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"I was in the advertising business in Philadelphia until I retired (for reasons of bad health and after five months' serious illness) in July, 1947," Butler wrote. "Since then I have divided my time between a small house in Philadelphia and a rural establishment in the Poconos at Stoddartsville, which I built some thirty years ago in an area with which my family have long been identified. I have also spent con- siderable time in Florida, in particular in Key West, in which city I am at the moment building a home.
"My greatest activity at the present time is working diligently for my wife, in accordance with established American custom. I also fool around a little with real estate. My greatest pleasure is in my children and grandchildren, of whom I see a great deal. We are a close knit and very happy family, fortunately and remarkably. I feel that I have
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had a rich and full life and contemplate the future with serenity and confidence."
Butler continued as president of the John L. Butler Company in Philadelphia until 1937. From 1938 to 1943 he was merchandising and advertising counselor to various businesses and for the next two years was an account executive with the Aitken-Kynett Company of Philadelphia. During the war he was a representative of the National Foam System (fire fighting equipment) and worked in close contact with the U.S. Navy on development of instructions for handling oil fires on ships at sea and prepared training procedure. From 1943 to 1947 he was director of the Philadelphia Veterans Center, serving as advisory counselor to returning veterans. He was a member of the Episcopal Church and of the Sons of the American Revolution, the Founders and Patriots of America, and the Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States. Color photography was Butler's hobby.
Mrs. Butler was Marion Field Sharpless, daughter of Townsend and Mary Field Sharpless. They were married on May 19, 1917, in Wyncote, Pa., and the two oldest children were born there: John Lord, Jr., on June 28, 1918, and Mary Elizabeth on February 2, 1921. The younger girl, Gertrude Stoddart, was born in Abington, Pa., on August 3, 1925. John, Jr., graduated from Yale with a B.A. degree in 1940. He volunteered for naval service that year and was commis- sioned an ensign in 1941. He served in the Pacific throughout the war and then transferred to the Regular Navy. Currently he is a lieutenant commander and captain of the destroyer Jack W. Wilke. He was mar- ried on December 12, 1947, to Barbara S. Underhill and has a daugh- ter, Susan Lord. Mary, whose marriage to Kilbourn Gordon, Jr., took place in Rydal, Pa., on October 18, 1942, has two daughters: Caroline Lewis and Mary Elizabeth. Gertrude was married in October, 1944, in Rydal to Terence R. Blackwood and has two children: Elizabeth Ann and John Temple.
CLIFFORD HAMILTON BYRNES. Partner, Hale, Sanderson, Byrnes & Morton, lawyers, 50 Congress Street, Boston 9, Mass .; residence, 152 Summer Street, Hingham, Mass.
Byrnes, who received his LL.B. degree at Harvard in 1919, has been a partner in the Boston law firm of Hale, Sanderson, Byrnes & Morton since 1929. During the period from 1940 to 1946 he was a member of the Massachusetts State Guard. He belongs to the Union Club of Boston, the Cohasset Golf Club, and the Yale Club of New York and is a Republican and a Unitarian.
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Byrnes' marriage to Blanche Edith Trainor took place in New York City on August 1, 1925. They have no children.
WILLIAM PATRICK CAMPBELL. Residence address, care L. G. Audette, Essex Fells, N.J.
Campbell taught at the Kingsley School in Essex Fells from 1916 to 1918 and again during 1923-24. He spent the period from 1930 to 1932 at Colorado Springs, the next six years at Saranac Lake, and lived in New York City from 1939 to 1944. From June of that year until May, 1945, he was a civilian worker in the engine repair department at the Rome (N.Y.) Army Air Field. Since then his time has been divided mainly between Englewood and Cresskill, N.J., although he has spent the past three winters in Mexico. Campbell is unmarried.
WILLIAM RALPH CAMPBELL. Broker, Fairfield & Ellis (insur- ance), 60 Congress Street, Boston, Mass .; residence, 11 Monument Street, Wenham, Mass.
Campbell, who has been living in Wenham for some time, says that he will be glad to see any classmates who may travel that way. He doesn't mention just when it was that he entered the insurance broker- age business with Fairfield & Ellis. During the war he was a deputy air raid warden and did quite a bit of plane spotting. He collects stamps and coins for a hobby, is an Episcopalian and a Republican.
Mrs. Campbell, who was Katharine Douglas Hunter, daughter of Frank K. and Katharine Waldo Douglas Hunter, died on March 26, 1948. They were married in London on January 2, 1919. Their older son, William Douglas, who was born in Rapid City, S.Dak., on December 27, 1920, attended the Eaglebrook School in 1933 and was at Exeter from 1934 to 1938. He then entered Yale, where he graduated with a B.A. degree in 1942. He had been in the N.R.O.T.C. and went on active duty in the Navy in 1942 and was subsequently on destroyer duty in the Caribbean, Mediterranean, and North Atlantic and then the Pacific on the Intrepid, ranking as a lieutenant at the time of his release from service in January, 1946. In 1949 he graduated from the Yale Law School and is now practicing in Portland, Oregon. The second boy, Alexander John, born in Erie, Pa., May 20, 1922, also attended Eaglebrook and Exeter. He too was in the N.R.O.T.C. at Yale, where he received his B.A. degree with the Class of 1944. He served as a lieutenant in the Navy and saw action in the Pacific area, including New Guinea, from October, 1943, until August, 1945.
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He was then in Washington with the Liquidation Commission until June, 1946, and since 1947 has been acting manager of the Otis Elevator Company in Manila. Campbell's daughter, Katharine Anne, who was born May 17, 1924, in Erie, attended the Winsor School and Vassar, where she graduated with a B.A. degree in 1943. She served as an economic analyst with the U.S. Treasury Department in Washington during 1945-46, spent the next three years as a repre- sentative of the department in London, and was then back in Wash- ington from December, 1949, to August, 1950. Her marriage to John Hugh Adam Watson, first secretary to the British Embassy in Wash- ington, took place in Wenham on September 9, 1950.
GEORGE JULIAN CARR. Manager, chartering department, Leval & Company, Inc., grain exporters, 2 Broadway, New York 4, N.Y .; residence, 277 Park Avenue, New York 17.
Carr, who was with the Municipal Finance Corporation at the time the Quindecennial Record was published, served from 1930 to 1932 as assistant deputy chief of the Foodstuffs Division of the Department of Commerce and is the author of several pamphlets published by the Government Printing Office. Leval & Company, Inc., with which he has been associated since about 1930, are the United States repre- sentatives of Louis Dreyfus & Cie. of Paris. Carr is a director of James L. Thom, Inc., a New York steamship agency, and of Montship Lines, Ltd., of Montreal. During World War II he had three and a half years' service as a colonel in the Army Transportation Corps and twice received a Medal of Commendation.
He is a member of the New York Produce Exchange, the New York Produce Exchange Luncheon Club, the Yale Club of New York City (chairman of the cards, games, and athletic committees), and the West End Collegiate Church in New York. He took a three months' business trip to Europe (England, France, and Italy) both in 1948 and 1949, and in 1950 went on a Caribbean cruise. Special interests are bridge, stamps-and "keeping head above water."
Carr's marriage to Helen Thompson Keely, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. U. Grant Keely, took place in New York City on May 12, 1920. Their son, George Grant, who was born in New York on February 27, 1924, graduated from The Choate School in 1941 and from Yale in 1945 and is now associate editor of Iron Age. He served overseas with the 7th Army for four years and at present is a member of Squad- ron A.
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LEWIS FRANCIS CARR. Address, care Walter S. Carr, 25 North Main Street, Dayton, Ohio.
RUSSELL JAMES CARTER. Field investigator, Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor; residence, "Windover," Gwy- nedd, Pa.
"The above occupation is intermittent," Carter explains, "as since October, 1947, I have been retired for all practical purposes because of ill health. My last job before that was with the New York Regional Office of the War Assets Administration, during the three years prior to October, 1947. My spare time is now spent in gardening, green- house work, and a nursery business which is being developed at 'Windover.' "
At the time the last volume of the Class History was published, Carter was secretary-treasurer of the Empire Brick & Supply Company of New York. He was subsequently with the Ty Brick Corporation, also in New York, until it was liquidated, and during the war years worked for the Wright Aeronautical Corporation in Patterson, N.J. His political affiliations are Republican, and he is a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Englewood, N.J.
Carter's marriage to Jean Imbrie, daughter of William Morris and Janette Curry Imbrie, took place in Englewood on August 21, 1917. Their son, Russell James, 2d, was born July 15, 1918, and died on September 4, 1948. He had a B.A. degree from Cornell and was mar- ried on August 21, 1946, to Ruth Lehde, of Buffalo. His children are: Ann Elizabeth, Russell Edward, and Edward Imbrie.
THEODORE EDWARD CARUSO. Vice-president and general manager, Humphrey's Medicine Company, 473 Lafayette Street, New York 12, N.Y .; residence, 433 East 51st Street, New York 22. Caruso continued with the American Home Products Corporation of New York as president and general manager until 1937 and from 1938 to 1945 was associated with the Lambert Company of New York (Listerine, prophylactic toothbrushes, and hormones) as research di- rector. Since 1948 he has been vice-president and general manager of the Humphrey's Medicine Company and since 1946 has also been general manager of the United Witch Hazel Distillers of Long Hill, Conn., currently having a similar connection with Boericke & Runyon and the Standard Medicine Company of New York. He is a member
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of the Episcopal Church of the Ascension in New York and of the New York Yale Club.
"I have traveled in eighty-seven countries," he says. "Have done a lot of ocean sailing with Audrey, my daughter, on 'Riptide' and hunting with my prize spaniel, Lord Peter of Southgate. I lay claim to nothing except confession of my sins and promoting about 3,000 employees, even if I have only a few dollars left at present.
"Gertrude Hoover and I were married on April 20, 1917. We are old-fashioned and still happy together here after thirty-four years. Her parents, believe it or not, were Hoover and Smith! Our daughter, Au- drey, was born June 26, 1919, and is now married to Lieutenant Ralph Hartell, living next door on Beekman Place, New York. Ralph is an account executive in advertising with Stanley Resor, Yale '01, presi- dent of the J. Walter Thompson Company, and to help us all, Audrey, a graduate of Barnard, is head buyer of Bloomingdale's department store in New York at $25,000 per year. Some beautiful daughter!"
MORRIS CASSARD, JR. President, Cassard Romano Company,
Inc., furniture manufacturers, 305 East 63d Street, New York, N.Y .; residence, 130 East 75th Street, New York.
Cassard, who has been president of the Cassard Romano Company, Inc., since November, 1923, is also president and a director of the Waters Building Corporation and treasurer and a director of the 307 East 63d Realty Corporation. He received a medal for his work with the Selective Service organization, which covered a five-year period. He has been chairman of the card committee of the Union Club of New York since 1947, was a governor of the Onteora Club from 1940 to 1949, and was reëlected in 1950 for three years. He belongs also to the New York Yale Club.
"Bird shooting, bridge, and golf are my special interests, and in that order," he says. "Went to Cuba twice last year for quail shooting, which was excellent. Also took a short motor trip through France, Italy, and Switzerland. We got in about ten days in Canada on wood- cock and a couple of weeks in the Catskills on grouse."
Cassard, whose marriage to Therese Mercier, daughter of Henri and Jean Mercier, took place in Paris on July 1, 1916, has three chil- dren. Marie Rose, the oldest, was born in Paris in 1918 and was married in 1941 to William Sipperly; they have three children: David, Peter, and Andrew Provost. Morris, 3d, born in New York in 1924, was in the Army Air Force for three and a half years, serving in
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England, France, and Germany; he was in the Yale Class of 1950, but was seriously injured in an automobile accident which prevented him from finishing. The younger boy, David, who was born in New York in 1932, is now in the Class of 1954 at Yale.
KARRICK MOULTON CASTLE. With National Production Au- thority, Department of Commerce, Washington 25, D.C .; residence, 1862 Mintwood Place, N.W., Washington 9; permanent address, 50 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York 17, N.Y.
Castle was in the foreign funds control section of the Treasury Depart- ment from 1941 to 1943 and with the Department of State during the next six years. During 1949-50, while with the Department of the Army, he was stationed in Vienna at the headquarters of the U.S. Forces in Austria. Since his return he has been with the National Production Authority, Department of Commerce.
Castle has done quite a bit of traveling in Europe. He is a member of the Yale Club of New York City, the Army and Navy Club of Washington, and the Association of Ex-Members of Squadron A (New York). His marriage to Helen Harrison took place in New York on February 20, 1932. Mrs. Castle, who is the daughter of Frank Sperry Harrison, Yale '86 S., and Harriette Eyster Harrison, attended Wellesley and the Cornell University School of Architecture. They have no children.
JOHN WESLEY CASTLES. Limited partner, Smith, Barney & Company, investment bankers, 14 Wall Street, New York 5, N.Y .; residence, Schoolhouse Lane, Morristown, N.J.
Castles continued as a partner in Charles D. Barney & Company until 1938. He was a general partner in Smith, Barney & Company for the next two years and since his retirement on December 31, 1940, has been a limited partner in the firm. Since 1929 he has been a director of Thomas Young Orchids (of which Carl Beckert is presi- dent), and prior to his retirement he was also on the boards of the Glenn L. Martin Company, the Tri-Continental Corporation, Selected Industries, Inc., and the Continental Bank & Trust Company.
From 1942 to 1945 Castles was on active duty as a colonel in the Army. He served for a year as assistant chief of staff, G-2, U.S. Tank Corps, at Fort Knox, was deputy assistant chief of staff in the European theater during 1943-44, and then for a year was in the A.G.O. section of the 12th Army Group. He was awarded the Purple Heart and the
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Legion of Merit. He served as vice-president of the Universal Military Training Committee, Inc., and vice-chairman of the national emer- gency committee of the Military Training Camps Association, and he belongs to the Links and the Racquet and Tennis clubs of New York.
On August 25, 1920, Castles' marriage to Dorothea Bradford Smith, daughter of Edward C. and Anna James Smith, took place in St. Albans, Vt. They have two children: John Wesley, 3d, born June 13, 1921, and Patricia, born May 24, 1924, both in New York. The boy, who graduated from Andover in 1939, from Yale in 1943, and from the Columbia Law School in 1948, is associated with Lord, Day & Lord in New York. During the period from 1943 to 1946 he was a lieutenant in the Naval Reserve. Patricia was in the Westover Class of 1942 and the Bryn Mawr Class of 1946. She married Dean Acheson's son, David C. Acheson, Yale '43, and has two children: Eleanor Dean and David C., Jr.
RALPH THOMPSON CHAMBERLAIN. Cost accountant, Home- lite Corporation, manufacturers of portable pumps, power plants, and gas and electric chain saws, East Portchester, Conn .; residence, 26 Indian Field Road, Greenwich, Conn.
From 1930 to 1937 Chamberlain was a customers' man with the Stock Exchange firm of G. M .- P. Murphy & Company. During 1941 and 1942 he was treasurer of the Fix-It Shop, Inc., of Greenwich and since 1943 has been with the Homelite Corporation. He served as an air raid warden during the war, and in 1951 he was elected a director of the Greenwich Taxpayers' Association for a three-year term. He has been active in the Studio Workshop Players of Greenwich for about ten years, serving as president for three years, and belongs to the Mil- brook Country Club. He plays tennis and golf, is an ardent Dodger baseball fan, and says that he has always been a Republican and cam- paigned for Willkie.
He adds: "With such luminaries as Dean Acheson, Arch MacLeish, Tommy Tompkins, Ran Macdonald, et al., creating a lustrous back- drop for the Class of 1915 showing, it would be downright immodest for me to lay claim to any noteworthy achievements other than a wife, three daughters, and four grandchildren, who should be included in any 'all-star cast.'
"Having spent most of my first twenty-five business years in Wall Street dealing in securities until the 'drought' of the late Thirties, it was quite an experience in middle age to start a fresh career in the
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field of cost accounting. It might conceivably have been a very drab occupation under ordinary circumstances, but developments in the past decade, together with a lot of study and hard work, have opened up opportunities that compensate for much that was lost in the period of transition. For the last several years as a director, and this year as president, of the Greenwich-Stamford chapter, I have been active in the National Association of Cost Accountants. My job with Homelite embraces product costs, pricing, preparing bids, and negotiating gov- ernment contracts."
Mrs. Chamberlain was Mildred Bouvé, daughter of Ephraim Chan- ning and Nettie Lavinia Bouvé. They were married in Newton High- lands, Mass., on November 9, 1917. Their oldest daughter, Marion, who was born in Greenwich on November 27, 1919, graduated from Wellesley in 1941. She is the wife of Nicholas T. Ficker, Yale '37, and has two children, Ralph and Wendy. Elizabeth, the second girl, was born on July 9, 1921, in Greenwich, attended Colby College, and graduated from the Berkeley Secretarial School. She married Nicholas Ficker's brother David, Wesleyan '43, and has two children, Jane and Christopher. The youngest daughter, Jane, who was born on Septem- ber 27, 1927, died on December 31, 1946.
CORNELIUS EDWARDS CLARK. Superintendent, Congregational-
Christian Conference of Maine, 95 Exchange Street, Portland 3, Maine; residence, 53 Seeley Avenue, Portland 5.
Clark writes: "In 1931, the Woodfords Church in Portland, located in a residential section of the city, called me to be its minister, and Maine has been home since then. Toynbee does not think too highly of Maine, but we like it, although we vary things a little by crossing the border into New Hampshire for our vacations. The mountains are the principal attraction there, and Neil, Jr., and I have climbed many of them.
"Since 1945 I have been a peripatetic parson with a parish which covers the entire state of Maine. If we Congregationalists had bishops, I would be one so far as Maine is concerned. I'm a pastor of pastors and of the 267 churches of our fellowship in Maine. It's a varied, fascinating job, which I enjoy thoroughly.
"We continue to make our home in Portland, but the work calls me into all parts of the state, the potato land up north, the blueberry country down east, the Moosehead region with its trout and salmon, and the coast with its lobsters. The foods are good (and I've put on
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weight ), but it's the people who raise or catch them with whom I am mainly concerned, and they are real folks!"
For five years before going to Portland Clark was minister of the Auburndale (Mass.) Congregational Church. He was a director of the Congregational-Christian Conference of Maine from 1940 to 1945, serving as its vice-president during 1944-45 and then as president from May to October of the latter year, when he became superin- tendent. In 1936 he received the honorary degree of L.H.D. at the University of Maine. Since 1937 he has been a trustee and secretary of the board of the Bangor Theological Seminary. Clark is a member of Deering Lodge, A.F. and A.M., of Portland and of the Scottish Rite bodies of Portland (Most Wise Master of Dunlap Chapter, Rose Croix, 1944-47), and an honorary member of the Supreme Council, A.A.S.R., N.M.J. He belongs also to the Fraternity Club of Portland.
He was married November 21, 1917, in Hartford, Conn., to Susie Elizabeth Martin, daughter of Richard P. and Edith E. Martin and sister of Richard P. Martin, Jr., '15. They have two children: Edith Hooker, born February 8, 1920, in Hartford, and Cornelius Edwards, Jr., born November 6, 1922, at Dover-Foxcroft, Maine. Edith, who graduated from the Deering High School in Portland and from Mount Holyoke in 1942, was a Girl Scout executive in Huntington, W.Va., from 1942 to 1945 and since 1946 has been a staff member of the Girl Scout Council of the District of Columbia and Montgomery County, Md. On May 13, 1950, she married Marvin Wilkerson, of Washington, and they are now living in Silver Spring, Md. Neil, Jr. also went to the Deering High School. He graduated from Yale in 1944 and from the Yale Law School in 1948, was a weather observer with the Army Air Force from 1943 to 1945, and since 1948 has been in the mortgage loan division of the Ætna Life Insurance Com- pany in Hartford. His marriage to Patricia Steffens, Wheaton '45, took place in New Haven, June 26, 1948. They make their home in East Farmington, Conn.
FREDERICK W. CLARKE, JR. President, Stockmen's Credit Com- pany, 1104 Woodmen of the World Building, Omaha, Nebr .; resi- dence, 601 South 38th Avenue, Omaha.
Clarke has been president of the Stockmen's Credit Company since 1924 and for some years has also been treasurer of the Nebraska National Company. His marriage to Stella Louise Thummel, daughter of George H. and Stella B. Thummel, took place in Omaha on July
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3, 1917. They have three sons, all of whom were born in Omaha: Frederick Weaver, 3d, on May 12, 1918, George Thummel on October 15, 1922, and Peter Bartruff on December 20, 1925.
JOHN PIXLEY CLEMENT. Address, Rutland, Vt.
WINSLOW SHELBY COATES. Lawyer, Locust Valley, N.Y .; resi- dence, Bayville, N.Y.
"After a few years of a law partnership, I have practiced law alone since 1926," Coates says. "I have been a director of the Glen Cove Trust Company and the Matinecock Bank of Locust Valley for up- wards of twenty years and am village attorney for nine Long Island incorporated villages-Matinecock, Muttontown, Lattingtown, Laurel Hollow, Lloyd Harbor, Cove Neck, Oyster Bay Cove, Brookville, and Upper Brookville."
During the war he took part in various civilian activities, including the Selective Service. He is a member of the New York City, Nassau County, and American Bar associations. As to other things, he com- ments, "I think that I might make a respectable challenge to belong to the first ten in my Class in tennis, if presently tested."
Mrs. Coates was Jane Brush, daughter of George de Forest Brush, one of the leading American portrait painters, and Mittie Taylor Brush. They were married in New York City on January 22, 1923, and have four children: Jane Allison, born January 31, 1924, Elise on March 12, 1925, Virginia on September 17, 1927, and W. Shelby, Jr., on March 4, 1929. They were all born in Bayville except Virginia, who was born in Dublin, N.H. She attended the Turkey Lane School at Cold Spring Harbor and the Nightingale-Bamford School in New York and was married in November, 1950, to John Chaffee, of Providence. Elise, who went to the same schools, was married in November, 1948, to Dr. Reese F. Alsop and has two daughters. Jane, after attending the Turkey Lane School, studied at the Savcha School at Albuquerque, N.Mex. During the war she was a nurses' aide in the North County Community Hospital at Glen Cove. Her marriage to Dr. Henry Clay Frick, 2d, took place on June 30, 1945, and she is the mother of four daughters. W. Shelby, Jr., who prepared for college at Friends Academy, the Oyster Bay High School, and Andover (he was there three years), is a member of the Class of 1952 at Yale. On their mother's side the children are direct descendants of John Daven- port, one of the founders of Yale.
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COLLES JOHNSTON COE. Engaged in real estate brokerage and property management; business and residence, Halsey Neck Lane, Southampton, N.Y.
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