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can Telephone and Telegraph Company. My hobbies are golf, bridge, and not playing canasta. (Also own a fishing license.) My main activity is commuting from Bedford Village, New York, to lower Manhattan. My principal political affiliation is the New York Herald Tribune.
WILLIAM K. COLE; 272 South Main Street, West Hartford, Conn.
Married Julia Emily Kistler of Denver, Colo., on May 29, 1942. The marriage took place in Santa Barbara, Calif., and resulted in my immediately acquiring two stepsons. Since then we have had two sons of our own, now five and three years of age.
Saw military service in the Signal Corps from November 14, 1942, until the day after Thanksgiving, 1945. Inducted as a Private and released from active duty as a Second Lieutenant. Never transferred overseas.
Have been employed as a practising lawyer in this office since December 10, 1945, having been a member of the firm since January 1, 1949. I find the work continuously absorbing and rewarding but at times so demanding as to leave me little opportunity to worry much (as a good Republican should) about the state of the nation and the world. More than to anything else, my free time is devoted to trying to keep our 85-year-old house from falling down around our heads and our acre of lawn from growing up above our shoulders. However, we do find time for occasional skiing trips in the winter and visits to the Adirondacks or even to Colorado in the summer.
Frankly, I can't complain.
MARVIN J. COLES; 2500 Q Street, N.W., Washington 7, D.C.
Probably the principal results of the fifteen years since graduation have been: (a) physical gain, (b) reasonable economic success, (c) substantial wear and tear on the nervous system, and (d) the realiza- tion that all of us owe a tremendous obligation to our country to do everything we can to maintain our American traditions. Perhaps the most significant thing has been the gradual emergence of a greater maturity of mind, giving, in turn, a greater awareness of individual and national problems and a sense of inadequacy at our inability to solve them quickly and well. With this has come a loss of content- ment and the realization that great efforts must now be made by us both as individuals and as a country if we and future generations are to have the peaceful, happy life which we took for granted in our younger days.
From the more objective point of view, I can report that, after four years in the service, I became General Counsel to one of the Congressional Committees. Late in 1947 I left to enter a Washington
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law firm, and I am now a partner in Ingoldsby & Coles, specializing in representing corporations before the Government departments and agencies. It has been a rewarding practice, interesting in the ex- treme, but occasionally completely frustrating.
For those of our class who have produced progeny, I can only express my congratulations and envy. It seems I have just never found time to get married. Being a bachelor has certain compensa- tions, but a great many drawbacks. At least I continue to live in hopes.
As a bachelor, most of my social activities seem to center around being an extra man at dinner. Part of my free time I spend at the golf course, part in reading, part in bull sessions, and a lot in worry. From my club bills I seem to belong to half the clubs in town: the only one in which I take an active part is the Yale Club of Washington where I have just finished two years as president.
My obligations to Yale have been met inadequately by small contributions and by service on the Alumni Board. When I was in college, people told me that those were the happiest years of my life. Looking back, I now can see that they were right. Looking forward, my one hope is that the world, our country, and we, as individuals, will once again in our lifetime be restored to the situation in which our "pursuit of happiness" can and will end successfully.
JOHN A. COLGAN; Villanova, Pa.
I am married, and have three children. I am a Partner of the Ballymore Co., Wayne, Pa.
PAUL C. CONDIT; 640 Creston Road, Berkeley 8, Calif.
I am supervising chemist of the California Research Corporation. I was married in 1939 to Martha Virginia Strauss of Cincinnati, Smith College '37, and we have two sons; Paul Brainard, 2d, born in 1944, and Richard Carr, born in 1949. I am active in several profes- sional societies. Hunting, fishing and carpentry are among my hobbies.
DAVID TROWBRIDGE COOK; Hitherbrook Road, St. James, Long Island, N.Y.
Left the employ of the Eaton Paper Corporation in Pittsfield, Mass., in December, 1949. Moved family from Lee, Mass., to the above address. Am now an account executive with the Corydon M. Johnson Co., Inc., advertising and creative printing house in Beth- page, Long Island.
Have just built a house here in St. James and am still trying to find out why there were so many extras.
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Every Monday night to the Naval Reserve Training Center in Huntington, Long Island, for a weekly drill. Spent the last two weeks of May, 1951, at the Fleet Sonar School in Key West, Fla., for annual training duty.
Family includes the following:
Self (of course).
Wife: Hope Abbott Cook.
Son: Peter Trowbridge Cook, born on February 28, 1942, in Bos- ton.
Son: Stephen Abbott Cook, born on May 7, 1946, in New York.
Daughter: Sheila Carrington Cook, born on September 6, 1947, in Pittsfield, Mass.
ROBERT B. COOKE; New York Herald-Tribune, 230 West 41st Street, New York, N.Y.
What did I major in at Yale? Latin and Greek. Is my life work in the field of that major? Are you kidding? Did I win scholastic honors? Thanks for asking, anyway. What college course has proved most useful to me? Professor Rostovzeff's Classical Civ. What course has given me the most pleasure or satisfaction since college? I repeat, the professor's famous Classical Civ. 110. How many times have I re- visited Yale since graduation? Once, to see Professor Rostovzeff. How many jobs have I held since graduation? One. What is my line of work? Newspaperman. If I did graduate work, what degrees did I earn? Thanks for the compliment. The only degree I ever earned was the third degree I gave Brooklyn. How many times have I quit? Not as often as the New York Giant pitching staff. How many times have I been fired? Although the question is rather personal, the answer is "none." Was I in one of the services during the war? Yes, bomber pilot, U.S. Army. Do I feel that my war service, if any, hampered me in my career? Only when I try to fly the B-26. (P.S. I haven't tried lately.) Do I think it helped me in my career? Yes. Flying the B-26 is like travel with the Dodgers. You never know when you're going to drop. . . . (SKIP PAGE TWO) . . . Do I own a car? Yes, together with the Madison Personal Loan Co. It's a tired Ford. Do I own an airplane? No, thank goodness, not even a B-26. What kind of home do we have? We have an apartment, but we'll sub-let at the proper pari-mutuel price. If a home, do I own it and how much is it worth? If I had a home, I'd be reluctant to give out its value on the theory that my friends in the loaning business would ask for more collateral. Do I own a television set? Yes. I wish I'd said no because I think TV lowers the mentality and I'm glad I said that first. Do I own or regularly rent a summer home? How much dough do you think I've got? How much does my wife spend on food for the family per capita
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per month? Ask her. About how much do I spend on pleasure travel per year? If you call traveling with the Dodgers a pleasure, my entire moneys. Do we have servants? We've had at least twenty. They all left because they were Giant fans. Do we have an automatic dish- washer? Clothes washing machine? Good questions, but I don't know. Drier? Deep freeze? Still don't know. What are my main hobbies? Baseball, now and for always. Of course, there's another. Ask Dick Barr. He'll explain. What sports do I play with any regularity? Indoor. Whoops. The secret's out. What sports do I like best to watch? Baseball. You weren't paying attention. Since graduation, how many countries have I visited? Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis. How many movies do I see a month? Not as many as I used to see with George O'Neill and Johnny Sturges at New Haven. How many hours a day do you watch television? None, not even when I'm on myself. . . . (SKIP PAGE FOUR) . . . What is my political affiliation? Dodger (Brooklyn). For whom did I vote in the last presidential election? I was unable to get to the polls. For whom would I like to vote in the next one? Happy Chandler, then he'll be out of baseball for good. Do I think the United Nations will survive? Yes. They've got more money than the rest of us. Do I think war is inevitable? Check me later on. How do I think war can be avoided? By putting Stalin in a well-kept grave, and keeping him there. Do I. foresee a major depression? Personally, yes, because the horses that I favor at Jamaica don't run as swiftly as the favored horses. Try to remem- ber back to the world of our undergraduate days-to that major depression, to the Bank Holiday, unemployment, the W.P.A., Hitler on the rise, the emerging New Deal. Do I think the world is better off, or worse off, now than it was then? And why? I've tried to remem- ber. The effort was too great and my fiduciaries are there in the loan department of the Irving Trust Co. and I must pause till they come back to me. Am I, on the whole, happier now than I was in college? Happier, certainly, because I can see guys like Blake Shepard, Dick Moore, Johnny Sturges, Dick Barr, Lou Stone ('37), Jack Vietor ('37) and a whole bunch of other '36 guys and don't have to pick up the phone because I know it's Louis Walker calling. Anything else on my mind? Louis Walker. Take him off.
JOHN B. CORNELL, JR .; Roslyn, N.Y.
After leaving College, I went right to work in the family iron works, eventually reaching the position of Sales Engineer before entering the armed services in early 1941. Five years in the Army included three in the European theatre, and terminated with dis- charge as a Major in 1946.
After a brief stint with the Glens Falls Cement Co., in Sales, I was
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offered and accepted my present job as Service Engineer with the N.Y. Air Brake Co., 420 Lexington Avenue, New York, N.Y. Sales and engineering of air brake equipment with locomotive and car builders as well as our domestic railroads occupy most of my time. That which is left of a spare nature is preferably spent out of doors. Fishing, skiing, golf and tennis still count heavily along with that unrelenting search for the right girl-object matrimony and a large family.
ALLEN LEE CORNISH; 190 North Upper Street, Lexington, Ky.
After graduating in medicine at P. and S. in 1940, I interned at Grasslands, from 1940 through 1942, was a physician at Kent, 1942- 1943, then resident at Grasslands, 1943-1945. I married Evelyn Michaelson (University of Minnesota, '42) in 1945, and we have a son, Allen, Jr., born in 1948, and a daughter, Caroline Jean, born in 1951.
Since 1945, I have been an internist at Lexington Clinic, address above.
ROBERT H. CORY, JR .; Lincoln, Mass.
Five years of prospecting in the educational field finds me at the feet of John Harvard with a doctoral stripe on the academic gown, a thesis on the U.N. ready for the dusty shelves and some fresh, if less certain, ideas on teaching International Relations.
The path to Cambridge wound first through the mountains of Vermont, where I was the first faculty member on hand for the founding of Marlboro College (and the organizer of the Marlboro Volunteer Fire Department).
During our wanderings the family has increased to the typical American size through the birth of David Lincoln (March, 1947) and Lois Creighton (January, 1950).
JEROME A. COVEY; 24 Hillcrest Drive, Great Neck, N.Y.
I am practicing the specialty of internal medicine, doing a little teaching at the New York Medical College, and trying to raise a family. Have one son, David, and we are expecting next month.
Starting a practice does not leave much free time, but what there is goes to golf and tennis and local politics, especially of the School Board, which is the most important of all Suburbia's activities.
JAMES O. CRITTENDEN; 468 Beaver Road, Sewickley, Pa.
After serving as a medical officer in the Army, I commenced a residency in internal medicine at a Veterans Administration Hospital, which work I am carrying on at the present time. My progeny con-
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sists of two small cowboys, ages two and five years, respectively; and the three of us brag of their mother, my wife, who has been very patient during these financially barren years of my peregrination through medicine. I believe one should work at what he thoroughly enjoys doing and not worry too much about the future.
JOHN C. CROSBY; New York Herald Tribune, 230 W. 41st Street, New York, N.Y.
"Please put these (my life and hard times, presumably) in narra- tive English, not in outline form. It will only take five minutes. Please do it today," writes John Hersey, a note of desperation creeping into his prose. He must be a more facile writer than I am. I've never managed to construct more than three coherent sentences in five minutes in my life. And besides nothing very much new has hap- pened since the last 1936 book came out. My column "Radio In Review" has been retitled "Radio And Television" in deference to that new monster which is corrupting our young and my wits. It has been moved from the entertainment pages of The New York Herald Tribune to the split page, evening up the score with Harvard at two- all. (Walter Lippmann, Harvard '10, Joseph Alsop, Harvard '32- Crosby and Stuart Alsop, both Yale '36). A book fashioned out of the columns will be out in the spring, I keep telling myself, and there is a play in the works. Since the last book, I have sired two children- Mike and Maggie Crosby. The five minutes is up, John, in the nick of time because nothing else of importance has happened.
RICHARD J. CUMMINS; 25 Ashwood Terrace, West Orange, N.J.
Since February, 1950, I have been vice-president of the Peerless Casualty Company of 32 Cliff Street, New York City-am in charge of reinsurance and excess covers. Have had same wife for the last twenty years and the children still number four. Dick, Jr., eighteen, is now at The Hill School-willing and anxious to matriculate at Yale next year. He is playing football, basketball, and baseball at Hill. Kathleen, fourteen, is a Freshman at Mt. St. Dominic Academy in Montclair, N.J. William Edwin, eight, is in the third grade and Mary Beth, six, in the first grade.
HAROLD FRANK CURTIS; 84 Suburba Avenue, Rochester 17, N.Y.
Since writing my last autobiography, my wife, on December 30, 1947, presented me with a second child, another girl, whom we named Adrienne.
I continued practicing law until last September, when I quit prac-
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ticing and really went into the legal business by opening my own office at 45 Exchange Street, Rochester, N.Y.
My ideas on the future are the same as expressed in 1946.
DANIEL B. CURTISS; 7 Lee Avenue, White Plains, N.Y.
I work as a salesman for the American Brass Co., in New York City. My wife, Kay, and I have three children, Sandra, ten, Donna, eight, and Dan Jr., almost two (we call him "Curt" to avoid con- fusion). My main interest, in fact, is trying to keep up with the younger generation.
ANDREW LEEDS CUSHMAN; 2215 East Adams Street, Tucson, Ariz.
I'm in the real estate business, with the Arizona Trust Company; am married to the former Alexandra Ananieff of New York City, and have two sons-Andrew Leeds Cushman, Jr., and Vladimir Paul Cushman.
LLOYD N. CUTLER; 1210 18th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
These last five years have been mainly buildup. In 1946, Louise and I were a family of two. We have since turned out three little girls: Deborah, in 1947, and a pair of twins, Beverly and Lucia, in 1949. Lucia was ill from birth, and died on July 24 of this year.
In 1946, the law firm of Cox, Langford, Stoddard & Cutler had just sent out its first hopeful announcements. We now number ten lawyers and are beginning to learn about overhead. We try to look as if we have been here forever, as lawyers should, but in fact we still get a kick out of seeing our own letterhead.
There is little to record for country or for Yale. I have been serv- ing as a member of the Yale University Council's Committee on the Law School, and helped to organize the Yale Law School Associa- tion of Washington several years ago. I have also been taking part in the movement to obtain Home Rule for the District of Columbia- we still don't vote, even for our own municipal government. Apart from these efforts, my only contribution to saving the world was a brief assignment with Ambassador Spofford in London last Fall, helping to organize the Defense Production Board of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's an improvement over what came before it, but a single economic and political unit on the Continent seems to me the only hope of providing both liberty and security for the West Europeans over the long run. As far as I can make out, this is not yet a major goal of our policy.
At the reunion in June, I was asked several times about "influence"
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in Government, and whether it's all true about Washington lawyers. This may be a good place to answer. Washington is a frontier town for lawyers. There are some five thousand outside the Government, proportionately four times as many as in New York, the true Mecca. Business finds itself facing the Government on every side, as a source of financing and contracts, as an umpire on trade practices and labor disputes, and always as the tax collector. Lawyers do much of this work for the Government, and the citizen often needs a private lawyer to deal with the Government lawyer and his regulations. Private lawyers throughout the country cannot hope to keep pace with every new Washington development, and they and their clients employ Washington lawyers to do the job for them.
The quick assumption is that the Washington lawyer lives by "influence," and in a sense he does. His job is to present his client's problem effectively to the Government official who can do something about it, and to "influence" the result in his client's favor. Just as in the local courthouse or City Hall, it helps to know where to file your papers, who will decide the issue and what kind of a human being he is. The answers to these questions are often as complex as the people and the problems that make up a government.
If this be "influence," it is the same "influence" wielded by the trial lawyer, the corporation lawyer, the stock broker, the manage- ment executive, the star salesman, and every other specialist hired for his skill in his particular field of human relationships.
Some lawyers here do seek business by posing as friends of Government officials, and others excuse their defeats by explaining that some other fellow's lawyer had an "in." In about one case out of 1000, the explanation may actually be correct.
Business men who "know their way around Washington" also know how seldom influence counts. But there are shrewd, straight- laced corporation officials, men who can instantly spot the flaws in a phony proposition in their own field of experience, who lose their judgment and sometimes their moral sense when they come to Washington to deal with the Government. The good Washington lawyer helps to convince such a man that here as elsewhere, honesty is still the best policy.
No one except the other Washington lawyers in the class will be- lieve all this, but it is true.
PHILIP BEWER DAGHLIAN; 105 South Bryan Avenue, Bloom- ington, Ind.
Still at Indiana University, where I am presently assistant pro- fessor of English. There are two more children to report, Elizabeth Ann, born on October 30, 1948, and Charles Philip, born on Decem-
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ber 30, 1950, making three in all. We have a small house and manage to get along comfortably, which is probably as much as one can ask for. We live the ordinary life of a small university town, which can be very exciting or very dull, depending on the observer. I had a pretty good notion of what it would be like before entering teaching; thus, even if I were dissatisfied with this life (which I am not), I'd have nobody to blame but myself.
JOHN S. DALRYMPLE, JR .; Casselton, N.D.
Since graduation, I have been located at Casselton, N.D., ekeing out a peasant's existence as a farmer. Have not participated to any great extent in the social, civic, political, philanthropic, or church activities of Casselton. This, of course, is most fortunate for Cassel- ton.
Am still a die-hard, gold standard, balanced-budget Republican; get enough exercise without looking for any more; avoid golf at all costs because my girl friend can beat me; make the most of our North Dakota hunting, at which I can hold my girlfriend on even terms.
Have not been east of Chicago since 1939, but get to Minneapolis frequently where I run into Humphrey and Mairs (who are piling up huge fortunes "profiteering on the human misery" of the farmers) and a wealthy young executive named Hull. Have three daughters and a son in that order-the climax to this biography.
JAMES J. A. DALY; 76 Ellsworth Street, Bridgeport, Conn.
Since the custom of our communion apparently exculpates the con- ceits and immaturity of the autographic obit, I, perpendicularly and otherwise, couch myself, since March 18, 1947, in terms as follows, to wit:
Patrick Raphael, named after his grandparents, was delivered, with the help of his angelic patron, on February 25, 1948, and his sister, Kathleen, burst the fragile eggshell of foetal time on March 12, 1949.
Meanwhile, the law firm of Brennan & Daly was brought into being: since September 1, 1948, I have as partner Daniel E. Bren- nan, Jr., a product of Notre Dame and onetime special agent in the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Our law offices were first opened in 1911 by his father, who practised here until his death on January 23, 1947. Our business is diversified and pleasant, and has satisfied Justice Owen Roberts' injunction that lawyers be on their way at thirty-five. On June 29, 1951, I was sworn into office as public defender for this county.
In recent months, I have been toying with a notion regarding three modes of living through time into eternity: neurotic (or psy-
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chopathic or psychotic), erotic, and human. Everyman being the universe in microcosm, any individual is privileged to ask: In respect of the first mode: Why do I be anxious? The second: Do we really have to prick out the convincing proof demonstrating the self-defeat observable in the debris of a human being disintegrated by sexuality, divorced from wedlock and Nature's law? The third: Does it not essentially consist in being kind to everyone, including oneself, and recalling God's mercy is personally ladled out in the same measure we individually use in forgiving every fellow who does us any hurt? And is not a person privileged to include himself among the recipients of his own mercy, remembering only God is perfect and in no man can the roots of human peccability be eradicated entirely? Since Tomoyuki Yamashita, the Japanese Socrates, was hanged, I have grown fond of an English lawyer, Thomas More, a friend of Erasmus, whose Praise of Folly (Encomium Moriae) is a play on the good Saint's name, and I have a special interest in Fatima, which is a place, not a cigarette. God rest ye merry, gentlemen: vita mutatur, non tollitur. (Vigil of SS. Thomas More & John Fisher, 1951.)
THADDEUS S. DANOWSKI; 125 DeSota Street, Pittsburgh 13, Pa.
I married Phyllis Margaret Little, R.N., B.A., M.Ed., in 1949; have one son, Stanley T., aged seven months; was Assistant Profes- sor of Medicine, 1946-1947, at the Yale University School of Medi- cine; have been Renziehausen Professor of Research Medicine in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 1947 to present; and am currently Senior Staff Physician of the Presbyterian Hospital, Woman's Hospital, Children's Hospital, Elizabeth Steel Magee Hos- pital, and Physician in Charge at the Renziehausen Memorial Ward and Clinic.
PHILIP DARLING; 1303 Ramblewood Road, Baltimore 12, Md.
After Yale, did two years of graduate work at M.I.T., for which I received a Master in City Planning. Have subsequently held a suc- cession of jobs having to do with public low-rent or war housing, usually with some such title as Project Planner or Housing Special- ist. Most of these jobs have been with Federal agencies. Am presently employed by the Housing Authority of Baltimore City as Director of Development-i.e., in charge of planning, design, and construction of new public housing projects.
During the war was in the Army for three and a half years, two of which were spent in New Guinea, the Philippines, and Japan with the 533rd Engineer Boat and Shore Regt. Ended up as 1st Lt. Mar- ried in early 1950 to Else Mueller of Cleveland-a graduate of Rad-
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