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Assistant Treasurer and ditto Secretary of Elgin National Watch Company. Although Elgin is currently celebrating its 86th birthday by completing its 50,000,000th watch, it is still a live-wire organiza- tion. In fact, the president and two of the three Veeps are within four years of my age. There is a strong Princetonian taint, however, and I enjoy a lugubrious local fame as the only Eli who has lasted more than three years. Other business activities include directorships of the First Federal Savings & Loan Assn., of Elgin, and of Elam Mills, Inc. The latter has sold a lot of Elam's Old Fashioned Stone Ground Flour and Cereals since we rescued it from under the ham- mer in 1945, and our betters are amazed at our earnings. We are still in the ploughing-it-back stage, however, and no lavendar Rolls Royces have been observed in the vicinity of the Mill.
Community-wise, I served for two years each as Secretary and Treasurer of Dunhams Woods Club. My wife, Joan, and I started a Cub Scout den in 1948 and worked with our son in that until he became a Scout, at which time I became an Assistant Scoutmaster (having organized the troop in the first place) and the little woman switched to the Brownies. I've recently been upgraded to a post on the Executive Committee of the Elgin Scout Council. This took up a great deal of time-about two evenings a week-but it has been very gratifying to see our small den of six boys grow into a group of fifty cubs and scouts, even though there have been times when the little darlings' necks were in jeopardy.
Among other civic activities is the Elgin Rotary Club, of which I am currently president. I'm also a director of an eleemosynary institution, Herrick House, devoted to the cure of heart ailments among young people. I've enjoyed being a governing member of the Chicago Zoological Society, which operates Brookfield Zoo, and am a life member of the Chicago Historical Society and the Art Institute.
Since Hotchkiss days I've nursed a latent interest in high per- formance automobiles, and the post-war sports car fad has found me in 7th heaven. In 1948 I bought by mail, sight unseen, an exotic Allard touring car. Subsequently "PutPut" and I have participated with varying success in Sports Car Club events such as hill climbs, tours, and a few road races at Watkins Glen, N.Y., and Elkhart Lake, Wis. I'm head of the Chicago Region of the Sports Car Club. Our local group has a strong Yale flavor, and in fact last year all three officers were Elis. The SCCA is an outgrowth of the Automobile Racing Club of America, in which Ebby Lunken and Lang Quimby were very active in our College days.
Vacations have taken us mostly to Colorado, either for skiing or ranching, with a few other excursions to Cuban beaches, Wisconsin trout streams, and road racing locations.
Of my family, it is probably good to be able to report nothing
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spectacular. The three growing children present an interesting panorama of pleasures and problems. Our oldest, Jonathan, promises to be the first athlete in the Hamill family in several generations, being at twelve already better than his dad at swimming, baseball and skiing, as well as a good match at tennis. (Of course, Dad isn't any too hot.) The girls (Nancy nine and Betsey six) have their mother's enthusiasm for horses. We have two steeds at home and I like to ride, but lost my nerve for jumping after my 999th spill. The comfortable house which we built in 1941 is still only ten minutes from the plant, but the saplings which we watered so faithfully a decade ago now delightfully shade the spot where I would be lying in a hammock sipping a julep if only I weren't busy pruning the things we watered so faithfully a decade ago.
Anyway, even tho the world is in one heck of a mess, my little corner of it is O.K.
FRED P. HAMILTON, JR .; Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Rail- way Company, Omaha, Neb.
Still in the transit business. Can't seem to make enough money because of taxes to retire as yet.
JAMES C. HANRAHAN; 678 North Broad Street, Elizabeth, N.J.
In March, 1945, I was graduated from Faculty of Medicine of University of Dublin. Following this came a year's interneship and then a few months' work at Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia, in Physical Medicine. This is a particular interest of mine. Having passed the British Medical licensing exam, the New Jersey state exam was a cinch. Very much easier. A few girls entered my life, but something always sidetracked me, so I am still a bachelor. For the past two years I have been Secretary of the New Jersey Society of Physical Medicine. My main interest, aside from Medicine, is in navigation and small-boat cruising, although I have no boat as yet. The Doctor draft may get me, but I hope not, as my Army experi- ence, interesting as it was, will suffice for me for awhile. My main exercise is cutting about an acre of grass every two weeks.
MARTIN R. HARKAVY; 1 West 68th Street, New York, N.Y.
Five years of transition from combat Navy to sedentary civilian life find me favored with a new profession and a lovely wife.
I matriculated at New York University Law School in June, 1946, was dubbed LL.B. and took bar exam in June, 1948, was licensed to practice in November, 1948, and did so. Still doing so (at 285 Madison Avenue, New York 17, N.Y.) with enjoyment and a modicum of success-witness the fact that in July, 1951, I was privileged to form a partnership with one of the better practitioners
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of the New York bar, namely my father, Henry H. Harkavy. Our specialty: real estate tax certiorari proceedings.
Unquestionably the event most fortuitous to me in these years under review was my marriage in January, 1950, to the lovely and charming Lillian Pollock, a sophisticate from Kinistino, Saskatche- wan, Canada (pop. 700). No moppets in our menage as yet. Hardly aspire to competition with procreators such as Beinecke and Pink- ham, but hope the Harkavys will be more than a twosome by next report.
Recreationwise: Am a divot devotee on local courses (hacker), a very class C squash player at the Yale Club, an amateur chef, and one of the most accomplished martini builders in this area. Visiting Firemen Welcome!
Am active in the American Veterans Committee and the United World Federalists. Appreciate Acheson's foreign policy and am somewhat cheered by the United Nations' 1951 gain in stature. Firmly believe that only through law and a world government will we ever achieve even a semblance of peace in our time. Nationally our political picture is indeed drab. The Truman administration is in dire need of a high colonic and the Republicans appear to be tarred with Taft and Yahoo McCarthy. Let us hope that the crucial next four years will see our government guided by a man of the high caliber of Dwight Eisenhower.
R. NEISON HARRIS; 225 North Deere Park Drive, Highland Park, Ill.
November 3, 1947, brought our third child, Toni, a girl, to take her place next to her older brother King (born in 1943), and still older sister Katherine (born in 1941). Six weeks later, we moved from St. Paul, Minn., to our present home in Highland Park, Ill. On January 2, 1948, I sold my business to The Gillette Safety Razor Company and have continued with that Company as a Director and in charge of their Toni Division, operating out of Chicago.
In 1949, I was elected to the Board of Directors of Michael Reese Hospital. As for hobbies, my bosses, with their long, well-aimed whips, keep me pretty close to business, although I do get a chance to do a little golfing in the very high seventies (70 plus 28!).
HAROLD S. HART, JR .; 6101 S W 25th Street, Miami, Fla.
After several unimportant jobs in Westchester and Connecticut this young man did a Horace Greeley and went West. When Missis- sippi flood waters intervened, the direction became South; at the Gulf of Mexico the choice was East. I've called south Florida home since March, 1937. There followed three and a half years of survey-
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ing, construction engineering, and a bit of house painting as con- tractor; in the summer of 1940, I was licensed by Florida as a Land Surveyor. Social activity during this period consisted mainly of borrowing dinners from my numerour employers and associates and either baby-sitting or dating their offspring, as age and/or sex prescribed.
In the fall of 1940, I joined Bob Lincoln at Camp Shelby, Miss., doing engineering work on that Defense Program project; this was followed by almost a year in Milan, Tenn., as Assistant to the Resident Engineer on a big Ordnance job there. In July, 1941, while in Tennessee, I applied for commission in the Civil Engineer Corps of the Naval Reserve, but, what with one thing and another (a hernia and mislaid papers), it was July, 1942, before there was a new Ensign (CEC). The war years passed quite happily, with duty in Milwaukee on contracts (six months), Seabees (training and organizing, eight months, then Solomons, New Caledonia, Okinawa, twenty-seven months), and in 1946 at Headquarters, 7th Naval District, Miami (ten months). On February 23, 1946, two months after my return from the Pacific, Dorothy Parmelee and I were married. Dottie has been a Floridian since 1934; prior to that time she, even as I, was growing up in Mamaroneck, N.Y .- her oldest sister and I were classmates all through grade and junior high school.
The Navy and I finally parted company in November, 1946, and I returned to engineering, having registered as a Professional En- gineer. Business was brisk and, hitting all the aspects of building construction, I participated thrice in the expansion of the Orange Bowl Stadium-as job engineer for the contractor on the first addi- tion, as Resident for the City on the second addition, and as con- tractor's representative on the construction of additional office and storage space. Meanwhile, Dottie and I built a house, moved into it with a brand new daughter, Leah Parmelee, in January, 1947, added a son, Robert Louis, in March, 1949, and enlarged the house to hold them. Between the first two hitches at the Orange Bowl I took a fling at the building business on my own; discreetly retiring from this venture, I became Resident Engineer on the City of Miami's contract construction.
The Navy passed the word last fall, and January of this year found me, a very senior Lieutenant, en route to the Bureau of Yards and Docks for duty. Five months of traveling about the south on Real Estate matters seemed sufficient, so I requested and was granted a transfer to a billet in Florida; this turned out to be the Naval Station at Key West, where I am now Maintenance and Utilities Officer. Having been selected for promotion in April, I'm sweating out that long-awaited half stripe. It is only two and a half hours of
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fast driving over "the highway that goes to sea" between here and home, and Friday afternoon seems to arrive each week, so life goes on. Swimming and canasta seem to be our most popular diversions, the kids put on a continuous floor show, and we are doing ground work on an HO gauge railroad. I hope to go back into, and stay in, the building business after this Navy interlude is over-tell you about it at the Greatest Class's Greatest Twentieth.
LAWRENCE A. HART; 4675 Beverly Drive, Dallas, Tex.
Since our Tenth Reunion, have made progress in making more money, paying more taxes, travelling more (discovered Jamaica and Antigua), and learning to relax by hunting with Tuffy, a great Chesapeake Bay Retriever. Also "discovered" Cape San Lucas, Lower California, and caught a 300-pound Marlin. For thirty min- utes couldn't hold a glass of coke after that fight.
Hart and Burns, Inc., the paint that made Life, is now doing so well that we are planning a new factory in California. Latest love is an 801-acre ranch-farm in Texas. Yes, Yale men sometimes wear cowboy boots and ride the herd-love it, too.
Still married to a great Texas gal who luckily was never at a '36 dance. If she had been, one of you smooth operators might now have her. No children, but have 104 head of cattle and two dogs. Any of you guys got 106 children?
Can't see two sides to the Truman administration. Hope you fellows will do some real work to help get an improved version. Looks like Eisenhower from here.
JOHN W. HARTER; 1390 Cahoon Road, Westlake, Ohio.
Worked for Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. as Metallurgical Observer and as industrial engineer in coke and coal chemical, blast furnace, open hearth, bessemer, and rolling mills. Transferred to the American Steel & Wire Company as industrial engineer in similar operations. Worked during most of the war as Staff Industrial Engineer in con- trol office of Armstrong Cork Company. Killed a few months around V-J day with Pittsburgh Equitable Motor Company (now Rockwell Manufacturing), and accepted offer from American Steel & Wire for a return engagement.
Concluded all reliable companies are about the same, so am parking in the most desirable industrial town (Cleveland) hit so far. All this took almost exactly ten years. Until beginning of this year-around five years-gave all to good old "Ass-and-W" as Works Industrial Engineer at an iron mongery. At that juncture transferred to opera- tions supervision in coke and coal chemical plant at same locality.
This sordid picture was relieved early by marriage to one Elisabet
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Richards, artist, of New Canaan, Conn. This gal has thought up more nerve-wracking projects and programs than all the employers listed before. The "Harter Construction," as it is jeeringly referred to by our friends, has rejuvenated several rented houses and almost completely rebuilt a one hundred twenty-five-year-old shack here in Westlake, Ohio.
Eight years ago we added one Bill Harter to the firm, but like most of the help one gets, he has proven more of a burden to the concern than a worker. At present he merely runs around eating and sleeping, when he isn't talking or yelling-a typical modern brat.
So we haven't enjoyed outstanding progress, but we've had a hell of a lot of fun.
WILLIAM HARTFIELD; 7200 Ridge Boulevard, Brooklyn 9, N.Y.
After completing one full year at New Haven, and because of lack of finances, I left the old campus to make my way in New York. Hav- ing started my education as a civil engineer, but more influenced by finances, I started work with the Corn Exchange Bank Trust Com- pany in New York City in the fall of 1933. Elizabeth Lewis of Balti- more, Md., consented to be my bride and we were married on July 7, 1939. On a night in May, 1941, the New York chapter of the American Institute of Banking handed me their standard certificate. On a day in April, 1942, the City of New York handed me a cer- tificate to show that my son, John Tayloe, was born on April 4. Soon thereafter the U.S. Government handed me a card-4F. On January 7, 1947, the Corn Exchange Bank Trust Company announced my appointment as Assistant Secretary. Aroused by this action, I im- mediately enrolled at the graduate school of banking conducted by the American Bankers Association at Rutgers University. In 1949, they gave me, along with a couple of hundred others, another cer- tificate. In the fall of 1949, I accepted the position of Financial Secretary of the Bay Ridge Methodist Church. You can see my adult life to date has been tied up with finance and financial matters.
CHARLES T. HARTHER JR .; 932 Edgewood Avenue, Pelham Manor, N.Y.
We came here from St. Louis in September, 1947-bought a house in New Rochelle and settled down to life in the east. My position was the same as in St. Louis-district sales manager of food store scales and food machines for Toledo Scale Company. Here the opera- tion is much larger and wider than that in St. Louis.
Then, in March, 1949, the company bought the Sterling Kitchen Machine Division of the Josiah Anstice Company of Rochester, N.Y. I was transferred to this new division of the company and made
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Eastern Regional Manager in charge of dealer sales activity. The market is the same as that lived with during my nine years with Libbey Glass-only this time it is dishwashing machines, power- driven potato-peeling machines, meat grinders, electric power saws, electric slicers, etc., in place of table glassware-and in a different section of the country. Sixty percent of my time is spent in the greater New York market and forty per cent in New England, work- ing with architects and hotel and restaurant equipment dealers who sell to restaurants, clubs, hospitals, hotels, schools, steamship lines, industrial cafeterias, etc.
We are very happy here in Pelham Manor. Have a nice, big, old house, which is very comfortable and is surrounded by a yard that has considerable utilitarian value. The childern are coming along fast-Chuck is eleven and Howie (Mary Howard) is five. We are very sorry not to be able to introduce a half dozen new ones. Same dog as sported last time-daschund, "Soldier," seven years.
When not beating the bushes for business, I find relaxation in tennis, golf, swimming, wood-chopping, and puttering around the yard.
Am about the same size and shape as when in college and have not been sleeping in too-short beds, so have the same amount of hair. Still enjoy a good drink and look forward in November, 1952, to celebrating the return of the Republican Party.
WHITNEY HARTSHORNE; 173 North Crescent Drive, Beverly Hills, Calif.
I work for Erwin, Wasey & Company, Ltd., advertising agency, of which I am the general media director. I am still single. I have lived in California for four years and do not envy Easterners or Middle Westerners-particularly at this season of the year, the winter.
HENRY C. HARVEY; 2708 E. Overlook Road, Cleveland 6, Ohio.
Family: Unchanged in numbers since the last report; still con- sisting of wife, self, and two boys (now seven and nine). The total energy has, however, increased substantially. Five years of growth per boy has more than compensated for my gradual deterioration.
Business: Still practicing law with the firm of Jones, Day, Cockley, and Reavis in Cleveland, specializing now (all "big city" lawyers seem to become specialists these days) in federal taxation. Our clients are principally industrial concerns in this area, so we have not been idle during the active post-war years.
General: Life throughout the normal year is quite routine. The Cleveland winter climate is not conducive to outdoor life, so after work and a few civic responsibilities, an important activity is lifting
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one or two with old friends-among them Charlie Kling, Al Rankin, and Fay Brown. Each spring we have a yen to go south (as who doesn't?), and have succeeded the last three years. Spare time in summer is taken up with golf and various activities with the boys to the extent of a limited physical ability. Usually there is an oppor- tunity for a golf game or games with Sherm Farnham, either here or in Rochester. Each fall there are a few (too few) chances for bird shooting, principally duck. All year round there is work and (most important) the company of a lovely wife.
Recommendation: For all who missed the fifteenth reunion this June, try the twentieth. All misgivings as to whether reunions are enjoyable will be thoroughly dispelled as mine were.
E. W. HATHAWAY; Summerland, Calif.
So mad at the commercial tone of reports on the fifteen-year din- ner I almost choked. However, here's my spiritual summary:
I continue with desultory translation and the like, and manage to spend a little time on trying to learn some Chinese (the characters are easier to forget than the names of people you don't like). I hope to start on Tibetan soon, which appears to have an interesting but little explored literature. Other interests: linguistics, general semantics, relation between linguistic or stylistic features, and thought (if any). Also how dictionaries might be made better (it is astonishing how little dictionary makers seem to learn from their predecessors). And almost anything else. Hence have written nothing original in the past two years.
WILLIS V. HAUSER; 909 California Street, San Jose, Calif.
In 1938, I graduated from the Harvard Business School, and soon thereafter commenced working for Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., accountants, in Tulsa, Okla. After Pearl Harbor I was called to active duty, and served in the South Pacific with the 7th Infantry Division until the end of hostilities. I reached the rank of Captain and was awarded the Silver Star and the Bronze Star with an Oak Leaf Cluster. Then I went back to my old job. I obtained a ready-made family by marrying Maria Toledo, who has one son, Phillip, by a former marriage. (Her former husband is no longer living.) Recently I was transferred to San Jose, Calif., as office manager with the same firm.
HORACE HAVEMEYER, JR .; 129 Front Street, New York, N.Y.
I am President of the National Sugar Refining Co., and I am married and have four children.
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JOHN L. HAWKES; 7635 S.W. 57th Avenue, Miami 43, Fla.
My delay in sending in autobiographical notes for the 1936 15-year Class Record is due, in part, to: work in the Vermont Co-op Cream- ery, starting at 5:30 A.M. (1948); getting married a week after I met my wife, selling my home, and leaving for France for research on fluid milk problems (1950) ; being given a job as field technician for new pilot plants there and having to resign before beginning and return to this country, as my wife got polio and had a baby (1950-51). Starting out all over in Florida (1952).
P.S. I received a B.S. degree at Cornell University in 1947.
ROBERT M. HEAVENRICH; 529 W. Genesee Street, Saginaw, Mich.
I am a pediatrician, attached to Saginaw General Hospital and St. Mary's Hospital, and associate pediatrician at St. Lukes Hos- pital. I am married and have two children: Bobby, five; Jim, two- both good Yale men!
WILLIAM ALFRED HEBERT, JR .; 3701 Stewart Driveway, N. Chevy Chase, Md.
For two delightful years after graduation, I attended the Yale Graduate School, and in 1938 received an M.S. degree. Immediately thereafter followed three peaceful years of teaching a variety of subjects in a New England prep school, plus a year in the lumber business. Uncle Sam dished out a low draft number to me and the peaceful era was ended abruptly. Janice Carlson became Mrs. Bill Hebert on May 9, 1942, in Richmond, Va., but the $21 per month was not enough, so, after three months at OCS, the gold bars arrived and the duty became somewhat easier. After the war, we traipsed to Woodstock, Vt., where we entered the hotel business, which was rich with experiences but not rich for the pocketbook; so, back into the Army for a bit over a year. Since 1948, Uncle Sam's intelligence outfit has been my meat. Must say that there are many Yale men in the Washington area and the Washington Yale Club is a live-wire affair. Can't turn around without bumping into an old Blue.
AUGUST HECKSCHER; 159 East 94th Street, New York, N.Y.
The last installment of this autobiography found me a small-city editor at Auburn, N.Y., where I firmly intended to spend the rest of my days. Whitelaw Reid (q.v.) interfered with that. He persuaded me that duty and ambition called me to the New York Herald Tribune; and now the rest of those same days I firmly expect to spend on West 41st Street. I write editorials, magazine articles, book reviews; and only regret I have no time to write books. A third boy has been added to our family; we live in a brownstone in the city and
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in the summer on a farm near Auburn which we have remodeled to suit our taste for modern architecture; thither, over weekends, I commute by air. Thus really settled, after what seem innumerable movings and shifts of scene, I have gotten to the stage of joining clubs and becoming a trustee or director of various organizations. Fate has been kind so far. I remain an optimist about people as individuals, but look rather soberly on the way they act in crowds; and the age seems certainly destined to go down in history as one primitive and dark. A small but valiant group of liberal Republicans express most nearly my views on politics.
DAVID T. HELLYER; 722 S. K Street, Tacoma, Wash.
Two days after graduation, I married Constance Hopkins in the Yale University Chapel, and we drove to Tacoma, Wash., by way of Santa Barbara, Calif., where our respective families lived. In Tacoma I worked a year for the Wheeler Osgood Sales Corporation, a door and plywood plant, and then, in partnership with Chauncey Griggs, Yale '33, organized a ski lift company. We operated lifts at Mt. Rainier and other ski resorts in this area.
In 1939, a plan, which had long been in the back of my mind, seemed possible of accomplishment, and with the help of the proceeds of the ski lift company, I started taking pre-medical work at the University of Washington. I entered the University of Chicago School of Medicine in 1941, spending the last sixteen months in the V-12 program there. After graduation in September, 1944, I interned at King County Hospital, Seattle, and then spent a year of sea duty in the Navy. I then returned to the University of Chicago for a two year residency in pediatrics, and have since been practicing pediatrics in Tacoma, Wash.
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