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WILLIAM RIVERIUS HUMPHREY; 802 Mount Curve Avenue, Minneapolis 5, Minn.
See Ten-year Record, last six paragraphs. Delete reference to Harold Stassen; insert Eisenhower.
RALPH DRESSER HUNTING, JR .; 1328 2nd Avenue, S.E., Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Since leaving Yale, I set out on my life's work and began the study of medicine and have found it a compelling necessity to be a student ever since. In the fall of 1936 I entered Northwester University School of Medicine and graduated in 1940. This was followed by a two-year rotating internship at St. Lukes Hospital in Chicago. In April, 1942, Uncle Sam had a place for me in the Navy, and thirty days later I sailed out the Golden Gate assigned to duty on a naval transport. Our ship, the U.S.S. Wharton (AP7), plied the Pacific from the Aleutians to New Zealand. After twenty months of this duty, I returned to the States for the remainder of the war and had a number of assignments on the West Coast.
Immediately following the war, I again resumed the following of my program of medical education. Beginning in January, 1946, I served as a resident in Pathology at the University Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa. However, opportunity knocked in May, 1946, which changed the course of events. At that time I entered the practice of medicine with Doctor J. Stuart McQuiston in my home town of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, limiting myself to the field of Internal Medi-
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cine. Since then my professional training and experience has been augmented by several postgraduate courses, chiefly at Harvard. (Incidentally, the Yale Medical School would do well to offer more in the field of postgraduate medical study.)
My matrimonial career began January 10, 1942, when I married Mary Jane Madden of Virginia, Minn. My war bride followed me up and down the west coast for a protracted honeymoon. On September 23, 1944, our first son, Thomas Mitchell, was born in Long Beach, Calif. The second son, Daniel Booth, was born in Long Beach on August 29, 1945. The third son, Laurence Bruce, arrived August 17, 1946. We ran out of names so our fourth son, Ralph D., III, arrived January 23, 1951. This expanding family has brought with it real joy and happiness as well as the multitudinous problems of living, but these vexatious situations, dramatic or dull, controllable or un- controllable, help make life so interesting.
DAVID ALLERTON HYDE; Allerton Road, Naugatuck, Conn.
To recapitulate: daughters, Lucie Emerson Hyde, born on Sep- tember 9, 1942, and Helen Noyes Hyde, born on January 28, 1943. And to add: Candace Noyes Hyde, born on January 2, 1948, David Allerton Hyde, Jr., born on January 8, 1950, and Stephen Theophilus Hyde, born on January 22, 1951-a trip to Bermuda in 1949 changed the sex from girls to boys.
Been with Scovill Manufacturing Company these past eleven years, for the past three making zippers, a new product of Scovill called "The Gripper Zipper"-the coming zipper, it might be added.
Outside activities include vestryman and Sunday School teacher at St. John's Church, Waterbury, Conn .; Director of the Pearl Street Neighborhood House, a social agency for the benfit of negro chil- dren; and Vice-President of the Yale Association of Northwestern Connecticut.
A recently-built home in the country-ranch style, on top of a hill-and five children consume my spare time.
In the winter time I ski a bit, principally on our hill, which is about my speed now. Summer-gardening is my favorite hobby, and next summer I hope to revive a tennis court and train future champions.
We've been fortunate in having summer and winter theaters handy, in Southbury and New Haven, respectively, which provide good entertainment. Much fun in summer is had in cooking over charcoal out-of-doors, with children and friends, and watching magnificent sunsets from our hilltop.
Not prophesying, but I think we'll avoid a major war so long as UN strength builds up to stabilize other forces. Then a fairly long period of relative peace under UN. A revolution in Russia would be helpful.
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I favor the liberal measures initiated by F.D.R. and feel that keeping government liberal is essential to keeping people happy. A stabilization on the international scene with accompanying reduction of armaments should enable us to use our vast resources towards constructive ends. There is no doubt that as individuals we need to be more selfless. We've got to give as well as receive, if we want to bring about this better society.
Hope to send my sons to Yale-let's see, that would be classes of 1972 and 1973; but that's a way off.
Have been a poor reunionate but hope to see you in '56. Mean- while, our house is always open to all. Drop in.
H. STUART IRONS, JR .; 1906 Main Street, Little Rock, Ark.
The four years after graduation were spent in New Haven acquir- ing an M.D .- except for summers when I worked as a lifeguard, waterfront director at a scout camp, or camp doctor. This latter job gave me a nice rest between junior and senior years. With these jobs, plus a scholarship and a part-time job during the school term, I managed to finish medical school with several hundred dollars more than when I started. This quickly disappeared, however, during two years at Rochester at the Strong Memorial Hospital interning in surgery, gynecology, and obstetrics.
Uncle Sam got me on the third try in June, 1942. The first few months in the Army were spent in New York examining other doc- tors and enjoying the night life. I had turned down an interneship with the Navy, so what was more natural than that I should eventu- ally be assigned to a new and experimental medical unit whose job was to ferry back the sick and wounded on transports from overseas theaters. During the next three years, I made six trips to the Euro- pean theater and, fortunately, just as many westward. Between trips, our outfit saw most of the staging areas on both sides of the Atlantic. While at Camp Patrick Henry, between two trips, I met a pretty Red Cross girl named Mary Elizabeth Fetterman from Har- risburg, Pa., and between the next two trips, on Bastile Day of 1944, we were married in the Post Chapel.
I exchanged khaki for white in October, 1945, and spent the next six months as Resident Surgeon at Suburban Hospital, Bethesda, Md. Then for thirty months I was Surgical Resident at Grasslands Hospital in Westchester County. I shoveled so much snow the last two winters, both while living in Elmsford and in Mount Kisco, that in December, 1948, my wife and I brought our two girls to Little Rock to keep warm. From December, 1948, to December, 1950, I practiced general surgery with a group here in Little Rock, and here our third girl was born. The first girl, Karen, was born in Bethesda,
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the second, Patricia, in Bronxville, N.Y., and the third one we called Susan. We do have a lot of nice boys' names picked for anyone who is having trouble finding names for their male offspring.
I have been on the full time staff of the new Veterans' Hospital in Little Rock since December, 1950, and so far am devoting my time to orthopedic surgery. We are supposed to work forty hours a week, and although that has turned out to be somewhat of a joke as far as the doctors, at least, are concerned, it is true that I have had more time to devote to bridge. This has become my major hobby. In the past few months, my wife and I have become interested in duplicate bridge and have even acquired a fraction of a "master point." All we need is 299.52 more to be life masters. Recently, most of my exercise has been obtained by dealing the cards, but I still manage to play a little tennis and do a little swimming in the summertime.
This is my second year as a deacon in the Central Presbyterian Church. As for politics-everybody down here is a Democrat, but the politics of the southern Democrat, I find, is more Republican than is the thinking of many northern Republicans. Some editorials sound like Senator Taft at his best.
ADRIAN C. ISRAEL; 95 Front Street, New York, N.Y.
The family business absorbed me immediately after my gradua- tion and I became aware of the difficulties of importing various com- modities from all parts of the world.
Eleanor Levison began to interfere with my business activities late in 1936 and reached the point where I succumbed to matrimony in December, 1938. Ellen joined the family group in 1940, to be fol- lowed by Andy in 1941.
Then came Pearl Harbor and civilian production was interrupted. In March, 1942, the Food Division of the War Production Board seemed like a spot where a contribution was needed, and I began living in Washington during the week and commuting home to New York for a quick look every Friday night. Subsequently the food business was deemed to be too free from political influence in the War Production Board, so it was transferred to the War Food Ad- ministration in the Department of Agriculture. I went along and began to learn why the cost of our civilian government is so high.
Things began to look a little brighter, so we decided to add Tommy to the family in 1944. After VJ Day we began to plan for a world which would be free from international complications, a period of economic stability, a hard dollar, and low taxes. The economic fore- casters and your contributor were all wrong. Being in an international business and having to deal with people in many of the areas which have been even more unsettled since the war, life has been anything but dull. Govrnments, including our own, have interfered with the
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flow of business, have caused prices to both rise and fall, and gener- ally have not contributed too much to peaceful shut-eye. Despite all of this, our group has had a real good time.
The business grew and our payroll has been inflated in numbers as it has in dollars-in spite of which we manage to find enough even after taxes to have the pleasures we want. We live in New York during the winter months and have a house in Stamford to break up the return trip from the Bowl. Incidentally, we also use this house as a summer home and a weekend spot. The direct result of the Stam- ford property is that I get enough exercise to keep my weight under 200 and get a chance to breathe something else other than the smoke- filled air for which New York is fast becoming noted.
My spare time, when I can get it, is used for athletics with or without the children, either as a participant or a spectator-that is, after the necessary things around the house and grounds have been taken care of and after the usual number of customers and foreign visitors have been properly entertained.
During business hours, just in case I should have a notion to take a nap, I have managed to get a few jobs in trade organizations, such as being a director of the Clearing Associations of both the New York Cocoa Exchange and the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange.
My main philanthropic work is as a member of the Board of Trustees of Montefiore Hospital and of several committees con- nected with this institution. I must admit that somehow or other my attendance record at these meetings has not been too good.
My secretary is beginning to get a bored look, so I'd better sum up by saying that I'm busy, happy and healthy either because of or in spite of four years at New Haven!
HENRY W. JACKSON; 329 E. Northern Avenue, Phoenix, Ariz.
I left Yale at the end of freshman year (by faculty request). After two years in California-attending Menlo J. C. and Stanford Uni- versity-I abandoned academic pursuits and married Eleanor M. Wardlaw, a Stanford co-ed. I returned to New Haven in time to win the dubious distinction of chaperoning my own class at the senior prom and embarked on a journalistic career on the New Haven Register, published by my father (Yale '90). With me were my brothers Richard S. and the late John H. (both '34) and Lionel S. ('37). Still another Eli brother, William B. ('41), was killed in China in World War II. In 1946, I went west again and published weeklies and a daily just north of San Francisco. But three years of sunny (sic) California was enough and in 1949 I moved to Phoenix, Ariz., where I soon found myself in the cattle business. I now live in a citrus grove in Phoenix and commute to a ranch in El Mirage, seventeen miles away. Owner of a dog, a duck, a string of horses and
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a herd of steers, I am still happiest with my wife and four kids. The latter are Ann, thirteen; Kate, ten; Jane, seven; and Bill, four.
PAUL D. JACKSON; 1300 Lake Washington Boulevard, South, Seattle, Wash.
I am Regional Attorney for the thirteenth region of the Wage Stabilization Board. I have the same wife, and two children, Dillon Edward and Mary Ann. From August, 1949, to August, 1951, I was counsel and general manager for several trade associations in New York City, and from July, 1947, to August, 1949, I was labor rela- tions officer, GHQ/SCAP, Tokyo, Japan.
ROBERT W. JARVIS, JR .; 3700 Montrose Blvd., Houston 6, Tex.
Still fighting the battle of Houston along with apparently thou- sands of other adventuresome Elis who are trying to find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, I find myself trying to hide the fine print in insurance policies, and that with but a modicum of success.
Inasmuch as I never see "Republican" on the top of any of the ballots they hand me down here when I go to the polls, my political horizon has been greatly narrowed. I would be willing, however, to join hands with anyone to further a movement of Eric Johnston for president.
In 1949 my wife, who should have had better sense in the first place, finally realized the hoax that had been perpetrated upon her and decided to continue the act as a solo number.
Once a month I hie myself off to the Naval Air Station at Dallas, Tex., to try to induce one of their antiquated "Corsairs" to struggle off the ground for a few more reluctant hours, and two or three times a week I am trapped into dragging an equally antiquated old body out to the tennis courts of the local country club. A satisfactory performance in either effort is assuming the stature of a minor miracle.
No romance in sight-the sole answer to my ad in the Lovelorn column was an advertising circular from the Arthur Murray Dance Studios. I tried that solution, the only result being a suspicion of arthritis in my right knee.
Besides the above-mentioned activities and the everyday struggle for existence, my activities center around a few sessions of bridge a week and a not-too-frequent fling with the local Bachelors Club.
OLIVER JENSEN; Long Lots Road, Westport, Conn.
After the War ended, I returned to my pre-war job as an editor on Life magazine, handling first the entertainment and other back- of-the-book departments and later the text, or article, department.
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Last year I resigned to start a small book-publishing venture, and it is still too early to predict what will happen to it.
I was married, for the second time, to Jean Stafford, the novelist, in 1950; we have taken a nice old farmhouse just outside Westport. Caring for it fully takes care of the spare time about which the class questionnaire enquires. It also solves the exercise problem and makes considerable inroads on the time available for entertainment.
DUDLEY R. JOHNSON; R.F.D. 1, Newfane, Vt.
From March, 1946, until June, 1949, I taught English at Yale. Then I purchased and retired to a "farm" in southern Vermont. "Nine bean rows have I there, and a hive for the honey bee." The call to work, however, has pierced the peace and the silence. I have just accepted an offer from Washington and Jefferson College, Wash- ington, Pa.
JAMES G. JOHNSON, JR .; 906 Enderby Drive, Alexandria, Va.
After rereading my efforts for the 1941 and 1946 classbooks, I am minded of the comment on the horrible Victorian architecture of the Old State Department Building here in Washington-that it shows how wrong people can be when they are so sure they're right. Give me a little more time (say, five or ten years) before I attempt to write any more serious thoughts in this space .- As for my life since the last writing, we now have three children-ages ten, seven and almost one. I am still practising law in Washington, D.C., and am now a partner in the firm (Cleary, Gottlieb, Friendly & Ball/Hamilton of New York, Washington, and Paris). Our principal extracurricular activity seems to be in the affairs of the school that our two older children attend, which we have found to be strenuous, demanding but good fun withal. Sorry to have missed the reunion.
ROBERT K. JOHNSTON; 1936 E. 522 Cashmere Terrace, Los Angeles 49, Calif.
The arrival of Spring, 1951, brought my family, consisting of one (1) wife and one (1) small male offspring, and me, to the realization that life is simply too short not to spend it in California, particularly after being frequently late to work last winter on account of 8-foot drifts. As personal considerations required a trip out here anyway, we came, found suitable employment involving guided missiles at Hughes Aircraft, and moved out of Chicago permanently. We have most of the standard acoutrements praised by the C. of C., including a house next to a movie actress, a Beach House in La Jolla (sh-h-it belongs to our family), a raincoat, no overcoat, and a sun-burn.
Before the exodus, jobs and locations were as follows:
(1) Engineer, General Motors Proving Ground, Milford, Mich.
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(2) Insurance salesman, Kansas City and Chicago.
(3) Engineer, Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft Corp., San Diego, Calif.
(4) Field Engineer, Stinson Aircraft Division, Wayne, Mich.
(5) Partner in flying school and airplane charter business, Macon, Ga.
(6) Industrial Engineer (Assistant to Works Manager) The Pyle- National Co., Chicago.
Between (3) and (4) above, I spent three years in the Navy as a B-24 Engineering Officer (am now a Lieutenant in the Reserve), got married, and learned to fly. During (6), our son arrived.
Hobbies and membership in organizations would be peachy, but there doesn't seem to be much time for them. Most of my jobs have required considerably more than the usual 40 hours, particularly (budding entrepreneurs take note) when in business for myself. There is an electric train taking shape in the nursery, we play some bridge and find time for a little golf, tennis, and swimming, but after the car is washed, the week seems to be pretty well shot. Maybe when Uncle Joe calms down, we can spend more time on the beach, finish the model railroad, polish up the landings and take-offs, finish the novel, have more children, etc., etc., but except during the 1937 Recession, I seem to have been living more like an M. I. T. man than an Eli.
Even though the Great White Father took office when we were Sophomores, there are still fond memories of small, balanced budgets, rugged individualism, a firm and intelligent foreign policy and a tax program that left a little room for incentive. We are still firmly Republican, although our voice is now occasionally tinged with hysteria as we say so. We were much too young to vote for Hoover in 1932 and we haven't won one since, but the national binge should be nearing its end and we don't doubt that clearer heads will ulti- mately prevail. Opinions were requested and that's the most im- portant one. Others follow, not in order of importance:
For
Against
Scotch Whisky
Living in Apartments
General Motors cars*
Hats
Sex
Mixed Drinks
Mexican Food **
The Navy California Living*
Instrument Weather
* Represents direct reversal since college.
** Represents opinions acquired since college.
CHESTER L. JONES, JR .; Lincoln, Mass.
After recovering from a trip abroad with Eddie Davis right after
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graduation, I started my business career in the Resinox Corporation laboratories in Edgewater, N.J. Both Resinox and Jones found out in six months that research was not for me and I was transferred to sales in New England.
When Monsanto Chemical Company purchased the Resinox Cor- poration, I was included (probably on the debit side of the ledger), and joined their Plastics Division at Springfield, Mass. I worked in various capacities in Sales and Sales Development, emerging as Manager of Product Development in 1945. I transferred to the Mer- rimac Division in 1947 and now act as Assistant General Manager of Sales in charge of Textile Chemicals, Industrial Specialty Chem- icals, Sales Development, and Surface Coatings.
I married Anne Burchard in 1939 and have since produced three children, finding this to be the most efficient way to make full use of outgrown clothes. We now live in Lincoln, Mass., which is a very pleasant rural neighborhood, and are active in town and church affairs. My principal hobbies are hunting, fishing, camping, with an occasional game of squash.
Club memberships include the Tennis & Racquet Club and the Algonquin Club, both of Boston.
T. A. D. JONES, JR .; 45 Edgehill Terrace, Hamden (New Haven 11), Conn.
Upon graduation, I went to Port Arthur, Texas, in the employ of The Texas Company. Following one year of refinery experience, but having failed to bring in any wells or to snare any millionheiress, returned to the East Coast and joined the T.A.D. Jones & Company, Inc., in the terminaling and marketing of petroleum products. Was wooed and won in 1939 by Alice M. Tobler of Mt. Carmel, Conn .- local girl makes good. Wendy Suzanne arrived on July 16, 1940; Sally T. on January 31, 1943; and T.A.D. III on June 8, 1944. Am adversary of two-platoon system, so have intentions of limiting our table to one sitting of present numbers.
Am also active in the management of the New Haven Terminal, Inc., in the discharge and warehousing of water-borne freight, such as lumber, steel, general cargo, etc., and The Excello Corporation in the marine transportation and distribution of formaldehyde, methanol, and other chemicals.
Principal activities in the form of entertainment include active participation in sports such as tennis, squash, hunting, and fishing, and these account for membership in the New Haven Lawn Club, New Haven Country Club, Hammonassett Fishing Association, and the Madison Beach Club. The Rotary Club of New Haven likewise finds me in reasonable attendance.
In reviewing the years since 1936, my greatest disappointment
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may be found publicly, in the minority, in the gradual but persistent degradation of internal conditions due, in my opinion, to the utter ineptitude and extravagance of those responsible for the present state of affairs in our Federal government. The principles upon which this nation was founded, survived, and prospered are surely in jeopardy if not on the way to elimination.
JACK W. JORDAN; 1015 Chestnut Street, Manchester, N.H.
Since my return from the Navy, I am back at work, together with my brother Dick, '40, running Limerick Yarn Mills. My position is Vice President. We have one more daughter, Joan Dana Jordan, who is four years old this summer. I spent the last year and a half re- covering from a ski accident and osteomylitis resulting therefrom; broken leg, but now recovering completely. I'm waiting for the Re- publicans to take over and save us from too many years of F.D.R. and H.S.T.
JOHN F. JORDAN; 4221 43d Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
I am working with the Munitions Board, Office of the Secretary of Defense, in Washington, and live at 4221 43d Street, N.W., with my wife, Janice Brainard, and son, John F. Jordan, Jr. (another expected in March). Hobbies are boating and golf.
GERRIT P. JUDD, IV; 46 Manchester Street, Westbury, N.Y.
During the four years of liberty that the Navy gave me between World War II and the present "police action," I returned to Yale for a Ph.D. (in 1947) in English history; got married (I thoroughly ap- prove of marriage) ; did a year's research with a Social Science Re- search Council grant on the English Parliament 1734-1832 (book awaiting publication) ; taught at Franklin and Marhsall College in Lancaster, Pa., and at Hofstra College in Hempstead, N.Y., where for a brief period I was in charge of the history department. In September, 1950, the Navy sent me orders to report for duty in ten days. In the aforementioned four-year liberty period I've moved eight times; owned a pet squirrel; shared a bathroom with seventeen other people; travelled to British Columbia and Miami Beach; built a house that an arsonist burned to the ground; and gained about fifty pounds. As time passes I find myself growing conservative (any chance of reviving the Tory Party?), stubborn, and less and less tolerant. I'd gladly settle for a long, long period of vegetation in some sleepy village, with a chance to relax and read, and think a few things through. Ah Utopia! But a guy can still dream, can't he?
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RICHARD H. JUDD; 38 Barton Circle, North Haven, Conn.
I served as Traffic Representative, International Mercantile Marine and United States Lines Co., 1936-1940, in New York and Boston. From 1941 to 1944, I was Traffic Analyst for the New York New Haven, & Hartford Railroad Co., Boston. Since 1945, I have been Administrative Assistant and then Assistant Director of the Grace-New Haven Community Hospital, New Haven. Currently I am Assistant Director in charge of Grace Unit of Grace-New Haven Community Hospital. I married Rita M. Fitzpatrick of Brookline, Mass., in 1941, and we have two children: Richard Peter, born in 1944, and Susan Dale, born in 1949. I am a member of Rotary Inter- national. My hobby is ships.
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