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NATHANIEL CHAPMAN WEEMS GENNETT, JR .; 189 Kim- berly Avenue, Asheville, N.C.
On October 14, 1936, I was married to Betsy Ross in New Orleans, La. The following fall I attended law school at the University of Virginia and graduated in the class of 1940.
A daughter, Virginia Elizabeth, was born on October 2, 1940.
From 1940 to 1942, I was associated with the Gennett Lumber Company in Asheville, N.C., manufacturers of hardwood lumber.
During the years 1942-43, I worked on the legal staff as a law clerk at Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine and Wood, 15 Broad Street, New York City.
I returned to Gennett Lumber Company in a legal and executive
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capacity from January 1, 1944, to September, 1945, when I became associated with Fulton, Walter and Halley, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City, for one year.
On September 13, 1944, a son, Nathaniel Chapman Weems Gen- nett, III, was born.
Following the association with the last-named law firm in New York, I became Associate Counsel to the Committee on Merchant Marine for investigational work under House Resolution 38, 79th Congress, for six months.
On January 1, 1947, I became a partner in the Gennett Lumber Company. This appears to be a more or less permanent proposition.
During the past fifteen years I have competed in numerous golf tournaments, including the U.S.G.A. Amateur Championship, Southern Championship, North & South Carolina Championship, and North-South Invitation at Pinehurst. Must have set some sort of a record in being "runner-up" in not less than eleven invitational tournaments during that time.
Other hobbies are boxing, fast automobiles, playing the piano, and reading, including but not limited to the works of our classmates, Gill and Hersey.
LEONARD M. GERSTEN; 36 Cobane Terrace, West Orange, N.J.
We now have two children-Barbara Alice, three, and Lawrence Herbert, one. I am still employed by the Larkey Company, in a managerial position.
WILLIAM H. GESELL; 235-A Christopher Street, Upper Mont- clair, N.J.
I have an LL.B. from Fordham Law School and am a C.P.A. in New York. In 1937, I married Lucy Burnham, and we have four sons: William H., 3d; twins, Peter B. and Perry H .; and Richard F.
JOHN GIFFORD; Box 482, R.D. 7, Akron, Ohio.
I have the same wife, Vera, three kids, Randy, eleven, Carolyn, eight, and Craig, one, and a dog that can't be trusted. For recreation, we square dance and fish-at different times, of course-and to keep busy I manage the development of tires, tubes, and tank tracks at the B. F. Goodrich Company.
BRENDAN GILL; 26 Prescott Avenue, Bronxville, N.Y.
Like nearly everyone else in the class, I am a husband, a father, and a writer. I acknowledge a wife, six children, and a book. Fifteen years ago, I should have predicted a different assortment of figures;
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maybe the disproportion explains itself. I earn my living mostly from the New Yorker magazine. I have an easy and amusing life, and often it is more than easy and amusing.
RICHARD E. GNADE; Department of State, Washington, D.C.
I am now officer in charge of Syria-Iraq-Lebanon affairs; still single; my extra-curricular activities are oil painting, fox hunting.
CARL THURSTON GOEPEL; 311 East 52nd Street, New York 22, N.Y.
Not much change since 1945. Am now working for Jofa, Inc., 45 East 53rd Street, handling fabrics and upholstry textiles. Spend every chance I can get away in Quogue, Long Island, where we have a house on the beach. Am still unmarried. Brought a family of Ukranians, who were in a German prison camp, over here a year ago. The boy, George Chranewycz, is now in Yale, Class of 1954, where he has several scholarships.
ALBERT GOLDENTHAL; 31 Priscilla Road, Brighton, Mass.
While working for the Government up to 1949 had its advantages as well as disadvantages, nevertheless not until taking on my present work was it possible for me to meet my most pleasant experi- ence. My work, consisting mainly of a traveling nature, brings me in contact with ice cream manufacturers and wholesalers in the paper, tobacco and candy lines. It was on one of my New England ex- cursions that I met a wonderful and beautiful girl, who, within a short time thereafter, became my wife. Helen, formerly Helen Dubowy of New Britain, Conn., has spent a considerable amount of time traveling with me.
My work consists in giving legal counsel to the Eastern Baking Co., as well as stimulating the sales of ice cream cones and other paper products, such as straws and drinking cups.
The Boston Bar Association, the Traveling Men's Auxiliary, the Boston Confectionery Salesmen's Club, the Dairy Queen Association, the National Ice Cream Manufacturers' Association have all graciously kept me on their rolls.
I shall never be in a position to forget my birthday, which is January 11th, since it is my wife's birthday and our wedding anni- versary. Who can match this?
LOUIS WILLIAM GOODKIND; 6925 Glenbrook Road, Bethesda 14, Md.
The years since the last writing have brought me a new daughter,
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a new house, a new job title, innumerable new experiences-and yet our life is not essentially different from what it was then.
The new daughter, our third, Kathryn Wald, staged her arrival, rather suddenly, on our seventh wedding anniversary, April 8, 1949. Now growing into childhood, she is proving again that all children are both completely different and exactly the same.
Our "new" house happened shortly before Kathy, when Jean and I were irresistibly intrigued by a rambling, termite-bitten cottage lodged on a knoll among 100-foot trees. We bought the place, evicted the termites, added on to the structure for the third recorded time in its history, filled it with G.E. equipment, painted it barn-red, and have not since regretted our madness.
Although now a member of the District of Columbia bar, I am still forswearing private practice for the government's side of air transport economics. Title, at the moment: Acting Deputy Director, Bureau of Air Operations, Civil Aeronautics Board.
When my wife agreed to serve on a committee, we innocently failed to realize that would result in my becoming president and chairman of the board of trustees of Green Acres School, a rapidly growing, progressive nursery and elementary school. After three terms in that capacity, I retired last April to the relative obscurity of plain trustee, conveying the presidential problems and prerogatives into the capable hands of classmate Obbie Webb.
Other pieces of these latter years: summer weeks on the ocean at Rehoboth Beach; wintertime square dancing (wife-instigated, but I concede it's fun) ; flying trips to New York with children, who are blasé at DC-6's, but agog over elevated trains and double-decker buses; and far too many nights with laden briefcase at my study desk.
CHARLES GOODWIN, JR .; 20 Exchange Place, New York, N.Y.
I am married and have four children, Charles III, eight, Robert, six, Patricia, three, and William, six months. I am practising tax law in New York City, and live at 39 Buff Road, Tenafly, N.J. I play a little golf, ski a little.
HAROLD E. GORDON; 204 East Main Street, Ligonier, Pa.
After graduation, it became my lot to watch the enactment of the events leading to World War II from England. In 1940, I returned to the U.S. to enter the Navy, where I spent five and one half years. In 1945, wedded to Frances A. Hodge of Pittsburgh; the issue-three charming daughters: Rachel Jane, Frances Alexander, and Anne Clyde. Upon completion of Medical School at University of Pitts-
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burgh, the usual interneship and residency in preparation for general practice of medicine in a very small town.
ROBERT A. GOSLING; Box 8, Wayne, Ill.
Having recently observed my 15th anniversary with The Northern Trust Company, I feel qualified to take issue with Mr. Marquand, who referred to the steps of the banking ladder as points of no return. Marquand's bankers were vigorous, healthy people, endowed with good digestion, normal blood pressure, and elastic arteries. This I maintain isn't par for the course. The sour loan, like the sour apple, quickly communicates its venomous influence to the lower intestine, and incipient ulcers become lovely little volcanoes.
However, a loving wife (she has put up with me for ten years) and two little girls aged four and one, always manage to relegate father and business to their proper, if not lofty, level. Tennis helps too, and then there is always that wonderful month each year in northern Minnesota's wilderness, where the only sounds are the loon's call and the shriek of the Arctic owl.
ROWLAND P. GRAEBER; 737 Ackerman Avenue, Syracuse 10, N.Y.
After graduation from Yale, I attended Yale Graduate School and received a Ph.D. I was married on June 21, 1941, to Hope F. Hiller, who attended Yale Art School; we have one son, Geoffrey Marc Graeber, born on February 20, 1945. I am now assistant professor of classical languages at Syracuse University. My hobbies are classical record collecting and model railroading. I had military service in the Army in following countries: England, France Germany, Belgium, Austria; as well as detached service in Greece.
JOHN C. GRAHAM; 11 Colony Road, West Hartford 5, Conn.
I'm still laboring in the law department of the Aetna Casualty & Surety Company, play golf in the summer, bowl in the winter, and very occasionally get out the trumpet which used to blast into the far reaches of the Yale Bowl. I have two children-Courtney Ann, six; and John B., one.
JOHN C. GRAHAM; Banksville Road, Bedford Village, N.Y.
After spending ten years with the Texas Co. covering various jobs, I left to go into business of my own in 1945. The new enterprise involved a car agency for Lincoln and Mercury cars, Willys Jeeps, and International trucks. Needless to say business over the last six years has been exceptionally good. Social activities include member-
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ship in Mt. Kisco Country Club, and civic jobs include that of the local Lions Club and member of hometown school board. A small part of my spare time is taken up in playing golf and the balance in cutting grass at home. There are three children, two of whom were born prior to 1945-the last, a daughter, was born four years ago.
ROBERT C. GRAHAM; June Road, Stamford, Conn.
My activities since 1945 have been primarily raising a family of three children and running the family art business of James Graham & Sons in New York City. The latter has consisted largely of making buying trips and organizing painting exhibitions at our gallery.
As a hobby, and in a small commercial way, I have been raising domestic and wild waterfowl and a hybrid cross of pheasants and chickens. Land conservation practices and organic gardening have been another hobby. Tennis has been a more active pastime locally, while trips to Canada and the Adirondack Mountains, trout fishing have been a pleasant interlude.
The past winter I became actively interested in the Andros Bahamas Development Company, a newly-founded agricultural and resort enterprise on the island of Andros in the British West Indies, which we hope will blossom forth in 1952.
WALTER H. GRAHAM; 5719 Hohmon Avenue, Hammond, Ind.
I am president of the Automatic Appliance Service and associated companies, have a wife and one child six years old, named Marcy. I still hunt whenever and wherever possible-in Arkansas this fall.
IRVING A. GRANNICK; 271 Greenwich Avenue, Greenwich, Conn.
I am owner of the Grannick Drug Store in Greenwich, at the above address; am married, have three children: Harriet, aged ten, Charles, aged eight, and Valerie, aged six. My wife, Mary, is the former Mary Stankus of Wallingford, Conn., and we have been happily married for sixteen years. My main hobbies are bowling, yachting, and golf.
FRANCIS C. GRANT; Pegan Lane, Dover, Mass.
Before the war I had various jobs in Pittsfield, Mass., St. Louis, New York, and Baltimore, where I helped make airplanes for the Glen L. Martin Co.
I spent five years in the Army, in this country and in Europe. For a short time after being separated from the service I lived in Wash- ington, D.C.
In 1946, while I was working as a milkman for Jake Rand in Salisbury, Conn., the obvious finally became apparent to me; I joined
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the Winsted branch of Alcoholics Anonymous. For several months I attended A. A. meetings regularly. The cure was brief but success- ful.
The next year, 1947, I married Penelope Hunter of Salisbury, Conn. For the past three years we have lived in Dover, Mass. I commute to the Boston office of the United States Lines Co. Previ- ously I had worked for them in New York.
It takes a lot of interests, hobbies and other activities to replace the full-time avocation I have forsaken. I have plunged into good works. I have done graduate work in Government at Boston Uni- versity. I have written unpublished short stories. The problems of gardening and poultry raising fill many hours. I build things.
However my most important extracurricular activity is the cham- pioning of such unfashionable causes as socialized medicine, Secretary Acheson, classical education, and the cat's superiority to the dog as a pet.
FRED GRATWICK; 44 Lyman Road, Buffalo 21, N.Y.
This thing seems to come around pretty fast again, in fact before I have been able to make any changes except the address. Still single, work for Metzger Construction Corporation, general building con- tractors in Buffalo; enjoy golf, tennis, squash, and a little horticulture on the side.
CHARLES FREDERIC GREEN; 2222 Dracena Street, Bakersfield, Calif.
Since graduation, all efforts have been in oil exploration in Cali- fornia, except to take time out to obtain a degree in Petroleum Geology at Stanford University and spend some time in the Army, mostly in the Australia-New Guinea-Philippines-Japan circuit. Mar- ried in 1947 to Reba Athey Smith of San Francisco, Calif .; two children, with one a candidate for Yale. Current occupation, Con- sultant Petroleum Geologist.
HENRY BROWNING GREEN; "Gracemere," Tarrytown, N.Y.
Since leaving the United States Coast Guard in October, 1945, I have been working for the Anaconda Wire and Cable Company. Voted for Dewey in the last election, would like to vote for Taft in the next one, but suspect it will only result in another four-year ticket for Mr. Truman. I belong to no organizations and still find the movies the most enjoyable entertainment.
JAMES COFFIN GREENE; 433 S. Spring Street, Los Angeles, Calif.
Sarah Elizabeth is our third, noisiest, and only postwar child. She
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has been with us since February, 1948. Since the Navy, her father has been a part of Los Angeles' largest legal organization, O'Melveny & Meyers. Three children, plus general civic interest resulted in an unsuccessful run for the Pasadena School Board in 1949, at which time began many of the troubles that have since received national recognition.
Still a Democrat, occasionally a churchgoer; in other respects a conventional joiner of social clubs and business organizations. There should have been a place on the questionnaire to indicate if dish- washers were installed by the buyers.
Tennis and garden work, family picnics in the mountains back of Pasadena, and summer vacations at Lake Tahoe do much to keep California life pleasant.
P. WILLIAM A. GREENE; Indian Chase Drive, Greenwich, Conn.
Three years ago we rounded off (let's hope) the progeny at four with Gina-a gal who already beats up her three older brothers, and in every respect takes after her mother. None of us boys feels very secure in his pants as a badge of office.
A year or so ago we were evicted (gently) from Ophir Farm, Purchase, N.Y., and moved to the above address. Although Green- wich is staunchly Eli, '36ers are sadly outnumbered. Reinforcements are needed in the greatest-class argument, especially since Louis Walker left town. Come one, come all, and let's show the doubters.
Although medicine-ball throwing at a health roof isn't part of the agenda yet, there are definite signs of a slow up in the athletic line. Tennis (mixed doubles only) and golf (with lunch and breakfast balls as required) is about it. These so-called sports, plus feather- bedding the children, take up most of the time that can be called extra-curricular. What little is left goes to minor political activities in Connecticut.
Selling newspapers at the same old corner-Bureau of Advertising, A.N.P.A .- is still my job. Even though you aren't a newspaper advertiser (especially if you aren't), come in and see us at 570 Lexington Avenue, when you get a chance.
WILBUR ROWE GREENWOOD, JR .; Hickory Road, R.F.D. 3, Stamford, Conn.
The last five years have been busy years and happy ones, but where all the time has gone in such a hurry, I am not quite sure. It seems a lot more like five months than five years since I sat down to scribble for our 1946 Book.
I am still happily married to the same girl-have the same two
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kids (no new additions in sight)-and am still with the same company (Pitney-Bowes, Inc., Manager, Special Machines Sales).
As for extra curricula affairs, I am pretty well involved in all the standard community activities one normally gets into when he lives and works in the same town. Whenever there is any spare time to be had, I usually can be found sailing the waters of Long Island Sound or scraping paint in a boatyard.
Regretted missing our reunion. Had looked forward to being there, but could not make it. Am going on record with Dick Pinkham right now, however, to be on hand for our Twentieth.
ANTHONY E. GRILLO; 43 Vantage Road, Hamden, Conn.
Another future Yaleite came into the world on October 17, 1948- Johnny Grillo; his brother being Anthony, Jr., age six.
The practice of law continues to be interesting, and I was fortu- nate enough to have been named prosecuting attorney for the town of Hamden, in 1949. Besides this activity, I find time to be active in the local Lions Club, of which I am First Vice-President, and the local Young Democratic Club, of which I am also First Vice- President.
Living in Hamden, and having an office in New Haven, I see Yale's buildings each day and thank the Lord that I was lucky enough to have graduated from this great institution.
FRANK STEELE GRISWOLD; 315 West Seventh Street, Silver City, N.M.
After graduation, worked a few months for the Forest Service and a few as cat skinner in Montana, then a while on Forest Survey in North Carolina. A year working on the '38 New England blow-down was followed by work for the Forest Service in New Mexico. Got in the Army, went to OCS at Fort Belvoir, married Helen Galbraith in May, 1943, went to Europe, returned, got out of the Army, and have worked at the retail lumber business in Yuma, Ariz., where Frank, Jr., was born, in Florence, Ariz., and now in Silver City, N.M.
GEORGE J. GRUMBACH; 217 Mayhew Drive, South Orange, N.J.
In 1947 I married Virginia Stein of East Orange, and we now have two children: Elizabeth Ann, born in 1949; and James Edward, born in 1951. There is another child, George J., Jr., born in 1940 of my former marriage (I was divorced in 1944).
Since 1936, I have been with the American Lead Pencil Company, last year having been made First Vice President. My main concern is the accounting end of the business. A great deal of my time is spent in handling our subsidiaries in Mexico and our lumber mills in California, as well as our Hoboken Plant.
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FREDERICK B. HADDAD; Hq., U.S.A.R.F.A.N.T., M.D.P.R., A.P.O. 851, c/o Postmaster, New York 1, N.Y.
Since 1941, material progress has been negligible. I have been continuing in the Army, in valuable and varying assignments, and currently a Lieutenant Colonel serving in Puerto Rico as the Senior Army Instructor of the Organized Reserve Corps for this command. This is "mañana" land. Personal life continues to be rich and bright. Married in 1946 at Fort Bragg, N.C., to Dellia Gage of Lawton, Okla., but as yet without offspring. In the shadows of world events hopes for the future, kindled by personal friendships and love of people, still burn.
WILLIS R. HALE; University Club, Cleveland, Ohio.
I am single and have no children. For two years after college, I was assistant test engineer with Monongahela West Pennsylvania Public Service Company, at Fairmont and Clarksburg, W.Va. Then I spent three years with my father in forming Scientific Cast Pro- ducts Corporation of Ohio and Illinois. During the war I had Army duty in Louisiana with the 108th Engineers, 32nd Division, and was over-seas from February, 1942, to September, 1946, in Ireland, England, North Africa, and Italy. My final rank was captain, com- manding the 522nd Engineer Combat Company. Since the war I have been vice-president of Scientific Cast Products Corporation of Ohio and of S.C.P. Corporation of Illinois, manufacturing precision castings in plaster molds.
JESSE ANGELL HALL; 164 North Street, Chagrin Falls, Ohio.
Jess Jr. arrived January 17, 1945, at Ft. Benning, Ga. That makes three sprouts and a full house. We've pulled out of the game-I think.
Discharged in February of '46 and went directly to Cleveland, Ohio, where I joined Dresser Industries, Inc., as a member of their labor relations staff. Bought a house in Chagrin Falls (20 miles east of Cleveland) a year later and thought things were going to work out pretty nicely. They didn't, though. Three years later I was still making peanuts and away from home a great deal of the time. (Dresser had 13 companies scattered from New York to Texas to California.) Switched to Public Relations in the spring of 1949 with a pretty fat raise, thank God, but then Dresser liquidated all public relations activities, moved its headquarters from Cleveland to Dallas and Papa was hunting a job.
While at Dresser I had bought a good deal of printing from local firms and came to know something about the business. In October of 1949 I joined The Lezius-Hiles Company, one of the largest print- ing firms of its type in the east, as a salesman. Wish I'd tried selling a long, long time ago.
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Social activities? Very informal-friendly gatherings with a de- lightful group near home, a few drinks and much conversation. Political? Except for helping to collect some money for Taft's cam- paign in '50, practically nil. Church? This we take more seriously than we used to and work at it some. Sports? Tennis in the summer, badminton in the winter. Connubial Bliss? Yes, thank you very much. I've had my best luck in that department.
THOMAS W. HALL, JR .; The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Conn.
This is being written from our summer place in South Shaftsbury, Vt., where fortunately, or possibly unfortunately, I do not have the previous autobiography to refer to. One thing is fairly definite-that after teaching for twelve years the main theme of life flows pretty steadily along the same course, with a few variations added from time to time. It is mainly nine months of the year teaching at Hotch- kiss, with time out for the Christmas and Easter holidays and then the other three spent on the small but beautiful farm in Vermont that looks up through the Green Mountains on Equinox and Dorset. Some of those variations mentioned are like the summer of 1947, when I drove every day to Williamstown from S. Shaftsbury all summer to take geology courses at Williams; or the arrival of Peter Welles Hall in November, 1948, or Mary Rogers, our second child, in March, 1950. National and state politics stirred me up enough so that I made some fuss and noise and was put on the Republican Town Committee in Salisbury, followed shortly by the election to The Salisbury Association, a body of citizens interested in planning and beautifying the Township of Salisbury. It was about a year ago that we took on a D.P. couple from Germany with the idea that we might do more serious farming the whole year round, but that was not to be. Now we are back, hard at work, but still taking enough time off to enjoy the swimming in our spring-fed pool, trout fishing, picnics, and the other good life of the country, yet for the hard work there is a goal in mind to rent our place next summer and go West to Colorado for some more study and sightseeing.
CORWITH HAMILL; Happy Hollow, Wayne, Ill.
The depth of the rut I'm in struck me forcefully when I sat down to compile this report. The 1946 dispatch says "The goldfish is significant because all sorts of terrible things happen to it, and there is a constant replacement problem." This very moment a replace- ment problem exists, for the successor of the successor of the succes- sor of the pet alluded to in 1946. Fortunately, this apparently repeti- tious life is pleasant and far from monotonous.
My commercial progress has not been noteworthy, since I am still
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