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ROBERT CROWELL TAYLOR; Schofield Road, Cohasset, Mass.
Since being separated from the Navy in 1946, I have lived in five different homes, including a temporary home afloat on a 47-foot yawl. I have been sales manager of a radio station, sales manager of a Ford Truck agency, President and Treasurer of an English automo- bile agency and sales representative for Daten Dunton Desk Co .- and who knows what the future will bring?
I have a husky four-year-old boy, Richard Sears Taylor, and a plump three-year-old girl, Louise, the former of whom people say is the spitting image of me, and the latter of whom is more fortunate and greatly resembles my bride.
Hobbies are concentrated around my home, fixing things and try- ing to improve my property. Also making feeble attempts to keep my waist line down and my weight under 250 pounds.
I recall writing in my last notes before the War that whereas everyone else expected a war, I didn't. This time, I shall remain silent on the subject and hope for the best.
DAVID M. TENNENT; 620 Coleman Place, Westfield, N.J.
The Tennent family is now five, having two girls, Blythe and
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Meredith, and a boy, David. It is supported by a father who is still working at the Merck Institute, doing research in the chemical aspects of biology, or the biological aspects of chemistry, depending upon how you choose to look at it, and enjoying it very much. Most of the hard work is done by the mother, Martha, who seems to be bearing up surprisingly well under the strain. We enjoy bridge, and we like to travel. This is done in the family automobile, an ancient machine that goes on and on as long as you pour in gas, oil, and money. We get to New York as often as our country cousins come to visit us. We are in favor of (a) plenty of sleep, (b) longer vacations, (c) lower taxes.
PAUL JONES THOMAS; Box 179, Four Mile Run Road, McDon- ald, Ohio.
The development of a public accounting practice was interrupted in 1942 for Navy service, which terminated late in 1945. After the war the career was resumed, and I am now a partner in the firm of Burgeson and Thomas, Certified Public Accountants, Youngstown, Ohio.
From the office to home is about seven miles. Home is a farm where I live with my wife Marguerite and daughters Gwendolyn and Janet. We have dairy cows and pigs and do a general farming busi- ness. Labor problems being what they are, there doesn't seem to be time for hobbies.
The social service activities fall in Marg's sphere of activity. She enjoys them, and I hear about them.
Since I am a hay fever sufferer, our vacation time is set at August 15th, and the place is the Laurentiaans, in Canada.
Organization memberships include the Reserve Officers' Associa- tion, the Elks Club and the Youngstown Club, the Colony Club, and the First Presbyterian Church.
Political opinions have been generally in favor of the opposition over the last fifteen years.
The promises of the administration to take care of me in sickness and old age and when out of work and most every other time imply a growing hold over my every activity. The universal rush for govern- ment-sponsored security must lead to continued inflation and government control in economics. Government control in economics entails similar control in speech, press, religion, etc. It just takes a little longer. Already you find that opposition to an administration policy will result in visits from various government bureaus, ad- ministrations, and departments. In the field of foreign affairs, I am tired of being told that the U.S. must donate billions abroad or "our friends" will turn Communists.
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ALEXANDER B. TIMM, JR .; 36 West Main Street, Milford, Conn.
Since previous autobiographical note in 1946 there is little to add. I am in private practice of medicine in the town of Milford, Conn., and am located at 36 West Main Street. Have one daughter, aged three years, Rhys Morrell Timm. Otherwise no change.
EVERETT PARSONS TOMLINSON; The Great Road, Princeton, N.J.
Since June, '36, the more or less normal course of life's events has transpired as follows: August, '36, asked for and was accepted by the hand of Nancy Kershaw of Forest Hills, N.Y., Smith College '35. September departed for Pasadena, Calif., for graduate study in physics at California Institute of Technology. January 1, 1937, officially engaged as per August's private arrangement. June 26, 1937, married in Forest Hills as per January's official arrangement. Honey- moon consisted of a week in Bermuda, a drive across continent, tak- ing in Niagara Falls and Reno, a week house-hunting in Pasadena and three weeks in Hawaii. June 17, 1938, first daughter born. June, 1939, survived oral Ph.D. exam. October 17, 1940, second daughter born, also a native Californian. June, 1941, completed Ph.D. thesis two weeks too late to have degree conferred that year. August, 1941, went on active duty with U.S. Navy at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., first as student, then as instructor in pre-radar course given there. November, 1942, continued to M.I.T. radar school, and thence to Pearl Harbor for observing. Bad penny returned in August, 1943, to Annapolis to teach at postgraduate school. Left Annapolis June, 1946, to come as instructor in Princeton University physics depart- ment. August 21, 1946, third daughter born, this time a New Yorker. Now life goes on as lecturer in physics at Princeton, involving teach- ing and research and bringing up families of daughters and dogs and cat and goldfish and parakeets with lots of pleasant work and very little time for play.
EDWARD N. TOWNSEND, JR .; The Leash, 41 East 63d Street, N.Y.
My occupation is Technical Manager, North America, British Overseas Airways Corporation. I am unmarried and have three children by a former marriage: Suzanne, Peter, and Wendy.
SAMUEL J. C. TOWNSEND; 4417 McFarlin Boulevard, Dallas, Tex.
I am married, and Sally and I have a son, Sam, Jr., who is ten, and a daughter, Lee, seven. I have worked for Chance Vought Aircraft since June, 1940, and am now staff engineer for power plants, which
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concerns reciprocating and jet engines and the installation thereof. Our main hobby is sailing; we now have a "Lightning," which we race on a lake near Dallas, and elsewhere, with the help of a trailer. Wish I could have made the fifteenth.
WILLIAM K. TOWNSEND; 45 Harborview Avenue, Milford, Conn.
I am with Scaffolds, Inc., of 278 Bridgeport Avenue, Devon, Conn., as secretary and treasurer. Have a wife and two daughters, with no change in sight. I enjoy boating when we can borrow a boat.
ROBERT JACKSON TRACY; 515 Pomeroy Avenue, Pittsfield, Mass.
As the end of my second year of surgical practice ends we feel that we are finally getting settled. After college, I worked in insurance for a year, then threw up the job and went to Harvard Medical School, where I graduated in 1942. In my third year, I got married and my wife supported us. A year of surgical interneship followed at Massa- chusetts General Hospital, and after that I had six months at Mt. Auburn Hospital, Cambridge. During this time my first son was born. The Army then took over for two years, during which time I was in a Third Army Evacuation Hospital in the European Theater. On my return, I started a three-year stretch of surgical residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital. During this period, my first daugh- ter was born. The G.I. training program made my prolonged training possible. Another six months at The Pondville State Cancer Hospital completed my training.
The family then moved to Pittsfield, where I went into practice on my own. We have been very happy here, practice is increasing, and we are removed from the state of poverty occasioned by the long training. We have not yet become involved much in civic affairs. My wife has become a member of the Junior League, and I have joined the Pittsfield Surgical Club and the Monday Evening Discussion Group. In 1950, I became a Diplomate of the American Board of Surgery. I am also a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society and the American Medical Association. In 1950, our second son was born.
Spare time is used up in trying to keep up in professional reading, and keeping the house and grounds presentable. Fishing, skiing, and skating are the usual sports activities. We entertain on a moderate scale.
Our present hope is to get a bigger house and a summer camp on one of the nearby lakes.
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ROBERT TRAIN, Jackson Springs Road, Macon, Ga.
Strange as it seems, we have instituted the two platoon system at meals, and even though it necessitates a short order lunch room for a couple of hours at each meal, it has increased consumption, cut down egg fights, milk slinging, and hamburger battles. The kids have put on weight, the dogs have lost weight, and it has helped my ulcers. February, '46, brought a girl; June, '48, brought a boy; and January, '51, brought a boy, adding Commey, John, and Gerald to Robert, Jr.
The Bibb Manufacturing Company saw clear to making me Comp- troller in '48 and since returning from reunion, was very unexpectedly made head of the Cotton Buying Department, due to the sudden death of one of our Vice Presidents.
During the last year I have served as Chairman of the Georgia- Alabama Textile Traffic Committee, elected a Director of the Georgia Cotton Manufacturers Association, become a member of the Cotton Committee of the American Cotton Manufacturers Institute and elected a Trustee of the Episcopal High School.
Can't help but put in a plug for the Reunion Committee. They did a good job. Wouldn't miss '56 if I'm around.
ARCHIBALD LILBOURN TRULL; R.F.D. 4, Georgetown, Mass.
It was a bit surprising, on returning to our fifteenth reunion this June, to find that I am perhaps one of the few in the class who is still working for the same company that employed me in June, 1936. Soon after graduation, I came to work in Peabody, Mass., for A. C. Lawrence Leather Co., one of the largest tanning concerns in the world. My early days with the company were devoted largely to training for the position of raw stock buyer for the Sheepskin Divi- sion. This was the job I held when, in July, 1941, the Navy called me to active duty. A year and a half in Jacksonville, a year in Memphis, and about twenty months on the West Coast and aboard an escort carrier in the Pacific completed my Navy duty, and I was released as a Lieut. Commander.
In 1942 I met and married Ethel Rudolph in Jacksonville, and in September of the following year our first child, Martha, was born. Richard and David, who complete the family, were born in 1946 and 1948 respectively.
One of the happiest moments of my life was to return to civilian life after the Navy. Having had five years in the tanning business before the war, I still wanted to follow it as a career. Shortly after returning I was placed in the President's office, where I had the opportunity for two and a half years to see the operations of the whole company. Since then my job has been as Production Manager
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of our Sheepskin Division, with ample opportunity to share in prob- lems regarding buying and selling, as well as manufacturing.
One of the smartest things I ever did was to take my wife's advice to buy a house right after the war. Late in 1945 we found and bought at what now seems like a ridiculous price an old house (1842) badly in need of considerable renovating. We tackled the job with en- thusiasm, doing most of the work ourselves, and now after nearly six years have a place we are very proud of. Our original enthusiasm, I must admit, has worn rather thin at times, but there's a lot of satisfaction in learning how to do all sorts of jobs from brick-laying to paper-hanging.
We have taken an active interest in community activities-church, local politics, various fund-raising campaigns, and town social life. At present I am about half-way through a three-year term as a member of the School Committee. Because we lack adequate school facilities for the growing school population, we are trying hard to put over a building program which the town can't see the need of. If you live in a small New England town you know what I mean.
At this point, I am well satisfied with what the last fifteen years have brought me. My wife and I have been happily married for nine years, we have three wonderful children, and we look forward to the future with hope and faith that some day the present state of con- fusion in the world will be straightened out.
CHARLES P. TURNBAUGH; 3350 Grenway Road, Shaker Heights 22, Ohio.
After Yale I finished school at Case Institute of Technology and went into my own business, doing Commercial Photography. I mar- ried a Cleveland girl, Sally Salisbury, in 1940, which union is not yet blessed with issue. Army Ordnance took two years of my time, after which I spent seven years with NEA-Acme Newspictures as Purchasing Agent. Recently joined Reliance Electric and Engineer- ing Co. as an Electrical Engineer. I enjoy sailing in summer, ice skating in winter, and a basement workshop the year around.
H. MACGREGOR TUTTLE, JR .; 37 South Linden, Palatine, Ill.
Since January 1, 1951, I have been associated with Booz Allen and Hamilton, Management Consultants, and am attached to the central region office in Chicago. My work, which centers around management and cost reduction surveys and system installations, provides ample opportunity for travel.
The Tuttle clan pulled up stakes in Oak Ridge, Tenn., the day after the close of school this past June. After a summer of touring the east and vacationing at our Verona Beach, N.Y., summer camp, our
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car and trailer landed us (via Canada) at our new Palatine, Ill., home.
The Tuttle family population has remained constant since the 1948 pre-Christmas arrival of son Howard III. Two girls, Barbara, ten, and Martha, six, and my wife, Harriet, complete our quintet.
There's always a pot of coffee brewing in the stove, so drop by and have a cup with us at the above address. During the summer months come and have a sail with us in our Lightning on the east shore of Oneida Lake, New York. The Verona Beach Postmaster will give you directions.
GREGORY N. TYACK; 134 Mountain Avenue, Pompton Plains, N.J.
Upon leaving college I entered the employ of Scovil Manufacturing Co., for whom I worked nine years. Part of this time was in pro- duction work through the mill; for the last five years I was an outside sales engineer. I married Elizabeth Goddard in 1938 and lived in Cheshire, Conn., until 1945. Two of our children were born in Cheshire and a third was born in New Jersey, where I now reside. In 1945 I left Scovill and moved to New Jersey, where I represent The Hartford Steel Ball Company throughout New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Outside activities consist mainly of Boy Scout work and an occasional game of golf.
WALTER UNTERMEYER, JR .; 77 Park Avenue, New York, N.Y.
The year 1945 found me fretting about going back overseas, this time as an aerial navigator with a Navy patrol squadron, but the capitulation of Japan resulted in a change of orders. The rest of the year was spent in figuring out my points, but being without depen- dents I was not released to inactive duty until April of 1946. I con- sidered going to Law School, and in the course of obtaining a couple of letters of recommendation, I found myself accepting a position in charge of an Industrial Weather Influences Survey being conducted by the Research Division of New York University. I also initiated and had charge of a nightly weather broadcast from radio station WOR. Between two jobs and courting a Patricia Finsterwald from Detroit, who became my wife in September of the same year, it was an active spring and summer. Through my work at New York Uni- versity I became intrigued with the potentiality of industrial meteorology. In the fall of 1946, we moved to Massachusetts, where I joined an embryonic firm of consultant meteorologists. The explora- tion of a new field provided a stimulating two years, but I resigned in 1948, partially because of inadequate growth, but principally because of an excess of partners. We returned to New York City, where I became associated with Untermeyer Robbins & Co., manu-
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facturers of diamond engagement and wedding rings and allied products.
Having worked on the editorial staff of a magazine before the war, I still manage to do a certain amount of free lance writing in the field of non-fiction. I play a good deal of squash and tennis and find that the years have not cramped my style too badly.
As far as active participation with outside organizations, the mundane pursuit of the buck and the daily routine of living seem to consume all our time and energy, particularly since the recent arrival of son Michael.
When I contemplate our ambitious program for the future, materi- al, spiritual and otherwise, it gives me a headache. If only a reason- able percentage of our plans come to pass, we should have no kicks.
WILLIAM UPTHEGROVE; 9 Berkley Lane, Clayton 5, Mo.
In 1945, I started a manufacturing company which now has a hundred and fifty employees-much more favorable results than my previous work for a large corporation had promised.
Caroline and I now have two children; a daughter, three, and a son, one year old. My chief hobby is golf, and I am fortunate enough to be Club Champion of Saint Louis Country Club. I regret exceed- ingly missing the Greatest Class' Greatest Reunion due to business reasons. I understand it was a great success for all concerned.
Our factory is located a ten-minute drive from my home in Ladue and suburban working conditions are as attractive as living condi- tions, since one avoids traffic and commuters' troubles.
I have been spending summer vacations in Watch Hill, R.I., where I plan to spend the month of August this year for a much-needed rest.
Whenever in Saint Louis, I trust my classmates will be sure to look me up. We will have a local reunion.
JOSEPH UPTON, JR .; Watson-Flagg Machine Company, Paterson, N.J.
I'm manager of the gear motor division of the above company- making General Electric gear motors; and I'm on the Lubrication Committee of the American Gear Manufacturers Association (use care in interpreting).
We have three children-twin boys, eight, Joseph and Walter Coles Upton; a daughter, three, Judith Neill. My wife was Jane Coles, Vassar '39, from Troy, Ohio.
I read, ski when possible, coach a "little league" ball team (most of the time spent trying to keep up with the children).
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DONALD KEELER USHER; 6 Axtell Drive, Scarsdale, N.Y.
Either I'm a steadfast soul or just in a rut, but in any event I'm still with Pan American World Airways, at present in charge of traffic procedures for the System, covering the handling of passengers, cargo mail, and immigration. Service-wise I am attached to a Navy Volunteer Supply Corps Division and waiting to see what happens next. Our two children, Susan and "Butch," are eight and six, re- spectively. For exercise I play tennis at the Scarsdale Golf Club and chop trees around an old barn in Annisquam, Mass., which we have converted to a summer home known as "Usher's Folly." Favorite entertainment is still the theatre and sports events, and my chief (of too many) hobbies is making articles out of silver and collecting and repairing early American clocks, whose ticking is gradually driving the family mad. I work on Community Fund drives, etc., and politically am in a state of despair.
A. CARL VALENTINE; 271 Fourth Avenue, Stratford, Conn.
Taking our subjects in the order of their importance, our family now consists of Marie and two sturdy sons: Jeffrey, born October 13, 1943, and Mark C., who came along October 2nd, 1948.
I tackled life insurance underwriting as a career, setting out with two objectives way back in 1946: first, to gain the coveted designa- tion of Chartered Life Underwriter (C.L.U.), tops educationally in our industry, and second, to attain membership in the Million Dollar Round Table-definitely the mark of outstanding success in the field of life-insurance selling. After four seemingly endless years of study and exams, the American College of Chartered Life Underwriters conferred the degree of C.L.U on September 27, 1950, and now I can strive to reach that second and more important goal. Here's hoping that that C.L.U. key will open the door to that "M.D.R.T."!
In 1948, I entered the managerial side of the life insurance busi- ness, becoming Assistant Manager for the Connecticut Branch of the New York Life, with offices in Hartford and New Haven. After a year in this capacity wherein I had a chance to examine the oppor- tunities in both phases of our business, I decided that the selling field offered the greater advantages all around. Resigning my posi- tion at the end of the year, we chose Fairfield County as my area of operations and have not regretted the decision.
We bought our home in Lordship, Stratford, in July, 1950-Milt Cohn handling the legal details for us. Both Marie and I are active in several local civic organizations, including P.T.A., Red Cross, Junior and Senior Chambers of Commerce, Y.M.C.A., etc. Business organizations with which I'm affiliated are the local Bridgeport Chapter of the National Association of Life Underwriters, the New
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Haven Chapter of the American Society of Chartered Life Under- writers, and the Connecticut Life Insurance and Trust Council.
Several years ago the formation of a Military Government Unit in New Haven revived active interest in Reserve affairs. As a Major I have a Welfare Section that keeps me interested in people and their problems and we feel that this is a definite contribution toward the present Defense Effort. Our unit boasts a good representation from current Yale undergraduate and graduate bodies and that helps keep me in touch with happenings in New Haven.
Our local Underwriters Chapter has me listed as Instructor in Advanced Underwriting this coming year-that plus work and all the other activities, which include trying to keep pace with two live-wire youngsters, keep me operating on a 25-hour-a-day schedule-no time to get fat or old!
We find that music, the theatre, and color photography keep us very contented as hobbies go. And the seashore with golf thrown in manage to make the sunny seasons really fly!
From a career standpoint, I hope that the University can eventu- ally establish insurance courses and study. I find that this business is closely allied to American business and way of life. We ought to have a greater representation in this field, because there's a tremendous job to be done.
BRUNO VASSEL; 1120 Greenwood Avenue, Deerfield, Ill.
Married a Smith College graduate, Mary E. Elmer, on Martha's Vineyard, Mass., in September, 1936. Our honeymoon trip was to Ann Arbor, Mich., to start graduate studies, which culminated in "our" Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Michigan in 1939. Worked in the chemotherapy section of the American Cyana- mid Corp. at Stamford, Conn., until 1942. During this time Mary Erety arrived. Accepted an Associate Professorship at the North Dakota Agricultural College, where I did research on flax proteins. Bruno 3rd and Elizabeth Helen arrived in two-and-a-half year inter- vals. This influx of hungry mouths was incompatible with a college salary; hence, I accepted, in 1936, a section leadership in the organic- biochemical research division of International Mineral and Chemical Corporation at Rossford, Ohio. Our group is concerned with research problems connected with food technology, and is getting interested in new pharmaceuticals. Beginning in November, 1951, I will be trans- ferred to our new research laboratory in Skokie, Ill.
RUSSELL WINFIELD VIERING; 5 Grennan Road, West Hart- ford, Conn.
After following the suggestion of rechecking the earlier auto-
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biographies, I realize that my life since 1946 has been extremely serene and uneventful, although I can honestly say it has been the happiest period I have lived since leaving the apron strings of the Mother of Men.
Jobwise I am still "endeavoring to master the intricacies of insur- ance law" (to plagiarize from the 1946 Book), having acquired the title of Assistant Secretary and Legal Counsel of The Phoenix Insur- ance Company of Hartford, Conn.
On February 4, 1951, our second child arrived in the form of a son named Peter Bentley. Following this event our "garden" apartment suddenly appeared to have become extremely filled with people, with the result that we are now in the throes of building a house.
My chief dislikes at this point are government waste, communism, and inflation.
ALEXANDER O. VIETOR; 50 Trumbull Street, New Haven, Conn.
Since the last publication of biographical data for the class of 1936, I have remained employed by Yale University as Curator of Maps in the University Library. In addition to this post, I have also been made Director of the Cartography Laboratory, which is a newly created laboratory to make maps for the university faculty as aids in teaching and research. This has been a very successful development at Yale and the faculty have made considerable use of the facilities.
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