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Anne graduated from the Hathaway-Brown School in Cleveland in 1941 and entered Smith with the Class of 1945. By attending summer sessions there and at Ohio State, she graduated in Smith's first and only accelerated class. Her marriage to Howard M. Holtzmann, Yale '42, took place in Cleveland, January 14, 1945. He was then a ser- geant in the Air Force, assigned to public relations work. He entered the Yale Law School in 1946, received his LL.B. degree the following June, and in September went to work in the employee relations de- partment of the Wickwire-Spencer Steel plant of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company. Since November, 1949, he has been with the New York law firm of Holtzmann, Wise, Shepard & Kelly, of which his father is head, but still retains his connection with the labor relations department of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company. He and Anne have two daughters: Susan, born December 24, 1948, and Betsey on Feb- ruary 7, 1951.
ARCHIBALD DONALD FISKEN. Colonel, U.S.A., retired; execu- tive secretary, Far Eastern and Russian Institute, University of Washington, Seattle 5, Wash .; residence, 4820 East 40th Street, Seattle 5.
Fisken, who retired from the Army in September, 1948, as a colonel after thirty-one years of service, has been executive secretary of the Far Eastern and Russian Institute in Seattle since November of that year. He had studied Chinese while in Peiping from 1920 to 1924 and has kept it up more or less ever since. He was in west China for two years of World War II (1943-45) as A.A. staff officer at the headquarters of the 14th Air Force (Flying Tigers) and during 1942 and 1943 was stationed at Tonga Tabu, at first as commanding officer of the 77th C.A. (A.A.A.) and then as base commander. He was awarded the Bronze Star, the Legion of Merit with an oak leaf cluster, and also the Army-Navy Air Force Medal.
Fisken is serving as chairman of the board of the University Student Y.M.C.A. at the University of Washington. An Episcopalian, he served as a vestryman a number of years ago, and he belongs to the
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Explorers Club of New York, Lafayette Lodge, A.F. and A.M., and to the Scottish Rite bodies in Peiping.
His marriage to Harriet Layman Young, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Young, of Honolulu, and sister of A. C. Young of our Class, took place in Berkeley, Calif., on August 25, 1917. Their son, Archibald Donald, Jr., who was born in Honolulu, February 12, 1919, served in the Pacific during World War II and is now a major in the Artillery, stationed at Hamilton Field, Calif. Their older daugh- ter, Cara Carter, born March 4, 1921, in Peiping, was with the Red Cross in France and Austria. She was married in Louisville, Ky., in September, 1948, to C. G. Kirven, who was in the Navy during the war and is now back on active duty as a lieutenant; he graduated from the University of Louisville Law School in 1948. The younger girl, Harriet Layman, who was born October 7, 1922, also in Peiping, married A. R. Rooks and is now living in Ross, Calif. Her husband, who is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, was on active duty in the Pacific during the war and is now practicing law in San Francisco.
STREETER BLANTON FLYNN. Partner, Rainey, Flynn, Green & Anderson, lawyers, 735 First National Bank Building, Oklahoma City, Okla .; residence, 439 N.W. 16th Street, Oklahoma City.
Flynn, who has been a partner in the above firm since 1926, is general counsel and a director of the Oklahoma Gas & Electric Company, a director and solicitor for Oklahoma for the Santa Fé Railway, vice- president and director of the Flynn Oil Company, and a director of the Oklahoma City Hardware Company, the First National Bank & Trust Company, and the First National Building Corporation. He is a Re- publican in politics, belongs to the American and Oklahoma Bar associations, the Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club, the Chicago Club, and the Yale Club of New York. "I like to hunt, fish, and travel, and have done a lot of all three. I have also taken lots of photographs," he says.
Flynn's marriage to Margaret Tuttle, daughter of LeRoy and Anna Tuttle, took place in Washington, D.C., on October 18, 1919. Their older daughter, Margaret, who was born on January 28, 1923, at- tended the Westover School. The second girl, Adelaide Flynn, born August 25, 1927, also went to Westover; she married George W. Mckean and has a daughter, born in November, 1950. Their son, Streeter B., Jr., born November 12, 1929, attended Deerfield Academy and the University of Oklahoma.
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DAVID KNIGHT FORD. Partner, Ford, Reece, Baskin & How- land, 1030 Williamson Building, Cleveland 14, Ohio; residence, 21300 Brantley Road, Shaker Heights 22, Ohio.
Ford, who has been practicing law in Cleveland since 1921, has been a partner in Ford, Reece, Baskin & Howland and preceding firms since 1923. He is a director of the Williamson, New Amsterdam, Lubrizol, and Federal Improvement companies and the Addex Corporation, has served as a team captain and campaign vice-chairman of the Cleveland Community Fund and as chairman of the budget committee of the Welfare Federation, and is on the boards of the Boy Scouts, the Good- will Industries, and other organizations. He was moderator of the Congregational Union from 1933 to 1936, president of the Cleveland Church Federation during 1942-43, and has been a trustee of the Euclid Avenue Congregational Church since 1945. From 1941 to 1945 he served as an appeals agent for the Draft Board, and he is commander of the County Council and Post of the American Legion and belongs to the Union Club. His political affiliations are Republican. Ford played on the Cleveland squash racquets team from 1925 to 1935, does quite a bit of gardening, and has made a number of trips in the Albany River section of northern Ontario, where his time has been taken up with canoeing, rapid-shooting, and hunting.
On June 12, 1920, he married Elizabeth Kingsley Brooks, daughter of Oliver K. and Harriet Gill Brooks. They have four sons, all of whom were born in Cleveland: Amasa Brooks on July 13, 1922, David Kingsley on June 26, 1925, Allen Huntington on July 29, 1928, and Oliver Mallory on December 31, 1937. The oldest boy graduated from Exeter in 1940-the leading scholar of his Class- and from Yale in 1943, completing his course in two and a half years. He was an editor of the Lit and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Elizabethan Club, and Scroll and Key. He served in the Army for two years, ranking as a second lieutenant in the Infantry at the time of his release, took his M.D. degree at Harvard in 1949, and has since been interning at Massachusetts General in Boston. David, who graduated from the University School in Cleveland in 1943, served with the American Field Service, attached to the British 8th Army in Italy, for the next two years and attended Lehigh from 1946 to 1950. Allen, Exeter '46, Yale '50, is on duty in Korea as a private in the 25th Infantry Division; while at Yale, he was on the radio board. The youngest boy, who is now in junior high, will attend Exeter and Yale.
In conclusion, Ford says, "I have been blessed with an exquisite wife, of broad and inclusive interests, and a genuine talent for public service.
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She has carried well many tasks, especially in the nursing field, and has received many honors. She is easily the best thing that ever hap- pened to me. We have had four splendid boys, and my confident hope is that each will be useful to his community, and far surpass his father. "Life has been good to us."
DONALD FRANKLIN FROST. Technical assistant, Bureau of Ships; assigned as inspector of naval matériel, General Electric Company, Lynn, Mass .; residence, 12 Prospect Street, Rockport, Mass.
From 1915 to 1921 Frost was a metallurgist for the Wyman Gordon Company of Worcester, Mass., and then went with the General Elec- tric Company at Lynn as a research engineer. His work there is now done under the inspection department of the Bureau of Ships.
Frost is a deacon of the Rockport Congregational Church. His marriage to Ruth Burgess took place in Rockport on July 29, 1923, and they have two children, both of whom were born in Swampscott, Mass .: Donald Burgess on March 13, 1925, and Faythe Lincoln Forester on June 1, 1926.
HENRY FURST. Address, care Arnold Furst, 242 East 72d Street, New York 21, N.Y.
LESLIE TRACY GAGER. Medical consultant, Board of Veterans Appeals; residence, 5301 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washing- ton 16, D.C.
"The year 1930 in this personal history is a long time back," Gager says. "In 1928 a study on high blood pressure, the fruit of several years' clinical work at Cornell, was read before the American Medical Association and led to invitations to appear at various medical meet- ings, admission to Who's Who, and the monograph, Hypertension (Williams & Wilkins, 1930). There followed appointments as clinical professor of medicine, George Washington University, 1929- 32, and as professor of medicine, Howard University, 1931-36. This active life of practice, teaching, and writing was interrupted by an acute infection in December, 1933; most of 1934 passed before its full effects became evident, and there was necessary a long period of treatment and adjustment. Early in 1937 an opportunity to go South was afforded by employment in the Veterans Administration and the next four and a half years in South Carolina and Florida resulted in
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a considerable return of stability, so much so that in July, 1941, the Army accepted an application for extended active duty, lasting six years, in the Medical Reserve Corps. Assignments were to the Sur- geon's Office, Camp Shelby, Miss., to Camp Polk Station Hospital during the Louisiana maneuvers, and to the 10th Station Hospital, which sailed for northern Ireland in January, 1942. After nine months in Londonderry and two in Belfast, there was a brief appointment to the resident staff of the Royal Masonic Hospital, London, followed by duty at Exeter and the Bristol Channel ports of Swansea and New- port. In October, 1943, hospital observation led to orders for limited duty in the continental United States, and from 1944 to 1947 there was detached service with the Veterans Administration in Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and Washington. Since July, 1947, this work has been continued in a civilian status. There are advantages in the 40-hour week.
"In the ten-year Odyssey thus briefly outlined, the experience of the Brothers Serendip and the economic maxims of Mr. Wilkins Micawber were put to test and not found wanting. It has been a good thing for an ingrained New Englander to be shifted around this country, and of overseas service it may be said that France and Ger- many in 1917-19 brought many rewarding experiences but not the breadth and depth of the associations found in Britain twenty-five years later. In the rambling bookstore of James Thin in the shadow of Edinburgh University the chance find of Morison's Builders of the Bay Colony was the beginning of a good working collection of books on eastern Connecticut, not a few of which have come from Whitlock's in New Haven. Outside the Quonset hut which served as our temporary mess hall on an estate near Londonderry, there was a beautiful English holly with glossy leaves and gleaming berries; now at our small Anne Arundel County farm on the Bay in southern Maryland there are growing a couple of hundred small holly trees, American, English, Chinese, Japanese, and hybrids, along with yew and box, in good English tradition and the spirit of the Holly Society of America.
"In the days of retirement which draw close at hand, it is hoped that some of these interests may grow into more tangible results."
Gager is a Congregationalist. His marriage to Josephine Willoughby Chapman, daughter of Charles B. and Frances H. Chatterton Chap- man, took place in Towson, Md., June 15, 1919. They have three children and five grandchildren. Their son, John Chapman, born in Baltimore, May 21, 1921, graduated from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, King's Point, N.Y., in 1944 and served for four years
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as a lieutenant, U.S.N.R., in the Caribbean and Pacific. He is now employed in the sales division of the General Electric Company in Washington. The older daughter, Margaret Tracy, who was born in Baltimore, June 18, 1923, received a B.A. degree at Goucher in 1946. Her husband, Malcolm C. Moos, is associate professor of politi- cal science at Johns Hopkins and a member of the Republican State Committee. The younger girl, Jane Chatterton, born in New York, April 20, 1925, and a graduate of the University of Minnesota in 1947, is the wife of Sheldon M. Childs, who is an industrial engineer with the Elliott Company of Jeannette, Pa.
THOMAS MORRISON GALBREATH. Manager of Eastern sales, Sharon Steel Corporation, 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y .; residence, Wynnewood Plaza Apartments, Wynnewood, Pa.
Galbreath, who has been with the Sharon Steel Corporation since 1919, has for some time had the position of manager of Eastern sales, with his headquarters in New York City. He is a Republican in politics, a Presbyterian, and a member of the Racquet Club of Philadelphia and the Yale Club of New York.
In January, 1941, he accepted a commission as a lieutenant colonel in the Ordnance Department. He served for four years in the Office of the Chief of Ordnance in Washington and was awarded the Legion of Merit Medal for outstanding services. At the time of his release from active duty in September, 1945, Galbreath ranked as a full colonel.
His marriage to Sophie Pusey McDowell, daughter of Thomas R. and Sophie Pusey McDowell, took place in Avondale, Pa., on October 24, 1924. Mrs. Galbreath's death occurred on February 14, 1948. They had no children.
HENRY GALE. Partner, Gale, Bernays, Falk & Eisner, lawyers, 40 Wall Street, New York 5, N.Y .; residence, 315 East 68th Street, New York 21.
"My professional life has been led in partnership with close friends of my youth, and this has furnished the sauce for the solid roast beef of practice," Gale says. "Every one's personal experiences are varied and unique, but form a better subject for a novel than a biographical note. I look back with perhaps undue satisfaction on mine and forward with lively curiosity as to whether or not Browning's statement con- cerning 'the last for which the first was made' is correct."
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Gale was first married on October 7, 1920, in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., to Theresa Weiss Strauss, whose death occurred on May 29, 1927. He subsequently married Elsie N. Bernheim, daughter of Julius and Emily Bernheim. He has two children: Dr. David Gale, assistant pro- fessor of mathematics at Brown University, who was born on December 13, 1921, in New York City, and Ellen Gale Dunning, who was born October 18, 1923, in White Plains, N.Y.
LEWIS GLUICK. Certified public accountant, residence, 946 S.W. Fourth Street, Miami 36, Fla.
Gluick, who has been practicing as a certified public accountant for years, moved from New York City to Florida some time ago. He is still a member of the New York State Society of C.P.A.'s, as well as of the American Institute of Accountants, and belongs also to the United Commercial Travelers, the American Legion, and the Masonic order.
His marriage to Helen Hill, daughter of Robert E. and Larimé Grigsby Hill, took place in Baltimore, Md., on February 11, 1938. They have no children.
ALLEN EDWARDS GORDON. Accountant, Aluminum Company of America, New Kensington, Pa .; residence, R.D. 2, New Kens- ington.
Gordon has continued with the Aluminum Company of America, with which he became connected in 1916. He is a member of Calvary Luth- eran Church of Arnold, Pa., a Mason, and a member of Syria Temple, A.A.O.N.M.S. He is a Republican in politics.
On January 26, 1944, his marriage to Martha C. Ihrig, daughter of William G. and Minnie O. Ihrig, took place in Arnold. They have no children.
AMBROSE GORDON. Address, 113 East Taylor Street, Savannah, Ga.
ARCHIBALD RALPH GORDON. Manager, cement shoe depart- ment, United Shoe Machinery Corporation, 140 Federal Street, Boston, Mass .; residence, Norwell, Mass.
Gordon, who has been with the above company since August, 1915, was assistant district manager in the New York office at the time our last Class record was published and for some time now has been manager of the cement shoe department, with his office in Boston.
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His marriage to Louise Anderson Wilson, daughter of Andrew and Louisa Anderson, of Wallasey, Cheshire, England, took place in Le Mans, France, on July 10, 1919. Their daughter, Dorothy Gordon Peterman, who was born on December 11, 1920, was married some years ago and has three children. The oldest boy, Andrew George, Yale '49, who was born September 15, 1924, is also married. The second boy, Charles Huntly, who was born on July 10, 1927, is an invalid. The youngest, Donald A., born February 22, 1934, is at Andover.
In conclusion, Gordon says, "Even in the midst of the discomforts of an extremely stupid world revolution, I find life decidedly worth- while. Briefly, my blessings are well ahead of my pains, which are not inconsiderable. An increasing appreciation of the value of Yale is one of my most abiding pleasures."
JOHN MAYO GOSS. Writer; residence, 30 Pinehurst Street, Tus- caloosa, Ala.
Goss' novel, This Magnificent World, was published by Rinehart & Company of New York in 1948. He has had short stories in a number of magazines, such as the Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker, one of which, "Bird Song," was given the first O. Henry Prize in 1946 and was included in Best American Short Stories, published in 1947. An- other, "Evening and Morning Prayer," which was in the 1949 O. Henry Anthology, was reprinted in England and in textbooks. Goss is an Episcopalian.
On May 4, 1928, he was married in Paris to Suzanne Marie Fran- çoise Roullé, whose death occurred on March 10, 1942. His second marriage, to Blanche Clark Pride, took place in New Orleans on May 2, 1949.
HENRY BRAMLETTE GRAY, JR. Business address, 2125 North Third Avenue, Birmingham 3, Ala .; residence, 918 Essex Road, Birmingham 5.
Gray gave up his position as president of the Gray Sporting Goods Company of Birmingham in 1932. He was manager of the Birming- ham office of Fenner & Beane for the next four years and subsequently purchasing agent for the Alabama Fuel & Iron Company until his retirement in October, 1950. He is still a director of the company, as well as of the Elmwood Cemetery Corporation, and since 1940 has been a deacon of the Independent Presbyterian Church in Birmingham.
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He belongs to the Birmingham Country Club and the New York Yale Club.
"Upon retiring, I purchased a 2,000-acre farm in Barbour County, Ala., and am now embarking upon a cattle-raising project," he says. "I didn't have much time for travel until my retirement. Recreations have been golf, fishing, and hunting. Mrs. Gray and I spent four weeks in the Hawaiian Islands during January and February, 1951."
Mrs. Gray was Dorothy Roden Davis, daughter of Charles G. and Florrie Roden Davis. They were married in Birmingham on November 17, 1920. Their daughter, Dorothy Davis, who was born April 19, 1926, graduated from Smith in 1947. In 1948 she married Marshall Haynes, Jr., of Birmingham, and they are at present at Camp Jackson, S.C., where he is stationed as a major in the 31st Infantry Division. They have a daughter, Dorothy Gray, born May 4, 1950.
Their son, Henry Bramlette, 3d, born January 29, 1929, graduated from The Hill School in 1947 and then entered Yale, where he graduated with an engineering degree in 1951. He expects to be a farmer and cattle raiser after studying agriculture and animal hus- bandry at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute.
SHER WOOD SEELEY GREEN. General assistant treasurer, United
States Rubber Company, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York 20, N.Y .; residence, 35-35 82d Street, Jackson Heights, N.Y.
Green writes: "Early in the Twentieth Century I bewailed my lot in that I faced a completed world: no more fascination of lands to be discovered, no more thrills of conquest or challenge of frontiers; with electricity and the horseless carriage almost a commonplace, it was evident that the field of invention had been exhausted; the pot-bellied Franklin had been banished from parlor to cellar, and the privy had been brought indoors; truly the world had been finished right down to the last elegant refinements. The preceding generations had had all the fun, and mine faced a tame, humdrum future.
"The first half century failed to confirm my apprehensions; the actuality was a kaleidoscope of change, thrills, breath-taking ups and downs, with amazing vistas of marvels to be achieved. To me it was an absorbingly interesting period shared with two understanding partners of thirty-five years' standing: my wife, signed on in 1916, and my employer, adopted in 1917. Confident and with keen interest, I look forward to the second half with relish."
Green's position as general assistant treasurer of the United States
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Rubber Company dates from December, 1940. His marriage to Marion Louise Tarr, daughter of Seymour W. and Ella Selover Tarr, took place in East Haven, Conn., on June 21, 1916. They have no children.
ROBERT LOUIS GRINNELL. Residence, care J. F. Grinnell, 1022 Princeton Avenue, Arlington Heights, Ill.
"The subject," says Grinnell, hitting an impersonal note, "retired shortly after the age at which retirement on a pension from the First National Bank of Chicago becomes optional. He feels that business life has dealt with him kindly, considering what he had to offer it. How- ever, both he and his wife have been pestered with an itching foot from which in the limited time available even in generous vacations, they have so far been unable to obtain relief. Their main project for the immediate future is to exorcize this scourge. The more remote future will be dealt with as it comes."
With a quick change of style, he added, "My wife and I spent the winter of 1950-51 in Mexico and a few weeks in California; we are sailing in May for England with the intention of spending the summer touring the British Isles and the Continent. I still enjoy playing tennis and play some golf. Also play squash racquets in season."
Grinnell's whole business career, from May, 1919, until his retire- ment in 1950, was with the First National Bank of Chicago or its affiliates, and he was vice-president of the bank at the time he retired. He served as president of the Highland Park District School Board from 1932 to 1940 and as a trustee and treasurer of the Village of Winnetka from 1945 to 1949. He is still a member of the University Club of Chicago, but has resigned from his other clubs.
Mrs. Grinnell was Mary King, daughter of James F. and Helen Gibson King. They were married in Lake Forest, Ill., on June 30, 1917, and their children were both born there, Mary on March 28, 1918, and Joseph Fox on July 4, 1923. Mary, who graduated from Swarthmore in 1939, married Kermit Gordon and has three children: Katherine King, born December 15, 1942, Emily Fox on January 28, 1948, and Andrew Grinnell on April 3, 1949. Joseph, whose marriage to Marjorie Volwiler took place in Highland Park on August 24, 1946, has a son, Stephen Fox, born May 10, 1950. Joseph received a B.A. degree at Yale in 1945 and a J.D. at Northwestern in 1949. He is now practicing with the Chicago law firm of Winston, Strawn, Shaw & Black. He served in the Navy during the war, chiefly on L.S.T.'s in the Mediterranean, and was discharged in 1946 with the rank of lieutenant (j.g.).
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EMIT DUNCAN GRIZZELL. Professor and dean, School of Edu- cation, University of Pennsylvania; residence, Wynnewood Plaza, Wynnewood, Pa.
"There is not much that I can say about myself that is likely to be interesting or exciting to the Class of 1915," Grizzell writes. "On December 1, 1951, I completed thirty years of service as instructor, assistant professor, and professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Since July 1, 1948, I have served as dean of the School of Education, continuing to teach part time in my field of specialization-secondary and higher education. In all these years my life as a teacher has been very satisfying to me and I hope also to the thousands of students with whom I have worked. During the last twenty years I have worked exclusively with graduate students, teaching and directing the work of advanced research students.
"Service in a large university involves many contacts with repre- sentative scholars of other institutions. These contacts have frequently developed into lasting personal, as well as professional, friendships. A long period of service as an officer of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools has provided a rare opportunity to work with and to know many of the most active leaders in secondary and higher education throughout the United States. My interest in research in secondary and higher education has provided many other opportunities for personal and professional association with men and women with similar specialized interests. Although I once had chosen law as a career and changed to teaching, I am sure that if I had a second chance I would 'gladly teach.'
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