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My outside activities include:
Director of Nassau County Chapter American Red Cross, 1948- 1951; Chairman Fund Raising Committee, Nassau County Chapter American Red Cross, 1949; Chairman Fund Raising and Planning Committee, Nassau County Chapter American Red Cross, 1950; Member of Advisory Council of Nassau, County Council of Boy Scouts; Member of Advisory Committee of the Sister Kenney Foun- dation; Director of Nassau County Police Boys Club; Director of Nassau County Social Welfare Agency; and member of various com- mittees of Nassau County Bar Association.
HERBERT L. STERN, JR .; 1128 Greenbay Road, Highland Park, Ill.
I am a partner in the law firm of Gottlieb & Schwartz, in Chicago. Married, three children. Outside activity chiefly concerns local politics. I founded a local organization to promote better govern- ment on the township level. My chief hobby is playing with a small tractor on my own grounds. With it I plow, mow grass, spray trees, and snow-plow. Sports I enjoy are skiing and fishing.
GEORGE C. STEVENS; 459 Field Point Road, Greenwich, Conn.
I work for the National Broadcasting Company, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, N.Y. My wife was born Lydia Hastings (Vassar 1939). We have four children (three girls).
FRED KING STEWART; 1316 Maple Avenue, Evanston, Ill.
The most important event in our family since 1946 was the arrival of Charles King, our second boy, in February, 1947. He weighed over ten pounds and was certainly off to a good start.
Aside from increasing the size of our family, there is very little else to report on that score. As far as my business is concerned, I
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continue to sell all forms of insurance as a broker and am with W. A. Alexander & Co. in Chicago. In June, 1950, after three years of night school at Northwestern, I received the Chartered Life Under- writers' designation. This has been my main endeavor to improve my knowledge during the past few years.
Since 1946, I have maintained my commission in the Army and am now active with the 85th Infantry Division. In fact, these words are being written while on a short tour of duty at Camp McCoy, Wis.
Fifteen years out of college finds me the same in girth, height, and weight. The hair is thinner, but still in evidence, I am happy to say. I have worked pretty hard at my business ever since the War, and there hasn't been too much time for extra-curricular activities. My main purpose now is to figure out some way to spend more time with my family and have more leisure hours. By the time the next reunion arrives I hope to have accomplished this ambition and still be able to pay the bills.
ROBERT DARST STEWART; 16 Chauncy Street, Cambridge, Mass.
Shortly after the war I moved to Boston and started working for a large engineering firm in this city. I also renewed my acquaintance- ship with a tennis racquet and began to spend rather too much of my time at the Longwood Cricket Club and on the tournament circuit. I occasionally met Walt Bronson and Eddie Mansfield of our class and Eggy Miles of '35 on these trips and between matches we would lie to each other about how hard we had been working at home.
In 1948 I was married to Mary Rockwell of North Andover, Mass., Vassar '38. Mary's father, uncles and three brothers went to Har- vard, so I must, in all fairness, say that I think that it was rather to escape from this slum atmosphere into that Elysium where the wives of Yale men dwell than to any personal charm of mine that I must attribute this, for me, singularly fortunate event.
Shortly prior to this, I had made the comparatively mundane move of changing jobs again. I got a job as an engineer with the Rhode Island Humidifier and Ventilating Company, a firm primarily concerned with industrial humidification and air-changing in textile mills. My position entails a large quantity of sales engineering, with dabs of designing and mechanical engineering.
In 1949, I was ranked One in New England tennis doubles, thanks largely to C. D. Steele, Jr., my partner.
In January, 1951, a son, Paul Perry, was born. He is an extremely large, good-natured fellow whose chief avocations are bouncing on
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his stomach and string-chewing, surely most original traits in a six- month-old. He is a source of constant wonder and delight to us both.
FREDERIC B. STILLMAN;
My business is as a research chemist for the Jackson Lab of the Dupont Company. I worked on Anthraquinone vat dyes and on Fluorine compounds for the Manhattan Project.
I married Catherine Higgins, formerly a chemist at the National Bureau of Standards, in 1944. A son, Bennett, arrived in 1945; he's now a carom enthusiast. A daughter, Dorothy Phyllis, arrived in 1950; we're grooming her for a future Miss Delaware.
Gardening and piano are my hobbies. I'm working out a system to get a concert piano technique on a half to one hour per day practice. It combines calisthenics, judo, and some systematic piano exercises of no musical value whatever. My pet peeves are: 1) foreign meddl- ing, 2) the present political party, and 3) end-of-the-month bills.
WILLARD C. STONER, JR .; 159 North Street, Chagrin Falls, Ohio.
I worked for two years in the paint business up to 1938, entered medical school that September and graduated from the Ohio State University Medical School in 1942. After interning for a year at St. Vincent's Charity Hospital in Cleveland, I entered active duty as a First Lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps in July, 1943, and was discharged as a Major in March, 1946. I received a Bronze Star with two oak leaf clusters, a Combat Medical Badge, a Unit Citation, and three Campaign Stars. I had a three years' residency in internal medicine at St. Luke's Hospital, Cleveland, started private practice on July 11, 1949, and am now located in Cleveland and Chagrin Falls, Ohio. I was married to Muriel Kelly, of Yonkers, N.Y., on June 14, 1940, and have two boys, Willard C., 3d, who is two years old, and John G., three months. My hobby is horseback riding.
STANLEY S. STRAUS; 765 North Crescent Avenue, Cincinnati 29, Ohio.
Every decade we seem to be able to propagate. Our second daugh- ter, Ellen, arrived on June 27th of this year and I am now enjoying what is really my first experience as the father of a baby, as the eldest was over three years old before we met. After selling my interest in the Hy Pure Drug Company in 1947, I entered the real estate business and at present am Vice President of The Cleneay and Nourse Company in Cincinnati, which was founded in 1886 by two Yale graduates. Activities are the usual and exercise consists of
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riding in the winter, and tennis and golf in the summer. Vacations have been spent in Michigan since 1946, where we have a cottage.
LOUIS M. STUMER; R.F.D. 1, New Canaan, Conn.
Since our last class record there have been quite a number of changes in my life. Television, as it has done with so many of us, reared its ugly head, and since TV has been commercial, I have been President of Television-Radio Enterprises, Inc. (of which I'm still a director), Ass't Manager of Operations for the DuMont TV Net- work, Program Sales Manager for the CBS Television Network, Account Exec. in the television department of Music Corp. of America, General Manager of World Video, Inc., and finally came to roost a little over a year ago at Goodson-Todman Productions, one of the largest independent producers of TV programs, where I am Director of Sales. By the way, the next gent, even a 36er, who asks me why TV programs aren't better, is no longer going to get a soft answer; merely will be referred to John Crosby, who won't give him one either.
My first wife passed away in the spring of 1948, and after two footloose years, Pamela Rolston of Vancouver, Canada, and I were married on June 28, 1950. There are two small boys, L.M.S. III, aged seven and one half, and John Carlisle, three and one half, and the household is resoundingly better for not being so exclusively male. We are both pretty internationally minded, following what seems to be closer to the old Willkie line than anything else, and are active in the UN Association and United World Federalists. Skiing, boating, and fishing keep us fairly active, and we keep promising each other to revive the golf game (next year).
When the day's work is over, and the normal time is taken to get the small boys off the ceiling, spare (?) time is spent in reading or the theatre, when we can afford it. We don't watch television much, -see paragraph #1, above.
JOHN PIERREPONT STURGES; 260 Angell Street, Providence, R.I.
Worked for Snyder Chemical Corporation in Bethel, Conn., 1946 to 1949, in various sales capacities; resigned to join brother Ben (1931 Ac) in partnership operating a limited venture capital firm known to few as Sturges Company. This enterprise can best be described as a venture capital firm without any capital. In 1950 the firm retired gracefully from the shadow of impending excess profit taxes and helped reorganize a neophitic tool company known as Dowding Tap Company, for which concern I now devote my entire efforts in direction of sales. My home is again Providence (summers
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in Saunderstown), after two years in the wilds of Connecticut, and my family seems to have grown to five young men. In addition to my three stepsons (now seventeen, fifteen, and seven), were born, in 1947, John P., Jr., and, in 1949, Peter Hazard.
My wife and I made a six weeks' trip abroad this spring to forget about all this, to Austria (for skiing) and France (pour le sport), our first vacation in four years-which in part retraced the erratic route of Wadsworth, King and writer in 1936. Austrians, though beat up, still love us- French still dislike us intensely. Still crazy about skiing, tennis, watching football, and theatre. For a year and a half have served as President, Yale Association of Rhode Island. With wife joined Urban League last year, which interests us both very much, and wish I had time for politics. Travelling time on business has grown to about 50%, which is broadening in the wrong direction. Daily exercise confined to a pathetic parody of Kiphuthian contortions every morning on arising.
Believe we are headed for a third world war about spring 1953 (assuming the Russians will wait until after election). Think our greatest weakness both individually and as a nation is our lack of interest and participation in self government. Wish a coalition of progressive Republicans and disgusted Democrats could upset the applecart in 1952 with a man like Senator Fulbright. Anybody want my vote for this program-just ask.
WILLIAM GILBERT SUCCOP; R. D. #1, Renfrew, Pa.
The arrival of our fifth child, Bill (March 9, 1947), and our sixth, Nancy (June 30, 1948), has not as yet necessitated use of the two- platoon system at meals (per Hersey) but has stimulated our interest in the writings of Mrs. Galbreath (Cheaper By the Dozen). Time and motion studies of our children have not been too successful-we don't have the time, and have been unable to find anyone fast enough to calculate the motion!
Our interests as a family are various. Father is one of those un- fortunate fellows who hasn't enough ability as yet to take care of his business (manufacturing roller bearings) on a forty hour week basis (per children). No one knows what Mother does with all her spare time (per Father and children). Children are never interested in the right thing at the right time (per Mother and Father). Nevertheless, everything works out all right in the end (per everybody).
Bought a farm, built a new home and are raising Registered Guern- seys on a spot thirty miles north of Pittsburgh. Four of our children are attending a public township school. They have outside interests which include piano, choir, Sunday School and riding. Their day is a full one.
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Mrs. Succop's interests include our home, our children, our farm, and our church. The first three bring to light more problems than can be solved each day; the latter is a pleasure.
I am still in the roller bearing business and enjoy it more each day. The difficulties under which we operate, existent conditions being what they are, constitute a challenge. We must accept the challenge and do our best to solve the problems. The farm and our church (Sunday Schol teacher and vestry man) provide a good part of my outside interests.
Fifteen years, since 1936, have sped past. We see many things we've failed to do, and many that we shouldn't have done at all. We are thankful for what we have, not covetous of what our neighbor has, and hope that in the future we'll be privileged to do more of the things we should do.
WILLIAM EDWARD SULLIVAN; The Taft School, Watertown, Conn.
Since last I reported on my life and times, much water has flowed under the bridge, to coin a phrase. A school teacher's existence is a busy one, and as I look back at the five years since I returned to Taft from the Navy, I can truthfully say mine has been no exception. I have experienced the usual merry round of extra-curricular duties, including coaching, directing dramatics, acting as adviser to the school newspaper, etc .- all part of the intricate mechanism of teach- ing the adolescent boy. In 1950 I was appointed Chairman of the English Department, and in 1951 Assistant Director of the Taft Sum- mer School. Thus, although my main interest in life is teaching-and I can honestly say that it is an occupation I enjoy increasingly with the passing of the years-I, somewhat ruefully, find myself assuming more and more administrative duties. There are compensations, of course, and I suspect I wouldn't have it any other way.
On other scores, too, life has continued to be good. We have a daughter (an almost inevitable occurrence to a master in a boys' school), born October 21, 1948, with another child due in December. The vacations are frequent and our colleagues congenial. Although my yearly earnings will not raise the class of 1936 average, I have no regrets. My path, indeed, has fallen in pleasant ways. .
CYRIL SUMNER, JR .; 630 Hospital Trust Building, Providence 3, R.I.
Perhaps the only citizen of '36 distinguished by having "done time." This refers, however, not to San Quentin, but the Brown and Sharpe Company in Providence, where an English major toiling as an apprenticed machinist, learned to distinguish a gib from a hob.
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The year 1940 exposed a fettered business psyche hankering for people and not things. Joined the Providence sales staff of the American Viscose Corporation, where Jim Mills and I shared an office. Narrangansett Bay duck shooting, bourbon, and frequent dis- cussions of married (his) versus the celibate (mine) existence.
The Navy's quick and decisive triumph over the Army saw me at sea in the North Atlantic early in 1941 as a Fireman 2/c. Rocketed upward, like mollases in Reykjavik, to Machinist Mate 2/c.
For this accomplishment, was rewarded during a brief leave in May, 1942, with the troth of Fran Barnes of Wallum Lake, R.I., in whose design, execution, and intellectual equipage no pains had been spared nor efforts wasted.
Commissioned a j.g. at sea, and was sent to Washington late in 1942, where Fran and I shared a house for a while with Bernie and E-J Rankin. Saw and swapped lies with such experts as Howland, Farnham, Cates, Sweet, Clapp, Kerr, Chisholm, Alexander, and Reid. Burnet Barnes Sumner (f.) appeared in 1944.
Got the "heave-ho" as a Lt. on a convincing display of those yummy "points" in late 1945, and returned to American Viscose, Providence, and peddling. Since then, tricycles have also been pur- chased for Sarah Alexandra (1947) and Cyril Jonathan (1949).
Hobbies? We bought an old house. .. . !
WILLIAM H. SUTHERLAND; 6410 Connecticut Avenue, Chevy Chase, Md.
I just got back from four months in the Far East-two in Korea and two in Japan. I was making a survey of Army logistic problems for the Operations Research Office, Johns Hopkins University, my new employer (after ten years at the Experimental Towing Tank at Stevens Institute of Technology).
Korea wasn't much fun. Japan was. The guys in Korea are doing an intelligent, difficult job, on a shoestring (like all wars will be, from now on).
I'm married, have two boys-Howie, three and a half, and Mac, two. I'm still crazy about sailing, but haven't done much lately.
JOHN F. SWEENEY; 461 Race Street, Denver, Colo.
As President of the B.K. Sweeney Manufacturing Company, I'm en- gaged in designing and making special tools for the railroad, aircraft, and trucking industries. I'm married to the former Vivian Eyre, and we have two children, Marna and John F., 2d. I'm an enthusiastic and regular skier; play golf, swim, squash, and hunt-one elk this year. Also I'm an amateur gardener and lawnmover pusher.
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CLINTON W. SWEET; 12 East 81st Street, New York 28, N.Y.
Since the Tenth, things have been going on a very even keel. There have been no marriages or offspring. My job is still purchasing for Sweet-Orr & Co., Inc., and my title, which may not sound too impressive, is Secretary of the Corporation. Vacations are split be- tween Lake Placid and New Hampshire, with occasional weekends at Fenwick, Conn. Not being too much of a church-goer, am afraid the collection plate has not benefitted too much, but the Federal Grand Jury Association manages to gets its yearly dues from my pocket, as does the Yale Club of New York. Dewey got my vote in 1948 and the Republican Eagle will probably get it again in 1952.
The Fabulous Fifteenth was the best ever, nothing was lacking, and it certainly was a pleasure to renew old acquaintances. Hope it won't be till the Twentieth before we meet again.
SIDNEY E. SWEET; 58 Weed Street, New Canaan, Conn.
I'm engaged in International Commerce as secretary of J. C. Ten- nant Sons & Company of 100 Park Avenue, New York, and since 1946 have made three trips to Australia-1947, 1948, 1949-and one trip around the world, in 1951. We entertain in our home many overseas visitors. I am active in the Congregational Church of New Canaan, am interested in politics, enjoy tennis, paddle tennis, golf, and winter sports with the kids, and have just succumbed to tele- vision-which Santa Claus brought.
Here is the family data: wife, Virginia; three children: Shelley Janeway, seven; Sidney Nelson, five, and Virginia, two.
DAVID E. SWIFT; 314 North Orange Street, Media, Pa.
From 1947 to 1951, I was Associate Professor of religion at Lincoln University, Pa., and since January, 1951, I have been Personnel Director for the American Friends Service Committee. I was married in 1941 to Jane H. Nichols (sister of Jim Nichols, '36), Mt. Holyoke '39 and teacher of English and good singer of madrigals! Our children are Jonathan, eight years; James, six; Gordon, two and a half. My pastimes are gardening, tennis, camping, and fishing.
Am still a believer in one's bending much of oneself to improve society over and above earning a living and raising a family; and my special interest is educating beyond racial prejudice.
WILLIAM E. SWIFT, JR .; 361st Station Hospital, A.P.O. 1055, c/o Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif.
Since the last edition, resident training in Internal Medicine at
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New Haven Hospital was completed, and Yale has provided a faculty berth-Instructor in Medicine, then Instructor in Preventive Medicine, and, since 1949, Assistant Professor of Medicine. The year in Preventive Medicine was spent running a clinical research program in Germany, trying to learn more about hepatitis. Returned to temporary active duty (Army, Major) in October, 1950, and since January, 1951, have been practicing medicine in Tokyo on United Nations Korean war casualties. The greatest event has been my engagement to Anne D. Sheldon of New Haven. Except for marriage at the first opportunity, the future is uncertain.
C. LEVERNE TALMADGE; 420 Percival Avenue, Kensington, Conn.
I live in Kensington with my wife (we were married December 24, 1938) and son, Glen A., born April 19, 1948. I am employed by The Stanley Works in New Britain in their cost department. HO guage model railroading is my only hobby. I am a member of the Kensing- ton Congregational Church. Our home was purchased two years ago, and I spend all my available time making improvements and repairs.
ROBERT PAUL TANSEY; 84 Underwood Street, Newark 6, N.J.
Since my Yale days I have majored in the field of medicinal chemistry. I received my B.S. and M.S. degrees in pharmaceutical chemistry from Rutgers University and attended Brooklyn Poly- technic Institute to get a background in chemical engineering.
After having spent some time in the retail and detail fields of pharmacy, I decided to enter into industrial work, and have held positions with several pharmaceutical manufacturing concerns throughout the last twelve years. I have been in control, in research and development, and in production work. At present I am connected with Merck and Company in Rahway, N.J., as a senior chemist.
I am a member of the American Pharmaceutical Association (A. Ph.A.) and am chairman of the Committee on the Practice and Science of Pharmacy of the N.J. branch of that association.
A year ago I presented a manuscript before the A.Ph.A. National Convention describing a method I devised for the assay of certain steroid compounds. It has proven to be of interest to several large research groups. They report successful use of the method in their studies.
My wife and I were married in 1941 and have two girls and two
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boys: Barbara, age nine years; Carol, age seven years; Robert Paul, age four years; and David Charles, age two and a half months.
JOSEPH W. TAYLOR; 590 Allen's Creek Road, Rochester, N.Y.
I am secretary and general counsel of the Bausch & Lomb Optical Company of Rochester; am married, and have four children. My hobby is ornithology.
ROBERT CAMPBELL TAYLOR, 36S; 524 Willard Avenue, New- ington, Conn.
The five years after graduation were spent playing a lot of golf, courting a lot of girl, singing and discussing in congenial groups, and helping The American Hardware Corporation manufacture Russwin Builders' Hardware. This period was more or less of a shake-down cruise period in which something, I like to believe, was learned about life, love, and the realities of the business world. It ended in a decision to marry Lois Schaeffer (Syracuse Fine Arts, '37) on Janu- ary 27, 1940, and a decision to quit the hardware business, which latter was eased considerably by the decision of the U.S. Army to recognize the fact that I had kept alive my ROTC commission (Lt.) in the Engineers and order me into active service in December, 1940.
The next five years were the Army and war. My outfit, the 42nd Engineer Regiment (General Service), was activated at Camp Shelby, Miss., by my fellow reserve officers and myself with the help of an officer cadre (amounting to 25-30%) of West Pointers. In our line of business, it didn't take long for the reserves to more than hold their own. After doling out basic and engineer training to our brand-new selectees, we spent four months in the rice paddies, etc., of Southern Louisiana and East Texas on '41 maneuvers, and then cleaned up the mess left by same. Being alerted constantly both be- fore and after Pearl Harbor, we sent one company to Greenland in Novmber, 1941, and ourselves started the trek to Alaska to repel the Japs in December, 1941. That was the great deep freeze on pro- motions, but I was lucky and made Captain, which set off one of the wildest celebrations ever seen in Juneau. That was my post-war project at the time-to return to Juneau and run for Mayor. Being ordered out of my outfit and nifty billet within twenty miles of civilization in May, 1942, I served the Department Engineer Head- quarters as Resident Engineer on a succession of bleak and dreary coastal construction projects, ending up with a complete winter on the end of the Aleutian chain. Never really saw the war-thought we had it made at Kiska, but no Japs. Go back in the country in May,
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1944, landed a job teaching at the Engineer School, made Major, got out late in 1945 and took the drastic step of going to work for father in structural steel business.
The last five years have been the struggling homeowner and family-raiser period. (I did not, in contrast to the rest of the Regiment, leave my wife pregnant on the dock-she got tired of waiting, got a WAVE commission in the Navy, and had a fine war.) Martha came along in May, 1945, and Rob, Jr., in June, 1948. At present I am having an interesting time trying to run a structural steel fabricating shop, trying to live within an income I once would have considered munificent, trying to raise a family as it should be done, trying to play a little golf, etc. I am a more or less active mem- ber of the local Congregational Church, the Shuttle Meadow Country Club in New Britain, the Republican Party, the Army Reserve (active), the Newington Town Plan Commission, the Y.M.C.A. Industrial Council in New Britain, New Britain Community Chest (past director of N.B. Fresh Air Camp), New Britain Yale Club (past Sec .- Treas., Pres.), and am serving as area representative of the Yale Committee on Enrollment and Scholarships ('Alumni In- terviewer'). I view with alarm the drift of our once mighty country down the road to State Socialism and believe that private industry (and consequently privately-endowed educational institutions) can- not long survive the increasing double strangle-hold of government regulations and taxes and government-backed labor unions.
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