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HARVARD OF 1925
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Thirty-fifth Anniversary Report
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HARVARD CLASS OF 1925
Thirty-fifth Anniversary Report
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Thirty-fifth Anniversary Report
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CAMBRIDGE PRINTED FOR THE CLASS 1960
COPYRIGHT, 1960, BY THE PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE
PRINTED BY THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRINTING OFFICE CAMBRIDGE . MASSACHUSETTS · U.S.A.
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Contents
CLASS OFFICERS
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FOREWORD
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TREASURER'S REPORT
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RECORDS OF THE CLASS
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IN MEMORIAM
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OBITUARIES
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GEOGRAPHICAL INDEX
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Class Officers
Secretary PHILIP HUNTER ROBB 1 Rosemount Ave., Westmount, P.Q., Canada
Treasurer GARDNER COWLES 488 Madison Ave. New York 22, N.Y.
Marshals
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN RICE BASSETT (died March 12, 1950) HENRY TRAUGOTT DUNKER SYLVESTER BAKER KELLEY
Class Committee GEORGE PIERCE BAKER PHILIP HUNTINGTON THEOPOLD
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Foreword
It is a pleasure and a privilege to submit my ninth Report as Secretary of the Class of 1925. On looking over my earlier letters to you, I recall with nostalgia our college days and I note with pride and pleasure the increasing number of grandfathers in our ranks. But this Report is more than a compilation of vital statistics. If you read through it carefully, you will realize the extent to which our Class has distinguished itself in other fields as well.
My admiration and congratulations go to you all.
Brief statistics of the Class since the Thirtieth Report are:
1. Replies to questionnaire 599
2. Deaths since the Spring of 1955 36
3. Living members 723
(includes 14 for whom we have no address )
The preparation of this Report is not all fun and games. George Goodspeed, our Report Chairman, says that Miss Ruth Mahoney, Class Report Editor, is "far more than competent, and she handles the work with such skill and good humour that it is a real pleasure to work with her." Mrs. Lucile McMahon, her assistant, has also devoted much of her time to our Report in particular. To these three go our heartfelt thanks.
Best wishes to you all.
Montreal, Canada March 15, 1960
PHILIP H. ROBB Secretary
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Treasurer's Report
Harvard Class 1925 Fund Receipts and Disbursements 1955-1959
Cash balance 12/31/54
$10,291.65
Receipts
30th Report Contributions
$697.25
697.25
Disbursements
Class Advance for 35th Reunion
6,000.00
30th Reunion expense
2,632.86
Annual Contributions to Harvard
250.00
Secretary's dues
40.00
Charles Caldwell Memorial
100.00
Miscellaneous expense
122.77
9,145.63
Cash balance 12/31/59
$1,843.27
RECORDS OF THE CLASS
* Indicates no questionnaire returned.
Records of the Class
HENRY WARD ABBOT: Retired. Address, Hotel Iberia, Cuer- navaca, Mexico. Married, Eleanor Melendy, Sept. 12, 1936, Green- wich, Conn. (died Oct. 9, 1953). Child, Henry Ward, Jr., Harvard '59, May 7, 1938.
I retired in 1955 and have been living in Cuernavaca for the past three years. The climate is unbelievable - sunny 360 days a year; summer afternoon temperatures run in the mid-seventies and winter in the mid-sixties! And servants are a dime a dozen.
My son, Henry Ward, Jr., is now in Newport, Rhode Island, at the Naval Officers' Training School.
JOHN ADAMS ABBOTT: Medicine (Psychiatry). Home Address, Beaver Pond Rd., Lincoln, Mass. Office Address, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 14, Mass. Married, Diana Asken Ballin, Aug. 9, 1945, Concord, Mass. Children, Peter Michael, Oct. 9, 1952; Rosemary Livermore, Oct. 23, 1953.
I continue to practise neurology, increasingly restricted to electro- encephalography and psychiatry, increasingly expanding in the direction of long-term psychiatric treatment and in time, I hope, group psychotherapy. A very modest sprinkling of the usual ap- pointments and scientific presentations goes along with these activi- ties as pater familias and townsman of Lincoln. Diversions con- tinue to be gardening and logic (both perhaps about to bear fruit) and such sports as serve for the instruction of two young children.
HERBERT SPENCER ABEL died December 3, 1934, at Provi- dence, R.I.
* ROBERT LOUIS ABELL: Address, 1119 St. Paul St., Baltimore, Md.
NATHAN GABRIEL ABRAHAMSON died May 17, 1950, at Brighton, Mass.
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JAMES DONALD ADAMS: Banking. Home Address, 484 Wilder St., Lowell, Mass. Office Address, The Central Savings Bank, Lowell, Mass. Married, Marjorie Budd, Feb. 16, 1929 (divorced 1950); Emily Whyte Holden, May 20, 1951. Child, Gay Marden, May 19, 1930 (m. Rev. William J. Kitto). Grandchildren, Dawn Bronwyn Kitto, July 3, 1953; Jonathan Kob Kitto (adopted) June 1, 1958; Kerrie Del Kitto (adopted) April 24, 1959.
Assistant treasurer, Central Savings Bank, Lowell, Massachu- setts. President, Lowell Harvard Club, 1954. Treasurer, Lowell Visiting Nurse Association, since 1956, and the Lowell Community Concert Association, since 1959. Member, budget committee and incorporator, United Fund of Greater Lowell, since 1958. Chair- man of trustees and building fund committee, Eliot Presbyterian Church; song leader, Lowell Rotary Club.
JEREMIAH QUINCY ADAMS: Retired. Home Address, 2615 Bowen Rd., S.E., Washington 20, D.C.
In these days of burgeoning population, it is most unusual for a school, especially a senior high school, to be closed. Yet that has happened to the Armstrong Technical High School here in Wash- ington, D.C., June 30, 1958. I was graduated from this institution in 1915, was appointed to teach physical education there in October, 1928, and remained on its faculty until it was closed.
Fortuitously, the writer had some connection with this event. Plans for the closing activities were developed by the faculty, the student council, the graduating class, and the alumni. All decided to mount a bronze plaque in memory of the school and to bury beneath it a scroll which was signed by each member of the faculty and by all the students. I was selected to author the text of the plaque. It reads:
A Memorial Armstrong Technical High School 1900-1958 Love of Home - Pride in Country Respect for Mankind
I retired on November 30, 1958, and since that time have been an active participant in the adult education movement. I am aware of the immense value such a movement will have for the new urban rank and file negro who has begun a postwar trek to the North.
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I plan to complete a book entitled, The Armstrong Technical High School (Fifty Years of Secondary Education in the Nation's Capital).
JOHN ADAMS, JR .: Physican. Home and Office Address, 704 Huntington Ave., Boston, Mass. Married, Mary Danker, April 25, 1931, Brookline, Mass. Children, Patricia, March 17, 1934; Joan, July 1, 1938.
As noted previously, and: consulting dermatologist, Free Hos- pital for Women, Brookline, Massachusetts; president, Boston Der- matological Society, 1957-59; chairman, medical advisory com- mittee, Visiting Nurse Association of Boston; awarded twenty-five- year pin for service to Massachusetts General Hospital, 1957; awarded twenty-five-year plaque and Harvard chair from Harvard University in 1958 for teaching, department of dermatology, Har- vard Medical School.
CARL RUPERT ADDINALL: Chemical Consultant. Home Ad- dress, 746 Belvidere Ave., Westfield, N.J. Married, Anna Maria Augusta Josephson, Sept. 20, 1947, Rahway, N.J.
Foreign scientific adviser to Merck & Company, Inc., until re- tirement at the end of 1955. Since then consultant to Merck, Sharp & Dohme Research Laboratories and to Compañia Española de Penicilina y Antibioticos, Madrid. Have continued actively as abstractor and was recently appointed section editor of Chemical Abstracts.
¢ HERBERT EDMUND AITKEN: Address, 26 Mill St., Dalton, Mass.
FRANK GUTHRIE AKERS: Retired. Address, 250 N. Ocean Blvd., Palm Beach, Fla. Married, Gerry Geddes, May 20, 1928, Southboro, Mass. Children, Frank Guthrie, Jr., April 25, 1929 (m. Nancy Brewster ); Matthew Love, Oct. 26, 1930 (m. Laurel Phelps Tower); Michael, Sept. 12, 1934 (m. Eleanor Wheeler). Grandchildren, Nancy Page Akers, July 16, 1959, daughter of Frank and Nancy Akers; David Michael Akers, April 25, 1956, Allan Dale Akers, Jan. 14, 1959, sons of Michael and Eleanor Akers.
There is peace to be had in a simpler role -
God gave man fish to rest his soul.
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GEORGE SAMUEL ALBERTS: Lawyer. Home Address, 40 Solon St., Newton 61, Mass. Office Address, 73 Tremont St., Boston 8, Mass. Married, Sylvia Rosenthal, Dec. 10, 1933, Boston, Mass. Children, Alan R., Harvard '58, May 20, 1936; Ann C., May 4, 1944.
RICHARD STODDARD ALDRICH: Director of U.S. Economic Aid Mission; Minister of Embassy for Economic Affairs. Present Address, % American Embassy, Madrid, Spain. Permanent Address, 36 W. 44th St., New York, N.Y. Married, Helen Beals, Nov. 5, 1927, New York, N.Y. (divorced January, 1936); Gertrude Lawrence, July 4, 1940, Dennis, Mass. (died Sept. 6, 1952); Elizabeth Boyd, June 18, 1955, Tangier, Morocco. Children, Richard Stoddard, Jr., July 10, 1929 (m. Margot LeBoutillier ); David Beals, Harvard '52, Feb. 17, 1931 (m. Lorraine Carter); Susan Poythress, Jan. 9, 1957; Mary Joy, Oct. 31, 1958. Grandchild, David Beals Aldrich, Jr., October, 1955.
In the spring of 1955, I took an indefinite leave of absence from theatrical activities, both Broadway producing and Cape Cod sum- mer theatre operations, retaining only my financial interest in the National Theatre, Washington, D.C. I entered the employ of the United States for the third time in my life (the first was in the U.S. Navy, 1941-45, the second in the Central Intelligence Agency, 1951- 52) as deputy director of the U.S. Operations Mission to Spain representing the International Cooperation Administration in the field. In June, 1955, Miss Elizabeth Boyd of New Orleans and New York City, in response to my urgent cables, flew to Madrid, then on to Tangier, where we were married at the American consulate.
In May, 1956, I was made director of the Economic Aid Mission and Counselor of Embassy for Economic Affairs, and in October, 1957, President Eisenhower appointed me Minister of Embassy for Economic Affairs. During the entire period I had the pleasure of serving under my old friend and classmate, John Davis Lodge, the American Ambassador to Spain, who, incidentally, has done the best job ever performed by a United States ambassador in Spain - ask any Spaniard! He will agree and add as well how much Fran- cesca and Beatrice have done too. During the past five years my able staff and I, with the advice and assistance of our ambassador, have supervised grants and loans to Spain of over one billion one hundred million dollars ($1,100,000,000).
My book, Gertrude Lawrence as Mrs. A, remained on the New
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York Times best-seller list about thirty weeks. My two small daugh- ters were born in Madrid in a Spanish hospital with a Spanish doctor attending and a Spanish nurse in charge. We have spent two "home leaves" of about two months each at Dennis on Cape Cod. My wife and I have traveled to every corner of Spain and also to Eng- land, France, Italy, Austria, Greece, Libya and Tunisia. Many friends and acquaintances have passed through Madrid, for this country is fast becoming a most popular tourist mecca; the people are friendly and prices are not exhorbitant. No one knows what the future may bring, but I must say that life has been very good to me these past five years.
NATHANIEL DRAPER WHITIN ALLEN: Banking. Home Ad- dress, 37 Hancock St., Boston, Mass. Office Address, First National Bank of Boston, 67 Milk St., Boston, Mass.
Assistant vice-president, First National Bank of Boston.
LOUIS ALPERT died August 17, 1947, at Middleboro, Mass.
ROBERT HUNT AMES: Directory Department, Telephone Com- pany. Home Address, R.D. 1, Whitenack Rd., Basking Ridge, N.J. Office Address, New Jersey Bell Telephone Co., 85 Park Ave., Glen Ridge, N.J. Married, Dorothy Waldau, Sept. 7, 1929, Jersey City, N.J. Children, Priscilla Hunt, June 21, 1930 (m. Donald Clayton Hildum); William Whitney, 2d, April 5, 1932 (died Jan. 9, 1949); Richard Fisher, April 22, 1936 (m. Maureen Victoria Long); Robert Francis, May 2, 1941. Grandchildren, Edward Ames Hildum, March 13, 1957; Robert Morrison Hildum, March 10, 1959; Geoffrey Fran- cis Ames, Feb. 4, 1959.
MALCOLM FRANKLIN AMSDEN: Broker. Home Address, 98 Dartmouth Ave., Dedham, Mass. Office Address, 53 State St., Boston, Mass. Married, Susanne Rogers, July 23, 1943, Los Angeles, Calif. Child, Malcolm Franklin, Jr., Dec. 22, 1944.
Member, Boston Stock Exchange; associate member of the Philadelphia-Baltimore Stock Exchange and the Pittsburgh Stock Exchange; commissioner, Norfolk County Mosquito Control Board; director, Norfolk County Tuberculosis Association and the Dedham
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Little League, Inc .; member of the Finance Committee, Town of Dedham, the Shooting Committee, Dedham, and the Country and Polo Club. Major in the United States Marine Corps Reserve.
LORING BEAL ANDREWS: Insurance. Home Address, 300 Clay- ton Rd., Scarsdale, N.Y. Office Address, Church Life Insurance Co., 20 Exchange Pl., New York 5, N.Y. Married, Flora Hinckley An- drews, March 27, 1934, Newton, Mass. Children, Loring Beal, Jr., March 5, 1935; Benjamin Hinckley, Jan. 22, 1940; Gordon Clark, March 25, 1941.
Since 1953 I have occupied my present business post - assistant vice-president in charge of sales management. Avocationally, the two main threads of my long-time interests have developed into nearly professional status. Work for the church has led to the vice- chairmanship of the Stewardship Council of the Reformed Church in America. That for the Republican Party has led to membership on the executive committee of the Party's organization in the Town of Greenburgh, New York, and to key positions in each year's cam- paigns. A newly-formed commitment with the Edgemont Adult Education School has closed the circle of my life in one respect by returning me to my first professional work, teaching in my original field of astronomy. That at least one of our three sons would con- tinue the Harvard tradition in the family has not been in the cards. Loring, Jr., graduated from M.I.T. and is an engineer with Sperry Gyroscope. Ben is in the Navy with college the future prospect, and Gordon is a freshman at Dartmouth.
JOHN KAPPELER ARNOLD died August 26, 1959, at Boston, Mass.
MORTON ARNOLD: Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology. Home Address, Windham Center, Conn. Office Address, 29 North St., Willimantic, Conn. Married, Ruby Inez Russ, Dec. 15, 1934, New York, N.Y. Children, Morton Richard, Nov. 30, 1936; Susan Ann, March 2, 1944.
Since our Thirtieth Report, I have served as president of the Windham Community Hospital staff, president of the Connecticut State Eye, Ear, Nose & Throat Society, and on various state medical committees. At present, I am on the board of councillors of the National Medical Foundation of Eye Care and still serve as chief
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of the eye, ear, nose, and throat service of our local hospital. In community affairs, I have been vice-president of our Chamber of Commerce, treasurer of our Community Chest, and president of our Chapter of the American Cancer Society. For relaxation, Ruby and I and the former "small fry" who are now the "big fry" go to our home at Golden Beach, Florida. We also like to travel and this spring plan to visit Italy and Greece.
RALPH KIRK ASKEW, JR .: Art Dealer. Home Address, R.D. 1, East Greenville, Pa. Office Address, 11 E. 57th St., New York 22, N.Y. Married, Constance Atwood, May 18, 1929, New York, N.Y. Children, Pamela, Feb. 2, 1925 (stepchild); Phoebe, Dec. 17, 1930 (m. Paul Des Marais ); Atwood, March 15, 1932 (m. David Richard- son). Grandchildren, Susanna Des Marais, 1954; Nathaniel Des Marais, 1955; Kate Des Marais, 1957; Thomas Des Marais, Decem- ber, 1958; David Richardson, 1953; Theodore Richardson, 1957.
GEORGE BOSWORTH ASPINWALL: Meat Packing. Home Ad- dress, Whitehall Road, Ellicott City, Md. Office Address, Corkran, Hill & Co., 1001 S. Dukeland St., Baltimore 23, Md. Married, Mary Luke Scheifly, June 26, 1926, Kingston, Pa. Child, Mary-Louise, June 29, 1929 (m. John F. Knapp). Grandchildren, Lucy Aspinwall Knapp, Sept. 20, 1952; Mary Neumaker Knapp, April 22, 1954; John Francis Knapp, Jr., March 23, 1957.
Still head of the provision department of Corkran, Hill and Company.
LINDSLEY AUSTIN: Realtor and Trustee. Home Address, 423-A Portlock Rd., Honolulu, Hawaii. Office Address, 925 Fort St., Honolulu, Hawaii. Married, Beatrice MacDonald, April 25, 1930, San Francisco, Calif. Children, Ariana, June 23, 1933 (m. Daniel J. Fairbanks, Jr.); James Walker, July 14, 1936.
I am continuing to enjoy life in the new fiftieth state of Hawaii, whose statehood was inevitable, but unacceptable to about ten per cent of the citizens, myself among them, who voted "No." I hope I enjoy living in the state as well as I had in the territory for the past thirty-five years.
I am a more or less retired realtor-appraiser, and during the past years acquired a number of minor directorships, plus a directorship
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in the Bishop Trust Company, Ltd., Hawaii's second largest trust company.
I am still a class AA skeet shooter, continue to run my twenty- six-year-old skeet club, and, in spite of oncoming age, manage to get in considerable shooting and fishing, as well as maintaining a ten handicap in golf.
WILLIAM MASON AUSTIN: President of Steel and Machinery Company. Home Address, 766 Chestnut St., Needham, Mass. Office Address, Austin-Hastings Co., Inc., 226 Binney St., Cambridge, Mass. Married, Marjorie L. Weld, Feb. 12, 1927, New York, N.Y. (divorced 1934); Dorothy Richards, Dec. 20, 1934, Cambridge, Mass. Children, Marjory Weld, Nov. 22, 1927 (m. Richard I. John- son ); Francis Reed, Dec. 21, 1929 (m. Barbara Hall); Katherine Richards, Dec. 29, 1936. Grandchildren, Carolyn Hall Austin, Oct. 10, 1951; Francis Reed Austin, Jr., March 17, 1953; William Fisher Austin, May 25, 1955; Sally Weld Johnson, Jan. 19, 1955; Marjory Weld Johnson, July 28, 1956.
During the past five years it has been very gratifying to have my son, Francis (Larry) Austin, take an active interest in the family steel and machinery business originally founded in Boston in 1845. Naturally, my chief interest is my immediate family and grand- children, endeavoring to expose them to the many wonderful oppor- tunities I experienced at their age, and I must confess they have reacted like ducks to water. Hunting, fishing, and coastwise "stink- potting" take up my spare time and vacation periods, with many fascinating and exciting experiences included. Besides serving on former directorates, I enjoyed the privilege of being president for two years of the Dedham Country and Polo Club, which I may add has some surprising features.
The general steel strike of 114 days has naturally affected our business operations adversely. In reality it isn't actually so much a steel strike as a smoke screen to determine whether management or unions will control this industry. Although the issue is far from a definite settlement, believe me my "dough" is on management!
DAVID FREDERICK BABSON: Scout Executive. Home Address, 55 Elmwood Ave., Waterbury, Conn. Office Address, Boy Scouts of America, 43 E. Main St., Waterbury, Conn. Married, Emma Rikert, Sept. 2, 1922, Stanfordville, N.Y. Children, David Frederick, Jr.,
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Harvard '45, Oct. 19, 1923 (m. Jane Frances McCall); Helen Hall, Dec. 25, 1927; Ruth Rikert, Jan. 5, 1931 (m. Wilfred Vashni War- ner ). Grandchildren, David Winstead Babson, May 6, 1956; Wilfred Vashni Warner, Jr., June 2, 1954; Frederick Babson Warner, June 10, 1957; Benjamin Hall Warner, June 10, 1958.
WILLIAM BABSON: Hardware. Home Address, 1069 Boylston St., Boston, Mass. Ofice Address, Egleston Hardware Co., Roxbury, Mass.
I am still keeping body and soul together by working a minimum of forty-eight hours weekly in the hardware business - but I must admit that carrying around one-hundred-pound kegs of white lead or a few eighty-pound bags of cement mix is a surer cure for a hangover than most prescriptions that I have tried in the past.
HUGO LINDEN BAIR: Surgeon - Ophthalmologist. Home Ad- dress, 732 Eighth Ave., S.W., Rochester, Minn. Office Address, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. Married, Harriet Sullivan, June 22, 1929, Boston, Mass. Children, Hugo Linden, Jr., March 1, 1934; Timothy M., Jan. 19, 1941; Molly and Sally (twins ), Jan. 8, 1942.
I am still practising ophthalmology with the Mayo Clinic and like it. Extraneous activities are more curtailed, family and pro- fessional activities more demanding.
FRANK BURKETT BAIRD, JR .: Retired. Address, 925 Delaware Ave., Buffalo 9, N.Y.
Spend nearly all my time in travel, which I've always enjoyed.
EDGAR HOWES BAKER, JR. died July 6, 1950, at Cambridge, Mass.
GEORGE PIERCE BAKER: Professor of Transportation. Home Address, 805 Brush Hill Rd., Milton 86, Mass. Office Address, Har- vard University, 133 Baker Library, Soldiers Field, Boston 63, Mass. Married, Ruth Bremer, Sept. 4, 1926, West Dover, Vt. Children, George Pierce, Jr., Harvard '53, M.D., '57, June 15, 1931 (m. Kathe- rine Elliott); Sarah Bremer, March 30, 1934 (m. Alexander Uhle); Ruth Hopkinson, Dec. 19, 1937; Elizabeth Farnsworth, Sept. 24, 1941. Grandchildren, George Pierce Baker, 3d; Robert Elliott Baker.
Teaching and reorganizing the doctoral program at the Harvard
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Business School, plus being president of an association that tries to get airlines, railroads, trucking, and water carrier companies - as well as users and investors in transportation - together on national policies, has kept me adequately busy. I've had a few government assignments to fill up any spare time.
JOHN DENISON BALDWIN died September 26, 1946, at Sydney, Australia.
THOMAS BANES: Trustee. Home Address, 16 Longview Drive, Marblehead, Mass. Office Address, 19 Congress St., Boston 9, Mass. Married, Charlotte R. Robson, June 18, 1951, Marblehead, Mass.
JAMES OUTRAM BANGS: Banking. Home Address, 44 Summer St., Nahant, Mass. Office Address, Fiduciary Trust Co., 10 Post Office Sq., Boston, Mass. Married, Dorothea Frothingham, Sept. 12, 1936, Beverly Farms, Mass. Children, Lucy Jandon (m. Robert R. Batchelder ) and Diana Outram (twins), July 22, 1938; Jonathan, Jan. 8, 1943. Grandchild, Diana O. Batchelder, June 3, 1959.
Vice-president and treasurer of the Fiduciary Trust Company.
NORTON BARBER: Lawyer. Home Address, 20 Monument Ave., Bennington, Vt. Office Address, 469 Main St., Bennington, Vt. Married, Marcia L. Stevens, Sept. 10, 1932, Hoosick Falls, N.Y. Children, Orion Metcalf, Harvard '57, Oct. 20, 1935; Nancy Stough- ton, Univ. of Vermont '61, July 31, 1938; Elizabeth Stevens, Feb. 26, 1945; Jonathan Luman, Oct. 25, 1949.
Since our Thirtieth Anniversary Report, I have continued right here in Bennington where I hope to live out my days. A small town law practice continues to be pretty time-consuming and has made it apparent that in self-defense I must pull in my ears a little as regards extracurricular activities. However, a Vermont lawyer has to do something besides practise law, and I had already become some- what interested in educational matters five years ago. This resulted partly from my having chaired a state conference on education and worked on a committee appointed by the State Board of Education to study and rewrite the law relating to the formation of union high school districts. There had been such objection to the previous law
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that school districts refused to take advantage of it. As a result of the changes proposed by the committee, the law was amended, many union districts have been formed, and school building has increased greatly in Vermont with the aid of the state. In 1955 I was appointed a member of the State Board of Education for a six- year term. This has given me a view of state government from the standpoint of one of its departments as distinguished from my pre- vious legislative experience. We have been through the Sputnik scare, the demand for more mathematics, and other recent phe- nomena which the whole country has experienced. Vermont appears to be coming out on an even keel with a sensible program.
Am still a member of the board of corporators of the local hos- pital and recently went on the board of directors of the Union Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Montpelier. Problems of local government continue to be one of my main interests, and it is barely possible that some twenty-four years of work on Bennington's town and village governments may culminate in a partial consolidation of municipalities in March (1960). Since I helped draw the Con- solidation Act and am still town counsel, undoubtedly I'll be in the middle if things don't work right.
Bar Association work continues to demand some attention, though not on the previous scale. The advantages of a law practice in a small state, where one knows most of the members of the profession over the entire area, still appeal to me. Vermont lawyers are usually satisfied to rely on a word spoken over the telephone, where in the larger centers no agreement is made except by a writing duly signed. I also continue to enjoy the associations resulting from my member- ship on the State Board of Bar Examiners. Each year, having tried to get more or less up to date on a given subject, I try to write an examination on it which contains sensible questions which I can at least pretend to answer intelligently myself.
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