TYPE. OF CASE Protective Research STATUS • Pending INVESTIGAEION MADE AT . PERIOD COVERED Boston and Cambridge, Mass. 31-25-63 - 11-27-63 _ • r n, 'Kn..' 1 (111,1u4) . ; 1141.1..1.1.1'H JS Host GO) . UNITED STATES ! . .'1ECRF.T SERVICE TREASURY DEPARTMENT ORIGIN Chief's Office CRTICE Boston, Mass. CO-2-td-be 11LE NO, supplied INVESTIGATION MADE BY ASAIC Edward F. Sweeney and SA Andrew G. Daigle DETAILS SYNOPSIS TITLE OR CAP El Oti LEE HARVEY OSWALD Michael R. and Ruth Paine formerly resided Naushon Island, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, during the summer season for past six years. Michael attended Harvard College 1947-1949 and was dropped because of low grades. No - . derogatory information. Father of Michael, one George Lyman Paine, Jr., an avowed Marxist. Copy of 25th and 35th Class Report executed by George Lyman Paine, Jr. attached. Mother of Michael, one Mrs. Arthur M. Young (Ruth Young) now in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.. DETAILS OF INVESTIGATION Reference is rade to telephone call of SAIC Robert I. Bouck, PRS, Washington, D.' on NovembeN.,25, 1963 at 17440 PK to ASAIC Sweeney requestine3ackground infor.7at'_ of Michae - a1oh.and Ruth nine former-2v of Naushon Island Woods Hole, Y.:1-1sachu.: ---------- . . On Monday, November 25, 1963, a day of National mourning as proclaim by the President, information was not available. On Tuesday, November 26, 1963, Mr. David C,_lorbes, owner of the J. M. Forbes Company, Inc. 199 Washington Streit - 7 - ffiaon, Mass., was contactea. DISTRIBUTION Chief Boston ,11-1Az rk, COPIES Orig. & 3 cc . 2 cc /c )C REPORT P .8E BY Ed4(1 - i 7 a 7 4 1 . Sweeney WggtPS7)ecial Agen h APPIIOVED a . r 7 e n DArE -27-.. et-s / Frank le nermi c-'t1II. ACME IN Vane • - - DATE 143 reiii14 1 13!*-
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TYPE. OF CASE
Protective Research
STATUS •
Pending INVESTIGAEION MADE AT . PERIOD COVERED
Boston and Cambridge, Mass. 31-25-63 - 11-27-63 _
• r n, 'Kn..' 1 (111,1u4) . ; 1141.1..1.1.1'H JS Host
GO) . UNITED STATES !..'1ECRF.T SERVICE TREASURY DEPARTMENT
ASAIC Edward F. Sweeney and SA Andrew G. Daigle DETAILS
SYNOPSIS
TITLE OR CAP El Oti
LEE HARVEY OSWALD
Michael R. and Ruth Paine formerly resided Naushon Island, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, during the summer season for past six years. Michael attended Harvard College 1947-1949 and was dropped because of low grades. No-. derogatory information. Father of Michael, one George Lyman Paine, Jr., an avowed Marxist. Copy of 25th and 35th Class Report executed by George Lyman Paine, Jr. attached. Mother of Michael, one Mrs. Arthur M. Young (Ruth Young) now in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania..
DETAILS OF INVESTIGATION
Reference is rade to telephone call of SAIC Robert I. Bouck, PRS, Washington, D.' on NovembeN.,25, 1963 at 17440 PK to ASAIC Sweeney requestine3ackground infor.7at'_ of Michae- a1oh.and Ruth nine former-2v of Naushon Island Woods Hole, Y.:1-1sachu.: ----------
. .
On Monday, November 25, 1963, a day of National mourning as proclaim by the President, information was not available.
On Tuesday, November 26, 1963, Mr. David C,_lorbes, owner of the J. M. Forbes Company, Inc. 199 Washington Streit-7-ffiaon, Mass., was contactea.
DISTRIBUTION Chief
Boston ,11-1Az
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COPIES Orig. & 3 cc .
2 cc /c
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REPORT P .8E BY
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et-s / Frank lenermic-'t1II. ACME IN Vane
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Mr. David Forbes advised that his sisterly. son was 17.chael Ralph Paine;
that Michael Ralph Paine's father was George LymanPaine,.,Jr. of 2331
1 !gate Square, Los Angeles, C<,-C?fforniar--.1aTici-s—moIlle'r; Ruth Forbes
71 Jine. later married 21.12211. hom she divorced and marri:aIlrthur
ioung. . . •
• Ruth Forbes Paine mnals the sister of David C. Forbes and she presently
Mr. Forbes stated he attended the marriage ceremony of Ruth crIge 11;ide),, Paine to his nephew, Michael Ralph Paine, somewhere on the outskirts of Philadelphi approximately six years ago and they were married in a Quaker ceremony, which
is Ruth Hyde Paine's religion.
He further stated to the best of his knowledge, Ruth Hyde Paine now resides in Irving, Texas - a suburb of Dallas - with their two small children, aged
2 and 4 years; that he regards Ruth Hyde Paine as a very kind and generous persoa, and that she is a clever individual, and that she is possibly on
the verge of a separation from her husband, Michael Ralph Paine, and believes
they are actually separated at this time. He places the blame of separation
on his nephew, Michael Ralph Paine. He further stated that there has been
a gradual separation for over a year that he knows aboutd
epdvid C. Forbes stated that Michael Ralph Paine has a brother, Cameron F. Pain2 who resides in Baltimore, Maryland. He stated that Michael Ralph
-P-nine is presently employed by the Dell Aircraft Company in Texas, and that his step-father, Arthur Young, is his guiding light at the Bell Aircraft
Company because Young has a very high position with the company. Ho also
stated that to the best of his knowledge Michael Ralph Paine has always been interested in mechanical things and engineering, but that he could never sees to successfully conclude a project.
David C. Forbes further stated that he knew nothing derogatory about Michael
Ralph Paine. He doubts if Michael Ralph Paine attends church of any denomine
tion and he does not know his politics and he never knew whether or not he was a member of either major political party. •
He also 96.ed that during the summer months Paine and his wife Ruth usually came toTaushon IplancLet Woods Hole,,Massachleeetts,and remained there a few weeks each summer, but for the past two years Paine has not appeared and
his wife and two children came alone while Paine remained in Texas. He state
that he realized there was a family strain but did not pry into the whys and wherefores; that during the first two weeks in August 1963, Ruth Hyde Paine
came to Naushon Island and remained there with the children for the two-week
period, residing with Mrs. Arthur (Ruth) Young, who has a home on the Island.
k
Naushon Island is located about 1/2 mile off Woods Hole on Cape Cod and is nine (9) miles in length. The Island is owned by the Forbe0 Estate and has been owned by this family for over 100 years. At present there are approximately 20 houses and 500 sheep on the island; all inhabitants are members of the Forbes family and very seldom if ever are any homes rented or leased to outsiders.
David C. Forbes stated that he did not know Ruth Hyde Paine had any know- . ledge of the Russian language and it is a surprise to him. .Ho'further stated that he could not understand any connection between the Oswald
.family other than out of the kindness of her heart and he reiterated that she was a kind, generous 3ndividual and may have felt sorry for the Oswald family. However, he stated that he does not know - that maybe his sister Mrs. Ruth Young would have some additional information concerning this than ho had.
On November 26, 1963, Mr. Arthur .Kennedy, Registrar of Harvard University, was interviewed relative to Mcchael Palph Paine. The records disclosed that he had been admitted to Harvard College on application from Horace Mann Lincoln School in May 1947 Clew York, N.Y.); that he had attended Harvard for two years, majoring in Physics, and was separated as of Sept-ember 30, 1949 because of his failure to meet minimum scholastic require-ments. The records show his birth date to be June 25, 1928 at New York, N. Y.; his hope address to be 35 E. 75th St., New York City; his father to be George Lyman Paine, Jr. (Harvard, Class of 1922); his mother to be Ruth (Forbes) Paine Thomas -.she divorced George Lyman Paine, Jr. in 1934 and married Giles W. Thomas who died and she later married Arthur M.4Young.
On November 26, 1963, the Dicennial Reports for the Class of 1951 were examined. Michael Ralph Paine had submitted the following information for this report: Aircraft Research Engineer, 2515 W. 5th, Irving, Texas; employed by Bell Helicopter, Ft. Worth, Texas; wife, Ruth Hyde,.whom he married on December 8, 1957 at Media, Pennsylvania; one child, Sylvia, born November 17, 1959.
Also on November 26, 1963, the Class Reports for.the Class of 1922, to which tho father, George Lyman PaLne, Jr. was a member, were examined at the Widener Library. These reports are submitted directly to the Class Secretary by the alumnus. The 25th year and 35th year reports are highly significant and zerox copies have been made and are attached hereto.
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The father, George Lyman Paine, Jr., was born at New York City on November 16, 1901. His father was George Lyman Paine, Harvard Class of 1896. His 1947 address was 629 Hudson Etrect, New York, N.Y. and his address in 1957 was 2331 Helgate Square, Los Angeles, California. Ho married Ruth Forbes on March 20, 1926 at Milton, Maesachusetts. They were divorced in 1934 and
• he married Frances Drake at New 'fork, N. Y. in 1939. The children by his marriage to Ruth Forbes were Michael Ralph Paine, born. June 25, 1928, and Cameron Forbes Paine, born May 3, 1932.
Copy of the 25th Class Report of Michael Ralph Paine was mailed to SAIG Houck on November 26, 1963.
On November 27, 1963, Registrar Kennedy's Office at Harvard University produced the personnel file of Michael Ralph Paine, which disclosed that. he had resided at Gray's Hall, a Harvard dormitory, through 1947 and 1948, and at Claverley Hall from January 1949 until he left the University. His room-mate was Nathaniel Patterson Woman in 1947, whose address ,ras 2825 Ridgeway Road, Dayton, Ohio. Paine was a non-resident member of Lowell. Hor.nr His faculty advisers were Professors John H. Gardner and Dr. Goldstein -. neither of whom are now at Harvard. Paine's marks at the.endof his second included three D's and one E and he was discouraged from returning to Harvarr because these final grades were below the minimum set by the faculty. .1-1e:.va advised to continue his education at a different institution. Paine's relic: was noted to be Unitarian.
The file disclosed nothing derogatory about Paine. He was noted as being "shy" and "lazy". His only activities were the Glee Club, Bach Choral Group and the Outing Club. No mention was' made or indicated of hiS political_ activity or interest.
Paine sent for two transcripts of his academic record in 1950 but there were no inquiries from any other college nor did the file at Harvard contain any mention of further education.
Mr. Kennedyostated that from experience he knew that further inquiries at
if
the University would be fruitless, part'cularly insofar as obtaining any indication of Paine's political lean'igs or thoughts. He suggested that Paine's former room-mate, Nathaniel.Jorman, could possibly assist in this regard.
From the Dicennial Reports of the Class of 1951, it was learned that Worman'r address as of 1961 was c/o O'Shea Publishing Company, Enosburg Falls, Vermont This company will be contacted and Norman will be interviewed in the near future.
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1922
aolv
ailia
School of ....ocia!
Wo
rk
in P
hila
delp
hia
. Here o
ur c
lii%
!rem
were b
orn —
?■.lary
Caris
tina in
t9aS
an
d R
ich
mo
nd
Taro
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in 1
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e h
ope t
he l
atter w
ill d
uly a
ppear a
t B
an
-a-d
in
the C
lass o
f 1
96a.
In 1
942 w
e ret-Unled
to N
ew Y
ork a
nd I
left lib
rary w
ork to
edit
Afte
r th
e W
ar (
late
r
Eco
nom
ic Affa
irs), a m
onth
ly p
ub-
licatio
n is
sued b
y th
e I
nstitu
te o
n P
ostw
ar R
econstr
uctio
n a
t
New
York L'n
iversity
. A
fter the W
ar w
as desig
ned to
present
in s
imple
language th
e id
eas a
nd f
indin
gs o
f p
rofessio
nal e
cono-
mists a
nd o
rliers c
oncerning t
he t
ransition f
rom
a w
ar t
o a
peace e
conom
y. T
at p
ostw
ar p
erio
d w
as b
ound to
brin
g e
co-
nom
ic r
eadju
stm
ents
of h
ero
ic p
rop
ortio
ns.. O
ur a
ttem
pt w
as to
help
people
prcpafe f
or th
ese c
hanges b
y p
rovid
ing d
ispassio
n-
ate
dis
cussio
n a
s a
basis
for in
quir
y a
nd u
ndersta
ndin
g.
With
the w
ar o
ver a
nd th
e tr
ansitio
n w
ell u
nderw
ay, A
fte
r
the
Mir
ceased p
ublic
atio
n. A
t present w
ritin
g (
January, 1
947)
I e
m s
tartin
g a
noth
er p
ublic
atio
n, A
pplied Eco;?oinics.
As w
ith
After th
e War,
the n
ew
public
atio
n is
operate
d u
nder a
grant
from
the A
lfred P
. Slo
an F
oundatio
n, I
ncorporate
d, th
e g
rant
this
time b
ein
g m
ade to
the A
meric
an A
ssocia
tion o
f T
eachers
Colle
ges. T
he p
urpose o
f
Ap
piled
Eco
nom
ics is to
sh
are w
ith
schools
throughout th
e c
ountr
y th
e e
xperie
nce o
f th
e S
loan
ex
perim
en
tal s
ch
oo
ls in
Flo
rid
a, K
en
tuck
y, a
nd
Verm
on
t Th
ee
schools
have s
how
n th
at lo
cal liv
ing c
onditio
ns c
an b
e im
proved
by w
hat p
upils
learn in
their
cla
sses. E
ssentia
lly it is
a m
atte
r
of le
arn
ing
by
do
ing
, an
d d
oin
g s
om
e o
f th
e th
ing
s th
at r
esu
lt
in b
ette
r c
loth
ing
, bette
r f
oo
d, a
nd b
ette
r s
helte
r.
Th
is b
rin
gs m
atte
rs u
p to
date
; bu
t the c
ou
rse, I
hope, is
far
from
over. U
ndoubte
dly
the 2
5th
Anniv
ersary is
frin
ged
with
gray h
air
s, b
ut e
ven s
o, it m
arks o
nly
the
middle.
The
road
ahead is
sail!
long a
nd w
ill go th
rough, I
am
sure,
fully
25
in
-
terestin
g c
ountr
y a
s th
e r
oad b
ehin
d.
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OR
GE
LY
MA
N P
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20,
19:6
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n,
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lfred W
hite Paine, '24.
Archirecr.
N th
e h
ope th
at o
ther c
lassm
ate
s w
ill have d
one lik
ew
ise, I
I w
ill try r
o tr
ace th
e p
rocess o
f m
y d
evelo
pm
ent, f
or g
ood
or
rath
er th
an c
hronic
le th
e f
acts
of m
y d
oin
g.
Marria
ge f
ollo
wed
on
the h
eels
of th
e f
ou
r-y
ear c
ou
rse a
t
the H
arv
ard
Sch
oo
l of A
rch
itectu
re. T
hen
fo
r e
igh
teen
mo
nth
s
we liv
ed
an
d w
ork
ed
in I
taly
; Fran
ce, a
nd
Sp
ain
. We e
xp
lored
ourselv
es m
ore th
an w
e e
xplo
red E
urope, w
e r
epla
ced m
any
dasic
cate
d P
urita
n v
alu
es w
ith b
roader c
oncepts
, we r
ais
ed m
ore
questio
ns th
an w
e f
ound a
nsw
ers.
The y
ears f
ollo
win
g in
New
York w
crc a
n e
xte
nsio
n o
f th
at
trip a
broad. B
y v
ocation a
nd a
vocation w
e p
robed f
or t
he
meanin
g o
f a
rt a
nd a
rchite
ctu
re, f
or th
e r
ole
of s
entie
nt a
nd
creativ
e m
an in
socie
ty; in
short, f
or th
e m
otiv
e f
orce a
nd d
y-
nam
ic p
atte
rn o
f h
um
an lif
e. B
ut d
urin
g th
ese y
ears th
e p
atte
rn
seem
ed to
o c
om
ple
x, th
e s
trands to
o n
um
erous a
nd d
iverse f
or
more th
an p
artia
l, contr
adic
tor) , in
tegratio
n, h
ow
ever b
road th
e
readin
g, h
ow
ever g
reat th
e e
nergy, s
ym
path
y, a
nd p
assio
n s
pille
d
nut in
its p
ursuit
Neverth
ele
ss th
ey w
ere f
ine, g
ay y
ears f
ired b
y th
e v
oic
es,
as I
saw th
em
, of v
isio
n a
nd o
f r
evolt; S
travin
sky, F
reud, L
e
Corbusie
r, F
rank L
loyd W
rig
ht, D
os P
assos, H
em
ingw
ay, B
eard,
O' N
eill. F
ired a
lso b
y a
trip
to G
erm
any e
arl)
, in 1
929 to
stu
dy
the w
ork
ers' h
ousin
g th
ere, th
e a
dm
iratio
n o
f th
e a
rellite
cruril
world
. How
was it p
ossib
le a
nd w
hat d
id it s
ignif
y th
at th
ese
su
perb
so
cia
l creatio
ns a
s. c
re b
uilt in
Germ
any, d
efeate
d a
nd
ru
ined
by
the w
ar, a
nd
no
t in th
e U
nite
d S
tate
s?
Dim
reactio
ns, e
ngendered th
us, w
ere f
anned to
activ
e lif
e
Ls- th
e w
orld
crash. A
ll this
past p
oth
er w
ith in
div
idualis
tic
ideals
and in
telle
ctu
al a
bstr
actio
ns! H
ere b
efore m
y e
yes w
as
no illu
sio
n b
ut th
e c
oncrete
exposure o
f th
e th
eory of "A
meri-
can E
xceptio
nalis
m, "
the in
cap
acity
of th
e A
meric
an
cap
italis
t
syste
m w
ith th
e in
telle
ctu
als
inclu
ded.
offic
e c
losed.
I got a
job th
rough th
e C
ivil W
orks A
d-
^“n
istr
atio
n w
ith th
e N
ew Y
ork C
ity H
ou
sin
g A
uth
ority
. us
74
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• I1
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VA
RD
CL
AS
S O
F 1
92
2
to n
w
nee .
research an
d
com
munity
plan
nin
-r. sI';
an
d th
e dream
s of th
e liberals w
ho:,
. ;a...tee] the Federation of A
rchitects, Engineers..
Chem
ists, and Technicians, a union for professional m
en_ Thetc,
thro
ug
h th
ose m
ast active in
it, the m
emb
ers of th
e Vit.:0
ns ca4i.•
cal political p
arties, I came in
to co
ntact w
ith M
arxism
. 'The
writings of M
arx, Engels, L
enin, and Trotsky opened new
doors u
po
n en
old
wo
rld. T
he th
eory
of h
istorical m
aterialism b
e to
mak
e clear much
that h
ad elu
ded
me th
ese man
y y
ears; the
relations b
etween
the m
ovem
ent o
f society
and th
e movem
ent
of id
eas, betw
een th
e world
of th
e Mass (actio
n) an
d th
e world
of the intellectual, betw
een the individual and society. T
his th
eory
and
its deriv
ative, th
e theo
ry o
f class Stru7,71c, p
rov
ided
the o
nly
com
preh
ensib
le exp
lanatio
n to
the n
ew p
he-
nom
ena o
n th
e Am
erican scen
e; the rad
io sq
uad
cars called o
ut
to d
isperse th
e too-g
reat thro
ngs o
f work
ers crow
din
g to
hear
Shake,p
earc and B
eethoven
in th
e park
(\VP
A) an
d to
break
up th
e huntrer m
arches, th
e histo
ric movem
ent to
the left o
f in
tellectuals flo
ckin
g to
Marx
ism an
d w
ork
ers to th
e sit-do
wn
strikes end the C
IO. It gave substance and coherence to the great
even
ts of th
e past ten
years o
f which
I, like m
ost H
arvard
men
, had been but dim
ly conscious though deeply, vaguely disturbed; fro
m S
acco an
d V
anzetti, th
rough th
e defeats o
f the E
uro
pean
rev
olu
tion
s, to th
e rise of H
itler. I co
nld
no lo
nger escap
e the reality
of th
e class struggle n
or
the resn
onsib
ility fo
r action. I b
ecame a fo
llow
er of L
eon
T
rozsl,:r and a partisan of the world w
orking class. In
the tw
elve y
ears which
hav
e follo
wed
, life, both
for m
e an
d fo
r my w
ife, has b
een an
interw
eavin
g h
armony o
f readin
g
and h
ard w
ork
, activity
in
the
labor movem
ent and Mar:,:ist
politics, o
f theo
ry an
d p
ractice. Arch
itecture, th
ree years as
ship
9tter d
urin
g th
e war, o
rgan
izing, sp
eakin
g, lab
or d
efense,
teachin
g, an
d w
riting
hav
e been
amo
ng
the facets o
f a unified, creativ
e life. To
my w
ay o
f thin
kin
g th
is joy
is no
result o
f accident o
r perso
nal w
him
. C
reation and frustration arc but the recip
rocal ex
pressio
ns o
f the relatio
n o
f the in
div
idu
al to h
is so
ciety. T
oday
the w
orld
-wid
e contrad
ictions, d
ecay an
d in
-cap
acity o
f capitalism
are a paraly
zing reality
for all so
ciety.
therefo
re also fo
r the in
div
idual. T
he
upw
ard
path
from
the
t7
46
J
AN
NIV
ER
SA
RY
R
EP
oier
CO
th
e n
ew
has e
ver b
een
a
path
of stru
gg
le, a C
OC
ICIC
CW
ii
a class strug
gle.
I am free an
d I am
con
tent b
ecause I
!Live chosen m
y side in that struggle and chosen to act.
RO
BE
RT
TR
EA
T P
AIN
E, JR
.
„me A
rogr.S: a Hubbard Park R
d., Cam
bridge 38, Mass.
Moscun of Fine A
rts, Huntington A
ve., Boston, M
ass.
Dcc. is, loco, B
oston, Mass. PA
BE.N
TS: Robert Treat Paine, '88, M
arie -u uisc
k C
ou try Day School, N
ewton, M
ass. r 1iattin r gly.
rial.Rr
,
11-4.1 , -S 1N CO'1.EGE: 19IS-192.0. 1924-1926. DECREES: A.B. C
UM
laude, tsn
x (x6) ;
A .m., 1928.-
m‘r.xstv: B
arbara Birkhoff, June 3, 1932, Cam
bridge, Mass. CIIIU
)R.EN: R
ob-
ert Treat, 3d, A
pril r3. 1933; E
lizabeth, Oct. 3. 1934; G
arrett, Jan. 7,
1937. 4..1-1.P.crfuN
: Assistant curator, D
cparrment 'of A
siatic Art, M
useum of F
ine
Arts. oos.s.su...m
r.Nr Posts: C
ivilian employee, N
avy Departm
ent- rvi,LicA
rioss: T
en Ja
p.sn
cse Pain
tings, 1
93 9
Japanese S
creen P
ain
tings —
B
irds, Flo-a.:er: and A
nimals, 193s ; Ja
pa
nese S
creen P
ain
ting
s—L
an
d-
scaper and Figures. 193
8.
A
TA
ST
E fo
r travel in
to stran
ge lan
ds an
d cu
ltures is
a
desire co
mm
on to
man
y m
inds, but as it is somew
hat easier in tim
e and expense to stimulate the m
ind with literatures about
foreig
n p
laces than
it is to trav
el wid
ely afield
, it was n
ot u
ntil
I left the G
radu
ate Sch
oo
l that I co
uld
get aw
ay lo
ng
eno
ug
h to
justify a
trip to
the O
rient. In
19aS
I set out fo
r Chin
a, inten
d-
ing- first to sp
end
the su
mm
er in Jap
an. T
hree y
ears later I was
still in Japan, having found that I could spare just ten days form
regular tourist trip to Peking. T
his was in the days w
hen it w,35
fashio
nab
le to say
that ev
eryth
ing Jap
anese w
as imitativ
e, as erro
r which
has co
st us m
uch
in o
ur m
isunderstan
din
g o
f very foreign land and w
hich may still m
islead us in any estimate
of the democratization processes now
going or B
ut then
in th
e late and p
eaceful tw
enties, liv
ing in
the ci .Ty
of K
yoto
, the F
loren
ce of Jap
an, th
e atmosp
here o
f its stramt
art lost its strangeness and I grew eager to take up the history:d
Japan
ese art as my
majo
r interest. In
19
31
I return
ed to
Bo
son
and in the follow
ing year entered the Asiatic D
epartment of .ilt
Boston M
useum of F
ine Arts. L
ooking back, it is impossiblelD
17
47
1
small tow
ns only fresher and perhaps in same respects better. A
gainst
the u
sual ap
athy an
d o
ppositio
n, it cam
paig
ned
long, h
ard, an
d
eventually successfully for a sewage system
for the town and the
con
structio
n o
f a factory
build
itig fo
r rental to
help
div
ersify its
rural CC
O;:only.
The civics class in a hich school in T
exas formed itself into a corn.
mittee w
ith planning, 'Lancia] and publicity com
ponents, for the
purpose of creating a badly needed recreation center for all ages.
The y
oungsters w
ere pain
stakin
g an
d th
oro
ugh in
gettin
g th
eir
facts and p
resentin
g th
em. It w
as scarcely a sh
oo-in
, but after a
struggle the comm
ittee's enthusiasm—
and the persuasiveness of its
facts—caught on a-nd there w
as a bond issue. Now
the town has-
something vastly better than the tw
o pin-ball machines in the notion
store for its outside recreation. •
There are h
undred
s of sim
ilar pro
jects. It is astonish
ing w
hat
young people can do given the opportunity and the responsibility
along with sufficiently restrained guidance. E
xperiments like these
and many others in prim
ary and secondary schools were carried out
with
the aid
, mostly
indirect, cf fu
nds fro
m th
e Alfred
P. S
loan
Foundation. I: has been an effective and proF
.table use of founda-
-dor. maney. A
s a culmination of its project in applied econom
ics,
the Sloan F
oundation 0:feted a termin
al gran
t to ex
pan
d th
e bul-
letin A
pplied
Eco
nom
ics in
to an
illustrated
mag
azine co
verin
g
social an
d cu
ltural im
pro
vem
ent as w
ell as econom
ic. Sin
ce the
Foundatio
n d
oes n
ot m
ake g
rants to
indiv
iduals, I w
as asked
to
org
anize a n
on
-pro
a corp
oratio
n to
receive an
d ad
min
ister the
money. P
ayson Row
e war treasurer and E
ndy Wheeler w
as secre-
tary. Also on the board of trustees w
as Mac L
loyd of the Class of
1921. S
o th
e mag
azine really
did
hav
e som
ethin
g o
f a Harv
ard
back
gro
und. I: w
as called S
cho
ols a
nd
Better L
iving
and w
as
strictly a one-man operation. W
ith the secretarial help of a bright
young g
raduate fresh
out o
f Rad
cliffe, 1 d
esigned
the m
agazin
e,.
secured
publish
able m
aterial from
teachers, ed
ited it, w
rote ed
i-
tor:els, articles, and book reviews, conducted m
ail promotion cam
-
paigns, did the make-up on each copy (it w
as published monthly),
go: it o
ut to
the su
bscrib
ers, and in
my sp
are time tried
to raise
money to keep us afloat. It w
as like shooting rapids and attempting
to describe the scenery as we w
ent, while steering clear of the w
hirl-
pools and rocks. •
After three years w
e did hit a rock, the financial one, of course,
-
and the magazine had to fold. B
ut it was an exciting course. School!
and Better L
iving offered teachers an instrument thruue ,h %
vial)
they could tell each other what they actually did in the classroom
rather than be told what they ought to do by professors in the teach-
ers' colleges. The latter is, of course, an im
portant and necessary
part of creating good schools, but I think many teachers found it
refreshing and rewarding to he able to talk shop directly w
ith each
other. At any rate som
e thousands of them parted w
ith their hare_'
earned dollars to subscribe, and the magazine w
as used extensiv.E.
overseas by the Departm
ent of State and U
nesco. P
ossibly influenced by, but at any rate coincident with, the folding
of the magazine, m
y ulcers which had been having their ups arid
downs for som
e years burst into such a fury that what seem
ed like
a rather formidable operation becam
e necessary. This apparently
defeated
the u
lcers once an
d (I d
evoutly
hope) fo
r all. It is true
the operation left me skinny as S
kipnay, but this not so sad con-
ditio
n d
oesn
't both
er him
'so w
hy sh
ould
it me? A
t this w
riting!'
am in
the sh
eet metal fab
ricating b
usin
ess. We m
ake cab
inet,
chassis, panels and such like for the electronics industry. It is my
first venture in business since not long after leaving college and thus
I have, in a way, com
e full circle. The future is not as long as it w
as
then, but it still is the same old future, and it still beckons W
ith its
mysterious finger.
GE
OR
GE
LY
MA
N P
AIN
E, JR
.: Architect.
Hom
e Address, 2331
Holgate S
q., Los A
ngeles 31, Calif.
Married, R
uth Forbes, M
arch
20, 1926„ Milton, M
ass. (divorced 1931); Frances D
rake, 1939, Nev
York, N
. Y. C
hildren, (1) Michael, June 25, 1928.
(2) Cam
era:.
Forbes, May 3, 1932-
This sum
mary of the past ten years can have m
eaning only ii
relation to the aims and direction established in the previous tw
ent-
five, reported on in 1947. I am still m
arried to the same rem
arkalar
wom
an, still earning a living as an architect, still consumed by tile
urge to contribute as I am able tc the solution of those ills of sockr
which today frustrate m
ost marriages and m
ost architects aloto
with other hum
an beings. I continue to find it im
possible to derive satisfaction out Gra--
dividualistic expressions of order and beauty in the midst c&
society where, in every sphere, order and beauty and individuilay
are thwarted and perverted.
I coatimte to express such creative energies as I m
ay have in a
stubborn, active and uncomprom
ising hostility to all forces, all
aspects of society which deny to m
an both order and human dignity
and which, finthet m
ore, oppose a positive barrier to his every effort
\X,
to achieve such a goal. B
y 1950 it finally became clear that the solution to the problem
s
of humanity, and thrrefore of individual creativity, lay not in the
education of people ncr in the character of leaders. The problem
lay in the concept itself of leadership over people. The solution lay
in the liberation of people to achieve their own destiny, apart frdm
and in opposition to domination by any elite or group w
hatsoever.
Because the T
rotskyites shared in this ccncept of the role of an
elite, of a mission to lead, I broke w
ith them, along w
ith a number
of colleagues, in 1951. S
ince then I have become part ow
ner and part editor of a small
paper, C
orresponden
ce. F
or th
e past fiv
e years it h
as been
an
arduous and exciting experiment tow
ard the creation of an instru-
ment, a form
, through which the ordinary w
orker can freely ex-
press his real concerns and can comm
unicate with others, and
through wh:ch the intellectual can re-establish contact w
ith the
driving force of society and contribute thereto as a colleague whose
function is not to dem:nate but to give of his historical know
ledge and, particularly, experience.
Since m
y wife participates totally and equally w
ith me in all
these endeavors, since we have expanded from
a tiny box in New
York to
2 spacious, if tumble-dow
n, house in a jungle of greed
and growing things under the friendly sun of southern C
alifornia,
and since we both love both w
ork and play, life continutes to be
a full and fine affair. •
• • • •
• •
RO
BE
RT
TR
EA
T P
AIN
E, JR
.: Assistant C
urator, Museum
of F
ine Arts.
Hom
e Address, 2 H
ubbard Pk., C
ambridge 38, M
ass.
Office A
ddress, Museum
of Fine A
rts, Boston, M
ass. M
arried, B
arbara Birkhoff, June 3, 1932, C
ambridge, M
ass. C
hildress, (1)
Robert T
reat, 3d, '54, April 13, 1933. . (2) E
lizabeth, Radcliffe
'56, Oct. 3, 1934 (in. A
rthur G. Snapper, '56, D
ee. 21, 1955). • (3).
Garrett, '58, Jan. 7, 1937. In 1953 I becam
e a fellow of the A
merican A
cademy of A
rts and S
ciences; in 1955 I wrote (w
ith Alexander S
oper) T
he A
rt an
d. -
Arch
itecture of Japan
, P
enguin Books, E
ngland, and "Chinese
Ceram
ic l'i!!ows,"
Far 1:as:cln
went to K
orea as a mem
ber of w
orks of art for the exhibition A
merican m
useums starting at
ton, D. C
., in Decem
ber, 1957. •
PA
UL
PA
LM
ER
: Sand M
anufacturer; General M
anager, Cuban.:
Am
erican Sand and S
tone Com
pany (CA
SC
O).
Hom
e Address,(
1212 N. E
. 91st St., M
iami 33, F
la. O
ffice Address, P. 0. B
ox 3565,0
Havana, C
uba. Married, O
lga Fdez Centuri6n, M
ay 14, 1952,•KF
■
West, F
la. C
hildren
, (1
) Philip
Lott (b
y p
revio
us m
arriage),
Iowa
State C
oll. '52, March 19, 1930 (m
. Carol P
ederson, Iowa
State C
oll. '52): Barbara, D
ec. 27, 1951; Pam
ela, March (41)0,Nrarie3.
(2) Peter, F
eb. 3, 1953. (3) P
aul, Feb. 3, 1953.
Elizabeth, M
a: , 23, 1955. •
The year 1947 w
as a glorious one. Sailed the thirty-tw
o-foot
Pacific C
hilde to H
onolulu in the trans-Pacific race of that year,
cruised the Haw
aiian Islands, and sailed her back to California.
In 1943 I ran the Little
Farm
Poultry C
ompany (w
hich I had
started in 1935) and had enough leisure to go in the ocean races
and be comm
odore of the Miam
i Yacht C
lub. In 1949 and 1950i1
bought and ran an old L. S
. M. betw
een Mexico and G
ulf parts
Dignify it if you w
ant to by calling it the Palm
etto Shipping C
om.
pany. The year 1951 w
as another glorious one. Had the starboarl -
watch on the M
et!abon X
III in the H
abana-San Sebastian race, then
sailed up to England for the Fastnet, and leisurely hom
e by waya51
Spain, P
ortugal, Madeira, and the C
aribbean. In 1952 I w
orked for the Old D
ominion R
esearch and Develor
merit C
orporation in Virginia and w
ould still be there if my .iris
hadn't decided we m
ight as well starve in F
lorida as freeze in
Virginia. T
hen came a lot of hard w
ork which culm
inated inrrt
being president of Engineered P
roducts, Inc., in Miam
i. Soiri'
dignified but it didn't keep the owners from
transferring me t.c.
Cuba w
here theyhad an unsuccessful sand operation. I hope in
three years to get the sync of Skinnay's clam digger out of m
