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To my Yale colleagues whose letters have gone unanswered, may I submit the foregoing, not as an excuse, but as an explanation.
Pax vobiscum.
JAMES A. HOLLOWAY; 21 Bethany Pike, Wheeling, W. Va.
I am Assistant Manager of the Tin Plate Sales Division of the Wheeling Steel Corp. I married Elizabeth S. Gibbs, on May 22, 1937, and we have two sons, James A., Jr., and Edward L. Respectively twelve and a half and two and a half years old. My hobbies are golf, flying, and hunting. I am a member of the Chicago Athletic Assn., Chicago, Ill., Fort Henry Club and Wheeling Country Club, Wheel- ing, W. Va.
JOSEPH H. HOLMES, JR .; Colonial Road, New Canaan, Conn.
I married Carolyn Miller and have four children: Suzanne, four- teen, Joe, twelve, Lolly, eight, and Nat, two. I am vice-president of Dancer Fitzgerald Sample, Inc., an advertising agency, my principal work being with General Mills, Inc., of Minneapolis. I sing in a quar- tet, "The Black Sheep," with Arthur Pearce, '36, John Holmes, '34, and Ben Truslow, '34. Other hobbies are golf and tennis. We have
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lived in New Canaan for twelve years, and I am a member of the volunteer fire department and have aided in organizing the Yale Alumni Association of New Canaan-I'm for Ike, too.
BRYAN EDWARD HOOKER; 8521 Atlantic Way, Miami Beach, Fla.
In December, 1947, I came to M. B. for my annual visit and I am still here. The North I have definitely deserted for the superior cli- mate of Florida. I now operate a small detergent manufacturing business and I am striving to make it not so small. I am now a mem- ber of the M. B. Lions Club. I have been made chairman of the educa- tion committee; I presume on the strength of the fact that I went to Yale. Many hours have been consumed in the Little Theatre. I have taken several minor parts. In one I was a stuffy banker and in another an English butler.
Since making my ten-year report, my tennis activity has decreased. However, I usually manage a swim every morning before breakfast. If the Ocean is too rough, I can always plunge in my neighbor's pool. I am still among the unmarried and have no intentions in the im- mediate future of changing my status. Since this is the graveyard of many marriages the prospects are not too good.
If anyone is in this locality, phone M. B. 582131. It will always answer (Telanserphone Service).
NORMAN L. HOPE; 12 E. 88th Street, New York 28, N.Y.
I am married (no children). My business is advertising, with Wellington Sears Co. (Textile Selling Agents). I am (to be abbre- viated about it) Capt., ORC, Hq 77 Inf. Div. (Reserve) N.Y.C., and I served overseas, 51st Armd. Inf. Bn., 4th Armd. Div (E.T.O.)
ROBERT G. HOPKINS; 65 Hillside Avenue, Wollaston, Mass.
Joined United Investment Counsel in mid-1936 as an Assistant Director of Accounts. In 1938, I moved to the position of Investment Consultant with an associate company, United Business Service. In mid-1942, I obtained a leave of absence to serve with the War Pro- duction Board in Washington, and was transferred to the Board of Economic Warfare in 1943, remaining with that agency and its suc- cessors through the ending of the war; was the Director of the Metals and Minerals Division in the lend-lease and commercial export branch of the Foreign Economic Administration.
Returned to the United organization in Boston in October, 1945, as Director of Accounts with United Investment Counsel. Since then
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I've been serving clients in various parts of the country, and that has necessitated much travel.
Still a semi-active member of the Furnace Brook Golf Club in Quincy, and manage to get into a tournament now and then-that is, when family, consisting of my helpmate of fifteen years, fourteen- year-old Bob, Jr., and nine-year-old Susan, let me.
RICHARD O. HORNING; La Todami Farm, R.D. 1, Wexford, Pa.
I'm assistant terasurer of the Mesta Machine Company, with farming as a hobby. My family consists of four children: a boy, six- teen; and three girls, fourteen, eleven, and eight.
STUART TROWBRIDGE HOTCHKISS; 503 Willow Road, Win- netka, Ill.
In the fifteen years since graduation from college I have covered a good bit of the waters of the world and have now dropped anchor in the corn belt, where I work for the Pressed Steel Car Company, Inc., Chicago, Ill., and am engaged in the task of revolutionizing the railroad industry by pushing a new type of freight car down its collective throat. My wife, né June Mary Blagden, and I live with our nineteen-months'-old daughter Mary Blagden at the above address. The locale is somewhat removed from June's native Surrey, in England, where we were married in September, 1948.
A quick flashback into past history shows our hero in 1936 sailing the 49-foot schooner Vagabond from Norway to Miami with a crew recruited almost entirely from our class: Morris Stiger, Jack Meyer, Sterl Judson, Fred Greene, Whitie Reid, and Bill Mills, 1935s. Then, putting nose to grindstone, came a period of working for a small rubber concern in New York. The sea, however, replaced the grind- stone intermittently between 1937 and 1941, permitting two ad- ditional small boat voyages across the Atlantic under sail and one trans-Pacific, not to mention shorter races, such as to Bermuda, Gibson Island, etc.
From 1941 through 1946, the sea completely replaced the grind- stone, and the scene then shifted rapidly. First we see an ensign as executive officer of the U.S.S. YP 62, and again as C. O. of U.S.S. Barbet (AMC 38). Then a j. g. (later lieutenant) in command of U.S.S. Bowdoin, an 87-foot schooner sailing the Greenland Coast performing survey duties. Next a Lieutenant Commander as execu- tive officer and shortly thereafter C. O. of U.S.S. Coolbaugh (DE 217) fighting the battles of the Pacific, emerging with the Legion of Merit as a souvenir of Leyte. After V-J Day, the scene shifts to Boston, and we see a Commander in command of a surrendered German destroyer, carrying out performance trials. Thence to Oran,
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North Africa, and the same Commander in command of the U.S.S. Gridley (DD 380), a mighty member of the Mediterranean Fleet which eventually was left, decommissioned, at Pearl Harbor.
The setting next shifts back home to East River, Conn., and fans out to cover the New England states, where our principal character, now in mufti, represented Rochester Ropes (a concern engaged in the manufacture of wire rope), but still managed to keep his feet wet with salt water on every available occasion.
Next came a flying trip to London, a wedding, a honeymoon on the beautiful Cornish Coast, and then home again.
Two, with the prospect of more, cannot live as cheaply as one; nor with the same mobility. Opportunity knocked, could not be refused, and now we find ourselves in the corn belt.
Activities other than business? Handy man, carpenter, janitor, and nursemaid at the above address. Hobbies? You guessed it- ocean racing. Opinions? Fresh water is a poor substitute for salt water and a number of other things I could name.
ROBERT A. HOUDE; 1829 Boulevard, West Hartford, Conn.
I'm presently office manager of the Lane Construction Corporation and John S. Lane & Son, Inc., of Meriden, Conn. I have been mar- ried since October 21, 1938, to Bea White. We have two boys- Yale '66 and '69. I'm still trying to play good golf. Can't wait to get rid of Truman.
FREDERICK D. HOUGHTON; Simsbury, Conn.
After thirteen years, I guess it can be considered that we have settled in Simsbury, a most beautiful New England town, where we live up on a mountain east of the Farmington Valley, commanding a gorgeous view of the foothills of the Berkshires.
The factory, The Ensign-Bickford Company, is only a mile and a half away, and it is still turning out safety fuses and other mining supplies after 115 years. Anyone who was in the Engineer Corps or Chemical Warfare Department during the war knows our Primacord. I am Field Manager and also Manager of New Product Development. This is a fine old business and continues to supply essential products to the mining industry all over the country.
On extra curricular activities: In 1941 we started a Gilbert and Sullivan Company (The Simsbury Light Opera Company), and, except for a few years during the war, we have produced a show every year, in the spring. (Will the Blue Hill Troupe and The Savoy Company kindly take note!) The show goes on the road for one week end each year and we have been to Williamstown, Wesleyan, New Britain, in addition to our three-day stand in Simsbury. We both take part in it and I have been the president of the company
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for a couple of years. Other outside activities: President of the Hampstead Hill Club, a Vice President of The Hartford Art School (older than the Yale Art School), Vice?Chairman of the Local Re- publican Town Committee, Deputy Chairman of the Civil Defense Board, and I have run the Red Cross Blood Bank for the past year .- I am never home. Nevertheless, our children, Lyn, fourteen, and Peter, eleven (Yale '61), still know me. They are at the Oxford and Kingswood schools in Hartford respectively. For further particulars about safety fuse or Gilbert and Sullivan I can be reached in Sims- bury!
JOHN HOWARD; Tall Oaks Drive, Summit, N.J.
Member of the Technical Staff of Bell Telephone Laboratories since graduation. Specialty: high polymer chemistry. Professional activities have included participation in research and development studies on materials for use in high-frequency cable, lead-free cable sheath (Alpeth), and other advances in the communication field. During the war years this involved development and engineering work incidental to the adaptation of the then new synthetic rubbers to military wire and cable. This and allied activities were instrumen- tal in maintaining a civilian status throughout the war.
Member of the American Chemical Society and of AXE (X Chap- ter and New York Professional Chapter).
Family status remains unchanged since graduation. Our daughter, Edith Anne, is now fast approaching the beginning of her own college career.
Civic activities have included the Air Raid Warden Service during World War II and, currently, the Disaster Committee of the local Red Cross chapter.
Hobbies: Music (from the passive side) and photography.
DANIEL ROBINSON HOWE; 652 Spring Avenue, Ridgewood, N.J.
In fifteen years I've had four main jobs plus a time in the Navy; one wife, two children, one apartment, five houses, four cars, and one television set-all of which should add up to about par for the course. At present The Hanover Bank, of New York City, numbers me among its staff, and I'm vegetating nicely after almost five years as a commuting suburbanite. From the outside, our life must look pretty flat. A typical day's problems might consist of (a) whether or not to hire the blonde with misplaced ambitions, (b) how to cure our son of eating like a steam-shovel, and (c) what to do about the Japanese beetles who are digesting the mock-orange bush in our backyard.
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My interest continue in people, writing (of a peculiar sort), con- tract bridge, travel, and vacations. I enjoy sports as much as ever, the more sandlotty the better. The only changes in philosophy that are evident to an insider seem to be (1) an increased tolerance for the way others live and think, (2) a diminished awe for big names, and (3) a strong desire to participate in better management of personnel in business. The security that seems to count most, after all, is the security of accomplishment. Yet I have difficulty explaining that to my wife while I lie on the davenport for hours watching television.
Being a good husband and a good father no longer has the pro- portions of a small job. As a Yale man, I have the further goals of contributing somehow to making the world a bit better, and of re- turning definitely to the next Reunion, having missed our Fifteenth.
ROGERS HOWELL; 20 Dorset Lane, Babylon, N.Y.
On April 26, 1941, I married Mary Grover of Babylon. We have no children. We live in a new house, which I designed and built my- self, on navigable water, Cape Cod style, on about one acre of land. The house and its furniture are strictly traditional.
My business is with the E. W. Howell Co., Builders; and also, in a family partnership, with a retail lumber yard and hardware store. I was hired in 1936 and became a partner in 1945. The offices are in Babylon, New York City, and New Canaan, Conn., and our work is on large residences, estates, private school buildings, high class com- mercial buildings, and light industrial buildings.
The building business consumes most of my time and interest, but some time goes to the Babylon Village Board of Zoning Appeals, American Red Cross Disaster Relief, the Babylon School of Centrali- zation Committee, the Babylon Yacht Club. I also have inactive attachments to the Yale Club of Long Island and the Air Force Association.
For recreation, I enjoy boating in a twenty-six foot skiff, mowing the lawn, bridge, canasta, penny ante. My wife's interest are the American Red Cross, the League of Women Voters, a home bureau, gardening, and sewing.
My philosophy, in a nutshell, is that democracy worked better under capitalism; let's try it again.
During the war years I spent two years with the Bermuda Base contractors building an Army Base; one year in Washington, D.C., on special surveys for the Quartermaster Corps and Army Air Forces; and two years in service with the A.A.F. in the Pentagon, as a Technical Sergeant.
RALPH H. HOWES, JR .; 1410 York Avenue, New York 21, N.Y. On August 30, 1951, I married Ruth D. Kane at Center Lovell, Me.
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I am still field representative of the Standard Accident Insurance and Planet Insurance companies.
ELIHU SANFORD HOWLAND; Apartment 15, 108 Bobrich Drive, Rochester 10, N.Y.
At the time of the last report in 1946, I was dissatisfied with prac- tically everything I was doing. Like most of our medical classmates, I had felt ill-disposed toward the Army for having taken me away from real medicine; but having resumed post-war training at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, it gradually dawned on me that I had never been truly interested in medicine to begin with. Furthermore, I was so sick of being a bachelor that I was giving serious thought to pack- ing up and going to Dogpatch for Sadie Hawkins Day, sitting down on the starting line, and making no effort to run.
I was wondering what to do about this abysmal situation when everything suddenly went black, and when I came to again it was 1951. The surroundings were unfamiliar but pleasant, and while I was trying to collect myself, in came a nice-looking doll with a big rock on her finger, which was even more pleasant, and it turned out that I had moved to Rochester and become a psychiatrist on the staff of the medical school here, and that I was getting married to Joan Frances Thomas, who graduated from Vassar in 1946, and who, if she had known at that time that she was destined to middle-aisle it with a psychiatrist named Elihu, would probably have gone into some sort of major panic.
Naturally I am quite mystified as to just how this all happened, but it is such an improvement over the previous state that I don't really care.
NORRIS DRESSER HOYT; St. George's School, Newport, R.I.
My life has been more routine than my family wholly relishes since the last report. As a schoolteacher, the many talents that Yale developed in me have been discovered despite all my attempts at concealment and self-preservation, and I am now head of the English Department at St. George's, co-supervisor of a dormitory, publisher of the school catalog, supervisor of the annual classbook, director of the school's photography, head coach of swimming, head and only coach of crew (whose maintenance I do), secretary to the faculty, and morning coffee provider to the bachelor masters (I have a pretty wife).
Since my wife enjoys dancing most, that is the type of entertain- ments she occasionally traps me into. I prefer reading and eating. However our chief entertainment for the last winter was building a sailing dinghy in the dining room of our apartment. It had a foot
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clearance, lengthwise, and enough room beside it for the critics to sit, drink beer, and comment. Other than that, we largely worked, and tried to keep appointments.
In the summer we've blossomed. We belong to the Cruising Club of America and the Off Soundings Club, and we sail most of the New England Coast most of the summer, children, boats, and all. I have done a lot of ocean racing-having crewed for the first boat to finish to Bermuda in 1950, Annapolis in 1951-the Bolero. I've also raced on Starlight, Dryad, White Mist, and Ballymena. In training for such arduous exercise, I swim about two miles a week in the winter, row about four miles a day in the spring. What with my wife's painting and housekeeping, and my jobs, we have no spare time to spend. For us, our life is wonderful.
HUSTON HUFFMAN, 2100 Wilshire Blvd., Oklahoma City, Okla.
The last edition of our history left me in Midland, Tex., laboring in the oil business for Stanolind Oil and Gas Company, with one wife and a year-old son. In May of 1948 we all went to Bogota, Columbia, for the South American version of the same business. South America (complete with a revolution) was a great experience, and I wish we could have stayed longer than the year we passed there, but the unfavorable and unstable internal conditions of Colombia dictated my company's withdrawal and so we returned to Oklahoma City the following May, in time to greet the arrival of another off- spring in the form of a girl. A year ago I left Stanolind to enter the oil business for myself, soon after which another hungry mouth ap- peared in our midst, this time another boy. My principal recreation, when the pursuit of the elusive dollar permits, is golf. I regret to say that I belong to no civil, political, philanthropic or social organiza- tion.
For the future of the world and its ability to float through space in a peaceful condition, I have great hope, founded on nothing more than wishful thinking. The economic condition of our country wor- ries me more, as I don't understand how the purchasing power of our dollar can long continue to depreciate at its present rate without bringing on a major upheaval in all our businesses.
WILLIAM E. HUGHES; Cottonwood Ranch, Rt. 1, Box 46, Wel- lington, Tex.
Left the Navy October 4, 1945.
Went to Texas January 15, 1946, to live and work for my father, brothers, and myself raising Registered Herefords on Mill Iron Ranches located in Collingsworth, Hall, Motley, and Cottle counties.
Spent the years 1946 to 1947 actually taking care of 200 head of
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mother cows and managing a basic unit called Cottonwood Ranch, at that time one of seven.
Beginning fall of 1947, became Director of Ranch Operations, with office at Wellington, Tex. Since that time our development program has doubled the number of basic ranches to 20, presently carrying 3000 head of mother stock in 65 pastures.
The purpose of our enterprise is to raise better quality breeding stock in quantity and, by running them under range conditions, be able to offer them to commercial cattlemen at a price that is in keep- ing with the economics of commercial operations.
Peter Clifton Hughes was born February 8, 1947. He is better known as "Panhandle Pete." Not so long ago, February 27, 1951, to be axact, Gerald Hughes made his debut into this world with all the earmarks of out-philosophying his father. His talents in this regard are such that Kitty has forgotten she wanted a little girl.
Politically and socially speaking, Kitty and I both feel that what is needed by this country is more time and attention spent at home, with a greater consciousness toward guidance from God and less dependence on the Federal Government.
Internationally speaking, we feel that the hope of peace lies exactly where it did when the United States of America was con- ceived, born and developed, based on faith that God is the supreme authority and the only source of true guidance, that the worth and dignity of the individual is greater than all governments, and that fredom is the only cohesive element that can surmount the natural differences of color, race and creed.
HADLAI A. HULL; Route 5, Wayzata, Minn.
Our one son, born before the war, now has two brothers: John and Thomas, the latter named after my roommate Tommy Curtin. My career, changed from law to paper manufacturing, is proving to be most interesting, and I don't regret having made the switch. In 1949, I was elected Secretary of Minnesota and Ontario Paper Company, and this year I was elected to the additional job of Treasurer.
Starting life in a new community, i.e., Minneapolis, in 1946, I decided that I should enter into all sorts of extra-curricula activities to become better acquainted. As so often happens, I became em- broiled in working for the Community Chest, serving as Vice Chair- man of the Red Cross, Chairman of the Men's Advisory Committee of a local hospital, Chairman of the Minneapolis Red Cross Blood Program, Vice President of the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce. Am now completing a three-year term as a member of the Wayzata City Council, to which I was elected by the landslide majority of one vote. All of the above has taken too much time, and I am now giving
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up most of these in order to devote more time to my job and family.
Play golf and tennis in the summer (losing both regularly to my wife, Ann), squash and ski in the winter, am getting a little tubby around the middle, hope the Republicans will have Eisenhower as their candidate (principally because I think he could win, although Taft might be a better President), believe in maintaining strong armed forces and spending money to build up Western Europe, hope I'm too old for the Navy if war comes.
ROMUALD FRANK HUMINSKI; 5938 Hodgman Drive, Parma Heights 29, Ohio.
Two tow-headed toddlers doing their noisy best to disrupt this literary effort make is difficult to recall that life was once full of things other than diapers, toys and baby bottles. But different indeed it was up until that memorable year 1949, when three income tax exemptions were acquired-wife Jennie (February 26), and the twins, Richard and Robert (November 6). With no previous history of twins in either of our families, and proof positive (?) that the milkman or iceman were not responsible, we are pleased to make this contribution to medical science-the twins came as a result of our drinking excessive amounts of brackish water and rum swizzles during our Bermuda honeymoon. Now Jennie keeps hounding me to take a Bermuda vacation, but I keep telling her that we can't afford it. It seems fantastic to think of rearing two more with a 20 percent tax on baby oil.
Compared with the present state of constant disorder and con- fusion, the pre-1949 period seems rather uneventful. Starting with July 6, 1936, employment with the Long Lines Department of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company took me through a series of assignments in various Eastern and Southern cities. Occu- pational deferrments kept me out of military service, but as Division Training Supervisor I was in charge of a series of classes conducted at Philadelphia for the Signal Corps by the A.T.&T. Co. during World War II.
In February, 1945, I joined the Engineering group at New York, first working on design of special government circuits and later get- ting in on the early stages of furnishing facilities for inter-city tele- vision service. An appointment as Acting Division Service Supervisor at Cleveland came in November, 1948, followed by an assignment as District Plant Superintendent at Indianapolis in June, 1950, and District Traffic Superintendent at Cleveland in April, 1951. On the present job I am in charge of a unit that handles roughly 15 percent of the total long distance calls filed in the city of Cleveland. With a force of almost 400 women (mostly telephone operators) and one
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man reporting to me, it is some job. But, as Jennie says, I received the assignment about three years too late.
Just about all of our spare time is taken up by the twins. Of course we think that our boys are just about the smartest and best-looking babies that we have ever seen. The little darlings have made our live more enjoyable and a lot more complicated. We are having so much pleasure watching the two of them grow up.
Working for the A.T.&T. Co. has been enjoyable, and it has been interesting to see so many different phases of telephone work. With some fourteen transfers since 1936, however, it has been practically impossible to join any clubs or to participate in any community or church affairs. Jennie and I are both hoping that some day soon our wanderings will stop, preferably some place near New York City, and that at that time we will be able to start doing some of the things that we have been unable to do in the past. In the meantime we will do our best to enjoy buying and selling real estate, having dishes packed and unpacked, and furniture moved as we move from town to town.
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