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A month ago the company acceded to my wish and moved me permanently back to the factory. My work now is in the Production Engineering Department, which is precisely where I want to be.
To our sorrow there is no patter of little feet around our home, but we still have not lost hope for success in the patter production department.
Now, as five years ago, I feel that my years of greatest happiness and of greatest usefulness to mankind lie ahead rather than behind.
JAMES FLETT, JR .; 1635 Holly Street, Denver, Colo.
I'm engaged in practice as a pediatrician, am married, and have one son, James, 3d.
FRANK F. FORD; 67 The Prado, Atlanta, Ga.
Marriage: Nora Constance Wright of Detroit, Mich., December 22, 1936.
Children :
Constance Wright, January 3, 1938.
Frank Frost, Jr., June 8, 1941.
Judith Ives, July 11, 1944.
Began day after graduation with Great Lakes Steel, Detroit, Mich., division of National Steel Corporation, as test boy in the Metalurgical Lab. 1936, 1937, and 1938-various metalurgical and production
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jobs, with lab and production departments. 1938 and 1941-alloy steel specialist and metalurgical sales engineer. 1941-1946-meta- lurgical consultant for my company with Army and Navy Ordnance Departments on defense steels produced by us, products into which they were placed, and the specifications governing them. 1946- stomach ulcers. Detroit and the steel business got too big, too busy, and too rich for a Georgia Cracker. We returned to our old home- stead in Atlanta to make little Georgia Crackers out of the younger generation of Fords. Since returning to Atlanta, we have been nearly starving to death, and loving it, in our own business as a manu- facturer's representative for several Yankee firms making industrial machines and equipment.
I am active in American Society for Metals, American Society of Tool Engineers, The National Society of Professional Engineers, Chamber of Commerce. I am a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Georgia (metalurgical), a member of the Episcopal Church, a member of Ansley Park Golf Club, Buckhead Century Club, Yale Club of New York City, University Club of Detroit, and have been active in the Yale Club of North Georgia and the Andover Alumni of Georgia. I do not have any spare time, but take time from the undesirable pursuit of making a living, occasionally, to play golf, hunt, fish, and take pictures.
Wherever the rest of the Class of '36 lives, they have not lived until they live in Georgia. (Residents of Texas and California please note.)
JOSEPH B. FORMAN; 129 Curtis Drive, New Haven, Conn.
After my B.S. at Yale in 1936, I went on to get my M.D. cum laude at Yale in 1939. While at Yale Med., I was a member of Phi delta Epsilon fraternity.
Then interned at Newark Beth Israel Hospital, and at Essex County Hospital, Belleville, N.J. It was during this phase that I met and wooed R. Livia Wiener of East Orange, N.J .- a beautiful blonde with small proportions.
Joined the U.S. Naval Reserve in May, 1941 (voluntarily, no less), and saw active duty for over five years. Some North Atlantic tin-can duty in 1941, but Marine Corps Fleet Marine Force duty from be- fore the outbreak of War II till after same-good, clean fun. Trained with the 1st Marine Division while it was forming in North Carolina, then fought with it, in it, and for it for two years overseas starting with the original landing on Guadalcanal on August 7, 1942.
Have held the rank of Commander, USNR, since November, 1945 (despite not have had the pleasure of clean Navy bunks and warm Navy chow for the entire duration).
Received the Presidential Citation with a star and several area
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awards. Mostly, I came away with life and limb. Did general prac- tice for a short time in Los Angeles, Calif., while renewing the woo- ing mentioned above, then moved on to lake training in my long-ago chosen specialty, obstetrics and gynaecology, at the Chicago lying-in Hospital, Univ. of Chicago, October, 1946. Married the lively Livia April 2, 1947, and had the son, Mitchell Paul, while at my residency in Jan., 1948. Completed the residency in September, 1949, and joined the faculty at Yale School of Medicine. The beautiful little blonde gave me Jolie Lynn in June, 1950.
Then, to keep body and soul together for four of us, I had to leave (half-time) university medicine and undertake private practise (half-time), the which combination I've maintained since July, 1950; as Assistant Professor, Dept. of Obs. and Gyn., in the Yale School of Medicine, and under my own shingle at 850 Howard Avenue, New Haven. Doing nicely, thank you. We're at home at 129 Curtis Drive, New Haven.
CHARLES WOODRUFF FOWLER; Westview Lane, RFD 1, South Norwalk, Conn.
I am probably the only man in class who works six days a week at Lord and Taylor, Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y., and I've done it since 1936. The last five years were spent in buying shoes-then women's stockings. After fifteen years at Lord and Taylor, I am still working my way up. Hope by next report requested to have the goal in hand.
I still have the same beautiful wife to come home to, and a son, Peter, ten (an avid Cub Scout), and a daughter, Georgia, six (a child prodigy on the harmonica and drums every Sunday morning). Scout work and building projects at home are my main hobbies. My ath- letic interests are sandlot baseball, basketball and football-in season. My objectives are a continued healthy, happy life, with more of what it takes to achieve same.
CHARLES FRAMBACH-BERLITZ; 630 5th Avenue, New York, N.Y.
Since the last report I have acquired (in 1950) a wife, Valerie Ann Seary, from Sidney, Australia, and a child, Lin Maria, who was born in 1951. My latest book, The Berlitz Self-Teacher: Russian, was written in 1951.
ROLAND E. FRAMM; 2906 Northumberland Avenue, Richmond 22, Va.
Worked one year with a utility holding company, three years with
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Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Company, last eleven years with The American Tobacco Company (Lucky Strike), eight in New York home office, last three in Richmond factory, all as accountant. Mar- ried Rina Bowles of Richmond in 1939, have two sons, six and nine. Enjoy taking care of my home and grounds, and visiting friends.
Changed from Republican to Democrat only because this is a one- party state. Am strongly anti-administration because of tainted politics and lack of courage in tackling government economy, but feel that present foreign policy is probably as good as we can do. I find both city and state governments to be manned by able, honest men, providing much better government than in New Jersey and New York, where I was brought up. Feel that racial question, al- though important here because of large percentage of colored popula- tion, is given more publicity both here and in the North than is necessary. Find people friendler and lazier here than in North, but less considerate of social obligations, so that "Southern Hospitality" leaves me cold, except for a few intimate friends. Less drinking and more enjoyment of fundamental simple pleasures here make for a happy life. Or do I sound too dogmatic?
Anyway, we're comfortably situated, although far from rich; satisfied that we'll live longer, make less money, and be somewhat happier than if we'd stayed in the New York metropolitan area.
Incidentally, am surprised to realize what a really superior educa- tion Yale gives, and how few down here have received a comparable background. And that's no reflection on the intelligence or ability of Southern people.
DAVID R. FRANCIS; R.F.D. #1, Clarksville, Mo.
In 1947, I bought a farm near Clarksville, Mo., about 80 miles north of St. Louis. At that time I was in the stock and bond business in St. Louis but found enough time over weekends to follow the operation of this farm under the direction of a farm manager. I found farming and outdoor work so interesting that I gave up the brokerage business in 1948, moved up to the farm, and went into the business of livestock farming as a full time job. I employ now one man, who, with me, can operate the place with fully mechanized equipment.
I raise hogs and cattle, together with what feed they need. I have no time for any hobbies, nor do I pursue any of the athletic sports and golf, squash, etc. We have a boy, four, and a girl, six, and have a compatible social life up here. An occasional trip to St. Louis to renew old acquaintances always cures any feeling of the monotony of farm life. One day fighting traffic in the city is enough to make us long to get back to the green hills and open spaces. I keep track of
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Yale by attending once a year a local Yale Club outing and dinner. I would like to leave one thought for those who may look upon country life as a cure-all for everything, and that is that farming for a living is hard work, six days a week. Its compensations lie in seeing land produce and in keeping in good health.
ARTHUR ALBERT FRANK, JR .; 2228 Central Park Ave., Evanston, Ill.
After attending non co-educational schools, and serving time in the Army, I now find myself surrounded by girls. The first was acquired by marriage Elizabeth Crilly was the name-and the others fol- lowed in due course. The oldest, Linda, is now eight, then Barbara, four, and Nancy, one. Linda is the reason for my attendance at an occasional P.T.A. meeting. To support this household, the income is derived from the Standard Railway Equipment Manufacturing Company, for whom I sell freight car parts as Assistant Vice- President (Sales). I arrived at this point by way of the Harnischfe- ger Corporation and the Hollup Corporation. One year was spent with Harnischfeger in Milwaukee and three and one-half with Hollup in Chicago.
The Army called in August, 1941, and put an end to my time with Hollup. The Quartermaster Corps made a basic training officer out of me and send a new 2nd Lieutenant to Fort Warren at Cheyenne, Wyo., and then to Camp Lee, Va. They allowed a leave in January, 1942, so that our marriage could be performed. In February, 1943, the 512th Truck Regiment was organized, with Captain Frank com- manding "C" Company. Late that year we arrived in England and I became the operations officer for the regiment, which the Army now called a group. We moved to France and then to Germany. Some- times equipped with "ducks," sometimes with the standard two-and- a-half-ton truck, and sometimes with ten-ton semi-trailers. We came back to the States in December, 1945, and I was proudly wearing the gold leaves of a Major. Upon discharge, an automatic promotion to Lieutenant Colonel arrived. The Army is still trying to figure out what to do with all the rank they have acquired.
After a vacation in Florida, with tennis and fishing, swimming and sun bathing, I joined Standard Railway Equipment Manufacturing Company in March, 1946.
As for recreation, my golf game is very unpredictable, with usually a reward for my opponent. No improvement is foreseeable in the immediate future.
HORACE W. FRENCH; Huckleberry Hill Road, Unionville, Conn.
I work in the wage and salary administration section of the Per- sonnel Department of the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Division of
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United Aircraft Corp. My wife is Catherine Minor, formerly of Plainville, Conn., and our children are Horace W. French, Jr., seven, Eldred Minor French, five, and Amy Copeland French, one.
ROGER H. FULLER; U.S. Naval Hospital, Great Lakes, Ill. ₽
I obtained an M.D. degree from Tufts College Medical School in 1938, interned at the Hartford Hospital, joined the Navy Medical Corps in 1942, now rank as a Commander, and am specializing in pathology. In 1936 I married Janet Richmond. We have three daughters.
JAMES BERTRAM FULLMAN; Scofieldtown Road and Woodley Lane, Stamford, R.D. 2, Conn.
I spent a year with Westinghouse after graduation designing transformers, then went to A. M. Byers Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., manu- facturers of wrought iron. My pre-war assignment was as Mgr., Engineering Service Dept., in Pittsburgh. Now I am in New York City as technical representative. I married Helen Louise Crippen of Denver, on June 11, 1941. (Another Smith-Yale combination.) I am working on a new home currently, which means everything from landscaping and gardening through the various building operations. During the war I was a Lieutenant (U.S.N.R.), and worked on degaussing activity, principally at New York.
GEORGE NELSON GAFFORD; Lake Lucerne, Chagrin Falls, Ohio.
Since autobiographies are usualy reserved to the famous or in- famous, great or pseudo-great, the anonymity of our confidential questionnaire suited me best, for there indeed are the true facts, unbiased and uncolored! But in our present world of confusion and readjustment of values, where the cry has become primarily the seek- ing of material security and true security seems farthest from reach, our very daily lives shadowed by crises, are full of color.
During the last five years, my effort has been to come of age: pro- fessionally and socially. While Toni and I have not increased our family (except perhaps by a Springer, a miniature Dachshund and some tropical fish), we have acquired a log cabin by a lake for our home. We swim and play tennis and paddle about in the summer, take movies of Diane (aged nine) sledding down long hills in the winter, and still play some squash at the Cleveland Athletic Club at noontimes.
In my law practice I have been fortunate in having handled a great variety of matters, large and small, at the conference table and
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in the courts. In an age of specialization, I have not specialized, and have spent many happy hours working on the problems of those who could not pay, those who could but do not, and (fortunately) those who can and do. We are a small firm of six individuals, practicing individually for the most part or working togethor on major corporate or litigated matters. Not yet a Choate, I enjoy the strain of the court- room, having in addition to our own work defended the industrial claims in this area in the courts as Assistant Attorney General of Ohio in 1949 and 1950.
ALFRED J. GAGNON; 3 Woodside Drive, Greenwich, Conn.
After Yale, I joined the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. as an in- dustrial engineer. Seven years later I moved to Sperry Gyroscope Co. as a production engineer, then to American Cystoscope Makers, Inc., as Chief Industrial Engineer. In 1945, I joined Booz, Allen & Hamilton, management consultants, and on January 1, 1950, was elected to partnership.
My wife, formerly Mary Perry, and I have four children-three girls and one boy. Our target was six, but we seem to have lost the knack or something.
Anyone who wants to get a party for a deep sea fishing should call me up.
RALPH GANCHER; 527 Colusa Avenue, Berkeley, Calif.
Chronologically, after Yale, I attended Long Island College of Medicine (M.D., 1940); then interned at Beth Israel, New York, 1940-42, during which time I married Anita Sosno, then a symphony violinist in New York. We now have three children, David, eight, in- clined to quietness and reading; Dina, six, with good artistic sense (good range of color, and a fresh fluidity of motion) plus a startling ability to cross-examine us to our discomfort, and to stand up for her rights, as she sees them; and Carl, four, with a good musical sense but otherwise a dynamo of undisciplined violence and emotions.
After a short stint in the Veterans Administration in psychiatry, in 1942-43, I was commissioned captain, then major, and was re- assigned most of the time back to the V. A. in psychiatry, thus never leaving the U. S.
In 1946, war over, I residented in the V. A. Hospital in the Bronx, in internal medicine (sort of swimming up stream, as more internists go into psychiatry than the reverse). In 1948, I entered private practise in my home town, Waterbury, Conn., and seemed settled for life. However, in 1950, I suffered some sort of internal revolution, quit Connecticut, and went to the Bay Area in California to join a group practise there. I am now an internist (certified in 1949) with
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Permanente Medical Foundation Hospital in Oakland, Calif. We are in a new type of medicine, which I think is probably a pattern for the future. We have a small number of hospitals in this area, serving a large population on prepaid insurance method, based on specialists in group practise. We live in Berkeley, Calif., a really lovely city of 100,000, offering more in a civic way than most places I have seen: an interesting climate, San Francisco nearby, much music and art around, etc. I like it, and so does my family. We miss the East, too, autumns especially, and the friends of these past decades. There was a time when doctors settled down in one place after graduation, and never budged again. I thought I was in that mold, too, but, like so much of America, I have been on the move more than I planned, and I have ended up here far from home and far from my original way of practise, but this is better.
Religion seems to have faded a great deal these years, too. I be- long nominally to the Conservative Jewish synagogue, but heaven knows, by this time, what I really believe. It surely isn't the "faith of my fathers," I know.
At thirty-six, I'm balding a little, up to 165 lbs., can't climb hills too well, and I'm soft! My wife is now a violist, has a good quartet, and has found as much music as the West can offer, I think.
I read medicine, mostly, good novels and journals, see foreign movies and worry about the world in a frustrated way.
HENRY A. GARDNER, JR .; 940 Valley Road, Glencoe, Ill.
The Fifteenth Reunion of the Class of '36 brought to a thunderous climax the events of the last five years; in fact, the last thirty-eight years. In retrospect:
November 13, 1945, saw me properly divorced from the United States Navy as a Lieutenant in the status of an inactive reserve.
After 78 days terminal leave in Sea Island with Blake Shepherd. Smitty Jackson, and others, the task of gainful employment and the payment of income taxes was resumed.
On February 1, 1946, I resumed the practice of law after a layoff of four years, less three months.
In the course of the last five years, apparently through natural causes, two additional inhabitants have appeared in the household: Katherine, now aged four, and Charles, two; the total now being four, what with Frederica, nine, and Henry, eight. These are believed to be the finalists in this activity.
In 1950, after the death of our late representative, Ralph Church, my hat was thrown in the ring for Representative from the Thir- teenth Congressional District of Illinois. After a great expenditure of energy and hot air, it was returned to the owner in much the same manner. The Gardner machine, based on sincerity, enthusiasm and a
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belief in honest, broad-guage principles of goverment, was apparently not sufficiently appealing.
Civic and Religious and Charitable Organizations: The Executive Council of the Chicago Boy Scouts of America, St. Elizabeth Church, Community Fund, Red Cross, etc.
Exercise and Pastimes: Theatre, concerts, reading, golf, skating and playing with children.
Clubs: University Club, Chicago Bar Association, Indian Hill Club, Skokie Country Club, Yale Club of Chicago, Executives' Club.
THEODORE S. GARY; 1320 North State Street, Chicago, Ill.
Occupation: Executive.
Business or professional career in chronological order:
Assistant to Chairman of Board-Automatic Electric Company --- 1934-36
Vice President, Automatic Electric Company-1936-45
President, Automatic Electric Sales Corporation-1942-45
Officer and/or Director of various telephone operating and manu- facturing companies within the Gary Group, 1945, including: Officer and/or Director of:
Gary Services and Investment Company-Vice President and Direc- tor
Theodore Gary and Company-Vice President and Director
Anglo-Canadian Telephone Company-Vice President and Director Associated Telephone & Telegraph Company-Vice President and Director
British Columbia Telephone Company-Director
Compania Dominicana de Telefonos, C Por A-Vice President and Director
International Automatic Electric Corporation-Vice President and Director
Pan-American Telephone & Telegraph Company-Director
Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company-Director
Phillips Electrical Works Limited-Director
Continental Telephone Company-Vice President and Director Durham Telephone Company-Director Illinois Telephone Company-Director Iowa Continental Telephone Company-Director Missouri Telephone Company-Director Nebraska Continental Telephone Company-Director Ohio Consolidated Telephone Company-Director South Carolina Continental Telephone Company-Director Southern Continental Telephone Company-Director
Telephone Bond & Share Company-Vice President and Director
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Texas Telephone Company-Director
Union Telephone Company-Director Community Telephone Company-Vice President and Director Community Telephone Company of Wisconsin-Director Illinois Central Telephone Company-Director
The Inland Telephone Company-Vice President and Director Minnesota Community Telephone Company-Director Blue Mountain Telephone & Telegraph Company-Director Wiconisco Telephone & Telegraph Company-Director Natser Corporation-President and Director
Island Real Estate Corporation-President and Director
Other business or professional connections: President, Armed Forces Communications Associations.
Married Laura Avritt Brown on July 23, 1934. Children (in order of birth) : Theodore S. Gary, Jr., September 17, 1936; Laura Castle- man Gary, July 23, 1941.
Other affiliations: Chicago Club; Chicago Athletic Club; Racquet Club; Barrington Hills Country Club; Saddle & Cycle Club; Fin 'n Feather Club.
Special activities: North Side Boys Clubs; Illinois Children's Home and Aid Society; Trustee-Girls Latin School of Chicago.
CHARLES E. GAST, 301 Argyle Avenue, Pueblo, Colo.
I was married in 1942 to Ruth M. Myers of Kansas City, and we have a daughter, Diane, six. I also have two sons by a previous mar- riage, Robert S. and Charles E., Jr. I am senior partner of the Main Realty Company, and am also associated with the Sam Jones Agency, real estate and insurance. My hobbies: hunting, fishing, horse raising.
CLINTON H. GATES; Pala Kirk-Hen Farm, R.F.D. #1, Grand- view, Mo.
After our second honeymoon in Arizona with our pre-war daughter (the Army having kept me overseas for over three years), we re- turned to Kansas City and bought a house. The law firm that had hired me before Uncle beckoned gracioustly took me back, and all looked like smooth sailing until Republican politics enmeshed me. As a result of working in the '46 campaign in which a Republican prosecutor was elected, I was tapped as one of his assistants, so that on December 31, 1946, I quit my job with the law firm and went to work as a public servant who attempted to keep the felons behind bars or at least out of circulation. The magistrate and the circuit courts kept us hopping with trials, and then a Grand Jury, having found fraud in the 1946 Democratic Primary and having returned over seventy indictments after our investigation, kept us in the law
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books to find a way to circumvent the loss of the evidence; i.e, ballots when the courthouse safe was blown up. This search was unsuccess- ful and so we settled down to a year of routine criminal work. 1948 came and went, with the Democrats back in power; so on January 1, 1949, I was in practice for myself.
After the election in 1948, we bought and moved to a farm fifteen miles from town, and since then I have become a lawyer farmer, with emphasis on the latter. Farm help being somewhat hard to find, I have found that for part of the time at least farming fifty acres has been my primary duty, which includes milking cows, gardening, haying, taking care of hogs, chickens, etc., and other farm chores.
On February 1, 1947, a son, Lathrop Mead, was born, followed one year and a half later, on August 8, 1948, by another son, Kirk- land Hayes. In the spring of last year no one could be found to run for Eastern Judge of our County of Jackson. The job is an adminis- trative one and is the position in which our present President started. A sucker was found to run on the Republican ticket whose name happened to be mine. No campaign was necessary in the primary, as there was no opposition, but speeches, hill-billy music, ice cream, balloons, and fanfare failed to convince the voters in November which I fear was the expected result.
A daughter arrived December 2, 1950, named Henrietta, which completes the family picture.
Now I am back farming, with an interest in a general contracting firm and a fertilizer company which was not quite completely wiped out by the flood in July. Somewhere along the way I have been elected to some Boards of Directors: the Barstow School for Girls (president for two years), Mt. Washington Cemetery, St. Luke's Hospital and Missouri Republican Club.
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