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"I made a short excursion to Russia in 1932. Had a pleasant and interesting meeting with the Sydney Webbs on the way back to Lon- don on a small Russian ship. And there was time for conversation, for the diesel engines stopped off Krondstadt. Since Lenin had translated three of the Webbs' books, the Webbs felt that they were 'sacrosanct in Russia.' Few have felt that way before or since, and the Webbs themselves, like others, did not escape some abdominal warnings that things were not entirely right in Russia. It is a hard place. Have also made three excursions in the charming Scandinavian countries."
Wilkinson has been a trustee of the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital since 1928 and of the Bermuda Historical Monuments Trust since 1937. He has served on the local committee of the Bermuda Biological Station for Research since 1935 and is a director of the Bermuda Electric Light Company, the Bank of Bermuda, and the Bermuda Press.
Obviously he has devoted a lot of time to research on the history of the island, for he is the author of The Adventurers of Bermuda-a History to 1684, and Bermuda in the Old Empire, 1684-1784, both
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published by the Oxford University Press, the first in 1933 and the second in 1951. He has also written a few magazine articles, mostly historical. Wilkinson is still unmarried.
FREDERICK FOSTER WILLIAMS. Residence, Godfrey Road, R.D. 2, Westport, Conn.
Williams' report is very brief. He says merely: "Gave up architecture for landscape painting, sketching, and traveling. Now retired to the country, busy on place-on the way to becoming a fair recluse." And it follows quite naturally that he is still a bachelor.
ROY FOSTER WILLIAMS. Executive vice-president, Associated In-
dustries of Massachusetts, 2206 John Hancock Building, Boston 16,
Mass .; residence, Apartment 1123-A, 100 Memorial Drive, Boston. The following came from Williams: "As a biographical résumé of my business career, I would like to submit the introduction afforded me at Governor Dummer Academy, July 13, 1951, at the time the Newcomen Society of England honored me as historian for Massachu- setts Industry. I can quote this with a minimum of blushing, as it represents the words of Mr. Paul F. Clark, president of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company." Mr. Clark's introduction follows:
"A century ago, Boston was regarded as the Athens of America, the Hub of the Universe. The capital city, and surrounding towns in the Commonwealth, were active and prosperous; Massachusetts stood first in Commerce as in Culture. With the years, however, other States challenged its leadership, and Massachusetts more or less lost its position of dominance.
"Within recent times, the swing has been in the other direction. Thanks to such men as our own Roy F. Williams, Massachusetts is regaining its place in the sun, its rightful position in the forefront of Commerce and Industry.
"As you all know, Mr. Williams is executive vice-president of the Associated Industries of Massachusetts, an organization whose 2,000 members represent 95 per cent of the industrial payroll of the Com- monwealth. As an ardent and forceful promoter and defender of Massachusetts industries, he keeps in close touch with Congressional and Legislative measures vitally affecting our labor and management. Moreover, because at the present he is in daily contact with the defense materials production program, he is certain to be a decisive factor in
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securing needed war contracts for this area and thus in insuring their jobs for Massachusetts workers. As editor-in-chief of the monthly publication, Industry, Mr. Williams is instrumental in publicizing the achievements of Bay State industries in many fields of endeavor. Be- sides being concerned with the progress of Massachusetts industry, our speaker has a present interest in good government, as shown by his membership on the government spending committee of the National Association of Manufacturers.
"Mr. Williams served his country in two World Wars: as a naval officer in the first World War, and in seven different posts in the second World War, ranging from civilian aide to Rear Admiral C. H. Woodward, U.S.N., on industrial incentive work, to civilian chairman for Naval Officer Procurement in the 1st Naval District.
"He has been honored by two of our allies: Belgium and France. In 1919 he served as naval attaché to their Majesties, King Albert and Queen Elizabeth of the Belgians, on their tour of the United States of America. In recognition of this service, King Albert person- ally decorated him as an Officer of the Order of the Crown. Mr. Wil- liams also wears the red ribbon of the French Legion of Honor.
"He is a director of the Sanborn Company and of the Warren Brothers Company, both of Cambridge, and a director of the Union Freight Railroad Company of the New Haven Railroad. Our guest of honor serves as a director of the Massachusetts Safety Council, Inc .; as vice-chairman of the individual gifts committee for the Northeastern University Library Fund; and as treasurer of the New England com- mittee in the Newcomen Society of England.
"To sum it up, few men are as well suited to be a spokesman for Massachusetts! For that reason, I am sure we all shall enjoy as well as profit greatly from hearing Roy Foster Williams discuss: 'Seven Romances of Bay State Industry.'"
Williams, who has been associated with the Associated Industries of Massachusetts since August, 1935, was general manager of the organization for a time before becoming executive vice-president. Prior to 1930 he had been treasurer of the Ames Shovel & Tool Company, and he was subsequently assistant to the president of the Warren Brothers Roads Company, road builders for the Cuban Highway and Boulder Dam. In addition to the activities mentioned above, he has been chairman of the Community Fund and chairman of the Council of the Old South Church. He belongs to the Algonquin Club and the Commercial and Bankers Club of Boston and the New York Yale Club.
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As to his travels, he comments: "A big order-in Navy career and the American Embassy in Paris, traveled throughout Europe, Russia, and the British Isles. In 1950 I conducted a tour of seventy Massachu- setts industrialists to France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and the English Midlands, and in January-February-March, 1952, I am taking a group of ninety-one manufacturers to industrial centers of Rio, Santos, São Paulo, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, and Lima.
"Recreations-hobbies-special interests: retaining my amateur rating among the world's bachelors! But I'm a bachelor father - with two protégé graduates of Yale-Frank A. Gates, Mercersburg '26, Yale '30, captain of the Yale boxing team, 1927-29, and three-year cham- pion boxer, and John M. McGauley, Andover '29, Yale '33, captain of the Yale wrestling team."
RICHARD HOOKER WILMER. Member, Wilmer & Brown, lawyers, Transportation Building, Washington 6, D.C .; residence, 2600 31st Street, N.W., Washington 8.
Wilmer writes: "I was the Washington member of the law firm of Cravath, deGersdorff, Swaine & Wood (now Cravath, Swaine & Moore) of New York City from 1929 until 1942, when I resigned to enter the Army. Upon my release from active service I organized the firm of Wilmer & Brown in Washington.
"I entered the Army in December, 1942, as a lieutenant colonel, C.A.C., and was promoted to colonel in May, 1944. I left active service in December, 1945, and now hold a Reserve commission as colonel. During the war I went through two Anti-aircraft Schools (Fort Eustis, Va., and Camp Davis, N.C.) for officers and took com- mand of a battalion in training at Camp Stewart, Ga. From there I was ordered in May, 1943, to the Military Government School, Char- lottesville, Va., where I completed part of the course before flying to North Africa. From North Africa, where I was assigned to the Allied Control Commission (Italy), I went first to Sicily and later to the mainland of Italy. In that commission I served successively as chief counsel, deputy director of the legal subcommission, and finally as legal adviser to that commission, as well as director of the legal sub- commission.
"It would take a book to describe fully the activities in the legal field of the first effort in history of the military government of a large nation. There were few guiding principles for this experiment. In November, 1944, I was ordered to the Civil Affairs Division of the
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General Staff in Washington to become the War Department's work- ing member on the State-War-Navy Committee and, as chief planner for Europe, participated in formulation of policies for the occupation of Germany and Austria. For work in Italy, I received the Legion of Merit and for work in Washington, an oak leaf cluster. For my par- ticipation in the re-establishment of the administration of law in Italy, I received from that country the decoration of Commander in the Order of Sts. Mauritius and Lazarus.
"While in the United States, I lectured on military government courts at Civil Affairs Training Schools at Yale, Harvard, Michigan, Chicago, and Northwestern and prepared a manual on military government courts. After leaving active service, I was one of the founders of the Mili- tary Government Association and was elected president in 1949. Also I was instrumental in having established military government units in the Army. I became commanding officer of the 300th Military Government Group, the first of these units activated. I resigned as commanding officer in 1949 and am now in the Inactive Reserve.
"My travels (outside of Army) on pleasure and business have taken me to many places in South America, Europe, and the U.S. My main hobby is the planting of trees and flowers, particularly at my place in Virginia."
Wilmer's practice is a general one, including departmental law. He has been a member of the board of the Visiting Nurse Society for more than twenty years and is also a member of the board and of the incorporators of the Episcopal Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital and counselor of the Washington Home for Incurables. In 1946 he served as chairman of the American Red Cross campaign for the metropolitan area of Washington and prior to entering service was vice-president of the Washington Community Chest. He is a member of the Chapter of the Washington Cathedral, has been a vestryman of the Church of the Epiphany for more than twenty years and junior warden for three. Wilmer is president of the Society of the Cin- cinnati in the State of New Jersey and a member of the District of Columbia and New York bars, the American and District of Colum- bia Bar associations, the Bar Association of the City of New York, the Barristers, Lawyers, Metropolitan, and Chevy Chase clubs of Wash- ington, and the New York Yale Club.
On June 2, 1917, he was married in Atlanta to Margaret Van Dyke Grant, daughter of John W. and Annie Inman Grant. Their older son, Richard Hooker, Jr., who was born April 13, 1918, gradu- ated from Yale in 1939 and from the General Theological Seminary
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in 1942. After service as a chaplain (junior grade lieutenant) in the Navy, he spent two years at Oxford, where he received the degree of Phil.D., and is now chaplain at the University of the South. Married in June, 1942, to Elisabeth Farnum Green, he has five children: Richard H., 4th, Margaret Van Dyke, Stephen Elliot, Natalie Wheeler, and Rebecca Giraud. The younger boy, John Grant, born September 20, 1920, received a B.A. degree at Yale in 1942 and an M.D. at Johns Hopkins in 1945. He served as a captain in the Army Medical Corps for two years and is now practicing medicine in Atlanta (spe- cializing in heart disease) and lecturing at Emory Institute and various hospitals. His wife's maiden name was Mary Charles Fitzpatrick.
MORRIS KARL WILSON. Address, Wilson Brothers, Merchandise Mart, Chicago 54, Ill.
CHARLES DEERE WIMAN. President, Deere & Company, manu- facturers of farm implements and tractors, 1325 Third Avenue, Moline, Ill .; residence, 817 Eleventh Avenue, Moline.
In October, 1928, Wiman was elected the fourth president of Deere & Company, which was founded in 1837 by his great-grandfather, John Deere. He had gone with the company upon graduating from Yale, became superintendent not long after his return from service in World War I, was later appointed general manager of the Union Malleable Iron Works in East Moline, and in 1924 was elected vice- president of Deere & Company, in charge of factory operations. In June, 1942, he resigned as president of the company to join the staff of General Levin H. Campbell, Chief of Ordnance, with the rank of colonel. At the request of the War Production Board, Wiman was placed on an inactive status by the Army in January, 1944, in order to become director of the Farm Machinery and Equipment Division of W.P.B. He served in that capacity until July, 1944, when he asked to be relieved of his duties in order to regain his health after a severe attack of pneumonia. In December, 1945, he was awarded the Legion of Merit.
Upon his return to Deere & Company the following November, he was again elected president. Wiman has for many years been active in various organizations related to agriculture and agricultural equip- ment and in 1932 and 1933 served as president of the Farm Equip- ment Institute. He is a director of the Moline National Bank, the Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Company of Chicago, the Protection
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Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad. He has homes in Chicago and Santa Barbara, as well as in Moline. He is a Republican, an Episcopalian, and a thirty-second degree Mason. His clubs are the Chicago, Saddle and Cycle, and Racquet of Chicago and the Yale Club of New York.
In April, 1920, Wiman was married in Huntsville, Ala., to Pattie Harris Southall. Their older daughter, Mary Jane Deere, who married William M. Brinton, has two children: William Wiman and Patricia Delia. The younger girl, Patricia Deere, is now Mrs. William A. Hewitt.
FARWELL WINSTON. Partner, Shearson, Hammill & Company, stock brokers, 208 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Ill .; residence, Lake Forest, Ill.
On January 1, 1931, Winston became a partner in the stock broker- age firm of Shearson, Hammill & Company, with which he had become connected two years previously.
His marriage to Lucia Cary Wood took place in Kansas City, Mo., on August 16, 1917. They have three daughters: Anne, who was born June 28, 1918, in Los Angeles, Beverly on July 2, 1923, in Evanston, Ill., and Lucia on September 19, 1925, also in Evanston.
HENRY JAMES WISER. President, Aluminum Insulation, Ltd. (reflective radiant insulation), 1137 Lawrence Avenue, West,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada; residence, 25 Coulson Avenue, Toronto. At the time our Quindecennial Record was published, Wiser was presi- dent of International Fibre Board, Ltd., at Gatineau, Quebec. He became president of Aluminum Insulation, Ltd., of Toronto some time ago. During World War II he served as director of aircraft production for the Canadian Government.
Wiser was married on February 15, 1919, in New Haven to Dorothy Sargent, daughter of George Lewis and Elizabeth Forbes Sargent. They have three children: James Sargent, born October 6, 1921, Thomas Huntington on January 4, 1923, and Dorothy Joan on May 8, 1924, all in Ogdensburg, N.Y. The older boy prepared for college at The Hill School and Thomas at Taft. They were both in the Yale Class of 1945, but left in Sophomore year, James to join the Royal Ca- nadian Air Force and Thomas the Royal Canadian Artillery. James, who is with the Stanley Steel Company and living in Fairfield, Conn., married Norma Harvey in 1944 and has two children: Penelope,
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born in 1946, and Stephen Forbes in 1947. Thomas is with Aluminum Insulation, Ltd., in Toronto. He was married in 1950 to Elaine Mc- Eachern. Dorothy, who attended the Thomas School in Connecticut, lives in Montreal. She was married some time ago to Douglas L. Mac- Dougall and has three children.
HENRY STAUNTON WOODMAN. Business and advertising manager, Baby Care Manual and Your New Baby, published by Parents Institute, Inc., 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, N.Y .; residence, 143 Sunset Avenue, Ridgewood, N.J .; mailing address, Box 371, Yale Club, 50 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York.
"There is not much to say about myself," Woodman wrote under date of November 19, 1951. "I've been married for thirty-three years and have three daughters and an adopted daughter, Jane Grimison (at the age of sixteen, now twenty-one), graduating from Furman University, Greenville, S.C., in June. We have been busy raising and educating our girls and contributing to the home life of Rye, N.Y., and Ridge- wood, N.J. I have 'fussed' a bit with arranging music for male voices, singing in the University Glee Club of New York for thirty years. The most successful was an arrangement of the mixed voice madrigal from Gilbert and Sullivan's 'Mikado' which was sung at our spring concert in the Waldorf in New York in 1946. Also, I have written several songs-words and music-which have never been published and never will be. The most successful was captioned, 'I'll Send My Sons to Vassar,' with a sub-title, 'Contented but not Satisfied.' This was written the year our third baby was born, who was supposed to be a son but followed the feminine pattern. What with three daugh- ters and one adopted, it has added significance. Vive les femmes !!!
"Business !! Well, ten years with Parents and love it!
"My hobby is printing, and I have a power press in my home. Also, I have studied the science of piano and organ tuning. For the last four years I have done a lot of research of the Woodman family in New England, especially the Woodman arms. My ancestor, Edward Woodman (Newbury, Mass., 1635), and Tony Morse's ancestor, An- thony Morse, of Newbury, were two of the ninety-two original grantees of land there, having lots next to each other."
The magazines of which Woodman is business and advertising manager are two wholly owned subsidiary publications of Parents Institute, Inc., whose principal publication is Parents Magazine. Wood- man has for some time been organist and choir director of Grace
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Episcopal Church in Union City, N.J. During 1945-46 he served as secretary to the Associates of the University Glee Club of New York.
His marriage to Cecil Pond Cornwall took place in Rye on Novem- ber 29, 1919. She is the daughter of George and Elizabeth Miles Pond Cornwall. Their oldest daughter, Cecil Pond, who was born on August 12, 1921, graduated from Elmira College in 1943 and was married on August 12, 1946, to William Ives Thompson. They are living in Canton, Ohio. Her husband, who is divisional sales manager of Die- bold & Company, is the son of Elmer Ives Thompson, Cornell '10, who was Walter Camp's selection for All-American guard in 1907, 1908, and 1909. The second daughter, Ruth Staunton (born August 21, 1923), received a B.A. degree at Furman University in 1944 and an M.A. in music at Teachers College, Columbia, in 1945. For five years she has been assistant professor in the Music Department at Meredith College, Raleigh, N.C. The youngest girl, Ann Cornwall, was born September 4, 1930. She is majoring in chemistry at Elmira College, where she is in the Senior Class, and hopes to go into cancer research.
ALFRED CARTER YOUNG. First vice-president, Cooke Trust Company, Ltd., Box 2041, Honolulu 5, Hawaii; residence, 4811 Aukai Street, Honolulu 15.
Young writes: "I resigned my position as vice-president and a director of Fred Waterhouse, Ltd., rubber factors, of Singapore, Straits Settle- ments, in June 1931. In May, 1932, I joined the Cooke Trust Com- pany, Ltd., serving as trust officer, secretary, and vice-president suc- cessively until my present appointment."
Young, who became first vice-president of his company in 1941 and a director in 1947, is a director of the Bishop National Bank of Hawaii and the Honolulu Rapid Transit Company, Ltd. He belongs to the Oahu Country Club and the Outrigger Canoe Club.
His marriage to Corinne Difani, daughter of Andrew and Alice Robinson Difani, took place in Riverside, Calif., on February 17, 1925. Their daughter, Carolyn Anne, who was born in Singapore on January 27, 1928, is now married to Howard Rollins Coerver. She graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. degree in 1950.
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IN MEMORIAM
CARROLL BOOTH ALKER
August 1, 1946
JOHN ALBAN ALLEN
October 2, 1924
MARK BAILEY
January 11, 1947
PAUL JACOB BANKER
August 24, 1938
EDWARD LAMBERT BARBOUR
July 4, 1940
JOHN WITBECK BARRELL
July 1, 1916
JOHN EVERTS BATES
September 22, 1948
HOWARD ELWOOD BEEDY
September 3, 1937
PAUL CHALFANT BERGEN
March 9, 1951
OTIS TREAT BRADLEY
November 22, 1950
HARVEY HUNTINGTON BROWN, JR.
August 11, 1950
JOHN CROSBY BROWN ROBERT HOMER BROWN
July 26, 1950
September 25, 1943
* EBENEZER BULL
May 10, 1918
February 14, 1928
October 18, 1951
March 18, 1951
September 20, 1950
RANDOLPH ELSWORTH CHANDLER
February 5, 1942
October 6, 1918
November 19, 1946
July 5, 1937
February 4, 1944
May 24, 1919
KIRKE WILLIAMS CUSHING CLIFFORD FERRINS DOWKONTT EDWARD ANDREW DOYLE JOHN FAIRFIELD DRYDEN CLARENCE MEREDITH ELLIS
July 13, 1948
January 13, 1942
March 17, 1947
November 30, 1948
May 2, 1918
* JAMES SEFEREN ENNIS, JR. RICHARD FORREST EVANS
August 8, 1931 October 27, 1918
*GEORGE WASHINGTON EWING, JR. LOUIS BERTRAND FITZGERALD WILLIAM ELLIOTT FRANCE
November 19, 1911
November 26, 1912
September 12, 1918
June 19, 1944
March 4, 1921
August 15, 1947
*ROBERT HOWARD GAMBLE JOHN RICHMOND GIBB RAYMOND MAYNE GIFFORD RAYMOND NEWTON GILMAN
*Died in World War I.
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ROBERT MORGAN BURROWES JOHN LORD BUTLER JOHN JOSEPH CAMERON LYON CARTER
* WILLIAM HOPKINS CHANDLER EDWARD WIGHT CLARKE WILLIAM COAST CONKLING SIDNEY ALBERT COOK
JOHN WALLACE HALLOWELL, JR. CHARLES ABBOTT HARRISON WALTER ELLSWORTH HESS VINCENT PRICE HOLLINGWORTH BENJAMIN BERKLEY HOTCHKISS
May 20, 1925
July 11, 1939
July 18, 1932
March 3, 1931
*WILLIAM HUNTTING JESSUP
October 5, 1918
October 5, 1918
January 17, 1938
March 5, 1947
July 16, 1934 October 22, 1942
October 15, 1912
FRANK JOSEPH LOFTUS
September 23, 1947
HAMPTON LYNCH
January 28, 1941
OLIVER MCKEE, JR.
June 2, 1948
JOHN TAYLOR JOHNSTON MALI HERBERT MAYER
January 25, 1944
FREDERICK WILLER MEYER
December 19, 1943
LOUIS SHELTON MIDDLEBROOK
March 10, 1927
STEWART EDWARD MORRIS
June 10, 1947
* JAMES ALEXANDER MOSELEY
July 28, 1918
October 1, 1918
December 2, 1934
December 22, 1950
October 21, 1943
December 18, 1942
December 22, 1914
May 16, 1949
April 3, 1915
February 24, 1927
December 5, 1946
January 1, 1935
March 11, 1934
June 30, 1928
February 11, 1948
December 11, 1949
CLYDE MCCLELLAN STAUFFER
November 14, 1942
* JOSEPH FREDERICK STILLMAN, JR.
February 23, 1918
*Died in World War I.
Died in World War II.
November 24, 1941
*HENRY BLAIR KEEP NORMAN JOSEPH KILBOURNE WALTER HENRY KINNEAR RALPH KIRLIN LAURANCE LEE JOHN LEDYARD LINCOLN, JR.
November 14, 1950
* ALEXIS PAINTER NASON JOHN JOSEPH O'CONNELL JOHN CARLISLE PEET HENRY BLACK RIGBY
*CARROLL GOWEN RIGGS EDWARD PIERCE ROGERS HORACE SUMNER SCARRITT GEORGE HENRY SCHOELLKOPF JOHN GRANVILLE SCOUTON, JR. FREDERIC BURR SHEPARD BLAIR STERRETT SHUMAN WILLIAM FORBES SIMPSON ABIEL LEONARD SMITH, JR. CHARLES CLOYES SMITH WILFORD LAWSON SPENCER
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GEORGE CLARKE SWAN CLARK OLDS TAYNTOR ALBERT SLOCOMB TERRY WILLIAM THAW, 2D GEORGE SCHIEFFELIN TREVOR JOSEPH FRANK TROUNSTINE LOUIS SIMON TUCK JOSEPH ALBERT VACHON HARRY VOLLMER
April 14, 1926 March 23, 1941 December 25, 1945 April 22, 1934
November 17, 1951 November 19, 1947 February 24, 1940 April 21, 1949 August 27, 1937
WILLIAM WARD WASSON
January 15, 1948
HARDY STONE WATERS
September 20, 1941
CLYDE HOWARD WATKINS
June 10, 1941
LOUIS STIX WEISS
November 13, 1950
March 16, 1939
March 10, 1919
March 1, 1928
August 10, 1918
October 29, 1912
September 10, 1942
JAMES WOODHOUSE WHEELER WILBUR ST. CLAIR WHITE BENJAMIN DAY WINNER
* HENRY GILBERT WOODRUFF, JR. THEODORE WOODBURY YORK LEONARD STORY ZARTMAN
*Died in World War I.
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