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I don't know whether I had recorded in my last biographical sketch the fact that I am an Associate Fellow of Pierson College or the fact that I am now the father of five children: David B. Vietor, Richard R. Vietor, Anna Louise Vietor, Pauline O. Vietor and, last but not least, Alexander W. Vietor, who was born in April, 1950.
I still live at 50 Trumbull Street, New Haven. My hobbies are still mostly marine in direction-early marine books and documents from a collector's point of view, and, as far as activities go, sailing and swimming at Edgartown in my vacation.
At the Fifteenth Reunion last spring I won a radio in the class raffle, saw many old friends, and took my two sons to the ball game.
DARRELL GRAHAM VOORHEES; 60 East 67th Street, New York 21, N.Y.
By the time graduation day rolled around for the Class of 1936, the plunge into medicine had been taken and I was already about fifty fathoms down. The first year in the Yale School of Medicine was behind me, and it was quite obvious that medicine was a darn sight more than current yeast ads would have you believe. In June, 1939,
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the necessary authorities slipped an M.D. under my arm, and I sallied forth into the world of white uniforms, night calls, and no income. This era included two years at the Hartford Hospital and two and a half years as a resident physician at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary.
Starting in the practice of ear, nose, and throat in New York City was an experience that made one feel like the needle in the pro- verbial haystack, constantly wondering if anyone would ever find you. With the generous help of an older and established physician, word gradually got around about what I was doing. For five years I sawed wood, with time out only to turn to the next pile. This in- cluded regular practice, the secretaryship and chairmanship of the ENT division of the N.Y. State Medical Society, a teaching appoint- ment at the N.Y. University Medical School, and work on commit- tees to keep socialized medicine away from the door. During this time it was my good fortune to become a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, and a fellow of the N.Y. Academy of Medicine. When my back was turned, some of the boys at the N.Y. Eye and Ear Infirmary thought it would be a good idea to make me secretary of the Hospital Alumni Association. This I labored over for three years and must admit I had a lot of fun and acquired a great deal of valua- ble experience. By valuable experience I refer to such items as putting on a dinner for a hundred and fifty hungry doctors when you were certain no more than a hundred would possibly show up, and timing the preceding cocktail party so that the same hundred and fifty knew they had had something to drink but were not as yet on all fours.
About this time, some five years after spraying the first nose in private practice, I came up for air. It was now 1949, and I was decidedly no longer in the spring-chicken class. I was out of debt and was reasonably satisfied with my progress in medicine, but it ended right there. The social side of life was in sad need of some attention. Efforts in this direction have made me a hopeless golf bug, and a member of the Wykagyl Country Club in New Rochelle. A few work- outs with Frank LaForge at the Yale Club have given me some pro- ficiency at squash, which I must admit I play chiefly to keep in shape for golf the coming season. But the pay-off on these newly- directed efforts was the discovery of the "one and only." We an- nounced our engagement on June 21, this year, and the big day is not far off now. Catherine Kenny is her temporary name, she comes from Livingston, N.J., and is a very able nurse. Other comments about her I will avoid, since they would be of such a biased nature as to be questioned by my readers. She is very pretty, though.
The future looks wonderful to me; best of luck to all '36ers.
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NATHANIEL M. VOSE, JR .; 6 Agawam Road, Barrington, R.I.
My job is that of investment analyst and administrative assistant in the trust department of the Rhode Island Hospital Trust Com- pany in Providence. I'm treasurer and a trustee of the Providence Country Day School, and special interests are gardening, golf, and my home. I married Diane Ludlow, and we have a son, John Cranston, four and a half, and a daughter, Pamela Ludlow, three.
ARTHUR VREELAND, JR .; 284 Godwin Avenue, Ridgewood, N.J.
My first job was with an insurance agency in New York City, which I left after a short time to accept a better position with the Providence Washington Insurance Co., in its New York Branch office. In 1939, Miss Kathleen Kirkwood Mullins and I took the fatal step and our first child, a girl, arrived June 2, 1941. Shortly there- after I was made Assistant Manager of my office and in November, 1943, the U.S. Maritime Service took me over as a Purser-Pharmacist Mate for a two-year lesson in handling cargo and playing ship's doc- tor to its sailors. Through their kindness, I acquired zone ribbons for Atlantic, Pacific, and Mediterranean, and ended up with the Grace Line, paying my respects to all the major parts of the north and west coasts of South America. It was during this period that our second child, a son, was born, on September 20, 1944.
After the war I returned to my old job, but on December 1, 1949, I left to become an officer of the Northern Insurance Co., of New York, at 83 Maiden Lane, N.Y.C. I am now an Assistant Vice Presi- dent of this company. On March 29, 1950, our third child, a girl, arrived, so we are now a happy family of five, which is a satisfying number. Golf has consistently been my big hobby, although I gave it up completely during four years of the war. I am a member of the Arcola (N.J.) Country Club, on its board of directors and presently have a Metropolitan handicap of three. Membership in the Lawyer's Club of N.Y. completes my club affiliations.
FRANCIS B. WADELTON, JR .; 102 Willow Street, Brooklyn 2, N.Y.
I married Marjorie Raymond Smith on February 14, 1942, and we have three children: Francis Bacon III, aged eight, Elizabeth Star- buck, aged five, and Nancy Harris, aged two. From 1936 to 1940, I was employed by the City Bank Farmers Trust Co. From December, 1940, until October, 1945, I was a naval aviator, holding a reserve officer's commission. Jack F. Chrysler employed me from 1945 to 1947. I am now a partner of Lord, Abbett & Co., in New York, and vice president of Affiliated Fund, Inc., American Business Shares,
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Inc., and Union Trusteed Funds, Inc., all in New York. My outside interests are squash, hunting, and shooting.
REVERDY WADSWORTH; Geneseo, N.Y.
Very little change from 1946. Still married to Eleanor, still one child, Harry, aged 10, still deeply engaged in the farming business. Have now established a beef-breeding herd-Herefords (white-faces to you), so should not go hungry. Maybe by 1956 one of the calves will be big enough to barbecue at the twentieth. As for extra-curricu- lar activity, the National Guard takes up one night a week and two weeks at Pine Camp, New York, in the summer. Since 1948, I com- manded for two years the 27th Rcn. Co. of the 27th Inf. Div., New York National Guard; attended ten weeks' course at the Army General School at Fort Riley, Kan., in autumn, 1950 (Intelligence) ; the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., in May, 1951 (one-week staff refresher course), and am now assigned as Ass't G-2 of 27th Inf. Division; rank, Captain; expect Majority this December. Other activities include vestryman and choir mem- ber; member of Town Board; director of local bank; member Ex- ecutive Board local Boy Scout Council. Our family stays in Geneseo year around, except for an annual trek southward through Philadel- phia, Washington, as far as South Carolina, along about March 16th (if there's anything left).
U. D. E. WALDEN; Loudon Woods, Rye, N.Y.
1946 and '47, after release from active duty, were spent settling down and starting on a new job with General Electric Credit Cor- poration in New York. This involved moving innumerable times, leaving a broad trail of leases and mortgages. Finally holed up in Rye and gave up travel, except commutation.
Since then existence has been static but pleasant. The finance business, at least from the law point of view, provides enough inci- dental excitement to give me a few gray hairs but no ulcers. My modest participation in exercise has decreased to the vanishing point, but an interest in breeding and showing poodles and in gardening, both shared by my wife, plus a television interest in baseball, hockey, and football, fill any spare time nicely.
LOUIS WALKER; 20 Colony Road, West Hartford, Conn.
After being detached from Psychological Warfare, S.H.A.E.F., following V-E day, I returned to my pre-war job as Sales Manager of Western Newspaper Union. For some definite reasons, I left there the following year to re-enter the investment business which was my
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first love. Following two years in the New York office of G. H. Walker & Co., I became a partner in the firm, and then moved to Hartford, Conn., to head up a new office that we opened after absorbing a local member firm. I miss New York, but not the commuting, as my house is only ten minutes away from the office.
The family unit remains the same: Grace, Jim, Suzanne, and the 1963 twin debutantes, Debby and Betsy.
Grace and I took up skiing several years ago, and we get off to Canada or some other spot for a week or so each year. However, my main social interests are golf, bridge, and watching the Big Blue each Saturday in the Bowl.
Extra-curricularwise, most of my interests are connected with Yale-serving as Class Secretary, member of the Class Secretaries Executive Committee, and membership on the Alumni Fund board. I also devote a fair amount of time to local endeavors such as the Community Chest.
I belong to the Links Club and Yale Club in New York, and to the Hartford Club, Hartford Golf Club, and the Farmington Valley Polo Club in and around Hartford.
On the national level, I sincerely hope our next reunion will find a Republican administration in office, because I think the seeds of inflation and corruption are sprouting through the present twenty- year administration.
W. GARDNER WALKER; 15 Newtowne Road, Acton Center, Mass.
The wool business in Boston has been my work since school. After several years training in various fields of this specialized line, I was able to begin my own business as a wool dealer (buyer and seller of raw wool) in 1948. For three years the business has progressed favorably with operations both locally and abroad.
My two daughters-Joan, three, and Lee, six-continue to be the source of much entertainment and also hard work. As they grow older, they are requiring more and more attention, to the detriment of my golf game, which has slipped from 80 to 90.
My most enjoyable entertainment is a fall day in the fields, hunt- ing pheasant or woodcock with my two dogs-Mike, an Irish Setter, and Cymbol, an English Setter.
LEONARD F. WALLACE; 165 Franklin Street, Bloomfield, N.J.
I am married, and we have one daughter, Susan. I am employed as a cost analyst by the Prudential Insurance Company, in Newark, N.J. My hobby is golf. I served in the Navy from 1942 to 1945 and am a Lieutenant Commander in the Naval Reserve (inactive).
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ROBERT KESSLER WALLACE; 1503 Indiana Avenue, La Porte, Ind.
After graduating from Harvard Business School in 1938, went with the investment banking firm of Harris, Hall & Co., in Chicago. Married Danforth Matthews of Spokane, Wash., in November, 1939, and lived in Chicago. Entered the Navy as an Ensign in August, 1942, and was stationed in Chicago until late 1943. Our first and so far only child was born in May, 1945 (Robert M.). On return from the Navy in December, 1945, went to work for C. J. Devine & Co., in their Chicago office for three years until Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane ("We the People") determined they could use my services as Manager of their Municipal Bond Department in their Chicago office. We are living in La Porte, which is a new address as of one year ago, and while commuting takes one hour each way, we enjoy the small- town environment. Golf is the main means of exercise, since suffering a broken ankle trying to ski at Sun Valley three years ago, but still can't play as well as I'd like to. (Can you?)
WILLIAM CHARLES WALLSTEIN; 1125 Park Avenue, New York 28, N.Y.
I seem to be hard pressed for time.
HENRY C. WALSH; 1405 Division Street, Burlington, Iowa.
At present I am judge of the Municipal Court. I was in the Army from 1941 to 1945-with the Provost Marshal General's Office, Prisoner of War Division. Spent approximately three and a quarter years overseas in England, France, and Germany, ranking as Lieuten- ant Colonel upon emerging from the Army. While in England, I met and married (November 20, 1943, in Cheltenham) Margaret Kelly, fo County Cork, Ireland. Result: Timothy Kelly, six, Anne, three and a half, and Margaret Mary, one.
GEORGE BONNELL WALTON; Indian Trail Road, R.D., Chester Springs, Pa.
Two more children, both of them boys, plus a dozen Hampshire sheep, a pig and dog, and we add up to a total of nineteen mouths to feed-enough to keep any man stepping!
I'm an agriculturist, I guess. Working hard in the city in an effort to afford living in the country. With but minor variation, the past five years have been passed gradually restoring our early Pennsyl- vania farm house and improving our income. Insurance is the chosen field of endeavor. It was only this past August First that I took over Philadelphia operations for the Guardian Life of America, having
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passed the previous three years as head of the life insurance depart- ment of one of the city's general brokerage houses. The industry has been good to me and, were it not for the ever-present economic, political and diplomatic uncertainties, complete happiness and tran- quillity would be the order of the day.
My business activities have opened many new avenues of friend- ship, which has resulted in a fair amount of social activity. Also, on occasion, Bobby and I will go to the theatre or manage a brief few days in New England. But the "farm" and the children are our principal interest.
Clubs? Well, there's the Yale Club, Union League, Pickering Hunt and Chester Springs Skeet Clubs. The last named is mentioned as a tie-in with a major hobby-bird shooting. As Club Secretary last year, I managed to burn a substantial amount of powder, with only mediocre results.
Had I been asked to comment on the future a year or two ago, the result would have been an essay filled with ominous foreboding. How- ever, it is now this correspondent's strong opinion that, if we can maintain, or rather improve one thing-our moral integrity, we all have much in the way of happiness ahead.
THOMAS JOHNSON WARD, JR .; 123 South Broad Street, Phila- delphia 9, Pa.
After the "last unpleasantness," the Navy put me ashore to take up landlubbers' ways again in Trenton, N.J., where we remained for two years. Moved back to Philadelphia, Pa., in 1947 and have kept a rollicking household ever since, augmented by another little girl, Tansy, age two. Betsy now seven. In order that wife Betty and brood eat regularly, I am forced to earn a living via being a life under- writer for the Equitable Life Assurance Society. The problems of taxes, etc., keep me quite busy, except when bringing up the tennis and golf fortunes of the Wards'. We expect two champions in 1970.
Have now recovered sufficiently from reunion to welcome all Yale friends with "velvet cups."
DERYCK H. WARING; 3 Templeton Avenue, Elizabeth, N.J.
I work as a recording engineer. I am married and have two chil- dren: a girl, Janet, three; and a boy, David, one. My main interests are music, photography, and railroads.
JOHN MOALE WARNER; 326 W. Willow Grove Avenue, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia 18, Pa.
Immediately after graduation, I was employed at the RCA plant
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in Camden, N.J. However, since July, 1937, I have been associated with Philadelphia Electric Company, serving in various capacities in the Operations Department. Since 1949, I have been Superintendent of Overhead Lines. During these years we have lived in Germantown, Langhorne, Coatesville, and Chestnut Hill.
In April, 1937, I was married to Virginia Stuart Ward, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Philip H. Ward, Jr., of Philadelphia. We have two sons, who are currently would-be athletes at Chestnut Hill Academy. Phil, nine, is half-back on the eighty-pound football team; while Johnny, eleven, is full-back on the soccer team. After a practice workout with them over a weekend, it is quite evident to me that the new genera- tion is taking over!
But, returning to the work-a-day world, I am a member of the Engineers' Club of Philadelphia and the Electrical Association of Philadelphia. I am currently serving as a Member of Council of the Yale Club of Philadelphia and am active on several Committees. I belong to the Yale Engineering Association, being Vice-President and Secretary of the Philadelphia Section. Until our Class consolidation a year ago, I was Class Secretary of the Sheff and Engineering portion and am now acting on the Class Executive Committee, primarily as a Regional Representative.
During the past summers at Cape May, N.J., tennis and especially beach tennis have been my chief interests and means of exercise. However, recently my sons have become avid fishermen, and my own interests have turned in this direction. During the winter our chief sport is badminton, and we are members of the Wissahickon Bad- minton Club.
As for profound (?) thoughts, I have this to offer. In correspon- dence with many members of Yale's Greatest Class and in prepara- tion of Alumni Notes, I have observed a consistent boasting by our members about their manual dexterity-the ability to build and repair anything in or about the walls of their own castle. There is something solid and fundamental about this, and I am proud to acclaim my right to join this large segment of our class who feel com- petent in the mysticisms of plumbing, carpentry, masonry, and general contracting in and around their own homes!
JOEL WARREN; 7415 Lynnhurst Street, Chevy Chase, Md.
It used to afford me a rather morbid pleasure to write the quinten- ary post-mortem, but now that the aging process can no longer be laughed off or overlooked, this job is a little frightening. Can it be that in the last five years we have neither moved from our old job, greatly modified our opinions, or gotten rich? We haven't. Anne, aged 41/2, and John Joel, aged 31/2, are two fine children acquired with little direct assistance from the alma mater but considerable
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from the natura mater. We have just returned from five months in Sweden, where I had been working at the Biochemical Institute at the University of Uppsala. We have fallen in love with Scandinavia- its beauty, its culture, and above all its integrity and respect for the capacity of human beings to solve their problems. We seem urgently to need more of the Swedish sensibility and rationality in our govern- ing bodies right now. Unfortunately, it seems to be a product of a rigorous climate as much as anything else.
Since 1942, both in and out of uniform, I have been at the Army Medical Service School in Washington, D.C. At the present time, I am Chief of the Department of Bacteriology, which operates in es- sentially the same fashion as academic departments outside of the federal service. This involves membership in the usual number of professional societies, attendance at the usual number of conferences and meetings, and writing of the usual number of reports, etc. Teach- ing is becoming more and more of a satisfying experience, not that we know more, but because I become increasingly appreciative of the gratitude and energy of younger students.
Another world war does not appear to be inevitable or unavoidable to my wife and me, and we try to do all we can to propagate what seems to be this naive idea in America.
JOHN B. WARREN; 23 Elm Court, Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.
In a few words-I am with an automotive parts concern; married; doing a lot of sailing and skiing.
JOHN W. WARRINGTON; 1616 Union Trust Building, Cincinnati 2, Ohio.
I work as a lawyer with the firm of Grayden, Head, and Ritchey. I married Suzanne Mooney on May 5, 1951, and we live in Indian Hill Village, Ohio. I am a Republican.
WILLIAM O. WEBB; West Montgomery Avenue, Rockville, Md.
Since severing all ties with the Air Corps in July of 1946, I have been an employee of the United States Government in Washington. Overlooking the usual frustrations inherent in government work, the job has been satisfying and stimulating. On the home front, the sec- ond son arrived on August 8, 1946, and the two of them manage to keep us thoroughly engaged. We live on approximately fifteen acres on the outskirts of Rockville, Md .- a piece of property which we are just barely able to keep up with.
LEONARD WEINER; 3038 E. Drachman, Tucson, Ariz.
Another book, another five years; Chuck will have a playmate
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soon since he now has a sister, Elizabeth Jane, who was born on November 17, 1950.
In the interim a house has been acquired and now I am building my own office. Located in a cooperatively-owned venture occupying two city blocks, this quadrangle (a la Yale) houses 30 to 35 physi- cians and 7 to 10 dentists. The offices form the periphery of the quadrangle whilst the center is given over to parking patients' cars. Having looked forward for many years to owning my office, it is needless to say that the realization is most satisfying.
Golf, undertaken at my wife's request to prevent a coronary, sic, sic, has become a consuming passion. It is with a deep sense of regret that I count the number of years that slipped by without in- dulging in the game. To think of the opportunities Yale offered in this direction and the number of us that did not take advantage of them.
Reading fills many of the evening hours. It was with no small degree of pride that I read John Hersey's books. "The Wall" is fascinating.
In one way or another church and philanthropic affairs have held me in a tight grip. To such an extent that in 1949 mine was the honor of being chairman of the United Jewish Appeal in Tucson, which year saw $107,000 raised for Jewish philanthropies. This work has convinced me that if we are to stand off governmental interfer- ence, i.e., socialized medicine, in these matters, each of us better get on the ball and lend a hand; not alone in fighting the legislation but more importantly in making such legislation unnecessary by demon- strating that private initiative and private capital can adequately support hospitals, universities, youth centers, research foundations, et cetera, et cetera, ad infinitum.
Professionally, this five-year interval has seen my election to the American Academy of Periodontology, the American Association of Endodontists, and my specialization in the field of periodontia.
SAM WEINTRAUB, JR .; 802 12th Street, Denver 2, Colo.
My first jobs, out of school, were in the department store business, and then the life insurance business in Chicago until 1938. Then I returned home to Denver, where I worked in my father's clothing business, and later in the property management business till 1943. Then I was with the Goodyear Aircraft Co. as Senior Industrial Engineer, and in that capacity I served under the office of Scientific Research for several trailer manufacturers and other war goods manu- facturers, until 1946. Then I was a consultant management engineer, until I organized and headed my own manufacturing business, mak- ing products out of glass cloth. Since July 1, 1949, I have been work-
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ing with our very wonderful company selling draperies, floor cover- ings, upholstery fabrics, and imported house furnishings to the de- partment stores and manufacturers of the South West. This year I was made Branch Manager of the seven states and I am very happy to have finally found that work for which I am best suited.
In 1940, I talked Maxine Kurtz of Denver into marrying me. We are blessed with two little girls-Lynne, nine, and Nan, three.
My only regrets-I should have taken graduate work, and I should have found my present business years ago.
JOHN BRECKENRIDGE WELLS; 292 Silas Deane Highway, Wethersfield, Conn.
Physician, engaged in the practice of medicine in Hartford, Conn., living in Wethersfield in a degree of peace and quiet with my good wife Eunice, daughter Judy, who is eight, and sons Ernest A. and Stephen H., whose ages are six and two, respectively. Whenever pos- sible, we avoid social, civic, political, and philanthropic activities, seeking entertainment at the family-unit level. Most of our time is spent in growing, living, and, on occasions, even working.
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