Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1880, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
• Census: 1900, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
• Census: 1910, Mayfield, Santa Clara, California
• Census: 1920, Seattle, King, Washington
• Census: 1930, Seattle, King, Washington
• Census: 1940, King, Washington

Notes:

Macy Millmore Skinner graduated from Harvard University in 1894 (PhD). He attended the University of Heidelberg in Germany, probably studying economics. He apparently became well respected, worldwide, as an economist. From 1895 to 1914, he was professor in the German Department at Stanford University (California). A scandal (see doc1, doc2, doc3, doc4) forced him to resign suddenly in August 1914. He went to China where he was an economic advisor to Sun Yat-Sen. He came back to America, and went on to the University of Washington where he was Business Professor in the Economics Department and Dean of Men.

From Harvard College. Class of 1894, Sixth Report (May 1914) :
MACY MILLMORE SKINNER – I spent the year 1911-1912 with my family in Germany. In the months of August and September, 1911, I represented Stanford University at the centennial festivities of the universities of Breslau, Germany, and Christiania, Norway. During my absence, I was advanced to Associate Professor of German at Stanford. Member: Modern Language Association of America, Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, Schwäbischer Schillerverein.

From University of Washington – Tyee Yearbook Class of 1922 :
Dr. Macy M. Skinner has been teaching at Canton Christian college, China, and he has sought to further trade relations with this state.

From Harvard College. Class of 1894, The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Report (1919) :

Macy Millmore Skinner, 1894-1918

MACY MILLMORE SKINNER – Born: Boston, Mass., December 10, 1871. Son of:John and Jeanie Reid (Terwilliger) Skinner. Prepared: Boston Latin School, Boston, Mass. Degrees: A.B. 1894; A.M. 1895; PH.D. 1897. Married: Marian Weymouth Junkins at Boston, Mass., Sept. 19, 1903. Children: Selby Millmore, born July 19, 1905; Barbara Reid, born Nov. 19, 1907; Carlton Weymouth, born April 8, 1913. Occupation: Education. Address: (home) 4673 First Ave. N.E., Seattle, Wash.;*(business) University of Washington, Seattle, Wash.
 After graduation, I continued my work in the Graduate School and made my PH.D. in Semitic Languages and Literature in 1897. I went abroad on a Rogers Fellowship, and spent one year at Strassburg, and one at Berlin. On my return, finding that the prospect of making satisfactory progress in the teaching profession in my line was not a brilliant one, I changed to German, for which I had always had a strong liking. I was appointed Instructor in German at Harvard and remained there for six years, that is, until the spring of 1905, when I was called to Stanford University, Cal., as Assistant Professor of German. My family and I spent the year 1911-12 in Germany. In the months of August and September, 1911, I represented Stanford University at the centennial festivities of the universities of Beslau, Germany, and Christiania, Norway. During my absence, I was advanced to Associate Professor of German at Stanford. Having always had a strong desire to see the Orient, I gave up my position at Stanford in 1914 and sailed for China, where I spent two years in educational work. On my return in 1916, I was appointed to teach Chinese in the University of Washington, where I am at present located.
 Early in the year 1917, when it looked as though the U.S. would enter the war, I joined a Military Company of University Professors and drilled under the instruction of Major Patten, Commandant of the R.O.T.C. at the University. I assisted in the Military work of the Summer School and in the fall of 1917 was appointed Captain and Adjutant of the Intercollegiate Intelligence Bureau (later merged into the War Service Exchange), I was in constant communication with military and other departments of the Government, and endeavored to help our students find the kind of service they were fitted for and wished to enter.
 Publications: The Termination u uni in Asyrian Verbs. Proc. Amer. Orient. Soc., 1896. – 1 Sam. IX, 24. Journ. Bibl. Lit., 1896. – Aramaisms in Isaiah, 1897. – Other articles on Semitic and German subjects.
 Clubs and societies: Modern Language Association of America, Oriental Society, China Club of Seattle.

From the “HARVARD COLLEGE, Class of 1894, Fiftieh Anniversary Report (1944)”:

Top-notch, versatile scholar with a Classical foundation; myriad-minded linguist, turning after his experience in China to economics and business administration with a brilliant professional career; spreader of the gospel of international comity.

Macy Millmore Skinner, 1947

MACY MILLMORE SKINNER was born “in the very center of Boston,” the son of John Skinner, M.D. ’56, and Jeanie Reid Terwilliger. He is now living in Seattle (2006 25th N.), and is teaching at the University of Washington. He tells his own story:
 “My father, who was a graduate of the Harvard Medical School, and my mother, who had intellectual interests and rather unusual literary talent, encouraged their four sons to seek the best educational training attainable. So three of us attended the Boston Latin School and Harvard, and one the English High School in Boston and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
 “The Boston Latin School emphasised particularly the study of the classical languages, Latin and Greek, and, with its high standard of scholarship requirements, gave me habits of application and thoroughness that stood me in good stead through a long educational career, and, in particular, determined the direction my interests took at the University. There I continued with my classical studies, but added Spanish, German, and some more French to my répertoire, and later branched out into the Oriental field, taking courses in Oriental history and civilization, and several Semitic languages, Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac, Aramaic, and Phoenician. Eventually I secured a Ph.D. degree in Semitic languages and literature.
 “Sent abroad on a Rogers Traveling Fellowship, I spent two years in Europe, studying at Strassburg and Berlin. During this period, in addition to attending various courses in classical and modern Arabic, Persian, comparative philology, philosophy, and literature, I took the opportunity of working up an acquaintance with the older Germanic dialects, a study which I continued when, on my return, I was appointed to an instructorship in German at Harvard. During the following summers, I went back to Europe for further work at a number of universities – Heidelberg, Leipzig, Marburg, etc. Incidentally, I now added Italian to my linguistic interests.
 “In 1905, I was called to Stanford University as assistant professor of Germanic languages and literature, and in the Spring of my first year there, went through the ordeal of the California earthquake. With my family I spent my sabbatical year of 1911-1912 in Europe.
 “My Oriental interests drew me in 1914 to China, where I spent two years in educational work, incidentally devoting some time to the study of the Chinese, and to a lesser degree, the Japanese language. I returned in 1916 in order to do my part in World War I, for which I saw, that we, too, were heading. I was appointed assistant professor in the University of Washington in Seattle, where I taught German, and also introduced courses in the Chinese language. My six years of military training at the Boston Latin School stood me in good stead at this time, and I was one of a few professors chosen to train our students for service overseas. I was also made Dean of Men at the University.
 “As the war closed I weighted the possibility of securing a position at some eastern university in comparative philology, but accepted an assistant professorship in the College of Business Administration at the University of Washington, where I introduced courses of economic geography. I later headed the Department of Foreign Trade, for which my travels, my life abroad, my knowledge of economics geography, as well as of languages and customs of various peoples, seemed to fit me. In the heyday of international commerce that followed the war, I was instrumental in building up a large and flourishing department, and my students began to go out into the foreign trade field, and the United States consular service, all over the world.
 “In 1921, I was sent to China for two years as exchange professor and director of the department of business administration at Ling Nam University in Canton, being at the same time a representative of the Carnegie Foundation for World Peace. On my return I took up my work again as professor of foreign trade. A few years later I was sorely tempted to accept an offer of some Chinese government agencies to head a projected college of commerce there, but I decided to remain at my post in the United States. Having now reached the retiring age, I am on half-time, although I still conduct the foreign trade courses.
 “In the last twenty years or so I have supervised the work of one Ph.D. candidate and some forty A.M. candidates. My subject has been a popular one in the Northwest, here on the shore of the Pacific, and I have been called upon to deliver many addresses at conventions and to various civic group on topics connected with the international trade field.
 “My profoundest pleasure has been my contacts with eager minds of young men who want to go out into the great world to implement the gospel of international intercourse and amity through the interchange of material goods and services. At the college age they are still impressionable, and accept, with conviction, the social doctrine of ‛the greatest good to the greatest number.’
 “I have no particularly developed philosophy of life, except perhaps that our mission here must be to help others to get started right, and to live fruitfully and happily. There is no joy so great as that which lies in tried and true friendship, and in devotion to ideals of human service.
 “I am firmly conviced that, after the present war, the nations of the world must form a closer family unit, one for all and all for one; individual nations, politically, yet joined together in an organization that will enforce the peace, see justice done for all, and work for the prosperity and happiness of all. This is the kind of world we want our children and our children’s children to live in, and we must not fail to establish it after the work of the soldier is over, and mankind returns to the pursuits of peace.”
 Skinner was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in his Junior year. He was graduated summa cum laude, with honors in Semitic Languages. He received an A.M. in 1895 and a Ph.D. in 1897. He was a member of the Episcopal Church. During World War I he was adjutant of the Inter-collegiate Intelligence Bureau (later merged into the War Service Exchange), and captain-instructor in the R.O.T.C. during the same period. He has been elected several times, and is at present president of the Pan Xenia, the International Student Foreign Trade Fraternity.
 He has written various articles on Assyrian an Hebrew linguistic problems and the study of German. His publications include: “Review of Heinrich Keiter and Tonny Keller’s Theorie und Technik des Romans un der erzählenden Dichtkunst,” Modern Language Notes, XXIV, 8 December, 1909; “Brief Notes on the Indebtednes of Spielhagen to Dickens,” Journal of English and Germanic Philology, IX, 4, 1910; “Critical Survey of the Biographies of Friedrich Spielhagen,” Modern Language Notes, March, 1911; “Foreign Trade, its Growth and Importance,” Washington Purchasing Agent and Manufacturer, December, 1927; “Some Aspects of the Trade of the Pacific,” Proceedings, 6th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Collegiate Economic Conference, Vancouver, B. C., Ronald Forum, 1928; “Our Imports from Latin America, Their Significance and Their Relation to Our Export Problem”, Report of 15th National Foreign Trade Convention held at Houston, Texas, April, 1928, India House, N. Y., 1928 ; “Reports of Round Table Discussions on International Finance an International Commerce. The Pacific Area,” University of Washington Publications, July, 1928; “Report on Round Table Discussions on Population Problems,” Proceedings, Institute of International Relations, University of Southern California, December, 1928; “International Commerce and World Amity. The Pacific Area,” 1929; “Our World To-day. A Critical Survey of Economic and Commercial Conditions,” Washington Alumnus, December, 1931; “The Outlook for Inter-American Trade,” Proceedings, Institute of World Affairs, University of Southern California, 1934; “Report of Round Table Discussions on Tariffs and Trade,” Proceedings, Institute of World Affairs, 1935; “Review of Austin A. Dowell and Oscar B. Jesness, ‘The American Farmer and the Export Market,’” American Economic Review, June, 1935; “Economic Problems of the Pacific Area,” Proceedings, Institute of World Affairs, University of Southern California, 1937; “The Trade Reciprocity Program of the United States as a Contribution to World Economic Stability,” Proceedings, Institute of World Affairs, University of Southern California, 1939; “Measures for the Improvement of Latin-American Economy,” Northwest Industry Journal, University of Washington, Seattle, December, 1941.
 Skinner is a member of the Council of the Institute of Pacific Relations, of the American Economic Association, and of the Pacific Coast Economic Association. His club memberships include the Harvard Club of Seattle, the China Club of Seattle, the Alpha Kappa Psi, a national student business fraternity, Delta Sigma Phi, a national college fraternity, and Pan Xenia.
 He married Marian Weymouth Junkins, Sept. 19, 1903, at Cambridge, Massachusetts. They have three children: Selby Millmore, born July 19, 1905; Barbara Reid (Mrs. Gilmore), born Nov. 19, 1907; and Carlton, born April 8, 1913. Both boys are in the service, Selby as a lieutenant colonel in the Barrage Balloon, Anti-aircraft Division, and Carlton as a lieutenant in the Coast Guard. There is one grandchild, Dunston Macy Skinner, son of Selby, born March 1, 1942.
 Skinner has two brothers who attended Harvard: Prescott Orde Skinner, A.B. 1896, A.M. 1897; Vernon Villiers Skinner, LL.B. 1897.

M. M. Skinner, ’94, professor of German at Leland Stanford, Jr., University, has been appointed to represent Stanford at the centenary celebrations of the University of Breslau, Germany, in August, and of the University of Christiania, Norway, in September (Source: H. Bull. May 31, 1911)

Source: Seattle Passenger and Crew Lists, 1882-1957 Name: Macy M. Skinner; Arrival date: 14 Jun 1916; Port of Arrival: Seattle, Washington; Ship name:Kamakura Maru.

Source: Border Crossings: From Canada to U.S., 1895-1956 Name: Dr. Macy Skinner; Arrival date: 11 Sep 1904; Port of Arrival: Quebec, Quebec, Canada.

Source: From “The Washington Alumnus” 1930 – Awakening from a ‛Fool’s Paradise’ to a Cold Reality.

    “We in America emerged from the struggle [World War I] apparently in the healthiest, wealthiest condition it had ever been our fortune to enjoy. […] A new and glorious start for higher peaks of human satisfaction and dazzling world-supremacy – and then we awoke to find it all a dream. Disillusioned we emerged from this Fool’s Paradise into a world of cold and inexorable reality, where the sight of silenced mill and workshop, haunted by the grim specter of want and the unmerited suffering of millions of fellow human beings, plunged us into the depths of sadness and despair. The evil wrought by man in half a generation cannot be repaired in a year or two. But it will be repaired in time, but only by a fundamental setting of the world’s house in order.” – Business Professor M. M. Skinner, December 1931.

Source:
Author: Spielhagen, Friedrich, 1829-1911.
Title: Das Skelett im hause / von Friedrich Spielhagen ; edited with notes and vocabulary by Macy Millmore Skinner.Imprint: Boston : D.C. Heath &, c1913. Extent: v, 217 p.; 17 cm.
Hillman Library Special Collections Nietz 5009173

Macy married Marian Weymouth JUNKINS on 19 Sep 1903 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, and was divorced on 7 Oct 1920 in Dubuque, Iowa. Marian (daughter of George Selby JUNKINS and Josephine Mary McDUFFEE) was born on 30 Jul 1880 in Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 25 Apr 1966 in Belvedere, Marin, California; was buried in Bellevue Cemetery, Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1910, Mayfield, Santa Clara, California
• Census: 1920, Seattle, King, Washington
• Census: 12 Apr 1930, Seattle, King, Washington
• Census: 1940, Chicago, Cook, Illinois
• Census: 1950, Downers Grove, DuPage, Illinois

Notes:

Selby went to China where his father (Macy) was an economic advisor to Sun Yat-sen, during the time of the Boxer Rebellion. Apparently Selby was quite bright as a teenager, and the story goes that he was teaching Trigonometry to Chinese in Chinese at the age of sixteen or seventeen. He studied in Cal’Tech and became a Physicist. He resided in Tempe, AZ about 1935. Selby Skinner served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Barrage Balloon, Anti-aircraft Division during World War II (317th Coast Artillery Barrage Balloon Battalion. Source The U.S. Army Barrage Balloon Program, by James R. Schock).

From Who’s who in the Midwest, 1958:
SKINNER, Selby M(illmore), educator, b. Boston, July 19, 1905; p. Macy Millmore and Marian (Junkins) S.; B.S., U. Wash., 1929; Ph.D., Cal. Inst. Tech., 1933; m. Charlotte L. Miller, Aug. 10, 1932; children – Dunston, Reid. Instr. Ariz. State Tchrs. Coll., 1932-33, asst. prof., 1933-35; research asso. physics Columbia, 1935-37; asst. prof. U. Chgo., 1937-46; research analyst U.S. Govt., 1947-48; dir. research services to dir. research and development AEC, Chgo., 1948-50; chief scientist Office Deputy for Research and Office Sci. Research, USAF, 1950-52; sr. research asso., prof. lectr, chemistry and chem. engring. Cast Inst. Tech., 1952-54, asso [...]

Obituary from the News-Herald (Ohio), 8 May 2002:

Private services were held for Dr. Selby M. Skinner, 96, of Kirtland.
Dr. Skinner died April 29, 2002, in Kirtland.
 Born July 19, 1905, in Boston, Mass., he lived in Baltimore, Md. before moving to Kirtland 30 years ago. He was a member of American Physics Society, American Chemical Society, American Instructors Aerospace and Astronautics, and also a member of Sigma XI, Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Chi Sigma. Mr. Skinner served six years active duty in World War II and 21 years in the reserves. He served as the Battalion Commander of Anti-Aircraft Artillery and was a member of Barrage Balloons Board. He was also on the Atomic Energy Commission and was Director of Research and Development – Chicago Operations, and Air Research and Development Command, United States Air Force. He directed programs in solid-state electronics, electro­mechanical effects of polymers, application of solid-state electronics, lubrication and adhesion, and thermodynamics of charge carrier flow. He consulted and researched properties of polymers and elastomers, electrostatic printing, instrumentation and printed circuits. He was manager of the Corporate Molecular Electronics Program at Westinghouse Defense and Space Center, also working on the Agena Docking Project, and helped develop night vision flying for aircraft during the Vietnam War, and was Senior Advisor in the Studies of Failure Mechanism and Energy Conversion in electronic materials and insulators, and was a research analyst to the United States Government. Dr. Skinner also had various professorships with several different universities. He had 38 patent disclosures, 40 publications in the fields of failure mechanisms, solid-state electronics of insulators, thermodynamics of electrical phenomena, polymer technology and energy conversion.
 Survivors are his sons, Dunston Skinner and Reid Skinner; grandchildren, Jeffrey (Monica) Skinner and Catherine Skinner; and brother, Carlton (Solange) Skinner.
 His wife, Charlotte Lahring Miller Skinner; parents, Macy M. and Marion (Junkins) Skinner; and sister, Barbara Skinner, are deceased.
 Arrangements are being handled by Blessing Cremation Center in Mentor.

Source: New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 Name: Selby Skinner; Arrival Date: 15 Sep 1923; Port of Departure: Havre; Ship Name: France.

Selby married Charlotte Lahring MILLER on 10 Aug 1932 in Los Angeles, California. Charlotte (daughter of Stephen Ivan MILLER, Jr. and Florence I. DUNSTON) was born on 5 Aug 1911 in California; died on 21 Mar 1997 in Willoughby Hills, Lake, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1910, Mayfield, Santa Clara, California
• Census: 1920, Julien, Dubuque, Iowa
• Residence: 1929, Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia
• Census: 1930, Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia
• Residence: 1936, Alexandria, Virginia
• Census: 1940, Washington, District of Columbia

Notes:

Barbara graduated from Carnegie Tech. (1927, 1928?). She resided in Alexandria, Virginia about 1935.

Barbara Skinner was the private secretary to Lowell Mellet when he was administrative assistant to President Roosevelt. With her husband Max Mandellaub, a State Department employee, she went to Germany where she was Chief of Archives and later acting secretary general to the United States military tribunals in Nuremberg. In 1950 she was appointed special representative to the United States High Commissioner for Germany, John J. McCloy.

She has been chief of the Nuremberg Trials Court Archives from 21 February 1947 to 15 November 1949 [Source]. She married Max Mandellaub, who was also listed in the Nuremberg Military Tribunals’ Personnel in January 1948 :
– Barbara S. Mandellaub, Civilian: Thumenbergerweg 60
– Max Mandellaub, Civilian: Thumenbergerweg 60

Tweede Wereldoorlog. overdracht van Neurenberger archieven aan het Internationale Gerechtshof. De adjunct-griffier J. Garnier Coignet neemt de inventarisatielijst van Barbara Skinner Mandellaub (vertegenwoordiger van de Hoge Commissaris van de U.S.A. in Duitsland) in ontvangst, Den Haag 8 mei 1950.

From Nazi Medicine and the Nuremberg Trials, by Paul Julian Weindling (p. 160): “[...] The mounting piles of documents necessitated establishing procedures for their consultation so that nothing shoud go astray and alos to prevent deliberate destruction of evidence. The IMT prosecution had in fact lost the one surviving copy of the vital Wannsee Conference minutes (it was rediscovered in March 1947). Fortunately, all trial documents had been duplicated en masse. The defence was provided with a reading room. A small industry supported translation and duplication of the documents.
 The Court established an archive on 21 February 1947, keeping track of original documents under conditions of high security. The archivist, Barbara Skinner Mandelaub, serviced the prosecution and defence, maintaining a definitive set of trial transcripts. The staff was subject to a rigorous efficiency rating to maintain output and quality of work. A requirement for an archives assistant was meticulous presentation and order, as These elements a of importance in prepration or records such as indexing, cataloguing and classifying of material which is to be of permanent value for legal an historical reference for generations to come. Mandelaub increased the security and made sure that only archives staff retrieved or filed records, and the archives issued certified copies rather than originals so that nothing could be lost or destroyed. The Trial Documents achieved what amounted to sacrosanct status, once they had gone through the stages of authentication and been presented to the Court, where their authenticity could be challenged. Culprits were to be convicted by the masses of paperwork that the desk-bound killers had generated.”

Barbara married Eddy Lanier King GILMORE on 23 Nov 1927 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, and was divorced. Eddy (son of Edwin Luther GILMORE and Evelyn KING) was born on 28 May 1907 in Selma, Dallas, Alabama; died on 6 Oct 1967 in London, Greater London, England; was buried in Live Oak Cemetery, Selma, Dallas, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Barbara married Max MANDELLAUB on 21 Nov 1945 in Washington, District of Columbia. Max (son of Lazarus MANDELLAUB and Fanny LASER) was born on 7 Jun 1911 in Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; died on 16 Nov 1967 in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1920, Julien, Dubuque, Iowa
• Census: 1940, Washington, District of Columbia
• Census: 1950, Asan, Guam

Notes:

From “Marblehead Community” — December 14, 2000.

Marblehead man not afraid to make waves at sea
By Stephen Decatur, Special to the reporter

 We who live in Marblehead are fortunate to be surrounded by a fascinating universe. But never mind the harbor, the boats, the wonderful architecture and the myriad other things: one of the most important aspects of this town is its people.
Today we meet a man who has demonstrated a wide range of talents: captain of the world’s largest sailing yacht (though it had no masts at the time), friend of one of this country’s great black artists, governor of the island of Guam, resident of Paris every summer, and owner of a good measure of social conscience.
 Carlton Skinner is our man. Born in California and educated at a venerable New England prep school, he now resides in Marblehead. After college he went to work for the Wall Street Journal. Later he almost joined the Republicans in Spain fighting the fascists during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s. He decided against it, however, because he disapproved of the behavior of the Communists who had infiltrated the anti-fascist forces allied against Franco. Then along came the beginnings of World War II.
 As a sailor and boat racer, Skinner’s preference was the Navy or Coast Guard. He was commissioned a lieutenant, junior grade, in the Coast Guard Reserve and ordered to sea as executive officer aboard the cutter “Northland”. Just several months before the Pearl Harbor attack, the “Northland” landed a shore party on the coast of Greenland. Young Lt. Skinner was in command.
 It seems the Nazis had set up a weather station there. We were not at war with Germany at the time, of course, but the United States had very friendly and “cordial” relations with the Danish government in exile. (Denmark had been overrun by the Germans in 1940.) The weather station was captured and put out of operation with no shots fired or casualties.
 Thus ended what could be considered the first land action by U.S. forces in the coming war, although technically we were still at peace. America had by this time become extremely pro-British and extremely anti-German, even to the extent of our warships protecting Britain-bound convoys. In fact, we had several skirmishes with U-boats, including a most serious one when one of our destroyers was actually sunk.
 After a short stint as commander of an LST landing craft, Skinner became captain of the USS Sea Cloud. She was (and still is) an interesting ship, indeed. Officially a U.S. Navy ship, she was manned by the U.S. Coast Guard. Sea Cloud was owned by the cereal heiress Marjorie Post Hutton Davies and her husband, Joseph Davies, the ambassador to the Soviet Union and later to Belgium.
 The ship was the largest privately owned sailing yacht in the world. Built in Germany as a four-masted bark, she’s 316 feet long and displaces 3,600 tons. (She is still active to this day as a cruise ship in the Mediterranean.) Sea Cloud’s masts had been removed, only enough remaining for radio and communication purposes. Armaments were two 3-inch guns, depth charges and a slew of antiaircraft weapons. Her duties were weather and anti-submarine patrols between Greenland, Iceland and Bermuda, with home ports in Boston or Newfoundland.
 USS Sea Cloud was decommissioned out of the service in late 1944. The Navy fixed her up somewhat and returned the ship to Mrs. Davies, along with $750,000 to complete the restoration. The U.S. government had paid $1 per year to use the ship in the first place.
 After the war Sea Cloud passed through several owners, one of whom was Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic. When he was assassinated in 1964 she was resold to a consortium which eventually converted her to a cruise ship.
 Long before boarding the Sea Cloud, Skinner had become aware of the terrible waste of manpower and talent in the Coast Guard and Navy. While aboard any ship at sea, African-American seamen were relegated to being stewards waiting upon white officers, or were mess mates or cooks. This was true no matter what a man’s potential and abilities were.
 Not only that, but the unfairness of it all bothered Skinner, now a lieutenant commander. Skinner wrote to many higher-ups in Washington and finally was allowed to experiment with some of his black crew. Men were at last allowed to study and to achieve ratings such as machinist’s mates, quartermasters, gunner’s mates, or whatever their bent may have been.
 Along the way this would mean a further integration between the black and white crews aboard ship. Skinner had “found the artificial distinction between race and color can disappear,” he said.
 One of the stewards aboard Sea Cloud was Jacob Lawrence. Skinner learned immediately that Lawrence was one of America’s great “social realist” painters. Born in 1917 in Harlem, he had already become famous with his narrative and thematic series of paintings telling of the black experience. Using representational imagery and brilliant colors, his works are reminiscent of the mural and wall paintings so popular in the 1930s. Lawrence is particularly noted for his monumental 41 paintings titled “The Migration Series” of 1940-41. Another series portrayed the lives of Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass.
 In keeping with Skinner’s plans to integrate his crew, Lawrence was put to painting the wartime activities of the Coast Guard. Those works served a valuable function in bringing the war to the American public. Many still survive today in museums and private collections.
 Lawrence painted only two portraits. One is of Carlton Skinner and is now at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington. Incidentally, Jacob Lawrence died this past June at age 82. His memorial service at the Riverside Church in New York City was attended by 2,500 people.
 So it was that the Navy and Coast Guard fully integrated their ships by 1945, due in major part to Carlton Skinner’s efforts. As a result of his leadership, Skinner was asked to be the first post-war governor of the island of Guam in the Pacific.
 Guam had at that time about 30,000 indigenous people, along with thousands of temporary American civilian and military personnel. Guam was a major wartime base in the Pacific during the war. Few problems arose during Skinner’s leadership of the transition from a military to a civil government between 1949 and 1953.
 After that, Skinner worked in the shipping business and for corporations in the eastern United States. Now retired, he appears still to have a lot of salt in his veins. These days he regularly enjoys the best of two worlds: he and his wife divide their time between Paris in the summers and Marblehead the rest of the year.

This is one of a series of occasional articles about Marblehead people, past and present, and their relationship with the sea.

In June 1943 Lieutenant Commander Carlton Skinner’s proposal that the U.S. Coast Guard establish an entirely integrated force eventually led to the commissioning of the first integrated ship in the armed forces, the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Sea Cloud. Skinner commanded a 200-man crew that included 4 African-American officers and 100 black enlisted men. Decommissioned in November 1944, this ship’s crew helped break down military segregation at sea.
After World War II, he was a public relations officer in the Department of Interior, and was selected by the Interior Department, nominated by the Navy Department and then appointed by the President to serve as Guam’s first civilian Governor. He took the oath of office on September 17, 1949. (Picture1, Picture2 taken during the 50 years celebration).

Belvedere Man Is Appointed to Tourist Commission By Brown
 Cartlon Skinner, of Belvedere, was named today by Governor Edmund G. Brown as chairman of the Tourism and Visitor Services Commision. The Commission, which was created by the 1964 Legislature, has a total of 15 members. Skinner was named as a general public representative to the Commission. The appointment requires Senate confirmation.
 “Carlton Skinner, a man of international reputation, is highly qualified for this new post.” the Governor said. “I am proud that the State of California can attract men of his talent, knowledge and ability as our new tourism and visitor services program begins to move into high gear. With an agressive and imaginative program we can help attract new tourist spending in our state and new tourist industries that can provide a major stimulus fo our state economy.”
 A graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles, Skinner presently heads Skinner and Company, a management consultant firm in San Francisco. He was director of the Virgin Islands Corporation and was formerly employed by the United States Maritime Commision. Skinner is a former trustee of the United Seaman’s Service.
 A former governor of Guam (1949-1953), Skinner was appointed by the late President Kennedy as senior commissioner for the United States on the South Pacific Commission. This Commission is responsible for non-selfgoverning territories in the Pacific. He was formerly executive assistant to the President of the American President Lines, and was vice president of the Fairbanks-Whitney Corporation. (source : Sausalito News, 23 Februray 1966)

Nauru Appoints Honorary Consul
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An airline official has been named honorary consul to the United States by one of the smallest independant nations in the world – Nauru. The government of the South Pacific island Monday named Carlton Skinner, 57, as its consul in San Francisco. Skinner is board chairman here of Air Micronesia and the title was given him as a courtesy. Nauru is 1,300 miles north-east of Australia, measures eight miles square, has a population of 7,000 and is rich in phosphates. (source : Charleston Daily Mail, Tuedsay, December 7, 1971).

Sources:
— WorId War II: The Marine Corps and the Coast Guard
— USS Sea Cloud, IX 99, Racial Integration for Naval Efficiency
— Justice on Guam Post-World War II
— The Explorers Club – Northern California Chapter (p. 3)
— Sea Cloud

— Biographical sketch of Mr. Skinner
— Carlton Skinner Appointed Governor of Guam
— Portrait of Carlton Skinner
— Guampedia - Governor Carlton Skinner
— New Coast Guard facility bears Commander Skinner’s proud name, legacy
— Is Your Ancestor on this list?
— The Long Blue Line: Cutters Sea Cloud and Hoquiam
— Flying Into The Eye of The Storm
— In memoriam Carlton Skinner (1913-2004), par Christian Coiffier
— Governor Carlton Skinner


Carlton resided in Alexandria, VA about 1935.

Carlton married Jeanne Dorothy ROWE on 4 May 1943 in Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, and was divorced after Feb 1967 in California. Jeanne (daughter of George Lewis ROWE and Marie Henrietta FRANZ) was born on 1 Apr 1917 in Marshalltown, Marshall, Iowa; died on 19 Apr 1988 in Palo Alto, Santa Clara, California; was buried in Golden Gate Natl. Cemetery, San Bruno, San Mateo, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Carlton married Solange R. PETIT on 6 Apr 1970 in San Francisco, California. Solange (daughter of René Charles PETIT and Marie Danielle BARGONI) was born on 23 Oct 1928 in Meheri-Zebbeus, Tunisia; was christened in 1929 in Tunis, Tunisie; died on 29 Jul 2023 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1950, Downers Grove, DuPage, Illinois

Dunston married Mary Catherine DANKO about 1965, and was divorced on 10 Feb 1978 in Lake, Ohio. Mary (daughter of Charles DANKO and Catherine Josephine SPADAFORA) was born on 13 May 1943 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania; died on 2 Sep 2012 in Painesville, Lake, Ohio; was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Painesville, Lake, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dunston married Beverly A. CORENO on 18 May 1989 in Lake, Ohio, and was divorced on 23 Oct 1989 in Cuyahoga, Ohio. Beverly was born about 1947. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1950, Downers Grove, DuPage, Illinois
• Residence: 2001, Fairport Harbor, Lake, Ohio
• Residence: 2007, Painesville, Lake, Ohio
• Residence: From 2009 to 2020, Henderson, Nevada
• Residence: From 2014 to 2017, Las Vegas, Nevada

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1950, Asan, Guam
• Residence: 2012, Bolinas, Marin, California

Franz married Janie Eleda YOUNG on 15 Sep 1970 in San Francisco, California, and was divorced on 20 Jun 1970 in California. Janie (daughter of Eugene Gordon YOUNG and Patricia M. MILLER) was born on 29 Apr 1948 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; died on 7 Nov 2008 in Lancaster, Los Angeles, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1950, Asan, Guam

Notes:

Girl Nearly Hit By Train In Tiburon
 What might have been a tragic accident at an unauthorized crossing on the Northwestern Pacific Railroad tracks near Tiburon Reed School resulted in minor bruises Friday when a 10-year-old student at the school tripped as she crossed the tracks, apparently unaware that a freight train was bearing down on her. Andrea Skinner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carleton Skinner of Edgewater road in the lagoon area of Belvedere, was pushing her bicycle across the forbidden crossing toward the school when she tripped and fell. She had enough presence of mind to roll away from the rails as the train bore down on her, completely demolishing her bike, reported Belvedere Police Chief Etogene Meyer. As soon as the train could be stopped, the crew rushed back to the spot but the youngster had vanished. “In this case, we were lucky,” Meyer reported. “We know that many youngsters have been walking across this unauthorized spot rather than take a longer, safer way to school.” Meyer joined with Reed School Principal Lloyd R. O”Connor in appealing for the help of parents in forbidding children to cross the railroad tracks avospt at authorized crossings. (Source: Daily Independant Journal from San Rafael, California. Tuesday, June 3, 1958)

Barbara married Remi LUCET on 6 Nov 1982 in Paris 16e, Seine, France. Remi (son of Michel LUCET and Colette DEVIDAS) was born on 26 May 1959 in Paris 14e, Seine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 2011, Woodland, Yolo, California

Notes:

Jeff holds a PhD in Molecular Plant Biology from University of Virginia. He is currently (2011) Scientist, Crop Genomics at Nunhems USA – Bayer CropScience in Sacramento, California (source: Linkedin).

Family/Spouse: Monica Marie McCLELLAN. Monica was born on 6 Mar 1966. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: David John SILVESTRO. David was born in Jul 1958. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 2012, Phuket, Thailand

Notes:

Immanuel has been resident club Disk-Jockey at Bed Supperclub for the last 3 1/2 years, five nights a week. He is now (2012) Entertainment Director and Head DJ at Sri Panwa, Phuket, Thailand.

Notes:

Noah is security Manager at DreamWorks Animation (2012).

Noah married Nan SIRIRUK on 4 Feb 2011. Nan was born on 18 Apr 1983. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]