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FRANK C. ARMSTRONG; 1001 19th, Golden, Colo.
After graduation I went to Canada, where I spent seven years working as miner, engineer, assayer, geologist and general handy man at several mines and prospects in northern Quebec and Ontario. Before the United States officially went to war the Navy discharged me. In the spring of 1943 I left the dignified relief of a geologist at a gold mine to join the Strategic Minerals program of the U.S. Geo- logical Survey in the Northwest with headquarters at Spokane. In due time I became, by default, Northwest Regional Geologist. The fall of 1946 I started graduate work at the University of Washing- ton and finished up at Stanford in 1949. During those years I divided my time between graduate work in the winters and summers with the Geological Survey in southeastern Idaho looking for AEC raw materials. Last June I transferred to the Trace Elements* unit of the Survey in Denver. With all this classified material things are really bad, e.g .:
Once I met a T. E. man;
Asked him the way to the nearest can. 'Sorry,' said he, just as I feared, 'Can't tell you 'cause you haven't been cleared.'
Jean Ann Chestnut of Havre, Mont., and Montana State 1944, a tall, lithesome, chestnut-haired (of course) gal was lucky enough to win me in June, 1947. I seem to enjoy it.
*Government euphemism for fissionable materials.
GEORGE D. ARTHUR, JR .; 376 Post Road, Noroton, Conn.
The years since the last edition of this opus have not been as active as the previous five years. I am still with the same investment firm, now Cohu & Co. (instead of Cohu & Torrey), and I now appear to be assistant salesmanager as well as syndicate manager, but this isn't as important as it sounds. The active security markets which the last few years have witnessed have naturally increased the tempo of our business, and it looks as though this will keep up for some time to come, but Wall Street life is not as active and hectic as Army life.
We are still living in the same house in Noroton-a little more crowded now since the arrival of another George D. on March 23, 1947. The score is now two pre-war daughters and one post-war son. Maybe the Army did something for me after all. No more dividends foreseen on the horizon, but one never knows, does one?
Swimming, tennis, and sailing are first on the list after the in- numerable chores which are always in evidence to be done around the house; my private flying license was allowed to lapse as the cost of living went up, but we hope to get a bigger sail-boat next year.
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The Republicans are still very much in favor with me, but cer- tainly a Democrat like Byrd is more of a Republican than some of the nominal members of the GOP. In any event, if Truman & Co. aren't relieved of their assignments soon, it won't be "Après nous le déluge" but instead "Avec nous le déluge."
WENDELL R. ATHERTON; 50 Columbia Street, Bangor, Maine.
The past five years seem rather uneventful compared with the preceding period spent in military service. However, it could be con- sidered the most important period in my life.
In November, 1946, with the passing of my father, I was left alone in the practice of law, but the succeeding January saw me com- mence the first of two successive terms in the Maine Legislature as a representative from Bangor. This proved to be not only a novel but a very interesting and educational experience. Through seniority I was able to become Chairman of the House Committee on Legal Affairs during my second term. During this period I received an appointment to the Maine Commission on Interstate Cooperation, which I held for four years and which proved to be a valuable experience.
On June 1, 1947, I ended my bachelor days and immediately be- came a family man when I adopted my wife's daughter by a previous marriage, and one year and four days later my wife presented me with another daughter who was appropriately named Patience. But I am optimistically looking for a son to follow me to Andover and Yale.
In June, 1950, I was an unsuccessful candidate for County At- torney but may possibly try again in 1952.
As this five year period comes to a close and I look back, I feel that much has been accomplished and that it certainly ended on a very pleasant note at our Fifteenth Reunion which I enjoyed im- mensely even though there were many classmates whom I did not know well.
CHARLES LA POINTE AUDETTE; Box 77, Brookside, N.J.
As far as this writer is concerned, there was much more news to report in the autobiographies written five and ten years ago. First there was the excitement of getting married and getting started and then, of course, there was a lot of military news from most of us. All this is not to admit being in a rut-it is simply a reflection upon the way life seems to have settled down a bit.
Now we live 'way out in the country-an hour and a half away from New York and the job-occupying several acres on top of a large hill or a small "mountain" with what is said to be a twenty-
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mile view. The same wife and the same son and daughter, plus a dog and a cat complete the menage. It all makes for a good, if not par- ticularly glamorous, life.
Of course television has made its inevitable impact on most of the family, though "stuffy Dad" manages to stay away from its offerings all but one or two hours a week. No doubt there are many fine features to be seen, but they do seem to interfere with music, talking, reading and other pursuits of, to me, a more enjoyable nature.
As Assistant Manager of a selling organization-the Eastern Division of the Niagara Lithograph Co-quite a bit of travelling is involved, which gives one a chance to compare and exchange ideas. It also gives one a chance to weigh his own, and many of mine remain unchanged since our last report.
It seems truer every day that we need a leader, or leaders, who are men and not politicians. We desperately need a house-cleaning in our Federal Government-and this is no particular boost for the Re- publicans, many of whom are just as cynical and politically and socially immoral as the present Administration.
Some solutions may be to make the jobs more financially attractive, to eliminate patronage whenever possible and to do something about such outfits as the Prendergast mob that spawned Truman.
It is presumptuous to try to lay down a foreign policy, but it does seem that experience has shown the impracticality and unfeasibility of a U.N. set-up as it is now. Experience should have taught us some- thing of what to expect from the Soviet, long before we re-recognized her, and we should have learned what to expect when we idly sat by watching our so-called "liberals" playing since 1932.
Maybe things will look brighter and taxes will be down by 1956- it could be!
WALDO A. AVERY, JR .; 121 Homewood Road, Los Angeles, Calif.
I'm still sincere enough after fifteen years to be a partner in the Charles H. Mayne Advertising Agency. I recently remarried, inherit- ing two future "Blues."
My interests involve golf, gardening, reading, and trying to prove to myself that the Weimaraner is not a wonder dog. Opinions and mink coats have given me little satisfaction to date . .. I look for- ward to November.
FREDERIC M. AYRES, JR .; 5111 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis, Ind.
Had this addenda to the last report on my activities been written two weeks earlier, it would have been impossible to mention the fact that my three daughters were joined by a small brother on July 5 of
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this year. Needless to say, the old man is more than glad to have the support of another male in a family so predominantly feminine. His arrival did not even prevent my attendance at reunion which two out of three of the girls' lack of cooperation accomplished in past years.
Other than that there is little to add to the story of five years ago. I am still in the same business in the same town doing more or less the same things; moderately active in several civic enterprises as typified by serving on the board of the local Goodwill Industries and quite interested in one or two extra-curricular businesses. Life is pretty routine but on a day to day basis happy and pleasant.
I dislike Truman.
BRUCE BABCOCK; 130 East 94th Street, New York 28, N.Y.
Fifteen pounds, two inches, one son, and two jobs ago, I sat down to write a ten-year biography-and I am asked already to make with the fifteen-year record. Something brief-like "The Wall," perhaps. Whatever happened to those last five years?
From where I left off, the first event worthy of note came in 1948 when, by mutual consent, I terminated my business association with Lex Thompson. At that time I joined Moore Business Forms, Inc., as a sales representative in the New York area, specializing in the design of business forms for the insurance field. This was my first experience as a salesman and, although my territory was short on farmers' daughters, the considerable change from my previous work proved as beneficial as it was interesting. In June, 1950, I again made a change, although continuing as a peddler, when I jumped at the opportunity of taking over the New York-New Jersey territory for the Wilmot Castle Company of Rochester, N.Y., manufacturers of hospital operating room lights and sterilizing equipment.
The family circle was enlarged on August 30, 1950, when Bruce, Jr. was presented with a brother, Clayton Campbell. Uncle Sam had pre- vented my seeing young Bruce until he was two, so Clayton was a completely new, occasionally harrowing, but ultimately wonderful experience. At the height of those four a. m. bottles, however, I wasn't at all sure that reenlistment wasn't the answer.
Paternally, I still find myself lagging far behind such virile class- mates as Farnham and Pinkham, who evidently have no time for fishing. In line with catching up, Lucy and I still include a daughter in our plans.
In the field of pastimes, I have become during the last five years that worst of all addicts, a confirmed and incurable bridge player. If you're looking for a fourth, call Sacramento 2-7220, open twenty- four hours a day. My only regret is that my ability runs a distinct
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second to my enthusiasm. With the exception of swimming and very occasional golf, physical exercise has become a regretable rarity, and the result has been the rapid disappearance of any thing remotely resembling a muscle. Together with the usual and measurable evi- dences of (let's face it) middle age, I now find myself on the wagon -a fate much worse in anticipation than in realization. I only hope that my abstinence will place my troubles behind me chronologically as well as geographically.
On rereading my thoughts of five years ago, it is discouragingly ironic to realize that the World War III I mentioned jokingly at that time has since become a reality. I suppose all of us regret most that our fundamental optimism in that first post-war year should have proved so ill-founded, our statesmen so ill-advised, and our govern- ment so woefully lacking in leadership and any comprehension of moral integrity. As a citizen, I feel pretty thoroughly frustrated in the face of the pyramidal and seemingly endless corruption, misman- agement, and moral cowardice. Our only hope would seem to be in fact that things are so bad that none of us, regardless of our political affiliations, can stomach any more. The country is in dire need of more Americans and fewer politicians-let us pray that 1952 will find them.
EDWARD PARSONS BAGG, 3RD; 24 Princeton Street, Holyoke, Mass.
Shortly after Tenth Reunion, two sons, Laurence and Terry, came into our household. They are now four and five and a half years old, respectively. If environment has anything to do with it, then the two Yale sweatshirts which they sport at present might make them lean toward the Old Blue later on.
The Treasurership of Parsons Paper Company in Holyoke necessi- tates my signing checks now and then, but my main bulk of duty is in the production and developmental end of the business. Holyoke Hospital, Housing Authority, Y.M.C.A. and Rotary Club occupy the main civic participation in the setup. Once in a while wife Dot grouses a little about the time involved.
Fishing, boating, squash, volleyball, baseball, golf and other types of abnormalties divert the mind somewhat.
Lately, it seems, paths have crossed with a goodly number of classmates and it's always a pleasure to see them no matter what condition they're in. Some of them turn out to be worse correspon- dents than the author (how about it, Greenwood?).
Looking back five years, it's hard to believe that we were just getting out of uniform and settling back a little, only to enter the series of tensions which has brought about the present unpleasant
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world situation. It's very difficult for most of us to comprehend such a complex mess. But the underlying struggle between two basic philosophies is certainly evident. Make the best of it, or better, if possible.
There, in short, are a few sketchy details. If you must know more, write, or better yet drop in and see what makes the wheels go 'round.
GEORGE H. BALDWIN; Lynch Building, Jacksonville 2, Fla.
During my years since 1936, I have been a patent attorney, naval officer, law student, and engineer in inverse order. Starting with General Electric in 1936, I tested transformers in Pittsfield, gener- ators in Schenectady, and worked in the Research Lab. Then in 1939, G. E. sent me to Washington to go to George Washington University Law School (graduated LL.B., 1943). On December 6, 1941, I ap- plied for a Navy commission, which was shortly after my being com- missioned a husband by Bee Rhett of Charleston, S.C. During the next four years in the Navy, we christened George III and John Rhett, and in 1948 along came Bryan.
During the four years prior to 1949, I was a patent attorney for G. E. in Schenectady, bought a home, learned to ski, and was settled for life. But the lure of the Southland finally became too much and I resigned my job, threw over thirteen years of G. E. seniority, sold the house, took the Florida Bar exam, and bought a shingle which now adorns a door in Jacksonville's Lynch Bldg. Now I work like hell, belong to the Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary Club, the local Bar Association, the Children's Museum, the Yale Club of Jackson- ville, etc. If anyone wants to know where to live, I will be glad to send them a book. If they want to know where to establish a busi- ness, I will send two books, a crate of oranges, and the President of the Chamber of Commerce.
I share office space with the brother, Robert, '39, of White Cooney, '35. There is only one '36 in Jacksonville, me.
The "Dean of the Patent Bar of Jacksonville" has a door open to any visiting Yales. Just look under "Patent Attorney" in the phone book. The list consists of only one.
ALEXANDER STEWART BALLINGER; 865 West End Ave., New York 25, N.Y.
I claim to be the only member of Yale's Greatest Class now em- ployed (and I use the term loosely) under the classification of Singer- Actor, and have never been happier-or broker. We moved east from California when it became obvious that, except for seasonal light opera work and some TV and radio, there wasn't enough of a market for my particular talents (?) in the land of Warners, Zanuck, and Schary. Have done a little of everything since moving to New York.
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Sang the lead in a night club review in Boston, won Godfrey's Talent Scouts, worked with Jane Pickens in a night club act and on TV and radio for six months, played a part in Eddie Dowling's Springboard To Nowhere (which lived up to its title) in Chicago, did Ravenal in Show Boat at Corning, New York, and in between have taken anything I could get including singing commercials, radio talent contests, and convention shows. My three kids and wife keep me from getting too low between jobs. Wade and Mike, five, and Bruce, two, all sing like boids and have already been on a network radio show with me.
Our first winter east found us in Stamford, but commuting proved too much of a problem when I had to do a late show at the Waldorf. Have since settled for an apartment in town where we lead a fairly quiet existence, most of our spare time being spent with the children in trips to the park, zoo, beach, etc. As for "club affiliations," my one and only is a membership in the local YMCA. My current sentiments politically have been mostly pro administration foreign policy, pro United Nations, and anti MacArthur (also anti McCarthy). Did not vote for HST but find myself admiring his courage. Eisenhower would get my vote, should he run.
RICHARD D. H. BANBURY; 191 Elizabeth Street, Hartford, Conn.
I am married and have one son.
JOHN WILLIAMS BARCLAY; 324 Livingston Street, New Haven, Conn.
Since 1946, family, business and community life have continued in their usual course.
In the first field, a daughter, Louise, made her appearance on De- cember 28, 1947, and was followed by a son, John, on April 29, 1950.
In the business line, law practice in the firm of Barclay and Barclay fills an eight hour day, plus a few evenings.
In the community, there are the ordinary hours and days devoted to fund raising and politics (Episcopal Church, Red Cross, United Fund, and Republican Party). An unsuccessful campaign for the State Senate in 1950 proved interesting but time consuming. Mem- bership on the local airport commission and work as assistant cor- poration counsel in the city have been satisfying.
WILLIAM CRICHLOW LAMOND BARKER; 602 Fargo Boule- vard, Geneva, Ill.
Some aphoristic Frenchman said, in effect-there goes the aphor-
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ism !- He had not lived who was not radical at twenty, reactionary at forty. In a lesser degree, this probably applies to all of us. While I believed, generally, in paying bills while at college, I also was a little more in favor of world-uplift than at present. The lack of leader- ship, the irresponsibility, and the suicidal socialistic proclivites of our elected 'leaders' have surely had a sobering effect on others as on me. Let's work for the United Nations, but, simultaneously, let's work at least as hard on economy and efficiency in government, and ends and means.
In the fall of 1936, I embarked on a well-considered plan to become another Oliver Wendell Holmes, but abandoned this at the end of the academic year, when I decided to become another Wish Harris. After three and a half years in The Pullman Company, motivated entirely by heroism, altruism (and an eager draft board), I enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy and served the term, becoming married the while.
Since the war: six years making wood trim for furniture; three infants; same wife. Hobby, if you can call it that: rectifying or removing from sight the effects of the little demons' depradations. Future bleak, but one enjoys the struggle.
HENRY NOYES BARKHAUSEN; 294 East Rose Terrace, Lake Forest, Ill.
Since last writing, we have been able to round out our family by adding two boys to the two girls previously reported, Henry being born in May, 1948, David in January, 1951. Another step forward is my relief from a steady heavy schedule of traveling through the Mid- west for the Northwest Engineering Co., Chicago; am now function- ing for that company as the Chicago District sales manager, and enjoying a normal commuting life.
Usual recreation and exercise consists of puttering around house, yard and workshop, which I find satisfactory and enjoyable, although high point of each year is a short sailing cruise in Northern waters of the Great Lakes. I hope eventually to spend more time on my collec- tion of material concerning old commercial sailing days on the Lakes.
Now that my business travels have tapered off, temporarily at least, I look forward to giving more time to local and civic affairs. Consider myself a Republican.
RICHARD W. BARLOW; Larchmont Acres, Larchmont, N.Y.
It is difficult to believe that another five years has rolled by since the last autobiography. On leaving the Navy in 1946, I returned to my profession as a life insurance consultant in New York City. After many years of hard work, the horizon has brightened considerably but the hard work still tags along.
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In June, 1948, Eloise Atwood of Larchmont made that trip down the aisle with me, and we have been living happily in Larchmont ever since. Each year we try to spend some time in March at Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., where my wife makes it a practice to beat me at tennis every day. During the summer she repeats the process at the Larchmont Shore Club. And to think I taught her tennis three years ago!
It will be difficult for any of us to give an optimistic view of the world outlook. If the year 1953 can be passed without a full-scale war, I will be surprised.
JACOB THOMAS BARRON, JR .; 306 Allen Avenue, Allenhurst, N.J.
We moved down here on the North Jersey Coast on April 25, 1947. On July 27, that year, Robert Russell Barron, our second son, was born. On January 22, 1948, United Engineers & Constructors Inc. transferred me from field purchasing to expediting division of purchasing department. Except for weekends, I spent most of that year in Philadelphia (Home Office) and the next two on the road. At present my work is mostly in New York City and New Jersey, allowing me to get home nights.
Am a member of St. Andrew-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church (Allen- hurst), National Republican Club (New York), Yale Club of Philadelphia and Allenhurst Beach Club.
STEPHEN L. BARTHOLOMEW; Essex Fells, N.J.
After nearly six years of flying for the Navy during which I amassed 4200 hours, we parted company in December, 1945. We made the happy decision to move back to my home town (and incidentally my wife's, too), where we settled down into the pleasant routine of suburbia, with Pop working for the Lock Joint Pipe Co. and Mom working for Carol and Steve, Jr., now aged eight and six respectively. There is now a third, Susan, aged ten months who has brought even more pleasure to the household. I am still working with Lock Joint as an estimater and Asst. to our Vice-President in charge of Sales.
My "spare" time is spent in gradually rehabilitating a fine house we bought in 1949, chasing fires as an ardent volunteer fireman, and working on the Budget Committee of the local Community Chest. A daily work-out on a rowing machine plus tennis on week-ends keeps me in what some would describe as a horrible state of good health. I keep up somewhat with Yale through the Yale Club of Montclair Bowl shindig every year. An annual visit to the mountains for two weeks every summer is enjoyed tremendously by all, but regret that we have not been able to make a family ski weekend as yet.
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PHILIP K. BARTOW; 14 Sutton Place South, New York 22, N.Y.
I work for Wood Struthers & Company, members of the New York Stock Exchange; am married and have one daughter, who is at pres- ent attending Dana Hall, and two sons, ages four and one, by my second marriage. My main hobby is still golf-favorite indoor sport is the same as any one else's.
MARSHALL MORRIS BASSICK; Brooklawn Park Hills, Bridge- port, Conn.
1945 saw the arrival of our third child, Barret Moxley, and no year since then has seen another arrival (not that I'm disappointed). Nothing amazing or startling happened in the following years until the end of 1949, at which time a deal was consummated whereby a controlling interest in the Hatheway Manufacturing Company was assumed by me. Hatheway manufactures clothing buckles and women's garter parts (take that gleam out of your eyes, boys-it's not all beer and skittles). Many of our friends and cohorts engaged in the manufacturing business, especially metal parts, I am sure will agree with me that you can't make any money but you sure can get a liberal education in Government red tape.
My civic affiliations include The Exchange Club, which affords the opportunities for many pleasant associations.
ALFRED G. BAUER; 3745 Darlington Road, N.W., Canton 9, Ohio.
After graduation in '36, was employed by the Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, N.Y., and later in Pittsburgh and New York. Called into Naval service as mail coordinator, Navy Department, where I served in the executive office of the Secretary with duties including mail distribution to the U.S. Fleet, disposition of casualty mail, etc. Returned after the war to manage the Washington, D.C., office of Recordak Corporation (Eastman Kodak). Was married shortly before (in 1945) to Lelia Dean Frazier from Monroe, La. Have two children, a boy, two, and a girl, four. We moved to Ohio when I changed my vocation and went into the institutional canned foods business, the George S. Daugherty Company.
CHARLES BERTRAND BAYLY JR .; 2803A 16th Road South, Arlington, Va.
The period from June, 1946, to June, 1951, has formed a perfect circle in my life. Then a captain in the Judge Advocate General's Department of the Army. Now a captain in the Judge Advocate General's Corps of the Army. Each time has been part of an involun- tary career. In the interim I acquired a wife and two sons. The second
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