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From Coe in July, his attention distracted by his two dogs who were barking their heads off at passing hounds-"Nothing to say other than I spend (D.V.) the winters in Barbados, B.W.I., and the summers here at Southampton, my business being of the nature that allows me so much time off. For hobbies, I play golf, fish, and sail, in none of which I excel. These forms are rather frightening and are worse to fill out than making an after-dinner speech, so I have followed the injunctions about speeches and made my answer short."
Coe, who went into the real estate business in New York City shortly after graduation, was for some years president of Ladd & Nichols, Inc. He is commodore of the Southampton Yacht Club and belongs also to the Southampton Club, the University Club of New York, the National Golf Links, and the Royal Barbados Yacht Club. His marriage to Mrs. Lillian Norton took place on December 13, 1945.
BRADLEY LANCASTER COLEY. Surgeon, 140 East 54th Street, New York 22, N.Y .; residence, 1435 Lexington Avenue, New York 28.
Coley, who has been engaged in the private practice of surgery since 1922, has been chief surgeon of the New York Central Railroad since 1932. He is attending surgeon to the Hospital for Special Surgery, the Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospitals, and the University Hospital, visiting surgeon to Bellevue Hospital and the James Ewing Hospital, and surgeon in charge of the bone tumor department at the Memorial Hospital (where in May, 1949, he organized the Amputees' Alliance), associate professor of clinical surgery at the Cornell University Medical School, associate clinical professor of surgery at the Post-Graduate Medical College of New York University, and professor of clinical surgery at the New York Medical College, Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospitals. He is a trustee of the New York Academy of Medicine, a founder member of the American Board of Surgery, and belongs also to the American, Southern, and Eastern Surgical associations (presi- dent of the latter, 1951-52), the New York Surgical Society, the American Association for Cancer Research, the American College of Surgeons, the American Radium Society, the American Association of Surgery of Trauma, the International Surgical Association, and the Association of Medical Consultants of World War II.
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Coley's book, Neoplasms of Bone, was published by Paul B. Hoeber, Inc., of New York in 1949. He is also the author of numerous papers dealing principally with the diagnosis and treatment of tumors and associated lesions of bone, and of chapters in the following books: on Hernia in Oxford Looseleaf and in A Textbook of Surgery, by Dr. F. Christopher (1937); on Bone Tumors in Cyclopedia of Medicine, by Dr. Eliason (Philadelphia), and in Advances in Surgery, edited by Dr. William D. Andrus (New York Interscience Publishers, Inc., 1949); on Treatment of Osteogenic Sarcoma in Treatment of Cancer, edited by George T. Pack, M.D., and Edward N. Livingston (Hoeber, New York, 1940), and on Malignant Tumors of Bone in Surgical Treatment of the Motor-Skeletal System, edited by Drs. F. W. Ban- croft and C. R. Murray (1945). He is a Republican in politics, served as a deacon of the Brick Presbyterian Church of New York from 1941 to 1944, and belongs to the University and Century clubs of New York and the Sharon Country Club.
"Between 1922 and 1942 I was not out of the country and did prac- tically no traveling," Coley says. "From the time I entered service in June, 1942, until I was discharged in October, 1945, I traveled ex- tensively throughout the five Southwestern states that comprise the 8th Service Command. In March, 1945, I started for the Philippines in a Navy transport and had about five months overseas' service as surgical consultant to the 6th Army; it was necessary to fly from the island of Luzon (H.Q. of 6th Army) to most of the other important islands of the P.I. group, including Leyte, Mindau, Cebu, Negros, and Panay. This tour of foreign duty was climaxed by an emergency flight from Manila to Brooklyn, which consumed about only four days (in contrast to thirty-five days sailing out from San Francisco).
"Hobbies are fresh-water fishing and upland game hunting. Am an ardent collector of Currier and Ives prints. We spend nearly every week-end in seclusion at my home in Sharon, Conn., where I do much of my medical writing. Am particularly interested in the rehabilitation of people who have undergone amputation."
Coley, who ranked as a colonel in the Medical Corps, A.U.S., while on active duty, now has the same rank in the Reserve. Prior to going to the Philippines, his assignment was that of surgical consultant to the 8th Service Command. In 1945 he was awarded the Legion of Merit.
He was first married in June, 1918, to Laura Jay Wurts; they were subsequently divorced. His second marriage, to Phyllis Greenfield Mac- donell, daughter of Donald Greenfield and Adele Rose Macdonell, took place September 5, 1922, in Surrey, England. They have three
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sons, all of whom were born in New York: William B., 2d, on Sep- tember 21, 1923, Geoffrey Macdonell on December 28, 1926, and Bradley Lancaster, Jr., on May 21, 1930. The oldest boy prepared for college at Pomfret and graduated in 1945 from Yale, where he is now working for his Ph.D. degree in English. He served in the Army for four years. His marriage to Truman Smith's daughter, Katharine Truman Smith, took place in June, 1950. The other boys went to St. Paul's. Geoffrey graduated from Yale in 1949, after two years in the Navy, and is now in his second year at the Harvard Medical School. Bradley, Jr., is in the Yale Class of 1952.
HAROLD MAX CONE. Residence, Center Road, Easton, Conn.
"I retired in June, 1942, chiefly because I found I could work as well at home, instead of commuting to a Wall Street office," Cone says. "I was a member of the New York Stock Exchange from 1919 to 1933 and since then have been occupied with personal investments and economic forecasting.
"We lived in Scarsdale, N.Y., from 1926 to 1946 and then bought a small farm (fifteen acres) in Easton, Conn. We grow mostly fruits, vegetables, and flowers (station wagon farming, I believe it is called) and spend about eight months a year here. We're in New York City in the winter for a couple of months and then take a trip to some warmer climate. These annual winter trips are usually to the West Indies, Guatemala, Florida, or California-last winter, Jamaica, the year before St. Thomas, V.I .- next winter-who knows. My chief hobby is antique collecting, mainly old china and glassware. In con- nection with this, I maintain a small antique shop on my place, as a sideline hobby."
Cone served as a lieutenant in the Naval Reserve for a short period in 1942 and during the next three years was a member of the Scarsdale auxiliary police. He takes part in various civic and recreational activi- ties in Easton, among other things being a director of the Easton Swimming Association and the Easton Sports Club. He belongs to the Grange, the American Legion, and the New York Yale Club.
His marriage to Margaret Kohn took place in New York on Febru- ary 9, 1922. Their older son, John Harold, who was born May 3, 1924, graduated, cum laude, from the Westminster School in 1941. He was a bombardier with the 7th Air Force from 1942 to 1945 and following his release from service entered New York University. He graduated there in 1947 and that year married Katherine Trager. They have
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two sons: Peter, born in 1948, and Douglas in 1950. The family lives in Los Angeles. The younger boy, Robert E., born June 4, 1926, also attended Westminster, and, after service in the Army Air Force from 1944 to 1946, he is now a radio writer and has done scripts for both C.B.S. and N.B.C. He is unmarried and lives in New York.
TOM JAMES CONINE. President, Conine Nursery Company, Inc .; business and residence, 24 South Elliot Street, Stratford, Conn.
Conine says that he has practically retired from business, although he is still president of the Conine Nursery Company, with which he became associated upon graduating from Yale, and also has another business under his own name which deals in horticultural supplies. He adds, "I am very much interested in boats and boating, have two boats, and generally spend my summers at Block Island, R.I., on my boat, loafing and swordfishing. During the last two summers there has been a great scarcity of swordfish in those waters."
Conine was married on September 27, 1919, in Stratford to Edith Hobson Luce, daughter of Henry L. and Rachel M. Luce. There are two children in the family: Thomas Edmund, born on July 20, 1920, and Barbara Ann on November 30, 1928, both in Stratford. Thomas, who served in World War II for four years, was married in September, 1950, to Isabelle Johnson, of Stratford, and has a son, Thomas Ed- mund, Jr.
THOMAS HILARY CORNELL. Residence, Buck Lane, Haverford, Pa.
Cornell doesn't tell us a thing about what he has been doing, devoting his report instead to his family. He was married in Pittsburgh, Pa., on February 3, 1920, to Truth Madeline Binns, Wellesley '19, daugh- ter of Edward Hussey and Cecelia Kerrigan Binns. They have three children: Edward Hussey Binns, born on March 1, 1922, in New York City; Truth Margaret Redette, born on August 30, 1928, also in New York; and Thomas Hilary Maher, born on October 19, 1931, in Bryn Mawr, Pa. The older boy spent some time at Yale with the Class of 1945 and graduated from Haverford College with a B.A. degree in 1949. During the war he was a captain in the Army Air Force, flying with the 15th Air Force in Italy. His marriage to Char- lene Dearen took place on October 9, 1943, and they have a three- year-old son, Thomas Hilary, 2d, and a daughter, Rebecca Charlene, aged ten months. Truth, who was married on September 16, 1947,
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to Oskar H. Pedersen, has two children: Gyda Marghretta, aged three,. and John Rhode, aged ten months. Thomas is a member of the Yale Class of 1954.
RAYMOND EDWIN COX. Residence, 2346 S Street, N.W., Washington 8, D.C.
Cox retired from the U.S. Foreign Service in 1946. Until then, he says, he had been on assignment abroad or in Washington, as directed by the Department of State. He is a director of the National Symphony Orchestra Association, a trustee of the Washington Cathedral Choral Society, and a member of the Metropolitan, Alibi, and University clubs of Washington, the Chevy Chase (Md.) Club, and the Yale Club of New York.
Cox was married in Philadelphia on January 31, 1929, to Margaret Berwind, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Berwind. Their son, Alan Berwind, who was born in London, England, on March 19, 1930, graduated from St. Paul's School in 1948 and is now a member of the Class of 1952 at Yale.
GEORGE PATTERSON CRANDALL. Teacher, Westminster School, Simsbury, Conn .; home address, Westfield, N.Y.
During the period from 1930 to 1937 Crandall was president of the National Bank of Westfield (with which he had become connected upon his graduation from Yale) and the National Bank of Fredonia, N.Y. He was vice-president of the Union Trust Company of James- town, N.Y., for the next six years and then entered the teaching field. He taught at the Darrow School, New Lebanon, N.Y., for a year and since September, 1944, has been at Westminster. Since 1925 he has been a trustee of the Patterson Library in Westfield, and he was a vestryman of St. Peter's Episcopal Church there from 1930 to 1945.
On June 29, 1915, his marriage to Nellie van Buren, daughter of James Lyman and Julia N. van Buren, took place in Dunkirk, N.Y. They have four children: Prudence, born April 22, 1916, in Dunkirk, Faith on March 17, 1918, at West Palm Beach, Fla., George Patterson, Jr., on May 1, 1921, in Westfield, and Peter van Buren on May 16, 1923, also in Westfield. The older girl, who married Frank W. Jarvis, Princeton '32, has two children: Frank W., 3d, born in 1939, and Faith in 1941. Faith was in the Vassar Class of 1940 and served as a lieutenant (j.g.) in the Waves during the war. She and her husband, Gordon K. Scott, Harvard '38, have two children: Peter, born in
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1949, and Charity in 1951. George Patterson, Jr., Williams '44, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal for his service as a Marine fighter pilot (captain, U.S.M.C.). He married Joan De Motte, Mount Holyoke '43, and has two children: Hope, born in 1948, and George Patterson, 3d, in 1950. Peter graduated from Yale in 1950.
HENRY VICTOR CRAWFORD. Counsel, Nelson, Healy, Baillie & Burke, lawyers, 52 Wall Street, New York 5, N.Y .; residence, Lands End, Stony Point, Va.
Crawford writes: "The only achievement I can report is in the attain- ment of such peace of mind as can reasonably be expected in this world of undeclared and unending war. The means to this end was my decision to devote a minimum amount of time to my professional affairs in New York and a maximum amount to my farm in Virginia, where I am raising Aberdeen Angus cattle in a small way.
"My program has resolved itself into a five-day month so far as New York activities go, and after some thirty years of a fairly strenuous law practice, this limited exposure seems to be sufficient and, of course, makes me appreciate more fully each month on my return home, the great satisfactions to be derived from living and working in the country. Hours which were formerly spent in commuting from home to office are now available for music and reading or just plain enjoyment of the simple life. Peace-to the extent that a man can find it today- it's wonderful!"
The above will no doubt stir up a lot of wishful thinking on the part of a number of other members of the Class.
Crawford continued as a partner in the New York law firm of Hunt, Hill & Betts until 1934. He was a partner in Crawford & Sprague for the next ten years and then in Crawford & Parsons until January, 1949. It would appear that his subsequent five-day-a-month New York program must be rather crowded, for in addition to his connection with Nelson, Healy, Baillie & Burke as counsel, he is vice-president, secretary, and a director of the Hartol Petroleum Corporation and Electric Ferries, Inc., secretary and a director of the Peabody Engineer- ing Corporation, and a director of Green & Hewitt, Inc. (business management), all of Manhattan, and, in addition, is secretary and a director of Commonwealth Motors, Inc., of Richmond, Va. While actively engaged in practice, Crawford specialized in admiralty and corporation law. During the war he served on the Montclair (N.J.)
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Draft Advisory Board. He mentions that he has indulged in some European travel, but doesn't say just when.
His marriage to Ruth Andrus, daughter of C. Walton and Pauline F. Andrus, took place in Montclair on May 4, 1917. Their daughter, Kathleen Denniston, who was born in Montclair on March 4, 1918, attended Chatham Hall, Kent Place, and Smith College. She lives in Arlington, Vt., with her husband, George Hughes, an artist, and three daughters.
Their son, Henry Victor, 3d, who was born December 11, 1919, in Montclair, graduated from the Kent School and then attended Yale with the Class of 1942. He left after his Junior year and in August, 1941, enlisted in the Army. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Field Artillery and subsequently served in England and France with the 30th Division. On July 26, 1944, he was killed in action and was buried in the U.S. military cemetery at St. Laurent, France. For his services as a forward observer he was awarded the Silver Star. Henry's marriage to Diana Adams, of Montclair, took place in June, 1942.
WILLIAM WILLARD CROCKER. Chairman of the board, Crocker First National Bank, San Francisco 20, Calif .; residence, Sky Farm, Burlingame, Calif.
Crocker, who has been with the Crocker First National Bank since 1920, became president in 1936 and chairman of the board in Janu- ary, 1950. He is a director of the Pacific Gas & Electric Company, the Southern Pacific Company, the Matson Navigation Company, the Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, the Pacific Lighting Corporation, the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and also of the San Francisco Community Chest. He is chairman of the board of trustees of the San Francisco Museum of Art and a member of the Chapter of Grace Cathedral. Crocker belongs to the Pacific-Union and Bohemian clubs of San Francisco and the Knickerbocker Club of New York.
He was first married on June 20, 1923, in San Mateo, Calif., to Ruth Mary Hobart. They were divorced in 1949. His second marriage, to Gertrude Hopkins, took place in Sacramento on September 23, 1949. His son, William Henry, who was born in San Francisco on August 20, 1924, graduated from Yale in 1950. His daughter, Diana Hobart, born in San Francisco, September 26, 1926, attended Radcliffe, where she graduated in 1948. Her marriage to John Redington took place
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in San Mateo on May 7, 1949, and they have a son, David Crocker, born March 23, 1950.
WILLIAM DICKSON CUNNINGHAM. Associate, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, lawyers, 14 Wall Street, New York 5, N.Y .; residence, 255 West Stearns Street, Rahway, N.J.
Cunningham remained with the law firm of Kellogg, Emery & Inness- Brown until 1933, was with Lynch, Cahn & Weed the following year, and then with McGuire & McGuire for a brief period in 1934 before becoming associated with Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. He spe- cializes in estate and real estate law and is a member of the New York and New Jersey bars. Cunningham, whose home has been in Rahway since 1927, has served as president of the Board of Education for the past five years. He has been an elder of the Presbyterian Church for nine years, a member of the board of trustees for eight (president, 1944), and also superintendent of the Sunday school for eight years. During the war he served as an air raid warden and as a Red Cross supervisor. He has been a trustee of the Vail-Deane School for Girls of Elizabeth, N.J., since 1939 and vice-president of the board for the past two years. He is a Republican.
Tennis is still an absorbing interest. Since 1948 he has been president of the Eastern Lawn Tennis Association (of which he was secretary from 1943 to 1946 and second vice-president in 1947) and a member of the executive committee of the United States Lawn Tennis Associa- tion. He has twice (1940 and 1941) been semi-finalist in the National Veterans (45 years of age and over) singles championship and in 1942 was the finalist in the National Veterans doubles championship. In 1949, 1950, and 1951 he was captain of the United States Veterans Team playing in the Gordon Trophy Matches against Canada.
Mrs. Cunningham, who was Rebecca Chase, daughter of Edward Sanford and Annie Adams Chase, died on March 26, 1938. They were married in Rahway on August 31, 1922. Their older daughter, Nancy Chase, who was born January 22, 1925, in New York, graduated from the Vail-Deane School in 1942 and from Wellesley four years later. On January 21, 1950, she was married in New York to John West Kirkham, Yale '21. The second daughter, Barbara Moffat, was born April 5, 1927, in New York, graduated from the Vail-Deane School in 1944, and in 1948 received a B.A. degree at Goucher College, where she was president of the Athletic Association and tennis cham- pion of the college. She is engaged to F. Stanley Porter, Jr., Princeton
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'48, of Baltimore. Cunningham's son, William Dickson, Jr., who was born March 20, 1933, in New York, graduated from the Rahway High School last June and is now a Freshman at Yale. He was captain of his high school tennis team in 1950 and 1951 and also a member of the 1951 basketball team.
PAUL DAILY. Associate professor of finance, DePaul University; office, 64 East Lake Street, Chicago, Ill .; residence, 688 Euclid Avenue, Glen Ellyn, Ill.
Daily writes: "I have been a member of the DePaul faculty since 1928. Previously I was engaged in farm management." He was promoted to associate professor of finance at DePaul in 1946. In 1938 he re- ceived the degree of M.B.A. at the University of Chicago.
Daily was married some years ago to Helen Morgan, daughter of William Harlowe and Eleanor Platt Morgan. Their son, Roger Morgan, who was born in Chicago on July 7, 1932, was in the Fresh- man Class at Yale during 1950-51. He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps last October.
FREDERIC WILLIAM DAUCH. First assistant tax commissioner, State of Connecticut; office, State Tax Department, 470 Capitol Avenue, Hartford, Conn .; residence, 1 Castlewood Road, West Hartford.
In February, 1935, Dauch gave up the general practice of law in Waterbury, Conn., in which he had been engaged since 1919, to become assistant attorney general of Connecticut. He served in that capacity until September, 1937, when he was appointed deputy tax commissioner. In 1946 he was advanced to first assistant tax commis- sioner.
On October 15, 1925, Dauch was married in Waterbury to Alice L. Hughes, daughter of William and Beatrice Hughes. They have two children: Frederic William, Jr., born December 8, 1926, and Alicia Ann, born March 21, 1937, both in Waterbury. The boy received his preparatory education at The Taft School, graduated from Yale in 1950, and is now employed as a salesman by the Napier Company of Meriden, Conn. While in college, he won his major "Y" in track. Alicia is a student at the Oxford School in West Hartford.
STEPHEN RINTOUL DAVENPORT. Vice-president in charge of production, Yardley of London, Inc. (cosmetics and perfumes),
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600 Palisades Avenue, Union City, N.J .; residence, Courview Road, Willowmere, Riverside, Conn.
Davenport, who was formerly with the Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Com- pany, has for some time been with Yardley of London, Inc., as vice- president in charge of production and a member of the board of di- rectors. He has served one term as a town meeting representative in Greenwich and during the war was an air raid warden. He belongs to the Riverside Yacht Club and the Yale Club of New York.
Davenport's marriage to Marianna Bonnell, daughter of Henry H. and Ethel Chase Bonnell, took place in Philadelphia on October 13, 1928. There are four boys in the family: Henry Bonnell, born in September, 1929, Stephen Rintoul, Jr., in January, 1931, Samuel Chase in March, 1933, and John Leverett in August, 1936. Henry graduated from Yale with a B.A. degree in June, 1951, and in August was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Air Force. Stephen, Jr., is in the Class of 1953 at Oberlin, Samuel a Freshman at Amherst, and the youngest boy a member of the Class of 1954 at the Kent School.
MAURICE REA DAVIE. William Graham Sumner professor of sociology, Yale University; office, 133 Hall of Graduate Studies; residence, 126 Ridgewood Avenue, Hamden 14, Conn.
"Simple and of even tenor are the annals of the college professor"- thus Davie. "Classes come and go, and it is hard to remember dates (especially with increasing age)-one year runs into another. It is a very busy, though not dramatic, life, and on the whole very satisfying. It would be still more enjoyable if the American curse of over- organization, with innumerable committee meetings and excessive paper-work, had not extended to the university and destroyed what little remained of a sense of leisure. Action is replacing thinking. Even the university is succumbing to the false notion that if you are as busy as hell you are accomplishing something. My chief regret is that I haven't been able financially to retire so as to escape the feverish activity and be free to study and contemplate. The only memorable peaks in the life of this teacher are sabbatical leaves, with the pleasure of travel or the creative joy of writing a book.
"The course has also been steady and rewarding in family life. My one and only wife and I have been blessed with three fine children who have presented no problems, have done well in school and college,
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have married wisely and happily, and thus far have resided in New Haven or not far away."
Davie has been on the Yale faculty since 1921, starting as assistant professor and becoming associate professor in 1927 and professor in 1932. In 1942, upon the retirement of Professor Keller, he succeeded to the William Graham Sumner chair of sociology. He has been director of graduate studies in sociology since 1932 and chairman of the Sociology Department since 1937 and is a Fellow of Calhoun College. Since 1948 he has been the editor of the American Sociologi- cal Review, and he is the author of the following books which have appeared since our last Class record was published: The Evolution of War (Yale University Press, 1929; translated into French and pub- lished by Payot in Paris, 1931); A Study in Professional Education (joint author; Western Reserve University Press, 1930); Problems of City Life (John Wiley & Sons, 1932); World Immigration (Mac- millan Company, 1936); The Refugees Are Now Americans (joint author; Public Affairs Committee, 1945 ); What Shall We Do About Immigration? (Public Affairs Committee, 1946); Refugees in America (Harper & Brothers, 1947); and Negroes in American Society (Mc- Graw-Hill Book Company, 1949). Davie edited Sumner Today, pub- lished by the Yale University Press in 1940, and he was the co-editor with A. G. Keller of Essays of William Graham Sumner (two volumes; Yale University Press, 1934) and has contributed some fifty-odd articles to various professional journals and symposia.
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