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That year was also memorable for the birth of our daughter, named Dardis. She is an exception to that rule about girls being quieter.
In 1949, I decided not to practice law and practice investment banking instead. Capitalism seems to me here to stay awhile. We help a little, I think.
Incidentally, I would like to see a few more factors at work in aid of small and medium sized business. I think many of the giant com- panies are too big; and getting bigger due to artificial tax benefits, Army contract benefits, etc.
In 1950 we bought the house where we expect to stay awhile. Drop in; martinis at 6.
P.S. I just re-read the 1941 and 1946 class books. May I add that the international situation has not been improved by the advent of
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those never-fading vaudeville stars of '50 and '51, McCarthy and MacArthur.
ROBERT L. McNEIL, JR .; 8917 Crefeld Street, Philadelphia 18 (Chestnut Hill), Pa.
I was one of those individuals with the good fortune of being able to plan his educational program specifically for his subsequent vocational pursuits. Consequently, while an undergraduate, I elected to take the course in psysiological chemistry and bacteriology, thus enabling myself to spend most of senior year taking graduate courses in the school of medicine. I then matriculated at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science for pharmaceutical chemistry, and in 1938 received a degree, "with distinction," from that institution. In 1937 and 1938 I was also enrolled at Temple University, where as a graduate student I took the course in pharmacology.
While undertaking graduate study I organized, at McNeil Labora- tories, a research unit in chemotherapy based on the then relatively new principle of correlating the chemical structure of organic com- pounds with their physiologic activity. From 1936 to 1940, I was a member of the research department, and in 1940 was appointed its director. During the war period this research program (which in- cluded the development of medicinal products such as sulfonamides, penicillin analogs, antimalarials, anti-infection agents for burns, nutritional concentrates, sedatives, etc.) was considered one of the most important factors in maintaining the nation's health and in keeping the mortality rate at a minimum. Since the war my responsi- bilities have been continuously increased, so that now as vice-presi- dent I am in charge of the manufacturing, production control, research and medical divisions of the corporation.
I have also been interested in activities connected with the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry and profession. I was an official member of the Pharmaceutical Contact (industry-govern- ment) Committee of the American Drug Manufacturers Association (1940), a member of the Board of Directors of the American Phar- maceutical Manufacturers' Association (1946-49), a member of the Board of Directors of the Drug Exchange of Philadelphia (1948 to present, an officer and subsequently president of the Philadelphia Branch of the American Pharmaceutical Association (1946-50) and a member of the Philadelphia Board of Health Advisory Committee (1947-49). I was appointed a member of the Parmaceutical Advisory Committee of the National Production Authority upon its formation in 1951. For four years before the war, I taught a special course in pharmaceutical chemistry at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science. My professional affiliations also include membership
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in the American Chemical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Franklin Institute.
Additional "extracurricular" activities include serving as a Director of the Refractory Specialties Company, a Trustee of Germantown Academy, a Trustee of the First Presbyterian Church in German- town, a Governor of the Continental Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, and a Manager of the Germantown Y.M.C.A. I am also at present a member of the graduate advisory basketball committee of Yale University. My memberships have included the Philadelphia Cricket Club, Shady Hill Tennis Club, the Academy Club, and the Yale Club of Philadelphia.
Regretfully I have foregone the blessings of matrimony and re- mained a bachelor. When time permits, I still get a little exercise from tennis, golf, riding, and occasionally skiing and various indoor sports (such as squash).
ANDREW J. McQUEENEY; 624 N. Tulane Avenue, Albuquerque, N.M.
I was a medical officer in the Mediterranean theater for two years during the war. I contracted infectious hepatitis with residual, in 1945. In 1948, I was certified as a specialist in Pathologic Anatomy and Clinical Pathology by the American Board of Pathology. Since 1949 I have been practicing in a fifty-man group with the Van Atta Laboratories. Four children to date. I'm concerned to find that nine- teen Yale University faculty members are listed (National Council for American Education, 1 Maiden Lane, New York 7, N.Y.) as recent affiliates ('47, '48, '49) of Communist-Front organizations. Feel that there is a distinction between liberty and license, and that academic freedom is secondary to and dependent upon political freedom.
MARTIN F. MENTON; 6 Jerome Place, Upper Montclair, N.J.
Pension trust planning for the Guardian Life Insurance Co. is my line of work. I am unmarried. My main hobby is music. I am con- nected with a local operetta club and also sing with a male octet which has appeared several times on television.
TIMOTHY W. MERRILL, 5 Downer Avenue, Scarsdale, N.Y.
In June, 1951, I was transferred from the Bridgeville, Pa., office of the Vanadium Corp. of America to the executive offices in New York City, with the title of Chief Metalurgical Engineer for the company. I bought a house for my family in Scarsdale, N.Y., and am very happy with the new job and surroundings. I have three children: Polly Hart Merrill, ten; T. W. Merrill, Jr., eight; and Janet Merrill,
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four. I have a very fine hobby of making furniture, thus far having turned out a beautiful mahogany radio-phonograph combination, large outdoor chair, etc. As for other activities, I have very little time left to pursue my great love of canoe trips, hunting, camping, etc. ... but come spring and summer, I'm sure my eight-year-old son will make me find time to go camping!
JOHN B. MESSINGER; J. and B. Ranch, No. Haines Road, Clear- water, Fla.
I transferred from Yale to the University of Arizona, where I graduated with a B.S. in Business Administration in 1936. I was employed by the Chain Belt Co., Milwaukee, Wisc., 1936-1941, suc- cessively in Malleable Foundry, Production Dept., Export Dept., Personnel Dept., then as Assistant to the Treasurer. I was a member of the Milwaukee Country Club, Executive Club, Exporters Club, University Club, and served as Secretary-Treasurer of the Yale Alumni Association of Wisconsin, Community Fund, Columbia Hos- pital.
In 1941, I moved to Miami Beach, Fla., for reasons of health, and married Margarite Johnston of Rio de Janiero on July 29, 1942. (Health much improved.) My war record was strictly 4F. I tried to show a bit of patriotism by working for peanuts at the American Boatbuilding Co., Miami. At the same time I was (and still am) engaged more profitably as a small independent trader in stocks and commodities. John Beecher Messinger II arrived on February 10, 1944, and Bruce Raymond on August 31, 1947-the latter necessitat- ing a quick return from Havana to the States for benefit of American anesthetics.
The big move came in 1948, when we purchased a tract of very raw land outside of Clearwater, Fla. We are still busy taming it and having a wonderful time. I acted as architect for our home, bulldozer operator for clearing pastures, and am currently building up a herd of registered polled Herefords, active in Clearwater Yacht Club, Car- louse Yacht Club, Peace Memorial Presbyterian Church, Community Fund, Executive Club, Morton F. Plant Hospital, and Carado Club.
For the benefit of any reader who has gone this far and is bored stiff, let me say that I no longer am; not since 1948. I believe that I have finally found what I must have always wanted to do. There is much to be said for life in the country, growing green stuff and four- legged animals, a very real thrill to converting jungle to pasture. My cowboys, wife, and I are thriving.
GOAR O. MESTRE; 5a. Avenida y Santo Domingo, Country Club Park, Havana, Cuba.
After five months of numerous interviews at the Personnel Bureau,
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and after finally reaching the conclusion that no company would take me, the National Carbon Company came through and saved me from a horrible inferiority complex, by giving me a job, in June of 1936.
I began to work in July, 1936, learning the battery and flashlight business by visiting a number of factories throughout the United States. Shortly after that, I was put behind a desk in New York City as sales correspondent, until finally in September, 1937, I was sent to Argentina to occupy the position of Assistant to the Sales Manager. A year later, I resigned and decided to return to my native country, in order to try my fortune here, but not without considerable chagrin because in Argentina I was leaving behind the girl who, years later, dragged me to the altar.
Back in Cuba, in late 1938, I first founded a food manufacturing company and, shortly thereafter, branched out into the field of exclusive representative of several well-known American firms, among them: General Foods Corporation, American Home Products, The Norwich Pharmacal Co., and several other companies. By 1942, the business had grown considerably and the need of a research-conscious advertising agency became so great that I was prompted to enter that field and, in October of that year, Mestre, Conill & Co., today one of Cuba's leading advertising agencies, was founded.
My repeated contacts with radio stations contaminated me to the point that in 1943 my brothers and I bought the controlling interest in one of Cuba's leading stations and from that date on I abandoned all other activities and plunged myself into radio broadcasting.
From 1946 to 1948 I had my hands full with the job of promoting and building Cuba's three million dollar miniature Radio City, known as "Radiocentro" and consisting of a theater, two restaurants, one bank, 12 stores of different kinds, a 10-story office building and the offices and studios of our radio operations.
Today we own and operate nine radio and five TV stations, and our enemies accuse us of having this business pretty well under con- trol here in Cuba.
Recently we branched out into the field of radio and television receiver distribution, having acquired for Cuba the exclusive dis- tributing rights for "Admiral." So much for the bread and butter department!
In 1940, my bachelor days came to an end through the importation of Argentine talent and so, Miss Alicia Martin, the girl mentioned above, arrived here and we were married on June 5th of that year. Now, after eleven years of marriage, I can report that I have done my share for my country ... We have four children: Alicia, eight, Roberto, five, Eduardo, two, and Ana Maria, one.
The Mestre contingent may be reached at 5a. Avenida y Santo Domingo, Country Club Park, where true to Cuban fashion, I not
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only support a big family but also my share of domestic help. Since we are fourteen in all, do not hesitate to drop in, at any time, un- announced, for lunch or dinner, because we can't count anyway, and one or two more or less are seldom noticed!
JOHN WYCKOFF METTLER, JR .; Somerset Farm, East Mill- stone, N.J.
There are now three children in the family-John, Peter and Louise. Eleanor sometimes says we should have more, but no one has yet endowed the existing ones. The Interwoven Stocking Company remains my chief interest and benefactor. Additional interests consist of trying to breed registered Herefords (polled) and attempting to raise geese of domestic and wild varieties. Athletics consist of watch- ing the Yanks on TV.
JOHN D. MEYER; 12 Jarvis Court, Pittsburgh 9, Pa.
It's been a tough struggle these last few years, after experiencing a rather lush beginning fresh out of the halls of Eli in 1936 ... after a short training with Gulf wound up as District Manager for Florida . . . back in those days when a dollar was a dollar and when companies paid dues and "chits" at country clubs.
The War found me unable to get a commission because of astigma- tism ... so, next best I fought the battle of Washington first as Chief of Motor Fuel Distribution for the Petroleum Administration for War ... then as a liaison officer and lobbyist for that Agency.
Left the Government in 1943 to set up in the consulting business . . . primarily in oil ... serving several large independent companies and several trade associations. These activities went into public relations and sales as well as pure lobbying. This was "lush" in the days of '43 to '48 . . . (I was not a "five percenter," however.)
Although a good Republican, when the Republican Congress came in I had trouble getting things done . .. and gave up in late '48 to return to home town Pittsburgh (a place I despise more than any other in the world) and went with an advertising agency for a very short while for "bread and butter" ... then got back into consulting . .. only this time in Management Consulting ... and have done some outstanding jobs in compensation, profitsharing, pensions and executive management control for some mighty large companies . . . but, trying to work the jobs and sell them too leaves very dry seasons. Just have experienced the longest dry season of six months without one penny of income ... tough is no word for it. But, things are looking up again.
ATTENTION ALL YALE'S ... do you know anybody who needs a good competent manager for their business so they can loaf in
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Florida or Bermuda and let me run their show for them? And, the further south the better for a deal.
Have two offspring . . . both boys, twelve and five ... now live in a "glorified country style tenement" called McKnight Village. Pitts- burgh is rough unless your family owns a business.
JOHN VAN N. MEYER; 5 Sheffield Road, Great Neck, N.Y.
Since leaving Yale, I have been working for the Cord Meyer Development Company in Forest Hills, N.Y. During this period my activities have been concentrated on property management and the construction of single family homes, apartment houses and com- mercial construction. Material shortages, rising costs, and other factors since the war have made this type of work interesting but somewhat hectic.
Spent three and one-half years in the Navy during World War II, serving first as Armed Guard Officer on various merchant vessels and later as Gunnery Officer on an attack transport.
Married in 1944, and we now have three children, a girl and two boys, ranging from six to two years of age.
As far as activities in the sports field are concerned, I still play quite a lot of weekend tennis and have managed to keep my waist- line about the same. Must confess, however, to feeling a great deal older on Monday mornings.
In spite of rather strenuous objections from the family, have a great deal of fun in the Sports Car Racing field. It's a wonderful hobby, but unfortunately a darned expensive one, requiring con- siderable subterfuge to hide necessary operating expenses and still keep my wife's spending somewhere near our budget. Somehow find lectures on family economy met with a dim view and suppose this great sport will have to come to an end, at least as far as I am con- cerned.
Have been doing some work in Civil Defense, but find the extreme lethargy of the average American in these critical times is a severe handicap, as have probably a great many other of you fellows.
Occasionally see some of the boys from '36, but not as frequently as I would like.
BERKELEY T. MILLER; 44 Highland St., Sharon, Mass.
I am married and have three children. At present I am superin- tendent of F. C. Phillips, Inc., Staughton, Mass., manufacturers of screw machine products and the famous Phillips Cam-Lock golf spikes. My hobbies include fishing, which I love, hunting, which I like, and golf, which I tolerate. I should like to get back to Yale more often and renew acquaintances but don't seem to get the time.
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HARRY J. MILLER; Cedar Swamp Road, Jerico, L.I., N.Y.
On June 10, 1938, I married Audrey E. Pile of New York City, and I now have four children-Harry III, aged twelve; Sterling, ten; Audrey, eight; and Jeffrey, four. During the first five years after college, I was schedule manager of finished mill products for Pitts- burgh Steel Co., and later special assistant to their Works Manager. In 1941 and 1942, I was special assistant to the General Superin- tendant of the Republic Aircraft Products Co. in Detroit; and from then until 1945, I was Assistant Supervisor of Aircraft Production Planning for the Hudson Motor Car Company. Since that time I have been Associate Manager of Mckinsey & Co., management con- sultants, in New York. I am a member of the Yale Club of New York, the Lawrence Beach Club, and the Piping Rock Club.
JOHN E. MILLER; 1880 Ninth Avenue, Sacramento, Calif.
At the end of fifteen years, I find myself happily married for well over one year to Jean Bronson Hanan of Piedmont, Calif., with two children who are not my own and one in prospect who, I am told, is.
I have worked variously in banking, in the government, in law, and even in the Marine Corps.
I am now once again a money lender, working as a V.P. for the Anglo California National Bank.
JOSEPH S. MILLER; Route 2, Box 327, Bellevue, Wash.
Since 1945 a second son and a country home have been the chief acquisitions of my family. There has also been a change in jobs. When Albers Milling Company moved its general office to Los An- geles in 1948, I chose to stay behind in Seattle. My present position is accountant for Marine By-Products Fertilizer Co., which, besides manufacturing fertilizers here, also operates Salmon By-Products Co., Ketchikan, Alaska, and Alaska Fish Reduction Co.
Outside of business, my main activities are maintaining the house and yard, an endless job, and running a pack of cub scouts.
W. PRESCOTT MILLER; 1310 Asbury Avenue, Winnetka, Ill.
My delay in replying to the questionnaire is occasioned by one boy, age ten, three girls, ages nine, eight, and four, Christmas, and time required to help keep locomotives running on the C. & N.W. Railroad during a record breaking winter. Also am finishing a new house and have found out that Mr. Blandings' situation wasn't in the least improbable.
BALLINGER MILLS, JR .; 2901 Avenue O, Galveston, Tex.
I married Margaret Leonard in 1937. We have two children, Ballinger Mills, 3d, born on February 27, 1944, and Charles Leonard
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Mills, born on July 25, 1945. I am a partner in the law firm of Wigley, McLeod, Mills & Shirley; general attorney for the Santa Fe Railway. Hobbies: hunting, fishing, golf.
C. JAMES MILLS; Greenwich, Conn.
Since graduating from the Armed Forces in March, 1946, we have enjoyed living in Greenwich, Conn., where we moved from New York in August of the same year. The need was for a back yard to support the peregrinations of a pair of twin boys that appeared nine months and two days after we entered the front door to doff the fatigues and don the jeans. Something must have happened in between the doffing and the donning.
With headquarters for Dotty and the four children so located, it became necessary to join the ranks of the commuters, a very philo- sophical and interesting breed that lives in such manner as to be an eternal enigma to our Southern and Western friends, who wouldn't be seen dead in such circumstances. My answer to that is you gotta eat, and the New Haven Railway is not one of the three most over- rated things in the world, like the Pennsylvania Railway, Southern cooking, and Hopalong Cassidy. Fooled you.
The rayon business continues to be a great industry, and in 1953, March, we will have fifteen years with American Viscose Corpora- tion. This corporation is comprised of eight plants currently, em- ploys 22,000, and has plans to expand four plants and build two new ones.
Over the years one of our main interests has been a growing ap- preciation of the true value of our private schools and universities to keep our thinking straight in these times of double talk and purposely confused issues. We feel we must do everything possible to keep freedom of learning strong, so as to try and develop eventually better leadership, particularly in government, where we need men who will want to overthrow the era of mediocrity through which we have been dragged for some time.
In the meantime we do our best not to miss out on any customer golf or shooting, and we wish the same to you.
FREDERICK MILLS; Box 158, West Hartford, Conn.
In December, 1945, after my resignation from a mathetmatical- engineering job with a California aircraft company, my old car took me across this country once again, this time via a deep southern route. By virtue of various night school courses and earlier courses, I had been accepted as a graduate student in bacteriology. There followed two and a half years of learning first-hand, by trial and
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error, something of the meaning of scientific research and the scien- tific method and of my deficiencies therein. How all this benefitted my third alma mater or the world in general is hard to say, but my subsequent engineering work, first in Ohio, now in New England, as well as my working knowledge of human nature, seems to have been definitely improved. . . . The reunion was much appreciated. .. . Let's make sure that Eisenhower is drafted. . . . Three nephews, but still no wife or family.
FELIX MININBERG; 275 Ray Road, New Haven, Conn.
A re-cap of the last fifteen years wouldn't tell more about me than a listing of my present possessions and methods of their acquisition.
Item
A. Wife: née Frieda Rappo- port B. Wendy, age five, grace and light, dainty, and
Janice, age two, who bids fair to outdidrikson the Babe
C. Reserve AF Commission, Inactive
D. Partnership with Irving Barker in Mininberg's. fast-growing housewares outlet
E. Home in Westville, Conn.
M.O.A. Any good Latinist will tell you Felix is Lucky.
M.O.A. God's grace.
M.O.A. I stood in the wrong line.
M.O.A. Sweat.
M.O.A. Not yet all mine. Will let you know at quarter century mark.
ALBERT H. MITCHELL; 3689 Kroger Avenue, Cincinnati 26, Ohio.
Fifteen years after graduation finds me in Group 3 of your final follow-up-too lazy to write my autobiography, which really isn't much of a job. I'm married and have one son, a man of eight large years. I've had six different jobs, not including the AV's, have lived in any number of places and am now in television broadcasting, which I find fascinating. My work is in connection with general an- nouncing supervision for the Crosley Broadcasting Corporation- WLW Television. Hobbies are my record collection, tropical fish, and the usual amateur puttering.
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EDMUND MONTEROSE; 369 Beach Street, West Haven, Conn.
Amidst the clatter of rapacious employers and voracious landlords a child is born, the third of a series, by name Richard Brian. Thus we are five: Eddie, eight; Sherry, five; Richard, three; my wife Marge, age unknown. Our apartment overlooks wind-swept Long Island Sound, and the pitter-patter of little feet growing larger plagues an angry landlord lumbering below. In contrast to previous residences we have acres of room, a fit stamping ground for growing kids.
My jobs have not been few. To name some within my recollection: credit manager, appliance salesman, automobile merchandiser, silver- ware representative, purchasing agent, ad infinitum. At the time of this procrastinated writing (three cards from anxious editor to get the lead out), I am happily situated with my old friends the Drazens of The Drazen Lumber Co. Want to build a house? Don't, prices are too damn high. Looking for a low-cost home? Stop! Such a thing doesn't exist.
Will the United Nations prove to be an effective instrument in the control of unruly nations? Yes, if Russia is on our side. No, if we are not on Russia's side.
Let me in my last breath express profound regret in learning of the decease of several good friends and instructors of bright college years. Their faces have flit by us to light up the Star of Eternity to greater brightness. They will never be forgotten.
JOHN R. MOORE; Fort Collins, Colo.
After Yale, I attended the University of Colorado and Harvard Graduate School of Business. After a year in New York City with Business Week, I moved to Los Angeles, where I was employed by Dun & Bradstreet for a couple of years and then with Lockheed Aircraft Corp. until 1948.
At that time I moved to my home town of Fort Collins, Colo., and am now in farming and live stock feeding.
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