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"At that time I was taken sick with a coronary thrombosis and spent the next year on the inactive list getting over that trouble, and suc- ceeded. Helen and I spent six months of 1950 in Sarasota, and while there my doctor persuaded me that there was no sense in returning to the hurly-burly life in New York City with my trouble. We agreed and decided that if I could get a license to practice in Florida, we would leave New York and settle in Sarasota. Getting a license here is quite a performance and involves taking two sets of examinations. The first one is in basic sciences, which it would be easier to pass just after medical school, and the second one covers all the fields of medical practice. I managed to pass these, and this is my real achievement. So I was granted a Florida license to practice medicine and we moved permanently to Sarasota in October, 1950. I opened my office here and have been gradually building up a practice all over again. In time I think I can succeed here. It is certainly a very different kind of place to work in than New York, but we have made some very good friends and the way of life in Sarasota is relaxed and comfortable, although surely no less expensive than living in the North. There are practically no stairs to go up, one does not have to wear heavy clothes, and the climate is fine. Sarasota is on the West coast of Florida, known mostly because the Ringling Brothers Circus lives here, and it seems to be the next boom town of Florida, as more and more people are moving here. Perhaps some day it will be as crowded as New York
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and that will be bad, but until then we like it and can recommend it to all and any who want a nice vacation in the sunshine."
Swift was first married on July 15, 1920, in Cornwall, N.Y., to Dorothea V. A. Abbott. Mrs. Swift, who was the daughter of Lawrence F. and Winifred Buck Abbott, died in December, 1939. On August 25, 1945, Swift was married in New York City to Helen A. Gately, daughter of James R. and Bertha Anderson Gately. He has three children: Abbott Montague, born October 21, 1921, Elisabeth Valen- tine on June 17, 1923, and Lucy Houghton on August 23, 1926, all in New York. Abbott went to the Putney School, Exeter, and Yale College. He graduated in 1944 and then took his Ph.D. degree in chemistry. Married in June, 1940, to Katherine Pettit, he has three daughters. Abbott, who was an instructor, with the rank of first lieu- tenant, in the Air Force during World War II, is now living in Noroton, Conn., and working with the American Cyanamide Com- pany at its research plant in Stamford, Conn. Elisabeth attended the Brearley and Putney schools and Radcliffe College. She joined the O.S.S. in Washington during the war; she still lives there and works with the C.I.A. After graduating from the Brearley School, the younger girl attended Black Mountain College and then took two years of pre-medical courses at Barnard College. She is now a third-year stu- dent at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia.
BERTRAND LEROY TAYLOR. Address, 50 Lefferts Avenue, New York 25, N.Y.
SHIPLEY THOMAS. Manager, Philadelphia office, Ford, Bacon & Davis, Inc., engineers, 1518 Walnut Street, Philadelphia 2, Pa .; residence, "Holmehill," Roseland, N.J.
Thomas writes: "In World War I, I was a lieutenant and captain in the 26th Infantry, 1st Division, participated in every engagement in which that division took part, and then wrote the History of the A.E.F. In 1919 I was graduated with honors from the Army Intelligence School at Langres, France, and in 1922, upon the creation of the Military Intelligence Corps as a part of the O.R.C., I was commissioned major and transferred to M.I., U.S.A.R. In 1938 I was promoted to lieutenant colonel.
"In the spring of 1940 the A.C. of S., G-2, of the War Department, noting the lack of any such book, asked me to write a handbook for front-line intelligence officers. This I did, entitled S-2 in Action. Ed
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Stackpole published it, and very shortly over 10,000 copies were sold. As a result, I was put in charge of the Army Intelligence School, where in three years I trained 20,000 Intelligence personnel. These not only included the specialists in interrogation, aerial photo interpretation, counter-intelligence, foreign liaison, order of battle, captured docu- ments, etc., but also scouting and patrolling, the Military Intelligence units of many divisions, and the Marine Intelligence personnel.
"Between wars, I am manager of the Philadelphia office and Wash- ington representative of the engineering firm of Ford, Bacon & Davis, Inc."
Thomas was called to active duty in the office of the A.C. of S., G-2, of the War Department in February, 1942, the following June being appointed director of training of the Military Intelligence Training Center at Camp Ritchie upon its activation. He was promoted to colonel in September, 1942, and in June, 1943, graduated from the Command and General Staff College. In December, 1945, he reverted to an inactive status. Thomas was awarded the Silver Star with an oak leaf cluster, the Legion of Merit, the Purple Heart, and the French Four- ragère of the Croix de Guerre.
Before taking his present position with Ford, Bacon & Davis, Inc., in January, 1931, he had been connected with the Benedict Stone Corporation. He is a member of the Roseland Planning Board and since 1927 has been rector's warden of the Church of the Transfigura- tion (the "Little Church Around the Corner") in New York City. He belongs to the University, Yale, and Church clubs of New York, the Racquet and Yale clubs of Philadelphia, the American Legion, and the Loyal Legion and is a Republican in politics.
On February 14, 1920, he was married in New York to Taliaferro Ford, daughter of Frank Richards and Sunshine H. Ford. They have no children.
NORMAN FRANKLIN THOMPSON. Assistant treasurer, R. A. McWhirr Company (department store), 165 South Main Street, Fall River, Mass .; residence, 30 Willow Street, Fall River.
Thompson, who became connected with the R. A. McWhirr Company upon graduating from Yale, was made assistant treasurer of the com- pany some time ago. His marriage to Olive Gertrude Leach, daughter of Joseph and Meribah Leach, took place in Fall River on April 20, 1927. They have two sons: Norman Franklin, Jr., who was born on May 15, 1928, and David B. on March 20, 1930. Both boys served
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in the Coast Guard during the war. Norman, Jr., attended Andover and Yale and David, Tabor Academy, the University of Massachusetts, and Rhode Island State College.
RICHARD MORGAN THOMPSON. Superintendent, R. A. Mc- Whirr Company (department store), 165 South Main Street, Fall River, Mass .; residence, 300 Woodlawn Street, Fall River.
Thompson, who has been superintendent of the R. A. McWhirr Com- pany since August, 1926, is chairman of the executive committee of the Massachusetts State Council of Retail Merchants, of which he was formerly president. He is a director of the Fall River Chamber of Commerce, the local chapter of the Red Cross and the Y.M.C.A., a trustee of the Home for the Aged, and a member of the Fall River Sinking Fund Committee. He belongs to the Union Methodist Church, the Rotary Club, and the Historical Society, gardens for a hobby, and plays volley ball for exercise.
Thompson was married in Boston on April 24, 1917, to Ruth Elizabeth Niles, daughter of Dr. Edward S. Niles and Elizabeth Wright Niles. Their daughter, Elizabeth Sabrina, was born in New Haven, February 9, 1919. She attended Connecticut College for Women and a few years after her graduation married Arthur Douglas Dodge, Yale '42, who is with the Veeder-Root Company in Hartford. The two boys, Richard Morgan, Jr. (born in Whitneyville, Conn., April 28, 1921), and Edward N. (born in Fall River, January 28, 1927), prepared for college at Andover and graduated from the Yale Engi- neering School in 1943 and 1949, respectively. Richard was a lieu- tenant in the Navy during the war, serving as a radar officer on a destroyer escort, and is now assistant to the plant engineer of the Apponaug (R.I.) Finishing Company. Edward, at present a private in the Engineer Corps, stationed at Fort Belvoir, Va., has been a re- search and development engineer with Firestone Industrial Products and Development in Fall River.
WALTER ROOSEVELT THOMPSON. Engaged in handling pri- vate investments, 122 East 42d Street, New York 17, N.Y .; resi- dence, Blendon Hall, Hadlyme, Conn.
When Thompson sent in his report last May, he said, "Am just about to leave for Portugal and Spain. Have traveled extensively in Europe, South America, Central America, and Mexico. My chief recreation has been yachting and I have, for a number of years, collected ship
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models." He was formerly part owner of the Dauntless Shipyard at Essex, Conn., which has since been sold, and at the present time is a director of the American Sumatra Tobacco Company.
Thompson is a member of the Church of the Heavenly Rest in New York City, where he was married on May 2, 1933, to Adèle Sarpy Kelley.
JAMES GUYON TIMOLAT, JR. Secretary, Oakland Chemical Company, manufacturers of drugs and chemicals, 59 Fourth Ave- nue, New York 3, N.Y .; residence, 38 East 37th Street, New York. Timolat, who has been connected with the above company since shortly after graduation and its secretary for years, says briefly, "Nothing special to report. Have just kept busy. Unmarried."
BOYLSTON ADAMS TOMPKINS. Senior vice-president, Bankers Trust Company, 16 Wall Street, New York, N.Y .; residence, 770 Park Avenue, New York.
Tompkins, who has been with the Bankers Trust since 1917, has been a director of the company since November, 1925, and senior vice- president since December, 1949. His other business connections make an imposing list-chairman of the board of the U.S. Leather Company and of the American Superpower Corporation; a director of Babcock & Wilcox, the Coronet Phosphate Company, the Detroit Edison Company, the Flintkote Company, the General American Investors Company, the International Paper Company, the National Aviation Corporation, the Otis Elevator Company, and the United Cigar- Whelan Stores Corporation; and a trustee of the Bowery Savings Bank. He is vice-president of the Children's Village of Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., and a director of the Henry Street Settlement in New York. Tompkins belongs to the Yale, Links, Creek, and Rolling Rock clubs.
On May 26, 1917, he was married at Quissett, Mass., to Eleanore Louise Marshall, daughter of James Gifford and Louise Marshall. They have a son, Boylston A. Tompkins, Jr., born January 20, 1919, and three daughters: Eleanore Louise Preston, born May 3, 1921, Joan Daphne Wheeler on April 11, 1925, and Judith Lee Tompkins on April 30, 1934, all in New York.
NORMAN EDWARD TOOHEY. Partner and manager, Monro, Inc. (wines and spirits), 17 East 57th Street, New York 22, N.Y .; residence, 15 Park Avenue, New York 16.
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Toohey, who was assistant superintendent of Abraham & Straus in Brooklyn at the time our last Class record was published, has been a partner in Monro, Inc., and also manager of the concern, since 1933. His marriage to Phyllis Muriel Reynolds, daughter of Phillip and Elizabeth Barret Reynolds, took place in New York City in September, 1930. They have no children.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN. Consultant, Economic Cooperation Administration, 33 Pine Street, New York 5, N.Y .; residence, 4000 Cathedral Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.
"It has always interested me to work with the people of other countries and to observe how they think and act," Train says. "This has meant a considerable amount of travel during the last twenty years-most of it by air during the years since the war. It strikes me that while the body is quickly transported overseas, the mind still lags far behind and adjusts slowly, if at all. I can't see that the speed of modern travel has done anything to diminish international prejudice and suspicion. Yet I have never been able to see that foreigners are funda- mentally different from ourselves. But when they act differently, there are usually good reasons to be found in their history, education, social structure, climate, and geography. Once these are understood, we can see that we should probably have acted as they did in the same cir- cumstances. When there is a common denominator-say a game of golf or tennis-one sees that human nature has no connection with nationality. Good and bad sportsmanship are universal. In doing business with people of many nationalities, in operating abroad with a local staff, I am convinced that fair dealing and honesty are likewise universal, just as are trickery and dishonesty. No nation that I know possesses a monopoly of the virtues or the vices.
"My only 'achievement'-if it be one-is that, having been continu- ously engaged in international trade and finance for more than thirty years (counting out time for two wars), I have been doing the things I like to do best."
From 1925 through 1933 Train was with the National City Com- pany in New York, specializing in Latin American finance, and during the next eight years was manager of the foreign department of another investment banking firm, George, Forgan & Company. In 1941 he went on active duty as a major, with an assignment to the War De- partment General Staff at the New York office of the Military Intelli- gence Division. He served in the Office of Production Management
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in Washington from October, 1941, to February, 1942, and the following May was assigned to the General Purchasing Agent's Office, Services of Supply, in London. He landed in Arzew, North Africa, on November 8, 1942, as civilian labor director of the U.S. Center Task Force and in January was promoted to lieutenant colonel. From May to September, 1943, he was general purchasing agent of the Mediterranean Base Section at Oran and was then transferred to the G-3 section of the Allied Force Headquarters in Algiers. Train, who was mentioned in British dispatches, returned to the United States in August, 1944, and received his discharge from service that October.
He was an executive with the Atlas Corporation (investments) in New York the following year and then became associated with the Cerro de Pasco Corporation (mining), for which he served as manager in Lima, Peru, until 1948. He then returned to the Atlas Corporation as senior executive, but gave this up at the end of 1949 to become chief of the E.C.A. Special Mission to Portugal, with the personal rank of Minister. He remained there until the spring of 1951 and since then has been consultant to the office of the E.C.A. adminis- trator in New York.
Train belongs to the Yale and Bond clubs of New York. On Feb- ruary 6, 1922, he was married in New York to Gertrude Allan Miller, daughter of Cyrus C. and Emma Allan Miller. Her death occurred on March 23, 1949. His second marriage, to Lenore Sand- blom de Rochefort, daughter of the late Dr. John Sandblom, of Stock- holm, and Ellen Chinlund Sandblom, took place on May 11, 1951. He has two daughters: Susan Frances, born November 2, 1927, and Rosemary on October 26, 1933, both in New York. Susan, who gradu- ated from the Bishop Strachan School in Toronto in 1945, became connected with Vogue Magazine in 1949 and is now assigned to their Paris bureau. The younger girl graduated from the Spence School in New York last June and planned to enter Radcliffe in September.
*GEORGE SCHIEFFELIN TREVOR.
This biography, based on Trevor's reply to our questionnaire, was written before his death on November 17, 1951.
'I've surely had fun in life, even though wealth eluded me," Trevor wrote. "After thirty years as a newspaper sports writer I can look back on more than my share of exciting episodes. With the New York Sun I earned the biggest salary ever paid to a non-syndicated sports writer. The collapse of the Sun was a hard blow for all of us. High
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blood pressure-I should have drunk less milk and more whiskey the doctors now say-has caused my retirement at fifty-eight years, but I still work on magazine stories. Well, I have four kids and seven grandchildren to keep me amused.
"Best sports story I ever wrote was 'Yale's Ill-fated Argosy'-de- scribing the 1929 Eli debacle at Athens, Ga. This story appeared in the Sun and was reprinted by Grantland Rice in his Anthology of Sports.
"Back in 1924 the University of Notre Dame cited me for 'Excel- lence in the use of English on the sports page.' This tickled Billy Phelps!
"In 1922 I stood in the Yale Club lobby looking at a Brooklyn Eagle want ad. A friend saw me and said, 'Do you know what a stymie is? If you do, you can get that job.' Well, I knew what a stymie was in golf-so I became golf writer on the Eagle and that's how it all started!
"Football has been my favorite sport to write about. I covered every Yale-Harvard game for a metropolitan newspaper from 1922 to 1950. I do considerable public speaking on sports topics.
"Big thrill was seeing my son, George, Jr., win the mile race for Woodberry Forest School against Episcopal High School in that Vir- ginia classic.
"In 1932 Yale football captain, Bob Lassiter, says he grew home- sick at Yale in his Sophomore season and decided to go home. At the railroad station in New Haven, Lassiter read my New York Sun story about him called "The Carolina Catamount.' Lassiter says this article caused him to change his mind and return to the Old Campus. If so, the Yale A.A. should award me a major 'Y' for helping win the 1931 Harvard game!
"I worked hard to bring Herman Hickman to Yale as football coach-just as I campaigned to get Earl Blaik to New Haven in 1929 -when 'Red' was virtually unknown. What a difference that would have made!"
Trevor, who was known as the "Ivy League Historian," coined the phrase, "Mister Inside and Mister Outside," to describe Blanchard and Davis of the Army team. He wrote a number of pamphlets on football, and among the magazines to which he contributed articles are Colliers, Liberty, Red Book, Golf Illustrated, Outlook, American Magazine, and the Saturday Evening Post (in the latter: "Everybody There Saw Kelley," "The Heffelfinger Story," and "Lefty James of Cornell").
In addition to the Yale Club, Trevor belonged to the Westchester
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Country Club, and he was a member of St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Port Chester. He was first married June 26, 1915, in New York to Alice Haven. His second marriage, to Elsie Dorntee, took place in Greenwich, Conn., March 27, 1925. His children are: Haven Trevor Waters, born July 16, 1916; Nancy Trevor Waters, born February 28, 1919; George S. Trevor, Jr., born January 1, 1926; and Louis Henry Trevor, born September 4, 1929. Haven, who graduated from Yale in 1940, won his major "Y" in squash and played on the J.V. football team. He was a captain in the Air Force during the war, serv- ing both as a pilot and in intelligence work, and now works for the Schieffelin Drug Company. He is married and the father of four children. Nancy attended Smith and the University of North Carolina and served with the WACS in New Guinea; she is married and has one child. George, who was track captain while at the Woodberry Forest School, graduated from Colgate in 1949. He served as quar- termaster on the U.S.S. Chicago in the war and is at present on the Courier-Times in Roxboro, N.C. He is married and has two children. Louis also prepared for college at the Woodberry Forest School and later attended the University of Virginia. He worked for The Texas Company in Louisiana until he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force last year.
BERNARD ELROY TRIPP. With Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Com- pany (soaps and perfumes), 1 Newark Avenue, Jersey City, N.J .; residence, 77 Woodward Avenue, Rutherford, N.J.
Tripp has been connected with Colgate-Palmolive-Peet since July, 1917. He is a member of the Masonic order.
His marriage to Dorothy A. Newick, daughter of Samuel J. and Margaret Newick, took place in Rutherford on June 20, 1917. Their son, Bernard E., Jr., who was born on January 28, 1919, received the degree of B.S. in industrial engineering at Lehigh in 1940. He is married and has two children. Their daughter, Margaret Jean Tripp Hoslet, was born June 29, 1926, and graduated from New Jersey College for Women in 1948 with the degree of B.S. in physical edu- cation. She has one child.
MELVILLE DOUGLAS TRUESDALE. Residence, Stanwich Road, Greenwich, Conn.
Truesdale writes: "From the previous report until 1933 I was vice- president of the Dryer Company, then president. I retired from active work with this company early in 1933 and was then with the Central
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Hanover Bank as assistant vice-president until I resigned on account of my health. I later again became more active in the Industrial Dryer Corporation, but since January, 1950, have been very limited because of my health and have spent the winters in Bermuda and the summers in Maine. Hard life?"
In September, 1941, Truesdale was commissioned as a lieutenant commander in the Naval Reserve and until June, 1942, was attached to the Office of the Inspector of Naval Matériel. He then became a member of the preparatory staff class at the Naval War College at Newport, R.I. He was subsequently ordered to the staff of the Com- mander of the South Pacific, his final assignment there being that of personnel officer, both COMSOPC and COMSERO-SOPAC. He re- turned to the States in February, 1943, reporting to the Naval Receiv- ing Barracks at Lido Beach, N.Y., as personnel officer. He later became executive officer there, was promoted to commander in August, 1945, and was discharged to inactive duty the following month. He retired from the Reserve in May, 1947. "No medals, no commendations, no nutt'in," he says. "Nice just being a somewhat depleted civilian."
Truesdale's marriage to Alice Bulkley Moss took place in New York City on May 17, 1917. They have two children: Alice, born on February 3, 1920, and William H., 2d, on July 25, 1922. Alice, whose marriage to Robert S. Mueller, Jr., of Baltimore, Md., took place in September, 1943, has three children. William, 2d, Yale '45W, enlisted in the Navy in 1943. After service in the Pacific, he went to Officer Candidate School in the spring of 1944, was commissioned as an ensign in the Reserve, and subsequently saw duty in Japan on the U.S.S. Turner.
RAY T. TUCKER. Address, 6308 Hillcrest Place, Chevy Chase, Md.
ARTHUR FARWELL TUTTLE. Senior master, Millbrook School, Millbrook, N.Y.
"Millbrook School has been my occupation since 1931," Tuttle writes. "It started then with one small brick building and some farm build- ings and nineteen boys. It has grown to 110 boys, its intended limit; dormitories, school building, dining hall, chapel, athletic fields, and all features of a modern school have grown with the enrollment. It is a beautiful countryside around us and a lovely campus to be adja- cent to.
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"It has been a wonderful experience to have been a part of this growth, and the life is a very satisfying one. It is very engrossing and very confining during the school year, and I find that now the vaca- tions come just in time. When I can snatch a day, I usually go to New Haven to see my mother, who is living there, and often my brother's family. The thought of retirement is quite nebulous.
"I was one of those who looked forward to graduation from college, partly with the thought that I would never dig out an assignment for a class again. Twenty years of teaching belie the words of that kind classmate who said, 'Why should you look forward to no more assignments, you never did them anyway.'
"I regret that the confining life tucked away in the country keeps me from getting about and seeing more of my old friends."
Tuttle is serving on the chapel committee at the school, and in 1941 he was chairman of the Secondary Education Board Mathematics Examination Committee. He was an air spotter during the war and taught mathematics to officer candidates. He served as vice-president of the Millbrook Golf and Tennis Club from 1937 to 1941 and be- longs also to the Minks Meadows Golf Club at Martha's Vineyard and the New York Yale Club.
As to other interests, he says, "Finalist, National Western Racquets Tournament, 1930; played in fathers' and sons' national tennis matches at Longwood three years, veterans doubles with G. P. Cran- dall one year. Rode horseback constantly, hunted some, 1930-39. Men's doubles in tennis and considerable golf comprise athletic interests now. Unbearable if I break 80 now. Have collected chess sets, several good ones. Recreational travel to pleasant Southern spots when possible in the spring vacations and summers with family at West Chop, Martha's Vineyard, where we have a cottage on the shore."
Tuttle was first married August 18, 1917, in Winnetka, Ill., to Margaret Stockbridge Houghteling, daughter of James Lawrence and Lucretia Peabody Houghteling. Her death occurred in 1942. On June 14, 1944, he was married in Millbrook to Margaret Louise Wheaton, daughter of Isaac Smith and Helen Louise Fairchild Wheaton. He has four children: Marcia, born in Chicago in 1920, Arthur F., Jr., in Evanston, Ill., in 1922, Lawrence Emerson in Evans- ton in 1925, and Felicity Fairchild in Sharon, Conn., on June 22, 1950. Marcia graduated from Vassar in 1941 and was enrolled in the City Planning Department at Yale the following year. In 1942 she married Dr. Harvey C. Knowles, Jr. (later a captain in the
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