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is said to have my mouth. I wondered why I have not been eating well lately. My recall to the Army left Columbia Boadcasting System, Inc. without a tax attorney, but as yet the tax collector has not seized all of the Corporation's assets for back taxes. In uniform I am tax attorney for the Ordnance Corps, Department of the Army. If any- one cannot understand how a branch of the Federal Government can have any tax-paying problems, I shall be glad to explain.
NEIL P. BEALL; 226 South 16th Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
I am a physician, attached to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. I am single.
MONROE CURTIS BEARDSLEY; 1 Crum Ledge, Swarthmore, Pa.
After teaching Philosophy in the Directed Studies Program at Yale, I came to Swarthmore College in 1947, where we (that is, my wife and two boys, aged six and eight) have found a very busy and full life. Libby teaches Philosophy at the University of Delaware; during the past year, I have been doing research on a Guggenheim fellow- ship. Various college and community activities, and the usual diffi- culties in keeping up with growing boys, keep us occupied, but in the chinks of time an elementary textbook managed to get itself finished and published in two versions, as Practical Logic (unabridged) and Thinking Straight (abridged), under a 1950 Prentice-Hall imprint.
JOHN WILLIAM BEECHER, R.D. 1, Schuylkill Haven, Pa.
Returned East in 1947. Bought small farm and am presently rais- ing chickens, crops and children, but not necessarily in that order. The third child arrived in June, 1949. Named Elaine. All are daugh- ters, so Wellesley is more important topic than Yale. However, I have been interviewing and I hope helping local youths with Yale aspira- tions.
WILLIAM S. BEINECKE; 156 Beechwood Road, Summit, N.J.
Betty and I now respond to the wants of four young Beineckes: Ricky (eight), John (five), Sarah (three) and Frances (two).
The last two summers have found us well out on Cape Cod at Orleans. Fishing, sailing and swimming appear to be my principal activities in the summer. I golf and ski a little at other times. Five days at Aspen, Colorado, last winter and five or six days seeking salmon at Campbell River in British Columbia in 1948 are a couple of my top items in the last few years.
Three years ago I started my own law business in New York City and now number among my partners, Constantine Mittendorf ('37)
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and Paul J. Chase ('39). This, I hardly need add, has been a pleasant and most stimulating enterprise.
Politically I am disturbed by the course of events in the world, as are we all. No quick and rapid solution for the world's ills occurs to me at the moment; so I will refrain from voicing anything further along this line.
I would like to record a real desire to see and talk with more of my classmates as the years go on than has been possible in the some- what hurried past fifteen years.
PETER BELIN; 1607 28th Street, N.W., Washington 7, D.C.
For ten years now, proper introductions have not been made. From past Histories, you know my wife's name to be Mary-that's enough for me, but not for you wolves! She was Mary Cootes of Norfolk- and occasionally regrets the change. Two more boys-Alan, now aged four, and Graham, aged one-have increased the happy family; however, our only daughter, Beverly, died on May 2, 1951, from acute leukemia.
As I write, the sad note is projected with the passing of my former commanding officer, Admiral Forrest Sherman. As the intelligence officer on his staff for two years in the Mediterranean-1948 and 1949-I soon learned why and how he more recently has been able to bring the Navy up to the taut pitch of pride which is now hers. Since January 1950, my duties have been concerned again with intelligence in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations.
There may be a truce, but certainly no permanent peace in Korea -- not until we settle permanently with the U.S.S.R. If we really want a Pax Americana , which we seem to advocate, we will have to defeat the U.S.S.R. before we achieve it. I only hope enough of us want badly enough a Pax Americana.
CHARLES BELKNAP II; 74 Water Street, Guilford, Conn.
My wife is Rosalie Flagg, of Meriden, Conn., whom I married in 1940. We have three children: Rosalie, eight, Helen, six, and Charles, three and a half. I am self-employed, and my main interest is the sea. Almost six years in the Navy didn't help, either.
ROBERT E. BELKNAP, JR .; 5 Cove Street, Duxbury, Mass.
I have just been moved from Boston to New York City by my company, Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Sales, Inc., and at this point am spending 100% of my time getting acclimated to my new job as New York district sales manager and trying to find a place to live.
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Therefore, there isn't much time for hobbies or interests-it will be sailing when we get the opportunity.
My office is in the Lincoln Building at 60 East 42d Street. I am married and have two boys and a girl-and another on the way.
HAROLD BELL; Brier Road, Gloucester, Mass.
The time zooms by, and I manage to grasp a bit of it occasionally. I wish, however, that it would slow down a bit to give us plodders a chance to catch up. My occupation is treasurer in charge of production at the Cape Ann Manufacturing Co. I hold the same position at home, having five children, a wife and duties. Between work and home my life is very full and pleasant, but I could be happier if we had a Yale 'thirty-sixer as Secretary of State.
JACK M. BELLEW; 26 Alameda Place, Mount Vernon, N.Y.
This latest chapter finds me still kicking textiles around, in one form or another. However, after almost five years of living in Man- hattan (working there is bad enough) we decided to give the big city the heave-ho and came up to Mt. Vernon. This provides me with time enough to give the morning paper a going-over while I ride into town on the New Haven road, whose oldest equipment is reserved for the commuter runs. This move into Weschester also provided the kids with sections of lawn to ruin, lawn being one of nature's bless- ings which is practically non-existent in New York.
The family hasn't grown any since the last report, but the kids sure have, and keeping up with them as they shoot out of clothes is a joy I'm sure most of you are sharing in your own homes with your own little mobsters.
My work keeps me on the go, both locally and cross-countrywise. When at home, the comings and goings of friends makes the time fly by so fast it seems impossible to believe that fifteen years have passed since we were handed clay pipes and tobacco pouches. I still get up to New Haven often enough to trod the "old sod," and it still feels good.
RUSSELL ALWIN BERG; 138 Lexington Avenue, Fair Haven, N.J.
From 1937 to 1941, I held a number of jobs in radio communica- tions and manufacturing, operating, testing, and building various kinds of electronics equipment. From 1941 to 1950, I was with the Signal Corps at Fort Monmouth Laboratories as a civilian engineer, primarily working on the development of communication and test equipment for use by the troops. Also, I had several field assignments, one of which was the installation of a radio relay for combat use in North Africa in 1943. To the best of my knowledge this was the first
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of its kind used by the U. S. Army, and represented a fundamental change in communications techniques for mobile warfare. In 1950, I capitulated in my version of "At War with the Army" and resigned. Now I am Chief Engineer of Manufacturers Thread Grinding, Inc. of Eatontown, N.J., a small machine shop where my main assign- ment is to put my company into the electronics business. We are developing a line of microwave components which is coming along.
In August, 1942, I married Shirley H. Campbell of Sewickley, Penn. After two years at Vassar in the class of 1937, she had trans- ferred to Pennsylvania College for Women, from which she had graduated. We have three children, Gretchen, seven, Peter, five, and Geoffery, three. Also, have Jimmie, officially Jeremiah of Milmoch, an Irish Setter.
For the last seven years, our house has been the center of most of my hobbies and diversions. After having been an apartment dweller for thirty years, it was fun to learn to build, rebuild, and repair around the house. On the intellectual side, I derive a lot of pleasure from trying to keep up with the ever expanding electronics field and in advancing my fundamentals in mathematics and physics. Being a radio engineer practically inevitably leads one into building a high fidelity radio receiver. To my surprise the result of this more or less technical exercise has been that I have found a great deal of interest in and pleasure from fine music.
ROBERT W. BERLINER; 4317 Elm Street, Chevy Chase, Md.
For the last year and a half I've been at the National Heart Insti- tute, where I'm chief of the section on kidney and electrolyte metabo- lism. Previously I had been an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia. I've been married just ten years, have three children, two boys and a girl. Interests-work and family. Opinions-lean to the liberal.
ARTHUR D. BERLISS, JR .; 167 Brite Avenue, Scarsdale, N.Y.
In May, 1949, I resigned my publishing position as assistant to the President of the George May Companies and switched my allegiance to the Allen Hollander Company, Inc., producers of paper labels. Presently I am Vice-President and Secretary of this company, and of two other companies in the same field: The Tamone Label Company, Inc., and the Stanart Printed Specialty Company, Inc.
In May, 1950, I bought a house in Scarsdale. Offspring: Elizabeth Ann (now eight) and Henry Arthur (now six), and wife, Suzanne Frankel Berliss, heartily enthusiastic over move. I am learning how to be a commuter.
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In May, 1951, the U.S. Navy put me on the Inactive Reserve being disapproving of ulcers (probably incurred by commuting).
Affiliations: Quaker Ridge Golf Club, Hirain Lodge #1, A.F. and A.M., and Jewish Community Center of White Plains.
IRVIN ELLIOT BERNSTEIN; 2130 N St., N.W., Washington 7, D.C.
Nothing really exciting has happened. I'm still with the U.S. Government; first with Central Intelligence Agency and now in Office of Chief Counsel, Office of Price Stabilization. My present work is the most enjoyable I've had since leaving school.
Still single, I'm still enjoying the material attributes of a Washing- ton bachelor-i.e., flashy car, apartment, TV set, etc.
My views on the future are hopeful but not optimistic-unless another Tito miracle happens in China or a ruinous civil war breaks out in the U.S.S.R.
My favorite diversion is bass-when they bite.
JOHN ALEXANDER BEVAN; 26 Pelham Road, West Hartford, Conn.
Returning to the actuarial profession in 1946, I completed my fellowship in the Society of Actuaries during the following year and am now holding down the position of Assistant Actuary in the home office of the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company here in Hartford.
A son, aged four months, now takes up what spare time I don't devote to golf, tennis, squash or bridge. Altho extra poundage seems to be accumulating, I still found the agility last year to win a few tennis tournaments and play on the Lapham Cup squash team.
EDWARD M. BEYER; 5904 Meadow Lane, Dallas, Tex.
We are presently living in Dallas, Texas, where I am back in the brokerage business running the local branch of Harris, Upham & Co. Tracing the events which led to this would be a wearisome task, so I will merely state that I resigned from the Chemical Bank in 1948 to start a business with John Herold, 1936 S., leaving that and New York in 1950 to come to Texas for Harris, Upham.
Now some people regard Dallas as the Athens of the new world while others prefer to think of it simply as one of nature's cruel jokes. My own opinion lies somewhere between these two extremes, although I am not sure that Mrs. Beyer feels quite the same. In any event, we are settled here with our two daughters, and all four of us are learn- ing rapidly about life as it is lived in the great southwest.
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I still take no exercise, and I haven't been ill since I left the Navy. My principal hobbies are alcohol, reading and criticizing my wife's paintings. Being a simple soul, I believe the road to peace lies in world disarmament and free trade. My faith is still firm in that ancient saying, "Bet on the Yankees, sleep nights, and buy Superior Oil of California."
MALCOLM W. BICK; 162 Pineywoods Ave., Springfield, Mass.
The years 1946 through 1948 were spent in Baltimore, where I finished my residency training in ophthalmology.
In January, 1949, we moved to Springfield, Mass. I have three children: Michael S., eight; Elizabeth B., four, and Katherine R., seventeen months.
My time is fairly well occupied by an office in Northhampton, Mass., and one in Springfield.
MARTIN BICKFORD; 7Q Research Road, Greenbelt, Md.
Among our friends we are known as the nomadic Bickfords, having, by force of circumstance, moved to a new locale approximately every two years. My first job was with the Naugatuck Chemical Company, Naugatuck, Conn. The pre-war era saw us move to Washington, D.C., to join the U.S. Employment Service and the U.S. Civil Service Commission as a member of the Engineering Recruiting and Employ- ment staff. As an Officer in the Naval service, I covered much territory and then proceeded to stay put for a two-year period in a Naval hospital for disabilities incurred. During my rehabilitation, I spent two years at Columbia University taking graduate work in Industrial Engineering. We are now back in Washington, D.C., and connected with the U.S. Civil Service Commission.
The family started with Anita Lautman, Hunter College '40, on June 14, 1941. Carol Sandra was born at Camp Pendleton, Ocean- side, California, on July 26, 1945, and Brad Jay saw the first light of day on March 11, 1948, in New York City.
Our interests vary from bridge to membership on the Board of Directors of the Greenbelt Consumers Cooperative.
LOUIS EDWARD BIERINGER; 210 Rockingstone Avenue, Larch- mont, N.Y.
It has been six years since I took reluctant leave of the Navy. To date I am still a bachelor and have yet to vote for a winning Presiden- tial candidate. As a small, struggling, independent business man, I have given the tire business back to Firestone and Goodyear and find my present ice-cream business much more palatable, especially since
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it leaves me free, thru January and February, for the Ft. Lauderdale tennis courts. My tennis has improved to the point where I can beat my old Yale nemesis, but not the Boy Champion of Florida. Keep meaning to look up more of my old friends but seldom do. Refuse to answer number 19 of the questionaire on the grounds that it might tend to incriminate me.
JONATHAN BREWSTER BINGHAM; 3203 R Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
The above is strictly a temporary address: we have a lease on this red-brick fortress of a house which expires on November 9, 1952. Although my boss is a Boston Cabot and a Republican, a Taft broom would probably sweep him clean too. I am only "on leave" from the now venerable law firm of Cohen & Bingham at 10 Rockefeller Plaza, N.Y.C.
The assignment here, dating from last April, is in the State De- partment office having to do with foreign aid, military and economic. My title, which all four kids including Claudia (born since 1946) love to rattle off, is "Assistant Director of International Security Affairs for Non-European Areas."
Law practice the past five years has been challenging, sometimes entertaining, and always varied, with such clients as Jackie Robin- son, James W. Gerard, Decca Records, and Howdy-Doody. In the interstices I have followed my yen for politics-in the Democratic Party and also in Americans for Democratic Action. My only attempt to run for office was in Marcantonio's Congressional District last year: with the help of 36ers Heckscher, Jensen, Mallinson and others, I was one of five proposed by the Democratic Party as possible coalition candidates, but the Republicans looked away.
Two years on the Yale Corporation, during the first of which Whitney Griswold was elected our sixteenth president, were a great experience. Got elected once, and lost twice-to Robert A. Taft and Quigg Newton. Who could complain about that?
Music and tennis still rank highest for after hours, with family baseball (hard ball, of course) coming up fast. One memorable sum- mer was spent hitch-hiking all over the country with June. Rides came easier than they did in 1936!
JACOB WHEELER BIRD, JR .; 90 Huxley Road, Metuchen, N.J.
Have been employed by the National Lead Company since gradua- tion, except for five years off for service in the Navy during World War II. Am now an assistant superintendent in the Perth Amboy Plant of that company. Have been active in the Naval Reserve since graduation. Also am a member of the Rotary Club.
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Married September 6, 1940, to Doris Wallace Ramsey of Perth Amboy, N.J. No children.
Have no spare time worth mentioning, because of my job, Naval Reserve, and building a house. Whenever possible, however, indulge in reading, model-building and fishing.
ROBERT B. BIRGE; 211 Eakins Road, Manhasset, N.Y.
In June, 1947, Dottie and our one year old son, Robert Richards, and I moved from Arlington, Va., to Manhasset, Long Island. In Washington I had been renegotiating war contracts for the Quarter- master General; in New York these past four years I have been employed by Lampson, Fraser & Huth, Inc., a subsidiary of the Hudson's Bay Company (or the Company of Adventurers Trading into the Hudson's Bay). At Lampson we auction and sell at private treaty raw fur pelts, mostly mink, since the long haired furs are out of fashion. As personnel manager and more recently also assistant treasurer, I have had the stimulating experience of dealing with one of the most rabidly left wing unions in the country, the International Fur and Leather Workers Union.
The principal avocational interest for a while was a civic associa- tion called the Norgate Association, to which most of our neighbors belonged. Several civic minded citizens and I worked strenuously for a year and a half in an effort to incorporate Norgate and adjoining residential sections, also unincorporated, so that we might keep busi- ness at a safe distance and have some measure of self-government. We failed in these efforts and Dottie, Robin and I moved into the incorporated village of Munsey Park (Manhasset) a few months ago where the problems of traffic, business encroachment, etc., are under control.
For relaxation I like to paint and putter in and around the house, putting up wall paper, gardening, trimming the lawn. For sport, it is tennis and swimming in the summer, and in the winter sitting in front of a television set and watching those wonderful but erratic New York Rangers take an awful shellacking. Possibly evenings so spent will be more enjoyable now that the Rangers have a new coach.
RICHARD EDMUND BISHOP, JR .; Bevin Road, Northport, N.Y.
Married Edna H. Johnston on April 2, 1938. Have three children: boy ten, girl eight, and boy seven.
Belong to the local Lions Club, Yacht Club and P.T.A. Work with Nips, Inc., New York City, and Eaton-North, Inc., Northport, N.Y.
WILLIAM N. BIXBY, JR .; Hideaway Hill Farm, R.R. 1, Clayton 5, Mo.
R. E. Funsten Company employs me at its Treasurer. I was mar-
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ried on April 15, 1939, and have two daughters. All my spare time is spent in building up a worn out 50-acre hill farm with beef cattle and grass farming as the primary object. This seems to be the perfect solution to never ending desires to become an agronomist of merit.
FRANKLIN H. BLACKMER; 408 Lamborn, Helena, Mont.
One more year at Yale in the Forest School prepared me for my career as a forester.
I entered the U.S. Forest Service in 1937 as a range surveyor (grass estimater) on the Medicine Bow Forest in central Wyoming. Since then I have worked with the Forest Service in Colorado, the Idaho Pan Handle, and now in central Montana. The jobs have covered all phases of forestry work: including timber sales, range management, administration of recreation areas, maintenance of roads, trails, telephone lines, radios, etc., etc., and fire control. The only change from the outdoor diet was a six-month detail to Wash- ington, D.C., as a Civil Service Commission administrative intern. Altogether, the work has been most interesting and satisfying.
In 1938 Maxine Morse (Minnesota U. '37) decided the life of a Forest Ranger had enough glamour to compensate for the hardships of being a ranger's wife. She got a rough start, as our first station had no electricity, only coal stoves, a poor water supply, and an almost impassable access road.
We have three children-Franklin H. Jr. (Joe), an eleven year old with all the enthusiasm and despair characteristic of that age; Diane, nine years old, and Andy Rae, their spoiled young sister.
One of the undesirable features about the life of a U.S. Forest Service employee is that it is a steady grind during the summer months, so that vacations always come during the winter. Maybe that explains why my favorite recreation is still skiing. The whole family goes out also-whether for sport or merely in self defense-I wouldn't know.
We have moved so frequently in the last six years, we have hardly had a chance to become active in any of the local community doings. Joe has completed the sixth grade, and he has already attended six different schools, not counting the first grade which he took at home at the Ranger Station.
We've been in Helena for over a year, and have hopes of staying here awhile. My present title is Assistant Supervisor on the Helena National Forest. In addition to being a right hand man to the Super- visor, I handle the road maintenance, all timber sale activity, radio and telephone communication and fire control (the worst headache, but the most interesting part of the job).
Probably none of this sounds like a very logical development from
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a Yale education. However, I always wanted an outdoor career, and I am satisfied that my years at Yale have made this career much more interesting (both on and off the job).
JACK SCHOORMAKER BLAISDELL; 1002 River Lane, Santa Ana, Calif.
The year 1946 found me a Major in the Army Medical Corps., stationed at McCornack General Hospital, Pasadena, Calif. While playing golf in the vicinity of the Rose Bowl in December, it struck me that I was nuts to live anywhere else but southern California. Sooo-bought a little house with a little down and brought wife and three kids to Santa Ana in beautiful Orange County. On leaving the Army in September, 1947, went into debt again and set up an office and fortunately have managed to do better than I ever thought pos- sible at orthopedic surgery. "The practice" is booming, thank you, and keeps me busy. Have had a partner for two years to keep things under control. Now we live in a lovely California ranch house which we helped to build, paint, etc. It is furnished with pine antique furniture and in the garage are the beginnings of the workshop I've always wanted.
Hope to quit practice in 1972 and set up an antique shop with Fannie-Mrs. B., that is-and wait for the Grim Reaper, meanwhile gypping the unwary and bouncing the succeeding generations on my arthritic old knee.
Have missed all the reunions so far ... pretty poor record .. . but hope to do better in the future. Greetings to all my old classmates anyhow.
WILLIAM K. BLETHEN; The Seattle Times, Seattle, Wash.
After graduation, I returned to my work of learning the newspaper business on The Seattle Times. Married in 1937 to Jane Calvert; two sons, William Kingsley, Jr., and Robert Calvert Blethen, six and five years old, respectively. Became Associate Publisher of the paper in 1939. Joined the Navy in October, 1941, and went on active duty February, 1943. Associate Publisher of The Seattle Times from 1945 to 1949. I am now serving as Publisher of the above-named paper.
WILLIAM BLOCK; 851 12th Street, Oakmont, Pa.
My intense preoccupation in the last class history with an un- exciting military career resulted in the omission of my most vital vital statistic: the addition of a family. To put the record straight, was married on March 23, 1944, to Maxine Horton at Las Vegas, Nev., on a two-day Army leave. The marriage has been calm and
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productive; witness Bill Jr., six, Karen Diane, four, and Barbara Lynn, two.
Have kept busy the last five years relearning the newspaper pub- lishing business. What with rising costs and newsprint shortages, the road has not been all smooth. Managed to fritter away some of the family inheritance trying to start a Sunday edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 1949. Though of course an artistic success, it was a financial failure and was discontinued after eight months of nervous nail biting. Like it or not, the economic facts of U.S. life are dictating a trend toward less newspapers.
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