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plan has worked out satisfactorily and Milwaukee is the only city in the United States to get out of debt without relying on income from publicly owned utilities to accomplish this purpose.
His marriage to Catherine M. Cody took place in Milwaukee, Feb- ruary 15, 1915. They have two sons: Robert Walton, born January 31, 1916, and John Alexander on July 9, 1917, both in Milwaukee.
JASON CLARK EASTON. Professor of history, West Virginia Uni- versity, Morgantown, W.Va .; residence, 301 Duquesne Avenue, Morgantown.
A decided change of vocation is indicated by Easton's report. At the time our Quindecennial Record was published he was with the Con- tinental Illinois Bank & Trust Company in Chicago, and now he is professor of history (since 1947) at West Virginia University. We judge that he has been a member of the faculty there for some time, although he doesn't say so specifically. He took an M.A. degree at Northwestern in 1931 and a Ph.D. degree at the University of Wisconsin in 1937. "Have a library of about 3,000 volumes," he says, "mostly historical, but also literary, in English, French, German, Italian, and the classical languages. Among them are a small number of incunabula, one an Aldus Manutius. Have a small collection of paintings and etchings by John Steuart Curry, Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, Whistler, Seymour Haden, and others."
Easton has contributed historical articles to the Journal of Modern History, West Virginia History, and other journals, and he is a mem- ber of the American Historical Association and the Medieval Academy of America, as well as of the Faculty Club at West Virginia. From 1940 to 1944 he was a vestryman of Trinity Episcopal Church in Morgantown, serving as secretary and treasurer at various times during this period. He mentions that he took a trip to Europe in 1937.
Easton's marriage to Joy Bromberg, daughter of Mrs. H. A. Cochran, took place in Morgantown on November 24, 1949. They have no children.
ARTHUR EBENHACK. Address, 50 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York 17, N.Y.
ALBERT GALLATIN EDWARDS. Missionary, Syria-Lebanon Mis- sion of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A .; address, American Mission, Al Mina, Tripoli, Lebanon.
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"I was in the United Mission in Mesopotamia, in which the Presby- terian Board cooperates, in Iraq, from 1924 through 1938, then from 1940 to 1946 in the Brazil Mission of the same board, and since 1947 in my present situation," Edwards tells us. "I took an amateur interest in archeology in Iraq while there and traveled through most of the Euphrates district of Iraq, picking up a fair acquaintance with the Arab people of the land. In the interior of Brazil I did a bit of travel by mule-back in the 'sertão.' Back in the Arab world my work takes me out into the villages where we are working to build up the Evangelical Church."
We quote the following from a letter written by Mr. and Mrs. Edwards to their missionary organization: "Mrs. Edwards and I are increasingly conscious of three factors which form a background to the situation here. These factors are, first, a growing opposition to the work of the Gospel; second, a distressing economic situation; and third, an Evangelical Church which is hardly holding its own, and certainly is showing no marked signs of growth. Thank God, there are signs of hope, and we are finding new openings for the work; but we would not be honestly reporting if we were to tell you that the situation is without difficulty and danger.
"One element of opposition comes from Communists and Com- munist sympathizers. In spite of the terrible reports that leak back from Lebanese, especially Armenians, who have gone to Russia, there is a widespread feeling that conditions under the Soviets can hardly be worse than in Lebanon, with the terrible suffering that is so preva- lent in the villages and cities. Most of these sympathizers are not, I believe, doctrinaire Marxists, but they think that almost anything is worth trying, rather than to continue as they are.
"Because of the precipitate recognition of Israel by the United States Government, and because nothing has been done for the settlement of the several hundred thousand Palestinian refugees, all groups of the population in Lebanon, Christians of all sects, as well as Moslems, feel that the United States has shown itself their enemy. The people naturally feel sympathy for the thousands of refugees in Lebanon settled in great refugee camps, living on rations furnished by the United Nations, hardly more than is necessary for bare sub- sistence, and unable to get employment. Lebanon, facing tremendous unemployment of its own people, has none to offer, and furthermore they will not permit the refugees to have work, as to do so would increase Lebanese unemployment. Many of these Palestinians are becoming demoralized in their camps, with promises of return by some
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irresponsible Moslem agitators, and then alternating fear and despair that they will have no place to live. This situation is generally blamed on the United States and has raised opposition to all things American and not least to the American missionary enterprise.
"A third cause of opposition comes from secularism, which often penetrates into the newer generation of the Christian sects with an apathy to the Gospel message. And this is true in some of the younger members of the Evangelical Church. These conditions must be faced as we carry on our work of making Jesus Christ known.
"A second factor affecting the work of the Gospel in Lebanon today is the terrible economic situation. ... The third factor which affects the Christian witness is that emigration has taken away much of the possible leadership, as well as much of the material support of the Evangelical Church. The Theological Seminary, located in Beirut, is not supplying the needs of the Arabic-speaking Evangelical Synod. Only one Arabic-speaking student under the Synod graduated during the past three years, and he expects to go to Chile to settle. Due to the low salaries paid ministers, which causes a general feeling of insecurity, it is very difficult to persuade students to prepare for the ministry. . .
"In the Tripoli region we have been trying to meet the need by the establishment of Bible classes and Sunday schools. At present there is only one Lebanese pastor in the region. He is located in the village of Minyara. (This Minyara church is said to have more members now in Jacksonville, Fla., than in the old village itself. ) ... What has encouraged us especially in this work is the fact that we have usually had volunteer workers in each place. . .. From time to time I am able to take out the Mission's 'Bookmobile.' During the spring vacation of the school I had a very interesting trip through some of the towns and villages in south Lebanon and ended with a visit to the Christian Youth Conference at Sidon, where the delegates gave a very enthusiastic hearing to a report on the work of literature distribution. .
Edwards' marriage to Marie Helen Gehlsen took place in St. Louis, Mo., December 27, 1923. They have four children: Benjamin Frank- lin, 2d, born September 24, 1925, in Beirut, Albert Gallatin, Jr., on May 9, 1927, in Baghdad, Margaret Isobel on June 10, 1928, in Hillah, and David Lincoln on November 17, 1929, also in Hillah. The boys have all graduated from Yale-Ben in 1950, Albert in 1949, and the youngest in 1951. The oldest boy, who is in the Rio de Janeiro office of the National City Bank of New York, was mar-
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ried in 1951 to Sally Rasmussen. Albert is studying at the Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. His marriage to Pauline Mc- Kinley, of St. Louis, took place in 1949, and they have a daughter, Lucy Woods, born in September, 1950. Margaret completed her combined B.S. and nursing course at Washington University, St. Louis, last June. In 1950 she married John Findley Barker, who is taking his Master's degree in commerce at the same school. David expects to study medicine there.
LAURENCE ADAMS EGGLESTON. Vice-president, David C. Bell Investment Company (real estate, etc.), 501 Second Avenue, South, Minneapolis 2, Minn .; residence, 1944 Penn Avenue, South, Min- neapolis 5.
In 1934 Eggleston became vice-president of the David C. Bell In- vestment Company, with which he has been connected most of the time since leaving college. He has been active in the Yale Alumni Association of the Northwest, serving as secretary and treasurer since 1946, and has been treasurer and a director of the Minneapolis Athenæum since 1943 and of the Associated Industries of Minneapolis since 1947 and secretary and a trustee of the Lake Cemetery Associa- tion for the past six years. He has been on the governing committee of the Minneapolis Club since 1942 and was president of the club in 1947. He is an Episcopalian and a Republican.
On August 17, 1917, Eggleston's marriage to Elizabeth Folds, daughter of Charles Weston and Florence Simonds Folds, took place in Lake Forest, Ill. They have had four children: Elizabeth Ann, born June 26, 1918, in Chicago (who is married and has three children); Laurence Adams, Jr., who was born July 27, 1920, in Minneapolis and died there on December 5, 1922; Mary Alice, born October 1, 1922, in Minneapolis (married, with two children); and Florence, born September 8, 1930, in Minneapolis, who graduated from Smith in June, 1951.
ALBERT HEMAN ELY. A director of Moral Re-Armament (Ox- ford Group); residence, 2419 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Wash- ington 8, D.C.
"Looking back over an already full and interesting life, but with no expectation of fading away, I can honestly say that being graduated from Yale in 1915 has been one of the outstanding milestones," Ely says. "For twenty-five years as Class secretary I had the privilege of
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keeping pretty closely in touch with most of you. As one of my daugh- ters used to say when she was little, 'I wouldn't trade any of you for a spotted pony!'
"Since our last Class book was published I have been working with Dr. Frank Buchman (Nobel Prize nominee, 1951) in the world force of Moral Re-Armament. I am one of the directors of the American work. Its principles are close on to 2,000 years old, but their applica- tion in a practical way to the needs of our time is changing the course of history. It is demonstrating that human nature can be changed and that through new men, new nations and a new world can be built.
"In this work since 1930 I have crossed the Atlantic eleven times by steamer and five times by air. On some of these trips I helped to establish a world ideological center for the free nations at Caux-sur- Montreux overlooking the eastern end of Lake Geneva. Since World War II over 30,000 people, ranging from Prime Ministers and senior military officers to former Communist miners and dock workers, from 104 countries and territories, have met and found there a basis for uniting the democratic world and penetrating the Iron Curtain with an ideology superior to Marxism-Leninism. Following the visit of the Congressional Committee which set up the 'Voice of America,' Senator Karl Mundt told the press that 'in some ways what the Com- mittee saw at Caux was the brightest star for the future we have witnessed in all Europe.'
"Among other interesting events in which I have taken part during the past twenty years have been meetings of the League of Nations at Geneva, notably when sanctions were imposed against Italy in 1935, the inauguration of President Camacho in 1940 when I sat in the Mexican Senate during his installation, the UNCIO meetings in San Francisco in 1945, and receptions in Rome held by His Holiness, Pope Pius XII, during the Holy Year of 1950.
"In 1950, also, I helped to bring to Europe and America, with General MacArthur's approval, a distinguished group of seventy-three Japanese, among whom were six governors of Prefectures, the mayors of the principal cities, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Diet mem- bers, and many industrial and labor leaders. Official receptions were held for them in each country they visited. In Washington, Vice- President Barkley and Speaker Rayburn broke all precedents by invit- ing their spokesmen to address the Senate and the House during regular sessions. In London, the delegates, through Mr. Chojiro Kuriyama, of the Prime Minister's Party, and Mr. Takutaro Kitamura, of the Democratic Party, issued this statement:
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We hope in future as a nation to show by our deeds that we have found a change of heart and that we can make our contribution to the remaking of the world. Russia has ad- vanced in Asia because the Soviet Government understands the art of ideological war. It fights for the minds of men. We appeal to the Governments and peoples of the West to do the same-to make themselves expert in the philosophy and practice of Moral Re-Armament, which is the ideology of the future. Then all Asia will listen.
"Since World War II I have been abroad much of the time, often with my wife, working in such pivotal areas as the Ruhr, the Com- munist-ridden parts of France, and the industrial centers of northern Italy. Our two oldest daughters have worked with us, both here and abroad, during their school and college vacations. From Helsinki to Naples, along the length of the Iron Curtain, we have seen great transformations taking place. Foreign Minister Schuman has said, 'I am interested in Moral Re-Armament because it is reaching the millions in France,' and Chancellor Adenauer has added, 'Moral Re-Armament has become a household word in Western Germany.' British papers have credited MRA with the inspiration for the Schuman Plan. Dock strikes on the Thames, Mersey, and Clyde have been averted. Everywhere it goes, Moral Re-Armament is checking the tide of godless materialism. It is giving to Communist and capitalist alike a superior ideology capable of rooting out long-standing antagonisms of nationality, race, and class on the basis of change for all. It is a challenge to accept absolute moral standards-honesty, purity, un- selfishness, love-and to obey the guidance of God. It is for every one, everywhere.
"In Washington we live in a house once owned by Mary Roberts Rinehart, who wrote many of her thrillers in my study. The house continues to see exciting days. If any of you are down this way, I hope you will stop and see us. There is an old Danish saying, 'If there is room in the heart, there is room in the home,' and that goes for 1915."
Ely is a contributor to New World News, published monthly in London and Los Angeles, and during the war he edited a fortnightly News Letter from Washington to hundreds of men trained in MRA who served in the United States and allied armed forces on every front. He was in the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary during 1941-42. He served . as president of the Huntington (N.Y.) Hospital during 1934-35 and has been a member of its advisory council since 1936. He was a
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member of the board of managers of Christodora House in New York from 1932 to 1947, a trustee of Bethune-Cookman College in Florida from 1939 to 1949, and a vestryman of St. John's Church, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., from 1930 to 1935 and of Calvary Church in New York from 1936 to 1941. Ely belongs to the Metropolitan and Uni- versity clubs and Potomac Grange No. 1 in Washington and to the University, Yale, and Church clubs of New York, the Knickerbocker Grays Veteran Corps, the Ex-Members Association of Squadron A, and Holland Lodge, No. 8, A.F. and A.M.
His marriage to Constance Jennings, daughter of Walter and Jean Brown Pollock Jennings, took place September 24, 1927, at Cold Spring Harbor. They have had four children: Constance Day, born September 20, 1928, Florence on June 3, 1931, Mary on October 18, 1935, and Nathaniel Jennings on May 6, 1939. Florence was born in Cold Spring Harbor and the others in New York City. Constance attended the Cathedral School in Washington and graduated from Wellesley in 1951. Florence graduated from the Madeira School in 1949, and Mary is there at the present time. Nathaniel died in Wash- ington on January 3, 1952, from injuries received when his horse stumbled and threw him. He was a student at the Landon School in Bethesda, Md.
PHILIP HENRY ENGLISH. Trustee, English Real Estate Trust, 1098 Chapel Street, New Haven 6, Conn. (P.O. Box 1586); residence, 99 East Rock Road, New Haven 11.
English is engaged in the management of central real estate in New Haven in connection with the English Real Estate Trust, of which he has been a trustee since July, 1947. Previously he had been for twenty years secretary and treasurer of the New Haven Clock Company, devel- oping an interest in electronic methods of timing watches and fuses and during the period from 1938 through 1946 aiding in the produc- tion of anti-aircraft, bomb, and naval mine time fuses and training devices for submarine detection. During the war he served in the Coast Guard Reserve as a seaman on a part-time basis with the Bran- ford Squadron, 714th Coastal Patrol Service.
Since 1938 English has been a director of the Union & New Haven Trust Company. He has served on the New Haven Park Commission since 1948. Among other public offices which have taken a lot of his time in the past are the New Haven Board of Education (1930-42), the New Haven Public Library Board (1943-44), and the New
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Haven Municipal Airport Board (1946-48). He served as president of the Farnam-Neighborhood House (1934-39) and of the Quinnipiac Council of Boy Scouts (1944-46). In 1948 he became a director of the Grace-New Haven Community Hospital and the New Haven Colony Historical Society and in 1951 a member of the New England Regional Scout Committee. He is a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church and of the Graduates, New Haven Lawn, Quinnipiac, and Branford Yacht clubs.
He says that for recreation he turns to fishing in the Maine streams and off Block Island, sailing a Lightning class boat at Branford-also that he continues an active interest in the fifty-year development plan for New Haven's airport and that he aided in improving New Haven's traffic conditions, when one-way streets became essential. English has been active in the development and management of summer camps for young people for forty years. He remarks: "For those not in the formal educational fields, I believe the greatest opportunity to broaden and improve the lives of our rising generations lies in the fields of public recreation and summer camping. What would life be without forests, streams, mountain colors, and dawn over the ocean? To stay young, train young people to enjoy the grandeur of nature."
On June 18, 1921, English was married in Lawrence, N.Y., to Katharine Dana, daughter of Arnold Guyot and Grace Newton Dana. Their older son, James Dana, who was born in New Haven, March 15, 1932, is a member of the Yale Class of 1954. The younger boy, Richard Locke, born March 5, 1935, also in New Haven, is at Pomfret.
CHARLES ADAM FISHER. Residences, 301 South High Street, Selinsgrove, Pa., and 521 North Florida Avenue, DeLand, Fla.
Fisher was director of the School of Business at John B. Stetson Uni- versity in DeLand from 1930 to March, 1949, when he retired because of ill health and became professor emeritus. For years he has been interested in compiling family lineages and is the author of History of the Woodling Family (1936), The Snyder County Pioneers (1937), and Central Pennsylvania Lineages (1947). He is a thirty-second degree Mason and is the fifth generation of his family to hold membership in the First Lutheran Church of Selinsgrove.
Fisher was married on February 29, 1908, in Selinsgrove to Vera Agnes Hummel, daughter of Simon and Margaret Sassaman Hummel. Their oldest daughter, Arline (born October 18, 1908), who is the widow of Claude Bedeau, teaches in the Selinsgrove High School; she
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has a B.A. degree from Susquehanna University {where Fisher was director of the School of Business Administration from 1920 to 1930} and an M.A. from Penn State. The second daughter, Bernice, who was born in Littlestown, Pa., on August 30, 1912, married Captain Charles E. Olsen in 1946 and is living in Bellwood, Ill .; she received a B.A. degree, cum laude, at Stetson and an M.A. at Bucknell and during 1943-44 served overseas with the Red Cross. The oldest son, Harold Jacob, a construction engineer with the Olsen Marine Con- struction Company of DeLand, was born in Selinsgrove, December 23, 1914, and attended the Stetson University School of Engineering for three years. Charles Arthur, born in Lewistown, Pa., February 5, 1919, who owns the Selinsgrove Auto Body & Fender Repair Shop, attended a technical school for a year and served as a private in the Engineers during World War II. Elizabeth, who was born in Selins- grove, May 28, 1920, is a high school teacher in Blaine, Wash .; she has both a B.A. and M.A. degree from Stetson and has also done graduate work at the University of New Mexico and the University of Colorado. Paul Hummel (born in Selinsgrove, December 11, 1921) received a B.S. degree, magna cum laude, at Stetson and an M.S. at Massachusetts Tech. He was a lieutenant in the Air Force from 1942 to 1947, was recalled to active duty in 1950, and at present is stationed at Andrews Base, Washington, D.C .; he has the rank of captain. The youngest boy, James Frederick, was born on July 5, 1928; he took his B.A. degree, magna cum laude, at Stetson and in 1951 was a graduate fellow at Florida State University, while awaiting a call to active duty with the armed forces.
SIDNEY LEON FISHER. District sales representative, Barnes Manufacturing Company of Mansfield, Ohio, Mission Appliance Corporation of Los Angeles, etc .; business address, 122 East 42d Street, New York 17, N.Y .; residence, 125 East 71st Street, New York 21.
Fisher has had the above connections since May, 1946, and is repre- senting, in addition, the Sherwood Brass Works of Detroit, the Hay- denville (Mass.) Company, and the United Metal Manufacturing Company of Norwich, Conn. He was treasurer of Fisher Brass, Inc., from 1931 to 1942, vice-president in charge of sales with the H. B. Salter Manufacturing Company the following year, and president of the National Brass Company from 1943 to 1945. At two different periods (1930-35; 1940-45) he was active in official capacities in
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community affairs in Marysville, Ohio. He is president of the Kiwanis Club, commander of American Legion Post No. 79, and "chef" of the 40 and 8.
As to hobbies, Fisher says, "Golf (until a few years ago); travel (U.S.A.); and now-grandchildren," and adds, "Aside from my work and my family, my interests are few. I still take a keen, although vicarious interest in the theatre. I am an avid reader of (with apologies to Charley Merz) the Herald Tribune, with special emphasis on Red Smith, John Crosby, and Lippmann. My list of books I want to read constantly outraces those I am able to read, but I did get a pretty fair number of them read this past year. (Anybody who has missed John Hersey's The Wall has missed not just a book or a novel, but an ex- perience that he ought not to pass up. ) The Yale Club helps maintain some contacts that I'd otherwise lose completely, and it provides a pleasant congenial atmosphere with good food that has done no good for my waistline.
"For four years during the war Mrs. Fisher did an exceptional job as chairman of the Union County Red Cross home service department. With her own office and secretary and a voluntary staff, she handled the home and family affairs of the men in the service on a full-time, six-days-a-week basis. Her outstanding record received state-wide recognition."
Mrs. Fisher was Marjorie May Kohn, daughter of Max and Anne Sternberger Kohn, and they were married in Cleveland, Ohio, July 29, 1918. Their children are: Richard B., born May 7, 1919, and Anne, born February 19, 1923. Richard won the first prize for New York City students in the essay contest for the Woodrow Wilson Award of the League of Nations Association in 1936 and also two Herald Tribune prizes for scholastic journalistic contributions. He graduated from George Washington High School in New York City with highest honors and received a B.A. degree at Yale in 1941. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and had honors in history, receiving honorable mention for his Senior thesis. In 1942 he was commissioned as second lieutenant (bombardier) in the Air Force, subsequently became a navigator, and completed thirty missions on a B-24 while with the 8th Air Force. Prior to his release from service with the rank of captain in August, 1945, he was attached to the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey. Returning to Yale for graduate work, he held three successive fellowships. He took his M.A. degree in 1946 and in 1948 accepted a Carnegie Foundation Fellowship; he has been a research assistant on a project on War, Revolution, and Peace at the Hoover Institute and
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Library (which was to be completed in June, 1951) and this last year has also been an instructor in sociology and international relations at San Francisco State College. Richard, who was married April 24, 1943, in Monroe, La., to Betsey Kinney, Smith '45, Mills '46, has three daughters: Anne, born January 31, 1944, Margaret on Decem- ber 25, 1947, and Sara on March 29, 1950.
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