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Medical Corps in Africa and Italy). They are living in Cincinnati with their two children: Margaret Houghteling and Harvey C., 3d. Arthur, who prepared for college at the Brooks School, graduated from Yale with the Class of 1945W and from the Yale Divinity School in 1950 and is now chaplain at Williston Academy. He served with General Patton's Army in France and after the war was with the Yale Placement Bureau and also assistant to Sid Lovett, the University chaplain. His marriage to Martitia Lane, of Deland, Fla., took place in December, 1948, and they have two children: Fanny Farwell and Arthur Farwell, 3d. Lawrence has been teaching at Avon Old Farms. He prepared for college at the Brooks School and graduated from Yale as a member of the Class of 1948. He had two years in the Navy during the war and was recalled for service in June, 1951. In June, 1949, he married Elizabeth Davis, of Woodstock, Conn., and has a daughter, Elizabeth Dorrance. Felicity is the only brunette in the family-"When she graduates from college, I could be having my Fifty-fifth Reunion!" says Tuttle.
FRANK WRIGHT TUTTLE. Address, 26 East 92d Street, New York 28, N.Y.
DANIEL GRIMES VAUGHAN. Authorization officer, Veterans Administration, 20 Washington Place, Newark 2, N.J .; residence, White Deer Plaza, Lake Mohawk, Sparta, N.J.
Vaughan had his own law office in New York until 1929 and during the next four years was an attorney with the New York Title & Mortgage Company. From April, 1933, to December, 1942, he was engaged in the general practice of law as a partner in the firm of Lee & Vaughan and then became production assistant at the Pica- tinny Arsenal, where he remained until October, 1945. Since then he has been with the Veterans Administration in Newark, where, since June, 1947, he has been authorization officer.
During the war Vaughan was a member of the local civil defense organization, his work including airplane spotting. He is a member of the Sparta Township Civic Association, the Sparta Police Reserve, the American Legion, the National Federation of Federal Employees, and the Church of Our Lady of the Lake at Lake Mohawk.
He was married on April 28, 1926, in Richmond Hill, N.Y., to Frances M. O'Connor, daughter of Timothy and Catherine O'Connor. They have no children.
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EDWARD ADOLPH VOSSELER. Partner, Vosseler & Donnelly, lawyers, 57 William Street, New York 5, N.Y .; residence, 76 Remsen Street, Brooklyn 2, N.Y.
Vosseler, who has been engaged in the practice of law in New York since 1919, has been in partnership with Art Donnelly in the firm of Vosseler & Donnelly since October, 1940. He specializes in the law of decedents' estates and in real estate law and is the author of The Law of Wills and the editor of Cases of the Law of Wills and of Cases on the Law of Executors and Administrators. He has been pro- fessor of law at the Brooklyn Law School since 1930, served as law assistant to the surrogate of Kings County from 1930 to 1940, and since December, 1942, has been associated with the Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburgh in Brooklyn as counsel and trustee.
For the past seven years Vosseler has served on the committee on character and fitness of the Second and Tenth Judicial districts of New York, and he is vice-chairman of the Brooklyn Anti-Discrimina- tion League, a trustee of the Brooklyn Public Library, a member of the board of managers of the Eastern District Y.M.C.A. in Brooklyn, and a member of the Brooklyn Protestant Council. He belongs to the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer and to the American Legion, serving as commander of the Department of New York in 1940. Vosseler was married some time ago to Helen McLees. They have no children.
JOSEPH WALKER. Partner, Bleakley, Platt, Gilchrist & Walker, lawyers, 120 Broadway, New York, N.Y .; residence, Byram Lake Road, Mt. Kisco, N.Y.
The firm of Bleakley, Platt, Gilchrist & Walker, in which Walker has been a partner since January, 1930, was formerly known as Taylor, Platt & Walker. He specializes in estates and railroad law and since January, 1923, has been New York local attorney for The Penn- sylvania Railroad. He is a limited partner in the New York brokerage firm of Joseph Walker & Son, since 1930 has been a director of Tamblyn & Brown, a money raising concern, and is on the board of the Sheltering Arms Children's Service in New York. Walker received a medal for giving over a thousand hours of service as a civilian air raid warning officer in New York during the war. He is a member of the Bar Association of the City of New York, the County Lawyers Association, the New York State Bar Association, the Ameri-
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can Bar Association, the Yale Club of New York, the Down Town Association, and the Wings Club.
He was first married on February 17, 1917, in Haverford, Pa., to Eleanor deGraff Cuyler, daughter of Thomas DeWitt and Frances Lewis Cuyler. They were divorced in March, 1937. On April 23 of that year Walker's second marriage, to Sue Wise, daughter of Homer C. and Annette Steuart Wise, took place in New York. He has six children: Eleanor Cuyler, born on December 6, 1917, Joseph, Jr., on September 18, 1920, Peter Cuyler on May 11, 1925, Julia Robbins on September 13, 1938, and the twins, Anthony Elmendorf and Steven Steuart, on February 11, 1940. His older daughter served as a first lieutenant in the WACS during the war. She was married in June, 1947, in New York to Peter Seyffert, and has two children: Peter and Helena. Joseph, Jr., Yale '42, served in the Pacific as a lieutenant commander in the Navy, and Peter, who received a B.A. degree at Yale with the Class of 1945W and an M.A. in 1948, was a Pfc. in the 89th Infantry Division with service in the European area.
MALCOLM LEE WALLACE. Secretary, R. Wallace & Sons Manu- facturing Company (silverware), Wallingford, Conn .; residence, 443 North Main Street, Wallingford.
Wallace, who has been associated with the R. Wallace & Sons Manu- facturing Company since graduation, has been a director of the con- cern since 1921 and secretary since 1939. He is also secretary and a director of R. Wallace & Sons of Canada, Ltd. From 1945 to 1947 he was a trustee of the First Congregational Church in Wallingford, and he belongs to the Graduates Club of New Haven.
On June 12, 1924, Wallace was married in Brooklyn, N.Y., to Hazel Troensegaard, daughter of William and Elizabeth Keeley Troensegaard. They have two children: Anne Elizabeth, born Sep- tember 29, 1927, and Malcolm Lee, Jr., on September 26, 1929, both in New Haven. Anne graduated from the Day School in New Haven in 1945, received a B.A. degree at Smith in 1949, and was married that June in Wallingford to John Breckinridge Dayton (B.A. Amherst 1948). She and her husband are teaching at the Tuxedo Park School in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. Lee graduated in 1947 from Choate and four years later from Yale, where he was a member of Timothy Dwight College.
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ELTON SCOVILL WAYLAND. Chairman of the board, Blake & Johnson Company, manufacturers, Waterville, Waterbury, Conn .; residence, 163 Woodlawn Terrace, Waterbury.
From Wayland: "Looking back over old diaries, I find that in 1930 I was very much occupied with the management of the Waterbury mills of the American Brass Company and doing a great deal of trav- eling in the interests of the sales department. In April of that year my wife took three children and Ship Thomas' wife to France for the summer, and the husbands joined up for a tour of Germany in August. The new Fairfield State Hospital took up much of my free time, getting it built and started up, and in that work I was associated with E. G. Buckland and Charles Morris, both well-known sons of Eli in New Haven. As president of the Waterbury Hospital, I had plenty of local headaches.
"Life went on in this pattern for the next ten years and then the preparations for war brought about more responsibility with my com- pany and a change-over from civic interests to committee work in Washington and travel all over the country. I did not choose to go back into the service with my former rank or anything like it. Hence no citations or decorations. After peace returned I found myself shift- ing over from manufacturing and hospital work to banking and edu- cation, hence my interest in St. Margaret's School and the Library. As vice-president of the Waterbury Savings Bank and board chairman of the Blake & Johnson Company (a family manufacturing concern), I am fully occupied, make a fair living, and outside of home am my own boss. Of course, the job of Class secretary and treasurer is my major interest. I should add one fact obvious to all except me-my marriage to Helen Provost Clarkson, who has stuck by me so far, has been my greatest refining influence and post-graduate schooling in all departments of life."
Wayland adds a bit about his travels and special interests-"Did some cruising on the schooner Galatea, built for us in 1926, which was lost in the 1938 hurricane, also on the Alcestis along the New England coast and Sound. Since my resignation from the American Brass Company I have spent three to four months each spring on the family estate in Bermuda, developing a citrus orchard and improving property in other respects, and about two months in foreign travel each year. Other interests are collecting and building ship models, collecting early American bottles and flasks, colonial furniture, etc."
Wayland, who retired from the American Brass Company in Janu-
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ary, 1950, was vice-president in charge of the Waterbury branch from 1930 to 1933, vice-president of the sales department from 1933 to 1947, and subsequently vice-president in charge of sales. His work in Washington for the duration of the war was as a member of the Naval Industrial Association, the Beryllium Allocation Board, and the Pipe and Tubing (Copper) Committee.
Wayland has been chairman of the board of Blake & Johnson since January, 1948. Among other current connections are the following: director, the Torrington National Bank, Landers, Frary & Clark, the Homer D. Bronson Company, the Waterbury Buckle Company, and the Eastern Malleable Iron Company; director and member of the executive and trust committees of the Colonial Trust Company; first vice-president of the Waterbury Savings Bank; trustee (since 1928) and treasurer (since 1948), St. Margaret's School for Girls; president, board of agents, Bronson Public Library, since 1938. Wayland was a member of the Fairfield State Hospital Commission, 1926- 48; director, member of executive committee, and then president, Waterbury Hospital, 1921-50; director, Visiting Nurse Association, from 1929 until its merger with the Community Chest, of which he was then a director until 1948. He has been a vestryman of St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church since 1934, junior warden from 1948 to January, 1951, and senior warden since then. He belongs to the Union, University, Yacht, Yale, and India House clubs of New York, the Waterbury City and Country clubs, the Graduates Club of New Haven, and the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club.
Mrs. Wayland is the daughter of Ashton Crosby and Ida Evelyn Provost Clarkson; they were married in New York on November 10, 1917. The children are: Lucy Elton, born May 21, 1919, Eleanor Clarkson on November 21, 1922, John Elton on October 26, 1926, and Alice Provost on November 13, 1933. Lucy, who attended Vassar for three years after graduating from the Ethel Walker School, was married September 8, 1939, to Ridgway Macy Hall. Her husband enlisted in the Naval Reserve with the rank of pay clerk in December, 1943, and served until April, 1946, in Washington, Norfolk, Va., and Newport, R. I. They have three children: Ridgway, Jr., born September 10, 1941, Elton Wayland on January 27, 1944, and Eleanor Thomson on February 17, 1948. Eleanor Wayland, whose marriage to Woodward Thomson took place on October 23, 1943, has two sons: Schuyler Wayland, born September 10, 1947, and Peter Woodward on January 11, 1950. She is a graduate of Rose-
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mary Hall and spent two years at Bennington. John was married October 29, 1949, to Carrol Duryee. Following his graduation from the Brooks School in 1944, he joined the V-12 Unit at Yale. He was transferred to Baldwin Wallace College in November, 1944, and the following March to Northwestern, where he graduated with the rank of ensign and the degree of B.S. in June, 1946; he had no active service afloat. He returned to Yale after his discharge and in February, 1948, graduated with a B.A. degree. Alice graduated from the Ethel Walker School in June, 1951, and entered Smith in the fall.
HOBART STOWE WEAVER. Associate counsel, Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, 300 Broadway, Newark, N.J .; residence, 214 Irving Avenue, South Orange, N.J.
Weaver writes: "During the Thirties the work I was doing for the Association of Life Insurance Presidents (now the Life Insurance Association), New York City, necessitated considerable traveling- confined, however, to this country. In 1935 I was invited to become associate counsel of an old established life insurance company and accepted. Since then I have settled down to the law work for this insurance company, particularly in reference to the procurement and administration of its investments."
At the time our last Class record was published, Weaver had only recently given up the practice of law to become assistant secretary of the Association of Life Insurance Presidents. He became attorney for the organization in 1930 and continued in that connection until going with Mutual Benefit. He has been a member of the Association of Life Insurance Counsel for some time and mentioned that a speech that he made before the group was published and circulated to that membership. He belongs also to the New York County Lawyers Association and the American Bar Association, is a regular attendant of the Christian Science Church, and has participated in the "usual activity as a citizen in the community for the Community Chest, the American Red Cross, and the like."
He was married in New York City on November 4, 1925, to Flor- ence Estelle Jackson. They have no children.
GEORGE WEISSMAN. Address, 32 Reedsdale Street, Allston, Mass.
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AUGUSTUS B. WELLER. President, Meadow Brook National Bank, 15 Merrick Avenue, Merrick, N.Y .; residence, 190 North Hewlett Avenue, Merrick.
Weller, who was a partner in the Interstate Consulting Company, a New York brokerage firm, at the time our Quindecennial Record was published, became president of the Motologue Corporation (manu- facturing and distributing advertising displays) in 1930, continuing in that connection until the business was liquidated in 1934. Since July of that year he has been president of the Meadow Brook National Bank, and he has been president and a director of the Meroke Holding Company, Inc. (real estate), since February, 1946, and is also a director of the John J. Dixon Company, Inc., builders.
He writes: "Having spent some twelve years in the bond business and approximately four years in the advertising business, I knew noth- ing whatever about the operations of a commercial bank when I was asked to be president in 1934. I was quite available as I had sold my advertising display business and had a bit of an income. Our small community bank at that time had approximately $800,000 in deposits and a capital deficit in excess of $100,000. When I accepted the invitation, I had in mind the traditional impression of the bank presi- dent who is really a sort of honorary factotum. But when I got into my 'overalls,' I found that I had taken on a real responsibility and a terrific headache. I had to start by getting the old directors out and some new directors in and from there on try to develop the deposits and public relations of the institution. During the past three years we have taken over the banks in two neighboring towns, and today we have total assets of $43,000,000 and a capital position of $2,600,- 000. I have found that a number of experienced bankers had been approached prior to myself-but they knew too much about banking to be even slightly interested. The old adage about 'Fools rush in, etc.,' was borne out in my case, but perhaps the folly has paid off because I had no inhibitions."
From December, 1941, to March, 1946, Weller served as Nassau County rationing administrator and in 1944 was given the Nassau County Distinguished Service Award for his work in that capacity. During the war period he was also treasurer of the Merrick Civil De- fense Council (1942-46) and chairman of the advisory committee on finance of the Nassau County chapter of the American Red Cross (1943-46). He has been active in the National Brotherhood Move- ment, holding office as treasurer of the county committee in 1945
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and as chairman the following year, and he was chairman of the Merrick Boy Scout Committee from 1936 to 1941, president of the Merrick Board of Education from 1930 to 1933, chairman of the Nassau County Clearing House Association during 1949-50, and has been a director of the Long Island Association, Inc., since 1943. A member of the Community Presbyterian Church, Weller acted as treasurer of its building committee from 1930 to 1932. He was elected a trustee of Hofstra College in 1941, has been vice-chairman of the board since 1943 and chairman of the finance committee since 1945. He belongs to the Hempstead Country Club, the Sunrise Yacht Club, the Merrick Square Club, Crystal Wave Lodge, No. 638 (Masons), the Aurora Grata Consistory (thirty-second degree), the Kismet Temple (Shrine), and the Freeport Elks.
On September 23, 1916, Weller was married in Brooklyn, N.Y., to Lilyan Lenore Collins, daughter of Daniel J. and Lenore Collins. Their daughter, Emily Jane, who was born May 20, 1919, in Brook- lyn, died on January 18, 1920. Their son, Don Gardiner, born Feb- ruary 5, 1924, in New York City, graduated from the Mepham High School in 1941 and from the Peddie School the following year. He served in the Navy during the war, graduated from Hofstra College with a B.A. degree in 1949, and is now employed as public relations officer of the Meadow Brook National Bank. Don, who was married on December 21, 1946, has two children: Emily Jane, born January 18, 1949, and Frank Augustus on June 9, 1951.
RICHARD ELISHA WHEELER. Chairman of the board, Sealol Corporation, manufacturers of mechanical rotary seals, 45 Willard Avenue, Providence, R.I .; residence, 102 Williams Street, Provi- dence.
Wheeler writes: "From 1923 to 1940 I was a partner in the Provi- dence investment firm of MacColl, Fraser & Wheeler, of which I was a founder in 1923. In 1940 I founded what is now called Sealol Cor- poration and was president and treasurer of that company from 1940 to 1951, when I was made chairman of the board and treasurer. I am a member of the Providence Chamber of Commerce, N.A.M. and its research committee since 1950, and the Newcomen Society of North America.
"I have done nothing but work since 1930 and had a heart attack in 1945, which halted all tennis, golf, and much fishing, especially salt-water fishing for bluefish and striped bass of any size. Recently
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had trouble with my inner ear which affects balance. It is improving, but slowly."
Back in 1931 Wheeler was head of the industrial division of the Community Chest drive. He is a member of Grace Church and of the Agawam Hunt (on board of governors and chairman of the tennis committee ), the Hope Club, and the New Haven Lawn Club.
On October 20, 1923, he was married in Providence to Wilhelmina Crapo West, daughter of Thomas Henry and Wilhelmina Cristy West. They have three children: Wilhelmina Crapo, born August 3, 1924, Ann West on February 26, 1928, and Elizabeth on May 15, 1930, all of whom attended Miss Porter's School in Farmington. Wilhelmina is doing government work in Washington. Ann graduated from Vassar in 1949, and the youngest girl is a Senior at Smith. She spent most of her Junior year in Paris with the Smith College group, spe- cializing in music.
ATHA THOMAS WHITAKER. Estate analyst and insurance sales-
man, Connecticut General Life Insurance Company, 1000 Lincoln Liberty Building, Philadelphia 7, Pa .; residence, Blue Bell, Pa.
"In February I will have completed twenty-nine years of active service as a representative of the Connecticut General Life Insurance Com- pany," Whitaker says. "Through estate analysis and planning and the sale of life insurance, I have helped men create, conserve, and pass their estate to their families, so far as humanly possible, with a minimum shrinkage and a maximum return, thus enabling their children to become better citizens and they themselves to reach retire- ment with security and self-respect. This is my contribution to a better America.
"My chief hobby since 1931 has been the breeding, showing, and field training of English springer and cocker spaniels. I have been a licensed judge for springers and cockers since 1933-judged English springers at Westminster and Madison Square Garden, 1941, was field trial judge for the English Springer Spaniel Club of Canada in 1951, and have been president of the Valley Forge Field Trial Association since 1936. I contributed an article on the English springer spaniel to Popular Dogs and one on spaniel field trials to Dog World."
From December, 1941, to October, 1944, Whitaker was an aerial observer with the air raid warning service, and from May, 1942, to August, 1945, he was an inspector for Dogs for Defense for the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps.
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His marriage to Adèle Barger Gibbons, daughter of Thomas J. and Adèle Hirst Barger, took place in Ardmore, Pa., on June 23, 1923. "I have no children of my own," he says, "but two stepdaugh- ters, Adèle Clara Gibbons (born June 28, 1905) and Frances Ludlow Gibbons (born September 27, 1906). Both married in 1930. Adèle married William R. Dohan, University of Pennsylvania about 1923. Adèle died a year later, but left a fine boy, William L. Dohan, now in his second year at Temple. Frances married F. Ridgway Lineaweaver, Yale '27. They have spent their lives in the Foreign Service. He is now consul in charge at Receife, Brazil. They have two children, Adèle B .- now Mrs. Kurt Lehnert, of Buffalo-and F. Ridgway Linea- weaver, Jr., who is set for Yale in a few years."
VALLEAU WILKIE. Headmaster, Morristown School, Whippany Road, Morristown, N.J.
"There's nothing very exciting to report," says Wilkie. "I have been headmaster of a college preparatory school since June, 1942-a job which has kept me busy enough to keep out of trouble. Currently raising funds to rebuild a gymnasium burned by some local pyro- maniacs who thought it would make a good bonfire. It did, with un- pleasant results for the school and its headmaster. Hope to get back to a reunion some day, in spite of the fact that they always come at the most difficult time of the year for me."
Wilkie was assistant headmaster of the Lance School, Summit, N.J., from 1930 to 1939 and had a similar position at the Carteret School in West Orange, N.J. for the next three years, then becoming headmaster of the Morristown School. He served as president of the Headmasters' Association of North Jersey during 1950-51, and he belongs also to the Headmasters' Association of Philadelphia, Calvary Episcopal Church of Summit, the Canoe Brook Country Club, and the Lake Sunapee Yacht Club, of which he was a director from 1935 to 1950.
On August 25, 1917, he was married in Harrison, N.Y., to Amelia Willets Parry, daughter of Joseph Saunders and Sarah Willets Parry. They have had three children: Amelia Parry, who was born December 27, 1919; Sally, who died in infancy; and Valleau, Jr., born on July 3, 1923. The children were all born in Summit. Amelia graduated from the Kent Place School and in 1945 from the Columbia School of Nursing. Her marriage to John H. Burke, Jr., took place on June 15, 1946, and they have a daughter, Sally Wilkie, born April 9, 1947.
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They live in Middletown, Conn., where her husband is Freshman coach at Wesleyan University. Valleau, Jr., who graduated from the Salisbury School in 1941 and from Yale in 1948, is now teaching history at Andover. A lieutenant in the Air Force, he was pilot of a B-17 and was shot down over Germany and taken a prisoner of war. His marriage to Marjorie Hankin, of Summit, took place on Febru- ary 23, 1946. They have two children: Janice Parry, born November 20, 1947, and Robert Valleau on March 31, 1949.
HENRY CAMPBELL WILKINSON. Director, Bermuda Public Health Service; residence, Hamilton, Bermuda.
Wilkinson, who has been director of the Public Health Service in Bermuda since 1927, says, "There is little that is anecdotal in a health department. There are many interesting and useful things, but they usually move slowly with arguments, committees, and parlia- ments. An island does not change these things for the less. In fact, those who deal with many small places recognize the attribute of 'island consciousness.' This island has, however, had excellent luck, and its general health now reflects it. Its vital statistics are good. The health department has merely tried to give a little sense of direction to the arguments and the effort, observing the while the principle of Galen, 'first to do no harm.'
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