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Businesswise my career has been varied. Since graduation I have held a number of jobs, mostly in small companies, including insurance, yacht brokerage, newspaper and advertising work. At present I am unemployed and looking for a small-business opportunity in the local area (adv.).
Service in the Coast Guard from June, 1942, to February, 1946, interrupted the above career. The early part of my war was spent on the staff of the Officers Training School in St. Augustine, Fla., teach- ing navigation and seamanship, and the latter as skipper of a re- frigerator ship in New Guine and the Phillipines. I left the service as a Lieutenant Commander.
Sailing is my consuming hobby and the primary reason for our residence in Essex. In addition to ocean racing on larger boats, I cruise extensively with my family on our modern 35 ft. sloop and have just completed a year as commodore of the Essex Yacht Club. Yale wanderers please note that we are within easy walking distance of the Essex Yacht Club.
HERBERT R. ESHELMAN, JR .; R.F.D. #3, Circleville, Ohio.
Started to work for John W. Eshelman & Sons, Lancaster, Pa., after graduation. This company manufactures "Red Rose" feed for poultry and livestock and distributes through the eastern part of the country.
Entered the Navy in 1943, with training at Quonsett Point, R.I. Served as Navy Aviation Ground Officer one year in Newfoundland; one year in England and one year at Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, N.Y. Discharged in 1946 as Lieutenant Commander, U.S.N.R.
Re-employed by John W. Eshelman & Sons on discharge from the Navy. Present duties consist of General Manager of the Circleville,
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Ohio, division of the company. This covers the operations of plants located at Circleville, Ohio, Sanford, N.C., and Tampa, Fla., and the sales in 14 states served by these plants.
Married to Betsy Kennedy McLeod in 1945. Have three children: Herbert Roy, 3rd, five; Jan Elizabeth, four, and Barbara Ann, three, with one more on the way.
FRANK M. EWING; 120 Brookside Drive, Chevy Chase 15, D.C.
Family and business remain my principal interests. There are no major changes in either, but both have grown in scope and blossomed with enough new projects so that life has been slam bang-turmoil -troubles-and much, much fun.
The lumber business still takes most of my time, although I re- solve again and again that I shall be more reasonable in the division of my energies between work, family, friends and play. The most interesting and significant new business endeavor was instituted in 1947 when we began a reforestation program on the Easter Shore of Maryland and Virginia. This work reclaims non-productive land, assures regrowth on cut-over land and improves and protects the growth of young thickets of small trees. This work includes fire pro- tection, drainage of swampy areas, inspections for insect or fungus damage, protection against storm damage, preservation of natural reseeding sources, setting-out of nursery-raised seedlings, and finally, employment of efficient and economic harvesting methods. It is most satisfying work and, I believe, will be of value to the class of '76 or '88 or '96 because it will increase our supply of one of the vital raw materials.
During more than sixteen years of marriage (how ancient can we get?) Hanna and I have continued to find more and more enjoyment in each other and are constant companions in leisure time. We can even play golf as scotch foursome partners-and that is the final test.
Our three daughter, Peg, twelve, Tucker, nine, and Frances, six, have a million new ideas every day and it is necessary that I stay on my toes constantly or one of them is likely to get away with a fast one from a difficult angle.
Take notice of our new address-we moved in October. After ten years in our previous house, we now feel that it will take many years to get settled again.
I am: anti-Truman, anti-inflation, anti (so much) welfare state, anti (so much) government regulation, pro-firmer enforcement of government regulations, pro "fight-harder-or-get-out-of-Korea," pro "arm-our-allies," pro firm opposition to the spread of communism, pro much better basic educational training for colored.
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JOHN D. EYRE, JR .; V.A. Hospital, Manchester, N.H.
After Freshman year at Yale, I moved to the University of Cali- fornia and received an A.B. there in 1936; then I took medical work at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York and interned at Bellevue Hospital. I have had residencies and hospital appointments at Doctors, Bellevue, and Roosevelt Hospitals, all in New York; at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore; at Faulkner Hospital in Boston; at the Cushing V.A. Hospital in Framingham, Mass .; and at Boston City Hospital. I have also practiced privately as a specialist in internal medicine in New York from 1942 to 1944, and in Chestnut Hill, Mass., from 1948 to 1950. I have also had teaching appointments at Johns Hopkins, 1946-47, Harvard, 1948- 50, and Boston University, 1951. I am a member of Alpha Omega Alpha (medical honor); the American Medical Association; the American College of Physicians; and the Massachusetts Medical Society. From 1944 to 1946 I served in the Medical Corps of the Army. At present I am Chief of the Medical Service of the V.A. Hospital in Manchester, N.H. I was certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in 1948.
FRED W. FAIRMAN, JR .; 209 South La Salle Street, Chicago 4, Ill.
Since 1945, we have added to our family to the extent of one daughter, Frederica Carolyn Fairman. This makes a total of three of the same sex.
During this time I have continued in the investment banking business, having merged my former firm with two Chicago con- temporaries to form Sills, Fairman & Harris, Inc., of which I am Vice President and Treasurer. From the standpoint of pleasure and satisfaction, this association has been very pleasing.
Berkshire School of Sheffield, Mass., and the Lake Forest Day School of Lake Forest, Ill., where I live, have placed me on their Boards of Trustees.
Other business activities are Director of Calvert Lithographing Company in Detroit and Edward J. Bahe Company in Chicago.
My efforts towards charitable contributions have been primarily in the Y.M.C.A. of Chicago and Allendale Farm for Boys.
GEORGE BRONSON FARNAM; High Meadow Farm, Walling- ford, Conn.
For the past ten years I have been living and working on my 200- acre farm in Wallingford, Conn. I am a dairy farmer and Brown Swiss breeder with 40 milking cows, 38 heifers, and seven bulls. I am active in the N.H. County Farm Bureau, Conn., Wholesale Milk Producers Council, The New England Brown Swiss Org., and the
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WTIC Forum Youth Program. My wife Nancy and I have six children, four girls and two boys.
SHERMAN FARNHAM; 281 Pelham Road, Rochester 10, N.Y.
Life in Rochester has progressed in rather a peaceful manner. A brother for Sherman, Jr., and Betsy arrived in January, 1948, and was named Thomas. With the increased family our thoughts turned to building a larger home. Unfortunately that is as far as we got. After discussing price with the building trade, we decided our present house at 281 Pelham Road was magnificent. We still hope, however.
Golf has taken a large part of my otherwise unoccupied time and income, and has resulted in only one hole-in-one so far. The Rochester routine is considerably brightened by occasional visits from Henry Harvey, Bruce Babcock, whose backgammon has not improved since the last installment, Andy McBurney, Dave Northrup, and Al Rankin. Businesswise there have been no changes. The practice of general business law with the firm of Nixon, Hargrave, Middleton & Devans continues to occupy my so-called productive hours.
MALCOLM FARREL; 414 East 52d Street, New York 22, N.Y.
Self-employed-mining and investments. Divorced in February, 1950. Acquired new husband-in-law in March, 1950. Have a boy, ten, and a girl, eight and a half; Malcolm, Jr., and Constance.
WILLIAM GORDON FAWCETT; Royal Military College, Kings- ton, Ontario, Canada.
On leaving Yale in 1934, went to work in Montreal for Canadian Bronze Co. Ltd., manufacturers of brass and bronze castings. Principal hobby, apart from golf and skiing, was the Reserve Army, which I joined as a private. Commissioned as second-lieutenant in January, 1939. On outbreak of war, September, 1939, left civilian job and went with unit on internal security work-guarding bridges, canal locks, dry docks, interned enemy aliens, etc. In June, 1940, joined the fight- ing part of the Army, my unit in Montreal not having been called up, and went to take infantry training in Winnipeg. What a comedown for a self-respecting horse-soldier! I now began to see the error of our oft-quoted dictum that "the function of cavalry is to lend tone to an otherwise vulgar brawl."
Stymied in Winnipeg for 18 months, during which I took a hand in everything from ski and snowshoe instructor to assistant adjutant. Finally to England in November, 1941. Served with infantry and
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reconnaissance units for 18 months and then detached for duty with General Staff-mostly G1 and G4, at Brigade, Corps, and Army. Landed with HQ 2 Cdn Corps in Normandy on D plus 30, and went as far as Nijmegen. Recalled to Canada in November, 1944, to attend Staff College. Having assumed the invisible mantle of infallibility which envelops all graduates of that institution, and VE-day having passed, the Pacific Force was calling, and there I went as Staff Cap- tain "Q"-G4 to you.
This folded very quickly too, however, and then the choice was plain between going to the Occupation Force in Germany and "soldiering" in Canada, as I had already decided to remain in the Army after the war. There wasn't really very much of an inner argu- ment, and after a pleasant trip on the Queen Elizabeth-really pleas- ant going in that direction at that time-7 Cdn Inf Brigade got a new DAA&QMG, or combined G1 and G4. The promotion to major was also welcome.
The Occupation Force was pulled out in March, 1946, as the result of an incredibly cheap and narrow-minded government decision, and Staff employment in Canada loomed as all that was left. This time it was G1 and took me to New Brunswick and Nova Scotia for the next two years. Then a very happy and instructive 10-month interlude at the Command and General Staff College, Fort Leaven- worth, Kansas. On return to Ottawa, and life in Army Headquarters as a civil servant of the nine-to-five variety, the last defences of an erstwhile staunch bachelor crumbled quickly. The fortunate girl was Joan Williams of Halifax, a widow with a five-year-old daughter, Wendy. Joan's first husband was killed in the war with the R.C.A.F. The wedding was on May 6, 1950, in Halifax.
Meantime, after six months in Ottawa (which was plenty), I got a great break and was sent to the Royal Military College at Kings- ton, Ont. The job is similar to that of an Army instructor at a university, except that we turn out cadets for all three of the Services, and consequently our syllabus must include tri-Service instruction. To be successful, such a program must achieve a fair degree of inter- service balance and must be marked by harmonious relations among the representatives of the three services who are teaching it. I am happy to say that we have been successful-so far-in playing down the antagonisms and conflicting claims; and emphasizing the com- mon interests and the mutual interdependence of the three Services. It is a great challenge, especially as we have no blueprint to follow, but the satisfaction of doing the job properly is correspondingly greater.
Principal hobbies are reading (military, current events, history), music (glee club), sports (sailing, skiing, shooting), gardening, and studying Russian.
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ALBERT BEL FAY; 99 N. Post Oak Lane, Houston, Tex.
Since my marriage on February 3, 1935, to Homoiselle Haden, three additions to our family have arrived: Katherine Bel, on July 25, 1936, Marion Spencer (daughter), on May 3, 1939, and Albert Bel, Jr., on October 8, 1945.
Sailing (as it was in College) is still my main hobby. However, Saturday afternoon racing has about displaced blue water sailing, which was my chief interest in 1936. My next preference in the sport- ing field is hunting.
During World War II, three years of my time were consumed by the U.S. Navy.
My principal business activities are seed rice production, rice dry- ing, cattle, boat yard operation, and oil, all of which I find stimu- lating.
GORDON FEAREY; Nursery Road, New Canaan, Conn.
July, 1951, marks for me five years of work with an arm of the Episcopal Church, as one of those responsible for administering the pension system for its clergy and their survivors. It is safe to say that no Protestant Church denomination has a better or stronger clergy pension system than ours. I find my appreciation of the church's general objectives expanding, and I am well convinced of their importance.
As reported in 1947, I married Jacqueline L. Dwight in March of that year. Lydia L. was born in December, 1947, and Gordon Jr. in June, 1950, both great joys to their parents. The move to New Canaan came in December, 1948. Jackie has a garden boasting, in my view, the tallest flowers in the world.
As an enthusiastic supporter of President Griswold and his ob- jectives, as I understand them, I believe that we, as graduates and perhaps parents of Yalemen, should give him support up to the limits of our respective abilities. It is clear that leadership in our effort should come from our Class Executive Committee. I believe strongly that the appointment or election of officers or members of the Executive Committee, and the program and conduct of Class affairs should always reflect the wishes of the majority of the Class; and that, accordingly, important meaures and appointments should be presented to the Class for approval in advance or for ratification after the action is taken. The organization of the Executive Com- mittee and of Class affairs would be improved, in my opinion, if these principles were incorporated in the set-up.
To the above I wish to add, as one who has contributed only meagerly himself, a word of sincere appreciation to those who are and have been directing our Class activities.
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T. FREDERICK FELDMAN; 547 W. Springettsbury Avenue, York, Pa.
I'm a lawyer. I married Marie Sutcliffe on December 11, 1948, and we now have a son, Theodore E., who was born on August 29, 1950. I'm kept pretty busy by my work, and by trying to be a householder, an experience I've had since June 29, 1951.
WILLIAM N. FENNEY, JR .; 25 Healey Ave., Hartsdale, N.Y.
After leaving the hallowed "Halls of Ivy," I ventured into the far west (Beacon, N.Y.) and became affiliated with the Research Laboratory of The Texas Company as an engineer. In due course I was elevated through the ranks to Project Engineer, Department Head, and was transferred to the New York Office as Assistant to Chief Technologist.
The days of bachelorhood came to an end in 1943, when Alice Wyman Caldwell (Mount Holyoke, 1940) finally said yes. Married life brought the Fenney family to their own home in Westchester County, with an opportunity to become involved in local civic activities, including Dad's Club, P.T.A., Hartsdale Park Association (president), Hartsdale Civic Council (president), Hartsdale War Memorial Committee (president), Hartsdale School Advisory Com- mittee and the Greenville Community Church. The country atmos- phere lent itself to hobbies, which include a budding enthusiasm for gardening and bee keeping.
On the business side, my interest in engineering led me to join the Society of Automotive Engineers and the American Petroleum Institute and to be awarded more than a dozen U.S. and foreign patents. During the war years I continued to serve The Texas Com- pany, working solely on synthetic rubber and aviation gasoline and also acting as Industry Advisor in many activities of the Armed Services. A detailed description of such activities are included in my listing in "American Men of Science."
Future Yale men include Robert Caldwell (1946) and William N., III (1950); and, as Mount Holyoke material, there is Letitia (1944).
JAMES FULTON FERGUSON, JR., M.D .; Old Mansion Road, Wallingford, Conn.
The pattern of the last five years closely resembles the previous five. Two more children, John Crawford in 1947, and Malcolm Bruce in May, 1951, bringing the total to four. Moved into our new home in 1949, which is in the country and is complete with brook, pond, and wildlife. The two older boys are now in training for the Yale swimming team of circa 1966 and 1971.
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The military machine has not yet invited me into the fold, and present indications point to a continuation of this policy. I cannot be called until those educated by Uncle S. are in, but I am inclined to be pessimistic about the next year. To my mind, there may well be about three distict Koreas in the very near future, and it is hard to see how all can be kept isolated from #3 War.
The practice of medicine goes on apace, with little variation from year to year. One flu epidemic kept the profession (a) from getting lazy and fat and (b) from the throes of poverty. However, the disease was mild and financial benefits quickly were dispersed under the tax laws and living costs of a misguided and incompetent administration. The Welfare State is coming, despite a temporary medical setback. I cannot imagine how the English experiment can be so easily over- looked by HST. By word and deed, the people working in factories fully expect anything remotely connected with health to be paid for by Nation, State, or Industry.
Outside activities are varied and minor, fun to me but of no interest to five-year autobiographies. Golf, fishing, hunting, and (believe it or not) manual labor around my rocky estate are high on the list.
Clubs include Rotary, Medical, and Alumni Associations, with moderate activity therein.
JOHN P. FERGUSON; 1219 S. Clay, Springfield 4, Mo.
The writer, commonly known as a delivery boy or P.D. (definition on request) is hard at work in Springfield, Mo., (strongly Repub- lican) doing obstetrics and Gynecology. Following graduation and then four years of medical school at Yale he spent four more years in medicine, in residency at St. Louis University, doing his future specialty of Ob .- Gyn.
Helen Louise Flint became his better half in 1941, and the subse- quent family is limited to two boys, John F. (born in 1943) and James P. (born in 1947).
The war somehow intervened for just three years, after which he returned to Springfield and became associated with the Woman's Clinic.
Recreation (and hobbies to an extent) is somewhat limited by too many hatchin's. However, golf, fishing, and hunting comprise the list. For a golfer who won the Yale Championship once upon a time in 1934 (or was it '35?) the score has gradually risen with the waistline.
Donations now being received to help pay off the mortgage on a hen house at 1219 S. Clay.
JOHN HAVEN FERGUSON; 1650 30th Street, N.W., Washing- ton, D.C.
Shortly after the war I returned to the law firm of Root, Ballan-
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tine, Harlan, Bushby and Palmer in its newly-established Washing- ton office. Except for a couple of brief interludes in New York, when I served as Executive Director of the Stimson Committee for the Marshall Plan and later did some work for the Ford Foundation, I continued to practice law in Washington until last January, when I came to the State Department as the Deputy Director of the Policy Planning Staff. It would be hard to imagine a better spot from which to look at this complicated and troubled world. I find it an exciting place to be.
To satisfy the editors' insatiable curiosity about personal statistics, there follows a winnowing from the unpublishable information re- quested in the "Confidential" questionnaire:
A second child since the last class book (Sarah, aged two); the same wife; a new house; less hair.
ALBERT S. FIELD, JR .; Gaylord Farm, Wallingford, Conn.
In June, 1948, a job as assistant resident in Internal Medicine at New Haven Hospital was succeeded by the position of resident phy- sician at Gaylord Farm Tuberculosis Sanitorium in Wallingford, Conn. Association with Yale since then has continued, however, as part of each week is spent at the hospital as a clinical instructor in medicine. The work of caring for people with tuberculosis is stimu- lating and rewarding. So much has been learned about this ancient disease in recent years that we have more than ever before in the way of treatment to offer our patients who as a group are pleasant to work with.
In April, 1949, we added a son, Allyn Trumbull to the family, which now totals two girls and one boy. He is a handsome fellow, good company and thoroughly welcome. We are living in a new house on a hillside which provides a fine view of the country. Being only five minutes' walks from one's place of work is a new and pleasant experience, especially appreciated after spending an hour each day in traffic, as was necessary in New Haven. The older members of the family have English bicycles, and riding about the country roads is practical and enjoyable. We even carried the bicycles to Nantucket Island, where we went for summer vacation this year. Vacations have been varied in the past. Last year we experimented with camping for two weeks as a family. This was more successful than at first antici- pated, probably because we were within two miles of my parents, on whom we could call in time of need.
Spare time is spent with the children, reading, going to medical lectures, symphonic concerts, plays, or occasionally movies. Hobbies consist of watercolor painting and photographing children. We
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attend the Congregational Church irregularly, vote Republican, and hope international relations will someday be more secure and stable.
RICHARD O. FERRIS; Capt. Artillery, Hq. 633d AAA Gun Bu., Camp Edwards, Mass.
Engaged in factory and commercial real estate brokerage in New York City and vicinity from February, 1946, to September, 1950. Tennis and farming at Kent, Conn., have remained a major interest. Returned to Army at Fort Bliss, Tex., in October, 1950, and am presently stationed at Camp Edwards, Mass.
MORTON H. FETTEROLF, JR .; 1826 Land Title Building, Broad & Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia 10, Pa.
At the present time I am Vice Chairman of the Board of Super- visors of Whitemarsh Township, Pa .; Director of the Raleigh Coal & Coke Co., Beckley, W. Va., of the Sugar Creek Coal Mining Co., Athens,Ohio, and of the Millfield Coal and Mining Co., Athens, Ohio; and Vice President and Chairman of Greens Committee of the Philadelphia Cricket Club, of Philadelphia. My hobbies are golf and hunting, and I work in local Red Cross activities. My son, Morton H., III, aged six, is a student at Chestnut Hill Academy, in Philadel- phia.
JOHN M. FINCKE; 2151 N. Foothill Boulevard, Altadena, Calif.
Married to Harriet Roberts Fincke. Our children are Harriet C. Fincke, born in 1935; William M. Fincke, born in 1936; Waring Roberts Fincke, born in 1945.
I am self-employed as Manufacturers' Agent covering the electrical field, and operating in Los Angeles and San Francisco. My company has a warehouse at Los Angeles serving California and Arizona.
Am interested in anything with wheels, and have dabbled in ancient automobiles, being a part owner of a 1911 Chalmers. Like early western history and have made many interesting camping trips in this area.
ROGER CLAPP FLETCHER; 48 Fairlawn Street, West Hartford 7, Conn.
Three moves are supposed to be as bad as a fire, but I've had both in the past five years.
The first to occur was the "fire"-in June, 1947. At that time Pal Blade Company whittled their Cutlery Division at Holyoke, Mass., from 1100 employees to 250. In particular, they pruned me and nine others from their engineering staff of twelve. I was sorry to leave that
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job; for it had really been fun, and I had solved several interesting production problems. However, the curtailment had been long over- due, some six month's inventory of unsold finished pocket knives and kitchen tableware having accumulated during the previous eight months.
Soon afterward I moved to West Hartford, Conn., and went to work for the Whitlock Manufacturing Company. Although this com- pany is small, only 200 employees, it offers considerably more scope for my talents than Pal did, chiefly because its products, heat ex- changers and pressure vessels, are much more complicated and re- quire far more engineering than cutlery. For about two years I was assigned to a series of departments including the shop departments in a systematic training program.
This program was supposed to culminate in a permanent assign- ment in one of the engineering departments; but an unusual oppor- tunity opened in one of the sales agency offices about the time I was ready for permanent assignment. Selling had never appealed to me, and it was only after considerable hesitation that I moved to Rich- mond, Va., and went on the road for the company in Virginia and the Carolinas. There I did a satisfactory job but became increasingly eager to return to the factory.
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