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He has served on the National Committee for Mental Hygiene since 1924 and on the advisory committee of the National Council on Naturalization and Citizenship since 1938, and he was secretary of the Connecticut Child Welfare Association from 1924 to 1932 and president for the next eight years. He has also been a member of the State Commission on Child Welfare (1931-33), the State Planning Board (1935-37), and the State Public Welfare Council (1936-43). Davie has been on numerous committees of the American Sociological Society, and he belongs also to the Eastern Sociological Society (presi- dent, 1940-41), the American Association of University Professors (president, Yale chapter, 1931-32), the Masaryk Sociological Society of Czechoslovakia (corresponding member since 1934), Sigma Xi (to which he was elected in 1935), the Graduates and Faculty clubs of New Haven, the New York Yale Club, and the High Lane Club of Hamden. From 1942 to 1945 he was president of the board of the Prospect Hill School in New Haven and during the war served on the research committee of the New Haven Defense Council. He is a Con-
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gregationalist, independent in politics, but a firm supporter of Dean Acheson.
Painting and hiking are his hobbies. He has done a good bit of traveling-to Europe in the summer of 1935 (England, Scotland, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands) and again for his sabbatical year (1937), when he motored in Scotland, England, Wales, France (he was a delegate to the International Congress of Sociology in Paris), Belgium, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria, Switzer- land, and Italy; touring in the United States-every state except Florida and the Pacific Coast-in the summers of 1946 and 1950.
Mrs. Davie was Louise Stewart Apple, daughter of James L. and Margaret Iola Stewart Apple. They were married in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 19, 1917, and their children were all born in New Haven: James Stewart on January 24, 1925, Dorothy Louise on November 26, 1927, and Stephen Froude on July 26, 1930. The older boy, who graduated from Choate in 1942 and from Yale with the Class of 1945W, took his Ph.D. degree in sociology at Yale in 1951 and is now an instructor at Princeton. He served in World War II, being wounded in the battle of Leipzig. On July 30, 1949, he married Helen Douglas Milroy, Wellesley '48, daughter of W. Hamil- ton Milroy, Yale '20 S. Dorothy, who prepared for college at the Prospect Hill School, graduated from Wellesley in 1948. She was married on June 17, 1948, to Gilbert T. Brown, Yale '49, and is currently taking graduate work in psychology at Wesleyan University, where her husband is teaching economics. Stephen graduated from the Hopkins Grammar School in 1948 and is now in the Yale Class of 1952.
MANVEL HUMFREY DAVIS. Member, Johnson, Davis, Thom- son, VanDyke & Fairchild, lawyers, 515-A Commerce Trust Build- ing, Kansas City 6, Mo .; residence, 1233 West 63d Terrace, Kansas City 5.
Davis, who has been engaged in the practice of law since 1920, has been with the above firm for some time. Since 1936 he has been a director and a member of the executive committee of the Central Surety & Insurance Corporation. He served in the Missouri State Senate from 1928 to 1932 and in 1940 was the Republican party candidate for United States Senator from Missouri, but was defeated by Harry S. Truman. Davis is a member of the Second Presbyterian Church of Kansas City, of which he was a trustee from 1938 to 1942,
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and belongs to the American and Kansas City Bar associations, the Lawyers Association of Kansas City, the University, Kansas City Country, and Kansas City clubs, and the New York Yale Club.
He was on active duty as a Reserve officer in the Army Air Force from June, 1942, to April, 1945, when he was released with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was assigned to the 1st Bombardment Wing at Tucson, Ariz., and went to England in July, 1942, with the unit, which, as a part of the 8th Air Force, conducted bombing operations from August of that year until the end of the war. Davis was awarded the Bronze Star.
He was married February 15, 1933, to Genevieve E. Marcell, daughter of Louis Lee and Mary V. Marcell. They have three sons, all of whom were born in Kansas City: John Marcell on October 11, 1933, Louis Marcell on July 17, 1936, and Richard Manvel on January 1, 1939.
CHARLES KENNETH DEMING. Physician, 66 Trumbull Street, New Haven, Conn .; residence, 244 Bradley Street, New Haven.
For the past thirty-two years, in addition to carrying on his private practice, Deming has been connected with the Yale University De- partment of Health. His political affiliations are Republican, and, as to other things, he says, "At this age my interest is just fading away."
Deming, who was married in New Haven, June 15, 1918, to Laura Lewis Rice, daughter of William H. R. and May Sargent Rice, has five children, all of whom were born in New Haven. The oldest, John Nelson, born March 17, 1919, graduated from Andover in 1937 and from Yale in 1941. He served in the Infantry for four years, being awarded two Purple Hearts, and now works for the Southern New England Telephone Company. In 1948 he married Anna S. Huntington and has a son, Ellsworth Huntington, born July 22, 1950.
The oldest daughter, Elizabeth Lewis, born December 26, 1922, graduated from the University of Vermont in 1943. She married William J. Goeller, who served as a lieutenant in the Air Force in the Pacific, and they are living in Wilmington with their three daughters: Ann, born April 3, 1945, Amy on August 8, 1946, and Alison on March 8, 1949. The second girl, Catherine Virginia, born February 23, 1924, graduated from the University of Rochester in 1945 and took her M.S. degree at Columbia in 1948. She was married that year to Vincent Roy Mikeshock, who served in the Navy in the Pacific and is now an undergraduate at Columbia. Catherine is a social worker at
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St. Christopher's in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. The youngest girl, Linda, who was born July 1, 1926, is also a graduate of the University of Rochester (1946). She and her husband, Kenneth L. Gosner, both work at the Newark (N.J.) Museum; they were married in 1948. Deming's younger son, William Acker Rice, was born November 27, 1928. He graduated from The Gunnery in 1947 and from Middlebury in 1951.
THOMAS BAYNE DENÈGRE. Representative, First Bank of Biloxi, Biloxi, Miss .; residence, 623 East Beach Street, Biloxi.
Denègre, who has been a representative of the First Bank of Biloxi since 1947, has given us the following summary of his previous con- nections in the period since 1930: "Moore, Hyams and Company, investment bankers, New Orleans, La .; Public Works Administration, Washington, D.C .; Fleischman Distilling Company (Louisiana rep- resentative); Quartermaster Office, Keesler Field (A.A.F.), Miss .; A.A.F. Supply and Maintenance, Keesler Field; Post Exchange, Kees- ler Field." He belongs to the Biloxi Yacht Club, the Boston Club of New Orleans, the Cosmos Club of Washington, and the Elks.
Denègre's marriage to Alma Baldwin, daughter of Albert Baldwin, Jr., and Helen Hardie Baldwin, took place in New Orleans on October 18, 1917. They have three children: Alma Baldwin, born on Septem- ber 6, 1918, Thomas Bayne, Jr., on February 20, 1920, and George on October 20, 1923. Thomas Bayne, Jr., served as a lieutenant com- mander in the Navy during the war. He is married and has two children: Thomas Bayne, 3d, and John. Alma, who married Richard C. Keenan, has five sons: Richard C., Jr., George, Peter C., Baldwin, and Bayne C.
WILLIAM JAMES DENNEHY. Physician, 158 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, Conn .; residence, 600 Prospect Street, New Haven.
"I just do a doctor's job," says Dennehy. "Chief hobby is a research clinic in multiple sclerosis in St. Raphael's Hospital of which I am head. Hope we have added a few grains of knowledge to the study of this difficult disease.
"Spend the summer at home in Madison. Ted Blair, Tad Jones, Joe Crowley, Charles Kullman, and Mal Stevens are other Yalies in this group. We give a steak barbecue to the football squad in Septem- ber at Blair's house. Seventy kids, plus Hickman and Eddie O'Donnell, can and do eat 150 pounds of steak. Nothing left for the sea gulls."
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Dennehy, who has been practicing in New Haven since 1919, spe- cializes in internal medicine. In addition to the clinic referred to above, he has an appointment as attending physician in medicine at St. Raphael's. During World War II he served on New Haven induction boards and was also active in the civilian defense medical organization. He belongs to the Madison Beach Club and the New Haven Country Club.
His marriage to Isabel Frances Hughson, daughter of Thomas and Isabel Hughson, took place in New Haven on November 23, 1927. Their daughter, Delma Isabel, who was born on July 28, 1930, grad- uated from the Ethel Walker School and in 1951 from Vassar, cum laude. She is now with Life Magazine in New York.
ALBERT BLAKE DICK, JR. Chairman of the board, A. B. Dick Company, manufacturers of office equipment and supplies, 5700 West Touhy Avenue, Chicago 31, Ill .; residence, 1050 North Green Bay Road, Lake Forest, Ill.
Since October, 1947, Dick has been chairman of the board of the A. B. Dick Company, of which he was vice-president and treasurer until 1934 and subsequently president and treasurer-"have tried to retire since November, 1947, with only a modicum of success but improving all the time." He is a director of the Northern Trust Com- pany, Marshall Field & Company, and the Public Service Company of Northern Illinois, all of Chicago, the First National Bank of Lake Forest, the Frank G. Hough Company of Libertyville, Ill., and the New York Central Railroad, as well as of the First State Pawners Society (that's certainly an intriguing name), the Chicago chapter of the American Red Cross, and the John Crerar Library. In addition, he is second vice-president and a trustee of the Chicago Natural History Museum, president and a director of the Hospital Association of Lake Forest, a member of the board of managers of the Presbyterian Hos- pital of Chicago, and a trustee of the John G. Shedd Aquarium. Dick belongs to the Chicago, Attic, and Commercial clubs of Chicago, the Onwentsia Club of Lake Forest, the Links Club of New York, and the Graduates Club of New Haven. He is a Republican and a Pres- byterian.
On April 21, 1917, he was married in Lake Forest to Helen Aldrich, daughter of Frederick C. and Gertrude N. Aldrich. His son, Albert B., 3d, who was born March 10, 1918, "was commissioned in April, 1942, an ensign in the Navy and was stationed with the Bureau of Ordnance,
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Navy Department, in Washington. In 1943 he was transferred to the Submarine Patrol Base at Bar Harbor, Maine, and during 1944 and 1945 was stationed on the U.S.S. Detroit as navigator, serving in the Pacific area. He was discharged in March, 1946, with the rank of lieutenant and has since been promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander in the Reserve. He was married in 1940 to Elisabeth York, of Ithan, Pa., and they have three sons." Dick's daughter, Helen, born April 9, 1920, is now Mrs. Beckwith R. Bronson.
ERNEST BENHAM DIELMAN. Artist; address, Box 4, R.D. 71, Danbury, Conn.
Dielman writes: "I have painted and done sculpture in stone in Paris for twelve years. Exhibited annually in Salon des Tuilleries, Paris, during that time. Undertook to learn lost art of egg-yolk tempera painting as done in the trecento and quattrocento, as it is far more beautiful and also more lasting than any other kind. Studied with an Italian artist in Siena-also in Florence, London, and New Haven.
"I prefer to live in Europe, as it is far more interesting than this country. Dislike the mechanization, regimentation, hurry, and business of this land; amen."
Dielman adds that in 1946 and 1948 he traveled in Scotland, England, and France, as well as in Italy. His marriage to Susan Dows Herter, daughter of Christian Archibald and S. D. Herter Dakin, took place in New York City on February 8, 1918. Their oldest son, Steven, who was born on February 19, 1919, died on June 19, 1923. There are three other boys in the family: the twins, Frederick and Oliver, who were born on May 4, 1920, and Robert, born September 23, 1925. Oliver and Robert are both married; the former has a daughter and son and Robert a daughter.
JOHN LOCKE DOGGETT. Residence, Apartment 61, 250 River- side Drive, New York 25, N.Y.
Doggett writes: "I continued the practice of law with my firm in Jacksonville until 1946, when I retired and came to New York City to live. In Jacksonville, I served on the boards of the Florida Country Club, the Florida Yacht Club, and the Seminole Club (president also) and was a member of the Ribault Club, the Tunuquana Country Club, and the Riding Club.
"As to civic work, I served on the executive committee of the Community Chest for three years, as adviser to the Civic Music Asso-
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ciation and the Junior League, as a director of the local U.S.O. Council and the Jacksonville World War II Service Committee, as president of the Travelers Aid Society (1943 through 1945), as chairman of the Brazilian post-war trade committee of the Chamber of Commerce, as Yale alumni representative for Florida, and as president of the Harvard Law School alumni group in Florida.
"Illness caused my retirement from law. Miriam and I came to New York to reside so that I could undergo adequate medical treat- ment and be with our younger daughter. I skip three years of sickness, as I have emerged successfully and again enjoy excellent health. But I sure was convinced many times that I was a gon'er!
"Here in New York I have done research work; have acted as business and financial consultant and indulged in a bit of private writing. I hold a U.S. Civil Service rating as administrative officer. I shall probably receive a U.S. Government assignment here in New York City shortly, or it could take me into foreign service. While awaiting this, I might say that the Indian philosopher who sat under a tree for twenty years was just a busybody compared to me!"
Mrs. Doggett, who was Miriam Lee Jones, daughter of Robert Lee and Nancy Davis Jones, was the founder and first president of the Jacksonville Junior League. They were married in Jacksonville on June 27, 1921, and their daughters were both born there, Nancy Lee on January 22, 1922, and Miriam Locke on August 27, 1926. Nancy Lee attended the Hartridge School in Plainfield, N.J., and the Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville and in 1943 received a B.A. degree at Florida State College for Women, where she was a member of Delta Delta Delta and the Tarpon Club (filmed by Grantland Rice). She made her début in 1941 and during the war did aircraft drafting at the Naval Air Station at Jacksonville. On June 16, 1943, she was married in Jacksonville to Richard Phillip Walker, who served in the Pacific as a chief pharmacist's mate on the U.S.S. Enterprise. They are living in Palo Alto, Calif., with their three children: Richard Lance, born November 13, 1945, Linda Lee on December 18, 1947, and Sylvia Adrian on March 13, 1949. Nancy Lee is a member of the Junior League and the Peninsular Volunteers. Miriam (Winkie) graduated from the Robert E. Lee High School in 1944 and spent the next two years at the University of Alabama, where she was a member of Delta Delta Delta and the swimming team and a cheer leader. She left college to enter public relations work in New York with the Russell Birdwell organization as an account executive. Miriam, who made her début in Jacksonville in 1946, was
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married in New York on October 22, 1948, to Roberto Barbour, of Bogota, Colombia. They have two sons: John Roberto, born Septem- ber 8, 1949, and Richard Ross on December 22, 1951. The family lives in Port Washington, Long Island.
NORMAN VAUX DONALDSON. Director (president and treas- urer), Yale University Press, 143 Elm Street, New Haven 7, Conn .; residence, 14 Briar Lane, New Haven 11.
"Like many who responded to Jack Ely's appeal for the last Class book, I looked back for the first time in twenty years to see what I had written then," says Donaldson. "I find that what I said would be about right today with a few changes. Instead of the phrase 'ap- proaching forty' it must now be 'past sixty,' but I still find life 'not half bad,' am still working at the Yale University Press, still consider New Haven about the best place in the world in which to live, and still have enough illusions and faith in human nature to keep me from feeling old.
"Perhaps this indicates little progress in twenty years, and if so I must accept it. However, this is not to say my life is the same as it was in 1930; it is very different. To live alone after being married nearly thirty years means a fundamental change and adjustment. This change came to me in May, 1946. But I have two children and two grandchildren not far away, and that helps immensely. There are also many friends and the interest and demands of my job. I live in the same small house we built in 1921, and I putter about it and about the garden when there is time. For recreation I like fly fishing, and a group of us, including Ken Deming, 'the Silver Doctor,' continue to lease a few miles of stream in Killingworth which we stock each year with some of Pierre Hazard's speckled beauties. Also, I play an occasional game of so-called golf on some easy, not the Yale, course. The best golf-from the point of view of laughs, not score-comes in the summer on Chebeague Island, Casco Bay, Maine, where I often go for a few weeks and where Carl Beckert, our own Orchid King, has been blasting bunkers for many a moon. Last summer he got so 'hot' one morning that he won our nine-hole match, but I am glad to say I still have my clubs, temptation to the contrary.
"At the Yale University Press I am now the oldest employee in time of service and hold the title of director {since October, 1950]. It just goes to show that it pays to stick around, but when I say 'pays' I am not speaking in Wall Street terms, for publishing, and especially
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academic publishing, is no gold mine. The rewards come in other ways. Being in New Haven and connected with Yale, to which I am wholly devoted, is, I confess, a great and continuing satisfaction. Look- ing at the world today, I am, like every one else, deeply disturbed and worried about its present state. I do not even pretend to know the answers, but I try to give my confidence and support to those in responsible positions who, like Dean Acheson, are trying to the best of their great ability to solve our problems. What the future holds for us we can only guess, and I think it is interesting to speculate on what those who are still here will write for our next Class book."
During 1939-40 Donaldson was president of the Association of American University Presses. He is a member of the Graduates Club and the Dissenters of New Haven and the Yale, Century, and Pub- lishers' Lunch clubs of New York. He was a civilian air raid warden during the war.
Mrs. Donaldson's maiden name was Hildegarde Nash. They were married in Baltimore on April 11, 1917, and her death occurred on May 1, 1946. The children were born in New Haven, Virginia Louise on January 31, 1918, and Harry Nash on March 16, 1920. Virginia has studied for the theatre, is a member of Actors Equity, has been in summer stock, and acted professionally for the past five years; her stage name is Eve Hastings. Harry, who attended Rensselaer, sub- sequently worked at Glenn Martin and Chance Vought. He is now with the Albany Designing Company and living in Westerlo, N.Y. His wife was Julie Felter of that place. Their children are: Carole Lynn, age 7, and Norman Edward, age 3.
ARTHUR GRANT DONNELLY. Partner, Vosseler & Donnelly, lawyers, 57 William Street, New York 5, N.Y .; residence, 169 East 78th Street, New York 21.
"I have nothing much to say," Donnelly wrote, "except that I have enjoyed the practice of law, my home life, and recreations." He con- tinued as a member of the law firm of Shiland, Hedges & Pelham until 1938, practiced alone during the next two years, and has since been in partnership with Ed Vosseler of our Class. He belongs to the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the American Bar Association, the New York Yale Club, and the Advertising Men's Post, No. 209, of the American Legion. During the second World War he did air warden service and also canteen work at St. George's Protestant Episcopal Church. Sailing and painting have now taken the place of more strenuous recreations.
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Donnelly's marriage to Elizabeth Norton took place in South Orange, N.J., on May 18, 1925. She is the daughter of Lawrence A. and Louise B. Norton and a sister of Larry Norton, '15. They have no children.
ROBERT SEWALL DUBOIS. Principal highway design engineer,
Bureau of Public Roads, 1440 Columbia Pike, Arlington, Va .; residence, 6117 32d Place, N.W., Washington 15, D.C.
DuBois starts off by saying, "I had majored in geology, but after a summer course with Harvard in Montana, I decided not to continue that subject, so I returned to Yale for civil engineering, receiving a Ph.B. with the Class of 1916 S." He then gives the following sum- mary: "Bridge designer, New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, 1916-17; private, corporal, and second lieutenant, U.S. Army, mostly at Pershing's headquarters, 1917-19; bridge engineer for Colorado State Highway Department, 1919-25; chief bridge designer, New Jersey State Highway Department, 1925-33; highway design engi- neer, U.S. Bureau of Public Roads (Skyline Drive, Blue Ridge Park- way, etc.), 1933 to date; in U.S. Army, 1940-45 (as major, lieutenant colonel, and colonel, Corps of Engineers; corps area engineer, and service command engineer SHAEF {civil affairs]; now colonel, Offi- cers Reserve )."
"I have yet to come across any one who had duty at both Pershing's headquarters and at Eisenhower's," he adds-and we haven't either. Cryptoanalysis and gardening are what he turns to for recreation. He is a Mason and belongs to the American Cryptogram Association, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Society of Military Engineers, and the American Legion.
On January 16, 1923, his marriage to Mabel Clark, daughter of George Irving and Martha Hartshorne Clark, took place in Denver. Their son, Robert Clark, who was born in Jersey City, N.J., on March 21, 1927, graduated in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Tech in 1948 and is now working for the Brown Instrument Division of the Minneapolis-Honeywell Company on the development of new gauging equipment.
THOMAS McEWING DUNCAN. Political adviser to the Ameri- can Federation of Labor, 1525 H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. Duncan continued as executive assistant to the Mayor of Milwaukee through 1929. He had been elected to the Wisconsin Legislature in
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1922 and was reëlected in 1924 and again in 1926. Two years later he was elected to the State Senate for a four-year term and during this period was chairman of the joint committee on finance, which pre- pared the state budget and the tax laws necessary to balance the budget. He was also the author of the measure levying a tax on the privilege of paying dividends which was declared unconstitutional by the State Supreme Court by a vote of 6-1 and declared constitutional by the United States Supreme Court by a vote of 4-3.
Duncan served as executive assistant to the Governor of Wisconsin from January, 1931, to January, 1933, and again from January, 1935, to July, 1938. In the meantime (1929) he had become pub- lisher of a daily newspaper, the Milwaukee Leader and Post, and continued in this connection until 1940. He was with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation of Washington from June, 1939, until the end of 1947 and since 1948 has been employed as a political adviser to the American Federation of Labor by Labor's League for Political Education. He took part in the 1948 and 1950 campaigns in various states.
While in the Wisconsin Legislature, Duncan was the author of the first law in the United States which banned the Yellow Dog contract (1929), of the Wisconsin Labor Code similar to the Norris- LaGuardia Act which was passed in Wisconsin before the Norris- LaGuardia Act was passed in Congress, and of the revised Wisconsin law (1931) regulating public utilities which was prepared largely by David Lilienthal, at that time chairman of the Wisconsin Public Services Commission, and was introduced by Duncan as a member of the State Senate. He also led the movement to set up an old age pension system in Wisconsin, which was accomplished by degrees- the first step in 1925, the next in 1929, and the state-wide system in 1931-before the national system was adopted in 1935. He also took part in the establishment in Wisconsin of the first unemployment insurance system in the country and was the author and led the fight for the adoption of two amendments to the state constitution, one providing for the item veto and one placing the right of recall of elected officials in the Wisconsin state constitution. While in the Mayor's office and the Lower House of the Legislature, in his first term in 1923, Duncan obtained the passage both in the Milwaukee Common Council and in the Legislature of his plan to eliminate the public debt of the City of Milwaukee. This plan was opposed by the Milwaukee Association of Commerce, and the Milwaukee Real Estate Board employed a special lobbyist to defeat it. Duncan says that the
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