Harvard Boys High School - Review Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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I.. Packard car which in 1903 made the first coast-to- coast trip, San Francisco to New York, in 53 days. THE SIXTH DECADE 1915- 1 925 Wilson reelected President . . . Depth bomb invented . . . Neon lighting . . . Iohn I. Schobinger with Harvard School friends and alumni raises EBl2O,UOO for new building . . . April 1917, Harvard School for Boys moves into present building . . . U. S. enters World War I . . . Prohibition . . . Armistice . . . Wilson's Fourteen Points . . . Versailles . . . Air Mail . . . U. S. NavY Seaplane reaches England from Newfoundland . . . Influenza epidemic . . . Field Museum at Grant Park . . . Radio Broadcasting . . . Speakeasies . . . Soldier Field . . . Tribune Tower . . . Population of U. S. 1920, lO5,000,00U: Chicago, 2,7OU,0U . . . Short post war depression . . . New Illinois State Constitution defeated . . . Harding and Coolidge . . . Two level Michigan Avenue Bridge . . . Gangsterism . . . Ethyl gas . . . Cellophane . . . Wacker Drive . . . Millikan discovers cosmic rays . . . Illinois Central electrified . . . Height of buildings limited to 264 feet . . . Iohn 1. Schobinger becomes principal emeritus of Harvard School, Charles E. Pence, principalg Elsie Schobinger, assistant principal. 1915 COMMANDER ARTHUR F. ABT has sailed over twenty-two thousand miles back and forth over the Pacific. He has been on the Staff of Admiral Fort and Admiral Halsey, in charge of caring for casualties. He is now Medical Executive Officer at the Naval Air Station at Ottumwa, Iowa. HENRY C. BARTHOLOMAY is still in the insurance business and has two boys, the older, Henry, a Lieutenant in the Army Air Corps, the younger at school at North Shore, and a football player. Henry is inter- ested in many charities, President of the Grant Hospital, fond of golf and shooting. WM. P. HULEATT writes in a true engineer's hand. He is District Engineer for Colorado in the United States Bureau of Mines. His daughter is a sophomore at Colorado College: his son, S!Sgt. Hugh William, has won a presidential Citation in the AAC in France. RICHARD GUDEMAN is a lawyer at 77 W. Washington and lives on the South Side. CHARLES G. GREENBAUM lives on Hyde Park Blvd. and is the Priorities and Legal Division of the National Mineral Company, Chicago. He has one daughter at Carleton College and another, a sophomore in high school. RONAID B. LEV- INSON is Professor of Philosophy at the Uni- versity of Maine. He is the author of many articles and one book, and has four children between the ages of one and seventeen. He collects old books and enjoys walking, fishing and the radio. 1916 EMIL D. RIES is Director of Sales in the Am- monia Department of Du Pont and lives in Wilmington, Delaware. He has two daugh- ters, one soon to go to college and one a few years younger. Emil says he has had more missions over Washington than the Air Force

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mington QS Franklin Coal Company. MORTON HUNTER is a resident of Milwaukee where he is President of the Hunter 5: Tractor Co. He has done much interesting work in engineering, as the Who's Who will tell. THEODORE PHILIP SWIFT, Vice President of the Continental Illinois National Bank, lives in Lake Forest. 1919 GEORGE W. BLOSSOM is an insurance broker at 175 W. Iackson and lives in Lake Forest. ERNST W. PUTTKAMMER teaches law at the University of Chicago, is President of the Im- migrants Protective League, and Secretary of the Chicago Crime Commission. He has one son. RODERICK PEATTIE is Professor of English on the faculty of Ohio State University. He has two sons and one daughter. He spent two year in France in World War I. At 7:55 AM, when Ouaker Oats tunes in on WMAO, we are reminded daily of DONALD B. DOUGLAS, Vice President of that Company. He has two sons and lives in Lake Forest. He spent two and a half years in World War I as a lst Lieutenant in the Field Artillery. 1911 IULIAN BURNHAM is Vice President of E. Burn- ham ci Company. EUGENE SCHOBINGER is engaged in engineering construction, lives in Beverly Hills. He has a freshman daughter at Illinois and two stalwart sons, see 1938 and 1942. LT. COL. DONOVAN YEUELL commands the 411th Regiment of the 103rd Division of the 7th Army, active on the fighting front in France and Germany. 1912 ERNST SCHMIDT is in the real estate and in- surance business at 39 South Dearborn St. Yachting is his great hobby. He is a member of the Chicago Yacht Club and for a long time managed the Lake Geneva Yacht Club. Ernst is one of our few eligible bachelors. MONROE HEATH, handsome Monnie of former days, is a high official of the Lilly Varnish Company, Indianapolis. 1913 STANLEY STONE lives in Milwaukee, Wiscon- sin, at 2015 E. Glendale Ave. KENNETH D. CLARK lives in Evanston, is in the investment business with Harris Hall 51 Co., has a married daughter, one son in the Infantry and one son at Choate. Kenneth says he has no honors but lots of hobbies. ABRAHAM S. HART re- cently retired as Vice President and Director of Hart Schaffner and Marx and lives in Ravinia. He was a 2nd Lieut. in World War I and his only son, Max, is a lst Lieut. in World War II. ROYAL F. MUNGER entered World War II as a Captain in the Marines, and went into active service at once in the Pacific theatre. He was reported missing in Spring 1944 and has not been heard from since. Roy's son, Iohn Robin, is a senior at the Harvard School, Class of 1945. 1914 WEST WUICHET lives in Evanston, has a handsome office in the Railway Exchange and sells lumber when the government per- mits. In the last war he was a Corporal in the 124th Field Artillery, in the same region of the Argonne and Meuse where our troops fought earlier this year. HOWARD PEABODY lives in Lake Forest. He has four children, two boys and two girls. C. TREGO PRINDE- VILLE lives at 10112 S. Hoyne Ave., is Vice President of Swift and Company. In World War I he was a 2nd Lieut. in the 307th Field Artillery and in World War 11 a Lt. Col. on the General Staff, and on the WPB and the WFA in Washington. His son, Trego, is a junior at the Harvard School and his daughter, lane, has completed her third grade there, the last grade that admits girls. . ..,.. - , Harvard School at 47th Street and Lake Park Avenue.

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over Germanyl EDWIN G. FOREMAN lives in Glencoe and is Vice President of the A1 Paul Lefton Advertising Agency. He was in the Navy in World War I. His hobbies are golf and fishing. CHARLES H. ReOUA, jR., lives in Lake Forest. He is a widower and has two daughters aged eight and thirteen. MAIOR RICHARD MAYER was in an AAF Troop Carrier Group in Australia and New Guinea for two years and is now back in Chi- cago on inactive duty. 1917 OTTO T. LANGBEIN lives at 7135 Euclid Ave- nue, says there are no changes in his life his- tory,Sstill practicing law, married and no children. LESTER E. FRANKENTHAL, M. D., is well known in Chicago as an obstetrician. He has two sons at the Harvard School, Lester, a junior, and Andy in 7th grade. HAMILTON LOEB enjoys the distinction of having received two diplomas from the Harvard School, his own and that of one son who left for college before graduating in 1943. Hamilton is Pres- ident of Eliel and Loeb insurance, at 175 VJ. jackson Blvd. DONALD CULROSS PEATTIE is known to many for his nature articles and books of great delicacy and charm. He lives in Montecito, California. 1918 LOCKE MACKENZIE, M.D., well known ob- stetrician and gynecologist of New York, is now a Lieutenant Commander in the Medical Corps with the Amphibious forces in the Pacific. He has three sons, john, Colin and Michael, ages 17, ll and 9. SIGMUND KUN- STADTER lives at 4919 Woodlawn and is Pres- ident of the Formfit Company whose glamorous advertisements we see in the magazines. He has two sons. Engineers, like EDWARD de CONINGH, always give themselves away by their beautiful handwriting. Eddie is Chief Engineer for the Mueller Electric Company, en- gaged in war work in Cleveland. He has one son and two daughters, all in high school. He looks surprisingly young Cwe met him a couple of years agol and keeps his figure with tennis, squash and skiing. Lieutenant Commander IAMES WEBER has spent a couple of years on Pacific bases as operations officer and has now returned to civvies and work at home. jimmie has a son jimmie soon to go into the Navy. 1919 LEON MANDEL, Vice President and General Manager of Mandel Brothers, entered the ser- vices as a Major in the Air Corps in 1942 and was made a Lt. Col. in july 1943. In june 1944 he went into active duty in the C.B.I. Theatre. Some of Leon's hobbies are the study of Spanish and archeological explorations in Central America. ERNEST ROBSON, formerly one of our football stars, is interested in chemistry, science in general, and trapping. He has re- cently enlisted as an Assistant Field Director of the American Red Cross and will soon go over- seas. Major LAWRENCE ABT is in the Army Air Corps Ground Division at the Oklahoma Air Depot. Lawrie is married and has one son. STUART H. OTIS lives in Lake Forest, has two children and is a manufacturer. His business is The Electric Winding Company on North Broadway. A. KNOX MUNSON'S book of poetry has received favorable mention from the reviewers. We were greatly grieved at the death of CAPTAIN IOHN V. FRANKENTHAL in an airplane accident in December 1944. john was on his way home after spending two years in the South Pacific. One of the last pieces of work on which he was engaged was the re- building of the hospital on Guam after our recapture of that Island. jOHN j. HEATH, who lived for many years in Florida, has moved to Ottawa, Illinois to be near his work in the Seneca shipyard. He has one son in high school. 1920 After two years of absence in Washington on the WPB, IOSEPH L. BLOCK is back in Chicago as Vice President of the Inland Steel Company. For jos. L. Block, jr., see '43. CLARENCE L. COLEMAN handles real estate and investments on La Salle Street, lives in Glencoe, has one son and two daughters and says he has had no honors since Harvard days. ARTHUR LANSKI is in the oil business, lives on the South Side and has a small son, soon to enter Har- vard's first grade. HENRY B. STEELE, with Steele-Wedeles Co., wholesale grocers, lives at 312 N. Dearborn Street. He has a son aged four, and a daughter eight years old. HORACE O. WETMORE keeps busy as Vice-President of The First National Bank of Chicago. He has two sons, Horace O. Wetmore, jr., and Frank O. Wetmore. LATHAN A. CRANDALL, IR. is professor and head of the Department of Phy- siology at the University of Tennessee. He lives near Memphis on his 15 acre farm and raises his own beef, pork and milk. He was married to Dorothy Adgate of Wheaton on December 27, 1944. HENRY L. KOHN is prac- ticing law, and has two young sons, the older in Harvard's third grade. All of the boys of 1920 will remember WILLIAM E. PHILLIPS, his football and his duck hunting. Bill has three sons at Harvard, William jr., a basketball and football player, and lively twin boys, john and Frank. MORGAN UNDERWOOD, the driving power whose enthusiasm put over Harvard's beautiful new gymnasium in the nick of time in 1941, has a son, Morgan, jr., who is in his junior year at Harvard. Morgan, Sr., is in- terested in all worthwhile civic and local im- provement undertakings. LT. COM. WM. M. REDFIELD, U.S.N.R. has been for two years