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I married Viola Kluver in 1941, and we have two children, a girl, eight, and a boy, five.
WILLET SANDERS MOORE; 875 South Adams Street, Denver, Colo.
I returned from four years on active duty in the Navy on Decem- ber 7, 1945. Barbara and I, after unsuccessfully trying to rent or buy a house, broke ground for our own in September, 1946. The harder we pushed the contractors to speed up, the faster the costs rose. What we thought would be a modest house to live in for the few years of family growing pains turned out to be something we will be paying for for some years. Of course, we don't regret it now, and
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even wish we had pushed some walls out a few feet farther. We moved in in August, 1947, almost a year later, with our daughter, Virginia, born in October, 1942, and my son, Willet, Jr., born in June, 1946. Randy, our second son, was born in September, 1947. That is where the family stands today.
Being Assistant Secretary and Assistant Treasurer of The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company and its subsidiary truck lines and depot companies takes up most of my time. Barbara and I love the outdoors, gardening, golfing, and swimming with our chil- dren in the summer and skating and skiing with them in the winter. As Trustee of the Winter Park Recreational Association, an agency of the City of Denver, some of the problems of quadrupling the capacity of the present ski tows at Winter Park have kept me occu- pied as has the operation of Denver's first outdoor artificial ice skat- ing rink, now in the first year of operation. Serving as head of the Transportation Division of the Community Chest Drive for two years, as well as on other civic drives from time to time, make me glad to sit down and read a good book twice a year.
ROBERT DUNBAR MORGAN; 215 East 77th Street, New York, N.Y.
Despite the tocsins of doom noted in my remarks in the last of these all-revealing books, I have not met my fate as yet. In sum, I am still enjoying the worryless, expenseless, friction-free state of bachelorhood. In this city of New York, and in this breathing spell between hostilities, it's wonderful.
My work embraces the research in and promotion of new grocery product marketing methods; and it's a lot of fun. I have yet to make the million all Yalemen are trained to pursue unrelentingly; but it will come. Am expecting, of course, to give half of it to Bu. Int., and half to the Alumni Fund. But at least I can look at it in transit.
As for entertainment, the worryless state described above should tell all. Other than that, it's the theatre, playing host and chef, and reading up on how we won the last war. There seems to be some disagreement among the brass on who and how. Am beginning to think those who did not take pen in hand did it.
As for politics, better left unsaid. Still think FDR cooked up a deal no one seems to want to change, not even our Bob Taft, now that the shouting is all over. As for clubs, what else but the Yale Club of New York. It's a terrific deal.
For the future, am getting used to sitting in the center of the Kremlin bombsight. Will probably persist in enjoying the friction- free, worryless state (described above), as am becoming too demand- ing and less attractive each day from here on in.
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WILLIAM HAYES MORGAN; 4217 Bellaire Avenue, Studio City, Calif.
Briefly-I am a banker, with one wife, one daughter (aged 2). We are pleased with California.
ERIC HALL MORRISON; R.F.D. #2, West Chester, Pa.
I went to work for the National City Bank of New York in Sep- tember, 1936, and lived for four years at 240 East 79th, one of the "Little Yale Clubs" in New York City. On the third of October, 1940, I married Christine Duncan after determining her willingness to desert the ballroom of the Ritz Carlton for the Big Bromley Ski Area. It's all quite different now-no deluxe accommodations, no trip!
In 1945, Mr. Duncan retired from the National City; and, curi- ously, I "retired" shortly thereafter to go to work for the Provident Trust Company of Philadelphia. After three years of that, I became Assistant to Dr. Charles Penrose (Princeton 1907 !!! ), the Senior Vice-President of The Newcomen Society in North America.
The Society is an informal group of some 12,000 members, inter- ested in "material history." I get about the country a good deal at- tending some of the meetings, of which there are about sixty a year. Our office is thirty miles west of Philadelphia; and our house is fifty yards up the road from it. Summers we move to Kittery Point, Me .- across the bridge from Portsmouth, N.H.
Chris and I have three daughters-Linda, ten, Jean, five and a half, and Anne, four this St. Patrick's Day. The work (office and home) takes most of our time, but occasionally we are able to enjoy the finer things of life, such as the Yale Glee Club and the Pennsyl- vania football team (free seats!).
DENIS F. MULVIHILL; 9 Mill Street, Westfield, Mass.
From 1936 to 1947 I worked for E. I. Dupont de Nemours & Co., then for the next three years I was Vice-President in charge of pro- duction for Texon, Inc., in Russell, Mass. In 1951, I became Execu- tive Vice-President and a Director of the same company, but in South Hadley Falls, Mass. I am married and have one son, Dennis F., III, and three daughters. I vote Republican, I drink bourbon, I play golf and poker. I belong to no organization other than the Yale Club of New York.
HOWARD ELWOOD MUMMA; 107 South Ardmore Road, Colum- bus 9, Ohio.
I am the senior minister of the Broad Street Methodist Church in Columbus and am active in the Yale Club of Columbus.
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COLIN C. MURDOCH; Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii.
I am now assistant treasurer and head accountant of the Maui Electric Company, Ltd., of Wailuku, with which I have been as- sociated since 1936. From December, 1941, to December, 1945, I was with the Army Engineers, with service in Honolulu and the South Pacific, ending at Okinawa. I was dicharged as a Major.
I am still playing all sports actively, including golf, tennis, base- ball, and basketball, and am a director of the local Community Chest and an officer of the Kiwanis Club and the Maui Country Club. In 1938, I married Juliette Alice Hoogs. We have two daughters, Sandra Love, eleven, and Shirley Grail, eight.
D. CLINTON MURRAY; 9 Dogwood Drive, Scarsdale, N.Y.
I am a salesman with Economics Laboratory, Inc., of St. Paul, Minn., covering Westchester County, Greenwich and Stamford. I married Patricia Z. Bacon on March 1, 1947, and our children are Carol Pamela, born on March 20, 1948, and James Clinton, born on April 10, 1949. I play golf as member of the Leewood Golf Club, Tuckahoe, N.Y.
COLONEL JAMES C. MURRAY; U.S. Marines, Seville, Ohio.
This is written from Munsan-Ni, Korea. Aircraft drone overhead enroute between their airdromes to the south and their targets to the north. From the eastward, along the Imjin River, where patrols clash and probe the opposing positions, there comes the "Womph, Womph" of artillery fire.
In this war-like atmosphere the Advance Headquarters, United Nations Command, is an anomoly, for its efforts are directed towards peace rather than war. Here, since I, along with two others, first established liaison with the enemy on July 8, the United Nations Command has attempted to conclude an armistice with the North Korean and Chinese Communist representatives at Kaesong.
Let us go back to the beginning of the period. In 1946, while the U.S.S.R. was absorbing and consolidating eastern Europe, the United States remained blissfully ignorant of post-war realities. For example, when the Communists in Greece attempted to seize Athens by armed force, our reaction was generally critical of a British Brigade which intervened to save the nation from falling into the hands of the Com- munists. During this period, I was a student at a Marine Corps Staff School in Quantico, Va.
In the spring of 1947, I was assigned to a Marine Division in North Carolina. After six months as a Battalion Commander, Regi- mental Executive Officer, and Regimental Commander, I became Chief of the Division Planning Section. The growing national con-
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sciousness of post-war realities was reflected in the plans with which I worked during the next year. Thus, I journeyed to England and to the Mediterranean. It was during this period that the United States itself came to the aid of the Greeks in their war against Communism. However, it maintained a curiously inconsistent policy in the Far East.
Early in 1949 came an assignment to the U.S. Mission to Greece. From Athens I followed the anti-guerrilla campaigns until late August, when the defection of Yugoslavia found expression in the decisive Communist defeats of Vitsi and Grammos. For the balance of the year I took a leave postponed since 1940 and travelled widely in Europe.
January, 1950, found me at the Armed Forces Staff College, Nor- folk, Va. The logical result of our Far Eastern policy, the aggression in Korea, preceded graduation by a week. Two weeks later I reached Tokyo. Since then my service has been with the Joint Planning Group, United Nations Command, under Generals MacArthur and Ridgway.
When the matter of an armistice came up, I was one of three officers appointed to make the first contact with the Communists at Kaesong. This liaison duty has continued throughout the meetings of the delegates. Possibly my well-informed classmates have read of some of the rhubarbs which have been associated with this assignment.
This type of activity tends to hold to a minimum divorces, children, and social, civic, political, and philanthropic activities. Greatest distinction is designation as an enemy of the people of Pyongyang, Peiping, and Moscow. There have been times during the last few weeks when the name Murray has supplanted Morgan as an expres- sion of approbrium behind the Iron Curtain.
RUSSELL NAHIGIAN; 18914 Wisconsin Street, Detroit 21, Mich.
I was graduated from the Yale School of Medicine in June, 1939, interned in pathology and internal medicine at Bellevue Hospital in New York and Duke Hospital, Durham, N.C. From July, 1942, to April, 1946, I served in the Army Air Force with two and a half years overseas in the Pacific theatre. Since June, 1946, I have been practicing internal medicine in Detroit. I am married with two chil- dren. My hobby is stereophotography.
CHESTER G. NEAL; 3180 Emerson Street, Palo Alto, Calif.
I have been employed as a vocational and educational counselor both by Stanford University and in San Francisco by the Board of Education. Now I am returning to the field of teaching. I have two boys, John Henry, two, and Chester, Jr., five.
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My interests center around local university events, local and national politics, the musical activities of my wife, Florence, getting a new home in shape, and, oh yes, encouraging the athletic pro- clivities of our two energetic sons.
ELMER M. NEVILLE; 2300 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Wash- ington, D.C.
After graduating from Yale, A.B., I went to the Southern California School of Law and received an LL.B. degree in 1940. I was admitted to the State Bar of California and worked on legal and real estate transactions until 1942, when I was admitted to the U.S. Army. I had infantry and intelligence assignments and served overseas, 1943-46. In 1949, I transferred to the U.S. Air Force. At present I have the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and am assigned to the Office of Special Investigations, I Co., Hq. U.S.A.F.
FRANK NEWMAN; 61 Tisdale Road, Scarsdale, N.Y.
Next May 29 I celebrate fifteen happy years of married life with the former Elizabeth Webber Ayer of Scarsdale, N.Y. We have two daughters, Lucy Ayer Newman, aged eleven, and Alice Blakeley Newman, aged seven.
We moved into a new home at 61 Tisdale Road, Scarsdale, N.Y., in April, 1950, after selling our former house in Scarsdale.
Since leaving the banking business a year ago, I have been spend- ing most of my time in Estate Management affairs.
In recent years, whenever I have had the opportunity, I've enjoyed relaxing at our summer place in the Adirondacks, where fishing, sail- ing, and water skiing particularly engage my interests.
JAMES HASTINGS NICHOLS; 5745 Harper Avenue, Chicago 37, Ill.
As a native Yankee, I am still somewhat incredulous to find my staid middle age in Chicago. For eight years I have been teaching in Bob Hutchins' University, chiefly in various aspects of the history of Christian ideas and institutions. We hold a minuscule equity in a house in the University area, always a-shudder with passing trains and children who never pass. Four of the latter live here; David Beach Nichols having evened up the war of the sexes in our family in 1949. As professors do, I have written numerous articles, parts of two books, and then two others entire, the latest, Democracy and the Churches, being an historical study of the religious and ethical climate within which modern democracy has flourished. A term of post-war teaching at the University of Frankfurt furthered my education in
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world politics and the history of art. I don't get enough exercise, have virtually dropped squash and tennis and find that touchball with my older boy's gang extorts a delayed price for its moments of glory. It is time to settle for fishing and the bicycle ride to the office. Am interested in politics, literature, history, and, of course, religion.
JOHN WHITELAW NIELDS; 17 East 89th Street, New York, N.Y.
Practicing law as usual with the firm of Cahill, Gordon, Zachry & Reindel, of which I became a member January 1, 1948. Third child, Laura Franklin Nields, born September 1, 1948.
DAVID H. NORTHRUP; 405 Oak Street, Syracuse, N.Y.
The decision to forsake the joys of single bliss once and for all in October, 1948, has since found me located in Syracuse, N.Y., with a wife, Margot Hancock (Smith, '42), a son born in May, 1950, an 80-year-old, three-family house that we have bought and done over, and a job with Carrier Corporation. Currently my position is Vice- President and General Manager of Cambridge Corporation-an affiliate company jointly owned by Carrier and Arthur D. Little, Inc., of Cambridge, Mass. Previously I had been Vice-President of the General Management Company in Chicago, Ill., and in performing these duties also acted as President of Emrick, Inc., in Kalamazoo, Mich.
Business, which recently has included a lot of traveling, has pretty much hampered any outside activities. Except for some occasional golf, most of my spare time and energy seem to be very easily chan- neled into the many repairs and improvements in our old house, and a couple of rounds each day with my son, who condition is a lot better than mine.
ALBERT E. OELSCHLAEGER, JR .; 5 York Road, Larchmont, N.Y.
It is hard to believe that ten years can make such a big difference in one's views and activities. Soon after the first five years, Uncle Sam called. Basic training, Officer Candidate School, and service in the Ordnance Department of the Army, some of it under Don Metz, '37, found four years gone in a hurry. During the last year of service I was married to Jeanne Bovey, a Dixon, Ill., girl, and we now have two sons, Albert the 3rd, and Richard. The Army made me, like a lot of others, dislike too much regimentation, big business, etc., so I left Socony-Vacuum and sold lubrication equipment for a few years. Then, after twelve years, went back to school to learn optics, and now am a licensed dispensing optician in the State of New York and with my father in the optical business at Aitchison & Co.
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PAUL L. OPPENHEIM;
I am merchandise manager at Bailey Co., Cleveland. I'm married and have one daughter, nearly two. Golf and bowling are my games.
FRANK D. O'REILLY, JR .; The Lock Haven Express, Lock Haven, Pa.
Since last these words were spread upon the pages of the Class of 1936, there has been no change in jobs or business status. I still remain the managing editor of The Lock Haven Express (circ. 7200), and almost the only living member of the class in journalism who has escaped from the clutches of the New York Herald Tribune. Like all smalltown newspapermen, I succumb to the flattery of being invited to join the boards of various worthwhile organizations, and then find myself being advanced thereupon to directing the publicity of the annual fund-raising campaign. However, I usually manage to crack the whip over a couple of the members of the staff so that the work gets done, and I get the credit. In 1946, I was divorced, and my son, who will be eleven in November, and my father and I keep bachelor hall. No further romantic entanglements at the moment. I've man- aged to get back to New Haven for a football game or two per season, and my son has seen enough of Yale to be directing his attention there. It won't be too long, I hope, before he's there.
WINGATE H. PAINE; 47 E. 87th Street, New York, N.Y.
Since the last record (it was the fifth, wasn't it?), I have acquired, in approximately the following order:
1. Time in the United States Marine Corps in various capacities from boot to Captain.
2. A divorce.
3. A new business of being fashion photographer with a penthouse studio in New York. My work, if you can call it that, consists of taking pictures of beautiful girls for magazines like Vogue and Harper's.
4. A new wife, named Natálie, who spends a lot of time working with me in my new business.
5. An apartment, at the above address.
6. A hobby (see #3).
FREDERICK P. PALEN; 42 Beacon Hill Drive, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.
Our two-year-old son is the cynosure of his parents' eyes. Our current hopes are centered about making him a less "only" child. We live the comfortable customary commuter life with pleasant neigh- bors, few problems, and a burning desire to see Senator Lodge President of this country.
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HERVEY CUSHMAN PARKE; 364 University Place, Grosse Pointe 30, Mich.
Like many of my other classmates, I gave Europe the once-over that summer after graduation and then began to look for a job. Find- ing that all the studying I had done still wasn't enough, I entered the graduate school of the University of Michigan, from which, after about three more years, I emerged with a Ph.D., having sufficiently impressed everybody with a thesis on "Alkylaminoalkyl esters of aminonaphthoic acids as local anesthetics." I was interested to see how different the life at a coeducational school was and must admit that it has some merits, very pleasant merits too, but felt that the acquisition of a higher education was not always the prime objective of a large proportion of the young ladies.
Leaving university life finally in 1939, I started as a senior re- search chemist with Parke, Davis & Company in Detroit, and for several years investigated local anesthetics, substances to raise the blood pressure, and sex hormones. The last I had to give up quickly when it proved that intimate contact with these powerful substances was beginning to give me a figure like Jane Russell. I also developed a nice process for making sodium pantothenate, a vitamin which doesn't seem to do or prevent anything, but which is included in all our vitamin combinations because competition has it.
After several years of this molecule building, I was transferred to the products development department and given the rather mislead- ing title of Product Analyst, which I still hold. This position involves the coordination of the various phases of developmental work on new products which are about marketed, and the job of finding unpro- nounceable names for them is mine too. It is all very interesting, any- way, and in my spare time I write old ladies and farmers that we aren't interested in buying the cancer and rheumatism cures that their families have used for generations.
One of the first things I did on coming to Detroit was to join the Indian Village Chorus, a group of ex-college glee clubbers, male and female, that wanted to keep on singing. Inasmuch as intermarrying in this group was the rule, except for one man who preferred a girl from Flatbush, a soprano named Mary Gage and I went to the altar together on October 24, 1942. Since that time, blessings have show- ered on us, and the other seats around the table are filled by Hervey III, seven, Connie, six, and Polly, one. Patsy, eight, has to eat in the kitchen because she is a cocker spaniel.
Just before our Fifteenth Reunion we sold the house that we had lived in since shortly after our wedding and bought a big old place with more room for the children's toys to be spread out without being underfoot. Being just one block from a park, where the children can enjoy swimming in Lake St. Clair, we feel that it is an ideal place.
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A third floor room has been assigned to model-railroading and we look forward to a lot of rainy-day fun there. When the weather and household chores permit, I like golf and swimming, but the former has been much neglected this year. Sundays find me singing in the choir at Christ Church, and sometimes teaching a Sunday-school class if they need a substitute. Another extra-curricular interest is dramatics, and in the recent production Jenny Kissed Me by the Grosse Pointe Players, I had the lead. All in all it is a busy life and a very pleasant one.
JAMES H. PARKER, JR .; 238 North Fifth Street, Reading, Pa.
I enjoyed the 15th reunion, but missed a few faces who promised to be there. Next time I shall include Monday's festivities as well.
At last count, we have three children: girl, boy, girl. I am practic- ing Ophthalmology and have been practicing in my specialty for two years. Last year I became a Diplomate in my American Board specialty; this year I joined the American Academy in Chicago.
I have recently entered Rotary and am learning more about the organization weekly. What with all the medical meetings, it is difficult to join too many other organizations. My hobbies are still golfing and fishing.
The turn in the political situation lends hope for the future in '52. If all the incumbents can be routed out and replaced by square- thinking and square-dealing individuals, we would be a great deal better off. Dear old Harry S. in the White House is a sorry character. In the recent local election, the incumbent Democrats were swept out of office with a clean sweep of all but one position. Likewise in Bob McNeil's City of Brotherly Love, the incumbent Republicans were white-washed. So there are signs of hope. Perhaps the World Federalists are right after all.
ARTHUR W. PEARCE; Congress Street, Fairfield, Conn.
Since the last report, I have added one son to the family (William J.)-total now five; wife unchanged; domicile switched from Nor- walk to Fairfield, Conn. Comparatively healthy, balder, and softer (i.e., somehow muscle has been transformed into a chemical un- known-I weigh the same).
I left the publishing business in January, 1951, after ten years developing Modern Industry, and divided this year between Govern- ment consulting to NPA and six months as operating head of the National Management Council. Recently became publisher of three medium-sized Connecticut weekly newspapers.
BERNARD S. PECK; Quarter Mile Road, Westport, Conn.
As I started to write my small contribution to the Year Book, I
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glanced through the biographies of the ten-year record in an effort to present the subject matter of this account in an-interesting if not original style. I concluded very shortly that we are all confronted with the same difficulties in talking about the ego and, accordingly, I have decided to proceed in my usual prosaic fashion.
Certainly the past five years have been busy and productive ones- productive to the extent at least of two offspring, Daniel Dean, born August, 1947, and Constance Lynn, born January, 1949.
I have been busy too in our Connecticut court rooms, having had the good fortune of being thrown into a tremendous amount of trial work of all kinds. One of the most fascinating cases in which I par- ticipated as associate defense counsel was the Carol Paight so-called "mercy" killing of her father when she learned that he was riddled with cancer.
As we read about totalitarianism and its rigged trials behind the Iron Curtain, I am more and more impressed with our great American system of jurisprudence under which an accused person is really presumed innocent until proven guilty, and where a trial by jury is not a sham but a real safeguard of an individual's liberty and property rights.
Recently Governor John Lodge honored me by an appointment as Associate Judge of the Town Court of Westport. Aside from my work in the court room, I have become much interested in local town meet- ing activities and have served as a Representative Town Meeting member and also as Moderator of our Westport Town Meeting.
I have tried to maintain my connection with Yale by presiding almost annually at Moot Court trials at the Yale Law School, by serving on the Yale University Development Committee for Fairfield County and as one of the Directors of the Yale Club for Eastern Fairfield County.
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