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'01 AB—David Paine is retired from law
practice and his address is Marlboro Inn,
Montclair, NJ.
'05 ME—Cleveland Worm & Gear Co.,
of which Howard Dingle is chairman, with
its subsidiary, Farval Corp., has been
acquired by Eaton Manufacturing Co. It
will be operated as a wholly-owned subsidiary
of Eaton under its same management
and with no changes in personnel,
products or sales policies. Dingle acquired
an interest in Worm & Gear in 1924 and
was president for thirty years. He lives at
2646 Fairmount Boulevard, Cleveland
Heights 6, Ohio.
'08 ME—Walter L. Radley retired October
31 as chief combustion engineer of
the Buffalo district of Republic Steel Corp.
He lives at 498 Ashland Avenue, Buffalo
22.
'09 LLB—Philip A. Sullivan began painting
in 1955 at the age of seventy-four and
has since produced more than 300 oils. The
first one-man show of paintings the Sisti
Galleries, Buffalo, ever exhibited was an
exhibition of his work. Sullivan is a retired
member of the law firm of Sullivan, Weaver
& Maghran and a former Supreme Court
Justice. His address is 1090 Ellicott Square,
Buffalo 3.
'09 CE—J. Daniel Tuller is putting out
"at his own expense and travail" a Free Enterprise
Journal, "dedicated to the preservation
of our free private enterprise system."
The first issue appeared January 2.
Tuller's address is The Tuller Building,
Red Bank, NJ.
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Roy Taylor
Old Fort Road
Bernardsυille, NJ.
A recent Newark Evening News article
stated that I. (Ike) Ellis Behrman (above)
would retire August 1 as director of Beth
Israel Hospital of Newark, largest private
hospital in New Jersey. Ike has been with
Beth Israel for more than thirty years, the
last twenty-three as director, and has been
a leading force in the hospital's development
program. After graduating from
Cornell as a CE in 1910, he started working
for the City of Baltimore on filtration plant
construction. In 1917, he wasted little time
in joining the US Army Engineers and soon
found himself in France.
Following the armistice, he was discharged
with the rank of lieutenant colonel
and immediately appointed by Hoover as a
member of the Technical Advisory Commission
to Czecho-Slovakia where he remained
until the fall of 1926, working
closely with three other similar commissions
in Poland, Austria, and Jugoslavia in matters
pertaining to engineering and transportation.
Back in the US in 1926, Ike says
he felt like a stepchild until he joined L.
Bamberger & Co. in charge of construction
of their then new store. The firm was interested
in Beth Israel Hospital in Newark
and asked Ike if he would do some voluntary
engineering work for them. He undertook
this work and found great personal
satisfaction in doing it. He became superintendent
of construction & maintenance
at Bamberger's, but continued his work for
the hospital and in 1928 served in an advisory
capacity in engineering matters for
the new hospital building then being constructed.
In 1934, he was elected a trustee
of the hospital and in 1936, became its director.
During Ike's directorship, Beth
Israel has inaugurated many new services,
including the third hospital blood bank established
in the US in 1938, the Rh center
in 1947, and the isotope department in
1951. Other important advances are the
million-dollar chemical and research laboratory
completed in 1957 and the new
cobalt building completed last year.
In 1944 and 1945, Ike was president of the
New Jersey Hospital Association; in 1947,
chairman of the first institute held on hospital
engineering under the auspices of the
American Hospital Association; and in
1949, chairman of the committee which
developed the manual on hospital maintenance
published by the AHA. He received
the honorary Doctor of Engineering of
Newark College of Engineering in 1948. He
is a life member of the American Society
of Civil Engineers and has been a member
of the advisory committee of Associated
Hospital Service of New York and of the
board of trustees of the Hospital Service
Plan of NJ. He has served on the budget
committee of the Newark Welfare Federation
and on the committee on operations
of the Essex County Blood Bank.
Ike married while living in Europe in
1922, but lost his wife after a very short
illness two years ago. He resides at 36 S.
Munn Ave., East Orange, N.J.
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Howard
A. Lincoln
80 Bennington Street
Springfield 8, Mass.
Andrew Freeman Niven (above), ME,
Amsterdam, has been retired since 1950
from Standard Oil, having been general
manager in West Virginia for many years.
He makes his home for more than six
months each year at 303 W. Par Ave., Orlando,
Fla., and during the summer months
he and his wife, Marie, live in Sheridan
Village, Schenectady. They have a married
daughter, Edna (Mrs. Thurston C. Ramsey)
of Madison, N.J., and two granddaughters.
Andy spends most of his time while in
Florida golfing and fishing, with some
flower gardening and an occasional "peek"
at the stock market ticker. Says he's a pretty
good golfer, though never made a hole in
one (Note: The nearest he ever came to
doing it was a 3 or 7 feet, a drive plus 2
putts.) The picture was taken by Whisper
Heath at Lemon Bluff on St. John's River,
Fla. after a day of shad fishing. Didn't do
so well: only caught five and Andy landed
the only roe. (He was always good with
the ladies.) The next day it was noted in
the newspapers that two illegal fishermen
with seine nets had been arrested and about
a ton of shad and 500 pounds of black bass
had been confiscated by game wardens
about two miles north of Lemon Bluff; so
no wonder the fish were scarce that day.
Andy is counting on being back for our
Fifty-year Reunion and has a good idea for
advertising The Event:
CLASS REUNIONS IN ITHACA, JUNE 11—13
'99, '04, '09, '14, '19, '24, '29, '34, '39, '44, '49, '54, '56
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