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Have always wished to be greatest writer in the world-am still trying. Was associate editor COLLIERS seven years-wrote lot of hack stuff for job. Am waiting for public to discover me.
JULIAN M. MARKS; c/o Mrs. R. Schwartz, 880 N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Ill.
Since separation from the Air Force in fall of 1945, have returned to pre-war work, Floor Broker on the Chicago Board of Trade, Wheat Broker for such houses as Goodbody & Co., Paine Weber Jackson and Curtis, Dean Wither & Co., etc. Chairman of the board
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of the Orpheus Corporation, a local motion picture theatre corpora- tion. No marriage as yet. Hobbies and sports include lots of tennis; some atrocious golf; gin rummy; theatre; occasional Sunday morn- ing touch football just to prove we're young enough to do it; gin rummy; a weekly Monday poker session in what has been aptly called the tightest game in America; and I'd almost forgotten a little gin rummy.
Member of the Standard Club, the Yale Club. Contributor to many local charities. Associated with two Air Force Reserve Organizations. Lately a frequent investor in Broadway theatrical productions, aforesaid investments enabling me to obtain fair theatre tickets from any scalper in town.
JOSEPH MARTIN, JR .; 11 Presidio Terrace, San Francisco, Calif.
On March 1, 1949, I became a partner in the firm of Williamson & Wallace and, as a result, the firm was dissolved on December 31st of the same year. At that time some of us formed the firm of Wallace, Garrison, Norton & Ray, 2200 Shell Building, San Francisco, which is still extent.
In the spring of 1950, I was a member of a group which success- fully ousted the incumbent Republican County Central Committee. For a time I served as Secretary of the new County Committee and am now Director of Organization for that body.
ROBERT MARVEL; 1313 Wyngate Road, Wynnewood, Pa.
The past five years have brought about few, if any, radical changes in my life. The status of my family remains constant-one wife and two pre-war sons. The fact that my eldest is going away to boarding school in the fall makes me realize that the years are beginning to roll by a lot faster than they used to. Much of my life in suburban Philadelphia is spent with other Elis, with whom many an hour is spent railing against the Administration. My work with the Market- ing Department of the Sun Oil Co. continues to progress, but there is always the uncertainty of just what part of the country I shall be living in next.
HARMAN W. McBRIDE; Fox Hollow Farm, River Road, Chagrin Falls, Ohio.
During the past five years, I have continued to operate The Reliable Spring & Wire Forms Company. The period has been one of consolidation and steady growth. The Company expanded rapidly during the war, largely because of its ability to make delicate
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mechanical springs for extremely precise military application. The problem immediately following the war was to find business to utilize this substantial extra capacity. We succeeded in this and went on to nearly double our previous peak. The organization built hastily from whatever material was available during the war, has been worked over and solidified until it is now an efficient, hard- hitting, and agressive team, with clear lines of responsibility and proper delegation of authority. Incidentally, Ronald Pond, whom some of you will remember as the permanent secretary at the Lit office, joined the Company a few years ago and is now our Sales Manager. My brother Bert, 1946N, is Production Manager.
Of late I have had more time to devote to other business interests such as The Forbes Ink Company, of which I am Vice President and Director, and The Cleveland Hardware and Forging Company, of which I am a Director. We face interesting problems of re-organiza- tion and re-vitalization at both companies, and it will be interesting to see whether some of the methods which have proved to be success- ful in the building of The Reliable Spring & Wire Forms Company will work again. Work with The Chamber of Commerce, the Repub- lican Party, the Spring Manufacturers' Association, of which I am a Director, and The Planning & Zoning Commission of our local com- munity also help vary the daily grind.
Our second son, Richard Forbes McBride, was born in 1949 and is rapidly developing into an enthusiastic farmer and horseman. Our older boy, even at five years of age, is beginning to assume real re- sponsibility in connection with the horses, chickens, cats, dogs, sheep, pigs, etc., which populate our small farm in the Chagrin Valley. We have worked very hard during the past five years to build this place into an ideal spot for our boys to grow up and learn about the things that really matter. We raise a good portion of the meat, vegetables and eggs we use and all of the feed for our horses, upon which we follow the Chagrin Valley Hunt. Fox hunting very pleasantly dominates the life in our small community during the Fall and Winter.
Jane and I hope to travel more widely in the future and to have more time for some of the more intellectual pursuits for which we were presumably educated. We have dreams of taking the children to Europe, of reading more than two or three nonbusiness books a year, and of participating more fully in the development of the ideas of our times. Stimulating as it is to be a part of the tremendous industrial strength of this country, there is something more which we cannot help reaching for. Somehow, our generation must develop leaders who have the courage and intellectual honesty of a Taft, a Hoover, or a MacArthur. We need men with a practical world con- cept solidly based on home strength and tested principles.
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ANDREW M. McBURNEY; 230 Park Avenue, New York, N.Y.
On the two previous occasions when I attempted to write some- thing for the Class Record Book, I was pacing the floor at Doctors Hospital awaiting the birth of a child. Things are just as hectic today but for quite a different reason. Several weeks ago the Paper Industry could not find anyone else to represent it in Washington on the OPS, so the writer was tapped for a six month's sentence.
The McBurneys are still among the very few who have stuck to living within the confines of Metropolitan New York. Fortunately, friends in Connecticut and other suburban areas still see fit to invite us out for a bit of fresh air on weekends, and in the mad confusion of the football season, particularly, we have enjoyed the hospitality of the Pearces, the Whiteheads, the Walkers, the Holmes', and many others.
Since 1947, when I submitted my last report, Oxford Paper Com- pany has continued to furnish monthly paychecks and, recently, handed out a promotion to Sales Manager of the organization. In addition to Industry activities, thru the support and sponsorship of Art Pearce, I was put on the Board of Directors of Magazine of Industry during the past year. And, at the annual meeting of the Alumni Committee of The Hill School, a slate of officers was rail- roaded thru and your correspondent found himself elected to the Presidency of that august body. Last winter a man standing at a bar overheard a comment to the effect that McBurney was a good scout. As a result, the Boy Scouts of America put me in as Chairman of the Finance Committee for the Knickerbocker District in New York.
In the Spring of this year it was a real pleasure to have a small part in handling the Class Reunion and in being a member of the execu- tive committee so ably handled by our good friend Lou Walker. We are already planning our Twentieth Reunion.
As to possible outside activities, wind and age have curtailed tennis, squash, and skiing. Now eighteen holes of golf are all I can do in the way of exercise, and I might add this sport is not profitable, particularly when trying to handle our classmates Walker and White- head.
Henry McKnight, whom I have seen since coming to Washington, has been most hospitable-even going so far as to offer his secretary to handle any minor problems (such as dictation, reservations, etc., of course).
I trust that before long such outstanding members of our Class as Bingham and Cates, now connected with our Government, will check me out on the ways and means of life among the mink coats.
I am not prepared to comment publicly on Dr. Kinsey's findings from the standpoint of my own experience, nor can I state how I
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stand on the presidential election in 1952. Perhaps by the time our next autobiography is being prepared I will be willing to admit my position with reference to both of these subjects.
LATON McCARTNEY; 1560 Lincoln Street, Denver, Colo.
My work is in agriculture and real estate. I am married and have two children-a boy, eleven, and a girl , eight. I'm interested in fish- ing and hunting as hobbies.
HENRY LOCKWOOD MCCLINTOCK; 92 Greenacres Avenue, Scarsdale, N.Y.
The major event of the last five years was the birth of my third child and first son, Henry L., Jr., on May 2, 1950. This date is par- ticularly memorable since Dave Northrup, who married my wife's sister, was also presented with a son a few hours later. Needless to say, both boys are advanced far beyond their years due to their parents' constant coaching and prodding to keep ahead of each other.
The letters A.S.A. (Associate of the Society of Actuaries) were appended to my name several years ago, but two of the three Fellow- ship examinations have yet to be tried and passed. Maybe that goal will be reached by 1956 if I'm lucky and can isolate myself from my family long enough to study.
In keeping with our more mature years, golf sems to have taken precedence over tennis as a means of holding the waistline within reasonable bounds (my wife would question this latter statement), while bridge continues to be a year-round diversion. Scarsdale ap- pears the perfect answer for one who doesn't want to live in New York or spend half the day commuting, and I must admit I'm very happy with my present lot.
FRANK McC.PAINTER, JR .; 566 N. Chestnut Street, Westfield, N.J.
Our history closely paralleled that of Eddie Cantor up through the first four girls, but then a happy and long awaited change took place. We were blessed with a boy, Frank, III, whose performance thru the first three and a half years up to now has been highly satisfactory.
We spend our time happily peregrinating through the industry of New Jersey and New York, building up same by the sale of capital goods. Classmates Leighton and Broadman have benefitted (?) by this endeavor, and we would recommend it without qualification, any selling job, that is, for solid satisfaction.
Went to the Yale Glee Club concert last year in Plainfield and had one of those rare and elegant evenings when time stands still and
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the years drop away, singing with the Club at the reception which followed, remembering yesterday so clearly and yet making fun for tomorrow too.
Would welcome the opportunity to ski with any high-minded classmates who might remember Burrall Barnum, '36, the guy who started me. Such an occasion would probably take precedence over everything, including the pressure of keeping five kids in shoes.
Was mightily sorry to have missed our 15th, but will surely see you on the 20th, if not before.
ROBERT FORBES MCCREERY, JR .; 420 West Swon, Webster Groves 19, Mo.
I was in active Army duty in the Field Artillery, until 1946. Since then I have been with the Missouri Pacific Railroad, but am still in the Reserves-the Transportation Corps now. I have a wife and three children: Karen, eight, Marie, six, and Forbes III, a little over a year old, all happily turning into St. Louisans.
JOHN G. MCCULLOUGH; North Bennington, Vt.
Married '39 Doriane Wooley, daughter Gale '43. Except for twenty-two weeks in New Guinea and Philippines as information and education non com, first in infantry (no com. at all), then in service commands, have been publisher of children's books as partner W. R. Scott, Inc. Have written three, would be writing fourth now if you weren't so insistent about questionnaires.
Live half year in Vermont, balance 128 Christopher Street, New York. Extra-curricular activities-trustee Bennington College, First National Bank, North Bennington, Dessoff Choirs, New York City.
ROBERT A. MCCURDY; 610 Park Avenue, New York 21, N.Y:
I am engaged in investment banking with the Equitable Securities Corporation, at 2 Wall Street, New York.
DAVID McDONALD; 1009 Comstock Street, Richland, Wash.
My wife, who was Justine Nichols Senker, and I were married on January 13, 1940-not a Friday the 13th, but a fortunate Saturday. Our children are David Craig, eleven, Robert James, six, Michael William, three and a half, and James Stuart, one.
For ten years after graduation, I worked for Dupont-half that time in photo products, Parlin, N.J .; then four years in war plants, working on acids and explosives in four different plants, and on the atomic bomb at Oak Ridge and Hanford; and finally for a year in nylon in a plant in Delaware. Since 1946 I have worked for General
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Electric at the Hanford Works plutonium plant at Richland, Wash.
Practically all of the above has been as a supervisor in production work. My present job title is area supervisor, Separations Section. Our job is to separate plutonium from uranium and then purify the plutonium so it can be used for bombs or as a source of tremendous energy for other purposes.
I am a Registered Engineer in Washington State, and a member of the Columbia Valley Section of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
I was elected to the Richland Community Council for its first two years and was Mayor for part of that time. Since the Atomic Energy Commission of the U.S. Government owns and runs the town, and the Council turned out to be purely advisory, our accomplishments were few. However, I worked vigorously for the establishment of free enterprise and self-government in our city, whose population is about twenty-five thousand.
JOHN N. McDONALD, JR .; 319 Hamilton Avenue, Glen Rock, N.J.
My employment with Wright Aeronautical Corporation, Paterson, N.J., started shortly after graduation from college and consisted of aircraft engine development testing in the Experimental Test Labora- tory of this company. Much of this work was on early designs and models of engines for the U.S. Air Force and Navy, which later saw extensive service in World War II. My associates during these days were a number of recent engineering graduates from other colleges, with the result that the pleasant life enjoyed at Yale was carried on to a certain degree and the change from college life to working for a living was not hard to take. Spare time activities during this period consisted of playing tennis, deep sea fishing, and sailing, particularly an eventful sailing trip in a seventeen-foot Comet down the Passaic River, around Staten Island to Sandy Hook and Red Bank, N.J. During the first few years out of college, several of us from the Class of '36 and '37 would get together in New York the first Saturday of every month for a general beer drinking tour of the city, but un- fortunately the war curtailed these pleasant activities. In 1938, my position with Wright Aeronautical was changed to an engineering position in the Experimental Division of the company. This work was associated with design and direction of development and testing activities. Carburetion and fuel injection development during this time were my specific assignments. In 1939, our company began to expand tremendously, and in 1940, I transferred to the Sales & Service Department as a Service Engineer. This work proved ex-
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tremely interesting as it resulted in a considerable amount of travel and the making of many new contacts. Some of my first trips were to Canada during the winter months and a great deal of skiing was done in the Laurentians at St. Agathe, St. Jovite, Mt. Tremblant, etc. On a combined pleasure and business trip to Florida in 1942 I deserted the bachelor ranks and spent an enjoyable honeymoon. Shortly after getting hitched, my wife and I bought a house in Glen Rock, N.J., with the intention of settling down to a somewhat less hectic life than when single. However, on April 8, 1945, our first daughter, Barbara Ann, was born and the second daughter, Virginia Louise, followed on June 1, 1948. Shortly thereafter, I observed my hair began to get thin in spots, and what remained was turning grey.
About 1946, my job assignment was changed to cover work on Government contracts, principally negotiation and administration of contracts for the sale of new products. This has proven extremely in- teresting and much to my liking, because of the broad business ex- perience gained.
The community in which we reside has recently constructed a swimming pool, with the result that my spare time in the summer months is now devoted to teaching my two young daughters how to swim. Before the pool was constructed, we were in the market for a summer cottage on the New Jersey shore, but floating in the local pool is much more relaxing that battling weekend traffic to shore points.
Somewhere along the line, about 1944 or 1945, I painted our home. Space does not permit going into details but after falling off both the roof and the ladder (no broken bones) this was given up for less hazardous activities such as woodworking in my basement shop.
DANIEL McGOODWIN; 5733 S.W. 45th Avenue, Portland 19, Ore.
My wife, Mary Louise, three daughters, Kate, Christina and Mary Louise, and I live in an old house on three acres outside of Portland. Five years in the Northwest have brought us great happiness and expectations. Two years in the practice of architecture have been successful to date, with the future full of promise.
When the word gets back to the industrial captains, Yale '36, that power is cheap in the Columbia Valley, be it known I stand ready and able to be of professional service.
Activities of a physical nature are limited to care and maintenance of the above estate. Some time has been devoted to the promotion of zoning and regional planning for the Portland Metropolitan Area. Prodded by my wife, I have worked for the establishment of an Episcopal parish in our neighborhood, became senior warden and
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designed a parish hall, now under construction, to house the mush- rooming congregation.
The same desire for a better set of values that brought me from the east coast to this new country motivates a feeling of disgust for the state of politics in these United States. We propose to shape world history, with superiority in material things our only outstand- ing virtue.
ROBERT B. MCKELLAR; 121 E. Conron Street, Danville, Ill.
A brief singing visit to Europe with the Yale Glee Club, a year's experience in the "lake" color laboratory of the Calco Chemical Co., and short tours of duty with the Sackett Fuel Co., Southwestern Tobacco Co., and the Associated Industries of Kentucky, absorbed my energies for the first three years after graduation.
Then followed five interesting years with E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., beginning with the Rayon Division in Richmond, Va., and then switching over in the early war years to the Military Explosives Division for assignments to the Kankakee and Alabama Ordnance Works as an operations supervisor.
Investigating the possibilities of passing a few of the war years in uniform resulted in a commission in the U.S. Naval Reserve and two years of pleasant stateside duty as an Aviation Ordnance Officer, starting, after six months of indoctrination, at the Bureau of Ord- nance in Washington and then moving on to the Naval Air Station at Norfolk, where the assignment of Regional Representative for the Naval Air Mobile Training Detachments kept me occupied until the war's end.
The high point of my Naval career was my marriage in 1944 to Beatrice Wright of Washington, D.C., culminating in sons Robert and Kenneth, and daughter Bree, in the peaceful years to follow.
On discharge from the Service the railroad bug bit me, resulting in five years with the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad as an Assistant Engineer and Diesel Inspector in the Mechanical De- partment. Living in Hamden, Conn., just north of New Haven, enable us to enjoy the hills and shores of New England as well as the advantages of living practically within commuting distance of the City of New York.
In recent weeks we have had to say farewell to New Haven and all of our happy associations there, and are now firmly entrenched in the mid-west, living in the rich corn belt of central Illinois. This is a far cry from the picturesque Connecticut shoreline as seen from the cab of a diesel locomotive, but, nevertheless, a satisfying feeling to be back once again with the du Pont Company.
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ARTHUR J. McKENNA; 6062 North Albany Avenue, Chicago 45, Ill.
I am at present engaged as sales engineer for Oliver United Filters, in Chicago, in engineering and selling filtration equipment for large industrial installations, mainly in the chemical, food, and coal mining industries. I have been with Oliver since 1948.
From 1936 to 1942 I was with Air Reduction Sales Company, in the manufacturing department, and when I left them to join the Navy, I was superintendent of their Brooklyn plant.
During the war, I spent a year at the Brooklyn Navy Yard as a ship repair officer. I was then detached and rushed to the South Pacific, where I set up and operated oxygen, acetylene and carbon dioxide plants in the New Hebrides and Guadalcanal.
I was then transferred to Pearl Harbor to the Staff of Commander Service Force, Pacific Fleet, in charge of planning for the supply of compressed gases for the Central Pacific Area and charged with the operation of all Navy compressed gas plants. It was very interesting duty, topped off by two typhoons in Okinawa.
In 1946 I went with the Dewey and Almy Chemical Company, Carbridge, Mass., for two years. I then decided to switch from pro- duction work into sales, which has turned out to be a wise but belated decision.
My job consists in working with the research and process develop- ment departments of some very progressive concerns on new develop- ments and products. It has proven to be most stimulating.
Looking back, I probably am in the same shoes as many of my classmates. I took industrial administration and today I find myself up to my neck in chemical engineering. I probably would do it differ- ently if I could do it over again.
In 1950 I gave up what appeared to be chronic bachelorhood and married Marjorie Colville of Chicago. We now have a young daugh- ter, Katherine, and hopes for a few more.
One unfortunate aspect of the job is the traveling that it entails. My spare time is taken up with small construction projects around the home, and some golf squeezed in. All in all I don't have much spare time.
HENRY T. McKNIGHT; Cornwall Farm, Box 188, R.F.D 1, Vienna, Va.
Bill Hausberg once observed that McKnight changed jobs so fast that the best anyone could do was keep up with the next to last one. Now Hausberg can relax. We've got our farm, our TV business which is strictly agricultural, and our writing which is the same. Even our politics have come out of the smoke-filled room and gone out to the feed lots.
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Since the last report we've had a daughter, Christina Agnes, now age ten months. She beguiles her two brothers, H. T., Jr., and S. T. II, as well as her mother, the former June Hanes, daughter of John W. Hanes, Yale '15.
Also since the last report: President, Cornwell Pictures, Inc .; Vice- President, S. T. McKnight Co .; Director, Thomas Young, Inc .; Director, Forest Farmers of America; Honorary Vice-President, American Forestry Association; Member, Joint Committee on Grass- land Farming.
Greatly enjoyed our Fifteenth. We found everyone looking wise and prosperous. This business of getting bald and fat obviously does not apply to the Greatest Class. And we're looking forward to Pink- ham's 20th in 1956, which will come just before the Republican National Convention renominates by acclaim whoever it is we will elect in 1952. Right now I'd say that man is General Eisenhower.
JOHN G. McMURTRY; 2890 South Clarkson Street, Englewood, Colo.
I am President of the McMurtry Manufacturing Company. I'm married to the former Virginia Symes, and we have two girls, Sherry, eight, and Caro, five; and one boy, John G., 3d., one and a half. I am a director of the Denver National Bank and of the Great Western Sugar Company.
DANIEL McNAMEE, JR .; Loudonville, N.Y.
Good Lord! It's 1951 already.
From 1946 to 1949-Wall Street law practice; who'd want to hear about that? Well, anyway, I didn't work for the Herald Tribune.
I remember 1948 all right. In September, that year, I met a man who knew Truman was going to be elected. His wife kept shushing him: "Bob, don't say that. He'll think you're foolish."
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