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

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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

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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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attached to the office of the Chief of Naval Operations in Washington, D. C. KIMBALL MORSMAN is in the A.R.C. in the Pacific theatre, lst LT. WOODWARD FELLOWS, A.A.F. is adiutant of his squadron, stationed at Elgin Field, Florida. Bill, Kim and Woody are our three 1920 bache1ors,fbut uniforms are al- most irresistibley watchout! 1921 ROBERT W. ROGERS, the son of Doctor Rogers whom many old boys will remember when a teacher at the Harvard School, is a naval archi- tect and marine engineer, now a Major in the Corps of Engineers in Washington. ln 1942 he was in England, in 1942-43 in Africa. Robert has two daughters and when at home lives at Barrington, R. I. GERALD MAGNER, C Shorty l lives on the South Side, has one four year old son, and is in the insurance business with his brother, Richard, at 175 W. Iackson. AUBREY PIGGOTT'S insurance business is at 231 S, La Salle Street. He is married and lives in the South Shore district. MAIOR BILLINGS Mc- ARTHUR was stationed in Arlington, Va., be- fore going overseas in May '44. 1922 After a long lapse we have unearthed MARSHALL BOYD who lives at 6571 Liggett Drive, Oakland, California. Marshall is As- sistant Freight Traffic Manager of the Western Pacific R. R., is married and has a nine year old daughter. SEWARD COVERT, who lives at Shaker Heights, Ohio, is assistant to the President of the Ohio Crankshaft Company at Cleveland. He has three sons, ages 9, 7 and 3 CToo bad Shaker Heights is so far away from Harvardll. LEWIS GOODKIND, who was formerly with Lord and Thomas, now is busier than ever as senior partner of the Goodkind, loice and Morgan advertising agency at 919 N. Michigan Ave. He was married in 1932, lives at Northfield, Illinois, and has a girl of eleven and a boy of nine. No more news of RICHARD LOEWENSTEIN than that in the last news letter. He lives in the North Shore, far out in the sticks , has two sons, and success- fully carries on his late father's business. FREDERICK ROE has returned to his business as investment counselor at 135 S. La Salle St. after being Assistant Executive Secretary of the WPB from May 1941 to 1944. He was mar- ried in May 1944. ROBERT E. STRAUS, Vice President and Director of the American National Bank, lives on Astor Street. He is married and has one daughter. EDWIN A. ROBSON lives in Hubbard Woods, loves tennis, golf, good books and anything French. CHis other flattering remarks have been deleted by the censorl. Eddie has two red headed sons, and is Presi- dent of Midland Industrial Finishes at Wau- kegan, lllinois. GARDNER H. STERN, who looks stunning in his uniform as Lt. Commander, is now at the Naval Supply Operational Train- ing Center at Bayonne, N. I. Gardy has four sons. LEIGH BLOCK is Vice President of the Inland Steel Co., in charge of purchasing. 1923 COURTENAY BARBER, who still remains faith- fut to the South Side, was Director of the Fight for Freedom Committee in 1941 and is now Treasurer of the Independent Voters of lllinois. He says that in politics he is a Progressive Mugwump. Courtenay has two sons. WAID B. CRESSY has lived in Aurora for more than eight years, is Purchasing Agent for the McKee V Airplane entered at Inter- ! national Air Meer, 1915. COURTESY OF THE CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY