage to Lillian Ansley, daughter of John Cromwell and Nellie Robbe Ansley, took place June 26, 1917, in Penn Yan, N.Y. Their daughter, Jean, who was born August 7, 1919, in New York, attended Connecticut College for Women and the Katharine Gibbs School. She did Red Cross work in England during the war and in 1946 was married on an English air base to C. H. Hesse, of New Orleans; they have two daughters.
Their son, Everett, Jr., born February 22, 1922, in New York,
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graduated from Yale in 1943. He was awarded his "Y" as a member of the swimming team. A Naval aviator in the war, he was cadet commander while at the Chapel Hill Ground School, was commis- sioned an ensign at Pensacola, and later promoted to lieutenant (j.g.). His chief assignment was flying Naval air transports from Seattle to Alaska and the Aleutians. For the past three and a half years he has been in the secretary's department of the Standard Oil Company (N.J.), his work being in connection with stockholder relations. He married Murial A. Putnam, of Greenwich, Conn., and has a son and daughter.
RADFORD STURTEVANT SMITH. Merchandise manager, Sears, Roebuck & Company, 172 Fairfield Avenue, Bridgeport 1, Conn .; residence, 134 Blakeman Place, Stratford, Conn.
At the time the Quindecennial Record was published, Smith was vice- president and assistant treasurer of the Radford B. Smith Company of Bridgeport. From 1929 to 1931 he was assistant credit manager of the Howland Dry Goods Company of Bridgeport and during the next eight years was connected with the J. J. Newberry Company, a five and ten cent store chain, as manager of stores in Gloucester, Mass., and Hackettstown, N.J. Since 1940 he has been back in Bridgeport as merchandise manager of Sears, Roebuck. During World War II he was a member of the Connecticut Defense Council and also served as an observer for the Stratford aircraft warning service. He attends the Stratford Congregational Church and for recreation turns to sailing, golf, and bowling.
On November 6, 1917, Smith was married in Stratford to Myra Atwood Curtis, daughter of Frank L. and Emma Atwood Curtis. Their daughter, Sally Jane, who was born on July 18, 1924, was married on October 22, 1945, to Robert F. Brannigan and has two children: Patricia Sharon, born August 5, 1947, and James Rider on August 4, 1949.
TRUMAN SMITH. Colonel, U.S.A., retired; residence, Greenfield Hill, Fairfield, Conn.
Smith, who retired from the Army in 1946, writes: "I served as a military adviser on the National Defense Committee (Eberstadt Com- mittee) of the Hoover Commission in 1946 and 1947. At the present time I am military aide to the Governor of Connecticut. I translated, edited, and wrote the preface of the war historical work, Invasion,
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1944: Rommel and the Normandy Campaign, by Lieutenant General Hans Speidel, who in 1944 was Field Marshal Rommel's chief of staff and who in 1951 is the chief military negotiator for Germany in the matter of Germany's participation in the rearmament and defense of Europe."
In January, 1949, Smith was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. He establishes his political position with emphasis: "Repub- lican-Republican-Republican."
His marriage to Katharine Alling Hollister, daughter of George Trowbridge and Rosemary James Hollister, took place in Greenport, N.Y., on July 14, 1917. Their daughter, Katharine Truman, who was born in New York City on May 15, 1924, married William B. Coley, 2d, son of Bradley L. Coley, '15. She graduated from Smith in 1942.
DENNIS EUGENE SOSNOWSKI. Address, 826 Miners Bank Building, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
EDWARD JAMES STACKPOLE. President and treasurer, Tele- graph Press, Telegraph Building, Harrisburg, Pa .; residence, Green Meadows, R.D., Dauphin, Pa.
Since 1936 Stackpole has been president, treasurer, and a director of the Telegraph Press, of which he had previously been vice-president and treasurer. He is also president and a director of the Stackpole Company, book publishers, Radio Station WHP (an affiliate of CBS), and the Military Service Publishing Company (military texts and training books), secretary-treasurer and a director of American Aviation Publications of Washington, D.C., and a director of the Harrisburg Trust Company, the Harrisburg Hotel Company, and the Penn-Harris Hotel Company. In addition, he is president of the board of trustees of the Pennsylvania School for Children of Veterans and a member of the board of managers of the Harrisburg Hospital and of the board of directors of the State Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of the Masonic order and of the Market Square Presbyterian Church in Harrisburg.
Stackpole served during World War II as a brigadier general in the Army and was awarded the Legion of Merit. During 1946-47 he reorganized the Pennsylvania National Guard and commanded the 28th Division, with the rank of major general. He retired in July, 1947.
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In spite of all the above, he says, "No claims! In retrospect, I am reminded of the epitaph on the tombstone of the nice old maiden lady who did her best: 'Here lies the body of Hepsebiah Jones-no runs, no hits, no errors!'"
Stackpole was married August 17, 1917, in Harrisburg to Frances Bailey, daughter of Charles L. Bailey, Jr., Yale '86, and Mary Seiler Bailey. Her death occurred in November, 1948. Their daughter, Mary Frances, who was born January 28, 1925, was married in September, 1943, to Meade D. Detweiler, 3d, Yale '43, and has a four-year-old son, Meade David, 4th.
HAROLD CRAWFORD STEARNS. Executive editor, Stackpole Company, book publishers, Telegraph Building, Harrisburg, Pa .; residence, 3107 North Front Street, Harrisburg.
Since November, 1950, Stearns has been executive editor of the Stack- pole Company, one of the companies of which Ed Stackpole is presi- dent. He was head of the English Department at the Hackley School in Tarrytown, N.Y., from 1941 to 1943, an English master at The Hill School during the next three years, and from 1946 to 1950 was a member of the English and History departments at the Massachu- setts Institute of Technology.
His marriage to Esther Hildur Nelson, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Nelson, of North East, Pa., took place in Erie, Pa., on November 16, 1932. They have no children.
LOUIS CHARLES STEIN. Physician, 520 Beacon Street, Boston 15, Mass .; residence, 70 Glen Avenue, Newton Center 59, Mass.
Stein continues in the practice of medicine in Boston. He mentions that he visited England in 1931 and 1932 and in 1936 went to Cuba, Jamaica, Panama, and Costa Rica.
His marriage to Doris Ermyn Eveleigh, daughter of Edmund Wil- liam and Ethlind Constance May Eveleigh, took place in Cambridge, Mass., on November 22, 1922. They have two children: Diana Eve- leigh, born August 24, 1926, in Watertown, Mass., and Edmund William Eveleigh on February 12, 1930, in Newton. Diana attended Wheaton College from 1945 to 1947 and received a B.S. degree in journalism at Boston University in 1949. Since then she has been a secretary with the publishing house of Little, Brown & Company. Edmund, who received his preparatory education at Exeter, graduated
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from Yale with a B.A. degree in 1951 and then entered the Harvard Business School.
CHARLES FREDERICK MERTENS STEINWAY. Residence, 20 Glen Road, Mountain Lakes, N.J.
Steinway writes: "On July 1, 1950, I retired from Steinway & Sons, where I had been employed since April, 1919. I had been corporation secretary for seventeen years. If it is of any interest, Henry Englehard Steinway, the founder of the firm of Steinway & Sons, piano makers, was my great-grandfather, and my father, Charles H. Steinway, was president of that corporation for over forty years. As for me, 'I ain't done nothing' and have had a very enjoyable and happy life doing it.
"I have been in Europe some fourteen times, spending most of my stay there in England, Germany, and Switzerland. Tennis was my sport, and I have a collection of thirty-odd tennis cups as reminders of my more active days. Have collected postage stamps and old coins at various times. My present hobbies are gardening and photography."
Steinway was formerly a member of the Lotos Club and the New York Athletic Club. He was married on June 29, 1912, in Leominster, Mass., to Florence Evelyn Garland, daughter of Samuel and Hannah C. Garland. They have two children: Charles Garland, born on April 7, 1914, and Doretta Leigh on September 15, 1926, both in New York. Steinway gives the following information about them: "Charles attended the Morristown Boys School, Swarthmore College, and the New York University Business School and is employed in the whole- sale department of Steinway & Sons. In June, 1947, he married Sarah Elizabeth Shields, daughter of my oldest friend, Dr. Nelson T. Shields, Jr., Yale '15 S. They live in Bronxville, N.Y., and have two daugh- ters: Julia Elizabeth, born in February, 1949, and Sandra Leigh, born May 15, 1951. My son served five years in the Army in World War II and was discharged as a captain in Counter Intelligence. He was wounded in action and received the Purple Heart. He is a member of Squadron A, New York City.
"My daughter married David G. Blattner, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. David G. Blattner, of Mountain Lakes, on September 15, 1951. Her husband was graduated in 1944 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and served as a first lieutenant with the Army Engineers in the war. They live in Wilton, Conn. He is a field representative of the Caterpillar Tractor Company. My daughter attended the Kent
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Place School in Summit, N.J., and the Horace Mann School for Girls in New York."
RICHARD DILL STEVENSON. Address, 601 Prospect Avenue, Lake Bluff, Ill.
GEORGE STEWART. Engaged in liaison work for the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force with the British Forces; residence, "Sky-Field," Dublin, N.H.
The following is Stewart's autobiography, although written in the third person: After a year and a half in the Army, in which he enlisted as a private on graduation from the Yale Law School in April, 1917, he was mustered out as a battalion commander. He returned to Yale, gave up the law, took a Ph.D., winning the John Addison Porter Prize on his thesis, and entered the Church. During graduate study at Yale he was head of Dwight Hall.
He served from 1921 until 1928 as associate pastor at the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City, then until 1944 was pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Stamford, Conn. In Stamford he was active in social work, serving as president of the Family Wel- fare Society and the Family and Children's Center, and organized and became president of the Stamford Housing Authority. In 1944 he was chairman of the State Emergency Housing Commission. During World War II he was a member of the original committee of the National Research Council to compile the medical history of the war and was active in numerous organizations for foreign relief.
From 1940 until 1951 he made eight world tours with British Forces, interpreting the United States and current affairs to all ranks. These journeys carried him throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australasia. During the war alone he was in thirty-seven different countries. Due to a number of close scrapes, he was awarded several foreign decorations, including the Legion of Honor and the Médaille Militaire of France, the Golden Cross of Merit with Crossed Swords, and Officer of the Order of Polonia Restituta of Poland, Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy, and the Italian Military Cross. He already had the Order of St. George, the Order of St. Vladimir of Imperial Russia, etc., etc.
At present he lives on his farm, "Sky-Field," at Dublin, N.H., and has made a number of year tours in Europe, Asia, and Africa at the invitation of the British War Office, the Air Ministry, and the Ad-
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miralty and has served from time to time in the Directorate of Intelli- gence of the U.S.A.F., in which he is a lieutenant colonel.
During the last thirty years he has written some twenty books on historical and religious themes, the most important of which probably are Reluctant Soil, a novel, The White Armies of Russia, and a book on the Colonial' history of Connecticut. The latter two are considered authorities on their subjects. He has received a number of honorary degrees-from Yale [D.D. 1939], Paris {D.Theol. 1924], and Lin- field {Litt.D. 1928]. He belongs to a number of clubs, including the Century of New York, the Cosmos of Washington, and the Dublin Lake Club.
His marriage to Sarah Malcolm Klebs, daughter of Dr. A. C. Klebs and Margaret Forbes Klebs, took place in New Bedford, Mass., on May 20, 1925. Their oldest daughter, Mary, who was born in 1926, graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1946. The others are: Anne, born in 1927, Jane in 1928, and Sally in 1932.
FREDERICK BURNHAM STIMSON. Residence, Wynnewood, Pa. For a number of years Stimson has devoted a great deal of time to church affairs. He served as a vestryman of All Saints' Church, Wynne- wood, from 1933 to 1946 and from 1933 to 1945 was on the board of directors of the Episcopal Academy. During the period from 1938 to 1945 he was associated with the Department of Religious Educa- tion of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania, and since 1940 he has been lay canon of the Cathedral Church of Christ in that diocese. He became a licensed lay reader some time ago and from 1948 to 1950 had charge of Trinity Mission at Gulph Mills, Pa. He belongs to the Rittenhouse Club of Philadelphia and to the Mount Desert Yacht Club, of which he was vice-commodore during 1947-48 and commodore, 1948-51.
Stimson's marriage to Amelia Willets Eadie, daughter of James Suydam and Margaret Anne Wright Eadie, took place in Flushing, N.Y., on November 16, 1915. Their son, Frederick Burnham, Jr., who was born on August 24, 1917, in Flushing, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. degree in 1941. He was on the Junior Varsity crew in 1939 and on the University crew in his Senior year. During the war he commanded LCIL 663 in the Pacific area and made several landings, including Morotai, Leyte, and others in the Philippines. He is now a customers' broker with Penington, Colket & Company of New York City. He was married on May 17,
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1947, to Allyne Gade Branch, and has two sons: Frederick Burnham, 3d, born on April 3, 1948, and David Gade on May 5, 1950.
ALAN TAYLOR STREET. Associate professor of mathematics, Roosevelt College, Chicago 5, Ill .; residence, 1413 Chicago Ave- nue, Evanston, Ill.
From 1926 to 1945 Street was on the faculty of the Harris Schools in Chicago, serving as senior master, head of the Mathematics Depart- ment, and also as athletic director. Since then he has been associate professor of mathematics at Roosevelt College. During the period from 1940 to 1941 he was connected with the Training Regiment of the Institute of Military Studies at the University of Chicago, serving as company commander for two years and then as commanding officer. He took his M.A. degree at Northwestern University in 1945. Street is a member of the Mathematical Association of America, the Men's Mathematics Club of Chicago, Pi Mu Epsilon, and the University Club of Evanston. During the summer he has traveled extensively- in the Midwest, northern Michigan, southern Canada, California, and New England.
On March 26, 1923, Street married Madeleine Blakey, of Charlottes- ville, Va .; they were divorced in 1928. His marriage to Margaret A. Macpherson, daughter of C. D. and Margaret A. Macpherson, took place in Evanston on June 14, 1930. Street's daughter, Jane Peter, who was born in Charlottesville on September 22, 1925, received a B.A. degree at the Women's College of North Carolina in 1947 and an M.A. in education at the University of Iowa two years later.
THOMAS JOSEPH SULLIVAN. Surgeon; office and residence, 495 Orange Street, New Haven, Conn.
Sullivan, who graduated from the Yale Medical School in 1917, has been engaged in the general practice of surgery in New Haven since 1920. He is a surgeon on the staff of the Hospital of St. Raphael and is a member of the American Medical Association and the Interna- tional College of Surgeons and also of the Pine Orchard Club and the Racebrook Country Club. His travels, he says, have been confined to the United States and Bermuda. Golf is the only other recreation he mentions. He is a Republican and a Roman Catholic.
Sullivan's marriage to Catharine A. Lockwood, daughter of William and Delia Lane Lockwood, took place on October 10, 1936. Their
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son, Thomas J., Jr., who was born on August 22, 1937, is in the Class of 1955 at The Taft School.
THEODORE PHILIP SWIFT. Vice-president, Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Company, 231 South LaSalle Street, Chi- cago, Ill .; residence, 1650 North Green Bay Road, Lake Forest, Ill. Swift writes: "In looking over our Class history for the years to 1930, I note that there is only one change I would have to make, and that is that I am no longer prohibition enforcement officer of Lake Forest. Repeal changed all that, as now every one in that wicked town drinks as much as they want and occasionally too much, and now, when they take their tubs, they are filled with water rather than gin.
"For the last twenty years I have had the same job, the same wife, the same children, and have lived in the same house. Also I have been leaving Lake Forest every morning on the same train, coming to the same place of business, doing the same kind of work, and going home on the same train each night. I haven't changed much, although I have slowed down a bit. My principal interest has been in the matur- ing of my family, consisting of two sons, who are now married and have children, one living in Chicago and the other in Uruguay, and one daughter, who recently married a nice young man from Liechten- stein, but who is living in this country. Oh, yes, I have two grand- children, and when I see you I will tell you how wonderful they are. This won't take over a couple of hours.
"I was never one to do much traveling, taking an occasional trip to New Haven and to a Wisconsin cabin during the summer. However, I am afraid all this is to be changed, as my wife, who is a bit of a gadabout, is working on me to take her to Uruguay this fall to visit our son, and then, after returning and being ready to settle down, she will want me to take her to Europe to visit our son-in-law's family.
"My outside interests continue to be golf and doing some civic work. I see some of our classmates who live here, and a lot of two of them, June Dick and Far Winston, whose lives have been about as uneventful as mine, as they have the same families they had twenty years ago, the same jobs, and continue going to work on the eight o'clock train and returning on the 5:10."
There appears to be one other change-until 1930 Swift was with the Illinois Merchants Trust Company and has since been vice-presi- dent of the Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Company. He is a director of Swift & Company.
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Mrs. Swift was Elizabeth Hoyt. They were married in Winnetka, Ill., on August 17, 1917, and the children are: Edward F., 3d, Yale 45, who was born November 21, 1923; Phelps H., Yale '50, born April 4, 1926; and Elizabeth A., born February 16, 1928, all in Chicago.
WALKER ELY SWIFT. Physician, 200 Main Street, Sarasota, Fla .; residence, Route 4, Siesta Key, Sarasota.
"My specialty as a doctor is orthopedic surgery," Swift says. "I am on the staff of the Sarasota Municipal Hospital. From 1930 to 1949 I lived in New York and worked as an orthopedic surgeon, succeeding in having a satisfactory practice. I was on the staff of the New York Orthopedic Hospital until 1940, at which time I resigned from that institution when there was a change of management, so to speak. Then I was fortunate in being able to join the staff of the Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, where I worked with a most congenial group of men until the end of 1949.
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