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FREDERICK ROBERT KLAUCK; Whitewood, Landenberg, Pa.
Two children-Wendy (1947) and Karl (1949)-have required enlargement of the house, now underway. Soil mechanics and founa- tion engineer, plus research for the Dupont Co. requires considerable travel around the country.
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CHARLES F. KLING; 2700 Chesterton Road, Shaker Heights 22, Ohio.
Since reporting my activities as of 1945 there have been very few changes.
I still have the same wife and the same two children and we are all five years older.
My executive duties and responsibilities are the same with two additions-I am a Director of the Diamond Portland Cement Com- pany and The Cleveland Builders Supply Company.
My chief position is Vice President of Merrill, Turben & Co., and Secretary and Treasurer of The Kling Realty Company. I hold Directorships in Gibbons-O'Neill, Inc., Western Reserve Investing Company, and the two companies that I mentioned above.
My club memberships are as follows: Union Club Company; Tavern Club Company; Kirtland Country Club; Pepper Pike Country Club, and the Chagrin Valley Hunt Club.
My wife and daughter have been extremely active in riding and jumping, to the extent that I have felt that I should hold up my part of the family riding activities and therefore participated in one-fourth interest in a Steeplechase Horse named "Allflor," who eats a lot of hay but wins very little money.
JOHN MERRILL KNAPP; 16 Linden Lane, Princeton, N.J.
Returned to Princeton in February, 1946, after four years in the Navy. Was appointed Assistant to the Dean of the College and helped the Administration resettle other ex-Service men, particularly those whose academic careers were interrupted by the War. In the Fall I took over my old job as Director of the Princeton Glee Club and Instructor in the Music Department.
Life has flowed along in a fairly even pattern since then. Major events that have disturbed "the even tenor of our way" have been the arrival of a second daughter, Linda, on October 9, 1949; a pro- motion to Assistant Professor; appointment as Acting Chairman of the Music Department; and finally a Fellowship for travel and study abroad.
New Haven is not too far away; so there are occasional oppor- tunities to get back, or else to filter through Westchester County and the lower Connecticut area, where the Eli's are as thick as thieves. This tends to counteract the Princeton influence, which is also thick when one lives in the middle of it.
ROBERT W. KNEBEL; 317 Rhine Cliff Drive, Rochester 18, N.Y.
I'm married and have three children. I own a business: Knebel Electro, which makes optical instruments-the Knebel Clinical
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Camera, colored 35 mm pictures, for doctors, dentists, hospitals, colleges, etc. I'm a member of "Toastmasters International," and my enthusiasms are fishing, hunting, and terrariums.
KENNETH DONALD KORNRICH; 358 Fern St., West Hartford, Conn.
Five years after Yale, I finished at U. of Md. Dental School, and hung out my shingle in downtown Hartford. It was pleasant to start practice when patients were feverishly searching for someone to take care of them. The "tough struggle" of the depression years was only a bull-session with the old-timers. As a man with an income, I saw fit to culminate my Baltimore "amatory interests" in marriage to Jeanne Adele Robinson on May 17, 1942.
We spent two years in luxurious living in a single small bedroom with dubious "kitchen privileges," for which we were happy to pay 20% more than the rent for the whole apartment. The U.S. Army Air Force took us out of this misery in September, 1943, to aid in the battle of Miami Beach. After establishing this beachhead, came an extended stay in Sioux Falls, S.D., where we were amazed to find sidewalks on the streets, and no Indians. William Sanford was born here on January 10, 1945, after the Japanese obligingly surrendered in time to cancel my orders to Pacific duty.
Then came months of utter inactivity awaiting discharge, in Oc- tober, 1946. Finally we were free to begin the search for office and apartment space. I was back in practice in one month, and returned to my former clinics with the Hartford Dispensary, and the City Health Department.
My recreation is at a minimum since Barbara Lynn arrived De- cember 10, 1949, and the little monsters demand all the time they can get. After a frightening fire in our apartment, we moved to West Hartford, and now have our own little everlasting mortgage. Also we have on our front lawn a gorgeous oak, a giant of some 250 years, supposed to be the largest in Connecticut. We can prove this by the millions of leaves raked in the fall.
I have been sporadically active in my dental fraternity, Alpha Omega, and resumed an old interest in philately, now as a U.P.U. specialist. Finally, I enjoy a session of contract, an interest not begun at Yale-amazingly enough-but started while waiting to remove the captain's bars.
PAUL L. KRUG; 16 Walworth Avenue, Scarsdale, N.Y.
After graduation and one more year at the Dunwoodie Baking School, I joined the King Baking Company and am now manager of the Mt. Vernon and New Jersey plants. I married Ella Galvin in
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1940 and have since accumulated four girls and two boys. I am strictly a conservative within the limits and responsibilities of Christian political morality.
ARTHUR E. LAIDLAW; 69 School Street, Keene, N.H.
Graduated from Yale Medical School in 1939. Interned at Johns Hopkins Hospital, also the Children's Hospital in Boston and the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City.
Have spent time since then in the Army, raising two children, fishing, and practising Pediatrics as a specialty.
WILLIAM O. LAMOTTE, JR .; "Spottswood," Kennett Square, R.D. 1, Pa.
Standing in upper Delaware, it is almost possible to spit into three adjoining states. So when the desire developed three and one half years ago to live in a big old house in the country, we found ourselves across the state line in Pennsylvania. Here we are giving our three youngsters, now ten, eight and four, the benefit of the great out of doors, and ourselves enjoying the relaxing freshness of a beautiful countryside. Especially is the latter appreciated each evening as the city of Wilmington, with its hustle and bustle and worry is left behind, for it is here that my medical practice resides and thrives, and usually lets me alone at home for, fortunately, and not without some prior realization thereto, the specialty of eye disease is to some extent a controllable one and deficient in frequent night emergencies.
I am intensely interested in my work and in exploring a few of the many frontiers of that field. But some fifteen years after gradua- tion I am no longer interested in pursuing the will of the wisp of professional fame requiring unrelenting drive in one direction to the detriment of self, health, family, and future peace of mind. I believe we have two chief responsibilities in our work, whatever it may be; first, to do the job for which we have been trained to the best of our ability; second, to use that job as a framework for a life dedicated to helping others. The Christian faith is the hope of mankind, but the organized church is an archaic vehicle for its practice and perpetua- tion. That is why the individual must be deeply aware of the two responsibilities in his work.
PETER B. LANGMUIR; 720 East Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, Wis.
On the very day of Yale's 1948 triumph over Midwestern football at Madison, the Langmuirs huffed and puffed and out popped Twin A and Twin B, now know informally as "the more" and "the merrier."
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This represents our major achievement and has had far reaching consequences not the least being a seven-bedroom mortgage on a five-bedroom house.
Any time that can be spared from the living demonstration that four children are an awful lot of children is still occupied with the industrial investments of the Northwestern Mutual.
ELDRIDGE L. LASELL; The Greenway Apartments, 34th and Charles Streets, Baltimore 18, Md.
From the time I was discharged from the U.S. Army until July 1, 1948, I was an interne and assistant resident at the Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Since 1947, I have been undergoing psychoanalytic training-achieving the status in 1950 of Associate Member of the Baltimore Psychoanalytic Insti- tute.
Since 1948, I have been engaged in the private practise of psyco- analysis. Since July 1, 1950, I have spent one afternoon a week as Attending in Neuropsychiatry at a nearby psychiatric hospital of the Veterans Administration. Since July 1, 1951, I have spent one morn- ing a week as Assistant in Psychiatry in the out-patient department of the Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic. Chiefly these positions entail supervising and training resident psychiatrists and medical students.
Further details about personal activities, prejudices, tastes, etc., will have to wait for the next autobiographical installment.
GEORGE M. LASELL, JR .; 293 Congress St., Bridgeport, Conn.
My job is as Quality Control Engineer for the Sikorsky Aircraft, Bridgeport, Conn. I am an old bachelor, and I have no hobbies. I teach math. nights at the Bridgeport Engineering Institute and was a member of the Junior C. of C. until recently, becoming an exhausted rooster. Mother died on November 25, 1950, and since then I have kept house for my father and myself. Don't laugh at that one about womens' work never being done. Enjoy dating and getting hoarse at the Yale Bowl.
FREDERIC HANES LASSITER; 360 Lynn Avenue, Winston Salem, N.C.
My work is as VicePresident and Director of the Lassiter Corpora- tion, celophane converters and package manufacturers. I am mar- ried, and my wife and I have two children, Elizabeth and Frederic. My principal hobby is airplanes.
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CHARLES Y. LAZARUS; 92 Stanbery Avenue, Columbus 9, Ohio.
The arrival of twins in January, 1949, Stuart and Wendy, and an older daughter, Peggy, in June, 1947, gives us a family of five.
Since 1946, my jobs have included only two: First, Vice President and, currently, Executive Vice President of the F. & R. Lazarus & Company, Columbus, Ohio.
There have been many civic activities that have gone on in the last three or four years-this year I found myself as General Chair- man of the 1952 Community Chest Drive.
Golfing and tennis-both poor-take up most of my spare time that the children do not usurp.
WILLIAM M. LEAVENWORTH, M.D .; 5111 Newton Street N.E., Washington 18, D.C.
After leaving Yale in 1936, I was employed in various engineering capacities for six years, the last three years as production engineer in a Brooklyn ship-yard. About that time I decided to follow the family tradition after all, and took some pre-medical work at Columbia. I entered Western Reserve University School of Medicine in 1943, and graduated in 1946. I interned at Queens General Hos- pital in New York City. After several months assisting a general practitioner in Chattanooga, Tenn., I was employed as Plant Physi- cian by the General Motors Corp., at Dayton, Ohio, resigning in 1949 to take specialty training. For the past two years I have been Radiology resident at Garfield Memorial, Doctors and Emergency Hospitals in Washington, D.C. Ten days ago I went on active duty in the Air Force, rank of captain, temporarily assigned to Bolling Field, with orders to Orlando, Fla., on October 1st.
In August, 1947, I was married to Elizabeth Hall, of Spring Glen, Conn. Our son Christopher was born three years ago.
At present I am working frantically to finish up a research project at Walter Reed General Hospital before leaving town. This thing has to do with the delayed effects of million-volt irradiation, and is sup- posed to be very significant. When this job is out of the way, I hope to have time for "social, civic, political, philanthropic, etc., activi- ties." Meanwhile, I sometimes wish I had gone to work for Proctor & Gamble!
WILLIAM LEE; Plainville, Conn.
As in Quinqueniad II, about half of these last five years were spent in the tropics, this time under the aegis of Standard Oil (N.J.) and in the Carribean instead of the less urbane South Pacific. In Aruba, N.W.I. (within sight of Curacao and an occasional Grace Liner), there is an A.C.S .- approved hospital as effective as any 130-
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bed general hospital in the States, taking care of a wonderfully polyglot, polychromatic community of 25,000. I was one of three doing general surgery there. The difference between languishing in the Navy and being busy in Aruba was striking and was magnified by my family's being there too, enjoying a moderne house, wonderful swimming, and selected activities at our unexpectedly fabulous club. Bill and Christopher, who was born in Aruba, selected the ice cream bar.
It was a nice place to visit, but we wouldn't want to live there forever, so we came home to Connecticut last December to start a rather more settled life for all of us, living in our own house in Plain- ville about ten minutes from my job as assistant medical director at The Stanley Works in New Britain. I now have lots of time with the family and also time and even the inclination to be a carpenter and gardener. Though none of our old friends are neighbors, we are geographically near the center of a convenient circle of a few good friends. Hartford, where I had a couple of years surgical training after the Navy, is near by. New Haven is forty-five minutes away and the shore not much further. Things are quite pleasant in our little sphere. Hope they will soon be pleasanter on this big old beat up one.
WILLIAM BEECHER LEIGHTON; 29 Garthwaite Terrace, Maplewood, N.J.
Married Ethel Eva Weber in June, 1939. One son, Stephen Beech- er, age five. The business profession and married life looked forward to at college are being realized with deep satisfaction and the hope that son Stephen can have the same or better fortune. Steve's grand- father, Kenneth William Leighton, graduated Yale 1908S.
Most enjoyable year for me at Yale was 1936 as a senior residing at Saybrook College. During the previous college years I roomed at my parents' home in New Haven. Following graduation I became associated with Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Company and have been chemical engineering for them ever since. After a 11/2-year training period in chemical production at South Charleston, W. Va., I started my present work 1938 with the Special Products Division in New York City.
Present work covers the design, sale, supervision of installation and initial operation of complete solvent recovery plants employing activated carbon as the recovery medium. Work also inclues technical service in connection with existing recovery plants, solvent loss sur- veys and new project development. Instrumentation of completely automatic recovery plants is an interesting part of the work, par- ticularly in view of the multitude of industrial instruments available
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today for maintaining safe, efficient and economical plant operation.
Enjoy skiing and golf and general recreation with family and would like more time to indulge in all three of these pastimes. Now enjoy three weeks' vacation each year, usually taken in the Summer at the seashore.
Am a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, American Chemical Society, Yale Engineering Association, and have a license pending for practice as a Professional Engineer in the State of New York.
DAVID LESTER; 40 West Prospect Street, New Haven 15, Conn.
Relatively, I suppose my life has been dull: from '36-'37 I did factory work to raise enough money to go to graduate school, which I did starting in '37 and getting my doctorate in organic chemistry at Yale in '40. Then I did what many of our class perhaps devoutly wished they could do; I became associated with the Dr. Kinsey of Yale, H. W. Haggard (A. P. 63) in the Laboratory of Applied Physi- ology, first as Research Assistant and then as Research Associate (Associate Prof.). Since 1940, then, in association with colleagues in the laboratory, I have authored some 30 articles in various scientific journals in the fields of analytical chemistry, physiology, pharma- cology, and toxicology.
My interests have been broad and I have lately become associated with that phase of the laboratory's work devoted to alcoholism. Financially, the job does not match industry, but the advantages far outweigh this lack, and if fortune smiles, some consultation work results.
In '38 I married, and after weathering the long hours of graduate work, and the additional work brought on by the war, we had our first child in 1945, a girl, and in 1948 another, a boy. Period. In 1948 I was married again, this time to an 18' sloop, which I divorced in 1951, but with a feeling of sadness. Many happy hours were spent on the sailboat and if ever I should strike it rich, I shall spend my sum- mers with my family cruising the Atlantic coast in, say, a 35' yawl. Failing this, it might be possible to persuade some pharmaceutical house to provide funds for a study of seasickness engendered in landlubbers aboard sailing vessels.
HARRY S. LEYMAN, JR .; 1416 First National Bank Bldg., Cin- cinnati, Ohio.
I am President of the Leyman Mfg. Co., which makes McGowan pumps. I am married and have three children.
RICHARD H. LICHT; 130 Buena Vista, El Paso, Tex.
The Department of Architecture of the Yale School of Fine Arts
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gave me the degree of B.F.A in 1937. I left Hartsdale, N.Y., and moved to El Paso, Tex., in January, 1948, formed a partnership with James E. Monroe, Jr., and have been practising architecture in El Paso as Monroe & Licht, Architects, 1501 First National Building, El Paso, Tex. We have designed mostly commercial buildings, schools and churches, and at present are engaged chiefly in designing Army structures for the Corps of Engineers, U.S.A.
I am happily married and have four children, Judith Elaine and Barbara Anne, twins, seven; Frances Helen, four; and Arthur Wallace, three. My chief hobby is sketching and painting. I am a member of the American Institute of Architects, Y.M.C.A., Texas Society of Architects, and El Paso Artists' Association.
ROBERT B. LINCOLN; 13 McKinley Street, Rowayton, Conn.
First job following graduation was with Turner Construction Company as timekeeper and job accountant in construction of a building in New York City. Present employment with Lockwood Greene Engineers began on completion of construction job with Turner early in 1937, and has continued to present, except for leave of absence during the war. Lockwood Greene is the oldest firm of consulting engineers in the business and does work all over the world. The company has had me working in the field as a resident engineer and in the office as a designer and project manager, and a few years back saw fit to make me a member of the firm.
From early in 1941 until late 1945 was spent with the Navy, work- ing on the design and construction of graving docks and of welded steel floating drydocks. Nearly two years of this time was spent as Assistant to the Officer-in-Charge of construction at the U.S. Naval Dry Docks, Morgan City, La., where over $30 million worth of floating dry docks were built. The rest of the four years with the Navy was mostly spent in New York, with some time at the Navy Department in Washington and in Navy Yards on the east coast.
Married February 22, 1950, in Bayside, N.Y., to Ruth W. Harnden. Our first child, a daughter, Robin Louise, was born July 26, 1951, in the Norwalk Hospital.
Some time before Labor Day we expect to move to Overbrook Lane, Darien, Conn., to the house we are building there. On the design and supervision of construction of this house I served as my own architect, a chore I might not have undertaken if I had known, when I started last fall, the amount of time and effort that would be required.
Clubs :- County Tennis Club of Westchester, Scarsdale, N.Y. Several classmates are members here.
Professional Societies, Licenses :- Member American Society of Civil Engineers; Licensed Professional Engineer in New York, Con- necticut, and Mississippi; Listed in "Who's Who in Engineering."
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ALBERT W. LINDEKE, JR .; 433 Washington Street, Waller Waller, Wash.
The last two and a half years past have been passed by yours truly in the Puget Sound Country, namely Tacoma. Here, incidentally, our second very spry and highly gifted daughter, Caroline Saunders, ar- rived about two years ago.
Late this spring we moved to the above address, but still the State of Washington, a state, I might add, which has much to recom- mend it.
Due to the transition stage we were in during June, it was impos- sible to get to the reunion of Yale's greatest Class that month despite the beckoning appeals of Joe Barclay and many others. Anyhow, for Dick Pinkham's information, yours truly shall be at the twentieth without fail.
WILLIAM MAC LINGO, JR .; 5116 Hines Boulevard, Dallas, Tex.
Since bright college years, things have been pretty slow; fifteen years of just sort of lumbering along. The new B.S. settled down in Pap's wood lot, and calculus was invaluable calculating tuba fours. Dean Meeks stood me in good stead building telephone cabinets, and Glenn Saxon was of great assistance extracting fo' dollars out of the congregation of the Rising Star Baptist Church. Perseverance won out, though, and gradually I unlearned enough of my early training to make a fair grade lumber-yard hand. I'm bull of the woods at the home place now, and am mixed up in yards pretty well around Texas, a couple of sawmills in Louisiana, and two more strings of yards in Missouri and Iowa. I'm going out to Oregon to see how it is out there next week.
I took time out during the last war, but it was just the same-in Washington in the Lumber Division of the WPB-and then I spent my hitch in the Navy buying lumber for the Army.
Under the head of extracurricular activities, it was only natural to get mixed up (unsuccessfully) in some oil plays. After poor-boying it ten years south of Snyder, we sold out two months before the lid blew off. I also inherited a wholesale hardware business after drink and the devil had done for the rest. I tried (past tense) the auto- mobile game, got tied into a suburban bank, and dabble in some minor ventures.
Another venture was marrying a girl named Betty Lord from Lake Forest (I should have known there were too d-many Yankees down here). That was back in 1938. In 1941 I was the proud father of Mac III. Then later, while I was off fighting the war, a couple of girls, Kathleen and Clifton, came along. Now we are one big happy family, living in a middle-sized auditorium, on which I spend all my spare time (both hours every week) building more onto it.
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I went back to New Haven once, but it was during the 1938 hurricane, so I don't believe I'll try it again soon.
RICHARD WILLIAM LIPPMAN; 4751 Fountain Avenue, Los Angeles, Calif.
After graduation, I received an M.D. from Columbia in 1940, and interned at Beth Israel Hospital in New York. I married Anne Fol- som in 1940, and we had three children: Richard J., six, Martha A., four, and Stephen S., one. I entered the Army as a First Lieutenant, M.C., in February, 1942, and spent two years overseas, in every job from infantry medic to V.D. control to command of a hospital. I was reborn in January, 1946. After several months' disorientation, I was assigned to Prof. Thomas Addis, Stanford University Medical School, as a Postgraduate Research Fellow, 1946-8. I moved to Los Angeles, Institute for Medical Research, Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, as a Research Associate and physician in charge of the clinic for kidney diseases and hypertension, in 1948; was a Fellow of the Columbia Foundation, 1949-50; Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1950-52; Vice-Chairman, Southern California Section of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine; Member of the American Physiological Society, Western Society for Clinical Research, Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha, A.M.A., etc. I have pub- lished papers in the usual scientific journals, and I have a dramatic new book concerning-you guess it, urine-in press. At present, I am older, not much wiser, slightly heavier, and much more tired than I was at Yale, but those who knew me then would know me now.
ARTHUR J. LOEB; Box 89, Brevard, N.C.
Still doing business at the same old stand-Ecusta Paper Corpora- tion in North Carolina. I have the same wife and we have had three children. My only regret is that Yale is not co-educational-they are girls. I see too few classmates. Life is as pleasant as can be expected these days. I still have hopes that war can be averted.
ROBERT ELI LONG; 3112 South Dakota Avenue, N.E., Washing- ton, D.C.
Although I fully enjoyed my return to academic life at the Uni- versity of Vermont after the war, I permitted myself to be lured away by a wartime associate, and in 1948 began to work in Washington for one of the government agencies concerned with the national security. I have found the work intensely interesting and very demanding, and have been well and generously treated besides. There are an impressive number of Yale men in this business; as one of
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