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At the time our last Class record was published, Bloch was a partner in the law firm of Berger & Bloch. He practiced independently from 1930 until May, 1935, and has since been a partner in Brush & Bloch, carrying on a general practice. Since January, 1950, he has been a director of the Southern Natural Gas Company, operator of a natural gas pipeline system extending from the gas fields in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi to markets in Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. He is also a director of Waitt & Bond, Inc., manufacturers of Blackstone cigars, of Frederic R. Harris, Inc., civil engineers, and of Hamilton House, a settlement house on the lower East side of New York City (of which he was president from 1945 to 1949), and a director of and counsel to the Honest Ballot Association (since 1934). In 1933 Bloch served as directing counsel of the Election Frauds Bureau of the Republican State Committee. He has been a Republican county committeeman and back in 1930 was a special assistant deputy attorney general of New York. He belongs to the National Republican Club, the New York County Lawyers Associa- tion, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the American Bar Association, the Century Country Club, and the Yale and Harvard clubs of New York.
He was first married on June 1, 1925, in New York to Muriel Bamberger, daughter of Oscar and Hilda M. Bamberger. Her death occurred on December 26, 1941. On August 26, 1943, he was married in New York to Marjorie Klein Rosenbaum, daughter of S. S. and Della D. K. Klein. His daughter, Barbara, who was born in New York on September 23, 1926, was married on June 8, 1950, in New York to Joseph A. Dammann. She graduated from the Dalton Schools of New York in 1943 and from Smith with a B.A. degree in 1947. Bloch also has a stepdaughter, Jane Randall. She was born June 22, 1928, studied at St. Andrew's University in Scotland, and in 1950 received a B.A. degree at Wellesley. On April 11, 1952, she married Irvin S. Dorfman, Yale '47.
HUGO WALTER BLUMENTHAL. Address, 60 Beaver Street, New York, N.Y.
FRANK ALEXANDER BOLTON. Electronics supply specialist, U.S. Air Force, Pentagon Building, Washington, D.C .; residence, Indian Head, Md.
"My life has been relatively uneventful," Bolton says. "I was dis- charged on December 24, 1918, following service as a second
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lieutenant in the 70th Field Artillery in World War I. I have spent most of the time since then on my farm twenty miles south of Washington. I was engaged in farming from 1920 to 1926 and have since done accounting and government work as follows: accounting, 1926-27 and 1931; with New York Stock Exchange brokerage houses on Wall Street, 1928-30; with Federal Farm Board, 1932-33; Home Owners' Loan Corporation, 1934-42; Army Air Force (major-as- signed to Headquarters), August, 1942-January, 1946; War Assets Administration, 1946-50; U.S. Air Force (civilian), since November, 1950."
Bolton adds that amateur theatricals are his hobby and that he is president of the Port Tobacco Players in Maryland. He still holds a commission as major in the Air Force Reserve and is a member of St. John's Episcopal Church, Charles County, Md., and of the Ma- sonic order.
He was first married in Washington, October 27, 1926, to Helen Hosford; the marriage was annulled six months later. On March 26, 1932, he was married in Washington to Melissa Dement, daughter of William L. and Pearl Harris Dement. Their son, Richard Lee, who was born in Washington on March 3, 1939, attends the Junior High School at La Plata, Md.
ROBERT DEFOREST BOOMER. Director of foreign subsidiaries, Lone Star Cement Corporation, 100 Park Avenue, New York 17, N.Y .; residence, Millbrook, N.Y.
"The Class of 1915 is represented in Millbrook by Johnny Hanes, Arthur Tuttle, and myself," Boomer tells us. "Aside from traveling extensively in Europe and South America, my outside activities have been largely devoted to fighting a losing battle in defense of private enterprise, through organizations such as the Inter-American Council of Commerce and Production, an association of some one hundred and fifty trade bodies in this hemisphere, with headquarters in Montevideo, Uruguay, and on committees of the National Foreign Trade Council, the National Association of Manufacturers, the United States Council of the International Chamber of Commerce, and the United States Chamber of Commerce.
"In spite of these affiliations, I have avoided high blood pressure even though living for the past twenty years under the unhappy eras of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Dean Acheson.
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Though we all have one foot in the grave, I hope, as long as health persists, to avoid vegetating."
He adds, "In 1930 I was a director of E. H. Rollins, underwriters. Between 1930 and 1940 I was a partner in three Stock Exchange firms, including Reynolds, Fish & Company (which is now called Mallory Adee), Charles Mallory and I having entered this firm at the same time."
Since 1945 Boomer has been with the Lone Star Cement Corpora- tion as director of foreign subsidiaries. He is a director and chairman of the board of Hughes & Company, exporters to Latin America, and a director of the International Hotels Corporation, a subsidiary of Pan American Airways which is now setting up a chain of hotels throughout the world; the American Ligurian Corporation, agents for Techint, a contracting firm in Latin America; Vision, Inc., a Spanish-language news magazine with distribution throughout Latin America; the Pan American Society, a social organization which enter- tains distinguished Latin American visitors to New York; and the Brazilian American Association. He is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations and of the Metropolitan Club of New York, the Royal Thames Yacht Club of London, and the Inka Country Club of Lima. During World War II he served on the Draft Board.
On March 17, 1926, Boomer married Blanche Mary Stephanie Nel- son, daughter of J. and Margaret Driver Nelson. They have two daugh- ters: Margaret Louise, who was born in Lugano, Switzerland, on August 19, 1927, and Barbara Mary, born June 6, 1929, in New York. Both girls have attended Miss Masters School at Dobbs Ferry and Vassar, Margaret graduating in 1948 and Barbara in 1951.
HENRY HOMES BOYNTON. Secretary, Biddle Trade Bureau, Ltd., labor and industrial relations consultants, 458 South Spring Street, Los Angeles 13, Calif .; residence, 1385 Calinero Drive, Pasa- dena 2, Calif.
Since March, 1949, Boynton has been secretary of the Biddle Trade Bureau, Ltd., in Los Angeles. His marriage to Marguerite Ann Rhoades, daughter of Ellis and Alice Rhoades, took place in Waldron, Colo., on May 5, 1918. Their older daughter, Margaret Ann, who was born in Los Angeles on July 3, 1921, was married some time ago to William David Boynton and has a son, Phillip Henry. Her husband is in the Navy. The younger girl, Elizabeth Edmond, born in Los Angeles on June 5, 1924, is the wife of Edward W. Fisher.
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THEODORE LEE BRANTLY. Vice-president in charge of sales, Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, 640 Fifth Avenue, New York 19, N.Y .; residence, 32 Hampton Road, Scarsdale, N.Y.
Prior to 1939 Brantly was advertising manager of Collier's Weekly. He then became vice-president and advertising director of Crowell- Collier and since March, 1950, has been vice-president in charge of sales. He is a director of the company and also of the Esterbrook Pen Company and is president of the board of trustees of the Hitch- cock Memorial Church in Scarsdale. During the war he served as an air raid warden. Brantly says that he has traveled from coast to coast and that for recreation he turns to golf, fishing, and hunting. He is a member of the Scarsdale Golf Club, the Huddersfield Fish and Game Club, the Wings Club, the Yale Club of New York, and Conquistadores del Cielo.
He was married in Helena, Mont., on August 26, 1916, to Helen Longmaid, daughter of John and Ellen Kay Longmaid. They have had four children, all of whom were born in Scarsdale: Helen Lois, Theo- dore Lee, Jr., Elizabeth Ann, and Mary Stuart. The oldest girl, who married Alan Brown, has two sons and is living in East Hampton, Conn. Theodore, Jr., who was a member of the Yale Class of 1943, served as a paratrooper in World War II. On August 8, 1951, he was killed in an automobile accident in Hartford, Conn., where he was in business as president of the Cro-Plate Company. He is survived by his wife, Muriel, and a son, Theodore L., 3d. Elizabeth is now Mrs. Richard Harden and lives in Scarsdale, as does the youngest daughter, Mary.
RICHARD BREED. Administrative assistant, Atlantic City Electric Company, 1600 Pacific Avenue, Atlantic City, N.J .; residence, 105 South Cambridge Avenue, Ventnor, N.J.
Breed continued as an industrial engineer with the Indiana & Michigan Electric Company at South Bend, Ind., until June, 1939, when he took the position of credit manager with the Atlantic City Electric Company. He has recently been promoted to administrative assistant, attached to the company's managerial department. He is a trustee of the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer at Longport, N.J., and a mem- ber of the Yale Club of New York City and the Germantown Cricket Club. While in South Bend, Breed was for a year (1933) master of Lodge No. 294, A. F. and A. M., and also belonged to the Murat Shrine in Indianapolis.
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On June 1, 1917, he was married in New Orleans, La., to Helen Bailey Fling, daughter of Dr. J. Glen Fling and M. Irene Fling. Their daughter, Helen, who was born in South Bend on April 12, 1926, graduated from the Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pa., in 1944 and from the University of Pennsylvania in 1948. Her marriage to Dr. Donald C. Davidson took place on July 23, 1949. The Breeds' son, Richard, Jr., who was born on January 30, 1930, also in South Bend, graduated from The Hill School in 1948 and is now in the Senior Class at Yale.
JOHN FRANCIS BRENNAN. Vice-president, United States Lines Company (ocean shipping), 1 Broadway, New York 4, N.Y .; residences, Hotel St. George, Brooklyn, N.Y., and 111 South Whittlesey Avenue, Wallingford, Conn.
"I have been connected with the United States Lines Company and its predecessor companies since 1919," Brennan reports. "I went on active duty in the Transportation Corps, Army of the United States, as a lieutenant colonel in June, 1942. I was promoted to colonel in March, 1943, and served until March, 1946. I was awarded the Legion of Merit and currently hold a commission as colonel in the Transpor- tation Corps Reserve."
Brennan became a vice-president of the United States Lines in November, 1949, and was elected to the board of directors in April, 1951. He is also a director of the 1 Broadway Corporation. He belongs to the Yale Club of New York, the Rotary Club of New York (director, 1948-50), the New York Athletic Club, the Downtown Athletic Club, the American Legion, the National Defense Transpor- tation Association, and the Propellor Club of the United States. He has never married.
JULIUS CAESAR BRENZA. Address, 7527 North Seely Avenue, Chicago, Ill.
ARTHUR TILGHMAN BRICE. Owner and manager, "Phase Films," Box 423, Ross, Calif .; residence, East Road, near North, Ross.
"Ever since I became photographic editor of the Yale Courant in 1915, photography and optics have remained important fields of activity in my life," Brice says. "In 1945 I learned of the development in Europe during the war of phase-contrast optics, which make possible the
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formation of images of colorless transparent objects under the micro- scope and the presentation of microbiologic life process cycles as functional wholes, and brought information on this subject to the U.S., for which I was awarded the Army Commendation Ribbon and put on a tour of seminars at the universities by the National Research Council; thereafter I was sent again to Europe by the U.S. Department of Commerce in the FIAT operation for investigation and complete report-(see Department of Commerce document PB 78279).
"Ten years of my life have been spent in active military service in two wars-W.W. I, as captain, Infantry, 7th U.S. Regiment, 3d Division; W.W. II, as colonel, Chemical Corps, 16th Corps, 9th U.S. Army. Seem to have done my best in river crossings: Distinguished Service Cross for 3d Division crossing of the Marne in 1918; Bronze Star for planning and executing the smoke screen protection of the 9th Army crossing of the Rhine in 1945. Now that all the world knows what becomes of old soldiers, I may say that I hope to fade away gradually and gracefully through the curtain of civil defense and disaster relief.
"Medical technology has also been an important field of my activities for more than fifteen years, and, though interrupted by the last war, I am still active in it on a smaller scale. In 1930 I was the No. 5 registered medical technologist in this country and during the follow- ing years saw this activity advance to the state of a profession. During the past ten years, however, it has been taken over from a few old pioneers like myself by the gentler sex. As commanding officer of the 6501st Organized Reserve Research and Development Unit, I am doing one day a week with the new phase-contrast microscope in the laboratories of the Stanford Medical School.
"Schools and colleges have been prompt to recognize the educational value of motion picture films made by these means, which permit the presentation of microbiologic life process cycles as functional wholes, so that the dynamics of such processes, as well as the static morphology of structures, can be more readily taught. More than 200 of them are now on our list of 'Phase Films' customers."
Brice has been owner and manager of "Phase Films" since 1947 and since 1948 has also been the exclusive agent in this country for Professor Frits Zernike, discoverer of the phase-contrast principle of optics and inventor of the phase-contrast microscope at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. Prior to the war Brice had been for eleven years clinical laboratorian expert with the U.S. Veterans Administra- tion in charge of laboratories of the Pacific Coast Diagnostic Center
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at Palo Alto and Fort Miley, Calif. He took his M.A. degree in physiology at Stanford in 1946 and in 1948 was elected a regular member of the American Optical Society by the board of directors for material contribution in the advancement of the science of optics. Since 1950 he has been commander of the Ross Disaster Corps and is also currently the Ross delegate to the Joint Cities and County Civil Defense Planning Board of Marin County. He has been active in the building fund and every member canvass drives at St. John's Episcopal Church in Ross. Brice has contributed some twenty-five articles to the scientific medical journals and is quoted in the standard text of Kolmer and Boerner on the selection of blood donors for transfusions and in Bodansky and Bodansky on blood chemistry in mental disease.
During the first two years of his service in World War II (1941-43) he was security officer at the Huntsville Arsenal. He says that his rec- reations are camping in national parks and forests and his hobby, in addition to photography, high power rifle marksmanship. Brice was married August 29, 1929, in Baltimore to Alice Lloyd Winder, daughter of Edward Lloyd and Mary Parker Winder. They have no children.
WILLIAM BRIGHT. General manager, Motorcar Service Com- pany, automotive jobbers, 900 French Street, Wilmington, Del .; residence, Greenville, Del.
Bright hits a somewhat less optimistic note than in his report for Volume II. "I've been trying to review sixty years of existence," he says. "They boil down to six decades. The first decade is a blank, the second hazy, the third confused, the fourth putting on weight, the fifth worrying about it, the sixth taking it off. During this decade you get replacements for teeth, hair, and eyes. They are not as good as the original, but they help. Any other replacements are wishful thinking.
"During the sixty years you play, work, and worry. The play time grows less, the work greater, and the worry greatest. Throw in a couple of wars, an operation or two, an increasing tax burden, an in- creasing socialization of living, prohibition, racketeers, bootlegging, and too many years of New Deal, Fair Deal, and No Deal. Stir this mixture up well and add loans, notes, and mortgages. What have you got? Well, don't let it get you down. That's only the debit side. On the credit side you very likely had a very lovely wife and children and a home that was a refuge and sanctuary. If you have had that, nothing else seems important. Selah."
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He adds, "One trip to Europe in 1922 is about the limit of my travels beyond the confines of the U.S. This trip was partly business and the balance pleasure. Till a few years ago I collected stamps. My only Other recreations are music and reading. Published a song in 1921 which was recorded on the Edison records. Nothing before and nothing since. Batting average 1,000."
Bright, who has been with the same firm since 1930, becoming general manager in 1945, says, as to retirement, "Not yet. When you meet an Indian the question is How? When you think of retiring the question is also How?" From June, 1942, to October, 1944, he was spare parts administrator for the Philadelphia Ordnance District.
He was married on November 12, 1922, in Ventnor, N.J., to Nancy Hoopes Patterson, daughter of Frank E. and Elizabeth Bella Hoopes Patterson. They have no children.
WINTHROP HOLLEY BROOKS. Chairman of the board, Brooks Brothers (men's clothing), 346 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y .; residence, New York Yale Club, 50 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York 17.
Since 1946 Brooks has been chairman of the board of Brooks Brothers, with which he became associated in 1919, after four years of ranching in Wyoming. He was married on February 3, 1917, in New York City to Linnor Gooch and has two children: Frederick C., who was born in Covington, Ky., on December 19, 1917, and Anne (Mrs. A. W. Volkman), born at Glen Head, N.Y., on April 14, 1925. There are two grandchildren: Ann C. Brooks and Lynne H. Volkman.
JOHN MICHAEL BROPHY. Residence, Bethlehem, Conn.
Brophy retired in June, 1950, from his position as principal of the Driggs School in Waterbury, which he had held since 1923. "All of my post-college years were spent teaching," he says. "I now live on my farm in Bethlehem and am enjoying my later years in an atmos- phere of bucolic quietude. I am still a bachelor and live with members of my immediate family. I have traveled in Europe, South America, and Central America and all through the United States and Canada. During the first World War I was connected with the U.S. Department of Censorship at headquarters in New York City for fourteen months, engaged in foreign language work."
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JOSEPH REAL BROWN. General counsel, Kansas City Southern Railway Company, Kansas City Southern Building, Kansas City, Mo .; residence, 1030 West 59th Terrace, Kansas City.
Since 1944 Brown has been general counsel, a director, and member of the executive committee of the Kansas City Southern Railway, with which he has been associated for a number of years. In addition, he is general counsel, vice-president, and a director of the Joplin Union Depot Company, the Kansas City, Shreveport & Gulf Terminal Company, the Kansas City Southern Transport Company, Inc., the Missouri State Realty Company, the Neches Bridge Company, the North Baton Rouge Development Company, Inc., the Port Arthur Canal & Dock Company, the Southern Development Company, and the Rice-Carden Corporation; general counsel of the Louisiana & Arkansas Railway Company, the Arkansas Western Railway Com- pany, the Fort Smith & VanBuren Railway Company, the Kansas & Missouri Railway & Terminal Company; and a director of the First National Bank of Kansas City. Brown belongs to the University Club of Kansas City and is an Episcopalian. He is the author of Striking Resemblance (Mandor) and Varied Years.
On January 4, 1922, he was married at Fort Smith, Ark., to Lucy Mason McDonough, whose parents were James B. and Sara Martin McDonough. Their daughter, Lucy McDonough (Mrs. C. B. Randall, Jr.), who was born February 25, 1924, attended the National Cathedral School and Holton Arms in Washington, and their son Joseph Real, Jr., born November 29, 1926, received a B.A. degree at Yale in 1948 and in 1951 completed his work for the degree of M.A. at the University of Southern California. He served in World War II with the American Field Service in both Europe and India.
LARNED FRIDLEY BROWN. Address, 640 18th Street, Rock Island, Ill.
THOMAS RUSSELL BURNS. President, United Nations Engineer- ing & Export Corporation (aircraft sales and services), 1507 M Street, N.W., Washington, D.C .; residence, 5802 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington 16.
Burns sent us the following summary covering the period since 1930: "Burns Laboratories, Dallas, Texas-owner, January, 1930-35; Ameri- can Machine & Metals Corporation, New York City-Southwest
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representative, September, 1935-37; Governair Air Conditioning Corporation, Oklahoma City, Okla .- sales engineer, November, 1937- 39; Apem Corporation, Little Rock, Ark .- president, May, 1939-42; U.S. Air Force-major, June, 1942-45; War Assets Agency, Wash- ington-commercial analyst, July, 1945-46; United Nations Engi- neering & Export Corporation-president, July, 1946."
"The aviation business requires extensive travel throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico," he adds. "This territory is covered in my Navion airplane, in which I am the pilot. A business trip in 1949 resulted in my going abroad and visiting Spain, Italy, Egypt, Greece, France, and England. Hobbies are golf, hunting, fishing, and swimming.
"I volunteered and entered the Army Air Force as a captain in June, 1942. I installed the system for shipping and receiving all personnel at Scott Field, Ill., and operated it for twelve months. Received a commendation and my majority for this work and became command- ing officer of the 19th Academic Squadron at Scott Field. I was de- activated as a major in June, 1945."
Burns is a member of the Roman Catholic Church. He was first married in January, 1918, in Los Angeles, Calif., to Louie White, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. White, of Houston, Texas. They were divorced in 1921. On January 13, 1935, he was married in Tyler, Texas, to Vivien King, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. King. He has three children: Elizabeth Claire, born July 26, 1919, at Lake Charles, La., Thomas Rearden on February 27, 1937, in Dallas, and Vivien Ann on September 2, 1939, also in Dallas. Elizabeth, whose marriage to Jack Stivers took place some time ago, has three children. Thomas is a Junior at Andover, and Vivien attends Mount Saint Mary's Academy in Little Rock.
EDWIN ARTHUR BURTT. Susan Linn Sage professor of philoso- phy, Cornell University; office, Goldwin Smith Hall; residence, 227 Willard Way, Ithaca, N.Y.
Burtt, who was for some years professor of philosophy at the Univer- sity of Chicago, has held the Susan Linn Sage professorship of philosophy at Cornell since 1932. During 1931-32 he was visiting professor of philosophy at Stanford University, and he was at the University of Hawaii in the same capacity in 1941. "Teaching college students has been fun," he says. "I'll probably turn out another book or two 'ere long-about philosophy, or religion, or relations between
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East and West. Traveled around the world from November, 1946, to June, 1947, as representative of the American Philosophical Associa- tion, to further closer contacts and mutual understanding between Western and Eastern philosophers."
In addition to the American Philosophical Association, Burtt belongs to the American Theological Society, of which he was president during 1949-50. His published writings are the following: Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science (1925); Types of Religious Philosophy (1939); English Philosophers from Bacon to Mill (1940); and Right Thinking (1946). He received the degree of S.T.M. at Union Theological Seminary in 1922, that of Ph.D. at Columbia in 1925, and an honorary L.H.D. degree at the University of Chicago in 1951. He is a member of the Society of Friends.
Burtt was first married in New York on September 25, 1916, to Mildred Caroline Camp. They were divorced in 1950. On June 16, 1951, he was married in Albany, N.Y., to Dr. Marjorie Frances Murray, daughter of David and Carol Murray. He has four daughters: Edith Jerome, born in New York City on February 18, 1918, Dorothy Newell on April 18, 1919, also in New York, Harriet Virginia in Cresskill, N.J., on February 20, 1921, and Winifred Jane in Chicago on May 7, 1927. They are all graduates of Cornell, the two oldest in 1939, Harriet in 1942, and Winifred in 1950. Winifred's marriage to J. H. Brinster took place on October 15, 1950.
* JOHN LORD BUTLER.
This biography, based on Butler's reply to our questionnaire, was written before his death on October 8, 1951.
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