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But for all the headaches there are interesting compensations; such as taking a small part in Pittsburgh's thrilling reconstruction and modernization program; or having a ringside seat at the 1948 political conventions in Philadelphia and watching the Grundy forces grab the Pennsylvania delegation away from Governor Duff, thereby assuring Dewey the Republican presidential nomination.
We have managed to find time too for a three months' tour of Western Europe, a trip to the West Indies, two summer vacations at Cape Cod.
Don't get enough physical exercise except by pacing the office floor, but also expend energy on such things as the local Community Chest, Pittsburgh Symphony, and the Foreign Policy Association.
In my opinion the most significant development in the last five years has been U.S. assumption of world leadership, accentuating a trend since our graduation. The Marshall Plan, NATO, Point 4, strengthening of the U.N. are a far cry from the head in the sand attitudes of the '30s. At last we realize that with power goes responsi- bility.
JOHN A. BLUM; 9 East 30th Street, New York 16, N.Y.
Back from a fat existence as a Navy anti-sub pilot, above the water, please, to that great humming mart of trade, Macy's. Re- sponsible again for public relations and publicity operations. Then, after a year, tried for another twelve months to buy men's ties and socks; found J. Press taste not too exciting to my customers (their hard luck, manufacturers' good luck). Two more years as manager, adjustment service department: telephone system, phone and mail orders, and complaints, sweet heavens, complaints. Another year as assistant to v-p in charge of merchandising home furnishings; my baby: domestics. Finally decided enough (since 1939) was enough. Resigned May, 1950. Celebrated by taking Nancy and myself on long driving tour in Europe (very Western) plus the U.K. Liked the latter so much that I qualified for job as assistant to President, Lever Brothers, New York, where I'm learning much more than con-
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tributing. Which reminds me I'd better stop this and do a little contributing right now.
WILLIAM W. BODLE; 5329 North Walrond Street, Kansas City 16, Mo.
I'm a chemical engineer for J. F. Pritchard & Company of Kansas City and have a wife, one son, two daughters, one dog, and one cat (expecting).
HUBERT OTIS BOSTWICK, JR .; 22 North 30th Street, Rich- mond, Ind.
The continuance of our serial A.D. 1946 finds our writer selling light mechanical rubber products for his pre-war employer, The Chardon Rubber Co., Chardon, Ohio, with territory covering the State of Ohio.
With the coming of July 29th, 1947, daughter Lynne arrived to join wife Anne and self.
1949 saw the writer transfered to Indiana to open up a sadly neglected area. He is at present traveling an area roughly bounded by Toledo, Cincinnati, Louisville, and Chicago.
Florida vacations have kept me in fair trim, which was no trial since those who recall will remember I was never one to lean toward paunchiness. As for entertainment, you have the many stories allud- ing to traveling salesmen.
ROWLAND S. BOSWORTH, JR .; 5411 North McCulloch Street, Temple City, Calif.
I work for the Singer Sewing Machine Company. Family consists of a wife and two monsters: two full-grown cockers, and four rat- sized cockers. Hobbies are garden and music; additional activities- none.
The above seems to occupy twenty-seven hours a day.
HENRI V. BOUSCAREN; Box 25, Wayne, Ill.
Stepping bravely and confidently into the world in 1936, this graduate found the early going slightly rougher than advertised. However, in 1939, Kathrine McNulty, Chicago, ex-Vassar, and very Irish, threw caution to the winds and agreed to terms. Came a busi- ness move to Dallas, and a return to the fray with new determination.
Here's a toast to that final, pre-inflation, pre-war year of 1941 spent in sunny Texas with a baby girl and good Yale friends to sweeten life!
A month after Pearl Harbor, a Yalie turned G-man embarked on
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a spy hunt which led to Baltimore, New York, Buenos Aires, and intermediate points. By then, the little girl had a smaller brother, and the U.S. Marines a new private. Boot camp-O.C.S .- stateside- Bougainville jungles-the monkeys of Zamboanga-"Ding How" in China-and "Out of the Stix in '46" became a dream fulfilled.
The return to a grateful nation brought, in time, a baby girl (Post War #1), the printing business in Chicago, a house in the country, and the rainbow on the horizon still calling "Come and get it!"
EDWARD F. BOYD, JR .; Whitney Street, Westport, Conn.
The last five-year installment of this particular history left the central character sitting in an editorial office on lower Fifth Avenue, chin cupped in hand and brow thoughtfully creased. Prentice-Hall Inc.'s trade division continued to provide the background for his professional efforts for the next four years.
It was lots of fun knowing and working with such people as Rosa- mond Marshall, who would rewrite a complete historical novel on a handful of suggestions and make it twice as good the second time. Or Robert Payne, who insists on publishing two novels and two non- fiction works in the same year all in different categories and all very good-while at the same time he runs a college English Department in Alabama. Or Georges Simenon, who writes six novels in French in six months and gives you the choice of publishing two or three really good ones while he goes off for six months' travel. His method of writing is truly heroic and Balzacian-he turns out a sixty-thousand- word novel in twelve days, revises in three and sits back in a dripping sweat to recuperate. The urgency and sweat are communicated with great effectiveness to a correspondingly enthusiastic and faithful audience.
Then there was Herb Wind, Yale '37, who collaborated with Gene Sarazen on one of the best sports biographies ever. And Frank Bettger, whose tongue-twister title HOW I RAISED MYSELF FROM FAILURE TO SUCCESS IN SELLING sky-rocketed to a phenomenal sales total and made everybody at P-H very happy. He sort of pointed the way for me, too, because by the spring of 1951, the cost of living index was making it very difficult to raise three kids (youngest's a girl, see earlier report on others) on an editor's salary. So, I became sales manager for Kelvin Systems Corporation in June, 1951, and have been selling imported Italian machine tools in a bull market, the domestic variety being practically unobtainable at this writing. Thank God we're tooling up before the sky falls in this time.
Jinny, my wife, says I should put down that we've been married thirteen years and that the two older kids bring home good report
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cards. The only way I can explain that is they must save up all their best efforts for school, because they sure raise a lot of hell around the house.
Politically I did my bit to get John Lodge elected governor of Connecticut, and I hope the Republicans get Eisenhower to run next year.
Physically I can't complain, though it does seem harder to get a good night's sleep than it used to-specially after a few drinks. Still play tennis and have just taken up badminton, an even faster game, I'm afraid. Still buy a fishing license every year and if anybody knows a good trout stream and wants a fishing partner, just say the word. I'll be there.
ROBERT S. BRADEEN; Essex, Conn.
I own and operate a hardware business in Essex. I have been mar- ried for sixteen years and have two daughters, one twelve and one eight.
EDWARD M. BRAINARD; 141 Dannell Drive, Stamford, Conn.
Free-lance radio and television writing is my profession, and the Kate Smith Hour is my chief job. I'm married and have one step-son. My favorite relaxations are fanning the Yale football team and the New York Giants.
WILLIAM B. BRAMAN; 2208 Drew Avenue So., Minneapolis, Minn. My family consists of my wife, Virginia Spreng, North- western '35, and daughters Beverly Ann, nine, and Sandra Lee, four. We have lived in Minneapolis for about three and a half years, where I'm employed by Butler Brothers in the floor covering division as a salesman in the Twin Cities area. We are Congregationalists, Repub- licans, and concerned about the national political and international situation and don't do enough about it. Classmates are always wel- come.
JAMES HENRY BREWSTER, III; Meadow Road, Riverside, Conn.
No children have arrived since the last report, which is just as well, since three sons make for a three-ring circus seven days a week.
Resent fiercely the rapid passage of time and make strenuous efforts to preserve the college frame and hairline. Nature is winning. On the other hand, Nance has not aged a bit. Woe is me!
Golf, tennis, and paddle tennis (a recent substitute for squash) still being pursued relentlessly. Handicap now down to eight.
Was Assistant to the Vice-President of Fairchild Eng. & Airplane
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Corp. in 1949, and participated in an ugly proxy fight which resulted in liquidation of the New York office and most of its inmates. De- cided to form own company same year, and without going into the gory details, let us just say it did not work out.
Joined Republic Aviation Corp. spring of 1951 as Assistant to the Vice President (Sales) and find the aircraft industry as stimulating as ever. Technical boundaries appear to have no upper limit.
Am convinced peace on this earth will never prevail until the lesson of near-global destruction has been learned. Insist such is realism, not pessimism. Predict World War III is inevitable and that it will come between 1956 and 1960, when the final contestants have the required forces of destruction. War III will not destroy civilization, but it is a safe assumption that there will exist a slight delay in forward pro- gression.
Have become a fanatic Georgist (single taxer) and sincerely recommend that everyone follow suit. Predict that worldwide Georg- ism will follow War III as the only economic science that has ever made basic sense. A sweeping statement, but do not argue until you read "Progress & Poverty" by Henry George. Amen.
HUBERT BRILL; 211 East 35th Street, New York 16, N.Y.
I gave up a legal career for Motion Pictures and Television. From 1937 to 1947 I have been technical director in Hollywood at RKO, Warner Bros., MGM, and Samuel Goldwyn Studios. I'm considered one of the most outstanding magicians and have taught such persons as Danny Kaye, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Bert Lahr, Charles Coburn, Mae West, etc., magical effects which they have portrayed on the screen.
I have worked in television as an actor, producer, and director since 1938 on the Pacific Coast at Stations W6XAO and W6XYZ (now KTLA). In the November 15, 1939, issue of the Los Angeles Daily News, Virginia Wright, the Drama Editor, wrote "Hubert Brill was the first to introduce magic to local television set owners over the Don Lee Telecasting Station." On March 9, 1940, one of my pro- grams over W6XAO, which I produced, performed on, and m.c.'d, boasted such entertainers as Dorothy Stone, Charles Collins, Fred and Mrs. Stone.
My career was interrupted from 1942 to 1946 when I served in the Army as Entertainment Director at Camp Haan, Calif., for a little over two years. The balance of my service was spent as Criminal Investigator in the Security Intelligence Corps at the Los Angeles Port of Embarkation.
To bring my television career up to date, I produced, directed, and played the role of the invisible magician on "Hubert Brill's Play-
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room," featured each Friday at 7 p.m. over the Dumont Television Network. This program ran for 26 weeks, terminating in 1948. From 1948 through the present, I have been preparing Television "Pack- ages" as well as conducting Auctions for the "Damon Runyon Cancer Fund."
ARTHUR R. BROADMAN; 210 E. 73d Street, New York 21, N.Y.
I have been married slightly over a year and am now expecting a new member of the family very soon. My work as chief engineer with the Heydon Chemical Corporation has kept me very busy. Of course Sheff helped me a great deal.
It has given me much pleasure to see old Yale classmates of mine from time to time.
WALTER W. BRONSON, II; 65 Mountain River Road, Hamden, Conn.
Still living in same spot; have the same job (wholesale hardware) ; same interests, such as tennis and squash, played regularly at the Lawn Club. Nantucket in the summer. Three kids (all daughters; ages eight, four, and four months). Do a fair amount of business traveling. Think Washington causes small businessmen endless trouble. All in all, no complaints.
FAYETTE BROWN, JR .; 2871 Sedwick Road, Shaker Heights 20, Ohio.
I am still with The Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co., 1460 Union Com- merce Bldg., Cleveland 14, Ohio, as Assistant Manager of the Mining Department. No increase in family-Anne and Fayette III (Yale 1965). My hobbies are golf, tennis, hunting, and Republican poli- tics at the grass root level.
HAROLD BROWN; 83 Greenlawn Avenue, Newton Center 58, Mass.
In these fifteen short years, four of which were taken by Harvard for an L.L.B. and L.M., and another four for Washington, I have now established a healthy legal practice in Boston, devoted principally to corporation, labor and administrative law.
To make up for lost time, in nine years, Virginia and I have com- pleted our family of David, Jonathan, and, recently, Elizabeth Ann. Aside from such domestic tasks as building an extra room for the boys and lawn barbering, I have led the family into becoming fishing enthusiasts and am now at work on horseback riding and tennis. In the spare moments, I have the Yale Club of Boston, the Boston Bar
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Association, the New Century Club, tucking in two terms as presi- dent of my Brotherhood and one for a combined Brotherhood As- sociation of Greater Boston.
What could be more pedantic than this wholly acceptable pattern designed to forestall such rash adventures as a foray through Central America, or anything more daring than a "letter to the Times"? Per- haps that's why David, age eight, and already a rabid collector of shells, minerals, and stamps, is designing his future for archaeology. With two more careers to foster, mine will be a varied, albeit seden- tary existence.
Still an Independent in politics, I vividly recall that Fall in fresh- man year when three could only get you two on Hoover, and that somewhat unknown Roosevelt initiated an entire era for the adult lives of the Class of '36. Maybe that era is soon to end, destroyed from within in the true fashion of King Lear. One omen is the diffi- culty of naming so few as two young contenders for a program of liberalism in moderation, but the other side likewise seems devoted to strangling its chances.
There's still consolation, however, so long as the bass continue to run off Nantucket, where the individual can still stand with dignity.
W. BRUCE BROWN; 134 East 70th Street, New York 21, N.Y.
My business career consists mainly of fourteen years with the Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation during which my position was that of technical sales representative on resins and various plastic products.
Since I left this organization last year, my efforts have been directed towards establishing an independent laboratory to do con- sulting work in the plastics field and to functioning as an officer of several real estate corporations which maintained and improved properties in New York City.
As I am still single, my spare time has been devoted to squash or golf and recently to new interests like hobby farming and painting. My club activities are divided between the Yale Club, New York, and the Westchester Country Club, Rye, N.Y.
JESSE EVANS BROWNBACK, JR .; 1007 West Water Street, Elmira, N.Y.
I am Vice-President of East Smithfield Farms. I am married and have three children, ten years, eight years, and nine months old. My hobby is guns.
DAVID BRUCE; 1921 22d Avenue, Gulfport, Miss.
My wife, the former Elizabeth Knight, has presented me with
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three offspring, Robert A., seven, Donna B., six, and William W., three. My work is as Officer in Charge, Gulfcoast Reasearch Center of the Southern Forest Experiment Station, U.S.D.A. (also project leader for Forest Fire Research in Southern station territory). My - hobbies are puzzle construction and photography. I had three years in Alaska during five years in the Army, and am now a Major, C.E., U.S.A.R. I'm a member of the Society of American Foresters, Sigma Xi, the American Forestry Association, the Mississippi Forestry and Chemurgic Association, the Mississippi Forestry Council, the Forest Farmer Association, etc.
DUNCAN BRUCE, JR .; 10 Woodland Street, Simsbury, Conn.
Following graduation and a tour abroad, my business life began as a sales trainee in a Hartford insurance company. It soon became evident that my talents led more into the field of management than sales, whereupon a move was made to New York into public account- ing and study at New York University night school leading to a M.B.A. degree. While there, the knowledge was gained to earn the funds to live the good life that Yale taught us to enjoy.
1940 saw me return to Hartford for a wife, the former Margaret Myers, an alumna of Smith. Since in the ensuing years no small feet arrived to pad around the house, we adopted a fine son and daughter who ably fill the void of silence that prevailed before their arrival.
To escape the rigors of life as a traveling public accountant, we moved to Baltimore, where several years were spent first in making up costs of producing Chevrolet automobiles and later installing budget and cost control systems at Montgomery Ward's mail order house. Then came a two-year association with the A.U.S., which in- cluded the O.C.S. course at Camp Davis, leading to a commission in the anti-aircraft division of the C.A.C. It turned out that my skin was allergic to the uniform, so a medical discharge sent me back to civilian life.
Connecticut seemed to us to offer the most answers to our desires for a suitable place in which to live; therefore, we returned here in 1944 and settled in Simsbury. For the last seven years I have been with The Ensign-Bickford Company. My present status is Office Manager and Assistant Controller.
Summer hobbies consist of golf, fishing, and resorting in an old house located in western Massachusetts that we acquired for a week- end and vacation spot. In winter, I teach accounting and manage- ment subjects in several of the Hartford community evening colleges and do a little skiing when there is enough snow.
Other interests outside of my job have included helping the local scout troop, junior deacon in the church, director of the Hartford
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Chapter of the NOMA, community fund drives, and the usual run of activities that are found in a small community.
ALBERT C. BRUMLEY; 212 Midhurst Road, Baltimore 12, Md.
I work as a manufacturer of chemicals. My wife and I boast a twelve-year-old son who is on the first honor roll at McDonough High School, McDonough, Md., and a seven-year-old daughter in Bryn Mawr School, Baltimore, who plays the piano and has perfect pitch. I spend my spare time with boating, riflery, and archery.
SYDNEY BRUSKIN; 1144 Chapel Street, New Haven, Conn.
I reside at 83 Anita Street, New Haven, in a one-family home. I was married on August 8, 1941, and have one daughter, Phyllis Dawn, who was born on May 31, 1943. Am founder and owner of Bicycle Center, which was established on April 4, 1937. For over twelve years the business was located in a building owned by Yale at Chapel and York Streets, New Haven. Had to vacate premises past spring because the building was coming down to make room for a new Yale Art Gallery. "Culture must be served," as Yale News quoted me. Purchased property at 1144 Chapel Street, and erected present store. Also became a landlord by putting in four offices in structure.
I am a member of Temple Mishkan Israel; New Haven Chamber of Commerce, New Haven Area Council, American Youth Hostels, B'nai B'rith, Horeb Lodge, and Friends of Yale Hillel. As member of B'nai B'rith am Chairman of Hillel Committee, which ministers to spiritual, cultural, and social needs of Yale students of Jewish faith. Hobbies: Golf, cards, and cycling (believe it or not).
I served with the Army in World War II, with Counter-Intelligence Corps, in Europe. My college French (in which I majored) and German came in handy.
THOMAS W. BRYANT; Prospect Street, Litchfield, Conn.
I am still (since 1936) with the Union Hardware Company of Torrington, now as vice-president. I am still married to Laura (since 1936) and still interested in kids-we now have four-a boy of four- teen and three girls, the youngest two years old. Still flying; still skiing. Things haven't changed much except that there are more of us and less money.
HERBERT BUCKMAN JR .; 2830 Van Aken Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio.
Since the last time I did this, there seem to be a number of changes
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in the world, but, for better or worse, not many changes in me. Like most of my contemporaries, I make more and spend more than I did five or six years ago, when I resumed civilian life after a four-year period of service with the Coast Guard. I enjoy the independence and suffer the insecurity of my own law practice. For exercise, I have become addicted, in my old age, to tennis. For sedentary forms of recreation, I enjoy conversation, reading, listening to music, watch- ing theatre, baseball, and football. I am still single-a situation which is variously pitied, censured, and envied. Although a bachelor, I am not a confirmed one-or so I tell myself. My political beliefs prob- ably are slightly to the right of what they were when I left college, as much, I imagine, because the world has moved to the left as be- cause I have moved the other way. I know less and understand more than I did fifteen years ago.
CONRAD WALTER BUHLER; Echo Wood Farm, Westport, Conn.
Business-wise there has been no change since the last class history. The A. S. Harrison Company has, however, seen fit to appoint me Secretary-Treasurer as well as name me to its Board. During the winter of 1948-49 we moved our office and plant to South Norwalk, Conn. This move entailed the laying out of a small, compact and highly efficient plant along the right-of-way of the N.Y., N.H. & H. RR. This work was fascinating in the problems it posed, and it still has its fascination for me in maintaining supervision of personnel and plant operation as well as the chores covered by my official title.
The civic activities in the city of my labors consist of directorships in the Chamber of Commerce and the Norwalk chapter of Kiwanis, and the Vice-Chairmanship of the Manufacturers Association.
At home the activities in Civil Defense take up some of the leisure hours in the administrative details of Chief-of-Warden Service. Sports, hobbies and sociabilities are covered at the Farm, The Weston Field Club and the Pequot Yacht Club. I look forward to the day when I will be able to anchor my own cruiser in Pequot Harbor.
MORGAN GARDNER BULKELEY III; Mount Washington, Mass .; P.O. Copake Falls, N.Y.
The four Bulkeleys are still on their mountain farm in the Berk- shires. When I recapitulate the last five years, I do not count addi- tional coins, political steps, miles of travel, bubbles of reputation, nor inches of waist-line. Rather I think in terms of contentment:
Of lush green rows of potatoes passing beneath the tractor, of two laughing children swinging from birch tops, of a pretty wife
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picking blueberries against a great white cloud on a mountain top, of hesitant little fingers dipping into the hot sap pan, of rich brown earth-curls falling away behind the plow, of frosty starry nights when the eager dog barks 'coon tree along some distant ridge, of smooth slopes of snow marked only by blue shadows and the tracks of four skiers, of sunsets and sunrises, and the more to come.
I see more clearly now that a one-family farm like any business may tend to expand and become more and more time consuming. After ten years we have finally swung a hammock; after another ten, we may find time to lie in it.
This life may seem quiet; but it brings unexpected adventures, even perilous ones, like those of the battle line. My wife stepped on a rattlesnake in our raspberry patch. I was stung so severely by an angry swarm of bees that my heatbeat became imperceptible. Yet in retrospect such events scarcely disturb the even tenor of our way.
MILAN R. BUMP; 101 Merion Road, York, Pa.
I work as president and treasurer of the York Tabulating Service, Inc., publishers of York Mortgage Records and a tabulating service bureau organized in 1946.
I was married in 1937 and divorced in 1942; had twin daughters: Mary Elizabeth and Caroline Auguste, born on June 11, 1939. I married Betty-Ball Lafern on October 14, 1944, and we have one daughter, Deborah Morrison, born on June 14, 1947.
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