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Bailey's marriage to Martha Alderman took place in New Haven on February 22, 1920. Their son, Donald Zachary, who was born on October 12, 1924, graduated from Yale in 1949 as a member of the Class of 1945W and is at present in his final year at the Yale Archi- tectural School. During the war he served in the Pacific as a lieutenant in the Air Force.
CYRUS BAIRD. Address, 205 Paddock Street, Watertown, N.Y.
NORMAN DEAN BAKER. Major, Ordnance Corps; assigned to Boston Ordnance District, Army Base, Boston 10, Mass .; residence, 86 Halsey Street, Providence, R.I.
Baker continued with the George M. Baker Company until 1942 and has since been in the Army. His first assignment was to the Office of the Chief of Ordnance, and he was later at A.S.F. Headquarters, his assignment there terminating in 1946. Since then he has been with the Boston Ordnance District.
He is a trustee of the H. C. and N. D. Baker Trustees and belongs to the Dunes Club of Narragansett, R.I., and the Agawam Hunt of Providence. His marriage to Elizabeth Dorrance took place in Taunton, Mass., on May 3, 1937. They have three children: Norman Dean, Jr., born on February 19, 1938, George M. on May 15, 1940, and Harriet M. on November 27, 1941.
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LUTHER FARWELL BALLOU. Chaplain, Dayton Goodwill In- dustries, 201 West Fifth Street, Dayton 2, Ohio; residence, 22 West Siebenthaler Avenue, Dayton 5.
In 1931 Ballou received the degree of S.T.B. at Boston University. He had been pastor of the West Groton (Mass.) Congregational Church during the preceding two years and in 1930 was ordained to the ministry of the Congregational-Christian Church. From 1931 to 1933 he was pastor of the Community Church at Dover-Foxcroft, Maine, and during the next six years held the pastorate of the Community Church at Carmel, Maine. He spent the period from 1939 to 1943 as a home missionary in Georgia and Alabama and then accepted a call to the Congregational-Christian Church in Phillipsburg, Ohio. He remained there until 1948, during the first year also serving the Congregational-Christian Church at Ludlow Falls.
Since December 1, 1946, Ballou has been chaplain of the Dayton Goodwill Industries, whose work is in connection with the employ- ment of the handicapped. During his vacations in 1949 and 1950 he was acting Protestant chaplain at the Dayton State Hospital. He served on the executive committee of the Dayton Social Workers Guild from 1947 to 1949 and since 1950 has been treasurer, and he has also been a member of the committee on institutions of the Dayton Church Federation since January, 1950. Back in 1942 he was moder- ator of the Alabama State Congregational-Christian Conference. He belongs to the Masonic order and is a Republican in politics, although he votes independently.
He was first married September 9, 1917, in Colebrook, N.H., to Ellen Grace Holden, daughter of Ellen Dean; her death occurred September 25, 1924. His second marriage, to Elsie Marvanna Ault- man, daughter of Edward Marcus and Della Ann Aultman, took place in Boston on August 12, 1929. Ballou has three children: Luther Farwell, Jr., born April 20, 1919, Nancy on August 16, 1920, and Philip Holden on March 17, 1922. The older boy, who was married on December 22, 1940, has four children: Shirley Starr, born August 1, 1943, Luther Farwell, 3d, on June 12, 1945, Linda Jean on April 7, 1947, and Randall Steven on July 25, 1950. Nancy, whose marriage to Charles Forrest Dickinson took place on December 8, 1936, has three children: Rita Louise, born November 4, 1939, Dolly Grace on June 28, 1945, and Charles Forrest, Jr., on February 23, 1947. Philip was married on September 30, 1948.
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LOUIS BAMBERGER. Residence, Garth Woods Apartments, Scars- dale, N.Y .; mailing address, Box 511, White Plains, N.Y.
"Since 1933, when illness compelled my retirement, I have been trying to take it easy," Bamberger says. "I do some traveling and in general keep up with this uncertain world-which seems to hold new surprises daily."
Bamberger had previously been a partner in the New York broker- age firm of Bamberger Brothers, with which he became associated upon leaving college. His marriage to Mae C. Volck Alden took place in New York in 1933. They have no children.
EVERETT CLAIR BANCROFT. Professor of economics, Colgate University; residence, 83 Hamilton Street, Hamilton, N.Y.
Bancroft writes: "In 1933, at the depth of the Depression, we ac- quired a house and rebuilt it. It has served very adequately as our home for ourselves and the children.
"On the Colgate scene, teaching has been subject to emphasis; and advisory work with students, particularly Freshmen, has been signi- ficant and important, I think. It is difficult sometimes to evaluate in an objective manner the effectiveness of one's efforts in the educational field. I believe I have had reason to be conscious and aware of time- tested values based upon past human experience; and strength, I hope, to support constructive ideas and policies."
Bancroft, who has been at Colgate since 1924, was promoted from associate professor of economics to a full professorship in 1936. An outstanding experience, he says, was "the opportunity afforded by Colgate University to study at first hand some of the experiences, difficulties, and changing techniques in the textile industry, engaged in during the past two or three years. S. Bayard Colgate, a trustee, acted as the chairman of the committee on business studies. His interest and imaginative understanding were most helpful."
Bancroft is treasurer of the Faculty Club at Colgate, adviser to the Student Economics Club, and formerly served as president of the Colgate chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, to which he was elected to hon- orary membership in 1942. He taught for several years (about 1931- 35) in the Utica chapter of the American Institute of Banking, giving a miscellany of related courses: economics, banking, credit manage- ment, and bank management. With W. H. Crook and W. C. Kessler, he contributed to a study of the textile industry-a chapter on the his- tory of cotton-in "Dynamics of Textile Industry" (mimeographed).
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He is a member of the National Tax Association and the American Economic Association, is a deacon of the First Baptist Church in Hamilton, a member of the board of the Hamilton Club (a service organization), and has been active in Community Chest collections and other civic work.
On April 17, 1922, he married Edith Susan Whitaker (B.A. Rad- cliffe 1916, Ph.D. in botany 1921), daughter of James Willey and Annette Davis Whitaker, of North Conway, N.H. They have two daughters: Faith, born on August 26, 1933, in North Conway, and Judith Annette on November 27, 1936, in Hamilton. "Please-1915 -these are not our grandchildren!" he says, adding, "Faith, who is rather petite, in her Senior year in high school contributed largely to the success of the Class Book through artistic line drawings; musical participation through the years-cello, piano. She is now in her Fresh- man year at Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pa. Judith, to her annoyance, frequently mistaken to be older than Faith, on account of her height and weight, is also musical, artistic, and a good student -a Sophomore in high school."
FRANCIS HYDE BANGS. Residence, Ogunquit, Maine.
Bangs continues the story of his life since our last Class record was published. "I left the University of Buffalo, where I was assistant professor of English, in June, 1930," he writes, "to do research work on a life of my father. The Great Depression removed the financial base to carry this work through; and I became editor and publisher of The Old York Transcript of York Village, Maine, in order to sur- vive in a dwelling costing $150 per annum, there being no interior plumbing except a faucet in a kitchen sink. In September, 1936, Dr. Percy Kammerer, provost of Avon Old Farms, took a chance and made me head of the English Department of that liberal institution. He warned me every year that my teaching was too stimulating, but it was not until a new headmaster, the Reverend W. Brooke Stabler, succeeded him that my position was seriously threatened. An acting headmaster, between Dr. Kammerer and Mr. Stabler, had urged the trustees that I be disposed of, but Mrs. John Wallace Riddle, chairman of the board, had slammed her gavel down on hearing of this and declared: 'Mr. Bangs is just what is necessary to keep the school alive.' But Mr. Stabler arrived as headmaster (actively) in January, 1941, and considerately paid me my full salary for the rest of the school year in order to be relieved of my presence in mid-April. He had im- posed the Protestant Episcopal religion upon the school, formerly
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free of sectarianism, without so much as inquiring whether or not any members of the student body or faculty wished this type of Jesusism.
"Dr. Russell Bartlett, headmaster of The Gunnery School, despite my protestations, begged me to become head of his English Depart- ment in December, 1942, and I acceded to his request in January, 1943. Dr. Bartlett wanted some one on his faculty who would not agree with everything he suggested during faculty meetings. I taught at The Gunnery through June, 1949; and Ogden Miller, who had succeeded Dr. Bartlett as headmaster on the latter's death, put up with me for several years. Finally he tried to promote me to the English Department of Yale University, but succeeded only in pro- moting me into space, as Yale had other ideas or better candidates at the time. I did teach at Yale in the summer of 1949 (very hot) as a member of the faculty in American Studies at Yale University for Foreign Students, a position which I got, I think, largely through the good offices of Dean Buck of the Freshman Year. Since that time I have been out of regular employment-and, having no money of my own, have had to spend a lot of time in Maine, Palm Beach, Florida, Santa Fé, New Mexico, and at La Jolla, California.
"In 1941 Alfred A. Knopf published my book, John Kendrick Bangs, Humorist of the Nineties, the reviews of which were much better than the royalties. Our friend Billy Phelps selected it as one of the ten best books (non-fiction) published in the English-speaking world in 1941. He said that it was 'beautifully done, continuously interesting, written with acute intelligence and perfect taste, and filled with diverting incidents.'
"Of interest to the Class of 1915 should be the fact that in the autumn of 1941, under the auspices of the Yale Library Associates, I deposited in the Yale Library many original manuscripts and per- sonal letters of Archibald MacLeish, covering the years 1913-23, with 30,000 words of my own comment thereon. This deposit, called The MacLeish of F. Bangs, has been sealed in the bowels of the University Library, and, on agreement with the then Librarian of Congress, will not be free for scholarly consideration until 1991. Mr. Bernard Knollenberg, Yale's librarian at the time of deposit, con- sidered the deposit a monument not only to MacLeish but to Bangs; and Bangs himself, if I may say so, hopes not only by this labor to win immortality for himself but also a posthumous Ph.D. from Yale.
"Bangs was divorced in 1931 from his first wife, Grace Allen Bangs, who remains one of his dearest friends. On October 27, 1931, he was
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married in New York to Geraldine Condit Hall, daughter of Mrs. Edward E. Hall and the late Mr. Hall, and a graduate of Miss Spence's School. Bangs' daughter, born in Berlin, Germany, August 6, 1932, was graduated from Westover in June, 1949, under the name of Joan Bangs and is now a student at Barnard College under the name of Hanneli Hall. Bangs was divorced from his second wife in 1934."
MORRIS KEENE BARROLL. Partner, Barroll & Barroll, lawyers, Court Street, Chestertown, Md .; residence, "Byford Court," Chester- town.
Barroll, who has been practicing law in Chestertown for a number of years, graduated from the University of Virginia Law School in 1921 and continued his studies at the University of Maryland the following year. He was formerly a director of both the First National Bank and the Citizens Bank of Chestertown, but has no active connection with them at present. For some years he has been a vestryman of Emanuel Church in Chestertown. He belongs to the Maryland and Bachelors Cotillion clubs of Baltimore.
Barroll was married on June 2, 1927, in Baltimore to Margaret Waldo Newcomer, daughter of Waldo and Margaret Vanderpoel Newcomer. There are three boys in the family, all of whom were born in Baltimore: Waldo Newcomer, born June 2, 1928, David Oakley Vanderpoel on May 5, 1932, and Richard Spencer Wethered on October 21, 1934. Waldo, who graduated from Harvard in 1950, is working in New York on a Spanish magazine, Vision. David gradu- ated from St. Andrews (Delaware) last June and is now at Wash- ington College in Chestertown. The youngest boy is a student at St. Paul's in Baltimore.
ROBERT MILNE BARTLETT. Vice-president (general sales), Gulf Oil Corporation and Gulf Refining Company, 2627 Gulf Building, Pittsburgh 19, Pa .; residence, 1500 Beechwood Boulevard, Pitts- burgh 17.
Bartlett, who first became connected with the Gulf Refining Company in 1926, has been vice-president (general sales) of the company and also of the Gulf Oil Corporation since March, 1949. He is, in addition, vice-president of the Gulf Exploration Company and a director of the Gulf Tire & Supply Company. During the war he served as vice- chairman of the Fuel Oil Subcommittee of P.A.W. and also as a member of the Industry Advisory Council, and at present he is a
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member of the industry advisory committee of the Office of Price Stabilization, as well as chairman of the program committee of the marketing division of the American Petroleum Institute, a member of its general committee, and chairman of the aviation technical service committee.
Bartlett is a trustee of the Athalia Daly Home, and he has taken part in work for the Community Chest, the Red Cross, the Salvation Army, the Cancer Fund, the Home for Crippled Children, and other civic activities in connection with fund raising. He is a Republican and an Episcopalian and belongs to the Pittsburgh Athletic Associa- tion, the Duquesne, Harvard-Yale-Princeton, and Fox Chapel Golf clubs, all of Pittsburgh, the Rolling Rock Club of Ligonier, the New York Yale Club, and the Seaview Country Club. For recreation he turns to golf, fishing, hunting, and painting.
He was married on April 19, 1919, in Calcutta, India, to Beatrice Lillian Crowden, daughter of Edwin C. and Isalina Beatrice Crowden. "This may be an item of unusual interest," he says. "Yale men of three generations of the Bartlett family are still living, namely, Floyd J. Bartlett, Class of 1882; his son, Robert M. Bartlett, Class of 1915; his grandson, Robert H. Bartlett, Class of 1949. The fourth genera- tion of Bartletts is represented by a great-grandson, Richard Milne Bartlett."
Bartlett supplied the following information about the third genera- tion: "Daughter, Beatrice, born January 5, 1922; attended Winchester School, Pittsburgh, the Masters School, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., the Gar- land School, Boston; nurses' aide and active in welfare work during World War II; married October 16, 1948, to Roy Herd McKnight, Jr .; two children: Beatrice Crowden, born September 9, 1949, and Robert Garland, born January 5, 1951.
"Son, Robert Hayward, born July 4, 1924; attended Shady Side Academy, Pittsburgh; graduate of The Hotchkiss School, Class of 1943, and of Yale, Class of 1949; served in the Navy from June, 1943, to April, 1946; married Martha Jean Pollock, of Pittsburgh, September 8, 1951; now living in Mount Vernon, Ill., where Robert is connected with the production department of the Gulf Oil Cor- poration.
"Son, Richard Foster, born September 2, 1925; attended Shady Side Academy; graduate of Culver Military Academy, Class of 1943; Yale ex-'50; graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, Class of 1950; served in the Army Air Force from September, 1943, to December, 1945, during which time he was a bombardier on various missions over
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Italy; married Suzanne Harris, of Pittsburgh, June 17, 1950; one son: Richard Milne, born April 3, 1951; they live in Denver, Colo., where Dick is connected with the sales department of the Continental Oil Company.
"Son, Hayward Floyd, born May 16, 1933; attended Shady Side Academy; graduate of Hotchkiss, Class of 1951; now a student at Trinity College."
VALENTINE CROUSE BARTLETT. Residence, Hobe Sound, Fla. "Flat on my back on a beach-since 1935," was Bartlett's reply to our question about his position. The supplementary data refute this statement to a certain extent at least. "After 1935 we moved to Florida, where I seemed to keep busy fooling around with real estate and farming in a small way," he says. "When the war came, the Ration Board and an enlarged farm, plus running the civil defense at Hobe Sound really kept me busy. The last named was quite interesting, as we had several ships torpedoed off our beach. I was also chairman of the Martin County Mosquito Control Committee. None of these jobs amount to anything in themselves. I mention them because it shows how easy it is to keep busy when you do retire. I have not regretted it yet. Of course there is also your own place to look out for and a certain amount of hunting and fishing that has to be done in the proper seasons!"
Before going to Florida, Bartlett was with Shearson, Hammill & Company, members of the New York Stock Exchange, in Chicago. He has resigned from most of his clubs, but still belongs to the Racquet Club of Chicago and the Shoreacres Club of Lake Forest, as well as to the Seminole Golf Club of Palm Beach, of which he is secretary and treasurer. He is a member of the Roman Catholic Church.
Bartlett's marriage to Marie A. Frost, daughter of Albert Carl and Clare des Jardins Frost, took place in Chicago on June 7, 1917. Their older son, Charles Leffingwell, who was born in Chicago on August 14, 1921, graduated from St. Mark's in 1939 and from Yale in 1943. The younger boy, David Frost, was born in Chicago on August 23, 1924. He also prepared for college at St. Mark's and graduated from Yale with the Class of 1949. He was a Pfc. in the Marines, while Charles was a senior grade lieutenant in the Navy.
CARL RAYMOND BECKERT. President, Thomas Young Orchids, Inc., grower and wholesaler of orchids, Harris and Union Avenues,
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Bound Brook, N.J .; residence, 378 East Union Avenue, Bound Brook.
A radical change took place in 1932, when Beckert gave up his position with the investment brokerage firm of Charles D. Barney & Company to become president of the Thomas Young Orchids, Inc. He is a Republican and an Episcopalian, is a member of the Yale, Madison Square Garden, and Racquet and Tennis clubs, and is fond of reading and Wagnerian opera.
Beckert's marriage to Ellen Marie Dunn, daughter of William James and Adelaide Newans Smith Dunn, took place in New Haven on November 29, 1917. They have no children.
JOHN BELLINGER BELLINGER, 2D. Manager, men's shops, Franklin Simon, 414 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y .; residence, 10 Coachman Lane, Levittown, N.Y.
From 1930 to 1934 Bellinger was credit manager of the Hotel Lincoln in New York City, and from 1935 to 1937 he was with the Wickwire Spencer Steel Company. He has been with Franklin Simon since then and became manager of their men's shops (furnishings, sports, cloth- ing) in September, 1950. He is an Episcopalian and a Mason and mentions gardening as a special interest.
His first marriage, to June Marie Edwards, took place in New York on July 30, 1919. They were divorced in September, 1944. On October 23, 1950, he was married in Jamaica, N.Y., to Mary Elizabeth Robb Schwerin, daughter of Arthur Thomas and Catherine Hughes Robb. Bellinger's daughter, Shirley Catherine, who was born in Toronto on November 26, 1920, was married on February 14, 1944, to Ljubinsir Pope and has one child, Craig Bellinger.
CHANDLER BENNITT. Consultant in psychology, 103 Park Avenue, New York 17, N.Y .; residence, 1285 Hope Street, Spring- dale, Conn.
From 1930 to 1936 Bennitt was a member of the New York law firm of Robb, Clark & Bennitt and since then has been engaged as a con- sulting psychologist, working with individuals only. He is the author of three books: Meaning and the Western Way (1933), Essays in Meaning and Actuality (1934), and The Real Use of the Unconscious (1937), the first two of which were published by the Hidden Press and the last by the Dial Press. He contributed an article, "Hate as a Transitional State in Psychic Evolution," to the Psychoanalytic Re-
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view in 1948. We gather from Don Robb's comments that while Bennitt's books could by no means be classified as summer reading, they are definitely worth perusing.
Bennitt was a member and chairman of the Zoning Board of Adjust- ments and Appeals for the Town of Stamford from 1937 to 1948. "No travels," he says. "I have lived in the same house for thirty years, have walked 15,000 miles to and from the station, and commuted 600,000 miles to and from New York."
On January 5, 1918, he was married in New Haven to Katharine Osborn, daughter of Norris G. and Kate Gardner Osborn. Their son, Peter, who was born in Philadelphia on February 9, 1920, graduated from Yale with a B.A. degree in 1942. He was killed in action in Normandy on August 14, 1944, while serving as a first lieutenant of Infantry with the 2d U.S. Division. Their daughter, Nancy, born in Stamford on August 2, 1922, married Louis Bennington Howell and has a son, Peter Bennington, who was born July 27, 1949.
LIVINGSTON BENTLEY. Missionary under Board of Foreign Mis- sions of the Presbyterian Church; address, care American Mission, Tabriz, Iran.
A fine letter written on September 19, 1951, came from Bentley. "Judging by the follow-up letters which have been coming to me since my return to Iran, a notice must have been sent asking me to furnish material for my biography for the Class Book," he wrote. "If so, it did not reach me, doubtless due to the fact that I was on furlough in the United States. I am sorry that there was this delay. Before writing any notes, I have looked back at the record in the 1930 volume. I am starting from that.
"First may I add that a third child, Marjorie Helen, was born on August 17, 1928.
"My son attended school in Beirut and Mount Hermon School, then went to Brown. While there, he played on the soccer team which beat Yale. He scored both points for Brown, a pleasant family feud! He left college to join the Army in 1942, advancing to the rank of master sergeant. He lost his life April 6, 1945, on Okinawa.
"My daughter, Catherine, after attending Northfield Seminary, grad- uated from the Nursing School of the University of Rochester. She married the son of a fellow missionary in Iran, Dr. G. G. Browning, who is now a medical officer in the Navy. They have one child, Robert, the pride of his grandparents.
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"My other daughter, Helen, graduated from Wooster College in 1950 and is now with us here in Tabriz.
"Perhaps I have written too much about my children, whereas you may wish to know more about my own work. Starting from the ac- count in the 1930 book, I spent several years in Hamadan, Persia (which is now Iran). In 1934-35 we had a furlough, after which we were assigned to Resht for about two years. Then we were trans- ferred to Kermanshah and, in 1946, to Tabriz. Tabriz is the largest city of the province of Azerbaijan which the power and the authority of the United Nations was able to save for the Government of Iran.
"To attempt to write what I have done in these years and in the several cities of Iran where I have lived would be to write a discourse on the work of a missionary. I am just another missionary. If I have whereof to boast it is in the fact that I am part of a very great enterprise.
"I trust that this brief attempt at a biography may give you some information suitable to your needs. I cannot close my letter without saying that it was a great pleasure to me to attend the Thirty-fifth Reunion, the only one I have been able to attend. See you at our Fiftieth!"
Bentley went to Persia to work for the Near East Relief in 1918, shortly after his graduation from Auburn Theological Seminary and his ordination to the ministry. He has been engaged in regular mis- sionary work since 1926.
His marriage to Florence Helen Miller took place in Hamadan on May 9, 1921. Their son, Robert DeLancey, was born on June 22, 1922, in Hamadan and the older daughter, Catherine Marie, on June 16, 1925, in Syracuse, N.Y.
CLARENCE ALEXANDER BISSELL. Address, 75 Crest Avenue, Winthrop, Mass.
MONROE PERCY BLOCH. Partner, Brush & Bloch, lawyers, 27 William Street, New York 5, N.Y .; residence, 49 East 96th Street, New York 28.
"I have just returned from a six weeks' trip to London, Brussels, Paris, and Antibes and found Europe much less worried about the war than we are," said Bloch, when he sent in his report on August 7. He added, "As for recreation, for some inexplicable reason, considering my deservedly high handicap, I like to play golf. I also enjoy collecting modern first editions of English and American authors and have suc- ceeded in assembling a considerable number of them."
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