FOR RICHARD WARD '01, elected President of the Essex Savings Bank, Lawrence, Mass.
FOR EDWARD E. MARTIN '19, elected President of the Electric Institute of Boston.
FOR CHARLES W. MCKENZIE '20, elected President of Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, Va.
FOR MODIE J. SPIEGEL '22, elected Chairman of the Board of Spiegel Inc., Chicago mail order house; and for ROBERT s. FNGELMAN '34, elected President of the company.
FOR BENJAMIN H. BOWDEN '25, elected President of the County Bank and Trust Company, Cambridge, Mass.
FOR LOREN J. WESTHAVER '28, named General Manager of Operations for the Columbia-Geneva Steel Division of the U.S. Steel Corporation.
FOR CHARLES v. RAYMOND '30, elected Treasurer of Builders Iron Foundry Industries, Inc.. Providence, R.I., and of four subsidiary companies.
FOR ALBERT j. KEEN AN JR. '35, named General Passenger Traffic Manager of the Moore-McCornack Lines.
FOR JAMES B. CONKLING '36, President of Columbia Records, elected President of the Record Industry Association.
FOR ARTHUR B. TOAN JR. '36, elected a Partner in Price Waterhouse and Company.
FOR WILLIAM B. ROTCH '37, editor of the Milford (N.H.) Cabinet, elected President of the New England Weekly Press Association.
FOR c. HENRY GLOVSKY '39, newly elected member of the Massachusetts State Senate, appointed Chairman of the Joint Committee on Labor and Industries.
FOR HAROLD p. RODES '41, elected President of Bradley University, Peoria, Ill.
FOR WILLIAM H. SLEEPECK. JR. '41, elected President of the Graphic Arts Association of Illinois.
FOR LOUIS v.o. MILLS '45, chosen by the New York State Junior Chamber of Commerce as one of the state's five outstanding young men of 1953, in recognition of his reelection as Mayor of Middletown and of his executive abilities and full cooperation with community service groups.
FOR IST LT. WILLIAM A. BRIDGE '51, USMC, awarded the Bronze Star Medal for bravery and outstanding leadership while serving with a Marine anti-tank company in Korea.