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Early in his college career Peter Smith showed marked ability as a student, and his work in the courses on Romanesque architec- ture was greatly esteemed by the late Professor A. Kingsley Porter. Besides his interest in the fine arts and architecture, he was an en- thusiastic musician, studied the violin and especially the viola through- out his four years at Harvard and afterwards, and played much chamber music. His appreciative comprehension of the most valu- able qualities in fine arts, literature, and music, particularly in cur- rent manifestations, was great. Because he possessed a rare and fearless judgment towards contemporary phases of such fields in the face of rather general hesitation, he gave promise of a contribution to the arts peculiarly vital, had he lived.
H. S. F.
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Alfred Max Stern
A' LFRED MAX STERN was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, September 13, 1903, the son of Max Stern and Martha (Seasongood) Stern. He prepared for college at the University School, Cincinnati. At Harvard he was an editor of the Freshman Red Book and played with the Freshman Mandolin Club. In his studies he was especially interested in English. His hobby was book collecting.
After graduation in 1925 Stern worked for a year in the editorial department of the Cincinnati Times-Star, a position he was obliged to leave because of trouble with his eyes. He then went into the real estate business, choosing this vocation partly because of his in- terest in low-priced housing for the poor. He was married early in 1929 to Frances Ehrlich of Boston. He died on May 23, of the same year, at Cincinnati. His friends recall him as a man of lovely character, wise, discerning, modest, and unselfish, who had already begun to assume an important place in the community in political, religious, and charitable activities.
Russell Wilson, editor of the Cincinnati Times-Star, who was a close friend of Alfred Stern's, wrote the following editorial after his death. It expresses well the feelings of those who knew him best:
"Alfred Stern left newspaper work with poignant regret - regret which his associates as keenly shared. He not only gave rich promise of a distinguished career in journalism: in fact, within a short year he realized in part that promise. He had every attribute of a successful newspaper man. He could write with uncommon facility in style and with what is so necessary in newspaper work, celerity in execution.
"In conventional contracts Mr. Stern had the diffidence of modesty, but in his reportorial contacts he had the courage which is so neces- sary in a calling that takes a man where the ordinary man might fear to tread. And over all his words and acts there played a lam- bent humor, a quality which made him a delightful associate, both in the office and in those forays for news when cooperation becomes
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necessary. But his contacts with the realities of life, sometimes sordid, never caused Mr. Stern to lose sight of his ideals. When you encountered him, there usually would peer from his pocket a little volume, perhaps something in Latin, a classic reminiscent of his Harvard days. His familiarity with the finer things of literature had bred a conception of beauty that he refused to re- linquish. He seemed securely possessed of the great sources of consolation and inspiration.
"His appreciation of men and ideals was without the cynicism that the years inevitably bring. Perhaps in its purity it was all too sensitive to the clashes and the shocks that are our portion of the present. Perhaps it needed the reasoning of realism and the protective induration that experience affords our sensibilities. The mind of a young man with high aspirations is terrible and wonder- ful. There are things in heaven and earth that are dreamed of only by youth.
"The death of Alfred Stern has all the tragedy of the rich promise of youth unrealized. The hail is followed so soon and so poignantly by the farewell. Some star 'beaconed from the abode where the eternal are.' We are grateful for the privilege of hav- ing known him. He was our comrade. He himself has carved this tribute in the tablets of our memory."
Harold Sherburne Stevens
H AROLD SHERBURNE STEVENS, son of Everett L. and Bessie R. Stevens, was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, July 20, 1903. His education was in the schools of Somerville and later of Reading, Massachusetts, where he was graduated from the Reading High School with the class of 1921. He entered Bates College, but in his second year transferred to Harvard, where he continued until Janu- ary, 1924, when he left to enter the business world.
Stevens's ability as a writer was recognized in the Reading High School when he was chosen editor of the school's publication, the
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Pioneer. To satisfy his desire to see more of the world, he ob- tained employment on various steamships during vacation periods, visiting Central American countries, Cuba, Naples, Rome, Ham- burg, Switzerland, and the Azores. His articles describing those travels were published in the Pioneer and a Boston newspaper.
Stevens's first business position was in the publicity department of the International Mercantile Marine Company, New York. Later he was assistant advertising manager of Becton, Dickinson Company, Rutherford, New Jersey, manufacturers of surgical instruments; then advertising manager of W. A. Baum Company, N. Y., makers of the Baumanometer; and still later managing editor of Medical Economics, Rutherford, New Jersey, a business magazine of the medical profession. This last-named position he held for seven years.
On November 2, 1923, Stevens married Miss Gertrude Lovering of Reading, Massachusetts. She died in April, 1933. On August 26 of the same year Stevens himself and his eight-year-old son met instant death in an automobile accident while driving to his parents' home.
As managing editor of Medical Economics, Stevens won the esteem of the profession in Greater New York and his reputation spread to medical centers in various sections of the country. He con- ducted medical surveys, contributed valuable articles to Medical Economics and to publications of the American Medical Association, and was a speaker at conventions in the West and South. Under his management Medical Economics attained the largest circulation in its history.
E. L. STEVENS.
Edward Goodwin Wesson
E DWARD GOODWIN WESSON was born January 2, 1904, at Savan- nah, Georgia, the son of David and Mary Matilda (Moore) Wesson. He prepared for Harvard at the Montclair High School, Montclair, New Jersey. His principal interests in Cambridge, out-
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side the class room, centred about debating and the Liberal Club. He debated both as a Freshman and on the University Team, served as a member of the executive committee of the Debating Union, and was for three years on the Debating Council. He was also for two years a member of the executive committee of the Lib- eral Club. His record as a student was a brilliant one: he received his degree with our class, magna cum laude in government. After graduation he attended the Harvard Law School, from which he received the LL.B. in 1929.
For several years Wesson lived mostly abroad, returning at intervals to an island in the St. Lawrence River. He reported to the Secre- tary, at the time of our Sexennial, that he had "acted as a trustee, done some research in Boston, practised English composition, and sought to improve his knowledge of other languages." He died September 29, 1932, at Norlina, North Carolina.
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HENRY WARD ABBOT
Mailing Address: I University Pl., New York, N. Y. Occupation: Statistics.
Statistician for the National Distributors Corporation, 52 Broadway, New York City.
JOHN ADAMS ABBOTT
Mailing Address: Sudbury Rd., Concord, Mass. Occupation: Medicine.
By September of 1935 I should have completed my fourth year of incarceration as interne in one hospital or another. By that date, God willing, I shall have completed a year as assistant resident on the psychiatric service at the Massachusetts General Hospital and shall think myself equipped to enter on the practice of psychiatry. I hope society will join me in that delusion. Like the majority of prisoners, I have neither changed my business, married, nor even had children during this period of incarceration.
* HERBERT SPENCER ABEL
[ Died December 3, 1934 at Providence, R. I.]
ROBERT LOUIS ABELL
Mailing Address: 1119 St. Paul St., Baltimore, Md. Occupation: Law.
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NATHAN GABRIEL ABRAHAMSON
Mailing Address: 183 Chestnut Hill Ave., Brighton, Mass. Occupation : Mercantile Business.
Our son, Paul A. Abrahamson, was born October 21, 1932.
JAMES DONALD ADAMS
Mailing Address: 86 Canton St., Lowell, Mass. Occupation: Mercantile Business.
I returned to Lowell in 1931 and have been trying to assume a little moss. No additional children to date, but I have an old Ford and a heavily mortgaged house with, incidentally, a spare room we are al- ways glad to have used. I would be very pleased to put up a class- mate "et famille" at reunion or any other time when they are near Lowell.
JOHN ADAMS, JR. Mailing Address: 475 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Mass. Occupation: Medicine.
After completing my medical service at the Boston City Hospital I married, April, 1931, Miss Mary Danker of 73 Dean Road, Brook- line. We have one child, Patricia, born March 17, 1934. Besides my private practice I am now assistant in dermatology and syphi- lology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard Med- ical School.
CARL RUPERT ADDINALL
Mailing Address: Westfield Arms, Westfield, N. J. Occupation: Chemistry.
I have been with Merck & Company since leaving Harvard in 1930. For a time I worked on the structure of the opium alkaloids, pub- lishing papers on Narceine, Narcotine and Hydrastine in the Journal of the American Chemical Society and taking out patents for several compounds of therapeutic value. Recently I have taken over the position of assistant to the chief chemist with charge of bibliographical services, research, publications, and the like. My sister has come
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from England to keep house for me and I seem to be settled down for a long stay in New Jersey.
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HERBERT EDMUND AITKEN
Mailing Address: 3 Bartlett St., Melrose, Mass. Occupation: Insurance.
FRANK GUTHRIE AKERS
Mailing Address: Dedham, Mass. Occupation: Finance.
I am now in Boston with Clark, Dodge & Company of New York. Another son was born September 12, 1934.
GEORGE SAMUEL ALBERTS
Mailing Address: 185 Devonshire St., Boston, Mass. Occupation: Law.
Associated with Mapplebeck, Alberts & Sugarman. Married De- cember 10, 1933, to Miss Sylvia Rosenthal of Brookline.
RICHARD STODDARD ALDRICH
Mailing Address: 322 E. 72nd St., New York, N. Y. Occupation: Theatrical Direction.
During the past few years I have produced on Broadway the fol- lowing plays in partnership with Alfred de Liagre, Jr. (Yale '26): "Three Cornered Moon" with Ruth Gordon; "By Your Leave" with Dorothy Gish and Kenneth MacKenna; "The Pure in Heart" with Dorothy Hall, by John Howard Lawson; "Petticoat Fever" with Dennis King; "Springtime for Henry" in association with Macgowan and Reed; "Lean Harvest" with Leslie Banks; and "Lady with a Lamp" with Edith Evans. I have spent the last three summers in London looking for new plays and on the Riviera and Côte Basque with my family, but now the New Deal and the "Roosevelt Dollar" have ended further excursions to the continent. Another year or two of Farley-Roosevelt politics and my permanent address will be care
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of the local CCC camp. I am a member of the University and Harvard Clubs of Boston, the Harvard Club of New York, the Union, Players, Badminton, Riding, and Manursing Island Clubs.
NATHANIEL DRAPER WHITIN ALLEN
Mailing Address: 37 Hancock St., Boston, Mass. Occupation: Finance.
I am still with the First National Bank of Boston and a member of The Country Club, and the Harvard Club of Boston.
LOUIS ALPERT
Mailing Address: Lakeville State Sanatorium, Middleboro, Mass. Occupation: Medicine.
I have been physician at the Lakeville State Sanatorium Massachusetts Public Health Department, since December 1930. I thought at first that I'd come down here to cure tuberculosis, but I have been more successful in raising a family. The work here consists of treating extra-pulmonary tuberculosis, most of our cases being bone and joint involvement. It is interesting and sufficiently compensating to permit a five-cent cigar now and then and a ticket for the second balcony whenever there is a good show in town. I have published and I'm in the process of publishing several articles dealing with this phase of medicine. I have two daughters: Pauline June, born in June, 1932, and Adrien Phyllis, March, 1934. I am a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, the Blue Circle, and the Boston chapter of the Phi Lambda Kappa alumni club.
ROBERT HUNT AMES
Mailing Address: R.F.D. 3, Plainfield, N. J. Occupation: Telephone Communication.
Now commercial engineer for the New Jersey Bell Telephone Com- pany. Priscilla has a young brother, William Whitney, 2d., born April 5, 1932.
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MALCOLM FRANKLIN AMSDEN
Mailing Address: 32 Winchester St., Brookline, Mass. Occupation: Finance.
I became a member of the Boston Stock Exchange in July, 1933.
LORING BEAL ANDREWS
Mailing Address: 107 Poplar St., Watertown, Mass. Occupation: Education.
This old introvert has finally decided that his activities may be of interest to somebody. I'm continually told that mathematics leads one nilly-willy into astronomy if the horns of the crescent moon ever get caught in one's suspenders. Perhaps that's what happened to me. At any rate the fall of 1925 found me still haunting Cambridge as assistant in astronomy; of 1928 still there as annual instructor; of 1932 as faculty instructor and newly appointed executive secretary of the Harvard Observatory; and so to the present day. Incidentally, in 1933 I picked up somewhere a Ph.D. for something I had written concerned with the study of, so the scroll says, "Nebularum." It is also said that the study of astronomy takes the romance out of the moon and stars. T'ain't so! She put in her appearance in the fall of 1933, supposedly pursuing the study of astronomy; putting her under the spell of constellation study and telescopic observations I found that romance existed in stellar realms even for the professional astronomer. So I married her: Flora Spencer Hinckley of Newton, on March 27, 1934. There's a rumor around that we were married under Gemini. Well, perhaps so. Time will tell.
JOHN KAPPELER ARNOLD
Mailing Address: 90 Fair Oaks Ave., Newtonville, Mass. Occupation: Telephone Communication.
Still directory production manager for the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company. Married, October 21, 1933, to Margaret Miller Woessner.
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MORTON ARNOLD
Mailing Address: Windham, Conn. Occupation: Medicine.
Since graduation from the Harvard Medical School in 1929, I have interned at the Boston City Hospital for eighteen months, and at the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, New York City, for three years. Since April, 1934, I have been practising ophthalmology and rhino-oto-laryngology, in Willimantic, Connecticut. I am on the staff at the Windham Memorial Hospital. On December 15, 1934, I was married to Miss Ruley Russ of Conway, South Caro- lina.
RALPH KIRK ASKEW, JR.
Mailing Address: c/o Durlacher Bros., 670 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. Occupation: Mercantile Business.
Art dealer.
GEORGE BOSWORTH ASPINWALL
Mailing Address: 13 Shepard St., Cambridge, Mass. Occupation: Packing.
In 1933 I found, much against my will, that I had to work for a living, and accordingly entered the employ of J. P. Squire & Com- pany, a branch house of Swift & Company. I now earn what I make instead of just getting a salary, and it's all very unsatisfactory. It hardly seems fair, with a Harvard man at the head of the works!
PAUL ATKINSON
Mailing Address: 208-15 38th Ave., Bayside, Long Island, N. Y. Occupation: Mercantile Business.
I am office manager for the Norris Grain Company and an associate member of the New York Produce Exchange. I have been with the company for twelve years - since leaving Harvard. I married in 1927. We have three children: Arthur, aged six; Kenneth, four; and Dorothy, one.
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LINDSLEY AUSTIN
Mailing Address: 4571 Kahala Ave., Honolulu, Hawaii. Occupation: Real Estate.
I left the Bishop Trust Company, after six years of service, in 1932 and entered the Bishop National Bank for one year. Recently I decided to concentrate on real estate in which there seems to be considerable future on these Islands. Tourist bureaus please note. Let me find you a home or a grass shack during your visit here. I had the dubious honor of placing a reunion mortar board on the fair brow of President Roosevelt during his recent trip here-at least all the Democrats say it was an honor. Though so far away I still take an interest in the affairs of the college and subscribe regularly to the Alumni Bulletin within whose pages I turn to the doings of '25 members and then promptly throw it away. I was elected vice-president of the local Harvard Club in 1932 and spent most of that year on the mainland. My duties in this capacity aren't particularly onerous. Life is very pleasant here and Tommy Nicker- son and I - the only '25 men here - will continue to count Honolulu as our home for some time yet to come. My daughter, Ariana, was born in Honolulu April 25, 1933. My hobbies are skeet shooting and running a skeet club. I imagine the college is still in existence as I receive my life insurance bills regularly each year. So far they have all been paid. Aloha nui e mahalo nui loa.
WILLIAM MASON AUSTIN
Mailing Address: Chestnut St., Needham, Mass. Occupation: Manufacturing.
Still in the steel business as treasurer of the Austin-Hastings Com- pany, 226 Binney Street, East Cambridge. Business seems to be going along as well as can be expected, in spite of Roosevelt and the salesmen. The only change in my personal status is a divorce, granted May 22, 1934.
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DAVID FREDERICK BABSON
Mailing Address: 429 Pleasant St., Holyoke, Mass. Occupation: Social Service.
Ruth Rikert was born January 5, 1931.
WILLIAM BABSON
Mailing Address: 42 Kimball Rd., Arlington, Mass. Occupation: Manufacturing.
Still with Lever Brothers Company.
HUGO LINDEN BAIR
Mailing Address: Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. Occupation: Medicine.
Consultant in ophthalmology, Mayo Clinic, from January 1, 1934. Married in June, 1929, to Harriet M. Sullivan of Fitchburg, Massa- chusetts. Hugo L. Blair, Jr. was born March 1, 1934, -and is going strong.
FRANK BURKETT BAIRD, JR. Mailing Address: 1069 Delaware Ave., Buffalo, N. Y. Occupation: Advertising.
Still treasurer of Interstate Displays, Incorporated, an outdoor ad- vertising firm. Also president and treasurer of the Buffalo Hockey Club, operating professional hockey games and a skating rink.
EDGAR HOWES BAKER, JR.
Mailing Address: 17 Webster Place, East Orange, N. J. Occupation: Mercantile Business.
I married Miss Maxyne Jennings on November 15, 1931, at West Hartford, Connecticut. Our son, Frederick Lee Baker, was born September 20, 1933, in New York City. These two events, espe- cially the latter, have provided me with a considerably changed mode of living. At last accounts, I was with R. H. Macy & Company, reaching intently for the bottom rung of the ladder. I have finally
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struggled up a couple of rungs or so and am now assistant person- nel manager for Hahne & Company in Newark, New Jersey. I am quite happily enjoying life with that sublime contentment which is only possible to a man who is idiot enough to want to be a depart- ment store executive. Hobby: relaxation. Leisure interest: only one, my son - you oughta see him!
GEORGE PIERCE BAKER, JR.
Mailing Address: 16 Farrar St., Cambridge, Mass. Occupation: Education.
Since the last report I have acquired a son, George Pierce, 3d., now three and a half years old; a daughter, Sarah Bremer, aged one; and a Ph.D. in economics. I'm still teaching in the College.
JOHN DENISON BALDWIN
Mailing Address: 19 Cedar St., Worcester, Mass.
[First class mail addressed to 7 Prospect Street, Shrewsbury, was not returned, but the postal authorities report that Baldwin has moved to the address above. He did not reply.]
THOMAS BANES
Mailing Address: c/o Wrenn Bros. Co., 30 Federal St., Boston, Mass. Occupation: Finance.
JAMES OUTRAM BANGS
Mailing Address: 91 Charles St., Boston, Mass. Occupation: Finance.
Treasurer of the Fiduciary Trust Company.
NORTON BARBER
Mailing Address: Bennington, Vt. Occupation: Law.
Still state's attorney, but expect to be relieved of that job in February, thank God! Married September 10, 1932, to Marcia L. Stevens of Hoosick Falls, New York.
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PHILIP WILLSON BARBER
Mailing Address: 100 W. 55th St., New York, N. Y. Occupation: Letters.
I resigned from the Yale faculty in 1932 to be technical director of the Group Theater. I have now given up active theater work for writing movies and plays. I was married to Doris Frankel of New York City on May 18, 1933.
RICHARD MALONE BARBER
Mailing Address: 245 East St., Memphis, Tenn.
[First-class mail sent to the address above was accepted in March, though the postal authorities reported that third-class mail should be forwarded to 315 N. Montgomery Street, Memphis, Tennessee. Bar- ber did not return a questionnaire from either address.]
GEORGE ELY BARKER
Mailing Address: 91 Lovell Rd., Watertown, Mass. Occupation: Finance.
$till hoping for $ucce$$.
LAURENCE JUSTIN BARNES
Mailing Address: 4 Hillcrest Pl., Westwood, Mass. Occupation: Social Service.
I married, on March 28, 1929, Frances K. Peterson of Cambridge, and we have a daughter, Jocelyn Lee, born December 10, 1931. I am still with the Industrial Aid Society, now as director of the de- partment for the handicapped.
ISAAC MARGOLIS BARNETT
Mailing Address: 240 E. 79th St., New York, N. Y. Occupation: Law.
Member of the firm of Barnett, Plaut & Schweitzer, 415 Lexington Avenue, New York City.
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RICHARD CARRINGTON BARRETT
Mailing Address: Bristol, Conn. Occupation: Manufacturing.
Ethel was born January 6, 1932, and Donald arrived September 28, 1934.
LEO JOSEPH BARRY
Mailing Address: 1190 Pleasant St., Worcester, Mass. Occupation: Manufacturing.
Manufacturing men's wear worsteds with the Bell Company, Wor- cester, Massachusetts. On November 25, 1931, I was married to Imelda M. Elmore.
WILLIAM EDWIN BARTEL
Mailing Address: 61 Columbus Ave., Waltham, Mass. Occupation: Manufacturing.
Still with the Judson L. Thomson Manufacturing Company. I am a member of the Weston Golf Club. For recreation I play tennis, squash, and contract. My avocation is politics, and I am a member of the Waltham City Council.
ELIOT KIMBALL BARTHOLOMEW
Mailing Address: Hickory Lane, Closter, N. J. Occupation: Finance.
Now with a railroad statistician Wood, Struthers & Company, 20 Pine Street, New York City.
GEORGE ESTES BARTON, JR.
Mailing Address: 227 Pine St., Millville, N. J. Occupation: Education.
Instructor in philosophy at the Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute, Rochester, New York.
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ROGER AVERY BARTON
Mailing Address: 1000 Broadway, Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. Occupation: Advertising.
In 1931 I received my A.M. from Columbia. September 10 of the following year I was married to Priscilla Sargent at North Weymouth, Massachusetts. I collaborated, in 1934, with Dr. Daniel Starch in writing a book called "Faith, Fear, and Fortunes", a psychological interpretation of the depression. I am still doing advertising with Daniel Starch and his staff, and presently I am assisting utility com- panies in their attemps to prevent F.D.R. '04 from ruining their businesses.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN RICE BASSETT
Mailing Address: 70 Pine St., New York, N. Y. Occupation: Law.
LL.B., Harvard Law School, 1933. Now associated with the firm of Chadbourne, Hunt, Jaeckel & Brown.
EDWARD HOLLAND BATES
Mailing Address: Rincon del Mar Ranch, Carpinteria, Calif. Occupation: Agriculture.
Nineteen-thirty-five finds me optimistic about the future and quite satisfied with life in California.
JOSEPH MARTIN BATTAGLIA
Mailing Address: 863 Massachusetts Ave., Suite 1, Cambridge, Mass. Occupation: Finance.
My hobbies are bridge, birth control, music, and animal husbandry.
WILLIS PAINE BEAL
Mailing Address: 48 W. Cedar St., Boston, Mass. Occupation: Finance.
I was married, July 20, 1933, to Cecily D. Livermore, daughter of Robert Livermore, Harvard 1900. I resigned from the Second Na-
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tional Bank of Boston, March 1, 1934, to become general partner in Rhoades & Company.
ARTHUR WHITNEY BEALS
Mailing Address: P. O. Box 442, Christchurch, New Zealand.
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