1940s

Wilson William Mark ’40

Wilson William Mark ’40, a retired industrial engineer and manager, was born on May 31, 1918, in Elba, a rural community in Western New York, north of Batavia. One of three sons of Wilson H., a farmer and feed plant manager, and Ruby Wickings Mark, a school teacher, he grew up on the family farm near Batavia, where he learned valuable lessons in hard work and acquired a lifelong love of gardening. Will Mark enrolled at Hamilton in 1936, following his graduation from Batavia High School, and joined the Emerson Literary Society. Called “the fast man from the west” by The Hamiltonian, he ran middle distances while lettering as a member of the varsity track team. He acquired his B.S. degree in 1940.

Will Mark, who had concentrated in history and political science with the thought of going on to law school, soon saw the wisdom of getting a paying job instead. Although employment opportunities were scarce in 1940, he managed to obtain a job as an apprentice engineer with Harrison Radiator, a division of General Motors Corp., in Lockport, N.Y. He enjoyed the work and decided to make a career of it. In subsequent years he held supervisory and managerial positions as a manufacturing engineer with various companies. For a time, as part of the defense effort during World War II, he worked for American Aviation Corp. in Jamestown, N.Y., helping to build an unmanned twin-engine torpedo-bomber airplane, intended to be America’s answer to Japanese kamikazes. He was subsequently employed by Doehler-Jarvis, a division of American Lead Co., in Batavia.

Will Mark and his wife, the former Elizabeth Cashion, whom he had wed on Oct. 31, 1942, in Lockport, reared their three children in Batavia, where Will also served on the City Council and was an active member of St. James Episcopal Church. The couple left Batavia in 1961 in response to Will’s employment opportunities in the aerospace manufacturing industry that took the family out West. He was involved in aerospace projects with Morton-Thiokol Corp. in Utah and North American Rockwell in Oklahoma. He retired from Martin-Marietta Corp. in Colorado in 1984.

While residing in Greeley, Colo., Will Mark established Cellarmaster Wine Store, a retail wine business that Elizabeth managed. Along the way, he also acquired a real estate license and learned to play the piano, in addition to attending local college classes and enjoying trips to Rocky Mountain National Park. Swimming and maintaining a large fruit and vegetable garden provided him with welcome recreation.

Wilson W. Mark, an ever-supportive alumnus who had long assisted the College in its fundraising efforts, resided in Greeley for 30 years. Not long before the death of his wife of 68 years in 2011, he moved to a senior living community in Salt Lake City, Utah. He died there on April 14, 2014, at the age of 95. Surviving him are two daughters, Helen M. Soanes and Julie M. Mark; a son, Wilson W. Mark, Jr.; and four grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

 

John Francis Juraschek ’41

John Francis Juraschek ’41, a retired regional sales manager for McGraw Hill Publishing Co., was born on Sept. 1, 1919, in Jamaica, Queens, N.Y. The son of Francis and Laura Lankenau Juraschek, he enrolled at Hamilton from Stamford High School in Stamford, Conn., in 1937. A member of Sigma Phi and elected to Quadrangle, Jack Juraschek left the College after three years to seek employment. He joined a division of U.S. Steel in Pittsburgh doing clerical work.

A year later, in 1941, Jack Juraschek left for New York City to take a course in seamanship and navigation, preparatory for commissioning as an ensign in the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve. After the country entered World War II, he went on active duty and sailed the North Atlantic to Europe for more than three years, escorting merchant convoys. On Oct. 23, 1944, during a short layover in New York City, he was married to Sylvia M. Ward, a Wells College graduate.

Released as a lieutenant from active service in 1945, ­following the war’s end, Jack ­Juraschek took a job selling wire products for American Chain and Cable Co. In 1947, he began his long career in the publishing field as an advertising salesman for Dell Publishing Co. A year later, he joined McGraw Hill, where he stayed for 30 years in various advertising sales and management positions. He served as district manager for the magazine Business Week and later national accounts manager for the Atlantic region. He took early retirement in 1978.

While residing for 28 years in Weston, Conn., Jack Juraschek became active in Republican Party politics, chairing the Town Republican Committee and serving as justice of the peace, during which he “managed to marry 25 couples.” He and his wife “Syl” swam and sailed during the summers and did some traveling and club work. After Jack’s retirement, they moved to Beaufort, S.C., where they built a home. For 12 enjoyable but busy years in Beaufort, they sailed (Jack was an avid sailor who had raced in regattas and open-ocean competition), went shrimping, played bridge and contributed time to Meals on Wheels when not traveling extensively around the world. Their travel arrangements were made easier by the fact that Jack had become a travel agent.

In 1990, the Jurascheks moved to North Carolina, first to Huntersville on Lake Norman and in 1994 to a retirement community in Morganton. John F. Juraschek, an ever faithful and devotedly supportive alumnus, was still residing in Morganton when he died on May 25, 2014, at the age of 94. Predeceased by Sylvia in 2005, he is survived by his second wife, Jeanne. Also surviving are four sons, Theodore, John, William and Richard Juraschek, and a daughter, Nancy Juraschek, from his first marriage, as well as seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Among his nephews is Tom S. Ward ’66.

 

Herbert Wieder ’42

Herbert Wieder ’42, a physician and psychiatrist, was born on Sept. 9, 1921, to Samuel and Gertrude Eisenberg Wieder in New York City. Herb Wieder, whose father was a business executive, grew up in suburban White Plains, where he was graduated in 1938 from White Plains High School. He came to College Hill that fall and went out for soccer. He also fenced for four years, earning letters in that sport. Active in debate and elected to the forensic honor society Delta Sigma Rho, he took a prominent role in the recently established Squires Club for independents, becoming its president in his senior year. Known for his initiative and perseverance, he concentrated in biology, preparatory for his future career in medicine.

After receiving his B.S. degree in 1942, Herb Wieder went on to the New York University College of Medicine, where he was awarded his M.D. degree in 1945. On Dec. 19, 1943, while in medical school, he was wed to Gloria Cohen of Utica. Two children, Lawrence and Karen, were born of the marriage, which had ended in divorce in 1960. The following year, Herb was married to Enid Mannheim.

From 1946 to 1949, Dr. ­Wieder was employed by the U.S. Public Health Service. He later trained in psychiatry at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and established his practice first in New York City and later in Great Neck on Long Island. He continued to practice psychiatry until virtually the end of his long life, and had most recently worked closely with the government of Jamaica in the area of drugs and rehabilitation.

Herbert Wieder died on July 13, 2013, in his 92nd year, as confirmed by Social Security records. The College has no information regarding survivors.

 

David Nehrhood Young ’42

David Nehrhood Young ’42, a retired surgical supplies salesman, grew up in Detroit, where he was born on May 11, 1920. His parents were Edward W., also a salesman, and Ruth Lemmon Young. He enrolled at Hamilton from Mackenzie High School in Detroit in 1938 and joined the Emerson Literary Society. Dave Young went out for fencing and sang in the Choir. President of ELS in his senior year, he also served as circulation manager of student publications. Known around the ELS house for his infectious smile and welcoming manner, he left the Hill with his B.S. degree in 1942.

Soon thereafter, during World War II, Dave Young entered the enlisted ranks of the U.S. Army. On April 20, 1943, Corp. Young was wed to Shirley Ann Brown in Detroit. Three sons were to be born of the marriage, David N., Jr., Gregory A. and ­Roger E. Young.

Assigned to the Army Medical Corps during the war, Dave Young served in the laboratory section of a station hospital in Italy. Trained at the Army’s Medical Technicians School in Hot Springs, Ark., he specialized in bacteriology and was awarded the Bronze Star for his services during the Italian campaign. After the war, he returned to Detroit, where he took advantage of his medical background to find employment with a surgical supply house. He continued to sell medical supplies until his retirement. He later moved to Tucson, Ariz.

David N. Young was back in Michigan and residing in ­Lansing when he died on Dec. 14, 2013, at the age of 93. The College has no information c­oncerning survivors.

 

Vincent Dominic Cardone ’43

Vincent Dominic Cardone ’43, a lifelong resident of Medina, N.Y., west of Rochester, where he practiced law for five decades, was born there on June 1, 1921. He was one of seven children born to Dominic and Marie Scolozzi Cardone, immigrants from Italy. Young Vincent grew up during the Depression when his mother sold clothing door-to-door to make ends meet and hold the family together. He was the only one of his family to acquire a college education. Already determined to prepare for a career in the law, he enrolled at Hamilton from Medina High School in 1939. Short in stature and feisty in temperament, Vinnie Cardone liked nothing better than a good argument. A member of the Squires Club, he acquired his B.S. degree in 1943.

Vinnie Cardone, also known as Vince, soon entered the U.S. Army and served in the Pacific theater during World War II. After the war he began his law studies at Cornell University and earned his LL.B. degree in 1948. In the ensuing years he tried both civil and criminal cases in courtrooms throughout New York State, earning the plaudits of his professional colleagues as well as his clients for his legal skills and high ethical standards. Outspoken and passionate in his convictions, and controversial at times, he acquired a reputation as something of a “character.” However, no one doubted his deep commitment to the welfare of his hometown of Medina and to his family.

Over the years, Vinnie Cardone helped bring industry and employment to Medina and took a personal role in property development through his real estate and business holdings. His businesses became family affairs, shared with his wife, the former Rose Burgio, whom he had wed in 1946. Together, they reared six children, all of whom went to college, and one, Kathleen, is now a federal court judge for the Western District of Texas.

Vincent D. Cardone died on Aug. 23, 2014, at the age of 93. He is survived by his wife of 68 years. Also surviving are three daughters, Rosalind Lind and Renee and Kathleen Cardone; three sons, Dominic, Joseph and Michael Cardone; and 10 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

John Cameron McLaughlin ’43

John Cameron McLaughlin ’43, professor emeritus of English at the University of Iowa, was born on Dec. 1, 1921, to Allan A. and Ethel MacDonald McLaughlin, in Albany, N.Y. He grew up in Olean, in southwestern New York, where his father, ­who died shortly before his son entered Hamilton, was general secretary of the local YMCA. John McLaughlin came to the College in 1939 from Olean High School, following his brother, Richard A. McLaughlin ’37, to the Hill. He remained at Hamilton only during his freshman year.

From 1942 through the end of the Second World War in 1945, John McLaughlin served with the U.S. Army. As a heavy machine gun platoon leader with the 43rd Infantry Division in the Solomon Islands and the Philippines, he saw combat and earned the Purple Heart as well as four battle stars. The College has no information about his subsequent activities, except that he was for 35 years a professor of English and linguistics at the University of Iowa.

John C. McLaughlin was residing in Portage, Mich., when he died on June 16, 2013, in his 92nd year. He was wed in 1949 to Mary Jane Langdon, who predeceased him by two months. He is survived by two daughters, Kathryn Drinkard and Dawit Kidane; two sons, Michael S. and Douglas B. McLaughlin; and seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. His brother Richard predeceased him in 2003.

 

Stanley Francis Altman ’44

Stanley Francis Altman ’44, a retired physician and surgeon, was born on May 3, 1923, in New York City. The son of Joseph and Gladys Goldberg Altman, he grew up in Brooklyn, where he was graduated in 1940 from Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School. Intending to follow his physician father into the medical field, he chose Hamilton for his premedical studies because it was one of three small colleges whose credits, he discovered, were deemed highly acceptable for admission to Harvard Medical School. Stan Altman arrived on the Hill with the Class of 1944 and became a member of the Squires Club. He studied diligently, and after five semesters, he left Hamilton to enter the New York University Medical College. He obtained his M.D. degree in 1948, the same year that Hamilton awarded him his A.B. based upon accumulated credits. On Feb. 6, 1949, he and Gladys Phillips were married in New York City.

There, Dr. Altman established his practice and performed vascular and general surgery at Montefiore Hospital. He also became an associate professor of surgery at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and director of surgery, emergency and ambulatory services at the Bronx Municipal Hospital Center. Subsequently surgical director of emergency services at Jacobi Hospital and the author of several articles on groundbreaking ­surgical techniques, he retired in 1987 following an automobile accident in which he had sustained serious injury.

Stanley F. Altman was residing at a son’s home in New Haven, Conn., when he died on July 18, 2014, at the age of 91. Predeceased by his wife and a son, Jonathan, he is survived by two daughters, Helen Altman-Felsher and Jane Klopp; two sons, Mark and Peter Altman; and 13 grandchildren and a sister.

 

Grant Wilson Holly ’44

Grant Wilson Holly ’44, a retired pharmaceutical sales manager, was born on April 2, 1923, to Grant B. Holly, an auditor, and Elynor Wilson, in Gloversville, N.Y. He arrived on College Hill from Curtis High School on Staten Island in 1940 and joined Tau Kappa Epsilon. “Red” Holly soon left the Hill because of injuries sustained in a sliding accident, but returned to complete a year of study in 1941-42. He then withdrew to find employment with plans to attend night school. However, he soon found himself in a U.S. Army uniform during World War II. He served in the Pacific theater, in the Philippines and in occupied Japan.

After the war, Red Holly attended Wagner College under the G.I. Bill and earned his B.S. degree in 1947. Thereafter he held a variety of jobs until 1951, when he entered the pharmaceuticals field as a salesman for Merck. He retired as eastern regional sales manager, overseeing Merck’s sales people from Maine to Florida and the Atlantic Coast to the Mississippi River.

Grant W. Holly died on Aug. 5, 2014, in Holland, Pa., at the age of 91. He was predeceased in 2007 by his wife, the former Marjorie “Midge” Innes, whom he had wed on May 7, 1943. Surviving are two sons, Grant I. and Charles W. Holly, and two grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

 

William Robert Higgins, Jr. ’45

William Robert Higgins, Jr. ’45, a lifelong resident of Indian­apolis, who left banking and finance to return to teaching in mid-career, was born in that city on Dec. 3, 1922. A son of William R., a lawyer and judge, and Helen Boyd Higgins, an author of children’s books, he was graduated in 1941 from Park School, a private boys’ school in Indianapolis. That fall, Bill ­Higgins arrived by train at Union Station in Utica to soon occupy a dorm room on the fourth floor of Carnegie Hall. While on the Hill he joined Psi Upsilon and went out for tennis.

After three semesters, he left to enlist in the U.S. Army as a private. Assigned to a field artillery battalion, he served with the 100th Infantry Division in Europe during World War II. He participated in the occupation of rubble-strewn Germany after the war and once went to great lengths to organize a Christmas party for German children, even hiring a Santa to distribute among them a rare treat, chocolate. And in Stuttgart, while a reporter for his camp newspaper, he interviewed such visiting luminaries as Ingrid Bergman and Jack Benny.

Discharged from the Army as a private first class in 1946, Bill Higgins returned to Hamilton to resume his studies. He rejoined the varsity tennis team and ­lettered in the sport, and also became manager of the basketball team. An active participant in debate, he was elected to the forensic honorary society Delta Sigma Rho. Having concentrated in history and political science, he left the Hill with his diploma in 1948.

Bill Higgins returned to Indianapolis and soon found employment in a familiar setting, Park School, where he taught history and coached from 1949 to 1953, the year he acquired an M.A. degree in ­history from ­Indiana University. In 1954, after briefly working for a local trucking company, he turned to banking as an accounts officer in the trust department of Indiana National Bank. In 1960, he joined the brokerage firm of Hemphill, Noyes & Co (later Hornblower & Weeks, Hemphill, Noyes), where he worked in investments as a registered ­representative until 1967. That year, lured back to the classroom at his old school, soon to be Park Tudor, and coeducational, he taught history and economics as well as coached tennis until his retirement in 1985. He once remarked that his favorite students were “the average ones who worked hard,” and he ­particularly enjoyed leading his young charges on field trips to places such as the battlefield at Gettysburg.

Highly active in community organizations, Bill Higgins served on the board of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and as president of the Dramatic Club and the Contemporary Club, both of Indianapolis. Also vice president of the Indianapolis Literary Club, he was a member and former Sunday School teacher at Second Presbyterian Church. He continued to be an avid tennis player as well as an enthusiastic sailor. Known as “a true Republican” even in college, he remained politically conservative and respectful of tradition throughout his life. An alumnus who always recalled his college years with great fondness, he was ever devoted to Hamilton despite his concerns over its decidedly ­“liberal” tendencies in recent years.

William R. Higgins, Jr., who had been ill for several years, with his condition aggravated by a fall, died on April 29, 2014, at the age of 91. He was predeceased in 2011 by his wife, the former Mary M. Carmichael, whom he had wed on Dec. 28, 1951, in Montreal, Canada. He is  survived by four sons, Bruce C., William R. III, Ross M. and Jeffrey B. Higgins, and five grandchildren.

 

Louis John Nicholaus ’45

Louis John Nicholaus ’45, a marketing consultant, was born on March 5, 1924, to John L., a physician and surgeon, and Ruth Mara Nicholaus, in New York City. Louis Nicholaus, known as Bud, grew up in that city, where he was graduated in 1941 from Trinity School. He entered ­Hamilton that fall, joined Delta Kappa Epsilon and remained on the Hill for three semesters before withdrawing to enlist in the U.S. Army. He served through the end of World War II and was stationed in the Pacific theater. Discharged as a staff sergeant in 1946, he returned to the College for a further year of study before again withdrawing to find employment.

Bud Nicholaus held a variety of jobs in the ensuing years, first in a family-owned restaurant business and later in food retailing and advertising, becoming an agency vice president. He was married in 1949 to Barbara S. Baker, and the couple had three children, John B., Eric S. and Barbara L. Nicholaus.

The Nicholaus family settled in California, where Bud engaged in marketing, becoming president of a consulting firm, The Marketing Staff, which offered promotional and advertising advice to food and retail chains. After his retirement, he continued to consult part-time with overseas clients.
Louis J. Nicholaus was residing in Big Bear Lake, Calif., when he died on Feb. 26, 2008, as belatedly verified by the College. Hamilton has no information regarding survivors.